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Skip to comments.Prayers urgently Requested! F-18 Crashed into Apt Complex in VA Beach
Posted on 04/06/2012 9:53:59 AM PDT by pgkdan
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I was mistaken...she is not in Virginia Beach. Prayers for all involved!
At the other link a man stated he talked to one pilot that was in shock but didn't seem to have other injuries and he apologized for their jet coming down in the apartment complex.
My husband and I spent a year in an apartment that was that was in the flight path of NAS Oceana. The planes were pretty low—close to the treetops when they flew over. Loud and unnerving at times.
Heading to church in a bit and I'll say some extra prayers for those affected.
The pilot...bless his heart...apologized for crashing into the building as he was being carried from the scene.
Wow! its amazing no one was hurt.
I will hazard a guess they ejected as late as possible; beyond a certain point they can't control where it crashes and there's no point in them sacrificing their lives by riding it into the ground if they can no longer affect where it crashes.
Indeed. I was relieved that it wasn't close to her. I'll bet she can see the smoke, though.
Yeah, that's not good. That building looks like it is cut in half.
It's good morning to spend at church.
Is this anywhere near you?
It's a miracle, if true!
>Arent pilots not supposed to eject until they know this wont happen?
Pilots do all they can to get their craft away from populations and when it's impossible to control it further
the only recourse is to punch out. No need to go down with a craft that is uncontrollable.
Navy son stuck on 264 near Rosemont. Says he thinks road closed from Rosemont to Oceanfront.
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It hit an apartment building, or close to one near Old Virginia Beach Off Birdneck. Pray for everyone over there, it's very thick smoke.
**Off Birdneck, you go north. The first right is Old VA Beach Road. Down that road to the east, maybe a block or two is an apartment complex. That is where it went down.
All things considered, this appears to be a very good outcome. There are still no reported deaths and only 5 civilians taken to the hospital. That might just be for smoke inhalation.
You may remember that I lived for many years in that area, right there around Birdneck and Laskin Roads. Locals there are well aware of the potential for disaster from the military air traffic.
It used to irritate me to no end when I'd hear some damn tourist complain about the jet noise. I would always make it a point to tell them "that's the price we pay for freedom". It would always shut them up and made me feel alot better! LOL!
News conference at 3:00 here.
Anyone heard from Mojo yet?
I just spoke to my wife. Channel3 is reporting that 5 people have been airlifted. To Norfolk General. They have a large burn unit.
Just wondering if it could be traced to defective parts MADE IN CHINA.
Not that I know of. I pinged her, but I don't think she's on the computer much.
Guy's saying on news the wing seperated from the aircraft and therfore little control of the plane.
Look at the difference in configuration of the exhaust nozzles of the two engines. It looks like the left engine may have failed during climbout.
A photo of the aft portion with engines shows the port engine outlet in standard thrust and the starboard engine is in full afterburner configuration. Interesting.
Not likely unless Lockheed Martin committed fraud, which is just as unlikely.
Not likely unless Lockheed Martin committed fraud, which is just as unlikely.
Navy has press conference at 3:00 about 5 minutes on what happened with the plane...here:
It will be a miracle if there are no deaths on the ground. With the fires contolled they will be going through the debris shortly if they haven't done so already. I hope the injuries are not too serious.
I was wondering how far this area is from where you lived, sounds like it's pretty darn close. It's strange how people get used to the noise of jet aircraft when they live in a flightpath. I had an aunt and uncle who lived in the LAX fightpath years ago. The noise didn't seem to bother them but it sure bothered the rest of us. :-)
Praying there no more injuries or deaths.
Wing sabotaged?
Three buildings down two heavily damaged.
Minor quibble, McDonnell Douglas makes the F-18, not Lockheed.
The engine are GE.
Not a chance there are no deaths. This was a senior citizen complex and today was a chilly, breezy day. There were likely a lot of people in those buildings.
Awaiting an answer, but they are further north. Everyone should be home.
2:58 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2012
Updates: The American Red Cross, in coordination with local emergency management, is responding to the crash in Virginia Beach with disaster relief teams en route to assist affected residents.
Residents needing assistance as a result of the crash can contact the Red Cross at 757-536-9859
Crews are advising residents in the area to close their windows and to stay away from the area because of air quality concerns caused by the jet fuel.
According to Dale Gauding, Corporate Communications Consultant at Sentara Healthcare, around five civilians were admitted to the hospital.
ABC just reported 3 injuries on the ground.
It's an amazing miracle and a testimony to the skills of the pilots and ground crews there hasn't been some major crashes over the years. People forget this area was not densely populated when the bases were being built. Tidewater being a Defense/Military base area built up in large to related jobs. I've seen some old photos my uncle took when he lived near Trashmore.
If no one was killed I'd call it a Good Friday Miracle. Watch for the media to start hammering pilots and military over the crash. I do think some assets need to be relocated away from Tidewater but not for the specific reason we saw today.
You do all you can to avoid it, but when the condition of your aircraft reaches the point where you no longer have any ability to influence where the crash site will be you yank the loud handle and punch outta there.
There's no sense adding two more fatalities to however many there may or may not end up being on the ground.
Can you or anyone provide an update from the press conference please? Thank you in advance.
So far via the hospital 6 brought in...2 pilots...one ok the other fair. One police officer hurt on the scene....one treated for smoke inhilation and released ....the others minor injuries.
They continue to search the buildings....
On the phone now....Mojo2001 and family are on the peninsula and they can see the smoke. All are fine.
Oh good...thank you Kathy....wonderful news.
U.S. Navy jet crashes in Virginia; 2 pilots believed to have ejected
Latest developments (3:00 pm ET)
· No reported fatalities, but least five people taken to hospital with injuries
· Search for victims is underway
· Pilots reportedly safe
Officials have confirmed that a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet jet has crashed in Virginia after taking off from U.S. Naval Air Station Oceana, with the two pilots believed to have ejected before impact.
An F/A-18D is potentially quite old. If a wing fell off it's more likely the result of metal fatigue.
An F-18 navy jet sits on the ground after crashing into an apartment building in Virginia Beach,
pictured in this aerial frame grab from video on April 6 2012. REUTERS/WAVY TV/Handout
If the wing did fall off or was damaged couldn't that explain this? I seem to recall an F-15 that landed with one wing shot off and I thought he controlled it by doing something with the thrust on each engine to keep it airborne. Maybe I am mistaken.
Press conference hasn't happened yet..still waiting...although hospital personel reported 6 brought in..none life threatening. Search of buildings continues.
Firefighters work to control the blaze after the crash of an F-18 navy jet into an apartment building in Virginia Beach,
pictured in this aerial frame grab from video on April 6 2012. REUTERS/WAVY TV/Handout
Once again live link...conference coming up and waiting...
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Day 1 - Makassar
Arrive in Makassar, the capital of Sulawesi, and transfer to the hotel. Depending on your time of arrival it may be possible to stop en route at Paotere harbour, with its dozens of traditional wooden ships. The rest of the day is at leisure. Overnight Aston Hotel or similar.
Day 2 – Maros
Drive to Maros, situated in an area of limestone cliffs, rice fields and small villages. We spend our time exploring the limestone cliffs as well as taking a boat journey to explore further. Return to Makassar for the evening. Overnight Hotel Pantai Gapura or similar. (B)
Day 3 – Malino - Bira
Drive to the refreshingly cool market town of Malino. Malino lies on the lower slopes of Mount Bawakaraeng, and was once the favourite weekend retreat for the colonial Dutch. We walk through rice fields and visit a traditional Bugis house, stopping for a drink at a local villa. We then drive to a local waterfall taking lunch in a nearby restaurant. After lunch we head to Bira, a pretty village situated on the coast. We will arrive in Bira late afternoon / early evening. Overnight Bara Beach Hotel or similar. (BL)
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Drive to the small town of Sengkang to the north. On the way we stop in Tanah Tua, the home of the Kajang people. Overnight Pondok Ela or similar. (B)
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I recently blogged about making open source software, and the high level steps for how to think about the process. We started with the need for software to seed the discussion, the need for clear motivation as to why to publish as open source software, and then the structural requirements to build a community (license choice, collaboration platform or forge, and governance considerations). Contributions are the life blood of any community, so lastly we talked about the need to build an onramp to encourage users that will hopefully become contributors, and the additional onramp needed to make it easy to contribute.
Rory MacDonald (@technocreative) challenged in the comments that there are substantial commercial motivations for a company to develop open source projects that go beyond a desire for collaboration, and provided a number of examples. I completely agree, and I'd like to build on these ideas.
Why as a company (rather than as an individual) would you want to "make" open source?
Again we have two types of making to consider:
- A company can contribute to an open source project that already exists.
- A company can create a new open source project (either by publishing existing software or creating new).
If we consider a company making contributions to an "outside" project then we should do so from the perspective that this is an advanced case of collaboration where the open source project is being used in a product or service the company offers to customers for sale. Think Red Hat and using Linux to deliver Red Hat Advanced Server. Otherwise, contributing to a project that is used strictly in-house pretty much looks like the discussion in the previous post -- it's about engineering economics and shared innovation and living on a fork gets expensive over time unless it can be balanced against the costs of maintaining a business advantage through secrecy (e.g. the way Google used Linux in the early days).
Participating in an external open source licensed project is a case of expanding traditional corporate thinking of "build" versus "buy" to include "borrow" and "share". It's about time-to-solution if a company uses the project in-house and about time-to-market if the project is used to develop a product or provide a service to customers for sale. One needs to remember as a company using open source licensed software in a product or service that the company exists to solve a problem and create a marketplace around the solution. This is all about Levitt's observations about solving customer problems ("needing a 1/4 inch hole") over selling products ("the drill"). Red Hat wasn't "selling a Linux distro" but rather providing a professionally maintained and supported low cost PC-based server replacement for expensive proprietary UNIX systems on expensive proprietary hardware.
The interesting problems when using an externally developed open source project as a company are in understanding the flow of ownership of the intellectual property with respect to the software. There are a couple of predominant concerns:
- What legal risks are possible that need to be managed against a company's risk profile. This should not be taken lightly. Companies are more interesting legal targets than individuals. Even if a company is using the software internally rather than in a product or service, there is still a risk profile to consider. It's not that the risk is greater than purchasing a proprietary software solution from a vendor but one needs to feel comfortable that the externally run open source licensed project has appropriate IP management safeguards in place.
- What intellectual property is being contributed to whom. Again, companies are often uncomfortable contributing their own hard won R&D investment to others (even partners) without crisply understanding the return.
As a company each of these legal concerns comes with additional legal responsibilities. Open source software foundations provide solutions to these problems by providing neutral non-profit space in which companies can collaborate together, and backing the space with proper IP management practices. The Apache Software Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, the Linux Foundation (né OSDL) and the Outercurve Foundation were all created to manage the risk around these software IP problems.
The discussion becomes interesting when a company considers creating its own open source licensed projects. Rory's examples speak to benefits. Let's start with the motivation again. People are often very good at understanding their "gut" motivation for doing something. The larger a company becomes the more thought and documentation needs to go into such decisions, especially once a company goes public.
If the project to be published under an open source license is "infrastructure" for the company, then the motivations are all based on shared innovation and distributed engineering economics. This is what we see with data centre-centric projects created by the likes of Amazon, Yahoo, Google, Twitter, Netflix, or the Facebook Open Hardware Initiative. The company starting the project is sharing work in which they have invested time and energy in the hopes that others will join the project, use it in new ways thereby hardening the software and contributing at the very least bug reports, but also hopefully extending and evolving it.
When this is the motivation, all the discussion in the previous article comes into play around making open source. Essentially, one needs:
- Useful software as a base around which to build a community.
- Motivation to share, credible expertise in the problem to be solved, and an understanding of the software structure to anchor the open source community.
- The project needs to have the structural issues of license, forge, and governance decided, even if governance becomes an evolving discussion in a growing community.
- The community needs to build a solid onramp to encourage use, and a second onramp for users to become contributors. The sooner this happens in a project's life, the faster it can build a community.
The additional consideration to encourage corporate participation and contribution needs to be software ownership, legal risk, and IP management around the contributions. This is where considering using existing open source software foundations comes into play. Corporations are far more likely to contribute their software to a neutral non-profit for mutual benefit.
But as Rory points out, there are business motivations for creating open source projects as well. A company's executives want to "increase business" but does that mean increase leads in the sales pipeline? Or build a community of evangelists that firmly anchor the company's products and services while providing proof points and expertise to potential new leads.
Using free and open source software in a commercial setting doesn't change the nature of running a business. One needs to clearly understand that customers buy solutions to problems and what problem the company is solving. Geoffrey Moore demonstrated some time ago that companies offering the best "whole" solution win, i.e. a core product or service and all its complementing products and services around a more complete ecosystem. This has a lot to do with shaping a "complete" solution to account for the subtle differences that customers perceive they have around the problem space. Successful companies essentially offer a portfolio of products and services and as long as the sum of the costs of delivering the portfolio is less than the sum of the revenues (spend less than you earn), the company is profitable. Taking a portfolio approach allows a company to play with their pricing models and differentiate themselves for customers against similar competitors.
Open source software can play a number of roles in such a portfolio approach. A company can:
- Sell support, upgrades, customization, training and "stability" to a product that is otherwise provided as an open source project. The best example is probably Red Hat "selling Linux" when it doesn't own the core IP. The "product" isn't the software. JBoss tried several of these approaches before their Red Hat acquisition.
- Sell a core product (licensed as proprietary or open source) while encouraging an ecosystem of complements from partners around open source licensed projects.
- Allow customers to try the "product" in its simplest form as a set of unsupported unwarranted binaries for "free", i.e. downloading the community/developer editions, to self-qualify themselves in the sales pipeline. (This was very much how MySQL built both its businesses.)
These items all speak to the delivery of the product and the pipeline. A company can also develop a community of users of the open source project that act as a source of expertise and experience for potential customers.
A community of developers and users is an essential piece of the whole solution. Some companies develop large successful communities without ever publishing their product software. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP have all done this to great success. This is why community building is so important for your company and why community development is an essential ingredient in your solution pitch to customers. User and developer communities (regardless of open source):
- Anchor customers both in an engaged relationship as well as from a technology perspective.
- Create knowledge, expertise and experience necessary to provide a complete solution for the technology pitch to the customer. These proof points are invaluable when potential customers are self-qualifying themselves and testing the strength of a solution's community.
- Create advocates and evangelists to spread awareness about a solution.
- Create enormous inertia in the status quo around a technology.
These variations all rely on remembering a couple of related "rules":
- An open source licensed project is not a complete product solution for most people.
- Project community users and developers are not solution customers. Community members tend to have time to spend on a solution but no money while customers have money and are looking for time-to-solution and certain guarantees.
Creating an open source project can be as simple as publishing software using an open source license, and this gives customers insight into the workings of a solution. But if you ignore community building activities, you're losing all the benefits that come from an engaged base of customers and users of your technology.
Clearly understanding the benefits of using open source licensed software for delivering time-to-market, providing a rich complement ecosystem, and enabling communities to anchor the ecosystem in place allows a company to set its motivations correctly. One can discuss the investment in effort as a way to understand the motivation. We can contrast the publication of the software as open source and the effort required to develop the community against the evolution of the commercial product in terms of investment and value returned.
This also allows a company to understand the problems with half measures. Companies sometimes treat "open source" licensing as marketing pixie dust, instead of rightly understanding its place in the solution portfolio or the need to build genuine community that will lead to solving customer problems, and ultimately delighting said customers which can be measured in profitability. They try to limit access and only approach community half-heartedly because ultimately they're unsure of the benefits. Fully appreciating the benefits allows a company to fully engage with both community and customers to solve problems.
Rory also mentioned the use of open source projects to undermine a competitor's margins. This is a level of competitive play by large complex companies in well-established markets that warrants its own blog post. We save it for another day, and instead stay focused on the commercial positives of making open source software.
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The defense for three Libertarian candidates trying to stay on the August ballot took an unusual turn in court yesterday.Read More »
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Perhaps the biggest Republican victor last night was Martha McSally, considering that Kelly has now lost twice in CD8 and expressed uncertainty last night about whether he will stay on the ballot for the new Dem-leaning CD2. He told supporters last night that "only God knows" what his future holds and that, while he "most likely" will run in the new district, he would take a few days to consider his options.Read More »
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Wisconsin Energy announces higher dividend, affirms profit forecast
Wisconsin Energy Corp. (WEC) will raise its quarterly dividend by 13% in the first quarter of 2013, the parent company of We Energies said Thursday.
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8/10 mile south of Cross Village just off scenic M-119's Tunnel of Trees Lakeshore Drive ( take right at fork below hill), this property is located on the shore of Lake Michigan 18 miles north of Harbor Springs. Google Map for 6069 N Lake Shore Dr. Cross Village, MI. Ideal for naturalists, cyclists, families, couples, or you and a few friends. Enjoy the weather and play on the beach take a side trip or play golf nearby. You can walk several miles along the Lake in either direction! Go kayaking or canoeing, then kick back while watching the amazing sunsets over the Lake. If it rains, light a fire in the fireplace and catch up on your reading, card playing, or get the others to join in board game or satelitte TV.
There is a full kitchen for cooking.
Groceries are available at the Cross Village General Store; gas, deli, beer, liquor, party supplies, or the Good Hart General Store; gourmet goodies and deli, or the Harbor Springs IGA.
Restaurants in Cross Village include: famous Legs Inn,a must see which also has music and dancing on weekends, the Crows Nest.
Restaurants in Harbor Springs include: Turkeys for great pizza, breakfast, lunch and dinner - cocktails; The Pier or The New York for fine dining and cocktails. Cross Village is also home to Three Pines Studio and Art Gallery, and a post office, all within walking or biking distance.
In Good Hart (7mi. South along M-119) be sure to visit the Good Hart General Store, Primitive Images (antiques, gifts, and tea room), the Crepe Cart, and A Studio Shop.
Our Summer 2016 rental season begins June 25th through September 17th . We rent Saturday to Saturday- Check in Saturday 4pm, check out Saturday 11 am.
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I love to enjoy a relaxing morning cup of coffee out on the deck. Freighters can be seen and heard passing through the Straights-- count the lighthouses! Sunsets and the night sky are incredible--sometimes shooting stars, and sometimes the Northern Lights make an appearence.
Can't say enough how much we enjoyed cottage!! Wanted to cry when we left! So peaceful, warm and welcoming. Wonderful sandy beach to spend hours on. I agree w past renter, LOVE the chipmunks! We went kayacking and enjoyed it! We were Friday for Petoskey Fest and had a blast! Thank you so much for such a lovely time! My husband proposed to me 31 years ago at Legs Inn and we honeymooned camping up on hill at Lakeshore Campground.....so this really is a special place in our heart and we hope to move up that way! Appreciate you sharing your cottage!! And the sunsets are truly spectacular!
Comfortably furnished with a nicely equipped kitchen with all appliances in perfect working order. Airy sleeping, even on cooler evenings. Very easy beach access via solid, built-in steps, and wonderful, wonderful, WONDERFUL sunsets.
The chipmunks are a delight, please continue to keep them around.
I'd spend my entire summer there if I could.
The owner was very easy to work with. We enjoyed many happy hours on the deck overlooking the beautiful lake and sunsets. Everything was clean and the "Tunnel of Trees" road, just outside our door, was driven by us many times. The site depicted the house well, however, there were no pictures of the baths. We found out only after we arrived that there is no shower, only a bathtub.
After spending a weekend at this cottage in Cross Village, my husband and I decided to move from East Lansing to Harbor Springs. We loved staying here --the sunsets are magic and as a bonus, we got to watch a thunderstorm move in on the horizon. Wonderful.
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Water Island offers visitors a superb opportunity to relax away from everything and enjoy a laid-back vacation. It is a small residential island; the smallest of the four USVI islands at just 491.5 acres. It is also the youngest having been transferred to the local government in December 1996. It has a population of less than 200 people.
Residences dot the island's hillsides in areas such as Flamingo Point, Sprat Bay and Carolina Point. Among these residences are accommodations that cater to vacationers such as vacation homes, apartments and a campground with eco-cabins.
A vacation on Water Island might include: relaxing days on the beach, kayaking, exploring the shoreline at Limestone, a day of fishing or boating, a day trip to St. Thomas, hiking around the island, exploring the remains of military fortifications, joining residents for movie night on the beach, having lunch and drinks at Honeymoon Bay and taking a bike tour.
Water Island does not have taxis, public transportation, gas stations, hotels, shops or a main town. Residents and visitors depend on St. Thomas, located just a half-mile away, for groceries to mail service. The gateway to Water Island is the St. Thomas airport. A ferry operates between the two islands.
Visitors on St. Thomas can easily day trip to Water Island. It is a good option for cruise ship passengers docked at Crown Bay Dock, which is a short walk from the Water Island ferry at the Crown Bay Marina.


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Vertical Blinds Factory did not install blinds correctly and refuses to come out and fix them Burbank Illinois
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Needless to say it took approx. 6 to 7 weeks before they came in.
However, this was not a very big deal because things happen, we understood that and just made accommodations.
Once the blinds were installed they looked terrific. However, sometime in May the valance on the wooden horizontal kitchen blinds fell. My husband attempted to secure the valance back on the blinds and it stayed for a couple of weeks then it fell again. After several attempts to secure the valance it is still hanging from the right side. In addition, one of the slats in the vertical blinds in the living room does turn in sync with the other slats, so that when I pull the chain to open the blinds that one slat remains turned the opposite way.
Well, anyway since I got tired of looking at the blinds appearing like that I called the company(which seems to be family owned)on 07 Jul 04 and informed them of the situation. Well to my astonishment I was informed that I would have to bring the wooden valance and the tracking for the vertical living room blinds into the store. I then informed the person on the phone that I did not know how to disassemble said product and couldn't they come out to the house to fix the problem.
The young lady on the phone then stated that they do not come out to do that and I would have to bring the blinds in to be repaired. In frustration I told her I would call her back and upon my second call I spoke with a young man who informed me that they would come out but there is a $35.00 charge for each set of blinds (thus a total of 70.00). He also informed me that he knew the damage to the blinds was from abuse. I in return informed him that the malfunctioning of the blinds came from the initial installation of the blinds, because there aren't any children in the house that can be attributed to the so called abuse of the blinds and my husband and myself both being in our mid-thirties of course would not gain any pleasure from the so called abuse of the blinds.
In addition my husband and I rarely open the living room blinds because the windows are level with the street and passersby can see directly in the house.
So, at this time I am truly frustrated that I now have to be responsible for getting the blinds into the store to be repaired and ultimately will be responsible if any other damages occur while I am trying to disassemble this product that I am unfamiliar with. Whatever happened to good old-fashioned customer service and trying to please the customer!!!!
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After the successful 10-year run of the spring cleanup, the Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort held its inaugural fall River Road Cleanup Saturday, Nov. 2. "It's great for the community to come together," said Jeromy Wo, spokesman for Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort.
About 15 volunteers participated, many of them involved with previous cleanups.
"We've done it for five years. It's a good thing for the environment," Kelly Williams of Stroudsburg said, pointing out that Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort is known for its setting in lush scenery. "I don't mind helping out. Shawnee always does a nice job."
Shawnee adopted River Road in the state program. For two hours Saturday volunteers cleaned along River Road, Interstate 80, and around the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, picking up litter that included cigarette butts, newspapers, cans and plastic cups before heading to lunch at the Gem and Keystone Brewpub.
"I'm a coal miner's daughter from Hazleton and I'm from the Poconos. I grew up here as a child and I want to keep it beautiful," LeeAnn Messina of Tannersville said.
Cigarette butts were one of the most frequently picked-up items along River Road. Litter is a threat to not just humans but animals as well, and cigarette butts often lead to brush fires. Each year, thousands of animals strangle on or choke from litter.
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refers to a situation in which an undesirable candy bar in a vending machine is blocking access to the desirable candy bar behind it.
Dammit! I was jonesing for some peanut M&M's but I got choc-blocked by that Almond Joy bar that's been sitting in front of them for the past three weeks!
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When somebody prevents you from eating a delicious sugary snack, usually a chocolately delight of some sort. Just like a cockblock except with chocolate.
I was going for the fudge sundae with ravenous vigor, but my wife chocblocked me at the last moment with some sort of gay speech about heart disease and diabetes. After 13 years of marriage you would think she would want me to die to get the life insurance money. Dammit.
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Preventing your friend from eating too much chocolate, which leads to break-outs, fat butts, and cottage cheese thighs.
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|So i finally decided to report everything after tonight. thats bc the last four nights ive been seeing these intelligent ufos flying above or around my house.
Sighting Location
|United States
Sighting Specifics
|Viewing Distance
|501 Feet - 1 Mile
|Sighting Duration
|Object Features
|Object Flight Path
|Path with directional change,Path then hovering,Other
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Sighting Details
The first night was 03/28/14 and I was outside on the porch after letting the dog outside and I saw a starlike but a orb of light that was literally going up down to the right a little then stopping and then started moving to the left again it was unbelievable to watch it in realtime. So after letting the dog inside I stayed outside to watch it for a total hour until my neck started to cramp and I went inside. The next night 03/29/14 I'm watching Tv and its next to a window. And during commercials I would just randomly take a peak out just maybe I'm thinking I can find it again but this time its two of them and they are both making those same movements from the night before. I watched them just dance over my house in the sky. But by this time I'm just telling myself this is as close as I wanna get. And I'm starting to try to send that vibe out there with my mind. And just like that there gone. Next night 03/30/14 I find the same thing around 10pm but this time there closer and I can see its not giving off a light but more of just a solid shpere and it stops and I'm thinking to myself I wonder if it will go right if I think to say it in my head and sure enough it makes a right and stops again I wait to see if it would move on its own and it didnt so then I said go left and thennthis object did just that. I was really kind of scaring Myself alittle so I decided after probably another hour or so watching it move all directions that I should try to tell it just to leave me alone and and fly away. I look away for maybe 7 min or so and its gone like that. So tonight 03/31/14 I got home late around midnight and open my curtains to find a huge group of lights out the same window but this is when I decided its really time to share. Because they all moved, mirroring eachother...but then with my hand. I feel like its a show they put it on for me. With my room lights off and tv on. but I don't know what to do or how to stop thinking about it in a weird way. But the next 30 min passed and they were gone like that, out of my view. Thanks
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All has fallen. Monuments of stone and steel lay in crumbled ruins, a shattered reflection of the world that was. Savage beasts roam the decaying streets. Tribes, clans and factions jockey for power and resources as their memory of the "old world" grows faint and all fall deeper into chaos. In their midst, scattered, lone survivors struggle to eek out what existence they can beneath the clouds of ever blowing ash. It is the world after the end. In the ruins, a girl alone faces misery and tragedy as she struggles to find her place in the world.
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The PokéCommunity Forums
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Main Street: Meet & Greet!
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March 13th, 2008, 11:37 AM
hi i'm new here and glade to be here...so like what do i get to do?
March 13th, 2008, 11:47 AM
Welcome to PC forums. Enjoy your stay, and stay active.
March 13th, 2008, 12:06 PM
hi i'm new here and glade to be here...so like what do i get to do?
Yo, welcome to PC.
Here? Well, you get to discuss Pokèmon in the Pokèmon sections and you can roleplay and read/write fan fiction if you have time on your hands. Oh, you can do wi-fi connectivity will people all across the globe if you feel like it by arranging a match or a trade in the Diamond and Pearl forums. You can discuss anything you want in the Other: Chat and you can post your opinions in the Other: Voting Polls.
That a good explanation, or do you want more to it?
Anyways, if you wanna chat, be friends, or whatnot, I'm just a PM away. Hope to see you round the forums.
Sweet Candace
March 13th, 2008, 3:07 PM
There's many things to do here. But, you'll find out for yourself
But, welcome to the forums. We hope you will make friends, read the rules and have fun
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No matter what i do all i get when submitting a form is this message "Mail not sent, try again"
I know it must be something simple but i cant figure it out.
What am i doing wrong?
Thanks for the help.
No matter what i do all i get when submitting a form is this message "Mail not sent, try again"
I know it must be something simple but i cant figure it out.
What am i doing wrong?
Thanks for the help.
I emailed the plug in author directly and they responded within a few hours hour which is great.
I will update this topic and let you know if they manage to resolve the issue as it may help future users searching for this error.
Afraid the author has not managed to resolve this with me.
Any help available here?
Hi Daniel
We tried to reply to you by email, but unfortunately the email bounced with following message
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain youngmoneychina.com by mail.youngmoneychina.com.
So we are posting our original response below
We have checked your site and found a connection issue.
It produces an error message SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection timed out (110)
This type error usually occurs if we cannot connect to the SMTP host. I think some firewall in your server blocks the connection to gmail smtp.
You can find similar issues and solutions in http://drupal.org/node/805834
So please contact your server guys to solve this or try your local SMTP server.
XYZScripts Team
Thanks for the reply i really appreciate it.
I have now moved servers and am hoping to resolve this.
My host says that If im making a connection from the server to an external SMTP server, that connection will be blocked and that i must use a local SMTP.
They tell me to change my setting to "localhost" but i dont know what this exactly means.
How can this be done?
Following are typical SMTP settings which you need to configure under SMTP settings in the plugin menu
Authentication : Try with both TRUE and FALSE ; this depends on ur server
Host Name : localhost
Username : Your email account, eg: email@example.com
Password : password for your email account
Port Number : This is normally 25 for most servers; If you use ssl then it will be different. please confirm this with your host
Security : notls works in most cases; if not use ssl
XYZScripts Team
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Begging letter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A begging letter is a letter to a rich person or organisation, usually written by a poor person, or a person claiming to be poor, begging for money or help.[1]
Examples of begging letters include a variant of the Nigerian 419 scam, where a letter is sent to a wealthy individual asking for financial assistance for orphaned children, emergency surgery, etc.[2]
The May 1850 edition of Household Words contained an article entitled The Begging-Letter Writer written by the novelist Charles Dickens. In the article Dickens describes examples of the many begging letters he had received over the years, and the ruses employed by their writers to gain funds from the recipients.


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Pricing Table Ready is removing all line breaks and paragraphs from my theme. All words run together, making it unusable. Any fix for this?
Pricing Table Ready is removing all line breaks and paragraphs from my theme. All words run together, making it unusable. Any fix for this?
Hello drewbourke,
please provide URL of your website
we'll check what's wrong
if it's possible provide URL of the webpage where you insert pricing table
I'm having the same problem with the plugin. It's forcing my text down below the pricing table. Therefore I can't get the look I'm wanting for my page and can't use the plugin. Hoping it will get fixed.
I had to remove the plugin for now because it was doing the same as Drew stated above. It wasn't just the page the plugin was installed on. It was every page on my site.
How do you remove this plugin? I son;t see it listed as a plugin in my plugin list? Help...
same problem here, but if in pricing-table.php
function insert_ready_table($content) {
else {
return $post_content;
else {
return $content;
it is start to work somehow
Hello slik!
Do you try the latest version of the plugin? We fix that bug.
I am using the latest version of the plugin - can't use any html in the field section - can use
but no href or font color/size.
Can someone please fix this plugin or tell me how to remove it from this template?
There seems to be a whole lot of issues with this plugin
-Not allowing me to use html in the field sections either. Please fix this.
-The columns keep disappearing as well as the fields
-Fields keep ending up other fields
-I want just 6 rows, but its showing 11 rows
-Additional rows are hiding behind other fields and I can't view them.
All these issues are happening in the dashboard function when creating tables.
I gave up on this plugin - started using Go Pricing, did what I needed too. There are other better plugins out there don't bother with this one. It is a shame it was really useful when it was working.
Please try new beta version of the plugin
It's not compatible with the old version.
@Pricing Table:
I have several price tables set, is there any way to import or convert from the old 0.2.x format?
If I export the price list, then upgrade the plugin, and import back again, will it convert it to the new format? Please :)
Unfortunately new 0.3.x version of the Pricing Table plugin doesn't support an old 0.2.x :(
You need to create all tables one more time in the new version of plugin.
ok, I hope future versions support the new format for a long time. Recreate all the price tables every time it's annoying.
Hopefully, the next time you do changes like this, you could add the posibility to convert from old format to the new one. Automatically when the upgrade takes place or by exporting from old version and importing in new version.
thank you
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Nicholls soccer fills key needs
Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 10:16 a.m.
Dylan Harrison went looking for well-round soccer players, and that is what he found with his 2014 signing class.
The Nicholls State University women's soccer team's 2013 season was the most successful season in the program's history. The team finished with a 12-6-2 overall record and a 6-5-1 mark in the Southland Conference, earning a berth to the conference tournament.
Unfortunately, Nicholls' record-setting season ended in a first-round tournament loss to Sam Houston State, but the momentum the Colonels built through their success carried over into recruiting for the 2014 signing class.
To help build on last season's success, the Colonels signed Savannah Boswell, Kaitlyn Caro, Taylor Douglas, Nicole Dupin, Katherine Kelly, Ainsley Pratt, Allison Ward, Mie Elvestad and Emily Werenskiold for the 2014 season.
Harrison said he has a talented group coming it and expects these players to compete right away for starting spots and playing time.
"I think with this class, from top to bottom, is one of the best groups that we have brought in," he said. "Every player in general can all compete from some type of role, whether it is in a starting role or the first players off the bench. I think each one of these players is capable of doing that.
"I think (our record) certainly helped in recruiting players from out of state or internationally. Whenever you recruit players, the first thing they look at is your record and whenever you have a quality record to show them it helps. Once we get that first look and they see what Nicholls has to off them, the school sells itself. It is a great place to get an education, but the record definitely helps," Harrison added.
Nicholls has always recruited internationally, and with the additions of Elvestad and Werenskiold, both from Norway, Harrison brings in two players that competed at a high level.
Harrison said the only difference in recruiting international players is not seeing them play in person, and coaches have to use game film to judge their ability.
"We have had a few players from different countries, and their recruitment is a similar process like all other recruits. You get all their stuff academically and make sure that is OK then you want to take a look at them. Things have changed with all the video that is available and how you can share that video," Harrison said. "We had some game film and just watch them. They played in high school together, so that should help in their adjustment. They are also a little older and both will turn 20 in the first few months they are here and that will help. That maturity will help them adjust not only on the field but in the classroom as well."
A lot of Nicholls' success last year came from the success forward Spencer Valdespino had on the field. Valdespino finished 2013 with 16 goals and 37 points, earning the Southland Conference and Louisiana Sports Writer's Association's Player of the Year awards as a sophomore. She was the only Colonel to score more than five goals last season.
With this signing class, Nicholls will have more offensive threats on the team.
"We feel we had a few holes we had to fill. Some of the areas we tried to address were on the outside whether it is on the wings or in an attacking position. I think we did a good job of meeting those needs, but we are still at a point where we need players to come and help us in every area. We just can't pass on a player, and with this class we found soccer players, well-rounded soccer players," Harrison said. "Every now and then you have to look outside the box for a player that plays a different way, but can fit into our system. (Elvestad and Werenskiold) are very technical players and even look at the World Cup. The (United States team) is getting better with intensity and ability, but we are still catching up on the technical side of the sport. You want those international players, but if we can get Louisiana kids that is what we want and we had the most Louisiana kids on our roster among the other Division I programs in the state."
Nicholls begins fall camp on Aug. 6, and its first match is Aug. 22 at Southern Miss.
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