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Some great insights about what to do if you find bed bugs!
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August 8, 2012
A Bed Bugs' Stealth Attack on You.
Nyx, the Illinois Bed Bug Dog and his owner and mentor Cliff Duple of A.G.A.D. Pest Control (As Good As Dead) exterminators maintain a busy schedule. So do bed bugs. They're darn near invisible. They hide in furniture and behind your walls. They move quickly through electrical conduit. They're stubborn. When they get to your bed, they aren't there to sleep. They're there to eat. You. And prevent you from sleeping. Even the thought of them makes you itch. They're presence is thousands of times worse. They're difficult to eradicate.
Who Can Sniff / Snuff Out Your Bed Bugs for Good?
Once you realize you've got them, whether Nyx, the bed bug dog finds them with his near perfect accuracy, OR WORSE, the bed bugs find you, and they are 100% at making your life miserable, you need a reliable and economical way to eradicate these pests from your person, your home, office, hotel, apartment, school or other structure in your life. And you want to eradicate them for good. The temperature needs to rise nearly 40 degrees more than your body temperature to kill these bed bugs and their hatching larva. That requires the right equipment and the right time commitment to making sure the bed bugs are dead.
Illinois Bed Bug Dog…Your Faithful Companion
When Cliff and Nyx at A.G.A.D Pest Control. quote you a price to eradicate bed bugs, you're getting the whole price for eliminating these pests from your life. After the eradication takes place, Nyx can even go in and make sure they're gone. Nyx won't eat until you can sleep. Now that's comforting.
August 6, 2012
Bed Bugs, The Unwanted Travel Companion
I have a lot of people ask me "What can I do when I travel abroad or domestically to prevent bringing bed bugs back with me? Should I bring my luggage to a Laundromat first and wash it there? I'm a travelin' man (or a traveling woman for that matter). The only souvenirs I want to bring home are the ones I choose to bring home. I don't want to travel with, stay with or come home with bed bugs. Nobody does, except perhaps other bed bugs. How do I keep these free loading pests from becoming travel companions?
5 "Safe Practices" that Can Help
There are "best practices' in your work place to employ. There are "safe practices" in travel guides. Bed bugs are opportunistic pests that you'll encounter at hotels, in airports, even in rental cars. Actually anywhere where to the turnover of guests is frequent is a transfer area and breeding ground for bed bugs.
To eradicate bed bugs, you'll need to:
- Expose them to extreme heat; over 125 degrees. It's a good practice to wash clothes and dry clothing at the highest heat settings before bringing them into your residence.
- Pack the clothing in plastic bags to help limit exposure to your luggage. Your luggage will wind up sharing space with other luggage when you travel.
- Use luggage encasements before arriving home to contain any pests.
- Use cloth luggage to make it easier to place suitcases in an industrial size dryer on the highest heat setting in a Laundromat.
- If you do experience them on your premises, call in a professional to perform a thorough bed bug inspection to prevent further infestation, it is truly worth the peace of mind knowing they are gone.
Extra Caution Can Pay Off
Travel is a key area of vulnerability in preventing an infestation of bed bugs. Taking a few extra steps can save you from having to battle bed bugs on your home front. Current trends show that you can encounter these pests no matter where you travel or how you get there; car, bus, train, or airplane. Both Nyx of Illinois Bed Bug Dog and Cliff of A.G.A.D. Pest Control believe bed bug prevention is possible by taking an extra precautions. Remember that bed bugs can and will travel with you anywhere if you aren't being cautious. It's a real bite. Literally.
Do you have some helpful tips you might share with everyone about measures you take to leave these pests behind? Please let us know.
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May 15, 2012
Illinois Bed Bug Dog…Arriving on the Scene
Hey Cliff, can you park your truck on the next block?
As Good As Dead aka A.G.A.D. Pest Control has been around for 30 years. I learned that having advertising on my truck was good business while the truck was moving. It's only when I stopped that curtains were drawn and doors were slammed. Parking in front of a school, customer's house, dormitory, apartment or condo complex; that was a different story. Being discreet became very important. By the time we eradicated whatever pest might have been plaguing a property owner, there was a good chance that neighbors were discussing all manners of what "pest" their neighbor was inundated with.
I bet its roaches! Naw, gotta be rats! I told you they had wasps! No cat there. Must be infested with mice! That itchy kid must have lice! Raccoons, I knew it!
In truth, the most immaculate homes can run into trouble with pests. In fact, those are the clients that are most likely to call. Or they'll stop me on the street. They'll give me the address, invariably followed by the instructions "Hey Cliff, can you park a couple blocks away?" Sometimes, they'll even provide the address of an unkempt rental property where no one would be surprised that a pest problem might occur.
Bed Bugs on the Move. Ugh!
It had become part of tucking a child in at night; "Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite!" You don't hear that much anymore, because theeeeeey're back! And they're miserable. Their bites are painful, uncomfortable and you could be bitten hundreds of times before you realize it. You won't be going to the Prom with the swelling and rashes they cause. The little buggers travel light and easy too. They move quickly, quietly and invisibly through your house, apartment, school, office or hotel through the walls and often use the electrical system as a "superhighway to their destination; your bed!
How do you find them? Endless Training and Cross-training.
For years that meant literally tearing up your house to expose them. That's if they didn't find you and your delicious flesh first. Sorry, but that's how most people first learned of their unwanted guests.
Not anymore. Meet Nyx, the Illinois Bed Bug Dog. She's cute and very discreet. More important, she's trained to find these bed bugs in any structure no matter where they are hiding. You could say Nyx lives for this job. Because she does. She's a petite Fox terrier on a mission. She can fit into awkward and small spaces and she can smell beg bugs wherever they are. Even in the walls. Nyx only is rewarded with food when she successfully finds the bed bugs. Nyx has had 800 hours of initial training and an ongoing training program every day. She doesn't get distracted by other stimuli, not smells, sights or sounds. When her "work leash" is on, she's single-mindedly looking for only one scent; bed bugs. She's up to 98% effective and she works fast. What used to take a whole day and might have a 30% success rate, now takes several minutes and it's nearly perfect. As her trainer and co-worker, I, Cliff Duple, am responsible for continuing her training for 2 hours every day. That's not too hard to do. Nyx and I are busy, really busy. She's inspecting all day, and often times makes night calls. Whenever the bug bites, the phone rings. Nyx and Cliff Duple are ready to find those bed bugs. No one realizes Nyx is on the job. She looks like any other family pet (although in my biased opinion she's in the top echelon of cute dogs and would win 'Best in Show' at Westminster if she didn't have a job, unlike the other shallow contestants) When Nyx and I enter, we look like visitors. If Nyx finds bed bugs, I get to work with A.G.A.D. to eradicate them. Nyx will come back and check my work when I'm done. If I've gotten rid of the bed bugs and made your life better, I get a treat. Nyx eats her treats. I deposit mine.
Oh, and let me know if you like my latest workout photo. Is pink my color? Ya think?
NO to "DIY" Bed Bug Elimination!
December 22, 2011
- In an article I recently read, it stated that insecticides are causing illness due to its exposure used to eliminate bed bugs.In my opinion, I believe it is the misuse of these pesticides that is the problem. Instead of getting the help of a qualified pest control operator, homeowners are off to the hardware stores in droves, with the delusional idea that they will rid themselves of these pests. My advice to those people, scouring the isles of the local hardware stores in search of a "quick fix" to control bed bugs…DON'T DO IT! While we all know there is no "quick fix" in the elimination of bed bugs, there is a simple solution. Let the professionals do their jobs. A qualified, licensed pest professional knows how (and when) to use pesticides made specifically for controlling bed bugs. They have the knowledge, training and certification in pesticides and their application.Homeowners, in their quest for a restful nights sleep, may be tempted to purchase insecticides and treat an infestation on their own. I cannot stress enough that this should be avoided. Not only could you harm yourself (or others) if the pesticides are even slightly misused, but in your haste you can actually repel the bed bugs, causing an even bigger infestation.Bed bugs have certainly reared their ugly heads and made a huge comeback in recent years. They have plagued hotels, schools, theaters, multi-family dwellings and single- family homes. Your socioeconomic status means nothing to a bed bug. Bed bugs do not discriminate, they don't care who you are – as long as you're willing to lie down and go to sleep, they will suck the blood right out of you.My Name is Nyx; I work for Illinois Bed Bug Dog as a canine detection dog. My handler is Cliff Duple and he has owned A.G.A.D. Pest Control, Inc. (As Good As Dead) for 30 years. Instead of costing you more money in the long run, by attempting the "DIY" method, save yourself some cash and call our office first. Our toll-free phone number is 1- 855.SEND.DOG you can also watch my video at our website at: http://www.illinoisbedbugdog.com
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Illinois Bed Bug Dog
December 21, 2011
One of our regular service apartment complexes called me and said that their maintenance staff found a mattress by an outside dumpster with live bed bugs on it. They had no idea what unit in this 100 unit building could have thrown out the mattress and of course they were frantic over the situation. Their first thought was to perform a visual inspection in every unit. I told them I would be happy to do this however there are going to be problems with this inspection. First, every resident had to be notified with ample time for inspection and prepare for us like stripping sheets and covers off all beds, all clutter must be picked up and we needed access to all rooms. The second problem is there were going to be a lot of questions of why we are performing this unusual inspection and it would create a bed bug panic with their residents throughout this building or even complex. I then suggested that we use Nyx and perform a hallway inspection where she smells under the doors to see if she can find the bed bug infested unit. I told them for that size building it would take about 2 hours which also was a far less cost than the visual inspection. Of course not to my surprise but to theirs Nyx found the infested unit by smelling under the doors in less than an hour and we finished the entire building in about 2 hours just as I quoted. "NYX NOSE KNOWS"
December 16, 2011
Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite.
That used to be something parents said to their children in jest. Bed Bugs had been eradicated decades ago. This quaint little saying has come back with a vengeance!
Bed bugs are back. Bed bugs do bite. They also multiply very quickly and infest a living space before you know it. And they cling to your clothes and travel light from place to place. In a global world, these nasty pests are carried from continent to continent and have become a continental pain in the….skin. The effect of these bites is no laughing matter. It's very serious.
It Takes Training and Lots of Treats.
Nyx is a small, unobtrusive, extremely well-trained and well-disciplined bed bug dog with only one great mission in life; find those bugs and find them fast. There are very few who specialized in her line of work. Many don't graduate and the program is rigorous. She's up to 98% effective within minutes of searching an average size living space. She's 100% discreet. She tells no one who she is or where she's been or whether or not she's given the "high alert signal" or the "all clear signal".
The old saying is "Want a friend, get a dog" has merit. Nyx's friend is her owner, trainer and business partner Cliff. Despite distracting Nyx with all manner of temptation, like piping hot pizza aroma, dog toys, squirrels running about nearby, Cliff knows that Nyx has only one thing on her mind from the moment he puts on his treat bag; Bed Bugs! No bugs no treat. Nyx, you see, works on commission. Hundreds of hours of training and daily continuing training keep Nyx in tip top condition and at peak performance. Her nose knows and she'll stick it in your business without making it anyone else's business. Of course, no one gets to talk to Nyx but Cliff. If you want Nyx, you call Cliff. You can't get around him. Think you got bed bugs? Call Cliff. He'll call Nyx.
Illinois Bed Bug Dog To The Rescue.
If Nyx gets a treat, you've got a problem. You've got bed bugs. They're not easy to see and they're very difficult to get rid of. AGAD Pest Control specializes in eradicating bed bugs. With over 30 years of pest control experience, they'll finish the job Nyx started.
Using a specialty treatment heat system that kills bed bugs and the larva, AGAD eradicate the infestation in homes, offices, schools, hotels, apartment complexes, dorms and anywhere else these microscopic pests land and set up camp. There is no worse feeling than the one that tells you "you can't go home".
Bed bug epidemic. Where's the enemy?
Painfully Hard to Find.
These pests are so microscopically small that you won't see them. You won't smell them. What you will do is FEEL them. Their bites are painful and result in terrible rashes. By the time you see what they've done and feel it, you're infested. When they aren't biting, they're laying more eggs and creating a new generation of pests to continue the pain and discomfort.
When you read about a beg bug problem, it's a concern. Once you've been bitten; it's a crisis. You need help and you need it now. You need to find them and you need to kill them. You won't be able to sleep until you do.
A.G.A.D (As Good As Dead) Naturally!
Contact Illinois Bed Bug Dog and Nyx will find these pests and find them quickly. AGAD owner Cliff Duple has over 30 years experience in the pest control business. He'll kill the bed bugs for you with a specialized infrared heat system that kills living bed bugs and the larvae they've left behind.
Nyx is a small terrier trained to do one thing; find the bed bugs. She doesn't get distracted and she's 98% effective. She works fast finding the tiny flesh eaters. Her only rewards come from a successful discovery. Her master Cliff works just as quickly and efficiently to eliminate the bed bugs that Nyx finds.
Moving Into a New Place to Live or Work?
It might be worth having Nyx of Illinois Bed Bug Dog do a walk-thru first. Bed bugs have become all too common. They cling to cloth, travel and breed quickly in a new place. Having a nosy friend like Nyx on your walk-thru will confirm whether your new living or work place is already occupied by unwanted pests. You won't see them. Nyx will. You can't kill them. Cliff will.
Both Nyx of Illinois Bed Bug Dog and Cliff of AGAD Pest Control are experts at what they do. Nyx has had thousands of hours of training and Cliff has over 30 years of experience. Bed Bugs are no laughing matter and their bites are painful and dangerous. An infestation can be especially hazardous to your health. Getting the A-OK from Nyx will help you sleep at night. Literally.
How do you sleep at night?


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Daily Trojan, Vol. 28, No. 97, March 12, 1937
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corgc John Pcile, Commerce Student, Receives $367,891 From Clark Estate -rial Office* 111, Sta. 227 __ PR-4776 'XXVHI SOUTHERN DAILY CALIFORNIA TROJAN United Press World Wide New* Service Los Angeles, California, Friday, March 12, 1937 Number 97 iOwell To Speak M World Affairs' fortieth Assembly Lion Starts borrow at fasadena Hotel It's Abdication * * * * Roosevelt - for - King Club Abolished Lin Will Also Lecture ] Ut Monthly Meeting I Of Conference L>g for the fortieth time Cits inception more than C^tars ago. the World Af-6 assembly will hear Dr. Cfer Rowell, San Francis-Iftronlcle editor, and Syud Lin u. S. C. lecturer, at laonthly meeting to be ptomorrow evening in the Del Arroyo hote' in Pas-Dr. Rufus B. von btoid, chancellor of the ingeles University of In-1 Relations, will pre- tarell will speak on ' News tl* Front'' and Hossain has is hls topic "Late Develop-s the Near East and India." rf the speakers have had wide In the diplomatic field art been active in pushing since reforms. Howell Is Trustee has been a trustee of the Pace foundation since 1932; "te to the International of Penal Law. held in in 1924; a member of the Relations conferences for a i of years and also a noted In California politics. Since !k haa been engaged largely h?n travel, lecturng, and ! writing. He has been ^tfthe San Francisco Chron-|fc the past five years. 3®. who at one time edited May Chronicle and later the ) Onent, in New York, was a it In 1920 from India to the Intern Peace settlement In i and Pari? At the present ^ i* teaching n course in history and civilization at sty. PRINCETON, N. J.. March 11 —<U.P»—The Princeton chapter of the "Roosevelt - for - King" club was abolished by King Franklin firsti the executive committee announced tonight. Sixteen new titles were created in "executive session" today, the committee said, and "his royal highness was installed in each of the new petitions." The new officers gave "hls royal highness" control of the club and he abolished it, club officials said. More than half the student body had joined the club during Its three-day existence. a Kappa Delta Hear Polyzoides ^ on the subject. "1937: A ^ A Promise." Dr. Adaman-™ Polyzoides will address ao! Alpha Kappa Delta, na. "Wiry sociology lraternity. aeml-annual initiation din-S1° tonight at the Mona i ur*nt. 3343 WUsliire bourne* member* will be tni-t**e U. s. C chapter torn' ^ thf club lnclude Dr. ri 01 °ccldental. presi-llr .thy Clark' graduate ., "ce*president; Eleanor ^ senior, secretary; and 8tamai> of the Los i*'«aurer5 adminlstra- tot0 <he realm of prac-^Polyzoides will some of the 'itiati,l^nges 111 human and , '''Wiahips evident in Eur- since the war. ^wauon wlU be given influences in this line. Supreme Court Bill Termed 'Remedy' Jackson Urges Congress To Back Roosevelt s Judiciary Plan WASHINGTON, March 11—(U.P)— Arguing that the supreme court is "impaired in its functioning and prestige" by serious divison, Assistant Attorney Oeneral Robert H. Jackson today urged senate judiciary committee to approve President Roosevelt's court reorganization bill I as the "only remedy." | Meanwhile Roosevelt, who per-j sonally launched the drive for congressional enactment with two 1 radio speeches before the formal hearings began, left for Warm Springs. Ga.. for two weeks' vaca-| tlon. William C. Bullitt, ambassador to France, accompanied him. j Jackson's "brief" for passage of Mr. Roosevelt's request was based j on this logic: 1. The constitution places in congress the responsibility for the pro-j per functioning of the supreme court. Congress helps select the justices; they must answer to congress for their behavior; the court's ! jurisdiction, except ln certain cases, I is outlined by congress; and con-I &ress has the "generally overlooked" j power to check the "over-reaching" j of the court. j 2. Legislation affecting the size ' of the supreme court "is authorized I by the constitution and validated ! by historical practice as a method of bringing the elective and non-i elective branches of the govern-I ment back into proper eoordlna-j tion." i 3. The history of attempts to | correct the court by constitutional ; amendment shows the impossibility of predicting the interpretation of ihe amendment. British Vessel Imperiled By Hold Fire SAN FRANCISCO. March 11— (t'.E»—Fire broke out anew today in the number three hold of the British motorshlp Silver Larch, 900 miles northeast of Honolulu. Meanwhile, the Chinese steamer Hopsang went aground at the southern end of Formosa, and the trawler Normandie, out of San Francisco, sank after a collision with the freighter Alamer 11 miles off Humboldt bar, nff the coast of northern California. The Silver Larch sent new distress messages through Globe wireless at Honolulu after she had advised ships the fir* had been brought under control. Abbott Announces Candidates Will File Blanks By March 19, in Office Of Student Body Sent to Nazis Anti-American Comments By German Press Irk Cabinet Member Protest To Be 'Emphatic' [ La Guardia Speech Against Hitler Is Cause of Berlin Dispatch Douglas Strike Ends as Union Is Recognized Employees, Returning to Work Monday, Will Get 5-Cent Raise All Except 38 Reinstated Plant Executive Willing To Arbitrate Demands Of C.I.O. Group SANTA MONICA, March 11. — (UP)—An 18-day strike at the Douglas aircraft plant was ended tonight by an agreement under which President Donald Douglas recognized the CIO's aircraft division of the United Automobile Workers union and reinstated all but 38 of the strikers. Under the agreement, 2500 strikers will return to work, probably Monday, rejoining 3,000 other employees who had refused to strike with them. Strikers Get Raise » The strikers will receive the same 5-cent an hour wage increase Douglas granted other workers 10 days ago. The peace negotiations were completed when Douglas abruptly agreed to reinstate most of the 350 strikers who were indicted on trespass charges after they had engaged in a sit-down strike at the plant. As recently as this noon, when he addressed a mass meeting of his workers, Douglas announced he was; willing to recognize the union and arbitrate other disputed points, but he emphasized he would not reinstate the Indicted men until they had been cleared. He said he feared any such concession "might influence the courts." Agrees To Return Several hours later, after another conference with the strike committee, he relented and agreed to return to their jobs all the defendants except 38 who. he charged, engaged in violence and sabotage during the sit-down. With tlie exception of recognition, all demands of the CIO union, including a 15-cent-an-huur wage increase, will be arbitrated, Douglas said. He accompanied this statement with assurance that none of the strikers would be discriminated against because of their union activities. ...... initely close the consideration of . , . . t u I anyone to run for any office in the Advertising Class I O Hear all-university election, regardless of ! Radio Promotion Manager I "puU" or allb1' AbboU relteraled Charles F. Maguire, radio pro- Pettingill To Speak motion manager for the Herald- | Prof. Robert A. Pettingill will be Express, will speak to Prof. Frank j a guest speaker tomorrow at a noon A. Nagley's 11:25 advertising class | luncheon given by the state con-today. in 240 Old College. Maguire | vention of the Women's Interna-wlll address the group on news- tional League for Peace and Free-paper advertising, stressing the j dom. at the Women's University viewpoint of the large metropolitan club. Piofessor Pettingill s topic proper erroneous, ridiculous, inde Secretary Hull Trojans Celebrate Orders Rebuke Qf Spring Social WASHINGTON, March 11.— (UP)—Secretary of State Cordell Hull has ordered "emphatic comment" made to Germany for anti-American dispatches published in the Nazi press, he disclosed today. Simultaneously Representative h loptinn lloanlino Samuel Dickstein, Democrat, l/cduilllc New york charged that 100 foreign spies are in this country fomenting a Fascist plot against the government. The dispatches that aroused Hull's ire dealt with the recent meeting of the Jewish Women's congress in New York over which Mrs Stephen Wise, wife of the noted Rabbi, presided. The texts were so obscene the state department refused to make them public. Mayor's Speech Is Cause Publication of the dispatches grew out of a specch made to the Women's congress by New York's fiery mayor, Fiorello H. LaGuardia Reminding students who plan to run for offices in the coming all-university election that they must be properly registered, Ed Abbott, elections commissioner, yesterday set 3 p. m. March 19 as the deadline for accepting election petitions. Petitions may be filed in the ASUSC offices from Wednesday to Friday of next week. Deadline Absolute "Absolutely no petitions will be accepted after 3 p. m. next Friday," Abbott said. "All candidates for ASUSC offices, for sophomore, junior, or senior class offices, and for executive positions within the various schools and colleges of the uni-versty must have their petitions In on time or they will not be considered." Following the 3 p. m. deadline, the names of candidates will be taken to the registrar's office where a thorough check on each student's record will be made. If the student is found acceptable, his petition will then be discussed by the ASUSC senate which meets at 4 p. m. for final consideration of candidates. Eligibility Requirements Eligibility requirements for aspiring candidates are that they have an accumulatve grade point average of one point or higher, and that they have not filed a petition for any other office in the ensuing election. Next Friday's deadline will def- Climax Season At Jnnior Prom Tonight Hundreds Will Attend Tenth Annual Affair Here They Are Again Gardiner Pollich and Virginia Holbrook, president and secretary of tbe class oj 1938, which wilt present U S.C.'s tenth annual prom at Riviera Country dub tonight Chinese Vice-Consul Guffey Coal Bill To Receive Degree in which he said that a statue of Dr. Yi-Seng Kiang To Be Honored by Degree In Foreign Service Adolf Hitler should be placed ln a "chamber of horrors" at the New York worlds fair in 1939. His remarks drew a sharp protest from the Hitler government and the state department apologized. Mrs. Wise's communication to Hull said the Nazi press "published a statement to the effect that 1200 women attending a luncheon of thc women's division (of the congress) were 'women of the streets,' " Dickstein Accuses Dickstein specifically accused Fritz Kuhn, who he described as being a chemist on leave of absence from the Ford Motor company, of leading a Nazi movement ln this country. He exhibited a photograph ln which he Identified Kuhn, in Nazi uniform and heavily armed, as presiding over a brown shirt meeting in the east. Mooney's Counsel Files New Protest Rodeo Panel )Tnent Thursday ^.'ment oi El Rodeo pan-deposited with the ' °mce by social fra-'^4J0r"r,lies »>' Thurs-j,je.. 10 an announce-i "KWday by Leonard *tR*LbUSlneS8 man- i* absolute." .■iaii " 06e organizations ** ti lh* Wment . "Presented in the Pledges Strike * * * * A. D. Pi Neophytes Picket House The nation-wide wave of sit-down strikes hit the campus yesterday when 14 Alpha Delta Pi pledges walked out on their duties durhig the noon hour As a climax to their work week, which is preceding their Initiation, the pledges, claiming that the actives were "unfair," refused to entertain during the lunch hour at the sorority house. Striking for shortened hours and lighter work, the girls led by Evelyn Gracier, Marjorie Atkinson, and Evelyn Volby, chief agitators, hid the silverware and refused to sing songs that had been assigned to them. After Gertrude Bames, Alpha prexy, threatened to impose heavier duties pledges returned the missing knives and forks. However, the girls stayed out on strike. "Actives unfair" placards replaced the Japanese name cards that the girls have been wearing the past week. Some of the names given to the pledgee for this week were: Too Youog. I-Hay-Chou, Lw-La. and Suae Low. ln recognition of outstanding service In the field of foreign relations, Dr. Yi-Seng Kang, Chinese vice-consul of Los Angeles since 1932, will be the recipient today of the honorary degree, doctor of foreign service, from U. S. C. Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid will officiate. at the ceremonies. A special luncheon in the president's suite honoring Consul and Mrs. Kiang will be the occasion of the 12 o'clock ceremonies. The luncheon will be attended by members ol the university tommlttee on honors composed of members of thc Board of Trustees and faculty, and leading citizens of the Chinese colony of southern California. Following his five years of service in Los Angeles, Dr. Kiang will leave shortly for New York to fulfill his recent appointment as Chinese Consul General at New York j city. A graduate of Chlh-Tse Ulllver- I sity, Shanghai, in 1927, Dr. Kiang I received his LL.B degree from tlie Comparative Law School of China In 1928. and became deputy consul at Batavia in 1929. From 1930 to 1931 Dr. Kiang served as English translator for the Passed by Big Vote in House WASHINGTON. March 11—(U.E)— The house today passed overwhelmingly the revised Guffey-Vinson bill to eliminate cut-throat competition in the bituminous coal Industry by strict regulation of prices and sales methods. No record vote was taken. Thc bill now goes to the senate where last session a filibuster killed a similar measure to re-enact prlco Merle Carlson's Orchestra To Supply Music for Riviera Event By Betty Yungling Social tradition of 10 years standing at U. S. C. will be followed tonight when several hundred Trojan undergraduates gather ln the Riviera Country club ballroom at 9 o'clock to promenade to the music of Merle Carlson and his dance orchestra. The annual Junior prom is the occasion of which formality and festivity will be the dual keynote. Directed by co-chairman Gardiner Pollich and Virginia Holbrook, president and secretary of the Junior class, the prom will mark the climax of the spring social season at Troy. Decoration* will follow a nautical theme and have been planned and executed by Jack Warner, Ellen Holt, and Adele Shipkey. Thc marine motif will be carried out in color scheme and design of the orchestra background and details of decoration. Bids for the prom priced at $2.50 r.er couple, are stUl on sale ln the SAN FRANCISCO. March 11— it'.R)—George W. Davis, counsel for Thomas Mooney announced tonight that he would file vigorous exceptions with the state supreme court tomorrow against the findings ol i^g^est legislative publication of the Addison E. Shaw, the court's referee , chlneso naUonal government. Be-in the Mooney habeas corpus pro- (ore COming to Los Angeles ln 1932. ceedlngs. j |le servetj for tvvo years as vlce- Davls said his exceptions would j consul for his government ln San charge Shaw's findings were "im- ; Francisco. fixing provisions of the original ®tudent bookstore and may also be Guffey act which was invalidated ! from members of the ju- nlor class until this evening, by the supreme court because of " _________, . _____________At the last meeting of the Junior its wage and hour stipulations. I ....... TTT ! council held last night at the Sigma Leaders of 500,000 organized coal Alpha Epsilon house, lt was de-miners united with coal producers ! elded that bids would be sold at ln urging enactment of the revised the door of the clubhouse for those measure which won considerable making last minute plans to attend Republican support. | the formal. Bids unsold today _. .... ... , , should be turned Into Bob Wood in The bill authorizes district code | boards to fix minimum coal prices based on average costs whicli the I boards ' shall adjust as may be j necessary to give effect to any change ln wage rates, hours of em • j ployment or other factors sub- I stantlally affecting costs." The measure protects consumers j against ' unreasonably high prices," j however, by a provision directing the National Bituminous Coal com- the University ticket office on the second floor of thc Student Union before 4 o'clock. daily paper. The next will be illustrated by lantern slides. I will be "The Economic Aspect of Neutrality." fensible, and based on antiquated and outmoded theories of law." After lengthy hearings Shaw had reported there was nothing to support Mooney's contention and that the evidence showed Mooney was convicted properly after a fair trial. Meanwhile in Sacramento, final action on the proposal to grant the Mine Explosion Traps 20 Men Student Reciches Majority, Receives Third of Fortune _ Z~r I convicted San Francisco prepared- Wednesday noon George John Pale, sophomore in the Col-1 day bomber a ]egislal)ve par. lege of Commerce and Business Administration, scuffled with tonight awaited receipt by the his Chi Phi fraternity brothers unnoticed and ufiheralded. j senate of additional legal rulings on Yesterday, his 21st birthday brought him a legacy of $367,891, j the constitutionality of such pro- and today his good fortune is the talk of the campus. j cedure Pale, a candidate for a bachelor ^number of other members of the of science degree in business ad- I household as receiving a bequest of ministration here, was bequeathed $2,000. $1,135,000 by William A Clark. Jr., The former Montana mining mag-late Los Angeles millionaire and j nate had arranged to adopt Pale patron of the Las Angeles Philharmonic orchestra. Yesterday's Inheritance represents one-third of his ultimate legacy. He is to receive his second inheritance when 25 years of age and the last third at the age of 30. In celebration of his good fortune and birthday, Pale took the day off yesterday, and together with his wife and mother left for an undisclosed destination. Pale was married about 14 months ago at Santa Barbara Mission. His attorney. A. J. Verheyen. refused to issue any statement of his whereabouts. Reports from the registrar's office state that Pale has an excellent record as a student. Although he I shortly after his son William Clark is not expected to be on campus III was killed In an airplane crash today, reliable sources said that he while flying between Salt Lake would resume his studies here next City and Los Angeles. The elder weet I Clark was in Montana for the adop- The Troy sophomore is the son | tion hearing when lie became 111 of Clark's former housekeeper, Mai - and died at Salmon Lake on June tha jftU*. who wm lasted with * 114. 1834. Music, Stage Clubs Are Hosts Sunday Plii Mu Alpha, national music mission to fix maximum prices pro- fraterntty and Phl B«.ta, national vldlng only a "reasonable" profit feSAlolial mu>tc and dramatic whenever It deems such action de- fraternlt wln hold opell hoUse for slrable. In addition, a "consum- I thf rtudent8 ln lh(, schoo, of Mu.slc ers" counsel would report directly , #nd ^ &,hool of Spp(,ch 8lmdav to congress. ^ afternoon from 3 to 5 o'clock at the Phl Mu Alpha house. 1052 West U.S.C. Organizations 35th street Cosmopolitan Holding the first of a number of anticipated social events this semester, the foreign students on the U. S.C. campus will be entertained at the home of Mrs. A N. Whitworth tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Westminster Rev. W. D. Haight will be the guest speaker at the Westminster club luncheon meeting, today ,at 12:20 p. in., 321 Student Unidn. Reservations may be made in the Religious Conference office. Quill QuUl club, national professional George John I'ale . . . gch rich quickly j LOGAN. W Va., Friday, March 12—<UJ!l—The fate of 20 men trap-| ped by an explosion two miles in-| side the MacBeth mine of the Hutchison Coal company was uncertain today as rescue workers I literary society will accept manu-\ tolled somewhere within the gas- I scripts from campus writers desir-f tiled workings, their movements j ing entrance into the club, in the unknown to anxious watchers on English office, Bridge hall, accord-the surface. I ing to Jane Lewis, president. It has been more than three hours since word was received froin the 16 men comprising the rescue crew. A program, on which members of both organizations will appear, has their regular semi-monthly meeting been arranged by Alton Oage of at the YWCA, 674 West 38th street, Phl Mu Alpha, and will be pre-Saturday, March 13, at 2 p m j • ented during the afternoon ,--Those who will represent Phi rhl Alpha I heta Beta are Josephine Madrid, pianist; _ ; the Phi Beta trio; and Lucille Hoff. Prof Roy L. French, director ol ' Representing Phl Mu Alpha will be the School of Journalism, will speak - Joseph Sullivan, tenor; Summer tonight at the meeting of Phi Al- Priddle. pianist; and Fred Barnes, pha Theta, national honorary his- I pianist. torlcal society, at 7 30 o'clock in thr J j,Ueresied .students, whether or lounge of the Student Union. not enrolled In the School of Music ---' or the School of Speech are invited Oriental 10 attend the open house. Chinese. Japanese, and Korean students on the campus will dis- | r).»j. L/p ( Twilit cuss "Young People's Problems , ■LyuM'^ from Its international angle tonight j .'c/j/7 at B o'clock at Prof. Ken Naka- | a * UllHStU zawa's home, 2187 West 31st street, Engineers' CouncU To Meet Memberi of the esigisaeent' council will meet in 142 Bridge today sat 10 a.m. to receive their Father sand Son banquet tickets, it was announced iaat night bf t'hsarlea Schweitser, treasurer of the Coi-ttgm aI Ene-kaeeriaag. Etiquette To continue work on a proposed etiquette booklet for Trojan students, members of the Etiquette club of the YWCA will meet today at 12; 15 p. m. in the "Y." Sigma Delta Pi Pictures of the Mayan ruius ln Yucatan will be shown members of Sigma Delta PI. Spanish honorary club, at a meeting to be held Sunday. March 14 at 7 p. m at the YWCA. U.S.C. Dames Rho Chi Stating that pledges must be Women Helpers Women wishing to receive double credit toward activity points lor work to be done Friday afternoon and Saturday morning are asked to report to Mary Jane Booth and Virginia Holbrook in 202 Student Union during chapel hour today. "The work is of a secretarial nature and is connected with the ASUSC office," Holbrook said yesterday. We are offering double Offering i gram. O. i. ii international pro-C. Dames will hold | building. present, Alfred Jannard, president of Rho Chl, honorary pharmaceu- | credit to women wanting actlvitj tical society, yesterday announced points as the work must be com-a meeUng of the organization at j pleted this week 9:55 a. m. today in 304 Science
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The rich got it wrong.
Despite a general sense of confidence in their financial readiness for retirement, affluent Americans might be overlooking critical tenets of retirement planning, according to a new Schwab survey
The company finds more than eight in 10 investors say they have a retirement plan in place, and 80 percent of these respondents say they are confident about their financial readiness for retirement.
However, when it comes to estimating how much money they'll need once they actually retire, respondents say they'll need on average around $66,000 in income annually, far lower than their current average income of about $115,000.
The survey also finds that, on average, respondents plan to work until they are 67 years old and expect to live to the age of 86, suggesting that they anticipate living off their retirement savings for less than 20 years. When asked directly how many years they anticipate living off of their savings in retirement, people say 21 years, on average.
Retirement confidence high
Although there appears to be room for improvement in how realistically people are planning for their financial needs in retirement, the story isn't all bad, Schwab notes. Thirty-three percent of people feel they are completely prepared for retirement, and another 51 percent feel at least moderately prepared.
Even people who have a financial plan in place would be well-served to give it a second look to ensure they are on track to meet their retirement goals.
People's sense of retirement readiness seems to provide flexibility in terms of whether or not they will continue working to drive additional income once they retire. Thirty-nine percent of people surveyed say they do not plan to work at all in retirement, and 46 percent say they might work part time even though they expect to have enough money to live without working. Just 10 percent think they will have to work at least part time to make ends meet.
Budget-busting worries
When asked how their confidence level has changed since last year, 23 percent feel more optimistic about being prepared for retirement, while 24 percent are less optimistic, and roughly half (52%) haven't changed their perspective. Survey respondents did express some financial worries when it comes to retirement planning. More than half (53 percent) say their primary concern is incurring unexpected expenses in retirement, such as medical costs.
Regional highlights from the survey include:
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- More than half (52 percent) of Philadelphia residents say they're currently working with a professional advisor on their retirement planning, compared with 40 percent of Bostonians.
- Washington, D.C., residents are most likely to relocate in retirement (36 percent), while San Franciscans are least likely to move once they retire (17 percent).
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Our members study and investigate man-made and man-used underground places — from mines to railway tunnels, military defences to nuclear bunkers and everything in between.
The Sub Brit Collection of archive Cold War photographs is now available online. Many thanks to all the contributors who made its purchase possible.
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MEDINA, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 23, 2018--
International Inc. (NYSE: RPM) today announced that Randell
McShepard has been named Chief Talent Officer, a new role created to
spearhead senior leadership development opportunities at RPM. He will
continue to serve as vice president – public affairs, a position he has
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In this new role, McShepard will be responsible for managing and
evaluating leadership development, succession planning and executive
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leadership development programs, including RPM University (RPMU) and
Leaders of the Future, and in partnership with the U.S Army War College
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Katy Perry vs. Lady Gaga: Who Looks Best With Orange Hair? – Readers Poll
Orange isn't exactly the most popular hair color, especially when it looks for real orange and not natural red, but that didn't stop Katy Perry and Lady Gaga from dying their locks these blazing hues. While Perry's is much more muted than Gaga's bold coloring, who do you think wears orange hair the best?
Perry recently showed off orange-red hair on the cover of L'Officiel magazine, and while we're pretty sure the singer hasn't actually dyed her hair this shade, the tone really agrees well with her pale, peachy skin and grayish blue eyes. She looks like she's channeling Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine, one member of which Katy coincidentally hooked up with earlier this year.
Meanwhile, Lady Gaga recently debuted her glowing orange hairdo overseas, and even though we're pretty sure this is a wig (not too long after, Gaga actually dyed her hair brown, so we doubt she went for a permanent orange dye job beforehand). Either way, if there's anybody who can wear fiery, burning hair well, it's Gaga. She once again proves she's not only Mother Monster, but the Mother of Color, rocking any shade she pleases and somehow pulling it off.
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Minneapolis Skyway Standards - Standards and Procedures Manual
Section 1.0 Background
The Minneapolis Skyway System is a second-level pedestrian movement system connecting downtown office, retail, hospitality, residential, and parking uses. The system consists of over seventy bridges and it connects nearly as many downtown blocks. Except for connections to public buildings and public parking facilities, most of the Skyway System has been privately developed, owned, and operated.
The Minneapolis Skyway Advisory Committee is a committee of nineteen members representing downtown property owners and skyway users that serves in an ad hoc basis and reviews all skyway plans prior to the City's granting of encroachment permits for construction in the public right-of-way. Skyway Advisory Committee members are appointed by the Downtown Council for two year terms. Committee appointments are subject to approval by the Minneapolis City Council.
The purpose of the Minneapolis Skyway System Standards and Procedures Manual is to assist developers and architects in their design for additions to the Skyway System, and to ensure that new skyway development contributes to the success of the system as a whole. In addition to the guideline set forth herein, all skyways, tunnels, and connections concourses are subject to the Minneapolis Code of Ordinances and all relevant building codes.
Section 2.0 Architectural Design Standards
2.1 Location in the Public Right-of-Way
2.1.1 Skyway bridges shall be developed at only the second level of the building.
2.1.2 Except where crossing streets and alleys, skyway bridges and corridors shall be located within the property lines and shall not encroach over public right of way
2.1.3 All skyways should run perpendicular to the sidewalks, streets, and alleys that they cross.
2.1.4 Where ever possible, all skyways should cross sidewalks, streets, and alleys in the middle portion of the block rather than at the extreme ends of the block.
2.2 Architectural Form
2.2.1 Minimum and Maximum Height above the Street or Alley: The bottom of skyway bridges must be a minimum of 16 feet - 6 inches (16' 6") above the street or alley.
2.2.2 Minimum and Maximum Width: Skyway bridges and corridors shall have a minimum interior clear width of 12 feet (12' 0") between hand rails. Skyways shall be no wider than 30 feet (30' 0"). Skyway width (interior clearance between handrails) should be carefully considered in relation to each skyway's relative location within the system, and the projected intensity of sue for that skyway. Wherever possible, skyway ridges and corridors within the Downtown Core should have a minimum interior clear width of 18 feet (18' 0") between hand rails.
2.2.3 Horizontal and Vertical Alignment: In elevation, skyway bridges shall be designed to be horizontally parallel to the street surface and vertically perpendicular to adjacent buildings. Changes in grade shall be accommodated within the skyway such that the skyway appears visually level from the exterior. In plan, Skyway bridges shall be designed to be perpendicular to tech alignment of the street or alley they cross.
2.2.4 Transparency: Skyway bridges shall be designed to be transparent in order to provide views into and out of the skyway. Clear glass shall be used for the purpose of maintaining security within the Skyway System.
2.3 Access
2.3.1 Skyway corridors shall be designed to facilitate clear and easy access between street and skyway levels. Elevators, stairs, and escalators linking the street and skyway levels shall be located in such a way as to provide convenient, visible links to the skyway level from the adjacent street and sidewalks.
2.3.2 Skyway bridges and corridor (including but not limited to doors, ramps, and signage) must meet the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements.
2.3.3 Comprehensive design solutions that incorporate interior grade changes through the construction of all-purpose ramping are favored over design solutions that include stairs and chair lifts. Satisfying ADA requirements through and ad hoc combination of solutions is discouraged.
2.3.4 All access doors between skyway bridges and the corridors of new buildings shall be power operated and shall open in a sliding, side-to-side direction.
2.3.5 All access doors between skyway bridges and the corridors of existing buildings shall be power operated and should open in a sliding, side-to-side direction. In cases where a new skyway connects to an existing building and side-sliding doors are not possible, power activated doors shall open in the prevailing direction of pedestrian traffic.
2.4 Public Safety
2.4.1 All access doors between skyway bridges and building corridors may include hold-open features which are integrated with the fire/emergency systems in the buildings that are adjacent to a given skyway bridge.
2.4.2 All building doors leading from skyway level corridors to street-level building doors and all doors between skyway bridges and building corridors may include hold-open features which are integrated with the fire emergency systems.
2.4.3 Emergency lighting shall be installed within the skyway bridge.
2.5 Building Systems
2.5.1 Heating and Ventilation: Skyway bridges shall be heated to a minimum of 55 degrees Fahrenheit in winter and ventilated not to exceed outdoor temperatures in summer.
2.5.2 External Lighting: If street lights are removed for the construction of a skyway, replacement street lighting must be provided on the bottom of the new skyway. Lighting should be replaced so as to provide the same level and character of illumination as street lighting in the surrounding block. All lighting shall be provided in accordance with the City of Minneapolis ordinances regarding street lighting.
2.5.2 Internal Lighting: Internal lighting should be consist ant and seamless between skyway bridges, corridors, and vertical circulation elements (elevators, escalators, and stairs) in order to eliminate sharp contrasts in lighting levels.
Section 3.0 Signage Design Standards
3.0 Signage
3.1.1 Unless otherwise noted, all signage will adhere to the policies and procedures contained in Minneapolis Skyway Signage Standards (dated September 2000), which was authored by the Skyway Advisory Committee and the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) and is administered by the City of Minneapolis Public Works Department. Specifically, all buildings that incorporate new skyways into the system shall adhere to the "Blue Waters Signage Package."
3.1.2 Directional signs and signs indicating hours of operation (approved by the Minneapolis Skyway Advisory Committee) shall be incorporated in the design of skyway bridges and corridors.
3.1.3 Building entrances shall include clear directional signage as per the Skyway Signage Program.
3.1.4 Elevators, stairs, and escalators linking the street and skyway levels shall include clear directional signage as per the Skyway Signage Program.
3.1.5 All buildings that incorporate new skyways into the system shall be responsible for buying and mounting a standard Skyway System Map and Directory Panel on the skyway level of that building.
3.1.6 All buildings that incorporate new skyways into the system are strongly encouraged to install the standardized electronic information kiosk for the Skyway System on the skyway level of that building.
3.1.7 Signs attached to skyway bridges that are intended to be read from the public right-of-way shall not be permitted.
Section 3.2 Skyway System Off-Premise Signage
3.2.1 Purpose
The Skyway Advisory Committee recognizes the increased demand in the marketplace for off-premise signage (advertising and other) within the skyway system. The purpose of this policy is to provide guidance to skyway owners and building owners as to where off-premise signage should be permitted and not permitted.
3.2.2 Definitions for the Purposes of the Section
Off-premise signage: Any sign (regardless of form or media) used for the purpose of displaying, advertising, identifying or directing attention to a business, service or activity, including products or services sold of offered for sale on the premises other than on the premises where such a sign is displayed.
Skyway Bridge: Any part of the skyway system that is located over the public right-of-way not including any segment that shares at least one common wall with a building or is located over an alleyway.
Skyway Corridor: Any part of the skyway system that is not a Skyway Bridge.
3.2.3 Policy
Off-premise signage shall be permitted in any Skyway Corridor only to the extent that the signage cannot be viewed and/or is not intended to be viewed from a Skyway Bridge of public right-of-way.
Sound emitting from or for the purpose of drawing attention to off-premise signage is no permitted within any Skyway Bridge or Skyway Corridor.
Section 4.0 Operation Standards and Public Safety Standards
4.1 Skyway Use
4.1.1 Skyway bridges shall be used exclusively for pedestrian movement. Other uses such as retailing, permanent seating, vending, and display shall be confined to spaces off the skyway bridge.
4.1.2 Some skyway bridges and corridors may be used for seating and public gathering during special events so designated by the Skyway Advisory Committee (such as the Holidazzle Parade). All uses of skyways for such events will adhere to the public standards outlined by the Minneapolis Fire Marshall.
4.2 Standard Hours of Operation
4.2.1 Skyway bridges and corridors shall remain open during the following hours:
Monday - Friday.......6:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Saturday..................9:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Sunday....................Noon - 6:00 p.m.
4.2.2 Property owners are encouraged to keep their skyway bridges, corridors, and vertical circulation elements open beyond standard hours of operation, particularly during the holiday season.
Last updated Jan 22, 2018


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My newest favorite color.
Sometimes I feel like I need to incorporate more primary colors in our house but then the dirty brown carpet reminds me it would love terrible next to him.
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I too have fallen in love with green lately...never thought it would happen.
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I am so not a fan of color, but this looks great! It's very well balanced.ReplyDelete
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Owners of Google's Nexus One phone may be early adopters, but some of them are also getting an early share of problems with phone and customer service, according to complaints being posted on various forums.
Initial problems with a new device are not unusual. What is different is that Google is handling all sales of the $529 phone online. Customers who want to use the Nexus One with T-Mobile's service can buy the phone for $179 with a two-year service contract. But Google is the seller, unlike previous Google-related phones that have been sold through wireless carriers.
"Google is trying an entirely new distribution model: the operating system vendor as the retailer, and an online-only retailer at that," said Avi Greengart, Current Analysis' research director for mobile devices. "There were bound to be support questions."
And questions have abounded about being able to receive the speedier 3G, or third-generation, wireless coverage of the phone, which is needed to deal with more intensive uses such as Web surfing, e-mail and video. Many users have posted comments and complaints on Google's Mobile Help Forum site, as well as other sites.
Some users say they have tried getting answers from T-Mobile if they are using the carrier's service; others from HTC, maker of the Nexus One. In many cases, users are being sent to Google, which is handling some responses on the mobile help site. The perceived run-around is not helping buyers' moods.
Andy Rubin, Google's vice president of engineering and mobile chief, told the Wall Street Journal that the company realizes there is no phone support right now and needs to "get better at customer service."
That seems to be what's irritating most users since the phone went on sale Jan. 5.
"Upgraded from a BlackBerry Pearl to the Nexus One," wrote dpaulson326 on Google's mobile forum. "I cannot get any 3G service as of yet. Don't know what the problem is. T-Mobile and HTC support weren't able to help."
Another, mbaird, posted this: "I called T-mobile to make sure that I didn't need to activate the phone or something to get 3G service. They said my account looked fine and that they couldn't give me any more support since I had a Nexus One, that I had to call HTC. So I called HTC and they said that your 3G service is a T-mobile issue and they couldn't help me. The fact that my G1 (a T-Mobile phone that uses the same Android operating system as the Nexus One) works perfectly sitting right next to the Nexus though makes me think it really is a problem with the phone.
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Google did respond to the 3G complaints on the site by saying: "We are investigating this issue and hope to have more information for you soon. We understand your concern and appreciate your patience."
Other customers were complaining about the lack of response once they place their orders for the Nexus One.
"There is only one status" showing on the order, and it has remained the same, saying "Your order has been sent to Google Phone Webstore," posted alfred5191. "Can anyone mind to enlighten me what is happening? This isn't a good online purchasing experience. E-mail sent and no personalised response by human received."
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"A Football Life: Houston '93," which airs at 8 p.m. Tuesday on NFL Network, begins with audio/visual doom and gloom: a shot of the deserted Astrodome and, amid NFL Films composer Dave Robidoux's ominous musical score, the voice of narrator Josh Charles recalling the team that broke the collective spirit of Houston football fans 20 years ago.
"It sits crumbing in the Texas sun, dwarfed by Reliant Stadium," Charles says. "The Houston Astrodome, once dubbed the Eighth Wonder of the World, now looks like a practice bubble.
"Trapped inside this portal to the past are the ghosts of the Houston Oilers. Here in 1993, they were one of the most talented teams in NFL history – and, perhaps, the most dysfunctional."
And then, from there, "Houston '93" gets really depressing.
More than 20 players, coaches, team executives and reporters provided interview segments for the hour-long film about the 1993 Oilers, who started 1-4 and then won 11 games in a row before losing a home playoff game to the Kansas City Chiefs and Joe Montana in what turned out to be the team's last hurrah in Houston.
It's the second tale of civic gloom taken on by NFL Films producer Greg Frith, who last year produced a show on the 1995 Browns. That program ended with the team's departure for Baltimore, its eventual Super Bowl win as the Ravens, the success of 1995 Browns coach Bill Belichick's staff in subsequent jobs and the return of the expansion Browns to Cleveland in 1999.
Frith, however, acknowledged Monday that there is no tale of redemption with which to end "Houston '93."
"You can't paint it any other way," he said. "It's a story of regret and sadness, as fans in Houston know quite well and players expressed quite well. This season was the chance for the Oilers, and it ended badly."
"Houston '93" is classically theatrical in its point of view, with a clear antagonist/villain in defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan, a protagonist/hero in offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride, occasional comic relief in the antics of Oilers owner Bud Adams and the portrayal of general manager Mike Holovak and coach Jack Pardee as detached, almost absent figures from the daily dramas that gripped the team.
"Buddy definitely is the antagonist," Frith said. "If you love Buddy, this won't change your mind. This is the reason people love him – brash, did what he wanted to do, didn't take any crap from anybody. Everybody else will look at it realistically and see that he did stuff that was hurtful to the team.
"He definitely was a good antagonist, and Gilbride was the brunt of everything that was Buddy that season. They were definitely the driving forces behind the dysfunction of the team."
Frith plays up Ryan's personality with vintage clips of Ryan twirling his whistle around his fingers, much as the Oilers were kept spinning by the round of practice field fights between Ryan's defense and Gilbride's offense that began in training camp and continued throughout the season, culminating in the sideline swing that Ryan took at Gilbride during halftime of the Oilers' regular-season finale against the Jets.
That event is preceded in the film by segments on the early-season benching of quarterback Warren Moon, the "Babygate" incident involving offensive tackle David Williams, who missed a game to be with his wife as she gave birth, and the December suicide of defensive lineman Jeff Alm after an auto accident that killed a childhood friend. It begins with the nightmarish finish of the 1992-93 season, the loss to the Bills in which the Oilers blew a 35-3 lead in the third quarter, and includes a ghastly bit of foreshadowing for observant viewers (Hint: It comes from Haywood Jeffires).
"You're watching guys fighting at camp and coaches not getting along, and it's crazy," Frith said. "Then, wow, the Hall of Fame quarterback is benched. Then, whoa, there's a national controversy about a guy staying at home with his wife while she has a baby. This is unbelievable.
"But, no, you haven't seen anything yet. A guy kills himself. This can't get any worse. And then a coach punches another coach on the sideline. It builds and builds. You think you've seen something, and you haven't seen anything yet. Finally, they blow another (playoff) lead, and the franchise goes down the drain."
Despite the bad memories – Hall of Fame offensive tackle Bruce Matthews told Frith and producer Ryan Kelly that life with the 1993 Oilers "on the inside was like being in a rotting grave" – Frith said dozens of former players were cooperative and well-spoken on the topic.
"They were more honest than I expected them to be," he said. "Cody Carlson is so well-spoken. Sean Jones is a walking sound bite. Gilbride was so open and forthcoming. You think of Warren Moon as being this close-to-the-vest guy, but he was great."
Frith tried to arrange an interview with Pardee but was unable to do so before Pardee's death in April.
"It would have been nice to hear Jack's side of things, but I think you get it from what the (players) said," he said. "Maybe it worked out better, because it seems that was how Pardee was on the team. It was piloted by the coordinators, and he was the watching figure.
"You can make the argument that his calm demeanor helped the team. It had a successful season. The flip side is that it could have won a Super Bowl but didn't, and he never stepped in and quelled the feud. We wanted to leave that for the viewer to decide whether he was responsible for the team's demise or success or both."
Frith conducted the interview with Ryan, and it is his voice that can be heard asking, "Do you regret the punch?"
Ryan's answer, followed by more shots of the Astrodome, conclude the film with two final comments from Jeffires and Floyd Reese, the assistant general manager at the time.
Frith said he tried to obtain permission to shoot inside the Dome but was unable to do so. His NFL Films crew got a brief inside shot through a crack in the double-door entrance behind center field and obtained footage from another source that was shot during an Astrodome media tour a couple of years ago. It's a combination that likely will hit home for viewers outside Houston that have not seen the Dome in its current state, and it is an apt metaphor for a lost season and a lost franchise.
"It's sad to see the Astrodome like this," Frith said. "It's great to remember those Oilers teams. Everybody loved watching them. The run and shoot was so much fun and the Dome was fun. And now it's just sitting there."
Following tonight's airing, Jenn Brown will host "A Football Life: Backstory" a 9 p.m., discussing the film with Warren Moon, Haywood Jeffires and Sean Jones.
The following players, coaches, executives sportscasters and broadcasters contribute sound bites to "A Football Life: Houston '93:" Ray Buck, Cody Carlson, Ray Childress, Doug Dawson, Cris Dishman, Tom Franklin, William Fuller, Kevin Gilbride, Ernest Givins, Brad Hopkins, Haywood Jeffires, Ronnie Jones, Sean Jones, Bubba McDowell, Bruce Matthews, John McClain, Warren Moon, Mike Munchak, Chip Namias, Buddy Ryan, Floyd Reese, Spencer Tillman, Steve Underwood, Greg Williams.
Finallly, here are some selected quotes from the program provided by NFL Films:
– "There were more good players here than anywhere I've been. And I've been on three Super Bowl teams." – Buddy Ryan
– "We're right there with the best shot ever and we blow the biggest lead in NFL history. That is going to stay with you for a while." – Cody Carlson on the loss to the Buffalo Bills in the 1992 AFC Wild Card Game
– "I certainly had heard of the difficulty in Chicago with Mike Ditka. Until you go through the actual experience of it I don't think you have any idea how bad it really is." – Kevin Gilbride on Buddy Ryan
– "That was our primary purpose: to go out there and beat Buddy [Ryan] up every day because of the way he treated us." – Haywood Jeffires
– "When you look up 'team' in the dictionary and all of the positive characteristics and qualities about 'team,' we had none of those." – Bruce Matthews
– "I didn't want to make [Jack Pardee] feel any more uncomfortable than he was, but I was very, very disappointed." – Warren Moon on being benched by Oilers head coach Jack Pardee
– "To feel that the winning somehow cured everything and that we all were singing 'Kumbaya' at the end of the day, absolutely not. Nothing slowed down; we still fought just as much, we still had just as many disagreements." – Brad Hopkins on the Oilers' 11-game winning streak during the 1993 season
– "We had not prepared one iota for the cap. We ended up just destroying a really good team." – Floyd Reese on the 1994 season


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The Eifel, a highland region created by volcanoes during the Cenozoic period, is a land of harshly beautiful countryside and has at its heart the Volcanic Eifel and a 10,000-year-old extinct volcano. Here more than anywhere else in Germany, the earth has retained signs of its fiery past.
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Traversing the fields and hills of the Eifel today, it is hard to believe that in times past, this land reached all the way up to the skies. It was not that many years ago that the earth here rumbled, bubbled and split open with a might roar. Evidence of this volatile past is still very much on display here along the German Volcanoes Route.
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So what ever happened to the OU-Nebraska game?
During the 1984 off-season the U.S. Supreme Court heard and ruled upon a land mark case launched two years earlier to challenge the NCAA's centrally negotiated television rights monopoly. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma vs. the NCAA proved to be college football's Brown vs. Topeka. This decision combined with the growing number of channels available to American television sets via cable to pave the way for the near-saturation point levels of exposure enjoyed by the game today. Most importantly, the decision gave individual schools and conference the rights to control and distribute the revenue their games generated. This revolution turned the historical rationale for conference alignments on their heads. Geographical cohesion, natural rivalries, travel costs, institutional bonds and any number of factors that had created and sustained conferences through the mid-1980s were increasingly marginalized as the golden calf of TV revenue grew larger and demanded ever greater sacrifices.
In 1991 the SEC expanded to 12 teams in order to take advantage of a previously over looked NCAA by-law stating that a conference of twelve teams might form into two divisions and create a football championship game. Conference commissioner Roy Kramer saw an opportunity for a high profile game with unparalleled revenue generating capability. He was exactly correct. The SEC set a decade of conference musical chairs in motion after the 1991 season by extent ending invitations to independent South Carolina and long-time Southwest Conference member Arkansas. An ongoing dispute over the school's radio broadcast and revenue rights made Arkansas administrators only too eager to bolt. This realignment immediately produced two unintended consequences. Firstly, it showed other schools and conferences the immense financial and publicity value of the two-division, championship game format. Secondly, it rendered the SWC an irrelevant, parochial conference geographically rooted in the local identity and tangled political life of a single state.
From the late 1960s onwards a cycle of cheating involving recruitment violation and payment of players infected the entire SWC. Struggling conference rivals attempted to keep from slipping too far behind the increasingly powerful Longhorns and Aggies. Eventually these unscrupulous practices unraveled the entire league. After the NCAA handed SMU's football program a one-year suspension for the 1987 season boosters at various schools began a sordid retaliatory process of mutual muckraking that reduced the league to an utterly discredited public family feud. Once Arkansas departed UT chancellor William Cunningham began to explore the possibility of following suit. Despite initial flirtations with the academically alluring Pac 10 and Big 10 the most logical choice was the Big Eight. Conversations began primarily with the athletics director of longtime non-conference rival Oklahoma Donnie Duncan. With the model of the SEC's lucrative expansion as a guide an agreement emerged by February of 1994 to marry the Big Eight with the four largest and most politically influential Texas universities. ABC's initial contract with the new Big 12 was worth a base $90 million over five years with an extra $10 million incentive to add a championship game. The league obviously possessed the super-regional appeal that the SWC had long since lost.
Conference realignment, the conference championship format, and an increasing volume of nationally televised games through a growing entourage of cable network partners ushered in a new era for college football. Naturally, and perhaps fittingly, many aspects of the game's former landscape changed. Conference commissioners and school administrators had to balance the weight of history and tradition with the generally more weighty imperatives of garnering the public interest and athletics revenue necessary to sustain competitive advantages. For the Big XII, the two division format added a championship game and created a juggernaut conference of national consequence. But it also involved a geographical divorce for the old Big Eight. Moving OU and Nebraska to different divisions meant potentially losing an annual series that had provided some of college football's most memorable games and largest television audience. In the SEC several schools refused to allow realignment to disrupt the history of their most important annual fixtures. In order to maintain the Auburn-Georgia and Alabama-Tennessee rivalries the league created four other annual inter-divisional series. This balance the mathematics of an eight game regular season and maintained the fixtures that created the most local and national interest in the league.
Why did the Big XII decide not to pursue a similar option in order to maintain the OU-Nebraska series? I recently discussed this question with Daily Oklahoman columnist Barry Tramel, an outspoken advocate of restoring the OU-Nebraska series to an annual fixture. According to Tramel the old Big Eight rivalry posed two major problems for the new conference alignment. Firstly, the game had traditionally been scheduled for late November since it almost invariably constituted a de facto conference championship play-off. In that slot the fixture garnered enormous national interest and large TV ratings. The new two-division format generated the distinct possibility Nebraska and OU would meet one another in the conference title game not infrequently. In that case a regular season fixture in November would lose the winner-takes-all relevance that had long made it a national staple.
Secondly, in the mid-1990s little appetite for maintaining the series existed in Norman. The possibility was raised of playing the game as a non-conference fixture on the two years of every four that the schools did not meet in conference play. Nebraska lacks a natural geographic rival and over the long history of Cornhusker football only Oklahoma has provided an annual game against an equally weighted powerhouse. Naturally folks in Lincoln wanted to maintain the annual meeting. But times were hard for OU, which had not won a conference title since 1987. NCAA sanctions and negative publicity resulting from recruiting violations and several high-profile player arrests led to Barry Switzer's tumultuous and bitter departure in 1988. From 1989 to 1994 Gary Gibbs posted an unimpressive 44-23-2 record with only a single win over each of Nebraska and Texas. 1995 brought the disastrous single season tenure of the fossilized Howard Schnellenberger. John Blake failed to right the ship from 1996 to 1998 with an inglorious 12-22 record. While the 1990s were nothing but unkind to OU Tom Osborne's Cornhuskers won seven conference and two national championships. Offered an opportunity to drop the Huskers from the schedule two of every four years, Donnie Duncan jumped at the chance. The Big XII replaced OU on Nebraska's annual November slate with Colorado, the only other team from the old Big Eight that might even attempt to claim anything like national prominence. Suffice to say that this annual rivalry game has thus far failed to match the glory years of the OU-Nebraska series.
Despite his columns appealing to the weight of tradition and the spirit of competition, Tramel does not see any momentum for the idea of restoring the series. Short of adopting Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy's highly unpopular and wildly unrealistic suggestion of an eleven-game, round-robin conference schedule [which would obviously mean eliminating the lucrative championship game for which the conference was initially created], there is no chance that OU and Nebraska will play annually anytime soon.
Board of Regents vs. NCAA and the explosion of television coverage for college football that followed have, largely speaking, been good for the game. They have certainly been good to fans, who can now see almost every game of any significance nationally televised somewhere on their dial. But no transition between historical eras is ever without cost. The Big XII omelet involved the breaking of several proverbial eggs. The messy divorce of the old SWC has made life very difficult for several of the former member schools not fortunate enough to be taken along to the new Promised Land.
By comparison to the continued struggles of the football program at once-proud SMU perhaps the downscaling of the OU-Nebraska series is a relatively minor consequence. But anyone who remembers the days when the Big Eight's two great colossus programs perennially crashed into one another at the business end of the AP poll is likely to disagree.
(Sources: SI scorecard, 03/07/94; Dunnavant, 50 year seduction; cfbdatawarehouse.com; Boyles and Guido, USA Today CFB encyclopedia; oral interview with Barry Tramel; Sally Jenkins, SI, Sorry state)


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Today in strange reboot news, Sony is planning a "edgy" revamp of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. The studio is apparently developing a live-action film iteration of the character that will recast her as a superhero. The character originated in 1960s Archie comics and has been adapted into both animated and live-action series for television. Most of us probably remember Sabrina as played by Melissa Joan Hart in the TV series that ran from 1996 to 2000. Hit the jump for more on this odd reboot of the character.
Per Deadline, the film will be an origin story for Sabrina in the vein of Spider-Man, "about a young girl coming to terms with her remarkable powers." Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari (Die in a Gunfight) will write the script, with Real Steel's Don Murphy and Susan Montford producing. Before you ask, yes Salem the cat will be included. The tone is said to be "edgier" with Salem now acting as a transformed prince in order to create a love story angle for Sabrina (cue swooning of cat ladies everywhere).
Mark Waters, who directed Mean Girls and Mr. Popper's Penguins, worked on the presentation for Sony and may direct the film depending on scheduling. The comics centered on Sabrina, a half-witch, living with her two witch aunts and trying to deal with her powers and every day life. I'm assuming this "edgy" version with throw out most of the lighter material, but I really don't see how you go that route with Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
The only thing that catches my eye here is Waters' involvement. Mean Girls is a comedic gem, and if he could bring a strong female character to the screen in a fun way, this could maybe be a slightly interesting project. But his attachment is unofficial and we don't even have a script yet, so I'm assuming we're a ways off from knowing the exact tone and angle of Sabrina The Movie. In the meantime, enjoy the lovely Melissa Joan Hart and the allure of 90s sitcom below.


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