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5. Know the details of rewards programs
I review tons of rewards programs, and I can tell you that some of them are the pits. Not that the programs don't have great rewards, but they explain it in a convoluted fashion. Sometimes you even have to look at several websites to get the whole picture.
You can search the card name online with something like "rewards program" and see what pops up. Yes, it's tedious, but it helps to know everything about the program so you can take advantage of it. The flip side, of course, is that there are also land mines in the details.
You want to make sure you read everything, because you could find nuggets like "if your card is inactive for 12 months, you'll lose your rewards."
6. Check your credit card statement for errors
You want to look for billing errors and possible fraud and check your balance. If you want to, you can check your account online every day. Should you find a billing error, you're protected by Fair Credit Billing Act. You have to write to your credit card issuer within 60 days of the statement date that contains the error. The issuer must respond within 30 days and conduct an investigation within 90 days. Get more details about what to include in your letter here.
If you don't get an acceptable response from your issuer, file a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But first you have to try to resolve it with your credit card issuer on your own.
7. Stay safe online
This is more in the area of protecting your identity, but it's also a part of protecting your credit life. Even though credit cards do offer a lot of financial protection against losses as long as you report them quickly, losses can create havoc for you and your credit file when it comes to straightening it all out.
Just take this simple precaution: Make sure you see "https" instead of just "http" in the Web address. The "s" indicates a secure site. And make sure you don't give out your card number on sites you're not familiar with or in response to email solicitations.
8. Know the details regarding 0% introductory offers
It might seem odd that I want you to protect yourself against 0% interest rates. But here's the problem -- and I'm talking about both purchase and balance-transfer offers -- it's easy to get blinded by "you pay 0%!" and forget to look at the details.
This can lead to debt, a wrecked credit score and tons of angst in general. Before you grab one of these intro offers, look at the go-to rate. If you're getting 0% interest on purchases for 12 months, you'd better keep track of your balance. Don't wait until the eleventh month to realize that the intro period ends in one month, not in seven months. This situation will be even worse if you've got a $4,000 balance and -- yikes -- you just noticed the go-to rate is 16.99%.
A similar problem occurs with balance-transfer offers. You might feel sure you can pay the balance off during the 12- or 18-month intro period. But what if you can't? Be sure you can live with the ongoing interest rate (aka the annual percentage rate, or APR) if necessary.
9. Before you travel, alert your credit card issuers
If you're traveling, call your bank so you don't unwittingly trigger a fraud alert on your account. Banks are pretty diligent when it comes to monitoring consumer behavior. If your spending patterns suddenly change, the bank may suspect your card has been stolen.
And if your card account gets frozen, you'll have to turn to other forms of payment, which could not only get expensive but won't offer the same purchase protections as your credit card does. To be safe, carry two cards with you so you have a backup.
10. Remember that business cards aren't covered by the Credit CARD Act
You know what's interesting? Business cards are making a comeback. In fact, the national average for interest rates on consumer cards is 14.91%. For business cards, it's 13.13%. It's a good time to get a business card, but keep in mind that you don't have the same protections -- from sudden interest rate increases, for example -- that you have with consumer cards.
For those with a thriving business who need cards for employees and who want spiffy management tools, it's hard to pass up these cards. So proceed with caution, and avoid carrying a large balance. Just in case.
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Popcorn Direct Conversion Main Frame
Note: if you click on a schematic, a larger version will appear in a new web browser window.
Shown to the right is the schematic to a low cost popcorn direct conversion receiver main frame. To complete the receiver, a front end band pass filter and a VFO with an output power of 7 dBm is required. This is indeed a frugal project using 4 cheap transistors, an RC low pass filter and an LM386N for output power to a pair of low-impedance headphones. The builder also has a choice of 5 diplexers and an optional mute circuit. This receiver is easily built using Ugly Construction and can be built in 3-4 hours with a bit of luck.
Product Detector and Diplexers
The 50 ohm diode ring product detector can be commercial units such as the Mini-Circuits SBL1 or TUF-1 or homebrewed 50 ohm impedance units. Five simple "diplexers" are shown in the lower "Adjuncts" schematic for you to choose from. The one you choose will depend on available parts, cost and your requirements in a popcorn receiver such as this. These diplexers are mostly of the low pass filter variety and provide a ~50 ohm termination to the diode ring mixer and some matching to preserve the product detector dynamic range. I realize that except for (A) and (D) these audio frequency filters are not truly diplexers and will not provide DC to daylight matching. The intent of this web site is not high performance-high cost design and please do not confuse it as such. Note that electrolytic capacitors that bypass to ground such as the 1 uF caps must be non-polarized or bipolar for best results.
The (A) diplexer is by W7ZOI and is described on the Diplexer Web Page on this site.
The (B) and (D) diplexers are my designs and the (D) diplexer is the (B) diplexer with out the high pass component.
The (B) diplexer shown has a 3000 hertz 2 pole high pass/2 pole low pass design. This 2nd order filter provides reasonable overall matching Capacitors are standard-value, non-polar electrolytic types.
The (C) diplexer is a very basic, but very practical choice for this receiver.
The (E) diplexer is one that I used in one of my first DC receivers and the 47 millihenry inductor is a standard value unit sold by Mouser Electronics and others.
Another diplexer choice for this receiver might be the unit described by Rick Campbell, KK7B in his Binaural I-Q receiver project published in the March 1999 issue of QST.
Update May 15, 2009
There was confusion regarding the 2.7 to 47 mH inductors mentioned on this web page. I originally wound just the 2.7 mH inductor on a ferrite, but not the others. This is not a great idea as losses are high. For millihenries-value inductors, commercial parts should be purchased. A good brand to consider might be Epcos. Sorry for causing confusion.
AF Preamps
The AF preamp section follows that of the Ugly Weekender Receiver designed by Wes Hayward, W7ZOI. I tried many other configurations and came to the conclusion that these two simple but elegant stages give a winning combination of low noise, good gain, low parts count, low hum and good AM broadcast band rejection. The Q1 transistor decouples the receiver preamp very well and no hum was detected in the headphones providing a well filtered DC power supply was used. The Q2 grounded base amp provides a low impedance termination of the product detector and diplexer stages. Q2 and Q3 are direct coupled and provide lots of gain to drive the succeeding low pass filter without it adding a huge abundance of noise to the signal. The bypass capacitor ( 0.022 uF ) is essential to bypass any broadcast AM detected in the Q1 stage to ground. Other values of capacitors maybe tried, but do not omit this critical part.
Low Pass Filter
I cannot handle listening to a DC receiver on a crowded band without some low pass filtering. The high pitch heterodynes effect my concentration and give me a headache. Nevertheless, it is neat to temporarily listen to an unfiltered DC receiver; to hear the pure and wonderful signals possible by beating RF directly into audio. I prefer low pass to band pass filters at audio and have used many combinations of active filters using discrete components and op-amps, as well as passive designs using AF inductors to build wave filters. This receiver uses none of these devices, however they could be easily substituted for the filter shown. Connected to Q3 is a simple, cheap RC low pass filter based upon the design criteria given on the Discrete Component RC Audio Filters web page on this web site. The cutoff values you calculate will be ballpark and values of 0.047 uF for CW and 0.015 uF for SSB were chosen, but other values could just as easily been used and please do not hesitate to experiment with the caps and/or the resistors to suit the parts you have on hand. For the capacitors in the low pass filters, avoid using ceramic disk type caps if you want the best possible performance. Polyester, polypropylene, polystyrene or polyester film type are all suitable, however, ceramic caps will work if you are really going junk box/low cost.
I attempted to make a wave file to demonstrate the low pass filter. I came right off the headphone jack into the input of the of my 16-bit PC sound card via a step up audio transformer and the results were a little disappointing. Sixty-cycle hum and distortion of loud stations were added by the sound card. The sound file is big ( 636 KB ) and is a digital recording of me tuning through a 30 meter pile-up using the lowest sample rate and frequency possible on my computer. The low sample rate/frequency also degraded the sound somewhat as well, but I decided to put it on the page, warts and all. The DX station was a VK2 and sure did cause a lot of excitement on 30 meters that night around sunset on the left coast. Actually the wave file demonstrates how good the receiver sensitivity and AM radio immunity is. In addition, the low receiver background noise is also very apparent underneath the constant 60 cycle hum. The 60 cycle hum and clipping of loud CW signals is not heard in the headphones and is a soundcard manifestation. Perhaps the best method would be to come of Q4 and go right into the sound card with a smaller line-in signal voltage. Download the popdc wave file
AF Driver and Final Amp
Connected to the input and output of the Q4 stage are small value capacitors to provide some high pass filtering for the receiver amplifier chain. Some emitter degeneration is used on Q4 to provide a better termination of the preceding RC low pass filter. The receiver amplifier chain has a lot of gain and when the 10K pot is turned to minimal resistance ( cranked ) , the LM386N can be driven into distortion. You may want to limit the maximum gain with a series resistor connected to the 10K pot after building and testing this receiver.
The final AF amp is the perennial LM386N, a low cost, easy to use AF amp. Turn it upside down and solder pins 2 and 4 right to your copper ground plane to anchor this part. It can easily be configured to drive a small speaker.
An optional mute circuit is shown in the "Adjuncts" schematic and is labeled (F). This circuit is a simple transistor switch which grounds the output from Q4 and mutes the receiver audio. This circuit switches rapidly and there are no annoying pops or clicks to be heard in the headphones when it is switched. Apply the VCC to the diode as shown to mute the receiver during transmit if the receiver is used in conjunction with a transmitter. Q5 in the mute circuit can be a 2N3904 or 2N2222a or substitute.
In addition, a suggested side tone input to the LM386N is shown. I have started to use simple one section RC filters on the output of my side tone oscillators to smooth the waveform into a more pleasing audio tone.
This popcorn receiver can be made very inexpensively and has good sensitivity and a reasonable noise level and selectivity. I tested this main frame on 30 and 40 meters and really enjoyed it. This receiver main frame could be combined with an inexpensive VFO using tuning diodes to keep cost down and the popcorn factor up. Although it does not use tuning diodes, a 40 Meter band VFO schematic has been placed on the VFO page.
Here is a YouTube Link using the receiver with a different front end filter and VFO. This is not my radio or video.
A blog post from Peter AK6L --- it's good to see builders moving beyond kits.


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Yeah. I am a little worried that they thought molten front was a success and a glimpse of how MoP will be. As a notorious altoholic, who routinely plays through content 5-6+ times, I have done it to it's completion once. I will probably never do it again. I thought Tol Barad worked, and have done that area on 5-6 toons.


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Researchers have unearthed two abalone shells from a South African cave that they believe were used to produce and store a mixture of pigmented paint, and that possibly represent the first known use of containers. The discovery, released in the journal Science on Thursday, also indicates that as long as 100,000 years ago, humans had strategic planning skills and knew some basic chemistry.
Excavated from the Blombos cave near the southern Cape shore of the Indian Ocean in South Africa, the finding consists of two "toolkits" found side by side, containing fragments of ancient grinding, crushing and painting tools, along with the shells. All had residue of ochre, earth pigment derived from iron oxides and other natural minerals, which has been well-documented as a source of early colored paint. Read more.
At least 14,000 years ago, artists took to Altamira cave in Spain with charcoal and red pigments, painting bison, deer and their own handprints on the rock walls and ceiling. This prehistoric art gallery is now closed to the public, but plans to reopen it have scientists raising the alarm.
"Altamira cave, although currently closed, is at real risk," a group of Spanish researchers wrote in the Oct. 6 issue of the journal Science.
The threat, according to the scientists, is that even a limited stream of visitors will spur bacterial and fungal growth on the cave walls, damaging the very paintings tourists long to see. Read more.
Instead of Neanderthals being dim-witted hunters who only dined on big game, new findings suggest they had more balanced diets, with broad menus that may have included birds, fish and plants.
Neanderthals are currently our closest known extinct relatives, near enough to modern humans to interbreed, with Neanderthal DNA making up 1 percent to 4 percent of modern Eurasian genomes. A host of recent findings suggest they were not only close genetically, but may have shared many other traits with us, such as creating art.
Still, the term "Neanderthal" has long been synonymous with "stupid."
"Since they went extinct, conventional wisdom says they were dumber than us," said researcher Bruce Hardy, a paleoanthropologist at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
For instance, ample fossil evidence suggests Neanderthals hunted big game, deriving the vast majority of their diet from deer, mammoths and other large herbivores. Still, while pursuing such prey undoubtedly must have taken smarts, this fact also led some researchers to suggest they may have had little interest or even capability to dine on other items. Although hints that Neanderthals supplemented their diet with birds, fish, shellfish and plants have popped up at certain sites, these are typically dismissed as unusual exceptions, Hardy said.
"It's been said that Neanderthals weren't capable of hunting birds — they moved too fast," Hardy noted.
Now researchers find evidence that Neanderthals may indeed have dined on a broad menu of plant and animal foods at a cave in the Rhone Valley in France. Read more.
KUALA TERENGGANU: An exhibition centre in a cave is being planned at the historical Gua Bewah in Tasik Kenyir.
"Gua Bewah is believed to be 1,500 years old and it has a lot of historical artefacts which can attract tourists," said Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Said yesterday.
He said the cave gained prominence after the discovery of Malaysia's oldest human skeleton there.
In March last year, Ahmad had said the skeletal remains were confirmed to be 16,000 years old.
He added that this made the skeleton the oldest in the country, followed by the Perak Man whose remains were 13,000 years old.
The Mentri Besar said the RM15mil three-storey exhibition centre that would showcase the state's rich artefacts would incorporate green measures with plans to utilise solar or hybrid energy. Read more.
YEREVAN. – Excavations at Areni 1 Cave in Armenia's Vayots Dzor region unearthed a more-than-5,900-year-old women's straw-woven skirt, Armenian Archaeology and Ethnography Institute Director Pavel Avetisyan told Armenian News-News.am. Avetisyan informed that this artifact was discovered in 2010 and, even though they had informed about this precious item at the time, interest toward it grew further only recently. "The women's clothing dates back to 39th century BC. So far we have discovered the skirt's parts, which were superbly preserved. It is an amazing material with rhythmic color hues, and other remnants of the straw-woven material were also discovered. Such thing is recorded in Armenia for the first time," Avetisyan noted. Read more.
YEREVAN. – Excavations at Areni 1 Cave in Armenia's Vayots Dzor region unearthed a more-than-5,900-year-old women's straw-woven skirt, Armenian Archaeology and Ethnography Institute Director Pavel Avetisyan told Armenian News-News.am.
Avetisyan informed that this artifact was discovered in 2010 and, even though they had informed about this precious item at the time, interest toward it grew further only recently.
"The women's clothing dates back to 39th century BC. So far we have discovered the skirt's parts, which were superbly preserved. It is an amazing material with rhythmic color hues, and other remnants of the straw-woven material were also discovered. Such thing is recorded in Armenia for the first time," Avetisyan noted. Read more.
New investigations at an iconic cave site on the Channel Island of Jersey have led archaeologists to believe the Neanderthals have been widely under-estimated.
Neanderthals survived in Europe through a number of ice ages and died out only about 30,000 years ago.
The site at La Cotte de St Brelade reveals a near-continuous use of the cave site spanning over a quarter of a million years, suggesting a considerable success story in adapting to a changing climate and landscape, prior to the arrival of Homo Sapiens.
The La Cotte ravine has revealed the most prolific collection of early Neanderthal technology in North West Europe, including over 250,000 stone tools. These include stones with sharpened edges, that could be used to cut or chop, known as hand axes.
"Archaeologists have developed new ways of looking at stone tools since La Cotte de St Brelade was excavated in the 1970s," says Dr Beccy Scott from the British Museum and the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project. Read more.
Human evolution's tide may have turned on lake and sea shores
In a cave hugging South Africa's lush southern coastline, Curtis Marean suspects he has cornered a wily Stone Age crew that brought humans back from extinction's brink. These plucky refugees of continent-wide desolation were able to pull off such a stunning evolutionary turnaround because they got lucky. A coastal oasis near the bottom of the world spread its sheltering arms in the nick of time.
Marean proposes that it was there, where the Arizona State University archaeologist now conducts excavations, that humankind's mental tide turned sometime between 164,000 and 120,000 years ago. Seaside survivors learned to read the moon's phases in order to harvest heaps of shellfish — brain food extraordinaire — during a few precious days each month when ocean tides safely retreated.
Tantalizing traces of complex thinking and behavior, including lunar literacy, have turned up at South Africa's Pinnacle Point, a cave-specked promontory that juts into the Indian Ocean. Read more.
The bones of six humans—including two children—jade beads, shells, and stone tools are among the Maya "treasures" recently found in a water-filled cave off a sinkhole at the famous archaeological site of Chichén Itzá in Mexico, archaeologists say.
The ancient objects are most likely related to a ritual human sacrifice during a time when water levels were lower, sometime between A.D. 850 and 1250, the researchers say. Read more.


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Adding a Software License Agreement to a DMG fileTweet
As part of the software distribution process I go through at my job (Qforma, Inc), I package up our software for both Windows and Mac. For Windows, I create an installer using NSIS which requires a user to agree to a Software License Agreement (SLA) before installing the software. For Mac, rather than using an installer, I have a customized disk image (DMG) that contains the app and a symlink to the /Applications directory.
Since we require a user to agree to our SLA before using our software on Windows, I wanted to require the same on Mac. I searched the internet for an easy way to add an SLA to a DMG and couldn't find a solution that didn't involve using a third party GUI program. Of course all my build processes are automated and run headless so those GUI programs won't work for me. I also wanted to use utilities built in to OS X (or available through Xcode).
Anyway, I figured out how to add an SLA to a DMG and was able to add it to my automated build process. I figured I'd create a simple python script that'll do it too and share it with everyone.
To use the script, make sure Xcode is installed to the default location
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer). This assumes you've downloaded
and installed Xcode from the Mac App Store. Download the file, make it
executable, then simply run:
./licenseDMG.py <dmgFile> <licenseFile>
<dmgFile> is the path to your DMG file and
<licenseFile> is the path
to your plain ascii text license file.
Hopefully someone else will also find this useful.
This script runs on Python 2.6 or 2.7. If the default locations of Rez and the
FlatCarbon headers are different on your machine, you'll need to specify the
correct location using the command line options
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LAPD detectives investigate newly disclosed priest abuse filesStory | Feb 5, 2013 | 8:53 AMLos Angeles Police Department detectives who specialize in child sexual abuse cases have begun examining a trove of newly disclosed priest abuse files to determine whether there are cases that can be prosecuted. Capt. Fabian Lizarraga said detectives "are...


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Agriturismo Le Carolee
The Carolee farm is located 7km far away from Lamezia Terme in a agricultural village between the Ionio sea and Tirreno sea. The Carolee B&B is a farm with 42 hectare estate of olive groves and woods where guests can go to trekking. A small chapel and two 19th century fortified houses are part of the farm, both of them have been recently restored. The first one, the Red House, has been converted into seven double rooms, furnished with antique and rustic style. All have a private bathroom, TV and heating.
Approximately 500m far away from The Red house, in a beautiful and quite area, there is the Yellow House.
The restaurant offer the typical dishes of the region made with natural ingredients such as the extra virgin olive oil and other products including preserves, tomato sauce and salami preserved in oil,…outside a swimming pool and a spacious lawn with huge palms where you can enjoy the fabulous views of the valley and the olive groves as well as of the sea.
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- Breakfast Included
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Agriturismo le Carolee can be reached via the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway: Lamezia Terme exit and following directions to Pianopoli. It is also accessible by Airport and railway station of Lamezia Terme that is about 20km far away.


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This weekend, Village Green Park goes red, white and blue with nearly 2,000 flags honoring local members of the armed forces.
With the help of local volunteers, the and other sponsors, the has transformed into a memorial for soldiers who have given their lives in the service of war and peace.
The honor field is composed of 1,858 flags--43 short of the 1,901, the year the Village of Northbrook was incorporated. Those missing 43 flags represent the soldiers from Northbrook that have lost their lives in past wars, and will be placed around the local baseball diamond where many of them played as children.
The weekend-long memorial features The Legacy Girls, a number of musical performances in the Village Green Park gazebo, and the Muligan's Battery Cannon, presented by the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War SVR unit.
Events take place every day through Tuesday, when the flags come down.
Friday, May 27
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Saturday, May 28
Music in the Gazebo:
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1-2 p.m.: The Legacy Girls
2:30-4 p.m.: Palatine Concert Band with members of the Northbrook Junior High Wind Ensemble
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8-8:30 p.m.: Sunset Ceremony by Cantor Kim Harris of
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Just some bonding between Gerard and Desole.
It started out very faint, very quiet. It was a beeping sound, over and over again repeating itself. It kept getting louder until it was all that I could hear. My first guess was that it was my alarm clock and I was going through the early stages of a terrible hang over. I laid there in what I thought was my bunk, just listening to that beep. It was getting annoying, so I tried to reach over and turn if off. But for some reason my arms wouldn't move. It was ad if somebody had tied them down with sand bags. This terrified me at first. I told myself to stay calm, just hold still for a moment or two and figure this out.
I realized how tired I was. I felt like I could sleep for weeks undisturbed and I wanted to. But that fucking alarm clock! All I wanted was to fall back asleep and get more rest before the show tonight! Was that so much to ask? I laid there, eye clamped shut, and realized that somebody was also on the bus with me. But it wasn't a group of people, it was one person. I hoped it was Milo. Then I realized that not only was I not with my band, I wasn't on the bus either. I didn't hear the engine or feel the bus moving. Had we stopped at a hotel last night? We weren't supposed to, we had to get to Vegas tonight.
I parted my lips and took a big breath. It felt as though they had been sealed shut. How long had I been asleep? The air tasted sterile and smelled like a dentist office. Was in a fetish shop or something? This couldn't be a hotel. An insane asylum maybe? I laughed to myself at the idea of opening my eyes and finding myself in a rubber room. But then I got kind of scared by that thought.
I decided that I had to open my eyes and find out where I was and who was with me. I held my breath and counted to three. One, two…three-
I felt blinded, like somebody was shining bright stage lights right above my head. I blinked rapidly to adjust to the harsh florescent light that was reflecting off of white walls. Without moving my head or body, I looked around the room. White walls, a tope curtain on one side of me, drab pink furniture. I was in a bed, a hospital bed with all these weird adjustment buttons and such. I felt myself start to panic. What if I really was in a mental hospital? I wasn't in restraints or anything so if I was it couldn't be that bad. There was an IV pole inside the curtain right nest to my bed. The bag was filled with clear liquid and had a drip leading into my left forearm. I watched the fluid drip for a while, hypnotized by it almost. I realized that the "alarm clock" was a heart monitor hooked up to me.
When all of this really registered with me I was in shock and but one thought was passing through my mind; what had I done last night?
I looked over to my right, back at the furniture near the door. I wanted the person in the third chair to be Milo so bad, but it was Gerard. He looked a mess. His hair was gnarled and tangled even more than usual. The dark circles under his eyes were even more profound. His shoulders were hunched and he had his right leg crossed over the other. He was clothed in his usual gothic garb; black shirt, black blazer, black jeans. His unwashed hair hung in front of his face, but I could still see it. He was pouring all his attention into a magazine who's title read "Teen Scene" in hot pink letters. I almost laughed out loud as I watched him read it. He was so focused on it, too, that made it even better. He didn't even see me watching him, like I wasn't there at all.
I felt this weird sort of tickle in my heart as I looked at him, the same sort of tickle I got when I saw Leah for the first time. It was like I was seeing him clearly for the first time. But that little tickle scared me so bad. Last time it happened, things fell into a million pieces and all I got out of it was the half of my rotten little heart that Leah hadn't taken with her. That and a sea full of tears and a life long phobia of love. I didn't want to like him, it was so much easier just to hate him and be mean. But even being mean was getting hard because he was one of the sweetest guys I'd ever met. It was funny for such a tiny, itty bitty feeling could send a wide spread panic all through you.
I closed my eyes again, hopelessly lost in a pool of my own thoughts. I let out a distressed and gasp-like groan. My voice was so frail and weak from not being used. Gerard looked up from the magazine to see that I had awoken. A light appeared behind his hazel eyes and he stood up, leaving the magazine behind on the ugly chair.
"Hey, you're awake." he smiled, walking over to me. He looked happy and at ease but it was easy to tell it was all forced. Behind his smile was straight up concern and worry. I could feel it. I was sure that if he kissed me I would feel it even more…
"I hurt." I said impishly, mentally scolding myself for that last thought. It was too dangerous to feel things like this, especially since I had no idea what was going on or where I was or the reason why I was here.
"I know, you took quite a beating last night." Gerard said sympathetically. I frowned because I didn't recognize what he was talking about. "Do you remember anything about last night?" he asked when he saw me frowning.
When he uttered the words "last night" everything came rushing back to me in a sort of landslide slap in the face. We had gone out clubbing, I got drunk off whisky, danced on a tables, was carried by Gerard through the club and the last thing I remembered was the pain as some crazy drunken hick smashed a bottle right in my face. I felt my eyes widen as I watched the messy scene play out in my mind like a horror film.
"I remember…but its all a little fuzzy." I mumbled. Gerard nodded and strolled over to pick the magazine up off the chair.
"We went out and somebody spiked your whisky. We think it was ecstasy." he explained. I rolled my eyes; it was always something! "And then you fell off the table and I had to carry you so that we could find Milo and then somebody broke a bottle over your head." he continued.
"Aw, fucking shit!" I cursed loudly. "Where's Milo? Where am I? Have I been out and when can I leave?" I asked, trying to get up. Gerard hurried back over and gently pushed me back down.
"Careful, you cracked a rib when you fell off the table. You also fractured your ankle 'cause of those platforms you insist on wearing." he said. I gaped at him for a moment.
"You've got to be kidding me! Fuck!" I said, very frustrated. "Answer my questions!" I snapped at him after a brief pause. Gerard sighed patiently.
"Milo is downstairs getting coffee. You're in an emergency clinic just out side of LA. You've only been out since we left at about twelve last night, so maybe ten hours. You have to stay the rest of the week. Their afraid you have brain damage." Gerard said, making sure to cover all of my inquiries.
"GAH! No! this will fuck up the entire tour! I have shows to put on! I have people to meet! My fans need me Gerard, they need me!" I exclaimed, sitting straight up. I was about to rip the IV out of my arm and jump out of bed but Gerard's gentle hand and the shooting pain in my left ribs forced me back down.
"God damn it! Fuck, fuck, fuck! I hate everybody right now!" I cursed loudly, not caring if I woke anybody up or disturbed somebody. I started pounding my finger down on the button that calls a nurse into your room.
"Hello?" asked a female nurse through the little speaker.
"Hey, would one of your bitches PLEASE get me some fucking pain meds! I am DYING over here!" I snapped at whoever was on the other line. She sighed as if to say "here we go".
"Right away…" she grumbled before hanging up.
"Was that really necessary?" Gerard scolded. I stuck my tongue out at him and made a face. He started laughing lightly and it made me even more upset.
"Wipe that stupid smirk off your face! What's so funny?" I barked, only making him laugh harder.
"You're pretty cute when you're mad." he chuckled. I felt my anger subside immediately, but I didn't let it show. Was he being flirtatious? That was my job…
I grumbled incoherently and crossed my arms over my aching ribcage. Gerard just smirked some more and plopped the magazine down on my lap. The cover was a picture of Gerard carrying me into a car. My face was bloody and cut up. I cringed. Good thing I blacked out. I flipped through the pages until I found the story about the picture. It read:
"Has the partying finally gone too far? Gerard Way of the Goth-glam-rock group My Chemical Romance seen here with Desolé Vogue, front women for retro-reality punk band The Moment. Reportedly, the couple was seen yucking it up at the retro pop club Lift with fellow band mates. And all too soon, Desolé had let her drinking it out of hand again! The waiter that served the two said Way and Vogue had been all over each other but it wasn't long before Way lost control and Desolé was dancing on the table tops and collapsed. It is unknown whether or not Desolé's facial wounds are from her fall or not. Gerard refused to make a comment as he rushed his love out to the nearest hospital."
I stared at the blurry and grotesque images on the glossy paper of the magazine.
"The press thinks we're a couple." Gerard mumbled shyly. "Its like they go about looking for ways to twist the truth and lie to people." he added a little bitterly. I wasn't really shocked about the article. In fact I kind of expected it. Ever since the band had started touring the press had been hot on my tail about my devious past and grim future. I honestly didn't care whether they loved or hated me. If you were disgusted by my work that's just as good as if you loved it.
"Hm…" I said softly without opening my mouth. I sighed heavily and handed the magazine back to Gerard. "Ugh, get that out of my sight." I said, rolling my eyes. Gerard nodded and tossed the piece of trash in the waste bin in the corner. I noticed something reflective on the chair Gerard had been sitting on earlier. I stared at it for a second and realized it was a mirror. Why was it over there? Probably for me to inspect the damage done to my face. Might as well…
"Hey, wanna hand me that mirror over there. I wanna see how bad this is." I said gesturing to my entire face. Gerard suddenly became very cautious, stepping back slowly.
"Um, I don't think that's such a good idea." he said. I raised an eyebrow.
"Come on, it can't be that bad." I said, rolling my eyes again.
"The nurse said to wait until somebody was in here with us. I don't think you should look." he warned.
"Come on, hand it over." I ordered a little more firmly. Gerard shook his head, hiding the mirror behind his back. I was getting fed up. "Give me the mirror!" I barked loudly.
"Okay, okay! Don't get so snippy!" he said defensively, holding his hands up, the mirror clasped in one of them. "Don't say I didn't warn you…" he said cautiously handing the mirror to me as if it were a pipe bomb.
I gasped when I saw myself. There were cuts and scrapes all up and down my face! Some of them looked fresh, come looked kind of scabby. Some were so bad they had to be held together with little strips of medical tape. I was shocked and appalled, but what did I expect, that bitch broke a bottle on my face? My eyes were so blood that it reminded me of my stoner days back in high school. There were dark purple circles around my eyes and my cheeks were so sallow and sunken that I looked like a corpse.
"Uh!" was all I could manage to choke out. I blinked at myself a few times to make sure it was really me. I reached up and touched one of the cuts and jumped when I realized it was my reflection I was seeing and not some gruesome painting.
"Don't get mad, but I mean, come on; there were shards of glass sticking out of your face." Gerard said, gingerly sliding the mirror out of my hands and putting it back on the chair. I just sat there, staring, devastated. My face was one of the few things I liked about myself and now it was all gross looking!
"This isn't permanent right?" I asked. I had to make sure. Maybe they could so some sort of reconstructive surgery if it was. I could not live out the rest of my life like this.
"Naw, the doctor said you're cuts would heal in a few weeks tops." Gerard reassured me. I breathed a very heavy sigh of relief.
"Thank god! Did Milo bring my things with him?" I asked, looking around and not seeing my bag. I wanted my make up so I could see how much it would take to cover up this disaster area I now called my face.
"Yeah, he has them with him. I don't know what's taking him so long. He said he was just getting coffee." Gerard shrugged. I sighed and laughed a little; with Milo, it was never just coffee, it was coffee and an entire shopping trip.
"You have to get out now." I said, pointing to the door. Gerard smirked again.
"Why?" he asked.
"One, I have no make up on and only Milo is permitted to see me as such. Two, I look like fucking Sloth from The Goonies." I said, smiling blatantly. Gerard laughed loudly.
"You do not look like Sloth!" he protested, standing right next to my bed. It felt weird but nice to have him so close to me. A lot of things about Gerard were weird but nice.
"I look like crap, now leave!" I exclaimed, giggling all the. Gerard got serious all of the sudden and my laughter died away.
"You do not look like crap. You never look like crap." he said quietly. I stared at the off what blanket covering me from the waist down and then up at Gerard.
"Thank you…" I said shyly, childishly. Without taking our eyes off of each other, Gerard rested his hand on top of mine. We stared into each other's eyes, kind of holding hands, kind of not. I felt like this moment was lasting forever. How much longer could it possible go on?
"WASSUP BITCHES?" Milo exclaimed, bursting into the room along with the nurse I'd pestered for pain medication. Gerard and I flew apart and stared at them anxiously to see if they'd noticed us holding hands. Milo and the tired looking nurse paraded in and the nurse hooked more morphine to my IV. They hadn't seen us.
I glanced at Gerard and he half smiled at me. I half smiled back at him. I guess that little moment was one of the view that would stay private between us…


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March seems like it shall never come. Yes, there is the NFL, college basketball, and fall pick-up games to distract me from the long months between the last Cardinals game of the season and the first day of spring training. But there is no greater joy than watching my St. Louis Cardinals take to the field each season.
However, as I sit here going into the beginning stages of MLB hibernation I cannot help but turn on the World Series game. Regardless of my team loyalty, the love of baseball will always run deep within me. Plus, I need to see if the team that shall not be named that took the Cards out of the running will destroy the Tigers. If we had to lose, I would prefer to lose to the team who won the World Series.
While this post is not anything earth-shattering, it is nice to vent out a little of my sadness that the MLB season is drawing to a close for another year. My posts will most likely consistent of fantasy football and college basketball until February. But not to worry! I will be keeping everyone updated on off-season trades, injuries and locker room gossip!
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Ko Pha Ngan
|Ko Pha Ngan
Ko Pha Ngan from the air
|Coordinates: 9°43′0″N 100°0′0″E / 9.71667°N 100.00000°E
|Surat Thani
|• Total
|125 km2 (48 sq mi)
|Population (2012)
|• Total
|Time zone
|Thailand Standard Time (UTC+7)
Ko Pha Ngan (or Koh Phangan, Thai: เกาะพะงัน, RTGS: Ko Pha-ngan, Thai pronunciation: [kɔ̀ʔ pʰa.ŋan]) is an island in the Gulf of Thailand in South East Thailand, and located in Surat Thani Province. It is part of the Samui Archipelago. It is famous for its full moon party at Haad Rin Beach and as a backpackers destination. Ko Pha Ngan has two sister islands: the larger Ko Samui to the south and the smaller Ko Tao to the north.
- Estimated perimeter: 40 km (estimate—10 hrs average walking time)
- From mainland: about 55 km
- From Ko Samui: about 15 km
- From Ko Tao: about 35 km
- Main town: Thong Sala
- Highest Point: Khao Ra, 630 m asl
The name of Ko Pha Ngan comes from the word 'Ngan', meaning 'sand bar' in the southern dialect, for there are many sand bars offshore around the island. Ko Pha Ngan has been a longtime favorite of past kings of Thailand. Specifically Rama V, or Chulalongkorn visited Ko Pha Ngan 14 times during his reign. The Bronze Drum of Dongson Culture (500–100BC) that was found on Ko Samui in 1977 is evidence that there were settlements of people on Ko Samui, Ko Pha Ngan, and their islets from more than two thousand years ago. Some historians and archaeologists believe that the first group who migrated to Ko Pha Ngan were the Muslim sea Gypsies (Pygmy, Semung, and Proto-Malay) who travelled by boat from the Malay Peninsula. However, nowadays there are few Muslims who live on the island.
Over the last century the Island's population has steadily expanded; first living off the sea and the land, farming coconuts; then tin mining also became part of the economy. In the 1970s the mining industry faltered and finally petered over the next decade as tourism took hold. Now the island is primarily a tourist destination; however fishing and coconut farming are still big parts of the local economy.
Due to its topography the population remains based around the coastline whilst the mountainous interior is generally inaccessible. More than half the island designated as National Park and Ko Phangan has more than 80 km2 of pristine rain forest with diverse flora and fauna. It is also considered a spiritual place with numerous Buddhist temples around the Island and a thriving spa, retreat and meditation industry.
Koh Phangan currently has only 1 international primary school called 'Si Panya School'[1][2] located in Baan Tai. Si Panya School is a private primary school which follows the British National curriculum for girls and boys aged 5 to 12 years old.
Si Panya School was established in March 2012. The opening of the first international school on the island was welcomed by many families as a necessary educational amenity although some saw this as the first step towards the overdevelopment of the island.[3][4]
Ko Pha Ngan together with Ko Tao forms the district (amphoe) Ko Pha Ngan (148 km2, 15500 population 2012). The district is subdivided into three subdistricts (tambon):
|Thai name
|Ko Pha-ngan
|Ban Tai
|Ko Tao
Originally the island was administrated from Ko Samui district. The minor district (King Amphoe) Ko Pha Ngan was established on October 1, 1970, then consisting of the two tambon Ko Pha Ngan and Ban Tai.[5] It was upgraded to a full district on April 12, 1977.[6]
Parts of the tambon Ko Pha Ngan and Ban Tai form the township (thesaban tambon) Ko Pha Ngan. There are further three Tambon administrative organizations (TAO).
Popular culture[edit]
Ko Pha Ngan featured prominently in Alex Garland's 1996 novel The Beach and is also mentioned in the 2006 song Magick by the new rave band Klaxons' (but probably[original research?] more as a reference to the 1996 novel The Beach than the island itself).
The world renowned Full Moon Party is a monthly dance music festival set on Haad Rin Nok Beach scheduled every month at full moon. The event primarily features electronic music and attracts anywhere from 40,000 party-goers on a normal month and up to 1,000,000 in high season (December to March).[citation needed] Recently steps have been taken to make Ko Pha Ngan into a more family-friendly tourist destination, promoting the Island's wealth of natural attractions and also stepping up the police presence; road blocks with stop and search procedures are commonplace and undercover police also patrol parties.
The song "Vision in Blue" on the album The Golden Ratio by Ace of Base mentions Ko Pha Ngan.
Dj & Producer Ashley Wallbridge titled his 2012 song "Kopanang", an anglicized version of Ko Pha Ngan.
The British psychedelic rock band Ozric Tentacles featured a song called Ko Pha Ngan on their 1989 album "The Bits Between The Bits".
See also[edit]
- ^ "Si Panya School". Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ "Koh Phangan Thailand: Business and services". Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ "Our Family Adventure- Si Panya School". Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ "Koh Phangan International School". Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ "ประกาศกระทรวงมหาดไทย เรื่อง แบ่งท้องที่ตั้งเป็นกิ่งอำเภอ" (PDF). Royal Gazette (in Thai) 87 (90 ง): 2790. September 24, 1970.
- ^ "พระราชกฤษฎีกาตั้งอำเภอปลายพระยา อำเภอห้วยเม็ก อำเภอละแม อำเภอแม่จริม อำเภอหนองกี่ อำเภอโคกปีบ อำเภอเกาะพะงัน อำเภอสนม อำเภอโซ่พิสัย อำเภอโนนสะอาด และอำเภอนาจะหลวย พ.ศ. ๒๕๒๐" (PDF). Royal Gazette (in Thai) 94 (31 ก): 326–330. April 12, 1977.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ko Phangan, Thailand.
- Ko Pha Ngan travel guide from Wikivoyage
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Ah, ya gotta love Joe Lieberman.
Our very own "Independent Democratic" U.S. Senator goes on CNN's "Starting Point" and compares the experience of being picked as Al Gore's vice-presidential running mate in 2000 to a "hallucinatory hangover."
He was talking about how he thought Gore had picked somebody else and then woke up to find that in fact he (Lieberman) was the choice. But he may as well have been referring to one of the odder political campaigns in modern American history.
That was the bad-assed election where Gore won the popular vote, but lost Florida based on a U.S. Supreme Court 'hanging chad' ruling and Republican George W. Bush became president.
Democrats have been cursing that fateful ruling ever since, and cursing third-party candidate Ralph Nader for allegedly stealing enough votes from Gore-Lieberman to throw the election to the Republican.
What tends to be forgotten is that Gore ran a horribly flawed campaign and failed to win his home state of Tennessee. If he'd won his home state (something virtually every winning president in history managed to do), nothing else would have mattered - not Florida, not the Supreme Court, and certainly not Nader.
A few years after that odd election, Lieberman flirted with his own visions of a presidential run, at least until stone-cold reality set in. In 2008, a lot of Democrats thought they were having some sort of weird out-of-body experience when they saw Lieberman on the stage of the Republican National Convention trashing Obama in favor of his GOP buddy John McCain.
But the real hallucinatory kicker to Lieberman's CNN interview was his comment that the rise of negative campaigning and the growing importance of fundraising were the keys to his decision not to run for reelection.
Funny, it seems he somehow forgot to mention the fact that he pissed off so many Connecticut Democrats and other Connecticut voters that his chances of reelection were virtually nil.
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Loneliness is not something that comes to mind when you do.
When you enter my mind, nothing can harm me.
When you come into my head all I see are fields of flowers and smiles.
You broke through all the demons and all the pain, to bring me joy and love.
How is it that you manage time and time again to be the only person who enters and stays in my mind?
For you, and you alone are the only one who I can think about all day long, and then never get bored of.
What is it that I have done to deserve someone as you?
Was it that I've been kind and polite my life?
Not all of my life I have been kind or polite.
For I, have been rude and spiteful.
No, it is not a humanly thing that I've done.
The reason I have you, is because you chose me.
Over any other you chose me, and I chose you.
That is why I get you and that is why I deserve you.
Love, is strong word.
But for you it is not strong enough.
For you, Jeremy, I adore you.
I cherish you close to my heart and deep in my soul.
Nobody in this world compares to you, and nobody in this universe will have me the way you do.
You give me everything, so I give you my life.
Take it in your hands and hold it as you will.
Don't let me go, and I will never let go of you.
You entered my head, and you never left.
You entered my heart and you will stay there for all eternity.


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Fergie Shoots Down 'X Factor' Judge Rumors: 'It's Just Not The Right Time For Me'
Rumors have circulated for weeks hinting that Fergie has been tapped as a judge for Simon Cowell's "The X Factor."
Access Hollywood caught up with the superstar on Thursday to get the scoop on her possible reality TV future.
"So, what's the story with 'The X Factor'?" Access Hollywood correspondent Jill Martin asked Fergie during an interview as she promoted Voli light vodkas in New York City. "Did they approach you to be a judge? And would you do it?"
"It's kind of funny why this keeps coming up about the 'X-Factor,'" Fergie said. "I mean, I love Simon and I love the show. It's just that last year, nor this year, do I have the time to commit to that sort of commitment because I would be somebody who would really throw myself into it, as I do with all my projects.
"It's just not fair to the contestants and their careers — that's their career --to not be full in," she added.
"Did they approach you to do it?" Jill pressed.
"I know there were talks last season and this season," Fergie said. "But it's just not — Simon said before [that] timing is everything and it's not the right time for me."
The 36-year-old singer also revealed she's "taking a break" from the Black Eyed Peas to enjoy her home life with husband Josh Duhamel.
"It was eight years straight of touring and it's a lot. So, it's time for me to be home," she said. "I'm starting to decorate my house and look at art and do those things."
Adding, "It's a little more girlie right now for me. Creative energy is always going to be there because that's just in my blood, that's just who I am — but it's just channeled differently."
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IncubusHead said...
I agree with almost everything you said here except the last part about the Retribution Aura.
I wont talk about PvP because i don't engage in any PvP so i wont pretend to know anything about its nuances, but from a PvE standpoint that talent is completely useless, which might be your point i don't know. The part where you talk about the ability proccing off of Ret Aura dealing damage is counter-intuitive to everything you want in a raid. The Ret paladin should not be taking direct hits from anything in a raid environment. We all know theres a lot of raid damage to go around these days but that doesnt trigger Ret Aura.
I think what he means by having Retribution Aura dealing damage is by any player that has the Ret Aura on them at any one time. So, in theory, when your tank is getting hit and because he has your Ret Aura on him, and it deals damage, this could proc so /you're/ Crusader Strike is off cool down. It's an interesting idea, because just as you said in PVE the Tank should be the only one taking damage, and so this would proc only when the Boss hits him, and in Arena it would only proc when either you or your partner(s) get hit.
I think perhaps the only problem is when your doing PVP in say Battlegrounds or 3v3, 5v5. With all those players under your Ret Aura affect, this proc would be going off way too often. Perhaps a simple internal cool down on it?
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Added Asian chili garlic paste instead of cayenne also added 1/4 c of chunky p.b. and sesame oil in place of veg.
Sesame Noodle Salad
Leigh Beisch
You can make this noodle salad up to 1 day ahead; cover and chill. For best flavor, bring to room temperature before serving.
Yield: Makes 8 to 10 small-plate servings
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 198
- Calories from fat: 27%
- Protein: 5.6g
- Fat: 6g
- Saturated fat: 0.8g
- Carbohydrate: 31g
- Fiber: 1.9g
- Sodium: 419mg
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- 12 ounces dried soba (Japanese buckwheat) noodles, dried Asian wheat noodles, or angel hair pasta
- 3 tablespoons sesame seeds
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
- 1 red bell pepper (8 oz.), rinsed, stemmed, seeded, and cut into thin, short slivers
- 3/4 cup shredded carrots
- 3/4 cup thinly sliced green onions
- Salt
- 1. In a 5- to 6-quart pan over high heat, bring 2 1/2 to 3 quarts water to a boil. Add noodles, stir to separate, and cook until just tender to bite, 3 to 7 minutes. Drain and rinse well with cold water. If desired, cut noodles into shorter lengths for easier serving. Rinse and dry pan.
- 2. In the same pan, over medium heat, stir sesame seeds in oil until golden, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat. Add soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, and cayenne; stir until blended. Add noodles and mix until well coated. Add bell pepper, carrots, and green onions; mix gently. Add salt to taste. Mound in a serving dish.
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- COURSE: Salads
- CONVENIENCE: Entertaining, Make-Ahead
- CUISINE: Asian, Japanese
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Pasta, Vegetables
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Meatless
- PUBLICATION: Sunset
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First Love is the film in which child star Deanna Durbin grows up -- and she handles the transition smoothly. Although there's still plenty of energy to her performance, the singer is more subdued than in her previous films, in which her abundant energy sometimes threatened to make the reels fly right off the movie projector. Durbin by this time was learning that less could be more, and it's the most mature of her performances to this date. Vocally, she's in excellent form, sailing through the likes of "Spring in My Heart" and "Home, Sweet Home" with ease, and making the absolute most of the challenging "One Fine Day" sequence that ends the film. Universal, wanting to protect its most valuable asset, surrounded her with a lovely production, which includes some ace camerawork from Joseph A. Valentine. The script is also very strong for a Durbin vehicle, cleverly adhering to the "Cinderella" plot while adding its own little twists and punches. Henry Koster has directed smoothly, keeping his star attraction center stage but allowing the able supporting cast -- especially the excellent Eugene Pallette -- with opportunities to shine on their own. First Love is certainly lightweight - too much so to be a classic - but it's sweet, entertaining and heartfelt.
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Anthony Pettis defeats Benson Henderson with an armbar in the first round to become the new champ.
In the main event of UFC Fight Night 26, three-time title challenger Chael Sonnen was able to earn a first round submission over Mauricio "Shogun" Rua. Sonnen pulled guard once he had a guillotine choke locked in and he immediately forced Shogun to tap.
After the fight, the bad guy came back out of Sonnen.
"I'm the man of the hour, too sweet to be sour. What you see is what you get and what you don't is better yet. I'm the women's pick, I'm the men's regret and if you pick against Chael Sonnen you made a bad bet," Sonnen said during his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan.
That was the always entertaining intro that we get from Sonnen, but then he went in to attack mode and delivered a perfectly executed call out of Wanderlei Silva.
"Now, right here on the UFC's new home, FOX Sports 1. Wanderlei Silva, 6-foot tall and 205-pounds. Boy, until I met you, I didn't know they could stack crap that high. I just got done with a world champion. If you don't think I'll add a middle-aged comedian just for the goddamn pleasure of it, you better think again. Wanderlei Silva, in three months, you and the bad guy."
"I wonder how the piece of meat was feeling when we bought him the Bentley. That statement right there, drives me insane. A year and a half ago nobody knew who Jon Jones was. Now the kid's a multi-millionaire and he's got this, that, you know?
When I see him in Toronto, that's the first fucking thing we're going to talk about. Piece of meat? That sounds like something a male supermodel would say" - Dana White on Jon Jones
UFC 151 has been canceled because light-heavyweight contender Dan Henderson has a knee injury and champion Jon Jones declined UFC President Dana White's request that Jones fight Chael Sonnen in Henderson's place.
White says he was surprised and disappointed that Jones turned down a fight with Sonnen, forcing the cancellation.
Last week UFC champ Jon Jones announced his newest sponser would be Nike. What should be considered a landmark deal with the mainstream sports world has been marred by Jones' recent run-in with the law, something not lost on outspoken World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) superstar CM Punk, who blasted the partnership via his Twitter.
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Wait wait wait is this like a you hook it up to a computer and type on the light and then words?
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Glencoe holiday cottages serve as the perfect basecamp for an out and about holiday in Scotland's most famous glen. This stunningly beautiful village is located near the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands on the southern bank of the River Coe, and is renowned for its gorgeous natural scenery. HomeAway holiday cottages in Glencoe are equally suited for a romantic rendezvous for two, or a rollicking expedition of 11. Holidaymakers can enjoy rich natural exteriors of stone or wood and interior touches like leather furnishings, modern appliances, or satellite TV. Some holiday lets come with gardens and a few even boast Jacuzzis and pools! Romp around outdoors or relax in a cozy chalet; there is something for everyone in Glencoe.
-Golf: Slay the Dragons Tooth Golf Course for a challenging and affordable 9-hole experience. This lochside course is open every day of the year during daylight hours and welcomes individuals and families of all abilities. The guided Segway tours offer something truly different!
-Hiking: The mountains and holiday chalets in Glencoe attract serious hikers, mountain bikers and ice climbers. There are dozens of trails for unparalleled Highland walking or biking, but note that these excursions require a certain skill level. Conditions can be strenuous in summer and dangerous in winter, so warnings should be heeded and no-one should take on more than they can handle. There are guided tours available at lower elevations as well as plenty of easy walking trails for the less experienced.
-Family activities: The Ice Factor provides indoor rock and ice climbing for the whole family. All skill levels welcome and instruction is provided. There is bowling and also an aerial activity course for even more thrills and a soft play area for the youngest family members. This is an excellent suggestion for a rainy day.
-Sightseeing: Fort William, just 20 minutes away, makes for an excellent trip. The High Street has plenty of shops, but there's the Nevis Range mountain gondola for spectacular views of the surrounding Highlands, and even a restaurant at the end so guests can have lunch at 2,200 feet! Other activities popular with guests in holiday cottages in Glencoe are painting pottery at Fired Art and the steam train to Mallaig which passes the UK's shortest river, tallest mountain, deepest loch and most westerly railway station along the way!
-Watersports: The opportunities to get out, on and in the water in this area are practically endless. World-class fishing, sailing, kayaking, water skiing or just taking pictures at the beautiful beaches can all be enjoyed. There is even whitewater rafting and "canyoning" – where participants descend a series of waterfalls in various ways including sliding and jumping into deep pools below. Fancy it? Best book a holiday chalet in Glencoe with a fireplace to snuggle up next to afterwards!
Like most of Scotland, Glencoe enjoys temperate weather. There is a lot of precipitation, with over 250 days of the year seeing rainfall. Average temperatures are around 6°C. Temperatures can fall to around 0°C in the winter (and lower in the mountains) and reach almost 20°C in the summer months. Although it rains year-round, the wettest days are in winter so holidaymakers should plan accordingly.
Glencoe holiday homes are easily accessed via air, road or rail. From Glasgow airport, it is 83 miles north along the A82. There are a few different routes to choose from Edinburgh Airport, but the most direct one takes the A82 and M9 north for about 110 miles. By train, there is a sleeper service available from London to Glasgow. From there, it's another train to Fort William then the remaining 16 miles to Glencoe by taxi or bus.