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I find it weird that any new activity in the extended lockout that would save you, say another boss, locks the extension until the next reset. Means if you still had Yoggi standing in one Ulduar ID, to kill him on the first day of the ID extension means you can't remove the extension to use the rest of the week for another item/achievement farming run.
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Actually...it makes perfect sense that you can't remove the extension any time you want just because it's no longer convenient. Otherwise, there would be no point in even having raid reset days.
Think about it for a moment. If you can extend a raid ID indefinitely, then you could extend it a couple of times until, "Oh look at this! We killed Yogg a couple days into the new extension. Well, just reset it, and we can start all over right away. Now we can just keep extending this new id until we kill Yogg again, and then...oops! We killed Yogg and reset it again halfway through another new extension. Rinse and repeat. Anyone taking longer than a week to clear a raid, would essentially never be limited by lockouts in any way.
So, this has to be a tradeoff for it to work. Do we want to extend it and potentially waste some of the lockout by only having a few bosses to down? Or do we want to try again from scratch and get more loot all together.
(Note: In looking at the above paragraphs...I haven't seen so many "extensions" since yo' mama's hair, dogg! OOOOOOOHHHHHH!)
(Second note: I'm sorry...I have no idea where that came from.)
There isn't a point to raid reset days. There shouldn't be any specific day telling guilds that they've lost out, give up, go home. It's a fairly stupid concept that they're just now getting around to correcting.
Yes, there is a point to locking you out of retrying a full clear within a certain period of time and clearly that's designed with retention and progression... but the notion that Tuesday is some magical "give up" day that a raid needs to quit on you just because 4 years ago some engineer decided Tuesday would be the maintenance day? Nope! They got rid of Tuesday Honor, why not get rid of Tuesday raids? In my guild I would LOVE to see the ability to set our raid week to start on Monday or Thursday and we could define the paramaters by which we raid.
I fear the clarifications have made this a moderately useless concept for us, as we would much rather gear people through repeated attempts at bosses we can down easily, rather than be locked into a full week without more loot from the first 8 bosses of Ulduar.
If the locks can't be removed and the raid week reset after a single day's worth of attempts on say a Tuesday or Wednesday so we can start our normal raid week on Thursday.. this is a pointless change that doesn't help us. Tuesday and Wednesday are lost to us for good because we can't consistently get people on those days... but we can somewhat assume that if we're on Vezzax then we might actually get people to show up for a couple more attempts on one extra day. However I think it's going to be a hard sell to get everyone to want to spend an entire raid week lockout on 2-3 bosses we haven't even downed.
I think the whole raid lockout thing is done wrong. Each RaidID should start a timer ticking from the point you start. For example...
If my guild decides to start a fresh Ulduar on Thursday night, as soon as we start the raid, there's a timer associated with that RaidID that counts down for 1 week from that start time. Every time the timer gets down to less than 24 hours, then individuals saved to that RaidID have the option to extend it one more week.
impurezero: Ok, my hope for "extend ID, clear it, then take on this week's fresh ID" was already created when it was implied that you could only extend the ID one time, so you could double the time possible, tops.
For custom resets, I don't think this would mesh well with many guilds, or even PuGs, it would be hard to find groups on certain (yet varying) days, say you're looking for a Naxx grp on Saturday, but everyone you ask just answers "oh sorry, started an ID last Sunday, can't come along until tomorrow."
Also, even the time of day could factor into this, imagine a guild starts their 25man raids on Monday, but then one time, they can't start until 9pm, or only down the first boss then to get saved to the instance, so the next week, they have to wait until 9pm to start the next ID.

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A City in Florida
Chapter 18
Conor's POV:
"Don't do that, they're going to attack you!" Melissa screeched at me as I went to toss a french fry to a seagull.
"Relax, they're fine," I said, looking back at her with a smirk.
It's been about a month since we returned from Vegas, and our relationship was still incredibly strong. Besides the fact that we still haven't had sex, but I could overlook that for now.
We were out grabbing some early dinner together, and then we were going to go back to Melissa's house. She had a few final projects to work on, and I actually had a little paperwork to do. So before we drowned in work, we decided to enjoy a date.
"How's the job hunt going?" I asked her, popping a fry in my mouth. Melissa frowned.
"Terrible. I didn't realize it was so hard. I thought my internship last year would give me a job like that," she admitted, taking a bite from her salad.
"You'll get one babe. Just not too far, okay?" I said, smiling. Melissa giggled and nodded.
"I'm trying. Although there is this one job in New York I applied for that would be great," she sighed. I threw a fry at her.
"New York is way too far," I said. I didn't want her to move to New York when we just started dating. I liked having her around whenever I wanted. If she went to New York, we'd have to do the long distance thing. I was willing to do it, but I really liked having her here.
"Aw, you really want me around?" She asked. She pushed her plate forward and I nodded, and grabbed her hand.
"Of course I do," I said. I saw a blush creep on her face, and I stroked her hand with my thumb quickly. I haven't had these kinds of feelings for a girl in a long time, but Melissa did that to me. I was glad we were giving this a shot.
The waitress came over and I paid for the bill with some cash, and Melissa and I got up and started to walk back. Melissa didn't live far from campus, and the restaurant we were at was right near campus. I threw my arm around her shoulder, and her arm snuck around my waist.
"Can't believe I graduate in a month," Melissa sighed. I leaned over to kiss her head.
"It's crazy. But now you'll be a working woman. But even if you struggle, I'll support you," I said. "I can be your sugar daddy," I said.
Melissa hit my stomach. "That's disgusting," she laughed. I rubbed my abs with my free hand and winced.
"Okay, I'm gonna stop taking you to the gym because you're getting really strong," I teased. Melissa looked up at me and flexed her arm. She was in a tank top, so her little arm muscle was visible. She bent down and kissed it.
"Welcome to the gun show," she said. I had to laugh at her. That was another reason why she was so incredible. Because she made me laugh. She never really pissed me off. I mean, we've gotten into little scuffles or arguments, but most of the time, we were playing around. The only serious fight we got into was when she hooked up with that guy in January, and we weren't even dating. That was four months ago.
We kept walking and talking, and then eventually got to Melissa's house. She went to open the door, but it was locked. She scoffed as she got out her keys.
"How is it that I live in a house with seven girls, and yet none of them are in the house?" She asked. She turned the key and opened it up, letting me in. The house was quiet.
"At least you can get your work done without worrying about them being loud," I pointed out, following her up the stairs to her bedroom.
"Good point. You better not distract me, Dwyer," she said, turning to look back at me. I grinned and gave her butt a tap, and she rolled her eyes.
Melissa's POV:
"How's the paperwork coming?" I asked, looking up from my notebook to look at Conor sitting at the foot of my bed with his legs crossed. My back was up against my headboard, and my knees were up.
"As good as it was five minutes ago," Conor said, looking up to meet my eyes. I laughed.
"Sorry! This is boring," I pouted. I was focusing on some global marketing project that I had to get through, but I wasn't really interested in it. I bit my pen and looked back down at the notes I had scribbled on my paper. It was blurring together, because I was so damn bored.
I was distracted from it by Conor tossing aside his paperwork. I frowned.
"You're done already?!" I asked him. He got up on all fours and crawled over to me, pushing my legs apart and putting himself in between them.
"No," he said, kissing one of my cheeks. "But I've got this really sexy girl on a bed and I keep getting distracted by her," he admitted, kissing my other cheek. I laughed.
"Con, I have to do this," I said. Although he was really turning me on right now.
"It can wait," Conor said, putting his lips on top of mine. I kissed him back, and he took my notebook and stuff away and put it to the side. I slid down my headboard so that my head was resting on my pillow. Conor remained hovering over me, kissing me hard and long. My arms went around his neck.
We were getting pretty into it. His hand ran down my side and slid up my tank top, resting on my stomach. I ran my hand down his chest, and put my hand up his shirt slightly too. Rock hard underneath that shirt. Amazing.
Conor brought his body closer to mine and pushed his hips against me. I felt something hard press against my leg and I smirked gently. It was awesome knowing I had this effect on him.
His hand remained on my stomach for another moment, and then slid down my stomach and hooked onto the top of my denim shorts. It tickled a little bit.
"I can't," I whispered again. Conor groaned.
"Why?" He asked, pulling away from my lips, frowning.
"Period," I said simply.
"Again? You just had it two weeks ago," Conor said, raising an eyebrow. Shit. I forgot that I used that excuse when he tried to hook up with me in his house a couple of weeks back. And that was the excuse I used in Vegas, too. "Melissa, what's wrong?" He frowned, propping himself over me with his hands.
"Nothing…" I said, but trailed off.
"Do you not want to sleep with me?" He asked, raising an eyebrow a little bit.
"It's not that at all!" I said, shaking my head.
"Then what is it?" He asked me. I knew he was patiently waiting for an answer. I found his eyes.
And then it came out like projectile vomit. Before I could even consider telling him, or think about what I was gonna say, it came out.
"I'm a virgin."
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Velie 12-24
Although a popular carriage and car company, the Velie's are best known in the tractor community for their part in John Deere. When John Deere's daughter Emma married Stephan Velie in 1860, it brought a very gifted young man into the Deere family. Stephan had joined the John Deere plow works in 1856 and would eventually serve as secretary and chief financial officer for the growing Deere empire. Considered a cautious and numbers oriented person, he would serve for 32 years. In 1868, when the company officially incorporated as Deere & Co, Velie was one of only four people to be issued capitol stock.
After Johns death, Velie became the second largest stock holder with a 20% share. Middle son Stephan Velie Jr became the branch manager of Deere's Kansas city branch, and founded the Velie Saddlery Co of Kansas City. Together with youngest brother Willard Velie, they would also found the Velie Carriage Co of Moline IL, which eventually became Velie Motor Vehicles. Willard also became Vice President of John Deere in 1908 when Butterworth became president of the company.
Willard also formed the Velie Engineering Company which merged with Velie Motor Company in 1916 (besides tractors, carriages, trucks an automobiles, the company would also produce airplanes). A staunch supporter of the idea of a small tractor since 1912, Willard had clashed often with the John Deere board in insisting that John Deere needed a tractor line. With his own company, he was free to pursue this. One of the first things the enlarged company began producing in 1916 was a 12-24 tractor. Sharing the same name as their car line, the Velie Biltwel debuted to a lot of fanfare, but poor sales.
At an eye popping $1,750, the 4 cylinder, 4500 lbs tractor was at the top end of the price range, far more then most comparable tractors. Using a Velie motor and two speed transmission, the tractor was completely separate from the Deere line, and even as the Biltwel was in production and on the market, the Velie's were relentlessly pushing Deere towards its own tractor. The only cross was that the Velie's often demonstrated the Biltwel with John Deere implements.
With its pricetag and the Velie's divided interest, the 12-24 Biltwel didn't last long, only being produced from 1916 to 1920 in very limited numbers (though the price appears to have dropped significantly); and the company was eventually absorbed by Deere in 1937. I know of no surviving Velie Biltwel 12-24's.
The Bolte Tractor is one few people will have probably ever heard of and was built in Davenport IA sometime around 1919. After a few ads in 1919, the Bolte disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Besides tractors, Joseph G. Bolte was a car dealer in Davenport, beyond that little is known. One detail that is known is that in 1920 Bolte was sued for failing to pay a loan, in addition to not making the payments, he had apparently sold the two cars that were his collateral. A cosigner had been required to secure the loan as by that time, Bolte had a poor reputation for credit.
Despite its 20-40 rating, the Bolte only weighed about 5,000 pounds. Its most unique feature was its steering mechanism the company called "the Square Turn Design". A photo in Wendel's "Standard Catalog of Farm Tractors" shows the Bolte indeed having a very sharp turn.
I stumbled across these photo's in an online archive, but have so far found virtually nothing about this tractor. The Golden West was built by E.B. Parkhurst and the Muscatine Motor Company of Muscatine IA. According to A photo in Wendel's "Standard Catalog of Farm Tractors", only a brief mention is made in advertising in1910. The photo's are apparently from the Muscatine Library and the originals can be found HERE.
"Creeping Grip" Crawler 60-45 and 40-30
Another virtual unknown of the area was the circa 1913 Western Implement and Motor "Creeping Grip" crawler of Davenport Ia, an early halftrack design. Originally called the "Creeping Tiger", it came in two sizes, a 60-45 and a 40-30 (the Creeping Grip was one of the rare companies to list belt power before drawbar power in its ratings). Although never a major name, the Creeping Grip would play an interesting role in the development of modern warfare. When Western Implement and Motor Company was bought out by Chicago's Bullock Tractor Co in 1914, the Creeping Grip name remained and the smaller Baby Creeper was added. During the development of the tank, a Bullock Creeping Grip chassis was used on the British 1915 No. 1 Lincoln Machine, one of the first forerunners of the modern tank. The results were unsatisfactory and numerous changes were required for the second prototype.


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One of the most popular requests we receive from Hello Vino users is the ability to quickly get wine recommendations based on their favorite type or variety of wine.
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Aunt Pearl's Room
Walking through the English style "cottage garden" evokes memories of more genteel times. In Aunt Pearl's Room you will recognize comforts and amenities that the original owner would have reserved for special guests. The decor is Victorian, with "cottage rose" wallpaper and a comfortable sitting area by the fireplace. Queen size, solid oak 1890s bed with private bath and step-in shower. Wood-burning fireplace for winter delights.
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Lady Bird Johnson Room
Original master bed chamber, and the favorite of Lady Bird Johnson. The king-sized four poster Rice bed with lace canopy is majestic under the 14-foot ceilings. Enjoy the romantic sitting area, browse the in-room library, select a book and relax by the original coal-burning fireplace. Documents from the notorious 1870s "Diamond Bessie" murder trial (Hector McKay, was a defense attorney) are displayed. Soak in the claw-footed bath tub, with shower. The room is located downstairs in the Main House just steps away from the front porch.
- Friday or Saturday: $149 or $129 with no breakfast.
- Sunday-Thursday $75 with no breakfast.
Quilt Room
This classic bed chamber, with its 14-ft. ceiling, features a king size half canopy bed. Warm hues lend this room an air of dignified serenity with a sitting area next to the restored fireplace. Handsome quilts and rare antique prints of children and angels grace the room and mantel. Large private bath with tub and shower combination, antique wash stand and marble sink basin offers room to relax and refresh. A light and airy room with 9-ft. windows. The room is located downstairs in the main house.
- Friday or Saturday: $149 or $129 with no breakfast.
- Sunday-Thursday $75 no breakfast.
Spinning Room (The Parlors)
The Original Formal Parlour, is furnished with an extravagant, matched bedroom set: a "half-teaster" canopy bed (queen size), a break-down amoire, plus marble-topped dresser and wash stand -- all purchased on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, about 1880 and brought here to Jefferson by covered wagon. You will be "inspired to greatness" by the rich ambience of the bedchamber, with its sitting area and original coal-burning fireplace. The bathroom, with glass-enclosed shower, provides a private repose. This room is also available as a two bedroom suite featuring a connecting room, the Gentleman's Smoking Parlour, with a full sized 1860s Birthing Bed which is original to the house. The rooms connect through the bathroom and are located downstairs in the main house.
- Friday or Saturday: $149 for 2 adults,ONE room
- Sunday-Thursday: $75 with no breakfast.
- BOTH Rooms: Friday-Saturday $169/Thursday-Sunday $119 with full breakfast for UP TO 3 adults with full breakfast or $149/99 with no breakfast.
- 3 Guests maximum in this Room
Garden Gable Suite
This upstairs "gable suite" is a romantic adventure. You can enjoy moonlit evenings on the shared balcony, overlooking the garden. Morning sun rays sparkling through the priceless stained glass window in the "writers alcove" may inspire you to compose a poem for your sweetheart; Soft moonbeams peeking through large stained glass skylight over the double "his and her" antique bathtubs -- means romance is sure to bloom. Sleep like a lullaby on the comfortable queen-sized Eastlake Victorian bed. This luxury suite is both romantic and elegant. Guests enjoy looking for the love birds, only one pair together, in the documented wallpaper.
- Friday or Saturday $149 or $129 with no breakfast.
- Sunday-Thursday: $75 with no breakfast.
Grand Gable Suite
Largest of the upstairs "gable suites," which features a rare 1890 tall pine bed, queen size, and flanking wall sconces for bedtime reading. There is also a French twin bed making this a comfortable suite for three. A step-down sitting area, defined by antique railing and curly pine wainscot, is an intimate retreat for quiet reading. The large bathroom, complemented with stained glass windows, has a glass-enclosed shower and antique marble wash stand. The shared balcony overlooking the garden is perfect for quiet, romantic interludes.
- Friday or Saturday: $159 (2 adults), $169 (3 adults) or $129/159 with no breakfast
- Sunday-Thursday: $75/95 with no breakfast.
Rustic Keeping Room
This bedchamber is rustic, outfitted with period kitchen pieces. The king size oak sleigh bed is a treat. Like days of yore, the large claw footed tub with shower is within the room. You will find the "necessary facilities" in the "in-house" privy (It's a little room made to look like an outhouse). This bedchamber is one-of-a-kind. Wood-burning fireplace to delight winter guests.
- Friday or Saturday: $149 or $129 with no breakfast
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We are an informal inn, with few rules. This means you can come to the dining room for coffee in your fuzzy slippers; you don't have to put your lipstick on for breakfast; but if you want us to bring out the silver and fine china to impress your loved one, we will be more than happy. We are here to serve you, not to make you feel uncomfortable. Our policies are not meant to hinder, and we welcome questions, comments and strive to resolve any complaints to everyone's satisfaction.
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- No Smoking except on the balconies & porches or in the gardens. Please use the ashtrays provided - not the plants.
- We are family friendly. This means children of all ages are welcome. Ask us about which rooms are best for accommodating children. Certain rooms are better for infants and smaller children to distance them from other guests who may be trying to have a weekend away from their children. Pricing may change for older children.
- Ask us about pet accommodations. Small pets are welcome as long as you follow a few simple rules. Keep your pet with you or on a leash during your stay. Do not bring your pet to the breakfast table or dining room. Clean up after your pet. Keep in mind not all guests are pet lovers.
- If you wonder if "That's Allowed," chances are it is, but feel free to ask, we're not going to make you feel silly for asking. A good rule of thumb is to just be considerate of others.
- We offer various discounts to different groups including Government and State employees, active or retired military personnel, police, firefighters, senior citizens, religious organizations and teachers. However, we can only allow One (1) discount to be applied to the room rate. If we offer a special discount room rate, then no other discounts can be applied. Discounts are applied to full published rate only.
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For a man who has never held or officially ran for public office, Donald Trump just won't get out of politics. His stay in a field that he knows nothing about has long worn out its welcome. Whereas years ago his business acumen and wealth endeared him respect, he has now turned into a mockery of himself.
He is now the most prominent birther in the world. Birtherism is an empty conspiracy hollow to the core and devoid of facts. It is filled with the likes of Orly Taitz and Jerome Corsi, who with every fact refuting their claims come up with a new, more outrageous one. However, they are no longer the face of birtherism. That is Trump, propelled by his billions and an ego bigger even than his wallet.
A couple of weeks ago, Trump announced a "gamechanger" for the election. Speculation ranged from a new birther document to copies of divorce papers that conspiracists' claim Michelle Obama drew up against Barack. Once again, Trump fooled us. People actually believed that the "gamechanger" had some semblance to fact. The only fact with Donald Trump is that his mouth never closes and his wallet never empties when the possibility of attention appears.
Trump offered $5 million to Obama's favorite charity if Obama would release his college records and passport information. Trump's goal was to prove that Obama either was born in Kenya or falsified documents to get aid as a foreign student.
When Obama failed to turn over the documents and collect the $5 million prize for charity, Trump was stunned that anyone would turn down such a generous offer of $5 million.
"Obviously he wasn't born in this country or, if he was, he said he wasn't in order to receive financial aid and in order to have a clear and very easy path into a college or university. Only a very stupid person would believe otherwise," Trump said.
Obviously, only a very stupid person would believe that Donald Trump has anything meaningful left to say in politics. The claim that Obama was born in Kenya has been proven a lie. The suggestion that Obama claimed foreign student status to get financial aid was a 2009 April fool's joke still working on the Donald. Even the decision by the Obama campaign not to release college records is not unusual. It is rare that a presidential candidate does. All these points by Trump were thoroughly rejected by Factcheck.org.
Trump's $5 million offer was parodied when Stephen Colbert's offered to give Trump $1 million if Trump would let him dip his balls into Trump's mouth because "nothing would make America happier than have something going into your mouth than coming out of it."
Dallas Mavericks owner and entrepreneur Mark Cuban offered to give $2 million to any charity if Trump would shave his head. Columnist Frank Rich also offered to double Trump's figure to $10 million if Romney would release more of his tax returns.
None of those counteroffers persuaded Trump because his offer was about himself not Obama. That Trump would reiterate the offer after Hurricane Sandy struck and suggest that it was an opportunity for Obama to help the victims is surreal.
Federal, state and private aid dwarfs Trump's offer, although $5 million would still go a long way to helping those who have lost homes and face disrupted lives.
Trump had an opportunity to retain at least some respect if he had donated that $5 million to a Hurricane Sandy charity after Obama had rejected his offer. A Trump spokesperson did say that Trump was "already in the process of supporting the hurricane victims." No dollar total was associated with that comment.
Trump may do something for his fellow New Yorkers, but since it won't generate the type of attention to stroke his ego, it isn't likely to be anywhere near $5 million.
Trump is not going to stop his occasional forays into politics. In the future, he may even attempt oddball offers more bizarre than this one. Until someone offers Trump enough money to shut up, he will not disappear.
Our only option is to accept Trump for what he is — a laughingstock, a national joke. He may as well be selected as the nation's honorary court jester since everythng that comes from his mouth anymore is nothing more than a farce.


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The Pikmin series is a video game series developed by Nintendo EAD that focuses on manipulating Pikmin. It currently consists of three games: Pikmin, Pikmin 2, and Pikmin 3. Pikmin and Pikmin 2 have counterparts in the New Play Control! range on Wii.
Pikmin series games[edit]
Reception and sales[edit]
All three games have been scored well by critics. Pikmin 2 scores generally higher than Pikmin (e.g. scores of 90[1] and 89[2] on review aggregator Metacritic, respectively). Pikmin 3 scores were closer to those of Pikmin 2. [3] The total number of sales for the series is approximately 4.3 million as of September 2013[4].
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Elements from the series also play parts in a number of other Nintendo games, most notably Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. 4, in which "Olimar & Pikmin" is a playable character, as well as a Pikmin stage—Distant Planet—and multiple soundtracks and trophies.
Pikmin have made cameo appearances in games like WarioWare: Smooth Moves and the Nintendo DSi/3DS software transfer animation, while Pikmin-themed items have appeared in Nintendogs and the Animal Crossing series.
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- ↑ Pikmin 2 at Metacritic
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Country music superstar Brad Paisley and his actress wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley were duped by a con artist pretending to be the mother of a little girl dying of cancer.
The celebrity couple spent 10 days emailing, texting and singing to a girl named Claire who (they thought) had deadly brain cancer.
A Nightline segment shows that a slew of other celebrities were also victims of the hoax which began with the woman saying that her daughter begged her to get in touch with Mrs. Paisley.
Kimberly says the hoax was convincing because it didn't initially ask for anything or seem all that interested in her as a celebrity.
However they became suspicious when the mother refused to give them an address where they could send flowers after the girl supposedly "died."
The woman used photographs plucked from a website of an actual little girl dying of neuroblastoma.
Brad Paisley says, 'That's the sickest part about this to me. That is the part that when I start to talk about that, that's when I get really mad. That there were real kids, that there were real photos involved.'
Nightline also describes a laundry list of other celebrities who fell into the hoax: reality star Kate Gosselin, Wipeout gameshow hosts John Henson and Jill Wagner, some Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, and singer Natalie Grant, and the band Little Big Town.
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The pressure has never been greater on Canada's divers in the lead-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Over 50 competitors will gather in Montreal for the Canadian Olympic Trials this weekend, but a maximum of six will emerge with their Olympic hopes intact.
"You can feel the pressure in the pool. It's almost like you can cut the tension with a knife," said Scott Cranham, high performance director at Diving Canada Plongeon, in a conference call on Thursday.
"At an Olympic Games, if you've had the experience at a world championship or at a world cup, it will be very similar to that, but an Olympic trials is an Olympic trials, and there's so much riding on it."
While some sports appoint their Olympic team based on the results of one event to simulate the stress of an Olympic competition, Diving Canada Plongeon prefers that its divers prove their mettle in a series of events.
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I just got netatalk working on my UDB this morning. I had the same
problem but it was solved by using a patch to the afpd source which
is apparently required if you are using libc 5.2.18 or later.
The file you need is patched_afpd_1.0.tar.gz. I got it from the
same umich site that I got the netatalk source but I think you
can get it from the author at http://thehamptons.com/anders/netatalk/
If you are using shadow passwords you will also need to get a new
auth.c or else create a user with an empty password (very risky).
I'm not sure where to get this but I would geuss you could find it
(or a pointer to it) at the umich site.
I'm using appletalk as an installable module so I did not have to
re-compile the kernel for AT support.
Really does work well :-)
Brian E.W. Wood
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Radionics is actually a treatment plan which could undoubtedly answer the health problem even for individuals who are isolated. It makes use of compounds in the individual; which includes blood, hair, along with signature and some other. Using these compounds, it helps to treat an individual even from very far. The so termed consistency is utilized on stability the discordant frequencies of health problem.
Behind this is actually the late Albert Abrams (1864-1924), pioneered it with orgone energy in the early 1990's, and made him self a millionaire for hiring his created radionic product. Abrams claimed that his equipment might determine such frequencies, and by simply matching it to the various other, individuals would be treated promptly.
The latter also insisted that the frequencies are sensitive enough, that it could tell someone's religion by just looking at the drop of blood. Unbelievable may be, but there are still lots of people who tried this treatment, thinking they could be cured in an amazing way.
In the health care area, this long-abandoned health care was never been established by the American Medical Association and still have been investigated to be proved unproductive by the American Researchers. Radionics is considered to be suitable on the prognosis or treatment plan of almost any health problems. The pioneer is finished up as the dean of gadget magicians, since Radionics is regarded as as magick and not legally approved on the healthcare marketplace.


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I am just wondering how everyone does their reports? I do ours using Assessment Manager in SIMS. On the surface, this is fine, it can collect the data and produce a nicely formatted report. However, the staff don't have access to SIMS, so I export marksheets which they complete and return to me, and then we go through a number of rounds of proofreading. It is really cumbersome to enter the corrections within SIMS, and if I correct the spreadsheets, I end up with multiple versions of everything and a complete version control mess. This is probably due to my organisational skills, but it's becoming a problem. I'm also the only person who can use Assessment Manager, so if I go off sick their is noone else who can use the system.
Anyway - the point of all this, is I am thinking we need a better way. I would really like something online, so anyone can enter their reports/proofread/edit from school or at home.
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Adult Nonfiction PS3613.O779 C35 2010
Summary: From the author of the internationally acclaimed Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath comes a funny, touching memoir of a crummy--and crumby--childhood. Growing up in the 1960s and '70s, Kate Moses was surrounded by sugar: Twinkies in the basement freezer, honey on the fried chicken, Baby Ruth bars in her father's sock drawer. But sweetness of the more intangible variety was harder to come by. Her parents were disastrously mismatched, far too preoccupied with their mutual misery to notice its effects on their kids. A frustrated artist, Kate's beautiful, capricious mother lived in a constant state of creative and marital emergency, enlisting Kate as her confidante--"We're the girls, we have to stick together"--and instructing her three children to refer to her in public as their babysitter. Kate's father was aloof, ambitious, and prone to blasts of withering abuse increasingly directed at the daughter who found herself standing between her embattled parents. Kate looked for comfort in the imaginary worlds of books and found refuge in the kitchen, where she taught herself to bake and entered the one realm where she was able to wield control. Telling her own story with the same lyricism, compassion, and eye for lush detail she brings to her fiction, coupled with the candor and humor she is known for in her personal essays, Kate Moses leavens each tale of her coming-of-age in Cakewalk with a recipe from her lifetime of confectionary obsession. There is the mysteriously erotic German Chocolate Cake implicated in a birds-and-bees speech when Kate was seven, the gingerbread people her mother baked for Christmas the year Kate officially realized she was fat, the chocolate chip cookies Kate used to curry favor during a hilariously gruesome adolescence, and the brownies she baked for her idol, the legendary M.F.K. Fisher, who pronounced them "delicious." Filled with the abundance and joy that were so lacking in Kate's youth, Cakewalk is a wise, loving tribute to life in all its sweetness as well as its bitterness and, ultimately, a recipe for forgiveness.
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Kingston: FLETC can handle trainingDec 05, 2013
The Brunswick News
The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center can more than handle security training for the State Department and save taxpayers millions of dollars in the process, the congressman whose district includes the center in Glynn County says.
The savings and capability of the training center are part of an argument presented by U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-1, in a recent letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Kingston supports strong training programs for State Department personnel but is opposed to spending an estimated $1 billion on the development of a Foreign Affairs Security Training Center - or FASTC - at Fort Pickett at Blackstone, Va.
The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center - with its headquarters
at Brunswick and facilities at Artesia, N.M., Charleston, S.C., and
Cheltenham, Md. - was created to consolidate law enforcement training
for most federal agencies. It is already providing training to the
State Department's Diplomatic Security Service and Office of Inspector
General, two of the 91 agencies it serves.
Kingston said FLETC has shown it can handle the State Department's needs, citing a viability assessment conducted by FLETC and submitted to the federal Office of Management and Budget.
"In this report, FLETC detailed (its) proposals for full FASTC use and calculated saving over $635 million in capital investment," he wrote in the letter. "Over the 10-year cost projection, the government will save $813 million in operational costs with the FLETC alternative.
"In addition to readily available classroom and instruction facilities, FLETC already employs support staff, which will limit the need to hire additional (staff)."
Funding for a new training facility was included in a budget submitted by the State Department for the new fiscal year in October, but it was taken out after Kingston and members of the U.S. Senate questioned the lack of a feasibility or impact study.
"As you know, a variety of federal agencies have sought to establish new, separate training centers for their agencies over many years - sometimes inspired by members of Congress whose states they viewed as the ideal setting, other times by an earnest desire to provide the best training possible," Kingston wrote Kerry.
"I am as dedicated as anyone in government to assuring that our law enforcement officers receive the best preparation possible. However, these efforts have been rejected in most cases because FLETC was established to consolidate federal training facilities, achieve significant cost efficiencies of co-location and avoid this kind of proliferation.
"In these difficult budget times, it would be an irresponsible use of taxpayer dollars to develop duplicative federal training centers."
Kingston ended the letter to Kerry by urging him to "fully consider the Glynco FLETC facility" for the State Department's training needs.
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Readership: Readers of poetry, and students of English literature, Romantic poetry, the Romantic period, Wordsworth and Coleridge
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Nearly 75% of small, medium and large businesses and organizations are spending a lot less this year on newspapers, magazines, direct mail and other traditional advertising channels, so they can increase spending on online ads, a studies show.
The cause for the large and immediate shift is the change in consumer behavior, according to Forrester Research Inc. An increasing number of consumers are using the World Wide Web to get news, sports and entertainment reports and to buy products and services in enormous numbers. Even Christians are accessing the internet daily to get information and interact with their church organizations like never before.
Online consumers today spend nearly 40% of their time online, either at home or at work. "In trying to reach consumers through the medium that they use, businesses are focusing a lot more on the online channel," says Forrester.
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September 28, 2014
Overseas Mission Sunday
As a symbol of unity, all women of the A.M.E. Zion Church are requested to wear white.
Visit www.whoms.org for information concerning this observance.
October 8-12, 2014
South Alabama Annual Conference
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Rev. Robert Shuford, Host Pastor
October 2014
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On this occasion, programs shall be observed in memory of Anna L. Anderson and each member of the Society is asked to contribute five dollars ($5.00) to the Council.


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On the occasion of Earth Day 2014, the excellent and uniquely punctuated Portugal. The Man just produced an "endangered song" to raise awareness of the endangered status of Sumatran tiger. The band calls the song "a metaphor for endangered species," in that it is being offered in an extremely limited edition of 400 vinyl records (there are 400 of these tigers left in the wild). Rolling Stone reports:
The track, "Sumatran Tiger," does not officially exist digitally, and, like all vinyl records, will eventually degrade and also become extinct. According to the video above, the copies were sent "to 400 carefully chosen influencers, among them actors, activists, musicians, conservationists, bloggers and journalists" and is, as the band claims, "the first song meant to go extinct unless it's reproduced."
The band encouraged fans to "scour the Internet" using the hashtags #endangeredsong and #sumatrantiger to find recordings of the song.
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NGLTF Resolution on Death Penalty
1. The death penalty in the United States does not act as a deterrent to crime;
2. The death penalty is disproportionately applied to poor people and people of color;
3. The death penalty does not improve a criminal justice system that is plagued with inequities and discrimination against poor people, people of color, and other marginalized groups;
4. At least seventy-five people have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence;
5. Imposition of the death penalty will not reduce the number or severity of hate crimes against members of the GLBT community;
6. There is no conflict between support of hate crime laws, which serve purposes of education and deterrence, and opposition to the death penalty;
7. Imposition of the death penalty is state-sponsored violence, and, rather than ending violence, perpetuates it;
8. The death penalty is considered a fundamental human rights violation under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
9. Imposition of the death penalty undermines the humanity and dignity of all people;
10. Prosecutors in the states of Wyoming and Texas are pursuing the death penalty against the alleged killers of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd;
11. There are alternative criminal sanctions to the death penalty that reflect the severity of crimes against Matthew Shepard, James Byrd, and other victims of violence;
12. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force does not want the interests of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community in protecting its members from acts of violence to be cited as support for the death penalty; and
13. Imposition of the death penalty is inconsistent with the mission of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
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There's one big reason the usually popular BYU Professor Randy Bott stepped in it big time trying to explain the LDS Church's longtime denial of priesthood and temple blessings to members of African descent by calling it a "blessing." (Read, read, and read) Bott and others of that era in the LDS Church were taught these types of condescending "compassionate" racist principles when learning about the LDS Churches ban on blacks decades ago.
Bott was born in 1945 and grew up in Northern Utah. In 1958, the Mutual Improvement Association listed "Choose Ye This Day," a young adult novel, published by Bookcraft in Salt Lake City, written by Emma Marr Petersen, the wife of LDS Apostle Mark E. Petersen. Ms. Petersen was a popular LDS youth writer. I recall reading some of her books as late as the 1970s.
I have no idea if Bott read "Choose Ye This Day," but this novel, valued enough by church hierarchy to be recommended to LDS teens, is by any fair definition, riddled with the racism prevalent in that era. Ironically, a few days ago, I read an article in The Journal of Mormon History, "The War in Heaven and Mormon Thought," by Boyd J. Petersen, that references racist elements in "Choose Ye This Day." In the novel, two LDS students are debating whether their school football team should accept a black athlete. One student, "Kent," says that "Even the Church holds out against the Negros(sic)." As Boyd J. Petersen summarizes, another student, "Steve," wants to play with "Milo," the black student. The teens consult"Hank Weston," a hamburger stand owner with a reputation for honesty. From Petersens' JMH article: "Hank opines that his 'attitude on this subject is pretty well guided by my religious views … so I hope you won't mind if I mix a little religion with what I say.' Hank then teaches the students that blacks are cursed in mortality because they were not as valiant in war in heaven. He confesses, though, that he has 'heard some of our {Church} leaders teach that even the Negro can go to the celestial kingdom if he is faithful. However, he can only be a servant there.' He justifies this idea by adding: "That is more than many white people will receive, for many of them will be placed in the lower degrees of glory in the next world, because they did not live righteously. So in some respects, Negroes, if they are faithful, may receive a higher glory in the world to come than those of other races who defile their birthright." Hank concludes: "Each race may develop within itself. So far as the Negroes are concerned, we will give them every right and privilege within their race that we claim for ourselves within our own race, but we will not become intimate with them in any way, and we will not intermarry with them. … I believe that is a fair position to take, and I believe it squares with the word of God." Hank's position is finally summed up by one of the students: 'So you would be in favor of allowing a Negro to play on our football team, as long as we did not take him so far into our social life that some white girl might become infatuated with him.' 'That is just what I believe,' responds Hank.'"
That's pretty noxious stuff, and "Hank" is a terrible, racist role model for the two youths. Nevertheless, this book is one that LDS Church leaders were recommending Mormon teens read 50-plus years ago. (To be fair, the list includes a lot of good books, such as "Profiles in Courage," by John F. Kennedy.)
In the same JMH article, Petersen refers next to a statement made by the LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, who said in 1979, after blacks were granted priesthood blessings, "Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or President George Q. Cannon or whoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation. We spoke with a limited understanding without the light and knowledge that now has come into the world."
McConkie was right to say "forget everything" said on that topic, and I assume we can cast "Choose Ye This Day" into a trash can filled with other bigotries. But institutionalized racism is hard to unlearn, as the Bott episode shows. It would be great if today's LDS Church leaders would offer a public apology for its past racial policies to go along with its recent terse statement of disapproval of what Bott said.


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Cascade River Road will be open as normal through fall/winter 2014
Cascade River Rd. will be open in 2014 until snow conditions make it impassable to vehicles, as normal. The road closure that was planned to begin September 8 has been postponed beyond 2014 due to unforeseen circumstances. More »
Lone Mountain Fire - National Park Service Trail Closures
The Lone Mountain Fire in North Cascades National Park is approximately 5 mi NW of Stehekin in the Boulder Creek drainage. Boulder Creek Trail is closed. More »
Re-opening of Adjacent U.S. Forest Service Road and Trails that Access North Cascades NP Complex
The area closure of the Twisp River Road and the Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest due to wildfires has been lifted as of August 19, 2014. More »
"The North Cascades are Calling!"
Less than three hours from Seattle, an alpine landscape beckons. Discover communities of life adapted to moisture in the west and recurring fire in the east. Explore jagged peaks crowned by more than 300 glaciers. Listen to cascading waters in forested valleys. Witness a landscape sensitive to the Earth's changing climate. Help steward the ecological heart of the Cascades.Read More
The North Cascades Lodge at Stehekin is your gateway to adventure in the high country or a slower pace of life on Lake Chelan.Read More
Glacier Monitoring Program
Scientists monitor the more than 300 glaciers within the park to understand the effects of climate change on them and the North Cascades ecosystem.Read More
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Skagit Tours return for 2014! Discover the cultural and natural history of the upper Skagit Valley on foot or by boat.Read More
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Stephen Mather Wilderness comprises 93% of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex. About 400 miles of trail provide access to this rugged Wilderness.