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If a homeowner leaves a trash can out, or doesn't cut back weeds - most homeowners associations will issue a fine.
But if a renter in a Peoria neighborhood does it, they can be evicted by their HOA.
Landlord George Botea thinks that's downright crazy.
"What they're essentially doing is making it impossible for any homeowner to rent in this neighborhood," said Botea.
Botea is a Valley homeowner/landlord who has refused to sign his HOA's Crime Free Lease Addendum, which would give his HOA the power to evict his tenant if they violate any crime or community rules.
The crime free lease states, "the Association will be the sole judge as to what constitutes criminal activity."
It also requires landlords to run an extensive background check on tenants, then pass the private information to the HOA.
Valley attorney Nat Nickele said the HOA requirements are a clear abuse of power and a violation of the Landlord Tenant Act - so he's filed a formal complaint with the state.
"If I'm in Tempe and I jaywalk and someone from an HOA board sees me, the HOA can evict me as a tenant in Peoria," said Nickele. "It's far overreaching."
CBS 5 News reached out to Preferred Communities, the management company working with HOAs to require the crime free lease addendum in their neighborhoods.
Karin Hatch, vice president of Preferred Properties, sent CBS 5 News this statement:
"Preferred Communities is an HOA Community Management Company that fully supports Crime Free Resolutions and participation in Crime Free Programs by Homeowners Associations.
"To solve serious criminal activity in a community it requires a community-based solution like a Crime Free Program. These programs are supported by local law enforcement, and reputable property management companies. The Crime Free programs were successfully developed at the Mesa Police Department in 1992 and have spread to nearly 2,000 cities in the U.S.
"Preferred Communities has seen firsthand how a Crime Free Resolution, adopted by an HOA Board of Directors, has turned around crime ridden communities. In the past year, one community managed by Preferred Communities adopted a Crime Free resolution, requiring all tenants have more stringent background checks run, and requiring the owners (landlords) to take action when criminal activity occurs in the community. The criminal activity has gone down by 57% in a 6 month period. In July 2013 there were 47 calls for service to the Police Department compared to 20 calls in December 2013.
"Although the Crime Free Lease Addendum states the Association shall have the right to enforce the agreement, no tenants have been evicted by the Homeowners Associations managed by Preferred Communities. If violations of the agreement or if serious criminal activity occurs on the property, Preferred Communities & the Homeowners Associations Board of Directors works with the individual landlord or property management company to resolve the situations. If eviction is the answer, the Homeowners Association will request that the owner evict."
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Flushing, NY (Sports Network) - These New York Mets just don't quit.
On a day when star shortstop Jose Reyes landed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left hamstring for the second time this season and Daniel Murphy joined him with a likely season-ending sprained MCL, New York's last- standing stars and fill-ins dug deep.
David Wright drove in the first of three ninth-inning runs off Padres closer Heath Bell, then Lucas Duda singled home the tying and winning ones, as the Mets rallied past the Padres, 9-8.
"Just take the blows, play hard. I don't know what the outcome will be at the end, but (we have) to play with our heart, our gut, and play it out," Mets manager Terry Collins said about the team's perseverance.
Jason Isringhausen (3-2) was the beneficiary, pitching a scoreless top of the inning, giving the Mets an opportunity to touch up Bell (2-4), who struggled with location and gave up four hits. The last of those was a single to center by Duda that scored Justin Turner and Wright.
"I made two bad pitches that really cost me," sad Bell.
Jason Bartlett's bases-clearing double capped a four-run eighth that looked to have the Padres sitting pretty, but instead, the normally reliable Bell faltered, snapping the team's four-game winning streak.
The Mets clubbed three home runs in the first three frames, and Wright hit one of them, a two-run shot as part of a 2-for-5 night with three RBI and two runs scored. New York has split its last four games thanks to a rally in the ninth.
Jason Pridie singled to right and moved to third on Turner's one-out single to left. Wright then found an empty space up the middle, driving in Pridie, and a wild pitch not only moved Turner to third but allowed Wright to get into scoring position. Duda took advantage with a base hit in nearly the identical place as Wright's, scoring both runners for the victory.
"He's got some good stuff. He was throwing hard. I was looking for a fastball. I got one, and it had some eyes, found a hole and we won," said Duda.
Cameron Maybin's speed generated a two-out, first-inning run, as he singled, swiped his 27th base and raced around to score on Guzman's single to center.
The Mets started the long ball parade in the home half, as Angel Pagan back- legged an offering high in the air and tight to the right-field line that landed just over the high wall. In the second, Jason Bay crushed a pitch to left that quickly climbed high enough to find the seats for a 2-1 game.
In the third, Turner singled to center before Wright measured up a thigh-high fastball, driving it into the seats over the left-center-field wall for a 4-1 game.
The Padres rallied with a game-tying three-spot in the sixth with solid situational hitting. A single by Bartlett was followed by Maybin's two-bagger down the left-field line. Jesus Guzman then blopped a single in front of a diving Willie Harris in right, scoring Bartlett for a two-run game. Orlando Hudson then skied a sacrifice fly to right, leaving Mets starting pitcher Mike Pelfrey one out away from leaving the sixth with the lead.
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The Mets sliced the deficit in half during the bottom of the frame, as Mike Baxter, fresh to the Mets as a call-up after Reyes and Murphy were placed on the disabled list, sliced a liner that fooled Blanks in left, caroming off his glove for an RBI double. Ronny Paulino followed with a sacrifice fly to center.
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An acquaintance told me recently that he hired a particular attorney because he heard the attorney was an "SOB." That struck me as a rather odd requirement and got me to thinking, why would you want an SOB for an attorney?
If you were hiring a plumber would you want him to be an SOB?
If you were hiring an accountant would you want him to be an SOB?
Would you want an SOB for a son-in-law or a spouse? How about for a doctor?
What is an SOB? I picture someone who is rude, undependable, dishonest, and generally unlikeable. Why would you look for this in someone who is going to handle your money and act as your agent?
I think this is something we can rightfully blame on TV. We see rude, unethical, attorneys on TV who get great results for their clients. They are disrespectful to the judge and the opposing attorneys. Despite this, they always win and the client loves them. However, this is not the reality.
I think it is important to understand what attorneys do for their clients, particularly in a medical malpractice case. At the end of the day, almost all medical malpractice cases are settled before going to trial. Prior to that, your attorney must work closely with the attorney representing the doctor or hospital. They must work together to obtain all the medical records, to take depositions of all the witnesses, to schedule hearings, and to generally get the case ready for trial. If this process is done by someone who is rude, dishonest, undependable and unlikeable, it is likely to be longer, more expensive, and less productive. Why would the opposing attorney want to cooperate with your SOB lawyer? If your lawyer acts like an SOB, the opposing attorney will likely assume a similar style and before long the entire process has degenerated into a petty school yard fight. This might make for good TV, but it doesn't help the client in the real world.
What your attorney should be doing is building a case that sends a message to the other side that, if this case goes to trial, you will win. He should also be contributing to an atmosphere that allows for open communication between both sides about whether the case should be settled. And finally, he should be able to get the other side to pay fair value for the case.
Ask your self this question; If you were going to pay someone money for something, a car, a mowed lawn, anything, would you rather pay that money to someone you liked or disliked? Have you ever been in a situation where you would rather just not complete the transaction than have to deal with the other person anymore. Have you ever said, "I like the food at that restaurant, but the waiter was such a jerk, I'm never giving them any of my money again."
Well, I don't think it is any different when it comes to settling malpractice cases. It is going to be harder to get the other side to pay fair value for your case if they hate your lawyer, and by extension hate you. There comes a point when they would rather walk away from the transaction than put any money in the SOB lawyer's pocket.
I am not saying there are not good lawyers who are SOB's. I'm saying that if they are good lawyers who get good results for their clients, it is in spite of the fact they are SOB's and not because of it.
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Influenza is a serious illness that causes a great deal of sickness and absenteeism among school children, teachers and other school contacts. Sadly, influenza (flu) claims the lives of an estimated 36,000 Americans each year. Flu can be easily spread to infant siblings and even to grandparents, two groups for whom it is particularly serious. Flu vaccine is now recommended for everyone 6 months and older.
The Monroe County Department of Public Health was recently awarded a federal grant to assess the feasibility of administering flu vaccine in school settings. We call this project MCSKIPP (Monroe County School Kids Influenza Prevention Project).
We are working closely with school officials to design a system to administer flu vaccine to children (with parental permission of course) in select schools within Monroe County during the Fall, 2010. Nursing professionals from the University of Rochester's Health Checkpoint Program -- who annually administer tens of thousands of flu shots at community clinics -- are our clinical partners on this project.
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"South Pacific"
Grade: B+
Through Sunday, April 11. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday, 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. $18-$57. Presented by Broadway Across America-Atlanta. Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta. 1-800-982-2787, www.ticketmaster.com.
By Wendell Brock
Emile de Becque pours Nellie Forbush a snifter of cognac, swirls it around and makes love to her with his eyes. Time stops. But the music doesn't.
Moments like this are rare in theater. And in all my years of covering the craft, I've never seen an image where the score, throbbing and eager, is so gloriously in touch with the heartstrings of the characters.
For most of the night, it's this kind of magic that sweeps over director Bartlett Sher's impeccable Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific, " which won seven 2008 Tony Awards and plays the Fox Theatre through Sunday.
Luminous as the island sunset that flickers behind the shutters of Michael Yeargan's set, dark and stormy as the passion that Lt. Joseph Cable feels for the exotic Liat on the island of Bali Ha'i, the show flickers between the ecstasy and anxiety of love as naturally as palms swaying in the breeze.
Based on James Michener's tales (which won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for fiction), first produced in the aftermath of World War II, and boldly wearing its message of racial tolerance on both sleeves with its pair of cross-cultural love stories, "South Pacific" has been dissed as dated and overbearing.
Nellie (Carmen Cusack), you see, can't abide the dark skin of Emile's children from a previous marriage; and the toothsome Bloody Mary (Keala Settle) wants to wed her daughter to a Caucasian lieutenant in hopes of a better life. Now let's be candid: Do such errors and dreams of human nature ever subside?
True, Cable's "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" does seem to come out of nowhere and feels a tad preachy. But it's hard to quibble with a show that scales to such soaring heights and boasts such stellar performers as Rod Gilfry's Emile, Anderson Davis' Cable and Cusack's Nellie.
OK, so Cusack's Arkansas twang is slower than sorghum syrup. But her cockeyed optimist has the personality to light up the Fourth of July, and she wins points for transforming herself from Elphaba (in the "Wicked" tour that played Atlanta in 2008) into this pertly permed blonde.
Possessed of a majestic baritone and looking as mighty as a sequoia, Gilfry is exquisite. The chiseled Davis is reminiscent of the scorching Pablo Schreiber (whom Sher used in Broadway's "Awake and Sing!"): a combination of swagger and tenderness. (He sings like an angel, too.) Settle massages Bloody Mary's cartoonish shape into a figure of depth and poignance, and Sumie Maeda's Liat is a lovely, delicate flower.
With a company of 34, it's impossible to mention all the standouts, but the guys who play the lusty, wise-cracking sailors and the women who portray the pinup-worthy ensigns are a joy to watch. Catherine Zuber's delightful costumes and Donald Holder's sumptuous lighting don't hurt, either. If I haven't made it clear already, this "South Pacific" is about as sexy as they come. And just as true to the mysteries of the human heart.
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I have been checking your pages excitedly for a review of 7 Stages' The Day of Murders in the History of Hamlet by Bernard-Marie Koltes since its opening on April 3rd. This is an American premier that is taking place in Atlanta, but is of international interest. It would be a shame if this one of a kind event was ignored in your pages.


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Oct 27th 2008 2:37PM I think it's totally ridiculous that teens NEED a cellphone at school. If I needed to get a hold of my Mom I would use the handy dandy payphone at the school. If my Mom really needed to het a hold of me she would leave a message with the school secretary and that was maybe once in my entire time at highschool.
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Sep 5th 2008 10:40AM I couldn't disagree more also. This woman is NOTHING like me. Just ask her who the president of Afghanistan is. Biden is going to rip her apart when it comes down to the real issues. I acknowledge she is a good speaker for a hockey mom but that doesn't make her a good president. Dear god the whole pitbull/lipstick joke was embarrassing to me as a woman and a mother.
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My two are so wily that if I cave - then it becomes an option which they will try to use. Of course it's different is someone is sick. I really try to avoid all excuses - by having tissues available bedside, a small cup of water, soft music on etc.
It sounds kinda harsh but if I let one fall asleep in my bed then I'm in for weeks of hassle.
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Pssst - I also had one glass of wine last week (with a full meal). Clearly I am going to hell in a handbasket!
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May 4th 2006 2:24PM Even though this doesn't directly answer your question I would like to give you my point of view as a child adopted at birth.
I don't remember being told I was adopted because I always knew. I must have been 2-3 when my mom and dad started telling me that I didn't grow in my mother's tummy. They always stressed how badly they wanted a little girl and that the lady who grew me wasn't able to be a mommy to me so she made the brave decision to give me to someone who could. I always felt special, I always felt chosen.
My mother couldn't have any more children after my sister and I never felt any different in the amount or type of love I received. My mom used to tell me that I didn't grow under her heart but in it.
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Hearty Zucchini Soup
Hearty Zucchini Soup is filled with diced potato and zucchini with punches of garlic and curry flavor, making this veggie soup filling and satifying.
Yield: Makes 4 servings (serving size: 1 1/2 cups)
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- Calories: 151
- Fat: 4g
- Saturated fat: 0.6g
- Monounsaturated fat: 2.5g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.5g
- Protein: 6g
- Carbohydrate: 25g
- Fiber: 4g
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- Iron: 2mg
- Sodium: 375mg
- Calcium: 54mg
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped (1 1/2 cups)
- 2 minced garlic cloves
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 1 large potato, peeled and diced
- 2 medium zucchini, diced
- 4 cups low-sodium chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- In medium saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion; cook about 7-8 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add garlic and curry powder; cook, stirring, until fragrant (about 1 minute). Add remaining ingredients; heat to boiling. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, 20 minutes.
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- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Cholesterol, Low Saturated Fat
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I have yet to see a Dart going down the road. Is anyone buying these?
I saw one yesterday in Canada it was really unimpressive. I don't think we are missing much.
I've seen many here in NY and I asked one owner (at gas station) if he liked his & he said it was better than his last 2 cars, a Honda & a Toyota. I see many of them & they look very sleek & have good proportions.
I hope the odds will be in favor of Chrysler coming up with the Dart R/T model.
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I didn't see this posted anywhere, but this is probably the cheapest price you will find before Christmas. This is only for the Wii version, not for 360 or PS3, unfortunately.
Good opportunity to PM this at Best Buy as well, though more than likely only if you are within the 20 or so mile radius, since it says in-store only (though YMMV depending on the clerk).
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Anyone can hire a band to perform at their wedding, but how many couples can say that they had Ed Sheeran serenading them as they tied the knot? Well, Ed's producer Jake Gosling can now make that claim.
The British paper The Daily Mirror reports that Ed turned wedding singer over the weekend to perform during Gosling's first dance with his new bride, after they exchanged vows during an intimate ceremony on the Spanish island of Ibiza. Ed retweeted a photo taken by a wedding guest that shows him sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar singing as the couple dances. He also tweeted , "What an amazing weekend. Happy people at weddings make me happy."
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Hi, I've just moved to London but I've been vegan for over 10 years, and thought it was about time I met some other vegans!
Chocolate, cakes, sweets ...
I don't know many veggie restaurants yet ...
Don't you care about the poor vegetables?!
To meet other vegans and try new places to eat!
Oh, just that I was talking to a mate about going to the Crobar and he mentioned that his gf is always in there :-)
Hi Marianne, do you know a girl called Tam. If u do its a small world! Lol
I would like to invite you to the Young Professionals in London meetup. We organise parties and networking events at top venues. We already have over 6,000 members!
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Hey. You got there before me. I owe you a big apology as we lost you completely. One minute you were right in front of us and the next minute we couldn't see you at all. I hope you had a good night, it was lovely to meet you. Yeah i would love to go to Buckcherry, just let me check it out on my uni timetable first to make sure i don't have some crazy assignment due or exam.
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Hi Marianne; yes I think I do vaguely recall, as I've met a couple of Mariannes lately, so your name does ring a bell! Yes, that was me, at the Cakefest! Did you get to try 1 of the Cupcakes my mum & I made? :) Oh, I'm a drinks regular so we should meet again if you make May's! Yes, maybe see you at the walkabout soon! In the meantime, it's my birthday; I'm looking forward to it! I'm determined to have fun-I'm not hosting, though I'll be in Brixton, I'm relaxing tomorrow! See you soon, Jess :)
Hi Marianne; welcome to the group! :) I've been Vegan over 10 years too! Have you been to many vegan meet ups yet? If not yet, you will meet lots of lovely friendly Vegans in this group; join us for Potluck next Wednesday, or Brixton Walkabout next Saturday (or this Saturday's Brixton Bake off), or there's Vegan Drinks in less than 3 weeks;a room full of friendly Vegans/Veggies & 'veg curious' to meet! And there's more to discover indeed! All the best & maybe meet you soon! Bye for now, Jess :)
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the prep school I support have been having issues calibrating, and more importantly retaining the calibration settings on Win 7 machines.
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GSA emails: Initial response to lavish spending 'not even a slap on the wrist'
Internal emails from the General Services Administration show high-level agency officials were aware of a spending problem months before the scandal burst into public view. And as early as last summer, officials disagreed over how to reprimand the employees responsible for excessive spending at a 2010 regional training conference.
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GSA scandal highlights IG role, but vacancies persist
Aside from the abrupt personnel changes at the General Services Administration, the spending scandal highlighted the role of the agency inspector general in federal oversight. But it turns out many agencies and departments now lack an official IG, according to data maintained by the Project on Government Oversight.
Tangherlini aims to restore confidence in GSA
The new acting administrator of the General Services Administration has written to agency employees telling them not to allow the mistakes of a few affect the achievement of their goals. Tangherlini, who formerly served as the chief financial officer of the Treasury Department, said GSA will "redouble" its efforts to the core values of delivering efficient and effective services. GSA chief Martha Johnson resigned Monday and two of her top deputies were fired following the release of an inspector general's report detailing excessive spending at an October 2010 regional training conference.
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A report Monday from the Inspector General of the General Services Administration charged the agency with wasteful spending at a 2010 training conference in Las Vegas. As a result, GSA Administrator Martha Johnson stepped down and fired two of her deputies Robert Peck, the commissioner of the Public Buildings Service, and Stephen Leeds, Johnson's senior counselor. But was this the right decision? Take the poll!
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So I am currently running a campaign and I thought it may be a good idea to have displayable heath bars for the PCs/NPCs for combat.
If I were a player, I'd probably eat mine, and my character would die quickly.
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It's a neat feat... but it seems off a bit. When you summon from a chart of the Spells level you only get 1 creature not 1d3.
Normally, yes. Adding the ofuda template gives you more (since it makes the creature significantly weaker). The feat increases the number even further.
I'm looking to cook up a wall of wolves spell. [With the Legion of Folded Paper feat and a maximize metamgic rod, a maximized empowered summon monster vii gives ... 13 + 1d4/2 ofuda celestial wolves? Do I have that right?]
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Cleric, Magic User, Fighting-man, Thief.
<old man>Bah, you young people and your "Thief"! It's blatant power creep. Also, we used to be able to search for traps, but now they had to add rules for it, and only these "Thieves" can do it. I blame MMOs. Now get off my lawn...
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More seriously, I've always wanted to try the Expert/Spellcaster/Warrior generic classes from Unearthed Arcana.
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The worst roll you could possibly get is all 1s. While that is nearly impossible, let's say that someone does get this result. At Level 14, this means you've rolled 14 1s.
Actually, the worst roll you could possibly get is all even numbers. That's an autofail.
Edit: Whoops, I'm wrong. I forgot about division. Still, I'm not convinced all 1s is the worst roll. Not that it makes much difference; the worst roll is still pretty good.
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Actually, psionics debuted in First Edition. It just didn't get its own book, being integrated into the PHB and DMG. You can even find entries for psionic abilities as a standard part of the stat block for 1E monsters.
Actually, psionics showed up in Eldritch Wizardry, the third supplement for the white box. And I'm not going to guarantee that's the first place they showed up, either.
If I'm understanding the rules correctly, I think I can prove it's impossible. (Edit: Then again, this is 6 a.m. math.)
[getting past the avatar picture]
Now that I've proven it to be impossible, someone will go ahead and do it. :-)
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Only if you consider that a problem. Some people may want to play characters who can defeat the published gods. And "above CR 30" is a big range; I'd imagine some gods are more powerful than others. There may also be creatures (out in the vastness of the planes, perhaps) that are to gods as a t.rex is to us humans.
If people enjoy that sort of thing, why call it "pointless" and a "problem"?
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20th level is not enough for some players? The game is absolutely ludicrous at those levels. Add Mythic levels onto 20th level, and it gets ever worse. I guess there's never enough power creep for some folks.
So, badwrongfun then?
I'm not sure you're using "power creep" the way most people use it.
Edit: Also, if you're into epic, I don't think you'll be creeping up to power, but grasping it with both hands!
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Edit: And I don't know why I keep posting about su-monsters. It's weird.
Oddly enough, the su-monster isn't in the XPH; the su-monster was skipped over for 3rd ed.
The Dungeons & Dragons monster has a bit of history behind it.
The succarath, sometimes called a su-monster, isn't much like the D&D version.
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There must be a mathematical way to determine this.
For full generality (and for more than just the mean), you'd want to use order statistics.
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Thus giving the desired result.
What's the desired result? Why is this the desired result? What are you trying to model here?
If I'm understanding your notation and limitations (all numbers are either 1/X or x/1, with x and X positive rational numbers never less than 1), and using @ for your operator, and * for real-number multiplication:
3/1 @ (1/4 @ 2/1) = 3/1 @ (1+8-1)/(2*1*4-1) = 3/1 @ 8/7 = 3/1 @ (8/7)/1 = (3 + 8/7 - 1)/(2*1*1-1) = 22/7
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So, sell me on it. Tell me what makes NeoExodus special. Tell me what it will give me that no other setting will. Why do I want to buy it?
If you go to the main messageboards page, click on the "My Campaigns" tab (near the top), and hide a thread there, does that remove you from that campaign?
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It's just that the firefighting equipment they carried — some of it decades older than the eldest retired firefighter among them — might not have been up to the task.
But the equipment was perfectly adequate for the Firemen's Muster attended by about 100 fiestagoers Saturday, June 4.
The muster, which returned to the fiesta's schedule following a five-year absence, is the Olympics of a bygone era of firefighting. Competitors, including both present and future firefighters, competed in drills using antiquated firefighting equipment and methods.
Jon Schali, a veteran Patterson fireman, said musters are more about fire crews bonding than showing off their skills.
"It's a family thing," he said. "We're all here for fun."
Three five-person teams from the area competed in two timed events.
Saturday's competitions moved spectators backward through time, as crews began the festivities with a demonstration of one of the oldest forms of firefighting — the bucket brigade.
The object is for a team of five people working together, each with a bucket, to move 50 gallons of water 20 feet, hand over hand, from a trough known as a dip tank to a smaller tank called the dump tank.
The Patterson Fire Department's Team One — firefighters David Joseph, Chris Vento, Stephen Hisaite, Lea Emmons and Chris Harr — did so in the shortest time (51.42 seconds) and was declared the winner.
In the water-ball challenge, each team directed a stream of water at a ball suspended on a cable, trying to push the ball over the opposing teams' marker.
Teams consisted of a nozzle man, a backup and three other members to help with the hose.
At the signal, contestants opened their hose nozzles on straight stream and aimed the water at the ball. The event ended when the ball passed the designated point on the cable.
Again, Team One claimed the victory.
The West Stanislaus Explorers — Blaine Christiansen, Justin Ambrosino, Anthony Cordova, Ahmed Abdula and Frank Sylvia — finished second in the water-ball challenge.
"It felt good to be a part of this tradition," Christiansen said. "We can hopefully keep (the muster) going and hopefully have it turn into one of the fiesta's more popular events."


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From a fan's standpoint, bye weeks are good for ...what?
Tying the knot? Ok, that's about it.
Other than that, it's just another weekend your team isn't on the field.
So unless you're Vince Vaughn or Owen Wilson, you were probably less than thrilled to see the Huskers have not one ...but two open dates on the 2013 schedule.
Bo Pelini even admits he wasn't overly ecstatic to see two bye weeks at first, but considering the youth ...and injuries.
The Huskers ...definitely benefitted from being off yet again.
Speaking of injuries ...old number 3 hasn't been on the field in any of the last 3 games as he continues to nurse that turf toe.
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 60
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 18
A light and goofy comedy which provides laughs, largely due to performances and screenwriting by Myers.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 6
A light and goofy comedy which provides laughs, largely due to performances and screenwriting by Myers.
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Less a parody of the early James Bond film than a parody of the films that parodied the early James Bond films, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery stars Mike Myers as Austin Powers, by day a hipster fashion photographer in mid-'60s swingin' London and by night a crime-fighting secret agent. Austin's wardrobe is pure Carnaby Street at its most outrageous, his vocabulary is crowded by the cool lingo of the day ("Groovy, baby! Yeah!!"), and he's irresistible to women, despite the fact that
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We may not need as many Austin Powers movies as there are James Bond pictures, but one or two more might be nice.
The originals were spoofs in their own way, too, unless you really believe that secret agents look more like Sean Connery than Aldrich Ames.
A loving paean to Bond, Flint, Helm and their ilk (as well as a myriad of outlandish villains), the film knows its turf and only missteps when it ventures into more contemporary territory.
It would take a stone face not to crumple at Austin's dodgy catchphrases and irrepressible sexual desperation.
Spy movie parodies are common, but Myers is observant enough to notice things that others haven't.
...contains its fair share of bathroom humor, much of it childish, a lot of it gross, and some of it hilarious.
There's nothing malevolent about Austin Powers, he's clearly more Clouseau than Dr. Strangelove, and he is born out of affection, for both the period he's from and for a sense of humour that is peculiarly British.
What I enjoyed more than the specific parodies was the spirit behind them.
While the film feels a bit like a bunch of skits, it's wickedly funny in trashing the conventions of the movies it apes.
Hilarious and smart...the best Bond spoof there is.
Mike Myers has created such an infectious, and joyful character, you will be forced to say, 'Groovy Baby!', at least once.
Groovy, baby.
Director Jay Roach seems helpless to rein in the addled antics of his star or to give the supporting cast much of a grip on what they're supposed to be doing.
Audience Reviews for Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
So apart from bad personal memories what else does this film offer? well actually its pretty good and probably one of the best Bond spoofs/parodies you will see. With a wide range of Bond films spoofed it covers all the regular cliched bases, all the set ups, costumes, plot ideals that you would expect from Bond plus a lot of clever smutty humour. Actually Myers does really well with the whole British comedy thing, he does nail or encapsulate the genre very well, you could almost say its a modern 'Carry On' film.
Seeing as this is the first film its not quite as good as the second for me, everything is obviously being set up with characters etc...and the abundance of cameos was slightly worrying at first, kinda assumed it would be a mass celebrity ego trip but surprisingly it all adds to the fun quite nicely. The small cameos by Lowe and Ferrell are good (and fast) but the brief Tom Arnold cameo was probably the best if you like blatant toilet humour.
Hard to tell who this is aimed at really as there is much slapstick and childish humour but also some knife edge stuff also, lots of sexually visual gags and naughty names which are very suggestive but admittedly smile inducing. A much more easier character to get on with than 'Wayne Campbell' of 'Wayne's World' and a more universal concept methinks. Every possible stereotype is lanced, all costumes, sets, music, vehicles etc...are correctly presented as this juggernaut of the 60's era steams along with some crazy wild vintage kitsch and a performance from Myers that Carrey would envy.
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Austin Powers is a meeting point between British and North American humour, reflected in Mike Myers' dual British-Canadian citizenship. Having grown up with Monty Python and the Carry On series, Myers was better placed than most American comedians to create a spoof of Bond, or indeed the many other 1960s spy films and TV series like The Avengers and Secret Agent, a.k.a. Danger Man. There was also renewed public interest in the Bond series following its successful re-launch with Goldeneye. Pierce Brosnan's neo-classical Bond, which mixed 1960s puns with 1990s product placement, set things up nicely for Myers to come in and poke fun at aspects that fans young and old would know only too well.
Considering that Myers cut his teeth on Saturday Night Live, you could be forgiven for expecting a film that is little more than a series of sketches. But just as Wayne's World still ranks as one of the best films to come from SNL, so Myers and director Jay Roach deserve credit for giving us a half-decent narrative. The film is never consistently funny, with peaks and troughs throughout its 90-minute running time, but for the most part it feels like it is moving towards something rather than just waiting for a laugh.
For fans of the Bond series, whether genuinely or ironically, International Man of Mystery is chock full of references to the films, and lovingly parodies many aspects which have come to define the character. The most obvious is the sexually suggestive names, with the character Alotta Fagina nodding both to Famke Janssen's character in Goldeneye and the likes of Pussy Galore and Plenty O'Toole. Having a character so blatantly named raises a laugh, but also a feeling of embarrassment - a feeling of: "How did we let them get away with that?"
While the Roger Moore era is in the firing line in terms of sexual overtones, the main target of Austin Powers is the Connery era. The sets borrow heavily from the early days of the series, with the penthouse nodding to You Only Live Twice and the nuclear-related climax being lifted from Dr. No. The latter is also a possible reference to Daleks: Invasion Earth AD 2150, in which the Daleks attempt to drill out the Earth's core to turn the planet into a spaceship (just don't call it a Death Star).
There are also more general Bond parodies which strike a chord. Michael York does a brilliant job as Basil Exposition, parodying M's only real role in the series beyond being annoyed at Bond. Much is made of Austin's appearance, with his oversized teeth and seeming manhood problems sending up Connery's immeasurable sex appeal (even though Austin is equally irresistible). And while there's no Q figure in Austin's universe, the conversation about a certain Swedish object more than makes up for it. Besides, the film is already silly enough without throwing joke gadgets into the mix.
The big challenge for Austin Powers, or indeed for any spoof, is that the film needs to work as a believable and compelling story in itself. It's not enough for us to get the jokes in whatever order we see them: there has to be a logic from which they emanate which we can follow and bond with, even if that logic is rooted is something utterly stupid or absurd. As with The Princess Bride, the film is never entirely sure how far it wants to depart from convention, or whether its humour comes mainly from celebrating the ludicrous nature of Bond or looking down on it. This indecision, whether by Roach or Myers, makes the film far more uneven than it needs to be.
The film is at its funniest when it has the confidence to deconstruct the clich�s of Bond. There are pockets of great surreal comedy throughout the film, most of them involving Dr. Evil going unknowingly over-the-top. The dreadful puns, laughing evilly for no reason, the overly elaborate and utterly inept means of imprisoning characters - all are handled with affectionate aplomb. Funniest of all is the group therapy scene, in which Dr. Evil recounts the most absurdly hilarious backstory to a therapist played by Carrie Fisher (oh, the irony).
Austin Powers is also strong when it approaches the world of spying from a smaller, more tangential angle. There are two instances in the film where a minor character, a henchman of some kind, is introduced and then bumped off - nothing unusual there. But the film then cuts to the family or friends of said henchman as they are informed of his death, with one being his wife and stepson, and the other his best friends waiting for him to show up for his stag night. These jokes are well-paced and witty, as well as doing much to convince us that we what we are seeing stretches beyond the four corners of the screen.
Unfortunately, these kinds of smart, insightful gags are sandwiched between swathes of dated gross-out jokes which go on far too long. The "Number 2" sequence, featuring Austin on the toilet, is funny in a fleeting, sub-American Pie way, as are the sight gags involving objects covering people's private parts. But while it's all fine and good on its own, this kind of humour becomes embarrassing when it's in the context of the other, smarter stuff. It's like a refined university student having to hang out with his teenage brother, who insists on making fart noises and shouting "boobs!" in the middle of seminars.
The plot of Austin Powers is also a little suspect. Having set up that Vanessa isn't the least bit charmed by Austin, they seem to hit it off pretty quickly. If this was intended as a send-up of Bond's romantic relationships, the film doesn't put enough effort into make this transition seem either credible or so incredible that it's funny. There's also surprisingly little attempt to use Austin's fish-out-of-water predicament to greater effect: there's a few jokes about him being out-of-date in the 1990s, but once he's become his old self the film carries on as if those scenes weren't all that important.
Ultimately the film rises and falls on the strengths of its jokes and the performers who deliver them. On the good side, Seth Green is funny as Dr. Evil's snarky son Scott, and Robert Wagner wrings everything he can out of his role as Number 2. On the bad side, Will Ferrell as usual isn't funny, with his passingly amusing joke about a badly burned minion being dragged out far too long. Liz Hurley acquits herself just about okay, though a lot of the time it seems like her audio has been dubbed - and not particularly well-dubbed at that.
Fortunately both of these niggles are redeemed by Myers, who handles his two roles with good timing and much charisma. His Dr. Evil is by far the more enjoyable performance, with more of the jokes hitting the mark and the costume tapping into everything that made Blofeld simultaneously sinister and ridiculous. Whatever questionable choices he made with later characters (like Fat Bastard and Goldmember), here he is immensely watchable.
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is a pretty good first instalment of what would become a trilogy. It's nothing like as consistent as it needs to be, with the film settling for broader, more scatological humour when its smarter stuff is far more funny and interesting. But Myers manages to keep the laughs coming over the 90 minutes, and Roach is on hand to keep it all looking and feeling like a film rather than a sketch show. It's not perfect, but as Get Smart and others have shown, it could have been a whole lot worse.
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- Dr. Evil: Scott, do you want to see my project?
- Scott Evil: Blow me.
- Dr. Evil: What did you say?
- Scott Evil: I said show me.
- Alotta Fagina: In Japan, men come first and women second.
- Austin Powers: Or sometimes not at all!
- Austin Powers: What do you do Mr. Number Two?
- Number Two: That's my business.
- Austin Powers: So, shall we shag now, or shall we shag later? How do you like to do it? Do you like to wash up first? Top and tails? A whore's bath? Personally, before I'm on the JOB, I like to give my undercarriage a bit of a 'how's-your-father'.
- Austin Powers: No man. What we swingers were going against were uptight squares like you whose bag was money and world domination. We were innocent man. If we had known the consequences of our sexual liberation, we would've done things much differently but the spirit would remain the same. It's freedom baby. Yeah!
- Austin Powers: You didn't happen to see... anything at all.
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