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Frenzied Ending Nets Blackhawks a Stanley Cup
BOSTON—A Stanley Cup Final that already had been thick with drama reached an appropriate climax Monday night. The Chicago Blackhawks scored two goals in the last 90 seconds of regulation to beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 in Game 6 and win their second championship in four years.
The Bruins led 2-1 late in the third period, and the series seemed like it was headed for a Game 7 in Chicago. But the Blackhawks' Bryan Bickell tied the game with 1 minute, 16 seconds left in regulation, slamming home a pass from captain Jonathan Toews. Seventeen seconds later, Dave Bolland knocked in a rebound off the goal post with 58.3 seconds to go.
Patrick Kane, who led Chicago with 19 points during the postseason, won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs' most valuable player.
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Nadal's Early Exit Renews Questions About His Knee
Just like that, no one knows what to think about Rafael Nadal anymore.
At Wimbledon Monday, Nadal lost in the first round for the first time ever at a Grand Slam tournament, 7-6(4), 7-6(8), 6-4 to Steve Darcis, ranked No. 135 in the world.
Nadal had been 43-2 this season after a seven-month layoff to rest his injured left knee. He had made the final in all nine tournaments he had played, and won his eighth French Open title. And then, kaput. Against Darcis, Nadal didn't run like Nadal, and seemed to be favoring his knee.
"I'm not going to talk about my knee this afternoon," he said. "Everything that I will say today about my knee is an excuse, and I don't like to put any excuse when I'm losing a match like I lost today."
Though Nadal wouldn't say that he was indeed healthy, he did try to alleviate concern. Asked if it might be another seven months before he played again, Nadal said, "Not that late, for sure."
For Nadal, a two-time Wimbledon champion, this was the second surprise exit from Wimbledon in as many years. He lost in the second round in 2012 to Lukas Rosol, then ranked No. 100 in the world.
Perhaps the biggest winners on Monday were the players in Nadal's stacked section of the draw, which includes Andy Murray and Roger Federer. Nadal would have likely met Federer in the quarterfinals and potentially Murray in the semis. But Darcis doesn't want to be left out of the conversation. He said his celebrations on Monday night wouldn't go much beyond dinner and what he called in French a "recovery beer."
"It would be a shame to beat Nadal and to stop there," he said.
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Collecting Student Data, Anti-Testing's Empty Fury, and More: National Ed News Roundup
Friday's ed news
1. Alabama withdrew from Common Core testing recently, but state legislators say that's not enough. They want the entire program out.
2. If teachers like unions so much, writes Larry Sand, why do unions bully them into joining?
3. A suburban Minneapolis school district will save $2 million in two years by privatizing its bus system.
4. Poor parents visit DC to demand an end to ZIP code-defined education.
5. Why anti-testing advocates are making much ado about nothing.
6. How do teachers really feel about defined-contribution versus defined-benefit pensions? DC works like a 401(k), while DB works like a traditional pension, but where taxpayers pay the cushy benefits.
7. Nevada struggles to implement the Common Core and a comprehensive student database. Both are expensive and time consuming.
8. The Georgia Senate votes to remove legal barriers to after-school play. Yes, you read that right.
9. New Mexico's House has approved the state budget, which includes merit pay for teachers.
10. Why education accreditation institutions are a racket.
Thursday's ed news
1. The shaky science behind universal pre-k, by Charles Murray. Fix families, not preschool, editorializes USA Today.
2. Teacher job satisfaction has plummeted to the lowest level in 26 years.
3. Florida lawmakers have filed another Parent Trigger bill.
4. Schools are right now administering pilot Common Core tests.
5. New York's teachers union has sued the state to overturn its property tax cap.
6. Influenced by Democrat Superintendent Glenda Ritz, a Republican-led Indiana Senate panel has approved a bill to junk grading schools A-F.
7. California schools have assigned thousands of teachers to classes they aren't qualified to teach.
8. North Dakota lawmakers say 'no' to government preschool.
9. The GED shifts as states consider alternatives to the alternative diploma.
10. Laura Bush continues to pursue education reform.
Wednesday's ed news
1. Reuters "deeply distorted" charter school research and facts in recent reporting, charges the Center for Education Reform.
2. Texas state senators spend two hours complaining about the state's new battery of high school tests.
3. South Dakota becomes the twelfth state to reconsider Common Core.
4. Minnesota teachers can't pass a basic skills test, so some lawmakers are considering repealing the requirement.
5. New York City's mayor donates $1 million to Los Angeles school board candidates.
6. Researchers are trying to make computer tutors detect the emotions of their pupils.
7. After years of school funding battles, Kansas' senate committee approves removing spending oversight from courts.
8. Florida is developing a Plan B for if Common Core tests don't work out even though it is coordinating the tests.
9. Why charter schools were never a corporate privatization conspiracy.
10. Duke University outlines what it took for them to put up a massive open online course.
Tuesday's ed news
1. Massachusetts will now push transgenderism in public schools.
2. Removing 8th grade algebra from California schools will mean fewer kids going to college, especially minorities.
3. What are Islamic private schools like?
4. A newspaper investigation in Rochester, New York finds teachers kept in classrooms after sexually and physically attacking children.
5. The biggest factors in college success are not demographics, personality, or extracurriculars. They are high school grades, ACT or SAT score, and persistence.
6. Texas legislators today discuss curriculum, testing, and vocational education.
7. Michigan unions are attempting to bypass the state's new right to work law by extending their contracts before it takes effect.
8. There are far more elementary teaching graduates than open positions, and far fewer math and science graduates than positions.
9. College students at arts or liberal arts schools have more student loans.
10. Watch Michelle Malkin discuss her decision to focus on education this year.
Monday's ed news
1. Florida lawmakers ask education Commissioner Tony Bennett how much the Common Core will cost and time it will take.
2. Colorado's legislature kills two tax-credit scholarship bills.
3. Florida lawmakers propose a Louisiana-like "course choice" program that would let kids pick and choose tax-paid classes from different providers.
4. The United States doesn't need government preschool--it needs a culture shift, says Heather MacDonald.
5. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker proposes increasing state school funding 1 percent.
6. Texas state senators hash out a vocational high school diploma plan.
7. Forty-one states require or encourage secret contract negotiations between public boards and unions.
8. Iowa legislators make the governor's education reforms optional for schools.
9. Some Florida school districts are cutting charter and private schools out of academic competitions previously open to them.
10. Immigrant families prefer to have small children stay at home.
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The Solow standard of luxury rental living in New York City is distinguished by award winning, sheer glass architecture, superb Upper East Side Manhattan locations, white glove services and outstanding amenities. Solow rentals are endowed with spectacular river and city views, penthouse atrium pools and state-of-the-art fitness centers, as well as 24-hour concierge and attended garage services and private gate house and porte cochere entries.
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Not to be forgotten, Al Roker—TV news correspondent, Today Show weatherman, and White House sharter—made everyone uncomfortable again today when he shouted insanely at the President and Vice President until they acknowledged his existence. "I love Joe Biden," said Al Roker, as he rocked back and forth like a small child waiting in line for the bathroom. Biden, ever-suave, ducked out of the parade to shake Mr. Roker's hand and that was that.
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NEW CUMBERLAND - A new New Cumberland business stands poised to take advantage of the energy industry's interest in Hancock County as well as meet the needs of outdoor enthusiasts.
ORCA Outdoors, featuring quality outdoor apparel, footwear, equipment and sporting goods, is now open in a 2,000-square-foot storefront in The Plaza, 607 N. Chester St./state Route 2.
Owned by brothers Ted and Patrick Arneault and managed by Patrick's wife, Ami, the shop features some of the biggest names in the industry Carhartt clothing, Rocky footwear, knives and outdoor watches by Invicta. They also stock fish bait, deer lures by Smokey, power drinks by Colorado Buck and a line of sports nutrition bars developed by an area resident.
"We were looking at what businesses were needed here," Patrick Arneault said. "Up to now if you wanted quality outdoor (items), you had to drive" to Robinson Township, Pa., or Triadelphia.
"And with the Marcellus and Utica shale boom, those workers are going to need heavy duty outdoor gear."
He said he and his brother have worked in the oil and gas industry before in Marietta, where Ted had a drilling rig.
"In the late '70s through the '80s, there was a big oil boom (in Marietta)," he said. "Marietta went through what New Cumberland is going through now."
Patrick Arneault figures their background in the oil and gas industry gives them "a pretty good feel" for the kinds of change the community will undergo and what workers in the drilling industry will need which, as it turns out, also are items needed by outdoorsmen, another of their passions.
"I love to hunt, fish, kayak," said Patrick Arneault, an Army veteran, "and before this if I wanted something for outdoors, I'd usually have to go" outside the area.
ORCA also will be home to the Ohio River Catfish Association, an organization promoting catfish tournaments on the Ohio River, its backwaters and area lakes. For a $25 annual introductory membership, members will be able to take advantage of discounts on tournaments as well as receive a monthly newsletter plus technical advice.
His brother, Ted, said he wanted to invest in a business locally.
"I've always believed in the enormous promise of both the Ohio River and the Ohio Valley," Ted Arneault said. "The backbone of our economy is small business, with small businesses making up 97 percent of the businesses in West Virginia according to federal statistics."
Ami Arneault, who will manage the store, said there are many outdoor enthusiasts in the area, "and we're looking forward to assisting them as they prepare" for those outdoor activities.
ORCA is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. It is closed Sundays and Wednesdays and can be reached at (304) 564-7072.


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WHEELING - The Mountaineer Highway Interdiction Team recovered a quantity of heroin from an Ohio man following a traffic stop on Wheeling Island on Sunday night.
Ohio County Magistrate Joe Roxby arraigned Shawn Lemont McClain on Monday on the felony charge of possession with intent to deliver a schedule II controlled substance. The 33-year-old Cleveland resident was arrested after West Virginia State Police stopped the rental car he was traveling in on South Front Street for a traffic violation. McClain was found to have two cellophane bags of heroin with a total weight of about 15 grams.
Police said McClain and the other occupants of the vehicle, including the driver, Chaunita R. Williams, had traveled to Cleveland Friday and purchased the heroin. The drugs were transported back to Wheeling, where there allegedly were plans for the heroin to be distributed.
Williams, 32, was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana after officers found a small amount of the substance in her purse.
"By participating in MHIT we are able to work closely with other agencies and to perform special patrols in areas that need extra attention from time to time," said Wheeling Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger, whose K-9 officer assisted with the arrests. "We are also able to respond quickly and effectively to citizen complaints."
"MHIT continues to change the way that we fight crime in the Northern District of West Virginia," said U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld II. "It puts us in a position to seize dangerous drugs like heroin that come to the Ohio Valley from large cities like Cleveland before they make it to the street for distribution."
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Jacobs is acquiring Ilitha Projects, a company that provides project management and EPCM services to clients in a broad range of market sectors, including oil and gas, refining and chemicals.
The South Africa-based joint venture of Jacobs,
named Jacobs Matasis (Proprietary) Ltd., has acquired the
business and assets of Ilitha Projects and Ilitha Staffing, two
South African professional services companies operating out of
Cape Town.
Jacobs has worked in a formal alliance with Ilitha Projects and Ilitha Staffing since
August 2011, successfully completing a number of projects together.
The expanded resource base we gain through Ilitha allows
us to enhance our service offerings for customers and provide
more opportunities for employees," said Jacobs vice
president Bob Irvin.
Ilitha Projects provides project management and EPCM services
to clients in a broad range of market sectors, including oil
and gas, refining, chemicals, power, nuclear,
marine mining and metals. Ilitha Staffing supplies technical
contract staff sourcing and management services with a strong
emphasis on integration with the clients
culture and business practices.
From the outset we have been highly impressed by the
integrity and values of the Jacobs organization,"
said Ilitha CEO Dave Welbourne. "Ilitha is fully
aligned with these values and with the sustainable Jacobs
relationship based business model, which we expect to smooth
our integration into the Jacobs Matasis
The acquisition adds an engineering office in Cape Town and 161
professional services staff to Jacobs Matasis, bringing its
personnel count to over 300.
"The acquisition strengthens our ability to compete with other
major engineering and construction firms operating in
Southern Africa; with the goal of achieving growth in the
Sub-Saharan African market," said Jacobs Matasis chairman
Dr. E.M. Dipico.
Jacobs Matasis, a Jacobs joint venture with Matasis Investment
Holdings (Proprietary) Ltd., is aligned with South
Africas economic transformation imperatives and has
achieved Level 3 Status in terms of the countrys
Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment legislation.
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Avalon Huntington
100 Avalon Drive
Shelton, CT 06484
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Shelton, CT 06484
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Rent range: $2165 to $2705
Sqft range: 1211 to 1625
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Pet policy: Dogs OK, Cats OK , Non-Refundable pet fee: $600 per unit. Pet Rent: $50 per month per pet. Max of 2 Pets Allowed. Breed restrictions apply.
Avalon Huntington is a new luxury rental community of spacious 2 and 3 bedroom town homes and apartments conveniently located in Fairfield County in the highly desirable Huntington neighborhood of Shelton. A quick commute from Stratford, Bridgeport or New Haven. Amenities include resident clubhouse, fitness center and swimming pool. Discover the new Avalon Huntington and find out what we mean by Time Well Spent.
If you've dreamed of living in luxury in Shelton, then you'll find your dreams can come true when you visit the apartments at Avalon Huntington. Here you'll find everything you need to live comfortably in the gorgeous apartments in Shelton, CT. The apartments come complete with a wide variety of features and are located close to everything in Shelton you need to be comfortable and have fun. The more you learn about these Shelton apartments, the more you'll be convinced that you've found the perfect place to live, work, and play.
You have plenty of choices as far as apartment layouts are concerned. You'll find 10 different floor plans to choose from at Avalon Huntington. Most of the apartments are two stories and have garages attached; all have plenty of room for your family to grow. Take a look at both the two-bedroom and the three-bedroom apartments and decided whether you need the extra space. Even if you don't have a large family, the three-bedroom apartments are great if you need a home office, workroom, or den.
Features in the Apartments
The features inside the Avalon Huntington apartments combine state of the art convenience with old world Shelton charm. You don't have to leave your apartment to do your laundry, instead use your full size washer and dryer. You'll have plenty of storage space in your walk-in closets and you can turn on your gas fireplace with the flick of a switch or fill your luxury soaking tub with the twist of a knob. The gourmet kitchen in the apartments comes equipped with sleek black appliances, accented with stunning cherry cabinets. You'll also enjoy the privacy of the apartments' patios and balconies, where you can relax outdoors at your leisure.
Living in the Shelton apartments at Avalon Huntington means that you'll have access to all of the wonderful features the community has to offer. From the refreshing outdoor swimming pool to the fully equipped fitness center with cardio theater, you'll never have to worry about how you're going to stay in shape again. If you prefer to find a place to relax in the Shelton community, head on over to the landscaped picnic area for a barbecue or visit the resident lounge, complete with a television and a kitchen area. You'll have the opportunity to get to know your Shelton neighbors and enjoy all the best parts of your community every time you step outside your apartment.
The features in and out of the Shelton apartments, the amazing location, and a professional, caring management staff are all part of what make living in this Avalon community special. We call it the Avalon Advantage and it includes a variety of amenities and programs for our residents, but we hope you call it Time Well Spent in Shelton.
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Welcome to Bloomington
Bloomington is a city of contrasts, which provides residents and visitors with a wide variety of experiences to enjoy. It's a tight-knit community where neighbors know each other, but one with a diverse and rich culture due to the international appeal of Indiana University.
This is a city where you can enjoy urban amenities like a thriving arts scene, while remaining in the hilly, forested landscape of south-central Indiana. It's a place that offers exciting Big Ten sports and incredible theater and music from local and national acts. This contrast is exemplified in the culinary scene, where a range of International restaurants melds with American cafes and pizza joints. Annual events run the gamut from Indian dance competitions to giant food festivals like Taste of Bloomington.
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WEIRTON - The Weirton Madonna football team will hit the road.
In its longest bus ride of the season, about 3 hours, the No. 4 Blue Dons will visit No. 1-ranked Tucker County at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the West Virginia Class A state semifinals.
The winner gets a berth in the 7 p.m. state title game on Dec. 1 at Wheeling Island Stadium against the winner of the Wahama-Magnolia battle, which will also be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in New Martinsville.
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BIG GAME — Weirton Madonna junior Elliott Nero had two touchdown receptions in the Blue Dons' 29-14 win over St. Marys last week. Madonna visits Tucker County Saturday.
-- Mike Mathison
"They have the three S's - speed, strength and size," Madonna head coach Doug Taylor said of the Mountain Lions, who are 12-0, including a 21-16 win over East Hardy in Week 7. "For any team, that is an advantage. They will create problems for us in some areas. We'll see if we can't come up with a game plan.
"Their main guy is their version of (Ross) Comis in Derek Nestor. He has a good arm, is very accurate and is a threat to run. He can take off and run and can make plays with his legs. I don't think they have as many designed plays as we would for the quarterback. We have to stay on him.
"Their running back Austin Zirk has speed and can run in open space."
Tucker County is polar opposite from St. Marys.
"Tucker will spread you out," said Taylor. "They are under center very little. They are very similar to us. What they do, they are very effective in doing it. They want to throw the football, where we are a more run-oriented team."
In the 29-14 win over St. Marys in the Class A quarterfinals, the Blue Dons' defense spent all night dealing with the Blue Devils' running game.
"We told the kids before the game that this was going to be the physical game they have played all year," said Taylor.
He was right.
"We saw St. Marys live and on film and we knew what they were going to do and we told the kids that we had no magic wand to give them the win. They wanted to earn the win and they did," said the coach.
"St. Marys was a very physical football team and there is no way to simulate that in practice. You can teach the kids to be here and be there, but, in reality, we could not simulate what they did.
"When you play a team that does something you are not used to, you have to weather the storm early until you catch up to the game. I thought in the second half we really played physical football. From the first half to the second half it was like night and day. Our kids knew they could play with those guys.
"I think what also helped us was our conditioning. We have a college conditioning course which is really tough. And, I really think that in the second half our kids were in better shape and wore them down.
"I think that played a big part in our win."
Comis paced the Dons with 1,415 yards rushing on 167 attempts and 22 touchdowns. He is also 88-for-136 through the air for 1,292 yards, 17 touchdowns and six interceptions.
Nick Ossman has 112 carries for 747 yards and 11 scores. Elliott Nero, who caught four passes for 89 yards and two touchdowns in the win, has 73 carries for 409 yards and four scores.
Will Bowser has caught 189 balls for 334 yards and four touchdowns and Marcello Biondillo 16 for 263 yards and four six-pointers.


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The Victim Witness Unit is a comprehensive Victim Assistance program in the Lincoln Police Department providing free services to victims of crime defined as a person who has suffered physical, sexual, financial, or emotional harm as a result of the commission of a crime. The crimes of homicide, felony assault, sexual assault, robbery, burglary, crimes against children, and domestic violence cases receive our primary emphasis. We also serve people over the age of 60 who have been victimized in either a felony or misdemeanor crime.
The Victim Witness Unit provides crisis intervention services and written information notifying victims of their rights as victims of crime. Additional services provided to victims on request include follow-up short term emotional support; criminal justice related services; assisting crime victims with managing practical problems created by the victimization; increase victim's understanding of and participation in the criminal justice system; The Unit staff provides victims of crime with a measure of safety and security by assisting with crime victim impact statements, protection orders, information on VINE NE, address confidentiality and case status.
The Victim Witness Unit's office hours are 8 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday. (402) 441-7181 Voice mail answers the telephone after hours. Callers have the option of having calls forwarded to the LPD Service Desk. The Victim Witness Unit's referral number is on the back of all LPD officers and LSO deputies business cards.
We feel victims and witnesses of a crime often are not addressed with the dignity and compassion deserved. The Lincoln Police Department created the Victim Witness Unit to better serve the citizens of Lincoln/Lancaster County. We are your helping hands through the criminal justice system.
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Chilly Towel - Absorbant, Cooling Shammy 27"x18" for $9.99
The Chilly Towel is an amazing towel scientifically designed to keep you cool on even the hottest days! The secret is in the super-absorbent shammy-like weave and hyper-evaporating material that cools off as the towel naturally dries.
To use, simply soak or wet the towel with any temperature water, wring it dry and shake it! As it evaporates, the towel drops in temperature, getting downright cold! It can be reused over and over again; just re-wet to start the process. Cooling time lasts for a few hours, so it's better than using a wet rag, towel, or bandana - AND it's dry to the touch!
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5 Iconic Songs Despised by the People Who Created Them
One hit song can make a career -- Carly Rae Jepsen will probably still be cashing "Call Me Maybe" checks after she checks into a nursing home. But not all musicians are happy about it. Sometimes they slap together what they think is their worst song, only to see it become the hit that makes them famous. Among the iconic hits that became their singer's nemesis, you'll find ...
#5. Radiohead -- "Creep"
"Creep" was the song that broke Radiohead into the mainstream, because for some reason an angst-ridden, atmospheric alt-rock anthem about being an alienated nobody instantly connected with teenagers in the 1990s. With the success of that song, Radiohead became a Top 40 band almost overnight and began touring nonstop, while soul-patched doucheketeers in coffee shops around the world began the storied tradition of playing "Creep" on open mic night to try to impress girls with the sustained high note in the bridge.
It didn't just connect with kids, either. Everyone loved "Creep" -- the song was rated No. 31 on VH1's Top 100 Songs of the '90s, and it re-entered the charts as a single in the U.K. when Radiohead's greatest hits album was released in 2008 (16 years after its original debut), which is a feat normally only accomplished by dead musicians.
"Does it count if I wish I were dead?"
The Hate:
Everyone loved the song ... that is, except for Radiohead's frontman, Thom Yorke.
Even though Radiohead had skyrocketed to worldwide fame, at the time they were only famous because of "Creep." People would show up to Radiohead concerts just to hear that song and then leave, which frustrated the famously temperamental Yorke to no end (despite the fact that Radiohead deliberately capitalized on its success by specifically touring in countries where it was popular).
"How are we feeling tonight, Creepatonia? Are you ready to cry?!"
Worse yet (in Yorke's eyes), people were connecting Yorke himself with the song, believing that he was the lonely, depressed subject of its narrative. He quickly grew to despise "Creep" for making him a poster boy for self-loathing (in addition to, and we cannot stress this enough, making his band both popular and relevant). He rechristened the song "Crap," and displayed about as much affection for it as that would suggest (Yorke claims that Radiohead "sucked Satan's cock" when they rode "Creep" to stardom, a statement likely made from within the mansion that Satan's cock paid for).
When fans inevitably request "Creep," Yorke has responded on various occasions by telling them to fuck off, storming offstage, and inexplicably calling everyone in the audience "anally retarded," which is an affliction we cannot begin to imagine. The band has even asked other artists they tour with to play it for them, just so they won't have to. Keep in mind that tickets to see Radiohead routinely sell for hundreds of dollars, so imagine paying that price, as a fan, only to see their biggest hit get sweatily mashed out by an unwashed Moby. That is exactly how Thom Yorke feels about "Creep."
"Who here wants to see the entire world go fuck itself?"
#4. Weezer -- Pinkerton (the Album)
Pinkerton, Weezer's second studio album, enjoyed a Phantom Menace type of reception when it was initially released. Fans and critics alike, who had loudly sung the praises of the band's previous record, unanimously declared Pinkerton to be the shittiest piece of shit of all time, and frontman Rivers Cuomo ran away and hid for the next five years.
However, much like Star Trek and Death Race 2000, it just took people a long time to recognize Pinkerton's genius. Over the years, it slowly gained momentum and is now considered to be Weezer's best work (when examining the band's post-millennium efforts, this should come as a surprise to exactly nobody). Rolling Stone readers voted it the 16th greatest album of all time in 2002, and Rolling Stone themselves retracted their original mediocre review and rewrote it, awarding Pinkerton a five-star rating nearly a decade after its original release. The album's recent re-issue even has a perfect Metacritic score, officially making it a more favorably reviewed piece of '90s culture than Schindler's List.
Via Typeinstereo.com
It wasn't quite as happy and light-hearted as Schindler's List, though.
The Hate:
When Weezer finally returned in 2001 with The Green Album, Cuomo was once again blasted for letting fans and critics down with such an unworthy follow-up to the unmitigated brilliance of Pinkerton (keep in mind, this was the exact same thing everyone had said about Pinkerton back in 1996). Frustrated over both the amount of personal juice he let spill in composing the songs for Pinkerton and the fickle entitlement felt by his fan base, Cuomo vented in a few different interviews about how much he wished he'd never written everyone's favorite Weezer album:
"It's a hideous record. It was such a hugely painful mistake that happened in front of hundreds of thousands of people ... and [it] just won't go away. It's like getting really drunk at a party and spilling your guts in front of everyone and feeling incredibly great and cathartic about it, and then waking up the next morning and realizing what a complete fool you made of yourself."
"The most painful thing in my life these days is the cult around Pinkerton. It's just a sick album, sick in a diseased sort of way. It's such a source of anxiety because all the fans we have right now have stuck around because of that album. But, honestly, I never want to play those songs again; I never want to hear them again."
After spending the next decade sufficiently distancing himself and his band from the dark introspection of that album by wearing cowboy hats and making music videos with Muppets, Cuomo's attitude toward Pinkerton has softened enough to discuss it candidly when asked about it, and even played it live in its entirety in 2010. However, he presumably bookended the set with performances of "Beverly Hills" and "Island in the Sun" to remind everyone that as far as he is concerned, Pinkerton can go fuck itself.
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#3. The Who -- "Pinball Wizard"
The Who's rock opera Tommy was the first album of its kind. Each song serves as a chapter in an overarching story about a blind, deaf, and mute boy who becomes a religious leader (we didn't say it was a good story). Tommy went on to sell 20 million copies and was adapted into an Oscar-nominated motion picture, the most memorable sequence of which is arguably when Tommy beats Elton John at pinball.
The song playing while Sir Elton does his best to look like Clint Howard in space goggles and moon-shoe stilts is "Pinball Wizard," the lead single from Tommy and one of the Who's most popular hits. The success of the album, and its ultimate adaptation into film and stage versions, can be traced directly back to the success of this catchy, upbeat pop number about a deaf, dumb and blind kid playing pinball after getting molested by his uncle a few songs earlier in the story. It became a fixture of the Who's concerts from then on, and it's been covered countless times by as many bands over the past 40 years.
No, really, if you've never seen it before, go back up and play that video.
The Hate:
Pete Townshend, the Who's lead guitarist and songwriter, refers to "Pinball Wizard" as "awful" and "the most clumsy piece of writing I've ever done" (we assume this also includes the statement he wrote while under investigation for child pornography). It was never meant to be included in the album -- the fact that the Tommy character would be inexplicably good at pinball was an afterthought, thrown into the mix at the last minute to try to get a good review from Nik Cohn, one of the most influential music critics in the industry, who, by the way, happened to be a big pinball fan.
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From Soho down to Brighton, he must've played 'em all.
When Townshend first gave an early mix of the album to Cohn, Cohn thought it sounded like a confused pile of shit. But when Townshend offered the rejoinder that perhaps he could add a song about pinball, Cohn immediately said that Tommy would be "a masterpiece" (he was REALLY into pinball). So Townshend sped home and scribbled out a generic stream of enthusiastic pinball-related gibberish, called it "Pinball Wizard," and brought it to the rest of the band, who stunned him by declaring it the obvious hit single of the record. But not even they could have known that it was the track that would follow them all to their graves.


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I've always noticed people that make sure their hands are perfectly dry before washing (i.e. washing for eating bread). Why do people do so? Where does this apparent stringency come from?
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According to the Chazon Ish (Orach Chaim 24:20) they must be completely dry before washing or the washing is invalid b'dieved. According to the Mishna Berura (Beiur Halachah 162:2) they may even be completely wet before washing. The Baal haTanya apparently holds in his Shulchan Aruch like the Mishna Berura but rules in his siddur like the Chazon Ish.
I know that I have a minhag from my grandparents in Russia, that they would wash and dry their hands before ritual washing. The reason is, that if one's hands were dirty, it would create a chatzitzah (barrier) between one's skin and the water being poured. That is why they would wash their hands. As for drying them before washing netilas yadayim, perhaps they did that to prevent any (safek) tamei water that is already on one's hands from making the water of netilas yadayim tamei as well. The same would seem to apply here regarding just drying one's hands.


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Emery W. Bever, 89, passed away Nov. 5, 2012 at his home in Towanda. Memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Towanda United Methodist Church. The Masonic service will be held at Towanda cemetery.
He was born Oct. 13, 1923 in Waneta, Kan., the son of Lewis and Leona (Bell) Bever. He graduated from Cedar Vale High School. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1948 and served his country for three years. He was united in marriage to Winifred Dorene on May 10, 1952 in Cedar Vale, Kan. She passed away Jan. 6, 2011. Emery was a member of the lions club and the Mason's. He was an avid pool player and loved to garden. He was a member of the Towanda United Methodist Church. He was a member of the VFW and American Legion.
Survivors include: sons, John and wife Marcia of Wichita, and Charles and wife Malinda of League City, Texas; daughter, Jeannette and husband Robert Thompson of Topeka; brother, Lester Bever of McPherson; sister, Alice Sinclair of Cedar Vale; nine grandchildren; and four great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother, Ralph.
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I know that previously it was 960 pixels, but lately I have had clients wanting me to push the envelope further and prompted me to do some research on the matter.
The Right Answer is Responsive Design as mentioned earlier. Take a look at some.
http://framelessgrid.com/ (now gone, cached version from Internet Archive)
Responsive design works because it scales with the available screen size. So, when designing a website or web app you can be sure it will display appropriately when using phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops.
It is still important to see what the ecosystem looks like in the past. If you have Google Analytics take a look at the last year's worth of visitors and sort by screen size. This should tell you more about the dimensions of your users screens and how a change in dimensions is going to effect them.
Responsive is great for smaller screen sizes, and to cope with phone and tablet displays. But I'm unconvinced that going wider than 960 (or so) is desperately important.
For example, the setup I use is a 27inch display, +my laptop's panel, and I still find wide layouts irritating. There are a number of reasons for that.
Of course, you could still build a responsive design for wider displays, but I'm not convinced it'll get seen very often. And I'd absolutely make sure you have a design point at 960px or so.
In summary, the case for going wider than 960 isn't compelling, if I were the client I'd spend my money elsewhere.
There is no standard. People are accessing the web through a wider range of devices and screen widths than ever before. Smart phones, tablets, mini tablets, notebooks, laptops, desktops, massive desktops etc etc.
You can't pick a width and expect that to do for everyone.
That is why responsive is the answer. It enables you to design for everyone.
There are a range of techniques used to design responsively. I usually design with a flexible grid, with changes to the layout at 2-3 breakpoints - so you could i guess consider those "standard" in order to have some starting points
Bootstrap sets these as:
Phone - 480px Tablet - 767px desktop - 979px Large display - 1200px
Its probably worth looking into using em's and % rather than pixels.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-infinite-grid/ http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/
Responsive is great, but it's time consuming. I'd say stick with 960 (though I'm a fan of the 970 grid) and explain the reasoning. If you explain the upsides, then perhaps they'll realize that it makes sense.
Or, convince them they need responsive, do the extra work and charge the extra billable hours (also, charge a higher hourly fee, since it's more complex work) :D
A key consideration is: who are your users, and what screen resolution are they likely to have?
Check out the chart in a recent Nielsen Alertbox entitled "Computer Screens are Getting Bigger:" http://www.useit.com/alertbox/screen_resolution.html
If your target users are "everyone everywhere in the world," you are best sticking with 960. If your users work at US corporations on tasks they will likely be doing at their desks, it is safe to work much wider. On a recent project we determined that our users would be working at a minimum 1440x900 even when working at home on their laptops, and assumed a browser window width of 1280. If your clients want to push this envelope, perhaps they have made a similar judgment. --Jim
Although responsive designs are great, I don't think they are the answer you are looking for. I think the root of the problem comes from the width of paragraph text and the fact that you never want to horizontal scroll.
To me, the perfect paragraph is maximum of 600px wide, better around 540px. Add a sidebar of related content and you naturally end up around the 960px mark for the whole thing. Responsive designs can then shrink the paragraph width and hide the sidebar appropriately.
Ultimately the Web is narrow and people will scroll down and look down while browsing. Adding horizontal content may appear to fit more content on your client's crazy sized Apple monitor, but that doesn't mean the real world will actually see it.
The correct response to your client is to examine your site's analytics. You can then respond:
Choice A) XX Pixels. X% of your users will find the site unusable.


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I cycle to school and intend to wear my new Lycra shorts for my commute as they are much more comfortable. But I want to know if I will look dumb wearing the tight shorts, as my legs are only average and I'm only 15, and also if it will be weird stripping down to no underwear when I get changed in the locker room at school.
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I'm currently a senior in high school, so I understand your concern about style. In my opinion, and that of all my friends, wearing lycra shorts to school looks ridiculous, no offense. I don't know how far your commute is, but when I take my road bike to school, it's only 3 miles, so I just wear regular shorts and bring another t-shirt I can throw on so I'm not all sweaty and throw a pair of sneakers into my bag so I'm not stuck wearing cleats all day. If you have a longer commute, just put a pair of basketball shorts on over your lycra shorts. It looks good, feels fine, and others can't even tell you have lycra shorts on underneath them. Baggy cycling shorts don't look much better than lycra when you're in high school, even just for your commute.
As far as changing in the locker room, that should be fine. I've done the same thing plenty of times. If you're self-conscious about it, you can always use a shower stall or something so you have some privacy.
Wear some non-Lycra shorts/tracksuit bottoms over the top of your Lycra ones if you are self conscious about them.
Change out of the Lycra ones in a toilet cubicle if you are concerned.
You can also buy baggy cycling specific shorts which have many of the advantages of Lycra based ones but without the concern about showing off your entire package.
A quick google for "baggy cycling shorts" found me loads of hits, top of which was this page from Wiggle a UK cycling shop.
For instance here are some possibilities:
Unless you are travelling really far (5+ miles) or going for some kind of home to school time trial record, just wear your regular clothes (tuck your trousers into your socks if need be) and cycle a little slower.
Too many people are too obsessed with racing their bikes places, but if you think of cycling as a faster and more efficient way of walking then you'll get on just fine.
Rivendell has a lot of non-lycra clothes. Some of that stuff might pass for hipster.


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To keep this question specific and on-topic, let me preface this by stating my intent is not to go into pros and cons of using one type of file manager over another. However, it is clear a significant group of people use console-based file managers, such as Midnight Commander or Ranger. I'd like to know their reasons for doing so.
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I'm a Midnight Commander addict, so let me add a few more points:
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The following command entered in Terminal will enable the Debug menu in iCal (Lion):
defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu YES
I would like to accomplish the same thing in Calendar (Mountain Lion).
The following command entered in Terminal will enable the Debug menu in iCal (Lion):
I would like to accomplish the same thing in Calendar (Mountain Lion).
A menu is most desirable, so this is not a proper answer, but here goes …
Without the debug menu
It's possible to do at least some of the things that were possible with the menu.
Top sekret
Some of the things that were in the Top Sekret submenu of the Debug menu in iCal …
Days in week view
5 or 7 days: Use the General pane of Calendar preferences.
14, 21 or 28 days:
The change will be effective when you next switch to week view.
New calendar window
⌘+L is not effective. I'll investigate …
I found this:
Show as Many or as Few Days as You Like in Mountain Lion Calendar
I had Debug enabled in Lion, showing 2 weeks in iCal. Upgraded to Mountain Lion and could't get it back to one week view until I found Mountain Tweaks.
Under the Lion tab (not Mountain Lion) I clicked to disable iCal Debug and it worked. It's a free download but I donated to the developer.
Unfortunately this option seams to be gone forever, scan thought iCal's files from 10.7 gives two options that contain 'InsertDebugMenu'. However same scan on calendar's file from 10.8 doesn't show any of them, as a matter of fact this version is lacking more then few 'debug' commands that until this release were only hidden but still accessible. My worst nightmare is slowly coming true, OS X soon will be just as closed as iOS is already :/
In case someone with more time, skills or luck will read it, you can try find something on your own with help of this post.
The debug menu was great because it allowed you to display the CalDAV queue of events. Calendar under Mountain Lion is not fully compatible with MS Exchange and has a tendency to hang in "Updating…".
Worse, it gets into a mode where it cannot update the Exchange calendar at all and you must choose from a very DOS style "abort, retry, fail" sort of dialog. Once in that mode, your calendar will not talk to Exchange until you delete the Calendar's cache file. This Cache file apparently becomes corrupt and causes a discord between Calendar and Exchange.
Deleting the cache file is no issue as Calendar just rebuilds it when Calendar is launched again. Don't forget to Quit Calendar before deleting the cache file, then launch Calendar to have it automatically rebuild. No data is lost.
The Calendar cache file is located here:
~/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache
This happens once or twice a day to me so I keep that folder in my dock and I keep an alias to the Calendar app in that folder so I can launch calendar, quit calendar, delete the cache file, launch calendar. Welcome to Mac OS X… (sigh)
OnyX is a great little program, and has an option to enable the debug menu for calendar.
This isn't the answer you want, but I think the Debug option has really been disabled. However, I have filed a RADR to reinstate it in an upcoming dot increment (hopefully .2 or .3).


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5 Ridiculous Assassination Plots That Actually Worked
#2. The Slow-Motion Clubbing of Grigoris Lambrakis
Grigoris Lambrakis was a Greek left-wing politician and activist before it was cool or, for that matter, safe: during the rule of a very right-wing government in the early 1960s.
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We're fairly certain that sign means "Team Jacob" in Greek.
His constant protests, activism and campaigning annoyed the Greek police and military enough for them to decide that he needed to be removed. However, it needed to be done with care -- Lambrakis was popular, and the government forces didn't want to get their own hands dirty. So they ended up enlisting two far-right extremists to do the deed, because everyone knows those guys are the epitome of reserved discretion.
The Assassination:
The two freshly government-sanctioned assassins leaped into action in a way that would make Captain Caveman proud: They grabbed a club and packed themselves into a trikyklo (one of those sad three-wheeled vehicles that are not quite scooters and definitely not cars).
What they are is an extremely efficient way to die in traffic.
Then, swinging their Neanderthalian weapon, they putt-putted to the site where Lambrakis was giving an anti-war speech.
With the police busy staring at the sky and whistling, the pair had no problem getting into the area. However, there was a great flaw in their otherwise, well, pretty damn stupid plan: To club Lambrakis over the head, they had to slow the trikyklo down to walking pace, drive right up to the man and bash him over the head, right in front of everyone. So that's what they did.
There's a timeless elegance to beating men bloody with heavy chunks of wood.
As Lambrakis fell dead, they immediately found the other flaw in their plan: Even though the police wouldn't lift a finger against them, they had just slowed their vehicle to a near halt and clubbed down a famous guy in front of a large audience of his supporters.
Members of the audience sprinted after the assassins' vehicle, caught it and dragged the hapless assassins out. At that point, the police didn't have much choice but to do their jobs. Both perpetrators were quickly arrested, convicted and forgotten. The legacy of Lambrakis, on the other hand, lives on. You might have seen the Academy Award nominated movie they made about him.
It featured the highest density of impossible-to-pronounce character names of any movie prior to Lord of the Rings.
#1. The Undermining of Luis Carrero Blanco
In 1973, four commandos of the Basque separatist group ETA set out to take down Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco -- the confidant and soon-to-be successor of the dictator Francisco Franco (Spanish politics at the time was run on a Dr. Seuss-style rhyming system).
Their mission was called Operation Ogre, and it was completely insane. We're not kidding here -- Christopher Nolan would have scrapped it for being unnecessarily convoluted.
The Assassination:
First, the commandos had to pose as students of sculpture in order to rent a basement apartment on a street Carrero Blanco regularly traveled on his way to Mass. The fact that these hardened warriors ever managed to convince a landlord that they were art students was a notable achievement in itself -- but it was just the beginning.
"Those are ... candles. Art candles."
Next, they started digging a tunnel under the road by hand, a task made all the more arduous by the fact that none of them had a clue about tunneling. Or anything else, really -- during the year that went into the preparations, countless nearly botched supply robberies, irrelevant arms raids and unnecessary maneuvers made it clear that as good as the team might've been at commandoing, they absolutely sucked rodent ass at everything else.
The second they started their tunneling project, they discovered that their pickaxes were far too large and it was impossible to swing them with any force. Then, one of the assassins remembered that he was claustrophobic, something that probably should have occurred to him at the "let's dig a small, dark tunnel" part of the planning stage. Then, the tunnel roof started repeatedly collapsing on them. At that point, the only thing that was missing was the soil being contaminated with, say, leaking sewage and noxious gases. Wait, it was? Never mind.
Noxious gases had long been one of Carrero Blanco's staunch allies.
Finally, someone had the bright idea to actually read a book on how to dig a tunnel. They started to use props, which stopped the roof-falls, but did little about the smelly sewage and gas, which by now was messing with their health pretty big time. Yet the men persevered, and one day, the tunnel was finally complete. That was the second most rewarding day of their lives.
The most rewarding day of their lives came soon afterward, when their target's car drove over the tunnel they had now filled to the brim with explosives. Their giant tunnel-bomb was a success beyond belief: It hurled Carrero Blanco's car five stories into the air. It just flat out flew over a church and to the other side, where it landed on a second story terrace:
Weird TV
"Damn. It was 50 points for the tall roof."
The men, disguised as electricians, looked in awe and did their level best to suppress high-fives. And justifiably so -- hell, we'd dig a tunnel for a year, if the reward was a badass GTA flip like that. We probably wouldn't put a prime minister in the car, though.
For more crazy assassination attempts, check out The 6 Most Utterly Insane Attempts to Kill a US President and The 5 Most Ridiculous Assassination Plots Ever Attempted.


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Everywhere I read manuals it focuses my options as a player. I can't figure out if the dealer knows his hidden card or not? Of course, when dealer has 10 or Ace showing, he checks if he's got a blackjack, right?
What are the dealer's options?
Everywhere I read manuals it focuses my options as a player. I can't figure out if the dealer knows his hidden card or not? Of course, when dealer has 10 or Ace showing, he checks if he's got a blackjack, right?
What are the dealer's options?
Blackjack dealers have no options for the in-game decisions of whether to hit or stay; they follow a strict algorithm that will depend on their casino. The dealer waits until the players have exercised all their options, then the dealer reveals his hidden card and hits until he has at least 17 (most common).
The only variation I'm familiar with is a rule where the dealer will hit a soft 17 (any 17 with an Ace taking the value 11--denoted "H17" for Hit 17, as opposed to "S17" for Stand 17), but this is not the dealer's choice, it will be determined by the casino. According to Wikipedia, this rule will generally be printed on the table if it is being used, and it hurts players. Wikipedia phrases it the other direction: going from H17 to S17. "Substituting an "H17" rule with an "S17" rule in a game benefits the player, decreasing the house edge by about 0.2%"
See @NiceVerAz's answer below for a nice explanation of "meta-game" options that the dealer does control.
The dealer has several options when exercising his duties.
His employer wants him to generate as much revenue as possible, which means:
Which gives several options:
All in all, the dealer has many options:
If dealers had no options, they'd have been replaced by robots a long time ago.
The dealer knows what both of his cards are.
In casino play, the dealer has no options. He always has to hit values below 16/17 (the exact number varies by casino), and has to stay when his cards are higher.
In non-casino play, often the dealer is just another player and has the same options as you. This is not really blackjack and will not use the same strategies as casino blackjack.
The dealer first has to determine if he has blackjack. This is done by having the 10 pointers and Ace being marked in a way that the dealer can tell if it is a blackjack but otherwise can't tell. (Note that the dealer can't tell if they have two aces or 20)
If the dealer has a blackjack then once the players have chosen whether or not to get insurance that is revealed and the hand restarts.
Once no Blackjack is determine, the players all finish their actions (until they stay or bust) and once all have completed the dealer will do the same. First they will flip over their hold and then hit until 17 at which point they will stay. Note that soft 17s are sometimes hit depending on the casino. In either case the dealer never has any real choices, they react to the cards exclusively.


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The 8 Most Awkward Sexual Moments in Comic Book History
Comic books have been known to do some crazy things to keep readers interested. After all, there's only so many times you can see Superman and Lois Lane make out without getting bored, so sometimes writers will push the envelope a bit. The envelope of sex.
Sometimes it works, and sometimes it just makes us feel like putting the comic book face down, leaving the room and taking a shower. Like the time ...
#8. Superman and Batman Cry Over Alien Tentacle Sex
As you probably already know if you've ever taken an Introduction to Comics class, nothing good can come of combining the phrase "tentacle sex" with Batman (it's, like, the first lesson in comics).
Let's do it anyway!
Well, someone skipped that class and made a Batman/Superman/tentacle sex comic and -- be prepared to be shocked -- it had nothing to do with Japanese manga. This happened in the official DC universe.
Don't go celebrating, Japan. The score is still like one to 38 million.
This terribly awkward adventure begins when Superman realizes that he and Batman are both pretty stressed from all that saving-the-world nonsense they do every day, so he invites Batman over for a goddamn sleepover at the Fortress of Solitude to discuss their feelings and have pillow fights and so forth. Batman accepts, because dealing with stressful situations in an emotionally healthy way has always been a trademark of Batman.
We weren't kidding about the whole "discuss their feelings" bit.
Their emotionally naked staring contest is interrupted by a meteor full of aliens, which is a godsend to anyone who didn't want to see Batman and Superman kiss, but total blue balls to that small fringe group that did. The aliens crashed at the Fortress, we learn, because it was currently the most emotionally honest place on the whole planet. In short, Batman and Superman were being so lame that aliens from another planet came just to stop them, and we thank them for it.
At least, we did until it turned out they looked like pineapple dicks.
The tentacle aliens feed off Batman and Superman's emotions like some kind of supercharged Ecstasy and immediately start growing and mating with one another in what will quickly become the epicenter of your darkest nightmares.
Our heroes just kind of stand around, watching the copious amounts of tentacle sex happen and avoiding eye contact with each other for a few minutes, because "watching emotion-snorting tentacles fuck each other" is right at the top of the list of Things That Ruin Sleepovers. And then things get weird. The tentacles, which were already pretty dick-like to begin with, grow their own hairy dicks. It's like someone challenged God's apprentice to invent a new animal using only dicks and fear.
"So we're going to die, but we really appreciate you letting us plow each other all over your house. Cannot believe you did that."
The aliens need to feed on emotions to live, but rather than drain all of the emotions out of Earth, they decide to let themselves die, making this the easiest, yet most psychologically scarring, victory in history. Instead of just saying, "Thanks, we appreciate that," Batman and Superman beg the aliens to live and then, in a moment we'd love to erase from history, they cry and hug each other as the tentacle aliens die, along with a little bit of our souls.
Why do the tears fall outside the mask? Better question: What the fuck?!
#7. Iron Man's Abusive Boyfriend
Tony Stark, billionaire playboy and part-time advanced technology hoarder, has been in a lot of relationships throughout the course of his comic book, dating or nailing every female character who crossed his path. Sure, that's cool and interesting and appropriate for his character and everything, but has he ever had an abusive relationship with a machine? What's that? You never would've thought to ask that question? Oh. Well, someone did.
After being struck by lightning, Tony's armor suddenly becomes sentient due to a combination of badly constructed fail-safes and Y2K, because, sure, who gives a shit, it's a series about a giant robot knight who fights space monsters. Lightning + Y2K = Life. That's fine.
The main problem with this is that the Iron Man armor is one of the most powerful weapons on Earth and is now being controlled by a mind only a few hours old that, oh by the way, also shows signs of being hopelessly in love with Tony. It's like an obsessed Twilight fan following Robert Pattinson around all day in a tank that could fly.
Though there is no truly good way for a machine to be in love with someone, the armor unfortunately doesn't love Tony in a ground-worshipping, "I'll do anything" kind of way, but more in a "mine, mine, MINE!" kind of way. Like all good future abusers, the armor convinces Tony that their being together is a good idea and that they will be able to fight crime more efficiently once Tony is inside him. Tony decides to give it a chance, and they go out together to fight Whiplash. The relationship takes a downward spiral, however, when the armor gets pissed and straight up murders Whiplash against Tony's orders.
It's like Of Mice and Men, if George had built Lennie to be unstoppable.
The armor then proceeds to lock Tony in his own house so they can be alone together and threatens to kill Tony's girlfriend to eliminate any competition for Tony's affection. It is at this point that Tony becomes infinitely grateful that he never built Iron Man an Iron-dick, or he would undoubtedly be getting his ass Iron-raped any minute now.
Seeing how shit has just gotten real, Tony straps on an old version of his Iron Man armor and tries to kill the psychotic version. Things don't go well, as the armor kicks his ass since it feels cheated on by Tony wearing any other armor. No, seriously.
"I'm genuinely asking because I'm still just a baby!"
After destroying Tony's cheating armor, the suit takes the next logical step and kidnaps Tony, takes him to a deserted island, ties him spread-eagle to a tree and tortures him until he admits he loves it back.
After the love torture, the armor again falls into the abusive-partner stereotype by immediately apologizing to Tony and then starts monologuing about its love for him and how it's so hard and confusing and this was all Tony's fault for loving a real-life human girl instead of his hollow, inanimate, demon-spawn armor like the natural order of things clearly mandates.
Really? Being a dick now, Tony?
Things blissfully come to an end when the armor flies off to answer an Avengers distress call, giving Tony time to escape. When the armor returns, Tony tries to fight it and ends up giving himself a heart attack, which is either the worst strategy ever or sheer brilliance, as it actually makes the armor stop trying to kill him.
In fact, the armor is so determined to save him that it rips out its own heart and uses it to fix Tony's somehow, sacrificing itself for love and killing itself in the process and destroying a beautiful relationship that was clearly going somewhere.
Well, at least throughout this whole ordeal we can take comfort in the fact that Tony was as freaked out by this whole thing as us, the readers. Or at least we could have assumed that up until this point, where it seems as though Tony might actually, kind of, sort of love the armor back. Instead of cheering in victory that he's defeated his murdering, abusive robo-stalker, Tony begs the armor to live, tells it he wants to get inside it and desperately tries to fix it.
Maybe Tony was simply suffering from Stockholm syndrome after days of captivity and torture, but we can't help but think that this is really just terrifying insight into Tony Stark's true mind and that the reason he's never settled down is the fact that he's never dated a girl who can, and will, kick the shit out of him on a daily basis.
#6. Jean Grey Makes Cyclops and Emma Frost Make Out ... On Her Grave
Ever since the character Emma Frost was introduced into X-Men, there's been kind of a thing going on between her and Cyclops, despite the fact that Scott and Jean Grey have been married the whole time she's been around. When Jean Grey dies again, as she likes to do every second week or so, her spirit gets catapulted 150 years into future.
The future Jean sees is a grim, post-apocalyptic wasteland, and she discovers that the reason the world fell apart is because Cyclops couldn't man up after her death and get his shit together long enough to lead the team and save the day. (No one was shocked by this revelation.)
"Your huuuusssband is a pussssssy."
Jean is even shown the exact moment that Scott gave up: He turns down a romantic request from Emma a few days after Jean dies (also shocking no one).
Managing not to roll her eyes as she does Cyclops' job for him, she sends a psychic message back through time that she wants him to live and move on without her, which is much nicer than the "No one should have to force you to make out with a hot magic chick" message we probably would have sent.
The message works, and we see Emma and Scott start making out, just a few days after Jean's death, in the middle of a graveyard ... standing on Jean's grave!
"Yes. Yeeessssssss."
Now it's not made clear just how specific this message was, so the only theories we have about the whole thing are that Scott was mind-controlled into the kiss and Emma was simply OK with getting down and dirty while surrounded by the dead bodies of people she knows, or that Jean found the afterlife a little boring and wanted a show for herself and the other ghosts hanging around watching and perpetrated the whole thing.
A third theory is that Emma dressed like this:
We don't care how much you love your dead wife: A high-class snow harlot in the middle of a cemetery trumps true love and psychic future magic any day of the week.
#5. Wolverine Tries to Bang a Teenage Mary Jane
This story is set in Marvel's Ultimates Universe, which involves gritty reboots of all the original characters. Since original Wolverine is already basically a gritty reboot of the concept of grittiness, he is basically the exact same character. Peter Parker's major change is that even though he is called Spider-Man, he is actually only 15-years old. This is important information, as the story opens up with Wolverine and Peter waking up in each other's bodies.
While Peter starts freaking out about getting back into his body, Wolverine agrees to go to school so Peter doesn't get expelled and takes this as a chance to ogle teenage girls as much as humanly possible. Even though he's in Peter's body, we mentioned that Wolverine's still mega old, right? And these are high school girls? Good.
Well, the whole cheerleader gawking thing is soon forgotten for something much, much worse as Wolverine finds out that Mary Jane is his girlfriend -- and he is stoked about it. Now in the normal Marvel universe this wouldn't be a big deal, but in the Ultimates universe, Mary Jane is 15-fucking-years old! Making the fact that Wolverine is not just OK with, but excited about, making out with her extremely creepy and disturbing and illegal.
Wolverine is in your body, molesting your teenage girlfriend. And he's one of the good guys.
After some horribly bad hijinks, such as Peter continually impaling himself on Wolverine's claws, it's revealed that they got stuck in each other's bodies because Wolverine is in a perpetual state of not being able to keep it in his pants around teenagers. Jean Grey, who is also a teenager in this universe, switched their minds as payback when Wolverine wouldn't stop hitting on her.
With classic story lines like this, we have to wonder why they ever canceled the Ultimates universe.
Finally back in his own body, Peter returns home and apologizes to Mary Jane for acting weird and badass all day. Oh, and then he learns that Wolverine didn't just make out with Mary Jane -- he tried to full-on tap that ass.


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More information would be helpful. What kind of bicycle? How old is it?
Assuming the bike has a freewheel or a freehub, there are a couple of things you can check.
For example, if the bicycle has a freewheel (in other words, if it is older), it may need lubrication inside the freewheel. Automatic Transmission Fluid (ATF) is a great lube for that application, or you can buy various oils. I would advise against using WD-40 for lubricating a freewheel.
A similar kind of skip/slip can happen occasionally (say, once in a few hundred miles of riding) with a freehub, and it doesn't necessarily mean anything is wrong. However if it is more frequent, you may want to service the hub, or have your local bicycle shop service it.
If the freewheel/freehub is not the source of the problem, the drivetrain may be worn. The chain can skip, or jolt forward, if the cogs in the rear are worn excessively.
I have seen this happen when the chain gets "trapped" between two chainrings, or more often between bigger chainring and chainguard (if the crank has a round chainguard type), or more often yet between two rear cogs.
If no other probable cause, this is something that should be looked for.
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When moving from rapier to Hapkido, there was a lot that transferred and very little that interfered. Range, positioning, and most of the footwork transferred along with the mental aspects, and the muscle movement was different enough that I didn't end up tripping over my own feet any more than usual. There were some challenges and some interference, but for the most part it wasn't a huge problem.
Later, however, when I studied Aikido I encountered a problem: The movements were very similar, but not the same. I see the same thing in students who move into Hapkido who have studied a related martial art: The movements are just different enough to cause problems, because the muscles have been trained to go a very particular way.
When working with a student who is transitioning between arts that have similar elements but which either think about or execute them just differently enough, what are some ways to help the process along and reduce interference?


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After searching for several hours, crews have found a Warren County autistic girl.
The 10 year-old went missing while at a Girl Scout Camp.
Allison Small of Warren County was reunited with her mom, after crews searched for her for hours.
Allison went missing around 3:00 at Houchens Girl Scout Camp on Barren River Road.
Allison is autistic and suffers from severe seizures. She wandered off in front of the camp and said she was looking for a friend.
Crews found her waist-high in the woods right before night fall.
Allison's mother, Cari Small, was relieved to have her daughter back in arms. She said, "I was very excited but it was one of those moments when I didn't know if I should fuss at her for putting us through this or hug her...obviously I gave her a big hug...she's a special girl, that's for sure."
Allison was dehydrated, but didn't suffer any other injuries.
Warren County Rescue Squad, Emergency Management, Stat Care, and eight surrounding county Fire Departments all helped with the search.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The fight over whether Topeka attorney Billy Rork can represent a home invasion suspect isn't over.
Shawnee County District Court Judge Mark Braun canceled a Tuesday hearing and instead issued a two-page order, denying Rork's request he be allowed to serve as Monroe Lockhart's attorney. Braun upheld his ruling from March that Rork had a conflict of interest, since he also had represented a former co-defendant in the case, Anthony Talbert.
Rork argues the conflict no longer exists, since Talbert no longer faces charges for the November incident. Lockhart is accused of a home invasion in which a woman was beaten and burned. Another co-defendant, Jacob Barnett, testified against him.
Tuesday afternoon, Rork filed a motion asking Braun to reconsider the ruling and schedule a hearing on the matter. Rork argues Lockhart has a right to the attorney of his choosing.


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It happened that our reseller order to UK was on this plane. Some Ez-levelers and NN5s are lost.
It happened that our reseller order to UK was on this plane. Some Ez-levelers and NN5s are lost.
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What a pitty....s**t happens.
Good luck with all this.
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Lets keep things in the right perspective, 2 persons on board of the airplane lost there life, compared to that the loss of some hardware is of no importance.
I hope you agree...
I fully agree with you, and this was my first thought as I heard about this crash on TV some days ago.. No connection to NN. Two people have died. This is the bitter reality. Of course, compared to lost hardware, nothing. I agree.
A friend of mine is leaving to USA from Spain at 11th of september...with an american flight company...
What I really was upset about nick's comment was: to me, this is another proof of total global business and it's consequences: to the families of the pilots, people who loose their jobs because "apes in the jungle work for lower salaries", etc. And at the deep end, not to compare with life, hardware, jobs are lost. With all consequences. Wim, personally I am a fighter for rights and to respect human beings.
But I feel though fighting, I can not help the people loosing their jobs because of the broken oil platform at the US Coast. I would like to. I would like to live in NL without all the problems we have and you know about.
Wim, with all respect, thx a lot for your comment.
I have talked to Vincen several times on the phone and I dare to talk for both of us: we heard about and we are scarred that people died doing their job. Feeling with their families. Nothing to be compared with hardware.
But at the end, a clear proof Wim, that in these times, both of us might fight for ethics, human rights, against power of money, global connections, but do we succeed?
I feel, we might make an appointment to meet if you like to discuss it.
Thx for setting things to basics.
With respect,
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When planes Crash and people die, There are tragedies that reach far further than it is possible to imagine.
The number of people effected can be enormous, and the misery and suffering long lasting.
Such crashes always have other effects and minor tragedies, some of which can also be life changing like a missing letter offering a job, or a long awaited letter from a loved one.
Along the bottom of the scale is missing goods that will cause mild disappointment along the way.
All these things are personal to someone and are only trivial by comparison.
I am sure all our hearts go out to those who have lost Friends and family in this disaster.
I was just amazed how I could be connected with an accident in remote area. I thought the packages were shipped directly from Hong Kong to UK.
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10 Ways to Deal with Temper Tantrums
Temper tantrums are an inevitable part of being parent. While there is no way to prevent them, there are ways to help calm your child down when he is in the throes of emotional turmoil. Read on for 10 sanity-saving tantrum tips, and don't forget to leave a comment with your own tricks!
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Stay Calm
When your child starts screaming, kicking, or turning blue, try to stay calm. Your toddler has already lost control of himself; he needs you to stay in control.
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Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Parenting a Preschooler and Toddler, Too © 1997 by Keith M. Boyd, M.D., and Kevin Osborn. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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