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How To Fix Your Rollcage - Wreck RepairWritten by on April 1, 2008 Bent tubes don't necessarily mean an expensive trip to the chassis builder. Here's how to do it yourself
Accidents happen. It's a fact of life--especially when it comes to stock car racing. Fortunately, unlike a bad credit rating, stock cars are often easily fixed. Because it can be so difficult to get all the suspension points back in the correct spots, replacing a front or rear clip should often be left to the chassis builder, but replacing a bent bar or two can often be handled by most racers.
At first glance, when trying to determine exactly how to repair frame damage, the complex pattern of rollcage and other frame tubing can be a bit intimidating. Some bars may intersect and be welded to other bars in several locations along its length. Fortunately, for the round tubing supporting the front and rear clip, it often isn't necessary to completely remove the entire length of a piece of tubing that has been damaged. Instead, only the section that has been deformed can be cut away and a new bar spliced in its place. Splicing two pieces of tubing so that it is as strong as a single piece isn't difficult, but it does require a few tricks.
To find out exactly how it should be done, we travelled to Hess Racecars in Mooresville, N.C. Hess Racecars specializes in asphalt chassis-everything from Late Models to Busch and Nextel Cup cars-but the techniques will work on any piece of round tubing. Also, it should be emphasized that splicing tubing anywhere in the main rollcage shouldn't be attempted by an amateur welder. In fact, most professional chassis builders will only splice a few specific bars in a few specific places on the main rollcage. It is simply better to replace the entire length of tubing rather than take a chance on the splice not holding. Let's follow along as Hess' Chris Cornett splices in a new bar.
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Hess Racecars was in the process of replacing this front clip. It had taken a hit on the left-front corner and shifted everything to the right. Both down tubes were bent a bit, and the bung locations needed to be changed for an update, so they were cut in the first straight section above the main bend.Here's a shot of the chassis up on one of Hess Racecars' jigs. This chassis has been completely stripped, but that isn't necessary if you are just performing localized repairs. Just make sure you have access to weld all the way around the tubing in question.Replacing an entire front clip, like is being done here, should probably be left to your chassis builder, but the same procedures are used on smaller repairs. As you can see, everything that has been damaged has been cut away before any repairs begin. The upper tubes to be spliced have already been prepped by sanding away the powder coat for approximately three inches. It is also important that your cuts are clean and square. This is no time to be using the plasma cutter.When cutting and bending your tubing to replace the damaged section, always use the same size and gauge steel. Also, remember to leave approximately 1/8-inch gap at the splice to allow weld penetration to the slug. When choosing a splice location, it is best to find a straight section of tubing at least two to three inches long. It is possible to splice along a curved section of tubing, but it's much more difficult to get everything to fit right.Fabricator Chris Cornett checks his tubing one last time to make sure it fits up exactly like the old section did.Cornett drills four holes into the tubing on each side of the splice. These are for rosette welds that will greatly add to the splice's strength. Cornett recommends your holes be at least 3/8-inch in diameter.Here, you can see the slug in place. Cornett says it should be the tightest fit you can get and the same wall thickness as your main tubing. For example, this car uses 1 3/4 DOM mild steel tubing with 0.095-inch wall thickness. So the slug is 1 1/2 DOM mild steel with the same wall thickness. The wall thickness is important not only to add strength to the splice but also to ensure you do not burn through the metal when making your rosette welds. Finally, the slug should be long enough to extend past your holes on both sides by at least 1/2-inch. This slug was approximately four inches in length.With a small tack holding the slug in place inside the main chassis tube, Cornett checks again to make sure his patch tube still fits properly into position.
Using a MIG welder, Cornett welds with the wire touching the slug. The heat must be turned up high enough on the welder that it is capable of fusing both the slug along with the ends of the tubing on both sides. That's why the width of the gap is important. It must be wide enough so that the wire can reach the slug, but close enough so that both ends of the tubing get hot as well. Cornett also adds that he always begins his weld at the bottom of the tube and works his way up. This way he is always working at the edge of the weld puddle. If you start at the top and work your way down, gravity can pull the weld puddle into your work area and keep you from getting good weld penetration.Next come the rosette welds. Hold the tip of the welder perpendicular to the hole and work your way around in a circle until the hole you have drilled into the tubing is completely filled with the weld puddle.Cornett says when making your rosette welds not to be afraid to turn the voltage up on your welder. You have to make sure the weld really burns into the slug, but because of the wall thickness you don't have to worry about burning through. Also, Cornett says he uses his ears as much as his eyes when making his rosette welds. Once the weld puddle rises above the thickness of the outer tube the sound changes and he knows to stop.Here's the completed weld. You can tell from the color of the metal that a lot of heat has been put into it. But it is necessary to make sure both pieces of tubing and the slug are properly fused. All weld beads should extend just beyond the diameter of the tubing. Any weld that sinks below the tubing isn't good enough.It isn't structurally necessary, but for the sake of neatness, Cornett sands down the weld beads until they are smooth with the tubing. Just don't go crazy with a grinder here.Obviously, there is still a lot of work to be done before this chassis will be ready to return to the racetrack, but you can see the value of stitching the down tube where we did. This particular bar extends through the firewall and ends at a multiple-joint at the A-pillar. Stitching the tubing where Cornett chose produced a repair that is just as strong as replacing the entire piece of tubing, plus it saved him a lot of time and his customer a lot of money.


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Trigg County Sheriff Ray Burnam tells WPSD-TV that he has put up $1,000 of his own money for information in the three slayings.
The cases include those of Harvey Choat, who was found fatally shot in his home in 2008; Barbara Humphries, whose remains were discovered by a farmer in 2002 and Kenneth Ladd, who was fatally shot while working overnight at the front desk of Lake Barkley State Resort Park in 1980.
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"Jessica brings athleticism to the circle and she is also a left-handed slapper with a lot of speed," said Mangrum. "This will add depth to three parts of our program, because when she does not pitch she can play outfield and has the speed on the base path to help us offensively. She has been at a great program for the past two years and has matured as a player under Coach Beth Randolph at
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I watched a horror movie about 4~5 years ago that it was a story about newly married couple who would spend their honeymoon in a remote house/cabin. Then strange things start to happen. They hear the bell and it was a strange child seems to be lost. They dismiss the child, but it come back again. So the man left the house for some reason and the children start to scare the woman. At the end the haunting becomes more frequent and the children enters the house. The couple tries to run away but the car doesn't works.
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5 Superhero Movies You Won't Believe Almost Got Made
#2. The Wachowski Brothers' Plastic Man
For those unfamiliar, Plastic Man is exactly what you're thinking: A guy with the powers and abilities of a rubber band. He's the original stretchy superhero, predating Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four by 20 years. Despite being a C-list character, Plastic Man was pretty close to reaching the big screen thanks to a screenplay by two renowned writers/directors that had been making the rounds in Hollywood for over a decade. With special effects and CGI technology, it's not that hard to imagine a quirky slapstick superhero comedy based on this guy:
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So What Was Wrong With It?
As we said, Plastic Man could make a good comedy. The problem was that the writers/directors attached to the project were better known for doing pseudo-philosophical films filled with brooding characters and elaborate action sequences.
Although they do have a history of men flying around with capes and sunglasses. Lots of sunglasses.
Andy and Lana (formerly Larry) Wachowski are reputed for writing, directing and producing action flicks like V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin and especially The Matrix. None of which are very funny. Even though it was written in the 90s, Plastic Man isn't some old script they've completely forgotten about: They were reportedly interested in shooting it as recently as 2008 -- with Keanu Reeves in the lead role.
The last Bill and Ted movie was 20 years ago. That's the last time he smiled.
The script by the Wachowskis takes a few liberties with the source material. First of all, Plastic Man's true identity isn't Patrick O'Brian, a former crook turned good -- it's Daniel O'Brien, an environmental nut who yells at litterbugs on the street. Also, instead of getting powers from the classic and unlikely barrel of toxic waste (like in the comic), DOB gains the ability to stretch when an evil industrialist uses him as an unwilling lab rat in an experiment with polymers.
Just like at the last Cracked field trip.
So what's the ultimate goal of these experiments? Apparently, the deformed industrialist wants to look handsome again. If the Wachowskis were trying to use Plastic Man as some sort of commentary on plastic surgery (in addition to all the heavy-handed environmental stuff), well, it worked about as well as you'd expect.
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Not the ideal vehicle for social commentary, it turns out.
But, hey, maybe we're being too harsh on the Wachowskis. What if they've had a sense of humor all along and just haven't had a chance to show it? In an old interview about Plastic Man, they described their idea of funny:
"Larry even described a scene from the film the made the brothers laugh at the time. 'The funny scene we thought of that was kind of the start of it all was like he goes to the bathroom after he becomes Plastic Man and his urine is no longer bio-degradable so he like wants to kill himself,' he chuckled."
#1. JJ Abrams' Superman: Flyby
Before Superman Returns, Warner Bros. was working on a very different Superman project: one that didn't dwell so much on daddy issues, Christopher Reeve references or Jesus imagery. Instead, we would have gotten an action-oriented Superman movie written by Lost's JJ Abrams, no less. Sounds like every fan's dream come true ... right?
We're not interested unless we can hardly see the Man of Steel for all the lens flares.
So What Was Wrong With It?
Abrams' script has become something of a legend on the Internet -- a blueprint for what, in some alternate universe, could have turned out to be the film that would force the governments of the world to collectively ban any additional Superman films.
Why? OK, we're just going to put this out there: Superman does Kung-Fu and Lex Luthor turns out to be an alien.
You read that right. In the script, Superman's greatest enemy gets a wholly unnecessary makeover: Lex Luthor is no longer a ruthless businessman/criminal mastermind, but rather a shady government agent obsessed with UFO activity. Why? Because Abrams loves conspiracy subplots, presumably. And, yes, Luthor actually turns out to be a Kryptonian alien himself (with superpowers and all). That's like doing a Batman movie where the Joker is re-imagined as a vicious country-folk singer.
And is Batman's second cousin, which makes it all nicely legal for the inevitable slash fiction.
Judging by the concept art, the movie would have also updated Superman himself, doing away with the classic "S" shield in his costume (only one of the most iconic logos of all time). The long sleeves and spiky hair suggest the casting call would have simply read "douchebag needed."
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Also doing away with his underpants makes us feel slightly uncomfortable.
As we mentioned, Abrams' script was pretty action-heavy. That can't be bad, right? Well, that brings us to the kung-fu. The script specifically calls for Superman to engage in a "frenzied MID-AIR MARTIALS ARTS BATTLE." So wait, we have a superpowered government agent and a stylish kung fu Superman, isn't that a little like The Matrix?
"Janet, get us another Matrix Revolutions and two more mountains of cocaine."
But what if you don't give a crap about Superman -- is this a movie you could enjoy? Well, we'll never know, but we're guessing it depends on how much you liked films like these ...
... because those are the directors the studio was looking at. When Bryan Singer was hired to direct the new Superman movie, Rush Hour's Brett Ratner eventually ended up doing X-Men 3 and we all know how that worked out (it didn't).
For every superhero movie that's caught before it reaches screens, there's an X-Men 3.
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Focus on a group of items in Grid
I am currently working with a paging grid that loads one record at a time with several rows(sometimes hundreds), often users will open this editor screen with the grid on it and scroll to an item, edit it, and then page to do the same to the next. Right now when they do this the grid reloads at the top of the page.
I just went and fixed it up so it at least loads the next grid with the focus on the row index last edited in the previous screen. But we want it to actually display the same group of rows it showed before the page was clicked. If 200-220 were on the screen before, I want 200-220 on the grid when they page. Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance!
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If you are re-creating the grid, store, and loader every time you display it, you'll need to save, and set the loader's offset. If you are not recreating these things, it should already do this.
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5 Things You Won't Believe Spawned Black Markets
For as long as there have been laws, there have been black markets to sell whatever those laws prohibit -- drugs, guns, whatever Han Solo was shipping on behalf of Jabba during his smuggler days. But not every law is as clear-cut as "machine guns and heroin are bad," and not every black market item is as menacing as those. In fact, you'd be utterly baffled to see what's getting traded in the shadows these days, considering it includes things like ...
#5. Flight Attendant Uniforms (Yes, for Fetishists)
With the economy in the crapper, Japanese airlines struggled with bankruptcy, trying to rebuild their image and their finances. This of course led to some job cuts to crews and flight attendants. Unfortunately for the airlines, the female staff they had previously let go had neglected to return the uniforms, presumably adding them to their cosplay wardrobes (because we understand that's what all Japanese women do, without exception).
If the vows aren't spoken in front of a giant underage love pillow, then the marriage is null and void.
Freshly laid off and presumably bitter, the ex-employees turned to selling their possessions to make rent, and they were pleasantly surprised to discover that there is totally a market for stewardess uniforms in Japan. And we're talking to the point that a single uniform is worth thousands of dollars.
Officially, the airlines had prohibited the sale of their uniforms for fear that someone would be able to purchase one and use it to sneak their way past security and into restricted areas, which is a completely legitimate concern. However, as the pink-slipped stewardesses were to find out, it seems like that's not really what the people buying the uniforms have in mind.
"Now come back in an hour with half a flat Diet Coke and tell me my bag isn't tucked under the seat enough."
In a revelation that is equal parts disturbing and reassuring, it appears that most buyers are not budding terrorist cells looking to infiltrate airport security, but simply uniform fetishists looking to infiltrate women dressed as airline employees.
And these people are devoted to their role-playing fantasies -- just the jacket sells for hundreds of dollars, while the full New Japan Airline flight attendant uniform sells for the equivalent of more than $3,000. The uniform from a rival airline is priced at nearly twice that.
The three evolutions of stewardess -- Uniform, Uniforce, Unimaster.
Moreover, uniforms that have been worn are considered more valuable than new outfits and garner a higher price, which should come as no surprise in a nation that sold used panties in vending machines.
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Self-loathing is only a twist away.
#4. Mega-Flushing Toilets
The staggering majority of Western households have at least one toilet, so it may seem strange that there could be a black market for them. But imagine this: You've just given your shiny new eco-friendly low-flow toilet its inaugural poo-slam. You stand proudly and push down on the lever, only to be filled with panic as the commode gives a halfhearted gurgle and spits all your waste back into the bowl, spilling out over the lip and forcing you to take immediate action: shout upstairs to your mom that burglars broke in and shit on the floor.
"And you don't want to know what they did to my bed sheets."
Ever since 1992, American toilets by law could use only 1.6 gallons per flush. Being used to flushing power in the range of 3.5 to 5 gallons, Americans with brand-spanking-new toilets suddenly found themselves with toilets that couldn't handle their dookies.
People found themselves having to flush several times just to hide the shame of persistent floaters and eventually got fed up with it, deciding to smuggle in high-flow toilets from Canada at the risk of hefty fines or even imprisonment, because yes, installing high-flow toilets is against the law. Plumbers found themselves braving $2,500 fines to secretly install the less eco-friendly toilets. Some homeowners would install the toilets themselves, and others modified low-flow toilets to make them more powerful.
For an in-depth look at the lives of hotshot toilet modders, try "Fast and Furiously Allergic to Corn."
Some desperate bear-shitters would even pull off a sly deception, displaying a law-abiding toilet conforming to the 1.6-gallon flush regulation for inspectors before switching it for an illegally competent model once the inspectors left, which is surprising on two fronts: one, for the ingenuity of people wanting to flush their dinosauric poo submarines with dignity, and two, for the realization that "toilet inspection" is a real, actual thing.
This isn't even addressing the sort of "fact finding" mission one has to go through in order to actually get a high-flow toilet across the border. You have to live close enough to the Canadian border to drive over and get one, or know somebody who does who would be willing to run porcelain for you. Or you could call around to commercial fixture warehouses and see if they have any old high-flow units lying around. It's quite a trail of breadcrumbs, and in each conversation you have along the way, you are implicitly telling everyone that you shit like a demon.
"Yes, hello? Do you have high-flow toilets? Perfect. Because I fire out logs the size of Howie Mandel."
#3. Breast Milk and Sperm
If you had a list of "things not to purchase from shady sources," you would think that "bodily fluids" would be right up there alongside "health insurance" and "children." But you would be wrong. Dead wrong.
Filthily, stickily wrong.
We've written before about the difficult yet lucrative market for human sperm -- some of the males reading this paid their rent that way. But in some countries, selling your sperm means risking jail.
That's because in Canada, the Assisted Human Reproduction Act was passed in 2004, prohibiting monetary reward for sperm and egg donors, which led to marked shortages in sperm banks. The reason for that was simple: If you don't pay people for doing something, chances are people aren't going to want to do it. Even if that thing is masturbating.
"If you aren't going to pay me, I might as well go back to doing it in my neighbor's mailbox."
However, the demand for donor sperm did not decrease, which lead to under-the-table chili peeling. In Canada today, more than 90 percent of the semen used for artificial insemination is from back alley sperm deals (which is illegal) or from profit-based sperm banks in the United States (which is also illegal). Anyone caught seed smuggling in Canada is facing up to 10 years in jail and a $500,000 fine.
Not that the ladies are left out of the bodily fluid black market. They can always sell their breast milk.
Is it too much to hope that they sell it specifically to babies?
Many women, after giving birth, produce much more milk than their new baby will realistically need. So what does a responsible adult do with the extra milk? She pumps it out and sells it online, earning as much as $20,000 in a single year. In one lady's case, she made enough money off of her surplus breast milk in just three months to afford a new laptop and a wedding dress.
While it's technically legal (as in there are no laws against it as of now), the FDA is very concerned about the handling of the milk. Milk can go bad in a lot of ways, and this is a completely unregulated market conducted over the Internet. So it's unlikely that the donor was adequately screened for diseases, and the milk probably wasn't handled in a way that would make it safe for a baby's consumption. And when you can make that much money off of something the female body regularly produces without any kind of regulation, you're going to attract some disreputable people, including some women who turned up positive for child-friendly illnesses like HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B and C.
The vanilla, chocolate and banana flavors of the breast milk world.
Even if the mother is clean, the categories of breast milk are puzzling, to say the least. A browse of online milk sellers boasts milk from mothers of "fat babies," milk from moms who are willing to give free samples to prove "quality and safety" (the process used to determine these attributes is not adequately explained) and even milk from women who are willing to sell their breast milk to men, because let's be honest, they have more money than babies.
And as if the horror wasn't complete, some customers have relayed stories of having paid a truckload of money for "clean" breast milk, only to receive a nonrefrigerated bag of curdled milk in the mail.
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The most appealing aspect here I think is the simplicity that Mesh can bring to these scenarios of multiple devices and people sharing data, and this leads to savings in development costs and user training and support. Most of the demos currently focus on
the consumer space , but businesses value sharing information too of course, and I can imagine that this will become a compelling way to build mobile apps in the future, providing that the security is proven. I can see uses for it now, even in it's current
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6 Ways World of Warcraft is Worse Than Real Life
#3. A Whole Lot of Play Time is Spent Doing Things That Have Nothing to do With the Game
You would think that with raiding and guild duties and farming WoW players would be happy to have a free hour to sleep or possibly shower. Some manage to scrape the time together, but others take that free time as a challenge.
So, you wind up with activities like group dancing. In WoW, every player can dance, via the /dance command, and every race has a unique dance (male blood elves do the Napoleon Dynamite dance for example).
Druids can shapeshift, and their shapeshifted animal forms all have their own dances. Get a few dancing bears together, and everybody joins in, often leading to spontaneous dancing bear parades through the streets of a city, or massive dancing bear circles. Seriously.
Others spend time--a lot of time--coordinating group pictures, such as this masterpiece:
If you're not sure what you're looking at there, 25 or so players gathered around this shaft of light, summoned "mounts" (flying creatures) to fly to various heights, then all jumped off simultaneously so they could take this snapshot of them suspended in the beam, a split second before they all plummeted into a broken pile on the ground.
If that's not your thing, you can get a pet. Sure, WoW has companion creatures that will help you in combat and such, but others... they're just there.
"Stay. Good. This is a fun video game."
Some are bought, others can only be won by buying packs of the accompanying WoW trading card game until you get an extra rare card that gives you an in-game code for the pet. Some can only be obtained from attending the yearly WoW convention in Southern California.
And they're worth a lot of money. Not WoW gold, either. Real money.
These pets don't even have the interactivity of Nintendogs or Tamagotchis. They follow you around. They occasionally make noises. That's it. You can't pet them or feed them or tell them to do anything. But god damn will your guildmates be jealous when you show them what you did with your $750.
#2. You Have to Learn a New (Retarded) Language
How many bits of jargon can a single game create in just a few years of existence? Well this site lists over a thousand bits of terminology and slang specific to WoW. Some interesting (and telling) examples:
Bio break: Apparently it is rude to say "pee", and "restroom" is too long to type, because when WoW players need to take 30 seconds to dash to the toilet and empty their bladders, they say "Bio", or if they hope to sneak one in while other people are talking or getting ready, "Ninja bio". As in, "biology has interrupted my game, and I must tend to it."
Ninja Bio Receptacle.
RL: "Real life". It seems kind of depressing that you need a qualifying term to point out when you're talking about real life. Especially when that the term is most used as a negative competing priority. "I'm sorry I couldn't make the raid tonight, RL got in the way."
Wife/Girlfriend Aggro: "Aggro" is itself a game term, used on boss fights (when you're getting "aggro" from the bad guy it means he's focused on attacking you).
Hard as it may be to believe, sometimes a WoW player may have a significant other who does not play WoW. Sometimes this person (usually female in these cases) tends to be a crazy, unreasonable harpy who wants their husband/boyfriend to spend time with them sometimes instead of going on WoW raids all night.
"Sorry, guys, my girlfriend's being unreasonable again."
When these demands become extreme, sometimes the raider will joke to his fellow raiders that he has "pulled wife aggro" and has to go appease that crazy broad.
#1. The WoW World is Plagued by Sexual Deviants
Like any online community, WoW has its share of perverts. One particularly odd manifestation of this is people approaching Night Elf female characters--that's these things:
...and offering WoW gold to take off their clothes and dance. Why they can't make their own Night Elf female character, take off its clothes, and dance, is going to have to remain between them and God because we don't really want to know.
Incredibly, WoW's programmers didn't seem to anticipate any of this and so the game doesn't give players a lot of ability to perform any sexual actions. But horny people with lots of spare time can get pretty creative.
Apparently male night elves have two penises.
Then there's the Deeprun Tram, an automated tram running between two major WoW cities, which has gained a reputation as a place for perverts to secretly have cyber sex (and sometimes they get caught, as relayed in this infamous tale).
Probably the most famous WoW pervert went by the character name "Bronze Mustache". Whether this is some kind of porn reference or not, we don't know, as we don't really know much about the intricacies of the Chinese language.
Googling "Bronze Mustache" is much safer than "World of Warcraft Sex Pervert."
This WoW soap opera carried out among some Chinese players is pretty long and convoluted, but the basics are that "Bronze Mustache" stole another guy's wife, "Quiet Moon", and the Chinese WoW community became so upset over it that there were mass server-crashing protests eventually culminating in a mass in-game suicide:
Their sordid tale is recounted here, including original posts from the aggrieved husband and international newspaper accounts. Sample chat log:
Finally there's this thoughtful blog post and discussion about in-game sex that offers some insights possibly better left unexplored. From the comments:
"On my server in particular we had a swingers guild, where the players would meet with each other IRL, slam it, and then return to their regularly scheduled lives. There were women characters, played by women , that were known to be cyberers. I had more than one girl actually want to call me up and have phone sex. More than one naked photo sent to me.
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When my washing machine drains it sometimes comes up and out of the open pvc pipe in the service closet where the water heater would drain. I've found lots of posts where people speak of the washer standpipe overflowing, but can't find any info on what would cause my problem. When the washer drains I have to stand at the service closet (next to each other in the garage) and watch/listen. First I can hear gurgling, then hear the water coming up the pipe (similar to the sound of filling a glass of water), then I can see the water just before it emerges and floods my service closet and garage. If I turn the washer off and on as it drains this doesn't happen...but not really feasible for the long run. Any ideas?
It sounds like the pipe is partially blocked and water can only get through at a slower speed. The drain at the hot water is the lowest point so that's why it is coming from there. The blockage could be anything, from debris that came in through the pipe in the service closet or a sock that made it out of the washer. Since it's after where the water is coming out of the service closet then you might be able to get a drain snake the problem but you might have to get an expert to get it cleaned out.
lqlarry is likely right, and using a snake to clean out the line is the first step. (+1 Larry)
It could also be a problem with the plumbing vent. If that is the issue, you would likely hear a gurgle after you shutoff the washing machine and the water gets down to the P-trap, not unlike the sound the toilet makes at the end of the flush.
The other issue I can think of is that the plumbing drain is improperly sized or sloped. If that's the case, this problem would have always happened, and wouldn't be a new issue.
We hooked up water hose to a stopper from Ace. It kept water from coming back and force washed the clog out. I did use liquid Plumber followed w/hot water first. The clog looked like big pieces of dried washing powder.
Think air behind water. The drain must be properly vented for it to withstand the rush of water from a washing machine pump.
If the washer drains into a dry well, then the dry well is probably clogged with lint. You will have to dig it out or dig a new one. We had that problem at my son's house.
It's because the water flows out faster than the pipe can drain. The easiest way to fix this is to seal up the washing machine waste hose against the open PVC pipe. Some gaffer tape should do the trick.
Otherwise you could fit a holding tank above the drain which is allowed to fill and provides time enough for it to drain out without overflowing.
A harder option would be to increase the size of the waste pipe so that it can take a larger volume of water through it.
I only had that problem when I purchased a newer washer. I purchased a rubber piece from a hardware store, it came with two clamps that goes around each end. One end goes over the pipe and the other end goes over the rubber pipe to the washer. Tighten the clamps. No more problems with water backing out because of the tight seal. It didn't cost a lot and I didn't have to call a plumber which would have cost money and the problem not fixed.
Get the washer drain piping snaked out. Have the plumber run down the vent stack for the washing machine. This should take care of your problem.
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5 Reasons Being Single Sucks Even More Than You Thought
There's a lot to love about being single. You save money on Valentine's Day gifts, you get to meet new and interesting people and sometimes you even get to have sex with them.
But it's not all knocking boots and freedom. There are some aspects of single life that might, in fact, be seen as less than desirable. And then there are these five facts that will make you wish you got married in high school ...
#5. You Get Paid Less
Single People Tell Themselves:
Of course my married co-workers take home a little more scratch than me! They tend to be older and lamer, and most corporate pay-scales are directly tied to how old and lame you are.
"We deserve more money, because we're so close to death."
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You've got one part right: Your married co-workers take home more money. Just how much you're getting cornholed depends on who you ask, but a recent study pegged it at about 27 percent.
But it's not just age. The above study was based on identical twins where the bachelor was just as educated as his married dopelganger. In fact, even if you and a married man do the same job at the same level of competence for the same number of years, the guy with the ring takes home more than you.
"And I don't even like my wife, you chump!"
There are a couple of possible explanations for this and, contrary to what you might want to believe, none of them involve your boss being jealous of your electrifying sex life. The explanation married guys are most likely to cite is a little old fashioned elbow grease. It's hard not to hustle when the option behind door number two is "let your wife and kids starve to death." Meanwhile, single guys are more likely to take a sick day to sleep off an especially bad hangover, or quit a great job because the nachos in the cafeteria suck.
And even if your married co-worker is the slap dick and you're the responsible one, the perception still may not change. From your boss's perspective, that guy's money is going toward feeding his kids. Yours could be going toward any number of elicit activities he's vaguely aware of. One of those sex parties he's seen on those HBO documentaries, perhaps.
#4. You Work More
Single People Tell Themselves:
In an unprecedented act of kindness, American corporations decided their employees were working too hard and began enforcing something called "work/life balance." Of course they had their selfish reasons. A happier employee will do better work, and get sick less. But who cares? Less work means more time for us single folk to go out and have indiscriminate sex with one another, right?
The Truth:
If you're single, work/life balance is yet another way for the world to punish you for being unloved. One way the "balance" is enforced is the Family and Medical Leave Act, which gives any employee the right to take time off if a spouse, child or parent gets sick.
But what if you're struggling to save up enough money for a ring for your girlfriend of seven years when she gets hit by a bus? According to work/life balance, you'd better have some vacation time saved up. Otherwise, you're just going to have to learn to weep a little quieter, because you're sort of bumming out the rest of the folks in Accounts Receivable.
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There's also the unofficial considerations. Married employees simply have more legitimate excuses to ask for time off: a kid's birthday party, an anniversary dinner, Christmas. Yes, single people are more likely to be asked to work on holidays. The logic goes: You're single, you don't have a wife or kids, what could you possibly have to do? It doesn't matter if you were planning to spend the day delivering presents to sick children. Someone's got to pick up the slack for the married guy who keeps taking time off to attend his daughter's dance recital.
"Dance Recital."
But don't worry too much about vacation time. Thanks to something called per person double occupancy (PPDO), you wouldn't be able to go on good vacations anyways. Essentially, hotels, cruise lines, pretty much anything that isn't a plane or a train, is designed and priced for couples. The travel industry wants as many people as possible roaming the streets in a capitalist frenzy. The more people they can pack into a hotel or a cruise ship, the happier they are. If that means punishing you for being unloved, so be it. Maybe you'll learn not to be so lonely next time.
#3. The Government Hates You
Single People Tell Themselves:
The tax code has something called the "marriage penalty," which is supposed to make married couples pay more. See? Uncle Sam remembers what it was like to be a squirrel trying to get a nut.
The Truth:
Actually, 51 percent of married couples get a tax bonus, and it can be up to $1300 a freaking year. Just enough for your co-worker to take his wife on that Hawaiian vacation while you do all his work.
The benefit comes if there's an income disparity; i.e. one partner is making more than the other. If they're pulling in the mad bucks and their spouse is working a part time job, or just a full-time job that sucks, they wind up paying less. You're stuck with the full tab.
To add a little salt to the hemorrhaging wound in your bank account, married couples can choose to file jointly or separately. So they have plenty of wiggle room to get the lowest taxes possible. So basically, instead of getting a tax break, you're doing the equivalent of buying another wedding gift for all the happily married couples you know every April 14th.
You paid for that wine. And that mustache.
And if you think the government's a dick to private citizens around tax time, you should try fighting wars for them. You might expect the military to pay people who get shot at pretty well, regardless of whether or not they're married. But in fact, a soldier with a ring on their finger is entitled to an extra $250 a month based on a piece of legislation left over from WWI called Family Separation Allowance. They also get an increased housing allowance, which is untaxed money. So basically, married soldiers get bigger houses and enough money to install a jacuzzi in the backyard. But hey, at least you single folks get to play the field in Iraq.
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Lowest price I am seeing is $119.00 with free shipping now.
The 2TB drive is the one for $99. The 3TB is $119
@stephendcomp: Both the 2TB & 3TB drives are $99.
@bcaskey: Yep. 2TB & 3TB are $99.
Nope. 3TB is $119.
@ojulius: Just ordered one for $99. May want to check again, maybe didn't go into effect until after 12 CST
@freemark0211: I see that it did indeed change to $99. But I don't really need one!
If you see the $119 price, look under More Buying Options. Amazon's price for the 3TB is $99.
I didn't see the $99 either, then I logged into Amazon and it was there.
I've looked several times on several different computers using different browsers and only see the $119 price. Limited limited time offer?
I agree with everyone, there is no 3T Seagate drive for $99.00 when the link is clicked.
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I bought the 3T for $99 but is $119 now.
Costco has it for $99 until August 4th
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I've been poking at my Nodal Ninja 5L for several days now. I even pieced together a panorama that is (sort of) four rows of twenty columns (http://schlake.livejournal.com/763516.html). It doesn't compare to Carel Struycken's pictures, but I'm still quite proud of it as a first attempt.
My first question, though, is what is a good lens to use? I have a Canon 1DmkIII (1.3x cropping factor) and a Canon 5D (FFS) available to shoot with. My lenses are a 15mm f/2.8 fisheye, 20mm f/2.8, 50mm f/1.8 plastic, 100mm f/2.8 macro, 200mm f/2.8, and 300mm f/2.8 IS L. The first thing that I noticed is that many of the NN stop plates seem to be for very wide lenses. I would have assumed that the distortion in the wide lenses would be a liability? I made my first multi-row pano with the 50mm, and it turned out ok. I wanted to use my 200mm f/2.8, but there was no ring that caused clicks-stops to happen with overlapping images. I suspect if I buy a tripod collar for it and turn it back to landscape orientation that it would work out for me.
My second question is how would I go about making my NN5L use an Arca Swiss style mounting bracket? I'm quite new to Arca Swiss and have only been using them a day longer than I've had my NN5L.


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actionMethods in Ajax Store.
I'm trying to redesign an app I did by hand in Designer 2, and my server requires that I make a post (get doesn't work) for an orders/list call. In my original code, I have the following:
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I can't find any settings in the Ajax stores or proxies to allow me to do this. Is it possible?
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The report identifies the most significant gangs in Central Texas as the Texas Mexican Mafia, the Texas Syndicate and the Tango Blast cliques the Orejones and ATX.
Other gangs in the region include the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, various cliques of the Crips and Bloods, Bandidos, Hermandad de Pistoleros Latinos, Sureños, Aryan Circle, Latin Kings, and the Gangster Disciples, the report says.
The report says 2,500 gangs operate throughout the state with a total membership of more than 100,000.
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The threats before Christmas led to school evacuations and the cancellation of classes district-wide for two days.
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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] openmpi shared memory feature
From: Ralph Castain (rhc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-29 11:01:11
On Oct 29, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahmood_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Thanks again for your answer. The reason why I had negative view to the shared memory feature was that we were debugging the system (our program, openmpi, cluster settings, ...) for nearly a week. To avoid any confusion, I will use "node". Here we have:
> 1- Node 'A' which has some pysical disks 32GB of memory
> 2- Node 'B' which has 64GB of memory but has no disks. It boots from an image which resides on 'A'.
> 3- There is no tmpfs.
> 4- We installed openmpi with *default* options.
> 5- We run the command "openmpi -np 4 ...." on 'B'
> So 4 processes are running on 'B'. Assume P1 is trying to send sond something to P2. This is my understanding (please correct if I am wrong)
> 1- P1 create a packet.
> 2- P1 send the packet to the network interface.
> 3- The packet is transfered from 'B' to 'A'.
> 4- While on 'A', the packet goes to the disk and do something.
> 5- The packet is again oon the way from 'A' to 'B'.
> 6- P2 on 'B' will get the packet.
Wow, that would make no sense at all. If P1 and P2 are on the same node, then we will use shared memory to do the transfer, as Jeff described. However, if you disable shared memory, as you indicated you were doing on a previous message (by adding -mca btl ^sm), then we would use a loopback device if available - i.e., the packet would be handed to the network stack, which would then return it to P2 without it ever leaving the node.
If there is no loopback device, and you disable shared memory, then we would abort the job with an error as there is no way for P1 to communicate with P2.
We would never do what you describe.
> That is a clear inefficient communication.
> What I understand from your replies, is that if there is a tmpfs, then P1 and P2 can communicate through the memory on 'B' which is fine. But I think there should be more documentation on that.
> Regards,
> Mahmood
> From: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres_at_[hidden]>
> To: Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahmood_at_[hidden]>; Open MPI Users <users_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 1:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] openmpi shared memory feature
> Your original question stuck in my brain over the weekend, and I *think* you may have been asking a different question than I originally answered. Even though you say we answered your question, I'm going to post my ruminations here anyway. :-)
> You might have been asking about how a shared memory *file* on a diskless machine -- where the majority of the filesystem is presumably on a network mount -- could be efficient.
> If you look at the shared memory as a "file" on a filesystem (particularly if it's a network filesystem), then you're right: all file reads and writes turn into network communications. Therefore, communication through "files" would actually be quite inefficient: reads and writes to such files would be pumped through the network.
> The reality is that shared memory "files" are special kinds of files. They're just rendezvous points for multiple processes to find the shared memory. Once a process mmaps a shared memory "file", then reads and writes to that file effectively don't actually go through the underlying filesystem anymore. Instead, they go directly to the shared memory (which is kinda the point).
> There are some corner cases where the contents of the shared memory can be written out to the filesystem (which, in the case of the network filesystem, would result in network communications to the file server), but Open MPI avoids those cases.
> Hope that helps.
> On Oct 27, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> > Thanks all. It is now cleared.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mahmood
> >
> > From: Damien <damien_at_[hidden]>
> > To: Open MPI Users <users_at_[hidden]>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 7:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] openmpi shared memory feature
> >
> > Mahmood,
> >
> > To build on what Jeff said, here's a short summary of how diskless clusters work:
> >
> > A diskless node gets its operating system through a physical network (say gig-E), including the HPC applications and the MPI runtimes, from a master server. That master server isn't the MPI head node, it's a separate OS/Network boot server. That's completely separate from how the MPI applications run. The MPI-based HPC applications on the nodes communicate through a dedicated, faster physical network (say Infiniband). There's two separate networks, one for starting and running nodes and one for doing HPC work. On the same node, MPI processes use shared-memory to communicate, regardless of whether it's diskless or not, it's just part of MPI. Between nodes, MPI processes use that faster, dedicated network, and that's regardless of whether it's diskless or not, it's just part of MPI. The networks are separate because it's more efficient.
> >
> > Damien
> >
> > On 27/10/2012 11:00 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> > > On Oct 27, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> > >
> > >>> Because communicating through shared memory when sending messages between processes on the same server is far faster than going through a network stack.
> > >> I see... But that is not good for diskless clusters. Am I right? assume processes are on a node (which has no disk). In this case, their communication go though network (from computing node to server) then IO and then network again (from server to computing node).
> > > I don't quite understand what you're saying -- what exactly is your distinction between "server" and "computing node"?
> > >
> > > For the purposes of my reply, I use the word "server" to mean "one computational server, possibly containing multiple processors, a bunch of RAM, and possibly one or more disks." For example, a 1U "pizza box" style rack enclosure containing the guts of a typical x86-based system.
> > >
> > > You seem to be relating two orthogonal things: whether a server has a disk and how MPI messages flow from one process to another.
> > >
> > > When using shared memory, the message starts in one process, gets copied to shared memory, then then gets copied to the other process. If you use the knem Linux kernel module, we can avoid shared memory in some cases and copy the message directly from one process' memory to the other.
> > >
> > > It's irrelevant as to whether there is a disk or not.
> > >
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MIAMI � As a Florida medical examiner tries to determine how 32-year-old Edward Archbold died after eating insects during a contest to win a snake, people around the country are asking: Why?
Why would anyone eat a live cockroach? Why did he die when several others in the contest ate the same bugs without incident? What inspired Archbold � who was described by the snake store owner as �the life of the party� � to shovel handfuls of crickets, worms and cockroaches into his mouth?
While eating bugs is normal in many parts of the world, the practice is taboo in the U.S. and many western countries.
Yet people do it for the shock factor, and many do so during contests or dares; just last year, people ate Madagascar cockroaches at a Six Flags in Illinois for a chance to win park passes. Also last year, people ate live roaches at the Exploreum Science Center in Mobile, Ala. And a few years back at Universal Studios in Orlando, contestants in a theme park show purportedly consumed a mix of sour milk, mystery meat and bugs.
Experts point to the rise in reality TV shows and movies such as �Fear Factor� and �Jackass� as egging people on and breaking down the ick factor.
Competitive eaters � such as the participants who scarf down hot dogs on Coney Island on the Fourth of July � are quick to distance themselves from stunts like cockroach eating. Competitive eating is regulated, has rules, and always has a licensed emergency medical technician on hand at every event.
Lou Manza, a psychology professor at Lebanon Valley College, said people who participate in extreme events such as bug eating �are looking for things to make life interesting.�
�At a certain level we�re all looking for things to break up the monotony,� said Manza, who participates in extreme marathons and says some people think that is odd. �We�re striving for something that gives life meaning, something beyond the ordinary. The older you get, you start looking for something else.�
Extreme eaters also participate mostly for fame and not material goods � and they train heavily for events. Manza said amateurs don�t �think things through� when throwing themselves into weird and possibly dangerous competitions.
Case in point: In 2007, a 28-year-old mother of three died after participating in a California radio station contest called �Hold Your Wee for a Wii,� where she tried to drink large quantities of water without urinating in order to win a gaming console. Overconsumption of water throws the body�s electrolyte balance out of whack and can be fatal.
Natasha Proffitt, 27, of West Palm Beach, said Archbold told her about the contest just hours before it started on Friday. When she asked him if it was a good idea, he said �it was not a big deal.�
The store, Ben Siegel Reptiles in Deerfield Beach, had been touting the contest for days on its popular Facebook page; earlier Friday it posted a flyer that said the event was �featuring the soon to be infamous �eat bugs for balls� contest,� referring to the prize of a female ivory ball python.
Sarah Bernard, an entomology student at the University of Florida, attended the contest � held during the store�s �Midnight Madness Sale� � and shot video on her phone of Archbold during the competition.
�I was focusing on him because I was closest to him and he was really entertaining,� she said of Archbold. �I saw that he had a clear strategy. He would push everything into his mouth and try to swallow it with water. He figured out what worked, and he did it.�
She said the participants competed in several different rounds with different insects, and that the last contest involved the roaches, which were three or four inches long.
�The worm contest happened right before the roach-eating contest. So he ate a very large number of insects,� she said, adding that each round lasted about four minutes.
Archbold, of West Palm Beach, won the contest, then collapsed in front of the store, according to a Broward Sheriff�s Office statement released Monday. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Authorities were awaiting autopsy results to determine a cause of death.
The medical examiner�s office said Tuesday it has sent samples of Archbold�s remains for testing, but results are not expected for another week or two.
�Eating insects in a contest is a recent, �Fear Factor� phenomenon,� said Coby Schal, a professor of entomology at North Carolina State University. �But I have not heard of anyone having that type of response.�
He said people may have allergic and asthmatic responses to cockroaches, such as homes infested with roaches, and children are very seriously allergic to them. Dust from roaches� wings and exoskeletons � roaches shed their skins � often triggers asthma in people.
�All insects, if you are allergic to a particular insect, you can have an allergic response to it. Whether he had an allergic sensitivity to a wide variety of insects or just to roaches, there is no way of telling,� Schal said.
Schal said this was likely an allergic response, �but there is always a possibility that cockroaches do carry bacteria but the response won�t be immediate. It would take time for bacteria to be a problem.�
He added that there could be other complications.
�When cockroaches like this die or are sick, they can have bacterial infections,� Schal said. �But the fact that he was the only one affected, it suggests that it�s something about his physiology.�
Mike Tringale, the vice president of The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, said it�s possible that Archbold �hit his tolerance level to cockroach allergens� and went into anaphylactic shock.
Tringale said that such a severe reaction to cockroaches is �probably rare,� however.
David George Gordon has made a career out of educating people about edible bugs. His many books include the Eat-a-bug Cookbook, which features a recipe for cockroach samosas. And though he has hosted his own cockroach-eating contests, he is dismayed by events and reality television programs that focus more on the gross-out factor, than on showing people the culinary side of insects.
�It�s indirectly bashing other cultures,� Gordon � who goes by the Twitter handle TheBugChef � said in a telephone interview. �We kind of like to think all these other cultures are so suffering from lack of nutrition that they eat bugs. Which is kind of like saying we eat oysters on the half shell because we need protein. This is not about nutrition. This is legitimate comfort food in many parts of the world.�


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Is there a reason or is it arbitrary/tradition?
Long lines of text can be hard to read, so doing multiple columns breaks the lines up to something more optimal.
It was shown, by experiment, that optimal amount of text for print material is ~60 characters per column. This was calculated by the ratio between font size and leading which were picked by humans as most comfortable to process. Higher amount of characters per column interferes with brain's ability to scan through text easily, much like you need to break text into paragraphs for same reason.
There's long-standing rules of thumb, and now quite good psychological research, to indicate that ease of reading requires limited line length. The rule of thumb is somewhere in the neighborhood to 43 to 60 characters per line, or around ten words per line in English.
Newspaper and magazine print is usually around 10 pitch, ie, 10 characters average per inch. Printable space on a page is usually around 6 inches wide in a letter-sixed page, 4.5 inches in a digest, 10-12 inches wide in a newspaper (tabloid vs the other format whatever the hell it's called) and the number columns of print is somewhere around (inches × pitch)/50.
(Speaking of references, the wiki page is actually quite good.)
Also when writing mathematical equations, there is a tendency to have a lot of free space on the sides. Using two columns not only to make text reading more comfortable, but it also allows to make a better use of the space on the page, by reducing the white space on the side of the equations.
My guess would be that it is to counterbalance a cost-saving measure. They needed to have the words be below a certain size so they could fit more of them per page; and in that quantity a single column would just look like a big chunk of text. So the reasons are two-fold; one, they reduce the size of the words to save costs by using fewer pages, and two, they partially offset the visual problems associated with having text that small by breaking it up in a way that's easier on the eyes.
The only source available for the 60 characters per line experiment that I could find appears to be from Tomás García Ferrari & Carolina Short done in 2002.
See Test 3 in this document.
I think when Keyframe says "optimal amount of text for print material" that this is related to scanning and absorbing key words, but not deeper reading comprehension levels.
I know that when I'm reading a novel or a even a non-fiction book I pay closer attention than when I'm reading the newspaper. It might be that ~60 characters per line is optimal for that level of casual reading.
Earlier comments characterize 60 characters as being comfortable. I've believed it was to specifically increase reading ease and speed by enabling one to slurp in an entire line. For me, that is comfortable.
I tend to shrink the width of HTML windows that have reflowing text, so that I can gobble single lines. I find the width of an eBook line on a mobile device to be good.


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Prefer a medium to dark roast, but I'm willing to try anything.
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I love coffee but I am allergic to it so I rarely drink it. But I have heard that Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee is very good. I brought some back for the office when I went to Jamaica and the coffee-philes were impressed. Anyway, here's the skinny on it:
These may be more expensive than you are looking for, though. I bought it a lot cheaper in Jamaica.
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Is that a new euphemism for BOC?
I was surprised how much I liked dunken donuts coffee.
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