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5 Insane Ways People Trolled the System (And Won)
We all have to deal with rules we think are stupid now and again -- like the inexplicable wolf skull-loincloth ban at Applebee's -- but for the most part there's nothing you can really do about them. People who make the rules got that power in the first place by being the kind of tough hombres you don't want to mess with. The only thing you can do is cross your arms and, if you're feeling daring, blog about it. Unless you're one of the following people, who exploited loopholes so hard, the system walked funny for a week ...
#5. People Are Wearing Their Luggage to Get Around Airline Baggage Weight Limits
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Getting financially screwed over by an airline is as much a part of air travel as eating terrible airport food and then immediately regretting eating a bunch of terrible airport food right before your six-hour flight. But without a doubt the most obnoxious rules are the baggage weight limits -- none of us believe that the difference between 25 and 30 pounds of luggage is going to impact the flight enough to warrant a $25 fee, but not all of us go so far as to lose our shit, rip open our bag, and put on 70 items of clothing right there in the luggage line. No, that was just this one noble bastard in China.
Although we imagine that $25 fee was looking a lot more reasonable after the first hour of swamp ass.
And he's far from the only one: The most common strategies involve some common sense (if incredibly embarrassing) travel hacks, like wearing all your heavy stuff instead of packing it, opening the stitching of your jacket and stuffing it full of miscellaneous small stuff, or draping a beach towel around your shoulders and wearing it like a cape under your coat. We have no idea how American airport security would react to a jacket stuffed with phone chargers or a guy pretending he's store-brand Superman, but at least one dude seems to be able to bounce around Europe using these strategies with no problems.
Benny Lewis
"My cheapness is fueled by Earth's yellow sun."
#4. Dutch "Robin Hood" Finds Coupon Loophole, Gets Over $60,000 in Electronics for Free
You probably don't think of coupon exchange as the kind of thing you can be good at. It's not exactly a martial art; there's no belt system for advancing through the ranks of being a cheap bastard. You hand the cashier a piece of colorful paper, she knocks 15 percent off the market price of your Nakatomi Scrotum Shaver, and everybody goes home feeling slightly worse about themselves.
Albeit significantly better groomed.
And it's precisely that kind of defeatist thinking that separates you from the mad genius of Norbert Verswijver, the Norwegian black belt of coupon-fu. After poring over the small print of some coupons in whatever the Norwegian version of the Penny Saver is (Flubenhoffer, we want to say?), Verswijver realized that there were no rules saying he couldn't combine that week's coupons at Blokker. A "20 percent off!" coupon pairs quite well with a "$15 off!" after all. He collected as many as he could and carefully arranged them like a miser's Pokemon deck until he was able to pick up high-end electronics, totally legally, and basically for free.
But how much could you possibly get away with before the Blokkens realize you're bluffing them out of an entire store? Well, Verswijver successfully bought 50,000 euros' worth of electronics ... for 60 cents. That may be his most impressive maneuver, but it's not his only one: He's also purchased shipments of frozen food for free using similar systems and donated it to the poor, earning him his reputation as "the Robin Hood of couponing." We imagine it may have had something to do with the hat as well.
Not to mention the citywide rash of sale flyers hung on arrows.
#3. Grape Juice Companies Get Around Prohibition by Telling You How Not to Make Wine
When the United States briefly tried to ban the consumption of alcohol at the beginning of the 20th century, the entire country whole-heartedly embraced the temperance movement by engaging in sober, thoughtful reflection on how badly they wanted to get hammered. If you didn't want to risk your life dealing with Al Capone and the other bootleggers, you could always get blotto on some good old-fashioned homemade wine, just like grandma used to make. Man, grandma had her problems, didn't she? But thanks to some clever loopholes, at least it was completely legal.
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Which can't be said for the rest of her spring break.
Vine-Glo and a handful of other companies sold cans of grape concentrate or compressed grape bricks, sometimes including yeast pills, which could, we suppose, be used to make wine -- but whoever would think of such a thing? That would be violating the nation's newfound vow of temperance, so Vine-Glo included instructions to help their customers avoid this terrible sin, which read:
"Warning. Do not place this brick in a one gallon crock, add sugar and water, cover, and let stand for seven days or else an illegal alcoholic beverage will result.
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"... included hose and funnel should only be used for lubricating machinery."
During Prohibition, people were allowed to make 200 gallons of "nonintoxicating" grape juice a year without taxation. "Nonintoxicating" basically meant juice, but was also loosely interpreted to refer to wine used in religious ceremonies or medicine (side note: pretty much all of our hard drugs were over the counter "medicine" back in the day). Because the term was never properly defined, people took it to mean that you could ferment up some eye-watering fortified "nonintoxicating" wine that would knock your ass in the dirt like a prizefighter, and all on the up and up. It didn't, of course -- they don't call it Prohibition because it's really in favor of hibition -- but with a wink and a nudge, companies exploited the loophole to sell huge quantities of DIY wine, complete with instructions. Because, much like life, getting blitzed always finds a way.


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The 6 Most Childish Things Ever Done in Congress
As an institution, you can't get much less respect from the public than the U.S. Congress does. Ask people why and they'll talk about under-the-table deals, lobbyists and in general not doing a whole lot to fix everyday problems of the working man. And that's too bad, because that's ignoring the fact that sometimes that shit gets truly ridiculous.
And we're talking "drunken bar brawl" ridiculous here.
#6. Congressman Lyon Yields the Floor with Congressman Griswold's face
There's a lot of tough talk on the floor of the House of Representatives, but how often do these loudmouths actually back it up with their fists? Almost never. Almost.
This brings us to the skirmish between congressmen Roger Griswold of Connecticut and Matthew Lyon of Vermont on Feb. 15, 1798. It all started when Griswold started pushing Lyon around by making frequent -- and at the time hilarious -- remarks about Lyon having to go into battle with a wooden sword, which back then was a way to accuse somebody of being a shitty soldier (sort of like asking a cop if he carries a toy gun).
"Yes, as a matter of fact, and I'll thank you not to make a fuss of it."
Defending your manhood was a big deal on the floor of Congress back in those days, so Lyon replied that he had been in many a fight with people from Griswold's state. Griswold's answer ("with your wooden sword?") was followed by Lyon spitting in Griswold's face.
It was on.
Despite having just mocked the man about that whole "wooden sword" business, Griswold immediately rushed for the unarmed Lyon with a hickory walking stick. Lyon was subsequently forced to endure the humiliating experience we all know of being clobbered by a piece of wood while at work.
However, the man's presumably cocaine-heightened 18th-century senses worked just as well for him as the Force. Lyon rushed for a nearby fireplace and equipped himself with a pair of iron tongs, which turned the tables of the battle, to the delight of the Vermont delegation.
The dude in the armchair appears to be having the time of his life.
The two were broken up but continued the fight a few minutes later in the halls outside the House chamber. Despite Lyon catching Griswold unarmed this time around, the reports show Griswold undoubtedly won the fight.
#5. Strom Thurmond and the Piss Bucket
When the U.S. Senate absolutely does not want to get anything done, it has always relied on the filibuster. For those of you who don't remember any of your civics classes, the filibuster is when, in order to stop a popular piece of legislation from passing, a senator just delays the vote. By talking. Forever. He just keeps going until either supporters of the bill come up with the extra votes it takes to stop a filibuster, or the sun swallows the Earth.
"If elected, I promise to incessantly quote golf statistics until my opponents give up and go home."
Today the technique has advanced to where they don't require the filibustering side to actually give a speech that lasts for infinity -- the threat of filibuster is enough to do the job. But back in the old-timey era, if you wanted to stall a bill you'd better believe that you were expected to stand on your feet and start talking. Since actual relevant subjects run out pretty quickly, this means they would just start rambling. For instance, back in the 1930s, Sen. Huey Long (D-La.) filibustered several bills by using such tactics as "reading Shakespeare, reciting shrimp and oyster recipes, and talking about 'pot-likkers.' "
"No, I don't know what a pot-likker is. Why do you ask?"
He was so obnoxious that the Senate passed a rule specifically because of his behavior to require that debate be "germane to the issue being debated."
The king of senatorial jackassery, however, has to be Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.), who holds the record for the Senate's longest filibuster: 24 hours and 18 minutes. What got his panties in a wad so much that he chose to speak for over a day on the Senate floor? The Civil Rights Act of 1957.
"I wasn't nearly as kindly as I look."
But his ultimate enemy that day? His bladder. If the senator has to leave the Senate floor to go take a leak, his speech is over, and so is the filibuster.
That's why, in order to keep the civil rights dragon at bay, Thurmond prepared for his filibuster by taking a steam shower to sweat out any excess fluids. For 24 hours, he rambled: He read the Constitution and the phone book and ranted random musings about random shit.
Oh, and just in case his bladder turned on him, he made an intern hold a bucket in the Senate cloakroom, so that Thurmond could piss in it while keeping one foot on the Senate floor. As internships go, suddenly making photocopies doesn't seem so bad.
"At least these are filled with coffee."
He finally gave up, and the bill passed. The people of his home state knew he had done his best, however, and they proceeded to re-elect Thurmond every six years until 2003, when he died at 100 years of age.
#4. Thomas Brackett Reed Incites a Congressional Stampede
Every legislative body everywhere has a rule that a certain number of members have to be present in order to vote -- otherwise, two dudes could get together and vote themselves king. Back in the day, you needed exactly half of the members of the U.S. House to answer "present" during a roll call to achieve quorum (enough people present to act). But this led to the truly idiotic phenomenon known as the disappearing quorum. When a piece of legislation came up that members didn't like, they just wouldn't answer when the roll was called. So they'd get counted as absent even though they were plainly sitting right there in front of the House speaker.
At one point in time, Congress had the same high standard of discourse as third-grade recess.
This tactic successfully stalled or complicated several fairly dry bills over the years, most often causing the speaker to take roll numerous times until enough people would admit to existing to constitute a quorum. One time they had to call roll 101 times in the same day to get a bill passed.
Such was the unofficial law of the land for 100 years, until Jan. 29, 1890. The new speaker of the House, Thomas Brackett Reed (R-Maine), figured "enough of this bullshit" and cracked down on the horseplay. Reed implemented a rule where you could -- gasp -- just mark a member as "present but not voting" if he was there but refusing to participate. He'd still count toward quorum, and the vote could continue. It was a revolutionary idea that took Congress only a century to figure out.
Congress: Getting it right eventually, occasionally.
Sure enough, Reed's move flummoxed the shit out of the Democrats. When the minority party attempted to block the inclusion of four new elected Republicans from the South, including two African-American senators, Reed called roll and noted that those not speaking up would get counted "present but not voting" unless they declared out loud that they were in fact not present.
All hell broke loose. The congressmen made a rush toward the speaker's podium (with one ex-Confederate congressman actually leapfrogging from desk to desk), where Reed calmly waited for them and/or ignored them. Some congressmen resorted to hiding under their desks to avoid being counted. Others tried to run away, but Reed had another ace up his sleeve: He had the House doors locked long enough to have his way with the Democrats, including congressman "Buck" Kilgore of Texas, whom Reed "calmly" marked "present but not voting" as he kicked down the door to escape.
Congressman Kilgore would go on to invent every Texan stereotype.

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Build Your Own Fabrication TableWritten on December 6, 2011 You can build your own fabrication table!
It was a late night of fabrication in the Circle Track shop. My back was sore from being hunched over, working on our Mini Stock project car for the past six hours. I took a break from welding and thought about what was next on the to-do list for our Mustang, and I realized it was almost time to start building the 'cage and mount for the fuel cell. I could feel my back tighten up as I thought about building this intricate protective 'cage on the floor in the shop. Then I wondered if the concrete floor was even flat, let alone level enough to build something that needs to be perfectly square. And then it hit me--build a fabrication table!
Now, I know it may sound complicated, but building a fabrication table is fairly simple and something you can do at home. If you fabricate or modify a lot of your own parts, or simply need some solid work surface, a table like this a great addition to any shop. It gives you a solid surface to either weld or clamp parts or brackets to, as well as supplying you with a consistent, level work surface, which will ultimately give you higher quality results.
In its most basic and simple form, we're building a table--four legs and a top. Outside of that, the possibilities (size, height, material, and so on) are limitless based on your needs and abilities. Being that our fabrication table will reside in our Snap-on Tech Center, which we share with many of our sister publications, we wanted to build a table big enough for just about anything. We also needed it to be mobile, and act as a storage location for our Lincoln welding equipment.
We started with some extra rollbar tubing left over from the Mini Stock rollcage. Although this is fairly heavy tubing for a table, we had it, and we need the base of the table to be fairly stout to support the weight of the work surface we plan on using (more on that in a minute).
We started by taking some basic measurements. Knowing the top is a 4x8-foot sheet of steel, we wanted to leave enough room around the top to be able to clamp parts down, or simply attach the welder's ground directly to the table.
The first things we built were the sides. Measure twice, cut once, and make sure all of your corners are square. Once you have two identical sides, it's time to attach them. This is where it gets a little tricky. Having a few friends to help keep things in place is a good idea. Squaring the sides to the top of the base is a critical step. If the top of the base isn't square, the work surface may not sit flat, giving you a workspace that isn't level, or worse, something that could fail and collapse if it's supporting large amounts of weight.
Once our base was complete, we headed to Harbor Freight and picked a set of casters. This gave us the ability to move the table around the shop. We went with two fixed casters and two swivel casters, but four swivel casters will work better if you have a tighter area. Once the casters were welded on, it was time to drop the steel top onto the base of the table. Our work surface is a flat rolled 1/2-inch steel plate. The 4x8-foot sheet weights in at a hefty 653 pounds, but this will give us a solid surface for anything we could ever need to fabricate, modify, or fix.
Keep an eye out for our new fabrication table in our Mini Stock series, as well as many of our other project car builds.
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We started building our fabrication table with some left over rollbar tubing from our Mini Stock project. Although this is a little overkill, we want the base strong to support the weight of the 653-pound steel plate we are using for the work surface.After checking the size and shape, we used a square to make sure each corner was exactly 90 degrees.
Before sliding the steel top into place, we went to Harbor Freight and picked up a set of casters. We opted for two fixed casters and two swivel casters. If you don't have a lot of open space, four swivel casters will give you more mobility. Also, be sure to use casters strong enough to handle the weight of the table plus whatever parts you plan on putting on the table.


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5 Absurdly Expensive Pieces of Junk Food
#2. $25,000 Hot Chocolate
It has to be the all-time simplest pleasure of childhood: hot cocoa on a freezing winter day.
And we do mean simple -- you take a mug of hot water, add a 20-cent packet of hot chocolate mix, heat it up and enjoy. If you are feeling fancy, you can add milk, or buy a packet with mini marshmallows, or pay $5 for the same thing at Starbucks, but that's generally as complicated as hot chocolate gets.
"Mom won't let me back inside for another four hours. But I don't care right now, because this is goddamn delicious."
But damn it, your children are going to have the best. When they come in from the cold, they're going to have the hot chocolate equivalent of an Escalade with spinning rims encrusted with African conflict diamonds. They're getting the $25,000 mug of hot chocolate at the same restaurant that featured the $69 hot dog: Serendipity 3.
The frozen hot chocolate (sorry -- "Frrrozen Haute Chocolate") contains 28 different cocoas from around the world and truffles from France. Also, it includes five grams of Swiss gold mixed in with the rest of the ingredients.
Not pictured: Hundreds of cockroaches.
The goblet it's served in is crowned with gold (and diamonds), and then you're given a golden spoon to eat it with, which we assume you get to keep. And as if all that isn't enough decadence, at the bottom of the dish is an 18-carat gold and diamond bracelet, not for eating, but for wearing.
Nevertheless, if you ever actually eat the rest of this dessert, you'll put more precious gold in your mouth than any human ever has.
Except Flava Flav.
#1. The $800 Beer
Beer runs are the third most common reason to go to a convenience store, right behind needing to take a piss and committing armed robbery. And while everybody knows there are the occasional microbrews that cost as much as a six pack for every drink, beer is still considered the working man's beverage of choice.
Damn it, there should be some way to make even our middle class neighbors jealous when drinking the stuff, right?
You Blue Moon-swilling chucklefucks will get yours. Oh, yes.
Enter Antarctic Nail Ale, a beer sold for a whopping $800 bucks a bottle. Why is it so pricey? Well, along with being from one of the aforementioned microbreweries, the 30 bottles produced were all made from actual Antarctic ice, as in the stuff that's melting at an alarming rate. Making a beer out of Antarctic ice is like making straws out of triceratop horns -- it's no wonder it's so expensive.
Nail Brewing
*Contains no more than 2 percent mammoth guts.
Another reason these guys are charging $800 per bottle is that they say the money is going to a good cause. And by "good cause" we mean the Shepherd's Conservation Society, also known as "eco-terrorists." These guys, who are apparently ALL ABOUT animals, brought back some chunks of Antarctic ice after their last whale-saving expedition. Why ice? Because fuck penguins, that's why. So for $800 you can get a nice little buzz, claim to have consumed an ecological equivalent to the dodo bird and donate money to a group that has been known to throw goddamn acid at whaling ships.
"I find the best way to protect the sea is rampant douchebaggery."
If you're uncomfortable with supporting eco-terrorism, you could go for a slightly cheaper beer: a $765 bottle of The End of History. When it comes to this particular beer, there are two things you need to know. One, at 110 proof, this beer is more alcohol than water. And two, it's packaged inside a dead animal.
You thought we were joking, didn't you?
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(v.) The act of defecating into a sock, dipping it into water, and using it to beat someone, preferably in the face.
Josh wanted to pull a prank on garret, so he thought about shlogging him.
Josh was going to shlog garret.
Josh was going to shlog garret.
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(verb) Walking through sewage - possibly derived from "slogging through shit" or "shit slog".
Man the toilets have all backed up! I'm not gonna shlog through that shit!
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not quite shoe, not quite clog; clog with lip on the heel
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The College Mental Health Program helps students meet the personal challenges associated with their academic and life goals. Sometimes problems arise that interfere with students' abilities to do well in college, to continue in classes, and to be emotionally healthy. Personal counseling is provided by advanced graduate school interns under the direct supervision of a licensed psychologist in the Student Health Center and by generalist counselors in the Office of Counseling and Special Programs. These services are free to all currently registered and enrolled students. Our program offers short term counseling for individuals, couples and families, as well crisis intervention counseling. The College Mental Health Program welcomes students of all cultural and ethnic groups, ages, lifestyles, and diverse value systems.
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Idea of playing games and having fun while still being productive in some way is very tempting. Did you ever manage to combine playing ganes with learning or gaining some other skills?
I know that it is theorethically possible but please provide some concrete examples that prove it. I am interested in concrete (measurable) benefits - an argument that FPS can improve your reaction is not very convincing for me.
For instance, I have heard that it is possible to learn something about economy while playing Capitalism or to learn English while playing some MMORP games.


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SUNRISE, Fla. – Florida Panthers Executive VP & General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has traded F Jean-Francois Jacques to the Tampa Bay Lightning in return for future considerations.
Jacques played in 24 games with the San Antonio Rampage this season, recording seven points (5-2-7) and 37 PIM. The Montreal, Que native signed a one-year contract with the Panthers on July 5, 2012. Jacques has played in 166 National Hockey League games for Edmonton (2005-2011) and Anaheim (2011-12) registering 17 points (9-8-17) and 197 PIM. The 6-foot-3, 230-pound forward played in six scoreless games for the Ducks last season, while also appearing in 65 contests for Syracuse (American Hockey League) scoring 21 goals with 19 assists.


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Near Misses: The 6 Worst Movies Hollywood Almost Made
#3. Westworld (2002), Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
Well, robots are cool and cowboys are kind of cool, so robot cowboys should be pretty cool. Right?
What Went Wrong?
The first Westworld movie (in which tourists pay good money to pretend that they're killing people or fucking people, when they're really just playing with robots), didn't exactly age like fine wine.
Though the poster was creepy as fuck, what's wrong with his mouth?!?
To start with, playing cowboys with real bullets might be fun for half an hour or so, but since the robots never shoot back, you end up with a difficulty-curve that makes the first level of Super Mario Bros look like the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. That's right, it's science-fiction fantasy fulfillment that offers considerably less challenge (and therefore less satisfaction) than the average video game.
And why the fuck would you cast Arnold Schwarzenegger as the evil robot cowboy? Evil we can understand. Robot we get. But, cowboy?
This, with robots
How the hell were they planning to explain a robotic Wild West villain with an Austrian accent? A malfunction in the voice programming? Some kind of practical joke from the maintenance guys?
What Went Right?
Politics. Specifically, the 2003 California recall election, which ended with Schwarzenegger elected as Governor of the state of Cal-e-for-ne-uh. With Arnie out of the acting game, the new Westworld was toastworld.
In 2005 it was announced that one-named director Tarsem (The Cell, The Fall) was attached to a new Schwarzenegger-less version of the project, but that was the last anybody heard of this crap.
What You Can Watch Instead:
If it's killer robots you want, how about Transmorphers:
It's apparently a Terminator rip-off masquerading as a Transformers rip-off.
#2. Stray Dawgz (2000), Starring Ice Cube
You know what's cool? Rappers. Also, movies about big hairy monsters that eat people.And if your film's plot is "it's basically Blade, only with werewolves instead of vampires," a big chunk of the geek community would line up outside the theater on opening night. Probably.
What Went Wrong?
To start with, it was going to be about Ice Cube fighting a "new breed" of werewolf.
Said "new breed" was the brainchild of screenwriter Darryl Quarles (Big Momma's House, Black Knight), which we assume means that these new werewolves could be distinguished from the old breed of werewolves by virtue of their being completely fucking retarded. And possibly in fat suits.
Actual photo from the film
This was scheduled to be Ice Cube's follow-up to John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars. You can probably see where this is going.
What Went Right?
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, and probably Black Knight. We're talking about career killers, here. Ice Cube managed to escape from Ghosts of Mars with his film career (if not his dignity) intact, but we doubt that anybody was looking to put him in another action-horror picture. And Black Knight made damn sure that Darryl Quarles never had another movie deal ever again.
According to an Esquire interview, director Gregory Dark (See No Evil, Hootermania) was still trying to get this project off the ground in 2001, but New Line Pictures, in their own subtle way, told him to go fuck himself.
What You Can Watch Instead:
Werewolf in a Women's Prison:
We haven't seen it yet, but it looks like a modern classic.
#1. The Nightmare of Edgar Allan Poe (2001), Starring Michael Jackson
Edgar Allan Poe's gloomy ass pretty much invented American horror. His life story is filled with the kind of drunken, drug-crazed insanity that was made for the cinema. Sure, most of that craziness was completely made up by one Rufus Wilmot Griswold (Poe's bitter enemy in life and official biographer in death), but that's no reason to let the truth spoil a kick-ass story.
What Went Wrong?
This might surprise you, but we're actually not going to talk any shit about the talk of casting Michael Jackson. It's a horror project and Michael Jackson is fucking terrifying. It's like chocolate and peanut butter meeting up for the first time or something.
Whatever you do, don't imagine those two fucking
So, what could go wrong? Well, they could have hired William Malone (Fear Dot Com, Creature) to direct. They could have gotten the script from some guy named Philip Levins (nine episodes of Smallville, including one where, we are not fucking kidding, Superman's dad is wrongly accused of shooting Lex Luthor's dad, which we guess must be what started that whole crazy feud between the two of them).
That's exactly what they did. This would have been pretty much the worst horror movie ever.
What Went Right?
Michael Jackson, probably. Jackson had kind of a string of these canceled projects. Over the years, there were plans for him to play the lead in a musical version of Peter Pan, a film version of the Phantom of the Opera musical, and some kind of werewolf movie that may or may not have been a musical.
Now, we can't say for sure what it was that killed these projects, but imagine that you're in a meeting with the King of Pop, ironing out the details of a major film. How long do you think it would take for you to realize that "meeting" is just a euphemism for "I'm trapped in this room with a fucking lunatic?" Until he started humping your leg? A few minutes after that, maybe?
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We'd love to say that it's the biopic Poe, written and directed by Sylvester Stallone and starring Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings, but that one hasn't been shot yet, and we can't help thinking that the project is destined to show up in a list not unlike this one some day.
No, instead, we've got some dippy direct-to-video thing called The Death of Poe:
If you enjoyed that, you'll probably like Steve's article about The 5 Kick Ass Action Movies That Are Pure Propaganda. And speaking of things that kick ass, Uncle Terry has some sex advice for you. Or show us what the 08 election would look like if the candidates had balls in this week's Forum Photoshop contest. And be sure to get the Cracked Hit List delivered in your electronic mailbox every Thursday.


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I had two Operating System in my laptop.Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7.
last day i reinstalled my Windows 7 in same partition c. also i config a prtition for Ubuntu with swap & / & /boot area.
after reinstalling Windows 7 OS i cant see Ubuntu grub for startup this OS and i go directly to windows 7 .
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St. John Central has had some lean years on the football field in recent memory, to say the least.
The Irish had been looking for that one statement win to turn the program around and get it headed back to where it used to be.
It came on a rainy Saturday afternoon in the form of a 7-6 nail-biter over visiting Cameron at the Irish Youth Sports Athletic Complex in south Bellaire.
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ST. JOHN'S Alex Francis looks for room to run during the first quarter of Saturday's game against Cameron. The Irish posted a 7-6 victory against the Dragons.
"That was win No. 5 for us. I don't care what they say out there (in Columbus)," an elated first-year St. John Central head coach Jason Merryman allowed, referring to the forfeit the Irish were forced to give to Bridgeport by the OHSAA for using an ineligible player in Week 1's 14-6 victory. "That was our fifth win, and that is huge for our kids and the program.
"I told the kids, this is the game that makes people say 'wow.' We've been trying to get that win to get us back on the map, and maybe this was it. I couldn't be any prouder of these kids."
The game featured a combined one dozen turnovers, with each team recording half-a-dozen takeaways.
The Dragons (4-5) took advantage of an Ivan Hall interception at the Dragons' 36 with a tick under 11 minutes on the second-quarter clock. On the second play from scrimmage, 6-8 quarterback Logan Routt flipped a short pass in the right flat to Shane Williams. Williams broke a tackle behind the line and sped down the field for a 56-yard touchdown connection.
Mark Walker's all-important PAT was blocked by St. John Central's D.J. Shoemaker as Cameron led 6-0.
The Irish (4-5) answered quickly as Alex Francis returned the ensuing kickoff 40 yards to the Cameron 30. A Francis run for nothing and a 5-yard motion penalty left the hosts with a second-and-15. Things looked bleak after Shoemaker connected with Dario Paolina for five yards to the 30, but on third-and-10, Shoemaker lofted the ball down the left side of the field that John Alvey, running a post pattern, ran under. Alvey caught the ball at the two before being knocked into the end zone by a Cameron player. Paolina split the uprights for what turned out to be the game-winning point with 8:11 left in the half.
Neither team would reach the end zone again, but it wasn't without trying on Cameron's part. The Dragons finished with 327 yards of total offense but kept hurting themselves with four lost fumbles and a pair of interceptions.
"We just kept shooting ourselves in the foot," veteran Cameron head coach Jim Rogers admitted. "Fumbles killed us. We're young at some key positions (on offense) and that hurt us, but we also had some holding penalties that really hurt. That's just a lack of execution ... keeping your feet moving."
St. John Central's defense used the bend-but-don't break mentality as Cameron continually drove up-and-down the field only to be thwarted by the turnover bug-a-boo.
"Our defense gave up a lot of yards, but we were very opportunistic," Merryman added. "When a big play was needed, we seemed to make it every time."
Indeed the Green-and-White did.
Recovering fumbles were Alvey, Devin Hennessey, Nick Cervelli and Kolin Melko, while Paolina and Francis picked off passes, with Francis's INT sealing the deal in the waning moments.
Merryman also praised the work of defenders Casey Opic, Kyle Whorton, Shoemaker and Gage Tiber.
"Give them credit," Rogers said of St. John Central. "They are a tough bunch, and I told our kids that all week. Jason has done a tremendous job with those kids."
Hunter Yoders led all runners with 151 yards on 21 carries. Devin Starcher added 67 on 14 totes, but neither could find the end zone. Routt completed 7 of 16 passes for 127 yards and the aforementioned TD and two INTs.
The Irish could only muster 70 yards on the ground as Shoemaker had 38 on 11 trips. He also passed for 127 yards on 11 of 20 and the TD, but played the second half with an injured throwing hand, according to Merryman. Francis had six catches for 79 stripes.
Walker had three of the four picks that Shoemaker tossed, while linebacker Waylon Miller seemed to be in on just about every tackle the Dragons made.
St. John Central closes out the season next Saturday against Beallsville at noon, while Cameron host Bridgeport Friday night.
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WHEELING - The West Virginia Legislature could convene in Wheeling to celebrate the state's 150th birthday under legislation being considered in Charleston.
The move would bring state lawmakers and legislative staff to the Northern Panhandle for a three-day period, creating a need for hotel rooms, meeting rooms and transportation.
House Concurrent Resolution 50 - introduced by Dels. Erikka Storch, R-Ohio, and Ryan Ferns, D-Ohio - requests that the Legislature's June interim session take place in Wheeling and coincide with the state's sesquicentennial celebration on June 20.
The measure passed the House by a voice vote last week and is now before the Senate Rules Committee. Storch said the bill should have no problem passing the Senate with the help of Senate President Jeff Kessler, D-Marshall.
On Wednesday, Storch was in contact with Frank O'Brien, executive director of the Wheeling Convention and Visitors Bureau, discussing the availability of hotel rooms. She also has been working with the Marshall County Chamber of Commerce and the Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce to arrange events for the lawmakers. There will be a need to provide them transportation to the events, Storch noted.
"We're trying to make arrangements to do a symbolic resolution in West Virginia Independence Hall so everyone can see it," she said. "We're still working on some items with Marshall County, like a trip to Grand Vue Park and ziplining so people know what is available in the Northern Panhandle."
Storch said it "seemed logical" to hold the June interim sessions in Wheeling to tie in with state sesquicentennial celebrations.
"It is an opportunity for legislators to come to Wheeling, tour the Highlands and have the benefit to see how successful the TIF investment has been - all the businesses that have spun off from it," she said.
Education committee meetings could take place at local colleges, and tours of Wheeling Park High School or other Ohio County schools could be arranged, Storch added.
Del. Randy Swartzmiller, D-Hancock, speaker pro tempore in the House, said the Legislature previously traveled to other parts of the state for interim meetings, but the practice stopped when the recession hit and the Legislature was forced to curb expenses. He hopes a legislative visit to Wheeling might help to re-establish the practice.
"It gave members a chance to see other parts of the state and what's important to other areas," Swartzmiller said.
O'Brien said he has secured 180 rooms in local hotels for the third week of June in the event the Legislature comes to Wheeling.
"It's a wonderful opportunity to expose members of the Legislature to the birthplace of West Virginia," he said. "We will take every opportunity we can to make sure if the Legislature visits Wheeling, they visit places credited with the beginning of the state."


text: I know I made a couple lessons in the past on the woolly mammoth, but I thought since a new Ice Age was released into theaters a while back, kids would enjoy a simplistic version on "how to draw a woolly mammoth", step by step. This came out looking very cute and incredibly vivid. The colors of brown and blue really makes this mammoth stand out. Even though I made a few of these animals in the past, it was still fun to make another. I don't know what else to day since I have already talked about the woolly mammoth before. I guess I will leave you folks to drawing this prehistoric elephant. Don't forget to show folks your artistic work when you're done. Adios peeps and enjoy!


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The supernatural world is rising up against the human one. The weretrappers want to control the humans, and only the immortal Dire wolves stand in the way of total destruction. Stray, a Dire, and his long-lost brother, Killian, emerge as the leaders of their pack. To keep themselves and the humans safe, the Dires must find a witch as powerful as the one who has been helping the weretrappers.
They find what they are looking for in Kate, a human who survived a horrible car accident that left her back scarred with a handprint no one else is able to see. Stray senses in Kate the powers of a witch and recruits her to help the Dires—all the while knowing that she is so powerful that they will need to kill her once she helps defeat the weretrappers.
Stray doesn't expect the powerful connection that he feels with Kate, or his irresistible need to protect her. They cannot hide their feelings for each other, and what once was taboo now seems inevitable…
"These Dire wolves are going to rock the paranormal world."—Alexandra Ivy, New York Times bestselling author
"A raw, sexy world."—Maya Banks, New York Times bestselling author
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Dear Reader:
Welcome back to the world of the Dire wolves! I can't tell you how much fun I had writing this book! There's love and intrigue, betrayal and renewal, and, as always, lots of banter among the Dires themselves.
This time around, Stray's the center of attention, and he's got a big job to accomplish. He must reunite with his brother, Killian, in order to help defeat the Dire Ghost Army, the weretrappers and witch Seb. After that, he can officially check saving the world off his list. Just another day for the Dires, right?
Stray's instincts lead him to Kate, the witch who will help to save the Dires and Weres. And Stray and Kate were just so perfect together from the start. Their road is, of course, a bit rocky, but Kate, like the Dires, is a survivor in her own right. She's a strong character who's not going to be intimidated by anything, not when she's got Stray's support. And, as their pasts unfold, they begin to understand their bond and to welcome it.
Angus Black, our favorite FBI agent is back too, and working with Leo Shimmin, the new head of the trappers. Can Cain and the other wolves trust him enough to accept the information he gives them, or is it a trap? I'm not telling…
I've included the partial soundtrack for Dire Wants below — my typical soundtrack is about 30+ songs, but these have special meaning for me specifically for this book. My characters are as into music as I am (like Stray and his love for 80's metal and hairbands.) I hope you enjoy the music!
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Published September 03, 2013
An aerial view of the image of Pope Francis by Italian artist Dario Gambarin is seen in a threshed wheat field in Castagnaro, near Verona, Italy. Gambarin used a tractor with a plow and a harrow to create the image on a 25,000 square-meter field.
U.S. President Barack Obama (5th R) discusses a military response to Syria at a meeting with bipartisan Congressional leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, D.C.
Laborers work at a coal dump site outside Kabul, Afghanistan.
U.S. long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad , 64, walks to dry sand, completing her swim from Cuba as she arrives in Key West, Florida, Sept. 2, 2013. Nyad has become the first person to swim from Cuba without a shark cage.
A Somali policeman runs from the scene of an accidental explosion at a fuel storage facility within the former United States residential housing in capital Mogadishu.
Grass-roofed house near Painavu, Idukki district, Kerala State, southern part of India (Photo by Anand D/India/VOA reader)
A worker clears dead fish floating on the banks of the polluted Fuhe river in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. According to local media, around 30,000 kg (66,139 lbs) of dead fish have been removed from the water.
Indians shop at a vegetable market in Ahmadabad.
A cyclist rides past a giant election billboard featuring German Chancellor Angela Merkel's hands in a trademark pose in Berlin ahead of general elections on Sept. 22.
The new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge is illuminated in San Francisco, California, USA, Sept. 2, 2013. The largest self-anchored suspension bridge in the world was open across San Francisco Bay, six years behind schedule and five times over budget.


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1. You must message me with your charcter Information before you join.
2. If your charcter is an owner of one of the seven red jewel, you must be a member of a shop keepers family.
3. You can either be Vampire, Mortal, or a Half Vampire/Mortal
4. If your a Vampire you must have two vampiric disabilitys
5. If you are a Half Vampire/Mortal you must have at least one vampiric disability and one human fault.
Vampires have always been nothing but a myth to the people of this secluded town. Within the town there are many shops, and homes, though there is nothing bigger than the somewhat deserted castle. No one has seen the Lord of the castle or his descendents since the seven Red Jewels were given to shopkeepers. Only the seven familys know that there are exactly seven jewels. The Red jewels seem to be some how connected to the castle. Thee things that draw the Vampires to the secluded town are the red jewels along with the rumor of a half vampire child. Right before the Vampires begin to show up as 'outsiders' the castle gates had opened, and one of the Lords decendents have shown up, taking their place as lord. Not too soon after this happens rumors start going around the town that there is a band of Vampire hunters that are living close to the towns borders.
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Job(if your character is at least 15):
My character:
Name: Kari Maria Diamente
Age: 16
Race: Human/Vampire
Faults/Disabilitys: Has Human Nativity, Vampire Rage/Temper
Appearence: Knee length Ebony hair, Emerald eyes, Pale skin(Vampire white), Scars on her hands from work, and wears dark makeup.
Job: Works with her mother in the only clothing store in the town.
Personility: Doesn't get along with people outside of the store. Doesn't have many friends, Her pale skin, and birth circumstances causes most of the town's people to treat her like an outcast. Is very friendly once you get past the inital first glance. Has a very firey temper when it comes to her family, friends, or the shop.
History: Was raised in the secluded town by her mother. Is her mothers only child. Her father has never been in the picture so there is never any talk of him. Her mother told her when she asked that her father was one of the 'outsiders' that had visited 16 years ago, with Really dark Tan skin, Bright blue eyes. Has been treated like an outcast her entire life because she was born of a town's woman and an 'outsider'.
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The black stormy sky hung ominously over the town as the town's people made their way, minding their own business that day. Standing among them was a single girl with ebony hair that reached the back of her knees, emerald eyes that people had said make them nervous when she stared at people. Her skin was as pale as a Vampire's, yet she was not one of the undead, she was mortal, that was what her mother told her anyway. The girls name was Kari Maria Diamente, and it was known throughout the town that she had a bit of a temper. As a 16 year old, she had to help her mother to run the only Clothing store, where the two of them made and fixed clothes for the people in the town. As she stood infront of the store, setting up the signs for that days specials, she glanced up at the black sky, a sigh emiting from her mouth as she spoke to herself. "looks like rain." she muttered as she straightened up, her hands slightly dirty and scarred from the work she did. As she glanced around, her hand went to the red jewel necklace that she wore around her neck, a gift from her mother, one that had been passed down through the family to the first born daughters. Her mother had told her, when she gave her the necklace that there was six other gems and six other familys who had the gems. Another sigh escaped her as she returned to fixing the signs ignoring the whispers and jibes she recived from the town's people.
Name: Perdita Redfern
Age: Over 500 years old, but looks about 16
Race: Vampire
Faults/Disabilitys: Goes into Bloodrage (when a vampire is deprived of blood, the Bloodrage takes them over and they become like wild animals) very quickly, is far too impulsive
Appearence: Long dark red hair, silvery blue eyes, creamy skin
Job(if your character is at least 15): Perdita's father is rich, and sends her an allowance each month.
Personility: Perdita can be at times snobbish, with a "rich daddy's girl" mentality. She is also impulsive, and rarely thinks before she acts. However, to her friends she's very loyal, as well as to her family.
History: Perdita's family, the Redferns, are one of the oldest vampire families around. Perdita left the family house to live in the village about three years ago with her lover at the time. She has since split with him and does not know where he is.
Name: Sanura "Sapphire" Lafey
Age: 17
Race: Human
Faults/Disabilitys: Very sarcastic and overbearing. Doesn't trust people very easily and suspects them automatically
Appearence: Bobbed black hair (dyed), blue eyes, lightly tanned skin
Job(if your character is at least 15): Works in her father's grocery store, but is also a vampire hunter on the side
Personility: Can be extremely b*tchy and nasty; she's also the sort to fling wild accusations about. However, earn her friendship and you have it forever
History: Sanura never knew her mother; she ran away from her father when Sanura was just a baby. Her father raised her on his own, but Sanura has always wondered who her mother was, and why she left. She has heard of the red jewels, but her father always changes the subject when she brings it up.
Sanura Lafey walked down the street towards her father's grocery shop. She sighed at the thought of having to work in the shop that afternoon, missing all the fun. Her father insisted that the shop be open for as long as possible into the evening; Sanura sometimes longed for the day when she could be independant and have her own place and her own money. As she walked, she idly plucked at the tasteful gold choker with the single red jewel in it that she wore about her throat. Her father had told her that her mother had left it for her before she'd run away.
Kari looked up and saw Sanura walking past. She looked down again and then straightened up as she heard her mother call her from inside the store. Her eyes closed as she resopned by walking to the door and looking inside the room. A moment later she backed out of the store with a few clothes to hang on the clothes that ran beside the store. As she hung them up she kept looking around at all the other store signs.
Sanura stopped briefly to look at the clothes in the shop. A sneer crossed her face; she much prefered the clothes she made herself, or those she customised. Sanura allowed herself a daydream of leaving this dead end place and setting up her own shop in the middle of a city.
Kari watched Sanura and then ignored her, as long as she wasn't being bothered, she wouldn't have to socialize with any one. Her gaze watched the open gates to the castle, wondering if the new lord would come out and visit. She switched her gaze to the entrence of town and wondered if any outsiders would come and visit the town.
Name: Jade LaChance
Age: 16 (human years)
Race: Vampire
Faults/Disabilitys: She's a busybody, knows everything about everyone and any new town news and, if you double cross, she easily can backstab you. She also has no conscince(sp?) which makes her a good yet bad friend. She doesn't trust anybody.
Appearence: Shiny dark purple hair, light tan skin, black mysterious almond shaped eyes, deep red lushious lips, long black fingernails, and she always has a heart locket on a black string tied around her neck.
Job(if your character is at least 15): works at her grandmother's herb shop.
Personility: She is very good at eavesdropping and being a shadow. She can in and out quickly. Some have nicknamed her shadow cat and she just laughs.
History:She had lived with her parents up until she was ten. One night, as they were walking home, two men came up and killed them. She had ran into the woods and watched the whole thing. She swore revenge on them both. Since then, she has lived with her grandmother. Her grandmother had taught her how to use herbs and how to forget the past, although it still haunts her to this day.
Jade sat behind the counter of her grandmother's shop. She sighed, bored. The day had been slow and she hated these days, as she could never get any gossip or anything. Her grandmother came in and grabbed some empty herb jars, then walked out. Jade hit her forehead on the counter. She rubbed it. "God, I'm bored." She whined.
"Then why don't you go out and do something or maybe make a new friend." Came her grandmother's voice. She was soon walking back in and putting the herb jars where they belonged.
"Grandmother, you know that people don't talk to me. I'm an outsider."
"Well, maybe if you weren't such a busybody or know-it-all, then you would have--"
"Fine, I'm going." Jade snapped. She stood up and walked out of the door, slamming it.
Her grandmother sighed. "So much like her father."
Being single doesn't make you weak, it means that you are strong enough to be on your own; Being alone could be a good thing, because there is no drama involved in your life, no pain, and free to do what ever you want. Life is too short to be chasing those who aren't even worth fighting for, you are worth more than that.
Ooc: Please people, follow the rules that the owner has laid out. If you PMed her first and she has let you join, you can join. Otherwise, do so.
Perdita Redfern walked thru the entrance to the village. Her eyes automatically searched for the man she had lived with before in the village, but she did not see him. Tho she herself had lived there, she didn't feel as tho she belonged.
Ooc: I PMed her. I read the rules. *makes cross with fingers* lol.
Being single doesn't make you weak, it means that you are strong enough to be on your own; Being alone could be a good thing, because there is no drama involved in your life, no pain, and free to do what ever you want. Life is too short to be chasing those who aren't even worth fighting for, you are worth more than that.
Kari noticed Perdita as she walked in to the town. her gaze looked around anfd back into the shop as she finished putting the clothes up. she walked to the door again and called out to her mother. "Are you sure you want to put these clothes out here? It looks like Rain."
"Kari, just put them up, you can take them down if it starts raining." the woman standing behind the counter called out, not looking from her sewing.
"Yes mother." Kari said as she began to walk back out to the clothes line, and the signs.
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Congress soon will decide whether the United States should begin military strikes on Syria, and the issue cut short the Labor Day recess for some who returned to Washington for briefings.
Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Marietta, Ohio, said he was one of only 81 House members attending briefings for House members Sunday. He has since returned to Ohio's 6th District.
"Given how important this Congressional briefing was for the president to make his case for taking military action in Syria, I was surprised that neither he, nor the vice president, nor any cabinet level official was in attendance," Johnson said. "The decision on whether or not to commit American troops and risk American lives when the United States is not directly threatened is a difficult one, and the president has the heavy burden of convincing the Congress and the American people of its merits. I left (Sunday's) briefing with more questions and concerns than I had when I arrived."
Rep. David B. McKinley, R-Wheeling, did not attend Sunday's briefings, spokesman Jim Forbes said. McKinley has remained in West Virginia's 1st District this week, hosting a town hall meeting in Bethany Tuesday. He also announced plans to speak Friday at West Liberty University's Highlands Center on the issue of exports.
"There will be a security briefing on Monday (in Washington) which he plans on attending," Forbes said. "Most likely, the House will be debating and voting on the issue next week.
"As for now, he's doing what's he's being told to do by the speaker - come back on Monday. He is monitoring the situation and talking with constituents to get their thoughts. As an individual member not on one of the committees, that's the most effective thing he can be doing now," Forbes added.
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-Charleston, also is not a member of any of the committees meeting this week.
"I believe that the president made the right decision to ask for congressional approval," she said. "I will consider the information provided by our intelligence officials about Syria's actions, the path forward proposed by the administration and the views I hear from people across West Virginia in deciding whether to authorize the use of force. I stand ready and willing to come back to Washington, D.C., at any time to consider the evidence and participate in the debate."
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., serves on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Both canceled scheduled events in the state this week to attend briefings in Washington.
Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, do not serve on any of the committees having briefings this week.


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How do I see that there is a group of an arbitrary cardinality? Is this also true for abelian groups? Also, given a commutative ring $R\neq 0$ how do I see that there is an $R$-module of arbitrary cardinality? I'm sure I saw this result somewhere but I can't seem to find it anywhere (books, google,...) Thanks!
closed as off-topic by YCor, Andrés E. Caicedo, Alexey Ustinov, Christian Remling, Franz Lemmermeyer Apr 16 at 5:44
This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave these specific reasons:
For any algebraic theory that is expressible in first order logic in a countable language, and this includes groups, rings, fields, partial orders, lattices, etc. etc., then the basic fact is expressed by the Lowenheim-Skolem theorem, which asserts that if the theory has an infinite model, then it has models of every infinite cardinality. In general, one gets models of the theory of every cardinality above the size of the language (and this covers your $R$-module case).
One needs the Axiom of Choice to prove this, however, and this use is necessary, since the Axiom of Choice is equivalent to the assertion that every set carries a group structure, as explained in the answer to this MO question.
I just wanted to point out that I don't think that the Axiom of Choice is necessary to
construct arbitrarily large groups. Can't you for each set $X$ take the collection of
all formal (finite) linear combinations of elements of $X$ over the rationals,
which then becomes a $\mathbb Q$-vector space of dimension the size of $X$?


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1967 Chevy Chevelle - Lunatic FringeWritten by Jeff Smith on May 1, 2008 Contributors: Wes Allison Tom Johnson's maniacal, 632ci, 1,200hp '67 Chevelle - we call this the Crazy Chevelle.
Tom and his brother are lifelong gearheads, so this Chevelle is the natural extension of a string of performance cars that dates back to a '68 Nova Tom bought when he was 14, which eventually appeared in a couple of magazines back in the mid-'80s. After a stint with drag boats, which is almost a requirement when you live in the Land of Lakes, Tom decided to build a triple-threat street car. "I wanted to build something that I could do everything with-drive it on the street, show it, and drag race it." That may not sound like much of a challenge, but for those who have attempted it, building a show car that can also run in the 8's is no easy feat. Look closely and there is virtually no part of this Chevelle that hasn't been rubbed on, cut, welded, or alloyed.
The effort was built around a complete round-tube chassis constructed by Greek's Pro Shop in Spring Lake Park, Minnesota. The chassis is NHRA-certified to run 8.50s, but Tom has much loftier aspirations. "I could have built the chassis to be legal for 7.50s, but that would have required a Funny Car 'cage. They're too hard to get in and out of for a street car, so we used the standard 'cage instead." A 7.50-second e.t. may sound a bit pretentious until you realize that in-your-face 632ci Rat, with its split King Demons and multiple stages of nitrous, is not just for show. This is the real deal.
If horsepower is king in the land of musclecars, then Tom's Chevelle is no mere usurper to the throne. The parts rundown for this motor reads like a shopping list for a Pro Mod racer. Let's start with the all-aluminum block for this 632. While Dart or Donovan usually head the list, Tom went with an Arias foundation called the New Century block, a newcomer that impressed Tom with its bracing, cross-bolted mains, and structural integrity. This 10.700-inch raised-deck block also raised the cam location, used a larger 60mm cam core, and spec'd 15:1 CP pistons for the short-block. "CP offers something like 13 options for custom ordering the pistons, and we took advantage of all of them," Tom says. Include a pair of CFE-ported 14-degree Dart Big Chief heads and a Jesel beltdrive and valvetrain along with 2.500-inch titanium intake valves, and the lunatic fringe moniker may seem inadequate.
Forget the all-show and no-go concerns, because he's already leaned on this engine pretty hard. "The motor's been up on the dyno three times already," Tom says. "We've tested all kinds of things like rocker ratios, heat ranges for the spark plugs, different weight oils, all kinds of stuff." At first, the power was, to use Tom's word, "disappointing,"so he bumped up the cam timing where the lift is just shy of 1 inch at 0.930 and the power now is a steam-generating 1,200 hp at 7,600 rpm making 930 lb-ft of torque at 5,800 rpm on a SuperFlow 902 dyno. Consider as well that there are also two stages of Wilson nitrous available that Tom has yet to trigger. "Right now the engine is really safe, and we'll start conservatively on the nitrous, but we can run up to 400 hp on the first stage and 250 on the second." We'll do the math for you: that puts this big Rat at 1,850 hp with both stages. And remember, Tom said he was being conservative.
Ironically, one of the most pedestrian of all production automatic transmissions is most often the trans of choice with high-powered cars like Tom's. His good friend and fellow drag racer Ron Flood at Cedar Machine, who did all the machine work on the engine, also assembled the Powerglide. "It's got all the good parts in it, too," Tom says, which only makes sense with near double-century-mark power numbers. This includes a Dedenbear case and a Hughes 9-inch converter that leads to a Ford 9-inch with a mild 4.11 gear set. With this much power, you don't need a lot of gear. The Greek's Pro Shop welded the all-chromoly round-tube chassis complete with a 14-point 'cage to give the drivetrain something to hang on and to help somehow manage all that horsepower. Morrison supplied most of the components for the suspension with help from a set of Afco aluminum coilover shocks.
All the madness happening under the hood tends to distract your eye from the subtle changes going on with the body. Even card-carrying Chevelle guys might overlook the mild roof slice, artfully executed by Central Avenue Auto Body. Once you look, you may also notice the missing roof driprail, the shaved emblems, and the flush door handles. What isn't hard to miss is the multicolored paint explosion that slides down the Chevelle's flanks.
All told, it took Tom and his cohorts 51/2 years to complete this amazing Chevelle. But this isn't the end of the story. He has several dragstrip adventures in the works for the coming year, and there's already a chassis dyno tuning session planned as well as many more street miles. Regardless of where this car goes, it's bound to attract a following. The lunatic fringe always do.
Tech Notes
Who: Tom Johnson
What: '67 Chevrolet Chevelle
Where: Moundsview, Minnesota
Short-block: Let's start with the Arias all-aluminum block stuffed with 4.600-inch-bore CP forged 15:1 pistons, Total Seal Hellfire rings for the nitrous, a Howards forged-steel 4.500-inch crankshaft, GRP aluminum rods, and Federal-Mogul bearings displacing 632 ci. Tom also added ARP studs, copper head gaskets, and a complete five-stage Moroso dry-sump system with the tank located just ahead of the radiator. For oil, Tom uses Redline 5W-30.
Heads and valvetrain: If you're really serious about making horsepower, a set of Dart Big Chief 14-degree heads is a good place to start. Tom then had Carl Foltz's Detroit-area CFE Racing work its port magic, which pulled the intake flow up to around 530 cfm using 2.50/1.88 titanium valves, Isky valvesprings, and titanium retainers followed by a Jesel shaft rocker system using 1.9:1 intake and 1.8:1 exhaust rocker ratios. The Comp Cams mechanical roller is a larger 60mm core that spins on roller cam bearings. Cam timing is, like everything else in this engine, big at around 260-plus degrees at 0.050 with 0.930-inch lift.
Induction: This is the attention-getting part of the car. CFE also built the sheetmetal intake that locates four split King Demon carburetors relocated to sit directly over a pair of intake ports. Each two-barrel flows 600 cfm, making the total potential airflow something ridiculous like 2,400 cfm. Tom also added two stages of Wilson Nitrous Pro Flow nozzles in the intake to add 400 hp in the first stage and up to an additional 300 on the second stage. All this is fed by a MagnaFuel electric pump flowing VP C23 race gas through matching purple anodized MagnaFuel regulators. Tom also has two NOS controllers, one for each stage, as well as EGT probes in each cylinder.
Exhaust: Tom built his own stepped headers, starting with a set of 23/8-inch primary pipes that bump up to 21/2 inches that then lead to a pair of DynaTech merge 4-inch collectors. Because the car sits so low, Tom built his own exhaust using SpinTech mufflers and 23/4x5-inch-wide oval tubing. The exhausts exit through the rocker panels just ahead of the rear tires.
Transmission: The Powerglide uses virtually no original parts, relying on a custom blend of a billet input shaft, 10-disc clutch pack, and other pieces assembled by Ron Flood of Cedar Machine that Tom says is good to 2,500 hp. The Hughes 9-inch converter makes the fluid connection bolted to a Reactor billet flexplate and stalls at a conservative 4,000 rpm using a B&M trans cooler and a 4-inch-diameter Inland Empire driveshaft.
Rearend: The narrowed 9-inch mounts Richmond 4.11:1 Pro Series gears mounted in an aluminum Strange centersection spinning gun-drilled 40-spline Strange axles.
Chassis: If you're serious about going fast, you need a chassis that will back it up. Tom didn't scrimp here either, using Greek's Pro Shop in nearby Spring Lake, Minnesota, to construct the all chromoly round-tube chassis complete with Art Morrison front control arms connected to Morrison spindles and rack-and-pinion steering system. In the rear, you'll find a custom four-link rear suspension with Afco billet coilover shocks to help put the power down.
Wheels/Tires: Minimizing the rotating weight means a set of Weld 15x4-inch Draglite wheels and M/T skinnies up front with 15x14-inch Draglites in the rear mounted with a pair of Mickey Thompson 32x18-15 slicks.
Safety: In the trunk is a complete 15-gallon Jaz fuel cell not far from the Stroud parachute. The interior is sprinkled with a Stroud window net and five-point harness assembly.
Body and paint: Tom had to point out much of the work performed by Central Avenue Auto Body in Minneapolis right down to the 2-inch trim at the front A-pillar and the 1-inch mill job performed at the rear to rake the roof. The drill rails were also shaved, and Tom installed the Percy's Speed Glass flush with the front and rear window levels. Tom retained the stock vent wings to allow in fresh air since the side Speed Glass windows are fixed in place, but he did remove all the emblems, adding flush-mounted Buick Regal door handles. Kenny Zupata spent days custom-mixing the base silver that has pearl, while the blue began life as a Mitsubishi color before they hit it with several pearl concoctions. There's even a little purple added in that was originally a Honda motorcycle color before it too became infused with pearl accents.
Interior: The dash is completely custom sporting an array of Auto Meter gauges too numerous to list. Clint Foner of Big Lake, Minnesota, performed the enormous task of wiring this beast, working around the Kirkey aluminum seats, the 14-point 'cage, the Colorado Custom steering wheel, the Biondo shifter, and the pair of Wilson nitrous bottles behind the passenger seat.
Performance: Engine dyno'd at 1,200 hp with another 700 hp available with nitrous. Tom is shooting for any number in the quarter-mile that starts with a 7.


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I've read that the
snooze button really, really interferes with the wake-up process of the brain. To caricature, in my understanding snoozing the alarm clock can render you a zombie for at least part of the day.
The trouble with the snooze buttons (and with modern sleep):
"But what you're actually doing is making the wake-up process more difficult and drawn out. If you manage to drift off again, you are likely plunging your brain back into the beginning of the sleep cycle, which is the worst point to be woken up—and the harder we feel it is for us to wake up, the worse we think we've slept."
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I love Optimus heaters! This one was my... Review by SMJ
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This does what it is supposed to do, produce radiant heat in small spaces. It will not heat a big room, but will take the chill off a smaller room. Excellent for bathroom, laundry room or as added heat to a small bedroom.
We live 100% off grid, using wind and solar - the low wattage is PERFECT. I bought 2 - one for our bedroom for those cold Rocky Mountain nights and one for the Living Room as a chill chaser. (Posted on 1/11/2011)
Heater heats up quickly and quietly. It... Review by DL
Heater heats up quickly and quietly. It heats a small area nicely. (Posted on 11/27/2010)
a great heater. heats a 9x 12 room , quite... Review by EBC
a great heater. heats a 9x 12 room , quite adequately, had to turn off after 15minutes of use . room got warm,quickly. put a fan behind it and you are toasty warm. good heating at 30* or above. 20* gain in temp. (Posted on 3/23/2010)
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The 6 Craziest People Who Are Overpopulating the World
Millions of us are so terrified of or disinterested in having kids that we'll literally never do it. But the world's population keeps inflating like a balloon because there are plenty of people at the opposite end of that spectrum. Way, way at the opposite end.
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#6. The Fertility Doc With 75 Secret Kids
Let's say that for reasons known only to the fertility gods, you and your spouse are unable to have children. After weighing your options, you determine that kidnapping a baby from a mall is too prosaic, so you go with the next best option: fertility treatments. You find a doctor who makes arrangements for artificial insemination. What in the name of heaven and earth could possibly go wrong?
This guy, that's what. Your doctor is a madman, and his weapon is his own ejaculate.
"You should probably just get the funnel."
The Crazy:
During the '70s and '80s, hundreds of infertile women came to see Dr. Cecil Jacobson, especially since his own eight kids demonstrated that he knew what he was doing, baby-making wise. What they didn't know was that instead of hooking couples up with the anonymous donors created in his fictional profiles, Dr. Jizzenstein yanked into a cup, then put his man milk in his patients' lady parts. Again. And again. And again. Even when it was supposed to be the husband's sperm. But, hell, why would you want some dude's inferior genes when you could have your baby grow up to look like this:
Via Listzblog.com
"Jabba, can I have your autograph?"
It wasn't until Jacobson was accused of treating women with hormones to make them think they were pregnant (when he was really just showing them ultrasounds of their own feces) that people started to suspect there was something fishy about the doctor. And that was when people started noticing their kids' resemblance to the man, at which point countless couples looked at each other and said, "You don't really think ...? No, it can't be ...
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This is the evolutionary equivalent of steroid use in professional sports.
In 1989, 10 couples came forward with their own suspicions, and it was soon discovered that the donors of the fertility program were members of an elite group: Jacobson's right hand, some lotion and petri dishes. Seventeen children had their DNA tested, and only two were not Jacobson's children, but those are just the kids of the parents who weren't too skittish or horrified to come forward. He is believed to have fathered at least 75. Those first eight his wife birthed were just the starter kit; the rest were his secret clone army.
#5. The Guy With 21 Kids by 11 Different Moms
For most of us, hitting age 29 is a pretty big milestone, mainly because we've got one more year to make horrible tattoo and piercing decisions before it just gets pathetic. For Desmond Hatchett, it was around age 29 that he realized he'd made a lifetime of horrible decisions, but with his dick. Because before he even hit his third decade, Des "The Sperminator" Hatchett had already fathered 21 babies with, wait for it ...
The Crazy:
... 11 different women.
If you ever doubted the value of sex education, let the ragged, defeated face of Desmond Hatchett be your reminder. It turns out Desmond is pretty good at making two things: people and minimum wage. And he started on the first one when he was only 18. Can you imagine having four kids in one year ... twice? Desmond Hatchett can. Because he did exactly that -- he once fathered eight children in two years. Somebody call TLC to do a show about this dude!
"Condoms are sort of uncomfortable, so this seemed the most logical choice."
While some of us would have mini-strokes at the thought of siring more kids than we have fingers, Desmond takes the whole fatherhood thing in stride. "It just happened," he says, shrugging it off. Almost two dozen children, magically springing into existence with almost no effort of his own. And the weirdest part was that no one was fully aware of Desmond's rampant baby-making until Tennessee authorities noticed how many times his name kept popping up on their delinquent child support registers.
That was when everyone realized that Tennessee law will only claim a maximum of 50 percent of a person's salary for child support. Splitting half of Desmond's minimum wage earnings 21 ways means that some of his kids only end up with $1.98 a month.
"How much crack can I buy with this many?"
But don't worry, guys. Desmond's status as a good dad is secure, because he claims he knows all his kids' birthdays and names. But that might only be because he knows that a few years from now every Father's Day is going to be like winning the damned lottery.
#4. Daad and His 100-Baby Project
As you're probably already aware, there are cultures all over the world that are still cool with polygamy. Maybe it's not your cup of tea, but hey, live and let live, right? Well, unless making children for the sake of hitting an arbitrary milestone is your ultimate goal in life.
Ladies, meet Daad Mohammed Al Balushi.
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If you've had a baby in the last couple of years, there's a good chance you've already met him.
The Crazy:
A one-legged polygamist in the Middle East set his sights on the seemingly impossible: fathering 100 children by the year 2015. And at the age of 64, he's already close to reaching his goal.
In 2011, Balushi and his enormous brood of 92 were spread among 17 houses in Ajman, within the United Arab Emirates. Shariah law only allows a maximum of four wives at a time, but that hasn't put a damper on Balushi's people-manufacturing operation. He has happily embraced serial divorce and remarriage, with 18 wives and exes under his belt and more to come. And just to show that he's a nice guy, each divorced wife is cared for financially and has her own family home.
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Wait, is that Fred Armisen?
And Big Daady's personal population explosion isn't just for his own benefit, either. In 2002, Balushi was honored by Shaikh Zayed of Ajman for having so many children. At the celebration, he made the promise that he would produce 100 children by 2015, a promise he has not taken lightly. The new Shaikh continues to support Balushi's endeavors, paying all expenses for the marriage to his 18th wife. But according to Balushi's own words, she probably shouldn't get too cozy:
"I never eat frozen or canned food. I always go for the fresh -- in fact, my wives are also fresh, because I never marry a divorcee or widow."
"Just keep the dresses on, kids. I'll be back."


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TOPEKA, Kan. – The City of Topeka will begin as early as today (Tuesday, April 2nd) control-burning grassland properties it owns. Wind and weather conditions will determine when to burn. The controlled burning is expected to continue into next week.
Areas to be burned include:
· NE Chester behind the Wastewater Treatment Plant in the Oakland neighborhood
· Auburndale Park stormwater detention facility off I-70 East of the MacVicar exit
· Garfield Park wetland area east of Garfield Park Community Center along the old Soldier Creek channel
· Jackson Street stormwater basin from 5th to 8th Street (burning at this location will not start until Saturday)
Burning helps the City control woody and invasive species, while promoting the renewal of native grass species which are necessary for proper function of stormwater green infrastructure. The Topeka Fire Department will be notified when burning begins, and when sites are secured after burning. Permits have been obtained for each of these areas.


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2007 Grand National Roadster Show - Saturday CoverageWritten by on January 18, 2007
If you were in Southern California Saturday morning there was no better place to be than in Pomona for the Grand National Roadster Show. Building Nine was stuffed with people getting a look at a once-in-a-lifetime assembly of about 60 of the Top 75 Deuces as well as the 10 Deuce pedal cars built by some of the top builders of today.
The Cruise-in was filling up the areas around the buildings with hot rods that were driving in, many of which would look equally at home on a turntable inside. Check back later as we bring more coverage of these drivers.
America's Most Beautiful Roadster is the most prestigious prize at the Grand National Roadster Show, perhaps the most prestigious award in the hobby. Here is the slate for this year's AMBR award. Which do you think will roll out of here with the trophy?
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Bob Dutton did a lot of the work on his '41 Ford including the body mods and custom candy green paint.Hot Rods by Altered Engineering brought out Jim Quasts' original tin '29 Ford RPU. A Ford Racing 385hp small-block provides plenty of power.
This black '33 Willys, stretched six inches, is the property of Bruce Cohn, was built by Ron Attebury and Matt Dowd at Ron Attebury Street Rods. The all-steel body on a tube frame chassis is powered by a GM 502 fuel-injected big-block with aluminum heads.
Barry's Speed Shop built this Deuce, nicknamed F-32, for Dennis DeCamp, with custom metalwork by Marcel, an aluminum 427 Ford engine, Tremec TKO500 trans, and Winters quickchange.Readers of Rod & Custom have followed the buildup of Troy Ladd's "Respect Tradition" '32 roadster, built from a sectioned Brookville body. The 392 Hemi engine has a race heritage and is fed via a Hilborn injection system converted to EFI. This roadster is a project car for Troy's shop, Hollywood Hot Rods.Bill Freni from Laguna Beach, California, aimed for, and nailed the early Sixties theme with this beautiful blue 'flake '32, packed with a small-block and rolling on wide whites and Radir five-spokes.
Fans of green and purple are keeping their fingers crossed for Xtreme Thunder,Steve Barton's '32, built by Jordan Quintal of Super Rods by Jordan. Marcel Delay prepared the handbuilt body, while Boyd Coddington's Garage put together the frame. The eye-catching powerplant is a 904ci DOHC Joe Schubeck engine.Monochrome orange is a great tone choice for this fendered'35 Chevy, created by Barry's Speed Shop and owned by Carl Sprauge and Custom Auto Sound. Underneath it's a Kugel independent suspenion-on the inside, a custom interior from Gabe's-on the outside, all that orange from Speed Shop Custom Paint.Jesse greening from greening auto company in cullman, Alabama, built and owns this deep red open-wheeled roadster. Jesse dropped a 454 Chevy onto the rails and neighbor Paul Atkins came through with the first-class interior.
John Lawson's rotating display evokes the Motorama displays from the '60s, but the British racing green full-fendered Deuce is a blend of contemporary and traditional. The body is from Dearborn Deuce. The drivetrain includes a 572ci Rat motor, TH400 automatic, and Winter quickchange.At 19 years old, Ashley Webb from Flint, Michigan, is the youngest AMBR competitor at the GNRS this year. Her father Dan did much of the work on this completely custom fabricated roadster, built using a Brookville body, inspired in design by the Harry Miller race cars. Power is from a Ford 2.3L engine with a Zakspeed head.Jerry Kugel from Kugel Kustoms put together this '32 Speedster, with a mid-engine Oldsmobile Aurora tied to a 4T80. The body is all handformed aluminum by Marcel, riding on a Kugel chassis.
Never one to follow the crowd, So-Cal Speed Shop is displaying it's AMBR entry dissassembled. The Spencer2, was a project originally started ten years ago by the late Doane Spencer, and finally completed by So-Cal in the spirit of Doane's original design, using an original body and frame. A Roush-prepped 289 was chosen to power the '32, which according to So-Cal's Jimmy Shine, is the first driven-in, body-off competitor in AMBR history.


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From German Soccer Field to New Hampshire Wedding: volunteer firefighter thanks bone marrow donor for "gift of life"
Registering to be a bone marrow donor is easy. Your gift could save one life, and change many others forever.
When 19-year-old Korey Pierce was diagnosed with aplastic anemia in 2007, he faced a dismal future. After a year of care his doctors wanted to try another treatment: he needed a bone marrow transplant.
"His only real chance for a normal lifespan without risk for a significant infection was to get a bone marrow transplant," said Dr. John Hill, director of Allogeneic Transplantation at Norris Cotton Cancer Center's Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BMT) program, and a member of Pierce's treatment team.
It started with a German soccer team…
At about the same time, an entire soccer team in Muenster, Germany was registering with Delete Blood Cancer DKMS Bone Marrow registry, hoping to provide a stem cell match for a teammate's mother. One of those athletes, Fabian Kaempf, was not a match for his friend's mother−but he was for Pierce, who lived thousands of miles away in Ashland, NH. Because of Kaempf's "gift of life," Pierce had a successful bone marrow transplant at DHMC in 2008.
Pierce wanted to thank his "genetic twin" and asked for his name. A friendship developed as the two stayed in touch on Facebook, and when Pierce felt well enough to plan a wedding he knew Kaempf had to be at the ceremony. "He was the first person I asked to come," he said. "I didn't care that we'd never met. He's like a brother to me!"
"Korey might not have been here were it not for Fabian"
They finally met face-to-face on February 13, 2013 at a bus stop in Plymouth NH as Kaempf arrived in town for the wedding. They were surrounded by a cheering crowd—NCCC staff, Pierce's colleagues from the volunteer fire department, family and friends, and his soon-to-be- bride, Amy Arbour.
"Korey may not have been here were it not for Fabian, so we're very, very delighted that he'll be here with us," she said.
"If I didn't have all of you, I wouldn't have been able to do it."
Pierce acknowledges the support he's received over the years. A volunteer fire-fighter in Ashland, he helped with bone marrow drives in New Hampshire and two who registered at those drives—a local police chief and a firefighter—later became life-saving matches to others. And he made sure that Kaempf met the DHMC team that had helped him through difficult times over the years.
Cancer care is a team effort
Cancer care is always a team effort. Given the complicated nature of Pierce's initial illness, transplant process, and subsequent complications from the graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) that followed, his care involved a very large team at DHMC: researchers; the transplant group; infectious disease specialists; and members of orthopedic, infusion room, blood donor, GI, ICU, Hematology Special Care Unit, and 1 West staff.
"We've all known Korey since the start with this," said Kate Wilcox, a transplant nurse coordinator at NCCC. Another of the unit's transplant nurse coordinators, Lynn Root, agreed: "It's what I like most about my job. We have that continuity through the whole process with patients, from the initial consult to post transplant care."
At a celebration at NCCC on February 14, 2013, people lined up to embrace Pierce and to meet the donor. "There was so much support in every different part of the hospital," he told them. "If I didn't have all of you, I wouldn't have been able to do it."
But no member of Pierce's team wanted to be singled out for credit: Doctors, nurses, and staff talked of Pierce's spirit, praising his persistence, humor, and charismatic personality. Dr. Kenneth Meehan, director of the Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program, credited Kaempf.
"Seeing Korey come fact-to-face with his donor means a lot to everyone who has been involved," he said as he presented Kaempf with a certificate from the team, in appreciation for his "gift of life."
Kaempf replied: "I am only a small part of everyone who helped−thank you to all of you for making Korey's life more awesome." And Dr. Hill noted that all involved in the process are given a gift.
"What we get back is the positive spirit we see in our patients," Hill said in his remarks. "Korey redefines resilience almost every day. What we get back is what we learn from our patients about life and living."
For more information about registering about becoming a donor, visit Be the Match or Delete Blood Cancer. For more information about Norris Cotton Cancer Center's Blood and Marrow Transplant program, visit cancer.dartmouth.edu/bmt
February 25, 2013
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