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Replacement Receiver Saga- Need DIRT help
Posted 10 October 2012 - 08:38 AM
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I also hope my post draws attention to a DIRT member to help you....
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Posted 10 October 2012 - 09:32 PM
My 722K receiver finally died after 3 years. Contacted DISH and after some basic troubleshooting they agreed it needed to be replaced and would send out another 722K right away, stating it would take 3-5 business days. The next day received an email from DISH stating the replacement receiver was shipped along with the UPS tracking number. So far so good. Kept checking the UPS tracking status the first few days but it did not change from: "A UPS shipping label has been created. Once the shipment arrives at our facility, the tracking status--including the scheduled delivery date--will be updated.". Contacted DISH after the weekend on the 5th day and after a long delay was told that the receiver would arrive at my home the following day (even though the UPS tracking still showed UPS had not received the package). The next day came and the receiver did not arrive. Contacted DISH again last night and got basically the same run around, was told this time the receiver would arrive in 2 days (the UPS tracking status still has not changed). When I asked where she got the new shipping date from she said that's what it shows in my account (I don't see that date anywhere). I don't have a lot of confidence that the replacement receiver will arrive tomorrow, it seems to be stuck in some black hole somewhere. Hoping someone from the DIRT team can help track down the replacement receiver and get it shipped. No TV for over a week now!
I had a situation similar to this - go to you dish account, on-line, and check "my shipments" (I think that is what it is called.) I had one that showed Ordered, but not Shipped. Like you said, it fell into a black hole, and they weren't very helpful in getting the situation resolved.
I wish you well with this!
Posted 11 October 2012 - 06:32 AM
But I remember when I worked at Dish, that if the agent set up the replacement in a certain way it would be possible for the shipment to show it got processed on the agents side and would continue to do show the usual tracking info, once it surpassed the shipment date it would show the next day as shipment date.
Iirc it would require for an ERT agent to be engaged (can be done by agent rather then customer) to clear off the order and reset it.
DIRT should be able to do it too.
Posted 11 October 2012 - 07:50 AM
Posted 11 October 2012 - 10:11 AM
Your sticky isn't very obvious and does not indicate who is online. Is there a way you can be more helpful about contacting DIRT than just a post in the dish forum "need DIRT help"?
See this thread for a list of the DIRT members at our forum. Hopefully one of them will catch this thread.
Posted 11 October 2012 - 01:03 PM
Your sticky isn't very obvious and does not indicate who is online. Is there a way you can be more helpful about contacting DIRT than just a post in the dish forum "need DIRT help"?
you've been here long enough to knew: send a PM to any DIRT member
Posted 11 October 2012 - 04:57 PM


text: calbear13 September 26, 2013 1:22 AM Last Edited 1121 days ago "specially revised schedule", I.e. a blatant shameless cash grab to try and make more people buy tickets for Saturday. I couldn't make it that day anyway, and now knowing my money will only be good for one race on sunday I won't be going at all. What about all the people that were presold more expensive Sunday tickets who now get to enjoy your specially revised schedule? Great business plan you greedy a*holes, your plan to kill WSBK is getting off to a great start. Reply Report abuse 1 agree 0 disagree

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UPEI downs Acadia 6-1
© Jason Malloy
Acadia forward Nicolas Choinard looks for a teammate while carrying the puck behind the UPEI net Saturday during university hockey action in Wolfville. Acadia lost 6-1.
The UPEI Panthers blew open a close game with a four-goal second period en route to a 6-1 victory over Acadia Saturday night.
The loss was the Axemen's fourth straight and dropped them to fifth in the conference standings.
Matt Carter scored a pair of goals for the winners while singles went to Jordan Knox, Mike MacIsaac, Jared Gomes and Chris Dasousa.
Michael Ward's unassisted goal in the third period accounted for the only Axemen tally.
Evan Mosher was tagged with the loss, giving up four goals before being replaced midway through the game by Peter DiSalvo.
The Panthers held a 1-0 lead after the first and a 5-1 lead after 40 minutes.
Acadia (15-9-2) has two regular season game remaining. They host Dalhousie Friday before travelling to Halifax Saturday to play Saint Mary's. Both games are 7 p.m. starts.


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Victor Davson, a founding director of Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, and himself an artist of expressive depths, will be showing "Of Loss and Desire," a series of paintings and drawings about his early years in Georgetown, Guyana. The show runs through June 24 at the Kedar Studio of Art in Newark. Davson is a fixture on the arts scene in the region, and in his personal work he explores memories of his youth, particularly the annual parade of masquerading visitors who came to his family's house every Christmas day. Davson sees the outlandish characters created by this folk art tradition as metaphors for people of the African Diaspora, who were able to survive their transportation by recreating themselves in their New World.
Guyana's traditions are unique, not only as the only English-speaking country on the northern coast of South America but also as the only part of the larger anglophone Carribbean culture that isn't confined to an island. Isolated and geographically rich, with jungles and marshlands for borders, its culture developed its own lilt, which Davson's "Limbo/Anansi" drawings and "Bad Cow Comin'" paintings explore. His paintings on LP vinyl album covers — many of them tokens of the sprawling American cultural powerhouse just across the shallow ocean to the north — help him examine the meaning and promise of emigration, particularly in light of the upheavals of the 1960s and '70s. His art is marked by the anti-colonialism that shaped the second half of the 20th century.
The Kedar Studio of Art is on the second floor of 585 Broad St. in Newark, not far from the entrance to Aljira. Kedar Studio is open Saturday, 1-4 p.m., and by appointment. For an appointment or more information call (973) 985-4284 or see kedarstudio.com.
Technology in Tension at Grounds for Sculpture
The new Spring/Summer shows at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton are all about the devices that help us negotiate our contemporary world. The headliner is sculptor James Surls, a Colorado-based constructivist whose propeller- and tubular-frame sculptures express his title, "In Balance," very well. Surls builds structures of wood and metal that often seem like elaborate parodies of fundamental structures in Nature: spirals, flowers, thorns and weeds are sources of inspiration, frequently appliqued with eyes or traced outlines of human hands.
In "The Art of Invention," Daniel A. Henderson, who is perhaps best-known for his contributions to the wireless picture phone, shows nine of his monumental sculptures based on classic 20th century technologies. Made of marble, stone, steel and bronze, each work is meant the contrast with the fugitive materials most of today's machines employ. His work is complemented by "Plugged In," an exhibit of seven works in interactive and electronic media that explore the potential for technology to open new channels for artistic expression, each establishing a multi-sensory experience in which the viewer is both an observer and a participant in the realization of the work. Christopher Ault, associate professor at The College of New Jersey, acted as guest curator for the show, bringing in work by Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Scott Fitzgerald, Ted Hayes, John Kuiphoff, Philip Sanders, Daniel Shiffman, and Raphael Zollinger.
Grounds For Sculpture is at 18 Fairgrounds Road in Hamilton; open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Admission is $12 adults, $10 seniors, and $8 children (ages 6-17; children 5 and under free). For more information call (609) 586-0616 or visit groundsforsculpture.org.
Show Me the Money
The Guggenheim Museum tomorrow opens its annual Hugo Boss Prize exhibition, a one-man show by a contemporary artist selected by Guggenheim curators, independent critics, and outside artworld officials, like the head of the Nationalgalerie, Berlin. This year's winner, the eighth since the prize was inaugurated in 1996, is German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann, who was awarded a $100,000 honorarium and the lease on the museum's gallery for a solo show. And, in an unusual essay into money art, Feldmann has decided to pin 100,000 used one dollar bills in overlapping sequence on the gallery walls.
Art about money, or even made from money, is not entirely without precedent; in 2009, an Andy Warhol silkscreen painting, "200 One Dollar Bills," sold for $43.8 million at a Sotheby's auction, for example. But it is rare for an artist to use an actual payment, like a restauranteur framing his first dollar, as part of his art. Though it does fit in with Feldmann's personal artistic practice, which is all about everyday objects displayed in a museum setting.
"The Hugo Boss Prize 2010: Hans-Peter Feldmann" will be up through Nov. 2. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is at 1071 5th Ave. at 89th Street in New York City. Open 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Sunday-Wednesday, 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m.-7:45 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $18 adults, $15 seniors and students, children under 12 free. For more information call (212) 423-3500 or visit guggenheim.org.


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Lost Jobs and Health Insurance: An Analysis of the Impact of Employment Volatility on Firm-Provided Health Insurance
Fredrik Andersson
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
Iben Bolvig
University of Aarhus
Matthew Freedman
Drexel University
Julia Lane
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
November 2, 2011
Applied Economics, Vol. 43, No. 32, 2011
It is an established fact that there are high levels of employment volatility in the United States. Despite the importance of employer-provided benefits in the US health insurance system, the impact of prior job instability on one's future ability to obtain insurance coverage is not well understood. This paper finds a negative relationship between the volatility of a worker's employment and her likelihood of receiving firm-provided health insurance. Previous employment volatility reduces each of the four factors necessary to receive such insurance: a worker's subsequent chances of getting a job, her chances of getting a job in a firm that offers coverage, her chances of staying with the firm long enough to become eligible for coverage, and her ability to take up insurance if offered. The most important impact is on the last: her ability to take up insurance if offered. Lack of employment is not the only, and not even the largest, barrier to individual coverage under this system. This finding has important policy implications, particularly given the recent tendency of employers to shift the cost of insurance premiums onto their employees.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 55
Keywords: Employer-Provided Health Insurance, Employment Volatility, Job Instability
JEL Classification: J32, J63
Date posted: November 3, 2011
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Jean-Philippe Fecteau makes his way through the brush to a small river with a pack on his back.
There he takes out a container of bacterium, dilutes it and begins to spray the calm water's surface.
He's killing mosquito larvae and it's a tricky task.
The phrase "mosquito spraying" often conjures up the image of a plane flying overhead with clouds of insecticide falling onto the foliage below.
Mosquito larvae will attach itself to just about anything. It's crucial to catch the larvae before it matures, because the insecticide used only works on larvae. Jean-Philippe Fecteau checks for larvae. Photo by Jenny McCarthy/Transcontinental Media
Happy Valley-Goose Bay - Jean-Philippe Fecteau makes his way through the brush to a small river with a pack on his back.
There he takes out a container of bacterium, dilutes it and begins to spray the calm water's surface.
He's killing mosquito larvae and it's a tricky task.
The phrase "mosquito spraying" often conjures up the image of a plane flying overhead with clouds of insecticide falling onto the foliage below.
In Happy Valley-Goose Bay, the mosquito team consists of two men on the ground and occasionally a helicopter covering an area of nearly 2,000 square kilometres.
Working in rotations, 22-year-old Fecteau and Jean-Francois Guay cover designated areas and meet up to do testing or to compare results.
The company they work for, GDG Environment, has been hired by the Department of National Defence to spray mosquitoes in the areas surrounding the military base.
They spray as far as 35 kilometres on each side of the base.
Recently, Fecteau covered a circular area of 10 kilometres, encompassing three lakes, on foot. The trek is through brush and forest, but he's confident in his abilities.
"I have a GPS, but I know most of the way already," he said.
Depending on the weather, he goes back to each spot every seven to 14 days.
It's crucial to catch the larvae before they mature, because the insecticide they use only works on larvae. It's a bacterium that occurs naturally in the environment and is geared toward the characteristics of the black fly and the mosquito. It has not been shown to harm other organisms, including humans, in 20 years of testing.
Fecteau's job is not done after he completes the daily spraying.
Depending on the weather, development times change for the larvae and he has to monitor to make sure he doesn't miss out on the right time to spray, which would mean the larvae hatches and more mosquitoes are born.
It requires careful planning, and Fecteau charts the stages of the larvae at each area so he knows when to move in.
To make sure the spray is working, Fecteau and Guay are required to do two or three tests per week with a witness.
In the evenings, they use a net to trap flies on and off the base and compare the numbers they catch in both areas. They are supposed to achieve a 90 per cent efficiency rate, and according to their chart they generally do.
This time, Guay caught 41 black flies on the base and more than 500 off the base, for an efficiency rate of 98 per cent.
Fecteau can answer just about any question about flies and mosquitoes, from their biological makeup to the number you can expect to have flying around your head in certain areas (he's netted more than 1,000 black flies in five minutes).
He spends most of his days tromping through the trees and enjoys it.
"It's what I would be doing if I were at home and what I will be doing for the winter - hunting, trapping and fishing."
An ideal job for the applied ecology graduate, it's not without challenges.
Fecteau said he once broke his ankle walking through a forest of burned stumps and downed trees.
"I had a CB radio but I was down where there was no reception and I had to walk two kilometres with my broken ankle to get out of there."
The worst thing was being laid up with nothing to do for two weeks.
He also said it's a challenge being away from his family and friends for so long.
"It's a challenge keeping morale," he said. "You're gone for the whole summer."
Despite the challenges, Fecteau and Guay say they are happy with what they call their dream jobs and are serious black fly and mosquito hunters.


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Which Hot Athlete Will Hide His Boyfriend Forever To Keep The Endorsement Deals Flowing?
BLIND ITEMS — "Men would be shocked – and women would be heartbroken – to learn that this popular and good-looking athlete has already given his heart away… to another man. His salary and endorsement deals are far too lucrative for him to come out of the closet, so he keeps up a macho appearance by fake-dating beautiful (and occasionally famous) women. His real-life gay partner is a man who frequently accompanies him when he travels, is a bit older than him, and is sometimes introduced as his 'cousin' or 'business partner.'" [via]
Read the item, it says he is endorsement gold mine, the names y mentioned are not.
Its the Jeter. SO obvious.
Hahahaha… Andy.
Cristiano Ronaldo.
@Darling Nikki: I gotta agree.
Ronaldo. He's beautiful despite being a douche
This is sad on many different levels.
Ben Cohen?
Jeter is a good guess. But the "Andy" thing in the picture is ominous. And @Harrison put the haha? If it's not Jeter, I haven't a clue.
What is "all of them"?
I'll take Potent Potables for $100, Alex…
Andy who? Check blind gossip where is this link is from. It's Jeter.
ENDORSEMENTS people, look at endorsements!
so cheap….
so sad that money rules everyone lives…even gay athelites…
I just thought it was interesting that normally the "blind item" posts come with a not-quite-full-photo-but-enough-to-know-who-we-are-supposed-to-think-it-is photo, and this one wasn't that. Of course, I also know that this board game is called "Guess Who."
You have to tell me because I am Australian and I will never guess.
Andy Roddick.
Although, yeah, Deter is gay IMHO.
all im thinking of is drew boyd
Was watching "Road Warriors" on Andy Roddick… he's got the same guy with him all the time silently in the background.
Cristiano Ronaldo. Is there any doubt?


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GLAAD calls VMA winner Tyler, The Creator 'violently anti-gay'
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This is typical behaviour for rap artists. So, that's not the issue. They issue is: why did MTV give this hideous creature a prize? I am tired of straight boys finding black homophobia 'street' and 'cool' and a bit of a giggle. And I'd suggest the jury who awards the prizes at MTV fall into the category of people who find street homophobia 'cool'. We ought to campaign heavily against MTV on this
I'm sorry but it's MTV. They don't give things out for talent anymore they do it for the ratings. That channel stopped being about the music a long time ago.
Note i am not defending this person nor have i heard his music before. I'm just being honest.
This is MTV's contact address.
We should bombard them with complaints. I've just sent mine.
I don't know why anyone shoul be surprised by this.
Have you seen MTV in the last 10 years ? It's a home of horrid little shows by people who find homophobia and racism funny.
I hate this guys attitude that if it don't bother him then screw everyone else. >.>
Fox news & Bauchmann should be the focus not this uneducated idiot.
GLAAD go for publicity and funding rather than the real issues
Groups such as that should stfu. I'm all for equality and tolerance, but I'm also for freedom of speech and expression. Faggot is used more as a word of weakness than a word for gay people specifically. I use it. It's too good a word to lose I'm afraid. And if you're offended by him, then like he says, don't listen. Don't know what these self-righteous arses are doing watching MTV anyway.
But it wouldn't be a very good insult if it didn't boil down to calling them gay would it?
"Faggot is used more as a word of weakness than a word for gay people specifically"
No James faggot refers to gay people because being gay is seen as weak because real men like women, real men like sports, (which gay people can't play because they're weak), and real men like cars and engines but gay men don't. Gay men like make up, fashion, bumming and painting their nails like women who are weak also.
You see this is what faggot means. completely and utterly offensive and asinine.
And so using 'faggot' to mean 'weak' is alright HOW exactly…?
The word 'faggot' means very little to most people in the UK (where it actually means a sweatmeat type thingy – or historically a bundle of wood for lighting fires) but clearly it means something to you or else you wouldnt use it…
'Its too good a word to lose' my arse! what a load of bollocks!
historically "faggot" was a man caught having sex with another man, tied up with rope, and tied up with sticks. This man-stick-rope bundle was called a faggot, and was used to start fires. By burning people alive. Most gay people know the history of the words that you're using.
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to correct your sorry homophobic dumb ass. How the hell is Faggot a word of weakness? Gay men have a bravery you'll never know. Real men do what they want with their own lives, including having sex with other men. Deal with it.
This guy is scum
I bet he'd soon have a problem with anti-black music
This is not about him being black this is about his anti gay attitude. It has nothing to do with colour
I didnt say it was about him being black, i said i bet he'd have a problem with anti-black music.
Agreed, James
You did say exactly that, Tigra…
Its not about him being black its about him being homophobic (and probably in all likelihood gay himself…)
Why is it that people on these threads can't differentiate between 'black' and 'homophobic' when the person being homophobic is black?
Its like you all use is as a stupid excuse to bring out every racist load of bollocks you've been building up for years, somehow believing that his homophobia justifies your racism…
It don't – they're both as bad as each other: oppression is oppression – and its time it all stopped eh?
Absoutley spot on. Black does not = anti gay
Learn to read you two.
I never wrote he was homophobic because he was black.
I wrote "I bet he'd soon have a problem with anti-black music"
I'm saying it's wrong to attack someone for who they are and something they can't change.
I'll even spell it out since you two can't read.
Spoken like a true white person. Let's not focus on the fact that "OOOOOH SOMEONE IN THE STORY IS BLACK!!!!!!!" Okay?! That doesn't help anyone!
you're just as bad same ass different cheek
You are on the wrong site, mate. Please go to the rascist sites if you want to post stuff like this,
Your just aas bad as Tyler
Why the fvck are you trying to take away the very real and needed conversation about homophobia and diverting it into everyone having to take your racism to task?
Fox news & Bauchmann should be the main and only focus in this war not this uneducated idiot.
GLAAD go for publicity and funding rather than the real issues
I actually just went and looked at some lyrics. It is worse than I've ever seen ever. Is this what is popular these days? What happened to men searching their souls and being sensitive? I thought we were really on to something in the 90s…
Reganomics and thatcherism happened. Do whats best for you and fcuk everyone else whatever the cost.
I clicked on your link and what was MTV thinking!! Those lyrics were terrible! I am not going to complain to MTV, I am going to complain to their sponsors. Do their sponsors what to be seen as supporting such behavior.
Totally Agree, when I went and looked at the lyrics I was really shocked. Violence, forced sex, homophobia and degradation of women as nothing more than punch bags and sex objects…would you be happy letting your kids listen to this??
Is this really the best talent out there or are MTV really stuck for some controversy and viewing figures??
People get prizes for this appalling rubbish? My God, even someone in the throes of Tourette's would be more articulate than this puerile nonsense.
Your disability-phobia was cruel, hurtful, and unnecessary. That's not how tourette's works, btw. Tics can be as small as blinking or clearing your throat.
what plsses me off is that I'm into the music. Then they start being homophobic. Then I can't listen to it anymore.
Who's 'they'….?
Personally I don't listen to ANY artist who is talking negative sh!t regardless of how seductive the beats and backing tracks may be
THINK people PLEASE!
they are rappers. I like rap. Tu Pac is full of neg and hes a genius. go and listen to some nursery rhymes.
There are sooooo many different hip hop artists. If your choices are Tyler the creator, Tupac, or switch to country……..you really need to open your eyes. Angel Haze is a wildly good out proud queer hip hop artist. She's also violent, hardcore. You'd like her.
Tyler is an attention whore and he has been for his entire career. Personally, I just ignore anything controversial that he says on the assumption that he only said it to get headline space in NME. I'm much happier that way.
Oh please, I am gay and it doesn't offend me. C'mon guys it is rap music. Lyrics in rap music offends everybody. I am the first to get offended with anti gay talk, but not this time. As a family we cannot get too sensitive and have to pick and choose our battles. This is not one of them.
There's lots of awesome rap music that doesn't offend anyone. This is offensive to women, to gay people and to well written articulate rap.
If he wasn't rapping if he was just saying the stuff that was in his lyrics in an interview for example people would be outraged so what's the difference?
Chris, Chris, Chris…
I'm not protesting all rap music. I like a lot of rap artists. I'm not protesting all of OMGKWTFKTA or whatever they're called. They have some cool songs.
It's just that Tyler is an extremely intelligent artist, and I know if he wanted to he could craft new lyrics, or new songs, that don't rely on tired old misogynistic stereotypes and frequent usage of the word 'bitch' or 'faggot'. He could choose not to glamourize certain subject matters like rape, that should not be glamourized in a world where 1 in 3 women get raped some time in their life.
And Chris, stop being a self-hating gay. What kind of a wimp only fights a few battles, so as not to anger daddy?
This person is a nothing, a no-one. He has no influence on people who are not already homophobic and misogynistic. His lyrics, particularly in the link above, are absurdly embarrassing, and since Eminem made all of this swearing and hatred mainstream most people are a bit bored when a youngster with a stupid name like his comes along and tries to do it too. It's not offensive anymore, it's just boring. He's being manipulated into fame by greedy execs who will bleed him of all the money he'll be worth for 15 minutes, then when everyone realises he's talentless and unable to say anything than the same old tripe they'll dump him, and in 10 years he'll be flipping burgers or drug dealing.
No, MTV shouldn't give an award out to him, but MTV is nothing like it used to be it's just the MySpace of the music world.
yeah right, tell that to a new generation of kids that are being influenced by his music to be homophobic. I can tell you don't ever come into contact with homophobic kids. I don't think he's a nothing. He makes good music. Just a shame he has to hate on gays so much.
>"He has no influence on people who are not already homophobic and misogynistic."
Children listen to his music. I believe that children aren't inherently homophobic or misogynist. I believe that people like Tyler are actively teaching children to be homophobes. I believe that I can teach those children not to be homophobic, and I also believe we can teach Tyler to stop using homophobic lyrics.
But if you want to give up, then give up.
Disgusting! Violence should never be rewarded or promoted in any way, ever!
Typical wog
Yes another one on those punks I bitchslapped
This is just another sign of Christian propaganda as they try to take over, on the internet they use ANONYMOUS, who are really Christians hiding behind mask like the KKK. Too bad the black people still fall victim to the same hate propaganda used against them around the world as well. The Christians know how to turn one group against another so they fight each other, even if they are both oppressed. This way the Christians make them waste their time and money killing each other. Their goal is to have a white Christian world and nobody else.
"I'm openin' a church to sell coke and Led Zeppelin
And fcuk Mary in her a$$.. ha-ha"
Yes, he's deeply religious.
Yeah we get it. People on here don't like Christians. I don't particularly like rancid old queens but I don't spend all my time going on and on and on about it!
Poor dear, have you wandered in dazed and confused from the street then?
I'll speak loudly and slowly for you: This is a gay website.
And trust me we don't go on and on about bigots and christians except when they won't shut up. Unlike christians we don't spend hours glued to the TV, notepads at the ready, to note down any reference to christianity so we can complain about it.
We have lives.
Woah. That's just as bad. Do you hear yourselves? Fighting intolerance, not feeding it. I grew up Christian. I am straight. I guess I'm a "bad Christian" because I fit love and tolerance into my beliefs. I feel comfortable believing in god and believing Love is Love. Don't attack me when I support you. You will push weaker people away like that.
'well i have gay fans and they dont seem to be offended' none of his fans are musicians though..
'well i have gay fans and they dont seem to be offended'
Then who writes the angry comments? O_o
The guy's a joke. His lyrics are laughable. But if women don't get offended by him talking about punching them and forcing them into various improbable sex acts then I don't see why I should be offended by his dislike of me. I'm surprised he got an award though, that's got to be a bad message to send to the MTV obsessed kids and whoever else takes notice of these things.
Equality rules!!
Whio is this cnut? I'm not back for 5 mins and the bitches won't leave me alone
Folks, do some research first. His use of that word is part of a whole back-and-forth between "himself" and the macho, hip-hop character he's supposed to be. Read the lyrics to the first track on Goblin if you're goin to throw lyrics about out of context (the context being the album, which is a back and forth between himself and his psychiatrist.) Sheesh. There are plenty of places in popular culture where blatant naked homophobia is on display – this is not one of them.
It's just a word, chill out… Faggots!
Seriously, where do you get off playing the self-righteous victim? Music is music, if isn't to your taste, listen to something else. Stop superficially reading the lyrics without understanding their meaning, rapped by a boy who was abandoned by his father who uses music as an outlet for pent up anger. Look at what is meant, not what is said, and criticize that if any of you have that ability in your one track, woe is me minds
This guy is typical of the apathetic youf in the western world. He and his kind are more dangerous than the rabid christian homophobes.
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I figured this would be needed eventually and the number of PMs lately kinda pushed me over the edge to do this.
I've been buying/selling now for about 3 years now. Yes all my friends on here might know me as a gear whore to which I reply .
However with the deals in the range of 50+ going on here I've made a few observations and "Rules" that I follow every time I get into a deal/sale/trade. These rules have saved my ass more than once and have yet to let me down :knockonwood:
~) Never deal with someone who has just joined this place to hawk their gear/guitars. Now I know what you might be thinking - but they are selling some really nice gear and at a good price. Well here is the thing. When someone just joins a forum to hawk gear a few alarm bells go off in my head.
Also I never deal with kids. No offense but when you are a kid there are so many things you don't know, certain things you can't control and are somewhat immature. Kids need to be driven around meaning they can't ship out when they are supposed to. They usually have to confirm with mommy/daddy before doing things. They have a totally different level of maturity and responsibility. This might not be the case with all but in my experience definitely the majority.
Now if you are a kid (younger than 19) don't get bent out of shape. Prove me wrong and do whatever you need to get a positive deal going. Make every effort to make the deal go through smoothly.
Note: This is just a warning I know some kids who are stellar dealers so its just the 80/20 rule.
a) I don't know this guy and he doesn't have any established positive reputation on this forum. Thus I'm not dealing with him.
b) The above step is the hardest to do especially when you are GASing really hard for a certain piece of gear/guitar. If you must have something it make sure you are ready to accept any possible .... that happens.
c) You as a buyer must be active in your purchasing decision. Take time to talk to the person via PM/IM and get to know them. A lot of times I've found that through this method you can tell if the person is a douche or a genuine guy who loves gear whoring as much as you do
d) Ask for forum references from other forums and FOLLOW UP on them. I've seen too many people on here get sucked in by someone hooking them up with false references from other forums. 90% no one checks and thats when you kick yourself when .... happens.
e) If they have eBay ID ask for it and send them a message on eBay to confirm that that truly is them. I go one step further and ask them questions in the message that allows me to confirm that they are the same person. Questions like "What item are we discussing and on what forum is this on?" etc help a lot.
f) Get addresses and contact information (tel #/email/IM) even if its for something trivial like a pickup. No one likes to get screwed and in this day and age being anal means you get what you want.
h) *Never* pay with a USPS MO as they aren't trackable and once you mail it out you are at the sellers whims. Should they decide what the heck I'll use this Dual Recto for my next gig in 2 weeks then mail it out guess what - you can't do ..... There is nothing there to squeeze his balls. You call him out on it , they'll either pretend they were uber busy and couldn't get it out or they'll ignore you.
* I am referring to new/shady members who don't have a lot of time on here and without references. Some older members like myself included prefer USPS MO as PayPal has dicked us around too long. There are still times when I prefer PayPal as its instant payment and you get a record of the payment should .... hit the fan.
i) Always pay with PayPal and a Credit Card. Paying with a credit card gives you an additional level of comfort should .... hit the fan. I mean when PayPal says the guy has no money in his account you outta luck - you can do a Charge Back with your CC company. This means you get your money back!! If you don't have a Credit Card get one and use it only for this purpose just as another security measure.
Paying with the PayPal Gift option is a very bad option should you get screwed over. It gives you zero protection from PayPal no matter if you got scammed or not. So use it only if you're dealing with a high volume seller, highly reputable member on here. Personally for a large amount I'd pay the fees or split them with the seller/buyer to get the PayPal protection along with my CC protection.
j) Never wait for something/someone to help you out. Be ....ing proactive and PM/IM/Email/Call the person if something is not the way its supposed to be. Don't sit for weeks and then finally PM a mod saying "d00d i didn't get my guitar halp". Also note PayPal only can help you out within 45 days of the transaction. So move your ass!!
Remember there are warnings all over the place on here that you all accept once you post/reply/buy/sell/trade on here. The moderators aren't the Police in which we can help you nab the perp. All we can do is email them, check their account out and maybe give you their email. Other than that its all you.
k) If you are buying gear/guitars ask for pics. I'm not talking about ass pics from a cellphone. I'm talking pics from a legit digital camera outdoors where you can see a lot more. Pictures indoors in poor light reveal nothing and are usually really bad for judging condition. Also if you are posting something for sale take a .... load of pictures. Digital pics don't cost money so why take 2 pictures when taking a lot more can help you in the long run. It can help by letting a potential buyer feel more secure with its condition and also save your bacon should some discrepancies come up down the line.
l) Confirm and reconfirm the method of shipment. Ask whether insurance, signature confirmation, tracking #, delivery confirmation etc will be included in your shipping costs? If not spend the extra $ and get that .... in yo!
If your package is being mailed out via USPS ask if its Priority or Parcel. Request Priority as the less time the item is in transit the less damage can occur to it. Parcel post is nice and cheap but you have to wait 2-5 weeks sometimes and that means a lot of .... can happen (damage, lost, stolen).
If your package is being mailed out via courier (Fedex/UPS/DHL) make sure you get a tracking number. Ask if insurance is included? Is signature confirmation needed or will the person just drop off the package at my door. I used to live in a mainly college based apartment complex and there have been times when Fedex left .... at my door and then I come home to find its been stolen. Be smart and proactive - if this can happen to you ask the person to include it for a few extra bucks and shell out some cash to help them out.
m) While waiting for your package keep communicating with the buyer/seller. This helps both parties as it provides a feeling of security.
n) Shipping. Make sure the gear/guitar so that it doesn't move, has no chance of getting crushed/dented/torn/basically fscked up. If your guitar doesn't have a hardshell or a gigbag, double cardboard box it and have a layer of shipping foam peanuts between it. You know just think about protecting the item.
n) When the item appears immediately check it out for damage, its appearance from what was described to you or from the pics. If everything is fine and dandy proceed.
o) Leave feedback. There are many people on here who don't leave feedback. I've noticed this as when they go to sell items all they have are things like "I've done deals with so and so" but nothing to reflect this in iTrader. Which means if you are anal like me you gotta check those references out.
That seems to be all I can think of at the moment. Hope this helps everyone out here. If you have any more questions/comments please PM me. If there is something you'd like to add PM me.
Good luck in your future gear/guitar deals.
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The defamation suit against Jim Boeheim perpetuates the very dysfunction that helps to create male sexual abusers in the first place: our society's insistence that men repress and suppress their authentic emotions and emotional needs.
Though I am not a fan, God bless Boeheim for expressing his genuine emotions at the news of the allegations against Bernie Fine. Who among us would not leap to the defense of a longtime friend or choose angry words when faced with disturbing news?
We may never know if Fine is innocent or guilty. Nonetheless, Boeheim's words were a reasonable and healthy — if not ideal — emotional reaction to shocking news regarding someone he cares about. And when cooler heads had time to prevail, Boeheim stood in full accountability and responsibility for his words.
Suing Boeheim only diverts the spotlight from the more critical issues: the accusations against Fine, male sexual abuse in our society, a culture of cover-up and the roots of repression and suppression that create a society in which men are criticized, condemned, demeaned — or sued — for expressing themselves emotionally in authentic and purposeful ways.
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UNIVERSITY CENTER -- The mark of a top tier college football program is its ability to handle change.
Saginaw Valley State will certainly have the opportunity to argue it belongs in that category if it can successfully turnover its roster after graduating one of the most talented senior classes in team history.
Cardinals' career leading passer Jon Jennings is gone along with NFL-bound receiver Jeff Janis.
Two-thirds of the most experienced offensive line in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) is graduating as is leading tackler Brian Johnson.
As SVSU open spring practice, the coaching staff has nearly three times as many starting spots open than it did last season.
Coach Jim Collins said the team is ready to meet that challenge head-on.
"I'm confident we have the talent capable of doing the job," Collins said. "Before Jeff Janis was Jeff Janis, he was in the same position as some of the younger guys we have on the team now."
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Saginaw Valley had its first spring practice Tuesday night at Wickes Stadium.
Over the next four weeks, the Cardinals will practice a total of 15 times culminating with their annual spring game on April 12.
"It was just one practice, but I noticed a lot of guys had a little extra bounce in their step," Collins said. "For guys who didn't have the opportunity to compete for a starting spot last year, I think it's refreshing for them to finally have a chance to prove themselves."
Collins said his coaches are balancing reps at positions for the first five to six practices to get a good look at what each and every player is capable of.
"You don't have that time crunch of having to prepare for a specific game or opponent," Collins said. "We can be more deliberate, and that's a good thing. We have a lot of positions with three or four guys battling for a starting spot, and some of those players don't have a whole lot of experience."
While incoming freshman can't take part in spring practices, they are allowed to watch and sit in on meetings.
A number of players from this year's recruiting class are planning on attending as many weekend practices as they can.
"It's good for them to come out so they can see how we go about conducting our practices," Collins said. "We redshirt the majority of our freshman class, but almost every year we have had guys who are mentally and physically prepared see playing time."
Saginaw Valley is tentatively planning to return to the football field for another three practices this week as long as the weather permits.
"I've spent a lot of time the last two weeks going over weather forecasts, it almost feels like a new part of my job (laughs)," Collins said. "We are playing it by ear, but hopefully we can get in a few more this week. I know the kids are excited to be back on the field."
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Once upon a Roaring '20s autumn in Paris, a dangerous -- and already married -- Prussian countess fell in love with a tall, blonde, German-American film executive. They ran away together to Buenos Aires, where their daughter, Maria Frederica "Fritzi" Lange, was born. Fritzi's storybook life – 87 years of glamour, passion, tragedy and joy -- ended in Huntsville, Ala., on May 28, 2014. By then, Fritzi was known as Allyson Dempsey and was beloved as a mother of six and a retired social worker with a gift for storytelling, an eye for beauty and a talent for making anyone near her feel appreciated and respected.
"In many ways, her life is a narrative of loss," said David Dempsey, who, with his twin, Millie, is the youngest of Dempsey's six children. "But it's also a conversation about the 20th century."
Fritzi's first loss was profound. The countess, who had been shot and wounded in an arm as she fled the count to go with Lange, was summoned back to Poland for divorce proceedings when Fritzi was 4. A family friend was commissioned to take Fritzi to a carnival for the day while, unbeknownst to the child, her mother was leaving the house, never to return.
At the carnival, the little girl squealed when their Ferris wheel got stuck with their seat rocking at the very top. Late that afternoon, she rushed in the door, running from room to room to find her mother to tell her all about it. Nothing but emptiness greeted her.
"I know Mama carried that hurt for a long time," said daughter Millie Dempsey, of Huntsville.
Life in Argentina
With her father, Paramount film executive, Fred Lange, Fritzi lived a glamorous, if sometimes lonely, life. She rode horses through the Andes and sat around the gaucho campfires, sipping mate tea through a silver straw while fresh steaks sizzled on the flames. During the Buenos Aires evenings, she and her German governess would open the windows to listen to the Gypsies singing in the park across the street.
She was surrounded by extravagant flowers, beguiling monkeys, flashes of iridescent parrots – and out-sized dangers. Once, Fritzi's governess, with a cry, suddenly hauled her from their swimming pool as a massive anaconda glided heavily into the water. It took six men to wrestle the writhing snake from the pool. Fritzi remembers running from a plaza with her governess, stray bullets from a coup kicking up the dust around their feet. Fritzi also told her children about how her governess would clutch her hand to turn her around as they avoided people walking toward them with faces splattered from deadly smallpox.
It wasn't always her governess who took her hand, Fritzi believed. Once, wandering alone through the tangled back garden of their house, Fritzi felt a calm hand slip into hers. She stood stock still as a tiny, deadly viper slipped across the path in front of her toes. When she looked up, no one was beside her.
"My mother believed in guardian angels," Gabrielle Dempsey said. "Now that she's flown, I believe in at least one."
Girlhood in Paris
Fred Lange and Fritzi moved to Paris when Fritzi was 7 and Lange was promoted to coordinate Paramount projects from Cairo to Copenhagen. A trail of waiters, valets, store clerks and hotel porters across his European territory deemed Fritzi's father an angel. They nicknamed the kind man "Monsieur L'Ange," "Mr. Angel," a play on his name and a comment on his character.
Lange, who traveled a lot, installed his daughter and her governess in an expansive apartment high over a wide Parisian avenue. Coco Chanel sewed Fritzi's clothes. The most famous hair stylist in Europe cut her hair, first breaking a raw egg on the crown of her head and then massaging the goop into the strands. One of her playmates was Marlene Dietrich's daughter. Charlie Chaplin, Claudette Colbert and Robert Taylor were friends. The fiery Rosita Montenegro became her stepmother.
And once, in London with her father to see the races at Ascot, Fritzi and the Princess Elizabeth, seated near each other at balcony restaurant tables, shyly compared their identical coats. When Fritzi was older, attending a boarding school in Switzerland, she would watch Sonja Henie practicing on the ice rink just down the hill from her room. And from her father and her governess, Fritzi learned to treat everyone, from princess to taxi driver with respect.
"One of the things I really like about my mom is that even though she grew up very wealthy, she was the most un-snobby, unpretentious person I know," Millie said.
But beneath the surface of genteel Paris, dangers lurked. Once as Fritzi walked from the apartment building, a long, dark limousine glided to the curb. The back door clicked opened to reveal her mother beckoning to her from the interior. Fritzi remembers feeling drawn like a sleepwalker toward her. The apartment doorman grabbed Fritzi's arm to keep her from being lured away. When she and her father went for picnics in the countryside, Fritzi would stumble across old metal helmets with spikes scattered among the poppies where they had been dropped by German soldiers in World War I.
Fleeing the Nazis
More war was coming. Early in 1939, when Fritzi was 13, her father rushed home from a trip and directed her to pack just one bag. He bundled her and her governess onto a ship bound for America just as news broke of Hitler's invasion of Poland. Lange himself would escape Paris later, just ahead of the invading Germans, his car threading through columns of smoke ascending from fields where French farmers were burning crops to keep them out of Nazi hands. Lange headed to Spain, where he worked until the U.S. entered the war in Europe. Quietly, he also used his position to arrange under-the-desk documents and tickets for Jews fleeing Europe.
Fritzi wouldn't learn about her father's heroic actions until a few years later. By then a student at Barnard College in New York City and nicknamed "Allyson" by her friends, Fritzi-Allyson was having lunch at the St. Regis Hotel with her father. He was away from the table when an elegant woman approached and handed her a jewelry box embossed with a Fifth Avenue address. Allyson opened the velvet case to find a sparkling charm bracelet from the lady's store.
"This is for you," the woman said, "Because your father would never allow me to thank him for getting me and my family out of Europe."
Allyson and her father were also at the St. Regis the day a tipsy lady, wearing a hat with a fascinator half-veil, leaned to blow out birthday cake candles –accidentally igniting the veil. As Allyson would later tell her spell-bound children, everyone in the restaurant gasped in horror. Then a dashing man with an extraordinarily sweeping moustasche – Salvador Dali -- leapt to his feet, swept up a nearby pitcher of ice water and, murmuring, "Pardon me, Madam," doused it into her face.
"My mother could remember all the little details to make a story wonderful," Millie Dempsey said.
Love and art
After graduation, Allyson Lange was recruited to teach French for an exclusive private school in Louisville, Ky. During a nighttime drawing class at the local art league, a lean and darkly handsome artist bumbled through the door, late, dropping an easel and some of his brushes in his haste. Jack Dempsey looked up to see a self-contained Nordic beauty watching him from beside her own easel, with just the hint of a smile on her Maybelline-red lips.
"They fell madly in love," Millie said.
"They had been solitary children, not quite at home anywhere, who attained the ability to make a home of themselves," Gabrielle said.
"It was a classic thing: I think they kind of completed each other," David said.
Both Allyson and Jack had been abandoned as young children by a parent – Allyson's mother, Jack's father. Both, oddly, had been taken to a carnival the day their parent, without explanation to the child, had been home packing and leaving. Both had been raised by a busy, intelligent single parent who left them to their own devices. Both loved art and travel. When Jack left for a year of study in Venice, Allyson followed him as soon as she could arrange passage.
They were married at the Vatican, underneath the dizzying clouds of Michelangelo's pantheon in the Sistine Chapel. Allyson's mysterious mother re-surfaced to stand witness with them. Later the mother would show up at their tiny Venice apartment, trying to talk them into giving her their first-born son, Frederick, to raise, since she was so wealthy and they were living in the beautiful penury of starving artists.
"My mother was a little afraid of her mother," Gabrielle said. "She was like somebody out of a fairy tale."
Love and loss
Frederick would be stolen from Allyson and Jack in a less romantic way, just after they moved back to Louisville. The young family was out for a walk, with a new baby, Edward, in a stroller. The stroller got stuck on a bit of broken sidewalk. Jack or Allyson – the children were never sure which – let go of Frederick's hand to steady the stroller. They heard a sickening thump and screech. Frederick had dashed between parked cars into the street and been hit. He was, just like that, dead.
Within a few years, Edward, strangling and choking, would die, too, of a mysterious lung disease. Then their third child, a daughter they called Bernie, got sick when she was about 5. By the time she was 10, doctors could finally name the disease, which had the same symptoms as Edward's – cystic fibrosis. By then, they had already had Gabrielle and the twins, Millie and David.
Allyson bore the deaths, she once told her son, David, by remembering, each time something awful happened to her that somewhere around the world, there were others going through exactly the same thing at exactly the same time.
"It gave her a lot of comfort to remind herself that suffering is a common human experience," David said. "That's a kind of maturity that is very special."
Huntsville emergence
The Dempseys moved to Huntsville in 1965 when Jack was recruited to help establish an art department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. They arrived with four kids and all of their household goods packed into 1952 school bus that Jack Dempsey had converted into the family caravan. Allyson threw herself into homemaking for the family, confining her own art to making sketches of her children, tucking her poems into the back of her art books, and trying new recipes from Julia Child's cookbook.
"She loved us with a steady, gentle, shining heart," Gabrielle said.
It was a heady time in Huntsville. Jack and Allyson Dempsey and their children moved in the orbits of the fascinating newcomers arriving in Huntsville from around the U.S. and Europe to build the rocket-era city. During the summers, they packed into the old bus and explored as far north as Nova Scotia and as far south as Mexico City.
"Museums were our churches," Millie said.
Their family idylls came to an end in the mid-'70s. The marriage collapsed just as their daughter, Bernie was entering her last few years of struggle with cystic fibrosis. She would die at 22. Allyson moved from part-time work as a kindergarten teacher into full-time work as a social worker at the Department of Human Resources. At DHR, Allyson thrived.
"She loved it from day one," Millie said. "She just loved people, loved helping people. And the poorest, most destitute of her clients she found every bit as interesting, refined and worthy of respect as a rich person."
"My mother was not judgmental of people," Gabrielle Dempsey said. "She was more inclined to accept people where they were. One essential thing about my mother is that she believed in the freedom of each person. She was very, very respectful of them."
The tragedies and sorrow of her life distilled, for Allyson, into a quiet contentment with the here-and-now and a deep appreciation of the beauty of each moment, David said. Her love of travel never ended, even if in the last few years, slowed by the effects of a stroke, those travels mostly consisted of day-trip "tootles," as Allyson called them, with Millie.
"My mother carried herself very nobly," David said. "She was very clear that she lived in the present."
Allyson could take as much delight in a strong cup of coffee, the slant of light over a lake, or an excursion just across town to see a house being moved as she once took from meeting Albert Einstein at the corner as they both waited for a light to change, spotting e. e. cummings at the St. Regis, meeting the young Frank Sinatra backstage, or traveling to Hawaii for the wedding of a college friend of hers, a Dole heiress.
"I remember one day Allyson called in late to work," wrote a former co-worker on Allyson's obituary tribute page. "She said she would be late because she was watching a butterfly emerge from its cocoon."
"Mom had a lot of tragedies, but she just carried them and went on," Millie said. "She would say, 'Life is a gift.' She always believed in the little joys."
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acngfs - Virtual file system for use with apt-cacher-ng
acngfs BaseURL ProxyHost MountPoint [ -o FUSE Mount Options ]
acngfs is a FUSE based filesystem which represents files downloadable via HTTP as part of a local filesystem. It has been developed for very specific purposes and is not intended to be a general purpose HTTP filesystem.
The main use case for acngfs is a situation where:
Typical use may be to let apt/dpkg use package file like they are present on the local filesystem so there is no need to download them. In sources.list, the source appears as a file:/ type URL, like:
deb file:/var/local/acngfs_debian unstable main contrib
and the filesystem backend is prepared with a command like:
/usr/lib/apt-cacher-ng/acngfs http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian localhost:3142 /var/local/acngfs_debian -o allow_root
The command-line options supported by acngfs are:
Permissions of the files are important when using mounting when sharing data with other users (including root!). To mount as user and let root use the package management tools (apt, dpkg), one may need to use FUSE options like in the following example:
acngfs http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian http://localhost:3142 /mnt/misc -o allow_root
See FUSE documentation for details about file permissions representation.
Software is still experimental, use at your own risk!
There are natural limitations on capabilities of the FS: no directory reading is allowed (only descending), permissions of files are inherited from the mount point as well as other properties of the filesystem.
Should be used with apt-cacher-ng version 0.2pre2 or newer; otherwise it will flood log files with many requests of small file chunks.
apt-cacher-ng(8), fusermount(1)
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Authorities are searching for a robbery suspect who snatched cash from an elderly man in Metairie on Friday.
Robbery detectives with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said they believe the suspect followed his victim, an 83-year-old man, into an electronics store located at 6851 Veterans Memorial Blvd. just before 11:39 a.m., according to Col. John Fortunato, spokesman with the department.
When the victim left, the suspect grabbed him from behind in the store parking lot, reached into his pocket and stole an envelope containing $400 in cash. The suspect then ran into the nearby Elmwood Plantation Apartments, 6801 Veterans Blvd., Fortunato said.
Investigators believe the robbery suspect lives nearby because store employees said they have seen him there several times.
The suspect is described as a man about 25 to 35 years old with short hair. He is about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 150 to 180 pounds.
Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to call the Sheriff's Office Robbery Division at 504.364.5300 or Crimestoppers Inc. at 504.822.1111 or toll free at 877.903.7867. Callers to Crimestoppers do not have to give their names or testify to earn up to $2,500 for tips that lead to an indictment


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BURTON, Michigan - A total of 62 voters had cast their ballots as of 12:30 p.m. today either for or against a $14 million bond proposal, said Nance Greene, election inspector at the polls.
The three precincts, located in the Atherton Middle School, will be open until 8 p.m. tonight for Atherton school district residents to vote.
Several Van Y Elementary parent group members have set up camp outside the school, encouraging people to vote in favor of the proposal, which would expand the elementary school, among other items.
The parent group is also hosting a bond pancake dinner fundraiser at McDonald's on South Center Road from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. today
A complete list of renovations is listed on the school's Web site.
Greene said most of the voters appeared to be senior citizens, and the slow voter turnout could be based on a lack of enthusiasm about the proposal.
Andrew Albrant, a retiree, said he usually is in favor of educational millages, but the 30-year bond proposal was too much for him to support.
"I don't mind helping the kids with science and technology, but I don't believe in putting in a new 8-lane track or new lockers."


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Big Al migrated to our complex last week from Port Royal Plantation, The owner, didn't not know someone could own a gator… wants him killed because he doesn't want to help with the expenses to relocate him to a gator farm in Fla who is willing to take him….
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- With Youth Day arriving on March 29, local Web portal Yam (蕃薯藤) yesterday announced the top 10 most sought-after youth hostels, all priced at around NT$1,000 per person per night.
The listed hostels are certified and licensed by the Tourism Bureau (觀光局) to provide a low-cost accommodation option suitable for youths and backpackers that are both domestic and international, said Yam, adding that the top 10 list was cropped down from an initial survey of over 20 sought-after hostels in Taiwan based on incidences of Web searches.
Yam ranks the CityInn International Youth Hostel (新驛國際青年旅舍), the Taipei City Hostel (台北西門橙舍), and the HOLO Hotel (阿羅國際旅館) as among the best in Taipei. In addition to listing the Kiwi Express Hotel (奇異果快捷旅店), and the Single Inn (單人房) as the best youth hostels in Taichung and Kaohsiung, respectively.
Yam recommends the China Youth Corps-operated (CYC, 救國團) Alishan YAC International Youth Hostel (阿里山青年活動中心) for travelers wishing to visit the scenic attractions of Chiayi County, additionally listing the CYC-operated Kenting YAC International Youth Hostel (救國團墾丁青年活動中心), the Jail House International Youth Hostel (背包監獄民宿), and the Moncsor International Youth Hostel (澎湖滿客舍國際青年旅舍) as the top-ranked accommodation options for Nantou, Pingtung, Taitung and Penghu, respectively.


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The Arctic is a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by tree-less, frozen ground, that teems with life, including organisms living in the ice, fish and marine mammals, birds, land animals and human societies.
Daily sea ice extent updates resumed with provisional data
From the NSIDC:
On April 12, 2016, NSIDC announced suspension of sea ice time series updates due to issues with data from a sensor on the DMSP F17 satellite that resulted in erroneous estimates of sea ice concentration and extent. The problem was initially seen in data for April 5 and all data since then are unreliable, so the NSIDC chose to remove all of April from NSIDC's archive.
On May 6, 2016, NSIDC announced that daily sea ice extent updates were resumed, using provisional data from the DMSP F18 satellite from April 1, 2016 onwards.
Because these are provisional data, the Sea Ice Index has not been updated since March 31.
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An interesting discussion has developed in the community regarding the state of the Martian atmosphere since Viking. That is to say, to what degree can the Viking period observations -- as synthesized in the Mars global circulation models (e.g., Zurek et al. 1992, in "Mars", U. of Ariz. Press) -- be used to represent the current state of the atmosphere? One of the driving forces in the debate has been the extended (1988-1998) earth-based millimeter retrievals of disk-averaged temperature profiles which produce temperatures near aphelion that are much colder than those reported for the same season in the Viking era (Clancy et al. 1996, Icarus, 122, 36). A natural consequence of such lower temperatures would be a reduction in the altitude of water vapor saturation: 5-10 km vs. the 20-25 km for Viking era. Clancy and Nair (1996, JGR, 101, 12,785) have argued that the lower hygropause (near aphelion) will drive order-of-magnitude orbital variations in Ox, HOx, and NOx densities above 10 km. Such a photochemical effect has been initially identified using low-latitude ozone abundances retrieved from Faint Object Spectrograph observations taken in Feb. 1995, Sep. 1996, and Jan 1997. However, these three epochs represent only the early-to-mid northern spring. Consequently, the use of a more comprehensive dataset, in terms of seasonal and diurnal coverage, will provide a more extensive examination of the Clancy and Nair predictions. We will present the additional ozone abundaces retrieved from three additional sets of FOS and two sequences of Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph observations. With these data, the seasonal coverage now extends from late winter (LS=310\arcdeg) through early fall (190\arcdeg). Furthermore, the substantially higher quality and two-dimensional nature of the STIS spectra allow us to betterquantify diurnal changes in the ozone columns.
This research was supported by NASA through the Space Telescope Science Institute with GO program 7276. MJW was also supported through the STScI Archival program 6390.
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If you've spent any time in the world of WordPress, you have probably seen certain names appearing frequently. There are subsets, cliques, if you want, that are comprised of developers, marketers, designers, hanger-ons, podcasters, and mutants that span several of those simultaneously. The people arrive at their notoriety by different means. For some it's pure drive and skill that's been compounded over time. For others it was a matter of being in the right place at the right time. For others, it was hard work and simply knowing how to play the social media game. And believe me, there's a game in it all. If you're unfamiliar with who these people are, you can just look at who I follow on Twitter for an idea. And I actually don't follow some of the biggest WordPress "celebrities," but you may already know who they are.
Over the past several years, I've been an outsider to it all, observing all the players, participating humbly when and where I can as I level up all the skill and knowledge I can muster in the given time I have. I haven't slept much over the past few years.
And in that time, during all the observation and interaction, I've seen some interesting things happen with WordPress, and the space in which it competes. The changes and evolution of not just the software itself, but the people involved with it and marketplace that rely on it is always changing and, not surprisingly, rapidly. It's huge and dynamic because of all the people involved-both creators and users. One thing that has remained constant, however, is that it's all been growing, a lot. And that noticeable growth, as with any enterprise, seems to have gotten a lot of people thinking about how to capitalize on it. For all the open-sourceness and good will that exists in the "WordPress community," which is generally a global circus of sorts, there are over 20,000+ people, at last count, that make some sort of living from WordPress. Point is, there's money to be made.
So, how do people make money around software that's free? The most common ways are through selling premium themes, plugins, and consulting. Even extensions on free themes and plugins is a cottage industry, and there's no shortage of people that blog about WordPress and sell advertising on their popular websites, and eBooks about how to do something or another with WordPress. Usually, make money like they're doing. Past results don't guarantee future success, it should be clearly noted for those impressed by these impresarios. For many, it was simply the aforementioned "right place, right time," and replicating that success may very well be futile at such a later date, no matter the amount of perseverance.
I've watched all this from outside but quite up close, because I myself run a business that does a lot of work using WordPress and it behooves me to stick as close as I can to the action. I also think I have a somewhat unique perspective on it all because, to my knowledge, there isn't anyone around with my background in the industry. If there is, they're very quiet. I don't consider myself all that quiet online, but I do try to remain as humble as possible with my interjections, knowing the impressive development talent that's out there which I gratefully teach myself from, and I pay attention to as many details about the people as I can to make sure I learn from the best. It's really amazing how much generosity there is by some very talented developers and designers.
My background is in business, specifically marketing and strategy, with no small amount of humanities tossed in for good measure in the form of writing, editing, design and, a term I'll just use wholesale: "art." That all paints a relatively broad stroke, but the colors are strikingly deep and luminescent, no pun intended. All in that list are endeavors that I've spent decades upon decades day-in and day-out using, honing, studying, and improving upon. I have a masters degree in business, just for example. I package these skills and knowledge and have built a competitive business around them, in fact.
"So what?" you were probably already wearily asking a few paragraphs back. So, this:
Just because you can develop doesn't mean you should start, what amounts to unsurprisingly, a business. And if you DO decide to start a business, put the same amount of work and forethought into it as you did becoming a competent developer. Of course, this assumes you plan to have a sustainable business. If you have bothered planning at all.
I fear this sounds condescending, but I'm saying this in a friendly manner as someone who knows learning developing, and doing it well, is very hard. Successfully starting and growing a legitimate business is even harder. Creative problem-solving aside, there aren't many transferable skills between the two. Developers surely think quantitatively, but that doesn't mean creating a workable financial model and accurate spreadsheet with a 5 and 10 year sales forecast is innate. Knowing just how to craft a workable marketing plan, and business plan(they aren't identical), then executing them proficiently takes a lot of time to just learn how to do, not to mention actually doing. And to state the obvious, implementation and execution are extremely important. As important as the front-end work of planning and researching before pulling the trigger. I hate to think of people going willy-nilly into business, placing their incomes and future at stake, because it seems like what they should be doing for an arbitrary reason. And there is becoming a lot more persuasion and celebration from the WordPress fanboys about doing just that.
Articles like this one start out of the gate with poor presumptions. This author believes that since this developer is going to release a product, he's going to have MORE TIME to develop. Seriously? Who's going to support this product? Who's going to handle the marketing, the taxes, the budgeting, the insurance, the daily administrative tasks associated with just 1 single plugin? And the train of thought seems to be that because people in the limited WordPress fan club know who he is, he's going to be wildly successful. Based on what? Who's the target market? Why did he release it at 10:30 on a Friday night, with no promotion at all? What support is in place? I don't know, but I hope he does. I contacted the company and asked a question about the product. I got no response. I asked on Twitter, where most of the introductory parade seems to be, and my ping was hidden. That's worrisome as a potential customer.
I don't mean to single out this product and "company" (I assume it's registered as such–no way to tell) but it's the latest example of what I mean and what prompted me to write this post. Core competencies shouldn't be set to the side. And be careful of what is really involved by turning all the stones over and making sure the numbers work. What you believe you're selling — a "product" may turn out to be actually just a service — support of said product. And that may burst your bubble if dealing with support tickets and complaints all day wasn't part of your business plan. And if you had no workable marketing and business plan, the reality may quickly become a nightmare.


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They appear confident.
Yankee fans are confident.
And they should be.
The Bronx Bombers are not going to be eliminated from the ALCS by 12-13 Colby Lewis.
No way.
Lewis got the Yanks in Game 2, but remember one thing.
He allowed 10 baserunners in 5 2/3 innings and the Yankee hitters looked like they were playing the Royals in May.
Now that they've seen him, I expect the Bombers to make him pay tonight.
Robby Cano and Curtis Granderson have been red-hot, but Alex Rodriguez is the sleeping giant who will be heard from tonight.
I have a gut feeling that Lance Berkman will also have a big game.
He's been hitting the ball hard, but nothing to show for it.
That changes tonight.
Most of all, Phil Hughes is going to come up big.
If the Yankees end up pulling this thing off, tonight can be Hughes' playoff coming out party, ala Andy Pettitte vs. Jon Smoltz in Game 5 of 1996 World Series.
Hughes has the DNA. Baseball America rated MLB its top prospect several years ago.
He won 18 games this season.
He did some extra work between last Saturday's loss and today.
He's ready.
It's his time.
Most comforting is that if Hughes pitches well, the Yanks will win tonight.
Because if and when Hughes hits a wall, he'll be followed by CC Sabathia, Kerry Wood and Mariano Rivera.
Lewis is a retread who got chased out of the Japanese League.
He fooled the Yankee hitters once. It won't happen again.
The Bombers will work him and than tee off on him.
I see the Yanks winning 8-4.
On this night, the Bomber bats come alive and Hughes guts out a big win.
On this night, there's no way the Yanks lose the arms race.
Just remember: Hughes to Sabathia to Wood to Rivera.
Derek Jeter, SS; Curtis Granderson, CF; Robinson Cano, 2B; Alex Rodriguez, 3B; Lance Berkman, 1B; Nick Swisher, RF; Jorge Posada, C; Marcus Thames DH; Brett Gardner LF.
Elvis Andrus, SS; Michael Young, 3B; Josh Hamilton, CF; Vladimir Guerrero, DH; Nelson Cruz, RF; Ian Kinsler, 2B; David Murphy, LF; Bengie Molina, C; Mitch Moreland, 1B.


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Indigo and students present "Stepping into the Light"
Celebrate the shortest day of the year with BellyDance Troupe FireBellys and Indigo, who will welcome back the sun with a student recital in Celebration of Life from 4 - 6 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 21 at the Mirkwood & Shire Cafe
A special feature of the show, Indigo will be showing off her eight-month pregnant belly which will be giving new life soon. Along with Indigo, the FireBellys troupe includes Asiya, Gilana, Amara Belle, Giselle, Katherine and Yasmin. A group of very young belly dancers will also give a performance. Live drumming will be provided by Jonathan Brummett.
Admission is by donation at 117 E. Division St. in Arlington. For information see the calender page at www.indigodance.net.
Northwest Ballet presents 'The Nutcracker' at McIntyre
One last chance to see The Nutcracker — the Northwest Ballet presents the ballet at Mount Vernon's McIntyre Hall Dec. 19 - 21. Evening performances begin at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinee performances begin at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $10-$25 with discounts for children, students and seniors.
For McIntyre Hall tickets call 360-416-7727, online at www.mcintyrehall.org.
Long tradition ends
Celtic Yuletide has been presented by the Boulding family of Sultan at the Lincoln Theatre for decades and they have announced that this year's performance on Dec. 21 is the last.
With Celtic harps, hammered dulcimers, whistles, concertina, strings and more, the Philip and Pam Boulding family are joined by the Raney Irish Dancers and Thomas Arthur, lyrical juggler to present beautiful Irish songs in Gaelic.
The final show starts at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21.
Tickets are $21, $19, $17, $15 with a $1 discount for members and $2 discount seniors and children
The Lincoln Theatre is located at 712 S. First St.in downtown Mount Vernon.
For information and tickets call 877-754-6284 toll free.
Noise at the library
Noiseguy Charlie Williams will present Loud at the Arlington Library at 2 p.m., Monday, Dec. 29.
This guy roars like a lion, sings like a mermaid and flushes like a toilet. Kids and their families will be encouraged to laugh out loud with this vocal sound impressionist, kids' comedian and author. Supported by the Friends of the Arlington Library, at 135 N. Washington Ave.
For information call 360-435-3033 or go to the Sno-Isle Web site at www.sno-isle.org.
Free movie for kids
Kung Fu Panda will be presented for free during winter break for kids of Arlington, courtesy of Olympic Theater and the city of Arlington.
This animated comedy is about a panda named Po, who must somehow become a Kung Fu master to save the Valley of Peace from a villainous snow leopard. The show starts at 1 p.m. Dec. 30 and 31.
Admission is free, first-come first- served. No outside food allowed. For information call Sarah Hegge at 360-403-3448.
New Year's Eve party at Blazing Saddles
Tickets are on sale now for a New Year's Eve Party at Blazing Saddles in Stanwood.
Reserved seats are available for a three-course dinner complete with party favors and a champagne toast at midnight.
There will dancing to two bands, Electric Barnyard & Friends and Gerry Andal & the Rough Riders. Tickets are $79.95 for couples and $45 for singles. General admission with no dinner is $10.
For more information call 360-629-6569 or go to www.blazingsaddlesclub.com
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Did you know that this delicious fish is actually called "Patagonian Toothfish?" That doesn't sound so appetizing. Lee Lantz in 1977 decided that the name wasn't suitable for the American fish market. He thought it needed to be changed in order to make it more appealing. I don't think I would have cared what it was called. Tooth fish or sea bass, call it what you like. It's all just deliciousness.
I remember the first time I ate this fish. It was probably about 20 years ago. I was at a friend's house. She baked the sea bass and served it over a bed of garlic-mashed potatoes. I took the first bite and it melted in my mouth. I loved how it was crisp on the out side and moist and tender inside. This fish literally melts in your mouth like butter. From that day on, sea bass has been my absolute favorite fish. My only problem now is that it is really expensive. So, it has to be served on special occasions or when a really generous friend brings it to you.
A few months ago, I went to the store, not knowing the expense. I waltzed up to the fish counter and said, "I would like enough sea bass to feed seven people." I was so naive. He handed me the package and I saw the price. I walked away in disbelief. I was dazed and confused. I walked over to Claud who was checking out the meat. I am sure he was wishing I were cooking some thick juicy steak instead of the fish I planned to prepare. I showed him the package and asked if I should just take it back and tell the guy across the counter that I changed my mind. We could have just taken everyone out to dinner instead. Claud said, forget it, we'll just do it. He knew I would be so embarrassed to return it. I wonder if you even can return a package of fish after you walk away? Thank goodness, he gave me the all clear so I didn't have to experience that shame.
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Onions, garlic and tomatoes sauté for the sauce while the fish is in the oven.
That night, I made a pistachio and Panko bread crumb crusted sea bass and it was fabulous. I was happy to see the empty plates and my satisfied friends. I didn't care at that point how much it cost.
This week, my friend Karen came over to eat dinner with us. She called me up earlier in the week and said she and her fiance would like to eat dinner at our house but only if they could bring the food and the wine. They would like it if I cooked the food. That was an offer I couldn't refuse. Of course, I said yes. It's so nice when friends offer to do this. The last time this happened, Dan and Kathy Grothem brought over some delicious food to our house in Hanska. If I remember correctly, they actually cooked the food they brought that night. That was extra special. It was a pasta Alfredo with teriyaki pork. I hope I am remembering it right. One thing I remember for sure is that it was so delicious.
To my complete delight and surprise, Karen came in with some of the most delicious bottles of wine, enough sea bass for everyone, mushrooms and some really good butter. Yes, there is butter and there is also some really good creamy European butter. They were really spoiling us. I had already made the salad and the roasted potatoes.
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Mediterranean Sea Bass
Serves: 4
Time: 30 minutes
2 pieces Chilean Sea Bass
3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
salt and pepper to taste
4 slices of lemon
1 small red onion, diced
1 clove garlic, chopped
4 small tomatoes, quartered
salt and pepper to taste
juice of one lemon
juice of one lime
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 teaspoon capers
2 teaspoons kalamata olives
1 tablespoon butter (optional)
Preheat oven to broil on high. Place fish on a baking sheet. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of olive oil over the fish. Place the sliced lemons on top of the fish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place in the oven for 15 minutes. While the fish broils, heat the remaining oil over medium high heat. Saute the onions for five minutes. Add the garlic and saute for another five minutes. Add the tomatoes, olives, salt and pepper, lemon and lime juice. Pour in the white wine, capers and butter. Let this simmer for about ten minutes or until the juice reduces by half. Take the fish out of the oven and serve over the sauce.
With this kind of fish, there is not much preparation necessary. All I needed was a touch of olive oil, some lemons, salt and pepper. I thought I would make it extra special by creating a sauce that would make the whole dish more special and extra delicious. So, I decided to throw together a Mediterranean sauce with kalamata olives, red onions and capers. Of course, I needed to add a bit of the perfect butter. This was an extra special decadent meal. Thank goodness for amazing and generous friends.


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Overlake-Bear Creek baseball advances to state
With a 2-0 victory over Meridian High last Saturday, the Overlake-Bear Creek baseball Growls advanced to the 1A state tournament for the first time since 2006.
The locals from District 1/2/3 will play Brewster from District 6/7 at 10 a.m. this Saturday in the regional round at Larson Playfield in Moses Lake. With a win, the Growls advance to play the Freeman/Naches Valley winner in a quarterfinal game at 4 p.m. at Larson. The final four will be held the following weekend at Yakima County Stadium.
In a loser-out game against Meridian in Bellingham, the Growls (17-4 overall) benefited from the pitching of Ben Kelleran, who twirled a six-hit shutout and raised his record to 7-0 this season with an 0.57 ERA.
Tyler Wilcox drove in Matt Kelleran and Evan Sather with a single in the fifth inning to lead the Growls.
In a 1-0 loss to Coupeville in an early game last Saturday, the victors scored on a bloop single with two outs in the bottom of the eighth for a walk-off win. The Growls' Matt Kaiser and Coupeville's Ben Etzell dueled it out from the pitcher's mound.
In the first round of tri-districts on May 15, the Growls defeated Nooksack Valley, 8-4, at Marymoor Park.
Peter Perkins' three-run home run gave the Growls a 4-0 lead in the third inning.
Perkins leads the team with a .492 batting average with six home runs, 12 doubles and 34 RBIs.
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Opponents of the controversial Spectra Energy natural-gas pipeline snaking through parts of Hudson County will appear in a Washington, D.C., courtroom tomorrow to argue that the federal commission that approved the pipeline's construction did so without adequately considering significant environmental impacts.
Reversing approval of the pipeline, which went into service on Nov. 1, is a "hopeless cause," but the case could affect the way the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reviews pipeline proposals, said Ross Scott, the lawyer representing three environmental groups that opposed the pipeline.
Houston, Texas-based Spectra Energy said throughout the approval process that its pipeline would be one of the safest in North America. The energy giant argued that the pipeline, which runs through Bayonne, Jersey City and offshore Hoboken, would lower energy costs.
The project was opposed by Jersey City officials, who said it would discourage development along the pipeline's route and put city residents in jeopardy.
Oral arguments in the case are scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. at the E. Barrett Prettyman courthouse in Washigton, D.C.