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Three Texans rookies were cut by the team on Monday, and ESPN.com reported it was related to marijuana use in the team hotel on Saturday before the team's game in Kansas City.
Sam Montgomery, Cierre Wood and Willie Jefferson were inactive for the 17-16 loss, then were handed more significant punishment by the floundering Texans.
Montgomery told ComCast Houston he walked into the room and the other two rookies were smoking a cigar. Jefferson's agent, Chris Cannon, said he is considering taking action.
"We're discussing the possibility of filing a grievance," Cannon told the website. "I need to be in touch with them and really figure if that's the best route to take."
Montogmery, a linebacker out of LSU, was taken in the third round by the Texans, while Wood (Notre Dame running back) and Jefferson (Stephen F. Austin linebacker) were undrafted free agents.
Linebacker Brooks Reed told ESPN he was disappointed with the actions of his teammates.
"I don't understand why they did it," Reed said. "They had the opportunity of their lives and they just kind of threw it away. I don't have too much to say about it. It's really unfortunate. We lost a lot of depth for that game. They were great players and they had a lot of potential. We're just going to find more guys that are more dedicated to the cause."
Texans coach Gary Kubiak would not comment on the specifics of the situation.
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Google is celebrating the 66th anniversary of the Roswell Incident with a Google Doodle game featuring an alien lost on Earth. Click on the Google logo in their search page to activate the game, or bookmark the permanent link to play anytime. That's a must for me, because I'm stuck between a chicken and a barn. Link -via Metafilter
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Cute game, thanks for sharing that, Miss Cellania.
I couldn't wake the human. But I did go back to the barn & give the horse some of that 'gas' & he grows huge & your spaceship arrives & off you go.
That sounds like a really interesting day.
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Why a demo when the full version is already out??
Lol, that was just what I was asking myself.
Because it exists.
Available to download though!
If it can be dumped, it will be. They don't care if it's useful or not, they just want everything they can get.
I think you can get this one for free on your Wii through the Nintendo Channel
Probably no one was able to get a hold of the demo until now. Come to think of it, I'm surprised someone did manage to get a hold of this. Must work for Target or Gamestop.
wouldn't it be great if the 'demo' had wifi? =/
Heh, that seems to be the case.
Getting these carts aren't easy, I wouldn't think.
Nintendo representatives come in and out the store to pick up these demos and replace them with newer demos every so often...you've gotta have 1337 sources to get a hold of one of these demos (or you can be some random guy who works at GameStop)
They're mainly just for collection purposes, I think.
Yeah, and the dumper confirms that. Sir VG has also redumped many improper GBA roms.
I hope some dumper will be able to obtain DS Download Station 5 some day... I also keep wondering about those European versions of the DS Download Station.
Awesome, always like to see these type of things dumped.
I like demos
Yeah I g uess they would be hard to come by and would be worth quite a lot of money in the future, because its so rare.. But to download and put it on a flashcart.. meh
I actually like these, as it lets my kids try games without illegally copying them (okay, so this is illegal, too, but you know what I mean). I have M3DS Reals for them, but only to back up stuff we have/let them both play a game with their own saves or at the same time/replace cartridges they've lost.
I won't claim to be clean on my OWN cart, but I'd like them to at least start out honest (also, I don't need them telling their friends at school how "my daddy downloads all the games we want, ever"). I do let them try stuff before they buy it, though, with birthday money or whatever, so I can keep them away from shovelware - nice to have real limited demos for that, rather than explaining why I have to take the game away after 15 minutes. Oh, and they love Stafi/Starfy and the Panda game.
Nintendo channel rotates DS games. I frankly don't agree with the logic on that - wouldn't more demos available = more sales of those games?


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I didn't have many friends in secondary school. It was kind of a shock. I went from being queen bee at my first primary school, popular at the larger one I moved to and then just fine at the next one down south. Going by that trajectory though, I suppose it was bound to happen.
If I changed this paragraph into a very simple graph the line would slide down at an increasingly alarming but uniform gradient. Like so:
When people reminisce about halcyon days sitting in the park smoking cigarettes nicked from someone's mum and drinking ill-gotten cider until they were sick and then Dave from year 10 still totally snogged them, even though they had a sicky mouth, I have nothing to come back with.
Or not until I moved to Belgium, where it's legal for 16 year olds to drink, so we had bars to go to and illicit drinking and smoking wasn't on the cards because YAWN, this is mainland Europe – no-one cares.
The only typical teen girl thing I experienced was the teen girl freeze. One day in year 7 that was it. I was out of the clique. Nobody talk to Kate and while it did get better – I always feel I kind of missed out on classic teenage years.
So this is kind of a love letter to all those who were and are unpopular. Who feel like they are constantly missing out. Who never quite fitted in at school... Because I've come to realise there is a lot to be said for the former loner.
There's a line in Sabrina the Teenage Witch (which, incidentally, you may note was only really good when she was unpopular) from her original best friend Jenny, who informs Sabrina when discussing high school cliques that "I tried to be an outsider, but I didn't fit in." Jenny knew the value of doing your own thing.
Of course it wasn't quite the balm it could have been for the unpopular, but even Daria had one friend. I suppose there's no sitcom about a true teen outcast because 'The episode where teen protagonist manages not to speak for the entire day' doesn't make for snappy quips, much less dialogue.
But as you get older you realise people are kind of fascinated by the awkward - look at any sitcom and the main character rarely fits in. There wouldn't be much of a story if they did.
I have noticed lately (or perhaps t'was ever thus?) it seems to be fashionable to announce you had no friends in secondary school. No one understood them because they were the Jane Lane or Daria of their school.
Guys, we can't ALL have been Jane Lane or Daria at school. Else no socialising would have been done and exam grades would have rocketed in the late '90s and we'd all be more socially aware. Although for the record, I WAS Jane Lane.
I know this because I wore dark red lipstick to school every single day. Jane style. Even though it was against school regulation. But I kept acerbic comments to myself because nobody got my sense of humour.
Why this desire in some people to rewrite their own history? Where is the kudos in admitting few of your peers found you appealing as a teen? I for one, am finding it pretty embarrassing telling you I was that person who sat by themselves in most classes.
I think people exaggerate their teenage unpopularity because then they can say they kind of invented themselves.
I didn't do any of my coursework with all this extra No Friends time, so I don't even have sparkling GCSE grades to show you, but if you still have a tape deck I've got some bitchin' mix tapes I spent a lot of time making. Thanks to my musical influences being limited to Southern FM, soundtracks and CDs left around from parties my parents and lodgers had (oh yeah, I spent most of my time with a 30-something slightly bohemian adults who I lived with, having conversations way beyond my 14 year old maturity level) I didn't have any pressure to keep to one type of music in order to please a clique.
I also avoided that evil we spent talking about in all PSHE lessons at school - not sex, drugs or smoking - but peer pressure. By the time I moved schools I was reasonably aware of my boundaries (not that they had been tested in any way) and happy to say no. Or yes. In fact it was just like those crappy PSHE videos! People noticed I was not easily influenced and respected that.
I also have a high tolerance for inconsequential gossip now. My version of He Said She Said tends to go something like this: I read in an Augusten Burroughs book that he read in a magazine that gay men like to gossip about the guys they like to an extent apparently usually known only to teenage girls because they couldn't discuss boys at school. I too massively, massively enjoy gossip of the who likes who kind and will indulge people for hours because I missed out on it at school. I am convinced this makes me a better friend now.
The former secondary school loner is able to go it alone and has usually been made all the braver and interesting thanks to earlier rejection from their peers for various arbitrary but at the time vital teenage reasons (unless you expressed homophobic, racist or other intolerant viewpoints – those are rather good reasons for alienation).
So don't be ashamed to admit you were once the school loner, embrace it! It's why everybody likes you now. Probably.
Kate is on Twitter, not being a loner @squeamishbikini.


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We live in uncertain times, as 2017 appears to refuse to give the world much rest. Our friends in the corporate world have seen their darling investee Uber, the US-based ride-hailing company, fall into disrepute, face a lawsuit from autonomous driving technology developer Waymo, fire its chief executive and co-founder Travis Kalanick amid mounting allegations of sexual harassment at the company and then lose its licence in London.
In the government world, UK-based and Ireland-based businesses have been facing the increasing prospect of a cliff-edge Brexit, that is the UK leaving the EU without a deal. The first challenge for British companies has been that the European Investment Fund, the EU-owned agency responsible for financing SMEs and a key investor in the startup ecosystem, has halted new investments in the UK.
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This might all sound like doom and gloom, but in fact spinouts and technology transfer continue to thrive significantly despite uncertainties. As the data review of the third quarter in this magazine shows, the sector has just completed a fantastic three months that have outperformed much of the rest of the year in several key areas.
Among the good news was the flotation of Nightstar Therapeutics, a spinout from University of Oxford that is working on retinal gene therapies. It would appear that Nightstar has managed to end a drought of flotations too, as this month Spero Therapeutic, a bacterial infection treatment developer based on research at Harvard Medical School, filed to raise up to $86.3m in an initial public offering.
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Elsewhere, Kansas State University (KSU) Research Foundation, part of KSU's tech transfer operations, celebrated its 75th anniversary last month and University of Minnesota celebrated a record-breaking financial year with 18 new spinouts, bringing its total to 119 since its office for technology commercialisation's venture centre was opened in 2006.
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The country was on strike. A situation that stemmed from the January 13th release of the government's proposed budget for 2005-2006 by the current legislative majority, the People's United Party. The budget included major tax increases on a variety of businesses and commodities and a hold on previously promised wage increases to public school teachers - an attempt by the Belize government to address the country's problematic and worsening fiscal condition. A coalition of teachers, union members, civil society, business people and members of the Belize's other main political party, the United Democratic Party, all joined in protest of the budget when a two day nation-wide strike was called for on January 20th. It was, purportedly, the worst political crisis in Belize since the country's independence in 1981, but it would have been hard to guess from a seat in Eva's on January 31st.
A farming couple from British Columbia, Canada and I met our guides for the day, Eduard and his uncle Geaze. We drove across the Hawkesworth suspension bridge, up into the hills where we picked up another couple, Michael from Toronto and his wife, Ula, originally from Denmark. The combination of accents somehow left Ula speaking the Queen's English. They brought along their landlady, Mrs. Thompson, who was a charming older Belizean woman with the best smile in the world. Thus after stopping in the town of San Antonio for supplies we continued south for two and a half hours in possession of both the best accent and smile on the planet.
I quickly fell into conversation with Ula. She said both Michael and she were writers and they had been coming to Belize annually for twenty-five years and had built a hut on Mrs. Thompson's property ten years ago. They had recently put a new palm roof on their hut and they were bursting to fill me in on the fascinating art of frond construction, including which sort to use and how many. Apparently they have to be picked at night during a full moon and the quality of the moon dictates how long the roof will last.
Ula seconded my impression that the people of Belize were basically healthy and happy. She also noted that money was reserved for essentials and asked if I had noticed the metal things sticking out over the Northern Highway. I had not (the Maine Turnpike has some sign or reflector practically every six inches.) Ula said they were to prevent drug planes from landing on the highways at night. (Belize is a throughway for South American narcotics making their way to the United States and Canada.)
Beautiful rolling hills escorted the road through golden sunlight and green jungle. As the day grew hotter and brighter, the scenery changed, and we entered the Mountain Pine Ridge area. The conversation at the front of the van turned to conservation, geology and forestry. The entire area was barren and dead, pine stalks jutted out of the acidic soil like matchsticks. The Belizeans had a serious pine beetle infestation a few years back that gutted the Pine Ridge forests faster than they could chop the trees down. Only now could one start to see some new growth. Geologically, the area is one of the oldest in Central America. The soil is reddish and large chunks of granite are strewn about in addition to the usual limestone.
It occurred to me that I was in good company to pry further into the strike issue. I brought up the topic with Geaze when we stopped for a minute at a bridge spanning the Macal River. He affirmed the strike was still on and explained that the kids that I had seen earlier were in private school. Some religious groups in the area were also trying to hold classes but the public school teachers were home drinking Belikin.
Geaze said a controversial dam was being placed on the Macal some ways upstream. Researching later, I found that the Chalillo Hydro Dam project planned by Belize Electricity Limited (BEL), the majority of which is owned by the Canadian corporation Fortis, would flood important areas of the Macal River and its tributaries, turn some turbines, and hopefully alleviate some of the country's energy shortfalls. It appears as though the Belize government, a minority owner of BEL, is supporting the project to the chagrin of every rationally assessing, objective mind concerned.
Currently Belize buys roughly 82 percent of its electricity from Mexico. The Belize Development Trust argues that even if the Chalillo is constructed within budget and works like it is supposed to, the dam would generate only 18 percent of Belize's current and expanding energy needs and, at the same time, the cost of the project would prohibit further investing, solidifying supply dependence on Mexico for perhaps 50 years. The Belize Ecotourism Association, in its position statement on the dam, reveals that "to date a study of other options for energy sources has not been produced, some of which may turn out to be more economical and sustainable."
Furthermore, the economic arguments against the dam are not the loudest or most numerous, greater numbers of people are objecting on the grounds of health and environment. The Mollejon, an existing dam which the Chalillo is meant to provide additional water storage for, is probably responsible for water quality problems and skin rashes experienced by villagers downstream. Also, the Chalillo would destroy nearly all of a unique floodplain habitat, home to a rare species of Scarlet Macaw, tapirs and jaguars - a study in shortsightedness and poor planning.
According to Geaze they decided to pour the concrete even after they realized the site was floored by limestone rather than granite and located way too close to a fault line that had acted up in the late seventies when a plate shifted in Guatemala. He said there were similar plans in the north, where the main industry is sugar cane, to use the waste from the cane to turn steam turbines. From what I gathered both of these projects were doomed and in the short term were exacerbating the government's budget deficit.
Relating the new information to the strike, I was convinced that the protestors had a point. The government was spending money on foolish projects and then trying to pass on the debt to the people. Fortis, as holder of the BEL monopoly on energy, stands to benefit no matter what and their claims about the benefits of the Chalillo have been misleading the public. What was really happening? If I could bring an unsympathetic light to the government's collusion with business by having a couple of conversations with local people and doing an hours worth of research, surely there was more to it?
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The answer is that none of the business Musa or his cronies have engaged in has been overtly, or technically illegal; wrongheaded, self-serving, and stupid - perhaps, but lawful nonetheless. Governing poorly is insufficient grounds for the dismissal of an elected representative. Musa also correctly notes that a portion of the opposition's agenda is primarily concerned with obtaining political power for themselves. Reaching an agreement on wages and so forth will not appease the opposition party or those seeking greater change. They are probably not going to get it. The savvy PUP's tactic is to remain engaged and sympathetic at all costs. Thus they have nothing to fear from the legal system and have effectively removed any justifications extralegal action. The strike may drag on, in various forms, for a considerable length of time.
In some ways the organization of a modern society is very complex but we would do well to consider how, at their most basic level, most of these issues seem to break down into measures of greed, thoughtlessness, misunderstanding, and unhelpful definitions of us and them - simpler, universal human malady for which there is no institutional panacea.
Eduard and Geaze were passionate naturalists. They took their time leading us through Caracol, pointing out every tree, bird and butterfly. We saw massive Ceiba trees with root structures taller than my head and red-blossomed branches that stretched out like a tarantula's hairy legs. According to Mayan legend the Ceiba's roots reach into the underworld and its trunk reaches into the heavens, uniting the universe.
The trail was lined with strangler figs, lover parasites that encased other trees over more than a century until the two fell together. Eduard casually plucked up some fresh cilantro from underfoot and we all crushed it in our hands and walked around sniffing it and exploring other rainforest anomalies, like what appeared to be giant hanging pea pods on a thin string hanging from some of the trees. Geaze said they got hot if you rubbed them and kids played practical jokes with them. Someone else said they were poisonous.
The park as a whole was more charming than the Tikal ruins I had seen the previous day in Guatemala, in part because there was almost no one there. Caracol is thought to have been at the top of the Mayan hierarchy in the Belize Valley for much of history. The final two plazas were magnificent. When we stepped out in front of the Sky Palace I was speechless. The temple is the highest man-made point in Belize. I raced to what I thought was the top only to find more staircases that were hidden by the angle of the base. When I eventually panted my way to the apex the people below were toys and the jungle stretched out everywhere in a dizzying panorama. I entered it there and then onto a mental list, along with the Giza pyramids and the Duomo in Florence, as one of the most amazingly gorgeous human constructions I had ever seen, and contemplated commonalities between the three while I caught my breath. I think perhaps that their sheer size causes one to step back and contemplate the whole from a vantage point where the imperfections of their components are no longer discernable. They become almost Platonic forms, a bridge between reality and ideal, the physical world and the one behind our eyes, like a portal to the metaphysical.
We were all fast friends by this point and we talked and laughed through the banana trees back to the parking area to eat lunch.
"Eduard, this is very good. Did your mother make it? Do you have a wife?"
"I make this"
"No, you didn't make this."
"I packed it."
We stopped for a silver fox on the way out, a friend of Eduard's, and continued down the hot dusty road back toward the Mountain Pine Ridge to the Rio On Pools. A river that flows gently into progressively larger granite basins formed the pools then dropped into a valley, clearing the view to the hills on the far side. Directly after being warned that the rocks were quite slippery, I fell into one of the pools and nearly bent my thumbnail back. The water was deep. It felt cool and refreshing after being in the dust and sun all day. A tremendous number of minnows investigated my coming as if I were a pale hairy messiah. I stretched on the rocks afterward to dry off, feeling heavenly in the ebbing afternoon sun.
We arrived back in San Ignacio much sooner than the day before, so after shaking hands and saying goodbye to the others, I explored the town more thoroughly and found a place to use the internet. It felt dirty and stressful, pulling me back into a life that I was mostly enjoying a hiatus from. I poked around the Chinese grocers and a couple tourist shops under the somnolent gaze of proprietors. A Sri Lankan restaurant that had been closed the day before had its door open, so I threaded my way downstairs and back outside to satisfy a craving for curry in the company of stars and Christmas lights.
My waiter, Richard, a sharply dressed, slightly pudgy South East Asian kid of indeterminable age, came up nervously after I finished eating and started to fill the silence. He had grown up in the Mountain Pine Ridge area and was glad to hear about my day. As it turned out we had a lot in common. He had spent his youth gallivanting through the pines just as I had, building forts, shooting things and being a nuisance to the wildlife. There were differences, too, such as the Morelets crocodiles in the Mountain Pine Ridge. Once, when children had begun disappearing, Richard's father hunted down the sixteen foot man-eater and claims to have wrestled it before shooting it in the head. The crocodile's skull was given to a museum.
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I reflected that as different as scenery and food can be, and as odd as foreign customs can seem, humanity everywhere is basically a variation on the same theme. When people like Richard and I meet each other, coming as we do from different cultures, we immediately set about establishing mutual goodwill and searching for commonalities. There are two questions that seem to underlie such dialogue: What is your reality? How do you find happiness within that reality? People from different cultures listen to each other with a rare and genuine interest as if there is something important at stake. A sense of companionship arises with the realization that the other person is seeking the same thing. You feel genuine glee or sympathy discussing the endless permutations of the quest.
Richard recommended that I check out the local ruins the following day and told me how to catch a bus up the Western Highway to Xunantunich. I thanked him for everything and retired to the balcony of my hotel to smoke, think and stare at the hellacious tangle of electrical lines drooping threateningly over the town.


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At 150 Chick-fil-A locations across the US, you may soon be able to get free ice cream simply by putting away your cell phone.
As Americans become increasingly glued to our smartphones, many times we find ourselves ignoring the people right in front of our faces.
Noticing that diners often seemed more interested in their phones than their dining companions, a Chick-fil-A franchisee in Suwanee, Georgia named Brad Williams decided to take action.
"We really want our restaurant to provide a sense of community for our customers, where family and friends can come together and share quality time with one another," Williams said on Chick-fil-A's website. "But as we all know, technology increasingly demands more of our time and can be a big distraction, even while we're eating."
Williams and his team developed the "Cell Phone Coop:" a small box that sits on each table at his restaurant that issues a simple challenge for customers. If diners can enjoy their meals without removing their cell phones from the coop to check for calls or texts, they can let the staff know and receive a small ice cream cone.
"The challenge has completely taken off," Williams said. "We have families who aren't successful the first time and come back to try again. We even have people asking to take the boxes home with them!"
As the Cell Phone Coop blew up in Georgia, more Chick-fil-A franchisees decided they wanted to implement the challenge at their restaurants. On Tuesday, the company announced that more than 150 restaurants had decided to offer customers the chance to take the Cell Phone Coop challenge.
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One Direction star Harry Styles mistook comedienne Kathy Griffin for a cloakroom attendant when they met at a concert.
The funnywoman was sat next to the pop idol when they both attended an Eagles concert in Los Angeles in January (14) and she claims the Brit appeared a little worse for wear.
He apparently had no idea who Griffin was and repeatedly mistook her for a member of staff as he chatted to actor Tom Hanks backstage at the gig.
Griffin tells Britain's The Sun newspaper, "I was at an Eagles concert and I was sat next to Harry Styles... He seemed very, very drunk, and then he went up to Tom Hanks backstage and was making a loveable fool of himself. He said to him, 'Were you scared on the boat shooting Captain Phillips. Were you scared? It seemed so small'. Tom kept saying to him, 'Harry, this is Kathy Griffin - she's a comedian'. He didn't get it. He wasn't being (mean) but he kept leaving his coat with me. I was going to steal it but my boyfriend talked me out of it so I didn't get arrested."


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The Coetzer Family, Sunwitch Port, South Africa
December 6, 2002 through December 15, 2002
My name is Monique Coetzer. I am 10 years old. I was diagnosed two years ago.
Rufus arrived late on Friday afternoon the 6th of December 2002. I was so excited to meet him and really enjoyed the week we spent together.
Friday evening we played cards and guess what? He won!
On Saturday my Mom and I spent the day making clothes for Rufus.
On Sunday we spent the day on Uvongo Beach. Rufus and I both picked up a nice tan.
On Wednesday there was a competition on Margate Beach sponsored by Dexter. I entered the competition and Rufus and myself won a lot of prizes.
Thursday morning at 02H00 I woke up my Mom because I felt terrible. My sugar was 3.4 mmol/l (61 mg/dl). I had something to eat and not long after felt much better. Thursday afternoon my family and I left for Durban to enjoy a church function that will last for 3 days.
I am going to miss Rufus very much. I hope he can visit me again very soon.
I love you Rufus!
From Monique xxxx
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Date received: January 11th, 2012
Total time: 361 days
Total players responses: 398
Total 2012 responses: 1
Wow! Almost an entire year before I got this Rookie card signed by TJ Oshie of the St.Louis Blues. It's been a tough few weeks as I've seen very little come my way in returns, but hopefully everyone had a great year and have their mailboxes filled with lots of goodies!


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As the equipment might not seem very different, mountain bikes for women will have a couple of essential variations coming from what they make for males.
Almost everything related to mountain bikes are able to and frequently is customized simply for ladies. Glove as well as shoe dimensions are just the most apparent cases. However, even though many ladies are able to cycle a typical mtb, this particular main element, also, generally receives a transformation for the woman driver.
Ladies bike riders normally have the maximum amount of energy and also ability just like any man. However, typically, guys have much more chest muscles power and greater upper thighs. Consequently, bicycles are occasionally scaly down in a number of methods.
A women's mtb is made of lighter in weight materials to lessen bodyweight as small as possible,such as those Best Diamondback Mountain Bikes,The particular framework ground clearance is somewhat lower to take into account their smaller average height. The bigger twenty nine" wheels occasionally popular with males are more rare on ladies mountain bikes. The head perspectives are usually crisper to support smaller arms and torsos.
The seat might go through a change. Females pelvic bone fragments are usually wider, therefore the seat is going to be extended to pay. Butterfly seating (a triangular in shape style) tend to be more generally discovered on a ladies mtb when compared to a male's. Gel packages tend to be more typical in ladies bicycle seats to allow for sharp 'sit points'.
Actually grips could be targeted at ladies. With (once again, typically) smaller sized fingers a reduced size grip is useful. Specialized grips with end-wings boost the quantity of control and wish much less wrist and also finger power to make the appropriate outcomes.
Hydration techniques might be particularly focused toward a ladies requirements, as well. The total amount and kind of fluid consumption on their behalf is sort of various. Both sexes require nutrient and water substitute throughout the trip, however the quantity of blood potassium, sugars, and much more is actually altered to match their particular requirements. Smaller sized diameter bottles tend to be a choice, as well.
Ladies have somewhat various inner body temps, typically, than males and produce warmth in a reduced fee. Consequently, riding shorts and also t shirts are made with the 2 various genders at heart. The positioning and also degree of wicking, cushioning places, amount of movements in the back, and much more all get special therapy.
Undoubtedly it will be possible for ladies to cycle a guys mtb, make use of the exact same seat, to put on exactly the same clothes, and much more. Actually, simply because we are discussing averages, that may really be the proper choice for any particular lady. However for the majority of, to enhance the ride, it is advisable to search for bicycles, products, as well as clothing with a female's attributes in view.
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Today we are here with a guide on how to create your own subtitles .Subtitles as most of us know are the textual version of a film or television program's dialogue that appears on screen which makes viewers easy to understand and visualize each character of a video. When you watch movies dubbed in some another language, then you need subtitles. These subtitles usually come with videos, but you can create subtitle of your choice for your favorite video. For this, have a look at the complete method discussed below.
How to create your subtitles on PC-
- Go to your desktop.
- Click on right mouse button then new> text document.
- There right your subtitle in the following format-
- Subtitle number
- Start time –> End time
- Subtitle texts
- Blank line
Subtitle Number: 1,2,3,4 (depends on how much lines you want to add)
Subtitle time —> End time: 00:00:19,000 –> 00:00:22,600 (Hour, Minutes, Seconds, Milliseconds)
Subtitle Texts: The text that you want to display in the video
Blank Line: To separate the text files.
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Hey, do you know how to make subtitles?
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yeah, check out capstricks.net. They got a guide on this.
- Once done, click on save as in file tab.
- There save it with whatever name you want but with .srt extension , select UTF – 8 as encoding and change text document to all documents.
Just save the file and your subtitles are ready.


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Headquartered in Adamov, Czech Republic, Eden Europe is Europe's leading shelving manufacturer, with a major market share and an ever expanding international presence.
In 2003, Eden became part of the Marmon Group, an international association of autonomous manufacturing and service companies with collective sales in excess of $6 billion. This relationship continues to provide Eden Europe with a firm financial base and constant updating of equipment and technologies.


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Today there is a growing estimation of 250 million cars and light trucks crowding our roads each day. The safety of you and that of others is at risk when your vehicle doesn't stop and steer at its best. Reducing your vehicle's stopping distance by inches could make the difference between a minor scare and a major accident.
Remember roads are a huge factor as well to your stopping and steering capabilities. Our infrastructure needs so much attention that would help make our travels so much safer and more pleasant. However, until then all you can do is assure that your vehicle is the best that it can be.
Colder climates with freezing temperatures creates cracks and holes in the pavement. The result can be numerous pot holes and wear imperfections that can affect the handling of your vehicle. Bad roads can cause suspension components, so vital to steering control and handling, to fail early. Good Service and maintenance slows the deuteriation process 100's fold.
But you don't have to be an automotive expert to keep your vehicle's stopping and steering systems safe. Just go to GETYP.com and their local directories and find a great service repair facility for inspection and repairs. Legitimate companies listed here have also their feedback and reviews as part of their ad. Their consumers can peruse these detailed ads for their location and hours of operation as well.
Pay a little now, or much more later
Do not procrastinate good repair maintenance. Avoid costly repairs by not having to fix when broken due to poor maintenance. A typical brake job should only be a pad replacement. Wait to long and rotors will need replacement and maybe even the calipers. Avoid the additional costs and maintain sooner, better than later.
It is important to perform needed maintenance at the right times. Allowing the situation to blowup in an inoperative vehicle that leads you stranded.
Safety tips from GETYP.com for brake service:
• Pay the small extra amount for top-quality brake pads.
• Keep your rotors with plenty of material to keep the rotors round, true and smooth.
• Have the brake calipers inspected to ensure that any moving parts, such as slides and bleeder screws, are in adequate and excellent operational condition.
• Shop brake services by the company and make sure you are pleased with the overall price and level of work that the final shop will do for you. Ask for their warranty and guarantees.
• Brake hydraulic system flushing is a good consideration when servicing brakes to remove moisture and impurities from the fluid reservoir, lines, calipers and/or wheel cylinders.
• Check those rubber-type flex brake hoses and replace when they're hard, cracked or simply old.
• Check the wheel bearings and have them services as well with good quality grease for a longer lasting parts with no failures.
• Drum brake applications, may need a new brake hardware kit installed when the brake shoes are replaced and the drums are refinished. Have your emergency brake assembly tested periodically? These are important to the overall safety of you and your passengers.
This approach to vehicle maintenance may cost more up front, but if you make the expenditure now, you can be sure that old or new your car or truck will stop in the shortest distance possible-and can steer around trouble.
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(noun) A form of poverty that is the same regardless of country or culture and occurs when the resources required for minimum physical health are lacking, typically defined by limited access to food, clothing, and shelter.
Audio Pronunciation: (ab·so·lute pov·er·ty)
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- Absolute poverty is compared and contrasted with relative poverty. Absolute poverty is an objective measurement and relative poverty is a subjective assessment.
- A type of poverty.
- Also called:
- extreme poverty
- primary poverty
- Informally called:
- destitution
Additional Information:
- Cheal, David J. 1996. New Poverty: Families in Postmodern Society. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
- Jargowsky, Paul A. 1997. Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
- Lowe, Gary R., and P. Nelson Reid. 1999. The Professionalization of Poverty: Social Work and the Poor in the Twentieth Century. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
- Raphael, Jody. 2004. Listening to Olivia: Violence, Poverty, and Prostitution. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
- Raphael, Jody. 2000. Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
- Segalman, Ralph, and Asoke Basu. 1981. Poverty in America the Welfare Dilemma. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
- Tanner, Michael. 1996. The End of Welfare: Fighting Poverty in the Civil Society. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute.
- Taylor, Brian K. 1987. Sociology, Poverty and Inequality. London: Roehampton Institute.
- United Nations. 1974. Attack on Absolute Poverty in Africa: The Role of the United Nations Development Advisory Teams (UNDATs). New York: Economic Commission for Africa, United Nations.
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Looking to add a touch of class to your bathroom? Well, install this luxuriously cool new First Hand Soap Dispenser. This fine-finished metal and glass soap dispenser mounts on the wall or sits on the countertop and dispenses liquid soap when you flip it. It's naturally weighted, so it will always drop in the down position.
There's no denying that it's an extremely stylish soap dispenser, but I think I still prefer those cool foaming soaps myself.


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Britney Spears Will Return to Form March 15
Her album's coming.
Warning: Britney Spears's new album will drop March 15. Confirmed producers, songwriters, and collaborators include Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Rodney Jerkins, Avant, Stargate, Fraser T. Smith, and Bloodshy. It'll be Spears's seventh studio album, the follow-up to 2008's Circus. The album, which still does not have a title (suggestions, anyone?), will compete with Travis Barkers's solo effort, a new album from the Dodos, and a new album from Noah and the Whale, all due to drop March 15, too. We expect her to knock 'em out. But don't call it a comeback! [Billboard]


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I'm working with a project where i need to interview few healthcare professionals in Sweden for a research. It's a 15 minutes telephone interview (in English), you can choose the timing yourself, but it should be before Wednesday next week. All the participants get Protected content gift card as a reward, which we'll send out by email. It's about media behavior of healthcare professionals in Sweden.
I'll call you whenever you have time, so if you would be interested to participate, please send me a message with your contact information asap, and' i'll call you. You can be anonymous, and your contacts doesn't go to any marketing lists or anywhere from the researcher.
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Named after a hero of the working class, Moses Mabhida, who was the leader of the South African Communist Party from 1978 until his death in 1985, this new stadium is located alongside the Kings Park Stadium, also known as the ABSA Stadium, in Durban, in KwaZulu Natal.
The construction of the new stadium, replacing the Kings Park Soccer Stadium, means that Durban is now one of the few African cities able to host most Olympic disciplines withone one area - the Kings Park Sporting Precinct - opening up the possibility of a future Olympic or Commonwealth Games bid. There is however concern that the Moses Mabhida stadium may be a white elephant after the Fifa World Cup, despite the capacity being reduced to 54,000.
The stadium has a 106-metre arch soaring above it, which will include a funicular to carry visits to a viewing platform at the top where there are breathtaking panoramas of the city of Durban and the Indian Ocean. The split arch at one end is inspired by the South African flag.
Built: 2009
Capacity: 70,000
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World Cup 2010 games: five group games, one second-round game, one semi-final.


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A couple of weeks ago I took a brief look at academic librarians, noting there wasn't as much to mock about them. I forgot one thing: their insecurity.
A couple of days after that post, Jeff Trzeciak, the chief librarian at some place in Canada called McMaster University, delivered a talk at Penn State University that has revealed that insecurity in a large number of librarians. The only non-shrill response I saw was at ACRLog. You can follow the links from there if you want to see more.
The offending part of the talk can be found at slide 56, where the McMaster librarian says that in the future he will be hiring no more traditional librarians. Instead, he'll be hiring PhDs and IT people.
And boy did that set the academic librarians to nattering, because nothing touches the academic librarian sore spot more than the claim that PhDs are better than MLSs at being librarians.
Goodness, one doesn't know where to begin.
First, why all the fuss about this guy? He's just one library dean, and in Canada of all places! Why any Americans would care is beyond me. It's not like many American librarians go to work in Canada. Quite the reverse. The brain drain usually goes the other way. Canada has sent numerous bright and hardworking librarians to the United States. In return, we sent them Jeff Trzeciak.
Some non-academic librarians were fussing, probably because they feel insecure about the future of the MLS in general. There's no reason reacting in such a hostile manner about statements like this unless you feel yourself under attack. If one library dean in Ontario gets you that upset, your problems are a lot bigger than him.
For the academic librarians, it's the longtime insecurity about having a simplistic professional master's degree instead of the usually more rigorous PhD. The problem isn't that PhDs are better librarians than MLSs. Outside of some foreign language specialties in large research libraries, that's generally not the case anyway, and everybody knows it.
There are a couple of things to note here. Most of the PhDs who can't get jobs are in the humanities, and most of those are in English, history, and philosophy and don't have any special knowledge of foreign languages or cultures.
The reduction in the humanities is taking place all over means there will also be less library support for the humanities, which means that universities that don't need English PhDs aren't going to absorb all those PhDs into their libraries either, because there won' t be anything for them to do unless the PhDs retrain themselves to do something useful.
Granted, higher education is a place that values credentials over abilities. You won't find any college dropouts like Bill Gates running a university or a university library. There's this myth in university culture that a PhD is somehow a necessary qualification for higher education administration, when common sense tells us that writing a dissertation and managing a large enterprise require different skills.
The same is true of libraries. Earning a PhD takes years of hard work, but that hard work qualifies the earner to be a scholar and possibly a teacher in a relatively narrow field. It doesn't mean they're smarter or harder working than anyone.
And the majority of people earning PhDs in English or history these days certainly aren't smart in any worldly or political sense, or they wouldn't spend years earning a degree knowing there are almost no good jobs and then whine incessantly when they have to teach freshman comp as adjuncts at several different places to make a pitiful living.
Possibly they can connect better with faculty members, having the same degree and all, but the relationship will always be onesided. Tenured faculty played the game and won. Librarians with PhDs played the game and lost. There's a difference.
Add to this that most academic libraries aren't large research libraries. The community colleges and 4-year colleges and regional universities out there employ most academic librarians, and even at the larger universities a lot of the library work is directed at undergraduates, not advanced researchers. While many PhDs might spend their sad professional lives as adjuncts teaching freshman comp, there's one thing they would consider even lower than that: teaching the library instruction portion of freshman comp.
It's also not like McMaster is a top research university setting trends for all the lesser universities. McMaster isn't even the top research university in Canada. That would be the University of Toronto, whose library is also much larger.
Take a look at the Times Higher Education World University Rankings from last year. McMaster makes the list, at #93. That's respectable, but hardly the #17 ranking of Toronto, or #30 of the University of British Columbia, or #35 of McGill.
The closest ranked American university near McMaster is Wake Forest. Wake Forest is a perfectly respectable university, but if the library director there started making statements like this, would we consider them harbingers of national change? Or would we consider it an attempt to draw attention to an otherwise ordinary library?
Trzeciak is trying to transform the McMaster library into something more digital and less traditional. That could be because as a traditional research library, McMaster is nothing impressive. It has a couple million volumes. That's chicken feed compared to Harvard, Yale, Toronto, Illinois, Stanford, Columbia, Michigan and any number of other libraries.
Whether a transformed library will better serve the university's needs is still an open question, and time will tell. But whether that transformed library and the publication of those transformations will draw attention to the university librarian is settled. It has, and there's no such thing as bad publicity if you're trying to make a name for yourself and build the profile of both yourself and your library.
Librarians might hate the guy, but he's the one they're all talking about. This seems familiar, somehow.
Given that the McMaster Library is hardly an international leader in libraryland, it seems inappropriate to protest so much. It just makes librarians look scared and insecure, and fearful insecurity isn't something that looks great when it comes time to justify your profession. If traditional MLS librarians are so great and necessary, they'll be retained, so they should stop getting their knickers in a twist if they really believe in their own value. Librarians should remember the old deodorant commercial from the eighties. Never let them see you sweat.


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Law and Regulation Affinity Group – ISTR 2016 Stockholm
At this meeting, participants introduced themselves and then talked informally about topics of interest, including fundraising regulation and a couple of other themes. A good time was had by all.
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News from the Istanbul Conference
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Ok all thought I would give you an update on the house being on the market and everything else that involves us getting ready to move to KS.
The "Uncle" of this woman that came to look at the house yesterday is driving up to see the house tomorrow from the southern part of WY. He will be here at my little abode at 10am tomorrow and I am ready for the big showing (or so I hope). Apparently Becky, my Realtor, said he is very interested in the house and wishes to see it tomorrow. I am really impressed with Becky and her devotion to getting my house sold quickly. I told her that one of the gals that I speak to on the forum is selling her house as well and that she has not gotten a showing as of yet and she told me that it is too bad that no one is showing the house yet.
Today has been particularly challenging for me as the back is not cooperating very well and my pain has been intensified by twenty fold with the stress of moving and trying to help hubby pack 11 years of accumulated property into boxes. I think I have been in the hot tub more since we started this whole thing then I have in a year and it seems to be helping with the pain as much as anything else. I hate the idea of leaving the hot tub behind as it has kinda become my best defense in relieving my pain for a bit or even reducing the stabbing pains that have shifted to the back of my legs. But hubby is going to buy me a brand new hot tub that I will use quite more often then I do this one. He also says that he will make it easier for me to get in and out of so that I am using it a bit more often.
We talked today about
the big move and I think we are both excited about
this and are quite ready for a change in life. As I said in another post my poor little son (22 and a pain) has been having g/f problems as his broke up with him this evening. I have never heard my son actually cry on the phone and felt so helpless to comfort him in this hard time of his life. It was hard to hear him sound so brokenhearted as I talked with him for several hours tonight. I just wanted to hug him but as he is in WI and I am in WY it is hard to tell him that in time he will get over this breakup and will be able to go on with his life. He's depressed about
this situation and I wish that there was something that I could have said that would have put his mind to rest and helped him to keep going without her.
Well I am off for a hot bath and then soon to bed as since I don't have my Lunesta I am not sleeping well. I am praying for each of you to have a lessened pain night and I hope that each of you sleep in a little peace for the night. I will check back before I go to bed.
Yours in Pain.
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Posted 8/9/2008 12:03 AM (GMT -6)
Hi, Scarred!
Wishing you luck with the showing tomorrow. I'll say an extra prayer around 10 that everything goes okay and you get a great offer. That would be so exciting to get this thing all wrapped up!
Sorry to hear about
your son. I don't have any kids, but I know the thing that always has helped me & my brother the most has been when my mom would tell us stories about
how she made it through tough break-ups when she was younger, how she could relate to how we felt, and that eventually, no matter how sad it was to go through a break-up, we would be okay because we had a loving family and good friends to help us through. I'm sure your son already knows that you love him & are there for him when he needs to talk; those are the most important things when anyone's going through a tough time. Probably he just needs a little time to be sad about
the break-up and then he can move on.
I hope you find some rest tonight. I'm heading to bed soon in search of the same.
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Posted 8/9/2008 1:55 AM (GMT -6)
I am so excited for you about
this move. It really seems to be coming together for you, doesn't it? I too will be praying for great results at the showing and a super offer.
I think Frances has given you some great insight about
your son's situation. I have to second what she has said. I think just the very fact that your son called you at a time like this speaks volumes for the depth of love and trust he has for you. What a great relationship for a 22 year old young man to have with his mother! Many kids would be calling their "buddies," maybe doing a little bar-hopping, and otherwise generally avoiding their parents at a time like this. Like Frances said, he needs a little time to be sad - that's just a part of it all. What a blessing that he feels safe sharing that with you.
I hope things look up for your son very soon and he is able to look back on this time and see how it helped him to grow and mature. For you - I hope you will continue to rest enough in the hot tub and not overdo! It sounds like your husband is trying to take good care of you. Let him!
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Posted 8/9/2008 2:06 AM (GMT -6)
It looks like Ry & I are both sleepless tonight! Probably ate too many yummy desserts!
I also wanted to wish you good - no GREAT - luck with the showing this morning. Can't wait to hear how it goes, although I know you may not know anything right away. Just having had 2 showings already I think is wonderful progress. One way or another, the right buyers will come along soon. And you and your hubby (he's a great guy! Wish you could clone a slightly older version!) will find a wonderful place in or around the new "green" town.
Will away your added post here to let us know how it goes Sat.!
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Posted 8/9/2008 5:22 AM (GMT -6)
PA, Ry and Frances; I too am praying for a quick answer and hope that things on this end go quickly so that we can move on from here. Seems its 4am and I am not sleeping which is driving me nuts!
Hubby and I have always had a tight relationship with our son and I think that he knows that whatever he needs we are right there for him. He bought her a promise ring two weeks before this and it seems that she threw it back into his face after he was willing to do anything for her (even quit drinking!) and she just did not appreciate his efforts. Mom's wisdom to her son last night was "Everything happens for a reason" and "Time heals all wounds" which I think helped him in his pain. My son and I have always been tight and I am glad that he had the sense to call me when things were looking so bleak for him. I could only tell him that he will get over this breakup and that with time his heart will mend. I also told him that he needs to take time to be sad for awhile before he moves on to another relationship. I think we have all been in that situation where we were on the "Rebound" from a bad or hurtful breakup and I do not want him rushing into something that is only going to end up breaking his heart once more.
This was the first serious relationship with a girl in his life and I know how hard that can be. Another thing about
my son and his newly ex is the fact that she took a pregnancy test three weeks ago and it came back positive, but refuses to go to the dr to be sure that she is pregnant. She had Mono for three weeks and is just getting over that when she found out she might be pregnant and thought that because she had what she called a regular cycle a day later that she could not be possibly pregnant. I don't know the whole thing sounds pretty fishy as a few days after she was positive she told my son that she didn;t want to keep the child and thinks that she is too young. Then after that she shut down on him and refused to speak with him about
anything. She went to have coffee with her brother day before yesterday her usual weekly thing and did not return home that night. My son was worried sick about
her as he stayed in their appt alone that night and the next day she would not return his phone calls until last night when she informed him she was through with the relationship and did not care for him like she had when they first became gf and bf. I do think that this is weird and my son is trying to figure out where he went wrong with her.
She still won't see a doctor to get a test to see if she is pregnant and my son was willing to "Step up to the plate" and take care of his responsibility of this child including paying for an abortion if that was what she wanted. She tells him she is "Scared" that her parents will find out and disown her and that is when she began to distance herself from my son (two weeks ago) and stopped talking to him.
Anyway, I think that things will work out for him and I truly hope that he can see past this to move on to other things.
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Posted 8/9/2008 3:08 PM (GMT -6)
Ladies and Gentlemen. I have wonderful news! Today we received an offer on the house and we have accepted! So what does this mean? It means that we are getting ready to move to where we are not sure quite yet. Hubby called his brother to tell him the house was sold and left a message saying as such. Got full asking price and the guy wants to take possession on Sept 4th. That gives us 4 weeks to get things done, so hopefully hubby get his brother into high gear from here and we will be in KS by Sept.
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Posted 8/9/2008 3:15 PM (GMT -6)
Congratulations, Scarred!
Wonderful news for you and your hubby!
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Posted 8/9/2008 5:14 PM (GMT -6)
Happy house hunting! Remember - worst case scenario you could do a month-to-month lease at a furnished apartment if you didn't find the right house in the next couple of weeks. Now that your place is sold you can really be in the driver's seat on buying your new place.
Good luck!
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Posted 8/9/2008 7:55 PM (GMT -6)
Thank you Ry and PA! I am so tickled that the house is finally sold and the loan that is on it will be paid in full that I think I could dance IF it was possible for that to happen hehehehe. You are right Ry, we are in the drivers seat as of now (that is if the guy doesn't find anything wrong when they do the inspection) and on the road to a new life. I don't know why he is insisting on an inspection as he is paying cash for the house and know that since it is a 1978 mobile home that certain things are bound to be a little off, but hey he is paying for the inspection and I am not worried about
the pipes and things in the house as we have never had a problem with the pipes freezing or sewer backing up.
He was concerned about
his part of the closing costs and must have thought them to be quite high. He made a stipulation in the offer that we would pay for the entire closing and since it was less then 200 bucks, hubby and I were ok with this and agreed to that part. Funny how things work out; hubby and I had decided to take the dogs to the lake while the Realtor showed the house and when we returned they were gone. Well I called her to see how it went and she said it's going great that they were making an offer as I spoke to her. She asked if we were going to be at the house for awhile and I told her ya no problem and she said that the prospective buyer had some questions and that they would be over as soon as they typed up the offer. So an hour later the guy comes to the house and we are introduced and he starts asking hubby questions about
the house and things and Becky said after it was all over with and we were going over the paperwork that he seemed a little put out that we were not home when he looked at the house. He was concerned with the house's plumbing and wanted to ask hubby some questions about
that. Well we must have put his fears to bed cause when he left the house he was ready to close this deal quickly.
Anyway I am tickled that everything is complete and even though right now I am at my wits end as to where I will be living in the next 4 weeks (wondering if the camper will be my home) I am pleased that we have sold this one and are moving on to another chapter in our lives. Becky said that she will still continue to show the house until the deal is shored up, just in case this guy backs out of the deal. Things are looking up so I do hope we will find out in the next week where we are going. I have a dr appt on friday to go over the Mylo results and am looking to the future for that.
hugs and thanks for all the congrats CP'ers loves ya!
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