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This is a Tutorial on How to make your own Santa Dummy for your Car or Front yard.
Some of the links you will need:
Mc Call's pattern for those of you who sew.
http://www.mccallpattern.com/item/M5550 ... nta&page=1
For those of you who don't sew:
http://www.santaplanet.com/asp/iteminfo ... =7500LG&H=
Then you would need a head:
http://www.mooncostumes.com/item/9476 These mask would work once t and put it on a styro foam head.
Then you would need some eyes:
Then you will need some hands;
take a pair of house hold gloves the yellow ones with the white lining. Turn them inside out and stuff with cotton or newspaper then duct tape the m to the end of your prop arms.. So The arm looks like this:
The tubing on The Pvc Pipe is bought at Lowes or Home Depot it is used to winterize your pipes.
You would need to go to a place Like Sally's Beauty Supply to buy a foam head to put the mask on..
and the link above has wigs and breads too..
Once you have sewn or bought everything you need for your Santa. You then make a easy to do PVC frame for him..Cost about $15.00 to do this for a full size Santa for the yard: or less if you are making it for your car.You would only need from the waist up.
You then can make the body out of large yard bags fulled with crumpled newspaper and then duct tape it to his PVC frame.Or you Can buy some chicken wire and duct tape and make a light weight body that way. And for the yard you will need 3' long rebar found at the hardware store like Lowe's or Home Depot. you hammer the rebar in the ground and slide the pvc frame down over it to hold him up.
I will give you a link so you can see what I'm talking about: The body you see In the pic's I used to make a Grave Digger for my yard. But The process is the same.. I change the bubble wrap to black tubing.
http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l50/B ... 498bc1.pbw
Oh, Man I ran my Mouth to long and I Hope this helps you..If You Have any questions just let me know. Merry Christmas.. Total cost to make the body and head around $50.00 bucks this doesn't include his outfit.
How To Make Your own Santa Dummy
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Mixed results for Infinity Theatre's kids fare
Infinity Theatre's second summer in Annapolis is a busy one, with not only two musicals but also two children's plays. Stories Live and in Person, playing Saturday afternoons, is a New York revival billed as a show to introduce the fun of seeing and hearing live theater to teach appreciation of the real thing to kids so plugged in that the lines blur between private and public space.
The first comedic skit is hilarious, pitting a great Shakespearean actor (Jimmy Mavrikes) against an upstaging little audience member (J.Z. Zaeske) with Hamlet introduced by Mr. Alastair (Dan Reardon) in unmistakable Masterpiece Theater style. The kids laugh. The parents laugh. Applause. We are all on the same happy page.
In the next scene, we lose our bearings. In an unidentified location, a comical villain à la Snively Whiplash, Willy the Fork (Mavrikes), pronounces his manic plan for world domination through fun and terrorizes a little old lady (Zaeske) with a space laser.
A fractured fairy tale puts Willie in his place with a moral about quick rewards. The young audience goes wild for the cartoonish hijinks, the pratfalls and the outdoor voices. I don't.
As we slip into Scene 3, enthusiasm wanes. A mad scientist (Zaeske) scours the bookstore for a particular tome. Another guy in a white lab coat with an Austrian accent (Mavrikes) does likewise. Turns out Tommy Time Travel and Sophie Space Scientist are in a battle of egos and a fight for the same book.
This is a battle only a third-grader could concoct, and laughter subsides to nervous giggles as the scientists are unmasked as misbehaving children.
Stories has a problem with the KISS principle, that fundamental building block of communication: Keep It Simple, Stupid. After a brilliant opening sequence, the next two are better suited to a workshop to help kids grow and understand the characters.
Kudos to the performers for making the most of a flawed script.
Costumes and set are spartan but effective. The soundtrack features snippets from ballet to hoedown to pop. Parents will appreciate the clever inclusion of classic film quotes and rock lyrics.
This show, complete with audience participation and a post-performance Q&A, is recommended for children from three to 10, but that seems a stretch. The older, the better.
By Alan Ostroff. Director: Lena-Moy Borgen. Production designer: Nola Denett. Stage managers: Lance Hayes and Kimberly Wilpon. Music: Clayton Powell. Production assistants: Josh De Bernardi, Emily Chalmers and Samantha Brewer.
Playing Sa at 2pm thru August 4 at the Bay Theatre Company stage, 275 West St., Annapolis. $15 w/discounts; rsvp: 877-501-8499; www.infinitytheatrecompany.com
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Florence, 4 September. Ferrari was the most successful marque at the Unique Special Ones concours d'elegance held at the prestigious Four Seasons Hotel in Florence from the 2nd to the 4th of September. Now in its second year, the concours is unusual in that its concours criteria see separate judging for aspects of design and for originality and restoration. This novel combination saw Ferraris take no fewer than four of the 10 Best in Class awards as well as the overall Best in Show.
The four magnificent Ferraris were Bernard Carl's 1962 Fantuzzi-bodied Ferrari 268 SP, which took honours in the Sports and Racing Cars class, Kenneth Roath's 1955 250 Europa GT Coupé (restored by Ferrari Classiche in 2009), which took the Gran Turismo Coupés class, Peter McCoy's 1951 212 Export Coupé, which took the Post-War Italian Style class, and David Sydorick's 1956 Zagato-bodied 250 GT Berlinetta. The latter, one of just three individually-styled long-wheelbase cars with the double-bubble roof, also took Best of Show.


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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) — the tea-party firebrand facing investigations and a daunting reelection race — abruptly announced on Wednesday morning that she will not seek reelection to a fifth term.
Her move marked a spectacular fall for a congresswoman with a bull's eye on her back every congressional cycle: Less than two years ago, she won the Iowa straw poll and was briefly regarded as a serious contender for the GOP presidential nomination.
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Bachmann, 57, who took office in 2007, said in a video posted on her website: "My good friends: After a great deal of thought and deliberation, I have decided next year I will not seek a fifth congressional term to represent the wonderful people of the Sixth District of Minnesota. After serious consideration, I am confident that this is the right decision."
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The congresswoman added on the eight-and-a-half-minute video: "[T]he law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion, well, eight years is also long enough for any individual to serve as a representative for a specific congressional district."
With Bachmann's departure, the tea party's voice in Congress will dim. She is the movement's third big-name figure in recent months to leave Congress — Jim DeMint of South Carolina resigned from the Senate in January to take over the Heritage Foundation. And in November, Florida Rep. Allen West, another conservative bomb thrower, lost reelection.
Ironically, the retirement may improve Republicans' chances of holding Minnesota's conservative 6th Congressional District, which broke for Mitt Romney by nearly 15 percentage points in 2012. Democrats had Bachmann at the top of their target list after she barely survived reelection last year. The Democrat who came close to defeating her, Jim Graves, was gearing up for a rematch.
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In Graves, she was up against an opponent who came within 5,000 votes — or 1.2 percent points — of unseating her last November. Graves, a wealthy hotel company executive who poured $250,000 of his own funds into the 2012 contest, released a poll last week showing him with a narrow lead over the congresswoman.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which provided Graves with little help in 2012, had indicated that it planned to get behind the challenger aggressively in Round Two. Though Bachmann would have had an enormous war chest, the defeat of West — another tea party hero with a national following and big money — showed that such figures are not invincible.
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Potential Republican candidates for the seat include state Reps. Tim Sanders and Matt Dean, state Sen. Michelle Fischbach, and St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis.
In the video released Wednesday morning, Bachmann insisted that her decision to not seek reelection had nothing to do with the Graves challenge, nor from the investigations. Bachmann aides have repeatedly said the congresswoman has done nothing improper.
"Be assured: My decision was not in any way influenced by any concerns about my being reelected to Congress. … I have every confidence that if I ran, I would again defeat the individual who I defeated last year, who recently announced he is once again running.


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Klout is broken
A bit more than a month ago, I asked the question: Can you become influential on Twitter, and get a high Klout Score, merely by Tweeting a lot?
To test this, I set up an experiment, which involves four Twitter bots that automatically tweet the output of the Unix fortune command-line application.
Fortune randomly outputs mildly humorous quotes, and was often used on Unix to produce a 'welcome message of the day' upon login.
The four bots Tweet once every minute, once every five minutes, once every fifteen minutes and once every thirty minutes respectively. They are completely anonymous, have no avatars or custom user profiles set, and do not follow anyone.
Now, after 80 days of running the experiment (Jules Verne style), there's a set of pretty hot data available.
The Data (the good)
Let's start off by simply plotting the amount of followers for each bot against time:
We can clearly see from this graph (quite surprisingly), that each bot accumulated followers linearly. Also, it seems the more they tweeted, the steeper the follower accumulation rate is, without any drop off, even for the bot that tweets every minute.
This brings us to a question: Can these graphs in some way be normalized? Surely the bot that Tweets at the annoying rate of once every minute, should get fewer followers per tweet as the one that Tweets at a more acceptable once every 30 minutes?
Let's normalize the data by plotting the amount of followers against the amount of Tweets, thereby literally measuring the amount of followers per Tweet:
The scale is a bit awkward, but it seems that these bots are all more or less following the same slope, in other words, by the time the once every 30 minutes bot has tweeted as much as the once a minute bot, it will have the same amount of followers.
Let's test this assumption, by plotting the curves over time again, including an amplification factor equal to the amount of minutes that lapse between Tweets. That means, we assume the once every 5 minutes bot would have had 5 times more followers if it Tweeted once every minute, etc:
Transient fluctuations aside, These curves really do seem to follow roughly the same path – linearly upwards.
That means, the more you Tweet, the more followers you get. Period. It doesn't matter how often you tweet, you gain an equal amount of followers for every time you Tweet.
The Followers (the bad)
Now, on that bombshell … time for a sobering revelation:
Looking at the followers of these bots, many of them seem to be bots themselves (there are quite a few real people who attempt conversations with them, but they are in the minority). Most of these bots get triggered by keywords present in our bots' Tweets, and then follow and retweet our bots' Tweets. A good example is @BurroughsBot, which retweets Tweets that match the search term William Burroughs.
At this point I turned to Klout (which, incidentally, is the actual reason for setting up this experiment in the first place). Surely Klout should be able to make sense of this robotic mess (like Google does with link farms), shouldn't it?
The Klout Scores (the ugly)
For all practical purposes though, no matter how I look at it, Klout seems to be broken.
Consider the following Klout scores, for the four bots:
What's wrong with this picture? To start off with, it should not really be possible for a bot to reach a Klout Score of 50 within 80 days merely by Tweeting random (yet entertaining) rubbish every minute, should it?
24 hours after the above klout scores were sampled, I took another set of samples, just to be sure:
Roughly the same result, except for huge fluctuations in transient metrics (see True Reach for Bot 1), which also seems a bit suspect. We can't say for sure without knowledge of Klout's exact algorithm.
The fact is, though, no matter how you look at it, unless Klout updates this aspect of their algorithm, in another 80 days Bot 1 could very well have the same Klout Score as @scobleizer!
Taking into account that many Twitter clients (like Hootsuite) and filter applications (like Datasift) are using Klout as a trusted way of filtering tweets, it means Klout will have to up their game on this one to stay in the game.
Or else, we might just be run by machines sooner than we think!
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If you find a page in an iPad e-book you want to return to, bookmark it. You can also highlight important passages in an e-book. Bookmarks and highlights in your e-books are like favorite sites you save in your web browser. They enable you to revisit a favorite passage or refresh your memory about a character or plot point.
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The page is added to the Bookmarks list.
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HOUSTON -- The Rangers will miss 2012 American League Cy Young Award winner David Price when they face the Rays in a three-game series at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington beginning Monday. Price is scheduled to pitch on Sunday against the Indians before the Rays come to Texas.
The Rays are scheduled to pitch Jeremy Hellickson, Roberto Hernandez and Matt Moore during the series. The Rangers are lined up to pitch Alexi Ogando, Nick Tepesch and Derek Holland. Tepesch, who is starting Thursday for Triple-A Round Rock, is scheduled to make his Major League debut on Tuesday.
The Rangers are scheduled to face left-hander Jason Vargas and right-handers Tommy Hanson and Jered Weaver during their three-game series against the Angels over the weekend.
Price was 20-5 with 205 strikeouts and a league-leading 2.56 ERA in 2012, but he was 1-1 with a 6.97 ERA in two starts against the Rangers. Both were in Arlington. Including the playoffs, Price is 1-7 with a 5.57 ERA in his career against the Rangers and 1-2 with a 10.26 ERA in four starts at the Ballpark.


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Seattle Poet Thomas Brush Wins 2011 Blue Lynx Prize
The fifteenth annual Blue Lynx Prize has been awarded to Thomas Brush for his full-length poetry collection, Last Night. The winning collection was chosen from among more than five hundred submissions and will be published in spring, 2012, by Lynx House Press, the contest's founding sponsor. The winner also receives a cash prize of $2000, payable upon publication.
Thomas Brush is a life-long resident of Seattle. He has a B.A. from Central Washington University and an M.A. from the University of Washington and taught for many years in nearby Kent, Washington. His work has appeared in many distinguished journals, including Poetry, Prairie Schooner, the Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, and the North American Review. The quality of that work has also been acknowledged by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Washington Arts Commission, and the Washington Artist Trust.
The poems in Last Night are drawn from the lost who walk the streets, discarded road signs and postcards, the natural world, and memory. The people in them wager every day on cars, their dreams, garage sales, love (real and imagined), old hymnals, rain forests, raccoons, and flights of gulls. Sometimes they win, more often they lose, even when the bartender says, "sure thing." The overall effect of the book is hard hitting, direct, gritty, and sweet; it has much in common with the work of another Seattle area native, the late Richard Hugo.


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October 7, 2013
Less than one week left until Columbus State Day!
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Columbus State Day is our 50th anniversary gift to the community and a big "learning free-for-all" on Saturday, October 12 on the Columbus Campus! Most sessions are nearly full, but there are still a few days left for your friends and family members to sign up for the free classes, demonstrations, activities and to hear the keynote speaker, Dr. Shane Lopez.
Lopez is a Gallup Senior Scientist and Research Director for the Clifton Strengths Institute. He is coauthor of the statistical reports for the Clifton StrengthsFinder and the Clifton Youth StrengthsExplorer. He is also the author of Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want in Business and Life, which details how hope can be learned and spread to others. Read more at his website, HopeMonger.com. You can also take a "Hope Test" to gauge your own level of hope.
There are also a few more days left to contribute to the Columbus State Day Book Drive. Because many people's financial circumstances make owning books an unaffordable luxury, we are asking employees to donate new or gently used books that they have read and enjoyed. Books for all ages are appreciated. On Columbus State Day, participants will be invited to take home a free book from the festivities! Need more information? Contact Nick Lakostik in the English Department.
Tell us about your Day of Service!
Now that Columbus State's first-ever Day of Service is completed, the planning committee would like to know more about your experience.
The Office of Institutional Effectiveness has created a quick survey that we would like employees to fill out and submit, telling us what you liked, didn't like, and would possibly like to do again! The survey is voluntary and anonymous. Survey link: http://web.cscc.edu/snapwebhost/s.asp?k=138090023578
Open Forum reminder
Open Forums will be held to meet the candidates for the position of Vice President for Information Technology at Columbus State. The schedule is as follows:
Carol Thomas, Interim CIO, Columbus State Community College
Monday, October 7, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom, fourth floor WD
Rick Mickool, Chief Information Officer, Wittenberg University
Wednesday, October 9, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Nestor Hall Auditorium
Brian Rellinger, Chief Information Officer, Ohio Wesleyan University
Tuesday, October 15, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom, fourth floor WD
Government shutdown affects some veteran benefits
The Department of Veterans Affairs has released information about services to veterans impacted/not impacted by the lapse in appropriations due to the government shutdown: http://www.va.gov/opa/docs Field_Guide_20130927.pdf This information has also been shared with our students.
College presidents speak to Columbus Metropolitan Club
The Columbus Metropolitan Club forum on September 25 featured presidents from three local colleges, including Columbus State's David Harrison, who discussed the changing journey for students through higher education. You can watch the hour-long video online here.
Landscape students host garden art fundraiser
The Columbus State Landscape Association students will offer the beautiful garden art of George Carruth as a fundraiser for their annual trip to Student Career Days – the national landscape competition held every year in March.
Columbus State's students are never out of the Top Ten at the "Landscape Olympics," and they need your support to travel to this year's event to be held at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colo.
George Carruth is one of America's most collected sculptors. His pieces can be found in gardens, landscapes, and containers all over the United States, and even in other countries. All pieces are completely weatherproof, so that they can be enjoyed for years to come. The pieces offered can be seen in the Carruth Studios Fundraising Catalog.
To order, email CSLA President Samantha August or call (614) 359-4799 and she will place your order with the company. Payment will be collected by Oct. 12 and delivery will be in 3-4 weeks.
New transfer partnership opens door to Miami for Columbus State students
Miami University in Oxford is now partnering with Columbus State to offer students a new transfer option. In a press conference held Oct. 4, the partnership between the two institutions was outlined by Miami President David Hodge and Columbus State's David Harrison.
Miami University first approached Columbus State about a partnership option earlier this year.
Students who graduate with an associate degree and a 2.0 grade point average from Columbus State will now be eligible for guaranteed admission to Miami University. Miami University is also committed to providing a limited number of scholarships for eligible students.
While attending Columbus State, students in this new program will have access to on-site academic advising from both Miami and Columbus State. Graduates in the Spring 2014 Semester will be the first students eligible for the new transfer agreement.
"We welcome those Columbus State transfer students into the Miami family and look forward to them becoming involved in the very active academic and co-curricular Miami Experience," said Miami President David Hodge.
"More and more students are starting their bachelor's degree plans here at Columbus State," said President Harrison. "By first completing their associate degree at Columbus State, this partnership eliminates a lot of uncertainty for students and families, providing a high quality, affordable pathway to a bachelor's degree at Miami University."
Inaugural Alumni Basketball Game is Oct. 11
Cheer on and support the Cougars of past and present in the inaugural Columbus State men's basketball Alumni Game,
Friday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Delaware Hall Gymnasium.
Admission is free! For more information, call ext. 5092.
Flu shots offered Oct. 29
The Columbus State Wellness Initiative will offer seasonal flu shots to full-time employees on Tuesday, October 29, from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Delaware Hall 106.
Registration: http://web.cscc.edu/is/employeetraining/course.asp?C=522
You will find a consent form on this registration link. Upon registering, you should bring the consent form, your Columbus State ID, and a UHC card, if you have one (not required). If you have any questions, please contact Nichole Bowman-Glover, Wellness coordinator, at ext.3989.
Wellness Initiative Summer Slim Down results are in
The Columbus State Wellness Initiative offered a Summer Slim Down challenge, measuring 100 employees at the Columbus and Delaware Campuses before Memorial Day. During the summer, each participant received health and wellness newsletters and tips from Mr. Carmel Workplace Health. After Labor Day, 55 employees returned to have their measurements taken again. Forty-five of them lost at least one inch at the waistline over the summer, and the top three winners of the challenge are:
Michelle Teasley - down 16.98 percent
Melissa Timmons - down 13.48 percent
Darrin Albaugh – down 13.23 percent
Congratulations to all participants! Stay tuned for the next Wellness Challenge and more opportunities to improve your health.
DEIS offerings:
WebEx Meeting Center Basics
WebEx Meeting Center is a virtual online meeting room which allows Columbus State employees to hold meetings online. WebEx requires participants to have internet access and a computer with a microphone and audio capabilities. All communication is done through the computer, whether a desktop pc or laptop. WebEx allows for multiple participants, up to 200, at different locations to connect online and share any document, power point, web site, or other multimedia. Although WebEx has video capabilities, the focus generally is with sharing data and information with participants.
View/download WebEx Meeting Center overview document (PDF)
Please note: All participants seeking to attend training and/or use WebEx must download/complete the Cougar Webconferencing (WebEx) Meeting Request form before signing up for this training session.
When: Wednesday, October 9 (6:00 - 8:00 p.m.) - Register
Blackboard Assignments
Location: Webconference using Webex
Prerequisites: training participants must have already successfully completed the following ITI training courses: Introduction to Blackboard, and Grade Center I.
When: Thursday, October 10 (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.) - Register
HCD Professional Development
Career Pathing
Career Pathing is a process used by an employee to chart a course within an organization for his/her career path and career development. Join us for an interactive session on self-assessments, exploring opportunities and creating an action plan for your career path! For more information contact Lori Thomas at ext. 3860. Career Pathing Action Plan - A resource for the Career Pathing class.
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Peter Richards joined Gulftainer in March 1987 and during his 26 years he has helped steer the company from unknown local, private terminal operator onto an international platform with an annual through- put of over seven million TEUs, a staff over 4000 and a reputation for yielding the highest levels of productivity to benefit the company's clients.
Gulftainer's recent acquisition of a majority shareholding in Saudi Arabia's GSCCO means the company will now operate the Northern Container Terminal (NCT) on the west coast of Saudi Arabia, Jubail Commercial Port (JCP) and Jubail Industrial Port (JIP) on the east coast. Through this acquisition, Gulftainer not only operates the highest number of terminals in the Middle East, but is also the only terminal operator in the region which provides access for shipping lines into the entire Middle East through the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Gulf.
Today the firm manages ports and logistics businesses in several countries, including the UAE, KSA, Iraq, Pakistan, Russia, Brazil, Lebanon and Turkey.
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When the Gulftainer company was first established in 1976, it was a modest and humbles business operating from their home in Sharjah, but little did they know that today, 37 years on, they would become one of the largest privately owned port operators in the world.
These recent years have been remarkable for Gulftainer with the addition of new facilities in Iraq, Brazil, Russia and Lebanon; however, with the latest purchase of Gulf Stevedoring Contracting Company (GSCCO), based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the company portfolio has been elevated to new heights, to become the largest port operator in the Middle East.
In addition to its port facilities, Gulftainer operates freight and transport services at inland container depots (ICD) and logistics cities, through its third-party logistics (3PL) subsidiary, Momentum Logistics, along with joint venture interests across international territories, including Pakistan and Turkey. Momentum is now seeing continual organic growth in its own right. However, it is those humble origins that have allowed Gulftainer to grow in the manner it has; developing an industry wide reputation for the delivery of guaranteed levels of productivity and the assemble of a strong customer-focused team with well-rounded industry experience.
This is an exciting journey for Gulftainer, which is looking forward to strengthening its presence in Saudi Arabia in the coming years. The company truly believes that the quality and capabilities they are bringing to the management and operation of the local ports in the Kingdom will be invaluable to the growth of the nation.
Twenty five years ago Gulftainer operated just 4 ships to shore gantry cranes and by the end of 2013 will have the potential to operate over 75. Twenty five years ago Gulftainer employed a staff of 125; by the end of 2013 Gulftainer will manage 40% of all Middle East ports.
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The girlfirend's name a week before the break up; the Tweety Pie on a 300-pound body builder. Many tattoos can be considered mistakes.
But there is a special place on the Internet for what we are calling Chinese "tatt-tastrophes."
Tian, an Arizona-based amateur linguist, runs the Hanzi Smatter blog -- a site dedicated to Asian language tattoos gone wrong. Tian translates Chinese tattoos for people who probably should have sought him out, or any Chinese-speaking friend, before getting their flesh indelibly inscribed.
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"Today, we celebrate the 100th birthday of a Lincoln landmark," said Mayor Seng. "The Old Federal Building is now Federal Place, thanks to NuStyle's redevelopment, which has breathed new life into this building. I want to thank NuStyle for creating a beautiful new space while carefully maintaining the historic character of the building. I also want to recognize the City's Urban Development Department, the Downtown Lincoln Association, the Lincoln City Council and the others who made this transformation possible."
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The Old Federal Building was built in several phases beginning in 1904. It was used as the post office and federal office space until 1969, when the new post office at 7th and "R" and the Denney Federal Building at 15th and "O" were completed. The building was then acquired by the City of Lincoln, which declared it surplus in 1987, making it eligible for sale and redevelopment.
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With today's news that it has inked a fresh multi year agreement with Discovery, Inc., live sports streaming service fuboTV is expanding further into non sports content.That will introduce to its service 13 Discovery TV networks in the weeks ahead.The fresh additions will include Discovery Channel, TLC, Investigation Discovery, NFL Game 2019 Animal Planet, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and MotorTrend — all available on fuboTV's base package of $54.99 per month.They will join the other Discovery-owned networks that already exist, including HGTV, Food Network and Travel Channel. Through their agreement with Scripps Network Interactive, these had entered fuboTV previously.
Watch Live with Sling TV
You can also watch the Reddit NFL Streams on Sling TV. It has 2 packages that cost $25 a month, Sliang orange and Sling Blue.Sling Orange comes with ESPN and ESPN2. But you should purchase the additional sports package for ESPNU. It has a free trial period of seven days. NFL Game 2019 Sling TV ($230 at Amazon) was the first live streaming television service — appearing in February 2015 — and while spawning a number of rivals, it is one of the cheapest and best ways to cut the cable TV cable.
Watch Live with PlayStation Vue
PlayStation 3 and 4, Roku, Amazon Fire Stick and Fire TV, Google Chromecast, Kodi, iOS and Android PlayStation Vue is the alternative live TV service for the gaming console, NFL Game 2019 and it's one of the best ways to snag NFL RedZone.The cheapest service allows you to watch live television for $44.99 a month, as well as ESPN and ESPN2.
If you want to access NFL RedZone, you'll need Core, a sports-heavy package costing $49.99 a month, and then you'll need to add the $10-per month Sports NFL Game 2019 Pack that contains, among other things, ESPN Goal Line, ESPN Bases Loaded, ESPN Classic, Longhorn Network, and NBCUniversal Regional Sports Networks.
Watch Live with DirecTV Now
Before today, for a 12-month introductory offer, you could get DIRECTV for $49.99 (plus charges and taxes). AT&T has now announced that due today, the fundamental Select package from DIRECTV will go up to $59.99 a month as a nice 12-month introductory offer.If after updating the NFL Game 2019 DIRECTV NOW app to AT&T TV you can no longer access your DIRECTV NOW subscription, you are not alone.Right now we are receiving extensive reports that for many DIRECTV NOW subscribers who are attempting to access their AT&T TV NOW subscriptions the AT&T TV app is down.
Watch Live with Hulu with Live TV
Hulu with Live TV is cable-like, just better. There is always something worth watching with over 60 live and on-demand channels — not to mention the thousands of shows and films in the streaming library of Hulu.You will also have access to extra on- NFL Game 2019 demand content provided directly by our network partners along with all the news, sports and other live TV.Check your ZIP code for a complete network breakdown.
Watch Live with YouTube TV
YouTube is a nice way to watch the Reddit NFL Streams. It offers sports channels such as NBCSN, NBA TV, and four channels of ESPN. After a free 7-day trial, it costs $40 a month.If you're the kind of cord cutter that wants to experience a transition from cable NFL Game 2019 NFLTV as painlessly as possible and don't mind paying a little extra, YouTube TV is your live streaming service.It is simple to use, smooth and quick on a multitude of devices, supporting up to six distinct profiles of family members.
Watch with Live Online With APPS
Watching America News Stream live online with applications broadcasts American news stories and updates around the globe 24 hours a day.For its internet users, the Watch Live America News Stream Android app has been reconstructed and redesigned. The network's internet visitors and supporters can have the android app "Watch Live America NFL Game 2019 News Stream" from Google Play Store and capture the recent news & events from the US and around the globe.For its Android customers, the Watch Live America News Stream app was introduced with a new look and feel for more content, higher customization and better general results.
Watch Live with Sports App
Sports are one of the greatest experiences of entertainment out there.It's almost always fun to go to live activities because anything can occur.These days it's quite simple to follow sports. NFL Game 2019 On social media and YouTube there are loads of characters along with a host of sport news applications. For this list, we wanted to concentrate on applications covering various sports.
Watch Live with Roku
Currently, the Roku Channel provides a combination of free-to-watch, ad-supported films, TV shows and live news.You can also buy HBO, Showtime, Starz, Epix and other networks subscriptions through the Roku Channel instead of subscribing individually to each of the streaming applications.Starting today, the firm is adding to the NFL Game 2019 Roku Channel a fresh segment centered on the content of children and families.The region of Kids and Family is now accessible on Roku streaming games, Roku TVs, on the internet and on select intelligent TVs from Samsung in the US.
Watch Live with Fire TV
Approximately six months ago, Amazon introduced a fresh product line under the brand Fire TV.This was your antenna's Amazon Fire TV Recast DVR.The Fire TV Recast allows you to record and stream your antenna around our house to Fire TVs.We decided to take a second look at the Fire TV Recast DVR now that it's been six months.Amazon has added two fresh characteristics since last year's Fire TV Recast hit shops.In order to expand its storage you can now attach an external hard drive to the USB port on your Fire TV. The capacity to record a show across various networks was also introduced by Amazon. You can request the Fire TV to record the Family Guy of FOX regardless of the network on which it is airing.
Watch Live with KODI
Hundreds of Kodi addons are accessible on the market and dozens of lists declare the best accessible Kodi addons.However, over 130 Kodi addons have been fully tested, from informal addons such as Seren, Venom, 13Clowns, Incursion, Exodus Redux, and Real Debrid to formal NFL Game 2019 addons such as YouTube, Fite.tv, USTVnow, Xumo, Pluto TV, Viewester and more.Whether you're searching for online streaming movies or TV addons, we've covered you.Our list sifts through the junk to assist deliver August 2019's top 26 best Kodi addons. Check back for more updates next month!
Watch Live with Chromecast
The phones, intended as tiny dongles, allow consumers with a mobile device or personal computer to play audio-visual content on a high-definition TV or home audio system via mobile and web applications that support Google Cast technology.Alternatively, NFL Game 2019 content can be reflected from both the Google Chrome internet browser operating on a personal computer and some Android devices ' screen.Chromecast, a video streaming device of the first generation, was announced on July 24, 2013 and made available for purchase in the U.S. for US$ 35 on the same day.
Watch Live with an Antenna and DVR
If you live in an region with excellent access to TV stations, it's an simple and cheap (read: free) way to get the shows you want without paying for cable.And hooking up a DVR to that antenna allows you to unlock the complete potential of those broadcasts: saving them for subsequent viewing, skipping commercials and even, in some instances, streaming them for watching on various TVs or outside the home.Naturally, the downside is that NFL Game 2019 "free" becomes, well, not free, particularly with DVRs charging a monthly service fee.A bare-bones DVR like the Channel Master Stream Plus starts at around $150, while a TiVo with all the bells and whistles is around $500 after you pay the service fee for life.
Watch Live with Using VPN
A VPN or Virtual Private Network enables you to establish a safe Internet connection to another network.You can use VPNs to access regional websites, shield your browsing activity from government Wi-Fi prying eyes, and more.VPNs are really popular these days, but not for the original purposes they were produced.Originally NFL Game 2019 they were just a way to safely link company networks over the internet or enable you to access from home to a business network.VPNs fundamentally transmit all of your network traffic to the network, which is where the advantages come from – such as remotely accessing local network resources and bypassing Internet censorship. Most operating systems have VPN assistance incorporated.
Watch Live with Using Smart DNS Proxies
Smart DNS Proxy is an advanced technology that enables Internet users worldwide to unblock geo-restricted (or geo-blocked) websites such as Netflix, Hulu, WWE Newtork, BeInSports.net, BBC and many more famous websites containing regional-restricted content.
Some of the primary benefits of unblocking websites by using a Smart DNS Proxy service include:Minimum velocity loss. Smart DNS NFL Game 2019 Proxy only requires to re-route specific information about your geographic place-unlike a VPN (Virtual Private Network) that needs to re-route all your internet data so that you can visit only one site.
Watch Live with Paid Subscriptions Channels
Subscribe to a paid channel for a single monthly or annual fee to view all the videos in that channel.Paid channels are just one way of making their content accessible on YouTube for video creators. YouTube will not begin charging all the videos that you can enjoy at no price at the moment.For the first time subscribers, most paid channels include a free trial. NFL Game 2019 The free trial length is shown above the free trial start btn.Besides a free trial, paid channels often include some free preview videos, so you can check a channel drive before paying.
Watch Live with ESPN Official Channel
ESPNews (pronounced "ESPN News") is an American digital cable and satellite television network owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between the Walt Disney Company's Disney Media Networks division (owned by a 80% stakeholder) and Hearst Communications (owned by the remaining 20%).Known in its planning phases as ESPN3 and suggested as early as 1993, Cincinnati Bengals vs Indianapolis Colts NFL[1 ] ESPNEWS was introduced on 1 November 1996 and initially concentrated on 24-hour coverage of sport news and highlights.
Since 2010, the network has been slowly refocused on charging the various sports debate and entertainment shows of ESPN, along with video simulations of ESPN Radio shows,Press conferences now appearing as the primary ESPN channel on SportsCenter during the day have become more and more news-based outside live sports – rather than carrying recorded sporting activities.
Watch Live with Reddit
Reddit is an aggregation of American social news, web content rating, and website for debate.Registered participants send content such as connections, text messages, and pictures to the site, and other members vote up or down.Posts are structured by topic into user- created boards called "subreddits," NFL Game 2019 covering a wide range of subjects including news, science, films, video games, music, books, fitness, food, and image sharing.As of July 2019, according to Alexa Internet, Reddit ranks No. 5 as the most visited website in the U.S. and No. 13 in the world, with 55% of its user base coming from the U.S., followed by the U.K. at 7.4% and Canada at 5.8%.
Watch Live with Fox Sports Go
Fox Sports Go (FSGO) is Fox Sports Networks ' over – the-top service. For clients of select cable and satellite TV suppliers, as well as over – the-top services such as FuboTV, this service is accessible. Cincinnati Bengals vs Indianapolis Colts NFLThe service was originally launched as a TV Everywhere service for Fox Sports, including access to network content such as Fox Sports 1 and Big Ten Network
Watch Live with CBS All Access
CBS All Access is a CBS Interactive-owned and operated American over – the-top subscription streaming video on demand service.It provides original content, freshly aired content on the broadcast characteristics of CBS, and content from the library of CBS. NFL Game 2019 Many markets in the U.S. give a live stream of the main channel of the local CBS affiliate.The service is noted for streaming the Grammy Awards and Star Trek: Discovery.[1 ] It has over 4 million subscribers as of February 2019.
Watch Live with Sports Network
Sports channels are specialty television channels (generally solely available via cable and satellite) that broadcast sporting events, generally live, and when they do not broadcast events, sport news and other associated programming.The first sports channel came from the SportsChannel networks with the initial SportsChannel (now MSG Plus) on the air in 1977. NFL Game 2019 In 1979, ESPN started broadcasting.Since then, many channels have emerged around the globe, many concentrating specifically on one sport, or one region of a nation, displaying only the matches of their local team.
Watch Live with DIRECTV Now
DirecTV Now, its streaming service for Internet TV, is here,Starting today, you can sign up for a free trial on a range of platforms including smartphones, tablets, streaming phones in the living room and PCs.No cable box or satellite dish needed ; it's all over the internet. NFL Game 2019 I've been using DirecTV for a day now, and my early impression is that it has a lot of potential and value, but the first attempt feels a bit incomplete.With DirecTV now, four levels of channel packages are being provided, but the agreement that AT&T is pushing hardest at the launch is a limited-time promotion that will allow you to pay $35 a month for a package of over 100 channels.
Watch Live with Verizon Wireless
Cellco Partnership, which operates as Verizon Wireless[4][5 ], is an American telecommunications corporation that provides wireless services and products.It is a wholly-owned Verizon Communications subsidiary. Following AT&T, Verizon Wireless is the second biggest wireless supplier in the United States,The headquarters of the business are in Basking Ridge, NFL Game 2019 New Jersey. It was established in 2000 as a joint venture between the American telecommunications company Bell Atlantic,Verizon Communications and Vodafone, the British multinational telecommunications business, would quickly become this.After purchasing Vodafone's 45% stake in the company, Verizon Communications became the sole proprietor in 2014.
Watch Live with NBC Sports
NBC Sports is the programming division of the American broadcast network NBC, owned by the division of NBCUniversal's NBC Universal Television Group, which is accountable for the network's sports broadcasts and its devoted national sports cable channels. NFL Game 2019 Operating formerly as a "NBC News service," it broadcasts a variety of sporting events,Among others, the Olympic Games, the NFL, NASCAR, the NHL, NFL Game 2019 , the PGA Tour, the IndyCar Series, the French Open, the Premier League and the Triple Crown.
Watch Live with Yahoo Sports
Yahoo Sports is a Yahoo! introduced sports news website on December 8, 1997.It gets most of its data from STATS, Inc.[2 ] In almost every major sport in North America, it uses countless authors and has team pages for teams. NFL Game 2019 Some components of the page were known as the Yahoo! Scoreboard before the launch of Yahoo Sports.The Yahoo Sports brand was also used for a U.S. sports radio network from 2011 to 2016. It's now known as SB Nation Radio.
Watch with Livestream
Livestream is a live streaming video platform enabling clients to stream live video content through the Internet using a camera and a computer, and spectators to view content through the internet, iOS, Android, Roku, and Apple TV.Livestream needs a paid subscription to be used by content providers ; NFL Game 2019 it has previously provided a free ad-supported service, but has not done so since 2016. Livestream clients include Spotify, Gannett, World Economic Forum, Tesla, SpaceX, NBA, RISD, Clinton Global Initiative, more than 200 local TV affiliates, and thousands more.
Watch Live with IBM Video
IBM Cloud Video is an American video streaming and video hosting company, formerly Ustream. It has its headquarters in San Francisco and has more than 180 staff in its headquarters in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Budapest.Panasonic, Samsung, Logitech, CBS News, PBS NewsHour, Viacom, and IMG Media are company partners.It obtained $11.1 million from DCM (Doll Capital Management) and Labrador NFL Game 2019 Ventures and Band of Angels in Series A financing for new product development. It has been an IBM subsidiary since 2016. Ustream altered its name on April 1, 2018, two years after its acquisition, to represent its new possession.
Watch Live with Facebook Live
You can now broadcast from your desktop to Facebook Live. You can stream pages, organizations or event pages to your Facebook profile.Facebook enables you to do this through the website of Facebook.But I'll demonstrate you how to take stuff further in this article so you can use various cameras, embed videos and audio files, and overlay NFL Game 2019 pictures with slick transitions.You will need to use a live video streaming tool if you want to broadcast from your laptop. This can be a web app running on your browser or an app running on your Mac or PC.There are quite a few that work with Facebook Live, but OBS Studio, Ecamm Live, BeLive and Wirecast are the most popular ones, but there are others.
Watch Live with Twitch
Twitch is a live streaming video platform owned by Amazon's subsidiary, Twitch Interactive.Introduced in June 2011 as a spin-off of Justin.tv, the website focuses mainly on live streaming of video games,Including eSports broadcasts, NFL Game 2019 in addition to music broadcasts, creative content and, more lately, streams "in true life." It is possible to view content on the site either live or on demand via video.
Watch Live with Wowza
Wowza Streaming Engine is a Wowza Media Systems created unified streaming media server software.The server is used to stream live and on demand video, audio and wealthy Internet apps to desktop, laptop and tablet pcs, mobile devices, over IP networks.IPTV set-top boxes, NFL Game 2019 TV sets connected to the Internet, game consoles and other devices connected to the network.On most operating systems, the server is a Java application that can be deployed.
Watch Live with Dacast
Dacast Inc is an internet video platform enabling companies to broadcast and host video content and deliver free or paid programming.Dacast is business-to-business (B2B) unlike consumer-oriented platforms NFL Game 2019 like YouTube or Facebook Live.By the end of 2018, more than 120,000 video manufacturers used Dacast, including television and radio stations, event manufacturers, school and college networks, church and worship house networks.
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Stream Sharks are the Robots ' water combat machines.They are medium-sized, fast submarines NFL Game 2019 used to combat battle machines like the Hydro Titan,To keep human prisoners, they have a tiny containment uning in the back.
Watch Live with Zype
Zype empowers teams of video activities to create incredible internet, mobile, OTT & linked TV, and social media video streaming services to get to market rapidly.Zype is OTT's cloud NFL Game 2019 video distribution service that makes it easy on every screen for content owners to connect directly to their audiences.Zype offers push button app publication, monetizing, streaming, audience management, and analytics that are incorporated into hundreds of OTT applications and hired every month by millions of spectators.
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JW Live, our newly launched end-to-end live streaming platform, solves these issues and allows anyone you want to rapidly set up a live stream and monetize it across devices.For many content creators and publishers, NFL Game 2019 live streaming is becoming a critical component of the video approach, particularly given Facebook Live's popularity.However, it was hard to implement live streaming and achieve its complete potential due to the complexity of typical live streaming workflows and the function constraints of current platforms.


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Seems like this'll be the Animal Kingdom-Shackleford Stakes. They are the Steelers and Cowboys of this year's Belmont field, the familiar winners from a month or so ago whom the betting public will invariably overrate. They'll lose. Or they'll win with disappointing odds. But think: There are 10 other horses for you to bet (and lose money) on!
Like the 30-1 Isn't He Perfect, described here by Chris Smith of New York:
If you're looking for a sentimental long-shot bet in the third leg of the Triple Crown, Isn't He Perfect is your horse. Not so much for the colt's recent performances - he finished a dismal ninth in the Preakness - but for his eccentric and endearing trainer. Doodnauth Shivmangal began a Belmont press conference diatribe this week by saying, "There was all this written about me being suspended. I was never suspended! Well, I was only suspended for 30 days."
It's like betting on your alcoholic uncle! It'll probably be cheaper, too.
Or the 10-1 Master of Hounds, as written up in Thursday's New York Post:
It would not be the Belmont Stakes without a fly in the ointment to confuse horseplayers searching for the winner. The snag in this Saturday's Belmont is easily identified: Master of Hounds, the Irish shipper.
What to make of him? Nobody can be sure what to expect of this colt who dropped out of the skies Tuesday from Ireland and will go up against 11 of the best surviving 3-year-olds in America. On dirt.
He could be the surprise of the day or the dud of the season.
On second thought, a mercurial Irish horse that pops up out of the blue? What sounds more like alcoholic uncle than that?
Or, I suppose, you could bet on the poorly dubbed 15-1 Prime Cut, whose name seems to imply that he's headed to the nearest upscale butcher if he doesn't win. But he might:
Owned by Donald A. Adam, he has yet to capture a stakes, although he is coming off two fine efforts in graded events.
Howard, though, knows his way around the big events, having won races like the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Preakness, Hopeful, Kentucky Oaks, and Alabama during his career.
Not until last weekend did he decide on the third leg of the Triple Crown, despite the good effort Prime Cut turned in to be third in the Peter Pan Stakes on May 14 at Belmont Park.
Even better, Prime Cut's jockey is Edgar Prado, who's won two Belmonts in the last decade. That's something.
So, there you go, there's your Trifecta. Prime Cut to win, Master of Hounds to place, Isn't He Perfect to show. Get some Maker's Mark, your kid's 529 fund, and have at it.
Bad Beats: Readers Share Their Tales Of Woe
Ponies edition, from Donnie_Iris:
About 15 years ago I attended a bachelor party at Mountaineer Park in West Virginia. The plan was to spend the evening wagering on the ponies and then visit a strip club near the track. I was a recent college graduate and was doing an unpaid internship. Even though I was broke, the lure of a drunken night gambling in West Virginia (complete with strippers!) seemed too seedy to pass up.
I had never been to the horse races before and had absolutely no knowledge of how to place bets or pick horses. This did not stop me from doing so, but it did prevent me from winning anything. By the 6th or 7th race of the night, I had already visited the ATM twice to withdraw money that I couldn't afford to lose and was once again down to my last $10 bill. Using typical bad gambler logic, I attempted a sucker's bet to win it all back at once.
I took a walk over to this area where they paraded the horses that were making their way out to the track. I thought maybe seeing the horses up close would give me some kind of edge at picking out a long shot. I studied the race form and the name of a 50-1 horse jumped off the sheet at me. Of course, now I can't remember what the name was. I recall it being something with the word "candy" in it and it was also a song title. Maybe "I Want Candy" or "Candy Everybody Wants". In retrospect, betting on a Bow Wow Wow or 10,000 Maniacs title probably shouldn't have swayed my decision, but regardless I wanted to see what this horse looked like. I stood next to this parade area and out trotted my long shot. As it went past me, I swear to God the fucking horse stopped and looked me right in the eye. That was the sign I was looking for! This was my horse.
I decided to place two bets. Seven bucks for this beast to win and a $3 trifecta with this horse leading the way followed by the two race favorites. We decided to make this the last race of the night before we retreated to the nudie bar, so we made our way track side to stand along the railing near the front stretch. It had rained off and on most of the night, so the track was pretty sloppy. I was excited because the only time this horse had ever placed was on a muddy track. My long shot was a mudder!
Race starts and it's a pretty slow pace. You can tell that the horses were struggling with the mud. Since we were standing track side, it made it difficult to tell the horses apart on the back stretch. We relied on the race announcer to keep us posted and at no time did I hear him say the word "candy". As the horses rounded the last turn, my eyes popped out of me head as three of them broke away from the pack including my long shot. As they raced toward the finish line, Candy pulled to the outside and started to take the lead. This stupid 90s pop-hit-of-a-horse was about to win me a couple hundred bucks. I started screaming. As they got closer, I saw the two horses trailing my long shot were the horses I needed to place and show in order to hit my trifecta. Holy fucking shit... I was about to be rich (or as least as rich as a $3 trifecta can make a guy). I went insane, jumping up and down and clutching my ticket as the horses came near.
I swear to God, I thought I saw that fucking horse look over at me again. As he did, his front leg slipped in the mud and buckled underneath him. I thought I heard something crack. Ten feet from the finish line my long shot lay in a pile, the jockey thrown off its back. I stood in total shock as the rest of the herd thundered past him, rendering my ticket worthless.
As the horse lay there, they pulled out a big white screen to shield him from the spectators and euthanized him right on the track. I think I yelled something like, "Killing's too good for you, you fucking loser!". Affirmed.
The worst part was yet to come. I had to go to a West Virginia strip club penniless and sober.
Stupid Prop Bet of the Week
Courtesy of Paddy Power: Who will play Holden Caulfield in the Catcher in the Rye movie?
Max Records 5/1
Chandler Canterbury 8/1
Jimmy Bennett 10/1
Justin Bieber 12/1
Moisés Arias 14/1
Thomas Sangster 16/1
Nick Jonas 20/1
Michael Cera 20/1
Anton Yelchin 25/1
Josh Hutcherson 25/1
Zac Efron 25/1
Jaden Smith 33/1
Connor Cruise 33/1
Angus T. Jones 33/1
Noah Gray-Cabey 33/1
Daniel Radcliffe 40/1
Taylor Lautner 40/1
David Kross 50/1
We don't even know who most of these people are, and no one knows if the movie will be made anyway. But, what the hell, those Scientologists run everything. Put a G each on Connor Cruise and Jaden Smith. Did Salinger ever say that Holden was white? Maybe we should ask Kornheiser.


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