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Noble concubine Yang grave outside Xingping west gate Maweipo, is apart from the Maweipo train station the approximately 2 kilometers. The extant grave is a small cemetery, comes this first to see in the gate tower to engrave " grave of the Tang Young your servant ". Passing through the gate is directly place 3 between imitates Tang Xiandian big, noble concubine Yang the grave building magnificent. After the palace, is the grave, occupies a land area of l Chinese acre, high the approximately 3 meters, the grave goes against and periphery builds by the blue brick. First has a small tablet building, on engraves " noble concubine Emperor Xuanzong in Tanh dynasty Yang the grave ". Grave periphery has the winding corridor, on the porch wall inlays has the size different 30 stele, after inscribing all previous dynasties celebrity to travel for pleasure the topic to chant, may see the people to Tangminghuang and noble concubines Yang's different appraisal.
Noble concubine Yang, the famous jade ring, the Huayin person, latter moves to the Yunglo county along with the family (now Shanxi juicheng). From the small custom temperament, the friendly dance, the beauty is outstanding. She imperial concubine of for the Xuanzong 18th sub-long-lived king, latter recommends originally after minister, Emperor Xuanzong in Tanh dynasty sees her to have the beautiful woman to cause the downfall of the nation the color, latter summons into the palace to be the court lady, the Tianbao four years seals as noble concubine, a Yang Men race powerful official is henceforth prominent. A Tianbao 15 year An Lushan dispatches troops into battle to revolt, to wallow in the wine and women dance Emperor Xuanzong in Tanh dynasty warehouse south the fear runs away. Way Maweipo, senior general Chen Xuanli and the subordinate thought that the Yang family brings disaster on the nation and the people, anger kills Yang Guozhong, forces Xuanzong to bestow Yang Yuhuan from to overflow. When noble concubine dies, year 38 years old.
Shanxi, Shaanxi, or referred to Qin, also known as Shaanxi, China's northwest region, a province, the provincial capital Xi'an, located in the hinterland of China, the Yellow River and Yangtze River, located in east longitude 105 ° 29 '~ 111 ° 15', Latitude 31 ° 42 '~ 39 ° 35' between. East of Shanxi, Henan, west of Ningxia, Gansu, south of Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Inner Mongolia, north, connecting China living in east and central region and the northwest and southwest of the important position. Because of the Shan Zhou (now Shan County in Henan Province) west of the, so called Shaanxi. Long history and profound culture. Longer period in the history of Shaanxi Province has been referred to as "Qin. "

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The Illustration Program at the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University brings together top illustrators from the United States, Canada and Italy for an invitational exhibit at the University's Adams Gallery from March 16 through April 28, 2013.
Illustration, at its best, is a demonstration of imagination, insight, wit, expression and technical virtuosity. Contemporary Illustration: At Your Service presents a wide range of applications for illustration, from picture books, dolls and skateboards to graphic novels, concept art and advertising for medical devices.
"The nature of illustration becomes clear if you think, not about the look or the style of the art, but about its function," said Lisa French, director of the New England School of Art & Design Illustration program, who organized the exhibition. "Illustration can involve any media, including photography, collage and sculpture, but, by definition, illustration has a function related to visual communication – to tell a story, to advertise, to express opinion or to symbolize an abstract idea."
The exhibition will show original illustrations alongside their final applications, and each artist's work represents a different use of illustration.
The illustration artists in this exhibition are at the pinnacles of their careers, and each has produced award-winning work. Among them are Istvan Banyai, who has a solo show opening at the Norman Rockwell Museum; John Cuneo, one of eight important illustrators in a current exhibition at the Delaware Museum of Art; and, from Europe, the Balbusso twins and Allesandro Gottardo, who have had impressive success as freelancers in the U.S. market.
An opening reception will be held from 5:30 – 8 p.m. Friday, March 22, in the gallery.
Contemporary Illustration: At Your Service
Adams Gallery
David J. Sargent Hall
Suffolk University
120 Tremont St., Boston
Free and open to the public 9 a.m.-7 p.m. daily
Christiane Beauregard illustration for Deloitte Sustainability
"Rapid Arc" by Cynthia Turner


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LAKELAND | It used to seem comical when Vanessa Coleman left for school wearing mismatched socks or shoes.
LAKELAND | It used to seem comical when Vanessa Coleman left for school wearing mismatched socks or shoes.
Her grandfather affectionately nicknamed her "Out of Bounds Coleman" for her tendency to kick the ball sideways during youth soccer games.
When she displayed a penchant as a little girl for running into objects, family members thought, as she put it, "This girl is clumsy."
The chuckles gave way to tears when Vanessa was 9 and a doctor declared she had the eyes of a 95-year-old.
"I don't cry about a lot of things," said Vanessa, who is now 13. "When I found out I was going blind and I thought one day I'm going to be completely blind, that tore me to pieces. I didn't want to talk to anybody. I didn't want to eat anything. I just didn't want to talk about it."
Four years later, Vanessa is perfectly at ease discussing her severe visual impairment. Her ability to find humor in her limited sight became apparent on a recent morning at the Lakeland home of her grandparents, John and Jane Beale. Vanessa pantomimed being a police officer, calling out, "You have the right to remain silent" as she swung an imaginary gun in a wide arc.
Pretending to shoot, she deadpanned, "Darn, there goes another partner."
Vanessa's turnaround can be attributed to her family's loving encouragement, her transfer to a school where she's surrounded by visually impaired students and her discovery of a game she never would have played if she had normal vision.
Vanessa can no longer play soccer but has established herself as one of the best young players in the country at goalball, a sport played exclusively by the blind and visually impaired. She hopes to ride the sport to the Paralympics, a gathering for disabled athletes held every four years in conjunction with the Olympics.
"I feel more confident and braver than I used to, and I feel more like I'm not scared of anything," Vanessa said. "I can keep on going. Nothing can stop me. There's not a stop sign that says, 'You're not allowed to do that' any more."
Scary diagnosis
When John Beale first held his newborn granddaughter, he thought her eyes seemed oddly glassy. She didn't seem to react to objects held before her eyes.
Beale told his wife that he thought little Vanessa was blind, but doctors quickly assured him the baby could see.
Vanessa developed normally, though in retrospect family members say it's obvious they missed signs of her diminishing eyesight. And she passed eye exams after memorizing the letters on an eye chart she had seen at close range.
An incident in early 2010, though, made it clear something was amiss.
Vanessa was playing "bike and seek," a game in which one person rides away and two others on bicycles try to find him. Vanessa was searching for her grandfather and came within a few feet of him but failed to detect his presence.
John Beale took his granddaughter to a franchise optometry outlet, where the staff made images of her retinas, the light-sensitive linings of the eye's inner surfaces. When a doctor viewed the images, Beale said, his expression immediately signaled that something was wrong.
Beale said the doctor showed him images of Vanessa's retinas that looked like a shaken snow globe. With normal retinas, the doctor said, the images would be solidly orange.
Vanessa was eventually diagnosed with Stargardt disease, a juvenile form of macular degeneration that causes progressive vision loss by killing cells in the central part of the retina. The disease is genetic, though Jane Beale said she knows of no one else in the family who has it.
"We cried for three months" after getting the diagnosis, John Beale said. But he said he told his granddaughter they weren't going to be angry at God over her condition.
An ophthalmologist told the family Vanessa's continued vision loss would probably happen over a period of years, but within a few months her sight had declined to 20/265 in one eye and 20/285 in the other. Any rating above 20/200 reflects being unable to recognize the large "E" at the top of an eye chart.
There was talk of taking Vanessa to another country for an experimental treatment, but she decided she didn't want to be "a guinea pig."
A new school
Vanessa lives with her mother, Coralie Coleman of Lakeland, but spends considerable time with her grandparents, whom she calls Pawpaw and Mimi.
After hearing the diagnosis, her grandparents decided to do everything they could to help her see the world before she lost her vision altogether. They took her on trips to San Francisco, the Grand Canyon and New York City, among other places.
Jane Beale created a garden, planting a variety of colorful flowers for her granddaughter to behold. And John Beale, knowing Vanessa would never be granted a driver's license, took her to a remote area and let her drive his car.
Vanessa, who has light mocha skin and mahogany eyes, is prone to getting lost in crowds. Jane Beale recalled how her granddaughter, at a rodeo event, once plopped down beside a woman who bore no resemblance to her and called her "Mimi."
John Beale said he wears denim overalls because the attire makes it easier for Vanessa to identify him.
At the time of her diagnosis, Vanessa was a fifth-grader at Lakeland's Carlton Palmore Elementary. She made a visit to the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, a 127-year-old institution in St. Augustine, but decided she wasn't yet ready for the upheaval of attending a boarding school.
The Polk County School District developed an Individualized Education Program, required for all students with disabilities. The plan included giving her a device with a camera hooked to a laptop with a magnifying screen. But she said the device was difficult to use and drew unwanted attention to her.
As a sixth-grader at Lakeland Highlands Middle School, the former honor roll student struggled both academically and socially.
"I got picked on; I got called 'the disease,' " she said. "They (other students) said, 'Stay away from her; she'll make you go blind.' I felt like a stray. I felt like I was abandoned, like a dog left on the street."
Over the winter break in sixth grade, she transferred to the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. Suddenly she was among kids who understood what it was like to have an impairment. To her delight, the other students considered her "cool."
The state-supported school offers free education, lodging and transportation to its students. Vanessa lives in a dormitory during the week. A bus takes her to Lakeland each Friday afternoon and back to St. Augustine every Sunday afternoon.
Most of the other bus riders are hearing impaired, so Vanessa has been learning sign language to communicate with them.
Since her vision started deteriorating, Vanessa said, it seems as if her other senses have sharpened. She said she can tell by smell what the school is serving for lunch even when she's far from the cafeteria, and she amazes her grandparents with her acute hearing.
Goalball prodigy
Vanessa has thrived at the specialized school, making friends and earning perfect grades in seventh grade. During that first year in St. Augustine, she learned about goalball, a sport invented in Austria in 1946 for the rehabilitation of blind World War II veterans.
The game is played on a basketball court with three players at a time on each side. Players take turns rolling a ball toward the other end of the court as the opposing team tries to block it.
Players wear blackout goggles so that those with some vision have no advantage. Strings taped to the lines of the court allow players to determine their location by feel. The textured blue ball has bells inside to alert players to its location, and teams and spectators must remain silent during play.
There is no more than one public school in each state for deaf and blind students, so the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind plays opponents from other states. She has traveled with her team to Utah, West Virginia and Alabama.
Vanessa earned significant playing time in seventh grade and became one of her school's top three players this fall as an eighth-grader. Florida placed third in the national high school championships it hosted in November, and Vanessa was one of seven players named All-Americans.
"Having the ball in my hands feels like I'm meant to be here," Vanessa said. "It feels like so much more than a game to me."
Florida coach James Crozier also coaches the USA Junior National Team, and he said Vanessa has a chance to make that team based on her play in the school's spring season. Making the national team would put Vanessa in position to earn a spot at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"She's a really driven kid and has a lot of competitive drive," Crozier said. "She's got a bright future if she keeps working at it."
Reckless girl
Losing vision would be a good excuse for becoming cautious, but Vanessa seems to have gone in the opposite direction. Jane Beale calls her granddaughter "fearless."
The self-professed tomboy rollerblades and rides a skateboard. Since her diagnosis, she has gone ice skating, slid down a snowy mountain on an inner tube and driven a dog sled in Colorado. As the first vision-impaired cheerleader at her school, she takes the top position in human pyramids.
Her bravery got the better of her last February when she accepted an invitation to play tag with some boys at school. She ran face first into a metal pole, knocking out her top front teeth. The damage has since been repaired.
Vanessa enjoys drawing despite her limited vision. In keeping with her sight deficits, when she draws people the faces are usually obscured. She demonstrated her technique at her grandparents' house, holding her face a few inches from the paper's surface, and produced an image of a woman seen from the side with a mass of hair flowing nearly to her waist.
Vanessa has a white cane but rarely uses it.
"I don't want people to think in their heads, 'She looks weak,' " she said. "I want people to see me as, 'This is a strong girl.' "
That's exactly how her grandfather sees her.
"She's my hero," John Beale said. "I tell her that every day."
[ Gary White can be reached at email@example.com or 863-802-7518. ]


text: I am running Ubuntu 10.04, and used the How-to-setup RAID 1 on running system including GRUB2. So I was planning on doing the upgrade to 12.04, and wanted to have a backup in case something goes haywire. So I took out one hard drive, put in a blank, and booted Ubuntu, and synced the raid, and installed GRUB. Everything seemed fine, so I removed both drives and put in a blank as secondary, and the one I just synced into the primary, boot the system, and it takes me to the grub rescue menu. So shutting down the system and putting back the original primary back in, the system boots, but the Ubuntu gives me a message, /boot in not not ready or not installed I skip that, get into Ubuntu, and md0 is not active. When I tried to update-grub, or os-prober I get this error: ERROR: isw: wrong number of devices in RAID set "isw_dfichbebdi_Volume0:1" [1/2] on /dev/sda Grub seems to have an older linux kernel it's "stuck" on, and I can't find a way to change it to the one currently used by Ubuntu. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!


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A ginger beard for the South Pole
Prince Harry is scheduled to leave for the South Pole tomorrow on his trek with Walking With The Wounded. In advance of the trip, and to promote the endeavour, Harry gave an interview in which he showed off his ginger beard and talked about how his brother is jealous of his trip because his days are spent looking after a screaming baby.
Sh-t, they all can't stop talking about how much Little Prince G cries. And the royals are normally a stoic lot. That kid must be relentless. But I could listen to Hot Harry talk about it for hours. He has such a beautiful voice. And I like the way he uses his hands when he's speaking.
Note that the room behind him is a mess. This is what kills me. We are normally very particular when we're shooting. Our camera people and producers are always adjusting this and tweaking that, moving sh-t out of the way so that the shot looks tidy. He's a f-cking prince, fourth in line to the throne of England, and they didn't care about his messy bunk bed – or he didn't care to have it moved around and cleaned up. That's the difference in hierarchy, right there. Because what does it matter if his room is a dump when he has his own coat of arms?
Also, Harry broke his toe a few weeks before the mission. Apparently he can't complain about it because otherwise they'd call him a pussy.
Click here to watch the interview.
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Traders are watching the August jobs report Friday as an election indicator, as much as for an economic indicator.
Economists expect to see 125,000 nonfarm payrolls were added in August, and an unemployment rate stuck stubbornly at 8.3 percent, according to Reuters data.
That compares to 163,000 jobs that were added in July, but on Thursday market talk was that the August number could be 140,000 to 150,000 or better, based on a strong ADP private payroll report showing 201,000 jobs added in August, and surprising job strength in the ISM nonmanufacturing survey.
The jobs number is viewed as the latest grade on President Barack Obama's economic report card, and also as a trigger for possible Fed action.
"This is really about whether the trajectory of the economy is going to take (Obama) over the top or not," said Dan Clifton, head of policy research at Strategas.
The Fed meets next Wednesday and Thursday, and the jobs report is the last big piece of economic news officials will consider. While some economists expect to see the Fed embark on another quantitative easing (QE) program, they mostly expect it later in the year. But those odds change if the 8:30 a.m. ET jobs number is very weak.
"I think we might be in a situation where if the number is really good, it's not going to get much of a reaction," said Barry Knapp, head of U.S. equity portfolio strategy at Barclays. "If we were going to get something that looks like the ADP report then that lowers the probability of additional Fed stimulus, and it lowers the probability of getting an election outcome the market will like."
Republican Mitt Romney is Wall Street's preferred presidential candidate. "You could almost see if it's a bad number, that could be perceived as good for the market, because that would help Romney," said Steve Massocca of Wedbush Securities.
Massocca and others see a Romney victory, or a Republican win of the Senate as a path to easier resolution of the so-called fiscal cliff at the end of the year. The fiscal cliff is the dual expiration of Bush era tax cuts combined with the automatic spending cuts that would hit the economy starting Jan. 1 if Congress does not act.
"I think part of this rally is the feeling that Republicans are going to do very well in November," said Massocca. The S&P 500 soared 28 points to 1432, and the Dow jumped 244 points Thursday to 13,292 after the European Central Bank announced a bond buying program aimed at driving down borrowing costs for cash-strapped countries. The Dow is at its highest level since December, 2007, and at the highest level it's been at since Obama took the White House.
"If you're a middle-of-the-road voter whose major concern is the economy than these data points are going to matter," Massocca said. "And given the fact you're going to have some sort of fiscal policy shift, then whose hands are on the tiller when that happens is going to matter."
As for the jobs report, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com, expect to see 150,000 jobs added, the underlying rate of job growth year-to-date. He does not expect to see the Fed move before the election.
"I don't think they want to move until after the election, when the economy really truly is going to weaken because of the fiscal issues. Each time they do QE, it's really less potent," he said.
Zandi expects to see the unemployment rate stay at 8.3 percent. "I think we're creating enough jobs that at the moment, unemployment stabilizes or even moves down a notch by the election," he said.
Strategas' Clifton said the election has come to a period of "shock and awe," with a number of major events that could swing sentiment. Those include President Bill Clinton's speech Wednesday night where he asked voters to be patient, saying no president could have done better to fix the economy. He said other major factors are the ECB action, the jobs report and next week's Fed meeting.
"You've got Obama's speech (Thursday night) and they're hoping for a bounce," he said. President Obama is always briefed on the jobs report the evening before it is released so traders were watching that speech for clues.
Clifton said the jobs number is important but not because of the way voters react to it.
"That's not what happens. Voters are going to vote how they really feel. When that number comes across the tape, that number is going to reflect how they really feel." Clifton said the jobs number is a lagging indicator, already reflecting what the public has experienced. He did say the unemployment rate is very much correlated to the president's approval rating.
"The driver really is the president's approval rating. The president's approval rating is 45 percent. He needs 50 percent. The only thing that can take him from 45 to 50 is a stronger trajectory of growth in the economy…people need to be getting jobs. Their income needs to keep growing."
Clifton said his research shows there is a strong correlation between growth in payrolls and presidential reelections. "The president needs 1.1 percent growth in nonfarm payrolls from January through September to get to 50 percent," he said. "They've increased about 0.8 percent…basically he needs 400,000 jobs between this month and next month and then he'll be at 50 percent."
"No president has won reelection with an approval rating below 50 percent before the election," he said, pointing to data going back to the Johnson Administration.
He also said Obama needs consumer sentiment to improve. While at a three-month high, the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey is at 73.6. "It's been over 90 for every other president that has won. We think the president needs to get that number to 83," Clifton said. Consumer sentiment was in the low 70s in 1980, when Ronald Reagan won and in 1992 when Clinton won.
"This is basically in Obama's hands at this point, and it's really in the economy's hands," Clifton said.
Knapp said the August jobs report is the last big one in terms of influencing the debate.
"A strong number will hurt Romney, but not as much as a weak number will hurt Obama," he said.
"People are skeptical but they do want to buy into the longer term bullish story on the U.S. around manufacturing, and our energy position," Knapp said. " I think people want to be optimistic…I think the market's collective mind is 'we're going to get to the right place.' There's certainly no reason for the market to be rallying this strongly based on core fundamentals."
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PowerColor HD5770 Crossfire Review
Are you currently in the market for a new video card? Maybe you're not looking for the latest and greatest card that is currently out on the market, but rather are looking for a card that is going to be able to give you the performance that you are craving for your new games? Well, PowerColor may just have the perfect solution for you with its HD5770 single slot edition. What could be better than having a single slot video card in your system? Well obviously, having two single slot HD5770 cards for the most power you can get from the HD5770 lineup. I am very curious to see exactly how well the PowerColor single slot HD5770 is going to perform by itself as well as when it is paired up with another.
Closer Look:
The packaging for the PowerColor HD5770 cards is very similar to all of the other Radeon cards. There is an image of a warrior that is ready for battle in his armor to represent the power that the card is capable of. At the top of the package you will find the PowerColor logo with the slogan "Unleash the Gaming Power" printed just below. In the top right hand corner you will find stickers letting you know that there is 1GB of GDDR5 memory installed and that the video output connections are DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort. The bottom of the package is where you will find the Radeon HD5770 logo with the ATI Radeon Premium Graphics badge. You will also find another sticker highlighting that these cards are "The World's First HD5770 Single Slot." XFX also has their Single Slot 5770 that came out around the same time as well. When you take a look at the back of the package, you will see the main features in the top left hand corner such as ATI Stream Technology now known as APP (Accelerated Parallel Processing), CrossFireX Multi-GPU Technology and much more.
Once you begin to open up the packaging for the PowerColor HD5770 Single Slot cards, you will find a brown box that houses not only the video card itself, but the user manual, drivers disc and all of the other accessories. The PowerColor HD5770 is wrapped up in an anti-static bag to prevent electrical damage as well as pink bubble wrap to keep it from getting physically damaged during the shipping process.
Included in the package is the user manual that shows you exactly how to install your new HD5770 into your system if you did not know how to do so. You are also going to get a drivers disc included. However, I strongly suggest going to ATI's website and downloading the latest drivers as the ones on the CD are most likely outdated. There is also a dongle that will convert your DVI output connection to an analog format. You are also going to find a PCI-E 6-pin extender with your new card.
Now that we have taken a look at how the PowerColor HD5770 Single Slot video card is packaged, it's time to take a look at the card itself.


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|2008-05-24, 00:14
|Link #81
Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 33
I also don't see where you're getting that I'm so adamant about the subject of pollution from this thread. As far as I know, smoking is not a major cause of pollution. I've said it before in this thread but I'll repeat it again: I'm against smoking because it takes advantage of people. It's a product that you use and then can't quit even if you want to, due to its addictive nature. The fact that it's harmful to your body and to those around you makes it doubly worse.
What I really took issue with was your statement:
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|2008-05-24, 00:49
|Link #82
Ultimate Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: San Francisco
You are sayin smoking is bad for the health and for people around them -agreed. And so is countless other chemicals in the air that cause health risk - chemicals cause by pollution.
The bases of your argument is health concerns for people around smokers so i thought i point out other factors in the air.
A lot of smokers avoid crowds and a lot dont but your argument generalize the whole smoking crowd are indecent people. But i cant stop you from what you belief. I am just going to point out other worst possible air pollutants that you will probably avoid because chewing out smokers is a lot easier than directing your concerns at other possible health risk. Smoking has been stigmatize so i dont blame you.
Cigarettes is my chaser for that congnac shot.
I am social smoker and that is that.
I dislike people who think they are high and mighty because they dont smoke.
And the reason we go the the bathroom instead of the near by tree is because at some point in our history human society decide it was disgusting. Why? because it is socially institutionalize. Not becasue its a health risk. Society for some reason dislike it and shuns it.
Not an activist for smokers, i'm just saying let us smoke in peace.
BTW i agree with you, people need to be considerate and avoid non smokers when they do smoke.
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|2008-05-24, 01:14
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Philippines
Age: 42
Obviously, it seems that working in an enclosed work environment greatly reduces my daily cigarette consumption. It's because I greatly respect the sanctity of air-conditioning and consideration to other people's (especially non-smokers) personal space by smoking outside. Though I'm a smoker, I'm very annoyed when someone smokes inside the shop (and politely remind him and point the way to the door), and I don't smoke in close proximity to kids, pregnant women and those who have a strong aversion to smoking (just tell me nicely to back off and I'll keep my distance).
I smoked since I was 21 and I understand fully that while smoking is very harmful and thus I'm cutting down my lifespan (even on half a pack per day), I also remind myself that I have to drop it before I hit 40. Already I've sensed the bad effects recently, and I think that next week I'll get myself a checkup -- including a heart pressure check. Maybe I'll also get started on patches and Zyban, too, but with my teeth in bad shape and a cause for bad bite, chewing gum as a substitute is going to be out of the question.
|2008-05-24, 01:23
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Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 33
I am concerned about other health risks - I studied environmental engineering, a lot of what I learned was about technologies designed to keep all sorts of crap, be it water or air pollutants, away from humans. Why are you bringing those up?
I am not stigmatized by smoking. I know of its physiological affects on the body and can go into detail if you'd like, but I'm guessing that you know them as well. They're not good. Then comes the fact that it stinks and it's damn expensive. For those reasons I will personally never take up smoking. The reason I dislike the tobacco industry is because I feel that people like you are being taken advantage of. If people could quit smoking whenever they wanted to then I wouldn't be bothered quite as much.
I've had friends who got hooked and struggled to break free, and it pains me to read that Solace is still struggling with the addiction. The tobacco industry is making money from people who don't want to give them money for their product anymore, but can't help but not to - the symptoms of withdrawl are too hard to bear otherwise. That's a disgusting and wrong way to make money, don't you agree? Don't mistake what I'm saying for being "high and mighty" for not smoking - I made my choice based on my knowledge, and I hope that you made your choice based on just as much knowledge. I also hope you never have to experience lung cancer or withdrawl. Life is too short to live with regret, and it'd be quite awful to regret a lifetime of smoking.
|2008-05-24, 01:37
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Feeling comfy
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 43
What makes smoking a particularly pernicious habit is that it's more than a mere psychological addiction. It's also a physical addiction to nicotine. I once had a colleague who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day and we kept encouraging him to drop the habit. Eventually he tried cold turkey...and I ended up feeling sorry for him. He came to work looking like a broken man, nose dribbling, eyes bloodshot and generally looking very, very miserable. He tried to ameliorate the symptoms with nictone patches and a nicotine inhaler, but the craving overcame his resolve and he eventually went back to smoking. Heavily.
Yes, it's true, smokers are responsible for their own health. If they choose to smoke themselves to lung or throat cancer, that's their choice to make, and not for non-smokers to condemn. Bear in mind that many other people grow addicted to alcohol and other physical substances as well. So, if we're really concerned about other people's health, we should go around "banning" those substances too. Of course, we know where that would lead.
But nicotine addiction makes the issue more complicated. We now know that it is a highly addictive substance, so in a sense, it is true to say that Big Tobacco is actively selling a product that effectively binds customers to them. Big Tobacco doesn't even have to try very hard to advertise cigarettes - they already have a horde of "loyal" puffers, who are likely to attract even more smokers through peer pressure. Seen from this angle, it's hard not to see this as an unethical business that needs to be heavily controlled, if not outright destroyed.
So, the discussion comes full circle. Smoking creates avoidable health risks. However, tobacco companies will continue selling cigarettes as long as consumers are addicted to them. To solve one problem (health risks), you necessarily need to stop as many people from picking up the habit or encouraging more to drop the addiction. Hence the anti-smoking legislation and peer pressure to stop smoking.
If smokers don't like the nagging, well, sure we can't force you to listen. But it'll also be very wrong for us to stop trying.
Personally, I strongly dislike the smell of cigarette smoke and I find many smokers to be very inconsiderate, not caring how they blow second-hand smoke into people walking behind them. I've never tried cigarettes and never intend to, but I've tried smoking weed and cigars. Weed, because it's university and it's supposed to be non-addictive (well, it's certainly non-addictive in my case - I've never tried again after I've graduated).
Cigars because, hmm, strangely enough, cigar smoke smells alot better than cigarettes. I don't know why that is the case, especially considering how cigars pack a far heavier punch than cigarettes. In any case, I tried because it was college and because my housemate received a box of big, fat Havana cigars from his girlfriend's dad. Once again, I've almost not touched cigars again after I've graduated. The last time I tried, it was with cheap, nasty cigars, mixed with lots of whisky drinking ('twas a stag party; 'nuff said). I crashed out so badly that I've not been tempted to try again.
|2008-05-24, 01:51
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Actually one of the major reasons for the development of modern sanitation systems was the Black Plague. People literally dumped their crap out the window and onto the street, combined with other animal manures and rains it produced the perfect environment for diseases and the creatures that carried them (namely rats and other rodents). People take indoor plumbing and the like for granted but there's a lot of effort that goes into making your life as clean as possible.
I appreciate your sentiments Ledgem, and I also agree that the hypocrisy that society places on drugs is frustrating. Marijuana is less dangerous and more beneficial than tobacco but illegal. Alcohol and tobacco related problems contribute to a substantial amount of taxpayer expense. Although alcohol at least has some redeemable uses, tobacco serves no purpose at all. But they're legal.
Ironically, it was easier for me to quit smoking pot than it ever was quitting smoking. Go figure.
That said, I don't regret the things I've done with my life and if I were to die tomorrow, well....I'd be dead and things would go on. I'm not all that afraid of death, except the pain, and the things I regret are more wistful reminiscing than anything. I tend not to dwell on the past too much except to learn from mistakes.
I'm a one day at a time kind of person which tends to frustrate a lot of people. As you say, life is short. So enjoy every moment while it lasts. You could be a smoker for 30 years and die because a piano crashed on you....life's funny like that.
|2008-05-24, 08:42
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Chicken or Beef?
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Seattle
Age: 36
People die from cars more than anything else in the world. There should be a ban of cars, and we need to campaign heavily against people's right to drive!!
Seriously, this is ridiculous, I use to be a smoker some time ago and it annoyed the crap out of me when I hear people trying to tell me what I should be doing, especially when I can think of a million other things that are just as bad or if not worse. T.V., Video Games, Personal Computers, all are addictive media that leads to kids growing up to fat, unhealthy both mentally and physically, anti-social, dysfunctional human beings, why not bann these things too? Simply allow people to make their own decisions, allow the informations of the risks available to those who want it and let them decide. Anything and everything can be addictive, and basically all addictions are basically bad for you, if the person don't want to resolve themselves to overcome that addiction, thats that person's decision. Unless that person is bumping uglies with you, mind your business and live your own life.
|2008-05-24, 09:43
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I don't think badly of people who smoke because I understand the principles of addiction and it applies to everything. Most watch tv every day, log onto msn everyday, browse the internet etc. I don't blame smokers for anything but I was angered at my mother for smoking while I was still a foetus. A child should be given priority over an addiction to smoking. Mind I'm talking about parents smoking. I'm not affected by a friend of mine having 10 minute smoke next to me since it hardly matters and nor does it bother me. It's just the feeling of breathing cigarette smoke whilst you're sleeping, when you get up in the morning, when you're having breakfast, lunch, dinner. Can you imagine how bad it is for a child to live like that for 14 years? Luckily I was a fit boy who went swimming twice a week, did marathons and played all types of sport. Still I wondered why I wasn't quite as fit as others who trained just as hard as me. Now I'm pretty sure it was because I went home to somewhat reverse my efforts by inhaling cigarette smoke.
That's what I frown upon.
I pretty much agree with Ledgem but I wouldn't have my mother shot She was and is the best mother I could ever wish for, even if she smoked while we were growing up. She stopped for us eventually and she regrets doing it. I don't hold a grudge but I am to this day very dissapointed in her.
But the looks Doctors gave her for smoking with three children...lets just say I never want to recieve such a look!
edit: In the UK some of you guys have no idea how quickly people are stopping smoking. It's banned in all public places now and it seems people have been affected by all the advertising. Good news for the UK but I know Italians are still heavy smokers and Slavs continue to smoke non-stop. Overall though there are less and less people smoking. At least 10 people I know have given up, after having smoked for a good 20 years.
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|2008-05-24, 09:48
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2) http://www.news-medical.net/?id=28273
...But I admit I was wrong on the trafficpollution http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...icle473742.ece
Then again, I'd rather be stuck in a garage with 3 smokers for a day than 1 running Mondeo diesel
3) My point was that some people here believe Governments are stand up, idealistic organisations, think again: they won't ban smoking, it's too lucrative
4) Smokers die 6 years earlier than non-smokers, with an average age of 81 in my country
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1 person recieving a pension of around €12000 a year, do the math
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Like I said, if smoking didn't give a profit, it would have been banned ages ago
|2008-05-24, 10:40
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Chicken or Beef?
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Seattle
Age: 36
I wholly agree that parents who smoke with their children indoors is sheer negligence. I don't believe in smoking indoors, if you're gonna smoke take a step outside and have your smoke.
Funny thing is.. if you're stuck in a garage with the car running you're 100% surely going to die, while the cigarettes won't kill you then and there.
|2008-05-24, 11:05
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Never seen the appeal myself. My parents were smokers, and I never felt compelled to do it myself, though my brother ended up becoming one too. All the health and 'politeness' reasons aside, I just think the cost is absurd. I saw packets over $15 at my local corner store a few days ago, and my mother goes through 2-3 packets a week, so if she pays that sort of price where she lives, I need to smack her. >.<
But then, I never saw the appeal of alcohol for the same reasons. Too high a cost for such little (if any) benefit. Even when I was on a six figure income, I never thought about wasting my money in such a manner. But I've always been frugal. ^^;;
|2008-05-24, 12:01
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Chicken or Beef?
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Seattle
Age: 36
15 bucks a pack? that must be some really good cigarettes... or are you from Canada? I heard in Canada cigarettes are insanely expensive.
Alcohol is straight up poison, its why your body rejects it so violently, I always thought it was funny how people who gets drunk every friday/saturday night criticise smokers, when they're consuming high volumes of poison and killing the only cells in your body that doesn't reproduce. And yeah, Alcohol is insanely expensive, especially if you go out to drink. Like in a bar it averages to about 5 bucks for a beer on tap, 8 ~ 16 bucks for a mix drink or shot of hard liquor, and multiply that by like 10 or more to get wasted, you're looking at between 50 to 160 dollars plus in one night, just to tank yourself on poison.
|2008-05-24, 12:22
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|2008-05-24, 13:37
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Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 33
To any smoker reading this: do you doubt me? Do me the favor of a little experiment, then. If you smoke regularly and have been doing so for at least a year, don't smoke for about a month. Report back to us what it felt like to not smoke. If you don't want to go through it for yourself you can very easily find out what it was like from accounts on the internet. Solace has details of it in his post, as did TinyRedLeaf.
Can people be addicted to video games and have negative impacts on their lives? Certainly. Comparing it to smoking doesn't make it any better or worse, just as it doesn't make smoking any better or worse. There's a key difference, however. Not everyone who plays videogames, watches television, or uses computers becomes addicted to it. However we are all similar physiologically, and it has been established over and over again that nicotine, a substance in cigarettes, is physically addictive. There are some people who, whether by low-frequency usage or slightly altered physiology, do not become addicted to cigarettes. These people are in the minority, if not the extreme minority, of cigarette smokers. You can't say the same about any other group of addicts except for drug addicts.
If you recognize it for what it is and can accept it, good. I still feel sorrow for you, but it shows that you can take responsibility for what you're doing. If you're making excuses and trying to show that there are worse things in the world than smoking, and that as a result smoking should be given a free pass, I view that as an inability to accept that you're spending a lot of money on a habit that offers next to no health benefits. The tobacco companies probably love that, because you and people like you will spout rhetoric that attempts to make cigarettes seem harmless or even like something good.
|2008-05-24, 15:47
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: In line to confess his sins.
Age: 30
Smoking is also prohibited in bars and restaurants, so the government has done just about everything in their power to discourage people from smoking.
Still, a lot of people pick up the habit.
|2008-05-24, 18:14
|Link #98
Chicken or Beef?
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Seattle
Age: 36
Video Games, are a major problem in asia, its a major cause of death among young people. They would get so addicted that they ignore personal hygene and even forget to eat, drink and sleep, and eventually would just die in front of their computers. Morbid Obesity is worse than smoking, sorry. Smoking shaves off 6 ~ 7 years off the end of your life, while eating potato chips and hamburgers 24/7 in front of the computer screen/tv screen cause death at the age of 30 from cardiac arrest.
And no, not everyone who smokes gets addicted, I've known many people who have smoked and never got addicted. Social smokers are a good example, they only smoke when they around friends who smoke, otherwise they don't have the urge to light one up.
|2008-05-24, 19:21
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Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 29
Look, nicotine is physically addictive. It's scientifically proven beyond reasonable doubt. Video games aren't. They aren't sending chemicals flooding into your body and messing up your nervous system in some crazy way to force your body to demand the substance. They don't create withdrawal symptoms except perhaps in an insanely small number of extreme cases where the psychological obsession was to the point that something in the body responded as well, and even then never as harsh and real as a smoker's withdrawal.
Oh, and the whole "anime withdrawal," except again in those extra-rare cases where the skewed mind affect the body, is just otaku masturbation, "I'm in on this more than you." Nothing more.
This is seriously bullshit man.
|2008-05-24, 19:40
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Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 33
If it were smoking in general that were viewed as terrible then items like water pipes (hookahs) would also be looked down upon. As far as I know water pipes do not contain any addictive substances. If anyone becomes addicted to water pipes it will be a psychological addiction. While psychological addictions are no less serious than any form of addiction, you simply can't compare the two equally in the manner that you're doing. Yes, they're harmful to your life, we agree on that. But the withdrawls that people experience are not going to be the same.
Furthermore, your reasoning about what way of dying is worse is, frankly, ridiculous, and please don't feel insulted by that. I'm not endorsing an unhealthy lifestyle of eating potato chips and hamburgers, and to say that videogames/television cause cardiac arrest because poor eating and television go hand in hand is nonsense. I don't particularly want to die by a cardiac arrest at age 30, nor do I particularly want to die while struggling for breath on a breathing machine. It's easy to be high and mighty about smoking and stating how you're willing to face the consequences, but trust me on this - when people are at the end of their (shorter than expected) life and their lungs are failing on them, they all too rarely have that haughty attitude.
But this isn't what happens to the majority. If it were, how do you explain the prominence of all of those programs and products designed to help smokers quit? If it were so easy for people to quit, or if there weren't so many people struggling with the addiction, then such businesses should be pretty small and low-profile.
The reason I continue to respond to your posts is because I feel that you're doing everyone who reads your posts a disservice. You're essentially telling them that they shouldn't feel bad about harming their bodies because there are worse things in the world; that the addiction caused by smoking isn't so bad or is overblown; that there are worse ways to die than lung, lip, or throat cancer (in your opinion); that you should ultimately do what you want and not let others tell you otherwise.
If a person smokes and they know what they're doing to their body, they know that they're lowering their quality of life, they know that they're risking addiction to a very expensive habit, they know that they may be harming the lungs of those around them - if they know all of that, I am very sorry for them, but I can't say anything to them. It's your decision if you want to take up such an activity. Yet there are countless people who get into the habit without fully realizing the implications of what they are doing. My posts are for the people who would fall into that category. I have to wonder whether many of the pro-smoking posters don't fall into that category, as well, as I have yet to see many of them endorse smoking while simply admitting that what I'm posting is true and that they can accept it. HayashiTakara, trying to tell me that there are worse addictions is no different than bbduece saying that there are worse air pollutants in the world than cigarette smoke - it attempts to sideline the issues around smoking or make them seem insignificant compared to a different issue. If I am factually incorrect about smoking, then please correct me. If I'm correct, don't try to show the facts in a different light so as to mitigate them. Leave that to the marketers of the tobacco corporations.
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TUESDAY, OCT 4: The Marstons Mills Village Association will host all five school committee candidates beginning at 7 p.m. Candidates will have the opportunity to make brief statements about themselves and field questions from those in attendance. The MMVA meets at the Burgess House on Route 149, with parking available at Burgess Park.
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Copyright 1977 Rankin-Bass Productions
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on 2 December 2001
The Characters:
Masten Thrust - Rich man and avid big game hunter. His sunglasses do not fit correctly. Heck, his face does not fit correctly.
Francesca - She is an empowered woman photographer in a man's world, which is why she will dress up like a geisha (and act like one too) at the drop of a hat.
Chuck - Worker who watched the other members of his crew get eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Dr. Kawamoto - Would you task the Japanese scientist with setting up your camp when giant lizards are running around? He and "little Tokyo" go bye-bye.
Bunta - When not working as Mr. Thrust's tracker, he played for a professional basketball team. Munched.
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Also known as "Skullus Rubberuss," the greatest carnivore to ever walk the earth.
The Cavewoman - She ain't no Rae Dawn Chong...
The Plot:
The interesting thing about this film's title is that it does not refer to the tyrannosaurus, but to Mr. Thrust. He is the last male artifact from a forgotten age, when men were rich jerks. I didn't particularly like Masten, but his dogged determination to kill the dinosaur eventually caused me to respect the man. Don't get me wrong; he is still off his rocker, trying to take on his antagonist manno-a-tyranno like that.
Masten holds a press conference to discuss the disappearance of a drilling crew and his next expedition. While reporters yell questions, the billionaire calmly assists Chuck in explaining the wondrous discovery: a lost world, located inside a dormant volcano near the North Pole. An expedition is being planned to explore the crater. Francesca has been chosen to accompany Masten, but he is vehemently opposed to bringing a woman on safari. She persuades him otherwise by giving up the booty, proving that the perfect day might be shooting something, eating it, having sweaty sex, and then falling asleep.
To reach the inside of a slumbering volcano the expedition uses a marvel of engineering, a "polar borer." The machine uses lasers to surround itself with a red glow and then tunnels through solid rock. Sounds suitably amazing, but where does all the rock go? It does not turn molten; instead the lasers appear to disintegrate it utterly. I have to point out that this machine is of dubious assistance in drilling for oil. The tunnel left behind is several feet in diameter and any laser capable of cutting through rock is going to be hot. Would you drop something like that into the middle of several acres of oil? Let alone if they accidentally find a natural gas pocket.
After surfacing inside of the crater, the explorers find a lush temperate rain forest and soon encounter some huge fauna. Fran, forgetting that her 16mm lens makes things appear farther away, is nearly trampled by a prehistoric rhinoceros. Following that close call they run smack into tyrannosaurus rex, apparently the last of its kind. Masten tries to shoot the thing when it threatens Bunta, but can barely hit the broad side of a dinosaur. It does not matter, though; the fool only brought along one rifle and I think that it is a 30-06. Now, that is a great rifle, but not what I would use on a dinosaur. Something along the lines of .458 Winchester Magnum is more like it.
Mr. Thrust (every time that moniker comes up I feel like this should be the review for a porn film) and his party are forced to run away when the 30-06 jams. Lucky for them that Bunta wounds the monster with a thrown spear and it loses interest. Unlucky for them that it visits the base camp, smashes everything, eats Dr. Kawamoto, and carries the polar borer away. While burying the borer under a cliff the tyrannosaurus disturbs a slumbering triceratops. The resulting fight, with two actors inside the triceratops, has an interesting view on how the giant carnivore killed its prey. Rather than using that giant maw full of teeth, the tyrannosaurus does far more damage by kicking the triceratops. Great, an eight-ton emu. Just what Australia needs.
Stranded without the polar borer and without any hope of a rescue party, the remaining members of the expedition concentrate on basic survival. The rifle was ruined after being stepped on by the T-rex, but you will later see Masten using the scope. Steiner must have started making hunting scopes, because those are some darn durable optics. Without a firearm, the men are forced to use spears for hunting and defense, the latter against a violent tribe of cavemen. Things are looking bad due to the primitives' superior numbers, until the great white hunter fashions a crossbow. The force with which it fires metal bolts evens the odds nicely and the cavemen run away after their chief takes one through the heart.
A constant problem is the tyrannosaurus though. While Masten, Chuck, and Bunta are hunting it corners Fran inside a cave and refuses to lose interest. If one of the men had been trapped thus I am certain they would have waited until the monster went away. However, considering the only woman is in danger of getting eaten and saltpeter is in short supply, they quickly come up with a plan. Bunta collects a few hundred feet of rope with plastic foliage attached, I mean "vines," then they tie one end to the dinosaur's tail and the other end to a large rock. After getting the beast's attention they make it chase them downhill. T-rex chases the three for a short distance, then loses interest and stops. The dinosaur watches the boulder roll past, then is yanked off its feet and pulled downhill when the vine (or its tail) refuse to break. Upon reaching the bottom of the hill it gets up and wanders off, still dragging the boulder.
Francesca has remained true to Mr. Thrust during their period in the crater, but her attraction to Chuck is obvious. His interest in return goes without saying; the fact that a fight has not broken out between the three men supports my theory that a jar of vaseline must have survived the camp's destruction. A shaving kit too, unless they found a plant that produces "Nair."
Where was I? Forget it, just remember that Fran and Chuck are a semi-item and the younger man feels jealous of her previous partner.
I mentioned earlier the respect that Masten's resolve gave me for the hunter. He has spent his entire life overcoming every obstacle and holds a grudge against the dinosaur for eating Dr. Kawamoto. To kill the monster (it roars like Godzilla sometimes) he designs a catapult and convinces the others to help him build it. Shortly after completing the project, Chuck finds the polar borer and is understandably excited. Thrust doesn't care; he is consumed with a desire to triumph over the tyrannosaurus. What he fails to realize is this: anything able to tunnel through rock can also make a hole through a dinosaur. Ah well, Chuck and Fran get the borer ready for departure while Masten and Bunta wait for their giant adversary.
The tyrannosaurus rex does eventually come calling and Bunta (he was scouting) becomes an appetizer. The catapult fires true when Masten knocks the chock out of place and, in the film's funniest moment, the rock completely caves in the dinosaur's forehead. I kid you not, the fake rock they used was a little too heavy and it almost looks like something out of a cartoon. The hunter screams in triumph as the target falls over, but his joy is cut short. The monster was only stunned (great, we hit everything
the coconut-sized brain) and is plenty mad upon regaining consciousness. Its resulting tantrum wrecks the catapult. After the dinosaur departs, Fran pleads with Masten to give up and escape in the polar borer with her and Chuck. He refuses, they depart, the credits roll, and that crazy title song starts playing again. The end.
Things I Learned From This Movie:
Giving jilted lovers a gift, that they could conceivably use to shoot you, seems like a bad idea.
"Talent" is another word for "prostitution."
Photographers have no survival instinct.
Triceratops was a burrowing dinosaur.
Cavemen look like Asian people, but with lots of body hair.
One of the good things about working for an oil company is the durable jumpsuits.
Where there is smoke there are grenades made from gourds.
Stuff To Watch For:
21 mins - How does the control room have a video feed of the borer from that perspective?
24 mins - Looks more like something related to a baluchitherium.
28 mins - I can see the need for a machete to hack a path through the sparse underbrush.
42 mins - The pterodactyl just stopped in midair and slowly turned around!
48 mins - Yeah, us guys obviously care. Why don't you stop crying and cook dinner?
60 mins - Of all things to play "hot potato" with...
75 mins - He has found the secret everything graveyard!
86 mins - Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha!
92 mins - That dirty cavegirl is starting to look awful sexy, isn't she?
Fran: "The ground's shaking. Is it an earthquake?"
Masten: "No, I've heard that sound before, and that is big game."
Chuck: "The dinosaur."
Masten: "Maybe."
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Starving actors speak out
Chuck: "You swore to all of us that we were not going to harm the dinosaur! We were only supposed to take film and study it!"
Masten: "You ding dong! We were about to get killed over there!"
Masten: "This animal, this eight-ton animal, is a carnivore. It eats meat, us!"
Chuck: "Are you crazy? You said yourself, our weapons are useless against that thing! Leave it alone!"
Fran: "Masten, please. You've done all anyone could, and you were just magnificent, but please...let the dinosaur go. Let it be! It's the last one!"
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Reply #1.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Blake W.
I saw this thing on TV when I was like eight or nine years old, and remember how cheesy the T. rex effects were then (the god aweful "Last Dinosaur" theme song will be forever etched in my brain, oh the trama, lol).
However, seeing the video clip made me laugh even more...one of those horrible '70's disaster movies remade into a King Kong/Island on Top of World flick that just never gelled. Though as a "bad" movie, it's good for laughs on a rainy Saturday afternoon or evening...
Blake the "Mad Chemist"
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Reply #2.
Posted on December 04, 2001, 11:48:54 AM by PaulWestbrook
the effects in this film were awful, but what do you expect for a badly made TV movie?
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Reply #3.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Dale
Hey! Its a Rankin and Bass movie! They're better known for their animated christmass specials (Frosty the Snowman, Rudolf the Rednose Raindeer, and all those others you remeber from your childhood). Another bad movie of theirs to catch is Mad Monster Party, this is a feature length animation that's just loaded with campyness. Lots of bad movie value in that one (at least 3 slimes).
As for this movie, yes I too remember seeing it when I was young (think I was 5 or 6), probably why I remember enjoying it then. ^_^
Thanks for the bad movie memory!
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Reply #4.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by ChrisB
I don't know why you're getting so worked up Paul it's only a kids film, and the effects are better that in the MGM 60's version.
For more dinosaur suits, check out the Kevin Connor/John Dark 'Land Before Time' films.
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Reply #5.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by PaulWestbrook
While we're on the subject of Rankin& Bass, when is Bermuda Depths (another television 70's flick) coming to video?
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Reply #6.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by BoyScoutKevin
This is for the late Richard Boon. Who was always great. Whether as the hero, especially as the heroic Paladin in "Have Gun Will Travel," or as the villain, especially opposite John Wayne in "Big Jake" or "The Shootist." Here's to you, wherever you are.
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Reply #7.
Posted on December 09, 2001, 02:01:13 PM by BoyScoutKevin
Sorry! That was suppose to be Richard Boone. I do have trouble with names sometimes.
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Reply #8.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Snake
This film blows the jurassic park films out of the water. You gotta see this film it's a masterpiece. You DING DONG!!!.
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CRESTVIEW � Midway through his second season as Crestview High School's wrestling coach, Andrew Black couldn't be happier with the team's progress.
"I've seen immense improvement," he said. "At the beginning of the year I assessed 37 wrestlers. From what I've been told, that's one of the highest numbers Crestview has ever had."
CRESTVIEW � Midway through his second season as Crestview High School's wrestling coach, Andrew Black couldn't be happier with the team's progress.
"I've seen immense improvement," he said. "At the beginning of the year I assessed 37 wrestlers. From what I've been told, that's one of the highest numbers Crestview has ever had."
'Back on the map'
"... I see the sport growing," Black said. "I see the enthusiasm coming from the kids. With the popularity of (mixed martial arts) sports out there, kids are way more interested to know what wrestling is all about."
Enthusiasm doesn't stop with the wrestlers, Black said. He credits his assistant coach, Allen Caldwell, a former Bulldog football player and college wrestler, with instilling pride in the program. And Black praised the Crestview High School community for supporting the program.
But he gives the most credit to previous Bulldog wrestlers and coaches.
"I tell our kids last year's state qualifiers, Terryn Williams and Alex Luttrell, never got to wrestle at home," Black said. "They laid the foundation for what these kids are doing now. The Crestview support has been outstanding from the parents and the teachers.
"It's really starting to get Crestview wrestling back on the map. Everybody has laid the foundation and now it's starting to show: the payoff of what everybody had done before me."
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Tradition and history don't win on the mat, but having good wrestlers does, and Black is fortunate to have several top-flight wrestlers on the team.
"At the 152-pound weight class we've got Christian Zoppina ... an outstanding wrestler," Blacks said. "Another outstanding wrestler is Raheem Anthony. He is 145 this year and went to region last year at 138. He's bigger and stronger and we are really excited about him."
Quinton Englebright could have a strong year once he recovers from an injury, Black said.
Hunter Walker, Crestview's undersized heavyweight, also could surprise some people, the coach said.
"My underdog in the heavyweight division is Hunter Walker," Black said. "Last year was his first year wrestling. He played the offensive line for me in football and I convinced him to come out because I thought he would like it.
"He's a junior now and he's someone I'd look out for. Heavyweight is all the way up to 285, and he's only weighing about 235 or 240. We're all excited to see how he's going to match up against the bigger guys from around the Panhandle."
Even with a relatively young squad, Black doesn't shy away from his quest for excellence.
"My expectations are state," he said. "I don't want to say that being cocky, but if you set higher goals, I think you can reach them. I tell them they are students first and then athletes.
"In the classroom, I expect A's and in wrestling I expect state. I feel you should really set your goals high.
"If you don't set your goals high, you are settling for mediocrity."
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The National Weather Service and Butler County Department of Emergency Management/Homeland Security announced March 3 through 9 as Severe Weather Awareness Week in Kansas.
The National Weather Service and Butler County Department of Emergency Management/Homeland Security announced March 3 through 9 as Severe Weather Awareness Week in Kansas.
The week began with a statewide tornado safety drill.
All across Kansas, each county's emergency management are participating in the tornado safety drill to prepare for the 2013 severe weather season.
Schools, hospitals, industries, public facilities and citizens are also encouraged to test their readiness should a tornado or severe weather event actually occur.
Local tornado warning sirens, NOAA Weather Radio alarms, and the Emergency Alert System will be activated to signal the start of the drill.
The drill was to test everyone's readiness for a life threatening severe weather event, such as a tornado.
Other severe weather threats that must also be prepared for include: flash flooding, large hail, lightning and damaging winds.
In addition to this, the annual Storm Spotter and Severe Weather Awareness Training session will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Civic Center, 201 E. Central. It will be presented by the National Weather Service – Wichita.
In 2012, the tornado season began Feb. 28. Unfortunately, one of the eight tornadoes occurring that day struck the town of Harveyville resulting in damage, injuries and one fatality. April 2012 was a record month in terms of tornado count.
The 52 tornadoes logged surpassed the old April re-cord of 46 set in 1964. Forty-three tornadoes occurred on April 14 resulting in 38 injuries.
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You're not studying Old Irish!
Some quotes from Fortston's Indo-European Language and Culture (for the Unicode un-enabled, I use a circumflex for the macron):
14.45. As these examples hint at, the effects of syncope [loss of sounds in the interior of a word, annis] and apocope [removal of final syllables, annis] in Irish are nowhere as apparent or as devastating as in verbal conjugations, especially those of verbs compounded with one or more preverbs. The effects are particularly widespread partly due to the fact that Old Irish had an especial fondness for piling preverbs together, giving syncope and apocope no shortage of syllablic gallows-fodder. ...
14.46. The amount of allomorphy (that is, variation in the form of a given morpheme) that these changes created was incredible, and it is worth digressing to give some examples. The Irish root fêd- 'say' appears in such varied guises as fét, id and d, as in the following forms of the compound verb *at-fêd- 'relate': 3rd sing. present ad-fét 'relates', perfective present ad-cuïd (*ad-com-fêd), and 2nd pl. conjunct perfective present -éicdid. Sometimes the root is reduced to a single sound, particularly in the conjunct 3rd person singular s-subjunctive. Thus the 3rd sing. conjunct s-subjunctive of the verb as-boind (*as-bond-) 'refuses' is simply -op (pronounced -ob, the regular outcome of *-óss-bod-s-t!); and from *ret- 'run' (present rethid 'runs') we have the compound do-fúarat 'remains over' (*di-fó-uss-ret-), whose conjunct 3rd sing. s-subjunctive is -diúair (< *dí-fo-uss-ret-s-t), with only the -r remaining of the original root, subjunctive suffix and personal ending (and very little left of the preceding preverbs).
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Authorities have now confirmed seven deaths in Arkansas after a severe storm
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Yakima (AP) - The State Board of Education has taken another step toward bringing charter schools to Washington State. Yesterday in Yakima, the board unanimously approved the Spokane School District's bid to become the state's first charter school authorizer, in addition to the statewide charter commission. A charter school authorizer will review, approve or reject applications from groups that want to open charter schools.


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Key Enhancements
Doors have locks, of course—both traditional and electronic locks. For years, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, creating the keys and access cards to allow staff to get into offices, laboratories, classrooms, and residence halls was a completely manual and time-consuming task: Users printed a hard copy of a request form, filled it out, passed it along for an approval signature, and sent it via campus mail to facilities management. There, someone compared the signature on the form to that on the authorization card on file; once the form was verified, the request was sent to the lock shop so that a key could be ground or a card programmed. The entire process took at least three days to complete.
With UNLV adding nearly 60 acres and 10,000 students to its campus over the last 15 years, facilities management staff realized a more efficient system was needed. After consulting with a variety of stakeholders, the university earlier this year rolled out a fully automated, web-based request system allowing staff and students to enter information online. Replacing the manual signature comparison was an electronic approval process through which approvers are notified by the system that a request is waiting and can sign into a secure, password-protected site to either approve or deny the request. E-mail confirmations and status updates are sent to requestors at each step of the process, and an online status check utility allows them to see where their request resides at any point.
Whenever a requestor wants to know where the keys are, he or she can log in and see, says Richard Storlie, director of administrative services. "It's all electronically maintained—kind of like what you can do with a package with FedEx."
The system has allowed a lock shop position to remain vacant, with no loss of quality or timeliness.
Storlie reports that the initial rollout has generated both positive feedback and suggestions for improvement; among planned enhancements are allowing department heads to go online to determine who is permitted to approve requests, and allowing approvers to modify requests before giving the thumbs-up.
Already, the new system has allowed Storlie to allow a lock shop position to remain vacant, with no loss of quality or timeliness, following a full-time employee's retirement. And while reducing processing time by two days may not seem like much, when one considers that UNLV handles around 5,000 key requests a year, anything that streamlines the process is important. Throw in the budget woes caused by the rocky economy, and the newly realized efficiency becomes even more significant.
"Our workload increased exponentially with budget cuts," Storlie says, "but because of this we're saving time and effort."


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..an Evil-Mako or E-Mako probably would just as effortlessly hilarious.
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I simply don't see Mako being a villain. It does look like she's going to have to choose between Ryuuko and her family next week though.
I also wouldn't be surprised if Satsuki forces Mako and Ryuuko to fight next week, since it looks like the two of them have started up their own "Fight Club," based on the preview. After all, Ryuuko does have to beat every club leader in the school, right?
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Hmm... well, she did get Gamagoori's attention during episode four when she told him off about sleeping in the nude, and he said he would remember her. Maybe he actually did, and she gets promoted to a one-star with the accompanying upgrade in living conditions. That would explain what was said in the preview.
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I actually think Mako could potentially end up acting as a mentor of sorts to Ryuuko, depending on whether or not she really did beat up all those students with the broom.
Ryuuko lost that second fight with Uzu because she's essentially an amateur fighter with a really big gun. Had she been able to land in some hits, she could have beaten him rather easily, I think. She has the common sense that most shonen protagonists lack in recognizing when she isn't going to be able to win a fight and GTFO of there if she can, but she still needs better training in the actual fighting field, as it were.
If Mako really is a closet badass, perhaps she can help Ryuuko in figuring out how to better fight her opponents? After all, the only way Mako could beat a bunch of one/two-star students on her own is if she is technically skilled/knowledgeable as a fighter, since she lacks a star uniform or kamui to boost her strength.
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Kansas ARVC Weighs Online Marketing Costs
March 23, 2011 by Leanne Phillips · Comments Off on Kansas ARVC Weighs Online Marketing Costs
The Kansas Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (KARVC) held its general membership meeting Feb. 22 at Capital City KOA, Topeka, with nearly half of its members present.
After elections KARVC's board remains unchanged. Officers for 2011 are President and Treasurer Mary Arlington, High Plains Camping, Oakley; Vice President Paul Pinick, Emporia RV Park, Emporia; and Secretary Carolyn Fenn, Four Seasons RV Acres, Abilene.
"A significant change for us has to do with our online marketing," Arlington stated. "During a discussion of the roles within KARVC, the commitments and obligations of our own individual parks, and our association's finances and how best they can be used, Paul Pinick explained why he renews his park's dues.
"He hit upon the primary needs of belonging to ARVC and the networking with fellow park owners, and he appreciates the professional development and the efforts in Topeka. But he admitted that KARVC's marketing programs had virtually no place in his decision."
Arlington continued, "I reminded the association of all of our online efforts (web, social media, etc.) and how our visitor numbers were healthy and growing every year. I outlined the financial and time costs of maintaining our web page and our Internet presence. Then I added a report on how my guests found my park in 2010 (my park's occupancy was up 15% over 2009 & 24% over 2008). My park's stats made it obvious to me that KARVC isn't one of the primary marketing resources for my park."
Jeff Sims, director of membership and government affairs with the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC), provided news about how ARVC is advancing its marketing of Kansas and other state's parks.
"It's fair to say this presentation captured our attention and excited us," Arlington noted. "The response from KARVC was that of absolute support for ARVC. The members reminded me once again that ARVC remains our primary reason for existing. I recall hearing that KARVC is thought of as a subset of ARVC rather than as you being a supplier or provider for us. The members spoke loudly and clearly … KARVC is excited about the changes we've already seen with ARVC's new president Paul Bambei's leadership."
After further discussion, KARVC membership voted unanimously to retain the www.ksrvparks.com domain, but to no longer have it be an active directory. Instead it will link visitors to the Kansas page on GoCampingAmerica.
"This is merely one example of how our very small association, run by volunteers, operating on a very small budget, can best fulfill the needs of members and accomplish our mission," Arlington said. "The members felt we still needed our printed 'Kansas RV and Camping Guide' for distribution."
Arlington added. "Another large development for us has to do with news in (the state capital of) Topeka. Our new governor has begun shaking the branches, and the outcome is that our Division of Travel and Tourism has been moved from the Department of Commerce over to the Department of Parks and Wildlife.
"KARVC is very blessed to have Natalie Donges, Deere Grove RV Park, El Dorado, working diligently with those in the Department of Parks and Wildlife," Arlington added. "Natalie has agreed to be our delegate to the Travel Industry Association of Kansas (TIAK), which has enjoyed a very lengthy and warm relationship with KARVC."


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Today's New England winter storm brought rain and gusty winds to Cape Cod, with some power outages, tree damage and canceled Islands ferry runs.
Today's New England winter storm brought rain and gusty winds to Cape Cod, with scattered power outages, tree damage and canceled Islands ferry runs.
The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for Cape Cod and the Islands through 11 this morning, with east winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph. But the wind will start to diminish late this morning.
Around 1,500 Cape NStar customers were without power at 6:30 a.m., mostly on the lower Cape, but by 8:45 a.m. that number had dwindled to just a couple hundred. Outages were scattered from Sandwich to Provincetown, but in most towns just a few dozen homes are without power, according to NStar's website.
Power outages in Orleans, Brewster and Harwich have been reduced significantly, according to the website. At 6:30 a.m. 940 Orleans customers were without power but by 8:45 a.m., just 55 were still without electricity.
The Steamship Authority has canceled trips to the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket this morning. Ferry trips currently canceled include: the 8:45 a.m. ferry from Nantucket to Hyannis; 9:30 a.m. Nantucket to Hyannis; 9:15 a.m. Hyannis to Nantucket; 12:00 p.m. Nantucket to Hyannis; 9:30 a.m. Vineyard Haven to Woods Hole; 9:30 a.m. Woods Hole to Vineyard Haven; 9:45 a.m. Vineyard Haven to Woods Hole.
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The Boston area woke up today to heavy, wind-whipped rain, but no snow. Areas to the north and west of the state were getting several inches of heavy, wet snow.
There is also a coastal flood advisory from 8 a.m. until noon morning to noon today for eastern Massachusetts from Salisbury southward to Cape Cod. Most at risk to flooding is the coastline from Boston north through Cape Ann and Newburyport.
Some areas of western Massachusetts could get as much as 10 inches of snow before the storm lifts off to the north Thursday afternoon.
The storm is expected to drop 1 to 2 feet of snow on parts of the Northeast just a day after it swept through the nation's middle, dumping a record snowfall in Arkansas and ruining holiday travel plans.
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Otherwise, today will be rainy mainly before noon on the Cape and Islands with a high near 50.New precipitation amounts between a tenth- and quarter-of-an-inch possible. Tonight there is a chance of rain showers before midnight, then a chance of snow showers.
But Friday will be sunny with a high near 38 with a northwest wind 10 to 16 mph.
Looking ahead to the weekend, it looks like some level of snowfall on the Cape and Islands on Saturday night into Sunday.
For a more detailed or extended forecast visit the National Weather Service website.
For a live look at weather around the Cape visit Cape Cod Live Cams
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According to the State Department of Environmental Protection: "Fine particle levels will be low statewide."
For more detailed information go to Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection>Mass EPA website.
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