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UncleKG wrote:I'm going to disagree with you. Had it been one of the other Republican presidential candidates who won, I'm confident the scouts would jump at the chance to be there. Drump's a divisive candidate who alienated a number of groups during this campaign. That's a fact that even Hannity would likely concede.
K.C.Journey Fan wrote:Well, I'm being told the Girl Scouts are denying the story about them refusing to attend. I'm told it was planted by insiders for Planned Parenthood. There is alot of fake news out there. I got the story off Yahoo news feed. There is also a story on Yahoo about 200,000 bikers showing up tomorrow to run over liberal protesters that is a fake story. The one that disturbs me most is the "Inside Story" the the CIA is planning to murder Trump. Some of this shit is getting dangerous. Yahoo usually is a trusted source. They carry about 80% liberal fluff pieces, but once in a while they slip in a conservative story. The Mainstream Media is in overdrive tonight. So are the Alex Jones morons. I never use them anyway, but that is where the CIA story is getting a big boost from.
verslibre wrote:He looks like a mannequin. WTF is he looking at, an olive that got lost in the carpet?
UncleKG wrote:A lot of phones are going to go unanswered in D.C. beginning tomorrow.
"Overall, out of 690 positions requiring Senate confirmation tracked by the Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service, Trump has come up with only 28 people so far...the Partnership for Public Service suggested a president should have "100 Senate-confirmed appointees in place on or around Inauguration Day." At this pace, he won't have 100 nominees by the end of February, let alone having them confirmed and hard at work."
Let's just cross our fingers there's no national security crisis anytime soon.
K.C.Journey Fan wrote:As I post this, there are 13:41 left on dumbass's watch. Hey, F.F., Boomchild, no pardon for the Clintons, yet. Tick,tick,tick.
K.C.Journey Fan wrote:I can imagine what is being destroyed before any investagation. No product to sell is my guess. Funny, it did so well while Hillary held office.
http://www.investors.com/politics/comme ... lary-isnt/
Fact Finder wrote:https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=263&iso=20170120T12&msg=Time%20left%20until%20Obama%20leaves%20office
11 hours and 53 minutes...
Boomchild wrote:Seeing that Senators work a less then a "snails pace", it would most likely not speed things up. After all they just love to ask question after question or basically hear themselves talk.
K.C.Journey Fan wrote:Don't forget who the author of the birther rumor was.
K.C.Journey Fan wrote:The nightmare is over. 36 years of Global Socialism done. The look on Hilary Clintons face today, priceless. When they announced Obama and he came out to cheers of Trump, priceless. Still no word of a Clinton pardon.
Fact Finder wrote:just adding to the hit count!
Boomchild wrote:K.C.Journey Fan wrote:The nightmare is over. 36 years of Global Socialism done. The look on Hilary Clintons face today, priceless. When they announced Obama and he came out to cheers of Trump, priceless. Still no word of a Clinton pardon.
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Navy missiles light up skies over northern California
Early risers around northern California marveled at two bright lights blazing through the sky before sunrise Tuesday.
The U.S. Navy launched two Trident II missiles over the Pacific Ocean from a submarine off the coast of Southern California, and they were seen from as far north as the San Francisco Bay Area.
Navy public affairs officer John Daniels told KSBW that the missiles were unarmed and never flew over land.
The Navy's Trident II missiles serve as nuclear deterrents,Daniels said.
"A credible, effective nuclear deterrent is essential to our national security and the security of U.S. allies. Deterrence remains a cornerstone of national security policy in the 21st century. The Navy's TridentII (D5) strategic weapon system provides the most survivable leg of the strategic deterrent Triad," Daniels said.
The Navy said it conducts flight tests on a frequent basis.
"Test flights were not conducted in response to any ongoing world events or as a demonstration of power," Daniels said.
Tuesday's missiles were launched from an Ohio Class SSBN submarine. All missile test flights are launched from sea, flown over the sea,and land in the sea, Daniels said.

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Currey and Company Coralie Pendant
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Currey and Company Coralie Pendant
Currey & Company 9000-0048 – The Coralie is a captivating pendant that seems to be undressed, missing it's outer layer and exposing the beautiful framework of this versatile piece that works in nearly every style of decor and any room of a home. It is finished in a vibrant Dark Antique Gold Leaf and electrified by one single Edison bulb.
Material: Wrought Iron
Finish: Dark Antique Gold Leaf
Lamping:: (1) 60W Edison Bulb
Dimensions (inches): 18rd x 17h, Adjustable from 21.5 to 66.5h
Weight: 6 lbs.
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About Currey and Company
Currey & Company, known today for its vibrant collection of lighting products, started its existence in 1988 as a purveyor of historic garden furnishings. When Robert B. Currey founded Garden Source Furnishings, the main focus of the company was the creation and marketing of classic garden furniture from the Winterthur Museum and the Smithsonian Institution.
These collections were joined by a very American collection of garden whimsies, birdhouses and rustic twig furniture. Some lighting products were among these first offerings and by the early 1990's the lighting category had become very important. Accordingly, the name of the company was changed to Currey & Company to embrace a new focus on products for the interior.
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Florida Living and Lighting is a subsidiary of Florida Living Quarters Interior Design. Our local showroom is based in North Orlando in downtown Lake Mary. We are an authorized dealer for Currey & Company.
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Open letter to Wild Bill Cooper
Wick's World
Where have you been Wild Bill Cooper? Are you still living? It's rumored that your cohorts from the short-lived Marijuana Air Force planted you with the cactus somewhere down in Mexico. But I figure if the U.S. Marshals Service put you on America's Ten Most Wanted List, and failed to capture you, it's highly doubtful your associates south of the border succeeded either.
No, you would be more likely to dig in with your Eskimo friends in some remote village where no one would ever find you. Many say you went deep into Canada where you had contacts and lived out a quiet, unassuming life. But that's really not your style either.
I heard once that one of your old buddies spotted you in a casino in Las Vegas. Now that was your style. You loved to gamble and often sponsored legendary card games at your bar in Willow River.
Although you refused to surrender and, after almost four decades, are still a free man, I can only wonder what kind of freedom it was. Was your adventurous spirit tamed? I highly doubt it. It reminds me of this quote from another well known Cooper.
The rugged movie star from the Old West, Gary Cooper, once stated, "You've got to have a fire under you, and when you're beginning, you've got one all the time. After you get established, you have to create your own fire, and it's never easy."
Bill, just how did you keep your fires burning after escaping the long arm of the law for all those years? Some say you were D.B. Cooper, the hijacker who escaped with a quarter-million dollars courtesy of Northwest Airlines. Although you didn't fit the profile, it sure fit your style.
Although Wild Bill Cooper hasn't been seen around these parts for close to four decades, he will be seen at the Lake Theater in Moose Lake, Minnesota next Wednesday and Thursday evenings, November 14th and 15th at 7:00 PM, thanks to independent filmmaker Mike Scholz. Scholz's award-winning documentary called "Wild Bill's Run" takes us back to 1972 where a crowd gathered in Willow River to send Wild Bill and cronies off on a crazy, dangerous, bold adventure called the Trans-World Snowmobile Expedition from Minnesota to Moscow.
You liked to live life on the edge, Bill Cooper. If you could somehow sneak in to the Lake Theater for the question and answer session following the movie, I'm willing to bet you would get on stage and regale your old friends with Wild Bill Cooper stories for weeks. Then you would slip out the back door, commandeer a Piper Cub and fly off into the sunset.
See you next week in Moose Lake, Bill. Locals, please bring your questions and stories to share about American folk hero Wild Bill Cooper from Willow River, Minnesota.


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The app is simple enough yet well laid out and takes advantage of the doublewide tile for Windows Phone 7.8 and 8 users out there. It simply displays your phone's current status: Data, Roaming, Speed, Network Type and Operator on the Tile, which also flips with more info.
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Penn State community spirit matched its football spirit Nov. 3 as the Alle-Kiski Alumni Society collected food and money for a local food bank at its TV football tailgate party at the Elks Lodge #644 in Tarentum, Pa.
Alumni and friends stepped up when it counted and donated eight large boxes of nonperishable items. Society board member Lorri Wilde delivered the goods to the Allegheny Valley Association of Churches Food Bank.
"The response was amazing," said Wilde, immediate past president of the alumni society. "The generosity of Penn State alumni, family and friends once again demonstrates our commitment to our community and those less fortunate."
Located in Natrona Heights, Pa., the food bank provides canned goods, boxed foods, produce, meats, and dairy products to more than 480 families in the region. The service area includes the communities of Brackenridge, East Deer Township, Fawn Township, Frazier Township, Harrison Township, Tarentum, West Deer Township, New Kensington, Lower Burrell, Verona and Arnold. In addition, eligible families receive Christmas and Easter food baskets and turkey vouchers, as well as winter coats, hats and mittens. Toys and gifts are distributed during the Christmas holiday.
The Alle-Kiski Society's community service project was held in conjunction with the annual football social. More than 70 Penn State fans brought donations to the Elks Club and cheered for the Nittany Lions who played at Purdue University. The football team fulfilled its duty and rewarded the Blue and White faithful with a 34-9 victory.
For photos of the event, visit http://psnk.smugmug.com/ online.
For more on the Alle-Kiski Society, visit http://www.nk.psu.edu/Alumni/alumorg.htm online.


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The other day, I wrote about German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's effort to once again stave off defeat by presenting himself as the "peace chancellor," defying Americn plans for war, this time against Iran and North Korea. In today's Washington Times, two German analysts, Andreas Jacobs and Karl-Heinz Kamp, argue that, given Schroeder's foreign policy record since the 2002 election and the absence of any acute foreign policy crisis, the "peace" card will not bring the deciding percentages to the ballot box this time.
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — PGA of America President Ted Bishop breaks new ground in representing The Association via the nationwide airwaves when he opens a weekly segment Feb. 26, on "Fairways of Life with Matt Adams," on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio. The program is carried throughout North America and streamed live on Back9Network.com.
Bishop, the 38th president of The PGA of America and general manager at The Legends Golf Club in Franklin, Ind., is among the first PGA presidents to be featured in a weekly national radio program. The opening segment, Feb. 26, will air at 7:30 a.m., with re-airing at 12:30 p.m. ET and 7:30 p.m. ET. The program is archived on FairwaysofLife.com and Back9Network.com.
"It is a pleasure to have this opportunity to represent The PGA of America before a national audience and to be associated with a host like Matt Adams, who has been a longtime supporter of PGA Professionals and one of the most respected media members in our industry," said PGA of America President Ted Bishop. "We look forward to this program serving as a voice for the 27,000 men and women professionals who dedicate themselves daily to grow our game."
Adams, who splits residence between Providence, R.I., and Orlando, Fla., has hosted "Fairways of Life" the past seven years, with the program airing daily since 2010. Adams has worked in both golf equipment manufacturing and golf course operations for more than thirty years. Only recently has the demands of golf broadcasting necessitated him devoted his full time efforts to the craft.
"I'm excited about having Ted Bishop and The PGA of America on the program because Ted is a friend, first, and secondly, because I am proud of what he has accomplished to date as president," said Adams. "Todays' golf media is dominated by pundits who have never worked a day in the golf business. Ted has more than 35 years' experience in professional golf, knows the game inside out, and is someone who works each day at his job to help people enjoy the game."
About "Fairways of Life with Matt Adams" – SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio
Best-selling author Matt Adams of Providence, R.I., and Orlando, Fla., has served as a weekly host of "Fairways of Life" on Sirius XM radio for seven years, with the program airing daily since 2010. Adams, an author of eight books, including "Fairways of Life – Golf Wisdom of the Legends" (2011, Morgan James Publishing), brings listeners all the major headlines from The PGA of America, along with the PGA, Champions, European and LPGA tours. The program features conversation with the best players in the world, complemented by exploring the history of the game, golf architecture, equipment, and travel. In addition to SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio and Back9Network, Adams' work has been featured on the BBC, ESPN ITV, European Tour Entertainment, Golf Channel, PGA Tour Productions, Radio Open Golf, and the Ryder Cup, among others. Adams show has the largest golf listening audience in the world, airing or re-airing in both the morning and afternoon drive-time on both coasts in North America and streamed live around the world on Back9Network.com.
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Since its founding in 1916, The PGA of America has maintained a twofold mission: to establish and elevate the standards of the profession and to grow interest and participation in the game of golf. By establishing and elevating the standards of the golf profession through world-class education, career services, marketing and research programs, The PGA enables its professionals to maximize their performance in their respective career paths and showcases them as experts in the game and in the multi-billion dollar golf industry. By creating and delivering world-class championships and innovative programs, The PGA of America elevates the public's interest in the game, the desire to play more golf, and ensures accessibility to the game for everyone, everywhere. As The PGA nears its centennial, the PGA brand represents the very best in golf.


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OU Comes Up Short in Shreveport
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) -- Mississippi's Les Binkley made the last college football game of the century a real kick.
Binkley's 39-yard field goal at the gun capped a duel between Deuce McAllister and Josh Heupel and gave Mississippi a wild 27-25 victory over Oklahoma in the Independence Bowl.
Binkley's boot came less than an hour before the millennium ended and just 2:17 after Heupel threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to Quenton Griffin to give Oklahoma a 25-24 lead, its first of the game.
Heupel completed 39-of-53 passes for 390 yards and three TDs as he overcame a sloppy first half with a terrific second half. The first half belonged to McAllister, who had caught a TD pass of 25 yards and raced 80 yards for another score as Mississippi built a 21-3 lead.
Heupel set Independence Bowl records for completions, attempts and yards and tied the mark for TD passes. McAllister's run was the longest scrimmage play in Independence Bowl history and the longest surrendered by Oklahoma in a bowl game.
McAllister had a huge game, collecting 121 yards on 17 carries and 55 more on three catches. Romaro Miller was 18-of-28 for 202 yards and a pair of scoring passes for the Rebels (8-4), who won their fourth straight bowl game. Mississippi won this game for the second straight year and improved to 17-11 in the postseason.
Under first-year coach Bob Stoops, the Sooners (7-5) were in their 33rd bowl but first since the 1994 Copper Bowl. They fell to 20-12-1 in the postseason.
Heupel, who broke most of Oklahoma's passing records this year, got untracked in the second half. He threw touchdown passes of three yards to Jarrail Jackson and 41 yards to Brandon Daniels 7 1/2 minutes apart in the third quarter, cutting the deficit to 21-18.
Binkley kicked a 29-yard field goal with 11:18 to play, giving Mississippi a six-point lead. But on Oklahoma's last drive, Heupel effectively used Griffin. The 5-6 freshman from Texas had a 30-yard run and a short reception before Heupel connected with Daniels on a 22-yard slant pattern to the 17, setting up his go-ahead TD pass.
Griffin had 86 yards on 12 carries and 65 on eight catches for the Sooners, who held a 481-361 edge in total yards. Jackson had 10 receptions for 76 yards and Daniels had six for 109.
Oklahoma had two turnovers and botched a pair of fake kicks in the first half and Mississippi took full advantage. Following a missed field goal on the Sooners' first possession, the Rebels cashed in as McAllister got behind a linebacker and hauled in a pass from Miller for a 25-yard TD and a 7-0 lead just under six minutes into the game.
The teams traded turnovers before and after Tim Duncan kicked a 34-yard field goal with 5:22 left in the opening period. Ole Miss sniffed out a fake field goal and Miller found Adam Bettis with a nine-yard TD pass for a 14-3 lead with 8:13 remaining in the second quarter.
Oklahoma put together a drive but Heupel's end-zone toss was picked off by cornerback Tim Strickland for a touchback. On the next play from scrimmage, McAllister broke a tackle and sped 80 yards for a touchdown.


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Jobs showed importance of failure in success
By the time Steve Jobs' Wikipedia page had been adjusted to past tense, eulogists had added a footnote to his biography of success. Failure.
Jobs, though wildly successful, also failed often and badly. Therein, we note posthumously, lies perhaps the larger lesson of his life: Sometimes you have to fail to succeed.
The truth is, you usually have to fail to succeed. No one emerges at the top. Even those born lucky eventually get a turn on the wheel of misfortune. Anyone with a resumè of accomplishments also has a resumè of failures, humiliations and setbacks. Jobs was fired by the company he co-founded. Yet it was during this period of exile that he picked up a little computer graphics company later called Pixar Animation Studios, the sale of which made him a billionaire.
This is to say, to fail is human. To resurrect oneself is an act of courage.
Jobs himself recognized his failures in a now-famous 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University. He recalled sleeping on the floors of friends' dorm rooms and walking seven miles to a Hare Krishna temple for his one good meal of the week. One needn't make an appointment with the Genius Bar to glean the moral of this story.
Fear of failure isn't only an adult concern. From an early age, we are plagued with anxiety about performance. This seems a natural enough evolutionary development. The strong and savvy survive (and get the girl). The less accomplished eat scraps and enjoy the company of human leftovers. "Losers," we call them. So habitual is our attention to failure that we even have a word -- or at least the Germans do -- for enjoying others': Schadenfreude.
What possibly could make us take pleasure in another's failure? Simple. We love the company.
A history of human failure would make for a long and interesting read, yet we prefer books about success. We thrill at the end-zone victory dance, applaud the extra point, admire the perfect 10. In literature, what is redemption but recovery from human failing? We love no one more than the man or woman who says I made a mistake, I'm sorry, please forgive me. Forgive? We want to hoist the penitent on our shoulders.
An entire lexicon of clichès has evolved around the idea of failure and recovery. It's not the thing attained that matters; it's the journey that gives us life. The act of creation -- the struggle -- far exceeds the pleasure of the thing created. Unless, of course, it's an Apple iPhone 4S. BlackBerry? Not so much.
Recent acknowledgment of the power of failure inspired by Jobs' too soon demise provides a welcome spiritual uplift for stressed out adults. But we're missing an even more important morality tale that has profound consequences for our nation's future. Our obsession with success and our fear of failure has trickled down to ever younger humans, our children, at great cost not only to their psychological well-being but also, ultimately, to our ability to compete in the global marketplace.
We're so afraid our kids won't measure up that we drive them crazy with overbooked schedules and expectations, and then create a sense of entitlement by assigning blame elsewhere when their performance is lackluster. Sideline parents, first cousins to backseat drivers, who challenge coaches, teachers and umpires on behalf of their children are a relatively new development that can't be considered positive. When I wrote recently about the failure (there's that word) of colleges to teach core curricula that engender critical thinking skills, dozens of professors wrote to complain of students who aren't willing to work hard (or show up) yet still expect good grades. Even in college, they said, parents pester professors for better marks for their little darlings.
In another famous commencement address, J.K. Rowling's to Harvard in 2008, the "Harry Potter" author eulogized her own valuable failures.
"Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations," Rowling said. "Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way."
If we agree that wisdom, confidence and a better Apple are gifts of failure, then why are we so afraid to allow our children to experience it? In a culture where failure is not well enough understood as necessary to growth -- and accomplishment is diminished by a code of equal outcomes that enshrines entitlement -- then no one gets wiser or better. And a nation populated by such people may not survive.


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Having always stood with one foot set lightly in airplanes and the other planted firmly in helicopters, I've often enjoyed contending to fixed-wing-only operators that safely accomplished rotary wing aviation will always maintain a smug status as much more challenging and demanding than their version of flying, which consists, as anyone can see, of mindlessly driving a relatively simple and foolproof aerial machine from "A to B." Mechanically, of course, helicopters, compared on a size and weight basis, are much more complicated than their fixed-wing counterparts, but composite operational complexities do not end there.
Flying an airplane from departure to destination is largely an repetitious exercise, following a standard cookbook recipe which specifies in precise fashion flight planning rituals, weather briefing, fuel scheduling, checklist execution, some minor motor skill demonstration of actual aircraft handling (if the autopilot will allow), ATC compliance, systems monitoring, utilization of chart data, adherence to approach plate directions, and usually nothing more than theoretical consideration of emergency systems protocols and contingency accommodation. You leave one city, dutifully execute all the above, and presto, you step out of your airplane in another city, hopefully the one intended.
Helicopter missions, in inevitably stark contrast, can entail all the above, plus an almost infinitely unpredictable additional set of optional operational variables. In fact, helicopters very often face tasks which end up presenting the possibility of multiple solution strategies to crews, calling to mind the old "more than one way to skin a cat" wisdom.
Often, when helicopters undertake missions (in contrast to embarking on simple flight), precise navigational data, along with precise tactical implications, are yet to develop. Flying a heavy Coast Guard Sikorsky S-61, we were once tasked with investigating a reported American charter airplane crash in the mountains of northern Haiti, to include likely body recovery.
Our first challenge, since communications with Haitian authorities were extremely poor, was to establish presence on scene, and to document the situation. This encompassed assembling personnel, with consideration given to the potential need for medical competencies, and moving our aircraft from its base in Puerto Rico to Port-au-Prince—absolutely our only reliable fuel availability in the region. When we landed at Toussaint Louverture International Airport, our operational adventures began as we were surrounded by President Baby Doc Duvalier's armed commandos. In Haiti during the 1970s we never knew whether these paramilitary police commandos were there for our protection or otherwise, but on this occasion we were informed that several of these uniformed "assistants" would be accompanying us to the tiny village of Jean-Rabel, near the northern coast, where it was believed that the natives had observed something which had been interpreted as a storm-driven airplane crash into the mountains.
After nearly an hour's flight out of Port-au-Prince, landing on a flat patch of barren earth in Jean-Rabel, we were treated to the sudden and somewhat mysterious appearance of a seemingly very apprehensive party of native residents, from which was ejected an old man we took to be the local voodoo "witch doctor." This gaunt figure, dusted pure white from head to toe, dropped to his knees directly at the nose of our HH-3F, under the still spinning rotor blades, casting an assortment of dried bones onto the dirt. The commandos immediately took action by jumping out our cargo door, chasing down the unfortunate, and viciously beating the offender to submission, manhandling him away to parts unknown. It was later explained to us by a Catholic missionary, the only English-speaking individual in the village, that the commandos would have shot the old voodoo man, but they "didn't want to appear brutal to the Americans".
We learned, from the highly superstitious natives and through the missionary, that indeed a "screaming bird" had been observed crashing, and directions toward the disaster were provided with lots of yelling and pointing. Getting airborne again, we were finally able to find the wreckage, but were disappointed to see that most of it was at the base of a cliff at about the 2,000-foot level, completely inaccessible to any possible helicopter landing zone.
We were able to eventually spot a rocky ridge-top, downslope and many hundreds of meters from the crash site, so we landed there in order to consider our options. It took more than an hour for us to walk up the steep, muddy terrain to the wreckage itself, where we were obliged to confirm eight non-survivors and the obliterated remains of a piston-powered cabin class Cessna, along with the presence of a few transfixed but fearful local residents, and we could see that getting the bodies aboard presented huge problems, both physical and, perhaps, metaphysical. (To be continued...)


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Last week we let you know via the Canonical blog that the third Humble Bundle for Android was released and available on Ubuntu. Today four additional titles are now part of the Humble Bundle for Android #3: World of Goo, Osmos, EDGE and Anomaly. Once again, the Humble Bundle is super-easy to download through the Ubuntu Software Center. The bundle deal is only available for two weeks on a name-your-price basis. If you already purchased the bundle last week and you paid more than the average pay-what-you-like price, then you'll get all four new games added to your bundle.
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CA National Guard to Pay Back Bonuses
After years of trying to collect reenlistment bonuses from California National Guard members and mounting pressure from the VFW, Congress and other VSOs, the Department of Defense (DOD) suspended its collection efforts in October of 2016. VFW National Commander Brian Duffy said at the time that he "welcomes the defense secretary's decision to suspend the collections efforts, but that the decision doesn't go deep enough. A comprehensive program needs to be immediately created to help make these Guard members whole again. They signed and fulfilled a contract, and whether they were authorized to receive a bonus is the fault of a system, not of any recipient. Aside from stopping collection, the government should also restore those monies already collected." Earlier this week, DOD Secretary Ash Carter ordered the repayment of those bonuses that had been collected. DOD is also tasked with exploring ways to assist those veterans who may have gone into debt or lost their homes because of the recoupment of their bonuses.
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I really don't get it. Oh I get the premise of the show, but I don't get why I liked it. I shall explain my theories.
Maria + Holic
In all honesty, it could have been a lot better. I thought they did an ok job with it though.
Premise: Lesbian girl (Kanako) goes to a [Catholic?] school for girls and on the first day (before the first day technically) she meets, Mariya, who she discovers is actually a cross dressing boy when he touches her (she breaks out in hives when a boy touches her). Hilarious first episode, I thought it had potential to knock down walls at this point.
I thoroughly enjoyed this series through the first 6 episodes…..then it started getting repetitive. Same jokes, same shit happening every, single, episode. Normally, this calls for a drop, HOWEVER, there are several reasons that kept this episode alive:
- The best combo of OP and ED ever. The OP is probably my favorite of the year, as well as the ED. This kept me watching, and ensured that I would watch from OP to ED.
- Shaft [productions studio] rules. If they hadn't made this show, I probably wouldn't have even watched it liked it as much. Personally, I'm a sucker for Shaft. I can't help but like everything they make. Besides the awesome OPs and EDs that they ALWAYS make (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei? Forget about it. Awesome in every single way. I wish I had more room on my top ten), the animation is always usually awesome.
- The Priest in the last few episodes. He's a funny ass guy.
Basically, this show was just poorly written. Every single episode was pretty much the same:
- Kanako bleeds
- Mariya has one line telling Kanako that she's a pervert
- Her maid agrees
- More nosebleeds
- Kanako reiterates over and over girls are beautiful, and she wants them
- Kanako nosebleeds
- The end
Whoops I guess that I just spoiled every single episode for the whole season. Honestly, I looked forward to this show every week, even though I knew what I was gonna get. I never felt as though it was bad though. I would gladly approve of a second season, as this type of repetitiveness isn't as bad compared to say, Ranma 1/2 (which I will never finish. I average one episode per month at my rate) or Naruto Fillers, or D. Gray Man (More like D. GAY Man LOL!!! (assume that the LOL is sarcastically pronounced)). I was going to give this a five at the beginning of this post (due to the OP and ED and Shaft really), but that would be retarded, because then I'd have to base every show off of the OP and ED, and it would then just be a review of the OP and ED. Therefore, even though I liked the material more than most shows that I give this rating too, Maria + Holic gets a
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8-26-2011 Safeco Field
I arrived at Safeco Field sitting on 198 lifetime baseballs. Well, not literally sitting on them but I have about 198 baseballs at home. Give or take a few from giving some away every once in a while. This is what I initially saw when I ran out to the party deck after receiving a very cool and stylish Seattle Mariners fleece blanket:
That's Jason Vargas and Felix Hernandez. Vargas is on the right. I called out to both of them quite a few times and I finally got Jason Vargas to throw a baseball towards me. unfortunately, he either lost his grip on the baseball or just under/over estimated the distance and this was the result:
Can you see the baseball? It's in the corner on the left side by the garage door lookin` thing. The ball actually bounced on the railing before it landed over there. The good news is Jason Vargas saw the whole thing go down, and he flapped his glove at me to let me know he would try again. The more good news is that the security guard on the other side of the fence also saw the whole thing and came over to get some other baseballs that were on the grass behind the centerfield wall.
I was very shocked when the security guard hooked up myself and another adult instead of every kid in the stadium. I was also shocked when five seconds later Jason Vargas whistled at me and tossed me another one. The ball in the picture above is actually my 100th baseball on the season, and the one Jason Vargas tossed me is my 200th lifetime baseball. In the Ballhawking world that's quite a milestone. Eventually I'd like to make it to 1,000 baseballs. Since I already snagged two baseballs in under five minutes I figured I'd go chase down some loose baseballs in the seats. I headed over to the staircase and waited twenty minutes before the rest of the stadium opened up. All these people…
…were waiting in line to go up these stairs…
…and I, of course, was leading the way. Once the they allowed us entry it was a race to the top. And when I got to the top and scurried down some rows I found this:
How awesome is that? My 201st lifetime baseball. And my third of the day. And since I was already up here behind the manual scoreboard in left field I decided to play the corner. It's always a pretty good spot mostly for toss-ups but the occasional home run ball also lands here.
Brandon League and Jeff Gray were both talking to a few WhiteSox players and Brandon League actually had a baseball in his glove but he was way too far away to call for it. I would've ran down there and asked Brandon for it but I had a better plan. Dan Cortes. He was also down there talking to some WhiteSox players and he also had a baseball in his glove. And the best part about it was him and I weren't a million miles away like Brandon and I were. I knew I only had one shot at this and I had to time it just right.
As soon as Dan started to walk away I called to him. Of course he didn't hear me right away so I called to him again. When he turned around I flapped my glove at me and he rifled a laser right to me. The ball hit off the tip of my glove, bounced once on the railing, bounced over my head, bounced twice on the seat arm rest behind me, some dude swiped at it, then it trickled down in-between the seat back and the actual seat into my glove waiting underneath. Feeeww! Talk about a close call! Or close calls! How many lucky bounces was that? Like, seven? Holy crap! I just stood there frozen as the ball bounced all over the place. I did have my glove trick ready to go, as always, so if the ball landed down into the manual scoreboard it wasn't like I wouldn't have been able to get it back. I was just worried that another fan would've grabbed it on one of those weird bounces. But no one ever got it and it never really went anywhere. I couldn't believe it.
Do you want to read about another crazy bouncing baseball? You might as well continue reading. You've read this far. Okay, so after capturing my fourth ball of the day I went down to the third base side to maybe catch a grounder. This was my view:
The first baseball that came my way ended up here…
…and my competition was very little. Anything that can within my wing span would be gobbled up for sure. Ready for another crazy bouncing baseball story? The next baseball that came near me hit the fence that you can see in the above photo and then went up in the air, landed on the baseball that you can see in the above photo and ended up bouncing right to me. Can you believe THAT? The ball ricocheted off the fence, landed on the baseball sitting on the grass and ended up bouncing right to me!
Since batting practice at this point was drawing to a close I wanted to give away at least one baseball to the cutest kid I could find. I ran back down to the 'Pen area and searched for the first cute kid I saw. unfortunately, I didn't get a good picture of the cuteness but you could imagine how cute this little kid is. And the way he said "thank you" was even more cute.
The kid in the "Ichiro" jersey is the one I have the ball to. Lots of cuteness. Oh, and here is a picture of my 200th baseball.
Amazing. Simply amazing. I wandered around the stadium for a little while longer until all the players were off the field. I got this final picture of Juan Pierre getting his picture taken with a cute baby. See! More cuteness!
Safeco Field was full of cute babies today.
As for the Mariners game? Not so cute. The Mariners were beaten by a score of 4-2. Olivo went deep for the Mariners but Brent Lillibridge hit a monster two-run dinger to seal the deal for a WhiteSox win.
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Game; August 26th 2011 Chicago WhiteSox vs Seattle Mariners
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