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One of our Oracle jobs failed to run. Why was this not sent to the alert log?
Asper my knowledge it is not necessary to writye all the errors to alert logs . for certail messages to come in alert log we need to set the appropriate parameter in init.ora file . pls let me know which Oracle failed jobs u are talking about . is this a user defined job or default background process ??
siva prakash DBA
This is a user-defined job using the dbms_job package.
To get the details of the failure . try any one of this . SELECT JOB FROM DBA_JOBS WHERE BROKEN = 'Y'; SELECT FAILURES, JOB FROM DBA_JOBS; Hope this helps
I do know that the job has failed but I was wondering why it wasn't sent to the alert log. I guess I'll write a script to check the broken, failures for all jobs. Thanks
I don't think whether User defined jobs are ever shown in alert log file . i just remember that there are some initialisation parameters, which will let DBMS_jobs failed display in alert log . ( by setting SNP process and Job queing ) .
Thanks Prakash, I'll look into this as well.
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Dark Fantasy, Blackmail, Coercion, Drug
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Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Wed 26th of August 2009
FF/f, rape
Both of them were youngish, in their late teens or early twenties, but looking younger, and wise beyond their years. She was pretty in a cute, innocent way, and dressed in tee shirt and jeans, worn under a denim jacket. He was kind of good looking, if a little tubby, and dressed in a chav like uniform of baseball cap, jeans and Lacoste polo & jacket.
Both already veteran's of this, they had the routine down pat, they knew that the best places were not bars or clubs, but cafes and coffee shops in shopping centres; that the best way of approaching was to use a girl, not a man, that two women shopping out in pairs were easier to approach, less likely to be on their guard, safety in numbers and all that, and her innocent, almost angelic, face helped reel them in.
The ideal victims were conservative in mind enough to be vulnerable, have someone, or thing to lose, and the means to pay, but they had to be dressed in a way that it their partners could be easily convinced of their guilt.
Looking round the cafe, the girl spotted them first; both in their forties, but attractive and well preserved, wedding rings, and dressed in an expensive, but sexy style. Both were of a similar height and build. Tall, one was blond, the other brunette. The blond was wearing a shortish skirt with knee length boots, the other trousers. Both were wearing tops that showed of the perfect amount of cleavage. Not so much that they looked 'slutty' but enough to be noticed.
She lightly touched his shoulder, and nodded in the direction of the table, a low whistle escaped his lips, "Perfect" he breathed, they nodded and then...whack, she slapped him across the face, the sound made the women's heads to turn round 'Stop following me how many times do I have to tell you, I'm not interested, just fuck off' with that she turned and started to head towards the coffee bar, straight towards the table.
Both women looked up with sympathy in their eyes as she approached; "is he still there?" the brunette looked over towards the way she came, "yes, do you want me to get rid of him for you." "No thanks, but can I sit with you both for a while"
"Sure", the blonde simply stated, "I'm Emma and this" she nodded to the brunette beside her "is Saskia" Saskia smiled a greeting. The girl sat down, obviously relieved, "thanks that was getting scary. I'm Monica"
They looked up, taking in the girl for the first time, about 5ft 2, slim build, cute looking.
Saskia glanced over where the man had taken a seat and was drinking a coffee, "so what was all that about?" "Him, he's some bloke who started following me about today, he asked me out, not very politely, and won't take no for an answer, didn't bother getting his name, hopefully if he sees I'm not alone, he'll give up."
Half a hour later, after discussing their various lives, they noticed that the man had gone. Monica got up in relief, and put her hand in her pocket for her purse, "let me get the coffees for you, as I have ruined your day out". Both Emma and Saskia started to protest, "I insist" Monica wasn't going to take no for an answer, then "oh no, my purse has gone" "What did it look like" Emma started to look around and beneath the table "Multi coloured, it's got a Paul Smith style design on it". Saskia got up, and went to the table where her 'admirer' was sitting, "is this it?" "Yes, oh no" she took it out of her hand, and started to look through it. "Nothing missing, thank god, but one minute, he now has my address, he could be waiting for me" She shakily sat down, and started to sob.
The women looked down at her and asked if she wanted someone to call the police, sobbing the girl refused, stating that she doesn't want a fuss, she just want to get home.
The women looked at each other, and asked if she lived local and how was she getting home.
"I was going to get the bus" "No you not" Saskia said, in a voice that would brook no argument, "We're driving you home - no argument" Her friend nodded in agreement. Gently she asked "Is there anybody at home" "No, not for another couple of hours" "Right, we will wait with you" The girl looked up, smiled and said "thanks, you don't know how much I appreciate this"
And now things get a little hazy, as realities diverge, from what happened to what they think happened and what people would think happened. They think they took Monica home, sat talking with her until her mother appeared then went. They were soon to be shaken out of this notion.
We now catch up with Saskia and Emma a couple of weeks later, at the same coffee place, waiting for Monica, who had rang them a couple of days previously.
Sitting there chatting they were startled by two heavy, padded envelopes landing on the table in front of them. They looked up to see where they had come from, expecting to see Monica, they were surprised to see a vaguely familiar man. It took them a moment or two to place him, then it come to Saskia, he was the man who was harassing the girl, only at close up, she realised that he couldn't have been more than twenty one, twenty three at the outside, and he was standing in front of them with a leer on his face.
She realised what his was leering at, from where he was standing he had a great view down both their tops, in Emma's case all the way to her push-up bra, which made his job of looking at her boobs far too easy.
Before she had time to say anything, he smiled, a smile that showed both lust and evil, winked "I'd open them in private if I was you sexy, I'll be in touch" and with that he disappeared into the crowd as quickly as he appeared.
Emma picked up the envelopes to notice that there was one for them each, she opened the one marked 'Emma' and stated to pull out the contents, some photo's and a DVD, also marked with her name. Glancing at the photo's she gave a little cry, and quickly stuffed everything back. "We better get out of here" she said with shaky voice. Saskia looked at her quizzically, "Why what's happened, what do the photo's show?" Her question was met with a shake of the head and a not here, not now and Emma started to walk towards their cars.
Saskia paid for their coffees and hastened to catch up with her distressed looking friend. Catching up by her car she hammered question after question at her "What is it? What's the matter? What's in the envelope?" She started to tear open her envelope, but Emma stopped her, "not here" her voice was still shaky, she looked around, "let's get back to my place, I'll explain there" Saskia looked at her quizzically, "what about Monica, shouldn't we wait for her?"
"I don't think she's fucking coming!!!" Emma almost shouted. If anything, it was Emma's swearing, coupled with a raised voice, both events that were extremely rare, that convinced her that it was serious, and something that should be dealt with around one of their homes.
Once they were in Emma's, and had made sure that they were alone, Saskia opened her envelope. First she started to leaf through the contents, the photos first. The first pic was one they both remembered, it was all three of them, sitting on the sofa, which Monica had insisted on taken, a photo of her 'angels' as she put it.
The next pic was of Emma and Saskia, sitting together kissing, only this wasn't the normal, peck on the check kiss of a friend, this was a full on snog. Saskia's face went white.
"When did this happen?" Emma shook her head, "I don't know Sask, I can't remember it happening"
The next shot was similar, only with Emma replaced by Monica. The forth pic showed Saskia sitting on the sofa with her top pulled up and a naked Monica whose hand was massaging her left breast through her bra, while Emma was beside with her hand under her own skirt masturbating.
The final shot was of all three of them, naked, on the sofa. Emma was lounging sideways to the camera; Monica was on the floor between her legs licking at her pussy, while Saskia was behind her. At first she couldn't make out what she was doing there, them she realised, she was fucking Monica with a strap-on dlido.
The photos fell out of her hand to the floor "what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck, WHAT THE FUCK" was the only thing she could say in her shocked state.
"So what the fuck is on the disc?" She grabbed the disc from the table and put in the player.
What the disc contained shocked them to their core; the shock was so great that it took them quite a while to recognise themselves on screen.
The film started with Saskia and Emma on the sofa, in the middle of what could only be described as making out. Saskia's hand was moving up and down Emma's leg, sometimes moving high enough to expose the top of her stocking; meanwhile her breast was being squeezed and caressed. They broke the embrace and Saskia was seen to beckon someone out of shot with her finger.
Monica entered the shot, "come here" Saskia was heard to order, patting the sofa in-between her and Emma, when she met resistance, more forcibly, "I said COME HERE BITCH!"
Monica reluctantly complied, sitting down in the place indicated. Saskia took her chin in her right hand, turned her face towards her and started to kiss her, fairly gently at first, then with more and more insistence until she started to force her tongue into her mouth. With her other hand she started to grope Monica's right boob through her top.
Monica tried to resist, pushing at Saskia, but Emma grabbed her arms and held them behind her. "She's fighting, I love it when they do that" she said to Saskia, almost breathless with arousal. After a few moments of this, Saskia pushed her face towards Emma, who promptly started to forcibly kiss her, releasing her arms so that she could start to grope the young girl.
Saskia slapped the girl round the face, "now bitch, do as we say we'll ruin that pretty little face of yours"
Monica nodded, tears in her eyes. "Good, now stand up and show us you little titties" Monica got up reluctantly, and turned round. She sighed, put her hands on the bottom of her t shirt and pulled the shirt over her head, her braless tits on show.
Both of the women whistled, "not bad" Emma complimented her "what size are they".
She looked down on her tormentors "34b" she said. Both women reached out and started to play with them, squeezing, fondling and painfully pulling on her nipples, making from her squeal with pain.
Emma looked up at her, "I wonder what she tastes like" she mused, letting go of the breast, she leant forward took the nipple into her mouth, licking and sucking on it for a while, before biting down, hard. "Uhm, delicious" she purred, before turning and kissing Saskia passionately.
After five or ten minutes Saskia let go of her "Now lose the jeans and knickers". Monica stood back, kicked off her shoes, and unzipped her jeans. As they fell to the floor, both women noticed her panties, very girly with little teddy bears all over them. "Ah how sweet and innocent, now lose them". In fear, Monica quickly pulled them down, and stepped out of them.
She stood there, shaky, while both women made lewd comments concerning her pussy, which was topped by a little amount of pubic hair. Complying when she was told to turn around and bend over, blushing to the comments of "what a sexy little arse" and "what a lovely little pussy" and twist herself round in whatever perverted position the two women could think of.
Suddenly Saskia stood up and grabbed Monica spinning her around and pulling her back next to her on the sofa. Again she started to forcibly kiss her, gradually working her tongue into the younger girl's mouth, all the while fondling her breasts.
From behind, Emma started to move her hands up and down the girl's thighs, gradually pulling them apart until see was able to move her hand in between them. Once there, progressed to caressing a finger up and down her pussy lips, gradually moving her finger in and out until she had entered her, first one and then two fingers, than finding Monica's clit, which she started to rub with her thumb.
A few minutes of these ministrations led to the inevitable, and Monica's pussy started to lube up.
Emma smiled, "the bitch is starting to enjoy this, she getting all nice and wet".
Emma removed her fingers from Monica's pussy, taking them up to her mouth and started to suck the juices from one of them.
"Uhm yummy, you have to taste this Sask, she taste sweet" she said leaning forward to place the other finger under her friend's nose. Saskia broke of trying to devourer Monica's tongue to take the proffered finger.
"Wonder how she tastes draft?" she mused "I don't know about you but I'm feeling overdressed" at this she lifted her top enough to expose her large 32E breasts, encased in her white lacy bra.
Emma grabbed one of Monica's hands and placed it on her friends left tit, whispering all the while "don't you love the feel of a real woman's tit. Don't you wish you had a pair like these instead of the gnat bites you call tits. Now knead and squeeze it."
Monica, resigned to her fate, realising that further resistance was pointless, started to squeeze the breast, tentatively at first, and then harder at the urging of the two women.
Emma, meanwhile, had taken her, now free, hand and pushed it up her skirt, and started to rub her pussy through her knickers, revelling in the feel of her sticky wetness, leaning back and letting out a combined sigh of pleasure and lust.
Standing up she started to remove her clothes until all she had left was her stockings and boots. Sitting back down she turned Monica towards her and took over French kissing the girl, moving and caressing her hands all over her body. Both of them felt movement as Saskia stood up and slowly removed her clothes.
Emma watched her friend reach into her bag and fasten a strap-on dildo around her waist, she pulled the girls face away from her pussy 'look we have a present for you' and turned her head around. The girl let out a gasp of fear 'no, no please do....' her voice was cut off as Saskia forced the plastic cock down into her throat, thrusting back and forth, raping the teenagers mouth.
She looked down, revelling in the fear in the girl's eyes, pulling out, both women repositioned the girl so that her arse was in the air and her mouth was positioned above Emma's pussy.
Monica felt the dildo probe her entrance, closing her eyes, she felt a heat and pain on her checks as Emma slapped her face. 'Look at me bitch'
Then suddenly, without warning, Saskia plunged the plastic cock into her, thrusting, roughly moving back and forwards, every thrust forcing her into the other woman's pussy until both older women exploded in orgasm.
Then the screen went blank.
As the video finished, Saskia's mobile went off, an unfamiliar number displayed on its screen. 'Hello' she snapped 'who is it'.
'Now now, no need to be like that, its Michael, did you enjoy the film', he cruelly laughed 'you both missed your calling, you would have been better off in porn'
'What do want' Saskia replied
'Money...pay me, keep me happy and this stays between us. Don't pay me, or piss me off, and this goes to your friends and families. I wonder what hubby would think, you two, raping a young vulnerable girl.'
Saskia looked at Emma, and relayed what she had just heard. Emma, broke down in tears 'anything, agree to anything, I just want this over'
Saskia turned back to the phone 'ok, how much?'
'£200 each, I'll give you until Friday to get the money, I'll ring you that night to arrange collection' With that he hung up the phone.
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anonymous reader
2010-09-02 14:36:16
To be honest about the author... It is his moral choices that are suspect. He always tries to align himself with bullies and hide behind them as he skulks around perpetrating his petty character assassination attempts.
Most site won't tolerate his active presence very long.
anonymous reader
2010-08-31 11:51:58
You piece of shit!!! When will you do us all a favor and just fucking DIE...
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2009-09-07 02:43:40
Liked it, you don't suck.
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2009-09-03 10:03:22
This is one of the best storys I have read! And I`m waiting for rest of it!!
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The cruise ship stranded off Mexico this week by an engine fire limped back into port under tow on Thursday with 3,300 passengers bedraggled by three days at sea without hot water, air conditioning or cooked meals.
They came ashore in wrinkled, mismatched clothes with tales of hot-dog salads, smelly, smoky cabins, free booze and some of the worst honeymoons ever.
"It was camping on the ocean, and it was horrible," said Jackie Harlan, who was celebrating her 12th wedding anniversary aboard the ill-fated ship Carnival Splendor with her husband, Chris, and their two young children.
Tugboats pulled the crippled luxury liner into its home port of San Diego at about 8 a.m. local time. Petty Officer Allyson Conroy of the U.S. Coast Guard said it would take at least two to three hours for all the passengers to disembark with their baggage.
"Remember, they have no power on the ship, and that means no elevators," Conroy said.
The 952-foot vessel left Long Beach, Calif., on Sunday for a seven-day voyage. But the ship was marooned the next day about 200 miles south of San Diego and 50 miles off the Mexican coast by an engine fire that crippled its propulsion system and knocked out most power supplies.


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Ripe tomatoes | 2 Pound | |
Red bell pepper | 1 Medium, cut into pieces | |
Garlic | 2 Clove (10 gm) | |
Bread | 1 Cup (16 tbs) (Leftover bread may be used) | |
Water | 1 Teaspoon (for soaking the bread) | |
White wine | 1 Tablespoon | |
Chili pepper | 1 Medium | |
Fresh basil | 1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) | |
Extra virgin olive oil | 3 Tablespoon | |
Sherry vinegar | 2 Tablespoon | |
Salt and pepper | To Taste | |
For serving | ||
Shallot | 2 Tablespoon, finely diced (for garnishing) | |
Cucumber | 1 Tablespoon, seeded, finely diced (For garnishing) | |
Mexican cream | 1 Tablespoon | |
Extra virgin olive oil | 1 Teaspoon |
1. Heat up a dry cast iron skillet on high flame. In batches, add the tomatoes and a cut up red bell pepper, skin side down. Char the skin all over until parts of the vegetables are blackened. When the tomatoes and pepper are done, transfer into a large bowl and set aside.
2. In another bowl, tear up the bread and soak it with a little water and some white wine. Mix well until the bread pieces have soaked up the liquid, set aside.
3. In a food processor, add the tomatoes, bell pepper and blend it till smooth. Once done add the soaked bread, garlic, basil, chili pepper with extra virgin olive oil and pulse it further until well-blended.
4. Add sherry vinegar. Pulse and adjust taste accordingly. Season with salt and pepper.
5. Once the flavors of the gazpacho are just right, put it into a large container and refrigerate until chilled.
6. Ladle the gazpacho into bowls and garnish with diced shallot and cucumber. Drizzle some extra virgin olive oil and crema to serve.
If you do not have the Mexican crema, you can make a home version by mixing some sour cream with heavy cream.
You can also serve this as an amuse-bouche by putting into shot glasses. You can layer the crema and gazpacho for aesthetics and top with a paper thin slice of toasted French Bread.
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Serving size
Calories 208 Calories from Fat 128
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 14 g21.5%
Saturated Fat 1.5 g7.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 2.5 mg0.8%
Sodium 133.7 mg5.6%
Total Carbohydrates 18 g6%
Dietary Fiber 3.7 g14.8%
Sugars 7.8 g
Protein 3 g6.7%
Vitamin A 61.1% Vitamin C 137.9%
Calcium 4.1% Iron 6.4%
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I believe that the drift when the pen gets near the edge is caused by the Wacom tablet drivers. I uninstalled them on my system and the problem went away. Removing the UI Tablet drivers also disabled my touchpad and track stick.
I'll let you know what happens when I reinstall the drivers (if I can figure that out).
PS: Is anyone else seeing this forum in German despite the English setting?
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PS: Is anyone else seeing this forum in German despite the English setting?
Brian, welcome to the forum,
shouldn't be an issue now, I've hopefully fixed it for you. the explanation as to why this happens can be found here.
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I have the same problem Recalibrating makes no difference at all. I'm definitely not going to start messing around with installing/uninstalling various drivers (including one that is for another brand of computer).
Can anybody make an educated guess on whether Lenovo can/will fix this issue? If not, I'm probably going to send the computer back. It's a nice unit otherwise, but an issue as big as that is basically a deal-breaker.
Yeah, even if it is the drivers, removing ISD pretty much breaks touch/pen utility so it's not really a viable option.
No idea Cat. I seem to have more problems than some others that I've talked to, so it might be a combination of hardware and software. I have a 45 day return policy from the place I bought it, so if Lenovo doesn't speak up soon I'll be sending it back (almost 30 days into the 45). I really like the laptop, but stylus and touch are unacceptable at this point. The backlight bleeding and temporary burn in effect kind of turn me off as well. It makes me wonder if they would have had better luck if they had stuck with the 12.1 inch screens instead of going to this untried format.
Any call in about this or has Lenovo Officially responded to it?
I called about it, and they said they can send me a box to ship it to the depot for repair. I didn't want to get a repair on my brand new tablet. And there is no gaurantee tha tthey will have a fix for this since so many users are experiencing this problem. Besides, I fear their depot service. In the past, they left scratches on my X61T, mixed up screws, overtighten the screws, forget to install cmos backup battery, and so on. These are not all in one occasion, but I don't wan to take any risks.
Hi guys,
here are some other videos from the guy who made the previous mentioned video. Some valuable input perhaps?
Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet - Pen Input
In the video link below he provide some tips, to get used to the tablet.
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- Tomase talk
Welcome to the jungle, John!
It was somewhat amusing to observe the onslaught of criticism fired at Lawrence Eagle-Tribune baseball scribe and WEEI/Fox Sports Net regular John Tomase last week. Tomase wrote a scathing column, completely eviscerating Red Sox outfielder Manny Ramirez.
In the aftermath, Tomase was absolutely skewered by talk radio and fan emails. While I disagree with Tomase's assault on Ramirez, in which he questioned the man's heart, doubted his dedication to team and blamed him for the high ticket prices at Fenway Park, I give Tomase credit for having the gumption to pen such a piece. Tomase has to go into that locker room and face Ramirez every day. Many talk radio hosts can hide behind their microphones.
It was nearly laughable to listen to fellow media members grill Tomase, specifically, WEEI's Glenn Ordway. It was Ordway who, back in 2003, said that the Red Sox should not and could not bring Manny Ramirez back to Boston for the 2004 season.
Steve Buckley dissed Ramirez before he ever played a regular season game for Boston. In March of 2001, Buckley wrote, "We all knew there would come a day that, Manny being Manny, he'd clam up and ask to be left alone, that he'd find himself a little hiding place in the clubhouse, a place that would be off limits to the knights of the keyboard.â€
The point is that all of Tomase's criticisms have been voiced previously by others, but timing is everything. In 2001, Ramirez had yet to prove himself as a Red Sox player. In 2003, the team had lost to the Yankees in the ALCS and Ramirez was not yet the media darling he became in 2004.
Many of Tomase's points were valid, but he chose to state them at the most popular point in Red Sox history. Maybe Tomase can now empathize a bit with the likes of Boston Globe writer Ron Borges who has been similarly and, at times, unfairly bashed for criticizing the ultra-popular Patriots.
Ramirez's recent hot streak has given Tomase's critics more fodder, but Tomase never said that Ramirez was not a talented player capable of big numbers. In my view, his only mistake was going on WEEI to defend himself and writing a follow-up column responding to the criticism.
Tomase learned what many other commentators already know. In Boston, it's OK to kick a guy when he's down, but when he's up, put the boots away, or risk being kicked yourself.
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The Celtics new multi-year broadcast agreement with Entercom Radio has been met with justifiable glee from all sides. While the actual games will be broadcast on AM 680 WRKO, the deal includes regular interviews with Danny Ainge, Doc Rivers and C's players on WRKO's sister station Sports Radio 850 WEEI.
No one can debate the value of this move for the Celtics. Since 2001, the team has been struggling with bad ratings and a bad signal on AM 1510 WWZN. The move to Entercom brings them back to an established station with a better, if not overwhelming, signal. In addition, they are, in effect, back on WEEI, the dominant force in New England sports media.
This past week, WEEI director of programming and operations Jason Wolfe said, "The Boston Celtics represent the very best of the NBA. I'm extremely excited to have them back in the Entercom family.†In addition, WEEI's "Big Show†host Glenn Ordway talked on numerous occasions about the Celtics' return.
Strangely, when the Celtics left WEEI in 2001 to join WWZN, the move was met with blasé indifference from WEEI. In 2001, Ordway told Media Blitz, "WEEI, a highly successful sports radio station, lost $2 million on the Celtics last year. The key to success is sales and ratings. You have to have the numbers.â€
Wolfe also expressed no remorse over losing the Celtics in 2001, saying that he did not consider WWZN a threat to WEEI's dominance. Both men were correct, but it is interesting to note how the Celtics have now been welcomed back by WEEI and showered with praise.
The Celtics' return to Entercom brings up a fascinating fact about broadcasting commodities and how stations view them. Simply put, if the commodity is leaving, good riddance. If it is returning, good deal.
Conway's coup
It was the NHL's version of "All the President's Men.†Lawrence Eagle-Tribune associate editor Russ Conway spent a decade digging into the practices and malpractices of former NHL Players' Association chief Alan Eagleson.
This month marks the tenth anniversary of Conway's book "Game Misconduct.†"It all started in 1988 when I was having a few beers with Wayne Gretzky and (the late) Ace Bailey,†explains Conway. "Gretzky brought up international hockey, which was run by Eagleson. Wayne said that something was wrong.â€
The next year, Conway ran into ex-Bruin Don Awrey who asked if there were any job openings at the Eagle-Tribune. Conway thought he was joking, but the truth was that Awry and many other players were very down financially.
Says Conway, "Eagleson ran international hockey and was the keeper of the NHL pension system. There was no parallel in the US in terms of the power wielded by Eagleson. You'd have to combine George Steinbrenner, Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa.â€
Conway discovered that Eagleson was indeed using union money to finance his own business interests. After the first series of stories ran in the Eagle-Tribune in 1991, Conway became very unpopular in Canada as the man trying to bring down Eagleson, a Canadian icon.
Says Conway, "We had sources inside Eagleson's office in Toronto. Former NHL president John Zeigler sent faxes to league personnel demanding that they not speak to me.†Hall of Famer Phil Esposito told Conway that he once confronted Eagleson about league economic issues.
Conway says that according to Esposito, Eagleson responded, 'You are just a (expletive deleted) player. Pay attention to the game. Let me do the business.' "In 1994, Eagleson received federal indictments on thirty-four counts including insurance and mail fraud and lying to players,†relates Conway.
"There were high ranking Canadian government officials trying to protect him, but Eagleson was not a great Canadian. He was a manipulative, conniving cheater. He went so low as to cheat players out of their career-ending disability insurance and manipulate their pension funds. This was the biggest sports corruption case of union official ever.â€
Perhaps the most notable example of Eagleson's betrayal involved hockey legend Bobby Orr. "Orr trusted Eagleson like a brother,†says Conway. "They were inseparable. Bobby found out at the end of his career that he had no money left.
"In addition, Orr was offered 18.5% ownership of the Bruins in the mid-1970s and Eagleson never told him. Eagleson was in bed with Blackhawks' owner Bill Wirtz, the Chairman of the NHL Board of Governors. He delivered Orr to Wirtz and Chicago on a silver platter.â€
Despite spearheading arguably the biggest story in NHL history, Conway never sought the media spotlight. He states, "TV and radio never floated my boat. The offers were there, but the readers are my number one priority.â€
"Game Misconduct†was chosen by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top 100 sports books of all-time. It spent 17 weeks as a top-ten best seller in the US and Canada. Conway even added two chapters in three subsequent printings.
"Several NHL players said that they would not accept Hall of Fame induction as long as Eagleson was a member,†says Conway. Eagleson became the first person in sports history to be ejected from a Hall of Fame. "
The ramifications of Conway's work are many. He states, "Players have become more educated about their salaries, pensions and insurance. NHL salaries are now disclosed and the entire game was restructured. John Ziegler, four NHL VP's, the league treasurer, secretary and chairman of the beard were all removed. The NHLPA director and the union treasurer and officers were all fired.â€
In 1999, Conway received the Elmer Ferguson Award and induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Ironically, he was inducted alongside Wayne Gretzky, eleven years after their innocent conversation over a few beers that turned hockey upside down and made Alan Eagleson a convicted felon.
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Complaint Alleges Edison Inflated Costs Of Steam Generators
Thursday, February 14, 2013
A complaint filed with the California Public Utilities Commission accuses the operator of the San Onofre nuclear power plant of inflating the cost to ratepayers of the defective steam generators.
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A complaint filed with the California Public Utilities Commission accuses the operator of the San Onofre nuclear power plant of inflating the cost to ratepayers of the defective steam generators.
The complaint, filed by the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, alleges Southern California Edison used excessive inflation estimates when filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the costs of the new steam generators installed in San Onofre.
The new equipment, installed in 2010 and 2011, cost more than $700 million, but failed less than two years into operation. A small radiation leak in the generator tubes shut the plant down a year ago. Still, ratepayers have been paying the costs in their utility bills.
John Geeseman of the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility said CPUC staff have rejected his complaint, on the grounds that it is outside their jurisdiction. But he said he will pursue the complaint with the full commission if necessary. He wants the CPUC to ask State Attorney General Kamala Harris to take court action on the issue.
Harris has signed on to be a party of the CPUC's investigation into whether Edison can charge ratepayers for the steam generators even though the plant has not produced any power for more than a year.
The Los Angeles Times says the complaint filed Wednesday with the state Public Utilities Commission claims Securities and Exchange Commission filings show costs may have been hiked up to $100 million.
Edison has not responded to KPBS' requests for reaction to the complaint.
In a separate action, San Diego attorney Mike Aguirre is arguing on behalf of his client, Ruth Henricks, that the CPUC should remove all costs associated with the steam generators from the rates.
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RegularChristian | February 14, 2013 at 8:17 p.m. ― 4 years, 1 month ago
How about letting the public operate their public utilities for a change?
CaptD | February 17, 2013 at 12:19 p.m. ― 4 years, 1 month ago
As far as restarting SanO goes, most people do not understand that not ONE but BOTH almost new replacement Steam Generators have MAJOR DESIGN FLAWS that make restarting them at any power UNSAFE. It should also be noted that the ratepayers in SoCal are still paying $54 Million a month to Edison that hopefully will be refunded for their debacle, as soon as the CPUC wakes up to the new reality that it is no longer acceptable to support what is best for the Utility and its shareholders (who have had record profits) instead of what is best for all the CA ratepayers, especially now that SanO has not been operation for over a year with no FIX in sight!
If readers want more information on those MAJOR DESIGN FLAWS, please read one or more of the following technical articles:
San Onofre Legacy (SOL Part 1, 2 and 3).
The bottom line is that the USA cannot afford a Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster...
CaptD | February 17, 2013 at 12:23 p.m. ― 4 years, 1 month ago
Great info on the last NRC meeting:
LOOKING BACK ON NRC MEETING LAST TUESDAY and LOOKING FORWARD TO CPUC MEETING THURSDAY
(be sure to see details on this upcoming meeting, on the link below)
CaptD | February 17, 2013 at 12:30 p.m. ― 4 years, 1 month ago
NOTE: Edison stock value has been downgraded:
San Onofre: Mitsubishi told to hand over nuclear plant report
Also Thursday, investment banking firm Jefferies & Co. downgraded Edison stock from "hold" to "underperform" based on fears that the NRC might "significantly delay" restart of the plant and could find Edison at fault in its investigation.
"We believe there is a growing likelihood that the NRC will require an amendment to the operating license ... before permitting the plant to restart. This would delay the restart for 6-12 months depending on whether the NRC decides to hold public hearings," the Jefferies report said.


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Norfolk is a rural county in the East of England. The name "Norfolk" derives from terms which meant "the northern people". It is first mentioned in Anglo-Saxon wills dating from 1043–5 and later as Norðfolc in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (the entry for 1075) and as Nordfolc in the Domesday Book.
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In almost any month, there are wonderful festivals going on somewhere in Norfolk, not least the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Britain's first arts festival which began in 1772.Norfolk also has the country's biggest food festival, which lasts throughout September and includes hundreds of events, promotions and offers. Highlights of the Norfolk Food & Drink Festival include themed weekends at Holkham Hall in north Norfolk, in Swaffham in the Brecks, at Slow Town Aylsham and in buzzing, cosmopolitan Norwich.The coast boasts some fabulous family-fun festivals, including the Maritime Festival and Out There in Great Yarmouth; Crab & Lobster and carnivals in Cromer and Sheringham; Festival Too in King's Lynn.
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Norfolk Food & Drink Festival
The country's biggest month-long food festival in September, it features weekend festivals at Holkham on the north Norfolk coast, in the buzzy, bustling city of Norwich, in the beautiful Brecks at Swaffham and at Slow Town Aylsham. Plus The Big Onion, The Moveable Feast, Battle of the Bangers and much more. Choose what kind of foodie weekend you want, and book yourself into a nice gastropub or boutique hotel.
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Norfolk's biggest arts and cultural event brings world-class international music, performance, visual art and literature to the region for more than 2 weeks every May. Featuring premieres, new commissions, a vibrant free outdoor programme and work by artists from the region.
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- The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
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Norwich is a city on the River Wensum in England. It is the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. It has more medieval churches than any other city in Western Europe north of the Alps. This was all thanks to the wool trade back in those days.
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Anniversary of the US NAP
December 19th marks the one year anniversary of the first ever U.S. National Action Plan on women, peace and security (U.S. NAP) issued by Executive Order of President Obama. In enacting this plan, the U.S. joined 37 other countries around the world committed to ensuring women's full and meaningful participation in all matters of peace and security. Women's Actions for New Directions (WAND) offers its highest praise for the Obama Administration's commitment to empower women "as equal partners in preventing conflict and building peace," and its recognition that "achieving this goal is critical to our national and global security." Today, WAND reaffirms our own commitment to work tirelessly, along with our civil society partners and government allies, to advocate for effective and full implementation of the U.S. NAP in 2013 and beyond.
For more than 30 years, WAND has worked "to empower women to act politically to reduce violence and militarism, and redirect excessive military resources toward unmet human and environmental needs." WAND believes that increasing women's political participation as decision-makers, leaders and agents of change can help lead the United States, and our global partners, towards establishing sustainable and just peace through this vision of true security. Based on U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 (SCR1325), the U.S. NAP recognizes that women possess half the world's intelligence, creativity, capabilities and wisdom, and that women and girls uniquely experience war and conflict. Excluding women is no longer a viable way to achieve peace and security in our increasingly integrated and complicated world.
In contemporary conflicts, as much as 90 percent of casualties are among civilians. Of the 39 conflicts in the last decade, 31 represent repeated cycles of violence with a disproportionate impact on women and children. Women are the first to be affected by infrastructure breakdown as they struggle to keep families together, care for the wounded and rebuild their communities. Women and girls face devastating forms of gender based and sexual violence that are increasingly deployed systematically to achieve military or political objectives. Despite the uniquely gendered impacts of war, women represented less than eight percent of the participants in key peace negotiations, and less than three percent of the signatories of the resulting accords, in the past two decades. More concerning is that only 16 percent of agreements during this period mention women at all.
Historically peace agreements are negotiated between warring factions, and focus only on ending the fighting. Frequently such agreements do not address the critical tasks necessary to sustain peace, such as ensuring stability and provision of basic services, building trust amongst opposing parties, fostering institutions that can uphold the rule of law, and promoting legitimately-elected leadership. Yet, when included as meaningful participants, women broaden the scope of agreements to include matters of 'human security'.
Evidence from around the world and across cultures shows that when women participate in peace processes they focus discussion on issues like human rights, transitional justice, governance, reconstruction and economic renewal that are critical to making and sustaining peace. From Northern Ireland to Guatemala to Darfur, women have acted as mediators to bring about compromise, built coalitions across ethnic and sectarian lines, and stood up to protect minority rights and marginalized groups. Most recently, fifteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan illustrated how empowering women as agents of change can advance fundamental progress in this modern era. Despite suffering a vicious attack by Taliban gunman who boarded her school bus and shot her in the head, Malala issued a global call to protect the human rights of women and girls everywhere. Read about WAND's effort to name Malala 2012 TIME Person of the Year here, and read about her second place finish here.
So today, on the important first Anniversary of the U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, WAND asserts our commitment to advancing the rights and status of women everywhere, and ensuring that women are well-positioned to influence vital matters of security and foreign policy.
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Faced with rising coffee bean costs, is planning to raise prices for certain coffee beverages this week, according to a Wall Street Journal report. "Starting Tuesday, some beverages in Starbucks U.S. company-operated stores will increase by between five cents and 20 cents," writes Julie Jargon. "A 20-ounce, venti-sized cup of brewed coffee, for example, will cost $2.35, an increase of either 10 cents or 15 cents, depending on the market."
But there is one country where Starbucks is cutting prices, Greece.
According to a store catalogue I obtained during my visit in the city of Thessaloniki two weeks ago, the company has lowered prices substantially for several coffee beverages. A double espresso, for instance, now costs 2 euros, down from 2.60 euros; an espresso macchiato 2.50 euros, down from 2.95 euros; and a cappuccino Freddo 3.95 euros, down from 4.65 euros—to mention but a few.
The reason for this price decline is a recent drop in the Value Added Tax (VAT), which Starbucks passed on to customers, according to one of the baristas who we asked for an explanation. That sounds kind enough on the part of the company. But the price cuts are sizable, much more than could be justified by a decline in VAT.
So something else is at work—competition. Yes, competition from Mikel.
Launched in 2008 in Larisa—a northern Greek city where coffee drinking is a daily ritual— Mikel replicated Starbucks' "third place" model in many respects: comfortable stores in central locations, a variety of coffee and juice drinks, and well-trained employees in black uniforms.
Most notably, Mikel seems to be a popular destination for young people, helping the company spread buzz and grow by leaps and bounds, beating Starbucks by a big margin.
In Thessaloniki, for instance, Mikel already has 20 stores and Starbucks only 4—with some Mikel stores located right next to Starbucks. Worse, the rapid spread of the new chain seems to have put Starbucks on the defensive, fueling a price war not seen in other overseas markets—Mikel offers all sorts of discounts that entice price-conscious customers.
The question to the minds of some experts of the Greek franchise industry is whether Starbucks will have the same fate as McDonalds, or worse, whether Mikel will head to America, an issue to be addressed in a future piece.


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Meet Frank Giustra, Mining Magnate and Clinton ChumPosted on Jan 31, 2008
The name Frank Giustra may not ring any bells with those outside the international mining industry, but Thursday's New York Times brings Giustra (pictured with Clinton) out of relative obscurity into sharp focus with its startling report about the Canadian entrepreneur, who boldly inserted himself into the uranium business in Kazakhstan (!) and into Bill Clinton's inner circle. Advertisement Square, Site wide Lockerdome
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Smoked Salmon and Egg Bagels
How to make the best meal of the week even better.
About the author: Sydney Oland lives in Somerville, Mass. Find more information at sydneyoland.com (or read eatingnosetotail.com)
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- Yield:Serves 4
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:20 minutes
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 12 eggs, beaten
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 4 bagels, sliced and toasted
- 1/2 pound sliced smoked salmon
- Sliced red onions, optional
- Capers, optional
Melt butter in a large non-stick skillet over medium-low heat, add the beaten eggs and cook stirring constantly until eggs just begin to thicken, about 10 minutes. Raise the heat to medium and continue to cook until eggs are just barely set, about another 6 minutes. Remove from heat and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Toast the bagels, then divide salmon between the 4 bagels. Add sliced onion and capers (if using), then top the salmon with the soft scrambled eggs. Serve immediately with coffee and sparkling wine.


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Celebs Who Live Fast
By Melissa Hunter
Between the boatloads of money and endless VIP access, it's no wonder that celebrities often live life in the fast lane. While Patrick Dempsey leads a rather non-controversial life, he's got a thing for race cars. He's competed in a many-a-celebrity race car event, but this weekend, he drove the pace car at the Indy 500.
While Patrick limits his thrills to the race track, others take a more expansive approach to the idea of "living in the fast lane." Take a look at some more thrill-seeking, jet-setting stars.


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For those people who loved Super Smash Brothers Melee, but thought that Brawl ruined the game - fear not, for a small but dedicated group of people have been working on a Brawl modification which makes SSBB into the game we all used to know and love.
Demo 2 is being released on Saturday, here is the trailer.
This is the main website, and has a large list of all the characters currently completed. 29 out of 37 (I think) characters have been completed so far.
Project M uses the Brawl engine but instead replaces most of the slow and campy playstyle with Melee mechanics, making it combo-friendly and fast-paced again. Project M also balances the entire cast with competitive play in mind. As an example, Pokemon Trainer's 3 Pokemon have been separated and made 3 powerful standalone characters with their own unique moveset and techniques.
If anybody here is a SSBM fan, but was disappointed with Brawl, I'd recommend that you take a look.
I thought Brawl was a great game. Dunno about competitive PoV, although probably less than 1% of all SSBB players play competitive.
Would you just download this through wii downloads?
Brawl was probably the most unbalanced fighting game there was, but if you banned Snake and Metaknight, it was really not that bad when compared to SSBM. At least the game wasn't centered around an unintentional buggy mechanic (wave-dashing). I enjoyed Brawl a lot more, both competitively and casually. Lighter, floatier characters, less combos, still had chain grabs and some slight wall of pains, but nothing too broken (except metaknight). Melee was surely broken, leaving you to choose between Fox, Falco, and Captain Falcon, with the occasional Jigglypuff or other random cheeser.
I thought the pace of Brawl was very slow and disappointing compared to its predecessor. Both games had their share of imbalanced characters (and useless ones), but I definitely liked Melee's more fast-paced combo-oriented playstyle. Project M takes that same speed and technique and ports it to Brawl, while balancing the entire cast as well. Fox, Falco, Sheik, Captain Falco, etc. are no longer in a league of their own. They still have all the same strengths (in fact, they are almost exactly the same as before), but their weaknesses shine a lot more as well. One of the greatest things about Project M in my opinion is that it's made a lot of the huge, tankier characters viable as well. It's no longer just a game about speed. Bowser is still slow (comparatively to the other characters, though probably much faster than in Brawl), but if he hits you it's going to hurt.
No you have to install the homebrew channel. Homebrew is actually very easy to install and adds a ton of cool features to your Wii like being able to play DVD and AVI files etc. Nintendo doesn't like people doing it per-say, but they can't stop you either. Installing Homebrew is very easy. http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_ChannelWould you just download this through wii downloads?
I used Letterbomb.
I only played Marth in melee. Also, I was a noob, just shifting around the 'c' button smacking other people of zeh field. I did enjoy SSBB, but the only play was a bit buggy for me, to the point where I was never able to find a match so I gave up and came back to HoN...
Just playing off the fact that brawl was intentionally made so it would not be a competitive game, I am going to say that melee was more competitive. I actually watched PeefSmash stream some project M for a while on his channel a few months ago, it seemed okay but I am not really into the whole smash thing anyways.
I hate tourney fags. I really do. Keep away from brawl, you Fighting Game Community scum. Seriously.
Anyways, I liked Brawl more than Melee, even if some of my most played characters got ubernerfed between games. I still 1v1 Meta Knights as Ganondorf and win. Anyways, starting SSBIV speculation thread so we can fan-wank over who gets in the next game.
This is how ALL ARTS devs balance their games.
And THIS is how you shut down Pimp Slayer
Skeloperch you hate everything.
Brawl was a terrible game. it failed at being anything close to competitive and it failed at being a party game.
If you want one or the other you need to go with brawl plus or brawl minus.
I'm hoping the SSB4 doesn't make the same mistakes, but since Icarus is finally out that means they've started development on it. Hopefully it'll be out sometime late 2013.
I'm not appealing to them. I stated I liked Brawl more than Melee, even though the characters that I played the most got hard nerfed (Jiggs, Samus, and Ganondorf). Even though I hate the fighting game community, I'm not bad at fighting games by a long shot. And if you are referring to fan wank, that has nothing to do with it actually being a fighting game. Don't you have fun inserting your poorly constructed 'proof' that x character is going to be in the next Smash game down everyone's throat?
@Loli: It failed at being a 'fighting game' by the FGC standards, and that's because it didn't copy and paste the same boring design philosophy from SF2 that everyone circlejerks over. It was an amazing party game. Even to this day, me and my friends will get together and play a nice match of Brawl. I felt that the only mistakes Brawl made were minor ones, and one major one, which was tripping. **** you, I'm playing Ganondorf, I shouldn't trip because I managed to get into 1st place against all odds.
And yeah, I hate everything. /v/ has turned me into a ephemeral incarnate of the infernal MAD ragecano, which is only found in the molten hell pits of ANGERLIA.
This is how ALL ARTS devs balance their games.
And THIS is how you shut down Pimp Slayer
Melee was accepted as a competitive fighting game, and it doesn't follow the "SF2 design philosophy". Brawl was just poorly designed. Random elements such as tripping are god awful. Large amount of floating and nearly no edge-guarding makes the game DRAG on much longer, which makes it boring for both players and spectators. Nearly no hit-stun and moves that knock-back without hit-stun at lower damages make comboing a nightmare.
They took a good game and tried to casualize it more. They succeeded and ended up with a bad product.
I thought SSB was never meant to be competitive. Didn't the dev's even say that themselves?
Super Smash Bros melee was never meant to be competitive, but it had the competitive workings and decent balance, both of which Brawl lacked.
I honestly see that as an excuse for being lazy, and for seeing their own poor design upon completion.
I just enjoyed playing SSBM with a bunch of friends, why does EVERY game have to be competitive really. People need to relax and just have fun.
Awesome Sig made by Lhune The Incredible.
Project Zomboid An amazing indie survival zombie game
Suggestion - Spaghetti + Meatball Bramble
I don't know, maybe "competitive" is the wrong word here. I think for a fighting game to be fun, it needs to be balanced and have a large portion of the cast as viable play options (and hopefully nobody that's extremely broken either). Even if you did like Brawl's slower, campier, no-hitstun gameplay, you have to agree that Metaknight is just OP and tripping is retarded.
That's why in HoN and DotA they say "balance for the competitive scene", because even if a game is balanced for competition, it still makes it much better for the casuals. You can't balance for casuals, because casuals aren't playing the game to its fullest potential. In other words, I think balancing a game for competitive play is inherently the best formula to make it fun for everybody.
This is what Project M has tried to do for Brawl.
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Please visit my thread if your tired of not having any pants http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=401955
street fighter 2 trash talk? who do i have to dumpster in that game to set you straight, ill even beat you in any version, world warrior, champ, hyper, super, super turbo, and ae, doesnt matter to me.
SSB64 is still the best SSB. The shittiest thing about Brawl, I think, is how god damn wussy Captain Falcon is. Falcon Punch just doesn't have that feel in Brawl. That aside, his stock moves are also complete garbage compared to his 64 counterpart.
I'd sing you a song, but
I'm just a little hoarse.
Why so serious?
Anyways, Super Smash is a game you get your friends together to laugh and have fun. It's like Mario Party or Mario kart. Sure sometimes you get that annoying friend who picks meta knight, but that is when you and your other two friend gang up on that *******
For me, I hated the stages in the newest SSBB. They move too much, makes it feel like a platformer, not a fighting stage. I enjoy some enteraction, but that stage that moves in a circle is just the worse ever. Though I do like Warrior Party stage
Thanks Vahn


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Deep and garagey, but still funky with all the feels – the easiest way to describe the production of the Denver based Option4. Following up remixes for Elizabeth Rose, Donell Jones and releases on Nurvous and Night Suppy, Option4 delivers a stellar take on James Curd & Luke Million's new single with Nah Man! (of Parachute Youth) 'Say The Words To You'. With accompaniment from Yolanda Be Cool and DCUP on the remix duty, our Denver boy held is own in delivering vibes fit for 2am. Listen below and pick it up today on Beatport!
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WebMD (January 19, 2010): Drowsiness, Staring May Signal Alzheimer's
Drowsiness, staring off into space, or losing your train of thought may be early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study.
Researchers found that people with at least three different symptoms of mental lapses like these were 4.6 times more likely to have dementia than people without such episodes. In addition, people with mental lapses tended to have more severe Alzheimer's symptoms and perform worse on memory and thinking tests.
"If you have these lapses, they don't by themselves mean that you have Alzheimer's," research James Galvin, MD, a Washington University neurologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, says in a news release. "Such lapses do occur in healthy older adults. But our results suggest that they are something your doctor needs to consider if he or she is evaluating you for problems with thinking and memory."
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CRANSTON – Due to federal funding reductions, the Pawtucket netWORKri One-Stop Career Center at 175 Main St. will close after Thursday, Sept. 6, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training announced Monday.
"The Pawtucket netWORKri center is a valuable community resource, and the decision to close the office was very difficult," DLT Director Charles J. Fogarty said in a prepared statement. "However, as a state agency, we have a fiscal responsibility to operate within our current budget and we no longer have the funding needed to continue operations at the Main Street location."
The Pawtucket center was originally slated to close in April, but efforts made by Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee and Pawtucket Mayor Donald R. Grebien allowed the department to continue operations at the Main Street site throughout the summer, according to the release.
Staff members currently working at the Pawtucket office will be reassigned to other netWORKri locations after Sept.6.
Customers already assigned to a netWORKri career adviser may choose to continue to work with that adviser at a new netWORKri location, or request a new adviser at the netWORKri location most convenient to them.
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text: I was wondering this one from the moment they mentioned it in the film, why are there landing strips on Coruscant? Every ship there takes off and lands via repulsorlift, even the largest craft such as the Venator Star Destroyer... heck, even the long landing strips are on repulsor lifts. Anakin didn't sound like this was an emergency landing strip, he made it sound like a local airport, but nothing we saw in any of the films suggests that any of the craft of Star Wars take off this way.


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The other day I got lost in an internet vortex, as I am wont to do. It started on Twitter (naturally), as Dream Hampton was flipping out beautifully about the Jovan Belcher case and how everyone was sort of hailing Jovan (who murdered his girlfriend and committed suicide later)—rather than Kasandra— as the victim. I hadn't been following the case closely—some things just make my stomache churn so much that I'd rather turn away. But when I read Dream's tweets, I knew I had to learn more about what happened. And it finally got me thinking somewhat productive thoughts about the Rihanna/Chris Brown reunion special that's been driving me cray-cray, hurting my feelings, and finally, bringing me to the point where I almost ran out of ph-cks to give. Almost. Join me inside for a long-overdue pop culture theory piece on Chrianna, domestic violence, and our role in it all: PITNB's popCULTURE CLUB: theoretically putting the "culture" back in "pop culture," one post at a time…
So here are the tweets from Dream Hampton that started it all. It's a screen shot so you gotta read from the bottom, up:
After Dream's tweets, I found myself thinking back to all the TMZ headlines about how nobody suspected anything troubling about Jovan and Kasandra's relationship; they were a happy couple, he was a great guy, etc. And I remembered not believing any of that because, as the President of the National Family Justice Center Alliance wrote:
Relationships do not go from healthy, happy and functional to murder-suicide overnight. It never happens. There is almost always a history and there is always a pattern. Over time it will be clear that friends, family, and colleagues knew things and saw things and did not take action.
I got that quote from an essay by Jessica Valenti titled Kasandra Perkins Did Not Have To Die. It sucks how much that's true.
My vortex continued and I ended up reading a beautiful piece on The Crunk Feminist Collective (lmao… don't ask me how I got there– like I said– it was a vortex) about Kasandra and other women whose murderers received more media coverage than they did. It was called Remember Their Names: In Memory of Kasandra, Cherica & Others. The author's closing words really struck a chord with me:
And please… pay attention in your relationships!
Look for signs of danger… if someone threatens to kill you, believe them! If someone is emotionally or verbally abusive, leave the relationship. Love should not hurt, and despite the romanticization of manic love in popular culture, it is not worth dying for.
As soon as I read those words, I did something I do about 72 times a week; I thought about Rihanna and Chris Brown. LMAO. Kinda sad, but totally true. And honestly, I didn't just think about the two of them. I thought of so many of my favorite shows and movies (i.e. Scandal), and other places in media and pop culture where there's always a little bit (or a lot) of aggression tied up in the relationships we love to witness. (90s moment: can't help but think of Buffy… remember that episode where Spike told Riley that Buffy always wanted her men with a little 'monster' in them?)
It's also called passion, but it's a very complicated idea.
Please believe that— although I haven't been writing much about Rihanna or Chris since they debuted that abominable song Nobodies Business— I've been following their whole shizz and Twitter-stalking Rihanna like cray. But I've legit been struggling with what to say about it all. Still, I've seen the pics of them boo'd up:
And the pic she tweeted of him in her bed:
And the other pic she tweeted of him in her bed:
Oh, and then there was the one that Rihanna tweeted with the caption 'Risky Business' that's allegedly of her… um… on her knees… in a hotel room with Chris. Maybe she was praying! But um. Yeah, no. She probably wasn't.
So I see all these things (and you know every time I see pics of them together I really only see one pic), and then I see her cussing him out on Twitter after he was allegedly spotted in Paris with his ex-girlfriend Karreuche (remember, he said he loves them both so it's fine). Oh, and in between all that are her pictures of, like, Scripture quotes… lmao. And I'm all like OMG.
And then after I release my rage, I always remember a class I once took called Reaching Out To God: The History Of Sufi Thought And Practice. Sufism is a sect of Islam and that class changed my life. Completely. One of the best discussions we had was about perception of the other. And my professor told us to think of one person who just irks the CRAP out of us. Visualize that person, and think about everything they do that drives you crazy.
So, yeah, let me do that exercise real quick:
And then my professor said something I'll never forget, try as I might. She said that when there's an individual who drives us crazy, whose actions offend, annoy, and disturb us to no end… it's usually because we see some semblance of ourselves in them and that reflection– that familiarity– is the real thing that's pissing us off.
So yeah, even though I've never experienced what Rihanna experienced the night Chris Brown attacked her, I see some of myself in her. And no, I never, ever picked up my ish and walked out forever on a guy the first time he hit me or put his hands on me (nor him on me, for doing the same); it was always a process.