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Well thats strange its working again
The only thing I did was run the mythbusters plugin then select cancel after a while (my connection is busy syncing with flickr at the moment) then I picked the lite plugin and its working.
Somrthing, somewhere seemed to get a bit bunged up there!
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2010-01-13 02:16
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2010-01-17 10:03
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Watchnewfilms IS working for the XBox.
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2010-01-20 13:47
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the simpsons working for anyone? i get error python script failed also the apple trailer lite doesnt work thanx |
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2010-01-27 23:34
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The Vidster (at least for Xbox) had all empty folders as of last night. Worked fine the previous days.
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2010-01-29 01:42
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Bleach_7 seems to freeze up my xbmc on Linux. I am @svn 27253
Reverted back to 27235 and it works perfect.
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2010-02-05 11:07
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Unfortunately the Reeplay.it plugin (both versions 1.0 and 1.2) does not work with XBMC Live (XBMC 9.11 R26018 Compiled Dec 24 2009). When you first install and configure it, it will actually get to the point of showing you how many videos you have in your Library, but when you try to enter the library it crashes hard (throws you out of XBMC entirely, back to login prompt, and leaves a crash log in the user directory). After a reboot, just attempting to enter the plugin is sufficient to cause it to crash. This may be a problem peculiar to XBMC Live, but I really wish it would work!
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2010-02-08 14:56
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USA network gives script error on Ubuntu
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2010-03-22 21:47
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XVideos [+18] is no longer working. i think they made changes to their site a few weeks ago and now this script at least needs an update.
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2010-03-26 04:46
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Looks like the NBC Universal plugin script is dead now due to NBC.com & usa.com requiring a plugin from Pando to view their online content.
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2010-03-27 02:49
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CNN plugin does not work
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2010-03-27 21:11
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Get script error on Apple TV with PBS plug in v1.3.1
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2010-04-19 16:34
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Google video: http://xbmc-addons.googlecode.com/svn/tr...e%20video/ does not work.
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2010-04-22 11:05
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Thanks for all the reports, updated the first thread.
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2010-04-22 11:20
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If you run SVN Repo Installer on Linux, you need to report these problems on XBMC Trac, cause it works great on other platforms - there must be something odd that Python does in that version and needs to be fixed by Team XBMC, not Nuka. Just bitching about it won't fix anything. Usually there is a thread for each plugin the author starts, where you should report any issues - try here for SVN Repo Installer http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=29911 Video plugins: Microsoft Channel 9 Videos | GameSpot | Eurogamer TV | GameTrailers | Games On Net | OpenSubtitles | Sublight Program plugins: Notepad
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2010-04-22 13:23
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Hey all,
Just to ask is the list at the begining up-to-date or not? I get anxious trusting apparently very old first posts for very current issues ;-) PS - Has anyone got TVcatchup working? I'm having problems with it always asking for the password every time I click something, even when stored and then failing to find streams.... |
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Wanna help me make a decision???
So, I've saved up some cash lately and am about to make a purchase for the Jeep. My current situation: My current wheels are not the best looking, a little oxidized and corroded, and have too much backspacing. They make the tires rub the LCAs at full lock. I want new ones. The ones I've been eyeballing are MB Chaos 5s. They are 15x8, 3.75" backspacing, and $100 a piece. I would get (5) of them for my (5) 33x12.5r15 Goodyear Duratracs. I also DO NOT have any bumpers for my Jeep, nor any front recovery points. I'm a little weary of driving like this due to crazy drivers on today's roads and in fear of getting stuck. The cops around here do not care if I have bumpers or not. I saw the other posting for the Engo e9000 winch for $289 with free shipping and it looks to be a great deal. I found a nice looking bumper on ebay for around $210. It is not the best bumper out there, I know. I would love to have a really nice high quality bumper but the funds aren't here. That being said, I don't go hardcore wheeling in my Jeep, at least not yet. So I'm sure I'll be fine with a lower quality cheaper bumper for the time being. The bumper I'm looking at is a Tuff Stuff winch bumper. It looks almost identical to the Smittybilt XRC and looks to have a built in winch plate. I would be able to get the winch AND bumper for about the same price I could get the wheels for. In y'alls opinion, what would you do? Here is a pic of these wheels, winch, and bumper. Thank you in advance for the responses. I really appreciate it.:)
http://www.discounttiredirect.com/pr...h5.mtb.ang.jpg Here's a crappy job of cropping them on my Jeep. http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/...Comp7031-1.png The Tuff Stuff winch bumper http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg http://truckandwinch.com/media/catal...ew_winch_1.jpg http://www.outdoorlogic.net/images/P/E9000.jpg |
Ummm....bumper. :thumb:
Rattle can the wheels for now....
Bumper !!!
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Thoughts about Torah, physics, politics, the independent Jewish scene, education, music, DC, and the intersections of all those areas. Contact: mahrabu at gmail dot com
Friday, February 02, 2007
When the moon is in the seventh house
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that is true following a shva nach, but the shva that wins the shva fight is not a shva nach, but a shva merachef--it is like a shva nach in that it is not vocalic, but it is like a shva na in that it does not give dagesh kal to the letter that follows. This is why it is Tu Bishvat, not Tu Bishbat. (The shva following initial shuruk is also a shva merachef, as is the shva in constructs such as "malchei".)
However, there is a class of words in which the victorious shva occasions dagesh kal: the majority of the infinitives with lamed prefix.- AnonymousMarch 14, 2007 8:37 PM
Hi, I'm glad you liked and shared the shewa fight video that I made!


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The goal of every dividend investor is to build a portfolio of quality income producing companies, which provide enough in income for them to live off of. It is also very important to focus on those dividend stock companies that can afford to increase dividends over time, in order to maintain the purchasing power of your income.
In order to achieve that, investors go through a lot of screening, analyzing companies in detail, and waiting for the right valuations, in order to build that portfolio brick by brick. Once purchased, it is also of utmost importance to keep monitoring the companies you own for major developments such as earnings releases, merger and acquisitions and dividend increases.
This monitoring process could also help you identify hidden dividend gems, before they hit the lists of dividend achievers or dividend champions.
The following dividend stock companies managed to raise dividends in the past week. These included either companies I own, or companies whose progress I am actively monitoring:
Beverage company Coca-Cola (KO) engages in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. This dividend king approved its 52nd consecutive annual dividend increase, after hiking quarterly distributions by 9% to 30.50 cents per share.
Over the past decade, Coca-Cola has managed to increase dividends by 9.80%/year. Currently, the stock is close to the top of my acceptable valuation range at 19.30 times earnings and a current yield of 3.30%. Despite headwinds the company seems to be facing, it seems investors overreacted to its forward guidance, where currency fluctuations were expected to shave off 7% of earnings per share. I generally see currency fluctuations as a wash, and I also do not think one should focus only on revenues, but on earnings per share.
Hence, I will keep holding on to my stock, and might add another big chunk in early 2015, if my naked puts get exercised. Check my analysis of Coca-Cola.
Wal-Mart (WMT) operates retail stores in various formats worldwide. The company disappointed investors last week it's the slowest rate of dividend increases ever as it boosted distributions by 2% to 48 cents/share.
In contrast, over the past five years, Wal-Mart has managed to increase dividends by 14.20%/year on average. This was nevertheless the 41st consecutive annual dividend increase for this dividend champion. While the latest increase was disappointing, I am maintaining a wait and see attitude with the company and would continue holding on to my shares.
However, I do not plan on adding more to the stock and would be deploying dividends elsewhere. Currently, the stock is cheap at 14 times earnings and yields 2.60%. Check my analysis of Wal-Mart.
Genuine Parts (GPC) distributes automotive replacement parts, industrial replacement parts, office products, and electrical/electronic materials in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Canada. The company raised its quarterly dividend by 7% to 57.50 cents per share. This marked the 58th consecutive annual dividend increase for this dividend king.
Over the past decade, Genuine Parts Company has manage to increase dividends by 6.20% per year. Currently, the stock is close to the top of my acceptable valuation of 19.60 times earnings and yields 2.70%. I might considering initiating a position in the company, unless of course there aren't better values at the time I have investable cash. Check my analysis of Genuine Parts Company.
NextEra Energy (NEE), through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electric energy in the United States and Canada. The company raised its quarterly distributions by 9.80% to 72.50 cents per share. This marked the 20th consecutive year of dividend increases for this dividend achiever.
Over the past decade, NextEra has managed to increase dividends by 8.20%/year. Currently the shares are trading at 17.40 times forward earnings with an yield 3.10%, which is not attractive valuation for an utility. Check my analysis of NextEra.
AbbVie (ABBV), a research-based biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of pharmaceutical products worldwide. The company increased its quarterly dividends by 5% to 42 cents per share. The company was formed after Abbott Laboratories split into two firms – AbbVie and Abbott Laboratories (ABT). Prior to the split, the original Abbott Labs had managed to raise dividends for 40 years in a row.
After the split, I decided to hold on to both companies, and have been satisfied with the results so far. Currently, Abbvie is priced at the top of my acceptable valuation range of 19.90 times earnings although it yields 3.30%.
However, I am not interested in adding more there, because of the patent cliff that drug Humira faces later this decade. Check my analysis of the split for more information.
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While it certainly felt like winter in Boulder Saturday, it is time to spring forward.
Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. today.
All clocks must be set forward one hour.
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We are very pleased to announce the publication of two new Rodney Carswell lithographs, "Root" and "Orbelus"
Carswell describes his work: "My work has often been described as belonging to a category of 'reductive, geometric abstraction'. In the last decade however, I have been intentionally, slowly reshaping what constitutes my working model to incorporate more surprise and imaginative play. While my work remains what some would call 'abstract', image and representation have become more apparent."
"Orbelus" and "Root" are products of this drift into a spirited and humored abstraction- grounded by his interest in design, comic graphics and a subjective, notional, visual "reality.


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Looking to Buy a Jeep
My wife and I are looking to break into the Jeep scene. We are looking for a pre-1995 Jeep and are going to be using it as a daily driver/weekend toy (5000mi/yr). We like the look of offroad (2inch lift, 33-35 tires), but it will be used mostly on the street with very light offroad usage. An automatic is a must because my wife doesnt/wont drive manual. We saw this ad and were interested but my question lies with the fact that it's been rebuilt. Are most rebuilds reliable? What should I look for? That many miles on the chassis, should I be concerned? I understand things break but I want to avoid a complete money pit. Thanks!
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Rust is going to be your main concern when looking for a Pre-95 Wrangler. Check the undercariage very carefully. If its covered in extreme amount of undercoating and spoungy to the touch they are probably hiding massive rust.
Pay special attention to the driver and passenger floor panes, and the frame, especially from the rear shock towers back. Here is example of how mine started to rust even though i had a undercoat. http://i1246.photobucket.com/albums/...J/12caf8bf.jpg Use your fingers/hand and push up on the floor pans. __________________________________________________ ______________________ A big thing I do is look and feel the car, take your hand and lightly glide it over the surface area's. Your looking and feeling for waves, high, or low spots. These can tell you if its been wrecked, or damaged in someway. Cosmetics asside if the engine and trans are rebuilt then find out by who, did they give a warranty with it. ( In my experience most trans rebuild shops give a warranty) [At least around here] 1 year] Finally even though the Jeep is beautiful in the pictures, I wouldn't pay more than 5000 to 6000 for it. If you get there and its been pro rebuilt trans/engine and is imaculate condition I might go 6500 to 7000 for it. |
Look for a 91 to 95 with a 6cly engine.. these will have fuel injection. As for the jeep above seems a bit high but price will vary.
Thanks for the replies, we appreciate it!
I would personally look a little harder than the one you posted, but unfortunatly it is the wrong season to buy a Jeep Wrangler for cheap. A 6 cylinder and a hard top will fetch more money, but will be worth it in the long run.
I would plan on doing a 4" lift instead of the 2" you mentioned for running 33's. You may get lucky and find one already lifted. As mentioned previously look at the underside for rust, especially on a Jeep from up north. Good luck |
That thing looks awesome! but it should be in my garage, the price is a bit high but thats what counter offers are for.
"The YJ did retain the same body width wheelbase length specification as the CJ7, at 93.5". However, the frame was formed of a heavier gauge steel and stronger throughout its length than all prior CJ Jeeps. This 1987 YJ was introduced with a standard, painted steel body, but for 1988, Chrysler specified and produced the body in galvanized steel, greatly adding to the rust resistance of this new model." |
getting a 6 cylinder is worth it, it'll also be better to have the 4.0L so a 91-95.
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Bangkok, May 11 (ANI): Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister, Suthep Thaugsuban, will meet Department of Special Investigation chief Tharit Pengdit today over charges connected to the April 10 crackdown on Red Shirt protesters.
The Bangkok Post quoted acting government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn, as saying that Suthep's decision came after the opposition United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) had set out its own conditions on ending the long drawn out and often violent Red shirts' protest.
One of the conditions was that Suthep report to police to face charges over whether he was involved in the bloody crackdown on the red shirts last month.
Panitan said Suthep and Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva met to discuss the UDD demand yesterday and it was decided the deputy premier would turn himself in.
Suthep has stepped down as a member of parliament and does not have parliamentary immunity.
Tharit said Suthep wanted to prove his innocence in the courts in the hope that this would satisfy the UDD conditions and break the political deadlock.
However, UDD leader Natthawut Saikua said Suthep should report to the police instead of the DSI, as he had reservations about the role of Tharit, who is a member of the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation, which was supervised by Suthep.
Natthawut said if Suthep surrenders to the police, the nine UDD key leaders wanted on arrest warrants for violating the emergency rule decree will also report to police earlier than their original May 15 schedule.
The UDD also demanded that Suthep and Abhisit face criminal charges over the violent crackdown on April 10. (ANI)


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Defining Your Content Efforts Through the "Five Whys"
By now you've heard all about the importance of creating great content - how content is crucial to your social media and SEO efforts, how you need to be creating original, shareable work to build brand awareness and authority. You've gone through it, it all makes sense, now it's time to get on with the doing. But where do you start? Writing great content is a challenge in itself, but even before that, you need to determine what you're going to write about? You're working on establishing community engagement and expanding reach through compelling material - it can't be product and company news alone. It needs to be fresh, it needs to stand out. It needs to be something people want to tell their friends about.
A good place to start in your content planning is defining the mission of your brand. What does your company aim to provide? What image do you want to portray? What is it that your brand provides that others do not? These are the key questions at the core of your branding efforts – the more specific you can get, the better, as it will direct your content efforts from then on.
Defining Your Brand's Core Purpose
A Harvard Business Review paper, authored by James Collins and Jeremy Porras, identified that 'companies that enjoy enduring success have core values and a core purpose that remains fixed while their business strategies and practices endlessly adapt to a changing world.' The closer you can narrow down to a singular core purpose, the more targeted and consistent your branding efforts can be. For example, here are the core purpose statements of some of the world's biggest brands (from Collins and Porras' 'Building Your Company's Vision' report):
Nike - To experience the emotion of competition, winning, and crushing competitors
3M - To solve unsolved problems innovatively
Wal-Mart - To give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people
Walt Disney - To make people happy
One way of narrowing down to a singular purpose statement is by using Collins and Porras' 'Five Whys' method. The 'Five Whys' are answers to a question posed to your business. You start with a statement, either 'We make X products' or 'We provide X services', then you ask 'Why is that important?' and you provide five answers to this question. From those five answers, Collins and Porras determined that companies could reach a better understanding of their actual purpose and, from there, narrow that down to a singular statement, enabling them to unify company activities to work towards that goal.
From Collins and Porras' report:
'The five whys can help companies in any industry frame their work in a more meaningful way. An asphalt and gravel company might begin by saying, We make gravel and asphalt products. After a few whys, it could conclude that making asphalt and gravel is important because the quality of the infrastructure plays a vital role in people's safety and experience; because driving on a pitted road is annoying and dangerous; because 747s cannot land safely on runways with poor workmanship or inferior concrete; because buildings with substandard weaken with time and crumble in earthquakes. From such introspection may emerge this purpose: To make people's lives better by improving the quality of man-made structures.'
The Importance of Defining Purpose
From a social media standpoint, this is very powerful. You're looking to create community engagement, establish your brand identity and maximise reach - your content strategy will form the backbone of these efforts. Having a singular purpose allows you to focus your thinking on how you support it, solidifying your options on what content you share and create. Once you have a core aim, you can write brand stories that show that mission in action, the human side of your business. It enables you to highlight your brand's place in the consumer's world - what you do and how you do it - and with that consistent purpose behind each piece, you're reinforcing your brand identity post by post, tweet by tweet. Having a clarified ambition is an important step towards establishing an authoritative and trusted presence, and can also serve as both a guide and inspiration for all team members in how they approach social media engagement and communicate with clients.
The Proof is in the Process
It's important that all your efforts, business-wide, reinforce your purpose statement. Companies are not defined by their words, they're defined by their actions, and as noted by Influence & Co CEO John Hall, 'when people have a clear understanding of what they're doing and why they're doing it, they're more likely to take emotional ownership of the work'. Your mission statement provides that understanding and should be front of mind for all staff interacting through your social media profiles. Every post, every update, every time you share someone else's content, it should always be cross-checked against the purpose statement to ensure it reinforces the mission of your brand. This ensures consistency, but also eliminates the sharing of personal updates and off-focus information that's not relevant to your audience. If you're ever unsure whether you should post something, check it against the purpose statement and see if it fits. By aligning to that goal, you're aiming to make your brand the go-to source for your niche - your audience will know, through your content and actions, who you are and what you stand for, whether the statement is public knowledge or not.
Creating blogs, commenting, responding to queries - all of these interactions should underline the mission. In doing this, you strengthen your ties with your social media communities and build a stronger brand presence online.
A concrete purpose statement is a significant step in your social media strategy. Blogging without a definitive intention is sometimes too broad and can lead to you drifting from your audience wants and needs. Narrowing down the focus will help you stay on point in all actions, whilst also enabling you to get your teams behind a single, guiding goal. Purpose, consistency and awareness are the factors that drive great results, and you can start along that path by establishing just one critical sentence.
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Good post to read. RankingBySEO appreciates this post, as it tells true things about the importance of content in the industry. Content is the most important part of your brand and brand image. If you are having good, informative and attractive content on your website and for your social media campaign, you will have more opportunities to get beneficial results.
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Apparently this was a "tournament of champions" installment of dumber than a box or rocks. However, one of the players never even played before! They can't even get these shitty bits right. They have all of these stupid contests, and they can't get anyone to participate. They have to resort to bringing in whackpackers for prettiest penis contest, etc. You would think they would realize that 1) These ideas are so stupid, they can't even find 3 people in their "20 million" listeners to participate. Or 2) No one is listening to this crap anymore. Or 3) Both. Yet they seem so oblivious to it and Hein and Booey slobber all over themselves talking about what a great contest it was.
Things will improve tomorrow after the big reorganization meeting. Howard will start doing two day a week shows with AGT in the way and he will be asking the rest of his staff to work 6 days a week instead of 5 in an attempt to improve his show.
God, I wish they would stop trying. The more they try, the worse the show is. If you are a horrible singer, then singing even louder only makes you sound worse. Same thing with the "comedy" talents of THSS.
No way do they know how to fix it. These idiots think that sandusky claus and baby kanye are funny. Those are NOT Howard's doing. There is NO hope with the current crap of "talent" at THSS. The harder the try, the worse the show will get.
It's just like all the other boring predictable content that we've come to expect from the Stern Show. They find something that's mildly amusing and repeat it over and over again (each time getting worse) until eveyone hates it. Their laziness and lack of talent and imagination is more obvious every day.
Yes, this was a "tournament of champions" edition. In other words, they couldn't find any new whores.
Listening to the replay now and laughing for the first time today because right after the Box of Rocks bit Wiggy did his "monologue". It's hilarious when he tries to pretend the ghost-written stuff is his own thoughts. Today's version is even more clumsy and unfunny than usual.
How much can Stern possibly care about content when this morning's contest would have been good in the 1980's. I had to stop listening, as did most of you. If Howchie doesn't take correction at all, any new ideas are not heard. It sucks out loud to even hear that they were going to have another 'game' on and that they are looking for hot chicks for yet another contest!
Agreed. I used to kind of like the "Dumb as a Box of Rocks" contests, but after the 100,000th time, it got a bit repetitive. I baled right after it started and switched over to internet radio (underground hip hop on a German channel)... I DO appreciate the pixs of the girls, which satisfied my curiousity as to how skanky one or more of them were, and I knew I'd see them on Dawg's...
i heard about 5 minutes of this extravaganza before i had enough.....these recycled bits are a bit tedious. one of the "girls" had the most obnoxious voice. now, that i see the pics it's easy to understand. "britny" is heinous and "rikki" had an appalling boob job. everything has become so desperate and second rate on the show.....maybe, euthanasia is the most humane thing to put it out of it's misery.
It's so sad that they still can't come up with original content for 12 fucking hours of programming (closer to 8 after all the commercial, mid-segment commercial reads, and other BS). Sal and Richard are stuck in their endless prank calls loop. They have turned over all song parody responsibilities to the fans. They just recycle old contests or just come up with moronic "original" ones that seem like they developed at 5:45 that morning. They have the same guests over and over. I would say Howard is mailing it in, but he is too lazy to go to the post office to mail it in.
As my dear mother would have said, "They may be dumber than a box of rock's but they are uglier than a bucket load of assholes too!


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I'm looking at buying the Accufab twin 60mm TB for my Mach 1 but have a few reservations and was wondering if anyone who has purchashed this TB can give me some feedback. I installed a BBK twin 62mm TB some time back. I did see a 10hp gain but I eventually had to throw the stock TB back on due to idle problems. No matter what I tried I couldn't get the BBK to idle below 1500rpms. It would be fine for a day or two but would get all crazy on me and stay that way for a bit and then be normal again. I went to every performance shop on the block and nobody could figure out what the problem was. Has anyone had these problems with the accufab? and any suggestions on how to fix the problem with the BBK?
No offense, but I just don't understand why people go through the hassle and expense of replacing things like throttle bodies, for very little, if any, performance gains. The stock one works just fine, even in FI applications.
No offense taken. Power gains for the price I paid weren't bad. I scored the BBK for $120. I'm out of country right now and don't have the dyno sheet for that day but we threw it on a dynojet with the stock TB and I was running 305 rwhp and the torque I don't remember off the top of my head, not important anyways as there really was no gain in that area. Threw the BBK on and was running 315 rwhp, with a tune of course. Why a new TB? Just for the heck of it really. Gains aren't that great I know. About to throw a ported intake on when I get back so i figured might as well have the whole intake from start to finish larger than stock. Whats $350 for a new TB when I'm about to throw $800 into a new intake.
seems like replacing the throttle body is hit or miss as far as having issues. There is a sticky about it over on m1r I believe.
accufab TB I put a accufab TB on and it took a wile for the rpms to drop but once it did it seamed to be fine but just like the stock TB if I stay at the same rpms for a couple of miles when I let off the gas it some times hangs around 2 grand but I don't have a problem with it just stab the throttle or shift it normally does the trick. For the little bit of problems I say its worth it especially with exhaust chip and jlt could air intake.


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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Corners of my Home
How beautiful are these pictures by Cassia Beck! I found her thanks for this weeks Frankie newsletter. Speaking of Frankie- the new issue is out and I'm crossing my fingers and toes that when I go home today it will be waiting in my mail box for me!
Also, these pictures have made me think, maybe I should do a "corners of my home" post with pictures of my own house. Would you guys be interested in seeing that? I'm not a photographer at all so the pictures might be average, but I thought it could be fun to show you a bit more of my world.
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Yes..please do.. it's always nice to share a little corner in the house..
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Duchess of Cambridge has had deal with considerable conditions and rules about the act of curtseying, said to be one of the most confusing aspects of Royal protocol.
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According to latest reports there are plans in the offing for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to shift residence to Kensington palace in London.
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Every avid royal watcher is looking with anticipation for the slightest sign of what could be a baby bump or more precisely the news that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting a baby.
It has been revealed that the swirling persistent rumors have got to the Duchess and she is said to be quite anguished by it. At the Queen's recent Diamond Jubilee, rumors had reached the zenith that a slight baby bump was noticeable and that Will and Kate would be making a formal announcement pretty soon.
After getting 'ahs' and 'ooh' from the crowd last week in a gorgeous Jenny Packham gown, Kate who found herself the centre of attention,attending a special lunch celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Kate looked stunning in a $2000,pink Emilia Wickstead dress with pleated skirt.Her signature tresses were styled perfectly while modest pumps that matched her clutch completed the ensemble.
Veteran royal biographer, Penny Junor in her new book on Prince William, Born To Be King – An Intimate Portrait has come out with startling insights into the lives of the British royals.
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Session #58: A Dickens of a Christmas
Session host this month is Beersay Phil (@Filrd) who stepped up to the plate after I hosted last month's session. The topic this time is "a Christmas Carol", the premise being to pick a drink from Christmas past, Christmas present and Christmas future to talk about to get us in the festive mood.
It would be remiss of me to not mention my first ever taste of alcohol, boxing day 1986, when I was but 46 days old. I expect it was glenfiddich 12 y/o or even a blend like Red Grouse. Apparently the look on my face was such that it seemed I may be set to be teetotal for the rest of my life...that didn't happen!
Christmas present sees a garage full of tasty winter beers (see: high ABV stouts and porters) amassed over the year. I am very much looking forward to bottles of Moor Fusion and Old Freddy Walker plus Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout. Look out for tweets around the time i expect. Bristol beer factory's fantastic 12 stouts should be arriving with me any day soon too; so I expect they will form the backbone of my festive drinking.
Which brings me on to Christmas future. I don't like to predict what will happen in future years, feeling that I might somehow become bound by my proclamations, but I'd really like to spend a Christmas abroad somewhen, in an exotic and distant location and stumble across a hidden gem of a brewpub like schwalbenbrau in Schladming with some tasty treats. I don't have a preference for style or strength, just something unique for that time and place.
So that's it for The Session for 2011. I look forward to Mario's "not beer" topic in the new year!
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Prince of Wales Theatre
The Prince of Wales Theatre is part of Delfont Mackintosh Theatres, which are one of the largest London theatre owners with a portfolio of seven theatres.
Delfont Mackintosh Theatres own and run the Prince Edward Theatre, the Queen's Theatre, the Prince of Wales Theatre, refurbished in 2004 to recreate the glamour of the 1930's, and the Novello Theatre which was renovated to celebrate its centenary in 2005.
We also own the Wyndham's and the renamed Noel Coward Theatre with the Gielgud completing the portfolio in March 2006, major restoration of these three theatres has now been completed, demonstrating our commitment to the improvement and upgrading of all Delfont Mackintosh Theatres.
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Today marks, among other things, my two year company date at Boeing. I know what you're thinking: It hasn't even been a year since you graduated, how can you have two years at Boeing? Behold, the power of the internship. I actually started at Boeing on May 26th, 2006 as a summer intern for the…
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Device Enter Loudwire Cage Match Hall of Fame
After an impressive run of five straight victories over some tough competition, Device and their latest single 'You Think You Know' enter the Loudwire Cage Match Hall of Fame.
Lead singer David Draiman and company started their streak by preventing P.O.D. from earning a spot in the Cage Match Hall of Fame. Device then went on to score wins against Redlight King, Buckcherry and Nine Inch Nails. For their fifth and final victory, they won a hard-fought and very close battle against the one and only Rob Zombie by a vote of 51.5% to 48.5%.
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"Our GRAMMY Jazz Ensembles program is a hallmark of the GRAMMY Foundation, and it is truly unique in that it brings together remarkable high school vocalists and instrumentalists from across the country to create a jazz choir, combo and band in the span of a little over a week," said GRAMMY Foundation and Recording Academy® President/CEO Neil Portnow. "It's a highlight of GRAMMY Week to experience the talent, dedication and excitement of our GRAMMY Jazz Ensembles members, and it is inspiring to hear the seamless musicality with which these young artists play with their peers as well as with GRAMMY-nominated and GRAMMY-winning artists. The GRAMMY Jazz Ensembles program really brings to life the GRAMMY Foundation's mission of fostering the next generation of music and its makers."
The Ensembles will perform at various GRAMMY Week events including — for the second year— an appearance at GRAMMY In The Schools® Live! — A Celebration of Music & Education, sponsored by the Ford Motor Company Fund. This special evening, which is open to the public, will showcase the Ensembles, along with student alumni from GRAMMY Camp and GRAMMY Signature Schools, with special guest artists on Feb. 9, 2011, at USC in the Los Angeles Grand Ballroom. The Ensembles will offer another public performance at Spaghettini's Italian Grill & Jazz Club with a special guest artist on Feb. 10.
The Ensembles will again record at the legendary Capitol Studios & Mastering in Hollywood, Calif., courtesy of the EMI Music Group. GRAMMY Jazz Ensembles CDs from 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 are available for purchase at online music outlets such as Amazon, iTunes, Napster, and Rhapsody.
The GRAMMY Jazz Ensembles will also perform again this year at the MusiCares®Person of the Year tribute on Feb. 11, which will honor Barbra Streisand. As a grand finale, the Ensembles will attend the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 13 as guests of The Recording Academy and will perform at the GRAMMY Celebration® after-party.
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Emma | Davis | West Linn, Ore. | West Linn High School | Soprano |
Angelea | Taylor | Pittsburgh, Pa. | High School for the Creative & Performing Arts | Soprano |
Hope | Flores | Los Angeles | Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Alto |
Kaia | Lagoni | Fort Collins, Colo. | Rocky Mountain High School | Alto |
Taylor | Daniel | Germantown, Tenn. | Briarcrest Christian School | Alto |
Daniel | Stanfill | Manhattan Beach, Calif. | Mira Costa High School | Tenor |
Timothy | Nelson | Bothell, Wash. | Bothell High School | Bass |
Timothy | Ovia | Cincinnati | Finneytown High School | Bass |
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William | Bridges | Lauderhill, Fla. | North Broward Preparatory School | Alto Sax |
David | James | Del Mar, Calif. | Canyon Crest Academy | Drums |
Antonio | Madruga | Pembroke Pines, Fla. | New World School of the Arts | Piano |
Zachary | Ostroff | Belvedere, Calif. | The Branson School | Bass |
Gabe | Schnider | Accord, N.Y. | Poughkeepsie Day School | Guitar |
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Patrick | Bartley | Coral Springs, Fla. | Dillard High School of the Arts | Alto Sax 1 |
Tom | Kelley | Canton, Conn. | Canton High School | Alto Sax 2 |
Xavier | Del Castillo | Carnation, Wash. | Roosevelt High School | Tenor Sax |
Ben | Solomon | Glencoe, Ill. | New Trier High School | Tenor Sax |
David | Leon | Miami | New World School of the Arts | Bari Sax |
Christian | Marrero | Boynton Beach, Fla. | Dreyfoos School of the Arts | Trumpet Lead |
Enrique | Sanchez | Kissimmee, Fla. | Osceola County School of the Arts | Trumpet Lead |
Adam | O'Farrill | Brooklyn, N.Y. | Fiorello LaGuardia High School for the Arts | Trumpet Jazz |
Josh | Shpak | Walnut Creek, Calif. | Northgate High School | Trumpet 4 |
St. Clair | Simmons III | Dover, Pa. | Dover Area High School | Trombone 1 |
Cory | Boris | Kingston, N.Y. | Kingston Senior High School | Trombone 2 |
Kyle | Molitor | Tigard, Ore. | Tigard High School | Trombone 3 |
Chris | Palowitch | Pleasanton, Calif. | Amador Valley High School | Bass Trombone |
Steven | Gordon | Santa Monica, Calif. | Santa Monica High School | Piano |
Daryl | Johns | Englewood, N.J. | Dwight-Englewood School | Bass |
Aaron | Shapiro | Highland Park, Ill. | Highland Park High School | Guitar |
Evan | Sherman | Short Hills, N.J. | Millburn High School |
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Monday, December 19, 2011
126 Little Red Riding Rabbit
Title: Little Red Riding Rabbit
Studio: WB
Date: 12/18/43 (see issues below)
I. Freleng
Manuel Perez
Michael Maltese
Voice Characterization
Mel Blanc
Musical Direction
Carl W. Stalling
Series: Merrie Melodies / Bugs Bunny
Running time (of viewed version): 7:04
Commercial DVD Availability: LTGCv2d1
Synopsis: Red Riding Hood story ends up turning against an odd Red.
Comments: Why does the FBI warning on LTGCv1 look they ripped it off from from a public access channel? I've always liked the song ("The 5 o'clock whistle is on the blink, the whistle won't blow and waddya think, my papa's still in the factory, cause he don't know what time it happens to be"). Red comes from the Tina Fey/Sarah Palin phenotype. Her clothing comes from the Superman collection. Bea voice again. That's a green housecoat. Grandma appears to live in Knight's Steakhouse. Knight's Steakhouse, serving Ann Arbor since some fool time in the past. Odd thing about Red's hood; to accommodate her hairstyle, it's a separate cap in this cartoon. Grim faces carved into the woodwork. Jumpy fire like in Puss n' Booty. Bugs silhouette in wolf's frock, followed by wolf silhouette. Everyone's teeth keep sticking out in this cartoon. Wolf and Bugs dislike Red. Red's happy song belies a pretty grim forest. Bugs doesn't seem like he should have a reason to hate Red, but then again he _is_ being delivered in a food basket by her. Big ears is followed by French. A specific Frenchmen with big ears being referenced? Charles Boyer? Breaking the last straw joke for the Red interruption is good because it avoids both an obvious joke and a pun.
This was not originally on my list; it shows up in LTMM as 1/4/44. I'm erring on the side of caution by including it here with its OMAM and (at least some) BoxOffice date. This is the last WB cartoon for the year. Unless it's actually in the next year. Then it was either Puss N Booty or Rumors, and it's unclear exactly what day Rumors came out. And of course there could always be some other issue that hasn't come out to me regarding dates. But in the general count, this is the last WB cartoon I'm covering right now for '43.
edit: Yowp provided the following image of a newspaper ad from December 23, 1943 from Hamilton, Ohio (for a Xmas and following showing) on Facebook. Thanks, Yowp.
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Mister Miracle (Shilo Norman)
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Cover to Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle # 1
Art by Pasqual Ferry. |
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Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | Mister Miracle # 15 (August 1973) |
Created by | Jack Kirby |
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Alter ego | Shilo Norman |
Team affiliations | Seven Soldiers of Victory New Gods |
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Shilo Norman is a fictional character, a superhero in the DC Comics universe. He is the third person to use the title "Mister Miracle". Created by Jack Kirby, he first appeared in Mister Miracle (1st series) #15 August (1973).
Fictional character biography[edit]
Shilo's mother abandoned him as an infant. He spent the early parts of his youth in an orphanage in the Suicide Slum in Metropolis. Shilo was unsatisfied with his lot in life, so he fled the abuses of the orphanage and began living on the streets.[1]
Young Shilo Norman became the informal ward of escapologist Thaddeus Brown (Mister Miracle I), and also served as an occasional stand-in. When Thaddeus Brown was murdered by a mobster named Steel Hand, his protege Scott Free avenged his new friend's death by taking on the identity of Mister Miracle and bringing Steel Hand to justice. After Brown's death, Shilo worked with the new Mister Miracle and his wife Barda.
Shilo was eventually reunited with his brother, only to watch him be murdered by a gang member. He ran to the police, and Metropolis policeman Solomon Driver (Mister Miracle #15) was assigned to leave Shilo Norman in the protective custody of Scott Free. Driver's relationship with Scott was cordial; he didn't take Mister Miracle's crimefighting career very seriously, and believed that "escape artists could give us police a lot of trouble".
Shilo escaped to take revenge for his brother's death on his own, but Scott and Barda followed, preventing him from making a terrible mistake. During the course of these events, Shilo saved Scott's life.[2] Scott decided to train Shilo in his own special escape artistry techniques and gave him advanced New Genesis technology.[3]
Still a master escape artist, the now-adult Shilo was appointed security chief of the Slabside Island Maximum Security prison for Metahumans, also known as the Slab. For his heroic actions during the Joker's "Last Laugh" riot, he was promoted to Warden of the Slab, which had by then been relocated to Antarctica.
Shilo appeared as a successful and well-paid escape artist, using the name Mister Miracle. He became famous for large scale televised stunts, including well-publicized escapes from the second dimension, the center of the earth, and inside the event horizon of a miniature black hole. These stunts enabled him to live a lavish celebrity lifestyle. Within the black hole, Shilo had a vision of a familiar but different life, spanning years. In his vision, he still possessed a Mother Box, but had no memory of the New Gods. Shilo saw all his friends fall to the Anti-Life Equation, after which Darkseid subjected him to the "Omega Sanction" in which he lived a series of oppressive lives (including one in which he was working at the Slab). Upon escaping from this trap, Shilo found himself in the black hole where he first met Metron, seven days later.
In Seven Soldiers #1, Shilo heads to the Dark Side Club to free Aurakles, Earth's first superhero, in order to break the Sheeda's contract with Dark Side to "harrow" Earth and let him hunt down the Gods. In exchange, he sacrifices his life, and at the end of the issue his second resurrection is shown -- escaping literally from the grave, apparently thanks to his absorption of Mother Box's consciousness and abilities.
Shilo appears in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #33. He approaches Jason Rusch and Martin Stein, the two men who currently come together to form Firestorm. He informs them that one quarter of the Life Equation is hidden within the Firestorm Matrix while the other quarters are apparently held by Earth's other three Elementals, the Red Tornado, Naiad and Swamp Thing.
Final Crisis[edit]
In the second issue of Final Crisis, Shilo is seen talking to the Japanese metahuman Sonny Sumo, telling him of a "cosmic war", that "the powers of evil won", and that Motherboxxx is "the only thing left." He asks for the hero's help in recruiting a team. He leads a team of rookie Japanese heroes in a desperate bid against Darkseid's growing power on Earth, but he fails. In the same moment in which Darkseid is able to take fully over Dan Turpin's body and be reborn on Earth, a sniper shoots him in the chest, seemingly killing the Avatar of Freedom and bringing forth the Victory of Evil. It is later revealed that he survived due to a bulletproof vest; he speaks to Mister Teriffic about defeating Darkseid, who is destroying the universe.
Brightest Day[edit]
During the events of Brightest Day, Alan Scott is driven insane by his Starheart power and creates a fortress on the moon with the intent of using it as a base while he begins his plan to destroy the world. After Miss Martian uses her powers to get a mental layout of a holding cell inside the fortress, it is made clear to the heroes that the fortress must contain Fourth World technology. Shilo appears at the end of Justice Society of America (vol. 3) #41, where he is recruited by the Justice League to help a small team composed of Batman, Jade, Mr. America, Hourman, Donna Troy, and Jesse Quick infiltrate the fortress and get past its advanced defenses. As a nod to the events of Seven Soldiers, Shilo refers to himself as the "Seventh Soldier" of the group.
Shilo successfully leads the team about halfway through the fortress, only to be attacked by apparitions created by the Starheart. Jesse and Jade are able to pull Shilo away from the beasts before he is killed, but his wounds are severe enough that the Mother Box is forced to heal him. Donna Troy states that the Mother Box should be able to completely rejuvenate Shilo, but then goes on to say that the heroes have to leave him behind, as they cannot risk taking him with them while he is unconscious.[4] Some time after the defeat of the Starheart, Shilo is shown aiding Superman and a number of other heroes in an attempt to penetrate a large energy dome that has materialized over the city of Washington, D.C.[5]
Powers and Abilities[edit]
- Superb athlete: Shilo Norman has no superhuman powers, but in his youth, was trained by Scott Free and Thaddeus Brown in the techniques of theatrical escape artist. This training has allowed him to develop a great physical conditioning and perform amazing acrobatics.
- Master escape artist: Shilo Norman is a highly skilled escape artist trained by Scott Free himself. Shilo learned early of his passion for escaping and tried a number of times to escape different scenarios even as a young child. Shilo shows his proficiency on occasion by becoming a world-wide known Escape Artist.
- Expert martial artist: Shilo also was trained by Scott Free himself and Big Barda in various fighting techniques. Shilo has demonstrated himself to be a skilled fighter with amazing reflexes.
- Inventor: Later, as a student at New York University, Shilo studied a wide variety of subjects, and in his spare time he performed sleight of hand and small feats of street magic for the crowds in Washington Square Park. He developed an annoying habit of talking in non sequiturs, which he attributes to too many comparative philosophy classes. He was apparently studying for a degree in physics, and had taken several other modern science courses. He met and began to date Fiona Leeway. During this time, he experimented with the "hero gig" as a third generation Mister Miracle, standing in for Scott as a member of Justice League International using New Genesis technology that he had either modified or built himself, such as his Enerjams and Zoom Pads.
- Enerjams - Shilo's most distinctive invention, enerjams are mounds of pure energy produced from his gloves which can emit heat and magnetic fields that help him grip onto walls.[1]
- Mother Box - None of Shilo's new devices would work without the symbiotic power of Mother Box, a living computer he received from Scott Free. Shilo adapted his Mother Box to speak with the voice of his favorite pop singer.[1]
- Multi-Cube - Shilo has his own version of Scott's multi-cube, a 1" square that acts as computer and communicator, emitting both regular and ultraviolet light, sonic vibrations, and holograms.[1]
- Sticky Boots - Shilo's boots contain "thermal inductors" and magnetic grips.[1]
- Uniform - Incorporated within the hood of his JLI era uniform were synapse-sensing devices that allowed much of the circuitry in his costume to react at the speed of thought. To track criminals, he carried tiny mini-transmitters with a morphogenetic gamma field detector equipped with an EM filter circuit to dampen electromagnetic interference.[1]
- Zoom Pads - A redesigned version of Mister Miracle's Aero-Discs.[1]
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Train lines
The railway is better nowadays than it has ever been. Speed has been vastly improved which means things like restaurant cars are much less needed. People moan that other European countries' railways are more efficient and better than ours – I simply dispute this fact since the UK has the busiest rail network in Europe, despite its track size being greatly smaller than that of Italy, or Germany, or even France. It's about time people started realising we have one of the most robust systems in the world. You cannot expect a system to be perfect, especially considering the capacity on the UK's railways.
Jordan O'Brien
Railway companies should all send their managers to study how the Italians have succeeded in organising such a superbly efficient, and cheap, rail service. The German service is superb as well; but, alas, expensive. France's TGV is also excellent. If the Europeans can do it, why not in the UK, the country that invented railways? I said that to [record producer and railway enthusiast] Pete Waterman once and he rolled his eyes and said, "let's not even go there".
" mitchell_n_beard"
Whoever told you that the popular name for the cream-and-maroon livery on the 7.08am to Carlisle was "blood and custard" has been watching too many horror films. At least in my memory, it was "plums and custard" and I can't imagine that I made that up. Or was it rhubarb?
Trevor Gidman
Ferry tales
While I agree Harwich-Hook's rail connected service is great, is Hull-Rotterdam really so much less foot-passenger friendly? Is a coach connection, bookable as part of your ferry ticket, so much worse than taking a suburban train to the heart of the city? P&O offers direct coach connections from Europoort to Amsterdam, whereas from the Hook of Holland you have to change trains.
Look East
In the travel notes accompanying Martin Sixsmith's article, the map shows the wrong Novgorod! The Novgorod mentioned in the piece is Veliky Novgorod (Novgorod the Great); the one on the map in Nizhny Novgorod (known in the Soviet Era as Gorky). The correct site on the map for Veliky Novgorod is due south of St Petersburg at the junction of the Volkhov river and the lake.
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Building Bridges to Wellness in Portland
Faculty members: Dr. Ryan Hubbard and Joe Fitzgibbon
Linked Courses:
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What does wellness look like in Portland?
How can we engage in and create opportunities for all Portlanders to be physically well?
In this First-Year Learning Community, students will…
- Evaluate how your previous experience contributes to your beliefs and behavior toward physical activity and physical wellness.
- Recognize your emotions, habits, and actions and how that impacts your physical wellness.
- Explore the city of Portland and discover what opportunities are available to the diverse group of people that call Portland their home.
- Learn to think critically about issues of equity and access as it relates to one's ability to engage in activities that promote health and wellness.
- Participate in many of the physical activities that makes Portland consistently ranked as one of the healthiest cities in America.
Meet this FYLC's leaders:
Dr. Ryan Hubbard: Working in the FYLC program provides the opportunity to engage fully in the mission, vision, and values of the College through the cultivation of relationships among students, faculty, and staff, service to the city of Portland, and critical analysis of issues surrounding equity and access that impact and connect the citizens of Portland and beyond.
Prof. Joe Fitzgibbon: Teaching in a FYLC program has taught me that we learn diversity through openness, freeing our spirits by showing vulnerability and to have faith in the next generation of students.
Joshua: I'm excited to be a Peer Mentor because I know that the transition from high school to college is made much easier with a peer to walk alongside helping one navigate the new adventure that is college. I have a big heart for incoming students on this campus and look forward to the new friendships I'll form with them!
Nadia: I am looking forward to being a peer mentor because I'm excited to get to know new students and guide them through their epic/hectic first year!


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Supporting Breastfeeding: Herb and Supplement use in Lactation.
Original Date: June 7, 2014
Presenter: Regina Flanagan, NDDr. Flanagan will discuss the hormone pathways active during breastfeeding and how supplements, herbs and pharmaceuticals interact with those pathways. She will explain the mechanical and social barriers and supports to breastfeeding and how to help our patients be successful breast feeding their babies.
1.5 CEUs (0.25 pharmacy and 1.5 obstetrics) for NDs approved by OBNM
Infertility Case Presentation and Naturopathic Medicine
Original Date: June 7, 2014
Presenter: Kimberly Windstar, MEd, NDThis presentation will provide a brief overview of infertility, case presentation and evidence based practice implementation of fertility affected by thyroid, MTHFR mutations, luteal phase defect and aspects of PCOS. The cases will elucidate the importance of testing for, using thyroid medication and monitoring, testing MTHFR mutations and appropriate supplementation, testing for luteal phase defect and appropriately treating with progesterone as well as ovarian dysfunction associated with PCOS and appropriate supplementation to positively influence fertility outcomes. Participants will be able to apply work up and treatment protocols in practice after the presentation.
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Introduction to Transgender Health Care and HRT
Original Date: June 7, 2014
Presenter: Suzanne Scopes, NDTransgender patients seek hormone prescribers and primary care services from conventional medical as well as naturopathic physicians. This underserved group of patients have unique needs and face discrimination in most health care settings. All primary care providers should have familiarity with the basics of transgender health care. Covered topics will include hormone prescribing and management; including safety and monitoring of trans patients on hormone protocols.
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Pharmacodynamics of Bio Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy
Original Date: June 7, 2014
Presenter: Natalie Gustafson, Pharm DUnderstanding the various types of dosage forms used in hormone replacement therapy can greatly impact your clinical practice by allowing you to customize the optimal therapies for your patients. There are many factors to consider for each type, including pharmacodynamics, testing, ease of use, and ingredients that are not necessarily obvious. In this talk, the benefits and negatives of each form will be discussed to better specialize your practice.
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Herpes Simplex Virus: An Overview
Original Date: June 8, 2014
Presenter: Lisa Taulbee, NDGenital herpes is the main cause of genital ulcer disease worldwide. In the United States, about one out of every six people aged 14 to 49 years have genital herpes, yet many clinicians do not evaluate for this in routine sexually transmitted infection screening. Some practitioners are unaware that screening tests for HSV are available. This talk will review the most current and accurate testing options, treatment recommendations and general information regarding HSV in order for clinicians to provide useful counseling sessions to their patients.
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Vaccine Review
Original Date: June 8, 2014This course is currently not available for purchase.
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A Current Review in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis
Original Date: June 8, 2014
Presenter: Wendy Ellis, NDThis comprehensive review of osteoporosis will cover risk factors in the development of osteoporosis, including concomitant conditions that may contribute to bone loss, as well as a thorough approach to treatment. Osteoporosis must address gastrointestinal function, hormonal support, nutritional support and lifestyle counseling. Osteoporosis can be reversed in many cases with the adequate tools.
This lecture will cover the foundational approach to treatment and include case reviews outlining the impacts of hormonal changes, (estrogens, androgens, cortisol and thyroid), lifestyle considerations, gastrointestinal impacts, medications (PPI, prednisone, etc...), and chronic disease in the development of osteoporosis.
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Rehabbing Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
Original Date: June 8, 2014
Presenter: Jill Ghormley, NDThis lecture is designed to help practitioners understand more about pelvic floor
dysfunctions and utilize simple assessment and treatment techniques to begin applying healing in pelvic floor problems. The discussion will center around understanding how pelvic floor dysfunction is directly related to many of the pathologies we treat today and the importance of including additional support with respect to pelvic anomaly. Clinical cases involving the parasympathetic nervous system and cranium will also be address in relation to pelvic movement.
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Impact of Environmental Xenoestrogens on Breast Tissue
Original Date: June 8, 2014
Presenter: Ingrid Edstrom, NPThis presentation offers an overview of thermography and how it is used to evaluate metabolic and physiological activity in breast tissue as an adjunctive risk assessment tool. It will discuss the significance of environmental impacts outweighing genetics in regards to breast cancer risk. In addition, it will specify metabolic effects of pesticides, herbicides, bovine growth hormones and a non-organic diet on breast tissue. It will explain how these findings may be altered by eating organically, optimizing thyroid function, lifestyle / dietary changes, and appropriate hormone balancing.
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Python Programming On Win32: Help for Windows ProgrammersPython is growing in popularity; based on download statistics, there are now over 450,000 people using Python, and more than 150,000 people using Python on Windows. Use of the language has been growing at about 40% per year since 1995, and there is every reason to believe that growth will continue. Despite Python's increasing popularity on Windows, Python Programming on Win32 is the first book to demonstrate how to use it as a serious Windows development and administration tool. Unlike scripting on Unix, Windows scripting involves integrating a number of components, such as COM or the various mail and database APIs, with the Win32 programming interface. While experienced Windows C++ programmers can find their way through the various objects, most people need some guidance, and this book is it. It addresses all the basic technologies for common integration tasks on Windows, explaining both the Windows issues and the Python code you need to glue things together. Topics include:
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PHOTOS: Katy Perry becomes 'Cosmo's' first-ever global cover star!
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Katy Perry is livin' a teenage dream right now. Not only will the pop goddess grace the cover of the upcoming issue of Cosmo UK, but she's set to spread a whopping 62 international covers for the month of July. Is this the next logical step of the "Birthday" singer becoming a world renowned fashion icon? Yes? OK, then.
Within the various issues' pages, Perry sat down with everyone's favorite BFF and comedian and late-night talk show host Chelsea Handler. They dish about Russell Brand and why Perry went through a sex drought. If one of the hottest performers alive suffers such an abysmal fate, where does that leave the rest of us?! Cue: Lilith Fair-inspired playlist.
For all you girls (or guys) secretly reading Cosmo when you aren't supposed to, Perry offers a bit of encouragement: "If you're secretly reading the mag and not really allowed to, don't worry, I did it too."
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Battle Royale: Juggler Tim Furst and 'Bubble Man' Tom Noddy square off downtown--but their biggest showdown is yet to come.
Clown, Interrupted
"I've got the illegal items."
"And I've got the legal ones."
So said Bubble Man Tom Noddy and Flying Karamazov Brother Tim Furst as they headed for the Cooper House last week, carrying not joints and open bottles o' beer, but three silver juggling batons and a tightly twisted neon-pink bottle of bubble mixture.
The question, of course, is which were the supposed "illegal items"? The answer: the batons. At least if they're airborne. And possibly only if they also involve a unicycle. Or something like that.
Yeah, it's kinda bizarre, given that three decades ago, a young Noddy and Furst kickstarted successful performing careers by blowing bubbles and juggling batons outside the old Cooper House. But the fact is that bubble blowing is now the only activity explicitly exempted from the infamous hackeysack ban, in which a freaked-out post-9/11 City Council also prohibited the throwing, discharging and launching of footballs, baseballs, beach balls and Frisbees downtown.
Last week, mayor Emily Reilly assured Nüz that it was clear to her that when the council passed said ordinance, "we did not intend tooutlaw juggling. We need and love street performers. Maybe we need to state that again at the City Council."
Maybe so, given what happened to Coire Langham, a young clown who recently set up juggling clubs, balls and unicycle outside O'Neill's, as he prepared to balance a music stand on his chin (Ooh! Aah!), while simulating tightrope walking using a bright purple rope laid on the sidewalk (Ooh! Aah! Gasp!).
Not surprisingly, a crowd gathered--as did a police officer, who reportedly told Langham that it's against the law to juggle or balance music stands--not to mention ride unicycles on sidewalks, or use them to do tricks on downtown streets--but that he could walk the tightrope along a silk rope, provided that it was laid on the ground.
Reilly says that because Langham's act involved a unicycle and projectiles, it was a "little more complicated" than your average juggling performance, but that Assistant City Manager Martin Bernal "is more than willing to help the clown get a permit for his act," a process which Bernal insists is "not really that complicated."
But Noddy is upset that a downtown host called the cops on a red-nosed clown whose act was delighting kids and parents alike.
"If the hosts work for the Downtown Association, then they should be promoting the downtown experience for everyone," says Noddy, who wants the city to dump said ordinance and return to the street performers' voluntary guidelines, which he claims worked fine until spring 2002, at which point Reilly and Councilmember Ed Porter said efforts to address serious and dangerous downtown problems (like drug and gang violence and sexual harassment) would not endanger the 23-year-old agreement between performers and merchants.
"Complaints about street performing accounted for less than 1 percent of downtown police calls at the time, but now performers are being chased from alcoves of closed shops without the nicety of the required trespassing complaint [nor letter on file nor posted notice]," fumes Noddy. "They are being danced around by various hosts and police officers' ideas of what the new laws now permit, plus a general sense that the intent is to keep performers on a tight leash."
Meanwhile, Porter, who Nüz shall henceforth nickname "Hall Pass," has been busy emailing explanations that the "expelling of projectiles" ordinance section is the reason juggling would be held to be prohibited.
"Whether or not one should balance a music stand on one's chin is not clear to me. But, if you cannot currently ride a bicycle on the downtown sidewalks, that may very well apply to a unicycle. Both of those tricks can easily be allowed by obtaining a performance permit," Hall Pass observes, even as the Downtown Association's Keith Holtaway says he's trying to "fix things" so performers can use plazas without permits.
Plazas? What Plazas?
"There are three or four great public plazas that no one uses, including Abbot Square, and the area in front of Art Forms as well as Plaza Lane. We're trying to set things up so it's easier for performers to use them," Holtaway says.
Oh, we thought you meant a plaza on Pacific Avenue--but that would put performers in danger of attracting a crowd, now wouldn't it?
"These moves squash the city's weird eccentric side and make it sterile like Capitola," says Noddy, as he demonstrates the beauty of soap bubbles by blowing streams of them into Furst's face.
"Keep Santa Cruz Imitating Austin," jokes Furst, alluding to the Keep Santa Cruz Weird fund, which copied Austin's efforts and has reportedly accumulated $3K--and triggered rumors that performers plan to use the money to sue the city for making it so darn hard for them to perform on the streets here. Until then, better stick to bubbles.
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Destruction of the Democratic Machine. That could be the subtitle of the next Schwarzenegger movie, if things go as Republicans plan around the Gov. Davis recall.
Said the well buffed actor in July's issue of Esquire magazine, "Yes, I would love to be governor of California. If the state needs me, and if there's no one I think is better, then I will run."
Arnie's political adviser George Gorton says the Austrian-born actor will decide after the July 2 opening of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and only if it becomes clear the recall will qualify (supporters must collect nearly 900,000 valid signatures to make that happen), but the fact that the Kindergarten Cop has hired Gorton has got politicos worried.
"All this 'We're not sure' is BS, because Gorton's the real thing. He got Pete Wilson elected. Arnie's gearing up to go," says local politico Ron Schneider. "With 700,000 signatures reportedly gathered, Arnie could be California's Jesse Ventura. We don't have the luxury to pretend this isn't happening."
With Dianne Feinstein being the Dem most likely to run for guvnor, Nüz thinks she'd better hit the gym big time, since brains may no longer be as important as brawn in this post-Dubya world.
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Gogo Offers Free Access to eBay on Delta and Virgin America
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ITASCA, Ill., Aug. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Gogo, a leader of in-flight connectivity and a pioneer in wireless in-flight digital entertainment solutions, announced today that passengers who fly on all Gogo equipped planes on Delta Air Lines and Virgin America will now enjoy free access to eBay.
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Starting today, passengers will have unlimited access to eBay through Gogo's new multimedia platform, which will allow them to shop the more than 300 million listings on the site while they are above 10,000 feet. To access eBay, passengers can simply connect to Gogo using any Wi-Fi enabled device, open their browser and click on the eBay promotion on the homepage.
"By partnering with eBay, passengers can now shop a wide selection of listings on the site from 35,000 feet," said Ash ElDifrawi, Gogo's chief marketing officer. "eBay joins a growing list of top shopping and e-commerce sites that can be found on Gogo's multimedia platform; all of which can be accessed for free simply by connecting to Gogo and launching your Internet browser."
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DateLine: 14th December 2006
James Foster appeared to be the future when selected for an England A team tour on the back of handful of first team appearances for Essex after the 2000 season.
He had commenced his professional career in the reserves for Essex aged 17, before representing England Under-19's and British Universities as part of his development.
Late 2000 saw him move into the Essex first team replacing Barry Hyam and he was taken to The Caribbean for the Busta Cup where he held his own batting in the middle order for the England A team.
However, though 2001 proved to be a solid first season behind the stumps for a new player, some felt he jumped the queue when given the gloves in the one day series against Zimbabwe. More good fortune followed when Alec Stewart opted out of the India series and Foster played in all six tests in the sub-continent and New Zealand that winter.
Though Foster showed himself capable, it was always going to be hard to dislodge the evergreen Stewart and a broken arm scuppered any hopes he may have had - sidelining him for most of the most of the 2002 season. However he still made the tour to Australia as reserve ' keeper and, again thanks to an absence by Stewart, played in the fourth test.
Subsequently Foster has been out of the England equation, despite his performances far exceeding anything he achieved while involved in the England set up.
He has developed into one of the best glovemen in the country, backed up by ever more impressive batting, including a 2004 that saw him hit a thousand runs and four centuries in first class matches. Another hugely impressive 2006 saw no impact on the selectors, despite Foster's 48 average in first class matches and 38 in the limited over form playing a major part in Essex's impressive season.
Foster signed a three year deal with Essex at the end of the 2006 season.
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My cousin David Angell and his wife Lynn were the first victims identified on 9/11. Tom Brokaw, with unearned solemnity, intoned, �We have learned the name of one of the victims, and he is one of us. David...
My cousin David Angell and his wife Lynn were the first victims identified on 9/11. Tom Brokaw, with unearned solemnity, intoned, �We have learned the name of one of the victims, and he is one of us. David Angell, creator of the NBC show �Frasier.� . . .� Our family had been with David and Lynn at a function on Sept. 8. Twelve years later, I still, irrationally, resent Brokaw�s claim of familiarity. But then, 9/11 was a completely irrational day.
This past June 13, I began reading sections of the Koran. Why? Because even after a dozen years I still have trouble speaking of that day. I still rarely speak of my cousin, although I think of him daily. Most importantly, I need to read the Koran to try and not live the rest of my life with a deep prejudice against an entire group of people. I�ve sought to meld ideals found in the Koran with aspects of the remarkable lives of David and Lynn, who were devout Catholics.
�Humility: The Koran says: �Successful indeed are the believers, those who humble themselves in their prayer.�
David and I were close, born seven months apart. He grew up in East Providence while I was raised in Pawtucket. At Christmas gatherings, his father would sing humorous nonsense songs while strumming an old ukulele.
David�s Hollywood success, as head writer on �Cheers� and co-creator of �Wings� and �Frasier,� came only after five years of struggle and perseverance. Lynn supported his efforts by working as a librarian. By the mid 1990s, I had only seen them periodically. Busy lives and 3,000 miles of separation will do that.
One day I bumped into them at a restaurant in Chatham on Cape Cod. After a fun-filled �catch-up� lunch, they invited me to see the old captain�s home they had just remodeled. Lynn, in addition to being the epitome of Southern grace and charm, was also a very talented amateur decorator. Their new home reflected her refined yet casual style.
As the tour ended, it struck me that nowhere in the house was there a hint of my cousin�s exciting career. I noticed a door in the kitchen and asked if it led to the garage.
David hesitantly replied, �Yes, and I have a little office above. Would you like to see it?�
As we walked up the stairs there were the first glimpses of David and Lynn�s journey. Framed, autographed photographs of the casts from �Cheers,� �Wings� and �Frasier� adorned the walls surrounding the narrow staircase.
More significantly, a three-tiered bookcase came into view as we ascended the final stairs.
On the bottom shelf were various books. The middle shelf contained three of David�s Emmy Awards. (He would win eight.) And there, on the top shelf, was displayed his father�s old ukulele. In that moment, I knew there was no chance of David ever �going Hollywood�
�Charity: The Koran says: �And be steadfast in prayer and regular charity.�
In 2000, I was the director of marketing for Clarke Distribution, which was having a charity golf tournament for a young Providence College graduate paralyzed in a body-surfing accident. Searching for items to auction, I called my cousin�s office in Los Angeles to see if they could donate some �Frasier� memorabilia.
My cousin called me back, and upon hearing the young man was a fellow PC graduate, upped the ante by offering for the auction a cameo appearance on the show. He mentioned that he would be in Massachusetts on the day of the tournament and said he�d love to play �if we had the room.� We made room.
Coincidentally, another auction item was a full-day treatment at a world-famous spa that was located in California, as was the filming of �Frasier.� A potential bidder for the spa item asked if transportation was included. When the answer was �no,� the bidding ground to a halt.
Observing this, David leaned over to me and whispered, �Tell the auctioneer to include two round-trip tickets to the �Frasier� package.� Needless to say, with this addition, the �Frasier� cameo became the most hotly contested item of the day, with the owner of my company, Tom Clarke, and another guest waging a friendly bidding war. Once again my cousin whispered to me, �If they�ll match bids, let�s make it two cameos and four round-trip tickets.�
So, David had taken my humble request for some �Frasier� autographed photos, coffee mugs and T-shirts and had quietly turned it into a spectacular contribution to our efforts.
In 1996, David and Lynn established the Angell Foundation, which continues to this day to support education and arts for youngsters in Southern California and New England. The Angell Blackfriars Theatre at Providence College was a gift from the Foundation.
Two concepts from the Koran: humility and charity. David and Lynn embodied these virtues. Of course, these two words are on the bright side of the Koran coin. Other teachings, such as calls for jihad, with violence implied against those who �make mischief in the land,� etc., can be, and have been, perverted by radicals to perform unspeakable acts.
Religion is like a tool. Like a claw hammer. One end joins together and builds, the other pulls apart and destroys. David and Lynn knew which end of the hammer to use.
Jim Raftus, of Cumberland, is a retired marketing executive.


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