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Actor Bradley Cooper stood up to TV producers while serving as a travel show host during his college years when they tried to pressure him into getting naked for a tour of a nudist beach in Croatia.
"The Hangover" star took on the globetrotting job while studying for a post-graduate's degree, but he insists it wasn't all fun and games, and one trip prompted a showdown with program producers.
The then-budding actor refused to go naked for the segment because he feared the embarrassing footage would surface later in life if and when he rose to fame, and he would forever regret it.
During an appearance on "The Tonight Show" on Thursday, he said, "When I was in grad school I got this job hosting extreme treks basically, and we went all over the world. We went to Croatia, we went to Prince William Sound in Alaska and Peru…
"I did one very smart thing. We went to Croatia and sailed the Kornati Islands and there was this one nude beach and I remember they tried to peer pressure me to get naked and do this tour.
"I said, 'You know guys, I kinda wanna be an actor, this really is my thing… and just on the weird chance that I might be on 'The Tonight Show' years later…' – I didn't say that, but… – 'they would have footage of me walking naked'. I said no, but I still walked through the camp."
As a compromise, Cooper agreed to disrobe for the final shot of the Croatia episode, which featured him in the shadows dropping his pants and diving into the water at sunset – and that clip was shown on 'The Tonight Show.'


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Seventy U.S. trade organizations received more than $234 million in fiscal 2009 to help promote American food and agricultural products overseas.
"Agricultural trade is absolutely crucial to the U.S. economy and by providing this funding to U.S. organizations during these difficult economic times will help open new global markets for American food products," said USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack.
The funding was allocated under the Market Access Program (MAP) and the Foreign Market Development (FMD) Cooperator Program, both administered by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).
The Market Access Program uses funds from USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to share the costs of overseas market development and promotional activities with U.S. nonprofit agricultural trade organizations, state regional trade groups, and cooperatives.
Activities conducted with MAP funding include market research, consumer promotions for retail products, technical capacity building, and seminars to educate overseas customers.
Under the FMD program, USDA's CCC establishes a partnership with nonprofit U.S. agricultural trade organizations. Funding priority is given to organizations that represent an entire industry or are nationwide in membership and scope. Program activities focus on reducing market impediments, improving the processing capabilities of importers, modifying restrictive regulatory codes and standards in foreign markets, and identifying new markets or uses for U.S. products.
2009 MAP and FMD program allocations include: American Peanut Council, $2,474,731; American Soybean Association, $4,969,565; Cotton Council International, $20,031,257; National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, $2,711,216; Southern United States Trade Association, $7,118,677; The Catfish Institute, $356,325; U.S. Grains Council, $8,355,155; U.S. Wheat Associates, $6,303,629; USA Rice Federation/U.S. Rice Producers Association, $4,632,465.
2009 Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program allocations include:
American Peanut Council, $634,050; American Seed Trade Association, $228,499; American Soybean Association, $6,653,799; Cotton Council International, $4,187,329; U.S. Grains Council, $4,730,977; U.S. Wheat Associates, $6,658,416; USA Rice Federation, $1,529,077.
For more information about FAS's market development programs, contact the Office of Trade Programs at (202) 720-4327, or visit http://www.fas.usda.gov/mos/marketdev.asp.

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82-year-old man's home burglarized while he attended wife's funeral
Deputies in Lamoille County, Vermont are trying to find the person who broke into an 82-year-old man's house while he was attending his wife's funeral.
Investigators said the burglary happened sometime before 4 p.m. Saturday.
According to sheriff's deputies, Carl Fortune said he left his home in the 600 block of Vermont Route 15 at 1 p.m. for his wife's funeral in Hyde Park.
Elaine Mary Demars Fortune, 80, died last Monday after a 25-year battle with breast cancer, according to her obituary.
Visitation was held in Morrisville Friday and a memorial service was held Saturday afternoon at the 2nd Congregational Church.
According to her obituary, Elaine and Carl Fortune were married for 59 years.
When he returned home from the funeral, Fortune reported finding the front door of his home open.
Investigators said someone kicked the door open, breaking the door frame. They did not say if anything was taken from the home.


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Chair Twomey called the meeting to order and asked for a motion to approve the minutes. Trustee Douglas proffered the motion and Trustee Kendrick seconded it. The minutes were unanimously approved.
Mr. Rob Labinski and Ms. Shari Shuman discussed the audits for UNF's two direct support organizations: the University of North Florida Foundation and UNF Training and Service Institute. Mr. Labinski described the format used for reporting the audits. He indicated that the format was in accordance with the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Ms. Shuman remarked, and Mr. Labinski confirmed, that both organizations had created additional assets – both showed a profit at the end of 2003. Mr. Labinski stated that both management and the Foundation committee reviewed the documents and approved them. He said he'd had the full cooperation of the management for each of the organizations.
Trustee Kendrick said that though there had been one management letter on the Foundation side that informed the Board of an embezzlement issue, the issue had already been identified by the University and by the Auditor General's Office. Though the Board was already aware of the issue, the auditors thought it appropriate to include it in their report, as it had been included in the Auditor General's report. Mr. Labinski stated that other than the issue mentioned by Trustee Kendrick, the reports had been clean with regard to internal controls.
Chair Twomey asked if there were any questions or comments. Trustee Halverson asked what accounted for the large drop in grant revenue. Ms. Shuman replied that UNF had not received one grant this year.
Trustee Kendrick stated that the audits had been excellent. There had been discussion of the possibility of voluntarily instituting some of Sarbene Oxley's requirements. Trustee Kendrick recommended future Board discussion on the topic.
Chair Twomey asked Ms. Shuman if she had any other comments. Ms. Shuman answered that her office was pleased, as both audits were clean with no management comments of significance.
President Delaney said there had been extensive conversation about the audits. He added that the University was not greatly impacted by the loss of the grant mentioned previously by Ms. Shuman. President Delaney noted that the two TSI principals were slated to retire within the next two years. A succession plan was needed so the DSO could continue to operate as it had been.
Chair Twomey thanked everyone for the work on the audits. He thanked Trustee Kendrick for representing the Committee in his absence and adjourned the meeting when there were no further comments.
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A robot gripper hand, invented by engineers at Cornell University, has inspired some of the same researchers to write an algorithm that can teach any robot how to pick up oddly-shaped objects.
The algorithm allows a robot to learn complex grasping skills by trial and error. The robot can then apply what it has learned in situations it hasn't previously encountered. The researchers said the method is hardware agnostic and will work with any type of robot gripper. This could be especially useful for autonomous industrial robots used in assembly or palletizing lines.
The original "universal jamming gripper" hand was developed in October 2010 by the Cornell Creative Machines Lab headed by Hod Lipson, associate professor of mechanical engineering and computer science. It consists of a large latex balloon filled with a granular material, such as ground coffee. By modulating the air pressure inside the balloon, the granular material can quickly harden or soften to adapt to the object the arm is attempting to grasp.
The new algorithm was developed by Lipson and Ashutosh Saxena, Cornell assistant professor of computer science and a specialist in machine learning. Using the algorithm, a robot employs a 3D image of an object to examine several rectangles that match the size of the gripper. The robot tests each rectangle on a variety of features, and is also trained with images of different objects.
During this process, the robot builds up a library of features that are common to the properties of "good-grasping" rectangles. When the robot is given a new object, it chooses the rectangle that has scored the highest, based on the rules it has developed for good grasping. The robot also considers the overall size and shape of the object to help it choose a stable grasping point.


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In the customs and observances of these holidays, we are expected not merely to remember past events, but, insofar as possible, to re-live and re-create them, making them a permanent part of our • consciousness. On Passover, we consume the matzah — the bread of af- iliction — and actually taste the suffering of the Israelite slaves in the bitterness of the maror. On Sukkot, we physically dwell in booths intended to resemble the frail huts that sheltered our ancestors in the Sinai wilderness. And on the eve of Shavuot, we study Torah all night in an attempt to re-live the revelation at Mount Sinai, Jewish law, then, requires that the commemoration of sacred days constitute, to the degree possible, a concrete, physical re-experiencing' and emulation of the historical event being commemorated. But what of Rosh Hashanah? The Jewish new year, after all, marks the creation of an entire universe out of nothingness. How can we mortals, passive creatures of God's design, hope to even approximate the divine, miraculous event of creation through mere symbolic acts and rituals? Unlike the other biblical festivals commemorating specific historical events, the cosmic significance of Rosh Hashanah seems to defy emulation. Nonetheless, our tradition does in fact mandate that on Rosh Hashanah we engage in an exacting act of creation. For the Jewish New Year marks the beginning of an intensive period of Vshuvah — repentance — which requires that each of us engage in the very arduous task of moral correction, ethical improvement and spiritual renewal. In other words, t'shuvah requires of us an act of personal re-creation. T'shuvah is, in that sense, a human microcosm for the divine creation of the universe. On^the eve of these Days of Awe, we are told that mankind is provided with the opportunity for a clean slate, a fresh start. The doctrine of repentance is rooted in the very optimistic Jewish belief in human resilience, in the ability and opportunity available to man always to correct and renew his existence — i.e., the chance to become re-created. . According to the Lurianic school of Jewish mysticism, the sudden creative feat described in the first verse of Genesis was preceded by a difficult, unreported dramatic act of divine contraction. For in examining the biblical account of Creation, the kabalists were confronted with a dilemma: how could a God who is at once omnipresent and incorporeal, the substratum of all existence, conceive and give birth to a limited, material and corruptible universe? In response to this dilemma, there arose an elaborate cos- mogonic mythology which begins with a process of divine contraction. In order td "make room" for a physical universe, we are told in the metaphorical language of the kabalists, the omnipresent spirit of God had to withdraw into itself so that a separate, corporeal ajid imperfect world could come into existence apart from Him. Similarly, as we approach Rosh Hashanah, we are called upon to place controls and limits upon our egos and our sins, and then to turn inward and engage in an arduous heshbon ha-nefesh, or soul- searching. One of the most important theological doctrines of Rabbinic Judaism is the concept of Imitatio Dei, pr the emulation of God. In' the Talmud; this notion is limited to the realm of ethics — the rabbis instruct us, "Be similar to God: just as God is kind and merciful, so you too be kind and merciful" (Shabbat 133b). The rabbinic understanding even of the Biblical imperative "Be thou holy, for I the Lord atti holy," is limited to areas of personal ethics and sexual morality. 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Facebook's "platform" strategy has sparked much online debate and controversy. No one wants to see a return to the miserable days of walled gardens, when you couldn't send a message to an AOL subscriber unless you, too, were a subscriber, and when the only services that made it were the ones that AOL management approved. Those of us on the "real" Internet regarded AOL with a species of superstitious dread, a hive of clueless noobs waiting to swamp our beloved Usenet with dumb flamewars (we fiercely guarded our erudite flamewars as being of a palpably superior grade), the wellspring of an endless geyser of free floppy disks and CDs, the kind of place where the clueless management were willing and able to -- for example -- alienate every Vietnamese speaker on Earth by banning the use of the word "Phuc" (a Vietnamese name) because naughty people might use it to evade the chatroom censors' blocks on the f-bomb.
Facebook is no paragon of virtue. It bears the hallmarks of the kind of pump-and-dump service that sees us as sticky, monetizable eyeballs in need of pimping. The clue is in the steady stream of emails you get from Facebook: "So-and-so has sent you a message." Yeah, what is it? Facebook isn't telling -- you have to visit Facebook to find out, generate a banner impression, and read and write your messages using the halt-and-lame Facebook interface, which lags even end-of-lifed email clients like Eudora for composing, reading, filtering, archiving and searching. Emails from Facebook aren't helpful messages, they're eyeball bait, intended to send you off to the Facebook site, only to discover that Fred wrote "Hi again!" on your "wall." Like other "social" apps (cough eVite cough), Facebook has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, "I know something, I know something, I know something, won't tell you what it is!"
If there was any doubt about Facebook's lack of qualification to displace the Internet with a benevolent dictatorship/walled garden, it was removed when Facebook unveiled its new advertising campaign. Now, Facebook will allow its advertisers use the profile pictures of Facebook users to advertise their products, without permission or compensation. Even if you're the kind of person who likes the sound of a benevolent dictatorship this clearly isn't one.
Many of my colleagues wonder if Facebook can be redeemed by opening up the platform, letting anyone write any app for the service, easily exporting and importing their data, and so on (this is the kind of thing Google is doing with its OpenSocial Alliance). Perhaps if Facebook takes on some of the characteristics that made the Web work -- openness, decentralization, standardization -- it will become like the Web itself, but with the added pixie dust of "social," the indefinable characteristic that makes Facebook into pure crack for a significant proportion of Internet users.
The debate about redeeming Facebook starts from the assumption that Facebook is snowballing toward critical mass, the point at which it begins to define "the Internet" for a large slice of the world's netizens, growing steadily every day. But I think that this is far from a sure thing. Sure, networks generally follow Metcalfe's Law: "the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system." This law is best understood through the analogy of the fax machine: a world with one fax machine has no use for faxes, but every time you add a fax, you square the number of possible send/receive combinations (Alice can fax Bob or Carol or Don; Bob can fax Alice, Carol and Don; Carol can fax Alice, Bob and Don, etc).
But Metcalfe's law presumes that creating more communications pathways increases the value of the system, and that's not always true (see Brook's Law: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later").
Having watched the rise and fall of SixDegrees, Friendster, and the many other proto-hominids that make up the evolutionary chain leading to Facebook, MySpace, et al, I'm inclined to think that these systems are subject to a Brook's-law parallel: "Adding more users to a social network increases the probability that it will put you in an awkward social circumstance." Perhaps we can call this "boyd's Law" for danah boyd, the social scientist who has studied many of these networks from the inside as a keen-eyed net-anthropologist and who has described the many ways in which social software does violence to sociability in a series of sharp papers.


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Join the book discussion of The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman on Monday, January 7 at 3 p.m. at the Rockingham Library. Copies of this book are available at the library's front desk. Elayne Clift, a VHC scholar and widely published author, will be facilitating the discussion
This true story of relates how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw–and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants–otters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes–and keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her.


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This article describes use of the SQL.CLS class module that is provided in source form in the BP file of the QMSYS account. This module allows a QM application to submit SQL commands to MySQL or via the sqsh interface to Sybase.
Prparing SQL.CLS
The first step to use of the SQL.CLS class module is to compile and catalogue the QMBasic code. All that is required is to execute the following command in the QMSYS account:
The source code contains a $CATALOGUE directive that will catalogue this globally with the name !SQL.CLS. Prior to QM release 2.12-0 the object code was placed into the private catalogue of the account in which it was compiled.
Establishing a Connection
Instantiation of the object created by this class module also establishes the connection to the SQL server. The required syntax for connection to MySQL is:
sql = object("!sql.cls", "mysql", server, user, password, database)where
Performing SQL Operations
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ok = sql->execute(query, result)where
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Host a Moroccan tent soiree and take advantage of the cool of the evening with friends. Drink oodles of iced mint tea and have several types of Turkish Delight on hand to choose from. All you need then is a handsome someone to hand feed you your choice of sweets, and peel you a grape or two.
Make like an Edwardian Lady and carry a large feather fan with you. Perfect for the still of the afternoon, just accompany with a scintillating mystery novel and a sneaky G&T.
Strangely enough, it seems that the practice of carrying a sun umbrella is yet to catch on with the masses here in Australia. A common scene in Asia where days are also long and hot, it makes sense to bring this one back into vogue. Hats and sunscreen are all well and good, but they don't help to keep you cool. A parasol with help save you from an early grave and keep you looking cool in both sense of the word!
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You've heard me mention the powers of iced tea on a hot day before, a nice change to plain water and a million times better than soda (ewww). Rather than spending a bomb on the pre-packaged kind (although its thirst quenching properties are undeniable), here is my recipe that will only cost you a few cents a pop.
Iced Tea Recipe
4 tea bags ( I like to use White Tea or Orange Pekoe)
2 cups of freshly boiled water
Pop your tea bags into a large, heat proof 2 litre jug
Cover with boiling water, add 2 tablespoons of caster sugar and let steep for 20 minutes.
Discard tea bags and fill the remaining space in the jug with fresh cold water.
Refrigerate. Add ice cubes and lemon slices before serving.
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The power of the mind on these hot days is something not to be ignored. Change you wallpaper to winter wonderlands, start planning a ski trip or research the lives of Eskimos. The more time we spend talking about how hot we are, the hotter we get. So close you eyes, feel the arctic wind on your face and think yourself cool.
...You could also...
- Have a water balloon fight with your boyfriend, children, employer, grandmother...
- Make a slip and slide in your backyard.
- Use old fashioned slang to amuse yourself, fanning yourself with your handkerchief if you get the 'vapours'.
- Eat tiny finger sized cucumber sandwiches for tea.
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Name : Unamichi Ayari (海道 彩莉)
Age: 16
Rank : B
Division: SSR (Ex-Assault)
Height: 159
Hair color: Navy Blue
Personality: Violent tsundere.
Weapon: Dagger, tied to a piano wire, Tonfas which are actually folded boarding axes, Electrified Cutlass with a carbon-fiber core and micro-serrated edge (kept in her school locker)
Technique: Twin Phase abilities, Hyatoran: Museigensaku (百刀乱; 無制限作 "Hundred Blade Chaos; Unlimited Works")
Names : Unamichi Kanari (海道 夏奈莉)
Age: 16
Rank : B
Division: SSR (Ex-Lezzard)
Height: 158
Hair color: Navy Blue
Personality: Incredibly quiet.
Weapon: 40.S&W snub nose, bulletproof book containing an VBR-PDW and the latest edition of AsukaCIEL, Five-seveN, flintlock pistol modified to electromagnetically accelerate bullets containing an EMP solenoid or Semtex (kept in school locker).
Technique: Twin Phase abilities, Hyajuukumi: Isseishageki (百銃組; 一斉射撃 "Hundred Gun Formation; Single Fusillade")
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It is "una" because "umi" rhymes with the first character of "michi" - making it hard to pronounce. I simplified it with another reading. Besides, I am punning their characters with their names because their surnames can be pronounced as "kaidou", which is the misreading of the term 海賊.
Updated the characters. Can't stop myself from thinking of something lame.
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Remember for SSR students there is their specific ranking level not to mention the butei ranking level.Just seems like a lot of people are leaving out what rank Butei their creations are. Also there are other Butei schools around the world.
Anyway for fun I was trying to think of a good team set up. I thought 1 Snipe, 1 Lezzad, 1 Connect(though that might be a given since it looks like Connect students are always involved with every team), 1 Amdo, 1 Inquesta and 1 or 2 Assault. Maybe I'll think of the individuals later.
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Location: Doing Anzu's paperwork.
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Then again as a result of my upbringing and where I grew up I tend to be somewhat down to earth regards these things...
I do think that none of the melee weapons are quite that practical though, and I'm pretty sure Semtex is out. And I'm pretty sure that the flintlock isn't that practical unless it ties in with your multishot ability...
*turns to leave*
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Truth Martyr
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Doing Anzu's paperwork.
Age: 32
Regards teams, apparently according to the novels students form teams by September, and then teams are assigned to work together as needed.
So, for example, say a Connect team would need some Assault support, they'd be assigned an Assault team.
It'd work something like the opening shootout of Bad Boys 2 - undercovers (Inquesta) making the bust with Assault support waiting in the wings to swoop in and Connect monitoring everyone's transmissiones, Logi providing transportation support, a Snipe team providing overwatch...
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But I do get the feeling that I won't be able to satisfy you.
|2011-05-13, 20:56
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 30
Or even try cutting through concrete or metal with a normal steel-core blade.
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Truth Martyr
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Doing Anzu's paperwork.
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How the hell you can fold down a boarding axe into a tonfa or have a electrified cutlass with carbon fibre core and micro-serrated edge, and not realise that these weapons stretch credulity, is a bit beyond my comprehension. (Also, they're not that practical for concealed carry.)
As for fighting in an urban environment without a knife, it's called bringing a gun to a knife fight.
As for cutting through concrete - you don't, it damages blades. Cutting things should never involve concrete or metal - blades are meant to cut wood, livestock, people, wires, plastic, rubber, duct tape...
(I think another reason is the difference in paradigm - Jon views his Emerson Tactical as more of a tool and less of a weapon, while Ayari views her blades as weapons, not tools.)
But if he were to cut through concrete, he'd use C4. As for scaling walls - how many times does one need to scale a wall anyway? If he needs to rappel down, he's got line in his rucksack.
Admittedly, growing up in a jungle in the middle of nowhere, I have an inclination towards simpler devices and tools that do a single job well, and which I am reasonably certain will last and/or can be replaced fairly easily, compared to exotic tools & devices of which I am unsure. Not surprisingly, perhaps, this has spilled over to Jon.
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 32
Working on Rie Tanaka next.
EDIT: I wonder if I placed Camelot Castle at Cadbury, Somerset, England, would that cause a ruckus?
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 30
Have you even seen a folding axe before? Or heard of metamaterials? Stun batons? Ginsu knives?
Nothing beats a good old dagger to the gut when some bastard round the corner grabs your gun and points it away.
Also I was thinking of swapping out the MP7 with the Five-seveN, with an automatic function, and a bottom-open clip that allows attachment to the P90's magazine, plus a C96 type stock. Need to work on the feed design because dual-clip systems tend to jam more often, and carrying too many different ammo types sound crazy.
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"The enemy struck from cover, lunging around the corner in a desperate grab for the rifle. The muzzle swung to meet him, but the burst was a moment too slow the rounds gouging the concrete floor as the attacker grabbed and cleared the weapon off him in the nick of time. A struggle ensued as the men wrestled for control of the weapon for a moment before the attacker yanked the weapon away in seeming triumphant... a moment before several shots rang out. The rifle clattered to the floor as the assistant staggered backward and collapsed from a half dozen 9mm slugs perforating his torso."
It's called a SIDEarm for a reason, a SWAT officer would NEVER pull a knife and try to stab a suspect if he somehow got a hold of his gun, and SWAT teams are what you should thinking of becasue technically these people are LAW enforcement, which by the way is another serious issue with bladed weapons which in the case of a large sword or axe are MORE lethal then guns.; if you cleave into someones torso with an Axe they're DEAD, or if you hit an arms you just frikkin' amputated that limb. "Police cleave suspects limbs off with battle axe" isn't exactly a good headline.
Now having said all that... I don't really mind this character as a concept. It's silly, but the setting is basically "action movie" and crazy melee fighters are a staple of that, but I'd get away from the technobabble stuff and just talk about the what, not the "how". It's one of those things that if you try to explain it just seems dumber. Like in Black Lagoon, by not even really acknowledging the super human feats a certain level of suspension of disbelief is maintained. When you go and try to somehow overly explain it, it just ends up amounting to either A. "its magic" or B. "That would NEVER work"
So my advice is either A. just make the swords/users outright magic or drop the technobabble stuff and just have them do this silly stuff, but don't try and explain it with junk science.
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
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Kobayashi G. Isara
Affiliation: Butei - B. SSR - 14. Medica.
Voice: Saori Hayama
This cheerful, idealistic and naive medic is wholly into her job, making daily rounds around the class and the school, listening to complaints and worries alike. Not that chestnut-haired "hippie" is out of touch with the world; Isara is conscious of the distrust against superhuman Butei, but she wears the badge proudly, opting to let her work tell them otherwise. Her dress always includes a red scarf that is a heirloom from her grandmother. Isara also loves baking, and often makes extra for giving out. Many boys claim that her muffins have special properties, and with each batch comes even wilder claims, from increasing one's luck at the lottery to becoming a super Butei for three minutes. Isara's real ability instead enables her to control the radiation from enriched uranium, instead release the latent power within as spirit energy. At minimum output, the energy reinforces Kobayashi's body, improves her strength and she can levitate by vector-thrusting. Her hair turns the same sky-blue color as her power. She can regenerate her wounds at a higher output, and apply that to her allies, allowing them to heal quicker. At this level, she can project a forcefield around herself, and include her allies at maximum output. However, this burns through the uranium plate within a few minutes. Therefore, Isara carries a disc of enriched, refined and sculpted to the best of Nemo's technology, and a radioactively-sealed spare on her backpack wherever she goes. She can also empower the disc and use it as a blunt weapon. Or else, she throws the disc, making it arc around her opponents like a boomerang. But with her strong power in defense, Isara seldom attacks. Kobayashi is content to be the tank that makes sure her team returns home at the end of a quest.
I still haven't have time to review everyone's profiles thoroughly. I'll do a proper backlog breaker once I'm done revising all these means of assessing bad limbs.
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Davidson County commissioners are considering spending up to $2 million in economic incentive grants and appropriations, to an unidentified company looking to invest near three existing lumber companies in Thomasville.
Davidson County commissioners are considering spending up to $2 million in economic incentive grants and appropriations, to an unidentified company looking to invest near three existing lumber companies in Thomasville.
Commissioners will hold a public hearing Tuesday night about incentives for "Project Plum," a company that proposed to invest a minimum of $24 million in new plant, machinery and equipment and create 250 jobs over three years, according to county records.
If approved, the board would use up to $1 million from its general fund to purchase portions of three parcels of properties on Clarksbury Church Road off U.S. Highway 64 East in Thomasville. Portions of three properties, which total about 142.8 acres, are fairly adjacent to three wood products companies, including custom wood dryer Wilderness N.C., Prime Lumber Co. and J.E. Jones Lumber Co., according to Davidson County Geographic Information System (GIS).
The properties are also close to the Lowes millwork and flatbed distribution center, according to GIS.
The county would lease the land to "Project Plum" for 10 years, and the unidentified company would pay rent annually in the amount of $100,000. If the company met the proposed investment, job, and wage requirements each year, the county would pay "Project Plum" an annual grant, which would not exceed $100,000, for 10 years, according to county records.
The proposed investment would create about $129,640 in additional property tax revenue each year, according to Davidson County's current tax rate of 54 cents per $100 of valuation.
The public hearing will be held at 7 p.m. at the Davidson County Governmental Center, located at 903 Greensboro St.
Last year, Lexington City Council used a economic development incentive grant to extend natural gas lines from Highway 109 at the intersection of Clarskbury Church Road to Highway 64 just past New Cut Road.
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The War of Independence and the Civil War were fought in Ireland from 1919-1923. Many men from all over the country fought the British forces and then fought each other after the signing of the Treaty.
James Buggy from Ballyouskill is listed as a volunteer in the 3rd Battalion (North Kilkenny) Kilkenny Brigade, IRA volunteers, C. Company Ballyouskill.[1]
[1] Lyng, Tom. 1984. Castlecomer Commections. Kilkenny: Castlecomer Historical Society. p. 416.


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Well . . . Thangtong Gyalpo was just odd. Tsangnyonpa was unusual. Neither of them ever harmed beings or made up teachings. Even the worst that Virupa, the poster boy for crazy wisdom, did was break the Pratimoksha vow against drinking.Yudron wrote:Gendun Chopel? Thang Tong Gyalpo? The Madman of Tsang? Many important teachers appear crazy (cholwa) or display uncontrived conduct (trul zhug). Of course a lama will teach a student to contradict conventional morality when they are at the right point on the path to do so. People in the Vajrayana really should read Kongtrul's Treasury of Knowledge which explains all these things, and the commentaries on the Dam Sum, the three levels of vows. The Vajrayana is transgressive to its core, and perhaps people who are not comfortable with that should stick to the Mahayana.
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Adobe Systems Inc, the maker of Photoshop and Acrobat software, forecast current-quarter results below analysts' estimates but reported a 22 percent jump in the number of subscribers to its Creative Cloud suite from the preceding quarter.
The company's shares rose about 8 percent after initially falling 5 percent in extended trading.
Adobe added 402,000 subscribers for Creative Cloud, which includes Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash, in the fourth quarter, up from the 331,000 it added in the third quarter.
"Investors are giving Adobe's management team credit for its progress despite the light profit to this point, and will likely continue to do so, as long as the number of new cloud subscribers continue to outpace expectations," Edward Jones' technology analyst Josh Olson told Reuters.
The company said in September it expects subscriber growth for Creative Cloud to top 331,000 due to strong demand from corporate customers.
Adobe has been shifting to web-based subscription service Creative Cloud from a licensing model since last year.
Subscription models bring in less money upfront as payment is spread over the entire period of use unlike traditional packaged software, but typically ensure more predictable recurring revenue.
Adobe said it expects revenue of $950 million to $1 billion in the first quarter.
The company forecast adjusted earnings of 22 cents to 28 cents per share.
Analysts on average were expecting earnings of 34 cents per share on revenue of $1.02 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
The company's net income fell to $65.32 million, or 13 cents per share in the fourth quarter ended November 29, from $222.3 million, or 44 cents per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, the company earned 32 cents per share, in line with analysts' estimate.
Revenue fell 9.6 percent to $1.04 billion, slightly above the estimated $1.03 billion.
Adobe's shares were up at $57.90 in extended trading after closing at $53.99 on the Nasdaq on Thursday.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Action in the Zesiger Center Pool will be heating up this coming weekend when the MIT men's and women's swimming and diving teams begin their 2011-12 seasons. The teams will start things off by hosting the annual Charlie Batterman Relays on Saturday, October 22 starting at 1:00 p.m.
After hosting their annual alumni meet on October 29, the two teams will spend the entire month of November swimming in meets away from home, starting with the New England Invitational in Vermont on Nov. 5. The women's team will compete in its first dual meet of the season on Nov. 19, taking on Wellesley College before the two teams travel to Maine for a tri-meet with host Bowdoin College and Babson College.
MIT will close out the 2011 portion of the schedule by hosting its annual MIT Winter Invitational on Dec. 2-3.
A home dual meet with Colby College will start the 2012 part of the schedule on January 14. It will be the first of three meets in a week, as the Engineers will also swim against Springfield College and Coast Guard at Springfield on Jan. 15 before visiting Tufts University on Jan. 21. The Engineers return home at the end of January, hosting Amherst College on Jan. 28.
February starts with an appearance at the Wheaton Invitational on February 2-3. MIT will then host the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Championships in the Z-Center Pool on Feb. 17-19. The Engineers will then have a month to prepare for the NCAA Championships that will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana on March 21-24 that will close out the season.
2011-12 MIT Swimming and Diving Schedule
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14. Go to the library. Don't forget to look in the music section.
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John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, are claiming that data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer already suggests that there is a large planet in the outer solar system. This hypothetical planet, which they have nicknamed Tyche, orbits the sun at 15,000 AU's and weighs in at four times the mass of Jupiter. (Apparently Matese suggested this theory as early as 1999 based on perceived statistical fluke in the orbit of comets.)
When I read this I wondered at first whether it was even conceivable, and in particular would 15000 AU's even still be considered in our solar system? I looked it up, and it is thought that the sun's gravitational field dominates that of other stars out to about two light-years, or 125,000 AU's. The Oort cloud, a hypothetical cloud of a trillion comets, which Freeman Dyson has speculated to be a possible long-term home for our distant descendants, is thought to be between 50,000 and 100,000 AU's from the sun.
It seems that the Tyche hypothesis is not widely accepted in the astronomy community, and NASA has demurred, suggesting that we will know more in coming months or years. I, for one, welcome our new giant planet overlord.
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Bridget Pearson begins her fourth season on the Track & Field coaching staff in 2009. Pearson will continue to be in charge of the Matador pole vaulters as well as strength and conditioning.
In her third season, Pearson helped guide Krystal Quinn to the Big West pole vault title and a berth in the NCAA West Regionals. Quinn broke her own Cal State Northridge record in both the indoor and outdoor pole vault under Pearson's tutelage in 2008.
A 2004 graduate of UCLA, Pearson comes to Cal State Northridge after serving the 2004-05 season as the head track & field coach at Hoover High School in Glendale, Calif. Prior to that, Pearson was the head cross country coach at Hoover during the 2003-04 season. She also gained coaching experience at her alma mater working as a coaching assistant at UCLA's pre-vault camp in 2001.
Pearson competed as a pole vaulter at UCLA from 1999-2004, winning the Irish Nationals in 2000. She prepped at Hoover High School where she was an All-American in the pole vault all four years. Pearson was the state champion in 1997 and claimed the CIF title in 1999 and went on to finish fourth at nationals. She also competed in volleyball and water polo before graduating in 1999.
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Talk:Rail travel in India
This article is very messed up. If a person saw it,he/she will definitely have a headache.i have given space between many lines.there still are some left.whoever made this article, can you please give spaces between the leftover lines or paragraphs.it seriously looks very congested and neatness.
Is it really necessary to split this out from the main India article? Jpatokal 10:06, 21 December 2006 (EST)
So, I'm going to nominate this for deletion unless somebody can come up with a compelling argument to the contrary. Right now this has serious overlap with the main India article and looks more like a Wikipedia article on "Trains in India" than an actual guide for travellers. (For the record, I don't much like Rail travel in Europe either, and think Japan is a better model to copy.) Jpatokal 10:28, 18 March 2007 (EDT)
OK, but please MoS-ify and merge into India#By train -- Upamanyuwikitravel • ( Talk ) • ( Travel ) • 08:25, 10 May 2007 (EDT)
Ok, so now what?[edit]
This article has continued to take shape, and looks quite good... BUT... as Jani brought up forever ago, it probably didn't need to be stripped out of the India article in the first place... this is precisely what India#By train is meant to be. If ever there were a candidate for separate article, India's trains would probably make a good case... but I still don't think it's so unmanageably large that it can't fit on the main India page, after trimming a couple of unnecessary fluff sections like "zones", "stations in the metros" and "famous stations". – cacahuate talk 01:18, 13 July 2008 (EDT)
Decision time?[edit]
Stumbled across this article while browsing the list of documents for merging and can't help but feel it's got a bit lost in the system somewhere - no comments in over 6 months. So... I quite like the article. As it states, India has the world's 3rd largest network, and seems to be a good way of seeing the country. Seems to be a lot of useful informtion out there, and the article is rated as Guide, so it can't be all that bad!
It looks like work has been done over time to improve the article, especially when compared to its state in December 2006 when the merge was first brought up. So can we perhaps say 14 days to generate a consensus and decide once and for all? Nrms 05:29, 2 May 2009 (EDT)
Kathgodam photo[edit]
The picture of a train crossing over a large viaduct. This is NOT an Indian Railways train. Looks like Santa Fe freight trains which run in the USA. User:Qmsarge 11:30, 19 January 2007 (IST)
I took the photo myself. Upamanyuwikitravel 06:01, 19 January 2007 (EST)
Online booking FAQ[edit]
Could someone who has booked online recently come up with a FAQ? I haven't made an online booking ever, so can't do it, but hear that there are numerous issues (where to send the ticket, credit card issues, stand on one leg when pressing a key,...)--Wandering 17:41, 17 October 2007 (EDT)
External link removal[edit]
I removed the above link. It seems to just cover info that we would want here at Wikitravel. Accordingly I believe it should be removed under Wikitravel:External links. It was also placed under a newly created "External link" header - which are banned here. -OldPine 08:02, 23 February 2008 (EST)


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Prince George's nursery is filled with beautiful artwork and now a replica of one of the paintings that hangs in the royal tot's room can be viewed and bought by members of the public.
The painting in question — Rupert flies over the Suspension Bridge — was done by Tazia Fawley, a talented artist with Down Syndrome who is based in Somerset. Tazia generously gave the painting to Prince George soon after the third-in-line to the throne was born last year.
A print of the painting, alongside other works by Tazia, is being displayed at the Menier Gallery in Southwark, London.
The exhibition was masterminded by director Suzie Moffat whose aim was to bring together work by both established and emerging artists with Down Syndrome.
"In 2007 my son was born with Down Syndrome and like any parent finding out their child has special needs, I struggled," said Suzie.
"My instinct and reaction was to use my experience in the arts to meet talented individuals with the condition. I became absorbed in the idea that art knew no boundaries.
"The more I looked into it, the more I discovered a host of talented artists in Britain and abroad who just happened to have Down Syndrome.
"I was determined to give them a platform to celebrate their creativity and talent, which stands alone and apart from their condition."
The exhibition launched on Monday 17 March to mark the beginning of Down Syndrome Awareness Week and will be open until Saturday 22 March.


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Kelly Purkey's popular stamp designs that she's been selling through her own website are now being distributed through Simon Says Stamp!
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While we were in Greenville SC, Critical Mass rode across the West Seattle Bridge. Imagine the busiest, elevated highway in your local area, and Critical Mass rode across that.
They had a police escort. The action starts at 1:44 in. At the beginning, there's a bonus roller blader.
Lots of comments on the West Seattle Blog did not appreciate the mass on a freeway.
JJTweets was on the scene and snapped this photo. Check the Critical Mass tag for our previous coverage.


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With nearly $66 billion to his name and counting, it's no surprise that Warren Buffett is a financial genius and he's literally one of the best investors of the last century. From Exxon to Walmart, from Coca-Cola to Wells Fargo, the president and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway still plants his dollars deeply into just about every industry, commodity or company that you could consider.
His overall popularity is bolstered by his amazing ability to know what does and doesn't make a good investment. But even the most astute Buffett follower does not know all of the tricks up his sleeve when it comes to Buffett's investing strategies. Let's take a look at 10 little-known investments from the billionaire investor himself.
Disney: When it comes to the cartoon cartel, Buffett has an on-again and off-again relationship as an investor with this company. Jon C. Ogg of Yahoo! Finance fame tells us that as far back as the 1960s, Warren Buffett purchased 5 million shares of the company and had a 4% ownership stake in their stock, and much to his regret he later sold the shares. "It is obvious that [Buffett] still would admit selling Disney was one of his biggest mistakes," wrote Ogg.
Harley-Davidson: It isn't too far-fetched to think about Warren Buffett the biker after the Oracle had dealings with Harley-Davidson back in 2009. The motorcycle manufacturer turned to Warren Buffett when struggling in a downtrodden economy. The billionaire invested $300 million in senior unsecured notes. They had a 15% APR. The financial aid offered by Warren Buffett, according to The Motley Fool's Dan Caplinger, "allowed Harley to keep offering financing to its customers, which was crucial to help it survive the recession."
American Express: Over 50 years ago, the credit card conglomerate was a victim of the "salad oil scandal." The value of the stock plummeted once a vegetable oil manufacturer actually decided to water down its product in order to obtain loan collateral. A young Warren Buffett noticed this and purchased $13 million worth of American Express stock and those shares are currently valued at $7.8 billion today. This is Warren Buffett's third largest investment throughout his career, according to Brian Reed of InvestingAnswers.
Chinese Electric Cars: Why do people consider Buffett so enigmatic? Mainly because he is often contradictory. He's quite famous for ignoring and passing over the dot com industry and the tech bubble. But Buffett did do a slight 180° turn back in 2008. He purchased 10% of BYD stock for $230 million. Although the venture was ultimately successful, CNNMoney's Mark Gunther told us that Buffett finally went against his better judgment when investing in the battery and electric car maker in China. "I don't know anything about cellphones or batteries," said Buffett. "And I don't know how cars work."
Alex Rodriguez & Mike Tyson: There's no question that Warren Buffett is an expert when it comes to investing in commodities and companies, but did you know that he also invests in people too? Berkshire Hathaway paid for the disability coverage for New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and he even bought a life insurance contract for Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight champion. The good financial sportsmanship from Warren Buffett netted him "tens of billions of dollars in long-term funds for Berkshire to invest," said the Wall Street Journal's Serena Ng and Erik Holm.
Pepsi: Proving once again that the soda loving billionaire wouldn't be content by just owning Dr. Pepper and Coke, Warren Buffett was once a financial backer for the Pepsi sweepstakes, which was bound to fail. Jordan Wathen of The Motley Fool fame, in 2003, wrote about the soft drink company having its Billion Dollars Sweepstakes, but could not actually afford the losses, even though none of the 100 participants in the contest had over a one in 1 million chance of actually winning.
Pepsi was grateful that nobody actually one, because Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway paid less than $10 million to insure the risks, cashed in quite nicely on the premiums and "enjoyed the proceeds," wrote Wathen.
Chocolate: It's no secret that Warren Buffett has a sweet tooth. He owns See's Candies, Dairy Queen and has owned shares of Coca-Cola since the late 1980s. At one time Warren Buffett bought up shares of a struggling confectioner called Rockwood & Co., and paid $34 each. He then sold those shares back to the company for $36 in their own cocoa beans, then later turned around and sold the beans to outside buyers for $36 each.
"The process netted [Berkshire Hathaway] an instantaneous return of about 6%," wrote Wathen. "Considering the transaction could be done in less than a week, it worked out to a sky-high annualized return."
Manhattan Real Estate: At one time Warren Buffett made his move into Manhattan real estate by buying a string of vacant retail shops that were adjacent to New York University. These properties were situated in lower Manhattan, and they weren't fairing well when the bubble for commercial real estate popped. Buffett recognized the potential in this investment, and "the property location was also superb: NYU wasn't going anywhere," said Buffett in a recent letter to shareholders.
Steven Perlberg of Business Insider reported that the annual distributions from the purchase worth $1 million in 1993 are now more than 35% of the original investment. (Several successful businesses have since leased the locations.)
Silver: All that glitters is not gold, and Warren Buffett should have really reconsidered this adage after abandoning a lucrative silver investment. He's long been quite adamant about avoiding gold as an investment opportunity, but he once gave silver a try back in 1997. At the time, he had 37% of the known silver on the planet, and purchased it for as low as four dollars per ounce, wrote Wathen.
"Unfortunately for Buffett, this is one area where he made a mistake," noted the writer. Buffett eventually sold his silver for about triple the price – which seemed like a good idea at the time. But years later the precious metal actually sold for almost $50 an ounce.
Farmland: Buffett tells us that he knows nothing about agriculture, but that did not prevent him from buying a 400 acre farm for $280,000 in the 1980s.
"I needed no unusual knowledge or intelligence to conclude that the investment had no downside and potentially had substantial upside," said Buffett in an annual report in 2013. "There would, of course, be the occasional bad crop and prices would sometimes disappoint. But so what? There would be some unusually good years as well, and I would never be under any pressure to sell the property."
According to Warren Buffett, the farm today is worth more than five times its original value, and triple earnings to match – even if farming still isn't his cup of tea. "I still know nothing about farming and recently made just my second visit to the farm," admitted Buffett.


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Annoying Burgher: This is the label I'll occasionally bestow upon that Burgher who has managed to do something or say something so ludicrous that I have no choice but to mail them a "crown" that is usually just a bag of flaming poo.
The Asshat: Santonio Holmes, the immature, loser, babymama-beating, driving while pot-smoking former wide-receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. We've all seen him naked now. Un-seeing is not an option.
Baby Face: See Lukey
BLLLLLLLLLLLL: This is me imitating my eyes blinking so fast and furiously because of something so ridiculous that it makes me all [blink] [blink blink] [blink blink blink] BLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL! Here's the first time I used it when I saw how expensive avocados are at Giant Eagle.
Bloop-bloop-bloop: This is me imitating my Tivo's fast-forward blooping sound. That means if you don't like what I'm discussing, just bloop on down to the next post.
The Buccos of Suckitude: The Pittsburgh Pirates and their 19-year-old special brand of baseball suck.
Burgher: Anyone who lives in or who has ever lived in, near, or around the city of Pittsburgh. Being a Burgher is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with real estate.
The Butler: See "Woy."
Cabbage Patch Baby Cici Donna: Steeler Casey Hampton. 'Cause he looks like a Cabbage Patch Doll. I tend to work the word fluffernutter into any post about him.
The Chief of Making Shit Up: Dick Skrinjar, the former Press Secretary for the Mayor. Now wallowing in the Shuffleboard and Mothballs Office.
Choke-A-Bitch: My roller derby name if I was ever brave enough to try roller derby.
Choke-A-Bitch-ocrat: Abbreviated as CAB and trademarked by reader Magnus Patris. My official political party when I run for Mayor. Campaign slogan: Mwah-hahahaha!
Clowns, scientologists, Dead-Eyed Dolls, Howler Monkeys, Cats, "The Unknown": Things that I am afraid of.
The Defecator: Najeh Davenport, former Steelers running back, so named for his penchant for pooping in closets.
Ding!: This term is mostly used to mark the occasion when I or someone else uses the word "shat." Shat is a great word, most famously used by T&A in this post.
Dirty Bow-Chicka-Bow: Sex.
Donkey Omelets: Balls.
The Dread Lord Zober: Yarone Zober, the Mayor's chief of staff. He destroys people, y'all!
The Duke of Fug and The Earl of Gross: "The Duke" for short, Steelers quarterback, champion-drinker, lesbian action-loving, non-helmet-wearing, twice accused alleged sexual-assaulter Ben Roethlisberger. This name was inspired by his very own minions. It began as The Earl of Fug and the Duke of Gross and somewhere along the line, I got mixed up. We're sticking with The Duke of Fug and The Earl of Gross.
Foul Dwarf: See Skippy Skeeve.
The Fug Bunnies: Another name for The Duke's minions. Trademarked by PittCheMBA.
The Giantest Vacuum of Suck EVER!: Steely Frickin' McBeam.
Ken Rice: Not me. Was never me. But a long time before I revealed my identity, people thought he was me. Or I was him. Or whatever. You know.
King Kong: UPMC. That beast.
The Luke Ravenstahl Move Forward Drinking Game: It's fun. Here are the rules. Here's where we began. Arriba!
Lukey: Mayor Luke Ravenstahl. He's like, important and stuff. He likes to throw around phrases like "certainly" and "myself and other individuals" and "Hizzoner Master Lukey in da house!" and "Ethics? WTF are ethics?"
Pigeons: An evil scourge placed on the Earth by Satan before time began. My life goal is to eradicate the pigeon from existence, PETA be damned. Here's where it began for me. I kick pigeons every chance I get.
Self-United Husbands: It's legal to self-unite in marriage in the great state of PA, so I went ahead and united myself to David Conrad, Matt Lamanna, Daniel Sepulveda and Joe Manganiello. Step off. I was briefly self-united to Pirate Doug Mientkiewicz, but he's no longer a Pirate, so I self-divorced him.
Skippy Skeeve: Jeff Reed, the pubic hair-flashing, slut-loving, paper-towel dispenser beating, public-drunkenness arrested, all around nasty fairy princess who was the kicker for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He makes it his life's goal to look as ridiculous as possible at all times.
Smokin' Hot Burgher: A Burgher who has transcended regular hot and has officially been branded to be smokin' by me. It's a very exclusive club. Meetings usually begin with Daniel Sepulveda taking his shirt off. Holla.
Stalk-O-Meter: My imaginary machine that I regularly calibrate when there is a celebrity in town. My default setting is Stun and Self-Unite.
That's Church: It is so. It is true. It is not a lie. It is church. Stolen from Snoop Dogg in a Monk episode and brought to my attention by my sister Tina Fey/Marcia. Is the name that took over for The Burgh Blog upon my return to blogging.
Troysus: Troy Polamalu. Because he's like the closest thing to Jesus. He heals people, y'all.
Thugalicious: I'm not really sure what this means, but I use it to mean fly, awesome, cool, hip, happening, fierce, or any other number of words that could be replaced with kickass.
What The Effies: Kind of like WTF?, but used to describe those particularly batshit crazy CraigsList posters. Stay away from that What The Effie. He will totes cook you and eat you.
Woy: This is my friend who is also my "butler" as he was branded during my anonymous days. The keeper of the technological doohickeys and code that keep my site running. You might also see him referred to as "Woycheck" or "Mike" or "The Godfather of Social Media." My goal in life is to get him to say, "Wouldst madame care for a spot of tea?"


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Dianna Agron Steps Out After Split from Nick Mathers
Dianna Agron looks super chic while stopping by Alfred Coffee & Kitchen on Tuesday afternoon (February 11) in Los Angeles.
It was revealed that same day that the 27-year-old Glee actress and her boyfriend Nick Mathers split after dating for around five months.
A source told E! News that Dianna "dumped him a month ago," but didn't reveal why the couple split. Busy schedules could definitely be a factor as she has been working on her new indie film Zipper in Louisiana while Nick has been busy managing restaurants in New York and Los Angeles.
10+ pictures inside of Dianna Agron picking up some coffee…


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DOVER — The journey to end breast cancer starts with a single step.
Take that step with us at the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Dover on Sunday, Oct. 21. Just a few hours of your time will help bring a lifetime of change for people facing breast cancer and their families.
This is a noncompetitive 3-mile walk open to all. We encourage students, families and friends, school groups, companies, and organizations to form teams. Many of our walkers have faced breast cancer. Some are newly diagnosed, some are still in treatment, many are years beyond their diagnosis.
Others have lost loved ones to the disease while others have no personal connection, but want to help ensure that progress against the disease continues.
Every Making Strides event is a powerful and inspiring opportunity to unite as a community to honor breast cancer survivors, raise awareness about what we can do to stay well from breast cancer, and raise money to help the American Cancer Society fight the disease with breast cancer research, information and services, and access to mammograms for women who need them.
In addition to walkers, we need volunteers to help before the event and day of the event, and sponsors to underwrite expenses and provide in-kind services. Sign up now to help:
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer readied in Dover
DOVER — The journey to end breast cancer starts with a single step.


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How to Find a WordPress Theme That Matches Your Needs and Message
One of the questions I am often asked is, what is the best theme for your WordPress theme? The simple answer is no theme is better than any other, I know of highly successful blog built on the standard themes that come preloaded with a fresh install of WordPress and I know of others that use predesigned themes and others using full custom designed themes. You want the theme to


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Finding My Way to Sesame Street
By Liza Dorison
As a college junior I had watched many of my peers graduate and enter the professional world. Many of my friends with similar interests and work experience fell into social media entry level positions, specifically communications. Because my small liberal arts college does not offer a Communications major I began to wonder what the draw was to public relations and communications outside of college. I wanted to know more. I needed a contact in the business to chat with. It is easy to search major PR firms online and compile a list, but without a name or some sort of connection I was in trouble.


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As part of our ongoing commitment to help develop young footballers we are delighted to announce details of a Free TetraBrazil Taster session for kids in Bolton. Places are on a first come first served basis so please put your name down
- Train with pro footballers
- Develop technical skills and knowledge
- A chance to win prizes and MORE
Where and when?
Sutton Goals
5.15pm – 6.15pm - 6-9yr olds
6.15pm – 7.15pm – 10-15yr olds
Who Can Attend?
Boys & girls of all ages & abilities. Groups will be split between juniors aged 9 and under and those aged 10 plus
What To Bring?
There is no need to bring anything. We will be using a 3G pitch - so use appropriate footwear.
To book your place FREE please register here on our Eventbrite page or text Simon on 07855776776


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CFE Media agreement shares CSIA associate, certified member expertise with readers
The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) and CFE Media have entered into a content partnership agreement that will deliver the knowledge and insight of CSIA associate and certified members to the readers of Control Engineering and Plant Engineering magazines and their related Websites.
"These publications have long understood the importance of the system integrator in the successful operation of manufacturing plants," said Steve Rourke, managing partner of CFE Media. "For years, we have presented the System Integrator of the Year award and published the Automation Integrator Guide to make it easier for readers to access the talents of automation system integrators. This content partnership extends that relationship."
"Our readers have told us the increased importance of professional integrators to help them expand their facilities and improve their operations," said Control Engineering content manager Mark T. Hoske. "This content partnership will bring that expertise to our readers on a continuing basis through case studies, best practices, tips and tricks, and even multimedia presentations."
Working with CSIA professional staff, CSIA certified and associate members will be able to suggest and contribute articles to Plant Engineering and Control Engineering. That content will be shared with their combined print circulation of more than 125,000 and Website audiences of more than 100,000 unique viewers.
"There is a tremendous amount of expertise among CSIA members," said Plant Engineering content manager Bob Vavra. "We want to deliver that expertise to our content users through whatever form they wish to receive it. We know our readers always have valued CSIA-authored content in the past. This new partnership will deliver more information in a more targeted way."
"An overwhelming number of our integrator members have agreed to provide content so we look forward to serving the needs of CFE Media and their readers," said CSIA Executive Director Bob Lowe. "Never before has CSIA had a structured system to connect our members to the media. CSIA staff and our 300-plus member companies worldwide will convey their industrial automation knowledge and wisdom, both from a business and technical perspective, through CFE Media for years to come.".
As a former system integrator, Lowe relies on experience to identify topics and potential authors who can bring a "from-the-trenches viewpoint" to articles for CFE publications. Ann Massie Nelson, CSIA communications manager, has written and edited articles on a wide range of topics. She will be working with CSIA member-authors to wordsmith content into news and feature style, ready for publication.
Control System Integrators Association
CFE Media
Control Engineering System Integrator of the Year Hall of Fame


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by Cum On Pictures April 20, 2011
When a girl uploads an attractive or sexually orientated photograph of herself. A male will then print the photograph, masturbate to it and then cum onto it. They will then take a photo of the end result and send it to the girl. It is growing in popularity with young couples, as it shows the males appreciation of his partner.
"She wanted me to cum tribute her photo"
by vickymac January 14, 2014
A peculiar sexual fetish known primarily among the Web 2.0 generation of perverts. Exhibitionist male self-photographers ejaculate onto pictures, or sometimes onto other objects, which directly reference (e.g. depict, name, imply) another web user, often a concomitant voyeur of either sex.
by Cidney January 04, 2008
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Rocky Men's TMC Postal Approved Sport Chukka Duty Boots
Item # 050C75
- Rocky Men's TMC Postal Approved Sport Chukka Duty Boots
- Item # 050C75
$149.99 Online Price
Additional Information
Product Features & Description
The Rocky Duty line has dedicated itself to creating boots that will keep the soles of the armed forced comfortable no matter what the condition Their full line of duty boots are geared towards the police, postal, and security industries. These TMC Postal Approved Chukka Duty Boots are Berry Compliant and made in the USA. It has the Airport foot bed that provides comfort and support, and the Aegis Microbe Shield has been applied to the foot bed to keep it fresh and long lasting. The postal approved outsole will allow you to walk the miles with comfort and support.
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- Full-grain leather
- Water resistant leather
- Aegis microbe shield
- Airport foot bed
- Non-metallic stabilizer
- Work heel
- Round toe
- Slip and oil resistant TMC direct attach TPU/PU outsole
- Made in the USA and Berry Compliant


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Size: 46mm
The Tiffen 46mm Digital Essentials Filter Kit contains all the basics that an outdoor digital shooter requires.
UV Protector
These are wise initial investments. They help protect your valuable investment from dust, moisture and scratches, which can lead to costly repairs.
Circular Polarizer
Light rays which are reflected become polarized. Polarizing filters are used to select which light rays enter your camera lens. They can remove unwanted reflections from non-metallic surfaces such as water or glass and also saturate colors providing better contrast. The effect can be seen through the viewfinder and changed by rotating the filter. The filter factor varies according to how the filter is rotated and its orientation to the sun.
The entire kit comes with a Tiffen padded storage pouch that will help keep your filters clean and free from dust, dirt, fingerprints and other contaminants,.
Tiffen's ColorCore glass is produced through a process that entails permanently laminating the filter material in between two pieces of optical glass that are ground flat to tolerances of a ten-thousandth of an inch, then mounting them in precision aluminum rings.
|Digital Essentials Kit
UV Protector: Not applicable
Circular Polarizer: Not applicable
Neutral Density: 0.6
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UV Protector: 0
Circular Polarizer: Between 2.3 and 2.8 (approx. +1.3 stops)
Neutral Density: 2-stops
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UV Protector: Reduces excessive blue; cuts through haze and can improve image clarity; protects front element of lens
Circular Polarizer: Removes reflections and increases color saturation without affecting the overall color balance
Neutral Density: Reduce the amount of light reaching the digital sensor or film plane; to use high speed ISOs in bright light
UV Protector: Helpful when photographing mountain and marine scenes, where increased haze threatens to make your photographs indistinct in color and clarity
Circular Polarizer: Nature, travel, outdoor photography
Neutral Density: Nature, travel, outdoor photography
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With a new year right around the corner, it's the perfect time to reflect back and compare how taxes are reported today with how they were filed 30 years ago in 1982.
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So I pulled up some ancient forms and tax laws and did a study. Ronald Reagan was in the White House and he introduced the 1982 Deficit Reduction Compromise. Under the plan, Reagan agreed to a minor increase in business taxes while pushing through his spending cuts. The major tax code revisions, which have often been cited in the today's fiscal cliff debate, did not occur until 1986.
Here's how the major deductions were handled:
NOW: Being eligible for the medical deduction is tough. To determine if you qualify you have to add up all of your medical expenses then subtract 7.5% of your adjusted gross income. Your deduction is the remainder. Beginning in 2013, the amount you subtract will be 10% unless you are over age 65.
THEN: Back in 1982 you had to subtract only 1% of your adjusted gross income.
NOW: Today, the IRS only allows mortgage and investment interest as itemized deductions on Schedule A. You might be able to take some vehicle interest under employee business expenses if you used your car in your employment. But that's about it.
THEN: Back in 1982, you could take an interest deduction for credit card interest, consumer loans and all charge accounts. Those deductions were eliminated with the major revisions to the tax code in 1986.
NOW: The IRS is cracking down on its documentation requirements for proof of donations. IT wasn't long ago when the agency did not look askance at non- receipted donations that added up to only $100 or so. I've been through audits with clients who threw a couple of bucks into the church offering plate every Sunday without getting a receipt and it wasn't an issue. It was never disallowed. Nowadays, you must have
THEN: In 1982, the only requirements were that you must give the name of the organization if you contributed more than $3,000 to any one organization.
Miscellaneous Itemized Deductions
In 1982, employee business expenses, tax preparation fees, union and professional dues, etc. were not subject to the 2% haircut like they are now. Like medical, you total the deductions then subtract 2% of your adjusted gross income from the total. What remains is what you may write off.
Employee Business Expenses
In 1982, employee business expenses were deductible right off the top as an adjustment to income on the front of the tax return. So it didn't matter if you itemized or not, you still got the deduction. This was so much fairer for employees who racked up expenses that employers would not reimburse. Or whose expenses were included on their W2. For example, if you had an automobile expense account that wasn't an accountable plan it must be reported on the employee's W2. For example, an employer gave his employee $500 per month in gas money, $6,000 for the year would be added to the W2. Now the employee must report the income but if he can't itemize deductions he loses the write off.
The tax rates in 1982 ranged from 12% on incomes in excess of $3,400 up to 50% on incomes exceeding $106,000. Today's rates range from 10% on incomes in excess of $8,700 to 35% on incomes exceeding $388,350.
And that's one thing that makes the tax code confusing. The IRS gives deductions with one hand then levies heavy rates with the other hand or vice versa, depending on the tax year and the whims of Congress.
Bonnie Lee is an Enrolled Agent admitted to practice and representing taxpayers in all fifty states at all levels within the Internal Revenue Service. She is the owner of Taxpertise in Sonoma, CA and the author of Entrepreneur Press book, "Taxpertise, The Complete Book of Dirty Little Secrets and Hidden Deductions for Small Business that the IRS Doesn't Want You to Know." Follow Bonnie Lee on Twitter at BLTaxpertise and at Facebook.


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It's never easy to spot the right trends in the entertainment world, but here at HitFix we take pride in delivering the sort of insights only insanely addictive pop culture personalities can provide. And if you're reading this on New Year's weekend we'll take a guess you might fall into that category too. So, here are some takes that should satisfy your craving for an entertainment fix.
2009 saw its share of buddy comedies, vampires, bad Gerard Butler flicks and toy sequels, but 2010 will be a tad different. Some oldies will be making a comeback (in more ways than one) and some new stars and genres are on the horizon as well. Check out our list of what's in and what's out in movies for twenty-ten and share your own thoughts on what the new year in cinema will bring.
|What's Out
|What's In
|Robert Pattinson
|Taylor Lautner
|Tyler Perry
|Lee Daniels
|Ashley Greene
|Anna Kendrick
|"Single White Female"
|"The Roommate"
|Video Game Movies
|80s TV Show Movies
|Bradley Cooper
|Zach Galifianakis
|"Monsters Vs. Aliens"
|Gerard Butler romantic comedies
|Paul Bettany action flicks
|Robert Zemeckis
|James Cameron
|steadi-cam action shots
|handheld action shots
|Jared Hess
|The Duplass Brothers
|CG animation
|Stop motion animation
|Channing Tatum
|Alex Pettyfer
|"Saw 3D"
|"A Nightmare on Elm Street"
|Amy Adams
|Jennifer Lopez
|cheap indies
|cheap genre flicks
|Angelina Jolie going for Oscar
|Angelina Jolie kicking ass
|AFI Fest
|Tom Hanks
|Denzel Washington
|Large $8 sodas
|Overpriced Vitamin Water
|Movie marketing on MySpace
|Any other social network
|Post–Apocalyptic Blockbusters
|Period Fantasy Blockbusters
|Jennifer Aniston
|Sandra Bullock
|Weekend Box Office
|Opening Day Box Office
|Hugh Grant
|Colin Firth
|"Star Wars"
|"Star Trek"
|Sacha Baron Cohen
|Russell Brand
|Michael Cera playing teenagers
|Michael Cera as a twentysomething
|"Pirates of the Caribbean 4"
|"Tron Legacy"


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Reviewed by DianaS. (age 10)
In the beginning, there was a knock on the door. When he and Secretary Bird open the door, there was Principal Porcupine. The Principal said he had a case for Flat Foot Fox to solve. He said that Flat Foot Fox wouldn't believe it, but the schoolhouse was missing! A weasel claims that he is a magician and he made the school disappear with his magic, and later other neighbors of Principal Porcupine claim they made it disappear.
I thought the book was really good. The reason I like this book is because I like mysteries, and because it is very exciting and fun. My favorite part was when Flat Foot fox solved the case, because it was the best part. My favorite character is Secretary Bird because he is funny and works with Flat Foot Fox. I recommend this book to people who like mysteries and exciting books.


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Battery plays major role in eighth straight series win
MINNEAPOLIS -- Quite a news-making evening for the Royals' catching staff.
First, All-Star catcher Salvador Perez had to leave the game with a sore right knee. Then, backup Erik Kratz replaced him and socked two solo home runs.View Full Game Coverage
MINNEAPOLIS -- Quite a news-making evening for the Royals' catching staff.
First, All-Star catcher Salvador Perez had to leave the game with a sore right knee. Then, backup Erik Kratz replaced him and socked two solo home runs.View Full Game Coverage
In the end, there was good news all around. Perez's injury wasn't considered serious and Kratz's home runs provided the margin of victory in Kansas City's suddenly tight 6-4 victory over the Twins on Monday night at Target Field.
"I'll play tomorrow night," Perez insisted, looking ahead to Tuesday night's game at Colorado.
Maybe, maybe not, but at least what manager Ned Yost called a pinched patella tendon was not believed to be at all serious.
Kratz swung right into action as a pinch-hitter for Perez in the seventh inning, blasting the first pitch he saw from reliever Anthony Swarzak over the left-field wall for a 4-0 lead. Then, in the ninth, he sent a 1-0 pitch from Ryan Pressly over the center-field wall, 412 feet away.
"The first home run -- it shows you how strong he is -- he actually broke his bat," Yost said. "On the second home run, to drive a ball to center field like that shows a lot of strength."
Left-hander Jason Vargas held the Twins to one run -- Oswaldo Arcia's homer -- in his seven innings. He improved his record to 10-5.
As a team, the Royals had a variety of accomplishments:
• They won their eighth straight series, the first time they've done that since 1991.
• They climbed 14 games over the .500 mark at 69-55 for the first time since Aug. 9, 1994, when they were 64-50. Alas, the '94 work stoppage ended the season a day later.
• The victory was the Royals' 21st in their last 26 games, a stretch that coincides with the string of series wins.
As it developed, this latest victory didn't come very easily.
Vargas was zipping right along and the Royals finally got to rookie right-hander Trevor May, who was making just his second Major League start. He did himself no good by walking the bases full in the fifth inning.
There were two out but Perez lined a two-run single into center field, starting on his journey around the bases that eventually would pinch his knee. Billy Butler followed with an RBI single and when Alex Gordon's hit again loaded the bases, May was through.
Swarzak arrived to strike out ex-Twin Josh Willingham to keep the score 3-0.
Then fate brought Kratz into the game for Perez, who remained in the game to catch two more innings.
"I knew he was dealing with something, but when you're catching, you're always dealing with something and it's something he played through a little bit," Kratz said. "I was ready to go down to the bullpen to warm the guys up down there, not necessarily to go in the game."
But into the game he went in the seventh to unleash his broken-bat blast, something he couldn't recall happening to him before.
"No, I wouldn't say that's something that you normally do," Kratz said.
Twins coach Terry Steinbach, who took over from ejected manager Ron Gardenhire, was astounded.
"It was a broken bat on the ball to left," Steinbach said. "In all my years, I don't think I've seen that. So you tip your cap on that one and he hit a monster one to center."
Yep, after a fifth run in the eighth, Kratz unloaded again in the ninth.
"The next person is ready to step up," Vargas said appreciatively. "Salvy's a huge part of our team but, at the same time, we've got to keep him healthy and keep him in there for the long haul. For Kratz to come in and step up and go big fly twice is pretty nice. Especially when they were able to extend the game a little bit, those two runs really counted."
Oh yes, that little extension in the Twins' ninth. Wade Davis threw a perfect eighth, extending his string to 20 2/3 scoreless innings, and Kratz's second homer boosted the Royals' lead to 6-1.
So, hoping to give closer Greg Holland a third straight game off, Yost brought in Aaron Crow to pitch the ninth. But, after an out, Crow gave up two singles and a three-run homer to Trevor Plouffe.
Suddenly the lead was down to two runs and the summons went out to Holland.
"That's why I always do my stretch routine and get ready, because you never know," Holland said. "You get a little chink ground ball and, all of a sudden, the guy works the count full and you've got to throw him a fastball and he hits a three-run homer. You've got to be ready for those situations."
So in he came and immediately got two outs, recording his 38th save.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Ave salaries for Czech people? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Ave salaries for Czech people? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Czech Republic View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message elliot_spencerJoined: 26 Feb 2007Posts: 495 Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 11:27 am Post subject: Ave salaries for Czech people? I was reading that the ave salary in Prague is 20,000crowns a month.. is that net or gross? If gross what does that translate to in Net? Thanks Back to top spiral78Joined: 05 Apr 2004Posts: 11514Location: On a Short Leash Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 1:09 pm Post subject: Are you asking about salaries for Czechs or salaries for English teachers in Prague? 20,000 should be approximate net for a full time teacher. The kicker is that average rents/month run 8,000 - 12,000. It's subsistence wages. Back to top elliot_spencerJoined: 26 Feb 2007Posts: 495 Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 1:52 pm Post subject: Hi, I was talking about Czech people... not TEFLers. Back to top spiral78Joined: 05 Apr 2004Posts: 11514Location: On a Short Leash Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 3:56 pm Post subject: Although analysts expect average gross monthly wages in the Czech Republic to rise to around CZK 21,000 (about 744 as at 14 January 2007) in 2007, and civil servants pay to rise by CZK 1,050 (37), many of the Czech Republics other four million employees are not likely to experience any increase in real incomes; in fact, some workers might even face a drop in real incomes. Slightly outdated, but I think still pretty accurate based on what our (Czech) family members in Prague earn. There is quite a large difference depending on region - Praguers and other big-city dwellers, like everywhere, usually make relatively more than small-town workers. There is also quite a split these days between top and medium earners. Out of curiosity, why are you interested? Hoping to marry a relatively high-earning Czech Chick? Or have you been offered one of those shady jobs that touts its wages are 'high' by local standards? Back to top ovieJoined: 26 May 2010Posts: 6 Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:39 am Post subject: around 20,000 a month sounds accurate to me Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Czech Republic All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China