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Maud's Ice Creams Ltd will present its 'Poor Bear' ice cream at a tasting session next Tuesday, at Belfast City Airport, to a panel of food and drink experts including one of the UK's most high-profile food critics, Charles Campion.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — At the 1998 Masters, when the golf world was just beginning to try to make sense of Tiger Woods, tournament leader Fred Couples told the press, "I wish I was Tiger's age, but when he's 30, I think he's going to be spent."
Or not. Woods is coming to the end of 31 (he turns 32 later this month), and on Tuesday he was announced as the PGA Tour's player of the year for the ninth time, a surprise to virtually no one. He was at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif., to host his Target World Challenge tournament when the news was announced.
"This year was just a fantastic year on the golf course and even better off the golf course," said Woods, who will try to defend his title at the Target.
Woods did almost all that was asked of him in 2007. He won seven tournaments, including his 13th major at the PGA Championship, two events in the season-ending FedEx Cup playoffs, and the season-long FedEx Cup, collecting $10 million in deferred compensation. He won the Vardon Trophy for low scoring average, again; led the money list, again; and is now the player of the year, again.
There were a few bumps along the way, some of them unprecedented. He worked his way into the last group on Sunday at both the Masters and the U.S. Open, a position from which he'd been a virtual lock for his entire career, but lost both tournaments. At the British Open at Carnoustie he hit the worst looking shot of his career, a shockingly bad pull-hooked iron off the first tee box that bounded aimlessly into the drink.
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"I was just a few shots away from basically doing what I did in 2000; the number of seconds I had, it wasn't that far away," Woods said, alluding to his best season, when he won three majors. "What did I finish, second to Phil, and then the two major championships? If I get those done, get those squared away, people would probably be comparing it to 2000 if not better."
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PayPal mobile vice president David Marcus explained what the network aims to do on the company's blog:
The initiative will require that carriers revise standards to help optimize user experience, increase flexibility of carrier payments as a payment method, and increase payout rates for merchants, allowing carrier payments to address the entire digital goods industry, which is expected to grow to $220 billion by 2014 according to Juniper Research.
The Carrier Payment Network is part of the multi-pronged approach PayPal and its parent company eBay are taking with mobile payments. In an interview with VentureBeat at the Mobile World Congress, Marcus also reiterated PayPal's plans to roll out mobile payments to all Home Depot stores (over 2,000 locations) within the next few months, following a trial run in a few select stores.
Be it carrier payments, or simply picking up that much-needed chainsaw at Home Depot, eBay and PayPal want to be in on the mobile payments action. The companies today also announced two new mobile payment partnerships with Yotel, a company that offers temporary sleep pods for travelers, and Entradas, Spain's top ticketing company.
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The Chinese Takeover Of Kenya's Art Pavilion
In May, the Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) will return for the 56th time. This year the exhibition is headed up by the Biennale's first African director, Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor, and will see the participation of over 21 African artists in the main exhibit at the Central Pavilion (out of a total of 136). What might have been a cause for celebration on the continent, though, has been marred for some by controversy at Kenya's national pavilion. For the second Biennale in a row, the Kenyan Pavilion has been commissioned and curated by a pair of Italians named Paola Poponi and Sandro Orlandi Stagl. As in 2013, the roster of the artists selected to participate in the Kenyan pavilion is largely Chinese. Back in 2013 two out of twelve participating artists were Kenyan-born; and this year Yvonne Apiyo Braendle-Amolo is the only Kenyan on the list of seven artists, which includes six Chinese artists, as well as the controversial Italian hotelier Armando Tanzini.
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Happy Halloween!! This week, Robin and Alex look into the plausibility of several suspect and horrifying Ghost Sightings!! Don't forget to Subscribe for more …
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At Waverly Hospital in Louisville KY. I didn't see spirits but felt something.
Oh I wish you'd showed the pathetic attempts when Most Haunted visited Pontefract. They tried to pull of Carl being pulled backwards up the stairs on a live show on Halloween. If Stewart hadn't bungled the rope around Carl's chest !!
Ghosts aren't real so ALL of these clips and stories are obviously fake.
That's what I've been saying for years.. When people say something like "we saw the ghost of a Union Soldier in uniform.." I just think, interesting, so the spirit(s) of his uniform jacket and pants just float around with him..?
Every "haunted house" has one thing in common….a teenage white girl living in it lol.
your western culture only defy afterlife live and your titters and reasoning is for justify there is not afterlife
Dimensions are overlapping each other i think
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me and my freinds went to this church and saw some really ghost like things up stair about a year later they closed the upstairs room
we dont know if there hiding anything or not but they could be
Go spend the night!
I would love to tell Alltime one of my ghost stories. I've looked at it from every logical way I could and think this could be a plausible ghost sighting, or a really strong hallucination (which I doubt since I don't do any drugs and especially when I was a kid lol)
A ghost wanted to look at my butt hole I said no and called the fucking police. Everything is OK now I smeared my booty hole with black stuff so the ghost don't wanna look at a black ass.
CGI on the chinese video.
That ghost footage is fake, clearly that is the cheap and lazy effect of multiply filters in a video editing software. The movement, the shrinkage, the angle change from lying down to upright, are all too artificial and mechanical to be realistic if ghost really exists. Its head has no movement, once the image is move upright, and it just moves to upper righter without any body movement.
I've had my own experiences with the paranormal and for the most part I do believe there's more going on than what's capable for human understanding, but I'm also open to skepticism in my own experiences. I've seen a transparent figure moving around 3 times, saw moving shadows a few other times when I was then only person present, I've witnessed something banging on my closet door from the inside once and there was nobody in there or nothing logical to cause it, I recorded a voice on my phone a while back in the static which is the only proof I have. Although I understand not everyone could even trust what I'm saying to be true either lol I just know of my own experiences and it will all remain inconclusive. On top of that I've seen a ufo but that's besides the point aha maybe I'm just crazy
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umm ok so about mid August of this year I had a scary vivid nightmare and I could intensely feel it as if it were real. then I woke up and tried to go back to sleep but as soon as I closed my eyes I saw a floating black robed figure. then watching this month's later is actually scaring me. especially at @0:50
The A is not so convincing, the B is clearly fake but the C is the most convincing to me! I love paranormal stuff!
As for the first two, yeah , I don't believe them to much. I honestly don't trust the ghost guys on TV shows, As for the last one, so much about old photography back then is iffy. I do agree that the second one was a fake, my mom used to do a lot with old and new photos, It was like her job.
That ghost leaving the body.. Is so real.. Like wowo… Never seen something like that..
The scariest and spookiest part of this video is dude on the left's face and voice are such a weird creepy mismatch. He has the pedophile face with the creepy movie voice! Sheesh. He was better off just narrating doing the audio. The visual is straight up wtf. Imo. Thumbs up 4 dude looking like a weirdo. 😁😉😎🤔😝😯🤐😒
First 2 a pure joke 🙂
Ghosts or to use the technical term horses**t.
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Victorians loved photo manipulation though.. especially anything ghosty or horror like. There's lots of photos of "headless" Victorians where a friend or family member is holding the head.
I know I'm 4 months late to the party (binge-watching, sorry!) but whilst I've never seen a ghost, a number of weird things have happened that I just can't explain. One I remember very clearly was a (rather heavy) box of jewellery on a low shelf in the kitchen. I didn't know it was there at the time, as it turned out to be a gift from my father. As I was sat at the dining room table on my laptop, a good 10-15 feet from the aforementioned box, it threw itself off the shelf hard enough to break open and spill the jewellery onto the carpet. It made such a racket that my parents, the other side of the wall, were in the room before I could stand up. The door was closed and we had no pets.
I was blamed for being clumsy and/or trying to sneak a look at my presents early.
You should change the ad title for this video, when t appears on the side of the playing videos it says 10 ghosts…but you only do 3….
Should have shown that clip at Eastern State Pen by Ghost Hunters. You know the one.
Also #3: also making it more believable is that if that's the result of someone physically walking in and sitting during a long exposure, you'd get at least a couple of distortions throughout the photo from where a person has walked in and out. How do you think those long exposures of star trails work? https://www.photographymad.com/files/images/star-trails.jpg They capture movement. Plus why wouldn't it capture the bottom half of the person? I think it's a perfectly legitimate example. I think it really is him.
Oh and another: manners would have dictated that no one sit in the favourite chair of a recently dead man, especially in those times. It would be impolite. Manners were a massive deal especially in wealthy families. So I think it unlikely that some guy would just waltz in and sit in that chair.
Gentelmen, go spend the night with the Monk, why not?
Ive had experiences with ghosts
Did he reference king of the hill with the pocket sand?
"I didn't know ghosts moved in key frames" 🙂
Hahaha, gotta love a ghost that has to use a door to leave!!
Look at the Getty's burg videos
Great video. I don't believe any are real.
Top ten conspiracies with the most witnesses!
Just a fun fact: manipulation was VERY common, even in the beginning of the photographic medium. Look up spirit photography! Studios also painted their negatives to improve the subjects' looks and strapped them into rigid holders to control how they sat. Photoshop isn't all you can do to change photos 😊


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So what do you think the hundred million illegals* in the US are doing now that their #1 industry (housing) has completely tanked, and state governments are getting tough?
* DISCLAIMER: My 100 million number is as accurate as any the government puts out. Nobody knows the truth - they're ILLEGAL and UNCOUNTED.
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Pretty much nothing judging from the crowd handing outside of Home Depot at any given day.
- April 21, 2008 9:08 PM
* DISCLAIMER: My 100 million number is as accurate as any the government puts out. Nobody knows the truth - they're ILLEGAL and UNCOUNTED.
That's pretty dumb. Just because no one else has a legit number, doesn't give you the right to make up a number. I like the blog, don't go messin it up with made up stuff. Otherwise you're no better than the other guys makin up their numbers. And that's not why we read your blog.
- April 21, 2008 9:11 PM
- keith said...
Anon, get a clue while you're also looking for your sense of humor.
The difference between my 100 mil number and the government one is that I promote that I pulled it out of my ass, whereas they publish it as truth, and the MSM goes along for the ride.
The point is important though - NOBODY FREAKING KNOWS. NOBODY.
- April 21, 2008 9:14 PM
What they are doing is nothing! Hanging out drinking medelo or coronas at the circle K in Lake Worth Florida by the hundreds. Basically if they don't find work by 12 then they have the day off to drink and since they live with 10 others just like them there cost of living is dirt cheap. Since these 4 footers are home and drunk the only other thing to do is to f@ck their illegal wife/girlfriend and put out as many kids as possible because we give WIC cards with more $$ based on how many anchor babies they have! Living like Jimmy Buffet with a mexican and a bottle of tequilia.
- April 21, 2008 9:21 PM
Standing around in front of various places. At least before they had somewhere to be, like a roofing job...
IMO local governments aren't going to get tougher. They'll whine that they don't have enough money to do anything about it, and attempt to put even more tax burdens on an already overtaxed population.
- April 21, 2008 9:47 PM
I hope they protest like mad. After the 100 million illegals organize a march on Washington, they can all get arrested for thier efforts!
I dont care what they need or want, its bad enough that we have so many legal's with thier hands out as it is.
- April 21, 2008 9:49 PM
Getting Drunk, driving uninsured &unregistered vehicles and crashing into and crippling US citizens every day.
Put a bounty out on illegals.
Just bring the scalp in for payment.
- April 21, 2008 9:55 PM
True story..
Was looking for someone to help me with yard work in one of my investment properties.
I placed an ad in a local paper offering $15 an hour (I know it's not much, but the work requires no special skill just a little elbow grease).
Got several responses, most seemed like they where just looking for additional information. (my ad stated looking for someone to help rake up a yard).
One person agreed to meet me Saturday morning, I got there with the tools, waited a while - he did not show up; tried calling him but he did not answer the phone.
A young person walk by, I stopped him and asked if he's interested in helping me out for $15 an hour, he said not today but he would be avail on Sunday, got his name and number and we arranged for me to call him Sunday morning.
Called him at about 9:30 am, it sounded like I woke him after a night of boozing, he said not today and to try him again tomorrow.
Later in the day while driving around I noticed someone that looked like a Mexican person waiting at a bus stop, I pulled over and asked him if he would be avail to help me,
With a smile on face he immediately agreed.
He did a fantastic job with a smile the entire time; it was a pleasure to work with him.
It was my first experience working with a Mexican.
I will from here on go out my to avoid hiring my fellow lazy ass white trash, and without a doubt be looking for Mexicans, and raise them financially at the same time.
If we end up a Spanish speaking Country, I would be OK with it.
As of now: at the bottom of my list are White Europeans, totally worthless, by far the laziest species of mankind.
Next up are White-trash Americans, not bad but not my priority anymore.
Prefer first generation Americans from anywhere across the globe (besides Europe).
They are willing to earn a living.
- April 21, 2008 10:17 PM
- April 21, 2008 10:21 PM
What are they doing? Well, I live in Southwest Florida and I will tell you.
They start grow houses in the homes that they bought using Bank of America no-doc, adjustable rate loans. They steal electricity. The neighborhoods where they lived looks like slums, though the houses are less than 3 years old.
When the sheriff's office decides to finally do their job and bust the grow houses, the illegals leave en masse, leaving dead bodies, overgrown lawns, houses so trashed that it would take a miracle to make them habitable and unpaid home loans behind. The bank will never catch up with them. They don't even know who they really are.
Thank you Mr Bush. Thank you do-nothing congress.
Are there any men left in America or are they all traitors?
"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."
-- C.S. Lewis
- April 21, 2008 10:31 PM
same things - braking our laws, producing anchor babies, living off social services, raping women and bitching about how we are tearing families apart by sending them home.
- April 21, 2008 10:49 PM
We all know the feds understate any economic problem so when they estimate 12 million you can safely double it to 24 million.
For one, they have less money to send home which makes it harder for their families to come here and join them. Many will leave and go home. Many unemployed Americans will be willing to do the low skilled jobs and will compete with the illegals
- April 21, 2008 10:50 PM
I can't wait to see the look on their faces when unemployed white people get so desperate they start taking agricultural jobs. 10 years from now, all the orange/strawberry pickers will be unionized making $30 an hour and our produce will be $20 a pound.............back to ol'Mehiko.
- April 21, 2008 11:04 PM
From what I heard from a construction guy from Tampa, the Florida illegals are all heading north to places like the mountains of North Carolina, where they can live cheap in the woods and get jobs in construction (whose building). This guy himself COMMUTES to NC from Tampa because there are jobs there. Friggin 10 hours each way. He sold off all of his goodies and commutes in a Corolla. He used tohave a Denali
- April 21, 2008 11:08 PM
- beebs said...
"A long forgotten wind is starting to blow. Do you hear the approaching thunder? It is that of the awakened Saxon. War is upon the land. The tyrants' blood will flow."
There must be an awakening about all these illegals. 100 million is just as valid as 30 million.
Move them back to Mexico!
- April 21, 2008 11:11 PM
They are just waiting for St. Barry to save them by legalizing them and their families, and giving them a huge freaking check to buy any house they want to.
Many are also probably going to the ER to get their annual physical so they can qualify for the free insurance for all that the Obama'd One will hand them.
Oh well, Mc Cain would do the same.
- April 21, 2008 11:11 PM
Hopefully going back home.
I'm a naturalized citizen, and I had to jump through a lot of hoops to become a citizen, so you can imagine how warm and fuzzy I feel inside to see mobs of illegals just crossing the border and as far as the government is concerned they're welcomed with open arms, and food stamps, & wellfare, & free medical care, etc...
Now if only we dealt with illegals the same way as Mexico does.
- April 21, 2008 11:19 PM
heading for Canada?
- April 21, 2008 11:34 PM
- Marty said...
People seem to leave out the fact that they have children. Lots of children. Instant US citizens. Now they are entitled to loads of services (ie our tax dollars), fill the hospitals, schools, and sadly, jails. Just because construction work for the fathers might be drying up, it doesn't mean they will go home again now that they have American CHILDREN (anchor babies)--THAT is the law that needs to be changed.
- April 21, 2008 11:44 PM
100 Mil probably is closer than the Govt. spin doctors put out...
Look at the number they put on inflation.I guess Anon believes that number to... until he buys milk & gas this afternoon.
- April 21, 2008 11:54 PM
Keith, here's what they aren't doing ... going back to Mexico.
We've had two drive by shootings in Scottsdale in the past month. This is the first time ever that a drive by has happened here. Wanna guess the race? Ding, ding, ding ... we have a winner.
- April 21, 2008 11:55 PM
With the corn prices going through the roof in Mexico they may need to stay here just so they don't starve.
- April 21, 2008 11:55 PM
They're going to cling to God and guns, duh.
- April 22, 2008 12:15 AM
Heading home.
- April 22, 2008 12:18 AM
Hey, at least they know how to build things and are willing to bust hump.
- April 22, 2008 12:24 AM
If you count all the offspring of the illegals over the years that are here, I betcha the 100 million is probably a lot closer than you realize. Think about it, doesn't the English or Spanish options for choices all around us say it all? If there were such a small number of illegals here as the government would like you to believe, businesses would not waste the time and money making everything bilingual.
- April 22, 2008 12:38 AM
It is easy to develop the number of invaders in the USA. Base the number of estimates from border monitors, population counts in Mexico before and after year 2000, police apprehension increases since 2000, number of new jobs added since 2000, average size of invader families, etc. Current estimate is 40-50 million. 100 million seems high although that is close to the figure the church wants to be in the USA so if we do not get active on this invasion by 3rd world haters then 100 million WILL BE a real number soon enough.
- April 22, 2008 12:42 AM
I guess they are just going to have to demand that the 7 welfare checks that go to each home be increased to compensate for the slowing economy.
kick their asses south of the boarder!!!!
- April 22, 2008 1:25 AM
I don't suppose - getting ready to move back where they came from?
- April 22, 2008 1:25 AM
The 8 "guest workers" living in the 900sq ft house down the street from me are doing pretty good. But what is it with that god awful polka music they listen too at ear splitting levels all day long ?
- April 22, 2008 1:31 AM
- Owner Earnings said...
Working on farms harvesting the increased crops.
- April 22, 2008 1:53 AM
I cannot take two steps in any direction without having to stop in my tracks or step on my brakes to avoid a group of MessyCans pushing strollers here in Orange County Kalifornika.
- April 22, 2008 2:08 AM
- mhrist said...
First: if you take the 20-30 richest people and spread their wealth to 100 million illegals they will get 10k each.
We have half a trillion with china every year... ohh, and 10 bil with mexico.
But of course the Mexicans and the other illegals wear the prada and drive the hummers and a few of them dang strawberry pickers bought a house. Frankly, at least they do something as opposed to most of the welfare redneck white trash trash.
I've never seen a Mexican male that doesn't work, he is aways working for 3-4$/hour. The rest... his woman gets in welfare because you crap white trash cannot pay a minimum wage or mow your own lawn.
I haven't seen a Mexican delegate his work to India or China.
But I have seen 2 types of white trash - welfare hobos and white trash just sitting and collecting a paycheck for no work. Even your favorite Buffet is just playing stocks and the rest of the white trash. Let me know what has Buffet ever done of real value?
I mean get real dude, no doubt u will kill them all or kick them out very soon. The only thing that will change is why you are white trash. If it ain't the Mexicans, it will be the black, if it ain't the black it will be the gov. But there is only one type of white trash that trashes their life and blames it on peeps that actually help you - you and short sighted white trash like you.
Even if there are 100 million people and they made 1000$/month you still get to 1.2 trillion most of which are spent in the US. With 300 million legals this means that those people get 1/14th of GDP and spent most of it here since from this 1.2 trillion only 10 billion go to their home countries.
Go back to KKK idiot. And let me know if you come by Bulgaria, I'll make sure to f***ck you up.
p.s. if the dang illegals took your spot strawberry picking or rich people's lawn mawing then i can understand your frustration and think you should kill them all :)
- April 22, 2008 2:18 AM
Barron's did an economic analysis and figured the number at 20,000,000 about 4 years ago. I would be surprised if the number is over 30,000,000, but it is true: no one really knows.
The Gov't and MSM have been saying 12,000,000 illegals for years! I seriously doubt the number has been standing still.
Time magazine ran a story in 2004 that said their best estimate was 8,000 illegal crossings every day. It wasn't clear how many were repeat/seasonal crossings.
- April 22, 2008 2:22 AM
- BondsOfSteel said...
100 million doesn't pass the back of the napkin test.
There's only about 100 million Mexicans. Last time I checked, there were some left in Mexico ;)
10-20 million is a more reasonable guestimate.
- April 22, 2008 2:43 AM
ILLEGAL MEX: Si, se puede! (Yes, we can!).
WINGS: No, su puede! (No, you can't!).
ILLEGAL MEX: Si, se puede, su pendejo! (Yes, we can, a--hole!).
WINGS: No, su puede su thief! (No, you can't you thief).
ILLEGAL MEX: Si, se puede. Soy La Raza! (Yes, we can. I am from THE RACE).
WINGS: No, se puede you little brown supremacist racist!
ILLEGAL MEX: Su, stole the land from La Raza. Es Aztlan, no es Los Estatdos Unidos (You stole the land from the race. It's Aztlan not the United States).
WINGS: Aww shut up you uneducated grifter!
ILLEGAL MEX: Su madre! (Your mother!)
WINGS: Tu padre pendejo! (Your father, a--hole!).
- April 22, 2008 2:46 AM
I think it's 100 million, obviously anon doesn't live any where near, texas, arizona, new mexico, and most importantly California. They can't find jobs so they are resorting to robbing people, so much for the claims they live legally. But, alas, I have noticed a difference. It appears they are going somewhere and not into empty homes. I still hear spanish but not to the degree I heard it 6 months ago, not as many people walking around with baby stollers and the lines to the back of the stores before are now more reasonable. Plus now they have a more guilty look on their faces LOL the men anyway those women are mean as rattle snakes. I have noticed more whites and blacks holding the jobs mexicans once held and so much for the argument that mexicans do what americans won't. Pay me more and I will pick fruit on my days off, well, I don't know if I'll go that far but if it that lucrative I bet alot of unemployed American's may give it a try. You never know.
- April 22, 2008 2:48 AM
- mhrist said...
I mean you would think someone like you Keith that seem they transcended simple groupthink would be able to see that thinking like that is pointless and actually bad. Let me know the difference between the jews screwing germany, and the mexicans screwing america.
Hopefully this type of stupidity won't bring 100+ billion dead and a destroyed world.
- April 22, 2008 2:49 AM
Here's a little different viewpoint of the illegal aliens in tne country. I'm guessing they are going to start teaching Americans how to cook, clean and live as large families in order to survive the coming financial meltdown. The average, if I just believe things will get better they will, American is going to be looking everywhere for a little help. I'm certain the bankers (already bottomed thanks to Uncle Benny) and the leaders in Rome can't explain it as they are too busy telling everyone how everything is going to work out since we atleast still grow food which foreigners will happily purchase.
I sure hope they don't expect us to learn Spanish in order to learn basic life skills...
- April 22, 2008 3:10 AM
I know what they're doing in Vegas....
Standing on the sidewalk snapping those "business cards" in your face for all the hookers.
- April 22, 2008 3:16 AM
keith, it's not 100 million but probably around 20 million. I'd say that about half of the 40 million latinos in this country are illegal...going back all the way to the amnesty in the 80's.
as for what they are doing...some are trying to hang on, but others are on the run to stupid states that are not looking for them and others are self-deporting.
when things get better here they will be back though...that is, unless we build the protection wall.
- April 22, 2008 3:16 AM
scare the sh#t out of you, read "The Camp of the Saints"
- April 22, 2008 3:17 AM
After spending time in the central valley of California I would say 100 million is close.
All menial jobs, most everyone you come in contact with (outside of a main office)is Mexican. Many are good at what they do though. Someday one may even be a friend.
But as a white person my guard is always up. I feel like a minority and always ready for a situation.
It may sound strange but you feel like you don't fit in-In America
- April 22, 2008 3:40 AM
Sizing you up!
- April 22, 2008 4:22 AM
That's pretty dumb. Just because no one else has a legit number, doesn't give you the right to make up a number. I like the blog, don't go messin it up with made up stuff. Otherwise you're no better than the other guys makin up their numbers. And that's not why we read your blog.
Who's we, you got a turd in your pocket dumbass. The 100,000,000 million comment is more accurate than the bullshit gov. number (lie). Furthermore, the thundering hurd of illegals devestating the wage base in this country while drinking the treasury dry shouldn't be mentioned here? Please just shut up.
Signed: Contractor who has made his living in home construction since 1985 and understands exactly how illegals fit into this discussion, even if your to stupid to.
- April 22, 2008 4:37 AM
Jim Cramer at the street.com also blamed illegals for housing in a column he wrote today.
One other thought about spending: Housing is going to bottom, I believe, as soon as the election comes, but not for the reason Bob Toll of Toll Brothers (TOL - commentary - Cramer's Take) gives, which is that the deterioration in pricing will be off the front pages.
It will bottom because we will again look the other way about illegal immigration, and because lending will get sloppy again, and the aspiring immigrants will buy the greatly reduced housing in places like Arizona an [sic] California. Nobody likes to talk about how the crackdown on immigration really messed with housing. Way too politically incorrect. But it is a big reason why, if we look like Japan now, we won't next year.
I expect a tidal wave of Latin American immigration under any of the candidates. Our schools and health care system are just too good to resist, and our housing too cheap to ignore. No value judgments -- I am sick of them. Just the real nail in the coffin of the Japan thesis I am propounding, even as I put the idea in your head as the next big wave of powerful but bogus thinking.
- April 22, 2008 5:45 AM
I don't think they will all do the same thing. I see three groups with their own unique response. Those that are a family and had children here - which are US citizens by birth - will likely try to stay and become legitimate. The single men who left families behind in their country of origin will likely return. The single men will mostly try to stay and survive by any means available - moving to where the work is and resorting to crime.
This will be a test of bleeding hearts, and rational minds.
- April 22, 2008 6:41 AM
I have a friend who was an illegal. Came here with mother and four older brothers when his dad decided it was too much work going back and forth to Mexico to see his family.
He's spent the last ten years running a contract manufacturing business while living in his Parents basement. (Not out of his basement, he has a rented building, and employees) House is paid for. Dad has social security and works part time, mother sews for a living. They grow about 1/3 of their food in the back yard. His other two unmarried brothers live at home along with one of his cousins.
Somehow I don't think they're in trouble. Someone might not have a job, but they aren't sitting on their ass eating Cheeto's and watching day time TV.
- April 22, 2008 7:18 AM
Probably 30 million undercounted.
- April 22, 2008 7:19 AM
- chris g said...
Here is a possible side effect that may not have been considered by everyone -- the layoffs at maquiladora facilities along the border.
- April 22, 2008 9:30 AM
- Russ DoGG said...
If they lef the country then that would be a sort of silver lining
- April 22, 2008 10:51 AM
The April 21 edition of the Washington Post had an article "A New View of Vacant Houses - Immigrant Crackdown Changing Block for the Better, Pr. William Pair Say..." In short, it alleges that illegal immigrants that were packed into houses have left and the houses they lived in are in foreclosure. Still, no idea where these people went to... "People on both sides of Prince William's illegal-immigration debate say Latino immigrants are leaving the county. Evidence is anecdotal, and so far it is impossible to measure the migration or whether it is driven by tough laws, economic downturn or the wave of mortgage foreclosures."
- April 22, 2008 1:04 PM
i think there are more like 125 million.
- April 22, 2008 2:18 PM
Keith, perhaps Anon. 9:11 PM doesn't have the intellectual capacity to understand that what you said was in humor. It might not be his/her/it's fault.
- April 22, 2008 2:26 PM
Immigrants were coming to this country long before there was a real estate bubble. They came to this country for the same reason that youths of upstate New York tend to migrate to New York City: that's where opportunity is. If the US becomes a socialist dump like New York City almost became in the late 70's and early 80's, net migration will become negative.
- April 22, 2008 2:37 PM
they will collect welfare like blacks. Us white people will fix everyone's problems.
- April 22, 2008 2:49 PM
- Mammoth said...
The Mexicano economy is tanked, roasted like a taco skewered on a green bamboo spit over a fire. Why? Because the illegal Mexicano is as stupid, corrupt, irresponsible, greedy, materialistic, immoral, ignorant, pretentious, dishonest, as Americano.
So is the Mexicano economy toasted or what?
Will Miguel Burrito and Tortilla Maria cash out their low rider equity now? (Haaaaa, haaaaa, haaaaa, should that be CHEVY EQUITY...?) Will they high-tail it back over the fence along the southern border, and take their drooling spawn with them?
What will happen to all those big-ass gas-guzzling pickup trucks that they drive?
Will the Mexicano be toasted as a taco skewered on a stick, its innards spilled into a sizzling bed of red hot charcoal so that only the charred shell remains?
(With apologies to Andrew Hac, but not to the illegals)
- April 22, 2008 3:01 PM
According to the crime reports, they are robbing and pillaging the Soutwestern USA wholesale.
- April 22, 2008 3:50 PM
The same way that the gov't critics use the pre-1984 CPI, they should apply pre-1924 immigration laws. Then, my guess is, 90% of illegals could be accounted for as "legals". Problem solved. :-)
BTW, in Russia we are a year ahead at prosecuting businesses for hiring illegals. The only observable result is, as you might expect, more bureaucracy.
- April 22, 2008 4:18 PM
This is what you get when you pump the cesspool from Third World countries, along with Obama's base, into your neighborhoods:
No. 1 in auto theft: Modesto, Calif.
Insurance crime group reports that western states still lead the nation in car theft.
NEW YORK -- Modesto, Calif., has the highest rate of auto theft per capita of any metropolitan area in the country, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
Top 10 metro areas by per capita auto theft rate for 2007
1. Modesto, Calif.
2. Las Vegas/Paradise, Nev.
3. San Diego/Carlsbad/San Marcos, Calif.
4. Stockton, Calif.
5. San Francisco/Oakland/Fremont, Calif.
6. Laredo, Texas
7. Albuquerque, N.M.
8. Phoenix/Mesa/Scottsdale, Ariz.
9. Yakima, Wash.
10. Tucson, Ariz.
- April 22, 2008 4:21 PM
your mom's an illegal immigrant
- April 22, 2008 5:17 PM
Back to picking lettuce for 8 bucks an hour, most likely. Sad thing is, before they were making 16/hour in construction, 8 seemed like a lot to them.
- April 22, 2008 5:24 PM
Well I say thank god we have illegal immigrants here, because it's no longer fashionably correct to bad mouth jews, blacks, retards, or physically deformed people anymore.
- April 22, 2008 5:54 PM
To Mid Hudson Valley NY,
There is no dispute of your stated fact that most whites in the USA are lazy selfish mentally ill ingrate a-holes. I see the same thing in California. However you do not solve one decease with a worse one. As bad as whitie is in the USA, NOTHING is worse then the swarms of racist violent turd-world peon pigs from Mexico. They may smile and act like they love work but it is only a front. What they are really looking at is your woman, homes, and local government. They have a 1500 year history of invading and as such know how to play the game. It is the smartass arrogant smug Americans like "Mid Hudson Valley NY" that think some stand they puke forth is righteous. If you want to be truly wise you most look at all sides of a subject.
- April 22, 2008 6:02 PM
- Pat Friedl said...
"state governments are getting tough?"
Not tought enough!
- April 22, 2008 6:11 PM
The illegals were allowed to come here to work to maximize the profits of the corporations.
- April 22, 2008 6:13 PM
- April 22, 2008 6:14 PM
Speaking of illegal immigration and La Raza/ Aztlan
Did you see this offensive ad absolut is running in Mexico.
In the ad the usa is divided into what "La Raza" claims is theirs, and states... in an Absolut World.
- April 22, 2008 6:23 PM
had a roof job done by a group of non english speakers and the one leak turned into one hundred leaks after a complete reroofing and a typical three card monte on whose fault it was while the neighbor redid his three times before sellong out........
- April 22, 2008 6:29 PM
As of now: at the bottom of my list are White Europeans, totally "worthless, by far the laziest species of mankind.
Next up are White-trash Americans, not bad but not my priority anymore."
why did you not rake them yourself. the you spend driving around looking for someone you could have done it yourself.
sounds like you're the lazy one.
- April 22, 2008 6:47 PM
USA needs to treat illegal mexicans like mexico treats illegal immigrants from Honduras. Problem solved.
- April 22, 2008 6:55 PM
Come on, people:
They still have lots of work that US citizens hire them for --
1. gardener
2. cook your food in restaurants you love
3. wash your dishes in restaurants you love
4. take care of peoples children
5. clean peoples houses
6. clean hotel rooms after you use them
I'm surprised you all think housing is the only thing they do.
- April 22, 2008 7:08 PM
Hopefully they'll all sneak back into Mexico and destroy what little is left of their social system. Their legacy is a country full of poor quality construction. Builders gave these folks design and construction ownership when maybe 1% ever lived in a comparable house in Mexico. They were clueless... but cheap. If anyone needs a token for the bus back let me know.
Fred in Dallas
- April 22, 2008 7:12 PM
"That's pretty dumb. Just because no one else has a legit number, doesn't give you the right to make up a number."
Jerkoff, the government LIES TO US DAILY, HP can do anything it wants.
F*ck YOUR "RIGHTS".
If you don't like it, go build your houses somewhere else.
- April 22, 2008 7:21 PM
Here in Phoenix, Illegals are everywhere. Estimates run up to half a million in Maricopa county alone.
Our tougher laws have forced many underground and some are leaving.
The anchor baby problem is still the golden ticket for many.
Our schools, healthcare facilities and Wal-Mart Stores are overcrowded with them.
They are the culture of entitlement.
If we need workers, there has to be a way for them to leave when the job is done. Instead they come and come, and stay, and have an entire underground economy that has tightened its belt, but is not yet starved.
If we have 20 -30 million already, isn't that enough to fill agriculture jobs?
No, because like the white trash hating guy, they obtain skills, and refuse menial labor once they are on the gravy train.
New arrivals will do work for little pay. Guys that have been here longer demand 12 - 15 bucks an hour for yard work or laying tile. Long time illegals have worked their way up to owning homes and owning businesses.
Build the fence, enforce our immigration laws, identify, arrest and deport every single illegal criminal border crashing invader we can find.
Then devise a worker program that forces them to leave when the job is done.
- April 22, 2008 8:00 PM
This is a bunch of racist crap! I a just as for a strong border as anyone, but your racist undertones are nasty. Don't worry though, as government does crack down, the illegals move out. They only come for the same reason anybody in their situations would, they are hungry & poor. You people here would do the same, in fact most whites here in the U.S. are descended from Irish potatoe eating drunkards whose brains were beaten out by the British! Imagine, you white priders were victims of genocide by the ultimate whitey, the fag BRITS! OMG! And on top of that, your food sucks! Don't even get me started on the German vermin who escaped from the nazi German corridor... My point is there are many not as fortunate as we have been, try not to assign the characteristics of poverty to the characteristics of any race...
- April 22, 2008 8:02 PM
Here's what I don't understand about illegals coming here. Mexico is a poor country; right? Thats why illegals come here for jobs; right? Yet I'm constantly reading stories about illegals paying coyotes $2,000 - $2,500 to smuggle them across the border. In many cases if they're caught crossing, they have to pay the coyotes again when they try later. If they can raise this kind of money in their homeland of Mexico, why don't they just use that money to better their lives there and not bother coming here.
- April 22, 2008 8:49 PM
They're not going anywhere because they don't have too. I guess no one here saw the coverage of the "North American Leadership Summit" today with Bush, Calderon and the PM of Canada. CNN broadcast a bit of it this morning.
The North American Union is real and its coming sooner than you think....no more borders, no more "illegal Mexicans."
How else can you explain the total lack of border enforcement for the last X amount of years. And do you really thingk this subprime mess wasn't preplanned by the powers that be? C'mon, these guys are at the top of the food chain, highly educated, etc.... It was all designed to devalue the dollar. Gas at $4/gal, milk and food prcies rising....Let's devalue the dollar so we can intoduce the Amero to desperate Americans and avoid all opposition or rebellion. It's all real and happening in baby steps....
- April 23, 2008 3:27 AM
BTW, in Russia we are a year ahead at prosecuting businesses for hiring illegals. The only observable result is, as you might expect, more bureaucracy.
Can we ship our 200,000 illegal alien gang members to Russia? Each time we deport them, they come back a week later. It's like fighting roaches
- April 23, 2008 5:29 AM
Would if this happened?
Funny but scary too!
- April 23, 2008 6:30 AM
lady di, i think just maybe they are looking for work.
Lady Di said...
Pretty much nothing judging from the crowd handing outside of Home Depot at any given day.
- April 23, 2008 6:30 AM
" Anonymous said...
Well I say thank god we have illegal immigrants here, because it's no longer fashionably correct to bad mouth jews, blacks, retards, or physically deformed people anymore.
April 22, 2008 5:54 PM"
Sounds like a description the Federal Government to me. I make 'fun' - HATE them all daily...
Place a bounty on illegal aliens. Leave the US now or leave the US in a pine box...
- April 23, 2008 1:34 PM
Consider what has happened with the sect of polygamists in Texas. A precedent has now been set to take children away from criminal parents en masse.
The groundwork has now been lain to take the citizen children of so-called illegal aliens and make them wards of the State, while deporting the "criminal" parent(s).
I suspect these young Americans will then be raised as "true and patriotic" citizens, willing to give their lives for their country in foreign wars.
A chilling turn-of-events, no?
- April 23, 2008 2:19 PM
lady di, i think just maybe they are looking for work.
Lady Di said...
Pretty much nothing judging from the crowd handing outside of Home Depot at any given day.
Further proof that we don't need another 30 million uneducated illiterate illegal immigrants. This isn't 1850 or 1900 anymore. We do not have an expanding agricultural or industrial economy. We need more educated healthcare workers to lower medical costs. We need more engineers and scientists to compete with Europe and Asia. The fact that there are dozens of men standing on street corners looking for work is proof that we do not need them here and they have no right ot be here.
According to some of the kooks here, if you oppose the Bloods and Crips, you must hate black people. If you oppose the Mafia, you hate Italians. If you oppose illegal immigrants, you hate Mexicans. If you oppose prostitution, you hate women. That's the kook way of thinking
- April 23, 2008 4:59 PM
Americans continue to be a sheep. You do realize that, as the immigrants start taking over your cities and states, you and your kids will be losing control over your jobs, government, and destiny, right?
It's happening in South Florida already. Cubans took over the government and everything else down there, blacklisting Americans and other Latinos from job positions, promotions, or contracts. Cubans don't get along with the rest of Latin America; ask anyone from Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc.
According to a recent Census, more than half of Los Angeles workers are immigrants. And it keeps growing exponentially. What do you think that's going to happen when that figure reaches 70%? The mayor of Los Angeles is already an ignorant Mexican, voted into office by Mexicans. This wave will keep on growing up North and in every other direction, until Mexicans dominate entirely the US, especially because they have 4 to 7 babies per household, while educated Americans have 2 max or none.
Not only that, the same immigrants are voting their counterparts into office, en masse, and changing totally the curse of this country. This is not a healthy diversity, this is a domination of Cubans in Florida and Mexicans everywhere else. Everybody else outside those groups will be a minority in the next few years.
Keep in mind that these are the same people who couldn't fix their own countries back home and now want to control the US and your destiny. I don't have to call your attention on the deterioration of standards of living in places like Los Angeles, Miami, San Diego, etc, where corruption, violence, and cost of living have been skyrocketing since the invasion started. Of course, you had to live in those places in order to be able to compare and notice how bad it has gotten. Many people here give an opinion without experiencing the event. Or think that it won't affect them because they live in some distant state. Dream on.
If all these high school-drop out immigrants were any good at making decisions, they would have fixed their own POS countries long time ago or would take family planning seriously. It seems that as soon as they cross the border, suddenly they're experts in Economics, Finance, Political Science, Sociology, Statistics, etc. They march on American streets waving the American flag upside down, demanding and protesting like they know any better. In their cars and homes, only the Mexican and Cuban flags are displayed, though. You don't see them doing this back home, as it's easier to live off the backs of naive and extremely passive Americans. As they vote more and more of their "paisanos" into office, the welfare fiesta will increase accordingly, at your expense.
Meanwhile, the authorities never release the alarming data about crimes committed by immigrants, or the cost of incarceration, social services, and processing to Americans who actually pay taxes to support this country. If you do that, all hell breaks loose, as the organized crime behind those immigrant groups pull the race card in order to get away with their sordid plans.
- April 23, 2008 5:26 PM
Anon April 23, 2008 2:19 PM:
The polygamists had their kids taken away because they were molesting kids, not because they committed any crime.
Glad I could help, now you can go mentally masturbate with something else you don't have all the facts on! LOL
- April 23, 2008 5:32 PM
Check this out:
When the dollar goes kaput, and the world has to go back to the original world currency: the Spanish/Mexican silver dollar, the world standard for money for 300+ years from about 1500 to about 1850 . . . then Americans will be smuggling across border to Mexico to work for real money.
BTW, red tapes and cetralizing "Federal" govoernment was what ruined Mexico in the 19th century. When the "Federals" tried to evict "illegal" Americans in what is today's Texas and California, the "Federals" faced opposition from both Anglos and local Mexicans who did not want Mexican federal government running their lives.
- April 23, 2008 5:52 PM
> Can we ship our 200,000 illegal alien gang members to Russia?
But you MUST ask for something in return! We can offer an equal (or, perhaps, even greater than that) army of Federal Migration Service officials - they will commit themselves, along with a permanent slice of budget, to inventing all kinds of migration control forms, reports, procedures and other fancy papers. And, while immigrants can be assimilated, bureaucrats can't.
- April 23, 2008 8:14 PM
Blows my mind how racist so many on this blog are. It's sad and its also the problem with the US.
BTW, racist posters, you are not better than anyone else, and your close-minded nastiness actually makes you a lower level being.
That is why we got the term "Ugly Americans".
- April 23, 2008 8:37 PM
I went to an estate sale on Saturday in Palo Alto.
About 15 nationals loitering on the El Camino @ San Antonio Road. All waiting for a contractor to pick them up like a hooker.
There is no work out there for these people. Why dont they just give up and go back to Mexico?
- April 23, 2008 9:44 PM
Place a cash bounty on all illegal aliens with an escalation clause for quantity.
Just bring the scalps.
Throw the rest in the nearest dumpster...
What happens if they are not illegal? There's a war on and you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette...
- April 24, 2008 12:40 AM
Anon April 23, 2008 5:32 PM said:
The polygamists had their kids taken away because they were molesting kids, not because they committed any crime.
Glad I could help, now you can go mentally masturbate with something else you don't have all the facts on! LOL
I cannot believe someone could be so utterly stupid as to post something like this.
"because they were molesting kids, not because they committed any crime"
No, you couldn't possibly be that stupid.
But there it is - sure enough.
You are simply the stupidest, lamest imbecile I have met online yet.
oh man, "molested kids, but committed no crime".
molesting kids != comitting a crime.
How ironic - a total and complete jack-off suggesting someone else go and masturbate.
What a moron, hahahahahaha!
God, help me, I cannot stop laughing at this total boob.
What a goober. You must have an extra chromosome to make a statement like that.
oh man, that was so funny ...
- April 24, 2008 1:09 AM
That is why we got the term "Ugly Americans".
That term was made up by scammers to make stupid people feel guilty about not giving more of their children's money away
- April 24, 2008 1:43 AM
But you MUST ask for something in return! We can offer an equal (or, perhaps, even greater than that) army of Federal Migration Service officials - they will commit themselves, along with a permanent slice of budget, to inventing all kinds of migration control forms, reports, procedures and other fancy papers. And, while immigrants can be assimilated, bureaucrats can't.
It sounds like any American bureaucracy.
- April 24, 2008 1:48 AM
"There is no work out there for these people. Why dont they just give up and go back to Mexico?"
Because they expect the trip back here next time after going home will be more costly. There used to be seasonale migrant workers from Mexico who would cross and recross back and forth depending on job market demand here. Then the border patrols and checkpoints came into being. Guess what? it became less expensive for the Mexicans to move their family to the US and stay in the US through the off-season just so that they don't have to deal with the red tapes to get back in again.
- April 24, 2008 2:19 AM
cross and recross back and forth depending on job market demand here. Then the border patrols and checkpoints came into being. Guess what? it became less expensive for the Mexicans to move their family to the US and stay in the US
Bullsnit. They moved their families here for the free medical, welfare, WIC, education, section 8, and the rest of the things that stupid Americans are giving away.
- April 24, 2008 8:33 PM
"Bullsnit. They moved their families here for the free medical, welfare, WIC, education, section 8, and the rest of the things that stupid Americans are giving away."
If you are in your 20's or 30's, how much medical, welfare, WIC, education, section 8, etc. etc. did you receive? People in their 20's and 30's don't think about those things; the 20-year olds think they are invincible. They chase after money in the form of job opportunities. If they had come here for the freebies, they wouldn't be around the bus stops waiting to be picked up as day laborers; stop the bullshit, and have some logical consistency, please.
- April 25, 2008 4:52 AM
"stop the bullshit, and have some logical consistency, please."
Have you ever heard of "anchor babies"?
When was the last time you dropped by the welfare office or the local health department?
Let me guess: You haven't.
Read your own words in the quote above. You need to take a little of your own advice.
- April 26, 2008 3:44 PM
The current population of Mexico is,,,,,,109 Million as per current CIA statistics.
The population has been basically static for the past 40 years.
So,,,are you saying that 100 Million of those people are here in the USA,,leaving 9 Million left in Mexico,??
Thanks,,but I'll take the Gov't statistics.
I enjoy reading HP, since there are a lot of interesting points and facts, but I'm definitely putting it in the 'out there' folder with Art Bell & George Nori types.
- April 26, 2008 4:14 PM
Where I live, Santa Maria Ca, the Mexicans pretty much all stay busy working. I've never seen a bunch of them standing around, loitering etc. these are hard working, traditional, polite, God loving, respectful people. Sure, there are the bad apples, but just like the whites and blacks, the bad ones are the minority. If I'm crossing a shopping center parking lot, the white guy in the expensive car wont' let me cross, the poorer Mexican in the old car will wave me through. Really nice people from what I observe and Santa Maria is a mostly Mexican town. I agree the US shouldn't give so many freebies and handouts, bugs the crap out of me too. But I've always been treated really well by the Mexicans, and the funny part is... the ones that are not born here are the nicest ones of all. They are really respectful of older people. My mom and I always say... if you need help from a stranger, the Mexican guy will jump to help you faster than a white guy will. Criminals and rapist amoungst them? sure, but the good Mexicans fear and distain them too. Oh, I'm white, not of any hispanic origin.
- April 27, 2008 4:57 AM
- acadamas said...
I say do not deport one illegal. Just go after anyone who hires one or houses one.Say, maybe, a 10,000 dollar fine for the first offense then start handing out state prison time after that. When business owners see other business owners in prison cells they will not be hiring any more illegals.
- April 27, 2008 8:21 AM
If I'm crossing a shopping center parking lot, the white guy in the expensive car wont' let me cross, the poorer Mexican in the old car will wave me through.
That's funny, because just the OPPOSITE happened to me yesterday. I had a "Mexican" about run me over to keep me from crossing the street. But, the "white" guy in the expensive car was nice, and waved me on through. Oh, and I am "white", of no hispanic origin, too.
My mom and I always say...
if you need help from a stranger, the Mexican guy will jump to help you faster than a white guy will. Criminals and rapist amoungst them? sure,
Let me get this straight: If you and your mommy ever need help, you can count on that "Mexican" to be right there. Is that right? Well, please tell us all how you and your mommy can tell the difference between the "Criminal and rapist" Mexicans and the "good Mexicans", when you go to ask for help. Do you ask them if they're "good Mexicans" before you ask for help? LOL Or, have you and your mommy figured out some sort of new "criminal profiling" technique with the "Mexicans"? Plus, how do you know these people are Mexicans? They could be from anywhere in Latin or South America. Or, do you and your mommy have some sort of system to instantly determine one's country of origin, too?
You and your mommy sound like you're quite a pair.
- April 27, 2008 1:38 PM
I have news for you little Nancy from the angry response you just gave me... some little Mexican girl. or boy, if you're lucky, is going to be wiping your ass when you're in an old folks home.. what a litte white snit fit you are...
- April 29, 2008 4:59 AM


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If you were watching Sunday Night Football on NBC last night, you may have gotten a glimpse at one girlfriend's act of revenge. Not exactly in the spirit of Christmas, but amusing nonetheless, NBC's broadcast of the Packers game last night included a shot of the crowd, which featured one girl using a sign to show she was getting the last laugh.
As you'll see in the video below (via the Hollywood Reporter), a fan at the Packers/Bears game, which aired on NBC on Christmas Day, used a sign to show off that her "Cheating ex-boyfriend is watching the game from the couch instead," while she enjoyed the game live from the stands. The cameras caught the sign and zoomed in on it during the game, which was viewed by millions of people (About 16.7 million according to the preliminary overnight ratings). Forgiveness may be divine, but showing off a sign at the game in the wake of a bad break-up probably inspires more chuckles. Merry Christmas?


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The Alliance For Hispanic Education And The NHCLC Present 4th Annual Hispanic Education Summit
Christianity Today President and CEO, Harold Smith, To Address Prominent National Leaders And Educators
Oct 10, 2013, 08:25 ET
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cedarville University will host the fourth annual Hispanic Education Summit in partnership with the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC) and the Alliance for Hispanic Education, in Cedarville, Ohio on Wednesday, October 16, 2013.
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The Hispanic Education Summit is held annually to highlight the academic challenges faced by Latinos and education providers with a specific focus on reducing the national Hispanic drop-out rate. Challenges, strategies and solutions are presented to attendees, including pastors, church leaders, academic administrators, and educators.
Keynote Speaker, Harold Smith, President and CEO, Christianity Today, said, "The growth of this community will have a decided impact on not only America but on the growth and influence of the church in the days ahead. It is therefore all the more imperative that these brothers and sisters be empowered to take the reins of leadership in this ever-expanding role. Education is a critical piece in all this. We must, therefore, be committed to creatively leveraging this needed and strategic piece to equip the next generation of Latinos and Latinas for all that God has prepared for them to do to the glory of God."
This Summit will bring together key ministry leaders, educational leaders, pastors, and other stakeholders in the Hispanic community. The Summit highlights the academic challenges faced by both Latinas/os and education providers. Best practices, strategies and potential solutions will be presented to help improve student success and improve completion rates.
Other prominent speakers at the 2013 Hispanic Education Summit include Dr. Jesse Miranda, NHCLC Emeritus CEO and Founder of the Jesse Miranda Center for Hispanic Leadership, Dr. Carlos Campo, former President of Regent University and Chair, Alliance for Hispanic Education and Jesse Rincones, Executive Director of the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas.
Breakout sessions include President's Track: Dialogue with Harold Smith; Educator's Track: Barna Research Update on Hispanics by Dr. Gus Reyes and "The Opportunity Space for Hispanics Teaching in Christian and Secular Universities" with Alex Camacho, M.S., Ph.D. (ABD); Pastors Track: "Raising Highly Capable Kids" with Mike Haley from Focus on the Family and "A Church-School Partnership Model" with Juan Pena, M.Div; and a Featured Track: "God's Graffiti: Serving At-Risk Teens" with Romal Tune.
Dr. White, President, Cedarville University, said, "We are looking forward to welcoming the 2013 Hispanic Education Summit onto the campus of Cedarville University. I hope that this will serve as a time of fruitful dialogue as we consider how our Christian conviction guides our practice of higher education."
Research indicates that Latino students make up 38.6 percent of all college dropouts, although they represent only 15.1 percent of the total population. Latinos are the largest and most rapidly growing ethnic minority in the country, but academically they are lagging dangerously behind.
Dr. Gus Reyes, said, "We believe that education providers from elementary, middle, high school and college can make a significant impact to help Latino students improve academics and move on through college. Churches also play a key role in the solution for these students. Working together, we can make a difference in the Hispanic drop-out rate in our country."
For more information on the 2013 Education Summit and Alliance for Hispanic Education go to www.cedarville.edu/Event/Hispanic-Alliance-Education-Summit.
The NHCLC is the largest Hispanic Christian organization representing millions of Evangelicals and more than 40,000 U.S. Churches. Seeking to reconcile evangelist Billy Graham's message of salvation with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march of prophetic activism, the NHCLC emphasizes "7 Directives" of Life, Family, Compassionate Evangelism, Stewardship, Justice, Education and Youth. Liberty Counsel (www.LC.org), an international nonprofit, litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family since 1989, is the legislative and public policy arm of the NHCLC, advocating for the NHCLC's member churches representing millions in the Hispanic community and serves as the senior sponsor of the NHCLC's Life Directive. For additional information, visit http://www.nhclc.org.
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The AGU review states that the book "presents the state-of-the-art on naturally occurring gas hydrates. How do we understand the distribution of gas hydrates? Do they affect sea floor stability? What is their role in geologic hazards? Are gas hydrates a major global fossil carbon reservoir? Do they interact with present and past climate changes? In this diverse collection of papers, authors study these questions, and more, and set a context in which to understand the rapidly evolving field of gas hydrate research."
Authors include present or former members of the USGS Gas Hydrate Research Project, Bill Dillon (WH), Keith Kvenvolden (Menlo Park), Tom Lorenson (MP), Myung Lee (Denver), Tim Collett (D), Jeff Nealon (WH), and Mike Taylor, Becca Drury, Chris Anton, and Ingo Pecher (all formerly with WH). The cover picture is USGS line 95-1 across the Blake Ridge, the line along which three ODP holes were drilled to test for gas hydrate.
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The Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica) is a bird belonging to the swift family Apodidae. A member of the genus Chaetura, it is closely related to both the Vaux's Swift and the Chapman's Swift; in the past, the three were sometimes considered to be conspecific. It has no subspecies.
The Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica), famously described by Roger Tory Peterson in his pioneering A Field Guide to the Birds as resembling "a cigar with wings", is one of the nine swift species in the New World genus Chaetura. Several Chaetura species, including C. pelagica, originally built their nests in hollow trees but now often nest inside chimneys or other human-built structures. The Chimney Swift is the only swift regularly occurring in eastern North America. In late summer, large flocks may be seen in the sky at dusk, giving their distinctive chattering calls. Chimney Swifts feeding on flying insects are a familiar sight in the open skies over towns and cities across the eastern United States and adjacent Canada,. Within the Chinmey Swift's range, artificial nest sites such as chimneys are far more common than suitable hollow trees.
Chimney swift courtship involves aerial displays. Nesting is often colonial and the breeding pair is often assisted by an extra adult "helper". The nest, which is constructed by both sexes, is shaped like half a saucer and is made of twigs glued together with the birds' saliva. Adults break off short dead twigs from trees while zooming past in flight. Clutch size is 4 to 5 white eggs (range 3 to 6). Incubation (for 19 to 21 days) is by both parents. Both parents feed young (by regurgitating insects). Young may climb out of the nest after around 20 days, clambering up vertical walls. Young typically first fly at around 28 to 30 days.
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Andover, Mass., March 23, 2016 – Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, today announced its inclusion in the Forbes' America's Best Employers 2016 list. Ranking the top 500 U.S. employers at large companies, nonprofit institutions and U.S. divisions of multinationals with more than 5,000 employees, the America's Best Employers 2016 list is compiled from anonymous rankings by more than 30,000 employees in an independent survey.
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|Configurable charging system for a telecommunications service provider
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This application is related to an application of Xiang Yang Li, Min Liu, John B. Reid, Guy H. Starner, Ashish Trivedi, Peng Wang, Yile Enoch Wang, Jun Zheng Yang, Lei Zhang, and Jay Z. Zhao entitled "New Call Authorization And Billing Message Routing Capability", which application is assigned to the assignee of the present application and is being filed concurrently herewith.
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for charging and billing of Circuit Switch, Packet Switch, and IP Multimedia Subsystems.
This document describes a method and apparatus for enhancing the charge collection function, using third generation telecommunication systems as an example.
The introduction of the third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) harmonization effort known as IP (Internet Protocol) Multimedia Sub-system (IMS) has introduced new convergence network elements based on IP based signaling protocols and bearer connections. The goal is to create a harmonized wireless and wireline IP based control network for telecommunications. The IMS network nodes include the Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF), Interrogating-CSCF (I-CSCF), Serving-CSCF (S-CSCF), Media Gateway Control Function (MGCF), the Breakout Gateway Control Function (BGCF), the Media Resource Function Controller (MRFC), and Application Servers (AS). In order to perform charging functions in the converged IMS network, each of the network elements have a defined interface to a new node called the Charging Collection Function (CCF). CCF, defined in 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards documents, is an off-line charging network node in the IMS network. CCF collects session charging information from IMS nodes, and constructs and formats Call Detail Records (CDRs). It provides intermediate data storage buffering and provides a mechanism to transfer charging information to the operator's billing system (BS).
For IMS, the CCF provides the mechanism to transfer charging information from the IMS nodes to the operator's chosen Billing System(s). The CCF is responsible for the collection of session charging information from the IMS nodes. The CCF may also act as an intermediate data storage device and therefore needs to support storage of CDRs for a specified period of time given a usage profile. Further, the CCF in 3GPP standards must create ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation.1) base Charging Detail Records. These CDRs are transferred to the BS/BMD (Billing Mediation Device) nominally using FTP (File Transfer Protocol), but other protocols and transport methods are possible. The CCF can receive data from the IMS nodes in a near real-time mode. It should have enough storage to enable it to transmit the collected charging data to the BS in file mode. The CCF may support several transmission protocols towards the BS. One of the purposes for the CCF is to reduce the number of different interfaces between the BS and the IMS nodes sending charging data.
In the IMS system, on-line charging is conducted by an Online Charging Server (OCS). IMS nodes query OCS with charging information. OCS rates calls with a built-in rating engine and provides charging cost and generates CDRs. OCS can support both prepaid and postpaid modes.
3GPP and 3GPP2 are generalizing the aforementioned IMS charging architecture to the entire 3G network, which includes Circuit Switch and Packet Switch networks.
However, there are no standards (neither 3GPP nor 3GPP2) which support the charging and rating concept in CCF so that it cannot provide call cost in CDRs. All rating and billing information must be processed in a back office billing system. That limits the capability of IMS/CCF to postpaid and offline billing only.
Applicants have carefully analyzed the characteristics of prior art billing arrangements. In the most modern of these billing arrangements, designed for use with the third generation telecommunications systems, there are two distinct methods of billing calls, one method for use with deferred (off-line) billing (via CCF) and a second method for use with immediate billing (on-line) (via OCS). Calls with deferred billing build up a call data record (CDR) for each call, the call data record having data from which charging information can be derived (e.g., length of call or start and finish time of a call, calling and called customer identification); the call data records for these calls are then passed on to a billing system. The billing system includes a rating engine (i.e., software and data tables for calculating the charge for a call given the parameters of the call). The billing system then generates the customer's bills. Customer Care Systems can retrieve the CDRs from the billing system if the customers complain; the customer service representatives can modify charge records by crediting back an amount to the customer account if there is charge error.
For calls requiring immediate (on-line) billing, a call data record is built up and passed to an on-line charging system which includes a rating engine. This system can provide an output to whatever system needs the charging information (e.g., a hotel data link to provide charging information to a hotel or a prepaid account manager to adjust a prepaid balance). The on-line charging system then passes the call data record to the billing system which prepares bills (e.g., the bill to the hotel) for calls requiring both on-line and off-line charging.
Applicants have inventively discovered a method and apparatus for streamlining both the on-line and off-line billing process by utilizing a common charging system, which includes charging, rating, and subscriber balance management functions. The charging system is able to process online calls as an Online Charging System (OCS) as defined by 3GPP and 3GPP2, as well as a charging system for offline calls in real-time or non-real-time. If an offline call requires real-time charging, a call data record is built and a single rating engine built within the OCS is consulted immediately to determine charges on that call; for an offline call requiring only non-real-time billing, the call data record is built without immediately including the charge information and the single rating engine built within the OCS is consulted only when that rating engine is not busy calculating charges for an on-line billing call. As a result, advantageously, a common charging system can be used for both online and offline calls, thus achieving charging convergence, which reduces service provider investment, operation, and maintenance cost and enhances end user service experience. Advantageously, the billing information for calls requiring off-line billing can be derived outside the busy hour; advantageously, the billing system does not need to calculate bills but is required only to store a billing database in order to generate monthly invoices, statistical reports, etc. Advantageously, with this arrangement call data records with call cost can be stored in the billing database and be ready to be pulled by any back-office system, e.g., report generation, customer care, and invoice generation systems. Another benefit of this arrangement is that it can support charging for prepaid subscribers in case the subscriber is roaming in a foreign network that has no real time charging protocol support.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the operation of a prior art system;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the operation of Applicants' invention; and
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram illustrating the processing of rating data by the rating engine.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the operation of a prior art system. The system is used in the third generation telecommunications systems and specifically in Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystems for the third generation partnership project (3GPP). When a telecommunications call is processed using a call processing system 1 one of the outputs of this call processing system is a pair of outputs for billing purposes. Outputs for billing of calls billed by an off-line billing process are transmitted through an Rf interface 3. The Rf interface is defined, for example, by Section 5.1 of document 3GPP TS32.225, a standards document. The output for calls requiring on-line billing are transmitted through Ro interface 5 which is defined in Section 6.1 of the same document. The output of Rf interface 3 is transmitted to the charge collection function 7. The function of charge collection function 7 is to build a call data record which has the parameters for charging but contains no charging data (call cost) since the charging data will eventually be calculated by billing system 11, which includes a billing database 12 for storing billing records. The output of the charge collection function I in block 7 is transmitted to this billing system 11 which includes an off-line rating engine 13 for determining charges based on the call parameters of a call data record.
The back-office systems access and process the billing records in a batch mode. They do not wait for CDRs to come in for processing, but process whatever CDRs are available at a given time.
For calls requiring on-line billing processing, the connection from the call processing system 1 via Ro interface 5 is terminated on on-line charging system (OCS) 9. OCS 9 includes an on-line rating engine 10 for use in calculating charges for calls processed by OCS 9. Accordingly, OCS 9 builds a call data record including the call cost and transmits this call data record to billing system 11 for subsequent printing of bills and other back-office operations, and for access by the back-office systems.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the operation of Applicants' invention. The treatment of calls requiring on-line processing is very similar to the treatment of such calls in the prior art system of FIG. 1. Data is sent from call processing via Ro interface 5 to on-line charging system 31. OCS 31 has been expanded from OCS 9 to illustrate that the block for building the call data record 33 is separate from the rating engine 35, in order to allow the rating engine 35 to be accessed by either the block for building a call data record 33 or the charge collection function (CCF) 21 to be described below. The data connection between blocks 33 and 35 requires immediate access because the calls must be billed on line. In contrast, the data connection between CCF 21 and rating engine 35 can accommodate deferred requests.
For calls requiring only off-line charge processing, the data is transmitted from call processing 1 via Rf interface 3 to CCF 21. Block 21 includes rating parameter forming rules software and tables (block 23), which populate call data records with corresponding rating parameters of interest, a charging information records manager 25, and a pre-biller unit 27 for interfacing with rating engine 35. The pre-biller unit 27 interfaces with rating engine 35 via R0 interface 5. Requests from the pre-biller to the rating engine can be deferred if the rating engine is fully occupied with rating on-line calls during the busy hour.
After charging information has been obtained for a particular call by the pre-biller 27, the charging information records manager 25 sends the call data record to a billing system 41, which includes a billing database 42 that can be accessed by the back-office systems. Note that the billing database 42 contains complete charging information for both on-line charged calls, the data being received from OCS 31, and for off-line charged calls, the data being received from CCF 21.
The system of FIG. 2 can also serve off-line billed calls received from other networks 51. Data for these calls passes through a CDR parser 53 to CCF 21.
FIG. 3 illustrates the processing of off-line, non-real-time charged calls. The call processing system 1 builds a call data record without charging data (action block 300). The pre-biller requests charging information (action block 301). The pre-biller sends a message over the Ro interface to the rating engine (action block 303). Test 305 determines whether the rating engine is available. If it is available, the rating engine processes the charging data (action block 306) and returns call cost data to the pre-biller via the Ro interface (action block 307).
If the rating engine is not available (negative result of test 305), the rating engine stores the charging data for subsequent processing (action block 311). The rating engine then queues the call charging data (action block 313) for processing when the rating engine becomes available. The rating engine (FIG. 2, block 35) contains a queue 36 for storing deferred processing call charging data. It may also be desirable to have a separate queue for charging data for real-time charged calls, to handle a flurry of requests. The latter queue (not shown) would be served before queue 36; queue 36 would only be served if this latter queue were empty. When the rating engine becomes available and has processed all previous queued calls, the rating engine processes the charging data for this call (action block 315). The rating engine then returns the call cost data to the pre-biller, via the R0 interface (action block 307, previously described).
The above description is of one preferred embodiment of Applicants' invention. Other embodiments, including embodiments for operation with other telecommunication systems, will be apparent to those of ordinary skills in the art without departing from the scope of the invention. The invention is limited only by the attached claims.


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From my perspective, Microsoft releasing WiX under CPL is a momentous step. Since joining around 2 years ago I've been looking out for this move, and can't quite believe the time has come.
Rob Mensching and his team get my congratulations for their efforts in actually making this happen.
The feedback from the dev community has been generally very positive...articles already abound covering this story, one of the lesser C&P'd articles: Openess Can Be Good - ADTmag
Times are a'changing...