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2 Dr Chevrolet Coupe, c.1947? (2 views)
Went online to try to match the car model, noticing the details like how the headlights are placed. I took this at the red light at Howley St and Friendship Ave. Drove around the block and got the side view, too. A real beauty. Historic, vintage, restored cars like this one evoke childhood memories of the gray Dodge Wayfarer we had in Montclair NJ. This one the color of whipped butter. Polished. Parked on the street, just waiting as me I drove home from Greenway School where we had training today. What a car! Scroll down for second view.


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New York 11 December 1878
Dear Sir,
I have received your favor of the 3rd inst. asking me why Genl. Scott's instructions in the following telegraphic despatch were not carried out.
"Headquarters, June 19th, 1861
Come to me at the first convenient moment. I shall charge you with the command of the Alexandria and Arlington Department, the next to the enemy, containing five brigades. I shall do what I can to give you some regular staff officers. Bring horses with you.
Winfield Scott"
On receipt of the forgoing despatch I purchased horses and repaired without delay to Washington. About the time of my arrival it had become known that I was, in pursuance of Genl. Scott's orders and by virtue of my rank as Major General, to assume command of the forces referred to as the senior of Brig. Genl. McDowell. I had reason to believe that several members of the cabinet were opposed to the change; and an active movement was set on foot through the correspondents of the New York press to aid in defeating it. Perceiving from all the indications that the opposition would succeed, I decided to let the matter take its course. The arguments of the newspaper correspondents were in substance that I had not for many years been in the military service[;] that Genl. McDowell had been while I had been in civil life, and that it was unjust to him, to use the [?] of one of the letter writers, to deprive him "of the glory of a victory" over the enemy, which was considered so much a matter of certainty as to have led to the Congressional cry of "On to Richmond". The result was that Genl. Scott was overruled, and he was soon afterwards [superseded?] by Genl. McClellan. It is not impertinent to the subject in hand to mention that Genl. Scott had previously named me for another active command that he was in like manner overruled. I remained in Washington awaiting orders until the morning of the day when the forces I was to have commanded fled in disorder from Bull Run, and I was then sent to Baltimore to relieve Genl. Banks. The disaster was communicated to me at midnight by telegraph. Genl. McDowell is a gallant and accomplished soldier; and so far as I know there was nothing on his part, in [regard?] to the proposed change in command, to impair the sincere respect which I have always had for him. I might not have had any better success had Genl. Scott's purpose been carried out; and I had reason to be consoled for the chagrin I naturally felt at the time, when after three or four months of active and earnest work, military and political, in Maryland, which was in a state of semi-insurrection, when I took command at Baltimore, I succeeded in gaining for the Union at the November election a majority of more than thirty thousand. I had the gratification afterwards of receiving a letter from Mr. Lincoln, now before me, in which he said: "It affords me great pleasure to say that no officer has performed the duties assigned him to my more entire satisfaction than has Genl. Dix." In the same letter he referred to the failure to carry out Genl. Scott's purpose and stated as the "sole reason ever mentioned" to him a representation, which was wholly without foundation & of which I had never heard until I received his letter. —
I have thought more than once of writing an account of my service during the war of the rebellion for publication. If I had done so, it would have contained the statement of a similar change of purpose on a subsequent occasion of equal importance. But these are matters of personal rather than public history and have no bearing on the great objects and [?] of the war. Of the friendly feelings of the President & Secretary of War I never had a doubt. The changes of purposes referred to were due, as I always believed, to the activity and influence of the friends of commanders more ambitious than myself of military glory. Throughout the war I can sincerely say, I had but one feeling—to accept without resistance any service the government would see fit to assign to me, and to discharge it to the best of my ability. The only request I ever made of the President was early in 1862, after I had [disbanded?] the Confederate troops on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and brought it into the [?] of the Union. It was to be permitted to organize an expedition in the purpose of replacing the old flag on Fort Sumter. To this request I received a very kind, but not a favorable, answer from Mr. Lincoln & Mr. Stanton.
I have never until now written a line on this subject or spoken of it except in confidence to intimate friends.
I am Dear Sir
Very truly yours,
John A. Dix
Genl. E. A. Carman
Courtesy of Dr. Thomas Clemens, Keedysville, MD
Original in Carman Collection, New York Public Library
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas, USA/Germany, 2000
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Several times while watching the Ron Howard-directed How the Grinch Stole Christmas, I found myself wondering, "Who is this even for?" At 105 minutes, it's a bit on the long side for kids small enough to actually enjoy Jim Carrey's manic, over-the-top turn as the title character, and the whole thing is far too ugly and irritating for older kids, let alone adults. On the other hand, my niece (aged six) and nephew (aged ten) say they love it, and it was released long enough ago that I also have adult friends who remember it fondly. I do know who it's not for, however, and that is the grumpy old Grinch writing this review, as this is decidedly a Movie I Didn't Get. Read More


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Grey's Anatomy Scoop: Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey Sign Two-Year Deals
Great news, Grey's Anatomy fans: Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey have signed new two-year deals, TVGuide.com has learned.
Pompeo and Dempsey, who have played Dr. Meredith Grey and Dr. Derek Shepherd since the show's debut in 2005, will stick around at least through Season 12. ABC has yet to officially pick up Grey's for Season 11, but it seems more than likely now that the two leading stars have signed on. However, they won't be joined by other Grey's original Sandra Oh, who announced in August that she was leaving the ABC medical drama after 10 seasons.
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Oh's announcement sent some Grey's fans into a frenzy since multiple other actors' contracts would also be up at the end of Season 10. Dempsey, Pompeo, Justin Chambers, Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr. were also among those who signed the two-year deal with Oh at the end of Season 8. The future for the other actors is as yet unclear.
The news that Pompeo and Dempsey should come as no surprise since executive producer Shonda Rhimes has expressed that she isn't looking at Season 10 as the end of the series.
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Kangaroos and koalas? No, you're barking up the wrong tree. Austria is famous for the waltz, the apfelstrudel and other delicious cakes, Christmas markets, beautiful landscapes, the movie The Sound of Music and the Hapsburg Empire that once encompassed the entire Central Europe.
I first visited Austria's capital Vienna (Wien) with my other best friend M. (not the one that I go to London with) in 2005. We spent a couple of days in Vienna at our high school friend's who was studying there. I even got to celebrate my birthday there and enjoy the Christmas markets. Since then I visited Vienna twice (one afternoon whilst returning from another trip) and a short business trip last year. I'll be travelling to Vienna again next month because of my work but I'll be sure to find some free time to enjoy the many Christmas markets.
I've visited a couple of other Austrian cities too but I still haven't done any skiing or hiking in Austria which is a shame because this small country offers plenty of outdoor activities in beautiful nature.
In 2013 I went to Graz, Austria's second largest city and visited the chocolate factory Zotter in Riegersburg with my boyfriend (now my hubby). That was a fun day even though it was a gloomy November day. I'm a chocoholic but after trying out a huge amount of chocolate (from almost 90% cocoa content to milk chocolate standard of around 30 % cocoa content) I was put off of chocolate for a few days. Luckily I soon recovered from that chocolate overdose and continued to enjoy chocolate in its many delicious forms.
Only a month after this chocoholic experience I visited the Christmas markets in Villach and Velden with my mum who also loves browsing Christmas markets and drinking mulled wine and eating pretzels and other sweet stuff. There's something almost magical about the Christmas time in Austria; everything is so beautifully decorated, you can hear carols in the streets, the smell of cinnamon and punch wafts through the air and there's a promise of a white Christmas.
But you don't have to visit Austria only in the winter time. Last year my mum and I visited Klagenfurt (a charming little town) and Minimundus in May. Do you believe that it was 29°C ?! Minimundus is a fun park that showcases models on a scale of 1:25 of the most famous landmarks and buildings from all around the world. There's something similar in Brussels near the Atomium but I didn't visit that one because I had already done the one in Austria.
Have you heard of Hallstatt? It's often put in a lot of must-visit lists and I've visited it in 2011. I spent a day exploring the so called Lake region (Salzkammergut) and its towns. Besides Hallstatt I also saw Bad Ischl famous for the summer residence of emperor Franz Joseph II and his wife the empress Sisi, St.Wolfgang at the shores of the lake Wolfgangsee and St.Gilgen where you can see Mozart's mother's house. It was such a cold June day but the landscapes were stunning. And I bought some lebkuchen (similar to gingerbread).
I've been wanting to visit Salzburg which is famous for chocolate pralines Mozartkugeln and as a birthplace of great composer Mozart himself of course. I'd also like to visit Innsbruck and then my tour of Austria would be complete 🙂
Ps. Sometime in December when I get back from my trip (or in January because I won't have a lot of free time for blogging next month) I'll write about Vienna and it's Christmas markets so stay tuned for new posts:)
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Cancer's scary enough without the overwhelming amount of information out there about its triggers and treatments. Between oft-repeated rumors and official studies that are subsequently questioned or even overturned, it can be hard to know what to believe and what to dismiss. The good news: Over time, researchers have consistently disproven some of the most common myths about cancer. Read on to separate the fear from the facts.
The myth: Cell phone use causes cancer.
Gab all you want: Talking on your cell phone won't fill your brain with tumors, research confirms. "The radio waves emitted by cell phones are more akin to the electromagnetic waves that your television emits than to ionizing radiations such as X-rays. They are not known to cause cancer in animals or transform cells in culture," says John D. Boice Jr., scientific director of the International Epidemiology Institute, who conducted the largest long-term study about cell phone use and cancer. From the 1980s through 2002, Boice tracked 420,000 Danish cell phone users and found no link between cell phone use and the disease.
Just about every other study on the subject — not to mention esteemed organizations like the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and the Food and Drug Administration — supports Boice's findings. Ditto for the rates of brain tumors, which have not increased in the general population during the last 20 years, despite the massive proliferation of cell phones in that time.
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The myth: Women with a family history of breast cancer can stop worrying if they test negative for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
If you have a family history of breast cancer and test negative for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations, you still (unfortunately) face a high risk of developing breast cancer, according to a new study conducted by Steven A. Narod, M.D., director of the Familial Breast Cancer Research Unit at the Women's College Research Institute in Canada. Narod's research found that family history is a much better indicator of breast cancer risk than genetic testing, which identifies about 4 percent of all breast cancer cases and about 15 percent of breast cancer cases in women with a family history of the disease.
"For every woman found to have a mutation," says Narod, "another four who tested normal are also in the line of fire due to family history." Women in the latter group face about a 40-percent risk of developing cancer (compared to an 80-percent risk among women with the mutation). The risk varies by family, however, says Narod. That 40-percent risk applies only if three or more of your relatives — including a sister or your mother — have had breast cancer. Assuming you don't have the mutation and have only one family member who's had breast cancer, you have about a 12- or 13-percent risk of developing the disease, Narod estimates; if no one in your family has had it, your risk drops to 10 percent until age 75.
If you do have a family history of breast cancer and test negative for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, stay vigilant: Watch for changes in your breasts. Get regular mammograms and MRI screenings. And speak with your doctor about preventative options like tamoxifen, a drug that cuts breast cancer risk in half by counteracting cancer-producing hormones on the ovary.
And though you're not in the clear when it comes to breast cancer, you can at least cross ovarian cancer off your list of worries. Women who tested negative in Narod's study didn't develop the disease, which is common among women with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.
The myth: Female smokers face a greater lung cancer risk than male smokers.
Some early-1990s studies might have led you to think that simply being a woman increases your odds of getting lung cancer. But later research shows that women are no more vulnerable to tobacco-smoke carcinogens than men. "In both women and men, current smokers of two or more packs per day were about 50 times more likely to develop lung cancer than those who had never smoked," says Neal Freedman, Ph.D., a National Cancer Institute Cancer Prevention Fellow, who recently tracked nearly 500,000 women and men to identify the incidence of lung cancer.
Nonsmoking women are also no more likely to get lung cancer than nonsmoking men. "There isn't any evidence that women are more susceptible to lung cancer from secondhand smoke than men," says Michael Thun, M.D., vice president of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research at the American Cancer Society, who led another recent study that looked at the death rates of 940,000 adults who had never smoked.
But know this: Lung cancer does kill more women than any other kind of cancer, breast cancer included. And although Freedman's study found that women who smoke are about 20 times more likely to develop lung cancer than nonsmoking women, consistent exposure to secondhand smoke increases a nonsmoker's risk of lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
So if you don't smoke, keep it that way — and avoid secondhand smoke as much as possible, says Freedman. If you do smoke, stop. Not only will you substantially lower your risk of lung cancer, but you'll reduce your risk of heart disease as well as bladder and throat cancer.
The myth: Taking antioxidant supplements lowers your risk of cancer.
If popping a pill to prevent cancer sounds too good to be true, it is: A recent decade-long study found that women who took antioxidant supplements containing beta-carotene, vitamin C, or vitamin E (either individually or in combination with other antioxidants) developed cancer at the same rate as women who didn't use the supplements.
This corroborated the findings of a recent Mayo Clinic review of 12 clinical studies that found that antioxidant supplements did not lower cancer risk — and that beta-carotene supplements actually increased the risk of smoking-related cancers, especially among smokers. Other studies have shown increased lung cancer rates among smokers who took vitamin A supplements and a slightly higher incidence of skin cancer among women who popped low-dose antioxidant pills regularly.
The problem, these studies have noted, isn't antioxidants. It's antioxidant supplements — pills that contain individual or multiple antioxidants, including beta-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin A, and zinc. While researchers don't know exactly why these pills fail to deliver cancer-fighting benefits, many suspect that antioxidants' beneficial properties may get lost when they are extracted from whole food and packaged in supplements. If you use facial moisturizers with added antioxidants, there's no need to stop; while it's too early to tell for sure whether they prevent skin cancer, there's no reason to believe they do any damage either.
In the end, the best way to get the antioxidants you need is from your diet, says Serge Hercberg, M.D., Ph.D., professor of nutrition at the Medical University of Paris, who headed a recent study on antioxidants and skin cancer. Eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day to reap the benefits of antioxidants — and myriad other nutrients.
The myth: Drinking coffee causes cancer.
Ever since a methodologically flawed study showed a link between coffee and pancreatic cancer in the 1980s, just about every study since has reached the opposite conclusion. So sip away: Your morning coffee won't kill you.
Java might even help you live longer, according to new research, which shows that women who drank two or three cups a day — caffeinated or decaffeinated — faced a lower risk of early death from all health-related causes. The reason? Coffee reduces the risk of heart disease — related death by decreasing inflammation and improving insulin sensitivity, explains the leader of a recent study, Esther López-Garcia, Ph.D., a researcher in the Department of Preventative Medicine and Public Health at Madrid's Universidad Autónoma.
Although future studies will be necessary to confirm coffee's perks as a fountain of youth, López-Garcia attests that swilling it won't cause cancer. And that peace of mind is something any woman can drink to.


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What is the most overrated pasta shape? I say spaghetti. That is, unless you enjoy hard-to-wrangle food that has a tendency to splatter sauce on your shirt. I don't understand the spaghetti obsession. Give me penne or ziti or some variant any day.
I'm not saying it's the worst, just that it's overrated. When cooked right and with a well made sauce, spaghetti can be truly great, but let's be honest - how often does that happen?
Rotini are pretty goddamn annoying and would have to rank near the bottom. They're always put in pasta salad with an oil based dressing, making them even squirmier. Doesn't your aunt want you to enjoy both the flavor AND the act of eating the salad she labored over? Apparently not.
I often get frustrated with spaghetti because spaghetti is often so thick and so slippery that even if you execute a perfect twirl using a spoon for leverage (something I really enjoy doing whenever I'm in an Italian restaurant. LOOGIT ME I'M A PAISANO), the spaghetti still has a tendency to slip right off your fork. And when that happens ... DISASTER. It's like a physicist decided to demonstrate chaos theory on your t-shirt.
Linguine presents the exact same problem. In fact, linguini is even worse because it's flat and therefore specifically tailored to slipping through the gaps of your fork tines. Linguine is bullshit. I've tried for ages to get my wife to recognize the importance of angel hair. Angel hair is the perfect long pasta for grotesquely overweight human beings. You can twirl up a pound of it and that shit stays on your fork forever. I like to twirl up a boulder of it and then it eat like a corndog. You can't make a bite of angel hair big enough for me. I unhinge my jaw at the sight of a plate of angel hair. It makes me extremely happy. And such a fast cooking time! Two minutes in water and you're eatin'. Spaghetti takes AGES by comparison.
Rotini presents problems because, as Adam said, you often find it in pasta salad, and getting a successful bite of pasta salad that has every element of the salad contained inside of it (a bit of cheese, a bit of pasta, a bit of whatever vegetable is there) has never been successfully accomplished in the modern era. Pasta salad is an edible fallacy. Here is a sloppy list of what I consider the five most overrated pastas. Consider this your invite to start a pasta flame war in the comments:
1. Linguine.
2. Orzo. If you want rice, make rice. Ever try to strain orzo? It's like trying to catch a baseball with a hula hoop.
3. Spaghetti
4. Rotini
5. Macaroni. Two of my kids have eaten boxed Kraft mac for dinner every day for the past four goddamn years. I have eaten every possible variant of Kraft and Annie's boxed pastas, from bunnies to Arthurs to Phineas & Ferbs to shells to macaroni, and the macaroni is almost always the most boring one to eat. I'd take shells and cheese over that shit any day.
Now, to five favorite shapes of pasta:
1. Ravioli/tortellini. There's shit already inside. I don't have to have a nervous breakdown trying to make sure there's a piece of crumbled sausage to go with my bowtie pasta. It's right there for me.
2. Orecchiette (ears). Easy to stab, and the meaty bits stay inside the ear when you lift your fork. I like to taunt my ear pasta before I bite down ... WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAR IS YOUR OWN DEMISE.
3. Rigatoni. Big fucking tubes mean a better chance of meat getting stuck inside.
4. Angel hair/vermicelli
5. Campanelle. Kind of looks like Chef Boyardee Roller Coaster. God, I loved those. Honorable mention to tagliatelle
What is the likelihood of the general American population being able to overthrow the current government? Let's be clear, I'm not an Anarchist or some political freakazoid, but I think about it.
I think that a massive group of Americans could storm the Capitol and "take over" Congress if they were so determined. Obviously, snipers would take out many of the stormers and they would be lost as collateral damage. But if the plan were somehow carried out in secret, I think you could make it to the chamber of Congress before the helicopters arrived and gassed everyone outside to death. You might even be able to hold the speaker of the House hostage for a few minutes, and that would be fun.
The problem is that you would still have to get at the president, and the prez is a slippery eel. He'd be whisked away in a helicopter, where he would be free to issue the KILL ORDER that ends with a million rotting corpses strewn about the National Mall. You say you want a revolution, WELL HERE'S YOUR REVOLUTION, BITCH. The harsh truth is that staging a coup de'tat against a government as large as ours, with as many resources as ours, is virtually impossible. It's strong enough to crush you at any time. AND IT WILL. BUILD YOUR ARSENAL NOW, PEOPLE OF RURAL AMERICA. THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUR MOONSHINE AND OLD FIREWORKS.
Seriously though, even if you succeeded in overthrowing the government, what would you do? Draw up a new Constitution? People would just bitch about that one like they do the old one. There's no flawless form of government and that would occur to you only after being saddled with the impossible burden of having to guide a new nation into calmer waters. Every goddamn whiner out there would demand his or her voice be heard in your super new government. WAHHHH LEGALIZE POT WAHHHH NO MORE GAY MARRIAGE WAHHHH NO TAXES ... what a miserable existence. Our government may be hilariously corrupt and incompetent, but at least I don't have to do anything. And that's what matters.
I remember in college, I was extremely idealistic and bitterly hateful of the government, mostly because of the lyrics to Metallica's ...And Justice for All. And I used to day dream about overthrowing the government and starting a revolution and all that shit. As if someone like me could actually make life better for other human beings. I can't believe I was stupid enough to be that faux radical. Never listen to a college student's opinion about anything. Secretly, they're just as dumb as high school kids, perhaps even more so.
Not a license plate (obviously) but kind of on the same theme and super classy....seen on the Charles River in Boston
The olive tits make it extra classy.
You're a close follower of Favretards and know them well. What you may or may not know is that their ridiculous sentiment - "I'm a Favre fan more than a Packers fan" - has invaded Indiana. My dad was a die-hard Colts fan (at least in the years they were winning 11-13 per season. He rooted for the Bengals in the early '90s), but now has decided to switch his allegiance to the Broncos and Peyton Manning. I love and respect my father, but dear god, only serial killers and bandwagon evangelicals root for the Broncos.
Your father is a horrible person and you should let him know that. You Manningtards out there make me sick. You're just looking for a convenient excuse to root for a team that doesn't suck. And to abandon the Colts right after they stage one of the most impressive QB transitions in modern football history is not only disloyal, but remarkably stupid. Andrew Luck is AWESOME. Who ditches all that promise just to hang onto Fetushead for a couple more years? FAT HUMPS, that's who.
If you're one of the idiots switching from Colts fandom to Broncos fandom, please know that you are now not allowed to go back to the Colts under any circumstances. You're stuck with the Broncos and their ailing owner FOREVER.
Drew Magary writes for Deadspin and Gawker. He's also a correspondent for GQ. Follow him on Twitter @drewmagary and email him at email@example.com.
Suppose there is this dwarf that has this ability to make 100% of shots taken from half court-in, provided his shot is not blocked. Would he make an NBA team?
Suppose he has the athleticism of a Kobe or LeBron, but is only 3 feet tall. He would be a defensive liability possibly, but may also be able to play passing lanes without being seen. If he ever got a shot off, it's money. Would teams devote a defender to him all the time, or try and cheat off him and play 5 on 4?
If he were guaranteed to make any shot he got off cleanly, you would have to put a defender on him, otherwise he'd go all Alex Dillard on you and light your ass up. The dwarf would almost assuredly be a spot outside shooter. WAY outside. Essentially, he'd be an offensive decoy. You put him way out by the half-court line, where he still can't miss, and the other team has to use up a defender staying close to him. If he's being guarded man-on-man, I don't know how the dwarf gets a shot off, because his stubby little legs would prevent him from outrunning Kobe around the perimeter. You'd have to set up screens all over the place.
As a defender, he's obviously too much of a liability. I think that would probably be the death knell of his NBA hopes. HOWEVAH, an enterprising team might be glad to have a magic dwarf on the roster specifically for crunch time situations. And imagine the revenue he would generate. If you're some dipshit team like the Bobcats, having Super Dinklage on your team means having the little person's Jeremy Lin. That's a revenue juggernaut. Only James Dolan would turn down such a windfall. Super Dinklage would even push Tebow off the SportsCenter lead.
One more thing: Googling "are dwarfs slower than people" yielded no useful results. I would like the speed of dwarfs studied intensely by our best and brightest.
Found this fucker inside at work and guided him outside, which I immediately regretted because what if he reproduces? We do NOT need giant dragonflies.
That's nothing. According to this book, prehistoric dragonflies were the size of eagles, and prehistoric millipedes grew up to 6 feet long. Six. Feet. JESUS. Promise me that none of you will build a time machine that can bring me back to the age of 6-foot millipedes. And you sick fuck entomologists out there better not think of cloning the meganeura. What kind of sick fuck likes to study insects, anyway? You people are all serial killers and no one can tell me any different. Normal people don't just sit there and let a roach crawl all over their fucking hand.
Ventilation fans in the bathroom - do they actually help noticeably reduce the horrid stench of your poop or does the noise of the fan provide a calming effect and mask some of the inhuman sounds that can happen during a monstrous evacuation?
The ventilation fan isn't there to mask your wretched bowel movements at all. The reason many bathrooms have a ventilation fan is because the steam rising from your shower can build up on the wall and cause mildew if you don't have a good vent to whisk the steam away. I don't think a ventilation duct has ever really quickened up the process of making a bathroom smell better. HOWEVAH, if you believe that vents work, then it probably has a psychosomatic effect that causes you to believe that the smell of your shit is being reduced, allowing you to relax and breathe freely even though the shit particles are still in the air, wafting about, melting on your tongue. Mmmmmmm ...
Have you ever wondered if you were the subject of a Truman Show-esque world constructed to house your life? Sometimes if I perceive something is slightly amiss about my day, I'll assume it's all part of the grander plan of Christof. For example, I just went to take a piss at work, and there was a fly at about face level, just to the right side of the urinal. You know what that is? Perfect fly-urinal-cam position. THAT'S what that is.
I'll do you one better because I used to get stoned and sometimes wonder if the whole UNIVERSE was an elaborate setup just for me. The planets. The stars. The galaxies. All of it is an elaborate setup BY JESUS just for me. No one else is actually alive, they are simply mirrors that J-Christ created in his crafty Matrix. Perhaps I am the test vehicle for latter-day mankind, a dry run for whichever creative direction THE LORD thinks is best. I remember when I was a kid and I watched The Last Temptation of Christ (NOTE: Do not watch while on drugs), and I thought to myself ZOMG! WHAT IF THAT'S ME? WHAT IF I'M NEW JESUS AND I JUST WON'T KNOW UNTIL I JOIN WYLD STALLYNS? I may be a touch self-involved.
Gun to your head, which Olympic event would you have the best chance of qualifying? The scenario is that some psychopath will kill you if you don't qualify and you are given four years to train for the event and if you qualify you live; if not then you die. I looked at the list of events and it really looks bleak. I'd go with the following in this order.
1. Shooting
2. Curling
3. Archery
4. Table Tennis
5. Badminton
6. Team Handball (Darkhorse)
I have backgrounds in track and field, basketball and golf but know I would stand no chance in any of those events. Which event would you commit to with your life on the line?
I'm dead regardless of what I choose, but if you gotta choose one (and presuming that you have unlimited resources to train during those four years), it has to be sailing. Any rich white guy can learn to sail a boat like an asshole. Plus, you can assemble a whole ragtag crew of your best Martha's Vineyard buddies to mask your personal athletic deficiencies. I say all this knowing full well that I know nothing about sailing, and the few times I have tried to sail, I have been CRUSHED by the boom. Like so:
MY UNCLE: Okay, Drew, we're about to come about.
DREW: Come a-what?
DREW: Jive?
Only Katie Baker would be able to save me. Let's also give strong consideration to luge (all you do is lie down), fencing (nerd sport), shooting/archery, and of course, DRESSAGE. Like I said, the horse does all the work. The only challenge is sitting there in jodhpurs when it's a thousand degrees outside.
Let's say there is a surefire #1 pick in the NBA/NFL Draft (Luck, Unibrow, etc...) and the day of the draft, they disappear.
They could have just decided to skip their draft night and rented a porno movie in the hotel, they could be kidnapped by terrorists who are holding them ransom. The time comes for the #1 pick to be announced and there is still no word. Does the team still select them? Isn't it too much of a risk that they could be overdosing on heroin or murdered by gypsies? What if they pass on them and the pick is just fine and now goes #2 and wins a championship? So many possibilities. What would you do?
You can't take them. You have to operate under the assumption that someone who has come so far only to go AWOL the day of the draft is either A.) dead, B.) kidnapped, or C.) smacked out in a vacant. Whatever reason there may be for their absence, it can't be good. So you roll the dice and pass on him. And if he turns out fine, you can always say WELL JESUS, HE COULD HAVE BEEN EATEN BY A GODDAMN SHARK. Only an unreasonable fan would quibble, and by that I mean all fans, because fans are dicks.
If this actually happened, I know full well that, deep down, I would be kind of disappointed if the player turned out to be hunky dory. That would be such a letdown in terms of drama. Imagine if it came out that a lion broke free from the zoo and mauled him to death. HOLY SHIT! YOU TALK ABOUT A GREAT DAY ON TWITTER.
Pete from Toronto:
Is there anything more exhilarating than catching something that's unexpectedly fallen out of your hands or off your desk? I'm constantly carrying a pile of contracts, a calculator, pen/highlighters, etc around the office going to and from meetings and inevitably one of them will roll off the pile. If I happen to notice it and catch it halfway down it's drop with one hand I feel like I've just saved a small child from instant death. I JUST SAVED THIS PEN FROM A LIFE ENDING FALL! Applaud my cat-like reflexes now!
It gets better when you have kids because you can save the child from falling (happens all the time and I will never let them forget it), and because baby bottles are top heavy. A light breeze knocks them over and sends them rolling away toward disaster. And when they fall, you want to END THE WORLD, you're so angry. Because now you have to bend down with the baby in your arm, and the baby drags on you like a fucking anchor through water. But once in a while, you catch the fucker before it goes rolling off the changing table and you feel like a stallion.
By the way, even when a bottle falls on the floor, I never bother to clean that shit off before sticking it back in the child's mouth. If the child ends up sucking on floor algae, that's the way it goes. It'll toughen you up, boy.
Found this on a car a block away from my house while I was walking my dog. Looks like John's day is about to take a turn for the worse. What's the proper protocol in this situation? Take the note so John is blindsided? Buy binoculars and establish a perch in a nearby tree to observe his reaction?
I think you have to find John and warn him. That way, he's not blindsided by the note, AND you get to see the look on his face when he discovers it. What did he do? He had to have cheated on his wife with a crazy person, right? But if he cheated on his wife, why is the note-writer accusing him of running his mouth? It's such a riddle. WE HAVE TO FIND JOHN. I MUST KNOW.
If we were stranded on a desert island, could his jizz provide us with enough protein to help us survive??
No, but I'm sure your fellow male castaways would try to convince you otherwise. This site says a teaspoon of jizz (WHOA HEY WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE, RANDY WEST?!) has just five to seven measly calories. I find this fact disheartening because I would really like to think that my ejaculate is the very stuff of life, teeming with probiotics and able to nourish an entire corn crop into maturity.
You ladies should be glad that isn't the case, because then every lax bro in the universe would sneak jizz into your beer cup and then be like BRO! I WAS JUST GIVING VITAL NUTRIENTS BRO! And then you'd have triathletes eating concentrated jizz bars and the whole world would just be gross.
I'm not trying to make light of the horrible theater shooting in Colorado, but I have an honest question. If you were one of the survivors of that ordeal, would you ever go back and watch the rest of the movie?
At least one of the victims went back and finished watching the movie, both as a sign of resilience and because she was a big fan of The Dark Knight. I don't think there's a wrong way to react. You may still really want to see it. You may want nothing to do with it ever again.
The amazing thing is that, in the wake of the movie, the MPAA has still done absolutely nothing about how shitty their rating system is. I mean, Jesus. Watch that movie again. It's a fucking orgy of bullets. The MPAA is a joke. Say the word FUCK in a $5 million indie movie, and it gets an NC-17. But stage a series of shooting massacres in a $200 million movie and it gets a G. It's ridiculous. I would piss in the MPAA's coffee pot if I could.
And now, a chilling GREAT MOMENT IN POOP HISTORY
My 3-day-old daughter was having an operation on her heart in the hospital. While that kind of thing is going on you have a level of tension and physical stress that you previously didn't know existed. I had to poop, so I found a very nice, clean bathroom in this very nice, clean waiting room of this very nice, clean hospital.
While pooping, I feel a little tickle on my ass. "Just one of my ten million leg hairs," I think to myself. Then another tickle in the same spot. Then the tickle very distinctly moves across my ass. I look down. The first things I see are the antennae. Then the head and body of the cockroach appears, crawling up my inner thigh.
This fucker is HUGE. We had cockroaches in an apartment years ago, and the big ones there were probably half as long as this bug crawling through the forest of leg hair about an inch from my dick.
I leapt up out of immediate fear that his 75 buddies were still down in the toilet ready to follow the leader. Have you ever jumped up from a toilet with your pants around your ankles and a small turd still clinging to your ass? It is a very delicate dance. I launched the roach into the stall wall. It fell and scurried away towards the center of the bathroom. I VERY carefully inspected the toilet for more roaches and found none. I sat down and wiped furiously, pulled up my pants, and went on a search and destroy mission. I found that three-inch monster under the sink and after 5 or so failed attempts with the soft-as-tree-bark paper towel, I squashed it.
A doctor walks into the bathroom in full scrubs, finding me breathing like I've just run a marathon and staring at the corpse prize in my paper towel. I am sure he thought me a psychopath. I showed him the smashed roach and said, "Is that the biggest cockroach you've ever seen or what?" His response was "Oh yeah, we get those down here sometimes." NOT ACCEPTABLE. BABY GIRL HAS INSTRUMENTS INSIDE HER HEART 100 FEET FROM HERE.
So I take my dead roach paper towel out of the bathroom and tell the waiting room receptionist to bring the facilities management person down here so I can yell at him. They bring him to me and I yell at him about baby girls with instruments inside their hearts with three-inch cockroaches 100 feet away. All while holding my dead roach paper towel, which I then gave to him so that he could use it as a reminder to get the three-inch cockroaches away from baby girls with instruments inside their hearts.


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A major fire occurring on the Texas A&M campus could involve areas where multiple-occupancy residences and/or facilities are clustered closely together, increasing the possibility of rapid spread of a structural fire. Thus, it is very important for the campus community to recognize fire hazards, practice building evacuations, and know what to do when the fire alarm sounds.
In preparation for a fire:
- Plan and practice an escape route.
- Post emergency numbers near telephones.
- Get training from Environmental Health and Safety on using fire extinguishers.
- Do not store combustible materials in closed areas or near a heat source.
- Extension cords can be dangerous. Never run them under carpets, or anywhere they can be pinched under or behind furniture. Avoid overloading electrical sockets and plugging extension cords together.
- Keep all electrical appliances away from anything that can catch fire. Remember to always turn them off at the end of the day.
- Pay attention to housekeeping issues. Do not clutter exits, stairways, and storage areas with waste paper, empty boxes, and other fire hazards.
If there is a fire inside a building:
- Activate a fire alarm or pull station.
- Call 911 and give your name, building name, address, floor, location, and related information.
- Evacuate the building using Building Evacuation instructions.
Building evacuation - When the building fire alarms sound:
- Immediately evacuate using building emergency plan procedures.
- Walk to nearest exit/stairwell (close doors behind you).
- Do not use the elevators.
- Proceed to the designated gathering area outside the building and report to your floor proctor (for a headcount).
- Do not re-enter the building until cleared by authorized personnel.
- Assist with the evacuation of individuals with specials needs.
If the fire is outside a building:
- Call 911 and give your name, building name, address, floor, location, and related information.
- Do not activate the building fire alarm system.
You can use a portable fire extinguisher if:
- You are properly trained (you have had hands-on training).
- It is a small, contained fire (e.g. wastebasket).
- You can extinguish it within 12 seconds (evacuate if it takes longer).
If you are unable to leave the building, you should create an area of refuge:
- Seal the room. Use wet cloth to stuff around cracks in floors and seal up vents to protect against smoke.
- Do not break windows, unless as a last resort for escape.
- Stay low under smoke. The freshest air is near the floor. Keep a wet cloth over your nose and mouth; breath through your nose only.
- Signal for help. Call 911 or hang something in the window.
After a fire:
- Give first aid where appropriate. Seriously injured or burned victims should be transported to professional medical help immediately.
- Stay out of damaged buildings. Return to buildings when local fire authorities say it is safe.
- Look for structural damage.
- Discard food that has been exposed to heat, smoke, or soot.
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WALNUT CREEK — The Bay Area News Group is asking a judge to force the Mt. Diablo Unified School District to release internal records about a former Concord elementary teacher charged with sexually molesting 13 young male students.
Citing personnel and investigatory exemptions in the state's public records law, the district has refused to produce documents pertaining to former Woodside Elementary teacher Joseph Martin, 45, who pleaded not guilty in July to 125 felony molestation counts.
The news organization, which owns the Contra Costa Times, San Jose Mercury News and Oakland Tribune, argued in a lawsuit filed in Contra Costa Superior Court that the records are not exempt and must be disclosed.
Judges in numerous previous court cases have upheld the public's right to access information about well-founded allegations of wrongdoing by public employees, said BANG attorney Duffy Carolan.
"The district can't hide behind claims of privacy or privilege to protect from public oversight Mr. Martin's wrongdoing or the district's response to it," Carolan said. "Its legal position is untenable and shortsighted. The public deserves answers."
BANG investigative reporter Matthias Gafni formally requested records of allegations involving Martin after prosecutors charged the once-popular teacher with molesting 13 students as far back as 2006. If convicted, Martin faces life in prison.
In addition to the criminal proceedings against the teacher, three claims and a civil rights lawsuit have been filed against district employees alleging officials had earlier suspicions of Martin's abuse but failed to report him to police or Child Protective Services as required by law.
The most recent claim cites a 2013 police report, which quoted from a 2006 internal Mt. Diablo school district document about finding "potential child abuse" at the hands of Martin. The police report also says no one from the district reported Martin to Child Protective Services or law enforcement authorities back then, but instead created new rules for Martin, such as keeping his classroom door open at all times.
The records sought by BANG likely include district investigations into several incidents witnessed and reported to district officials by other teachers.
One such complaint was made in 2006 after a teacher one evening walked in on Martin and a male student who were behind a closet door with their shoes off. Another teacher complained that older boys who had graduated often returned to the school and entered Martin's room alone, and that the classroom door was locked.
As of late Friday afternoon, the district's legal counsel and school board members did not respond to a request for comment.


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Wait, paano ulit pwede maging hobby ang math? (serious inquiry, no sarcasm)
hahaha ako binibiyak ko muna yung wetpaks para makita kung may yellow thingy hahahaha
I'm into math. I like to think of shortcuts to solve everyday math processes mentally. An example of the things I came up with is dividing any number by 5. My shortcut is to multiply that number by 2 then moving the decimal point one place to the left. Say you have 56.5, the answer is 113 with a decimal moved a place to the left, so 11.3
That's really multiplying by (2/10). Or (1/5)
Yup, that's the point. It's easier to process it that way.
I'm just verifying the "short cuts".And the x11 short cut of adding the digits of the two digit number - it's because of the fact that when you do long multiplication, both digits will have to be multiplied by 10, and will line up, thus, the need to add. But it's only valid for two digits which add up to 9 max. If the sum is 10 or more, it doesn't work. It's because you have to "carry" the extra digit to the next left column when doing multiplication.Eg 55x 11 is not equal to 5105, but 605
If the total of the two numbers exceeds 10, just carry over the tens digit of the sum of both numbers to the first digit (e.g. 87 x 11, 9 [first digit +1 due to 8+7 being more than 15, which is more than 10],5 [ones digit of the sum], 7 [second digit] = 957).
right, so it's not for all 2-digit numbers, as earlier claimed. If the sum of the digits exceed 9, there's an extra step. Which makes it more complicated than just simply multiplying. Or using a calculator. That's the real beauty of math, proving/ disproving theorems and finding (or trying to find) universal truths.
That extra step ain't difficult, actually. It even works for 3-digit numbers. And for what it's worth, solving basic arithmetic equations by using any mental math shortcut would be more than complicated compared to doing so by using a calculator.
and multiplying any number by 11 (conventionally) isn't difficult as well. Which is why I question the "short-cut" which needs an if-then-else statement.
Other people don't have the mental computing power to easily deal with larger numbers and would rather work with smaller ones. Such shortcuts are not necessary anymore for practicing engineers such as myself and for other people who have a knack for numbers (presumably you), but for the benefit of everyone, these small tricks may help them mentally compute for stuff through easy-to-follow steps. Maybe you can share some of your math tricks as well so that you can actually contribute to this thread
Point is, some "short-cuts" are not really shortcuts. In the x11 example, it's actually longer. You have to test the digits if they fall within a certain criterion. If yes, then do one thing. If not, do another thing (which consists of several iterations).A "simpler shortcut" for x11 is multiply by 10 and add the same number. Thus 45 x 11 = 450+45 = 495. No if-then-else statement
And just for argument's sake, people who have a "knack for numbers" may not be necessarily good in mathematics. They may be good in arithmetic, but not in the other branches of mathematics, which require logic and analysis.
Which brings me to your "contributing to this thread" statement. I've been "contributing to this thread" by verifying and analyzing the logic of the "math tricks". That is the essence of mathematics, after all.
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Double Celebration
Welcome back, my crafting friends! Here are a couple cards we'll be making at May classes. They use mostly retiring Stampin' Up!® products. And, oh, my, will I miss them!
Both of these cards use the same products, but they look so much different. So let's break it down…
The first card uses a design from my awesome friend Susan. Not only is she awesome, but her designs are as well. I used the Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper (DSP) with the Celebrate You Dies for this card. I layered a 4″ x 5-1/4″ piece of Pool Party Cardstock to a Tranquil Tide card base. Then I layered a 2″ x 5-1/4″ piece of the Garden Impressions DSP to the card.
Next, I punched three balloons using the Garden Impressions DSP and Balloon Bouquet Punch and adhered them to the card. I added some Night of Navy Medium Baker's Twine to the balloons for the strings and twine. They're adhered with Fine-Tip Glue Pen and Glue Dots.
For the final touch, I added the celebrate sentiment using the Celebrate You Dies with Tranquil Tide Cardstock. Here's another look at that card.
For the second card, I used two identical pieces of the Garden Impressions DSP. I started with 4″ x 5-1/4″ pieces of the DSP, then placed them in my Stampin' Trimmer with opposite sides on top, then cut a diagonal. Then I placed the top from one piece and the bottom from the other on my Tranquil Tide card base, stretching to give room for the die-cut celebrate. When I was happy with the placement, I trimmed the excess from the top and bottom. (You can use the opposite sides for another card!)
I die-cut the celebrate from Mint Macaron Cardstock then added it to the center of the card, between the DSP layers.Take another peek.
Can a card be any easier? I don't think so. In case you're scratching you head, no. There is no stamping on either card. And they are both perfect for so many occasions – anniversaries, birthdays, graduations, and more!
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Many of my readers will be very surprised to know that I, for once, agree with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg regarding his decision to bar "clergy" from participating in the tenth anniversary memorial of the September 11th attacks.
In the past, I found myself in total disagreement with Mayor Bloomberg on many issues; chief among them, his support of the building of the Cordoba Mosque at Ground Zero. Many people saw his unbridled support of that project as distasteful at best and expedient at worst. After all, the mayor is doing personal business in many Muslim countries, especially the rich Gulf states. Thus, at least for expediency's sake, he had to support what many Americans consider to be a sign of triumphalism on the part of Islamists at the very site where 2,753 people, most of them our fellow citizens, died in the name of Islam.
But when it comes to not having any "clergy" at the tenth commemoration of that day of infamy, I believe Mayor Bloomberg did the right thing even though I am sure we see his decision from very different viewpoints. Most likely, his reason for barring "clergy" from the event is fear that he may offend one group or another.
However, the way I and many other faithful Christians see it is as an act of mercy – sparing us the spectacle of bundling all religions together as if they are worshipping one god or as if all these gods are equal. Indeed, Mayor Rudy Giuliani's "Prayer for America" memorial service, held 12 days after the 9/11 attacks, was extremely painful for the faithful Christians who watched. It gave the impression that all gods are equal to the one true God – the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Every conceivable group, from Hindus, Buddhists and other non-monotheistic groups (unknown to most Americans) to different Muslim sects, Sikhs, Jewish groups, and Christian denominations of all stripes, was given an opportunity to "pray." Tragically, every representative of a Christian denomination, but one, judiciously avoided mentioning the unmentionable – Jesus Christ – out of political correctness. There was only one elderly Armenian Orthodox bishop who dared to utter the name of our Savior, the Son of the living God.
From the very beginning in Sinai, our heavenly Father warned Moses before entering the Promised Land that His people must not fall into syncretism by bundling and muddling their worship with the Canaanites, who worshiped all sorts of gods that were not gods at all. Yet God's people just couldn't help themselves and kept on mixing Yahweh with all of the "non-God" gods. Year after year, the prophets continuously warned them against that travesty, until finally, when they did not heed the warning, judgment came in the form of the Babylonian exile.
Sadly, America is committing the same abomination of syncretism – mixing the God of the Founding Fathers with all those other "non–God"-gods. Could judgment be around the corner? We will wait and see.
But for now, special thanks to Mayor Bloomberg for sparing the faithful Christians from seeing and watching a syncretistic fest on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy.


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CLEVELAND — He's ready if the Indians want him!
Actor Charlie Sheen, who starred in "Major League," responded to the calls made on social media for him tothrow out the first pitch of the World Series on Tuesday.
He posted a picture of himself as "Wild Thing," and said:
"Major League continues to be the gift that keeps on giving!
if called upon, I'd be honored."
Shortly after the Cleveland Indianstriumphed in the ALCS Wednesday night, fans began pulling for Sheen to throw out the first pitch.
Sheen played "Wild Thing" in the iconic 1989 movie about a fictional, hard-luck Indians team with a motley roster of extreme personalities and skill sets.
The movie follows character Rachel Phelps who inherited the Cleveland Indians from her dead husband and is offered a deal to move the team to Miami.
In order to get out of her contract and move the team, she plots to cause attendance at games to decline. She hires the worst players, including rookie pitcher Ricky Vaughn, whose nickname was "Wild Thing."
But because of her plan, those players try even harder and end up going to the World Series.
As of Thursday evening, the real Cleveland Indians haven't responded to Sheen's offer.


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Dark teas are subjected to a period of microbial fermentation as the final stage of processing. This stage can be from a few months to several years as the tea is aged. The most famous dark tea is from Pu'erh in Yunnan Province, China, for which the Vietnamese equivalent in Pho Nhi. Dark teas typically have earthy or peaty notes.


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|On January 30, 1969, several hundred students occupied the Administration Building to protest the University's decision not to reappoint Marlene Dixon, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Committee on Human Development. Administrators and staff evacuated their offices and continued their work in other University Buildings. On February 14, 1969, students voted to end their sit-in and leave the building. Following the sit-in, photographs were taken by the University administration to document the condition of the interior of the building. In March 1969 the University suspended eighty-one students involved in the sit-in, expelled forty-two, placed three on probation, and fined one for the cost of a broken window.
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Collateral Damage
by Jessica Wayne
Publication Date: July 18, 2018
Genres: Romantic Fantasy, Romantic Suspense, Urban Fantasy
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After a spell left him frozen in time, Timothy McGinley swore off all things magic and accepted that he was destined to walk the earth forever. But when a witch saves his life, he discovers he is facing his own mortality for the first time in two centuries.
Paislee Adams was stolen from everything she knew because she possessed what one man craved: power. After she escapes, she dedicates her life to honing her magic in an effort to destroy the man who owned her for so much of her life.
Fate brings these two together and as they race against the clock to stop the man who has a deadly obsession with them both, Timothy and Paislee are both forced to face the demons of their past in an effort to secure a future they weren't sure they deserved.
About Jessica Wayne
Jessica Wayne was born and raised in southern California where she and her family trained horses. She grew up traveling to different competitions, as well as showing sheep and rabbits for 4-H and the FFA.
After moving to Texas with her family, Jessica joined the Army National Guard where she served for seven years.
From the moment her grandmother introduced her to Nora Roberts' wonderful world of romance, Jessica knew she wanted to create her own stories and share them with the world.
She has been writing full time for the past four years, and is a stay at home mom. She currently resides in Texas with her husband, their two children, and their dog.
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[AP Recap - Game Summary - Super Stats]
The Hurricanes went through 65 minutes of hockey and a shootout without putting a single puck past Cristobal Huet with their sticks and yet somehow came away with a point that likely seals the deal on a Southeast Division title.
On the plus side, of course, the Caps banked another two points. But with both Philly and Boston winning and Carolina's lead at four points with five games to play, the reality is that the Caps gained next-to-nothing of value last night - they treaded water in the Conference and got one point closer in a Division that the 'Canes can wrap up with any combination of six points gained by them or not gained by the Caps with five games remaining for each team (in other words, if the Caps go 4-1 and Carolina goes 2-3, the 'Canes clinch).
As for that eighth spot, the Flyers have a magic number of seven with respect to the Caps with the same number of games left. Boston has a magic number of nine, but the B's have a game in hand on the Caps.
In summary (and if my math is correct), if the Caps finish 5-0, Carolina finish 3-2, Philly finishes 3-1-1 and Boston finishes 4-1-1, the Caps are out; if the Caps finish 4-1, Carolina finishes 2-3, Philly finishes 2-2-1 and Boston finishes 3-2-1, the Caps are out, and so on. Here's what each team has left:
- Washington: @ TB, @ FLA, CAR, TB, FLA
- Carolina: ATL, @ TB, @ WSH, TB, FLA
- Philadelphia: @ NJ, @ NYI, @ PIT, NJ, PIT
- Boston: TOR, OTT, @ BUF, @ NJ, @ OTT, BUF
Is there still hope? Sure. But the Caps can't do it on their own - they need some help even if they run the table.
Back to last night, some quick thoughts on the game:
- Huet has had a season's worth of fluky goals against in his month in D.C. And not to kick a man when he's down, but if I had a dime for every time I said to myself "Olie doesn't make that save," I'd have a buck or so.
- The team has been playing tight for a while now, with no one wanting to make a mistake. This is especially apparent in the conservative play of the defense, which hasn't scored a goal in March, but Boudreau's Flying Circus has been more or less reduced to an unreal first line, a very good power play, and any occasionally strong forecheck. They now have one non-empty net goal from someone other than a first-liner in their last five games (Matt Bradley's tally against Nashville).
- My guess is that Nicklas Backstrom won't win the Calder, in large part because people haven't watched the Caps enough to move past an "anyone could score on a line with Ovechkin" mentality, but the fact of the matter is he's as complete and mature a player as there is in this year's rookie class. His play on the Ovechkin goal - taking a bad drop pass from Viktor Kozlov and eventually putting it on a wide open AO's stick - was superb.
Sergei Fedorov took 30 faceoffs (the most he's taken in a game since January 14, 2006 when he was a Blue Jacket and took 36 draws in a game against Florida), winning 16. On the night, the Caps won 59% of the faceoffs (it's nice to have Rod Brind'Amour and Matt Cullen out, eh?).
Scott Walker ought to learn how to play the game under control.
- Sure, David A. Jensen played for D.C., but I think Joe B. was referring to Al Jensen when he noted that 'Canes forward Joe Jensen is no relation to the former Cap with the same last name.
- The Caps were out-hit 41 to 21. That's a bit of home-cookin', but there's no question Carolina carried the physical play.
- I hate Erik Cole, and by that I mean I respect him and wish he was on my team. I don't hate Eric Staal quite the same way.
- Thanks, Comcast - I didn't want to see the first shot of the shootout anyway.
- Cam Ward was fantastic.
- What are we going to do with Alex Semin? The guy's on a 40+ goal pace over his last 41 games (half a season) and has all the skill in the world, but has the hockey sense of a rabbit.
- Oh yeah, Alex Ovechkin scored Number 61, with no asterisk.
So two big points and it's off to Florida for the last two roadies of the season. Time's running out on the Caps, though, no matter how well they continue to play. They need help and they need it fast.
Elsewhere 'Round the Rinks:
Happy Birthday to my little brother Pooh.... The Leafs and Sabres bloggers have called it a season. If the Panthers had bloggers, they would too. That leaves only one team on the outside looking in in the East, and we all know who that is.... Joe Finley + Bucky + haiku = awesome.
Daily Awards
Hart: Joe Thornton (3G, including two in the third period to send the game to OT, A)
Ross: Joe Thornton (4 points)
Norris: Anton Volchenkov (Game-winning goal, 2A, +3, 2 SOG, 2 Hits, 2 BkS)
Vezina: Marc-Andre Fleury (31-save shutout win)
Richard: Joe Thornton (3G)
Calder: Nicklas Backstrom (2A, +1, 4 SOG, 67% faceoffs won)
Aiken: Vesa Toskala (L, 5 goals allowed on 29 shots against)


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Danger Mouse Part 8
We Tested 12 Different Holley Carbs for Power
This month, we took Danger Mouse (DM) in a completely different direction. In the past seven months, we've used DM to tackle various ideas on the dyno and see just how much power we really could make with a genuine street small-block. For the most part, the results have been fantastic, and DM has usually surpassed all power expectations. For our eighth installment on DM's testing schedule, we wanted to see if there really was power to be gained or lost by running the right or wrong carburetor.
Now, this type of testing can open up a whole, big can of worms, so to keep testing simple and fair, we chose to only run carbs from the same manufacturer, Holley. And we also chose to test only 4160- and 4150-style carbs, and not the giant 4500-series Dominator lineup. We gathered up 12 different size/style carbs, ranging from Holley's smallest four-barrel, the 390-cfm vacuum secondary unit, up to the big HP950 double pumper, and bolted each one of them onto DM to see if one stood out from the rest.
We expected the smaller carbs to make good bottom-end torque but sacrifice peak power, which they did. But the thing that really threw us for a loop was that the biggest carb we tested--the HP950--made the most power of any carb! Does this mean that big carbs are best? Probably not, but it does mean that Danger Mouse liked the bigger carb. However, DM also liked the HP 750, and we think these tests really show that Holley's engineers have done their homework and dialed in the HP carbs to work best on just about any engine. It also means that all of those carburetor modifiers out there probably do have something good going, because most of them can take an old, abused Holley and make it work as good as a new HP, but the cost is about the same as if you just bought a new one, so which choice you make is up to you. From what we learned in this test vs. what we'd already known is that not all carbs are created equal, and if you're building a daily-driven street car, you should still go with something smaller than 800 cfm. But, you certainly can't judge a carb by its size alone. Check out the dyno charts to see what we found.
|This month was the first time we bolted DM onto the Vrbancic Brothers Racing DTS dyno in Ontario, California. Shop owners George and Bob Vrbancic both supervised the test sessions with George at the dyno controls. Yours truly performed all the jet changes and kept a running tab of the results.
To establish a baseline we first ran Holley's old standard, the 750-cfm double-pumper (List 0-4779-8). After the baseline was done, we tested from smallest to largest, trying every different size Holley carb we could get our hands on. And in order to ensure accurate results we tried tuning fuel curves for the best peak power. It turned out, however, that the stock fuel curves worked best, and any time we strayed from Holley's settings for each carb, we usually sacrificed some power.
* Only three (850 dp, HP750, and HP950) of the carbs averaged over 400 lb-ft of torque, and only the two HP carbs (750 & 950) peaked over 430 lb-ft of torque.* The HP950 made more torque at 2,500 rpm (353 lb-ft) than any other carb, but the 650 dp was right behind it with only 1-less lb-ft (352).* The 650 and 750 dps tied for most tq and hp at 3,500 rpm.* The 750 vacuum secondary carb (List 0-3310) had the lowest mid-range figures of all carbs.* Peak torque occurred between 4,100 and 4,300 rpm, and peak hp occurred between 5,400 and 5,700 rpm with every carb.* Average power tells the story and the two HP carbs (750 and 950) made more average power than any other carb.* Note: Faithful DM followers may note that peak power numbers for this test were down by a couple percent from previous tests. That discrepancy is most likely just the difference between how a DTS dyno and a Superflow dyno collect and interprets the data. It's kind of like stepping on the scale at your house vs. your friend's house; either scale may be correct, but you'd still weigh the same regardless of the difference in readings.
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Grades: Middle School (6–8), High School (9–12)
Time Required: 1 museum visit plus 2–3 class periods and homework
Subject: Visual Arts, English—Language Arts
Prerequisites: None
Take your students to a local art museum! These lessons prepare your middle and high school students for a visit to an art museum, including a lesson in the museum galleries. Students practice basic looking skills and interpretation using vocabulary about art and address the role of the museum and museum professionals in displaying and interpreting works of art.
Insert these lessons into any art curriculum. Learning objectives in each lesson build on skills learned in previous lessons. Therefore, lessons should be taught in sequence. Common Core, California state, and national education standards are indicated for each lesson.


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Practical Brokerage Practices
Course Description
This course brings together many of the most important aspects of a real estate broker business. If you manage or own a real estate company, or any company for that matter, a well thought-out office policy manual is a must. With an easy-to read manual, your staff and associates will know what's expected of them. This course will explain how to write, produce, and distribute your company's roadmap to success. Your manual should encompass all of the basics: a mission statement, personnel policies, and general procedures such as office attire, sales meetings, office conduct, terminations, and vacations. It is also important to include policies and procedures specific to real estate.
After completing this course participants will be able to:
- Outline and implement a working Policy and Procedure manual.
- Be able to list the criteria by which independent status is measured and to describe the employer/employee relationship.
- Apply standard accounting and recordkeeping practices and outline the requirements surrounding trust accounts.
- Have a solid understanding of how violations of the occupational code are handled.
Lesson 1 (20 minutes)
1. How to Create an Office Policy Manual
2. What Should it Cover?
a. Advertising
b. Agency Disclosure
c. Business Procedures
d. Do Not Call Rules
e. Ethics
f. Expenses
g. Listings
h. Office expectations
i. Privacy
Lesson 2 (25 minutes)
1. Producing the Policy
2. Sample Policy
Lesson 3 (25 minutes)
1. Sample Policy
2. "Safe Harbor Provision"
3. Independent Contractor/Employee Status
Lesson 4 (30 minutes)
1. Trust Accounts
2. Guide for Estimating Sellers Expenses
3. Guide for Estimating Buyers Expenses
4. Checklists
Lesson 5 (15 minutes)
1. Violations
2. Examples
Assessment (30 minutes)
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Vegetarian Chili
1 cup textured soy protein
7/8 cup boiling water
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes
1 19-ounce can black beans, drained
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 tablespoon cumin
Reconstitute textured soy protein with boiling water. Heat oil in large pot. Saute onion and green pepper until soft, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook briefly. Add tomatoes, beans, chili powder, cumin, and soy protein. Stir. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and let simmer for about 30 to 45 minutes, until chili thickens.
Serves 4
Each 1-1/2-cup serving contains approximately 243 calories, 40 g carbohydrates, 16 g protein, 4 g fat, 758 mg sodium, and 11 g fiber.
To make this recipe gluten-free, use only spices or condiments that are gluten-free. Read food labels carefully and contact the company if you have any questions.


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The Workshops:
While students are encouraged to bring their own tools to class it is certainly not required. Our two woodworking shops (one 3000 square feet and one 1400 square feet) are fully equipped and have a full compliment of quality tools for everyone. The variety of tools in the school also allows students the opportunity to try out different tools before purchasing their own.


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Microsoft has taken aim at Google before with its 'Scroogled' advertising campaign, and now it's revived the attack tactics, slating Gmail's policy of reading your emails to target ads.
"Think Google respects your privacy? Think again," says Microsoft's advert. It says that nasty Google goes through your every email, reading every word, so it can target ads to you based on what you're writing about.
To illustrate this, Microsoft has a pair of shifty-looking eyes reading an email.
Outlook.com, however, "prioritises privacy", according to the ad.
The WSJ has reported that Microsoft reads the subject line of every email and target adverts based on them. That said, when asked, a Microsoft spokesperson vehemently denied this staing, "Microsoft does not scan the subject lines of email for ad targeting. And we're working to correct that with the WSJ." Add to that, TechRadar conducted tests that seem to support Microsoft's claim.
Here we go again
Previously, Microsoft took out a full-page advert in national newspapers attacking Gmail's privacy policy. And then there was the Gmail Man advert too, which was meant to be kept internal, but went on to become an official advert.
It's not the only company to attack others in its advertising either. Samsung has previously slammed Apple and its loyal fans, which may have something to do with the billion dollar court case that the two fought out last summer.
BlackBerry (nee RIM) also took on Apple with its own 'Wake Up' campaign.
Take a look at Microsoft's latest ads below, and let us know what you make of them.
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A novel by Jim Bornzin
"Blessed Are The Hungry" is a book about a starving young artist in Chicago who needs help marketing his paintings. A successful businesswoman knows online marketing but nothing about art. An elderly couple living between them pushes and pulls them all together. Who needs who? We need each other. Despite their differences these four quirky characters utilize humor, patience, and wisdom to help each other. In the process they end up helping themselves to find hope, purpose, and love.
To learn more about "Blessed Are The Hungry" or to order a copy in soft cover or ebook from Amazon, click on the cover photo above.
"Tales from Trinity" is a Lutheran patchwork quilt. Pastor Paul Walker's family and church members are stitched together by a God who is always at work behind the scenes. Church treasurer, Liz, is also working behind the scenes to frame the pastor for embezzlement of church funds. Reiner Holtz nurtures a conspiracy theory about Mexicans taking over the United States. Kathy Stiletto marries her high school sweetheart, but after a few years, she wonders what went wrong.
To learn more about "Tales from Trinity" or to order a copy in soft cover or ebook from Amazon, click on the cover photo above.
Jim's first novel is the shocking story of Pastor Walker's experience in terror. Two traumatic incidents shake the tranquil atmosphere of church life. In Part I the church custodian is murdered, and in Part II a group of Muslim terrorists threaten to blow up the church during Sunday morning worship. To learn more about my first novel, or to order a copy in soft cover or ebook on Amazon, click on the book cover photo above.
Pastor Paul Walker is in his fifth year at Trinity Lutheran Church when he is called at home to come to the church late one evening. Upon arriving he finds a hysterical father whose son lies in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs. Grief threatens to tear apart Bob and Marge Holloway, Paul and Cheri Walker, and the members of Trinity.
Liz Sterling, the church treasurer, who resents Pastor Walker from the beginning, hatches a plot to frame him for embezzling church funds. Meanwhile, Pastor Paul is trying to help Reiner Holtz whose conspiracy theories have led him to the brink of a nervous breakdown.
Finally cleared of the accusation of embezzlement, Pastor Walker encourages the congregation to sponsor a refugee from Iran. The young man seems sincere and innocent, but the FBI discovers plans for terrorist attacks across the country, and young Omar is taken into custody. The real terrorists, led by Omar's roommate Hassid, believe Omar has betrayed them. Taking the congregation hostage, they threaten to blow up the church on a Sunday morning unless their demands are met.
Despite tragedy and terror, God is at work behind the scenes, stitching together a community of forgiveness and faith, healing, hope, and joy. The larger community joins in celebrating Trinity's 100th Anniversary as Paul and Cheri give thanks for the rich life they have shared with family and friends.
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In January 2012 scientists around the world halted research on engineered avian flu viruses over concerns that the work was too dangerous. Now, those scientists are taking to labs once more to continue their work.
What was initially a 60-day halt to research turned into a year-long battle for the scientists, who have had to lobby hard to, in their own words, "describe the measures in place to minimize possible risks, and to enable organizations and governments around the world to review their policies (for example, on biosafety, biosecurity, oversight and communication) regarding these experiments". Those words form part of a letter signed by 40 academics, published in Nature, which states their intention to bring the moratorium to a close.
While the scientists may have won over the powers-that-be in some countries—including parts of the EU, Canada, and China—many remain unsure if the research is safe. Understandably, given the results of the experiments that brought about the halt in research:
In his Netherlands laboratory, virologist Ron Fouchier was experimenting with the avian flu virus to see how it could become even more virulent. (Red flag.) His research involved spreading it throughout a population of ferrets, and he noticed that as the virus reproduced, it adapted to spread even faster. (RED FLAG.) Not worried about ferret flu? Previous research has shown that any strains of influenza that can pass between ferrets can also pass between humans. (RED FLAAAAAAAAAG.) Ten generations later, his efforts had created an airborne strain with the power could kill half the human population. (RED FUCKING FLAG, DUDE!)
Included in the list of countries still unsure about the future of engineered avian flu research is the US. The scientists behind the research, writing in Nature, explain:
"Scientists should not restart their work in countries where, as yet, no decision has been reached on the conditions for H5N1 virus transmission research. At this time, this includes the United States and US-funded research conducted in other countries. Scientists should never conduct this type of research without the appropriate facilities, oversight and all necessary approvals."
Of recent time it's difficult to remember an avenue of scientific research that has garnered as much public scrutiny. The lifting of the research moratorium surely represents a success for scientific freedom—but this is a complex and thorny issue, so its understandable that some countries are taking their time when it comes to making a decision. Which decision is actually correct, of course, remains to be seen. [Nature via Guardian]
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2015_Tippecanoe County_Crash Report
Nov 25, 2019
As of November 21st, the League of American Bicyclists has designated the City of West Lafayette as a Bicycle Friendly Community at the Bronze level. Thank you to everybody who took the survey and let the city know how to keep moving towards a bicycle friendly future!
Lafayette is located at 40°24′38″N 86°52′29″W (40.410585, -86.874681)[16] and lies in Fairfield and Wea Townships. Elevation at the court house is 550 feet (168 m), but city elevations range from a little over 500 feet (150 m) at the Wabash River to approximately 700 feet (210 m) in the areas of Murdock Park and Columbian Park.
According to the 2010 census, Lafayette has a total area of 27.74 square miles (71.85 km2), all land.


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Things that make a game fun:
- Early success, low barriers to entry
- Collaborative effort
- Tactile qualities
- Puzzles – challenging but not impossible
- Different levels for different ages
Things that make games not fun:
- So many instructions that you can't start right away
- One game got the comment "Less fun than traffic" because it was too hard from the start with too many directions.
- Get frustrated, feel stupid
From there we were give index cards in different categories – client, goal, resources, restrictions and wild cards. Our teams of three had 15 minutes to create a game that satisfied the requirements on the cards.
Our team started off slow. We had a large corporate client with a product to sell, who wanted to reach athletic college students, and must include dancing and deer, we created "Don't scare the deer". At college football game tailgate parties we decided Budweiser would want to engage this audience in a fun activity. Using sensor pads like Dance Dance Revolution you would have 2 people trying to perform dances, if you did well you could get close to a deer (on a digital flatscreen in front of you). If you did poorly, you would scare the deer. The closer to the deer, the more points.
Another team had the challenges of a non-profit fund raiser needed a game for their big event. They had lots of interns and a good staff support. Thus was born "Robo-Zoni". On the Frog Pond in Boston, mini-zamboni robots would compete on an obstacle course. Teams would pay to enter, each mini-zamboni would leave a colored trail behind so you could see the path for each team. The prize would be a ride on a real zamboni.