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Jerry Brown interview transcript: On fights worth fighting, runaway legislatures and 'stupid' laws
Days before he was scheduled to leave office after his record fourth term as governor, Jerry Brown met with Chronicle political writer John Wildermuth at the governor's mansion in Sacramento to talk about his time in office, what he accomplished, what he learned and his plans for the future. The following is a lightly edited transcript of that 43-minute discussion.
Q: You're looking back at eight years. You have any regrets about what you didn't get done? Say they magically came up and said, "Governor, you've got four more years in this job." What needs to get done? What didn't get finished that you want to see done?
A: I can't think of anything, to tell you the truth. I don't look back that much. I do reflect on my life over time, but that doesn't stop with the governor's office.
I also think that with these eight years there was an extraordinary amount done, and I certainly contributed to that. It was a very productive effort getting our gas taxes defended and implemented, the cap and trade and the workers compensation, the local-control funding formula and the budget deficit turned into a massive surplus. The rainy-day fund, the water bond, the water action plan, groundwater management, the voluntary settlements, the (delta water) tunnels, the high-speed rail also advancing, despite multiple lawsuits and incredible complexity. The climate change initiatives, the 50 percent renewable effort by the PUC (state Public Utilities Commission), the ARB (state Air Resources Board). Quite extraordinary. There's nothing like it anywhere else in the United States.
So you said, what else is there to do? I'd say the nature of history or the nature of the state or the country or the world is that there are always issues, and tomorrow's issues will probably be a little different from today's or yesterdays. That's the nature. You can't, as long as life continues, button down everything and solve all problems, even future problems. That's a silly idea.
I would by no means say I'm perfect, but I would say this has been an extraordinary period in terms of governor's terms. Oh, and then prison reform, Prop. 57. So there's just a whole list.
Now, you can always find people who talk about the cost of housing, the gap between the rich and the poor, but this is true in Sydney, Australia. It's true in London, it's true all over the world. Those are challenges people ought to address, but I'd say just looking back at the time I was there, either these things were not as salient as the problems I dealt with or they weren't as high a priority as the ones I dealt with, because the ones I dealt with were forced into public attention for the most part or they're ones I chose to push.
And by the way, depending on who you talk to, you can get different things. If someone wants to stop fracking, they say, "You didn't stop fracking," or people would say your air rules didn't go far enough or some of the equity groups that say your local control funding formula was not prescriptive enough, you don't have enough metrics.
Q: You're never going to make everyone happy, right?
A: Not only can't you make them all happy, but you can't solve all problems — otherwise, you'd be dead. As long as you're alive, you've got new issues for tomorrow and next week and next year. That's why I would frame my answer in the terms of looking back and going forward in terms of what I got done. Not the things I didn't do that people say, why didn't you do them? You might say, why didn't you lower the tax on the rich and spread it (state taxes) out on services or something else? I didn't feel that was a fruitful line of activity.
Q: The governor can't just snap his fingers and say, this is done.
A: There's the Legislature, and you wouldn't get that (tax change) by a two-thirds vote. The gas tax showed that. We barely had the votes. It was touch and go right up to the vote. If you had an initiative, I doubt that would pass. So if there was some widespread consensus that included a certain amount of Republicans maybe — we had that on the gas tax, we had that on cap and trade, we had that on the water bond — but some of those other things that people might talk about, the problem is they're not teed up in a way that we can get that. Not to say that things are perfect.
Q: Certainly when you came in as governor, you knew you had to deal with the finances. That was the big one out there.
A: Yeah.
Q: Were there any things that you ran into that you were surprised about, that you came and looked under the hood a bit and said, "Whoa, there are some other things we need to do"?
A: I'm surprised with all that we got done. That's what I'm surprised about. I don't think there's any precedent for all the initiatives. As has been pointed out, the majority vote on the budget (repealing the requirement for a two-thirds vote of the Legislature) was a major change in the rules of governance, and that was very powerful. And the fact that we had a strong Democratic majority, that was also an important factor that wasn't under my control, but certainly determined the outcome. Was I surprised?
Q: Did something jump out at you that you didn't expect to deal with?
A: I'm trying to think. The fires were certainly new.
First of all, these things are enormously complex. Understanding the water system of California, I'd bet there aren't 100 people in California that could really give a detailed accounting of what our water system is, its local, state and federal components. These things take an enormous amount of time. The environmental documents probably go 1 million pages. This is complex stuff.
Maybe that's what's changed. The complexity of the criminal law, the water law, the tax law, all these laws are very complex and the Legislature, as is the executive branch, is very dependent, as I am, on well-schooled and well-experienced staff. Much of the debate and the discussion between the executive branch and the Legislature consists of staffs talking to one another, and certainly in the last eight years there is a centralization of decision-making into relatively few hands, just by the nature of the multitude of factors. And it's not something you can lightly talk about.
Even the criminal law, something as simple as enhancements or credits. They're sufficiently complicated that the judicial authorities make mistakes all the time, not knowing what the sentence is, because the law is so complicated the judges can't figure it out. Now I've corrected that, in part, with (Proposition) 57 in allowing the secretary of corrections to set the terms and credits. Even that I've dealt with. (Prop.) 57 allows the secretary, by regulation, to establish a scheme of good time, milestone and rehabilitative credits. That allows for a more rational, humane system, as opposed to the legislative exercise, year after year, of going back and forth. Most inmates used to get day for day credit.
Q: And then they changed that.
A: Not once, but dozens of times, usually to the point of getting less credits.
The point I want make isn't about criminal law, but about the complexity of our modern California, the need for highly trained staff and the dependence of the electeds, including myself, on staff that's highly trained. For example, the Department of Water Resources, or even the high-speed rail or Caltrans, much less the Public Utilities Commission — let's leave out the Public Utilities Commission, that body is pretty expert — I'm just saying the staff is having the conversations.
Q: But the buck still stops with you.
A: It does. But the debate, the whole thing is carried on at a higher level of generality, and most of these issues are served up to us through staff work. So you asked me what surprised me. That's something that people probably don't quite get. But if you've been at it long enough, you realize things are shaped not only by events, but by the experts working within our modern complex society.
So the politics tend to get off on sidebars: excitements, alarms, scandals, the hot topics or what we call the shiny new objects that can be handled at the relatively simple level at which politics is conducted. So I'm making a point about the democratic system itself. We're not in Independence Hall with a relatively small number of people in a face-to-face debate. We're spread over a massive state called California, dependent on a system of interaction between federal and state laws that go into the millions of words, and the people who come and go through our term-limited environment only have a relatively superficial view of what it is they do.
Q: When did you first think about coming back to Sacramento?
A: As governor?
Q: Yeah.
A: Probably when I was (state) attorney general.
Q: So this isn't some long-range plan you had: First I'll get elected mayor of Oakland, then I'll go to attorney general ...
A: Well, I certainly thought I'd be running for something — it could have been Senate, it could have been president. But no, when acting as lawyer to Gov. (Arnold) Schwarzenegger on prison issues (as the attorney general), I decided I had some ideas. Schwarzenegger wanted to approve eight new medical facilities, which I thought weren't needed. Ultimately we built one, in Stockton. I thought I could play an important role there, not just as the lawyer arguing for the governor's decisions, but rather by becoming governor and making my own decisions, which I thought would be better.
Q: If you didn't think they'd be better, you wouldn't have run for office.
A: That was the very concrete example. I thought that attorney general would probably be my last run. But I found out being a lawyer is not as exciting as being the governor. That's a very clear experience.
Q: What effect did your eight years as mayor of Oakland have on your idea of how government works and how it should work?
A: Well, more than how government works is how politics works. In Oakland, I would see people show up at City Council and protest almost any project, even relatively low height limits that they thought affected the character of the neighborhood. So, great resistance to change, usually argued in terms of grand environmental or quality-of-life issues that I thought were patently misguided, ill-founded and distorted. So that heightened my skepticism about the claims of those who opposed what I thought was the commonsense rejuvenation of Oakland.
Secondly, I saw some of the anti-police, the anti-military school, the anti-charter school. Because in Oakland, a city I could see with my own eyes, I could go down to 51st and Telegraph and look up and see an abandoned old savings and loan and it would have been nice to have a five-story condominium there, but the City Council wouldn't allow it. So they (would) chop off a couple of condos on the top floor and the project failed because it didn't pencil out. And those were neighbors just blocking, right in the center of a transit corridor.
So I could see that, drive down there not once but many times and remember thinking, because I traveled in Paris when I was mayor I would look up at the Boulevard Saint-Germain and you have five stories — I would count the windows and it was five — and it was perfectly fine, absolutely elegant. But people in Oakland didn't want to go above two. So that to me showed a parochialism and a blindness to investment, to appropriate change.
So when I was governor, people would argue about laws — we have a minimum of 1,000 laws every year. The laws are very general. I remember a bill I vetoed for the environmental zoning. It claimed it was environment versus developers. It was, when does a developer get a vested right to his project? When does his application reach a point that the city can't change it? I remember the developers said we need earlier certainty and the environmentalists said that's not right, that's too inflexible. The city ought to retain its rights. Looking back on it, I didn't really have the experience to really see intelligently what the full implications of that bill would be and therefore to act on it. After I had been in Oakland I got a good sense of how things worked, a more concrete sense.
Q: You can actually see the results of what you do and the results of what the votes are.
A: Also, by having the military school and the arts school and by talking to teachers and visiting the campuses and watching the test scores, it's clear to me that the teacher and the principal are the ones who carry the day. If there is some big problem, the superintendent of schools has to deal with it. And therefore these rules that come out of Sacramento, their creative impact is minimal.
It's hard for the politico. The Sacramento process is, "There's a problem. Solve it." But in fact in some of these fundamental areas, like education, put the money out there, give some guidelines — we have more than guidelines, we have multiple volumes of the Education Code. But there's a movement, centered in the Democratic Party, to have more and more prescriptive rules governing how a teacher teaches and what they are taught and what the tests are and how you keep them accountable. I think that micromanagement, in many ways, is counterproductive. So I learned that by my own direct experience, which you don't get from going directly from secretary of state to governor. You're at a more remote level. You hear people, different groups. The teachers union says this, the school reformers say that, the activist groups say something different. And how do you resolve that? So I'd say the experience is very valuable. That's why I say there's no substitute for experience. That's true.
Q: In one of your veto messages, you famously said not every problem needs a law. Is that something you tried to make clear in your eight years?
A: I did, but not successfully. The Legislature exists, in their minds, to produce more laws. They don't exist to solve problems, they exist to make laws. Now, they'd like to solve some problems along the way, but the essential functioning of a legislature is lawmaking. And certainly we have more lawmaking than we did 100 years ago. In fact, I would say we have more lawmaking than in any time in human history. Many of the laws are stupid. Many of them are not warranted. But in order to get along with the Legislature, you got to sign bills that aren't needed. And you even have to sign bills that you'd prefer not even to have. It's part of the comity between the executive and legislative branches and being effective. You have to work. It's a collaborative enterprise. It's competitive, but collaborative.
I would say we have motorized legislation too much. In the criminal field, which I've studied intensively, there are over 5,000 separate criminal provisions. And these provisions are constantly churning. There have been over 20 initiatives dealing with crime law, most of them making it tougher, more draconian, though not all. The Legislature, since I signed the determinate sentencing bill (in 1976), went on a crime law spree. It didn't stop until a few years ago. You have interest groups, you have stories in the newspaper, you have competition for the next election. Therefore, you have a great line to exploit problems — more apparent problems — and in so doing, we get increasingly intrusive complex and onerous orders coming out of headquarters in Sacramento.
Q: What you're saying, then, is there were many times when you signed a bill while shaking your head.
A: Yeah. I mean, you have to sign bills. You don't have to, but that would maybe make it more difficult to pass other bills that are very important. To sit back and think about it. In order to do that you need years, if not decades, of experience to understand our social and legal environment. Then you need time to reflect on bills. I have probably more than a dozen full-time people just analyzing the work product of the Legislature. And I get 12 days and at the end of the session I get 30 days to analyze these things, and we work full time. And there are issues and there are questions. How in the world can you be on the floor of the Assembly and the Senate and have a couple thousand bills come at you and vote yes or no? You have to depend on what you're told. Republicans say vote no Democrats say vote yes, and there will be some individual decisions, but it's not possible to grasp. Many of the issues are obvious, but a lot of them are not.
The legislative process is totally and radically different from what it's been historically. Historically, 200 years ago, the courts of common law made most of the rules. Now that's shifted much more to the legislative branch. Then you get the full-time Legislature, then you get a Legislature with 10 staff members per legislator, and then you get all these problems, and then you get newspaper stories and then you get campaigns. It's all a machine to generate a lot more laws.
Q: How hard is it to say no to something when you know there's a real need? I mean for example, back when there was some money all of a sudden and a lot of the legislators said, "Now is the time to put back all the stuff, repair every bit of the safety net and do it now because people are hurting." In one of your addresses you said, "Yeah, there are problems, there are problems that we'd like to get done, but we can't solve everything right now." How hard is it to say no to something when you know it's a good idea?
A: You can't solve everything, ever. I don't know how hard — it's not like doing pushups where you have a certain limit. What's hard is when you're in conflict and you know if you say "no," maybe next time they'll say "no" to you. So this is a give-and-take business. Just like I ask them to do something they don't want, they get to ask me to do something I don't want. There is that give and take. It's just inherent in our process.
Q: But again, everybody said more money would be needed. Pay 100 percent of this or 100 percent of that. An example of that is (universal) preschool, pre-K. That's something that everybody says, "Wow, this would be great," but your argument has been that's adding a whole other grade to the education system ...
A: Maybe a couple. Maybe two grades.
Q: And it's something that once you make that decision, you can never unmake it.
A: Instead of having K-12, we'll have pre-pre-K, pre-K and then K through 12. That would take another level of taxation that hasn't occurred yet, and there are no proposals on the table that I know of. That's not to say you can't do it for a year or two, but then you'll fall off the cliff and the money won't be there.
As everybody knows, we live in a market system that ebbs and flows. And our tax system accentuates the ebbs and the flows. Right now, for the time I've been governor, it's been flowing. In terms of estimates, an $800 billion increase in annual wealth creation. So that's from $2 trillion to $2.8 trillion. Now that will fall back, because the market system is just that way.
When I was at St. Ignatius, Father Clark in our economics class my senior year went to the blackboard and drew a line up and a line down, up, down. He said, "You know what that is? That's the business cycle." And I remember that in about the year 2000 when it was said that we're in the new economics and we're not going to have recessions. But that business cycle, when you look at it — and I've looked at it carefully as governor; most people don't — we've had 10 recessions and 10 recoveries. We've always had a recession after a recovery. And since Father Clark first talked about it in 1955, when he said economists are working to smooth the business cycle, to flatten the business cycle, well, they haven't succeeded yet, and they're probably not going to.
Capitalism by its nature overshoots, so if you want to develop Oakland, you will ultimately get to the point where many people are priced out because the price of housing is bid up constantly. It's true in San Francisco, it's true in Paris, it's true in Sydney, Australia. Then, because it gets so high, it will go the other way, and then we go into recession. You got a point where it will go up and people will lose their houses and they'll say, "Oh come on, do something." But no government is going to tax most of the people to pay for the other people that have suffered because of the business cycle. That's just the nature of this beast — it's up and down, all the time.
So right now we're at about 4.1 (percent) unemployment. We were at 12. When I was governor the first time, it got up to 10 and the (Assembly) speaker, Leo McCarthy, said, "You got to have a plan. Do something." So we had a federal jobs program that was going to create maybe 1,000 public-paid jobs. We announced it and put out an executive order about publicly paid jobs. But it's a fraction of the overall workforce (in California), which even then was 9 or 10 million.
Government plays an important role in many areas. But these big problems, like wealth creation ... how is that wealth created? By creating stock, by new apps, innovation. And the winners of all that get enormous sums of money. Well, if all that money is going to the top, there's going to be less money for those at the bottom, and that's exactly what we're seeing. Now, if people want to say we don't want that, they're going to have to curb those who are highly successful and not allow them to make as much money and make sure it's redistributed, either by raising wages or benefits, by curbing salaries and wealth, and that's not even on the table.
And by the way, it's not only not on the table in California, it's not on the table in Great Britain or France or Germany or Spain. All these countries that have gone from socialist to conservative — and sometimes they come back a little bit — the socialist party is pretty dead. So I'm not saying that inequality isn't a worthy goal to deal with, but if you look around the world, Australia has a conservative government, Japan has a conservative government.
There's a lot of rhetoric about these real problems, and we do alleviate them through child care, through distributing more money to low-income people. But the engine of wealth production is propelling more people at the top to collect more wealth and people at the bottom, because of the cost of housing and other things are struggling. But to change all that is not even on the table of anywhere I know.
Q: Next-to-last question, governor. What are you going to miss about being governor and in connection to that, what aren't you going to miss?
A: It's hard to tell. I'm sitting around thinking ... "What am I going to not do that I like to do?" It will be different. What do I miss about being mayor? Not too much. I liked being mayor. But I like to change. I liked being attorney general, but I like being governor better. But after being governor for eight years, it can be very nice to do something else. So I'm constantly inventing new things or finding new pathways.
I've given this some thought. Not being governor, but having been governor, I can take a very prominent role in the effort to combat climate change, the effort to improve nuclear dialogue with Russia, China and other countries. These are very important issues, and I think that given my experience and prominence, I will be able to play a role in collaboration with others: the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, various climate action efforts. So I'm looking forward to being able to go beyond the mundane of signing bills and making appointments to dealing seriously and collaborating with others throughout the country and throughout the world. I'm working with (former Defense Secretary) William Perry and (former Sen.) Sam Nunn on the nuclear issue, and I'll be working with the United Nations with our summit in San Francisco, and I'll find ways to work with China and others on things like introduction of electric cars, we have our Under Two coalition of states and provinces.
So it isn't clear yet, but I see a potential for an important role in dealing with the big threats of our times. Another one will be crime and punishment. Both our sentencing and our system of sanctions and punishments are still in great need of enlightened reform, and I will find a way to be part of that. The Cooper initiative (which would make it harder for perpetrators of some violent crimes to win parole) is on the ballot and I have almost $15 million in my campaign account. So I've got the means, I've got the knowledge and I've got the interest to participate at the international, national and state level.
I've also got my olive trees to learn how to make proper oil and pick them at the right time and make sure they don't get diseased. There's my second harvest, by the way (showing a bottle of olive oil). See, that's why I have a ranch up there.
Q: What won't you miss about being governor?
A: What will I not miss? I don't know. Maybe I'll miss the mansion. It's very nice here. I enjoy the activity of the governor's office. There's an intellectual excitement, as well as an emotional intensity in dealing with these matters, whether it's a campaign issue like Proposition 6 or whether it's a prison reform as in sentencing reform in Prop. 57. Or working with people. It's a very enthusiastic group. In fact we had a couple of thousand of them over to the arena. There's a lot of enthusiasm, there have been a lot of friendships developed.
And certainly I spend a lot of time in the office, whether it's the mayor's office in Oakland or the governor's office, so that becomes part of my life. Now obviously, I'm going to be out there on the range or traveling to Washington without coming back to the mansion or the governor's office, so that becomes a rather intense form of life. It will be different.
Now, how much of it I will miss, I think that depends on what I'm doing. My current intention is to be doing quite a lot, so chances are I will not be looking back but looking forward to try to change some things, because we're on a very dangerous course. Have you read what (Russian President Vladimir) Putin said about the threat to continued human civilization? I think that's true. Most of the politicians are sound asleep, like the people in World War I. They didn't see what was coming. But it's coming at us pretty fast. Nuclear proliferation, new powerful technologies of destruction, the animosity that is spreading throughout the world.
There's a big need for leaders, both in government and outside of government, to pull back, to find ways of fruitful collaboration, and we're not there yet. Now those are big problems. The climate ... those fires, people are dying, people are getting burned to death. People in the East are being flooded, killed by tornadoes. This is only going to get worse. We're on the track now to make it worse and worse. And to pull back, to change course, will take a radical change in political understanding and political direction that is not yet on the horizon. That will leave lots of room in the work of waking people up and waking up people in power, and I'm in touch with (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi, (Sen. Chuck) Schumer and many of those other people.
Q: Last question for you, governor.
A: I've got to take that dog out.
Q: You got any advice for the new governor, what he should look for, what you learned that you can let him know?
A: Where would I start? In what field? I don't like to be so tentative, but if I'm going to give some advice I'd like to think hard about it. He knows a lot of things, so I'd rather be in conversation with him. It's not like "Hey, Gavin, here's what I'm saying." I'd want to talk with him and see what he's thinking and if he has a question or a point comes to him out of our exchange. But just out of the blue, sending a little missile of advice, that's not what I want.
John Wildermuth is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @jfwildermuth


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MegaUpload, first interview with Kim Dotcom
You all know about the brutal stop of the file-sharing site MegaUpload and and other sites of the group, follow-up by the arrest of the leaders including president Kim Schmitz alias Kim Dotcom in Zealand News.
Today he makes his first televised appearance since his arrest and his release in bond. He affirms of course that he will defend himself and compares his activity to other sharing sites like Google which often gained lawsuits of the same style. No one imagines the FBI abruptly close all Google's sites under pretext that Youtube is used to diffuse illegal videos. Of course, the yankee giant has much more lawyers than any other company in the sector!
The fact that MegaUpload and its leaders are guilty or not to incentive piracy and other eccentric counts of indictment is not what shocks me more. The most alarming thing in this case is the brutal stop of twenty Web sites throughout the world by the FBI, i.e. an American organization, without any lawsuit...
How is it possible that a site hosted in several countries can be stopped instantaneously? Ho well, the answer is in the centralization of the Internet. As opposed to what we could think, the network is not really worldwide and its American origins are clearly marked on some points. The .com, .net, .org... domain names depend on the USA and they thus have the power to suspend any site, even if it's hosted in another country.
U.S. procedure for international effects
The action against MegaUpload was initiated in the United States, but its effects are well international. By keeping 18 domain names, U.S. authorities impose in a certain way their process, and its immediate consequences, to other states and their users.
«The U.S. authorities have clearly control over all digital extensions that are managed by U.S. providers or located in the United States. We are in the heart of the problematic about the applicable law when it comes to domain name, there is a real conflict of jurisdiction» has also worried the CEO of AFNIC, Loïc Damilaville. (Editor's note: The AFNIC is the French association for .fr domain names) (Source ZDNet)
So instead of "appreciate" the judgement and the closure of the MegaUpload websites, French president and other European politicians would have done better to rise against the totalitarian methods of the American world.
In an official statement, Nicolas Sarkozy «salutes the massive operation launched by the federal courts of the United States.». He also calls «French designers to enhance their use of judicial procedures already existing in our law.»
Let us imagine if a country wants to preserve a Web site close to its heart, the USA could decide to stop it, and this even before any trial! Because I point out that Kim Dotcom and his company were not declared guilty yet by a court!
Remember also that people who have paid access to the site and those having stored important files in backup copy lost their money or their files there! Because of the decision of a U.S. police branch only who "judged" that if they used a site «with a so bad reputation as MegaUpload, they could only blame themselves!» Sic...
However the American authorities declared a few days later that 10% of the paying subscribers of MegaUpload used it in a 100% legal way... That represents already million people and so we imagine that the number of users partially in legality is very important. Moreover I would be curious to know the number of FBI investigators 100% in legality...
In short, to make obey the law is well. To put under arrest people and activities with a legal part, without any judgment, by imposing this decision on all the other countries in the world, is... very American!
And if ever he were discharged? Would we have apologies, a reinstallation of the service and a refunding in consequence from the United States? Don't dream!


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It's really hard to say what the plot of Skins is but it's mostly about a bunch of angsty and troubled teenagers having a lot of sex. Lots of great scenes, really wild sex in the principal's office (Effy and Cook) and random naked chick who's we feel like we know quite intimately since we've seen her butt way too much (Tony and random chick) but our pick is Emily and Naomi on a picnic. For great music, for really pretty girls, and for Naomi finally dropping her I-like-boys-and-I-don't-care-what-you-think act.
Zajac and Kitty from Boss
Season one, episode one. When you've just started understanding this web of politics and lies, boom! A sex scene to throw you off. In slow-motion too. Standing up. Lace panties. Kitty is Tom Kane's personal aide and Zajac is a potential candidate for the post of Governor in Illinois.
Fiona Galleghar and Jimmy/Steve from Shameless
Finally someone has convinced the overworked eldest Gallaghar sibling to take a day off. Her boyfriend Steve who is actually Jimmy, takes her to a fancy hotel and they have some pretty cool pool sexy time. Of course, they come back home to her father in a coffin, but hey, we never said post coital was pretty.
Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones
She's all big, earnest eyes and blonde hair, he's all huge and manly. Shes just passed How to seduce a khal 101. There's a fireplace (of course). It's a recipe for awesome adult fun.
Some vampires from True blood
True Blood is a show about vampires so there is no way in hell we'd watch it. But we have seen this scene. And a few others. Maybe.
Alice and Rose from The L Word
"Something something US Army policies" "Something something, you think I want to kill people? "Then why are you there?" "I think the question is why the fuck am I here" "Because we want to fuck each other." Followed by good music and a "shut the fuck up."


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Shark Night
Shark Night (2011)
★ / ★★★★
A group of college students (Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Zylka, Sinqua Walls, Alyssa Diaz, Katharine McPhee, Joel David Moore) visited a lake house in Louisiana for some fun in the sun after finals. One of them, Sara (Paxton), was from the area but she left her hometown three years ago and never went back. Her friends thought it was strange how Sarah, in all the years they've known her, never became intimate or even hooked up with a guy. Meanwhile, the barely clothed undergraduates, gleefully playing in the lake, were unaware that the water was infested with sharks. "Shark Night," based on the screenplay by Will Hayes and Jesse Studenberg, lacked the courage to come off as completely ludicrous. If it had been more confident, it could have worked as a parody or even a satire. From its first scene involving a topless girl who had to search for her swimsuit in the water, it was obvious that the material wasn't meant to be taken seriously. The shark attack lasted for about three seconds of choppy editing and it wasn't scary in the least. While a handful death scenes, aided by CGI, were rather neat, the few seconds prior to the characters' deaths felt almost like wasted time. There was no patience from behind the camera prior and during the attacks. The formula was this: The camera would go underwater and about five seconds later, someone screamed out of pain. Sometimes having a character just pulled from underwater by a very strong shark and its victim never having to scream for help could work just as effectively or even more so. Let the camera linger for about five seconds on the surface of the water. Doing so would give us a chance to observe waves created out of panic turn into utter quiescence–an illusion that a shark attack never happened. Moreover, the movie could have benefited from more extreme typecasting. For instance, Nick (Milligan) was supposed to be the geek who wanted to become a doctor. He had his MCAT coming up but the only reason he decided to come with was because he pined for Sara. They knew each other through other friends but he lacked bravado to ask her out on a simple date. He didn't think he was good enough for her. Yet without his glasses, he looked like another jock who should have all the confidence in the world. How were we supposed to believe that he had something to prove? The one character I found most interesting was Blake (Zylka), the blonde Adonis obsessed with fake tanning. He wasn't especially smart, even self-absorbed at times, but when tragedy struck, it turned out he was the most sensitive and relatable. Having a final girl, which inevitably just had to be Sara because it was her hometown, was anticlimactic and frustrating because the character wasn't established as strongly as she should have been. As a rule of thumb, for horror movies that require a "final girl," the protagonist has to be someone we will be behind no matter what. Sara wasn't that person. Ironically, it was Blake. It could have been an excellent twist if the writers had been more aware of and fleshed out the inconsistencies in their screenplay. Directed by David R. Ellis, "Shark Night" was tame compared to other bloodfests like Alexandre Aja's "Piranha." It wasn't even as fun.


text: Derbie Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 My husband and I have been to Sapphire beach in the past, and I think we went up on a van, and were dropped off. We then rented our chairs, and spent the day, and returned the same way. There are 10 of us this time. Four children/six adults. We are considering a beach package, but it only gives us 3 hours at the beach, and I don't think the kids will see this as enough time. The tour is $38 for transportation, chairs and one drink. None of us drink (accept my husband on rare occasions has a beer) so the drink is not so much a big deal., Could we do better monetarily on our own, as well as staying a little longer? All suggestions are appreciated. Also, we are considering Sonny Liston tours. Link to post Share on other sites


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This piece highlights how companies can manage and analyse their existing content better. Brands must have a content plan prepared in advance to support coverage of important events that experience high demand, says Hannah Trivette of Web Solutions.
Brands must create multi-use content that can be distributed through various channels such as, a YouTube video where the audio can be used for a podcast or in small segments for social posts and stories. This approach lets brands analyse the content's performance across various platforms, as per Bernard May of National Positions.
Natacha Gaymer-Jones of Swoon Media said that brands must create two to three content pillars that can act as an anchor for more content. Through the pillars, brands could develop a thematic description and topics based on the "core" message.
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We are just under the 30-day countdown to the start of the boys basketball season and we have a lingering question: Who should be the Asbury Park Press' preseason No. 1 team?
I know Neptune fans are saying "'Whatcha talkin bout Willis!" lol. However, I'm not sure I'm going to hand the preseason No. 1 ranking to the Scarlet Fliers (just yet) despite the fact they are the defending Shore Conference Tournament Champions.
Neptune is in the mix every year but this year several teams can make a claim to the preseason No. 1 ranking. Eventually, I'll make a decision but for now here are the thoughts circumnavigating my brain.
In no particular order, the following teams are contenders for the APP's preseason No. 1 ranking with last year's record in parentheses and a short preview of the upcoming season.
- NEPTUNE (24-5) – The Scarlet Fliers won their first SCT title since 2002 last season with one of the best starting lineups in the Shore Conference. However, APP player of the year Gary Foster, now at Rowan, and All-Shore third teamer Terry Hicks have graduated. What's left? Returning starters D.J. Gutridge (senior guard)
and Jabari Joyner (senior guard) return to anchor Neptune's squad this season. Thomas Jones (senior guard) started some games last season when coach Ken O'Donnell went to a small-ball lineup and Jones probably sheds the sixth-man role and moves into the starting lineup this season. Lem Walker (senior guard) got a few spot starts down the stretch last year and like Jones probably moves into the starting lineup. If that all checks out, that still leaves Neptune without a man in the middle or even a fearsome rebounder, the role that Foster played so calmly last year. Will that be Dan Singleton (senior guard/forward), Theo Ford (senior forward) or someone from the team's JV squad? Those are the questions surrounding Neptune. If the Scarlet Fliers can solved their perceived rebounding deficiency, they will be good enough to earn the APP's preseason top ranking and maybe good enough to repeat as SCT champions.
- MONMOUTH (19-8) – The Falcons had an albatross the size of Tinton Falls on their backs all season and that was Neptune. The Falcons couldn't beat Neptune in the regular season and got ran out of the Ritacco Center in the SCT semifinal. If those hiccups from last season are cured, the Falcons should be one of top teams in the Shore Conference this season in coach Larry Cirignano's second season at Monmouth. The Falcons return four starters beginning with Joe Willman (senior forward),
Anthony Gibson (senior guard), Austin Whitehurst (senior guard) and Neil Thompson (junior guard). Willman, as you may remember, is going to Bucknell University and is primed for a monster season. He averaged 16.4 ppg and 11.2 rpg last season and those numbers should increase as he should get the ball early and often. Gibson skipped football this fall to be in top shape for basketball season. Whitehurst and Thompson are very good ball handlers and they should keep Monmouth's offense flowing. Cameron Lee (junior guard) might get promoted into the starting lineup, if not, he'll be a leading candidate for the sixth-man role. If Lee starts, Monmouth's next question mark will be its bench. If the bench holds the fort, the Falcons could be the APP's preseason top team as they will be a dangerous team to face this winter.
- CBA (23-8) – The Colts begin their second season under coach Geoff Billet and this could be the year that CBA returns to glory as the SCT champion. For that to happen, CBA's best player, Brian Neller (senior guard)
needs to have a very good season. Neller, known for his 3-point shooting ability, averaged 13.8 ppg and made 58 three-pointers last year. Those numbers should rise as the Colts should call his number early and often. Neller will have plenty of help with starters Pat Light (senior forward), Matt Byrnes (senior guard), Travis Farrell (senior guard) and Roy Mabry (junior guard) back. The heart and soul of the Colts last season, Mike Kuhn, is now at Rutgers and the Colts need to replace the former APP second teamer's energy and defense. If they do and Mabry can run the point effectively again, the Colts might cruise to the SCT title. CBA should have a deep bench with Adam Spengler (senior guard), Jon Rohan (senior forward) and R.J. Hobbie (junior forward) all vying for the sixth-man job. With Neller's shooting, Mabry's ball handling and a dependable bench, the Colts are more than deserving of the APP's preseason top honor.
- MIDDLETOWN SOUTH (21-7) – Can you name the two Shore Conference teams to beat Neptune last season? If you said Freehold and Middletown South you are correct. Freehold beat Neptune on opening day and then Middletown South beat Neptune in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III final. The latter is part of the reason Middletown South's Kevin Cullen was the APP's 2007-08 coach of the year. The Eagles will not be pushovers despite their best player, Garret Thiel, an All-Shore second teamer, graduated last year. The Eagles return starters Kyle Cancillieri (junior forward),
Matt Callori (senior center) and William Low (senior forward). Former Red Bank Catholic guard Pat O'Connell (junior) transferred and should help with the ball handling duties. Veterans Rob Callori (junior guard) and Brian Clabby (senior forward) got good minutes last season off the bench. Any combination of O'Connell, Rob Callori and Clabby should round out the starting five. The loser of the three-way battle for the two spots will more than likely become the sixth-man. Depth was an issue for the Eagles last season and might be another issue this season. If the depth problems are gone and if O'Connell learns the system quickly enough, Middletown South should be considered a candidate for the APP's preseason No. 1 ranking.
The aforementioned teams are my leading candidates for the APP's preseason top honor. Now, it is time to vote on these teams or tell me about a squad that I'm snubbing.
Who should be the APP's preseason top-ranked team? Total Voters: 93
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January 5: It has been a jam-packed four-day experience of the 2017 Winter DC Seminar for the Urban Education students. I want to give a little synopsis of what has been going on and what we have learned and then I will touch on two of my favorite activities of this 10-day experience so far.
Our second day of class started with us critically thinking about the discussion questions that we would be asking the educators and professionals on our site visits during our stay. We cover an array of topics including: teacher scrutiny, America painting the teacher as a superhero, why being an educator isn't always looked at as "prestigious," the impacts of the election on the educational system, and qualities of the ideal teacher. On this day we visited our first site, Parkside Middle School which is a Cesar Chavez Charter School and we got a chance to talk with Mr. Weingarten, a middle school history teacher and alum of William & Mary. He talked a bit about how his time in a program called City Year helped him to gain some experience in urban school settings, but also noted that he still had a lot to learn on his journey in teaching. Currently he has been in his profession for three years and he says he enjoys that the staff at his school really work as a team to make sure the kids come first.
On the third day of our course we had three different visits to complete. The first visit was to KIPP DC Webb campus, the second to Langley High School, and the third was a dinner and communication session with the Dream Project. At KIPP DC we were able to go into the classrooms of this charter school and see how the lessons are ran, what classes are offered, and some of the student teacher interaction. During that visit a little girl by the name of Malia who proudly invited me to sit next to her in class and very quickly got acquainted with me and her first question was, "what college do you go to?" Upon hearing the name of my school she stuck out her shoulders and said, "well I'm going to go to Howard University when I grow up!" and I was immediately taken aback by the high standards that she had already set for herself and the amazing communication skills she had acquired at such a young age. It was such a merry interaction and I honestly hardly wanted to leave that class observation. At Langley High School, I was placed into an AP Government class and got to experience a very wild contrast to being at a charter school of younger age children. The demographic from Langley to KIPP went from extremely Caucasian to extremely African American and even simple things such as how much colorful decoration was present in the decorum changed from school to school. Our last experience of the day was to sit and talk with the students of the Dream Project. This project supports students that are undocumented in some form or fashion. At this experience we were able to answer questions about college and give our stories of how we got to the point that we are now and in exchange the Dream Project students shared with us some of the hardships of being an undocumented student in America.
Today we spent our morning at DC Central Kitchens learning what it means to be responsible for preparing, serving, and giving out over 5,000 meals to families in DC who cannot afford to eat. We were stationed at various cooking tables and given tasks such as preparing salads, dicing potatoes, cutting meats, and cleaning the kitchen. Later on we were able to take a visit to the National Board of Professionals for Teaching Standards and hear a bit about a new program they are working on in Educators Rising called micro credentials. We also got the chance to speak with William & Mary alum that works in the building about her experiences and her climb in her professional career. Lastly on today, the students of all three courses and a few alum got together for a networking dinner to ask questions about our target topic and enjoy a tasty pasta meal.
Of all the wonderful things that I got to do in the last couple of days the two experiences that really brought out my passion for this course were meeting the Dream Project students and working in the DC Central Kitchen. The portion of meeting the Dream Project students that really got my brain working was having the realization that undocumented students are not able to apply for FAFSA. As a student myself, I look to FAFSA as my saving grace to help pay for my education and in hindsight I never really thought about how blessed I was to have it or the idea of others not having access to it until I met those students. It was a moment of having to check my own privilege as an African American female and realize that although this nation is great, we have a vast majority of work ahead of us to make sure that all youth have a fair chance at a college education. The DC Central Kitchens site visit really helped to bring our whole course around to a full circle and give an epiphany of the kind of communities that we are trying to serve. To know that some of the students in these urban schools are coming from the same families that rely on a place like DC Central Kitchens for a hot meal really made it apparent how much the need is for these kids. I never thought about how things like winter breaks could affect if a child has at least two meals a day or a warm shelter to go to, or how having a uniform so your clothes are not made fun of by other kids provides equity within a school visual setting, or even how not only is DC Central Kitchens feeding a majority of these students, but also helping convicted felons get healthy from drug addiction and other offenses, get off the streets, earn a culinary degree, and have a stable job. For some this is the first time in their life that this much support has been given. So far this course has been wonderful, mind-blowing, angering, and upsetting at times, but for all the right reasons. These images are the types of things that one would never see when describing the "American dream" yet these are some of the more realistic things going on in this country. I will have much more on the progress of this course in the next few days.
Till then,
Ebony Martin '17
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Nov 30, 2017
Bernard shares his experience and the business lessons he learned at the upscale men's salon, Martial Vivot.
Nov 27, 2017
Martial Vivot is a highly trained and skilled men's hair stylist from Paris, France who currently charges $420 for a men's haircut in New York City. In this interview, he shares his story including the struggles and setbacks he's encountered along the way.
Nov 23, 2017
Extensionist Sarah Ashley reveals her secrets to building a successful business and offers advice to stylists just starting out in the industry.
Nov 20, 2017
Bernard uses this podcast to share his experience with remodeling his own salon and offers some advice as to how to keep it a positive experience for everyone.
Nov 16, 2017
Bernard passionately discusses hair extensions and the misconception that they are damaging to the client's hair.


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Reasons Why Registration Loans are Popular
Car Title registration loans are a temporary loan solution for those people that want instant cash. These registration loans take vehicle title of the borrower as security on a comparatively high interest. This loan is last option for those people who want cash immediately and have a clean vehicle's title. These loans generally use almost any vehicle for the security, like motorcycles, boats, and even private watercraft. The moneylender estimates the value of vehicle, the borrower's ability to pay, and some other important factors to decide if the loan amount need is feasible.
These are some valid reasons why one may take benefit of this loan:
Fast Cash: If you want to take Title registration loans in mesa then usually it takes less than a day. It is a best solution for your urgent cash requirements. The main thing to borrower's must remember is to focus on the loan's terms and not hurry to make a deal as per on the immediate cash requirement. These loans are willingly available and process very quick that it is simple for the borrower to evaluate whether or not they are making a good decision.
Urgent Situations: Most of the times people who deserve emergencies don't have the money at hand to be capable to work with the situation. These urgent situations can include home, medical, legal, and some other unpredicted issues that may arise in life of a person. The fast processing time is what leads people to these loans most of the times.
Distraught Economy: There are many people that found the requirement to bridge gaps between stay solvent and jobs. It is the only reason many people turned to the industry of title loan to stay floating when they found a new opportunity. The main point to remember is that if you don't foresee an increment in inward cash, these types of loans cannot be the best choice.
No Credit Record Check: There are many people who use a loan of this nature lack an enough credit rating to borrow from a more usual lender, like a credit union or bank. By utilizing a vehicle title as security, there is not any requirement for a credit score assessment. Instead the moneylender uses the vehicle's equity to decide a proper loan amount. With the skill to get fast cash without a credit score check, it is logical why many people would look for this option.
Simple Process: There are several companies that offer registration loans and most make this process painless and quick. The lack of tension is one more reason why many people turn to this type of loan. Once someone has been working with an urgent situation and don't have credit, there is not must more stress required. As discussed before, most of the loan providers can have the loan processed within some hours.
For some people who have low or no credit, lending choices can be extremely scarce. There is a clear risk that people must consider when looking a title loan. Though, for one who is trying to recoup on their feet and can manage a temporary debt, these types of loans can be a very feasible solution.


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LIVE: Betty & the Baby Boomers @ the Eighth Step at Proctors, 2/1/14
Review and photographs by Rudy Lu
Betty & the Baby Boomers, stalwarts of the Hudson Valley Folk Scene, once again brought their beautiful voices and harmonies to the Eighth Step at Proctors in Schenectady to kick off the February concert calendar.
This visit was especially poignant as the four original members of the group – Paul Rubeo, Jean Valla-McAvoy, Betty Boomer and Steve Stanne – are closely associated with the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Inc., a special project founded by late Pete Seeger dedicated to cleaning up the Hudson River.
The recent addition of bassist Robert Bard and special guest Irish harpist Lynn Soirse added richness to their full sound as they performed a wide repertoire of songs, ranging from songs frequently performed on the Clearwater to Pete Seeger favorites and Celtic folk songs.


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The highest performing salespeople possess a few key characteristics. They're confident, ask good questions, see themselves as problem solvers comfortable with challenging decision makers, and always follow up. But another skill can turn a good salesperson into an exceptional one: The ability to read a customer or prospect's personality and adjust the flow of communication appropriately. That's according to Merrick Rosenberg, author of "The Chameleon: Life-Changing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has a Personality or Knows Someone Who Does." In it, he likens humanity's main personality styles to four kinds of birds. "The challenge for most salespeople is that they unwittingly impose their style on their customers, and then they don't close the deal and aren't quite sure what happened," he says. Here are the traits to identify in yourself and those you're selling to.
Eagles: Fast-Paced, Direct and Assertive
They make quick decisions without a lot of information and in turn, they may expect their customers to be equally decisive. Eagles may focus on business and neglect building a personal connection. This lack of rapport can make them seem unapproachable or intimidating.
Parrots: Outgoing, Social and Upbeat
They like to talk and may dominate the discussion in a selling situation. This may be perceived as egotistical, which can repel others. Parrots who impose their style are also prone to interrupting others mid-sentence and failing to pick up on details that can block a deal from being closed.
Doves: Harmonious, Thoughtful and Empathetic
They don't like conflict and may neglect to ask difficult questions so as to avoid making the customer feel uncomfortable. These individuals tend to be soft-spoken and value relationships. Customers who are doves don't like pushy salespeople.
Owls: Logical, Accurate and Questioning
Since they require a tremendous amount of detail to make a decision, they can impose too much information on their customers. Owls tend to dislike surface conversations and may be uncomfortable in social or networking situations.
The trick, Rosenberg says, is to adapt your communication style according to whomever you're interacting with. "[Typically], stage one of the sales process is build rapport and bond to your prospect," he says. "Well, if you're selling to a dove that's probably pretty important... But if you spend a ton of time building rapport and bonding and connecting to an eagle, the eagle's probably going to be sitting there saying, 'Let's get to it. Tell me what I need to know. I want to make a decision.'"


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Housing and Urban Development Department users have been using Dell Computer Corp. PCs exclusively for three years now.
HUD began buying Dell OptiPlex systems exclusively in 1996 and 1997. Users now are getting 450-MHz Pentium II systems with 128M of RAM, 10G hard drives and Microsoft Windows 95, said Randall Graham, director of HUDs Customer Service Division in the Office of Information Technology.
HUD evaluated five to seven vendors based on technical specifications set in 1996, Graham said. Dell came out the best.
In the midst of downsizing, HUD has fewer than 10,000 employees, but it maintains 13,527 Dell PCs and 527 PC servers, which are a mixture of Compaq Computer Corp. and Dell hardware running Novell NetWare 3.2, a HUD spokeswoman said.
The departments standardization on Dell PCs is part of a larger trend in federal procurement. Procurement reform has made it easier for agencies to select the vendors they prefer without having to go through lengthy requirements-based contracting. After relaxation of rules such as the maximum ordering limit for General Services Administration Information Technology Schedule buys, some agencies have been setting some of their own purchasing standards to ensure a level of configuration management and to avoid chaos.
In technical evaluations, Compaq servers worked well with Lotus Notes groupware, Graham said. The quad-processor Dell 2300 server also stood up well, he said, so HUD also buys that model.
The department is continuing with periodic technical reviews, however. Evaluations are under way for servers from Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. and other makers.
Before 1996, the department bought its hardware through Lockheed Martin Corp.s HUD Integrated Information Processing Service (HIIPS) contract. HUD now buys directly from Dells GSA schedule contract because department officials found they could cut the acquisition cost per PC that way, Graham said.
The rapport we have with Dell is very good, Graham said. The price and quality is very good. Staying with one vendors products was important, also, he said, because the department has had to make adjustments to PCs with fast processors to keep running the departments HUDWare II desktop software.
The HIIPS contract is still in use for four-hour technical response and 24-hour product turnaround for PCs and servers from a Lockheed subcontractor, Graham said.
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U.S. Special Adviser meets Ghani after holding talks with Taliban in Qatar
By Khaama Press - Sat Oct 13 2018, 12:22 pm
The Office of the President, ARG Palace, in a statement said Ambassador Khalilzad presented a report regarding his recent trips to the regional countries and emphasized that the United States is prepared for an all-out support to an Afghan-led peace process and efforts are underway in this regard.
No further details have been given regarding the briefing made by Ambassador Khalilzad regarding his recent trips.
In the meantime, a source privy of the development has told The Wall Street Journal that Ambassador Khalilzad on Friday met with the Taliban political leaders in Doha, the capital of Qatar.
The source has not disclosed further information in this regard and it is yet not clear which important topics were discussed during the meeting.
This comes as senior U.S. State Department official had met with the Taliban political leaders in Qatar nearly four months ago.
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Olympic Champion Christine Ohuruogu opens first 'Primary Spaces' Project
With Sport England investing £18 million of National Lottery funding to improve P.E. and sport facilities in primary schools around the country, eibe knew that the autumn of 2014 could be a busy period.
We are delighted to be an integral part of the whole Primary Spaces project and it was a great day when we recently unveiled the first of many brand new ventures - the opening of a multi-use sports facility at Woodhill School in Greenwich, London. The equipment installed can be used both during the school day as part of the curriculum and for any clubs held out of school hours, so it is sure to be well used.
The school was awarded £30,000 of National Lottery money from the Primary Spaces fund to overhaul its playground and make it fun and contemporary. Woodhill had the added thrill of welcoming a very special guest to its opening day; World, Olympic and Commonwealth 400 metre Gold Medallist, Christine Ohuruogu, was on hand to declare the playspace officially open and watched as the children sprinted to get first use of the fantastic arena.
Paul Redden, managing director of eibe Play, said that it was the start of a playground revolution for many schools,
"Having one of Great Britain's most celebrated athletes present was wonderful," he said, "The children's response was a joy to behold, the Sport England team are ecstatic and the school is absolutely thrilled with the end result. If this is the launch pad to get children more active, then this is an important day for Primary Spaces.
"A special mention should go to our installation team who worked tirelessly day and night in order to complete the project on time."


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Most Brit Drivers Fail to Park Cars in Garages
More than two thirds of households in the United Kingdom fail to park their car in their own garages due to the fact that they are too full of other items, according to the results of a new survey.
Aviva has revealed that the average British household has vehicles worth around £13,500 parked on their driveway on the road instead of in the garage, which is instead playing home to around £3,500 worth of other equipment. The "Garage Gridlock" study surveyed as many as 1,000 adults in the United Kingdom, and found that a quarter of them left their car on their driveway despite the survey showing that as many as 41% were concerned that their cars could be stolen, vandalised or broken into. A further 25% of those polled also admitted that in most cases it was just too much hard work to bother putting their cars in their garage, despite 90% acknowledging that they probably would do if vandalism or theft of their vehicle or its contents did actually occur.
The research also showed that the main culprits for cluttering up the garage are men, who are filling it up with items such as gardening equipment, tools or DIY materials. Drivers are being told to remember that parking a car in a garage is a way of ensuring complete protection and peace of mind, similar to the peace of mind generated by taking out an extended auto warranty on the vehicle.
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Why do we set the highest standards for ourselves?
Because we care about your health!
As well as excellent medical and dental treatment, we are also committed to ensuring the very best aesthetic and functional outcomes. Whether implantology, bone augmentation in the upper and lower jaw, dental surgery, tumour surgery on the skin and in the oral cavity, plastic surgery or laser medicine:
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Our department could not be better positioned. We are not only next door to, but also work hand in hand with anaesthesiology, the radiology department, the children's clinic as well as other departments at Ambulanz Bremen GmbH and institutes in the Klinikum Bremen-Mitte hospital.
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The team specialises in oral and maxillofacial interventions. As Director of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Prof. Dr. Dr. Rustemeyer and his surgeons have many years of experience in successfully treating illnesses and conditions in one of the most sensitive parts of the body.
The close links between this department and the Klinikum Bremen-Mitte hospital offer patients numerous advantages:
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Our clinic is located on the second floor of the main surgery building.
We currently have 30 beds for adults and children aged 8 years and above on wards 4 and 16 in the main surgery building, as well as 8 beds for infants and children in ward 4 of the Prof.-Hess-Kinderklinik.
On the second floor of the main surgery building we also have outpatient treatment facilities and consultation rooms.
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Think, Sex and the City— only I've never seen Sex and the City and I am pretty sure a large number of those of us in our early thirties haven't and I am also pretty sure none of us watched that spin-off that involved a bunch of teenagers. That was just weird. Anyway—tangent. Think, the worst results you can get on a random BuzzFeed quiz shaken together with responsibilities, coworkers (who strangely remind you of high school when you were specifically told high school wouldn't last forever), and adult acne.
Those are your thirties. I have been wading through this shit show for a couple years now and I think it's time for us to talk about it. Let's face it, if you're in your early thirties like I am, you're an explorer of a new frontier. The MILLENNIAL 30-year-old.
That means you too, Mr./Ms. 33-year-old-who-is-trying-really-hard-not-to-claim-your-millennial-status-but-know-just-as-well-as-I-do-that-you-love-brunch-and-avocados. OWN IT. We pay our bills, but we can barely afford our rent/mortgage/childcare/gas/electric/internet, much less that brunch I was just talking about. We are a little angsty, but dress super well and many of us even have KIDS. Others of us have multiple kids and one or two divorces under our belts *shrugs*, while others of us can't even commit to a phone plan much less another human being or a permanent residence.
Listen, all of these run-on sentences are really just a long way of saying, we get it. We are really all pretty similar. We just want to live and do so in a relatively happy way.
Also, as it turns out, a bunch of random shit also starts happening like: an abundance of gray hairs, hairline wrinkles start forming, you have accepted yourself as yourself and really stop giving fucks about what the rest of the world thinks, your diet consists of more than pizza and ramen noodles, you prefer wine and beer (and a few cocktails her and there) over jaeger bombs and you probably own more than one blazer.
So, this is my sometimes crude, always honest, probably annoying (but whatever) in depth look at the ridiculous life of a 30-something-year-old woman. I am pretty sure there is an adultier adult around here. I am pretty sure I say that I am pretty sure very often because I am almost never actually sure.
Anyway, this is sort of just an intro to a series I am running about being 30, owning a home, and being a parent (please not that I go back and forth on the Oxford comma. I am going to need you to accept that along with my other flaws). Sometimes I like to avoid the lamently feels of my emotions and be a normal human being for a bit. APPARENTLY, I CAN BE MULTI-FACETED! Who knew? I do now, and so do you.


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Table of Contents
- 1Introduction
- 2Description
- 3Photos of construction part 1
- 4Photos of construction part 2
- 5Explanations
- 6Plans - Front, floor and footprint
- 7Plans - Base, floor, and wall layout
- 8Plans - Top and roof (millimetres)
- 9Plans - Top and roof (inches)
- 10Plans - The sign
- 11Plans - Details
- 12Plans - Fixed walls - metric
- 13Plans - Fixed wall - standard
- 14Plans - Wall/door - metric
- 15Plans - Wall/door - standard
- 16Materials overall
- 17Framing wood by section - metric
- 18Framing wood by section - standard
- 19Cutting list (frame)
- 20Step 1. Cut the frame pieces to length
- 21Step 2. Rip the relevant pieces to the required widths
- 22Step 3. Make the base
- 23Step 4. Make up the pillars
- 24Step 5. Assemble and stand the frames
- 25Step 6. Make the head (top section)
- 26Step 7. Make the walls
- 27Step 8. Install the walls, head, and door
- 28Step 9. Shape and fix the mullions
- 29Step 10. Shape and fix the decorative pillar top pieces
- 30Step 11. Paint time
- 31Step 12. Make the windows
- 32Step 13. Add the 'police call box' sign
- 33Step 14. Final touches (almost)
- 34Roof lamp Introduction
- 35Roof lamp Plans
- 36Sourcing the components
- 37Overview
- 38The lamp container cap
- 39Fibreglassing the cap
- 40The lamp container base
- 41Threaded rod to the cap
- 42Assemble the lamp container
- 43Put in a light or two
- 44The lights go on
Step 5. Assemble and stand the frames
FixTo secure with nails or screws. the infills [G] to the sign holders [E].
On a flat surface, assemble and fix the front and rear frame units each consisting of two pillars, an infill/signholder piece, and a floor boardA piece of sawn, or dressed lumber of greater width than thickness. Usually 19mm (3/4") to 38mm (1 1/2") thick and 75mm (3") or more wide..
Then stand the front and rear frames units in place in the base frame. Screw the floorboard of each frame unit to the base frame and middle joistOne of a series of parallel members used to support the floor. Part of the framing that provides the structure for a floor. so that the screws can easily be extracted if the Police BoxRough grade timber. ever needs to be taken apart.
Fix the side infill/signholder pieces to the front and rear frame units.
Screw the infill/signholder pieces to the pillars so that the screws can easily be extracted if the Police Box ever need to be taken apart.
Place and fix the remaining floor boards.


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It's Time to Deal With Technical Debt!
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
Want to be an architect? Think you can handle the pressures and decisions? Experience is the best teacher, so come find out what it's really like to be an architect (and have fun!) by playing a board game with your fellow HJUG members. Bring your favorite gamepiece if you'd like! The winners will each earn an extra door prize ticket!
After we're done with the game, we'll have a Q&A retrospective and Justin Self will share his thoughts with us on technical debt: Do you know what technical debt is? More importantly, do you know what it isn't? In this talk, we are going to explore what technical debt really is and how the business should be involved when you make decisions that will impact them later. We might step on a few toes and maybe even start a healthy debate, but after it's all said and done, we'll all be a little smarter and better prepared for it.
Justin Self proudly declares himself a developer teammate. He is not a rock star. He is not a mad scientist. He's not a midnight coder and he's not the center of attention (well, sometimes he tries to be). Instead, he is dedicated to making teams better by being a better teammate and helping those around him grow. His love of creating better software is seconded only by his passion to help others make better software. He is a Believer and family man, originally from Tyler, TX and lives in Spring, TX with his wife and newborn son.
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The right way to emulate Sachin
Sachin Tendulkar finished off his domestic cricket career at Lahli in Haryana yesterday with a flourish � just like the way he started it for Mumbai way back in 1988 against Gujarat at the Wankhede Stadium
Sachin Tendulkar finished off his domestic cricket career at Lahli in Haryana yesterday with a flourish — just like the way he started it for Mumbai way back in 1988 against Gujarat at the Wankhede Stadium.
In many ways, it's like flipping through the final pages of an un-putdownable book with twists and turns, highs and lows.
Sure, Tendulkar needed this Ranji Trophy game to tune-up for his final Test series against the West Indies next month, but his overall approach and willingness to figure in domestic cricket for Mumbai over the years is commendable. This should be a lesson to other cricket stars, who shy away from playing at a lower level even when they are fit and free.
Doubtless, Tendulkar will be remembered for his runs and centuries in a sporting world where records are meant to broken. But true emulation will mean duplicating the kind of passion he had and still has for the game.
His unbeaten 79 against Haryana yesterday was scored when the game was on knife edge and he later said he "enjoyed" batting on the difficult pitch.
His innings at Lahli was not silken smooth; in fact he was probably lucky not to have been given out on Day Three. He doesn't appear in the best of form and pundits will reckon he will be tested greatly against the West Indians in the Kolkata and Mumbai Tests. But he'll scrap all the way and not run away. That is assured, and his preparation will be absolute. In this, he sets the finest of examples.
Tendulkar has done well. Mumbai too, who did full justice to them being 40-time Ranji Trophy champions. The city's team won't have their high-profile player ever again. They must embrace that challenge like Tendulkar would have.
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