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I was thinking of doing some bee removal and wanted to know how everyone figures pricing.
I was thinking of doing some bee removal and wanted to know how everyone figures pricing.
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Feel free to post the metheod by which you calulate bee removal prices...
Stay on topic...anything that I deem is off topic or not advancing the topic will be deleted.
Some of my calulations include..location in the building..the higher they are, the more I charge..distance from me...the further away, the higher the price..
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i guess im a sucker i do it for free
$100 an hour historically. I'm thinking about going up or setting a $250 minimum. Swarms are another story. I ask for gas money if they sound desparate to get rid of them or if they are more than a few miles away. Otherwise, easy swarms are free.
Can see charging for some gas money and a few bucks for your time but......
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Well a near by swarm I can see doing it for free since it is free bees. It is in a wall of a house or attic that is really what I am looking for. Do you have any trouble after you told the homeowner you are going to cut his wall open and are done with the job. Do you get a signed contract and when do you ask for the money?
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Always get a signed contract..I require money at the end of the cutout...I let my wife collect, they don't give her a hard time.
The contract should spell out exactly what will be done, and that you do not repair the damage, you just make it(hole)..and make sure you include any electrical damage as well, ya just never know what you will run into.
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I don't do removals....... but I do overhead door
work. The same issues apply. Give the customer
a write up on what you are doing in detail and
the price before you do the work. They are happy,
no surprises.
Write the same work up after.......... same amount
of money......... they scream.
Closing in on retirement.......
i always have a contract signed before i start a cutout . also be careful of anyone near who may be allergic to bee stings.
How to have (semi) flexible pricing in a professional way... I would be very seriously interested in how others have managed this.
I charge $75 an hour with a travel charge. I am not a contractor so I do not do repairs.
I often run into people who either:
-aren't able/ willing to pay this price
-are going to spray raid at the bees after I tell them my price, even though I tell them I charge 2-3 times as much to come clean up the results of their bad choice
In many cases (when I am not too busy) I would be happy or willing to do these jobs at at a reduced rate.
My question: how do you manage to adjust your rates, to get these 'customers' back but still sound totally professional?
thanks for the input.
I don't. There are far more calls than I can get around to. I always assume the bees have already been sprayed and charge accordingly.
Bees, brews and fun
in Lyons, CO
I also run into colonies that have been sprayed, and tell everyone beforehand (in a contract) that I will be able to see this (it is obvious) and charge more accordingly....
however, in my part of the world, (from what I have read about you guys all trapping, chasing swarms, etc) the population of unmanaged /"feral" hives is MUCH less up here.
I therefore wouldn't mind adjusting my rate ocasionally. any advice?
yes, the CLEAN UP at home is something that should obviously be factored in...
I'm in PA outside Philadelphia.
I charge by the hour - $75, with a two hour minimum. Thinking about upping this by $10 or $20 - what are others charging in the PA/NJ/NY area?
When I first talk to the potential customer, I let them describe the situation to me in as much detail as they can, and let them tell me if they sprayed or not. I charge $15/hr more if the bees have been sprayed.
I have been out to do removals in the past where I was assured they were honeybees, only to find yellowjackets. The prep work (empty supers, empty frames with rubber bands, etc., loading up, travel time, etc.) makes the minimum a necessity.
Last year I did not do removals as a result of moving a good distance from my hives. This year I'll be doing them again as a result of losing my job back in February.
Travel time sounds like a good idea - I sometimes get calls from people an hour or more away. What do you charge for this? An extra hour tacked onto your minimum? I advertise "free estimates," but when they're real far, I can't do this and need to figure a fair way to charge for the travel.
Oh - I have a contract that I describe to the customer before I even drive out, and I have them sign it after I've looked over the situation but before I start any actual work. It says basically three things:
1. Bees sting. I'm not liable for any stings that occur on the property.
2. Accidental damage may occur - I'm not liable for accidental damage.
3. The Homeowner is responsible for any repairs that may be necessary.
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For cutouts, I charge $100.00 per hour with a 2 hr minimum for the time to access the bees and remove them. I do not charge for the time waiting around for them to cluster back up. If it is more than a 25 or 30 mile round trip, I charge $0.50 per mile for travel time. If the colony is in an object that I can just screen off and take with me I usually charge 1/2 the minimum ($100.00) depending on how easy it is to screen them off and load them up.
If the owner has some materials available (insulation, sheetrock, plywood, etc.) then I will do quick simple rough repairs to get the cavity closed up. They will be responsible for any finish work (plaster repair, texture, caulking, painting, etc.).
For swarms, if they are within an hours drive, its a $75.00 service charge, even if the swarm is gone when I get there.
When folks decide that my fee is too high and they say they will just spray the bees themselves or such, I tell them good luck, I also remind them that I have no interest in helping after their failed attempt. A "You started it, you finish it" type attitude. If they tell me its been several months or more since they were sprayed, then I tell them I will evaluate the situation on site and may or may not accept the job.
I have been known to cut my fee substantially in cases of extreme need (widows on fixed income, etc.). Once in a while I have been known to trade services for items of equal value (boats, autos, etc.) as well.
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$0.50 per mile, plus $100 per hour. 1 hour minimum. I did remove a swarm two days ago for the cost of fuel, and I will never do that again!
I got the bees hived, they started building comb, took off, and now all I have for the three hours it took me to drive there, hive the swarm, drive back home, and set them up is the 10 or so bees that were left in the box! I guess I'm building up the population of feral bees in the area!
I charge $100 per hr with a two hr minimum for cutouts. A helper is charged at $20 per hr. I charge 50 cents a mile for those over 10 miles from my location. Any special equipment (scaffolding for instance) is additional. $250 toxic exposure fee if they have been sprayed. Swarms are usually free unless they settle inside a difficult area for removal.
I have not yet encountered a financially stressed situation but would eliminate any cost for someone in financial difficulty.
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I have been asking for gas money on swarms that are 30+ miles away and havent had any problems getting it. I've only done 3 cutouts, the first one was free() and I charged $150 for the next 2. It wasnt enough for the work but I had fun working bee's w/ my wife and made a couple families happy they had no bee's in their home anymore!!!! They didnt seem to have a problem w/ $150.00 either. I may start charging more just to see where I stand around here. I think I'd chg more for a trapout due to the time it takes to keep goining back and possible loss of equipment etc..
Depends on a number of factors-distance-time involved-the attitude of the people requesting my services (the ruder or whiney the more it costs them) and the cooperation of the person requesting services, and for my own reasons the age of the people requesting my services the older the cheaper it is.
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A 'Superhero' At The End Of His Powers
Death Of A Superhero
- Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
- Genre: Drama
- Running Time: 97 minutes
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With: Andy Serkis, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Jessica Schwarz, Aisling Loftus
There are no three words less likely to inspire a fun time at the movies than "kid with cancer." And yet here is Death of a Superhero, the second film in less than a year with that log line — and the second one that manages to turn the grimmest of grim subjects into something charming, raunchy and improbably uplifting.
The story of a 15-year-old boy who uses comic-book art to cope with his rapidly failing health, Superhero has more than a little in common with 2011's 50/50, right down to a hearty endorsement of marijuana's medicinal properties. And as the volatile Donald, Thomas Brodie-Sangster communicates so much with simple looks, his anger and fear only occasionally giving way to flits of joy, that he resembles no one so much as a young Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
In this case, though, the odds are more like 100/0. Superhero is based on a 2007 novel by Anthony McCarten, who changed the setting from New Zealand to Ireland for his screenplay but maintains the book's bleak outlook. Comics storyboards from the book are replaced with animated interludes in which Donald's caped-crusader alter ego appears to be targeted by death's minions for the simple fact of existing.
Perhaps it's fitting that Andy Serkis, the actor who has frequented the world of fantasy as Gollum, King Kong and Caesar the ape, is here the anchor to reality as Donald's grief counselor. His Dr. King is a stock type — the unconventional mentor who seems odd at first but soon wins over the protagonist with his idiosyncratic methods — but Serkis nevertheless makes the man feel natural, as if he and his art collection have been enjoying Dublin's seaside breeze for decades.
Being an adolescent male, Donald's chief concern is sex: how to have it, who's having it, whether he can have it before he passes. His animated fantasies focus less on heroism and more on busty vixens who appear to have wandered over from 1981's steamy cult flick Heavy Metal. Donald's visions of death and smut intrude into his waking hours: After he pictures a well-endowed nurse savagely torturing his hero, he uses graffiti to etch his creation, in all her terrifying, life-threatening sexuality, onto the window of his school. Luckily, the girl of his dreams (Aisling Loftus) seems to dig his outlandish tastes in women, or at least the challenge of trying to pry him away from them.
Director Ian Fitzgibbon opts for a morose, heartstring-tugging approach to the material, which undercuts Donald's raw, raunchy personality in an odd way. Stately photography highlights the Dublin coast while a soundtrack makes heavy use of the hush-voiced Angus & Julia Stone. If ever there was a time to switch up the well-worn formula for movies about terminal disease, surely this would've been it. Donald seems like the kind of guy who'd prefer his impending doom to be busier and more frenetic — you know, like The Avengers, against which Superhero seems like bold, sobering, slightly suicidal counterprogramming.
And yet ultimately the sweetness of the story proves to be kind of superhuman. Despite the squeamishness Donald's particular sexual fixations might inspire, and despite the fact that he rarely acknowledges the existence of his parents, the kid turns out to be worthy of our sympathy. He's not out to save the world; he's fighting every day just to get out of bed and see it one more time, and that's inspiring enough.


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BP's Biofuel Lab Heads to Downtown Berkeley
UC Berkeley is moving the site of its BP-funded agrofuel research from the hills above Strawberry Canyon to the heart of downtown Berkeley.
The Helios Energy Research Facility West will rise in the northeastern quadrant of the site now occupied by the eight-story building formerly occupied by the state Department of Health Services.
That building occupies much of the two-block area between Berkeley Way on the south, Hearst Avenue on the north, Oxford Street on the east and Shattuck Avenue on the west.
In a letter to members of the Berkeley City Council, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau wrote that the Helios West building would enclose "about 64,000 square feet of useable interior space."
A call for a general contractor to build the new structure posted on the university's website late last week describes the overall structure at 113,000 square feet.
Birgenau said the building size is "consistent with the amount of development anticipated in the UC Berkeley Long Range Development Plan 2020."
A lawsuit challenging that plan led to a settlement which mandated creation of a new Downtown Area Plan, which was approved by the City Council in June to accommodate more than 800,000 square feet of development the university plans in the city center.
"It's consistent with what we would like to see on the site," said city Planning and Development Director Dan Marks. "They're still doing massing studies and architectural work, but what I've seen is within the parameters of the Downtown Area Plan."
UC Berkeley Executive Director of Public Affairs Dan Mogulof agreed, adding that the remaining site could still accommodate the public health campus that university planning staff told the Downtown Area Plan Advisory Committee (DAPAC) had been the university's intended use of the two-block site.
But one DAPAC member who also serves on the city's planning commission has doubts.
"That could blow the whole downtown plan out of the water," said Gene Poschman. That plan was adopted less than three weeks ago by the Berkeley City Council after significant changes—by both the council and the Planning Commission—had been made to the original plan submitted by DAPAC.
Jesse Arreguín, the city councilmember whose district includes the proposed site, said he had been surprised by the move and would be closely monitoring the project as it develops.
Stephan Volker, the environmental law attorney who had challenged the university's environmental review of the lab's earlier site on the hillside above Strawberry Canyon, called the move "a classic example of the university's arrogance."
"What's wrong here," Volker said, "is that the university never comes clean and ask the public to help in their decisions. Instead, they hold themselves arrogantly aloof from the public and follow their own internal objectives and jam them down their throats."
Documents about the move are posted at the university's Facilities Services web page announcing calls for bids of prequalifications at www.cp.berkeley.edu/AdsForBids.html. They are last two items on the web page, listed under the heading "Request for prequalifications."
Michael Lozeau, who has also repeatedly challenged university plans in court, laughed when told of the move.
"How are they going to collaborate, man?" he asked, chuckling. His comment targeted the statements of lab scientists earlier in the approval process for the LBNL site, when they said Helios had to be on the hill so scientists on the project could readily consult with other lab scientists working on similar projects.
Lozeau said the simple fact that the lab had been relocated was proof in itself that the lab could move further away, perhaps to the university's Richmond Field Station.
Mogulof said the new site was chosen over Richmond because scientists could still readily meet with each other on the campus, just across Oxford from the new site.
Forcing researchers and grad students to drive or bus to Richmond would be a hindrance to collaboration, he said.
Volker said two of his clients in his suit against the original site were pleased that the lab had moved off the hill.
"We are pleased that Helios as moved out of Strawberry Canyon, and I'm certainly gratified that our litigation prompted its removal from a very sensitive environmental resource that should be preserved for all time."
But Volker said he was "concerned that if British Petroleum continues to be involved, it augers for the continued privatization of a a public university." He said he was also concerned that there wouldn't be adequate public oversight of proprietary corporate research that will be conducted behind security locks inside BP's proprietary portion of the facility.
Mogulof said the university would ensure that adequate safeguards were in place to protect both those working inside the lab and the Berkeley community and university on the outside.
Research on turning plants into fuels has been deemed a national security issue, but critics, including some internationally known members of the UCB faculty, have worried that turning to plants for fuels could wreak ecological havoc and lead to corporate colonization of the grasslands and rain forests of the Third World—the subject of a recent major article in the German magazine Der Spiegel.
Students and other activists, including several faculty members, protested before the university and the UC Board of Regents approved the project. Several students were arrested during the protest.
Mogulof said there are still several steps remaining before the project can move forward.
First, the regents must approve the change of plans, the new site and the funding. Currently $70 million in state bond revenues are allocated for the lab, The remainder will come from private contributions and external funding sources, he said, and BP is not putting up any construction money.
The first step before construction can begin is demolition of the existing building. If all goes as planned, construction on the new lab could begin in summer, 2010, with completion by the fall of 2012.
Mogulof denied that the move was a response to Volker's suit, and said the decision was made because of the CEQA process.
"The change was based on what the environmental review revealed about the site. That's just the way CEQA is supposed to work," he said.


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Evidence of evolution consists of all historical and modern facts which suggest the validity of microevolution. There is no physical evidence for macroevolution which is also referred to as the general theory of evolution. The two aspects of macroevolution which must be proven are: first, that the various species of life have appeared gradually over the course of time (i.e., hundreds of millions of years) by natural means (see theory of evolution by natural selection); second, that all forms of life have a common ancestor (see common descent).
Creationism, particularly the religious idea generally called Young Earth Creationism, rejects these aspects of evolution on Biblical grounds. Just over half of creationists agree with the first aspect of evolution (gradual appearance); see Old Earth Creationism. Other creationists approach the problem with the faith that God created every important form of life as it exists today. It is important to note that the theory of evolution says nothing about how the first life form(s) originated.
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- Newspaper writer Robin Davis left Ohio for California to chase her dreams
- On visits home to her dying father, she realized she wanted to move back
- The move proved more difficult -- and more rewarding -- than she anticipated
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I remember the exact moment when I first thought I could move back to Ohio from California. It hit me on a hot August morning on a visit to my sister in Columbus, as I walked to a local coffee shop.
"You could live here."
The thought was so foreign it caused a physical response. I stopped and shook my head, as though an errant bird had plowed into me.
"No, I could not," I said firmly to whatever voice had popped into my psyche.
I could not possibly choose to live in a city that's nickname was -- somewhat unrighteously -- "cowtown" over San Francisco, the city by the bay, the city where people leave their hearts, sing the blues and honeymoon, drinking Champagne and lime.
I could not.
And yet, here I was, stopped on the sidewalk in the blistering morning sun, trying to decide if the next step I took was toward something hopeful and necessary or a step away from everything I believed was important to my life.
This visit to Columbus was just my latest over the past 18 months. I had started flying into Ohio's capital city from where I lived in San Francisco because it was cheaper than flying into Dayton, my true hometown, some 75 miles to the west, where my father lie battling pancreatic cancer.
Ours had been a complicated relationship, distant and wary. But in his final months, the past didn't matter. I understood -- finally -- that I wanted to be a daughter who sat by his side as often as I could until the very end because that's who I was, not because I thought it would make him the kind of father I wanted him to be.
After he died, everything shifted. San Francisco, where I had lived for the past six years working as a food writer and restaurant critic, no longer felt like home.
How was that possible? The job, the life, the city itself represented everything I had dreamed of from the moment I had shut the door on my family and Ohio more than a decade before to first move to California. I had flittered all over the Golden State before finally landing in San Francisco, a city that quickly enchanted me with its fog and food.
And yet now, in these months since my father's death, I felt empty and lost. The city didn't seem to sparkle as brightly; my job no longer offered the glow of accomplishment it once had.
I continued to make pilgrimages to the Midwest, longing for closeness to my sister who was starting to build her family and to a life that I somehow believed would be simpler than the one I was living on the West Coast.
Isn't that what so many of us are looking for when we consider moving home: an ease to living without complications, a time from our childhood when our concerns were no bigger than the towering soft serve ice cream cones we tried to balance while riding our bikes?
So I stood now on Grandview Avenue, with the aroma of coffee beckoning me to move forward, and a voice in my head telling me I should stay.
I could, of course, live here. I could quit my job with the Chronicle, pack up my studio apartment and drive to Columbus. I could find a job writing or cooking or something. And I could settle into what I imagined would be a quiet existence.
Because that's what it would be if I moved to Columbus, right? Just a simple life in my hometown state with the pop-up thunderstorms and fireflies of summer followed by college football games and Christmas with snow.
I believed Ohio would not include traffic or crazy housing prices. I had myself convinced that the endless search for the next best restaurant or food trend would cease, too, because I would be finished with the food writing part of my career. And the snob I had become said I would be through with drama of relationships because there couldn't possibly be anyone that could hold my interest or steal my heart in central Ohio.
It all sounded so appealing, in those early weeks of grief after losing my second parent (my mother had died years before).
I took the plunge: I did quit my job and move to Columbus a few months after that summer morning.
But aside from the fireflies and football and snow, none of it turned out as I envisioned.
The traffic here can be brutal, and the housing prices in the past 10 years have fluctuated wildly. I'm still chasing stories, mostly about food, just now at the Columbus Dispatch.
My desire to be close to family actually included making one of my own. I married a widower with three young children -- because my heart was stolen by not one person but by four. Very few things about motherhood in general are simple or quiet and, I could argue, that's doubly true with stepmotherhood.
Some might say -- and I do -- that the voice I heard on the sidewalk on that day wasn't my own internal longing, but was capital "g" God calling me to a new life.
I wasn't called away. And I didn't run away. The middle of Ohio didn't turn out to be my escape, but it was the beginning of a new kind of life. Not one of tranquility -- in fact often the opposite -- but one that forces me to focus outward toward my family and my faith, not inward on my own fears and thoughts of self-importance.
Robin Davis is a food writer for the Columbus Dispatch and the author of "Recipe for Joy: A Stepmom's Story of Finding Faith, Following Love and Feeding a Family."
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Your Olympic Hero Kurt Angle has stepped off the gold medal platform and into the hot seat in a brand new exclusive shoot that will have all of fandom talking! One of wrestling's fastest rising stars, Kurt Angle discusses his entire wrestling career; from his Olympic background all the way to his controversial leaving of WWE and current TNA stardom. You'll get firsthand accounts of his insane training schedule to prepare himself for the Atlanta Olympiad along with the gripping tales of his battle for the gold despite an injury that would put a normal man into a hospital bed. You don't have to be an avid fan of amateur wrestling to get into the stories Angle tells about his training under David Schultz, or be chilled to the bone after hearing tales of Schultz's murderer, John du Pont, the financial backer of Schultz's Olympic team.
Courted by the pro-wrestling world, Kurt describes why he initially avoided the industry and for the first time anywhere gives a detailed account of the infamous night in October, 2006 at the ECW Arena. We've all heard the stories of Angle witnessing the controversial crucifixion of Sandman at the hands of Raven, but now we'll get Kurt's first hand accounts of the events of that night. You'll hear exactly what Kurt said to Paul Heyman that very night. Later, Angle would find himself taking part of the legendary WWE Funkin' Dojo camp, run by Dory Funk Jr. In an all star class that included Edge, Christian and the Hardy Brothers, Angle gives story after story about being trained in developmental. What was it like to train with Teddy Hart? Which superstar tried to take advantage of Kurt in his debut match?
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The main mcl page. MCL is a cluster algorithm for graphs. It seems popular by metrics such as citations, downloads, usage, and feedback. The software contains many other programs for network analysis, including shortest paths, clustering coefficient, betweenness centrality. The program mcxarray can be used to create a network from gene expression data, or more generally, tabular data.
apparix allows you to bookmark directories and apparate inside them. By default it can fully supplant cd by considering directories as well as bookmarks. Bookmarks, subdirectories of the bookmark, and directories specified in the regular way can all be navigated and completed transparently. Genuinely useful for those glued to the command line.
The zoem page. bzzzz. Zoem is a macro/programming language. It does not seem popular at all by any metric.
Aephea, or Adaptable Exo-skeleton for Practical HTML Extension and Abstraction. It is a text-based authoring tool for web pages that utilises zoem. Some of its characteristics are a TeX-like syntax, dictionary stacks, iteration and a focus on styling via CSS.
Portable Unix Documentation. PUD currently offers two mini-languages or micro-formats for authoring manual pages and FAQ documents. Source documents can be converted to html, troff, PostScript and plain text. The PUD impact is roughly described by a delta function. PUD is shipped with Aephea.
Find a collection of customizable Go boards in PostScript format, as well as the script that can be used to generate them.
Stijn's main page.
Micans is Latin, its meaning twinkling, sparkling, shining, gleaming, flashing, glowing.
It represents - for the owner of micans.org - the energy, the impetus, and the heartbeat found in nature. Everyone presumably has their own special set of places in which it makes itself best heard. Some places speaking strongly to me are science, mathematics, and poetry. You'll find bits and pieces of them on this site - they lend themselves well to the web.
On a lighter note, there is a host of little micans beings out there, shining, glowing, and twinkling. Want to see some nice algae, germs, and bugs? It is an invigorating gathering of little creatures!


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Bby now you've likely seen the hilariously photoshopped pic of The Avengers on the cover of the latest Entertainment Weekly, but like your momma used to say, it's what's on the inside that counts...
The intrepid comic nerds at io9 got their hands on an advance copy, and have shared with the world Marvel's slate of upcoming films, with updates on three long-gestating projects, and word of two newer films.
As has been reported, "Iron Man 3" is being directed by Shane Black, and it should arrive May 3, 2013; Patty Jenkins of "Monster" fame is the likely choice to direct "Thor 2"; Edgar Wright ("Scott Pilgrim") has a great draft of a script for "Ant-Man," which he plans to direct--no word on Nate Fillion taking the lead.
U.S. & World
The day's top national and international news.
"Guardians of the Galaxy," about a team of 31st-Century heroes, each of whom are the last of their kind, is still in development. Marvel movie maven (sorry) Kevin Feige says, "There's an opportunity to do a big space epic, which Thor sort of hints at, in the cosmic side of the [Marvel] universe."
And then there's "The Inhumans," a group of superhumans developed millions of years ago by the alien Kree to battle the Skrull Empire--you can read more about them at their Marvel Universe Wiki page.
This all seems well and good, but where's the latest on "Dr. Strange"? Back in May, Feige told PopcornBiz, "The next one is Dr. Strange. I'd like to tap into two things: tap more into the world of magic – which 'Thor' isn't, really, but Strange entirely is, and I like that a lot."
And what of Luke Cage, aka Power Man? Is he still being relegated to Marvel's short-film ghetto?


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High School Football Ref Takes A Hit In The Head
Calling all high school football referees! Let the above video be a lesson -- keep your eye on the ball at all times!
The video comes to us from Allentown, Pennsylvania as the Dieruff High Huskies face off against the Pocono Mountain East Cardinals in the opening game of their respective seasons.
Huskies quarterback Quintin Williams was trying to hit an open receiver near the end zone, but he ended up throwing the pass over both the wide receiver and the defender's heads. What Williams did hit, however, was the head of the side judge trying to watch the play unfold.
Heads up, ref!


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ARLINGTON, VA -- The number of complaints received by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) for fitness clubs has increased more than 90 percent in the last five years, according to a recent BBB study.
The most common complaints consumers have about fitness clubs focus on contract disputes (41.5 percent) and billing issues (31.7 percent). The majority of billing complaints center on being billed after the member felt his or her contract had expired. Many consumers either assumed their contract would not be renewed or filed the appropriate paperwork to cancel their membership but continued to have fees withdrawn from their bank accounts. Most of the contract dispute complaints involve disagreements over promises made by the salesperson as opposed to what the membership actually included.
More than 15 percent of complaints came from consumers whose fitness center either closed up completely or changed management shortly after they joined. The complainants typically wanted refunds for membership fees paid in advance or were dissatisfied with the new ownership and policies and wanted out of their contract.
"The trends we're seeing in complaints against fitness clubs tells us that consumers need to read the fine print on the contract before they sign and keep a close eye on their bank statements to make sure they're not getting billed more than they should be," says Steve Cox, spokesperson for the BBB.


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SEMANTICALLY-ENRICHED PARSING FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING by Stephen Tratz A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) December 2011 Copyright 2011 Stephen Tratz
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The Village of Piraino
The village of Piraino belongs to the municipality of Cardeto, in the province of Reggio Calabria, region Calabria.
>>>COVID-19<<< Data about spreading of Covid-19 in Piraino are not yet available.
For the province of Reggio Calabria, to whom Piraino belongs, on 2020-07-01 are reported 293 cases. In the previos day there were 294 cases, thus having a variation of -1 cases, i.e. -0.34% with reference to the number of cases reported in the previous day.
Please follow this link for updated information on Covid-19 including new cases and percentage changes for the whole of Italy, regions and individual provinces
The village of Piraino is 6,64 kilometers far from the same town of Cardeto to whom it belongs.
To the municipality of Cardeto also belong the localities of Ambele (4,62 km), Badia (1,66 km), Capitano (2,45 km), Cardeto Nord (4,98 km), Cardeto Sud (3,02 km), Cardolo (0,66 km), Case sparse (-- km), Castanea (5,45 km), Castellano (1,74 km), Chieti (3,43 km), Chiumputo (5,31 km), Colachecco (5,84 km), Contrada Ambele (3,55 km), Contrada Campicelli (3,13 km), Contrada Capitano (2,35 km), Contrada Cardeto Nord (3,71 km), Contrada Cardeto Sud - Taviano (2,46 km), Contrada Castanea (4,25 km), Contrada Castellano (1,13 km), Contrada Chieti (2,60 km), Contrada Chiumputo (4,04 km), Contrada Colachecco (4,51 km), Contrada Crupazza (1,14 km), Contrada Donna (1,25 km), Contrada Dromo (3,27 km), Contrada Faveliti (0,66 km), Contrada Garcea (0,95 km), Contrada Iriti (4,11 km), Contrada Lacco (4,90 km), Contrada Lamberta (2,51 km), Contrada Liddu (2,63 km), Contrada Liso (0,99 km), Contrada Loddini (4,67 km), Contrada Malacrinò (0,94 km), Contrada Mallamaci (1,77 km), Contrada Mannarella (1,75 km), Contrada Pantano (0,74 km), Contrada Piraino (5,13 km), Contrada Rinazza (1,77 km), Contrada Sant'Elia (1,37 km), Contrada Scala (1,19 km), Contrada Sclanò (4,69 km), Contrada Starà (1,18 km), Contrada Survì (0,94 km), Contrada Terusa (1,07 km), Donna (1,45 km), Faveliti (0,67 km), Garcea (1,23 km), Giurricando (3,14 km), Iatrona (0,48 km), Iriti (5,34 km), Lacco (6,31 km), Lamberta (3,34 km), Liddu (3,19 km), Liso (1,30 km), Località Badia (1,43 km), Località San Pietro di Mannarella (1,59 km), Loddini (6,03 km), Malacrino' (0,91 km), Mallamaci (2,36 km), Mannarella (1,67 km), Pantano (0,87 km), Rinazza (1,92 km), San Pietro (1,46 km), Sant'Elia (1,81 km), Scala (1,58 km), Sclano' (5,91 km), Stara' (1,27 km), Survi' (1,02 km), Taviano (2,38 km), Terusa (1,30 km).
The number in parentheses following each village name indicate the distance between the same village and the municipality of Cardeto.
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Where to stay in Piraino and its neighborhoods
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Videos about Piraino Cardeto, Reggio Calabria, Calabria
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Job Search / Re: Federal Government Honors Programs« on: January 03, 2009, 03:44:01 PM »
Got a call last Thursday afternoon from one of the Regional Offices, wanting an interview the next morning
That seems to be how they roll! It's like, "Hi, we'd like to interview you . . . right now." Good luck to you, too!
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Iran's nuclear intentions are under increasing scrutiny as diplomats and technical experts of the United Nation's atomic watchdog agency meet in Vienna this week.
The latest report on Iran by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) provides ammunition to all sides, at once bolstering arguments led by the US and Israel that Iran has been bent on building nuclear weapons, while confirming Tehran's adherence to safeguard measures.
But the IAEA's technical report and the interpretations of its findings are spinning into an overheated strategic standoff between Western nations, Israel, and Iran that, analysts say, may become reason for a military strike against Iran.
Even as Europeans expect to offer Iran an upgraded incentive package to suspend uranium enrichment in the coming weeks, analysts say that cherry-picking of quotes and Western spin, coupled with "breathless" media reporting about Iranian recalcitrance, could point in a nondiplomatic direction.
Rhetoric ratcheted higher this week, with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday warning that "for the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon." Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, speaking to the same pro-Israel lobby group, AIPAC, in Washington, said "the Iranian threat must be stopped by all possible means," adding that it was a global "duty" to take "drastic measures" to prevent it.
Even Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who says the US must engage Iran with "strong diplomacy" – and told AIPAC Wednesday that this would enhance Israel's security also – said the "danger from Iran is grave," and that he would "do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon – everything."
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran's most vehement denial yet, said Tuesday that Iran "is not seeking a nuclear weapon," which would "only incur high costs and have no use. They do not bring power to a nation."
"We are seeking nuclear energy for peaceful purposes for daily use and we will continue this path to the envy of our enemies," said Ayatollah Khamenei, adding that Iran opposed the bomb "in principle and on religious grounds."
Iran has not suspended uranium enrichment, as required by a UN Security Council resolution, and is under three UN and one US set of sanctions. But Ali Larijani, Iran's former nuclear negotiator warned that parliament, of which he is the new speaker, could "limit" cooperation with the IAEA if the West continues "kicking around Iran's nuclear case."
At issue in Vienna is the meaning of 18 documents that point to secret weaponization work, which the IAEA calls "alleged studies." Most were provided by US intelligence but were only shown, not given, to the IAEA and to Iran, which dismisses them as fakes.
Those studies "remain a matter of serious concern," and Iran "has not yet agreed to implement all the transparency measures required to clarify this cluster of allegations," IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei told the agency's 35-member board of governors when they convened on Monday.
But Mr. ElBaradei also indirectly rapped the US, noting that the IAEA "was unfortunately not authorized to provide copies [of the documents] to Iran," which he said "would clearly help the Agency in its investigations." The IAEA, he added, "has not seen indications of the actual use of nuclear material in connection with the alleged studies."
Those include designs of the nose cone of a Shahab 3 missile – Iran's longest-range ballistic missile – modified for a possible nuclear payload; schematics of a 400-yard-deep underground testing setup; and documentation that appears to show secret nuclear projects and military procurement efforts.
"Together these documents make a powerful case that Iran had an active weaponization effort prior to 2004 [though] it is important to note they do not encompass the full scope of work required," concludes an analysis by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) in Washington.
"This alleged research, and Iran's refusal so far to really engage the IAEA in a serious discussion about it, is at the heart of whether its nuclear program is peaceful," writes Jacqueline Shire, one of the authors of the ISIS analysis, in a separate summary. "My concern is that Iran's seeming insistence on adhering to the letter but not the spirit of safeguards … can create the perception, if not the reality, that it has something to hide."
"Because this can lead countries to take preemptive action with … disastrous consequences," says Ms. Shire. Iran should be encouraged "to be as open as possible...."
According to a US National Intelligence Estimate report issued last December, Iran halted a nuclear weapons program in fall 2003. The documents now being examined by the IAEA are not dated later than March 2004. "I don't think there is anything in [the documents] that would challenge substantially the NIE claims," says a Western diplomat in Vienna close to the IAEA. But the initial reports were, "as always, a bit breathless."
In fact, the IAEA report notes that, since March 2007, Iran has permitted 14 unannounced inspections. But only in April did it agree to address the "alleged studies." It has not given access to key people and places, and its detailed reply to questions only emerged on May 23, too late to be included in the report.
"If it really had been the golden ring, perhaps we would have heard more about it," says the Western diplomat. "It's a cross-checking. It's the usual sort of gumshoe detective work which is the elimination of leads. But in order to do that you've got to have the access."
But there is a history of imperfect intelligence tips. A report in the Los Angeles Times last year quoted a senior diplomat at the IAEA saying that the CIA and other Western spy agencies had been giving sensitive information, but that "since 2002, pretty much all the intelligence that's come to us has proved to be wrong."
The story said US officials "privately acknowledge" that much of the evidence they had on Iran – including the detailed designs described in the current IAEA report, reportedly taken from a laptop stolen in Iran –"remains ambiguous, fragmented and difficult to prove."
The current IAEA report says the information "appears to have been derived from multiple sources over different periods of time, is detailed in content, and appears to be generally consistent." But it also noted that the IAEA "was not in possession" of many of them, and so could not show them to Iran.
"Perhaps it's like Iraq, where the intelligence wasn't shared because the intelligence wasn't there," says the Western diplomat in Vienna. "Certainly there are some people who say this is getting a bit like the pre-Iraq war. [When] finally the inspectors were there and investigated, of course none of the claims stood up."
While US officials say the latest IAEA report is proof of Iran's "stonewalling," and "failure" to answer questions, Iran says it "attests to the exclusively peaceful nature" of Iran's nuclear program.
"Iran's goodwill and proactive cooperation with the IAEA far beyond its treaty obligations – as reflected in the IAEA reports – attests to the fact that the allegations made by certain countries [are] totally baseless," the Iranian mission to the UN said in a statement.
For connoisseurs, the multiple readings are no surprise. "Parsing the language used in UN or IAEA documents is an art in and of itself," says Shire, speaking in an interview from Princeton, N.J. "These are not documents that are written in Obama, McCain, or Clinton campaign style, where headlines and soundbites are really clear and come through."


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The Low Road
Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped has long been considered a masterpiece of high adventure. In The Low Road, James Lear reinvents this classic as a satirical, queer, coming-of-age story.
In 1750 Scotland, young Charles Gordon reaches adulthood ignorant of his family's heroic past in the Jacobite Rebellion. He sets out to discover the truth about his father, but instead is kidnapped by mercenaries and sold into slavery as the plaything of a group of corrupt military officials. But Charlie's talents, in and out of bed, win him powerful friends as well as dangerous foes. The false priest, Lebecque, violent Captain Robert, depraved General Wilmott all contribute to Charlie's 'education'. Eventually leading a makeshift army of sex-crazed layabouts, Charlie faces the might of the English forces. Will he triumph, or is it better to retreat to the safety of his sybaritic lifestyle?
James Lear expertly interweaves spies and counterspies, scheming servants and sadistic captains, tavern trysts and prison orgies, into this delightfully erotic work that can take its place alongside his acclaimed novels The Back Passage and Hot Valley.
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- Dexter J
- 23-06-20
Great story...if you can get over the accent
Like all novels by James Lear, a brilliant story with excellent capture of imagery and emotion. The only downside is the laughably bad accent by Mark Bachman. As a (real) Scot, it's almost off-putting how bad his strange attempt at Scottish is.
Annoying as the last thing I want to picture is a leprechaun...
Otherwise, excellent. Bravo Lear. Invest in a better narrator.
- Juanito
- 27-06-13
Perfect for my taste
I love the historical background in the story. I love the adventures of Charlie (sometimes over the top sex, but I just treat it as art). I love how the story was narrated; easy to understand. Glad this all came together in a book. :)
- James
- 21-04-15
Rollicking Riotous Adventure-Comedy of Profligacy
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No! It is a idle down time amusement thing. The M/M sense are frequent and a bit repetitive. It is easy to put down and pick back up again.
Any additional comments?
The audio version of this book has the charm of a gifted narrator, Mark Bachman. He successfully mimics a Scottish brogue and well as French and English accents. The material is a bit farcical, and Mark keeps the tone light and playful. His voice has that deep rich resonance and with this material; it will melt you socks off. James Lear was fortunate to get this narrator.
The Low Road is the first James Lear M/M genre novels I have reviewed. It has solid structure, solid plot, and devices used (the love letters come to mind) are clever. It made me wonder; who is James Lear?
James Lear was born with the name Rupert Smith in 1960 in Washington DC [Not to be confused with General Sir Rupert Anthony Smith, the noted military author, born in 1943]; Lear grew up in Surrey and moved to London in 1978 where he still lives. After a few years in an academic career, which really wasn't his cup of tea, he got into journalism where he stayed for over 20 years, writing for a wide variety of dailies, weeklies and monthlies in the UK and elsewhere. He still does bits and pieces, but now fiction is his full-time job. He also writes under the name James Lear (M/M erotica) and Rupert James (blockbuster chick type, bodice ripper, stuff like "Fly on the Wall", "Silk" and "Step Sisters").
Getting back to this offering by Mr. Lear; for my tastes, the M/M action is a bit over the top like any good farce. It is more like a sporting marathon where the characters collapse after being stuffed, stretched, poked, prodded, abused, and humiliated only to pop up, fresh as a daisy, and be ready for more within hours of a maximum assault on his person. With this much exposure the innocent good-hearted Charlie Gordon will be left with no more sensitivity then the inside of an old leather army boot; if he lives at all. Don't get me wrong, it is a fun M/M karma sutra like variety exorcise of the imagination. However, no one but a masochist could endure these scenes and crave more. It tends to coarsen the character and make him a little less likeable then his good nature and open heart world normally warrant. Another strike against the chief character Charlie was the fact a Scottish highlander, of that time period, not knowing how to make a fire from scratch in the wild is totally unconvincing. The rabbit scene and its aftermath were unnecessary. Any good Scotchman of that period would know how to live off the land. The coincidental meeting of the escape prisoner was also a bit farfetched and unnecessary. However, the cat and mouse "courtship" with young master Jonathan Lee was much more persuasive. The master spy Captain Robert character is one of the more interesting of the characters. The mock military recruiting exam is a riot. The foe army mock Theban sacred band from petticoat junction assault force is silly but fun. The triumphant rescue of Le Beck is great. The main characters Charlie Gorgon and Benoit La Beck represent the ideals of love to contrast against the more earthly profane adventures the two engage in on their jerky path back, to find and end the story with each other.
Recommendation: Sorry the plot was predictable in the direction it will resolve. Overall the book has the rollicking riotous effect of the 1963 adventure comedy movie Tom Jones. The movie itself was homage to the book "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" by writer Henry Fielding published in 1749. Le Beck is the Sophia Western character whose pure love rescues Charlie (the Tom Jones character) from his reckless sexual profligacy ways for domestic happiness of pure committed lovemaking; and that is a wrap up; with a happy ever after ending. Three words to sum it up? Light, Funny, & Trashy. A good summer beach read or listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-04-20
filthy... porn... of gangbang ,orgy etc
I couldn't even finish it... it contains only porn... no story... Soo bad 😩 this is not erotic... it's only porn
- Andrew Swanlund
- 13-01-20
Glorified Porn Movie
Like a period porn movie with a string of sex scenes connected by a not super imaginative story. I listened until the end because the narrator plays up the melodrama, but several times I got tired of yet another sex scene and stopped listening. (we're having a snow storm so no place to go, otherwise I'd have decamped.)
- Ms ddne
- 27-03-19
pretty flithy
very debauched and nasty story. i loved the narrator's Scottish accent and felt sorry for main character.
- Ellen
- 27-11-13
Not What I Expected
What would have made The Low Road better?
I think the books description should have been more clear about the X-rated material. I thought this was going to be an historical novel, but was shocked to find out it was basically all about the sexual exploits between two men. I would never have bought this book had I known. This is not the type of thing I was to listen to back and forth to work.
You didn't love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
I didn't listen further than the first three chapters and gave up.
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That's so cute.
Looks like he had some fun in the snow whether it was real or fake, lol.
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That's so cute.
Looks like he had some fun in the snow whether it was real or fake, lol.
Schmoyoho-oh-oh-oh accent on the YO!
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I believe it was in the latest issue of US Magazine....just a small picture of him and Carla skating around.
One person's craziness, is another person's reality. ~ Tim Burton
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There is one in Star magazine too
Re: Pics from the set-Fake snow....
What does fake snow feel like?
Can you make a snowball with it?
If you have enough can you make an igloo out of it?
I heard it was made of soap flakes, what if you're allergic to soap
(like me) and start to sneeze(or can't breathe)?
Does it eventually turn into bubbles when the rain comes(if it's soap)?
Can yu get it out of your hair or does it stick there?
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New Set Photos: Something's Fishy With Jim Carrey! Jim Carrey picks up and smells the seafood in New York City
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Jim Carrey films in Park Slope!
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Re: Pics from the set- I wonder how editing etc
Progress is doing on this
I wonder!
Re: Pics from the set-Fake snow....
I think fake snow is made of stirofoam. they put stirofoam through a chipper or something and it's slippery. . . slick. people say when ski resorts don't get any snow they put stirofoam on the ground so people can ski. not sure about that though. maybe that was back in the 70's.
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The penguins slide down the steps as it says in the
I wonder.....
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that could be the slick stirofoam . . . but Penguins live on more ice than snow. . .
Re: Pics from the set-Waddle or Skate
We always see penguins waddle and slide on their bellies,
do they ever skate?
I wonder
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It's time they start promoting this movie. Every big summer-title out there has already some posters or at least teaser-trailers.
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Is a mother's own milk enough?
Certain nutrients occur at the same levels in premature milk as in term milk. Also, the overall calorie count is the same for both. Human milk contains lower levels of some nutrients than artificial formulas. Sometimes, lower nutrient levels are beneficial for premature babies. For instance, protein and sodium are at higher levels in premature milk than in mature milk, yet they still are low when compared to the amount in most artificial formulas. Because of the lower levels of these nutrients, the premature baby loses less water. Less water loss helps the premature baby maintain a stable body temperature.
The nutrient levels and the available calories are often adequate for "older" or "bigger" premature babies, and for many other high-risk babies. However, lower nutrient levels and the "full-term" calorie count in human milk may create problems for the low birthweight baby who weighed 3 pounds, 5 ounces (1,500 grams) or less at birth, or for babies with certain health conditions affecting digestion or the use of nutrients. These babies may not get enough of the minerals, such as calcium, phosphorous, and iron from their mothers' milk alone. They also may need additional calories.
Although your milk is best, it is not always complete with the nutritional needs of very small premature babies or some very sick newborns. Fortunately, adding to, or "fortifying," a mother's milk does not appear to diminish the nutritional and anti-infective benefits your baby will gain from receiving your milk, and may help to better provide the nutrition your baby needs.
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When a higher calorie count is the only consideration, you may be asked to pump your milk for several minutes and then stop to change collection bottles. The milk collected after the first several minutes is called hind milk and it tends to be higher in calorie-rich fats. The earlier milk obtained while pumping is called fore milk and it is higher in other nutrients. Freeze any fore milk for later use if asked to provide hind milk for some feedings. Do not obtain only the hind milk for feedings, unless directed to do so by your baby's doctors and nurses.
- human milk fortifier (HMF)
HMF contains several nutrients, especially certain minerals, that are needed for proper bone development in low birthweight babies. HMF is added directly to a bottle of your own milk.
- premature infant formulas
Sometimes, feedings of a mother's milk may be alternated with feedings of a premature infant formula. This may be done if HMF is not considered the best option, or when reduced amounts of your breast milk are available.
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Um -- how long has it been since Kristen Stewart was caught cheating on Robert Pattinson? Like five seconds? Well, if there's any hope of her redeeming herself and trying to repair her scarred reputation, hopping into a rebound romance isn't going to help matters. On that note, the rumor about Kristen going on a date with James Franco at the Toronto International Film Festival makes it sound like she's looking for some action to help her pick up the pieces of her broken heart.
Apparently James and Kristen were spotted chatting (gasp!) for a bit, which ended with him asking her to have dinner with him. (Huh. That sure sounds like it has all the makings of a first date.)
And another source supposedly saw the pair "looking flirty" at the Toronto Soho House, and says, "Kristen went to a mysterious third floor and James followed her." (Scan-dal-ous, I tell you!)
I guess there's really nothing wrong with these two hooking up since they're both single and in every position to mingle, but doesn't getting cozy with another actor so soon after her split from Rob make Kristen seem just a little bit desperate? If she is already moving on and getting chummy with other guys, then it sure contradicts the statements she made about everything being "fine" with Robert Pattinson. Hooking up with James Franco isn't exactly a recipe for a reconciliation -- I'm just sayin'.
And considering just how fresh the cheating scandal is, Kristen better watch her back, because there's a good chance men will see her as a sure bet for a quick fling, not girlfriend material. Sure, there's always the chance that someone like James Franco could see beyond her affair with Rupert Sanders and still want to date her, but her actions will always be in the back of anyone's mind who gets serious with her from this point forward.
If Kristen knows what's good for her, she'll lay low for a bit longer before looking for love again. The more the dust settles, the better the chance of her actually finding real happiness with a decent guy. (And hopefully the next time she snags one, she'll learn from her mistakes and treat him right.)
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Hopefully Jimmy Kimmel had a designated driver at the Time 100 gala in New York on Tuesday night.
The "Live With Jimmy Kimmel" host delivered a very spirited toast at the event, knocking back five drinks in less than four minutes while getting, as he put it, "very, very drunk."
Also read: Kimmel on Leno: 'F— Him'
Toasting future "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon, who plied Kimmel with most of the drinks, Kimmel noted, "Jimmy's probably a bigger influence on me than anyone in this room because he's so talented and energetic that he forces me to be the best that i can be. Quite frankly, it's a pain in the ass. I'd appreciate it if you slowed down a little. But I love him and I want to toast my future rival, Jimmy Fallon — who's getting me very, very drunk."
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S.J.W. v. Lee's Summit R-7 School District, No. 12-1727 (8th Cir. October 17, 2012)
Plaintiffs (twin brothers) created a blog that contained offensive, racist and sexually explicit content targeting their high school classmates by name. The school district suspended the brothers for 180 days. Plaintiffs got a preliminary injunction against the suspension, and the school district sought review with the Eighth Circuit. On appeal, the court reversed, and ordered that the suspension should not have been halted by the injunction.
The court held that under the Tinker analysis (Tinker is the leading case from the Supreme Court dealing with student free speech), the blog posts could reasonably have been expected to reach the school or impact the environment. Paired with the considerable disturbance and disruption at school because of the content, the court found that the lower court improperly held that the plaintiffs would have a successful First Amendment argument.
Moreover, the appellate court held that the plaintiffs had not shown irreparable harm from their suspension. They were able to enroll at another local accredited school, and the harm to their future music careers from not being able to try out for band was merely speculative.
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A Staten Island pizzeria owner who's featured on VH1's "Big Ang" reality-TV show has been indicted on federal cocaine-distribution and conspiracy charges.
Anthony Cracchiolo, 32, who runs Anthony's Pizza Pasta Perfect on Hylan Boulevard, was charged with putting together a cocaine deal in secret meetings with a Drug Enforcement Administration informant.
Cracchiolo also has worked as a bartender at the Drunken Monkey tavern, which is featured in "Big Ang," a "Mob Wives" spinoff starring Angela Raiola, who owns the watering hole.