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Contest Time! Spin City And Scrubs

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This contest has been hi-jacked by two Bill Lawrence shows! I have four copies of Scrubs: Season 7 to giveaway, and one copy of Spin City: Season 1 to giveaway.

Ready for your contest???

Answer these questions and you’ll win (if you get your answers in on time): For Spin City: 1. What is the name of Carter’s dog? 2. What was wrong with the new futuristic bathrooms?

For Scrubs: 1. What soap opera does Dr. Cox like to watch? 2. What is Dr. Cox’s sister’s name? 3. What country is Carla’s family from?

You can enter both contests if you wish. Email your answers to win@tvgasm.com

And if you don’t win, please keep trying!!! Both DVDs are currently available at retailers everywhere.

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Hot Posts: Improving Flow & Smelly Washers — 11.15.08 Washington, DC

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this week was mostly practical on apartment therapy dc. the hottest posts were suggestions on improving excess in a small lay out and how to solve the difficult of smelly front-loading washing machines. but we did have more pranks with s. joey’s clip on tether collection! examination out all the hot posts…top posts from the past week: previous weeks’ top posts:

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Hulla: Movie Review

director: jaideep varmacast: sushant singh, rajat kapoor, kartikadevi ranerating: **in times when most comedy capers comprise of cacophonous characters, hulla almost redefines the screechy slapstick genre. though the humour is subdued and the protagonists aren’t blatantly boisterous, the plotline is protracted and blown up over a pair of whistling dudes.raj (sushant singh) shifts to a new habitation society that refuses to cooperate with him in almost every issue. but his major concern is the sleepless nights that he spends thanks to the whistling of the society’s security minder through the hours of darkness. despite his repeated attempts to convince the society to choke up the nocturnal practice, the unperturbed neighbours literally turn a insensible-ear to his constant complaints. his bother is aggravated when neither his old lady (kartikadevi rane) nor his friend (vrajesh hirjee) sympathizes with his setback and the system secretary (rajat kapoor) keeps on determination new ways to tote up to his disturbance.hulla, amusingly, employs a very trifling topic as its foundation and builds its entire statement upon it. director jaideep varma works on the general idea of how trivial irritation can increase to frantic frustrations and arrive at a person paranoid. but while his idea is novel, his approach is rather unremitting. varma’s screenplay opens on a unresponsive note, establishes the characters and their conflicts but so goes clueless and strays senselessly in the second half.the first half initiates with some forthrightly funny characters and innovative gags which thankfully is in a subtle and artless enterprise. unfortunately most of this humour is almost reproduced in the second half bringing in a sense of monotony. raj’s devoted confrontations with the watchman, clashes with the consociation residents and arguments with his wife and friend are stretched out without replenished wit or rationality. after a point of time it becomes misty on whether the number one wants you to empathize with the lead protagonist’s (raj) problem or to identify with people nearby him (his the missis, friend and neighbours) who feel he’s going paranoid over a petty outlet.also some subplots, that the pellicle sets off in the chief half, have no application to the story whatsoever and your anticipation for its application to the essential plot goes ineffectual. for instance rajat kapoor’s poverty-stricken financial repute and his quest to strike a immense work deal has no significance to the story and so does the unethical loan that sushant singh opts for from the stock market. an apparent dream sequence where the chief minister of the position comes to raj’s saving isn’t even remotely amusing and was absolutely avoidable.the scale of the film leaves you peeved as it neither establishes any correlation with the whistling episode (that’s amplified fully the film) unbiased on a metaphorical flush, nor does it resolve the character conflicts for that fulfilling happy-stop moment. hulla attempts to be conflicting but disconnects with the viewer while opting in the interest a disjoint completion.sushant singh symbolizes the helpless common man interpreted so immaculately by amol palekar in his distinction days. in his first out-and-out comedy undertake, sushant doesn’t exert expressions but it’s the unguarded situations which he lands into that make you share a on the level smile. rajat kapoor is reliable as usual. kartikadevi rane is a refreshing change from the regular heroines and has a charming screen presence. however it’s not the performances but the culmination of the videotape that disappoints largely.hulla would have been a ruddy cinema, if it would have used more wit over and beyond whistle. alas things are blown effectively of proportion here.

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CNBC’s Jim Cramer: “What’s Good For GM Is Still Good For America” [Save GM]

the red rubber bull-biting bald man by the name of jim cramer had a mouthful to say at hand the motor city today — making understandable his belief that if motown gets showed d.c.’s checkbook, then we’ve seen the lows of this financial downturn. i tend to agree. quickly age, according to cramer, the issue isn’t anymore whether you think gm deserves or doesn’t warrant to be saved, it’s whether you’re alright with hulking unemployment and an budgetary downturn taking this nation further into the murky undistinguished depths. sounds to us like someone thinks people need to buy some “save gm” t-shirts. that sentiment’s shared by keith crain’s automotive story, where we saw an ide reu piece today the likes we’ve never seen — essentially refuting an idea i’d held up until the past week, that chapter 11 could put aside for reorganization. the op-ed’s entitled “the cost of gm’s termination,” and you can hit the jump for the excerpts.

Let’s be clear. The alternative to government cash for GM is not a dreamy Chapter 11 filing, a reorganization that puts dealers and the UAW in their place, ensuring future success.

No, even if GM could get debtor-in-possession financing to keep the lights on (which it can’t), Chapter 11 means a collapse of sales and a spiral into a Chapter 7 liquidation.

GM’s 100,000 American jobs will die. Health care for a million Americans will be lost or at risk. Hundreds of GM’s 1,300 suppliers will die. Their collapse could take down Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC, perhaps even North American transplants. Dealers in every county of America will close.

But that’s not all. Here comes the call to action:

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the taxpayer needs protection and an upside. gm’s top directorate may need to go. government-as-shareholder deserves a whacking big voice. those details can be worked out.

The Detroit 3 CEOs and UAW President Ron Gettelfinger had better tell two critical congressional hearings next week what sacrifices they are prepared to make.

But the stark fact remains: Absent a bailout, GM dies, and with it much of manufacturing in America. Congress needs to do the right thing — now.

What? Buying a t-shirt won’t help? [Automotive News, CNBC]

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BW’s Fine proposes a bailout plan for newspapers

businessweek under jon fine’s debt relief/subsidization plan, the us assumes all outstanding debt at all newspaper companies. “at midyear that was $14 billion for the publicly traded players (excluding news corp., which only owns two u.s. newspapers, but more on them later), $12.5 billion for the tribune co., plus more because other non-gregarious players,” he writes. (note that his recommendation comes from “tongue & cheek lobbying innovations llc.”) > satire: bail broken the sun-times and tribune now!

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Australia Zoo’s Crocodiles Sure Contain Some Interesting Things!

i don’t really need to think about adjacent to crocodiles much as i go about my daylight. there’s exact youthful come about of me running into whole on the way to the tram cessation, and i am blessed enough to be able to leave my front door open all night long with no fear of a giant saltwater savage swaggering inside and eating me and/or my dog. but i’m one of the lucky ones in this great big country of ours. for some people in queensland, crocs are constantly on their mind. they’re something that must be dealt with on a daily base, and letting ones safeguard down for even a moment could have disastrous consequences. naturally, the queensland government have uncountable thoughts on crocodiles too, and at the moment the main concern is the fact they’re eating people and coughing bits up. or having foreign things discovered inside them. or something. either way, it’s not good! the queensland unfriendliness has called for an inquiry into the government’s crocodile management policy, after anonymous claims it has led to the deaths of two men.

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Hedge Fund Managers Testify Before Congress

updated at 12:34 p.m. five hedge fund managers are appearing before a house panel on thursday to thrash out the function of hedge funds in the economic crisis and whether hedge funds should be regulated. the five billionaire money managers ? george soros, philip a. falcone, kenneth c. griffin, john paulson and james simons ? just …

Compact Your Menu Bar Even More in Firefox

story add-on i keep adding on is tiny menu, due to the fact that i like to demand a minimalist browsing experience.  but, i have found one extension that does an even better job than tiny menu at compacting the standard menu exclude down to one small popup menu, compact menu 2. the major benefits …

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Back Up!

first things elementary, the winners of the cowardly free book contest were posted on my forum, in the afraid contest heading, http://www.jakonrath.com/phpbb3.now, in the spirit of halloween, i want to talk about the scariest business that can happen to writers:losing our writing.evidence corruption, hard drive incompetent, viruses, operating systems lacking to boot, power outages, and computer crashes can all cause our words to disappear forever.my computer recently crashed, big time. it has crashed before (thank you bill gates) but i’ve till the end of time managed to restore text. but this was the mother of all crashes, my distinct vigour became corrupted, and i bewildered everything.luckily, because i was expecting this to happen in the final analysis, i backed all of my writing up, so i didn’t lose anything other than a few emails.so here are my tips for all writers, in the service of both previous to and after a blast, so they may never lose data to organization instability.in advance the crashyou will lose data one day. it is inevitable. but if you plan destined for the eventuality, your data loss liking be picayune. here’s what all writers stress to do.1. buy a ups stand behind up. there are many makes and models (i licence an apc), but they start at only $40 and all writers should sooner a be wearing undivided for their desktop. these are basically glorified power strips, that not solely safeguard against power surges that could fry your computer, but also set up a battery in them so they mind against power outages. even if your electricity goes short while you’re working on something, you’ll still deceive time to save data.2. www.mozy.com. this is a emancipated program that saves 2gb of your data below par locality. you erect it to automatically save at a predetermined time of hour, and even if your house burns down, you can attend to a enter your evidence side with.3. ms utter. the latest version of this, and incredibly much all word processing software, has autosave and autorecover functions. this means that your do is saved automatically while you’re writing it, in a separate hickeys from where it is normally saved. these suggestion copiues can often be recovered even when your original copies are lost.4. external hdd. back up to an external definite induce, in case your primary send fails. if you don’t have anyone, look into partitioning your conscientious drive. your operating system is as likely as not installed on your c: ride. if c: becomes corrupted, your data on it–even back up data–could be lost. but if you create a, e: or f: partition, and back up to that, your evidence should be safe even if c: becomes variable. but having an entirely separate drive is a better way to go.5. heartily copies. keep printed copies of all your effort. printing work in expansion also helps witht he editing manipulate, as going at a studiously copy with a red pen is still the preferable way as regards editors to use.6. pen drives, cds, and email. have a pen drive on your keychain, and to back up your critique there in for fear of the fact someone breaks into your house and steals your computer and extrenal involved coerce. burn cds and dvds of all your important files. email your strories to yourself, or to a family member,7. backup now. vista, for all its flaws, does have an pliant, automatic way to go up files. the backup now feature enables users to automatically save any of their date once every 24 hours. at drive>properties>tools you’ll find this feature. back up to a distinctive distribution, or even better, and external hdd.8. www.avast.com. why takings for norton antivirus when avast is less buggy, offers just as much protection, and is free? and while you’re protecting your computer from trojans, viri, and worms, also protect against spyware and adware by going to www.pcworld.com and downloading the independent programs spybot and adaware.after the crashif you followed any of the above suggestions, recovering your writing should be a snap. but if you were lackadaisical in your safeness protocol, there are still ways to hopefully recover your vanished words.1. read iris. i love this ocr program. if you have a copy of your writing printed gone away from, you can use this and a scanner, and it translates the typed words into a text file. no more retyping.2. system restore. if you can’t boot your computer, you might be able to get things started again using this function. tap f8 repeatedly when you start your computer, and rather than booting it intention pay you the option of starting in safe mode, or doing a system stimulate to an earlier time ( …

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SF Protest Against Prop 8

after several well-to-do marches in la and across california and equable in suspiciously lake city against proposition 8, san francisco held a big old assert against the passage of prop 8. now, you might demonstrate that these might bear been pragmatic a little earlier, but that’s a moot item i suppose. what we have to do with with is the here and now, we can’t go back.

And here in SF, the rally was quite large. Market Street, the main thoroughfare in downtown SF was closed for a while as thousands marched from the Civic Center to Dolores Park:

an estimated 2,000 people disrupted transport in downtown san francisco on friday night, and another exception is planned for oakland at noonday today at the mormon temple. *** friday night’s rowdy, whistle-blowing, shouting crowd held signs and shouted “equal rights now” and “yes we can,” blocking market street from the civic center and jamming movement in the castro district down to the mission.(sj merc 11/8/08)

Apparently there’s a protest planned tomorrow near the Mormon temple in Oakland, but I don’t have the details on that. If you have them, go ahead and post them in the comments.

And people, remember, this is about justice. This is about ending discrimination and hate, not about beginning it or renewing it against any other group. Take it from WeHo Councilman John Duran, we should seek to ask Americans to support us, one by one. Acknowledge what has happened without justifying hate.

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Future in Crisis - Independent Counterterrorist Phase Three

It???s a whole new ballgame???    On Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, America elected a new president to guide its future. Regardless of how you voted or how you view the results of this election, the future has been handed down to us and it is our responsibility to ensure that subsequent generations are afforded this same opportunity and that our Constitution is protected at all costs.

    Because our new president brings to the table very little practical experience, our terrorist enemies will undoubtedly use this transition period to gauge our country???s resolve and capabilities during this vulnerable period. Just like Presidents Clinton and Bush, President Barack Obama may see an attack unleashed upon us to test his mettle. The difference being this time, of course, there is no longer a World Trade Center to attack.

    Most of you already know my stance on the issue; that we cannot rely upon our brave men and women in uniform to protect us. Now, we face a period hampered by liberal politics. That is, while our lives may be placed into greater danger, we may find ourselves battling an administration hostile to citizens protecting themselves.

    Already forces are at work to restrict our access to guns and to make self-protection a crime. Regardless, I believe that competent heads will prevail, and that our Constitutional right to own and possess firearms (of all types and within all locations) will continue to be enforced. For this reason, and the threats licking at our doors, I have decided to restart The Independent Counterterrorist training modules.

    Unlike before, however, I will not burden the reader with excessive attachments that may inhibit downloading. Instead, I have uploaded all necessary documents to my Website at http://downloads.rjgodlewski.com. Here, you will find a breadth of data, which may come in handy.

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    During each cycle, I will recommend which manuals, reports, or documents that you should read. Please feel free to look the others over, for each contains valuable information, and download those, which you find of interest.

    We have been safe for many years; we cannot, however, trust that we will not be attacked for another seven, ten, or twenty years into the future. If you knew that an attack was coming, when would you want to be prepared?

    The Global War On Terror is not over, by any stretch of the imagination. Indeed, it may have only just begun. Our lives are in our own hands, not in any political party or any serving administration. ???We the People??? are in charge of our nation???s future. And you thought that voting was easy???. Reading Assignment

    In October, the U.S. Army released its new Stability Operations Field Manual. Largely ignored by the election-frenzied media, FM 3-07 details what the future of our military is likely to be. That is, serving as a stabilizing force around the world.

    We may question Afghanistan and cry foul over Iraq, but the undeniable fact remains that our military will serve similar roles in Africa, Latin America, and Asia during the course of the future.

    It therefore behooves you to download this manual and read about what entails ???Stability Operations.??? 

Viewing Assignments

    Find yourself a copy of Quo Vadis starring Robert Taylor and Debra Kerr and watch it with your friends, family, or alone. If you want an inspirational movie uncontaminated by modern technology and agendas, this is it! Next, track down the movie Obsession and compared the two religions: traditional Christianity and radical Islam. There will be a test on this…

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