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POPSThe *real* balloon boy of 1964 More: As his feet flew off the ground, one of his father's friends grabbed his legs and tried pulling him down. The yank wasn't strong enough to bring the balloon back, but it did cinch the rope tightly around four fingers of his hand. "I couldn't have let go if I had wanted to," Nowell said. "It was almost like a dreamlike experience. As the people on the ground got smaller and smaller, all I wanted was to do anything I could to relieve the pain." Nowell says it hurt so much he was trying to reach his pocketknife, thinking he would cut the rope, even if it meant dropping from the sky. Meanwhile, up in the basket, balloonist William Berry of Concord was utterly unaware that he had a passenger. The racket from the hot air burner kept Berry from hearing Nowell yelling. It wasn't until he reached 3,000 feet that he turned off the burner and looked over the side to see a boy hanging from a rope.
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POPSNew York Eagle Scout Suspended From School for 20 Days for Keeping Pocketknife in Car This is the most bogus of all stupid things school administrators perform. They all ought to be fired and suspended without pay before they are fired.....Zero tolerance is Bull....Stupid, morons who run things, have no sense at all at where the people want laws to protect, not to destroy.....Moral of the story: Do Not Let Anyone Search Anything Without a Search Warrant...
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POPSEating Oreos can get you killed OK I'll admit it, when I drove a School Bus for over 10 years, there were times I wanted to hurt one or two of those brats. But, actually bringing a weapon on board and using it, NEVER !!
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POPSLucious Newsom, R.I.P. A long time community activist died this week. Lucious Newsome was a tireless advocate for poor people and operated a food pantry and homeless outreach program on his own for many years. He will be missed.
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POPSAttention Family! In the event of my brain death, please wait awhile before pulling the plug. Thanks! I appreciate it.
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POPSUp Up and away Trapped! I've only just discovered the whole balloon fetish. Wow. THis guy shoulda kept a pocket knife widim
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POPSMusicos de Australia, un documental sobre los músicos en Berlín,... En esta ciudad constantemente llega savia nueva, alrededor del mundo de la escena y del arte en general. Gente que esta de paso y que más tarde o temprano se irá con un menor o mayor bagaje a sus espaldas, y gente que se quedará atrapado dentro de la malla que la ciudad tiende día y noche sobre los que se atreven ha entrar en su area.
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POPSEmergency "grab-n-go" kit contents This is one of the better "go-kit" lists I've found. I live ten minutes downwind of a major nuclear plant, so I need something like this. Download the PDF at http://snipurl.com/1845p. Other useful links: The Red Cross sells a "deluxe" preparedness kit for $65 which is supposed to keep an adult going for three days. Link It's a little creepy, but I've seen www.SurvivorMall.com recommended Survivor Mall also hosts an extensive list of informational pamphlets for free. Link
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POPSStronger typing java
One of the arguments that seems to have been going on forever is the argument between whether or not a language should be strongly typed or weakly typed - basically it is breaks down to the question of when should a language detect that you have passed it the right thing - at Runtime or at Compile. Java has always passed itself off as a Strongly typed language and my argument is that java is NOT typed strongly enough. In my mind the main reasons that you have strongly typed languages is to catch errors at compile time and to allow for better development tools to help software engineers do development. Java gets like 85% of the way there and then wimps out by adding things like "String" as a concrete object. My argument with strongly typed languages has been that everything should be an object, not a primitive. A string is never just a string, it is always a name or url or some strong type. If we are going to have strongly typed languages lets really make them strongly typ
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