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Tomorrow is April Fool’s Day and everyone is trying to come up with the best April Fool’s Pranks. April Fool’s Pranks are meant to be funny and light-hearted, so the pranks below are perfect if you’re hoping to dupe someone. At Home: Squirt!: An all-time classic prank. Scotch tape the spray nozzle down so the next person that turns on the sink gets a squirt! Here’s a tip: Remember not to be the first person to turn on the sink! Wake-Up Call: Hide the victim’s alarm clock and set it for 3am (or some other crazy time). To take this joke a step further you can also unscrew the lightbulb so they have more trouble finding the alarm clock that’s beeping incessantly. Slippery soap: Rub dish soap on your hands and then on the door knob to their room. Watch as they attempt to get in! At Work: Push/Pull: Put push/pull signs on the doors so that people are pushing when they should be pulling or vice versa. Warning! Do not do this prank on fire escape doors. Yum! Cake: Cover a box with fr...

CVS (Concurrent Versions System) and SVN (SubVersioN) are two version control file systems that are popularly used by teams who are collaborating on a single project. These systems allow the collaborators to keep track of the changes that are made and know who is developing which and whether a branch should be applied to the main trunk or not. CVS is the much older of the two and it has been the standard collaboration tool for a lot of people. SVN is much newer and it introduces a lot of improvements to address the demands of most people. Probably the biggest improvement to SVN is the addition of atomic commits. Atomic commits allow each commit to be applied in full or not at all. This can be quite useful when the server crashes in the middle of a commit. With SVN, the commit can be rolled back while CVS could not undo the partial commit. Another addition is the ability to cleanly rename and move the files in the repository. With SVN the files that have been renamed or removed still ca...

Ricky Martin has revealed that he is a gay man. Martin -- who has dodged questions of his sexuality for years -- just posted the following message on his official website : "I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am." Martin says the birth of his twin sons led to his decision to come out -- and according to the singer, "To keep living as I did up until today would be to indirectly diminish the glow that my kids where [sic] born with." Ricky's kids were born in August 2008. Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/29/ricky-martin-comes-out-homosexual-gay/#ixzz0jgAX6JtA

The Sweet 16 have received a great deal of attention lately, but these schools have more to offer than just great basketball teams. Here’s a quick overview of each school and what it has to offer. Baylor University Baylor University is a private university located in Waco, Texas. Affiliated with the Baptist Church, Baylor University features 145 areas of study as well as 300 student organization. During the 2008-2009 school year, the total cost of attending Baylor University was about $39,276, with 93% of students receiving financial aid. Some of the most popular majors at Baylor University include accounting, biology, forensic science, nursing, marketing, psychology and journalism. Butler University Butler University is a private university located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Located on 290 acres, Butler University was founded by attorney and abolitionist Ovid Butler in 1855. The school offers 140 student organizations and 55 undergraduate programs while boasting an average class s...

Dr. Dorothy Height is in intensive care in a Washington, D.C. hospital on her 98th Birthday. Former Clinton Labor Secretary Alexis Herman says her "birthday celebration will go on because Dr. Height wanted it." The event has shifted from a party to a birthday filled with prayers for her speedy recovery. Dr. Height is the last female activist icon of the Civil Rights era. She is an institution who has been meeting with Presidents, Democratic and Republican, since President Roosevelt to President Obama. She was last at the White House in early March for a Women's History Month event. During the occassion, First Lady Michelle Obama called her "friend." Dr. Height has mentored women from all races. Many have said Dr. Height, the President Emerita of the National Council fo Negro Women, has been a mentor to many to include Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Those who know Dr. Height and her accomplishments contend she is a tireless worker for issues of educati...

The report says that Beyonce is doing well and is “expected to continue working during her pregnancy.” Although the internet is ablaze with people wondering this, and rumors that the pregnancy have been confirmed, there is no proof of this as we speak. Of course this rumor has popped up numerous times, each time supposedly confirming the pregnancy. Note, this rumor appears occasionally. Google “Beyoncé pregnant” and prepare for a flood of speculation. Jay-Z is said to be extremely happy, to be expecting his first child with Beyonce. The couple has not actually confirmed the ‘baby’ news to larger media outlets, but Beyonce has said in previous interviews that having a child was definitely on her mind. Jay-Z packed Philips Arena last month and the day after their concert was seen with Beyonce and Jermaine Dupri in Atlanta in Statistics, the sports bar March 25, 2010. It’s been a long wait. . . but now it’s finally happened. MediaTakeOut .com just learned from a source of the leg...

[UPDATE: It appeared that Wikipedia was back online as of about 4:30 p.m. ET.] Wikipedia was offline Wednesday afternoon after an overheating problem at the online encyclopedia's European data center. Wikipedia's technical blog said the site's servers shut themselves down to avoid damage from the heat. Administrators tried to shift traffic to a cluster of servers in Florida, but "it turned out that this failover mechanism was now broken, causing the DNS resolution of Wikimedia sites to stop working globally," according to the blog. "This problem was quickly resolved, but unfortunately it may take up to an hour before access is restored for everyone, due to caching effects," the blog said. Trying to access wikipedia.com and wikipedia.org at about 2:45 p.m. ET produced a navigation error message. One post to Wikipedia's technical blog, by a user named Jimmy, found some humor in the situation: "And so we remember Thursday, March 25, 2010 as t...

Jon S. Corzine , the former governor of New Jersey, is back in finance. Mr. Corzine, who is also a former chief executive of Goldman Sachs , has become the chairman and chief executive, of MF Global Holdings , a broker in futures, options and derivatives. He will also become a partner at J.C. Flowers & Company , the private equity firm specializing in financial companies. MF Global said Tuesday afternoon that Mr. Corzine would take over from Bernard W. Dan, who resigned from MF Global as chief executive for “personal reasons.” Mr. Dan will remain with MF Global through May 16 help with Mr. Corzine’s transition. “MF Global is a firm with tremendous potential and excellent talent,” Mr. Corzine in a statement. “I see a substantial opportunity for the firm to expand its leadership position in serving clients globally in cash and derivatives markets.” J.C. Flowers said in its own statement that it had recommended Mr. Corzine as a replacement for Mr. Dan. The firm is a major shareho...

Her Channel 2 colleague, Kent Shocknek, blogs Sharon Tay's personal dating do's and don't's, starting with the preamble "I have been single for a long time. But HATE dating! In fact I can probably write a book about my experiences.. no.. two books! OK, a series! They would all be based on the quirky.. borderline horrible... process of finding Mr. Right.. OK.. I'll settle for Mr. Right Now!" She offers six tips , including no married guys. Article From :http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/12/dating_advice_from_sharon.php

The Latest on 2010 Sweet Sixteen: NCAA Bracket 2010 update. Syracuse singlehandedly beat Gonzaga in a wide open game through their hot shooting on the floor 87-65 to enter to the 2010 Sweet Sixteen. From 64 teams it was cut down to 32 and from 32 into Sweet Sixteen. There are still games going on like the Ohio State vs Georgia Tech which is getting serious attention from the fans. As of the moment it is 28-26 in the first half. 2010 Sweet Sixteen: NCAA Bracket 2010 update. Another Big Ten Conference team playing today is the Michigan State. MSU vs Maryland is son interesting that viewers are watching it. Will MSU beat Maryland? A big game between west Virgina and Missouri is underway also. Out of the eight teams, four are Big Ten Conference. Wisconsin is trying to avoid an upset from Cornell by leading nine points early in the first half. Meanwhile Purdue will have to work hard on defense against Texas A&M. Xavier vs Pittsburgh is also highly anticipated. How about the Californi...

Beyond March Madness, the weekend brings two biggies: ***The natural history epic “Life” starts on Discovery Channel. ***”Breaking Bad” begins its third season on AMC. (Star Bryan Cranston is pictured in this Getty Images photo by Jason Kempin.) The 11-part “Life” is a gorgeous survey of animal and plant life that hopscotches around the globe. You get two parts each Sunday at 8 p.m., plus a third hour on April 18. The first hour, “Challenges of Life,” showcases cheetahs in Kenya, ibexes in Israel, seals in Antarctica, stalk-eyed flies in Malaysia and dolphins in Florida Bay. And those are just a few of the stops. The second hour celebrates “Reptiles & Amphibians,” from toads to lizards to snakes. The photography is astounding; the narration isn’t. The words have an awed, we’re-all-in-this tone that can run counter to scenes of animals hunting their prey. Oprah Winfrey delivers the narration like a wise earth mother, which will please her fans and probably annoy others. Stil...

Tiny Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, continued its unlikely Cinderella run in the NCAA Division I baseball championships. On Saturday evening, Wofford pitcher Austin Redwine held The Citadel to one run and four hits over nearly seven innings, while Brandon Waring slammed a go-ahead two-run homer to lead Wofford College to a 4-2 win over The Citadel in the championship game of the Southern Conference tournament at Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park in Charleston, South Carolina. The tournament victory marked the first Southern Conference baseball championship in Wofford’s Division I history. Beginning tournament play as the lowly no. 9 seed, Wofford became the lowest seeded team in history ever to win the Southern Conference tournament championship. But there is much, much more to this magical story. over the last 50 years, only a handful of college baseball teams have been able to put together an offensive lineup capable of launching 100 or more home runs in a single season. Per...

The Belavezha Accords is the agreement signed at the state dacha in the Bia?owie?a Forest (a.k.a. Belovezhskaya Pushcha ) on December 8 , 1991 , by the Presidents of Russia , Ukraine and Belarus ( Boris Yeltsin , Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich ), which declared the Soviet Union dissolved and established the Commonwealth of Independent States in its place. While doubts remained over their authority to dissolve the Union, on December 25 , 1991 , Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the President of the USSR and turned the powers of his office over to Boris Yeltsin , de facto accepting the dissolution of the Soviety Union . The name is variously translated as Belavezh Accords, Belovezh Accords, Belovezha Accords, Belavezha Agreement, Belovezhskaya Accord, Belaya Vezha Accord , etc. Article From :http://scarlett-journey.net/2010/03/19/about-the-belavezha-accords/

This from the Rangers: STATEMENT BY RON WASHINGTON I am here today to apologize for a huge mistake I made during the first half of the season in 2009. I am not here to make excuses. There are none. I am not here to ask for sympathy. That would be asking too much. I fully understand that I disappointed a lot of people----my family, my players, coaches, as well as the team's leadership, especially Nolan Ryan and Jon Daniels , as well as young people who may have looked up to me. I am truly sorry for my careless, dangerous, and frankly, stupid, behavior last year. Clearly, you have never seen me speak from a script before. But this is a time that I need to get the words exactly right. Here's the biggest question: how and why did this happen? That's a question I have had to face in numerous sessions with counselors. I've learned a lot about myself personally, and I recognize that this episode was an attempt to dodge personal anxieties and personal iss...

Ncaa Bracket Blank : Texas A & M will be the elite eight. (Or: Duke will not have the final four.) Do not get me wrong. Duke has the easiest path to the semi-final in any of the seed number (1). The Blue Devils had a really big on justice and on paper – they hint at Ken Pomeroy exercised group potency in the country for a reason. Duke must be the final four. But if there were demands by dissapoint No. 3 – seed Baylor in the southern region, it’s Texas A & M University. And [Aggies] were smart defensive team, ranked number twenty – three in efficiency exercise. Mark Turgeon has a stretch of talented players in the competition, Donald Sloan and Bryan Davis, both of which have been in the NCAA Championships 4]. And [Aggies] be the good does not depend on the rush to get to hone the same points. Instead, the rest of the [Aggies] based on their ability to reach the line donations Chuck, and this is what you do during the sixth highest rate in this country. This is the order the dive...

he tour dates for the North American leg of Lady Gaga ’s Monster Ball tour were announced today! Lady Gaga is scheduled to start her concert legs in North America on June 28, right after the European leg of her Monster Ball tour. The NA tour will kick off at Montreal’s Bell Centre, and is slated to hit 31 cities in the USA and Canada all the way to September. Tickets for the Monster Ball tour will start going on sale in select cities via LiveNation . Check out Lady Gaga’s 2010 Tour Dates for North America below (or check out her Europe tour here ): · June 28 – Montreal, QC (Bell Centre) · July 01 - Boston, MA (TD Garden) · July 04 – Atlantic City, NJ (Boardwalk Hall) · July 06 – New York, NY (Madison Square Garden) · July 11 – Toronto, ON ( Air Canada Center ) · July 14 – Cleveland, OH (Quicken Loans Arena) · July 15 – Indianapolis, IN (Conseco Fieldhouse) · July 17 – St. Louis, MO (Scottrade Center) · July 20 – Oklahoma City, OK (Ford Center) · July 22 – Dallas, TX ( ...

The Denver Broncos have agreed to trade fullback Peyton Hillis , a 2011 6th-round draft selection and a conditional 2012 draft selection to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for quarterback Brady Quinn , pending physicals Credit to the Broncos on this one. They saw an opportunity to improve the quarterback situation and jumped at it. I'm not saying that Brady Quinn will be the starting quarterback, not at all, but Quinn is an improvement over Chris Simms and he has upside. For a chance at that upside, the Broncos traded Peyton Hillis and two low-round draft picks in future years. Before we go any further, I like Peyton Hillis. I always have. For one reason or another, Hillis was not going to play. I have my reasons why, but the important thing is he wasn't going to play. I hope for nothing but the best for Hillis - and this is a great place for Peyton to land. He's a West Coast guy. He flourished in that system under Mike Shanahan and should do the same under the...

Clockwise, from bottom left) Jack, keyboardist Susie Lampert, Laurie Berkner, Mel, bassist Brian Mueller and Mary. By Tad Hendrickson If you have a preschooler, you probably already know Laurie Berkner. The Princeton native and Rutgers grad is a superstar for the pint-sized set whose videos can be seen almost hourly on Nick Jr. — an outgrowth of the Nickelodeon cable network — where she’s a regular on “Jack’s big Music Show” and the channel’s “Move to the Music” episodes that run between shows in lieu of ads. Berkner, 40, performed with several tri-state area bands over the years, but she has been performing children’s music since 1997. she originally started writing children’s tunes from necessity; a would-be rock star, she supplemented her income by teaching kids’ music classes and playing birthday parties, making up her own tunes for those gigs as she went. “I realized I could write songs for these kids,” Berkner says. she had such a knack for it that soon she was writing a new s...

Andy Barall writes about pro football history for the Fifth Down. Merlin Olsen died of cancer at age 69 on Thursday. At 6 feet 5 inches tall and 270 pounds, Merlin Olsen possessed tremendous natural size and strength. Unlike today’s players, he never lifted weights. He got bigger as a young man by, as he told Paul Zimmerman for “The New Thinking Man’s Guide to Pro Football,” “hefting hod and bucking bales of hay.” He added, “I also worked as a ranger in Yellowstone Park until visitors began mistaking me for a bear.” Olsen was the model professional football player, and that included off the field. He was tough, smart, physical, durable, consistent and relentless. He didn’t take plays off and was always trying to improve. He didn’t need coaches to critique his performance. He was his own toughest critic. The original Fearsome Foursome – Olsen, Deacon Jones, Rosey Grier and Lamar Lundy – helped popularize defensive football in the mid-1960’s (Grier was replaced by Roger Brown in ...

Jamie Jungers won the Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant on the "Howard Stern Show" this morning. The winning alleged mistress earned $75,000 for her championship performance, and listeners were treated to juicy tidbits from Jungers, Jaimee Grubbs and Loredana Jolie . According to tweets from listeners and attendees, Jungers claimed that Woods was well endowed. "Tiger's wood was nine inches," she evidently said . Former Playboy model Loredana Jolie, meanwhile, claimed Woods was " bigger and better " than Michael Jordan. Both Grubbs and Jungers said that Woods never used condoms when sleeping with them, which echoes previous reports. Jungers reiterated that she slept with Woods the night his father died . For those with a financial interest in the outcome of today's pageant, Jungers' victory is a bit of an upset. The gambling odds made both Jungers and Grubbs a +500 bet, while Jolie was the favorite at +250. (Another alleged mistress...

"Lindsay Lohan v. Etrade Over Baby Commercial." Young and troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has filed a lawsuit against the online brokerage firm Etrade. In her lawsuit, Ms. Lohan says that in one of Etrade's commercials - one of the baby's in the ad is named Lindsay and that child bears an extreme likeness to Lindsay Lohan. I have seen and laughed at that commercial many times, but not once did I associate Lindsay Lohan with any of the children presented. Lohan is asking for $100 million in damages. If there was still anyone in the world that didn't think Lindsay Lohan had lost her mind, this lawsuit should clinch it for them. For years, Lindsay Lohan has suffered with bouts of extreme alcohol and drug abuse and she has also checked herself into drug rehab facilities on more than one occasion. Sadly, the long nights of substance abuse have taken a toll on Ms. Lohan's physical appearance and likely millions of brain cells have also died too as a result of all tho...

I am sure everyone has had enough of the Tiger Woods debacle, however, I think it is very important to take a step back and give him credit where credit is due. He is a great Sugar Daddy! He kept all of his ladies on payroll and provided them with a very generous allowance . Tiger kept in contact with them and it appeared that he had developed a relationship with them which extended beyond a causal sexual encounter. Last, he provided them with amazing experiences, took them out on trips and showed them a great time. Now if someone provided me with all of the perks above I would think that I have hit the Sugar Daddy Jackpot! Sure he had MANY sugar babies , but lets get realistic, many SDs have more than one SD. It is part of the NSA territory. We as Sugar Babies should be aware of this and learn how to respect the boundaries. I think that the only mistake he made was getting caught… and all of that could have been avoided should he had followed some basic precautions. This week I wil...

…Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas? My best friend (a brit) is finally coming to visit me! I live in DFW area… North Texas. We can travel some but probably only will do one bigger "field trip" elsewhere (probably San Antonio). Mostly want to think up some places to go around here that are fun. Preferably free or cheap… but if it’s worth going to and costs a bit that’s ok too. I’ve already thought of Six Flags/Hurricane Harbor, Deep Ellum/Dallas and maybe going to San Antonio… Horse back riding, camping/picnic/bbq… the zoos… maybe even a rodeo even though I am not crazy about them… haha. And of course some good restarants… maybe a steakhouse one night. I am not sure what all there is to do here even though I’ve lived here forever. I want him to remember his trip to Texas! And most of all I want him to have a fun time here. Has anyone else ever had a foreign friend visit here and what kinds of stuff did you do with them? What would you suggest? Any ideas would be appreciated Here is a li...

Massive biker bar Full Throttle Saloon in Sturgis, S.D. this past August got throttled by a massive hailstorm, sticky-fingered bartenders and a lousy economy. Owner Mike Ballard bemoaned his economic problems and wondered if he’d be able to last another year. But TV viewers on Atlanta-based TruTV may have saved him and his business. An average of 1.3 million viewers caught the show’s six episodes, better than average for the network and a solid enough performance to merit a second season. TruTV has not announced a renewal but Atlanta rock star and a show executive producer Jesse James Dupree is optimistic. “We knew we had something real America would connect with,” he said by phone from his office in Kennesaw, where he is developing other TV shows. “Luckily, it was validated.” He admitted the show is amazing marketing for Full Throttle next year, virtually ensuring an increase in attendance at the annual bike rally and a greater chance for the saloon to make a profit. Dupree said ...

Since joining Twitter on Feb. 24, Conan O'Brien has amassed more than 534,000 followers and posted 10 tweets. Contractually exiled from late night television until September, O'Brien has embraced the new medium, sharing inane personal details of his life, airing petty grievances and even posting a Twitpic of how many people it takes for him to compose each tweet. Thirty minutes ago, O'Brien announced that he has taken his first follower: I've decided to follow someone at random. She likes peanut butter and gummy dinosaurs. Sarah Killen, your life is about to change. Killen, a Fowlerville, Michigan, resident who has the username LovelyButton , has already acquired 6,700 followers and become one of Twitter's trending topics . Furthering the insanity, her recent tweet calling Fowlerville resident Russell Bigos "an idiot" is making him a figure of scorn and sympathy . Killen's fiance John Slowik Jr. posted on Facebook Jan. 12 that he was ...

Haven Homes — manufacturer of custom modular homes, otherwise known as prefab homes — is currently experiencing a rare phenomenon in today’s housing market: Haven Homes is selling houses. Haven Homes makes customized mansions that cost less and are completed in a fraction of the time it takes to finish a traditional home. Here’s a look at why buyers are choosing manufactured, modular houses from Haven Home. Haven Homes are less expensive The Haven Homes concept is no different than the concept of manufactured homes that most people are familiar with. The pieces of the homes are built in a factory, then shipped and assembled on site. Haven Homes simply makes bigger houses, like the six-bedroom, six-and-a-half bathroom modular home recently constructed in Bethesda, Md. This concept is not going to amount to struggling families who rely on quick payday loans being able to afford huge houses. The six-bedroom house mentioned above cost $2.5 million. However, a similar sized home built ...

The NFL Combine Results 2010 are in after 6 days of drills, tests, and interviews at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis . Over 600 NFL executives, head coaches, general managers and trainers came to the Combine to find new players for their teams. Hundreds of the very best college football players attended the 2010 NFL Combine with hopes of making it to one of the NFL’s 32 teams. The first round of the NFL draft will be held Friday April 22nd with the St. Louis Rams having the number one selection. The series of drills these prospective NFL players were put through included the 40-yard dash, bench press, vertical jump, broad jump, 3-cone drill, and shuttle run. During the past week some outstanding performances where put up by many of the participants. Highlighted by Clemson’s Jacoby Ford posting a 4.28 second 40 yard dash and Chris Cook reaching 11 feet in his vertical jump. The participants also took part in psychological tests along with informal and formal interviews. The NFL Co...

By Keelan Balderson • March 1, 2010 - From Associated Press: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is allowing a lawsuit to proceed against Hustler Magazine over decades-old nude photographs of a woman that were published after she was killed by her husband, wrestler Chris Benoit . The court turned down Hustler’s appeal Monday. Benoit killed his wife, Nancy, and their son before committing suicide in 2007. Hustler published 20-year-old nude photographs of Nancy Benoit after the deaths gained international attention. - The biggest reaction backstage to the recent releases was that of Scott Armstrong. He is of course a long time referee from the WCW days; so he had lots of supporters in the locker room. There’s a feeling that there might be more to the story. However a report last year suggested that WWE were opting to release senior referees because they demanded higher paychecks that the younger refs. This could be the case in Armstrong’s case. - Thanks to Nic...