An ionic liquid is a salt in which the ions are poorly coordinated, which results in these solvents being liquid below 100 deg Celcius, or even at room temperature. At least one ion has a de-localized charge and one component is organic, which prevents the formation of a stable crystal lattice. Properties, such as melting point, viscosity, and solubility of SRL ionic solvents are determined by the substituents on the organic component and by the counterion.
SRL offered ionic liquids have even been developed for specific synthetic chemistry and biosynthesis. Ionic liquids are considered advantageous not only because of their versatility but also for their "green" credentials, they hold high potential as green solvents because of their lack of vapour pressure, and are opening up a burgeoningly new field of non-aqueous enzymology.


UGTANK.xls workbook is for the analysis and design of anchorage for underground storage tanks, obviously addressing the concerns of buoyancy. I've had this workbook in a partially finished state for quite a while, and I just recently decided to complete it. This is not a subject that we encounter on a regular basis, but if and when you need it, hopefully it will prove to be helpful.
a. Lockwood Greene Engineering Special Design Instruction No. 38, "An Approach to the Design of Anchorages for Underground Storage Tanks", dated December 6, 1972.
b. Lockwood Greene Engineering Special Design Instruction No. 31, "Design of Anchorage for Underground Storage Tanks", dated January 14, 1972.
2. This program utilizes the procedures and guidelines per the ACI 318-99 Building Code in the design of the reinforcing for the concrete spread foundation.
3. This program refers to the AISC 9th Edition (ASD) Manual, 1989. The values for safe working loads for turnbuckles are taken from the table on page 4-149 of the Manual.
4. The soil is assumed to have no voids and is assumed saturated with water (water level to top of grade), while the tank is assumed to be empty. These conservative assumptions result in largest possible buoyant force.
5. This program permits the user to utilize either steel tension straps or threaded rods with turnbuckles to secure the tank to the foundation. Note: if turnbuckles are used, then they will control the required threaded rod size.
6. This program assumes that the empty tank weight is subtracted from the buoyant force in determining the tension force in either the straps or anchor rods.
7. The program assumes that the distance between the ends of a strap or rod is equal to OD + 6".
8. The program assumes that the tank is centered on the spread foundation.
9. For the design of the foundation reinforcing in the short direction, this program assumes a uniformly loaded simple span beam strip with cantilevers (overhangs) at each end. The ends of the anchor serve as the supports. The assumed uniform loading on this "beam strip" is determined as 2 times the anchor tension divided by the foundation width.
10. This program does not address the anchorage of the straps or rods to the concrete foundation. That must be separately by the user.
11. Underground tank should be bedded on 12" of compacted sand rather than bearing directly on the concrete spread foundation. This will protect the integrity of the tank and minimize possible failure of the tank joints.
12. Provide turnbuckles in the tank anchor straps. This allows for final adjustment. Where flat straps are used, this will necessitate welding a round bar extension to accommodate the turnbuckle.
13. This program contains "comment boxes" which contain information including explanations of input items, etc. (Note: presence of a "comment box" is denoted by a "red triangle" in the upper right-hand corner of a cell.
* UGTANK download link provides freeware version of the software.
ROOFDECK is a spreadsheet program written in MS-Excel for the purpose of analysis and design of roofs with steel deck.
Slab on metal deck analysis and design (both composite and form deck) per SDI and ACI 318-99.
POLEFDN is a spreadsheet program written in MS-Excel for the purpose of analysis of a pole foundation assuming the use of a rigid round pier which is assumed free at the top and subjected to lateral and vertical loads.
FOOTINGS is a spreadsheet program written in MS-Excel for the purpose of analysis of rigid rectangular spread footings with up to 8 total piers, and for either uniaxial or biaxial resultant eccentricities.
GRDSLAB is a spreadsheet program written in MS-Excel for the purpose of analysis of concrete slabs on grade.
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LTBeam is a software which deals with the elastic Lateral Torsional Buckling of Beams under bending action about their major axis.
EBPlate is a piece of software developed by CTICM with a partial funding of the European Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS). It assesses the critical stresses associated to the elastic buckling of plates loaded in their plan.
Ftool provides a simple analysis program that merges, in the same interface, resources for effective creation and manipulation of the model, linked to a fast and effective code for visualization of the results.
BASEPLT9 is a spreadsheet program written in MS-Excel for the purpose of analysis of steel column base plates.
Use the optimal plastic stringer model solution to design shear walls, concrete diaphragms etc.
ConcreteBending helps you model concrete bending problems using high-level components and engineering terminology.
VAConnect is a set of two steel connection design utilities. Run these stand-alone, or use integrated with VisualAnalysis.
ConcreteSection helps engineers to understand the cracked behavior and load capacity of custom reinforced concrete sections.


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Continental specializes in providing you with the perfect custom systems to meet your packaging requirements. Supporting Wulftec's philosophy , "We Fear No Packaging Challenge". As one of the largest distributors of stretch wrap equipment and films we represent only the finest lines of machinery and film brands. For customers who already have stretch systems in place, we excel in matching your machinery and load to the perfect film and settings. This provides you with the best packaging integrity at the lowest cost per unit load shipped.
Free standing semi-automatic Heavy-duty rotary arm stretch wrapper with integrated floor mounting and 25" ring gear.
This bulk packaging system is an automatic vertical bagging packager that provides consistent and continuous production for many items that require bulk packaging including bottle caps, lottery pogs, puzzle pieces. The bulk packaging system is easily interfaced with scales, counters and/or feeders for automatic loading.
ARPAC's EL-2000 SERIES intermittent motion end-load tray/case packers are designed to serve a wide range of industries. At speeds up to 25 trays/cases per minute, these rugged systems help minimize labor requirements and increase production output.
ARPAC's Model 25TW-28 tray wrapper is part of a dependable line of shrink packaging systems designed to service a wide variety of industries with around-the-clock reliability. This compact and economical single frame shrink wrapper is capable of wrapping up to 25 products per minute, depending on product size.
Non-conveyorized Heavy-duty, floor mounted stretch wrapping system.
The Rennco Model CCL (cup counter / cup loader) will accept paper, thermoformed, and selected injection molded and foam cups. The Cup Counter / Cup Loader accepts a single line of nested cups from a continuous source. Cups are counted utilizing fiber optic sensors and are then transferred to a Rennco Packager via conveyor. Incorrect stack counts are automatically removed from the system for quality assurance.
Wrap-around case or tray blanks can reduce the amount of corrugated board used by up to 25 percent, with additional savings in warehouse space and lower handling costs.
ARPAC's 45TW-28 tray wrapper is part of a dependable line of shrink packaging systems designed to service a wide variety of industries. This compact and economical shrink wrapper is capable of wrapping up to 45 products per minute, depending on product size.
Low-profile SMART series semi-automatic stretch wrapper.
The Model 301 is available as a hand fed or automatically fed sealer that can run either polyethylene or polyolefin films without changing parts. Substantial film savings are available when compared to premade bags and bags on roll systems. This model can produce a bag from 2" x 2" up to 18" x 24".
The MCE-2210 Series is unrivaled in terms of quality, performance, reliability and usability. The Master MCE-2210 Series is a case former and bottom flap hot melt glue/tape sealer for assembling corrugated cases. This system automatically selects, erects, and seals the bottom flaps of RSC and HSC cases at speeds up to 16 per minute.
Conveyorized Fully-automatic Rotary Arm style strech wrapper.
The Model 501 Vertical L-Bar seal is one of the larger models offered. This unit benefits customers with substantial film savings versus pre-made bags on a roll. Especially on cylindrical products and products that are longer than they are wide - products like stacks of cups, bolts of cloth, curtain rods, etc.
The Master MTE-1100 Series is an inline high speed tray former that automatically erects trays using a hot melt glue system at speeds up to 25 trays per minute. This system is ruggedly built and compact in size with simple tool-less adjustments between tray sizes. The MTE-1100 is used in a variety of industries and can be easily integrated with other packaging equipment.
Conveyorized High-speed Heavy-duty stretch wrapping system to keep up with the most demanding applications.
The Vertic-L provides a versatile, reliable solution for packaging a wide variety of common and unusual shaped items in bags up to 14" by 14". The small footprint Vertic-L which uses flat roll stock material, provides a cost-effective alternative to machines using pre-made bags.
Conveyorized Heavy-Duty Fully Automatic Turntable wrapper capable of 70 loads per hour.
Rennco's Vertic∙L-PP laundry bagging system provides a reliable, versatile cost effective packaging solution to other roll stock systems or pre-made bag operations. The Vertic∙L-PP system is equipped with a light screen cycling mechanism that counts the items per package; or can be equipped with a weigh scale option.
Fully-automatic stretch wrapping system that's extrememly affordable and easy to use.
The Vertic-L-PP was modified to run 25+ designs of lids in multiple sizes, shapes and colors and bag them in counts from 10 to 50 per bag. All of this being done fully automatically at line speeds up to 150 lids per minute.
ARPAC's high-speed continuous motion TRAY STAR TS-2000 SERIES makes tray loading a variety of products fast and easy. Wrap-around trays ensure that the product is enclosed in a tightly fit tray preventing scuffing and product damage.
A rapid changeover option enables line operators to prepare the TS-2000 for a different product size in less than 30 minutes with ARPAC's color-coded lane spacing guides, user-friendly touch screen controls and servo-controlled groupers.
The TS-2000 SERIES handles a wide range of products with its many infeed options, and can be easily integrated with other equipment, including tray wrappers, turners and stackers. Other features include gentle product handling and loading to keep your product looking newly packaged.
A variety of groupers accommodate different product shapes by separating products into pack groups and controlling the flow of product into the pacing flight bar assembly.
High-profile SMART series dual turntable stretch wrapper to increase production speeds.
Intertape's UA Series Uniform Automatic case sealers are operator free machines that fold the top four flaps and process same sized RSC style cases. These machines are required when consistent production flow rates exceed manual processing ability or when automatic case packing is utilized. Interpack offers a UA Series automatic case packing machine for every application and budget. Interpack can customize to specific requirements such as line voltage, operation range or 4-flap pickup assemblies.
Together Continental & Rennco offer any number of general or application-specific advanced technology packager upgrades. Some examples include; PLC and electrical controls, servo linear actuators, and seal assemblies, as well as adding basic packager options. In addition, we can provide automation solutions by adding either standard or custom designed product handling equipment to your existing packager. These include conveyors, product infeed mechanisms, and thermal transfer printers to name a few.
High-profile SMART series standard base semi-automatic stretch wrapper.
The 105 SERIES shrink bundlers are designed to handle large stacks of products with a "bull's-eye" enclosure. An optional side seal mechanism creates packages with a full enclosure for increased product protection during distribution. Typical applications include: stacks of pizza boxes, windows, doors, ceiling tiles, floor mats, wall panels and much more. The 105 SERIES accommodates a maximum film width of 89".
Rennco's new Low Energy Seal System is now available as a retrofit kit for most packager models. The seal system's two main benefits are reduced potential for poly build up and the elimination of Teflon tape. These factors increase the maintenance interval from days to months. Low temperature seal bars make a narrow flat seal adjacent to the cut off which is done with a cold knife. The seal is consistent and is often cosmetically acceptable for retail packages.
We fear no packaging challenge.
Continental offers a wide variety of Industrial Bags including bags on a roll, carton liners, automatic insertion bags, drum liners, pallet bags, pallet shrink bags, printed bags for tamper evidence, outdoor storage bags, Gusseted bags, medical bags for sterilization and many more options available. Please let Continental know your requirements.
Continental & M.J. Maillis offers Strapping machines that are designed to work flawlessly even in the harshest conditions. These machines are known for their unbeatable productivity, reliability and durability.
The VarioMaster 9440 is a high performance side seal strapping machine for boxes or pallet loads.
Continental will supply you with a wide variety of small bags including poly bags, wicketed bags, resealable bags, bags on a roll, poly tubing, small gusseted bags, postal bags, colored bags, shrink bags and many additional choices.
The VarioMaster 9460/9471 is an automatic high performance strapping machine for full pallet loads.
We have many sizes of tape available in a variety of colors. We can also provide tape printed with standard items or your specific information.
Continental offers centerfolded poly bagging film to create your own bags on F/F/S type machinery, shrink bags, barrier bags, vacuum bags, printed bags, vented bags, pallet covers, clean room, medical, ices and many others. Please let Continental know your requirements.
Designed to run on the fastest shrink bundlers available, this film has the necessary stiffness to run over 100 cases per minute.
The VarioMaster9490 is a high performance automatic horizontal strapper designed to strap horizontal pallets and single layers.
These include masking tape, flatback tape, duct tape, filament tape, splicing tape, specialty tapes and foil tapes.
Designed to run on the majority of shrink bundling equipment in existence.
Available in a wide variety of widths, lengths and thicknesses we offer water based acrylic, hot melt and natural rubber carton sealing tapes.
Include UVI, EVA, Metalocene, blends, printed, coextruded, tinting, opaque, oriented shrink characteristics, long length rolls, very narrow and short (low poundage) runs.
The PowerMaster is a strapping system specifically tailored to the corrugated and printing industries.
Available in a wide variety of sizes and product construction, reinforced tapes are designed to provide consistent performance in carton sealing applications where durability, extra strength and reliability are required. Extra strong fiberglass yarns are bonded between the high tensile strength sheets for an extra margin of strength.
Polyester strapping is designed for light to heavy-duty palletizing and unitizing applications. Strapping prevents product shifting during transportation.
High clarity grades of film are used for printing and display type items.
Continental & M.J. Maillis offer manual strapping tools. These machines are compact, versatile, and easy to use battery powered or pneumatic. By replacing metal strapping with cost effective PET strapping companies can lower their overall operating expenses.
Retrofit a stretch wrapper with a NO-THREAD® 20" or 30" fully compensating film carriage.
Retrofit a heat seal unit onto any automatic stretch wrapper. The unit is designed for easy installation along side a powered outfeed conveyor section.
Retrofit an automatic in-line top sheet dispensing unit into an exsisting conveyor line.


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:''This article discusses only the real-life events surrounding the release of the game, and does not cover the details about the game, such as the story or races.'' '''Star Control 3''', made by [[Legend Entertainment]] for [[Accolade]], was supposed to be the successor to [[Star Control II]]. However, many fans of the series were disappointed by the game: it featured fewer and less distinct ships and races, less diverse modes of gameplay, and a less interesting story that conflicted with the established facts of the [[Star Control Universe]] and the ending of SC2. SC3 seemed to lack the creativity and the fun feel of the original, instead offering "features" that looked good on paper, but didn't make the game better. Many fans pin this failure on the fact that the game was not made by [[Toys For Bob]], the creators of [[Star Control]] and Star Control II. Some perceive Accolade as trying to capitalize on the ''Star Control'' name (for which they own the [[Star Control Trademark|trademark]]) by selling an inferior game, while some think that Accolade didn't have the talent to make a game as good as SC2. Regardless of the reason, most fans of Toys For Bob and SC2, including SC2's developers,{{ref|1}} dismiss SC3 as being "untrue" to the series (the acronym "SCNot3" is often used on the discussion boards, referring to the fact that SC3 is not a sequel to SC2 as the name would imply), and feel that the story and races of SC3 should be ignored and a "true" sequel should be created. One such attempt is [[TimeWarp]], currently in development. Star Control 4 (aka StarCon) was reportedly in development by [[Infogrames]] (who purchased Accolade and the Star Control trademark) as a sequel to Star Control 3, but it appears as if development was halted. Recently Toys for Bob have announced that they want their next game to be a Star Control game, a true [[Star Control sequel|sequel]] to Star Control II. They're asking for support from the public to convince Activision, of which they are a development studio. A petition site can be found [http://sc2.sourceforge.net/petition/petition.php here]. See also: [[Canon]] ==Notes and references== {{note|1}}{{PaulMail}} ::I like they folks at Legend very much. They took on SC3 largely because they liked SC I & II, so clearly they have excellent taste! Unfortunately, I think that the design for SC3 tried to cover too many bases, and as a result lacked focus and punch. :{{PaulMail}} ::No, we'd do a new and different SC3. I love the folks at Legend, and I appreciate all the work they did, but to take SC into the future we'd need to undo some of the plot stuff SC3 included. :{{FredMail}} ::We have never considered Accolade evil. Just a little slow and unimaginative. :{{FredMail}} ::Paul played it much more extensively than I did. But I can say that when you've planned to do a sequel of something you created and someone else does it first and differently, it leaves a funny taste in your mouth. [[Category:About the Star Control series]]
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GPS data was a boon for Ottawa transit users when it arrived on OC Transpo some years ago. But as many Ottawans can attest, it's not always perfect when it comes to predicting accurate bus arrival times.
This week a popular transit app launched a new feature designed to show Ottawa transit users exactly where their bus is at any given moment, and it's powered by fellow OC Transpo riders.
The new feature relies on "crowdsourced real-time transit data" to provide users of the aptly named Transit app with the ability to follow the location of the bus they're waiting for — to the second. Think the same kind of vehicle tracking seen on the Uber app, but instead of your approaching Uber driver's phone shooting out location co-ordinates, it's the devices of other Transit app users riding on the bus allowing you to track its movement.
In a blog post, Montreal-founded Transit announced the launch of crowdsourced real-time in Ottawa and more than 170 other cities last Thursday. It will be available for all kinds of transit vehicles, including buses and light rail in Ottawa, and Gatineau's STO buses.
This data has been available for almost two years, collected through the app's GO feature, but had only been released to other app users in a few pilot cities in Canada and the U.S.
GO is an optional app feature, a "guided journey companion," Transit spokesman Stephen Miller explained.
If users choose to use GO and plug in their destination, it will tell them things like when to leave their house to get to their bus, and once they're on the bus, when to get off at their stop. Of course, it requires the user's location to do that.
"After millions of GO trips, we're finally letting that location data out of its cage," the app's team announced in the blog post.
Transit, and many other apps like it, already relied on OC Transpo's GPS data to track bus distance from a user's stop. But Miller said his team sees the OC Transpo data feed take about 30 seconds to a minute to update with a bus's new location. The app's crowdsourced data will update second-by-second, he said. On bus lines without a GO rider, the OC Transpo GPS data is still available.
In this case, Transit said its user base and the fact that GO is an opt-in feature will help it to avoid these pitfalls. The location data crowdsourced through GO is also anonymous, and is only shared with the app's servers when users are in GO mode and aboard a transit vehicle.
According to Miller, there are tens of thousands of people in Ottawa already using the Transit app, and they generate hundreds of GO trips every day.
Fellow bus rider Erik Nosaluk pointed out that apps such as Google Maps have already been utilizing user location data to provide information on traffic congestion.
But Sarah Morrison, a longtime OC Transpo user, said she'd like to see how the new feature works for other people before jumping on the Transit train.
To attract more users, Transit has added what it calls "gamification" aspects to its new feature, showing users how many nearby riders they're helping by sharing their location, and giving them a "helpfulness rank" on every bus line they ride.
"You can compete to be the king or queen of your line," said Miller.
As for battery and data drain, the app's website said a 20-minute bus trip using the GO feature would eat up about five per cent of a phone's battery power and 100k of data.
Transit is far from the only app that OC Transpo riders can use to navigate Ottawa's buses and trains. OC Transpo's website hosts a community app gallery, where developers can submit apps for posting. Here are a few, in no particular order, with select features highlighted.
OC Transpo's official app. It also provides fare information and detour and cancellation updates.
This app (and all others listed) uses OC Transpo's GPS feed. It lets users save favourite stops and routes.
2011 Apps4Ottawa contest winner. Displays latest news from the OC Transpo website, and OC Transpo contact numbers.
Set reminders for buses that won't arrive for a while, and get a notification when they're approaching.


Please take some time to browse this list of organizations, libraries and bookstores concerned with some of George Roman's aquarian interests. While these are not endoresements, they are from among those we contacted in our search for a host for the George Roman Library. The links last updated June, 2013. Please let us know if you would like your bookstore, library or other organization added to this list.


These instructions have been developed to apply where you are representing the lender only in a residential conveyancing transaction, i.e. there is separate legal representation of the borrower and the lender.
Reference to 'paragraph numbers' are references to paragraph numbers in Part 1 of the Handbook unless indicated to the contrary.
1.1 This Part applies where you are representing us only in a residential conveyancing transaction. Your retainer with us will be varied by the requirements of this Part 3 and any additional instructions we send you, specific to the transaction. Where Part 3 applies, it should be read in conjunction with Parts 1 and 2 of the Handbook.
1.3 For the avoidance of doubt, the instructions in Parts 1 and 2 apply except where varied or specifically excluded by Part 3 or our specific instructions.
we may also have our own specific requirements which we will tell you about when instructing you.
2.1 For the avoidance of doubt, as you are representing us only on the residential conveyancing transaction, the limitations on our instructions referred to in Chapter 3 of the Solicitors' Code of Conduct 2011 do not apply.
2.2 Where Parts 1 and 2 of the Handbook refer to making enquiries, searches or investigations of the Borrower or providing advice or information to the Borrower, you should make enquiries of the Borrower's conveyancer instead to ensure that these enquiries, searches or investigations have been undertaken or the relevant advice or information provided (for example, complying with Part 1 paragraphs 4.4, 9.2 and 13.1); and retain sufficient evidence of this.
Paragraph 3.1.7 - a copy of any document you retain certified as a true copy of the original with the name and date of the signatory making the certification being clear on the certified copy.
Paragraph 4.4 - either a copy of the letter which the Borrower's conveyancer has sent to the Borrower covering these points or written confirmation from the Borrower's conveyancer confirming that these points have been explained to the Borrower 'face-to-face'.
Paragraph 6.2.1 - either a copy of a letter from the Borrower confirming that the plan or the extent of the property to be mortgaged is correct or written confirmation from the Borrower's conveyancer confirming that this has been discussed with the Borrower 'face-to-face' and the Borrower has confirmed that the description is correct.
If you are in any doubt as to what constitutes 'sufficient evidence', you should contact us.
3.1 In all cases, whether or not the Borrower is known to the Borrower's conveyancer, we require you to obtain copies of documents required under Paragraphs 3.1.6 and 3.2.5, which have been certified by the Borrower's conveyancer. We expect you to use this documentation to comply with Paragraphs 3.1.6, 3.1.7, 3.2.5 and 3.2.6.
3.2 You are required to comply with Paragraphs 3.1.4 and 3.2.3 to verify both the Borrower's and Seller's conveyancer by checking with the Law Society, the Solicitors' Regulation Authority, or the Council for Licensed Conveyancers.
4.1 Paragraphs 4.2 and 4.3 will only apply where we send you a copy of the report.
5.1 You must satisfy yourself that you will be able to certify that the title will be 'good and marketable'.
6.1 You should ensure you have sufficient evidence of how the balance of monies have been paid, for example that these are paid into the Borrower's conveyancer's client account.
7.1 You should refer to our instructions in Part 2 paragraph 7.3 of the Handbook or in our letter of instruction with regard to obtaining a signed deed or form of consent for all occupants aged 17 and over who are not party to the mortgage.
8.1 You should refer to our instructions in Part 2, paragraph 8.1 of the Handbook or in our letter of instruction with regard to obtaining a signed deed or form of consent where part of the loan is not for the benefit of all joint Borrowers. You should also refer to paragraph 8 of Part 1 of the Handbook.
9.1 When certifying title you must use our standard form of Certificate or Report on Title, and you must ensure that this is sent to us.
9.2 In order to satisfy Paragraphs 10.5 and 10.6 of Part 1, you must obtain an undertaking from the Borrower's conveyancer to carry out their obligations to complete and submit stamp duty land tax returns under these Paragraph. If they will not give such an undertaking, then you must report this to us and you should not complete the mortgage transaction unless and until instructed to do so by us.
10.1 You must write to the Borrower's conveyancer enclosing the mortgage documents and request that they explain to each Borrower the legal implications of entering into the mortgage and confirm to you in writing that they have done so.
11.1 You must transfer the mortgage advance directly to the Seller's conveyancer. The Seller's conveyancer must be required to hold the mortgage advance on the terms of the required undertaking. The example borrower's conveyancer's undertaking letter includes a specific example of the seller's undertaking.
12.1.1 You must ensure that the Borrower's conveyancer provides you, on or before completion, with all the necessary forms and supporting documents to register the mortgage and any related transactions at the Land Registry (within the priority period of the Land Registry search) and if appropriate, at Companies House. You will be the 'sending' conveyancer for the purposes of panel 7 in AP1 (or other Land Registry application forms).
13.1 You must ensure that you are able to cover your legal costs and disbursements. If we have any specific requirements these will be set out in our letter of instruction, otherwise please make arrangements through the Borrower's conveyancer to collect your legal costs and disbursements.


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BlueLady9, You can use your tickets( points) from winning S2W to enter drawings for prizes located in the Rewards Store. (You can also win HSN gift cards for $25 or $40 on S2W. ) The link to the Rewards Store can be found on the left hand column of the Arcade page. Also, twice this year we were able to donate tickets (points) to St. Jude's and HSN made a contribution to St. Jude's based upon the number of tickets (points) we donated. We reached our goal for this round so the donation option is closed for now. You can read about this and other philanthropic HSN projects by entering HSN Cares into the search window at the top of the page. Good luck and have fun playing S2W and other games in the Arcade!


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The Onion Definitely Has A Record Label, And So Far Nobody's Laughing
The Onion, everyone's second favorite satirical news organization, has branched into the music industry with its own record label.
I just can't prove it.
Not long ago, I would've thought this diversification was preposterous. It seemed inevitable that all record labels were going the way of dinosaurs and dodos, and no one, not even The Onion, wanted any part of it. Now, however, it seems the music industry has finally realized just how drastically it must adapt in order to survive. This is where the good people at The Onion stepped in with all of their trademark, Puck-like mischief.
The first piece of evidence that led to this conclusion was the release of Continue reading →
Tags: Ashton Kutcher, culture, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Grammys, humor, James Blunt, John Mayer, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Moon Landing, music, music industry, Nickelback, Paradise Valley, Patsy Cline, Pop culture, pop music, Punk'd, record label, Rolling Stone, The Eagles, The Onion, Top 40 music, Twerkin' After Midnight, Van Gogh, VMAs, Who You Love, You're Beautiful
Categories Music
Author Sherman Ave
The Perfect Shower Beer Playlist
It's a Wednesday night, you got a 31 on your midterm, and you just remembered that your landlord pays your water bill. Sounds like it's time for a shower beer! If you haven't been introduced to the joys of a cold beer in a hot, steamy shower yet, have no fear! I'll walk you through it. But before you get all lathered up, there are three things you'll need:
1. Beer. Although shot gunning a can of Busch Light may be a great way to impress the ladiez, it isn't a shower beer. Try something that doesn't taste like piss water.
2. A place to put your beer to keep it shampoo-free.
Holds your beer, so you don't have to!
3. This playlist*
LMFAO – Sexy And I Know It
Who doesn't feel sexy dripping wet and slightly buzzed? It's time to DANCE!**
Adele – Someone Like You
Use any excuse to belt this song at the top of your lungs. Plus, the acoustics in the bathroom are pretty great
OutKast – Hey Ya
Throwbacks are 259% better while drunk. So are emotional rollercoasters brought on by listening to this immediately after Adele.
Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Remember that emotional rollercoaster I was talking about?
Macklemore – Thrift Shop
So I'm a little obsessed with this song right now (who isn't?) and it gives me an excuse to practice my sexy bass singing voice (I don't care if biology says girls can't sing that low, someday I will sing bass!)
Miley Cyrus – Party in the USA
No playlist is complete without a song about America. And this one is just so damn catchy…
Rose Royce – Car Wash
Car wash, face wash…same thing
Katy Perry – Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
The perfect combination of funny and sexy: you can sing the words you know and dance to the ones you don't.
Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
Everyone else may be sick of this song, but I know all the words, and I love singing it in the shower. Pro tip: beer bottles make excellent microphones.
The Police – Roxanne
You know the game where half the room drinks every time they say "Roxanne" and the other half drinks whenever they say "put on the red light"? This is the same, except you are both teams. If you haven't finished your beer yet (it's OK if it's your second…or fourth), bottoms up!
That's it! Now go grab a PBR and some coconut body wash.
-Tabitha McHunter
*This is by no means a good combination of songs and should not be taken as such
**Sherman Ave is not responsible for any injuries incurred while dancing in the shower.
Tags: Adele, Busch Light, Call Me Maybe, Car Wash, Carly Rae Jepsen, coconut body wash, Hey Ya, Katy Perry, Last Friday Night, LMFAO, Macklemore, Miley Cyrus, Outkast, Party in the USA, PBR, Rose Royce, Roxanne, Sexy and I Know It, shower beer, Someone Like You, T.G.I.F., taylor swift, The Police, Thrift Shop, We are never ever getting back together
Author Tabitha McHunter
3 Stellar Halloween Costume Ideas
Personal favorite: Slutty Abe Lincoln
Warning: Sherman Ave does not condone or endorse the use of any of the costumes. Not a single one. Seriously guys.
So you need a brilliant costume idea for Halloween this year and you are completely out of ideas? No worries! Here at Sherman Ave, we are more than happy to put our minds and nimble fingers of Eleanor Kinkervoss (our resident Martha Stewart, tbh) to work to create stunning garbs of Samhain delight!
1. The Race Controversy
Simply don a sombrero, blackface, or a kimono and walk around with a peace pipe (of "tobacco" of course) and greeting people with a booming "HOW!" Also constantly be at war with the white person inside of you and try to oppress each part of your costume by yelling slurs at yourself. Points if you can hit more ethnic pejoratives than all of Ryan Murphy's shows combined.
2. The Keg
Fashion a single-person tent into a poncho type shroud supported by your shoulders and let any girl obviously younger than 21 enter the tent through the flap in the back of the tent. Carry a 30-rack of any cheap beer and give one to any person able to jump over you when you sit down.
3. Sherman Ave (alone or group costume)
Gather as many friends as you can to pregame the festivities with a tons of Keystone Light and cheap vodka while screaming Katy Perry and Adele songs. One or two of you can also mime masturbating to Pippa Middleton's visage and the others can all blackout in Fran's.
Alternatively, you could just go as a slutty rabbit or dead football player like every character in every fucking teen movie ever. Have fun!
Tags: 21, Abe Lincoln, Adele, Blackface, blackout, cheap beer, cheap vodka, costume, dead football player, delight, Eleanor Kinkervoss, Fran's, girl, group, Halloween, ideas, Katy Perry, Keystone Light, kimono, masturbating, peace pipe, Pippa Middleton, poncho, race controversy, Ryan Murphy, Samhain, Sherman Ave, shroud, slurs, slutty, slutty rabbit, sombrero, tent, The Keg, tobacco
Categories Advice, Lists
Happy Chick-Fil-A Day: 3 Things that are Actually Destroying the Sanctity of Marriage in America
Hmmmmm……..
Happy Chick-Fil-A day!
First, I'm going to point out that bitching about how someone's interpretation of the Bible is wrong isn't going to change their beliefs. Then I'm going to bitch about anti-gay crusaders' interpretation of the Bible.
"The sanctity of marriage," according to my translation of some people's opinion, is a statement that presumably means that marriage is a Rull Special Thang. By letting just anyone marry, it's not Rull Special anymore. Okay, got it. But the strategy so far (convert every LGBTQ in America by invalidating their feelings and telling them that they're aberrations?) hasn't really worked. If we're gonna go down the road of preserve-marriage-by-making-it-only-available-to-some, we should bar a few others as well. Or just assassinate them, cause I'd be down with that.
1. Bruno Mars
Finish this sentence:
"It's a beautiful night. We're looking for something dumb to do. Hey baby, I think I want to __."
Get Northwasted with ShermanAviators and attempt to pee on every building on campus while singing an impromptu a capella Katy Perry/Adele mashup? No, I'm sure you're aware that that's Ross Packingham's sole purpose in life. Host a Winnie the Pooh-themed squaredance and kidnap someone's mom because you want an even number to play Flipcup? No, that doesn't rhyme. Beat the shit out of a homeless dude? Apparently at least three assholes who need to die painfully are into that, but the author and vessel of these words has a much more sinister plot. Bruno Mars, who according to a recent poll has swiped the v-cards of 35% of teenage girls during their algebra daydreams,* wants to marry you.
…the fuck??
Look, B-mizzle, your name and your voice sound like they belong to a small ugly dog or a European pseudo-manslut. I'm sick of hearing your song about a completely uneventful day. And the assholes in this world who are offended by two people enjoying one anothers' penises should really just calm the fuck down and be offended by Bruno Mars instead. This Motherfucker is partaking in the drink of the devil and clearly hasn't asked her father's permission. I'd mention that love isn't exactly a central theme of the song, but the sacred kinds of marriage are apparently built on sanctity and not love, or no one would GAF.
Hell, at least Train was going to wait until he got the nerve to say hello in that café.
Hello Cleaveland!!!
2. Kim Kardashian
I wish that, for every small child that was given a homophobic protest sign by a Bigoted Motherfucker, another small child would be given a sign that said, "For the love of whatever God you believe in, stop media coverage of this woman." While I congratulate her on having an admirable pair of boobies, only a woman desperate for companionship would marry someone who has the word "hump" in his name. She has also casually tossed the idea around of marrying her current beau, and I am convinced that living with Kanye West would be almost as bad as reading Ross Packingham's Facebook powertrips.
Look, let's all just agree that the Kardashian family is a few hookers short of a brothel and one letter short of a really fucked-up set of initials. Now who wants to take bets on when the number of how many weddings she's had will exceed her bust measurement?
3. Anyone in Las Vegas
I will conclude this pathetic rant with the semi-relevant words of Commandant Leo Sextoi: "Bitches be too pretentious and uptight."
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is heinous. The other is as though everything is heinous." – Albert Einstein
*second only to Justin Bieber, who regularly performs cunnilingus on young women while they avoid focusing on whatever the fuck their stupid English teacher is saying.
Tags: a capella, aberration, Adele, Albert Einstein, algebra daydreams, America, anti-gay, assholes, B-mizzle, beliefs, Bible, bigot, boobies, brothel, Bruno Mars, Campus, Chick-fil-a, crusader, day, English teacher, European pseudo-manslut, Facebook, flipcup, fucked up, GAF, homeless dude, homophobic, hookers, hump, interpretation, Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Kardashian, Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian, Las Vegas, Leo Sextoi, LGBTQ, marriage, marry, mashup, Northwasted, pee, protest, Ross Packingham, sanctity, ShermanAviatiors, squaredance, teenage girls, Train, ugly dog, v-card, Winnie the Pooh
Categories Lists
Author Eleanor Kinkervoss
50 Shades of Purple, Chapter Two: The Battle for the Keg
"At first I was like, 'You know, it might not be such a great idea to go skinny dipping in the Amazon with a bottle of Patron and the entire San Diego Chargers Charger Girls squad,' but then I was just like, 'YOLO.'"
-Morton O. Schapiro
Don't worry, the sex scene's coming soon.
It's a Monday evening, and my roommates are pregaming the pregame for the Keg. I've had a pretty stressful day in Journalism 301, filled with lots of hard-hitting pestering of innocent yuppies reporting for my enterprise story, and it's time for me to kick back and relax. I pop a bottle of Peach Andre and my night has begun.
"How was your interview with Ross Packingham?" asks Beverly Brooke, my roommate and consummate frenemy.
"Intriguing. There's something secretive about him that I can't figure out. Is it true he once had a threesome with a Theta and Willie the Wildcat in the library stacks?"
"I heard it was with Stephen Colbert and two theater majors on South Beach while Andrew Bird played in the background," Beave answers, "But that's just what I read once on College ACB."
We finish off our bottles of Andre while watching Say Yes to the Dress and head over to Alpha Delta for the true pregame. The second we step into the basement, our senses are assaulted by skunked beer, bros in tank-tops, and Katy Perry. Lots of Katy Perry.
"WOOOOOOOOOO" shouts Beave as "Teenage Dream" comes on, and immediately begs a frat brother who looks suspiciously similar to an Asian Nic Cage (and almost as belligerent) to let her take a beer pong celeb shot.
I leave to get myself a drink. I pour myself some Mohawk vodka into a solo cup of Busch Light, which I affectionately dub 'The Bobb,' because the drink's always a party and smells like piss.
The Alpha Delta brothers are getting rowdy. Some jackass tries to hit on me by asking which Vice President I'm most sexually attracted to, only to leave the next moment muttering to himself about the similarities between House Republicans and gonorrhea.
"KEG! KEG! KEG!" The Alpha Delta brothers shout. I down my drink and steel myself for the heinous that is to come.
HE'S HERE! OMIGOD HE'S HERE!!!
It takes me a little while to recognize the man before my eyes, but after I adjust to the hedonism around me and get over the brief torrent of terror that shot through me as the Keg bouncer took an additional five seconds to ensure that I truly am the 25-year-old Beyonce Lovato from Anchorage, Alaska that my ID said I was, I realize that I really am beholding the elusive Ross Packingham, HERE, in the flesh, at the Keg!
Gorgeous as all hell and with a gleam in his eye, Packingham is freaking the night away with some co-ed like he's Channing Tatum on ecstasy.
"Carla!" He shouts, "Carla Rossi! Over here!" He's beckoning me over to join him and his slam-piece on the dance floor, and I head his way.
And then, with a tremendous blast, the door of the Keg comes crashing down. A dark, shrouded figure looms large in the doorway. For a moment everything stops, douchebags freeze mid-thrust where they were dancing, and even that one townie playing pool turns to look. The only sound is that of Ludacris' verse on "Baby" as Mayor Tisdahl, clad in combat boots, night-vision goggles, and a James Taylor t-shirt, fully armed with a crowbar and flanked by a cadre of Evanston cops, steps into the neon light of the Coors Light sign.
"My sources tell me that there's been underage drinking in this establishment," Mayor Tisdahl growls, tossing the disemboweled corpse of an engineer into the stunned crowd. "You can thank this snitch here. Now I'm going to shut this motherfucker down once and for all."
All hell breaks loose as Elizabeth Tisdahl and her police posse attack.
Intoxicated and sweaty bodies frantically jostle with one another (not unlike the Keg on a normal Monday night) as Tisdahl brutally swings her crowbar with reckless abandon at poor defenseless English majors and ETHS seniors while the cops gleefully cite students for underage drinking by the score.
"That's for yacking on the Evanston Post Office!" screams Tisdahl as she brains a Comm Studies student with her crowbar as he tries to scuttle up a stripper pole.
"And this will teach you to holler about blowjobs on MY streets!" she adds, sucker-punching a Tri Delt like she's Michael Barrett squaring off against A.J.
"Say blowjob one more time. I FUCKING DARE YOU!"
I can't bear the sight of her pile-driving two foreign students through a window, and quickly duck under a booth and pray that God will save me, or at least turn off the Bieber that's still playing if I am to be summarily executed by Mayor Tisdahl in this den of debauchery.
The Keg has all but cleared out as I cower in fear, watching Tisdahl and her cops methodically pour big cups of Bud Light and handles of Svedka and Wild Turkey all over the Keg's walls and floors.
Tisdahl shoulders her crowbar and lights a cigarette. Turning with a menacing gait, she addresses the few remaining students.
"Based on what I see here, I think that the Keg has some grave public safety concerns. I'm revoking the Keg's license," she flips her cigarette onto the booze-soaked floor, "Permanently."
The flames erupt immediately, burning away years of sin and memories. Students scream, and Tisdahl laughs, but just as she turns to leave a gallant figure, wearing nothing but an enormous purple cape, bursts through the Keg's window riding on the back of a dashing wildcat.
"MORTY SCHAPIRO!" everybody cheers as the lionhearted president rushes to their defense.
His body is lithe and stately, glistening in the fiery inferno as his beard bristles with the white-hot intensity of a hundred thousand Pat Fitzgeralds.
"Oh no you don't, Tisdahl!" cries Morty, slapping the Mayor back with his massive appendage. More cheers from the students. Morty rips off a stripper pole to serve as his quarterstaff (he already has a full staff down below).
"I'm going to give you the Chet Haze treatment tonight, baby," shouts Morty. "You'll be white and purple when I'm done with you."
Then Morty sets to work, fighting off cops left and right with the help of his trusty wildcat. Those police officers who are too foolish not to run away suffer the awful fate of his beard, and Morty and his steed finish them off faster than the NCAA finishing off Northwestern's March Madness dreams.
Yet somehow in all the confusion, Mayor Tisdahl managed to escape, cursing Morty and swearing that her revenge is nigh. Few seemed to care, however, as Morty ripped open a fire hydrant with his bare hands, soused the Keg's raging flames, and turned the club into an all-night slip-and-slide.
"Come here," a voice says gruffly. I turn with shock and look at the man gripping my hand. It's Packingham. "This way."
He leads me to the Popcorn machine, raps it three times with his knuckles, opens up the top, and helps me inside. "Follow me," Ross says, pushing a button and revealing a secret passageway that travels out of the popcorn machine and leads to a mysterious tunnel. I follow, obediently, trusting Ross completely.
"I hereby declare the Keg re-instated!" bellows the victorious, and still mostly-nude, Morty. "I wish the Keg luck with their newly instated Lifetime License to Rage!"
I can barely hear the cheers as I go deeper and deeper down the tunnel, guided only by the mysterious Ross Packingham.
Chapter one of 50 Shades of Purple can be found HERE.
Tags: 50 Shades of Purple, Alpha Delta, Anchorage, Andrew Bird, baby, beer, Beyonce, blowjob, Bobb, Busch Light, Carla Rossi, celeb shot, Channing Tatum, Chet Haze, cigarette, College ACB, Coors Light, crowbar, ecstasy, Elizabeth Tisdahl, engineer, ETHS, Evanston, hedonism, heinous, James Taylor, Katy Perry, Lovato, Ludacris, Mayor Tisdahl, Michael Barrett, Morton O. Schapiro, Morty Schapiro, Mowhawk, Nic Cage, Northwestern, NU, Peach Andre, popcorn machine, Post office, Ross Packingham, solo cup, South Beach, stacks, Stephen Colbert, stripper pole, The Keg, The Keg of Evanston, Theta, Tri Delt, underage drinking, Willie the Wildcat
Categories 50 Shades of Purple, General Heinous
Sexist Poker
He at least could have shaved his armpits
On April 21st, I saw something I was not supposed to see. As I was walking through the frat quad to purchase some hummus at Lisa's, a high-pitched noise befell upon my ears. As I furtively peeped in the windows of the offending house to find out what it was, I saw inside some dress-up games being played by a group of male Northwestern students. I later learned that this was a strip poker tournament, which typically involves groups of men using their poker skills and the game's rules to induce the clothing removal of somewhat intoxicated women.
But what I saw Saturday afternoon was really just the "Sexist Poker Tournament." In this house were at least 50 students, all representing some demographic of women. There were sexy housemaids, sexy flappers, sexy hippies, sexy pirate lasses, sexy nurses, sexy Disney princesses, sexy pioneers, and one feeble attempt to emulate Mila Kunis in Black Swan. There were so many sexually appealing women in that room that I considered dropping my skirt to make a "sexy nudist" costume, crashing in, and being a lesbian for the night. Then I remembered that this was a fraternity and there was a small floppy penis underneath Mila's tutu.
This idea sounds.... intriguing.
The sickening noise I had heard came from several Katy Perry impersonators who were attempting a rendition of "The One That Got Away," which unintentionally borrowed elements from a 12-tone piece by Schoenberg that I think I once heard in a foreign horror film. All of the students were dressed up in short skirts, high heels, makeup, excessively padded bras, sequins, glitter, and other stereotypical female garb (the overwhelming majority of women do not wear any of these on a regular basis, but rather legging-pants and a DM t-shirt). The annoying squeals of delight, the sexualizing of sluts at the expense of normal women everywhere, and the sheer number of applications of the word "adorbz" was sickening and traumatizing. This is a brutal incident that has imposed upon the various female communities on campus. This was an act of violence.
The fraternity cannot be identified at the moment due to privacy issues, but they have issued this statement:
"Religion and race have been an issue this quarter, but nobody's done anything controversial involving gender. We wanted to give everyone an equal opportunity to be offended."
In other news, Sigma Phi has announced that their next fundraiser will support the Women's Center.
Tags: act of violence, black swan, Disney, drag, flapper, fraternity, glitter, heels, housemaid, hummus, J. Edgar Hoover, Katy Perry, kunis, lesbian, makeup, men, mila, Nicki Minaj, Northwestern, nudist, nurse, Olympics, padded bra, pirate, poker, Princess, racist, schoenberg, sequins, sexist, sexy, Sigma Phi, strip poker, students, twelve-tone, Women
Categories Local
Potter No More
Accio Boner!
"Wingardium Leviosa!" said all of you to your dicks this weekend when you realized Pottermore was open to the public at last. Like your dicks were rising. Like you got a boner. From a website that includes zero naked pictures of Emma Watson. Yeah, I don't get it either. What could be so great about this magic Internet shit? The books I understand. Nothing brings more joy than experiencing others getting to do things that I will never in my life come close to doing, AMIRITE?! (I'll flip a coin and get back to you) But, like all of my past sexual relationships, I figured I'd see what all the fuss was about and give it a shot. So I signed up for Pottermore, and fucked around on it for about 10 minutes (which, according to the Wikipedia article on 'Experts' I just edited, now qualifies me as an expert on the subject), and this is pretty much what it's like:
Welcome to Pottermore, bitches! JK Rowling here, you wanna join my epic power-trip? K, first let's find out if you're magical. What's your name and email address? Oh wow, looks like you're magical! Welcome, minion! Welcome to JK's army-uh I mean Pottermore!
Let's assign you a new name then, shall we? Your given name will obviously not suffice here, as there are no boring names like 'Ron' or 'Harry' or 'George' in my magical wizarding kingdom. Forever more, you shall be known as one of the following embarrassing combinations of words and gross diseases I made up:
WartFace26549
PhoenixPiss90
MagicalClit0211
DobbysBallsac3691
EarWaxMakesMeHorny82
Chosen yet? Great, time to get sorted, which is all that you came here for, right? JK (Rowling), you have to murk through 7 chapters first! HAHAHA tricked ya bitches! Here's a bunch of shit to collect that will probably not mean anything later, but you have to click on every little part of every scene to find them! After that, a bunch of little factoids about minor characters will pop up, which you should all take your sweet time reading, because who doesn't want to know where Petunia Dursley got her first job?
Alright, you've clicked as fast as you could through the first few chapters, tryna get sorted as fast as possible, but now I'm gonna make you do something. Hope you enjoy 2nd grade-level computer games, 'cause that's what it's time for! Here's some money, and here's some stores, and here's where you click 'buy!' Omgosh, it's just like you're really there, isn't it? I'm an Internet wizard, nbd.
Welcome to Hufflepuff! Counseling services can be found in the West Tower.
Congratulations! You've finally arrived at Hogwarts! Time to get down to business. But first, watch this 20-minute video in which I detail my entire middle school gym class experience and how this parallels the sorting hat and why didn't my parents love me like a love song BOO-HOO (100% skipped the video, but I feel pretty confidently that it was something along these lines). In order to properly sort you into the clique that you will wear the same colors as for the rest of your life, you'll need to fill out this short and totally irrelevant quiz. GL, biddies!
1. If you were in a long term, monogamous relationship with a magic carpet, with which other magical object would you cheat on it with?
A. Wand
B. Broomstick
C. Telescope
D. Other Phallic Magical Item
2. Which Katy Perry lyric most strongly identifies your relationship with your pet owl:
A. Now every February, you'll be my Valentine
B. On my 18th birthday, we got matching tattoos
C. Infect me with your love and fill me with your poison
D. Think we kissed but I forgot
3. Do you prefer blondes or brunettes?
A. Blondes
B. Brunettes
C. Gingers Weasleys
D. I'm asexual. I prefer magical Internet worlds. But I guess they can be blonde magical internet worlds
The ancient mystical wizards have conferred, and you are a….
First year girl at Beauxbatons!
I deleted my Pottermore account this morning.
Tags: Beauxbatons, Books, culture, Emma Watson, Harry Potter, Hogwarts, JK Rowling, Katy Perry, movies, Pottermore, Weasley, Wingardium Leviosa, Wizards
Categories General Heinous
Author ParrtyCat
West Coast Report: Straight Outta Compton, it's the Kids' Choice Awards!
Sources inform us that the orange carpet was specifically engineered to match Speaker Boehner's skin.
Being a student at USC has some big perks; chief among them is being able to attend the orange carpet (see what they did there??) for the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, that annual orgy of slime (or "undisclosed green liquid," as subsequent research confirms it to be), aspiring basic-cable pop stars, and overly media-saturated tweens. Or, to put it more concisely, the cultural watershed of the year. Needless to say, I was front and center to live-tweet the shit out of the orange carpet scene and its pulsating star power.
"But I don't follow @rkearney892 on Twitter!" you all may say.
To which I reply, "Fear not! The night's events shall be recapped in article form lest you miss the chance to live vicariously through my celeb-filled existence!"
For those of you who have lost touch with the Nick universe as time passed (read: every one of you here), you may have a tough time adjusting to some of the changes that I discovered. For example, Rosie O'Donnell is no longer considered a kosher host for a children's awards show! I know, right?! Also, the A-Teens were not nominated in a single category this year. Apparently kids have moved on. Go figure. You will be relieved to know, however, that the same sense of whimsy and vapid tweeny-bopper culture is as potent as ever. But I digress. Without further adieu, the play-by-play of the KCA2012 Orange Carpet:
The evening got off the ground on a fairly slow note, at least for the 19 year-old males in the crowd of gawkers (read: me and only me). While the kiddies around me chanted eagerly for BTR! BTR! (that's Big Time Rush, a Nick-manufactured pop group) to arrive, they were temporarily satisfied by the presence of someone named "Ariana." You may say to yourself, "who the fuck is Ariana and why is every girl shrieking 'we love you Ariana!'" And I answer, not sure, but the Internets tell me that she is a cast member on the popular show Victorious, starring the very lovely Victoria Justice (more on her later). But then shit got real. Cody Simpson, that's right, the Cody Simpson, AKA the Australian Bieber, graced the carpet, looking charming as ever. Swoon. With the frequency of obscure (or thrilling, depending on what millennium you were born in) Nick cast members arriving getting faster and faster, Phase Two of the orange carpet experience was ready to launch.
Sherman Ave couldn't afford to send a photographer out to L.A., so a phone pic of One Direction will have to suffice
And what a violent phase it was! Like some Tea Party Patriots rockin' their tri-corner hats and waving their oh-so-clever "Stop Obamunism" signs, these bitches were whipped into a frenzy. They booed the shit out of the riders the decrepit L.A. public school buses for blocking the view; they whipped out their totes adorbs homemade signs professing their love for [insert pop star here], blocking everyone's views; and they started shrieking. Oh, did they start shrieking. By the time One Direction(look it up) showed up in their classy British car as if they were the Beatles' grandkids, the fine line between rapture and riot was growing ever-fuzzier. What would happen with this rowdy bunch of tykes???
Thankfully, they got the worst out of their system following the big entrance of 1D (That's One Direction, and not "Wendy," as I initially thought they were chanting). And the arrivals just kept getting better. Miranda Cosgrove, surprisingly bashful! Jeanette McCurdy, taking pictures back at the audience! Victoria Justice, as classy and down-to-earth as you've no doubt assumed she'd be! And the show was even kind enough to invite Allyson Stoner, whose career peaked kissing baby Taylor Lautner in Cheaper by the Dozen 2, and Jesse McCartney, bless his heart, whose entrance may have been the finest example of *crickets chirping* in modern times. Poor guy. Jesse's extinguished flame aside, though, things could not be going more perfectly at the orange carpet.
Then disaster struck.
Perhaps out of pity for my followers, God stepped in and sapped my phone of all power. That's right, at the single most important live-tweeting moment of my career, I was rendered impotent. I mean, how could my awesome celeb sightings possibly be legitimate if they weren't showed off to everyone I know?? They couldn't.
Making the situation even more heinous (you're welcome, Sherman Ave) was the sheer caliber of the stars that showed up while I was off the grid. Katy Perry in a shitty blue dye job! Heidi Klum, sans Seal! Josh Hutcherson, AKA Peeta from the Hunger Games, savoring the attention like a mofo! Nick Cannon and Chris Rock (da fuck?)! Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield, in an entrance that gave me a total Spidey-gasm! The spawn of Smith, Jaden and Willow, with the trademark family swag! And the High Priestesses of teendom themselves, Selena Muthafuckin Gomez and Ashley Tisdale, best friends as you always dreamed they'd be! How oh how could the world know that I saw all of these people??
The closest Brother Jürgen will ever get to Victoria Justice
Thankfully the good sirs at Sherman Avepicked up on my musings, and offered me the chance to share them with the whole Wildcat world. And you are all very lucky that they did. So that's the story of my Kids' Choice 2012 Orange Carpet excursion. You have now gotten to live the star-studded, slime-filled life vicariously through me. I would express my hope that this enhanced your KCA experience, but real talk, you're all like 20 and it was a Saturday night. So I know weren't watching. But thanks to me, you didn't even have to!
And for that, you're welcome.
–Ryan Kearney
Tags: 2012 KCA, Heidi Clum, Katy Perry, Kids Choice Awards, Los Angeles, Nickelodeon, One Direction, Orange Carpet, Ryan Kearney, Selena Muthafuckin Gomez
Categories Film/TV
Author charlestonnippleberry
The Official Sherman Ave Drinking Decathlon!
Laurel wreaths optional.
There will be two teams. Teams may consist of between 1 to 4 people.
There shall be a playlist composed specifically for the purpose of this game. It must include no less than eight (8) songs by Adele, five (5) songs by Rihanna, three (3) Outkast singles, and at least seven (7) songs that topped the charts before the last U.S. military intervention in Latin America.
Game Pieces
Copious amounts of alcohol (at least one (1) case of shitty beer, at least one (1) handle of shitty alcohol) and necessary mixers
One (1) Sorry! game set
One (1) Battleship game set
One (1) puzzle of 100 piece puzzle
Two (2) laptops with access to www.sporcle.com, www.actstudent.org/sampletest, www.facebook.com, and www.bubblespinner.com</li>
One (1) deck of cards
One (1) box of AP United States History flashcards
One (1) beer pong table with sufficient cups/balls
One (1) golf ball
One (1) three (3) iron golf club
Each team will be randomly assigned a country well beforehand. The team must don the colors and/or flag of that nation, obnoxiously blast that nation's national anthem, and list their nation's grievances against the United States in chronological order and/or list the top ten STDs contracted by their nation's citizens, in decreasing order of prevalence. The game shall begin with a ceremonial shot of said shitty alcohol, taken by each player. The shot must go unchased. Each team also has the opportunity to parade its team flag, if they are unreasonably heinous enough to design one.
THE GAMES
1. Bubble Spinner
A pitcher of mixed drink must be made and poured into a shot glass for each player partaking. Each team will nominate one player to serve as its Bubble Spinner delegate. The two opposing delegates will engage in a match of Bubble Spinner. Each time a player advances a level, each player of the opposing team must drink a shot of the aforementioned mixed drink. When a team loses, each player on said team must drink a shot of the mixed drink. The winning team will be awarded ten (10) points.
2. Sorry!
Each player will pour themselves a cup of mixed drink. Each team will control one (1) team on the Sorry! board. Players must take one drink whenever:
The opposing team takes a game-piece home
Following the Greek tradition of mental and physical excellence (nudity optional)
There is a "Sorry!" card played (everyone drinks)
A "power-slide" is implemented (everyone drinks)
A member of the team says the word "Sorry" (offending team drinks)
A seven is played (the player who played the seven gets to dole out seven drinks)
After the game has been won, everyone on the losing team must drink. The winning team will be awarded ten (10) points.
3. AP US History
Each player will be paired up with a player on the opposite team. Each player will quiz the player on the other team with fifteen (15) cards. The player must drink each time he/she misses a question. After all is done, the teams will tally the aggregate number of questions missed, and the team with fewer questions missed wins. If there is a tie, the game must be played again, in its entirety, until the tie is settled. The losing team must all drink, and the winning team will be awarded five (5) points for each question by which they've beat the opponent.
4. Battleship
Each team will take a side in Battleship. For each miss, one person on the missing team must drink (this person may, and should, change throughout the game). For each hit, one person on the hit team must drink (same goes). At the end of the game, everyone on the losing team must drink. The winning team will be awarded five (5) points for each grid-space by which they've beat the opponent.
5. Sporcle
Each player will be paired up with a player on the opposite team. Each opposing pair will randomly select a Sporcle quiz. The losing team of each quiz will have to distribute drinks however they choose among their team; one drink for each point by which they've been defeated. After all player pairs have gone, the team with the most aggregate points will win. The losing team drinks, the winning team will be awarded fifteen (15) points for each Sporcle quiz won.
Each player must shotgun a beer. If a player abstains from shotgunning, his/her team will be penalized ten (10) points.
Uncle Sam wants you!
6. Beer Pong
Two players from each team will nominated as delegates to play a game of beer pong. The team that wins said beer pong game will be awarded twenty (20) points, and will also be awarded an additional five (5) points for each cup remaining on their side at the end of the game. Celeb shots shall be limited to two per team, and only players who can quote a full minute of Mean Girls shall be eligible to take a Celeb Shot. If the game results in overtime, the winning team only will be awarded twenty (20) points.
7. Flip Cup
The two teams will play a best of five (5) tournament of flip cup. The winning team will be awarded twenty (20) points. If a team wins in four (4) games, they will be awarded twenty-five (25) points, and if a team wins in three (3) games, they will be awarded thirty (30) points. Throughout the competition, the two teams must debate each other regarding one of four potential topics: partial-birth abortion, affirmative action, the causes and consequences of the Arab Spring, or the sexual capacity of President Morty Schapiro.
Each team will nominate a delegate to compete in Facebook. Players will be awarded points for the following:
Poke five (5) friends from high school (five [5] points overall)
Comment "8==D" on two (2) statuses (five [5] points overall)
Challenge one (1) friend of Asian descent to a game of Words with Friends (five [5] points overall)
Post two (2) statuses, each quoting a song from Katy Perry or Adele in all caps (five [5] points overall)
Accept all friend requests that have been ignored thus far (one [1] point per friending)
Post four (4) pictures of the teammate winking onto the walls of any of their Facebook friends who are 40 years old or older (four [4] points overall)
9. Kings
All players must partake in one (1) game of Kings. Whichever teams breaks the circle will be penalized fifteen (15) points. Whichever team opens the beer can must go up to the roof and try to hit a Northwestern landmark with a golf ball using a three (3) iron. The team whose delegate successfully strikes the landmark will be awarded fifteen (15) points, but a failure to hit the landmark will result in a five (5) point deduction.
Bonus points for disappointing your parents
10. ACT Sample Test
A subject (Reading, Science, Math, or English) will be randomly selected. Each player will have to do one set/passage. A strict time limit must be adhered to (15 minutes each for English, 12 minutes each for Math, 10 minutes each for Reading, 5 minutes each for Science). After all players have completed their portion of the test, the scores will be totaled up, and the winning team will be awarded five (5) points for each question by which they've beat the opponent. A team that scores higher than the projected NU average score will be awarded two (2) points for each question they answer above the projected results, but a team that scores lower than the projected NU average score will be deducted one (1) point for each question they answer below the projected results.
CLOSING CEREMONIES
At this point, the score must be totaled. The losing team will have a chance to come back and gain one hundred (100) points, if they can complete the 100-piece puzzle in the amount of time it takes the winning team to walk to BK, eat something (documentation required), and return. If the losing team completes the puzzle by the time the winning team returns, the losing team will be awarded one hundred (100) points.
If, somehow, the teams have equal points at the end of all ten events, each player must take one shot after toasting "All men are created equal." All players will then proceed to skinny dip in Lake Michigan.
–Ross Packingham (with Evander Jones)
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Why Obama Makes Me Sad
Let me ask you a question. How many of the following have happened since Obama's election?
1) World peace
2) End of racism/sexism/homophobia/animal cruelty
3) The whales are saved.
4) My dog is as badass as this.
He's killing pirates! What would Jack Sparrow say about that!?
So there we have it: our president, contrary to popular belief, is not a demigod. Oh damn. If there's anything I dislike about Obama, it's that his followers seemed to think that following his election, a perfect world would ensue. However, in a perfect world, Rick Perry would be dead and Katy Perry would be granted immortality. So quit slobbing on his knob, because he hasn't really done much to move us in that direction.
Here's my first beef with Obama: the guy's voting record as a Senator basically screams "I Wanna Be President." The Illinois senate records show that Obama has voted "present" on 130 motions, mostly on controversial issues. Voting "present" is essentially voting "meh," as a lawmaker. You only say "meh" when you don't have the energy or clarity to say "No, thank you, I have decided to disagree with the decision being decided." In a parallel manner, voting "present" means a politician either doesn't have an opinion or doesn't want evidence that he has one, because opinions are usually offensive to someone. Having a solidified stance would mean he'd eventually lose voters, and again, the man has had his eyes on the Oval Office longer than Rebecca Black has been alive.
At least nobody has looked sexier while cutting prescription drug costs for medicare by 50%
Number two: Obama is from one of the most corrupt states in the nation. Did anyone question how the man whose record is as spotless as a baby's ass* somehow gathered votes in the state that produced Blagojevich, Ryan, and the Daley dynasty? Just in case you're not local, the Land of Lincoln hasn't had much recent luck electing moral lawmakers. 6 of the last 9 governors are charged with white-collar corruption, and 4 of those were convicted and jailed for it. The most recent villain was caught attempting to ensure that his appointment for Senate seat had something in it for him. I'm not making wild accusations of corruption; I don't think he's Blago. I'm saying that Obama passed the healthcare bill like a true Illinois politician: buying the holdout votes with "There's something in it for you, Nevada and Florida!" Washington, meet pay-to-play politics.
Here's an excerpt from a recent Facebook status reposted by a friend of mine: "Things my president has done: Got Osama…check. Same wife for 15 years with no extramarital affairs….check. Only active President to receive Nobel Peace Prize while in office…check." There are several things wrong with this, other than the obvious "please stop drooling and engage your mental cavity." The first: don't give him credit for finding Osama. OUR TROOPS DID. Give him credit for the things he's done — getting minorities out there voting, repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell, and buying us a healthcare bill we didn't want while teaching the country how Illinois does legislation.
But wait, there's more: he can stay married! Without cheating! Give the man a prize! Speaking of prizes: I should really be past this by now. But Nobel Peace prize????? Didn't old people use to have to DO shit for that????**
Not even comparable.
And to close: though I enjoy Al Green as much as the next person, I don't give a rat's ass if our president is "cute." I want a president with a pair of balls*** and a goddamn voting record. Preferably the latter. Til then, I'm gonna hold this vote. If I want to interact with a cute older man, I will seek out Liam Neeson and Frank Sinatra. Frankie has a better voice, anyways.
Here's to bipartisanship.
Brother Jürgen, please say you'll still love me?
*Please ponder that metaphor. It was intentional.
**Also, congratulations to the original author of this quote for seriously qualified statements. "Only President to win Nobel Prize? Damn, there were four of those. Only President to do it while in office? Damn, that was three of them! Only President alive who's won it? Fucking Jimmy Carter! Alright- he's the only president we have RIGHT NOW who won the Nobel Peace Prize!"
***or, as a forwarded email from my mother instructed, "Balls are weak and sensitive. If you really want to get tough, grow a vagina. Those things take a pounding."
Special thanks to Blake Wilson, whose Facebook feedback comparing Sherman Ave to the gastrointestinal contents at the end of the Human Centipede struck the perfect balance between offensive and motivating. Blake, don't off yourself because of internet shenanigans; we're still mourning Phoebe Black.
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But why did he rise from the dead?
Here I want to ask the question and touch on an aspect of the resurrection that is often overlooked, namely, how it relates to our salvation.
Most people know that Jesus died for their sins. But, as we shall see, according to the New Testament Jesus also rose for our salvation. This aspect of the biblical message is often neglected. The emphasis on usually on the cross. In fact, the resurrection for many people doesn't figure into their understanding of salvation very much. For most the resurrection is little more than "confirmation".
Yet a close look at Scripture reveals that the Resurrection is more than that! As Paul makes it clear, if Jesus didn't rise from the dead "your faith would be in vain" (1 Cor 15:14).
The work of salvation did not end at the cross. The Resurrection is part of Christ's work of salvation. Let me explain why.
In fact, Aquinas lists five reasons for the resurrection (Summa Theologica, III, q. 53, art. 1). Being a biblical theologian, Thomas' answers are thoroughly scriptural. Indeed, Thomas highlights reasons Jesus rose from the dead—reasons given in Scripture—that are often overlooked.
2. Jesus was raised for our instruction in the faith. He explains, "our belief in Christ's Godhead is confirmed by His rising again, because, according to 2 Cor. 13:4, 'although He was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God.' And therefore it is written (1 Corinthians 15:14): 'If Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.'" He also cites Psalm 30, a psalm linked with the Passion of Jesus in the New Testament (e.g., Luke 23:46). He points out that the psalmist writes, "What profit is there in my blood?" and asks God what good can come of his seeing "corruption"—the implication for the psalmist is "none". Why? Seeing the psalm as a prophecy of Christ, Thomas concludes that is was necessary for Christ to rise so that he could preach.
This last element is often completed neglected. Preachers will often explain that Jesus "died for our sins". But, according to Scripture, the resurrection is every bit as important to salvation. Again, to quote Paul, "If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain" (1 Cor 15:14).
But how is Christ's resurrection related to our salvation?
Catholics and Protestants talk past each other on a regular basis. Believe me, I know—I've spent much of my academic career studying as a Catholic at non-Catholic institutions. I've done so as an undergraduate and then as a Ph.D. student.
Why do Catholics and Protestants talk past each other? I believe one of the main reasons is that Catholics and Protestants have differing views on the role of the resurrection. To Catholic theologians, the traditional Reformed approach to salvation which especially focuses on Christ's death as a "substitution" for our death (penal substitution theory), doesn't seem to leave much room for the Resurrection in the work of redemption. Indeed, the famous Protestant theologian Karl Barth seemed to limit the significance of the Resurrection to a "verdict" affirming Christ's work.
"Two things concur in the justification of souls, namely, forgiveness of sin and newness of life through grace. Consequently, as to efficacy, which comes of the Divine power, the Passion as well as the Resurrection of Christ is the cause of justification as to both the above. But as to exemplarity, properly speaking Christ's Passion and death are the cause of the forgiveness of guilt, by which forgiveness we die unto sin: whereas Christ's Resurrection is the cause of newness of life, which comes through grace or justice: consequently, the Apostle says (Romans 4:25) that 'He was delivered up,' i.e. to death, 'for our sins,' i.e. to take them away, 'and rose again for our justification.' But Christ's Passion was also a meritorious cause. . ." (Summa Theologiae III, q. 56, art. 2, ad 4; emphasis added).
"The Paschal mystery has two aspects:  by his death, Christ liberates us from sin;  by his Resurrection, he opens for us the way to a new life. This new life is above all justification that reinstates us in God's grace, 'so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life' [citing Rom 6:4; cf. 4:25]. Justification consists in both victory over the death caused by sin and a new participation in grace [citing Eph 2:4-5; 1 Pet 1:3]. It brings about filial adoption so that men become Christ's brethren, as Jesus himself called his disciples after his Resurrection: "Go and tell my brethren" [Mt 28:10; Jn 20:17.]. We are brethren not by nature, but by the gift of grace, because that adoptive filiation gains us a real share in the life of the only Son, which was fully revealed in his Resurrection" [no. 654; emphasis added].
One of my favorite books on the Resurrection is probably written by the late 20th century Catholic theologian, F. X. Durrwell, entitled appropriately enough, The Resurrection. Durrwell was a brilliant theologian whose approach to theology was thoroughly biblical; his work is far too often overlooked. He does a great job emphasizing the role the role of the resurrection in salvation. The following is from his book (pages 28-29, 31, 32).
There's so much more I'd like to say, but for now, Durrwell will have to suffice. . .
St. Paul does in fact elsewhere attribute our justification to Christ's death (Rom 5:9 [cited above]) as well as to his resurrection. Indeed, there seems a striking change of position: in Rom iv. 25, justification is the effect peculiar to the Resurrection alone; yet it also appears to be the result of both the death and resurrection.
But the Pauline theory of justification withstands any charge of incoherence, for our contact with Christ's death, as well as our contact with his resurrection is effected by our union with Christ in glory, and only through this union do we receive the benefit of his death, the remission of sins.
St. Paul goes even further. The phrase "in Christ" was used to indicate our risen Savior as the principle of our justification. In another phrase, equally dear to him, he identifies the act whereby we are justified with the actual act by which Christ is glorified; we are divinely brought to life by the Father's act in resurrecting Christ: "Even when we were dead in sins, he hath quickened us together in Christ… and hath raised us up with him." (Eph. ii. 5-6; Col. ii. 12ff.; iii. 1). The Father has given us life by raising up Christ, we are included in the one life-giving act which was performed for our Lord.
This brings up another question. How can all men at all times be taken up in the single act of the resurrection which brought Christ back to life at a given date in the past? Again the question is difficult, but the statement is perfectly clear.
At the same moment as justice is given to us in the act by which the Father raises up the Son, our sins are also remitted. The texts I have quoted make this clear: while we were dead through our sins, he brought us to life together with Christ. . .
. . . The action whereby the body of the mortal Christ is transformed in augurates the Father's action of justification; divine life comes to mortal man; the justice of God, which is a living and life-giving holiness, takes possession of him. It is the Father who raises up Christ (Rom. viii. 11; 1 Cor. vi. 14:2; 2 Cor. iv. 25; xiii. 4; Eph. i. 19; Col. ii. 12) and who justifies us. (Rom. iii. 26, 30; viii. 30; Gal. iii. 8.) It is in Christ, and through the act of raising him up, that he justifies us. The resurrection of our Lord is the first of the Father's life-giving works in a new world, the first and the only one, for all the others are accomplished in it: "He hath quickened us together with Christ. (Eph. ii. 5).
The death and resurrection of Jesus are both working towards our salvation. Each plays a different part in it. If Christ is dead, we who are united to Christ are also dead. This death signifies the end of our life according to the flesh.
What are the moral implications of the Paschal Mystery in the life of the believer? Why did God allow his Son to die on the Cross? Why the Resurrection? Learn the answers to these questions and more in That You Might Have Life: An Introduction to the Paschal Mystery of Christ.


While it is just the beginning of March, Spring feels like it's right around the corner and I couldn't be more ready to welcome in new Life!
The Mid-Atlantic Pathwork Helper Community recently gathered for our quarterly retreat at Sevenoaks Retreat Center, where Louise Del Maestro shared her "Rest" work based on the Living Inquiry work of Scott Kiloby, and we spent the afternoon exploring how our commitment to the Pathwork is manifesting in our lives. Thank you, Louise, for introducing us to this beautiful teaching!
Old and new friends alike gathered this past weekend for an engaging variety of workshops at the Pathwork Community Weekend — a celebration of our shared longing to deepen personally and spiritually. We will be offering another Pathwork Community Weekend at Sevenoaks July 29-30th, so stay tuned to hear the details on another exciting opportunity to come together to share the beauty of the land at Sevenoaks and the transformative power of Pathwork.
Tuesday night I launched the first meeting of my new Pathwork Group, "Bridging the Divide," and it was an beautifully intimate beginning as these students each took steps to deepen in their individual soul's journey. We'll be meeting every other week through the beginning of June, and I'm really excited to witness how Spirit will be moving in their lives.
Growth, transformation, and change is all around us at this time of year. The big question is, how will we meet it, how will we support Spirit's longing to manifest in our lives and on our planet?
How about you, are you ready for a re-birth? What new life is preparing to emerge in you?
I'm feeling the shifts in my life and while they aren't always comfortable, I have a deep knowing that they are trustworthy. And so my prayer for all of you is that you stay attuned to what is being called forth from you in each day, and in each moment. Acknowledge and honor each step in your blossoming into the brilliance and beauty that you are. Your unique gifts are all vitally important, as together we are the instruments supporting the evolution of consciousness in the world.
I send you deep blessings, and look forward to our paths crossing soon! If you are new to my blog, I invite to to sign up to hear from me, and share your journey with the Sacred Discoveries Community!


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Rick Santorum's strict immigration stance lauded by Dan Stein
Norquist says too early to pick a GOP favorite
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Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said Thursday during a debate that former Sen. Rick Santorum is the strongest advocate for strict immigration in the GOP's possible presidential candidate pool. (Associated Press) more >
By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times - Thursday, March 26, 2015
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is the most vociferous advocate for a strict immigration policy that respects American workers among the crowded field of 2016 presidential hopefuls, Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said Thursday.
Mr. Stein, who faced off against Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist at a debate sponsored by The Washington Times, said other potential Republican candidates are coming around to backing a crackdown, but Mr. Santorum has gone the furthest.
"Santorum is really the only one who is drilling down in to the nuts and bolts and is looking in to the job market and how immigration is really hurting American workers," said Mr. Stein, who wants to see both curbs to illegal immigration and a lower level of legal immigration into the U.S.
This month in a speech in Iowa, Mr. Santorum said the U.S. immigration system isn't working and the country must better secure the border and create legal programs for workers with different skills.
Mr. Norquist, who backs a more generous immigration policy, said the 2016 candidates are still developing their stances and it's too early to pick a champion from his point of view.
Mr. Stein and Mr. Norquist found little middle ground, even differing over how to pursue border security legislation in the newly all GOP-controlled Congress.
SEE ALSO: Glenn Beck accuses Grover Norquist of ties to Islamists
Mr. Norquist said that the government must make border security it's first priority — by possibly expanding the drone program already being used in Texas — in order to pave the way for a bill expanding and revamping guest worker programs that would allow verified skilled workers to come in to the country and contribute to the economy.
He argued that verified guest worker programs will lead to less crime and more legal immigration in the long run, making border security easier to maintain.
Mr. Stein, however, said immigration enforcement must focus on the interior.
"In the end, border security that involves just lining up more border patrol without effective interior enforcement, with state and local verification of the aliens' right to get benefits, is going to ring hollow with the average voter who recognizes that the public confidence and the efficacy of DHS to regulate immigration has virtually disappeared," the FAIR president said.
He said a key component of interior enforcement is E-Verify, the government's program that allows businesses to check whether potential hires are authorized to work. The system is currently voluntary, but crackdown advocates say it should be mandatory.
Mr. Norquist agreed that the government should implement a system to monitor immigrant workers and verify their legal status, but was hesitant to name E-verify as the solution.
Mr. Stein called for Republican leadership to stand up to Senate Democrats to push a bill to the White House, despite President Obama's promises to veto such a bill arguing that the president's resistance would set the stage for a strong voter response in 2016.
Mr. Norquist argued that it was pointless for Congressional Republicans to go head-to-head with Mr. Obama, who's put off trying to work with Congress even on goals the president says he supports.
"Obama's the guy who killed immigration reform in 2007, he was president for all of 2009 and all of 2010 and he had 59 and 60 Democrats and a handful of Republicans in the Senate who could have voted with him for some type of immigration reform," Mr. Norquist said. "If somebody wakes up every morning for 700 days in a row and says 'I want to go to the gym,' and for 700 days you don't wake up and you don't go to the gym, at some point you say, 'I don't think he wants to go to the gym.'"
He added, however, that Republicans won't even be able to pass a border security bill, an issue that has bipartisan support, if they continue to hold it hostage by attaching controversial amendments to the legislation in the hopes of passing it through.
• Kellan Howell can be reached at khowell@washingtontimes.com.


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