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Nativity role for Britney Spears' baby Nov 30, 2005, 17:02 GMT printer friendly email this article Britney Spears new son, Sean Preston, is to play the baby Jesus in his very own nativity scene this Christmas. The pop princess, and husband Kevin Federline, have transformed his bedroom into the nativity setting in celebration of his first festive holiday. The beautiful singer has splashed out on the lavish decorations - which include six waxwork models and several life-size toy donkeys and cattle. The 23-year-old singer is so excited about her first Christmas as a mum she has even bought a cherrywood style manger for her baby. A source close to the star is quoted by Britain's Daily Star newspaper as saying: 'It cost an absolute fortune. But at least she didn't have to buy a baby Jesus - because Sean is playing the part.' Meanwhile, Britney is set to become a mum again - after a psychic told her she will fall pregnant next year. The 'Toxic' singer told friends the medium predicted she would be expecting again with six months, according to America's In Touch Weekly magazine. The thrilled star allegedly seeks advice from a psychic whenever she wants to make plans for the future there are so many comments i could make i don't even know WHERE to start!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(BDavisFutureHOF @ Dec 1, 2005 -> 08:10 PM) http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/8715/orly3yn.jpg i saw that too....almost posted it seperately....

Makes sense to me???!!!! boy...NOW Tom Cruise makes sense!!!!!!!!

A Reading mother, apparently trying to help her son make friends, is accused of throwing a rowdy keg party where she sold teens beer. Police say Kim Caufield, 39, now faces charges of distributing alcohol to a minor and delinquency of a minor. Caufield and her family reportedly moved to Reading about two months ago from Florida. Students speculate she threw the beer bash — complete with a keg — to help her 14-year-old son make friends. “It’s still an ongoing investigation at this point,” Reading Lt. Detective Kevin Patterson said. Police responded to a loud Nov. 17 house party at about 9 p.m. Patterson said once police arrived, they observed evidence of alcohol being consumed by partygoers. Police were directed to Caufield and they then seized a keg of beer and other alcoholic beverages. The mother was not arrested or charged as the party was being broken up. Police have since filed a criminal complaint. She is expected to appear in court this month, according to police. Caufield could not be reached for a comment. Reports state Caufield has a 14-year-old son attending Reading High School. Students who went to the party received cups for $5 and a mark on their hand to indicate they paid for the booze. Caufield faces three counts of distributing alcohol to a minor and delinquency of a minor. They are all misdemeanor charges on the bright side....at least she wasn't caught sleeping with the 14 year olds. then again..the party just started...lol

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Coke vending machines are everywhere. They're getting more and more like regular computers with LEDs that show little "ICE COLD" messages and whatnot. Well, there's a lot more to those little built-in computers than you may think. Included in the low-level operating system that these babies run on is an actual debug menu that gives you access to all sorts of machine information and possibly gives you free cokes in older machines. WHICH MACHINES WORK? There's a very strict list of vending machines that have the debug menu. First off, they're all COCA-COLA product vending machines. This means the giant, un-missable picture on the front must show any of the following: Coke, Dasani (Water), Barq's Root Beer, Vanilla Coke, Cherry Coke, Sprite, Evlan (water), Fanta, Fresca, Frutopia, Hi-C, Sprite Remix, Mad River, Mello Yello, Minute Maid, Nestea, Odwalla, Mr. Pibb/Pibb Xtra, Planet Java, Power Ade, Seagram's Ginger Ale, Simply Orange, Sparkletts, or Tab. Of course anything Diet or Caffeine free works too. The machine must have an LED screen. Some of the older ones just allow the LED to be set to a price amount and won't have the debug menu. You're safer if the little LED is telling you something. Usually it will scroll a little message like "Ice Cold Cokes". Newer machines are more likely candidates. ACCESSING THE MENU To enter the menu, there's a button combination. HERE'S THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO REALLY REMEMBER: [4]-[2]-[3]-[1] The buttons are numbered depending on how they are positioned. They will either be vertical (more likely), or in horizontal rows of 4 buttons per row. If it is vertical, the first button is #1, the one below it is #2, and so forth. If the buttons are in horizontal rows, the first button is #1, and the one to the right of it is #2. The numbers work like a type writer after that. In rows of 4, the first button of row 2 will be button #5. So, to review, getting in to the debug menu looks like this: COKE MACHINE:::::: $1.00 ------- ------------- [ Coke ] [ Coke ] [ Diet Coke ] [ Sprite ] [ And so on ] ------------- Some text should show up on the LED (probably the word "Error", we'll explain what it means next sections). If nothing happens, your machine doesn't have the debug menu. NAVIGATION To navigate from option to option (What they are is next section), remember the numberings we gave the buttons. They work as follows: Button [ 1 ] - Exit/Back Button [ 2 ] - Up Button [ 3 ] - Down Button [ 4 ] - Select OPTIONS Depending on the age of the machine, you will get a varying amount of default options available. On older machines: SALE, VER, EROR, and RTN On newer machines: CASH, SALE, EROR, and RTN CASH - Machine Earnings Display The CASH option will display how much money is in the machine currently. It generally takes a second or two to load. From here, you can scroll up and down through 12 or 16 different options, depending on the machine age. These other options display how much money was spent on each individual item, classified through its button (or slot, as I like to call it) number. A neat side note about the slot numbers is that there are more slot numbers than there are actual slot, so usually the last 4 buttons contain zero money. This could be so that the same OS could be used on bigger machines, but the newer machines have even more slot numbers. SALE - Total Sale Count The SALE option displays how many drinks have been sold out of the machine. This tends to be cumulative, but not on all machines. The stock guy is probably supposed to reset this each time he re-stocks. Also, this has the same sub-options as the CASH option, where you can scroll up and down and see how many drinks have been sold from each slot. VER - System/Machine Version? This option will cause a large alphanumeric string to scroll across the LCD. The number looks very much like a serial number, but doesn't vary from machine to machine. It is most likely the OS or machine version number, but of the older machines that have the option, I haven't seen one that doesn't have the same number. EROR - Error Log There are 8 different types of errors - COLJ (Column Jams), VEnd (Vend Mechanism), door (Door Switch), sels (Select Switch), CHAR (Changer Errors), acce (Acceptor Errors), StS (Space-to-sales errors), and bVal (Bill Validators). The separate types and actual errors are useless, as you assumably can't get inside the machine, BUT(!) you can clear the errors. Hold the enter (Number 4) button down for about 2 seconds, and it should clear the error. RTN - Return This is simply the return option. Selecting this will exit the debug menu. On newer machines, pressing the BACK button at the main menu will not exit, and RTN must be selected. A side note: The menu can also be exited by pressing the coin return button. EXTRAS By holding in the coin return button and not releasing, on the newer "big-button" machines, this will display the internal temperature in Fahrenheit, as in "42F". **Update** There are many more menu options that are only accessible if they've either been enabled from the computer inside the machine, or on the internal computer behind the door (Probably not feasible for you to access). CPO - Coin Payout Mode You can can dump coins from the coin mechanism, and the various menu options allow you to choose which type of coins (Nickels, dimes, etc.) are dumped. tVFL - Tube Fill Mode This is useless to you. This allows you to load coins into the coin tubes, which you can't do from the outside. TEST - Test Routines This allows you to test the following various routines: SE Allows you to test the buttons. Will give you number of button when you press it SP Sold-out paddle test. Not quite sure, most likely internal function. Su Sold-out switch test. Same as paddle. CO Motor test. Will run various column motors. Cn Coin test. Put in a coin and it will tell you what kind of coin it is. nA Note acceptor test. Same as Cn, but for bills. dSP Display test. Will illuminate various LEDs. vErS Rattles off version number. RELY - Relay test This tests the relay electronic control of various parts. Do not do, as it will cause damage if various internal parts are not unplugged before usage. PASS - Password This is not normally accessible, but allows you to change the menu password from the 4-2-3-1. Whoo! PrIC - Price Setting Used to set the price for a drink. Not sure how to work it, but it seems simple enough. StOS - Space-to-sales routine Lets you change the STS routine and other options. This means that various buttons will all mean the same thing, i.e. the 6 coke buttons don't actually vend from 6 different columns, but vend from one (changing when one runs out of course). COn - Machine Configuration/Permissions This is the machine config menu that decides what of these options you are allowed to access through the outside panel. This is probably only accessible with the door open. I won't go into detail, but I'll list the Config numbers and what each do: C1 sets price menu on, C2 sets special (manufacturer) options on), C3 disables the "ICE COLD COKE" message. C4 is autoviewing of menu when door is opened, C5 is door switch status, C6 is mysteriously reserved for "future use", C7 determines whether your money credit stays in for 5 minutes or indefinitely, C8 is Force Vend, C9 allows multiple vends without putting in more money (i.e put in a 5 and get 3 cokes and then your change), and C10 is Escrow Inhibit. CCoC - Correct Change Only Control Adjusts Correct Change only rule to your liking. TIME - Time Adjustment Allows you to set the machine's local time. LANG - Language Selection Not sure how many languages are supported, but there are apparently more than just English. USEFULNESS Unless you can get behind the door, there's little you can do with this except impress your friends. However, if you're able to set the C-switches properly, you'll be able to manipulate the machine in any way you want, get free drinks, change the price, set up cool buy-one-get-one-free deals, etc, etc . Not to forget, knowledge is power. One step closer to free sodas! Power to the people!!!!!!!!!!

Resident Evil 3 and 4 were pretty good. if you're into that sort of thing...the last couple of WWE wrestling games have been pretty good as well. i'm not into the driving games as much but there are quite a few good ones out there. Congrats on your purchase. i guess that means it's time to start saving for the playstaion 3 coming soon.

well..there was this one time......at band camp..........

My friends in college used to kid me about this all the time but i was and still am a big Huey Lewis and the News fan and Rick Springfield fan. I've got all the albums and seem both in concert a few times each.

Wow, Frank. Noone seems to like you lately. Are you the new Thread Killer? Maybe because this article shows both sides being dicks, noone wants to play.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Nov 29, 2005 -> 03:28 PM) I feel sorry for her. However, she is really annoying. The minute she 'pimped' out the memory of her son..she lost any respect she might have gotten from me. Then again..that was from the beginning.

why apologize if they were lied to???? if they were so brazenly misled then they shouldn't feel sorry for believing the 'intel' set before them. Maybe apologize for being gullible but not for the war

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Nov 22, 2005 -> 01:28 PM) http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/22/news/econo...dex.htm?cnn=yes Consumers ready to open their wallets yet again. Once again doom and gloom predictions fall by the wayside. but don't forget Nuke.....prices go up and it's Bush's fault...prices go down and it's a market correction.

boy..it's a good thing she isn't pimping out her and her son's image!!!!!!

After reading the books, the wife and i both decided that this movie would be the best because of all the stuff the book had to offer. I don't think we'll have a chance to see it this weekend but probably the next.

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boy...if only comcast could take out the announcers voices and dub in Hawk and DJ's call it would be great!!!!!!!!!!!! even knowing the outcome.....i don't know if i could sit through that much more of tim McCarver!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You know..today's wrestling fan knows wrestling is pre-determined and set-up (unless your 7 or under), and wrestling fans still watch the show for various reasons. i'm sure there are wrestlers on 'roids and Eddie has had documented 'demons' in his past..mainly alcohol, but give anyone who 'competes' at that level his or her due. you can fake wrestling but you can't fake gravity.

Gee...Chavez vs. Fox???!!! Sounds like a great death match for the Thunderdome!!!! no matter who wins..the US is better off. "TWO MEN ENTER.......ONE MAN LEAVES!!!!!!!!!!"

Parents Slain 18-Year-Old Man Sought In Case UPDATED: 1:40 pm CST November 14, 2005 LITITZ, Pa. -- A man wanted in a Pennsylvania double homicide and apparent abduction of a 14-year-old girl was captured Monday after a car he was driving crashed in Indiana following a police pursuit, State Police said. The girl was found unharmed. State Police 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said David Ludwig, 18, was apprehended about 12:30 p.m. EST after a car he was driving crashed about 20 miles west of Indianapolis. Bursten said Ludwig was found with the missing girl, 14-year-old Kara Beth Borden, a daughter of the slain couple who was apparently Ludwig's girlfriend. "He's in custody and we have the girl," Bursten said. Police in Pennsylvania said Ludwig killed Kara's parents, Michael F. and Cathryn Lee Borden, early Sunday after they and their daughter argued about her curfew. The shootings happened at the family's home near Lititz in Warwick Township, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia. Footage from news helicopters in Indiana showed a girl sitting in a police cruiser, and a young man wearing a gray T-shirt was handcuffed sitting next to a red Volkswagen Jetta that had run head-on into a tree. The site is some 600 miles from the scene of the killings. Authorities in Pennsylvania had said Ludwig had his parents' red Jetta. Bobby Poteet, 36, a Belleville resident, said he was out walking when he saw the red car being pursued by two state police cruisers. "They were flying," he said. Ludwig and Borden were brought to the State Police post in Putnamville, where they were being questioned, 1st Sgt. Steve Hibler said. Pennsylvania authorities talked with Indiana State Police, but had little new information, said Richard F. Garipoli Jr., police chief of Warwick Township. "They are both OK and we are working with the Indiana State Police to get them back here," Garipoli said. Police Chief William Seace said earlier that authorities were operating on the assumption that the girl had been kidnapped and had issued an Amber alert. Police in both Pennsylvania and Indiana had investigated reported sightings of the pair. Kara's 13-year-old sister, Katelyn, told investigators her father and mother were shot after they argued with Ludwig for about an hour, according to a police affidavit filed in court. "As they got near the front door, Katelyn Borden saw David Ludwig with a handgun pointed toward her father and Katelyn saw David Ludwig pull the trigger, heard a gunshot, and then she ran into the bathroom," the affidavit said. She heard a second shot -- presumably the one that killed her mother -- while hiding in the bathroom, it said. Ludwig then ran through the house calling for Kara, she told investigators. The couple's 9-year-old son ran to the home of neighbors, who called 911, police said earlier. Police late Sunday issued an arrest warrant for Ludwig on two counts of criminal homicide, one count of reckless endangerment and one count of kidnapping. Lancaster County Coroner G. Gary Kirchner said Monday that the victims, who were both 50, apparently died of single gunshot wounds to the head. Autopsies were being conducted. "It's completely insane, completely insane," Kirchner said. "This isn't a Romeo-and-Juliet deal; this is far worse than that." The Borden family had lived in their home for several years, said neighbor Tod Sherman, 47. Mike Borden worked for a printing company, and the children were home-schooled, he said. Sherman said the family knew the 18-year-old suspect through a home-schooling network. David Ludwig (right), 18, waits to be escorted into an Indiana State Police facility Monday afternoon. Police said Ludwig, suspected of killing two people in Pennsylvania, was apprehended about 12:30 p.m. after crashing about 20 miles west of Indianapolis following a police pursuit. Stephanie Mannon, 16, said Ludwig and Kara Borden had been seeing each other secretly. "Their parents didn't approve of them being together" because of the age difference, she said. "It wasn't because he was a shady character, because he wasn't." Both Ludwig and Kara Borden maintain Web sites. Hers refers to interests in soccer, art and her Christian faith; his says he enjoys "having soft air gun wars" and claims expertise in "getting in trouble." It was the second violent incident in a week in normally quiet Lititz, a Lancaster County village known for quaint shops, local artists and Sturgis Pretzel House, which bills itself as America's first pretzel bakery. On Tuesday, police shot and killed 23-year-old Daniel B. Faust hours after he allegedly shot one of three officers who had gone to his home with a traffic warrant. The officer, Jevon M. Miller, was critically wounded. Now we can find out if the girl was in on it....(man i hope not)

APPLE'S iPod is set to bring even more pleasure to music lovers this Christmas - after boffins invented a vibrator that moves in time with the songs. The £25 iBuzz connects up to the gizmo and pulses while each tune is played. When the volume is pumped up, the vibrations get faster as the music gets louder. Ali Carnegie, of adult-store www.LoveHoney.co.uk, said the firm is already on the verge of selling out of the bullet-sized device before Christmas. She said its inconspicuous design has been a big winner with women and claims the sex toy, totally unrelated to Apple, is perfect for giving users "big smiles on their way to work". Jessamy Hawley, of Gadget Candy - a technology website aimed at women - believes combining two female passions is sure to prove a No1 hit Now i know why the wife wanted one for X-mas

I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver cut right in front of a pickup truck, causing him to have to drive onto the shoulder to avoid hitting her. This evidently angered the driver enough that he hung his arm out his window and made a nasty sign with his fingers at the woman. "Man, that guy is stupid," I thought to myself. I always smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner whenever a female does anything to me in traffic. And here's why: I drive 48 miles each way every day to work. That's 96 miles each day. Of these, 16 miles each way is bumper to bumper. Most of the bumper-to-bumper is on an 8-lane highway. There are 7 cars every 40 feet for 32 miles. That works out to be 982 cars every mile, or 31,424 cars. Even though the rest of the 32 miles is not bumper-to-bumper, I figure I pass at least another 4,000 cars. That brings the number to something like 36,000 cars that I pass every day. Statistically, females drive half of these. That's 18,000 women drivers! In any given group of females, 1 in 28 has PMS. That's 642. According to Cosmopolitan, 70% describe their love life as dissatisfying or unrewarding. That's 449. According to the National Institute of Health, 22% of all females have seriously considered suicide or homicide. That's 98. And 34% describe men as their biggest problem. That's 33. According to the National Rifle Association, 5% of all females carry weapons, and this number is increasing. That means that every single day, I drive past at least one female that has a lousy love life, thinks men are her biggest problem, has seriously considered suicide or homicide, has PMS, and is armed (Then again..that number is probably higher on the Tri-state!!!)

A little boy wanted $100 badly and prayed for two weeks but nothing happened. Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100. When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to God, USA, they decided to send it to President Bush. The President was so impressed, touched and amused that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy a $5 bill. President Bush thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy. The little boy was delighted with the $5 and sat down to write a thank-you note to God, which read: Dear God, Thank you very much for sending the money, however, I noticed that for some reason you had to send it through Washington D.C. and, as usual, those crooks deducted $95.00

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QUOTE(3E8 @ Nov 4, 2005 -> 09:11 PM) I have a man-crush on Jake Gyllenhaal. I don't have a man-crush on the guy but he will always be "Bubble-boy" to me!!!!!!!