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The lazy "or" is just a nice way of saying "This conversation's not over, and I welcome your input." It's a way of qualifying your opinion to let someone else know it's not the final word. Of course, it can also be used passive-aggressively. For example:
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In those cases, the "or" becomes more manipulative than lazy, but still allows you to not finish your sentence.
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<html>For inspiration, you might check out AirBnB listings for cities that have famous seasonal tourist events,[http://kaijuan.org/%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B7:Qyezikim9#3_Super_Markets_To_See_In_Rome 3 Super Markets To See In Rome], like Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Coachella around Palm Springs, etc.<br>posted by  at  on January 7 [] <br><br>
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People certainly do this frequently these days using sites like AirBnB although being within Newark might be a turnoff for people coming from out of state who will only have second hand knowledge of the city's less-than-stellar rep.<br>
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might be one of those moments where it's better to ask forgiveness than ask permission?<br>posted by  at  on January 7 <br><br>
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The cheapest tickets to the Super Bowl on StubHub as of this writing are over $2,500 each. While a rich person can certainly trash an apartment, anyone who has SB tickets is probably not judgement-proof.<br>
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Before I take the risk with a stranger, my first inclination would be to use social media (hit up your Facebook, Twitter, what have you) to see if there's anyone trustworthy within your extended social circle who might want to rent to. This seems a little easier from the aspect of dealing with your landlord, since it may seem less like profiteering if you're letting friends of friends stay over than total strangers. I would get payment up front, obviously, and also probably a security deposit.<br>
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Emphasize your place's distance to the stadium and the transportation options available.<br>posted by  at  on January 7 <br><br>
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I don't mean to spoil things here, but please keep your neighbours in mind and even involve them in the decision. Bad experience over here with new people, and large groups of them, tromping in and out of my quaint, and previously secure, building to access an airbnb apartment.<br>posted by  at  on January 7 [] <br><br>
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You should look into being an Air BnB host. The whole model is designed to mitigate risk for both prospective property-offerers -- who are typically not professional B Bs or rental agencies, but just regular folks who have spare room -- and prospective guests who are looking for a trustworthy situation. Having a middleman is a worthwhile investment for safety, privacy, and accountability on both sides.<br>posted by  at  on January 7 <br><br>
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Do airbnb. Don't tell your landlord unless there's some way he would notice or be made aware of it. If you do tell him, ask forgiveness rather than permission.<br>posted by  at  on January 8 [] <br><br>
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I had them paypal me half the total agreed upon price when we confirmed the reservation. They paid the other half upon arrival; the guy got out his laptop and transferred the money as I watched. I made sure the apartment was spotless, I provided clean linens, travel size toiletries, a welcoming bottle of wine; basically everything that had been provided to me when I've stayed in AirB'n'B properties. By this time we were friendly so it was a pleasant interaction when they arrived. I did have my boyfriend there when they arrived just in case, and I did tell my neighbors what was going on so they weren't alarmed at the comings and goings of a couple of strangers.<br>
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They had my phone number and they texted several times for advice on restaurants and stuff while they were here, which I didn't mind at all. I may have just been very lucky, but I felt confident enough about them by the time we met in person that I didn't worry at all while they were staying at my place. Good luck, feel free to memail if you have any questions.<br>posted by  at  on January 8 <br><br>
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Not to be a party pooper, but airbnb is (for rental apartments) NOT legal unless your building is specifically zoned for transient occupancy. Im a property manager and we'be been bringing eviction proceedings against tenants who use airbnb or otherwise illegally sublet their apartments. Its also a super crappy thing to do to your neighbors who now have total strangers who have not been vetted tromping through the building. At the least, you're compromising the safety of the building and at worst, you're facing fines. Please, please talk to your landlord before doing this.<br>
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Sorry to rant but omg do I hate airbnb. Shadiest operation ever.<br>posted by  at  on January 8 [] <br><br>
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: airbnb is (for rental apartments) NOT legal unless your building is specifically zoned for transient occupancy <br>
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You're citing New York zoning laws. The OP lives in New Jersey. <br>
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I can understand the frustration of neighbors and landlords regarding really active Air BnB hosts who take people on an ongoing basis, but I wouldn't put special-occasion use like this is in the same category of practical concern.<br>posted by  at  on January 8 [] <br><br>
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Basically, a zoning system can give you more control over what you are paying in heating and cooling costs. If you are running your daily business with one thermostat, then you are going to get fluctuating temperatures throughout your building - and the only place that is going to be truly comfortable is your hallway where the thermostat is located. Your employees might try to solve this issue by adjusting the thermostat higher or lower to reach a more comfortable working space for themselves.
A zoning system eliminates those needs and maximizes the efficiency of your HVAC unit. As a matter of fact, the U.S. Department of Energy estimates that 40 percent of all utility costs come from your HVAC energy consumption. They also estimate that a zoning system saves a business up to 30 percent on their heating and cooling costs. If you take a moment to run those numbers, you will quickly see how your overhead costs can drastically drop - and your profits will increase.
So the next question is, "How does a zoning system work and how much will it cost me?" Taking out your old HVAC system and replacing it with seven or eight smaller systems while also ripping out your drywall and existing forced air vents and then running new vents, all of which working independently of each other, would place the estimate for cost to be in the tens of thousands - you might have to consider taking out a small business loan from the bank.
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A zoning system is basically a series of thermostats that are installed in each room. They can be either hard wired or controlled remotely, depending on what you choose. These independent thermostats feed into a central thermostat, which tells it whether the room is at the desired temperature. That thermostat then feeds to a series of dampers in each room that tells them to either stay open or close off. If they are open, then the room still needs conditioned air. If they are closed, then room air is at the right temperature and does not need any more conditioning.
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The grand finale to the upgrade concludes with a better way to use the air in your HVAC system. Now,Custom 49ers NFL Jerseys, the conditioned air goes into the rooms that need it and does not go into the rooms that do not, and you do not have to re-route any air ducts to accomplish this.
As a matter of fact, you have probably used the basic premise of these zoning systems in your home when trying to heat or cool multiple levels. You may have stuck blankets in front of an air duct that is closest to your hallway thermostat so that the heat could travel to the downstairs rooms, knowing that heat rises and the upper levels stay warmer. The principle is the same here, it's just an automatic service provided to you by the zoning system via the dampers. Now you can just sit back, enjoy your more comfortable, more efficient business and let the HVAC system work likes it's supposed to - by itself!   

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<html>It wasn't until 1992 that it the internet became available for public use. Fast forward to 2005 in the residential painting industry when "just be there and customers will come" was the marketing strategy of most residential painters. Many painters had websites, most didn't. The websites that most painters did have were basic in nature and would be laughed at today. Initially only a handful of painters made the leap into Internet marketing.
These days Internet marketing is all anybody really talks about. When you need advice you likely turn to the internet. When I started talking to painters about marketing online, painters were telling me the internet didn't fit their local business or it didn't apply to painting.
The primary point of this article is to clear up the most common myths and misunderstandings I hear as I speak to painting contractors on the topic of marketing especially Internet marketing.
Secret #1: Never Measure Results By Tracking Cost Per Lead/Click.
Warning: to really teach this section properly, it requires that I be honest enough that it will likely make me unpopular among certain crowds...but that's fine since my purpose is to educate you, the residential painter.
One of the most costly beliefs is that you should measure your internet marketing success by focusing on Cost-Per-Lead. Cost-Per-Lead is calculated by taking your total investment in your marketing campaign and dividing it by the number of leads. If your Internet marketing company brags about how low your cost per lead is, you should consider whether they have your best interest at heart. Here's why: leads aren't worth anything to you. Leads don't hire you to paint their home, customers do. Which would you rather have of the follow two scenarios? #1: An insanely low Cost-Per-Lead generating 5 customers from 25 leads, who average $1000 in services, or #2 A Cost-Per-Lead triple that of #1 that generates 15 customers from 25 leads, who in turn average $3500 in services? Cost-Per-Lead is one very small piece of the equation.
Here's an ugly truth: most Internet marketing companies take 15% of your Pay per Click (PPC) budget as part of their fee. The more you spend on PPC, the more money some Internet marketing companies make. They have little incentive to evaluate more valuable metrics.
PPC campaigns are set up by bidding on keywords and key phrases. In our industry, you definitely want to bid on "house painting ". It's wise to bid on many, many keywords and different phrases as consumers use different search patterns.
Here's where many painters are getting ripped off by their Internet marketing firm. That click mentioned in the previous paragraph is counted as a lead in most tracking systems. Since residential painting is such a localized market, it's a waste to bid on keywords and phrases that aren't in your real target market. You can see how easy it is for an Internet marketing company to tell you your cost per lead is great, asking you to increase your PPC budget and add 15% to their bottom line.
Fortunately, this problem is easily solved by focusing on the most important marketing tracking metric of all time: COST PER CLIENT ACQUISITION. Clients pay you money, leads don't. As long as your cost per client acquisition stays acceptable, it's fine to increase your PPC budget.
Secret #2: It Doesn't Take Forever To Get on the First Page of Google.
You can have your company listed in two places on the first pages of major search engines as fast as a couple days and certainly within a couple weeks. The two, very visible and effective areas you can be on quickly are the local maps (Google Places) and the Pay per Click (PPC) portion of the search results page.
Your Google Places listing, will be located as a push-pin marker in the map you see when you search locally. This is the prime search engine real estate and gets a lot of traffic since Google has become the default search engine. It's FREE! Google doesn't charge anything for that listing,How to Prepare for an End of Lease Cleaning, though this might not be FREE for long, so I suggest you take advantage of that if you haven't.
The second area you can be listed on the first page of Google is in the PPC sections, on the very top and right of the page called "Sponsored Links". Most painters know what PPC is and, if your marketing firm knows what they're doing, it should take days, not weeks to get you listed and receiving customers from PPC. You can lose a small fortune if you attempt setting up a PPC campaign without knowing what you're doing. Anybody that does their own PPC campaign is likely wasting at least as much money as it would cost to hire a firm that knows what they're doing.
The third area which should also be focused on is called Organic or Natural Search Engine Optimization, an area that does take time. In some markets it doesn't take too long, in others it can take months.
You should be happy to know you can begin receiving traffic from the first pages of even Google, in a few days when you work with somebody who knows what they're doing.
Secret #3: The Internet has not Killed Yellow Pages.
How many times have you heard "the Yellow Pages are dead, get out of them, etc."? Here's the truth: Yellow Pages are dead in some markets but alive and well in more markets. In surveying painters in almost every market across the United States, some of them get a greater ROI on their Yellow Pages than the Internet.
Here's another shocker: there are many markets in this country that still don't have enough Internet search traffic for professional painting that only FREE Internet marketing pays off.
I've seen more than 50 painting contractors watch their income and number of jobs drop like a rock because they decided to get out of the Yellow Pages, advice that was almost deadly and has become expensive to fix.
The Internet is extremely relevant and should be tested for almost every painter. But,Custom 49ers NFL Jerseys, in many markets the Yellow Pages are still the number one source of new jobs, next to referrals.
The most honest advice I can give you is to rigorously test every marketing medium you use and make decisions based on what works for you in your market.
Secret #4: If You Have An Internet Connection and Can Read, You Can Generate Quite A Bit of Traffic From The First Pages of Search Engines Without Hiring an Expert.
In secret #2 I mentioned "local maps" and a tool called Google Places. These are currently free and you don't need to hire an agency or marketing specialist to set these up. Studies have shown these free maps can receive more traffic than PPC and natural/organic listings!
If you're not working with an agency to manage your Internet marketing, stop reading this article and set these up immediately. If you are working with an Internet marketing agency, they should already have this if they're any good.
Secret #5: The Internet is not Confusing and Dangerous For Our Needs.
To many the Internet is an is overwhelming and confusing machine. The Internet is just another marketing medium. It's just like Yellow Pages, direct mail, newspaper ads,Cheap Custom 49ers Jerseys, Television, Radio,Custom New York Jets NFL Jerseys, etc. It's one of many ways to attract new customers.
Don't get overwhelmed and confused. Hire a good,Is Churn and Burn Really The Way to Earn-, trusted and reputable firm to handle it for you and you'll be able to see reporting that tells you exactly what you're getting.
Secret #6: The Internet is Not the End-All, Be-All Marketing Tactic.
There are many Internet marketing companies that will lead you to believe that you won't ever need to consider another marketing strategy or tactic again. Ouch!
It's hard to gather really reliable facts, but those who spend a fortune on Internet marketing and have extremely good campaigns put together only seem to pull 30% - 40% of their new customers from the Internet. Where do the other 60% - 70% of the new customers come from? The average contractor has closer to 15% of new customers coming through their Internet marketing.
A good marketing plan should include a robust, Internet marketing campaign and a dozen or so offline strategies that drive predictable, affordable and consistent new customers to your business. Far too many companies put all their marketing eggs in the Internet marketing basket only to be sorely disappointed.
Internet marketing is a solid marketing strategy for many painters across the country. Internet marketing combined with innovative offline sales and marketing strategies is the winning combination. In addition to more customers, you'll acquire them at a lower cost and be diversified in your job acquisition strategies so if one quits working, you'll still be in good shape.
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It is recommended for a few reasons that you have a space that is uniquely your office space. For one thing if you are going to use business tax deductions for operating expenses, and in claiming your home is used for business, you are required to have a space used exclusively for the business. Nobody says you have to sit there but you must have an actual office space.
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Ruins can be the highlight of any holiday, and Sicily simply abounds with them ? but in Syracuse it is truly like a walk through history. At its core is the Greek theatre, an amazing construction dating back thousands of years and still in use today.
The 59-rowed theatre was built to accommodate some 15,000 spectators, and hosted many plays and socially important events. It has remained a focus to this day, and travellers lucky enough to be in the region between May and June can still enjoy Greek theatre just as it was back in the 5th century BC.
Archaeological Museum
A Sicilian vacation should be underpinned by at least one visit to acknowledge its rich past. The Syracuse Archaeological Museum ? or its correct title, Museo Archeologico Paolo Orsi ? offers some of the most stunning views and artefacts on the island. Located in Viale Teocrito, it hosts one of the best archaeological collections, dating back nearly 3,000 years.
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Although "leaders" is more of a formal term than anything else. Tuesday, November 19 marked the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, when Abraham Lincoln reminded Americans that a way of life worth fighting and dying for must also be worth living for. But what have you done with that mandate, America? You've been given the greatest opportunity in history, but you fill your days with reality TV,Custom 49ers NFL Jerseys, racism, and -- worse than those two put together -- autotune. Yet we as a nation harbor greater sins than LMFAO. Here are the modern behaviors everyone is guilty of, regardless of party, persuasion, or parish.

  1. 4. Staying Misinformed

Yellow journalism is nothing new, but historically people only got subjected to it for an hour or two each day. With just a few major broadcasters, there was no need to pretend a day contained 24 hours' worth of news. Americans received a fairly accurate account of the world, or at least had an excuse for their inaccurate one. But now newspapers are dying, the Internet only serves up information relevant to its secret profile of you, and Ouija boards still haven't made contact with Walter Cronkite. Sad, no? This has led to shoddy gimmicks like reporting "live" from the police station where they took the suspect five hours after the crime occurred, or its anchor counterpart, "breaking news" on a story that's already wrapped. Digital Vision./Photodisc/Getty Images
And the weird thing is the mugging happened in Sheboygan. Sure, you can still access real journalism if you subscribe to The New York Times, but understanding its relevance to you is expensive, since first you have to move to western Connecticut. For the rest of the country, it's hard to feign interest in a Lifestyle profile on what five bankers are having for lunch followed by an Arts bio of the world's last living six-toed ballerina. Turning the page, you read a Dining review that's mostly an apology for enjoying plebeian food. And every single one of those articles jams in an ill-fitting reference to Marcel Proust and his madeleines. Come on, New York Times, I just wanted to know which parts of the world were exploding, and instead I'm reading the most awkward hip-hop profile piece ever, and I still can't tell what it has to do with Young Preezy's "M.A.D.E. Linez." So TV news it is, even though TV is trying to stay competitive by becoming the worst parts of humanity, much as radio did before it. Hemera Technologies/AbleStock.com/Getty Images And then, since it's the Internet, someone pedantic would correct it as "Two Minutes Hate," plural. The 24-hour cable news networks are, in order of ratings: FOX News -- If FOX News were a person, it would be a teenager with an adult haircut whose dad bought him a DeLorean driving backward through time and complaining the entire trip. The only thing worse than FOX News is FOX News on fast-forward, because then you absorb three times as many lies before you can avert your eyes. The reason they're a TV network and not a tailor shop is that you can't sustain the new clothes trade with so few emperors these days. According to their business model, when owner Rupert Murdoch gets to hell, he'll buy it out and spend billions convincing the residents to pretend it's heaven. Hulton Archive/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Here they report on Elizabeth Warren's tuition reform efforts. MSNBC -- FOX might be a gaggle of dickheads, but MSNBC is the strap-on your girlfriend whips out during sex with no prior discussion. MSNBC is FOX News for the kind of liberals who only exist in conservative fantasies and liberal nightmares. You have to watch it 40 feet from the kitchen or all your gluten, meat, and dairy turn to arsenic, soy, and smug satisfaction. So long as three TVs in a building are simultaneously tuned to this channel, everyone inside is a spokesperson for Occupy Wall Street. Or at least that's the untested theory, because nobody really watches this circle jerk. The only MSNBC personality who pulls decent ratings is Rachel Maddow, because she's the only one who isn't a cartoon. There's Chris Matthews,An Introduction To Italian Wine On Sicily, of course, but he's less a personality and more of a haystack someone trained to do verbal pratfalls. If you want to see the real face of MSNBC, look at Ed Schultz, host of the electrifyingly titled The Ed Show. In the body of public discourse, Schultz is the goiter. He's sort of like Bill O'Reilly minus an audience that wants to hear a lump of bread dough grumble. The Ed Show is targeted at what I can only assume are very irate little men wearing socks and Tevas in Napa Valley. Nobody, not even Ed Schultz, knows what the purpose of his program is. He's the only man in the world whose mirror reflection changes the channel. CNN -- Deserted by the right, then the left, the weary news network has tried to stay hip with holograms and touchscreens. If CNN still showed news, you'd get it without a political agenda, but the network loses half an IQ point every time they treat Justin Bieber's Instagram feed like news.

"Here's the magic wall bringing you 1951's most cutting-edge telestrator technology, annnnd we're all idiots now." HLN -- This is CNN for mothers who like to angrily cluck their tongues and mutter something unintelligible about "those people." Al Jazeera America -- Stands on a reputation for solid reporting, but still a good five years away from convincing Americans that watching it won't red-flag your NSA profile. One America News Network -- I have no idea what this is, but it sounds like the mouthpiece of a totalitarian future state. The Fix: As you can see, it's hard to form a real idea of what's going on. You have to seek reputable news sources and be willing to mistrust the things you most want to believe ... so that you can confirm or correct their validity by testing them. Comstock/Stockbyte/Getty Images The only way you know how. If you don't, you're left with whatever brand of panic the news networks want to sell us, and that leads to ...

  1. 3. Stereotyping and Demonizing the Opposition

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Pictured: everyone who disagrees with you slightly. Have you ever hung out with people who hold different opinions from yours? Enjoy that adventure, because in the future, your media exposure will become even more tailored to your tastes. And it will cost you the ability to see opponents as people, not platitudes. The only thing either side in any of the modern American debates agrees on is that the other guys are Nazis. And if they're not Nazis, God forbid you criticize them for their actual flaws. For example, here is Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey and forceful personality, who -- whatever other criticisms you may level at him -- puts the fucking work in. He does the job he was elected to do, but he's known for his brash mouth. Can you guess what jokes get made about him? Kena Betancur/Getty Images News/Getty Images If lazy jokes were fat cells, you'd have enough about Governor Chris Christie to build your own Governor Chris Christie. But forget public figures. Their whole shtick is to make you hate the other guys more than you hate them. Let's look closer to home. Who here has a relative that will make next week's turkey dinner tense? Nobody? Seriously? No one else here is Irish Catholic? Well, some of us have a cousin who won't stop preaching about the evils of the meat industry during the carving. Others suffer through a great-uncle's theory of how helped Obama fake bin Laden's death. At my house,Cheap Custom New York Jets Jerseys, the family puts up with my Bull Moose Party rhetoric (platform: "Everyone is bastards") and my plan to replace most legislation with a computer that eats statistics and craps sensible government. Thomas Northcut/Digital Vision/Getty Images Quick tip: If your Twitter bio includes your politics, you are this person in your family. But these people aren't monsters. These are your relatives. You probably love them. You may even like them. Because they're yours. But it's more than just the bloodline, right? You know them well enough to know that whatever crazy stuff they believe, they're good people. Except for Great-Aunt Murgatroyd. She's only here for the whiskey, cruelty,Want To Know How To Go About Juicing- These Tips Can Help!, and Jesus, and she's all out of Jesus. The Fix: I know this is hard to believe online, but almost nobody you'll ever meet is working toward the destruction of America. Your life probably isn't exciting enough to meet any real-life terrorists or Bond villains. All you can do is avoid the people who, on an actual, personal level, create harm and havoc. Just because some people believe we should close all the banks and go back to the barter system doesn't mean they aren't human beings full of laughter and tears and some kinks that would shock you but, hey, no judgments. Go join a basketball team with somebody you like even though you disagree on stuff. Or start a band. Or do anything other than sit around fantasizing about how the XYZs are destroying this country. But This Is the Hard Part: Now we are engaged in an embarrassing civil war, testing whether this nation,Cheap Custom 49ers Jerseys, or any nation, can long endure its self-obsessed whining and sniping. We are met on a great battlefield of that war, the Internet, to lay a final resting place for such behavior. Remember that people out there -- even the ones you disagree with on the nerve level, and yes, even a lot of raging bigots -- have Thanksgiving with somebody who loves them in spite of themselves. Or because of it. People are a screwed-up species. Try to see that human part and treat them as a person, not a faceless member of a group. If you don't know where to start, try stroking their hair, making suggestive jokes, and inviting them back to your hotel for a quickie. Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images OK, that's too intimate: a quickie, but no eye contact and no kissing. Or dial it back to taking them on their own merits, not the boxes you want them to fit in. If you don't, you're refusing to associate with anyone different from you, and that's plumb un-American. You'll belong to the following class of jerk ...</html>

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  1. 6. The Flat-Headed Agama Is Dressed as Spider-Man

Technically, this type of reptile is known as the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama, but it's way better known as the "Spider-Man lizard," for obvious reasons: It can walk on walls. Oh, and also, it . Or like Spider-Man himself, if he had been dipping into Doctor Connors' lizard-man formula.
The formula affected clothing as well as skin because of decency. And science. While not fighting crime with smart-ass one-liners or blaming itself for the death of its loved ones in New York, the flat-headed agama can be found in -- specifically,Best Wines to Enjoy with Your, southwest through the Serengeti, Tanzania, Rwanda,David Thibault, Quebec teen Elvis, nails Blue Christmas, and Kenya. Only the male lizards of the species have this particular paint job; presumably, the females look like either She-Ra or, uh, Storm of the X-Men (yeah, not much to choose from there).
She-Venom. The female looks like She-Venom. And while it may look a bit intimidating, especially if you're arachnophobic, the flat-headed agama actually ... as long as you get the special equipment to maintain its temperature, feed it properly, and keep it away from symbiotes. Their resemblance to Spider-Man created quite a demand a few years ago,Cheap Custom New York Jets Jerseys, when a photographer snapped some pictures of them. We assume the photographer looked suspiciously like a reptile wearing a bow tie and glasses and has never been seen in the same place as Spider-Lizard.
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  1. 5. The Pink Katydid Looks Like Somebody Spray-Painted a Grasshopper

OK, that's clearly an origami model made from some Hello Kitty stationery or something, right? Nope, this thing only wishes it wasn't a real bug: It's actually a pink katydid, which as the name suggests is just a regular katydid that got fucked-over by nature and ended up looking like Kirby's most unflattering transformation. , , And,Custom 49ers NFL Jerseys, by the way, we're serious about the "fucked-over by nature" part -- generally, bugs have coloring that allows them to blend in with the plants they live around, like in the case of the regular, green katydids. You usually get brightly colored variants like this only in exotic locations where the plants are sort of crazy-looking as well, but curiously the pink katydid is turning up in such as Osaka and the American Midwest. Meaning that the ones pictured here probably got eaten by something a second after these were taken.
"Mmmmm, crunchy strawberry!" The pink katydid is pretty , occurring in about one out of every 500. Oh, and science's explanation for their coloring? They're , which also explains their general look of defeat. Not that they're the only ridiculously colored katydid variants out there: They also come in yellow, white, orange, and blue ... ,Cheap Custom 49ers Jerseys, ,
"Mmmmm, crunchy lemon, vanilla, carrot, and Smurf!" And hey, what happens when they raise their rings and yell "Go Planet"?
They get spotted and eaten even more quickly? Captain Katydid appears, of course. OK, that one actually looks kind of awesome.

  1. 4. The Peacock Spider Won't Be Getting Laid at the Club Tonight

The peacock spider is a type of jumping spider with a flair for the dramatic. Most of the time, the male of the species simply looks like a somewhat more brightly colored version of a regular spider (the one above looks like it was designed by Edvard Munch). However, when a female is around, these tragically unhip Casanovas prop up the flaps on the upper side of their abdomens and start moving their legs around like maniacs, furiously signaling their desperation to get laid. Sing along: It's fun to stay at the ...
"Y-M-C-" *hesitant, awkward bob* The mundane-looking females carefully study the colors during the male's courtship displays to choose which male is the healthiest to mate with. How do the males show the females that they're the best choice to get down and dirty with? By :
Technically they dance their asses off, but their asses look like faces. The courtship ritual of the peacock spider is a majestic spectacle of nature that- Hold up, is that spider twerking?
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Yeah, I only said that one once. Anyway, the reason I don't finish these phrases is because I don't need to. Neither do you. Society has noticed that there are certain scenarios where a few unfinished words and a gesture or facial expression get the job done. Here are five. Are there more? I'm sure there are, but five is a nice number. I grew up in a family of five. There are five fingers on one hand, and Lacey Chabert from Party of Five grew up hotter than any of us expected. Jason Merritt/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images
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  1. 5. The Lazy "Or"

Our first entry is something I like to call the lazy "or." It's nicely evocative, don't you think? It conjures an image of someone going around in circles in a rowboat. Jupiterimages/BananaStock/Getty Images
Lazy oar. Get it? The lazy "or" is when you want to convey options,Custom 49ers NFL Jerseys, but don't want to be bothered thinking about what those options could be. Examples include: "So, you wanna get some Chinese food, or ...?" "Yeah, bowling sounds like a fun idea, or ..." "Do you like it when I do that thing with the thing in bed, or ...?"
Thing not pictured The lazy "or" is just a nice way of saying "This conversation's not over, and I welcome your input." It's a way of qualifying your opinion to let someone else know it's not the final word. Of course, it can also be used passive-aggressively. For example: "I'd be happy to have that last slice of pizza, or ..." "So we'll get Grandma a gift card to Chippendales for her 80th birthday, or ..." "It's the worst when you can't think of a third example for your article, um, or ..." In those cases, the "or" becomes more manipulative than lazy, but still allows you to not finish your sentence.

  1. 4. The "Excuse Me, I Just ... (Need Something You're in the Way Of)"

Here's one that pops up a lot in crowded places. You're in some place with lots of people -- people you don't really know or ever have cause to speak to. Let's say it's a Starbucks. You've got your coffee and you need to add some milk or nutmeg or whatever you like to put into your coffee. But the Starbucks fixin's bar is flooded with a gaggle of commuters all very much in their own coffee creation worlds,Cheap Custom 49ers Jerseys, oblivious to your need for that thermos of milk they're currently blocking you from.
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  1. 3. The "Well ... (I Guess This Guy Is Crazy)"

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They aren't bound, and most are legal proceedings or financial accountings and do not espouse a world view.With his own definition in mind, Ferri said his bet on the oldest books in the world would be Homer's Iliad, and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Indeed, the British Museum's version of the Gilgamesh tale, written on clay tablets, dates to about the seventh century B.C. However, the tablets aren't bound, so they're technically not a book, but they do come close, especially in the sense they propose a certain view of the world. But we don't really know when the stories started or how they evolved. This is another situation to consider, Ferri said. These (two stories) are the product of a very long oral tradition. We know roughly when the text was fixed, but the stories pre-existed the physical book. And so the questions turn. Some people consider the Bible the oldest book, as it was written in a time shortly, according to Christianity and other religions, after the world was created. Yet biblical scholars know many of the stories were set down centuries after the events they record happened.Bringing religion, or world views, into the question begets more twists and turns. The I-Ching, the foundation book for Taoist philosophy, was allegedly written by Lao-Tze more than 2,000 years ago. Pharaonic texts exist with a similar vintage. There are likely other more obscure religions that claim to have a toehold in centuries further in the past and that their more recent printings are merely modern manifestations of ancient texts.For Ferri, the quest for the world's oldest book is just that -- a quest. If you find the oldest book you find the oldest truth,Custom New York Jets NFL Jerseys, the oldest revelation, Ferri said. This is a revelation of original things; this is what humans always look for. So we ask the questions again and again, 'What is the oldest? 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<html>For inspiration, you might check out AirBnB listings for cities that have famous seasonal tourist events,3 Super Markets To See In Rome, like Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Coachella around Palm Springs, etc.
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People certainly do this frequently these days using sites like AirBnB although being within Newark might be a turnoff for people coming from out of state who will only have second hand knowledge of the city's less-than-stellar rep.
The Essex County news blog Baristanet did about area homes posting listings on a site called, uh, . No idea whether it's reputable,Custom New York Jets NFL Jerseys, though.
posted by at on January 7

might be one of those moments where it's better to ask forgiveness than ask permission?
posted by at on January 7

The cheapest tickets to the Super Bowl on StubHub as of this writing are over $2,500 each. While a rich person can certainly trash an apartment, anyone who has SB tickets is probably not judgement-proof.
Also,Why Do People Need Bodybuildi, tow people who can afford $5000 to go to the game probably also wouldn't blink at an extra $500 - $1000 deposit, to be refunded when they leave.
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Before I take the risk with a stranger, my first inclination would be to use social media (hit up your Facebook, Twitter, what have you) to see if there's anyone trustworthy within your extended social circle who might want to rent to. This seems a little easier from the aspect of dealing with your landlord, since it may seem less like profiteering if you're letting friends of friends stay over than total strangers. I would get payment up front, obviously, and also probably a security deposit.
On the other hand, think of this from the worst case scenario - what if your place gets trashed? What if someone accidentally starts a fire, or slips on your front steps,Custom 49ers NFL Jerseys, or steals something? In that case a legitimate commercial site like airbnb may be better just in terms of liability, since they have insurance coverage built in to their fees (last time I checked).
posted by at on January 7

Emphasize your place's distance to the stadium and the transportation options available.
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I don't mean to spoil things here, but please keep your neighbours in mind and even involve them in the decision. Bad experience over here with new people, and large groups of them, tromping in and out of my quaint, and previously secure, building to access an airbnb apartment.
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You should look into being an Air BnB host. The whole model is designed to mitigate risk for both prospective property-offerers -- who are typically not professional B Bs or rental agencies, but just regular folks who have spare room -- and prospective guests who are looking for a trustworthy situation. Having a middleman is a worthwhile investment for safety, privacy, and accountability on both sides.
posted by at on January 7

Do airbnb. Don't tell your landlord unless there's some way he would notice or be made aware of it. If you do tell him, ask forgiveness rather than permission.
posted by at on January 8 []

I did this in New Orleans for the Super Bowl last year! It worked out really, really well. The couple who stayed at my place were super grateful to have found a nice, clean, safe place and were just wonderful people.
I did not at any point tell my landlord. I put an ad on Craigslist New Orleans under vacation rentals. I posted a couple of interior pictures and described the location and size of the apartment but didn't put too many details. I said I would reply with more information to interested parties, and I initially asked what I thought was an astronomical fee per night but many people were willing to pay it so don't sell yourself short when naming your price.
I got responses from about 20 people. Of these, I immediately discarded anyone that seemed sketch and people who wanted to bring like eight of their fraternity brothers or six family members or whatever because my apartment doesn't comfortably sleep more than three and I was unwilling to inconvenience my neighbors. I ended up corresponding with about four couples, sending them about ten interior pictures and more fully describing the house and the neighborhood. I narrowed it down to this one couple after a few days. I friended them on facebook, googled the heck out of them, checked the websites of their places of employment to verify that they worked there,Cheap Custom 49ers Jerseys, spoke to them on the phone multiple times, etc. etc. By the time we came to an agreement I trusted them and they trusted me. We even agreed that they would take care of my cat so she wouldn't have to be boarded; they were big animal people and were happy to do it.
I had them paypal me half the total agreed upon price when we confirmed the reservation. They paid the other half upon arrival; the guy got out his laptop and transferred the money as I watched. I made sure the apartment was spotless, I provided clean linens, travel size toiletries, a welcoming bottle of wine; basically everything that had been provided to me when I've stayed in AirB'n'B properties. By this time we were friendly so it was a pleasant interaction when they arrived. I did have my boyfriend there when they arrived just in case, and I did tell my neighbors what was going on so they weren't alarmed at the comings and goings of a couple of strangers.
They had my phone number and they texted several times for advice on restaurants and stuff while they were here, which I didn't mind at all. I may have just been very lucky, but I felt confident enough about them by the time we met in person that I didn't worry at all while they were staying at my place. Good luck, feel free to memail if you have any questions.
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Oh, and to add, I stayed with some friends during the time my houseguests were there, and I used a decent chunk of the money I made to take us all out to a really nice dinner and lots of drinks. It was worth it just to be able to treat my friends like that.
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Not to be a party pooper, but airbnb is (for rental apartments) NOT legal unless your building is specifically zoned for transient occupancy. Im a property manager and we'be been bringing eviction proceedings against tenants who use airbnb or otherwise illegally sublet their apartments. Its also a super crappy thing to do to your neighbors who now have total strangers who have not been vetted tromping through the building. At the least, you're compromising the safety of the building and at worst, you're facing fines. Please, please talk to your landlord before doing this.
Sorry to rant but omg do I hate airbnb. Shadiest operation ever.
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airbnb is (for rental apartments) NOT legal unless your building is specifically zoned for transient occupancy

You're citing New York zoning laws. The OP lives in New Jersey.
I can understand the frustration of neighbors and landlords regarding really active Air BnB hosts who take people on an ongoing basis, but I wouldn't put special-occasion use like this is in the same category of practical concern.
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