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wow I'd be sleeping till like 11 or noon if I went to sleep at 4 am.
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Originally Posted by jakncoke
wow I'd be sleeping till like 11 or noon if I went to sleep at 4 am.
same - i had to go to the bathroom lol, and usually if that happens i fall right back to sleep but i actually woke up at 7:45 or so and when i got back to bed, i couldn't sleep and i got up and 8, brushed my teeth and stuff and my parent's hadn't gone to work yet, they gave me breakfast and yeah...my day started early
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ROSEMONT, Ill. - Steve Bartman refused yet another offer to cash in on his infamy following his interference with a foul ball in the Chicago Cubs’ 2003 playoff loss to the Florida Marlins.
Bartman’s friend Frank Murtha said the infamous fan won’t accept an offer of $25,000 to attend the National Sports Collectors Convention and autograph a photograph of him tipping a foul ball. The ball seemed destined for Cubs outfielder Moises Alou’s glove during the critical game.
Bartman was vilified by Cubs fans, who thought he helped prevent the team from reaching the World Series for the first tome since 1945. Alou has since said he wouldn’t have caught the ball.
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Bartman has declined all offers to appear or make money off his brush with fame.
poor dude, I bet he's hated so bad by millions of cubs fans.
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Originally Posted by jakncoke
poor dude, I bet he's hated so bad by millions of cubs fans.
lol i remember that game...i saw most of the 2003-2005 play off games - in 2006 is when i was able to only catch a few
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Originally Posted by jakncoke
rofl :laugh: painful to even watch...crazy
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Originally Posted by LiNuX
rofl :laugh: painful to even watch...crazy
Indeed, I wonder what the record is for a 24 hour session.
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The Drake Landing Solar Community is the first solar powered community of North America. Located in the town of Okotoks, Alberta, Canada, the project sets a wonderful example of how every household can lead a sustainable lifestyle. There are 800 solar panels located throughout the community on garage roofs, and they produce 1.5 mega-watts of thermal power during a summer day and supply heat to the district heating system. The whole system meets 90% of the annual heating and hot water needs of the homes.
nice.....
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The 52-home solar community has installed an array of solar panels on the roofs of their houses and garages. Glycol solution runs through an insulated piping system, or collector loop, that connects the array of solar panels. The solar panels absorb the solar energy during the daytime and heat the glycol solution. The glycol solution travels through the collector loop and reaches an underground heat exchanger within the community’s centralized Energy Center. The heat is then transferred from heat exchanger to the water stored in a short-term storage tank. The glycol solution returns to the solar collector system. The Energy Center has short-term thermal storage tanks and long-thermal storage tanks (Borehole Thermal Energy Storage (BTES) system).
During the warmer months the heated water is transferred to the underground borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) system via a series of pipes. The water heats up the surrounding earth increasing the temperature to 80 degrees C (176 °F). The water returns to the short-term storage tanks to be heated again. The heat is stored underground insulated with sand, high-density R-40 insulation, a waterproof membrane, clay, and other landscaping materials. The stored heat is used to provide heat and hot water to the entire community throughout the winter.
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