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asl?

[Anonymouse]

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26/m/Glendale lol

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pics?

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You know, we could make this forum amazing... if only we tried. I only post at one other message board and they use the vBulletin, too.

They have "reps" where you can good/bad rep people. A lot of message boards have this, I'm surprised we don't. It's just fun to gain a lot of reps.

They have something called "Vet Status" or more recently known as "Support Status." Basically, if you contribute to the board and post often, you get it. They give you a small banner which states you are a Supporter and goes under your avy. You then have access to forums other posters don't. Special forums, with your own music links, better discussions without "normal" posters. You also can make your avatar MUCH BIGGER, up to 350 x 400, I believe. Everybody wants that and I received it over the weekend.

They also have Moderators/Admins like we do. These people can see who reps them, nobody else can.

I think those little things make people enjoy the forum and even have them stay. Here, we don't have many active posters so maybe that could attract them. I don't even know how to configure all those but I thought I should say.

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Well, I'm all for it. I'm for having more moderators and someone being an active admin. Nimda and Siggie have been absent. Just the other day I got a message from Siggie, I replied and she still has not gotten back. I know she's very busy and I don't know how else they will get notice.

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The idea of repping is something fun to have but not necessary. I think it's something we have disabled so it would be easy to set it on. I wouldn't even know how to configure the support status and the rest but what we really do need is an active admin.

That message board has 3-4 admins and over 20 moderators. They each moderate their own forums, not the entire message board itself. I rather have you as admin and make 1-2 people moderators so we can cover the entire forum with spammers.

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Who felt that earthquake?

[MrHyeSev]

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I felt it, I was at school teaching the kids, but Im proud of them they dididnt freak out.

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The 5.4 Earthquake:

(Part 1)

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 jolted large parts of Southern California late this morning, shaking a wide swath from Ventura County to San Diego and causing minor damage and a few injuries.

The quake rattled buildings in downtown Los Angeles and was felt as far east as Palm Springs. It was centered near Chino Hills, about 30 miles east of Los Angeles, the U.S. Geological Survey said.



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"It felt like something had exploded underneath us," said Vanessa Rojas, 21, a hair salon employee at Blondie's Clip Shop in nearby Chino. "The ground lifted, then it began to shake. It was a big ripple."

There were minor injuries and structural damage at the St. Jude Centers for Rehabilitation and Wellness in nearby Brea, an outpatient medical facility, according to a representative. TV helicopter footage of the Chino Hills area showed people being evacuated from schools and some buildings, but no major damage.

Pomona City Hall was closed as workers surveyed the damage, which was mostly broken glass. On the northern side of the building's third floor, a worker used a shovel to remove what little glass remained in a large window frame.

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By midafternoon, some normalcy was returning. Nerves were still frayed in Chino Hills, but lives otherwise had largely returned to pre-quake status. At the Vons supermarket on Chino Hills Parkway, for example, all the aisles had been cleaned up two hours after the quake toppled glass jars off shelves and sent plastic containers bouncing to the floor.

The magnitude of the quake, which struck at 11:42 a.m., was originally set at 5.8. Caltech officials later downgraded it to 5.4 and said they doubted the temblor caused major structural damage.

Kate Hutton, a staff seismologist at Caltech, said that by 12:30 p.m., 27 aftershocks had been recorded at various sites, with the largest measuring 3.8. Today's temblor "was somewhat similar to the [1987] Whittier Narrows [quake]," Hutton said. "Most everyone in the L.A. Basin felt it. Things will have fallen off shelves. I'd be surprised to see some structural damage. There could be some cases of cracked plaster and maybe broken windows, but not structural damage, which is when a building is compromised."

She called the quake an "oblique flip on a thrust fault," which means one fault line slides over another one.

The quake occurred seven miles below the Earth's surface, which she said was fairly shallow by global standards. A much deeper one would not be felt so strongly but, overall, would be felt over a larger area.

"The most interesting thing to us is that this is the first one we've had in a populated area for a long time," Hutton said. "People have forgotten what an earthquake feels like. We should look at this as an earthquake drill for the Big One that will come one day."

She said today's quake was significantly smaller than the Whittier Narrows quake.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger activated the Office of Emergency Services and in a statement urged people throughout Southern California to cut back on telephone use because the system was being "maxed out."

Raja Mitwasi, chief deputy director of the California Department of Transportation office in Los Angeles, said traffic on the county's highway system was not disrupted by the earthquake. He said Caltrans has been monitoring traffic from its traffic management center. The agency is also inspecting highway bridges and pavement.

"So far, there is nothing visible. We don't even see minor damage," Mitwasi said. "Traffic appears to be moving normally. We don't see any delay."

Irvine police closed the Bake Parkway connector to Interstate 5, fearing that the overpass might have been damaged. Glenda Dobbins, a Caltrans representative, said that engineers found a small separation in the expansion joints of the truck overpass. She said the joints were intended to absorb earthquakes and swaying roads.

Dobbins said engineers had also inspected a reported problem at the eastbound 91 Freeway west of the 241 Freeway, but found no damage.

"Our engineers are out there checking all of our freeways, and at this point we have nothing to report as far as damage," Dobbins said.

The biggest initial concern was in San Bernardino County, which is particularly susceptible to damage because its high water table makes the ground unstable during shaking.

But there were no reports of injury to people or of structural damage, said Jodi Miller, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Phones in the Chino Hills Sheriff's Station have been working intermittently, but the emergency dispatch center has had no disruptions, she added.

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(Part 2)



Sheriff's officials have been responding to calls from people whose house alarms were activated. They also heard reports of books and groceries flying off the shelves at supermarkets and at a local Barnes & Noble bookstore.

Miller said the department was inundated with calls from people who were frightened by the shaking.



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* 5.4 quake rocks Los Angeles area
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Video: Strong earthquake hits SoCal
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Post-quake callers overload phone systems, both wireless and wired
*
What's closed, delayed after quake

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said it had no immediate reports of serious injuries.

Five people suffered minor injuries at a building in the 3600 block of Wilshire Boulevard in the rush to exit, and flooding occurred at a Macy's in Topanga Plaza.

The downtown Stanley Mosk Courthouse on Grand Avenue was evacuated as a precautionary measure but later reopened. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors was in closed session at the time of the earthquake and did not suspend its meeting.

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» Quake occurred about eight miles under Chino Hills
» 'Really, really scary' in Chino Hills quake epicenter
» L.A. Unified finds no damage at schools
» SoCal Theme parks, rides remain open
» Quake has everyone a-Twitter | Live search

The quake interrupted a meeting of the Los Angeles City Council, causing the 27-story City Hall to sway just as Councilman Dennis Zine was criticizing a plan to increase trash fees.

"Earthquake! Earthquake! We've got an earthquake," Zine said as members of the audience began to cry out.

Phoenix native Nathan Blaylock was lying in bed watching television in his penthouse apartment in downtown Los Angeles when he felt his first earthquake.

"It felt like someone hit the side of the building. It was rocking," said Blaylock, a medical equipment salesman who said he has lived in Los Angeles for about seven months. "It scared me a little bit, then I realized what it was."

Elevators at the Pegasus Apartments, Blaylock's building, shut down as a result of the earthquake.

Shaking was also felt Orange County and officials were checking reports of possible minor runway damage at John Wayne Airport.

"It's the first time in my life I actually got under my desk," said Anaheim Police Sgt. Ken Seymour, a Southern California native.

By late afternoon, agencies around Southern California had good news to report. Southern California Edison said its systems were operating normally. A spokeswoman at Los Angeles International Airport said no flight operations had been disrupted, and the only damage appeared to have been to a water heater at Gate 71 in Terminal 7, which caused some flooding in the checked baggage areas. The administration building was briefly evacuated to allow inspectors to check for damage.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority reported that it had restored light-rail and subway schedules by mid-afternoon, and that inspectors found no damage along Metro's 73 miles of track. Some Amtrak trains were delayed up to an hour or so for track inspections.

Classes at Cal State Fullerton were canceled for the day, but all other Cal State and University of California campuses in the area remained open.

Los Angeles Unified School District reported minor damage at three schools east of downtown, and said ceiling tiles were damaged at a middle school campus in Chatsworth.

On the UC Irvine campus, a community college student attending a special summer program began to cry as her classroom pitched and rolled for about 30 seconds. She was comforted by a counselor and soon was smiling and chatting again.

Rides at Disneyland and California Adventure were temporarily shut down after the tremors. Under the park's normal safety procedures, a spokesman said, each ride is shut down after a moderate earthquake and tested before being operated again.

The quake was felt forcefully in Long Beach, where a series of sharp, loud jolts hit. Dozens of office workers evacuated high-rise buildings downtown, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

Los Angeles County officials closed courthouses in Pomona, Norwalk, El Monte and Long Beach as a precaution and activated the county Emergency Operations Center until 5 p.m.

In Los Angeles, Councilwoman Wendy Greuel found herself at the helm of the nation's second-largest city because Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Council President Eric Garcetti were out of town on vacations.

"It's been exciting," Greuel said at an afternoon news conference after being whisked out of the council chambers, where she had been presiding over a council meeting, and taken to the city's Emergency Operations Center deep beneath City Hall.

"All of us who live in Southern California live with the possibility of an earthquake each and every day," Greuel said at the news conference. "Today, we were lucky."

In Alhambra, an apartment building rolled and the foundations shook, but not enough to knock books off shelves.

By late afternoon, even residents of Chino Hills, the epicenter, were taking things in stride, including Emily Feilen, 11. She was inside her home when the quake hit, and thought the shaking was caused by her father, who was installing bathroom cabinets.

"Just get outside," her father, Mike Feilen, told her, and both ran. The shaking stopped just as they got to the street.

Three hours later, she was back on the sidewalk -- on her skateboard.

Monday's quake stood in sharp contrast to one that occurred in the area in 1987. Then, three people were killed and about 10,600 homes and businesses were damaged in the magnitude 6.1 Whittier Narrows earthquake and a magnitude 5.5 aftershock, and thousands of people were displaced. Many more, their nerves rattled, slept outside on sidewalks or in parks for days after the quake, prompting the Red Cross to erect circus tents for people to sleep in. The quakes caused more than $125 million in damage.