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Only July 4, 1845, Texas ratified annexation legislation approved earlier by the United States Congress four months earlier and approved a constitution that was a prelude to statehood.
President John Tyler
After nine years as a republic, Texas was offered admission to the U.S. by President John Tyler. (Former President Andrew Jackson had strongly opposed Texas statehood.) As part of the delicate balance of power between North and South, Texas was to enter the union as a slave state.
The "Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States" was approved by Congress in February. Under these terms, Texas was permitted to subdivide into four additional states "of convenient size" in the future if it so desired. It could keep its public lands but had to surrender military, postal and customs facilities to the U.S. government.
An elected Constitutional Convention met in Austin in early July to consider the annexation offer — in addition to a peace treaty with Mexico, which would have ended the decade-long war with Mexico as long as Texas refrained from joining the United States.
On July 4, the 69th anniversary of American independence, the Convention voted to accept the U.S. proposal. The annexation proposal and a state constitution permitting slavery (in accordance with American wishes) was approved in October. Voters in Harris County favored annexation, 324 to 50.
Texas annexation and statehood both took place on Dec. 29, so Texas avoided territorial status. Under President James K. Polk, the Lone Star Republic became the Lone Star State, the 28th state in the union.
Formal transfer of government was not completed for seven weeks, until Feb. 19.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
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the Congress of the United States of America has passed resolutions providing for the annexation of Texas to that Union, which resolutions were offered by the President of the United States on the first day of March, 1845; and
the President of the United States has submitted to Texas the first and second sections of said resolutions, as the basis upon which Texas may be admitted as one of the States of the said Union; and
the existing Government of the Republic of Texas, has assented to the proposals thus made, –the terms and conditions of which are as follows:
"Joint Resolutions for annexing Texas to the United States
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress doth consent that the territory properly included within and rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas, may be erected into a new State to be called the State of Texas, with a republican form of government adopted by the people of said Republic, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing Government in order that the same may by admitted as one of the States of this Union.
2nd. And be it further resolved, That the foregoing consent of Congress is given upon the following conditions, to wit: First, said state to be formed, subject to the adjustment by this government of all questions of boundary that may arise with other government, –and the Constitution thereof, with the proper evidence of its adoption by the people of said Republic of Texas, shall be transmitted to the President of the United States, to be laid before Congress for its final action on, or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. Second, said state when admitted into the Union, after ceding to the United States all public edifices, fortifications, barracks, ports and harbors, navy and navy yards, docks, magazines and armaments, and all other means pertaining to the public defense, belonging to the said Republic of Texas, shall retain funds, debts, taxes and dues of every kind which may belong to, or be due and owing to the said Republic; and shall also retain all the vacant and unappropriated lands lying within its limits, to be applied to the payment of the debts and liabilities of said Republic of Texas, and the residue of said lands, after discharging said debts and liabilities, to be disposed of as said State may direct; but in no event are said debts and liabilities to become a charge upon the Government of the United States. Third — New States of convenient size not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas and having sufficient population, may, hereafter by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution; and such states as may be formed out of the territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri Compromise Line, shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the people of each State, asking admission shall desire; and in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory, north of said Missouri compromise Line, slavery, or involuntary servitude (except for crime) shall be prohibited."
Now in order to manifest the assent of the people of this Republic, as required in the above recited portions of said resolutions, we the deputies of the people of Texas, in convention assembled, in their name and by their authority, do ordain and declare, that we assent to and accept the proposals, conditions and guarantees, contained in the first and second sections of the Resolution of the Congress of the United States aforesaid.
In testimony whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names
Thomas J. Rusk
followed by 61 signatures
James H. Raymond
Secretary of the Convention.
Journals of the Constitution Convention of Texas, 1845, pub. in Austin by Miner and Cruger, Printers to the Constitution, 1845, pp. 367-370.


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But the absolute worst possible way to send a message is to vote informally. Here's why.
1. Donkey voting isn't a protest. It's ridiculous.
Donkey voting isn't technically informal voting but it is a strategy so ridiculous that we need to get it out of the way from the outset.
Donkey voting means not making a considered choices about how to number your preferred candidates and instead, numbering the boxes in sequential order from 1 to whatever.
This is a dumb-arse thing to do. Why the hell would you cast your all-important vote for the Candidate Whose Name Got Pulled Out of A Hat First.
You are still voting. You are still participating in the process. You are still rewarding one candidate over the others. You just have no idea why.
2. If you vote informally to 'send a message', ain't nobody going to know what that message is.
Scribbling an angry message or drawing pretty pictures* on the ballot paper might feel rebellious but it actually achieves diddly squat. As Charlie Pickering explains in The Age:
You may be protesting against the two-party system or you may be protesting against the price of peas. Both are possible, as is drawing the conclusion that you weren't making a protest at all and simply didn't understand how to fill out a ballot. Either way, voting informal is a terrible way to send a message.
So while I applaud the sentiment of the person who told Mia they planned to write 'I want to vote for Julia' on their ballot paper - neither the former Prime Minister or anyone else who cares is going to read that message. The nice Australian Electoral Commission people who are counting the votes, will simply throw your ballot paper on the informal pile, along with all the blank ballots.
3. Not voting can potentially have as great an effect as voting (but it might not be the effect you want).
Throwing your vote away in disgust or frustration still has an effect because it gives greater weight to every other vote being cast in your electorate. Think of it this way - if there were only 10 voters in your electorate and five decided to vote informally, then you effectively double the voting power of the remaining five.
James Robertson at The Sydney Morning Herald explains that a higher than usual informal vote could play a significant role in key seats at this weekend's election:
They are the votes that don't count but could turn the election. The main parties, locked in a battle of inches for western Sydney, are targeting nearly 100,000 voters in key seats who cast an invalid ballot last election.
The 10 seats in Australia with the highest levels of informal voting are all held by Labor in Sydney's west and had on average 10 per cent of people vote informally... The proportion of informal voting in these western seats surged about 50 per cent last election and caught everyone by surprise.
Depending on the seat, depending on the state, your non-vote could be one of the ones that makes the difference. So why not use it to make the difference you intend it to, rather than letting others' intentions determine its significance.
4. Your vote is valuable. And not just in the 'something money can't buy' way.
Your vote is worth something. To be precise, it's worth $2.48 in the House of Representatives and the same again in the Senate.
In an effort to decrease the level to which private wealth can help you win an election, Australia provides some government funding to political parties.
This money helps parties to fund their campaigns and is particularly important in assisting new parties to form and to be competitive in future elections.
That $2.48 will go to the party which receives your first preference in each house of parliament. If you vote informally, nobody gets the cash.
You might think this sounds good but consider this: If the reason you're intending to vote informally is to send a message to the major parties that you're dissatisfied, then this it a rubbish way to do it. It would be far better for you to cast your vote for a minor party who you would like to see improve their standing comparatively to the more established parties.
5. Your vote is valuable. So stop taking it for granted.
Your vote is valuable. Why else would so many people be hassling you at the train station, at the supermarket, on the television, on social media and well, everywhere - to try and get you to cast your vote for them?
Australia is one of the world's oldest democracies and that is something we should be proud of.
Around the world, thousands of people are fighting and dying for the right to do what you get to. That is, to have a say in who will govern their nation into the future and how they will do that.
We are different to many nations, in that in Australia, voting is not simply your right, it is your responsibility.
And not taking that responsibility seriously is deeply insulting to those who are risking everything in the hope of being allowed to safely, securely and freely walk into a polling booth like you will on Saturday.
Finally, if all of this doesn't convince you to take your vote seriously, remember this. If you don't bother voting on the weekend or you vote informally, then you don't get to complain about child care availability, or the state of our schools, or hospital waiting lists, or traffic congestion or gay marriage, or the treatment of asylum seekers or the cost of living, for the next three years.
And if you do, your friends are entitled to tell you to shove it.
*I have scrutineered (watched the votes being counted) on many occasions, and the pictures are rarely pretty. They are generally pictures of a dick and balls. Don't be the guy who draws a dick and balls on the ballot. Just don't.
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Week 16: Time to Call in the Cavalry
Last updated: Apr 30, 2010
Since before Dad moved in with us, Lee and I have been certain of one thing: We wouldn't be able to care for him by ourselves forever. The question that has arisen frequently over the ensuing four months has been, "How will we know when it's time to hire a caregiver?"
As it turned out, the answer became crystal clear over the past couple of weeks.
First was the fact that Dad's confusion deepened significantly last week. One day, when I arrived home after work, he didn't immediately know who I was. He also mistakenly believes that my employer, a physician, owns our house and plans to turn it into a medical clinic "" a scenario that understandably causes Dad great agitation. For several days in a row, he was unable to manage his home oxygen. (He did subsequently regain his ability to do so, but we realize this ability will slowly evaporate.) He cut himself while using a knife to pry open an "easy open" package of cold cuts. He frequently confuses night and day.
Secondly, this past Tuesday, my body finally said "enough is enough" and temporarily shut down. I became ill and couldn't get to work. Whether this was due to allergies, a virus, or pure exhaustion is hard to say. But I will tell you that it's rare for me to go back to bed in the middle of the day. And last Tuesday, I had no choice but to do just that.
That night, Lee and I had a confab. Mentally distancing ourselves from the situation, we asked ourselves what advice would we give another couple in our situation. And the answer was easy: Call in the cavalry.
When Dad first came to live with us, we approached him about hiring an in-home caregiver. And we made a complete hash of it.
We started by springing the assessment visit on him without warning. We didn't bother asking him for his opinion about the subject beforehand. We used an authoritarian approach instead of a cooperative one.
Not surprisingly, the whole thing was a bust.
It turned out all right, since Dad has been taking care of himself just fine for the past few months. But it's now clear he needs supervision while we're at work. The problem is that he doesn't see things the same way.
How do you negotiate with someone who's delusional? How do you convince him of the sensibility of hiring someone to help him maintain his independence when he angrily believes we're hiring a "babysitter"? How do you deal with a person whose explosive temper is legendary "" and not something you want to be on the receiving end of?
I'm dreading the prospect of confronting Dad about this. The last time we discussed the subject, he blew up. How is he going to react this time? I guess I'll find out soon: We're meeting with the caregiving service on Monday.
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Must-watch: Tonight's 'The Mindy Project' finale is the show at its very best
Fox's The Mindy Project is my No. 1 pick when I'm deciding how to catch up on the shows I missed Tuesday nights. It wasn't always this way. Last year, it was New Girl, when the show was deep into its Nick-Jess heyday. Then it was Trophy Wife, one my absolute faves. Mindy was always in the rotation, but it wasn't always a must-see for me. It's taken the comedy from former The Office writer/star Mindy Kaling some time to find its footing, and at times struggled as it was doing that.
But since the show returned in April from a mid-season break, things have been different, more assured. And tonight's episode, "Mindy and Danny", makes it clear: Mindy has never been better.
Admittedly, the name never really did the show any favors. Besides sounding like something someone wrote on the chalkboard in pre-production, the 'Project' part implies it's a work in progress. And for most of its run, it has been. The first season, beginning with a stronger-than-average pilot, was consistently funny, but the tone and premise of the show shifted wildly from episode to episode. Was this a show about Mindy's life as a single gal in New York City? About her professional career as a gynecologist? Was it an ensemble workplace comedy? At any given moment, it was all of those things. Cast members came and went, plots were dropped constantly, Mindy jumped from white boyfriend to white boyfriend.
Sure, the show was always funny. Kaling has a real knack for joke-writing (she did write some of The Office's funniest episodes, after all), and a wry female millennial sensibility that really appeals to ... female millennials, like me. I can't think of an episode I haven't laughed at.
But the show was capable of more than a few great jokes per episode. And finally, as its second season wraps, it has wisely honed in on its strongest qualities.
The cast has gelled, down to its most vital, hilarious components: Chris Messina as Danny Castellano, Kaling as Mindy Lahiri, Ed Weeks as Jeremy, Ike Barinholtz as Morgan and Adam Pally as Peter. (Mindy's tendency to surround herself with all these white men is still somewhat troubling. Can we get another prominent female character?)
And The Mindy Project has finally found a focus in the tumultous, flirtatious, hysterical pairing of Danny and Mindy. Aside from Mindy, Messina's Danny - a grouchy, Springsteen-worshipping tough guy - is without a doubt the show's strongest creation, a constantly entertaining presence and a great foil for Mindy. So it's no surprise the show's greatest moment came a few months ago when Mindy and Danny released months of sexual tension with a make-out session on a plane.
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Oscar-nominated actor Michael Fassbender could change how the world views video games.
In the upcoming film Assassin's Creed, based on the Ubisoft video game of the same name, Fassbender and his co-star Marion Cotillard explore the scientific and philosophical potential of humans, looking at concepts such as genetic memory and who controls free will.
The Irish actor plays Callum Lynch who discovers through a genetic memory program that he comes from an underground order of assassins involved in a centuries-old war with the Knights Templar, and he found himself really believing this idea that memories could be shared over generations.
"When I met the guys from Ubisoft and they explained this I thought 'wow that's fascinating and totally plausible' and I believe today scientists are investigating this like 'Why do birds know when to migrate south, where does this information come from'?" Fassbender told AAP in Sydney.
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With almost 100 million players worldwide, the concepts in Assassin's Creed are not new, but this is the first time they've been played out on the big screen.
"This is a fictional piece, obviously, but it's always interesting when you make something fictional and you show it and you put it to the mirror and you think 'wow, how much of this can be relatable to reality'? This concept of violence and why human beings levitate towards it, where this tribalism comes from that we seem to always revisit in history," he said.
His co-star in the film, Oscar-winner Cotillard, was also attracted to the movie's real-life possibilities.
"I think any story about human beings, even if it's based on a video game, even if it's science fiction in a virtual world, always comes from a certain kind of reality in the world we live in," Cotillard told AAP.
This is the second time that Fassbender, who serves as a producer on the film, has partnered with the French actress. The pair starred together in Macbeth, directed by Australian director Justin Kurzel who takes the helm on Assassin's Creed too.
While it's not Shakespeare, the game is based originally on the 1938 novel Alamut, by Vladimir Bartol and its scope is not lost on Cotillard.
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A number of stars have penned touching tributes to Michael Jackson for a special issue of Time magazine, on stands on Monday.
Quincy Jones, Michael's producer on his hit albums "Off The Wall," "Thriller" and "Bad," looked back at the focus Michael had when they met on the set of "The Wiz."
"He knew everybody's lines, he knew all the songs, all the steps, everything," Quincy wrote in the magazine. "I'd never seen so much focus in my life."
Stevie Wonder, himself a former child star and a fellow Motown legend, remembered seeing Michael's potential as a young boy leading the Jackson 5.
"He would always come into the studio curious about how I worked and what I did. 'How do you do that? Why do you do that?' I think he understood clearly from seeing various people do the music scene that it definitely took work. He must have been around 9 or 10 then, and I definitely felt that he would be someone," Stevie wrote. "You hear the voice, and all he could do is grow. And that's what he did."
Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant, who won his fourth NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers earlier this month, told the mag that Michael had encouraged him to be driven.
"One of the things he always told me was don't be afraid to be different," Kobe wrote. "He's saying: 'It's OK to be that driven, it's OK to be obsessed with what you want to do. That's perfectly fine.'"
But Kobe also remembered the musician as a "genuinely nice person" who offered to open his home for the basketball star's wedding.
"I remember my fiancee and I telling him we were getting married, and him just being really excited, and actually just offering up the ranch to have our wedding there, because privacy was going to be an issue," he said. "We wanted to get married in a church, so that's what we wound up doing. But he made the offer."
JC Chasez, who performed with Michael several times during his days in *NSYNC, remembered Michael as a musician who, even as a superstar, spent hours preparing for his performances.
"He was doing vocal drills for an hour before he went out," JC wrote. "It's not something that magically appeared on him, the guy worked hard for it. 40 years old, and the guy is warming up for an hour before every show. He wanted to give that audience the best he had."
And John Mayer, who wrote about growing up in the '80s watching Michael's superstardom, called "Thriller" the benchmark for greatness.
"As a musician, the man was one of the purest substances ever in music," he wrote. "But it's frustrating, and somewhat pointless, to ever try and figure out how Michael Jackson arrived at an album like 'Thriller' and how you could arrive at something like it. It's impossible. I mean it's one of those things you actually don't want to bring up to musicians because they don't want to remember that that kind of greatness is achievable, because it skews the entire bell curve completely."


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ever wonder how athlon xp-m stacks up against intel's latest banias technology and its pentium-m processor? yeah, well i haven't really either. nevertheless, tom's hardware has the scoop. the results indicate that centrino technology is an all-around winner in terms of performance and battery life, often beating the athlon xp-m machine by nearly 30%. that being said, if you look at this page you see the price differential. whereas high-end pentium-m will run you us$720 and deliver a 30% increase in performance over athlon xp-m 1700+, you could buy an axpm 1700+ for a mere $112. is it worth $608 for a 30% increase in performance and a 10-20% increase in battery life? i'd have to say "no way in hell." why? because with that $608 you could buy an extra battery or two and significantly outlast centrino on its best day. you could also buy the components that are missing from the axpm offering, such as integrated bluetooth and firewire. and if you wanted to put your geek on, you could buy a slower axpm notebook out of the gate and then upgrade the processor at some point in the future for a $112 (or less if prices drop by then). the two test machines used in the comparison were the s2010 (axpm 1700+, 1.53ghz) and s6120 (1.6ghz pentium-m). a side-by-side comparison of their vital statistics can be found on tom's hardware. there are some notable differences in feature sets, but when you look at the take-home price, s2010 for $1,350 and the s6120 for $1,700 (both units shown with 256 mb ram), you begin to realize what's important to you. do you want maximum battery life in a single package, costing you $350 more for nearly identically configured machines? or do you want a good machine with similar capabilities, one that's definitely slower, but one that eases your pocketbook and allows you to buy additional features which might be more specific to your personal needs (i have a sony vaio pcg-grx570 that has a memory stick port i haven't used once!)? it depends on your goal, on who's buying the equipment (you, or someone else for you to use), and if you have specific needs, such as sse2 which only a pentium-m offers. in the end, both are adequate machines and one will save you some money. read the whole story at tom's hardware.
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|dual centrino (10:19am est wed may 07 2003)
even though the centrino does cost quite a bit more the price will fall. i'd really like to see a dual desktop motherboard that can utilize the centrino processors. when they gonna put 2mb of l2 on a desktop intel cpu. – by neoxgeos
|nice price quotes… (10:19am est wed may 07 2003)
pricewatch lists the 1.8 p4-m for $215. who the hell pays $720 for a 1.6? – by necr0
|p4-m is not p-m (10:33am est wed may 07 2003)
necr0, the p4-m is not the banias chip in the comparison. the cheapest 1.6ghz p-m chip i found on price watch is $685.
– by supperman
|goddammit (10:59am est wed may 07 2003)
one had the guts to put a link to the trash of tom's hardware. thg isn't a reliable site, period. – by askheart
|theory (11:28am est wed may 07 2003)
i suspect that amd's intention is to undercut pentium-m by such a large margin that it makes axp-m more attractive to oems.
unfortunately, due to intel's advertising blitz and their subsidies to oems who use centrino technology, i can't see them succeeding. – by big fred
|lmfqipomefposaijf (11:28am est wed may 07 2003)
could this low speed/high performance be a preveiw of prescott?
i see in the link that the l2 cache is 1mb in the pentium-m and that the l1 caches have been doubled to 32kb, just like it is planned for the prescott. i know that the cores are probably different, but that ipc at 3.6+ ghz sounds very appealing! – by uber
|about the price vs. performance (11:58am est wed may 07 2003)
the centrino package gives you battery life in some applications that far exceeds amd (not in this testing, however).
for the improvement in performance over the amd solution and the fact that you don't need a bulky system (the cooling for a centrino package can lead to smaller systems) and a bulky battery, yes it is worth $350 more. – by dbzeag
|prices… (12:32pm est wed may 07 2003)
isn't the $1,349.99 s2010 xp-m missing the wireless lan?
if i'm limited to fujitsu because they are only ones offering lv xp-m notebooks, then yes, it's worth the extra $350. there are lighter and more customizable centrino solutions offered by plenty of manufacturers out there. – by neutral
|you've never used your memory stick port?! (1:10pm est wed may 07 2003)
there is no more stable memory product than flash cards. short of a significant static discharge or cracking the case in half, they last longer than any removable media, right? (for example, i lost a zip disk last week due to a drive failure, that held all of my semester's projects on it. my jump drive should never do that to me. i can lock my sd card or the memory sticks i put in it to prevent data loss, much unlike a zip.) plus, a memory stick or sd card holds much more data per square inch than other removable media.
just sayin, rick…you are missing out if you aren't using flash. – by steveb
|uber (1:15pm est wed may 07 2003)
a few points:
prescott will have a 32k l1 cache (16k data, 16k trace), banias has a 64k l1 cache.
prescott will keep northwood's 20 stage pipeline (though there have been rumours to the contrary), banias operates on 12 or 14 stages.
banias has micro-op fusion, prescott apparantly doesn't.
prescott still has to put up with p4's awful fpu
there are some points that will help prescott (800mhz bus, ht, sse3), but it's ipc won't be in the league of banias. – by big fred
|unfair conclusions rick (1:16pm est wed may 07 2003)
rick, your conclusions seem to be unfair. you compare a very expensive, higher performing 1.6 intel system to a lower performing, very cheap amd 1.7 system. a simple calculation indicates that a intel 1.3 might best, or at least equal, a 1.8 amd here. (opposite to p4-athlon!). and that part is "only" 292 dollar. the price gap for battery savings (possibly bigger with lower clocked intel) is smaller then what you seem to suggest.
though i agree that buying the top-end model is often not a good idea. – by bee
|linear thinking (1:20pm est wed may 07 2003)
here is classic example of linear thinking.
your author points out that pentium-m will run you us$720 and the athlon xp-m 1700+ a mere $112 -a difference of $608. however, a system that is packaged �such a laptop and examples provided by the author- anywhere from $1,350 to $1,700 for a s2010 and s6120, respectively. furthermore, it was emphasized that the difference was only $350. is $350 a big difference?
in the posted note, it was noted that the least expensive system lacked some options that were included in the s6120 system. for example, bluetooth and firewire. therefore, if you want to add this components to the cheaper s2010 system it will cost you some additional cash. how much i do not know but lets say $100. now the big savings have been reduced to $250. your time and maybe some headaches installing these components are not included.
however, it was pointed that the pentium-m offers a 30 % increase in performance and a 10-20% increase in battery life. those of us who have to travel we know the pain of carrying extra weight �your author suggest buying another battery. batteries are not inexpensive and they probably account for a 30% of the total mass of the laptop. now lets compare what a 15% increase in battery life means. lets assume the battery life of the listed laptops is 4.5 hours. a 15% increase offers you an additional 40 minutes of battery life. i do know about you but 40 minutes of additional battery life is not a bad deal. furthermore, multiply the additional 40 minutes by however many times you are planning to use your laptop. in some respect, the savings of $250 does not add to much and the price of the additional battery is not included.
in conclusion, what would you like to do carry a 10 to 12 lb beast or a mean and lean 7 lb machine. i think saving only $250 will only translates to one visit to the chiropractor unless mr. hodgin is willing to haul my beast of a laptop for $250 for the 2 to 3 years �the average life span of a laptop.
|right on, rick! (1:23pm est wed may 07 2003)
same here. i rather buy the mid-range cpu and then upgrade again in 6-12 months with a newer mid-range processor that costs the same. that way, i'll be able to afford upgrades every 6-12 months. if i buy the absolute fastest cpu out there right now, i wouldn't want to waste more $$$ for maybe 2 years or so. within 6-12 months, mid-range cpu's will already be faster than the current top-end one anyways! so, it's far wiser to save that $ for nice upgrades. – by affez pow
|however, (1:30pm est wed may 07 2003)
i have to say that i agree with bee and jabe in the posts above about laptops. the $250 savings does not account for carrying these extra batteries and 30% slower performance. still, i'd try to opt for a slightly (10%-ish) slower version of the banias cpu for maybe $200 or $300 savings, when possible. – by affez
|speed means nothing (1:51pm est wed may 07 2003)
toshiba just launched a brand new pentium-m based laptop with a maximum of 900 mhz speed. at least they give their customers what they really need instead of putting some desktop heating element in it just to sell on large nice numbers. – by pacc
|speed? (3:08pm est wed may 07 2003)
if i recall… the pentium m 1.6 had an equivalence to a pentuim 4 2.66… so how do you even compare the athlon xp m 1700+.. it has the performance of a 1.7 p4… where is the comparison …
maybe i am not reading this all correctly. in my eyes it is a comparison of apples and oranges. – by skeiner
|can we say… (5:03pm est wed may 07 2003)
the next generation celeron?
it is substandard and basically takes us back in time to when the first pos celeron hit the market. way to go intel, do you call that "backwards engineering?" – by ender
|huge price difference ? (5:17pm est wed may 07 2003)
"buy an axpm 1700+ for a mere $112. is it worth $608 for a 30% increase in performance and a 10-20% increase in battery life? "
"there are some notable differences in feature sets, but when you look at the take-home price, s2010 for $1,350 and the s6120 for $1,700 (both units shown with 256 mb ram), "
(1700-1350)/1350 = .259
so for 26% more money i can have 30% more speed and 20% better battery life what a bargain, looks like centrino wins hands down. – by 4thgrademathteacher
|skeiner (5:27pm est wed may 07 2003)
if i recall… the pentium m 1.6 had an equivalence to a pentuim 4 2.66… so how do you even compare the athlon xp m 1700+.. it has the performance of a 1.7 p4… where is the comparison …
according to the article the 1.6ghz p m was 30% faster than the 1.53ghz axpm (1.7 rated) soo wouldnt that give the 1.6ghz part a pr of 1.7×1.3 or about 2.2 pr.
yes i agree is compairing new shiny oranges with old rotten apples, strangley the new shiny orange is better and more expensive than the old rotten apple. – by 4thgrademathteacher
|why not call it amd geek? (7:35pm est wed may 07 2003)
why not just go ahead and call this site "amd geek." by the biased comments made on this site, you might as well go ahead and get it over with. the amd bias on this site is almost as bad as amd zone…but at least they don't make any excuses.
it's pathetic to see the author of these news stories making invalid comparisons between the centrino and the athlon xp-m. if you are going to make comparisons, at least make them legit. the others in the this thread have pointed out the errors in your judgement in why you try your very best to paint intel as the ghastly giant who tries to gouge the consumer. – by accounting major
|4thgrademathteacher (10:03pm est wed may 07 2003)
no, the 30% actual performance increase over athlon xp 1700+ being equal to around 2600 is right because as you should know increasing clockspeed doesn't increase actual performance linearly. 30% in actual performance is more like 50-60% increase in clock. so 1.7*1.5-1.6=2550-2720. – by geek reader
|economics vs biased opinions (11:28pm est wed may 07 2003)
this aritcle appears biased because the author seems to favor the athlon notebook. but the simple fact is that the athlon book is the better value because its 350 cheaper. if you want 30% increase in performance and 20% more battery life then get the p-m notebook. you get what you pay for so you pay a premium for an intel over amd. hodgin and thg recommends based on value over perks. if you dont agree, fine but its not about favoring amd over intel. – by reality bites
|re reality bites (12:30am est thu may 08 2003)
or you could get the pentium m with 1.4 ghz for about 309 instead of 685 (cpu only price) and then the pentium m system would only be 5% faster and the battery would last 35% longer but it would cost 25 dollas less – by reality really bites
|bias (4:38am est thu may 08 2003)
there's definitely bias here. the "s2010 for $1,350" doesn't have 802.11b, bluetooth, or 1394a. – by blurb
|rick, i'm afraid they have you. (5:43am est thu may 08 2003)
the pentium-m at 1.6 ghz performs like very similarly to a pentium 4 at 2.8 ghz.
you know what a died in the wool amd fan i am, but the banias is an extremely strong processor. inquirer seems to think it's a piii on a p4 bus, but i think it is a p4 without half it's integer unit cut out:
however, the banias does have a battery life penalty when it is being worked at it's maximum speed, as all processors do.
there is also the penalty intel pays by saying the pentium 4 is a better chip than athlon because of it's faster clock speed, but at the same time, they have the 1.6 ghz banias out performing their 2.6 ghz pentium 4 offerings.
banias itself truely is a nice chip, the first nice chip intel has made in years i think.
the problem is, if i have to get blasted by one more centrino ad, i'll puke my guts out. intel's marketing department is a spawn of the devil.
not that i expect much from paid corporate liars, but it is unfortunate that they can drive me away from a good product just from the sheer volume of spam advertising they produce.
banias reminds me of x10. good technology, god awfull spammy marketing. – by perdo in alaska
|is banias die size… (7:31am est thu may 08 2003)
is banias diesize = 83mm ??
|intel trolls (8:01am est thu may 08 2003)
i wonder how many of the intel troll posters on this board are actually paid for their services by intel. :)
never are there any links to backup their claims. just unsubstantiated leading comments which convey their pro-intel agenda.
bottom line: amd's products cost less. they're not the top performers. but, for many that's not a primary concern. and, for the missing 802.11, bluetooth and firewire, those can be added when/if needed.
– by rick c. hodgin
| (11:27am est thu may 08 2003)
that would explain the extra costs… – by screw uber
|rick c. hodgin (12:25pm est thu may 08 2003)
now for a real tolls post:
$608 right, batteries for laptops cost $100-$200 but need to be replaced at least every 2 years on avg due to a 25-35% drop in battery performance. so 4 batterys in 2 years v 4 batteries in 2 years drop tco, bluetooth is bogus drop $100, firewire i would go with, 802.11b is a maybe based off the person.
the issue is you can only add 2 card to a laptop at a time plus if your highly moible who want to be dragginf more shit than they have too all day long and swapping cards?
so im actually not taking side, it truely matters on use, imagine gragging 3 pmica card with you everywhere with you laptop and you extra battery not to mention you cell phone, breifcase, charger etc. $608 isnt that much to save you the hassle over the next 3 years.
now if that doesnt matter that much you only need 802.11 b you laptop is always pluged if f the bs if you want to save some cash and performance isnt a factor then ya go the amd. – by nataku
|mathematics (12:48pm est thu may 08 2003)
well, i 'll explain my weak claims.
one can excpect a processor to increase performance at most (in general less) by it's linear increase in clockspeed. if a
i don't like intel more then amd. their p4 was terrible in the begining. now they seem to be somewhere on par or a bit better than amd. performance counts, even if you get only marginal extra perfomance for a doubled clock speed. maybe max performance and performace/power are a good measure.
in every case, the centrino performs well. maybe this should have been what turned out to be the p4 now. and it costs more. everything which performs better deserves a premium. you see it in a amd's product line as well. top end models cost more then their extra performance sudgests. it's up to the geeks to decide what they prefer.
p.s. i like in general your articles and commands, if not i would not take the time to visit this site so often. – by bee
|20-30% (5:28am est fri may 09 2003)
more than i am willing to spend, even on the low end.
i was a little discouraged by th using benches that were optimized for intel. overall i got the impression amd needs to improve power saving tech in the mobile cpus. memory performance should be improved by amd uping the fsb and the mobile nforce2 chipset should even things out even more.
in all, i was happy to see that in most instances amd was able to keep up with the latest intel offerings. i would like to see prices under $900 u.s. for these goobers but i am a tightwad. – by diddly
|power and heat (5:32am est thu may 15 2003)
i have got an s2010. it seems plenty fast enough. however, the fan is usually running and blowing hot air, even when running on battery.
the underlying problem is that there are plenty of applications that unneccessarily cause high cpu utilisation (just select a block in ms word, hold down the mouse button and watch cpu usage go up to 100%). no amount of clever power management is going to succeed in keeping power consumption down under such circumstances. i would like a manual control to set an upper limit on cpu speed. – by johnr
|all in all (3:05pm est mon dec 01 2003)
i see great open minded opinions on both sides within this forum…its great to have that…but without a "beg to differ" or "for the sake of argument" opinion involved…i tend to lean towards…"what do you need?" ..if you are going to use local 110/120 for a power supply most of the time..then cost is a factor…if you are off local power and relying on battery…centrino seems to win hands down for performance…remember that its processor reverts to a 600mhz on battery consumption most of the time…so performance naturally loses some walking room in the "talk" of comparison…i use centrino losely since that's a combination of the chip/wireless/pentium mobile m…but in regards to overall system performance/battery life/centrino…there's not much debate if that's what you wish….if it's home/business and you have local power…amd is waving the flag per price/performance…other differing opinions accepted with a smile … not a pro..but i believe they call that "in a nutshell" – by djd_201
|pentium m (12:57am est tue apr 13 2004)
hello, any one knows how to replace 1.3 ghz pentium m to 2.2 ghz m processor in a dell d800 or any other portable laptop computer? thanks! – by abej
|heat & the pentium m (2:50pm est sat jun 26 2004)
the one thing everyone leaves out of the comparision is heat dissapation. what is the only processor killer? heat and as time passes ur system tends to get hotter than when u bought it new. pentium m is probably one of the collest cores out there thanks to its large cache which if you all dont know is the most expensive & dense part of the processor. you are paying for what you get when you buy a processor and yes it is the small things that makes all the differences in the long term. also the clock is not the most important thing in a computer. p-m is comparable to a p4-m a gig faster. architecture and crap. processors are like cars. you gotto spend more to get more. case: celeron & p4: same architecture, 1/4th the cache and celeron is so cheap. look at all the amd processors, they all get their ass whopped in cache. – by d.s
|hahahaha (4:27am est tue oct 25 2005)
"intel trolls (8:01am est thu may 08 2003)
i wonder how many of the intel troll posters on this board are actually paid for their services by intel. :)
never are there any links to backup their claims. just unsubstantiated leading comments which convey their pro-intel agenda.
bottom line: amd's products cost less. they're not the top performers. but, for many that's not a primary concern. and, for the missing 802.11, bluetooth and firewire, those can be added when/if needed."
– by rick c. hodgin (the butt hurt amd fan who wishes he bought an intel)
never mind me and rhetoric with links to back up my statements- i just came here to take a piss. i'd pay more for a better processor- sure you can save $ and upgrade every six months, but i don't have to lug extra shit around all day and i only have to upgrade every 2 years- lot less than you'll be spending, plus my computer poops on your computer. why does everybody hate on intel? sure the p4's where lame, but they got me through the years with that constant flow of tough everchanging technology. i think the amd has intel beat hands down with duel processors, but for mobile action- centrino is where it's at without a question. you guys can have fun frying eggs and legs on the bottom of your hot laptops, if amd puts out something to match the competition- you bet you'll see me with one, but untill then no go. – by intel troll


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A Study to Evaluate the Effect of T89(Dantonic®)on Steady-State Pharmacodynamics of Warfarin
This study has been completed.
Tasly Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Last updated: November 7, 2012
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential effect of Dantonic on the steady-state pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetic of warfarin in healthy subjects and safety of the co-administration of Dantonic and warfarin.
|Drug: Warfarin; Dantonic
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
|Official Title:
|An Open-Label, Multiple-Dose, Single-Center, Sequential, Inpatient Study to Determine the Effect of T89 on Steady-State Pharmacodynamics of Warfarin in Healthy Subjects
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- The change in INR with T89 (Day 25) compared with that without T89 (Day 18) [ Time Frame: outcome measure will be assessed in two weeks and data will be presented up to eight weeks ]The mean INR change with T89 (Day 25) and without T89 (Day 18) will be assessed by standard t test.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- The change in PK variables for R-warfarin and S-warfarin on Day 17 compared with those on Day 24 [ Time Frame: outcome measure will be assessed in two weeks and data will be presented up to eight weeks ]The S- and R-warfarin concentration time profiles will be listed and displayed graphically. And 90% CI of the geometric mean ratio for Cmax and AUClast of both R- and S-warfarin will be caculated.
|Study Start Date:
|July 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Intervention Details:Detailed Description:
Drug: Warfarin; Dantonic
Individual warfarin dose during the study; 225mg Dantonic b.i.d for one week
Other Name: coumadin
Due to a large proportion of patients that could benefit from Dantonic treatment is likely to take warfarin concomitantly. And there is no systematic experience of warfarin drug-drug interaction between Dantonic and warfarin on humans. It is highly relevant to investigate the potential interaction of theses two drugs.
Primary endpoint:
•The change in INR with T89 (Day 25) compared with that without T89 (Day 18)
Secondary endpoints:
- The change in PK variables for R-warfarin and S-warfarin on Day 17 compared with those on Day 24
- Safety assessments across all time points
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 50 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Nonsmoking male or female with 18-50 years of age and a body mass index (BMI) from 19.0 to 30.0 kg/m2;
- Healthy adult with no active medical problems or significant chronic diseases as determined by the study doctor based on medical history, physical examination and laboratory evaluations;
- Taking no medications 2 weeks before Day 0 and during the study, including drugs of abuse, prescription and non prescription medications (including natural health products, Vitamins, and herbals) and did not receive vaccinations;
- Agree to avoid eating Seville oranges, grapefruits (including grapefruit juice), broccoli, brussels sprouts, charcoal-grilled meats, alcoholic beverages, and caffeine- and theobromine-containing beverages and foods from the time of screening visit and the duration of the study;
- Agree to maintain adequate birth control, independent from hormonal contraceptive use, from the time of the screening visit and during the study, at the discretion of the investigator;
- Agree to abstain from alcoholic beverages, caffeinated beverages and orange juice from 6pm the night before a study day until completion of that study day;
- A negative fecal occult blood test (FOBT) ;
- Agree to avoid participation in contact sports and/or other activities with significant risk of trauma injury for 7 days after each study day;
- Subject understands and is willing, able and likely to comply with all study procedures and restrictions;
- Subject is able to give voluntary oral and written informed consent, at the discretion of the investigator.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects with an elevated INR (INR> 1.2) at screening visit;
- No gastrointestinal bleeding history within 12 months prior to screening visit;
- No history of endoscopically proven peptic ulcer disease;
- Known hypersensitivity to warfarin;
- Prosthetic heart valves, mitral stenosis, or other conditions such as recent (<3 months) pulmonary embolism requiring anticoagulant therapy;
- History or presence of renal and hepatic insufficiency;
- History of hyperthyroidism;
- History of any bleeding disorder or hypercoagulation state;
- Surgical or medical condition liable to interfere with the absorption, metabolism or excretion of warfarin;
- Regular intake of other medication affecting the process of coagulation or platelet aggregation (during the 2 weeks prior to screening and/or during the run-in and treatment periods);
- Significant change in diet likely to interfere with the effects of warfarin in the 2 weeks prior to screening and/or during the run-in and treatment periods, at the discretion of the investigator;
- History of conditions associated with hemorrhagic risk, surgery or head injury within 6 months prior to screening visit;
- Hematological abnormalities (thrombocytopenia, clinically significant low granulocyte count, anemia, hypofibrinogenaemia, hemophilia, purpura, hemopathy with prolongation of bleeding time);
- Blood loss/donation >400 mL within 12 weeks prior to the screening visit and/or during the run-in and treatment periods;
- Known to have serum hepatitis or who are carrier of the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), or hepatitis C antibody, or have a positive result to the test for HIV antigens and/or antibodies;
- Pregnancy or lactation;
- Participation in any other clinical trial or receipt of an investigational drug within 60 days prior to the time of the screening visit, or previous participation in this study;
- Those subjects unable, in the opinion of the investigator, to comply fully with the trial requirements;
- Subjects with a recent history (within 24 months prior to the screening visit) of alcoholism or known drug dependence, at the discretion of the investigator;
- Subjects with positive urine cotinine, urine drug screen and/or alcohol breath test;
- In the opinion of the investigator, patients with medical history or other factors which may interfere with enrollment or the study.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01475279
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Jaywalkers in Abu Dhabi do not think of the consquences
Despite the pedestrian underpass installed in Electra Street, Abu Dhabi, many people continue to cross the road at undesignated areas. It is actually a common sight as people tend to cross the road where the road dividers are broken.
In today's hectic lifestyle, people tend to value their time more than their lives. They don't mind putting their life at risk without noticing the consequences, just in order to save a few minutes.
According to the National Safety Council, in the United States, 5,900 pedestrians are killed by a motor vehicle each year and another 84,000 sustain non-life-threatening injuries.
It is just an accident waiting to happen.
I urge relevant authorities to repair the broken road dividers so that it would discourage people to cross the road at undesignated areas and to adhere to the safety rules for their own good.
The best way to prevent most pedestrian accidents is for everyone to follow the rules of the roads. People still continue jaywalking. It happens everyday.
The reader is a student, residing in Abu Dhabi


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Michael Jordan misspelled Barack Obama's name on an autograph
When you sign as many autographs as Michael Jordan, you are bound to make a few mistakes. Unfortunately for the six-time NBA champion, one mistake came on a ball he autographed for President Barack Obama.
In a recent interview with New York magazine, the President's former Senior Advisor, David Axelrod, told a story about getting a basketball autographed by Jordan for Obama's 50th birthday, only to have the former Chicago Bulls star add an extra r.
• Los Angeles Clippers are tired of the Grammys
"When the president turned 50, I wanted to get him something special … so I sent it to Jordan to have him sign it for me." In black Sharpie, Jordan scrawled, "To Barrack: you still owe me dinner. Wishing you well, Michael Jordan."
"I gave it to the president, and he said, 'I can't put this up, he misspelled my name!' So I said, 'Fine, I'll take it.' "
The real question here is why does the President of the United States owe Michael Jordan dinner.
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I'm still hereNovember 15th, 2012
I'm still here, but in another place. That is, my work place moved from Stow to Kent. Very nice facility here for the combined offices of the Kent-Ravenna Record-Courier, which moved here from Ravenna, and the Stow Weekly Division of Record Publishing Co. I am specifically attached to the Cuyahoga Falls News-Press. Moved here in August.
But what is really new exciting is my son is going to be born soon. My wife, Debbie, and I are expecting our first child, a boy, to be named Jameson David. Here are a couple ultrasound pictures below.
The first shot is from early on in the pregnancy, the second one is from later and it is in 3D. Isn't it amazing? I can't wait to meet my little man.


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The daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney criticized several elements of the Bush administration's Middle East policy.
Liz Cheney, speaking Monday before thousands of AIPAC activists, said, "I think the United States was fundamentally mistaken to push for those Palestinian elections in Gaza.â€
At the time, she said, Israeli and Palestinian officials did not think those elections, which resulted in Hamas taking power, were a good idea.
"There were few in the United States who thought that they were a good idea,†added Cheney, who served in the Bush administration as deputy assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs.
Two of the U.S. officials who believed the elections were a good idea were Cheney's boss, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and her father's boss, President Bush.
Cheney also criticized another U.S. policy enthusiastically backed by Bush and Rice: the current push for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement.
She described the effort as "misguided,†asserting that Middle East policy is a "zero-sum game†in which U.S. resources spent trying to achieve a peace deal for which the Palestinians aren't ready will ultimately come at the expense of confronting Iran.


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It's not only dogs that suffer from these purebred breeding programs, but cats as well. My wife has had a number of Persians over the past 10 years, all of 'pet quality' that weren't good enough for showing.
These cats are bred to have extremely pushed in faces, some even to the extent that their faces are concave. Many of them have severe respiratory problems and tear duct issues which cause a distinct staining around the eyes. Fortunately the ones that my wife has had were healthy animals and didn't have any of the problems which are caused by excessive inbreeding for the desired traits, which is why they were sold as pet quality.
The sad thing, I think, is how much these 'desired traits' seem completely arbitrary. Who cares if your cat has the most extremely pushed in face? The things they look for tend to make the animals look LESS attractive than a pet quality in my opinion.


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Men aged 75 and older should not be screened for prostate cancer, and younger men should discuss the benefits and harms of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test with their clinicians before being tested, according to a new recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The Task Force found evidence that screening for prostate cancer provided few health benefits but led to substantial physical harms and some psychological harms in men aged 75 and older. In men younger than 75, the Task Force concluded that current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of prostate cancer screening. An estimated 218,890 U.S. men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2007, and one in six men will be diagnosed in his lifetime.
Screening for prostate cancer is most often performed using PSA tests and digital rectal exams. The PSA test is more likely to detect prostate cancer than the digital rectal exam. However, prostate cancers that are found with a PSA test take years to affect health; most prostate cancers that grow serious enough to cause death take more than 10 years to do so. Since a 75-year-old man has an average life expectancy of about 10 years and is more likely to die from other causes such as heart disease or stroke, prostate cancer screening is unlikely to help men over 75 live longer. For the same reasons, men younger than 75 with chronic medical problems and a life expectancy of fewer than 10 years are also unlikely to benefit from screening.
There are also harms associated with prostate cancer screening, which include biopsies, unnecessary treatment and false-positive results that may lead to anxiety. Complications often result from treating prostate cancer and may include urinary incontinence and impotence. These slow-growing cancers might never have affected a patient's health or well-being had they not been detected by screening.
Current data show that one-third of all men in the United States over 75 are receiving PSA testing. Although most major medical organizations suggest that prostate cancer screening may be discontinued in men with a life expectancy of fewer than 10 years, the Task Force is the first group to define an explicit age cutoff above which screening is likely to be ineffective or harmful.
The results of two ongoing clinical trials-the National Cancer Institute's Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial and the European Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer-should help to clarify the potential benefits of screening in men under the age of 75. The recommendations and materials for clinicians will be available on the AHRQ Web site at www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstf/uspsprca.htm.
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Sideburns Black with Adhesive PadsItem #: 20869
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Long live the King of Rock and Roll!
Elvis was the King of Rock'n Roll until he was inducted into the U.S. Army where they cut his hair, shaved off his sideburns and, later on, sent him to Germany hoping that so far away from home his energized interpretation of songs and sexually provocative performance style wouldn't be a bad influence on the ever so good American teenagers anymore. The German girls didn't mind at all...
Besides his voice and hip swing, the black sideburns were one of Elvis' characteristics. These cool Sideburns Black with Adhesive Pads are the perfect accessory to add the finishing touch to an Elvis costume or to any other 1950s style rock 'n' roller outfit. The black burnsides are made of synthetic hair and come with two adhesive strips. Naturally you can also use some Mastix spirit gum small to apply them and some Make Up & Mastic Remover to remove them.
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I ran across this site whilst poking through some comment threads about the $300 million (USD) cuts to NASA's budget. (A separate story in and of itself.)
Anywhoo, apparently the sites owner believes, um, well, you'll just have to figure it out for yourself. (I'm not sure I can figure it out well enough to put it into words, myself…)
Don't say I didn't warn you….
Proof!!! (What OF, I'm not quite sure…
See! I WARNED you!