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Immigration: A Two-Edged Sword
Marmaduke IV
I have always believed immigration to be a two-edged sword, both in game and in the real world. Taking one's real world beliefs and subconsciously implanting them into this game is something I think we all do.
South Africa is a small country and mass immigration can destabilize the political environment. But is this even a bad thing? Our government is in shambles right now. We are a Brazilian colony with the illusion of power over our own lives. The Brazilians feed off of us while we live in our fantasy world. It's like The Matrix and every day we take another Blue pill.
Immigration does, on the other hand, also lead to political diversity. This country is already filled with people of many nationalities and countries of origin. Nobody here should believe people are bad (or a PTO'er) based on nationality alone. That kind of xenophobic attitude only stands to hurt the community.
So what can we do for the immigrants? They must be integrated into society. Over the coming weeks, we must establish a better way for new citizens and immigrants to join the existing established order and at the same time we must not clip any wings. We need to allow new members of our community to fly like the peacocks they are.
I do not support the PTO'ers, nor do I support the drama queen citizens that are turning what should be intelligent discussion to name-calling and conversation screenshotting. Nobody here should be PTO'ing, regardless if your from GYROM, Greasyballs , or Turkeytown.
But before we start singing Niets Kan Ons Scheiden, we must realize there are people out there who seek to do harm to our country, and not just Brazilians and Indonesians. There are people in this very country from many different countries. And that is why I decided to run for PP of the National Party. The stigma of "PTO party" is more than just a label. So long as Azax LeGenD is in charge, that is what this party is. There are many good people in this party. People who are here because of great leaders like Enbaros. So long as Azax is running the show, the country will always look down at us in shame.
We need legitimate leadership so that we can blossom into a party the rest of the country sees as legitimate. I am asking for your vote so that I can be the voice of the party, one that all of South Africa will not only hear, but listen to as well.
Thank you for reading my thoughts on this issue
Forever eSA First,
Arch Bishop Marmaduke Exilious Alphonse IV
I can think of a person who has harmed this country in a substantial way.
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We must stop seeing each other as PTOer/Macedonians and start to consider everybody an individual. Each with his motivations and hopes.
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by Tammy Sakry
Staff Writer
As requested by Ramsey Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) member Jason Tossey, Landform Professional Services has agreed to amend its COR development manager contract.
The HRA approved the amendment 6-1 that will defer Landform's prorated portion of its fee until any financing the city gives to a project is paid back. HRA member Jeff Wise voted no.
Under the 2011-2013 contract, which is in place until March 31, 2013, Landform was to be paid at the execution of the contract, land sale closing and when the certificate of occupancy was issued.
The amendment would make it so Landform could only receive half of the money with the second half being paid once the public loan is repaid.
The example given to describe how this would work is Landform would receive $20,000 on a $1 million project with $500,000 public financing.
Instead of paying out the full amount at the execution, closing and certificate of occupancy issuance, Landform would only receive $10,000.
The remaining $10,000 would be held until the loan is repaid.
If loan payments are made over time, the withheld portion would be paid at the same prorated basis.
How Landform was paid was his biggest issue with the contract, said Tossey.
Where public funding is involved, "I want the want the public is made whole before (Landform)," he said.
While it's a step in the right direction, HRA member Randy Backous does not think the contract amendment goes far enough.
Landform is still getting $15,000 a month in administrative costs and no deals have been closed, Backous said.
HRA member Colin McGlone disagreed with Backous.
Landform has helped the city with the Northstar Commuter Rail station in Ramsey, which became official in November, and with the Veterans Administration Clinic, he said.
The Flaherty and Collins Properties deal for the The Residence apartment complex is about to close, McGlone said.
And Landform has talked to a number of people about The COR in the last year, he said.
Before the HRA approved Landform's two-year contract this spring, it did its due diligence, said Wise.
Closing deals was only part of the contract, Landform has also been working to fix the various issues left behind by the previous developer, he said.
The Ramsey HRA comprises the seven members of the Ramsey City Council.
Tammy Sakry is at [email protected]

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However, the congregation did not go along with this belief and dismissed him rather than abandon their custom. Edwards then became a missionary to Indians at Stockbridge. In 1757 he was elected president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), and he died a short time after that in 1758.
Dominant Themes Addressed in the Work: Edwards was one of this country=s finest philosophers as well as theologians. His school of disciples known as the ANew Divinity@ had a powerful influence on the religious and political cultures of late colonial and early republican America.
The Great Awakening was a turning point in Edward=s religious and philosophic thought, and he felt that basically the Awakening was the work of the Holy Spirit. One of his most famous sermons preached to further this Great Awakening was the influential Enfield sermon which was called ASinners in the Hands of an Angry God.@ As Fern put it, A(Edwards) was by now an itinerant evangelist bent upon helping his brother ministers to incite among their parishioners a quickened sense of the periods of coming into disfavor with God.@ (xx)
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In 1742, Edwards published ASome Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England.@ His earlier work, AA Faithful Narrative@ had become a handbook of revivalism. Ferm calls it Aa pioneer study in the psychology of religion by the method of observation.@ (xviii). In the APresent Revival,@ Edwards stressed the need for some kind of experience as opposed to the emphasis on physical manifestation. He argued that there are other features of a revival not accompanied by emotional outbursts.
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Togetic, The Happiness Pokťmon. It is said to be a Pokťmon that brings good fortune. When it spots someone who is pure of heart, it appears and shares its happiness with that person. It grows dispirited if it is not with kind people. It can float in midair without moving its wings. They say that it will appear before kindhearted, caring people and shower them with happiness.
Battle Moveset
A Good Moveset for Togetic would have to be this:
Seismic Toss
Items Attached:
Preferred Nature:
Calm or Bold
Preferred Trait:
Serene Grace
Strategy Using Togetic
Pretty much the best Togetic set available. Togetic's defensive stats are reasonable and it's move pool is fairly versatile, over all it makes for a fairly good UU. With Softboiled it can stall fairly decently, with Counter it can fend off physical attackers and with Thunder Wave it can cripple sweepers. Seismic Toss does consistent damage to all opponents and is suitable for Togetic who lacks the stats to do much damage, especially without the support of EVs. Over all Togetic fills the role of a sponge, it's capable of taking hits from both physical and special attackers and has Thunder Wave to provide utility for it's team-mates.
EV Corner:
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SDef
Balanced defensive stats, best suited for Togetic when it's going to sponge both forms of attackers but is best grouped with primary walls for Special and Physical since it shouldn't be used as a primary wall for both.
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SDef
Heavily defensive set and also gets the best benefit from Counter.
EVs: 252 HP / 148 Def / 108 SDef
300 Special Defence is plenty enough combined with Softboiled to make Togetic a good Special Sponge, the rest of the EVs can be thrown into Defence to get the best benefit from Counter.
Other Optional Sets
Togetic @ Leftovers
Functions similarly to the set stated above, in this case it's a much larger utility to it's team though. Wish gives some healing support to it's team-mates and Reflect and Light Screen give defensive support to the entire team. Reflect can be dropped for Counter to give it the ability to fend off physical attackers but Wish is slower to heal than Softboiled and may not arrive in time after taking a hit, it's best to use Wish before using Counter however your opponent may anticipate this and not bother to attack until the Wish has gone by.
Togetic @ Leftovers / Liechi / Salac / Petaya Berry
Baton-Passer Togetic. Togetic has no direct stat-boost moves so it can either rely on a 20% chance for an all-round stat boost from Ancient Power or copy and opponent's stats with Psych Up or Substitute down to activate a Berry (or just pass a Substitute). Either way it's passing options are limited, one is chance based, one relies on your opponent and the other is a generic Substitute.
Togetic @ Choice Band
Choice-Band Togetic. The only thing making this set somewhat viable is Hustle, it gives a 1.5x boost to physical attackers but lowers the accuracy by 20%, whilst it works reasonably well with Aerial Ace all the other moves may or may not miss. With Choice Band the power of Togetic makes it able to make a substantial surprise when attacking an unaware opponent, especially when you factor in the power of Double-Edge or Focus Punch, however you always have to factor in the 20% accuracy drop spoiling your surprise.
Togetic @ Leftovers
Follow Me set for 2v2. Togetic is one of the best suited Pokťmon for the role of Follow Me in 2v2 teams, the move forces all of the opponent's attacks to aim at Togetic and since it's immune to Ghost and Ground attacks (as well as resistant to Bug and Grass attacks) there's a possibility that it could draw attacks that it can shrug off easily.
Other Optional Moves
Encore, Charm, Safeguard, Psychic, Flamethrower, Fire Blast, Yawn, Mirror Move.
Encore is probably the best move here, able to force an opponent to repeat the same move over and over. Togetic's Speed stat unfortunately means it'll usually go last so prediction needs to be used prior to using Encore to avoid Encoring an unfavourable move. Charm can make life difficult for physical sweepers but it has Reflect anyway. Safeguard blocks status attacks. Psychic, Flamethrower and Fire Blast do reasonably with Togetic's decent Special Attack stat and benefit from Serene Grace. Yawn can be a good move to PHaze or possibly get a sleep status. Mirror Move counters the opponent with whatever move they used, there are times when this move is effective but for the most part it's useless.
Strategy Against Togetic
It's offence is rather weak usually, Hustle and Choice Band is the main exception to this rule. It's weakness to Rock Attacks is it's easiest flaw to take advantage of however be aware that it may carry Counter. Ice and Electric attacks are also super-effective however it's Special Defence is above average so it may be able to survive it fairly easily with Softboiled. Since it's offence is usually weak it's fairly easy to stat-boost against it, however it can carry Thunder Wave which causes problems for sweepers. If you have Guts, Substitute or an immunity to Thunder Wave this doesn't present a problem, however it can possibly carry Yawn as well which causes a similar problem (with similar solutions to handle it).
Contest Moveset
A good Contest Moveset for Togetic would have to be this for the Cute Contest best with Timid, Hasty, Jolly or Naive Nature:
Cute Contest best with Timid, Hasty, Jolly or Naive Nature:
Items Attached:
Pink Scarf
Strategy Using Togetic
If you do the attacks in this following order you should have very few problems; 1st - Wish, 2nd - Rest, 3rd - Attract, 4th - Encore, 5th - Wish
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While all of the attention of the public and of the media has been focused on the Supreme Court's June 28 decision upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and on examining the nuances and consequences of that decision, the federal government has steadily moved ahead with implementation of the ACA. With the impediment that the litigation had potentially posed to implementation now cleared away, the federal and state governments must proceed expeditiously to meet the January 1, 2014 deadline by which the exchanges, insurance reforms, premium tax credits, and Medicaid expansions (for the states that choose to pursue them) must be in place.
On June 29, the day following the Supreme Court's decision, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the availability of ten new scheduled opportunities, lasting though October 15, 2014, for states to apply for funding to establish state-based exchanges, state partnership exchanges, or state capacity to cooperate with federally facilitated exchanges. HHS effectively announced that, now that the Supreme Court had upheld the law, it was time for the states to move forward, and it was prepared to offer the states the funds needed to proceed. HHS has already distributed $850 million to 34 states and the District of Columbia for exchange establishment grants, and this announcement offers additional funding. The ACA itself appropriates funds for establishing state exchanges in the amount determined by HHS to be necessary, so no further appropriations are required to make this money available.
HHS simultaneously published guidance on the use of the grants. The guidance clarifies that the grants can be used for start-up year expenses to allow consumer outreach, testing, and necessary improvements including, for example, enhancing systems, developing protocols, raising consumer awareness, training staff, and strengthening the overall effectiveness of operations. Start-up funds are available until: 1) the end of the exchange's start-up year, 2) the time an exchange becomes self-sufficient, or 3) §1311(a) grant funds have been expended, whichever comes first. Partnership exchanges may receive funding for start-up year expenses, as well as for costs associated with transition to and establishment of a state-based exchange. States participating in the federally facilitated exchanges may also receive funding to support a transition to a partnership or state-based exchange. All funds must be awarded by December 31, 2014. Level one grants must be drawn down within one year and level two grants within three years. HHS can extend deadlines for spending funds to a maximum of five years.
Although HHS stands ready to operate federally facilitated exchanges where necessary, it clearly wants the states to operate exchanges or cooperate with a federally facilitated exchange where possible. HHS is trying, therefore, to maximize the incentives for states to operate exchanges if they can be ready by 2014, but also to encourage states that cannot do so to cooperate with the federally facilitated exchange and to transition as quickly as possible to a federally facilitated exchange.
As implementation proceeds, HHS is increasingly releasing technical guidance on its Paperwork Reduction Act website. On July 2, 2012, HHS published notices under the Paperwork Reduction Act of its intention to collect data on four ACA-related topics, and requested public comment on these data collection efforts. Data collections covered by this notice include:
- Information to be collected from qualified health plans to support qualified health plan certification and information to be collected from health plans outside of the exchange for the operation of the reinsurance and risk adjustment programs;
- Information that must be provided concerning employees to establish their coverage through the small employer (SHOP) exchanges;
- Information that small employers must provide to establish their eligibility for offering coverage through the SHOP exchanges; and
- Information that individuals must provide to support eligibility determinations for premium tax credits, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance programs, and for enrolling in insurance through the exchanges.
The employer and employee notices essentially set out the application form that will be used by the exchanges, either in written or electronic form.
The notices build on rules and guidance that has already been issued on each of these topics, and have little new information in them. The qualified health plan notice states what has already become clear—that HHS is working with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to use the association's System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing (which states already use for collecting data for health plan regulation) to collect information for exchange plan management functions.
The employee form is a single page and collects only the most basic information necessary to sign employees up for a SHOP health plan. One box that must be checked is whether or not the employee uses tobacco. One largely unnoticed ACA provision provides that an employee who checks this box "yes" may have to pay half again as much for health insurance than the employee in the next cubicle who checks the box "no." As tobacco is disproportionately used in the United States by people with lower incomes, this factor may make health insurance unaffordable for many employees of small businesses.
The employer notice is also short and straightforward. The form allows the employer to specify a tier of coverage (such as gold or silver) and a benchmark plan, as well as a percentage of premium that the employer will contribute towards individual or family coverage for the benchmark plan (and for standalone dental coverage). Interestingly, the form does not allow the employer to specify a flat-dollar defined contribution, an option that many employers have asked for, but which would leave older employees with disproportionately higher costs than younger employers.
Finally, the exchange application data elements provide the greatest detail we have yet seen on the information that will be needed by exchange applicants, both those applying for premium tax credits and those simply enrolling in a qualified health plan. The amount of information needed is quite daunting.
Finally, to catch up on old business, on June 18, the HHS, issued a "Request for Domains, Instruments, and Measures for Development of a Standardized Instrument for Use in Public Reporting of Enrollee Satisfaction with their Qualified Health Plan and Exchange." One of the most important functions of the health insurance exchanges under the ACA is to provide health insurance consumers with information that will allow them to intelligently shop for health insurance coverage. The information provided through the exchanges will not only facilitate better understanding of insurance coverage options, but will also promote competition among insurers based on quality and price rather than on the basis of risk avoidance.
A key datum that will be of interest to plan shoppers will be information on enrollee satisfaction with qualified health plans in the exchange. Just as internet travel and shopping sites offer useful comparative information on the experience that consumers have had with hotels or appliances, the exchanges will provide information as to how pleased (or displeased) consumers have been with their health plans.
The request seeks information as to the domains or broad functional areas on which plan satisfaction should be rated (such as access, communication, care coordination, and customer service). It also seeks publicly-available plan satisfaction instruments and measures. HHS further proposes to collect information on enrollee satisfaction with the health care system and with consumer interaction with the exchanges. HHS proposes to make plan-specific quality ratings available at the exchange internet portals by 2016 for open enrollment for the 2017 coverage year. HHS is interested in instruments that can measure quality from the consumer's perspective—and in particular from consumers who have received care—and that can track changes over time. HHS intends to integrate the survey to be developed into the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) system of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The survey will be available to users free of charge.


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'Mommy's Lil Monster' Tattoo May Be The Dumbest Tattoo I've Ever Seen
I'm a fan of tattoos. I have one on my leg of piano keys because I play the piano. Someone may get the generic heart that says 'MOM' because they love their mother. Tattoos tell a story. They're also supposed to just look cool. This tattoo, however, may be the worst tattoo idea I've ever seen.
Apparently, Antonio is Mommy's lil' monster as it so states on this lady's back shoulder. I've never been a fan of getting someone's face as a tattoo because it never looks right. Although this one isn't bad, why this picture for the rest of her life? As if Antonio's five-year-old self will be teasing her for the rest of her life.
Well, she's now stuck with it so let this picture be a lesson to think long and hard before finalizing on which tattoo you should get.
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The U.S. government plans to propose broad new rules Monday that would force Internet providers to treat all Web traffic equally, seeking to give consumers greater freedom to use their computers or cellphones to enjoy videos, music and other legal services that hog bandwidth.The move would make good on a campaign promise to Silicon Valley supporters like Google Inc. from President Barack Obama, but will trigger a battle with phone and cable companies like AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp., which don't want the government telling them how to run their networks.
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I also see why google backed neutrality so much.
Pushing them further into a corner will yield either them going belly up, or worse them seeking other -bad for webmasters and the general public- sources.
Examples of the type of offerign them sell their customers that are not sustainable:
FIOS, or any other high bandwidth solution that has no cap on amount of traffic the consumer can transfer in a given timespan. The costs involved for the ISPs are prohibitve from making a profit as the users increase their bandwidth usage.
P2P traffic is about the worst on this as it uses tremendous amounts of bandwidth on provider's backbones that don't run for free.
Examples of such sources we don't want them to be forced into:
- as webmasters: replace our ads with ads of their own, cutting off our revenue
- the general population really doesn't need every typo in a URL leading to a parked service of dubious nature.
- ...
Net neutrality as champion by Google and the like is sensitive from their perspective: They already pay for connectivity to the Internet to their upstreams, they have significant invenstments into content delivery systems to facilitate the delivery of content throughout the world. And then some leaf ISP connecting consumers (who already gets paid for connecting sad consumers want to have more money ?)
So the only solution is simple, but not popular: force ISPs connecting consumers to charge the consumers enough to cover the costs they cause (prohibit them from running the service at a loss). This will mean no "unlimited" use high bandwidth connections for $ 20 or even $50 a month ... and you'll have to accept either a cap on the amount of traffic you can send.receive and/or a significant price hike.
So the only solution is simple, but not popular: force ISPs connecting consumers to charge the consumers enough to cover the costs they cause (prohibit them from running the service at a loss).
Your talking $10.00/mb for GigE connections in most metropolitan areas for a Tier 1 network. 10gE is running 4.00/mb for wholesale.
Personally if companies go metered internet access i think they would risk failing more since most people don't use a fraction of their bandwidth and those who do use a lot of bandwidth would happily switch companies that don't meter.
Some things I'd like to see happen...
1.) No more lying about download speeds. Comcast gives me a 12 megabit connection only to ISP speed test sites, I'm still only seeing six megabit on everything else tops.
2.) No more lying about upload speeds. Comcast will upload the first ten megabits of a file at about 320 kilobytes a second and then drop it to about 120 kilobytes a second after that.
3.) No more having to reset my cable modem every half an hour or any time I get a decent torrent download speed.
4.) Multiple cable ISP choices in all areas.
Any one who knows even half of what is going on knows ISP's are using packet filtering to slow down torrent, FTP, and other types of traffic, even at odd hours of the night. ISP's need to get it through their thick corporate skulls, if someone isn't watching their television service even if they made the content available people will still access it online via their computers.
The one-way medium is dead and big content is simply not going to succeed in using ISP's to turn human beings in to television watching zombies.
- John
No more lying about download speeds. Comcast gives me a 12 megabit connection only to ISP speed test sites, I'm still only seeing six megabit on everything else tops.
That's not Comcast lying because the junk between your IP connection and the rest of the world can be staggeringly crappy.
Just last week I had a horrid FTP connection to one of my servers and the connection was from COMCAST -> TINET -> PEER 1 and the TINET portion of the connection was completely messed up.
I contacted Comcast on twitter, they contacted TINET, and within an hour it cleared up.
I do a full database backup from my server to my local desktop nightly and I download 80MB of data in just a couple of minutes so I can see daily in the download log that Comcast is doing a decent job.
Next time you have problems just run traceroute from your location to the destination and you'll see exactly where it's failing to reach top speeds.
No more having to reset my cable modem every half an hour or any time I get a decent torrent download speed.
So you're blaming Comcast because the pirate network doesn't run at top speeds?
I run tracert all the time looking for bad hops.
Who said anything about piracy and tops speeds? I said everything I get a decent torrent download speed they kill the modem. On a 12 megabit connection 300 kilobytes is hardly top speed.
- John
So the only solution is simple, but not popular: force ISPs connecting consumers to charge the consumers enough to cover the costs they cause (prohibit them from running the service at a loss). This will mean no "unlimited" use high bandwidth connections for $ 20 or even $50 a month ... and you'll have to accept either a cap on the amount of traffic you can send.receive and/or a significant price hike.
Agree, allowing them to offer more bandwidth for their own services and content or giving privilege to certain companies will only allow them to bulldoze the competition. Separation of the connection service and content is crucial so sites can remain competitive. In many areas like mine consumers only have one choice for a provider.
So you're blaming Comcast because the pirate network doesn't run at top speeds?
More likely the poster is talking about the usage of devices from SANDVINE on the COMCAST network that deliberately interfere with specific traffic.
It(the SANDVINE system) profiles traffic, and if it determines that it is not traffic that the isp wants on the network it sends a forged TCP RST packet to the endpoints. This effectively shuts down the connection without the either end having initiated a shutdown sequence. Clearly this is dirty pool.
My view is that an isp is paid to provide connectivity. This connectivity should not be restricted to specific traffic. If I need a port to perform a task, it should be available without interference.
Once the Sandvine device latches onto a particular MAC address, it will start to interfere with all communications on all ports involving that MAC address. Not just the torrent that triggered it.
So, run a torrent slowly in the background, and watch the server administration connection come to a crawl as it continuously disconnects and reconnects.
Sending forged RST packets to interfere with TCP connections is nothing more than a disincentive to using protocols that are tied to high bandwidth consumption. This is bandwidth that was advertised and sold, but that the isp does not want to actually deliver.
BTW, torrents are not just for pirated materials, they are also used for software distribution and updates. As the torrents are initiated, offered and encouraged by the vendors, it can hardly be called piracy.
BTW, torrents are not just for pirated materials, they are also used for software distribution and updates. As the torrents are initiated, offered and encouraged by the vendors, it can hardly be called piracy.
plumsouce, you're hitting it closer to target than you might know.
99% of P2P traffic is copyright violating material. There's no defense for breaking the law. And this gives all of the P2P traffic a really bad name.
The remaining part is a real annoyance: these companies sell a service or a product but deliberately chose not to pay for the distribution or the traffic it generates and instead borrow (some might argue: steal) that capacity from their users. Now those users often are unwittingly duped into this, or chosen due to them having much bandwidth available to them. Few do this as an intentional choice.
How those users are paying for their bandwidth is left out of the equation. If they have a fixed price deal and unlimited usage, they typically don't care and let the ISP run up the extra costs without getting any extra benefit form it.
Those without that flat fee unlimited use will easily get annoyed by it, jst like most companies trying to using their resources for business purposes instead of due to somebody unintentionally starting to supply something to the rest of the world for "free".
What are examples I've run into from non-copyright violating uses of P2P ... skype: Get promoted to supernode and you'll know what I'm talking about.
World of Warcraft: distributes their updates for the game using a P2P network they build from all gamers currently downloading the update with threats to the users to let the P2P happen or face even slower downloads.
There probably are more out there. And I think it's not in the best interest of all of us to allow companies to abuse this and not pay at all for connectivity for their quite profitable services. The difference between these companies and e.g. Google are gigantic. Google and the like pay serious amounts to be connected to the Internet with huge bandwidths around the world. asking them to pay once again for traffic to end-users is like asking them to pay twice for the same service. The examples above are companies that didn't pay once (ok, just for seeding it). Asking them to pay at least once isn't too much to ask IMHO.
Worse if ISPs are made powerless to stop things like P2P traffic it can only mean we all pay the price in the long run. Just imagine Googling for something means you accept to be part of their P2P crawler for the next hour, or using bing means you're a distribution point for the next black Tuesday updates Microsoft needs to distribute, ...
Since the ISP can't act against this anymore they'll have little choice but to slow it all down and/or charge you more.
If they have a fixed price deal and unlimited usage, they typically don't care and let the ISP run up the extra costs without getting any extra benefit form it.
Many of you can't directly send email via your own SMTP servers, you have to send email via your ISP yet you can read email from your own POP server, and it's been this way long before the ISPs targeted P2P protocols.
If the ISPs aren't allowed to police their own networks to stop harm from coming to the online community at large, then we might as well roll up the web and put it away now.
What I find most amusing is people pay a paltry $40/mo and think they should get the same kind of access someone paying full price for a T3 gets.
I'll suspect many people sign up for Comcast without reading the TOS and then complain they're being punished for violating those rules, let's investigate!
Comcast's TOS [comcast.net] clearly states that hosting file sharing services on their network is not permitted, so hosting P2P file sharing is covered, it's simply not allowed, and they further state:
"temporarily lowering the priority of traffic for users who are the top contributors to current network congestion"
That pretty much sums up the situation, it's not allowed.
Funny, I can stream HD movies full speed from various legit sources without a glitch but I'll bet there's a glitch if I try to download one via torrent, wonder what the difference is?
Hmmmm... ;)
For the record, I'm for net neutrality, but I'm not for net abuse, two totally different things and the current system is working just fine at the moment without government interference.
It's way to early for the Feds to step in.
If the ISP didn't do the costings on their packages correctly that is their problem not the customer's.
Regardless: the smart ISPs have hidden in the fine print the defenses together with purchasing the technology they needed to defend that pricing.
If anybody comes in and disturbs that balance they will need to seek a new balance.
If they want to keep the unlimited aspect: it'll be a solution with more income from somewhere. So It'll be "phorm" and other similar stuff or a price hike. I only hope they have the guts to go for the price hike.
Or if they want to keep the price levels: the details in the contract will change: no more unlimited bandwidth etc.
And then in the smallprint:
Additional traffic over the maximum average daily use will be invoiced at $X/Mbyte.
With that daily average calculated on a window of the billing period and the maximum set at something the majority of your customers are well below, somthing reasonable like 300Mbyte/day.
Pass it through marketing and legal a few times and no customer will notice till/unless the leachers get their first bill and start to protest: so you "gently" squeeze then out first (DMCA/copyright complaints sounds like an easy way to get them out and not have to take the heat) and be happy with the bulk of the rest of the customers.
The fun part: your competitor who stays last "truly" unlimited will end up with just the leachers and will have a _far_ bigger problem on his hands.


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Unfortunately for people such as myself who enjoy food far too much, the bikini body is on the back burner for this part of the year (scratch that, make it year round).
Sticking with last week's theme of chocolate, my second dessert is a delicious baby chocolate mocha cake with ganache.
I managed to get my paws on some of the most excellent Quick Brown Fox coffee liqueur from the Otago Farmers Market the other week and decided to pop a few sloshes in the ganache, just to see what happened, but also hoping that it would add a bit more festive cheer to this moist rich cake.
It worked.
Oh boy, did it work.
I also drizzled a wee bit over the top of the cakes just as they came out of the oven (I had brandy and Christmas cake methodologies on the brain!).
It was excellent.
So for this recipe I used 11cm spring-form cake tins. There was enough cake batter to make six of these, so two "disappeared'' and I froze the other four. This is great over the Christmas season when you may suddenly be invited to any number of shindigs at a moment's notice.
Because this cake is so rich, you don't need a big slice. Plus it is good for intimate wee gatherings where you don't want piles of cake left over at the end (remember that bikini body?).
If you want to make a large cake, use a 23cm tin and increase the cooking time to around 50 minutes to an hour. The ganache recipe will be enough to assemble two two-tiered mini-cakes.
Chocolate mocha cake with Quick Brown Fox ganache
Makes six 11cm cakes
2 cups plain flour
2 cups sugar
1 cup cocoa
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup strong black coffee
1 cup of buttermilk (or half and half milk and yoghurt)
2 eggs
1/2 cup sunflower oil
1 tsp vanilla essence
Quick Brown Fox ganache
(Enough to ice two two-tiered cakes)
1/2 cup cream
250g dark chocolate (60ish% cocoa solids), chopped
5-6 Tbsp Quick Brown Fox (or other coffee liqueur)
To make the cakes
Heat the oven to 180degC on bake.
Line and grease your 11cm cake tins. If you have only a few (I have only two) wait half an hour before turning the baked cakes out and reusing the tins).
Beat together the sugar and eggs until pale. Add oil, beat well then carefully mix in the buttermilk (or milk/yoghurt mixture) and the vanilla.
Sieve in the flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt and baking powder and mix to combine. Carefully stir in the black coffee (if using a stand mixer it can slosh everywhere!).
Pour 230g of cake mixture into each cake tin. Bake for 30 minutes and leave to cool before turning out. If you want, you can drizzle a teaspoon of QBF over the tops of the cakes while they are still hot.
To make the ganache
Heat the cream in a double boiler until just below a simmer then add the chocolate. Leave to sit for a minute then stir.
Once cooled slightly, stir in the QBF. Leave to cool to room temperature before covering and leaving to cool in the fridge.
Once the ganache has thickened for an hour or so in the fridge, use it to gently glue two cakes together. You may need to level the tops of the cakes with a serrated knife.
If the ganache is too hard pop it in the microwave for a few seconds until it is spreadable. Be careful not to tear the cakes as you ice them.


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Slash recently kicked off his solo tour in Toronto, Cananda. The legendary guitarist played several classic GNR and Velvet Revolver songs as well as a few from Slash's Snakepit.
Slash's second solo album "Apocalyptic Love" will be released on May 22nd. Myles Kennedy (Alter Bridge) is the frontman for Slash's second album. Slash bills the band as "Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators."
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Dr. Kristenne Robison, Westminster College assistant professor of sociology, will present "Who Really 'Cares'? The Implications of Hiring Policewomen to Do Women's Work on the Force" at Faires Faculty Forum Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 11:40 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center.
Policymakers, scholars, and police administrators boast that one of the merits of adding women to the police department is that women bring a more feminine, supportive approach ("ethic of care") to police work.
Robison's ethnographic research of a large police department demonstrates the implications of hiring women to engage primarily in care work on the force.
Robison, who has been with Westminster since 2009, earned an undergraduate degree from Baldwin-Wallace College, master's from The Ohio State University, and master's and Ph.D. from Syracuse University.
Faculty Forum was established in 1990 by Dr. Barbara Faires, Westminster professor of mathematics emerita, during her term as Dean of the College and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Faculty members from all disciplines volunteer to present lectures on their current research, artistic productions, and/or scholarship of teaching and learning. Each forum presents new ideas with innovative lecture techniques.
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The recently concluded Hay Festival Dhaka has left readers and writers with the excitement of coming into touch with vibrant literary discussions with our counterparts on other shores.
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The recent Hay Festival in Dhaka was a rare treat in many ways. Meeting some of the South Asian literary luminaries was a delight as expected, but meeting the 'protesters' of the Dhaka Hay Festival added a dimension to my experience that I was not prepared for.
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Barrett "Rett" Mason has never found the one girl who can tame his wild heart. And sometimes life is just easier and less complicated without love. While working for Kingston Construction, Barrett becomes fast friends with the owner's son, Cole. They have one major thing in common - their insatiable appetite for women. But when Barrett meets Cole's sister, Finley, the easy, care-free, no commitment lifestyle he's grown used to suddenly loses its appeal. Now Barrett has met his match and the one girl who is just too damn impossible to walk out on.
For several years, Finley King has been a slave to the anxiety disorder that gripped her and kept her from enjoying life. Now with the support of her family, friends, and medication, she is on the mend. But the one thing she lacks in her otherwise lush existence as a rock star's daughter is passion. Barrett Mason is about to change that....
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Rett rates 5++++ Stars Loved It
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"Rett: Custom Culture #4"
Yes! I loved this audio book and I read the book along with it while I was listening and Dara Rosenberg did a great job narrating it!
I would compare Rett to any second chance romance novel as his and Finley's story had a lot of baggage on both these character's sides to make it a really good read!
My favorite scene is when Rett finally decides he needs Finley in his life and he needs to man up, and so he takes a job where she is working and waits for her to show up and when she sees him it is like Christmas for the both of them, or having a glass of water after being thirsty for a long time!
This book made me feel happy, it made me sad, made me cry at one point and laugh out loud at the scene when Rett finally gets to meet Finley's dad, and he takes all the Custom Culture men and their girls with him for courage!
I really have enjoyed this series and have loved every single book in it and all the characters so much, but I think I liked this a bit more because it was like Rett, the one always getting in trouble, and Finley who has been protected and kept away from anyone her whole life finally got something so great in their lives-each other!
"Another great Custom Culture story!"
I think Rett is near the top of my list of Tess Oliver audiobooks (my heart belongs to Nix from Freefall).
I liked Rett and Finley equally, though I tend to like the boys more, of course.
I liked Dara's performance of Finley the most. Mainly because she is the lead female character.
More like many moments. I love when the author gets in the guy's head and he realizes how much the girl means to him.
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Urinary Disorders
Increased Urgency When Standing Up
I urinate quite frequently these days (maybe having passed 65 has something to do with it), but find that I often have an increased need to urinate when standing up after having been seated for some time, such as getting up from work at a desk or some other seated activity.
I don`t understand why. Is there something about standing up that increases urinary urgency? And while I`m not sure there`s anything to do about this, maybe you have some ideas. Thanks for your guidance.
You may have an overactive bladder. Standing from a sitting position may lead to some urgency. This can result from an enlarged prostate in a man or can be for a variety of reasons in both men and women. It would be worth discussing this with your doctor, being examined and having your urine checked. There are medications, exercises, and sometimes surgeries that can help these symptoms.
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Andrew Perry of Telegraph.co.uk recently conducted an interview with THEM CROOKED VULTURES, which consists of FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl on drums, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE singer/guitarist Josh Homme and LED ZEPPELIN bass player John Paul Jones. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.On being back on the road again: John Paul Jones: "I couldn't get arrested in the Eighties at all. After THE BEATLES broke up, would you have asked Paul McCartney if he'd be in your band? Nobody thought I would do anything, and I didn't really want to join another band after ZEPPELIN, because I knew nothing would ever be as good as that."' On LED ZEPPELIN's 2007 reunion concert: John Paul Jones: "The O2 gig was really good. We'd put a lot of work into it. It had to sound like the last night of a two-year tour. After Robert [Plant] said he didn't want to do any more, I rehearsed with Jimmy [Page] and Jason [Bonham] quite a lot of last year. We'd put so much into [the O2 gig] together, we thought, Let's just start another band. We wrote new material, but we couldn't really agree on singers and it didn't work out. But after that, I was in that mindset where I'd probably do some touring. My parents were in variety, so I've always felt at home on stage. When Dave came along and said, Do you fancy trying out with Josh, I jumped at it." On THEM CROOKED VULTURES' songwriting approach: Josh Homme: "Early on, Dave and I were like, It's gotta be songs, man. If we just jammed around, it would suck. They'll call it self-indulgent to go with the 'supergroup' word — and they'll be right. Rock 'n' roll only sounds good when it's lean, hungry and wants to grab you. It doesn't sound good when it relaxes." On the recording sessions for THEM CROOKED VULTURES' debut album: Josh Homme: "I got arrested on the third day of our session. It was total bull, because I really was just hanging out, you know? When I got out of jail, we were recording that day, so I told the guys (exhales regretfully), 'Look, I haven't had that much sleep, it's going take me a sec to get my thing together.' And to not have one look of judgement was very cool. I gotta be just who I am, because I don't know who else to be."' Read the entire interview from Telegraph.co.uk.
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Aylsham is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Bure in north Norfolk, England, about 15 km (9.3 mi) north of Norwich. The river rises near Melton Constable, 18 kilometres (11 mi) upstream from Aylsham and continues to Great Yarmouth and the North Sea, although it was only made navigable after 1779, allowing grain, coal and timber to be brought up river.
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I had Juverderm back in July for treatment of undereye circles but all it did was make them more prominent and gave me bags under my eyes. The doctor overfilled the area particularly on my left eye. I have been very unhappy with the results.
Since then i have three injections of hyaluronidase the under last one was 4mls in each eye which i am told is a lot. This was ten days ago. I now have a bag under my left eye which is bothering me quite a bit. I have never had one before only dark circles.
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On Monday, Giants' closer Brian Wilson was catching grief from the San Francisco Chronicle's Henry Schulman for his Twitter habits. Today, Barry Zito's Twitter habits are getting him googly eyes flashed his way from the San Francisco Chronicle's Gwen Knapp:
About six hours before he threw his first pitch Monday night, Barry Zito posted a favorite quote from Abraham Lincoln on his Twitter page: "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better." Was this a sign of softness, of meek passivism rather than the hostility appropriate for a confrontation with the Dodgers? No, it was just Zito being Zito, and on his way to preventing Manny from being lethally Manny . . .
. . . Twitter allows for some genuine, fairly spontaneous expression, and Zito's account contains more wit than I could have imagined. It can be banal and incomprehensible at times, just like most social-networking language - but there are many posts that reveal an enviable ability to turn a phrase, and others that display a healthy capacity for laughing at himself . . . [Wilson] and Zito will find it easier to stifle hitters if they're not stifling themselves.
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Just came back from my first trip to Spain. My first stop was Madrid. Besides the usual tapas hopping and visiting Mercado San Miguel and Mercado San Anton, there were two places where I actually sat down to eat.
El Club Allard: My first fine dining experience in Spain. I came in about 15 minutes early for my 9:00 dinner reservation and found the place closed. Fortunately, the place is close to the Temple of Debod so I was able to wander around the park before I returned.
Upon entering, I was greeted with a delicious waft of freshly baked breads. In fact, I was seated right beside their bread cart, which offered various selections of bread that you can choose from. The first meal of the day was the piece of paper that has their menu options. I was also given a sabayon like sauce that they said was mayonaise. You can choose to eat or not eat the paper. I ate it and would have preferred not to, even with the sauce, it still tasted like a communion wafer. That was probably the lowest point of my dinner and it got tremendously better after that. Highlights of my night were:
Scones and butter: This was the only restaurant I went to that actually served butter. The butter was actually green in color and looked like algae, probably in keeping with their aquatic theme
Soft shell txangurro: really loved this dish. It's soft shell crab that was fried and served with the same sabayon as my rice paper/communion wafer menu. This time around though, the sauce worked well with the crab and was very enjoyable.
Mini Babybell of Camembert truffle: This one looked like an apple with a pretzel stick. Inside the apple was the camembert infused with truffle. Delicious! Interestingly enough, this was served in the middle of the menu. I have been trained to think that cheese courses ought to be served after the meats and right before dessert. Guess I was wrong.
Game truffle with foie and mushrooms: Pate(I think it was pigeon) that's shaped like a truffle with foie gras. The foie looked like a landscape. One of my favorite and most memorable dishes of the night.
Sea bass with Korean Marinade: mild tasting and tender. Surprised it wasn't salty unlike most Asian foods.
Orange and citrus shot: Seriously looked like a dragonfruit shaped like a shot glass. The shot glass had the reddish color of the flesh of the dragon fruit and the orange cream(???) was white in color. All it needed were specks of black and I would seriously think it was a dragon fruit! Thankfully, it tasted more like an orange sorbet.
The fishbowl: white chocolate landscape with marshmallows that looked like fish in a fishbowl. I'm not a big fan of white chocolate but this worked well with my palate.
Poche egg: This dish looks like a brown egg that you can crack open. The shell is made of white chocolate, the egg white is flan I believe, and the yolk is mango sorbet. If you let the sorbet melt, it would look like a runny egg.
Bazaar Restaurant: This is one of the restaurants that's open for lunch and dinner on a Sunday! I found this restaurant while walking around the Chueca district. I was hoping to get into El Cisne Azul as I am a lover of all things mushrooms but they were not open. Bazaar was almost full every time I passed by it. I had the fish with rice which was OK but their chocolate dessert was heavenly. I think it's called Chocolatissimo or something similar to that. When I got my bill, I can see why this place is popular with the locals. My dinner was 17 euros for everything I had. On top of it all, the service was friendly and the servers can speak in English if needed.


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There is so much to do at Bounty Island Resort, non-motorized activities are complimentary and they're all readily available and include fish feeding from pontoon, turtle feeding, cultural lessons, canoes, kayaks, hobie cats, medicinal tour, bush walks, volleyball and touch rugby, table tennis, pool table, stereo (bring your own CD's), DVD movies, games and Sky TV.
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UNITED NATIONS (Oct. 22)
U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar promised Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, that he will announce his final position on opening the files of Nazi war criminals at the U.N. archives in Manhattan at the beginning of next month.
The secretary general's pledge was made in the course of a half-hour meeting with Netanyahu Wednesday evening. The Israeli envoy requested the meeting with Perez de Cuellar to urge him not to postpone any longer the decision on opening the files.
Representatives of the 17 former members of the commission met with the secretary general here Sept. 22-23 and Oct. 13 to inform him of their governments' positions on opening the files.
The secretary general was expected to announce his decision following those meetings, but instead it was decided that the secretary general and representatives of the former members of the U.N. War Crimes Commission will met again at the United Nations on Oct. 30.
Netanyahu reportedly expressed his concern to Perez de Cuellar over the continued delay in reaching a decision on the files. The secretary general reportedly told Netanyahu that a number of governments are still debating the issue.
The issue is whether to grant scholars, historians and researchers access to the dossiers on more than 40,000 accused Nazi war criminals. They are presently accessible only to the governments of U.N. members.
Diplomats at the United Nations told the JTA last week that 16 former members of the long-defunct War Crimes Commission have already expressed support for greater access to the files and that only one country, France, has not yet disclosed its position.
But reliable sources told the JTA Thursday that a number of other governments are now saying that they support a rather limited access to the files by historians, scholars and researchers.
Eyal Arad, the spokesman for Israel's U.N. Mission, said after the meeting between Netanyahu and Perez de Cuellar, "We came out of the meeting hopeful that the secretary general is indeed going to make up his mind soon and announce his decision along the lines requested by Israel."


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So Resident Evil 6 plans to scare you when it is released but don't count on that to be the only source for chills. Capcom has announced that they will be supporting the game with new content and new download modes post-release starting with three brand new modes. Aside from "Mercenaries" mode, which the game will ship with, RE6 is going to have Survivors, Predator, and Siege Modes. All three modes are online modes and support up to six players and will be using maps from the Mercenaries mode. There will even be an online community where you can track your stats in these modes available at www.ResidentEvil.net. Capcom has also announced they will be releasing more maps though no specifics were given.
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JERUSALEM (Jul. 23)
The marathon trial of Adolf Eichmann will be resumed tomorrow for what is expected to be the last week of questioning of the former Gestapo colonel charged with a key role in the slaughter of 6,000,000 European Jews.
Justice Moshe Landau, the presiding judge, is scheduled to question Eichmann tomorrow, following the completion of the questioning by the two other judges, Yitzhak Raveh and Binyamin Halevi. When Justice Landau completes his examination, affidavits from six former Nazis who gave testimony as defense witnesses in West German courts will be submitted by Dr. Robert Servatius, Eichmann's chief defense counsel.
The court will then recess until July 31 when the summations will begin. Prosecutor Gideon Hausner has indicated he will need three days. Dr. Robert Servatius, Eichmann's chief defense counsel, said he could present his summary in one session, making the timetable for the close of the trial about August 4. The trial will have lasted one week short of four months. It began April 11.
The judges will then retire to prepare their decision and they will not sit again until after the High Holy Days in September. Some Israeli officials have predicted that the decision, which is expected to be a lengthy one since it will deal with a 15-count indictment, may take two or three days to deliver. Dr. Servatius has indicated he will appeal the expected decision of guilty to the Israeli Supreme Court. His appeal will be based on a challenge of the jurisdiction of the three-judge tribunal.
In his questioning of Eichmann Friday, Judge Halevi reminded Eichmann that this might be his last chance "to tell the truth" about himself, in view of the approaching close of the trial, to make a "frark, sincere statement" about his role as wartime head of the Gestapo department for Jewish affairs. The defendant, however, adhered unchangingly to his stand of having been a minor official in the vast Nazi murder machinery.
Eichmann said he agreed with the testimony of Dean Karl Ernest Gruber, a Berlin clergyman who came to Israel to testify at the trial, who declared that the Germans lacked civic courage. But, Eichmann added, it was wartime and "it was a question of the period, education and training." Eichmann agreed with Judge Halevi that he lacked "civic courage" and added, "like so many others in uniform."
Judge Halevi said that to have had the courage not to give a hand in committing crimes "that might have been difficult at that time but what about the present? Do you have the necessary courage to take upon yourself the responsibility for the thing that happened then?"
"From the human point of view," said the defendant, "I have my own thoughts, I have made a reckoning." This was a reference to his previous admission of "moral but not legal" guilt. "I was not the one who issued orders. I was only a receiver of orders. If this is punishable by law, then I am ready to take the penalty."
In other phases of Judge Halevi's questioning, Eichmann admitted that Gestapo camouflage and deceptions were worked out in advance to harness the doomed Jews to speed their own slaughter.


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Offering ski-in/ski-out access, this hotel in Alba is in the mountains, within 1 mi (2 km) of Alba-Ciampac Cable Car and Gianmario Scola Ice Arena, and close to winter activities such as skiing lessons. Canazei - Pecol Gondola and Dolaondes Canazei are also within 2 mi (3 km).
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Ski into Hotel Miramonti, where you can relax in a sauna, enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge, or have a meal at the restaurant.
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After a day on the slopes, enjoy use of the hotel's facilities like a health club and a sauna. At the end of the day, order après-ski drinks at the hotel's bar.
The hotel offers a restaurant. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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Check-in time starts at 2 PM
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Ottawa Co. family killer to be punished Wednesday
Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:26:02 GMT —
An Ottawa County man will learn his fate Wednesday for killing his father, stepmother and stepbrother.
William Liske will be sentenced at 10:30a in the morning. Last month, Liske admitted to the murders as part of a plea deal. And in exchange for that, he will not face the death penalty. The maximum sentence he can receive is life in prison without parole.
Liske's stepbrother found the three bodies in October at the family's rural home in Ottawa County. Official documents released in November say William Liske, Jr., 53, was shot five times in the head. His wife Susan Liske, 46, died from at least two shots to the head and one to the body. Susan's son, Derek Griffin, was beaten to death with a hammer.
We'll let you know what the judge decides Wednesday on WNWO News at 6.


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Your Cavilier fuel pump, as you know, is in the fuel tank. The tank will need to be dropped to access the pump. Imports {most European and Asian} are accessible from the back seat or trunk. To this day, I can't figure out why the domestics can not do that.
We can run electrical tests if you would like, but first I need to know if the eigth digit of the VIN {reading left to right} is 4 or F for the correct diagram. To access most of this check, you will need to raise the vehicle and suppurt it enough to get under the rear safely enough.
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O.K. First off, I need you to check the F/P-INJ fuse in the dash fuse box 15amp. If that is good, then the Gray wire going to the fuel pump needs to be checked for voltage while cranking, and a ground signal on the black wire.
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Someone needs to check and see what the alltime season low FG percentage for a team is....cause I'm starting to think whatever it is Detroit will be able to give it a good run for its money...
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Someone needs to check and see what the alltime season low FG percentage for a team is....cause I'm starting to think whatever it is Detroit will be able to give it a good run for its money...
The poster "pacertom" since this forum began (and before!). I changed my name here to "Slick Pinkham" in honor of the imaginary player That Bobby "Slick" Leonard picked late in the 1971 ABA draft (true story!).
The Pistons might slip in to the 'offs...
DG for 3
All that chucking and all that rebounding ability.
Drummond's per 36 rebounding numbers will be filthy.
Brandon Jennings - 40%
Will Bynum 47%
Josh Smith 47%
Greg Monroe 49%
Andre Drummond 61%
a lot of people really overestimate how much of a "chucker" Josh Smith is.
DG for 3
Someone also needs to check what the record is for most illegal defense technicals called on opposing teams
Smith might have his moments of efficiency but Brandon Jennings at this rate will never experience it.
Pistons are a legit starting 2G away from being title contenders if Drummond becomes dominant starting this season.
They were already a playoff team in my mind. Not sure on this move need a trial period to figure out if it will be good. Billups might be able to help Jenning but he will always be erratic. Personally I would of held on to Knight and get Jennings if they wanted Jennings. I like Knight off the ball. It was clear the Bucks didn't want BJ. That locker room will be a nightmare come rough stretches. I am surprised BJ didn't take the QO and try to get a deal next year. He seems like the type who believes in himself.
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Jennings was more efficient than Smith this year. Unlike Smith, he makes his free throws and he takes a bunch of 3s (lower FG% but you get 3 points when you make it).
I think the Pistons clearly get better short term, and Jennings isn't a dumb player, if someone gets through to him and puts him into a good system, and puts legit scoring options around him, who knows, he might chuck less.
It's a shame that they couldn't keep Knight though.
hmmm...lets think about that...the dude simply cannot shoot...period...but he absolutely loves to try....over and over and over...and everyone knows its just a matter of time before he eventually starts jacking it up from the outside....frustrate him and keep him from scoring down low and youre good to go...cause once he goes outside hes finished...hes very good around the basket...but who on that Pistons team is gonna keep every team in the league from packing the paint with 5 guys????????
Key word there being when.
2013-2014 Pistons better than the 2013-2014 Sixers?
Pump the breaks there, sugar. Let's see them make the playoffs before we call them potential title contenders. Plus Drummond becoming "dominant" is a huge, huge if.
woa.. dumars really suck except drafting.
at the begining of last season, we argued here with couple of guys and kstat about knight. I told them knight at pg is not gona work at all. so i m not a big fan of him. BUT
as seen later, he is good charachter, also accepted to move sg, do his job defend and spotting up on 3pt line. with good coach he might turn into great role player.
in my opinion things were going well. they just have to give playing time to drummond and other young guys and suck 1 more year. and maybe after next draft go after free agents. but signing j.smith and jennings. wow. ok i get it, with the situation of detroit and all; owners pushing for win now mode OK. but at least do better job for **** sake.
pass it around man
Counting down the days untill DJ Augustin's contract expires.
If you mean that he's terrible at it, then it's not true, he shot .375 from 3 this year, and it's not a small sample size either.
His much bigger problem is finishing inside the paint.
Which actually gives some hope that Jennings will find his niche in Detroit, since they have so many better weapons inside the paint.
I didn't mean he was terrible at it I'm just pointing out it's only when he makes it. He's more inclined to shoot a long 2 pointer than he is a 3 with the way he plays.
I think Hawks, Cavs, Wizards, Pistons could all cause some headaches as lower seeds, if they click and stay healthy. Especially the Cavs, but they have the most IFs too.
I thought this was a great video on Brandon Jennings (it's not a highlight reel)
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Washington, June 21 (ANI): A new study from MIT has shown that a gene called SIRT1, previously shown to protect against diseases of aging, plays a key role in controlling human circadian rhythms.
The researchers found that circadian function decays with aging in normal mice, and that boosting their SIRT1 levels in the brain could prevent this decay. Conversely, loss of SIRT1 function impairs circadian control in young mice, mimicking what happens in normal aging.
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I stumbled upon design by accident. I did not always find an interest in typefaces, letterforms, and well-designed objects.Until one morning I awoke and began to appreciate a well-designed logo orcharming vernacular typography and sneer at the cold, basic, corporateadvertisements that surrounded me. Ever since, I have gracefully tumbledthrough the design world, absorbing every snippet of inspiration, beauty, andinnovation I can uncover, so as to use these sources to create new andbeautiful things. I believe that good design reflects the honest intentions ofa naïve mind and the sophistication and grace of an old pro. I tumble my waythrough a project; my time management is poor, I change my concept severalhundred times, and never feel as though my final product is truly finished. Butthrough this process I learn about myself, I learn new techniques and betterways of thinking, and the outcome is put-together and a step above theprevious. Granted, I have a lot to learn; but it is through this process ofpure intentions and interest that I slowly find my way. My style of design isnaïve and pure, yet gracefully hides any hints of insecurity or displeasure.
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