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My sister and I want to tackle our mother's nine-day pickle recipe, but we're not sure about some of the 50+ year-old instructions. Online searches have provided some recipes, but none are exactly like ours. These were the pickles of our childhood, which we both loved, so we're willing to put out the effort. Can anyone offer any advice?
Nine-Day Pickles
2 gallons of cucumbers--soak 24 hrs. in 1 1/2 box of salt in water. (Mom used "pickling salt" but we can't find that in our grocery stores. How is it different from regular salt?)
2nd day--cover with 2/3 box of alum and boiling water. Let stand 24 hours. (No size given for the box of alum)
3rd day--Pour off alum water. Cover with boiling water. Let stand 24 hours.
4th day--Boil one gallon vinegar (we think she used apple cider vinegar) and a 10-cent (!) box of pickling spices for 15-20 minutes. (Best guess is a regular-sized spice bottle.) Pour over cucumbers; let stand for 9 days.
We do remember Mom putting a weighted plate on top of the cucumbers in the crock.
On the last day, cut cucumbers into thick round slices. Put in jars with same proportion of cucumbers and sugar.
That's the end of the recipe; we figure we have to seal the jars in a water bath.
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In the aftermath of the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations at Camp David in 2000, Avi Nesher filmed a series of conversations with Israeli and Palestinian politicians concerning the dark core of the conflict. Simultaneously Nesher documented with his cinematographer David Gurfinkel the Russian-Israeli belly dancer Elina Pechersky during her preparations for an ambitious performance together with five Palestinian-Israeli musicians. Nesher weaves the two strands into one cinematic narrative, juxtaposing history and mythology, reality and imagination, questioning the unbearable communication failure between the "major" and the "minor" conflicts between Palestinian and Israeli cultures.
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From the World Heritage inscription for the Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point:
Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point owes its name to a 19th-century plantation close to the site, which is in the Lower Mississippi Valley on a slightly elevated and narrow landform. The complex comprises five mounds, six concentric semi-elliptical ridges separated by shallow depressions and a central plaza. It was created and used for residential and ceremonial purposes by a society of hunter-fisher-gatherers between 3700 and 3100 BP. It is a remarkable achievement in earthen construction in North America that was unsurpassed for at least 2,000 years.
Poverty Point is a Louisiana State Historic Site and (as of the time of writing) the United States' most recent world heritage site.
Poverty Point is an important site in the development of early civilization in North America, however, like the Cahokia Mounds world heritage site in Illinois, it is not very photogenic. The site consists of several earthen semicircles, most of which have been plowed or eroded to a point where you can barely notice they are there. The primary remaining structure is a large mound which today simply looks like a grass covered hill.
There is evidence of human settlement at Poverty Point dating back 3,500 years, making it one of the oldest known settlements north of Mexico.
Poverty Point is located in northeast Louisiana and isn't really next to any major cities. The closest major airport would probably be Shreveport which is about a three-hour drive.
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Strengthening of C/C Composites through Ceramer Matrix
Dhakate, S.R. ; Mathur, R.B. ; Dhami, T.L. ;
Carbon letters, volume 5, issue 4, 2004, Pages 159~163
The polymer-ceramic hybrid, known as 'ceramer', was synthesized by a sol-gel process by incorporating different amount of alkoxide as source of silicon in resorcinol-formaldehyde in presence of basic catalyst to get different percentage of silicon in ultimate carbonized composites. FTIR of the ceramer confirms that it is a network of Si-O-Si, Si-O-
and Si-OH type groups linked with benzene ring. Different amount of silicon in the ceramer exhibits varying temperature of thermal stability and lower coefficient of thermal expansion as compared to pure resorcinol-formaldehyde resin. The lower value of CTE in ceramer is due to existence of silica and resorcinol -formaldehyde in co-continuous phase. Unidirectional composites prepared with ceramer matrix and high-strength carbon fibers show lower value of flexural strength at polymer stage as compared to those prepared with resorcinol-formaldehyde resin. However, after heat treatment to
, the ceramer matrix composites show large improvement in the mechanical properties, i.e. with 7% silicon in the ceramer, the flexural strength is enhanced by 100% and flexural modulus value by 40% as compared to that of pure resorcinol-formaldehyde resin matrix composites.
Effect of Compositional Parameters on the Characteristics of C-SiC-
Aggarwal, R.K. ; Bhatia, G.B. ; Saha, M. ; Mishra, A. ;
Carbon letters, volume 5, issue 4, 2004, Pages 164~169
Carbon-ceramic composites refer to a special class of carbon based materials which cover the main drawbacks of carbon, particularly its proneness to air oxidation, while essentially retaining its outstanding properties. In the present paper, the authors report the results of a systematic study made towards the development of C-SiC-
composites, which involves the effects of compositional parameters, namely, carbon-to-ceramic and ceramic-to-ceramic ratios, on the oxidation behaviour as well as other characteristics of these composites. The C-SiC-
composites, heat-treated to
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depends jointly on the total ceramic content and the SiC :
ratio. Good compositions of C-SiC-
composites exhibiting zero weight loss in air at temperatures of 800~
for periods of 4~9 h, have been identified. Composites with these compositions undergo a weight gain or a maximum weight loss of less than 3% during the establishment of a protective layer at the surface of carbon in a period of 1~6 h. Significant improvement in the strength of C-SiC-
composites has been observed which increases with an increase in the total ceramic content and also with an increase in the SiC :
Equilibrium and Dynamic Adsorption of Methylene Blue from Aqueous Solutions by Surface Modified Activated Carbons
Goyal, Meenakshi ; Singh, Sukhmehar ; Bansal, Roop C. ;
Carbon letters, volume 5, issue 4, 2004, Pages 170~179
The equilibrium and dynamic adsorption of methylene blue from aqueous solutions by activated carbons have been studied. The equilibrium studies have been carried out on two samples of activated carbon fibres and two samples of granulated activated carbons. These activated carbons have different BET surface areas and are associated with varying amounts of carbon oxygen surface groups. The amounts of these surface groups was enhanced by oxidation with
gas at
and decreased by degassing at increasing temperatures of
. The adsorption increases on oxidation of the carbon surface and decreases on degassing. The increase in adsorption has been attributed to the formation of acidic carbon-oxygen surface groups and the decrease in adsorption on degassing to their elimination. The dynamic adsorption studies have been carried out on the two granulated activated carbons using two 50 mm diameter glass columns at a feed concentration of 300 mg/L and at different hydraulic loading rates (HLR) and bed heights. The minimum achievable concentrations are comparatively lower while the adsorption capacities are higher for GAC-S under the same operating conditions. The adsorption capacity of a carbon increases with increase in HLR but the rate of increase decreases at higher HLR values.
Thermal Decomposition of Hydrated Copper Nitrate [
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Ryu, Seung-Kon ; Lee, Woon-Kyu ; Park, Soo-Jin ;
Carbon letters, volume 5, issue 4, 2004, Pages 180~185
Thermolysis of
impregnated activated carbon fiber (ACF) was studied by means of XRD analysis to obtain Cu-impregnated ACF.
was converted into
. The
was reduced to Cu at
, resulting in ACF-C(Cu). Some Cu particles have a tendency to aggregate through the heat treatment, resulting in the ununiform distribution in ACF. Catalytic decomposition of NO gas has been performed by Cu-impregnated ACF in a column reactor at
. Initial NO concentration was 1300 ppm diluted in helium gas. NO gas was effectively decomposed by 5~10 wt% Cu-impregnated ACF at
. The concentration of NO was maintained less than 200 ppm for 6 hours in this system. The ACF-C(Cu) deoxidized NO to
and was reduced to ACF-
in the initial stage. The ACF-
also deoxidized NO to
and reduced to ACF-C(CuO). This ACF-C(CuO) was converted again into ACF-C(Cu) by heating. There was no consumption of ACF in mass during thermolysis and catalytic decomposition of NO to
by copper. The catalytic decomposition was accelerated with increase of the reaction temperature.
Influence of Nickel Electroplating on Hydrogen Chloride Removal of Activated Carbon Fibers
Park, Soo-Jin ; Jin, Sung-Yeol ; Ryu, Seung-Kon ;
Carbon letters, volume 5, issue 4, 2004, Pages 186~190
In this work, a nickel metal (Ni) electroplating on the activated carbon fiber (Ni/ACFs) surfaces was carried out to remove the toxic hydrogen chloride (HCl) gas. The surface properties of the treated ACFs were determined by using nitrogen adsorption isotherms at 77 K, SEM, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements. HCl removal efficiency was confirmed by a gas-detecting tube technique. As a result, the nickel metal contents on the ACF surfaces were increased with increasing the plating time. And, it was found that the specific surface area or the micropore volume of the ACFs studied was slightly decreased as increasing the plating time. Whereas, it was revealed that the HCl removal efficiency containing nickel metal showed higher efficiency values than that of untreated ACFs. These results indicated that the presence of nickel metal on the ACF surfaces played an important role in improving the HCl removal over the Ni/ACFs, due to the catalytic reactions between nickel and chlorine.
Electrochemical Removal Efficiency of Pollutants on ACF Electrodes
Oh, Won-Chun ; Park, Joung-Sung ; Lee, Ho-Jin ; Yum, Min-Hyung ;
Carbon letters, volume 5, issue 4, 2004, Pages 191~196
The electrochemical removal (ECR) of water pollutants by activated carbon fiber (ACF) electrodes from wastewater was investigated over wide range of electrochemical reaction time. The ECR capacities of ACF electrodes were associated with their internal porosity and were related to physical properties and to reaction time. And, surface morphologies and elemental analysis for the ACFs after electrochemical reaction are investigated by SEM and EDX to explain the changes in adsorption properties. The FT-IR spectra of ACFs for the investigation of functional groups show that the electrochemical treatment is consequently associated with the homogeneous removal of pollutants with the increasing surface reactivity of the activated carbon fiber surfaces. The ACFs were electrochemically reacted to waste water to investigate the removal efficiency for the COD, T-N and T-P. From these removal results of pollutants using ACFs substrate, satisfactory removal performance was obtained. The outstanding removal effects of the ACFs substrate were determined by the properties of the material for adsorption and trapping of organics, and catalytic effects.
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Cross-Examination of Jodi Arias
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NANCY GRACE, HOST: After weeks of seemingly irrelevant, innocuous testimony from Jodi Arias on the stand, finally this week, we get to the day that Travis Alexander was slaughtered, slaughtered in his own shower.
JODI ARIAS, CHARGED WITH MURDER: It was like mortal terror. It was like he -- I pissed him off the worst I`ve ever seen him pissed off. And then I tried to stop him, and then I pissed him off even more.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When you say he wasn`t going to stop, did you fear that he was going to kill you?
ARIAS: For sure, when he said, Kill you, yes.
He`d almost killed me before and now he was saying he was going to.
GRACE: The cross-examination commences of Jodi Arias. And I think -- I`ve been asked repeatedly what is the single most important thing that happened on cross? Frankly, it is the demeanor of Jodi Arias because you see when the real Jodi comes out. She will sit there in front of the jury looking all meek and mild, and then with the right question, boom, out comes the cobra.
ARIAS: It depends on the type of memory issue.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You say that you have memory problems, but it depends on the circumstance, right?
ARIAS: That`s right.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And give me the factors? I don`t want to know about a specific circumstance. What factors influence your having a memory problem?
ARIAS: Usually, when men like you are screaming at me or grilling me, or someone like Travis doing the same.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So that affects your memory problems, right?
ARIAS: It does. It makes my brain scramble.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you`re saying that it`s -- basically, what you`re saying is it`s Mr. Martinez`s fault that you can`t remember things that are going on.
ARIAS: It`s not your fault.
GRACE: There is one point where she seems to believe she got the best of the prosecutor on a question and actually starts laughing into her lap. And that psycho behavior on the stand, let me just say, is not endearing.
Yes, the prosecution is getting her all caught up in this conflict and that conflict. I found one of the major ones to be, laughably, her finger, her broken finger that she waved around in front of the jury. And then the prosecution shows her photos taken of her after the broken finger incident, and her finger is completely straight.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ma`am, if he caused that damage on January 22nd, 2008, that would have been before this picture that we have here, which is exhibit number 453. It would have been about five months before that, right?
ARIAS: It was before that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Five months, right?
ARIAS: Four.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Four months, then, right?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don`t have bent finger here in exhibit 453, do you.
ARIAS: My finger is bent there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You`re saying that your finger is bent there?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hold up your finger again, sideways so we can all see it.
ARIAS: My fingers are straightened. This one stays bent.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And that`s what it looks like, your finger, and you`re saying that`s what happened on January 22nd of 2008, right?
ARIAS: Yes.
GRACE: After the finger debacle, where he she basically gives the jury the finger, as I call it, then we go into her memory problems. And basically, she admits whenever she`s confronted with a stressful situation, such as the truth, she forgets. And there`s a pattern. Every time the answer to a question does not fit with her theory of self-defense, she forgets.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you have problems with your memory, ma`am?
ARIAS: Sometimes.
I have a vague memory of putting the knife in the dishwasher.
I filled up the tank and I filled up the gas cans, also.
It was upstairs.
I just remember screaming! I don`t remember anything after that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And so you lied to him at that point, right?
ARIAS: No.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you telling me that fabricating a text message is not a lie?
ARIAS: No, I`m not saying that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you can tell us, for example, what kind of coffee you bought at Starbucks back on June 3rd of 2008.
ARIAS: A busy Starbucks. I got a strawberry frappuccino.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But you can`t tell us what you said yesterday or the day before?
ARIAS: I always got the same drink at Starbucks.
GRACE: Another interesting -- and I would call it point three. A major score for the state is this claim that Travis Alexander is a pedophile. That has really stuck in my craw from the beginning, when she said that.
If you look back and you look at the timeline, you will see, as I did, that the first time that was ever mentioned to a soul was when she was planning her defense in a murder one capital death penalty prosecution. That is the first time Jodi Arias ever raises the specter that Travis Alexander was a pedophile.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You claim that on January 21 of 2008, you caught Mr. Alexander masturbating to some images of boys, correct?
ARIAS: I only saw one image. It was a boy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ma`am, didn`t you say that there were images, there were more than one?
ARIAS: There were more than one image. I only...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Was there more than one image? I`m sorry. Was there more than one image, ma`am?
ARIAS: Yes. He did have a problem.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That`s what you claim, right?
ARIAS: That`s the reality.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That`s what you claim, correct?
ARIAS: OK, yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When back then, there was this problem, did you call, for example, child -- the way you made it sound is he had this huge problem. Did you call, for example, child protective service?
ARIAS: No.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You didn`t go to the police department and tell them anything, right?
ARIAS: No.
GRACE: The prosecution did an incredible job of going through her e- mails, her texts, during the day and the day after, where she says she learned -- she catches him in the act, with him knowing she`s in the very next room, masturbating to pornographic-type images of little boys.
If you read their e-mails and their texts, you`d think nothing was wrong. They`re, like, How late do you have to work tonight? Well, I might have to work late. Can you give me a ride? I mean, it`s extremely mundane. Not one thing is mentioned.
Also interesting about that night, she claims that afternoon she catches Travis Alexander in the act, a pedophilic type act, and she jumps in her car and races home. She`s in a stupor. Well, as it turns out, according to the text messages, her car wasn`t working. She needed a ride.
Does that prove her guilty? No. And remember, the jury is the sole judge of credibility, who is telling the truth. You don`t think she would lie to save her own skin?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you remember stabbing Travis Alexander?
ARIAS: I have no memory of stabbing him.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you remember dragging him across the floor?
ARIAS: No. I just remember trying to get away from him.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you remember placing him in the shower?
ARIAS: I`m sorry, that`s no.
I have a vague memory of putting the knife in the dishwasher, but I`d put the knife in the dishwasher before, so I don`t -- I`m pretty sure it was that day.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you know where you got the knife from?
ARIAS: It was in -- it was upstairs.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Are you assuming that or do you remember that?
ARIAS: I`m assuming that.
GRACE: A glaring hole in the text message and e-mail evidence is any discussion whatsoever of physical abuse. Seems to me that if there had been physical abuse and they text and e-mail so -- at such volume, such -- with such almost obsession -- it was never mentioned. I find that very, very difficult to believe.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You said he grabbed you.
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Where did he grab you?
ARIAS: On the upper arms. And he spun me around and then grabbed my right arm.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) Did he grab both your arms?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. At the time he grabbed both your arms, could you see his face?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you see anger in his eyes?
ARIAS: He looked pissed off.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Were you scared he was going to hit you?
ARIAS: I wasn`t thinking of that. He`d only done that one time, so I was scared he was going to throw me or something (INAUDIBLE) he`d done before.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you say he grabbed your arm and spun you around, right?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Spun you around where?
ARIAS: Right -- right on the desk.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Point to it.
ARIAS: We were standing right about here.
GRACE: I do not believe the prosecution must change its strategy simply because of the length of Arias`s testimony. The only strategy or strategic change would be whether he prepped that hard or that intensely for her cross-exam. If you don`t think the defendant is going to take the stand, you don`t prep as much for their testimony.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Exhibit here, exhibit number 458, does say that you explored every naughty fantasy we could conjure up in our fruitful imaginations that we haven`t already fulfilled with one another, right?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You -- this doesn`t say that you didn`t enjoy it, does it.
ARIAS: No.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It does say you did enjoy it, doesn`t it.
ARIAS: I don`t see the word enjoy in there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No -- did I say the word enjoy was in there?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I did say...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It says you explored every naughty fantasy we could conjure up in our fruitful imaginations. You`re saying that having a fruitful imagination -- that`s not enjoyable is what you`re saying, right?
ARIAS: I`m not saying that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you`re saying that every naughty fantasy -- that`s a bad thing, right? That`s what you`re saying.
ARIAS: I`m not saying that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, the Pop Rocks were part of this naughty fantasy, weren`t they?
ARIAS: Part of it, yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And they were part of fulfilling your imaginations, right?
ARIAS: His imagination, yes.
GRACE: I recall on nearly every jury trial I tried -- bench trials, too -- I would get a big folder and write very conspicuously "Defendant`s cross-exam notes" and lay it on my trial table. You couldn`t help but see it. And whenever anything would happen in court, I`d write it down and go, I`m getting you good, and put it in my folder.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When you say monogamous, that means sexually, doesn`t it.
ARIAS: Which time?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What we`re -- the time that we`re talking about right now, involving Mr. Alexander. No other time.
ARIAS: Our relationship evolved, so...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m not asking you if it evolved. At the end, right when you killed him, you indicated that you were monogamous with him, right?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And at that time, you then left the killing scene, if you will, and you went out to Utah, right?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And when you went out to Utah, ma`am, you ended up with somebody by the name of Ryan Burns (ph), right?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you ended up in his bed, right?
ARIAS: I think it was a love sack.
GRACE: Now, granted, sometimes there would be nothing in that folder, and sometimes there would be a lot. But it was just a tool to psych out the other side, to get them very anxious about what I was going to do to them on cross.
And let me tell you this. Arias`s lawyers better be worried about cross-exam. They`ve taken a very big gamble putting her on the stand, and I don`t believe it`s going to pay off for them.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You seem to have a double standard here with regard to making comments about people, don`t you?
ARIAS: Yes, I do.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Objection, argumentative.
ARIAS: I do.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And in fact, it`s OK for you to make comments about, for example, Angela (ph) and call her dumb and stupid, right?
ARIAS: No.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, but you said it, right?
ARIAS: I did.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When Mr. Alexander says something like, You`re going to be like your mother, that`s when you get emotional and upset, right?
ARIAS: I did.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So it just seems like it`s OK unless it`s -- it`s OK to say these things unless it`s Mr. Alexander that`s saying them, right?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... different standard to Mr. Alexander, correct? Yes or no?
ARIAS: No.
GRACE: Consistent with the many, many interrogations and cross- examinations that I`ve done on criminal suspects in the past, her story begins to veer almost out of control. And what I mean by that is that she is starting to catch herself in one inconsistency after the next. That`s what happens when you talk too much.
Now, there has been a school of thought that with Arias on the stand, that she is becoming more familiar to the jury, that they are starting to - - whether they like her or dislike her, they`re getting to know her and that will make it more difficult for them to give her the death penalty. On the other hand, all this testimony may very well backfire at guilt/innocence phase because she`s giving the prosecution so much rope on her direct exam that they will be able to hang her on cross-examination.
Now, is the jury beginning to be familiar with her? Maybe. And that may help her at the sentencing phase, the death penalty phase. But I don`t think it`s going to help her at the guilt/innocence phase.
GRACE: Throughout the entire Jodi Arias trial, we have marveled at her incredible memory. She can remember what she had for breakfast over four years ago. It was an omelet. She can remember minute details that many of us would have long forgotten.
She can remember that after she stabbed Travis Alexander 29 times, slashing his throat, shooting him in the head -- she can remember that it was Costco water she took out of her trunk of her car and drank in the middle of the desert as she discarded the murder weapon.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When you were driving, was there blood on you?
ARIAS: Yes. There was -- when I finally came to and saw that there was blood on my hands, and I didn`t have my shoes -- I didn`t know where my shoes were. I was in the middle of nowhere, so I pulled over. And I just -- I got out of my car. I was really thirsty, so I went -- I had a case of water from Costco in the trunk, so I got some water, a water bottle. I rinsed my hands off with it, as well. I got my other shoes. I had business shoes for a prepaid (ph) thing, and I got those on.
GRACE: It`s amazing that she can`t remember, however, the details of Travis Alexander`s murder. It`s all a big blur. There are big gaps. She never had any problems remembering minute details, even innocuous details, about their relationship, who said what, when, how he looked, what she wore, what this boy said when she was 14 years old about riding the ferris wheel at the fairground. She remembers it all.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Again, do you have a problem with memory?
ARIAS: Occasionally.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And so some of the things that you told us, for example, about other things in the past, you may also have had problems with your memory then, right?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And so whatever you told us in the past is somewhat suspect, then, because your memory may be lacking.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Objection, argumentative.
ARIAS: I only told things that I remember clearly that are crystallized in my mind.
GRACE: But the single most important moment in her life is all a big vagary to her. Why? Because she does not want to reveal to the jury what happened.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Once you broke away from him, what do you remember?
ARIAS: Almost nothing for a long time. There are some things that have come back over years, but nothing -- I don`t know if those are things that I`m thinking of from before or if it`s that day. It`s confusing. There is, like, a huge gap. Like, I don`t know if I blacked out or what. There`s a huge gap. And the most clear memory that I have after that point is driving in the desert.
GRACE: Because there is no way that she can explain around the forensic evidence left in that home and come out with anything resembling to a self-defense theory. It`s impossible.
GRACE: What we heard on the stand from Jodi Arias this week is in direct contradiction to what the medical examiner said.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don`t think it`s a contact wound. A contact wound will usually leave, like, a star-shaped tear, and I don`t see that here. If it`s not right up against the skin but it`s very close, you usually see soot and not stippling. I don`t see soot. I don`t see a star- shaped tear and I don`t see stippling. So that for me takes it out beyond the range of an intermediate. So it`s either a distant range or indeterminate. An indeterminate range of fire could be that there`s some object in between the face and the gun. So if there`s a garment, a towel, something like that, that could also cause you to be unable to determine range of fire.
GRACE: A scientific expert says that the gunshot wound to Travis Alexander`s head was the last wound to his body. Why do we know that? Because it did not bleed or bruise correctly. If it had been the first wound, there would have been a lot of blood. There would have been a completely different scenario. He was already dead. His body was no longer pumping blood at the time he was shot.
ARIAS: I grabbed the gun. I ran out of the closet. He was chasing me. I turned around. We were in the middle of the bathroom. I pointed it at him with both of my hands. I thought that would stop him. If someone were pointing a gun at me, I would stop, but he just kept running.
He got -- like a linebacker, he got kind of low and grabbed my waist. But before he did that, as he was lunging at me, the gun went off. I didn`t mean to shoot him or anything. I didn`t even think I was holding the trigger. I was just pointing it at him. And I didn`t even know that I shot him. It just -- it went off. And he was -- he lunged at me and we fell really hard against the tile toward the other wall, like, kind of near the scales or whatever those things are.
GRACE: But that doesn`t fit in with Jodi Arias`s theory of how the whole thing went down. She says she accidentally shot him as he was attacking her, and the rest was a big blur. She never addresses the 29 stab wounds, the slashing from ear to ear. Why? Because it conveniently does not fit into her self-defense claim. Nine stab wounds to the back don`t fit into self-defense, so she forgot them. They`re all a big gap to her.
ARIAS: At this point, I didn`t even know if he had been shot. I didn`t see anything different. He was just -- we were struggling and wrestling. And he`s a wrestler. He had wrestled in high school. And he was getting on top of me. And I didn`t want him to get on top of me because when he had done that in the past, I can`t get out of those holds that he gets.
So he`s grabbing at my clothes and I got up, and he`s just screaming angry. And after I broke away from him, he said (EXPLETIVE DELETED) kill you, bitch. Well, after the gun went off, I thought, Crap, because now he`s really going to be pissed. I didn`t know that I shot him. I thought I shot a hole in the wall or something, and I`m thinking he`s really going to be pissed at me now. So he`s -- he`s telling me he`s going to kill me, and I think I -- after he said that -- he had almost killed me before.
GRACE: I find Jodi Arias`s fear that Travis Alexander was going to kill her completely unbelievable. She had done a lot worse during their relationship than drop his camera in the bathroom.
ARIAS: I was showing him the photos, and we were deleting some. And at one point, when I was -- went to delete the photos, as I moved the camera, it slipped out of my hand. And I went to -- it didn`t, like, fall right away. I kind of caught it and then I -- I caught it like a football. Like, it bounced, and I almost caught it, but I didn`t catch it and it landed on the mat, and then it rolled onto the tile.
At that point, Travis flipped out again. And he stood up and he stepped out of the shower and he picked me up. I was crouching, but he lifted me up as he was screaming that I was a stupid idiot, and he body- slammed me again on the tile.
GRACE: A lot worse. She had wrecked his car, a BMW. She had hacked into his e-mail, slashed his tires twice, slashed his new girlfriend`s tires, hacked into his bank account, stalked him, followed him, spied on him. He never, ever beat her. He never retaliated physically.
So why would he do it because she almost drops his camera, because she drops his camera as they`re taking photos of him in the shower? It makes absolutely no sense.
ARIAS: "You stressing me out on a daily basis is getting really freaking old. You cry over everything, and you`ve done countless bullcrap on me. I wasn`t appreciative of another thing to deal with because of you. It`s easy crap to fix, but you like to ruin every day of mine, and I`m tired of it. You texting about something time-sensitive is just a way to reel me back into the bullcrap. Otherwise, you would have just told me. I`m sick of your soap opera and your ways. You purposely try to ruin every day. It seems you`re getting good at it."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How do you respond?
ARIAS: "I`m just as tired of your hateful words. Do you think it`s a day in the park for me when you`re mean? I was just bragging to a girlfriend about how awesome and cool you are."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What does he say in response?
ARIAS: "If you`re tired of me, leave me alone."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And your response?
ARIAS: "Whatever, Travis."
GRACE: If you take her own words at face value, you don`t even have to read very deeply into them. She confesses on the stand. She says that she gave authorities a story that would fit the forensics as she understood them, yet exonerate her. That is exactly what she`s doing right now. That`s what she did all week.
ARIAS: I began to tell him things that I thought would comport with what their forensics would show, as well as create -- create, like, an -- not an excuse, but create a way for me to not have been responsible for it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why did your story include the idea that there were two intruders?
ARIAS: Prior to my arrest, there were a lot of rumors flying around, and Flores told me repeatedly that not -- had to have been more than one person.
GRACE: She took the forensics that have come out in the courtroom and tailored her defense to match the forensics. One problem. There`s no way to get around the fact that that gunshot wound was the last attack. The stabbings were first. There`s no way to get around the nine stab wounds in the back.
GRACE: If there had been a shred of credibility left for Arias, I think that that was destroyed when she claimed she threw the gun away in the desert -- the desert, for Pete`s sake, where you would never be able to find it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When you were pulling away or driving away, did you have the gun with you?
ARIAS: I don`t remember bringing the gun with me, but I remember throwing it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Throwing it where?
ARIAS: In the desert.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. What about the rope he had tied you up with? Did you take that with you?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And do you remember what you did with that?
ARIAS: Eventually, it went into a dumpster.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Where?
ARIAS: It was behind a gas station. I think it was -- I think it was somewhere after St. George. It was -- I don`t remember. It was getting light out, wherever I was parked at that point.
GRACE: All of her movements, of her machinations following the brutal murder of Travis Alexander were in an effort to hide evidence, to obstruct justice, to deflect attention.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) but you`re not sure at that point.
ARIAS: I don`t -- I wasn`t really in my own mind. I was out of my mind, sort of.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So if you didn`t think he was dead, if that portion of you didn`t think he was dead, then it`s OK for you at that point, if you didn`t think he was dead, to sort of roll (ph) around with Mr. Alexander then -- with Mr. Burns, and that was OK, right?
ARIAS: I`m single.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right. Just like he was on August 7th -- (INAUDIBLE) of 2007, right?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So it`s OK for you, then it should be OK for him, right?
ARIAS: It was OK.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Then why did you confront him the next day if it was OK?
ARIAS: Because he was still courting me. I wanted to know where I stood.
GRACE: Jodi Arias has claimed that she didn`t even realize she had her finger on the trigger or that she had shot Travis Alexander. I find this to be an outright lie. She shot him in the head. How could she not know she shot him in the head? When she saw blood on her hands, how could she not know she killed him?
How did all of the evidence end up in the washing machine? There were clear attempts to clean up the crime scene. She doesn`t remember any of that? Impossible. Absolutely impossible.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You understand you look guilty here.
ARIAS: I understand that everything -- all of the evidence against me right now is very compelling.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What really happened in there?
ARIAS: In a nutshell, two people took Travis`s life, two monsters.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You did not shoot Travis?
ARIAS: No, I`ve never even shot a real gun.
ARIAS: When I grabbed the gun -- I grabbed the gun. I ran out of the closet. He was chasing me.
GRACE: Arias claims that she did not call 911 because she was scared and afraid what would happen to her family. Obviously, she was afraid she`d go to jail. That`s why she didn`t call 911. Typically, in my experience as a homicide prosecutor for many, many years, when there is a valid self-defense or there is an accident, people immediately call 911. Immediately.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why not just dial 911 and tell them what happened?
ARIAS: I was scared, and I couldn`t imagine calling 911 and telling them what I had just done. I was scared of what would happen to me. I was scared of a lot of things. I was thinking of all kinds of things, my family, myself, what would happen. I was thinking of having to explain that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Having to explain what?
ARIAS: How the day ended up unfolding.
GRACE: You immediately call 911. Her not calling 911 to ask for help, in my mind, is probative of guilt.
GRACE: Jodi Arias would have the jury believe that she did not steal her grandparents` gun, which was a .25-caliber, that the .25-caliber bullet that was fired into Travis Alexander`s head was from a gun belonging to him that nobody else knew about, that there`s no record of him ever buying that, conveniently, she found while being ordered to dust the top shelf of Travis`s closet, and that she coincidentally threw away into the desert so it could never be traced.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When you were pulling away or driving away, did you have the gun with you?
ARIAS: I don`t remember bringing the gun with me, but I remember throwing it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Throwing it where?
ARIAS: In the desert.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. What about the rope he had tied you up with? Did you take that with you?
ARIAS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And do you remember what you did with that?
ARIAS: Eventually, it went into a dumpster.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Where?
ARIAS: It was behind a gas station. I think it was -- I think it was somewhere after St. George. It was -- I don`t remember. It was getting light out, wherever I was parked at that point.
GRACE: As I always say, there is no coincidence in criminal law. I think that somehow, Arias believed this would help her with the jury, but she actually told them she attended Travis`s memorial service because she thought it would look bad if she didn`t.
ARIAS: There was a memorial service at his church in Mesa. And the funeral, I believe, was held in Riverside. I tried to attend both, but I only made it to the memorial service. I thought that if I didn`t show up, it would look suspicious because Travis and I were close, and a lot of people knew that.
GRACE: She also said that they had promised each other they would go to each other`s funeral, which I find incredibly morbid.
ARIAS: He was going to give the eulogy or something if I ever died. He would have come to mine, and -- even if it was in Antarctica.
GRACE: Think about it, just think about it. Mull over your past girlfriends or boyfriends. How many of them did you discuss funerals with, their funeral?
GRACE: There are so many inconsistencies in Arias`s testimony. One of them is regarding those gas cans. Arias insisted on obtaining multiple gas cans, by hook or by crook, to fill up with gas on her trip to go murder Travis Alexander. Now, she now says it`s because she did not want to pay high California gas prices. She didn`t want to fill up in California. But in fact, she did fill up her car in California. I mean, everything she says is contradicted by another fact that she`s blurted out on the stand.
Arias also is caught in inconsistencies regarding her rental car. She claims that she drove a rental car because it saved money. Well, that doesn`t make sense. You already have a car, so you want to pay for gas plus a rental car, as opposed to just gasoline?
And that ignores the big question. If you`re rock bottom broke, why are you going on a walkabout? Why are you taking a vacation, anyway with a rental car and salon treatments. Clearly, Arias asks the rental person for a nondescript car, a car that would not stand out. Now her story is that she asked for any car but a red car because she heard police pull over more red cars than any other types of cars.
All right, that`s -- have you ever known anyone to say anything like that at a rental car agency? Ever? Have you ever said that?
The cross-examination on Jodi Arias will prove to be the single most important phase of the Arias murder one trial. Her credibility absolutely must be destroyed. And I don`t care how many days it takes, every single inconsistency must be battled in court. Right now, it`s do or die for the prosecution.


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As we headed out to the homestead on Friday night I had a song in my heart. We were going to spend a long weekend at my favorite place on the face of the earth! We had planned to do hive inspections of our six hives and we had our good friends, Tex and Charlotte, planning to come out to spend all day Sunday with us. How could it get any better? I was really happy and really excited.
But as we pulled into the drive way we noticed that one of the hives in the apiary had globs of bees all over the front of it. And only one of the hives – our most active hive. Bees will glob together on the outside of a hive when it is particularly hot weather – but it wasn't particularly hot weather at that time. We instinctively knew something was not right, and after doing a little checking we absolutely knew we had a little problem. You can read about it on The Bee Buzz Blog and see pictures of us opening the hives on The Bee Buzz Website.
At any rate, we finally made it up to the house and the first thing I did was check the mouse traps. Sure enough we had one. I couldn't help but wonder if this wasn't the same little mouse with attitude that I had met last weekend. No telling I guess. I felt a little bad but then I remembered the conversation that little mouse and I had in kitchen. I told him point blank that I was baiting with peanut butter the next week and I warned him fair and square about coming back inside. So if he screwed up and came back inside, well I guess he picked the wrong kitchen to mess around in this time.
Saturday morning we woke up early to get the mowing out of the way. I was using the push mower in front of the house and Bernie was using the riding mower at the front of the property. After a while I looked up and he was stopped – and had his upper body shoved under the hood of the riding mower. I walked up just as he was pulling dead mice and bedding out of the carburetor. Our riding mower was dead – and we learned it would cost us about $600 to repair the mouse damage!
All weekend I continued to find signs of mice. One scurried into the garage as I came around the corner. I discovered the towels in the guest bathroom were all chewed up and pooped on by mice. I decided enough is enough. I have tried to be nice. I have tried to warn them. It would be obvious to the most casual observer that I am being ignored. I've had enough. I declare war on all mice on the face of the planet. Bring it on baby – I'm ready for you!
I have put poisoning in every nook and cranny inside and outside of our home and garage. I HATE using poison. But I am at my wits end. I will not be conquered by a bunch of small, obnoxiously obnoxious rodents. With the aid of mouse traps, peanut butter, and Di-Con, I intend to show those little bastards who is boss.
Lord, please don't let them win.
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Indoor Track: Regular Season Comes to an End
by Ana Pirosca • February 8, 2017 • Game Recap, Sports • 0 Comments
This year's indoor track team has been deemed the team of "young and new talent," as stated by Jasmine Gray, a junior member of the team. Over the course of the regular season, this new talent has become a part of the indoor track "family," putting in work and effort to become trained and disciplined athletes.
This year was especially crucial since it is the last year the track team will participate in the Greater Boston League before moving on to the Northeastern Conference next season. The general focus of the team was to win the championship and remain undefeated.
At the start of any track season, all of the varsity runners, as always, wanted to improve their own times and records. Gray herself seeked to qualify for the 1 mile race at the State meet, and although she was not able to meet that goal, she was able to qualify for States in the 4x800 meter team event instead. Junior Oussama Ourich did not originally even have any expectations of being able to go to States, though as the season progressed, he trained hard enough and improved his time enough to qualify for the 1,000 meter event.
As runners trained and raced, records were broken, and accomplishments were made. Not only did the 4x800 girls team, consisting of juniors Gray, Amanda Santorelli, Alexandra Russo, and Kylie DiMaro break the school record, but the 4x400 girls team, made up of senior Taymise Sanders and freshmen Batoul Chouiki, Nour Chouiki, and Olivia Simmons-Normil, broke the indoor record as well, and then the 4x400 team proceeded to break their own record soon after.
Many other athletes also proceeded to surpass their own personal best. Senior Anna Julia Souza, who does shotput, exceeded her best by scoring a 30 meter in her event, reflecting that "[she has been] a constant placer," but not a "crazy thrower," as she typically threw around 27 in prior meets, but she was "really proud of [herself]," when she was able to throw for 30. Due to this personal best, Souza qualified and will be going to States.
Senior David Jean felt that "the team this year [had] more energy and talent all around." Jean also explained that for every race his teammates are there to push him. Souza explained that she feels that a key to success is to not "think about it a lot, just go in, remember what you do, and walk out of the circle and [you're] done." Jean feels that "your body doesn't control your mind, your mind controls your body," a mantra he keeps with himself throughout a race or at practice. Mindsets like these help get the team ready for meets and succeed.
Though at the beginning of the season some people had their doubts about this new team. Gray stated that she "felt unsure about the depth of our team." As the season went on, hopes went up. Gray began feeling proud of her team as meets came and passed, teams broke records, and many individuals qualifying for States. With the absence of last year's seniors, who posed as some of the most important people on the team, many freshmen and sophomores stepped up to the plate. Ourich stated that he "was nervous; [he] didn't know what to expect," unlike his teammates Souza and Jean, who were ready and excited to get back in the saddle again.
As athletes reflect on their track experience, everyone came to the conclusion that although training was tough every day, having people that depend on you and cheer you on make it worth it all. Jean explained that he "wouldn't change anything about track. It's great the way it is, since there is always people motivating you and telling you what you did wrong [in order to help you improve]," because in the end, "being able to be on a team that feels like family is the greatest thing ever."
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February 13th, 2008, 07:17 PM #1ValueClick settles with the FTCValueClick, Inc. settled with the Federal Trade Commission today. The online marketing company agreed to a settlement payment of $2.9 million in the probe of its lead generation practices but ValueClick did not concede that it violated any laws.
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Ouch! That's 2.9 million they'll have to claw back from affiliate commissions...
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The brief mention of "macroeconomics" in that short article seems to imply a knowledge that "something" was going on, is going on, and will (undoubtedly) continue to go on.
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not to lessen the importance of this but they said Value click not CJ..."the company and the Commission" i think they mean the FTC and not CJ
I was guessing it was Hi-speed spammers (who i know used to sell email addies by the millions to an old boss of mine) that were at fault and it took a quick search to find this link...http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....cle&ID=1107996
February 13th, 2008, 08:04 PM #5
Your 100% correct, my apologies for any confusion.
I'll edit the title right away.
February 13th, 2008, 08:14 PM #6
VC has it's fingers in so many pies that one of them had to get dirty
i'm sure you'd have caught that soon enough ;-)
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CJ is a license to print money. Hopefully this fine is a wake up call for the company to stop burdening the jewel that they own with all of these parasites and spam operations they keep doing in the background.
Look at GOOG! VCLK would be ten times larger than they are today, except that at every turn of the game, the monkeys in charge would turn toward an evil tactic like parasite ware or Spam.
February 13th, 2008, 09:14 PM #8
when I was a VC publisher. I remember one of their reps telling me that they loved working with adware companies because they are the ones that made them the most money.
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This is my first mobafire guide. Feel free to upvote or downvote as you like but please leave a comment on what i can or can't improve. This guide is not aimed at new players to sona, it presumes you're good with the positioning you need to do well with her. I presume you know enough that the build is not set in stone and that you understand that you may need other items in different situations.
Sona seems to be very underused in dominion. I've played around 80 games or so at this stage and i have seen one other sona in that whole time. In my opinion she is a bit of a sleeper in that people dont seem to realise her potential. Other guides i have seen tend towards a support type build, which is certainly fine in summoners rift but with the healing nerfs and -20% healing debuff, really doesn't make much sense in dominion. This guide is built towards a quite aggressive/passive AP sona build.
I've tried a few different rune builds with her, I decided to go Mpen marks, ap seals, ap/lvl glyphs and MS quints.
Mpen marks: speaks for itself - easily the best caster marks to go for.
AP seals - I've tried ap/lvl, mregen and a number of other seals but i decided to go for flat Ap seals for that little bit of extra AP in the first windmill fight. mana never seems to be an issue in dominion, you will naturally regen very quickly so i definately don't encourage grabbing mp5/lvl seals. AP/lvl are quite decent and only takes a short time to equalise with flat AP runes so i will leave it up to you there.
AP/lvl glyphs - gives you an extra 28 AP at level 18 which is a decent amount.
Movement speed Quints - you could go AP or Mpen Quints if you want but Movement speed Quints let you kite enemy champs with ease, combine this with your E and ghost and you can run rings around most champs. Movement speed is one of Sona's main strengths in dominion and this allows you to play up to it as much as you can.
typical 9/21. theres a couple things you could change here if you wanted to. for example i went 2 points in utility mastery as i wanted to keep buffs just that little bit longer, again moreso for the speed buff but i will leave that up to you.
I typically go with prospector's ring and boots of speed to start with. It gives you a decent amount of survivability/movement/AP - just a great all round combo. if you wanted a bit more damage you could go sheen to start but really at level 3 or 4 i doubt it will help as much as having the survivability.
As soon as you have enough its wise to go back and grab sheen. at this point you will need to work out what boots will be more beneficial. depending on how fast the other team is, it may pay to grab boots of swiftness. Ionian boots of Lucidity (CDR) are another great choice. They are all fine but If you want to maximise your damage then Mpen boots are the way to go.
Rabadon's is an absolute must in this build and is one of your main core items. huge AP bonus for much needed damage. depending on how well you are going it may pay to grab this before lich bane. if you are against an akali or other stealth champ its quite a good idea to grab a hextech sweeper early on so you and your teamates can see them when stealthed during a fight, this is especially good for someone like akali or shaco when they try to use their stealth to get away. by the time you have this core build the game will be close to ending and you will be smashing squishies easily as long as you are map aware and careful.
Skill Sequence
As i tend to play quite an aggressive game i tend to go with levelling R > Q > E > W.
the reason i do so seems rather obvious to me in that i want to do damage while being able to quickly move out of range when needed. Sona's heal is quite handy at times for building up your passive stacks so getting an early point in it is quite a good idea but i would never rely on heal keeping yourself or your teammates alive. Her recent heal nerfs and the overall - 20% healing debuff on the dominion map really dont help you survive too well, at least not until late game.
Summoner Spells
I go with Ghost and Flash here as they both synergize really well with my playstyle. Ghost/Flash are great as a getaway tool and also awesome for closing the gap to grab that kill if needed. Another notable choice would be garrison for the damage reduction from turrets when getting that last kill on enemy turrets to get the capture or when defending.
Pros / Cons
- people continually underestimate her damage potential so it is easy to catch them out.
- she is very very fast around the map
- you can easily burst squishy's down with just a Q/passive combo. combine that with her ult and you can burst them from full to 0 Quite easily when fed.
- The biggest con is that Sona is quite squishy when built this way so you really need to keep your distance as much as possible.
- champions like akali really hurt her badly so dont attempt to 1v1 her unless they are completely noob.
Team Work
Early Game
I usually go straight to windmill unless we have a really slow champ going top - then i will grab mid then head straight up. when getting there i pass through the speed buff which will usually get me there just as or before the enemy team gets there. just be careful not to get attacked on the way. use you're Q to hit a couple of champs and get a passive proc in on one of the more squishy champs. try to keep your Q aura up as much as you can in this initial skirmish as adding 11ad/ap to each champ is a huge advantage to your team. Use your E if things are going badly and you need to make a quick getaway or to help a teamate to get away.
Its a good idea to be a little cautious in the early part of the game as it takes a little while for Sona's damage to ramp up.
Mid Game
By the time mid game comes around you will be getting around the map quite quickly. i usually play a roaming game. you definitely don't want to be caught defending a capture point on your own but if you do just back off and interrupt them by hitting with your Q and back off again keep doing this until help can arrive.
Sona should be the one coming to other peoples assistance rather than the other way around. she is still a support regardless of how much damage she is doing so help your teammates as much as possible. dont go chasing kills when your teammate is dieing.
Late Game
Keep moving around helping cap when needed but always be sure that you can get back and defend when needed. Not much else i can say here - if you're losing at this point capping turrets that are undefended is the best bet if you can get in there and cap it before they come. I'm by no means an expert in dominion so i would look elsewhere for gameplay tips.
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- Establish a process by which recommended accessibility standards would be developed. That process would be led by cross-sector committees, involving all stakeholders, including members who are persons with disabilities or their representatives.
- Make government responsible for determining which standards are implemented to achieve full accessibility.
- Establish a pro-active enforcement mechanism that includes regular reporting on compliance. This is in contrast with the current complaint-driven system.
The time to act is NOW. Barrier Free Manitoba has organized a postcard campaign urging the Premier to introduce accessibility rights legislation in the upcoming spring session of the Manitoba legislature. Please support this campaign by sending in your message of support here.
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Washington Wolves Trailer (1999)
27 August 1999 94 mins
Alberto and Miguel have a bar, but things are not going very well. They need to get out of this black hole and they need money to do it. Alberto is divorced and alcoholic, Miguel has a big secret... Their old friend Claudio is very rich. Why not steal some of his money? Troubles grow when Claudio's wife is planning to steal this money too... The Washington wolfs, in a circus near all this, are the silent witnesses of all that happens that night.
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text: I got a letter today. Dear homeowner an extra set of hands are available at your convenience. Leaf raking, lawncare, snow and ice removal and holiday light install. I about had to scream ! This same company wants my biz for temp help but yet competes against me for work at a fraction of the price after companies like mine have trained them to do it. We even had an old worker take some accounts to the temp service to save them some money and kiss but to his boss. This is a big chain temp company all over the country so don't think this will not happen in your area. I called them and asked about contractors permits to do biz and individual bonding. They told me that it didn't apply to them. They have done alot of work for the city and they understand they can save them money so nothing is said. If the industry as a whole stands up and finds other help this will stop. The office here sends out 30-40 guys a day this time of year to do yardwork for homeonwers. That adds up to a lot of work they took out of the professionals pocket. I'm sick of the laws only applying to the few and not all. About ready to sell the whold bang thing and let someone else worry about the next illegal wroker or company that runs illegal cutting this industry down a joke. The lady at the temp service said it is hardly a profession," most guys she finds that do this kind of work are looking for the fix or beer money". I swear my wife and 2 buddies of mine had to follow me around all day to keep me from going down and cutting her throat . Please support others that sell only to contractors and use only help that don't go behind your back and use the training you helped give them to put you out of biz. She told me they billed out at 10.50 per man hour to a homeowner and I should be able to beat that anyway so she didn't see the deal. That is cheaper than what they charge me! Sorry just had to vent abit. We can stop this now or help it along by looking the other way. It is your choice. Ryan


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In Defense of Food Trailer (2015)
"Why is it so difficult to eat right?" 30 December 2015 117 mins
In Defense of Food tackles a question more and more people around the world have been asking: What should I eat to be healthy? Based on award-winning journalist Michael Pollan's best-selling book, the program explores how the modern diet has been making us sick and what we can do to change it.
Watch the official In Defense of Food 2015 trailer in HD below or find more In Defense of Food videos on Vidimovie.