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The HinduPrint Edition
By Duncan Clark
still using those old-fashioned energy-guzzling lightbulbs? Then it's time to do the bright thing and change. Duncan Clark explains why eco lighting doesn't have to mean a gloomy slow burn
1 People always moan that low-energy bulbs are dim when you first switch them on. With older bulbs, that was certainly the case, and many people still have these. But technology has improved: modern low-energy bulbs fire up instantly and typically reach their full brightness within a few seconds (except when the room is really cold - then it takes longer).
2 Each time you replace an old-fashioned energy-guzzling bulb with an equivalently bright low-energy version you slash the associated CO2 emissions by about 80%. In addition, over the five or six years that it will typically last, a single low-energy bulb can save you more than $100 in energy bills. If you buy the bulb for $2, that's a return of 5,000%.
3 A decade ago, low-energy bulbs produced a harsh light. Today, that's not the case. When the magazine Popular Mechanics asked people to assess the light quality from ten bulbs, without telling them which was which, all nine low-energy bulbs tested scored more highly - for faces and reading as well as general ambience - than the traditional incandescent bulb used as a benchmark.
4 With an old-style 100W bulb, you're effectively switching on a 20W light source and an 80W electric heater. In warm months, that heat is simply wasted. Even worse, it can increase the demand for fans or air conditioning, thereby wasting even more power. Green lightbulbs, by contrast, convert nearly all the power they consume into light, rather than heat.
5 There are many types of low-energy bulbs. Most are CFLs - compact fluorescent lights - which apply electricity to a tube of gas. This creates UV light inside the bulb, which in turn illuminates the bulb's inner-skin of white phosphor to create visible light.
6 And they come in all shapes and sizes, including globes and candles as well as the less attractive tubular designs.
7 What's black, filthy and weighs as much as a 50kgs sack of cement? Answer: the coal required to illuminate a single 100W lightbulb for its 1,000-hour working life. In other words, every time you place an old-fashioned bulb in your shopping basket, you're indirectly shovelling 50kgs of the most polluting fossil fuel into a power-station furnace.
8 LEDs are the bulbs of the future. They are even more efficient than CFLs, but most at present don't produce much light - great for night lights and accent lighting, but not a substitute for regular bulbs.
9 What about halogens? Widely used for recessed downlights and tracked spots, these are more efficient than regular incandescent bulbs, but this benefit is often offset by the number of bulbs installed. Many modern homes have five or more downlighters in a room, and tracked spots often include three or more bulbs in each fitting.
10 Ever heard of dichroic halogen bulbs? These offer the familiar halogen brightness, sparkle and dimmability but last much longer and use up to 30% less power. Another option are mini-CFLs designed to fit within a halogen enclosure. These are less sparkly and may not be dimmable, but they offer plenty of light for a minimal amount of energy. Both options cost more than regular halogens, but they also last many times longer.
11 Old-style incandescent globes are being phased out and in Europe, at some stage, the EU will also pass mandatory rules outlawing the least efficient bulbs.
12 When this phase-out was announced, there were protests about the supposed downsides of low-energy alternatives. Some commentators pointed out that CFLs contain mercury, a toxic metal. In fact, there's less mercury inside each bulb than would be emitted directly into the atmosphere by a coal-fired power station producing the extra electricity required by a traditional bulb. So using CFLs can theoretically reduce atmospheric mercury levels.
13 That said, it's true that CFLs need to be disposed of properly (most bulb retailers and municipal dumps will take them). In the rare case of a bulb breaking in the home, open the window for a while and, as a precaution, wear rubber gloves when sweeping up the fragments.
14 Another frequently heard whinge is that low-energy bulbs can't use dimmer switches. This isn't true, as there are already various brands of green bulbs compatible with dimmers. Again, they cost more than regular bulbs, but if you factor in energy consumption, each bulb you purchase will represent a massive saving.
15 Switching to low-energy bulbs is a no-brainer. But what about the argument that anything anybody does to be green will be offset by the growth of China? In fact, not only are emissions per person in China still much lower than in the UK, for example, the Chinese government is also promoting energy saving. In April this year it unveiled a massive subsidy scheme to encourage the use of low-energy lightbulbs. The Chinese also produce most of the world's low-energy bulbs. The least we can do is use them...
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Each home sleeps 4 guests, has 2 bedrooms, a bath, living room, a large farm kitchen with breakfast area. Each home has a new cast-iron gas fireplace in the living room(does not include Eagles Nest).
* Unit One features a queen bed, full bed and a twin bed, and an old fashioned tub in the bathroom. Unit One sleeps five. * Unit Two has a queen and 2 twin beds and a shower in the bathroom. * Unit Three has a queen and a full bed, the bathroom features a claw-foot tub with a hand held sprayer. * Unit Four has one queen and one full bed and a shower in the bathroom. * Unit Five has a queen bed and two twin beds, and has a bath/shower.< * Unit Six has a queen and a full bed, the bathroom features a claw-foot tub. * Unit Seven has one queen bed and one full bed and a bath/shower. * Unit Eight has a queen, full bed and a twin, and a tile bathtub with shower. Unit 8 sleeps five. * Unit Ten, also referred to as the Doctor's House, has two queen beds and a shower/tub. * The Doctor's house enjoys the added privacy of being secluded from the other houses.
* The Eagles Nest is a one room guest room and has a bath with a small claw-foot tub(no shower), and a queen German bed which features a quilt appliqued with an eagle and stars. The Eagles Nest has a mini refrigerator and coffee maker. The Eagles Nest has its own entrance on the westside of Garrison Hall. It looks out over the lawn and the greenbelt behind the inn. It does require a 2 night minimum on weekends.
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How to Treat Teen Acne
Acne is worst form of skin disease and causes by the sebaceous glands (oil glands) produces excess oil and when bacteria's who lives on your skin cells trapped in these cells they causes infection in the form of acne. Teen acne cases are increasing in recent years and ultimately it produces stress and discomfort for teenagers.
Those blasted hormones–not only do they cause sudden mood changes in teenagers, but they are largely responsible for those small red spots that appear regularly on their faces. Contrary to popular belief, the eruption of acne has little to do with dietary choices or lack of washing properly. Fortunately, there are ways to treat teen acne, starting with prevention and including prescriptions if necessary.
How To Guide:
1 - Wash the face twice a day. Washing alone won't cure acne since it is caused by hormonal changes and bacteria beneath the skin, but keeping the surface free of oil will assist in keeping the pores unclogged. Use a mild cleanser to aid in gentle cleansing.
2 - Slough away the dead skin cells by exfoliating. Do this up to twice a week to remove skin-clogging dead skin cells and debris. Choose an exfoliating product made with small, smooth grains and containing no alcohol.
3 - Check product labels for products that are alcohol-free. You might think that drying up the excess oils on your skin may prevent an acne outbreak, but in reality it will do just the opposite. As natural oils are stripped from the skin's surface, glands go to work producing more oil.
4 - Keep hands away from your face. It's so tempting to squeeze or pick the pimple away, but this only serves to make the problem worse by driving the bacteria further into the skin. This will lead to permanent scarring, so resisting that urge can go a long way to getting skin clear.
5 - Choose facial products without oils. Makeup, lotions and sunblock need to be oil free and non-comedogenic so they don't worsen the acne.
6 - Try over-the-counter products containing benzoyl peroxide, which is the most effective topical treatment of teen acne. Use it daily.
7 - Consult your doctor if all else fails. If you've tried everything to treat your teen acne, and are still experiencing outbreaks, make an appointment with your doctor or dermatologist. There are products and antibiotics that he can prescribe that might help your face clear up.
a - Resist the urge to over wash the skin on your face. Washing the area too much strips the skin of its natural oils and stimulates the glands to produce more oil.
b - Avoid purchasing products containing almond or apricot shell fragments that will cause irritation, infection and aggravation of acne.
Recommended Solutions of All Types of Acne:
Mike Walden Acne No More is a 220 page long downloadable digital ebook which covers all step by step fresh and acne free skin methods and secrets which help you to get rid of all kinds of pimples, acne and blackheads permanently.
Casey Gentles 14 days acne cure is a digital ebook which is written by a well-known chemist and alternate medicine expert Casey Gentles.
->14 days acne cure system is step by step 68 pages long ebook that mainly focuses on how to cure acne by eliminating the root causes.
->It also claims to be a magic wind for all acne sufferer and promises to give them a beautiful, clear and healthy shining skin in just 14 days.
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Some roads, parks, libraries closed today
County landfills accepting storm-related debris free
The effects of Hurricane Irene have closed several Henrico County roads, parks and libraries today.
White Oak Road is closed between Route 60 and Elko Road; Sandy Lane is closed between Creighton Road and Watts Lane; and Creighton Road is closed at the Henrico-Hanover county line.
The county's Division of Recreation and Parks has closed Confederate Hills, Dorey Park, Hunton Park, Hidden Creek, Park, Meadowview Park, the Glen Lea Recreation Center and the Roslyn Hills playground as the result of power outages or storm damage. RF&P Park and Springfield Park are open today but have no power.
The Armour House, Deep Run Park, Belmont Recreation Center, the Henrico Theatre, Walkerton Tavern, and Twin Hickory Park (business only) all are open today.
The county also has canceled the 6 p.m. Zumba class scheduled for tonight at Dorey Recreation Center and the 7 p.m. Henrico Concert Band performance scheduled for Dorey Park.
Dumbarton, Fairfield, Municipal, Sandston and Twin Hickory libraries are open; Glen Allen, North Park, Tuckahoe and Varina are closed.
Residents cleaning up from the storm can take their unbagged storm-related yard debris and vegetative waste free of charge to Henrico's East and West landfills. Bagged yard waste and bulky waste, including scrap wood, drywall, carpets and soiled food, will be charged at the rate of $3 per load.
Contractors can haul yard debris and vegetative waste for $50 per ton.
Residents with storm-related questions should continue to call the Henrico Hurricane Hotline at 501-7413.
Residents can continue to obtain free water at Fire Station No. 2, 2400 Darbytown Road, and at Fire Station No. 15, 3820 Mountain Road. Residents should bring their own containers; bottled water will not be provided.
Citizens who need shelter or other assistance should contact the Department of Social Services at 501-4001.
Agencies combine on new entry point to Chickahominy
Canoeing and kayaking enthusiasts soon will have a new access point to the Chickahominy River. VDOT, the James River Association and Henrico County Parks and Recreation are teaming up to establish a new site in Eastern Henrico.
The James River Association negotiated the deal with VDOT to procure official access to the area located just east of I-295 on North Airport Road in Sandston. The site includes a park-and-ride commuter lot bordering the Chickahominy River and has been an unofficial launch site used by paddlers for years. > Read more.
Equestrian clinic planned July 7-8 in Henrico
Citizen Staff Reports 07/04/2014
Henrico equestrians interested in deepening the bond between themselves and their horses have the opportunity to attend a two day clinic, held at Steppin' High Stables on July 7-8 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The clinic, "Become Partners with your Horse," will be taught by multiple world champion equestrienne Terry Preiser and will focus on how riders and horses can work together to achieve more. > Read more.
Henrico school bus driver honored
Citizen Staff Reports 07/03/2014
The Henrico-based Hephaestus Society recently awarded its first annual community heroes award (the Hephaestus Award) to Hicham Elgharouch (pictured, center) for what it termed his "selfless acts of caring" in his duties as a Henrico County Public Schools bus driver. Henrico County Director of Pupil Transportation Josh Davis, joined Hephaestus Society President Travis Gardner, in presenting the award and an accompanying $1,500 check to Elgharouch last month.
Elgharouch was selected for his clear and demonstrated patience and for his infectious positive attitude, according to the society. > Read more.
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Weekend Top 10
Grab the kids and check out these fun family-friendly events taking place this weekend! Speed over to the Henrico Theatre for the film "Turbo" or watch "Dumbo" under the stars at Clarke-Palmore House Museum. Little ones can meet Thomas the Tank Engine at CMOR-Central or play at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
Weekend Top 10
Don't party too hard on the Fourth because a whole weekend of fun events await! Enjoy a classy date night without the kids at James River Cellars Winery's second annual Smoke and Vine Festival. Another date night option is at the Richmond Funny Bone, where comedian April Macie will perform all weekend. The kids have their own options this weekend as well. Choose from storytime at Tuckahoe and Twin Hickory libraries or family-oriented karaoke at Aunt Sarah's Pancake House – I hear they have hits from Disney's "Frozen." For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
Restaurant watch
Find out how your favorite dining establishments fared during their most recent inspections by the Virginia Department of Health. > Read more.
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Around 8 a.m. Sunday, a team of divers from the Maricopa County Sheriff's office began searching Lake Pleasant for a suspect that disappeared around 5 p.m. on Saturday.
According to MCSO, witnesses called 911 and told dispatchers they saw three men in two separate canoes out on the water in what appeared to be a struggle.
Authorities say two of the men ended up in the water. One slipped under and never resurfaced.
Witnesses on the shore held the other two suspects until the police arrived. They were later identified as 21-year-old Eduardo Mercado and 26-year-old Julian Tamayo, both of El Mirage.
Police suspect all three men were using meth. Police say Mercado held 21-year-old Rueben Diaz under water until he didn't resurface.
After about three hours of searching, divers pulled Diaz's from the water. It was about 30 yards from where he initially went under.
"The waters only about 10 feet deep below the first 10, there's about 10 feet of silt which is like quicksand..the body was lodged in that," said Jay Davies of the Peoria Police Department.
Both Mercado and Tamaylo are facing murder, theft and drug charges.
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For The AFTRS Effect, AFTRS has thrown open its archives, dating back to 1973, giving the public a tantalising glimpse of the rarely seen work of some of the school's most internationally successful graduates, when they were only starting out.
Astrid Scott, Content Development Coordinator for ACMI's Memory Grid said, "As a space dedicated to presenting the works of emerging artists, students, and communities, ACMI's Memory Grid is the ideal place to show the AFTRS archives which features a spectrum of early works from some of our leading contemporary filmmakers alongside new emerging talent."
"Until now, a lot of the earlier films were rarely seen, only at the occasional film festival, but as part of the Memory Grid, the public can see them seven days a week in Australia's leading public screen exhibition space and all for free."Australian directors whose works are included in the AFTRS Effect:Gillian Armstrong - One Hundred a Day (1973). Based on a short story by Alan Marshall, One Hundred a Day, shows Gillian Armstrong's early talent for literary adaptations - she would later go on to make Oscar and Lucinda, and Charlotte Gray.
P.J.Hogan - Getting Wet. Best known for Muriel's Wedding (1994) and My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) P.J Hogan's short film, Getting Wet tells the story of a lovelorn fifteen-year-old boy, Alex, whose annual beach holiday is a chance to impress the object of his affection, Brenda.
Phillip Noyce - Caravan Park. One of Australia's most successful Hollywood exports, Noyce whose later films include Patriot Games, Rabbit-Proof Fence and The Quiet American made the fourteen-minute, black and white realist film, Caravan Park in 1973. The film tells the story of a family that is forced to take up residence in a caravan park when their car breaks down on the way to Queensland. Jane Campion - A Girl's Own Story. From Jane Campion, the director of 1993's The Piano. Set against the 1960's backdrop of Beatlemania A Girl's Own Story is a stylised account of girlhood - where perversion is innocent, family is strange and adulthood lonely. This film formed part of a trilogy, which included Peel, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
Cate Shortland - Joy. Shortland, the director of multiple AFI-Award winning features, directed this award-winning student work, Joy in 2000, which follows the story of Joy, a teenage girl as she hits the town in search of a good time.
Sejong Park's stunning 2004 animated short, Birthday Boy, which won the 2005 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for best animated short and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same year.
Michaela French's - Flux (1999) listed by The Australian's film critic as one of "12 Film Breakthroughs" for its achievement as the first Australian film post-produced entirely on a home computer. The film about trust, about an accident, about falling out of love and emerging from grief was created entirely on a desktop Macintosh using Adobe AfterEffects and Adobe Photoshop.
In addition to some of Australia's behind the scenes talent, the AFTRS collection features performances by some of the Australian film industry's best known actors including; Jack Thompson, David Wenham, Zoe Carides, Hugo Weaving and Noah Taylor.
AFTRS is Australia's national centre for professional education and advanced training in film, television and radio and has produced many of Australia's most celebrated film and media industry figures.Exhibition Details:The AFTRS EffectScreens until October 31 2006Open DailyMemory Grid at ACMIFREE ENTRY


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You won't find any of these books in the New York Times Book Review, though they've all been released in the first half of this year by prominent presses. As far as I can tell, not a single one of them has been reviewed in the Times--and I suspect this would be the case for the other leading newspaper review sections too. Apparently, these books are so mind-bogglingly radical, they might destroy your peace of mind and turn you into a flame-throwing subversive.
Actually, these are all wonderfully accessible yet serious books addressing very important subjects, from the economic crisis and globalization to border politics and the dilemmas of identity. Can Detroit be saved? What are the myths of green energy? What can we learn from the boggled reconstruction of Iraq? Are we going to share a future of biometric surveillance? Just how did white middle-class Americans start identifying themselves as outsiders? These exciting books shed some necessary light!
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The Starhotels E.c.ho. is located in the heart of Milan, opposite the Centrale train station.
The local
You'll find numerous sights close to our hotel. There's also the Giardini di Via Palaestro and Via Manzoni.
Our hotel is near Milan's train station and the airport shuttle bus. It's also beside the Bus Terminal and Metro stops. A taxi rank is just outside the hotel.
All of Milan's top sights and attractions are easily reached from the Anderson. Don't miss Milan's towering ancient cathedral, Il Duomo; the fashion quadrilateral; La Scala Theatre; Palazzo Marino and Museo Poldi Pezzoli.


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The general ledger is the main accounting record for your business if you use double-entry bookkeeping. When you hear the phrase "keeping the books," it refers to maintaining the general ledger.
The general ledger accounts are built based on the Chart of Accounts for your small business which shows the main accounts that will be shown in your financial statements. The Chart of Accounts can consist literally of hundreds of accounts depending on the size and complexity of the business. The general ledger consists of these accounts such as each current asset, the fixed assets, each current liability, the long-term liabilities, the owner's equity accounts, sales revenue, each expense account, gains, and losses.
The general ledger is built through transferring journal entries of a company's financial transactions from its accounting journals to the general ledger. Each financial transaction has a source document, such as an invoice or canceled check, and a journal entry. The journal entry may be in the general journal or in any number of special journals.
Journal Entries
A business enters much of its financial transaction data into accounting journals on a daily basis. When a financial transaction occurs and a source document is generated, the transaction is entered into the general journal. The general journal lists transactions in chronological order. The date, amount, accounts affected, and the direction in which the accounts are affected are noted. As you note the transaction, you have to make sure the debits and credits remain in balance.
The company also may have a wide range of special journals. Some of the more common special journals are the sales journal, the cash receipts journals, and the cash disbursements journal. The number and types of special journals a company keeps is determined by the individual company. If the company uses a computerized accounting system, the different special journals are generated as you enter your financial transactions into the computer.
General Ledger Entries
Once financial transaction entries are made in the appropriate journals, they are summarized and entered in the general ledger, generally once a month. Each account has a separate page. The detail of the company's financial transactions is stored in the journals. The general ledger shows all the summary information for financial transactions for the company from the general journal and the special journals.


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Funeral services for Bonnie Marie Kaiser, 90, of Warner, OK, will be held at 10 A.M. Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at Lescher-Millsap Funeral Home Chapel in Muskogee with Reverend Cardell Coppin officiating. Pallbearers are George Foreman, Willis Jackson, Bobby Peyton, Marty Ragsdale, Buddy Webb and Roy Thompson. Burial will be in Warner Memorial Cemetery in Warner, OK.
Bonnie was born October 8, 1922 at Warner, OK, the daughter of W. F. "Seab" and Lois (Boydston) Harmon and died Saturday, September 21, 2013 at her home in Warner. She is a lifelong resident of the area. Prior to retirement, Bonnie worked as a machine operator at Container Corporation.
Survivors include her sisters, Thelma Jackson of Haskell,. Helen Breig of Muskogee, Hazel Davis of Muskogee, and Anna Sorrell of Fredericksburg, VA; stepson, Bill Kaiser of Muskogee; numerous nieces and nephews. Bonnie was preceded in death by her parents, W. F. "Seab" Harmon, Lois Harmon, and Mae Harmon; husband, John H. Kaiser, three brothers, Virgil, Willie Floyd, and Houston Harmon; two sisters, Bernice Foreman and Alene Blackwood; one step-son, Rass Kaiser.
Special thanks to Professional Home Hospice Team.


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Your Rock Band Epic Fail of the week
When seeing the 'Your Rock Band Victory for the week', I thought I would do the opposite of that since I failed pretty epically on an FC attempt. So, post your Rock Band epic fails here.
Pretty much, I was playing 'Oye Mi Amor' on Expert Bass and I nailed every note except the last note. It's pretty funny looking back on it though.
Pretty much, I was playing 'Oye Mi Amor' on Expert Bass and I nailed every note except the last note. It's pretty funny looking back on it though.
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Ha, that was going to be my post. Expert pro-drums. I was doing fine until the outro with all the crazy toms. My kick got out of sync and at 98%, crash and burn.odd-props;4224623 said:burning down the house on expert pro drums.
I just can't maintain the relentless kick.
this song is under-tiered.
Or "Blow 50 Unison Phrases". I mean, we have to intentionally choke phrases in Overdrive Tour Challenges to prevent overdrive chaining when the challenge says "Activate as many times as possible". I've lost more spades over overdrive chains preventing new activations than I have botching phrases and not getting enough energy to activate in the first place / choking before in a streak.Kawalimus;4224633 said:Nothing specific to add just yet, just saying that "Choke 50 OD phrases" should be some kind of goal.
The "Save a bandmate 40 times" goal should be renamed "Fail a player out 40 times so you can be the savior".
We need Choke Forgiveness, like Casey Lynch's Streak Guardian in GH:WoR. You get a little meter at the side of your highway that fills up based on your streak. When it fills and you miss a note or Strong a phrase, it empties and gives you the points for that note and counts that note in your final streak. Streak again to fill it again. In addition, -1 on a tambourine section will still be an Awesome for bonus purposes.
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bjordan42 Rising StarNow that the fun of playing expert pro guitar is over, I'm now trying to get 5 stars on the easy songs on expert. And they are easy; except I keep losing my freaking streak!
"The Hardest Button to Button" was the hardest (Ironic, no? No.). It's the same exact thing throughout the entire song (same chords, except it alternates between arpeggios and chords). And it's not the deviations that trip me up--no, that would be understandable. It's the repetitive parts that kept killing me! Finally 5 starred it, though dreading the day I try for gold. *shivers*
"Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1" is the easiest, since I'm better with chords than jumping between notes. I was able to get the chords spot on after a couple of days. Took a while to 5 star it, though, because with the Mustang my pick keeps getting caught in the strings (which rarely happened if ever when I played my real guitar). I only seem to break my streak a few of times, but those few kept on making me "ALMOST" get 5 stars. Felt very accomplished when I did. Luckily, I only missed one note when I tried it on bass; the bad part, it was the FIRST note. =S
There's plenty more in my arsenal of pro guitar f*** ups. But I'm saving them up for Christmas.
HairyMan Always Rock On The Bright Side Of LifePankrazzo;4224698 said:Myself on any expert pro keys song beside Need You Tonight.
Lol. Here here! That's the only song I can get a gold star on expert pro-keys on. Any other attempt at expert pro-keys = "oh my god I hope he dies soon because he's insulting every pianist on the planet!"
I8Snow4Aurora Rising StarI used a Fender Starcaster model guitar to play a set of Megadeth when everyone knows that Dave Mustaine usually uses a Gibson Flying-V model guitar. Although RB3 does not incorporate Gibson guitars, the obvious choice to use for a set of Megadeth would be to use the Jackson KV2T King V. I felt like such a tool!
JohnnyRhythm Opening Acta couple days ago I wanted to play online, but none of my friends were online, so i started searching for players (first time doing this), and i got an entire band, so i sat there wondering why the leader wasnt moving on to select songs. after about a minute or so all the other players left except me, thats when i realized i was the leader..... epic failure
V8VANTAGE Road WarriorThis weeks epic fail for me wasn't actually my fault, but my stupid GH world tour guitar. During one song I could not hit the orange fret, I was pressing it but it stopped responding for the duration of the song then it started working again.
Then during the next song the start button got stuck so the pause menu kept coming up and going off again!
Hopefully I won't have to put up with this guitar for much longer, roll on 25/12
banjo78910 UnsignedI tried to get the "Blue" goal from Green Day rock band, which involves getting a 95-note streak on guitar on "Last Night on Earth". It's a really easy song, so I decided to sing as well using my mic stand, both on expert. Apparently I don't know the words as well as I thought I did, and got distracted from the guitar track and got a 73-note streak on guitar. xD
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Dave Mustaine had Jackson, ESP, and most recently Dean signature models. Any of the Jackson King V's would be close enough to his actual Jackson model.I8Snow4Aurora;4225575 said:I used a Fender Starcaster model guitar to play a set of Megadeth when everyone knows that Dave Mustaine usually uses a Gibson Flying-V model guitar. Although RB3 does not incorporate Gibson guitars, the obvious choice to use for a set of Megadeth would be to use the Jackson KV2T King V. I felt like such a tool!
The sad thing is that they do not have a Jackson Rhoads for "Crazy Train".
Similar problem happened to me. SRFC on Low Rider Expert Guitar became my signature performance early on, even though I play more on Bass.trimarkk76;4225894 said:Decided to try singing The Look with Harmony alone.
Got the double awesome and 5 Stars on Hard.
I don't sing often (mainly play Pro-Drums), I have only sang about 30-40 songs out of my 1500 on RB3.
And now, The Look is my signature performance.


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The three largest employers in the Greater Philadelphia / South Jersey area should be no surprise. They are all government entities.
- Federal Government
The U.S. Government employs approximately 52,000 people in the region. This includes employees at the Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Mint, U.S. District Court, Internal Revenue Service and U.S. military.
- City of Philadelphia
The City of Philadelphia employs approximately 30,000 people in the region. By City statute most are required to reside within the city limits. These include both white collar and blue collar workers. Included in this number are employees of the Police and Fire Departments, Streets Department, Courts, and the Water and Gas Company.
- School District of Philadelphia
The School District of Philadelphia employs approximately 26,000 people in the region. By City statute most are required to reside within the city limits. These include teachers, administrators, bus drivers, maintenance workers and food service workers.
The list of largest employers in the Greater Philadelphia / South Jersey area continues with private employers. Some you can easily guess. Others will surprise you.
- University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania employs approximately 22,600 people. These include educators and administrators serving the more than 9,000 student at the University of Pennsylvania. These also include workers at the University of Pennsylvania Health System and those doing research at one of the University's facilities.
- Jefferson Health System
The Jefferson Health System employs approximately 14,300 people. The Jefferson Health System consists of five members: Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Frankford Health Care System, Magee Rehabilitation, Main Line Health, and the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital System. These include nine hospitals and numerous rehabilitation and health service facilities.
MBNA Corporation employs approximately 10,500 people in the region. MBNA is a financial service company headquartered in Wilmington Delaware. As of January 1, 2006. they are owned by the Bank of America. MBNA is Delaware's largest employer. Their principal business in the region is credit card services.
- Merck & Co
Merck & Co employs approximately 10,000 people in the region. Merck & Co., Inc. is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company headquartered in Whitehouse Station, NJ, but with major pharmaceutical operations in the Philadelphia suburbs of Blue Bell, Horsham, Lansdale, North Wales and West Point.
- Du Pont Corporation
Du Pont employs approximately 9,900 people in the region. They are headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware and have plants at various locations in the region as well as in more than 70 countries. DuPont offers a wide range of innovative products and services in the plastics and industrial organic chemical fields for markets including agriculture, nutrition, electronics, communications, safety and protection, home and construction, transportation and apparel.
- Christiana Health Care System
Christiana Health Care System employs approximately 9,500 people in the region. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, Christiana Care Health System is one of the largest health care providers in the mid-Atlantic region, serving all of Delaware and portions of seven counties bordering the state in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. The not-for-profit, privately owned Christiana Care family of services includes two hospitals (Christiana Hospital, on a suburban campus south of the City of Wilmington, and Wilmington Hospital, in the downtown business district of Wilmington).
- Vanguard Group Inc.
Vanguard Group Inc. employs approximately 8,000 people in the region. Headquartered in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment management companies for individual investors, corporations, institutions and financial professionals. As of December 31, 2005 their assets total approximately $950 billion in U.S. mutual funds.
Who else makes the list?
- Crozer-Keystone Health System - 7,026 regional employees
- Tenet Health Systems - 7,002 regional employees
- Prudential Insurance - 6,568 regional employees
- Lockheed Martin - 6,500 regional employees
- Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) - 6,200 regional employees
- J.P. Morgan Chase - 5,900 regional employees
- Cendant Mortgage Corporation - 5,481 regional employees
- Independence Blue Cross - 5,040 regional employees
- Allied Security - 5,000 regional employees
- Rosenbluth International - 5,000 regional employees


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Techmeme is all abuzz with news of the Yahoo Live launch. I'm thinking Yahoo's doing online video? Again? But weren't they closing Yahoo Video? No, that was Yahoo Podcasts – it's hard to keep track of the closures. But still, what's special about Live? Then I hit the official Yahoo blog post about it and it all became clear (and potentially cool). Yahoo Live lets you broadcast live video. From the post:
Broadcast the concert you're at. Webcast your own live DJ set. Lifecast. Build your own live video speed dating application. We've created a website and an API that lets you do all these things and many more.
Ready to get going? Apparently, plenty were — and the "experimental" site crashed. It remains down at the moment, but check out the posts below for some screenshots:
- Yahoo (sort of) launches a livestreaming service, Yahoo Live | Tech news blog - CNET News.com, News.com
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navigation system: clock resets itself to wrong time zone
I'm in the P.S.T time zone, and I reside in northern CA.
Problem: The Navigation System on our 2003 Yukon Denali resets itself to the C.S.T time zone. According to the previous owner, this happened to him roughly 8 times a year. (He was honest enough to share this with me prior to my purchase.)
Anyway, I witnessed it for the first time this morning (Jan 2) and I'm 100% certain that the time zone was correctly set to P.S.T as of yesterday afternoon.
The previous owner didn't have any luck getting assistance from the dealer, so I was hoping you guys could offer some feedback. Is anyone experiencing this issue? (FYI, I doubt this is relevant, but for the record, my compass variance zone number is set to 4.) Also, the battery is new.2003 GMC Yukon Denali
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Erik Kain, Contributor
I write about video games: the industry and the culture.
The NRA came out forcefully against free speech today, blaming everything they could put their finger on—including video games and the media—while showing no sign of introspection about gun laws and regulations in this country.
As Paul Tassi reports, NRA executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre said "Guns don't kill people. Video games, the media and Obama's budget kill people." Because as we all know, last week's horror was carried out with a DVD and a page from Obama's budget.
Setting aside LaPierre's call for censorship—since the First Amendment is obviously less sacred than the Second to his lobbying group—the NRA solution appears to be hiring armed guards for every school in America.
A car in every garage and a guard in every school.
Remember, this is a country which has trouble simply hiring enough teachers, or repairing school buildings, or even coming close to decent graduation rates. Now we're supposed to staff each school with police because, in LaPierre's words, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
Tassi wonders how expensive it would be to not only staff guards or police at public schools but also at all the country's universities. The problem is that police forces are already in place at many universities, such as Virginia Tech, a fact that did not stop the devastating shooting there in which 32 people lost their lives and 15 more were wounded.
Nor are mass shootings confined to schools.
This became terrifyingly obvious in the Aurora shooting earlier this year, in which 12 people died and 38 more were wounded, at a movie theater in that Denver suburb (which I used to attend.) Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot outside a grocery store in which 17 people were shot and six, including a young girl, were killed.
In fact, during the NRA press conference, a man in Pennsylvania shot at people from his truck, including state troopers. Early local news reports are stating four dead and five more injured in this shooting spree, though we must take all early reports with a grain of salt.
No good answers.
I don't know what the answer to all of this is. I don't know how to implement perfect gun regulations in this country.
But we already have some regulations, such as the age someone needs to be to buy a firearm in the first place. So far as I know, this has not been deemed anti-freedom. Other countries, such as Canada, have strict gun storage laws which prevent guns and ammunition from being stored together, and which require gun owners to keep gun safe combinations secret from anyone else and any keys on their person at all times.
In Australia, following a 1996 mass shooting in which 35 people were killed in Port Arther, the conservative-led government implemented a system of gun control which separated guns into five categories, making the most potentially deadly guns nearly impossible to own. A gun buyback program led to 700,000 guns being purchased and destroyed by the Australian government.
In the 18 years prior to the new gun laws, there were 13 mass shootings in Australia. In the 16 years following the new law, there have been none. Not a single mass shooting has taken place in that country in nearly two decades.
Since 1982 in the United States there have been at least 62 mass murder incidents involving guns. Not counting today's shooting, 151 people have lost their lives in mass shootings in 2012 alone. These victims are survived by countless others who are indelibly impacted by these terrible tragedies.
I don't have the answers, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be trying to find out what they are—not through censorship, but through reasonable regulations on the possession and storage of weapons. Indeed, we already have reasonable regulation of speech in this country. We have ratings systems for games and movies, times of the day when certain shows cannot be aired, restrictions on what can be said on TV, and so on and so forth.
Furthermore, very few people are calling for the absolute end to gun ownership in this country. The real divide is between those who say more guns are the answer and those who say fewer guns are the answer. So far as I can tell, this leaves room on both sides for extremism that doesn't represent the main arguments of either group.
Good questions.
The "more guns" argument has not provided compelling proof that this would in fact reduce mass shootings. So far as I can tell, countries with fewer guns tend to have fewer shootings even though they are not immune to these tragedies. Australia provides a clear example of this. If you look at a list of school shootings worldwide since Australia's gun laws went into effect in 1996, you'll notice that nearly (but not all) of the shootings took place here, in the United States. Is this in spite of or because of our higher rate of gun ownership?
Certainly armed guards might help, but are we willing to arm guards at every school? At every mall and movie theater? At every grocery store and along every street?
Even aside from the police state this would inevitably help shape, how would we pay for it? How would we screen all these new guards and ensure they were properly trained? And what sort of weapons will they carry? Will they possess enough firepower to stop shooters with semi-automatic rifles and a death wish?
These are questions I have still not seen answered, much as I have not seen compelling data to show that the millions upon millions of video game players and viewers of film and television have been turned into psychopaths. Just like them, most gun owners in this country are responsible and trustworthy.
So the question is simple: what is the best way to ensure that those who should not have access to guns are kept away from them in the first place? Unless congress and the NRA can devise a plan to wipe violence out of movies, video games, and books, I don't see censorship (beyond the ratings systems we have in place already) as either a sensible or moral answer.
As Aaron Carroll writes, "I understand why some people don't like violent video games. I also understand why some people don't like violent movies or TV shows. But before you start talking about censorship, I want to see some proof. I worry that if you decide (with no good evidence) that you don't like my video games, and want them gone, then next you'll come for my movies. Then, maybe, you'll decide you need to come for my books. That will not do."
We have senators calling for the pre-meditated ban of Rockstars upcoming Grand Theft Auto 5 already, of course. A game that doesn't even yet exist but is somehow more responsible for the deaths this year than firearms.
Until groups like the NRA are willing to bend a little, this conversation is never going to happen. Of course, the NRA doesn't speak for all gun owners, including gun owners I know personally, so maybe it's time more of those people had a say in the matter rather than the spokespeople of a powerful lobbying group.
Is this a subject that can broached sensibly by both sides? Is this a discussion about reasonable regulations or one about god-given rights?
Because one way or another, this is a conversation that must happen, however much we may hate having it.
Update: It appears that four people, including the shooter, were killed all in separate locations: a church, a nearby residence, and after the shooter crashed into another vehicle and shot the driver. This makes it more of a "shooting spree" rather than "mass shooting." Three state troopers were injured in the shoot-out that resulted in the shooter's death. It's also unclear whether this took place during or just before the NRA press conference, though that's not really the point.
To LaPierre's claim that bad guys with guns can only be stopped by good guys with guns, the eventual killing of the shooter today might seem to hold that argument up. The problem is that three people were killed prior to the good guys arriving.
Anyone stupid enough to blame Mortal Kombat for the shootings needs to examine the countries where MK is most popular per capita and examine their gun violence.
It is incredibly irresponsible to say that a violent, armed society / calls for violence against American political rivals by extreme conservatives / a militant patriotism that threatens the world with invasion / bulling and violence in schools / police brutality / cannot influence someone with mental illness.
You see how easy that is to say?
If it's true that it's that easy to "influence someone with mental illness," I'd be more inclined to take a look at the environment and culture they're steeped in 24 hours a day as a whole, before I go waaaaay down the list of what they're exposed to and go, "oh video games must be why."
In other words: if you're right, and games are a factor, then there are also dozens of much larger factors at work.
@ Erik Kain, I find it a bit hypocritical that you just cast aside media as not being one of the major contributors to American Violence with the wave of a hand especially since you take part in it. I mean if media is incapable of changing people's thoughts and eventually evolving to reflect in their behavior, why do you write, or how did a cartoon camel make kids smoke. Here are some links to how the media influence people, as derived by our wonderful U.S Congress. We'll start with a quick summary on Joe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Camel
Followed with some psychological and scientific info. http://communications.medicine.iu.edu/newsroom/stories/2011/violent-video-games-alter-brain-function-in-young-men/ http://old.mbconf.ca/mb/mbh3801/trained.htm
I appreciate that you posed lots of good questions without too much the all too typical ranting of unsubstantiated opinions.
However, you do say "The "more guns" argument has not provided compelling proof that this would in fact reduce mass shootings. " without any offer of any facts or substantiation. And how often in anything (outside of science and math) do we really have " proof"? Don't we usually just have just really good evidence which needs to be judged?
In fact, there are many studies about the Assault Weapons ban in the US from 1994- 2004 (none show any real proof good or bad of the ban which one could argue is certainly some evidence that it didn't work) and there is a study called Multiple Victim Public Shootings by Lott (Yale) and Landes (U of Chicago). They aren't exactly right wingers and the statistical conclusion is that Right to Carry states had vastly fewer mass shootings. This is the type of evidence and facts you should cite and argue for and against before making blanket statements about "no proof." I'm sure the professors who worked tirelessly to study the subject can offer you plenty of proof – just not proof that you may want to hear.
You cite the argument against censorship but miss the irony that those Constitutional freedoms extend to guns in the USA too. Lastly, using other internet sources to cherry pick facts is not real journalism. This cherry picked fact about mass murders in Australia is statistically silly, especially in light of the fact that other gun crimes and the use of unlicensed gun crime went up.
There is absolutely no link to game violence and violence in teens and young adults.
The key statistic i like is Switzerland versus the US
Switzerland has roughly half the guns own per 100,000 people than the united states. They have half the suicide attempts and half the accidental deaths. That type of statistic make sense, double volume, double the incidents. United states has 7 times the amount of gun homicides as Switzerland.
There needs to be some serious gun regulation. I believe that people should have the right to carry a gun and protect themselves. But these people should be ones that are mentally stable, take courses to know about gun safety, storage, and laws about guns.
Guns should be banned from being resold outside licensed gun dealers. I think you need to register you gun every year like a car. IF you can't you better have it documented the gun was missing or stolen with the police. If not, then be prepared to be fined for selling your gun.
"Switzerland has roughly half the guns own per 100,000 people than the united states. They have half the suicide attempts and half the accidental deaths. That type of statistic make sense, double volume, double the incidents. United states has 7 times the amount of gun homicides as Switzerland."
Also one should keep in mind that switzerland has quite a few fully-automatic assault rifles in private hands. Because members of the militia can opt to store their assault rifles at home. And in Switzerland there is a mandatory military service for men, so this is no small number. On the other hand I can't yet think of a mass shooting in Switzerland.
And although the gun controls in most european countries are stricter than in most US states, guns a pretty common in most of them. Including semi-automatic hand guns and rifles. Yet in none of these countries gun violence is as even remotely such a big problem as in the US.
Of course there seems to be a different mindset in these countries. There is nearly no one who shares the sentiment that guns are never the problem but always the solution (if in doubt go for more guns), that seems quite common with the NRA and their ilk. I find this fanatism really appalling at times. And I'm pro private gun ownership, though under certain regulations.
And of course the blameshifting of the NRA is just ridiculous. Games and movies, again. With no hard (or even soft) evidence to back this claim. And their solution is also a joke. Armed guards in every school and spirit knows where else. Sure, who will gonna pay for that? The NRA? Not that these people will be very effective anyway. A dedicated and halfway trained attacker will in many cases just kill them, because he has the advantage of surprise, and their training is simply not good enough. You average police officer or ex-soldier probably wont do.
@Matthew Dougherty: "There needs to be some serious gun regulation."
Good luck with that; ain't happenin without powerful resistance, "serious" of course being a subjective concept.
When writing the control opinion in Heller vs. District of Columbia (128 S. Ct. 2783, 2008), Supreme Court Justice Scalia expressed the majority view that Second Amendment protection means what it says, people have a Right to bear arms. (Operative word: BEAR, to carry, hold in one's hands, etc. which excludes BEARING a tank or other heavy weaponry.) And contrary to liberal slants on the issue, the Heller opinion did not exclude bearing of arms outside the home (but purposefully left that to be decided by a more relevant — on point — case).
Following Heller on the eleventh of this month in Moore vs. Madigan (842 F. Supp. 2d 1092 – Dist. Court, CD Illinois, 2012), Seventh Circuit Court Judge Richard Posner cited Heller extensively when he struck the State of Illinois restrictive ban on carrying firearms outside the home. Judge Posner expressly stated: "A right to bear arms thus implies a right to carry a loaded gun outside the home."
Interestingly, as this case was decided before Sandy Hook. Judge Posner specifically expressed: "…the Supreme Court made clear in Heller that it wasn't going to make the right to bear arms depend on casualty counts. 554 U.S. at 636. If the mere possibility that allowing guns to be carried in public would increase the crime or death rates sufficed to justify a ban, Heller would have been decided the other way, for that possibility was as great in the District of Columbia as it is in Illinois." (Keep in mind, Illinois has one of the highest civilian gun kill rates in the nation.)
Did you catch the meat there?
Gun restrictions cannot be based upon "mere possibility" of increased deaths to justify the ban — were it not implemented. Which is the precise argument (to stop more killing of innocents) liberals are making, including the President, based upon a limited number of recent shootings. Making matters much worse for gun control advocates, is that attorneys representing the state are leery in the extreme to appeal Moore to the Supreme Court for obvious reasons — it is exactly the type of case Heller sought to wait for!
Bottom-line; liberals have been fooled into believing, measures to ban "assault" weapons are viable and constitutionally permissible. They are not! What we are hearing from politicos on both sides (including the NRA) is high-tech Kabuki Theater, versions of the Potomac Two-step that will very likely ring hollow.
So as you may gather, "serious" gun restrictions aren't probable in the near future. Unless, of course, make up of the High Court changes to sway the prevailing opinion. Yet still, the Supreme Court seldom reverses itself even when the players change.
So good luck to gun ban folk whomever they are, they're gonna need it!
First, while the Supreme Court has always sided with the software industry, and is unlikely to change that behavior any time soon, I find it really hard to understand how Call of Duty or similar can be described as "free speech". There's no opinion expressed there. If the argument is "I want to make this product because it makes me money" then a meth lab should be as covered as Red Storm Games.
Second, what you're completely overlooking in your comparison to Australia is what has happened to their overall violent crime rate since they banned guns. If you have the moral courage, go do the article and publish it here.
Third, it's simply not the case to say that the US has drastically more mass shootings than other countries. Europe, with its extremely restrictive gun laws, has had nearly as many as the US over the last decade. Again, don't take my word for it, if you have the courage go do the research and publish it here. The Lott study from Harvard is a good starting point.
Every year in the US, legally owned firearms are used to stop or prevent a violent crime every year between 800,000 and 2.5m times, depending on whose numbers you believe. Your reckless arguments for more restrictive gun laws will lead to more innocent victims, not fewer.
It's unlikely that restrictive new gun laws would prevent another Lanza-style mass killing. But they would certainly disarm thousands of petite women, thousands of elderly people, and turn much of the country into a "gun free zone" just like the places that these crazed madmen prefer to wreak their havoc.
If you want to put responsibility somewhere, don't punish millions of law abiding citizens who choose to protect themselves with a firearm. I feel bad for the late Ms. Lanza, but I'm afraid that's where most of the blame here needs to be placed. Knowing what she did about her son's behavior it was completely irresponsible to give him access to —- much less training with —- firearms of any type.
I realize that sounds unsympathetic, but let's look at Sandy Hook and see it for what it was . . . irresponsible behavior on one person's part, and mental illness on another's. Destroying the rights and security of millions of law abiding citizens as a result of that doesn't change this tragedy, it multiplies it.
The public issue is mental illness, not gun control.
There are 300 million guns in the us by most estimates. Many are illegal, anonymous and invisible, and there is a robust black market in weapons.
There are probably at most a few thousand mentally ill people who could undertake a mass murder. As in Newtown, most stood out as unstable and long before the crime occurred. In the recent viral posting "I am Adam Lanza's mother", the mother of a child exhibiting dangerous symptoms has found there is almost no way to deal with him, even less after he is eighteen.
It is obvious where any mitigation effort belongs – identifying potential killers and establishing public resources to deal with them. But all we seem to hear is video games and gun control.
@Erik Kain
Much better piece than the kid (Tassi) posted, kudos. At least you made some attempt to cite sources yet frankly, Erik, your sentiment is error.
The key to truly solving mass shootings and gun violence isn't more guns or control laws, because causation for unjustified firearm killings is a rudimentary moral problem — not mechanical one. And as history sustains time and again decency cannot be legislated no more than breath can be outlawed or the sky mandated pink. Quick-fix government and NRA remedies wholly miss the core as well, and attack the symptom not root malady.
What other countries have done falls way short too; the USA being unique in all the world, in that our Constitution insures the Right to bear arms. And THAT document must be preserved above all else, irrespective the civilian death-toll while we work toward better solutions. After all, slightly over one million two hundred thousand US warriors (SOURCE: US Defense Department) — fellow citizens all — have lost their lives in pursuit of that very purpose since formation of our Republic. To hastily restrict even one Constitutional principle for which they died, cheapens each and every death… Especially those of innocents.
As gun owner and staunch firearms advocate I cannot claim knowledge of the path that brings us to real solutions. But I do know with absolute certainty it will neither be found at the muzzle of a gun, nor stroke of politico's pen.


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By Gerry Albert Corpuz, Ma. Leonora Theresa Azcarraga and Himala dela Cuesta
MANILA, PHILIPPINES- Leaders of the left-leaning fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) and the umbrella group Save Laguna Lake Movement (SLLM) on Friday claimed victory over the cancelation of the controversial P 18.7 B Laguna Lake dredging contract.
The Laguna Lake based groups had led the opposition against the dredging project which was previously inked during the administration of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and had also asked the House of Representatives with the help of Anakpawis party list Rep. Rafael Mariano who sponsored a house resolution urging the concerned committees to undertake congressional inquiry on the lake dredging project.
"The victory belongs to the fisherfolk and the people of Laguna Lake. Their collective resolve to stop this shotgun piece of public-private partnership project is the decisive element behind the cancelation of the project. We ask President Benigno Simeon Aquino III to serve the notice of cancelation with finality and refrain from resurrecting this project in the near future," Pamalakaya national chair Fernando Hicap and SLLM convener Pedro Gonzalez said in a joint statement.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) officially canceled the P 18.7 B supply contract with Baggerwerken Cloedt En Zoon (BDC), a Belgian dredging contractor. In a Dec.7 letter addressed to Dimitry Dutilleux, area manager of BDC, environment secretary Ramon Paje said President Aquino has approved the cancellation of the supply contract between the DENR and BDC last Dec. 5.
"The national government and the DENR have no choice but to cancel the dredging deal which is not only tainted with irregularities but also checkered with dangers of killing people's livelihood and environment. Mr. Aquino and Mr. Paje really have no option but to score a giant kill against the P 18.7 B dredging contract, nothing more, nothing less," Hicap and Gonzalez said.
Pamalakaya and SLLM said the cancellation of the P 18.7 B contract should not proceed with the Filipino taxpayers paying $ 10 million to BDC for the junking of contract, as previously asked by the Belgian contractor.
"We should not pay 10 million US dollars to BDC because the contract is junked. That would be unfair to the Filipino people and to the fisherfolk of Laguna Lake. It is tantamount to betrayal of national interest if the Aquino government pays 10 million American dollars to BDC. That is not acceptable, period, period, period," the groups added.
Likewise Pamalakaya and SLLM slammed the 27-member countries of the European Union (EU) after a report said the Belgian government, which the current president of EU is planning to stop importation of coconut oil from the Philippines in connection with the scrapping of the P 18.7 B Laguna Lake dredging project.
Belgium is the biggest importer of Philippine coconut oil according to the United Coconut Associations in the Philippines (UCAP) Incorporated. According to UCAP, the coconut oil industry became the first casualty of the decision of President Aquino to junk the P 18.7 B Laguna Lake dredging project.
It said the decision might push the Belgian government to stop importing coconut oil from the Philippines, and that will spoil the momentum of this industry which is expected to reach 3 million metric tons in total exportation for 2010 which is 12 percent higher last year.
"Frankly my dear we don't give a damn if Belgian government desists and ceases from importing coconut oil. It is their loss not ours. We can have our coconut oil and explore this agriculture product for the benefit of 94 million Filipinos," Pamalakaya and SLLM argued.
A report said the Belgian foreign ministry has summoned the Philippine ambassador to Belgium to demand explanation why President Aquino cancelled the P 18.7 B contract for the dredging of the 94,900 hectare lake.
Earlier, Laguna Gov. E.R Ejercito appealed to the Aquino government to negotiate with China for the funding of the ambitious dredging project that will cost the Philippine government P 20-billion per year or P 100-B in five year period. But Pamalakaya dismissed the move as classic act of desperation.
According to Pamalakaya, Laguna Lake is a home to 6 million people according to the latest population survey conducted by the national government. Around 2 million are living in the immediate surroundings and lake shore of Laguna de Bay.
Co-existing with the 6 million people are the 23 fresh water fishes and the 10 salt water fish species and the 26 types of lake-water based plants which regularly provide direct and immediate livelihood to 100,000 fishing families in Laguna Lake.
The yearly fish production in Laguna Lake through fish capture and fish culturing (fish pens and fish cages) amount to 410,000 metric tons which supplies the fish food needs of more than 10 million people in Metro Manila.
"The dredging project if not terminated or stopped will affect the fish and food production capacity of Laguna Lake and this will create a major fish and food crisis for the people of Laguna Lake and the National Capital Region and will affect the livelihood of more than 100,000 fishing families sourcing their livelihood directly from lake resources," Pamalakaya said.
"The P 18.7 billion dredging project is also an environmental catastrophe in the making. The sorry state of Laguna Lake reveals it is already in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and allowing project like this which has no scientific proven basis will fast-track the death of the 94,000 hectare lake," Pamalakaya added.
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Ronald H. Miller Jr., 50, of Philadelphia was held for court last week by District Judge Kim M. Hoots on charges of indecent exposure, harassment-subject other to physical contact and disorderly conduct-engage in fighting after an incident on a Greyhound bus traveling along the Parkway East on Aug. 26.
According to a criminal complaint filed by Pennsylvania State Police, Miller was a passenger on the bus. A woman on the bus accused Miller of standing in front of her in a straddle position with his genitals partially exposed.
She told police he started to pull down the front of his pants. The woman told Miller to get away from her three times and, when he finally moved, she ran to alert the bus driver. Miller was jailed on $50,000 bail but released on Oct. 11 when a judge changed the bail requirement.
In other cases heard by Hoots in her Wilkinsburg courtroom on Dec. 13:
- Paige McMurry, 19, of Butler was held for court on charges of manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to deliver, intentional possession of a controlled substance by a person not registered and use/possession of drug paraphernalia. According to a criminal complaint filed by Wilkinsburg police, an officer conducting surveillance due to the high volume of heroin being sold at the McDonald's on Penn Avenue observed two suspicious vehicles on Sept. 15. One vehicle moved to the carwash behind the McDonald's and a woman identified as McMurry exited the passenger side carrying a purse. She then walked back to the other vehicle in the McDonald's lot. The officer approached and asked her to exit the car. A search of her purse turned up a tan plastic bag with 10 bundles of heroin—a total of 100 stamp bags.
- Ann B. Brown, 56, of 170 Scott Road, Plum Borough, waived her right to a preliminary hearing on two counts of conspiracy-intentional possession of a controlled substance by a person not registered and a charge of use/possession of drug paraphernalia filed by Wilkinsburg police. According to a criminal complaint, an officer noticed a car being driven erratically and carelessly near the intersection of Princeton Boulevard and Franklin Avenue on Aug. 18. After a traffic stop, the officer noticed Brown put an object between the driver's seat and console. The officer retrieved a small change purse containing a professional license and two individually wrapped pieces of suspected crack cocaine and seven Ativan pills. After being placed in custody, the officer found two crack pipes in Brown's purse. A passenger in the car attempted to discard a small plastic bag and officers discovered a syringe and spoon in his pocket. The car's glove box contained two bundles (20 stamp bags) of heroin. Also in the car were syringes, spoons, a crack pipe and two prescription bottles in the driver's name.
- Charlene Thompson, 45, of 1409 Summit St., Wilkinsburg, waived her right to a preliminary hearing on a charge of submitting claims for services not rendered to a patient. The Office of the State Attorney General filed the charge after accusing Thompson of submitting fraudulent time sheets to the Department of Public Welfare through Jevs Human Services. According to a criminal complaint, Thompson filed $571.52 in charges between Nov. 9 and Dec. 4 although the patient had died on Oct. 29.
- Marc Kingston Wells, 45, of 805 Churchill Ave., Penn Hills, was held for court on charges of manufacture, delivery or possession with the intent to manufacture or deliver, driving under the influence (general impairment/incapable of driving safely, fourth and subsequent offense), blood alcohol content .02 or greater (second offense), driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance, intentional possession of a controlled substance by a person not registered, possession of marijuana and duties at a stop sign. According to a criminal complaint filed by Wilkinsburg police, a car driven by Wells failed to stop at a stop sign at the corner of Center Street and Hill Avenue on May 24. After conducting a traffic stop, the officer noticed signs of intoxication including blood shot, glassy eyes; odor of marijuana on his person; the smell of an alcoholic beverage on his breath, and slow and staggered speech. The officer discovered a knotted plastic bag containing suspected marijuana in his shorts pocket. A bottle fell from Wells as he was outside the vehicle. Police said the prescription bottle contained 13 plastic bags with suspected crack cocaine. Wells also had $315 cash on his person. Wells failed field sobriety tests and submitted to a blood alcohol test at Forbes Regional Hospital.
- Naetasha Oshea Williams, 19, of 606 Swissvale Ave., Wilkinsburg, had a charge of receiving stolen property withdrawn. A female Yellow Cab driver accused Williams of stealing her wallet while the driver had exited the cab to smoke a cigarette. During a search of Williams' apartment, police found the wallet and other personal effects. Williams claimed the wallet was stolen by the second person in the cab and given to her.
Look for more court news from Wilkinsburg in the Friday Patch.


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Any student of world history will tell you that if he had to pick a single nation to pin all the world's troubles on, Britain is far and away the obvious choice.
Stretching more than a millennium to the crowning of Alfred the Great in 871, the British Monarchy is simply one of the oldest continuous governmental bodies on earth. For centuries, its power over its citizens was nearly absolute. By the dawn of the 20th century, it controlled nearly one third of the globe. But while other totalitarian reigns have been put on trial and forced to make amends, the British crown has maintained its grip on power, and so avoided being called to account for its numerous crimes against humanity.
British Commonwealth is the British Empire controlling 30% of the people of the world, 25% of the world's countries including 53 countries and having the majority of the voting power in the UN (United Nations).
What exactly has Britain done that's so awful?
By our analysis, the crimes of Britain fall into four major categories:
1. Genocide. Modern Britain was founded through the systematic erasure of indigenous culture and language.
2. The Industrial Revolution. The health, safety, and wages of workers took a back seat to owners' greed for ever-higher output and profits.
3. Global Misrule. The terrorist threat has its roots in British mismanagement of the Middle East, particularly Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. Britain's imperialist past has so enraged Muslim extremists.
4. Bad Inventions. Slums, prisons, child labor, bad hygiene, the Black Plague, concentration camps, you name it.
Four examples of British imperial subjugation and complete disregard for the sanctity of native cultures:
1. British establishment, maintenance and profiteering from the African slave trade (both public and private)
2. British enslavement of the Chinese populace in the form of opium addiction. It was not until 1700 that the British introduced China to the process of mixing opium with tobacco so that it could be smoked.
3. British attempts at Britainization in Ireland following the 1801 Act of Union and subsequent persecution of Irish Catholics in favor of the Anglican Church.
4. The British used to tie up Indians from India to one end of the cannons and blow them up to smithereens.
You must be aware of how England raped and pillaged Wales during the Industrial Revolution, paying no mind to the welfare of the Welsh working class or the environment. As Englishman profited, the Welsh countryside became a wasteland of sweetshop factories and slag heaps.
"Have you been to England recently?". "All you hear about is how evil America is and how everything is our fault. I'm always shocked that people don't stop to think about how the world that we know today got this way in the first place. I mean, the Brits created the state of Iraq. Actions in history are like rocks thrown in a pond - there's a ripple effect." - Steven Grasse
Many of the world's ills can be chalked up to British imperialism in one way or another.
International Coalition For British Reparations (ICBR)
A global network of citizens who have suffered injuries at the hands of the British Empire over the last five hundred years. Banded together to ask the United Kingdom to compensate the world for all the damage they've done.


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Play Date Etiquette
Play date is a term I had to introduce to my mother. This foreign concept was a far reach from the days of my childhood summer vacations. I recall summers of daily walks down the street, carrying my favorite doll by one arm, all the way to my best friend's house so I could knock on the door and ask if she could play.
Times have changed.
Play date has replaced what used to be "spontaneous playtime." Years ago, if a child wanted to play with a friend, she'd casually walk to the friend's house (most of the time alone), knock on the door, and ask if the friend wanted to play. Now, kids could be perceived as forceful or inconsiderate if they show up without calling and scheduling a play date ahead of time first.
There are various reasons why this play date change has occurred… safety, busier schedules, dual working parents, numerous sports and recreational activities, and many school requirements and commitments. Therefore, the play date has become a necessary evil.
Even more so, some parents of the younger kids are invited to "hang out" during the play dates. Joining in on the play date definitely throws more dynamics into the mix. Parents get more involved and watch their child's every move while chiming in with suggestions. A generation ago, this was unheard of. Children dove into friendships and play, and they were responsible to deal with any confrontations that arose.
That brings us to a potential snag resulting from the formalities of a play date… After all the play date planning and preparing, what if a play date does not go well? If my child chooses, for whatever reason, to not play with a specific friend anymore, now you've got a parent who's wondering why you're not calling anymore. If things were the way they used to be, my child could choose which doors she wanted to go knock on. But now, with parents calling each other to do the arranging, these "snags" are obvious, and it all falls on the parents to deal with any play date issues.
It's interesting to see how this cycle evolved and how the "play date" came to be. And, you can't help but wonder if the concept will continue to carry on as our children age. Will life always be so busy and complicated that it will be unheard of to pick up the phone and call a friend to meet up for lunch, all on a minute's notice?


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John Wooden is generally regarded as the nation's greatest basketball coach. His UCLA teams during the 1960s and 1970s won 10 NCAA men's basketball national championships and set records for consecutive victories. But since retiring in 1975, the 97-year-old coach has gained fame as a philosopher and motivator.
His "Pyramid of Success" guide to life is revered by former players and business leaders for its insight on how to help individuals to grow and how to manage organizations.


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The production of onion waste has increased in recent years with the growing demand for these bulbs. In the EU generate over 500,000 tonnes of waste, especially in Spain, Netherlands and United Kingdom, which has become an environmental problem. The remains include dry skin brown, the outer layers, roots and stems, and onions which do not reach market size and who have suffered damage.
"One solution would be to use waste as a source of onion natural ingredients with high functional value, as this vegetable is rich in compounds that provide benefits to human health," points out to SINC Vanesa Benítez, researcher at the Department of Agricultural Chemistry at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
The research group belongs to Benitez, along with scientists from the University of Cranfield (UK) has identified in the laboratory substances and possible uses of each part of the onion. The results were published in the journal. Plant Foods for Human Nutrition.
According to the study, the brown skin could be used as a functional ingredient rich in dietary fiber (mainly insoluble type) and phenolic compounds, including quercetin and other flavonoids (plant metabolites with medicinal properties). The fleshy outer two layers of the onion also contain fiber and flavonoids.
"Consumption of fiber reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal diseases, colon cancer, type 2 diabetes and obesity," says the researcher.
For its part, the phenolic compounds help prevent heart disease and have anticancer activities. The high content of these compounds in dry skin and the layers outside the bulbs give them also a high antioxidant capacity.
As for internal parts and whole onions are discarded, the researchers propose to use them as a source of fructans and sulfur compounds. Fructans are prebiotics, ie, exert beneficial health effects by selectively stimulating the growth and activity of bacteria in the colon.
The sulfur compounds inhibit the aggregation of platelets, thus facilitating blood flow and, in general, improve cardiovascular health. In addition, positive change and anti-inflammatory antioxidant systems in mammals.
"The results indicate that it would be interesting to separate the different parts of the onion that is generated during industrial processing," said Benitez, "and so could be used as a source of functional compounds to be added to other foods."
Vanesa Benítez, Esperanza Molla, Mary A. Cabrejas Martin, Yolanda Aguilera, Francisco J. López-Andreu, Katherine Cools, Leon A. Terry, Rosa M. Stephen. "Characterization of Industrial Wastes Onion (Allium cepa L.): Dietary Fibre and Bioactive Compounds."Plant Foods for Human Nutrition 66 (1): 48-57, 2011.DOI: 10.1007/s11130-011-0212-x.


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Virtual learning is not for all students. But for many, according to a new report from the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), it can provide opportunities and access that might otherwise be unavailable, and it's therefore a critical component in the educational mix.
"All students should be able to have continuous access to the high quality curriculum from the classroom to the family room to the community center--regardless of socioeconomic or geographic barriers," according to the report, which was released Thursday. "Virtual learning is a tool that can do just this. Virtual learning provides each student the promise of access to age- and ability-appropriate curriculum, rich and extensive resources and accurate and up-to-date assessments regardless of location, economic situation or time."
"Virtual learning also has the potential to engage students in ways that traditional learning does not. In the 21st Century, students utilize technology on a daily basis and expect to use it in the learning environment," said Mary Ann Wolf, executive director of SETDA, in a statement released to coincide with the report.
The report, "Learning Virtually: Expanding Opportunities" (the fifth and final installment in SETDA's Class of 2020: Action Plan for Education series), focuses on a number of programs that have emerged in recent years that have succeeded in bringing new opportunities to students who might otherwise miss out owing to geographic or economic limitations, such as being stuck in a district that does not offer college preparatory courses or having to work to may hours in a week to be able to make a go of a traditional learning environment.
The report also highlights some of the roadblocks in the way of expanded virtual learning opportunities. These include:
Based on these issues, the report concludes with several recommendations, including a call for states to recognize teacher licenses and certifications from other states; providing teacher professional development to prepare instructors for virtual learning environments; providing resources for students so that they can access virtual learning environments; and providing "oversight and transparency" to help assure the general public that virtual learning is not sub-standard and that it provides "a rigorous, viable learning option for all our students."
The report also recommends that states and districts conduct research to identify best practices for online learning and to develop "innovative funding models that meet the needs of both traditional schools and virtual schools."
Further information on this topic, including a downloadable copy of the complete report, can be found on SETDA's site here.
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The umbilical cord is covered with a thick protective coating known as Wharton's Jelly. This is like gristle in texture and prevents the baby from compressing the arteries and vein that run through the cord. So the cord being wrapped does not usually pose a problem for baby.
At the time of birth, once the baby's head is out, the midwife or doctor will check around the baby's neck for the presence of the umbilical cord. Typically the cord is wrapped loosely enough for the cord to be slipped over the baby's head. If the cord is wrapped multiple times this may take awhile. Typically you will be asked not to push for a minute while this happens.
Sometimes the cord is wrapped too tightly and the cord will be cut before the baby can be born. This is done by your midwife or doctor by placing two cord clamps and cutting between them. This necessitates the baby's birth fairly rapidly since it is no longer getting nutrients from the mother via the placenta.
Occasionally the baby will be born so rapidly that neither of these methods can be employed. A skilled practitioner will hold the baby's head very even and close to the mother's body as the baby's body is born through the cord. This almost looks like the baby flips out as it is born.
The cord being around the neck usually requires no additional monitoring of the baby or mother.


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Houma Christian capitalizes on Crescent City's mistakes in 5-1 win
Tue. April 03, 2012 at 11:01 a.m. | By Mike Wagenheim/Sports Correspondent
An error opened the door, and Connor Bates and his Houma Christian teammates stormed through it.
The Warriors took advantage of an early Crescent City miscue, defeating the Pioneers by a 5-1 final in District 10-A play at Southland Field on Monday.
Bates tossed a two-hitter, allowing just an unearned run, while his two-out triple in the home half of the first inning allowed Bradley Lovell to step to the plate. His ground ball bounced off the body of Crescent City (9-11 overall, 2-2 in district) second baseman Nick Studdard, plating Bates. After two walks by Pioneer hurler Blake Qinlivan loaded the bases, Houma Christian (10-10, 3-2 in district) leftfielder Tyler Crochet delivered a two-run bloop single. The three-run frame would provide Bates with all he needed and then some.
"That's been our M.O. all year, unfortunately," Pioneers coach Will Young said. "We just seem to shoot ourselves in the foot. Houma Christian took advantage. They pitched well, played solid defense and came up with the timely hit."
Quinlivan settled in, allowing just two soft hits over the next four innings. But his offense managed little against Bates. Crescent City's Justin Arceri grounded in Matt Swalley in the fourth after Swalley reached on a misjudged fly ball. Bates finished with three walks and three strikeouts.
"He's just a freshman, but he's been doing an excellent job on the mound," Houma Christian coach Chuck Battaglia said. "He's throwing the ball with confidence and letting his mechanics do the work for him."
The Warriors added a pair of runs in the sixth. With one out and two runners in scoring position, Sam Trosclair laid down a textbook squeeze bunt. Cody Collie came home. Then, Trosclair, realizing no one was covering second base, took off. Crescent City third baseman Tyler Ortiz attempted to throw him out, allowing Crochet to race across the plate, as well.
"That was just a great job by Sam handling a high pitch and getting the bunt down," said Battaglia. "We just kept putting pressure on (Crescent City) and it paid off in the end."
An error, walk and hit batsman loaded the bases for the Pioneers in the seventh before Bates induced Quinlivan into a fly out to end the contest.
"That early lead just made me comfortable," Bates said. "I was able to make those mistakes late and get away with them. I thought the key was that I threw a lot of first-pitch strikes and stayed ahead."
Young was complimentary of the Warriors' young arm.
"I tip my cap to him," Young. said. "He changed speeds. He located his fastballs. There just wasn't much we could do."
At Houma, the Lions exploded for 12 runs in the first three innings and cruised to the win on Tuesday. The game was stopped in the fifth inning because of the 10-run mercy rule.
Rustin Guidry led the Lions (8-11) with three hits, three RBIs and three stolen bases. Six hitters combined for 11 hits, 13 RBIs and nine runs scored.
The Lions finished with 15 stolen bases. Daniel Authement had three steals, and Mark Mimnagh and Zachary Folmer each finished with two.
Folmer was the winning pitcher, and Braxton Matthews pitched in relief.
Due to rain, Monday's District 7-3A game between E.D. White Catholic and St. James was postponed. The teams will meet at 4 p.m. today at St. James.


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genee Posts: 170Greetings! I am Gene, owner of a Black Cherry auto tC. My custom plate for this rig is "BING" because of the colour. I went auto because I plan to keep the car until they haul me to "the home." The only accessories I purchased were: mats; wheel locks; door sills (because I didn't realize how good the stock items were); mud guards; and cargo net. I picked these items because they are easy DIY items and partznet saved me over $200. I am VERY anal about detailing so the car is done about every two weeks. (Washed at least once per week.) Oh! I also had Classic Soft Trim install opal leather and heated seats. (pics available)
tahlequah Posts: 54I'm Terry and I've got a black 5-speed tC. Had it three months - waited 6 weeks. NO regrets! Got the floor mats and cargo liner two months after purchase. Will likely get the mud guards at some point but for now, I'm happy. I only have 1800 miles logged. No problems at all, other than hating the super long throw of the clutch. I'm one happy camper!
mnixonxx Posts: 3My name is Michael. I bought my White 5-speed TC the week the car came out. So far, I have about 3400 miles on the car. The car drives great. Sometimes when I look at the car, it just amazes me on how tight it is. The only option I have is Floor Mats. I also put on a nice pair of tints.
revjoonbug Posts: 3Hey there people! My name's Joon and I am a proud owner of a Scion Azure Pearl tC that I picked up three days ago with one mile on the odometer (and after waiting eight weeks(!!) since ordering it. It's manual and the only options I got were the floor mats and the side airbags. I've not had the third gear / transmission problem nor the roof glass popping noise. And yes, I have to grumble a bit about the long throw of the clutch... considering I'm only 5'6" and now have the seat pulled all the way up to reach it. damn, the car makes me feel short (but then again it makes up for it in other ways). God, I love this car... what an upgrade this is from a Toyota Paseo 95!
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tcmnnewbie Posts: 1Hi, I'm Tony the soon to be owner of a 05 TC - projected delivery date is Nov. 26th !!! Can't wait .. I ordered Indigo Ink (blue) with fog lights, spoiler, floor mats, 6 disk changer, bumper protector, and window tint to 50 % on driver and passanger, and 30% on rear windows..
Can't wait until I can pick it up !!!
scotty0820 Posts: 7Scott checking in from Springfield, MO....
I've had my Absolutely Red xA now for about a week and I love it! My Explorer Sport Trac will be in Wednesday's paper for sale and my gas bill just got cut in half!
I drive down the road with a smile on my face everyday now. Simply a fun car to drive.
Tony here, Have 6500 miles on my Black Cherry auto. I no longer fight with the wife over who gets the Lexus. I love this car. Has exceeded my every expectation. Yet to get less than 28.5 MPG (lot of hwy diving,55-70 mph.
Nothing out there can beat this car at this price. Only option was the auto-dimming mirror-Can't live without it. Will begin to add little things as time goes on, but truly, it does not require any add-ons.
seattletcer Posts: 1Bought one in Flint Mica in October 2004 - could not be happier with the car! I only added a security system and floor/cargo mats. Read the "problem" forums and it's like most of those people were either expecting too much or are driving a different car because I have had no issues what so ever! Got exactly what I expected - and am very happy. Nice to see the tC being worked into the Scion ads now, too - though if we get too many out there mine won't turn as many heads as it does now. Seeing a ton of xB's and xA's on the road, too.
bcscionxb21 Posts: 1I own a black cherry Xb and wanna join a club. My name is Manny and I'm 19 yrs old. Im from Elizabeth New Jersey and i would like to meet up with anyone who has some information. u can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
ps. Even help me find parts less expensive than the dealers.
Hope someone can help me Thank you.
Read your long term review. I have 7400 miles on my tC and have had zero problems or complaints of any kind - I am even pleasantly surprised by it's performance in snow. There are a few preferential items I would change (most notably control knobs instead of buttons) but overall I find much more I would consider 'upscale' in a $17k car than things I would classify as cheap (plastic).
What really amazed me was the MPG reported. I have yet to get less than 28 MPG. Yes, it includes a lot of 45 - 70 MPH hwy driving, but a fair amount of suburban traffic as well - and I check with every tank-full. Stricly freeway trips have yielded up to 33 MPG.
I would also like to know why you paid for an oil change when the first 3 are free. Maybe I have a 'freak' but I'll take another one just like it any day of the week.


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Coastal Fish Production in the Northern Baltic Sea
Environmental conditions play a crucial role in the distribution and abundance of fish species in any area, but the relative importance of various environmental factors is very difficult to determine. The coastline of Finland in the northern Baltic Sea offers a unique natural experimental setting that can be used to assess the relative importance of various environmental factors for the species occupying it. The area includes major variations in several crucial environmental factors: salinity, temperature regime, represented by winter ice duration, coastline characteristics, and eutrophic status. Furthermore, Finland has collected extensive and spatially representative data of water quality and environmental factors, as well as a long and extraordinarily spatially detailed data set of commercial catches of several fish species. This model attempts to correlate the environmental data to the commercial catches of fish species, assuming that the commercial catches reflect, to some reasonable degree, the productivity of that species in that area (compared to other areas and combinations of environmental factors, not to other species).We use a Bayesian network approach to examine the sensitivity of the species to the environmental factors. All of the probability distributions in the model are derived from data, with no priors or expert judgment. The data includes 36 statistical rectangles across the coast of Finland, and 21 years. The variables were discretized to approximate equal frequency of the marginal distribution, but striving also for ecological significance of the breakpoints where possible.
Select Input
|Total P (mg / m^3)
|Total N (mg / m^3)
|Chlorophyll (mg / litre)
|Salinity: per mile
|Ice Cover: average duration of ice cover per year (days)
|Shore Density: length of coast line (mk) / water surface (ha)
Model Output (average catch (kg) / water surface (ha))
|Probability (bar view)
|0 - 3.5
|3.5 - 13
|13 - 70
|Probability (bar view)
|0 - 0.000015
|0.000015 - 0.007
|0.007 - 2.7
|Probability (bar view)
|0 - 0.00003
|0.00003 - 0.01
|0.01 - 0.17
|Probability (bar view)
|0 - 0.015
|0.015 - 0.06
|0.06 - 0.5
|Probability (bar view)
|0 - 0.0035
|0.0035 - 0.025
|0.025 - 1.1
Observe how herring catches increase and vendace catches decrease as salinity goes up. Also observe how vendace is especially sensitive to ice cover duration. Vendace is a small salmonid freshwater species that in the Baltic Sea occusts mostly in the most northern part, ehere salinity is low and yearly ice coverage is long.
Also pike and roach catches drop to the lowest class when the ice cover duration is the shortest. This is because they are coastal species, and the lowest ice cover durations occur in the open areas. However, pike and roach catches are not so sensitive to the two higher classes of ice cover duration. The same can be seen by changing the shore density.
[Uusitalo et al, 2011] Uusitalo, L., Kuikka, S., Kauppila, P., Soderkultalahti, P. and Back, S. (2011), Assessing the roles of environmental factors in coastal fish production in the northern Baltic Sea: A Bayesian network application. Integr Environ Assess Manag. doi: 10.1002/ieam.180