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When a woman permanently stops having menstrual periods, she has reached the stage of life called menopause. Often called the change of life, this stage signals the end of a woman's ability to have children. Many health care providers actually use the term menopause to refer to the period of time when a woman's hormone levels begin to change. Menopause is said to be complete when menstrual periods have ceased for one continuous year.
The transition phase before menopause is medically referred to as perimenopause or climacteric. During this transition time before menopause, the supply of mature eggs in a woman's ovaries diminishes and ovulation becomes irregular. At the same time, the production of estrogen and progesterone decreases. It is the enormous drop in estrogen levels that causes most of the symptoms commonly associated with menopause.
While the average age of menopause is 51, menopause can actually occur any time from the 30s to the mid-50s or later. Women who smoke and are underweight tend to experience an earlier menopause, while women who are overweight often experience a later menopause. Generally, a woman tends to experience menopause at about the same age as her mother did.
Menopause can also occur for reasons other than natural reasons. These include:
The following are the most common symptoms of menopause. However, each woman may experience symptoms differently—with some having few and less severe symptoms, while others have more frequent and stressful ones. The signs and symptoms of menopause may include:
In addition to the increase in the temperature of the skin, a hot flash may cause an increase in a woman's heart rate. This causes sudden perspiration as the body tries to reduce its temperature. This symptom may also be accompanied by heart palpitations and dizziness.
Hot flashes that occur at night are called night sweats. A woman may wake up drenched in sweat and have to change her night clothes and sheets.
Q: "I am 49 years old and have started exhibiting signs of menopause, with the most bothersome being hot flashes. I wondered if there is anything I can do to cope with these?"
A: Hot flashes appear as a result of decreasing estrogen levels. In response to this, your glands release higher amounts of other hormones that affect the brain's thermostat, causing your body temperature to fluctuate. Hormone therapy has shown to relieve some of the discomfort of hot flashes for many women. However, the decision to start the supplementation of these hormones should be made only after you and your health care provider have evaluated the risks and benefits based on your individual medical history.
To learn more about women's health, and specifically hormone therapy, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health launched the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 1991. The hormone trial had two studies: the estrogen-plus-progestin study of women with a uterus and the estrogen-alone study of women without a uterus. Both studies were concluded early when the research showed that hormone replacement did not help prevent heart disease and it increased risk for some medical problems. Follow-up studies found an increased risk of heart disease in women who took estrogen-plus-progestin therapy, especially those who started hormone therapy more than 10 years after menopause.
The WHI recommends that women follow the FDA advice on hormone (estrogen-alone or estrogen-plus-progestin) therapy. It states that hormone therapy should not be taken to prevent heart disease.
These products are approved therapies for relief from moderate to severe hot flashes and symptoms of vulvar and vaginal atrophy. Although hormone therapy may be effective for the prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis, it should only be considered for women at significant risk of osteoporosis who cannot take nonestrogen medications. The FDA recommends that hormone therapy be used at the lowest doses for the shortest duration needed to achieve treatment goals. Postmenopausal women who use or are considering using hormone therapy should discuss the possible benefits and risks to them with their health care providers.
Practical suggestions for coping with hot flashes include:
Specific treatment for menopausal symptoms will be determined by your health care provider based on:
Several therapies that help to manage the symptoms often associated with menopause include the following:
Hormone therapy (HT) involves the administration of a combination of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone during perimenopause and menopause. HT is most commonly prescribed in pill form. However, estrogen can also be administered by using transdermal skin patches and vaginal creams.
The decision to start the supplementation of these hormones should be made only after you and your health care provider have evaluated the risks and benefits based on your individual medical history.
Estrogen therapy (ET) involves the administration of estrogen alone, which is no longer being produced by the body. ET is often prescribed for women who have had a hysterectomy. Estrogen is prescribed in the following forms: pills, transdermal skin patches (where the estrogen is absorbed through the skin), and vaginal creams.
The decision to start the supplementation of this hormone should be made only after you and your health care provider have evaluated the risks and benefits based on your individual medical history.
When approaching menopause, every woman should discuss each option—the potential risks and benefits—with her health care provider.
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The September 15, 2014 deadline for submission of claim forms has passed and claims are no longer being accepted. Payments on valid claims are expected to be made in December 2014; however no specific date is known at this time. Please check this website periodically for updates, as more information will be posted when available.
This website provides information on the joint state and federal Settlements involving residential mortgage foreclosures and loan servicing. For information about the settlement for which you may be eligible, begin by locating your Mortgage Servicer – the entity to which you sent your monthly Mortgage Payments up until your foreclosure – from the list below, or clicking on the name of the settlement. When you click on your Servicer, you will be directed to information about that specific settlement. If you do not know your Mortgage Servicer's name, you may click on one of the settlement Icons to get more information.
|American Home Mortgage Servicing (AHMSI)
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Payments to borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure with Ocwen, Litton, Homeward (also known as American Home Mortgage Servicing or AHMSI)
The National Ocwen Settlement Administrator mailed Notice Letter and Claim Forms in June 2014 to those borrowers who lost their home due to foreclosure between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2012 and whose loans were serviced by one of the three mortgage servicers that are parties to the settlement.
IRS Issues Tax Ruling on Settlement Payment to Borrowers
Updated: 01-22-14
The tax consequences of payments received under the National Mortgage settlement (NMS) depend on the unique facts and circumstances of each individual borrower. The NMS Monitoring Committee proactively sought a ruling from the IRS to provide guidance regarding the taxable status of these payments. IRS Ruling 2014-2 can be viewed here: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rr-14-02.pdf. The Monitoring Committee will not issue any tax forms (including a Form 1099), and your payment will not be reported to the IRS or other tax authorities. However, you should consult with your tax advisor to determine whether the payment is taxable income in your specific situation. The Settlement Administrator and the Attorneys General offices are not able to provide tax advice.
CFPB, States Reach Settlement with Ocwen
Updated: March 5, 2014 (Consent Judgment documents added)
- $2 Billion in principal reduction
- $125 Million in cash to foreclosed homeowners
- Modeled on National Mortgage Settlement
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), together with attorneys general and state banking regulators in 49 states, and the District of Columbia have filed a proposed court order requiring the largest nonbank mortgage loan servicer in the country, Ocwen Financial Corporation, and its subsidiary, Ocwen Loan Servicing, to provide $2 billion in first lien principal reduction to underwater borrowers. The consent order addresses Ocwen's misconduct during the mortgage servicing process. It also covers two companies previously purchased by Ocwen, Litton Loan Servicing LP ("Litton") and Homeward Residential Holdings LLC (previously known as American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc. or AHMSI). Ocwen must also refund $125 million to the nearly 185,000 Ocwen, Litton, and Homeward borrowers who have already been foreclosed upon and Ocwen must adhere to significant new homeowner protections.
The consent order requires that Ocwen follow the servicing standards set up by the 2012 National Mortgage Settlement (NMS) with the five largest banks. Ocwen's compliance with this settlement will be monitored by the same professional monitoring team currently in charge of enforcing the NMS, led by former North Carolina Banking Commissioner Joe Smith.
Further information concerning the Ocwen settlement is available here:
- A factsheet about the proposed order filed
- Common consumer questions and answers about the order
- A copy of the Ocwen complaint that the CFPB and state attorneys general filed
- A copy of the Consent Judgment entered by Judge Rosemary Collyer on February 26, 2014 (Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C, Exhibit D, Exhibit E, Exhibit F)
Payments to borrowers to begin June 10, 2013
Update: June 4, 2013
The date for the distribution of checks to borrowers who submitted valid claims has been set. Checks will begin mailing on June 10 and will be completed by June 17, 2013, and the payment amount for each loan is approximately $1,480. The exact amount is not being released to help prevent fraud. Please allow time for delivery of payments. The Settlement Administrator cannot provide specific mail dates for individual borrowers at this time.
Payments to borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure
Update: May 13, 2013
Approximately $1.5 billion of the funds recovered in the national settlement are being used to compensate borrowers who lost their home to foreclosure during the period of January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2011. The deadline to submit a claim form has now passed. If you have submitted a claim form, the Settlement Administrator Rust Consulting, will contact you if any additional information is needed to complete your claim.
Rust Consulting can be reached at 1-866-430-8358. Checks to borrowers who submitted claim forms are expected to be mailed mid-2013. The processing of the claim forms is underway and until it is completed, the exact dollar amount of the payments is not determined, however, it is anticipated it will exceed the minimum payment of $840 that was indicated on the claim form. Borrowers who submitted claims have been contacted if additional information is needed for the processing of the claims. The Settlement Administrator is not authorized to release specific information about the number of claims submitted at this time, pending the conclusion of the distribution process.
Please be aware that Rust Consulting is also the settlement Administrator for the Independent Foreclosure Review (IFR) Payment Agreement obtained by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve Board. The IFR settlement is completely separate from the National Mortgage Settlement and does not include the same governmental agencies. The IFR payments began in mid-April of 2013, and will continue in mailings until July 2013. You can find additional information on the OCC Independent Foreclosure Review settlement at this website: http://occ.gov/topics/consumer-protection/foreclosure-prevention/correct...
You may be eligible for payments under both settlements. Accepting a payment from either settlement will not affect any rights you may have to take legal action related to your foreclosure.
Homeowners should also be wary of scams. Unscrupulous companies are contacting homeowners with offers of assistance for a fee to receive the settlement payment. You should not pay a fee to receive a payment under either agreement.
Federal Government & Attorneys General reach landmark settlement with major banks
Roughly $25 billion in relief for distressed borrowers, states and federal government...
In February 2012, 49 state attorneys general and the federal government announced a historic joint state-federal settlement with the country's five largest mortgage servicers:
The settlement provides as much as $25 billion in relief to distressed borrowers and direct payments to states and the federal government. It's the largest multistate settlement since the Tobacco Settlement in 1998.
The agreement settles state and federal investigations finding that the country's five largest mortgage servicers routinely signed foreclosure related documents outside the presence of a notary public and without really knowing whether the facts they contained were correct. Both of these practices violate the law. The settlement provides benefits to borrowers whose loans are owned by the settling banks as well as to many of the borrowers whose loans they service.
- About the Settlement: Learn about the settlement, who is affected and what claims may still be pursued against the banks. Find links to your state Attorney General's Office to find state-specific information and contacts.
- Help for Borrowers: Learn how to find out if your loan is affected by this settlement, the timeline for relief, how you will know if you are eligible. Find links to your state Attorney General's Office to find state-specific information and contacts.
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move west, across the Indiana line, to Indianapolis Power & Light (IPL), another big loser in the grid-pricing game. Contrary to the Buckeye situation, however, IPL's beef is with MISO, rather than PJM, and it sees postage-stamp pricing as the enemy. IPL thus calls for a return to license-plate pricing for all grid facilities, both old and new, for its salvation.
IPL argues MISO's current grid-pricing regime (which includes some postage-stamp area-wide cost sharing for new EHV lines) has cost the state of Indiana millions in excessive transmission charges shifted to it from regions under postage-stamp pricing. To be exact, IPL estimates each year it must pay over $7 million to fund new third-party grid projects located elsewhere within the MISO footprint, just counting those projects approved by the RTO in MISO's 2006 transmission expansion plan (MTEP 2006). By contrast, however, IPL says it gets exactly zero in cost contributions from third parties for maintaining the IPL system, since IPL is not now expanding its 345-kV legacy grid system that loops the city of Indianapolis, and foresees no need to do so anytime soon. IPL claims its zonal transmission rate of $685/MW-month ($0.68/kW-month, in contrast to AEP's) stands as the second lowest zonal transmission rate in MISO, less than 35 percent of the average rate within the RTO.
Overall, IPL estimates this "imbalance" in out-of-region cost contributions, with respect to the state of Indiana as a whole, will balloon to $42 million by 2015 or $92 million by 2020, "as other areas of the MISO footprint 'catch up' in terms of transmission investment" (see Motion to Intervene and Protest of IPL, FERC Docket No. ER07-1261, filed Sept. 17, 2007).
IPL also cites data prepared by AEP in its complaint showing that postage-stamp pricing for all lines 345-kV and up in both MISO and PJM, as AEP has proposed, would drive up the cost of service for IPL's transmission-sector by 40 percent or more by 2012.
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MADISON--Over the next two years, Governor Walker is signalling that he wants to lower property taxes and push for aggressive income tax reduction reform. "We're working on massive tax reform," said Gov. Walker, in a speech delivered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California on Friday. "We think if we want to continue the economic success we've had over the last year and a half, again one of the best ways to do that is to put more money back into the hands of entrepreneurs, more money back in the hands of small business owners, more money back in the hands of our consumers."
He also said he'd like to see funding for education tied to performance--both at the K-12 level and in higher ed. He also said he wants schools to produce graduates in fields that are hiring.
"We shouldn't be paying for butts in seats," he said. "We should be paying for outcomes. And in higher education that means not only degrees but are young people getting degrees in the jobs that are actually open and needed today, not just the jobs that the universities want to give us."
They're big agenda goals--delivered to an audience on the other side of the country. "It's certainly unusual," said Professor Richard Haven, a professor emeritus at UW Whitewater and an NBC15 analyst. "More typically you will see it announced in a state of the state speech or you'll see it announced in a budget speech in the state of Wisconsin. But again, I think it was the opportunity to be speaking at a national forum and to identify some issues that reinforce his credentials as a leading conservative governor."
Professor Haven also said the governor might be trying to place himself into the national conversation."He's taking advantage of the opportunity, having been invited by Nancy Reagan to come out and speak at this event, to place himself among the leaders of the party and to offer himself as someone else who has some ideas that he thinks could help not only Wisconsin, other states, but also the nation," he said.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker continues to shed more light on what his legislative agenda will look like next year.
Walker used a speech Friday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation in California to talk about his plans to pursue tax cuts, expand the voucher school program and tie higher education funding to meeting certain benchmarks.
The Wisconsin State Journal on Monday reported that the reception to Walker's California speech back home was mixed.
Incoming Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says Walker's message is consistent with what Republicans have been saying for months they want to do.
But Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chris Larson says the speech shows Walker has no plans to moderate his message.
Information from: Wisconsin State Journal, http://www.madison.com/wsj
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Measuring just 15 feet wide and 19 feet long, this home theater may be on the small side, but the size of the owners' movie collection is anything but tiny. More than 2,000 movies are already stored digitally in the 24-terabyte Kaleidescape media server, some of which are films with scores written for, or produced by the owner's two sons.
Still, with so much available space on the server, the owner can't help but add at least a dozen more weekly—just one of the benefits of being a member of two mail-order DVD stores, says Steve Hooper, president of Audio Video Design Consultants, the Nashville-based firm hired to transform a spare upper-level guest room into a theater worth more than $250,000.
Films aren't the only type of video stored on the server, however. There's plenty of room for the owners' extensive array home movies as well as trailers that he created himself. It's a quick trip to the theater from his video editing station, which sits just behind the theater in a home office closed off by a door.
Bedrooms reside on the other side of the hall, so Audio Video Design Consultants covered the walls and ceiling entirely with two-inch-thick acoustical paneling to prevent the sound from seeping out—quite an accomplishment given the theater's audio prowess. Seven Monitor Audio speakers and two subwoofers, driven by Lexicon processors and amps can really shake the room, says Hooper.
Proud of their son's accomplishments, it only seemed fitting that the owners would present them on the biggest screen the room could hold (illuminated movie posters also pay tribute to their Hollywood projects). The 106-inch Stewart Filmscreen screen is not only big; it can also alter its shape based on the type of video being presented by a top-of-the-line Runco VX-550 projector.
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you'd have to go to your wow standard key binding and bind Camera Zoom In, Camera Zoom Out with Shift+WD or Shift+WU
My mouse wheels currently are:
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I've had good success with both of these, try them out before u judge em,
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you'd have to go to your wow standard key binding and bind Camera Zoom In, Camera Zoom Out with Shift+WD or Shift+WU
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I'll admit I still click TClap and Cleave.
HS though is inside of my Revenge macro as
/cast Revenge
/cast Heroic Strike
If I'm lucky on timing it uses HS as the glyph procs, if I'm not I have to press it again and if I press it while Revenge is cooling down then it's just like the regular key.
There is a thread on Revenge/HS Macro using a reset, I think it has worked great for me and as expected -
though before I add it here I'll [re-]verify my combat logs.
Love the thoughts on [re-]binding the camera controls to do more with the scroll wheel
Binding heroic strike to my mouse wheel was the best thing I ever did interface wise. I can spam heroic strike while clicking anything I want while keeping my main 1-5 buttons and AWSD all in use at the same time, and I can stop spamming when ever I want as well. On top of that using the shift or alt keys and the 1-5 buttons, plus my num pad for the rest of my abilities every thing in the warrior inventory is useable by just moving my hand 1-2 inches.
I have a Logitech mouse with 2 side buttons, 5 (3 easy to get at) extra buttons on top in addition to LMB/RMB. The mouse wheel tilts left and right. Barring LMB and RMB, this gives me 8 buttons. Add shift into the equation and I have 16 buttons on the mouse alone. There's only one button (tilting the mouse wheel left) that's awkward while moving with the mouse. This allows me to keep all my main rotation buttons on the mouse and free my left hand for movement and HS. I use ESDF to move and Z as Heroic Strike so it's very easy to spam, even while moving.
I use 1 for heroic strike
alt-1 for revenge (turn on msbt notification)
not that I play my warrior anymore....
You might run into problems with this if you have many abilities bound to shift + something; from experience I can tell you it is annoying to try and, for example, refresh shout while also queue up another heroic strike only to find your screen is now filled with nothing but the back of your character's head. I actually just changed my binding this week to ctrl+Mouse Wheel this week for that reason because the only other thing I use ctrl for is vent.
Tbh i have Heroic strike on E,i find that i use it quita often,etspecialy on boss fights,i have allmost alwais enaugh rage to support heroic strike spamming+normal rotation.
I've never personally been a keybinder. (yes I'm a clicker) But I became adept at using a lot more buttons, and motions. Kind of Like over simplifying things. Whether you play by clicking, or by keybindings, Get good at it, and who cares? If you've had the chance to have me tank for you, you'd never know if I click, or keybind.
Though, I do highly recomend keybinding, it makes things really easy, its not what I learned first. Its like learning another language, you'll probably know your first language better. 2 years in, I've come to rely on my keyboard and natural keybinds (1-2-3-4) as much as my mouse.
Point is, Do what FEELS natural, and is most effecient for you. Playing a certain way because someone tells you too isn't always the best way for you to play. If you want to learn Keybindings, I recomend doing one at a time, or 2 at a time, so you don't feel like a complete idiot walking in the door, and not being able to do anything cause you don't remember if shield slam is on that button, or the other one.
these are prime examples why things such as the nostromo n52, saitek pro-gamer command unit, and logitechs many different keyboards and gamepads are awesome.
i have no macros setup at all. i use the g15 keyboard which has 18 programmable keys on the side. the keys are mapped to 1 though =, so standard abilities are on the main action bar, while the support ones that arent always used are set to shift+'key'. finger travel is severely decreased and is easy to adapt to. and i do click things with the mouse if im bein lazy or somehow dont think quick enough to use my fingers. for some of the more important ones, like taunt, i have a macro made on one of the top keys to easily hit, but i often forget about those and just use the shift+ for it.
Well i rerolled into a DK after xpac.. but I used to press the middle mouse for HS
Now i press middle mouse for Oblit.
My question is: How can anyone do anything with their keyboard hand if they are having to press heroic strike every 1.6 seconds on a keybind?! I use heroic strike so often, that if i used my keyboard for it it would almost gimp my hand from doing anything else. Also if i used mouse scroll for HS, i wouldn't be able to click my mouse button at the same time, even with the other finger. It's like trying to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time.
I really cant comprehend how people can use keyboard buttons for HS, while using having to press their GCD's, strafe, tab target, walk backwards etc. I find it difficult to move my hands into such position, let alone hit the right keys every 0.3 seconds with multiple fingers.
In the end, you might as well use your mouse for something, and considering you cant turn your back to a boss, i thought tanks would be using strafe and backwards keys to position during fight and mouse for forward/ side movement. Sure using key bindings makes playing properly possible, but I think there's a point where you can have too many key bindings for your own good. I don't find myself needing to do so much movement or so much camera panning that i cant afford to click a few things with my mouse.
Whenever I need to use my mouse for something else, i just stop using HS until i have done what i needed to do. I also have many abilities situation around HS that I use often.
Seriously, i need to get like a pedal under my desk to use with my foot to que HS.
Last edited by Foolishness; 12-14-2008 at 08:33 AM.
Cleave and TC are also hit by my thumb, on "X" and "V" respectively.
Simple 1
Beside the many possibilities for hs bindings in this thread... do not listen to retards on other forums then these. If you are comfortable with your rotation and you and your raid doesnt have any threat issues it just doesnt matter what or how you do it...
Personally I am a keybinder and clicker. Pre 3.0 when warriors were more single target threat and AoE was a pally only style tanking I was a keybind freak. With Revenge and Sunder armor glyphs no dmg caps on TC and SW I mark skull on a 3 mob skull X on everything else by the time those targets go down no one is pulling aggro.
If keeping HS qued is important to you just macro it to all your abilities I have mine on revenge for the glyph. And all my action bar 1 abilities are remapped to my number key and all abilities are mouseovered. It comes down to convenience of where my hands are, and by no means am I ashamed of clicking on an ability if the mouse is there already anyway.
Post 3.0 split second ability hitting isnt as important. Example at one bar from 75 and defense rating at 503 hp 16704unbuffed and armor right at 18k I tanked HoS 80 pally healer 80 mage, 80 hunter and 79 DK. It was a guild run and we were all on vent and noone was holding back. I was paranoid about threat and wiping so I went all out oldschool spamming the keyboard. Well one boss down and no wipes and a few beers and I went lazy no wipes cept for me on final boss. Dps other then giving me a second TC didnt hold back and the healer obviously had to keep me overhealed never pulled aggro.
So I say to your detractors of clicking abilites, roll a tank and spank it yourself. If your not having problems with aggro and it's working for you go for it. Enjoy all the OP nerfs while blizz lets us have them and tank on.
Last edited by CyCy; 12-16-2008 at 05:56 AM. Reason: hadn't finished
i use a different action bar for heroic strike and switch to it for bosses
up/down arrow goes between normal bar and heroic bar
you can bind heroic strike into another attack, you only have to push the button once since hs doesnt trigger a gcd
so normal action bar
#showtooltip Devastate
/cast Devastate
heroic action bar
#showtooltip Devastate
/cast Heroic Strike
/cast Devastate
etc for all the rest of the buttons
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22,500.....Come get itCar is a professionally built back half car with the best of parts and a near flawless paint job. This car is a 9 second car that is street legal and runs on pump gas (93 octane)
Above Added: Tue July 29, 2014, 3:14 am EST
Started off as a GM 502 crate motor.
Has since been freshened and redone in 2005 and now has less than 50 miles put on it since.
Heads have a large amount of port work.
Comp roller cam: 715 lift 290-300 duration.
victor jr. intake
pro systems 1000cfm 4150 carb
Griffin radiator with twin electric fans
CSR electric water pump
MSD distributor,7AL box,coil,timing retard box, rev box
Custom built 2&1/8 headers-4inch collectors-4inch exhaust
NOS cheater system installed and ready for use.
Magnafuel fuel pump and filter.
Turbo 400
4500 stall
reverse valve body
quarter stick shifter
tranny cooler with fan
9 inch ford with web welded in.
Detroit locker
31 spline strange axles
4:86 gears
4 link with wishbone
Koni coil overs
Pro stock style cage-removable door bar
wilwood brakes
line lock, proportioning valve
2 inch drop spindles
Fuel cell
Leather bucket seats
all custom tin work covered in tweed
all auto meter gauges
grant steering wheel
power windows
power locks
power mirrors
centerline wheels
15X4 fronts
15X15 rears with 33X18.50 ET streets
Car weighs approx. 3400lb
Many details and specs forgotten or not mentioned.
Car has gone 9.39 @ 146 with different motor but will go mid 9s with this combo on nitrous.
Asking 24,500... for additional details please call me at 724-322-5361. Interested in trades for a C5 or C6 corvette preferably a C5 Z06 But let me know what you got...GM cars only
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Back to 1981 in Louisiana again?
Louisiana's Senate Bill 70 (PDF). which if enacted would repeal the state's Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act, was rejected on a 5-32 vote by the senate on March 24, 2014, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune (March 24, 2014).
Reaction to Wyoming's blocking the NGSS
The Casper Star-Tribune (March 20, 2014) editorially decried the state legislature's decision to block the adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards as "misguided and irresponsible."
Missouri antievolution bill advances
Missouri's House Bill 1472, which would require school districts to allow parents to have their children excused from learning about evolution, was passed by the House Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education on March 12, 2014, after having a public hearing on February 13, 2014. The bill is not yet on the House calendar.
Settlement in Louisiana lawsuit
There is a settlement in a Louisiana case centering on a sixth-grade teacher's advocacy of creationism.
Wyoming blocks NGSS over climate
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Watch as Rich invites volunteers from the audience to get hypnotized on stage and be amazed at what happens next when he gives them suggestions to do the most outrageously funny things you can possibly imagine.
This Adult clean show is done with just the right amount of innuendo. Laugh till it hurts with this non stop roller coaster ride that will have you and your friends coming back over and over again to try it for yourself.
The Rich Guzzi Comedy Hypnosis Show is actually three shows in one because Rich is part standup comic, part master hypnotist and part motivational speaker. He becomes the Swiss army knife of the stage every night as he relentlessly tours the country and cutting the crowd to ribbons.
The show becomes a rock concert when Guzzi invites people from the audience on stage to participate in the hypnosis part of the performance. "It's not your average comedy show" says Rich "When I did only stand up, the attention was all on me and what I was going to say next, now everyone is focused on their friends on stage. It becomes personal, making it thousands of times more powerful and of course, funny!"
Don't be misled, Rich Guzzi is still a standup comic and that is what sets his hypnosis show apart from the rest which is quite evident as soon as he hits the stage. Even his preliminary talk about hypnosis hits the funny bone hard and with all the jokes and facial expressions added throughout the show there is no mistaking his comedy roots.
Rich also makes time in his show to bring awareness to the benefits of hypnosis. "In the end, all I really want to do is help people" says Guzzi in his unmistakable New York accent. "I am like a cross between Tony Robbins and Tony Soprano and the show as funny as it is its still only a demonstration of what you can do with this powerful tool."
The Rich Guzzi Comedy Hypnosis Show is standup comedy, hard-hitting hypnosis show and self-help seminar with some special surprises. Sounds like an offer you can't refuse.


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Tonight, Joe Hart from the South Bend Silver Hawks is back, Pat Karpinski and Scott Smith visit to talk about Elks Fest in August, we learn about "Hairspray" at the Elkhart Civic Theatre, and much more!
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Hello all!
Do you think BLAG is just BLAG Linux and GNU or something more? For me using free software is not just installing a GNU/LINUX distribution and use it. It's more; it's a lifestyle, a political and philosophical way of life. It goes with being "libertaire" (Is libertarian the right English word?), vegetarian, cooking and eating in harmony with the nature (My tendency Zen Sotô), etc...
Sorry it was my Sunday morning "angoisse métaphysique".
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Uh, more i suppose. I'm personally "libertarian", "anarchist", "post-capitalist anarchist left" (new phrase i've heard recently)...
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I thought something like that when I saw the bookmarks in my Firefox browser after my first installation. I kept them all.
What do you (And others) think about the "sustainable degrowth" (In French décroissance soutenable)?
I'm a "L'Ecologiste" (French version of The Ecologist) reader.
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Junichirô wrote:
What do you (And others) think about the "sustainable degrowth" (In French décroissance soutenable)?
I'm actually using gNewSense, but I plan to test BLAG soon. The reason is not technical and not even simple curiosity: the reason is the black star I see in the bootom of every page in this site.
Well, it's a bit complicated to explain here what I think about technology. I'm somewhere between Free Software Foundation and John Zerzan.
I think that "sustainable degrowth" is important if we want to survive. But my priorities are others. I don't want a world made of jails, armies and exploitations to survive. I want to change it in more than one sense, not only industrial/technlological degrowth. Do you agree?
Also, I'm vegan. This is a matter of degrowth, why not... it's indredibily stupid to use an enormous quantity of agiculture and water for animals. But amongst all, I think that, even in darkest eras, humans never suffered as much as animals suffer everyday in their prisons.
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Yes Sir! I agree. I'm veggie and most of time vegan.
When I eat cheese, eggs or use milk (For the cats), it's only organic products.
I don't want a world made of jails, armies and exploitations to survive.
I agree too!
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Since one year I'm totally vegan!
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Well, I think that BLAG largely represents the urge of the people to be independent. It represents a want to be free of reliance on large corporate entities who are out of touch with the wants and needs of the people. In the case of Apple, BLAG also represents the want of the people to use the devices they purchase without the restrictions on usage that Apple implements.
I am not a vegan or vegetarian. I am by no means far right or left wing. I will always fight for freedom. The freedom to be wealthy, the freedom to be poor. If I work for something, it belongs to me unless I choose to share it. If I do not work for something it is not mine, unless someone is willing to share it. I do not believe in forced charity (aka welfare). I do not believe that health care is a right, because I do not believe in forcing anyone to do anything (aka forcing a doctor to treat someone knowing that they will never be compensated for the time, energy and materials usage).
I use open source software because I feel that contracts restricting what I can do are contrary to my beliefs in doing whatever the heck you want to do (so long as you do not harm others).
On the vegan front, plants are also living things and recent studies done at Bonn University have shown that plants can think and feel (sort of). I find that eating plants in exclusion to everything else is just as wrong as eating only animals. Soy is also not that great for men to eat in abundance, and as far as I am concerned I would rather eat one steak than nearly a pound or two of mushrooms to make up for the lack of nutrients in my diet.
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The movement of skilled workers internationally represents brain gain for the countries that reap their skills and experience and brain drain for their countries of origin. On the brain gain side of the divide, countries increasingly are looking to position their immigration policies to attract the types of international workers and students whose skills they desire. On the brain drain side, the development impacts of losing educated workers are being assessed in immigrant-sending and receiving countries alike as the research presented here shows.
MPI's Kevin O'Neil takes a close look at how Taiwan has reaped economic benefits from high-skilled migration.
Kenya is looking to its educated diaspora to meet development goals and achieve global competitiveness, according to MPI's Ken Okoth.
Nearly 1 million U.S. residents spend time volunteering abroad each year, including nearly 200,000 first- and second-generation immigrants. As skilled migration and the number of U.S. youth with ancestors in the developing world grow, this report shows the potential for diaspora service volunteers to assist with development in a number of countries.
This volume finds that while emigration may be beneficial in some cases, unhindered high-skilled emigration, particularly in the case of sub-Saharan Africa, can have disastrous consequences. The author, Arno Tanner, recommends specific policies where carefully targeted development measures could be used to mitigate the negative consequences of brain drain.
Although the relationship between migration and development has been widely discussed and debated for more than 30 years, a number of unanswered questions and unsettled debates remain. On April 11 and 12, 2003, the Migration Policy Institute sought to advance the dialogue. This report summarizes the key talking points of the high level meeting and offers some key summary remarks.