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IdentificationMission: ISS007 Roll: E Frame: 6305 Mission ID on the Film or image: ISS007
Country or Geographic Name: DEM. REP. OF CONGO
Features: CONGO RIVER, BRAZZAVILLE, KINSHASA
Center Point: Latitude: -4.5 Longitude: 15.5 (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude)
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CameraCamera Tilt: 26
Camera Focal Length: 180mm
Camera: E4: Kodak DCS760C Electronic Still Camera
Film: 3060E : 3060 x 2036 pixel CCD, RGBG array.
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Percentage of Cloud Cover: 10 (0-10)
NadirGMT Date: 20030606 (YYYYMMDD) GMT Time: 105110 (HHMMSS)
Nadir Point Latitude: -3.0, Longitude: 14.6 (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude)
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: Southeast
Sun Azimuth: 5 (Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point)
Spacecraft Altitude: 213 nautical miles (394 km)
Sun Elevation Angle: 64 (Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point)
Orbit Number: 1932
CaptionsKinshasa and Brazzaville:
This image, taken from the International Space Station on June 6, 2003, shows two capital cities on opposite banks of the Congo River. The smaller city is Brazzaville on the north side of the river, and Kinshasa on the south side. The cities lie at the downstream end of an almost circular widening in the river known as Stanley Pool. The international boundary follows the south shore of the pool (roughly 30 km in diameter).
The Republic of the Congo, originally a French colony, is sometimes called Congo-Brazzavilleas opposed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (known from 1971 to 1999 as Zaire) which is often called Congo-Kinshasa, originally a Belgian colony. Brazzaville has a population of 600,000, compared with Kinshasas 6.8 million. Kinshasas population has more than doubled in 20 years2.7 million in 1984 and 6.8 million in 2004. Kinshasa is thus now far larger than the entire Congo-Brazzaville republic, which has a population of almost 3 million. There is no bridge between the cities so that water craft of many kinds ply between them. It is not uncommon to see dugout canoes being paddled between the cities.
The Congo River drains the vast equatorial Congo Basin, and discharges 35,000-40,000 cubic meters per second of water at Stanley Pool (by comparison, the Nile River discharges 2,500-3,500 cubic meters per second at Aswan). The Congo River exits the pool through a markedly narrowed channel at a series of whitewater rapids that can be seen in this view from space.
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If Lisa is off RHOBH I won't watch it any more but I will watch ( or give a try ) to another spin-off with Lisa. The Brandi s**t storm has just made it unpleasant and tiring to watch. I used to enjoy reading the blogs but people are attacking each other on a blog for crickets sake! The issue with Brandi ( I'm 58 so maybe it's an age thing ) is she is so disrespectful to herself and other working women. She is crass, gross uncouth, ill-mannered and if she was a man, I'm sure she would have been punched out by now. I still enjoy,a little bit, RHOA, but I won't watch Bravo anymore. They are incapable of a creative story line. Did anyone watch "100 Days of Summer"? It's about Chicago and of course people who are able to attend every social event. CNN has a similar series " ChicagoLand". Bravo should watch it. Now that's a reality show!It
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It is said that people who are blind compensate for it with heightened senses otherwise. We live in such a visually-focused world, it is difficult to imagine what it would be like to navigate it without being able to see. (A thought that just occurred to me: do those who are deaf have increased visual perception the way a blind person might have extraordinary hearing? I've never heard any such thing; perhaps this idea doesn't apply to the loss of the other senses.)
I don't know what it's like to be blind, and most people don't, so it would be interesting to get a unique perspective on the issue via the wide and wonderful world of film (which is, of course, what we are all about here at the Allan Day Film Column [more creative title pending]). Tomorrow, Saturday, is the first installment of a film series presented by the American Printing House for the Blind, entitled "How Hollywood Has Depicted Blindness". Each film will feature a major character who is blind, and the film will be introduced by Nancy Urbscheit, who teaches the class Disability in Film and Literature at Bellarmine. She will also lead a post-film discussion.
The first film in the series is Eyes in the Night, a 1942 noir film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Arnold. Arnold plays Mac, a blind detective with a seeing-eye dog who is asked to break up his friend's step-daughter's relationship with a much older actor. When he finds the actor dead, he is on the case, eventually uncovering a Nazi plot.
Eyes in the Night will screen tomorrow at 12:30 at the APH, located at 1839 Frankfort Avenue. Admission is free but registration is required. You can register by calling 899-2213 or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
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A tandoor (Sanskrit: कन्दु,[1] Arabic: تنور, Persian: تنور, Turkish: tandır, Urdu: تندور, Armenian: Թոնիր, Azerbaijani: təndir, Hindi: तन्दूर, Bengali: তন্দূর, Georgian: თონე, Punjabi: ਤੰਦੂਰ, Uyghur: تونۇر/tonur, Chinese: 馕坑) is a cylindrical clay or metal oven used in cooking and baking. The tandoor is used for cooking in Southern, Central and Western Asia,[2] as well as in the Caucasus.[3]
The heat for a tandoor was traditionally generated by a charcoal or wood fire, burning within the tandoor itself, thus exposing the food to live-fire, radiant heat cooking, and hot-air, convection cooking, and smoking by the fat and food juices that drip on to the charcoal.[3] Temperatures in a tandoor can approach 480 °C (900 °F), and it is common for tandoor ovens to remain lit for long periods to maintain the high cooking temperature. The tandoor design is something of a transitional form between a makeshift earth oven and the horizontal-plan masonry oven.
From ancient times till now the Tonir was worshiped by the Armenians like other sun symbols and it is known as a symbol of Sun in the ground.
Ancient Armenians made tonirs in resemblance with the setting sun "going into the ground" (Sun being the main deity). The underground, clay Tonir is one of the first tools of Armenian cuisine, as an oven and as a thermal treatment tool. Everything that is made in pots and in tonirs has Armenian origin, but only Armenians had underground tonirs. It isn't accidentally that the secret of the special taste of Armenian dishes /Kashika, Kchakhash, BBQ-Xorovats, Khorvu, Fish, Gata, Lavash/ cooked in a tonir is hidden there, where the food is made. Other nations have borrowed the Tonir from Armenians and are using it nowadays, but only Armenians are aware of the ritual meaning of the Tonir. Armenians were already using the tonir thousand years ago. In the stage of sunworshipping, the Tonir is considered to be the symbol of sun on the earth. Pagan Armenians have similared tonir with sunset. Every time Armenian women are baking bread or preparing food, they bent down before the Tonir, which also meant worship for deity.
Unlike other people, who also may have something like the Tonir to bake bread, the Armenian Tonir has been used for different purposes. The Armenians cooked meals in the Tonir, they used the Tonir to heat the house, moreover, it was perfect for medical purposes, for example, to warm and cure the sick and afficted. Obviously, the traditional tonir has a great medicinal effect. In ancient times it has been situated in the center of the house, which was symbolizing the permanent providing of sun heat in the house. They were putting "kursi" on the Tonir, were covering it with a carpet and they were putting their feet under the "kursi" in cold days. The Tonir had also a non bacterial effect, as they have used the cow's dung, as a fuel, which has been famous for its medicinal traits since ancient times.
Formerly, the Tonir hasn't only an impotant meaning in Armenian cuisine, but also in lifestyle. In traditional families the Tonir has always been identified with "home". It is no secret, that in ancient times Armenian families have lived under one single roof, where, as a rule, in the center of the large room was a Tonir. It was the base of the Armenian family, where they were not only baking bread and preparing food, but also proceeded Armenian family's life in good, old times around it. They were marrying, baptizing a child and even healing near the Tonir. The members of the family were gathering around it at dinner time, or during the parties and the rest. In the Armenian Highlands they have baked bread 3-2 milleniums before the birth of Christ. That confirms the clay ovens (tonir) and the relics of bread, which have been discovered in a variety of old places. During the excavations of Artashat city, Armenia, there have been discovered tonirs of that same period.
Though the rules of lifestyle have changed in time, the custom of baking Lavash, bread, gata and making a lot of food in a Tonir has remained unbreakable.
Smoke of tonir is continuing to stay the symbol of peace, unification and strengthening of Armenian family and home.
Since 2012 "Tonraton" – the Food Festival has been held in Armenia. On August 11, for the Navasard holiday (the old Armenian "New Year", which was dedicated to Armenian pagan gods), featuring dishes cooked in this forefather of the modern oven.
The word tonir is used in various languages like Dari words tandūr and tannūr; these are derived from very similar terms, viz. Persian tanūr (تنور), Armenian t'onir (Թոնիր), Arabic tannūr (تنّور), Hebrew (תנור) e.g. in Leviticus 2:4[4] Turkish tandır, Uzbek tandir, Azeri təndir and Kurdish tendûr. However, according to Dehkhoda Persian Dictionary, the word originates from Akkadian tinûru "tin" means mud and nuro/nura means fire, and is mentioned as early as in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgames (as reflexed by Avestan tanûra and Pahlavi tanûr). As such, tandoor may have originated from Semitic. In Sanskrit, the tandoor was referred to as kandu.
Tandoor cooked dishes[edit]
A tandoor may be used to bake many different types of flatbread. Some of the most common are Tandoori Roti, Tandoori Naan, Tandoori Laccha Paratha, Missi Roti, and Tandoori Kulcha.
Peshawari Seekh[edit]
Roasted Cashews, corn and cottage cheese paste marinated in spiced thick cream grilled in Tandoor.
Achaari Khumb ke Soole[edit]
Mushrooms marinated in pickled yoghurt and jodhpuri spices grilled in Tandoor.
Baluchi Aloo[edit]
Potatoes stuffed with cottage cheese, vegetables and cashew nuts, roasted in Tandoor.
Tandoori chicken[edit]
Tandoori chicken is a roasted chicken delicacy that originated in Punjab region of India and Pakistan.[5] In India, tandoori cooking was traditionally associated with Punjab[6] as Punjabis embraced the tandoor on a regional level[7] and became popular in the mainstream after the 1947 partition when Punjabis resettled in places such as Delhi.[2] In rural Punjab, it was common to have communal tandoors.[8] Some villages[9] still have a communal tandoor which was a common sight prior to 1947.[10]
The chicken is marinated in yogurt marinade seasoned with garam masala, garlic, ginger, cumin, cayenne pepper, and other spices depending on the recipe. In hot versions of the dish, cayenne, red chili powder, or other spices give the typical red color; in milder versions, food coloring is used.[11] Turmeric produces a yellow-orange color. It is traditionally cooked at high temperatures in an earthen oven (i.e. tandoor), but can also be prepared on a traditional grill.
Chicken tikka[edit]
Chicken tikka (Urdu: مرغ تکہ ; Hindi: मुर्ग़ टिक्का; murgh tikka) is a dish from Mughlai cuisine[12][13] made by grilling small pieces of chicken which have been marinated in spices and yogurt. It is traditionally cooked on skewers in a tandoor and is usually boneless. It is normally served and eaten with a green coriander chutney, or used in preparing the curry chicken tikka masala.
Kalmi kabab[edit]
Kalmi kabab, a popular snack in South Asian cuisine, is made by marinating chicken drumsticks and placing them in a tandoor. Various freshly ground spices are added to the yogurt to form a marinade for the chicken. Traditionally, the marinaded chicken is given 12 hours at the least. When prepared, the drumsticks are usually garnished with mint leaves and served with laccha (finely sliced half moons, with a squeeze of lemon and a pinch of salt) onions.
Samosa is a stuffed snack consisting of a fried or baked triangular, semilunar or tetrahedral pastry shell with a savory filling, which may include spiced potatoes, onions, peas, coriander, and lentils, or ground lamb or chicken. The size and shape of a samosa, as well as the consistency of the pastry used, can vary considerably. In some regions of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) samosas are typically baked in a tandoor, while they are usually fried elsewhere.
See also[edit]
- ^ "The Barbecue! Bible 10th Anniversary Edition".
- ^ a b Raichlen, Steven (2011-05-10). "A Tandoor Oven Brings India's Heat to the Backyard". The New York Times.
- ^ a b Raichlen, Steven (2011-05-10). "A Tandoori Oven brings India's heat to the backyard". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
- ^ "Leviticus 2:4".
- ^ "Metro Plus Delhi / Food : A plateful of grain". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2008-11-24. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
- ^ [1] The Rough Guide to Rajasthan, Delhi and Agra By Daniel Jacobs, Gavin Thomas
- ^ "What is Mughalai Cuisine?".
- ^ "Alop Ho Reha Punjabi Virsa Harkesh Singh Kehal".
- ^ Pind Diyan Gallian PTC Channel - Bilga (Jalandhar) has a communal Tandoor also known as tadoor in Punjabi
- ^ http://www.shvoong.com/medicine-and-health/nutrition/1866706-specialities-punjabi-cuisine/
- ^ For instance, see the recipe in Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery pp66-69
- ^ "Chicken Tikka Recipe, Recipe Of Chicken Tikka, Indian Barbecue Chicken Recipe".
- ^ http://www.khanakhazana.com/recipes/view.aspx?id=1066
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tandoor.
- Curry Club Tandoori and Tikka Dishes, Piatkus, London — ISBN 0-7499-1283-9 (1993)
- Curry Club 100 Favourite Tandoori Recipes, Piatkus, London — ISBN 07499149 & ISBN 0-7499-1741-5 (1995)
- India: Food & Cooking, New Holland, London — ISBN 978-1-84537-619-2 (2007)


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Coherence provides cache events using the JavaBean Event model. It is extremely simple to receive the events that you need, where you need them, regardless of where the changes are actually occurring in the cluster. Developers with any experience with the JavaBean model will have no difficulties working with events, even in a complex cluster.
In the JavaBeans Event model, there is an EventListener interface that all listeners must extend. Coherence provides a MapListener interface, which allows application logic to receive events when data in a Coherence cache is added, modified or removed:
An application object that implements the MapListener interface can sign up for events from any Coherence cache or class that implements the ObservableMap interface, simply by passing an instance of the application's MapListener implementation to one of the addMapListener() methods.
The MapEvent object that is passed to the MapListener carries all of the necessary information about the event that has occurred, including the source (ObservableMap) that raised the event, the identity (key) that the event is related to, what the action was against that identity (insert, update or delete), what the old value was and what the new value is:
All Coherence caches implement ObservableMap; in fact, the NamedCache interface that is implemented by all Coherence caches extends the ObservableMap interface. That means that an application can sign up to receive events from any cache, regardless of whether that cache is local, partitioned, near, replicated, using read-through, write-through, write-behind, overflow, disk storage, etc.
In addition to the Coherence caches (those objects obtained through a Coherence cache factory), several other supporting classes in Coherence also implement the ObservableMap interface:
For a full list of published implementing classes, see the Coherence JavaDoc for ObservableMap.
To sign up for events, simply pass an object that implements the MapListener interface to one of the addMapListener methods on ObservableMap:
Let's create an example MapListener implementation:
Using this implementation, it is extremely simple to print out all events from any given cache (since all caches implement the ObservableMap interface):
Of course, to be able to later remove the listener, it is necessary to hold on to a reference to the listener:
Later, to remove the listener:
Each addMapListener method on the ObservableMap interface has a corresponding removeMapListener method. To remove a listener, use the removeMapListener method that corresponds to the addMapListener method that was used to add the listener.
When creating an an inner class to use as a MapListener, or when implementing a MapListener that only listens to one or two types of events (inserts, updates or deletes), you can use the AbstractMapListener base class. For example, the following anonymous inner class prints out only the insert events for the cache:
Another helpful base class for creating a MapListener is the MultiplexingMapListener, which routes all events to a single method for handling. For example, the EventPrinter example could be simplified to:
Since only one method needs to be implemented to capture all events, the MultiplexingMapListener can also be very useful when creating an an inner class to use as a MapListener.
If the listener should always be on a particular cache, then place it into the cache configuration using the listener element and Coherence will automatically add the listener when it configures the cache.
Signing up for events that occur against specific identities (keys) is just as simple. For example, to print all events that occur against the Integer key "5":
So the following code would only trigger an event when the Integer key "5" is inserted or updated:
Similar to listening to a particular key, it is possible to listen to particular events. Consider the following example:
For more information on how to use a query filter to listen to cache events, see the section below titled Advanced: Listening to Queries.
The listener is added to the cache with a filter that allows the listener to only receive delete events. For example, if the following sequence of calls were made:
The result would be:
CacheEvent{LocalCache deleted: key=hello, value=again}
For more information, see the Advanced: Listening to Queries section below.
By default, Coherence provides both the old and the new value as part of an event. Consider the following example:
The output from running the test shows that the first event carries the 1KB inserted value, the second event carries both the replaced 1KB value and the new 2KB value, and the third event carries the removed 2KB value:
event has occurred: CacheEvent{LocalCache added: key=test, value=[B@a470b8}
(the wire-size of the event would have been 1283 bytes.)
event has occurred: CacheEvent{LocalCache updated: key=test, old value=[B@a470b8, new value=[B@1c6f579}
(the wire-size of the event would have been 3340 bytes.)
event has occurred: CacheEvent{LocalCache deleted: key=test, value=[B@1c6f579}
(the wire-size of the event would have been 2307 bytes.)
When an application does not require the old and the new value to be included in the event, it can indicate that by requesting only "lite" events. When adding a listener, you can request lite events by using one of the two addMapListener methods that takes an additional boolean fLite parameter. In the above example, the only change would be:
All Coherence caches support querying by any criteria. When an application queries for data from a cache, the result is a point-in-time snapshot, either as a set of identities ("keySet") or a set of identity/value pairs ("entrySet"). The mechanism for determining the contents of the resulting set is referred to as filtering, and it allows an application developer to construct queries of arbitrary complexity using a rich set of out-of-the-box filters (e.g. equals, less-than, like, between, etc.), or to provide their own custom filters (e.g. XPath).
The same filters that are used to query a cache can be used to listen to events from a cache. For example, in a trading system it is possible to query for all open "Order" objects for a particular trader:
To receive notifications of new trades being opened for that trader, closed by that trader or reassigned to or from another trader, the application can use the same filter:
The MapEventFilter converts a query filter into an event filter.
The MapEventFilter converts a Filter that is used to do a query into a Filter that is used to filter events for a MapListener. In other words, the MapEventFilter is constructed from a Filter that queries a cache, and the resulting MapEventFilter is a filter that evaluates MapEvent objects by converting them into the objects that a query Filter would expect.
The MapEventFilter has a number of very powerful options, allowing an application listener to receive only the events that it is specifically interested in. More importantly for scalability and performance, only the desired events have to be communicated over the network, and they are communicated only to the servers and clients that have expressed interest in those specific events! For example:
For more information on the various options supported, see the API documentation for MapEventFilter.
Events usually reflect the changes being made to a cache. For example, one server is modifying one entry in a cache while another server is adding several items to a cache while a third server is removing an item from the same cache, all while fifty threads on each and every server in the cluster is accessing data from the same cache! All the modifying actions will produce events that any server within the cluster can choose to receive. We refer to these actions as client actions, and the events as being dispatched to clients, even though the "clients" in this case are actually servers. This is a natural concept in a true peer-to-peer architecture, such as a Coherence cluster: Each and every peer is both a client and a server, both consuming services from its peers and providing services to its peers. In a typical Java Enterprise application, a "peer" is an application server instance that is acting as a container for the application, and the "client" is that part of the application that is directly accessing and modifying the caches and listening to events from the caches.
Some events originate from within a cache itself. There are many examples, but the most common cases are:
Each of these represents a modification, but the modifications represent natural (and typically automatic) operations from within a cache. These events are referred to as synthetic events.
When necessary, an application can differentiate between client-induced and synthetic events simply by asking the event if it is synthetic. This information is carried on a sub-class of the MapEvent, called CacheEvent. Using the previous EventPrinter example, it is possible to print only the synthetic events:
For more information on this feature, see the API documentation for CacheEvent.
While it is possible to listen to events from Coherence caches, each of which presents a local view of distributed, partitioned, replicated, near-cached, continuously-queried, read-through/write-through and/or write-behind data, it is also possible to peek behind the curtains, so to speak. Normally, the advice from the Wizard of Oz is sufficient:
For some advanced use cases, it may be necessary to pay attention the man behind the curtain – or more correctly, to "listen to" the "map" behind the "service". Replication, partitioning and other approaches to managing data in a distributed environment are all distribution services. The service still has to have something in which to actually manage the data, and that something is called a "backing map".
Backing maps are configurable. If all the data for a particular cache should be kept in object form on the heap, then use an unlimited and non-expiring LocalCache (or a SafeHashMap if statistics are not required). If only a small number of items should be kept in memory, use a LocalCache. If data are to be read on demand from a database, then use a ReadWriteBackingMap (which knows how to read and write through an application's DAO implementation), and in turn give the ReadWriteBackingMap a backing map such as a SafeHashMap or a LocalCache to store its data in.
Some backing maps are observable. The events coming from these backing maps are not usually of direct interest to the appication. Instead, Coherence translates them into actions that must be taken (by Coherence) to keep data in sync and properly backed up, and it also translates them when appropriate into clustered events that are delivered throughout the cluster as requested by application listeners. For example, if a partitioned cache has a LocalCache as its backing map, and the local cache expires an entry, that event causes Coherence to expire all of the backup copies of that entry. Furthermore, if any listeners have been registered on the partitioned cache, and if the event matches their event filter(s), then that event will be delivered to those listeners on the servers where those listeners were registered.
In some advanced use cases, an application needs to process events on the server where the data are being maintained, and it needs to do so on the structure (backing map) that is actually managing the data. In these cases, if the backing map is an observable map, a listener can be configured on the backing map or one can be programmatically added to the backing map. (If the backing map is not observable, it can be made observable by wrapping it in an WrapperObservableMap.)
For more information on this feature, see the API documentation for BackingMapManager.
Some events are delivered asynchronously, so that application listeners do not disrupt the cache services that are generating the events. In some rare scenarios, asynchronous delivery can cause ambiguity of the ordering of events compared to the results of ongoing operations. To guarantee that the cache API operations and the events are ordered as if the local view of the clustered system were single-threaded, a MapListener must implement the SynchronousListener marker interface.
One example in Coherence itself that uses synchronous listeners is the Near Cache, which can use events to invalidate locally cached data ("Seppuku").
For more information on this feature, see the API documentation for SynchronousListener.
Coherence provides an extremely rich event model for caches, providing the means for an application to request the specific events it requires, and the means to have those events delivered only to those parts of the application that require them.
Much better, just a reminder:
todo be explicit that the filter will be passed MapEvent objects


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Nintendo updates Wii
Nintendo has announced several changes to the Wii games console's Internet Channel, urging gamers to become more web-savvy with their Wii. Nintendo Wii Internet Channel - keyboard Wii's on-screen keyboard: not the only option now Its Wii System Update 3.1 allows the console to support USB keyboards, meaning gamers are no …
Yes But
When are they going to make it actually pleasurable to use the damn browser? Im fed up of zooming in and out to read text and see the whole page, scrolling up, down, left and right to get the entire content.
Oh and did anyone see that the browser is suitable for 1 to 4 players in the info page? What happens when 5 people try?
It has built-in bluetooth, so is there support for the Apple wireless keyboard? Better still why hasn't Nintendo released on already? Personally I'm planning on getting a MacMini to satisfy the Internet on TV fix that I don't need satisfied.
I just got my Wii in the post (now including wiimote jacket); I've yet to take it out of the box. Internet browsing is not a priority for me; playing games is.
I'd be happier if...
They fixed the bug that prevents some Virtual console games displaying incorrectly and unusably on some HD screens via Nintendo's HD component cable that's existed since the release of the console.
Unfortunately their response is that they're aware of the problem but that it's the fault of the screen manufacturers. Fault of the screen manufacturers? How? The rest of the console works fine at 480p as do countless other devices on said screens, the VC games even display correctly when you pull the Wii menu up, just not when you play them!
People may bitch at Sony and MS but Nintendo seem to be the least caring towards their customers and the least willing to resolve faults with their consoles thus far. I'd be happy if they at least refunded my Wii points seeing as the games don't actually work!
A big improvement
I'm typing this comment on my Wii via a Gyration wireless USB keyboard adnd it's working fine.
The keyboard integration could be improved in Opera as you do still need to keep switching between the keyboard and the Wiimote, but it's a hundred times better than having to type with the on-screen soft keyboard.
A welcome improvement to the Wii that makes browsing a far more practical proposition.
Internet on TV through a kludged interface designed by Wii-vil gnomes, or internet on a large-screen monitor through a device - my computer - pretty designed for the task?
Decisions, decisions.
How about games
Its been out a while how are people finding the games now I wonder are they still engaging or have they become annoying. Just because it's cheaper doesn't mean I am allowing them off the hook as far as games are concerned I remember very well their glory days and I hold them to it.
@yeah, right
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"RIP Mae Young. I'm so thankful & honored to have had the opportunity to meet her a few times."
Taryn Terrell has been hitting the gym hard since giving birth. She has been pretty open about wanting to make a return to TNA, and it looks like that could be happening soon as the Knockout left the company on very good terms.
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'House of Commons Journal Volume 10: 7 January 1693', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 10: 1688-1693 (1802), pp. 771-772. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=29282 Date accessed: 28 November 2014.
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Sabbati, 7 die Januarii; 4° Gulielmi et Mariæ.
Profanation of the Lord's Day.
Danby's Estate.
Savery's Name.
Mannock's Estate.
Leave of Absence.
Wentworth's Estate.
Severne Fishery.
Indemnity for acting in Defence of the Kingdom.
Popham's Estate.
Defaulter discharged from Custody.
Supply Bill; Land Fax.
MR. Christy, according to Order, presented to the
House a Bill for the preventing the Profanation
of the Lord's Day. And the same was received.
A Bill for the settling a Jointure on the Wife of Anthony Danby, Esquire, and for making Provision for his
Brothers and younger Children, and for Payment of his
Debts, was read the Second time.
Resolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Bathurst,
Sir Robert Cotton, Mr. Waller, Mr. Tilney, Sir Jerv. Elwes,
Sir Tho. Mompesson, Mr. Goldwell, Mr. Burdett, Mr.
Hutchinson, Mr. Fenwick, Sir Robert Edon, Sir Steph.
Fox, Mr. Freeman, Mr. Pollen, Mr. Lampton, Sir Ralph
Carr, Mr. Blofeild, Mr. Etterick, Mr. How, Mr. England,
Mr. Staynes, Sir Edward Chisnall, Mr. Christy, Sir John
Key, Mr. Wilmot, Mr. Stokes, Mr. Faux, Mr. Price,
Mr. Cooke, and all the Members that serve for the
County of York: And they are to meet this Afternoon at Four of the Clock, in the Speaker's Chamber.
A Petition of Isaack Savery, Gentleman, was read;
setting forth, That he having a good Prospect and Assurance of Advantage, by changing his Surname from
Savery to that of Seale, and to prevent all Doubts, and
praying Leave to bring in a Bill for that Purpose.
Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, according to the Prayer of the said Petition.
An ingrossed Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act
for the enabling Sir William Mannock, Baronet, to charge
his Estate, for the raising his younger Children Portions,
was read the First time.
Resolved, That the Bill be read a Second time.
Ordered, That Mr. Westerne have Leave to go into
the Country for Ten Days, upon extraordinary Occasions.
Ordered, That Sir Charles Wyndham have Leave to
go into the Country, upon extraordinary Occasions.
Sir Jonathan Jennings reported from the Committee
to whom the ingrossed Bill from the Lords, intituled,
An Act to enable Sir John Wentworth, Baronet, an
Infant under the Age of Twenty-one Years, to make
a Jointure out and Settlement of his Manors and Lands
in the Counties of York and Westmorland, was committed, That they had made several Amendments to the
Bill, which they had directed him to report to the House:
And which he read in his Place, with the Coherence;
and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk's Table: Where
the same were once read throughout; and are as followeth;
Press 1, L. 1, after "Wentworth," add "of North
Empsall in the County of York, Baronet."
L. 12, after "York," and before "and," add "and
in the County of the City of York."
In the Title, after "York," add "in the County of
the City of York."
The said Amendments were read afterwards a Second
time, one by one; and, upon the Question severally put
thereupon, agreed unto by the House.
The Bill was read the Third time.
Resolved, That the Bill do pass.
Ordered, That Sir Jonathan Jennings do carry the
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, That this House
hath agreed to the Bill, with the said Amendments: To
which Amendments this House desires their Lordships
Sir John Guise presented to the House a Bill for repealing Part of the Act made in the Thirtieth Year of
King Charles the Second, for Preservation of Fishing in
the River Severne. And the same was received.
A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Justice Gregory
and Mr. Baron Turton:
Mr. Speaker, The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled,
An Act for preventing Suits against such as acted for their
Majesties Service in the Defence of the Kingdom: To
which they desire the Concurrence of this House.
And then the Messengers withdrew.
A Message from the Lords, by Sir Miles Cook and
Sir Lacon William Child;
Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Act to enable Alexander Popham, Esquire, to
settle a Jointure upon his Wife, and to make Provision
for younger Children, upon Receipt of Twelve thousand
Pounds Portion, to be applied for Payment of his Debts;
with some Amendments: To which Amendments they
desire the Concurrence of this House.
Ordered, That Mr. Pelham, in Custody of the Serjeant at Arms, for absenting himself from his Service in
this House, be discharged out of Custody, paying his
Mr. Attorney General, according to the Order of the
Day, reported from the Committee of the whole House,
to whom the Bill for granting to their Majesties an Aid
of Four Shillings in the Pound for One Year, was committed, That they had made several Amendments: Which
he read in his Place, with the Coherence; and afterwards
delivered in at the Clerk's Table: Where the same was
read once throughout: and several of them a Second
time, one by one; and, upon the Question put thereupon, agreed unto by the House.
The Lists of Commissioners for the Counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth being read a Second time;
Ordered, That the Consideration of the said Lists be
Then a Motion being made, and the Question being
put, That the further Consideration of the said Report be
adjourned till Monday Morning next, Eleven a Clock;
The House divided.
The Yeas go forth.
So it was resolved in the Affirmative.
And then the House adjourned till Monday
Morning, Eight a Clock.
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In the field of electronics, the BLS reported the following national annual median wages in May of 2013:
- $50,510, electricians
- $52,830, automotive electrical and electronics installers and repairers
- $58,540, electrical and electronics engineering technicians
The three states with the highest number of jobs and location quotient for electricians are Wyoming, North Dakota and Alaska. Alaska is also the top-paying state for electricians, followed by New York and Illinois. For electrical installers and repairers, the states with the highest job numbers are Nebraska, Virginia and Kansas.
In 2013, Forbes.com reported on the high demand for workers in the skilled trades, including electricians. The skilled-trades workforce is aging and there are fewer trained workers available to fill those positions.
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It's hard to outsource electrical installation or repairing your building's air conditioning system. While no career path can promise job security, training at an accredited HVAC/R or electronics vocational or trade school may be a first step when deciding to pursue one of these in-demand jobs.
Electricians, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 Edition, January 8, 2014, http://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/electricians.htm
Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 Edition, January 8, 2014, http://www.bls.gov/ooh/installation-maintenance-and-repair/electrical-and-electronics-installers-and-repairers.htm
Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 Edition, January 8, 2014, http://www.bls.gov/ooh/installation-maintenance-and-repair/heating-air-conditioning-and-refrigeration-mechanics-and-installers.htm
HVAC Excellence, http://www.hvacexcellence.org/
Plumbing, Heating, Cooling Contractors of America, http://www.phccweb.org/index.cfm?ewebToken=&Site=PHCC
The Indoor Environment & Energy Efficiency Association, http://www.acca.org/education/epa/
The Partnership for Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigeration Accreditation (PAHRA), http://www.pahrahvacr.org/Content/WhatIsPAHRA_32.aspx


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What characters in movies, TV, books, ect....do you think should've been gay, lesbian, bisexual?
You know when you watch a movie or whatever and you think "oh, she was totally gay" but in the movie you never actually see her get together with a girl? The character just sets off your gaydar. Okay....maybe I'm alone on this but I think there have been a few.
A couple that I think should've been gay:
Idgie and freaking Ruth from Fried Green Tomatoes!!!!!!!!!!!!
Both in the book and movie. They were totally in love!!
Haha, you're totally queer! Ooooo...I just thought about something else. Lisa is a vegetarian.....She's sooooooooo a lesbian =D
i'm vegetarian! ...lol
Two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do!
Those two female leads in Bend it Like Beckham, Keira Knightley and whoever it was. I even heard that maybe they wrote the script originally to make it queer.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. --Anais Nin
Parminder Nagra? YESSSS!!! WINWINWIN! This NEEDS to happen, it'd be so fucking perfect. And both of these girls are gorgeous, and just... yay. Happyfodder.
Megan: "Cheers are supposed to be simple, make people feel good."
Graham: "Cheers make girls do stupid cartwheels. Orgasms make people feel good."
-But I'm a Cheerleader
I kinda like it if Kristen Stewart is a lesbian LOL But unfortunately she's not... *crying*
Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Lets see? .... FAITH from Buffy the Vampire Slayer!! There is hella Buffy/Faith subtext in the third season. And maybe Kennedy/Faith would be interesting... although they are both strongish types. And I have seen some wicked Tara/Faith fics.
Also, Anya from BTVS, she has that man hating thing going.. although her relationship with Xander was brilliant, so I wouldn't want to let that go.
Oh well, I would mention Willow/Tara and Kennedy... except that they ARE gay.
Oh yeah, and Andrew is definitely GAY for Warren... why do you think he joined the trio that was the big bad of season 6.
Oh!! And best of all, not to mention most famous (can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet... SHAME ON YOU ALL) XENA FUCKING GABRIELLE. Oh my god the most obvious thing ever... although, it was written that way for the most part. This pairing pioneered the fanfictionverse like no other. It is like the Kirk/Spock of Femslash... come on people! And you all are trying to make people in twilight gay... learn some fandom history. Xena/Gabby is the reason there are gay characters on television today..
And not to mention Buffy aired the first lesbian sex scene on network television. Historic much!!
Anyway, best freaking shows ever. and GAYEST.
Mmmm Faith <3
Megan: "Cheers are supposed to be simple, make people feel good."
Graham: "Cheers make girls do stupid cartwheels. Orgasms make people feel good."
-But I'm a Cheerleader
Esther Greenwood (The Bell Jar). She had a thing, but lesbianism ultimately repulsed her.
jeremy the crow from the secret of nimh!
he was obsesed with wanting a sparkly of his very own!~ (jewelry)
"There was never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
It's a stupid thing we say
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow"
-Gogol Bordello
Kimberly the Pink Ranger from The Power Rangers!
Go go Power Rangers!!!!!
Okay....maybe that one's just cause I used to have a crush on her when I was a kid. ;)
OMG Amy Jo Johnson! I was obsessed with power rangers. I remember being in like kindergarten and being pissed that she was the pink one because I hated pink, but I loved her. Did I dare wear that much pink on halloween? We also have the same middle name which was a big deal....You keep picking all the favs I didn't know I had!
Yes! I think I went out as her one Halloween too. And I had the Pink Ranger Gloves that, I think, made sound when you punched someone. Hey, did you ever see the episode where she had a fling with the Yellow Ranger?.....Oh, wait, that was only in my dreams ;) Hehehe.
i was her for holloween! kinder years...ah...haha
and she's in flashpoint! she's rather yummy i must say...lol
the world should be a box of lucky charms. gays and christians stuck together on a hot summer's day :)
She was and still is very pretty :) I tried to watch Flashpoint because a)it's Canadian made and b) I knew she was on it and c) the dad from Veronica mars was on it.......but it just wasn't my type of show.
The girl who plays football in Degrassi. I think her name was Jane? I haven't been keeping up with the show so I'm not sure. The very first episode she was in I thought YES! She could totally be gay. She just had that vibe and look. And yeah, Degrassi hasn't made her queer yet, that I know of. But there's still hope ;) Degrassi writers make it happen! And if you do I will return to watch the show again AND I will somewhat forgive you for kicking Alex off in such a crappy way. Peace.
she's dating Spinner...
but i don't watch it anymore b/c nearly all the characters on the new show suck since they got rid of Marco/Ellie & the rest of the old cast.
She's dating Spinner?? Nooooooooo! I din't even know that.
I haven't been watching it either for the same reason. Once most of the original cast left I stopped watching. I gave the new cast a chance but I don't like most of them. If there's nothing to watch and an episode happens to be on I try to watch it but I find it really hard to watch now.
well.. last time i watched, she was. i dunno anymore.
& yeah, i really don't like the new cast either. it also seems like they're trying really hard to get drama in this season, even if it doesn't make sense.
taylor swift....yes....
the world should be a box of lucky charms. gays and christians stuck together on a hot summer's day :)
On Doctor Who. The Doctor and The Master are so in love and practically married.
Also Abby on NCIS seems like the kind of character that could be bisexual and no one would be surprised.
but read the A. Dumbledore/ G. Grindalwald as teens scene in the seventh book with this topic in your mind and tell me that they don't sound like childhood boyfriends? ("even after spinding all day together talking, when it was late at night, i'd sometimes hear an owl at gellert's window with a letter from albus! he had a thought and had to get it to gellert right away!")
"to live a day alone, only THAT would be torture! An hour without you, only THAT would be death!" ~gomez addams
I was actually talking to my friend about that. She agrees with it, they just sound too close!
"When you can't walk you crawl, and when you can't do that you find someone to carry you" ~Firefly
I read a quote somewhere from JKR saying that Dumbledore had been in love with Grindelwald... but I can't really remember for sure.
Still, they're pretty much canon.
"'Dumbledore is gay,' she said, adding he was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, who he beat in a battle between good and bad wizards long ago." (excerpt from article)
okay, soo, i definitely thought this like subconsciously for, like, ever, but i just realized that peach (the pink sea star in finding nemo) is totally m2f trans! which earns nemo even *more* amazingness points than it already had!!
Two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do!
You know, the physicist from Angels and Demons? Okay, maybe I just have a MASSIVE crush on her, but hey.
"No I'm going to hold you anyway
And I'll do it without shaking
Yes I'll love you always
And I'll do it without aching" ~ Tegan and Sara- This is Everything
Megan: "Cheers are supposed to be simple, make people feel good."
Graham: "Cheers make girls do stupid cartwheels. Orgasms make people feel good."
-But I'm a Cheerleader
I sooooooooo wanted her to turn out to be gay. She's just awesome. And Kristen Bell. *Melt*
And I loved the episode with the lesbian cheerleader :]
anyone think the crane boys are way too in touch to be 100% straight? i mean, they like the classics, are wine connisures, expencive taste, always hang out together,a bit pompus...... why do they pretend?
"to live a day alone, only THAT would be torture! An hour without you, only THAT would be death!" ~gomez addams
Sporty Spice! Haha.
Was she not at least a little queer? I thought for a long time that Melanie C was gay but now she has a baby and a boyfriend. So...maybe not.
is "maybe!" the presence of offspring does not a straight one make.....
"to live a day alone, only THAT would be torture! An hour without you, only THAT would be death!" ~gomez addams
there is a reason Sporty Spice is the only one without a fella."
--Jules' mom, Bend It Like Beckham
Olivia and Viola (in She's The Man) should have ended up together. It was such a rip that Olivia who was totally head-over-heels for Viola (albeit while she was pretending to be Sebastian) would automatically be okay with being with the REAL Sebastian. I mean, come on! She fell in love with VIOLA! But just cause he's a guy she'd totally be into him. It's just silly. And I think Duke should've been gay or maybe just bi...I don't think he was a full blown heterosexual.
I think Olivia and Viola would be cute together. The interaction when they first bump into each other felt like sparks to me :)
Haha FUCK, now I need to watch that movie again to go subtext hunting! XDD
Megan: "Cheers are supposed to be simple, make people feel good."
Graham: "Cheers make girls do stupid cartwheels. Orgasms make people feel good."
-But I'm a Cheerleader
Considering that She's The Man was inspired by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...yeah. For one, Duke (Orsino) was completely in love with Cesario (Viola in masculine usurped attire, in the movie they called him/her Sebastian the same as her brother) even though he thought he was a boy... For another, yeah, Olivia fell for Cesario because Cesario was a girl but not obviously so, so yes, the Olivia and Sebastian relationship is doomed because Sebastian really is a man... Viola probably would have been better off with Olivia, too, but whatever... And of course Antonio (I'm not sure the movie has an equivalent character?) doesn't even try to hide his feelings for Sebastian. Stupid oblivious Sebastian.
emma watson(and her charater)
luna lovegood
the world should be a box of lucky charms. gays and christians stuck together on a hot summer's day :)
In the book version, at least, Inigo and Fezzik seem like they could be more than friends. I haven't decided about the movie version, but in the book they give off a really strong 'gay vibe'.
The Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz.
"Why is it that as a society, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"
i heard that the cowardly lion was supposed to be gay.
or, just a very stereotypical portrayal of one.
and in Wicked i think that the tin man was one of the guys Elphie went to Shiz w/, and i've heard that that character was gay.
Here's a somewhat oblique reference. However, I have serious reservations about the article --- explaining why I've not posted it more visibly:
I've always kinda seen the lion as asexual. He was an animal so I just didn't see him as any particular sexuality. Though, I guess he is basically a stereotype of a gay guy. Still, I just see him as an animal.
The tin man just exudes gayness to me. Especially with the way he talks and sounds.
Come to think of it, there's that whole "Friend of Dorthy" saying. Guess, this is why it came to be.
even though the entire movie was about her being pregnant, i totally think ellen page in juno was a complete lesbian.
from the movie Four Brothers should have been gay. I read an interview with the movie cast and Garrett Hedlund, who played Jack, said there was some ambiguity about that, but they didn't go into it. He was my favorite character.
I have to think some more about female characters I think should have been gay...


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what are you doing?
rup ah.
rup ah.
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A total catastrophe, specifically to do with plans or organised events etc. If something could have gone wrong, it probably did.
D'you see the on the news? A SWAT team tried to rescue the hostages and 20 of them died in the process, it was a real rup.
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Short nickname for Ruplinger
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To be the best at every possible thing. Inlcuding sex.
'Chuck Norris ain't got nuthin on Dawson.'
by Italian Stallion153 September 12, 2007
A very sexy, yummy boy who is usually good at sports and tall. He is funny as hell, and plays hard to get.
"Damn, Dawson is mighty fine!"
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A Dawson is a perfect person. His laugh,his smile, his voice ,his eyes. He can make you fall in love just by looking in your eyes . His amazing words can't even explain how perfect he is.
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WARNING: This story is very old so it will contain many grammar errors. I suggest reading my new work instead of my older work since my writing has changed and it has become better. If you continue to read, please do not complain on the comments about the grammar issues. This story was written a VERY long time ago. Consider yourself warned.
Ah, the sweet sound of freedom. That is the sound of the last bell ringing, last day of school! Freedom!
Everyone in the class cheered and threw their papers up in the air. Typical last day of school as seen in all the movies. The air was filled with hundreds of papers, the teacher of course didn't look all happy. She would have to clean it afterwards.
Everyone rushed out of their seats and ran towards the door, the faster you leave the better. But everyone was now stuck on the door. It's not such a good idea for everyone to go through the door at once. I gave them all a little push and just like a bar of butter they all slipped through and fell on the other side.
There were a few giggles and a few curses here and there but I happily jumped over the mess and made my way down the hall to meet my best friend, Kelly.
She was standing in front of her locker, just like she texted me she would. She was taking out the last minute things from her locker and packed them in her book bag. She smiled and waved when she saw me.
I skipped over the falling bodies of people wrestling on the floor, yeah my school is a mess. And it's even messier when it's the last day of school and everyone is trying to escape the zoo.
"Kelly!" I screamed at her.
"Jamie!" She screamed back and giggled.
Every time we saw each other we had to do this. Scream each others name. No matter where we were. Even in a church or a library. If we saw each other we had to do it. It's a best friend rule. A rule that we made up when we were ten of course.
Kelly was something stunning, she was beautiful. Long straight black hair with blonde streaks. And they were all natural! No dye, all real. She had gorgeous big brown eyes. As brown as chocolate. It was just a big puddle of chocolate. But her eyes were non-edible.
She was jamming to her ipod music. Shaking her body awkwardly which made me look around to make sure no one was looking. I laid against the lockers and watched her impatiently. She took her time.
You're probably wondering why I'm impatient. Well no reason, only that my uncle John was outside waiting for us to go to the best vacation ever. And Kelly was coming along.
The vacation is nothing like Disney World or Italy. But it's a family vacation. We're headed up into the mountains and staying at a cabin that my parents rented. It's going to be great because my cousins are coming, my big sister is coming with her friend, Uncles and aunts are coming. It's all going to be great.
And after I saw pictures of the cabin I swear I almost had a baby. It was so big and brown. I've never seen wood so beautiful as that. So I couldn't wait to see it in person. But we will never get there if Kelly doesn't stop dancing awkwardly in front of everyone.
She was driving attention now. Eyes were roaming at us and I blushed. So the only way to break the embarrassment was to dance along. I don't know what music she was listening to but by the looks of it she was dancing to pop. I'm more of a screamo or metal type of guy but pop is alright and it's fun to dance to.
"Freaks!" Someone shouted from behind me.
"Say it to my face Daniel!" Kelly stopped dancing and became a man. She acted tough and gangsta as she disappeared behind me.
"Kelly, come on." I whined and pouted at her. I wanted to leave so bad. Why were we still in school anyway?
I heard a few girl screams that came from Daniel as she beat him up with her purse. And sadly for Daniel, woman have things in their purse that are often heavier than 50 pounds. She continued to beat him then she dragged his body inside a classroom. The rest was history.
A few minutes later we started walking away from the school and into the school parking lot where I saw Uncle John leaning against his jeep. The jeep was bigger than the usual small ones. It was blue and in the back I could see our bags. As in Kelly's and mines.
"JOHN!" I ran towards him and gave him a hug. Sometimes I felt like a child but I love my family!
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|Cameron Leahy
|as Jamie
|Stephen Byrne
|as Damian
|Megan Fox
|as Kelly
|Hunter Parrish
|as Bryan
|Matt Lanter
|as Austin
|as Chicken