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Gayaka Chakravarthy Ghantasala
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Partha on said:
Thanks for the wonderful article on
Ghantasala Mastaru. One thing I read somewhere that he was inspired to learn Hindustani Classical after he attended the first performance of Ustad Bade Gulam Ali Khan at Madras in early fifties and he extended hospitality to the Ustad by offering to stay in his own house in the upstairs in spite of the fact that,being a Brahmin Ghantasala's family were strict vegitarians, whereas, Ustad saab was in the habit of eating non-veg every day and both the times. Ustad treated Mastaru as his son and affectionately addressed Savitramma garu as " Bahu" (daughter-in-law).
Veera Narasimha Raju on said:
Thank you Mr. Partha for taking your time and write about Shri Ghantasalagaru.. This incident about Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was mentioned in "Maa Maamayya Ghantasala" book by Smt.Savitri Ghantasalagru.. You can find that in Ghantasala.info website, it was published few years back in Musicologist Raja's 'Haasam' book..
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FIGURE 40-1 Vertebral body height loss and kyphosis are thought to be important indicators of PLC disruption. Vertebral body height loss can be measured anteriorly and posteriorly. Measurements of the injured vertebra (A,B) are compared to those of the suprajacent (a′ and p′) and infrajacent (a″ and p″) uninjured vertebra. The Cobb kyphosis is measured by the angle subtended between a line drawn along the superior endplate of the suprajacent uninjured vertebra (T12, dashed line) and the inferior endplate of the infrajacent uninjured vertebrae (L2, dashed line).
FIGURE 40-2 A line drawn along the posterior vertebral bodies (PVB) should normally be continuous. A break in this line indicates translational deformity, as is seen in the lateral x-ray of a lumbar dislocation.
FIGURE 40-3 The empty or "naked" facet sign is an indication of a high-energy dislocation of the thoracolumbar spine. It represents an unmatched articular process.
FIGURE 40-4 Fusiform swelling and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images suggest substantial injury to the spinal cord.
FIGURE 40-5 Holdsworth suggested that the spine should be divided into two columns. The anterior column is composed of the vertebral body, disc, and associated ligaments The posterior column is composed of the pedicles and neural arch, facet joints, and associated ligaments. Denis suggested that the spine should be divided into three columns. Whereas the posterior column remained the same, the anterior column consisted of the anterior portions of the vertebral body, disc, and ALL, and the middle column consisted of the posterior portion of the vertebral body, disc, and PLL.
FIGURE 40-6 Denis classification of compression fractures. Type A involves both endplates, type B involves the superior endplate, and type C involves the inferior endplate. In type D fractures, there is a compression fracture of the anteriovertebral body.
FIGURE 40-7 Denis classification of burst fractures. Type A involves fractures of both endplates, type B involves fractures of the superior endplate, and type C involves fractures of the inferior endplate. Type D is a combination of a type A fracture with rotation. Type E fractures exhibit lateral translation.
FIGURE 40-8 Denis classification of flexion-distraction injuries. Types A and B occur at one level, either through bone (A) or ligament (B). Type C and D occur at two levels (motion segments). Type C denotes that the middle column failed through bone. Type D denotes that the middle column failed through ligament and disc.
FIGURE 40-9 Denis classification of fracture-dislocations. Type A are bony one-level injuries. Type B are one-level ligamentous injuries. Type C injuries are two-level injuries that occur through bone and/or ligament.
FIGURE 40-10 The three major injury groups of the AO classification. Type A injuries are compressive to the anterior column only. Type B injuries involve the anterior and posterior columns by translational forces. Type C injuries involve the anterior and posterior columns by rotational forces.
FIGURE 40-11 The Load-Sharing classification of thoracolumbar burst fractures assigns points according to the degree of comminution, apposition of the fragments, and the degree of kyphosis.
FIGURE 40-12 The intervertebral disc is composed of a laminate, layered fibrous ring known as the annulus fibrosis. It surrounds a soft, gel-like center known as the nucleus pulposus.
FIGURE 40-13 Anatomical diagram of the thoracolumbar spine.
FIGURE 40-14 Canal compromise rarely occurs from displaced fractures of the posterior elements. In the axial CT scan, a large piece of fractured lamina intruded on the spinal canal of this patient who had sustained a high-energy injury to the thoracic spine.
FIGURE 40-15 AP (A) and lateral (B) x-rays of a stable compression fracture of L3. The patient was successfully treated in a brace (C).
FIGURE 40-16 Lateral x-ray (A) of a seemingly benign compression fracture of T11. Because a horizontal fracture through the pedicle was suggested, an MRI was obtained, which demonstrated a suspicion of a PLC injury on the STIR images (B) noted by increased signal intensity in the interspinous process space and on the T2-weighted images (C) by discontinuity of the ligamentum flavum. Intraoperative examination confirmed the presence of posterior ligamentous injury. The fracture was stabilized with a posterior pedicle screw construct (D,E).
FIGURE 40-17 Lateral x-ray of a short-segment construct used to stabilize an L3 burst fracture.
FIGURE 40-18 Lateral x-ray of a failed posterior pedicle screw construct used to stabilize a burst fracture with substantial height loss of the vertebral body.
FIGURE 40-19 The Kaneda device is a cross-linked rod-staple-screw construct that can be used to stabilize thoracolumbar fractures after anterior corpectomy. Note that a titanium mesh cage (filled with salvaged fractured bone and supplemented by allograft) was used to reconstruct the anterior column.
FIGURE 40-20 Lateral x-ray (A) and axial CT scan (B) of a 71-year-old woman with an incomplete neurologic injury who had sustained a burst fracture after a motor vehicle collision. Because of the relative osteopenia of the bone, posterior stabilization was undertaken after anterior corpectomy for decompression and anterior stabilization (C).
FIGURE 40-21 Axial (A) and sagittal (B) CT scan of a 47-year-old woman who had sustained a complete spinal cord injury at the T5 level. The T2 and STIR MRI images (C,D) showed gross disruption of the PLC, although there was minimal, if any, residual spinal canal compromise. The injury was stabilized by a posterior pedicle screw construct without a formal decompression (E).
FIGURE 40-22 Open reduction maneuver for kyphotic deformities using pedicle screws. After pedicle screws have been placed above and below the injury (top), a rod is precontoured to the desired shape at final correction. (Note: at the thoracolumbar junction, this is usually straight.) The rod is then locked to the screw heads above the injury and gently reduced into the screw heads below the injury (bottom).
FIGURE 40-23 Preoperative AP (A) and lateral (B) x-rays of a 19-year-old man who had sustained an L3 burst fracture and a cauda equina injury with a large retropulsed bone fragment noted on axial CT scan (C). An anterior corpectomy was performed, followed by titanium mesh (filled with salvaged autograft and allograft) reconstruction. As the PLC appeared to be intact, anterior stabilization alone (D,E) was effected using a Kaneda device.
FIGURE 40-24 Illustrations of the surgical steps for anterior corpectomy and reconstruction for a burst fracture (A). First, the comminuted bone fragments of the vertebral body are removed (B), paying special attention to take out the retropulsed bone fragment(s) from the spinal canal (black arrow). After decompression, the vertebral body staples and screws can be placed (C). A distractor can be placed directly onto the anterior screws to reduce the kyphotic deformity and allow easier placement of the interbody device (D,E). With the interbody space slightly overdistracted, a cage or strut graft can be more easily placed (F). Rods are then fixed to the screw heads (G). Gentle compression of the construct locks the cage or strut in place. Two cross-links are then applied to provide better torsional stability to the construct (H).
FIGURE 40-25 Diagram depicting the mechanism of injury of a flexion-distraction injury (also known as a Chance or seat-belt injury). Note that the fulcrum of forces lies anterior to the spine. With high energy (top), distraction occurs in both the posterior and anterior elements of the spine. With lower energy (bottom), anterior compression forces occur in concert with posterior distraction forces.
FIGURE 40-26 Classification system of flexion-distraction injuries as described by Gertzbein and Court-Brown (110).
FIGURE 40-27 Lateral x-ray (A) and axial CT scan (B) of a 48- year-old man who had sustained a flexion-distraction injury. Although the fracture could be described as a so-called burst fracture due to the involvement of the posterior vertebral body, there was not a substantial amount of height loss. A T2-weighted (C) and STIR (D) MRI clearly demonstrate the failure of the PLC. AP (E) and lateral (F) x-rays show the fracture well aligned using a posterior pedicle screw construct.
FIGURE 40-28 Lateral x-ray (A) and MRI (B) of a young man who had sustained a flexion-distraction fracture of L4. Instead of performing a fusion, the fracture was reduced and stabilized using a compressive pedicle screw and hook construct (C,D). As the construct did cross the L3–L4 motion segment, removal of the hardware was planned as a secondary procedure after fracture healing (E). (Courtesy of Richard Rooney, MD, and Behrooz Akbarnia, MD.)
FIGURE 40-29 In some flexion-distraction cases, the facet joints can be dislocated without fracture, which can make postural reduction difficult. A direct open reduction of the dislocated articular surfaces can be effected by distracting between the lamina and/or spinous processes to "unlock" the joints.
FIGURE 40-30 AP x-ray of a high-energy fracture dislocation with lateral translation. This degree of translation implies nearly complete discoligamentous disruption with instability.
FIGURE 40-31 Kyphoplasty, which utilizes an inflatable balloon tamp, can be used to restore vertebral body height and create a cavity within osteoporotic compression fractures (top). The balloon is removed, and polymethylmethacrylate cement is inserted into the void to provide stabilization (bottom).


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Under the Enhancing Financial Institution Safety and Soundness Act of 2010, included as Title III of the Reform Act, Congress scheduled the OTSs last day as a functioning regulator to be July 21, 2011, unless the Secretary of the Treasury can demonstrate a genuine need to postpone that date, in which case the date of transfer of the OTSs responsibilities can be extended until as late as Jan. 21, 2012.
Once the transfer has been accomplished, the powers and responsibilities of the OTS will be divided among other federal banking regulators:
Based on coordination and consultation among themselves and with the OTS, the Federal Reserve, the OCC and the FDIC are required to jointly submit a comprehensive plan to Congress on or before Jan. 21, 2011, covering the implementation of the transfer of the OTSs powers, personnel and property. Within 60 days of receiving the plan, the Inspectors General of the Treasury, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve must jointly provide a written report to the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, the OCC and the OTS, with a copy to Congress, detailing whether the implementation plan conforms to the provisions of Title III of the Reform Act.
Further, on or before the transfer date, the Federal Reserve, the OCC and the FDIC must publish a list of OTS regulations that they will continue to enforce. The OCC and the FDIC are required to consult with one another and coordinate in identifying the list of continuing OTS regulations.
The reform act contains provisions intended to ensure that, on the transfer date, existing OTS orders, resolutions, determinations, agreements, regulations, interpretations, guidelines, procedures and other advisory materials will continue in effect unless and until modified, terminated, set aside or superseded by action of the assuming agency. Proposed regulations of the OTS that are not effective on the transfer date will be deemed to be proposed regulations of the OCC or the Federal Reserve, as the case may be.
The Beginning of the End for the Federal Thrift Charter as Well?
Although the Senate version of the legislation had proposed eliminating not only the OTS but the federal thrift charter as well, the reform act preserves the federal thrift charter but also includes changes that may make the features of that charter less desirable and may cause many thrifts to consider converting to a bank or a state savings association charter.
For instance, although the Home Owners Loan Act will continue to govern the powers and regulation of thrifts and their holding companies, each of the agencies that will assume OTS responsibilities can be expected to interpret and enforce the HOLA in a manner that will mostly rationalize and reconcile the regulatory treatment of similarly situated depository institutions. The assuming agencies are unlikely to adopt separate regulatory regimes for the different charters they may each regulate, except to the extent such differences are required under the HOLA. As a result, savings associations should expect to receive more bank-like supervision and examination from their new federal regulators.
In addition, the cultural differences between the assuming agency and the OTS may be significant, especially in light of the fact that the OTS is being abolished, at least in large part, for its perceived role in contributing to a failure of supervision that led to dramatic losses. In that regard, although OTS personnel are to be assigned new roles with the assuming agencies, because of the more stringent supervision that thrifts are likely to receive, favorable institutional relationships and specialized knowledge of the challenges of housing finance are likely to diminish with the passage of the OTS. Moreover, the perceived benefits that thrifts and their holding companies previously enjoyed by being regulated by one agency at the holding company and the insured subsidiary levels will also soon be gone.
Further, other perceived advantages of the federal thrift charter have been the subject of legislative change. As an example, the reform act retains the qualified thrift lender test but increases the risks and consequences associated with a failure to comply. Although the noncompliant thrift would no longer be required to convert to a bank, it would become subject to national bank activities limitations and national bank branching restrictions. However, since the reform act also liberalizes opportunities for de novo branching by national banks, this latter restriction is now of less significance (See Banking Law, July 1, 2010; www.manatt.com/news.aspx?id=11894).
More importantly, the noncompliant thrift would be prohibited from paying any dividend unless the dividend would be permitted for a national bank, would be necessary to meet the obligations of the parent holding company, and only with the prior approval by the OCC and the FRB on application submitted at least 30 days in advance of the proposed payment. Finally, under the reform act, a failure to comply with the QTL test will be a violation of Section 5 of the HOLA, causing the thrift to be vulnerable to enforcement action.
The act also codifies the Federal Reserves source of strength doctrine that historically applied to bank holding companies and directs the agency to adopt regulations on or before July 21, 2011, to make sure that any company, including a savings and loan holding company, that controls an insured depository institution must serve as a source of financial strength for that depository institution subsidiary by possessing sufficient capital to ensure that it has the ability... to provide financial assistance to such insured depository institution in the event of the financial distress....
Finally, federal thrifts (and national banks) have historically enjoyed the benefits of broad preemption of state laws, but under Title X, state consumer protection laws will not be preempted except in cases where state law is inconsistent with federal measures, and then only to the extent of the inconsistency. Title X also permits state attorneys general to bring civil actions to enforce the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 or the regulations issued thereunder.
Alternatives for Federal Thrifts Going Forward
If the benefits of being a federal thrift have become fewer, and the burdens have become greater, then what alternatives are available going forward? It would not be wrong to suggest that, although Congress did not choose to abolish the federal thrift charter, the reform act certainly made it less attractive, a consequence that begs the question of whether a federal thrift is better off converting to a bank or state savings association charter.
Under the act, a thrift that converts to a bank is permitted to retain its branches and to establish additional branches within states where it operated a branch prior to becoming a bank to the same extent permitted to state-chartered banks in such states by applicable state law.
However, to eliminate forum shopping as a way of finding more lenient regulation, the reform act generally precludes conversions between federal and state charters whenever the converting institution is subject to an enforcement order concerning a matter of significant supervisory concern. The prohibition, however, does not apply if the agency that issued the enforcement order agrees to a conversion plan that addresses the supervisory matters in a manner that is consistent with the safe and sound operation of the converting institution, and the resulting regulator agrees to implement the plan.
In light of the more stringent supervisory culture that federal thrifts can expect to see going forward from their new federal bank regulators, the increased risks associated with noncompliance under the QTL test, the enhanced source of strength obligations to be imposed on savings and loan holding companies, the reduced federal preemption of state consumer financial protection laws, and other consequences to the federal thrift charter it would be prudent for the board of directors of a federal thrift and its holding company to evaluate whether a federal thrift charter remains the best choice in the future given their specific circumstances and unique needs.
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LOS ANGELES, July 25, 2013 — July 19 marked the 50th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. The commemoration of this powerful and world-changing oratory was co-opted for two reasons. One was President Obama's impromptu ramblings on race a week after the Zimmerman acquittal. The other reason was the marches across 100 cities to protest that same verdict, and to put pressure on the Department of Justice to lodge civil rights charges against George Zimmerman.
So how effective were the protests? If news coverage is any indication, not very. National papers like the New York Times and the international press, such as the Guardian, U.K. Daily Mail and Al Jazeera, gave some coverage, which listed the number of participants anywhere from hundreds to thousands. Jay Z and Beyonce made a surprise appearance at the New York protest, while Al Sharpton boasted about organizing 100 cities, saying, "this is not just a moment, but a movement."
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America was anything but moved. Come Monday, they went right back to Royal Baby Watch and Weinergate II. Despite glowing commentary from the media and a few others, President Obama failed to nudge the needle of public opinion in his favor. New polls show his approval rating at an abysmal 41 percent, and PBS commentator Tavis Smiley dubbed the speech as "weak as pre-sweetened Kool-Aid" on Sunday's Meet the Press.
If the Zimmerman verdict showed us anything, it is that so-called black leaders no longer hold any sway in public policy or debate. They are spitting in the wind and telling us that it is raining.
This brings the relevance of black leadership into sharp relief. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson used to command news cameras, people and dollars. No longer. No one is paying attention, save for the usual complainers, the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus. Like our first black president, these people and organizations are empty symbols, lacking in weight or any real power to affect significant change.
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These so-called leaders get an Epic Fail in confronting the true issues that plague certain sectors of the black community. Black-on-black crime, out-of-wedlock births and poverty that works toward the destruction of inner-city blacks is largely ignored by these so-called leaders because they do not involve big paychecks or television cameras.
The south side of Chicago is one of the most dangerous areas of the city with the majority of victims disproportionately black. The latest incident over the weekend in the Roseland neighborhood involved the shooting of a 52-year-old woman and a 6-year-old girl, who caught in the crossfire of two black teenagers shooting at each other.
The little girl is in critical condition and clinging to life. The woman is in stable condition. But this is just one among many incidents that happen every day in Chicago's neighborhoods and in similar neighborhoods across the country. So far, there have been no protests or marches organized to see an end to this violence.
No speeches by the so-called black leaders demanding justice for the murdered innocents. But a not-guilty verdict for a hispanic man who shot a black teenager in self-defense makes these so-called leaders stir up a hornet's nest, demanding the power of the government be brought to bear on the people's behalf—or so they say.
Therein lies the problem. Government has not been, and never will be, the solution. President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society initiatives are partly to blame for the generational destruction we now see in the black community, yet these so-called leaders continue to use government handouts and controls to keep blacks dependent on a failing and unsustainable system, and on them.
That house of cards appears to be falling now. If a new crop of leaders were allowed to rise, the black community will be the better for it. That some in the younger generation are waking up to the agenda peddled by the so-called leadership and are questioning their motives is a ray of hope within a bleak landscape.
Above that, these young leaders are doing something the old school leaders have not done in years. They are positing solutions, rather than crying for government intervention or enacting legislation that will go nowhere. Sonny Johnson of Politichicks.tv did a panel on young black men talking about the subject of black leadership and what the new school of Black leaders should embody.
Marvin D. Rogers, author of Silence Makes the Loudest Sound, Kevin Daniels, president of the Frederick Douglass Foundation of North Carolina, and radio host Pudgy Miller offered solutions that involved promoting education, building and developing new leaders, and refocusing on family — particularly the return of the two parent family. Sonny began and ended the panel by saying, "the battle has changed, and the leadership needs to change along with it."
Amen to that.
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Lines formed early Monday across the Mississippi River Bridge in Delta, La., for a chance to win a record $425 million Powerball jackpot.
Many of those in line to buy tickets were Mississippi residents who crossed the border to Louisiana because the Magnolia State does not have the lottery.
Lottery officials said nobody has won Saturday's Powerball drawing, which was estimated at $325 million before the numbers were picked. That was the fourth-largest jackpot in the game's history. Wednesday's drawing will be the largest jackpot ever for the game.
The previous top Powerball prize was $365 million, won in 2006 by ConAgra Foods Workers in Lincoln, Neb.
The Powerball numbers for Saturday were 22-32-37-44-50, and the Powerball was 34.
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Somehow, against all odds, there is still a lot to be said about the complications of romantic love. That shouldn't really be the case. So much has already been said about it! It's a topic that people have been talking about forever, and most things have been said over and over and over to death. And yet, here we are, in the year 2010, as hungry as ever for a discussion of what it all MEANS. Romantic relationships form a perfect venn diagram between the universal and the deeply personal. Everything about them is so well-worn, so fully discovered, and yet the minutiae is so deeply subjective that a million years later everyone still experiences everything for the first time. That's what gives them the confidence to think they actually have something to add to the conversation. "But this happened to me!" And the situation of romantic love/desire/dissolution/etc is so overwhelming and bizarrely lonely even in the heady thick of it that the insatiable need for someone to relieve you of the burden of having to muddle through makes the potential audience for new product almost infinite. "If that happened to you what does it mean for me?! And also: HELP ME!" Of course, in the end, everyone is eventually left alone to stew with their Human Emotions, which continue, despite the advances in CGI technology and smartphones, to be mostly impervious to the influence of "art." Which leaves us still hungry for more. And thus the cycle continues. The same poop back and forth forever.
Of course, Couples Retreat has nothing to do with any of that. It's just a fucking paid vacation for Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau.
Couples Retreat is about four couples in varying stages of marriage and divorce. There's Vince Vaughn and Malin Ackerman, who seem pretty happily married, but perhaps a little complacent. Then there is Faizon Love, whose wife left him, and who is buying motorcycles and dating 20 year olds. Jon Favreau and Kristin Davis got married right after high school because of a pregnancy, and are just counting down the days until their daughter moves away to college so that they can break up. And then there is Jason Bateman and his completely improbable wife Kristen Bell (nope), who interrupt a child's birthday party to tell everyone that they are considering getting divorced but want to make one last effort to keep things together by going on a tropical vacation to a resort called Eden. The thing is, they can't afford to go on their own, but they've found a good group rate and want EVERYONE TO COME WITH THEM. Sure. Normal friend stuff. You know how your friends are always demanding that you drop everything and accompany them on a last minute tropical vacation in order to help them save their marriage? Anyway, everyone goes, obviously, only to realize they got hoodwinked! This isn't a tropical paradise, it's a tropical HELLIDISE! You see, unbeknownst to everyone, they have all signed on to a strictly scheduled regimen of daily therapy and yoga. What?! But what about BOOGIE BOARDING?! What follows is about 45 minutes of the laziest therapy and yoga jokes the world has ever seen (and that is saying something, because the world was built on lazy therapy and yoga jokes). Eventually, it really looks like everyone hates each other and all the relationships are falling apart. Then, all of a sudden, they don't. In fact, everyone's marriage is now stronger than ever. (To give you a sense of just how awesome things work out for everyone, Faizon Love's ex-wife, who is not even in the movie for the first hour and a half, shows up OUT OF NOWHERE at a dance party on the island, and asks him to take her back. Marriage is compromise, indeed!)
Oh good grief.
When the trailers for this movie came out, it seemed obvious that this was just a Hollywood-subsidized vacation for the cast. These things happen from time to time: everyone goes all expenses paid to Hawaii for two months and is paid handsomely for the privilege. (If anyone ever tells you that acting is hard work, punch them in the face PRO BONO.) But it's insane just how unapologetic the movie is about that fact*. Jon Favreau wrote the script and Vince Vaughn produced it? PERFECT! They did not even bother adding the smokescreen of pretending like they'd been hired on a film and had to go where the work was. "We definitely planned this whole thing from the very beginning." Now, I still do not understand what a movie producer does (I think it has to do with Bluetooth and being an asshole) but I do have a decent sense of what writing a movie entails, and to say this particular script was phoned in would be an insult to phones.
There's an extended sequence in the movie where everyone tours the resort and admires the luxurious accommodations. I suppose the point of this, if you're being VERY generous, is to raise the stakes on how disappointing this trip is going to turn out when they discover they have to do YOGA on a BEAUTIFUL BEACH, but it's one of those situations where it's just like, wait, hold up, am I supposed to be excited for these fictional characters (being played by well-paid actors) because they're in an awesome hotel? Cool. Super pumped for you make believe guys. A room on stilts in the middle of the ocean with a glass-floor so you can see the fish? Neat. So happy for you guys. I wish this movie was forever-long!
It goes without saying that jokes about couples therapy and yoga and Speedo bathing suits are so tired that you're constantly having to carry them back to their room and tuck them in. It's 2010 and we are all adults here. Couples therapy is really important for some people! And yoga is a perfectly reasonable way to get exercise. Speedo bathing suits can be funny sometimes, I guess, but write a funny Twitter about it and move on, don't make a fucking movie out of your juvenile snickers. Complicating things is the fact that at the end of the movie, everyone seems to realize that the intensive therapeutic regimen seems to have worked. So…is couples therapy still boring and lame, or is it incredibly valuable in reviving people's commitments to each other? There is nothing more annoying than having to do the work of trying to figure out what a movie's point is when you know the movie itself doesn't give a shit. So let's just move on.
Lame jokes aside (although if you do leave the lame jokes aside there is basically just thirty seconds of Vince Vaughn driving a car in the snow or something) the ending of the movie is actually insulting. I don't ask much from my hackneyed paid-vacation projects, but would it have been so hard to have ONE couple break up? You clearly have no regard for the audience's intelligence or ability to find humor in anything more subtle than Faizon Love having to pull his dick out in front of all his friends (for no reason, and for no laughs) (there's also a scene where Jon Favreau is going to masturbate but is interrupted by room serivce LOLOL) but you could at least have the decency to make an adult comedy (?) for adults (?) that takes place on a planet RESEMBLING Earth. It just is not possible that four couples, one of whom is already straight up divorced, and two of which are on the verge of divorce, to all come out of a week long vacation still together and stronger than ever. We live in a post
9/11 Temptation Island world now. It would be one thing, perhaps, if you just wanted these couples to work it out so much because they were all so perfect for each other, but that's not even the case. In fact, many of them are very bad for each other! They should totally get divorced! Oh phew. These miserable couples succumbed to the irreality of a luxury tropical resort and decided to perpetuate their misery for a few more months until the effect of the sunshine's vitamin D wears off and they just straight up stab each other's faces off with dinner knives.
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*One complicating factor in the "this movie is just a paid vacation for the cast" argument are the numerous scenes featuring some of the worst green-screen I have ever seen. As if it really matters, though. I mean, we can all agree that fuck this movie, right?
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Ian | Posted on Oct 25th, 2010 +46
You didn't even get to the part where Vince Vaughn works for Guitar Hero, of course, and uses Guitar Hero to save his marriage I think
Isn't Vince Vaughn gay or something? I thought I read somewhere that the protest groups were mad at him for it
No, Steve. Electric cars are gay.
I think saying this are gay is gay?
*things… not this.
My life is Twi–forget it, I'm going home. It was good run today Briadru4, you did your best!
I knew what you meant. Sistah's got yer back (and upvote).
Saying you "got" someone's "back" is hella gay because it = anal sex pleasure
the guy on the left is holding a dildo which is as gay as the bumping and the grinding in the speedos and the rubbing the lotion all over your body ohhhhh" – New York's next governor Paladino or whatever his name is
Yes, I'm gay Steve. And I think you're pretty.
There are rumors.
Remember when this movie hated black people. Me too.
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To be fair, I think celebrities have sort of a skewed idea of marriage because celebrity marriages are always so endlessly happy.
Gross! Thanks cakeordeath! Yay!
For the record, I will watch her in almost anything. One day on youtube I watched all her appearances on Craig Ferguson's show chronologically. That was at the peak of my Veronica Mars viewing schedule.
she was on deadwood but she was WAY too young, no chris hansen-o
Yeah, I watched all 3 seasons of Deadwood after I wrapped up Veronica Mars, and I lit up when i saw her, then I got sad because, you know, some things kind of happen to her. A bit.
I bet you freeze framed those torture scenes you sicko. I'm calling Chris Hansen
Well I'm calling SWEGEN! You made me do it!
I just finished Season 2. Many people tell me to avoid Season 3 at all costs, but obviously 1 and 2 were so good! I need help! I've been through this once before with Buffy Season 7 and I walked right into the trap.
Please advise.
I didn't mind watching it. Just don't go in with unreasonably high expectations because it's easily the weakest of the three seasons
And come on, Buffy Season 7 may be among the worst seasons, but aren't you still glad you watched just to know what the hell happened? It also seems better the older you are.
Weevil actually had a weird disease that made him all red and bloated. It's sad cause everyone thought he was on drugs or something. I mean he was on drugs, but they were given to him by a doctor.
season 3 does have the worst version of that dandy warhol's song.
Also, remember when she was in Party Down and how awesome that was?
Ian | Posted on Oct 25th, 2010 +16
Both those shows did come from the lead singer of Matchbox 20
i too will watch anything she is in based on my love for veronica mars.
someone on facebook started a group trying to get a veronica mars movie… all you veronica mars loving monsters should join up!
I'm pretty sure I could get Ken Jeong to show up in a home video of my daughter's ballet recital if I just asked.
Jeb | Posted on Oct 25th, 2010 +28
OK, in Videogumese, Fair Enough. But Ken Jeong is making the most of his success. Let's see … cancer-ridden wife married to broke actor. Fun scenario! I'd say he has a lifetime pass to work hard and make as much money as he can in any old shitty movie before he's yesterday's news. I almost cried during his MTV award acceptance.
ahhh! i had no idea about all that. that's what i get for missing the mtv movie awards.
also, his wife as adorable.
money baby, money.
who kicked you out of the movie theater?
Thanks for asking, Steve. It was the "manager" of the theater — who looked like large manchild with a constellation of acne — if I remember correctly. He definitely drove a Dodge Stratus.
That excessive amount of detail sounds like the unnecessarily turgid elaborations of a bad liar. Your story doesn't strike me as a full verity.
didnt catch the SNL dodge stratus reference because I'm way too cool to watch SNL, too busy partyin' down in my fun and free wheelin' lifestyle bro – PSYCHE! The circle is now complete. Now I am the liar
Is Jean Reno the yoga instructor? Because if it is, I think that's just how his accent is. He may have been playing it up, but he is Spanish/ French as a mothafucka.
That is an awesome story. You were martyred that day.
You are the most Larry David ever.
*slow clap*
You got kicked out of a theater for screaming "Oh, FUCK ME!" while you were sitting with your girlfriend and her parents? I don't care what the movie is, that's pretty classless, bro.
whats worse is he made the whole thing up
teacherman has never seen Couples Retreat.
Teacherman generally has the good sense to go along with what his lady's parents want to do and be nice about it. He can complain about it at home.
"We're married." –married monsters.
WARNING: Friday Parents may appear more normal onscreen than they are in real life.
Hold on a minute. Baby Friday and Teacherman are married in real life? Do you ever sit across from each other and post comments simultaneously? My mind is blown.
I'm upvoting you right now, while Baby Friday sits on the couch next to me. How's your mind?
Upvotes to infinity and beyond!
This doesn't give me much hope for my inner-city Detroit-set bleak ensemble domestic drama featuring hard-working, struggling actors in the roles of wives with disproportionately hot husbands who never experience gay panic.
I see your Jon Favreau and raise you a Tyler Perry.
All I need to know about romance I learned from Vince Vaughn movies.
Which is why, as a woman, I know I'm not pretty enough to date anything above gorilla-level on the evolutionary tree, and I should be happy that I can even get that.
And I will be limited to one female friend, who will be a shrill harpy.
True, but that friend will almost always be drunk, which would be great, except she's a mean drunk.
Alternatively, I can have a male friend, but he has to be gay and bitchy all the time.
Well, your wise and hilarious husband will hate your friend either way. Maybe you should ditch the friend and instead focus on either learning to have better hot tub sex or making killer dip.
I'll have plenty of time to do that now that I've quit my job as an interior decorator/ fashion designer/ art gallery curator/ kindergarten teacher!
I feel ya. I trained to be a lawyer, but I'm gave that up to get married. But my husband's a city tour guide, so it made sense for him to focus on his career.
That's so funny! My husband was a snack food tester, until he decided to go into video game testing full time.
Youse gals' husbands sound pretty bad-ass.
They are, KajusX! Would you like to come over to our house and play pool, or poker? Or you guys could go to the bar our husbands' friend owns. He's not married, though, so he's always getting them into trouble! Tee hee.
And of course, we know someone who we'd be happy to set you up with. She's got crazy eyes, but she's also a nympho. You'll love her!
Sounds like a double-blast of fun! I think I'll fit in nicely, what with me being a make-my-own-rules underdog-type with my very own Western-themed comedy show!
And when he acts like a petulant child or insists on living out adolescent manboy fantasies you'd better take it with a smile otherwise you are a ball-busting bitch.
I would like to nominate itsahotdog! to continue to nominate werttrew to nominate a movie.
I nominate Marie Antoinette for Werttrew's consideration for nomination.
I liked that movie! But I feel like I might be in the minority on that.
Yay, B! We can watch it at the slumber party.
Briadru4, Baby Friday, I agree with you on most things, but I just can't get behind this. A far-too-long portion of that movie was a montage of frolicking with lambs. Literally.
Nice lighting and Jason Schwartzman cannot alone make a movie.
Um. Cindi, I like you, but did you read that last sentence you just wrote?
Very excite (TOPICAL) for next week. One of the more interesting things about (500) Days Of Summer was how people reacted to the so-called "inversion" of the standard romantic comedy formula.
Also, still nominating The Sweetest Thing.
I realize I said "two worst parts" but then kept going. Because there are more worst parts about that movie.
Just don't go east of Main Street, and you'll be fine.
Hil | Posted on Oct 25th, 2010 +32
I totally agree with you about numbers 1 and 2, although the movie redeemed itself for me in so many ways with the "Expectations vs. Reality" sequence. I thought that was so clever! Also, Joseph Gordon Levitt is totally cute, so it has that going for it.
i second the "expectations vs. reality" sequence. very annie hall.
I will agree that was a charming sequence, but it's not exactly an original gag. I bet the writers of "How I Met Your Mother" are cutting a bit like that right now because it's too unoriginal.
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fozzy the chair = fozzy the asshole
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Was Zooey pained as a villain? Its been so long I dont remember. Seemed like it was all in ugly metero indian looking boy (joseph gordeon livet sp?)'s head the whole time
plus Zooey is pretty
You guys! Am I coming off like an asshole with all this dislike for (500) Days of Summer? Sorry! I love all ya'll monsters, I don't want to hurt feelings. It's like my this movie is my Hyde potion:
Foz, you can like whatever you like (and dislike whatever you don't). I always thought that movie looked a little twee myself.
Baby Friday? More like Best Friday. Am I right guys?
you know, you can shit on (500) days of summer all you want, but the part where JGL winks at his reflection that's actually han solo is pretty genius.
This is gonna be the first movie in the WMOAT that I actually liked.
I always wondered if Selma Blair actually read the script before agreeing to do that movie.
Couples: Retreat!
(I'm getting into punctuation)
Oh Gabe, when will you learn: Don't need money, don't need fame, don't need need no credit card to ride this train
"(Not) Workin' For a Livin'" is gonna be a tight jam. So is "I Want a New Drug (My Last One is the Subject of a Class Action Lawsuit)", "Hip To Be FourSquare", and "Bad is Bad (Like This Economy)".
"Finally Found a (Retirement) Home"
This movie looks great!
Is it impossible for anyone else to tell that that shot uses a green screen? I really can't tell, and i've looked at it like two times already.
Tron. Eets no so good.
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"one Stranger Than Fiction please" -something I will never make the mistake of saying ever again
forgive me if it's already been covered, but for the love of all that is holy, GRAN TORINO.
Oh no! I would watch it for you, COD. I like Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn and Ben Stiller–does that count? I just really hate Ryder and Hawke that much. No way they get names that cool, by the way.
Great nomination.
The Saint (Val Kilmer)
Spread (Ashton Kutcher)
Hollow Man (Kevin Bacon & Sausage)
OMG, I just did a VGum search to see if Hollow Man had been watched or whatever, and I found this old post about LOST season 5 casting. It's a hilarious article, and I scrolled down to check out the comments, of which there was one, which was also hilarious- http://videogum.com/13321/spoiler_alert_who_should_play/casting-calls/
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Would I be remiss in recommending The Princess and the Frog? I know Gabe typically steers away from kid's movies, but this is a Disney movie and back to the original animation, and I feel like those are supposed to be classics for the whole family that we love and treasure forever. I was really hopeful because the animation looked good and the first African American "Princess" and all. . .but it was SO bad beyond any expectations. It's like it simultaneously was really worried about not being racist and then is the most racist ever. And I can't remember the last time I watched such bad storytelling with such soulless, blank characters. The movie's penultimate line has to do with frog mucus.
I'm so happy (I first wrote 'I'm sorry happy' – a conflicted emotion) that (500) Days of Summer will be reviewed next week! That movie was just so pleased with itself I wanted to punch it.
Can I submit a movie for the Hunt? Remember Me – has this been done? I wouldn't be surprised if it has been done because it is the worst.
I must have always thought that Faizon Love was Donald Faison from Clueless because I was really confused by that picture. He didn't look anything like Murray!
At least Peter Serafinowicz TRIED to be funny.
Oh man, The Bachelor was terrible. I had completely forgotten about it – now all I can think of is Chris O'Donnell and his man friends running in front of a blue screen of stampeding horses.
Another reason to hate Virtuosity:
starts at 0:28.
I think you should do 8 mile. It is just a wonderfully horrible film.
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Sorry to disagree. Way too many babes-in-bikini moments for it to be the "worst" movie of alltime…
I nominate Wolf Man because it sux butts.
I nominate Warlock, which basically ended Julian Sands career as a budding A-lister.
I know In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale is a real winner.
the hunt will be over if you watch "The Room."
Vince Vaughn movies are so straight. Not "heterosexual straight", but "Psycho Remake straight."
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I had to use two different kernels to cover about 25 types of PC with FOG, with WDS there was one batch of particularly shoddy PCs that would crash in WinPE and when it doesn't work you don't have any options. WDS + MDT will do a lot of the hard work with Windows 7 Sysprep though, and also do dynamic driver injection. Someone recently posted some code on the FOG forum to do something similar with drivers but the Windows side will be more fiddly with FOG as you'll have to manage your own Sysprep process.
I would read up on Windows 7 Sysprep and decide from there if you want to manage this yourself or get some tools to help you out.
Fog driver setup is pretty simple - nearly all drivers can be installed using silent installers via the snap-ins capability of Fog. If they don't have a silent install for a particular driver, you can create your own with the driver inf file and related files, and a script calling dpinst.exe.
Takes a couple of minutes to do the latter, seconds to do the prior.
you can fire out fat images with all your software preinstalled with mdt/wds it just required an extra step or 2 (bacically the same as creating any image) install on test pc setup how you want, if using wds only sysprep and pull to server as a deploy image if using mdt use the scripts in \\server\deploymentshare$ and pull that image to the server and create a task that fires the image back out and injects drivers on new pcs as needed. Fat images are really no harder in mdt/wds than say ghost
is there an idiot gudie that i can follow for WDS please? im slowly trying to get my head around it. but not really working..
http://www.edugeek.net/forums/o-s-de...ete-guide.html which is very useful .. :)
Thanks for that.
Also we are running Vlans. The server on a different address than the client. Is ther some i need to change in DCHP on each server??
How do the clients normally get their IP addresses? As it should work pretty much the same way, just making sure that your listen on / don't listen on the relevant ports .. however, I've never done it that way, so I'm just theorising here .. :)
They get them all by DHCP. Is there not something i need to put in the server options of DHCP?
sted said, if they're on the same box set the options, if not, don't.
I have my DHCP and WDS on separate servers (the WDS runs on our old "retired" server so that I can work on it, reboot it, to my hearts content when trouble shooting for it whilst the other 2 servers look after the network as is) and it works fine. I guess all should be the same for yours. My advice, set it all up and see if you can get it PXE Booting. If not, start troubleshooting from there.
Ok. im getting somewhere now.
If i plug a laptop in to the network from the same subnet it works.
But get this error when i try to allow it.
"the name provided is not a properly formed account name"
Just need to work all the silly stuff out now.
I would go with WDS, If you use multiple vlans you need to add the helpers to DHCP options 66 the host name of your deployment server and 67 points to the correct file location for example boot\x86\wdsnbp.com
The main issue with WDS are getting the correct nic driver for the boot image(basic windows 7 setup). also people get confused that you need a boot image for x64 and 32bit depending on what hardware version you are deploying but you import this off your windows 7 disks into WDS as the boot image is just the basic windows 7 install off the windows 7 disk with the drivers injected into it. The drivers then need injecting into the boot image. (The driver cache for windows 7 is pretty good and will find a lot of hardware)
The most successful image creation is done if you boot the PC that you want to use as your master image into WinPE from a WinPE dvd and then use the built in imagex to create the wim. (This can take a while)
imagex /capture D: D:\Win7ULT.wim "windows 7 ultimate x64"
(Sometimes windows PE will use a different drive letter i.e. c or d so if the imagex command is not recognised change drive letter)
Then import the wim file you have just created into WDS for deployment (install images)right click in WDS on the install images folder install and point it at the wim file to import
This method works every time as long as you have the correct drivers in the boot image on the WDS server.
If you get a batch of new PCs in you can simply add the new drives to the boot image in WDS and deploy your standard image no messing creating another image etc
If you deploy a KMS server on site that will register you windows 7 clients and office 2010 (if you do the separate install to enable the office registration)
Once its setup correctly you basically just press f12 f12 and select your image and walk away. You could easily deploy a school with 700 PC's with a new image in a week as long as your backbone is quick enough.


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Felonies in Florida have varied statutes of limitations, from none in the case of capital felonies, to up to two years in the case of misconduct in public office. If the criminal suspect is outside the state, majority of the states suspend running the statute of limitations felony during that period. Contrary to this, Florida extends the statute only up to three years.
Capital Felonies in Florida:
A crime can be considered a capital felony if the criminal defendant kills some one. There is no statute of limitations for capital felonies, be it a prosecution seeking life imprisonment or a prosecution seeking the death penalty.
Perjury Exception:
Statute of limitations for perjury is established based on whether the criminal statutes consider the perjury as a misdemeanor or felony. However, there is no statute of limitations if the perjury is committed in an official proceeding, involving a capital offense.
First Degree and Second Degree Felonies:
Usually the statute of limitations for felonies of first and second degrees is three years, from the date on which the crime was committed. Additionally, the statute of limitations is up to five years in the case of first and second felonies, which include abuse and neglect to aged or disabled persons.
Statute of Limitations for Other Felonies:
- The statute of limitations is five years in the case of violation of a securities transaction.
- The statute of limitations is five years in the case of violation of environmental control, starting from the date of discovery.
- The statute of limitations is three years for offenses involving fraud or breach of fiduciary obligation.
- If the offense is one of the above crimes, or if it misconduct in public office, within 2 years of leaving public office, then the statute of limitations will either be for that crime or for whichever is greater.
- Sexual offenses are also treated as proportional to the degrees of felony as above. However, if the victim is below 18 years of age, then the statute of limitations begins either when the offense is reported, or after the age of 16 years is reached, whichever comes earlier.
Suspension of Statute Of Limitations Felony:
The state of limitations is suspended up to three years if the criminal suspect is either out of the state, or if he is within the state, but does not have a reasonable work or residence.
These are some aspects regarding statute of limitations for various felonies in the state of Florida.Google+


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Griff (7th November 2013)
WooHoo. Got my tee today. Also thought I'd got an i3 processor too but turned out to be a giant gobstopper in an i3 box.
Last edited by bladedanny; 8th November 2013 at 09:04 AM.
StevieM (8th November 2013), VeryPC_Colin_M (8th November 2013)
I hadn't opened the i3 box, as I thought it may have been put in by mistake. I was going to email VeryPC today to ask them if they realised they'd sent it. Hahahahahahahaha (Still genuine!)
Quite disturbing how they managed to get it inside an Intel Factory Sealed box.
Shhh. Let's keep it to ourselves, though and don't spoil the surprise for the others.
VeryPC_Colin_M (8th November 2013), VeryPC_Tom_B (8th November 2013)
Awww man not got anything yet
Mine arrived!!! Alien Power is being set up to protect the office from all forms of evil wrong doers.
Glad I checked back here though, was about to throw the box away and then after reading I checked ready to have an indignant rage at not having an i3 box of my own. Yay it was hiding in the corner
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where are my sweets? oh wait..didnt win anything dank
VeryPC (8th November 2013)
Yay just arrived \o/
Thanks guys! And on my birthday as well!
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Stocktobians, this is how far Big Al's got with his gobstopper since the 1st of October...
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You say: "Po-tay-to" I say: "Po-ta-to" Liberty is so close I can almost taste it.Submitted by papershop on Fri, 08/17/2012 - 01:25
You say: "Po-tay-to"
I say: "Po-ta-to"
You say: I like RP and don't much like Romney but he's the nominee.
I say: I like RP and don't much like Romney and he's not yet the nominee.
I sound ridiculous, I know.
Except for:
- the fact that Harding won with only 12% of the votes going into his convention
- the lawyers may have won the case (news trickling out) for ALL delegates to be unbound and vote their conscience
- and that we both agree that they too probably like Dr Paul's positions and don't much like Romney
So, that means if all of us in various states are foot-dragging on Romney and all of the delegates in various states are foot-dragging, why are any of us paying attention to the stories that say all the votes are already pre-counted?
Aren't we as close to a Ron Paul nomination as a phone burst to all the delegates to say "go for it?"
Just for a moment, what would it feel like if, without the media at our backs, and with the lawyers' victory in our pockets, and none of the state voters who even voted for Romney really liking him, 1144 delegates just voted what was REALLY not only their own conscience but their state voters' consciences?
Do you see how close a candidate, who everyone admires, really is?
It's right there for 'the asking.'
It's down to 1144 people, and he already has over 500.
So our country's liberty is down to a mere 600 people changing their mind?? One dozen people per state can change the course of history??
Liberty is so close I can almost taste it.
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2005 Chrysler Pacifica User Reviews
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Christie writes:
2005 Chrysler Pacifica Touring AWD Review
dvd player, sound system, multiple power outlets, leather interior, stye, color, handling and speed.
front suspension having to be replaced after 45,000 miles ($3000) not covered under warranty
My Chrysler Pacifica — I love my car, because it is a 6 cylinder that is great on gas, it has a dvd player so it keeps the kids busy when needed, a tape player as well as a cd player, and automatic everything. Both front and middle seats are captains chairs that have seat warmers, and the rear seats fold down (as well as the middle seats) to hauls just about anything. It has leather interior, and the silver color onthe outside with the black bottom panels are sporty yet luxurious. It accelerated nicely, and rides smoothly. It handles wonderful both in the sand at th beach and the snow in the Sierras. It's awesome for camping, as there are multiple power outlest all over the interior. Very comfortable to drive, and the stereo system bumps and rocks (yes, it's stock). Best all around vehicle I have ever owned.
Primary Use: Family transportation
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Dominic writes:
2005 Chrysler Pacifica Touring AWD Review
Highly recommended!
can't think of any
Great Car For Anyone Looking For A Roomy, Comfortable, And Luxurious Ride! — Great options! Heated, leather seats in front and back seats are GREAT! Beautiful crossover. Excellent to drive. The AWD is great on snow and ice! Any repairs have been minor upkeep issues. Gas mileage is pretty good. Overall this is a GREAT car! Very nice ride all around!
Primary Use: Family transportation
Juliet writes:
2005 Chrysler Pacifica Signature Series Review
great gas mileage, beautiful ride...
it gets mistaked as a minivan...
Best Crossover Ever! — my car is the most pimpin mommy vehicle ever... my friends call it a minivan but its a crossover damnit! i have taken 11 road trips in it and the ride is amazing... you dont feel the potholes and it is sooooo smooth... it wasnt my first choice but once i test drove it i fell in love... the gas mileage is also not any worse than my chevy malibu...
Richard writes:
2005 Chrysler Pacifica Touring Review
spacious, pretty, smooth, very comfortable
CV joints and front suspension components seem to wear quickly
Hot — looks like a million bucks! rides like a magic carpet has more than enough power in the 6 cylinders anti-lock breaks are very smooth leather interior is wicked dash board controls are well layed out sterio system sounds great climate control - 3 zone is realy nice what can i say, crysler has made a top notch vehicle that doesn't burn a hole in your pocket
MistyandTerry writes:
2005 Chrysler Pacifica Touring Review
this car is comfy and stylish, great for long family trips, a great family car with tons of safety features including child safety door and window locks, also side and head rest airbags. this car has everything from surround sound 5disc cd changer am/fm radio to 5 disc dvd player. this car has been a great car, never gave any troubles, regular maintenance, very inexpensive mild repairs. overall my family and I have been vrry pleased and happy with this car.
the only complaints regarding this car is that the rear center console is just unnecessary, it does take up alot of floor room, childrent do tend to get tripped up on it. the rear wiper does tend to be easily broken, I replaced mine twice, its like the perfect pull handle for children!
Very Nice, Reliable, Safe Car! — I loved this car, not only was it comfortable for long road trs with the family I felt safe with my children riding in it. the kids had plenty of space, werent on top of eachother, and enjoyed the built in dvd system. they also put the charger outlets in the 3rd and 2nd row to good use on trips with all their different games, they also enjoyed the reclining captain seats in the 2nd row. this is a great family car!
Primary Use: Family transportation
Rigoso writes:
2005 Chrysler Pacifica Touring AWD Review
Drives like a dream with a Mercedes chassis and leather touring interior. The all wheel drive with auto-stick transmission makes this an excellent car for all weather conditions.
No cons, in my opinion.
Beautiful Touring Sedan. — This car drives like a dream with a Mercedes chassis and leather touring interior. The all wheel drive with auto-stick transmission makes this an excellent car for all weather conditions. A unique feature is that this vehicle is easy to get in and out of due to the special design of floor - you step straight in, not up and in. It is also lower to the ground than most SUVs. Chrysler pioneered the touring vehicle category with this model. Simply great!
Primary Use: Commuting to work
lhthomaz writes:
2005 Chrysler Pacifica Touring AWD Review
A lot of space for everybody, seats up to 6 with comfort.
Not great on gas.
Very Nice And Affordable Family Car — This is a great looking car that is also very comfortable and affordable. We went from Marlborough, MA to Orlando, FL with the car and it couldn't be a nicer trip. 2 captain seats in the back makes whomever is there very comfortable. It has separate controls for driver and passenger air conditioning and you also can control the CD/Radio on the steering wheel . Has a lot of power outlets and the leather seats matching the exterior color is just the cherry on top of the cake!!
Primary Use: Family transportation
Patrick writes:
2005 Chrysler Pacifica Touring Review
a multi funtionable car handles well and is good on gas.
it a chrysler
My Pacifica — i have made more trip in across the country and put alot of mile on this car but i have enjoyed every mile. she has been the work horse and has help me move more people then most uhauls. a great car.
Primary Use: Commuting to work
Barclay writes:
2005 Chrysler Pacifica Touring Review
Almost Everything
Great All Around Crossover — Performance - Powerhorse, Braking, Handling are great, Acceleration is only good if using the Auto Stick mode like a manual gear shift. Build Quality - Tough, Safe, Durable, Reliable, Safe (part Mercedes) Appearance - Lovely sleek, comfortable, unique from other crossover's Cost of Ownership - Mileage approx 18mpg average, service is moderate 2500/yr MAX Reliable, Fun, Entertaining (video and Ipod connections) DVD/CD etc... great on long journey and good for chores, groceries, DIY collection material etc.
05Limited writes:
2005 Chrysler Pacifica Limited AWD Review
Comfort & features for all
Gas mileage (16/24mpg) but was expected
Dual-use Is Perfect! — Bought as a dual-use vehicle: equipment sales & family of 6 hauler. Perfect for both! Easy fold-flat 3rd row for equipment, very easy to drive, loaded with all the best features, & navigation is very useful. Family loves the wireless headphones & DVD with separate AC controls. Very happy! Fuel mileage is acceptable & power is fine for typical drivers.
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2008 Chrysler Pacifica Reviews
I Wish They Hadn't Stopped Making This Car!!!
I drove an 04 pacifica for the last 5 years, & was recently in an accident. I rolled it 3 times down an 8 ft. embankment throught the woods. This car was awesome. It saved my life. Got an 08 now. Read More
Cars Rides And Handles Well. Need To Be Able To Do Your Own Work
At 55000 miles this car has had all new motor mounts and new A/c Condensor.(lines to short when engine moved it broke the hot gas line at the condensor.) After much discussion and a lot of noise at th... Read More
2007 Chrysler Pacifica Reviews
Excellent Car
this car is very conffortable , lots of power, great gas millage, lots of leg room, on every seat, smooth ride, 3rd roll seat great for kids, and lots of space for luggage , over all great car for t... Read More
Excellent Multi Purpose Vehicle
I have really enjoyed the multi use of this vehicle with seats folded down can haul a lot of cargo with seats folded up I can haul six people and pull a trailer. With 4.0 liter engine has speed on hig... Read More
2006 Chrysler Pacifica Reviews
Cool Ride.. Spacious
This cars capacity and the seats makes me feel like i am seated in an airplane business class . . it handles the snow well. its a great fun car to drive with especially with friends or family . overal... Read More
Chrysler Pacifica
All around great vehicle and fun and spacious for the family especially since it has a 3rd row seat. Air condition blows perfectly easy to handle on the road and not expensive to maintain. I would rec... Read More
2004 Chrysler Pacifica Reviews
Loved It
loved this car drove it to Florida several times very roomy and still has cargo space Parts and labor for this vehicle was very inexpensive Sun roof and heated seats for the winter was awesome I would... Read More
Liked This Car
all the add ons were nice didn't like paying for gas when I got less than 18 mpg sometimes; however most SUVs or especially some pickups probably get less 15 mpg so overall great family car and you... Read More


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A month or so ago, Lancaster was setting up for it's weekly Wednesday play (I'm going to be dramatizing this a bit, as I was not there at the time). They set up the lights, the moon shining off of Kruse's skin enough that they questioned whether they were really necessary at all, and play commenced.[I'm not really sure Nick Kruse was there, I just wanted to that same joke as much as possible.]
However, a local law enforcement officer official came by and, unlike interactions with other police officer men before, commented that we really shouldn't be playing at night unless we have permission, as the park is a dawn-to-dusk sort of place.
And, of course, he was exactly right.
And here are some lessons on what to do when that happens, dear readers:
1. Instead of putting up a huge fight or simply ignoring the warning, Lancaster United said "ok, officer," and shut down for the night. We then created an email chain to discuss what happened and next steps.
2. Next, it was decided that the best people/person to approach would be the Township, so after a somewhat extensive series of emails back and forth within the club's current leadership, I called them up. I was told the guy I needed to speak to was out, and I could leave a message (which I did with my authoritative-but-not-a-jerk voice).
3. The township man called me back and I was nice as a hobbit can be to him. I explained we were at fault–I explained that we'd been using the court for years and that we made the goals that stand there now. I talked about how much we clean the area and keep the rink in good order. He was very impressed with all this, and then told him our problem.
He was already receptive to the idea of helping us, as out of everyone who used the rink, we were apparently the only ones who actually cared about it.
4. After he told me he'd bring it up with the committee to decide on, I left him alone for a week, and then called.
And then called again the week after.
And then called again the week after that.
And then once more during the next week.
Each and every time, I did so with courtesy, graciousness, and understanding. After all, we are such a tiny concern for a guy who needs to explain why snow isn't being cleared/why the fire department doesn't have enough money/etc.
Eventually (yesterday) I sent him an email, and he asked for a formal request.
5. The formal request was a great opportunity for me to show that we were not just a bunch of kids wanting to bend the rules for the sake of bending the rules. I presented our case, leaving out sport specific language (if he ever asked, of course I'd tell him, but it's just as easy to not try to describe bike polo).
He loved the request, advised me to come to the meeting when it was discussed (this upcoming week), and told me he'd be reinforcing that this shouldn't be a very big deal).
So, in summary, what I think we as a club did intelligently:
- Respectful and willing to follow the officer's warning
- Didn't try to sneak back to play
- Went through the correct routes to request permission
- Presented what we did for the benefit of the community (fixing up the rink, having goals made, cleaning up trash)
- Willingness to be present at committee meeting to speak directly to decision makers
Where it goes from here? Well, I guess we'll see how the conversation goes with the committee. But I'm damned sure we aren't the first club to deal with this, and definitely not the last. We stand to lose Winter Wednesday play, but stand to gain a set time and space for polo as well, so I'm very excited to see how it all plays out.


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Li, L. and Uttamchandani, D.G. (2009) Flip-chip distributed MEMS transmission lines (DMTLs) for biosensing applications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 56 (4). pp. 986-990. ISSN 0278-0046
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Design and characterization of a flip-chip distributed MEMS transmission line (DMTL) are presented. The concept of using this DMTL as a biosensor is then introduced. Radio frequency experiments on the DMTL loaded with ldquobiosamplesrdquo have been conducted using the most accessible materials, namely, deionized water and aqueous solutions of salts. Results show that the reflection coefficient (S11) of the solution-loaded DMTL is very sensitive to the salt concentration of the solution in the low-frequency ranges of 10 MHz-1 GHz and 3-4.5 GHz. At high frequencies, the relative dielectric constant of the biosample can also be quantitatively determined from the impedance of the DMTL.
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TROY, N.C.–Longtime Capel executive Bud Young has left Capel Rugs for personal reasons, the company said, and no replacement has been named. Instead, Young's responsibilities as vice president of marketing will be absorbed by Allen Robertson, vice president of sales, and Tami Watras, director of merchandising.
Young was with Capel for 28 years.