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On January 25, 2012 The USDA announced the New School Nutrition Meal Standards that align with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The new standards will require schools to increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and fat-free and low-fat fluid milk in school meals; reduce levels of sodium, saturated fats and trans fat in meals; and reduce calorie levels of school meals per age group. These changes to the school meal programs, with the help of a healthy diet at home are expected to enhance the diet and health of school children, and mitigate the childhood obesity trend. In Cañon City Schools we are pleased to say that over the years we have made systematic changes to our program that have already provided our students with the foods and nutrition that the USDA is now recommending. We have increased availability of fresh produce, made at least 1/2 of our grains whole, offer only low-fat or fat-free milk, and we have reduced sodium, fat levels and calorie levels. While the transition to fully implement the new standards during the 2012-2013 school year will require some more work and add extra costs to our program, we are proud of our current program and our anxious to continue to improve for the benefit of our customer....the students.
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Do you have any advice on how to make our 2006 Chevy Uplander LS last to 250,000 miles? We are currently at 162,500 miles. Thanks!
alchip Posts: 16Thanks, yes, recently I did a transmission service on our Uplander and, I must say, I was shocked at what a difference it made. My local shop also suggested a fuel/injection service which I was a bit skeptical about given the price ($ 175), but it really has seemed to make a difference for our vehicle. I think they did a little extra for me when I had it in the shop (maybe adjusted the timing somehow?), but whatever they did made it run better. Thanks again for the encouragement!
cchanij Posts: 1My Uplander has 187,000 on it with very few problems. One of the main things we did was keeping the fluids changed. We have the 3.9 liter engine and it runs fabulously on Castrol full synthetic. We run Amsoil in the transmission. Im expecting to make it easily to the 250,000 mile club. Ill let you know!
alchip Posts: 16Great! Thanks for the post. You know, when you look at the cost of maintenance versus buying new, it's really a fraction of the cost of a new vehicle. Don't get me wrong, there is some great new product out there, but our 3.5 liter engine now has 173,500 miles on it and I'm planning to tack on another 5,000 over the holidays. The thing is, I really like the basic design of the Uplander for my stage (Dad) in life. We have had so many great trips in it and I use it for commuting to work every day. The Uplander, for us, has been a great investment.
alchip Posts: 16Well, we made it through the winter and are now at about 185,000 miles, but our transmission is starting to slip. When we are stopped at a light and I give it gas, the car hesitates, then "slams into gear". Do you know the cause of this? I tried a product called TransX which seemed to help for a while, but I am trying to avoid a transmission replacement on the way to 250,000. Thanks.
jpf Posts: 496Has the transmission ever been serviced (i.e. fluid and filter service)? The transmission fluid should be a pinkish color. I now have 93k miles on my Uplander. Head gasket and cross over pipe gasket were done under the powertrain warranty in early 2012. Engine does not burn oil and transmission shifts smoothly on our van. Good luck.
jpf Posts: 496Just passed 100k miles. No oil usage, just regular oil changes at 3000 mile intervals. Averaging just under 27 mpg on current trip. Changed struts, tie rods, rear shocks, stabilizer bar at 80k and it makes a world of difference in improving ride quality. good luck to all Uplander/Montana owners.
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Posted 19 April 2012 - 01:34 PM
What the heck?????
If they are deciding to go back to add ons they need to have two seperate ones. One for To-Go and one for Red zone/player tracker. $50 each. Too many people are going to complain this year and say I only want Red zone, or I only want ToGo, why do I have to pay $100 extra. Just like people have complained for years.
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Posted 19 April 2012 - 02:08 PM
If they are deciding to go back to add ons they need to have two seperate ones. One for To-Go and one for Red zone/player tracker. $50 each. Too many people are going to complain this year and say I only want Red zone, or I only want ToGo, why do I have to pay $100 extra. Just like people have complained for years.
That was my big gripe with Superfan back when that was the only way to get the games in HD. They held HD access hostage by bundling it with a bunch of stuff I didn't want to try to justify the high price of the Superfan add-on instead of a stand-alone charge for HD access.
All I want is to watch my team...one game per week...in HD. Replay shorts, RZC, Player Tracker and To Go are all non starters for me. Just let me watch my team in HD on Sunday.
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Posted 19 April 2012 - 02:19 PM
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And the cheapest price in years. It seems that DirecTv is being responsive to price concerns. Thanks.
Of course, let the "I want the Red Zone", "I want the games on my phone" and "I want these features without paying any extra" whining begin.
Posted 19 April 2012 - 02:35 PM
Let's see:
All out of market games in HD
Mix channel
And the cheapest price in years. It seems that DirecTv is being responsive to price concerns. Thanks.
Of course, let the "I want the Red Zone", "I want the games on my phone" and "I want these features without paying any extra" whining begin.
When D* gets in a carriage dispute is D* whining? People are willing to pay at different price points. It is negotiating at arms length with a company you have a business relationship with. It is not whining.
Posted 19 April 2012 - 03:59 PM
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Sponsors NFL.com Webcast of 2012 NFL Draft to Highlight 'Value Picks' and New Package Pricing
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- DIRECTV is rewarding its existing customers with the lowest price in almost a decade for its exclusive NFL SUNDAY TICKET package.
Current customers will pay only $199.95, more than 40 percent less than last year's price, for the full slate of NFL 2012 regular season out-of-market game broadcasts along with the Game Mix channel and the Player Tracker feature. The new package is designed to make DIRECTV's most popular sports subscription service available to as many customers as possible including those who experienced NFL SUNDAY TICKET for the first time last year.
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Recognizing that millions of customers will have access to NFL SUNDAY TICKET at an outstanding value, DIRECTV is sponsoring the NFL.com LIVE: 2012 Draft Webcast April 26-28, and teaming up with NFL.com analyst Michael Lombardi to name a line-up of sleeper "value picks" — those players who may have a major impact on their new team's future success or failure.
"NFL SUNDAY TICKET is an incredible product and we want to make sure it is accessible and affordable to as many of our customers as possible, so we made the decision to dramatically lower the price," said Alex Kaplan, vice president, Marketing for DIRECTV. "With these new package options we hope that those who had the service before will enjoy it again, and those who have not had a chance to subscribe to NFL SUNDAY TICKET will take this opportunity to experience this fantastic service for the first time."
DIRECTV's unique "value picks" platform on NFL.com is based on the fact that many of the league's most successful players were names that went "under the radar" on draft day and ended up being the most valuable decisions ever made by their teams. When the 2012 NFL Draft is complete, Lombardi will issue his definitive list of Top-10 "Value Picks" from the 2012 draft. The 10 players chosen on the 2012 "All-Value" team will receive DIRECTV systems and one year of complementary DIRECTV® service, including NFL SUNDAY TICKET, so their families can follow all of the action during the players' rookie seasons.
Current DIRECTV customers who purchase the 2012 NFL SUNDAY TICKET service for $199.95, will be able to watch every regular season game live every Sunday afternoon in HD, along with the Game Mix Channel that features up to eight live games on one screen complete with scores, stats and standings; Player Tracker, a must-have for fantasy fans who can follow player and team stats throughout the day; and highlights on demand.
NFL SUNDAY TICKET MAX is available for $299.95 (and only $100 for existing NFL SUNDAY TICKET customers who want to upgrade) and offers all the games in HD, Game Mix, RED ZONE CHANNEL, Short Cuts, online/mobile, Player Tracker, score/stats/standings and highlights on demand. For more information on the NFL SUNDAY TICKET offers visit www.DIRECTV.com/nfl.
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Posted 19 April 2012 - 04:18 PM
For $199 I'll just pay it...no questions asked. No begging.
They've reached my price point.
Yeah I'd do that too. I dont care about games on my phone or those other things for the extra $100.
Posted 19 April 2012 - 04:28 PM
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Posted 19 April 2012 - 04:55 PM
Posted 19 April 2012 - 05:54 PM
Last year I paid $84 for NFL ST, 6 payment of $54 = $324 - $240 in credits = $84.
...keep an eye on that $240 in credits. Usually those run over a period of say 24 months. Out of sight...out of mind....keep an eye on your bill.
Posted 19 April 2012 - 06:53 PM
Posted 19 April 2012 - 07:06 PM
Let's see:
All out of market games in HD
Mix channel
And the cheapest price in years. It seems that DirecTv is being responsive to price concerns. Thanks.
Hey, you're gonna pay one way or another. They lower one thing and they charge more (or extra) for something else! Our next "automatic-yearly-price-increase" in Feb will probably be higher to subsidize the ST reduction.
Posted 19 April 2012 - 07:20 PM
For $199 I'll just pay it...no questions asked. No begging.
They've reached my price point.
Ditto. About time they come back to earth.
Posted 19 April 2012 - 09:23 PM
I love the short cuts...
Posted 19 April 2012 - 09:53 PM
Not enough for me to restart my DTV service though (very happy with the service, just cutting costs). I think I'm going to hold out for an online-only option, or at least an offering on one of the major game consoles. Then again, it all depends on what the Bears look like in pre-season
I really loved RZC, but I don't need any of the other features, so MAX isn't worth $100 to me. Bummer that they didn't break all of these up into separate packages (like charge $20 per feature or something).
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Posted 19 April 2012 - 11:14 PM
Who knows, maybe next year it gets adjusted. I would definitely pay the $200 for sure. Until then, sorry I will not be ordering.
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Oh, crap. Short Cuts is in the MAX package?
I love the short cuts...
You could always subscribe to NFL Game Rewind on the NFL website. You can watch every NFL game (not just the Sunday afternoon games) either in condensed format (30 minutes or less) or in their entirety with no commercials. Last season I think the cost was $40.


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Assistant Attorney General Andrew Huff also said that Legislative Referendum 123 is not obviously unconstitutional, so the lawsuit brought by organized labor and another group should fail any way.
"LR-123 is not clearly unconstitutional on its face and should proceed to a vote, consistent with judicial deference to the people's authority in the referendum context," he wrote in arguments filed Thursday with state District Court in Helena.
Four labor unions and the Montana Association of Area Agencies on Aging filed suit Oct. 5 in state District Court at Helena, saying LR-123 is unconstitutional and should be stricken from the 2012 ballot.
The Republican majority of the 2011 Montana Legislature placed LR-123 on the ballot, asking voters whether they want to return excess state tax revenue to taxpayers in the form of an income-tax credit. Every Democrat in the Legislature voted against it.
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Nicholas Wade Speaks to Leakey Audience
Productive Dialogue or Dangerous Advocacy?
Rachel Dvoskin
A group of anthropologists are outraged that the Leakey Foundation, which is the number one funder in the US of human origins research, invited New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade to speak as part of the foundation's annual lecture series. One of them, Jonathan Marks of UNC at Charlotte, wrote a letter to the foundation decrying Wade's use of what Marks described as weak and controversial evidence to support genetic determinist arguments and to promote the biologization of culture. The Leakey Foundation, whose highest priority after funding human origins research is public education, defends its decision on the basis of Wade's ability to translate science for the public, as well as his ability to explain how DNA has expanded our understanding of human evolution.
"Somebody needs to get fired over it," says Marks, who is an outspoken opponent of viewpoints he regards as anti-science or anti-intellectual. "Somehow [the process by which Wade was selected] needs to be made more transparent because it has given the field of anthropology a black eye." The members of the Anthropology Advisory Committee of the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS), who wrote a similar letter last year to the New York Times in response to an article by Wade, are equally incensed. While granting that Wade—who has also been a reporter at Nature and Science, but is not himself a scientist—has a right to his opinions, these academics contend that by allowing him to speak at a Leakey-sponsored event, the foundation is legitimizing his views as normative in anthropology.
The Selection Process
The Leakey Foundation's speaker series is administered primarily by its Communications Committee, which is made up of five or six members of its board of volunteer trustees. Most of the trustees, according to Board President William M Wirthlin II, are not scientists, but rather business professionals (and a few attorneys) who share a passion for science—paleoanthropology in particular—and are dedicated to the mission of the Leakey Foundation.
Every year, Camilla Smith, who heads the trustee-based Communications Committee, asks the scientists and board members to help her compile a list of candidates whom the board believes are involved in exciting research and who will also be good at reaching a lay audience.
Director of Communications Danielle Dana runs the logistical components of the lecture series, planning a schedule of about eight lectures a year. According to Dana, the list of speakers is vetted with the board of trustees and with the Scientific Executive Committee (SEC)—currently seven experts on primate evolution and biology. Final decisions are made by the trustees. When asked about his involvement in the process, Richard G Klein (Stanford U), co-chair of the SEC, said that he supposed that he "could have some influence over the speaker selection."
"Occasionally they ask me if I have any suggestions," Klein continued. "Mostly I just get a list saying these are the Leakey speakers for this year."
In the case of Wade, some of the foundation's trustees had heard him speak about his new book Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors on NPR's "Science Friday," and were impressed. "We thought that he would be able to tell the scope of things, the way it all kind of fits together," says Communications Committee Head Smith, referring to the way DNA, the fossil record and even linguistics together tell the story of human dispersal out of Africa.
Smith recalls that the suggestion to invite Wade came from her and one or two others, including a trustee from Houston, where Wade eventually spoke at the Houston Museum of Natural Science as part of the foundation's lecture series. Though Smith was not ignorant of Wade's controversial opinions, she and the staff felt confident that Wade would draw an enthusiastic response and help them fulfill the goal of the lecture series, which, according to Wirthlin and Smith, is to increase public understanding of human origins by getting the message out to as broad an audience as possible.
The Letter
In January 2007, when Marks emailed a letter to the foundation questioning their choice of Wade as a speaker, Wade was already scheduled to give two talks. Leakey President Wirthlin did not discuss the letter with anyone at that time; his understanding, he says, is that the staff determines how any potential policy issues should be handled.
When paleoanthropologist Harold Dibble (U Penn) came to San Francisco in February to give the first lecture in the series, staff Director of Communications Dana and trustee Smith spoke to him about Marks's letter. Dibble, who was blind copied (along with others) on Marks's email, recalls that they mentioned the letter in conversation. He advised them that, in his opinion, they were not doing anything wrong by having Wade speak.
"Although we are really sorry to have offended [Marks] and anybody else, the purpose of the program is to make the science accessible," explains Dana. "Nicholas Wade does that and he does it very well." Arguing that part of their mission is to provide the public with a diverse array of views related to human origins, Dana concludes, "It isn't our job to judge who is right and who's wrong."
The Controversy
Marks and his colleagues at NYAS remain baffled by the Leakey Foundation's decision to have Wade speak. "There's a widespread discomfort with the way he expresses the insights that molecular biologists might have about human behavior," explains U of Hawai'i geneticist Rebecca Cann.
Wade's critics object to his assertions that certain population-specific characteristics—the supposed violent nature of hunter-gathers such as the Yanomami and superior intelligence of Ashkenazi Jews, for example—may have been shaped over a relatively short period of time (in evolutionary terms) by natural selection and that, in effect, people of different nationalities or "races" may be born with different human natures.
His critics allege that among other errors and assumptions, Wade conflates race, ancestry and genetic variation, and that he mistakenly extrapolates from individual traits to group characteristics.
"Almost no geneticists use the term race," concedes Wade. "In large part, that's for good reason.… As a journalist, however, I feel that I should use words that people are familiar with. So if geneticists are in fact talking about what general readers think of as race, than that's the phrase that we should use."
Many argue that Wade reports on problematic hypotheses—such as the suggestion by anthropologist Henry C Harpending (U Utah) that Ashkenazi Jews were selected for superior intelligence because of the cognitive demands of their positions as moneylenders—without conveying to his audience the controversial nature of the arguments or giving sufficient weight to opposing points of view. Wade contests that in his book he explains quite clearly the assumptions that went into that particular hypothesis. "I can't think of any caution I omitted from the discussion."
Social Darwinism Redux?
A few researchers praise Wade for refusing to shy away from touchy issues in the name of what they believe to be merely political correctness. E O Wilson, whose praise appears on the cover of Wade's new book, commented in an email on Wade's well-informed and objective journalism. "I'm not surprised that there are still ideologues who find information on human genetics 'dangerous' to their ideas," Wilson says, "but Mr Wade is not a justifiable target for their anxieties."
However, many cultural and biological anthropologists warn that, when considered uncritically, Wade's gene-centric explanations and sweeping generalizations, filtered through what some view as his Western-oriented value judgments, could be used to support eugenics and social Darwinist agendas.
"Nobody denies the fact that biology is the basis upon which the potential for human behavior takes place," acknowledges NYU anthropologist Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb, who co-wrote a letter in response to Wade's New York Times reporting with fellow NYAS Anthropology Chair William P Mitchell. Yet Wade's genetic explanations for population-wide differences in human behavior are anathema to Boasian anthropology.
Some academics believe that the opposition to certain avenues of scientific exploration and dissemination may be driven by a built-in agenda of social reform. According to Dibble, who has received grants from the Leakey Foundation, "It's not up to the social anthropologists to determine how people think…. They're not the intellectual police of everything social."
"Genetics is rescuing us from the darkness in which social scientists have kept us for many decades," says Wade. Plainly unconvinced of the value of social sciences to the current study of human origins, he continues, "Anyone who's interested in cultural anthropology should escape as quickly as they can from their cultural anthropology department and go and learn some genetics, which will be the foundation of cultural anthropology in the future."
Where to Go From Here
Whether Wade is careful enough in his reporting, and whether the Leakey Foundation—by sponsoring his talk—did any lasting damage to the field, it is clear that Wade has succeeded at capturing the public's ear. Academics, on the other hand, are pulling together to renew anthropological participation in public discourse. In a symposium organized by Achino-Loeb and Mitchell for the upcoming AAA meeting, academics will discuss how and why anthropological science is so often misrepresented in the media, as well as the ways in which the public consciousness—and in turn public policy—is shaped by popularization of particular lines of scientific inquiry.
AAA President Alan Goodman is doing his part to chip away at what he considers a fundamental barrier to public understanding of the true complexity of the human story—the fact that biology is, in many ways, "separated out from the corpus of anthropology."
Goodman recognizes that this practice, in part, has created an environment in which Nicholas Wade declares that many social scientists feel they needn't bother at all with evolution or genetics. "They are ignoring the theory that explains all of biology," says Wade, "of which humans are definitely a part."
Because anthropologists of various subfields may too often see the foundations of human behavior and diversity through the limited lens of their own discipline, Goodman thinks "we really need a new science in which we look at how all of those things are interrelated…a science of development, a science of intersecting processes." While encouraged by evidence that "biocultural" approaches are reemerging within anthropology, he advocates taking this integrative approach further, to the public—the classroom, for example, where he has taught eighth graders, who, he says, are "remarkably good at the obvious, at seeing that humans are their genes and their culture and their environment."
Descriptions of the eight public education lectures sponsored by the Leakey Foundation can be found at: www.leakeyfoundation.org/newsandevents/n2_x.jsp.
Rachel Dvoskin received her PhD in anthropology from NYU and the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, or NYCEP. She is currently the copyeditor of Scientific American Mind.


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- Baron Harvey of Tasburgh, a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1954
- In the United States
- Harvey, Illinois
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- In Australia
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- Harvey, British Columbia in Fraser-Fort George
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- Harvey (play), a 1944 play by Mary Chase about a man befriended by an invisible anthropomorphic rabbit
- The Harvey Girls (novel), a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
- Harvey (film), a 1950 film adapted from the Mary Chase play, starring James Stewart
- Harvey (Hallmark), a 1972 adaptation of the Mary Chase play for the Hallmark Hall of Fame
- The Harvey Girls, a 1946 musical film adapted from the Samuel Hopkins Adams novel
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- Harvey Dent, fictional District Attorney and supervillain (as Two-Face) in DC Comics
- Harvey Kinkle, the love interest of the titular character on the live-action television series of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
- Harvey Shine, the protagonist of the 2008 motion picture Last Chance Harvey
- Harvey Swick, the protagonist of the novel The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
- Harvey (Farscape), in the TV show Farscape
- Harvey Specter, in the TV show Suits
- Harvey Comics, a publisher of comic books from the 1940s to the 1990s
- Harvey & Co, an iron foundry and engineering works in Cornwall, England, known as pioneers of the industrial revolution
- Harveys Supermarkets, a supermarket chain in the southeast United States
- Harveys Lake Tahoe, a casino in Stateline, Nevada
- Harvey & Son, a brewery in Sussex, England
- Harveys Furniture, a British furniture chain
- Harveys (department store), a defunct department store in downtown Nashville, Tennessee
- Harveys (handbag design and manufacturer), a handbag design and manufacturing company
- Harveys (restaurant), the former restaurant of chef Marco Pierre White
- Harvey's, a fast food restaurant chain in Canada
- Harvey armor, a type of naval armour developed in the late 19th century
- Harvey Awards ("Harveys"), one of the most important awards in American comic industry, founded in 1988
- Harvey Point, a U.S. Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency facility in North Carolina
- Harvey F.C., an early twentieth century U.S. soccer team from Harvey, Illinois
- Harvey Wallbanger, a mixed drink
- Hurricane Harvey (disambiguation), a name given to tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean
- Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, a cartoon series
- Harvey Danger, an alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington
- "Harvey" or "Harvey Smith", term for the V sign after the equestrian Harvey Smith used it in a televised event in 1971
- "Harvey" mannequin, an early medical simulator
- USS Harvey (PF-80), a United States Navy patrol frigate transferred to the United Kingdom while under construction which served in the Royal Navy as the frigate HMS Labuan (K584) from 1944 to 1946
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Dr. Jack Kevorkian and The Right to Assisted Suicide
"The Declaration of Independence proclaimed, for the first time in the history of nations, that each person exists as an end in himself. This basic truth--which finds political expression in the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--means, in practical terms, that you need no one's permission to live, and that no one may forcibly obstruct your efforts to achieve your own personal happiness.
But what if happiness becomes impossible to attain? What if a dread disease, or some other calamity, drains all joy from life, leaving only misery and suffering? The right to life includes and implies the right to commit suicide. To hold otherwise--to declare that society must give you permission to kill yourself--is to contradict the right to life at its root. If you have a duty to go on living, despite your better judgment, then your life does not belong to you, and you exist by permission, not by right.
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[OS] CHINA/US/MIL/SPACE - 'Wolf Clause' betrays China-US cooperation
Released on 2012-10-18 17:00 GMT
Email-ID | 2961161 |
Date | 2011-05-18 22:11:56 |
From | firstname.lastname@example.com |
To | email@example.com |
List-Name | email@example.com |
Updated: 2011-05-18 09:32
WASHINGTON - US space shuttle Endeavor blasted off from the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida on Monday, kicking off its 25th and the last space
mission in history, which draws great attention from media worldwide.
The event is also catching the eyes of media and scientists in China
because the shuttle carries the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS)
particle detector, the mankind's most ambitious effort to date to explore
the universe' origin with Nobel laureate physicist Samuel Ting as the
program's principal scientist.
The 7,000-kg AMS worth US$2 billion will be placed in the International
Space Station (ISS) and an international team of more than 600 scientists,
including many from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, have joined Ting's
exhausting but respectable AMS program.
China's scientists have played a crucial role in designing and
manufacturing some core parts of the device. However, Chinese journalists
who hoped to cover the launching of Endeavor were denied entry to the site
by a ban initiated by Frank Wolf, chairman of the Committee of Commerce,
Justice, Science, and Related Agencies in the House of Representatives.
The United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
revoked the media passes granted to journalists from China due to the ban,
or the "Wolf Clause", which was regarded as "discriminative" by even
Americans themselves.
On April 15, US President Barack Obama signed into law the budget bill for
fiscal year 2011 which will end on September 30 after the House of
Representatives passed it.
The bill included a clause which bans any China-US joint scientific
research activities related to NASA or coordinated by the White House's
Science Policy Office.
Under the clause in the budget bill, none of the Congress-approved funds
for the US government "may be used for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration or the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop,
design, plan, promulgate, implement, or execute a bilateral policy,
program, order, or contract of any kind to participate, collaborate, or
coordinate bilaterally in any way with China or any Chinese-owned
It also applies the limitation "to any funds used to effectuate the
hosting of official Chinese visitors at facilities belonging to or
utilized" by NASA.
As a result, Chinese journalists were denied the opportunity to make live
coverage of the shuttle's blast-off, just as their peers from other
countries have done. The Chinese journalists were also kept away from
NASA's press conferences.
Obviously, the "Wolf Clause" runs counter to the trend that both China and
the United States are trying to push ahead their exchanges and cooperation
in science and technology.
During the third round of the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue
(S&ED) held in Washington earlier this month, the two sides published
accomplishments of the dialogue, which includes the cooperation in science
and technology.
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scientific and technological cooperation.
The Obama administration also attached importance to the current
development and trend of scientific and technological cooperation between
China and the US and realized the nature of mutual benefit brought about
by such cooperation.
John P.Holdren, director of the Science and Technology Policy Office of
the White House, has told Xinhua that the cooperation on science and
technology was one of the most dynamic fields in bilateral relations
between China and the United States.
The "Wolf Clause" exposed the anxiety of hawkish politicians in the United
States over China's peaceful development in recent years, and it also
demonstrated their shortsightedness to the whole world.
The "Wolf Clause" was a result of compromise made by Obama to Republicans
to avoid possible bankruptcy of the US government.
It is also a concession between US Republicans and Democrats, but the
"clause" will not in any way change the trend of the increasingly closer
scientific and technological cooperation between China and the US.
In fact, the "Wolf Clause" has incurred criticism, even from some US
Richard Milner, director of Laboratory for Nuclear Science at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), thought China's contribution
to the project was "crucial".
The professor believed that the "Wolf Clause" was a "discriminative
decision" and it would eventually hurt the US itself.
As the unpopular clause came into effect, China's journalists became the
first victims of the discriminative legislation by being turned away from
the Kennedy Space Center.
Although the clause will terminate as the fiscal year 2011 ends in
September, Wolf seemed unreconciled and claimed he will work to extend the
ban to next year.
Today, while the Chinese and US governments are deepening their
cooperation, Wolf acted against the trend with a cold war mentality. This
is something that should raise the vigilance of peace-loving people in the
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I dont really like her.
shes a poser but at least she admits she hates justin bieber. I'll give her points for that.
Who cares what she is wearing? Okay she doesn't have an orange spray tan and an obnoxious yellow sack dress but it doesn't mean she's pretending to be less boring than you. So calm down. In other photos it mostly looks like she's going for Blondie's look. Though that is completely irrelevant to what she said. She isn't even hating on Bieber so you can put your dummy back in and stop crying kids.
exactly, her denial of justin bieber is not a huge sin because he is only human- just like her
Playa1 says: Who the hell is this wierd chick?! Even I know who Bieber is. C'mon, she know him. Who the hell listens to the Beatles and Led Zep...Well I listen to Led Zep, BUT at her age. I bet she doesn't know ONE song!!! LMAO. Act ur age girlie!!! Playa1 has spoken!!
Give me a break. No ones angry at her but she is trying to at cool. Like just mentioning bands like "oh i listen to them" she is trying to show off. And yeah there both better then Juistin Bieber obviously anything is better then JUstin Bieber but...she makes ehrself look goth and like a badass..so you think I dont know she would like something a little more Goth and badass then the beatles and Led Zepplin. Your musial taste reflects on your personality a lot and that kind of proves shes a little fake. Shes probably really not as hardore as she dresses.
U ALL SUCK CUZ TAYLOR MOMSEN MIGHT BE WEIRD BUT STUFF JUSTIN BIEBER~! tAYLOR MOMSEN IS ON GOSSIP GIRL SO U ALL SUCK LED ZEPPLIN IS BETTER THE JUSTIN BIEBER STUPID SONGS~
ohh yeah.... this silly little tramp is just so cool herself. who the hell is she anyway? not that im a bieber fan but someone should tell this ugly skank pretending that you listen to classikc rock doesnt make you more credible. zeplin & beetles suck as well. hey skank.... 1994 called, they want their look back. also, you didnt discover "the nightmare before christmas" you only copied a style thats long gone. you probably think claiming to do heroin is cool too
god. why is everyone getting mad at taylor? ur just mad because she doesnt listen to a gay lamo named j. bieber. dorkus'. get a life would ya? .
wow you guys are ignorant, first shes not comparing him to jesus, second just because she listens to the beatles or led zeplin doesnt mean shes trying to act 'cool', and third just because she doesnt know JB doesnt give you a reason to come to conclusions
jeez.....dts kinda harsh 4 d fact he has won an award taylor shud knw him @ least 4 dt oda than dt.....talkin bout his songs she might nt knw him....nd dnt dare compare justin 2 jesus dts just silly....really silly
hahahaha she is kind of a fake like she acts like shes so hardcore but the beatles arent hardcore and led zepplin really isnt either that kind of proves that shes a wannabe i can think of a bunch of bands that are cooler then they are
oh yea im so totally cool cos i listen to led zeplin and the beatles - is like shes showing off tht she listens to cool bands
Guys, come on! You can't be mean to Taylor as she said she didn't 'dis' Justin she just doesn't know who he is and listen's to better music like The Beatles
Why are you comparing Jesus to Justin Bieber? That's just ridiculous.
ok....and we dont know u
and no one knows u too.FREAK!! I only know your name because it keeps being brought up to me. That's not a dis; I just don't know."


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THOSE OREO BALLS SHOULD BE DINNER EVERY NIGHT. Eating > everything else. Thats right! And then Pete made her drink it . EWWWWW. Quote:
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NJ DISMEEET for GKTW - PART 2!
FOR SOME ODD REASON, I woke up at six am. I dont even know why. I didnt sleep that well and plus the beds were super uncomfortable. They had this dial thing on the side of the bed and I turned it all the way to soft. Yeah, it felt firm. Not cool, dudes. So I went on Twitter and all that fun stuff until Mum woke up, or until I woke her up. I dont know which one. I probably woke her up cause lets be real now. Once we actually got out of bed, Mum hopped in the shower and I spun around in the chair. For like 20 minutes until I was so dizzy I was about to fall over. And plus I almost fell over in the chair about 10 times. Im surprised I dont have bruises or anything. Im nuts. After Mum got out of the shower, I took one, put my makeup on, and all of that fun stuff. Once we were all finished (and no it didnt take 3+ hours. Foreshadowing for the November part ) we headed downstairs to the lobby. They didnt have a free breakfast, but there was one for like nine bucks per person and you could get fruit, beverages, omelets, pancakes, waffles, etc. The usual breakfast stuff. So we did that! We saw Julie and Finley in the lobby and Finley looked ADORABLE in her little sparkly skirt. OMG I want that kid as my sister. We found a table and then went up to the line to get omelets and pancakes. Kathy and Teresa were in line with us and they just crack me up. Oh my god. They didnt notice the huge sign that read what was for breakfast and Teresa turned to Mum and said Was that there before? And Mum said Oh no. They JUST put it up. Maybe it was funnier in person All of the cooks talked in Spanish and Teresa kept asking me WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?! I told mum after and she said she should be used to that, due to living in Florida and all. Once we got our food, we headed back to our table. I got an omelet with cheese, ham, peppers, onions, and who knows what else. I am an adventurous eater to say the least. And those are potatoes next to it. I also got some fruit and a pastry thing that I thought was a chocolate croissant. Not so much. It was hard and not good. Everything else was great! Mum got pancakes, fruit and some other breakfasty stuff. She enjoyed everything, Im pretty sure. After we finished breakfast, we decided to go back up to our room and get our things we would need for the day. We still had about two hours to kill till the main event, so we headed over to the mall! I think it was called Bridgewater Commons, and it was SUCH a nice mall. Once we got there (it was only several miles away), we found a parking spot and went to CRUMBS first, and at least I think we did. Twin, get excited. Everything looked amazing in there and I was about to die. I had been to Crumbs before, but we never got anything. Little different this time around! I got a red velvet cupcake (I blame my twin) and we got a box of 12 mini cupcakes to bring to bowling that night. LOOK AT IT. AND THE BOX OF CUPCAKES. Heaven. That is all. After we stocked up on sweets, we headed to Sephora because I wanted to check out the Jasmine collection! I had seen pictures of it before but not in person. All of it was really cool, except the perfume. I am not a perfume fan as it is, and this was just horrendous. YUCK. In there, I also saw this really cool nail polish that looked like a chalkboard and then you could draw on it. I didnt get it, but I thought it was really cool. After Sephora, I forget where we went exactly, but we went into Forever 21 where I found a black and white checkered dress. I wanted to get short leggings with it, but they had none. Then we checked out Hot Topic where I got this light vest with a skull on the back. We also checked out the Thomas Kinkade store where there were SO many Disney paintings and I just wanted them all. UGH SO PRETTY. It was almost 11:30 at this time and we needed to go back to the hotel to drop off our cupcakes, so that is what we did. After that, we headed to the main event, which was about 5 minutes away. Since we already checked in for everything the night before, we didnt have to do anything except wait until the doors opened. While we were in the lobby, we bought 30 more raffle tickets. We already had 10 each but we needed more! Once they opened the doors, we found a table (the Wishes table!) and met our tablemates. The program, I guess you could call it. We headed up to the FOUR tables filled with the raffle items. There were about 140 of them! They also had about two tables filled with silent auction items. Some of the items. AND EWW IT IS DUFFY. Snow White stuff! I wanted this SO CRAPPING BAD. I put about 30 tickets in there, and I didnt even win it! It was an opening day map, buttons, AND THAT POOH PLUSH. Cute little bags! Mum made some items for the raffled and everyone loved them! She has been making park map bracelets lately and necklaces with images she finds on the computer. She has been thinking about making an Etsy shop with stuff like that. Ill let you guys know if that happens! This was one of the silent auction items. I LOVED IT. Awesome Aulani stuff! Loved these photos from Kathy! Teresas daughter Stella drew this. She did a really good job! It went for over $200 and Corey got it! Then we went up to play Where in the World after we looked at all the raffles and auction items. Some of them were really hard and then some I knew right off the bat. Then Mum decided to FLIP THE PICTURES OVER for some odd reason and there were the answers! Oh Mum She only flipped one over so we just didnt put that on our sheet. You had to pay a dollar to play and that money went to GKTW, of course! Some of the pictures. Before lunch, we played DIS bingo and we had to go around to a bunch of people and ask them if they did for example, if they have played golf at WDW, or have been on the Disney Magic. Stuff like that! One of them was if you went to the 1964-65 Worlds Fair and there was guy who actually went! He said you had to pay $7 to get into the fair and then another dollar to ride Its a Small World. Really cool! Then it was time for lunch! They had pasta, potatoes, salad, vegetables, bread, and chicken. Everything was REALLY delish and cooked well. After lunch, we had time to chill and we talked to the people at our table. Before the podcast, they announced the winners for Bingo and the Where in the World contest. AND GUESS WHAT! I was one of the two people that won the Where in the World contest! GO MOI! SO I won a GKTW bag and bracelet, which reminds me on Minnie. Then, the live podcast started! And we had a front row view. We were right behind Craig and Dustin. It was a little hard to see Shaun and Teresa sometimes, but that was ok. Like always, the podcast was great. It is a VERY different experience seeing it live. And it is going up today if you want to go listen, but it seems like they areor werehaving some technical problems, so Im not really sure. EDIT: I just checked and it looks like they will be going live at 7pm! EDIT PART 2: IT IS UP NOW! They talked about the whole Monstrous Summer thing that just got announced and the changes coming to the Magic, which I CANNOT believe they are doing in six weeks. And have you guys seen the AquaDUNK?! I will not be going on that. That seriously looks terrifying. If you havent seen the video, here it is: https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.ph...type=3&theater HOW SCARY DOES THAT LOOK!!??? I will not be going anywhere near that thing. The podcast team was saying how you stand up and then after the count of three, a door opens up below you and you basically fall. So basically it is Tower of Terror: Sea Edition. And then you go 20 feet over the side of the ship. Excuse moi while I puke. I have been on the AquaDUCK, and that was fine, but I couldnt do this. AT ALL. And of course, there was much crying going on on one side of the table aka TERESA. And I have no clue what was up with her and the M&Ms. Go watch the video of the podcast. Oh my God. After the wrapped up the show, they announced the raffle prizes, which took forever because there were so many. Lets just say I won several prizes. Not braggin here, but I am a lucky duck sometimes. If only I won that Animal Kingdom one So I won FOUR prizes. 1. The Snow White one! It came with a 60th anniversary poster from the movie which is so cool, the DVD, and two stuffed animals which are ancient. The Queen has the OLD Disney Store logo! 2. A snow globe from hallmark that is from Walts 100th birthday. It plays When you Wish Upon a Star! 3. A really old Disney board game, and I am way too lazy to see what the name of it is right now. (pics will some ASAP). 4. And last but not least, the little lime green park bag I included a picture of! I WAS SO LUCKY. OMG. And then Mum won a Five Guys gift. That you could only use at one certain location. In NJ. So we had to give it back. Nice job reading, Mum! After I got all of my prizes and such, the main event was then over, so we headed out to get some dinner. Mum put the wrong address into the GPS and we got to some random house on some random street. Sadly, they werent home to serve us dinner. SO SAD. I found the RIGHT address and we drove to the restaurant. It was called the Chimney Rock Inn or something along the lines of that. The food was pretty good. I just got a burger. Mum got a chicken caeser wrap. For dessert, I got this thing called Rocky the Bear, which was a scoop of chocolate gelato with a bear face on it. It was so cute and yummy! After dinner, we headed back to the hotel and got the cupcakes and then headed to the BOWLING ALLEY! We got there a little after seven and like no one was there. We sat down with Kevin (who won the tasycake contest!) and his fiancée Kaelea. They are getting married soon and they are going to Disney for their honeymoon so we talked about their trip, DVC, and our upcoming trip. They were SO nice! Once more people got there, we got our lane and shoes and decided to be on a team with Kevin and Kaelea. Linda, who helped organize the whole event, was also on our team. And we had a special guest join our team after. Of course, we got the lightest balls there were because we dont like heavy balls .. Here are the balls. SOOOOO, we got our names on the screen thingy and we got to pick a theme for our screen so we went with vintage, DUH. I am AWFUL at bowling, so I didnt do very well at all. I think I got a 65 first game. That just shows how awesome I am. Meanwhile next to us, Mr. Corey Martin broke the lane like two times because he got a strike almost every single time. Skill, my friends. Before we started our second game, we asked if anyone else wanted to join in and Teresa came over! Because she joined at the end of our game, we had to put her name in, but she never scored anything. So what happened was, Kevin had to manually go in and put a strike every single time for her. AND SHE WON WITH A 299! GO TERESA! We then started our second game and I dont think Teresa had every bowled before. She did pretty well, and A LOT better than moi. And for some reason, she got a KICK out of the dudes that would show up on the screen. Those dudes were funny. And weird Teresa didnt finish the game with us, but we had a lot of fun with her! Mum, Linda, and moi didnt feel like playing a third game so we sat on the sides and talked about how Lindas son works for Disney as a character attendant in MK and was on the opening team for Brave! SO COOL. She also told us how they might be moving to Florida soon! Sending good vibes her way! During our games, we got pizza, which was normal bowling alley pizza. Not like AMAZING or anything. Kevin and Kaelea started another game but then our lanes shut down because or time was up. We said goodbye to them and then we went around offering people cupcakes because like NO ONE ATE THEM. I dont even know. I offered one to Dustin and he took the red velvet one and said ¡Gracias senorita! and did a little bow. (: ANYWAYS . Then I offered one to Shaun and he said no thank you and then he goes I know you from Instagram! And I was like wait. WHAT?! That made me so happy! He doesnt follow me, but he looks at my pictures and KNOWS MOI! Like, come on now. HOW COOL IS THAT. And then Craig came up and said Youre Meg, right?! WHY YES YES I AM. CRAIG LOOKS AT MY PICTURES TOOOOO!!!!!! And then COREY joined in on the conversation! I told him Julie follows me (cause she does) and he started looking me up on Instagram. I felt so special and so crappin happy! And then Craig took a cupcake. So. Yeah. Just a little excited about that!!!!! We then left the bowling alley and headed back to the hotel. They were having an after partay in the lobby, but I was EXHAUSTED so we just went up to the room and fell asleep. GOOOOOOOD NIGHT PEEPS! LAST DAY TOMORROW ):
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For the most part Meg, I enjoy reading your trip reports. I think you are definitely a funny girl. But at times I find how you refer to others, your aunt, uncle, grandmother, teachers, to be unnecessary. Not everyone is always going to act exactly how you want them to, it's just a fact of life. When you travel with others not everyone is going to want to do exactly what you want to do. And that's okay. I think you would have had a much more enjoyable trip, if you had rolled with the punches a little bit more. Your aunt wants an alcoholic drink with dinner? She's an adult, that's her choice, so don't sweat it. The "other people" go to a different park? I'd just have said, "Okay, well we're at Hollywood Studios. If you want to meet up with us, text me," and gone about having an awesome time without them. It was their vacation too, they wanted to do their own thing sometimes? Cool. See you later. Were they annoying? Probably. Was it your problem? Only because you let it be. Not trying to attack you, I like you and think you're a fun girl. Just don't let these things and people that you can't control ruin your good time. |
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In some cases, people read posts or TRs on the boards and can come to feel like they "know" the writer, and therefore feel comfortable saying things to them that they maybe should keep to themselves instead. Meg writes like she is older, and looks older. However, she is 13. I think that is one thing to keep in mind here. Also, in much of her writing she tries to take a comedic tone. I know how it can come across and tell her so, as in the case of the comments about Ariel and Eric. However, she has somewhat of a point also. Any performer would also be able to tell you that looks come into the picture when auditioning for parts. Disney does it all the time for face characters. They have a certain look. Plain and simple. It is what it is. And when face characters don't look like who they should, people comment. I read comments very often, from adults saying things about it. I told her it wasn't nice to comment what she did about their looks. But I don't think someone needs to use their very first post on the boards to tell someone that. Or, perhaps they needed a new screen name in order to do it. As far as commenting on her family, well, I was almost as annoyed as she was for much of the trip. You don't know them, or all of the details, but let me assure you, it wasn't pleasant at all at times, and I can normally get along with, or at least tolerate a lot. When you have an ADR on Thanksgiving for everyone, and they decide to go to another park because they don't listen, then yeah, it becomes everyone's issue. Or when you let them know getting to the park at opening will be much better as far as being less crowded, and they show up at 11 and complain to you about everything, and how long the lines are....yes, it affects our trip as well. It certainly would have been better to let them go off on their own, but that is not what they wanted to do, not knowing where anything was. Of course I am biased, being Meg's mom and all, but I know what a great kid she is. She is smart, funny, and sweet. She would never be disrespectful to a teacher, or any adult in person, and really, if she says "oh, my stupid teacher gave us homework..." well, do you know many kids who don't say stuff like that? She's not saying it TO the teacher! She loves Disney, and with all of her knowledge about it, and passion for it, I think she will make a great CM someday. So, she says a few things on her TR that sound negative to some. Just today, we read another TR where the girl was "called out" for being too positive. My thought is, in either case, and in general, if you don't like what someone is writing, just stop reading it.
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OK. Wait a minute ... she's only 13 ?? I thought she was older - maybe 15 or 16. Not that that is problem, but Wow. Meg, you are so smart and your writing is amazing for your age. You have better grammar and spelling than most adult people here.
I think you are hilarious and precious and I like you a whole bunch. And just like everyone ..... you are entitled to your opinion and if you want to express it, that is just fine. If someone disagrees with you, that is fine, too. But in the end, that is THEIR problem and not yours. Keep on keeping on, girl !! Thanks for the Dismeet update. I can't wait to listen to the podcast on the way to work tomorrow. How cool that you got to met all the Podcast peeps. Someone pass the bread, because I am jelly !! Thanks for sharing this with us !!
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Oh and I love your Mum's bracelets and stuff. I would love to see more !!
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I'm pretty sure she wrote and posted what she did knowing that they potentially could find it and read what she wrote about them. I think she took this risk as a calculated one.
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You're entitled to your opinion, just as anyone else. But, I guess our feelings are different about posting in an open forum...I know quite a few people who have left the Dis because they were tired of bickering, and negative comments, etc. on many threads, so personally I try just not to even comment on something I don't like. Me pointing out something is most likely not going to change a stranger's behavior. While I realize that you were trying to be constructive by saying good things as well, many kids don't see it that way; they just hear the negative.
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It sounds like you had a really great time at the meet! What's your instagram name? I would love to follow you too, if that's not creepy or anything...
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Meg I love it ,that dismeet sounds super awesome!! I'm glad you had a great time.
To your mom-YOU GO GIRL!! To be honest if someone was being negative to my kids I would"ve went seriously Momma bear on them and it wouldn't be good. Here is what I think-a TR is meant to be your story so you tell it your way,if people don't like it they don't have to read it that simple.No one I don't care who they are or where they are has a right to judge you like that.My gran used to say "sweep your own porch before you look at mine" Everyone in their life says or does something that others won't like,it happens.I really don't think that makes you a bad person at all.Meg has a mom and if she sees something wrong with whats being said or done,then I'm sure she'll handle it. Meg I think you're hilarious and I used to pick on my mom too,It's clear to me that you n your mom have an awesome relationship.Don't let others get to you because there are far worse things you could be doing.Keep up the good work girl! P.S chocolate croissants forever!
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I said I wouldn't post again but I feel the need to stick up for myself and clarify my remarks. I wasn't trying to be negative with Meg, hurt her feelings or judge her. I actually posted that I like her and think she's funny. I appreciate and enjoy reading how excited she gets over all things Disney .My remarks were only meant to be helpful and I apologize if it comes across otherwise.
I've dealt with my share if unpleasant vacation partners and learned that I have a much better time if I focus on having fun and try to ignore the "other people." At 13 (and I did think she was closer to 16-17) I can see how that might be a difficult thing to do. I don't think my original post attacked her. But Meg, if you felt attacked, I'm sorry. Back to lurkdom. Hakuna Matata everyone. Last edited by MyPrinceWillCome; 05-01-2013 at 11:21 AM. |
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PS I'm also super jealous of your trip! Missing school for Disney is essential some/most times.
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Dramatic Menu Theme: A hybrid digital / orchestral style theme, based on some dramatic string sections and deep digital percussion elements. Perfect for use in game menus, but off course you could also use this for any other type of media.
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