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Consumer Reports has released its annual ranking of the best and worst cell phone carriers in the nation, and the results may surprise you!
Tiffany Ava Mitchell, a 28 year old former psychic from Florida, seems to have been unable to look far enough into her future to avoid being punched in the face by Lindsay Lohan early Thursday morning.
The rest of us, however, definitely saw it coming.
The figurative–and literal–car wreck that is Lindsay Lohan will soon be charged with three crimes in Santa Monica according to information leaked to TMZ today by law enforcement sources. After slamming her Porsche (below) into a semi truck last June on California's infamous Pacific Coast Highway, Lohan allegedly lied to cops about being a passenger in the car rather than the driver in order to, once again, avoid taking responsibility for yet another of her ridiculous escapades.
According to TMZ, the crimes LiLo faces in relation to the car accident are as follows:
If Lohan is given the maximum penalty attached to each of these accusations, she faces up to 1 year and 9 months in jail.
Apparently unsatisfied with such a trivial potential amount of time behind bars, Lohan sucker-punched the aforementioned psychic in the face in New York after getting into an argument at a Manhattan nightclub with one of its patrons. The victim, Mitchell, called police after accidentally finding herself in the middle of a brawl between the actress and an unidentified club-goer and, subsequently, assaulted via a punch to the face.
After slipping into a back alley to avoid the police, the 26 year-old "Liz & Dick" star was finally apprehended by law enforcement officials outside the club around 4am and will most likely face misdemeanor assault charges in a New York court (a video of Lohan being led away from the club in handcuffs is below for your viewing amusement).
This isn't the first time Lohan has wreaked havoc around the streets of Manhattan. If you recall, the ever-so-classy former child star was accused of hitting a guy with her car two months ago in the same city and also of choking out another New Yorker in September after he took pictures of her on his cell phone–both of these cases were eventually dropped, of course.
Lohan's past run-ins with the law beg the question, Nation:
Will Lindsay ever do hard time for her ever-accumulating crimes?
Since the first diagnosed case of the autoimmune disease known as Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 1849, scientists have worked tirelessly in search of a cure, but it wasn't until microbiologist Stephen Miller and bioengineer Lonnie Shea began working together—over 160 years after that first MS diagnosis—that a scientific breakthrough leading to a successful treatment was finally reached.
Approximately 2.1 million individuals in the world suffer from Multiple Sclerosis, a disease that damages the myelin sheaths that cover and protect nerve cells found in the brain, optic nerve, and spinal cord and can result in any number of horrifying symptoms, such as: muscle spasms, numbness, inability to move arms or legs, stool and urine leakage, blindness, memory loss, hearing loss, slurred speech, and trouble swallowing, to name a few.
Autoimmune disorders such as MS occur when a type of white blood cell within the body (called T-cells) mistake the body's own tissues for a foreign substance and attack them. Currently, the treatments offered to patients suffering from autoimmune diseases involve the use of medications which suppress the immune system entirely. These drugs "leave patients susceptible to infections and increase their risk of cancer as the immune system's normal ability to identify and destroy aberrant cells within the body is compromised".
Obviously, this form of treatment is not ideal and many patients with MS choose to opt out of the current treatment because of these dangerous side effects.
It is due to this lack of current options for sufferers of Multiple Sclerosis that Miller and Shea, two professors at Northwestern University, decided to join forces in researching the disease after receiving funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). The two scientists, along with a team of Australian and Californian researchers, were commissioned "to come up with a novel way of repressing only the part of the immune system that causes autoimmune disorders while leaving the rest of the system intact".
And they have succeeded.
The details of this innovative and truly awe-inspiring scientific development were published this past Sunday, November 18th, in Nature Biotechnology, an online scientific journal. Using advanced nanotechnology, the scientists were able to create a biodegradable nanoparticle that "tricks the immune system into stopping its attack on myelin", the sheaths surrounding nerve cells. When the nanoparticles were attached to myelin antigens and injected into lab mice during an experiment conducted by Miller and Shea, the immune system was effectively reset to normal and no longer viewed the myelin as a foreign invader in the body.
The best part about this breakthrough?
According to Stephen Miller: "The beauty of this new technology is it can be used in many immune-related diseases. We simply change the antigen that's delivered." Among these "many" autoimmune diseases, Diabetes Type 1, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and even allergies and asthma are speculated to benefit–and hopefully be cured eventually–by this treatment.
Your turn, Nation:
How excited are you about this breakthrough?
Do you know anyone with an autoimmune disease and, if so, are they considering seeking this form of treatment?
Nation, meet the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer: a $3 billion warship so advanced that once it is deployed (in either 2014 or 2015) it will be "the most technologically sophisticated warship ever to hit the water": equipped with dual 155-millimeter guns controlled by a computer, "a battery of SM-2 antiaircraft missiles, surface-targeting Tomahawks, missile-destroying ESSM interceptors, […] vertically launched ASROC antisubmarine torpedoes", and "an electromagnetic railgun, which uses a magnetic field and electric current to fire a projectile at several times the speed of sound".
Described both as a "rebirth…of Windows" and "the single riskiest project that Microsoft has ever embarked upon", Windows 8 is redefining the way PC-users interact with their computers.
The list of texting acronyms added to the Oxford English Dictionary has been steadily growing with each passing year–beginning with the induction of the shorthand "OMG", "LOL, "IMHO", "FYI", "TMI", and "BFF" in 2011–and has led to a 'battle' of sorts between texting enthusiasts whose everyday conversations are full of these abbreviations, language purists who fear change, and every type of person in between.
Hulk Hogan has finally made public the dirty details of the recently leaked sex tape which features the Hulkster himself (YEAH, BROTHER!!!) and—until now—an unnamed woman with enormous melons.
Anyone remember hearing the story of the otherwise healthy baby born without a brain in 2008?
Or what about the story revealing that the cast of Jersey Shore made more money in one television season than the President makes in an entire year?
Well, if you take comfort in knowing that the possession of higher brain function is not necessary for survival in this world, then this is the story for you!
I'm willing to bet that we've all experienced the same type of dream (or, rather, nightmare) at some point in our lives in which we were thrown into a situation with no idea who we were, where we were, what was happening, or who exactly the people around us might have been. Much like in these dreams, the unbearable confusion and disorientation that occurs during moments of nightmarish uncertainty can become all too real as we age—and this time, without the hope of eventually waking up.
What's better than a sexy female?
Trick Question: Nothing.
…unless that sexy girl has a Facebook and a Tumblr and an iPhone and human compassion which enables her to share these sexy often semi-nude photos with the world.
Man, woman, or tranny–gay, straight, or bi–you're not gonna wanna miss out on this delicious eye candy featured in the gallery below!
You know how they say 'first the worst'?
It's true.
I'm not sure if you've seen the jumble of confusion that claims to be an ad for FaceBook (video embedded for your viewing…pleasure? That doesn't seem like the right word…I'm so confused), but it sure is something else.


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OPAL, Wyo. — A fire continued to burn two days after an explosion at a gas processing plant near the western Wyoming town of Opal.
Officials shut off gas to the plant but continued to wait Friday for remaining gas to burn off.
No one was hurt in Wednesday's blast and ensuing fire at the Williams Energy facility. The explosion prompted officials to evacuate the 95 or so residents of nearby Opal.
Local officials allowed residents to return home beginning Thursday.
Lincoln County spokesman Stephen Malik said Friday that emergency officials continue to watch for any dangers to nearby residents.
The gas plant processed almost a billion cubic feet of gas per day. The gas went by pipeline to the West Coast and as far east as Ohio.


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The current issue of Mother Jones includesan article by Justine Sharrock on post-exposure prophylaxis. "Post-exposure prophylaxis," or PEP, is the technical term for preventing HIV infection AFTER a person may have been exposed to the virus. As noted in the Mother Jones article, PEP typically involves a month-long regimen of HIV meds started within 72 hours (3 days) after a potential exposure to HIV. Although I applaud Mother Jones for helping to raise awareness about this important prevention approach, I do have some serious reservations about the information in the article. My first concern is with the article's title: "The HIV Morning-After Pill." Although early in the article Justine Sharrock describes PEP as a month-long drug regimen, it isn't clear that this is the "morning-after pill" the title referred to. It can be very confusing for people to read about a "morning-after pill" without an immediate, explicit clarification that PEP actually involves many pills taken over the course of a month. I was also disappointed that Sharrock cited the experience of a man ("Danny") who received PEP in 2000 rather than describing a more recent PEP experience. A lot has changed in both HIV treatment and PEP during the 8 years since Danny received PEP. For one thing, although Danny was treated with a two-drug regimen, the CDC's PEP recommendations call for a three-drug regimen. In addition, Sharrock describes the PEP meds as "toxic" and says Danny suffered "debilitating nausea and fatigue" during his month-long regimen. Even in 2000, I wouldn't have described the typical side effects of the then-available meds in those extreme terms. In 2008, there are newer, very-well-tolerated HIV meds and regimens. So I don't think it's helpful to focus on the toxicities of old regimens now. In fact, focusing on severe drug toxicities could have the undesirable effect of discouraging people from using PEP. I also don't think that Sharrock got things quite right in her description of how the HIV drugs work. Basically, all of the available HIV meds are designed to interfere with the life cycle of the virus and keep it from making new copies of itself. Since PEP involves giving people HIV meds soon after a possible exposure to the virus, the goal is to shut down the growth of any HIV before it has a chance to become established in the body. Finally, I don't think that the availability of PEP is really quite as limited as Sharrock describes. As she notes, since 2005, the CDC has recommended the appropriate use of PEP for high-risk non-occupational exposures to HIV. (Such exposures would include unprotected anal or vaginal sex, condom breakage or slippage, sexual assault, and the sharing of injection-drug equipment.) So I would expect that many doctors, hospitals, and clinics follow the CDC guidelines and make PEP available to their patients - even in states that don't have official policies in place endorsing non-occupational PEP. In closing, I'd like to comment briefly on what I believe is a major shortcoming of the CDC non-occupational PEP guidelines: They don't reflect the significant advances in HIV treatment that have occurred in the 3+ years since the guidelines were issued in January 2005. When treating people with HIV, many doctors rely on the latest treatment guidelines issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The DHHS HIV treatment guidelines for adults and adolescents are generally updated at least once a year. Unfortunately, the HIV drugs listed in CDC's 2005 nPEP recommendations reflect DHHS's now-obsolete 2004 guidelines for HIV treatment. For example, the list of "preferred regimens" in the nPEP guidelines is missing some drugs that are now included among the preferred regimens in DHHS 2008 treatment guidelines. Conversely, the nPEP guidelines also include as preferred regimens some combinations that are no longer favored in DHHS's current guidelines. So I think there's good reason to argue that the list of preferred regimens in the official nPEP guidelines is out of date and should be revised as soon as possible. To avoid the need for continuous updating, any revised CDC PEP guidelines could simply recommend that doctors review the latest DHHS treatment guidelines when choosing a PEP regimen with their patients. |
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The Election Commission of India (EC) has provided a major relief to poor patients suffering from major diseases and receiving treatment in different hospitals in the State. The model code of conduct will not be applicable with regard to disbursement of money to poor patients from the Chief Minister's Medical Relief Fund.
Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath on Tuesday said: "The model code of conduct will not apply in cases related to health." Following the enforcement of the model code of conduct from March 20, the government has not cleared nearly 4,000 applications submitted by relatives of patients seeking relief for treatment of poor patients in government-run hospitals. The office of the Joint Secretary to the Chief Minister has received more than 400 applications from poor patients after March 20, officials in the government told The Hindu.
The Chief Minister's Medical Relief Fund, which was set up with the objective of funding medical treatment of people below the poverty line, has provided aid for treatment of various diseases to more than 75,000 people during the last four years.
Joint Secretary to the Chief Minister, H.R. Mahadev, said the government has provided relief to about 20,000 poor patients in the last one year.
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So stock up on tofu and edamame.
Your heart craves tofu. Soy doesn't just reduce cholesterol: Bulking up on the protein can lower your blood pressure, Tulane University scientists report.
In their study, 302 adults with elevated blood pressure added a daily cookie to their diet. Half got one baked with 40 g of soy protein and the rest munched on one made with wheat. After 4 months, the soy group's blood pressure dropped by about 4 points, while the wheat eaters' stayed the same.
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1 cup water
1 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
4 cups ground cherries, husked
I used this recipe for an entirely different berry, but wanted to share it so that others might adapt for thier own needs. I was making individual pineapple upside-down cakes and wanted a cherry sauce to drizzle over them. I used this recipe, substituting black cherries for the ground cherries. I also allowed it to reduced down to a beautiful thick sauce. The black cherries I used were run through the food processor to a nice small chunked size. It was a beautiful presentation and the spices in this recipe were the perfect compliment to the pineapple and sweetness of the cakes. Wonderful!Thank you for giving me a great start to a wonderful sauce.
this was delicious! I used half frozen dark sweet cherries and half frozen cranberries (finely chopped in a blender) and then added some chopped fresh raspberries to the finished product. I also used 1/2 cup lemon juice and half a cup of water to make it a little more tangy. The spices are amazing with my version as well and it made the perfect topping for vanilla ice cream... highly recommended!
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I used the sauce as a ham glaze. Delicious! The flavor is sweet but piquant and much better than canned pineapple. Two changes: I crushed the cherries in the saucepan so the pulp would simmer into the other ingredients. I also divided the sauce to use half for basting and half for spooning over the finished meat. Otherwise, no changes. Everybody raved.
This recipe is perfect. Our Cherry tree had a bumper crop this year. Made this, added the lemon juice as one reviewer suggested and put it over Vanilla Bean ice cream on a super hot day here. Wonderful! Just right, love it. Next will be using it as a glaze on some steaks on the grill.
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21st Sep 2000, 12:56 PM
How to make weapons hidden?
If I set weapons to bHidden = True, they aren't hidden in the game :(((
21st Sep 2000, 04:13 PM
You can go into the in game options and for the weapon view option choose hidden instead of right.
22nd Sep 2000, 01:25 AM
I think he's asking how to make weapon pickups hidden, so they are kind of a secret. I'm not sure how though...
22nd Sep 2000, 12:31 PM
Oh, silly me; I guess you have to specific with me since I am fairly dense.
Anyhow, you can't. Even if you do get the pickups to be hidden when you play a level... as soon as you put it online, and someone runs it on a server (or you on your server) the server will make it so everyone can see the weapon.
I know this used to be a problem with rotating weapons in unreal 1.
Your best bet is to put them in a walkthrough wall or something.
22nd Sep 2000, 04:55 PM
OW damn...
Would it work if I set their mesh to "none"?
BTW: I've lots of custom graphix used for weapons and pickups (my map is called CTF-Wolfenstein so I use wolf's medkittexture and ammoboxes, and levelup for superhealth,...)
Do the servers keep these graphics for them??
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I think those will keep, though really the main thing that you have to do test it out.
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I have finally finished translating quota tools into Czech language. Gzipped Czech PO catalogue with latests messages from git master HEAD is attached.
I found various obstacles in quota internationalization. If you are interested how to improve it, read the TODO and FIXME comments in the file.
Petr Písař
Compressed Czech translation
Jan Kara
Thanks. I've added the file and also fixed some of the issues with messages which were easier to fix.
Regarding your plural questions - is there a standard way how to solve this?
There are two duplicated messages - is that a problem?
Also I'm not sure what should be done with the fact that printf counts bytes and not characters... Maybe I could internationalize the format string.
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Gettext can handle plural forms for a single counter using ngettext(3) function. I'm not sure whether you need adding the function name to xgettext -k explicitly. There is no standard short-cut macro like _() for gettext(). Common practice is call ngetext() directly.
Duplicated message is not a problem itself. However if you unified the three messages, translators would need to translate it only once.
Counting bytes by printf() is ugly. Standard library does not provide an easy variant of printf(3) to measure text width correctly. However it provides functions combining them enables programmer to implement it. There is important fact that counting characters is not enough. You need count columns on the terminal because some characters are invisible (e.g. word joiner) and some characters occupy more columns (e.g. CJK symbols). The functions are wcwidth(3) and mbrtowc(3). You can see how I use them at
<http://repo.or.cz/w/shigofumi.git/blob/HEAD:/src/utils.c> in functions localewidth() or fnprintf().
Localizing formate string could be another option but I think there is non-trivial problem when switching from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-* encoding. Then number of bytes of translated message differ, but this is nothing a translator could solve because this is done at run-time. Also glibc translitarates some characters in this case (e.g. … → ... or " → ,,).
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I saw how you fixed the type2name(). Unfortunately this is not enough.
If you call _(type2name(type)), then it results e.g. into gettext("user"), however the "user" string does not present in catalog of translations because the string is not found by xgettext because it's not denoted by a symbol recognized by xgettext:
#define INITQFNAMES { \ "user", /* USRQUOTA */ \ "group", /* GRPQUOTA */ \ "undefined", \ }
Static string i18n is done so:
#define N_(x) (x)
#define INITQFNAMES { \
N_("user"), /* USRQUOTA */ \
N_("group"), /* GRPQUOTA */ \
N_("undefined"), \
printf("%s", _(type2name(1)));
and running xgettext -k_ -kN_.
And actually this is still problematic for some languages. E.g flexive languages like Czech require different translations for different cases or numbers which cannot be solved by this gluing words (e,g "Could not set %s quota"). However I understand it's hard problem and it's not worth complicating quota code.
Jan Kara
Thanks for info. I've fixed the type2name() localization I think. I'll have a look at the plurals sometime later.
Regarding printf - well, but then easy and obvious printf is converted to a sequence of commands whose only purpose is to print a single line where each word begins on a given column. That doesn't sound too attractive. But I think in this particular case, I can just make that printf a single string padded with spaces as needed and translators can deal with it. As you say there are possible problems with locale but in this particular case I can hardly imagine someone would use something else than standard letters + accents and these should result in a fixed number of columns used regardless of locale.
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Compressed Czech translation for 4.01
Petr Písař
I've updated Czech translation for quota-tools 4.01. I've circumvented the "%s quota file" by translating it as "kvótový soubor pro třídu %s", where %s is user/group/undefined, translated as uživatel/skupina/neurčeno. And that, I think, is sufficient.
Jan Kara
Jan Kara
Somehow I think I missed the update of the translation. Updated now.


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Same eczema-soothing power, now easier to find at the shelf! Cetaphil RestoraDerm® Eczema Calming Body Moisturizer is formulated to moisturize and bring soothing relief to atopic skin and symptoms associated with eczema. Its advanced technology helps to repair your skin's protective barrier and promotes hydration for even the toughest skin conditions like eczema, atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, cradle cap, and more.
• Soothes, replenishes and protects very dry and eczema-prone skin for long-lasting relief
• Unique combination of patented ceramide and Filaggrin technology™ that's clinically proven to help strengthen skin's protective layer
• Helps restore skin moisture
• Safe even for babies as young as three months
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Kim (Submitted on 14th Jan 2015)
My husband has very bad eczema on his stomach, back and legs. I purchased this product on a recommendation from my friend. After using a couple of bottles on a regular basis, it totally cleared it up. I definitely recommend trying it.
Unknown (Submitted on 21st Dec 2014)
I've tried so many lotions, and had many issues with them. Finally cetaphil puts one out and works with no problems. Skin feels great and not irritated or red! Only 4 stars because it's hard to get in stores and expensive.
Hill (Submitted on 19th Dec 2014)
I really was hoping that the Cetaphil Restora-derm lotion would be my miracle cream but sadly it's not :( I used it on my face to calm my eczema and it left me red and itchy. The formula is still not sensitive enough for my skin.
Cathie (Submitted on 3rd Dec 2014)
Thank you first of all God!!! For opening my eyes and leading me to buy this for my kids!!! My kids have severe eczema, i have to put aquaphor, steroid creams and cortizone tocalm their skin and still wont work. But when I saw this on the shelf I was literally staring at it if I'm gonna buy it or not. Then I asked the cashier if I can return if it won't work. But thanks goodness!! It really works!!! My kids are happier with their smoother skin now!! Thanks Cetaphil! Continue the great work!
Tesia (Submitted on 25th Nov 2014)
A coworker told me about the Restoraderm line. She recommended because we both have eczema and this product has helped her skin clear up. I bought 3 bottles from her testimony alone. I had not tried the product myself. It was risky, but my expectations have been surpassed 10 fold! I've been searching for a product to sooth my eczema but not clog my acne prone skin. This is it! My skin has never been smoother. After application, it does appear to leave an oily look to my face, but once the moisturizer dries, there is no indication it was there at all except for my smooth skin. I won't be buying any other moisturizer; this is the best I have found!
Damaris (Submitted on 19th Nov 2014)
Otras marcas tienen un olor desagradable y esta no te deja hasta una sensación de frescura en la piel
Unknown (Submitted on 17th Nov 2014)
Been using this for months now, don't know why I didn't write a review sooner, guess cause I thought it might back down on me sometime. But all I can say is this is the bomb!
Mbali (Submitted on 22nd Oct 2014)
We are based in SA and my daughter suffers from severe eczema. I have tried all the potent topical steroids and photo therapy prescribed by the dermatologist. I even tried the most expensive cosmetic ranges. But Cetaphil restoraderm is the best by far, hands down . She only gets an occasional rash but her skin is never dry even when she a flare. It ends up being cheaper for me to keep her skin healthy as opposed to loading her with dangerous steroids.
Less stress for me, peace of mind = a happy and confident toddler
Unknown (Submitted on 11th Oct 2014)
I have eczema and dry skin but I could never find anything to help it! I've tried all types of stuff. But this is amazing. My search is finally over!
Unknown (Submitted on 4th Oct 2014)
Restoraderm cream is the only cream that has genuinely helped my daughters dry skin and ezcema. Every winter she has medication for her dry skin from head to toe. our doctor told me about the restoraderm cream and after trying so many creams and have failed to find a cream that works its a relief to find the restoraderm really works. So no more medication!
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Texan By Birth & Choice USMC/VIET NAM VET
i worked for jennings for more than 10 years, they are zink die-cast. quality can B quite low. 'quantity v\s quality' ive witnessed several test guns shoot into the 10s of thousands of rounds. the early J22s can b real good guns. jennings pre bryco. killerkilgore1990 watch for a crack under the front site on that mod59. The slide tended to split bout 5/8'' from the muzzle.
Kind of funny I have a new model JA-22 that I have put over 10,000 rounds through it. I would bet my life on it. The gun in the photo looks like it has been through a house fire. Even the best guns are not reliable after being in a fire. Even if the barrel blew up it didn't do all that damage. I have to raise the bull manure flag on that one. Did you all hear about when I tied water moccasins together to get through the swamp?
Thanks for the heads up I think I have the older model I can't really tell but no cracks.
jennings is made of the exact same material as hi point. its the design thats faulty. the sheet metal saftey and the slide release. thats the main problem with them exploding. i own one they are not all bad if you can modify them to work. yes they are cheap but do you hear of hi points exploding in regular use? no. i get so offended when people come and bash guns. Saturday night or not. they can be made to work with basic knowledge of the design. i got mine to work just fine. and either im okay or i cannot count... my count is ten
its still a gun. i tell this to everyone who bashes my bryco jennings nine... would you like to be shot with it and tell me how crappy it is after? it is cheap and unreliable yes. with mods and elbow grease its semi decent. will go boom every time.
I've shot round for round with my wife and her LCP with mine. Hers has jammed and ftf more than once and my BJ was flawless. Hers has been cleaned every time she shoots it. Mine has never been disassembled.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks nothing is worth war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than his own personal safety is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless he is made free and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself" John Stuart Mill A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.


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The rum-based Hurricane is enlivened by passion fruit juice. The Hurricane may have been around before Pat O'Brien's French Quarter Bar began serving it in the 1930s, but it was that New Orleans institution that gave the drink its notoriety. The Hurricane was—and still is—so popular that the 26-ounce hurricane glass was created for it. The hurricane glass does bear an affinity to the hurricane lamp in shape, and those who imbibe two or three during Mardi Gras are certain to get all lit up.
Recipes vary as to the exact ingredients. Some call for contents amounting to a mere 3 ounces, but the norm is closer to 8 ounces, which goes a long way in a large hurricane glass filled with ice.
- 1Shake the two rums, the three juices, and the grenadine and sugar with ice; then strain into a chilled hurricane glass filled with ice. Garnish with an orange slice and a maraschino cherry.
This recipe, while from a trusted source, may not have been tested by the CHOW food team.
Copyright Quirk Books


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Tag Archives: Strasburg
Strasburg Discovery Delivered To LVA, Newspaper Project
After the passage of 80 years, let's go ahead and submit that publisher and editor E. E. Keister had a worthwhile idea-the consolidation of his four Northern Virginian newspapers in 1932 to form (why don't we call it…) the Northern Virginia Daily whose ownership remained in the Keister family all of those 80 years until last February. Presumably the new owners, Ogden Newspapers of West Virginia, will maintain a self image that boasts at the bottom of their website (nvdaily.com), "Best Small Daily Newspaper in Virginia!".
The Library of Virginia microfilm holding of the Northern Virginia Daily is strong, in fact almost uninterrupted since its first issue. Our interest in this blog entry is the happy announcement of a major addition to a rather weak holding, the Project catalog of those four newspapers dissolved back in 1932: The Strasburg News, Woodstock Times & Edinburg Sentinel of the Shenandoah Valley, the Chief Justice of Marshall in Fauquier County, and Warren County's Front Royal Record. Some 50 volumes of these papers were loaned and transported to the LVA last month from the basement of the Northern Virginia Daily's Strasburg office with the permission (and assistance, for which I was grateful on a hot July day) of the paper's editor, Michael Gochenour. Among those volumes were two discoveries not at all anticipated, one of them a newspaper without archive in any institution in Virginia (or elsewhere)-the Middletown Weekly (Clarke County, north of Strasburg) published between 1912 and 1916 (?). I've borrowed that question mark from the Project's go-to reference of 1936, Virginia Newspapers 1821-1935, compiled by the gray eminence of Virginia newspaper cataloging, Dr. Lester Cappon of UVA. His description includes those three words we enjoy retiring, "no copy known". We now know 24 copies, about six … read more »


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On the occasion of Linux's 20th birthday, the Linux Foundation released a nice clip summarizing the history of GNU/Linux … just missing a bit the GNU part of it.
Category Archives: Open Source
Medical FLOSS repository: an update from Medfloss.org
As you might know Medfloss.org (formerly medfoss.apfelkraut.org) tries to provide a comprehensive and structured overview of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects for the health care domain.
After the initial launch 6 months ago it recently welcomed the 200th project in its repository: the GPL-licensed iDART software – iDART is the abbreviation of "Intelligent Dispensing of Antiretroviral Treatment" and according to its authors addresses many of the challenges faced by public ART dispensing pharmacies in developing countries.
Starting with originally just 120 projects, the medfloss.org database currently holds:
- 206 medical FLOSS projects that can be browsed by application type, enterprise function, standard and additional categories.
- 63 companies and other institutions that are offering professional service for specific FLOSS projects
- 83 references to scientific publications about the utilization of FLOSS in health care
- detailed overview of past and future FLOSS events like the Med-e-Tel 2010 FLOSS-HC track or OSCON Health IT track 2010
… and much more useful information.
My cordial thanks goes to all the contributors that already made and hopefully will continue to make use of the open content concept by revising/extending existing information or adding new content!
For more information about the site and its objectives please refer to the mission statement or these slides. Beside amendments to the actual content I also highly appreciate any general feedback about the site, offered functionality and shortcomings of it.
Some thoughts on Flattr and other social payment services
Welcome to my blog! If you like it or me, give money to me by pressing the nice flattr button at the side bar.
Hello?! … are you still there??
Great! Some months ago I read some news about these Piratebay guys that ruined with their BitTorrent tracker the whole movie and record industries. This time these news have not been about the next industry they are about to take down, but about that they seriously thought on how money could be transferred from the consumers to the producers in this cursed "all-for-free"-Internet. The result was a new service that is called Flattr and currently still is in beta phase. Kachingle is by the way another service of this kind, based in the United States while Flattr is – as Piratebay – of Swedish origin.
Continue reading Some thoughts on Flattr and other social payment services
Share your experiences with FLOSS in health care
Are you a practice, clinic or any other health care institution that is using medical open source software in daily routine? And wasn't it quite hard for you to find the right software, to get it up and running and to finally customize it to your needs without having any experienced users or reference sites at hand?
Even a high number of downloads or a strong 'activity percentile' of an open source software project doesn't tell you anything about the suitability for your purposes and in general about the stability and efficiency that are required for successful clinical practice.
But what if you could see on a per-project basis at which site it is already deployed and even whom you could contact and ask for advice and personal experiences?
Continue reading Share your experiences with FLOSS in health care
New medical FLOSS listing/platform online
Medfloss.org (formerly medfoss.apfelkraut.org) should provide a comprehensive and structured overview of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects for the health care domain. Moreover it should offer a platform to foster the exchange of ideas, knowledge and experiences about these projects.
For details about the offered features and services please refer to the Mission Statement.


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De Bosscher, Veerle*, Shilbury, David, Theeboom, Marc*, Van Hoecke, Jo* and De Knop, Paul* (2011) Effectiveness of national elite sport policies : a multidimensional approach applied to the case of Flanders, European sport management quarterly, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 115-141, Routledge, Essex, England [C1]
ERA journal ID: 33026 – Scopus EID: 2-s2.0-79956294750
Citation counts: Scopus - 2, Thomson - 1
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Hot dogs in public, credit-taking in private: the White House's search for an Iranian domestic strategy.
Question: What do these two stories have in common? Iran Unrest Reveals Split In U.S. on Its Role Abroad [snip] Obama's approach to Iran, including his assertion that the unrest there represents a debate among Iranians unrelated to the United States, is an acknowledgment that a U.S. president's words have a limited ability to alter foreign events in real time and could do more harm | Read More »