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L.A. Redistricting Commission's Final Map: Still a Mess of Gerrymandered Land Grabs
City Council President Herb Wesson's turkey district, now with extra stuffing.
At an exasperating L.A. Redistricting Commission meeting last Wednesday night that lasted into the wee hours, commissioners tried to address a whopping 75 community complaints, re: their hilariously gerrymandered first try at new voting districts for Los Angeles.
The "proposed list of adjustments" on which they were voting ran the gamut from vague principles like "Respect and not violate the Voting Rights Act" to scrambly GPS stunts like ...
... "Re-unite the headquarters of the Armenian Diocese Apostolic Church, located on Glenoaks Blvd. and Cohasset, along with the Cabrini housing tracts located just to the north of the Diocese back into CD 2."
Making a sane discussion even more impossible, the commission "didn't have the computers set up to do voting," says L.A. Weekly reporter Hillel Aron, who sat through (almost) the entire meeting. And none of the tweaks was projected overhead, so after a while, "most of the commissioners just had no idea what was going on," says Aron.
The good news: A few small improvements were made. The most obvious being that L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl got Westchester back. (It had previously been severed from the Westside and connected to neighboring City Council District 8 by a sidewalk-sized thread.)
But some of the most obvious political maneuvers/land grabs on the commission's first draft have only been amplified to greater cartoonishness.
Koreatown, whose constituents have been most angry and vocal about being split between two districts, got exactly the opposite of what they were asking for: Instead of being swallowed whole by Councilman Eric Garcetti's 13th district, as activists were hoping, they were pushed even farther into City Council President Herb Wesson's southern territory. (Aka CD 10; aka the fat turkey.)
In fact, despite the heap of complaints he was up against, Wesson got everything he wanted and more this time around.
Well, we presume it's what he wanted. As the Los Angeles Times pointed out in a recent editorial, the true political motives behind this redistricting process are thinly veiled by a seemingly neutral commission. But each commissioner has been appointed by a City Council member, plus a few from other city offices -- so watching them bicker over voting boundaries is basically a Hollywood reenactment of our elected officials strategically plotting their own L.A. sub-kingdoms.
Like Koreatown, Councilman Bernard Parks, whose CD 8 sits right below City Council President Wesson's turkey, gets even more screwed by prez than he was in the first round. Baldwin Hills, one of Parks' most prized hoods, has now been completely enveloped by the turkey's plumage.
And Councilwoman Jan Perry's new CD 9 is a portrait of everything she didn't want: Councilman Jose Huizar takes the entirety of her cherished downtown, leaving only a little gerrymandered tumor on her forehead -- the L.A. Live district, including Staples Center -- as a consolation prize.
Oh, and a second tumor -- the USC campus -- off her left ear. Not exactly what she was looking for, reports blogdowntown:
Although this addition seems prestigious and beneficial, Perry said USC is not an asset -- it's a "non-profit private institution" with a "transient" (student) population.
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Title: | A. DOUBLING TRANSITIONS OF METAL OXIDES MEASURED BY MODR: CUO |
Creators: | Steimle, T. C.; Chang, W.- L.; Nachman, D. F. |
Issue Date: | 1988 |
Publisher: | Ohio State University |
Abstract: | The sensitivity of the microwave-optical double resonance (MODR) technique has made it possible to record the spectra of transient chemical compounds in both their ground and excited electronic states. Although the majority of the measured microwave(or rf) transitions involve strong electric dipole allowed transitions between rotational levels, both magnetic dipole allowed and weakly electric dipole allowed A-doubling transitions have been recorded. A previous limitation in applying the technique to molecules produced in high temperature environments has been designing an effective method of simultaneously introducing the laser and low frequency microwave or rf radiation. This limitation precluded measuring A-doubling transitions in many metal containing compounds. Here we report on a method for measuring the low frequency transitions by MODR using a tri-plate transmission line for the introduction of the rf radiation. The $X^{2}\Pi_{1/2} (j-1.5)$ A-doublet transition of gas-phase copper monoxide. CuO. has been recorded. The measured transition frequencies were merged with previos rotational transition measurements1 and an improved set of spectroscopic parameters were obtained. The results of these experiments will be discussed. |
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COLUMBIA — One pitch before the pivotal play in Missouri's 5-2 win over No. 17 Tennessee on Friday night, Jake Ring looked lost as ever.
In the bottom of the seventh inning, Missouri (9-7, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) trailed 2-0 but had men on first and second after Zach Lavy singled and Dillon Everett took a pitch to the shoulder.
That brought Ring up. Tigers coach Tim Jamieson said he considered pinch-hitting for the freshman center fielder in that spot, and for good reason.
Ring had, and still has, the team's lowest batting average among qualified hitters. He has more than twice as many strikeouts as hits.
His night prior to the seventh: A strikeout and a bunt straight back to the pitcher that failed to move the runner from first.
So he wasn't going to lay one down.
"He actually swings the bat better than he bunts right now," Jamieson said.
The first pitch was a fastball at Ring's shoulders. He swung and missed.
"I was looking to smash one there, get out of the slump," Ring said.
But on the next pitch, Ring rewarded Missouri's coaches for keeping him in on what would qualify as an abnormally long leash. He was one of the team's strongest offensive contributors in the fall, and the Tigers have no way to replace or replicate his speed and defense.
"What he does out in center field, no one on our team can do," pitcher Keaton Steele said.
Ring anticipated a breaking ball, got one and singled past the first baseman. Lavy came around and scored, and the throw from the right fielder went far to the catcher's left and into Missouri's dugout.
The ball was greeted like it just hit an RBI single of its own. Everett came home, and Ring advanced to third.
That play tied the game at two, and Eric Anderson drove Ring home with a sacrifice fly to give the Tigers the lead.
Missouri got two more runs the next inning, but with Steele — who hasn't allowed an earned run all season — on the mound for the two-inning save, the result was a foregone conclusion.
Brett Graves didn't have his best command in his start and gave the Vols' hitters a few fat pitches, one that went for an RBI double and another for a solo home run. But Missouri's defense was solid behind him as he worked around hits, throwing seven innings and notching his third win of the season.
"It wasn't his best, but he kept us in the game," Jamieson said.
Because of winter weather being forecast for Sunday, the teams will play a doubleheader Saturday. The first game is scheduled for a 1 p.m. start.
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Timber-clad, triangle-roofed Hanseatic houses line Norway's sleepy Vågen Bay in Saxon Bergen, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Taste fjord-fresh raw oysters or grilled shrimps from the daily fish market. Or see Bergen with its surrounding Seven Mountains on a cruise from the nearby pier.
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Asian fusion cuisine is served at lantern-lit tables on the Singapore River at the IndoChine Waterfront. Watch bumboat cruises pass the illuminated skyscrapers and the fairy-lit bars. Next door, the chalky-white, colonial-style Ancient Civilisations Museum celebrates Singapore's rich ancestry.
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Palazzo façades line the island city's meandering main waterway, the Grand Canal. Mingle with local Venetians on a vaporetto water taxi between the famous footbridges, the Rialto and Accademia, past Renaissance and baroque balustrades and balconies.
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Glamorous "gin palace" yachts moor up on the boardwalks at Marina Port Vell near the revamped Barceloneta district. Cross the Rambla de Mar footbridge to the glistening Maremagnum complex for 3D films at the IMAX cinema and the 80m tunnel that winds through the shark tanks at L'Aquarium Barcelona.
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Perhaps you have heard the myth that creativity is difficult, fickle, fleeting? That in order to answer the call in your heart, you must give over everything: family, friends, health, security? That in order to truly create, you must wander in the wilderness, oblivious to all but your book, your art, your vision?
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This new way stems from the understanding that as human beings, we have changed. We have evolved past survival and scarcity and fear to a new way. Certainly, we have not evolved completely. But this small shift, this subtle opening and expansion in our collective consciousness is enough to allow us to recognize something very different--that creativity no longer requires struggle. Instead, it is the natural result of experiencing our lives as conscious beings, awake and aware in the world.
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The old myth is not true.
Unlimited creativity is not fickle, fleeting or something to be chased or captured. You do not need to give up all that sustains you: the comforts of home, the joy of relationships, the balance of health, in order to attain it.
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When we work in this new paradigm, we don't work alone. Instead, at each of the three stages of the creative process: intention, gathering and flow we are supported by the Universe with three callings; three trances, passages, journeys, flows or fugue states in which intention, gathering and flow happen effortlessly, with intensity and humility and joy.
In each of these three trances, fugues or flow states, we go outside ourselves--outside our earth reality to a place that is beyond craft, talent or practice. In this place, we are met by guides, helpers, deities and energies who whisper to us in our mind's eye, our mind's ear; we are led by Universal signs and synchronicities that lead us to our truth; we are provided the knowing to work freely in our process. In these three trances, we are fully supported by forces known and unknown, as the Universe works to create through us.
The three trances, fugue or flow states are:
The Trance of the Muse--in which we hear the whisperings of our creative calling. The Trance of the Seeker--in which we wander the world and are shown what to gather. The Trance of the Alchemist--in which we enter flow, and transform our creative gathering into its highest possibility.
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This course is designed especially for writers--yet it is equally useful for all conscious creatives, whether you are an artist, musician, dancer, designer, scientist. It is written for anyone who sees things differently and who seeks to share their unique understanding and viewpoint with others.
In this course you will learn how to enter each of the three trances easily and often. You will meet the helpers and guides who will lead you along each passage of the creative journey, and you will learn how to follow the synchronicities placed in your path, as you seek your art and your craft. Most importantly, you will learn to move outside of yourself, away from ego and attachment, to allow the Universe to move through you in the creation of your art.
Using this approach, you will find that creativity is not longer a burden, a toil, a struggle--but easy, effortless, and the way in which you live your entire life, not just your creative life.
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Jim Moore, Lee Countyâs economic development director speaks at a press conference announcing the the relocation of the world headquarters of Hertz Corporation to Estero. Moore was one of the key players in bringing the company to Southwest Florida. / Andrew West/News-Press
Those who attended the Horizon Council�s meeting on Thursday got the inside story on Lee County�s elaborate courtship of Hertz Global Holdings, which decided last month to move its world headquarters here.
Companies and relocation experts around the country saw the county in a new light after that decision was announced May 7, said Brent Barkway, business development manager for the county Economic Development Office.
�The Lee County Economic Development Office was Googled more in May 2013 than in the eight previous years combined,� Barkway said at the council�s Mid-Year Investor Update at Lexington Country Club in south Fort Myers.
The council is a private organization that acts as a liaison between the county commission and the business community.
Barkway was the county�s point man in the negotiations that led to Hertz Global Holdings� decision to bring 700 employees and its world headquarters to Williams Road and U.S. 41 in Estero.
But that effort, which started last July, was no easy task and the competition was fierce, said Jim Moore, executive director of the Economic Development Office.
�Oklahoma offered more money and it would have been easier for them to relocate� from Hertz�s present headquarters location of Pine Ridge, N.J., he told the crowd.
Barkway said secrecy was paramount and one slip of the lip could have sunk the county�s chances.
�It was crucial the rumor mill not get started,� he said. �We had to sit on this a long time.�
Moore said that through most of the process, county officials didn�t even know the identity of the company they were dealing with � McCallum Sweeney Consulting, a business site selector based in Greenville, S.C., acted as an intermediary.
In addition to Hertz, Alta Resources, a call center company based in Neenah, Wis., announced Wednesday it�s bringing 400 jobs here this fall.
Chris Spiro, chief executive officer and creative director for marketing company Spiro & Associates, said the impact of the two deals still hasn�t sunk in locally.
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Sunny Wood VE2635M Autumn Glaze Vintage Estate 26" Single Door Medicine Cabinet
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Assembly Required | No |
Depth | 7.125 |
Height | 35 |
Installation Type | Wall Mounted |
Lighted | No |
Manufacturer Warranty | 1 Year |
Material | Wood, Hardwood |
Mirror Frame | Framed |
Mirror Front | Bevel |
Mirror Shape | Rectangular |
Product Weight | 30.1 |
Suggested Room Fit | Bathroom |
Width | 26, 26.5 |
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- Covered under 1 year manufacturer warranty
- Beautiful hand-rubbed finish
- Dramatic moldings add to the style of your bathroom
- Features beveled glass mirror
- Ample interior storage
- Solid construction and assembly provides years of reliable performance
- Overall Height: 35"
- Overall Depth: 7-1/8"
- Overall Width: 26-1/2"
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The Sunny Wood VE2635M is not constructed to be recessed into a wall.
Is this a recessed cabinet that fits into the wall?
A. The Sunny Wood VE2635M is not constructed to be recessed into a wall.
The Sunny Wood VE2635M only comes in an autumn glaze finish.
Is this available in cherry?
A. The Sunny Wood VE2635M only comes in an autumn glaze finish.
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Solid, sturdy, nice med. cabinet. Giving it 4 stars because it has a tiny bit of the 'distressed' look (a few dings and scrapes) which I didn't know about when I ordered it. That should be disclosed in the product description. The vanity has the same markings, so they match and look nice together. These markings are very minor, only a few and barely noticiable, but they are there. If you are not into that look don't order this. I happen to like this look and would order again.
Date published: 2013-03-28
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Travel back to prehistoric times, with Disney's DINOSAUR for the Sega Dreamcast. Loosely based on the computer-animated feature film, players will have to guide Aladar the Iguanadon, Zini the Lemur, and Flia the Pteranodon through 12 different levels, using each of their unique abilities to overcome obstacles and defeat enemies. Aladar's strength and brute force are great assets, but there are times when the smaller, quicker Zini will need to take over. Neither of them will do you any good if a situation calls for the ability to fly, though so it's a good thing Flia is with you on this adventure. Learning to use each of these characters to overcome obstacles is the key to avoiding extinction! With video taken directly from the film and an encyclopedia covering all the creatures in the game, Disney's DINOSAUR will immerse players in a world that existed millions of years ago.
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Now here's a title that separates the men from the boys. COLT Studio's Manpower is an ode to the masculine in its purest form — and you won't find a twink in sight the entire runtime.
In this title they've chosen the late-summer landscape of California's Wine Country — and you're ripe to get intoxicated with the ensemble of stars assembled.
Where better to watch rippling muscles as guys thrust into each other than the outdoors? All four of the film's one-on-one encounters take place under natural light so you can see every inch of their physiques under the bright sun. There are backdrops of lush vineyards and even a pool fuck to cool you off in the concluding scene.
Bodybuilder porn stars like Spencer Reed and Marc Dylan will definitely impress in the opening two scenes — playing top and bottom, respectively.
But my favorite was undoubtedly seeing hairy muscle bottom Aaron Cage get slammed on a pool deck chair by Vic Rocco in scene three.
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A cool, well travelled professional currently living in Lyon, full of joie de vivre and always on the lookout for opportunities to learn and have fun :-)
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Fatiha y su casa son la misma cosa...rebosan hospitalidad y elegancia, llena de detalles que hablan de sus gustos y de la mezcla de su procedencia.. Es un apartamento con mucha luz., cerca de todo lo necesario desde sitios para alternar, compras, comer ...o si te apetece coger el metro está a tan solo dos minutos... Benetan leku ederra!! Gracias fatiha porque estuvimos como en nuestra propia casa... fue un placer .
Fatiha nous a réservés un accueil d'exception ! Personne précieuse qui reste à l'écoute du moindre de vos besoins et répond à toutes les questions. Nous avons passé un séjour très agréable car la qualité de l'accueil est incontestable mais elle est également doublée d'un appartement très cosy, avec tous les équipements nécessaires et d'une propreté exemplaire. A recommander absolument ! D'ailleurs si nous revenons à Lyon, nous ne chercherons pas d'autres plans.... si celui ci est libre !!
Fatiha is kind, friendly and easy to communicate with. Her apartment is nice, bright, and the location is convenient, just few minutes from the metro station. Everything was clean and comfortable. I've spent there few days, but feeling like home.
Fatiha's flat is just as described and depicted- lovely, clean, and comfortable. The neighborhood felt quite safe, with many nearby food options (markets, a wonderful cheese shop, and many bakeries just down the street). The best part about my stay in Fatiha's flat was the easy communication with Fatiha and her attention to details to make my visit comfortable. I would be glad to stay here another time I visit Lyon!
I needed to stay for work in Lyon, and this apartment was just perfect for my needs. Nice neighborhood, great access to the Metro, and a Velo'V station just a few metres away. Several supermarkets are very near by, as well as restaurants, bakeries, .... The apartment was spotlessly clean, and well equipped with everything I needed. Fatiha has decorated the place in a great oriental style, which I absolutely loved - her place immediately felt like home to me. Fatiha was a wonderful host, very easy to communicate with, promply answered any messages, and was very eager to help. I enjoyed my stay at her apartment very much, and highly recommend it! Thanks, Fatiha!
Fatiha was a lovely gracious host who made us feel very welcome. She was very responsive when we had questions. Her flat is even lovelier than it looks in the pictures, and it had everything we needed. Overall we highly recommend it, and we will gladly stay there again the next time we are in Lyon.
Sadly we couldnt meet Fatiha, but she chooses her frineds wisely and we met a lovely group of girls who were due to come with her instead! All this was well communicated and not a problem at all, and we look forward to meeting Fatiha one day when she can get to London, hopefully soon! All the best!
Fatiha is absolutely lovely and gorgeous, we loved having her and wished she'd stayed longer! She was quite the perfect guest, extremely clean, polite, considerate and lovely to talk to when we did meet coming and going! She was very independent and knew her way around, no bother whatsoever. Very easy to talk to, intelligent and pleasant. We'd host her again anytime, and wish her all the best on her future ventures! Thank you!


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Ehm... I remember removing my 4870x2, enjoying KMS for 3 months or so with my onboard HD3300... then actually buying a 5770, taking it out of the box, plugging it into my PCI-E slot, fastening it with a screwdriver, booting Fedora 12, seeing that my KMS has gone and watching a YouTube movie...
Now that I am posting this from my desktop without using Lynx, I think that I am pretty sure 2D is actually working, yes...
THAT WAS AWESOME. Talk about excruciatingly clear. Thank you I've been wondering the same for a while. Now i can tell where Wayland fits in and stuff. you should put this post at the top of the xorg wiki or something.OK so far ?
I dont understand, guys...
Whats current opensource drivers status on 4770 and 5670?
4770 has 2d and 3d, 5670 has neither.
hd5 has modesetting.
You need to lay off the drugs pal, since when did ANYTHING *just work* in windoze? I'm afraid that NOTHING has EVER *just worked* there -- you need to install hardware driver or be stuck with the VESA driver (which they call "VGA".
No, you have the option of using the EXACT SAME hardware driver in linux as you use in windoze -- they call it "catalyst". Same code, same driver, no difference.do linux users always have to use hardware that are ten years old?
Where are you coming up with these numbers?Perhaps we could finally use R800 for linux desktop for good when R1000 releases on market. So expect to see OGL 3D on your HD 5870 in the year 2012.
Pff, so with opensource:
4770 - 2D yes - 3D(basic) yes
5670 - 2D yes - 3D none?
Its kinda important to me, cause with compiz work has more fun
And Im on all ati hardware(not i3-540, and selling 9800gt instead of keeping) for the sole sake of supporting them. I also remember "awesome" experience installing nvidia blob on debian as well as being in need to have gcc, glibc and xorg that confirm to nvidia on my (lovely) gentoo.


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By: Ovetta Sampson | Posted: May 12, 2006
Women head up to 25 percent of all households in Lima, where single mom Catalina Zevallos and her 7-year-old daughter Maria live.
Maria Bartolo Zevallos sits at the kitchen table, squinting into her blue notebook. Strands of the 7-year-old's long black hair spill onto the pages as she scribbles her homework assignment.
Despite her own exhaustion, Catalina Zevallos Cruz looks intently over her daughter's shoulder, her eyes strained from the single light bulb illuminating their one-room home. Each day Catalina awakes before dawn and walks to a local bakery to begin work at 5 a.m. When her shift ends at 6 p.m., she walks to the Compassion-assisted Forjadores de Esperanza to pick up Maria.
Catalina does this dusk-to-dawn trek alone with no husband and no extended family members, she is her daughter's sole caregiver. Despite her long day, the single mom sits ramrod straight at the only table in her home, in one of two wooden chairs she owns, watching her only child do her homework.
"I'm concerned about her studies," Catalina says. "I want her to know more for her future."
Increasing Numbers of Single Moms
While the majority of families in Latin America are traditional two-parent households, an alarming rise in single-parent households is occurring in the region. Single mothers, like Catalina, are the breadwinners for 60 percent of the poorest families in Latin America.
Experts claim that men abandoning their families, increases in single women becoming mothers, and the premature deaths of men have contributed to the rise in single-mother households. Single mothers often lack the income, resources and time that two parents can give a child. In a developing country like Peru, monetary assistance can mean the difference between a family's ability to survive or not.
Typically, single female heads of households make less than their male counterparts if they find work at all. Catalina works 13 hours a day, six days a week, but earns just U.S.$44 a month the equivalent of 13 cents an hour.
"We need many things," she says. "Sometimes the money I earn at work is just enough to pay for school supplies."
Hope Through Compassion
Necessities like food, health care and even clothing would go unfilled if it were not for Compassion, says the young mother. In Maria's neighborhood more than half the adults are unemployed and are extremely poor. Catalina says sponsorship for Maria has allowed her to have something that many families in her community do not have: hope.
"I feel very joyful," she says. "For Christmas and (Maria's) birthday her sponsors send money and the sisters at the project help me to buy clothes for my child."
Maria says she feels special, too. Many children in her neighborhood live in poverty and do not have Compassion sponsors.
"I pray that other children will have a sponsor like I have," she says.
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Trailer for the short film Time Warrior.
When a pirate version of the most popular -first person shooter (FPS) video game e.g., Call of Duty- lands in the hands of Matt and Jimmy, they immediately think is the coolest video game they have ever played. Little they know that what it seams to be their favorite video game, is actually and evil recruiting devise to turn selected kids into real Time Warriors at the service of "The Lord of War" an evil character behind every war since the beginning of time.
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Schmid-Brunclik, N; Simova-Curd, S; Kaufmann-Bart, M; Gassmann, M; Hatt, J M (2008). Liposarcoma in a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus). Journal of Herpetological Medicine and Surgery, 17(4):132-135.
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A three year-old male veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) with clinical signs of anorexia and distended coelom was evaluated. Radiographs and ultrasonography revealed coelomic and pericardial effusion. Coelomocentesis and pericardiocentesis yielded a modified transudate. Based on the poor response to symptomatic therapy with a poor prognosis the chameleon was euthanized. The histopathological examination of lung, liver, heart and kidney tissue revealed proliferation of poorly differentiated cells with pleomorphic nuclei and abundant, finely vacuolated cytoplasm, a typical feature of liposarcoma. This is the first diagnosis of a liposarcoma with metastasis in several organs of a veiled chameleon.
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Zenimax quote: "Narrowly specialized characters. While the skill system would seem to reward hybridization, there should be plenty of options for people wanting to specialize along a single track, such as exclusively being a healer." Thank f*cking god..... The way mmo's were: Community, Exploration, Character Development, Conquest. The way mmo's are now : Cut-Scenes,Cut-Scenes, solo Questing, Cut-Scenes...
I prefer playing specialized characters myself.
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honestly we are all pushed (unconsciously) toward an archtype..your a happy go-lucky fellow thats enjoys others happiness...as a rule i'd say ur a f'n healer....so on so forth the other archetypes...i see the need for diversity but i see the result being the same...ppl see themselves as a determined "archetype" so they will gravitate and take those skills to become so...they weren't wrong when they limited us with classes, just they took upon themselves to determine your future based on what attributes you wanted...they see now that they limited us in the first place and WE will determine our classes...i see this asgood news :) (if maybe off topic...lol sozz) EDIT;: been drinkin...dont know if i wrote thate write....but the premise stands...we all wanna be SOMETHING...it doesnt matter what skills u have...u willl play the game that allows you to portray a digital version of you...why i always play rogues ;) |


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LONDON: Force India will give its new Mercedes-powered Formula One car its track debut at Jerez in southern Spain on Sunday, the team said in a statement.
The VJM02, to be driven by Italian Giancarlo Fisichella and Germany's Adrian Sutil, is one of the last of the new cars to emerge and will get only limited testing with the season starting in Australia on March 29.
Force India failed to score a point last season but has since agreed a five-year deal with McLaren and Mercedes to use their engines and gearbox as well as the new KERS energy recovery system.
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WALLA WALLA -- A state board heard arguments Thursday on a challenge to regulations intended to protect Walla Walla County's drinking water supplies.
The meeting by the Eastern Washington Growth Management Hearings Board concerned a challenge by two groups to the county's ordinances for Critical Aquifer Recharge Areas. The ordinances are part of the county's Critical Areas Regulations, which cover aquifer recharge areas, fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas, wetlands, geologically hazardous areas and frequently flooded areas.
In 2010, the county was ordered by the board to redraw its critical aquifer regulations after Citizens for Good Governance and Futurewise filed a complaint. The county approved new rules in January, but the groups maintain the ordinances are still not adequate.
The regulations lay out what can and can't be done on lands deemed as critical areas. Properties designated as being in the critical aquifer recharge area can be subject to additional development regulations and limitations or prohibitions regarding certain activities.
Thursday's hearing was the latest step in the process to determine if the county has come into compliance with the state's Growth Management Act. The board made no decision following the close of Thursday's compliance hearing.
Citizens for Good Governance and Futurewise were represented by attorney Jeff Eustis, legal committee chairman for Futurewise. The county was represented by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Jesse Nolte.
Nolte was joined by Tadas Kisielius, an attorney representing the Port of Walla Walla, which has joined the county in defending the new regulations as they pertain to the Walla Walla Regional Airport properties managed by the Port.
Eustis argued the county remains out of compliance with the law and the regulations fail to protect wells and potable water supplies. Both CGG and Futurewise, he said, hold that the county's designation of its Critical Aquifer Recharge Areas does not go far enough and that "the regulations do not appear to be the result of a reasoned process."
Nolte argued CGG and Futurewise have not met the burden of proof needed to support their case. "The petitioners need to show that the county screwed up the formula" used to determine which areas are vulnerable to contamination, he said. In addition, the new regulations approved in January have addressed the concerns raised by critics and comply with the requirements of the law.
Growth management board members Raymond Paolella and Margaret Pageler presided over the hearing. A third board member, Joyce Mulliken, was unable to attend, Paolella said.
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It's not possible to comment on Chiara's code or what went wrong
because contrary to much repeated advice there are no precise details
of what she tried.
But given say -newcat121-newcat1212- the log of the frequencies of 1s
are given by
forval j = 1/12 {
su newcat12'j', meanonly
.... = ln(r(sum))
where ... is the assignment to scalar or variable Chiara wants.
But the dummies (indicators) are not necessary for this purpose at
all. A -tabulate- of the original variable shows the frequencies in
(For ' read left single quote above when appropriate.)
On 27 Aug 2012, at 08:22, Muhammad Anees <email@example.com> wrote:
tab cat12, gen(newcat12)
will give you those required variables (categorical or dummies).
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Dear all,
the variable cat12 takes the values from 1 to 12. I want to create 12
different scalars or variables for each cat. The problem is that each
scalar must take the values correspondent to the log of the number of
obs in each cat (weighted) since i have to write an index which needs
those numbers. I tried with forvalues but i did not succeed!
Ps: cat12 is a variable for occupational categories (from 1 to 12).
the index i put the weighted values (weight available in my dataset).
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This page gives an overview of the Version Control Integration API in IntelliJ IDEA 7.0. Most of the concepts described here also apply to IntelliJ IDEA 6.0. The VCS API was significantly refactored in version 6.0, and this document does not describe the API of older versions.
Key Concepts
A FilePath (com.intellij.openapi.vcs.FilePath) represents a path to a file or directory on disk or in the VCS repository. Unlike a VirtualFile, a FilePath can represent a path to a file which doesn't exist on disk. The main difference between a FilePath and a java.io.File is that a FilePath caches the VirtualFile corresponding to the path, so it can be retrieved without doing a VFS search.
To create instances of FilePath, the VcsContextFactory API is used. It can be accessed as PeerFactory.getInstance().getVcsContextFactory().
FilePaths representing paths in a VCS repository, rather than local paths, are created using VcsContextFactory.createFilePathOnNonLocal(). FilePath.isNonLocal() returns true for such files.
Revision Number
A VcsRevisionNumber (com.intellij.openapi.vcs.history.VcsRevisionNumber) represents a revision number of the file. If the VCS stores revision numbers as simple integers, the standard VcsRevisionNumber.Int implementation can be used. If the VCS has a more complex format of revision numbers (like CVS, which uses a series of numbers delimited with dots), the plugin can provide a custom implementation.
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- VcsRevisionNumber specifying the revision number of the revision, or VcsRevisionNumber.NULL if the revision exists only locally.
- Content of the revision.
The content is returned as string, and the VCS plugin is responsible for converting the binary file content to correct encoding. To detect the encoding automatically based on the IDE settings and the byte order mark, the method CharsetToolkit.bytesToString() can be used (this API is new in IDEA 7.0.2). Revisions of binary files can also be represented as BinaryContentRevision, which is a subclass of ContentRevision. For binary revisions, the result of getContent() is undefined, and getBinaryContent() can be used to retrieve the contents as a byte array.
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Ok Im not really sure why im doing this but Im bored maybe? Over extended (definatley) or trying to kill time until we finally get in the van ,drive to Logan an get on the plane for Orlando. I think thats it ,lol. First maybe some background to this whole mess.It started way back one night In January ,just after new years, we were cold ,stuck here in the great frozen north wishing we could be someplace warmer,anyplace warmer, South Carolina warmer would be a welcome treat but alas finances were such that after paying day care for 3 kids we could probably do 1 night in Bangor Maine and that was about far south as we were going that winter . We have done the South thing in the past but havent been to disney since 98 the year our oldest son was born, after a couple winters of diapers and feedings and temper tantrums he was deemed ready to do Myrtle Beach , Now to many ppl that isnt really going south in march but hey if you live someplace that the avg daily temperature with wind chill is a balmy -35 then S.C. is heaven.(we wear shorts and the locals are like OMG whats wrong with those ppl, oh wait ,Canadians yeah theyre all insane,why dont they go south like everyone else...´Well then after that trip in 01 we started planning more kids .Maybe 1 more,yeah thatd be cool ,a little girl possibly to offset the testosterone emmiting from our household.theres a limit to how much one can stand when DS is insane over anything powered by diesel feul,from farm tractors to trucks to bulldozers. Barbie seemed like such a good idea so we started trying again then just when things seemed liked our little family was going to be just that little as in the 3 of us , my wife announced that we were preg,still not sure how we were preg but ok whatever im ok with this ,happy even ,a little girl would be wonderful but no matter what the babies gender it was going to be wonderful.Well as things in our lives seem to go ,life held a few surprises.... The radiologist at our local hospital had moved to another city and Kris had her first ultra sound postponed.Even so her Dr assured us that the babys heartbeat was strong and everything was fine...Then 3 weeks late she had her first of many ultrasounds,while I languished in the waiting room woman came in sat down ,went in to their appointments and left ,everyone except for my wife, what the hecks wrong with this picture...Finally the radiologist comes and tells me I need to see something,twins i ask ,one of my big fears as multiples tend to run in my family,no ...triplets.omg..........more later ,lol i m being paged...
Well after a lengthy hospital stay my wife gave birth to 3 healthy baby girls one morning in Febuary during the biggest snowfall of the year,like this should surprise us?LOL At this point we were scared to death ,our parenting skills were lack lustre at best , how the frigg was this going to work? Well they survived wonderfully as has our son , our house and ourselves are still dealing with the onslaught.... Back to January and freezing to death, we decided that 2009 in feb/march we'd do Myrtle Beach again and started planning ,checking condo prices estimating food and feul and everything that it would take to get 4 kids and ourselves there and back when Meg watched a disney commercial ,you kno the "Year Of a Million Dreams " one and looked at me and said "I wanna see the princesses at disney daddy".That was our first clue about going back to Disney.
I probably should introduce the main characters of this sitcom,My wife is gonna kill me for this,lol. First theres my self ,"Jed C' without the millions in oil revenue ,lol then "granny" aka kris ,my wife , financial guru of the family,she can save and stretch money where my strong point seems to be spending and squandering it :confused .Then theres Mr Drysdale played by Devon our 9 yo DS who has somehow managed to amass a small fortune in 9 yo kid terms anyhow of $300 spending money for a week at Disney, I'm sure I probably wont have that much to just spend on myself for whatever I want while there. He obviously got his financial gene from his mom then playing "Jane" will be my sister in law who's hasn't been there since she was 15. Now "Elly May" ,I'm not sure who would best fit her character,one of our daughters has her beautiful blonde hair while another has her wild spirit and yet a third daughter in some ways reminds me of Jethro,lol ,kind easy going but well maybe just a little to impulsive and well doesn't always seem to think things totally through. One night after bath time 2 weeks ago the same child was found robed in nothing but a bath towel standing on top of a set of chest of drawers that I can barely reach over, yelling to her sisters "Look at me I can fly,,," Then before my horrified better half could stop this, proceeded to jump from there to the floor with "wings " flapping. How we didn't end up in emerg after this is beyond me . If they gave Air Miles there ,at the hospital, we could fly to Orlando every year for life ,free.
Im still not sure if this is a good idea or not,going to Disney.That thought really hit home just after we decided we could do it .One night we were watching "John & Kate Plus 8", The one where they go to Disney...That alone would strike fear into even the most seasoned Disney vetern.Now I realise they have twice as many kids as us but if you ever experienced multiples or a large family You kno EVERYTHING is simply a matter of survival from minute to minute,lol. Im surprised that we've actually made it to this point,here it is Thanksgiving weekend and NOTHING has happened to derail our plans, we even managed to have 90 % of everything paid for at this point even before the Loonie went to pot...scary for us,lol. You've heard of Murphy's law, well we subscribe to the modified version ... Murphy : Anything that CAN go wrong Will go wrong Ours : Murphy was an optimist......................., Our marriage has to be rock solid or else we're gluttens for punishment maybe? Dunno but its survived building a home, major career change, having our first child after years of being D.I.N.K.s( double income no kids), losing our home thru forced sale so the government could construct a new highway ( something that still makes me mad as hell), buying a home, remodeling a home( still....Never leave a new house and buy a centuary home unless you REALLY want to strain a marriage lol ) and alas the birth of our daughters who will just be turning 6 before we leave for WDW. I cant believe what a life altering experience that has been. Im not sure if either of us slept during the first year, I honestly cant remember,sleep deprivation and constant exhaustian tend to really mess with your memory. Anyhow its like uhhh really late an speaking of sleep thats where im going to bed finally,lol.
Your almost 5 yo daughter says she wants to see the Princesses? I decided to assert my authority as patriarch of the family unit and demand to take her to WDW. Well that failed miserably so I decided to change tactics and beg,this usually works better for me anyhow,lol. Normally I just do what I want then beg forgiveness after but I thought Kris would kill me if I booked a trip to Disney without talking to her first. Actually as we had been planning to go to Myrtle Beach anyhow we would at least sit down and crunch some numbers. So late one night after the kids FINALLY went to bed we got on line and started doing some research.We had numbers already for doing 2 weeks in march, one week in a beach front condo, food, meals on the road,hotels and a week spent driving both ways ,seeing a few things on the way there and visiting aunt Ruthie for a couple of days. Now we have flown to Florida and driven both in the past and I personally would rather drive, mostly because I'm an anal control freak type and flying means you do things by someone Else's schedule and since delta kept refusing to let me pilot the plane Id rather drive..... BUT the thoughts of spending 3 fun filled days with 4 whining kids in a mini van rocketing down the I95 didn't sound like that much fun either, we decided we'd fly. Now to find a flight. Usually we fly from Bangor Maine and we have actually learned a few things, one being you never plan ANYTHING during the "arsenic hour"( 6pm until bedtime when the kids can be pure poison) So an early morning flight would be much better than a later one.Finally Delta publishes its fares for March 09' and I find the perfect flight, leaves Bangor change planes in Boston then direct to Orlando. Kris had been saving feverishly but we were still trying to save enough for airfare so we postponed booking it for a while, we had cut all nonessentials from our budget,its amazing how much you piddle away on things like coffee at Tims and eating out just because you didnt feel like cooking. Our largest expense however was childcare, with the 3 kids in daycare full time it takes a huge bite from the budget and since summer vacation was just around the corner and their grandparents had offered to take them for a few weeks, we were waiting to free up that cash. Just then prices started rise and our flight went up almost $100 per person out of Bangor.What now?
Seriously, I wish my dh was a little more like you when it comes to WDW. He'd just as soon stay at home!
I think I have some of my own fathers genes when it comes to traveling/vacations. I was raised on a potatoe farm in western New Brunswick. My dad always managed somehow to be able to find time to go on vacation for a week every summer sometimes twice if the season co-operated.I think its important to spend time together as a family. I just happen to be a closet Disney fan but theres many places id love to see besides Disney.Ive been from coast to coast and up and down the eastern seaboard .Half the fun of going vacation can just be getting there.I think thats why I enjoy driving so much more than flying. Ive driven for a living in the past and even then it amazed me how many ppl were just going from point A to point B.Stressed over keeping a schedule and taking huge chances with speeding and taking huge chances while passing. Ive seen people obviously miserable in rest ares and fuel stops, why do that to your self? give your self an extra day or 2 slow down theres so much to see and do in both Canada and the States and not far off the highway either.
well we did finally manage to book flights however now instead of flying from Bangor we're flying from Boston .Ive been trying to find the prices from Bangor I had.I cant believe how much "stuff" Ive collected most of it on loose leaf paper that I keep in a 3 ring binder.I use that for all my temporary notes and rough drafts then as things become finalized I transfer those to 5 subject notebook, told you I was anal.Most sane rational people would just keep it on their computer right? Not me I'm scared the hard drive will die or the kids will somehow delete it or if I back it up the CD or memory stick will get lost , I have pictures on of the kids on stick I haven't seen in a while, lol. Relying on really poor memory I think, taxes in ,the flight from Bangor hit a high of $340 from around $250.Its lost in the foot high pile of paper on my desk ,in among st household budget stuff and those wonderful priceless pieces of art that the girls make for me that I dare not throw away. You know how that works,its a monochromatic green crayon drawing from November that once in the garbage can send out a signal to the artist so that they will for the first time in 3 weeks actually throw something in the trash and discover said picture and rescue it for you. Now From Boston we are flying for $209 per person airport fees ,taxes ect included for a total savings of about $780. I realise that it means driving for 6 hours oneway compared to 2 and 1/2, so extra fuel cost, we had already planned on getting a room anyhow,so that isnt really an issue, parking fees at Logan are out of this world and weve booked the Best Western in Quincy. They had the best deal on a park and fly and had a free airport shuttle service for $140 a night. On the positive side our flight gets in just after 10 am instead of just before 2 pm and kristi will be able to do Freeport and some shopping on the way to Boston .If you familiar with LL Bean, the flagship store in freeport is a must do if your in the area.Devon our oldest ,his LL Bean bacpack is going on its 3rd season and still works and looks like new, it hasnt been an issue with him yet but Im sure its coming when it wont be cool to have the same pack 2 years in a row even.
Bwa ha ha ha!! I TOTALLY know what you mean. I didn't know about the signal, though. That explains absolutely everything![/QUOTE] HA HA yeah I think its a really well guarded secret amongst the under 10 crowd. It might be linked to a childs ability to somehow know that the bag of cookies on the top shelf in the pantry cupboard is empty ,so thats EXACTLY the thing they want just before bed , then they can have a total meltdown. I really think it deserves to have a study done on this phenomenon
We promised everyone if they behaved themselves that we would do something fun Saturday. It tok some reminding to get everyone help clean up and eat more than one bite from their lunch plate but somehow they managed to make it all happen Not far from here in Presqueisle Maine they have resurrected the old Braden theater.3 screens ,first run movies, all movies all show times all ages are $5, large butter popcorn is $2.50 ,small $1.25 its not fancy or brand new but the seats are good and its clean . Off we went to to see Igor, everyone loved it but we went to the 7PM show so it was 8 our time and after it was over the girls were done as well. Actually all 4 kids fell asleep long before we got home,its about an hrs drive 1 way. Now when ppl sleep and kris and I can actually sit down together we can get some things done.It was then that we realized we were into crunch time . I know 4 months sounds like a ,long time but in between now and Feb 24th we have Halloween and Christmas to get through as well as the girls birthday. Its been a long time since we were in Florida at that time of year and I couldn't honestly remember what the weather was like for sure,(not snowing HA HA)I did actually the day before find a weather history link ,enter your vacation date and you see the weather for the past 7 years and a total avg. What an awsome tool . Now I was really surprised at Kris, shes famous(to me) for over packing,drives me insane,If theres a slight chance u may want it take it with you . I have loaded the van before for a one night away trip with enough suit cases to stay a month! Personally I could leave here for a week in Toronto and pack everything in a small duffel bag. I still dont get how this works,lol. Anyhow she is now going to pack one outfit per day per child with a couple of spares!Excellent. The one great idea we did decide to try was packing everyones clothes for one day ,shirt shorts underwear and socks in a large zip Lock bag, That way each morning theres no searching through your suitcase trying to decide what to wear. Lauren is impossible to dress, she wears nothing her mother likes,if you tell her its cute she will never wear the outfit again,(imagine what a ray of sunshine she'll be at 13)...Gillian is almost as bad but she will at least put on what you suggest and Meg will wear anything ,thank god. The zip Lock bags should keep certain ppl from totally ripping apart their suitcase looking for "fashion" clothes plus when you take off your clothes u can put ALL the dirty ones in the bag and if you need to do laundry while we're away all you have to do is grab a bag and have everything you will need..
Ok this is totally off topic I know but I was just outside enjoying all the different colors and thinking how beautiful it can be here in the fall. I wanted some pics to show everyone but alas I dont have any and since I dont have a digital camera at the moment.( someone "borrowed" it and now no one can remember seeing it let alone doing it) "just tell mommy or daddy where it is,we promise we wont be mad...." They"re to smart to believe that,lol. ANYHOW Mars Hill Mtn is basically in our backyard,I grew up about 3 miles from the base of it ,skied on it and have looked at it every day of my life.Then I remembered Paul Cyrs photos so I went off and goggled his name so I could put I link up to his page,most of the pics are northern Aroostoock county ,Maine but the scenery is identical http://northernmainephotos.com/root/NorthernMainePhotos/iphoto/main2.cfm I'm not sure if the link will work but u can copy and paste if you want, during the search I also found these and I'm going to try to post them on here if I can.recently weve had Amish and Mennonite families moving into the area.Recent here means sometime in the past 20 years by the way,lol. Rural and small towns it seems if your parents weren't born in the area then your "new" lol, Not that we hold that against you but some ppl still wonder if it was the right thing to do to let them vote in local elections....LOL just kidding. The pics were taken in Aug 2008 starting at 6:30 am and the last one at 2;15 pm just to give you an idea how fast the barn went up.I remember seeing one barn raising as a child ,it was nothing of this scale though. My dad who would be 91 if he were still alive hap participated in many in the area both before and after WWII. http://www.crownofmaine.com/paulcyr/stories/amish-barn-raising/ Ok I cant figure out how to put a pic on here,but theres the link,lol!
Wow I can hardly believe it ,Halloweens finished ,over with and in a few short weeks its going to be the C word gasp....Then January will be here with those wonderful -45 windchills and after that February.Then DISNEY WORLD!!!! I realize 3 months ,3 weeks, and 3 days is a long way off but not really, Devon and I went to Fredericton today and payed off CAA ,with the dollars dramatic fall from grace we should have done it before but alas we dont work that way, besides what a few extra dollars,HA HA.We were talking last night after the kids went to bed,or the night be foe ,I forget anyhow we were going over finances for the trip and how much more will we have to save and numbers are going through our heads and we're doing the OMG thing when it clicked ,really what more do we need? The dollar dropped OK I can deal with that ,god we went once on a 62 cent dollar and didn't have to declare personal bankruptcy after. Now the airfare was paid for a while ago, Disney has its money for the hotel and the park tickets, we're doing the dining plan so no food to buy,Our oldest has ALL his spending money,the girls have some already so that just leaves Kris and I and really what do we need, we've budgeted the kids $20 a day for whatever they want,if its over that limit theres no borrowing ahead but you can save money day to day and get it that way. basically its fuel to Boston and back,probably 3 tanks I'm thinking at roughly @45 usd per tank and the hotel there another $139 usd and most likely one in Bangor on the way home another $100 usd? Crap I forgot about the tip....Ive tried to avoid this topic because I know how much its been flogged before but I have to get it off my chest.I realize that tipping differs slightly from here to the US and I'm cheap when it comes to tips.Like today ,we went to Swiss Chalet,the food was good we both ordered basically the same thing only mine came with an soup or salad,I ordered soup,got salad,no biggy I was sitting on the fence anyway so I said nothing and devoured it,our chicken came, mine with mashed and a roll and Devon's with fries, no ketchup on the table and 2 pats of butter so small I barely noticed them, I asked for more butter and ketchup from the server, not our waitress but she did bring the plates out to us,I got a grunt. I reached over the divider and snagged ketchup from the opposite table for Dev, then put the 2 TINY pats of butter on my mashed potatoes and started to eat when I noticed no dipping sauce for the chicken,k this is going down hill fast in my opinion.just as I'm about to throw a snotty OUR waitress arrives, I ask her for dipping sauce and more butter ,I get dipping sauce so I ask AGAIN ,3rd time , 2 different ppl for butter I get an "oops, sorry be right back" I get butter finally. The meal was good dont get me wrong although a bit annoying but we did finally get everything.The tip? well I was really tempted to say none and if it was the waitress that grunted it would've been none, you reap what you sow with me, I finally decided 10% was the magic number for this one.15% is an avg tip for me,fair to good service and fair to good food you can get 15% now if every things wonderful you can get 20% but your gonna have to work for it.The fact that I'm going to drop 20% every meal because we have 6 or more ppl in our party,automatically, ANNOYS me to no end,almost to the point of doing the counter service plan.
I called this morning waited for about 15 minutes,listened to Disney sell itself long enough to have heard it all at least twice but its done ,well most of it anyway unless we change our minds,lol.That could never happen, I was fully expecting to get none of what we wanted for restaurants or times but guess what , we did,YAY!!! Weds, Feb 25 dinner 1900 Park Fare @ 4:45 pm Thurs, Feb 26 dinner Chef Mickeys @ 5:10 pm Fri, Feb 27 I gotta change this one to 50's prime time ,oops Sat, Feb 28 brkfst Crystal Palace @ 9:15 am dinner Whispering Canyons @5:05 pm (w bday Cake for the girls) Sun, March 01 dinner Le Cellier @4:30 pm Mon, March 02 dinner San Angelo Inn @4:30 pm Tues, March 03 dinner this was gonna be 50s prime time but not now Weds, March 04 dinner Hopefully we can do Mickeys Back Yard BBQ but alas the reservation stem isn't totally up and running to included some of the dinner shows yet Crap everyones home from church so I need to go now ,peace and quiet is all OVER,lol
What an awsome deal,stay 4 get 3 free,for us anyhow as we were planning on 8 nites anyway.I was at work friday when Kris called and asked me if I had seen the deal on here (I had'nt) so she emailed Shannon our CAA travel rep to ask if we would qualifyand we did,she had already sent the requets before Kris ahd called and was just waiting to hear back from Disney.I talked to her myself just after I got off work,she had to wait over an hr just to get through to Disney that morning.I was concerned though after reading the fine print we would have to give up our park hopper option but we didnt in the end,we now have a 9 day park hopper pass,saved $771 USD AND have the $200usd gift card so in total almost a $1000 usd and with the exchange rate hovering around 25% this was all good news!
As many times as we have been away one thing remains true,we, like an army, travel on our stomachs It seems no matter where we go the thing we remember most is what we ate so Im assuming Disney will be no different.we have finalized ALL of our restaurants according to where we will be and what we will be doing. Our first day ,after we arrive,our flight gets in just after 10 ,we plan on doing a couple of hrs at MK then off to 1900 Park Fare for dinner @ 4;45 ...... Thurs ....Chef Mickeys @ 5:10 Fri..........50s Prime Time @ 4:05 Sat.........Crystal Palace @ 9:15am then on to Planet Hollywood @5:00pm Sun........LeCellier @4:30 Mon.........San Angelo Inn @ 4;30 Teus.......Whispering Canyons (birthday Cake and all ) @ 5:00pm Weds....Raglan Road ,Celtic Music and good food @4:00 We have had a terrible time deciding where to eat the last day We've never done Raglan Road before but everything we've read has been positive, Our kids love good music ,well any music actually, but I like celtic so


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The Seattle Seahawks won their first ever Super Bowl by beating the Denver Broncos, but there is so much more to talk about then just the game!
Although, we do have to talk about how crazy the game started. Peyton Manning, future hall-of-famer and one of the best quarterbacks that's ever played the game, had a miscommunication with his offernsive line that led to a botched snap. Seattle jumped on the ball in the Denver endzone and got a safety, leading to the fastest points ever scored in a Super Bowl game.
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The game got worse for Denver from there. The Broncos, whose offense was ranked number one in the league, could not get down the field to save their lives. Seattle, who has the best defense in the league, overwhelmed Denver and allowed them only eight points the whole game. Final score: 43 to 8. A 35-point blowout.
And speaking of blowout, Fox NFL correspondent Pam Oliver once again became the butt of lots of Twitter jokes due to her hair extensions, weave or whatever you want to call what's happening on top of her head.
All I concluded from this boring super bowl was that Pam Oliver's hair needs some fixing..... #SuperBowlXLVIII pic.twitter.com/IKtKprQDAw
? Maynor G (@Maynor87G) February 3, 2014
NEWS: Five of the best Super Bowl halftime shows ever
Musically, the 2014 Super Bowl was on point. Queen Latfiah, looking better than ever, performed "America the Beautiful" before the game with the New Jersey Youth Chorus. For the first time ever, an opera star performed the "Star Spangled Banner" for the Super Bowl. Grammy-winner artist Renee Fleming sang the national anthem with the Armed Forces Chorus.
Bruno Mars was the Pepsi halftime performer, where he sang a medley of his hits, from "Locked Out of Heaven" to "Treasure." He was joined onstage halfway through his set by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the halftime show ended with a rocking rendition of their legendary hit "Give It Away." And yes, the Peppers had their shirts off.
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During halftime, people finally got to see what Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander were filming when they were spotted at Tom's restaurant: a mini-Seinfeld reunion!
It was a promo for Jerry's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee series, and after some usual Seinfeld banter between Jerry and George, their nemesis Newman (Wayne Knight) popped up to bring the reunion full circle. You can watch the full Seinfeld episode of Comedians in Cars here!
And now, let's move on to why a lot of people watch the Super Bowl in the first place: commercials! While the Coca-Cola "America the Beautiful" commercial and RadioShack's '80s lineup had the most tongues wagging on Twitter, obviously they weren't the only companies putting out high-profile ads. From a Full House reunion to Audi's hilarious "Doberhuahua", here are all the best commercials from the 2014 Super Bowl:
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Audi: "Doberhuahua"
Coca-Cola: "It's Beautiful"
Wonderful Pistachios: Stephen Colbert
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
H&M: David Beckham
Volkswagen: "Wings"
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Chevy: "Life"
RadioShack: "The Phone Call"
Bud Light: Epic Night
Doritos: "Time Machine"
Ford: "Nearly Double"
Toyota: "Big Game Ad"
Dannon Oikos: "Spill"
Oh, and don't forget: Joe Namath wore an amazing fur coat for the Super Bowl coin toss.
What did you think of this year's Super Bowl?


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Ramesh, KV and Shukla, AK (1987) Carbon-based electrodes carrying platinum-group bimetal catalysts for oxygen reduction in fuel cells with acidic or alkaline electrolytes. In: Journal of Power Sources, 19 (4). pp. 279-285.
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The electrochemical activity for oxygen reduction in acid and alkali electrolytes of carbon electrodes with platinum-group bimetal catalysts, viz., Pt---Ru and Pt---Pd, has been measured as a function of electrode composition. Electrodes containing 4 wt.% Pt + 6 wt.% Pd have been found to exhibit the maximum catalytic activity, and this is also higher than that of the individual metal catalysts.
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Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2006 |
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Tooltips and dungeon journal reflect ability values for one encounter version. Please refer to "Effect" section on spell pages to see values for all raid sizes and difficulties.
- Jadeflame Buffet – Inflicts 3600 Fire damage to all nearby players and increases Fire damage taken by 5% for 1 min. This effect stacks.
- Jadefire Breath – Inflicts 36000 Fire damage to players within a 40 yard cone.
- Jadefire Bolt – Launches several Jadefire Bolts, creating Jadefire Blazes at the impact locations.
- Jadefire Blaze – Inflicts 12000 Fire damage to players within 11 yards every 1 sec.
- Jadefire Wall – Summons a massive wall of jade fire, inflicting 60000 Fire damage to players caught within the blaze.
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