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Would be boring if all zombies did the same thing right ? :P
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Would be boring if all zombies did the same thing right ? :P
Really because i got tired of the look :P Been using it for everyday in 3 years.
And i love the bald headed max so i didnt have to think twice when adding him.
I hope this can make things clearer if you havent figured it out :)
There should be one tab where you can write it:) cause if developerkeys arent turned on it cant find the jumppoint for somereason:)
Cause i'm not gonns keep my pc running so you leech of of me:p
I'll upload to rapidshare and maybe mediafire later
Simply press the use button:) make sure you're not using god mode;)
Wich i think is mapped to "E" by default.
I hope man:) as said a million times now, it's out of my hands. It's uploaded and awaiting authorisation from moddb's staff:) so i can only suggest you contact them so they can get off their lazy *****( this probably dorsnt help me ):p
Let's just say i'm switching to an engine where im not limited to anything :P
Basicly parts of all the models has been ripped one way or the other. Mixed and match parts etc.
Faces of Bruce, Jackie, Jet Li, Wong Po and Donnie yen has been made by Ornbine. He's making the Max Punisher mod. Really talented guy.
I can tell you i wont :) I hope this update is the last i need. Then im moving on to new things.
I sure hope so mate! depends on moddb's staff :)
12 hours.. I'm sending them a message now to get their lazy ***** working.
Try to find a better pirated version of the game:p i heard this from someone else who had the same problem.
He told me he had a pirated version of the game:)
Just right click on the max payne 2 shortcut and select properties, and add -devloper -developerkeys at the end of the tab that shows where the maxpayne2.exe is located:)
The mod is now waiting authorization again :)
So in a couple of hours it can be downloaded again :D
The old download link has been removed and i'm uploading the new one now:)
Sandseeker was so nice to stream his playthrough and note me bugs while playing so i've fixed quite alot of stuff he pointed out:)
I have a had time figuring out what your bug is..
Maybe it's your graphic card that needs to be updated:)
Try to play with the settings abit:) Keeping textures as high as possible if you can. that should fix the problem.
Again this mod has got high res textures and high poly models. So if you go low settings problems will occur. I cant fix that. It will take me ages if i have to go over all textures and all models to fix this :/
Anyway! USE THE FORUM TO REPORT BUGS! I'll remove this page now and upload a new mod:)
Ragdolls are fixed now.
Trying to figure out the mipmap stuff. But i can only imagine it coming from low settings.
I can force the ragdoll problem to happen if i turn off high detail ragdolls.
I think i've found the solution to that.
However i must point out this mod specs is probably higher than original mp2's. So expect problems if you run any settings lower than the highest.
What settings are you running ingame?
Write in the forum instead mate. Im gonna remove this download and upload a fixed one.
What happens?
Good to hear that:)
Simply hold backwards keys. You are invincible aslong as the animation plays and you turn normal when you start moving again:) however blocking is slow, so maybe dodging instead?:)
Everybody! I've updated the forum section on this page!
I'd love if you could report bugs and talk on the forum instead of the comment section here.
It's waaay easier to keep track off :)
No:P Wasn't possible in mp1 and is not possible in mp2.
Enter the matrix beta has the closest you can get to it. Where the bullet just bounces off the character.
As i said... It's out of my hands.. I cant control the upload speed. I would've thought it would be done by now, but it's not.. So like me you have to keep waiting:)
Yeah everything starts going crap the day i do decide to release xD
Hopefully it doesnt time out or anything this time.
It's out my hands mate. I hope the upload will finish within the next couple of hours.
Had to restart the upload as i encountered problems.
I'll try again now :)
I never made a list;)

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Vibration after level - am I going to kill my CV joints?
Ok I'm pretty sure I can answer this myself but I want others opinions. I leveled my truck with the torsion bars and now at around 65 mph I have a slight vibration. It's not all the time which made me think it could just be the roadway. Also because it's not all the time I rules out tire balance.
I looked up this symptom and it sounds like I leveled too much, I think I'm at about 1.5 in. Maybe 1.75 but I can't remember. I read that if you lift too high the cv angle will be too aggressive and cause the vibration.
So my question is has anyone run into this and if so have you lowerd it or just ran it that way? If I run it that way how fast will I ware out the CV joints.
Btw it is a 4WD. 95% of the time the 4WD is disengaged and it's just rear wheel drive.
Anyone have any input?
First question: do you have aftermarket wheels? Second question: are they hubcentric or lug centric? Since you only have it at highway speeds, your wheels being lug centric rather than hubcentric would be my first guess.
Post a picture up of your CV shaft angles so we can see how they look. With only lifting it 1.5" you shouldn't have a problem with those at all. Especially since you aren't using 4wd at 65 mph.... I'm pretty much going to rule those out.
I wouldn't rule out tire balance though.... it's possible for a tire to be slightly out and that you're noticing it more and certain speeds. It might be worth getting those checked but first lets see if it's your wheels.
I do have aftermarket wheels. They are American Racing but im not sure what kind. They are hub-centric though.
Here are some pics of the CV Joints
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Those don't look terrible.... The passenger side looks steeper than the drivers side though. Are you sure you lifted both side exactly the same? What are your fender heights on each side of the truck?
I should have mentioned... I'm parked on an angle in that picture. I should have taken the pic on a flat surface. When I leveled it I measured the height from floor to fender and hub to fender and they were both completely even.
In your opinion they are okay? I guess I should schedule to have my wheels balanced then.
Thats interesting. I do have a small power steering leak. In the last year and a half Ive had to fill it once so its very small but it is leaking.
How would that cause it to shake?
If you have ever replaced a power steering reservoir, the process of bleeding most of the air out of the system is important. If not bled properly, a soft then stiff system is intermittent while driving. With a leak, the pressure in the system is what I call a lazy condition. At low speeds you probably wouldn't notice the soft then firm transition but at highway speeds, that lazy steering response can fight itself and in turn transfer that input to the steering wheel. I just suggested that as the last thing to consider checking once you've ruled out all the obvious culprits. Great luck in your repairs bud.
Thanks thats good to know. Ill check the lug nuts, then the tire balance. If that fails ill look into the power steering pump. I should probably replace it anyway before the leak gets worse.
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This is my Dad's favorite church in Vilnius; it is a beautiful Baroque/ Rococco style building. The interesting thins is that its tower has on the top sort of a king's crown, which makes it look very special. Unfortunately, as you can see in the pic, we were always unlucky enough to take pictures of it while it was being restored. Nevertheless it is stunning.
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St. Casimir is the oldest Baroque church in Vilnius, built in 1604, named after the patron Saint of Lithuania, Prince Casimir Jagiellon.
The church suffered many abuses through the years,Napoleon's troops used it to store grain in 1812, it was converted into an Orthodox Church by the Russians about 20 years later, it was used as a Protestant church by the German occupiers in 1915-1917. But the worst abuse has to be the Soviet's use as a museum of atheism.
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There was a holy mass (service) when I entered St. Casimir's church. Although it was a business day there were many prayers inside. Not to disturb them I could only take a quick look at its highly decorated interiors with three late baroque altars. Well, I couldn't see the huge dome from the inside. It was topped with high, the largest in Grand Duchy of Lithuania lantern well seen from the outside.
The church was open:
Sun: 8.15 am - 1.00 pm,
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On Sundays and holidays:
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12.00 holy mass; the concert of religious music follows this mass - hmm... it's a pity I wasn't there that time.
On other days:
5.30 pm holy mass (I was that time).
Soviet Museum of Atheism
The baroque St. Casimir's church looked impressive but... was not that interesting for me as there were many similar churches in Poland.
I found the most interesting its complicated history which reflected the history of Vilnius and Lithuania. Built in 1604-1618 the church was one of the earliest, classic baroque edifices in Vilnius.
The church was:
- damaged by Napoleon's army in 1812,
- turned into an Orthodox church after anti-tzar uprising of 1830-1831,
- returned to the Catholics in 1917,
- damaged during WWII,
- closed by Soviet authorities,
- turned into... Museum of Atheism since 1961. Hmm... Soviet Union used to open a lot of so called Museum of Atheism inside catholic churches throughout Soviet Empire. I just think that maybe one should be saved, visitors could see what it was. It could be called Museum of Religious Intolerance. Bad idea? Well, churches are for prayers not for museums... but... who will know about such museums in a few years?
- returned to catholics and renovated when Lithuania regained independence.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration appeared to be in the dark Thursday about a hostage situation at a natural gas plant in Algeria, where Algerian forces launched a military assault to free dozens of foreign hostages, including an unknown number of Americans, held by Islamist militants.
An administration official said the U.S. was not aware of the raid to free the hostages in advance. The administration was offering no details about how many American hostages had been taken and whether they were still in captivity or even alive.
Another U.S. official said late Thursday that while some Americans escaped, other Americans remained either held or unaccounted for. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
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Ahead of the raid, U.S. officials had been urging the Algerians to be cautious in their actions, but did not know a rescue mission was planned, said the administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
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Rezső Nyers
|Rezső Nyers
|President of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
|In office
26 June 1989 – 7 October 1989
|Preceded by
|János Kádár (as President)
Károly Grósz (as General Secretary)
|Succeeded by
(as President of the Hungarian Socialist Party)
|Minister of Finance of Hungary
|In office
5 January 1960 – 27 November 1962
|Preceded by
|István Antos
|Succeeded by
|Mátyás Tímár
|Personal details
March 21, 1923
Budapest, Hungary
|Political party
MSZP (1989-present)
|politician, economist
Rezső Nyers [ˈrɛʒøː ɲɛrʃ] (born 21 March 1923) is a former Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Finance between 1960 and 1962. For a few months in 1989, he was the country's last Communist leader.
Political career[edit]
Until 1944 he worked as a printer. He joined to the Social Democratic Party in 1940. After the unification of the SZDP and the MDP he served as substitute member of the party's Central Leadership. He became representative of the National Assembly of Hungary in 1948 (until 1953). He was appointed head of a department of the Ministry of Domestic Commerce. In this same year he started his studies at the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences, beside this he was a student at the Kossuth Academy from 1954.
In 1954 he was elected member of the Central Leadership. During the András Hegedüs cabinet he served as Minister of Food Industry for a short time. He was member of the MSZMP's Central Committee from 1957 to 1989 and of the National Assembly from 1958 to 1989. Nyers drew up the contemporary economic reform package, the New Economic Mechanism with Prime Minister Jenő Fock. After the failure of the reforms (because of the orthodox marxists' strengthening), he largely went into eclipse.
Nyers was appointed to the directorial post of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Economical Institute in 1974. As a result he resigned from all of his political positions (excluding the MSZMP Central Committee). He became chairman of the Közgazdasági Szemle's Editorial Committee in 1976. Reform movements gained ground inside the party, thus Nyers returned to prominence as part of a younger leadership. He served as chairman of the National Assembly's Reform Committee from 1987. In 1987 he became a member of the government as Minister of State. By this time, he had become one of the leaders of the MSZMP's radical reform wing, who favoured establishing a full-fledged market economy. On 26 June 1989, he was appointed as chairman of a four-member collective presidency of the MSZMP. In this position, Nyers outranked General Secretary Károly Grósz—thus effectively making him the leader of Hungary.
At its final congress on 7 October 1989, the MSZMP disbanded, and was reformed as the Hungarian Socialist Party, with Nyers as its first chairman. He was elected to parliament in the 1990 Hungarian parliamentary election, in which the newly-minted Socialists were severely defeated, winning only 33 seats. Nyers stepped down as chairman shortly afterward, succeeded by Gyula Horn. He remained in parliament until his retirement from politics in 1998.
Personal life[edit]
A widower, Nyers' wife died in 1988. Nyers has one child, Rezső Nyers Jr., who served as managing director of the Hungarian National Bank.
- Szövetkezetek a magyar népi demokráciában (1959)
- A műszaki fejlesztés szerepe gazdaságpolitikánkban (1964)
- Gazdaságpolitikánk és a gazdasági mechanizmus reformja (1968)
- 25 kérdés és válasz gazdaságpolitikai kérdésekről (1969)
- A szocialista gazdasági integráció elvi és gyakorlati kérdései (1969)
- A jövedelmezőség és a jövedelemelosztás problémái hazánkban (1970)
- Szövetkezetpolitikánk kérdései (1970)
- Népgazdaságunk a szocializmus építésének útján (1970)
- Útkeresés – reformok (1988)
- Beszélgetések (with Tibor Huszár, 2004)
- MTI Ki Kicsoda 2006, Magyar Távirati Iroda, Budapest, 2005, 1273–1274. old.
- Nyers 1996-os országgyűlési életrajza
- Életrajz az MTI 1956-os emlékoldalán
|Political offices
|Preceded by
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|Minister of Finance
|Succeeded by
Mátyás Tímár
|Party political offices
|Preceded by
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|Chairman of the Hungarian Socialist Party
|Succeeded by
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- 1923 births
- Living people
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- Hungarian politicians
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- Hungarian communists
- Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1985–90)
- Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1990–94)
- Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1994–98)
- Corvinus University of Budapest alumni


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Speech Therapy (ST) is the treatment of communication impairment and swallowing disorders.
ST services facilitate the development and maintenance of human communication and swallowing through assessment, diagnosis, and rehabilitation.
Glossary of terms:
Anomia: Word finding and word fluency disorders; inability to name or retrieve the appropriate word upon confrontation.
Aphasia or Dysphasia: The loss or impairment of language following brain damage.
Aphonia, Dysphonia: The absence or abnormal production of voice quality, pitch, loudness, resonance and/or duration. This may be due to disuse or abuse of the vocal mechanism or damage to its anatomical structure (i.e. cancer, vocal nodules, polyps, vocal cord paralysis or hyperfunction).
Apraxia, Dyspraxia: A disorder resulting from cortical damage, affecting the ability to volitionally control motor programming. There is no associated weakness.
Aural rehabilitation: Services and procedures for facilitating adequate receptive and expressive communication in individuals with hearing impairment.
Broca's Aphasia: Impaired language due to an anterior left hemispheric lesion resulting in nonfluent utterances, restricted vocabulary, articulation errors, and relatively spared auditory comprehension.
Cognitive linguistic impairment, Cognitive‑communicative disorder: Disabilities encountered in a person's language and conceptual framework that impede his/her functional ability to interact verbally and nonverbally with the environment. Such impairments are congenital or acquired.
Dysarthria: A group of neurogenic speech disorders resulting from damage to the central or peripheral nervous system, causing disturbances in muscular control of the speech mechanisms that affects respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation, and prosody.
Dysfluency, Fluency disorder: The abnormal flow of verbal expression; interruption of smooth flow of speech.
Dysphagia: Difficulty in the entire act of deglutition from placement of food in the mouth through the oral and pharyngeal stages of the swallow, until the material enters the esophagus through the cricopharyngeal juncture.
Dysphonia, Aphonia: The absence or abnormal production of voice quality, pitch, loudness, resonance and/or duration. This may be due to disuse or abuse of the vocal mechanism or damage to its anatomical structure (i.e. cancer, vocal nodules, polyps, vocal cord paralysis or hyperfunction).
Dyspraxia, Apraxia: A disorder resulting from cortical damage, affecting the ability to volitionally control motor programming. There is no associated weakness.
Fluency: The smooth flow of speech sounds in connected discourse, without interruptions or repetitions.
Hearing impairment: A hearing disorder whether fluctuating or permanent, which adversely affects an individual's communication performance. The hard of hearing individual relies upon the auditory channel as the primary sensory avenue for speech and language.
Stutter: To speak dysfluently; to enunciate certain words with difficulty and with frequent halting and repetition of the initial consonant of a word or syllable.
Wernicke's Aphasia: Loss of language due to posterior left hemispheric lesion resulting in an inability to comprehend language, and characterized by fluent non-meaningful speech.
Each benefit plan or contract defines which services are covered, which are excluded, and which are subject to dollar caps or other limits. Members and their providers have the responsibility for consulting the member's benefit plan or contract to determine if there are any exclusions or other benefit limitations applicable to this service or supply. If there is a discrepancy between a Medical Policy and a member's benefit plan or contract, the benefit plan or contract will govern.
NOTE: In conjunction with delivering speech therapy services, the speech therapist is expected to provide training to the patient, family, and/or caregivers to facilitate their participation in and assumption of the speech therapy, continued improvement and maintenance program. Periodic assessment of improvement and modification of patient- or caregiver-implemented interventions may be appropriate.
Speech Therapy services are considered not medically necessary for any of the following:
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CPT codes 92506, 92507, 92508 are not considered time-based codes; they are intended to be billed one time per session. The initial evaluation is usually completed in 1-3 sessions.
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4 They seem so casualalmost like dark snapshotsbut then you see they're totally composed. The tension between the kind of casual, intimate situations I like to shoot and the very stylized, even elegant compositions is one of two extremes meeting. People think my work looks like film stills, but they're not. I was trying to recreate that kind of rigorous stylization, but in real time. But without it being planned and posed . . .
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CLSI Publishes Guideline for the Collection, Transport, and Processing of Blood Specimens for Coagulation Assays.
Because of the many variables that can affect coagulation test results, Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI, formerly NCCLS) recently published an updated guideline, Collection, Transport, and Processing of Blood Specimens for Testing Plasma-Based Coagulation Assays and Molecular Hemostasis Assays; Approved Guideline--Fifth Edition (H21-A5), which provides procedures for collecting, transporting, and storing blood; processing blood specimens; storing plasma for coagulation testing; and general recommendations for performing the tests.
This document replaces the fourth edition approved guideline, H21-A4, which was published in 2003. Changes in this edition of the document include:
* revised transportation and storage guidelines for plasma-based hemostasis testing; and
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Mr Terry Pratt, a former porter at Leeds General Infirmary in northern England, told the BBC that the entertainer would often turn up at 1am or 2am with one or two girls and be handed a key to the nurses' accommodation.
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Mar 15, 2009 04:41 PM|Danny117|LINK
I think you should check out the how to videos on www.silverlight.net There's some really cool video and other things. The carosel to display media is a built in control you just have to set some parameters.
Mar 15, 2009 06:47 PM|NEHiker111|LINK
I just used Windows Movie Maker (in Vista but you can downloade it to XP) to convert my video from my digital camera to a wmv file and upload it to Silverlight Streaming. In Silverlight Streaming you get 2 code options to copy into your Visual Studio.NET project. I used the iframe. It also has a link. The streaming video resides on Silverlight Streaming. It's in beta but is free (for now). It has a 10 minute limit and some other limits. You need to create an account before uploading the video but that is easy also. Just google Silverlight Streaming for instructions.
The video works in test and also on my server with very little effort, just copy the iframe that you get from Silverlight Streaming. You can also use Expression Encoder instead of Windows Movie Maker but it costs $199. It does have a 60 day trial. I believe it has more features than Windows Movie Maker but Movie Maker seemed to work well and is free.
Mar 16, 2009 01:17 PM|piotr.zielinski|LINK
OK I managed to convert WMV to FLV. And now I need to play it at site. I need free(also for commercia,no adsl) player. Unfortunatelly I cant find one.
People say that http://flowplayer.org/ is good but it's not free:(
I would use silvetlight but there are limits. Maybe 10 gb is good but when I will need more there is no option to buy more space yes?
Mar 17, 2009 05:10 PM|piotr.zielinski|LINK
I have question to SilverLight. Can I add advertisement before video?I mean situtation where first advertisement plays and then proper video.
And second question. How much it will cost after beta?
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Mar 17, 2009 05:51 PM|Danny117|LINK
2nd question. Its already running production. http://www.cbssports.com/ is using silverlight for their brackets tournament.
Mar 17, 2009 08:05 PM|piotr.zielinski|LINK
Mar 17, 2009 10:05 PM|NEHiker111|LINK
I used Windows Movie Maker to create the video and publish to Silverlight Streaming. Movie Maker will let you add more than one video so you could create an advertisement video and then the other one. Then add a header, the ad video, more text if you want or not, the next video and a trailer (all packaged together to publish to Silverlight Streaming). It just has to be under 10 minutes total.
You can also use Expression Encoder (60 day trial and $199 after that). I suppose it has more features than the free Windows Movie Maker.
I have not seen any out of beta prices but the Microsoft documentation said it would be something small or free with ads. I think Silverlight Streaming is still in beta but it works now on a live web site.
Mar 17, 2009 10:56 PM|piotr.zielinski|LINK
I hope that it wont be too high.
I didint read docs so my simple question: Is there api to add video from website(like in youtube)?
Mar 17, 2009 11:09 PM|NEHiker111|LINK
The documentation seems to indicate that the price will be nominal but who know? I can't answer your other question. This was my 1st try doing this. I have heard that Silverlight 3 is coming out soon. That's the most I know.
Mar 18, 2009 11:45 AM|piotr.zielinski|LINK
1.And another question. If I decide to change silverlight hosting to my own hosting, will I able to download videos sent to silverlight streaming?
2. Does it support preview?For example in flv players I can add thumbail with video. Thumbnail displays when video is not ready yet.
Mar 19, 2009 11:53 AM|piotr.zielinski|LINK
Can somebody answer me?


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Which of those things listed shocked you the most this season?
Red Sox blowing 9 game lead for WC
Braves blowing 8.5 game lead for WC
Diamondbacks winning the West
Verlander winning 25 games
Manny retiring and now wanting back in
Rigglemen walking away as Nationals manager
Cards making the playoffs
Mike Leake leading reds pitchers in wins
Which of those things listed shocked you the most this season?
The Manny thing was nuts and the 2 collapses were fun to watch, but man the DBacks should be AWFUL. Nobody was in more disarray last year than those guys. Now they beat out one of the more balanced divisions including the defending champs. Ian Kennedy as a CY candidate? Are you kidding?
I would probably say the Pirates had a better shot than those guys in spring training.
I would say the Red Sox collapse just because if all was even, I would think that team was too stacked to miss the playoffs, let a long with a 9 game lead going into the last month of the season.
You didn't include the Reds hovering just under the .500 mark for most of the season? It was like watching someone take 5 months to drown in slow motion, just under the surface of the water.
has to be verlander winning 25 games since he only won 24
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I usually take my birth control pill continuously and skip periods for 2-3 months at a time due to bad PMS (ok'd by the Dr.) This month I missed a pill on a Friday and took it Saturday with my Saturday pill but I had started spotting so figured it was time to have a period so I waited a week before starting a new pack and during that time had a period. 2 weeks later I had some strange pink spotting that I hear could be implantation bleeding. Does stopping the pills for a week to have a period put you at greater risk for pregnancy? Normally, besides skipping the periods, I am a perfect user and take it every day at exactly the same time.
I' m 19 and have never had full penetrative sex. However I have fooled around with a boy two days ago. We didn't have sex but we were quite close to doing so and now I'm very worried about the possibility of being pregnant. I was due on my period a week ago and I still haven't come on. Is it possible to get pregnant without actually having sex? We were both naked and pleasuring each other in other means and he wasn't wearing a condom.
Am I right in thinking that my boyfriend and I cannot catch STIs from each other during oral sex because neither of us have ever been sexually involved with anyone else?
Also, I know that sexual intercourse under the age of 16 is illegal but is other sexual contact illegal too?
Could you still get a girl pregnant if you had dry precum on your hands and then fingered her? I was sure my hands were dry but I'm still worried. I urinated a few minutes before I fingered her and I can't remember clearly if I had washed my hands, I'm worried because I MIGHT have a bit precum in my pants and have accidentally touched it. It has been 2 weeks and she had her normal period for the last 5 days. I really want to know if she could get pregnant by this. I'm also worried about her too...I'd really appreciate your help...
I lost my right ovary in March from an having an ovarian tumor, I am currently on the pill and my boyfriend uses condoms. However sometimes we fool around a little before he puts a condom on. My question is...what are the odds that I could still get pregnant considering my situation? What if he pre-ejaculates beforehand and doesn't tell me? I don't always take my pill the same time every night. Is it still effective? Plus my period is a day late, so I'm a little paranoid.
I am 20, in India, and my periods are irregular: I have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. I've never had sex in my life, not even a thought of doing so before marriage. Somewhere around the the 18th of May, we were alone and talking together and God knows how, my boyfriend and I just indulged in heavy kissing on bed with clothes on for say 3-4 minutes. Before we could go any further we came to our senses and withdrew from each other. I belong to a very conservative family but god knows what happened to my senses for some moments. However I had my period on the 4th of June (the date is around 25th during regulars), and it lasted for 4 days. But I haven't got my periods this month and my guilty conscience scares me to death. I had read in some magazine that it was possible to conceive even with clothes on. I'm scared. Can it be true? Am I really pregnant? Please help me soon I'm in a big dilemma and have become emotionally stressed out.
I had sex with no condom 3 days before I started my period, AND 1 day after I started my period. I'm on birth control BUT I was at the end of my 1st pack I have ever took (taking the non-active pills) and I don't exactly take them at the exact same time every day but pretty close. I was wondering what's the possibility of me getting pregnant considering the circumstances, birth control doesn't take effect until the first month is up, but I'm already taking my inactive pills so that technically means the month is up doesn't it? Also, I was getting ready to start/was on my period, and I have a regular cycle so I don't think there's any way I could have been ovulating but I'm really worried, please help!
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I'm 16 years old, and I'm on the pill. I've been on it for little over a month, and recently me and my partner have been doing it without a condom (we're clean) since I've been on them for a month now. Question is, I'm not a perfect user. I take my pill within a 30 min. range, never exactly right on time, what's my chance of pregnancy?
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I've been on the pill for about a year now and I'm sexually active with my boyfriend. This past month I had sex with my boyfriend and the condom didn't break but may have leaked or something because my boyfriend seemed to think that something minor could have been wrong. A few days after that I forgot to take a pill until about 12 hours after the fact. Now, my pill pack is finished and it is time for me to have my withdrawal bleed which has always occurred at the same time. Today, however, I have experienced nothing but minimal spotting, which is unusual.
Also - just for future reference as I was always curious - I know that it is extremely difficult to become pregnant while on the pill as long as it is taken properly. However, if pills were forgotten or whatnot I realize that it is possible to get pregnant but I was wondering whether one would still experience the withdrawal bleed or whether this would not occur (just like a period doesn't occur if someone is pregnant). Does any blood that comes during a withdrawal bleed while on the pill signify that no pregnancy has occurred? Am I at risk?
Hi in 16 turning 17 and its my first time on here and I find it very useful. I am soo glad that I finally found help. I've been dating my boyfriend for eight and a half months now, and we've had sex numerous times since. Well, this one time we wanted to see what it would feel like without a condom so we tried it and we both thought it felt soo good and so much better, but I pulled away right before he cummed. But the next time he showed up at my door step and surprised me and we both were really horny so we just had sex, and we were so into it that we both were like to each other..."What could possibly happen? We wouldn't get pregnant..not us" so we finished and he cummed inside of me. After that we freaked out! He told me to wash out my vagina with my shower tap. So I did. We are freaking out and are both praying I'm not pregnant. But there are some factors. I had my period during and he had cancer, so his doctor told him he has a 90% chance that he cant have kids. But I'm scared still. Will you please help me. Can I still be pregnant? I am waking up in the middle of the night constantly going pee, and I'm feeling sick every morning and all day! Please help us.
My boyfriend and I were making out last week, and it was our first time masturbating each other. He got me off first (he still had his boxers on) then after I came, I gave him a hand job. After he came, he put on his boxers, and we lay there kissing for a bit. His wet boxers against the area slightly above my pubic hair but still within my 'triangle'. Anyway, after maybe 5 mins of kissing, I dried my hands off with a towel (it was wet from him cumming), then put on my clothes and went to the toilet to pee, without washing my hands first. My question is, can I get pregnant, cos I hadn't washed my hands, and my hands touched the toilet paper that I used to wipe myself after peeing. My period was supposed to come yesterday, and it hasn't yet come. I've been anxious about this since last week! Please help! Is it possible that I may be pregnant?
I never intended on sex. I was with my best friend, just spending some time with him. One thing lead to another, and before we knew it, I asked for sex, and it just happened. The first time we did it that day we used a condom. It hurt at first but he said that it was just because it was my first time. The second time we did it that day we didn't use a condom. After about five minutes into it, I asked him to pull out because we didn't use a condom. He did not ejaculate though. The next day I felt weird around my lower stomach. Is there any chance at all that anything bad will come out of this stupid decision that we made?
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A small fire broke out on the northbound side of State Route 14 at Agua Dulce Canyon Road Thursday afternoon.
Amid red flag weather the fire quickly charred three acres and forced the closure of all but one lane on the northbound 14 freeway.
While the fire was knocked down just after 4:30 p.m., the resulting traffic implications were expected to linger into the afternoon commute.
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SGI Representative Shares Insights on Citizen Diplomacy and Sino-Japanese Relations at Seminar in Norway
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Toda Institute Sponsors Music and Peacebuilding Workshop; Participates in International Peace Research Conference
The SGI-affiliated Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research held a senior research fellows meeting and a workshop on music and peacebuilding in Istanbul prior to the 25th International Peace Research Association (IPRA) General Conference held there in mid-August. ... read more
Peace and Disarmament | Aug 9 2014
Soka Gakkai Youth from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Okinawa and Tokyo Hold Annual Peace Summit
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Peace and Disarmament | Jul 31 2014
Ambassador of Marshall Islands Gives Talk, Soka Gakkai Youth Kick Off "Nuclear Zero" Petition Drive
On July 31, H.E. Tom D. Kijiner, Ambassador of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) to Japan, gave a talk at a Soka Gakkai student division symposium held at the Josei Toda International Center in Shinjuku, Tokyo. ... read more
Peace and Disarmament | Jul 6 2014
SGI-Sweden Organizes Anti-nuclear Weapons Exhibition
From July 4-6, SGI-Sweden organized the showing of the anti-nuclear weapons exhibition "Everything You Treasure--For a World Free From Nuclear Weapons" (EYT), jointly created by SGI and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), during Almedalen Week 2014. ... read more
Peace and Disarmament | Jun 30 2014
SGI-Korea Students Show Anti-nuclear Weapons Exhibition at 210 Venues
From May 1 to June 30, as part of SGI-Korea (KSGI)'s student group's UNIPEACE initiative, a specially created exhibition "Envisioning a World Free From Nuclear Weapons" was shown at some 210 venues including 150 universities across the country. ... read more
Peace and Disarmament | Jun 29 2014
Friendship Exchanges between Youth from Taiwan Soka Association and Peking University
On May 29, a delegation of 25 students and faculty from China's Peking University (PKU) visited Taiwan Soka Association (TSA)'s Zhi Shan Culture Center in Taipei for a friendship exchange with TSA student group members. ... read more
Peace and Disarmament | Jun 2 2014
Nuclear Weapons Abolition Events Held in Japan and South Korea
On May 11, Soka Gakkai youth members in Kansai, Japan, held a peace festival at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium themed "Create a World Free From Nuclear Weapons--The Future Is Yours to Change!" ... read more
Peace and Disarmament | May 31 2014
Soka Gakkai Japan Youth Delegation Visits China for Friendship Exchange
From May 21-31, a group of 20 Soka Gakkai youth members from Japan visited China for a friendship exchange hosted by the All-China Youth Federation (ACYF), continuing a tradition of exchange that began in 1979. ... read more
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SGI Co-organizes Seminar on Nuclear Disarmament Education at UN HQ
On May 2, SGI co-organized a seminar on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education at the UN Headquarters in New York. The seminar was held as an official side event of the Third Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 NPT Review Conference held from April 28 to May 9. ... read more
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The exhibition "Everything You Treasure--A World Free From Nuclear Weapons," jointly created by SGI and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN),was shown in Hastings, New Zealand, from February 18 to March 11 and in Okinawa, Japan, from March 13-23. ... read more
Peace and Disarmament | Feb 20 2014
A Forum for Peace: Compilation of 30 years of SGI President Ikeda's Peace Proposals Launched at UN HQ
On February 20, A Forum for Peace: Daisaku Ikeda's Proposals to the UN, a collection of key excerpts from 30 years of peace proposals by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda, was launched in a high profile event held at the UN Headquarters. ... read more
Peace and Disarmament | Feb 16 2014
30th Anniversary of SGI President's Visit Marked, Brazil SGI Students Hold Human Security Conference
On February 15, some 3,200 Brazil SGI (BSGI) members gathered to celebrate the anniversary of SGI President Daisaku Ikeda's historic third visit to Brazil in 1984 by holding a Culture Festival and General Meeting at Brasilia Théatre Pedro Calmon and, on February 16, a commemorative gongyo meeting attended by over 3,000 people was held at the BSGI Peace Auditorium in São Paulo. ... read more
Peace and Disarmament | Feb 15 2014
SGI Joins Second Conference on Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons
From February 13-14, SGI delegates participated in the Second Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, hosted by the Mexican Government and held in Nuevo Vallarta in the state of Nayarit. ... read more
Peace and Disarmament | Jan 26 2014
Soka Gakkai Youth Launch "SOKA Global Action" Peace Campaign
At the start of January, Soka Gakkai youth in Japan launched a new peace campaign titled "SOKA Global Action." The campaign has three key aims: (1) to contribute to building a culture of peace and work together with SGI youth around the world toward the abolition of nuclear weapons, (2) to promote goodwill and build ties of friendship through cultural exchanges within Asia, and (3) to assist and support reconstruction efforts following the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster which devastated parts of the Tohoku region. ... read more


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PALOMAR MOUNTAIN: Restoration sparks renewed interest in fire lookouts
Forest Service aims to open High Point to public in August
In March of this year, he and other volunteers rolled up their sleeves and set about the task of replacing windows and floors, and installing cabinets.
"The interior had been stripped," Eells said. "Half the glass was broken out. Shutters were missing. We literally had to rebuild the inside of it."
Volunteers also put on a fresh coat of paint.
"What you are seeing is very close to what it would have looked like when it was brand-new (in 1964), including the original color, which no other lookout around here can boast: the lovely shade of seafoam green," Eells said. "It's a very light green."
Like a giant tree house, the lookout is perched on top of a metal tower that rises 67 feet above a rocky, brushy point.
Towering above a verdant and fragrant forest of pine, fir and cedar, the lookout offers visitors and volunteers a breathtaking, 360-degree panoramic view that reaches to Mount Baldy near Los Angeles, San Gorgonio Mountain northeast of Riverside and Mount Laguna in southern San Diego County.
"And on a clear day, I can see San Diego Bay," Eells said.
When it comes to spotting potentially dangerous fires close to home, the tower affords an unobstructed view of the valley east of Temecula, the high plateau of Warner Springs and Lake Henshaw, and the hills around Ramona.
With the return of the lookout's original Osborne fire-finder, a circular instrument that incorporates a map of the surrounding area, spotters can pinpoint the location of fires.
Camping with a million-dollar view
On a recent morning, a volunteer from Santa Fe Valley named Martin Heflin, a 60-year-old retired insurance broker with a full head of thick gray hair parted down the middle, was keeping watch on the landscape that rolled out like a lumpy brown-and-green carpet from High Point.
"I saw a movie or a television show years and years ago about a fire lookout and family that manned it, and it captivated me," Heflin said.
Then, after the massive 2007 fires, he figured it was time to lend a hand.
"I feel that I'm making a difference, providing a service, while at the same time giving myself some relaxation and quiet time," Heflin said. "To me, it's deluxe camping. You've got everything -- plus a million-dollar view."
Heflin said he looks forward to showing the view to visitors, once the tower is ready for them.
But, he joked, "I'm going to have to brush up on my knowledge of the native vegetation."
While the lookout provides an unobstructed view of much of the backcountry, there is a blind spot.
Because a broad shoulder of Palomar Mountain extends well to the south, spotters can't see what's happening below in the canyons and communities along Highway 76.
For that reason, Eells has set his sights on one day putting back into commission the Boucher Hill lookout in Palomar Mountain State Park along the mountain's south side.
And, he is eyeing a potential restoration of a fire lookout on 6,533-foot Hot Springs Mountain near Warner Springs, on the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation.


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My desk design
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My work space
My desk design
I'm loving that desk!
here is my home & work
Home workspace. Yes, I need some posters.
This is my workspace on weekends
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Ivor said
This is my workspace on weekends
glossy display ftw
I wish I had only MBP , stupid cross-platform testing. Taken with iPhone ^^
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And you go to the hotel every weekend ? :d
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Australia PM moves to repeal climate tax
Australia's new conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott Wednesday moved to abolish a carbon tax designed to combat climate change as his first major economic reform since taking office.
Australia's new conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott Wednesday moved to abolish a carbon tax designed to combat climate change as his first major economic reform since taking office.
EU governments closed ranks Friday in a bid to resuscitate their moribund carbon emissions market meant to combat global warming, just three days ahead of crunch UN climate talks in Warsaw.
The Asian Development Bank on Wednesday called on China and Japan to band together in fighting the disastrous effects of climate change, despite their diplomatic hostilities.
The EU's top climate-change official said Wednesday that Brussels was within its rights to tax airlines for emissions in its airspace, reviving a controversial proposal that drew a storm of criticism.
The EU on Tuesday urged nations to accept a compromise on plans to curb airline carbon emissions at a key UN conference, though resistance to striking an overall deal remains fierce.
The airline industry's mouthpiece called Monday for uniform global measures by 2020 to curb all aircraft carbon emissions, warning that a patchwork of competing proposals could emerge otherwise.
The European Union said Wednesday that China, the world's largest carbon emitter, was willing to cooperate more closely to address climate change worldwide ahead of a key global pact due in 2015.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Tuesday announced the country's divisive fixed-price carbon tax will be scrapped a year ahead of schedule in favour of a market-driven emissions trading scheme.
Key greenhouse gas emitter Australia on Sunday announced it will scrap its carbon tax in favour of an emissions trading scheme that puts a limit on pollution from 2014, a year earlier than planned.
Australia's key strategy to tackle climate change is looking shaky, after another price drop on the world's biggest carbon market raised fresh doubts about the future of emissions trading schemes.
The European Union executive on Monday offered to "stop the clock" on its controversial carbon tax on air travel by suspending the measure for a year on flights to and from non-European nations.
The Australian government Wednesday walked away from talks to close down some of the nation's highest-polluting, coal-fired, power stations, in a move condemned by its key coalition partner the Greens.
Australia announced Tuesday it would link its deeply contested emissions trading scheme with the European Union's from mid-2015 in an effort to combat climate change.
The European Commission made a bid Wednesday to fix the EU's sickly Emissions Trading Scheme, calling for a delay in the auction timetable over 2013 to 2020 in order to prop up prices.
The European Union should scrap a controversial carbon tax on air travel and seek a global solution to the emissions problem, the global aviation industry's chief said on Wednesday.


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Separation of total DNA of Arthrobacter sp. Rue61a by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Lane 1: Concatemers of bacteriophage λ DNA; lane 2: DNA from Arthrobacter sp. Rue61a cells, embedded in agarose plugs and treated with proteinase K after lysis. Filled and open arrowheads indicate the plasmids pARUE232 and pARUE113, respectively.
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