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2013 Chrysler 300 4dr Sedan (3.6L 6cyl 8A)
I want to love this car. It has a very smooth and quiet ride, gets good fuel mileage and it Sparkles! But two issues makes it a Love/Hate relationship: First, the climate control has been doing it's own thing for some time now. Now and then it starts blowing out super-hot air, no matter what temp it is set on. Going back to the dealer for second repair. The front windshield is extremely pitted after only 34k miles! aerodynamics? cheap glass? ( I do not tailgate). At the current pace, I will have to replace it by 50k miles.
Love the styling except to Dorky front grill (same grill on the mini-van). But now I see that the 2015's are going back to the Bentley style front-ends. And due to massive, off-the lot depreciation, it will be quite some time before I have enough equity to trade.
There is no place to put Stuff in the driver's area. We need places (nooks,shelves.etc.) to put our Stuff...
2013 Chrysler 300 C Luxury Series 4dr Sedan (3.6L 6cyl 8A)
I'll rate the car an B-. As for the Uconnect phone system it gets an F. My cell phone is compatable according to the Chrysler website however the connectivity is poor. Phone un-pairs by itself, text box opens and scrolls thru all my contacts without me initiating it and I can get it to turn off after repeatedly pushing the cancel or X button. Takes up to 8 minutes to dial out and get 'not connected' messages. The list goes on. My Buick never had an issue with bluetooth. I've heard everything from "its my phone" to "we'll replace the Uconnect" to "it needs an update". None of which it needs. Forums are loaded with people who have connectivity issues with this system. There is no fix.
Put out a bluetooth system that works instead of us laying out 42K for a 300C and finding out we need to use a pay phone to make a call. Buy this car and you will be frustrated.
2013 Chrysler 300 S 4dr Sedan (3.6L 6cyl 8A)
This makes 12 months I have owned this car and roughly 14,500 miles in my first year of ownership. I cant say enough good things about the quality and reliability of the 2013 Chrysler 300S. I test drive the Hemi, which was my preference at the time, and decided the difference in power from the V6 was so negligible that it wasn't justified. I actually had to ask the salesman if he was sure I was in the V6 at the time because of how well the power delivery was. Plus the 31mpg highway rating is a conservative estimate. I quite frequently get 34-36 miles per gallon on 7-8 hour trips between Texas and surrounding states. My driving Around town stays around 22-24 mpg.
The quality and luxury of this car is without compromise. I was test driving comparable models from Lexus, Audi, BMW, Acura and Mercedes over a 6 month buying window that I was looking. When I drove the 300S, it was love. Silky smooth transmission, powerful engine, comfort that makes you WANT to go for a drive for no reason at all. Inside the craftsmanship is impeccably perfect in every way. Everything about this car screams luxury. You will find more features than you know what to do with and the U-Connect media center is by far the most intuitive factory stereo ever made. My extended family loves road trips and being able to fit 3 "full" size adults in the back seat without hips touching!
Current 300 models really have nothing to improve on. They are all a complete package and there is something there for every taste. I would absolutely love to see the new Chrysler Diesel engine from the Jeep Grand Cherokee make its way to the 300 model line. Just imaging the torque of a bigger V8 and closer to the 40mpg of a 4 cylinder. I would be among the first in line if they ever decide go diesel with the 300.
2013 Chrysler 300 C John Varvatos 4dr Sedan (3.6L 6cyl 8A)
After owning two top-trim level Mazdas, I grew tired of missing out on true luxury and high-tech features. I was also looking for a more exhilarating driving experience. I looked at the Ford Taurus SHO, the Hyundai Genesis R-Spec, and some others, but nothing caught my attention like the 300 John Varvatos Edition. I love that it is so unique I will never run into another one on the road. It's an unmistakably gorgeous car and it's a blast off the line with the 5.7 Hemi. I have driven it over 2500 miles and I still look forward to every time I get in this car. This car looks better, sounds better, and accelerates better than most cars in the $60-70k range - trust me.
All of the materials are of extremely high quality from the paint to the leather dash, even the paddle shifters and for handles are a nicely weighted metal, panoramic sunroof is a must-have, ventilated seats are also a must if you live in warm climate, voice commands work very well, touchscreen is the biggest and quickest I have ever seen. The quietest and smoothest transporter I have been in outside of an S-Class. Did I mention how beautiful this car is? It's an attention-grabber on the street and I still stop to look at it sitting in my driveway.
5-speed tranny is obsolete, and you really require more gears to extract the real power from this engine. The transmission sometimes upshifts in a less-than-graceful manner, but it's minor.
With my lead foot and mostly city driving I'm getting about 14 mpg combined, well below Chrysler estimates of 16/25 (all is forgiven when you hear that engine roar, but clear your schedule for the 19-gallon fill-ups). This car doesn't like being thrown into turns, not to mention if you take a sharp left curve at high speed, you'll feel like you're going to end up in the passenger seat.
After 24 years of never owning anything but two Toyota products at a time, my wife & I intended to replace our 2011 Avalon with another, until we drove a 2013.
Our desire vanished almost instantly and we looked at other manufacturers, including all the 300 comparable models.
The 300 was our last stop and that's the one we bought.
Our dilemma now is whether to buy an extended warranty or not, and if so, from whom to purchase it.
Some say Mopar and some say the deals are better with a third party company.
It would be nice to find a definitive comparison so we could make an informed decision.
We love the car, but don't have a relaxed feeling about reliability...we're both 73 years old.
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Tue, 2007-04-03 21:35 — ChillFactor
Hey guys, I just thought I'd throw this out there. I don't know if anyone else has had any experience or exposure to this group, but I had a whole course on them and I still feel like I know nothing. Anyways, I buddy of mine in Frederick, Maryland
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It is with a great amount of sadness and regret that I inform you that we lost two officers, Officer Sean Clark and Officer Jeff Shelton, to hostile gunfire on the evening of 03/31/2007. Shortly after beginning their shift these officer
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Has anyone else been having trouble posting replies in this law enforcement forum??? I can start a thread but unable to post replies:mad: .
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Here is an interesting video of a subject walking up behind an Officer and trying to take his gun. There are many more good videos on that website.
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Why is it that I can go roll for an hour and a half or lift or run or whatever and suffer no injuries but I go to work and the dumbest little things cause you to pull a muscle.
I pulled a hammy tripping over a flower planter on a call last night an
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This has got to be the funniest Tazer video I have seen! "You Fu$%!#G Hammered Me"....
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New to this forum. I'm a virginia cop. Been workin patrol for 7 years now. Defensive Tactics instructor and Veteran United states Marine. I boxed for a couple years at a local boys club in Placentia Ca. I was a Close combat instructor (CCI) in the ma
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I am brand new to the forum and just wanted to introduce myself.
I am a police officer in eastern Washington. I have been teaching Defensive Tactics to my department and three others. I have been taking martial arts on and off sonce I was in juni
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how come on the police brutality thead my posts are moderated. is it because i used a bad word?
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While one cop has the suspect mounted and is about to cuff him, the other cop smashes his knee into the suspect's throat and starts punching him in the face, as the suspect is repeatedly pleading "please, I can't breathe." After this video was put on
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Yes, there is a warrantee, but i didn't know where is the problem/issue from, the camera or the lens or the battery, and just to make it clear, the first time i test it i've got only 3 frames out of 10, then all other films [3 after that] are all blank and i feel maybe that lens is defective because i bought it new from ebay, but i can't judge anything, either i return the whole system or send them all for maintenance and see where is the problem from. Also i didn't want to waste money to send camera back for replacement if it is really new and maybe another new camera will not work if it is not the main issue.
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So my husband left for California 2 days ago to do some work for his cousin for 1-2 weeks. He called me from the airport from his brothers phone(his brother went with him) at 6pm the day before yesterday,he told me he was about to board and he would call me when he landed. I haven't heard from him since. I'm a little worried and a little mad. At first I thought maybe they just got caught up having a little fun and he would call me last night. As time goes on though I'm getting a little more worried and if he is just goofing off and not calling,I'm going to be pissed, I'm feeling depressed and displaced and have that nasty sinking feeling in my tummy, I'm just trying to be normal for our 2 and 1 yr old, but I've already lost my appetite. :(
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I'm assuming you have tried both texting AND calling his brother? To hell with the texting, if your messages aren't even going through! I would definitely call. If your calls are also not going through, there may be a problem with his brother's phone. In that case, I second the suggestion that you call his parents or anyone else who would have his cousin's phone number and go from there. It is likely that he is just being a bit inconsiderate--since he doesn't have his own phone, he would have to put actual effort in to contact you (borrow a phone, etc). That shouldn't be very hard, but I could see a guy possibly putting it off for that reason. Although my husband knows me too well to try that sh** . . .
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i've btdt his cellphoen ran out of time while i was in a different country, worried me SICK especially since he had to drive through the ozarks durring that time frame in the winter! i tracked him down using my MIL and had her call the hotels in town he was in to make sure everythign was ok, from then on he borrowed his superintendants phone to call me (his super is also originally from canada so had an international calling plan) i can tell you one thing i was ready to kick his ass for not being smart enough to get his phone taken care of before he left! took 2 or 3 days for the charge to show up on the card so we knew what hotel he was at!
My hubby tried the no answer phone/texts earlier this month when he was out with friends... he got home and i lost it on him about preterm labor etc. since then his phoen is always charged plugged in and volume wayy up even at work.
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I dont think my hubby would goof around like that with 2 little babies in the picture (and one on the way). You should take affirmative action and start calling around....maybe call the brother's house/cell etc...
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I have 2 Premium packages New In Box id like to sell for $999.99 shipped. I have noiced these still go for alot on ebay,im not asking much,just what there worth. I understand the Premiums are somewhat hard to find in certain area's. So I figured I might be an assistance to someone who needs em.
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What is your asking price for one premium shipped
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Hey bro now that youve got paypal can we finish the transaction that we were gona do before? Thanks,
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Once again, what is your asking price for one premium shipped?
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i think he wants 999.99 each shipped what a rip even for both what a rip these arent hard to get i have some at my local bestbuy right now 3 premiums and 2 cores
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thanks Newton- so just as we all speculated- shares sold were from Abby....
so it looks like John and Robert having sold yet but have exercised some shares that will be sold in the common market soon. Its not much compared to what they have, so im guessing they just need cash. As far as Abby...Im sure he is looking to just get out and retire
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Andrew Coleman has what many would consider a dream job: primary engineer to hitmaking duo Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, better known as the Neptunes. And, as you might expect, he loves every minute of it, even though 15-hour days in the studio are not unusual, and Coleman logs as many miles as a touring musician, following the Neptunes between studios in Los Angeles, New York, Miami and their home base of Virginia Beach.
"It's been an amazing thing to be there in the middle of the creative process with Pharrell and Chad," says Coleman, 35, a native of Torrance, California, who learned recording as an apprentice at a small studio in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, where he went to college, before rounding out his education at the Full Sail academy in Florida. "I walked into that studio almost 15 years ago and said 'This is the coolest thing in the world. I have to do this.'"
He did. A blast of CVs after graduation in 1994 landed him a job at Master Sound, the largest studio in a small town on the East Coast, and a place that was about to become the world's busiest music factory (see box, right).
Coleman and the Neptunes became acquainted when the producers were clients of Master Sound, where he was a staff engineer. After their production of Noriega's 'Super Thug' in 1997 put them on the map, they began to spend more time in Virginia Beach, and they soon became one of Master Sound's regular clients. "I was their guy in Virginia," Coleman says of the early days of their collaborations. "They were using studios like Quad and Right Track in New York, South Beach Studios in Miami and Record Plant in Los Angeles. The travelling really started with [Neptunes band] NERD."
Ironically, however, it was the Neptunes' success and their proclivity to use studios all over the country that undermined them as a major client at Master Sound, contributing to the studio's failure as a commercial facility, and Master Sound Studios is now the private province of the Neptunes after they purchased it out of bankruptcy two years ago. The equipment and Coleman came with it.
Hovercraft, as it's now known, still has the same layout as the studio that preceded it. Three studios hold four Pro Tools rigs; the Amek G2520 console, one of seven prototypes made, is still in Studio A, with Digidesign Pro Controls in Studios B and C. The latter is also Chad Hugo's personal studio, and is filled with his seemingly infinite collection of Moog and other vintage synths. The monitoring arrangements could be described as eccentric: Studio A has JBL PA speakers with a pair of 18-inch subs under the console, for what Coleman calls "serious SPL" mix referencing. Hugo has small Genelecs as mains in studio C, and all rooms share several pairs of Yamaha NS10, Mackie and Proac nearfields. Hovercraft also has a new Studio Network Solutions system, with each studio connected via fibre-optic cables to a 15-drive RAID array.
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Bruce Springsteen made Asbury Park famous, but even the Boss would have to work a bit harder to match the sales power that has emanated from another coastal town a little further south. Virginia Beach is a resort town, and from the hotels along its shores you can just about see Hampton Roads, the naval nexus of the US Atlantic Fleet. If you time it right, you can hear the roar of F14s and F/A18s when the carrier air groups are back on dry land at nearby Oceana Naval Air Station.
It's a little harder to pinpoint the locus of Virginia Beach's music cortex, but it has left its footprint all over the industry. In addition to the Neptunes, whose rap work in the late 1990s with artists like Wu Tang's ODB and Jay-Z helped them branch out into multi-platinum pop with productions for Britney Spears, N'Sync and Usher, as well as rap heavies like LL Cool J and Busta Rhymes, the city is also home to Timbaland, whose production discography includes hits for Aaliyah, Genuwine, Justin Timberlake, Ludacris and Snoop Dogg. Missy Elliott, the first lady of hip-hop, grew up in Virginia Beach and has recorded and produced there periodically since her star rose. Despite having cribs in LA and Miami, Elliott and other hip-hop artists seem drawn to the normalness of Virginia Beach.
The city is more than an accident of the music business, however. Elliott went to high school across the street from Future Records, the studio founded by R&B legend and 'King of New Jack Swing' Teddy Riley in the mid-1990s. It's easy to compare Riley to Chet Atkins, and Virginia Beach to Nashville: both cities have become destinations for a specific genre of music, and each created an infrastructure of people and facilities independent of the traditional major music centres. (It's a sad coda to the city's story that Future Records and Riley, who had produced hits for artists including Mary J Blige, Keith Sweat, Michael Jackson and Al B Sure, filed for bankruptcy several years ago, but that fact does not diminish the credit Riley deserves for developing Virginia Beach as a musical centre.)
"The Neptunes have deep roots in Virginia Beach," says Andrew Coleman. "Pharrell went to high school across the street from Teddy Riley's studio. They had a talent show at the school that Teddy helped judge and the winners were Pharrell, Chad and [future member of Neptunes spin-off NERD] Shea. So the city has kind of cultivated the scene in its own way for a while."
Coleman had done some of his early work here with Timbaland and Missy Elliott, and recalls that both of them came back to work in Virginia Beach around the same time that the Neptunes were beginning to create chart-toppers. "Back in the day, the 1990s, Virginia Beach was a place you could network," says Coleman. "The Neptunes and Tim and Missy were all in town and everyone would go to everyone else's place and check out what they were doing. You don't get that as much anymore now that Missy is living and working a lot more in Miami and New York. We [the Neptunes] even go up to New York to work at Right Track or LA for the Record Plant. But there's still a sense of community here, and those early days before everyone got so big were great and I believe they resulted in a lot of great music."
Whether on the road or in the studio, Coleman acts as the technical hub for the hectic producer pair. During one stretch of several weeks, the Neptunes had all four main rooms at the Record Plant in Los Angeles churning as they worked simultaneously with Snoop Dogg, a Nelly/Christina Aguilera duet, Mariah Carey and new artist Slim Thug. "Everyone winds up on everyone else's record," says Coleman, who worked with another engineer, Brian Garten, to keep the wheels of a very busy machine rolling. "I would start a track and do vocals in one studio," he explains. "In another studio, Slim Thug would do vocals with Brian and they would get sent into the studio where we were working. We had a hard drive that was constantly floating from room to room. [Interscope Records president] Jimmy Iovine would stop by and see all of this going on and say 'You guys are crazy.' He couldn't believe what was going on there. But it was amazing productivity. And 14 hours of work zips by pretty fast when you're moving like that."
The mechanics of the process don't overwhelm the creative aspect, though, as Coleman stresses. "Pharrell is amazing. He has a vision for where each of the artists is going. He adapts to them, not the other way around. The artists aren't going into the same mould and coming out sounding the same at the other end." Williams and Hugo complement each other perfectly, he says. "Pharrell is pretty much behind the keyboards or doing vocals while I keep the technical end running," he says. "He's incredibly creative and he expects things to be able to happen when he wants them to, that moment. He doesn't want to have to think about the technical part, and I will travel to where the artist is, get the songs written and do the tracks and the reference mixes. Chad will usually stay in Virginia Beach and handle all the mixes as they come in, putting other touches on.
"It's funny," he adds with a wink. "You never see them in the same place together. Sometimes you wonder if they're the same person. But no one person could do that much work."
Watching Coleman work, one might say the same about him. To maintain workflow, tracks done on the bus or in remote studios are sent back to Hovercraft or wherever else mixes are to be done with a combination of CDs and DVDs via overnight express and FTP sites. "If a mix has to get started and Chad can't be there right then, the mix engineer will send a session file to him via FTP and Chad will do some level rides and muting, things like that, then send the file back with the changes and some notes. They'll go back forth like that before it's done. It's long-distance mixing, and it works."
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NERD, the group formed by Williams and Hugo as an outlet for their own music, are more like a rock band than a hip-hop act, and tour aboard a bus that Williams ordered new from builders Entertainment Coach. While this bus would get a designer interior, it fell to Andrew Coleman to design and install perhaps its most important feature. The Neptunes' travelling recording studio takes up the rear third of the bus, and also doubles as Williams' bedroom. "It's console-free," says Coleman wryly. Instead, Desk Doctor active DI boxes, Coleman Audio and Avalon 737 preamps and am AKG C12VR microphone form a direct signal path to Pro Tools, with cabling prewired by Coleman as the bus's interior was being outfitted.
Coming in from the front of the bus, one enters a vocal booth just in front and to the side of the main rear cabin-cum-control room/boudoir. The rear wall of the room has soffited Genelec 1037A monitors. (The monitoring configuration is virtually identical to the wall of the B studio at South Beach Studios in Miami, a Neptunes favourite.) Keyboard modules and other outboard gear occupy a centre rack.
The bus is no audio scratch pad; during Jay-Z's Liquid Mix tour in 2003, NERD were the opening act, and each night after the shows the artist and the producers would return to the bus to write beats and record tracks for what would become parts of a Jay-Z LP. Tracks done this way would be finished at Baseline Studios in New York City.
DI recording obviates the need for isolation from road vibrations. Vocals are done while the bus is stationary and use the same vocal chain that Coleman set up there and uses at Hovercraft. "The C12 and the Avalon are the basics," he says. "But I do like to sit and talk with the artists for a while before doing vocals. You get an idea of what the sound of their voice is really like and make adjustments accordingly. A few weeks ago we had Robin Thicke in here and he loved the Telefunken 251. It's very rich-sounding and I had never used it before."
The methodology definitely works: the hits and the Grammy Awards speak for themselves. The streamlined approach to vocals helps; Coleman will tell you that a good large-diaphragm condenser microphone like the C12 through the Avalon 737 is a pleasantly neutral signal path. Variations on the microphone are the one of the few slight adjustments he makes for different artists. On Justin Timberlake's 2004 Grammy-winning album that spawned 'Like I Love You' and 'Rock Your Body', Coleman used a modified C12 owned by producer Brian McKnight, which Timberlake brought to the session. "It had just a little more high end, a little crisper-sounding in the upper mids, to the point where I rolled some of that off for monitoring," he says. "But it recorded his voice beautifully." Timberlake is also very specific about how he likes his headphone mix. "He would want the doubles and triples split on the other side from the vocal he was doing then," says Coleman. "The new one on one side and the others on the other. Singers will often take off one side of the headphones for pitch, but Justin keeps both sides on. You have to be ready to pan as soon as he goes for the double, because he's fast."
NERD's recordings span hip-hop and rock techniques. On 'Rock Star' and 'Lap Dance', Williams will play a standard drum kit, then Coleman will cut 16 bars of it into a loop, before using the same method for other instruments including guitars the Neptunes will occasionally call on him to play. (That's him on the Papa Roach track the Neptunes produced for the film Biker Boys.) "Sometime they'll play the entire song down and I'll move parts in and out with multitrack edits," he says. "That's where a lot of the feel of their records comes from — it's not just machines and loops."
The Neptunes very much complement the technology of their generation; speed is a hallmark of digital recording, and they are nothing if not fast. "I use Pro Tools as a console — I'll use the Pro Control sometimes, but I'm really a mouse guy," says Coleman. "We all come from the days of analogue but we try to keep those values alive while working in digital. We use a lot of analogue gear, like compressors and microphones, and analogue synths, to warm up the front end. We know which combinations work, like templates, so we can get there pretty quickly. I have all my busses preset and normalled, so I know exactly where to go for delays and other effects. Vocals are always on input one; the reverb sends is aux one and two; the delays are auxes three and four, and so on. Pharrell's favourite outboard equipment — Tube-tech CL1, Dbx 160, LA2A, Neve 9098 EQs, Summit EQ/compressors — are all normalled. It's not a whole lot — about 18 channels of [processing], plus plug-ins like Metric Halo's Channel Strip and Waves' Renaissance compressors and the Sony Oxford Compressor — but we know exactly what to expect from each combination."
Jimmy Iovine's reaction to the Neptunes' output is not surprising. Coleman says one of his regular tasks is to manage a vault of songs Williams and Hugo have written that now numbers into the thousands. He notes a session one night with Gwen Stefani that produced three songs inspired, written and tracked in the time just one was scheduled to be recorded. "I've had to come up with my own system to manage all of them, using colour codings for dates and genres," says Coleman. "Periodically, I'll go through the archives and try to reintroduce some of them when I think it's right for a session."
Somehow, Coleman manages all of it, and he and his wife have a new baby on the way. "It's a lot to juggle," he admits. "But it's all good."
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Franklin posted a 24-15 record in three seasons at Vanderbilt, considered one of the SEC's weaker programs and certainly in that category before Franklin arrived. But he made thew school relevant, taking the Commodores to three bowl games, including postseason wins in the past two seasons. Prior to his tenure, Vanderbilt had appeared in only four bowl games since 1902. Prior to taking over at Vanderbilt, Franklin coached as the offensive coordinator at both Maryland — the Terps become a member of the Big Ten starting next season — and Kansas State.
Penn State needed a new head coach following the resignation of Bill O'Brien, who had terrific success in only two seasons in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal that included the firing of Joe Paterno. O'Brien left Penn State to take over as the head coach of the NFL's Houston Texans. At a recent press conference, athletics director Dave Joyner said he expected the search for a new head coach to take days, not weeks.
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A native of Langhorne, Pa., Franklin's Pennsylvania roots could help with home-state recruiting. Those ties weren't as strong as several of the other candidates reportedly interviewed by Penn State, including Miami's Al Golden and former Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Munchak, who both played for the Lions under Paterno. Penn State also interviewed San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman, according to reports.
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So if I understand it correctly your going to release 1.5.2 and that will be the last update and the rest will just be map packs?
Missing Information aims to recreate Valve's original Half-Life 2 storyline found in Raising the Bar.
Missing Information patch 1.5.2 is delayed for an unknown amount of time!
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Seems the date September 30th is cursed. As you might have noticed 1.5.2 isn't released. We decided to delay it for an unknown amount of time (two weeks tops, but think one week)! The reason why we're delaying it is as simple as we aren't satisfied with the current 1.5 release, and we think we are able to make something better. Another reason for the delay is we want to make it as bug free as possible. This is possibly the last patch you'll see for Missing Information 1.5 in a while (Missing Information 1.6 isn't going to be released).
Next big release from Gabe's Love Tub will be an episodic release, more specifically Missing Information: Episode One. More on this later, along with more media so stay tuned! Meanwhile you can follow us here on Moddb.
So if I understand it correctly your going to release 1.5.2 and that will be the last update and the rest will just be map packs?
Call it whatever you want. This is the last update as you say, but after that we will be releasing episodic content, not mappacks :-)
which means like your gonna release a part of the game at a time rather than releasing it all in one huge mod.
This time can you modify the HL2 maps to include the new weapons, then throw them into the mod?
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(two weeks tops, but think one week)Hmm it appears that 2 weeks have passed and still no update.Any news on when we can expect it?
Currently unknown.
Will we have this mod by christmas?
This mod is already available, and have been since 2006. Our next patch will be out before the end of the month, I promise :)
Your full of ****.
ProZak your awesome and I would rather have this mod then Black Mesa Source.
You should have focused more on the Borealis and E32003 maps more. Also the only map that the mod needed was the e3_lab (complete E3 2003 demonstration) or another chapter called... E32002 demonstrations :)) than just adding random maps.
Well that's my own view on how the mod should have been and/or how you should release it as the 1.5.2 version so it means not everyone thinks the same about the mod ;)
so to get this straight, after you realese the last update and the episodic content, we will have the full beta hl2 sotryline the way Valve made it b4 it was cut?
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TOUCHET — The Touchet School Board recently approved a resolution to put a $6.5 million bond measure before voters in February. The funds would be used along with state matching funds for complete renovation of the secondary school.
According to Superintendent Susan Bell, the proposed renovation would be the first major work on the building, which was completed in 1975 and currently houses students in fifth through 12th grades. "The secondary building is badly in need of repair," she said. "We're to the point of having serious roof leaks when it rains."
Bell, who is in her second year as superintendent, started planning for the project shortly after joining the district. "The School Board created a renovation project committee early last year," she said, "and they've been working hard to put together the excellent plan we now have."
If the measure is approved, work will begin on the project in June 2014 and will last for about 18 months. "We would house displaced students in temporary space in the elementary building and in the gym," Bell said.
Along with the bond measure, the board also approved a three-year maintenance and operations levy request to be voted on in February. The levy would provide $684,355 per year from 2014 through 2016. It would replace the current levy previously approved by voters for the same amount, which runs through 2013.
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G D Em C
You,you got me thinking it'll be alright
G D Em C
You,you told me "come and take a look inside"
G D Em C
You believed me, in every single lie
G D Em C
But I,I failed you this time
G D Em C
And it feels like tonight I can't believe
G D Em C
I'm broken inside can't you see that
G D Em C
There's nothing that I wanna do,but try to make it up to you
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And it feels like tonight,tonight


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The Conversation BeginsOctober 29, 2010
This blog is a forum for your group and your classmates to have a conversation about Daniel Keye's fascinating and poignant character study, Flowers for Algernon. After analyzing the story, you will develop a well written post. You may want to find or create images and other media to express your ideas. As you and your group members contribute posts, read each others' ideas and make thoughtful comments.


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Real College PodcastReal College Podcast is a 30-ish minute podcast focusing on artistic and cultural events and trends happening in the Twin Cities.
Pre-Turkey TimeNov - 25 - 15
No special set or songs for Thanksgiving, though!
A Send-Up to Keith MorrisNov - 23 - 15
we decided to pay homage to one of the greats
Virtual Music for Real FriendsNov - 22 - 15
All Things Considered (CRUNK REMIX)
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"The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape."
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Over the years, countless veterinarians have reported a suspiciously high level of productivity coming from their technicians on a daily basis. How do they get so much done in such a short amount of time? Dr. Andy Roark and dvm360 investigate.
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Washington, DC (Sports Network) - Alex Ovechkin put in the deciding goal during the shootout, while Braden Holtby turned in an outstanding performance between the pipes to help lift the Washington Capitals to a 2-1 win over the New York Islanders in a key late-season clash from Verizon Center.
Holtby stopped 35-of-36 shots through regulation and overtime, then stoned all three New York skaters in the final phase to vault the Capitals into a first- place tie with Winnipeg in the Southeast Division.
"We have a lot of hockey left," reasoned Capitals head coach Adam Oates.
Mike Green had the lone regulation goal for Washington, now 6-1-1 over its last eight outings.
Kyle Okposo's marker with just under five minutes left in the third period enabled the Islanders to pick up an important point that moved the club into sole possession of seventh place in the Eastern Conference.
Evgeni Nabokov finished with 21 saves for New York, which had won five of its last six coming in.
"We'll take the point on the road in a tough building to play in against a good hockey team," Islanders head coach Jack Capuano said.
Holtby's last recorded save, a deflection of a tricky wrister from Frans Nielsen in the final minute of overtime, sent the contest to a shootout, where the Washington goaltender rejected Nielsen again after the Caps' Matt Hendricks began the segment by shooting wide left.
Ovechkin then beat Nabokov with a nasty backhander the star wing placed into the upper left corner, and New York's Brad Boyes missed a golden opportunity to tie after the puck went off his stick after faking Holtby out of position.
Nabokov turned back Mike Ribeiro to keep the Isles alive, but Holtby got his right pad down in time to block John Tavares' attempt and give Washington the two points.
The Capitals appeared on the way to a regulation win until New York's Josh Bailey forced a turnover in the Washington zone and got the puck to Nielsen, whose pinpoint pass to Okposo in the left slot was knocked home for a 1-1 tie with 4:59 left to play.
Holtby protected a one-goal edge that Green provided late in the opening period by coming up with 14 saves in the second. Green's goal, the defenseman's fifth in four games, came 13 seconds prior to the first intermission, when he skated into the right circle and fired a shot through Nabokov's legs.
Green's score came less than three minutes after New York's Thomas Hickey very nearly gave his team a 1-0 lead with a long drive that trickled through the pads of Holtby. However, Caps defenseman Karl Alzner alertly was able to clear the puck before it crossed the goal line.
Martin Erat, acquired by Washington from Nashville at Wednesday's trade
deadline, made his Capitals debut after playing in 723 games over 11 seasons
with the Predators. The veteran forward, taken seventh overall by the Preds in
the 1999 draft, was second in franchise history in goals (163), assists (318)
and games played ... Forward Eric Fehr returned to the Capitals' lineup after
missing four straight games with an upper-body injury ... The Islanders fell
to 1-15-1 this season when recording two or less goals.
Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia in September has altered the date of the Penn-Villanova football game.
Kyle Busch won Sunday's road course race in Sonoma, California, but he still has a long way to go to become eligible for a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
NFL players have a very short shelf life to make significant amounts of money so it's tough to fault anyone who has outperformed a contract when they go knocking on the door to ask for more.
Pete Mackanin will remain interim manager of the Philadelphia Phillies for the remainder of the season, the team announced Tuesday.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have reportedly retained restricted free agent forward Kyle Singler with a five-year contract extension.
The Detroit Red Wings signed veteran forward Brad Richards a one-year contract on Wednesday.


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I tried to find some classic rock and folk tunes I like that don't have a lot of difficult ukulele chords -or fast chord changes.
|Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, John Prine, Elton John, Reo Speedwagon, David Bowie, Counting Crows, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Radiohead...
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easy to play, fun sing along songs
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By On the occasion of our 20th anniversary
Why Do Mexis Like Wrought-Iron Fences?
By Gustavo Arellano
By R. Scott Moxley
By Alfonso Delgado
Women For: OC are Stitching and Bitching
By Courtney Hamilton
Santa Ana River Ready for Its Renaissance
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Can Tech Ruin the Kim Pham Murder Trial?
By Charles Lam
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The 107-year-old Fullerton Police Department employs 145 sworn officers and serves the city's 135,000 residents from its home base: a beautiful, red-roofed, whitewashed Spanish Revival building with arched windows and a faux bell tower. It's directly across the street from Fullerton City Hall, near downtown, not far from the wealthy neighborhoods, Korean megachurches, crumbling apartment complexes, and many colleges and universities that characterize Fullerton.
But the setting belies a department that has long courted controversy. During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan infiltrated the officer ranks, joining forces with a Klan-majority council to try to run the town for the Invisible Empire. This racist legacy influenced the department for generations, as the city fathers used the squad to enforce segregation laws that limited Mexican and African-American residents to across the tracks of the Santa Fe Railroad—conveniently just down Highland Avenue from the police headquarters.
For decades, the department's heavy hand mostly confined itself to this neighborhood, where the Fullerton Tokers Town gang has claimed its territory since the 1940s. Cholos were a convenient excuse for the police to run rampant in the name of security; in 1996, the random killing of 28-year-old Ramon Toro at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting led to Fullerton police raiding dozens of homes in a search for suspects, ripping apart mattresses and destroying furniture (see Nick Schou's "Fullerton Metal Jacket," March 29, 1996). They barged into an elderly woman's home and heaved her brain-damaged, semi-paralyzed son from the hospital bed in their living room, demanding answers about the shooting. When someone asked why the police treated them like dogs, an officer responded, "You live in this environment. You live with gang members, you'll always get treated this way."
At a community meeting a couple of weeks later, rather than apologize for the raids, then-Police Chief McKinley turned the tables on outraged community members. He had only headed the department for three years, taking the job after nearly 30 years as an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, where he helped to form the nation's first Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team to crack down on the Black Panthers.
"Somebody in this room probably knows who fired the bullet that killed Ramon Toro," McKinley snarled to the stunned audience. "If someone could tell us who fired it, we wouldn't have to do something like that."
Two years later, police said they found Mike Mata dead in his jail cell after hanging himself. Mata had served time before, was macho and cared about what others thought of him, says his sister, Brenda, which is why the family still doesn't believe he committed suicide. Brenda thinks her brother mouthed off to the cops, who then beat him and staged the hanging.
Although the district attorney's office investigated and concluded there had been no foul play, evidence from the investigation still perplexes the family. There were bruises on Mata's body that no coroner's report explained. The department's own files noted that an inmate in a nearby cell told investigators he heard Mata make two phone calls to his girlfriend that day, asking for $50 to bail him out of jail. If he planned to kill himself, the family wonders, why would he make those calls?
They hired a detective, a former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy, to look into the death, says Tino, Mata's brother; he told the family that jail surveillance video from that day was accidentally erased. "What a stroke of luck for them, right?" Tino asks. After months of struggling to find a lawyer and watching the process wear down their mother, they decided to drop the case and move on.
But, watching the community open up about their own allegations of wrongdoing after Thomas' death, Brenda says, has comforted her. "I just thank God that now He's shedding the light. It took a long time."
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In 2003, the Fullerton Police Department made national headlines for a fart.
Four officers responded to a call that a woman had tried to commit suicide. Thinking she was unconscious, an officer squatted near the woman's face and ripped one, cracking, "This ought to wake her up." Another officer climbed into her bed and proceeded to air-lick her body, like a cat lapping up milk.
The woman, however, was conscious, and the matter made it before the Fullerton City Council. Police brass suspended the gassy and tongue-flicking officers for a week and a half, and the two other cops present (who stood by and did nothing) for a day and a half—but the event signaled the Fullerton cops were beyond busting up cholos and were spreading their tactics to the rest of the town.
They found their ideal stomping grounds in the city's historic downtown. What had once been a sleepy assortment of collectibles stores and antique shops set inside turn-of-the-century buildings turned into a bevy of bars, nightclubs and restaurants that attracted customers from the city and beyond. As with its longtime excuse to hassle residents in the city's barrios because of gangs, the police department used the specter of drunk coeds to apply blanket aggression to everyone.
"It was overkill," one downtown bar owner said (see Joel Beers' "The Town We—and Others—Drink In," Sept. 9, 2004). "Some bars wouldn't even call the police because one phone call about a drunk customer who refused to leave would result in six cars and 12 cops coming down and lining up in front of your business."
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A rather more treknobabble laced section.
Another side bar: Pressure hulls to trussed macrofilaments.
From Pressure Hulls to Trussed-Macrofilaments: Structural Techniques
The mission requirements of Starfleet starships require that they combine a mixture of impossible material qualities. Hulls are expected to simultaneously be light, hard, tough, with good thermal properties to withstand both extremes of high and low temperature. As a consequence construction techniques reflected the need of yard engineers to bridge the gap between demands of designers and the reality of materials science.
Starfleet hull design initially followed a combination of UESF, Andorian and Vulcan traditions, emphasizing the use of high density duranium alloys in the outer pressure hulls with rigid bulkhead construction. Internal partitions and structures served as part of the starship's loadbearing structure. Interspersed between rigid duranium alloy frames were ceramic heat dissipation materials and ductile polymers entwined at nanomaterial scales to provide a form of hull insulation. Pressure hulls were armored with a layer of ceramic thermal dissipation material and yield inducing cushioning. This was then covered with high-density armor plating formed of a polarizable duranium-tungsten alloy which could be easily replaced after a firefight. Polarized hull plating provided near immunity from kinetic kill weaponry, but suffered from problems with thermal conductivity from high thermal energy weapon like particle weaponry and fusion munitions.
Advances in graviton based shields in the 23rd century encouraged Starfleet to forego high density armor plating on the exterior of their starships. Instead the pressure hulls were coated with a white-grey thermal coating which helped protect the vulnerable pressure hull from energy weapon discharges and stellar phenomenae.
Unlike the semi-monocoque pressure hull designs of the
classes, starships of the 23rd century were primarily built from internal frame construction with an empashis on resisting compression forces. Transverse bulkheads were common on all Starfleet designs in this era, the result creating tall, but inflexible cooridors within the internal hull. When additional material strength was required, a limited form of polarization could be used on internal bulkheads to strengthen the hull during high periods of stress such as during warp acceleration.
The emphasis on internal framing was also based on the reality that Starfleet ships faced frequent replacement and repair of external hull components in this era. In particular the thermal coat would often face damage from highly concentrated plasma weaponry like Romulan designs or more tightly confined energy weapons like Klingon disruptors. The intent was to allow most of the energy to be absorbed and scattered by the thermal coat, leaving key structural frames intact.
The advantage of this method of construction was evident when Starfleet proceeded with the
-class refit program in the 2270s. The differentiation of the ship components from the internal frames allowed Starfleet to essentially strip
to her bones and rebuild her with new components. The main drawbacks to this method of construction were the relative inefficient use of spaceframe volume, significant mass, limited modularity of internal compartments, and a general limit on frame size.
Two-layer forcefield designs which vastly improved thermal dissipation allowed Starfleet to do without the heavy ceramic based thermal coat. Additionally, lighter and more ductile trititanium was used for outer hull segments. The combination of the two innovations allowed Starfleet starships in the 2270s to 2290s to substantially improve in performance metrics over their predecessors of the 2260s.
However, it was clear by 2280 that Starfleet's older cruiser designs were beginning to suffer from structural fatigue. Internal frame components were difficult to replace without replacing the entire vessel, and Starfleet Engineering sought a way to extend the lifespan of these ships without a costly rebuild. The solution was provided by Salazaar's half-aenar master shipwright Be'tham Assam. A series of light tritanium metal truss and riders were inserted between ceiling panels of the bulkhead compartments. Each of these trusses were then reinforced with a variable strength version of hull polarization, adjusting their strength as required by hull stresses.
Designers of the
-class project immediately latched onto the increased hull strength provided by the arrangement. Captain Sephara Rule developed a system combining reinforced alloyed trusses against an external stress hull. The stress hull replaced the concept of a sealed pressure hull and substantially reduced the need for an internal compression hull. The initial prototype NX-2000 was not equipped with a fully fledged structural integrity field as concerns existed about the stability of subspace based graviton forcefields under transwarp conditions. Still, the first use of a trussed frame based external hull skeleton with gamma welded stress hull was a significant step forward in starship construction.
Subsequent production of conventional warp drive
-class starships allowed ASDB to test the idea of a subspace forcefield based structural integrity field. Compared to traditional IMRF and alloy polarization combinations that were limited to strength increases in the 1-4,000% range, the new truss-integrated SIF emitters allowed structural strength increases of up to 25,000%. This made the basic
-class frame substantially stronger than existing designs. This additional structural strength enabled everything from greater sublight and warp acceleration to greater space frame endurance.
Improvements to existing starship designs were just as pronounced. Although the
-class of 2310 was externally identical to the same design from 2270, the hull featured a structural strength nearly ten times greater at full load. Primary hull internal volume was increased by 25%, while hull mass decreased from 3 tons/m³ to 1.9 tons/m³. On the whole this allowed the ships to triple their maximum impulse acceleration and the hull to withstand the stress generated by higher density warp coils of the latest generation of LN-64 based designs. For the crew this meant substantially improved habitability conditions and a greater mission endurance.
Construction in the 24th century followed up with larger and more ambitious applications of SIF-integrated trussed-frame designs. Comparison of ships named
is instructive. NCC-1701-A had a payload volume of 280,000 m³. Commissioned just 10 years later, her
-class successor featured 975,000 m³. The following half-century would introduce NCC-1701-C with 2,800,000 m³ which in turn would be dwarfed by NCC-1701-D's 5,800,000 m³ in 2363. The
class featured a slightly smaller volume, but NCC-1701-E's trussed-frame is capable of a 200,000% increase in materials strength compared to NCC-1701-B's 25,000%.
The materials themselves underwent a substantial improvement as well. Phase-transition bonding allowed seamless creation of outer stress hulls that mixed the best characteristics of duranium and trititanium. Improvements in subspace field modulated graviton manipulation nanoscale crystal formation by 2350 allowed the refinement of unalloyed tritanium latices, which could then be phase-transition bonded to duranium to form lighter, stronger trussed frames. Ships built in the 2360s featured substantial improvements to their overall hull integrity due to these material advancements.
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Debating LEED's worth I
The editorial "LEED certification: Big Green's lie" takes a deceptive view toward the well-respected and widely used LEED green building program.
The editorial references a "study" from the Environmental Policy Alliance. This "alliance" was recently exposed as a front group for Richard Berman and his gun-for-hire PR machine.
Berman is known as a stalwart supporter of business and industry over consumer, safety and environmental groups. LEED is Berman's latest target.
LEED has spurred explosive growth in higher quality buildings. LEED supports millions of U.S. jobs and contributes billions of dollars to the U.S. economy annually.
Right here in Pennsylvania, LEED is used by thousands of schools, hospitals and office buildings. LEED saves taxpayer dollars by conserving energy and water, which reduces utility bills. There are thousands of proven business cases around the world that demonstrate that LEED works.
The analysis referenced in the editorial relies on energy use intensity (EUI).
Isolating EUI to measure building energy use ignores the importance of the number of people using a building. A large, unoccupied building would score very well, because its energy use is quite low relative to size.
The editorial also states the EUI of the U.S. Green Building Council's headquarters is 236, when in fact the LEED Platinum space's EUI is 40.
This editorial does a disservice to LEED and to all of us who live and breathe in buildings every day.
Scot Horst
Washington, D.C.
The writer is senior vice president of LEED for the U.S. Green Building Council (usgbc.org)
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July 1, 2014
LA Stories
How a variety of animal welfare groups in LA have worked to address issues both in and out of shelters, helping ensure better services for pet owners our field has often missed and working toward a city where no healthy or treatable animals are euthanized.
July 1, 2014
Helping Animals on a Mass. Scale
A Massachusetts shelter models holistic approach to ending pet homelessness.
March 1, 2014
Such Great Heights
The Humane Society of the United States' Pets for Life program and message continues to spread. Christie Rogero of the Animal Welfare Association in New Jersey talks her introduction and inspiration in bringing this life-saving program to Camden, NJ.
March 1, 2014
Unforgettable: Hail Cesar (and Gris)
Dog training the Pets for Life way.
March 1, 2014
Putting a Friendly Face on Animal Control
In California, the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter turns on the charm and engages it's community with a door-to-door approach. Could it work for your agency?
March 1, 2014
Grassroots Guardians
The Green Mountain Animal Defenders in Vermont develops a program to help all animals, wild, and domestic, including baby chicks from a local hardware store.
January 1, 2014
The Build-Out
San Antonio Animal Care Services opens a new, second campus in Brackenridge Park for low-cost spay/neuter and Responsible Pet Care of Oxford Hills renovates their shelter.
January 1, 2014
Timing is Everything
Humane Alliance launches When to Spay effort to promote spay/neuter at 4 months.
January 1, 2014
Success that's One of a Kind
An Ohio couple's rescue goes from a former doughnut shop to an adoption center anchored by a spiraling tower for cats.
November 1, 2013
The Wonder Down Under
Animal Welfare League of Queensland in Australia uses Getting 2 Zero model to reduce euthanasia.


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The time courses of extracellular H2O2 concentration changes following impact injury to the rat spinal cord in saline-treated, MPSS-treated, and MnTBAP-treated groups. The procedure was described in detail in the Methods section. After three microdialysates were collected at 20-min intervals to establish a basal level, a weight was dropped at time 0 onto the cord (25 g·cm), and sampling was continued for another 5 h at 20-min intervals. A single dose of MnTBAP (4 mg/kg) or the equivalent intrathecal standard regimen of MPSS (bolus dose plus maintenance dose for a total of 9.24 mg/kg as described in the Methods) was administered into the intrathecal space of the cord through a catheter implanted in the terminal cistern. The samples were collected in vials containing a solution of FeCl2 and salicylate. H2O2 in the microdialysates were converted to ● OH in the collecting vials by the Fenton reaction. The ● OH produced in the collecting vials rapidly attacks salicylate to produce 2,3- and 2,5-DHBA. The salicylate hydroxylation products 2,3- and 2,5-DHBA were analyzed by HPLC with electrochemical detection. The 2,3-DHBA was calibrated to the amount of H2O2. Clearly, both MnTBAP and MP reduced H2O2 to its basal level.
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Chess - Online Game Hall - Play Online Game With Friends And Future Buddies
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Play with your friends on online chess game;
Practise and upgrade your levels for Offline mode. Practice more and supprise your friends later on Online Ches!
All UI are very simple, so you can focus on Chess itself.
Hope you like it and enjoy it every day!
CronlyGames Inc. Web SiteChess - Online Game Hall - Play Online Game With Friends And Future Buddies Support
What's New in Version 2.1.3
Fix a bug when the fullscreen ads pop-ups
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This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
- Free
- Category: Games
- Updated: 09 December 2014
- Version: 2.1.3
- Size: 9.7 MB
- Languages: English, Simplified Chinese
- Seller: CronlyGames Inc.
- © CronlyGames
Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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- Full version for ChessUSD 0.99


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...any chance you any link(s) to an Escher gallery?
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