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Brazil's President, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, said Saturday that
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economic turmoil.
His comments came as Finance Ministers and Central Bank
Presidents from the world's 20 major economies, the so-called G-20, were gathered for a weekend meeting in Sao Paulo to grapple with ways to tackle the global financial crisis. Da Silva went on to say that rich nations, like the United States, must acknowledge the increasing global role that developing nations like Brazil will play in the world's economy.
Meanwhile, protesters gathered outside the venue where the meeting was taking place to express their anger at the credit meltdown.
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Cholodin is a chewable dietary supplement that helps remedy various conditions in senior dogs.
It has been recommended by veterinarians for age-related problems, including fatigue, poor coat, constipation, inappropriate urination, poor appetite, and poor mental performance.
Old age takes a toll of dogs just as it would in humans. Fatigue, mentality problems, poor appetite, inability to control bladder or bowel movements are just a few inconvenient problems which canines are faced with in their senior years.
Poor appetite is a common problem all species of elderly mammals are faced with. When a dog is young, the body desires a constant consumption of food for the growing body. Once the body has matured, it no longer requires a high intact of raw energy hence the decrease in appetite. This poor appetite leads to poor hair coat and stigma.
Urinary incontinence refers to the inability to control urinary flow. In a healthy dog the brain, neuron receptors, and bladder work together to relive a pet with a full bladder. The filtrated waste product remains within the bladder by muscular sphincters. These sphincters will contract in waves when the bladder fills; sending messages to the receptor organs, telling the brain to release muscle contractions. Over time two problems occur: the muscles which yield the urine loose strength causing urine to be released freely and the nerves which regulate the stimulation of the bladder wall and message the brain to allow urine elimination are inconsistent.
Constipation in an older pet is caused by a similar problem as urinary incontinence. The small and large intestines are long, hollow organs which use a squeezing element to move waste products to the rectum. As a dog becomes older, the muscles in the intestines weaken, healthy flora which once aided bowel movement is no longer present, and the diet has changed.
Poor hair coat, a decrease in appetite, dietary problems, bowel movement deficiency, inappropriate urination, and decrease in mental stability are problems.
Dogs of any breed are affected with the condition of alder age. Poor hair coat, a decrease in appetite, dietary problems, bowel movement deficiency, inappropriate urination, and decrease in mental stability are problems in which most dogs become ailed with over age 10.
1.What steps should I take if my pet has adverse effects from product?
Stop use and contact an emergency medical center immediately.
2. Is Cholodine safe for my cat?
No, this product is labeled for dog use only.
3. How old should my dog be to use this product?
Most dogs are considered seniors between 7-10 years of age.
4. How soon will I be able to see results in my dog?
Energy support will be noted within days, secondary effects will be noted upon weeks.
5. Will this product help control my dog's seizures?
In some cases veterinarians have prescribed this product for seizure. Speak with your veterinarian before use.
6. What side effects should I be aware of while using this product?
Hyperactivity, social agitation, and muscular twitching.
Product Cautions
For use in dogs only.
Keep out of reach from children.
Not intended for human consumption.
Pets: Not intended for use in cats or kittens. Adverse side effects while using this product include; increased neurological activity such as hyperactivity, social agitation, or muscular twitching.
Humans: avoid inhaling powder form. Care should be taken to avoid contamination of food, water and feed. After use, wash your hands thoroughly with water and soap.
If Swallowed: Immediately contact a poison control center to be instructed of the situation. Offer water to affected person if said person is in a state of consciousness. Do not encourage the individual to vomit unless instructed by a medical physician.
If in eyes: If product residue affects the eyes, keep the affected eye open while flushing said eye with water. If individual wears contact lenses, remove the contact and continue flushing eye for five minutes. Continue to cleanse the eye for 20 minutes and contact a medical physician if irritation occurs.
Storage & Disposal
Storage: Tablets should be stored in an air tight container, away from moisture and light. Do not store medication among food or drink. The contents should not be transferred to other containers.
Disposal: Dispose un-used or empty containers as directed on the label. Never re-use containers and always recycle or dispose. If you have any questions, contact your local medical waste agency for directions or contact 1-800-CLEANUP for additional information.
Cholodin is a non-prescription (OTC) product available as scored, chewable tablets. Cholodin is manufactured as the name brand but can be sold generically under the same name. The generic form can be used in dogs. These products contain the same active ingredient but cost less and can contain more per container. Generic forms of this product however are not issued by veterinarian and storage regulations are variable. Name brand has a higher reliance rate and is veterinarian recommended.
How it Works
Cholodin contains a nutrient of the vitamin B family known as choline. This product contains amino acids, vitamins, and minerals to restore youthful vigor.
Pet Weight Dosage
Dogs: 25 lbs or under Give 1/2 chewable tablet daily
Dogs: 25-50 lbs Give 1 chewable tablet daily
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008 (AP) -- Former South Carolina star Tarence Kinsey has signed a contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers after spending part of last season overseas. Cleveland general manager Danny Ferry announced the deal.
The 24-year-old Kinsey played for Memphis as a rookie in 2006-07, averaging nearly 8 points a game. He split last season between the Grizzlies and a team in the Turkish Basketball League.
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How do you feel about siblings sharing a room?
I have a 3 yr old and a 11 month old. My three year old just turned three a couple days ago and my 11 month old will be 1 in a couple weeks. They play pretty good together, but I never had a sibling close enough in age that shared a room with me and was just curious as to how everyone else felt about it? They are currently both in my room. Our master bedroom has a sunroom that we turned into a nursery and the toddler bed is beside our bed. It all started because my husband works out of town and I just feel so much better with them close by me but I am going to try and make a switch in the next few months and put a baby monitor in the room.
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I spent my whole childhood wishing I had a sibling to sleep with. If I had someone to 'protect' me from the 'monsters' I was fine, and if I had someone to 'protect' I was fine, but I hated to be alone!posted 12/02/2012 by ruthnjun
I shared a room with siblings while growing up (all the way up to middle school). I think it taught us all to share, get along, and work as a team. Which we still do today. I've already decided if we could afford a bigger home, I still want my 3yo and 5 month old to share when baby is a little older...It taught me valuble life lessons.posted 05/01/2012 by librarygirl09
I would say if you have the option don't do! I don't have a choice but wish I did! My 1year old dose not sleep through the night and always wakes up his 4year old sister who is in preschool and has to wake up early to make it for the school buss. If he had his own room I would have him cry it out in his own room cause we are stuck bringing him to bed with us which leads to me being kicked out of my own bed! Its a nightmare!posted 04/16/2012 by mamaAssila
i agree it's a good idea to teach them teamwork and to share even if you have an extra bedroom...i like that idea. :) when this baby's born, son will be 2 years 8 months.posted 04/06/2012 by librarygirl09
Shared a room with my sister for a while, then my brother & sister shared a room until the 3rd bedroom was finished. My mom is one of 8 and 5 girls shared a small room & the 3 brothers shared another. My husband's siblings and him often share rooms (not to mention when we go on vacation and the suite gets packed with family!). So for me it works perfectly fine. Though my oldest prefers the living room couch or recliner to her bed or play pen.... and her sister prefers the floor or her crib, so technically they sleep in different rooms a lot of nights but when they are awake they play together non stop in the living room or their room. So basically I am fine with it :) My son is soon to arrive and he will be sharing a room with them for a short time until we get living spaces figured out (we live with my parents to help them with medical stuff & my brother is temporarily living here too).posted 09/05/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
I am going to have my two children share a room as long as they can. and after the baby can sleep through the night. Right now my 2yr old likes to sleep out on our couch but were trying to get him to sleep in his room. I think sharing a room is fine i shared a room with my brother and siter for awhile growing up, and eventually m it was just me and my sister in one room, we were getting to old body wise, and we started fighting more, sinse our interests were so diffrent. But i have plenty of time until that point, enough time to add a room.posted 07/26/2011 by MRSBUMM
I have a 2 year old right now, and im currently 15 weeks pregnant. I plan to have my son share his room with the baby once the baby starts to sleep through the night. I recently got him to sleep in his room on his own, he was sleeping in my room in his toddler bed, but now he likes sleeping in his room.posted 01/15/2011 by Vaune85
my oldest 3 share a room for the most part it works really well the biggest problem is when one wakes up at night and wakes the others up the good part is they sleep heavier because of each others noices anddontdo that much anymoreposted 01/11/2011 by butterfly_kisses5555
I shared a room with my younger brother once he started sleeping through the night. I was around 10 i think. Eventually my parents finished their basement and converted it into a bedroom. I think if your children are different genders, they will need their own rooms once they get older. But at such a young age, being close will benefit their relationship. I am a mom with only one child so I don't truly know from a "mom" perspective.posted 10/27/2010 by xx_mary_xx
Only in a world where an average house exceeds 1500 sq feet and average family size is less than 5 could this possibly be a question. There is soooo much a child learns by sharing a room that will bless his life in getting along with others, and being grateful. I recommend people share rooms even when they don't "have to". (And if you have a spare room and make IT into the play room, you also may help the kiddos get good rest.posted 10/22/2010 by nprbc
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Even when being watched on a plane this film is awesome. It's pretty honest to the original comics and where things were changed, they were changed to good effect.
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Building on the success of the America Reads Challenge, America Counts was initiated in July 1999 as an effort to improve student achievement in mathematic and assist students in mastering challenging mathematics, including the foundations of algebra and geometry, by the end of the 9th grade. Nationwide, there are approximately 300 colleges and universities participating in America Counts.
NYU's America Reads program began in 1997 with the placement of approximately 400 tutors in 43 schools in New York City School Districts 1 and 2. Today, as schools prepare students for careers of the 21st century, NYU America Reads has grown to include mathematics tutoring, expanding the program to NYU America Reads & America Counts.
Currently, approximately 800 tutors are placed in 80 schools in New York City School Districts 1, 2, 4, and 13. These dedicated NYU undergraduate and graduate students provide approximately 8,000 hours per week of academic assistance to students in grades Pre-K – 9, at no cost to the participating schools.
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In What City Did You Honeymoon?
And other monstrously stupid bank security questions.
Whereas it's easy to think of lousy questions, it's pretty much impossible to think of even one great one. Securitywise, though, a question is strong if it's unique: If every financial institution asked for your pet's name, phishers could focus all of their energy on sussing out that data. Gaffan says that RSA gives banks 150 questions to choose from, with the understanding that not every question will work for everyone. The problem isn't a failure of imagination on the part of the question-conjurers. It's the impossibility of coming up with a question that's easy to answer but hard to guess. After throwing in the caveat that "there is no one perfect question," the proprietor of Good Security Questions lists 16 that he considers the best. Almost all of them are terrible. What was your childhood nickname? Didn't have one, sadly. What is the name of your favorite childhood friend? Do Legos count as a friend? What is your oldest sibling's birthday month? I'm guessing it would take a hacker two tries to get to February.
The fundamental issue here is the disconnect between the certainty of banking culture and the ambiguity of human decision making—a person's favorite celebrity or favorite band isn't as knowable or concrete as the amount of her last ATM transaction. Some banks, like Wachovia, understand that their customers might loathe the provided security questions. Their half-assed solution: giving users the option to write the questions themselves, the ultimate admission that shared secrets are less a security scheme than a cost-savings measure. Banks know that users will come up with questions that are easy to remember—"What is 2+2?"—and thus easy for anyone with a grade-school education to guess.
Of course, there are ways to get around these questions. There's no law that says you have to speak the truth—all you have to do is type in something you'll remember. Don't remember your third-grade teacher's name? Call her "purple." Or if you're paranoid about security, you can always just put nonsense in the answer field—nobody will guess that your pet's name is qqzzhskjafhdlkalkfdha. But why should it be up to us to subvert the banks' stupidity?
It's easy to blame all of this—the stupid questions, the stupid answers, the stupid workarounds—on the banks. Financial institutions don't want to help you; they want you to help yourself. Their primary goal is to get us to fix our own problems without dialing a 1-800 number. On the other hand, we hate customer-service calls just as much as the banks do. The one thing more annoying than trying to remember the name of your third-grade teacher is sitting on hold, repeating your account information for the eighth time, getting disconnected, calling back …
Perhaps the reason that banks use these questions, then, is because we want them. Bruce Schneier, the security guru and CTO of BT Counterpane, sees our impatience as the driving impulse behind the security question movement: "This is security clashing with customer service, because customer service says our customers are calling and saying I forgot my password … our customers are getting pissed off." With the proliferation of online banking and all manner of e-commerce, we're accustomed to handling transactions ourselves, without the mediation of a human being. Why should resetting our passwords be any different? No matter how irritating security questions are, we demand a solution that works as we're sitting at the laptop.
But just because customers value convenience over security doesn't mean banks should. Instead of coming up with ever-more-ornate questions about teachers and toys, banks and security companies should push solutions that are safe and customer-friendly. While everyone hates calling customer service, confirming your identity on the phone (an out-of-band device) is way more secure than using an online form. RSA's Gaffan told me about a phone-based authentication system used by more than a dozen of the company's clients. At sign-up time, you enter your work, home, and cell numbers. If you lose your password, simply indicate whether you're at home, at work, or on your cell. To authenticate yourself, just answer your phone and type in a number that appears on your computer screen. There's nobody asking about your honeymoon and no stuffed animal names to remember. Sounds perfect to me. What's my favorite bank? The one that doesn't ask me stupid frigging questions.


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Political scientist Greg Koger talks health care reform, filibuster history, and the problem with Schoolhouse Rock.
Yesterday, for the second time in as many days, Senate Republicans—and one Democrat—voted, 41-57, against invoking cloture on financial reform legislation, thereby blocking efforts to bring the bill to the floor for an up-or-down vote. In other words, they filibustered. Again.
While the latest Senate filibuster is unlikely to last, in recent years the world's greatest deliberative body has done a lot more deliberating than usual: 60-vote supermajorities have become standard operating procedure, and even some of the least controversial of President Obama's nominees have seen their confirmations stall for months at the threat of a filibuster. With politically charged climate and immigration legislation on the horizon, such obstruction isn't likely to go away anytime soon.
So who's at fault? According to University of Miami political scientist Greg Koger, we have fact-finding trips and golf courses to blame—not Mitch McConnell. Mother Jones spoke with Koger last week about today's Senate, how to fix it, and his forthcoming book: Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate, out in June.
Mother Jones: Over the last year and a half, a lot of journalists have used the filibuster to argue that Washington is broken. As James Fallows at The Atlantic put it, "One thing I've never heard in my time overseas is 'I wish we had a Senate like yours.'" Are we seeing a new phenomenon?
Greg Koger: What makes the current Senate distinct is not the rules, it's the way that senators are behaving. On the Republican side, there's an extraordinary willingness to filibuster the type of legislation they would not have filibustered in the past, whether we're talking about stimulus bills or broad-ranging health care reform when everybody knows that the system's broken. And then honestly, I think the Democrats have not done a very good job of playing the legislative side of the political process.
MJ: So what could Democrats have been doing that they didn't do? What kind of procedural quirks could they have taken advantage of?
GK: Well, one main thing is actually just to do a better job of coupling their legislative strategy with a public relations strategy. On health care, they fell behind because they spent a lot of time arguing with each other in public, which slowed down the bill. And when they did have a proposal, they just sort of dumped these enormous bills out there and said, "OK, you want health care? Here it is," and then allowed the opponents of health care to define what the bills were and what the flaws were. And most of the other Democrats were then caught flat-footed by this blowback, and they were unprepared to explain the finer points of the legislation.
From a political point of view, it might have been helpful for the Democrats to find the way to break the bill into pieces and vote on it in sort of easy-to-understand digestible pieces. And the Democrats argued that the legislation had to move as one big piece because all the pieces fit together, and that makes sense as a legislative argument. But still, politically it would have been better to move it piece by piece, so that you have a conversation about the individual sectors of the bill and everybody would understand, "Ah yes, there is no 'Death Panels' subheading of the bill."
MJ: Besides breaking apart the bill and moving them in separate pieces, are there any sort of parliamentary tricks you came across in previous pieces of legislation that were conspicuously absent?
GK: Back on the political side of things, if the Democrats know Republicans are going to filibuster anything they put on the floor, then the strategy should be to put things on the floor which are embarrassing to filibuster. And they finally started figuring this out in 2010, when they had this blowup with Jim Bunning blocking the unemployment-insurance extension. And the Democrats sort of fired up their public relations machinery and said, "Really? People have been unemployed for the better part of the year, and one person is going to keep that from going through the Senate?" Just the embarrassment factor forced the Republicans to cave.
MJ: Speaking of embarrassment, that's one of the problems that came up when I spoke with a pollster about Senate reform: It's impossible to get a sizable percentage of the public to care about debates about Senate procedure. Have you found instances where the public will get really engaged and take sides?
GK: Actually, I believe the pollsters are correct. Most people don't care very much about procedure. I will say that in the mid-20th century, the battle over the Senate cloture rule was so closely identified with civil rights that people did ask lots of questions about procedure. So in 1952, there was this Southern senator, Sparkman, running as a vice president on Adlai Stevenson's ticket, and it was news—not front page news, but it was news—when he was asked how he would rule as vice president on whether or not the Senate was a standing body. So under the right circumstances, people can learn about the implications of the rules and care a little bit. But for the most part I don't think they'd really get involved.
I think to the extent that procedure gets tied to some broader phenomenon, then it can be powerful. So once people understand the Republicans are able to block legislation when they stand together, then it's credible to say, in the 2010 cycle, Republicans are the party of "No" and they are a hindrance on not just the president's agenda, but just sort of effective government.
MJ: When you were going through the research was there anyone who really stood out as the King of Filibuster?
GK: I developed a real fondness for Huey Long. The thing is, he's only a senator from, what, 1932 to 1935? But he was just a…he was just a lot of fun. He had a bone to pick with Roosevelt and the Democratic leaders, and so he would just come to the floor and filibuster a lot. And when he did, he was very colorful.
MJ: How did the founders come down on this? Did they have any idea that 200 years later, Huey Long was going to be reading out of his cookbook?
GK: Well, the important point just to dispel any rumors out there, is that the right to filibuster is not written into the Constitution, and it's not as if the founders wanted filibustering to happen. They didn't advocate it. So that's the first point. The second point, though, is that as they were writing key provisions of the Constitution, they sort of anticipated that the rights they were putting into the Constitution could be used to filibuster. Things like what the quorum threshold is, how many people it takes to call for a vote, those are in there for different reasons; there are sort of good-government reasons to have those provisions in there. It's just that at the same time they could be abused. And they knew it.
MJ: So what's your explanation for the rise of obstructionism in the Senate? Is this all Mitch McConnell's fault?
GK: [laughs] No, no, it definitely precedes Mitch McConnell. The underlying story is that the ways that senators filibuster have changed dramatically. There used to be these wars of attrition where it was a contest to see which sides of the debate could last longer. And then we switched; the senators then switched to just seeing who had enough, the people wanting to do something, had enough votes to shut off debate. And underlying that was that the time of senators became much more valuable to them. They had lots of other things they could be doing. The senate had a lot more business to try to deal with, and when you put that together we spend a week, a month, trying to have one of these long debates. It just wasn't worth it to them anymore.
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*I will try to add everything in the list. Everything may or may not end up in the final version.
Assault Horizon plans to add as many nations as possible, this will result in no AI (Generals can only cover 12 or something factions with AI), But who cares? Lets play vs. the 3 vanilla nations or play against a friend or two.
These are the nations that will be added first.
* In game already.
* I have most if not all models / texture ready. Just need to recode them to actual code.** I have some of the models / texture ready.*** Major Nations. Alot of diffrent nation uses this nation units.
Please stop asking me when i will add xxx country/nation. Or what nation is next, that is a suprise. And asking about your home nation/country, you are not alone. i have atleast 50 or so request in my private inbox.
Peace out all!
Outcast out!
Even if that means crossing a minefield!
Well then, the biggest news as of now is that InsurgentCeLL has joined the ranks and is pretty much the closest i got to a member of the team. As of now he has free will to do what he likes. What this means is that its up to him to decide when to work with Assault Horizon or not. Modding takes alot of time and i for one knows this. I do not want to take someones free time away from them so.. Thats that.
As of now his helping out with some 3D Models. I cant promise that this will make the release date come any closer but it will help me in the long run as i can use less time actully making the 3D Models and instead get a good base to either use directly or to add some details too. I still need to texture the models myself and that is time consuming (probably the most time consuming part of modding) and then code them, which isen't that much of a problem to do.
The new faction is about 25 to 50% done for release. Somewhere around there, we got some class A Models in the works, as stated before, it's the texture process that will take some time. Codewise i've added some new bits and fixed some others. I will fix up the PLA Infantry "cant capture building" bugs today. Tried to play AH over network. Got the Missmatch problem, tried to fix that the same way Contra and ROTR did it. Hopefully this will work.
Also if you want to be like InsurgentCeLL and be a good lad and help out, this is what you can do for me.
That is it for today i guess, i wont go on forever and ever abot it. Use common sense, thats how i survived in the big world until now.
Next release will be released when it's ready to be released, no exceptions. The faction is yet to be revealed, One thing is for sure. This faction packs some serious firepower! Until then AH Fans. Take Care!
P.s. Sorry for them typos. English isen't my native language.
- Outcast out
A new update is in the works with alot of goodies. Now for some odd reason the summary field needs to be 50 characters long or it wont allow me to post...
Woohooo! My laptop screen got a crack in it, as you might expect. I won't update AH for awhile...
This is the plan for Assault Horizon comeback and abit of insight on future plans. Please leave a comment if you got any feedback or suggestions.
A Message from the grave.. For the non belivers. For the foolish. For the short minded. For the lovers and for the haters. For the fans.
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Enjoy this update, It's not 100% complete but as i said, i will contribute new units to PLA with each update. I actully tried to fix every bug i've detected...
Be Advice, that this alpha release contains the new ini coding, and as such all old models are not in this alpha release, the only thing in this alpha...
Assault Horizon Alpha V0.20a somewhat stressed out. Sweden Faction is now added, playable under the US Super weapons general as a temporary fix. No AI...
New Release with some bugfixes and all new alpha functions, naval code is still buggy as hell, can't remember whom made the code from scratch but i'll...
The "long awaited" (Yeah, right) Assault Horizon Alpha v0.10a Release. Merged with my old files, this release also has it share of bugs, but this release...
First Alpha Release, Bleeding edge release. Nothing fancy here tho. Command one of four new units. M2A2 Bradley IFV M551 Sheridan LAV-25 IFV M1117 Guardian...
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and also the gla could use v2 rocket and for defense you could also use anti tank weapons like flak 88
hey did u just say ur gonna use post modern tanks on each factions? why not put centurion of patton tanks on usa instead of a m4 sherman.then put tiger tanks for gla and t34 or t55 and for there main battle tank is t72 and for aa they could use dual bofors 40mm or the flak 88 for china type 99
Why does US only have one star?? Give it two stars and make UK one star! US should have a lot of importance since 1) It is an actual faction from the vanilla game... and 2) US IRL has the world's most technologically advanced Air Force and Navy in the world, meaning it's military is the strongest in the world and should play a key part in any mod featuring it in the modern era. Not trying to sound all patriotic/pro-US military or something like that, just saying You should really give more importance to making US units =I
*Facepalm* the so-called "stars" are footnotes.
Meaning only the things that the star below the descriptions says, in this case, i have most of the textures and models ready. Nothing else, nothing more, its not some kind of list in what order i will make the faction nor is it a list of what faction is the strongest. Please read the whole post in the future.
So how are the Canadians coming along?
Could'nt take to long from now. :)
Nice! Good to know, mate. Btw did you get that PM of mine about the Canadian camos?
Yeah i got it. Did you notice the new download? ;)
Yes I have! Downloading right now!
So the final thing will be no AI I see. :(
Can't really have it.. Will leave vanilla USA / China / GLA for AI matches, other then that it will be only against friends.
Alright, so we can play as PLA, UK, Canada, etc. but not against them, right?
Pretty much yes, you can play against a friend over hamachii or something.
And as i said before, i would love to code in AI (haven't really looked into that to much). Put as i said theres an engine restriction so you only have like 12-14 factions with AI and the rest if the faction would just stand still doing nothing.


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Like father, not quite like son - the Ablett family.
People love these kinds of debate. I hate them. Not because you shouldn't compare footballers but because you have to compare players of close to equal ability.
The younger Gary Ablett is a fantastic player. He's won a Brownlow Medal, two premierships and six All-Australian jumpers.
He's also a classic example of how people let modern-day stats carry them away to places they shouldn't go. Yes Gazza junior now has 74 games of 30 possessions or more and, yes, he once racked up 53 possessions in a game.
No, he isn't near to being as good a footballer as his father was.
Gary Ablett senior was the biggest freak I've ever seen. He played key forward despite not being overly tall. He was an outstanding midfielder when he wanted (needed) to be. He could have been a brilliant centre-half-back if the occasion had demanded it.
Senior would have won the grand final sprint any time he entered. He stood on people's shoulders with only a couple of steps of run-up. He was so physically strong - something he never really gets recognised for - that he would split packs open, in the air or on the ground, with frightening power.
Three times in his career he kicked 14 goals - once in a memorable shootout against Paul Salmon and Essendon, another time against Richmond while playing off a wing. He kicked 11 against Brisbane one Sunday at Carrara, which I remember pretty vividly because I was at the other end and the ball wasn't getting down there a whole heap!
Leigh Matthews is on the record as saying he used to turn up early for games to see Ablett play in the reserves. Letting Ablett senior go, Lethal reckoned, was as big a mistake as the Hawks ever made.
John Todd said that Geelong would never win a premiership with Ablett senior. He was proved right but without him you'd argue the Cats don't make four grand finals (and that nine goals in 1989 very nearly beat the Hawks).
You almost don't want to think about the kind of player the older Gazza (never a noted trackworker) might have become with modern training and medical techniques and a carefully monitored diet because...well...to be honest...it's just scary.
I guess the question that really needs to be asked is "could Gary senior have played on Gary junior?". The answer is "yes" but if you reverse the order of their names, it becomes a "no".
None of this, by the way, is to disparage Gary junior. He admitted himself a couple of weeks back that his dad was still better than he was and the Suns seem to finally be finding a better balance in how to use him.
Gary Ablett junior has had 5000 possessions in his career. Gary Ablett senior kicked 1000 goals. I know which of those figures is the more important.
Junior had 34 disposals in the upset win over St Kilda on Saturday but most importantly he kicked four goals.
Ablett could have another 50-possession game if he wanted to. But it would take a lot of backwards handballing and Gazza focus by his Gold Coast teammates.
For the Suns to keep going forward, Ablett junior needs to keep getting forward and contribute directly to the scoreboard.
He won't boot as many as his dad. And his possession count will probably drop off. But he'll only enhance his value to the young Suns.
Not to mention his own legacy.
Hero of the week: Caitlin Bassett
Bit of an unheralded one here but it was great to see the West Coast Fever score a win in the trans-Tasman netball comp on the weekend. Bassett's 61 goals from 69 attempts were a huge part of the Fever's 80-53 win over the Northern Mystics. Between the Fever and the old Perth Orioles, WA has never had much luck with its representative netball teams - hopefully that's about to change.
Goat of the week: The Match Review Panel
No wonder people get confused about our great game. The MRP has declared that you can bump another player but any contact to the head, accidental or not, is a no-no. So Lindsay Thomas irons out Ben Reid and doesn't receive any punishment at all? Please explain.
Honourable mention to the AFL for its continual refusal to play Good Friday fixtures. North Melbourne-Collingwood at the MCG on Friday should have been a no-brainer that would have attracted more than 60,000 people. And for a competition that is so keen on trumpeting its own achievements, it would have made for the biggest total round one attendance ever.
Things that make you go hmmmmmm:
What's with all these people wanting to shut down the Nathan Buckley-Brad Scott debate over the Thomas-Reid incident? I thought it was great - a couple of passionate blokes arguing passionately in favour of their own players and teams. Should be more of it.
While I'm at it, Mark Neeld ought to be happy Jeff Kennett is an ex-Hawthorn president rather than a current Melbourne one. If Kennett thinks Alistair Clarkson ought to get the chop, imagine what he'd make of the Demons' shocking first-up effort against Port Adelaide.
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Mr. James M. Fields April13, 2009
John Deere Worldwide Commercial and Consumer Equipment Division
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Cary, NC 27513
Dear Mr. Fields:
In April 2005, I purchased a John Deere L118 lawn tractor for $2000 at the New Hartford, CT Home Depot (see attached receipt for proof of purchase). I had previously owned a Sears Craftsman for 15 years. Despite few problems from the Craftsman during the time I owned it, I bought a John Deere based on the brand's reputation for quality and longevity.
I enjoyed three solid years of use from the L118; however, last fall the tractor began to have difficulty making it up the hill on my front lawn. It got to the point that I could not get the tractor to advance at all up the hill.
This spring, I arranged for the local dealer which I use to annually service my tractor, Farmington Valley Equipment of Farmington, CT., to execute the annual service and I asked them to look into the issue with getting up the hill.
Needless to say, based on the aforementioned John Deere reputation for quality and longevity (your website clearly states that John Deere products are "built to last"), I was shocked to think that after only four years and 140 hours of use, and after having spent $2,000 only four years ago, that I would have to spend almost another $1,000 plus tax to fix a machine that I expected to get at least the 15 years of use I got from the Craftsman without any major problems.
I asked the manager of the Lawn and Garden Dept. at Home Depot to contact your customer service group as I feel that this situation completely flies in the face of your advertising, and that based on the quality reputation you work hard to thrust upon us I should not be responsible for the cost of this repair. The customer service folks told the manager that I would get a call from your after-warranty service division.
A couple of days later I got a call from a woman named Kimberly who made it clear to me that she was not the decision-maker and was just a messenger, as she said on at least two occasions that she was simply asked to call me and advise me of what John Deere was willing to do to address this situation.
It turns out that all your company is willing to do is cover one-half of the cost of only the part - no labor, and none of the shipping of the part to Farmington Valley Equipment. This translates to only $327 of the $958 plus tax total cost of the repair.
Despite the fact that the tractor is out of warranty, I find it completely unfair that despite your advertising around quality and longevity, you find it acceptable that I be left holding the bag for almost two-thirds of the outrageous cost of installing a new transmission after only 140 hours of use. Is this the way John Deere stands behind its products?
Is your definition of "Built to Last" essentially four years? Does "nothing runs like a Deere" mean a tractor which is supposed to be a workhorse not being able to make it up a moderate hill?
I have bought numerous other John Deere products and based on my recommendation, one of my close friends bought a John Deere tractor last year.
Given that I have been a loyal John Deere customer and have recommended your brand to others, and you are a company which spends millions of dollars to convince consumers like me that your products are of the highest quality, I ask that you reconsider your decision to pay only one-third of the cost of this extremely expensive repair and cover it in its entirety.
If you do not, then your advertising will have been proven to be false and I will have no choice but to not only refrain from recommending John Deere products to my friends and clients, but to pro-actively act to ensure that they do not purchase your equipment.
Please advise of your decision in this matter.
Alan D. Weber
38 Old Stone Crossing
West Simsbury, CT 06092
P.S. You should also know that last summer, one of my neighbors had the exact same problem with his John Deere tractor.
He too needed a new transmission after only about 200 hours of use. Besides my own personal situation, I think you have an issue with your transmissions which your quality assurance people should look into.
And as a former marketing executive, I think you should be concerned that you are wasting marketing dollars on products that do not live up to the image you are working hard to craft.


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Holidays at Home Event in Ramsbottom
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On Sunday 15th July the Friends of Nuttall Park will be holding a Holidays at Home event (1940s style if you wish to dress accordingly) to bring together the local community and to raise funds for additional play equipment in Nuttall Park.
The event will run from 2 - 5pm but come earlier, bring a chair or sit on the grass and enjoy the beautiful surroundings.
Delicious Refreshments will be on sale in the Ranger Base and there will be other food, drinks, ice cream and candy floss for you to enjoy.
Free Car Parking will be available in the two car parks and at Cormar Carpets and TNT car parks in Ramsbottom just along from Aldi (signposted).
Entry is free so bring a chair or a rug and enjoy a picnic as you listen to Tottington Brass Band, try your luck on the coconut shy, guess the weight of the rocks, orienteering challenge and much more. Children can enjoy a donkey ride, Punch and Judy show and burn off some energy on the hay bale stack.
We hope the weather will be kind to us but come along whatever the weather and you will have a super time just as they did in the 1940s when people could not afford to go away for a holiday.
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The 2011 Accountants Full Employment Act.
The current situation: I pay you to give me the numbers I need!
Here's a better idea, IMHO; have the SEC hire auditors. Firms subject to the SEC would pay the cost-plus to the SEC for the privilege of being listed. The SEC would hire and replace as required, Auditors based on various criteria, without to regard to some rotation construct, rather perhaps, an industry-technical specialization, or other edge or specialization the audit firm possesses. Auditors would work for investors vis-à-vis SEC, rather than the CFO, who more than likely is an alumnus of the audit firm with mutual tribal loyalties and something akin to other-than-independent.
Switching from one crooked auditing firm to another crooked auditing firm doesn't achieve much.
He did such a good job giving us Worldcom and Enron, he has to be right.
Rather than having the SEC pay a cost-plus contract (a license to overbill), let auditors of publicly-held firms be paid some %, perhaps 15% of their fee in European put options. That will give them an incentive to root out information that will reduce the value of the stock of the audited firm, thus increasing the auditor's revenue. At the same time, use of European (rather than American) put options will provide adequate time for the company to respond to negative information and allow the market to digest these responses, thus detering auditors' ability to manipulate the stock price.
Nothing cures a conflict of interest like providing the two parties with clearly competing interests.
As someone who has been on both the corporate and the investment side of this question, I believe there is a lot to be said in favor of the Levitt proposal.
Outside auditors are very susceptible to becoming too close to their auditing clients, although Sarbanes-Oxley has done a lot to mitigate this.
Maybe the same rules should apply to congress and the people lobbying them.
Sounds like a good idea until you consider that the actual auditors might then swithc firms as well. After all, they would have marketable knowledge of the company being audited.
More regulation breeds more convolution which breeds more regulation.
J. S. Seidman, one of the founding partners of Seidman & Seidman (now BDO), suggested mandatory independent auditor rotation every five years. He did so in the first decade after the SEC was established. As is said, there is nothing new under the sun. His was a good idea when he said it and it's still a good idea.
Sure Chris, let's have the SEC hire auditors - great idea, we see how well government regulators (including the SEC) prevented the financial collapse in 2007-2008 and uncovered massive frauds like Madoff. Instead, look at the material weakness PwC forced AIG to file in late 2007 due to irregularities in the manner in which AIG valued its CDS business - that's a prime example of where an audit firm, paid by the company, threw a flag on a major client for a business practice that was not supportable by US accounting standards. Audit firms have way too much liability for making poor decisions - what do you suppose would be the liability for an SEC auditor that missed something? I suspect much like an OCC examiner who missed massive leverage and risk taking at his/her "client" during the credit boom – a reassignment to another department but not the threat of the loss of livelihood or invested capital. Audit partners and audit firms have way too much risk riding on an improper audit opinion for them to be cavalier in allowing management to do whatever it wants. I would say in that sense audit firms' interests are directly aligned with the investing public for whom the audit opinion ostensibly exists.
As for mandatory auditor rotation, how long do you think it would take the audit team of say Morgan Stanley to truly figure out how the company works? Longer than a year I would guess. For those of you who don't think that auditor rotation would create ample opportunities for management to conceal fraud if management were so inclined - especially at large multi-nationals - you're fooling yourselves.
Why? Here is a few reasons.
f you don't think Arthur Levitt is one of the biggest scumbags in Wall Street history, simply ask yourself why, during his tenure at the SEC, did he personally urge the FASB (the financial accounting standards board) not to implement rules that would have required public companies to expense stock options? This was the single most important issue before the SEC during Levitt's tenure. Not only did he not move the SEC to act on the issue, he applied a tremendous amount of political pressure on the FASB so that it couldn't act to protect investors. This set the stage for the horrendous stock options abuses we saw in the late 1990s and 2000s.
He pushed a new rule through the SEC in the late 1990s – Regulation FD, the so-called "Fair Disclosure Rule." The rule made it against SEC regulations for companies to selectively release information. That is, if you called up a public company and asked a question, they wouldn't be allowed to answer it, unless they were speaking to "all" investors at the same time. The SEC claimed this would "level the playing field" between big investors and small investors. (If you believe that, then there's a nice bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you…)
Stock options accounting was a black and white, non-partisan issue. As Warren Buffett said, "If options aren't compensation, what are they? And if compensation isn't on the books, where should we put it?" And yet… Levitt did everything he could to protect his wealthy backers on Wall Street, which is why, after his public career, you found him sitting in Wall Street's highest paid positions: "advisor" to Goldman Sachs… "advisor" to AIG (before it collapsed)… and board member at Bloomberg. He's nothing more than a highly paid errand boy.
There's one other big Levitt issue no one has ever looked into… As chairman of the AMEX during the 1970s, and as a major Jewish New York financier, Levitt certainly was very familiar with Bernie Madoff, who was chairman of the Nasdaq. They were in all of the same social and business circles. Madoff is alleged to have begun his Ponzi scheme during Levitt's tenure as Chairman of the SEC. I'd bet a lot of money that if you looked hard enough, you'd find that Levitt acted to protect Bernie during the SEC's investigation of his firm in the late 1990s. But nobody ever has.
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Steelhammer: Dairy air produces environmental problems, aviation solutions
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Next time a cow asks you to pull her hoof, turn her down -- unless you like global warming.
According to a study published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the U.S. is releasing 50 percent more methane into the atmosphere than the federal government estimates, with much of extra natural gas coming from flatulence and belches produced by cattle.
Each day, multi-stomached cattle are each capable of producing 250 to 500 liters of methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide.
While oil and gas development is also producing significantly more methane than previously estimated, cattle are passing gas at rate nearly double that computed earlier by the EPA, the study concluded.
Since U.S. methane emissions are trapping as much heat annually as all the carbon dioxide pollution from cars, trucks and planes produced in six months, the EPA may decide it's time to turn its attention from the so-called war on coal and focus on waging a new war against cow farts.
A few suggestions:
- Remove soybeans from the bovine diet.
- Make sure dairy produced cheese is cut in a climate-controlled environment.
- Produce and distribute agribusiness-strength Beano.
While some researchers are looking for ways to reduce cow flatulence, others are viewing the bumper crop of moo-thane as a way to make lemonade out of lemons -- or more accurately, aviation gas out of cow farts.
Among the finalists in a "Fly Your Ideas" contest held earlier this year by the airplane manufacturer Airbus was a group of students from Australia's Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, who came up with a plan for a cow gas propulsion system to power an airplane.
According to the London Telegraph, the Aussie design team proposed installing refrigerated pods of liquefied moo-thane next to an aircraft's engines to facilitate flight, while reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 97 percent.
Readers greeted the plan with a degree of skepticism. In the comments section following the online version of the article, one person suggested an alternative:
"Could not each passenger be obliged to eat a tin of baked beans and a vindaloo curry six hours before departure?" he asked.
"As far as eco-propulsion systems go, this is a bit of a stinker," another reader opined.
I have to admit, I'm a bit skeptical as well. I'll believe it's feasible when cows fly.


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Report: Mississippi River second-most toxic
Friday, March 23, 2012
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A new report released by the group Environment Missouri says the Mississippi River is the nation's second-most toxic river.
KSDK-TV (http://on.ksdk.com/GJfpJc ) reports that data released Thursday by Environment Missouri shows that 12 million pounds of toxins were dumped into the Mississippi in 2010. The only waterway more toxic is the Ohio River.
Environment Missouri is calling for pollution prevention measures and stricter law enforcement to protect the rivers.
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