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The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts will present the exhibition Paul McCarthy's Low Life Slow Life: Part 1 from February 7 to April 5, 2008, in the lower-level Logan Galleries on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts. This is the first solo project in San Francisco by the acclaimed Los Angeles–based artist. The exhibition is free and open to the public, with an opening reception on Thursday, February 7, from 6–8 p.m.
McCarthy's two-part exhibition will showcase not only a number of his own works but also a diverse range of artists and artworks related to his memories from his career. This first part will focus on his student years in Salt Lake City in the late 1960s and his early career in the Bay Area during the 1970s. Paul McCarthy's Low Life Slow Life: Part 2, to be presented in 2009, will focus on his years in Los Angeles and map out the period from the mid-1970s to the present.
McCarthy's curatorial selections are eccentric and unconventional, deriving more from his personal recollections than from any historical, objective measure of artistic influence. The works on display will range from sculptures to paintings, magazines, books, artifacts, memorabilia, films, videos, photographs, installations, and even reproductions and remakes of artworks that no longer exist or that McCarthy only ever encountered as reproductions. The featured artists will include such established figures as Henry Moore and Joseph Beuys and more obscure artists such as Wally Hedricks and Al Payne.
The exhibition will continuously change and transform during its course. The works will be grouped into clusters, enabling visitors to trace a dialogue among McCarthy's own pieces, works by other artists, McCarthy's numerous art-historical and aesthetic references, and his personal art history and philosophy. He will also present a number of "spin-off" exhibitions that will look at, for instance, the role of Christmas trees or mirrors in contemporary art.
Although McCarthy did not achieve international recognition until the 1990s, he has been an influential figure on Los Angeles's art scene for almost 30 years. His early performance work of the 1970s explored the body and sexuality. The intensity of these performances, which often included graphic depictions of taboo subjects, eventually led him to further explorations and exploitations of video and film, special effects, and large-scale installations as he continually strove to heighten the effect of his work. Today McCarthy is considered one of the most influential living American artists.
The artists featured in the exhibition will include, among others: John Altoon, Bob Arentz, Joseph Beuys, Stan Brakhage, Malcolm W. Browne, John Cage, Christo, Bruce Conner, Paul Cotton, Jay DeFeo, Marcel Duchamp, John Heartfield, Wally Hedrick, Allan Kaprow, Yves Klein, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Lindy, Robert Mallary, Paul McCarthy, Gustav Metzger, Allan Midgette, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Al Payne, Raivo Puusemp, Dieter Roth, Allen Ruppersberg, Tony Smith, Karlheinz Stockhausen, L. H. Strong, Stan VanDerBeek, Irby Walton, and Andy Warhol.
About Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City in 1945 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He studied as an undergraduate at the University of Utah and the San Francisco Art Institute, and he holds an MFA from the University of Southern California. His artwork has been featured in museums around the world; he has had recent solo exhibitions at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Tate Modern in London, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and he has been included in recent group exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.


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STANFORD, CALIF - Alex Buscaglia, a six-time All-American at Stanford, was named to the U.S. men's national team for the third consecutive year. He was selected after he posted fourth-place finishes in the floor exercise and vault at the 2011 Visa Championships.
A member of Stanford's national championship teams in 2009 and 2011, Buscaglia won two gold medals at the 2010 Pan Am games in team and high bar. He also earned the NCAA individual title on the horizontal bar and a sixth-place finish on the parallel bars in 2011.
"This competition was the first time I really competed for myself," he said. "I've always competed for the other guys on the team and making the adjustments was a challenge. I tried a new mental approach to the events and it worked out really well on floor and vault."
"Alex has done a great job representing the U.S. in the past," said Stanford coach Thom Glielmi. "Given the opportunity, I anticipate he will continue to do so."
For Buscaglia, a volunteer assistant coach at Stanford,,making the national team is an opportunity to improve his chances of making the 2012 Olympic team.
"This is the first year I'm not focusing on my strengths," he said. "I'm looking forward to the opportunity to improve on my weaknesses to compete for a spot on the 2012 Olympic team."
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It is true that the article doesn't expound upon the order of agriculture and sociocultural change, but there is somewhat of an implication. You'll recall from the article that construction of the site is first dated to ca. 11,000 years ago -evidence for domestication is found at around 10,500 in the region.
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The implication, therefore, is that there was a motivation to create the site that was other than agriculture since agriculture followed. The man-hours and caloric intake required to do the work demands more than a foraging lifeway. Foraging (a.k.a. hunting/gathering) takes time and work by itself and foragers can't generate that sort of calorie requirement. A more efficient strategy of food production is the natural progression from foraging to cultivating and domesticating -one gathers plants and animals then controls where they grow and live and the rate at which these resources are used.
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Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 417574, 9 pages
Ultrasonic Sensor-Based Personalized Multichannel Audio Rendering for Multiview Broadcasting Services
1Maritime R&D Center, LIG Nex1, 702 Sampyeong-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi 463-300, Republic of Korea
2Department of Electronic and IT Media Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 232 Gongneung-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 139-743, Republic of Korea
3School of Information and Communications, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 1 Oryong-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju 500-712, Republic of Korea
Received 11 November 2012; Accepted 10 March 2013
Academic Editor: Sabah Mohammed
Copyright © 2013 Yong Guk Kim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
An ultrasonic sensor-based personalized multichannel audio rendering method is proposed for multiview broadcasting services. Multiview broadcasting, a representative next-generation broadcasting technique, renders video image sequences captured by several stereoscopic cameras from different viewpoints. To achieve realistic multiview broadcasting, multichannel audio that is synchronized with a user's viewpoint should be rendered in real time. For this reason, both a real-time person-tracking technique for estimating the user's position and a multichannel audio rendering technique for virtual sound localization are necessary in order to provide realistic audio. Therefore, the proposed method is composed of two parts: a person-tracking method using ultrasonic sensors and a multichannel audio rendering method using MPEG Surround parameters. In order to evaluate the perceptual quality and localization performance of the proposed method, a MUSHRA listening test is conducted, and the directivity patterns are investigated. It is shown from these experiments that the proposed method provides better perceptual quality and localization performance than a conventional multichannel audio rendering method that also uses MPEG Surround parameters.
1. Introduction
Recently, a wide range of multimedia technologies for accessing multimedia content through digital TVs (DTVs), personal media players (PMPs), and digital cameras is rapidly being developed. This development is particularly evident in the field related to broadcasting services, which has made progress toward more realistic and immersive broadcasting services [1–5]. To this end, a representative next-generation broadcasting service that supports realistic and immersive multimedia is currently entering the spotlight in the form of 3-dimensional television (3DTV) technologies [5–7].
3DTV is a technology that is being used to provide realistic and stereoscopic video content to users and can be further classified into either stereoscopic or multiview methods. Stereoscopic 3DTV is currently being produced and sold on the market and has become an essential component for watching 3D movies at home. As an alternative to glassless 3DTV, however, multiview-based 3DTV is emerging as an attractive option, since it not only delivers more realistic visual content to users, but it also has a wider viewing range. Thus, there is a great deal of ongoing research associated with multiview TVs in attempts to miniaturize the screen size and reduce the price [7].
Multiview broadcasting renders the video sequences captured by a set of cameras from different viewpoints. By rendering these video sequences on a multiview monitor or a multiview TV, users can experience 3D effects from different viewpoints without requiring 3D glasses [7]. Under a multiview broadcasting framework, however, the transmitted multichannel audio signal must also be realistically rendered at different viewpoints in order to increase both the visual and auditory realism. To realize such an audio service, two sequential processes are necessary: (1) tracking the user's viewpoint and (2) rendering the multichannel audio specifically at the user's position.
Thus, this paper proposes a person-tracking-based multichannel audio rendering method for multiview broadcasting services, in which person tracking is performed using ultrasonic sensors, and multichannel audio rendering is performed using MPEG Surround parameters.
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Following this introduction, Section 2 briefly explains a multiview broadcasting system. Next, Section 3 proposes an ultrasonic-based person-tracking method for a personalized audio service. After that, Section 4 describes a conventional parameter-based audio rendering method and then proposes a new rendering method using MPEG Surround parameters on the basis of the constant power panning law. Section 5 then evaluates the performance of the proposed method in terms of perceptual audio quality and audio localization. Finally, this paper is concluded in Section 6.
2. Multiview Broadcasting System
Figure 1 presents a schematic diagram of a multiview and multichannel audio broadcasting system. As shown in this figure, the broadcasting system is composed of two parts: the first part acquires and transmits multiview images and multichannel audio contents, and the second part renders and plays the resultant multiview images and multichannel audio. In the first part, multiview videos consist of video sequences that are simultaneously captured by a set of cameras placed according to different viewpoints, which can be then encoded using a video encoder such as H.264. On the other hand, multichannel audio contents are recorded using multiple microphones or a microphone array, which are then encoded using an audio codec such as MPEG-2 advanced audio coding (AAC). Next, both video and audio contents are transmitted to a multiview receiver via a broadcasting network. In the second part, the transmitted multiview video contents are processed and rendered to generate 3D contents that are adjusted to the particular viewpoint of each user. Similarly, multichannel audio is rendered for each viewpoint and played through 5.1 multichannel loudspeakers or stereo headphones.
3. Ultrasonic Sensor-Based Person Tracking
In this section, we describe how the viewpoint of a user can be estimated in order to deliver audio effects appropriate to a particular viewpoint, as mentioned in Sections 1 and 2. Recently, a number of methods pertaining to person tracking have been reported [8–12], which are commonly classified into two categories: vision-based tracking and active sensor-based tracking. The former tracks a person's eyes or face [8–12], and the latter tracks a person's position using sensors such as an active badge, a radio frequency identification (RFID) device [11], or other sensors [12, 13]. It should be noted that vision-based tracking methods have a disadvantage in terms of processing time, since they are based on image-processing techniques. However, active sensor-based tracking methods can be implemented with less processing time than vision-based tracking methods but require sensors for estimating the viewpoint of each user. However, it has been shown that tracking methods utilizing ultrasonic devices can provide a comparatively high accuracy and are relatively inexpensive compared to RFID tags or other active badge devices [14, 15]. Consequently, in this paper, a person-tracking system using ultrasonic devices is constructed, which consists of two ultrasonic transducers and an ultrasonic receiver for person tracking.
Figure 2 presents the block diagram of a person-tracking system for estimating the user's viewpoint, where an ultrasonic receiver attached to the user's headphones or clothes receives an ultrasonic signal from two ultrasonic transducers. The distance between the ultrasonic receiver and each transducer is estimated and then delivered to a person-tracking server over Bluetooth. Finally, the server estimates the viewpoint using a triangulation technique.
Figure 3 shows how to calculate the view position or coordinate of the user by using the two ultrasonic sensors. The detailed procedure for person tracking is as follows. First, the relative distance between the th ultrasonic sensor and the receiver, , is calculated using where and are the coordinates of the receiver and the th sensor, respectively. From (1), the coordinate of the receiver is then calculated as Finally, is brought to multi-channel audio panning in order to provide auditory realism in the multi-view system.
4. Parameter-Based Audio Rendering
Figure 4 presents the block diagram for the proposed parameter-based audio rendering method which is based on the constant power panning law using MPEG Surround parameters [16, 17]. In this figure, panning gains in the proposed method are first calculated according to the user's viewpoint, and different channel level difference (CLD) parameters are extracted from the audio bitstream after applying a CLD parser. Next, the CLD parameters are transformed into absolute gain values, that is, six channel power gains for the 5.1 audio channels. The relationship between the scale factors for the CLD parameters and channel power gains are given by [16, 18] where is the channel index, and and are the th and the ()th channel power gains, respectively. Note here that the two channels must be adjacently located. Then, if is equal to , indicates , and is a scale factor transformed from CLD using the relationship where is the CLD parameter between the th and the ()th channels.
Next, the channel power gains are modified depending on the panning gains calculated from a particular viewpoint, and the modified channel power gains are finally converted back into CLD parameters to create a modified bitstream for the MPEG Surround decoder.
There have been several approaches proposed for audio panning in the MPEG Surround parameter domain [19–23]. For example, the constant power panning law was directly applied to the channel power gains according to the desired panning angle [20, 21]. However, in such a direct application, the panned sound image was incorrectly localized or disappeared when the desired panning angle was larger than the aperture angle among the speaker pairs. The source of this problem was due to the fact that audio rendering coverage was limited to the aperture angles between two speakers and each transformed channel power gain was only related to two adjacent channels.
To remedy this problem, the proposed method applies the constant power panning law to the channel power gains according to the minimum aperture angle, instead of the desired panning angle. This change is especially effective when the desired panning angle is larger than any other aperture angle among the speaker pairs. In this section, a conventional channel power gain modification method in [20, 21] is reviewed, and then the proposed method is described in detail.
4.1. Conventional Channel Power Gain Modification
To track the user's viewpoint as stated in Section 3, the angles to be panned are computed and denoted as for (Figure 5). Note that for a 5.1-channel speaker configuration and the angle associated with the user's viewpoint is . In addition, the low frequency enhancement (Lfe) channel is omitted because it can be generated by using other 5 channels. In a conventional channel power gain modification method [20, 21], the proportion of to an aperture angle between the th and the ()th speakers, , is calculated as where . Next, the panning gains associated with are calculated as where and denote the power gain of the th input channel and the panning gain that is contributed from the th input channel to the ()th speaker, respectively. In addition, the power gain of center channel is used as the panning gain of the Lfe channel.
However, the conventional audio panning method described previously has some drawbacks. First, due to the sine-law amplitude panning method [24], possible panning angles in the conventional method are limited by the aperture angle of each pair of loudspeakers. Second, the conventional method does not consider the interchannel coherence (ICC) parameters for panning, though the ICC parameters play an important role in providing the spatial diffuseness of audio quality as well as localization performance at low frequencies [20].
4.2. Proposed Channel Power Gain Modification
In this section, a new audio panning method is proposed to overcome the drawbacks of the conventional method. Figure 6 shows the procedure for the proposed channel power gain modification method. In this figure, each panning angle calculated from the user's viewpoint, , is first compared to the apertures of all loudspeaker pairs, for example, five pairs of loudspeakers for the 5.1-channel speaker configuration, for . Then, if the panning angle is smaller than the minimum aperture angle, the conventional method described in Section 4.1 is applied for audio panning. Otherwise, each output signal is rearranged to adjacent channels in advance before CLD panning is applied to each pair. This procedure overcomes the problem in which each channel component disappears in the output channels when the panning angle is larger than the aperture angle in sine-law amplitude panning method [24]. In other words, the output channels are arranged into another output channel corresponding to this minimum aperture angle before the panning process is applied. In addition, the remaining angle can be obtained relative to the desired panning angle using
Next, similar to (5), the proportion of to an aperture angle between the th and the ()th speakers, , can be calculated as The modified panning gains associated with are then calculated as where and denote the power gain of the th input channel and the modified panning gain that is contributed from the th input channel to the ()th speaker, respectively. Thus, the actual output gains of each channel are calculated as where and denote the actual output gains of output channel and the panned signal component corresponding to each speaker pair , that is, (), (), (), (), and ().
Finally, panned CLDs are obtained from both the conventional and proposed modification methods and are reestimated from the panning gains using the following equations: where denotes the channel level difference of the panned audio from the th one-to-two (OTT) box. In addition, denotes the panning gain calculated for each channel, where is replaced with (right channel), (left channel), (center channel), (right surround), and Ls (left surround). Subsequently, the panned CLDs are used for MPEG Surround decoding, resulting in the panned multichannel audio shown in Figure 7 [16, 17].
5. Performance Evaluation
To evaluate the performance of the proposed audio panning method, the perceptual quality and localization performance were compared to those obtained using the conventional method. During these experiments, a multiple stimulus with hidden reference and anchor (MUSHRA) test [25] was conducted in order to evaluate the perceptual quality, and a directivity pattern analysis was used to evaluate the localization performance.
5.1. Perceptual Quality
For the MUSHRA listening test, we used the following as references and candidates: (1) a hidden reference, (2) a 7 kHz low-pass filtered anchor, (3) a 14 kHz low-pass filtered anchor, (4) audio signals processed by conventional CLD-based audio panning [20, 21], and (5) audio signals processed by the proposed CLD-based audio panning. Three music genres (classical, rock, and heavy metal) were selected as audio signals, and ten people with no hearing problems participated in these experiments.
Figure 8 illustrates the experimental results of the MUSHRA test. When the panning angle was smaller than the minimum aperture angle, for example, at a 30° panning angle, the proposed method had audio quality comparable to the conventional method, except for classical music signals. The reason why the MUSHRA score for classical music signals processed by the conventional CLD-based panning method was slightly higher than that by the proposed CLD-based panning method was that classical music signals were less dynamic than those from other genres such as rock and heavy metal. In other words, while the conventional method computed panning gains once every pair of channels by applying (6), the proposed method computed each panning gain by taking into account more than two channels as shown in (10). Thus, it resulted in perceptual degradation in classical music signals. In spite of such an artifact, it was found that the spatial impression for panned audio processed by the proposed method was more stable than that by the conventional method.
On the other hand, when the panning angle was larger than the minimum aperture angle, for example, at a 60° panning angle with a 30° minimum aperture, the audio quality of the panned audio processed by the conventional method notably degraded. Even if the proposed method had smaller MUSHRA score for classical music signals than the conventional method, it was also found that the participants heard unnatural artificial noise due to incorrect panning when the panning angle was larger than the minimum aperture.
5.2. Localization Performance
To evaluate the localization performance, panned audio with only one channel signal was played, and the frequency response was measured using a dummy head. The directivity patterns for panning angles of 0°, 30°, and 60° were then analyzed. The amplitudes of the frequency responses at 500 Hz were measured by rotating the dummy head about 10°. For this experiment, a KU100 dummy head [26] was used.
Figure 9 shows the directivity patterns of the panned signals for 30° and 60° at 500 Hz. To estimate the position of the sound image localization, it was assumed that the sound image was localized at the position exhibiting maximum power. As illustrated in this figure, the measured power became maximal at a rotated position of about 90°, which corresponds to a forward-facing direction when no audio panning was applied. Similarly, the measured power became maximal at a rotated position of about 120°, relative to the panned direction, when an audio panning of 30° was applied. It can also be seen that the directivity pattern of the conventional method is correctly presented for a panning angle of 30°. However, when the panned angle was increased to 60°, the polar pattern of the conventional method was not correctly presented, whereas the directivity pattern obtained by the proposed CLD-based panning method shows that the audio signal rotated in the correct direction, although there were localization errors at around 5°–10°.
6. Conclusion
In this paper, an ultrasonic sensor-based personalized multichannel audio rendering method was proposed to increase audio realism in multiview broadcasting services. To this end, a real-time person-tracking method was first developed by using two ultrasonic transducers and an ultrasonic receiver in order to estimate the viewpoint of a user. Secondly, a parameter-based audio panning method using MPEG Surround parameters was proposed to increase the auditory realism. In the proposed method, panning gains were calculated according to the user's viewpoint that was already estimated by the ultrasonic-based person-tracking method. Next, five different channel level difference (CLD) parameters were extracted from the audio bitstream after applying a CLD parser. Finally, the CLD parameters were transformed into six channel power gains for the 5.1 audio channels. In fact, the proposed method applied the constant power panning law to the channel power gains according to the minimum aperture angle, instead of the desired panning angle that was used for a conventional panning method. Thus, the proposed method could be more effective than the conventional method when the desired panning angle was larger than any other aperture angle among the speaker pairs. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed audio panning method, the perceptual quality and localization performance using an MUSHRA test and a directivity pattern analysis, respectively, were carried out. Consequently, it was shown from the tests that the proposed audio panning method achieved better average MUSHRA score and localization performance than the conventional audio panning method.
This work was supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (no. 2012-010636).
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I remembered what the second exam question was: define a
struct Elementto hold single elements from the periodic table, including:
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void getElement(Element \*element)to get the information. Fairly simple really as long as you document any assumptions, make sure you include at least _some_ error checking, remember to typedef the struct and remember that since the routine is a void... we're hurtling into pointers. Of course talking about this question afterwards, a lot of my peers indicated that they had trouble handling the pointer aspects of the question: they couldn't get a handle on it. (Terrible geek joke, sorry!) Now I wonder whether the examiner will understand my use of the /\* ARGSUSED \*/ marker.....


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Fitz and the Tantrums played The Norva on Sunday night, getting all of Norfolk on their feet dancing along to their neo soul/indie pop fusion tunes.
The band, which consists of frontman and namesake Michael Fitzpatrick, vocalist Noelle Scaggs, Joseph Karnes on bass, Jeremy Ruzumna on keyboards, John Wicks on drums, and James King on saxophone/flute/keyboard/guitar, were fully on fire in Norfolk. Their energy was unmatchable, with Fitzpatrick and Scaggs leading the crowd along with energetic dance moves, clapping, and their captivating stage chemistry.
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How Will Season 4 Be Different?, Character and relationship development
Posted: Jun 14 2010, 02:13 AM
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We haven't seen iBeat the Heat yet, but I'd like to hear what you think Season 4 will be like. One thing that comes to mind is Freddie. Contrast Freddie Benson in iPilot to Freddie Benson in iBelieve in Bigfoot. The early Freddie was spazzy, stalkerish, and incredibly geeky. The current Freddie is cool, witty, and much more like Sam. I'd also like to see much more character development in Sam this season.
We've also seen a much better relationship between Sam and Freddie. In iBelieve in Bigfoot, he approches Sam at her locker without an objective. Before, she was just a way for him to get to his objective (usually Carly). Sam is also more likely to refer to him by the affectionate "Fredly", rather than an insult.
So, what are your thoughts on Season 4?
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I think that the biggest difference we are going to see from other seasons is development. We've had development in the past, but nothing major. I think that a lot of this season will be focused on the characters.
Personally what I would *like* to see is a few more episodes with the comedy on the back burner (still present, but not as much) and focus more on drama. Of course this would never happen because the show is a comedy show, but it's what I'd like to see.
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Less fillers please!
Thank you!
Posted: Jun 14 2010, 04:23 AM
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Okay *rubs hands together* Imma put this in parts Okay *rubs hands together* Imma put this in parts :laugh:
Okay first, Carly. In the first season Carly was just...well...normal. Typical eighth-grade bubbly girl. She rejected Freddie on MANY ocassions, so she didn't REALLY have feelings for him. I bet if I said this an angry Creddier would flame me but I agree with Carly. That nose-kiss was strictly nasal!
In season two, Carly was still the stereotypical teenage girly girl, but I thought she got a little more rebellious. We saw that in iDABB where she dated Griffin even though Spencer hated it and in iLook Alike where Spencer didn't allow her to go to the MMA fight but she found a way to go anyway. I didn't see much interaction with her and Freddie besides her rejecting him on the few ocassions he "made a move" on her. Only when she wanted something she would do the "Please, for me?" thing. That DOESN'T mean she "loves" him. It just means she wants someone to do something for her. I've done it with a lot of my guy friends, but it doesn't mean I'm in love with them.
In season three, Carly was still just as bubbly and just as stereotypical. The only thing different was that she had MUCH more "Creddie-ish interaction" Some might say she was jealous in iTTK, but she WASN'T. She just couldn't fathom the idea of Sam and Freddie KISSING. Wouldn't YOU be a little high-strung if two of your best friends who supposedly HATED eachother kissed. I know I would be. It doesn't mean I'm "jealous". Then we had the dance in iSD, but I don't take put it under romantic terms. It was just her best guy friend telling her that they both deserved a dance. So....they did. Nothing wrong with that. Then iSYL diddied along. Carly THOUGHT she liked him. Thought is the key word here peoples. Carly didn't REALLY like him. She found that out at the end thanks to Freddie (who found that out thanks to Sam :D) That end kiss-on-the cheek was friendly, not romantic. The only other thing I have to add about season 3 Carly was that she showed she can be high-strung. She showed this in ALL of iTTK, at the end of iSO, and a little bit right after she first kissed Freddie in iSYL.
In season 4, I think Carly will mature a little if she didn't already in iBTH. She is going to have to go through some major character developement , too. A lot of Creddiers skip over Carly character developement and just think..."Freddie and Carly are gonna love each other and skip with Lewbert in a happy lobby. There will be cubed fruit and balloons will fall from the sky." No. Not happing. IF (notice the if) and dear God I HOPE he doesn't go with Creddie, Carly will have to mature quite a bit. She can't go from "No Freddie, I don't like you in THAT way to...Oh Freddie, you're the cukiest." Even if she ends up having a different long-term boyfriend, she STILL has to mature. That's why I think we'll have some growing-up on Carly's part in season 4.
Okay, Sam. In season 1, Sam had shown just plain viciousness towards just about everyone except Carly. She had her sweet moments though. Her little resting-head-on-the-shoulder thing with Freddie and her crying moment in iDWF. With Freddie she said she hated him, but she might've already realized she liked him. I think that happened in season 3, but it sure could've happened in season 1, too.
In season two, Sam still kept the hate thing with Freddie, but she acted more like friends with him than in season 1. In my opinion Sam developed feelings towards him after that kiss. She just didn't REALIZE them yet. She just kinda let 'em go, free to drift.
In season 3, Sam developed WAY more concerning Seddie emotional chiz. I mean...she might've realized right then and there that she liked Freddie if Spencer hadn't barged in the room in iTTK. I personally think that she realized these feelings in iSD when she thought that Carly REALLY had feelings for Freddie. She walked in on them at the worst time. (The BEST time for us Seddiers though) This wasn't out-of-the-blue for her though. Unlike Carly, Sam has been developing slowly. Like I said, I think Sam developed feelings for Freddie in iKiss, but the realization train didn't hit her yet. I believe it hit her in iSD. In one of the hardest ways possible. She shoved them right back down, but it doesn't mean they're gone forever. No doubt they'll resurface again now that we've seen she has them. I don't think she was jealous in iSYL, because she KNEW Carly didn't REALLY like him. I think she was jealous in iSD though because she thought Carly genuinley had feelings for Freddie.
Go to season 4, and I think Sam's feelings will resurface and she'll treat Freddie more as a friend than in previous seasons. She's not gonna stop using him as her punching bag though. That would be too weird ;D.
So that's all I have to say right now. I'll do Freddie later. It took me two hours to type this between watching The Soup, Chelsea Lately, and now, The Nanny. So....wow. That was probably one of my longest posts. Yay!
Posted: Jun 14 2010, 05:28 AM
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Posted: Jun 14 2010, 09:56 PM
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You know Freddie loves it ;) It's Sam's way of showing affection :seddie:
Posted: Jun 15 2010, 02:01 AM
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There could be CLOSURE with one of the ships--hopefully by then we can tell,and I mean the audience can, who will end up with who.(this is if there's a season 5)
Or we can see who ends up with who....yes that will be swell. ;)
Posted: Jun 15 2010, 02:40 AM
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I don't know. I kind of want Dan to keep all the options open until the very end. It would feel kind of nice to receive closure as part of a finale episode.
Posted: Jun 15 2010, 03:22 PM
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In season 4, I think Freddie will mature to the point to where he actually realizes that he doesn't hate Sam. I mean, ya, in past episodes like "I Reunite With Missy" He got rid of Missy for Sam, even after saying that she wasn't his friend. I'm saying that he'll realize that he likes her, maybe as just a friend (I hope it's more than friends). He already reacts better when she insults him. He doesn't spazz out like he used to. In fact, Sam rarely insults him. It's more like a playful type of insult. Anyway, he'll realize that he does care for her, in the sense that he hopes they can be better off than what they were. (I hope that means :seddie: )
Posted: Jun 15 2010, 11:34 PM
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I think a lot of the big relationship stuff is going to remain open til the very end. However, I don't want the episodes to stray so much from making any sort of development that he ends up cramming everything into the last two/three episodes.
Posted: Jun 16 2010, 12:06 AM
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I agree that would be a mistake, the problem for Dan is that he isn't sure exactly how long the show is going to run. How do you time it right? Do you engineer a hook-up and then you get word that Nick wants more episodes? That would be fine with me, because then you'd get episodes after a ship actually happens. I can't predict whether Dan would want to do that, though.
Posted: Jun 16 2010, 01:17 AM
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I understand where you're coming from, but I believe Dan can do more than what he's been doing more lately. At this point I feel if the show only had five more episodes left everything would be rushed. What I loved so much about season 2 is that he was able to balance out the random yet still have somewhat of a direction/storyline going even if it was only in a handful of episodes.
Keep in mind that none of the Seddie plots have closure yet, everything is still open. With Creddie I feel like we might get one more episode before it's all said and done with. I think "iSaved Your Life" summed it up pretty well, now it's more along the lines of a simple yes or no. I strongly believe the end of Creddie is Carly returning to how she felt before (which seems to have happened already) and Freddie no longer desiring a relationship with her because he realized he has feelings for someone who isn't Carly. ;) I still have a feeling that Freddie's selfless act in "iReunite with Missy" is going to play a strong role in Seddie. But I believe I'm getting off topic now.. so I'll shut up. Sorry. :eeps:
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Posted: Jun 16 2010, 01:27 AM
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You're not the only one thinking development has been slow this year. In some ways I agree, but iTTK was the season opener, and iSD was early. iSYL has left a Creddie taste in our mouths for a while, considering subsequent episodes haven't been shippy. That's contributing to our perceptions of the season so far.
Agree totally. Carly and Freddie talk, they agree to be just friends, he promises that he's over her, then after that Carly mistakenly thinks Freddie has gone back to his old ways. We know better.
I really hope so. It would be a sin to waste it. And you're not off-topic. :)
Posted: Jun 16 2010, 02:44 AM
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With all this talk about relationship development between Freddie and Sam, I just really want to throw this out there:
I am not ENTIRELY sure what we're going to see in iBeat the Heat, but if the relationship doesn't commence, I would like to see Freddie change a bit in Season 4 before Sam and Freddie explore a relationship. For instance, throughout the series (to me) it seems as though SAM would be the one to A. Admit her feelings. and B. Start the relationship. I mean, it doesn't really matter who starts it, AS LONG as it starts. ;) But I would like to see some Freddie development. FREDDIE should be the one to confess his feelings and lay a big, fat kiss on her. It would show that he is, in fact, completely over Carly. Of course, to convince Sam, he'll probably tell her that Sam is IN NO WAY his second choice (which of course would be the truth, because Freddie would NEVER ask Sam out unless he has developed HUGELY strong feelings for her).
So I ask you Seddiers: Should Sam or Freddie commence the relationship? Or maybe it could be mutual? Tell me what you think.
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My bet is they'll both be somewhat reluctant, and Carly will be a catalyst.
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Do certain skills skip a generation? My mother is the perfect role model when it comes to cleaning, decluttering and organizing a home. I am not. Maintaining a well-organized, well-kept home eludes me. I like to think I picked up many positive habits from my parents, but somehow my wiring shorted out during the "good housekeeping techniques" portion of my childhood. Unfortunately, this translates to my work space, too. When my co-workers look at my messy work space and express concern, I like to explain that what they're seeing is organized chaos. Apparently I'm oxymoronic as well as disorganized.
Reality is that clutter will dog me for the rest of my piled-up life. So, I have resolved to camouflage … er … beautify the inevitable disorder. The first step is to learn how to do this with minimal impact on my pocketbook and the environment. Enter this week's book: "Lemons and Lavender." Focusing on how to live a simpler, D-I-Y way of life, author Billee Sharp shares hundreds of tips and ideas for developing a less expensive, environmentally friendly existence. According to Sharp, one way I can improve my hodgepodge is to clean the disarray with natural products. Information about ingredients for a basic, natural cleaning kit is included, as well as recipes for making a variety of eco-cleaners. This makes sense to me because if I'm destined to be disorganized, the disorganization might as well be non-toxic!
In addition to making housecleaning products, Sharp touts the benefits of making gifts and growing food. This is an aspiration of mine.
Sharing and bartering with others has multiple advantages — the possibility of meeting new friends, lowering grocery bills, and making fewer trips to the mall. Being thrifty, says Sharp "doesn't mean sacrificing the fun in life." In fact, "seeking out the free" can be both fulfilling and rewarding.
There is much to learn in this unique home-economics handbook. I've already mentioned what I'm taking away — how to keep my pell-mell lifestyle tidier with the assistance of planet-friendly products. When I've mastered (well, at least attempted to master) the art of greener cleaning, I can move on to making my own batik T-shirts and sauerkraut. It might be a while, though, before I can meet such lofty goals. I should call Mom and ask for some advice on organizing my home. Maybe it will take hold this time.
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And the 2014 "World's Ugliest Dog" title goes to – "Peanut." The 2-year-old mutt from North Carolia took home top honors in the ugly dog search, held annually at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds in Petaluma, California. And no one will argue that this wild-looking canine is most certainly, undoubtedly, quite ugly.
Close to thirty dogs competed in the competition, which is in its 26th year. No Westminster dog show here. These mutts are the Alpha dog opposite.
Peanut has a face that only an owner could love, and barely at that. The Chihuahua-Shih Tzu mix has untamed hair with a butt-crack part down the center, eyes that are so far off to the side of his face that they resemble fish eyes, and a tiny protruding mouth with misshapen teeth. Yikes.
The New York Daily News carried a couple of close ups of Peanut. Be forewarned…
All kidding aside, the ugly dog's owner, Holly Chandler of Greenville, North Carolina, said that Peanut was burned badly as a pup, and although his unsightly face was not the result of being burned, Peanut's bald spots on his body do add to his horrid look.
Chandler entered Peanut into the competition in hopes that they could bring attention to animal abuse. Peanut's victory solidified his place in the annals of ugly dogs. Chandler took home a trophy and the top prize winning of $1,500, which she plans to donate.
"We're trying to use him as a poster child for what can happen to animals who are abused," she said.
According to The Associated Press, the dogs entered into the contest are scored by "a three-judge panel in several categories, including special or unusual attributes, personality and natural ugliness."
Writes the AP: "The past five winners have included a duck-footed beagle, boxer and basset hound mix with a waddle, a Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix with a protruding tongue and short tufts of hair and a Chihuahua with a missing eye and a camel's back."
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Flexibility: In a dedicated private cloud, the hardware and gear is not your own, but the environment is partitioned for your exclusive use. There are potential limitations because your target architecture has to work in the provider's environment.
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There's always a diverse variety of bird and wildlife activity within the protected tidal marsh and impoundment area of John Heinz. It is especially energetic in late spring. From the boardwalk, platform and trails, visitors have ample opportunity to observe the natural delirium in awe.
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The John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum has been protecting the last freshwater tidal marsh in Pennsylvania for more than forty years. With plans to total nearly 1200 acres, this sanctuary of land, water, and marsh is vital for the diverse wildlife and birds that reside year round, as well as, vast quantity of migratory birds. Visitors to John Heinz are granted unique opportunities to observe the activities of the residents and annual migrants in this naturally beautiful haven. Observe while enjoying exercise along the trails, or watch from the observation boardwalk. Herons, Swallows, Gulls, and Geese are among the many birds that share habitat space with turtles, fish and other marsh loving wildlife. To witness, in a single visit, the energy of such a diverse group of marsh birds and wildlife, is a truly rare and natural delight.
Choose a guided tour or one of many workshop activities offered at John Heinz, or simply utilize the educational materials and resources provided for visitors in pamphlet and trail-side formats. There may also be an enthusiastic observer nearby, ready to help you identify a species. The many birds and wildlife that live and feed in these marsh waters of John Heinz never disappoints young and old, novice and expert. It's time to witness marsh life in all of its water season splendor.


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Summer is the perfect time for hand-held food and tacos seem to be one of most popular. Tacos are easy enough to make, but sometimes packaged seasonings are just a little too pricey. Here is a recipe for making your own taco seasoning.
Cleveland area Marc's stores have a great selection of spices at prices lower than almost all the grocery stores. If you are planning on making this mix in huge quantities, you may want to check the commercial-sized (and wholesale-priced) bottles at Gordon Food Service or Bauer's Restaurant Supply in Mentor.
6 Tablespoons Chili Powder
4 Tablespoons Paprika
1 Tablespoon Garlic Powder
3 Tablespoons Onion Powder
2 Tablespoons Cumin
1 Teaspoon Cayenne Pepper (this is very spicy, so you may want to add a little less or maybe a little more!!!)
Place all the ingredients in a small freezer bag. Seal the bag and shake. Store in the freezer to keep it as fresh as the day you made it. Makes one cup.
TO USE IN RECIPE CALLING FOR PACKAGED TACO SEASONING: After draining fat from cooking beef, add 1 ½ cups water and seasoning*. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
*Start with one tablespoon of seasoning in recipe above, adding more as needed. 2 -3 tablespoons to 2 pounds of meat seem to be the most popular measurement.


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The New Orleans Saints on Friday refuted a report that the Super Bowl champions have not made their traditional visit to the White House because of owner Tom Benson's political leanings.
The past three Super Bowl champions have visited the President in April or May. The Saints, however, have yet to make the trip.
The June 24 report, by ProFootballTalk.com, did not cite sources but indicated Benson's Republican partisanship might be behind the delay and said Sean Payton has been "pushing the issue."
Saints vice president of communications Greg Bensel called the report "crap."
"Mr. Benson is excited for our visit to the White House," Bensel said in an email. Benson, he said, "is not only eager to attend the White House celebration but is also eager to get the 2010 season started."
The Saints reportedly have scheduled their trip to coincide with a preseason trip to the Boston area. The Saints play the New England Patriots in an exhibition game on Aug. 12.
Bensel said the Saints' White House visit has been scheduled for months. He said White House officials were in charge of the event and thus responsible for releasing the date and other information surrounding it. The Saints, he said, are simply following their direction.


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Canadians can now pay for their Tim Hortons coffee and doughnuts with Visa credit cards, the coffee company announced Tuesday
TORONTO • It looks like a credit card combined with a coffee loyalty card. But CIBC's new Double Double Visa card, a partnership with Tim Hortons, is also a flashy way to try to get more people to become clients of Canada's fifth-largest bank.
David Williamson, group head of retail and business banking at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), said Wednesday he hopes "a new stream of clients will be coming through CIBC" as the card is rolled out at the nearly 3,500 Tim Hortons outlets in Canada.
Holly Crosgrey has been drinking coffee from Tim Hortons Inc., almost exclusively, for four decades. And she's not crazy that it's being acquired by Burger King Worldwide Inc.
"I don't like the idea of an American company buying a Canadian company — it's our brand," Crosgrey, 60, said as she sipped a Tim Hortons coffee with three creams at a food court in downtown Toronto. "Timmy's is always trying new things, adapting, they always have good service, and you always get your coffee fast no matter how long the lineup is. Burger King may screw it up."
Tim Hortons Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Caira said Canada's largest coffee and doughnuts chain must succeed in the U.S. as competition brings slower growth at home.
"The U.S. for me is what I call a must-win battle," Caira, 59, said in an interview today at a Tim Hortons coffee shop near the company's Oakville, Ontario headquarters. Caira took over as CEO in July.
Tim Hortons Inc. (USA) (THI) launched a creative digital-hiring campaign to entice Canadians to apply at their local outlets. The ongoing labor shortage in the quick-service restaurant segment in Canada has prompted the Canadian coffee chain to launch this inventive campaign, which involves encouraging 5000 individuals to join the company's restaurant team in Canada.
The future of Tim Hortons, one of this country's most iconic brands, apparently rests on such Canadian classics as grilled panini and espresso-based specialty beverages. And the company that built its empire on convenience and ushering customers out the door quickly, is now hoping they'll linger longer. To that end, big money is earmarked this year to refurbish 300 stores and a thousand drive through outlets. The baked goods and coffee giant has tinkered with its menu before.
Tim Hortons Inc. conjures no warm and fuzzy childhood memories or feelings of patriotic pride for Azam Shibli, a 36-year-old professional based in Abu Dhabi.
"It's hard to distinguish between Tim Hortons and Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts," Mr. Shibli said, making a comment that would probably come close to blasphemy, were he to utter it in Canada. "I feel like it's maybe slightly cheaper and slightly worse."
All eyes will be on Tim Hortons on Tuesday as Canada's biggest restaurant chain unveils its new five-year strategic plan to investors and analysts. After several years of pitched competition from McDonald's Canada in the coffee category and slowing growth on its home turf, the market is keen to see what ideas new CEO Marc Caira has in store for the company.
TORONTO — As many as 100 head office employees are reported to have lost their jobs during ongoing restructuring at Tim Hortons Inc. as the company strives to realign its business structure.
The recent layoffs, which come at the end of a particularly competitive year for the coffee and baked goods giant, include company veteran Stephen Johnston, senior vice-president of development, and David Morelli, director of public affairs, though the company would not confirm the exact number.
OTTAWA — The federal Opposition on Monday called on the Harper government to stop credit card companies from charging businesses higher fees for using premium cards.
The call came as a federal competition tribunal prepared to rule on whether Visa and MasterCard are engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.
Small business groups hope the tribunal will recommend that Ottawa forbid the major credit card companies from forcing retailers to accept cards that carry higher payment processing fees.
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Many cancer patients undergo chemotherapy to slow the progress of––and even cure––a malignancy. A new study has found that high doses of Vitamin C given intravenously can boost the effect of chemotherapy. The findings were published on February 5 in the journal Science Translational Medicine by researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City
The study authors note that Vitamin C was used as an early, unconventional therapy for cancer, with an outstanding safety record. In addition, anecdotal accounts––not scientific studies—reported that it benefited cancer patients. However, two clinical trials found that the vitamin was ineffective. As a result, Vitamin C therapy was abandoned by conventional oncologists but continued to be used in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The researchers note that recent studies have recommended that Vitamin C should be examined when given by intravenous injection. They note that intravenous Vitamin C has a significantly different therapeutic effect than oral Vitamin C; this form of administration has been found to destroy cancer cells without harming normal tissues.
The study group comprised 27 patients newly diagnosed with stage 3 or stage 4 ovarian cancer. The investigators found that patients who received a high-dose of intravenous Vitamin C, together with conventional cancer therapy using the chemotherapeutic agents paclitaxel or carboplatin, experienced fewer toxic effects from the chemotherapy medications. In addition to the human study, a rodent study was done. It found that intravenous Vitamin C was able to kill cancer cells without any measurable toxicity or pathological changes in the liver, kidneys or spleen.
The authors concluded that the combination of intravenous Vitamin C with conventional chemotherapeutic agents carboplatin and paclitaxel synergistically inhibited ovarian cancer in mouse models and reduced chemotherapy-associated toxicity in patients with ovarian cancer. (
Synergism refers to the combined effect of two therapies producing a greater result than either one used alone.) They recommended that, on the basis of this study, larger clinical trials should be conducted to verify their results.


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President Andry Rajoelina shocked Madagascar by registering as a candidate for upcoming elections, documents revealed, despite an earlier vow to step aside in a bid to end the island's political crisis.
A list of presidential candidates published by the Special Electorial Court showed the interim leader, who came to power in a 2009 coup, among the 41 approved candidates for the July 24 vote.
In January the 38-year-old former disc jockey said he would step back from the race, as a way of breaking Madagascar's crippling political deadlock.
He said on Friday that his decision was prompted by rivals throwing their hat into the ring.
"To my great surprise I saw the former president (Marc Ravalomanana) was running for the presidential elections through his spouse," he told Radio France Internationale.
"Former president Didier Ratsiraka is also running, so I said to myself, 'its a free elections and should be transparent, why would I not run?'"
Rajoelina deposed his arch-rival and predecessor Ravalomanana in a military-backed coup. That resulted in international isolation and tense power politics.
Ravalomanana had made a similar vow not to run, although his wife Lalao was listed among the 41 approved candidates.
Also on the list was recently returned former president Ratsiraka, who like Lalao Ravalomanana recently came back from exile.
Nicknamed "Deba", the Malagasy word for "boss" or "bad guy", Ratsiraka was in power from 1975 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2002.
He fled to France following a post-election dispute which sparked violence and chaos when he refused to concede defeat to Marc Ravalomanana.
In 2003, Ratsiraka was sentenced in absentia to hard labour, five years in jail for threatening state security and 10 years for embezzling public funds.
The latest impasse split the vast island nation in two -- with two capitals, two governments, and a divided army -- until Ravalomanana was officially proclaimed president in May 2002.
The elections are supposed to draw a line under the island's current political difficulties.
In January the United States cautiously welcomed Rajoelina's decision no to run as a "significant development" that created a "clear pathway leading to the restoration of democratic rule" and to normalisation of relations.


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4.1 The process of operating any engineered system, such as monitoring wells, includes active maintenance to prevent, mitigate, or reverse deterioration. Lack of or improper maintenance can lead to well performance deficiencies (physical problems) or sample quality degradation (chemical problems). These problems are intrinsic to monitoring wells, which are often left idle for long periods of time (as long as a year), installed in non-aquifer materials, and installed to evaluate contamination that can cause locally anomalous hydrogeochemical conditions. The typical solutions for these physical and chemical problems that would be applied by owners and operators of water supply, dewatering, recharge, and other wells may not be appropriate for monitoring wells because of the need to minimize their impact on the conditions that monitoring wells were installed to evaluate.
4.2 This guide covers actions and procedures, but is not an encyclopedic guide to well maintenance. Well maintenance planning and execution is highly site and well specific.
4.3 The design of maintenance and rehabilitation programs and the identification of the need for rehabilitation should be based on objective observation and testing, and by individuals knowledgeable and experienced in well maintenance and rehabilitation. Users of this guide are encouraged to consult the references provided.
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