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Montreux, Switzerland: The bell rang five times during Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem's speech on Wednesday at the opening session of the Syrian peace conference, signalling he had exceeded the time limit. But Mr Moallem refused to stop, setting off a tense exchange with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that showed the tensions in trying to resolve Syria's bloody conflict.
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Ban: Can you just wrap up please.
Moallem: I came here after 12 hours in the airplane. I have few more minutes to end my speech. This is Syria.
Ban: How much do you have left now?
Moallem: I think 5-10 minutes.
Ban: No, no. I will give you another opportunity to speak.
Moallem: No, I cannot divide my speech. I must continue ... I will do my best to be fast.
Ban: Can you just wrap up in one or two minutes?
Moallem: No, I can't promise you, I must finish my speech. ... You live in New York, I live in Syria. I have the right to give the Syrian version here in this forum. After three years of suffering, this is my right.
Ban: We have to have some constructive and harmonious dialogue, please refrain from inflammatory rhetoric.
Moallem: It is constructive, I promise you, let me finish.
Ban: Within 2-3 minutes please. I will give you another opportunity.
Moallem: You spoke for 25 minutes, at least I need to speak 30 minutes.
A few minutes later, Mr Ban interrupts again. Mr Moallem says he has one sentence left, to which Mr Ban responds by asking him to keep his promise.
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T. Howl has just released the second volume in his Polo Grounds mixtape series, which you can cop for $4. Below you can check out a preview of the mix, which finds Thirstin narrating classic tracks as well as giving a preview of his next LP, Natural Born Skiller, naturally.
I was thinking about this guy not too long ago… how many remember the "I still live with my moms" record. However, this isn't really good… not much progression since those days
^^Haha, yeah, I remember that shit. That was a favorite of a dude I used to know.
I did not think Thirstin would be still rapping, but good for him I guess.
I still love Brooklyn Hard Rocks, "In the 8th grade, Coulda rocked the bells but I was more comfortable in straight leg." And Still Lives with my Moms was hilarious. I think the album was Skillionaire. I have to go dig it up now.
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Had a great weeks skiing, accommodation was fab, the usual Intrawest build and comfort standards where we stayed at Le Village 1950.
The resort is split between the varying levels, 1600/1800/1950/2000 and its easy to ski between them. 1950 and 2000 is joined by a funicular which operates quite late.
There are quite a few restaurants and a couple of bars, quite pricey but thats to be expected for a nice resort, there is a Spar on site too that does most of the necessities. If you are driving there are some supermarkets on the road up in Saint Bourg Maurice.
The biggest let down for us was that we went as a family of 3 and our 3 1/2 yr old was booked into spirit 1950 ski school club, the club ran between 0930 and 1145. The club usually started at around 0940 where they walked up the village and skied a bit back down again then the group of 10 had 2 runs on the magic carpet then they went in for at least 30 min break to the caribou club (daycare centre) when they came out again they had another 2 runs by the magic carpet before finishing at 1130. One of us hung around as our child was a bit upset being left the first day but ended up helping as when the kids went down the run the one helper at the bottom wasnt able to catch all the kids, there was no run off so they would have ended up down the slope in the trees....quite a funny thought to some, but not when you can see your own kid about to disappear!! There was one instructor from the school and one daycare centre staff, not enough to control the group when on the slope. The instructor did not interact with the children, 'just the usual 'hands on the knees' and 'skis like a pizza wedge'. When we tried to escape we watched from a distance and our child was really upset and the instructor just looked at her and then walked away leaving her sobbing, quite a look on his face when we reappeared!
So your probably getting the gist here, fab accommodation, rubbish ski school for young children, i cant comment for the older children and adults, it may be great but was just really disappointed with the overall experience for our child, as she had a great time in a private lesson the year before in Flaine. For the same price as ski school she could have had 4 hour long private lessons at ESF at Les Arcs 2000. Its really easy access up to 2000 so dont worry about getting up there.
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Debate: Should the Hopi people continue to have the right to kill eagles for religious purposes? Ted Williams says no.
Uncompromising environmental groups like the Center for Biological Diversity do more harm than good with their lawsuits, according to some critics.
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To The Editor: Congress has resumed, and I hear dangerous things. We are told they were sent to do something. Wrong. You were sent to do the right things; and these are knowable and doable. This includes at times doing nothing. Remember physicians first, do no harm. Next, I hear they must be ready to compromise. Again, wrong. Some things demand compromise, some things do not. Sometimes compromise is moral cowardice lack of leadership; not everything can and should be split down the middle. Sometimes you must do what is right, even though it is hard. Being difficult is not to be taken as an excuse for just doing what is politically expedient. Personally, the D.C. crowd could spend every waking minute for the next 10 years undoing all of their policy and fiscal mistakes. I guarantee they could cut everything 20 percent and we would not notice any difference except a fuller wallet.
And, no sacred cows. All budgets start at zero; justify your needs every year. Baseline budgeting is morally indefensible and must go away now.
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To The Editor: On Dec. 20, our son mailed two ($50 each) Walmart gift cards from Greenville, S.C., to Hendersonville to a single father, raising three teenagers, soon to lose his job due to a plant closing. The cards were put in a taped Christmas card. We have befriended this man for about 10 years and our children are aware of his circumstances. The cards were never received. The grandmother sent two gift cards that were never received. Our son went to Walmart to report this, and the lady said the same thing happened to her; her cards were cashed in Pennsylvania. She said there is a number on the back that you should record before mailing. We are now aware of this. We were told that anyone handling the mail can feel the cards. Never mail a gift card. Our son is not wealthy, but was raised as a Christian to be sensitive to others needs. This will be reported to the U.S. Postal Service because its not only thievery, but fraud. Will the guilty ones be able to live with themselves?
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May I remind people that the most important, holy and perfect person who ever lived in the history of the planet died on that day. Jesus Christ gave his blood for the salvation of anyone who desires it.
Schools do not have vacation on other legal government holidays such as Presidents Day, Veterans Day and Columbus Day. As a retired teacher, we used MLK birthday to teach about him and his important work in this country.
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Hate the mess of making Yorkshire Puddings with hot beef fat in the muffin cups? Here's the trick to solve your troubles! Cooking Spray! These Yorkshire puddings bake up wonderfully, with no chance of an oil spill-over in the oven. I credit my mom with trying this trick and discovering how wonderfully it works!
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My mom use to make these for Christmas dinner when I was a child so I thought I'd try to add to this years Christmas Eve dinner......and they were exactly as my sister and I remembered them. I was a little intimitaded to try these but they were easy and puffed up beautifully...I even made the batter several hours in advance so when things got busy making dinner, all I had to do was heat the pans and pour the batter.
Turned our perfectly. The best accompaniment for our prime rib Christmas dinner. Rave reviews from family and friends. Light, flavorful...with those perfect little wells...yum!


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Intel Ireland
Research Conference
- Croke Park,
Dublin, Ireland
October 3-4 2012
Intel Ireland Research Conferences encourages Research, Innovation and Collaboration
On October 3rd and 4th the Intel Ireland Research Conference took place in Croke Park, Dublin Ireland. The conference, which forms part of the ERIC (European Research and Innovation Conference) Series 2012, brought together more than 150 delegates from across Europe representing enterprise, academia and policy makers. The event, which is held annually in the region, is an important building block in driving a world-class ecosystem in Europe for research, innovation and collaboration.
The theme of this year's conference is 'Building a Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive society through Research and Innovation partnership' and there will be a number of distinct focus areas included within the event.
The theme of this year's conference was 'Building a smart, sustainable and inclusive society through research and innovation partnerships' and provided delegates with the chance to discuss and identify opportunities for tackling the challenges facing society. This 2 day event comprised of keynote speaking sessions on Day 1 along with three relevant research focus areas on Day 2 –
1. Silicon & Nanotechnology
2. Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
3. ICT for Sustainable Water Management
Highlights of the event included a keynote address from Minister Séan Sherlock, Department of Enterprise, Jobs & Innovation and Department of Education & Skills with responsibility for Research & Innovation who said "I commend Intel Ireland for organizing the European Research and Innovation Conference 2012. The theme of this year's conference 'Building a smart, sustainable and inclusive society through research and innovation partnerships' is closely aligned with Ireland's and the European Union's growth strategy and the crucial role of research and innovation. The central theme of Ireland's forthcoming Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2013 will be responding to the challenge of getting the European economy back on track by improving the EU's global competitiveness, promoting economic growth and creating jobs. Research and innovation are critically important given their role in contributing to economic recovery, competitiveness and growth".
The first day of the conference focused on how future technology can better meet societal needs and how innovation can enable a smart, sustainable and inclusive society.
The broad array of speakers brought a variety of perspectives and included keynote addresses from the EU Commission, represented by its Research Director General, Herbert von Bose, academic speakers Stephen Daniels, Dublin City University and Silvia Giordani, Trinity College Dublin as well as Tom Leahy executive city manager from Dublin City Council and Mark Ferguson, Director General Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).
The conference also heard keynote addresses from Intel VP's Mike Mayberry and Martin Curley, Jean-Rene Lequepeys, VP Silicon Components Division at LETI and Commodore Mark Mellet, Flag Officer, Commanding Irish Naval Service.
Copies of 1st Day Presentations can be found here.
The first day of the conference concluded with an interactive poster a session giving delegates the opportunity to share and collaborate on their research.
The second day of the conference focused on the specific track themes allowing delegates to engage in smaller sessions.
Copies of 2nd Day Presentations can be found under respective track below:
1. Silicon & Nanotechnology
2. Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
3. ICT for Sustainable Water Management.
The second day also included the launch by Intel Labs Europe, Dublin City Council and Trinity College Dublin of the 'Sustainable Connected Cities – Dublin' initiative. Click here to find out more about this collaboration which will see the development and testing of citizen centric services and solutions that further the drive towards delivering sustainable connected cities.


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Blue Blood started out as a solo venture for musician Hunter Morris, who conceived the idea after his previous band, Gift Horse, parted ways. The Athens, Georgia-based Morris then spent a year working as a fly fishing guide on the trout streams of North Georgia, a creatively fruitful time that spawned the songs that now form This Is the Life, Morris' debut as Blue Blood.
Morris ended up not going at it all by himself, though. Hank Sullivant, the guitarist for MGMT and the frontman of Kuroma, worked as producer/instrumentalist for the recording. Rounded out by J.J. Bower (Dead Confederate) on drums and Dave Spivey on keys, Blue Blood is a fine example of how an artist can create a new avenue through artistic exploration in the wake of a finished project. Morris' vision was rich enough on its own; with the addition of players such as Sullivant, Spivey, and Bower, his initial idea has blossomed into a mind-enveloping collection of introspective gloom pop.


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Processor: 2.40 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5B-MX Memory: 2 Gb VideoCard: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT HDD: 80GB + 250GB both IDE Operating System: Windows 7 32bit
Please give me some advice what to improve in my System. I mainly used it for Graphic Design (eg, Photoshop, Cinema4d, Illustrator, Flash).
I was planning to increase my Memory adding 2 GB more, Pushing it to something like 4GB in total. But just found out that recently that I already have 2x2GB installed and should be 4GB in total. When I looked at the properties of my computer, It said "Installed Memory 2GB". I wonder why is that happening? Is the other ram broken?.. I never the computer casing since I bought. so I didn't realize that I already have 2 x 2gb ram.
what can you advice.


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Gerard Way will be one of 10 special guest at MorrisonCon in Las Vegas, a comic convention curated by Grant Morrison. The event will take place Sept. 28-30, 2012 at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Tickets go on sale on May 9 at 3PM ET / Noon PT Details can be found at MorrisonCon.com
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text: Editor's Note: Any reference to TheStreet Ratings and its underlying recommendation does not reflect the opinion of TheStreet, Inc. or any of its contributors including Jim Cramer or Stephanie Link. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) is trading up 59 points (+0.4%) at 14,892 as of Wednesday, Sep 4, 2013, 10:35 a.m. ET. During this time, 140.8 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 535.7 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,815 issues advancing vs. 966 declining with 129 unchanged. EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Jim Cramer's Protégé, Dave Peltier, only buys Stocks Under $10 that he thinks could potentially double. See what he's trading today with a 14-day FREE pass. The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), which is sporting a 33-cent gain (+0.7%) bringing the stock to $46.34. This single gain is lifting the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 2.5 points or roughly accounting for 4.2% of the Dow's overall gain. Volume for Verizon Communications currently sits at 7.1 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 11 million shares. Verizon Communications has a market cap of $135.58 billion and is part of the technology sector and telecommunications industry. Shares are up 6.3% year to date as of Tuesday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 4.3%. Verizon Communications Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides communications, information and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and governmental agencies worldwide. TheStreet Ratings rates Verizon Communications as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in net income, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity. You can view the full Verizon Ratings Report. STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12-months. Learn more.


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Natural Gas Rises to Three-Month High on Small Storage Increase
Natural gas futures jumped to the highest price in more than three months after a government report showed a smaller-than-forecast stockpile increase.
Gas rose for the first time in four days after the Energy Department said inventories increased 31 billion cubic feet in the week ended April 22 to 1.685 trillion. Analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg showed a gain of 38 billion. A separate survey of Bloomberg users showed an increase of 37 billion.
"This is a quite bullish number for this time of the year and it's mostly because of the hot weather in the South," said James Williams, an economist at WTRG Economics, an energy research firm in London, Arkansas. "We are getting in a range where supply and demand are more balanced."
Natural gas for June delivery advanced 16.3 cents, or 3.7 percent, to $4.571 per million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest settlement price for a front-month contract since Jan. 24. The percentage gain is the biggest since March 25. Prices have risen 4.2 percent this month.
The five-year average inventory change for the week is an increase of 65 billion cubic feet, department data showed. Stockpiles were 0.6 percent below the five-year average, the first deficit since the week ended Feb. 25.
Stockpiles were 11 percent below levels a year earlier, the widest year-on-year deficit since Aug. 8, 2008.
Southern Heat
Last week's hot weather in the South and cold weather in the North increased demand for gas for heating and power generation, according to Carl Neill, an energy consultant at Risk Management Inc. in Atlanta.
The weather will be moderating next week, with below-normal temperatures in the U.S. East, Midwest and South from May 3 to May 7, according to Commodity Weather Group LLC in Bethesda, Maryland.
The high in New York on May 6 will be 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 Celsius), 8 below normal for the day, according to AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania.
Dallas will have a high of 73 degrees on May 3, 8 degrees below normal. The city had a high of 87 degrees on April 24.
Power plants use 30 percent of the nation's gas supplies, according to the Energy Department. Residential consumers account for about 20 percent.
A drop in nuclear power after severe storms in the South may boost demand for natural gas-powered electricity, Williams said.
U.S. nuclear-power output fell to the lowest level in more than 10 years after the storms, according to a report today from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and data compiled by Bloomberg.
Nuclear Power
Nuclear power generation nationwide decreased 2,605 megawatts, or 3.6 percent, from yesterday to 70,283 megawatts, or 69 percent of capacity, the lowest level since Oct. 26, 2000, according to the NRC report and Bloomberg data. Twenty-nine of the nation's 104 reactors were offline.
The Tennessee Valley Authority shut all three reactors at Browns Ferry, located 84 miles (135 kilometers) north of Birmingham on Wheeler Lake, near the Tennessee border, after thunderstorms and high winds damaged offsite power supplies, the NRC said.
Gas futures volume in electronic trading on the Nymex was 378,656 as of 3:01 p.m., compared with the three-month average of 315,000. Volume was 159,107 yesterday. Open interest was 927,600 contracts. The three-month average open interest is 924,000.
The exchange has a one-business-day delay in reporting open interest and full volume data.


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Book your room at Resort Villa Manin
Get an overview of this hotel4-star bed & breakfast with full-service spa and sauna
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Situated in the historical district, this spa bed & breakfast is within 12 mi (20 km) of Palazzo Rota, People's Square, and San Vito Bell Tower. Museo d'Arte Moderna and Loggia del Lionello are also within 16 mi (25 km).
Property Features
Along with a full-service spa, this smoke-free bed & breakfast has a sauna and a seasonal outdoor pool. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided.
Room Amenities
All 6 individually decorated rooms feature free WiFi and pillowtop beds. Comforts include premium bedding and down comforters, and guests will also find conveniences like refrigerators and coffee makers.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Resort Villa ManinVia Dei Dogi, 7 Codroipo UD
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Resort Villa Manin features a sauna and a seasonal outdoor pool. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Resort Villa Manin is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 6
- Number of floors - 2
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Full-service spa
- Free WiFi
- Luggage storage
- Pool sun loungers
- Free parking nearby
- Free self parking
- Sauna
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Steam room
- Outdoor seasonal pool
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Free parking nearby
Room Amenities
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Bidet
- Shower only
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Down comforter
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
- Pillowtop mattress
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the bed & breakfast include a sauna and a seasonal outdoor pool.
Guests under 18 years old are not allowed in the health club.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
Spa Services
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the bed & breakfast's full-service spa. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a steam room.
The spa is open select days. Children under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision. Guests under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa.
- Steam room in spa
- Sauna in spa
- Minimum age to access spa is 18
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 1 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at 6:30 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 10:30 AM
Payment types
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 10.00 per pet (varies based on length of stay)
- 1 per room (up to 8 kg)
- Specific rooms only
- Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
- Resort fee
- Parking
Optional extras
- Pet fee: EUR 10.00 per pet (varies based on length of stay)
- Late check-in fee for check-in between 6:30 PM and 8:30 PM (amount varies)
- Late check-out fee: EUR 30.00
Hotel Name
- Resort Villa Manin
- Resort Villa Manin Codroipo
- Villa Manin Codroipo
We should mention
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. Reservations are required for spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the bed & breakfast prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. One child 3 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. This property allows pets in specific rooms only (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can request one of these rooms by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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Inforex 1300 Systems
Inforex Inc. corporation manufactured and sold key-to-disk systems in the 1970s and mid-1980s. The company was founded by ex-IBM engineers to develop direct data entry systems that allowed information to be entered on terminals and stored directly on disk drives, replacing punched cards and keypunch machines which had been the dominant tools for data entry since the turn of the twentieth century.
Background Information[edit]
Key-to-disk systems were systems that took data entered by users from keypunch-like keyboards and held the information on a hard disk. The information was then transferred from disk to 1/2 inch tape for processing on the user's mainframe equipment.
At the time data gathering in large scale for processing on a mainframe computer was a labor intensive expensive endeavor. For example a typical sales order might go through the following steps:
1) Order written on contract, collected by the salesman. 2) Order transferred to paper order sheet (unusually with multiple carbon copies) transcribed by the salesman or a secretary. 3) Order sheet, after verification and approval passed to the Data Center for entry into the computer system for processing. 4) Order sheet, transferred to by a keypunch operator to a card or multiple cards for processing. 5) Order card(s), verified by a second keypunch operator (by essentially punching the card a second time) to verify accuracy. 6) Order card read by computer. 7) Parts ordered, equipment purchased.
The same tried and practiced methods were used to bill the customer, record customer payments, and pay outgoing expenses.
The advantage of key-to-disk systems over card punches was the ability to see the entire content of an 80 byte card on a monitor to edit and correct mistakes.
A major and unique advantage of the Inforex Key-to-Disk-to-Tape system allowed an operator to directly read, edit, and write back, any single tape record directly onto the original 9 track output tape, in that tape records' original position in the tape. This capacity would allow for quick corrections to minor keying errors.
The 1301 Key to disk system[edit]
The original processor had 4 registers with one register being 8 bit (used for data) and the other three being 12 bit (used for data manipulation and addresses). The commands for the processor were 8 and 16 bits. The original disk was 800 kilobytes. The original system had 2k of non-volatile magnetic core memory. The final version of the 1301 had 12k of memory. The system supported 8 keystations.
A unique advantage of the Inforex Hardware Design involved generic printed circuit cards to which were soldered a variety of very basic integrated circuits. These IC's were inter-connected on the opposite side of the pc board by pinpoint soldering of enamel coated wires, from point to point to point. These wiring networks were complicated and intricate. They were initially soldered together by Computer Numerical Controlled systems. Repair and correction for circuit design errors were handled mostly by field office personnel up to the point of 30 to 50 wiring changes on a single board. Larger circuit design changes were handled by the factory and their programmed assembly systems.
The 1302 Key to disk system[edit]
This was an expansion of the 1301 system. The biggest difference was that the system could support 16 key stations (in 2 banks of 8 stations) and 12k of memory.
The 1303 Key to disk system[edit]
The 1303 was a total redesign of the 1301 system with a new backplane. The disk drive was 2.4 megabytes. The processor address bus was now 16 bits and the instruction set consisted of 8, 16, and 24 bit instructions. Core memory was increased to 24k. Additional capabilities were added which included a communications card, which allows the system to send data using a 300/1200/2400/4800 baud modem.
The company also made model 3300 max-edit data entry and model 5000 for high volume data base management. These used 5 platter "washing machine" style hard drives.
The company developed one of the first distributed processing systems, the model 7000.
All components of the system, except for the printers and monitors, were made by the company since third-party OEMs were not yet available.
In 1978 Inforex filed bankruptcy due to the inability to market the 5000 and 7000 product lines profitably. They were eventually purchased by Datapoint. However, Datapoint ran into financial hardships in 1985 and sold the company to Recognition Equipment in Dallas, who had a competitive product and converted Inforex's customers to that product. In 1988 Inforex's headquarters were closed.
Inforex's headquarters were in Burlington, MA just around the corner from DEC (Digital Equipment Corp). They had sales and service offices throughout the USA, Canada, Europe, UK, and Japan.
Here is a link to an advertisement for employment at Inforex http://www.computer.org/plugins/dl/pdf/mags/co/1978/06/01647013.pdf?template=1&loginState=1&userData=anonymous-IP%253A%253A188.8.131.52
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Important Warning About Statins and Diabetes
…lowering statin drugs have gotten a lot press in recent weeks. A study just released in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that everyone over the age of 75 should take statins as a preventive measure against heart attacks and other heart events. Plus, new guidelines by the American Diabetes Association…Read More


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Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. or
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder.
Somehow I feel better even though I have it!
This is how it manifests:
I decide to water my garden.
As I turn on the hose in the driveway,
I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.
As I start toward the garage,
I notice mail on the porch table that
I brought up from the mailbox earlier.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys on the table,
Put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table,
And notice that the can is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back
On the table and take out the garbage first.
But then I think,
Since I'm going to be near the mailbox
When I take out the garbage anyway,
I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my check book off the table,
And see that there is only one check left.
My extra checks are in my desk in the study,
So I go inside the house to my desk where
I find the can of Pepsi I'd been drinking
I'm going to look for my checks,
But first I need to push the Pepsi aside
So that I don't accidentally knock it over.
The Pepsi is getting warm,
And I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi,
A vase of flowers on the counter
Catches my eye — they need water.
I put the Pepsi on the counter and
Discover my reading glasses that
I've been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back on my desk,
But first I'm going to water the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the counter,
Fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote.
Someone left it on the kitchen table.
I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV,
I'll be looking for the remote,
But I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table,
So I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs,
But first I'll water the flowers.
I pour some water in the flowers,
But quite a bit of it spills on the floor.
So, I set the remote back on the table,
Get some towels and wipe up the spill.
Then, I head down the hall trying to
Remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
The car isn't washed
The bills aren't paid
There is a warm can of Pepsi sitting on the counter
The flowers don't have enough water,
There is still only 1 check in my check book,
I can't find the remote,
I can't find my glasses,
And I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today,
I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all damn day,
And I'm really tired.
I realize this is a serious problem,
And I'll try to get some help for it,
But first I'll check my e-mail…
Do me a favor.
Forward this message to everyone you know,
Because I don't remember who the hell I've sent it to.
– Sent in by the Queens in the New Bern, NC Queen Group
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Donna Henes is the author of The Queen of My Self: Stepping into Sovereignty in Midlife. She offers counseling and upbeat, practical and ceremonial guidance for individual women and groups who want to enjoy the fruits of an enriching, influential, purposeful, passionate, and powerful maturity. Consult the MIDLIFE MIDWIFE™
The Queen welcomes questions concerning all issues of interest to women in their mature years. Send your inquiries to firstname.lastname@example.com.
A huge proportion of the world's people are living in the vicinity of a volcano. Waiting for the second shoe to drop, as it were. Always aware of danger. Under the constant threat of fire — an uneasy truce at best. It must be like living with an abusive parent or spouse. Never knowing when they might just go off. Knowing you can't control the situation. Yet not wanting to leave because of love, loyalty, tradition, lack of support, procrastination, a thousand reasons. Pretty scary to contemplate. Conciliation might seem the only protection.
Fire, out of fear, out of deference, is always treated with utmost respect. And the deities who personify a fickle, fiery omnipotence inspire worship of particular passion, for the smallest lapse of attentive reverence could result in wretched disaster. There is clear understanding that She who grants life could also, at the slightest whim, take it away again. Better not to take any chances of incurring the flaming wrath.
Pele, the Hawaiian Volcano Goddess, is notorious for Her capricious temper. Her lusts and desires are enormous and Her sexual appetite is legendary. She is said to appear in the form of a beautiful woman right before an eruption. She likes to pick up sailors. Any rejection or imagined slight infuriates Her. So special care is taken to appease Her. One walks very carefully around Lady Pele. You don't mess with Mama Lava. You really don't want to upset Her. When She is pleased, She rewards you with life in paradise. And if She's pissed she blows her top.
Alas, there's no stay to the smoke
I must die mid the quenchless flame
Deed of the hag who snores in her sleep,
Bedded on lava plate oven-hot.
— The Saga of Pele
The priestesses who served Pele wore robes whose hems and sleeves had been singed in a fire, and they carried digging sticks, which represented the sturdy digging stick which Pele employed to create the volcanic craters. Pigs used to be offered to Her, and the songs and dances of the hula. Today practitioners of the old religion still bring Her gifts of flowers, incense, the Ohelo berries which She loves, and, of course gin or a bottle of brandy.
The worship of Pele has been discouraged since the early Nineteenth Century when the Hawaiian Queen Kaahumanu converted to Christianity. Later, in a public display, Kapiolani, the woman chief of the Puna District, challenged Pele to punish her. She taunted the goddess by throwing rocks into the sacred crater. Her answer was an eruption of Mouna Loa. Luckily all the old lore was not lost.
Princess Ruth Keelikolani, who was sixty-three years old at the time, climbed to the edge of the threatening lava flow. She bore gifts of silk and brandy, and was, most importantly, able to offer the ancient chants of obeisance to placate Pele. The disturbances stopped the very next day, saving the town of Hilo. When the village of Kapoho was jeopardized in 1955, people offered food and tobacco to the smoking mountain with the same results. The lava stream stopped the next day before doing any damage.
Every year the National Park Service is inundated with packages containing small bits of rock and volcanic glass accompanied by a plea to the rangers to return them to their proper place — Mount Kilauea, the dwelling place and seat of power of Lady Pele. These souvenirs had been taken by hapless tourists who either became racked with guilt and foreboding, or had suffered a series of calamities which they grew to attribute to the punishing fury of Pele. One such anguished note reads, "Five years later, ten car accidents later, two unsuccessful business ventures later and twice broken heart later, I admit the place for the enclosed rock of lava is there where it belongs."
Pele's capricious counterparts, the Flaming Furies, the Volcanic Valkyries of other cultures, portray almost identical attributes, and their ceremonies, too, are similar. She is Fuji who sits on Her mountain throne, Fujiyama, on the Japanese main Island of Honshu. She is the Goddess Apo Namallari who rules Mount Pinituba in the Philippines. To the Maori people of New Zealand, She is the goddess Mahuea, She Who Keeps Fire in Her Fingertips. And to the Aztecs, She is Coatlicue, Mother of All Deities, Lady of the Lava Altar.
Her name is Hel, Hella, Holla, in Northern Europe and Scandinavia, namesake of the Icelandic volcano, Mt. Hekla and its nearby town, Hella. From Her name we also get the root words for holy, heal, hallow, hello, whole, all, halo and holly. She is associated with both the healing hearth fire and the burning fires of the underworld. A split personality writ large, like all of Her sisters — the beautiful princess and the ugly old witch. The nun and the whore. The bimbo and the brain. The damsel and the dyke. (Yike!) Two peas in the same pod. Smooth when stroked. Stormy when provoked. Siamese twin soul sisters joined at the heart.
Our Lady of Lava has been trying to get our attention lately. Trying to tell us something extremely important. She is gesticulating desperately. Her temper's shot. Her nerves are raw. Her fury is boiling over. She's furious, overwrought with exhaustion from Her urgent production of enough ash to create enough cloud cover to lower the earth's temperature enough and in enough time to counteract the coming green house effect.
Perhaps it's time to listen.
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Donna Henes is the author of The Queen of My Self: Stepping into Sovereignty in Midlife. She offers counseling and upbeat, practical and ceremonial guidance for individual women and groups who want to enjoy the fruits of an enriching, influential, purposeful, passionate, and powerful maturity. Consult the MIDLIFE MIDWIFE™
The Queen welcomes questions concerning all issues of interest to women in their mature years. Send your inquiries to email@example.com.
Women have long documented their domestic knowledge and experience by keeping written manuscripts of recipes for food, medicines, inks and cleaning supplies, in order to pass it down through the generations of their families.
Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery is such a hand written manuscript cookbook, which was given to her in 1749 and used in her household for fifty years. The Washington manuscript describes cookery from the English Mother Land and includes cuisines of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. It also offerss recipes reflecting America's produce and colonial history.
Janet Theophano stated in her book, Eat My Words, that cookbooks are celebrations of identity. Connections to people, places and the past are embedded in the recipes women kept and exchanged, transformed, and adapted to the changing world.
Anna Weckerin was the first woman to publish a cookbook. Ein Köstlich New Kochbuch (A Delicious New Cookbook), released in 1598 went through many editions up through the 17th century. Her recipes include a roast salmon with a sour sauce and an eel pie, as well as more familiar German dishes like Bratwurst and Lebkuchen.
In 1727 Eliza Smith authored The Compleat Housewife, She had worked for many years as a cook in upper-class houses where she acquired considerable expertise in preparing and serving fine food. Her writing reveals great self-assurance, for she attacked English attitudes toward food and women cooks. In her Preface, she chides the male culinary writers of her time, and stresses her years of experience as a woman in the kitchen, in order to establish her authority.
The English author Hannah Glasse published The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, which was a staple of American households during the Revolutionary War. Her emphasis on the use of plain language in her Preface was to retrieve cookery from the professional male chefs, who were accused of writing to male professionals with complex techniques. Glasse was a pioneer in giving recipes for ice cream, chocolate and vanilla, which appeared in the family recipes of the Washington, Jefferson and Franklin families.
Another outstanding English author, Isabella Beeton, wrote the Book of Household Management. It represented traditional fare and solid Victorian values. Although it contained a few extravagant recipes, the author devoted many pages to plain family fare. These pages were removed in later editions. Her recipes were the first to list ingredients before the method of preparation. She included information on the management of children, the doctor and legal memoranda. Nearly two million copies of her first book sold by 1868.
In 1796 Amelia Simmons published the first American written cookbook. She was the first to create an awareness of indigenous cookery in America. She printed the first corn, squash, and pumpkin recipes; and she was the first to recommend the use of potash, a forerunner of baking powder. An orphan and domestic worker, she wrote in her Preface, that the book is calculated for "the improvement of the rising generation of females in America, particularly for those females in this country, who by the loss of their parents, or other unfortunate circumstances, are reduced to the necessity of going into families in the line of domestics, or taking refuge with their friends or relations, and doing those things which are really essential to the perfecting them as good wives, and useful members of society."
The Virginia House-Wife, published in 1824 by Mary Randolph was the most influential American cookbook of the nineteenth century. It documented the cookery of the early days of the republic and was the most cherished of kitchen manuals. Born into wealth, prominence and status, Mary Randolph introduced a sumptuous cuisine influenced by English, Indian, African and Creole flavors.
Another extremely popular American author of the early nineteenth century was Eliza Leslie. She was introduced anonymously in 1828 as "a lady of Philadelphia" writing Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats. Her second cookbook, Directions for Cookery in its Various Branches was published in 1837 and had fifty printings. She also authored the first book on French Cookery. Her writing made Eliza Leslie a Philadelphia celebrity. She had the reputation of being a brilliant woman with a sarcastic wit and heady opinions.
Fannie Farmer published her most well-known work, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, in 1896. She introduced the concept of using standardized measuring spoons and cups, as well as level measurement. This classic American cooking reference contains1,849 recipes, from milk toast to Zigaras à la Russe. She also included essays on housekeeping, cleaning, canning and drying fruits and vegetables, and nutritional information. The book was so popular in America that cooks would refer to later editions simply as the "Fannie Farmer Cookbook," and it is still a top seller over 100 years later.
Farmer was first a student and then the principal of the Boston Cooking School and later created Mrs. Farmer's School of Cookery. She began by teaching gentlewomen and housewives the rudiments of plain and fancy cooking, but her interests eventually led her to develop a complete work of diet and nutrition for the ill, titled Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent.
Clementine Paddleford was an American food writer active from the 1920s through the 1960s, writing for several publications, including the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Sun, The New York Telegram, Farm and Fireside, and This Week magazine. She was the first journalist in American history to take food as a serious subject to write about.
She was also a pilot, and flew a Piper Cub around the country to report on America's many regional cuisines. She traveled more than 800,000 miles between 1948 and 1960 in the pursuit of great food. One of her assignments was to report on the cooking and food aboard a US Navy submarine, which took her aboard the USS Skipjack for a cruise. In 1960 Paddleford published her tome How America Eats, a collection of 12 years of her columns.
Julia Childs discovered a penchant for French cuisine when she moved to Paris at the age of 40 , after spending World War II as a spy. She attended the world-famous Cordon Bleu cooking school for six months and then, with two Fellow graduates, she founded the cooking school L'Ecole de Trois Gourmandes (The School of the Three Gourmands). With a goal of adapting sophisticated French cuisine for mainstream Americans, the trio collaborated on a two-volume cookbook titled Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). Published in the U.S., the 800-page book was considered a groundbreaking work and has since become a standard guide for the culinary community.
When she later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, she promoted her book on the Boston public broadcasting station, and prepared an omelet on air exhibiting her delightful, straight-forward, casual demeanor and hearty humor. The response of the public was so immediate and overwhelmingly enthusiastic that she was invited back to tape her own series on cookery for the network.
The French Chef TV series premiered on WGBH in 1962 and succeeded in changing the way Americans related to food, Over the years, the wild and wonderful Julia Child inspired countless home cooks to expand their horizons and make cooking a joyful pleasure. The show was syndicated to 96 stations throughout America and won both a Peabody Award and an Emmy Award in 1966.
Alice Waters has carried the baton of innovative, influential cuisine into the present day where she has updated it to meet the current needs of people and the environment. Her world famous restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California is credited for developing California Cuisine, which emphasizes the use of organic, seasonal, locally grown food prepared simply. The quality of ingredients ensures great taste.
Like Fannie Farmer, Alice Waters believes in the health-giving properties of good food cooked with love. She teaches that the international shipment of mass-produced food is both harmful to the environment and unhealthy for the consumer. She has authored or co-written 41 books that promote her culinary philosophy, including the seminal Chez Panisse Cooking.
A pioneer of the popular Slow Food Movement, she expanded her influence on cooking and eating by creating the Edible Schoolyard program. This innovative curriculum has been introduced into the entire Berkeley school system, and with the current crisis in childhood obesity, has attracted the attention of the national media. Her educational example was the inspiration for Michelle Obama's White House Garden, which she created with the children from a local school.
Each of these women have introduced an original concept, philosophy or standard to culinary herstory, each one offering more depth and nuance to the art of cookery. They were truly Queens of the kitchen who had their cakes and ate them, too.
Compliments to the chefs.
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But no matter how much we have learned to suppress, control and deny our expression, rest assured: Each of us has a full complement of these "shunted off " pieces of unprocessed emotional experience, which can emerge, indeed forcefully erupt, when triggered by experiences that resemble or resonate with the initial experience. And then watch out!
Very often, when these unprocessed complexes emerge, they overtake the psyche and leave one feeling quite helpless. Worse, the complex is in whatever level of maturity the psyche was in at the time it was created. Have you ever wondered why an otherwise rational, mature, even impressive adult can suddenly become a squalling 5-year-old if, for example, someone cuts in front of them in line? Well, an unprocessed complex is the reason.
Now, as awful and humiliating as it can be to be held in the throes of a complex, we can still be good parents to ourselves and give ourselves the containment that had not been available in our formative years.
Here is my prescription:
If something happens that drives you looney, for whatever reason — and do not judge, try to rationalize, justify, or even figure out the reason — just let it out. Try, of course, to create a safe space for this. If you are in mixed company, or in a situation where expression could cause undue damage, try to keep the feeling in stasis until you can seclude yourself. But once you are safe, just let it rip.
And when I say rip, I mean RIP.
Wail, scream, cry, punch a pillow (I am a big fan of pillow-bashing) — but most of all trust that as bad as the pain may be, and as ridiculous as you may feel in letting yourself revert to your two-year-old self, if you let it do its thing, you will emerge safely on the other side.
I liken it to the way a pilot brings a plane out of a stall.
When a plane goes into a stall, it starts to nose-down and the pilot loses control. You would think that bringing the nose up would be the right thing to do; but it isn't. As aviation legend Lincoln Beachy learned, if you push the nose down into the stall, your wings will gather enough lift to recover.
And so it is with the complex-driven tantrum: If you dive straight into it, look squarely into the eye of whatever has got you by the short-and-curlies, and bawl/scream/grieve your face off — in essence, if you let yourself die a little — you will get through it, and you will grow.
So, how do you know that the tantrum did the trick? Usually, I find that whatever had triggered the episode will not bother me as much — or at all.
A good example of this happened in my mid-20s.
I had quit my job to pursue theater as my parents had agreed to let me move back in with them for a few years. One night I came home very late from a show and found my mother had done something that upset me terribly. I don't recall what it was, but whatever it was triggered something HUGE in me. (As Paul Reiser quips: "Want to know why your parents are so good at pushing your buttons? It's because they installed them!")
I wanted to go absolutely ballistic at her, but she was sleeping — and I knew enough by that point to realize that beating up on another person, even the person whom I held responsible for the injury, would resolve nothing.
So I took a moment, stuffed my face in a pillow (so as not to wake anyone) and screamed and cried. My body wrenched and writhed and I found myself biting the pillow… there was something about biting that was important here. Well, I didn't want to destroy the pillow, so I grabbed the next best thing: a 2-week-old copy of the NY Times Magazine — something no one would miss.
And I shredded it with my teeth!
Yes, I really did that.
There I was… a mature, sensible 25-year-old, ripping, gnashing, tearing saliva-soaked pages with bestial fury. Tears poured down my face as I crumpled fistsfuls of slick tooth-made confetti, mashing them into the living room rug. A long breath shuddered into me; I gurgled out a few more sobs … until the sobs turned into laughs. And I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was I was so upset about.
My mind was completely blank for what seemed like several minutes. I had to reach around, fumbling through my thoughts as I was at that moment fumbling through the confetti, trying to clean up the mess. And when I finally remembered what had moments before been my mother's terrible-horrible-unforgivable act … I laughed again. "That is what upset me?? Damn…."
And the storm was over. I scooped up the mess, chuckling to myself … how silly, small things can loom so large when powered by the grief of a tormented inner-child. Having been given her due, the child was calm, contained, cared for and happy. And my mothers momentous offense had returned to life-size.
It was some oversight … knowing her, she probably meant to do well by me in doing what she did, but guessed wrong as so many parents do. But I can't say for sure.
Within moments, it was forgotten — processed and integrated — to this day, I can't tell you what it was.
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English Heritage has been so concerned about the extent of the depredation that it commissioned a study, which revealed that what was once an illicit hobby has mushroomed into a semi-professional criminal industry.
According to police, thieves have formed loosely connected networks to trade information, often in online forums, about new and vulnerable sites.
Some farmers have been threatened after confronting groups trespassing on their land at night.
The survey, published today, found that while bronze axes, Roman coins, Saxon jewels and other precious scraps of British history are being looted from officially protected sites and open farmland, few nighthawkers are being prosecuted. Many landowners do not report the thefts as they believe police will find them difficult to prove, or they think that even if a case reaches court the penalties will be paltry.
The study found the practice to be most prevalent in eastern and central regions, such as Norfolk, Essex and Oxfordshire, which are rich in sites ranging from the prehistoric to medieval eras.
More than 200 raids were reported between 1995 and 2008, more than a third of them affecting scheduled ancient monuments. Archaeologists believe this figure represents the tip of the iceberg. To their despair, in the handful of cases that have gone to court the thieves usually received just a caution, or a fine as low as £38. Not surprisingly, only 14% of landowners bother to report this type of crime, knowing that unless the nighthawkers are caught red-handed the most the criminals are likely to be accused of is trespass, according to the survey.
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Ayato Kamina may seem like an average boy in a devastated world, but after being captured by TERRA, a military organization set on saving the world from the Mu, an alien race set on "tuning" the world, he realizes he is an instrument in deciding the fate of humanity and piloting RahXephon. Not only is Ayato the only person who can control the mecha, but he also has a terrible fate of his own. Holding onto memories of his old life and grasping to keep his own humanity, he must struggle in this new world and realize his true potential with RahXephon.
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IntroAyato has been living an ordinary life for 17 years. Hoever, he's just about to find out, that the world he believed in is not what he thought it was...Story: 10I must say that I am biase when it comes to this show. Rahxephon for me was one of the first animes that I ever watched and still to date remains in my top 5. The reasoning for this lies mostly within the story of the show. ... read more
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text: The Kidpool wiki last edited by Txapote on 08/07/13 11:43AM View full history OriginKidpool attends the Xavier Orphanage for Troubled Boys. Wade is a newer student at the orphanage and is not very popular with the other students or teachers. Wade is seen as more of a nuisance than a student. He is said to be showing severe anti-social tendencies.Prelude to Deadpool Corps 02The Orphanage is on the eve of its first dance and Storm (the dean) and Professor Xavier want everything to go perfectly but they fear their new student, Wade, will cause trouble and leave a bad impression of the school in the eyes of Emma Frost, the dean of the other school. In an attempt to prevent Wade from causing trouble Xavier and Storm planned on giving Wade detention in the Danger Room. Due to Wade being...well, Deadpool in a smaller package, he was constantly in trouble and freaking people out. His latest debacle resulted in mini Scott Summers getting an atomic wedgie that resulted in ripped boxers for Scott and both getting sent to Storm's office. She sentences both of them to detention in the Danger Room and bans them from attending the dance. Not even Scott could brown nose his way out of their punishment. While in the Danger Room, Wade eggs Scott on to turn the combat mode on, since he had the access codes. Kidpool arms himself with two light sabers and the two brawl until Wade realizes they can get out of detention because Scott has the codes. Wade convinces him into letting them out by saying his girlfriend was getting cozy with mini Wolverine (hilarious). At the dance Wade gets his first taste of mercenary work...sort of. Scott pays him 20 dollars to distract everyone so he can get Jean away from Wolverine. He uses his stolen light sabers and starts destroying the food and drink table. Wolverine, Angel and Colossus start fighting Wade but it becomes a full scale riot. Eventually everyone starts revealing how much they don't like Wade and Xavier only keeps him around for the stimulus money. Right as Kidpool starts to yell and leave, the original Deadpool appears out of a dimensional doorway. Deadpool proclaims he need Wade Wilson to help save the multi-verse. Since they share the same name Deadpool decides to call him Tito. He is next seen in the 616 dimension playing guitar hero with Lady Deadpool as Deadpool arrived with the newest Deadpool Corps recruit Dogpool.Powers and AbilitiesKidpool possesses phenomenal hand to hand combat skills and weaponry skills; so far he has only used two light sabers stolen from the Danger Room. It can only be assumed he can heal like the other Deadpool's. He also possesses the same powers as Deadpool, (but probably to a lower degree since he is still a child) :He's an expert in both close and ranged combat weaponry.He has a limited immunity to telepathy due to his constantly fluctuating brain cellsOlympic-level strength, speed, stamina, and agility.Deadpool is fluent in several languages, including English, French, Japanese, and Spanish.Deadpool also has had several personal transportation devicesDeadpool has an ability often referred to as "bottomless satchel", where he can pull guns, explosives, food (usually Hic. brand beer cans) and ammunition, out of no where (usually by reaching into one of his pockets, often times pulling out something that was bigger then the pocket itself).Deadpool has a very strong healing factor obtained from Wolverine. This healing factor healed him completely from cancer, and grants him the ability to heal any injury within seconds, more complex injuries can take longer. He can even re-grow lost limbs and organs.He is one of the few people with enough skill to handle Captain America's shield.His unpredictable fighting style can be advantageous against the likes of Taskmaster, as Taskmaster learns the moves of others using his advanced memory and learns strengths and weaknesses based upon past experience.Seen only in costume but the few shots of his forearms seem scar free so he may not be able to regenerate, yet. He also breaks the fourth wall (makes fun of mini Scotts dialogue). He also talks to himself and the random voices in his head.