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The Last Rescue
- June 3rd, 2015
- 107 mins
World World II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.
- November 13th, 2009
- 158 mins
- 39%
"2012" revolves a family who goes on vacation in December 2012, just as the Mayan calendar is coming to a close. Over the decades, many have prophesized that the world will end when the ancient calendar ceases on Dec. 21, 2012.
Strictly Sexual
- June 7th, 2008
- 100 mins
Two successful women, sick and tired of dating and relationships, decide to keep two young men in their pool house for strictly sexual purposes.
A Little Bit of Heaven
- May 4th, 2012
- 106 mins
- 4%
Marley Corbett (Kate Hudson) is young, beautiful, and wildly funny, but she's afraid of opening herself up to true love and commitment. Though she uses her humor to prevent matters from getting serious, a life-changing visit to her doctor (Gael Garcia Bernal) sends both of them on an eye-opening adventure of mutual discovery, leading to revelations neither thought possible.
Dorfman in Love
- March 22nd, 2013
- 92 mins
- 15%
Dorfman In Love tells the story of a young single suburbanite unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, who desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, changes forever. In seven days, she meets another man who appreciates her and she not only transforms the mess of a loft but also transforms the mess of herself. Her journey of self-discovery leads her to find her true love.
The Bank Job
- February 6th, 2007
- 76 mins
One just got released from prison, the other just "accidentally" killed a prostitute, so what's a couple of down on their luck career criminals to do... See full synopsis »
The Perfect Daughter
- March 26th, 2016
- 90 mins
Finding his daughter confused and drunk one night, Martin overreacts and puts a wedge between their once idyllic relationship at a time when she'll need him the most.
- July 8th, 2008
- 88 mins
The lives of a nightclub owner, a crime boss, a stripper, a bartender, two hitmen, a prostitute and a psychic take a turn for the worse when they are trapped in an escaped mental patient's sinister path of madness and destruction.
Beautiful Girl
- November 25th, 2014
- 90 mins
Odessa is a beautiful girl addicted to the attention and money that being an adult film star brings. William, a lonely mechanic, has a crush on her, and she indulges his fantasy and leads him on. Thinking he can save her and help her find a normal life, he befriends her drug-fueled bodyguard, Angry Jack, to get close to her.
- June 22nd, 2007
- 94 mins
- 78%
Based on Stephen King's short story, "1408" stars John Cusack as a debunker of paranormal occurrences who encounters real terror when he checks into the notorious Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel.
The Hottie & the Nottie
- February 8th, 2008
- 90 mins
Nate Cooper (Joel David Moore) has been smitten with Cristabel Abbott (Paris Hilton) since he first laid eyes on her at the impressionable age of six. But before he could try and snuggle up to her at nap time, or maybe send her a valentine, his family moved away. In the intervening years there have been other women in Nate's life, but none who could measure up to Cristabel. Convinced she's the only girl for him, Nate decides to move back to L.A. and track her down.
A Gunfighter's Pledge
- July 5th, 2008
- 79 mins
After killing former sheriff Matt Austin's (Luke Perry) the wife and son for revenge, a quest begins. An escaped prisoner shows that he remembers who sent him to do time in jail so long ago. In a small town saloon Austin's mission to locate his family's murderer comes to an end. The pursuit was long and difficult. Upon discovering the killer a gunfight ensues, unfortunately in the crossfire an innocent bystander is shot and injured. Once again the murderer made a quick getaway. In exchange for the death of the rancher the former sheriff agrees to help his widow fight a land baron. The tycoon was trying to take her land for its precious water rights.
Resident Evil: Retribution
- September 14th, 2012
- 95 mins
- 31%
The Umbrella Corporation's deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race's last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.
- September 28th, 2001
- 89 mins
- 64%
It's based on a sketch called Derek Zoolander, Male Model that Stiller did at the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards show. The movie is a spoof of the shallow, self-obsessed, model-worshipping culture, centered on Zoolander, the CEO of a modeling school.
Johann Urb TV Shows
Hidden Palms
After his father unexpectedly commits suicide, Johnny Miller moves with his mother and stepfather to the wonderful Palm Springs. However, Johnny will soon learn that the place is not all sun and beauty, as murder mysteries and town gossip quickly ensue.
DIRT, starring Courteney Cox, chronicles the life of Lucy Spiller, the ruthless, powerful editor-in-chief of the celebrity tabloid magazines DRRT and NOW.
David Duchovny heads up the cast in this comedy about a novelist with sex and drug addictions who is struggling to raise his daughter half the time, while having problems with his ex-girlfriend.
The third edition of the "CSI" franchise sets up shop in the Big Apple, where taciturn Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) and his partner, Detective Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes), lead a crime-solving team. Like his counterparts in Las Vegas and Miami, Taylor knows that people may lie, but the evidence rarely does. In the city that never sleeps, CSI: NY never rests.
The Mountain
Welcome to the The Mountain guide. Boundary Mountain is an escapist playground for wealthy tourists and extreme sports enthusiasts, but to the Carver family, it's home. The Mountain chronicles the larger-than-life saga of the Carvers, whose colorful patriarch, David Carver, Sr. founded the town and its internationally famous ski resort after winning the land in a poker game. When this legendary man unexpectedly dies, his choice of an heir sends shockwaves throughout the community. Free-spirited David Carver, Jr. left home years ago to pursue his dream of becoming a world-class motocross racer, while his older brother Will diligently attended business school with every expectation of taking over the family empire. No one, least of all the brothers themselves, expected David to inherit the Mountain. Now, David finds himself saddled with a responsibility he never wanted and a brother who rightly fe
CSI: Miami
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation took television by storm in 2000 with its innovative and cutting-edge updating of a standard series concept – in this case, the cop show. Suddenly, instead of simply whodunit, solving crimes was a matter of howdunit, and with what size shoe, and whether anyone left behind traces of evidence that the blue ALS light could pick up.
HBO presents Entourage, the hit comedy series executive produced by Mark Wahlberg that takes a look at the day-to-day life of Vincent (Vince) Chase, a hot young actor in modern-day Hollywood, and his entourage. He's brought with him from their hometown in Queens, NY: manager Eric, half-brother Drama, and friend Turtle. The series draws on the experiences of industry insiders to illustrate both the heady excesses of today's celebrity lifestyle, as well as the difficulty of finding love and success in the fast track of show biz. Now that the boys are getting used to the perks of stardom, Eric, along with superagent Ari, keep Vince's star rising while making sound decisions for a long-lasting career in a world of fleeting fame.
Based on the 1987 feature film of the same name, The Witches of Eastwick will be coming to ABC in a new series.
Knight Rider
This two-hour movie event, based on the iconic 1980's hit television series, stars Justin Bruening ("All My Children"), Deanna Russo ("The Young and the Restless"), Sydney Tamiia Poitier ("Veronica Mars," "Grindhouse") and Bruce Davison ("Breach," "Close To Home"). In addition, David Hasselhoff (NBC's "America's Got Talent") -- who starred in the popular lead role as Michael Knight for four seasons during the original series' run -- returns as the same character during a special guest-star appearance.
'Til Death
'Til Death is a comedy about long-married couple Eddie (Brad Garrett) and Joy Stark (Joely Fisher), who are closing in on day 9,000 of their marriage and have the battle scars to prove it. Their new next-door neighbors are young newlyweds Steph (Kat Foster) and Jeff Woodcock (Eddie Kaye Thomas): idealistic, passionate, adorable and married for a matter of days. It's a show about new marriage versus old marriage, about keeping the romance alive, or at least staying together so you have someone to drive you to the hospital for your operations.
Eddie is a cynical realist who considers himself an expert on most topics. A high school history teacher, he's learned well the lessons of history and applies the basic principles to his marriage: all fights are about power, land and resources. A veteran of the marriage wars, Eddie freely gives his advice to the younger, idealistic Jeff, who's the new vice principal at Eddie's school. Of course, Eddie's little secret all along is that he loves Joy more than anything. And however brash and sardonic Joy herself appears, she loves Eddie right back.
Miss Match
Alicia Silverstone ( Clueless , The Crush ) stars as Kate Fox in this charming drama from Emmy-Award winning executive producers Darren Star ( Sex and the City ) and Jeff Rake ( The Practice ). In addition to being a sharp divorce attorney in her father's law firm, Kate Fox has a knack for matchmaking, which she considers a hobby until a socialite bride credits Kate for her romantic success in the press and word of her talent spreads. Soon, to the dismay of her father, Jerry ( Ryan O'Neal , Love Story ), and her reluctant legal partner Nick ( James Roday , First Years ), Kate is juggling the conflicting worlds of divorce and true love. With her best friend Victoria ( Lake Bell , War Stories ) at her side, Kate is determined to bring a little romance into the world, perhaps finding her own true love in the process. Rounding out the cast are David Conrad ( Men of Honor ) as Michael, a potential love interest for Kate, and Jodi Long ( All-American Girl ) as nosy office receptionist Claire. Miss Match is produced by 20th Television with Imagine Entertainment and Darren Star Productions. Brian Grazer ( 24 ) and David Nevins also serve as executive producers. The series was cancelled and unaired episodes were shelved. The complete series, including unaired episodes, aired in the UK channel Living in Spring 2004. The entire Miss Match show (with the exception of episodes 12 and 14) ran in Croatia on HRT 1, Winter 2005. The title of the show is Par nepar . The show aired in Finland on channel SubTV during Summer 2005. All the unaired episodes, except episode 12, were shown. The show was called Amorin apulainen (translated "Amor's helper"). Macy Gray performed the Miss Match theme song, Love Is Gonna Get You . Alicia Silverstone was nominated at the 2004 Golden Globe Awards and at the Golden Satellite Award in the category of "Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy" for her role on the show.
The Glades
This show follows Matt Passmore as Jim, a Chicago cop who gets kicked off the force after being shot and wrongfully accused by his ex-captain of having an affair with his wife. After receiving his payout, Jim decides to moves to a small Florida town to join the state police.
From Donald P. Bellisario comes NCIS, a show bringing us the inner workings of the government agency that investigates all crimes involving Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position. From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, these special agents traverse the globe to investigate all crimes with Navy or Marine Corps ties.
Royal Pains
A down and out surgeon has a chance to redeem himself as a small town physician in the wealthy beach community of East Hampton, NY.
One Tree Hill
The fifth season of "One Tree Hill" will be unprecedented in the annals of television drama, as the show leaps forward four years. Season four ended as the young characters graduated high school and season five begins post-college, four years later. Some of the characters have found success while others have failed. Some are the same, some are very different. And while their storylines will actively move forward, the show will also dip into the past, returning to incidents and events of the last four years, sometimes for a moment or a scene, other times for an entire episode.


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Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 (1990)
by Philip A. Kuhn
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Most historiographical depictions of the Jiangnan region characterize it as a cradle of Han intellectual elitism, a source of economic prosperity, and den of material comfort. However, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor/Hongli, these were the very qualities that made Jiangnan a cultural and political threat to the Manchu elite. It also seemed like the most appropriate place for the political crisis involving the sorcery scare of 1768 to originate, with a Jiangnan coverup. Faced with concerns about (Han) Sinification, sedition, and a bureaucracy too bogged down by its own rules, Hongli was compelled to see this series of incidents NOT as a mere outbreak of superstitious hysteria, but as a legitimate political crisis that confirmed his worst fears about his own bureaucracy.
The sorcery scare emerged from a long chain of causes. Soaring population rates had resulted in increased upward as well as downward mobility. Thus, mendicant beggar-monks and other "vagrants" were more visible – and feared – than before. Rumors of soul-stealing wanderers became volatile fuses for civil unrest and public pandemonium. Their purported method of soul-stealing involved clipping people's queues – a mandatory hairstyle that represented Manchu submission. Therefore, Hongli characterized the sorcery scare as a political crisis due to the symbolism attached to the queue itself, as deviation from this standard was tantamount to treason.
According to Kuhn, the case was not significant for its absurdity (though it certainly was!) nor for any convictions that resulted (suspected soulstealers routinely gave false confessions under severe torture, which sent prosecutors on wild goose chases for months at a time). The more revealing story was how Hongli mobilized and manipulated the bureaucrats underneath him, using his unpredictable, arbitrary power to ward off bureaucratic routinization. The Qing bureaucracy had inherited an inner logic that tended to hinder its own effectiveness with meaningless paper trails and cronyism. For example, Kuhn explained how officials were prone to withhold information that could be detrimental to their careers and superiors' reputations, since the entire bureaucratic system was linked through promotions. Similarly, Hongli strove to avoid bureaucratization himself by installing control mechanisms such as confidential field reports, imperial audience systems and personalized appointments based on face-to-face evaluations. With his disdain for routine and sycophancy, Hongli tended to highlight personality traits like leadership and "gumption" in selecting his closest bureaucrats – the very qualities that would permit the highest officials to keep their emperor in check. This dynamic system was proobably part of what made the Qianlong Emperor's reign one of the most prosperous.
Kuhn's liberal translations certainly give life to the story, particularly through the voice of the emperor. I have not always found such interpretations to be fruitful, but in this case, Kuhn seems to render Hongli's tone and sometimes indignant pitch rather accurately (given the circumstances and the stakes in this problem). Somehow his narration of the official paper trails – upon which the emperor scrawled his vermilion commentary – reads smoothly, despite the disjointed format. Parenthetical insertions of the emperor's responses are only slightly distracting, but they serve as a constant, imperative, and often humorous reminder as to who was really manipulating the system and through whose perspective Kuhn's tale is told. I would think it difficult to convincingly adopt Hongli's imperial angle, but it results in a highly organic narrative, one that Kuhn manages to pull off quite successfully.
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Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, in the most prosperous period of China's last imperial dynasty, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends of men's queues (the braids worn by royal decree), and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In a fascinating chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers that ensued, Philip Kuhn provides an intimate glimpse into the world of eighteenth-century China.
Kuhn weaves his exploration of the sorcery cases with a survey of the social and economic history of the era. Drawing on a rich repository of documents found in the imperial archives, he presents in detail the harrowing interrogations of the accused--a ragtag assortment of vagabonds, beggars, and roving clergy--conducted under torture by provincial magistrates. In tracing the panic's spread from peasant hut to imperial court, Kuhn unmasks the political menace lurking behind the queue-clipping scare as well as the complex of folk beliefs that lay beneath popular fears of sorcery.
Kuhn shows how the campaign against sorcery provides insight into the period's social structure and ethnic tensions, the relationship between monarch and bureaucrat, and the inner workings of the state. Whatever its intended purposes, the author argues, the campaign offered Hungli a splendid chance to force his provincial chiefs to crack down on local officials, to reinforce his personal supremacy over top bureaucrats, and to restate the norms of official behavior.
This wide-ranging narrative depicts life in imperial China as it was actually lived, often in the participants' own words. Soulstealers offers a compelling portrait of the Chinese people--from peasant to emperor--and of the human condition.
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Science Feature - May 2005
By Ken Ortolon Senior Editor
All too often, physicians treat illnesses or conditions that could have been prevented, or at least controlled, in the first place. That seems to be true for asthma.
Physicians and public health officials say clinical guidelines for asthma management and a battery of highly effective medications to control the disease and prevent acute attacks could reduce emergency room visits, cut hospitalizations, and improve the quality of life for patients with asthma. But doctors aren't always using the tools they have available to them.
"The strategy for managing asthma is to identify the asthmatic patient early. Those patients having more frequent symptoms or abnormal lung function need to be on a preventative medicine," said Beaumont allergist and immunologist William Fawcett, MD. "But physicians are not prescribing or asthma patients are not taking the preventative medications as often as they should."
That could soon change. The Asthma Coalition of Texas (ACT) was formed more than four years ago by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), the American Lung Association of Texas, and numerous health professionals and organizations to spread the word that asthma can be effectively controlled.
"Asthma is one of those diseases that have always been around, but in the last three or four years, more attention has been paid nationally to the fact that it is treatable," said Barbara James, RN, director of the Texas Medical Association Science and Quality Department. "We can have improved health, decreased cost, and higher quality of life for the patient if there is adequate treatment."
Falling Short
State health officials say asthma has become more prevalent over the past two decades. According to the Texas Behavioral Risk Factor Survey and Texas inpatient hospital discharge data, there were more than 22,000 asthma-related hospitalizations per year in Texas between 1999 and 2002, with the highest hospitalization rates among children younger than 5 years. And, 822 Texans died from asthma.
As early as 1998, health professionals recognized that asthma management was less than optimal. That year, GlaxoSmithKine funded the Asthma in America survey, which interviewed more than 2,500 adults with asthma and parents of children with asthma, plus 700 health care professionals. The survey concluded that asthma management in America was falling short of the goals set by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
The survey also found that although physicians reported following NHLBI guidelines,
In Texas, Asthma in America found that 92 percent of physicians said anti-inflammatory drugs, such as inhaled steroids, are either "essential or "very important" in long-term management of persistent asthma, but only 19 percent of patients with persistent asthma said they used such medications.
"Patients are receiving incorrect information," said Dr. Fawcett, past president of the Texas Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Society and an ACT member. He recently saw a patient in his office whose treating physician had recommended using a bronchodilator twice daily and did not prescribe an inhaled steroid or other anti-inflammatory medicine.
That, Dr. Fawcett says, is exactly the wrong approach to asthma management. "An asthmatic should use an inhaled steroid daily to control inflammation. A bronchodilator should be used only for an acute exacerbation of asthma. The regular use of a bronchodilator more than twice a week is considered excessive.
"Better asthma care would increase the prescribing and use of inhaled steroids and other preventative medicines and decrease the use of short-acting bronchodilators," he said.
Unfortunately, even when the controller medications are prescribed, patients often do not understand that the medications need to be taken daily to be effective.
"These medicines are to be taken even when the patient feels good," Dr. Fawcett said. "Currently, many people do not understand this and therefore do not want to take daily medicine. However, for asthmatic patients, this is counterproductive. By failing to manage their disease correctly, they are setting themselves up for an asthma attack."
Taking Action
While busy pediatricians, family physicians, and other primary care doctors may find it difficult to dedicate the time necessary to educate patients on managing their asthma and recognizing warning signs of an oncoming attack, ACT says that is vital in controlling asthma. The group, created as part of a three-year grant DSHS received from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2001 for asthma surveillance and planning activities, has produced a statewide asthma action plan.
The plan stresses the need to educate all relevant health care professionals -- including primary care and specialty physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and school nurses -- about the evidence-based NHLBI guidelines for asthma care and the need to integrate education into patient care activities. The plan includes strategies for reducing environmental factors that exacerbate asthma, such as tobacco smoke and allergens.
The plan also says children should have access to their asthma medications in school. In 2001, the legislature passed the Texas Inhaler Law to allow children to carry their asthma inhalers to school even if the school has a no-tolerance drug policy.
Susan Bricker, MPH, an epidemiologist with the DSHS Chronic Disease Prevention Branch, says the agency is working on several education campaigns for physicians, school nurses, parents, and patients. They are partnering with managed care organizations to distribute educational materials for physicians on both CD-ROM and as pocket reference guides.
Dr. Fawcett says physicians can greatly improve the quality of asthma care, but they will have to devote the time necessary to really teach their asthma patients about the disease.
"That is the element that I think all of us have difficulty with now because of the dynamics of managed care," he said. "Physicians feel the need to get patients in and out quickly, and you just cannot do that with patients who have a chronic disease. Physicians need a cost-effective way to educate their asthma patients about managing their disease."
Ken Ortolon can be reached by telephone at (800) 880-1300, ext. 1392, or (512) 370-1392; by fax at (512) 370-1629; or by email at Ken Ortolon.
Physicians and asthma patients can find many resources online to help them treat and control asthma.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Asthma can be found on the institute's Web site at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/.
Also, the Asthma Coalition of Texas Web site at www.texasasthma.org has various resources for physicians and other health care professionals, schools, and patients, as well as the 2004 Texas Asthma Plan, an Asthma in Schools Tool Kit, and information on environmental factors that impact asthma.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Jaquon Parker scored a career-high 21 points and Sean Kilpatrick added 19 as streaking Cincinnati beat No. 22 Pittsburgh 66-63 on Sunday night, the Bearcats' sixth win in as many games since switching to a four-guard offense.
"All this was (done) with relentless effort by the guys," Cronin said. "You watch those guys play you think `How are they doing it, they're so small?"'
The answer? A heavy dose of fullcourt pressure and a dash of fearlessness.
Cincinnati (11-3, 1-0 Big East) won at Pittsburgh for the first time in 33 years by forcing 17 turnovers and hitting big shot after big shot in the second half. The Bearcats made 11 of 27 3-pointers, including several in the second half to keep the reeling Panthers at bay.
"We don't look up (at the scoreboard), we just shoot the next open shot and stay on the attack," Cronin said.
The Bearcats have eagerly embraced the frenetic style, pushing the pace at every opportunity and using their quick hands to disrupt the opponent's offense.
"Playing four guards is actually kind of easier for the press, because everyone on our team is really fast and really athletic," Kilpatrick said. "We use that to our advantage."
Pitt (11-4, 0-2) simply couldn't keep up and has lost three straight for just the third time in coach Jamie Dixon's tenure.
"We can't make excuses," Dixon said. "We need to find a way. We have the guys to get it done."
Nasir Robinson had 19 points and Ashton Gibbs added 18 for the Panthers, but Pitt - picked to finish fourth in the Big East in the preseason - again was undone by sloppy ballhandling and poor outside shooting.
Playing without point guard Travon Woodall, who sat out due to lingering groin and abdominal injuries, the Panthers had trouble getting organized offensively. They looked out of sorts at the end, missing several chances to tie in the final 30 seconds. Making just 5 of 19 3-point attempts didn't help either.
"We've just been missing shots and not taking advantage of opportunities," Gibbs said. "We had too many turnovers and they capitalized on them. We made too many mistakes and they just took advantage of it."
The Bearcats had no such confidence issues from behind the arc. With Parker and Kilpatrick firing early and often, Cincinnati overcame a 44-30 disadvantage on the boards to win their fifth straight Big East road game dating to last season.
"You always look smart when guys make shots," Cronin said with a laugh.
Cincinnati didn't back down against the suddenly vulnerable Panthers, never panicking after getting down by eight points early. Instead they kept shooting, kept getting their hands in passing lanes and kept frustrating Pitt in the process.
A 3-pointer by Dion Dixon gave Cincinnati a 66-59 lead with 3 minutes to go and Cincinnati dug in defensively to overcome a couple of costly missed free throws.
Pitt drew within three on two free throws by John Johnson with 40 seconds to play but couldn't take advantage after Parker and Kilpatrick clanked the front end of two 1-and-1s.
Johnson was called for an offensive foul to end one possession. Gibbs missed a 3-pointer on Pitt's next trip but the Panthers got the rebound and called time out with 2.4 seconds remaining. Lamar Patterson's 3-pointer from the top of the key wasn't close and the Bearcats poured off the bench in celebration.
The Panthers, meanwhile, have gone in the opposite direction. Pitt has struggled searching for an identity. The team's normally tenacious defense has only been so-so Woodall's absence has forced Gibbs to do the majority of the ballhandling, with mixed results.
How bad are things going for the Panthers? They're suddenly beatable at the Petersen Events Center.
Pitt started the season winning 55 of its last 57 home games but has lost at the Pete three times in the last six weeks. Long Beach State raced by Pitt on Nov. 16, then Wagner stunned the Panthers two days before Christmas.
Missing Woodall hasn't helped. The junior played for the first time in nearly a month in a 72-59 loss to Notre Dame last week but didn't even dress against the Bearcats because of continued soreness.
The Panthers could certainly use him, particularly after Cincinnati spent 40 minutes harassing Pitt into sloppy mistake after sloppy mistake.
Gibbs made 7 of 15 shots but couldn't find the range when the Panthers needed it most.
"We tried to eliminate him beating us," Cronin said. "We didn't all the way ... but down the stretch we made it really, really hard on him."


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"In 2009, with all the activity that took place in 2009, guess how many network news stories were done on the TEA Party," Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell asked the hosts of WMAL radio's "Grandy & Andy Morning Show" at the open of his April 13 interview.
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When Bozell -- citing the result of MRC's latest study -- noted that the total number of stories through all of 2009 on the TEA Parties registered at a paltry 19, co-host Andy Parks exclaimed, "Is that all?!"
The NewsBusters publisher then put the numbers in perspective, noting how there were 21 network news stories leading up to Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March in 1995 and 41 total stories on the pro-gun control Million Mom March of 2000.
Bozell went on to note that "up until the point of Scott Brown's victory, the TEA Party movement was absolutely just dismissed by the news media," but that after that "it was 'Katy bar the door' with personal attacks... then you just became a group of haters and racists."


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Wide receiver Dante Pettis of Junipero Serra Catholic High (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) announced on Twitter that he has committed to UW.
Pettis, listed at 6-feet-1, 170 pounds, is rated as a three-star recruit. He was also a track star for JSerra, running the 200 meters in 21.84 seconds and posting a mark of 23 feet, 7 inches in the long jump last year.
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Just over half of the Bay's restricted driver licence applicants are passing the test, compared to a success rate of 81 per cent last year. The change comes as a result of a tougher test, introduced by the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) in February this year.
The test to gain a restricted licence, which allows people to drive alone, was made more difficult as part of a plan to improve the safety of young drivers in New Zealand.
National figures released by the NZTA suggest the strategy is working, with younger drivers achieving higher pass rates than their more experienced counterparts. Sixteen-year-olds had the highest pass rate of 61 per cent, with those in the 70-74 age group generating a pass rate of 18 per cent. There were steadily declining levels of success as the ages got higher.
Katikati driving instructor Vin Allen was not surprised by the better performance of younger drivers .
"I think with the amount of traffic that's on the roads these days and the high-performance cars, everything seems to be more congested and happening faster.
"You've got to be more alert these days and kids, so long as they're trained properly, they'll pick it up quickly but the older people don't adapt to the modern ways so quickly."
Older drivers have often developed bad habits which were difficult to break, Mr Allen said.
"Before the [tougher test], people would have the attitude that Dad will train the teenager for three or four months and before they sit their restricted [test] send them to the instructor for two or three lessons. Now that's by the by because they've picked up so many bad habits, so it's so important to learn good habits from the beginning."
The NZTA recommends applicants clock up 120 hours of supervised driving practice before sitting the new restricted test.
The 120 hours should be focused training time, with the supervisor checking the driver's skills against a checklist, Mr Allen said. While applicants in the Bay of Plenty achieved a pass rate of 54 per cent between May and July this year, the total pass rate for the wider Waikato/Bay of Plenty region was 45 per cent since the new test began in February.
This compares to a low of 31 per cent in Northland, and a high of 54 per cent in Nelson/Marlborough/Tasman.
All of the South Island regions had higher pass rates than the North Island regions.
Nationwide, male drivers had a slightly higher pass rate (44 per cent) than females (42 per cent).
Road crashes are the single biggest killer of teenagers in New Zealand, and New Zealand's teen crash rates are among the worst in the developed world, says NZTA spokesman Stephen Town.
"That's a situation no one should accept, and New Zealanders are looking for decisive action to reduce this needless waste of young life and young potential. Raising the standard of driving required to gain a licence with harder tests is an essential part of the solution."


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July 16, 2007
Joe Wilson Endorses Hillary Clinton
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On a blogger call this morning (California time) Ambassador Joe Wilson endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton for President. Joe says Hillary is the best candidate to handle cleaning up the mess that Bush has made, here and internationally.
On Iraq Joe said, (as close as I can remember) that both he and Hillary agree "that troops need to be removed from harm's way, and that a political process had to be started, a process that would end the war and preserve some shred of our strategic position in the region [Middle East]." and that we need to put together a dilomatic process like we did after the first Gulf War.
He said we need to support the troops by engaging in diplomacy - that withdrawal risks plunging the region into instability.
He also said that Hillary has the best experience in fighting the right. He said she has been through the meatgrinder - one that Joe knows well now - and understands it.
(I had a great Smoking Politics BlogTalkRadio interview with Joe Wilson a couple of weeks ago.)
From the call, Taylor Marsh has more, with better quotes. Jeralyn Merrit at TalkLeft. Steve Clemons wonders how the blogosphere will react.
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Hillary is a center rightist. If you want an end to the American imperial folly, she's not your candidate. If you want actual universal health care -- and not a slick trick to keep the corporations completely involved -- she's not your candidate. If you want the obscene power of corporations reduced, she's not your candidate. If you want a fair taxation policy, she's not your candidate.
Actually, if you want any of those things, no democrat is your candidate.
Posted by: richard at July 16, 2007 1:09 PM
Richard, who would you recommend as a candidate?
Posted by: MJ at July 16, 2007 1:48 PM
I'm still not convinced that Clinton will follow a significantly different foreign policy than Bush. Sure, she will probably be better at it than President Bush, but she'll still hold on to the same basic assumptions that resulted in the Iraq disaster.
Posted by: BrightNoah at July 17, 2007 10:55 PM
If Eisenhower were alive, he'd support Hillary, too. She is, after all, a moderate Republican.
I prefer Democrats. And leaders, not poll-readers.
If, after all this time of DLC politics, all we get is the lady who won't even apologize for her Iraq vote (versus Thompson), I'll seek to draft Gore, Hope for Bloomberg as an Indie, see if Nader's available or just leave in pursuit of a civilized society.
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Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew were an American comedy team on stage and screen.
Sidney Drew (August 28, 1863 – April 9, 1919), or Mr. Sidney Drew as he was usually billed, was an uncle of actors Lionel, Ethel & John Barrymore. His origins have been the subject of much speculation. Sidney's mother Mrs. Louisa Drew said she adopted him not long after the death of her husband John Drew, Sr. in 1862. Researchers have speculated that Sidney was Mrs. Drew's biological child either from her late husband or from a love affair. It was noticed that she disappeared for some time to the country before returning to Philadelphia with baby Sidney. John Barrymore always said Sidney looked too much like Grandmother Louisa to be anyone else's child.
Sidney Drew had been a light-hearted leading man along with his wife, Gladys Rankin (ca. 1874 – January 9, 1914), the first Mrs. Sidney Drew. They entered films as a team with the old Kalem Company in 1911, but achieved greater success after their switch to Vitagraph in 1913. Gladys Rankin Drew died later that year from undisclosed causes. Sidney Drew was briefly paired with Clara Kimball Young, with whom Drew starred in the two-reel melodrama satire Goodness Gracious; or, Movies as they Shouldn't Be (1914) directed by Clara's husband James Young.[citation needed]
He remarried to Lucile McVey (1890–1925), born in Sedalia, Missouri, a Vitagraph scriptwriter who briefly went under the name Jane Morrow. Sidney Drew added his new wife to his one-reel comedies, acknowledging McVey as both a writer and co-director. As a comedy team, known as Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew, the team perfected the situation comedy style that the team of John Bunny and Flora Finch started. Their style of comedy was usually gentle satire on married life, but also poked fun at the world of show business. Sidney took sole credit as director for two five-reel features at Vitagraph, the groundbreaking cross-gender comedy A Florida Enchantment (1914), in which Edith Storey played the leading female role, and the drama Playing Dead (1915), the Drews' only attempt at a "serious" film.
In 1916, the popular team was lured to Louis B. Mayer's newly founded Metro company, where they continued to dominate in the field of marital comedy. During World War I, Sidney Drew's son, actor-director S. Rankin Drew, was killed in action. Drew never recovered from the loss. The team left Metro for personal appearances but was signed to V.B.K.. Sidney Drew died suddenly on April 9, 1919. Lucile McVey Drew died in 1925 from cancer, aged 35.
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Yet the Arab world is already traumatised by Washington's war on terror, and convulsing in expectation of a massive US military assault on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The spectacle of the Israeli defence forces laying siege to Arafat's Ramallah compound will not help subdue the fever.
Will Syria lift all constraints on the activities of Hezbollah in south Lebanon? What of the zealots in Iran's foreign policy and defence establishment, with whom Arafat appears to have established much closer ties? And who can guess at the reaction of Saddam?
Arafat's greatest strategic success over more than 30 years as Palestinian leader has been his capacity to internationalise the conflict. Sharon may help him do so again.
One immediate effect was to kill stone dead the US attempts to broker ceasefire talks. Another was to consign Saudi Arabia's peace overtures, endorsed by Arab leaders at this week's Beirut summit, to the never-never.
This, in turn, has obvious ramifications, none of them particularly helpful, for US efforts to muster regional support for a military offensive against Saddam.
The Israeli Prime Minister will argue that he was left with no alternative.
If Arafat cannot - or will not - stop the terrorist strikes against civilian targets, the Israeli military will take on that mission itself, even if it means reoccupying the Palestinian heartland.
As yesterday's gunfight with Arafat's bodyguards demonstrated, Sharon is playing with fire.
Although it is true that the old Israeli warhorse might get some measure of personal satisfaction from the notion of removing Arafat by force, given their intense mutual antagonism over the years, it is also trite to presume this is his key motivation.
Some leading figures in Arafat's inner circle, notably the chief of his General Intelligence Apparatus, Tawfik Tarawi, are likely to be targeted. But Sharon must know that the dice is loaded against him if he goes after Arafat himself.
First, it would likely shatter his coalition government, forcing Labor's departure and early elections. Second, it would breach a personal undertaking he gave to US President George Bush, thereby alienating the White House. Third, it would enrage Israel's Arab neighbours, and make it next to impossible to proceed with the Saudi peace proposal. Finally, it would leave a power vacuum in the West Bank and Gaza that extremists would rush to fill.
But in the face of the abominable terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians over the past 72 hours, no Israeli prime minister of any political stripe could afford to be seen to do nothing.
Arafat's pledge to enter ceasefire talks was too little, too late. The plain reality is that most Israelis no longer believe a word the Palestinian leader says, and Wednesday's sickening terror attack in the seaside resort of Netanya, which killed 20 Israelis and wounded 130 others during Passover festivities, was a defining moment.
For four years, Israeli intelligence officials had been urging Palestinian authorities to arrest and detain Abdel Basset Odeh. For whatever reason, Arafat and his officials wouldn't oblige.
That this known terror suspect was able to walk into a hotel restaurant and commit the worst suicide bombing since the Dolphinarium massacre is an atrocity no Israeli leader, hawk or dove, could allow to go unanswered.
This leaves Sharon and Arafat entering what may be the endgame. The scale of the crisis probably guarantees the downfall of at least one of them, perhaps both. But how many will they take down with them along the way?
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0700614516, Hardcover)During the Civil War, thirty-six officers in the Army of the Potomac were assigned corps commands of up to 30,000 men. Collectively charged with leading the Union's most significant field army, these leaders proved their courage in countless battlefields from Gettysburg to Antietam to Cold Harbor. Unfortunately, courage alone was not enough. Their often dismal performances played a major role in producing this army's tragic record, one that included more defeats than victories despite its numerical and materiel superiority.
Stephen Taaffe takes a close look at this command cadre, examining who was appointed to these positions, why they were appointed, and why so many of them ultimately failed to fulfill their responsibilities. He demonstrates that ambitious officers such as Gouverneur Warren, John Reynolds, and Winfield Scott Hancock employed all the weapons at their disposal, from personal connections to exaggerated accounts of prowess in combat, to claw their way into these important posts.
Once there, however, as Taaffe reveals, many of these officers failed to navigate the tricky and ever-changing political currents that swirled around the Army of the Potomac. As a result, only three of them managed to retain their commands for more than a year, and their machinations caused considerable turmoil in the army's high command structure. Taaffe also shows that their ability or inability to get along with generals such as George McClellan, Ambrose Burnside, Joseph Hooker, George Meade, and Ulysses Grant played a big role in their professional destinies.
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House lived up to expectations. For a large group very comfortably. There was some small hitch: the shower handle remained in his hand and the door is half smashed, but this did not affect the success of the trip! The central location then helped a lot as it allowed many moves and also is well stocked by all the services: shops, supermarkets, metro, restaurants ...
Casa all'altezza delle aspettative. Per un gruppo numeroso molto confortevole. Qualche piccolo intoppo c'è stato: la maniglia della doccia rimaneva in mano e la porta d'ingresso è mezza sfondata, ma questo non ha influito sulla buona riuscita del viaggio! La centralità della posizione poi ha aiutato parecchio in quanto ha permesso numerosi spostamenti e inoltre è ben fornito da tutti i servizi: negozi, supermercati, metro, ristoranti...
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Very good location, close to theater district, high line, several subway lines.....rooms were as expected but sofa bed not. Arrangements to get into the apartment OK. Thanks Mo.
This property needs a bit of work. Good location
Wimdu customer service was excellent. The host took a long time (worryingly so) to get in touch but the key pick up and service at the office was easy enough but it's 24 blocks south of the apartment. The apartment itself is in need of redecorating or the photos updating. The plug sockets in the kitchen trip out so we had to plug the kettle in under the dining area table! Bedsheets were old and one of my friends found a hair in the bed before she had slept in it :-( location perfect and close to delis bars restaurants and Starbucks. Water always hot for showers. Bath mat and spares would have been helpful having 7 people for one bathroom
The photo of the living room and rooms in no way corresponds to the apartment.
The heat is unbearable loud air conditioning does not compensate.
The arrival of a bed breaks; earth with mattress we slept, the living room table cassee also ... we leave in front of the open door latch lq qvec a knife (the previous tenants had left near the door !!!)
Cleanliness of the apartment questionable ....
only interest very well location
La photo du salon et des chambres ne correspond en rien a l'appartement.
Le chauffage est insupportable que la climatisation assourdissante ne compense pas.
Des l'arrivee :un lit casse ; on a dormi matelas par terre ,la table du salon cassee aussi ...on sort en devant ouvrir le loquet de lq porte qvec un couteau (que les occupants precedents ont laisse pres de la porte !!!)
Proprete de l'appart douteuse ....
seul interet emplacement tres bien
The apartment was well not very clean, but very poor communication and away, and had 4 TVs do not work no, we tried to contact daily with Wimdu and nobody solves the problem just giving lengthen.
We were 6 people and our opinion is negative at all, the attention of Wimdu and owner.
Group 6
El apartamento estaba bien no muy limpio, pero muy mala comunicación y lejos, y habia 4 televisores que no funcionan ninguna, intentamos ponernos en contacto a diario con Wimdu y nadie soluciono el problema solo dando alargas.
Fuimos 6 personas y nuestra opinion es negativa del todo, la atención de Wimdu y del propietario.
Grupo de 6
I really liked the place I selected. HOWEVER, On the day before we flew I was informed by "Mo" that the place I selected and paid for was "unavailable". He gave me the option of a VERY DIRTY APARTMENT THAT BASICALLY SUCKED ASS. There was mildew all over the bathroom. It was as if it had never been cleaned. I was there for 10 days and didn't feel clean once the entire time. There was space for six really dirty people to sleep, but GUESS WHAT? There are only two of us!!! So all the space was wasted. The TV service didn't work at all and yes, I was in NYC, but there are times I need to look at the news to see what's happening. THAT wasn't possible. There was crap left from previous tenants and I suppose from the owners of this dump. IT WAS BAIT AND SWITCH!!! I frikking hated every second I was in this stupid disease ridden dump.
Wonderful location highly recommended
Wunderbare Lage sehr empfehlenswert
Bad !!! Apartment was not ready on arrival at August 28, 2014! In the journal entry in the office were told nothing about it. Worse, we needed without requiring prior consultation had been about $ 500 damage deposit to pay via credit card. Under protest done and I have been assured that within two days of departure the $ 500 again would be credited to my account. It is now September 8, 2014 and I have Mr. Mo just by mail OUR required $ 500 deposit back.
The apartment: not finished on Friday with the "cleaning lady" (never spoken to any of the staff !!!) agreed that we got another apartment and on Friday promised to apartment would be ready 17.00. Friday was the apartment NOT ready; eventually at 19.00. That means that some walls were repainted. The cleaning lady did her best! The staff still heard nothing.
But ....... the apartment is certainly not like the (old, dated ?????) pictures suppose. The apartment was dirty, small, poorly maintained, noisy (especially on the street) and not as promised !!!! The only thing that worked was WiFi. We took pictures and in our possession. For those interested .........
We were four people and did not spoil our vacation through all the incidents but have thereby have to provide every support to together to make something of it.
Really outrageous, the apartment and the treatment by Mr. Mo (if this is his real name!).
Slecht!!! Appartement was bij aankomst op 28 augustus 2014 niet gereed! Bij het inboeken in the office werd daar niets van verteld. Erger nog, we moesten zonder dat daar vooraf overleg over was geweest $ 500 damage deposito betalen dmv de creditcard. Onder protest gedaan en mij is verzekerd dat binnen twee dagen na vertrek de $ 500 weer op mijn rekening zou zijn bijgeschreven. Het is nu 8 september 2014 en ik heb Mr. Mo zojuist per mail geëist ONZE $ 500 terug te storten.
Het appartement: niet klaar op vrijdag, met de "cleaning lady" ( nooit meer iemand van de staf gesproken!!!) afgesproken dat we een ander appartement kregen en dat op vrijdag het beloofde appartement om 17.00 uur gereed zou zijn. Vrijdag was het appartement NIET gereed; uiteindelijk wel om 19.00 uur. Dat betekent dat er enige muren opnieuw waren geschilderd. De cleaning lady heeft haar uiterste best gedaan! Van de staf nog steeds niets gehoord.
Maar....... het appartement is zeker niet zoals de (oude, gedateerde?????) foto's veronderstellen. Het appartement is vies, klein, slecht onderhouden, rumoerig (vooral aan de straatkant) en niet zoals beloofd!!!! Het enige wat werkte was WiFi. We hebben foto's genomen en in ons bezit. Voor geïnteresseerden.........
Wij waren met vier personen en wilden onze vakantie niet laten bederven door alle voorvallen maar hebben daarbij wel alle steun aan elkaar moeten verlenen om er iets van te maken.
Echt schandalig, het appartement en de behandeling door Mr. Mo ( als dit zijn echte naam is!).
Home: Arrival JFK 22h 35 midnight so on site, a person at the reception quite incompetent at 2am still in their offices to get the keys, finally obtained after waking the boss of the agency and the phone threat to call the police. My family so 2 young children, meanwhile, in the street with suitcases.
Apartment rented for 8 people, 4 bedrooms, but certainly both won on the living room, dining area by a plywood partition.
Therefore the living room was limited to less than 9 m2.
For 8 people, only 1 bathroom, tiny with the toilet inside, easy to manage for 8.
Furthermore, all in all 4 chairs, 4 glasses no towels ...
no machine, dishes or laundry.
Only reaction of the agency, lamps were changed suckled and large plastic tape has been to close off the wall on the street.
Cleanliness very limit.
In addition an amount for late arrival was taken as well as a non-recovered deposited $ 525 to date.
accueil : arrivée JFK 22h 35 donc minuit sur site, une personne à l'accueil tout à fait incompétente, à 2 h du matin toujours dans leurs bureaux pour obtenir les clefs, obtenus enfin après réveil du patron de l'agence au téléphone et menace d'appeler la police. Ma famille donc 2 jeunes enfants , pendant ce temps, dans la rue avec les valises.
Appartement loué pour 8 personnes, 4 chambres, certes mais deux gagnées sur le salon, salle à manger par une cloison de contreplaqué.
De ce fait la pièce à vivre se limitait à moins de 9 m2.
Pour 8 personnes, 1 seule salle de bain, minuscule avec les toilettes à l'intérieur,facile à gérer pour 8.
Par ailleurs, en tout et pour tout 4 chaises, 4 verres pas de torchons …
aucune machine, vaisselle ou linge.
Seule réaction de l'agence, des lampes ont tété changées et du gros scotch plastique a été mis pour obturer le mur sur la rue.
État de propreté très limite.
Qui plus est un montant pour arrivée tardive a été prélevé de même qu'un déposait de 525 $ non récupéré à ce jour.
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1. In the chapter "A Curious Tale for Countess Amberglass" we learn of the tradition of the night tea in Camorr. I found that not so much fantastical as realistic – how about you?
I really love these details that flesh out the world. It shows that there is life outside of the main arc of the story and the author has put in a lot of work into imagining all aspects of this world.
2. When Jean meets with what will become the Wicked Sisters for the first time, the meeting is described very much like how people feel when they find their true work or home. Agree? Disagree? Some of both?
It does sound like Jean has found his true love. I was pretty surprised how fast Jean picked up using the Wicked Sisters and how natural he was at fighting though.
3. Salt devils. Bug. Jean. The description is intense. Do you find that description a help in visualizing the scene? Do you find yourself wishing the description was occasionally – well – a little less descriptive?
I don't mind descriptive scenes, as long as it's not redundant or too flowery. I think the description Lynch used for the scene was spot on. It added to the tension and sense of danger that the gang faced in that situation and made it that much more exciting.
4. This section has so much action in it, it's hard to find a place to pause. But…but.. oh, Locke. Oh, Jean. On their return to the House of Perelandro, their world is turned upside down. Did you see it coming?
Let just say I made the mistake of reading some discussion threads which spoiled the surprise. Anyway I would never have guessed it coming in a million years. It's fitting but I would like see that GBs together for a few more novels.
5. Tavrin Callas's service to the House of Aza Guilla is recalled at an opportune moment, and may have something to do with saving a life or three. Do you believe Chains knew what he set in motion? Why or why not?
Chains wanted the boys to be prepared for all kinds of situations. He might not know exactly what mess the GBs will get into but at least he gave them a good foundation.
6. As Locke and Jean prepare for Capa Raza, Dona Vorchenza's remark that the Thorn of Camorr has never been violent – only greedy and resorting to trickery – comes to mind again. Will this pattern continue?
Well Locke learnt his lesson at a young age and he swore that he will never get anyone killed because of his schemes. So I don't think he will hurt anyone unless they deserve it.
7. Does Locke Lamora or the Thorn of Camorr enter Meraggio's Countinghouse that day? Is there a difference?
I don't think there is a difference between the two. Both the actions of lying and conning are so ingrained in Locke that he can't simply just be himself. The Thorn of Camorr will always live on in Locke.


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Rounding out the report was the workweek holding at a revised 34.2 hours and hourly earnings climbing a modest 0.2%, which left earnings on a nonseasonally adjusted year-over-year basis rising at 3.2% -- a notable deceleration from the trends seen last year.
In the various sectors, jobs in goods producing industries dropped 23,000 due mostly to another 19,000 decline in manufacturing jobs. Despite the decline, this figure suggests that labor market trends in factories are continuing to improve.
Private service industries jobs rose a healthy 50,000, led by another healthy 25,000 gain in help-supply services. Finally, government payrolls rose a relatively modest 14,000.
Overall, while the benchmark revisions back to 1997 for the establishment data make for a more challenging read, the report on the whole continues to support the view that the rebounding economy continues to slow job attrition. S&P MMS says it would focus on the fact that payrolls hit a new post-attack level, manufacturing and related help-services continue to rebound, and the unemployment rate revealed a surprising drop. Nonetheless, the figures are non-threatening from the perspective of the Fed.
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o2 crapped after motor rebuild..
so i am getting o2 codes for either efficency or something:( ill post tommorrow morning when i scan with scan gauge.. i have emissions testing due in end of august..... i know everyone says oem but are these 4.7 that finicky on o2.? i called dealer they quoted me almost 200 each. i went to mopar website and they say 80....do i chance it or have to bite bullet. and go dealer,:mad:, or did a fuse pop?:confused: i remember some cars have fuses for o2 but idk if jeep does...
Re: o2 crapped after motor rebuild..
The O2 sensors on the Jeeps are from Denso, so you could look for those. The Bosch ones give problems due to the longer heatup time.
Depending on which emission system your Jeep has, there is (are) one or 2 fuse(s) in the PDC for the O2 heaters.
OK ill look
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0159 0141 0161. my codes
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Re: o2 crapped after motor rebuild..
Indeed all O2 sensor related.
P0141 = Heater performance bank1
P0159 = Slow response bank 2
P0161 = Heater performance bank 2
There is a common fuse in the PDC, fuse 16, for the O2 heaters. For the downstream sensors there is also a relay in the PDC and seems that for some models that there is even a relay for the upstream sensors.
Would not expect both sensors to be bad at the same time, maybe a wire damaged or just the fuse blown?
well coolant was leaking.into #8 and burning it so its either that or.any wires that run along passenger head area
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fuse and relay are OK.
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so I'm doing this fix this weekend . I know its gonna be.a 50/50 if its a cat issue.or o2 issues. now that I posted my codes how many o2 sensors do I have? I found carquest sells denso.60-70 each. for upstream and 90 each downstream ... looking at my codes which ones would I need? both on right side or all 4? if there are four ....
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Re: o2 crapped after motor rebuild..
I'd at least change both front and rear on the #8 side. Antifreeze seems to take them out every time.
both front? there are two on the.pre cat and.one after cat? if so holy crap. ill do all "4" if they exist per carquest
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Re: o2 crapped after motor rebuild..
Depending on the emission package your jeep has, there are some options. But as Dave says, start changing the bank 2 upstream and downstream sensors and see what it does.
OK will do
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Re: Does KDR Depict Skill level??
Re: Does KDR Depict Skill level??
Yes, but there are many factors and variables that easily make it pointless. But there is never a great player with terrible stats. In my opinion the best way to determine their skill level is when you either play with or against and judge on that particular matter.
Re: Does KDR Depict Skill level??
KDR can only really be a measure of either:
1. How much someone has quit
2. How much luck people had running into lesser opponents
It is never a measure of how good someone is, my KDR is okay, BUT... I always have a party that has my back so they save me from many deaths I would have had if I was lone wolfing it. There is the fact that I enjoy playing with my buddies but that isn't really the debate here.
Back to KDR. Those with a lower KDR will improve so you'd start off with a low poor KDR and get better over time so in that case your KDR does not represent how you are as a player.
In my case.
I stopped playing as much so I'm way out of sync with the game I'm even pressing square to reload.. LOL even though my KDR is kinda somewhat decent, my skills are on a pretty low set so that doesn't represent my KDR either.
KDR is not important because skills fluctuate for whatever reason be that improvement or getting worse.
Re: Does KDR Depict Skill level??
In my opinion, you can usually expect people with a good kdr to be tough opponents. But that doesn't mean they do well in every single game.
No matter how good your ratio is though, if someone else did better in the match, he did better. No high ratio will change anything about that and using it to show off is just stupid.
Re: Does KDR Depict Skill level??[ Edited ]
I have a guy on my friends list with a 4.3 KDR in Uncharted 2 and 7.10 KDR in Uncharted 3.
I also have a guy there with a 2.2 KDR in Uncharted 2 and 3.05 KDR in Uncharted 3.
Let´s just say the 2.2 KDR guy is about 12 times better than the 4.3 KDR guy.
This is just one example but hope that answers your question.
Re: Does KDR Depict Skill level??
No, KDR does not depict skill level.
1. Since all those Plunder kills where I got killed because I PLAYED THE OBJECTIVE don't mean I'm a bad player.
2. I let my friends (who are terrible at the game) play on my account.
3. Everyone's bad (to a certain extent) when they start out playing the game, you get better with time.
and let's not forget all the stupid deaths this game throws at you, lag, shotgun AK's, you know the deal.
I don't really play Uncharted 3 much anymore...
Re: Does KDR Depict Skill level??
Not really.
Those with low KD's don't even bother using the whack n roll, but that's mostly splitscreeners.
Those with higher KD's are more likely to use ROF, QB, PW kickbacks and find it hard to aim the KAL.
Re: Does KDR Depict Skill level??[ Edited ]
Somewhat. People with 1 KDRs seem to be on the same skill level. People with 2 KDR and 3 KDR can tend to be just as good as eachother. People with a KDR of 3 tend to be better than the ones with 2 though. But when it comes to 4 and above, the skill level doesnt really change that much. 4 - 10 KDR are pretty much the same, then there are exceptions with the people that stat quit immensely and have a KDR of like 7 but play like they would have a 2.
And dont try to outscore me in public TDMs, u wont succeed


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The NJ Devils rallied past the NY Rangers, 3-2, to tie the Eastern Conference finals at one game a piece.
After their surprising 3 goal shut-out win over the Devils in Game 1, the Rangers returned to the tight, see-saw scoring games that characterized their seven game series wins over the Ottawa Senators and then later the Washington Capitals.
The Devils scored first on a power play goal by their leading scorer Ilya Kovalchuk.
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David Clarkson gave the Devils a 3-2 lead two and a half minutes into the third period, and the Devils' 40 year old all-star goalie Martin Brodeur shut out the Rangers the rest of the way as the Devils tied the cross-Hudson Eastern Conference Finals at one game a piece.
The Rangers continued the pattern they established in the first two post-season series at Madison Square Garden, winning the opener, then losing Game 2.
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