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For coyotes, groundhogs, and rock chucks, I recommend a CZ 527 in .223. For prairie dogs, you'll need a heavy barrel for heat dissipation. Again I recommend a .223; low recoil and inexpensive if you don't reload.
This is a discussion on Varmint rifle??? within the Defensive Rifles & Shotgun Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; What would you consider an all-around varmint gun?? My son is taking an interest in shooting coyotes, prairie dogs, etc. and I need to look ...
What would you consider an all-around varmint gun??
My son is taking an interest in shooting coyotes, prairie dogs, etc. and I need to look at something that will get him a little bit farther out than his .22, something like a scoped .223, 22/250 or the like.
For coyotes, groundhogs, and rock chucks, I recommend a CZ 527 in .223. For prairie dogs, you'll need a heavy barrel for heat dissipation. Again I recommend a .223; low recoil and inexpensive if you don't reload.
Honestly i would say for an all arround .2## cal go with a good ar platform , and a conversion kit .. cheap plinking and learning the manual of arms , and with a mid weight barrell it will shoot well further than most folks can hold , look especialy at the " flat top " uppers maby with a bolt on " luggage handle "
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My varmint rifle is a Ruger 77 MkII in .223. Light rifle and plenty accurate enough - tho as a side note, my Contender in 223 is actually a tighter grouper at 100 yds!!!
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223 is the only way to go if ammo cost is a consideration.
For coyotes I would use a .220 swift.
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how far out is question 223 is good but i would go with 22-250
very good recommendation on the CZ !
Now... depending on game and reach.... how about the caliber ! If you don't reload the .223 is great.
But if you do.....22-250 or even a ... .17 remington.
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If the .22 isnt quite enough the .223 will be your round of choice, imo!
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I've got a Howa m1500 thumbhole varminter and I'm really pleased with it... Howa makes the actions for the remington model 700 so it's basically a remington 700.... Its a bolt action with a 5 round internal magazine... With the cheapest ammo you can buy from wal-mart, my gun shoots about 1moa..... As far as cost goes, I got mine with the stainless bullbarrel and the thumbhole stock for around $650 (msrp is $842)... If you get a blued barrel its about $110 cheaper and the non thumbhole stock will save a little money too... Heres a link to their website with all the different configurations they have for the gun, including what rounds you can get them chambered in and MSRP: http://www.legacysports.com/howa/index.htm (scroll down and click on #6, Supreme Rifles)... They have other rifles you might want to look at but I don't have any experience with them, though I'm sure they're fine... I wouldn't hesitate to buy another one of their rifles, I'm really pleased with it.
the big question is how far you going to shoot? Coyote hunting in my neck of the woods rarely gives me more than a 200 yd shot, I use a .223, a Rem. LTR. If I needed more distance, I'd opt for a 22-250. That would give me a whole lot more range.
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At realistic ranges of 100y-250y, I would use a .223. At 250-400y I would go with a .22-250. Anything above that I would use a .243, or 25-06, and up.
These are not best cartrages, but most avalible. If you plan to reload there is lots of great options.
I think the best "all around" is a toss-up between .223 and .22-250. The .22-250 gives better range, and a more clean kill. But the recoil wont let you see where you need to correct your scope withought a spotter, or muzzle break. Honestly, when I went varmint hunting I grabbed my .223 more than the .22-250. But thats just me.
How about the fur? do you intend on harvesting the pelts? That plays a big role in cartridge selection....


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Guests availing themselves of the hotel's summertime shuttle-boat service to two partner hotels, The Westin Excelsior and Hotel Des Bains, on Lido island, might recognize Hotel Des Bains because Luchino Visconti filmed his celebrated Death in Venice at the hotel.
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Amenity highlights:
In summer the hotel provides complimentary shuttle-boat services to two partner hotels on the Lido, the slender island that is Venice's beach and water sports centre. Two terraces on the waterfront offer panoramic views of the Grand Canal, St Mark's Basin to which the canal connects, and Santa Maria della Salute church on the canal's opposite side. One terrace fronts the hotel's fine-dining restaurant; the other fronts the hotel bar.
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The lobby and public rooms of The Westin Europa and Regina exemplify the hotel's opulent 17th- and 18th-century style. Grey, white, and red marble run throughout, from the beamed-ceiling reception area to a large relaxation salon with a high, molded-stucco ceiling, giant Murano-glass chandelier, gilded chairs, and damask couches.
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LQ woman found guilty for horrific killing of her daughter
INDIO, Calif. - A La Quinta woman who tortured and fatally beat her 3-year-old daughter after abusing the toddler and an older daughter for months was convicted today of first-degree murder and other charges.
Yolanda Guadalupe Pena, 43, was convicted of one count each of murder, torture, assaulting a child causing great bodily injury and inflicting injury on a child. The latter count relates to a daughter who was 12 at the time.
Jurors deliberated for three days before reaching a verdict, and Pena sat with her head bowed as it was read.
She was scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 6, and faces up to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Pena was arrested June 30, 2009, in connection with her youngest daughter's death.
The toddler, Delilah Urrutia, suffered head trauma, second-degree burns on her face, neck, chest, back and arms, cuts and bruises, and lost parts of three fingers, according to police and prosecutors. She died of blunt force trauma to the head, according to the coroner's office.
The youngster was dead when authorities arrived at the family's home in the 44000 block of Vista Dunes Lane about 10:15 p.m. June 25, 2009, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.
``This was not an accident -- this was cold-blooded murder,'' Deputy District Attorney Lisa DiMaria told jurors in her closing argument Wednesday. ``It was intentional, it was deliberate, and at the hands of that depraved woman who gave birth to her.''
Pena told one of her two older daughters to pour hot water on Delilah for alleged misbehavior while the defendant was at work, causing burns over more than 30 percent of the child's body, according to DiMaria. When she got home, Delilah looked at her -- which was not allowed -- ``and that set her off,'' the prosecutor said.
``The defendant proceeded at that point to beat that little girl's brains out. She threw her against the wall, used a high-heeled shoe. ... (Pena's older daughters) said the defendant continued to hit Delilah in the head at least 20 times,'' DiMaria said.
Pena then stuffed a stocking in Delilah's mouth, put a stocking over her head, bound her wrists and ankles and put her in a plastic bin ``like trash,'' the prosecutor said. Pena put the bin in a closet and left home with her older daughter to visit her best friend.
When they found Delilah dead later that night, her arms were up at 90- degree angles ``because that is the way rigor mortis set her arms as she died in that plastic coffin,'' DiMaria told the jury.
According to the District Attorney's Office, Pena had an affair while married and her then-12-year-old daughter -- who Pena also abused -- told her father about it, leading to the breakup of the marriage.
``Pena blamed Delilah, who was fathered by the man with whom Pena had an affair, for why she never reconciled with her former husband,'' according to the District Attorney's Office.
DiMaria said Delilah and her older sister would sometimes sit in the bathtub while hot and cold water was poured over them. Other times, Delilah was tied up in the plastic bin and put in a closet, with her mouth duct-taped, or tied up in the bathtub for days at a time, DiMaria alleged.
Pena allegedly told the daughter who hadn't been abused that she would be punished, too, unless she reported her sisters' misdeeds to the defendant, the prosecutor said.
Pena's attorney, Thomas Cavanaugh, told jurors the case was ``heartbreaking'' and there was abuse in the household. But he urged jurors to follow the law, not their emotions.
He argued that Pena's best friend told the older daughter to pour the hot water on Delilah, and the older girl said she had no contact with her mother while she was at work.
``Those burns were inflicted without (the older daughter) speaking to my client, Ms. Pena, that day,'' Cavanaugh said in his closing argument.
The older daughter said Delilah ran into a wall, and it's likely she hit her head on the floor more than once ``fleeing from her sister,'' Cavanaugh said. ``By the time (Pena) got home, this child was in a very bad way.''
He said Pena did not get medical help for Delilah, and there was no excuse for that. But, he said, ``those head injuries were caused before Ms. Pena got home'' and Delilah's other injuries that day were not given at her mother's direction.
``She did not inflict the injuries that caused her child's death,'' he said. `` ... There are big questions about that day and a lack of forensic evidence.''
He also said there was no evidence of injuries to the two older daughters, and asked that jurors consider manslaughter instead of murder.


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So what about the so-called beneficial ingredients this mask contains? Ginkgo biloba and Chinese barley extracts are touted as the star ingredients, but, in truth, there is only a mere dusting of them in this formula—both are listed after the alcohol and the fragrance on the ingredient list, and neither can affect the fat content of the skin when applied topically, and there isn't a shred of published research to the contrary.
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Alcohol in skin-care products causes dryness and free-radical damage, and impairs the skin's ability to heal. The irritation it causes damages healthy collagen production and can stimulate oil production at the base of the pore, making oily skin worse (Sources: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, May 2012, pages 1410–1419; Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, January 2011, pages 83–90; "Skin Care—From the Inside Out and Outside In," Tufts Daily, April 1, 2002; eMedicine Journal, May 8, 2002, volume 3, number 5, www.emedicine.com; Cutis, February 2001, pages 25–27; Contact Dermatitis, January 1996, pages 12–16; and http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh27-4/277-284.htm).
Clarins' comforting cream-mousse—with an exclusive blend of Chinese barley and gingko biloba—relieves puffiness and roundness due to fluid retention caused by sleep, heat, stress or time of month. Use with Clarins' 2-minute Manual Auto-Lifting Method for facial contours that are instantly refined, defined, tightened and brighter.
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Clarins is a distinctively French line whose beginnings go back to 1954. It was then that founder Jacques Courtin-Clarins began formulating plant-based treatments for his clients. He parlayed this into a Beauty Institute, and from there, with an all-natural mantra that was slightly ahead of its time, the business grew. Never wavering from its original marketing angle, Clarins has steadfastly held on to the belief that whatever grows from the ground and smells nice must be the cure for every skin ailment, from breakouts to loss of firmness to the dreaded "sponginess" of cellulite. A visit to today's white- and red-trimmed Clarins counter confirms that the plant-based, natural-extract rhetoric is still intact, and the counter staff is eager to discuss it (yet ask them what some of the non-plant, unnatural ingredients are doing in their products and you may be met with a blank stare).
You'll also find that Clarins routinely offers facial appointments at their counters, yet more often than not these appointments, which are done behind a privacy screen, are about selling products, not about performing a legitimate facial. (For example, cleansing, toning, and facial massage are included, while extractions are not.) One other point of difference you may hear about is the Clarins Anti-Pollution Complex. First added to their products in 1991, this Complex consists of a group of plant extracts — though what they may be is a mystery, since all manner of plant extracts show up in these products, with few repeats. This "high-performing" protection is supposed to shield skin from pollutant gases, corrosive particles, and industrial emissions. Although that sounds good, it's not true and there isn't a shred of proof to the contrary (Clarins research is unpublished). Plant extracts, alone or in combination — regardless of the remote locations they may come from — cannot keep pollution off the skin. If anything, the amount of fragrance in these products can weaken the skin's defense mechanisms, resulting in more damage from the pollution our skin encounters daily.
This line is enormous, and is absolutely one of the most cumbersome around. Within it, the assortment of plant extracts ranges from the usual to the exotic and ultimately to the no-one-knows-what-in-the-heck-these-are! Clarins has something for every skin concern imaginable—from keeping pollution off the face (not possible) to lifting a sagging jaw line (not possible without surgery), and even protecting skin from electromagnetic waves (give me a break). It would seem there is nothing these supposedly miraculous products can't do! And you'll find a horde of plants here with the promise that this can really all come true.
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- Ground Ginger, as desired (cover pork with)
- Italian Seasoning, 1/2 tsp (cover pork with)
- Any type of pasta will do, but I used spaghetti with my dish
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil for sauteeing veggies- to your discretion
1. Cut up all of your veggies and add onion & garlic to a frying pan with enough EVOO to cover the bottom. Cut up your peppers and put in a bowl off to the side. Chop up your pork loin chops into bite-sized pieces (I did it by slicing the pork loin diagonally into semi-thick strips, and then chopped those up into bite sized pieces so it cooks faster), add your spices and set aside. Start your pasta if you don't have day-old pasta (start boiling water). If you have day-old pasta in a pot, cover it up and put on low heat so it heats up nicely.
2. Sautee the onion and garlic til translucent, add peppers and cook til they start to "wilt" a bit (not too much! You still want a little bit of crunch). Add the pork and cook til thoroughly cooked. You can also set it on a lower heat to let it simmer down a bit and cook on its own.
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Canadian country music artist who signed with Mercury Records in 1995. That same year, she released her debut album. It went platinum as did the 1996 release of "Just the Same" and the 1998 album, "How I Feel." She married her tour manager, Greg Kaczor, on September 17, 2005 in the Canadian Rockies.
- Work : Prize 1995 (Top new female country artist by Billboard magazine)
- Work : Contracts, agreements 1995 (With Mercury Records)
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- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Country-Western (Singer)
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Revelations that the great Hillsborough cover-up has been broken, that at last there will be full exposure of attempts to obscure the detail of how and why 96 innocent people died more than 23 years ago, will create both expectancy and hope when relatives of the victims hear the first details of a report that we are told is exhaustive at Liverpool Cathedral this morning.
The expectancy is of the first proper accounting of the negligence and the inefficiency of the police and the emergency services which were so apparent to anyone who was present when a football field turned, on an afternoon of spring sunshine, into a killing field.
The hope is that is that for first time we will hear on official lips the word sorry.
A report that includes evidence of the doctoring of witness statements cannot bring back a single life of those lost so carelessly but it can make those relatives who have carried their hurt for so long feel that the fate of their loved ones has, finally, been recognised for what it was - not some unstoppable chain of misadventure, but a gross failure by those entrusted with the safety of the people.
You do not need to have lost a relative to feel this so intensely. It was sufficient to walk out on that field - as I did on that terrible afternoon - when there was no sight of an ambulances but just desperate pockets of fans fighting to save so many lives which were ebbing away before their eyes.
They were, presumably, these fans improvising stretchers out of advertising hoardings, the same ones who were accused of urinating on ambulance men and robbing the dead. Of all the lies and evasions of responsibility that day these were the most outrageous, and have inevitably lingered most poisonously, but the big and central one was that most blame could be attached to hooligan behaviour.
The report of Lord Taylor placed the burden of blame on the failures of the police - and no-one who was present to see the nightmare unfold could argue with that. Yet 21 years on, we still wait for that official atonement. We still wait for the word sorry.
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Data regarding risk stratification of patients undergoing airway stenting for malignant airway obstruction is limited. We aimed to investigate correlation of survival with Medical Research Council (MRC) Dyspnea scale, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance measures, Zubrod, and American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) scores in patients undergoing airway stenting for malignant airway obstruction.
The study involved a retrospective analysis of all patients with complex malignant airway obstruction undergoing stenting over a two-year period (2007–2008) at our institution. SPSS 16.0 and Microsoft Excel were used to analyze the data. Statistical analysis was performed using Pearson Correlation and T-tests.
Stents were deployed in 41 patients. Successful patency of the airway was achieved in all patients with no procedure related mortality. Complications included mucous plugging (14%), tumor ingrowth (10%), and stent migration (2%). The pre and postoperative MRC scores were 3.46 and 2.39 (mean change = 1.07, p < 0.0001). The pre and postoperative ECOG scores were 3.36 and 2.21 (mean change = 1.15, p < 0.0001). Mean survival was 107 days. The overall 3- and 6-month survival was 44% and 22% respectively. Using Pearson Correlation (df = ± 0.257), preoperative MRC (r = −0.37) and ECOG (r = −0.40) scores significantly achieved negative correlation with survival. Correlation between survival and preoperative ASA (r = −0.16) and Zubrod scores (r = −0.137) were not significant. Similarly, age did not significantly correlate with survival (r = 0.05).
Our group of patients had very high pre-operative MRC and ECOG scores. We achieved significant improvement in both these performance measures after airway stenting. Further, high pre-operative MRC and ECOG scores accurately correlated with worse survival in these patients.
Airway stenting for malignant obstruction provides significant palliation of symptoms based on objective parameters such as MRC Dyspnea scale and ECOG score. It would also appear that early intervention, before significant deterioration has occurred in performance status, improves survival in this group of patients.
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Peter and Katie should grin and bear it
One of my mum friends split up with her husband when their son was small. Even though she often felt angry and bitter towards him – particularly when he had a 'new' family with the woman he left her for – they always stayed civil in front of their little boy, particularly for important events like birthday parties.
According to reports this morning Peter Andre has now banned Katie Price from the party he is holding to celebrate their daughter's second birthday. I do hope this isn't true, and they can put their differences aside for one special day for her sake.
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I agree. You HAVE to be nice to each other for the sake of the kids. If you once loved each other enough to marry and have children, you should be able to find it in your heart to respect each other and remain friends if it ends. Shouldn't you?
Yes totally – I just read that Pete has denied it on twitter so at least he's being a grown-up
I find it such a shame that something that seemed so perfect has gone so badly wrong. Please – think of the kids first…
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Photos: 2016 60th Anniversary Special Edition Yamaha R1
If you'd have asked us last week if Yamaha's 2015 R1 could get any better, we'd have said no.
Of course, before then we hadn't seen photos of Josh Hayes' and Cameron Beaubier's Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha R1 superbikes painted up in a special yellow-and-black livery for the final round of the 2015 MotoAmerica championship. Yeah, as it turns out, the R1 is even better with a little history painted on its fairings. We'll take two, please...
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Road to Frisco was a series of short trips
FRISCO, Texas -- North Dakota State senior tight end Garrett Bruhn said he remembers questions following last year's Bison title concerning motivation to do it again. He said the players took just one week off and were back in weight training mode in mid-January.
"One thing that was talked about, will there be a drop off?" Bruhn said. "We went back to work and since then, we have a close group of guys who haven't let up on the gas."
Linebacker Grant Olson said the road back to Frisco was more of series of short trips, meaning the season was all about playing each game as if it were the most important one of the season.
"We're very proud of how we got here," Olson said. "Not just the fact that we did get here but how we got here. I think we did it the right way with a great group of young men and I'm very proud to be one of them."
Bohl said he did his best to recall what former Nebraska head coach Tom Osborne did when the Cornhuskers were in back-to-back national championship games when Bohl was a Nebraska assistant.
"So we tried to instill that in a lot of those practices, points of emphasis," he said. "There's a whole lot to do before we establish a legacy but anytime a program goes back-to-back, you begin to elevate your program to a different realm. Tomorrow is about a great opportunity to win a national championship but another opportunity for us to potentially go back to back."
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The second consecutive trip to Frisco didn't mean it was less glamorous for the Bison, head coach Craig Bohl said. He paid tribute to the Frisco organizing committee and the NCAA in his Friday press conference.
"Many times, you go to something the first time and you think it's phenomenal," Bohl said. "Then the experience the second time is not quite as exciting. That's not been the case."
NDSU, despite holding the No. 1 seed in the playoffs, will be the visiting team this year as the result of losing a coin flip. Since arriving in Frisco on Wednsday, there appeared to be no major distractions.
"I think you're going to see a heck of a game tomorrow," Bohl said.
NDSU to honor Izzy with helmet decal
NDSU Director of Sports Medicine Scott Woken had 500 buttons for former players and staff to honor a legendary Bison sports figure in Denis Isrow. He didn't have many "Izzy" buttons left by the time NDSU finished its Friday football practice.
The longtime athletic trainer and staff member died in December, just a day after NDSU defeated Georgia Southern in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision semifinals.
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NDSU players will be wearing an "Izzy" decal on the back of their helmets today in the FCS title game against Sam Houston State (Texas). The Bison coaches will have a decal on their shirts.
Bohl said Friday he drew on Isrow's knowledge of previous NDSU head coaches from time to time. Bohl presented the game ball from the South Dakota State playoff win to Isrow, who was in the hospital.
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Welcome, Apprentice, to the SpellCraft School of Magic!
As a student of our school you will harvest exotic ingredients, brew sorcerous spells and journey into the endless depths of a deadly dungeon! Defeat fearsome monsters, discover valuable treasures and use magical artifacts to boost your powers!
There are over one hundred monsters to battle and forty spells to create and cast! Customize your character with a hundred different clothes and accessories! Find and nurture magical pets like cats, dogs, and an owl! You can even challenge your friends to wizarding duels!
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Yes. I know that it was easier to create spells back then. They probably lowered the amount to make the game more challenging. Like Most Games are. We get through the game too quickly with the high amount of spells.
Then with the "impossible gems" I saw when I was scrolling through the reviews. I had a minimum of 100 gems and I did' buy them. You get your chance on the student bonus, leveling up, and new dungeons to get gems(though that gnome annoys me). The reviewer only wants quick and easy gems that a gift card can easily fix.
Lastly, the "super long growing time". I like to think of that as the game saying, "Do something to occupy yourself for the next two hours. Don't play the game all day.". I guess that the lavanut and fireplum(forgot the last few names) could be shortened on time, but I think all these are perfectly acceptable.
At least this isn't worse.
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Great game, but 3 things. A, is the Breaking Bad achievement even possible with ordinary reflexes? Related, others are complaining you're only getting 3-4 spells each time you make one, instead of 6-8. Changing that would make growing ingredients far less tedious. Check their complaints as well. B, when you go to the magic cauldron to mix spells, a spell for which you have all the ingredients will have the message "You have all the" below it, with a green check mark to the right. Why is that last word missing? Please fix the message! C, the magic meter seems completely pointless, as it recovers too fast to have any hope of emptying it. Why in blazes is it even there? D, the message you get upon entering the Arcadian Ruins misspells "serenade" as "seranade", and there's probably more typos I missed.
Ok. I love the game and everything about it except for the lil' gnome in the Loot Slot thingy at the end of levels. At first, I just giggled when the gnome came, but it's getting really annoying. It takes me HOURS to get through ONE DUNGEON, only to get 10 EP at the end because of the gnome taking everything. I wouldn't complain but when..
1. I have to spend hours just to grow plants to make spells
2. Getting spells is way too hard when I rarely get 4+, so 3 spells is NOT enough to even get through one group of monsters.
3. "Just buy spells and plants with gems!" Gems/Coins are impossible to get and the gnome takes the 8+ gems I win in the Loot. Besides, I'm too busy spending my Gems/Coins buying an upgrading plant spaces so I can get more than 1 plant.
So when you put time and money into getting through a dungeon, you should be able to get lots of rewards, not 1 gem and a gnome that takes everything else. Oh, a gnome popped up, wanna spend gems to keep everything? Oh wait! You don't have a lot because the gnome took the ones you obtained in the last dungeon. Wanna keep one item? Take the $hittest item you obtained and struggle even more on the next level because you can't afford anything.
Seriously, Ik the gnome is there to make it harder, but it ruins the excitement of beating a dungeon...Get. Rid. Of. IT!
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A controller reports an overload when he or she feels they are having to deal with too many planes in too short a space of time.
A National Air Traffic Services (Nats) spokeswoman confirmed that 30 overload reports were filed from January to the end of May this year, compared with 12 in the same period last year.
She said there was no risk to safety but that the increased number of reports was due to controllers being encouraged to give feedback on the new system.
"The new system at Swanwick has only been open since January and we want to encourage people to report back," she added.
"It gives us an idea of where there are problem areas and how to improve procedures and safety, inevitably.
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Air traffic controllers also complained, in January, that the new computer screens at Swanwick were hard to read because the letters and numbers were so small they sometimes could not tell them apart.
The Health and Safety Executive raised the issue and this week MPs were told that software changes to make the screens easier to read were not expected to be introduced until November. The announcement came as it was confirmed that the Government was preparing to put a further £65 million into the part-privatised Nats to help it through its financial crisis.
Nats chief executive Richard Everitt told the Commons Transport Committee on Tuesday that software improvements had been drawn up, but that every controller at the £623 million centre in Hampshire would be consulted before they were introduced. He said the problem had no impact on safety and denied reports that it had led to planes being sent to the wrong altitude or even the wrong destination.
Mr Everitt said: "I don't believe the fonts issue is a safety issue. It's something we can improve and we now think we know how to improve it. The objective is to change it in November, or before that if possible."
The committee heard that Nats and BAA had reached preliminary agreement on a cash injection of £50-65 million into the service by the airport operator.
Aviation minister David Jamieson confirmed that the Government was ready to match any investment by BAA, bringing the total new money to as much as £130million.
Both the minister and Mr Everitt said BAA had not sought any concessions from the Government on airport expansion in return for the cash.
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text: On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 01:12:09PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:38:51AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> 2) JSON data that is deeply nested sucks because objects are turned into >>> dictionaries so you have to write things like: >>> >>> package['listings']['F-8']['people']['toshio']['acls']['commit']['status'] >>> >>> to get the status of a person's acls on a package. >> >> When writing zmugfs I used simplejson.loads(rsp, object_hook=create_tree) >> where create_tree is an object creation method. The other option >> is to change the depth of the object returned. >> > This sounds interesting. How do you tell which dictionaries can be turned > into objects and which must remain dictionaries? Or does your create_tree > method have special knowledge of the data being returned? The create_tree in this example knows that it is building a Tree. I also have a create_album which creates an Album. It isn't generic at all, but it does offer a way to return objects from json responses quite easily. -- jesus m. rodriguez | jesusr redhat com sr. software engineer | irc: zeus red hat network | 919.754.4413 (w) rhce # 805008586930012 | 919.623.0080 (c) +-------------------------------------------+ | "Those who cannot learn from history | | are doomed to repeat it." | | -- George Santayana | +-------------------------------------------+


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Chris Brown Host All-Star Celebrity BBall Game in ATL [Photo] [Video]
During the Hip-Hop Award Weekend in ATL, Chris Brown gathered friends, Waka Flocka Flame, Shawty Lo, Roscoe Dash, and Nelly and hit the court to play against ATL's Hot 107.9 at Morehouse College.
Brezzy's team wore t-shirts from his own Black Pyramid line and backstage, Terrence J interviewed team captain Nelly for "E! News." Check it out below!


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Explore Claremont, California
Commuter train service to Claremont is provided by Metrolink from the Claremont Metrolink Station. The station is on the San Bernardino Line with trains traveling to Los Angeles and San Bernardino several times each day.
Did you know there are other cities named Claremont?
Claremont, North Carolina
Claremont, New Hampshire
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