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Corvallis, Ore. » Utah coach Greg Marsden said earlier in the week he wasn't worried about the gymnasts he had in his beam lineup, believing they would work through their small mistakes to make the event one of the Utes' best. On Friday, his gymnasts rewarded his belief in them with a victory.
Protecting just a .5 lead going into the final rotation, the second-ranked Utes produced one of their best beam sets of the year to beat No. 11 Oregon State 197.05-196.65 in front of 3,789 at Gill Coliseum.
The season-high score for Utah (3-1) came thanks to a clutch performance on the balance beam, where the Utes earned a 49.15 to hold off the Beavers (6-2) and dash their hopes of their first win against Utah since 2003. Utah's victory ended Oregon State's home winning streak at six meets, dating back to Utah's last win here in 2007.
Knowing Oregon State hadn't lost at home since then added even more pressure on the Utes as they tried to win the meet on beam, junior Annie DiLuzio said.
"They haven't lost here since my freshman year and knowing they were that good at home, that made it intimidating," she said. "We knew we had to hang in there and pull it out on beam and that's what we did."
Utah's Kyndal Robarts, in her first performance in competition this season, scored a career-high 9.875 on the event to start the Utes off well.
Jamie Deetscreek matched that effort as did Daria Bijak to be the Utes' top scorers in the rotation.
"I didn't even know how close it was," Robarts said. "I was just happy to be in the lineup and I knew we had to do a good job to keep ourselves ahead."
Utah handled the pressure and Oregon State's small but noisy crowd well with a performance that pleased Marsden as much as any this year.
"This is a very tough place to come and compete," he said. "Their fans are educated, and they knew what was going on and to come in and win the meet on beam is a very hard thing."
The meet was close from the start after the Utes opened with just a 49.125 on the bars, their lowest score since a 49.075 in the season-opening win against UCLA.
The rotation lacked its usual big ending when Kristina Baskett over-rotated and came off the bars, forcing the Utes to drop her 9.2 score.
It was the first time Baskett has fallen off the bars since the regular-season finale against BYU in 2007.
The Beavers, meanwhile, earned a season-high 49.15 on the vault.
At that point, with the Beavers leading despite vault being one of their weakest events and the bars being Utah's best, it seemed like Oregon State was going to continue its recent trend of upsets. The Beavers defeated then No. 5 Arkansas two weeks ago and won at Arizona last week, a place in which the Beavers had previously won only once.
But Oregon State's lead was brief because the Utes posted a 49.45 on vault with their last three gymnasts scoring 9.9 or higher to take a 98.575-98.3 lead.
Utah posted a 49.325 on floor before finishing on balance beam.
Oregon State's Mandi Rodriguez won the all-around with a 39.5; Baskett had one of her more difficult nights, scoring just 38.75.
While the usually dependable Baskett wasn't satisfied with her own performance, she was happy about the way her teammates' performed.
"That is what I love about this team," she said. "There have been nights when I have had to come through and tonight they came through when I was having an off night. Everyone takes their turn."
In Brief » The Utes come from behind to beat the Beavers for the seventh straight time.
Key Stat » Utah scores over a 197 for the first time since the 2008 NCAA Championships.
Key moment » The Utes set a season high on vault (49.45) to overtake OSU.
Vault » Kristina Baskett (Utah) 9.95
Uneven bars » Leslie Mak (Oregon State) 9.95
Balance beam » Leslie Mak (Oregon State) 9.9
Floor » Mandi Rodriguez (Oregon State) 9.9
All-around » Mandi Rodriguez (Oregon State) 39.5
Vault » Kristina Baskett (Utah) 9.95
Uneven bars » Leslie Mak (Oregon State) 9.95
Balance beam » Leslie Mak (Oregon State) 9.9
Floor » Mandi Rodriguez (Oregon State) 9.9
All-Around » Mandi Rodriguez (Oregon State) 39.5
vs. UCLA » 49.025
vs. Georgia » 48.95
vs. Washington » 48.925
vs. Oregon State » 49.15
vs. UCLA » 49.025
vs. Georgia » 48.95
vs. Washington » 48.925
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Gender, Violence and HIV: Women's Survival in the Streets
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- Epele, M.E. Cult Med Psychiatry (2002) 26: 33. doi:10.1023/A:1015237130328
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In this article I propose that genderinequality promotes – directly or indirectly –vulnerability to HIV as a consequence of amultidimensional violence (structural, symbolicand physical) experienced by injection drugusing (IDU) women in The Mission District (SanFrancisco). Given the female subordinated positionstipulated by the street ideology, I analyzehow drug dependence afforded by precariousstrategies of subsistence places IDU womenunder multiple dangers and threats. In thissetting, unequal gender relations are part of acomplex system of transactions in the streeteconomy and a way to reduce or increase theeveryday violence. Facing multiple dangers andrisks, some women adopt a subordinatedposition, some try to negotiate the conditionsof the exchanges and the others resist theexploitation. Finally, everyday violence under conditions ofgender inequality and scarcity of resourcesimposes a logic defined by the challenge ofsurvival under the threat of immediate dangers,which transform HIV into a secondary risk.

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Are you sure you can set to 50/50? Maybe this is a new model, but the only manufacturer I know of that offers a hybrid valve is GFB.Originally posted by kaizenfighter
I bought the hks. I should be getting it on fri. I'm going to run it 100 percent. If I run into any probs I'll run 50\50. From what I've heard, its the best bov out there. It won't leak at high boost like some of the others. If you aren't planning on major mods, then any will do, but if you are I would say go for the hks


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Sahara India, a strange business group, has managed to get three months of time to repay...
The carryover from the festive season was not there in November and auto market continues to be tough due to the same reasons such as the high interest rates and fuel prices, and low consumer sentiments
New Delhi: Passenger car sales in India declined by 8.25% in November as the festive season spirit failed to prolong enthusiasm among consumers, whose sentiments remained low due to high interest rates and fuel prices and other macro-economic factors, reports PTI.
With a subdued growth in sales of two-wheelers, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) said it may revise the forecast downward for 2012-13 next month.
According to November sales data of automobiles released by SIAM, the total sale of vehicles across categories registered an increase of 1.79% at 15.15 lakh units last month as against 14.9 lakh units in the year-ago month.
In the domestic passenger car segment, sales fell by 8.25% to 1.6 lakh units last month compared to 1.7 lakh units in the same month last year.
"The carryover from the festive season was not there. Market continues to be tough due to the same reasons such as the high interest rates and fuel prices, and low consumer sentiments," SIAM Director General Vishnu Mathur told reporters.
This is the steepest decline since August 2012 when the sales dropped by 18.6%, he added.
Talking about the current month, Mathur said: "December month looks to be even worse as historically we never had higher sales in the month compared to October and November".
When asked if the industry body will revise the yearly car sales forecast for the fourth time next month, he said SIAM may not revise it as the April-November sales growth stands at 1.28%, which falls within the forecast of 1-3% for the fiscal.
"...but for the two-wheelers that (sales growth forecast for FY13) was at 4.05% for the period, is lower than 5-7% for the fiscal. Therefore, we may have to revise it," Mathur said.
He said the overall slow economic growth of the country and consumers becoming insecure about their jobs has compounded problems and has hit the entry level small car segment.
During the month, market leader Maruti Suzuki's sales rose by 2.35% to 74,793 units. Rival Hyundai Motor India's sales, however, decreased marginally to 34,698 units.
Homegrown auto major Tata Motors' car sales were down by 42.5% at 13,538 units.
In the two-wheeler segment, total sales in November 2012 rose by 1.23% to 11.8 lakh units from 11.6 lakh in November, 2011.
Motorcycle sales last month went up marginally to 8, 67,518 units from 8,67,088 units in the year-ago month.
Meera Sachdeva was charged for defrauding federal insurance programme Medicare by submitting false claims for chemotherapy services
New York: An Indian-origin woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay a penalty of over $14 million on charges of healthcare fraud in the US, reports PTI.
Meera Sachdeva, 50 of Mississippi, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on charges that she defrauded federal insurance programme Medicare by submitting false claims for chemotherapy services, US Attorney Gregory Davis said in a statement.
Sachdeva, who owned and operated a cancer centre, had pleaded guilty in July this year to submitting claims for chemotherapy services that were supposedly rendered when she was out of the country.
She was also ordered to pay a $250,000 fine and restitution of over $8.1 million. The forfeiture of about $6 million and property was also ordered.
She had admitted billing for more chemotherapy drugs than she actually purchased from drug suppliers from 2007 to 2011.
Her patients believed that they were receiving an amount of chemotherapy medicine that was equal to the amount being billed to their respective health care benefit programmes, but she was not providing each patient with the fully prescribed dosage of many of the billed chemotherapy drugs.
"The health care fraud perpetrated by the defendant was an abuse of public trust motivated by greed," Davis said.
Special Agent in Charge of the US Department of Health and Human Services Derrick Jackson said Sachdeva violated her duty to provide appropriate care for the patients at the cancer centre.
"Our office takes quality of care concerns very seriously, and we will vigorously investigate any provider that shortchanges patients and steals from the Medicare Trust Fund".


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Facebook Encourages Members to Rate Apps
Photo of the author, Jennifer Beese by Jennifer Beese on April 27, 2012
Facebook has introduced a new Rate Apps sidebar module in an effort to get members to provide star ratings for apps they've recently connected with.
The social network began displaying star ratings again in late March, after eliminating app reviews and ratings several months prior. The average star rating for your app appears on the right-hand side of Pages, as well as when users hover over the name of your app in the News Feed.
Facebook has also updated the design of the "rate recently used apps" feature that is seen on canvas Pages below a member's bookmarks. Both versions prompt individuals to give apps a rating out of five stars. Additional design changes include larger stars and the elimination of the question, "How would you rate app XYZ?"
Currently there doesn't seem to be a way for individuals to choose which apps to rate. Previously, they could visit a tab on any app profile to rate it. However, this made the system easy to manipulate, so now members are prompted randomly, such as when visiting a fan Page of something unrelated to the app.
While encouraging feedback is great, it's still unclear how effective stars are in letting people know what kind of experience they will have with the app. As an app developers, you don't have access to information about your ratings, which makes it hard to act on the feedback. It's also possible that the ratings provide Facebook with additional data about the type of apps users are interested in.
[Via: Inside Facebook, Image credit: Doug Hay]
Jennifer Beese: Jennifer Beese has worked as a community manager and social media strategist. When she's not writing, you can find her studying anatomy and physiology—she literally has a skeleton in her closet—or under the stars with her telescope.


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Polly Gipson, Ph.D.
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Primary Programs/Services:
- Postdoctoral Fellowship: University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Specialty, Ann Arbor, MI
- Clinical Internship: Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Division of Behavioral Health, Wilmington, DE
- Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Child/Adolescent Specialty, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
- M.A., Applied Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY
- B.A., Psychology, Baylor University, Waco, TX
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- Gipson, P.Y., & King, C.A. (2012). Health behavior theories and research: Implications for suicidal individuals' treatment linkage and adherence. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 19, 209-217.
- Kaplow, J.B., Gipson, P.Y., Horwitz, A.G., Burch, B.N., & King, C.A. (2014). Emotional suppression mediates the relation between adverse life events and adolescent suicide: Implications for prevention. Prevention Science,15, 177-185.


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Salesforce.com builds call centre support
Hosted CRM evangelist Salesforce.com has launched a new branding campaign, setting up the Supportforce.com website and announcing...
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Supportforce highlights Salesforce's existing call centre integration and features. The campaign's biggest product advancement is Salesforce's Telephony API toolkit, which allows its sales automation software to integrate with products from partners including Avaya, Cisco, Alcatel, Aspect and Genesys.
The goal is to enable customers to connect software for autodialling, call routing and other functions with Salesforce's repository of customer contact and history information.
Marty Howard, chief information officer at Patient Care, selected Salesforce to centralise a call centre to field customer calls from 25 branches. Howard said he considered customer relationship management systems from Siebel, Microsoft and Onyx before going with Salesforce because of the low capital investment required. He then picked hosted call centre White Pajama and data integrator Above All Software, both Salesforce partners, to round out the system.
"It turns out we were a Supportforce customer before I knew what that was," Howard said. He's pleased with how well the system is working. "I'm very happy, and it's unusual for me to be very happy with a supplier."
Howard said he was spending less on the hosted software's monthly subscription costs than he would have on the maintenance alone for a traditional, on-premise system.
He's also spending less on administration. Patient Care has around 180 users on its Salesforce-based system and spends under four IT hours a week working on the system. By contrast, the organisation spends 55 IT hours weekly maintaining home-grown operations software supporting a similar number of users.
Supportforce is included in Salesforce's core product suite, which starts at $65 (£34) per user, per month.
Even though Salesforce and Supportforce share a licensing fee, they will develop as two distinct applications, according to Salesforce chairman and chief executive officer Marc Benioff. "It has the roots of Salesforce.com, but it's a whole different type of layout for the customer," he said.
Salesforce's strategy is to continue selling per-user licences for access to all its functionality, but to steadily add new offerings to the core product to expand its user base. Benioff said Supportforce grew out of Salesforce users extending the platform to integrate their call-centre operations.
"We let our customers work it out," he said. "When we get to the point where we feel like it's a major initiative, we break it out. Supportforce.com now has its own brand and a bigger team here at the company supporting it."
Benioff said Salesforce would continue expanding Supportforce's customer-service features for handling functions such as case, ticket and e-mail management and service agent desktops. His goal is to compete with SAP, PeopleSoft and Siebel.
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The Northwest Barony
Other Nations
Akrusia was once a powerful and stable military power. When their last king died twenty years ago, the country fell to civil war. Although some order has been restored, internal strife and rebellion are still the norm. Akrusia is allied with Voldany, and if The Empire makes war with the Voldir then Akrusia will likely join the fight.
The land itself is low, with small clusters of forested areas but few mountains or hills. Marshlands are prominent near the coast, and wide and lazy rivers spread out endless tributaries, making the land rich in agriculture and fishing.
Akrusians are of medium to fair complexion and tend to be tall and broad shouldered. Many Akrusian men wear their hair long, but this is seen as old fashioned by the younger generations. They are known as being slow to anger and slower still to forget a grudge or slight.
Doros is an ancient and proud nation ruled by a family of wealthy merchant princes. The most acclaimed architects and artisans in the known lands come from Doros. With its many wineries, palaces, and slave markets, Doros has a reputation for decadence which is not entirely undeserved. Doros has long been allied with The Empire, a pact made strong by decades of prosperous trade.
The land in Doros is predominantly hilly, with patches of oak forest. It is a warm, fertile country.
The Dorosi are swarthy folk who tend to be short of stature. Many of the wealthier citizens are overweight, and only soldiers, the working class, and the very old grow beards.
The Greylands
The area known as The Greylands is a vast northern wilderness inhabited by scattered barbarian tribes. The barbarians frequently come south to raid Voldany and the imperial province of Bensfurd. Rumor has it that some of these tribesmen have been spotted along the eastern borders of the barony.
The land here is cold, mountainous, and mostly inhospitable. The southern areas are heavily forested, giving way to tundra as one goes further north.
Greylanders tend to be fair of skin and hair, though some tribes produce mostly dark haired individuals. Each tribe has a distinct set of tattoos, brands, or other marks, often designed to make the appear more menacing and ferocious.
Karovia was once a part of Doros. They petitioned for independence several hundred years ago and have managed to remain on good relations with their old rulers. While not as economically savvy as Doros, Karovia is a very efficiently run, militaristic nation that boasts an impressive sailing fleet and a formidable army. While they have not made any signs of aggression towards The Empire, some believe that it is only a matter of time. Such a move would undoubtedly strain their relations with Doros.
The terrain is much like that of Doros – hills and oak forests – but Karovia is much more arid and not quite as warm.
Karovians come from the same stock as the Dorosi. They are a swarthy people who tend to be somewhat short and of lean physique. The men of Karovia favor short beards, and Karovian warriors will often shave their heads for battle.
Voldany and The Empire have been enemies off and on since almost the beginning of recorded history. Their warriors are strong and have a reputation for ruthlessness and brutality. Voldir reavers will often make forays across the border into the imperial province of Bensfurd, taking slaves and burning villages. Although Voldany is not currently at war with the Empire, their raids against Bensfurd have grown increasingly bold since the war with The Elves began.
Voldany is a damp, rainy land of boulder-strewn plains and steep hills. The heavily forested mountains on their northern border give birth to numerous rivers and streams which run throughout the land.
The Voldir are of pale complexion, with long noses and a slight epicanthic fold to their eyes eyes. The men wear long, drooping mustaches, often adorned with bands of precious metal, bone, or ivory.


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Capitol Day 2013
Interior Design Collaborative - Oregon
Friday, February 22, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Who's Going
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Raise Your Voice!
Meet IDCOregon's lobbyist and test out your lobbying skills during scheduled meetings with your legislator in support of commercial interior design licensing.
Date: Friday, February 22nd
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My mother, Rosemary Fost, who has died aged 87, devoted her formidable mind and unquenchable energy to research, campaigning and prolific networking in the fields of health, ecology, childbirth and education. She was convinced that joy is our right and proper state, and the focus of her work was to support individuals to realise their own truth and wisdom. Only at the end of her life did she recognise that her passion for the demystification of knowledge and grassroots co-operation, and her opposition to hierarchy, made her – in the truest sense of the word – an anarchist.
She was born in Streatham, south London, and educated at Cheltenham ladies' college and St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she gained a first-class history degree. She had a gift for seeing beyond conventional interpretations into the root of the ideas that shape history. Her sharp insights and directness of expression won her many loyal friends and a few enemies.
She started a BPhil with the philosopher Gilbert Ryle, which was unfinished due to a year of ill health caused by severe insecticide poisoning, which precipitated her interest in the organic movement in the 1940s. Ryle remained a lifelong friend and ally who shared the same vision of "cracking" the mind-body dichotomy (the conventional Cartesian view of mind as an entity separate from body). Rosemary explored this in practical terms in her work with the National Childbirth Trust (1966-82) where, as honorary secretary of the education committee, she invited international pioneers of natural birth to train NCT teachers to undo the physiological conditioning caused by fear and a medicalised approach to childbirth, and instead reconnect women with their innate body wisdom.
Rosemary was passionate about the effects of environment, community and informed choice on creating positive health (not merely absence of illness) and about the interconnectedness of all living systems – especially, as a keen organic gardener, the relationship between healthy soil and a healthy gut. A keen member of the Soil Association since the 1950s, she was a trustee of the McCarrison Society for nutrition and health, and chair then trustee of the Pioneer Health Foundation, promoting research into the nature of positive health.
Alongside her tireless social engagement Rosemary threw herself into family life with four children, four grandchildren and the joy of classical music she shared with her husband, Leo, a civil servant and brilliant amateur pianist, whom she married in 1957.
Leo died in 1998. Rosemary is survived by her children, Tim, me, Robert and Leonie; and her grandchildren, Bryony, Jake, Max and Zoe.


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Disclosing this, the Cricket Association of Bengal(CAB) president said Murali's playing for Bengal in Ranji was assured but how many matches he would play will depend only on his availability.
Bengal was relegated to Ranji Plate from Elite last season and Mr Dalmiya, soon after assuming the office on a new turn, vowed to work for promotion of Bengal cricket.
Under new rules, a state can have three outstation players and a foreigner and roping Murali in for Bengal Ranji was seen as the first attempt in that direction.
Before roping in the spin wizard who has 756 wickets in his kitty, Mr Dalmiya appointed former all-rounder Mohinder Amarnath as chief consultant for Bengal cricket.


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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Report states that a San Antonio man was charged Friday with theft of federal property after he admitted burglarizing the vehicle of a deputy U.S. marshal and stealing a bag containing his raid and tactical gear.
According to a criminal complaint affidavit, Francisco Castro Jr., 28, told law officers he initially intended to burglarize a car that was parked at a home on West Martin Street without knowing it belonged to a federal marshal. Castro was ordered held Friday pending a bail hearing next Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge John Primomo.
The affidavit said Castro allegedly took a bag that contained the deputy marshal's federally issued bullet-resistant vest, tactical vest, raid jacket and overcoat, tactical belt ensemble, boots and clothing. The equipment had the agency's insignia on it.
According to the affidavit and U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Bobby Hogeland, when Castro realized what he had, he said he intended for the equipment to be used by a local gang, the "Orejónes," to conduct raids on drug traffickers.
"Orejónes" — or "Big Ears" is part of the "Tango Blast," one of the fastest-growing "security threat groups" identified by the Texas prison system, according to intelligence reports reviewed by the San Antonio Express-News. "Orejónes" is a term that San Antonio "Tangos" use to refer to themselves.
"We are working very hard to earn the public's trust and to maintain it, and here we have someone come in and (try and) take that," Hogeland said.
The car was burglarized Tuesday afternoon, and officers identified Castro by pursuing leads.
"Law enforcement officers aren't immune to being victims of crime," Hogeland said.
Hogeland credited his agency's partnership with the San Antonio Police Department's Gang Unit in helping identify and arrest Castro, who is an alleged "Orejón" associate, before the gear could be put to use by criminal elements.
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Gig Alert: Juan Cirerol
Juan Cirerol
"La Chola"
Playing on Saturday at Salon Hecho (356 Bowery, NoHo)
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Singer-songwriter Juan Cirerol is a leading light in the emerging Mexican music known as alt-norteño. Though he got his start performing in punk bands, Cirerol's music is also closely influenced by country bluesmen from the U.S. and Mexico--like Johnny Cash, Cornelio Reyna and Los Relampagos del Norte--who he grew up listening to in the border city of Mexicali.
Cirerol sings about love, alienation and drugs over guitar and harmonica melodies that blend polka, rock 'n' roll, country and punk. The ballads that result have a distinctively 21st-century northern Mexican sound — gritty, cross-cultural, border-blurred — that feels traditional and modern at the same time.
To check out Cirerol's music, download "La Chola," from his debut album Ofrenda al Mictlan and check out his music video for the song "Corrido Chicalor." Juan Cirerol makes his New York debut at Salon Hecho on Saturday night.


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Chevrolet Repair Questions? Ask a Chevy Mechanic for Answers ASAP
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Is you ac system manual or an automatic system ?
I am sending information for air delivery description & operation. This problem can be a faulty mode actuator,recirculation actuator,pressure switch, or PCM (powertrain control module). Mostly when this happens I see the actuators or pressure switch. With the use of a scan tool one can view each actuator position in BCM data. There also may be a code set in the BCM (body control module).
The air delivery description and operation is divided into five areas:
The HVAC control module is a class 2 device that interfaces between the operator and the HVAC system to maintain air temperature and distribution settings. The battery positive voltage circuit provides power that the control module uses for keep alive memory (KAM). If the battery positive voltage circuit loses power, all HVAC DTCs and settings will be erased from KAM. The body control module (BCM), which is the vehicle mode master, provides a device on signal. The control module supports the following features:
Actuator Calibration
The mode actuator is a 5 wire bi-directional electric motor that incorporates a feedback potentiometer. Ignition 3 voltage, low reference, control, 5 volt reference and position signal circuits enable the actuator to operate. The control circuit uses either a 0, 2.5 or 5 volt signal to command the actuator movement. When the actuator is at rest, the control circuit value is 2.5 volts. A 0 or 5 volt control signal commands the actuator movement in opposite directions. When the actuator shaft rotates, the potentiometer's adjustable contact changes the door position signal between 0-5 volts.
The HVAC control module uses a range of 0-255 counts to index the actuator position. The door position signal voltage is converted to a 0-255 count range. When the module sets a commanded, or targeted, value, the control signal is changed to either 0 or 5 volts depending upon the direction that the actuator needs to rotate to reach the commanded value. As the actuator shaft rotates the changing position signal is sent to the module. Once the position signal and the commanded value are the same, the module changes the control signal to 2.5 volts.
The blower motor control processor controls the speed of the blower motor by increasing or decreasing the voltage drop on the ground side of the blower motor. The HVAC control module provides a low side pulse width modulated signal to the blower motor control processor over the blower motor speed control circuit. As the requested blower speed increases, the HVAC control module increases the amount of time that the speed signal is modulated to ground. As the requested blower speed decreases, the HVAC control module decreases the amount of time that the signal is modulated to ground.
The blower control switch is integrated into the HVAC control module. The two rocker type switches provide the vehicle operator the ability to select several blower speeds. The HVAC control module uses a bar graph type display to indicate the selected blower speed. The HVAC control module provides a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal to the blower motor through the blower motor speed control circuit. The blower motor changes speed based on the received PWM signal from the HVAC control module. Power and ground are provided to the blower motor through the battery positive voltage and ground circuits. When the HVAC control module is operating in AUTO mode, the system automatically controls the blower speed. Power and ground are provided to the HVAC control module by the ignition 3 voltage and the ground circuits.
The HVAC control module controls the distribution of air by the use of a mode actuator. The modes that may be selected are:
The mode actuator are connected to the mode door by a cam type linkage system. Depending on the position of the door, air is directed through the HVAC module and distributed through various ducts leading to the outlets in the dash. If the HVAC control module detects a fault with the mode door the HVAC control module will try to drive the actuator for a predetermined amount of time, to defrost, which is the defaulted position for the mode door actuator. When the mode switch is placed in the defrost or defog positions the A/C is commanded on and the recirculation door is moved to the outside air position to help reduce window fogging. A/C is available in all modes and recirculation is only available in the panel and bi-level modes.
The mode actuator is an electronic stepper motor with feedback potentiometers. The HVAC control module sends signals to the mode door actuator through the mode door control circuit. Zero volts drives the actuator in one direction while 5-volts moves the actuator in the opposite direction. When the actuator receives 2.5-volts, the actuator rotation stops. A 5-volt reference signal is sent out over the 5-volt reference circuit to the mode actuator. When you select a desired mode setting, logic determines the value of the mode actuator signals. The HVAC control module's software uses this reference voltage in order to determine the position of the mode actuator through the mode door position signal circuit. The motor moves the mode door to the desired position.
When defrost is selected, the A/C compressor is activated. The A/C compressor clutch will engage when ambient temperatures are above 3°C (38°F). The blower motor will be activated, regardless of the coolant temperature. The HVAC control module will override the auxiliary HVAC control module so a high volume of air is delivered to the front defrost vents. The rear window defogger does not affect the HVAC system.
The HVAC control module controls the air intake through the recirculation actuator. The recirculation switch closes the recirculation door in order to circulate the air within the vehicle. The outside air switch opens the recirculation door in order to route outside air into the vehicle. Regardless of the blower motor switch position, recirculation is available only in the panel and bi-level mode switch positions. Including the OFF position. The mode switch must be placed in either the panel or bi-level position before the blower motor switch is placed in the OFF position. In order to reduce windshield fogging, outside air is circulated when the mode switch is in the defrost or defog positions. If the recirculation switch is pressed into the ON position when the mode switch is in an unavailable mode position, then the recirculation switch LED will flash 3 times. If the HVAC control module detects a fault with the recirc door the HVAC control module will try to drive the actuator for a predetermined amount of time, to outside air, which is the defaulted position for the recirculation actuator.
In automatic operation, the HVAC control module will maintain the comfort level inside of the vehicle by controlling the A/C compressor clutch, the blower motor, the air temperature actuators, mode actuator and recirculation.
To place the HVAC system in Automatic mode, the following is required:
Once the desired temperature is reached, the blower motor, mode, recirculation and temperature actuators will automatically be adjusted to maintain the temperature selected. The HVAC control module performs the following functions to maintain the desired air temperature:


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The traditional first-aid kit might be easy for a trained professional to navigate, but for those without previous experience, the time it takes to find something could mean the difference between life and death. Designer Kevin Harald Campean has created an answer to this problem by redesigning the typical first-aid Kit with a bold, functional, and possibly iconic layout.
Instead of the traditional red or blue color, he opted for orange to make the kit immediately recognizable. The kit also comes with instructions for how to open it, and compartments that allow first-aiders to find everything effortlessly. Each compartment even has an icon to describe where everything is located, a feature that could be extremely useful when the adrenaline is flowing and reading proves to be more difficult than it seems.
The concept can be adapted to accommodate more or fewer medical supplies depending on where you would normally find the kit. For companies concerned with branding, the design also lends itself well to different colors and the addition of logos.
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Prince Harry to Visit Jersey Shore Towns Hard Hit by Sandy
The British are coming, the British are coming!
Specifically Prince Harry and specifically this week to two towns hard hit by Sandy at the Jersey shore.
According to huffingtonpost.com, Mantoloking Mayor George Nebel said last Monday that Harry, an heir to the British throne, will take a short walk along Barnegat Lane, along the town's bay front, during a brief visit on May 14. The prince will accompany Gov. Chris Christie to Seaside Heights afterward.
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Taking Charge of Your Fertility (1995)
by Toni Weschler
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By far the most important book I've ever encountered on this subject.
I really wish they gave out this book instead of pads & tampons in 5th grade. It's ridiculous that I didn't find out how my body works until now, but, whatever.
The book presents sympto-thermal charting in an understandable manner, but it really focuses on trying to get pregnant rather than trying to avoid pregnancy. I understand how the principles can be used the other way around but I really think there should be another book about using FAM as birth control. I'd have liked more info regarding transitioning off of hormonal birth control.
Otherwise, very informative with very clear diagrams and pictures. Even if you're not trying to avoid pregnancy or get pregnant, if you are female or in a relationship with a female, this is as close as you get to an owners manual for a uterus.
This book was really fantastic. I was completely unaware of the charting and observation techniques this book spells out and it has been really useful.
A great and very thorough explanation of how to understand what's going on with your reproductive system, just by tracking your temperature and cervical fluid. A must-read for any empowered woman -- this book will provide a wealth of useful and enlightening information even for those who aren't interested in conceiving or in natural birth control.
A thorough guide to charting and learning your cycle. This is a must-read for every woman!
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Are you unhappy with your current method of birth control? Or are you demoralized by your quest to have a baby? Do you also experience confusing signs and symptoms at various times in your cycle, but are frustrated by a lack of simple explanations?
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Taking Charge of Your Fertility has helped literally hundreds of thousands of women achieve pregnancy, avoid pregnancy naturally, or simply gain better control of their health and lives. This book thoroughly explains the empowering Fertility Awareness Method, which in only a couple of minutes a day allows you to:enjoy highly effective and scientifically proven birth control without chemicals or devices
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The key Nikkei average closed lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday after directionless moves amid a dearth of fresh incentives, with many investors sitting on the fence prior to holidays in Japan and abroad.
The 225-issue Nikkei average dropped 29.32 points, or 0.16 percent, to end at 18,886.70. On Monday, the key market gauge fell 70.78 points.
But the Topix index of all first-section issues climbed 2.32 points, or 0.15 percent, to close at 1,533.60, after falling 5.82 points the previous day.
Both indexes opened slightly higher following an overnight rise in New York stocks. After the initial buying ran its course, however, the indexes lost steam temporarily in the morning.
Active buying was held in check as the Tokyo market will be closed Wednesday for a national holiday and many foreign stock markets will be shut Friday for the Christmas holiday, brokers said.
Trading became increasingly slow in the afternoon with the Nikkei average showing only small ups and downs around the previous day's closing level in the absence of fresh incentives.
There was a sense that Japanese stocks were undervalued after the Nikkei average lost 437 points in the two sessions through Monday, but buybacks and buying on dips did not intensify in the absence of buying clues, brokers said.
Investors found it difficult to tilt their positions drastically also due to downside risks over crude oil prices, an official at a domestic securities firm said.
In New York on Monday, the key West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures contract briefly fell below 34 dollars per barrel for the first time in some six years and 10 months.
"Investors have already gone into Christmas holiday mode. The Nikkei is likely to move narrowly around 19,000 for the rest of this year, and retaking the 20,000 line would be delayed to New Year or later," said Hideyuki Suzuki, head of investment market research department at SBI Securities Co.
Falling issues outnumbered rising ones 1,004 to 809 in the TSE's first section, while 120 issues were unchanged.
Volume decreased to 1.97 billion shares from Monday's 2.36 billion shares.
Electronics maker Toshiba plummeted 12.28 percent on massive sell-offs reflecting worries about its future course, although the scandal-tainted company announced structural reforms on Monday, brokers said. Industry peers Sony, Panasonic and Sharp were also downbeat.
Also on the minus side were mobile carrier SoftBank Group, clothing retailer Fast Retailing and megabank group Sumitomo Mitsui.
Oriental Land, the operator of Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, climbed 2.22 percent on hopes for growth in demand, reflecting a view that people may refrain from traveling abroad due to fears about terror attacks.
General contractor Taisei rose following news that Japan selected the design for its new National Stadium jointly proposed by Taisei and architect Kengo Kuma.
Automaker Toyota and camera maker Canon drew buybacks.
In index futures trading on the Osaka Exchange, the key March contract on the Nikkei average rose 30 points to end at 18,870.


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Imperial Bar & Lounge150 N Arlington Ave
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People with schizophrenia often encounter challenges when it comes to their friends and family. Family often try and cope with someone who has schizophrenia for a period of time, but can become frustrated by their seeming lack of progress in treatment or staying in treatment altogether. A family's emotional support may wane, and some families cut off all contact with their schizophrenic son, daughter or sibling.
Friends can also not understand a person with schizophrenia's experiences, and quickly lose interest in continuing the friendship when a person with schizophrenia deteriorates or drops out of treatment. The most common complaint amongst friends and family members of a person with schizophrenia is not understanding how to help them, or give them continued, long-term support that help keeps them from becoming homeless or unemployed.
A person's support system may come from several sources, including the family, a professional residential or day program provider, shelter operators, friends or roommates, professional case managers, churches and synagogues, and others. Because many patients live with their families, the following discussion frequently uses the term "family." However, this should not be taken to imply that families ought to be the primary support system.
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• Group seeks a better way to do farmers' markets (Top Story)
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Pratts turn boy's dream into notable Angus farm
By JANE W. GRAHAM
AFP Correspondent
ATKINS, Va. — A love of farming is the foundation of Echo Ridge Farm, a registered Angus seed stock operation that began with the purchase of one cow on Christmas Eve in 1965 and a boy's dream.
C.W. Pratt, then an FFA member, purchased the cow that still has descendants on the farm, which is known for raising quality bulls for commercial cattle producers.
He has followed his childhood dream and in the process created a farm with a reputation for excellence.
Last year the Evergreen Soil and Water District gave the C. W. Pratt Family its Conservation Farm Family of the Year Award.
C.W.'s son, Jason, recently left a position with Virginia Cooperative Extension and has joined his dad full-time on the Smyth County, farm.
Jason's wife, Dr. Paige Pratt, is also involved in the farm and works full time for VCE as state youth livestock specialist.
The younger couple, married in May 2011, returned from Hawaii last month where they were second in the American Farm Bureau Federation's Excellence in Agriculture competition.
They won the Virginia competition and represented the Old Dominion at the national convention.
The trip they won at the national level also served as their honeymoon, Jason said. Haymaking had taken precedence over a wedding trip after they were married on a hill at Echo Ridge.
The trio talked about the farm as they checked on a herd of cows and calves.
They attempt to market 80 registered Angus bulls every year to serve commercial herds here in Southwest Virginia as well as in the neighboring states of Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
Their location, near Virginia's borders with these states, helps in their marketing efforts.
The farms in these areas tend to be smaller operations where farmers running a few good cows are eager to buy quality bulls nearby.
The Pratts marketing strategy is simple.
They sell them in production auction sales on the farm twice a year. One is held on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.
"There is no shopping here," Paige quipped, referring to the day many Americans begin their Christmas gift shopping in earnest.
The second is held on the first Saturday in April.
The Pratt's hold their sales in a new multi-purpose barn that is equipped with sale ring, bleachers and pens behind it for the cattle.
The operation that started with one cow now runs around 200 cows with spring and fall calving herds.
While they keep many of their replacement heifers, the Pratts do not have a closed herd.
In the 1970s, C.W. purchased some cows from the Graham's Angus Herds in Albany, Ga.
"At that time it was one of the top performance herds in the country," he said. "They were known for having cattle with a lot of growth and milk."
These purchases contributed to the Pratts' foundation for building a performance based herd.
The cattle are fed on steep hillside pastures and get hay when it is needed.
The Pratts said while they would like to feed some corn silage the terrain is too steep for the equipment needed to grow it.
They have just finished installing a CREP water project that involved putting in a 400-foot deep well near the top of a hillside.
Water is pumped from the well three hours a day, and fed to five watering troughs downhill from the well. The pump is equipped with a timer.
They have also developed some springs on their farms and used big equipment tires with concrete bottoms for troughs.
C.W. credited Danny Boyer, now retired from NRCS, with helping develop those systems.
Asked if it was a hard decision to leave his job as Extension agent in Pulaski County, Va., Jason said he learned a lot there and met a lot of good people.
"I'm back home," he continued, "doing what I enjoy. When I had the opportunity that made my decision a little easier."
His enthusiasm is apparent as he talks about his decision to return to the farm.
"This is what we live for, mating cows and getting calves on the ground," he said. "We've been fortunate to select cows that are getting better and better."


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Well well well, the day has finally come! We are shooting the Call of C'Thulhu!
The morning of the shoot, I woke up with a bounce in my step and a smile on my face, I went and cranked up the volume on my Glee soundtrack as I danced away the last hour of prep time before shooting.
I packed up more than 10 of my reusable bags full to the brim, and loaded them into Mike's car and traveled the one block down the street to the set. But I gotta say…It seemed much longer than that when we had to push the staircase there the day before…
Once we got there, we unloaded all the bags, and started setting everything up. Sandra and I introduced ourselves to the crew and made sure they ate some breakfast before starting the day.
We then set up Carla Guwick, our make-up artist in the dressing room and got her started on her father Ron and Brennan's makeup. She had to create a cut on Ron's wrists, and she worked her magic and made him look dead. Excellent work Carla!
Once Ron was ready to go, we started rolling. For this project, we got to shoot on a RED cam, which was an exhilarating opportunity for us, working with such a high quality piece of technology that not many students get the chance to use. To operate the RED came we sought out the help of Randy Che, he was assisted by VFS alumni Thanh Doan.
To help with the lighting of the set, we worked with a pro gaffer, Josh Alkoff, and our classmate Myles Messinetti came and assisted him in the afternoon and in tearing everything down.
We also had assistance from Taavo Ruberg, our sound mixer and boom op and Digital Design grad Sam Green who took pictures throughout the day for us (and for this blog! Thanks Sam!).
And finally our director and assistant, Michael Chase and film production student (and soon to be graduate) Hillary Hodges. I've had the opportunity to work with Michael before, but not on a project of this caliber and I was excited for the chance to get to work with him again. He asked for not only our input, but that of our designers throughout the day, in an effort to make sure that we got all of the shots that we needed for our film and for our interactive piece.
The first few shots of the day were around the professor's office so Sandra and I did the set decorating while also sitting back and trying to take in as much as we possibly could. Being able to work with such a strong and dedicated team was a pleasure, we were able to ask a lot of questions and learn along the way, finding out why lights have to be placed a certain way, why we use a clapper, and also the importance of a sound-proof building…We will be spending some time in the studio doing some ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) in the near future.
Before breaking for lunch, we filmed the most trying scene of the film, where Brennan must simulate running through the professor's house by running on a green treadmill. We rented the treadmill from Hollynorth in Burnaby who gave us a discounted student rate for the 3 days we needed it for, saving us a lot of money! - Thanks again Hollynorth!
Once we shot the first scene, we realized we should lay down some crash pads for Brennan on the ground in case he slipped and fell. We borrowed some cushions from the couches in the studio and solved our little issue. That in fact, is my favourite part of being a producer. I love having a challenge put in front of me, and trying to find the most creative, economical and intelligent solution to that problem and saving the day (for lack of a better term).
As the day went on, I was feeling more and more confident about the over all look and feel of the film. I was so relieved to have my team of designers, Amanda Healey, Nick Lenko, Nida Khan and Ehab Kamal on set with us all day, they were able to give Michael their input when we weren't able to solve the problems, and they brought up a lot of very interesting points throughout the day. They also spent the day taking pictures as well, giving us lots to work with and a great collection of keepsakes to remember this memorable day. Thanks once again you guys, I could not ask for a better team to work with.
So that about wraps it up for this edition of my blog, but before you go, have a look at our team picture. (and I gotta say, we are one good lookin' bunch!)
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Going Solo (original 1986; edition 2001)
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Going Solo by Roald Dahl (1986)
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Synopsis: Road Dahl once again takes us away into another world with his writing, to Africa where he begins to learn how to fly. Anecdotes, such as when a massive mamba snake is in the house and needs to be captured before the family can re-enter, and more gruesome anecdotes such as when Mdisho - essentially his 'houseman' - steals Road's sword and goes on a killing spree due to his naivety.
A whole section is dedicated to his near-death experience when he crashed his plane and spends months in hospital recovering, fearing he may not reach full recovery.
The last section Road details more of his flying experience, something he has a strong passion for.
My Opinion: Took off half a star as I felt the final section on flying was a little bit long-winded, but any aviation-enthusiasts would love it. I would recommend this book to Road Dahl lovers of all ages - not just children and young adults. Heartwarming ending.
A very well written and an interesting autobiography! A good read, indeed.
In 1980 Dahl said that life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones. The first half of this book, which is set in East Africa, he wrote only about moments he considered memorable. In the second part dealing with the time he was flying with the RAF, he considered every moment "totally enthralling".
The book begins in 1938 when at age 22, he went to work for Shell in East Africa He relates a few anecdotes from that time, of which a favourite has to be Simba, the story about how a lion took the cook's wife. Fortunately, the lion carried the woman gently like one of her cubs, and she was uninjured. Dahl sent an eye witness account to a Nairobi newspaper, for which he was paid five pounds - his first published work.
His experience as an RAF pilot in Africa, Greece and Palestine is "totally enthralling" to the reader too. He writes with good humour and a lightheartedness even when facing the utmost danger. He, like others, were frustrated by the lack of organization in the RAF command in the area. On one occasion he was sent in the wrong direction in the desert, misdirection that almost cost him his life. Of the original 16 pilots in his group, thirteen were killed.
I loved this book! It's a smashing adventure story that can be enjoyed by young and old, fans and neophytes alike. Dahl's writing style is straightforward and crystal clear. He has a talent for description that can conjure up a picture in the mind like magic.
"A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
Going Solo follows on immediately from the first part of Dahl's memoirs, Boy. Dahl has left school is now working for the oil company, Shell. His first job with them sends him to East Africa – Dar es Salaam - for a three year tour and the book opens with anecdotes about his life there with colonials and his 'boy' Mdisho. His trip to East Africa is cut short with the arrival of World War Two and Dahl enlists in the RAF and the book thereafter is taken up with tales from his experiences of the war.
I enjoyed the first part of the memoirs more than this part, but it was still interesting. I gather though that Dahl embellished an awful lot of what happened (some reports state that he was not, as the book suggests, unaccompanied when his plane came down), so maybe one shouldn't take some of the wilder tales at face value. I really should read a biography about Dahl at some stage.
There is nothing Roald Dahl has written that I haven't loved. Going Solo is no different. His way of telling stories brings the Middle Eastern front to life from the unique perspective of an RAF pilot. From Dar es Salaam to Haifa, readers also see how Dahl's love of and fascination with unique animals was developed. A great read, perfectly suitable for younger Dahl fans as well as adults.
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North Highline roads left off King County's summer paving list
The King County Department of Transportation, citing "plummeting tax revenue and tight budgets," recently announced only seven miles of roads in all of unincorporated King County will get repaved this summer, and none in North Highline made the list.
A few stretches of road near Redmond, Federal Way, Auburn and Issaquah did make the list "thanks to federal grants; otherwise, the county would not be able to repave any roads this summer," according to a press release.
In comparison, KCDOT said they repaved 43 miles of road during the summer paving program of 2010.
"We are doing the paving we can, thanks to a pilot federal grant program for preservation of roads," Road Services Director Brenda Bauer said in a press release. "We hope that this kind of grant funding might continue, but that is uncertain. Without repaving of the surface, county roads will continue to weaken and deteriorate to the point of needing costly and serious reconstruction."
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Dawson City is Milepost 0 of the Alaska Highway; 367 miles northwest of Edmonton, AB, and 250 miles northeast of Prince George, BC.
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Dawson Creek (like Dawson City in Yukon) was named for George Mercer Dawson of the Geological Survey of Canada, whose geodetic surveys of this region in 1879 helped lead to its development as an agricultural settlement. The Northern Alberta Railway reached Dawson Creek in 1931. As a railhead, Dawson Creek was an important funnel for supplies and equipment during construction of the Alaska Highway in 1942. Today, significant industries in this area's economy are oil and gas exploration and servicing, agriculture, forestry and tourism.
Dawson Creek offers lodging in motels/hotels as well as bed-and-breakfasts, and dining in restaurants and fast-food outlets. There are gas stations and RV service at United Spring and Brake Ltd. Camping at the Northern Lights RV Park, Tubby's RV Park & Car Wash phone 250-782-2584, and Mile "O" Park adjacent Pioneer Village and Rotary Lake. Dawson Creek has laundromats, department stores, banks, grocery, drug and hardware stores, antique shops and other specialty shops. The city has a modern hospital, a public library, a college, church and recreation facilities. The Chances Gaming Entertainment Centre offers gambling and restaurant and lounge.
- The Alaska Highway House at 10201 - 10th St. showcases the history of the Alaska Highway.
- Mile 0 marker of the Alaska Highway is located in downtown Dawson Creek and a popular photo subject.
- Dawson Creek Station Museum, at Northern Alberta Railways (NAR) Park, displays pioneer artifacts and wildlife collections.
- Dawson Creek Art Gallery, housed in a huge wooden grain elevator, features local and regional artists' work.
- Walter Wright Pioneer Village contains an impressive collection of local pioneer buildings and recently built replicas.
- Picnic and swim at Mile 0 Rotary Park.
- Stretch your legs on the scenic Dawson Creek Walking Path.
- Tour Dawson Creek's murals, which portray aspects of Alaska Highway construction.
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My daddy's been away for a very long time now. He keeps leaving for weeks at a time and then comes home for a few days, only to leave again. Grandma tells me this is because he has a job that makes him travel very far away. Apparently, he won't be back again until mid-June! That's darn near my birthday! He better be back by then because I think my patience during all this absenteeism has earned me one humongous gift! I know that he has work to do (how else is he gonna earn all that money to spend on my gift?) but I feel like an orphan! I cry all the time and ask to be let into his room just so I can lay on his bed and smell all the animal fur on his walls. I need some parental guidance, especially now during these impressionable years.
I'm a sick kitty. :( My daddy was gone for 2 weeks recently for a job and is now gone again for another 2 weeks (which means he won't be here to celebrate Turkey Day with me). Maybe it's just the stress of him being gone, but I have developed a severe urinary infection and had to go to the vet today. He put me on special food (which is pretty yummy so far) and antibiotics (which are definitely NOT yummy at all). My wee-wee tract is so bad that when they weighed me, I peed crystalized blood all over the scale.
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Every time we have to make a gift, we give plants and our friends do the same with us. It has become a joyful ritual, same goes watering plants in the morning whilst enjoying that first perfect cup of coffee. We love plants and we couldn't imagine our lives without them. It was with great delight we found this little plant in front of our doorstep! We first saw this odd plant with very round, dark green leaves at Wilbert's – remember his amazing urban jungle? - and it immediately grabbed our attention. What is it? Where is it from? And, please can we get a cutting?
It was Wilbert who informed us the plant is called The Chinese Money Plant, Lefse Plant, Pilea peperomioides. It is also known as the Chinese Missionary Plant due to the fact that this plant was introduced to Europe by a Swedish missionary working in China in 1946. Wilbert was so kind to offer us a cutting and leave it on our doorstep. Can't think of a better way to seal bond of friendship!
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Wrestling Forum: WWE, Impact Wrestling, Indy Wrestling, Women of Wrestling Forums (http://www.wrestlingforum.com/forumindex.php)
- General WWE (http://www.wrestlingforum.com/general-wwe/)
- - Who else thinks WWE are fucked? (http://www.wrestlingforum.com/general-wwe/638740-who-else-thinks-wwe-fucked.html)
Who else thinks WWE are fucked?
It's been brewing for years.
20 years ago wrestling was special. To the kids who don't know it was like let me explain it to you.
Here in Australia we would get to see wrestling on the TV once every so often, Americans had their Saturday morning shows, the Canadians too, Mexicans have their lucha libre and the Japanese had their hardcore style too. Many independent promotions offered different alternatives too.
Although there was so much product, we never had the internet, TV stations didn't air that much wrestling and even if they did, it was all different!
Everything in America is now under the same umbrella. It's WWE and nothing else for the majority.
It's a massive brand and they're still making a lot of money, but there's much concern for McMahon's precious baby.
1. The companies worth has deteriorated to the point where McMahon is only worth 500million - half of what he was worth 10 years ago.
2. The big time superstars are going, going or gone,
3. The new guys just don't cut the mustard.
4. Too much wrestling airs on TV.
5. History is irrelevant. No one cares about the titles, storylines end abruptly and they're never revisited or acknowledged (just look at Cena Vs. Punk, they've started a 'new' rivalry. It's the same guys, who've fought a million times before, but now...it's for a different reason!)
6. The fans are fucking lame. Wrestling was cool because the people who attended the shows were at their prime. You had a mixture of teens, male adults, kids, woman...but now you have families and families just don't provide a hostile atmosphere that WRESTLING events require. It's almost like we're going to watch The Wiggles now when WWE come in town. No longer are the wrestlers 'cool rock stars', they are children entertainers
7. Linda McMahon's campaign will prevent anything from changing.
8. The world has moved on, wrestling doesn't matter anymore. It's past it's time, there's still a market, but not for the masses anymore. People who watch wrestling now are as cool as those who listen to Nickleback, oh and guess what...Nickleback was the theme to Wrestling for years right?
9. No tag division, mid card division, cruiserweight division (oh hey remember when they got some midget that can't wrestle to retire a belt that was given such great credibility by guys like Guerrero, Mysterio, Malenko, Jericho, Benoit..)
10. The woman who are hired cannot hold a candle to Lita, Trish, Stacy and the golden era of talent that we were lucky to see from 97-03
I haven't watched since Jericho left, he's my favourite so once he went, I went with him. I don't care for the product, the wrestlers irritate me and the entire direction of the show fucking pisses me off.
After last weeks rating, the consistently terrible ratings in general and the lower profile that the WWE has in pop culture, it's safe to say that eventually you'll start to see the ratings lower more, the arenas empty more and the fans just switching off.
After all this shit, I can just say that the WWE does get ONE thing right every year. WrestleMania. Once they fuck that up too, we're done. (Y)
Re: Who else thinks WWE are fucked?
Well said. WWE is a sinking ship. Wrestling pretty much started to die a slow death after the Attitude Era but at least during 2002-2006, there were still plenty of passionate fans and interest left. Since 2007 but right now more than ever, the company and wrestling on a whole is on life support. With the increasing popularity for UFC, wrestling is a thing of the past and MMA has become the new "cool thing".
Everything is worse than before. Literally no star power, uninteresting vanilla talent, non-existent midcard and women's division, childish unappealing shows and very little interest. The families that are around will be gone in a year or two because the show is the same thing all the time and they can enjoy Cena overcoming the odds so many times before it gets boring and their kids grow out of it. Passionate fans are also being driven away save for a few hardcore ones that put up with anything. Before you know it, with the constantly low ratings, WWE may lose its TV deal and shit will hit the fan.
Re: Who else thinks WWE are fucked?
no they're not, whenever they go that far down they have their ways to come back. Their are new guys that have potential and some of the main eventers are interesting to watch, so they're not fucked just yet. They have many great feuds still upcoming. They will be fucked when there is no hope at all.
Re: Who else thinks WWE are fucked?
Have hope, young padawan.
Re: Who else thinks WWE are fucked?
you mean wrestling was special when you were a kid? let me tell you something, wrestling peaked in the territory days my friend
wwe will be fine. always. its a giant company will almost infinite ways of making money and finding new markets. its too stable and machinelike to fail. thats also why things are so dull and stale, but whatever
Re: Who else thinks WWE are fucked?
they will live, even though the product is complete crap right now.
Re: Who else thinks WWE are fucked?
By the time 2007 rolled around, I was done. The product did not entertain me at all. I am not quite sure why I returned this year, but I did. And I agree with every point you made.
Re: Who else thinks WWE are fucked?
WWE aren't going to lose their TV contract any time soon, if they were ever at threat they'd just kill off a few shows, return RAW to 2 hrs and thus concentrate their audience once again. That being said we're at a really crappy stage in wrestling almost the same as the whole cartoony era and the Diesel title reign. Something has to change sooner or later; I'm actually really surprised that WWE hasn't gone edgy again to combat UFC but I guess that route isn't available until Linda finally gives up her stupid political ambitions.
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Re: Who else thinks WWE are fucked?
Thank those vanilla midgets indy hacks like Punk, workout buddies like Sheamus and real world stars like Jiz for destroying the business.
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Depart London on your direct flight to Pisa, where you will be transferred to your hotel for an afternoon at leisure.
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Following breakfast, travel to the city of Florence; boasting priceless masterpieces, striking Renaissance architecture and winding streets, this historic metropolis looks as it did during 1550. On your half-day escorted tour witness the cathedral?s domineering masonry dome, examine a copy of Michelangelo?s statue of David in Piazza della Signoria and stroll across the iconic Ponte Vecchio Bridge lined with antiquated jewellery boutiques. Later that afternoon spend time exploring the city at leisure.
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Today, discover the magnificent region of Tuscany at your leisure. Head to Montecatini Terme train station and onto Florence, exploring tucked away gems scattered throughout. Visit Pistoia city?s intriguing sculpture garden at Fattoria Celle or travel west to Italy?s magnificent Mediterranean coast for unique seafood specialities within the bustling town of Viareggio.
Day 4: Siena & San Gimignano Tour
Today is at leisure or you have the option to embark on an optional excursion to tour the enchanting medieval city of Siena; your guide will take you through cobbled streets and past gothic boutiques to the heart of a UNESCO site, Piazza del Campo. Once a Roman marketplace, this public square is overlooked by the striking tower of Palazzo Pubblico town hall and is famed for Fonte Gaia, a fountain decorated with religious scenes carved into marble panels. After lunch travel to San Gimignano, a hilltop ?medieval Manhattan? with distinctive 11th century towers that oversee this UNESCO site; tour the town?s picturesque streets to sample white wine produced from Vernaccia grapes that grow on the surrounding sandstone hillside.
Day 5: Pisa & Lucca
Begin today with a visit to Italy?s most photographed monument ? the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Continue past rolling hills that form Tuscany?s scenic countryside to the charming city of Lucca. Surrounded by imposing Renaissance walls, your guide will show you a city filled with picturesque piazzas, pine shaded promenades and traces of French architecture alluding to the Napoleonic occupation.
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Depart afterbreakfast to the Castle of Vicchiomaggio, a 15th century stronghold Leonardo da Vinci stayed within during his painting of the Mona Lisa. Discover the steps of creating exquisite Italian wine, taking you from the surrounding vineyards into a cellar lined with oak barrels for a chance to savour the castle?s delicious produce. After an authentic Italian lunch, wander through hillside gardens to absorb the Mediterranean climate and marvel at panoramic views across the verdant Greve valley.
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Today is at leisure, to explore the archetypal Tuscan town of Montecatini Terme in your own time.
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After breakfast at the hotel, transfer to the airport for your scheduled flight back to the UK.
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