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Sizemore's Two-Run Double Propels Liberty Past Radford, 2-1
A two-run double by left fielder Justin Sizemore with two out in the eighth propelled the Liberty Flames past the Radford Highlanders, 2-1, in the final regular season game for both teams, Saturday at Liberty Baseball Stadium.
Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the eighth, the Flames rallied with two outs. Shortstop Bryan Aanderud kept the inning alive with an infield single and moved to third base on a double to center field by first baseman Alex Close. Sizemore, a senior playing in his last regular-season game as a member of the Flames, followed by lining a double into the left center field gap, scoring both runners to give Liberty a 2-1 advantage.
Reliever Jared Lyons pitched a scoreless ninth to seal the win and complete the Liberty comeback.
Liberty finished the 2013 regular season with a 13-11 Big South record and 29-26 overall mark. With the win, the Flames take the three-game series, 2-1. Radford drops to 14-10 in conference and 29-24 overall.
The Highlanders took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning with an unearned run. With one out, right fielder Patrick Marshall reached on a throwing error by Liberty shortstop Dalton Britt and advanced to second on a single by shortstop Jeff Kemp. After a fielder's choice ground out by left fielder Zach Woolcock moved Marshall to third, first baseman Alexander Lee singled with two outs to give Radford the 1-0 edge.
The visitors' advantage held up until the eighth, when the Flames took the lead on Sizemore's two-base hit.
Liberty's Lyons moves to 3-0. The left-hander pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth in recording the win. He struck out two and walked a batter.
Radford reliever Nygeal Andrews falls to 0-1. The Highlander reliever gave up both Liberty runs on three hits during one inning of work. He struck out one and walked one.
Hits were at a premium throughout the afternoon. Liberty collected seven hits. Sizemore and catcher Trey Wimmer each had two hits apiece for the Flames. Radford managed five hits. Lee collected two hits to go along with an RBI for the Highlanders.
Liberty now awaits the completion of Big South Conference play this afternoon in order to find out the seeding and its opponent for the upcoming 2013 Big South Baseball Championship. The Flames will host the double-elimination tournament at Liberty Baseball Stadium, starting Tuesday. Liberty will play the final game of the opening day, starting 45 minutes after the completion of game 3, which is slated to start at 4:30 p.m.


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Received the Purple Heart, Victory Medal, Philippine Liberation Campaign Medal, American Area Campaign Medal.
Served during World War II on the USS Dixie (AD-14). Dixie Class Destroyer Tender: Laid down as the lead ship of the Dixie Class Destroyer Tenders, 17 March 1938, at New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J. Launched, 27 May 1939 Commissioned USS Dixie (AD-14), 25 April 1940, LCDR. G. H. Bahm in command.

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Just for grins I recently made a basic brine (water & salt) and added a few tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce to see what would happen with a couple of pork chops. They started out pink but after a day in the brine they had taken on a leathery brown tone.
Because of the salt in the brine and sauce all I seasoned them with was some black pepper prior to grilling.
I really didn't have any idea of what to expect but they actually turned out pretty good. The brine definitely got into the meat but the sauce wasn't overpowering, and the chops were nice and moist. I might think about refining the brine into a real recipe.


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Pebbleware - Products: Grand Cookie Sheet
I found this lovely beast in Cooking Light. Last year, I bought a set of 3 baking sheets... now they are all scarred with some kind of stain, though I've only used them a hand full of times. This photo doesn't show how beautiful these are, but they are shiny aluminum from mostly recycled material --- which means it won't rust, it heats evenly and is light. The trademark is the "pebble" surface that allows less contact between pan and food creating a non-stick surface. They have cookie pans, cake pans and pizza pans. Packaging also uses recycled material.


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
A Forrester Research report revealed that 88 percent of executive decision makers want to have a conversation, not a presentation. This means that if you, as a marketer, want to enable your sales team to deliver successful sales conversations, traditional tools such as PowerPoint won't cut it.
Fear not. Aberdeen Research found that using whiteboards to tell a story during sales conversations can improve performance. Specifically, they can help realize:
- 50% higher lead conversion rates
- 29% shorter time-to-productivity
- 15% shorter sales cycles
If whiteboard-based stories can enable more effective conversations, why is everyone still using PowerPoint in marketing and sales processes?
Sounds like an opportunity to me
To solve the critical issues around executive buyer engagement, you needto connect with your inner cave person and begin telling your story with stick figures, arrows and whimsical icons — and you need to develop a methodology. This shouldn't be like a typical sales methodology, centered around sales processes like opportunity management or account planning. A whiteboard selling methodology should be focused on what your salespeople are going to say during a meeting.
Incorporating whiteboards into your approach to executive decision makers is great, but it must be treated like a systematic process if you want to ensure the consistent quality of both the message and the delivery.
If you're looking to implement whiteboards throughout your organization, here are three essential steps to get there:
Develop – Marketing must work with salespeople to create powerful, customer needs-based messaging. The visual story you tell should start with customer challenges as the design point. Also, there are multiple objectives in the buying cycle that may require a dedicated whiteboard story.
For example, you need a whiteboard story that disrupts the status quo. A simple, concrete visualization of the threats and challenges that put your prospect and their outcomes at risk is critical to creating a buying vision. I call this the "Why Change" whiteboard. Once you get the acknowledgement from a prospect that they must do something different, they will want to know how you can help them do it, and how you do this better than the competition. I call this the "Why You" solution differentiation whiteboard. Additionally, a highly visual whiteboard may help explain a complex implementation processes so it appears more approachable and doable for your prospects.
Deploy – Whiteboard deployments need to be easily adoptable and usable for salespeople. Start by packaging whiteboards into a toolkit that contains both coaching and customer-facing content. Then, you must teach your salespeople to deliver your whiteboard — similar to helping an actor learn his part.
You must assume the role of director and provide a script and detailed explanation of the storyboard. Essentially, this is a step-by-step visualization of how the whiteboard is built and the corresponding conversation that goes along with each visual reveal. You also need to provide a video coaching example of a "golden pitch," demonstrating how the whiteboard should ideally be delivered. Literally, this should include showing how the pacing, tone and transitions work to maximize the impact.
Deliver – Salespeople need to understand both the art and science of whiteboarding. This means sufficient training on the use of a pen and a writing surface, and becoming comfortable with having a conversation versus giving a presentation. It also means understanding the principles behind why the story needs to be told the way it has been developed − including an understanding of storytelling models
that target the decision-making part of the brain, which doesn't have the capacity for language.
Also, practice makes perfect. This is the part where many whiteboards fall apart. Salespeople need to practice delivering the whiteboard until they can present it naturally while demonstrating complete control of the content. It's not just about eliminating errors. It's about building confidence, taking ownership and making it their story.
To use whiteboarding successfully, you must know how to create a solid message, and deploy it in a way that can be easily adopted and practiced, so that salespeople can deliver the technique with command. By implementing these three steps, you can enable your sales team to become world-class storytellers and ultimately, help your company close
more deals.
With more than 20 years of marketing and sales experience, Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Corporate Visions, Inc., is a recognized thought-leader, practitioner and author regarding marketing and sales messaging. His books, "Customer Message Management" and "Conversations That Win the Complex Sale," focus on increasing a marketing department's impact on selling by providing sales-ready messages and tools that salespeople can use to create a compelling story that wins more deals.


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When working with forms in Workspace, you automatically get a complete button which often hides the submit buttons on the form. It is a common requirement to hide this complete button, especially if you have pre-submit validation scripts on your form, or multiple submit buttons depending on the context.
You can disable this button in the following ways:
- You can customize the Workspace interface in Flex Builder
- You can modify the standard rendering services (for e.g. you can remove the route to the last two steps "Workspace enable" and "Reader extend" in the LC7UpgradeRender service)
- Use multipe in-direct submit buttons on the form, that contain a call to the click event of the hidden FS_SUBMIT button
The submit/complete button will still be available on the card/list view in the Workspace todo list. This enables users to submit the form without even opening the form itself in Workspace. In order to disable this button in the card view, you have two choices. Firstly you can specify the 'Form must be saved' setting in 'Form Data Mappings' in Workbench. The other option is to change the "client_routes_formViewOnly" to "true" in the workspace global settings, as described here:
under: Workspace Administration Help > Importing and Exporting Global Settings > Workspace ES global settings
Additional Information
To understand the situations when the complete button is displayed, and when the form submit buttons are displayed, please refer to the following description of the Inject Form Bridge service.
If your process uses Adobe XML forms (XDP files), you can render the form to PDF and then use the Inject Form Bridge operation. To render to PDF, you use the renderPDFForm operation that the Forms service provides.
Workspace ES provides a Complete button that users click to submit their forms. However, forms can also include submit buttons. When the Inject Form Bridge operation is used on a form, Workspace ES either hides the submit button, or disables the Complete button.
Form design
The form includes no submit button.
Workspace ES disables the Complete button and users cannot submit the form.
The form includes one submit button.
Workspace ES hides the submit button and enables the Workspace ES Complete button.
The form includes a button (indirect submit) that points to a submit button (direct submit)
Indirect-submit buttons always take precedence over direct-submit buttons, even if multiple submit buttons exist. Workspace ES always shows the indirect submit buttons.
Workspace ES hides the submit button and enables the Workspace ES Complete button.
The form includes multiple indirect-submit buttons that point to one or more direct-submit buttons.
Workspace ES disables the Workspace ES Complete button. The user must click the appropriate button on the form to submit it.
The user can still save a draft version of the form or take the form offline
The form includes either an indirect- or direct-submit button in a repeating subform.
Workspace ES excludes these buttons for submitting the form in Workspace ES.
Note: When the submit button, that was added to the form design with the Process Fields, is hidden, the button still provides the functionality for submitting the form.
Submit requests are handled by Workspace ES, which acts as an intermediary between the LiveCycle ES server and the form. Also, forms can be used both offline and online.
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Karuppu Vellai 02/03/2016 – Puthuyugam TV Show
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IT IS that time of year where the pavements get an extra pounding and no door-knocker is safe.
In just under six weeks, on May 22, the local elections will take place, so many residents can expect a call or two from candidates and their supporters.
While temptation may be to just nod politely until they leave (or slam the door straight away in some cases), listening to what they have to say is possibly the wiser option.
It is a well worn clichè that every vote counts but this year that could well be the case.
The current make-up of the council means the Conservatives have a majority of just one with 29 seats, Labour have 23 seats, the Lib Dems have four and there is one independent who is standing down.
Local elections often don't get the same level of interest as national elections hence the often low turnout (usually about 30 to 34 per cent in Swindon) but the council has a big part to play in the town we live in.
One issue likely to be raised by many is the recent introduction of the green waste charge. Many say is an unfair charge which will lead to problems, while its supporters say it is vital to ensure the books are balanced.
One topic of contention among the parties is town centre regeneration. Later this year will see the opening the Regent Circus leisure complex, which most will see as a good thing for the town but has enough been done to lift other parts of the town?
The main parties will obviously be fielding candidates but there are also likely to be a host of independents standing, looking to make a point on very local issues.
With such tight margins it is important people take a look at what every candidate is offering and decide for themselves what is best for Swindon.


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Should Employers Have The Right To Access Your Facebook Page? [Poll]
That is the question being asked in Michigan right now after a teacher's aide was suspended for refusing to let school administrators have access to her Facebook page. Kimberly Hester posted what she thought, was a funny picture depicting a co-worker's pants around her ankles with the caption "Thinking of you."


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Roberto Bonasio, Ph.D.
Roberto Bonasio, Ph.D.
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Laurea (Biotechnology )
University of Milan, 2000.
PhD (Immunology)
Harvard Medical School, 2006.
Description of Research ExpertiseResearch Interests
Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic memory
Noncoding RNAs
Chromatin biochemistry
Genes and behavior
Keywords: chromatin, noncoding RNAs, epigenetics, Polycomb, ants.
Description of Research
My laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms of epigenetic memory, which are key to a number of biological processes, including embryonic development, cancer, stem cell pluripotency, and brain function.
Epigenetics allows the inheritance of variation (phenotype) without changes in the DNA sequence (genotype). The fact that pluripotent embryonic stem cells, all sharing the same genome, differentiate into hundreds of cell types implies that information about cellular identity and transcriptional states must be stored somewhere within the cell but not in the primary DNA sequence. It has become apparent that this epigenetic information can be encoded in molecular signatures associated with chromatin, the complex of DNA, RNA, and proteins that packages the genome within the eukaryotic nucleus. These signatures include DNA methylation, histone "marks" and variants, higher-order chromatin structures, and chromatin-associated noncoding RNAs (Figure 1).
The latter constitute the focus of our current research. A large fraction of the genome is transcribed into RNAs that, despite lacking protein-coding potential, perform important regulatory functions. Like proteins, RNA molecules can fold into complex tertiary structures with elaborate surfaces and cavities that mediate highly specific molecular interactions and even catalyze biochemical reactions; like DNA, RNA can form Watson–Crick base pairs with other RNAs or with DNA itself (Figure 2). In other words, RNA is fluent in two languages: the elaborate three-dimensional discourse of proteins and the linear genetic code of DNA. Thus, it seems fitting that RNAs may act as a molecular bridge—an epigenetic "translator"—between chromatin-regulating proteins and the genome sequence. Understanding how noncoding RNAs affect the epigenetic states of cells and organisms will provide us with unprecedented access to the regulatory circuitry that makes multicellular life possible.
We and others have discovered that several chromatin-associated protein complexes bind to noncoding RNAs and that these interactions are essential for their proper recruitment and assembly on chromatin, but we have only scratched the surface of the intricate network of protein–RNA interactions in the nucleus and many questions on how noncoding RNAs regulate epigenetic processes at the molecular, cellular, and organismal level remain unanswered.
We approach these fundamental biological questions from both a mechanistic and a systems-level perspective. We combine traditional biochemistry and molecular biology with genome-wide approaches and computational biology and study both conventional systems (mammalian cells) and nonconventional model organisms, such as ants, which offer new, unexplored avenues to study epigenetics (Figure 3).
The Bonasio lab is part of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and of the Penn Epigenetics Program.
Lab Personnel:
Kristin Ingvarsdottir, Ph.D. — Postdoctoral Associate
Tim Christopher — Lab Manager
Chongsheng He, Ph.D. — Postdoctoral Associate
Janko Gospocic, Ph.D. — Postdoctoral Associate
Robert Warneford-Thomson — PhD student (BMB)
Emily Shields — PhD student (GCB)
Cristina Brady — Research Specialist
Lihong Sheng, Ph.D. — Postdoctoral Associate
Ana Petracovici — PhD student (CAMB/GGR)
Selected PublicationsBose Daniel A, Donahue Greg, Reinberg Danny, Shiekhattar Ramin, Bonasio Roberto, Berger Shelley L: RNA Binding to CBP Stimulates Histone Acetylation and Transcription. Cell 168(1-2): 135-149.e22, Jan 2017.
He C, Sidoli S, Warneford-Thomson R, Tatomer DC, Wilusz JE, Garcia BA, Bonasio R: High-resolution mapping of RNA-binding regions in the nuclear proteome of embryonic stem cells. Molecular Cell 64(2): 416–30, Oct 2016.
Simola DF, Graham RJ, Brady CM, Enzmann BL, Desplan C, Ray A, Zwiebel LJ, Bonasio R, Reinberg D, Liebig J, Berger SL: Epigenetic (re)programming of caste-specific behavior in the ant Camponotus floridanus. Science 351(6268): aac6633, Jan 2016.
Bonasio R, Shiekhattar R: Regulation of transcription by long noncoding RNAs. Annu Rev Genet 48: 433-55, 2014.
Beck DB, Narendra V, Drury WJ 3rd, Casey R, Jansen PW, Yuan ZF, Garcia BA, Vermeulen M, Bonasio R: In vivo proximity labeling for the detection of protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions. J Proteome Res 13(12): 6135-43, Dec 2014.
Kaneko S, Son J, Shen SS, Reinberg D, Bonasio R: PRC2 binds active promoters and contacts nascent RNAs in embryonic stem cells. Nat Struct Mol Biol 20(11): 1258-64, Nov 2013.
Bonasio R, Lecona E, Narendra V, Voigt P, Parisi F, Kluger Y, Reinberg D: Interactions with RNA direct the Polycomb group protein SCML2 to chromatin where it represses target genes. Elife 3: e02637, Jul 2014.
Kaneko S*, Bonasio R*, Saldana-Meyer R, Yoshida T, Son J, Nishino K, Umezawa A, Reinberg D: Interactions between JARID2 and noncoding RNAs regulate PRC2 recruitment to chromatin. Mol Cell 53(2): 290-300, Jan 2014.
Bonasio R, Zhang G, Ye C, Mutti NS, Fang X, Qin N, Donahue G, Yang P, Li Q, Li C, Zhang P, Huang Z, Berger SL, Reinberg D, Wang J, Liebig J: Genomic comparison of the ants Camponotus floridanus and Harpegnathos saltator. Science 329(5995): 1068-71, Aug 2010.
Bonasio R, Tu S, Reinberg D: Molecular signals of epigenetic states. Science 330(6004): 612-6, Oct 2010.
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Happy (day after) Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you had a blessed day! Safe…warm…and stuffed. I know today is Black Friday, but this girl is staying put! No crazy shoppers for me. Instead, I've decided to share yesterday's outfit with you.
I swear I had no idea what I was going to wear. Then I hit the mall and found a few things I really liked. I usually dress up more, but this year I wanted to stay comfy and casual. I got these boots from Lane Bryant during their 50% off flash sale and I kind of love them. They run a little big, since I wear a 9.5 and these are size 9. They are wide calf and they zip up great with extra room. The top I found over at Forever 21. It has this great black and gold shimmer to it and the back is in a semi-sheer in black. I'll have all of the outfit details at the bottom of this post.
Yes, there's some sort of biker vibe going on here LOL! I'm a bad ass like that. Hahahahaha…
Outfit Details
Top: Forever 21 Metallic Marled Contrast Top
Denim: Torrid Black Ankle Zip Stiletto Jean
Boots: Lane Bryant Side zip buckle boot
Earrings: Forever 21 Etched Tribal Pattern Earrings
Bracelets: 9 row bangle bracelet set by Lane Bryant


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COLUMBIA, Mo. - It may not look it, but many Missouri fields are hiding a deep, dry secret.
University of Missouri soil scientist Randy Miles said dried-out subsoil at depths of 3 feet or more could trouble next year's crops in Missouri even if there is plenty of moisture in the topsoil.
"For crops like corn it's not uncommon for roots to extend down 5-6 feet, and it's the soil moisture there that sustains the crop in the latter part of the growing season," Miles said. "When we have this deficit of moisture at that depth, we may not get grain fill to the extent of the plant's potential to perform."
This moisture shortfall isn't likely to change soon.
Miles estimates that Missouri farms need 16-18 inches of rainfall to replenish soil moisture enough to ensure a good crop next year. That's more than double normal winter precipitation, and would mean upwards of 13 feet of snowfall.
"People think that if we get a few good rains that the problem is solved," said Miles. "Those rains will only put moisture into the first few inches of soil. We'll need extraordinarily persistent rains for the moisture to get down 5 feet where the roots of mature plants live. It could take many weeks and months for water entering the soil surface to move into the 3-5 feet depth of the soil profile."
In October, the USDA designated 101 Missouri counties as natural disaster areas due to drought. This showed a recognition of crop losses caused by lack of rain and excessive heat during July and August.
Although U.S. farmers harvested the fourth-largest corn crop ever in 2011, the bushels per acre planted didn't quite measure up. Missouri's average corn yields dropped to 115 bushels per acre, compared to last year's 123 bushels, according to November crop reports from the USDA. Soybean yields received a similar hit, falling 4.5 bushels from last year's average of 41.5 bushels per acre. National averages told a similar story, with corn yields falling 6.1 bushels from 2010 and soybeans continuing the downward march to 2.2 bushels per acre lower.
"Missouri has more than 5 million acres of soybeans, so even though those 4 bushels per acre doesn't sound like much, it adds up to about $300 million in lost value this year," said Mike Collins, director of plant sciences with MU's College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.
This shortfall hinted at the difference subsoil moisture can make. Crops depend on subsoil moisture, especially during hot, dry periods from June to August. When rain stopped falling in June, corn felt drought stress during critical silking periods, ears struggled to fill out fully and some soybeans in their pods looked more like BB's than beans.
Crop farmers weren't the only ones affected by the heat and drought. Cattle farmers saw pastures dry up early, forcing many to start feeding hay far earlier than normal.
Winter rain and snow can recharge the soil, building up its bank of available moisture. However, this winter's moisture will probably only mask problems that will trouble crops next summer.
"I expect to see next year's crops be more dependent on current rainfall," Collins said. "If we don't get timely rain, I think we'll see crops shut down much quicker than we did this year."


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Tails the Straight
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Tails the Straight aka Tails the Breeder aka Tails the Hetero (b. August 2, 1980) is a counterpart of Miles "Tails" Prower from a parallel universe. He is much like Tails the Fox; however, Tails the Straight is a raging heterosexual. Despite, or perhaps because of his raging heterosexuality, Tails the Straight remained a virgin until his shocking heterosexual marriage to Sally Acorn. It is rumored that he engages in constant straight sex with his wife, exclusively in the missionary position, the straightest form of heterosexual sex known to man or beast. All this straight, married sex has resulted in several legitimate offspring, to the utter disgust of all of Mobius.
edit Early History
Tails the Straight is a counterpart of Miles, "Tails" Prower from a parallel universe, a parallel universe in which Tails is straight, hence the name. Little is known about about his home universe or how he got here, although it is rumored that Nintendo was involved in bringing him to this dimension.
Tails the Straight first arrived on Mobius in 1992, remembering very little about his origins. He was quickly accepted by the other Mobians, although many believed there was something strange about this new version of Tails. His handwriting was horrible, and he could neither decorate a room nor coordinate an outfit to save his life. Yet, his ability to repair appliances and automobiles soon became almost legendary. Many of his friends initially thought that he was a really butch top. However, when he began to make frequent sexual advances directed at women, and possibly also because his name is "Tails the Straight", rumors began circulating that Tails the Straight was in fact a heterosexual. He soon came out of the closet, admitting to having an un-unnatural desire to have intercourse with females. This caused many of his former friends to abandon him, and Tails the Straight became a pariah on Mobius. Instead of hiding his straightness, Tails the Straight reveled in it; it quickly became known that Tails the Straight was no ordinary breeder, but a flaming über-heterosexual. To prove his epic straightness, he entered the Great Straightness Competition of 1993.
edit The Great Straightness Competition of 1993
The Great Straightness Competition was a annual world-wide gathering of raging heterosexuals to determine who was the straightest person in the world. It had its origin in a quite heated discussion between U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and German Emperor Wilhelm II over who was the most heterosexual man alive. To decide the issue, they agreed to hold a competition between themselves, and any other man who was man enough to join, to determine who was the straightest person in the world, the winner receiving the title of Hetero-Lord. The first competition, held in 1904, was narrowly won by Kaiser Wilhelm, primarily because his name was much more manly and fear inspiring than the 2nd place challenger, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt. Roosevelt, after changing his nickname to Ted, asked for a rematch, and the Kaiser agreed, on condition that it be made into an annual competition. Since then, the title of Hetero-Lord had passed among many of the most famous heterosexuals of the 20th century, including such notable men as Benito Mussolini, John Wayne, Charles Bronson, the Reverend Fred Phelps, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Chuck Norris, Axl Rose and Mr. T.
In 1993 Tails the Straight entered the 90th annual Great Straightness Competition, using his legendary straightness to soundly defeat all his rivals, including two of the former winners, Mr. Norris and Mr T. horribly. He then utterly disgusted all present with his gratuitous displays of straightness. This excessive heterosexuality sickened and shocked all present. Tails the Straight was declared Hetero-Lord for life (later extended to all eternity), on condition that he never produce such an extreme display of heterosexuality again.
edit Straight Marriage
After becoming the Hetero-Lord, Tails the Straight turned his attention to seducing Sally Acorn, the object of his un-unnatural desires. Due to his persistence, and epic straightness, Tails the Straight has able to infect Sally with teh str8. The two were soon married in what may have been the first straight marriage ceremony in Mobius. Several Mobians sued to stop the wedding, arguing that straight marriage is an abomination against the laws of God. However, no law against straight marriage existed, probably because no one ever thought such a strange thing would ever be attempted. Therefore, nothing could be done to prevent the marriage between a male and a female. After the marriage, Tails and Sally engaged in obscene levels of really, really straight sex on their honeymoon specifically and strictly in the missionary position.
edit Children & Fempreg
Due to their frequent straight sexual encounters, Sally, despite being a female, eventually became heavy with child. This novel condition was soon labeled "fempreg", a combination of the words female and mpreg . This condition of "fempreg" thoroughly disgusted the populace and baffled the medical doctors of Mobius; such a condition was previously believed to have been impossible. After many ultra-sounds, it was determined that the baby was growing in Sally's uterus, of all places, and most shockingly, it appeared that the baby would be born out of her vagina! When Sally's obstetrician first told her, several nurses present fainted from disgust and sheer horror. Sally's doctors suggested that she undergo a c-section, not knowing how safe vaginal birth would be, or even if it would be possible. She concurred; unfortunately, she went into labor before her appointment, and gave birth to Tails the Straight's son, Tails the Straight Jr, vaginally.
Tails the Straight Jr. appears to be turning out to be as straight, if not even straighter than his father, if such a thing is possible. Although he is still a young child, he is exhibiting many straight behaviors, such as pronouncing the letter "s" differently than "th", sort of like a voiceless "z"; playing with toy trucks and plastic guns at the complete and utter exclusion of dolls; killing small animals for the fun of it; and possessing unbelievably stiff wrists and penis. As expected, other children constantly make fun of Tails the Straight Jr. because his mother, shockingly, gave birth to him and because of his obvious straightness, calling him a "bush-goblin", in reference to fact he was birthed out of a vagina.
edit Tails the Straight Today
Due to the oppression of heterosexuals in Mobius, and the fact that his son was permanently expelled from school for his heterosexual antics, Tails the Straight has recently moved his family to the much more straight-friendly environment of Oklahoma. He currently works as a car mechanic and part time as a cattle rancher, the straightest occupations known to man.
edit See also
|Bruce Campbell - Bruce Lee - Charles Bronson - Chow Yun-Fat - Clint Eastwood - Jack Dempsey - Dirty Harry - Dolemite - Jackie Chan - Mohandas Gandhi - James Bevel - Martin Luther King, Jr. - Tony Jaa - Jet Li - Shaft - Red Forman - Samuel L. Jackson - Ving Rhames - Tails the Straight - Mike Tyson - John Wayne - Mr. T - Chuck Norris - the Notorious B.I.G. - Jabba the Hutt - Juggernaut - Rambo - Charlton Heston


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At least this is my opinion.
Druids are exempt because they have Cyclone as a class skill. An actual CC, while still having things like Bash/Maim/Root/Beam as CC's.
SoL needs another 15% to make up for the power nerf.
Ret is back to swinging the golden lasso of harmlessness
Silence removal via AM is a nice add (that should have been baseline to begin with) the long 3 minute cd doesn't do to much in the form of reliable survivability.
Last edited by OmegaManHester; 2013-05-06 at 03:32 AM.
This would give us more sustained pressure which is something we seriously need. It would also stop us from using the t15 4 piece over the PvP set.
you must be new because ret mobility is actually really good. we almost have 100% uptime on our target. the issue is our defense.
ret damage really isn't ~that~ bad without the 4set pve bonus, sure you do need cooldowns to actually net a kill on something, but that's typically how arenas work (cc something, pop cds, win).
Problem is, every other class/spec that is competitive has their burst on a shorter timeframe. Frost Mage with 30 sec CD on Deep, FDK with 60 sec on PoF, SPriest with ~30 sec on 3-orb DP/insanity. So, if they go to set up the kill and fail or get CCd/countered, they can re-try again in 30-60 seconds. That means, for a mage for example, first burst gets trinketed, next 3 all cannot.
Ret burst is TWO MINUTES by comparison (not counting in GoAK at FIVE), which coincidentally is enough time to reset trinkets.
Maybe 4pc PVE will be a band-aid for this tier, but we're still bringing Honda Civics to a street race against Corvettes/Lambos/whatever.
Last edited by Nairobi; 2013-05-10 at 05:27 PM.
but yeah that was my point, i stated that our mobility is fine, our defense is shit, and our sustain damage damage is ~ok~ (only with the 4set pve bonus)
Ignoring PVP power (or rather assuming equal attacks prior to reux), a 100k ice lance hits for 35k in 5.3, Stacking resil (to 68%) reduces that to 32k, a ~9.2% reduction for those 3%.
Personally, just giving Ret back its stun break on HoF would be fine (IMO). Give it a 30sec ICD (or make it not function if freedom is already active) even, to prevent double-breaking with Clemency, since I'm sure people would cry OP. But breaking that Deep can be game changing, and would give Ret a good "defensive" without introducing another cooldown for the class (which would throw off Holy PVP and Prot PVE).
Anyone on the PTR know how well this incomeing 15% buff helps for pve sustained DPS?


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East Coast weather conditions are very different from West Coast conditions, with icier mountains that tend to get less snow. However, the East Coast does have some amazing ski resorts and mountains, which offer great alpine and nordic skiing, snowboarding, and a variety of other winter sports. Here are ten of the East Coast's top ski mountains:
Stowe Mountian, Vermont
Stowe Mountain Resort, located in Stowe, Vermont. The resort is on Mt. Mansfield, Vermont's highest peak, boasting an elevation of 4,395 feet. The top elevation of the ski area is 3,640 feet with a vertical drop of 2,360 feet. The resort offers 485 skiable acres with 116 trails and 13 lifts. Stowe Mountain has well-groomed trails, good cross-country options, and offers backcountry skiing. The mountain is particularly famous for the "Front Four," the four runs on the front side of the mountain, known as Goat, Starr, Liftline, and National. The "Front Four" offer some of the East Coast's most challenging skiing.
Sugarloaf Ski Area and Resort, Maine
Located in the Carrabassett Valley in Maine, Sugarloaf is Maine's second highest peak at 4,237 feet. Overall the ski area has more than 1,400 skiable acres and a vertical drop of 2,280 feet, the most continuous vertical drop on the East Coast. The mountain offers 138 trails with 15 lifts on over 651 acres. Sugarloaf also has the East Coast's only lift-serviced above-tree line skiing.
Whiteface, New York
Whiteface Mountain Ski Resort is located in Wilmington, New York, which is about 13 miles from Lake Placid, a former host of the Winter Olympics. Whiteface has the highest vertical drop in the east: 3,430 feet. The ski area has mixed terrain, offering gentle terrain for beginners and many expert trails and extreme backcountry skiing. This ski area has 314 skiable acres, 85 trails, and 11 lifts. Whiteface's highest skiable terrain lies at an elevation of 4,650 feet; this terrain is known as The Slides. The Slides are a series of steep narrow chutes, only accessible by hiking to the top, and only for expert skiers. In addition, The Slides are only opened when deemed safe and at times a ride on The Slides requires full avalanche gear.
Jay Peak, Vermont
Located in Jay, Vermont, Jay Peak is the snowiest ski area on the east coast, averaging 355 inches of snowfall annually. The mountain has 2 peaks and over 50 miles of skiable terrain. Jay Peak's ski area has a top elevation of 3,968 feet and a vertical rise of 2,153 feet. There are 76 trails and 8 lifts over an area of 385 acres. Jay Peak is known for its challenging terrain and good backcountry skiing. The peak is best known for getting the most snow on the East Coast.
Killington Resort, Vermont
Killington is located in central Vermont, east of Rutland. Killington Resort spans six peaks: Killington Peak, Skye Peak, Ramshead Peak, Snowdon Peak, Bear Mountain Peak, and Sunrise Mountain Peak. This resort is much larger than any other ski resort on the East Coast. The ski area offers 141 runs and 22 lifts over 752 acres acres. The summit elevation is 4,241 feet and has a vertical drop of 3,050 feet. There are runs for skiers and snowboarders of all levels. Killington is also known for its great apres-ski and nightlife options.
Smugglers Notch, Vermont
Smugglers Notch is known for its great family ski area and fantastic ski school. The ski area is located in Smugglers' Notch, Vermont, just 2.9 miles from Stowe. The resort is compiled of three interconnected mountains: Madonna, Sterling, and Morse. The ski area has a top elevation of 3,640 feet with a vertical drop of 2,610 feet. There are 78 trails with 8 lifts and 310 skiable acres. Smugglers Notch has over 1000 acres of terrain and the Nordic Center offers 58 kilometers of cross-country and snowshoe trails. Another bonus is that Smugglers' Notch has the only triple black diamond on the East Coast: Black Hole.
Holiday Valley, New York
Located in Ellicottville, New York, this ski area has a summit elevation of 2,250 feet. The ski area has 56 trails, 13 lifts, and 282 skiable acres. Beginners of all ages can take private lessons from the ski and snowboard school at Holiday Valley. In addition, the resort offers 37 night trails, four terrain parks, and a half pipe.
Sugarbush, Vermont
Located in Warren, Vermont, Sugarbrush has excellent terrain. The summit elevation is 4,083 feet with a vertical drop of 2,600 feet. There are 508 skiable acres, 111 trails, and 16 lifts with a good range of intermediate and advanced runs. Sugarbrush encompasses Mount Ellen, Lincoln Peak, Castlerock Peak, North Lynx Peak, Gad Peak, and Inverness Peak. Sugarbrush offers many lessons and programs, including programs for racing and backcountry skiing.
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
Bretton Woods Mountain Resort, also known as the Mount Washington Resort, is located in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Bretton Woods is the largest ski area in New Hampshire with 434 skiable acres. The ski area has 101 trails, 10 lifts, and four terrain parks. The resort also has night skiing.
Okemo Mountain, Vermont
Located in Ludlow, Vermont, Okemo Mountain is near to Killington. The ski area has 119 trails, 19 lifts, and 632 skiable acres. The mountain has a top elevation of 3,344 feet and a vertical drop of 2,200 feet. Okemo Mountain resort has 97% snowmaking, so the resort has consistently good coverage. In addition, the runs provide a good range of difficulty level.


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The past is present. Or … you can go home again.
First I want to say a big "Hello!" to all the Blueshirts diehards, and I also want to tell you all that I will miss Sam as much as you guys do. Maybe more. He is (and always will be) a great friend and a great writer, and a person who did his job with the greatest of enthusiasm and skill (plus the prettiest practice swing in golf).
I can't replace him.
But … this blog is one of the greatest places in sports. It has become sort of like the Garden itself, because while its players retire or are traded away, the place remains the same and it is the fans who make it so and make it go. A blog is only as good as its readers – or participants might be a better word. Sam made it great, no doubt. But you all made it better, and we certainly hope you will stay, just as you stay glued to your TVs or your MSG seats whether you're watching Gilbert or Davidson or Pavelich or Patrick or Leetch or Messier or Lindros or Jagr or Lundqvist.
Because we know your passion, and that never changes, no matter who fills the blue shirts.
Some of you probably know me. I covered the Rangers for The Journal News to various degrees from the 1978-79 team that made an improbable run to the Stanley Cup finals (and should have won), through the only Rangers team in the last 68+ years to win the Cup, through all the mayhem of the non-playoff disaster, until the middle of the forgettable Bryan Trottier era. I have written a couple of books on the Rangers, and used to be a regular in The Hockey News and many other publications, as well as on MSG Network.
My all-time favorites are the same as your favorites – Graves, Leetch, Richter, Messier, going back to Davidson and the Maloney brothers and forward to King Henrik.
I covered the Rangers home and away, through sickness and in health, through the good, the bad and the awful.
But those were the days in which, if somebody said, "blog" you'd think they'd eaten some bad clams (or MSG hot dogs). I never had the chance to blog about "my" team when it was mine.
So the people here have entrusted me to be part of the team that tries to fill Sam's skates (or his golf shoes). All I ask is that you stay with us, and here's why. It is the banter among you that make this blog what it is. It is the sheer numbers of you guys and ladies who watch the game with your keyboards within reach, and who let the opinions and observations fly. Who live and die with every penalty call, every bad line change, every goal, every W-L-OT.
We're going to continue to give you that forum. None of us personally will be able to be as involved as Sam was, but we will try to keep you informed, and to hear you. If there is ever anything in particular you want to discuss, just let us know.
An aside to Sam's last post: Exactly like Sam, my first assignment for the newspaper was a football game in Northern Westchester, and the next day my girlfriend (who would become my wife) and I drove up there in a pouring rain to buy a stack of northern editions of the paper. Only this was quite a few years before Sam's first story.
Fortunately for me, the Rangers subject I know best is the subject coming up in the next few days: No. 9, the most popular, beloved Ranger ever. So hopefully we'll have time to tell some Adam Graves stories and to help celebrate the retirement of his number from this weekend through Tuesday's ceremony.
So keep checking in, and keep your comments coming. Again, if there is ever anything you want to bring up, just let us know. Thanks.
Update, 2:09 p.m.: The Rangers "have traded Dan Fritsche to Minnesota for defenseman Eric Reitz":http://wild.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=406780. Reitz, 26 (7/29/82), had two points (1-1=2) and 41 penalty minutes in 31 games with the Wild this season, and totaled two points (1-1=2) and 45 penalty minutes in 37 career games with Minnesota.


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Debutant Joe Root passed an admirable half-century in a stand of 103 with Matt Prior to help England to 277 for seven by lunch on day two of the final Test against India.
Prior (57) was the first of the sixth-wicket pair to twin 50s, defying the physics of this deathly slow Nagpur pitch to bag a trademark square-cut off Pragyan Ojhan for his sixth four.
But it was 21-year-old Root (65no) who was to play the most substantial innings on a surface which means every run is hard-earned.
A surprise inclusion for this match which England must at least draw to complete a historic series victory here, the young Yorkshireman needed 154 balls to pass his 50. There were only two boundaries along the way, in a nonetheless convincing innings which hinted at his significant potential at Test level and extended to 200 deliveries by the time he batted through a second successive session.
Root's was a telling performance too in the context of the match, after he and Prior joined forces on a vulnerable 139 for five on Thursday.
Their first task on Friday was to negotiate another spell from Ishant Sharma, in these extreme conditions which have made India's solitary seamer a bigger threat than any of their four spinners.
There were no scrapes against any of the bowlers, as England's batsmen kept their patience and tailored shot-making to the limitations of the pitch, until Prior succumbed to Ravichandran Ashwin.
The off-spinner struck, from round the wicket, with a delivery that did not turn but snaked past Prior's defensive push on the angle to hit off-stump.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni sensibly turned straight back to Ishant (three for 47), to attack the new batsman, and that obvious switch worked when Tim Bresnan missed an inswinger to go for a second-ball duck.
This was a pitch which did not appear likely to suit Graeme Swann's natural timing and clean-striking. But England's number nine confounded that premise to keep Root company for the remainder of the morning.


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Back in 1998, the 13-0 Broncos came to the Meadowlands to play a losing Giants team – and were beaten.
The Panthers could secure home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs with a win and a Cardinals loss. But Carolina will be without running back Jonathan Stewart, who has been on a strong, uh, run recently.
Carolina leads the NFL with 21 interceptions and 33 takeaways. Safety Kurt Coleman has interceptions in each of his last five games.
The Giants are in a three-way tie atop the mediocre NFC East, but face a tougher schedule than does either Washington or Philadelphia.
Key matchup: Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr., against Panthers cornerback Josh Norman.


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HOUSTON - One of the most traveled streets in Houston will be down to one lane during a construction project, making it an area drivers will want to avoid.
Crews plan to demolish and replace the 50-year-old bridge off of Westheimer in Highland Village in coming weeks.
"It's going to be a nightmare...tough deal," said driver Alan Bailey.
Several signs near the Galleria and Highland Village area on Westheimer inside of the 610 loop inform drivers about the construction. Officials said traffic will be limited to one lane in each direction just east of Mid Lane and over the railroad tracks.
Officials said the project is necessary because an old ditch that runs under the bridge has sections that are crumbling. It's narrow and has been a challenge to maintain, so officials decided to enclose the ditch. They are installing concrete box culverts. When this bridge is rebuilt, drivers won't even notice the new structures hidden underneath.
"I never saw it out of its banks ...did before," said Bailey.
A uniformed police officer usually manning the Highland Village area will be present, but that's not expected to add relieve the congested road. Traffic control is not scheduled for the area and severe delays are expected.
Drivers are encouraged to take alternate routes in both morning and evening driving hours during the continuous closure.
Richmond, San Felipe, Memorial, Westpark and 59 are recommended alternative streets. Severe delays are expected so plan accordingly.
The contractor does have an incentive to finish the project early, but that's not a guarantee.
Officials said Westheimer will reopen in 30 days or less. Drivers can expect the roadway to appear smoother once construction is complete.
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Gum Diseases
Loose Tooth Seven Years After Bone Graphing
I had bone graphing around seven years ago on my top teeth. All of them. When the surgery was done I already had two chewing teeth on the bottom teeth...one on each side of my mouth missing because they died and fell out (or perhaps were pulled out) after root canal surgery attempts. Now the very last tooth on my top left quadron ( same side as my heart or right side when the dentist is looking at me) has grown out of its socket because there is an empty space where the chewing tooth used to be on the bottom and is very loose but does not hurt me. It has had cavities and fillings, when I was younger and I don`t know whether to pull it or save it, I think it still has some feeling in the nerves but I`m concerned it may be dying. I don`t know how much longer it will be before it falls out. I get inflammed around the gum line there and I get earaches sometimes but the pain is not enought to even take a tylenol at times. I could not afford to put teeth on the bottom and now this is the result. In fact I never followed up after the actual bone graphing...because it took me so long to pay it off. My husband and I had dental insurance back then and we lost it through his employer about a year ago. What should I do? Could the tooth be saved?
Sorry for my delayed answer. If the tooth is loose and has inflammation around it, if it is difficult for you and if you are not planing to have restoration to replace what is lost on the bottom, I recommend extraction. This way at least you eliminate infection/inflammation that may affect adjacent teeth. However, you should have some type of restoration to support mastication. Your front teeth may start moving around and flaring out if you do not have enough back teeth to chew on.
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College of Dentistry
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The New Mexico Supreme Court's Feb. 10 order rejecting the latest New Mexico House of Representatives redistricting plan sent some Roundhouse Republicans into a fury.
The high court order rejected a plan approved by former District Judge James Hall, which favored one of Gov. Susana Martinez' maps over one submitted by legislative Democrats. The order sends the case back to Hall, who is encouraged to draw new lines by Feb. 27.
"They seem to be saying it's more important to have a partisan Democratic majority than one person, one vote," state Sen. Rod Adair, R-Chaves, told SFR on Feb. 10. "Some people say [the order] put in a 43-27 permanent Democratic majority with uncompetitive seats."
Adair wasn't willing to directly attribute the latter statement to himself, instead citing unidentified grumblings in the Roundhouse.
In truth, the order doesn't put any redistricting plan into effect; instead, it sends Hall back to the drawing board. But Adair's rhetoric highlights how many Republicans are feeling right now.
The one person, one vote reference alludes to a 1964 US Supreme Court ruling that legislative districts must serve roughly equal populations. (If one district had more people than another, the vote of each person within that district would in effect be worth less than the vote of a person who lived in a smaller district.)
Republicans used that principle to appeal the state Supreme Court's order to a US District Court on Feb. 13, arguing that the order "instructed the state district court judge to sacrifice the overriding constitutional requirement of population equality in order to…achieve a map more favorable to Democrats." The appeal, filed on behalf of two prospective state House candidates and a Curry County resident, urges a three-judge panel overturn the order.
The details are devilish, and the stakes are high—so in order to help you understand why all of this matters, SFR has crafted an easy, step-by-step guide to redistricting.
Why is redistricting so political?
Every 10 years, New Mexico has to redraw lines to accommodate population shifts. The only way to do that, says House Floor Majority Leader Ken Martinez, D-Cibola, is to consolidate certain districts and run politicians of the same party against each other.
"[It's] a very difficult thing to do," Martinez tells SFR. "It's akin to political death."
The overall political makeup of the state is also in jeopardy each time new lines are drawn. Democrats, who have controlled the Legislature for more than 80 years, want to protect their majority, House Minority Leader Tom Taylor, R-San Juan, says.
"It's a difficult thing for them when the House moves in the direction that it has," Taylor says, referring to the 2010 election of the most state House Republicans since the 1960s.
Who are the players?
• Susana Martinez is playing a larger role than most governors in New Mexico's redistricting history. In the early 2000s, Republican Gov. Gary Johnson vetoed Democratic maps, but he didn't submit his own alternative plans the way Martinez did after vetoing the Legislature's maps last fall [cover story, Dec. 21: "Lines in the Suit"].
• State Reps. Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, and Antonio "Moe" Maestas, D-Bernalillo, have each filed lawsuits arguing for and against various plans, including the hotly contested state House of Representatives plan.
• The New Mexico Supreme Court, according to its Feb. 10 order, is weighing in for the first time on "the overarching legal principles that govern court-drawn redistricting." All of the justices are Democrats except for Chief Justice Charles Daniels, an independent who recused himself from the case because of his involvement as a lawyer in redistricting a decade ago.
How did we get here?
In September, the Legislature held a special session meant to focus solely on drawing new maps. Democrats passed plans that Susana Martinez quickly rejected for "promoting partisan goals."
In the state House maps, Republicans had a problem with Democrats' attempts to keep party-friendly districts in the state's north-central region intact, which Republicans say didn't match the true population trends.
After several cases were filed in various courts, the state Supreme Court consolidated them and designated Hall to make a decision. For the House, Hall ultimately chose Martinez' map over the Legislature's because it had the least amount of population change, or deviation. Egolf and Maestas then appealed Hall's ruling to the Supreme Court. Some of their concerns include preserving communities of interest, such as those primarily composed of Hispanics and Native Americans.
Other redistricting plans, including for US Congress and state Senate, were resolved relatively easily.
What's a "community of interest"?
While new maps must adhere to one person, one vote, they must also take minority voters into account, per the federal Voting Rights Act. Communities of interest can also include cities, towns, county lines, historic neighborhoods and more.
Maestas says the more compact a plan is, the more likely it will abide by communities of interest. He says the Republican plan broke up voting districts in Deming, Las Vegas and Silver City.
"If the district looks like roadkill, it's probably a bad idea," Maestas tells SFR.
Why did the Supreme Court reject Hall's map?
Hall chose the governor's plan based on its minimal deviation, preserving the one person, one vote principle. The high court order, however, says Hall relied too heavily on keeping the populations equal and not enough on other redistricting principles. Although the governor's plan adhered to an approximately 1 percent population deviation, the high court order says Hall should have allowed the deviation to be slightly larger—in the past, it's gone up to 5 percent—while also taking into consideration other guidelines. Specifically, the court order focuses on political bias in Hall's choice of a map that favors one party (in this case, the Republicans) over another.
Political bias?
Hall chose a plan with a politically biased outcome—which is to say that, all other things equal, the governor's plan would benefit Republicans more than Democrats in future elections.
According to the state Supreme Court, Hall's mistake was his failure to properly weigh the political ramifications of the map's outcome.
"It may be suggested that those who redistrict and reapportion should work with census, not political, data and achieve population equality without regard for political impact," the order reads, quoting the 1973 US Supreme Court case Gaffney v. Cummings. "But this politically mindless approach may produce, whether intended or not, the most grossly gerrymandered results."
Another part of the order reads that a court's adoption of a plan "that represents one political party's idea of how district boundaries should be drawn" isn't fair. One could argue, however, that the legislative maps Martinez vetoed are equally partisan.
What happens next?
The Supreme Court urged Hall to draw a new map by Feb. 27, but the federal court challenge could further delay the process. On Feb. 14, Martinez' general counsel, Jessica Hernandez, told the blog Capitol Report New Mexico that the administration intends to take the case all the way to the US Supreme Court. Ultimately, things need to be resolved by March 20 in order to hold elections as usual.


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I ran into a specific problem right out the gate(I won't ask about it- in this thread, wrong sub-forum) but my searches for an answer were fruitless, I suspect its a difference between Windows and Linux.


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Hi everyone! Any tips you can give me on how to wean my little one from breastfeeding?
Hi everyone! Any tips you can give me on how to wean my little one from breastfeeding?
Abrupt weaning can cause problems for mom and baby, so ideally you should plan to gently wean over several weeks or months. If you cannot, the process can be sped up, but unless it is an emergency or the baby is very young, I would do it as gently and cautiously as possible.
Begin by dropping one feed per day. Most women choose to drop the first and last feedings for the final days, since they are the most beloved. Some experienced mothers recommend wearing a thick sweater at night to discourage night nursing, if the baby co-sleeps. Remember, however, that young babies, even some toddlers, need nighttime feedings for development. If this is the case, be prepared to replace nighttime breast feedings with bottle feedings. Having someone beside the mother provide bottle feedings usually helps the process to go more smoothly.
Hi Marifi116,
Thank you for your post. Would you be able to tell us how old your baby is? Was your baby exclusively breastfed? Do you feel your baby is wanting to wean or are there other reasons why you feel this may be the right time? Lots of questions! - but this will help us to reply to your post better.
Do you feed your baby expressed breast milk from a cup or bottle at all? As this is a good way to continue feeding your baby breast milk whilst giving you a break if you feel you need it. Other family members can also help with this.
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Hi LJ,
Thank you for taking time looking into my question.
My son is already 14 months old. I have started mix-feeding him (breastfeeding and bottle feeding) when he was 8 months. I was hoping that after a month or two he would stop feeding from me since I don't have milk anymore and it does hurt now. Also I'm 6-month pregnant that's why I feel I need to discontinue breastfeeding him, after all he's not getting any from. It's more like his pacifier.
Hi mom2many,
Thank you for this tip.
Hi Marifi,
Thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately many mums do find it uncomfortable to breastfeed when they are pregnant.
If he is feeding at night-time, you could try giving him a protein rich snack just before he goes to bed (e.g. scrambled eggs on toast). Also, it's a good idea to make sure he is eating plenty in the daytime - you can do this by offering him frequent healthy snacks (e.g. fruit, yoghurt). When you stop breastfeeding, it is important to make sure your toddler is getting enough Calcium - this could be through milk, yoghurt or cheese, for example.
The No Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley has some excellent gentle suggestions for stopping your child to breastfeed through the night if this is what is happening. For example, by introducing a soft toy which acts as a 'lovey' to comfort the baby and also by having a good bedtime routine.
I hope some of this helps,
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Fluppeteer - Friday, July 29, 2005 - linkI'm not sure how board-specific this would be (although the BIOS could easily get
in on the act), but I notice nVidia are claiming a big readback speed increase on
the Quadro FX4500 over the FX4400 (2.4GB/s vs 1GB/s). This doesn't seem to apply
to the 7800GTX in the GPUbench report I managed to find, but it's the kind of thing
which could be massively driver and BIOS-dependent.
I know this is a more artifical figure than the games which have been run, but
significant jumps like this (along with the increased vector dot rate) make these
cards much more attractive than the 6800 series for non-graphical work. Would it
be possible to try to confirm whether this speed-up is specific to the Quadro
board, or whether it applies to the consumer cards too? (Either by a little bit
of test code, or by running some artificial benchmarks.)
Just curious. Not that I'll be able to afford a 4500 anyway...
tmehanna - Thursday, July 28, 2005 - linkALL 7800GTX cards at this point are manufactured by nvidia and sold as is by the "vendors". ONLY physical difference is the logo on the cooler. If some vendors screen and OC their cards before selling, clock speeds would be the only difference. ANY perfomance or heat dissipation differences at similar clock speeds are MERELY manufacturing variances. Reply
DerekWilson - Thursday, July 28, 2005 - linkNot true. Vendors have some bios control over aspect of the cards that are not exposed to users. We have not been able to confirm any details from any vendor or NVIDIA (as they like to keep this stuff under wraps), but temp, heat, and noise (and even overclockability) could be affected by video bios settings.
We don't know the details; we need more clarification. In the meantime, these are the numbers we are seeing so we will report them. If we are able to get the information we need to really say why we see these differences then we will definitely publish our findings. Reply
lambchops3344 - Wednesday, July 27, 2005 - linkno matter how much better a card does im always going to by evga... ive saved more time and money with the step up program. there customer support is soo good too. Reply
NullSubroutine - Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - linkAfter reading an article about how CPU performance is tapering off (murphy's law or moores law, i forget which one), but GPU performance has continued to increase, and has showed signs that it will continue to increase. Also I remember an article about Nvidia or ATi (i cant remember which) was asked about any "dual core" GPU's that will be developed. They answered that if you really look at the hardware, GPUs are like multiprocessors, or something to that nature. Perhaps this could be the reason for the clockspeed questions? It would seem logical to me that their technology doesnt run like a typical cpu, because each "processor" runs at a different speed? I think you might understand what im trying to say, at least I hope so cuz im failing miserably at...what was i sayin? Reply
Gamingphreek - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkNot sure if this has already been discussed in earlier articles, but, the 7800GTX as everyone (including myself) seems bottlenecked at every resolution except 16x12. And then with AA and AF enabled the X850XT seems to catch up. While the averages might be the same, has anandtech ever thought of including the minimum and maximum framerates on their graphs.
-Kevin Boyd Reply
Fluppeteer - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkJust wanted to thank Derek and Josh for clarifying the dual link situation. MSI don't mention anything about dual link, but after the debacle with their 6800"GT" I'm not sure I'd have trusted their publications anyway... If *all* the 7800GTXs are dual link, I'm more confident (although if there's actually a chance to try one with a 30" ACD or - preferably - a T221 DG5 in a future review I'd be even happier!)
Good review, even if we can expect most cards to be pretty much clones of the reference design for now.
DerekWilson - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkWe'll have some tests with a Cinema Display at some point ...
But for now, we can actually see the Silicon Image TMDS used for Dual-Link DVI under the HSF. :-) Reply
Fluppeteer - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkCool; it'd reassure me before I splash out! (Although I'm still hoping for the extra RAM pads to get filled out - got to hate 36MB frame buffers - but with the Quadro 4500 allegedly due at SIGGRAPH it shouldn't be long now.)
Sounds like the same solution as the Quadro 3400/6800GTo, with the internal transmitter used for one link and the SiI part for the other. I don't suppose you've pulled the fan off to find out the part number?
I'd also be interested in knowing whether the signal quality has improved on the internal transmitter; nVidia have a bad record with this, and the T221 pushes the single link close to the 165MHz limit (and the dual link, for that matter). People have struggled with the 6800 series, even in Quadro form, where the internal transmitters have been in use. It'd be nice to find out if they're learning, although asking you to stick an oscilloscope on the output is a bit optimistic. :-) These days this probably affects people with (two) 1920x1200 panels as well as oddballs like me with DG5s, though.
On the subject of DVI, I don't suppose nVidia have HDCP support yet, do they? (Silicon Image do a part which can help out, or I believe it can be done in the driver.) It's really a Longhorn thing, but you never know...
Now, if only nVidia would produce an SLi SFR mode with horizontal spanning which didn't try to merge data down the SLi link, I'd be able to get two cards and actually play games on two inputs to the T221 (or two monitors); the way the 7800 benchmarks are going, 3840x2400 is going to be necessary to make anything fill rate limited in SLi. (Or have they done this already? There was talk about Quadros having dual-card OpenGL support, but I'm behind on nVidia drivers while my machine's in bits.)
Thanks for the info!
(Starts saving up...)
meolsen - Wednesday, July 27, 2005 - linkNether Evga NOR MSI advertise that their card is capable of driving at the resolutions that would suggest that the dual-link DVI is enabled.
E.g., MSI:
Advanced Display Functionality
• Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz
• Dual DVO ports for interfacing to external TMDS transmitters and external TV encoders
• Full NVIDIA nView multi-display technology capability
Why would they conceal this feature/? Reply
Fluppeteer - Friday, July 29, 2005 - link"Advertise" is perhaps a strong word, but the PDF data sheet on the eVGA web site
does say that one output is dual link (even though the main specifications say
the maximum digital resolution is 1600x1200, which is nonsense, like all resolution
claims, even for most single link cards).
I couldn't (last I looked) find anything about dual link support on the MSI site.
But then, MSI have in the past ignored that the 6800GTo was dual link, and then
claimed that their (real) 6800GT *was* dual link, and that the SiI transmitters
were unnecessary... (Although I'm still mystified how the PNY AGP 6600GT seems to
have dual dual link support without external transmitters.)
I'm presuming both heads have analogue output, btw (I only ask because the GTo,
for some astonishing reason, only has digital output on its single link head).
Past experience (with the 6800) suggests that the reason none of the manufacturers
mention it is that very few people actually know what dual link DVI *is*. A lot
probably haven't tried it - there being, last I looked, only three monitors which
can use it anyway, two of which are discontinued. nVidia caused a lot of confusion
by claiming support in the chipset and putting an external transmitter on their
reference card, which most manufacturers left off without updating their specs.
Unfortunately, nVidia seem to fob off all their tech support to the manufacturers,
who aren't always qualified to answer questions - I've not found anywhere to send
driver feature requests, for example. Seeing the external transmitter make it to
released boards is a vast relief to me.
Now the Quadro 4500 has been announced, I'm hoping the 512MB boards will appear
(and they might be DDL). Fingers crossed.
DerekWilson - Thursday, July 28, 2005 - linkYes. Again, the SI TMDS for dual-link is on the pcb. So far there are no 7800 cards that we have seen without dual-link on one port.
NVIDIA didn't even make this clear at their initial launch. But it is there. If we see a board without dual-link we'll let you know. Reply
Wulvor - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkFor that extra $4 you are also paying for a longer Warranty. eVGA has a 1+1 warranty, so 1 year warranty out of the box, and another 1 year when you register online at eVGA. MSI on the other hand has a 3 year warranty, and BFG a lifetime warranty.
It must be the corporate purchaser in me, $4 is well worth the extra year ( or 2 ), but I guess if you are going to be on the "bleeding" edge, then you are buying a new video card every 6 months anyways, so who cares? Reply
smn198 - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkA suggestion:
Regarding measuring the card's noise output and the way you measured the sound
"We had to do this because we were unable to turn on the graphics card's fan without turning on the system."
Would it be possible to try and measure the voltages going to the fan when the card is idle and under full load? Then supply the fan with these voltages when the system is off using a different power supply such as a battery (which is silent) and a variable resister.
It would also be interesting to see a graph of how the noise increases when going from idle to full load over 10 minutes (or however long it takes to reach the maximum speed) on cards which have . Instead of trying to measure the noise with the system on, again measure the voltage over time and then using your battery, variable resistor and voltage meter recreate the voltages and use this in conjunction with the voltage/time data to produce noise/time data.
Thanks Reply
DerekWilson - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkWe are definitely evaluating different methods for measuring sound. Thanks for the suggestions.
Just to be clear, even after hours of looping tests on the 7800 GTX overclocked to 485/625, we never once heard an audible increase in the fan's speed.
This is very much unlike our X850 parts that spin up and down frequenly during any given test.
We have considered attempting to heat the environment to simulate a desert like climate (we've gotten plenty of email from military personel asking about heat tolerance on graphics cards), but it is more difficult than it would seem to heat the enviroment without causing other problems in our lab.
Suggestions are welcome.
Derek Wilson Reply
at80eighty - Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - linkWe have considered attempting to heat the environment to simulate a desert like climate [...] but it is more difficult than it would seem to heat the enviroment without causing other problems in our lab
Derek, If you really wanna simulate desert like heat in the room, may i suggest inviting Monica Belluci to your lab ....should work like a charm :p Reply
reactor - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkIve been using MSI cards for a few years now, there fans always seem to run at top speed and ive found they usually run at higher RPM's(Slightly louder) than other manufacturers. I think that explains why the card is cooler while drawing more power, and why you didn't notice a difference in sound as the card was stressed. Im not entirely certain, but thats from my own expenriances with MSI cards.
Good article, looking forward to the BFG. Reply
yacoub - Monday, July 25, 2005 - link"As you can see, The EVGA slightly outperforms the MSI across the board at stock speeds."
Either I'm reading it wrong or you mis-wrote that line, since I see the e-VGA normal and OC'd, the NVidia reference, and the MSI OC'd, but no MSI at stock speeds. Thus it's hard to compare th EVGA stock speeds vs the MSI stock speeds when one of them isn't on the charts. Reply
DerekWilson - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkCheck the bold print on the Performance page --
MSI stock performance is the same as the NVIDIA reference performance at 430MHz ...
To compare stock numbers compare the green bar to the EVGA @ 450/600
Sorry for the confusion, but we actually tested all the games a second time and came up with the exact same numbers. Rather than add another bar, we thought it'd be easier to just reference the one.
If you guys would rather see multipler bars for equivalent results across the board, we can certainly do that.
Derek Wilson Reply
davecason - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkSince the MSI card drew a lot more power than expected but remained cooler than the eVGA card, I was thinking that some of the excess may be due to the cooling of the card itself. Maybe the fan on the MSI card works harder than the one on the eVGA card.
The people at Anandtech could test the power usage of the stock video-card cooling fans independently to see what their effect is on power load. This may explain the 6 extra watts used by the MSI card. This information might be mildly useful to a person who was already stressing out their power supply with other things (such as several hard drives). Does anyone think that is worth doing? Reply
DigitalDivine - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkI like the new style, but is there a way to put the reply box back to the main comments page, posting quick replies without going to another page would be nice.
i wonder when they will release a $400 7800, hopefully a 24 pipe card... my 9800pro is so "old" now. Reply
at80eighty - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkbut is there a way to put the reply box back to the main comments page, posting quick replies without going to another page would be nice
Bears repeating. (the formatting options are nice tho!) Reply
Brian23 - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkBears?!?! Reply
at80eighty - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkYou Sir, may have latent gay issues to work on
not that there's anything wrong with that... Reply
bob661 - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkSome of my best friends are gay. :) Reply
xsilver - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkjust had a thought.
are there any games confirmed that need ps3.0 or any features present in this card or the 6800 series?
The only game that I can think of is UT'07 where it was stated that the 6800 series was the first to be able to support such high poly counts
any games stated to come out before then that would require an upgrade from a ati card? (9800/x800)
comes on the back of the ti4600 owners that cant play BF2 at all Reply
at80eighty - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkMaybe i missed the memo - but why the hell had AT gone /. ?!!?! AARRGH!!
Anand i really liked the prior comments style! very simple and easy to read. Keep the filters if you like, just gimme back the old layout!!
/puts pacifier back in the mouth :p Reply
bersl2 - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkHa ha!
I like it Slash-ed up! Reply
p3r2y - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkdude...an xfx comes with a 490/1300 factory overclock, the largest of any card, and comes with bf2. period. Reply
InTheFlow - Monday, August 01, 2005 - linkI'd love to see this card reviewed right after the BFG card. Reply
imaheadcase - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkI know how to show FPS in bf2, but does it have a in game benchmark?
Curious how you benchmark bf2 as I would like to see how some cards compare (or not compare i should say).
Good review Reply
DerekWilson - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkA lot of people have been asking, so here ya go ... links to our battlefield 2 benchmark demos files.
There are instructions somewhere on battlefield2.com that describe how to use the demo.cmd file, but you will need to edit this file to set resolutions other than 800x600.
Our data is compiled from the last 1700 frames of our demo run. The many thousand other frames that can result come from the load screen and aren't useful to show performance. Reply
Spacecomber - Monday, August 01, 2005 - linkWhat version of the game were these made under, Derek? Are they for the unpatched game? I couldn't get the demo to play. It would load the map, then it would crash me to the desktop while it was checking player assets or something to that effect. This was on a version of the game with the 1.02 patch.
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DerekWilson - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkby the way, since it's the last 1700 frame, you've got to go into the frametimes csv file and manual calculate an average for the last 1700 lines of the 3rd column (after you've split the columns on ; ) for every test you do. It's kind of a pain, but for people that care, there it is. Reply
bob661 - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkHow do you turn on the FPS in BF2? Thanks. Reply
Spacecomber - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkUse the tilde ~ key to access the console and enter this command, "renderer.drawFps 1" (no quotes).
You can find these tips and a lot more in the Battlefield Tweak Guide that I mentioned in my first link in the post above.
Spacecomber - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkYou'll need to create (or find one for downloading) a "demo" file which you can then run with the timedemo feature of the demo.cmd script file.
A couple of sources for general information on downloading the demo.cmd script,creating demos, converting them to AVIs, and running timedemos.
http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_6.html">From the BF2 Tweak Guide
http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=934">EA UK's BF2 Forum Thread on the BF2 Recorder
And, http://www.overclockers.com.au/article.php?id=3841...">Overclockers.AU article on running BF2 benchmarks (mentioned in the BF2 Tweak Guide.
p3r2y - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkanand has an article about different gpu's in bf2 stupid Reply
Sea Shadow - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkGreat review, and props for filtering all the random spam.
I can't wait to see the BFG review as it will help me decide which 7800 I am going to get. Reply
xsilver - Sunday, July 24, 2005 - linkcongrats to anand to adding the filters
no more dumb "first post" or "in soviet russia" anymore
anyways with regard to the card
why on earth would you not buy the egva card as it comes with BF2 --- its one of the few games that taxes the card -- even if you have the game already - selling it would net you an extra $30 at least
kudos to evga for including a good game Reply
DerekWilson - Monday, July 25, 2005 - linkActually, Chronicles of Riddick can stress the card too. It's also a really good game.
If the choice is just between BF2 and Riddick and you already have BF2 I would *definitely* suggest Riddick.
Nothing beats $500 for the 450MHz card with BF2 right now though. Reply
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