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Gary Cooper
Original name: Frank James Cooper
May 7, 1901
Lewis and Clark County
Montana, USA
May 13, 1961
Beverly Hills
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California, USA
Actor. His career lasted over thirty six years in which he received five Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning twice and also received an Honorary Award from the Academy for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, had gained for the motion picture industry. He was born Frank James Cooper in Helena, Montana to English parents and spent part of his childhood around Helena - his father served as a Montana Supreme Court Justice and owned a ranch north of the capital - his mother never took to the rustic life of Montana and her desire for her two sons to receive a proper British education was the source of constant contention between the couple. She finally won out and was allowed to take the boys to England. However, She hustled them back home at the start of World War I. Frank learned all his riding skills and horsemanship while working on the ranch as a hand.. He attended Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa studying graphics and art with intentions of pursuing a career as a commercial artist or a cartoonist. An avid outdoors man, he spend a summer working as a seasonal ranger in Yellowstone National Park. When his father resigned from the state Supreme Court and moved to California, young Frank followed. Frank was sidetracked from this goal of becoming a commercial artist after landing a job as an extra in a motion picture in Hollywood. He essentially produced and directed his own screen test, then spent almost a year hauling it around Hollywood trying to get someone to take a look. It led to a part in a short film with Eileen Sedgewick which in turn led to a long-term contract with Paramount Studios. After a name change to Gary Cooper, he appeared in over a hundred films. A few of the many: Wings, The Virginian, A Farewell to Arms, Alice in Wonderland, Sergeant York, Friendly Persuasion, The Hanging Tree and his last The Naked Edge - Nominations for Best Actor: 'Beau Geste, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Saratoga Trunk - Oscar for Best Actor: 'Sargeant York' and 'High Noon.' This movie also gained him the Golden Globe Award. His marriage to Veronica 'Rocky' Balfe, a New York socialite was an unusual union. Many entanglements came during the marriage - he was often seen in the company of other women and she in the company of other men. The marriage however endured. When told at age 59, he had incurable cancer, a special Oscar was presented to him and Jimmy Stewart strode to the Academy Award microphone to tearfully accept the honorary Oscar for Cooper in 1961, which in reality was his final farewell. Gary Cooper watched at home with his wife and daughter Marie. Less than four weeks later they were with him again when he passed away at his Beverly Hills home at age 60 and 6 days after his birthday. After a Requiem Mass at the Church of The Good Shepherd, he was interred in the Grotto Section of Holy Cross Cemetery located in the Los Angeles suburb of Culver City. Postscript: His wife remarried after his death and relocated to her home area in New York. She literally took Gary with her by exhumation and then re-burial at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery on Long Island beneath a bronze plaque and nearby a three-ton rose colored boulder symbolic of the California landscape where he made so many western movies.
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Nakajima, Rosales on comeback trail
OAKLAND -- The sight of infielders Hiro Nakajima and Adam Rosales doing work on the field Tuesday signaled progress in their respective rehabs.
Nakajima, though, lasted not much more than 10 minutes before returning to the clubhouse, while Rosales got some light throwing and running in, which would seem to indicate that his strained intercostal muscle might not keep him out much longer than his 15-day disabled list stint requires.
"I don't know yet," Melvin said. "Those injuries are really tough to predict until [Rosales] really starts swinging."
Rosales is eligible to return as soon as April 10. Nakajima can be reinstated the next day, though the A's likely won't rush his return as long as shortstop Jed Lowrie remains healthy.
"The first step is to get him on the field and get him moving around," Melvin said, "and then we'll have a better indication of how he's feeling."
The A's leave Oakland on Thursday evening for a six-game road swing through Houston and Anaheim, and it's unclear whether Nakajima will join them on the trip. There's a good chance he remains in the Bay Area to continue his rehab and prepare for a stint with one of the A's nearby Minor League affiliates.
"It depends on how close we think he is," Melvin said. "If we feel like he's close enough to where we want to watch him doing game activities, then we'll take him on the road."
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Baby Dino
Thomas wanted a Dinosaur for his 3rd birthday. I vaguely remembered the fabulous Debbie Brown had done a cute Baby Dino in one of her books, but by the time I worked out which one, it was too late to get hold of a copy so I had to wing it. Thanks Toni O'Grady for helping me track down which book it was ♥ I hope I haven't botched it too much Debbie ;) Never mind…Thomas loved it ;) He is shaded with 3 colours of petal dust which took ages and has made me think seriously about an airbrush lol! Thanks for looking :) x


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Pages Park Youth Scheme launched as a Bike Club on Wednesday 20 October 2010 with bike maintenance workshops. The workshops give young people the opportunity to fix their bikes, as many of the bikes were not road worthy condition.
The workshops provided by Sam Darling of MBRS UK Ltd [2] are deliberately hands-on, giving the young people practical skills needed to regularly maintain their bikes and fix common problems they might face like punctures and brake failures.
The young people are enthusiastic and energetic and approximately 30% have a disability, [3] which highlights how flexible and accessible the workshops are for young people.
The Bike Club at Pages Park will also incorporate an art project with poster and design competitions looking at bike design, cycling clothing design and also cycle safety awareness.
Pages Park Youth Scheme Leader Luke Del Greco says, "The group enjoyed all aspects of the training and not only did they learn about fixing and maintaining there bike they also learnt a bit about working together as a team".
Leaders of the group are receiving maintenance training alongside the workshops to be able to deliver basic training for the young people in the long term ensuring the Bike Club can be sustained once the funding runs out.
Pages Park Youth Scheme is run on a weekly basis at Pages Park Pavilion Off Richmond Road, Leighton Buzzard on Wednesday evenings from 6:00-7:30 pm by dedicated volunteers that have shown a commitment to providing activities for young people in Leighton-Linslade.


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Even though the new NFL rule is that only 85% of the tickets must be sold in order to avoid a blackout, the Colts are deciding to to stick with the old rule and blackout any game that isn't 100% sold out. This sort of stuff makes you wonder why you even spend so much time following a team. Most people, I imagine, can only afford to go to a couple of games a year. Just going to a couple is pretty expensive. Yet they are saying that they are going to make all of us suffer by going beyond an NFL rule by blacking out the games themselves? Yeah, that's pretty much the last thing you want to do when you just cut one of the greatest players of all time and have a shrinking fan base. It's a complete screw over to people who have stuck with the team through the 2-14 season and the release of Manning. If the Colts somehow steal a game that isn't a 100% sellout, then don't you want that on TV in the CITY YOU PLAY IN so that in can encourage some people to come out later in the season and give the team a chance? What a stupid decision.
I said a couple weeks ago that the Simon's not allowing us to go after RFA's was the dumbest self-imposed rule I had ever heard. But this by far takes the cake. To self-impose a blackout that is harsher than the new NFL rule which eases up on restrictions is by far the most insane thing I have ever heard. When you have 2,000 season tickets at this point, it shows you that there is some weariness amongst fans. We cut one of the greatest players ever, so the last thing you want to do is penalize the remaining fans who are watching through the rebuilding process. You want people to watch on TV, or else you are alienating an already declining fan base. They have to be exposed on television or else this will have bad repercussions.
Finally, the taxpayers built the stadium while Irsay gets all the money that is made there. It's completely offensive that they are considering doing this. Hope it doesn't wind up happening.


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DartsProbability puzzles require you to weigh all the possibilities and pick the most likely outcome.
Peter throws two darts at a dartboard, aiming for the center. The second dart lands farther from the center than the first. If Peter now throws another dart at the board, aiming for the center, what is the probability that this third throw is also worse (i.e., farther from the center) than his first? Assume Peter`s skillfulness is constant.
HintSuppose instead of dart tosses, they were coin flips. Does that help find the answer?
AnswerSince the three darts are thrown independently, they each have a 1/3 chance of being the best throw. As long as the third dart is not the best throw, it will be worse than the first dart. Therefore the answer is 2/3.
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Alanna's Roasted Cauliflower
(four servings, recipe from Alanna at A Veggie Venture)
2 T good quality olive oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
(I used 2 tsp. garlic puree from a jar)
salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 large head cauliflower, cut in small, same-size flowerets
Cauliflower prepared this way is a perfect side dish for all phases of the South Beach Diet. If it's not Thanksgiving, this would taste great with something like Sauteed Scallops with Garlic or Pork Chops with Balsamic Glaze. For phase two or three, add a side dish like Lake Powell Spicy Rice.


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In less than two weeks Heroes will tell their stories in the lands of Tyria. As everyone is preparing their in-game characters, there's only one more event between now and then : GamesCom 2012. This year TalkTyria will be represented by
Karasu (Raven), MeWulf (Clint) and MyCroft (Thomas).
Time to chill
ArenaNet already stated that their focus is 100% on getting everything ready for the 25th, so this year there's no playable demo. However a small chillout zone and some cool Community Managers will fly all the way over to Cologne to provide the necessary distractions. Aside from this there's all the pumped up fans, a community party on Thursday and plenty of other great games in the large halls of the Koelnmesse.
Update: Swag
If you manage to come join all of us in the chill booth come and get a free drink courtesy of ArenaNet. Watch @Guildwars2's twitter for the daily password that you can exchange for an in-game GW2 t-shirt voucher code if you catch one of the Community Managers. For those lucky to attend ArenaNet's private community party you might win one of the exclusive Guild Wars 2 Collector's Editions!
If you happen to have any more questions left on GuildWars 2 or just about any game on the showfloor feel free to send them our way trough the comments or at my twitter @GWKarasu.


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The Corporate Report 2013: Kluber Lubrication
EP Editorial Staff | December 19, 2013
Klüber Lubrication is one of the world's leading manufacturers of specialty lubricants, offering high-end tribological solutions to virtually all industries and markets worldwide. Most products are developed and made to specific customer requirements.
During its more than 80 years of existence, Klüber Lubrication has provided high-quality lubricants, thorough consultation and extensive services, which have earned it an excellent reputation in the market. The company holds all common industrial certifications and houses a test facility hardly rivaled in the lubricants industry.
At Klüber, we continue to pioneer advances in order to translate previously inconceivable concepts into fully functional reality. We make these crucial contributions with over 2000 special lubricants that can be used in extreme operating or environmental conditions in vehicles, machinery or plant manufacturing, and in industrial engineering or production technology where conventional lubricants fail.
When stringent technical and ecological requirements coincide, that's where Klüber Lubrication's special lubricants have the leading edge. For example, our specialty oils for ship-propulsion systems are classified as readily biodegradable and can be used in one of the world's most sensitive ecosystems—the Arctic.
Klüber Lubrication, set up as a retail company for mineral-oil products in Munich, in 1929, is part of Freudenberg Chemical Specialities KG, a Business Unit of the Freudenberg Group, Weinheim.
In 2011, Klüber Lubrication had approximately 1900 employees in more than 30 countries.
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'Barring a trade, the Buffalo Sabres are seriously considering spending $9 million to retain All-Star goalie Dominik Hasek's rights for one more season. What is uncertain is whether the Sabres will keep the six-time Vezina Trophy-winner or trade him in order to get some value in return.'
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The Let's Move! initiative, launched by First Lady Michelle Obama, is now entering its third year of improving child health and wellness. With the help of the Fuel Up to Play 60 campaign, this fight against childhood obesity is gaining ground.
Fuel Up to Play 60, an-school nutrition and physical activity program launched by the National Dairy Council (NDC) and the National Football League (NFL), is proving to be successful in helping schools create a healthier environment for students. Launched in 2009, Fuel Up to Play 60 data shows that schools are making progress in promoting healthier eating habits and increasing physical activity among students.
More than 70,000 schools – 75 percent of U.S. school districts - are now enrolled in the program, including 7.5 million students nationwide who actively participate in the program.
Schools across the nation, such as the Harding Elementary School in Erie, Pa., are taking action by improving school food options. At Harding Elementary, a healthy snack cart carrying low-fat yogurt, granola bars and fruit roam the halls in-between classes. Some schools have started walking clubs while others have conducted "taste tests" of foods like reduced-fat cheese, whole grains and fruit before voting for the healthy option they would like to see in their cafeteria.
For Jean H. Ragalie, RD, president of the National Dairy Council, it's examples like these that show the success of the campaign.
"Our goal from the onset was to help empower schools and students to identify and implement strategies that can help students make healthier choices when it comes to eating and physical activity," Ragalie said in a news release. "In this time of economic challenges and time constraints, it is even more important to create an environment that makes eating healthy and staying active attainable, within any type of budget, in any school district."
Fuel Up to Play 60 addresses real-world circumstances of resource-strapped schools by offering funding opportunities to help schools make strides in meeting wellness goals. As a result, Fuel Up to Play 60, supported in part by U.S. dairy farmer families, has given a combined total of over $20 million in funds and rewards to help participating schools increase access to nutrient-rich foods and physical activity.
According to Former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., Fuel Up to Play 60 is the kind of initiative needed to promote better health for America's youth because it allows schools to customize solutions that best meet the needs of their students and community.
"Schools are one of the biggest battlegrounds in tackling the childhood obesity epidemic," said Satcher. "We know there is no silver bullet available to combat this problem, but it is clear that programs like Fuel Up to Play 60 can produce small 'wins' by motivating kids to make better healthy eating and physical activity choices."
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As tropical Cyclone Rusty continues to weaken over the interior of Western Australia the focus of tropical weather will shift east to the Gulf of Carpentaria and Coral Sea as the Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) lingers over the Western Pacific Ocean. The MJO is a wave of instability that circulates the globe near the equator and has been shown to enhance rainfall and trigger an increase in monsoonal activity including Tropical Cyclones. Forecast models are suggesting tropical lows developing in the Coral Sea and Gulf during the next 2 weeks which could trigger further significant rainfall for parts of Queensland including current and previously flooded areas.
Heavy rain is still possible and squally and potentially damaging winds as the remnants of TC Rusty tracks south and passes off the southern coastline near Esperance on Saturday but there is no expectation of worthwhile rainfall in the western districts. localised flooding could occur through parts of the inland and south coast districts.
A band of moderate to heavy rain has developed in New South Wales as an upper level disturbance and surface trough combine. The rain band will track to the north east of the state tomorrow before easing to showers in the eastern districts through the weekend. Isolated heavy falls could trigger localised flash flooding. Moderate to heavy falls could also develop through the southern inland of Queensland as the trough and upper disturbance enter the south of the state.
The upper disturbance will trigger widespread unstable conditions with showers thunderstorms and rain areas across the south east quarter of Queensland with possible moderate to heavy falls between Fraser Island and Gladstone on Saturday and Sunday, then Brisbane to Bundaberg on Monday.


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Question submitted on Mar 11, 2013.
QuestionMy husband and I live full time in Arizona. We receive pension income from a company we worked for in Nebraska. Can NE tax our pension?
When receiving pension and retirement income, you are generally taxed where your permanent residence is at the time of receipt. Therefore, you should owe Arizona State tax on the pension income and not Nebraska. Hope this helps.
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This week's announcement that state technology officials have fired the firm in charge of the Department of Motor Vehicles' $208 million system upgrade was just the latest setback for a state with a difficult history on such projects.
The DMV has spent seven years and $135 million to upgrade its driver's license and vehicle registration systems, but minimal progress was being made on the registration end.
The California Technology Agency on Thursday acknowledged that they dismissed Hewlett-Packard after determining the vehicle registration upgrade would not be completed by the May deadline — or by November, when the HP contract runs out.
Christine Lally, a technology agency spokeswoman, said it was "a natural breaking point for the project."
"This provides an opportunity for the Technology Agency and DMV to take a fresh look at planning the vehicle registration system upgrades," Lally said.
Delays and cost overruns have become familiar for government technology upgrades in California. The growing list of setbacks and boondoggles is particularly disheartening to some given California's worldwide reputation as the cradle of the tech revolution. Recent examples:
• This month, Controller John Chiang fired the latest company tasked with guiding a $371-million overhaul of the state's payroll system. Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, has called for a hearing, citing the $254 million of public money that has already been spent "with apparently little to show for it."
• Last year, state court officials abandoned a $2 billion project designed to unify 500 court facilities under one computing system. Officials were reportedly told it could take another $1.3 billion to complete a decade-long undertaking that already cost $500 million but produced noteworthy court upgrades in only seven of 58 counties.
• In 2011, the California Public Employees' Retirement System finished its computer system two years late and at nearly twice the budgeted amount — from $279 million to more than $514 million. CalPERS apologized after thousands of retirees or their survivors received incorrect payments, and some retirees got notices saying their health insurance policies were being canceled.
• In San Diego, the computing system that allows city employees to interface more efficiently through their computers was last reported to be behind schedule and $11 million over its $42 million budget. The city attributed the setbacks to an overambitious schedule, low cost estimates and too many project managers. Officials could not provide U-T Watchdog a status update this week.
The stories over the years seem to run together, said Michael Krigsman, a consultant and expert on IT failures.
"It's like a broken record," Krigsman said.
There are several reasons why government information-technology projects falter. They are inherently complex and involve large numbers of people and many moving pieces.
"You bring this many people together on a large-scale project and it's just hard to do well," Krigsman said. "And it's hard to foresee where there may be problems."
Often the sheer amount of money involved creates its own set of problems, he said.
"When a project goes over budget, where does the money get paid?" he asked. "Oftentimes a significant amount goes into labor. So if you've hired an external services provider and the project runs late it means their billing increases. That creates a potential financial incentive that rewards inefficiency."
Payroll problems
The state payroll project was supposed to cost about a third of the current estimate and be completed five years ago.
"They've spent two-thirds of the money and lord knows what they've got to show for it," said John Thomas Flynn, former chief information officer for California and Massachusetts. "How they'll be able to restart this project is anybody's guess at this time. I think they will probably have to start over from scratch."
SAP Public Services spent three years working on the system that issues paychecks and processes medical benefits for 240,000 state employees. It was brought aboard after the state dismissed BearingPoint, which was paid nearly $26 million, of which $2.8 million was collected by the state in insurance.
State officials say SAP's system performed poorly when tested on 1,300 employees — with nearly one out of three tasks carried out incorrectly. Some paychecks went to the wrong recipients and medical coverage was erroneously voided. The state was penalized $50,000 for sending money incorrectly to retirement accounts.
The controller is promising to recoup about $50 million paid to SAP.
In a statement, SAP said it was "extremely disappointed" in the controller's actions and that the company stands behind its software and actions.
"Our products are functioning in thousands of government agencies around the world," spokesman Andy Kendzie said. "SAP also believes we have satisfied all contractual obligations in this project."
DMV issues
The DMV has had computer upgrade issues before. Nearly two decades ago, then-Gov. Pete Wilson killed a deeply flawed DMV system after the state spent $50 million on it.
State reports on the current project show that various milestones were being delayed because the vendor couldn't complete the work. The reports by the technology agency identified major planning and staffing issues. Key positions were vacant and a test manager had not been on site in more than two months, according to a report in January.
HP has received about $50 million of its $76 million contract, the state said.
HP spokesman Michael Thacker did not address the reasons for dismissal in a statement issued to the Watchdog.
"HP values its relationship with the State of California and is committed to the success of our clients' IT modernization," Thacker said. "We are currently working with the state to help millions of Californians experience the benefits of a modernized system."
A DMV spokesman said the new driver's license system is in place at all 170 field offices statewide and is accessed by more than 4,000 employees. The last step is to upgrade the system at DMV headquarters, which Hewlett-Packard has agreed to complete, spokesman Armando Botello said.
In a prepared statement, DMV Acting Director Jean Shiomoto noted the agency's appreciation for HP in helping it upgrade the state's driver's license system.
"Minimal work has begun on the vehicle registration portion, so this is a natural breaking point for the project," Shiomoto said, echoing the technology agency statement. "We will now work with the Technology Agency to develop a new plan for finishing the last remaining part of this project."


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Nearly a decade ago, a city survey showed that three-quarters of San Diegans turned up their noses at the thought of using wastewater purified into tap water — a process that critics snubbed as "toilet to tap."
Last week the City Council voted to move ahead with a plan to purify 15 million gallons per day of recycled wastewater, confident that the tide of public opinion had turned in its favor. The decision was bolstered by a recent poll showing 73 percent of San Diegans now supporting the process.
Council members voted unanimously to pursue a full-scale plant to purify city wastewater, and asked staff to report back with detailed cost and construction estimates. They expect to vote on a final plan in about a year, and construction of a plant and pipeline could take another decade.
The shift, officials said, reflects years of outreach about the safety of purified water and changing opinions among city leaders, along with hard lessons on dwindling water supply and soaring rates. Squeamishness about reusing flushed flows has given way to the reality of water shortages.
"There's been more of a dialogue in the state about water availability, and I think people are more informed about water," said Councilman David Alvarez, who chairs the city's Natural Resources and Culture Committee, which helped develop the purification plan.
For two years the city has run a demonstration project, filtering a million gallons of recycled water per day through a series of treatments, to produce a product of the same crystalline quality as distilled water.
Most San Diegans are fine with that, according to a poll of 816 city residents conducted by San Diego State University researcher Richard Parker. It found that 73 percent somewhat or strongly favored treating recycled water for use in drinking supplies, up from just 26 percent in 2004.
Do you have a problem with using wastewater purified into tap water?
Yes 42% (152)
No 58% (211)
363 total votes.
To persuade residents of its safety, city officials have drawn up educational materials and produced a short video about water purification. They've hosted tours of the demonstration project for civic, school and scout groups. Local opinion makers have weighed in as well.
In 2007, for example, former Mayor Jerry Sanders stated at a news conference that he would oppose "toilet-to-tap," according to a TV report. Three years later, Sanders told Voice of San Diego that he supported the project, adding that he wouldn't "quibble with scientists."
Advocates of the project point out that purifying water is hardly new. Nature has been doing it forever, and still filters water through the systems we rely on for imports. Scores of water treatment facilities dump their product into the waterways of the Colorado River and the State Water Project, far upstream of San Diego.
A city report describes the proposed purification process as the "urban water cycle" - a "sped-up version" of natural filtration.
"The study showed that the water, once purified, is cleaner than the water that is flowing through out taps right now," said Lani Lutar, executive director of the Equinox Center, and co-founder of the San Diego Water Reliability Coalition, an unusual alliance of business and environmental groups. "In fact, the water that comes out of our taps right now has been recycled dozens of times over."
At the demonstration project in San Diego's North City Water Reclamation Plant, an array of shiny tanks and tubes filters recycled water to sparkling purity, said Amy Dorman, the senior engineer heading the operation.
It starts with microfiltration: rows of plastic tubes containing bundles of hollow membranes. Microscopic pores on their surfaces allow water molecules in, filtering microbes and other contaminants out. The purified water travels through the center of the straw-like membranes.
From there it flows to reverse osmosis units, which force the water through filters at high pressure to screen out salts and other solids. Water from each canister feeds into an individual spigot, and workers tap the product to test its quality. In the final stage, intense ultraviolet light zaps remaining contaminants. The process captures about 80 percent of the recycled water used, flushing the remainder as waste.
The final product is void of just about everything. The only remains are trace amounts of products including the household disinfectant triclosan, fire-extinguishing fluid, artificial sweetener, a pharmaceutical agent used in x-rays, strontium, and hexavalent chromium.
Those chemicals, however, appeared in parts per trillion, leaving the water cleaner than drinking water standards, Dorman said. Purified water had only about 3 percent of the dissolved salts and minerals of San Diego's drinking water, and about 4 percent of its organic carbon content.
"It's comparable to distilled water," Dorman said. "It's exceptional quality. It's pure."
The city would then pump the water through a 22-mile pipeline to the San Vicente Reservoir, where it would mix with captured rainfall and imported water. The blend would then be pumped to a drinking water plant and then to homes and businesses.
The purification plant and pipeline would cost an estimated $369 million to build and about $15.5 million per year to run, the city report stated. Purified water would cost about $2,000 per acre-foot – an amount that serves two households for a year. That's roughly what water from the planned Carlsbad desalination plant will cost.
However, reducing wastewater dumped at sea could help the city to avoid a $1 billion upgrade to the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant. That savings could offset water purification expenses, cutting the effective cost of purified water in half, the report stated.
By super-treating purified water to better than drinking water standards, Dorman said, the city aims to address both public safety and public comfort levels. Existing water purification plants in Orange County, Virginia, Texas, Arizona and Singapore have safely used similar multi-step systems for years or decades, settting a precedent for the process, she said. The city's also mindful of "the yuck factor."
"This water originated as wastewater," Dorman said. "So the sense is you've got to get as much out of it as possible before it re-enters the water supply."
Charles Fleischer, a long-time consumer of bottled water, takes purified water with a grain of salt.
"I don't think there's any doubt that technology exists to purify recycled water so that it's potable," he said last week, while filling half a dozen five-gallon water coolers at AC Water Store in Rancho Bernardo.
Instead, he worries about failures in maintenance and monitoring, and points to San Onofre Nuclear Generating System, shut since January of last year because of faulty parts and botched calculations.
"Given our growing population, we need to increase our water resources," he said. "I think we need to do whatever we can to increase the water supply, as long as it's safe."Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Facebook's (FB) great. Facebook's horrible. Facebook's cheap. Facebook's expensive. Facebook's growing like a weed. Facebook's growth is already slowing.
Which is true? How could there really be such extremes in sentiment here? Believe me when I say I am only hearing extremes, as there seems to be no middle ground at all with this stock.
The answer? It's all in the eye of the beholder. People are seeing what they want to see in Facebook.
Let me give you the bear case, which puts you in the head of the sellers. Then I'll give you the bull case, which allows you to understand it from the perspective of the buyers. It's the only way, frankly, to explain the stock's wild ping-pong game: First it'll hang in, even after a huge rally, then it'll give up the ghost before it settles in where it was a fortnight ago -- before the big price spike.
The bears -- including lots of analysts who were bullish going into the quarter and subsequently downgraded the stock Thursday morning -- are seizing on how the company is spending like a drunken sailor and may not have all that much to show for it. These investors want results now. They don't want to hear Mark Zuckerberg say, "We aren't operating to maximize our profit this year. We're doing what we think will build the best service and business over the long term."
That's the kiss of death for all of the upside-surprise folks out there, the ones who figured Facebook had hit the magic formula for mobile and would show an explosive revenue and profit number. They aren't satisfied with the $0.17 vs. the $0.15 earnings-per-share number. They needed something like $0.20 to $0.25 in order to stay in the stock, or cover their shorts, or upgrade from Buy to Super De-Duper Buy.
It's ironic that the bulls look at the same exact statement from Zuckerberg and love what they see. Put simply, they see the next Amazon (AMZN). They see a company with such a huge growth path that the smartest thing the company can do is to spend as much as possible, thus getting advertisers to spend fortunes trying to reach their targets among the more than 1 billion users of this product.
The bulls are thinking not about earnings this year, which they don't care about in the least, but to the outyears -- say, 2015 -- when the spending will begin to pay off. They are patient, as they had been with Amazon, which became one of the great performers of all time simply because its visionary founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, never wavered in having a long-term vision. In fact, these bulls would fear for Facebook if it weren't investing. That would have meant the hyper-growth phase is already over, and they would have been stuck with another Intel (INTC) or Microsoft (MSFT) -- played-out stocks that just generate a lot of cash but muster little growth.
Where do I come out? I understand both sides. I get that Facebook's spending could be very meaningful. However, I thought the company would have made more money already. I fear that, as good as mobile is for Facebook, like everyone else, it might not be good enough to offset declines in desktop advertising revenue.
In sum, the bears think the company is being short-term profligate. The bulls think that the company is being long-term greedy.
Me? I think ultimately the bulls have more firepower than the bears, and that the stock can go higher. It's just that it has come up so far, so fast, that the pace will now be labored.
In the end, I think there are a ton of stocks out there that are much better than Facebook, and let's just leave it at that.


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Many articles often advocate using EMs as a unit of measure for responsive web design.
But why? After building my first responsive web design, I don't see how EMs are useful at all.
In theory, using Ems means that if you drop the font size, the layout will shrink accordingly.However, in practice, when creating a responsive design, you have to redefine the values of the layout for smaller screen sizes anyway*, so using EMs doesn't really bring any benefit.
A particular disadvantage of using EMs is that the size of an EM is relative to the parent element. This means if you have a design which has several nested elements, it can become very tricky to keep track of what the actual size of an element is. REMs (relative ems) are a solution to this, but they don't work in IE6-8.
When building my first responsive design, I used Sass to perform the EM calculations. That way, I could work in pixels and then output everything as EMs. However, this wasn't a perfect solution, as when debugging with Firebug, all the values were displayed in EMs, which made debugging cumbersome (compared to using pixels).
In short, I can't see what the benefits of EMs are. I am tempted to stick to pixels and percentages for my next project (using pixels for fonts and a combinations of pixels and percentages for layout).
Because so many articles recommend using EMs, I think the problem is probably with me failing to understand them.So, I would greatly appreciate it if someone could give me some pointers about EMs so I could better understand them.
*For example, if you have a 12 column grid on a desktop design, you are going to have to re-design it to a 2 column layout on a mobile version.Just dropping the font size is not going to work, as you could never get a 12 column grid to fit on a mobile screen.
(PS I am aware that EMs are useful if the reader want to increase the font size, as the layout will increase in size. However, most browsers come with a zoom feature which makes this benefit less compelling).
I would say that if you're thinking in terms of a grid layout then you'll probably struggle to get ems to work for you. They just don't work like that. You'll get the most out of ems if you stop thinking of the page as a grid, and start to think of it as a series of elements laid out in relation to each other and to (sometimes invisible) parent elements.
If you need pixel precision then ems are not the right way to go. If you're always having to convert ems into other units to perform calculations, that's not going to be a sensible strategy either. Different types of design work better with different types of units.
Sometimes you can use ems for certain elements only. You might have boxout/quotes floated down the side of an article – set the width of these in ems and they will always have roughly the same amount of text on each line, no matter what size the text is. Or you might just use ems for line-heights or paragraph spacing. Another good option if you go for a flexible width design is to set a max-width in ems, to avoid the page stretching too far on a large viewport.
I'd argue anyone saying em's and responsive design are somehow made for each other is being silly. I use em's whether I build responsively or not. They just make more sense (to me).
What does go together is flexible containers and responsive design. I've seen people write 5 or 6 different @ media queries for all these different devices, when they could have covered the same devices with 2 or 3 sets and let flexible containers do a lot of the rest of the work. I think.
I would build a "regular" site in ems and carefully refrain from setting things like font-sizes on containers (set those on the actual text elements, then you avoid a lot of the "nesting issues" of ems) and play around with it on a type of design you're already comfortable with in px. If you want to become more comfortable with ems. It would probably suck to try to switch to ems just because some article said you need them for responsive design.
You seem to be tying EM's to the layout size as the only reason to use them -- and have the 'order' in which things happen backwards. It's not about the user increasing the font size in the conventional sense, so much as it is the fonts automatically enlarging in relation to the systems DPI setting; which is fixed at 96dpi on some devices, but some devices even default to larger and in Windows (which actually CARES about accessibility) can be changed system-wide. It's favored for use so that the user doesn't have to dive for the zoom to change it when the page loads in the first place. (something I often have to do which BREAKS many 'fixed' layouts or makes them useless)
I mean, of the four machines I use regularly, only one is 96dpi (my netbook); two are 120dpi (road laptop and workstation) and my media center Acer Revo is set to 144dpi... my old phone from a few years ago seemed to start at 72dpi. (which is close to the 75 default on old Mac's and "real" Unix workstations, that Mac guys called 72 when it wasn't)
But our Dutch kitty hit upon part of it -- you're still thinking in grids; which to be honest is a MISERABLE /FAIL/ at web design and reeks of your typical "But I can do it in Photoshop" nonsense... It means you are thinking layout as you make your markup or even before you make markup which to me, well... is putting the cart before the horse. Using a few standard section containers I typically write 99% of my complete HTML semantically before I even THINK about the layout -- that way I can build the layout in CSS that fits the content, instead of shoe-horning the content into a layout it may or may not even be compatible with. (which explains the result most people seem to be sleazing out and calling websites these days!). Suspect it's also why I NEVER have the issues with header orders some people seem to complain about (that resulted in the HTML5 idiocy of "lets make everything a H1")
Seriously, if you're playing around with "grids", you're already shooting yourself in the foot with fixed width nonsense and you're NEVER going to get EM's working properly. That's why fluid and semi-fluid are SIMPLER THAN FIXED WIDTH AND GRIDS!!! Yes, I said SIMPLER, because you can just set your section/column widths to whatever makes sense for the sidebars, and leave the main column to dynamically adjust to whatever's left over. I KEEP hearing people call fixed width 'easier', and to be frank I keep going "HOW?!?" - unless of course you've got some PSD jockey trying to turn their goof assed pretty picture into a viable layout, something I've rarely if ever seen actually work right if you care in the least about accessibility!
It's why as she said you'll often see people with five or six (or ten) media queries in their code to do something that could be done with two or three if they just designed fluid in the first place.
But of course, you'll always have the people who "need" non web-deployable nonsense like fixed height or fixed width containers in the content area or across the whole page; IMHO what they really need is a good backhand. Sorry, is my total disgust with the industry as a whole seeping through again?!? Draw a goofy picture, crap it into a fixed width layout that is useless on pretty much every machine I own, with non-semantic markup in document types that show they have their head wedged permanently up 1997's backside (like HTML5) with piss poor color contrasts and absurdly undersized fixed metric fonts -- that's a plan for victory, right?
I swear, 99% of the design 'issues' people have when it comes to SIMPLE MALFING THINGS like font sizes and dynamic widths (what we called it for a decade BEFORE the stupid "responsive design" label was slapped on it for no good reason) are more akin to the old Marx Brothers joke "Doctor, Doctor, it hurts when I do this..."
Grids... To be brutally frank every time I even hear that mentioned I feel the need to strangle somebody. Just more "but I can do it in photoshop" nonsense.
Stephanie Rieger makes a point about container flexibility here: http://stephanierieger.com/the-trouble-with-android/
I think this may be the idea article writers are getting the "use ems for responsive design" from. Em's allow a type of flexible container, but that's not the only method.
Regarding grids, I'm sure some standardista somewhere has made grids work flexibly. I don't know how, since I don't use them, but I can't imagine grids getting the hype they get from standardistas if they always failed horribly at responsive layouts.
You mean like my current width stack?
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Or how to drive completely nutters the people who can only think in tables?
Did I say tables? Don't I mean grids? NO, because grids is just tables without the table tags so far as I'm concerned. As Dan used to say "the people who used to just make layouts out of endless nested tables for no good reason now just make endless nested DIV for no good reason" -- In a way I'm glad he never lived to see so many people jumping on the HTML5-tard wagon slapping endless pointless containers like SECTION, HEADER or NAV around tags that ALREADY HAVE SEMANTIC MEANINGS for no good reason.
Your first post ninja'd in before my Stephanie link got in there.
But yes, there are units like % and properties like min/max-* as examples of flexibility without being limited to em's.
I used that example (which is what I use on new pages these days) explicitly because it uses all three -- em max-width, px min-width, % width.
Min-width being for the device (which is handed off to narrower sheet using media queries anyways, included mostly for browsers that don't know media queries for width) so that's naturally in px.
Max-width being to account for the dynamic nature of %/EM
and the width in % since I like a little bit of margin on wider screens, and it trips haslayout in legacy IE.
I also tend to use "* html #pageWrapper" to send legacy IE (5+6) a 752px fixed width. Sucks to be them, oh well... Not even bothering to send them expressions anymore, but that doesn't mean the page won't still at least be usable for them.
That's the combination that offers the maximum flexibility. The width is sized to the viewport primarily (meaning that most of the time all the content will be visible) with the minimum making sure that fixed size content such as images will not break the layout and the maximum making sure that lines of text don't become too long to easily read.
Thanks for the replies. There are some really good points raised!


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Oscar Pistorius in court: 'Shouting' then shots
A witness heard "non-stop shouting" in the home of South African athletics star Oscar Pistorius shortly before his girlfriend was shot dead, the detective leading the murder investigation says.
Warrant officer Hilton Botha, a detective with 24 years on the force, also told the Pretoria magistrates court in a bail hearing that police had found two containers of testosterone and needles in Pistorius' bedroom.
The athlete's defence team said the containers held a herbal remedy taken legally by many athletes, landed some blows to Botha's portrayal of a cold-blooded killing and described inconsistencies and errors in the initial investigation.
Pistorius, a double amputee dubbed "Blade Runner" because of his carbon fibre racing blades, sobbed uncontrollably as Botha presented his testimony about the death of Reeva Steenkamp, 29.
The law graduate and model was in the toilet of the athlete's home when she was shot dead in the early hours of February 14 - Valentine's Day. She was hit in the head, arm and hip.
The shooting and allegations that have emerged at the hearing have stunned South Africa and millions of people around the world who regarded Pistorius, who has no lower legs, as the epitome of physical triumph over adversity.
"One of our witnesses heard a fight, two people talking loudly at each other ... from two in the morning to three," Botha told the court. Pistorius' first call after the incident was to the manager of his high-security complex at 3.19 am, Botha said.
In an affidavit delivered on Tuesday (overnight, NZT), Pistorius said he woke in the middle of the night and thought an intruder had climbed through his bathroom window and entered the adjoining toilet.
The 26-year-old said he grabbed a 9-mm pistol from under his bed and went into the bathroom.
Pistorius - the highest-profile athlete in the history of the Paralympics - then described how he fired into the locked toilet door in a blind panic in the mistaken belief that the intruder was lurking inside.
After four hours of testimony, the hearing was adjourned until Thursday (local time). It is expected to conclude this week, once the defence and prosecution have outlined their central arguments.
It may then be several months before a trial. If convicted of premeditated murder, Pistorius faces life in jail.
His uncle Arnold said Pistorius was in "extreme shock" and had only started eating again on Tuesday evening. He had spent some of his five days in police custody reading the Bible, he added.
Botha, who arrived on the scene an hour after the shooting, challenged Pistorius' affidavit.
"I believe he knew she was in the bathroom and he shot four shots through the door," the detective said, adding that the angle at which the rounds were fired suggested they were aimed at somebody on the toilet.
Pistorius had said he moved into the bathroom on his stumps - the reason he felt so vulnerable - but Botha said the shots went in a "top to bottom" trajectory, suggesting Pistorius was wearing his artificial legs when he pulled the trigger.
"It seems to me it was fired down," he said.
One of the spent rounds was recovered from the toilet bowl, Botha said.
He also cited a witness in the upscale gated community near Pretoria where Pistorius lived as saying he heard a shot, followed 17 minutes later by more shots. Another witness spoke of a shot, followed by screams, then more shots, he said.
After a vigorous cross-examination from Pistorius' defence, a rattled Botha halved his original estimate of the distance between the witnesses and Pistorius' home to 300 metres.
Lead defence counsel Barry Roux challenged Botha, describing oversights and slip-ups in the initial police investigation.
He disputed the policeman's reference to "testosterone", saying the substance found in Pistorius' bedroom was a legitimate herbal remedy called "testo-composutim co-enzyme".
Details on the makeup of testo-composutim co-enzyme were not immediately available.
Administering testosterone as an anabolic agent is banned at all times under World Anti-Doping Agency rules for sports people.
The arrest of Pistorius stunned millions who had watched in awe last year as the Olympic and Paralympic sprinter reached the semi-final of the 400 metres in the London Olympics.
But the impact has been greatest in sports-mad South Africa, where Pistorius was seen as a rare hero who commanded respect from both blacks and whites, transcending the racial divides that persist 19 years after the end of apartheid.
The case has drawn further attention to endemic violence against women in the country after the gang rape, mutilation and murder of a 17-year-old near Cape Town this month.
Arnold Pistorius accused the state of launching a "public trial" by leaking evidence to the media, and reiterated his belief that his nephew would be exonerated and return to the track and public life.
"Truth will prevail," he said in an interview with South Africa's ENCA television channel. "I know the truth. I know exactly what happened. The puzzle is not going to fit where the state wants to fit it."
"He will bounce back and be greater than ever."
The sprinter's sponsors do not share that confidence.
Sportswear giant Nike and French designer Thierry Mugler have both dropped him from future advertising campaigns and cosmetics firm Clarins is recalling a male perfume range bearing Pistorius' signature.
His other sponsors include British telecoms firm BT and sunglasses maker Oakley.
At Steenkamp's funeral in the south coast city of Port Elizabeth on Tuesday, grief was tinged with anger.
"I'm disgusted with what he did. He must be dealt with harshly," said Gavin Venter, an ex-jockey who worked for Steenkamp's father. "Without a doubt he's a danger to the public. He'll be a danger to witnesses. He must stay in jail."
The case has drawn further attention to endemic violence against women in South Africa after the gang-rape, mutilation and murder of a 17-year-old near Cape Town this month.
Members of the Women's League of the ruling African National Congress protested outside the Pretoria court, waving placards saying: "No Bail for Pistorius" and "Rot in jail".
The arrest of Pistorius stunned the millions who had watched in awe last year as the Olympic and Paralympic sprinter reached the semi-final of the 400 metres in the London Olympics.
But the impact has been greatest in sports-mad South Africa, where Pistorius was seen as a rare hero who had transcended the racial divides that persist 19 years after the end of apartheid.
He carried South Africa's flag at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics, and U.S. magazine Sports Illustrated named him as one of the most inspiring figures of the year.
"Many questions are being asked, but we have no answers," Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula said in a statement.
The sprinter's endorsements and sponsorships included sportswear giant Nike, British telecoms firm BT, sunglasses maker Oakley and French designer Thierry Mugler and were thought to be worth as much as US$2 million (NZ$2.38 million) a year.
In his affidavit, Pistorius said he earned 5.6 million rand (NZ$760,000) a year and owned properties worth nearly $1 million.
However, Nike and Mugler both said they had dropped Pistorius from advertising campaigns, while cosmetics firm Clarins said it was recalling its "A Man" perfume range out of "respect and compassion towards the families involved".


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Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
Steve had a chance to check out the LG 47LW5600 passive 3D TV and he tells us what he liked about the passive 3-D, Internet-ready Smart TV.
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Steve: This is one of LG's new 47" TVs. And we've had it here a couple of days and got to spend some time with it. And it's got a really impressive picture. I want to tell you about a couple of other things that really struck us about it.
Well, first of all this is the first passive 3D TV, that I've seen anyway, and let me tell you how passive 3D works. You're probably used to active 3D that uses the "shutter" glasses. Passive 3D is different in that the screen is doing almost all of the work and so the glasses can be very light and simple and inexpensive. And the way passive 3D looks is it looks really good. We had several people come down and take a look at the set while we had it and everybody loved the picture quality. And one of the things you notice about passive is that it has a really wide viewing angle. So we were walking clear around to both sides of the TV, and you still get the strong 3D effect.
LG calls this a smart TV which means that it has the basic Internet features that we're familiar with, like being able to stream movies from Netflix or TV shows from Hulu Plus or video clips from YouTube, but it goes beyond that and it actually has a built-in web browser so you can do searches, you know, while you're watching. Another great feature is Wi-Fi, which means that if you don't want to plug in an Ethernet cable or it's not convenient or you don't want a cable running across your floor, then as long as you've got a wireless network you just take the little USB adapter that comes in the box with the TV and plug it in, and you've got instant Internet.
One other thing I wanted to mention is the LED backlighting on this TV. Now a lot of TVs have LED backlighting but this is kind of special in that it has dimming capability, which means that the LEDs that are spaced around the edges of the screen can actually dim in response to what's happening in the video scene. So if you have part of the scene that's dark and part of it that's bright, the screen is able to reflect that. And it really helps with the picture. The picture really looks terrific on this set. And this set has 120Hz refresh rate which gives you really smooth, clear motion but if you're really into sports you might want to consider the model above this, which is the LW6500. And it has 240Hz refresh rate.
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It was getting to me. The busyness, that is. Every now and again it does, and believe me, it takes a fair and generous portion of crazy preceding the 'I-want-to-tear-my-hair-out' stage. So before the sinister enemy gets to me, I usually do one of four things to stay on top of the game. I sing. I eat. I facebook. I watch re-runs of one of my favourite TV shows (The Vampire Diaries has been the latest target). This time however, busyness was rearing it's ugly head in quite an unsightly fashion and nothing seemed to be working, so I decided to run. Like, pack-my-bags-and-get-out-of-here kind of run. For real.
Okay, before you get a complete heart attack and think I have entirely gone mad and deserted my work - just breathe :) I decided to just take a short break and getaway, joining my husband in Germany and Austria to soak in the chilly winter air, and regain a little bit of my head back in the process :)
And it was wonderful.
It may have been wintry, with the breeze laced with frost, but the sights were magical, and it was good to be out and about, and away. Even if life back at home had just paused momentarily. It was good. Good to be with my husband, walking the streets of Munich hand in hand with our cold-tipped fingers clasped together. Good for my eyes to be refreshed with different sights to inspire. Good to breathe. And good to just be. In those moments as the first snow of Germany floated in and around my face, and I heard the musicians in their thick winter coats playing classical music under those german arches, I was happy and my heart was full.
Here are some things that peaked my eye's interest the day we spent in Munich.
Happy thursday everyone! I'll have photos from Salzburg, Austria next (the land of The Sound of Music!)


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Pudge Rodriguez, Yogi Berra, Yadier Molina and Johnny Bench could catch Leake and it wouldn't matter.
Also, is it not a fact the pitches come from the dugout?
You're damn right people are going to be clamoring for the little used mez. At one point he was ranked the 14th best prospect in baseball and the best catching prospect in baseball. Hanigan is a nobody that came out of nowhere to put up some decent numbers out of the 8 spot. Mesoraco is a potential middle of the order hitter that is wasting away on the bench. I would be furious if I were Mesoraco, at this point the Reds are stealing money from his future grandchildren.


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Today is a busy day for World Cup Qualifying.
Honduras vs Mexico 5:00
USA vs Costa Rica 10:00
Jamaica vs Panama 9:00
Obviously I am hoping the USA will win, and it is unlikely they won't in my opinion.
The big game though is Honduras vs Mexico. In which case I am rooting for Honduras. I was hoping to watch this game, sadly though it is only on Telemundo and I do not get Telemundo.
Jamaica and Panama, who cares.
So cheers to all, lets party and enjoy some soccer.
Viva La Honduras!!!


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Got my NBA playoff tickets in the mail, all the way through the finals.
Granted, they still have to make it there, but still pretty cool.
We cut minutes for our best players, used them to develop most of our young players, and still managed to win 59 games in the same season. Heck of an enjoyable year for me.
Going to miss the Palace. Only part about home I think I'll really miss.


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Well to make a long story short I had my main HD fail this past weekend but I didn't lose anything important that I didn't have backed up so everything is easily replaceable on what I lost. My problem is seems my XP Pro Disc has a scratch at a very important part of the install process and it pretty much is pointless , I had a backup copy but I have looked all over hell's half acre and can't find that ethier. I called up MS because I heard they can replace disc if your's get's damaged long as it's not a OEM which mine isn't. So I called them up yesterday and they Wanted me to jump through a ton of hoops , provide my sales reciept which again Lord know's where that is or if I even have it since I bought it when XP came out like 3 years ago. The CD Key which is registered and Valid isn't good enough proof.
So basically right now I am on Windows 98 SE which I actually forgot how much it sucks From what I understand It's is not Illegal to have someone make you a Backup of there Disc. Again I have a CD key and need a copy of XP Proffesional. I really don't want to pay $150 - $200 for a new one cause I need the full version and not the upgrade. I don't know anyone anymore that could get me a copy through there college for cheap through the MS program If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it or if you can Help please send me a PM * think it would be the best way* . I will pay S&H of course and might throw in a few extra $ for your time.
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-Voters in Minnesota are closely divided on whether there should be justice for Cecil the Lion- 33% think hunter Walter Palmer should be criminally prosecuted for shooting the lion, while 37% think he should not be prosecuted. 30% don't have an opinion either way. The issue of whether to prosecute Palmer divides along party lines- Democrats think 49/22 that he should be punished, but Republicans think 21/53 that he should not.
Voters across party lines do agree on a couple things related to the shooting though. Whether they support charging him or not they don't like Palmer- only 13% of voters see him favorably to 53% with a negative opinion. And they support a worldwide ban on the trophy hunting of threatened species by an overwhelming 67/20 margin. Democrats (84/7), independents (57/30), and Republicans (55/26) would all support such a measure.
-All three of Minnesota's major statewide elected officials are relatively popular, but Amy Klobuchar continues to be by far the best liked politician in the state. Klobuchar has a 55% approval rating with only 29% of disapproving of her, making her one of the most popular Senators in the country. Al Franken (48/43) and Mark Dayton (47/42) have almost identical approval numbers. What sets Klobuchar apart is that even 25% of Republicans like her, compared to just 13% for Dayton and 9% for Franken.
-Minnesota reflects what we're seeing everywhere across the country right now on a trio of hot button political issues. 84% of voters in the state support background checks on all gun purchases, compared to only 11% who are opposed to them. There's a strong bipartisan consensus on the issue with Democrats (91/7), independents (82/13), and Republicans (78/14) all strongly in support.
77% of voters in the state say gay marriage being legal there has had either a positive impact on their lives or no impact at all, with just 23% claiming it's had a negative effect on them. There are actually more voters in the state (25%) who say its being legal has been a positive thing for them than there are (23%) who say it's been a negative thing. Even among Republicans 57% grant that gay marriage being legal hasn't negatively affected their lives.
Voters in the state narrowly support the Affordable Care Act, 43/41. At this point Democrats (79%) are more in favor of Obamacare than Republicans (72%) are in opposition to it. It used to be that Obamacare was unpopular any time that we polled on it in a politically competitive state like Minnesota- now we're generally finding it to be more popular than unpopular, even if the margins are tight.
-When it comes to the state legislative picture in Minnesota voters don't care for either party. The DFL members have only a 29% approval rating, with 49% of voters disapproving of them. But that puts them in good standing compared to the Republicans who are even worse off with just 18% of voters giving them good marks to 63% who disapprove. Democrats lead the generic legislative ballot in the state 46/40.
We tested a couple of other state issues:
-There continues to be overwhelming support for Sunday liquor sales, 67/24. That's something independents (71/21), Democrats (69/21), and Republicans (60/32) are all in agreement on, and it's something we've repeatedly found to be extremely popular in our polling over the years.
-There's even more resounding support- 76% to only 20% opposition- for requiring employers to give a reasonable amount of paid leave time for the birth of or adoption of a child. That too has strong bipartisan backing with Democrats (88/10), Republicans (69/26), and independents (69/27) all firmly behind it.


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MALIBU (CNS) - A 3-year-old boy and a relative, a woman in her 50s, were struck and injured by a hit-and-run driver on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and deputies were still searching for the car and driver who drove away, authorities said today.
Their conditions were listed as critical, but not life threatening, said Lt. Patrick Mathers of the sheriff's Malibu/Lost Hills station.
The crash happened about 8:30 p.m. Friday in the 25500 block of PCH, said sheriff's Lt. Robert Wiard, watch commander at the Malibu/Lost Hills station. That stretch of road is next to a beach and seafood restaurant, and is often congested with cars parking along the beach and pedestrians braving 50 mile per hour traffic.
The incident shut down PCH in both directions for about 90 minutes Friday, said sheriff's Sgt. James Braden.
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Lowe's, based in Mooresville, N.C., also plans to add 9,000 part-time employees on a permanent basis.
On average, seasonal employees will work 20 to 25 hours per week and the length of seasonal employment will vary. Most jobs will start in February. Some could last until September.
The prolonged housing slump hurt home-improvement stores, in part because homeowners have held back on big-ticket renovations. But now, most economists say the housing market is recovering and that the gains should continue this year.
Home prices rose 7.4 percent annually in November, real estate data provider CoreLogic said last week. That's the biggest annual increase since 2006, when the housing bubble burst.
On Tuesday, The National Association of Realtors reported U.S. sales of previously occupied homes dipped in December from November, in part because of a limited supply of available homes. But for all of 2012, sales rose to their highest level in five years.
Lowe's shares rose 45 cents on Tuesday to close at $37.44.
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This is a summary of the European public assessment report (EPAR) for Oslif Breezhaler. It explains how the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) assessed the medicine to reach its opinion in favour of granting a marketing authorisation and its recommendations on the conditions of use for Oslif Breezhaler.
- What is Oslif Breezhaler?
Oslif Breezhaler is a medicine that contains the active substance indacaterol. It is available as capsules containing a powder for inhalation (150 and 300 micrograms).
- What is Oslif Breezhaler used for?
Oslif Breezhaler is used to keep the airways open in adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is a long-term disease in which the airways and air sacs inside the lungs become damaged or blocked, leading to difficulty breathing air in and out of the lungs.
The medicine can only be obtained with a prescription.
- How is Oslif Breezhaler used?
Oslif Breezhaler capsules are only used with a Oslif Breezhaler inhaler and must not be swallowed. To take a dose, the patient places a capsule into the inhaler and breathes the powder in through the mouth.
The recommended dose is one 150-microgram capsule, once a day at the same time each day. A dose of one 300-microgram capsule may be used in cases of severe COPD, but this must only be done on the doctor's instructions.
- How does Oslif Breezhaler work?
The active substance in Oslif Breezhaler, indacaterol, is a beta-2-adrenergic-receptor agonist. It works by attaching to beta-2 receptors that are found in the muscle cells of many organs and that cause the muscles to relax. When Oslif Breezhaler is inhaled, indacaterol reaches the receptors in the airways and activates them. This causes the muscles of the airways to relax, helping to keep the airways open and allowing the patient to breathe more easily.
- How has Oslif Breezhaler been studied?
In three main studies involving over 4,000 patients with COPD, Oslif Breezhaler at different doses has been compared with placebo (a dummy treatment), tiotropium or formoterol (other inhaled medicines used to treat COPD). The main measure of effectiveness was how Oslif Breezhaler compared with placebo in improving patients' forced expiratory volumes (FEV1) after 12 weeks. FEV1 is the most air a person can breathe out in one second.
- What benefit has Oslif Breezhaler shown during the studies?
Oslif Breezhaler was more effective than placebo at improving how well the lungs work in patients with COPD. On average, the improvement in FEV1 in patients who received Oslif Breezhaler was between 150 to 190 ml, while for patients who received placebo the change in FEV1 ranged from a decrease of 10 ml to an increase of 20 ml. Overall, the effects of the 150- and 300-microgram doses of Oslif Breezhaler were similar, but the results showed that the 300-microgram dose may provide better relief in patients with more severe disease.
- What is the risk associated with Oslif Breezhaler?
The most common side effects with Oslif Breezhaler (seen in between 1 and 10 patients in 100) are nasopharyngitis (inflammation of the nose and throat), upper-respiratory-tract infection (colds), sinusitis (inflammation of the sinuses), dizziness, headache, chest pain, cough, oropharyngeal (mouth and throat) pain including throat irritation, rhinorrhoea (runny nose), muscle spasm (cramps) and peripheral oedema (swelling, especially of the ankles and feet). For the full list of all side effects reported with Oslif Breezhaler, see the package leaflet.
Oslif Breezhaler must not be used in people who are hypersensitive (allergic) to indacaterol, lactose or any of the other ingredients.
- Why has Oslif Breezhaler been approved?
The CHMP decided that Oslif Breezhaler's benefits are greater than its risks and recommended that Oslif Breezhaler be given marketing authorisation.
- What measures are being taken to ensure the safe use of Oslif Breezhaler?
The company that makes Oslif Breezhaler will ensure that doctors who are expected to prescribe the medicine and pharmacists in all Member States are provided with a card containing information on how the medicine is used.
- Other information about Oslif Breezhaler:
European Commission granted a marketing authorisation valid throughout the European Union for Oslif Breezhaler on 30 November 2009.
For more information about treatment with Oslif Breezhaler, read the package leaflet (also part of the EPAR) or contact your doctor or pharmacist.
This EPAR was last updated on 20/03/2017 .
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Oslif Breezhaler is indicated for maintenance bronchodilator treatment of airflow obstruction in adult patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Thatdirtykid wrote:
I still carry a sidwinder and a wraith
Thatdirtykid wrote:i dont know if its something subconscious or what but ive seen alot of people throw mostly one brand.
Thatdirtykid wrote:Ive noticed discraft slowly replacing every disc in my bag. It was a gradual change from innova to discraft, I still carry a couple innova discs but the change has been coming.
Much like this
Valk-Flash (soon spectra?)
cobras-z glide
avairs-banger gt's
I still carry a sidwinder and a wraith
and am using a dx firebird until i get a new z predator, however i am liking how the firebird is wearing down...
I also noticed something else. I have 4 aces, and they were all discraft discs! the strange thing is most of these aces happend while carrying mostly innova
1st Z flash, 2nd Z XS, 3rd X Buzzz, 4th X cyclone (not to mention the banger gt hits metal more often than any other disc ive owned...)
I really dont want to start an argument on brands, I think they all have benifits and all defintely have great discs. Whenever any brand has a disc that plays to my throwing style the best I will throw it. My to try list always is full of other brands.
Mark Brunner wrote:And yet discraft has such a small market share compared to Innova
I just recently changed my bag over to gateway, I just fell in love with their product. Not enough people give them a chance.
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12 Zone Sprinkler Converter
If you have an area where you are currently using conventional sprinklers or are installing a new sprinkler system, take a look at the areas to be watered. While large areas, such as lawns, are best watered by sprinklers, other areas, such as shrubs, trees and planters, could be better watered by drip irrigation.
This kit converts an existing sprinkler head to a 12-zone drip system. Available in 2 GPH and 4 GPH models. Note: Tubing is not included.
Kit contains:
- 1 – 12-zone Maverick
- 12 – Tubing holder stakes
- 8 – Plugs to close unused zones
- 12 – Bug plugs for micro tube
- 12 – 1/4" converter barb
The Maverick 12-zone drip head is designed to adapt to any 1/2" riser above or below ground. It may be incorporated into a new system or used to convert an existing sprinkler to a 12-zone drip system without disturbing the flow of the other sprinklers on the line. The Maverick uses our extremely accurate pressure compensating nozzles ensuring equal flow over a wide pressure range and is designed to operate for the same duration as the rest of your sprinkler system.
- Saves up to 70% over conventional sprinklers
- Can be installed above ground or below grade in 6" irrigation box
- Micro tubing can be laid above ground or buried, Micro tubing not included
- Each zone is regulated
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Remarks of Senator Harry Reid
(As Prepared for Delivery) When I agreed to speak here today, I was given a list of topics that you wanted to discuss. At the top of the list was "infrastructure investment." With most people, when you say the word "infrastructure," their eyes glaze over – and I understand why. So I'm thrilled today to be here — with the only other people on the planet whose idea of a fascinating conversation is talking about sewer systems. During lunch. I am happy to be here today, and I appreciate the chance to talk to all of you. I'm especially happy to see my friend, "The Happiest Mayor on Earth," Oscar Goodman of Las Vegas. Oscar and I go back many years, and he's done so many great things for Las Vegas – he is without reservation Las Vegas's best mayor. And seriously, I am happy to talk about infrastructure investment. It might not be the most glamorous topic, but as you know, it's one of the most important. Infrastructure is – both literally and figuratively – the cornerstone on which America is built. We will never accomplish any of our loftier goals if we don't take care of our most basic needs.


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Intravenous or Intra-abdominal Local Anesthetics for Postoperative Pain Management. (PoPuLAR)
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|Uterine Myoma Persistent Post-menpausal Bleeding Uterine Cancer
|Drug: Normal saline Drug: Intravenous Lidocaine Drug: Intra-abdominal Lidocaine
|Phase 4
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Comparison Between Continuous Infusion vs. Patient Controlled Intraabdominal Injection of Local Anesthetics for Treatment of Postoperative Pain After Abdominal Hysterectomy. A Randomized, Double-blind Study.
- Morphine consumption [ Time Frame: 0 - 24 h postoperatively ]Total rescue morphine consumption during 0 - 24 h would be the primary endpoint
- Postoperative pain [ Time Frame: 4 h postoperatively ]Postoperative pain measured on the numeric rating scale (0 - 10) would be measured at 4 h
- Plasma concentration of lidocaine [ Time Frame: 24 h ]The plasma concentration of LA lidocaine would be analysed at 24 h in order to assess whether the LA absorption from the abdomen is similar to that administered intravenously.
- Length of Hospital stay [ Time Frame: 1-5 days ]The time to discharge home would be assessed using standardized criteria for home discharge.
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|Study Start Date:
|November 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Active Comparator: Intravenous Lidocaine
Intravenous lidocaine would be administered as an infusion for pain management both intra- and post-operatively.
Drug: Intravenous Lidocaine
Standardized infusion of lidocaine during 24 h. 100 mg bolus and 50 mg/h during 24 h would be administered.
Other Name: Xylocaine 5 mg/ml
Active Comparator: Intra-abdominal Lidocaine
Lidocaine would be administered intermittently, once each hour intra-abdominally for postoperative pain management.
Drug: Intra-abdominal Lidocaine
Lidocaine 5 mg/ml; 100 mg would be administered intraoperatively intra-abdominally and subsequently 50 mg/h as intermittent injection intra-abdominally during 24 h
Other Name: Xylocaine 5 mg/ml
Placebo Comparator: Normal saline
Normal saline would be administered intra-abdominally and intravenously in the same patient. Rescue analgesia in the form of morphine (PCA) would be used for pain management.
Drug: Normal saline
Normal saline would be administered intravenously and intra-abdominally.
Detailed Description:
Abdominal hysterectomy with or without salipingo-oophorectomy is associated with moderate-severe postoperative pain. Poor pain control in the postoperative period can lead to increased postoperative morbidities and poor quality of life. Furthermore, an emerging clinical literature suggests that acute pain may rapidly evolve into chronic pain if poorly treated. A meta-analysis of the literature found that > 30% patients had chronic pain one year after abdominal hysterectomy (5). Therefore, efficient postoperative pain management is imperative for the patient and is one of the new pain management standards recommended recently.
Local anesthetics (LA) have been infiltrated subcutaneously, infused intra-abdominally, as well as injected into the peritoneal cavity as a single dose at the end of the operation following abdominal hysterectomy with variable effects. When injected as a single dose, analgesia is limited to approximately 2-4 hours due to the short duration of action of local anesthetics. In one recent study, the authors used a catheter inserted intra-abdominally and local anesthetic or placebo infusion into the abdominal cavity for 24 h postoperatively and found a reduction in postoperative analgesic requirements by 40% during 4-24 h. In another study, the investigators found that LA injected intermittently intra-abdominally resulted in better pain relief compared to intra-abdominal infusions.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|30 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- 30 - 75 yrs
- Informed consent
- 50 - 100 kg
Exclusion Criteria:
- Allergy to LA
- Chronic pain
- Major liver/kidney insufficiency
- AV Block 1-2 Participation in another clinical trial
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01492179
|Örebro University Hospital
|Örebro, Sweden, 701 85
|Study Director:
|Kjell Axelsson, MD, PhD
|Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden
|Responsible Party:
|Anil Gupta, Associate Professor, Örebro University, Sweden
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01492179 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 12, 2011
|Last Updated:
|May 25, 2014
Keywords provided by Anil Gupta, Örebro University, Sweden:
Surgery: Abdominal hysterectomy
Anesthetics: Local
Postoperative: Pain
Drugs: Morphine
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pain, Postoperative
Uterine Neoplasms
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Postoperative Complications
Pathologic Processes
Signs and Symptoms
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Uterine Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Neoplasms, Muscle Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Connective Tissue
Connective Tissue Diseases
Anesthetics, Local
Central Nervous System Depressants
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Blockers
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Hi, just wanted to share some information about this supplement. My Mum's been taking it for the past two months and although it's not making miracles, she's feeling better than - according to the doctors- she's supposed to. Actually I believe that the fraze they used was that "with her clinical results she should be dead by now" (seriously!!!!). Don't know if it's just the placebo effect (she really believes it's working) or what, but despite the fact that her disease is still in progress (second choice chemo didn't work...) she still has some good days (even went shoppping and to the hairdresser last week).


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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Political Web sites all over the world have copied Barack Obama's very successful site—in their designs, color schemes, features, and more! Regardless of their position on the political spectrum, parties and candidates have found that Obama-like sites are effective ones.
Shane D'Aprile, in an article for Politics magazine (April 2009, pp. 26-32; 34; 36-37), mentions some examples of such sites:
- Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel): Obamaesque red buttons on a blue background; "Likud-TV" instead of "Obama TV"; and social-networking ("Netanyahu Everywhere" rather than "Obama Everywhere"). (http://en.netanyahu.org.il/)
- Fianna Fáil (Ireland): Lots of green, but also Obama-type interactive buttons for volunteers, with the site designed by Blue State Digital (which also designed the Obama site). (http://www.fiannafail.ie/content/index/)
- Democratic Alliance (South Africa): A logo that has a sun and stripes on a home page with a slogan "change"; buttons to donate, volunteer, etc. (http://www.da.org.za/)
- Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (El Salvador): More stripes and buttons to donate and view videos. (http://www.fmln.org.sv/)
Other groups—in India, Great Britain, and Germany—also have borrowed Web ideas from the Obama campaign. According to Ron Dermer, an adviser to Netanyahu, "imitation is the greatest form of flattery. We're all in the same business, so we took a close look at a guy who has been successful and tried to learn from him." (quoted in http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/world/middleeast/15bibi.html)


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This is a very tiny micro mosaic ring I got from the swapmeet. It is of a clasic greek building and scenery- columns, blue sky, forgroung and shrubs. There are some nicks around the edges, but the image area is fine. Its amazing! What a great find for a few bucks!


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I have lupus and fibro and have 2 drs who dont accept medicare and 1 doesnt accepts HMO's. he's also whay's known as a concierge dr. I pay a fee to use him as my dr and he bills my insurance.I haven't heard anyone around here mention that their doctors don't accept patients on medicare (not saying it doesn't happen, I just don't know of any). My parents have never had an issue with their doctors, but they did have problems with the local hospital and had to use a hospital 30 miles away for awhile. It was ridiculous.
The entire health care system needs overhauled top to bottom.
Somethings needs to be done thats for sure. I pay about 20k a year in copays deductibles etc.
I talk to a lot of sick people who have non-textbook problems. They have a lot of problems even with the canadian, australian, and uk systems. No system is ideal. It seems those with acute health issues have a more positive experience than those with chronic issues.
Healthcare should not be amount large profit margins for the admin (cant think of the word havent slept in 2 days) while family drs are barely getting by. It's a mess
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