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Scoliosis is an abnormal curvature of the spine. In scoliosis, the spine curves to the side when viewed from the front, and each involved vertebra also twists on the next one in a corkscrew fashion. This twisting is known as rotoscoliosis. This may cause one shoulder to be higher than the other or one side of the ribcage or lower back to be more prominent (humpback). If there is both a sidewise curvature and increase in the outward curvature of the upper back, this condition is called kyphoscoliosis. It is more common in children with neuromuscular diseases. A curve with a right-sided prominence is called dextroscoliosis, and a left-sided prominence is levoscoliosis. Generally, children with idiopathic (of unknown cause) scoliosis have two sidewise curves in opposite directions, but these may not be of the same size or severity.
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Voodoo Chronicles' setting of the late 19th Century comes through pretty well. The cobblestoned streets and older looking cars combined with steam-punk styled machinations and more elaborate robotic helpers makes the whole world feel both familiar and off.
Most of the game's locations have a static backdrop with characters moving about a little in the scene. In order to add a bit more motion to the image, there are a few visual effects like motes dancing in sunbeams or electricity arching across contacts. In the end, these little touches do a good job of keeping the game interesting to look at while you try and figure out your next step.
Audio is an odd mix. While the background noises only help to set the stage, there is a good bit of the dialogue and acting that feels out of place. There are times when the language feels too formal, or the sentence structure isn't quite right. Whether or not this is an attempt to portray an English language that isn't quite ours, or some issue in the actual writing process for the game, is hard to tell. Either way, the audio portion of Voodoo Chronicles: First Sign is hit and miss.

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The talented and creative, Teresa McFayden joins us for this instalment of ScrapScene's Spotlight on a Designer feature. For past spotlights, please click here.
Teresa McFayden is the creator of the Foof-a-La line of products by Autumn Leaves. You can see the CHA Winter '07 new releases here. She is one busy lady! Teresa also has a papercrafting / scrapbooking kit club called, Paper Bella Studio. Last year she organized Silver Bella, which was an event full of classes by celebrated instructors. Plans are already underway for this year's event. You can see some of the "Bella Girls" at an all-day event, Sparkle Bella, this summer in Arizona. Watch for Teresa in her soon to be released book, "The Foof-a-Life."
Here are the questions we posted to Teresa along with her answers:
{ScrapScene} Please tell us how you first discovered papercrafting and scrapbooking.
{Teresa McFayden} A friend introduced me to scrapbooking about 13 years ago. I thought it was an ingenious way of recording our life and telling our stories…and so beautiful! I started an album full of layouts right away and never ever looked back. I will never stop scrapbooking in this way and don't know how anyone ever could!
{ScrapScene} When you first thought of creating your own product line, "Foof-a-La," how did you go about selling the idea?
{Teresa McFayden} I got extremely lucky, and rented the last booth at a small local scrap convention. I worked diligently for a couple (of) months designing products, packaging and making samples for the booth. When the day of the show came, the products and concept was very fresh and new and very well received. Other vendors started asking me if I sold wholesale and I had no idea what I was going to do after this show, so I said, "Yes." That's how it all began. Crazy!!
("The Foof-a-Life," new book by Teresa McFayden at right)
{ScrapScene} Can you tell us a little about your upcoming book "The Foof-a-Life."
{Teresa McFayden} An idea book for FoofaLa has been something folks have wanted for so long. It is something I have wanted for years as well. It couldn't be done really until the product line was large enough to fill an entire book as the book features only Foof a La products. We finally got there! The book is filled with paper arts projects. Dimensional items, altered items, and photo arts. The artists and I had a ball creating the projects and it exceeded all expectations. The photography is over the top! Autumn Leaves Books are known for their well designed books, and this one is truly the prettiest one to date, in my very biased opinion! Tracy Kyle (who held my hand) is known for taking a style and adapting (it) into book form visually. She worked wonders, as always!
{ScrapScene} How did you develop your own personal style? Can you give any suggestions for other artists on developing a unique personal style?
{Teresa McFayden} Developing a personal style is something that just sort of happens after doing layout after layout diligently. You can't really develop a sense of what you like when you just dabble here and there and only work on your layouts once in a while. IT really started to happen for me when I loved the products I was using and made layout after layout….almost daily. Funny, I still wouldn't say I have a "style" but when I try and mimic other folks' styles I can quickly see what doesn't work for me personally.
{ScrapScene} What inspires and motivates you to create?
{Teresa McFayden} I get inspired to create when I have great products to work with, or great photos I want to document. My creativity plays tricks on me quite a bit…and is often afraid to come forth. Deadlines seem to work well though!
(Collage at left for sale in Teresa's Trunk Show)
{ScrapScene} What are your favorite techniques at this time?
{Teresa McFayden} Favorite techniques for me these days involve shading with charcoal pencils, and I am very much enamoured with shabby, intricate trims and ribbons. I have way to many and yet not enough!
{ScrapScene} What are your favorite products?
{Teresa McFayden} Well, trims and ribbons are a favorite for me. I also love love love new papers and products from Anna Griffin, 7 Gypsies, Daisy D's, and Melissa Frances. Still a shabby lover who gears my work towards vintage colors. I usually avoid bright colors.
{ScrapScene} What are your most essential tools?
{Teresa McFayden} Essential tooks for me are a Japanese screw punch, UHU Glue Sticks, a decent paper trimmer (which I do not have right now and it drives me batty), and decorative-edged scissors. I threw them all out years ago, but turned around and bought a few pairs!
(Layout by Teresa at right, "Leave a Tender Moment Alone")
{ScrapScene} What do you think is the hottest trend in the world of papercrafts? What do you predict for future trends?
{Teresa McFayden} This industry changes trends quickly. I would expect to see more fabulous ribbons and trims, more Anthropologie typed looking papers and embellishments, and more kits because women want certain looks but can't always afford to take the time to make it happen–so they opt for kits which incude (both the) look and the products they want.
{ScrapScene} Do you have any tips for other papercrafters/scrapbookers on getting their work noticed?
{Teresa McFayden} Developing your own style is certainly critical. You gotta be "you" because mimicing others' works won't get you very far for very long. It also evokes a sense of confidence in your work when you have your own "style", and that is attractive to everyone.
{ScrapScene} Are there any other Designers that inspire you?
{Teresa McFayden} Oh yes! So many! Jenni Bowlin, Rebecca Sower, Ali Edwards, Elsie Flannigan, Marilyn Healey…so many in this industry, but those quickly come to mind.
{ScrapScene} What project(s) are you working on now? Do you have any sneak peeks to share?
{Teresa McFayden} I have been very busy the past few weeks working on Paper Bella Kits, designing Workshops for Guest Teaching appearances, and preparing for a couple of magazine articles.
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This movie has no redeeming features whatsoever. Basically, there's this rich, sick bastard who gets his kicks from watching his wife have sex with other men (he's impotent) and burying people alive (hence the title "Every Breath" ???) which is meant to be some deep metaphor for how he feels in life -- suffocated. The whole premise is nasty. Richard & Lauren prey on people and engage them in erotic games for their own pleasure. I think we're meant to feel sorry for Lauren or something but she's just a messed up bitch. Meanwhile, what the hell is Judd's character DOING? He has a lovely doting girlfriend and he ditches her for these weirdos. This is not only a sick movie but a bad one too. The subject matter is distasteful and the acting atrocious. Avoid at all costs. A complete waste of time. Utter, utter CRAP.
Jud Nelson is an aspiring actor who becomes involved with a married couple who enjoy playing sadistic games on other people. The husband gets his jollies by burying people alive. If that isn't bad enough, he has a miniature video camera in each coffin so he can watch his victims suffocate.
Dodgy plot, dodgy script, dodgy almost everything in fact. The most
compelling performance is that of Joanna Pacula as Lauren, but even that
does not rescue this pointless and nasty film. The director's implicit
invitation to viewers is not merely to suspend disbelief but to suspend
Presumably it is intended to be steamy and menacing, but although the film has its erotic moments they are few and far between. This sort of thing has been done better by lots of others. Don't go out of your way to see it.
What can you say about this one, other than how lovely Joanna Pacula is?
least one of the main characters is deeply psychotic, and you don't find
this out at first. I guess you have to give it credit for not being a
formulaic copy of something else. Judd Nelson was OK in a part where he
continually shocked by the madness around him. I give it a higher score
otherwise due to Pacula. Fans of hers should see this. Anyone else...I
Grade: D
Totally forgettable movie but an unbelievable soundtrack: I'd give it (soundtrack)a 9 out of 10. I have the CD and the guitar work (Nils Lofgren) is superb! I saw the movie years ago and had to check IMDb to remember what it was about. I obsessed about getting the soundtrack and have since had to replace it. It ranges from blues/soul/ballad to a dose of gospel. All songs written, arranged, produced and performed by Nils Lofgren who is the "other" lead guitarist opposite Steve Van Zandt in the E Street Band. This dude can play! The vocals are handled by Nils (he can't sing very good-too raspy), Bonnie Sheridan (who is a great singer) and Tom Lepson.
I agree about the movie...but the soundtrack is well worth listening
to. Performed and written by Nils Lofgren, it also features vocals by
DC blues singer Tommy Lepson and veteran Bonnie Sheridan Bramlett...of
Delaney & Bonnie fame. Also nice harmonica from Mark Wenner of the band
The Nighthawks.
Good tunes wasted in a tedious movie. Still, I did think some of the cinematography was OK...as I recall, the movie had an interesting light to it--a dark, nighttime cast. Yet good music, good cinematography, and even good-looking people can't save an impossibly written, completely unbelievable plot.
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After participating in this course, you will be able to:
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There is more that is not understood than what is understood about grounding and bonding of electrical systems. This seminar will emphasize both theory and practice so that you will have a firm foundation of knowledge when you begin your next design or construction project, or when you next encounter problems in your electrical system which must be corrected for safety, operational or power quality reasons. Case studies will be presented to discuss grounding and bonding applications in a variety of areas in order to reinforce fundamental grounding principles common to a variety of applications.Objective
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Registration and Coffee
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¢ Unwanted current flow
¢ Grounding electrodes and grounding methods
¢ Effects of emergency generators
Electrical Safety Grounding
¢ Common electrical hazards
¢ Rules for working around live electrical equipment
¢ Electrical safety grounding
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What Is Bonding?
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¢ Body resistance and electric shock
¢ Bonding definition and purposes
¢ Electrical code requirements
¢ Methods of bonding and what must be bonded
¢ Single point bonding
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¢ Earth resistance vs. resistivity
¢ Ground fault protection
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Substation Grounding
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¢ Step and touch potentials
¢ Grounding resistance and resistivity
¢ Substation ground electrodes
¢ ANSI/IEEE grounding standard
Electronic Equipment
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¢ Frequency response of conductors
¢ Minimizing electrical interference
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Lightning Protection
¢ The nature of lightning
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¢ Protection equipment and grounding methods
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¢ Ground resistance and resistivity
¢ Effects of moisture and temperature
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Call it �The Grating Gatsby.�
Call it �The Grating Gatsby.�
Although the incurably exuberant Baz Luhrmann had the glitter factories and sequin mines working overtime, his glitzed-up �Gatsby� is dishwater dull. Because he has an eye for spectacle but is deaf to emotional detail, he has turned an exquisitely told story of doomed romance into a 3-D production with all the depth of a pop-up book.
Given his track record of exhilarating success with flashy music videos like �Strictly Ballroom� and �Moulin Rouge!,� and train-wreck failure with more narrative projects like his incoherent epic �Australia,� we might have expected subtle literary material to be beyond his grasp. But who would have predicted that Luhrmann, the P.T. Barnum of supercharged excess, would make Jazz Age decadence such a drag?
Like Gatsby�s overheated fantasy of his unattainable beloved, Luhrmann has decked out his film �with every bright feather that drifted his way.� The cheerful dissonance of watching flappers and swells rave to Jay-Z quickly fades, and the movie plods on like a sixth-period American Lit class.
Leonardo DiCaprio (a heartthrob lead for Luhrmann�s 1996 �Romeo + Juliet�) plays mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, whose all-night soir�es at his palatial West Egg manse attract the cream (and dregs) of New York society. He�s the subject of wild rumors, many circulated by himself. Chasing his blinkered vision of the American dream, he reinvents himself and racks up riches outside the law. Tobey Maguire is our narrator, Nick Carraway, here an onscreen stand-in for F. Scott Fitzgerald, writing a memoir of his encounters with Gatsby while riding out �morbid alcoholism� at a snowbound Midwestern sanitarium. Ethereal Carey Mulligan is Daisy Buchanan, Nick�s second cousin and Gatsby�s object of desire. Joel Edgerton is her possessive old-money husband, Tom, whose baleful squint and Hitler-style mustache sum up his character.
Each of them seems to be acting in a different movie. DiCaprio conveys Gatsby�spassion with a gaze that suggests advanced constipation. Mulligan operates in two modes � Doe-Eyed Stare for languid moments, and Mascara Eruption for high drama. Edgerton attacks every line of dialogue like a bull in a porcelain showroom. Maguire drifts through his performance with the vacant smile of a forgettable lad sitting for his high school portrait.
Fitzgerald�s novel is a peculiar mix of staggeringly literal symbolism (the billboard eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, occulist, launched a million term papers) and oblique psychology. The main character is a cypher. What the players think can be inferred, though only up to a point, by the epigrammatic things they say. The film�s solution to these difficulties is to pull out every visual gimmick, from period newsreel footage to Mach-10 zooms. Wall Street�s pre-Crash jitters are invoked by two separate point-of-view shots from the cockpits of airplanes power-diving toward the financial district�s sidewalks. Because one just wouldn�t make the point.
The ever-writhing camera captures some powerful images. After a teasing half-hour offscreen, DiCaprio makes his entrance to an orchestral burst of Gershwin and a volley of fireworks. More often, Lurhmann�s grand gestures are unrelated to the emotional point of a given scene, like exclamation points randomly strewn throughout a sentence. Luhrmann�s notion of honoring Fitzgerald�s text is to type out key phrases on the screen and stereoscopically float the letters out over our heads.
Like Fitzgerald�s narrator, watching this gaudy mess, �I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled.� But mostly? Bored.
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ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves hope veteran starter Ben Sheets can bolster their rotation.
After Sheets passed a physical on Sunday morning, the Braves signed the oft-injured pitcher to a minor-league contract.
The 33-year-old Sheets, who will report Wednesday to Double-A Mississippi, threw a simulated game Thursday at Georgia Tech that the Braves and four other teams attended.
The two sides agreed to contract terms Friday.
Sheets said he felt good after throwing a bullpen session Sunday to former major league catcher Eddie Perez at Turner Field. Perez, the Braves' bullpen coach, played the 2003 season with Sheets, a Louisiana native, in Milwaukee.
"I ain't telling you I'm throwing 100 (mph), but I'm just saying the ball's coming out of my hand really good," Sheets said. "Breaking ball's spinning. Eddie even told me my cutter-slider looked good. I know he's lying."
The right-hander last pitched in 2010 with Oakland, going 4-9 with a 4.53 ERA in 20 starts.
Atlanta's rotation took a hit recently when Brandon Beachy was lost for the season to a torn elbow ligament. Beachy was 5-5 over 13 starts with a 2.00 ERA, tied for lowest in the majors. He had surgery June 25.
Sheets, a four-time NL All-Star, missed the 2009 season after undergoing a similar surgery on his right elbow. He played for Milwaukee from 2001-2008, going 86-83 with a 3.72 ERA in 221 starts.
Oakland general manager Billy Beane took a chance on Sheets in 2010, paying him $10 million on a one-year contract.
Sheets landed on the disabled list for the seventh time in his career, undergoing surgery to repair a torn flexor tendon and a torn elbow ligament.
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Video is increasingly the foundation of any successful digital marketing strategy. The Advertiser Perceptions Winter 2016 Report into Video Advertising is essential reading for anyone investing their budget into this medium. For those making that investment, the good news is that digital and mobile video is maintaining the highest levels of advertiser optimism.
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The way that brands buy video advertising is changing all the time and the report discovered some very interesting trends:
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Many hospital patient become infected by bacteria or viruses unrelated to the primary reason for their visit. Recently, however, a Dutch company launched the Virobuster Steritube, an innovative system for sterilizing air, designed to avoid such infections.
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Virobuster continues where air purification
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Let the city start auto bus routes
with money from the $16,000,000 city
traction fund, say Public Ownership
league men, It's a-better way to get
improved street car service than by
plunging into subways.
Members of the league point to
subway talk popping lately and say
these moves all in one week are
worth notice:
Aid. Henry D. Capitain, who votes
and speaks for the street car compa
nies on the council floor, said Oct. 9
there is danger the state utilities
commission will grab the city's $16,
000,000 traction fund and "build a
subway of its own planning."
Bion J. Arnold, chairman board of
supervising engineers, on Oct 7
spoke before the American Electric
Railway ass'n in San Francisco and
advised Chicago: "Why not build the
subway bore as far as possible with
these surplus profits (the $16,000,
000 traction fund), as represented by
the city's share, as a municipally
owned project, not necessarily munic
ipally operated?"
Mayor Thompson on Oct 4 urged
action for some kind of a subway, not
comprehensive but maybe "dinky."
What's the answer? Why does Aid.
Henry .Capitain, the best friend the
traction companies have in the coun
cil, holler for the city's $16,000,000
to be spent for a subway? Why does
Bion J. Arnold, the so-called expert
who "rehabilitated" the street rail
ways under the 1907 ordinances till
service is worse than ever, who has
drawn $234,000 salary under the 1907
ordinances, now call tor the city 'to
plunge and. sink its $16,000,000 in
underground tunnels?
And is there any connection be
tween Mayor Thompson's declaration
for subways coming on the first and
only night the mayor had sitting on
he platform with him in council
hamber Sam Ettelson, law partner
if Dan Schuyler, attorney for the
State Street Stores ass'n?
"As we figure it out," said Morton
L. Johnson of the executive commit
tee of the Public Ownership league,
"the traction companies would like to
lift out of the city treasury one way
or another that $16,000,000. So long
as it's there it's a threat to them. Any
time public ownership sentiment gets
strong enough the people will order
cross-town lines and start auto bus
service that will put a crimp into the
traction game.
"We will keep watch and call the
number on every public official who
favors raiding this $16,000,000 fund
for a subway scheme. That pile of
cash would go better for auto bus
lines and other transportation than
for subways."
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.Clarksdale, Miss. Two negroes
who confessed to killing A. H. Cage,
cashier of Planters' bank of Clarks
dale, in attempted robbery, lynched
by a mob.
.Oostburg, Wis. Tobas Bloomers,
93 years old, found dead in attic of
his home, where he hanged himself.
Philadelphia. All hope abandoned
for Swedish steamer Norbotten, due
ten days ago. Vessel left Norway
Sept 11.
Christiania. Women voted today
for first time in Norwegian general
Boston. One man instantly killed,
40 injured, when boiler of George R.
Strong & Co. shoe factory, West Wey
mouth, exploded.
London. Drink sales slumped
heavily as result of new regulation
prohibiting treating in London and
neighborhood, under penalty of $500
fine and six months in prison.
Washington. This government's
long postponed note to Great Britain
sharply protesting against American
trade interference planned to go this
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! being used in effort to recover bodies
i of three negroes who drowned in the
1 Mississippi river.
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Edward E. Rayden, one of the defendants charged by the Federal Trade Commission with operating a computer repair services contract scam, has agreed to a settlement that would prohibit him from making any false or misleading representations when selling goods and services to consumers over the phone or by mail. As part of the settlement, Rayden also would be required to pay $15,000. Rayden also agreed to a ban that would prevent him from participating in the sale of service contracts where such sales account for more than 10 percent of the revenues generated. Rayden was an officer of National PC Systems, Inc., an Encino, California company named as a defendant in the FTC's "Project Mailbox," a law enforcement effort targeting fraudulent direct mail schemes.
On October 1, 1997, as part of "Project Mailbox," the FTC, Postal Inspection Service, the National Association of Attorneys General, state Attorneys General, local law enforcement officials and AARP announced 190 law enforcement actions against fraudulent direct mail schemes. The scams targeted in the sweep involved a range of deceptive claims, including misrepresentations that a mailing was from the government; deceptive claims that consumers have won something; and false prize promotion claims.
In the National PC Systems case, the FTC charged AKOA, Inc., Jeffrey Rayden, Larry Wayne and Edward Rayden, all doing business as National PC Systems, Inc., with sending invoices to organizations, including churches and non-profit organizations, for unordered computer repair service contracts. Their mailings indicated that they were "renewals" or "upgrades of service" to previous contracts, or warned that an account was "past due." Their solicitations also provided an 800 number for consumers to call for "unlimited maintenance and repair services" including assistance by telephone. The FTC alleged that the defendants rarely, if ever, provided the promised services to consumers. In October, the Commission amended its complaint to add Rayco, Inc., and Easyway International, Inc. as corporate defendants. The FTC litigation against the other defendants in the case continues.
The FTC's settlement with Edward Rayden, which requires the court's approval, would permanently bar him from participating in the sale of any service contract by mail or the telephone for any business in which service contracts constitute more than 10 percent of the revenues of the business, and contains specific prohibitions against the types of false claims allegedly made by Rayden and the other defendants in the case. The settlement would require Rayden, in connection with any business that he owns or controls, when sending mail that looks like a bill, to include the following statement in 30-point type on the envelope: "THIS IS NOT A BILL." In addition, Rayden would be required to make certain disclosures required by the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule if he calls consumers without their prior consent for the purpose of soliciting the purchase of goods or services.
The settlement also requires that, in the future, Rayden make full refunds to consumers who paid for goods or services and have not received them within the time represented or, if no specific time was represented, within two weeks of making the request.
Based on the financial disclosure documents Rayden filed with the FTC, the settlement requires him to pay $15,000 immediately to the receiver. Finally, the order contains various recordkeeping and reporting provisions that would assist the FTC is monitoring Rayden's compliance.
The Commission vote to approve the settlement for filing in court was 3-1, with Commissioner Mary L. Azcuenaga dissenting. The stipulation for final judgment was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, in Los Angeles, on November 18, 1997.
NOTE: This stipulated final judgment is for settlement purposes only and does not constitute an admission by the defendant of a law violation. The judgment has the force of law when signed by the judge.
Copies of the stipulated final judgment, as well as other documents associated with this case and "Project Mailbox," are available from the FTC's Public Reference Branch, Room 130, 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580; 202-326-2222; TTY for the hearing impaired 1-866-653-4261. To find out the latest FTC news as it is announced, call the FTC's NewsPhone recording at 202-326-2710. FTC news releases and other materials also are available on the Internet at the FTC's World Wide Web Site at: http://www.ftc.gov
(FTC File No. 972 3129)
(Civil Action No. 97-7084 (C.D. Cal.)(LGB)(Mcx)
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Cant turn on/update Windows Firewall error 0x8007042c
Hello there!
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It says Action Center cant turn on Windows firewall, do this manually but when i try Use recommended settings, i get this error...
Could anyone tell me how i can fix this?
Is some service not working properly? (Action Control Center)
I've already run Free NOD32 online scanner and tried to fix it with Tweaking.com Windows Repair tool but no luck.
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|03 Nov 2011
Windows 7 & Windows Vista Ultimate
Hi, Krasto. Welcome to SevenForums!
Please see Microsoft KB Article 2530126, which addresses the problem you are experiencing: Error code: 0x8007042c "Windows firewall cannot change some of your settings" when you try to turn on your Windows Firewall.
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When we talk about Salman Khan aka the Bhai of Bollywood, every damn thing becomes a religious fascination. And, at times we seriously pick fights with anyone who dares to disrespect our Bhaijaan because we'd like to believe that there are some very fine actors and then there is just one Salman Khan. We drool every time he plays Prem on-screen, we go ecstatic when he beats the shit out of 10 badass gangsters all at once and we love using some of his epic movie dialogues to 'discipline' people out there.
We just love the fact he is not married (and not intending to either), does not look his age (those looks and muscles though), and with that swag, he can pull off anything under the sun.
When he is not doing any of this, he is this lovable Samaritan who is helping people in need and that counts the most.
We being loyal fans too, we decided to go back in time and dig out some rare photographs of Salman Khan with fellow Bollywood divas and actors. So go right ahead, feast your eyes with these 8 unseen photographs of him.
And that's why he still rules Bollywood.
All images courtesy: Facebook