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- Cho'Gath gains life upon killing units.
- Cho'Gath causes the ground to rupture. After a short delay jagged spikes will emerge, popping enemies into the air, dealing damage and slowing them upon landing.
- Cho'Gath lets out a terrifying cone based scream, damaging and silencing units who are hit.
- Passive: Cho'Gath's basic attacks send out spikes, impaling units behind his primary target.
- Cho'Gath attempts to consume an enemy whole, instantly killing it if it is below a health threshold. Each time Cho'Gath successfully devours a unit, he grows in size, gaining health and increasing the consume health threshold.
- Amumu's physical attacks reduce his target's magic resistance.
- Amumu sends out a sticky bandage, if it encounters an enemy unit it will damage and stun them while Amumu pulls himself to them.
- Toggle: Enemies within a short range of Amumu lose a percent of their max health each second.
- Passive: Permanently reduces physical damage dealt to Amumu
- Active: Upon being hit a number of times he can unleash his rage to deal magic damage to surrounding units.
- Amumu entangles surrounding units, dealing damage and causing them to be unable to move for a short duration.
- Stats
- Attack speed reduced to be in line with other casters.
- Stun duration modified to 1.75 seconds from 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2/2.25/2.5.
- Changed cone to be locked to Ashe.
- The Malice and Spite charge now only lasts three minutes.
- Can now be cast while stealthed (without breaking it).
- Radius increased to 350 from 330.
- Base damage modified to 30/50/70/90/110 from 25/50/75/100/125.
- Ability power ratio increased to 0.28 from 0.25.
- Now correctly shows buff tooltips.
- Cooldown reduced to 0.5 seconds from 1.
- Slow modified to 40/50/60/70/80% from 80%.
- Proc chance reduced to 12% from 15%.
- Is now canceled upon casting .
- Number of attacks to proc this effect reduced to 8 from 10.
- Mana cost per second increased to 13 from 10.
- It will now apply slightly in front of him while not moving.
- Bonus stats reduced to 30/50/70 from 30/55/80.
- Duration reduced to 25 seconds from 30.
- Fixed an issue with that caused it to display the wrong ability power ratio in the tooltip.
- Ability power ratio reduced to 1.5 from 1.8.
- Moving at the beginning and end of Gate no longer cancels the channel.
- 30% self slow removed.
- Cooldown modified to 12/11/10/9/8 seconds from 12.
- Changed to be a pure passive: When an enemy below 66% health comes in range of Warwick, he gains incredibly heightened movement speed.
- Renamed to .
- Added back into the game.
- Max stacks increased to 3 from 1.
- Increased combine cost to 1050 from 1000.
- Cost increased to 460 from 420.
: Combine cost increased to 1050 from 1000.
- Cost increased to 880 from 800.
- Combine cost increased to 700 from 570.
- Combine cost increased to 420 from 390.
- Movement speed reduced to 7% from 8%.
- Health regen reduced to 1% from 1.2%.
- Health regen proc reduced to 40% life from 50% life.
- Fixed a bug which caused it to proc more often than once every 5 minutes.
- Combine cost increase to 380 from 360.
- Now builds out of instead of .
- Combine cost increased to 950 from 710.
- Ability power reduced to 80 from 100.
- Magic resistance increased to 32 from 0.
- Movement speed reduced to 7% from 8%.
- Combine cost increased to 550 from 500.
- Combine cost decreased to 600 from 700.
- Combine cost increased to 275 from 250.
- Combine cost increased to 140 from 125.
- Combine cost increased to 650 from 550.
- Health regen per second reduced to 1% from 1.2%.
- Health regen proc reduced to 40% life from 50% life.
- Combine cost increased to 1000 from 900.
Summoners Spells
- Cooldown reduced to 120 seconds from 150.
- Cancels channeled abilities upon casting.
- Armor reduced to 25 from 50.
- Fixed a bug with Offensive mastery that gave Rally a bonus 50 seconds (it now gives it a bonus 5 seconds).
Mastery Trees
- Offensive Tree
- Deadliness - Increases critical strike chance by 0.66% per rank for 3 ranks.
- Cripple - Reduces armor and magic resistance by 25, and increases its duration by 0.5 seconds.
- Plentiful Bounty - Increases the gold granted by Smite by 5, and reduces the cooldown by 5 seconds.
- Archmage's Savvy - Increases the caster's ability power by 0.2/0.4/0.6 per level.
- Sorcery - Reduces cooldowns of abilities by 0.75% per rank.
- Alacrity - Increases attack speed by 1% per rank.
- Archaic Knowledge - Grants 15% magic resistance penetration.
- Sunder - Physical attacks ignore 2 armor per rank.
- Offensive Mastery - Increases damage to minions and monsters by 2 per rank.
- Brute Force - Increases physical damage dealt by 1 per rank.
- Master Taunter ( Demolisher) - Increases the armor of a promoted minion by 20, and reduces the cooldown of Promote by 15 seconds.
- Lethality - Increases critical strike damage by 3.33% per rank.
- Improved Rally - Increases the duration of rally by 5 seconds. Improved Rally also increases armor and magic damage by allies effected by Rally.
- Havoc - Increases damage dealt by 5%.
- Defensive Tree
- Mender's Faith - Increases the amount healed from Summoner Heal by 75, and reduces the cooldown by 10 seconds.
- Resistance - Increases magic resistance by 2 per rank.
- Preservation - Reduces the cooldown of Revive by 20 seconds, and upon resurrection the revived player has their health increased by 400 temporarily.
- Hardiness - Increases armor by 2 per rank.
- Strength of Spirit - Increases health regeneration by 0.1%/0.2%/0.3% of your maximum mana.
- Evasion - Increases dodge chance by 0.5% per rank.
- Defensive Mastery - Reduces damage from minions and monsters by 1 per rank.
- Nimbleness - On a successful dodge, your movement speed is increased by 10% for 5 seconds.
- Harden Skin - Reduces damage received by 1 per rank.
- Veteran's Scars - Increases health by 15 per rank.
- Willpower - Increases the duration of by 2 seconds, and reduces the cooldown by 30.
- Ardor - Increases attack speed and ability power by 0.66% per rank, and an additional 0.66% at level 18, which increases as your champion levels, per rank. (i.e. 2%->4% with 3 ranks)
- Reinforce - While Fortify is able to be activated, increases damage to minions and monsters by 6. In addition, increases the armor of turrets for 10 seconds after the invulnerability fades.
- Tenacity - Reduces damage received by 5%.
- Utility Tree
- Spatial Accuracy - Reduces the cast time of Teleport by 0.5 seconds, and reduces the cooldown of Teleport by 5 seconds.
- Good Hands - Reduces time spent dead by 3.33% per rank.
- Perseverance - Increases health and mana regeneration by 2% per rank.
- Haste - Increases the movement speed bonus of Ghost by 8%, and increases the duration by 1.5 seconds.
- Awareness - Increases experience gained by 1.25% per rank.
- Expanded Mind - Increases your maximum mana pool by 1.25% per rank.
- Greed - Grants 1 gold every 10 seconds for the game.
- Meditation - Grants .33/.66/1 mana regeneration per second.
- Utility Mastery - Increases the duration of buffs from monsters by 15% per rank.
- Quickness - Increases movement speed by 1% per rank.
- Blink of an Eye - Reduces the cooldown of Flash by 15 seconds.
- Intelligence - Reduces cooldowns by 2% per rank.
- Mystical Vision - Increases the duration of Clairvoyance by 15 seconds. In addition, the first 15 seconds of Clairvoyance grant stealth detection.
- Presence of the Master - Reduces summoner ability cooldowns by 15%.
- Other
- Expanded Mind and Intelligence are no longer linked.
- Hardiness, Brute Force, and Meditation have one less rank.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed grammatical errors with a few Tooltips.
- Fixed all issues relating to neutral minion tooltips.
- Fixed some bugs with cone targeting. It should feel a lot better now.
- Fixed a bug where passive and were leaving dots on the minimap.
- Fixed a bug where stealth units would become visible when they weren't supposed to.
- Fixed various crash bugs.
- Increased performance on low performance settings by disabling aggro unit highlighting.
- Fixed a bug where the wrong sound played when you got hit by a summoner spell.
- Fixed a bug where targeting was erratic at close range.
- Fixed a bug where pixels aspect ratio did not properly change when changing the resolution from normal to widescreen and vice versa.
- Fixed a bug with order queuing.
- Fixed a bug where you could channel spells through death.
- Fixed white flash that appears on summoner items on the loading screen.
- Fixed flash of bad summoner level numbers that appear on loading screen.
- Load screen now shows users name before they connect.
- Fixed a problem with buffs sometimes showing up when they shouldn't.
- Fixed a pathing problem that would cause pathing to stop if you clicked along the edge of the map.
- Fixed a bug so you should no longer cast on dead units.
- Added a check at the end of spell casts so you can no longer cast on units that get out of range (unless the spell already launched and projectile is in motion)
- Turret health is now dependent on the number of players in the game, now 1200/1500/1800/2100/2400/2700) from 2800.
- Now gain 10% attack speed and 10 armor for each nearby friendly champion (from 25 armor).
- Damage gain per minute increased to 6 from 5.
- Armor gain per minute decreased to 2.5 from 3.
- Outer turrets now scale for only 5 minutes (down from 10 minutes).
- Inhibitor turrets now scale for up to 40 minutes (up from 30 minutes).
- Anti-backdooring: Turrets now have +100 armor and magic resistance if there are no enemy minions within 800 distance of the turret.
- Game ending change: After a period of time, turrets begin to degenerate their armor (to speed up the game).
- Inner turrets start off the game with 7 minutes worth of updates (17.5 armor and 42 damage), but do not start increasing stats for 7 minutes.
- Inhibitor turrets start off the game with 12 minutes worth of updates (30 armor and 72 damage), but do not start increasing stats for 12 minutes.
- , , and are no longer get consumed by autoattack abilities like or .
- Changed the way negative armor and negative magic resistance are calculated to make them less painful.
- Updated items 'builds into' section.
- Super minions: Now do 75% reduced damage to Inhibitors and HQs.
- Added friendly/enemy tooltips to sight ward and rally.
- Updated tooltips to Super Minions.
- Stealth units now have a smooth fade.
- Added Alt+Enter for fullscreen/window toggling.
- Reduced the bandwidth required a little (should help a bit with lag).
- Changed the particle system (please be on the look out and immediately report if you see any green spheres in the game.)
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this is my guide on tryndamere.and i wrote in this guide on how play a full AD tryndamere...Sorry for my Bad English because this is noy my 1st language but im trying my best to write this in english]
Unique Skills
I cant really feel Damage in other tryndamere guide so i made one here in mobafire so every one can see my full AD guide on tryndamere I always do this guide when im playing League Of Legends and it really works
Pros / Cons
Great damage
Hard to kill with Undying Rage
High critical chance with passive
Fun to play
easy to use when your feed
can kill an enemy while your eyes is close
Great Pusher
High Heal
You should be good in last hitting minions
Hard to use when you are a newbie
mostly focused
Slightly Weak in early game
Sometimes it doesnt crit when the time is most needed
For the marks
so i boost may base damage with penatration runes
For the Seal
We need defence so I can survive in early game
for the Glyph
I pickso i can attack faster
For the Quints
I pickso i can deal big damage in early game
Please follow this runes
I go for 21/0/9 so i can do intense damage and i can gain more experience with my utility mastery and you can easily kill because of your offence masteries with high crit rate and damage....but no need for defence masteries
I rush Infinity Edge so I can kill my opponent easily and next Phantom dancer so I can gain more Speed movement and attack and BlackCleaver so i can deal pure damage with my basic attack And next is BloodThirster you need this item so you can heal yourself and you can get huge damage and finally my last choice of item is lastwhisper but i prefer that you use this item if you have high hp opponent or if not you may pick another infinityedge or you can replace one of your infinity edge or lastwisper with thornmail if there is mo attack Damage hero and if there are many caster go for force of nature
Skill Sequence
You should really max out bloodlust first then mocking shout and then spinning slash and you should have a great timing with your Special skill or (SS)because you can turn the tables in a match for full potential early kills i always 1st blood my enemy in the grass with my teamate in the lane
I prefer not to farm much just farm when all of your opponent is alive and you think that they would go and kill you just farm near your base or do this if you dont want to advance much WARNING:if you would farm using tryndamere dont do it tryndamere is good in lane not in farm..... always get the red buff and always kill the dragon and you can kill baron solo because of your high damage and lifesteel
Team Work
try not to get in clash in early game try to build your primary item i prefer you go in a clash when you have phantom dancer and infinityedge in early game and if you nearly completed your item you can go gank all you want as much as possible finish the game if your opponent did'nt finish the game here is your time to dominate
Ranked Play
Im Very Very sorry Ive never Experience A rank game But i will update this when I am level30
Try follow my guide and you can win easily and you might became the ACE Of the game .......FUN ....FUN,......FUN...........TO........>>>>>>>>KIlLLLLLLLLLLL ...........................By the way please comment and vote in my guide please please........More skin for tyndamere pleaseYu-Gi-Oh Tryndamere!!!!


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Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) has issued a new law that bans parties that are based on religious principles, the council spokesman said.
The law, which was passed on Wednesday, comes two months ahead of the country's first general elections to choose a 200-member assembly tasked with writing a new constitution and forming a government.
The surprise move was immediately denounced by Islam-oriented parties that are preparing to compete in the June elections.
NTC spokesman Mohamed al-Hareizi said the provision, included in a law which governs the formation of political parties, was designed to preserve "national unity".
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"We are a nationalist party and Islam is our religion. This law is unacceptable and only suits liberals."
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|24 Sep 2010
Network Traffic Causing High CPU Usage
Hello. For the last week or so, my network traffic has seemed to be related to some pretty sever spikes in my CPU usage. These spikes are causing extreme stuttering in my music playback, freezing of my cursor, and other symptoms of a really laggy computer. This pretty much occurs whenever I use the internet in any way. The worst spikes are when I'm loading webpages in Google Chrome and seeding on uTorrent, often freezing my cursor and music for several seconds at a time, though they're not limited to those two softwares. More recently, it seems that when I am loading pages in a browser, it's spiking CPU usage in bother the browser and even more so in the System process. It's becoming a real issue to use my computer. If anyone has any ideas on what I can do to troubleshoot this or solve this problem, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you!
On a side note, I've noticed that the displayed memory usage in the task manager (2.74 GB) is way more than what all the processes appear to add up to, usually by more than 1 GB. Any idea why this is?
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|24 Sep 2010
What antivirus, or security software (Firewall, etc) are you running?
Do the spikes continue if you uninstall all security software?
|My System Specs
|24 Sep 2010
I use AVG 9.0. I've tried disabling it with no change, but I'll try to uninstall it and get back to you.
|My System Specs
|24 Sep 2010
I've uninstalled AVG, and the problem I had is gone. What do you think it was about AVG? Do you have any suggestions on how I can fix it, or which other antivirus software I should use instead?
|My System Specs
|24 Sep 2010
Well I don't use AVG, but I'm going to assume AVG has a realtime scanner that inspects all network bound traffic.
Whether it is just a fluke or a bug in AVG I cannot say for certain.
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|24 Sep 2010
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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|24 Sep 2010
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
I dunno, I use AVG Internet Security 9.0 and have never experienced such an issue. If you are using a paid version, don't toss it out; do an uninstall then a reinstall.
If you were using the free version, I have read that Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is a wonderful, compact and low resource usage alternative.
|My System Specs
|25 Sep 2010
Okay, thank's for all your help y'all. I'll try reinstalling AVG and messing around with the components to see if I can get rid of the issue that way. I appreciate the suggestions!
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Say 'no' to sugar-free items: Docs
"Anything that tastes sweet should be avoided by diabetics, as one never knows what kind of sugar-free products they are using in it," said Dr Sonali Bosane, a diabetologist in the city.
She was supported by Dr Ramesh Godbole, secretary of Diabetic Association of India, Pune branch, who pointed that people can take sugar-free tablets or drops, but under guidance of a doctor.
Else the fat content in one's body may increase, leading to cardiac problems. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that nearly 200 million people all over the world suffer from diabetes, and this number is likely to double soon. In India, there are nearly 50 million diabetics.
Dr Vaman Khadilkar, diabetologist at Jehangir Hospital, pointed out, "The sugar-free tablets are a big 'no' for children below 18 years of age. In fact some of these tablets are labeled, 'not for kids'.
These tablets increase the fat content in the body and may lead to heart problems. Sugar-free sweets and drinks should be avoided too."
Godbole concluded that precaution is the best way to control this problem. Measures would include exercise, proper diet and regular check-up.
Bosane observed that diabetes is a lifestyle disease, and pointed out that the number of patients in Pune is increasing at greater rate than in Mumbai.
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These meters, which analyze drops of blood drawn from fingertips, typically resemble crude PDAs from 10 or 15 years ago. They offer little feedback and can't connect to the Internet to show results to caregivers. Most diabetics who use them log their readings on paper, which they hand doctors weeks or months later.
But that is beginning to change. Next week, a small start-up will introduce a new diabetes meter it says is the first with wireless technology that instantly transmits a patient's readings to a private online database, which can be accessed by the patient or—with permission—by a doctor, caregiver or family member. This system charts the results to highlight trends and spot problems, and can be accessed via a Web browser or an iPhone app. It automatically transmits relevant feedback—such as whether your readings seem high or low—and allows doctors to respond.
I've been testing this new meter and service, which is called Telcare and comes from a Bethesda, Md., company of the same name. As a Type 2 diabetic myself, I found the Telcare meter a refreshing change, and a significant step toward bringing consumer medical devices closer to the world of modern technology.
Despite some drawbacks, including a high price, I recommend the Telcare be considered by diabetics who want a better substitute for paper logs, or would benefit from real-time sharing of their readings.
However, as with any medical decision, I urge people to consult their doctors before switching meters. Also, I evaluated this product as a consumer technology. I am not a physician or diabetes expert. While I found the Telcare meter convenient and accurate for me, your situation might differ.
The Telcare device works much like a traditional meter. You insert a test strip into a slot on the meter, then prick your finger with a lancing device to get a drop of blood, touch the strip to the drop, and wait for the reading to appear.
The difference is the meter immediately sends results to its online database, where you or your doctor can find it via the password-protected website or iPhone app. This transmission is achieved via a built-in cellular modem, which doesn't involve any cellphone, carrier contract or fee.
That cellular connection is used to send you messages about your readings, if necessary. In this first version, the patient can't reply to doctors' messages from the meter, but that's planned for the future.
Telcare typically uses T-Mobile's network, but, if that's not available, the meter will automatically shift to whatever compatible connection it finds. If no connection is available, it will save the results and you can transmit them manually when you're back in range.
Because it automatically logs results and allows real-time sharing, I believe diabetics who use this new system will be less likely to skip readings, or to fudge the numbers, especially if they allow doctors and other caregivers to see the results instantly. And that could mean an improvement in their health.
While it's a leap ahead of typical diabetes meters, the Telcare meter isn't exactly cutting edge. It looks like a thick, old cellphone, though it's light. Unlike most other glucose meters, it has a large color screen that allows it to display informative graphics and messages.
One drawback is the price. While many diabetes meters cost well under $50, or are free (the money is in the test strips), the Telcare meter costs $150 for a starter kit that includes the meter, a wall charger, a case and accessories. The cost drops to $100 if you subscribe to a one-year supply of test strips. The strips cost $56 for a container of 50, or $36 with the subscription. Insurance may reduce these costs.
Another drawback is battery life. Traditional meters use removable batteries that can last months. The Telcare has a sealed battery and must be recharged frequently, like a cellphone. The company says if you turn it off between readings, a battery charge should last for 200 to 300 tests. If you leave it on, it will go to sleep between tests and need to be recharged every two or three days. In my tests, doing three readings a day for four days, I didn't need to recharge it, but I turned it off when not in use.
Also, many diabetics carry around their meters, and the Telcare is larger than any traditional meter I've seen, though it fits in a pocket or small purse.
Finally, the meter and strips will, at first, be available only from the company, though it's hoping to sell them in drugstores soon.
In my tests, the meter was easy to use and gave me helpful messages, such as whether I was in my prescribed range, or what my daily averages were. A Telcare official posing as my doctor sent me test messages reacting to my readings.
I can't judge the accuracy of the Telcare, but it has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, and the company says it meets or exceeds FDA standards for accuracy. Its readings seemed right to me.
I found the website and iPhone app worked well, giving me constantly updated and detailed lists, graphs and pie charts that showed me where I stood over short and long periods. These can be printed out or turned into documents for email. You can also enter notes for any reading and the meter asks you to indicate whether a reading was, say, after or before a meal or physical activity. Using the website, you can adjust your preferred range of glucose readings to fit your doctor's advice. And the iPhone app allows manual entries, if you use another meter.
I did find some bugs, all of which the company pledges will be fixed before next week's launch. In one case, when a reading produced a clearly erroneous number (something that can happen with every meter I've used) the Telcare failed to offer advice on what to do. Two subsequent readings were correct, however, and the company says such errors are rare.
In another case, I found I could alter a reading on the iPhone after transmission.
Telcare isn't the only company trying to drag the glucose meter into the modern era. Entra Health Systems has a meter called MyGlucoHealth that transmits readings via Bluetooth to a cellphone for transmission to an online portal. And Sanofi and AgaMatrix offer a diabetic-testing attachment for the iPhone called the iBGStar, which isn't yet available in the U.S., but is sold in some other countries. It can email results.
But the Telcare device is a leap ahead of nearly all glucose meters. If you're a diabetic, or care for one, it's worth a look.


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Call of Duty MW3 continues to roll out awesome maps and game play options for the multi player crowd. This time you can finally do some true 1 v 1 or 2 v 2 with the new game mode Face Off. The best part is you get the new map and game mode for free! No ELITE Premium Membership needed.
Of course – this is only available for Xbox as PS3 users get fubard again and will have to wait until June due to the Exclusivity Contract with Microsoft. Take a look as I go over what you get!
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Two new free maps? These are to introduce the new game mode Face Off of course! This is of course just to whet your appetite as Collection 2 is coming right around the corner. Just in time for the kiddies to get out of school!
But what makes them "Free" – You don't need to have an ELITE Premium account to get them!
Make your way through Mediterranean ruins and ancient aqueducts, using leftover Roman masonry for thousand-year-old cover in this new "Face Off" map.
Head to Scotland's Orkney Islands for the latest "Face Off" map, where treacherous cliff faces, networks of caves and the rusted and ruined remains of a grounded transport ship provide for constant combat.
New Game Mode: Face Off
Now you can back up your trash talk online by offering to play a match in 2 vs. 2 or 1 vs. 1 with the new game mode Face Off. This has been something players have been asking for awhile now.
No longer will you have to create a private match and be stuck playing Dome or Hardhat any more. These are close quarter small maps made especially for 2 vs. 2 or 1 vs. 1 matches. This also bodes well for the MLG players as well as I'm sure they will get integrated into their tournaments!
The game mode and maps are all about quick encounters – so if your slow on the sticks be prepared to get smoked! But if you think your an MLG pro – prove your worth by playing this game mode with or without a team mate!
Can't wait to see how these get used and abused! Make sure to go to the Call of Duty Free Map section to take a look at additional screen shots and stay updated on when it will be released for PS3!
Check out the Trailer below not only explaining the new game mode but the announcement of Collection 2 coming out on May 22nd!
What do you think of the the new MW3 Face off game mode? Let me know as I won't be able to jump in it for probably 30 more days… *grumble*


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Q. We have a collegial atmosphere in our small factory. But several of our production line workers who don't speak Spanish are complaining that bilingual employees chat among themselves in Spanish, leaving the others out of the loop. Everyone speaks English when talking about work, so it's not a safety issue. Still, the non-Spanish speakers resent the Spanish chatter and wonder if they're being talked about. What can we do? — L.C, Illinois
A. I suggest that you do nothing. It's just too bad if the non-Spanish speakers feel left out. There is an abundance of case law that would work against you if you were to require that the only language spoken in your facility is English.
You can require that all work-related matters be discussed in English, but you would cross the line if you imposed the same requirement for nonwork-related chitchat.


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Sons of Anarchy S05E13: "J'ai Obtenu Cette"
Let's face it: Sons of Anarchy hasn't exactly been consistent when it comes to season finales in the last few seasons. The ender for Season 3 was brilliant, salvaging what it could from an otherwise lackluster season when Jax concocted a risky plan that saved the day and landed several club members in jail. The opposite was true for Season 4. After a dozen great episodes, Season 4 was sunk by a blindside of a deus ex machina when the Golindo cartel revealed that they had been working with the Feds all along. Ugh. That finale still nags me.
The door was wide open for "J'ai Obtenu Cette," tonight's Season 5 finale, to fall anywhere in between the previous finales in terms of quality, and thankfully it leaned way closer to Season 3's "NS" than Season 4's "To Be, Act 2." But the episode had so much to settle that it couldn't focus the proper energy or time into any single dangling story, creating a finale that hit most of its marks early but didn't stand there long enough for us to savor them. Creator Kurt Sutter structured this finale like it was a horny guy hiring his first escort. It climaxed quickly and spent the rest of the time trying to keep the audience enticed for a later date since it paid for the whole 90 minutes.
Don't let the details overshadow what was great about the finale though, which was the continuing dark cloud hanging over Jax and what it meant for other characters (more on that later). The club Prez continued to engage in risky behavior as he had another secret plan to make things right, killing several birds with one giant-sized boulder of a scheme that was as complicated as this season's over-intricately spun web of alliances and information. In one fell swoop, Jax took out Pope, saved Tig, and had Clay hauled off to jail where he was framed for Pope's murder. Any one of these core parts of Season 5 would be fine on their own as the cherry on top of the season, but the speed at which they had to be resolved and the way they were chained together (and shared time with less important plots) diminished some of their value, particularly Pope's murder.
It's hard to say how long Jax had been playing Pope (or maybe I missed a telling detail). Who knows, maybe he woke up that morning and thought up the plan while he was shampooing in the shower. Maybe the moment Pope told an incarcerated Jax in Episode 2 that he had to hand over a member of the club Jax thought, "I'm going to pretend to be this guy's friend and promise to hand over Tig while I wait for Gemma to owe me big time after nearly killing my kid in a stoned car crash and then hopefully I can hold something over Juice's head like that time he ratted us out to Roosevelt so that he becomes super close with Clay so that Clay will give him his gun so I can use it in a shooting to frame Clay for the murder of Pope and have him sent away to jail where Pope's men will kill him behind bars." Jax's plan smacked less of careful planning and more of a complicated plan that went without a hitch because it's television, but credit where credit's due: he exploited them to his advantage. But lord almighty Jax, if you're going to gamble with Tig's life couldn't you have taken some of the unknown variables out of the equation? Like Tig said, Pope could have killed him on the spot, and your reply of, "But he didn't" isn't exactly comforting. Sons of Anarchy thrives on dangerous situations, but handing Tig over to Pope in hopes he could save him in time was just plain reckless.
At least Pope is dead, something that HAD to happen or I would have been so mad I might have shouted a curse word... OUT LOUD! But was everything we had to endure to get there worth it? We spent so much time mad at Jax for having smiley afternoon business meetings with Pope–the man responsible for Opie's death–and threatening to hand over Tig to be murdered for revenge. When we look back on earlier episodes, all we see is manipulation on Sutter's part. In great dramas, looking back on previous episodes should be enlightening and help explain a character's actions, but here I'm wondering what the whole purpose was other than to purposefully throw us off the scent. Despite the end result of ooze flowing out of Pope's head, I'm not sure all the hand-shaking and limo meetups served Opie well. Jax's rescue of Tig was a "JK I'm actually going to do the opposite!" moment that didn't fully pay off. Am I happy Pope is dead and Tig is alive? Absolutely. It's just that looking at how we got to this point left me awfully confused and question its importance. I'll be honest though, it could just be my extreme hatred for Pope and anger towards Jax for even shaking that creep's hand. Even the argument that Jax went through all this just to earn the Charming Heights contract, the apartment for Lyla, and set up the frame job of Clay doesn't seem to justify how chummy he was with Pope. I wanted Jax to make Pope's life a nightmare, and by the time he did, it felt too late and not enough because Pope needed to suffer.
After Tig took care of Pope, Jax called Roosevelt to let him know where the murder weapon was, and thus began Clay's really bad day. He was so close to getting hammered on Bushmill's and boiled cabbage in Belfast, but Roosevelt hauled him off to the police station after Gemma would not provide an alibi. Now he'll be covering his butt while Pope's men try to take him out behind bars, or as August ordered, before he even faces a judge. It's karma for Clay, who tried to use Pope against Jax with the break-ins. We all knew Clay wasn't going to get killed in the episode because he needs to stick around for at least one more season, and putting him in jail keeps him in a holding pattern until the writers can figure out something to do with him. But once again, it's another season of CLAY MUST DIE and another finale when Clay doesn't die.
What ended up being the big finish was the arrest of Tara for conspiracy to commit murder, which to me was less interesting than the rest of what happened but does set up big problems for Season 6. After going back and forth all season long with the rocky relationship between Gemma and Tara, it was most decidedly back ON in a big way (and rather suddenly). And it all started with Tara's new job sending her a flower basket to the Teller-Morrow shop. Wait, what? Tara isn't using her own address when applying for jobs and instead using the address of a criminal front? Oooooookay. The welcome basket conveniently ended up in Gemma's hands, which gave her the ammunition to threaten Tara with going to the authorities if she left town with the kids, taking Gemma's family away from her.
It's never stated, but we're all under the impression that Gemma DID go the cops and had Tara busted, right? And it's almost confirmed when Gemma approached Jax at the end and assumed the pose that ended last season, except this time it was Gemma standing strong behind Jax and not Tara.
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This is a perfect example of how Sutter gets crunched in his finales, packing so much in that the vital parts aren't allowed to breathe. Let's say the trouble with Nero's gang (which so far seems pointless in the long run unless Tig's new dog ends up president of SAMCRO) is never even introduced. The time spent developing that plot could have been used to make others feel more natural and less rushed. And if more time is spent on Gemma and Tara's rekindled hatred for each other, the inciting incident that gives Gemma leverage over Tara–the flowers puzzlingly sent to the shop instead of Tara's house [edit: the flowers were picked up by Chuckie from Tara's house, which makes more sense but is still odd because why would Chuckie be bringing over floor mats to Tara's house and why would he bring back packages from her doorstep to give to Gemma?]–could have played out in a different believable way. Or more time could have been spent giving us more satisfaction with Pope's murder. Or more tension could have been added to Clay's arrest. More stories are not always better, but Sons of Anarchy doesn't believe that, especially in its finales.
Where "J'ai Obtenu Cette" excelled was, as said before, the collateral damage from Jax's choices. The best parts of the episode (aside from Otto's tongue flying across the room and that vato's face full of nails) were watching Juice and Gemma faced with lying about Clay's alibi, Bobby tearing off his Vice President patch and walking away, Tig staring in disbelief at Jax as he put Tig's life on the line, and Jax fully admitting that maybe he isn't like his father. These are brutal human experiences that this stellar cast brought to life in just a few seconds. Imagine what could have been if there was more time to see these play out. When you cut away the complicated bullshit, there's a chilling portrait of a family–a family both by blood and oath–torn apart by the extreme actions of one man struggling with fresh power. This was Jax's first season on the throne, and he was way more Joffrey Baratheon than Robert, letting power corrupt him and damage those he loved. It's this core principle, so very well illustrated, that was key to the season and made it one of the most important of the series. Sutter plays every episode as though its a finale and may have gotten away from himself by pouring too much into the season, but at its core, the stuff that mattered the most was excellent.
– Otto! You sick bastard. I love you. Keep being a complete nut job. I'm just worried you won't have any body parts left by Season 7.
– Nero's crisis was solved fairly easily when the gang went to the dogfights and roughed up some guys in fun, exciting ways. Jax shoved a guys face into a bucket of nails, and Nero's nemesis Dante got a big dose of karma when he carjacked some lady only to get trapped in her SUV with an attack dog. It was a great sequence to start off the episode, but I'm still having a hard time figuring out what the point of adding this whole conflict with this gang did other than give Nero something to do. Did this belong in the finale? Or could this have been wrapped up an episode earlier?
– You know what would be a good way to get your illegal dogfighting ring broken up? Putting dead dog bodies in the trashcans behind the building you hold the illegal dogfights in. And pardon me, but what was with that weird woman talking to the stuffed horse in the trash and why did Jax give her a long look? [Edit: as many of you have pointed out, this is the woman that has interacted with Jax on several occasions before. I totally forgot about her! Still no idea what her symbolism/purpose is though.]
– I really like what Sutter did with Chuckie in the past episodes. He's essentially the guy who is told to leave the room so people can talk. They're clearly having fun with it, and I had fun watching it. The same came also be said of Lyla, who is just the pretty blonde who tells Nero when someone has shown up at the whorehouse.
– What happened to the Wendy storyline? After telling Tara she should leave Charming, she just disappeared. This woman, an ex-junkie, just had HEROIN shot into her arm by Jax. Was she really just used to help Tara realize she had to leave?
– Same for Lee Toric (Donal Logue), who stormed in on this season late but never got any closure in the finale. Again, Sutter's preferred style is to bleed the seasons together and leave things open, but this is a wide open window that is gonna stay open for nine months.
– Tara needed one more solid scene somewhere late in the season where it was obvious that she was trying to get out of town or at least struggled with telling Jax about the job she was offered.
– Jax, use a glass for a change! Don't just pull stuff out of the fridge and drink out of the carton, dude.


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The planet Neptune rules the Sun Sign Pisces and the 12th house of the zodiac. Neptune is the planet that rules dreams, illusions, daydreaming, the connection with the cosmic intelligence, and creativity that is achieved through connecting to the cosmic consciousness. How else would we be enticed to experiment and try new things without the planet Neptune. The planet Neptune creates the idea, the passion, the fantasy, the illusion, and the dream of a lifetime.
Neptune the Shockingly Forbidden
Neptune the planet that rules the sign of Pisces and is the higher octave of the planet Venus is transiting Aquarius. Ever since Neptune has entered Aquarius we have had our world rocked by all things previously unthinkable and unimaginable, the shockingly forbidden, We could have never imagined that there would be a day when the Twin Towers wouldn't be a part of the New York City landscape, yet that day has come and gone and we have acclimated to it. So many other shocking events have happened over the course of this transit, that have changed our lives and that we now take as normal. Taking your shoes off before boarding a plane, your children going through metal detector to go into a classroom, worrying about your child being killed at school, and teachers afraid of students, these things are the shockingly forbidden things that have been breached.
This year Neptune conjoins Jupiter and Chiron in a rare cosmic event that hasn't happened since 1945, the year the first Atomic Bomb was dropped on a populated area, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Neptune as ruler of the sign of Pisces and the solar 12th house represents those things that society doesn't want to see or know about. What goes on behind closed doors is fine, what you do in the privacy of your home is no ones business and no one really cares; but air your dirty laundry and people are not just shocked they are turned off. We really don't want to know about what goes on in airport bathrooms, we don't want to know about the seedy elements that may exist, and most of us probably don't even imagine about these things. Yet Neptune in Aquarius is going for shock value! It's forcing us to look at that part of our world and our collective consciousness that goes too far, that is not well. Neptune in Aquarius is exposing those elements of our collective consciousness that are in you me and everyone. It's part of the process of evolution. Aquarius is Pisces 12th house and as such represents the fears, phobias that we normally suppress and don't act out upon. In much the same way that all those born under the sign of Pisces must feel about exposing and unleashing their suppressed powers on everyone. The 12th house is the collapse, the end, how things finish out; before the rebuilding and restructuring takes place or can take place. Even in death there would be a restructuring as our soul lives on. Are we going to experience such a collapse, such a shockingly forbidden event that we will have to rebuild, reevaluate and restructure our lives and our world? Neptune in Aquarius along with Jupiter and Chiron this year is living with the cork about to burst off of the champagne bottle, the top rattling on the pressure cooker, or the rumbling of a volcano, that's going to explode.
Under the influence of Neptune our soul moves backwards and forwards. Living in the dream state of imagination and dreams, our soul moves backwards in a negative direction until the we are ready to change directions. Feed up, crunch time comes and reality breaks through, and our soul changes directions, moving forward. The release is painful resulting in tears of disillusionment as our dreams and imaginations are shattered. What we thought we had , we don't. We then are compelled to use the creative powers of the soul to create and establish. Positive creative functions forward moving direction of our soul results in concrete births. You know if you are on a negative path or positive path with Neptune by observing the real or concrete tangible products of your imagination. A love affair that is imaginary will produce nothing concrete, real love produces concrete results.


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2016-08-30 A recent publication in PNAS describes a VCell model developed as collaboration between the Rangamini group at UC Davis and the Oster lab at UC Berkeley. The model couples biochemical signaling machinery with actin remodeling events in the dendritic spine; view the details on our Published Models list.
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text: My Dry Wet Mess - Austere Coincidences by BRAINFEEDER published on 2012-11-06T23:54:27Z Stereo Typing is the sum of the parts of a journey. Giovanni Civitenga, aka My Dry Wet Mess, composed his forthcoming album for Brainfeeder over a 15 month period (November '10 through January '12), between Barcelona and Berlin, in four different houses. And out of the many changes and different chapters, comes a densely layered body of work that - despite being a product of transition - stands as his most grounded and resolved work yet. The title derived, My Dry Wet Mess explains, "from the concept of typing for the stereo field, as in writing narration through sounds. Writing a story as a writer would do, but using sounds instead of words." The 14 album tracks use live instrumentation, tweaked samples, slap-bass riffs, slanted beats and winding melodies to form playful narratives and plot shifts, leading the listener to places completely unexpected, and unknown. Twists and turns abound, each track is a journey in itself, at times traversing through intertwining synth lines in a buoyant underwater bassbin, other points diverting into R&B-sampled scifi wonderlands, filled with otherworldly sounds conversing. The album ends on sensory bliss, with the sublime "Prismas" and the daydream-inducing "Youth Reboot". Though his living situation changed throughout the album's formation, there's a inherent sense of family and home in the LP. His father plays guitar, Gianluca Pellegrino (an old friend and regular collaborator) plays various electric guitar parts, and his good friend in New York, Maryam Modarressi, sings on two songs, and her sampled voice makes an appearance throughout the album. The artwork was also created by his close conspirator, Berlin based illustrator Elliot Beaumont, a homage to one of MDWM's favorite painters, De Chirico. "It's got this hard to define quality to it, a sense of "future nostalgia" that I love and that I find extremely appropriate for my music and the ideas behind it." Release Date: 11/12/12 Comment by RobinGrownTear nice drums 2015/08/24 16:53:33 +0000 Comment by RobinGrownTear dope 2015/08/23 16:27:30 +0000 Comment by Rops Mmmm yes 2014/01/21 05:49:56 +0000 Comment by Robotnik5000(Rumble Luke) Broke your heart on this one. Really great tune. 2013/07/10 10:59:12 +0000 Comment by Buddy Hotshot wow! 2013/04/09 12:03:38 +0000 Comment by alchemeleon Sweet 2013/03/25 12:55:28 +0000 Comment by KLICHé KLICHé @kliche: tres beautiful !!!! 2013/03/18 01:00:19 +0000 Comment by KLICHé KLICHé tres v 2013/03/18 01:00:04 +0000 Comment by Locke yay :) 2013/02/08 23:34:17 +0000 Comment by MACNDRO dope 2013/02/02 00:02:00 +0000 Comment by namiami u noe the song's gonna be good from the minute it starts! 2013/01/30 08:20:33 +0000 Comment by rememberme№Ϯ your work is amazing, very inspiring.. 2013/01/24 18:26:33 +0000 Comment by choon_you smashed it 2013/01/21 21:51:38 +0000 Comment by choon_you smashed it. 2013/01/21 21:51:22 +0000 Comment by Diffaith Really cool production, interesting changes. 2013/01/15 18:45:36 +0000 Comment by VOID SECTOR happy face :) 2013/01/11 10:15:02 +0000 Comment by mempath Say what? 2013/01/08 10:25:51 +0000 Comment by Auvie Sinclair BrainFeeeeddaaaa 2012/12/27 11:32:21 +0000 Comment by Cléa Montagut <3 2012/12/26 14:30:31 +0000 Comment by Wood Ox Dope-N_stein!! Check me out! 2012/12/19 18:25:41 +0000 Comment by beetlegroove it's been emotional ;) 2012/12/06 09:35:00 +0000 Comment by FINBAR @jhenley: exactly 2012/12/05 19:12:22 +0000 Comment by Filthstift Funky tune jo.! 2012/11/29 21:10:00 +0000 Comment by Native Void tasty 2012/11/29 01:30:19 +0000 Comment by GG Ballin oooh deenguus 2012/11/26 20:08:26 +0000 Comment by ABUBandbeyond swell 2012/11/26 19:28:14 +0000 Comment by Uncle Matty Lovely jubbly 2012/11/20 12:32:03 +0000 Comment by The Bear Collective So, so, so good! Blogged here http://thebearcollective.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/goodies-from-last-week/ 2012/11/13 20:02:46 +0000 Comment by `▂ ▄ ▅ ▆ JANXEN with an X unique soundssssssss 2012/11/10 23:35:20 +0000 Comment by diskfunctionrecords nice 2012/11/10 20:12:20 +0000


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Serena Frome - that's how she pronounces it - isn't much of a spy. She's a cleric's daughter who gets recruited to MI-5 by her Cambridge history tutor. She wants to dazzle him in all ways but he dumps her, and she never sees it coming. She's not much of a spy. She winds up on the clerical edge of spy craft, cross-filing schemes and plots to stop terrorists until one day she's summoned to the fifth floor of MI-5. Serena Frome's secret mission: to cultivate British intellectuals with financial support during the Cold War. Kind of a stealthy Macarthur Genius grant with a hidden agenda. It's at the center of Ian McEwan's new novel "Sweet Tooth," which is the code name of her new mission. Ian McEwan, who won the Booker Prize for "Amsterdam" in 1998 and has been shortlisted for many other books, including "Atonement" and "Saturday," joins us from the BBC in Oxford. Thanks so much for being with us.
IAN MCEWAN: It's a pleasure.
SIMON: And is this pretty openly patterned on the CIA-MI-6 support for Encounter magazine?
MCEWAN: Well, that's certainly one of the roots of this. I mean, back in the early days of the Cold War, the CIA in particular was pouring millions into the sort of culture that I imagine many of your listeners would enjoy seeing or hearing or reading. A fascinating paradox at the heart of all this endeavor and money and art, which was that to promote the open society against the Soviet Union's totalitarian one, they resorted to total secrecy.
SIMON: Let me get you to read an excerpt, if we could. This is when Serena is summoned to the fifth floor and confronts, if I may, a rather English-looking panel of older men.
MCEWAN: Yes. Serena is being interviewed to see if she knows her way around the literary scene and whether she is just the kind of girl they need to send down to the south of England to interview this potential target, Tom Haley.
(Reading) And so we went on. I was being interviewed but I had no idea to what end. Automatically, I strove to please, more so whenever I sensed that I was not succeeding. I assumed that the whole business was being conducted for the benefit of the silver-haired man. Apart from that single look of displeasure, he communicated nothing. His hands remained in their praying position with the tips of his forefingers just touching his nose. It was a conscious effort not to look at him. I was annoyed with myself for wanting his approval. Whatever he had in mind for me, I wanted it too. I wanted him to want me. I couldn't look at him, but when my gaze moved across the room to meet the eye of another speaker, I caught just a glimpse and learned nothing.
SIMON: In the section you just read us, you may use an old actor's question: what's serving as motivation? Why does she want to please the people in front of her?
MCEWAN: She's a conventional girl; she lives in unconventional times. This is the early '70s. Her sister's a kind of pot-smoking radical whose life is beginning to unravel, but Serena wants to get on. And she is one of those people - and I think it's something that's deep in personality. Some of us have it, some of us don't. She likes to please authority; she likes to be on the right side; she wants the approval of her seniors. And I don't think that's a particularly female thing any more than it is a male thing. There are people like that, and other people who can sail through life not caring a fig for what anyone says.
SIMON: Let me ask you about the London you portray in this book, because we Americans have images of London as defiant in the '40s, swinging in the '60s. What's the London you're capturing here in the '70s?
MCEWAN: The London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who had started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right. We really felt ourselves going down the tube.
SIMON: And did this make Serena Frome, in a way, did this impel her to become part of something larger?
MCEWAN: Yes. I mean, I guess all around her there are people becoming hippies or, you know, that period may be just coming to an end. But she wants order in all this chaos. She wants a career structure. And even though MI-5 notoriously had separate career tracks for women - wouldn't let them get beyond certain levels - she still wants to join. In those days, there was a fairly patrician culture that assumed that a woman couldn't keep a secret. So, women weren't allowed to run agents, they weren't allowed to rise very high in the organization. And this, despite the fact that all our major spies - Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, Cairncross - all happened to be men.
SIMON: At the heart of this novel, I guess, is the idea that there are some similarities perhaps between being a novelist and being a spy. And not all of them necessarily flatter each other. Tom Haley at one point writes about Operation Mincemeat and says that the best intelligence plots that we know about at any rate, have probably been hatched by novelists or aspiring novelists. Are they, at the same time, also sometimes the first people who want to believe in those stories?
MCEWAN: Well, quite possible. You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative. So, it is the case in this love story that, without wishing to give away too closely the end of this novel, Tom is spying on Serena as a novelist, even as she is spying on him as a spy. And it's interesting too, I think, that, in Britain at least, our spy tradition draws from a generation of novelists who were all working in the intelligence services. So, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, Somerset Maugham, John le Carre all did their time with mostly MI-6, sometimes with MI-5, sometimes both.
SIMON: I mean, it just occurred to me, as you said that, arguably, more great novelists have come out of British intelligence than the Iowa Writers Workshop.
MCEWAN: It's a very expensive workshop, and it doesn't just let anyone in, that's for sure.
SIMON: Ian McEwan. His new novel, "Sweet Tooth." Mr. McEwan, thanks so much for being with us.
MCEWAN: My pleasure.
SIMON: And you can read an excerpt of "Sweet Tooth" at our website, npr.org.
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Pesticide Action Network (PAN) is "an international coalition of around 600 NGOs, citizens' groups, and individuals in about 60 countries."PAN is involved in fighting problems caused by pesticide use, and advocates ecologically sound alternatives. Branches include PAN North America, U. K., Germany, Mexico, Asia and Pacific, and Africa. - Source: Wikipedia


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St. Louis Blues vs. Dallas Stars - 12/26/15 NHL Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Dallas Stars (26-7-2) at St. Louis Blues (21-11-4)
NHL Hockey: Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 8:00 pm (Scottrade Center)
The Line: St. Louis Blues -115 / Dallas Stars +104 --- Over/Under: 5.5 See the Latest Odds
Two of the league's best meet up in St. Louis on Saturday as the Stars take on the Blues in a battle of two Central division foes.
The Dallas Stars went into the Christmas break as the league's top team and they hold that claim by a country mile as they sit atop the league standings with a 26-7-2 record and are eight points clear of the Blues for top spot in the Central. Dallas has done it at both ends of the rink as they have scored 124 goals this season which is 19 more than any other team and while much of the credit goes to Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn they have a ton of other guys who have stepped up and contributed. The Stars look for yet another statement victory here as they can move 10 points clear of St. Louis with a victory tonight.
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The Blues meanwhile are right in the mix in the Western Conference playoff push and while top spot seems out of reach unless the Stars somehow implode in the second half of the year, they should land a top three spot in the division and earn home ice advantage for the first round at least. St. Louis has been impressive on the whole this year as they are 21-11-4 this season and are 11-6-2 at home butt hey face a tough out here as the Stars are playing very well and had a nice break to get prepared for this one. Despite the Blues' strong play at home I like the Stars to get the best of their divisional foes here and show why they are the league's best.


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Embedded Star added the following CPLDs, SPLDs, FPSCs, and structured ASICs to their directory:
- Lattice CPLD and SPLD
CPLD and SPLD solutions from Lattice deliver an optimal fit for a variety of PLD design challenges. At present, Lattice offers the industry's broadest line of PLDs based on their numerous families of ispLSI, ispMACH(TM) and GAL products.
- Lattice FPSC
Lattice Semiconductor pioneered the approach of putting ASIC embedded cores and FPGA gates on the same silicon die. They call this a Field Programmable System Chip (FPSC).
- Xilinx CPLD
Xilinx offers the industry's most complete and easy to use CPLD solution suitable for a wide range of applications. Their CoolRunner and XC9500 Series CPLDs decrease development time and cost.
- Altera Structured ASICs
Structured ASICs bridge the gap between standard-cell ASIC technology and FPGAs, offering low unit costs combined with faster development times. Structured ASICs start with standard, pretested base layers of logic and hard IP, and the proprietary design is then implemented on the top few metal layers.
- Altera CPLD
Altera's MAX(R) series of CPLDs are world-class, low cost solutions for a wide variety of digital applications. Instant-on MAX CPLDs represent the ultimate in flexibility, as they can be independent programmable solutions or complement other semiconductors in a system.


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On March 23, I was lucky enough to be invited to attend a Girls Write Now CHAPTERS reading at the historic John Street Church in Manhattan's financial district. It was a blast! I'm always blown away by the talented creative work from the Girls Write Now mentees–high school girls who work with professional writers and editors to hone their craft–and last Friday was no exception.
Before the reading, I had a chance to sit down with Mennen Gordon, a Girls Write Now mentee and Figment user. Mennen was understandably nervous; she was about to read the prologue from her novel aloud to a roomful of people. Mennen and I chatted about her experience at GWN, her work, and her ambitions. Tune in to our talk below, and watch the full video to hear Mennen's piece–"Multiverse"–read by the author herself. Oh, and want to know what Rory Satran, Mennen's brimming-with-pride mentor, had to say about her all-grown-up mentee? The end of the video gives a glimpse into Mennen and Rory's supportive, productive relationship.
Click here for the full video of Mennen's reading. Which other fellow Figs moonlight as GWN mentees/mentors and John Street celebs? Check out the other GWN CHAPTERS readers on Figment!
Emely Paulino read her piece "A Poem to New (You)"
Erika Alfaro read her piece "Underground"
Amy Feldman read her piece "The Language of Chocolate"
My-Thuan Tran read her piece "A Serving of Eggs and Mayo on Top"
Ruby Feliz & Jalylah Burrell read their pieces "Nothing Better Than A Woman . . . A True Woman" & "Piece Peace"
Lashanda Anakwah read her piece "Grandma"
Chandra Hughes & Claudia Parsons read their piece "Project Millennium"
Nathalie Gomez read her piece "Page 158, line 27"
Iris Torres read her piece "Noona"
Mayuri Chandra read her piece "Denial"
You can watch all the CHAPTERS readings on YouTube here–including that of guest star Alix Kates Shulman, author of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen and To Love What Is.


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These are some pictures from April-lea Hutchinson that I discover when going through my links. Her portraits have a profund way to capture the power of each person.
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I love this place! The white truffle fries were some of the best I've had (and the gravy, and the cheese sauce). I'm a fan of the concept of picking a few things and doing them extremely well and Patat outdid themselves on my falafel and fries. Couple that with the friendly (and humorous) counter lady and I'll be back as often as my waistline will allow!


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More than 50 prospects in North Carolina signed with FBS programs in the 2012 class, and more than 60 already claim offers in the 2013 class. In this feature, RecruitingNation takes a look at the top five remaining uncommitted prospects in North Carolina.
Tyrone Crowder, OL, Rockingham (N.C.) Richmond, 6-foot-2, 325 pounds
No. 1 prospect in Nouth Carolina
Frontrunner: Clemson
Darkhorse: Georgia
Schools also in the mix: North Carolina, Stanford
The Latest: Crowder has yet to set any officials, but figures to take at least four of them, to Clemson, Georgia, North Carolina and Stanford. He has ties to Clemson and family living nearby, so expect the Tigers to be in his recruitment until the end. He could be the only interior offensive lineman with a spot saved for him in Athens, so the Bulldogs have let him know he is a priority for them. North Carolina is the in-state program, and Crowder is intrigued by the unique combination of academics and athletics that Stanford offers. His recruitment is likely to continue until signing day.
Greg Gilmore, DT, Hope Mills (N.C.), South View, 6-4, 285 pounds
No. 2 prospect in North Carolina
Favorite: LSU
Darkhorse: Florida
Also in the mix: Oklahoma
The latest: Gilmore's phone has been ringing non-stop since Sept. 1 as college coaches try to get in touch with the ESPN 150 prospect. It appears to be a two-team race right now between two SEC programs in LSU and Florida. The Gators will get a chance to host Gilmore next weekend for his first official visit. The Tigers could bring him in a week later. Although Gilmore would like to get his commitment out of the way before the end of October, his announcement could be postponed if he is not sure of his decision.
Marquez North, WR, Charlotte (N.C.), Mallard Creek, 6-3, 210 pounds
No. 5 prospect in North Carolina
Leader: North Carolina
Darkhorse: Clemson
Also in the mix: UGA, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio State
The Latest: North is focused on his senior season and as such, the ESPN 150 prospect has expressed little interest in recruiting. He visited nearby North Carolina earlier this month, and North will be in Knoxville this weekend on an unofficial visit to Tennessee. The Tar Heels are nearby and have been the most consistent in its recruitment of North. Georgia was his favorite school growing up. Florida signed one of his teammates out of Mallard Creek last year in five-star offensive lineman D.J. Humphries. Clemson has also made a push for North, and he and his father feel the offense could be a good fit for him. His father said last month that because his son will be graduating early, North would have his top five by the fifth game of the season, which would be Sept. 21.
B.J. Beecher, QB, Concord (N.C.), 6-5, 190 pounds
No. 20 prospect in North Carolina
Latest: It is hard to believe that Beecher, who threw for 3,000 yards and 36 touchdowns last season, and 6,660 yards and 77 touchdowns in his career, is still waiting for his first offer. Clemson, Duke and N.C. State are showing interest. With another standout season, Beecher could reel in several scholarships by the end of the year.
Tyquan Lewis, DE, Tarboro (N.C.), 6-3, 225 pounds
No. 22 prospect in North Carolina
Frontrunner: Ohio State
Darkhorse: LSU
Also in the mix: UNC
The Latest: After camping at Ohio State and having his mom on campus, Lewis said he had made up his mind and would announce his commitment Sept. 20. Lewis said his favorite trip was to check out the Buckeyes and that Ohio State was recruiting him the hardest. They appear to be the clear team to beat.


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Substantial reductions in emissions of nitrogen oxides and particulates from construction equipment and other kinds of non-road mobile machinery would be required under legislative proposals published by the European Commission at the end of December.1 The measure would align EU with US emission standards - apart from one major unresolved issue about future technology for controlling NOx emissions.
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Venison Seeks Its Spot In the U.S. Food Chain
Venison Seeks Its Spot In the U.S. Food Chain
Wednesday, October 17, 2007; Page F01
As perfect squares of dark red meat sizzled in a pool of olive oil, an alluring aroma alerted shoppers to free protein at the end of Aisle Three.
That's where New Zealand farmer Andy Russell was sticking toothpicks in tiny portions of blood-rare venison steak. And while Russell mostly heard such responses as "that's delicious" in this sampling at Whole Foods Market in Logan Circle, he estimates that about 20 percent of the customers evoked the name of a certain adorable Disney fawn.
"Bambi!" said Brookland resident Frances Manning, 65, after a nibble. "I like animals. Now all I can think about is Bambi. We don't need to eat everything."
But to Russell, who was in town recently to represent the export company Firstlight Foods, grass-fed venison shouldn't be considered far-fetched. It's a lean, healthful choice with more protein, less saturated fat and three times more iron than beef. And it's certainly not Bambi, who besides being a 65-year-old fictional animated character is a different breed altogether: a wild white-tailed deer.
Unlike the gamy meat from white-tails, venison from farm-raised red deer tastes mild. And when cooked properly -- quickly and at high heat -- it's tender and juicy.
For New Zealand venison farmers, who also raise cattle and sheep in the same pastures, the United States is an untapped market. U.S. deer farmers have a national organization but no marketing campaign. Continued widespread drought in the key deer-farming states of Texas and Pennsylvania, coupled with the fear of spreading a disease that nearly shut down the U.S. industry in 2002, has New Zealanders seeing an opportunity.
With an estimated 2 million red deer stocked on more than 3,500 farms, New Zealand has the world's largest deer-farming industry. The first farms went into business in the early 1970s as a way to manage an explosion in the population of red deer, an animal first brought to the islands from Scotland in the 1880s. More than 1 million deer roam free.
"We want to make venison an everyday product," says Russell, 43.
The farmer, who runs 1,500 Scottish red deer on his 400-acre, high-fenced farm on the west coast of the country's North Island, was on a 15-city promotional tour to 30 supermarkets with six other Firstlight farmers. He confided that he was "totally out of my comfort zone cooking in a supermarket. I go to town once in a fortnight."
About 95 percent of New Zealand venison is shipped to Europe, primarily to Germany. And the popularity there is growing. In the United Kingdom, one major supermarket chain reports that venison sales rose 70 percent in the last year and cites celebrity chefs as promoting the sales. (In the United States, some restaurants have long served venison from New Zealand, but retail sales are minimal. In fact, U.S. consumption of venison is so low that the government doesn't track it.)
But there is a supply-and-demand problem for the deer exporters. For the most part, Germans eat fresh venison in fall and winter, and then sales dramatically drop off. With New Zealand's lush, year-round growing season, farmers are hoping North America can fill the gap.
The United States has more than 7,800 elk and deer farms, with about 1,000 farms each in Texas and Pennsylvania. But the North American Deer Farmers Association estimates that only 20 percent of those farms produce venison for commercial sale. The others are hunting preserves and breeding stock farms, and in the United States it is illegal to sell venison from hunted deer.


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Anyone know how to get Skype to work on an Android in China?

it didn't work for my phone!!!!
1. First download the skype3G.apk from here.
2. Now go to Android Market and search for the "Apps Installer" and install it.
3. Once installed, launch the app and you will find skype, Just click on it and it will be installed.


text: http://www.liquoricelondon.com I realise that ranking for 'london clubs' will be almost impossible, thus I dont think that sort of strategy will be useful, considering it will take £££'s and loads of work. However, I dont mind giving it a go, so how can I look to rank my site? What technqiues would be required to backlink etc ? Secondly, I think for nightclubbing, social networking is very important, thus would like to tackle this part of the process. I have no real idea of manipulating social networking. I have twitter/facebook accounts for my site, but unsure how to get people to flow to these. Please help ! Thanks, kjr640


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Nick Louvel (1981–2015)
Nick Louvel was born on January 15, 1981 in Santa Monica, California, USA as Nicolas Jean Louvel. He is known for his work on Domino One (2005), The Uncondemned (2015) and Bridge (2009). He died on September 24, 2015 in East Hampton, New York, USA. See full bio »
Born:in Santa Monica, California, USA
Died:(age 34) in East Hampton, New York, USA