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Three stories examine the lives of the Irish living under British oppression.
In Ireland, inspector Michael Dillon leaves the police barracks of Ballinalough and proceeds on foot through the rural countryside, his journey marked by two neighbors and by Micky J., a poteen maker or moonshiner, who tries to elude him. Although Michael catches him, Micky is relieved to learn that the policeman's destination is the ancestral estate of Dan O'Flaherty, and follows him the rest of the way. Dan greets Michael as an old friend and invites him into his cottage below the old castle tower. The men have a friendly chat about old times, poteen and other matters. Then the two neighbors arrive, offering to pay Dan's fine, thus revealing the true purpose of Michael's visit: Michael has a warrant to take Dan to prison for failing to pay the fine he was charged after hitting Phelim O'Feeney, the family enemy, in the head. From under a rock in the floor, Dan retrieves twice the amount of money needed to stay out of prison. However, as Dan believes that paying the fine would be admitting that Phelim, who called him a liar, did not deserve the contusion, he returns the money to its place and thanks the neighbors for their generosity. Dan arranges with Michael to come to the jail on Friday after dinner. At the appointed time, while Dan bids his family and neighbors farewell, Phelim himself arrives and offers to pay the fine, but Dan proudly insists on serving the prison sentence, which he believes is the way to uphold the O'Flaherty name. At the barracks, Michael is waiting for him and the two friends, with arms around each other, enter the prison building.
At the Dunfaill railway station, the Ballyscran and Dunfaill train pulls in and the porter, Paddy Morrisey announces to the passengers that there will be "one minute's wait only" before it departs. At his suggestion, the coach passengers briskly head for the station's refreshment bar manned by Pegeen Mallory. Mr. O'Brien, the engineer, drinks a beer and entertains the lively crowd with a ghost story. Outside Mrs. Falsey, traveling with her niece Mary Ann McMahon, encounters farmer Barney Domigan and his son Christy. When Barney explains that he is taking his son to arrange a marriage with Mary Ryan, who has a three-hundred-pound dowry, Mrs. Falsey listens thoughtfully. From the first-class compartment, Col. and Mrs. Charles Frobishire, an older, stern-faced British couple, ask Paddy to open their door, but the porter cheerfully explains that he no longer has the key. Instead he offers to water Mrs. Frobishire's bouquet of flowers, which he mistakenly presumes is a bridal bouquet. After the passengers are called back to the train, Paddy opens the door, which was not locked, and returns the freshened flowers, wishing Mrs. Frobishire "a child for every blossom." The train is ready to depart when a prize goat is delivered and another "minute's wait" announced. As the railroad workers argue about the wisdom of putting the animal in the baggage department, the passengers scurry back to the bar, where O'Brien continues his ghostly tale. Mrs. Falsey and Barney continue their conversation, oblivious to Christy and Mary Ann's growing attraction to each other. After Paddy moves the confused Frobishires to a third-class compartment, places the goat inside their first-class cabin, and the passengers are re-boarded, another "minute's wait" is announced. Mrs. Kinsella, the fisherwoman, has just arrived and insists on loading lobsters for the Bishop's Golden Jubilee Dinner. The passengers race back to the bar, while the lobsters are crammed in with the Frobishires. The passengers are then re-boarded and the train is ready to leave, when the telephone rings. Pegeen reports that the Ballyscran Hurling Team's bus has broken and the team is on its way. As the athletes, who have won a championship match, parade alongside bagpipers to the station, Mrs. Falsey suggests to Barney that Mary Ann would be a better choice for Christy than Mary Ryan. Assuming that Mary Ann is penniless, as her father died fighting with the Americans in the war, Barney patiently insists that a bride needs a dowry. At that, Mrs. Falsey triumphantly pulls out a bank statement, revealing that Mary Ann inherited her father's $10,000 government "bonus" for "getting himself killed." The Frobishires ask for a cup of tea, so Paddy takes them to an outdoor table away from the heightened gaiety. Paddy then goes inside the bar and joins Pegeen in a jig. Mrs. Falsey and Barney come to an agreement, while Mary Ann and Christy come to a similar decision while kissing in a boxcar. After passengers are recruited to help attach an additional carriage to the train for the hurlers, Paddy and Pegeen, who have been "walking out together" for almost twelve years, are left alone. The passengers are returning to their seats, when Christy confronts Barney with an ultimatum: he will wed Mary Ann or join the foreign legion. His independent thinking irritates Barney, who then offends Mr. Rourke, the station master, by recalling a lapse in his great-grandfather's good behavior many years ago. When Rourke protests that the old story is a lie, the two prepare to fight. Inside, Pegeen answers affirmatively when Paddy asks if she wants to be "buried with his people." The train whistle blows, prompting almost everyone to return to his proper place, and the train chugs out of the station, leaving the forgotten Frobishires behind.
In Galway, in 1921 during the "Troubles" of the "Black and Tan War," political prisoner Sean Curran awaits his execution, while sympathizers gather outside the jail to pray for him. Two nuns, one of whom claims to be Sean's sister, ask a sympathetic warder to be allowed a last visit with the condemned man. The warder takes them inside and the major in charge, who is weary of his "hangman" role, orders the women escorted to Sean's cell. Later, when the clock strikes the hour, the nuns leave, one of them doubled over in grief. Sgt. Michael O'Hara helps the nuns into a cab and notices that one wears high heels, but shrugs it off. Afterward, when the major and his soldiers come to take Sean to the gallows, they find only Peggy O'Donnell, an actress from Brooklyn, in his cell. The police search the town, while Sean and his rescuer slip into a theater. After dark, Sean, disguised as a balladeer and accompanied by a donkey, passes through the police blockade with the help of the warder, who confirms that Sean is the minstrel Jimmy Walsh. O'Hara is guarding an area of the waterfront called the Spanish Arch, when his temperamental wife, to whom Sean is a hero, arrives with his dinner. Although she has been nagging O'Hara all evening about his part in executing "the greatest man in Ireland today," when she sees a five-hundred-pound reward for Sean's capture, she considers the futility of his plight and the usefulness of the money. The disguised Sean arrives with his donkey and offers to sing. In his repertoire is the revolutionary song, "The Rising of the Moon," which O'Hara, his wife recalls, used to sing during their courting days. The couple begins to bicker, allowing Sean to board a rowboat that has come for him. When O'Hara realizes that Sean is escaping, he calls to the rowers, threatening to shoot, but then has second thoughts, prompted by his love of Ireland. He begins to sing the song, which, he admits, is somewhat treasonous, and his wife joins in. Afterward, in a loving mood, she returns home, leaving O'Hara to wonder if he has been a fool. Meanwhile, Sean rows to freedom.
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Wonderful trip planned to tour Ireland. Any one know if I need to buy bottled water or if I can drink tap water from reuseable bottle. I Love to drink lots of water and am concerned about cost?
There are no concerns about tap water in Ireland.
I don't have the strongest stomach and it's normal for me to get a bit of an unsettled tummy when I travel around and drink tap water from different countries where the water is safe. My own theory is that each location has its own colonies of safe microbes and bacteria which the locals get used to and which most visitors are unaffected by.
As someone living in London I would not expect to have any problems at all drinking the water in Ireland (I haven't yet been affected). However, I might very well have a couple of days of looser stools if I were to drink the tap water from your home in Miami - no matter how 'safe' the water is there.
So the answer I would give is that the water in Ireland is completely fine. But if you want to stay on the safe side you might want to stick to bottled/filtrated/boiled water. What is very unlikely is that you would actually get seriously ill by drinking Irish water.
I saw this product yesterday at the London, Camden branch of Wholefoods:
Seems to offer lightly filtered water at around 5cents a bottle. It's available from amazon.com and is cheaper in the USA than in Europe.
Could be just the thing you're after.
The water in Ireland is perfectly safe to drink right out of the tap. When you are in the western counties with lots of peat bogs the water may have a clear but rusty look, but it is still safe to drink, it is simply caused by the filtering of rainwater through the bog layers. Away from the peat bogs the water is no different that the water in the US in color. There is also the availability of bottle water by such companies as Ballygowan, which is at least packaged in recyclable glass bottles, but there really is no reason you "need" to buy bottled water.
Thanks Eileen and Loretta, I appreciate the good advice. I did travel to England over 22 years ago and I do not remember having any concerns about drinking the water. I stayed with extended family the entire time and had a blast. When I traveled to Israel, I remember drinking only bottled water and being very careful. I think that memory is what I was thinking about and created the confusion. A lot of people in Miami won't drink the tap water but there are no problems with the quality or safety of the water. It does taste different to visitors.
Interesting insights by both Loretta and Eileen. I wish I had known about the bogs when I was in Ireland 15 years ago. When we stayed in a charming country hotel somewhere in the west, I was shocked when the bath water ran brown. I thought it was rust in old pipes and opted for a sponge bath.
In Texas, I brushed my teeth with bottled water because the hotel tap water smelled like a gas station.
No wonder that water is a world-wide health issue.
Other tourists would have been delighted to find their bath water brown and brimming with all the nutrients and minerals from ancient peatlands. People pay good money to wallow in this sort of water when the hotel calls itself a spa destination :D
I've been to a few public baths in Tokyo where the water was black. Initially I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to rinse myself after soaking in it, then I got used to it and was happy to let the minerals stay on my skin. My skin always feels noticeably softer after bathing in this kind of spa water.
Just got back three days ago. Water quality was great in every location. Stayed in hotels around the entire rim of Ireland and had the best of service. Thanks for all of the good advice.
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My wife, Nancy, and I are in China as I write this. We were on a tour of the China highlights with a group and are now visiting with my sister and brother-in-law, who have lived in China for the past five years. Along the way we visited with a friend who has taught for a few years at a university in Shanghai. All in all, we are having a delightful experience. We are constantly trying to figure out local patterns, customs, histories, purposes and appropriate behaviors. It's not simple, but it's interesting and worthwhile.
As we are doing that, I find myself regularly thinking: "Hmm, I wonder how our interns are doing figuring out their new places?" We smile a lot, ask questions, try to keep our assumptions and biases to a minimum, and happily find that most folk are patient and gracious with us. I trust it's similar for you.
So (although we'll be home by the time you read this), "Hi, from Zhuhai, China."
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"See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!" 1 John 3:1 (NIV)
This video shows how good ol' fashioned tradition is lost. Deeper than that, we forgot how exciting it is to sit at the big table with the "boss". When we position ourselves to sit at the table with God, there is a feast waiting for us- the good stuff. God doesn't hold back, He always shares His best with us.
Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate with God all the earthly things He has given us along with the spiritual treasures He has blessed upon us. Stop worrying about the small stuff. Stop whining about what you don't have. And realize the amazing truth that you are God's child and He wants to lavish you with His great love.
Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!


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Soccer star David Beckham reportedly had an opportunity to kick in the NFL. Unsurprisingly, he passed.
The U.K. Daily Mirror reports that an NFL scout contacted Beckham a few years ago to see if he would be interested in trying out as a kicker. The newspaper adds that "Their idea is not as ridiculous as it sounds because Beckham's skill at bending in long range free kicks can be perfectly adapted to scoring field goals in the NFL."
Actually, I'm going to go ahead and say that the idea is as ridiculous as it sounds: Why would any NFL team think Beckham would give up the sport he loves, the sport that has made him fabulously wealthy to the tune of an estimated income of $47 million a year, to try American football?
Perhaps if there's an NFL franchise in London some day, that team would try to convert a popular English soccer player into a kicker as an attempt to drum up some fan support. But a gimmick like that doesn't seem very likely to create long-lasting interest in American football.
And if there is an English soccer player who's going to switch to American football, it's not going to be David Beckham.


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Just a quick heads-up that in addition to equity markets today, oil is getting clubbed.
This speaks to the growing meme that, "default" aside, the nearly week-old ructions happening in Washington D.C. are taking a toll on the U.S. economy, and therefore the global economy as well.
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Treatment Options for a Dog with a Nerve Sheath Tumor
Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
Recently I was told that my 13-year-old dog had nerve sheath tumor on her front right leg. It is a huge growth that looks like cauliflower. What are the treatments? They said I had an option for amputation, and radiation. She is my world and I hate to see her pain. What other options might I have?
Lili Duda, VMD, Editor of the OncoLink Veterinary Oncology Section Menu, responds:
Amputation and radiation are the two standard options. Amputation may offer the best chance of a cure, particularly if the tumor is very large. Surgery combined with either pre- or postoperative radiation therapy is another definitive treatment option; although less likely to be curative, it might provide long-term control of the tumor. Radiation therapy by itself is strictly palliative for large tumors of this type.


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London — Tanning bed use is just as hazardous to your health as smoking cigarettes, according to a study recently released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a World Health Organization agency.
Researchers found that the risk for melanoma, or skin cancer, increases 75 percent when tanning bed use begins before age 30. It also poses an elevated risk for melanoma of the eye.
After conducting a review of current tanning bed research, IARC placed tanning beds in its highest cancer risk category, Group 1, where they are considered "carcinogenic to humans."
"This new report confirms and extends the prior recommendation of the American Cancer Society that the use of tanning beds is dangerous to your health and should be avoided," Len Lichtenfeld, MD, deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said in a statement. "Young women in particular are the heaviest users of tanning beds and, as noted in the report, are at the greatest risk of causing harm to themselves."
Both the World Health Organization and the International Commission on Non-ionizing Radiation Protection recommend that tanning bed use be restricted for anyone under age 18.
Earlier this year, a bill introduced in the Texas legislature would require anyone under 18 to have a written doctor's consent before using a tanning bed.
Some fitness facilities, like Urban Active, offer tanning beds for members. Moderation is key when it comes to indoor tanning, says KT Remus, senior marketing director for Lexington, KY-based Global Fitness Holdings, owner of Urban Active.
"Too much of anything is never a good thing for your health," she says.
Remus says Urban Active also offers a spray-on tanning option for people who want to avoid UV ray exposure.


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Alyssa Jones felt numb Saturday as she gathered with dozens of other girls on the basketball court of the Downtown Athletic Club.
Dressed in teeny shorts and bedazzled bra tops, the 220 ladies, and some guys as well, were all there pursuing the same dream: to become a Ravens cheerleader.
Tryout weekend is an annual event that is as important to some women as getting into college or becoming mothers. It is something they have worked toward for years.
Competition is fierce for just 50 to 60 spots on the team, either on the stunt team or the dance team. All the ladies know many of them will go home disappointed.
"I want this so bad," Jones said. "I have been cheering my whole life to get to this point."
Participants practice for weeks, but have just a few minutes to impress a panel of judges that includes current and former cheer coaches and staff from the Ravens front office. And that's just to advance through the first round.
Winners are announced at the end of the month. Another round of tryouts is scheduled for Sunday to weed out even more girls. There is also an interview portion in coming days.
The team is looking for well-rounded members, coaches said.
They need to have the image. During tryouts the girls were told their hair should have curl and volume. Red lipstick is best because it stands out on the lips. Cover up tattoos, they were advised.
Then there's skill, including sharp and precise dance moves. The ladies all learned a routine they had to perform for the judges.
The job of a cheerleader includes charity work and community appearances. So the team is also looking for ladies who are well-spoken and engaging.
"They are an ambassador for the organization," said Keren Kreitzer, the team's dance coach.
Kreitzer said the team is not looking for perfection. If a girl messes up during tryouts, how well she recovers is important. If a girl doesn't know the most advanced dance moves and has other qualities, she may still make the team.
Even current cheerleaders have to try out.
"I hate to do it, but I have cut girls who just don't have what it takes this time around," said Tina Galdieri, the Ravens cheerleader coach for 15 years.
Leslie A., who is retiring from the team after 11 years, said tryouts are sometimes more intense for current cheerleaders than newbies.
"You're a veteran so they expect more from you," she said. "You can't really make little mistakes."
The cheerleader hopefuls come from all walks of life. The gig is part-time so everyone is required to have a fulltime job, enroll as a fulltime student or be a stay-at-home mom.
Kasie Bey-Keys, 21, is from Cockeysville but is studying at Norfolk State University in Virginia. She's willing to make the trip every weekend from campus if it means getting a spot on the team. She was eyeing the competition Saturday and admitted she was nervous.
"All the girls have skills," she said.
Current cheerleaders helped the girls with their routines and passed on tips. For instance, make sure your performance has energy.
Whitney J. made the team last year and gave this advice:
"You have to act like you're already a Ravens cheerleader," she said. "You have to have that kind of mentality and confidence."


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June 23: Police investigated parking complaints.
June 24: Police took reports of a juvenile lying in the middle of the street at Third and Madison Streets and suspicious activity. They also investigated an injury accident and a drive-off from a service station.
June 25: Police checked the welfare of a bicyclist lying in a ditch along K-15, took a report of a large limb at Birch and B streets, mediated a child custody dispute, and checked a suspicious vehicle.
June 26: Police took a report of social media harassment, took dog complaints, mediated a child custody dispute, and returned seized items to their owner.
Thursday: Police took reports of an abandoned vehicle and a reckless driver, checked an animal welfare complaint, took parking complaints, and investigated suspicious activity at the fairgrounds and on Main Street.
Friday: Police responded to a yard fire caused by a discarded cigarette.
Saturday: Police investigated a shoplifting complaint and took a report of a reckless driver.
June 24: Burglary and theft from a residence was reported.
June 26: A person was arrested on a charge of driving with a suspended license after being running a stop sign.
June 28: Police arrested two people after a routine traffic stop. The driver was arrested on a charge driving with a suspended license. A person was arrested on a Pottawatomie County warrant and on a charge of alcohol consumption by a minor.
June 30: Police took a report of a vicious dog and a dog bite. A person was arrested on a charge of domestic battery. A person was arrested for driving with a revoked license and no motorcycle endorsement on a motorcycle.


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headh wrote:(Excluding former NHL players) There isn't one writer, television personality or radio guy in this city who knows more about hockey than Madden. Not one.
That sort of says something about the Pittsburgh existing media more than it does Madden's hockey knowledge. Also, I think Molinari knows a helluva lot more about hockey than MM for that matter, as do most long-time fans of the Penguins, though they are not in the TV or radio professions.
Madden does his schtick well enough to stay employed and earn a living so hurray for him. He's also simply a personality and talks out of his backside constantly about hockey even when he probably knows it's BS. He don't care...he soff.


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(AP) — A wide-ranging group of Illinois-based businesses, politicians and other civic leaders is being formed to push what it calls common-sense immigration reform.
The Illinois Business Immigration Coalition includes leaders from Peoria-based Caterpillar Inc. as well as Motorola Solutions Inc., the University of Illinois, business trade groups and immigration-rights advocates. It is backed by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Caterpillar CEO Doug Olberhelman spoke at a kickoff event Monday in Chicago. He said the manufacturer has trouble filling both high- and lower-skill jobs that immigration reform could help.
The formation of the Illinois group comes as lawmakers in Washington get ready to hammer out the details of a potential immigration law overhaul. Business and labor leaders last week agreed on broad outline.


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Q. My inspector approved the electrical rough-in stage of my project, but failed the final inspection because I installed a panel in an 8-foot × 5-foot walk-in closet. How can I convince the inspector to approve the installation?
A. I'm sorry you didn't know that 240.24(D) prohibits overcurrent devices in the vicinity of easily ignitible material, such as in clothes closets. The panel needs to be moved to another location that's acceptable to the inspector (Fig. 1).
Q. Must the smoke detector circuit in a dwelling unit bedroom be AFCI-protected?
A. Sec. 210.12(B) requires all branch circuits that supply 15A and 20A, 125V outlets in dwelling unit bedrooms to be AFCI-protected. This would include the smoke detector circuit. However, the proposed change to 760.21 for the 2005 NEC would prohibit the use of GFCIs or AFCIs to protect a nonpower-limited fire alarm circuit (Fig. 2).
Q. Is AFCI protection required for bedroom circuits of a hotel guest room with space for sleeping, permanent provisions for cooking (2-burner cooktop), but no true areas for eating.
A. If the guest room has space for sleeping as well as permanent provisions for cooking and sanitation, then it's a dwelling unit as defined by Art. 100. Since the guest room is a dwelling unit as defined in Art. 100, all branch circuits that supply 15A and 20A bedroom outlets must be AFCI-protected [210.12(B)].
Note: An outlet is defined as a point in the wiring system at which current is taken to supply utilization equipment.
Q. Are AFCI receptacles available?
A. AFCI receptacles aren't currently available in the marketplace because they don't meet the AFCI protection requirements as outlined in 210.12.
Q. Can I connect the ground rods for the lightning protection system to the grounding system of the building?
A. As noted in 250.106, the NEC requires the lightning protection system to be bonded to the building or structure grounding electrode system. However, the NEC doesn't specify what size bonding conductor you should use to bond the lightning protection electrode to the building electrode.
Note: Sec. 250.53(C), which doesn't apply to the bonding of the lightning protection electrode to the building electrode, requires the bonding jumper used to connect grounding electrodes together to form the grounding electrode system (250.50) to be installed in accordance with 250.64(A), (B), and (E), sized in accordance with 250.66, and connected in the manner specified in 250.70.
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The 39-story residential tower — the tallest of the three — sits to the south, accommodating 130 luxury apartments with stunning views.
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Kinston�s girls soccer team has lived the motto, �It�s not how you start but how you finish.�
The Vikings began the season not-so-hot, only to end it with a share of the first conference title in the sport in school history.
Kinston�s girls soccer team has lived the motto, �It�s not how you start but how you finish.�
The Vikings began the season not-so-hot, only to end it with a share of the first conference title in the sport in school history.
Thanks to Kinston�s 1-0 win over Tarboro on Wednesday, the Vikings, along with Tarboro and Wilson Beddingfield, all claimed a share of the Eastern Plains 2A Conference title � something never done before at the school by a girls soccer team.
Hannah Vermillion scored her 14th goal of the season on a penalty shot for the win.
�My girls kept the faith and belief that our record was not an indicator of how good this team could be if we ever decided to play some serious soccer,� longtime Vikings coach Joe Romig said. �I am honored and humbled to be a part of a history-making season in capturing the first-ever conference championship.�
While the regular season ended with a bang for Kinston it began with a thud.
The Vikings (5-9-2, 4-2-0) lost six of their first eight matches and were outscored 41-8. They had 14 underclassmen, eight freshmen, on their roster of 26 girls.
The team was young, and its youth hampered Kinston even more due to several of its senior leaders enjoying the successes of the girls basketball program. The team also needed a full-time goalkeeper, Romig said.
So after coming up with more than a dozen different lineups and putting freshman Vendola Stafford in goal full-time, the Vikings started to turn things around heading into conference play.
�Conference play had to improve if we were going to make any contention for playoffs,� Romig said.
And it did.
The Vikings have won three straight, outscored their conference opponents 18-5, beat the Bruins and Tarboro on back-to-back nights by 1-0 scores and did so after a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to Tarboro on April 22 in which Romig felt a no-call on a late offsides infraction led to the match�s lone goal.
�Our girls got the point with Beddingfield and Tarboro playing back-to-back nights,� said Romig, whose team is in the state playoffs for the fourth straight year. �All the hard work is by the work ethic set by my girls.�
The season isn�t over yet. Romig isn�t sure how the league will break the three-way tie, meaning his team could host a first round playoff match next week when they begin on Wednesday or open the postseason on the road.
But at this point where Kinston will play isn�t as important as what it has done � recover from a disappointing start to doing something no other Vikings girls soccer team has done.
�I am speechless on what to say concerning the conference title,� Romig said. �The girls have deserved this honor for showing a mental fortitude and immense work ethic.�
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MIAMI —The Associated Press and other media outlets urged a judge Tuesday to grant access to police videos made shortly after pop singer Justin Bieber's arrest last month on driving under the influence and other charges.
The news organizations said in a motion filed in Miami-Dade County court that the 19-year-old has no legal basis to prevent release of the videos, taken at the Miami Beach police station after he was booked Jan. 23. Bieber's attorneys have asked a judge to allow them to review the videos before their potential release.
Attorney Deanna Shullman, who represents the AP and the other news organizations, said in the filing that Bieber cannot legally compel a state agency to withhold a public record and that his attorneys have not identified any exemption that would apply. In addition, she said the law would permit only certain parts of the videos to be withheld or redacted if they were exempt or deemed confidential.
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The New England Patriots are going back to an old friend to help fill a hole on the wide receiver depth chart. And it's not Deion Branch this time.
NFL.com's Albert Breer reported the Patriots will sign Donte' Stallworth on Tuesday, according to a source who spoke with player. Stallworth, 31, has tried out for a few teams since the Patriots cut him in August, but he hasn't been on a roster this season.
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Stallworth's anticipated signing doesn't bode well for Julian Edelman, who injured his foot during Sunday's win over the Miami Dolphins. He was seen on crutches after the game. The Patriots are lacking depth after cutting Branch last month and losing practice-squad player Greg Salas to the Philadelphia Eagles on waivers.
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On The Ball: Playoffs on tap
It seems like yesterday we were stifling in that 90-plus degree September heat wave, not bundling up and clutching cups of cocoa at football games.
But it's true: Playoffs in high school boys' and girls' soccer and field hockey begin next week. The Vermont Principals' Association will release playoff pairings sometime in the early afternoon on Monday for the eight Middlebury, Mount Abraham, Otter Valley and Vergennes soccer teams, all of whom compete in Division II; and the D-I MUHS field hockey and D-II OV and Mount Abe teams.
In football, the Tigers, the one team that will see the postseason, probably as the D-II No. 1 seed, have regular season games vs. Colchester and OV before they take aim at the program's first title since '03.
On The Ball will return online no later than late afternoon/early evening on Monday with a look at the schedule and match-ups for each of the 11 soccer and field hockey teams through the end of next week.
In the meantime, a few teams in the rest of this week are jockeying for top playoff seeds or first-round home games. OV field hockey stood at 9-2 in the No. 1 position in the Marble Valley League and D-II going in to a tough game at No. 4 Windsor (6-4-2) on Wednesday afternoon. OV won in Brandon, 1-0, but the defending D-II champion Jacks always give the Otters a hard time. OV must also host D-I Rutland (7-5-1) on Friday before closing with what should be a win on Saturday at home vs. Burr & Burton. Harwood (8-1-3) and Woodstock (8-3) are ready to take advantage of an OV misstep and move into the Nos. 1 and 2 spots, but the Otters should hang onto no worse than third. UPDATE OV did lose to Windsor, 2-1, and dropped to third. The result against Rutland now becomes critical if OV wants to move back higher. The Otters would also be doing Middlebury a favor by knocking off the Raiders.
Sticking in D-II, Mount Abe may end up the season with no more than two wins, but have played every game against D-I foes this fall. The Eagles' quality of play would put them at or near the top in the Marble Valley League, and one D-II coach recently told me the Eagles will be a tough playoff opponent. In D-I field hockey, MUHS (5-4-3) was set to face two other teams entering the week with five wins — Mount Mansfield and Colchester — as the Tigers looked to maintain or improve their No. 5 spot in the D-I rankings. On paper, they will be favored to win both, but they need help to catch CVU (6-3-3) for the No. 4 seed. UPDATE MMU dealt the Tigers a real blow with a 2-1 victory on Wednesday, avenging an earlier 3-0 loss to MUHS. The Tigers are now tied with Colchester for sixth and would really like to win on Friday and avoid a possible quarterfinal at undefeated Hartford. They could move up to fifth depending on how Rutland fares.
Only two local soccer teams stood better than .500 heading into the final four days of the regular season: the Tiger boys (6-4-2) and the VUHS girls (6-5-1). Both are in logjams in the D-II standings. The Tigers could theoretically land anywhere from fourth to 11th, and face two challenging games: 9-3 Milton at home, and 6-6 Rice, which has played a tough schedule, on the road. The VUHS girls are in seventh: A win against visiting D-I BFA-St. Albans (8-4) on Thursday or on the road at Lamoille (5-7) on Saturday should earn them one home playoff game, but a home quarterfinal appears out of reach.
Check back in on Monday for the skinny on all the local teams' first-round foes.
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I used to get data out to about 21 days. Lately I have only been getting data out to about 10 to 14 days.
Has there been a change in what is available or is something messed up?
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I ran across a situation today where I needed to sort a result set on a column that could contain NULL values. By default, all rows with a NULL value in the sorted column are returned first but in this case, I wanted to have all the NULL values show up last in the result set.
Click here to jump to the correct solution or keep reading for a detail explanation of failed attempts at solving this problem.
For example, imagine you have an Employees table as defined below and with the indicated data.
Running a simple query ordering by the nullable DepartmentId column produces the following result (NULL values at the top).
SELECT * FROM Employees ORDER BY DepartmentId
Ordering the result set by DepartmentId descending obviously won't work as even though the NULL values will appear at the bottom all the other rows will be in descending order as well.
SELECT * FROM Employees ORDER BY DepartmentId DESC
I have seen some people attempt to solve this problem using the following query.
SELECT Id, FirstName, LastName, (CASE WHEN DepartmentId IS NULL THEN 99999 ELSE DepartmentId END) AS DepartmentId FROM Employees ORDER BY DepartmentId
While this will most likely sort the rows as desired, this presents multiple problems. First, you are specifying a DepartmentId of 99999 for rows that really don't have a DepartmentId and second, you have to ensure that you never have a DepartmentId over 99999 in your Employee records.
You can eliminate the first problem of the query above by doing the following:
SELECT * FROM Employees ORDER BY ISNULL(DepartmentId, 99999)
The ISNULL function will replace a NULL DepartmentId with the value 99999, thus giving the desired ordering while still preserving the NULL value in the result set. But, this still leaves us with the second issue mentioned above.
Both issues can be resolved by a simple case statement in the ORDER BY clause as shown below.
SELECT * FROM Employees ORDER BY (CASE WHEN DepartmentId IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END), DepartmentId
Here, the result set is first sorted by a temporary column with the value of 1 if the associated row's DepartmentId value is NULL and 0 if it is not. Doing such will ensure that all records with a NULL DepartmentId appear after records with a non-NULL DepartmentId. The two groups of records (ones with a NULL DepartmentId and ones with a non-NULL DepartmentId) are then sorted by the DepartmentId which ensures that all records with a DepartmentId are sorted correctly.
A simple solution to a random problem.


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Heavy-hitting Wall Street political donors are withholding their money from the Democratic Party's campaign coffers, according to a Washington Post report making the rounds on Capitol Hill today. In a political environment in which almost no group is as publicly reviled as a Wall Street executive, Democrats just scored a tremendous public relations coup. Good riddance.
The Post story from this morning reads like a campaign ad for embattled Democrats. After spending more than a year fighting for Wall Street reform, Democrats did such a good job that the bailout barons turned on them—are any Democratic strategists sorry to see that narrative emerge?
For the purposes of this post, set aside the fact that elected officials ought to answer to the public interest, rather than the narrow preferences of entrenched wealthy elites. Politics are still politics, and like it or not, money matters in elections. But the public perception of the current fundraising situation will play very well for Democrats come election season. No politician likes seeing campaign money walk out the door. But there's one thing they hate even more than losing contributions: Losing elections. Sure, overstuffed campaign coffers make it easier to win in November. But not when the opposition can highlight those contributions as toxic money from corrupt bailouteers.
What are Democrats missing out on? Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, the second-most-hated company in the country, has not contributed his usual $50,000 to the Democratic Party this year. Does anybody in Congress want to pose for a photo-op with Lloyd before November? Maybe give a speech explaining how betting against your own clients is a prime example of doing "God's work"? Of course not. If I were a Democratic strategist, I'd be printing the "Goldman Sachs Hates Democrats" posters right now.
There is, however, a class of politicians from both parties who are sweating bullets as the fundraising numbers roll in. Everybody who voted against financial reform is starting to realize that they made a big mistake. Wall Street's campaign contributions are weak overall—they're down more for Democrats, but Republicans haven't raised all that much, either. Our economy is still coping with an economic calamity that everyone knows was caused by banker excess and weak regulation. For all but a handful of strident reformists who believe the banking overhaul legislation does not go far enough, all of the bill's opponents were making a naked political bet: The money I get from this vote will matter more to my electoral prospects in November than the damage to my reputation. But now it looks like that bet won't be paying off after all. Politicians who opposed reform not only cast an unpopular vote, they won't be getting their kickbacks, either.
But even if they did get the money, there is only so much they can do. The public outrage against banks is not unique to the progressive left. It's a phenomenon that crosses the ideological spectrum, and has been a major motivation behind much of the Tea Party movement. Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, was a down-the-line conservative who voted in favor of the bank bailout with most of his Senate Republican brethren (and most Senate Democrats). But when primary time came this year, his vote for the banks cost him his seat. Lawmakers from both parties can expect similar treatment from the general electorate this fall.
The activists who turn out the vote during midterm elections are not happy with economic policy that puts bankers and traders first, while leaving jobs and foreclosures out to twist in the wind. That dissatisfaction applies to both traditionally Republican and traditionally Democratic activists. Winning Wall Street cash by capitulating on Wall Street reform is not going to impress voters of any ideological orientation, much less the moderates who are disgusted by the bank bailouts.
Of course, the banking overhaul is unnecessarily weak. It will not prevent another financial meltdown, and it does little to realign the interests of the banking elite with those of society at large. But there's a lesson here, too. The fact that Wall Street is doing its best to punish the Democrats right now shows how silly it is to try and curry favor with corporate interests who wreck the economy.
When you have to reform a broken industry, the executives from that industry are going to cry foul, whatever you do. The trillions of dollars in bailout money that the U.S. government funneled to Wall Street should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that Big Finance is broken—the need for reform is as imperative a policy priority as can be imagined. Watering down the bill, adding loopholes and refusing to consider tough reforms to appease lobbyists ultimately doesn't help much. Top executives will still be angry that you had the audacity to ask them to change something, because they spend their whole lives getting paid a fortune to do whatever they want.
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Hair loss may occasionally be caused by lack of protein in the diet.
Some people who go on crash diets that exclude protein or who have abnormal
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Increased hair shedding can occur 2 to 3 months later.
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Version 1.6.x (a.k.a Java 6 Update x)
NOTE: Java 6 is scheduled to die (End of Life or EOL) in November 2012
As of April 27, 2012 the latest version of Java 6 is 1.6.0_32 (Version 6 Update 32).
According to Oracle, "This release includes bug fixes and performance improvements." No security patches.
First install java-package, and fakeroot.
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apt-get install java-package fakeroot
Note the link in the package description is broken.Description-en: Utility for creating Java Debian packages
This package provides the capability to build a Debian package from
a Java binary distribution by running make-jpkg <java binary archive file>.
(with archive files downloaded from providers listed below)
Supported java binary distributions currently include:
* Oracle (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads) :
- The J2SE Development Kit (JDK), version 6 (update >= 10), 7
- The J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE), version 6 (update >= 10), 7
- The J2SE API Javadoc, version 6 (update >= 10), 7
(Choose tar.gz archives or self-extracting archives, do _not_ choose the RPM!)
Please note that Debian recommends the use of openjdk-6-jdk/openjdk-6-jre
or openjdk-7-jdk/openjdk-7-jre. java-package will install non-free packages.
Next download the appropriate .bin
We want the Linux (self-extracting file) , pick the one for your system there is a 32bit and 64bit.Download
Go to http://java.com and click on the Download button
There are two types of installation packages.
Linux self extracting binary file
This file can be used to install Java in a location chosen by the user and can be installed by anyone (not only root users). As long as you are not root user, it cannot displace the system version of the Java platform suppled by Linux.
Linux RPM package
Linux RPM (Redhat Package Manager) uses RPM to install Java. In order to use this method, you need to have RPM available on your system. Otherwise use the other option.
I run 32bit so I downloaded jre-6u31-linux-i586.bin.
cd to the directory where you downloaded it to.
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cd /home/craig/Downloads/java/
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fakeroot make-jpkg <java-binary-package-name>.bin
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dpkg -i oracle-j2re1.6_1.6.0+update31_i386.deb
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update-alternatives --config java
update-alternatives --config javac
update-alternatives --config javaws
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cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
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ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/j2re1.6-oracle/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
it should show something like:
You can also check in a terminal to make sure the correct Java is being used:Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_31
File: /usr/lib/jvm/j2re1.6-oracle/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
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$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_31"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_31-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 20.6-b01, mixed mode, sharing)
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# update-java-alternatives --list
j2re1.6-oracle 314 /usr/lib/jvm/j2re1.6-oracle
java-1.6.0-openjdk-i386 1061 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-i386
Basically 6 steps
1) Install java-package and fakeroot
2) download from Oracle
3) run make-jpkg
4) Install with dpkg
5) Update java-alternatives
6) symlink browser plugin
For more info see:
How to Install Sun Java on Debian
Java - Debian Wiki
Java/Sun - Debian Wiki
JavaPackage - Debian Wiki
How do I download and install Java for my Linux computer? -Oracle guide
If you run Ubuntu, Mint or other Ubuntu derivatives see:
Oracle (Sun) Java JRE for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian
Java - Community Ubuntu Documentation
Oracle Java7 , same steps as java 6 above
Download either the 32bit or 64bit tar.gz from:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... 91157.html
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fakeroot make-jpkg /home/craig/Downloads/java/jre-7u4-linux-i586.tar.gz
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dpkg -i oracle-j2re1.7_1.7.0+update4_i386.deb
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update-alternatives --config java
update-alternatives --config javac
update-alternatives --config javaws
symlink the plugin : as root
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cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
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ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/j2re1.7-oracle/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
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$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_04"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_04-b20)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 23.0-b21, mixed mode)
Version 1.7 (a.k.a Java 7)
As of April 27, 2012 the latest version of Java 7 is Update 4.
According to Oracle: "This release includes bug fixes and performance improvements, including a new JVM, Mac OS X support ... and more!" No security patches.


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Federal Reserve officials had a secret video conference call in early March and reached a general consensus that the 6.5% unemployment rate threshold for the first rate hike was outdated, the central bank said Wednesday.
A summary of the video conference was included in the minutes of the Fed's March 18-19 meeting released by the Fed.
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• Economist Alan Krueger: They'll be left behind
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The central bankers were clearly worried that changing the forward guidance would impact markets.
They noted that, going into the video conference, the central bank and the markets were on the same page about the outlook for short-term interest rates.
The minutes of the March 18-19 meeting also reveal that there was concern that the markets would read too much into the "dot plot," which showed an upward shift in the Fed's expectations for short-term rates. The so-called dot plot reflects where each Fed official expects interest rates.
The "dot plot" showed the Fed's median forecast of the fed funds rate rose by a quarter of one percentage point to 1% for 2015 and by a half a percentage point to 2.25% by the end of 2016, according to Barclays.
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen specifically said in a press conference afterwards not to pay attention to it.
She stressed in their statement that the guidance shift did not indicate any change in the Fed's policy intentions.
Officials also spelled out in much greater detail the headwinds that would keep short-term rates low even after the first rate hike. These headwinds included higher precautionary savings by U.S. consumers, higher levels of savings around the globe, demographics and credit restraints.
Stocks SPX, -0.12% jumped after the minutes were released, possibly on the dovish emphasis over the dot plot. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 158 points to 16,414.
"There is nothing hawkish in here," said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
After the meeting, the Fed policy committee statement took out any reference to an unemployment rate of 6.5% as a possible threshold to consider raising short term rates. Instead, the Fed said it will "take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial developments" before deciding to raise short-term rates.
Markets had reacted negatively to the Fed statement when it was released. Traders were concerned about the dot plot and Yellen's suggestion that the Fed would keep short-term rates near zero six months after the end of its bond-purchase program.
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Hi guys. Yes, I'm still working on the mod, it's a long and painstaking job because I'm doing it alone. I have already done quite a lot, about 70%. All the most difficult is behind, it remains to make maps and fix some problems with the game engine.
This video shows the quality of effects and hits, the movement of tanks, the quality of textures\shaders which spent more than 1000 hours modifying them many times. By passing all this, you can watch as the tanks cause damage, non-penetration or ricochet from the ground, as well as from the tanks will fall off the armor as during the battle what is called active armor, and after their destruction in different directions. Tanks will burn, smoke and damage effects. I modified their driving on smooth and flat areas of land. I also make some new beautiful maps with incredibly beautiful skyboxes.
Everything else will show in the next video
The mod will be released this year and will change parts of the game, as it changes a lot of standard things. Since the developers do not give the source code, I will make the most of what can be done from this engine.I postponed the date many times, because there were big problems at each stage of development, we have to constantly do everything in a roundabout way. Please forgive me, I try to do everything in my power because I am not a coder and have no experience in writing code. How do I do the mod? Better not ask =D. I complement the onslaught mode in the best tradition of Ballistic Weapon and it will be the latest and coolest mod for Onslaught. Good luck.
See the video and say that is not Unreal3 or TES2004!
Gameplay video of CrateDM. Shows off how you look like in game.
Screenshots from the battlefield on the map ONS-DK-Dawn. 1st test effects and graphics, and mechanics tanks.
The next update will be even more tanks, as well as the old will be replaced by higher quality.
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UT2004 Reshade ReShade 18.104.22.1683 by crosire Easy Install. Does not overwrite any files. UPDATE 07.01.2019 Please, let me know if it works ;)
A fan patch for KFMod that include cut content, improvements as well as some bug fixes.
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Does anyone know if is there a simple melee weapon mutator, or ucl file that can be used with other weapon mutators?
Also, how do I make a ucl file for weapons and vehicles?
Does anyone know how to Modify XGame.u, because I want to Replace all the UT2004 Guns in the Campaign with the ones from Unreal Tournament: 2341 (which Adds and Replaces the UT2004 Weapons with HD UT99 Weapons).
I Know this is possible because someone did it for Ballistic Weapons, and I want to know how its done.
I believe you might need to use UDE or notepad ++ and also uncompile it. Though I can't help you more than that because I don't know, but I least I could give you the tips I think that would work ...
Are there any Modding Tutorials for UT2004?
Because I want to make a Half-Life Weapon Pack for it.
And I also want to know how to make Player Models.
I can give you certain cluez for it.
First you should install UDE
This is for programming purposes.
So you can try using current UT models as placeholders for your weapons.
Then for modeling and animating you need to use either blender, 3ds max or maya, depending of your possibilities and likings.
For texturing most photo editors might work as long as you use appropriate formats for the textures.
Making weapons with hands might be easier to start because making players requires you to have a rig that corresponds to the ones of UT2004 and work seamlessly without looking wrong.
Hey guys !
I am a UT fan through & through and i have played this game since UT 2003 that soon was followed by UT2004 that i think is the best . Of course i started with UT 99 long ago and i got UT3 as well
I am a lot into weapon mutators and i played with many but i would like to know if there exist more than those i know about for UT2004
The weapon mutators i played with are : Annihilation Arsenal , Remote Strike , XMP , Evil Weapons , Rebalanced Weapons , Ballistics , Half Life weapons , Arkon 2004 , Unreal4Ever , The Ripjack , Elite Machines X , Enhanced Weapons , KBR weapons and UT3 weapons and vehicles
Are there more weapon mutators than these ? Outside Chaos Unreal , Gunreal of course because i have them too . Any chance to have Quake/Quake III Arena , Star Trek Elite Force I/II or other weapons one day ?
I used to remember years ago a weapon mod called X Weapons or Weapons X and another one i forgot the name where every vanilla weapon could shoot 2 or 3 projectiles with switchable ammo to use and such but i could not find them anymore in the last years
All sources i searched led me to the well known weapons i use so i hope somebody knows a place i don't know
Since I can help you
EF weapons doesn't exist as a mod for UT, I never found any. the best you can find is something close as a phaser like weapon, but nothing from these games
For quake 3 weapons only UT 99 have something like that, even if it's not an accurate depiction of Quake 3 you can find something close to that.
I have to say for the lase mod I don't know much about it.
I mean many weapon mods have multiple ammo types for one or two weapons even the Unreal II port.
In a way if people wants an elite force weapons pack, I think we need a few people and a lot of time.
Thanks for answering
Any chance that these Moddb.com will be ported to UT2004 ? They are amazing , they are even more better quality than Ballistics for UT2004
Ah sure . It was just a suggestion , nothing else
I think virtually all weapons from all games out there could be brought in Unreal Tournament 2004
What i asked however is that some sites holding mods for this game are closed like L4Y and SkinCity and some stuff that was present years ago ( perhaps more than 5 years ago back or so ) are not present in the sites holding things for UT2004 . I hope everything was backed up but i got no idea if such a site still having all of them exists
I don't think Nali weapons will be ported, the modder who made them is on other projects.
Virtually, yes, but you need to get the manpower which is the harded thing to get these days.
Even projects towards who I work to a certain degree advance very slowly now.
I unfortunately think about L4Y not everything was backed up, because while I could find most of the stuff not everything was backed up
For skincity you might get some stuff there
Everything that beyond unreal used to host is here
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The most common question we get asked is "what's the best car for a budding enthusiast?" Well, Jalopnik readers know just the right cars to buy.
Welcome back to Answers of the Day — our daily Jalopnik feature where we take the best ten responses from the previous day's Question of the Day and shine it up to show off. It's by you and for you, the Jalopnik readers. Enjoy!
Before we go into specifics, let us say that when you're shopping for a car, pick something that you really love. That's the only thing that will keep you from giving up every time the exhaust falls off (again!) on a bumpy road, or whatever other problem sidelines the car a thousand times. Obviously some cars are better than others, but taste is a personal question. Just because you like '60s American land yachts or '70s Citroëns more than Honda S2000s doesn't make you less of an enthusiast.
We've put together a list that covers all the different bases for the car enthusiasts, and we've picked cars that are affordable, easy to find, easy to get parts for, and reasonably easy to work on yourself.
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10.) Fox Mustang
The Tuner Special: Mustangs from the '80s are pretty cheap these days and the aftermarket is huge. These Fords (along with Camaros and Firebirds) are the best bang-for-your-buck speed machines out there.
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9.) GM B-Body
The Land Yacht: Not everyone wants a corner carver. If you're going to just ingest highway miles, you want three things: a full frame, a V8, and an American badge up front. We'd go with a '90s Caprice, Roadmaster, Custom Cruiser, or Impala SS. If you find a good Ford Crown Vic, go for it, too.
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8.) Chevy S-10
The Pickup: Nobody makes compact pickups anymore, but the old ones are amazing. They're dirt cheap, reliable, and you can turn them into just about anything. We've seen them set up for drag racing, road racing, drifting, off roading, parts hauling, and lowriding. Our favorite is the Chevy S-10, but Toyotas, Nissans and Ford Rangers are good buys.
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7.) Vintage Mustang
The Classic: What makes the '60s Mustang great isn't that it's simple, gorgeous and still reasonably priced. It's that no matter what problem you have, a thousand people have already fixed it. The support network is gargantuan.
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6.) Mazda 2
The New Car: Want something with a warranty that's fun to drive? Go for the little Mazda. It's not as spacious as a Fit or a Hyundai, but it's a gem behind the wheel.
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5.) 1990s Civic
The Fun Commuter: If you know you only have money/space for one car, you need a perfect all-rounder that doesn't break all the time. Enter the 1990s Civic. Just remember our ten tips to keep it from getting stolen.
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4.) Baja Bug
The Off-Roader: You don't need a Jeep or a trophy truck to have fun in the dirt, the dunes, or the mud. A tuned VW Beetle will do just fine, and it's easier to work on than anything else on this list.
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3.) S-Chassis Nissan
The Drifter: Want to go sideways? The obvious choice is Nissan's RWD sport coupes from the '90s. Since everyone else is doing it, you can find them easily, parts are abundant, and anyone can help you work on them.
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The Euro: E30 BMWs are still the cheapest way to get a modern classic car. They handle, the straight six is a peach (the 4-cylinder is nothing to write home about), and you can fix them yourself when they break. Their successor, the E36, are great too, but pricier.
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1.) Mazda Miata
The Sports Car: If you've young and you're buying a car, why not get one that's light and open, and fun to drive? Get a sports car. The best of all is the MX-5/Miata and there's just no arguing about it.
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A wedding dance to a Michael Jackson song isn't really a new thing. There are countless videos of newlywed couples dancing to "Thriller" — but to "Smooth Criminal"? That's what Jeff Loehrke did at his wedding reception, and it was awesome.
Loehrke starts out solo, but is then joined by more people from the wedding party, who later clear the floor during the bridge for Jeff's wife to get funky. Watch the cuteness below.
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Hockey pucks and Dodger Dogs, anyone?
The NHL is working to stage an outdoor game between the Kings and the Ducks next season at Dodger Stadium, a Kings spokesman confirmed Sunday. The game would be played on a January night in order to ensure the best possible ice conditions on the NHL's portable rink.
"It's still in the planning stages and nothing is certain, but there is an aggressive plan to make it happen," said Mike Altieri, Kings vice president of communications and broadcasting, in an email. Altieri declined further comment.
Said Tim Ryan, Ducks executive vice president and chief operating officer: "There is nothing confirmed, but we would certainly have interest in being in the game." The NHL has held outdoor games for many years, but all but one of them have been contested in cold-weather cities like Boston, Chicago and Edmonton.
Playing a game in downtown Los Angeles, even in winter, would present unique challenges, however.
In fact, the Kings played outdoors one other time, facing the New York Rangers on a make-shift rink set up in the parking lot of a Las Vegas hotel in 1991. The ice conditions were poor because of high temperatures and there was a mid-game bug infestation, as well.
The league announced Sunday an outdoor game between the Detroit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs would be played next season at Michigan Stadium on the University of Michigan campus. Other outdoor games, including one at Dodger Stadium, reportedly are in the works, too.
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