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WASHINGTON, DC — The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) has launched moveDC, a collaborative planning effort to develop a Multimodal Long Range Transportation Plan for the District of Columbia. moveDC will create a bold, implementation-focused transportation plan for the District by bringing together transit, rail, vehicular, bicycle, pedestrian and freight recommendations to create a seamless District-wide transportation system. The plan will guide investments in the District's transportation system for the current and next generation of residents, workers, and visitors.
DDOT understands that the transportation system needs to adapt to accommodate people's changing needs and the District's long-term goals. The plan will create additional opportunities for people to have reliable and convenient transportation choices by identifying transportation priorities as the District grows and evolves. Recognizing that transportation funding will continue to be a challenge, moveDC will identify ways to efficiently develop, operate and maintain the District's transportation system while improving environmental quality—social and natural—to help advance the District's sustainability initiatives.
"One of the central goals of my One City Action Plan is to improve the quality of life for all District residents, and that includes their ability to get around our wonderful city," said Mayor Vincent C. Gray. "We are committed to investing in our transportation future to create a more livable and sustainable community. It's time to get D.C. moving!"
The District has grown by over 25,000 residents in the last few years, and now has a population larger than two states. The daytime population of DC swells each day to more than 1.2 million people. Given the considerable growth and continued strong economy of the District, DDOT is vested in ensuring that the transportation system remains efficient in moving people and goods. DDOT is committed to creating a safe, integrated system of transportation choices.
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The Arboretum's newest bird residents, five adorable chicks, huddled together in a sunny corner, unsure about their spacious new home in the brand new chicken coop in the Garden for All Seasons. But it did't take long before the four-to-six-weeks old chicks were exploring their new digs and chirping with pleasure. Come and watch them grow. By July, the chicks will be old enough to produce eggs, according to Jill Morganelli, horticulture supervisor. Each chick is a distinctive color and of a different variety: Plymouth Barred Rock, Araucana, Rhode Island Red, Brahma and Buff Orpington. The birds, their food, feeders and bedding were donated by Faz and Jeanne Alamdari, owners of Wes's Pets & Feed in El Monte. The new chicken coop was donated by Mike Scott of Eagle Rock Backyard Farms.
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Thanks so much Simon, Deb and Parker!!! Your encouragement is much appreciated, we're fairly new to 1:6 scale and feedback from experienced doll lovers is very important right now. Once again, I have to say how glad I am to have found this community - you are the best!
Wow! how awesome. I just love the details. Yummy!
That bread is unbelievable. They look like a couple of nice, crusty outside, soft as a cloud inside and warm from the oven dinner rolls, just waiting for a slathering of creamy butter. If you hadn't told us that these were miniatures, I'd be drooling all over my keyboard.
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With summer looking like it's in full bloom here in the North Country its time to crank it up at the Kat with lots of great music and a big going away party for bartender extraordinaire Joel Cossette. This weekend we're opening the garden for dining plus here's what's on tap for May:
Saturday May 19th Music by Ryan St. Onge and "Those Guys" 8:30-close – first time at the Wildcat!!!
Tuesday May 22nd Hoot Night with Guest Host Rod McKenzie…he's back!!!!!
Saturday May 26th Welcome Back to The White Mountain Boys
Tuesday May 29th Joel Cossette Going Away Party – Any one wearing a mini skirt gets a free drink! Even Joel!
For those of you looking for a great lodging value give us a call about our $50 and Free and Special for the Month of May. Stay with us any night in May (double occupancy only, excluding the Igloo) and spend $50 or more on food and drink and your room is free. A $50 room deposit is required with a valid credit card, but simply present your bill from the night before and if its over $50 your room is free!!!!! Stay one night, two nights, as long as you like!
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As Hollywood rolled out the red carpet for the 85 Academy Awards -- up with master of ceremonies Seth MacFarlane to find out what's in store.
It's me I just dressed up like you -- but it chance he teaches and get -- That's plans to adjust his family I sense of humor this black tie is there.
There's an element of the satirical.
-- Family -- that -- -- place here but I think it has to be tempered with something a little bit.
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He -- it would take a pretty penny to get one of his regulars to make a cameo.
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Hosting the Oscars have to be animated frame by frame as they always -- it would be a multi million dollar expense tonight just don't work.
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This week I got something new. I got a new bed. A lady at the store helped me pick it out. as soon as i steped in, I knew I would find the just right bed for me. In the store there were only a few man in black coats and two ladys at the front desk. one of the ladys had on a blue suit with a purple top. the other one had a black shirt and a blue jean. when i walked to the front desk the one with the black shirt asked if i needed any help. I said yes and we waled over to the west side of the building. As we walked i peeked in to the other rooms. After 1 hour of looking at beds. i found the best one. i left and now the bed is in my house. The End
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Rasheed Armahd Jones, 37, is charged with indecent exposure.
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Hi Midge, As a descendant of Roger Williams, I can't wait until you write that post or series of posts. Your plans for 2013 look great!
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Midge - I'm watching the Roger Williams Connection Project with keen interest. We could be cousins-again.
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New lighting technologies are currently bringing about profound changes in the domain of artificial lighting. This development is the subject of the Vitra Design Museum's exhibition »Lightopia«. It is the first comprehensive showcase on the topic of lighting design, featuring examples from the realms of art, design, architecture and many other disciplines. Read more
Shiro Kuramata (1934 – 1991), one of the most important Japanese designers of the twentieth century, combined the traditional aesthetic of his native culture with the western design principles of Postmodernism. His works are made of industrial materials such as expanded metal mesh, glass and acrylic, bear poetic names like »How High the Moon« and »Miss Blanche« and seem to defy gravity. Read more
Rogier van der Heide, head of design at Philips Lighting, is one of today's most prominent lighting designers.He has collaborated with Rem Koolhaas, Ben van Berkel, Disney Industries and the hip hop band Black Eyed Peas, for whom he created interactive stage costumes. On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition »Lightopia« van der Heide talked about his projects, the narrative magic of light and the future of lighting design. Video
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Alongside the exhibition »Lightopia« (28.09.2013 – 16.03.2014), the Vitra Design Museum is organising a special event series to complement its regular programme. Light will be the central focus of numerous events and installations at cooperating institutions such as the House of Electronic Arts in Basel, La Filature Mulhouse and the Literaturhaus Basel. More


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Fellowship: | Stanford University School of Medicine CA (1992) |
Internship: | Stanford University School of Medicine CA (1988) |
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My clinical interests are in the areas of Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring (IOM), clinical neurophysiology, electromyopgraphy and in the use of botulinum toxins in the treatment of neurologic disorders. Our IOM groups research is in the development of new and innovative techniques for monitoring the nervous system during surgical and endovascular procedures and how these alter surgical management and patient outcomes. I am also active in formulating national IOM practice guidelines.
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Most Expensive Zip Codes: 20815, Estate of the Day
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For the next couple of weeks we will be checking out some homes in the most expensive zip codes in the United States, up today, 20815. This zip code is in Chevy Chase, Maryland has a median price of $2,020,000 and an appreciation rate of 253% since 1990. This residential Maryland suburb offers easy access to Washington D.C. and is home to a variety of traditional homes.
Today's home, Wirelawn was first purchased from the Chevy Chase Land Company in 1905. It's full of political history, Harry Truman's presidential inaugural ball was held here and the home, which is now a private residence, once served as an embassy. The ten-bedoom home has a grand foyer, formal living room, formal dining room, music room (with a beautiful Egyptian-themed mural), family room and ballroom. The first floor is also home to the sunroom, kitchen, butler's pantry and mudroom. The upper levels are home to the bedrooms including the master suite with his and hers baths and dressing area, bedroom suites with sitting rooms, and staff quarters. There is also a temperature-controlled wine cellar and a gentleman's study. The 1.36 acre property includes a covered veranda off the ballroom, large heated pool and spa, three-car garage, gazebo and pool house, tented terrace and deck, a circular drive, motor court and a lawn large enough to accommodate football and soccer games, or a tennis court. This home is listed at $6.9 million.


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Registration Through Site Engagement
I think that lowering the barrier to user registration is important for sites that are striving to build a social community to look at. I been mulling over how the the registration process can be streamlined to its essential components while still capturing necessary end user data and keeping a reasonable barrier up against spammer registrations. Some of my first thoughts about this are captured in this post.
I loath to admit it but I think OAuth solutions like Facebook and Twitter really serve a site well for simplifying new user registration. While there are privacy concerns around a third party authentication approach, the reality is that Facebook et al. streamline account creation in a positive way for end users- the UI is consistent, management is centralized, and there is sense of brand continuity. Though I object to letting Facebook authenticate my sessions it's clear that most people don't or perhaps don't understand the ramifications. OpenID is another good remote authentication system option though the adoption rate has never been good and it pains me that there isn't an OpenID provider in core- though there is one in contrib.
With or without third party authentication systems I think Drupal's standard user registration system needs simplification. As I noted before, Login Tobbogan is a significant improvement over stock Drupal as it can reduce the number of steps it takes to get a new user participating on the site- the data required is a user name, email address, and password, and the new user has an account with a non-authenticated role- until they confirm their account with an email response.
There are two items here that I want to explore further:
- how to further reduce the amount of data collected
- how to give the appearance that a user can interact with site features regardless if they are a registered user
On this first point, I'm assuming that providing data is a barrier to user participation- the more you require from an end user the less likely they are to provide it and thus participate. On the second, I'm assuming that users will be more willing to enter text in a comment box rather than click a "login to comment" link. I recognize that both of these are significant assumptions. I should also note that this is not a "one-size-fits-all" argument- there are many instances where reducing barriers to participation is not valuable or useful goal for a site.
Drupal's standard behavior for commenting is to provide information to the end user to let them know if they can or can't- and if they can't that they should register. So in this case, in order to participate, a user has to have the desire, recognize that to do so they need to register, then register, then actually comment. An alternate way to do this would be to let the user comment and then prompt them for their information after they've finished- this would let them participate and hopefully make them feel excited enough that they'd want to. Though this too risks losing a user after they've actually participated- arguably worse.
I'm interested in identifying features that anonymous users can "see" but can't engage without user accounts. Instead of focusing on the negative aspect- login to do something- allow the engagement activity itself to trigger the registration. So practically what this means is get rid of "Login or register to post comments" and show the comment form. Drupal allows for comment moderation quite simply so let it do so. But this isn't actually that much of a step forward. How can we translate the actual act of commenting to constitute grounds for registration?
I took the easy way out and simply am launching a modal registration window when you click on the comment form. I assume that if you click on the comment box you want to comment and that if the amount of data collected is reduced the barrier to registration is low- and in this case, it's simply an email address and a Captcha.
I'm still using a Captcha on the registration as this is an experiment on my part. I don't think it's actually needed- I'm not seeing any spam registrations, though I am getting comments from anonymous users (spammers) in my moderation queue because the modal window doesn't actually block a user from submitting the comment, it just tries to get you to register. Login Toboggan will actually prune these out after a specified amount of time as well if it is configured to.
Obviously the modal is lacking some context- why are you being asked to provide your email? What is the site going to do with it? It would also be nice to do some clever things with ajax and iframes to handle navigation between the user forms and the content page more gracefully.
Further, showing the modal on click is breaking a different kind of expectation of how page elements work. Perhaps showing a email text box when the user tries to submit form would be clearer, though I like the drama of the modal telling the user that they are going to become an official member of the site.
Commenting is just one place where this can be done- rating, flagging, subscribing, and any other number of types of activities could have similar behavior for an anonymous user. Some of these may require more tweaking than comments as they don't really have a "moderation" state but I don't think that is a blocker for showing people that they can participate on a site regardless of their account status.
Now With More Register
In the interest of creating a faster registration process based off of this post, here's some prototyped code that changes the user/register form into an email form and allows for immediate user creation. Actually this is just used right on top of Login Toboggan and assumes that the setting for register immediately is on. This is a quick (and hopefully simply and somewhat "secure") way to implement this functionality. First alter the registration form to use the users email address.
Once Again, Configuration Matters- or Don't Assume APC is Doing You Favors
When people talk about performance and Drupal it is rare to not hear APC get mentioned. It is probably the must have performance solution for Drupal. Which makes sense- it's easy to install, effectively reduces the time it takes to load all of the .module, .php, and .inc files, and is usually enable and forget. Basically an easy win.
And yet as I'm about to point out, every article you will ever read about performance should tell you that you need to analyze what you're doing before you assume you've made things better.
KCachegrind Redux
There are a number of tools that are quite wonderful for investigating PHP's call stack. I am rather fond of KCachegrind (which I suppose makes me a bit nostaglic). Having regretfully followed Apple's upgrade path I have found myself without KCachegrind. The instructions that I wrote previously for installing KCachegrind on OSX no longer work because Fink's KDE packages are unfortunately not ready for 10.7+.
Happily there is a fairly painless way to work around this. This post is where I started from. Basically it eshews using KDE and instead just installs the QT libraries to run KCachegrind. This makes the process much less time consuming and seemingly less prone to dependency issues. I had to change a few things so I've repeated the steps here, however credit goes to Paul Kehrer for the direction.
- Download QT and install it. I used 5.0 beta version and seems to work fine.
- Install Graphviz. I used fink -b install graphviz
- Download KCachegrind from: http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/html/Download.html
- Unpack KCachegrind and navigate into the directory and into qcachegrind. I used qmake-4.8 -spec macx-g++; make
- open qcachegrind.app should open up the application. You can move it to your Applications directory if you want.
- I modified my xdebug settings in php.ini to use: xdebug.profiler_output_name = callgrind.%R.%t This lets KCachegrind open the grind files without having to select the "All Files (*)" option. There is a patch metioned here: https://gist.github.com/1029580 that lets KCachegrind open any file type though I think this has actually been applied to current releases. Plus, if you change the output file name I think this is somewhat moot.
Faster Registration?
How do you reduce the barrier to becoming an authenticated user in Drupal? There are a few goto solutions: Email Regiatration, Login Toboggan, captcha on the user registration form, etc. These are effective and well tested solutions that allow new users to register and reduce the threat of bot registrations. Single signons with Facebook or Twitter are also viable options and arguably reduce the barrier with the lowest risk. Unfortunately they require third party account which doesn't meet the need for a user who wants an account only on your site.
In my mind Login Toboggan offers an interesting solution to this issue by creating a specific role for a user that can be created and logged in but not given full rights until they confirm their registration. Where it doesn't lower the barrier is that it still requires creating a username and password during account creation.
The thought experiment here is how much of the registration form can we strip away to get a user created without out overly risking bot registrations. Since email addresses are for the most part unique, is it possible to use only an email address to create an account without a username or password? The following is a flow chart that this kind of registration might use with a nod to Email Registration module. Proto code forthcoming.
iOS and Fixed Backgrounds
I sized the background images for this blog based on view port size. There are sized versions for each breakpoint in order to reduce page load size- the 480x320 size saves more than 80k for the intial page load compared to the desktop version. I'm building the page this way with the smallest version of the image as the default and then selecting what is an "appropriate" size based on media queries. Each viewport size is a crop from the same background image so even when resizing the browser you aren't thrown too far off from the orginal perspective of the image. I used CSS to fix these backgrounds- this prevents the background image from scrolling which means that the image can be cropped to standard viewport sizes keeping file size lower.
Considering Drupal's Archiver Interface
One of the annoying things about using Tar is that unless you remember -C the files that you are archiving include their full path. This means that when you go to extract the files you get the full directory tree. Though there are clearly good reasons for this, when you're just trying to put together a few files to send out this is probably not behavior that you want.
Poking at Drupal's ArchiverInterface it I ran into this problem. I want to be able to build arbitrary archives of single files at the root of the archive that can be used elsewhere without having to munge file paths at a later date. Using both types of archiving (Tar and Zip) that are implemented in core the files in my archives have their full paths. Looking at the code this seems to be borne out.


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Ma Bell and other large phone companies are pulling out of the local phone service market (and the DSL market too) following recent FCC rulings and the resulting higher prices for network access from the Bells. But help is on the way. The Meta Group says WiMax will give competing companies a viable path to offer voice and broadband services beginning in 2006. Capital costs per customer will be about $240 then, and drop to about $80 in 2008.
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She's the wife of jets owner woody Johnson & Johnson is ought to -- in her own right.
She's teamed up the designer Georgina Chapman to make sure female football fans can look and party their best.
Either at the game or wed there at home to joining us now prices and Johnson hey great to have you here good morning thank you for having -- -- introduce us to football -- well she's.
She's been wearing while watching the game yes well the last seniors and -- -- has really.
Provide -- certain pieces for women but the platform is really involved Wear trendy pieces.
And that's organizations today that -- with almost anything in your closet fantastic let's give us examples but hey it was your first example here well the -- -- I'm just gonna get to this shirt about a year ago like partnered with Georgina Chapman of the marquis is a brand she's designer and she came up with an unprecedented.
Compilation -- sports it's couture top.
Which is what I'm wearing beautiful I love football delaying its made out of beautiful Jersey immaterial.
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And they're still -- and as you see she did the jets logo that way.
She did it in a black and white -- because this is something you Wear to dinner and that is one piece that I thought we were missing and our product line -- something elegant chic.
To -- out for dinner for fancy and I pointed my husband many times that this is a great new piece limited edition -- not yet achieved that okay with just another example that the models out there so it's going to the first click here we have -- -- showing us her giants pride.
Wearing her 47 ran off campus T -- -- -- pairs that with are really comfortable reds used to kind of go.
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Becoming world champion in 2003: Tommi Makinen sat and waited at the end of Margam Park, counting the minutes. The sister Subaru arrived, powered across the line by the new world champion. Petter Solberg won his second Rally GB on the trot, but more importantly he won his first drivers' title (pictured). Makinen jumped from the car and Solberg jumped on the Finn, his team-mate, friend, mentor and now fellow world champion.
Claiming first win in Great Britain 2002: Having been on the podium five times, Solberg felt ready for his first win - and it came in a real purple patch at the end of 2002. He arrived in Wales having finished third in Finland, Sanremo and Australia. In the end the race through the Welsh woods was a straight battle between him and Ford's Markko Martin - both seen as the WRC's next generation. Solberg shone through to take win number one.
Recovering from shakedown smash to win in Corsica 2003: When Petter Solberg put his Subaru Impreza WRC off the road at shakedown for the 2003 Tour de Corse, his event was over. Surely. It had to be. The Prodrive-built car had come off second best in a significant scrap with a telegraph pole and the start was a very, very long way away - even though it was actually the next day. Solberg started, slowly. Then he got faster and faster, he managed the rain better and better and found himself at the front. He couldn't could he? He certainly could. And he did. The dream came true.
Beating Loeb in Britain 2004: Not many people beat Sebastien Loeb in a straight fight to the finish, but Solberg did in 2004. He hammered his Subaru down the hill in Margam Park in one of the most breath-taking drives to victory on Britain's round of the WRC ever. He richly deserved a nail-biting win against the man who would take his title - and keep it for the next eight years.
From a video to the big time, September 1998: Having sent Malcolm Wilson a video of his recent rallying exploits, Petter Solberg is summoned to M-Sport to go through some tests in the gym and on the stage. He is offered a testing contract with some rallies attached by the Ford World Rally Team soon after. Solberg's journey has begun.
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(Radar Recordings/Gilead Media, CD/vinyl)
Since the release of their debut EP in 2001, Burlington's Cancer Conspiracy [1] have attracted more than their fair share of made-up, obscure labels. Post-rock? Yeah. Math-rock? Why not? Prog-rock? Maybe a little. Post-prog? I mean, come on. Whatever you call it, the band's latest and, sadly, final offering is an album so devoid of pretense it almost has to seem pretentious. Titled simply Ω, it comes in a stark white album cover (available in black on vinyl) with lower-case Roman numerals as song titles. Contrary to the unadorned cover, the disc contains a sound so lush it is at once indescribable and yet intimately familiar.
The first song, "i," is an ethereal, minimal intro track which, for me, is pretty much a write-off. But "ii" immediately evokes the prog spirit of Dream Theater with haunting guitars that echo through the tune's meandering construct. Here the band avoids the prototypical "loud-soft-loud" format embraced by post-rock. Instead, guitar riffs layer upon each other, progressively looping back and forth.
"iv" displays ambient guitar by Daryl Rabidoux that yields to Greg Beadle's precision drum work. The man is a machine. "vi" demonstrates another facet of the band's repertoire, featuring droning keys — also courtesy of Beadle — and wailing guitars in a cacophonous piece that made me feel like a towel tossed around in the dryer.
"vii" is the standout in this fine collection. The song features harmonious yet discordant soundscapes not unlike those of Explosions in the Sky, as well as changeups and variations telling a musical narrative reminiscent of Tortoise's T.N.T.
Fronted by guitarist Rabidoux, The Cancer Conspiracy's core trio is joined on the disc by Carrigan's Zack Martin and Ken Johnston as well as engineering guru Matt Squire. The band layers sound upon sound, creating an auditory texture that ties diverse influences together into an album that could easily be a post-prog masterpiece. Now they even have me saying "post-prog."
The Cancer Conspiracy are certainly post-something. Maybe post-everything. They represent a growing minority of musicians and music lovers intent on learning from the mistakes of the past and building on its artistic successes. This album, presented as a singular, cohesive concept, is easy to talk about but difficult to dissect.
Ω might not be for everyone. Taking on "post" anything demands that the listener abandon many of music's more accessible elements — just try bobbing your head at a Trans Am show. But maybe some things are meant to be appreciated for intrinsic value alone. Or maybe that's just a pretentious way of saying, "This is good, but I can't figure out why the fuck I like it."
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Washington Journal for Tuesday, October 9 (right-click to copy direct link)
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On the Phone: Colleen McCain Nelson, Wall Street Journal, Political Reporter
Topic: The Wall Street Journal's interactive "State of the Race" electoral scoreboard map, which indicates which states Pres. Obama and Mitt Romney are ahead in – either by solid or lean margins -- along with the latest electoral college count based on that tally. The map includes toss-up states. The latest tally has Pres. Obama at 251 electoral votes and Gov. Romney with 181. 270 electoral votes are needed to win.
Susan Glasser, Foreign Policy, Editor in Chief @FP_Magazine
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Lisa Mascaro, L.A. Times/Tribune Newspapers, Congressional Reporter @LisaMascaroinDC
Topic: Recent efforts by eight Senators – four Democrats and four Republicans – to act on the "fiscal cliff" that is set to occur at the end of this year when the Bush-era tax cuts expire, and $109B in automatic across-the-board spending cuts are to take effect.
Bruce Morrison, Bipartisan Policy Center, Housing Commission Member
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on 06-04-2012 10:21 PM
After downloading the latest skyrim 2.04 update my console now freezes when ever I try and go in water please help.
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on 06-04-2012 10:30 PM
From the Bethesda forums.
We've seen reports of users having issues with the game freezing up when entering water. If you're having this issue, head to the PlayStation XMB menu. From there go to Game>Game Data Utility. Delete the game data and title updates for Skyrim.
Note: Game Data is not the same as your game saves. As long as you're not deleting anything from the game saves folder, you'll still have your saves.
Once you restart Skyrim, you'll need to wait for the 1.5 title update to reinstall, as well as the mandatory game data install.
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on 06-04-2012 11:08 PM
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Also, If it happens again, update until you get to the 1.5 update and then cancel. then you'll be able to continue playing but will be unable to sign into PSN while doing so. (Just as Skyrim updates are somewhat tempermental)
Bethesda are actually recommending a fresh install of both patch and mandatory install file like the previous update which i did on 1.04(2.03) which resulted in a decent overall game performance with my game.
on 06-04-2012 11:09 PM
I cant download the 1.5 update as I only have the option of downloading the 2.04 update nothing else and if I don't down load it cant play it at all because the game tells me the all the saves I have are now from a newer version of skyrim and to re-download the 2.04 update.
on 06-04-2012 11:23 PM
RideR-head wrote:I cant download the 1.5 update as I only have the option of downloading the 2.04 update nothing else and if I don't down load it cant play it at all because the game tells me the all the saves I have are now from a newer version of skyrim and to re-download the 2.04 update.
1.05 is the 2.04 update it's just the way Bethesda number them for different countries 1.05 is the universal number for all platforms PC,360 and PS3 and 2.04 is the number for european and PAL region PSN users it's still the same patch as 1.05.
on 06-04-2012 11:26 PM
Yes removing both the updates and game data and reinstalling it all (2.04) has worked thanx guys
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Aug 14, 2012
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A new Rasmussen poll out today with some good news for the Romney campaign.
The latest survey from the conservative blaming Rasmussen Reports shows 50% of likely voters now holding favorable view.
All of vice presidential -- all -- just yesterday.
A USA today Gallup poll suggests that Americans felt lukewarm toward Ryan.
The survey finding 42% of Americans boy Brian candidacy was welfare or or in the way of -- choice excellent -- pretty good 39%.
Well you know safely say look -- -- I want to reevaluate if -- opinions.
It's -- four.
About Democrats attacking the newest addition to the Republican ticket as expected and conservative.
The Obama campaign has -- -- -- it.
But the national liberal media happen.
Notice that the at least -- the enthusiasm.
Or emphasis that many Democrats have actually praised congressman Ryan.
In the past.
Now listen to these comments last year from Erskine Bowles whose president Clinton's chief of staff and the democratic -- share.
Of the president's own commission on deficit reduction.
I believe you all met Paul run.
We should get him to come to the university.
Until -- this -- -- amazing.
I always thought I was okay with arithmetic just got can run circles around the and he is -- -- -- straightforward he is sincere in the budget he came forward with is just.
Like Paul Ryan.
Well other dams also like this Ryan guy senator Ron Wyden.
-- he teamed up with Ryan -- back to create a bipartisan plan to reform Medicare.
Last December.
At the time senator Wyden praise -- saying the congressman shared his belief that the only way to tackle the big challenges facing this nation.
-- to work together on big solutions.
A congressman that Dan Boren also on the list well he should be -- there is a little.
Timely connection here.
These -- retiring Democrat by the way from Oklahoma he's also the first cousin.
Of Ryan's wife he says that -- congressman Ryan has a quote.
Firm moral compass and as always approached his job as a congressman with diligence and -- Not avenue did you -- even you refer apparently member.
Some -- you would even say especially for a -- remember.
The senate majority whip is what may surprise your senator Dick Durbin.
July last year senator Durbin said Ryan.
-- -- -- -- -- was saying all along nice things about him.
But the fact is he said that Ryan was right to call for an honest conversation about Medicare reform.
I'd be shocked a lot of Democrats tonight -- and senator Joseph Lieberman Lieberman.
Who's I think generally.
All Arab man and a man who's generally.
-- him.
Statement definition.
A gentleman in April last year he's he's he said that.
People don't have to -- have to serve Ryan's proposals.
To applaud his serious commitment as he put it to reduce the debt and there's a fellow by the name of Bill Clinton.
-- had some nice things to say as well.
And her reply I think President Clinton.
Fleischer said the former president -- trying to keep trying to fix Medicare during an exchange that was picked up off Mike.
Clinton said he hoped Democrats didn't use the fact that they picked up a conservative policy New York.
As an excuse.
To do nothing on Medicare and the Vice President Biden get ready for this wrong because Biden -- you know.
He's always has a choice word trooper just about anyway -- anyone Vice President Biden just two months ago said and I North Carolina campaign speech.
They disagree with Ryan's budget but at a Ryan.
Is a quote bride handsome guy from the state of -- that's -- and President Obama himself.
Even makes the list.
We have to be a little generous with our interpretation here but I think we can put him on the list.
Going forward we know the president will only have negative things to say about the Ryan -- about the width and the vice presidential candidate that all right.
But two years ago have to go back forward as the president said -- offered a quote.
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Last season American Idol finalist -- -- -- -- -- his unique blend of alternative rock with millions.
And now the 21 year old singer songwriter begins a new chapter releasing his debut album -- messenger anymore.
-- music -- been judged.
She's really nice things did change of pace.
Dixon signed with the Christian music label line describes his signature sound as fun and positive music to rock out do.
It's kind of like -- thirty seconds to Mars coal plants which that we have a baby.
That's kind of way.
And it can take place on this record already facing music that was positive.
That had a good message but musically was was really sounds and you -- -- -- It's also his way of paying respect to the music he grew up listening to.
Most of my sons are not what you that your church which I want to do that I wanted to bring some things a little fresh.
Still respectful to the genre that.
Bring something new infraction.
-- amount spent on you know what I've been listening to growing up -- -- -- It's similar from his grueling days and I don't let staying true to -- and -- is -- in his very demanding business.
And she's so hard you have to know exactly who you are yet strong head and shoulders -- -- and that's just the basis of what.
But at the same time that's made some bad it's very rewarding and it's it's great to be of the music for living.
And he's still getting used to being recognized in public.
It's still wears me out tournament aggression Sorenson and recognizes -- it's it's stupid it's weird right.
So yeah.
First time when my songs and iTunes this summer and just clicking on iTunes and seeing there as well.
That is so cool this deficit -- -- -- -- -- I'm just.
Beside myself and.
And one thing he has -- quite embraced yet having a posse follow him around.
I have friends that followed me around they probably taking ownership and calling in a posse and on the -- -- Aqua.
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I so love this!! I'm thinking of drawing a scene too and you're one of my inspirations.. you're amazing!!
Ta very muchly stick..:O)i did try to find you last night(hic)not in bloomin shopping again hehe.!
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