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"What are you looking at?" Bria snapped.
"Just you, detective." Finn's grin widened. "Just you."
Finn grinned and held his arm out to me. "Ready for an evening of murder and mayhem?"
I grinned back. "Always."
"You don't remember me, do you, Gin?" Owen asked.
I raised my eyebrows at the sudden change in conversation. "Should I?"
He shrugged. "Maybe I'm a sentimental fool, but when a girl saves your life, you hope she remembers you after the fact."
"And what happens if you're wrong?" Finn asked.
My stomach tightened, and I stared out into the darkness. "Then I'll fuck him once, and when we're done, I'll stab him where he lies."
"That's hard core, Gin" Finn replied. "Very hard core. Kind of kinky too."
A grim smile tightened my lips. "That's me. Gin Blanco. Hard core and kinky to the bitter end."
I'm just wondering how exactly I went from being the Spider to the Robin fucking Hood of the greater Ashland area... Instead of stealing from the rich, I'm stabbing them to death for the poor.
Finn did what he always did when confronted by an angry woman—he checked out her boobs.
- Do you find it ironic that Bria is taking Donovan's position at the Police Department? She's even a 'good cop', just like he is. Two peas in a pod, those two.
- Do you think Donovan is just temporarily out of the picture or is he gone for good? Do you think there's a chance he might hook up with Bria, since they seem to share a commonality as far as ethics and morals go? Does Finn have a chance with Bria?
- Gin has come face-to-face with Bria quite a few times and yet she still hasn't told Bria that she's her sister. How long is Gin going to wait? Why is she prolonging the inevitable?
- Fletcher sent Bria almost the same exact folder of information he sent Gin. What do you think Fletcher's intentions were? Why didn't he do this when he was still alive?
- What are your theories on Sophia's raspy voice and limited speech? Sophia told Roslyn the back story but no one else knows, not even Finn.
- Sophia is an air elemental. Jo-Jo tells Gin that she knows of only ONE person who can use their elemental power without anyone knowing. What do you make of this new piece of information?
- Now that Gin and Owen have done the deed, do you think Gin will pursue an actual relationship with Owen? Or do you think she's still hung up on Donovan?
- Can Owen be trusted with Gin's secret? He already knows so much about Gin. Could he have an ulterior motive? Was he searching Gin out because of the commonality they share, being that Mab killed both of their families?
- What were your thoughts on Gin and Owen using protection, in the shower no less?! [Ash] is always happily shocked when protection is used in romance scenes; it certainly doesn't happen enough. Do you think it's an important piece of writing romance or do you feel it doesn't belong in books?
- Roslynn killing Elliott was a very "Burning Bed" ending for [Ash], minus the burning bed. It was really painful to see Roslynn go through that trauma, and we hear constant stories of women who "snap" and kill their abusers. Thoughts aside on the moral piece of this sticky situation, do you think this act helps heal from the abuse or does it compound the trauma?
- Gin has declared war on Mab Monroe. How do you think this will go down?
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By Capt. Patrick Sciacca — June 2002
With more air in the cylinders, it was time to increase fuel to get the required horsepower. At one time this would have required adding new injectors and a new injection pump, but in the electronic 3196 it was accomplished via software changes, which required considerable research and development. Caterpillar updated the engine's processor from the ADEM II to the faster ADEM III, which it says better optimizes the control map by which the amount of fuel entering the combustion chamber is adjusted even more precisely to accommodate the changes in load and environment. But the processor change would work only if the "hardware" could accept it. "Fortunately on [the 3196] the fuel system could handle the higher horsepower," Tow says.
At the same time that the fuel and air systems were being increased, engineers were working to ensure that key engine components could tolerate the higher loads that come with increased horsepower. "We have design limits for all our engines' various components," says Tow. "After we make a horsepower increase, we check all components' temperatures and loads, to make sure that none are violated." For the C-12, Caterpillar focused on maintaining proper piston temperatures by changing the piston rings to increase heat transfer to the cylinder walls, and thereby to the coolant. They also adjusted the oil-cooling jets to spray oil more accurately to the underside of each piston, taking away heat more effectively. Cooler pistons create less carbon on the rings, so the engine runs cooler and lasts longer. One thing Caterpillar didn't do to the 3196 was increase its displacement (a function of bore and stroke) because the bore had already been taken as far as it could safely go.
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Corsham's Police Station could soon be sold off for housing, despite 70 per cent of public respondents to consultation opposing the move.
Police and Crime Commissioner Angus Macpherson set up a public consultation into the proposed sale of the building last month, as the town's police prepare to move to the new Springfield Campus.
Most of the consultation's 27 replies opposed the sale for housing, citing the impact on traffic and potential for parking issues.
However the Commissioner's Monitoring Board, which has considered the survey following Mr Macpherson's recent heart attack, has confirmed it will still recommend the Priory Street site be sold to a residential developer.
Mr Macpherson will still make the final decision on his return to work.
A spokesman from the commissioner's office said: "More than 70 per cent of respondents raised concerns about the existing parking problems in the immediate area and the impact which they believed development of the site would have.
"Many of the responses indicated a preference for commercial use of the site on the basis that this was less likely to cause more parking problems, though some comments also mentioned the benefit to the local community of new business.
"The CMB will recommend to the Commissioner when he is back in the office that the preferred buyer for Corsham Police Station should be the bidder offering the best purchase price for an unconditional bid. In this case the preferred buyer will be a residential developer.
"This recommendation does not accord with the preference of the majority of respondents.
"However the CMB members felt that the respondents had identified concerns about land use that would better be considered by the planning authority when a planning application is submitted by the would-be developer."
Priory Street resident Claire Moore campaigned against a residential development, and criticised the scope of the consultation.
She said: "I was hoping for a much bigger response.
"Everybody seems to be saying the same thing, they were more in favour of a commercial bid, but I think they have had it earmarked for housing all along.
"People in Corsham weren't properly informed of what was going on, so it was left to local residents, and so a proper response hasn't come forward."
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text: WiseTree 115 Report post Posted May 5, 2013 Hello, In recent past I've been working on a game engine for actionscript 3. I was doing it in as3 because it's portable, I quite liked the graphics APIs and everything seemed quite natural for me there. Recently I lost all of my work and I'm thinking about rebooting my project in Java. Now the reasons are: 1. I'm a uni student and I just had a year-long project, which was written in java. So I think I'm reasonably good with the language (especially since I was taught of things about it in the uni, so I'm aware of some subtleties, etc.). 2. It fits my game design slightly better than as3 (since I'm thinking of possible controller support). 3. It's more efficient. The more I looked into graphics performance in as3 the more I realised that if I want to have good performance with a lot of particles, as3 might not be a good choice. I had a graphics and vision course lately and I want to play around with direct pixel manipulation as well (for prettyness!). Since as3 doesn't support GPU acceleration (I think ), it would slow down my engine even more. So finally to the question: how good are java APIs when it comes to graphics? (e.g. AS3 had a built-in method for hit testing for bitmaps, does java have anything of the sorts?) How good is java when it comes to 3D? Share your experiences with java and graphics. Thanks in advance! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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gingered beet and berry salad photo by vsimon
This is intense.
Intense flavor- sweet and spicy. A cool salad with a hit of hot ginger.
Intense color- red beets and red raspberries.
Intense texture- crunchy grated raw roots.
Intense nutrition- click on each ingredient in the recipe below for in depth information from The World's Healthiest Foods website.
Garden fresh.
Beets, beets, beets. I ask myself, "What new can we do with the beets, just pulled from the garden?"
Blue cheese, goat cheese, roasted. Been there, done that. And I have to say, I loved all of it, but I don't have any cheese today and it is much too hot to turn the oven on for an hour.
And we have so many raspberries. There is a chunk of ginger root in the fridge. OK, let's see what we can do with these.
Don't have fresh ginger root?
I respectfully say, "Get some."
Just a few fragrant gratings perk up anything it is added to, sweet or savory. It isn't expensive and lasts a long time. A chunk of fresh ginger root in the veggie drawer of the fridge is as useful as jars of pickles in the pantry. And it is amazingly healthful.
Ginger root grows with finger like projections. At the store, you can break off as much as you need. If you are a ginger virgin, start with a knob just an inch or two long.
Gingered Beet and Berry Salad
serves 4
4 small beets, 1-1/2 to 2" in diameter
1 cup raspberries
2 tablespoons honey
4 crossways slices of ginger root, each 1/4" thick
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
Hold onto the stems of the beets and using a vegetable peeler, remove the skin from the beets.
Grate beets using a box or plane grater, into a small bowl.
Or use a mini food processor. Transfer beets to a small mixing bowl.
I have shaved them using a ribbon microplane. This works too, and you get a softer texture. I prefer more crunch.
In a mini food processor, puree 1/2 cup of berries, honey and ginger root together. Note: this is a lot of ginger. You can start with half as much as the recipe calls for if you are a bit timid.
Add raspberry ginger mixture to grated beets. Mix thoroughly. Chill until ready to serve.
Right before serving, garnish with the remaining whole berries and walnuts.
What is your favorite beet recipe?
What do you do with fresh ginger root?
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The above title is not a joke, nor is it a futuristic piece of fiction. It's real and could put a serious dent in homeless and the need for emergency shelter. These tents can be fully constructed in just a couple of hours and could be a fraction of the price of a conventional structure, which could be used for many different things including a home.


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THE line of walking wounded limping through the door to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers infirmary just got longer.
Bomber head coach Tim Burke confirmed Monday afternoon that defensive end Alex Hall (knee) and receiver Cory Watson (leg) will both miss the rest of the season. As well, defensive tackle Bryant Turner and receiver Rory Kohlert are both out for this week's game in Toronto while receiver Kito Poblah is day-to-day.
"I think that's just about got it," said Burke after rattling off the hurts list. "Obviously, losing both Alex Hall and Bryant Turner is really tough on us defensively because they are our two best pass rushers.
"And losing Cory Watson is tough, too. He's probably our most physical receiver and our best blocking receiver so you lose that element of the game when you don't have him."
Hall leads the Bombers in sacks with nine -- second-best in the CFL to Keron Williams of B.C. -- while Watson, who was hurt in the Thanksgiving Day win over Montreal and has appeared in 10 games this year, is fifth on the team with 344 receiving yards.
The Bombers' nine-game injured list, those gone for the season, already includes eight players: RBs Chris Garrett and Anthony Woodson, S Brady Browne, LB Rene Stephan, OL Tyson Pencer, Andre Douglas and Jordan Taormina and DT Brandon Collier.
"Every team's going through injuries right now. We're never going to use that as an excuse," Burke said.
SILVER LINING: Here's Burke when asked what hope fans should cling to going forward:
"As you can see from the last few weeks, we have been very competitive in our games and have won some games. I think our offence is in a pretty good place right now as far as the scheme and I think Gary (Crowton, offensive co-ordinator) has really adapted to the CFL game. We've got guys wide open now, where before we didn't. Chad is running the ball really well and I think our offensive line has really gotten better throughout the year.
"Defensively, we're very inconsistent but for the most part in most games we're playing pretty well.
"I do think we have definitely improved as a team. We're much more mature, we're much closer as a team. There's a bright future ahead."
BLUE NOTES: Burke said Johnny Sears and Jovon Johnson would handle the punt-return chores this week... Jovon Johnson is expected to remain at outside linebacker, but the Bombers may consider testing out Demond Washington there or moving Brandon Stewart back to that position from corner... Burke revealed to TSN on Saturday that his mother is battling cancer. He added this on Monday as an update: "She's in a battle. She's taking chemotherapy and having doctor's appointments every other week. Right now she's fairly stable."
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Cell Convection
I need some tricks to know how can I simulate my problem.
I've got a rectangular cell ( 4cm height, 2,5 width, 3 mm thick) with a dilute suspension in it.
I want to investigate the possibile convection motion arising from different temperatures on the walls and from the sedimentaion of those particles ( 3 micron diamater ), but comsol offer me so many options that I'm a bit puzzled :s
(which physics should i use?? laminar flow? thermal flow? dilute suspension? or multiphysics?)
Another problem is that comsol always ask me to set inflow and outflow but i'm ina stationery condition and i don't have any flow but only sedimentation.
Finally i would like to know if is possibile to simulate a sedimentation of these colloids
Can anybody help me?
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well COMSOL has many possibilities, but first one must analyse the model to identify which variables are driving and which are driven, which known and unknown ...
in CFD inlet outlet are not required, but if not used (closed system, one must not forget to fix a auge pressure somewhere in the mode (generally at any one "point" is enough)
to analyse sedimentation, one must probably use particle module
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Herb Wharton's first book ''came about in the strangest way''.
The winner of the $50,000 Australia Council Award for lifetime achievement in literature, presented in Sydney on Thursday night, says: ''I didn't finish primary school, because I went droving.''
Wharton at 76 still looks like a sun-hardened drover, but he is a gentle man who tells the story of his life in a soft voice, often ending with a laugh at himself.
Wearing riding boots from the dump and an Akubra hat snatched from a dog's mouth, 12-year-old Herb left his family home in the Aboriginal camp at Cunnamulla, Queensland, on a six-month cattle-droving trip.
For years he criss-crossed the country as a drover, stockman and labourer, spending his money in the pub ''if they'd let you in'' and getting into an occasional fight. But his parents - of Kooma and Irish background - had made sure their 11 children learnt to read and write.
''I used to have to get chased to school sometimes with a strap or a stockwhip,'' Wharton says. ''I still don't spell properly.''
He was always scribbling down stories and poems on scraps of paper, which he never threw away. After he gave up drinking, he got serious. At home in a shack in Cunnamulla, he wrote a letter to his mate Stan Coster, a songwriter for Slim Dusty, who had asked him explain his views on politics and life.
From that, he says, ''I decided to write five poems that told the history of the world''.
The poems were about the drovers, the station owners who thought they had settled the land, and the Aboriginal Dreaming tracks that preceded them by thousands of years.
He cleaned offices in exchange for use of a computer until a grant from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council paid for a typewriter. With help from another friend, he entered some poems in the David Unaipon Award for unpublished Aboriginal writers, given by the University of Queensland Press, and was highly commended.
''They didn't want to publish them but they wanted the strangest thing,'' Wharton says. ''They wanted to offer me a contract to write a novel, and a couple of thousand dollars. I'd never seen so much money.'' After wondering ''how the bloody hell do you write a novel?'' he began a story based on his life.
Unbranded, published in 1992 when he was about 55, launched a writing career that has produced the novels Cattle Camp (1994) and Where Ya' Been, Mate? (1996) and an autobiography, Yumba Days (1999), written during a residency at the Australia Council's Paris studio. His poems are collected in the recently self-published Kings with Empty Pockets.
Wharton has gathered oral histories for the University of Queensland and is an advocate for Aboriginal writing, storytelling and cultural understanding. He is a life member of the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame.
Sophie Cunningham, who chairs the Literature Board, says: ''Herb has captured the unique and untold story of our pastoral industry as it disappears. He has an incredibly spare, unromantic and strongly visual style; he writes in the yarn mode but brings something unique to it.''
Wharton has never married or had a family (''not that I know of''). If he had, he says, he would not have led the unencumbered life of travelling with a swag that inspired his writing.
Although he moved to Brisbane for a few years to further his writing, he has returned to Cunnamulla and bought the shack where he wrote his first words.
He will use the award money to pay off his mortgage and his credit card. He continues work on ''a big book about the history of the world''.


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This month, by proclamation of the President of the United States, is National Financial Capability Month, 2012. In declaring April as National Financial Capability Month, President Obama said:
"My Administration is taking action to empower individuals and families with the tools they need to get ahead. Last year, we collaborated with representatives from the private, public, and non-profit industries to release the National Strategy for Financial Literacy -- a comprehensive plan to improve financial education across our country. The President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability (PACFC) continues to identify and promote the most effective, data-driven strategies to better educate Americans on financial issues. With help from the PACFC, we are working to provide our young people with financial skills to become successful students, entrepreneurs, and leaders; to ensure American workers are able to provide for their loved ones and save for retirement; and to foster financial capability in families and communities across our Nation."
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>General Running>Training Plan derailed - Recommendations?
I am planning on testing my legs tomorrow to see if the shin splints are still with me, if they are, I plan on trying to focus on non-impact aerobic training to keep my fitness level up.
Now that was a bath...
And I'd decide ahead of time if running hard during the race is worth serious injury (see Kooky, for example) - or not.?
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ON THE 7th DAY, GOD DID AN EASY 6 "Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'" - Peter Maher
With the race close you are probally on the decline with the training. So I don't think that taking it easy and see how it goes is not a bad idea at all that's what I would do if in your shoes.
Good Luck hope everything works out, and you get to run....though it might not be a PR
Did you manage to run again? I've been wondering how you went. It seems that there are a few of us battling injury at the moment. You, me, Eric, Chloe, Ewa are all having issues and lot's of new people are popping in with injury questions!
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DELTONA, Fla. - A man upset that a driver passed him on a Volusia County roadway, causing him to brake suddenly, confronted the woman at a red light and slapped her, deputies said.
Warren Kirchoff, 63, of Deltona, was arrested on charges of burglary with assault and battery, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.
According to deputies, Laura Reed, 27, of Deltona, called authorities on Tuesday around 7:45 a.m. to report that she had been hit by Kirchoff.
According to a sheriff's report, Reed said she was headed to work near Interstate 4 and was driving behind a slow-moving car on Howland Boulevard, so she passed it.
At a red light, Kirchoff pulled next to her and approached her driver's side window, deputies said. Reed lowered her window to talk to Kirchoff, but he reached into the car and slapped her in the right eye, deputies said, adding that Reed suffered a minor laceration.
Reed then got out of the car and confronted Kirchoff, said deputies, who said they found Reed and Kirchoff engaged in a verbal argument while their cars with open doors were stopped in traffic.
Kirchoff said Reed was driving erratically and passed him, prompting him to "slam" on his brakes. The sudden movement caused his wife to hit her head on the interior of his car, Kirchoff told deputies, according to the report.
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Antibiotic Treatment Alone for Acute Simple Appendicitis in Children
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|Drug: Antibiotic treatment alone Procedure: Appendectomy
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Antibiotic Treatment Alone for Acute Simple Appendicitis in Children; a Prospective Cohort Study Part of the Antibiotic Versus Primary Appendectomy in Children (APAC) Trial
- Safety of initial antibiotic treatment strategy [ Time Frame: 0-12 months ]
Occurrence of major complications, such as:
A. Anaphylactic shock and other allergic reaction to antibiotics administered b. Recurrent appendicitis within 8 weeks c. Recurrent appendicitis within one year after discharge d. Development of perforated appendicitis e. Occurrence of major complaints after delayed appendectomy such as intra-abdominal abscess (IAA), stumpleakage, superficial site infection (SSI), anaesthesia related complications, secondary bowel obstruction (SBO), re-admission, need for re-intervention f. Re-admission g. Re-intervention other than delayed appendectomy
- Safety of the direct appendectomy treatment strategy [ Time Frame: 0-12 months ]
Major complications associated with appendectomy
- Stumpleakage
- Intra-abdominal abscess (IAA)
- Secondary bowel obstruction (SBO)
- Superficial site infection (SSI)
- Need for secondary operation
- Need for other re-intervention
- Re-admission
- Anaesthesia related complication
- Pneumonia
|Study Start Date:
|September 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2017
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Antibiotic treatment alone
Intravenous administration:
Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid 100/10 mg/kg 6-hourly Gentamicin 7mg/kg once daily
Oral administration of:
Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid 50/12.5 mg/kg/day (in three doses)
Drug: Antibiotic treatment alone
Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid 100/10 mg/kg 6-hourly Gentamicin 7 mg/kg once daily At least 48 hours intravenous administration, in total seven days of antibiotics Oral amoxicillin/clavulanic acid 50/12.5mg/kg
Active Comparator: Appendectomy
Routine appendectomy either laparoscopic or open depending on the surgeon's preference
Procedure: Appendectomy
Appendectomy either open or laparoscopic depending on the surgeon's preference
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|7 Years to 17 Years (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 7-17 years
Radiologically confirmed simple appendicitis, defined as:
a. Clinical findings: i. Unwell, but not generally ill ii. Localized tenderness in the right iliac fossa region iii. Normal/hyperactive bowel sounds iv. No guarding v. No mass palpable b. Ultrasonography: i. Incompressible appendix with an outer diameter of ≥6 mm ii. Hyperaemia within the appendiceal wall iii. Without fecalith iv. Infiltration of surrounding fat v. No signs of perforation vi. No signs of intra abdominal abscess/phlegmon
Exclusion criteria:
Patients with severe general illness at time of presentation:
Generalized peritonitis defined as:
Diffuse inflammation of the peritoneum with clinical signs consisting of increasing abdominal pain, generalized tenderness, diffuse abdominal rigidity, sinus tachycardia, signs of paralytic ileus
- Severe sepsis or septic shock, as defined by the international paediatric sepsis consensus conference [39]. See attachment 1.
- Signs of complex appendicitis
- Children with a fecalith on ultrasonography.
Patients with serious associated conditions or malformations such as:
- Congenital or acquired cardiac or pulmonary disease with significant hemodynamic consequences
- Immunodeficiency
- Malignancy
- Homozygous sickle cell disease
- Metabolic disorders
- Patient with documented type 1 allergy to the antibiotics used
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01356641
|Almere, Netherlands
|Academic medical center of Amsterdam
|Amsterdam, Netherlands
|VU University medical center
|Amsterdam, Netherlands
|Red Cross Hospital
|Beverwijk, Netherlands
|Principal Investigator:
|Ramon R Gorter, MD
|VU University Medical Center
|Study Chair:
|Hugo A Heij, MD, PhD
|VU University Medical Center
|Responsible Party:
|Ramon R. Gorter, MD, PhD candidate, VU University of Amsterdam
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01356641 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|April 18, 2011
|Last Updated:
|January 12, 2017
Keywords provided by Ramon R. Gorter, VU University of Amsterdam:
Antibiotic treatment
Non perforated appendicitis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Intraabdominal Infections
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Cecal Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Clavulanic Acids
Clavulanic Acid
Antibiotics, Antitubercular
Anti-Infective Agents
Antitubercular Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
beta-Lactamase Inhibitors
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I have been using www.byethost2.com but all of a sudden am getting these obnoxious "You are over your quotas..." message, which is strange considering that my website is a few pages of HTML, CSS, and some thumbnails?!
I want a Free Webhost because of privacy concerns - not because I don't have the $$$. (I have no desire to set up a domain name with my Name and Address ultimately tied to it for testing purposes, and even with "Privacy On" when you stop payng for that Your Name is back up on the Internet. And after a couple stalking issues, that isn't an option.)
I just want a simple web host - with CPanel and phpMyAdmin - so that I can put up some of my work and get better help here on SitePoint...
This question was asked quite recently. The most helpful reply seems to be this one.
If your site is just simple HTML, CSS, and images, why not just test the site on your own computer? This will save you the trouble of uploading and in your case, provide more security since it is all local instead of on the net.
Because several people here at SitePoint have asked to see my live site so they can better give advice, and I am trying to help them see what I see locally when I develop.
Except it takes 7-10 days for setup and they want to contact you before set up (i.e. no anonymous) which is my whole issue?!
I was hoping to find...
I googled and found this: http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-php-webhosting.phpJust try out some of the top ones, and see if the things claimed in the descriptions are true.
One of the best free web hosts for strictly TESTING i suggest visiting http://www.serversfree.com/
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Well this is the first of what i hope to be many toys..that i try to make! ^_^;
Well my very first one... I made with a golf-sized wiffle ball i got from the dollar store, 12 for $1. Nifty, eh? ^_^
Its got jute twine threaded thru the holes and pony beads.
Then this one is kinda like a smaller..rainbow kinda thing. I got the idea from a toy i saw on the CA Bird Nerds site. If i went bigger it might not fit easily in my cage... so here is is...
it consists of popsicle sticks, (that i dyed with food coloring and alcohol) pony beads, a marbella donut in the middle to hold the quick link (nickel plated), and two bells at the ends, oh and also.. SS wire on the top and jute twine on the bottom to hold it all together.
Next up... we have another one i made with popsicle sticks.
Basically..its just SS wire, with sticks drilled with a 1/32 size bit and stacked on top of each other. There is also a wooden bead i put there to give it a flare. ^_^; And nickel plated quick link on the top.
I have another one but its currently in Zippo's cage, so i'll take a pic of it in the morning.. its just a "semi" homemade one. lol.
Thats all for now. ^_^ I'm planning to make more later.
PS: i got a lot of my parts from here: http://www.cabirdnerds.com/index.html
when i ordered..they had this free shipping thing, but they don't have it anymore... cuz they were like..over worked or something that one time. bummers. >.< But they have really good stuff, and i think pretty good quality and are really nice. ^_^


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Angels collar Tigers with stellar pitching, late HR
Freese's blast lifts Halos to series victory over AL Central leaders
ANAHEIM -- When Mike Morin first learned his changeup in high school, it didn't feel right to him.
His overlapping thumb and index finger felt foreign. But across summer leagues, college and the Minors, his changeup transformed from a nuisance to an out pitch that dips and ducks from bats.
During the Angels' 2-1 win over Detroit on Sunday, Morin used an elevated changeup to strike out Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera, ending the sixth inning and stranding a runner on second base in a tied game.
"I think it was so bad that it was good," Morin said. "Just a beach ball coming in."
Two innings after Cabrera's strikeout, David Freese launched a solo home run to left-center, giving the Angels a late one-run lead that closer Huston Street finished by also striking out Cabrera.
With the win, the Angels (63-41) improved to a season-best 22 games over .500. The Tigers (57-45) have now lost nine of their last 10 games in Anaheim.
Morin's 73-mph floater to Cabrera came one pitch after he buried a changeup in the dirt, allowing the speedy Austin Jackson to move into scoring position with the two-time American League MVP at the plate. Morin called that pitch the most frustrating part of the at-bat.
"Allowing that runner to get to second, it just opens it up so much more, whether it's a bloop hit, a broken bat or a ball off the wall," Morin said.
Just five days removed from his worst outing of the season (a three-run inning against Baltimore), Morin struck out the Major League leader in RBIs with a pitch from which he once shied away.
Manager Mike Scioscia said the strikeout was one of the biggest at-bats of the game.
"It had a lot of deception and he took a lot of pace off it so he was out in front of him," Scioscia said. "I think that if I got Miguel Cabrera out, I might be walking a little bit taller."
Morin's outing on Tuesday against the Orioles was one of the few poor performances from the 23-year-old rookie, whose ERA now sits at 2.50. He recorded a strikeout in picking up the win Saturday before retiring all five hitters he faced Sunday.
"It was encouraging in that I made a bad pitch and it didn't get hit," Morin said. "It all comes full circle with your luck. That definitely was not intentional to throw a changeup that was a little bit high, but he swung through it and now we're here."
Freese did not swing through Joba Chamberlain's 2-1 slider in the bottom of the eighth, connecting for his sixth home run of the year and his first regular-season go-ahead homer in the eighth inning or later of his career.
Heading into his final at-bat, Freese was 5-for-31 (.161) with 14 strikeouts on the 10-game homestand.
"I've taken some wonderful hacks the last three games or so, just terrible swings," Freese said. "But today, I put a good swing on the ball."
Freese started the year slowly, hitting just .203 through the first two months. Since the start of June, Freese has hit .281 and he has hits in 15 of his last 21 games.
"I guess they call them slumps because you always get out of them," Freese said, "or hopefully you do."
Freese starred as a playoff hero in St. Louis in 2011 and has a 162-game average of 15 home runs and 80 RBIs in his career.
"We hope it's more than one swing," Scioscia said. "We hope that David Freese can finish the season swinging the bat to his capabilities. He's a much better hitter than a guy hitting .240."
Freese would not have even gotten the chance to win the game if Efren Navarro had reached in front of him. John McDonald was in the on-deck circle during Navarro's at-bat and Scioscia said a sacrifice bunt was "an option" if Navarro had reached.
Navarro struck out and Freese sent the Angels to a 6-4 record on the homestand. It was the Angels' fifth straight homestand finishing .500 or better.
Angels starter Hector Santiago made it through 5 1/3 innings, allowing just one run on three hits. In the first inning, Ian Kinsler singled and scored on Victor Martinez's two-out double to right-center. After Martinez's double, Santiago sat down the next 14 Tigers before Jackson's single in the sixth.
The Angels tied the game in the fifth inning following a pair of Tigers mistakes. Erick Aybar reached on a one-out single to right field and advanced to second as Howie Kendrick bunted his way aboard.
Tigers starter Rick Porcello attempted to pick off Aybar at second but his errant throw ended up in center field, moving each runner up a base. After Jackson fielded the ball, he lofted a throw in to shortstop Eugenio Suarez, who received the ball facing away from home plate. Aybar never stopped running and tied the game as he caught the Tigers napping.
"I think that's the way speed helps you outside of just stealing the base," Scioscia said. "Erick ran hard, ran through third base and saw that Suarez, the shortstop, was just out there and not really locked into what really might happen."
Porcello threw seven innings of one-run ball, inducing nine groundouts that included two double plays. He struck out the last four Angels he faced and finished with six punchouts.
Matthew DeFranks is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.