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Cemeteries in Connection with City Planning
City planning, probably as you all know, is a term that has probably been used throughout the world for the last ten or fifteen years. It is not new because city planning started way back in the ages when men began to accumulate and live in small hamlets. As cities grew the difficulties of their growth were enhanced by transportation troubles living problems, housing troubles and so on consequently the last ten or fifteen years has seen much development in the idea of city planning, and it has become a subject of interest in this country particularly.
Ordinarily cities grow like the old cemeteries used to grow and we found that new additions had to be made and there were not proper facilities for carrying them out. Many of you know of superintendents who have found difficulty in acquiring enough and in making over the old cemetery to fit the new. I know we have had such difficulties in Detroit.
The city planning problem has very much the same atmosphere. Some cities fortunately have been laid out with the idea of accommodating future growth. The city of Washington, our national Capital, is a striking illustration of city planning from the beginning. As the city grew and became such an important factor in our national life, development was very easy because of the foresight of the city planners.
That was an important factor in making Washington a beautiful place to live in, and I say that advisedly because there are two types, practically speaking, of city planning; that is, city planning for a city like Washington and on the other hand, city planning for a manufacturing community such as Detroit. It is readily seen that one plan would not fit another consequently, the plans must be considered in advance for the type of town that is to be developed.
Cities are growing today faster than they ever were. The lack of proper facilities in the country and high wages in the city, have attracted a great element from the country districts to the city; we are consequently called in to exert every effort possible to make the city a decent place to live in.
Detroit has perhaps doubled in population in the last ten years. It is costing the city of Detroit today 50 or 60 millions of dollars to provide for this growth to provide sewers and water. We have over 150,000 people in the city or Detroit today who do net have sewers. The City Engineer is trying to expend a million dollars a month, and he cannot do it, he cannot get contractors to build sewers to take care of the growth which I have just mentioned. Consequently there is a demand for transportation, for the solution of transportation problems, and all that manner of thing which goes into the building of the city. I only want to call your attention to this because I think it is a very important, element perhaps net in the minds of you gentlemen, as superintendents, but your efforts in advising the cemetery associations, etc., who locate cemeteries, that they should be located with some study as to the growth of the future of the city, as well as with regard to traffic condition.
We have cemeteries in the city today which are located on heavy traffic streets, and it causes a great deal of inconvenience to the public and is a decided factor in money values.
We are trying to widen these streets, taking into account the atmosphere and location of the cemetery. For instance, on Van Dyke Avenue in this city, we are carrying on construction work, or rather we are widening that street to 106 feet, not entirely on account of the cemetery, but that will relieve the conditions that exist on Van Dyke Avenue today.
Woodward Avenue has been widened from the Six Mile road to the Eight Mile road and I might say in this connection that the builders and founders of Wood Lawn Cemetery located on Woodward Avenue, exhibited wonderful foresight because they made it possible for us to widen Woodward Avenue to 100 feet. They dedicated their portion to the city and Woodward Avenue is one of the big traffic streets, probably the most traveled street in America today. As I say, they provided for a future width of 100 feet when that cemetery was first laid out, and they are to be commended.
City planning problems have been carried on in the past generally by city planning commissions. Some of the city planning problems have not been adequately solved because there was no city planning commission as part of the city government. We are very fortunate in Detroit, because we had a city planning commission appointed in 1909 and in 1919 a new city planning commission was created consisting of nine members and by the city charter that commission is an integral part of the city government. I served on the old commission as one of the commissioners and since that old commission went out, I have been consultant of the new city commission as city planner.
City planning does not necessarily mean picturesque cities nor fanciful ideas; it means the practical solution of problems which confront us in providing for the future growth and in taking care of present conditions. We have been most fortunate in Detroit in that the council has been behind us in all respects. We have today probably one of the largest programs for street openings and widenings of any city in the world. We have a ten million dollar park and recreational bond issue which was voted in April 1919 and we have increased the park acreage in Detroit from 932 to 3,400 acres.
I have a map on the wall here which I hope you will be able to see. We have provided recreation facilities after having studied the matter from the standpoint of distribution of population and child density etc. We have located playgrounds play fields, parks, and outer boulevards, having those considerations in mind.
It might be interesting for you to know that playgrounds are differentiated from play fields, the former being small places for children to play in. We have a density of child population in Detroit in some locations, fortunately very few of 215 children to the acre.
I am now pointing to a district where 54 playgrounds have been ordered condemned and 11 of them have already been so condemned. We have planned thoroughfares, boulevards and our recreational system with the idea of connecting up the outer parkways boulevards and the parks all along this outer boulevard; which will be 46 miles encircling the city and tying up our most important parks.
Here is a plan of the city of Detroit showing in red the cemeteries. We city planners have in mind at all times the provision of open areas for light and air so that sane and suitable living conditions can be had. These cemeteries provide open wooded areas where light and air are available for the community. You will see by the map that we have provided park and recreational facilities of 225 acres; we have Belle Isle with 117 acres of recreational facilities; then we have Palmer Park on the north and an additional tract out in the River Rouge district. In studying the situation in connection with the location of cemeteries and city planning, you will notice that the north district of Detroit is well provided with cemeteries which take care of this whole district.
This map shows you a program of providing for the growth of Detroit in 1945 with a possible population of four and a half millions. Detroit has an acreage of 76.3 square miles. As I have said this map shows the growth of Detroit in 1945. I might say that the telephone companies and the electric light companies are planning on the heaviest growth in our northwest section, which is indicated en this map.
You will see that Detroit grows in fingers, stretching out in the manner indicated. Our greatest density of population is in this northwest district and you will notice that the only cemetery is out in Redford. This entire district here, as indicated on the map, is not provided with cemeteries. There is a chance for somebody to promote a new cemetery association.
I call your attention to this particularly because in city planning, the location of cemeteries must consider the location of thoroughfares. For instance, today, in this district here there is not a thoroughfare which is fit to use, consequently there must be provided in that district some day, a cemetery that will take care of that whole district.
Cemeteries should be located with regard to the future density of growth transportation facilities, etc. It is a very important factor in locating a cemetery or in remodeling your old cemetery to have proper setbacks to provide for the future widening of streets.
Today we are condemning pieces of properties from two different cemeteries for perhaps nearly a mile long on each cemetery. However it was fortunate, as I said a few minutes ago in the case of one cemetery, it was not necessary because the founders of that cemetery, Woodlawn, on Woodward Avenue, provided for the future, and had the proper set-backs for the future growth. That would seem to indicate that the study and thought should not be confined within the limits of the property which you buy. The means of egress and ingress to and from a cemetery are important considerations and should be planned with as much study and regard to the future growth as cities themselves. Today we have made plans for crossing one of the cemeteries on the east side. The cost of a bridge across that cemetery was practically prohibitive, but the necessity of crossing this cemetery in some manner arises because it blocks the way to the entire eastern section of the city. Heavy traffic must take a devious and roundabout way, whereas if that cemetery were not located where it is, it would be possible to save considerable time in making the journey from the down town section to the eastern end of the city.
Detroit was originally planned like Washington, the French engineer Monsieur LaFond, being responsible for our radial system. After we got a quarter or a mile away from the river, we seem to have lost the clue, because it practically ends at Grand Circus Park, with which you are all familiar, and five or six blocks east or west of Woodward.
I have before alluded to the fact that we have one cemetery in this city which, because of its location, makes necessary a roundabout route for motor and vehicular traffic going from one section of the city to the other. We are working with the Police Department in outlining certain streets for heavy traffic. There will be an ordinance passed and enforced requiring heavy traffic to confine itself to certain streets and this is absolutely necessary because last year our heaviest toll of deaths was caused by heavy moving vehicles. Over 74 percent of all the deaths occurring last year were caused by heavy moving vehicles. So we propose to restrict heavy moving traffic to certain streets, just the same as you find street cars only on certain streets. This leads me to say that wherever possible in the planning of cemeteries, they should be located a distance from these heavy traffic streets. I should think that cemeteries are a good deal like churches. They like to be en the highways and Woodward Avenue is a good illustration of that principle. We have a great number of churches located on Woodward Avenue, some of which are entirely surrounded by the fast growing business district. But, I think we are outgrowing that theory, and churches located on Woodward Avenue, are very glad to get away out into the residential sections where traffic conditions are not so unusual.
I think it is important in the location of future cemeteries to study traffic conditions, the thoroughfare systems of the city; and I do not mean by that that they should be located way off of heavy traffic streets, but they should be to a certain degree far enough removed for the reasons which I have heretofore indicated. That may be a thought worth considering.
Of course when the people who planned the cemeteries on Woodward Avenue laid them out, they had no idea that Detroit would reach the growth which it has; but I imagine they find it somewhat of a hardship, because Woodward avenue is the only street that reaches that section of the city at the present time.
We are very fortunate, however, in having a radial system of streets. Probably no other country in America was fortunate enough to have a radial system mapped out for it in the beginning, and the radial system is the quickest way of getting from the outside districts down town. The only thing which we lacked was a cross-town thoroughfare, and that we are providing for now.
City planning problems arise by usage. The Dix-High-Waterloo cross town thoroughfare, which we are working on today is twelve miles in length and will extend from one side of the city to the other. It is very important to get some street across there, and yet as you will see by the map, this cemetery cuts off practically all east and west streets and it is through that district that the highway of which I have just spoken will go. It throws all the burden of traffic on the streets north and south, because all this district in here must get to the down town section either north or south of that cemetery. If that cemetery had been laid out the narrow way, east and west, it would not have been handicapped as it is today.
We are confronted with some difficulty in getting around cemeteries located in that way and some cities have gone so far as to bridge ever or tunnel under, cemeteries located such as this one is. New York has done so, and some other cities are starting it. Under the law as it at present exists, it is impossible to condemn cemeteries with grades. In Michigan we can do so at the present time where there are no grades.
If you men, as superintendents and representatives, of cemeteries take into consideration the future growth of cities in planning cemeteries, you will be doing a great deal of good for posterity, and save a great deal of trouble caused by cemeteries illogically located.
From now on there is going to be much more study and thought given to the idea of city planning because cities all over the country are taking up the idea. Over 140 cities of over 50,000 in population in America today are considering re-planning their city either remodeling or rebuilding it by making new streets, new thoroughfares, etc.; consequently, the location not only from a profit standpoint, but from a utility standpoint, the proper location of cemeteries in a city planning proposition is of utmost importance to the future growth of that city.
I have in mind two or three cities which I have helped solve planning problems, where we have found cemeteries using large areas blocking and practically strangling the growth beyond that particular portion of the city. We recognize the necessity for cemeteries. Some day we will all need them, but their location should not be a haphazard thing; it should be a well studied plan, carried out in conjunction with the future growth of the city, and in conjunction with thoroughfares, consideration being given to the location of heavy traffic streets, railroads, etc.
Detroit has grown so fast that it has become a big problem to deal with traffic conditions. I need hardly tell you people that the use of the motor car on city streets has changed the whole condition of affairs. You men in your cemeteries know that the width of the road, and the question of drainage have become quite serious since the popular use of the automobile. We do not build roads for automobiles today as we used to.
The ideal city today is a city of 100,000 to 150,000 population. In planning that city from the beginning we endeavor to arrange for belts at intervals where provision is made for parks, recreation grounds, farming or garden belts, including cemeteries, green houses and nurseries.
Today, we are planning for the city of Detroit a zoning system which is one of the highest types of city planning. In that zoning system we are planning for belts such as I have mentioned as a protective measure. We have made provisions for the location of industrial belts where manufacturing can be carried on and all manner of nuisances, as we term them, can grow.
That might be termed the method of making cities grow in an orderly way. Canada has started such programs and has made progress along that line. Your good friend, Tom Adams from Ottawa has talked until he is black in the face trying to get cities to grow in this orderly way which I have referred to, making provision for large areas in which can be located agricultural belts for cemeteries, green houses, etc. as I have mentioned them. You can readily see what a vast difference such belts would make in the life of the community where light and air are provided. It becomes a very important factor, and we feel as city planners that the cemetery should be located from the standpoint of light and air circulation, etc. and also after very careful consideration of the question of traffic conditions. It would have been a very clever fellow indeed who could have predicted or estimated that Detroit would ever reach the size which it is today. But, it does not make any difference how large or how small the city is, the plan should be comprehensive enough to take in future additions. I doubt very much if the founder of the cemetery located at Redford way out Grand River (you cannot see it on this map) ever thought that the heavy growth would be in that direction. As I have before pointed out, you will notice that there is a large area in this district, where no provision whatever is made for cemeteries. We should have an agricultural belt in that district which would be included in the cemetery belt.
My profession is that of a landscape architect, nevertheless several times I have been called on to layout a cemetery. I have always "passed the buck". I think every man should stick to his own job, and I always thought there were enough cemetery superintendents to take care of it, and fortunately I had enough friends among the cemetery superintendents to take care of that work. But I know you men are not planning cemeteries simply to take care of the present situation. If you are, you are making a mistake. Cemeteries should be planned as open spaces, a place where people can go to enjoy the green grass, flowers, trees and nature's beauties.
I am not in favor of the "Evergreen" atmosphere. It makes me think too much of the old idea of the cemeteries; that atmosphere is passing today and you gentlemen are the ones who should make it pass a little more quickly. Not that we have in mind the idea of using cemeteries as a playground, but as a restful place. We have in Detroit, in some districts, children who have never seen a spear of grass; we have not one, but thousands of children who never get an opportunity to go to a park, a playground and not even to Belle Isle, just a short distance from the city.
You men in charge of the beautification of burial grounds can alleviate this condition to some extent by providing open air spaces where such children can enjoy God's free air and wondrous sunshine; where people can enjoy those things while they live, and you will take care of them when they are gone.
In closing I want to leave with you the thought that in city planning work, in the development of practical ideas, cemeteries play an important part. Their location should not be guessed at but should be a matter of thoughtful study having in mind the considerations and conditions which I have touched upon. I thank you.
From the publication:
AACS - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Convention held at Detroit, Michigan
September 13, 14 and 15, 1921


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Are You A Bougie Black Girl?
Yes, I admittedly have succumb to the numerous things that variations of people say. Black girls? Haitian parents? Gay Men? White girls? I've seen it all.
Naturally, Very Smart Brothas–a blog I read religiously–has come up with their own list (where's the video, fellas?) that rivals the myriad of vids, even though it's written. Vixens, do you know a bougie black girl? If you went to an HBCU, I'd say that you damn sure do. Oh, but wait–are you that bougie black girl? See what sayings the intellectually elevated brothas feel make you a bourgeois African American woman. (Ha!)


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|Zek, the Orcish Wastes
|Levels 30-40
|Shattered Lands
|Zone Type
|Adjacent to
|The Thundering Steppes
|Deathfist Citadel
|Quest Lines
|Zek Timeline
|Tier 4
Zek, or The Orcish Wastes as it is often called by men, is a portion of the remnants of the once-mighty Jaggedpine Forest. The orcs of the Deathfist Empire have held control of the entirety of this island for many years and, in that time, they have reduced the once-sprawling forest to a mere husk of its former glory.
Lore Edit
Much of the forest has been stripped down to barren, charred earth. The orcs have begun mining deep into the ground for iron and coal, and using the timbers of the ancient Jagged Pines to construct their warships. What was once a thing of beauty is now, for the most part, a grand redwood forest on the verge of becoming a wasteland of orc industrialization.
Zek has become a battlefield of sorts, as a band of woodland defenders named the Green Hoods have seized control of a coastal keep. From this keep, they now launch assaults against the orcs stationed on the hills opposite the beachhead. They also sneak small teams through the enemy lines and send them deep into orc territory to gather information and to disrupt orc organization.
Geography Edit
The Orcish Wastes are riddled with natural barriers that divide the land into valleys. Orcs inhabit many of the valleys, but dangerous wildlife also inhabits many of them. The Deathfist orcs have plundered the land for timber and ore, and most regions are utterly scarred. A great open pit in the center of the island exposes a vast mining complex.
Travel Edit
Travellers arrive at the Warship Dock on the south shore of the island. From there, you can take high-speed horse routes to a handful of checkpoints throughout the zone.
Travel through Zek is hindered by impassable terrain. Almost all passable routes are marked by roads. The roads are almost as dangerous as the rest of the land, and a traveller must be wary and know his escape route, lest he flee into even greater danger. Orcs and even hillcats are known to set ambushes to catch the unwary.
Those who complete a quest called The Right Brothers will earn the right to use a catapult at Warship Dock to fly instantly to the valley beside Deathfist Citadel. Completion of this quest requires venturing inside the citadel with a group.
Map Edit
Dungeons Edit
|Dungeon Name
|Level Range
|Target Audience
|Zone Type
|Deathfist Citadel
|Instance (2 hours)
|Past the Bridge of Zek
|Tallon Hording Halls
|Solo or Group
|Instance (20 min)
|Around the edge of Blood Ore Valley
|The Sullon Mines
|Solo or Group
|Instance (40 min)
|Around the edge of Mythical Forest
|The Darkened Den
|Solo or Group
|Instance (10 min)
|South edge of Defiled Forest
An simpler level 35 version of Deathfist Citadel is available by finding and inspecting The rusty key, which is dropped by random creatures around the zone.
Raids Edit
|Raid Name
|Level Range
|Target Audience
|Typical Duration
|Lockout (on Success)
|The Deserted Mine
|4 Groups
|20 min
|3 days 15 hours
Revive Locations Edit
|Revive Location
|Warship Docks
|Safe spot
|Three Toe's Watering Hole
|Behind hostile territory
|Siren's Cove
|Safe spot with easy return to warship dock
|Mythical Forest
|Closest respawn point to Deathfist Citadel
Quests Edit
- Zek Timeline
- Deathfist Citadel Timeline - all quests that go to or start in DFC
- Collection Quests in Zek
Similar Zones Edit
|Zone Name
|Level Range
|Enchanted Lands
|Shattered Lands
|Another good place for level 30-35 quests
|The Feerrott
|Shattered Lands
|A more challenging zone
|Steamfont Mountains
|Many level 35-45 quests
Low-level adventurers interested in harvesting nodes in a T4 zone will find the area of the Enchanted Lands near the Mariner's Bell to be much less dangerous than Zek.


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Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) is a condition whereby untreated sewage is discharged into the environment prior to reaching treatment facilities thereby escaping wastewater treatment. When caused by rainfall it is also known as wet weather overflow. It is primarily meaningful in developed countries, which have extensive sewage treatment facilities. The main causes of SSO are:
- Infiltration of excessive stormwater into sewer lines during heavy rainfall
- Rupture or blockage of sewerage lines
- Malfunction of pumping station lifts or electrical power failure
- Human operator error at treatment plant facilities.
SSO is distinct from a combined sewer overflow (CSO), a similar problem of untreated sewage discharges, but which occurs only in a municipal system specifically designed with a combined sewer.
Since medieval times rulers have been aware of the impact of raw sewage improperly discharged to the environment. Before treatment systems existed in 16th century England, King Henry VIII decreed that sewage troughs should be kept flowing so that they would not stagnate in London prior to reaching the River Thames. (London sewer system) It was not until the 19th century when America and parts of Europe developed wastewater treatment, that the concept of SSO materialized; however, communities were merely happy to have wastewater treatment systems, and did not complain greatly about overflows until the dawning of 20th century environmental awareness in the 1960s. At that time the USA began recognizing locations and frequencies of SSOs in a systematic way. Local governments heard complaints of citizens, beach closure protocols were systematised and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began detailed engineering analyses for major cities across the country. After passage of the U.S. Clean Water Act in 1972, the 1980s saw spending of billions of dollars on system upgrading (although most funds during this period were spent on upgrades to secondary treatment rather than addressing SSO problems). In the 1990s Japan, the UK and a number of other European countries began earnest investigation of some of their countries' overflow issues.
Magnitude of the problemEdit
EPA estimates that about 40,000 SSO events occur in the United States each year.[1] The Agency estimated that to upgrade every municipal treatment and collection system to reduce overflow events to no more frequently than every five years, would cost about 88 billion dollars as of 2004.[2] This cost would be in addition to approximately ten billion dollars already invested. Although the volume of untreated sewage discharged to the environment is less than .01 percent of all treated sewage in the US, the total volume amounts to several billion US gallons per annum and accounts for thousands of cases of gastrointestinal illness each year.[2]:Ch. 6 Advanced European countries and Japan have similar or somewhat larger percentages of SSO events.[citation needed]
Engineering aspectsEdit
By far the most prevalent cause of Sanitary Sewer Overflow stems from heavy rainfall events which can cause massive infiltration of stormwater into sewerage lines. The combined flow of wastewater and stormwater exceeds the capacity of the sewer system and is released into local waterways to prevent flooding in homes, businesses and streets. This circumstance is most prevalent in older cities whose subsurface infrastructure is quite old; Paris, London, Stockholm[3], New York, Washington, DC, and Oakland, California[4] are typical examples of such locations. Inflow into the sanitary lines can be caused by tree root rupture of subsurface lines or by mechanical fracture due to age and overpressure from trucks and buildings above.
Other modes of system failure can include power outage which may disable lift station pumps or parts of the treatment plant operations themselves; in fact, any mechanical system failure within a treatment plant can create a circumstance leading to overflow: breakdown of rotating arms of trickling filters, jamming of line gates, clogging of filters or grates etc. Furthermore, some forms of human error can infrequently lead to diversion of sewage and result in an overflow event.
Decentralized failures in dry weather mainly occur from collection sewer line blockages, which can arise from a debris clog, line rupture or tree root intrusion into the line itself. One of the main problems of a decentralized line failure is the difficulty of defining the location of overflow, since a typical urban system contains thousands of miles of collection pipage, and the central treatment plant has no way of communicating with all the lines, unless expensive monitoring equipment has been installed.
Human health and ecological consequencesEdit
Human health impacts include significant numbers of gastrointestinal illness each year, although death from one overflow event is uncommon. Additional human impacts include beach closures, swimming restrictions and prohibition against consumption of certain aquatic animals (particularly certain molluscs) after overflow events. Ecological consequences include fish kills, harm to plankton and other aquatic microflora and microfauna. Turbidity increase and dissolved oxygen decrease in receiving waters can lead to accentuated effects beyond the obvious pathogenic induced damage to aquatic ecosystems. It is possible that higher life forms such as marine mammals can be affected since certain seals and sea lions are known to experience peaks in pathogenic harm.[5]
Worldwide perspectiveEdit
It is difficult to visualize the issue of SSO in perspective, since underdeveloped countries discharge most of the sewage they create as effluent into the environment. Even a highly industrialized country such as the People's Republic of China discharges about 55 percent of all sewage without treatment of any type.[6] In a relatively developed Middle Eastern country such as Iran, the majority of Tehran's population has totally untreated sewage injected to the city's groundwater.[7] In Venezuela, a below average country in South America with respect to wastewater treatment, 97 percent of the country's sewage is discharged raw into the environment.[8] Most of sub-Saharan Africa is without wastewater treatment, contributing to the excessive infant death rates in that region.
While developed countries such as the US, Canada, most Western European states, Australia and Japan are considered to be struggling with a public health problem of SSO prevention, the underdeveloped countries of the world discharge approximately 20,000 times the amount of raw sewage into the environment as those advanced countries collectively, approximately (the equivalent of) 100 trillion US gallons (380 km³) of untreated sewage per annum. This dichotomy of expenditure and public health benefit is arguably the greatest disparity between developed and underdeveloped nations as of the year 2006.[citation needed]
See alsoEdit
- ↑ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Washington, DC. "Sanitary Sewer Overflows." Accessed March 28, 2008.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 EPA. "Report to Congress: Impacts and Control of CSOs and SSOs." Executive Summary. August 2004. Document No. EPA-833-R-04-001.
- ↑ Impeller Magazine, published by Monica Spendilow, ITT Flygt AB, SE-174 87 Sundbyberg, Sweden (2004)
- ↑ Environmental Impact Statement for the East Bay Municipal Utility District Wet Weather Overflow Project, Earth Metrics Incorporated, prepared for the U.S. EPA and East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, Ca. (1985)
- ↑ Johnson, S.P., Jang, S., Gulland, F.M.D., Miller, M., Casper, D., Lawrence, J., Herrera, J., "Characterization and clinical manifestations of Arcanobacterium phocae infections in marine mammals stranded along the central California coast." Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 39:136-144 (2003).
- ↑ World Bank Supports China's Wastewater Treatment, The People's Daily, Friday, November 30, 2001, Beijing
- ↑ Massoud Tajrishy and Ahmad Abrishamchi, Integrated Approach to Water and Wastewater Management for Tehran, Iran, Water Conservation, Reuse, and Recycling: Proceedings of the Iranian-American Workshop, National Academies Press (2005)
- ↑ Appropriate Technology for Sewage Pollution Control in the Wider Caribbean Region, Caribbean Environment Programme Technical Report #40 1998


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It was good to get out of conference on Saturday. Tennessee hosted MTSU and got their first win in a month. Let's get to it:
The Good:
Much has been made of Derek Brodus making his first career appearance as a Volunteer. The walk-on scored 6 points. That's a pretty good story.
De-Fense! De-Fense! De-Fense!. I don't care who you play, you shut somebody out, you've done something right.
Justin Worley had a nice game. 23-32 for 291 and a touchdown. His arm is elite, whether or not burning Worley's red-shirt was the right move or not remains to be seen though.
The Bad
The running game has just been awful. Derek Dooley has said time and again that Matt Simms gets the Vols in the best position to run. It's hard to argue that. The Vols averaged a paltry 2.7 yards per carry, and they were down to their 4th tailback of the season in JaRon Toney. The Alcoa product was ok, but the team as a whole really is struggling moving the ball on the ground. Somewhere The General is crying.
The Ugly
Gonna go with fact that this game went head to head with LSU and Alabama. This was a game that I was hoping was at noon. But, such is life.


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We Saw Spain Die
Jeremy Harding writes:
Lois and Charles Orr, an inquisitive, left-of-left couple, arrived in Barcelona in the autumn of 1936. Charles was 30, a serious fellow from Michigan; Lois was 19, more or less fresh from Kentucky. They had married earlier in the year and decided on a honeymoon in Europe. In Catalonia, a matter of weeks after Franco's military uprising against the Second Spanish Republic, they settled happily into a political climate of intrigue and rivalry among the variegated species of anti-Fascists who failed, in the end, to hold the pass: bourgeois democrats and left republicans, socialists, anarchists and Marxists, as well as a host of foreigners, many in tune with the doctrines of the Communist International.


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Photo: Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh/Photo courtesy of Kansas Secretary of State
While digital elections still may be out of reach for most, this week Kansas joined several states that have taken steps to digitize some of the voting process.
According to The Topeka Capital-Journal, any Kansan who has a valid driver's license now can register online to vote. The system unites the secretary of state's voter registration system with the Department of Revenue's driver's license database using software from Election Systems & Software.
Kansas joins a handful of states, including Washington and Arizona, that are permitting residents to register online to vote.
"An online voter registration application is the next step in making the traditional elections process easier, faster and cheaper. As technology continues to change and evolve, it is important that we implement strategies that will allow the citizens of Kansas to register in a way that is most convenient to them, without sacrificing the security and uniformity that sets our elections system apart," Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh said in an agency news release.
To complete the registration process, voters must visit either Vote Kansas or the Kansas Department of Revenue Web site and fill out a questionnaire. The standard questions of age, citizenship and felony convictions appear first, followed by a page on which to enter a valid Kansas driver's license or nondriver's identification card number.
Per Kansas law, first-time voters will still need to present identification at their polling place even if they've registered online. And, of course, traditional registration methods are still available.
According to The Topeka Capital-Journal, Kansas Department of Revenue Secretary Joan Wagnon described the new tool as a "labor of love" and pledged to rid the state of paper processes wherever he could.


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Thread: Where I go under working stress?
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Where I go under working stress?
Where I go under working stress? Prior to present job:I had a regular 9-5 and was able to work out regularly.I was doing 531 with sprints and Lift Heavy Things whenever I was short on time. Now: I recently got a job working as a bartender, which means late nights. When I work I never go to bed before 3 AM. I don't want to lose sleep so I sleep in whenever I can. I've gotten my sleep pattern down so Im not so tired. Wishes:I want to go back to working out hard like I used to, but Im concerned that adding extra stress will just mess with my health instead of improving it. Helps: If anyone has any experience with this kind of situation, I'd really appreciate any advice.
I'm not quite sure how to put my finger on this but your account just feels off to me.
Where are you located?
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George Michael – One More Try….
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Takes me somewhere I want to be.
I did the one more try and struck out not once not twice but three times…
I give up!!!
nice song tho brings bk a lot of memories
plz forgive me, i have hurt you i know but plz i beg you, give me another
My love Michael;)
I wish he would give me one more try. But I know u want. It so hard to let
u go coz my heart wanna let me let u go Emilio. U mean everything to me but
how I suppose to let u go when my heart want let me. Love u with all my
heart Emilio Alston
true, these days once in a blue moon!
I dont care what he does with his private life, all I care is the way he
sing. he's great!!!!
So touching and beautifulllllllllllll!!!!!
GTO??? Time to get a new car lol.
maravillosa cancion… hermosa letra
the best song all time and his voice is the best ,I love George and Elton!
love this song so much.
George Michael meu cantor preferido!!!!!!
Makes me wish I was a gay…
J'adore …….
Is it true he wrote this when he was 16?
Well written funnyfannie69, you have summed it up very well. Wouldn't it be
good if there was romance back in the world today. Too many people want to
push it away and are either scared to accept it or just don't know how to
George Michael……WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
This is such a beautiful song… And he sings the hell out of it
my all time favorite. such an amazing voice. i had to be about 10 r
something when this song came out. i liked it then and still have this song
added to every playlist on the my phone.
The best songs are written from the heart, because the majority of us feel
the emotion within them, we feel loves true power, true pain, we play these
songs to have a good cry to.George has written some unique tracks, and you
can truly understand what was his inspiration, we can all write our own
lyrics within our own hearts, we'll never be as good as the master, but I'm
sure someone you love would appreciate reading them, , where has all the
romance gone today? a little goes a long way <3
Still the best of all time. I really miss quality music like this……!
F##k what you heard, George is one of the best! Luv u boo!!!!


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Connecting the Dot is Propaganda
05/14/2012 Leave a comment
Russ Steele
Bill McKibben was a recent visitor to Nevada City to promote his connect the dot campaign. I wrote about it here and here:
Now another one of the McKibben's spots has gone missing. Details HERE.
'Connect the dots' global warming is a propaganda campaign being conducted by Bill McKibben per James Hansen's "climate science" – empirical measurements confirm Hansen's predicted tropical hotspot has not happened, it's a 'coldspot' instead
Climate alarmist James Hansen has long predicted the catastrophic tipping point of global temperatures from human CO2 emissions. His predictions include the seas will soon be boiling and a significant increase of extreme weather events, due to the excessive warming of the tropical atmosphere.
The excessive warming of the atmosphere over the Tropics is referred to as the AGW 'hotspot' and is the key signature of anthropogenic (by CO2 greenhouse gas) global warming.
Actual temperature measurements of the tropical atmosphere, as shown above, clearly indicate that the catastrophic 'hotspot' does not exist. Additionally, empirical evidence has the tropical atmosphere cooling over the last 15 years, at a -1.2 degree rate by year 2100, which is exact opposite predicted by IPCC climate models and the "experts," such as James Hansen.
Conclusion: Bill McKibben's infamous connect-the-dots global warming is a propaganda farce at best. The AGW signature tropical 'hotspot' does not factually exist; ergo, trillions of tons of human CO2 emissions has not caused a hotspot, boiling oceans or extreme weather events


text: Daniel Loretto [ Tornado Watch For South Jersey Until 2AM Saturday By Chris Coleman June 1, 2012 Looks like we could be in for a bumpy start to our weekend. Read More Category: News Tags: South Jersey, Tornado Watch Send to a friend! Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin it! Reddit This! Share on Tumblr!


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Root Beer Float Cake W. Root Beer Spiced Whipped Cream Frosting
Recipe by southern chef in lo
This is great! Make sure you wait until you're ready to serve before adding the crushed root beer candy. The prep time includes cooling time. Oh yeah, this is great with a cold glass of root beer on the side.
Top Review by Kittencalrecipezazz
Everything about this cake is delicious! I just used 2 whole eggs for this in place of the egg whites and left out the hard root beer candies for the top as I did not have any, I sent this cake home with my DS as part of a Sunday take-home package lol!... thanks so much Dreamgoddess!...Kitten:)
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (18 ounce) package Betty Crocker super moist white cake mix
- 1 1⁄4 cups water
- 1⁄3 cup vegetable oil
- 3 egg whites
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Root Beer Spiced Whipping Cream
- 1 cup heavy cream, whipped
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon allspice
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons crushed root beer decorative candies (garnish)
Directions See How It's Made
- Heat oven to 350°F Grease bottom only of 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan.
- Beat cake mix, water, oil, and egg whites in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed for 30 seconds; move to medium speed for 2 minutes. Reserve 1 cup of batter.
- To the reserved batter, add the allspice and cinnamon; stir and set aside. Pour remaining batter into pan.
- Drop the reserved batter by tablespoons all around the batter in the pan (about 12 to 14 mounds); swirl the batter together in an "S" shape.
- Bake 28 to 33 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely for 1 hour. After cake is cooled, make frosting.
- Beat all the ingredients of the frosting together in a chilled bowl until soft peaks form. Frost the cake. Just before serving, sprinkle each piece with crushed root beer candies. Store covered in refrigerator.


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REPORT: STATE CHILD CARE SPENDING PLUMMETS: State spending on child care assistance has fallen to new lows, according to an analysis from the Center for Law and Social Policy, or CLASP. Spending within the Child Care and Development Block Grant is at its lowest level since 2002. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds used for child care is at its lowest since 1998. Total combined child care spending, including federal and state CCDBG and TANF funds, fell from $12.9 billion in 2011 to $11.4 billion in 2012. And about 38 states spent less on child care in 2012 than they did in 2011, the analysis says. http://bit.ly/1l1RYmj


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|Room Service
|Dustin Lee Abraham,
Henry Alonso Myers
|Kenneth Fink
|Original Airdate
|September 29, 2005
|Previous Episode: Bodies in Motion
|Next Episode: Bite Me
Room Service is the second episode of the sixth season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Synopsis Edit
An up and coming movie star is found dead in his hotel room after partying with groupies. In another case, a dead cab driver leads the team to a string of deaths involving immigrant workers.
Plot Edit
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Cast Edit
Main Cast Edit
- William Petersen as Gil Grissom
- Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows
- Gary Dourdan as Warrick Brown
- George Eads as Nick Stokes
- Jorja Fox as Sara Sidle
- Eric Szmanda as Greg Sanders
- Paul Guilfoyle as Jim Brass
Guest Stars Edit
- Robert David Hall as Dr. Al Robbins
- Louise Lombard as Detective Sofia Curtis
- Wallace Langham as David Hodges
- Archie Kao as Archie Johnson
- David Berman as David Phillips
- Larry M. Mitchell as Officer Mitchell
- Art Chudabala as Keo Vipraxay
- Paul Dillon as Joe Cavanaugh
- Jeff D'Agostino as Gerald 'Blinky' Allison
- Kristin Richardson as Eva
- Silas Weir Mitchell as Willie Angel
- Maite Schwartz as Kate
- Alona Tal as Tally Jordan
- Eric Winter as Julian Harper
- Tang Nguyen as Noy Vipraxay
- Chi Muoi Lo as Samay (uncredited)
Notes Edit
- First appearance of Officer Mitchell.
Trivia Edit
- While taking a picture of Julian Harper, Dr. Robbins apparently collects photos of celebrities who died in Las Vegas: Tupac Shakur (shot to death) and John Entwistle (cocaine-induced heart attack).
Music Edit
- Mad World by Gary Jules (played in the opening and ending scenes)
- Have Tears, Have No Fears by Tears for Fears
- Infamous (Instrumental) by DJ Honda
- Look Right Through Me by Lisa
Goofs Edit
- When Warrick is in the hotel room at the start, the corpse's legs alternate between open and closed.
See also Edit
- List of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episodes
- CSI:Crime Scene Investigation Season 6
- Category:Images from Room Service
|CSI:Las Vegas Season 6
|Bodies in Motion • Room Service • Bite Me • Shooting Stars • Gum Drops • Secrets and Flies • A Bullet Runs Through It, Part 1 • A Bullet Runs Through It, Part 2 • Dog Eat Dog • Still Life • Werewolves • Daddy's Little Girl • Kiss-Kiss, Bye-Bye • Killer • Pirates of the Third Reich • Up in Smoke • I Like to Watch • The Unusual Suspect • Spellbound • Poppin' Tags • Rashomama • Time of Your Death • Bang-Bang • Way to Go


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In Bad Faith: New Study Further Underscores Lack of Truth in Anti-Choice Claims
Written by Amanda Marcotte for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. One of the most frustrating parts of dealing with the modern conservative movement is their incredibly practiced disingenuousness. From a bunch of white people denying racism while pushing racist policies to a bunch of straight people claiming that they want to ban gay marriage not because they hate gays, but because they love "traditional marriage," the constant pose of the modern right winger is one of bad faith. Nowhere is this more true than when it comes to the anti-choice movement. Despite arsons, vandalism and occasional assassinations, anti-choice activists demand the right to label their movement "non-violent." And despite the fact that the movement is organized by religious people whose religion teaches that women should be constrained to traditional gender roles and that sex outside of marriage (or for pleasure instead of procreation) is wrong, anti-choicers cry foul if you suggest that their activism against women's liberation or sexual freedom somehow is rooted in opposition to women's liberation or hostility to sex. All this means that liberals have to spend a lot of time collecting evidence that conservatives are arguing in bad faith. Some times that takes the form of catching them in moments of honesty when they're only speaking to their fellow travelers, and their relaxed state allows racist or sexist language to fly. And some times that means proving that it's literally impossible for someone who claims to be accepting of liberal value like anti-sexism or anti-racism to hold the views that conservatives do. That's what the recent study did, where researchers compiled national statistics on abortion and childbirth and found that childbirth is 14 times more dangerous than abortion. Continue reading....
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The Endicott House, Broadway.
The Endicott House, Broadway.
Homes of Robert R. Endicott, 16 Broadway. Now the home for the School for Field Studies.
Endicott, Robert R. -- Homes and haunts.
Broadway (Beverly, Mass.)
School for Field Studies.
Mansions -- Massachusetts -- Beverly.
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text: PoliticsViolence in Iraq's Kirkuk intensifies Deaths and injuries in Kirkuk, where rallies take place despite a ban, strike fear into people and politicians. 27 Apr 2013 12:38 GMT | Politics, Middle East, Iraq Demonstrations against Iraq's Shia-led government, which first started in December, have spiralled in recent days across the country, with more than 200 people reported to have been killed. Attacks followed a deadly police raid on anti-government protesters in the town of Hawija on Tuesday. In nearby Kirkuk, where demonstrations were banned, tribal leaders have authorised their members to carry weapons amid the violence. Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports from Kirkuk.Source: Al Jazeera


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If 12 PSI is the nominal requirement for a boiler systems static pressure in a typical two story house (and both feed water pressure regulators and expansion tanks generally come factory pre-set to 12 PSI), what is the nominal static pressure "ideal" for a single story house?
I have a single story home with the boiler in the basement level. Would 10 PSI be a better choice for static pressure in my case?


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Jetblue 10 Dollar Flights
May 10, 2010 by Post Team
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Elementary school menus
Students have a choice of one entree or cold sandwich and two fruits or vegetables, or a salad plate and one fruit or vegetable. Meatless entree, chef salad and cold sandwich selection available daily. Both include choice of low-fat milk, skim milk or skim chocolate milk; bread or crackers; and dessert when available.
Check the Food Services Web site for changes and additional information at pinellas.k12.fl.us/is/fsmenus.
Monday: No school.
Tuesday: roasted chicken, yogurt and fruit plate, mashed potatoes, salad, mixed vegetables, fruit and juice, roll, dessert
Wednesday: potato turbate, hot dog, salad, green peas, coleslaw, baked beans, fruit and juice, roll
Thursday: Cuban pork, grilled cheese, veggies with dip, tomato soup, sweet potato wedges, fruit and juice, crackers, dessert
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|The More Things Change: Part 1
|Original broadcast
| August 1, 2012 (Sneak Episode)
September 22, 2012 (Season Premiere)
|Ben 10: Omniverse
|Episode number
|Overall episode number
|Written by
| Charlotte Fullerton
Dwayne McDuffie
|Directed by
|Dan Riba
|Previous episode
|The Ultimate Enemy: Part 2
|Next episode
|The More Things Change: Part 2
The More Things Change: Part 1 is the first episode of Ben 10: Omniverse.
Five years ago, Four Arms is fighting a red Galvanic Mechamorph called Malware. While at first it appears that Four Arms is winning, Malware manages to grab the Omnitrix and forces Four Arms to transform back to human. Malware confronts Ben and taunts him about his defeat, which allows enough time for the Omnitrix to activate again. Ben transforms into Feedback and uses his energy absorbing and redirecting powers to quickly defeat Malware.
In the present day, 16 year-old Ben is in pursuit of Zombozo (who has stolen a brain from Bellwood's brain bank) with Gwen and Kevin. Ben transforms into Lodestar and with Kevin and Gwen's help captures Zombozo. Once Zombozo is tied up, Gwen and Kevin prepare to leave. Gwen is skipping several grades of high school and leaving for college. Ben is surprised to learn that Kevin (who has found a place near Gwen's campus) is leaving too. Realizing that he will be left all alone, Ben shares an emotional goodbye with Kevin and Gwen. As they leave, Zombozo begins to mock Ben, claiming that he would have never captured him without his friends' help. Ben fiercely responds that he is a superhero and does not need help to get the job done. He leaves to find something to eat.
After driving past Mr. Smoothy because "it wouldn't be the same" Ben drives to Max's Plumbing store. Using the secret entrance in the store's bathroom, Ben descends into the Plumbers Base beneath Bellwood.
Ben meets up with Grandpa Max, who tries to inform him about something important. Before he can, an alarm goes off and Ben goes off to find the problem. When he arrives he is shocked to see half of a building destroyed, with a giant crater left. Watching from the shadows is Khyber, who attaches the Nemetrix to his pet and lets it run into the crater. Khyber whistles, and his pet transforms into Crabdozer, to test Ben and goes after Ben. Ben trying to transform into Humungousaur, but transforms into Spidermonkey instead. Spidermonkey tries to fight it, but is no match for Crabdozer's strength. Just as Crabdozer is about to finish Spidermonkey, Khyber whistles again and calls it back.
As Spidermonkey transforms back to human, an alien named Pakmar comes out of a nearby toilet he was hiding in. Pakmar reveals that this was his shop, a toilet emporium. Unfortunately he was confronted by a gang of alien criminals. The criminals force all of the alien shops in Bellwood to pay them Taydenite for "protection". If the shop owners refuse, the criminals destroy their shops.
With this information, Ben goes off to Mr. Baumann's alien grocery store. He asks him if he has had any demands from the alien criminals. While Mr Baumann originally denies that he has had any meetings with them, he eventually admits to it. At first he does not want Ben to interfere, Ben manages to convince him to let him observe quietly. In order to disguise himself, he turns into Cannonbolt and immediately attracts attention. After accidentally dealing some damage, he settles down in the store's food bar.
Remembering how hungry he is, Cannonbolt asks the customer next to him if he can have his food. Just as he is about to begin eating, the trio of alien criminals arrive.
The alien criminals (Bubble Helmet, Liam, and Fistina) have arrived with their bomb. Mr. Baumann quickly pays them Taydenite so that they will leave, but Cannonbolt interrupts. While both Bubble Helmet and Mr. Baumann try to convince him to stay out of it, Cannonbolt still confronts the criminals. Bubble Helmet begins to attack and the Cannonbolt rushes into the fight. Ducking behind his counter, Mr. Baumann expresses his disapproval of lasers and the damage that Ben always does to the store.
While the other customers run out of the store, the alien that sat next to Cannonbolt continues to calmly eat his meal. Bubble Helmet activates the bomb and signals his partners to run away. While Cannonbolt tries to breach the force-field around the bomb, he ultimately fails as the Omnitrix times out. As Mr. Baumann inquires Ben to when his friends will come to save the day, the alien sitting at the counter unveils himself. Using his Proto-Tool and agile gymnastics, the alien is able to defeat the criminals. He introduces himself to Ben as Rook, a Plumber sent by Max, and Ben's new partner.
Ben is not happy to hear the news, trying to tell Rook that he works alone now. Rook insists that he is his partner and mentions how honored he is to meet Ben. While he likes hearing this, Ben still refuses to accept Rook as a partner. However, due to the events around them, Rook and Ben cooperate to disable the bomb and catch the escaping criminals.
Ben transforms into a new alien named Bloxx, and rushes to stop the bomb while Rook goes after the criminals. Seeing that he can't affect the bomb due to the forcefield, Bloxx and Rook switch places. Bloxx covers the criminals with a dome he builds his body into, as Rook evaluates the bomb. Rook states that he can't crack the force field in time, and needs to get the bomb out of the current populated area. Blasting a whole in the wall with his Proto-Tool, he calls Bloxx over to help carry the bomb outside. After scanning a nearby abandoned building for sentient life, Rook deduces that there is no one for the bomb to hurt, and Bloxx attempts to throw it in. As he is about to, the alien criminals run outside and blast Bloxx's arms to bits. Bloxx tries to catch it, but the bomb breaks through him and falls back down. With little time left, Bloxx builds himself into a catapult under the bomb and launches it into the empty building.
The bomb detonates, destroying the building and leaving behind a large crater. The crater has exposed a hidden tunnel and the three criminals run into it.
Ben and Rook run after them and emerge from the tunnel into a secret, underground, alien city: Undertown. Ben is shocked by this discovery, but remembers his mission as he runs after the criminals with Rook.
Above-ground, Khyber once again attaches the Nemetrix to his dog. Telling it to show no mercy, he releases it after Ben, and it runs into the tunnel.
Major EventsEdit
- The team disbands and Gwen leaves for college along with Kevin moving into her college's town.
- Rook makes his debut and becomes Ben's new partner, in place of Gwen and Kevin.
- Bloxx gets unlocked and makes his first appearance.
- Feedback makes his first appearance as one of 11-year old Ben's primary aliens.
- Spidermonkey, Lodestar and Cannonbolt make their Ben 10: Omniverse debuts (by 16-year old Ben).
- Four Arms makes his flashback Omniverse debut (by 11-year old Ben).
- Zombozo makes his Omniverse debut.
- Malware makes his flashback debut.
- Khyber, Khyber's Dog, Crabdozer, Pakmar, Bubble Helmet, Fistina, Liam, Molly Gunther, and Plumber Jerry make their debuts.
- Khyber
- Liam
- Bubble Helmet
- Fistina
- Malware
- Blukic (cameo)
- Driba (cameo)
- Solid Plugg (cameo)
- Pakmar
- Rook Blonko
- Molly Gunther (cameo)
- Plumber Jerry (cameo)
Omnitrix Alien DebutsEdit
- Lodestar (Omniverse debut)
- Spidermonkey (Omniverse debut)
- Cannonbolt (Omniverse debut)
- Bloxx (first appearance)
Nemetrix Alien DebutsEdit
- Crabdozer (first appearance)
- Ben Tennyson (16 and 11 years old) (first re-apperance)
- Rook Blonko (first appearance)
- Max Tennyson (first re-apperance)
- Gwen Tennyson (first re-apperance)
- Kevin Levin (first re-apperance)
- Mr. Baumann (first re-appearance)
- Pakmar (first appearance)
- Magister Patelliday (first re-appearance; cameo)
- Driba (first appearance; cameo)
- Blukic (first appearance; cameo)
- Solid Plugg (first appearance; cameo)
- Molly Gunther (first appearance; cameo)
- Jerry (first appearance; cameo)
Present VillainsEdit
- Khyber (first appearance)
- Khyber's Pet (first appearance)
- Zombozo (first re-appearance)
- Liam (first appearance)
- Bubble Helmet (first appearance)
- Fistina (first appearance)
Past VillainsEdit
- Malware (first appearance)
Aliens UsedEdit
By 11 year old BenEdit
By 16 year old BenEdit
- Lodestar (first re-appearance)
- Spidermonkey (first re-appearance; accidental transformation, intended alien was Humungousaur)
- Cannonbolt (first re-appearance)
- Bloxx (debut)
By Khyber's DogEdit
- Crabdozer (first appearance)
Cannonbolt: That was me, my bad. Hey, how's it going, fellow aliens? Nice weather we're having here on Earth, huh?
Mr. Baumann: Ben, you're not fooling anybody.
Gwen: Take care of yourself, doofus.
Ben: You too, dweeb.
Kevin: Don't do anything I wouldn't do.
Ben: Count on it.
Bloxx: I got it!................ I don't got it.
Spidermonkey: Why do you hate me, new Omnitrix?
Khyber: The stories are true that Tennyson is worthy prey.
Mr. Baumann: I knew this was gonna happen the second he walked into my store.
Lodestar: Not what I was going for.... But I can work with this.
Zombozo: Oh! What a touching moment......Too bad you would never have caught me all by you're lonesome.
Ben: Watch it, Zombozo! I don't need a team to get the job done!
Grandpa Max: Wait for back-up..I'll send alpha team.
Ben Tennyson: I don't need a team, I'm me!!!
Pakmar: This is my place....Was my place Pakmar's place!!
Ben: Woah... Bye bye building. (Ben sees the building during the explosion.) What could have done this?
Bubble Helmet: Pay up, Baumman.
Khyber: Show no mercy.
Max:I have something that ought to cheer you up (Proceeds to show Rook's file but is stopped by alarm)
Ben: Call me Ben, dude.
Bloxx: Whoah, who's this guy?
- In some scenes, Cannonbolt is shown without his back shell.
- In one scene, Liam was missing his comb.
- When Ben was talking to Mr. Baumann the table that had the Gloppenbeef sandwiches disappears.
- In the beginning of the episode there was a big wildfire, but in the next scene it was gone.
- In some scenes during the battle between Four Arms and Malware, Four Arms didn't had the black stripe on his back.
- When Cannonbolt was rolling into a ball to trap Liam his back was black.
- When Four Arms hits Malware with a tree, the Omnitrix briefly appears in his right shoulder instead of his left.
- When the prototype Omnitrix is deactivated by Malware, neither the light nor the colour of the Omnitrix is red.
- After Ben transforms to Bloxx, he made two cracks on the ground with his fists.When he tells to Rook to switch places the cracks disappear.
- When Rook launched a net out of the Proto-Tool it caught Liam and Fistina, they were laying flat but on the next scene it showed them they were on their sides.
- When Ben reverts from Bloxx, he and Rook are just in front of the hole, but in the very next shot, they are shown to be at the side of it.
- When young Ben was trying to activate the Omnitrix after Malware deactivated it, it had the activation button on the wrong side.
- When Feedback was about to blast Malware his fingers are square instead of circle.
Naming and TranslationsEdit
|Portuguese (Brazil)
|Quanto Mais as Coisas Mudam, 1ª Parte
|The More Things Change, 1st Part
|Spanish (Latin America)
|Muchas Cosas Cambian, Primera Parte
|Many Things Change, First Part
|Spanish (Spain)
|Cambiar para que nada Cambie, Parte 1
|Change So That Nothing Changes, Part 1
|Plus les choses changent: 1ère Partie
|The more things change: Part 1
|Колкото повече се променяш, част I
|The more you change, Part I
|عندما تتغير اللعبة, الجزء 1
|When the game changes, Part I
|ככל שהדברים משתנים חלק א
|When the things changes, Part I
- The title of this episode is based on the saying "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
- When Ben says to Rook: "Just call me Ben, Dude", with Rook responding: "All right, Ben-Dude", this is similar to how Reinrassic III refers to Ben as Ben-Ben Tennyson after Ben tells him "My name is Ben, Ben Tennyson".
- This episode aired on August 1st as a sneak peek.
- This episode marks the debut of the Nemetrix.


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Mark and Michael Munoz finish last but avoid 'The Amazing Race' exit
By John Bracchitta, 04/13/2009
The "Brothers/Stuntmen" team of Mark and
Michael Munoz
were the last team to arrive at
The Amazing Race
seventh Pit Stop. However instead of being eliminated, the team discovered that the leg was the race's second (and final) non-elimination leg.
Instead of going home, Mark, a 48-year-old stuntman/jockey from Los Angeles, CA, and Michael, a 51-year-old stuntman/actor from Maui, HI, will get to continue in the race's eighth leg but have to overcome a Speed Bump, a special task that only they will have to complete, as well as four hours worth of additional time penalties for using personal items to pay for cab rides during two of their seventh-leg taxi rides.
"The last couple legs we've really made some poor decisions," said Mike following the revelation by
The Amazing Race
host Phil Keoghan that they had been spared elimination. "We have to do this and just kinda stay level headed and not panic."
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eighth leg began with the five remaining teams departing from the Tim Wat Theo Nimit Temple, a temple in Phuket, Thailand that served as the Pit Stop for the
seventh Pit Stop.
Following the mandatory rest period, the "Sibling Lawyers" team of
Tammy Jih
, a 26-year-old lawyer from San Francisco, CA, and
Victor Jih
, a 35-year-old lawyer from Los Angeles, CA, were the first team to depart at 9:27PM and instructed to fly to Bangkok, Thailand. Once there, they would have to travel via taxi to a local boat town and search it for their next clue.
They were followed by the teams of "Former NFL Cheerleaders"
Cara Rosenthal
, a 26-year-old law student from Boca Raton, FL, and
Jaime Edmondson
, a 29-year-old former police officer from Ft. Lauderdale, FL, at 12:31AM; Mark and Michael at 12:46AM; "Mother and Son"
Margie Adams
, a 51-year-old clinical research associate from Denver, CO, and
Luke Adams
, a 23-year-old college graduate from Denver, CO, at 12:53AM; and Sisters"
Jennifer Hoffman
, a 24-year-old marketing assistant from Louisville, KY, and
LaKisha Hoffman
, a 28-year-old program coordinator from Bronx, NY, who left at 1:05AM.
Upon arriving at the airport first, Victor and Tammy discovered that the first flight from Phuket to Bangkok would not leave until 7:25AM, allowing all of the teams ample time to make it to the airport and board the same flight.
After eventually boarding the flight, the five teams headed to Bangkok on the same flight and, upon landing there, all ran out to grab taxis.
Margie and Luke were the first team to grab a taxi and head to the boat town. They were followed by Kisha and Jen, Jaime and Cara, Tammy and Victor, and Mark and Michael.
While Kisha and Jen were able to jump into the lead momentarily en route to the town, Margie and Luke re-took the lead after telling their cab driver to give Kisha and Jen's driver incorrect directions when the two cabs stopped momentarily to discuss where to go.
After re-taking the lead, Margie and Luke were the first team to arrive at the town and receive their next clue, which informed the teams that one member of each team to complete a Roadblock task that required them to attach a rear propeller to a traditional longtail boat in order to receive their next clue.
Margie took part in the challenge for her team, as did Jaime, Victor, Mark and Kisha for their teams after arriving at the town in that order.
Margie had no problem attaching the propeller allowing her team to maintain their first-place lead. After completing the task, she and Luke received a clue that instructed them to use a provided map to navigate their longtail boat through the town to Peninsula Pier.
Jaime completed the challenge in second and got in the longtail boat with Cara to leave. However as they left they quickly turned their boat around to run and get their bags from their taxi in case they didn't return to the site.
Mark finished the challenge in third. He and Mike, as well as Jen and Kisha who finished the challenge in fourth, decided to leave their bags with their cabs, despite Jen's pleas to Kisha to think otherwise.
Once on the boat, Jen also realized that in addition to their bags, they had also left a fanny pack that contained their money and passports on the boat dock. However Kisha insisted that they keep moving forward and just hope that they would get to return to the site to get their bags later.
Tammy and Victor were the last team to finish the challenge, and grabbed their bags as they left to catch up.
Margie and Luke were the first team to find the pier. Once there, they learned that it was time for them to complete one of the leg's two Detour task options, "Broken Teeth" or "Broken Record."
For "Broken Teeth" the teams would have to make their way to the area of town called the "Street of Happy Smiles" and then search through 50 pairs of dentures and find the appropriately sized pairs for five waiting patients in order to receive their next clue.
For "Broken Record" teams would have to make their way to a parking lot where they would choose a party taxi equipped with an onboard karaoke as well as a group of local singers. The team would then have to sing a popular Taiwanese song as the cab drove a five-mile course. While no actual skill was particularly needed for the challenge, teams who chose it would be at the mercy of Bangkok's bad traffic before receiving their next clue.
Margie and Luke chose "Teeth" because they felt they were bad singers, while Jaime and Cara, Mark and Mike, Kisha and Jen and Victor and Tammy all chose to do "Records."
"We're Chinese, we have to do karaoke," joked Victor.
"Mamma would be proud," added Tammy.
Meanwhile, after discovering they would be doing a Detour task instead of returning to the boat dock, Mark and Michael began arguing about how to get their bags back, with Mark suggesting that they have the taxi driver meet them at the Chinatown location they needed to travel to for the Detour task and Mike insisting they have the taxi driver meet them at their current location.
After discussing the situation with some locals, they ultimately decided to have another taxi driver drive them back to their previous cab, however they continued arguing about the matter along the way.
"You don't want the million dollars, you just want to play," Mark told Mike sternly.
Jen was also angry about having left her bags and personal items behind as she and Kisha proceeded forward with the "Records" challenge.
"I'm upset, I'm mad, I'm worried about the fact that my passport is on a dock somewhere and we don't have any money," she said.
After initially having trouble with their "Teeth" challenge, Margie and Luke were still able to finish it and be the first team to receive their next clue instructing them to go to the Phya Thai Palace, the Race's Pit Stop for its eighth leg.
Margie and Luke continued to maintain their lead on the way to the Pit Stop, resulting in the mother and son becoming the first team to check-in and winning a trip to a spa resort in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Jaime and Cara finished their Detour task second and also maintained their spot all the way to the Pit Stop, where they were the second team to check-in.
Meanwhile, Markand Mike arrived back at their previous cab and discovered that "someone else" had made the same mistake and had also left their bags behind in a still-waiting taxi. After paying the taxi driver that had driven them back from the pier, they then re-boarded their original cab and drove to the Detour task location in Chinatown. However given the extra taxi travel, the brothers only had enough money for about three-quarters of the taxi fare when they reached the Detour task location, causing them to use a compass and a flashlight that were among their personal items to pay the balance.
While Jen and Kisha finished the Detour and headed to the Pit Stop just ahead of Tammy and Victor, they were not allowed to check into the Pit Stop because they did had left their travel documents in the fanny pack back at the boat dock. Phil told them that they needed to go back and retrieve them before they could officially finish their leg of the race.
Jen and Kisha's mistake allowed Tammy and Victor to bump up one spot and finished the leg in third place. While the "Sisters" team went to retrieve their bags, Mark and Mike were able to finish up their Detour and head to the Pit Stop, once again paying part of the cab driver's fare with some of their own personal goods.
However upon arriving at the Pit Stop, Phil informed Mark and Mike that while they had arrived in fourth place, that they would be assessed a two-hour penalty for each time they had paid the cab driver with personal goods before they could check in.
Fifty minutes into Mark and Mike's penalty, Kisha and Jen returned to the Pit Stop with their personal items and bags and were officially able to check-in as the fourth team to finish the leg. With three-hours-and-ten-minutes left in their penalty, Phil had Mark and Mike check in and revealed to them that the leg was indeed the season's second non-elimination leg. He also then added that, in addition to the Speed Bump task they would have to complete due to finishing last, their remaining penalty time would be added to their departure time for the next leg.
The next episode of
The Amazing Race
will air Sunday, April 19 at 8PM ET/PT on CBS.
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A few things that make me different than the average guy:
I've been vegan for about four years, and it's been several years since I've had a drink of alcohol. If your diet is different from mine, or if you enjoy a drink every once in a while, don't let my unique set of rules scare you away. I'm perfectly comfortable around drunk carnivores, and hopefully you'll be just as comfortable around a sober vegan. :)
The third thing that makes me different from your average dude is that I believe in one less diety than most people. I try to be respectful of other's beliefs, but if you put a higher value on faith than science, then I hate to say it, but it probably won't be a match made in heaven (pun intended).
Traveling. One of my goals is to travel more often, even if it's just a weekend trip.
In the last few years, I've accomplished some major goals. The one thing that was missing was having a special woman to share in the adventures. I'm not the type that needs to be in a relationship, but for me, spending time with someone you care about, and that cares for you, makes everything a bit better.
This is sounding really cliche isn't it? Moving on then...
Photography, or at least I like to think I'm really good. The more complicated the assignment, the bigger the reward when it's complete. I love shooting panoramas.
I really like figuring out what makes people tick, why they think the way they do, and understanding their views. I should have gone into neuroscience.
And (over)analyzing things.
TV: Futurama, Derek, anything Seth MacFarlane, and any Nickelodeon show from the 80s or 90s.
Books: My Name Is Bill, Born to Run, The Demon-Haunted World, A Brief History of Time.
Movies: Dark City, Ted, Finding Forrester.
Healthy vegan food
Science/Intellectual curiosity
Funny times
How America could put a man on the moon almost 50 years ago, but not today. And how a man can ascend 120,000 feet, jump, and land on the ground on his feet.
Why so many people believe things that to me seem totally batshit crazy.
Science, astrophysics, and how the universe works.
And robots.
I've never seen Top Gun, and have no desire to see it.
Baseball, football, hockey, basketball...not into them.
You freakin' love science.
You have compassion for people and animals.
Your political views lean toward the left.
You aren't scared of fruits and veggies.
You don't need booze to have a good time...or can at least appreciate the reasons why someone would choose to abstain from alcohol.


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FORT HOOD, Texas - Military prosecutors have rested their case against the Army psychiatrist accused in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood.
Prosecutors wrapped up their case Tuesday during the military trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others at the Texas military base in November 2009.
Prosecutors called nearly 90 witnesses. Many of them identified Hasan as the gunman who opened fire inside a crowded medical building at the sprawling Army post on Nov. 5, 2009.
A photographer who was taking pictures of a graduation ceremony on post testified in court on Tuesday.
"I heard gunshots," said photographer Steven Bennett. "Mass amounts of people started running towards the theater."
Bennett identified the man he saw as Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan.
"I saw an individual acting suspicious, very strangely," Bennett testified. "He was checking the doors of the building. I started taking photos of this person. He was very agitated, frantic. He seemed unnatural."
Bennett also told the court he had a brief conversation with Hasan.
"He told me it was a paintball gun and that this was a training exercise," Bennett testified.
Government prosecutors introduced a series of photographers taken by Bennett as evidence.
"He disappeared in between some buildings and I heard more gunshots," explained Bennett. "I thought I'd better take photos in case someone needed them later."
Bennett also testified that he took a picture showing wounded officer Kimberly Munley.
"Officer Munley was against the door bleeding," Bennett said.
Hasan is representing himself during the trial.
Hasan would then begin to lay out his defense, though it's unclear whether he will testify.
Hasan faces the death penalty if he's convicted. If Hasan gets a death sentence, the case will automatically go to the military appeals courts, which have overturned most of the death sentences they have reviewed.
Court is in recess until Wednesday.
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Sports Minister Richard Caborn plans to amend the Olympic Bill in order to override the ancient covenant.
The amendment will be inserted before the Bill gets to the House of Lords, where it should be passed this year.
"The covenant stops you from building sports facilities, which I said is not very helpful," said Caborn.
The 30 hectare site, complete with an Olympic village, new 80,000-seater stadium and transport facility, will be one of the main focuses of the Games in 2012.
Caborn also said he expects a deal will be struck within a day over a contested strip of land wanted for the Olympic site.
London & Continental Railways (LCR) has been involved in a tussle with the London Development Agency over the 180-acre Stratford City site it owns as part of a development consortium.
LCR want it for a £4bn development including 4,850 homes, 120 shops and office space. The LDA has other ideas and there has been talk of a compulsory purchase order.
It has been argued that the land is essential for access roads and car parking for the Olympics.
Caborn said: "The best way here for all parties is to have an agreement and I'm hopeful that will happen in the next 24 hours."


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People in Eureka reveal their New Year's resolutions
With just hours left in 2013, people in Eureka gave news channel 3 their New Year's resolutions.
"My new year's resolution this year is just to be a better person and to be kinder to everyone around me," said Tracy Thayer, who lives in Eureka.
"We were talking about hiking the trinity alps this year and getting back into our healthy self gear and it should be really exciting," said Jessica La Farga of Arcata.
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text: The town seems to be cleaning itself up before camp begins. But funny...do they think gang members are going to be impersonating players? ______________________________________ Injunction arrests begin in Oxnard By Jessica Keating, jkeating@VenturaCounty June 25, 2004 A preliminary injunction against the largest street gang in Oxnard led to three arrests in the past week, marking the police department's first attempts to enforce court-ordered restrictions on the Colonia Chiques. Oxnard Police Department officials say the arrests demonstrate their commitment to implementing the injunction temporarily approved by a Superior Court judge earlier this month. "We had every intention of making arrests," said Sgt. Eric Sonstegard, who supervises the police department's violent-crime task force. "I think we'd be doing a disservice to everybody who has invested time in this if we see people violating the injunction and we don't make any arrests," he added. The first arrest came a week after police began serving suspected gang members with official notice of new rules that restrict certain activities in a 6.6-square-mile patchwork of neighborhoods, parks and businesses designated a "safety zone." Ernesto Perez, 20, of Oxnard, was arrested June 18 on suspicion of disobeying the court order. Sonstegard said Perez violated the injunction's curfew by going out after 10 p.m., police said. Three days later, police arrested Leonardo Medina, 22, also of Oxnard, for allegedly disobeying the injunction's ban on associating with gang members. And on Thursday of this week, Felix Aguilar, 19, also of Oxnard, was arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs, a violation of the injunction. Among other rules, members of the Chiques cannot make gang signs or wear Dallas Cowboys attire. http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/news/article/0,1375,VCS_121_2991481,00.html