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Circulon Ultimum 25cm Frying Pan
Circulon Ultimum 25cm Frying Pan
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- 25cm frying pan
- Exceptional non-stick for low-fat frying
- Outstanding heat distribution
- Safe to use with metal utensils
- Suitable for any hob
- Lifetime manufacturer's guarantee
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- 25cm frying pan
- Exceptional non-stick for low-fat frying
- Outstanding heat distribution
- Safe to use with metal utensils
- Suitable for any hob
- Lifetime manufacturer's guarantee
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Circulon Ultimum 25cm Frying Pan
At 25cm across, this Circulon Ultimum Frying Pan is great for pancakes, omelettes and French toast as well as big fry-ups. And with its superior non-stick coating you can keep fat usage to an absolute minimum.
About the Circulon Ultimum Range
Guaranteed non-stick When Circulon say non-stick, they mean non-stick. In fact, they're so sure that the ULTRA Total non-stick system they've used on this range can deliver total food release, it's covered by guarantee for the lifetime of the pan. Consisting of a premium, all-over, triple-layered coating, it offers exemplary food release and maximum durability. Ultra-smooth to prevent staining, scratching or chipping, the hi-low grooved design also protects the cooking surface by reducing abrasion – helping to make it so tough that you can even use metal utensils on it.Durable It's not just the non-stick coating that's built to last. The bodies of the pans are made from high density, forged aluminium, hard anodised for extra toughness, and all the fittings – the lid, handle and rivets – are made from cast stainless steel for a really hard-wearing finish. Versatile With thickened aluminium bases that deliver fast, even heating with no hot spots, there aren't many stovetop tasks these pans can't do – and do exceptionally well. But every pan in the range also has a forged edge-to-edge base that means they can be used on all types of hob, including induction. And because the fittings are all stainless steel, they can go into the oven too, where they can be used up to a very impressive 260°C. Good-looking When it comes to cookware, performance is always going to be more important than appearance – but it doesn't hurt if your pans are pretty too. Twinning a hard-anodised finish with shiny stainless steel makes for a super-smart look you'd be more than happy to see out on display. Easy to clean Flat rivets on the inside mean there's nowhere for food to get stuck. And because nobody likes cleaning pans, Circulon have expertly engineered these ones to withstand the abrasive properties of detergents, so you can stick them in the dishwasher safe in the knowledge that you're not shortening their lives.
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About Circulon
Pioneers in producing professional cookware, Circulon created the industry's first hard-anodised non-stick cookware over 30 years ago and they've continued to develop their ranges to deliver improved performance ever since. When you buy from Circulon, you're buying a pan that's been meticulously designed, expertly engineered and agonised over to the very last detail – and it shows.
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Tinkers follows the intertwined lives of three New England generations: son, father and grandfather. It is also a meditation on time and memory, families and human frailty, and the struggle to find order in a chaotic universe.
The story begins in 1972, during the last eight days of George Washington Crosby's life. As he lies dying in his home, surrounded by family, George's memory slips nearly 70 years back in time to his own childhood, and to his father, Howard Aaron Crosby, an itinerant tinker, poet and epileptic, estranged from his son and family. Time folds in on itself, further back to Howard's memories of his father – a Methodist preacher; a "strange and gentle man", whose passionate sermons invoked the wonders of all of God's creatures, and exasperated his parishioners.
George has grown up in West Cove, a small, remote mill town in northern Maine in the 1920s. Howard, his father, is often absent, traveling the countryside selling housewares. He is a kind man, but his unpredictable seizures are frightening and confusing to George and his three siblings. His mother, Kathleen, nurtures a deep anger with her circumstances, providing no comfort for her children. When George is twelve, his father's grand mal seizure at the family dinner table becomes a turning point in his life; George runs away from home, and doesn't look back for many years. He becomes a physics instructor and a mender of clocks; and builds a "wonderful life together" – a predictable and orderly life – with his wife and children.
Howard's childhood, in late 19th century rural Maine, is equally unsettled. His father was more mystic than minister, increasingly out of touch with the world. Shortly after Howard's mother arranges to have his father committed to a sanitarium, Howard experiences his first epileptic seizure. As a young man he marries Kathleen. They have four children: George, the eldest, Marjorie, Darla and Joe. After his son George leaves home, Howard discovers Kathleen's plans to have him committed. He leaves his family, moves to Philadelphia and marries Megan Finn, a good-hearted woman who takes George's seizures in her stride. Only much later in life does Howard attempt to reconnect with his son, when he very briefly visits George and his grown family at Christmastime in Massachusetts.
Harding has remarked that George's remembrances represent his attempt, as a dying man, to "reassemble his father – his best and only way of reconciliation" (Porter Square Books lecture, Cambridge MA, January 25, 2011).

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I'm just going to throw this in here:
First of all, no, I don't think they'd accept human as warchief. It's just not realistic in the current state of things.
If I'd have to think of the best option for Warchief of the Horde it'd have to be Sylvanas.
It is inevitable, and I bet my (character's) life on it and see it as 100% guaranteed that one day Alliance and Horde will JOIN as a coalition in order to fight something which would otherwise destroy us all. I think we can agree that's pretty much inevitable.
In that situation they'd pretty much have no choice but to sometimes obey orders from human in tide of battle, but that's as far as it goes I imagine.
"I hated hating Garrosh before it was cool."
It'd be possible, but we'd have to be talking about one scary bastard here, a wild-beast-man-of-the-hills with a thousand screaming hairy horsemen at his back. The sort of fellow, in short, who would be rolling siege towers up to the gates of civilization anyway. Anyone from the kingdom of Stormwind, or Gilneas, or Dalaran, or just about any of the known human kingdoms would be right out. Inside information or not.
Even if a human were to gain a high position in the Horde they would still be looked down upon by the more patriotic factions similar to the way the Kor'kron in UC speak to undead players.
You're putting too much trust in 'building their way up' and ignoring the racial prejudice. The Horde will NEVER trust a human enough to lead them, just as the Night Elves would never trust a demon. The human could earn enough trust to be accepted, and possibly even revered by many. But there will always, ALWAYS be enough prejudice against said human to prevent him from becoming Warchief.
Are you asking me to stop punting gnomes?
Same answer different question. NEVER!
Only if we kill him/her and they come back as a Forsaken. Other than that nooooooooooooooo!
I'm a Forsaken. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.
Humans are too weak. alot less strength than an average orc and they are less honorable.
and their battlecry's are quiet. Only humans that are as powerful in physical mass are such as lothar, varian and people like uther. But even they have alot less strength than an equal ranked orc.
Lothar wasnt as powerful as Doomhammer. Maybe as good fighter but orcs are all about brutal strength, some are shamans and warlocks but even they are more physically powerful than a human mage or a priest.
And human are bound to fear alot easier than orcs. And they are easier to influence because they dont keep honor as valuable as the orcs.
Besides if a human ever wanted to become a warchief he would have to slay the former one in a honorable duel. This aint necromangi in which they could just kill the leader and own all his belongings and power.
And there are many more moral reasons why a human can never be warchief of the horde. :P
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To compare a human who's liked be everyone to a demon who's... Well; nót... Would be odd, indeed.
Basically: Would a human warchief be possible? Sure.
But let's follow a few steps of logic, here:
There's millions of Hordies.
There's only a very small amount of human hordies. As in: Not enough to appear in-game at all ever. Well; not the living ones, anyway.
Then there's only a very few amount of people who are exceptional enough to even be part of the 'upper crew.' The mercenaries/adventurers (us) and the major lore characters.
A live human is not among the upper crew of the Horde.
Ergo: While the idea of a human warchief is not impossible per sé, it is so incredibly unlikely as to be completely negligible.
They probably don't even trust their own allies enough to let one of them become the Warchief, let alone a Human.
That's exactly my point. The orcs value strength, perhaps above all else. After all, sometimes an orc will just grunt, "Stregth.", at you as a farewell. They pwned Stormwind, pwned it with several unfair advantages, but pwned it none the less. I imagine that the orcs could think of nothing worse than to be ruled by a subject of the kingdom they levelled when they first invaded Azeroth. They might show Lothar some respect but considering he's been in the ground for a couple of decades now, that doesn't count for much.
I think the orcs would be less bothered by being ruled over by a human from, say, Lordaeron, seeing as, with aces like the paladins of the Silver Hand, the rangers of Quel'Thalas and the Wildhammer gryphon riders up their sleeve, they beat the Doomhammer's Horde by quite a margin. But, as fate would have it, most of the humans of Lordaeron are Forsaken now and they answer (reluctantly) to the Warchief (for now anyway).
The main population of humans lies in Stormwind now and the orcs would not accept being ruled over by a defeated opponent.


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My mind has been trying to divide itself into two. On the one side its like...my mind is ready to blow like a bomb. It is filled with rage and confusion. It has anger within it.
Every morning, I cannot do even the simplest of chores. Yes, you heard me. I cannot make my bed, brush my hair, or brush my teeth at that time of the day. Why? I have no clue. People have tried to tell me that it is easy to do as long as I try to make a habit out of it. Some people have said don't think about what you have to do, just do the stuff you have to do. And some people said, "Oh who cares?" I even went as far as to try out a pathetic schedule, which never worked out. I put up posters too that are so simply put that it should be easy for me to do. But is it? Nope!
I suppose my heart is too sad on the inside to even care. I mean, heck, this world is already filled with people who don't care. Just look at all those individuals who think the word ******** is funny if its said every second word.
Okay, I suppose I am exaggerating a little bit, but I think you get my point. People put graffiti on walls. Like, they totally forgot what their parents have told them as kids not to write on the walls. And if the parents that did tell them that and were abusive about it... then graffiti happens because it is a way of revenge... just like how I have been feeling lately about chores the simplest ones.
It is as if my mind has been abused when doing those chores. Now you are thinking , "How in the ******** can your mind be abused that way?" See? I am trying to say the F Bomb like you people use it.It doesn't sound too nice does it?
Well, if someone repeats something over and over and over again, it gets annoying... well, that is how I felt about chores. Those three in particular and... one more personal one. I don't wipe after going pee.
Again, you are thinking why don't you? I have to shrug as my answer. It isn't that I know that if I don't I can get some sort of disease. Well, if that were true then I would have a diseased p***y long ago. So, it isn't true.
Terry in spirit form has tried to tell me that wiping my p***y can be a form of pleasure. Well, in a way he is right. It can be. But still... it isn't long before that point goes away especially during my "monthly visitor".
I guess the simple answer is I just don't.
It may seem obvious now as to why I have yet to find a love of my life. Yeah, you are thinking, "Because you are just gross."
Well, has someone been brave enough to try, as someone who wants to be mine forever that isn't a relative to help me get my mind on straight? To give me reasons why I should wipe my p***y after going pee? Or... to brush my teeth... or to brush my hair? As of yet... the answer is no.
I suppose if I had a wish... then that would be it because... if that were to happen, then both my loneliness that I feel and the problems with chores would be over. I also suppose that perhaps that is what my dreams have been trying to tell me.
If only...if only my wishes could be granted.
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Einstein's belief in an undivided solid reality was clear to him, so much so that he completely rejected the separation we experience as the moment of now. He believed there is no true division between past and future, there is rather a single existence. His most descriptive testimony to this faith came when his lifelong friend Besso died. Einstein wrote a letter to Besso's family, saying that although Besso had preceded him in death it was of no consequence, "...for us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one."
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I have thought about time travel and it is possible, but only forward. This came a a thought one day. Mentally, we travel to the future every time we fall asleep while physically our body stays. For example: Two people are in a room. One falls asleep while the other stays awake. The person asleep already knows what the next day is like. This is because, as we sleep, the hours that pass feel like mere minutes and time seems to fly as we sleep. So while the one person is awake, the person that is asleep in the room, mentally, is already awake and ready for the next day while physically he is viewed as asleep. What are your opinions on this theory and time travel in general?


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Bishops march against poverty
Bishop bashing has become something of a pass-time throughout this Lambeth Conference. The perception is of a worldwide Anglican Communion obsessing over gender and sexuality – fiddling with genitalia while the world burns. And even when they begin to address possible resolutions of the mutually-exclusive positions on these contentious issues - by proposing an Anglican Covenant, a Pastoral Forum, or a 'Faith and Order Commission' - the Church's perpetual media critics damn the bishops before they have had time to digest the proposals themselves.
It was encouraging, therefore, that the Archbishop of Canterbury turned to the bigger picture. He led 600 bishops along with their spouses and other faith leaders down Whitehall, past Downing Street and the Houses of Parliament and across the Thames in a bid to remind world leaders of their commitment to halving world poverty by 2015.
One can ignore the intervention of the Prime Minister. He simply had to be seen in the right place, and heard saying the right thing. He made a rather obvious if hyperbolic speech about the need of rich countries to help the poor, telling the bishops: "This has been one of the greatest public demonstrations of faith that this great city has ever seen. You have sent a symbol, a very clear message with rising force that poverty can be eradicated, poverty must be eradicated and if we all work together for change poverty will be eradicated."
Actually, as long as the Government continues measuring poverty in relative terms, it will never be eradicated. In fact, Jesus must have had the Government's obsession with relative poverty in mind when he said the poor would always be with us (Jn 12:8). Cranmer is, after all, living in poverty compared to Bill Gates.
The bishops were simply obeying the exhortation of Deuteronomy, that because there will always be poor people in the land, we are commanded to be open-handed toward the poor and needy (15:11). Since no-one takes much notice of the bishops when they preach from their pulpits, the march draws attention to the need to improve education, health care and agricultural production in the poorest nations of the world.
The concern is that the 'Millennium Development Goals' will not be met by the target date of 2015. Of this, Dr Williams wrote: 'Because our faith challenges us to eradicate poverty, and not merely to reduce it, we should all be more alarmed that with the halfway mark to 2015 passed, it is clear that most of these achievable targets will not be met. The cause is not a lack of resources but a lack of global political will.'
And even for this they are mocked and scorned by the media. While The Daily Telegraph is of the opinion that 'Bishops should stick to religion, not economics', or that 'Anglican bishops are promoting ignorance', there is little appreciation of the fact that they have, at least, attempted to engage with the issue while the eyes of (some of) the world are upon them. Of course most of these bishops are Socialists, with a commitment to wealth distribution because it is the rich getting richer who make the poor poorer. But there will be no placards 'calling for free markets, free trade and better protection of private property' until there is a dialogue between the Church and the Conservative Party which can bring enlightenment to Their Graces. It is not that no bishops harbour secret leanings to the right; it is that no-one from the right bothers to talk to them or convincingly reassure them that there is no shame in supporting a Conservative worldview. The only way the Church will 'get to grips with the real causes of poverty' is through respectful dialogue and deeper engagement between the religious and the realm of the political right. And scales do not always fall from blinded eyes overnight.
Yet Cranmer wonders why he has never heard The Daily Telegraph criticise the pontifications of the Roman Catholic bishops on global poverty, for, if the Anglican bishops are promoting ignorance, there are some who might assert that the Roman Catholic bishops' grasp of economics is positively retarded. Their doctrine is concerned with such notions as solidarity, centralisation, economic justice, workers' rights, minimum wage, state intervention, collectivism, statism...
And one does not hear of them promoting the salvation that may be wrought though free-market capitalism either. But then they are not wont to convene a conference, even once a decade, which is open to media scrutiny or offers opportunity for open debate and a rigorous religio-political analysis of their social doctrine.


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Book One
A Homeworld Fanfiction
Special thanks go out to many people. Norsehound (and everyone else that worked on it) for his map which some of the locations are named after, it also helped me get a good idea of what the Homeworld universe looked like. Theprogramer64, SuperSajuuk and thelizardfolk on YouTube for their awesome let's plays so I didn't have to replay the entire game 50 times to get it right. Thanks to all my readers for being patient in waiting for my updates which have been completely random and without schedule. Thanks to all the people who reviewed the story keeping me interested in continuing to write it, because really, I wrote it for you. Also thanks to Sparki for the encouragement to keep writing. Thanks most of all, to Relic and Sierra Entertainment for bringing us this game, which to this day remains my favorite in terms of story and gameplay. I haven't yet found a game I enjoyed playing more.
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A Glimpse at the Socialist Senator Who Fought the Fed
WASHINGTON—Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent and the Senate's lone socialist, led a fight against the powerful U.S. Federal Reserve and won, forcing the central bank to disclose more details than ever on its rescue actions during the financial crisis.
The Fed Wednesday posted online the names of financial firms, corporations and foreign central banks that all together received some $3.3 trillion in loans from the Fed during the height of the financial market turmoil. The companies named range from Bank of America Corp. BAC 0.22% and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS 0.37% to Verizon Communications Inc., VZ 0.56% McDonalds Corp. MCD 0.46% and the state-owned Korea Development Bank.
The data covers more than 21,000 transactions conducted from December 2007 to July 21, 2010. Fed officials called it the biggest release of crisis lending data that a central bank has ever done.
Also, the Government Accountability Office will conduct an audit of the Fed's emergency actions, going back to the start of the crisis in 2007.
Mr. Sanders was a vocal and persistent leader in the mission to audit the Fed. The Senate in May backed his compromise plan to force the Fed to reveal a new level of data on its emergency lending programs. The plan was included in the sweeping financial regulatory overhaul Congress passed earlier this year.
"After years of stonewalling by the Fed, the American people are finally learning the incredible and jaw-dropping details of the Fed's multitrillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street and corporate America," Mr. Sanders said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. "As a result of this disclosure, other members of Congress and I will be taking a very extensive look at all aspects of how the Federal Reserve functions."
The Fed has kept key deliberations closely guarded. It has taken steps to boost transparency, but has kept certain details secret, such as the names of banks that borrow at its discount window. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke strongly objected to efforts to subject monetary-policy decisions to audits, saying it would "seriously threaten monetary-policy independence, increase inflation fears and market interest rates, and damage economic stability and job creation."
Still, with the help of Reps. Alan Grayson (D., Fla.) and Ron Paul (R., Texas), Mr. Sanders' audit-the-fed mission attracted widespread support as conservative and progressive lawmakers, alike, argued that the Fed has operated in secrecy without sufficient oversight for too long. Anger was growing over the Treasury Department's $700 billion financial-bailout program and the Fed's costly rescue programs, with critics arguing that Wall Street was getting secret bailouts while Main Street continued to struggle with foreclosures and unemployment.
Under pressure from the Obama administration, Mr. Sanders, who has described himself as a democratic socialist, made last-minute changes to his proposal; it doesn't require audits of monetary policy, and it doesn't require disclosure of the names of banks that use the discount window.
An unhappy Paul, a long-time Fed critic, said Mr. Sanders had "sold out."
But this is unlikely to be the end of the Sanders crusade. Mr. Sanders plans to use Wednesday's data deluge to investigate potential conflicts of interest and to examine whether firms tapped into secret loans from the Fed as a way to escape TARP restrictions. Also, Mr. Sanders plans to closely examine data on swap arrangements with foreign central banks, and he already is questioning the level of funding that went to foreign private banks and corporations.
"This is the beginning, not the end," Mr. Sanders told reporters on a Wednesday afternoon press call.
The senator said the data makes clear that the $700 billion TARP program was "pocket change" compared with the trillions of dollars in loans the central bank provided corporations and foreign agencies. Yet he voiced strong concerns that the Fed provided the financial arrangements without requiring the firms to later take steps to help the economy. Credit card companies that received taxpayer funds should have reduced interest rates for consumers, said Mr. Sanders, adding that banks should have been required to lend to small businesses, and mortgage firms should have had to do more to stem the foreclosure crisis.
Because the Fed loans came without these requirements, ordinary Americans three years after the start of the financial crisis are still struggling to pay for college, to get jobs and to hold on to their homes, he said.
"The Fed did not make the appropriate demands on these institutions necessary to rebuild our economy and protect the needs of ordinary Americans," said the senator. "We bailed these guys out, but the requirements placed on them had very little positive impact on the needs of ordinary Americans."
Mr. Sanders said he will analyze the data and work with other lawmakers to make the Fed more responsive to the needs of ordinary Americans and small businesses. He pointed out that Congress is debating whether to give tax breaks to the nation's wealthiest people, a move he believes would significantly reduce funds for food stamps and health care for lower-income Americans.
"What the hell is going on?" he said. "We have the will to bail out the largest financial institutions and corporations in the world, while the middle class in this country is collapsing."
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New sub-section in The Lounge.
Posted 21 July 2013 - 09:17 PM Edited by gtamad8, 21 July 2013 - 09:19 PM.
Posted 21 July 2013 - 09:21 PM
EDIT: Hameer should be the forum-mod for that section
Posted 21 July 2013 - 09:21 PM
Posted 21 July 2013 - 09:24 PM
Posted 21 July 2013 - 09:30 PM
Posted 21 July 2013 - 09:34 PM
|QUOTE (Kirsty @ Sunday, Jul 21 2013, 21:30)
|We don't need a whole new section just for these games. We have general chat for a reason, it's pretty much supposed to be an anything goes area. People like to complain about them because they think they do not offer discussion and are just there to spam and increase their post count, yet I notice the first few posts in the most recent one are 'stop with these topics' 'oh not another one' well this is spam as well you know and isn't any better than a one word answer to a forum game. They often end up locked, so a dedicated section just wouldn't work.
Ah fair enough, you might as well lock this then
Posted 21 July 2013 - 09:36 PM
|QUOTE (miromiro @ Sunday, Jul 21 2013, 17:21)
|I don't agree with these forum games at all, and I don't think staff will either. What's the point of these games actually? Last time I checked one, it was that War game where everyone got confused and it ended up in a big mess. All these forum games are causing is spam and post count increase. I don't think such games are needed, nor such a section.
So have it so it doesn't add to post count (if that's possible, I've heard it suggested for lots of suggested sub-forums).
Many forums have forum game sections to do just what the OP suggested (the Kongregate forums, the Minecraft forums, the xkcd forums, the Android forums, the Rooster Teeth forums, etc.). And the games are a way to have fun that users of the forum can create.
Of course, like I suggested in one of the threads you guys could just do them at another forum.
Posted 22 July 2013 - 06:20 AM
|QUOTE (Girish @ Monday, Jul 22 2013, 06:10)
|We don't like fun.
Stick to those forums that play your sily games then!
Posted 22 July 2013 - 08:00 AM Edited by Hameer, 22 July 2013 - 04:53 PM.
Posted 22 July 2013 - 08:06 AM
Posted 23 July 2013 - 03:40 AM
|QUOTE (gtamad8 @ Monday, Jul 22 2013, 09:06)
|Forum Games only get out of hand because people in derail the thread by getting pissy about the presence of the forum game if forum games had their own section this wouldn't happen.
it still would
people are pissy by nature
regardless I approve of this idea, that topic hameer made about the true or false next poster thing, I liked the idea of that, and the one where you say if you know the person above you, I like that too.
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates this morning called proposed legislation to give troops more time off between deployments "a back-door way to try and force the president to accelerate the drawdown."
Gates said he would recommend the president veto a bill proposed by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., mandating that tours cannot be extended. "Trying to manage to this kind of legislation is extremely difficult," Gates said in an appearance on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." The legislation proposed would also require troops to spend as much time at home as their previous tour of duty.
In a separate interview Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., who earlier this week gave the Democratic rebuttal to the president's speech on Iraq, defended the Webb legislation.
"I think it's sensible, it can be managed, and it responds to most persistent issue that my colleagues and I observe when we go there, which is troops are beginning to feel the pressure, and their families, of these deployments," Reed said.
Gates defended the troop reduction put forth by Gen. David Petraeus -- and backed this week by President Bush -- against criticism that it was simply a military necessity. "[The drawdown] is resource informed but not resource driven. After all, we've got 2.1 million men and women in the United States Armed Forces. If the circumstances required it, other choices could have been made," Gates said.
Despite saying that other alternatives to a troop reduction were on the table, Gates reiterated that "we do not want to extend tours. There's no question about that. And we would look at alternatives other than extending tours. But I think that no one believes right now that that's going to prove necessary."
While the administration is calling for troops to begin returning home, the President said in a speech this week that the American presence in Iraq will remain for years to come. Gates declined to say exactly how many years, but said the timeline would be decided in conjunction with the Iraqis.
"We're thinking that it's a relatively small number compared to what we have today. And we wouldn't be doing these tasks all by ourselves. We would be in a support role for the Iraqis. So it's not like we would have the sole responsibility for carrying out these activities," Gates said.
Reed responded that that the troop reduction be legislated and not left up to the Iraqis.
"I think it's important to make that the policy, not simply to say we hope that happens, it might happen, it depends on the Iraqis. I think it has to be policy of the United States," Reed said.
When asked by Stephanopoulos if the United States has moved the goalposts for success in Iraq, Gates conceded that "what's going on is a different kind of reconciliation, or a different kind of progress, perhaps, than we had anticipated."
Critics of the administration, including Reed, have said that the Iraqis failed to meet the fundamental purpose of the surge to foster breathing room for political reconciliation.
Gates responded to that allegation. "The truth is that in many of these cases, and it happens here in the United States, as well, some of these issues that are too hard, in many respects, politically, get taken care of in small bits."


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Thread: Hello from DanielStoner :)
Hello from DanielStoner :)
Hi everybody,
I just joined this community today and I found it fun to browse through the topics and help here and there.
About myself, I am a software designer with some years of experience (say 17 oops this makes me feel ancient in this young world) and I started using Java in a consistent way about 9-10 years ago. But Java is such a vast field now that no amount of years can give one experience in all its aspects.
One of my reasons for joining is to try to get some feedback from community members about my programming oriented site (in blog form for now): Little Tutorials
Enjoy your cup of Java!
Nice images by the side .. keep it up ..dont worry newbie, we got you covered.
May I ask why you still program in Java. I understand its easier to write in then c++, but its also forty times slower.My IP address is 127.0.0.1
Sorry Zosden but Java is not 40 times slower than C++. Again this is a myth from early days of Java 10 years back. Today Java is maybe 6-10% slower than C++ in benchmarks. But to get C++ that fast you have to be a real wizard. In practice the traps in C++ make the average programmer less efficient and also its code less efficient and more error prone. Keep in mind the average programmer in C++ has to compete with the programmers specialized in optimization techniques who implement the JVM and the HotSpot type compilers. While the C++ does a static compilation and the optimizations based on information available at compile time, the just in time compilers in Java have the opportunity to optimize the code based on information available at runtime. For example the compiler might decide to move a variable from the stack into a processor register for faster access if that variable is used a lot. In C++ you are stuck with what resulted from the static compilation. I believe on the server side at least Java makes programmers 10 times more efficient mainly because they don't need to manage memory. Also Java becomes faster and faster at runtime due to advancements in JIT compilers and the JVM. So this is why I still work in Java even if in the past I used for years C/C++. Keep in mind that when I started to use computers I had to use punched cards :) so I used lots of stuff probably nobody remembers about.
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This is not true though. C++ can work directly with windows whereas Java has to always go through the JVM this extra step does make it slower. By the way have you ever used a program that was made in Java they are always slow and sluggish because of the extra step and the garbage collect whereas in c++ you end up with massive memory leaks if your inexperienced.My IP address is 127.0.0.1
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Hi Daniel,
Welcome to our community. :)
It's really nice to see a person like you here in our community. Your experience really helpful for all of our members. See around pal.
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I remember punch cards
I remember punch cards stacks of them, cool neato stuff. Should have kept some of them for relics sake.
Performance has many meanings. If you talk about startup time, yes usually a small Java application is way slower than a small C++ application because the whole JVM is loaded. But this is not an issue for most applications.
On the server side it doesn't really matter because the servers start once and they should run extended periods of time after that.
Java code also runs slower in the beginning while it is still interpreted by the JVM. If the operation is only executed once or just a few times then probably the JIT doesn't store the native code translation for later use.
On the other hand the important pieces of code that are run over and over are actually native code and they run very very fast. The JVM and the JIT do amazing things to your code at runtime so the performance of Java code is usually, in real world situations, better than C++ code.
Please read more on the subject before claiming that Java is 40 times slower than C++.
Here is a very instructive link: Java theory and practice: Urban performance legends, revisited
Another feature usually blamed for Java slowness is the garbage collector. But the reality is that most serious C++ applications use garbage collection libraries :).
Welcome daniel.
Zosden, your claim should be included with proof before your final judgment, the points daniel makes are clear. Finally, please take this debate to another sub-forum vs. an "Introductions" forum. This is not a way to welcome new members, even though I'm sure daniel has not minded the fun.
See you around daniel!Vote for the new slogan to our beloved Java Forums! (closes on September 4, 2008)
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TIPS Gain Most Since 2011 With Treasuries as Taper Delayed
For almost a year Wan-Chong Kung avoided U.S. government debt insured against inflation as consumer prices stagnated. Now, the bond-fund manager at Nuveen Asset Management whose inflation-indexed fund has beaten 95 percent of its peers the last three years, is loading up on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities.
Her change comes as Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen, who voted for every stimulus measure since 2008, became the favorite to succeed Ben S. Bernanke as the next Fed chief and the central bank maintained its $85 billion a month in bond buying. Policy makers also said their target interest rate for overnight loans between banks may rise at a slower pace than suggested by historical measures.
That last "big dovish surprise" shows the Fed is "continuing to err on the side of promoting sustained job growth potentially at the risk of higher inflation," Kung, who helps manage $125 billion at Nuveen, said in a Sept. 24 telephone interview from Minneapolis.
Kung has plenty of company. TIPS, as the inflation-indexed bonds are known, have gained 3.5 percent since Sept. 5, the best three-week rally since August 2011, after losing 8.7 percent in the first eight months, the most ever in that period, according t0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch's U.S. Inflation-Linked Treasury Index.
TIPS Favored
Now, fund companies from Nuveen to SEI Investments Co. (SEIC) say the Fed's continued stimulus will lift market expectations for faster increases in the consumer price index, leading to more gains for TIPS. Inflation-protected debt pays a lower coupon than non-indexed Treasuries. In exchange, investors receive an adjustment on the principal equal to the rise in the CPI.
Societe Generale SA recommends the debt even as economists at France's second-biggest lender forecast inflation will remain subdued. The bank's fixed-income strategists suggested buying TIPS after the Federal Open Market Committee Sept. 18 maintained the pace of bond buying and signaled that benchmark rates will remain low into 2016.
"The Fed was willing to lose a little bit of its credibility to be dovish," Jorge Garayo, a fixed-income strategist at Societe Generale in London, said in a telephone interview on Sept. 23. It isn't clear if the Fed's reaction "to inflation will be different or not, but market participants believe it will," he said.
Little Inflation
Treasuries that aren't indexed for inflation, which erodes the value of bonds by reducing the purchasing power of a security's fixed payments, have gained 1.9 percent since Sept. 5, Bank of America indexes show, indicating little concern that inflation will get out of control.
Even after the Fed purchased more than $3.1 trillion in government and mortgage bonds and held its benchmark lending rate at about zero since December 2008, signs of rising prices remain scarce. The Fed's preferred measure of inflation, the personal consumption expenditures deflator, rose 1.2 percent in August, down from a revised 1.3 percent increase the month before, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Sept. 27. It has remained below policy makers' 2 percent target since April 2012.
The gauge fell at an annual rate of 0.1 percent in the second quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Sept. 26.
"As far as I can see, you don't have any inflationary pressure," Dan Heckman, a fixed-income strategist at the U.S. Bank Wealth Management unit of U.S. Bancorp, which manages $110 billion, said in a Sept. 24 telephone interview.
Break-Even Rate
Yields on 10-year TIPS fell 5 basis points last week, or 0.05 percentage point, to 0.45 percent, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. Non-indexed Treasury yields of similar maturity declined 11 basis points to 2.63 percent.
The 2.18 percentage-point gap in yields, which has expanded from this month's low of 2.07 percentage points on Sept. 9, is known as the break-even rate and reflects investors' expectations for inflation over the life of the securities.
The price of the benchmark 10-year TIPS note, a 0.375 percent security due in July 2023, rose 6/32, or $1.88 per $1,000 face amount, to 99 150/32 at 4:10 p.m. in New York. The 2.5 percent Treasury maturing in August 2013 increased 4/32, or $9.38 per $1,000 face amount, to 99 1/32, Bloomberg Bond Trader prices show. Yields fell to 0.41 percent today on the TIPS and to 2.61 percent on the non-indexed notes.
Both types of bonds have benefited this month from signs of a slowing U.S. economy that prompted the Fed to maintain its program of buying of $45 billion a month of Treasuries and $40 billion of mortgage bonds.
Economic growth is also threatened with Congress locked in a budget stalemate that raises the risk of the first government shutdown in 17 years as Republican lawmakers seek to delay and limit President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
Declining Confidence
Retail sales rose 0.2 percent in August, the least in four months and compared with the 0.5 percent advance predicted in a Bloomberg News Survey of economists. The Conference Board's September consumer confidence index declined to 79.7, the weakest since May, from 81.8 a month earlier, the New York-based private research group said Sept. 24.
After creating an average of 199,000 jobs a month this year through May, the pace slowed to about 148,000 from June through August, Labor Department data show. The unemployment rate of 7.3 percent exceeds the 6 percent average the past two decades.
The Fed said in its Set. 18 statement that the "exceptionally low range for the federal funds rate will be appropriate at least as long as the unemployment rate remains above 6.5 percent" and inflation isn't more than 2.5 percent. The Labor Department will release September jobs data Oct. 4.
"The dovishness that the Fed is portraying, that's setting up the groundwork for an inflationary environment at some point," Sean Simko, who oversees $8 billion at SEI in Oaks, Pennsylvania, said in a telephone interview on Sept. 23.
'Potentially Complacent'
The five-year, five-year break-even rate, a gauge of inflation expectations used by the Fed help guide policy, rose to 2.63 percent on Sept. 24 from 2.5 percent on Sept. 13 and from an 18 month low of 2.33 percent in June. That compares with an average of 2.74 percent for the past decade.
"This continues to be a Fed that wants to be pro-growth and is potentially complacent about inflation," said Kung of Nuveen. "You can price in a higher inflation risk premium. The Fed actions in terms of monetary policy could potentially translate into a higher value for inflation insurance."
The stimulus has boosted stock markets. The Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index has risen 19 percent this year, one of the best performances in developed markets. Japan, which has also been using asset purchases to boost its economy, has seen the nation's Topix soar 42 percent.
'Spillover Effects'
Part of the Fed's goal was to "inflate risky assets and potentially to have some spillover effects in the real economy," Alan Wilde, head of fixed-income and currencies in London at Baring Asset Management, which oversees $57.4 billion, said in a telephone interview on Sept. 26.
With unemployment above its two decade average, the central bank should be "keeping a historically unusual amount of monetary stimulus in place -- and possibly providing more stimulus," even if the medium-term inflation outlook temporarily rises and asset prices reach "unusually high levels," Fed Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota said Sept. 26 in remarks prepared for a speech in Houghton, Michigan. Kocherlakota votes on policy next year.
The Fed estimates that interest rates will stay not far from record lows for the next three years.
The federal funds rate target will be 2 percent at the end of 2016, according to the median of estimates by Fed board members and regional presidents detailed on Sept. 18 in the central bank's quarterly Summary of Economic Projections.
GDP Forecast
That forecast compares with the median estimate of 4 percent for where the rate should be at a time of full employment and stable prices, according to the report, which also includes individual forecasts for gross domestic product, inflation, unemployment and interest rates.
Officials estimated the economy would expand 2.5 percent to 3.3 percent in 2016, driving unemployment down to 5.4 percent to 5.9 percent with inflation at 1.7 percent to 2 percent.
Yellen, 67, is the leading candidate to replace Bernanke when his term expires on Jan. 31, according to people familiar with White House discussions. She has been picking up support from Democratic senators and party leaders including former President Bill Clinton, after former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said Sept. 15 that he wouldn't seek the post.
"The Fed is going to err on the side of having inflation as opposed to risking us falling into a deflationary environment," James Barnes, a money manager in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, for National Penn Investors Trust, which oversees $1 billion in fixed-income assets and has 8 percent to 10 percent of its holdings in TIPS, said in a Sept. 24 telephone interview.
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I'm Back! The Catch Up Article: John Morrison, Cena and MITBJuly 2, 2010
First off, I'd like to address the MITB Pay-per-View
John Morrison, why should he win the MITB over all of the other participants in his match? Well, lets look at the past and present. Lets examine the rest of the wrestlers involved, and why they may or may not deserve a contract.
Randy Orton & Edge
These two have been champions countless times at breakneck speed, do we really NEED to see another title reign from The Rated R Superstar or The Viper? We've seen what they can do, and we don't need to see it again so soon, sure Edge was out for awhile but thats just an excuse to recycle the same programming again. They are obviously both very talented wrestlers but we need something new and fresh (That isn't Jack Swagger... )
Chris Jericho
We've seen exactly what they do with Jericho, even if he does win the MITB, even if he does successfully cash in his contract and win the ultimate prize... he won't keep it for longer than 1-2 months, which is common for anyone but with Jericho we know it as an unavoidable truth. If he wins I will be disappointed that at least one contract will be a waste of time.
The Miz
Do I really need to say anything about this guy? His in ring psychology and facial expressions give me the chills in a bad way, I question why this guy is a " respectable " wrestler in the first place.
R Truth
He has been around a long time as two personas that I know of, which are practically identical however still sold differently in their own ways... but I think there is probably a reason why we don't remember R Truth as a great champion, because he never was and probably never will be, he is flashy and talented in acrobatics... there just isn't anything the WWE can do with him that hasn't already been done, his shtick is the same Vs. A jobber as it is against a huge superstar.. my final verdict is that he won't be walking away with the contract, it would be yet another dead end and create more stale programming..
However, I really don't want to give creative much credit because over the past two years we've seen the same thing over and over again, and the few chances they've taken were with terrible superstars on even more terrible angles.
Ted Dibiase & Evan Bourne
Green horns... thats about all I have to say, I mean.. neither one of them are ready to play with the big boys. Sure Evan has a big following and what not but think to yourself: Would you buy a Pay-Per-View with Evan Bourne Vs. say... Triple H or Randy Orton? I'm pretty sure that would be a lot less satisfying than someone would imagine.
And finally, John Morrison:
We need to see someone on the performance scale of upper card, and we need to see Morrison getting pushed, he is NOT the best wrestler ever as some like to say, but he is better than what we are seeing now. He made a FANTASTIC IC champion and every title match he was in I enjoyed watching, regardless that it was almost all against unfounded superstars, He has the champion look and talent and this company, especially Raw needs a breath of fresh air. Some may disagree with me, but I'd like to reference something in recent memory: Jack Swagger. Push good talent, not new garbage.
Moving on to my second point in this article.. (I only addressed the match I am interested in seeing out of MITB, so I ignored most every aspect) this is old(ish) news, but its still very relevant in my mind and will contain huge walls of text, but I digress.
John Cena: Why he should take a long vacation.
He is in a nutshell, and I am basically just re-stating the same thing that has been said over and over again.. the new Hulk Hogan of the WWE, was hulk hogan a good wrestler? No, no he was not. Did he add anything to the WWE besides legions of children? Nope, did he leave eventually? Yes, and I think its about time for Cena to take a break and here are the reasons why:
#3 Cena has fought every single upper card wrestler on several occasions on his brand, Raw. Which he will NEVER leave and NEVER get drafted from. 99% of these matches featured him at a disadvantage, or in an imposing nature wherein you knew with certainty he would walk away from a match with either a title, or a new notch on his belt of greats that have jobbed to him in a pathetically sold manner.
#2 Just like Hogan, he recycles the same tired moveset, and sure.. against the PERFECT opponent that actually understands that wrestling is a complicated art form, those old tired moves can be brought back to life, if not for a brief moment.(Putting emphasis on PERFECT opponent) For the most part however everything he does can be called several seconds, sometimes even minutes in advance and against some opponents, before the match even starts. My advice: Get a new moveset or step aside for someone who isn't going to bore me to death and waste 10 to 20% of my Pay-Per-View purchase on stale predictable garbage.
#1 Cena at one point had flare and an interesting agenda to bring in, now that he has proved himself he has nothing to offer because he has fallen into what I call " Comfortability in Limbo ". His mic skills went from interesting and funny insults to 5th grade humor, sometimes I'd like to even say kindergarten humor. I'm waiting on him to call someone a " Mean doodie head " and hear the audience respond with wild applause, brainwashed into thinking anything he says is brilliant to a sudden " Wait.. did he just call him a doodie head? "
In closing on Cena, is there any doubt in anyones mind that he will leave the next Pay-Per-View the champion again? There is no outcome other than that possible, let me flesh out the exact storylines that stay consistent almost every time he loses his title: He is injured and is forced to drop the title, He loses in a dirty way(Seriously, I'd love for you to name to me one time that he was beaten cleanly in recent memory, go ahead.. I'll wait) and then triumphantly gets his revenge against (Insert poor schmucks name here) against all odds, saying against all odds because usually they set up an angle where he is either out numbered, or injured by getting jumped days or a week before the championship match, I also want to point out that he does a good job of selling an injury while not in a match, but did anyone ever notice that once the bell rings he instantly throws off any acknowledgement of physical pain and removes the effect that a wrestler should be throwing into every match? I will chew through a phonebook if I see him 50 minutes into being dominated into a match suddenly stand up, run around the ring like he just took a cocktail of Heroine, Speed and Steroids selling no injury and taking the win.
It disgusted me to see how Cena lost his title at Fatal-Four-Way, but Vinces precious Cena can't lose legitimately, it can't happen. The Nexus angle also needs to go away, they just interrupt matches that could end on a high note for no reason. What we needed to see: Cena getting stomped by all 3, the 3 turning on eachother and one of them landing a finisher on Cena for a clean pin. Sounds more interesting than a bunch of people no one ever cared about or heard of running in on a match you have to pay for and removing all reason behind it.
In closing: I don't necessarily believe that the MITB payperview is a good idea, because Money In the Bank is a Wrestlemania, or WAS a Wrestlemania unique match, however since the WWE has once again decided to throw us a screwball its in everyones best interest to just roll with it and hope eventually Vince will fire everyone in creative at the same time. Also, to add I fully understand Jack Swagger is on smackdown and his stint is with the WHWC, But the horror and terror I have endured on behalf of his title reign has burned the words " THINK HARDER, CREATIVE! " deep into my brain.
Thanks to all of my readers.


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In the March 2003 issue of FATE (a magazine devoted to unexplained phenomena), columnist Rosemary Ellen Guiley introduces readers to a recently coined word: "jottle." It's a term for objects that disappear and reappear in unlikely places...disappear and reappear where they always should have been (but weren't)...or simply appear out of the blue.
These objects present small but baffling mysteries, which students of the paranormal are at a loss to explain. Hence the good-natured name: derived from the acronym JOTT, it stands for "just one of those things."
So that's what they were...
Thirty-odd years ago, when I was a young woman, I frequently visited my mother on weekends. After I returned home one Monday, I found I didn't have what will seem like a trivial item: a favorite lipstick. I cared about the lipstick partly because my preferred color was hard to find. But also, that was a rough period in my life. I was under a lot of stress (more than my mother knew), and I had a hard time coping with even small problems.
I talked to Mom on the phone and told her about my missing lipstick. I thought I must have left it on my dresser at her place, but she looked and said it wasn't there. She realized I was upset about it, so over the next day or two, she searched high and low to no avail.
And then, when I had all but given up on it, Mom phoned with a report that left me as awestruck as she was. Knowing how badly I wanted that lipstick, she had found the song "Scarlet Ribbons" going through her mind. A song about a parent not being able to buy ribbons a child wants desperately, and the ribbons then simply appearing, as if by a miracle. Mom thought, "Please, can't the lipstick appear miraculously, like those scarlet ribbons?"
A short time later she went back in the bedroom I used when I visited. And there was the lipstick on the dresser! It was right where it "should have been"--but it was virtually impossible that Mom would have failed to see it if it had been there all along.
There's more to the story: a reason why I was even more stunned and grateful than Mom anticipated. I had been worried sick--unnecessarily, as I later learned--about my eyesight.
This may sound odd. But I had been a passionate devotee of the Wagner operas since my early teens. I knew composer Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima were flawed individuals, and I didn't admire them uncritically; but I felt a spiritual bond with Cosima. She had died in her nineties, and it was commonly believed that she'd gone blind in her old age. A short time before the lipstick incident, I had read that she never did go completely blind. So I had been, in a sense, praying to Cosima for comfort amid my worries about my own vision.
Now I remembered a story I'd heard about her. Supposedly, she was so distraught after Wagner's death that she began starving herself, and became so thin that her wedding ring slipped off her finger and was lost. She was frantic. But the ring soon turned up--in a place it "shouldn't have been," a part of town she never visited.
With that in mind, I saw the return of my lipstick as a sign--a sign that gave me new hope. A message from Cosima? I don't know. Both lost objects were small, and there was a similarity in shape (hers circular, mine a cylinder). Hers was crucially important in itself, mine trivial. Hers turned up where it shouldn't have been; mine, where it shouldn't have been overlooked.
The story about Cosima's ring may even have been apocryphal. Perhaps it doesn't matter. What I think was significant was that I held a belief that gave the reappearance of the lipstick a meaning far transcending what actually happened.
My mother had another strange experience. In her seventies or eighties, living in the neat, clean flat that had been her home for many years, she had a dream about her childhood: a dream in which she and her mother were killing bedbugs and roaches. That was something they really had been forced to do.
Mom woke in the morning, and on a neatly folded blanket at the foot of her bed, she saw a live bedbug! She crushed it; later, she told me that even the smell was as she remembered it from her childhood. She never saw even one more.
Had my mother encountered a time-traveling bedbug?
More seriously, was it a sign of contact with her own mother? An indication that their having been together in the dream, on another plane of existence, had somehow been real--as real as the bug?
I'll never know. A puzzle to scratch one's head over, forever.
"Just one of those things."


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1997 Pontiac Transport V6 Front Wheel Drive Automatic 116500 miles
My 97 Pontiac Montana is after warm up idles at 2,800 rpms. I had it scanned and the codes said MAF Sensor and 2 missing cylinders. Replaced MAF and plugs and wires. Also replaced the idle spd control but it is still idling high. Could it be the ECU, how can I tell? Or vacuum leak?
have the same problem?
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I can't read ics files
I keep getting attachments with a .ics at the end of them. What are they and should I be worried?
An .ics attachment is an iCalendar file. Somebody is probably trying to invite you to an event so you don't need to be worried about them.
If you are running Outlook Express or a version of Outlook older than 2ooo (Outlook 200o needs service pack 3 to read them properly) then you won't be able to read them.
Should you want to enter these into a calendar you'll have to look at another program. Google's online calendar is one that handles iCal files without a problem.
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Cosmetic dentistry is all about improving the aesthetics of your smile. Many people don't feel confident about smiling in photographs, and feel wary of showing their teeth in social interactions because they're discoloured, crooked, or have unsightly gaps. Fortunately there is a safe and easy solution available through your cosmetic dentist - known as the 'smile makeover.'
A smile makeover – another term for cosmetic dentistry – involves one or more of a range of dental procedures, such as teeth whitening, veneers, crowns, white fillings, orthodontics, gum reshaping, and dental bridges. In fact, many cosmetic dentists also offer facial rejuvenation such as Botox. Together, these treatments can transform the shape of your smile, bringing huge psychological and relationship benefits.
This article is written by Jackie Griffiths, a freelance journalist who writes health, medical, biological, and pharmaceutical articles for national and international journals, newsletters and web sites.
The British are known for having "bad teeth", but it is a stereotype we're fast outgrowing. Famous Brits who've undergone cosmetic dentistry include Anne Robinson, David Bowie, Noel Gallagher, and the Prime Minister Gordon Brown. But these days, cosmetic dentistry is not limited just to the rich and famous. More and more people are turning to cosmetic dentistry to improve their looks and help their self-esteem.
Below is a list of popular cosmetic dentistry treatments and a brief outline of what they involve.
Bonding involves coating the teeth in a special composite agent to restore shape and colour.
Botox injections help recreate a more youthful appearance on the face, reducing expression lines around the eyes, forehead, lips, and cheeks, as well as correcting facial scars. The results last up to four months.
Bridges are used to replace missing teeth. Under a local anaesthetic, the two surrounding teeth are trimmed away at the top, and a mould is made of the gaps. A bridge – made up of one whole tooth and caps for the two supporting teeth – is cemented in place and will last for up to ten years.
CEREC is a hi-tech alternative to dental putty (which is used to make impressions of your teeth). A sophisticated camera sends a 3D image to an onsite milling machine, which produces a new crown or veneer from a ceramic block. CEREC is fast and eliminates the need for dental moulds and temporary fittings.
Crowns strengthen damaged or broken teeth to preserve their function. They are also known as caps because they sit over the existing tooth.
Dental implants are artificial replacements for the root part of a tooth that has succumbed to trauma or decay. An implant is anchored into a pre-drilled socket in the jaw bone to support a crown, bridge, or denture. They are made from titanium for strong support.
Dentures are removable teeth for people that have lost some, or all, of their natural teeth. These days they look very realistic and are comfortable to wear. Held in place by the natural suction of your gums, a fixative may also be used if you prefer.
Gum reshaping is for people who worry they show too much gum when they smile. This type of cosmetic surgery treatment involves trimming away excess gum tissue with a laser, giving an immediate and permanent result.
Invisalign braces are clear plastic braces used to straighten teeth. This revolutionary alignment system is moulded for an exact fit, and worn for at least 22 hours a day, for 6-18 months.
Lumineers are ultra-thin veneers which cover gaps between teeth and improve the appearance of worn or discoloured teeth.
Orthodontics is a branch of dentistry that covers straightening and alignment of teeth. Treatments require patients to wear braces or retainers over many months to gradually bring teeth into the desired position.
Teeth whitening is a process of removing stains from the teeth and bleaching them to further enhance the colour. The best results come from a combination of in-surgery treatments and home whitening kits.
Veneers are a popular choice to transform crooked, stained, and damaged teeth into perfect pearly whites. It involves cementing a wafer thin shell (made from porcelain, ceramic or a composite bonding agent) over the top of the tooth.
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Skylark Release 4.4 is up on archive.
This is a flash-only release. New features to watch out for:
Release number bumped from 1.2 to 4.4 to align with the build versions.
Flashed the 4.4 image a few minutes ago. Booted and working fine in Firefox. Receiving outernet data and connected the CHiP wifi to my AP. Thanks!
Clean flash. No issues with upgrade.
Set up the connection to my router with no problem, password change on the outernet user was good as well. Connected to 98W and downloading packets.
Easy peasy
We have a Green Balloon over Washington running Skylark 4.4 Ken
Hey guys, I am having issues with the flash, but I think it is procedural for my setup at this point. I can move to a new thread if that is better. I have never tried to flash the chip before so this may be easy. I have the VM loaded, I think I have my chip jumpered correctly (can I tell?) and I plug in the CHIP, then start the VM. The VM says it never finds a CHIP in FEL mode and eventually times out and drops to the shell.
I see a USB device listed called "Onda (unverified) V972 tablet in flashing mode [02B3]" so is that it? When I look at the USB settings I see that there is a "filter" set to "CHIP FEL Mode". Should I add a new filter for the device I mentioned above? (I don't think that will help because when I tried it the created filter was identical except for adding a "revision" number) Have I done something wrong? I didn't load any drivers in windows 10, but then again it didn't ask me to. I do see a device that doesn't seem to have a working driver loaded in my win10 device list.
Flashing went smooth, but haven't had time to use the new features yet. However I wanted to point out that if you get the error message in the picture below when clicking apply and reboot in network settings to give it a few minutes, it is working.
Let's move this to another thread. Would you mind deleting/uninstalling everything and staying from scratch? You shouldn't need to fiddle with any settings.
The tablet you mentioned is not what you want. Can you take a picture of the CHIP with the paper clip applied?
Did you delete the vm through virtual box? That doesn't always delete the directory as well. Check to make sure the Outernet flasher directory is deleted and try to import the ova.
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Sorry for the extra posts. Got a bit messed up there. Flashed ok. Can't seem to acquire signal or lock. Prior to flash was VG sig and SNR was great. now no lock, RSSI -124, Lock state stuck in search. Note the system messages show up as a screen full of dots.
Did you change the tuner to the right satellite?
Yes first thing checked. Maybe tomorrow will do a re-flash… Re-flashed and same deal. No signal. LNA is on, connections ok…
How do you use the config wipe feature, sounds handy?
config wipe instructions:
Thats it. Config wipe is done.
edit: It'd be great if anyone who tries it can take a picture of the connection, similar to the FEL connection picture in the Flashing Instructions, and share here.
I thought something like this could be done. Thanks I will have to try it out later.
Here you go.
Thank you!
Did it work for you?
I took the picture for you because I already had it in front of me, just moved the jumper. I didn't try the reset yet, still trying to get my flash VM to work, see my other thread.
I did a wipe and re-flashed. Operator error as I selected the sat but didn't see the apply button at the bottom of the page. Bang-head! Working well now.
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5 Best Disney Movie Couples
The list of the 5 best Disney movie couples include some of cinema's all-time greatest characters. Disney has been churning out classic movies for decades and in that time they have created many beloved and entertaining couples. Often not in love until the very end—and sometimes not in love at all—these couples are unforgettable.
Belle and the Beast. Certainly the best Disney movie couple are the characters Belle and the Beast from the 1991 instant classic, "Beauty and the Beast." In this story, Belle gives herself up to live in the cursed Beast's castle in exchange for her father's freedom. Over the course of several events she comes to find that he is truly kind inside despite a rough exterior and her eventual falling in love with him breaks a curse that had been placed on him and his abode many years prior. With the lifting of the curse, he turns into a handsome man and his furniture back into his servants.
Jasmine and Aladdin. These two are the protagonists from the 1992 film "Aladdin" and are certainly one of the best Disney movie couples. Aladdin is a down-on-his luck street rat and Jasmine is the princess of the land. They have a nice interaction while she visit the town incognito, but after he makes his grand entrance as a prince—thanks to some work by Genie—he acts arrogant and rubs her the wrong way. He then has to prove to her that he really is a nice and humble guy and just as he gets close to getting her to fall in love with him, he must fend off the evil Jafar. They appear in two sequels.
Mickey and Minnie. Mickey and Minnie used to be one of the best Disney movie couples, though they rarely are featured in films these days. After losing the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney created a new character—Mickey—on which he built a multi-media empire. Minnie was introduced to give Mickey a love interest and to for him to have a partner in his many films.
Roger and Jessica Rabbit. Roger Rabbit was the star character in the 1988 film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." Roger is a silly, lisping rabbit, but his wife, Jessica, is a sultry, red-headed vixen. Though an unlikely couple, Jessica proves to be fully committed to him and does whatever she can to keep him out of trouble, making them one of the best Disney movie couples.
Timon and Pumbaa. Timon and Pumbaa are about as far as you can get from being a romantic duo, but they are still one of the best Disney movie couples. A meerkat and warthog, respectively, this duo debuted in 1994's mega-hit, "The Lion King." They are a happy-go-lucky couple with the song "Hakuna Matata," meaning "no worries," as their theme song. But after befriending their lion friend Simba, they rush to his aid when he decides to reclaim his throne. They are some of the most memorable Disney characters from the last several decades.


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Champaign subdivision work set to start
CHAMPAIGN – Construction should begin within a few days on a luxury residential subdivision, Trails at Abbey Fields, west of Champaign.
Hallbeck Homes is developing the 100-acre subdivision, on farmland located north of Kirby Avenue between Staley and Rising roads. The Champaign City Council last week approved an annexation agreement and area general plan for the subdivision.
Rick Hallbeck, vice president of Hallbeck Homes, said the subdivision will include 118 single-family lots, including 15 lots of 1 acre or larger that will make up a development within a development, to be called Wyndemere Point at Abbey Fields.
Those larger lots for Wyndemere Point will sell for $250,000 to $300,000. Regular lots in Trails at Abbey Fields will sell in the $60,000 to $100,000 range, Hallbeck said.
"All of a sudden there's a demand for big lots," Hallbeck said. "I'm just filling the demand of what builders and people want to have."
Champaign city planner T.J. Blakeman said Hallbeck Homes decided to try selling larger lots after residents at other nearby Hallbeck developments bought multiple lots on which to develop a single home.
"They feel there's a market for it here," Blakeman said.
Hallbeck Homes will install infrastructure this year at Trails at Abbey Fields and then begin selling lots to home builders and individuals, possibly by this fall, Hallbeck said.
"We, as Hallbeck Homes, keep a handful of lots for us to build on," Hallbeck said. "The remainder we sell to other builders and individuals. Builders are my best clients."
Hallbeck said he expects homes in Trails at Abbey Fields to sell for between $500,000 and $1.5 million.
"It's going to be a very nice upscale subdivision with good-sized lots," he said.
Trails at Abbey Fields will be developed in two phases. The first will be the residential subdivision. The second phase, on the northern 20 acres, will be developed as condominiums or multifamily, Hallbeck said.
The multifamily property is within the boundaries of the Mahomet-Seymour school district, while the single-family development is part of the Champaign school district. Hallbeck said he's never developed a residential subdivision split between two school districts and is unsure how the multifamily portion's marketability might be affected.
"This is the first time in the 30 years we've been developing that I've run into a piece of ground in two school districts," he said.
Mahomet-Seymour buses already serve the area, Blakeman noted.
Hallbeck Homes also developed the Trails at Brittany subdivision and Trails at Chestnut Grove. Two or three lots remain to be sold at Trails at Brittany, Hallbeck said, while Trails at Chestnut Grove is entering its third phase, with 20 condominium lots remaining to be sold.
Additionally, Hallbeck Homes has obtained options to buy 160 acres at the southwest corner of Mattis Avenue and Curtis Road, where a subdivision called Applewood Valley is being planned, Hallbeck said.
Infrastructure for that subdivision, located east of Interstate 57, will be developed next year, with lots ready for homebuilding in 2008, he said.
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New ship for Australian ocean science
The Investigator is a new ship being built for the CSIRO. It is due for delivery mid-2013. As well as extensive lab space, the new vessel will be able to take aerosol samples and process them on board. In addition it will be capable of taking 24-metre long cores from the bottom of the ocean. It will be a major addition to Australia's ocean science capability.
Robyn Williams: Singapore is where they are now building CSIRO's new floating lab, the ship destined to be berthed in Hobart. Dr Brian Griffiths is a biologist who has been advising the designers what the scientists really need. You start with the science, not the boat. The one they have now is of course the Aurora Australis.
Brian Griffiths: Yes, my last trip on the Aurora was 2007. I lead a team of 62 scientists working just south of Tasmania, trying to understand why the area east of Tasmania in the subantarctic zone always seems to be richer in phytoplankton and biology than west of Tasmania. And the conclusion that we came to is that it is potentially due to iron, either atmospheric deposition from land or also swept up by the east Australian current coming down the Australian coast on the Tasmanian shelf and swirling off towards New Zealand in a large series of eddies.
Robyn Williams: Yes, so much for the Aurora Australis, which has worked very well. It's not retiring, is it?
Brian Griffiths: Not at this stage. I understand there are plans afoot to try and get a replacement larger vessel for it. There is some concern that with changing climate there will be more snow on the sea ice which will mean that they will need a larger, more powerful vessel in order to break the ice. It is the snow on the ice which actually gives the most resistance to icebreaking.
Robyn Williams: That's rather surprising, isn't it? I thought snow would be soft.
Brian Griffiths: Yes, but it's friction, it's physics again.
Robyn Williams: Damn physics! We did biology, didn't we! Anyway, this new ship we have here is called..?
Brian Griffiths: It's called the Investigator, and it is named after the small sloop that Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Australia with in the 1800s. So it was an Australia-wide contest for a new name for the vessel, and that was the one that was chosen. I think it was a school kid and a scientist who came up with that name, and they jointly shared the prize for it.
Robyn Williams: What was the prize, can you remember?
Brian Griffiths: I can't remember...I think it was a free trip on a rough ocean!
Robyn Williams: I see, just what we need! Looking at it, I've got a picture in front of me, there is no actual real ship yet.
Brian Griffiths: No, it is being built as we speak. They started cutting and welding steel about three weeks ago in the shipyard in Singapore where it is being built. We are expecting delivery in June, 2013. So the build process now that has started will go quite rapidly.
Robyn Williams: As I look at it, it's got plenty of decks and it is really chunky and strong, isn't it.
Brian Griffiths: It is, yes. It's now about 94.5 metres long, which is about 30 metres longer than our existing Southern surveyor. It's still a bit smaller than Aurora Australis, but it doesn't carry cargo and resupply like Aurora does. Aurora is basically (forgive me Antarctic division) a resupply cargo vessel with science tacked on. This vessel is a research vessel with very small cargo capacity.
Robyn Williams: And lots of lab work.
Brian Griffiths: Lots of lab work. We have huge lab space on the vessel, something over 250m², there's an entire deck devoted to it. And one of the interesting features is right up in the very fore peak of the ship there is an aerosol laboratory, so we can take air samples down a mast in the bow of the ship and pass them through instruments in that laboratory and look at the aerosol particles which are so important in cloud formation and rainfall. It's a feature which we haven't had in Australia before with this capacity for the atmospheric community.
Robyn Williams: And your advice has been on the architecture or on the science?
Brian Griffiths: On the science leading into the architecture in trying to get ship builders to understand that they were building a laboratory and bending some steel around that so it would float, as opposed to they came to us saying, 'We'll give you a ship. Now, what would you like us to shoehorn into it?' And we said, 'No, no. The client is the Australian marine science community and this is what we want. What you do around that is your problem, but this is what we want.'
A number of the potential builders had some problems in understanding that. A couple of them said, hey, we hadn't thought about that before. And as a laboratory ship it's as best I've been on. It's specifically designed to do a whole series of things to get samples flowing from the side of the vessel into the laboratories and from the stern of the vessel, working from dirty wet fish blood and guts type work, benthic sampling where you're playing with sponges and rocks, through to sophisticated dry lab instrumentation.
One of the major advantages to this vessel is the geoscience capability to get 24-metre-long cores from the bottom of the ocean, which is something that we have not had in this country for over 30 years. And core storage and core handling facilities on the vessel as well as getting rocks from the bottom of the ocean, manganese nodules, mapping thermal vents, all of these really interesting things which have major impacts on potential mineral finds, potential for extending Australia's continental and subcontinental margins. If you can show continuity of the rocks between here and Antarctica, for example, it allows us to extend our territorial sea claims.
So there are wonderful capabilities now with the geoscience that we've built into it. Geoscience Australia has had a lot of input into the design of the vessel and some of the equipment on board. The other thing we'll have is a couple of dedicated seismic compressors, so they can take seismic profiling through the rocks all around Australia. It'll be a wonderful addition to the science of this country.
Robyn Williams: If we think of Antarctica, it's one and a half times the size of Australia. So the range you've got to deal with in the Southern Ocean is gigantic, isn't it.
Brian Griffiths: Absolutely. The ship is not primarily a Southern Ocean vessel. It's designed to work from the equator down to the sea ice. And although it's ice strengthened, it is only capable of going into two-tenths sea ice, and that's 0.4 to 0.6 of a metre thick. We can push things out of the way, but it is not an icebreaker. And the range that we have in the vessel, about 10,000 nautical miles, would allow us to get down to the farthest Australian Antarctic base and do some work north of that and come back.
The science complement...we're anticipating a science complement of about 40 on board. Previously we've got 12 on Southern surveyor. Aurora can take up to comfortably about 60 scientists. But 40 scientists working long distances away gives us just an immense increment in our capacity to do ocean science around Australia.
Robyn Williams: But the most important question; what will be the colour?
Brian Griffiths: Ah, that is still being actively discussed. We have agreed on white topsides, though there is still some interest about the hull livery. That's a topic of active discussion at the moment.
Robyn Williams: And you say that they are cutting the steel at the moment. I presume when it is more or less ready as a ship it will sail here and you'll fit it out scientifically in Hobart, will you?
Brian Griffiths: Partly. We will be conducting sea trials in Singapore before we accept the vessel, and all of the equipment on the vessel will be tested to make sure that it meets manufacturer's specifications, all of the winches and cranes and all this stuff. As part of the fit-out we will be installing some science equipment. For example, there's a C-band radar which sits up high here, it's about the size of a Corolla, which will give us three-dimensional pictures of clouds. That needs to go on in the shipyard, so that on the delivery voyage, once we accept the vessel, we will be doing some science on the way down to Hobart.
Once the vessel gets to Hobart in (cross my fingers) June 2013, we'll spend probably four months, maybe five months, finishing the installation of the equipment. For example, the IT systems on board, we reckon there will be about 221 man weeks taken up installing all of the IT systems alone. Most of that will be done in Singapore. But once it gets here there will be training for the crew, because we need 2.5 to 3 crews on this vessel. The crew bring it down from Singapore, the other crew will need to learn how to drive it and learn how to drive the equipment. We'll do a series of shorter voyages out of Hobart where we go out and test the coring equipment, for example. We'll get the scientists, the communities there that use the coring equipment to come on board for that two or three or four days to give us the benefit of their expertise. We'll get their senior technical people who are critical in this to see how it all works.
So that by the time the first real science voyage comes available in, we are hoping, about mid-November 2013, we'll have a group of trained crew and officers who will be critical for the vessel, we'll have all of the machinery and the science equipment working as we want it to be working, and we'll have the science parties that will be going on that first series of voyages familiar with what they're going to be doing.
Robyn Williams: Brian Griffiths at CSIRO in Hobart, and the good ship Investigator.
- Brian Griffiths
- Retired CSIRO fellow in biological oceanography
- Presenter
- Robyn Williams
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Dirty Dirty Sheets brings you another selection some of the world's finest wrestling action, handpicked for your enjoyment on this fine Saturday morning.
Beyond Wrestling – AR Fox vs ACH
There's no better match to start off with than this. Beyond Wrestling recently put on the Tournament for Tomorrow. It featured many of the top prospects in all of wrestling fighting it out in the ultra-competitive Beyond environment. Reports say it was the best show Beyond has put on to date. Which means, of course, that they've decided to give it away entirely for free online. This is the first match from the show and features current ACW Anarchy Champion ACH taking on multi-promotional sensation AR Fox. Both men are known for their confidence, charisma, and next-level athleticism and the match they put on is simply mind-blowing. These guys are the future.
NSP – Cherry Bomb vs Courtney Rush
Cherry Bomb and Courtney Rush are two women who have also done a lot to make their cases for "Breakout Wrestler of the Year 2011." However, with the recent escalation of their feud (including Cherry having Rush kicked out of NEO), they may kill one another before we start handing out awards. Angry Beauty meets Human Suplex Machine.
NOAH – Go Shiozaki (c) vs KENTA – GHC Heavyweight Title
Some unfortunate news in the land of Japan: KENTA will be out for about 6 months with a knee injury. He went out with a bang though. Check this incredible match between him and Go Shiozaki for the GHC Heavyweight title. These proteges of Kenta Kobashi square off in one of the best matches of the year.
NJPW – Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs Shinsuke Nakamura – IWGP Heavyweight Title
Hiroshi Tanahashi won the Tokyo Sports MVP award for best male wrestler. It's hard to argue with his accomplishments, chief being a near year-long reign as IWGP Champion. Here's one of his best defenses against his eternal rival, Shinsuke Nakamura. Note: the video is 75 minutes long, but the match takes up less than half of that.
JWP – Mayumi Ozaki vs Akira Hokuto
Here's another great rivalry. This time, between two promotions. As we said in our Akira Hokuto spotlight [1. Read our about Akira Hokuto and her war with JWP here.], she lead the charge for AJW in the Joshi Wars, and took particular delight in publicly berating hapless JWP President Masatoshi Yamamoto. The Dangerous Queen does a bit of that here, before going one on one with Mayumi Ozaki, whom you all should have seen at JoshiMania.
NEO – Kana vs Mio Shirai
2011 was a great year to be a Joshi fan in the US. Between the AmeriKana Tour, JoshiMania, Joshi-4-Hope, and Kyoko in CZW, lovers of Japanese women's wrestling had numerous opportunities to see their favorites live. That most recently included Mio Shirai who gave three show-stealing performances at CHIKARA's post-season extravaganza. Here's an early match from her where she takes on her future BFF, Kana!
JWP – Hailey Hatred vs Tsubasa Kuragaki
And if Mio wasn't the top star of JoshiMania, then it was certainly Tsubasa Kuragaki. She killed it each and every night. She needed the momentum, as she's just a few days away from a huge title match in JWP where she'll take on current Open-Class Champion Hailey Hatred. We'll be there covering the event so we'll let you know how it goes down. In the meantime, here is a match from earlier in the year. The rules of this one state you only need a two count to win. Imagine how hard they'll have to beat each other down to get the three this Friday!
ROH Video Wire
On the same day as JWP Climax, ROH will also be putting on its biggest show of the year, Final Battle. This excellent video wire contains everything you need to know about the matches, and has some great promos by Kevin Steen, The Young Bucks and, ladies and gentlemen, Jimmy Rave! It's really great to see Jimmy back in Ring of Honor, and really he looks better than ever.
PWO – Johnny Gargano vs Gregory Iron
Hopefully you all read Amanda's great report of the last PWO tapings. Here's one, of many, really excellent matches from it. Stargano and Iron Man go at it once again. Things are a bit different this time as Greg Iron has earned Johnny Gargano's respect. PWO, much like Beyond, puts a lot of great content with top wrestlers up. Be sure to keep an eye on their channel.
ACW – Rachel Summerlyn vs Scot Summers (c) – Anarchy Televised Title
One of the most beautiful and violent moments of 2011. Rachel Summerlyn, the MVP of Anarchy, takes on her "big brother" Scot Summers. We talked this match in detail in our From Innocence to Insanity report [3. Read our full report on Rachel and Scot's bloodstained epic here.], but it's something you just have to see for yourself. Slayer. Big Bad. Titles. Weapons. Blood. Anarchy.
AJPW – Cheerleader Melissa vs Makoto
SHIMMER Champion Cheerleader Melissa was invited on the recent AJPW Taiwan Tour. While Melissa is loveable, but aggressive, in the US there seems something about transoceanic flights that brings out the absolute worst in her [1. See Melissa in the UK try to kill Wesna and the audience here.]. In a rare AJPW women's match, she tries to destroy SMASH's Makoto. Note: AJPW managment was apparently was impressed with the showing, as they've since added more women to their shows in Japan.
AOW Christmas Promo
And finally, this is cool. Pro Wrestling in crystal clear HD, running super slow-motion, set to traditional Christmas music.
Happy Holidays people. We're off to Japan. Stay tuned for exclusive stuff, like this video from last year at Shinjuku FACE. Who would have thought both would make their US debut in 2011. DDS karma!
Until next time, peace!