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Jason Marks is going out swinging. He'll spend his last month on the Public Regulation Commission fighting to defend renewable energy, especially solar power. It's a battle he says he wasn't expecting to wage.
The state requires utilities to ramp up their use of renewable energy over time. By 2020, companies like PNM will have to get 20 percent of their overall power from renewables. And beyond that, a Public Regulation Commission rule from 2007 specifies what kinds of clean power must be used: at least 20 percent solar, 20 percent wind and 10 percent from other sources like geothermal or biomass.
Marks says two conservative commissioners, Pat Lyons and Ben Hall, proposed to cut those targets in half. Last month, Attorney General Gary King and a coalition called the New Mexico Industrial Energy Consumers—which includes the city of Albuquerque, the University of New Mexico, Honeywell and Intel—filed formal requests asking the PRC to ax the diversity requirements altogether. King and the coalition say New Mexicans can't afford the hike in utility bills that the mandates would spawn, especially if companies are forced to use costly solar energy.
But Marks says it's already been decided that New Mexico isn't only looking at the cheapest, short-term solutions. "We're going to invest in a diverse portfolio to invest in clean energy options in the future."
Solar energy is key to moving the state forward, says Marks. With up to 340 days of sunshine every year, it's our most plentiful natural resource. Solar rays are strongest during hot summer months when demand for electricity is at its peak. There are also better opportunities for storing solar power compared with wind. Finally, Marks says, there's potential for New Mexico to position itself as a prime exporter of solar energy in the years ahead. "There are enough commercially developable areas in New Mexico for solar to produce more electricity than the entire U.S. consumes," he says.
Marks was on the PRC five years ago when renewable energy requirements were in their infancy. But Marks says he and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), who was also on the commission at the time, spearheaded diversity rules because utility companies kept finding excuses not to invest in a broad range of options—especially solar. In 2006, he says, the entire state generated enough solar power to serve only 40 or 50 households.
Today, says Marks, as a result of the diversity requirements, solar energy feeds more than 170 megawatts into state electric grids—enough to power about 65,000 homes.
He says if targets are scaled back or repealed, companies won't have incentive to develop more solar power sources. Plus, there's another roadblock: The PRC is reconsidering rules that cap what utilities are required to pay for renewable energy development. The industry coalition and attorney general are lobbying to keep the cap low. Marks says these changes could force New Mexico's solar industry to come to a grinding halt.
Regina Wheeler agrees. She's CEO of Positive Energy Solar, a panel installation company founded in 1997 that's expanded statewide. "We've proven that this is a cost-competitive energy solution for our state, as well as a generator for economic development, revenue and jobs," she says.
It's "unfathomable" that an organization like the coalition with six constituents could derail what she says has been a successful negotiation between the PRC and utilities.
According to spokesperson Susan Sponar, PNM has decided not to oppose the solar diversity targets, but establishing the cap on what utilities pay for renewables is a priority. The limit on rate hikes is set to rise next year from 2 percent to 2.5 percent, and Sponar says PNM is interested in keeping it low to protect consumers. PNM supports renewable energy, she says, "and at the same time we think it's important to consider the cost of future plans, since that's such a concern to our customers."
Peter Gould, general counsel for the New Mexico Industrial Energy Consumers, says the association simply wants the PRC to put consumer needs above expansion of renewable energy. The PRC has gone too far encouraging green industries that need a leg up at the expense of ratepayers, he argues. He also says the PRC's required diversity percentages aren't based on solid evidence.
"The reason it's all come to a head now is that as the renewable portfolio standard goes up to 15 percent in 2015, we're going to see an incredible ramping up of the cost of complying with that statute," Gould says.
The brief submitted to the PRC by Attorney General King makes similar arguments: "New Mexico's aggressiveness in pushing relatively high diversity requirements for costly solar is surprising considering the fact that New Mexico is a relatively poor state," it reads.
Marks says the idea that cost trumps all other considerations isn't in line with the state Renewable Energy Act, which requires the PRC to balance the development of diverse renewable energy against affordability. He also says the PRC's target percentages were set in 2007 after hearing extensive expert testimony, and by carefully weighing the pros and cons of each energy source.
There's no disagreement that coal-burning plants and natural gas still cost less in terms of utility bills. "But based on my interaction with constituents," says Marks, "I believe people are willing to pay 3 percent more for clean energy."
Marks says he fears the two parties pushing for solar target rollback have timed their actions to run out the clock on the current PRC, postponing a final decision until there's less opposition on the commission.
But in the meantime, he adds, "I'm still a commissioner, and I'll do what I can to get this current commission to vote—either for solar or against it—in mid-December."


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No Flood Predicted, but City Leaders Prepared
While flooding isn't predicted in the Valley City area this year, city officials recently held a tabletop exercise in the event of an unpredicted flood disaster. The exercise addressed the city's readiness, what resources would be available and how the chain-of-command would work during flood response.
The exercise was especially important to the city administrator and the police chief who are both new to the area.
For more on the city's tabletop exercise, read Thursday's Times-Record.

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The guy who noticed this was using a device that detects the ultrasonics emitted by bats.
Instead of setting a radar to pump out radio waves, why not set a device like that to send an amplified return?
...Or for a tad more energy efficiency vs. using RADAR to heat up the bats skull to produce sound, put some SPEAKERS on the bloody blades.
Or air activated "deer warnings" on the blades, except ones that work for bats.
(Dangerously assuming those worked for Deer, but you get the idea)
...Or for a tad more energy efficiency vs. using RADAR to heat up the bats skull to produce sound, put some SPEAKERS on the bloody blades.
Dude, last thing you wanna do is to introduce instability on a 4m long blade by adding uneven weight.
Dude, last thing you wanna do is to introduce instability on a 4m long blade by adding uneven weight.
I probably shouldn't even justify this comment with a response, but I suspect you could put one on each blade to solve this problem. Or even better, just drill some hole in the end of the blade that would make some fucked up whining noise that would drive away bats. They can go eat bugs someplace else, it would be doing them a favor. The noise doesn't have to be pleasant.
Please read the parent post. He mentioned "blade". Individual blades are balanced. It's not just putting one radar each, the blade itself will be out of balance.
One of the major objections to wind turbines is the noise they make, so anything that increases human-audible noise is out of the question.
Who said you only put the speaker on one blade?
The parent. As I said on another comment, blades are designed with a balance, individually. Plus even if you managed to put the thing on all the blades without altering both their individual balance AND the balance of the whole apparatus (which is what you mentioned), the resulting monster will be heavier thus spinning slower thus generating less power.
The whole idea is laughable. Wanna go ahead with it, put a machine on a shed, end of story. Don't touch the turbines.
I'd be surprised if they couldn't use some small, lightweight, piezoelectric transducers and keep the weight down while keeping the blade balanced. I'd be floored if this was impossible to engineer.
Have they tried the cheesy little devices they sell on TV that you plug in to keep rodents and stuff out of your house? Keep It Stupid Simple...or something like that
why not set a device like that to send an amplified return?
What, and make the bats DEAF!? Are you mad? I for one recommend turning off the wind as soon as bats are in range, that'll sort 'em!
Instead of setting a radar to pump out radio waves, why not set a device like that to send an amplified return?
Yes, let's make bats safer around wind turbines by jamming their sonar
And ampilfied return won't jam their sonar (unless it's excessively amplified), it will just make the prop "look" like a big scary object. Which, for a bat, it is.
Why not just use a direct sonic system, instead of using radar pulses to generate sound indirectly? Bats have very sensitive hearing, and there are probably ways of generating noises that keep them away, either by interfering with their sonar, or simply generating unpleasant aural input. I seem to recall ultrasonic systems devised for driving off human beings, or other animal species, so it's a demonstrated concept.
Of course, such a system could exist and use more energy, or cost more to implement. Nothing in the article about that however.
You have to be very careful with sonic systems and creatures like bats and flying foxes. There are arguments afoot here in Australia that many sonic systems are waayyyyyy overpowered, causing bats to freak out and drop their young, or fall straight out of the sky and hurt themselves. Although technically this is a deterrent, it isn't really a good thing for the bats, which is the main point of the system. It might be like trying to keep humans away from an area by blasting our optic nerves with a near-blinding psychedelic lightshow and being a little miffed when the human falls over backwards in shock, tumbles down a hill and breaks their legs. Whoops.
Well, to play devils advocate for a minute, if the options are 1) no system, 40% casualties or 2) potentially dangerous system, 5% casualties, then I'd call option 2 an improvement, at least from a conservation standpoint. From an animal rights POV... not so great.
Anyway, a bat repellent speaker doesn't absolutely have to be a brute force approach. What about broadcasting their own sonar waves back at them, such that they get the mistaken impression there's a solid object in their path, and avoid it accordingly?
Stupid question: Do bats have their own sonar "voice"? I.E., can a bat distinguish it's own sonar from someone else's?
I would think so, have you ever watched millions of them fly out from under a bridge or cave? They seems to be able to distinguish their own "voice" from others. Come to think of it, maybe that is just timing. They know when they send a chirp, and can expect it back within a certain threshhold. So, basically, I dont know either. Please disregard what you just read...
This idea has enough merit to be worth exploring.
It would require an active system that listened for each bat's vocalizations, then constructed a faux echo that would seem to come from the danger zone by using multiple speakers with carefully tuned amplitudes and delays. The audio pick-ups and speakers don't have to weigh very much or be very powerful: you are attempting to mimic the sounds reflected from a sheet of plywood. So several of these could be mounted within the blades without adding significant
Having said that, evolution can teach these things -- bats that naturally avoid that sound will be fitter for the environment, and more likely to have offspring.
Right enough in principle, but my first thought in response is, "yeah, like deer have evolved the behavior of not running out in front of cars." Compared to the actual number of bats, the evolutionary pressure exerted on tiny localized populations of them by not-very-numerous wind turbines is probably negligible.
Except to evolve to not go to that area perhaps.
Clearly you've never read the book "The 100th Bat".
Foxes can fly???? I WANT ONE
It's probably to do with even propagation and loss of volume at distance, they could likely setup a radar transmitter in the middle of the wind farm and have a fairly even spread of radar pulses which evenly drive away the bats no matter the conditions, however with sound it will be effected by air density, wind direction and speed, etc and would be unlikely to have enough of an impact for one unit to cover a large area, they would likely have to set it up on each tower, which would increase the maintenance
Yah, like the businesses that blast classical music to keep teenagers from loitering around their parking lots at night,...
I'm thinking Celine Dion. Drive me batshit, at least. Couldn't be too pleasant for the bats, either.
From TFA:
"It may be so sensitive that even a tiny amount of sound caused by electromagnetic radiation is enough to drive them out."
Surely if it's sound based, they're reacting to the sound produced by the equipment, not some sort of weird sonic biproduct of light.
Nah, nothing so direct.
Radar pulse hits bat. Pulse generates heat, which produces sound waves, inside the bats head (sounds scary, but we've been operating proximate to radar machines since WWII). I've heard of this effect elsewhere, and can readily believe it might be more pronounced in bats than humans. Sound confuses/diverts/drives off bat - they're not sure how exactly, but any number of theories might explain this behaviour.
No, they are actually referring to the radiation causing sound inside the bat's heads...
They figured this out decades ago when they heard sound coming from radar systems that were appropriately modulated.
Then a bunch of nerds (they called them "Air Control Tower Operators" back then) figured they could modulate voice into a radar dish, point it at someone walking over the other side of the field and they would suddenly hear voices in their head... Which I'm sure was really funny for a while.
It's even patented. Microwave induced audio.
But it causes sound by heating, so basically, regardless of the level of radiation, heat generation is needed to induce sound. Consider that for a moment and also that it's microwave radiation.
No matter how small the radiation level is, it's like microwaving the bats.
Fortunately, Bat's can't sue people for exposing them to potentially dangerous levels of radiation, so it's probably just fine.
Fortunately, Bat's can't sue people for exposing them to potentially dangerous levels of radiation, so it's probably just fine.
Damn! I was about to go out and patent a new set of completely wireless headphones to sell to the Mac crowd.
Fortunately, Bat's can't sue people for exposing them to potentially dangerous levels of radiation, so it's probably just fine.
Damn! I was about to go out and patent a new set of completely wireless headphones to sell to the Mac crowd.
You still can. Mac zealots have proven they'll take any amount of abuse and still defend Apple's decisions.
"Well yes, they've given me cancer and brain damage (fulfilling the "Think Different" slogan I might add!), but that's the trade off if you want cool stylish things. Anyway the PC version produces twice as much cancer, is buggy, and isn't nearly as cool. This is from Apple so it just works!".
Fortunately, Bat's can't sue people for exposing them to potentially dangerous levels of radiation, so it's probably just fine.
What would Batman do?
No matter how small the radiation level is, it's like microwaving the bats.
You call it hyper-radiation, I call it good cheap eatin'.
No matter how small the radiation level is, it's like microwaving the bats.
That would be "like" as in "totally unlike", right?
There's microwave radiation coming at us all the time from all kinds of sources, natural and artificial. So, being wilfully innumerate, you would say, "No matter how small the radiation level is, it's like we're being microwaved all the time!"
The energy levels matter far more than the abstract category you assign. "Being microwaved" does not in itself cause harm. "Being microwaved
Fortunately, Bat's can't sue people for exposing them to potentially dangerous levels of radiation, so it's probably just fine.
Well said sir... we still really don't know what, if any, level of radiation is "safe".
Some levels are considered safe, but just because we don't feel it or have immediate and obvious physical reactions doesn't mean it's safe.
An interesting aside is that research has shown insects to be hundreds of times more resistant to radiation than mammals, so it's not surprising the insects aren't repelled by the radar.
Right, the Frey Effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect [wikipedia.org]
One thing I've always wondered: where did the long-held literal "tinfoil hat" meme really originate from, and when?
I know everyone nowadays just uses it as a ha ha joke, but you know what's strange? I've never seen any research or reporting into precisely *which* patients first started seriously claiming this very literal set of symptoms: 'government mind control radiation in my brain which I'm trying to block with metal headgear
Not nearly as much as one equipped with napalm. I only wish I was joking...
Provide a link and you might get an Informative instead of a Funny.
From Wikipedia: [wikipedia.org]
"Bat bombs
No, he's not joking [wikipedia.org].
I can only begin to imagine the complications of wind farms interfering with military radars which scan much closer to the Earth's surface
Turbines are a problem when they reflect signals back to the radar with sufficient Doppler shift to get past filters for static reflections. The emission from this device won't be near the frequency of the military radars (you would think) so there is unlikely to be a problem.
So you can protect possible targets from radar-controlled missiles by putting wind parks nearby?
Tell that to the 30 - 40% left alive! I'm sure they don't mind this solution.
The trend is towards larger and slower wind turbines, because they are more efficient. At the same time, slower moving blades are safer (actually, with contemporary wind turbines, completely safe) for birds and bats. Also, bladeless designs are becoming more popular, again because they are more efficient. These bladeless designs are completely safe, regardless of size.
Intrigued, I did some google searching about bladeless wind turbines and there are some links but perhaps not any actual real life comparisons. Do you know of any such?
It seems to me though, from what I've heard recently, that a bladed wind turbine extracts power from the area that the blades cover whereas a rotating cylinder [ecofriend.org] would only extract power from the area near the cylinder, even if the cylinders were arranged in a more traditional configuration [ecofriend.org] and the catavent [bloggingthegreen.com] system would seem to intercept even l
Here you an find a plethora of companies making such devices [ecobusinesslinks.com], I hope this helps.
Actually some bladeless turbines make power through some different principles than bladed ones. For example, the Savonius Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (the romans were using it to pump water using a screw) derives power from planetary swing-by, like a pelton wheel.
A bladed turbine DOES only generate power from what the blades cover. However, it's from what they cover at any given time. They don't magically catch wind they're not in front of. It's very much based on their area (among other factors) and the sam
err, RTFS. They don't hit the blades:
The bats might not be killed by the wind turbine blades directly, but instead by the sudden drop in air pressure the swinging rotors induce
RPM or Angular Speed are not the issue with propellers-- its a factor but it is not at all the problem. The center slowly spins around and the farther out from the center the faster it moves. Does not really matter much if you are moving 1 RPM or 100RPM. On the shaft, it is moving as little as possible-- theoretically, an exact center point (a point has no dimensions) would not move at all no matter the RPM. People who were able to play on the playground Merry-go-Round or "Twister" before lawsuits remov
Radar signals can lead to small but rapid spikes of heat in the head that generate sound waves, which in turn stimulate the ear.
No wonder the doctors always say they can never find the microchip putting voices in my head.
1. Locate wind farm.
2. Fill sack with dead bats from the foot of the turbines.
3. ??????
4. Profit.
All they have to do is build giant concrete walls around the turbines, and stick a roof over the top. So long as they don't put any windows in, it should be safe for bats and birds.
It's crazy that they haven't thought of doing this.
Dude, you forgot the fans to push the turbine around. How else is it going to move?
I will apply to be a Windmill Animal Safety Monitor, and am looking forward to completing my WASMD certification to do exactly that! This must be one of those jobs that can't be outsourced!
My broom, bat eating animal suit, and firecrackers are ready!
"The bats might not be killed by the wind turbine blades directly, but instead by the sudden drop in air pressure the swinging rotors induce"
I am confused. The wind flowing over the blade induces a low pressure and causes the blade to move. The blade does not induce a low pressure from it's own movement. It seems to many people are thinking of these like propellers on a airplane or a window fan.
Maybe that's why there is so much opposition. People hear "wind generator" and they think that's what they do,
I am confused. The wind flowing over the blade induces a low pressure and causes the blade to move. The blade does not induce a low pressure from it's own movement. It seems to many people are thinking of these like propellers on a airplane or a window fan.
What's the fucking difference? In either case you have a pressure drop that exists only because the wind mill is sitting there. Whatever nit you're picking vis-a-vis what causes what, the bats and their exploded lungs don't care.
Oh, but for the record,
Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.
Why not use something like those little fan/whistle things they sell to put on your car? The ones that emit a high pitched noise that deters deer and other animals from approaching the road when you drive by. There's obviously already wind available to generate the sound, so just tweak it to emit a pitch only the bats can hear. Zero extra energy requirement.
All this worrisome talk about green energy killing birds, one question remains: why can't we put screens around these turbines to keep birds from flying into them? This won't solve the air pressure injuries with bats, but with birds why can't a screen solve it?
Likewise, why can't a screen solve the problem with tidal turbine generators grinding up fish, too?
"Radar signals can lead to small but rapid spikes of heat in the head that generate sound waves"
The head that makes sound waves as opposed to the other head... Well, you get the point...
There goes the supply to my new franchise: KFB. Sigh, my Solar-Panel-Baked-Beetles didn't work out either.
On some futurist show a company invented square, vertical mindmills that birds and bats could see and thereby dodge. They were also more efficient.
Anyone else hear of those and can provide a link?
The main problem here is that humans want to put windfarms on top of mountains and especially on top of ridgelines.
This is because ridgelines are very good spots for catching the wind, but they also generate their own wind environments from various factors such as ambient temperature, humidity, radiant heating and more. This confluence of factors all combines to draw insects up into the air along ridgelines. If you were to aim a sufficiently sensitive radar as any given ridge in the spring/summer/fall, yo
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SAN DIEGO — Californians are bundling up with sweaters and gloves and stocking up on firewood as they endure a winter storm that has brought very unseasonable freezing temperatures.
The National Weather Service said records could fall as the cold snap extends into the weekend. ''It's only going to get colder,'' specialist Bonnie Bartling of the Weather Service said. ''Early Sunday, you're looking at possibly mid-30s in downtown Los Angeles.'' Long Beach could see temperatures dip into the low 30s, she said.
Freeze warnings were issued for Sunday morning across wide swaths of the LA Basin and San Diego County. Residents were being urged to cover outdoor plants and bring pets inside.
Morning frost was expected on San Diego and Los Angeles beaches. Big Sur, on the central coast, prepared for daytime highs almost 20 degrees below Boston's. Even the snowbird haven of Palm Springs saw temperatures hover around freezing at night. A low of 12 degrees was recorded in the snow-covered Big Bear mountain resort east of Los Angeles.
In addition, San Diego zookeepers turned up the heat for chimpanzees, tourists covered their hands on Hollywood walking tours, and some farmers broke out wind machines and took other steps to protect crops from freezing.
Traffic was flowing again on a major Southern California traffic artery that was severed for the second time in three days because of snow.
The Grapevine segment of Interstate 5 was reopened at 7:25 a.m. Saturday, about four hours after icy conditions forced the closure, the California Highway Patrol said.
In Sonoma County, homeless shelters handed out extra warm clothes to protect people from frigid overnight temperatures. Some customers drove more than an hour to buy firewood. ''It's crazy busy here,'' said Renea Teasdale, office manager at The Woodshed in Orange, south of Los Angeles.
In the San Joaquin Valley, the heart of California's citrus production, growers prepared for another round of freezing temperatures early Sunday after seeing little crop damage Thursday and Friday nights.
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Amazon wowed developer partners at its AWS re:Invent partner conference this week, using the venue as the launch pad for new services that will help partners build more powerful data-infused applications.
Topping the list was Amazon Kinesis, a new service for developer partners that build big data applications. Kinesis, which is in limited preview, handles real-time processing of huge amounts of data. Developers can use Kinesis to pull in data streams from server logs, social media and Web clickstream data, among other sources, to use in their apps running on Amazon EC2.
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Matt Wivinis (Downers Grove, Downers Grove South) and his Kansas State baseball teammates recently finished a memorable season. A sophomore this spring, Wivinis appeared in 21 games as a pitcher and made 14 starts. He finished the season with a 6-2 record and 4.72 ERA. He was second on the team in innings pitched (76.1) and third in strikeouts (50) as he and the Wildcats went 45-19 overall and 16-8 in the Big 12 Conference to bring home the title.
After the regular season, the Wildcats topped Wichita State, Bryant and Arkansas to win the NCAA Manhattan regional and advance to the NCAA super regional against Oregon State. K-State lost that series, 2-1, but Wivinis tossed a scoreless ninth inning to give the Wildcats a chance to rally in the series finale, which they lost, 4-3.
Early in the season, Wivinis tossed his first complete game at the college level March 9 in a 10-4 win over Cal-Poly. He needed just 91 pitches to earn the win.
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Kyle Engel (Downers Grove, Downers Grove South) was a key player for the University of Chicago baseball team this spring. The sophomore was named to the American Baseball Coaches Association Division III All-Region second team after batting .366, leading the team with five home runs and 43 RBIs, ranking second on the squad with three triple and finishing third with 10 doubles.
Engel led the Cardinals with 13 multi-RBI games and added 15 multi-hit games to his resume. He was especially impressive against Monmouth on April 14, belting three home runs and eight RBIs in a 22-4 victory. He had a productive weekend April 6 and 7, going 8-for-14 with four doubles and nine RBIs in three games against Beloit and Robert Morris University-Springfield, which helped him earn University Athletic Association Hitter of the Week honors for the first week of April.


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waderoush writes: In May 2008, Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, unveiled e-book like design for the second-generation XO Laptop, consisting of a pair of facing touchscreens. In a new e-mail interview, Negroponte says that design has been thrown out, and that instead the foundation is working on version '1.75' of the existing green-and-white laptop with a more powerful processor, as well as a '3.0' version that would look 'more like a sheet of paper.' Negroponte also addressed a range of other questions about the OLPC project, including the significance of the project to make 1.6 million e-books readable on the XO laptop and the organization's push to reach more children in Latin America, Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.


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The Football Association has launched an investigation into reports of the abuse, while West Ham reacted by banning for life one of two fans cautioned by police at the match at White Hart Lane on Sunday. Some Hammers fans appeared to mock both the gassing of Jews in the Holocaust and the knife attack on a Spurs fan before Tottenham's game in Rome last week.
Benayoun said on Twitter: "I have a great relationship with the West Ham United supporters, from my first spell at the club and again now I am back on loan here. This (is) why I was very disappointed to hear some of the songs yesterday and it was embarrassing."
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@Simons they better... I loved those chs. Though CH 298 has OVA potential... they turned a 10 page bath scene into OVA 4 after all. As to CH 299... you could be right, though it would be a rather 'different' episode
As to the ep... been thinking of changing my set here to my narutoforums set but with the Anime Ultear rape/troll face for ava and Ultear exposing second origin SIG just resized for here... and now that the ep has finally aired I guess I can use it now finally (though it requires a PC and not a cell, so will postpone). The ep was really good... though I don't recall Lucy showing back yet... it better not interfere with the upcoming joke, though probably won't. Anyways very funny ep, good set up, and the filler was well done. Wish the fight was better animated and scenes of next week not spoil so much again, but I suppose its an excuse for anime only fans to read the anime to avoid being spoiled and manga fans to guess how many chapters next up will cover... still annoys me though.
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Location: Orlando
I felt conflicted this episode... I'm sure it's known here that I'm one of those who dislike Jellal immensely. However, I saw no 'Jellal' this episode, merely Mystogun. When I think about it like that...I can handle Mystogun - he covers his face. As long as I don't have to see the face...I think I'll be good. That and he got trolled...it's all good. XD Dat walk of shame was hilarious.
Ultear, I love you. Yes, there are men who will do the stupidest things if a woman is involved. I love her trolling now since it's much less malicious in nature.
So, we had a slightly more normal fight. Jura's face after Mystogun collapsed was just...perfect. So was Mavis's face. That /(-.-)\ expression was priceless.
|2012-12-08, 07:31
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The fights continue...
Jellal vs Neekis.
That sure was an intense fight! Awesome ^^
It was the best fight of today's episode.
Shame they obstructed Jellal from winning.
They're probably saving him for later, but he turned out to be a laughing stock..
|2012-12-08, 09:39
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Radical Dreamer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Washington DC
is fairytail just gonna keep losing matches? I'm sorry but this whole being the worse guild thing is getting on my last nerve.. after seeing that match I just straight up rage-quit. I'm tired of this series. I know its not in vogue for the main characters to be on top of their game, but this is stretching it. I like underdogs, but this is definitely going overboard with it. losing over trivial mess. that's been the theme this entire time.
|2012-12-08, 12:15
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The One Eyed King
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Lurking Up Ahead
^dont be like that... this arc is really good. Can't say any manga spoilers but just watch a few more episodes... things are gonna get, well can't say
Anyways, even the manga has had more of it with each passing arc (not hinting at any manga spoilers).
But yah even the filler has had more NaLu hints... wonder what they know that we don't
|2012-12-08, 12:54
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Kurumada's lost child
Join Date: Nov 2003
I stopped watching farily tail after the 7 year gap episode (EP 124) because I read in this forum that the anime started airing only filler episodes. I would like to know if I the anime has resumed following the manga and from what episode #?
|2012-12-08, 12:59
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Otherwise, looking at episode titles, I see 151 is called "Sabertooth" So guessing start there. Quick glance at 151 shows its half filler and half canon material mixed throughout the episode, so there will be some confusion if you do not watch 128-150.
|2012-12-08, 13:42
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
i thought we will get some nice jellal action nonetheless, but that was really hilarious, but we did get to see the meteor magic spells again atleast, i was very surprised when jellal was using mystogan's spell, but that sacred song was nowhere near to the real one
so meldy and jellal were linked with link magic, and ultear was doing 'some things' to her.....
Spoiler for .....:
|2012-12-08, 18:03
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Do you really think they'll keep losing until the end of competition?
I'm sure that after few episodes you'll be bitching about how they keep winning without stop.
That's the basic rule any action follows.
Good guys get shit kicked out of them then they suddenly man up and kick the shit out of enemy.
|2012-12-08, 19:11
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It was really cool how Jellal could use Mystogan's magic. How'd he do that?
The battles were cool and the episode was funny.
Last weeks episode was great as well. Makes you really despise Raven Tail and it was cool seeing Lucy get a really good bad, I just wish she had won
|2012-12-09, 01:32
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Junior Member
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Who would you choose as the main protagonist if Natsu/Lucy isn't?
Title said it all
Let's say the story changes POV from Natsu/Lucy (since they're the original main character(s))
I'll choose:
Gajeel :
-Lost Metallicana
-Entering phantomlord, and then changing his way of life after defeated by Natsu
-Being a double agent, seeing both RT and FT
-He seems to be doing more lonely mission
-Singing ability LOL
-Gajeel X Levy LOL
-He got more character development than Plotsu
Gildartz :
-Old days of Fairy Tail
-How did he become the strongest
-100 years quest
-Meeting many girls and accidentally destroy their town/village LOL
-Fighting Acnologia ALONE
|2012-12-09, 22:44
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Junior Member
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Is Mashima's Comic Relief funny anymore?
We know how Mashima portrays Gruvia, how he uses Gray's and Juvia's characters as comic relief, or how he uses Juvia and Lucy as comic relief because of their personalities and so on and so forth with other characters as well.
Are these "comic reliefs" with these characters actually funny to you/used to/never were? I somewhat found it funny in the beginning in Fairy Tail, but now it really isn't if it affects a characters overall portrayal (Example:Juvia). What do you guys think? Does the comic relief take away the seriousness of the overall story?
|2012-12-10, 00:09
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Awe of She
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Orlando
Why would the comedy take away from the story? It's an integral part of the story as a whole - Mashima always does comedy. Everyone's fair game as being used for comedy in here - very very few characters in Mashima's stories ever escape having their faces distorted for comedic effect (so far, only Minerva And 'Tengu' in recent memory has really escaped).
|2012-12-10, 14:22
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Senior Member
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A large amount of anime TV ranking have come out for between July 16 and October 28th http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/bb....php?t=1317084 and my favourite is
October 15-21
*0.7%(*1.6%) 10/20 (Sat) 10:30am-11:00am TV Tokyo FAIRY TAIL
|2012-12-10, 15:26
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❤Ichigo 100%❤
Join Date: Jan 2011
and yes, I understand Hiro trying to add anime continuity to his manga.
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Installation of the work on new stretcher
In glass and frame
Works of art with delicate layers of colour including pastels, charcoal, chalk or pencil are best protected behind glass in a frame. This helps avoid direct contact with the surface, which is one of the technicians biggest enemies in preservation of the colour layer. To frame the work, it was necessary to mount it onto a stretcher that is adapted to the selected frame - in the case of Queen Juliane Marie portrait there was hope that the existing frame could be reused.
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1: The existing stretcher was old and broken, so the carpenter at SMK fabricated a new one. To provide additional support for the work, a buffer of cardboard was glued into the frame's top edge. This will provide additional support and also absorb moisture and any harmful acids degassed from the wood and its environment.
2: The working frame with the artwork is placed on top of the stretcher with buffer cardboard.
3-4: Thumbtacks are loosened one by one and the canvas strips are brought down and fastened to the underlying stretcher.
5: This is repeated for all the strips, and the thumbtacks are reused for attaching the strips to the stretcher.
Without using a hammer
Since pastel is a very fragile material and will not tolerate any kind of shock, we had to push in the pins attaching the canvas and parchment to the stretcher very gently. Normally artworks on a stretcher are fastened with nails, which are hammered in, or staples. These methods were not appropriate in this case, since it would inevitably lead to unnecessary shock and vibration. Instead, we used a specially designed pincers, which is good for just this purpose, as you can press the drawing pins into the stretcher rather than hammering them in.
6-7: The linen strips are cut.
8: The painting is now leveled and assembled again on the stretcher with supporting cardboard.
9: View of the reverse, with cardboard auxiliary support and buffer and cut canvas strips.


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Rituxamab, a drug that treats lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis, may soon be used to help combat the destruction of pancreatic beta cells in newly diagnosed cases of type 1 diabetes. Researchers at Indiana University have found that the drug, originally developed and sold by Genentech as Rituxan, temporarily slows or stops the destruction of the 10 or 20 percent of beta cells that type 1s typically have remaining when they are first diagnosed.
Rituxan works to wipe out B lymphocytes, immune cells that grow out of control in lymphatic cancer and begin destroying healthy tissue. The same cells are at work in rheumatoid arthritis. Because both illnesses are autoimmune diseases, scientists theorized that the drug might work to counter the autoimmune destruction of remaining insulin-producing beta cells in recently diagnosed type 1s. One reason behind their thinking was that B cells have been shown to modulate T cell behavior. Rogue T cells are the prime culprit in the body's destruction of beta cells in type 1s.
The team recruited 87 recently diagnosed type 1 patients, ranging in age from 8 to 40 years old. The patients were divided into two groups, with one receiving four 375 mg/m2 doses of rituxamab and the other receiving four doses of placebo over a three-week period.
Rituxamab worked well at first, halting the destruction of beta cells and even allowing the pancreas to begin producing more insulin. Over the course of a year, however, the effects lessened and insulin production declined at the same rate as in the type 1s who were receiving a placebo. The scientists said that rituxamab, to remain effective, may have to be administered at regular intervals, as it is in cancer and rheumatoid arthritis treatments. Redosing in the treatment of those diseases typically occurs at four- to six-month intervals. Because the research team did not pursue the study beyond a one-time administration of the drug to test its usefulness in treating diabetes, nobody will know the long-term effects of rituxamab until a more comprehensive study is done.
The study opens to door to focusing on rogue B cells, as well as out-of-control T cells, as a prime element in therapies designed to make the body stop destroying its own beta cells.
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One Step Closer to New Diabetes Treatment
Rituximab Protects Insulin Producing Cells in Diabetes


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Here's a quick and simple C program that reads a packet from the accelerometer once per second, and rotates the screen to a new orientation if the orientation has changed.
I don't mean this to conflict with Paul's excellent work on Gestures; my reason for writing it is so that it can be used as an always-on daemon in the OM distributions. (Full gesture interpretation is more CPU heavy and requires reading data more often than once per second, so perhaps that will be done on-demand instead of always-on.)
The code is:
There's an ARM binary here (chmod a+x rotate && ./rotate):
There's also a complete rewrite at http://blog.1407.org/tag/rotate
And you're welcome to make patches against the GIT repo here:
- Patch for using libxrandr instead of system+xrandr -- Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms_ghaaaNoSpamPlease_at_1407_org>
Would anyone else be interested in being the maintainer of this package? It would involve packaging it up in bitbake/OE and trying to persuade the various OM distros to include it by default. (Perhaps with an on/off control panel entry in distros that make that easy to do?)
Comments appreciated. Thanks!
- Chris. -- Chris Ball <cjb_at_laptop_dot_org>
Packages and Binaries
- Package from Jozef Mlich (not perfect):
opkg install http://projects.openmoko.org/frs/download.php/392/accel-rotate_0.2_armv4t.ipk update-rc.d accel-rotate defaults
- Arm releases built by Rui
Rotates the screen according to the position of the Neo FreeRunner.


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Federal officials are reviewing the prices Indiana paid as it acquired land for the I-69 extension and other highway projects across the state.
The probe comes in the wake of an Indianapolis Star investigation into questionable land purchases on the I-69 project in Southern Indiana.
The Federal Highway Administration review will focus on "right-of-way practices with regard to administrative settlements," the same practices questioned in the Star investigation.
Among other problems revealed by The Star, the state offered $7 million for 32 properties its appraisers valued at $3.34 million. In some instances, the settlement documents offered little or no justification for the inflated payments.
The probe at Indiana Department of Transportation's Indianapolis office wrapped up last week. "We are still analyzing the findings and have no report yet," the Federal Highway Administration said in a statement.
INDOT spokesman Will Wingfield and the agency's real estate director Scott Adams didn't respond Friday to messages. The office of Gov. Mike Pence also did not respond to an email sent Friday afternoon . . .


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Survey Scam Offer Google+ Invites
The fraudulently-inclined are already abusing Google+ towards their ends. Trend Micro has found a new survey scam which uses Google+ invites as a lure.
This issue is not a problem in Google+ itself, but an outside web site which claims to offer Google+ invites (in spite of the fact that the system is open to anyone and, with millions of members already, isn't all that hard to join.
In any case, attempting to download an invite brings the user to a series of surveys they must first answer. They're of the type where you have to provide your cell phone number, which is how the scammer makes money. Watch out for this sort of thing.


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This Is the Water (Paperback)
A Novel
Harper Perennial, 9780062294906, 352pp.
Publication Date: July 29, 2014
August 2014 Indie Next List
— Susan Petrone, Loganberry Books, Shaker Hts, OH
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From Yannick Murphy, award-winning author of The Call, comes a fast-paced story of murder, adultery, parenthood, and romance, involving a girls' swim team, their morally flawed parents, and a killer who swims in their midst.
In a quiet New England community members of swim team and their dedicated parents are preparing for a home meet. The most that Annie, a swim-mom of two girls, has to worry about is whether or not she fed her daughters enough carbs the night before; why her husband, Thomas, hasn't kissed her in ages; and why she can't get over the loss of her brother who shot himself a few years ago.
But Annie's world is about to change. From the bleachers, looking down at the swimmers, a dark haired man watches a girl. No one notices him. Annie is busy getting to know Paul, who flirts with Annie despite the fact that he's married to her friend Chris, and despite Annie's greying hair and crow's feet. Chris is busy trying to discover whether or not Paul is really having an affair, and the swimmers are trying to shave milliseconds off their race times by squeezing themselves into skin-tight bathing suits and visualizing themselves winning their races.
When a girl on the team is murdered at a nearby highway rest stop—the same rest stop where Paul made a gruesome discovery years ago—the parents suddenly find themselves adrift. Paul turns to Annie for comfort. Annie finds herself falling in love. Chris becomes obsessed with unmasking the killer.
With a serial killer now too close for comfort, Annie and her fellow swim-parents must make choices about where their loyalties lie. As a series of startling events unfold, Annie discovers what it means to follow your intuition, even if love, as well as lives, could be lost.
Praise For This Is the Water: A Novel…
"A domestic tale and unlikely crime thriller, adds a striking new wrinkle to the author's consistently surprising body of work. . . . Ms. Murphy excels at such intimate observations of everyday family life. . . . A pulse-raising thriller."
"Compelling. . . . Style and substance and swimming mesh perfectly into a page-turner that sweeps you along with the power of a winning breaststroke. . . . This is the Water is the perfect, refreshing drip in the pool for the dog days of summer."
"Murphy's writing is disarming in that it captures the way people actually think. . . . An uncommon story. This Is The Water is quietly unlike anything else."
"Mesmerizing. . . . The resulting intimacy you develop with each character takes this book beyond compelling into seriously addictive: You feel as they feel, be it fear, loss, longing or that most gripping of all feelings, love. Do not miss it."
"Obscenely suspenseful. . . . In Murphy's hands, the structure becomes almost hypnotic--and when the story hits full speed in the final quarter, the suspense becomes almost excruciating."
"Murphy seasons the rising tension with humor. . . . A different sort of murder yarn that boasts twists in both the style and the plot."
"This Is the Water isn't just a good airplane read. . . . Murphy's hauntingly lovely writing will hold plenty of appeal for a broader audience."
"[A] propulsive, psychologically lush, witty, and unpredictable novel. . . . Murphy's evocation of feverish competition, stressed marriages, and the shocking banality of a serial killer's inner life coalesce in a novel of acute observation, penetrating imagination, and rare agility that is capped by a resounding denouement."
"A gifted storyteller with an unusual, hypnotic voice. . . . The nuances of small-town life are superbly captured in prose reminiscent of Philip Roth, but it is menace that drives the story forward. Truly original, it casts a spell that lingers in your mind."
"This Is the Water is a chilling combination of crime and domestic drama, and its effects linger."
"Almost unbearably suspenseful, this novel propels the reader mercilessly toward a stunning conclusion."
"A suspenseful story about a serial killer stalking a high school girls swim team in a quiet New England town."
"By skipping among the minds of many of her characters, and emphasizing the discrepancy between what they know at any given point in time and what the reader knows, Murphy amps up the suspense."
"This is the Water offers a rare combination of literary merit and genuine suspense. It is lyrical and fluid, like the swimming pool that plays such a key role in its prose."


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves have been saying all season that the playoffs are the goal this year. Now they're putting their money where their mouth is.
The Wolves are unveiling a new campaign that promises anyone who renews their season ticket or purchases a new one for next season a 10 percent discount if the team does not make the playoffs this year. The Wolves are currently in ninth place in the Western Conference, one spot out of the playoff field.
Timberwolves chief marketing officer Ted Johnson says that after years of rebuilding it was time to show the fans just how serious they are about raising expectations. He says injuries to Kevin Love, Ricky Rubio, Brandon Roy and Chase Budinger didn't deter them from going forward with the plan.
(© Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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Hi all, i have for sale the left of my collection MOTUC MOC, all AF are perfect C10 and preserved in Zoloworld case With the AF i ship also the case. I would prefer to sell everything in bulk and i apply a great discount for this. I can divide the lot but for a minimun of 3-4 AF block. The list:
Faker 40 euro
Skeletor 50
Stratos 30
Merman 35
Zodac 35
Hordak 30
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He-ro 25
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Optikk 25
Evil lyn + screeech 25
The goodess 25 euro
He-man (the original) 30
She-ra 35
He-man BA 35
Moss man unflocked 30
Wun dar + mappa 60
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Shipping in Europe is 20 euro, 40 euro for the rest of world. In case of sale of entire block i send 2-3 box separately
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History of Rock 'n' Roll Narrowed Down to 12 Minutes in '100 Riffs' Video
We've seen some pretty cool videos on the internet, but the '100 Riffs' clip from the Chicago Music Exchange has to be one of the sweetest things we've come across in a while. Watch musician Alex Chadwick go through the history of rock 'n' roll by playing 100 snippets of the greatest guitar riffs.
Thanks to Spinner for the heads up, we get to witness Chadwick go through six decades worth of some of the most iconic songs in music history. He starts things off with Chet Atkins and his version of the 1954 pop classic, 'Mr. Sandman,' before jamming songs like Johnny Cash's 'Folsom Prison Blues,' 'Johnny B. Goode' from Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction' and a lot more. Take a look at all of the songs covered in the video below.
'100 Riffs' has reached an impressive 1.6 million views so far after being up for only a month. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, but of course you can't please everyone. Matthew Horton from NME thought it was a solid performance, especially for one take, but had his complaints as well.
"Still, where's 'Ziggy Stardust,'" he wrote. "'You Really Got Me?' Where's 'Wild Thing,' for pity's sake? And why are they implying it was Camper Van Beethoven — not the Quo — who originally recorded 'Pictures Of Matchstick Men'?"
Some of our gripes with missing songs include Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart,' 'Pictures of You' and/or 'Just Like Heaven' from the Cure, Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage' and a couple of other omissions here and there — plus, there's hardly any thrash metal aside from Metallica. Still, this is an impressive feat that is worthy of your time.
Some of the more modern songs Chadwick touches on include the '90s grunge-era sounds of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. Green Day, the Foo Fighters and Cake round out the mid-to-late '90s (but no Bush, Oasis or Blur), and Jack White gets plenty of love with the White Stripes' 'Seven Nation Army' and 'Blue Orchid,' plus the Raconteurs' hit 'Steady As She Goes.' All 100 riffs are done using a 1958 Fender Strat.
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-- Valdosta, Ga. -- November 15, 2012 --
Bad attitudes and a blade belonged to two women who robbed an out of towner on Wednesday night.
Lieutenant Aaron Kirk of the Valdosta Police Department said "you can replace a wallet, you can replace credit cards but you can't replace a life."
The man, Harlin Hyde from North Carolina, was staying at the Motel Six on West Hill Avenue. After grabbing some food around 10:30PM he was walking back to his room. The women approached him pulling a knife just like this one. That's when they took his wallet, stole his cash and credit cards then fled on foot according to the police report.
Valdosta resident John Timmers said "I would feel obviously harrassed. I would feel in danger of my life. And I would certainly feel violated if that were to happen to me."
Another Valdosta resident Jimmy Stracener said "two women robbing somebody, I wouldn't think that would be normal but maybe today that's possible."
The victim didn't put up a fight which the cops say is the right decision.
Lieutenant Kirk went on to say "we would prefer you listen to the person, try and get a good description of them. Try and remember anything about them that you can so you can give that description to the police and then call the police as soon as possible."
At last check police have no leads and no arrests have been made. If you have any information on this crime call the Valdosta Police Department. All calls can remain anonymous.


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Thomas Vermaelen believes Jack Wilshere has returned to Arsenal stronger than ever – in more ways than one.
The Arsenal midfielder spent 14 months out of football trying to overcome foot and ankle problems but finally made it back to full training this month, and has featured in two under-21 games so far.
While Wilshere's fitness is still yet to return fully – he professed to be being 'knackered' after his first 62 minute run out against West Brom, Thomas Vermaelen believes he has beefed up in the gym during his time off.
"When I was out with injury, I was in the gym a lot," he told the Gunners offical site. "Jack was in the gym even longer working hard on his weaknesses.
"You can see that now in his body on the pitch. For me he looks much stronger and that's good. Sometimes you have to take the positives when you're out for more than a year and I think he's done that."
The Arsenal defender also paid tribute to his young colleague, and believes he has the potential to be one of the best midfielders in the world – but warned Wilshere must not be rushed back into the Gunners first team.
"You know what he did in his first full season for Arsenal - he was amazing," Vermalen told Arsenal Player.
"For me, he can be one of the best midfielders in the world. He has the potential for that.
"I'm really happy he's coming back now. He's working on his match fitness and that's the most important thing. I think in the future [he] will lift the team."
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I wanted to figure out a correlation between sponsorship and gardening. I thought that there must be some sort of relationship. Like, you have to keep your sponsorship "watered" in order to make it grow. Alright, I admit it is a stretch and pretty lame.
What did come to mind is the fact that there doesn't seem to be a lot of companies within the gardening industry that are active sponsors outside of home and garden shows or industry-related events. There are a few examples, Scotts Miracle Grow's sponsorship of NASCAR, Hart's Nursery's sponsorship of the Oregon State Fair and Fiskar's sponsorship of Arthritis Foundation Ease of Use Program.
Don't be fooled, gardening is a big industry. Maybe it is not as big as some industries, but still pretty massive. Gardening is typically a life-long hobby, is a continual learning process and something that takes considerable time and money.
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After reading Bill Chipps' recent blog on post-event fulfillment reports, I realized that I had a lot of opinions on what a post-event fulfillment/sponsorship recap report should and shouldn't be.
I have to be upfront, as a Senior Valuation Analyst, I don't write fulfillment reports and I don't typically give a lot of advice on them (I leave that to our expert consulting staff), but as someone who reviews and sorts through boxes and binders of sponsorship information for both properties and sponsors, I have some pretty clear ideas of what types of information I like and what information makes my job easier. Additionally, as an objective third-party, I often hear sponsors' gripes about their partnerships, which can include complaints about lackluster fulfillment reports. Frankly, sometimes I feel like a sponsorship therapist. Finally, I've seen quite a few fulfillment reports, some good and some not so great.
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Some good news for sponsorship: Compared to other forms of marketing, brand sponsorship experienced the greatest increase in levels of trust in the two years since the last Nielsen Global Online Consumer Survey of more than 25,000 Internet consumers from 50 countries. A full 64 percent of consumers surveyed in April said they trust brand sponsorship, up from 49 percent in April 2007.
Latin American consumers are most trusting of brand sponsorships, with 81 percent of both Colombians and Venezuelans, and 79 percent of Brazilians, trusting brand sponsorships. U.S. consumers came in 12th, with 72 percent trusting brand sponsorships. Sponsorships held the least sway among Swedes (33 percent), Latvians (36 percent) and Finns (38 percent).
Latin Americans appear to bring their positive feelings about sponsorship with them to the U.S. IEG research reveals that Latino consumers are among the most responsive audiences to sponsorship. more
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Dear theme parks and sponsors who want to reach families with children:
Moms (and Dads) have a message for you. Whether it's a season pass to a nearby Six Flags or a pilgrimage to a Disney land or world, parents are online talking about how to take the family to an amusement park without asking for a loan from the kids' piggy banks. And while they chat, they are laying out a wealth of information about the types of promotions and amenities that would succeed for sponsors and parks alike.
A few examples, of many:
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A typical consumer target audience for an advertising or marketing campaign usually looks something like this: women, ages 25-54, with a household income $50,000+. The target geography is defined (e.g., national, top 20 DMA's) and maybe there is something about household size, presence of children or stated ethnicity. For good measure, a target audience may also include some other sort of purchasing behavior, usage behavior, or other ownership criteria, such as "consumes soft drinks five times a week" or is a "heavy-user" of soft drinks.
As marketers we try to create a picture of our target audience by creating a lifestyle analysis or by developing some sort of "day in the life" exercise. I remember a particular time when I presented a media "day in the life/lifestyle" scenario to a client, only to have him protest the inclusion of the band U2 in the audience profile. He was certain that his target audience didn't listen to U2. Besides the fact that U2 is super, super popular rock band, the scenario was meant to be directional, and honestly we didn't have any really firm data to dispute or confirm the conclusion.
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Watching the German telecast of the French Open here in Italy, ads for Longines watches touted the amazing work of the Andre Agassi Foundation. A revealing twist to standard endorsements, Longines creative saluted the accomplishments of Andre's foundation rather than Andre singing the praises of Longines. Tying to substance rather than pure celebrity hits the spot in these more modest times (see my previous post on The New Modesty).
And in a world of product parity in most every category—plus rampant commercialization—the most valuable assets of sponsorships and endorsements are morphing. For example, the implied endorsement of official product status used to have far more value than it does now. Directionally, the value's in the audience affinity and the story that can be told.
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Those of you who subscribe to IEG Sponsorship Report have seen the March 30 issue's In Depth article, which takes a look at the Performance Research consumer study I mentioned in a blog post last week. more
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Feast of Corpus Christ i The glory of late spring in the Hudson Valley can reinvigorate the spirit after a long winter. On a fine June day, it is easy to agree with the poet T.S. Eliot that the "whole world is our hospital."
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|2012-04-19, 16:45
|Link #124
Did someone call a doctor
Join Date: Apr 2007
Age: 34
It's listed at medium load at the moment, and the others are at.. standard, I think.
Ahh well, if anyone is still around in... 8-9 hours, I'll be back then (on Dragonfall ATM).
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|2012-04-20, 00:36
|Link #129
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 29
I want my loli.
|2012-04-20, 02:55
|Link #131
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 60
Meh, I'd love to give it a spin... but the launcher bogs down to zero after a few gigabytes. I suspect its either the mothership server being hammered by requests or my ISP getting queasy at the mounds of data transfer -- -probably some of both.
Ah well, I'll watch the posts and see what folks think.
|2012-04-20, 03:03
|Link #132
Lets be reality
Join Date: May 2007
I'm on Valley of the Titans atm Mr Hat and Clogs, I don't expect as big a Oceanic presence as TOR so queues shouldn't be as much an issue.. and regardless... better to wait in queues for a couple weeks than end up on a dead server a month down the track. Seems like VOT and Dragonfall are the go to servers atm.... and hopefully the only 1 character for open beta rule keeps people out of VOT who are just trying the beta. Serpantise Isle had 120 guilds with only a few being over 50, VOT has 350+ guilds with about 20 over 50 people.
VOT should be quite the experience.
|2012-04-20, 03:05
|Link #133
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 60
edit: f'ing fabulous.... it was P2Ping without explicitly checking with me first ... which is a violation of my ISP TOS (rolls eyes), guess I'll call my buddy tomorrow at the ISP and rant/apologize. (before anyone makes any brilliant comments about changing - its my only choice for anything remotely broadband and is a small mom'n'pop wireless ISP, I know the people, I occasionally help them out professionally). I'm surprised they didn't call me after the 1st GB... o.O
|2012-04-20, 04:55
|Link #134
Senior Member
If by '' quite the experience '' you mean all high levels bored and camping at front of Lumbertown to kill any low level who doesn't think twice about crossing the bridge.. then yes, quite an experience.
Hats, I'm on Dragonfall, and I am on right now. I was on earlier too. You can add me even if I'm offline, the name's Chiara, or look up the Zodiac guild.
Vexx : You can manually download all the TERA files using an download manager. This lets you resume the download even if something goes wonky .. Sadly, you'll have to wait. The links were posted by EME but are currently down .. It just says they will be added '' asap ''.
And Vexx, your ISP should then limit your upload speed by a LOT, if you're not allowed to upload anything. You should turn the P2P off regardless, it downloads faster. The P2P feature is supposed to help you by downloading from other players, but as most have it turned off, it totally does not help. I also often got source file checksum error when downloading from others..
|2012-04-20, 05:17
|Link #136
blinded by blood
Server's restarting and my router crapped out so I'm done for the evening. I didn't play all day plus I am spending a lot of time looking at how gorgeous everything is so I'm only level 13, and most of my guild blew past me so I didn't have much chance for group or RP activities.
My character's name is Aeriyn on Celestial Hills if anyone is interested in joining the RP server. There's not a lot of RP going on during the OBT, though, so it's mostly just people leveling as fast as possible for some odd reason...
|2012-04-20, 05:26
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Australia
The problem with most of North American server is... well they either block SEA (and Australia), or their server quite lagged for PvP playing from here. Worse in case of Europe through. There should be enough demand from Asia to build a whole English gaming network, but it was probably due to the lack of infrastructure, or difference gaming policy by every nation
But basically, what i meant to say is: you guys go and play the game, then tell me how it is, and put up lots of screenshot as well. So i can just pretends that i already know the game inside out and don't need to play it....
|2012-04-20, 06:21
|Link #140
Senior Member
Asia also has already Japanese and Korean versions... do you really need another SEA failure like Dragon Nest?
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Teen mentoring and food distribution ministries work hand-in-hand at Slingshot Ministries for the benefit of everyone involved.
Slingshot Ministries, located at 3127 Huntsville Highway at the corner of West Lincoln Road, offers kids ages 12-18 a safe, supervised place to meet with friends in the café, while they eat food, play games, dance, listen to music, or strum a guitar, if they get the whim. The young people meet from 7 until 11 p.m. each Friday.
While teens socialize, they also have the opportunity to be mentored by caring adults, who offer a listening ear and guidance.
Kids must sign in when they arrive Fridays and provide parent contact information. They are not allowed to leave without their a parent's permission.
"We get the chance to walk along with them and mentor them," said Laura Self, organizational vice president. Her husband, Lonnie is president.
These days teens are susceptible to so many demands and temptations, she explained.
"We say, if we just reach one – it's worth it," Laura said of the ministry.
Teens also learn about serving others through the food ministry. They have become a big part of Slingshot's food distribution program, Laura said. Second Harvest Food Bank makes the food available to the ministry for distribution on the fourth Saturday of each month.
Since April 2012, Slingshot has donated 43,000 pounds of food to local residents. Within the past nine months, 1,590 boxes of food have been distributed, serving a total of 5,048 people.
"In September, we gave out 195 boxes with a total of 563 people in 25 minutes," said Pam Bennett, ministry partner and Friday night cook for the teens.
Core ministry members help with distribution, along with some of the teens who help carry boxes to vehicles. This makes the process a lot quicker, and also teaches the young people about serving.
"We are looking for community service projects … here we have one every month," said Laura.
The ministry originated in 2005 at Taft First Baptist, with youth ministers Lonnie and Laura Self at its head. At that time, the program was geared toward sports.
In 2007, Slingshot became its own nonprofit organization. The ministry moved from Taft in 2009.
"We started at our home in November 2010," Laura explained.
Jeff Bennett, former pastor of Taft First Baptist, and his wife, Pam, also help in the ministry and for a while, held Bible studies in their home. Jeff and Pam, along with Lonnie and Laura Self, Sherry Gordon and JoAnna Kimbrough, are all members of the Slingshot board.
All of the above, with the exception of JoAnna Kimbrough, are involved as the ministry's core group. Others in the ministry are Jamie and Carl Thomas, Pat and Paul Weeks, Eli and Sherry Gorgan, BethAnna and Jayson Jones, Victoria and Josh McKerin, along with Nick Malone, Colyn Self, Bennett Self, Nicholas Self, Tucker Self and Hannah Self.
After much prayer, Slingshot found its new home in May 2011. The building was the former office of Direct TV. It took a lot of time and effort to make it a suitable place for the young people to gather.
"When we opened here, the purpose of the mission broadened," said Laura, referring to the addition of the food ministry. "We're now seeing God open doors."
"We had to get out of the box to have this opportunity," added Lonnie.
"Every time you give food, it's all about being the hands and feet of Jesus," Pam explained.
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is it a laptop? have you got an integrated webcam? Or a desktop with an integrated audio card and a pci audio card?I solved my problem inserting the module of the microphone build in the webcam in the blacklist and in modprobe.conf.
a guy in the italian forum has solved the audio problem unplugging the usb external webcam. It seems that during the boot the system loaded the module for the microphone build in the webcam blocking the module of the audiocard.
About modprobe.conf, looking it I saw that there is a part that let you blacklist module. So I have blacklisted snd_usb_audio both in it and in /modprobe.d/blacklist
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June 1, 2010 > Washington Hospital Seminar Will Cover Health Insurance Options
In an effort to provide helpful information about health insurance options, Washington Hospital's Health Insurance Information Service will conduct a free public seminar that will cover the many health insurance plans that are available to you and your family members. The seminar will take place on Wednesday, June 9 from 10 a.m. to Noon at the Conrad E. Anderson, M.D. Auditorium located at 2500 Mowry Avenue (Washington West) in Fremont. Visit www.whhs.com to register.What Type of Health Insurance Is Best For You?Our health care system comes with a great variety of health insurance options. The options span the spectrum from low cost, minimal coverage to all-inclusive policies. At the upcoming seminar, you will learn about HMO and PPO insurance plans, Medi-Cal and other government sponsored programs. COBRA and how COBRA subsidies work will be discussed for those who have recently become unemployed.What is COBRA?People who have been laid off and had employer-sponsored health insurance are usually eligible for up to 18 months of continued coverage under COBRA, the federal law more formally known as the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. COBRA requires continuation coverage to be offered to covered employees, their spouses, their former spouses, and their dependent children when group health coverage would otherwise be lost due to an employment lay off. Under COBRA, employers may require individuals who elect continuation coverage to pay the full cost of the coverage, plus a two percent administrative charge. What is HIPAA?HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It allows people to buy individual health insurance when they lose their group health insurance, even if they have a pre-existing health condition. If you qualify, all health plans that sell individual plans must offer you health insurance. You cannot be denied insurance because of your medical history. HIPPA adds protections and makes it easier to switch jobs without fear of losing health coverage for a preexisting condition.Learn More About Washington On Wheels Mobile Health ClinicSince 2002, the Washington On Wheels (W.O.W.) Mobile Health Clinic has provided vital health care services to residents in the community that lack health insurance or do not have a regular physician.By bringing health care directly to where people live, Washington On Wheels treats thousands of patients each year by visiting local senior centers, community centers, schools, and churches every week. The W.O.W. Mobile Health Clinic sees an average of more than 3,000 patients a year and demand for services has continued to grow steadily each year, especially as many struggle to find care without health insurance.The dedicated staff of the mobile clinic offer physical exams, blood pressure and cholesterol screenings, child and adult immunizations, flu shots and many other medical services. Washington On Wheels has also developed a successful diabetes education and screening program and works with local schools to make sure children receive all of their necessary vaccinations. Many of these services are provided to uninsured patients who qualify, free of charge.Where do you go when you need a doctor, but it's not an emergency?Washington Urgent Care is a convenient and cost-effective alternative to emergency room care. Washington Urgent Care, located on the second floor of Washington West at 2500 Mowry Avenue is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week, 365 days a year - to give you high quality urgent care whether you have an appointment or not. The clinic offers both walk-in service and appointments for a range of illnesses and injuries including:* Colds and coughs (as well as flu and flu-related symptoms)* Lacerations* Injuries, such as cuts and bruises* On-the-job illness and injury, or other work-related needs* Selected physical exams * On-site X-ray and laboratory services* Work injury management* Drug and alcohol testing* Pre-employment physical exams Visit www.whhs.com/urgentcare or call Washington Urgent Care at (510) 791-CARE (2273) for more information.Health Insurance Q&AIf you have questions about health insurance, now is the chance to get answers from a non-biased health insurance expert who can help make sense of a tough topic. Register online at www.whhs.com or call (800) 963-7070. To learn more about Washington On Wheels, visit www.whhs.com/wow or call (510) 608-3203.


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Bendigo SES volunteers will rattle tins tomorrow to raise funds to help replace their ageing Jaws of Life rescue equipment.
The local SES unit will be out in force all day collecting donations from passing cars at Charing Cross.
The "jaws" are hydraulic cutters that help SES crews pry people from the wreckage of car crashes.
Each set of jaws are worth around $50,000.
SES volunteer Daniel Reader said the service's equipment was in urgent need of an upgrade.
He said modern cars' stronger designs made it harder for the ageing tools to cut through vehicles that were in road accidents.
"The new jaws are stronger and can be set up a lot quicker, to be better able to respond instantly," he said.
He said the Bendigo unit experienced a spike in call- outs with recent storm and flood events, placing a significant strain on volunteers and resources.
Bendigo members have also been deployed to surrounding districts such as Nathalia, Melbourne and Gisborne.
Volunteer Allison Rees said it was an ongoing process for the SES to maintain its equipment and keep up with demand. "Meeting demand and having the right tools to respond to emergencies is a vital part of our service to the community," she said.
"It's a continuing process to keep upgrading our equipment. Right now the Jaws of Life are our number one priority, but there will be other bits of equipment we will need to upgrade long-term."
SES volunteers will be joined by staff from NAB, in its third year of involvement with the fundraiser.
NAB home loan banker and SES volunteer Akira Kelly said it was an important cause to be involved with.
She said the community support at the tin-rattling fundraiser earlier in the year had been amazing.
"It is always incredible the level of support we get from the public in Bendigo," she said.
The SES tin rattle will be held at Charing Cross between 8am and 4pm tomorrow.


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Utah State Women's Basketball Announces 2014-15 Non-Conference Schedule
Thursday, Jul. 31, 2014
Utah State [University] women's basketball head coach Jerry Finkbeiner announced the Aggies' non-conference portion of the 2014-15 schedule Wednesday [July 16, 2014] with 13 non-conference games, including one home exhibition. Utah State will take on at least nine teams that advanced to postseason play last season, including five that reached the NCAA Tournament.
Utah State will make its first appearance of the 2014-15 season with an exhibition against Western New Mexico Nov. 3. Fans will then have a chance to see the Aggies in action in the annual Blue-White Scrimmage at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum Nov. 11.
"We have been challenged in the Mountain West to bring up our RPI and one of the main ways is your pre-conference schedule," Finkbeiner said. "We have these schools sprinkled throughout the schedule with the Pac-12 schools, BYU, Baylor, along with a very good Big Sky school in Northern Colorado and a Big West school in Pacific. This prepares us for the tough Mountain West."
For the third time in the last four seasons, the Aggies will begin the year on the road, opening the regular season at Oregon Nov. 14. The Ducks advanced to the Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT). This is only the second meeting between the two teams with Oregon taking the first meeting in 1986. USU concludes the road trip at Oregon State Nov. 16. The Beavers hold a 3-1 series lead over USU with the last meeting taking place in 1985. OSU will be the first of the five Aggie opponents that competed in the 2014 NCAA Tournament.
Utah State will play its first regular-season game at the Spectrum against in-state rival Utah Valley Nov. 20. The Aggies will then hit the road for the BTI Classic hosted by Baylor, Nov. 28-30 in Waco, Texas. The four-team tournament will include the host Bears, Stetson and Marist. Both Baylor and Marist reached the NCAA Tournament, while Stetson advanced to the WNIT. The Aggies have not ever faced any of the teams at the BTI Classic.
The Aggies open the month of December traveling to in-state rival Utah Dec. 3. USU returns home to face NAIA's Westminster Dec. 6, one of four teams from the state of Utah. The Utes lead the season series against the Aggies 31-3, while it will be the first-ever meeting with the Griffons. Utah State will then conclude the two-game homestand against Northern Colorado Dec. 14. USU leads the season series, 6-3.
"We want to keep the triangular going with both BYU and Utah," Finkbeiner said. "It is nice to play two of our three in-state games at home this season. There is not a lot of breathing room in the non-conference portion of the schedule. It is going to help galvanize us for the conference schedule. We are really looking forward to heading into the second season in the Mountain West."
The Aggies then travel to the Golden state to take on Pacific Dec. 16. The Tigers hold a slight 4-3 advantage over USU. On Dec. 19, USU will take on Sacramento State on the road in the first-ever meeting between the two schools.
Utah State will conclude the non-conference portion of the schedule at home against in-state foe BYU Dec. 22 before breaking for the holidays. The Cougars hold a commanding 32-3 advantage in the series.
The Aggies then prepare for an 18-game home-and-home Mountain West schedule, as USU prepares for its second season in the MW. The 2015 Reese's Mountain West Women's Basketball Championship will once against take place at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nev.
Fans can follow USU women's basketball on Twitter as well as on Facebook. Aggie fans can also follow the Utah State athletic program on Twittter or on Facebook. Utah State women's basketball is also on instagram at @usuwbasketball.
Aggie women's basketball tickets will be available by contacting the USU Athletics Ticket Office at (435) 797-0305 or at 1-888-U-STATE-1 (1-888-878-2831) for more information or visit the Utah State athletics web site at www.UtahStateAggies.com.
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The state Court of Appeals has upheld the Utilities Commission's approval of the Duke – Progress Energy merger in 2012, per an opinion released this morning.
Writing for the court, Judge Douglas McCullough said:
Where it is evident that the Commission considered the potential costs and risks of the merger and weighed them against the anticipated benefits, and where there is substantial evidence supporting the Commission's findings and conclusions, we will not second guess the Commission's determination that the merger is justified by the public convenience and necessity. Thus, we affirm the Commission's approval of the merger in the merger order.
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Jani McAllister browses through a sales rack outside Festivity, a boutique in Virginia Highlands, in Atlanta, Wednesay.
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WASHINGTON — Americans stepped up purchases at retail businesses in May, spending more on cars, home improvements, and sporting goods. The gain shows consumers remain resilient despite higher taxes and could drive faster growth later this year.
The Commerce Department said today that retail sales increased 0.6 percent in May from April. That's up from a 0.1 percent gain the previous month and the fastest pace since February.
The April gain was led by a 1.8 percent jump in auto sales, the biggest increase in six months. Excluding volatile autos, gas, and building supplies, core retail sales rose 0.3 percent. That's slightly higher than the 0.2 percent April increase.
Sales increased at hardware and general merchandise stores, but fell at furniture and appliance stores.
Separately, the Labor Department said the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dropped 12,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 334,000. The decline suggests steady job gains will endure.
The retail sales report is the government's first look each month at consumer spending, which drives 70 percent of economic activity.
Solid job growth and rising home prices have allowed consumers to withstand an increase this year in Social Security taxes, which has lowered take-home pay for most Americans.
Consumer spending from January through March grew at the fastest pace in more than two years. That helped the economy expand at a solid annual rate of 2.4 percent. Most economists predict that growth is slowing in the April-June quarter to an annual rate of 2 percent or less. But many say growth will likely pick up in the second half of the year.
Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said the May increase in retail spending was stronger than anticipated. Lower gas prices may have helped, he noted.
Even with the gain, he believes consumer spending is slowing from the first quarter's 3.4 percent annual pace, down to around 2.5 percent or less in the current quarter.
"Households may ... be getting over the tax hikes and spending some of the savings from the recent fall in gasoline prices," Mr. Dales said.
There are signs that spending could strengthen in the second half of the year. Consumer confidence rose to five-year high in May. And steady gains in home sales and construction are providing support for the economy even as manufacturing weakens.
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WoW has dominated the MMO scene - and the PC world - for a reason: it's the best game in the genre. At least, that's how you see it. After traveling from Silithus to Northrend, you've got a lot of experiences you'd like to share with those just starting ou
I recently reached 85 on my Death Knight, and am looking at leveling a new class. Any suggestions?
The most fun class to level would really depend on how you play, I would think.
I've had experience with playing pally in my previous MMO, FFXI, and I enjoyed it so I stuck with that.
I may try frost mage for pvp, though.
I have a Prot Pally, and I really love it. You can solo most group quests which makes everything go by a lot faster. It is the tank class, so if you did Dungeons, then you get in within 1 minute.
Hunter. You can do anything with a turtle and all the defensive abilities hunters have. They are the most self sufficent class in the game.


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