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Thought we should see those XD's out there...I'll start.http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/klown45/45.jpg
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Thought we should see those XD's out there...I'll start.http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/klown45/45.jpg
If it cannot be a 1911 45 ACP, than its gotta' be an XD:smt1099
XD-45 Tactical
Here's my XD-45 Service in it's Broomeland Max Con V with a double mag carrier. I comfortably carry it IWB.
When it is out of the holster and playing the home defense roll, I hang a porch light out front for better illumination of things that go bump in the night:
Nice, I am still searching.
Older pic. I've added a DGR isnce then.
... nothing fancy, I don't seem to have the knack for good photos like BrassBalls seems to be able to produce... :smt102
Kewl. is that a green frame, or is it just the flash?
They had the green framed 40s when I bought my 9. They are great looking!
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I love my XD 9 SC. It is very accurate and just about perfect. It knocked my P99 out of the starting lineup.
I have read all the FAQ's on how to upload a picture and it is not working. I thought I was a fairly savvy computer person, but this has me wondering. Any suggestions? :smt022
I just got the XD45 and love it.
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Good looking XD'S guys:mrgreen: Hiwbiwwy,POST SOME PICTURES OF THAT DAEWOO DP-51,so I don't look or sound like the only person on this board thats got 1:rolleyes: J.R.


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Congradulations nice piece. What did you buy the 9 or the 40?
so i posted about how finding p99's in stock in my area is almost impossible and how i was going to just break down and order one. so i went to the gunshop to do so and i didn't look around, just found a salesman and told him what i wanted. he said "it's your lucky day, we just got them in stock this week." he took me over to the case and there it was, sitting in the case next to its ppk bretheren. i told him how long i was searching for one (off and on for the last 2 years). he told me they only get them in once in a blue moon. this time they got two in and i bought the last one. i lost my link cable for my phone so no pics and either today or tomorrow im going to shoot it so i'll post a report. these are happy times....
Congradulations nice piece. What did you buy the 9 or the 40?
Congratulations. Safe shooting.
9mm. im not a big fan of .40. and the AS model, the only way to get a p99. i feel if your buying a p99 it is to be different from the rest of the blocky polymer world, so might as well get the niffty trigger too
Congrats, was it the AS model or the other.
I have the P99 9mm AS model and it is a very nice shooter. You will be very happy if it is like mine.
He said he got the A/S model. I have had mine since 2005.
i just got back from shooting. this report is based on 210 rounds fired; 40 winchester 124gr NATO rounds, 150 speer lawman 124gr rounds, and 20 wwb 115gr rounds.
excellant accuracy, especially for it having a 4" barrel, just about as accurate as my M&P9. at 25' kept all shots on 3" circle targets with no fliers (im still a noob shooter). trigger pull is amazing and very easy to manipulate. double taps are very easy to do. 210 rounds and no FTF or FTE. the new style mag release is much better than the short stumpy one of old. mag spring makes mags very easy to load for a new gun. very managable recoil. grip stippling made it very easy to keep a firm hold on the gun.
I hate to say it but for ME there are a couple cons, things i didnt notice holding it in the store. at around 100 rounds the trigger started to rub the bottom of my finger, eventually giving me a small blister by the time i finished. i tried several minor adjustments to my finger placement to no avail. i believe it is from the trigger being so curved and me having larger hands (mine was made this year so no, it doesn't have the trigger guard hump). the bottom of the trigger guard started to do the same to the side of the middle knuckle on my middle finger. i was able to adjust my grip to fix that though. the mags dont seem to keep rounds in line as tightly as my other mags for other guns. i had the slide not come forward all the way when i loaded it once because the 1st round had slipped forward a little and i didnt see it.
So even though i will keep the p99 and im glad i bought it, it's not a gun i will take out and shoot more than 50-100 rounds at a time. i will leave that to the m&p, although the p99 will be my carry gun. in looking back, for ME, I may have been better served getting the HK P30L. but i would recommend the p99 to anyone looking for something thats not run of the mill blocky polymer that has smaller hands. ( i wear L or XL gloves depending on what kind of glove)

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Mother's Day: Make It More than a Phone Call
May 9, 2012 at 8:00 am allisonmcdonald 1 comment
These ideas for making Mother's Day special are brought to you by Melissa & Doug , written by our Blog Ambassador Allison McDonald.
Mother's Day (in one form or another) is observed in over 40 cultures. In some, it's tied to International Women's Day; in others, it relates to religious festivals. Here in the United States, many people think Mother's Day is a made-up holiday full of cards and flowers and guilt. (How many of us have heard, "Don't forget to call your mom today!" And did you know that Mother's Day is the biggest holiday for long distance phone calls?)
No matter why we do it, the thing is I know the day will come when I won't get adorable kid-made cards, oddly colored flowers picked out by my toddler or even gifts. At some point after my kids are off on their own, Mother's Day will be a late-afternoon phone call from wherever they have gone off to, maybe even prompted by a call by their dad saying, "Call your mother!" Until then I am determined to soak the day up for all it's worth.
In our family, we try to make it about doing things, not getting things. That's the common thread in this Mother's Day list, filled with ideas to make the day truly special. (Feel free to print and leave it lying around for your family to see!)
Do Together: build memories
Picnic in the Park – No cleanup, food you didn't make and lots of room for kids to run.
Paint-Your-Own Pottery – Make a keepsake you can use every day.
Family Field Day – Flag football, T-ball in the yard, a game of croquet . . . get out and play!
Plant a Tree – Year after year your garden will grow, filled with reminders of time together.
DIY Spa Day – Perfect for tweens! Grab the nail polish, soak your feet and share some sparkling juice.
Do Alone – recharge
Read a Book UNINTERRUPTED – Head to the library, a park or (my favorite) the bath!
Go for a Walk or Run – Go to the park as a family, then scoot off alone for fresh air and exercise.
Hit the Salon – Whether a simple manicure or day full of services, get pampered!
Take a Drive – Pop out the kids' CD, crank up the radio and drive alone with no one kicking the seat.
Shop Alone – Non-mothers may giggle, but shopping alone is a treat! (Even going to the grocery store alone helps me recharge!)
Allison McDonald is founder and editor of No Time For Flash Cards. She has been teaching children in various capacities since 1993, so she has done her share of crafts, songs and circle times! Her son's birth brought her home, and her love of teaching and helping other parents sparked the idea for No Time for Flash Cards. Early-childhood education is her passion . . . her heart belongs to the little guys! Get to know Allie and see her creative kids' crafts and educational activities on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
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Discussion in 'November 2008' started by max, Nov 15, 2008.
Please do, if you make to Stoney and Wojo, maybe it will break up the Lions talk.
I don't think Curry sucks. I just think he needs to figure out how to inspire these guys not to get pushed around. Roscoe has been right from day one...these guys can't take a punch. It doesn't even seem to bother them. I would at least expect these guys to get angry...get a tech...get tossed out, but for the love of God, fight back!
Like I have said in other threads, even after Dice comes back at least one or two of these three players (Rip, Max and Amir), need to be traded for some tough beef...or course I have to stop here because at the moment I have no clue whom that should be, but even though it is early and they have .666 winning pct, something is amiss here. So far we are making Doc Rivers one of the greatest coaches of all time (the Lakers helped too) and setting up Rondo for the all-star game. The scoring is up, but the defense has dropped from # 1 to #13 and Curry seems to have no clue how to get his players to play it on a consistent basis. They shut down the Lakers, but tonight there was no baseline cutoffs and they got caught leaving to many men wide open for three point ops. Two other issues have popped up since the Laker win, Tay has gone soft again and Stuckey has lost his cohesiveness. Neither has been consistent since Leaving LA. :(
Amir may be quick but wiser ballers draw three fouls in three minutes from him. Do you really expect 35 something old Sheed banging with true centers through the season 35 minutes per game?
Very strange +/- divergence between Sheed and Kwame tonight. Since they both started, you'd expect some correlation, but Sheed was -28 and KB was + 2. So, a 30 point difference in the time when they were separated. A big part of that was Sheed being out with Stuckey, who was -22 in only 15 minutes. Don't want to keep harping on the guy, but the Celtics didn't let anybody get to the rim, and that takes away Stuck's entire game. 5 turnovers, 3 fouls, and a couple clunky J's. Their D wasn't just affecting Stuck obviously, as most of our shots were forced/ rushed. Sheed hit some really difficult 3's that kept us close early. But this would have been a nice game to have a big man with shooting range coming off the bench. If you don't have Shaq or Amare on your team, then you gotta make contested jump shots against Boston. They are good and sort of own us now.
DET really doesn't seem to know what to do on offense against BOS. Almost from the get go you could see Prince would have trouble bringing the ball up against Pierce. It may not be possible to consistently (or ever) beat the C's as long as the TGRH and Tay are out there. They constantly go into pressure, stop and upfake their way into turnovers. Nice job Tay having your move and shot called "kinda week" by the 65 year old color commentator. Pierce has hardly played in either of the games. Leon Powe is miles better than any Piston big not named Sheed. Stuckey was a total 0. Maybe Herrrrrrrman should play against the C's. He's at least got the size to get inside and withstand some hits. Is their D going to get worse? I'll tell you what, you put Amir in BOS with a bunch of scrubs on the floor and the sky is the limit for that young man. There have probably only been 20-25 better 6'9 205 lb PF's in the history of the NBA.
Marcus Camby, Alonzo Mourning, heck, Ben Wallace, where art thou? We need a tough, clog the paint, take no prisoners BIG man.
Well against Boston, AI makes us worse. And I'm an AI kool-aid drinker Rondo gets the best of him on offense, that says it all. AI's defense is a joke and we don't know where to hide him against this team. And who the **** is guarding Tony ****ing Allen? I miss out bench LAST year. Curry has no idea what the **** he's doing beyond the 1st quarter. He needs to learn, and learn FAST. I'm sorry, but there's something SERIOUSLY wrong if you get your ass handed to you in the second quarter, and *****ing the bed in the third after having a whole halftime to adjust! Lets hope that Cleveland beats them in the Offs. Have you noticed that the Big Three didn't even go off? It's only gonna get worse against them. And now we have three days to soak this bull **** in before the next game? Show some damn heart.
And we dominated them last year? 1-2 season, 2-4 playoffs *cough*. Seemed like everyone was a step behind in everything and you are not going to beat too many teams with 80 points. poor ball movement, poor shooting, lack of bench production. Stucky and Afflalo did not score a single point between them. You have be able to knock down some of those outside shots Bos gives you to open up the defense, Pistons could not hit the side of a barn for the most part. Only positive was at least Bos did not dominate the offensive glass. Oh well, it was a tough stretch in the schedule and now the team comes home for a string of games. They did better than most predicted. At least Maxiel showed up to play.
We looked bad because we don't really have a system in place at either end. New coach, key player and playing the youth whose game swings up and down. The Celtics play within their system like we used to do. We will not beat them until we have some continuity in how we are going to play. Other observations: we may have to conclude at some point that our youth is not as good as we think they are. I was big on Stuckey but he has been figured out by the league. He cannot rely on a jumper to open things up. None of our youth are great shooters. Maxiel's shot is an adventure, etc. It is hard to say for sure because everyone looks bad when a system breaks down. Dyss will not be enough to change the situation entirely. We will win a lot of games but we cannot get over the top without developing offensive and defensive continuity. And, we have to figure out fast if the youth will be able to help us. Rip is lost because he is not getting the ball where he has in the past. Tay was disappointing today. I can excuse a Le Bron game, but he did not handle the ball well. Against Boston, he probably should be shooting spot up threes on passes from AI as Boston packs in the lane.
completely agree lapiston. every fanbase overhypes their youth. Stuckey will never be a Wade, and Amir will never be a star player. Afflalo is true NBA material but will probably settle to be another Battier. Rodney Stuckey's defense is such garbage. That second quarter boggles my mind.
Keep in mind that Boston is really good, they were at home, and they get up to play against us. Good defense is frustrating to play against. It's sort of like when all those teams were constantly whining that they were having off nights when they'd play against us in '04. After a while, you have to conclude that the other team is just making things tough. Boston is tall, strong, and skilled. As the season goes on and we are beating the average teams of the league, we have to keep in mind that Boston will be our opponent in the playoffs if we don't lose sooner. It is pretty obvious that we aren't going to be a better defensive team than Boston. We'll be good, but we're not going to be suffocating. So, our only real hope is that the AI merger will yield significant further offensive benefits. Like Lap said, they have a system. The question is, can we develop a strategy to crack it? We have all year to figure it out.
How many games has be played that bad?
Lakers, Suns, Cavs Celtics...that was the tough stretch we wondered about and the Pistons split the four games. 7 of the first 10 games on the road and they took 5 of those. I guess we are in good shape at 8-4 and now four home games vs four teams we should beat (T-wolves, Knicks, Bucs and Blazers)...if the D, the friendly hoops and the crowd shows up...in essence the question is what Piston team shows up. We could be 12-4 at the end of December and still questioning if we have any identity or toughness to really beat Boston this season or post season.
The road out of the East no longer goes through the Pistons. Hard to get used to that.
It goes over us.
We're supposed to be really good too, we got smoked at home against them as well, why can't we get up to play against them? We just don't match-up well against them.
Agree with you all. We could win a lot of games but it looks like we do not have Boston in our sights. Yes, that does hurt. I really don't think Boston is great but we are not going to beat them with a collection of individuals. Any clues as to what we can do? I don't think Dyss is enough... I guess just have fun with this team most of the time...
We're not as good defensively. Also, nobody really matches up well against them. I'm honestly not sure that there is anything we can do except try to get more cohesive and hope that we peak in the playoffs. I can't help but to think that Boston's dominance and other strong competition led Joe to go for the stealth rebuild with AI's expiring contract.
Truth is that we're not tough anymore. Haven't been tough in over two and a half calender years. This is a lightweight team that's going to have to depend on being incredibly fortunate in the jumpshooting department. That never ever lasts. Can't wait for Boozer. Turns out that his HORRIBLE second half last year was an aberration and he's back to being a bruiser.
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Hey.. thought it would be nice to know if you have ever caught someone bombing...and if u have what did he/she do or say???
Hey.. thought it would be nice to know if you have ever caught someone bombing...and if u have what did he/she do or say???
yes, thats how I met my crew.
Yea. That's how I met my mentor. Caught a glimpse of him at a spot and waited till he was done. Been great friends ever since
Hahaha once i caught my buddy bombing, so i thought it would be funny to mess with him, so iwas like, in my deepest voice,"EY! THE FUCK YOU DOING CUZ?" But instead of answering, dude just starting running the opposite way. So i had to call him on his cell, and i said "hey, come back and finish your throwie you pussy."
He hasnt forgiven me yet.
Not down here, but back home, i met lits of ppl that way, it was more lax up there, daytime peicing and shit, kinda miss it, but dont mis -40C
Always thought that would be the funniest shit in the world
"have you ever caught someone bombing?" No, but I did catch someone taking a shit in public once
never caught someone bombing nah i know about 30 people have caught me bombing tho usually just randoms and 1-2 cops never another writer tho i always contact people when i go out to paint if they gonna come
I saw my friend hitting a bus years back, he was the one who ended up getting me into graff after that.
Saw a dude downtown. I was throwing up stickers, and heard that familiar sound....looked over and he was hitting the wall of a building across the street.
where's back home????
Down by these train tracks some guy was bombing and me and my friend yelled at him as a joke, and he sprinted away and left all of his stuff there, so we took it.
there's a big long wall going past the highway... kinda, anyway me and ma mate were walking past the fence that blocks the wall and we found 2 guys, one with a duffle bag, and we yelled some and they gave us the finger and jumped the wall. some nice pieces up there should get some pics.
Mo-Town bombers PM me
i saw em and arrested they asses
I doubt I ever will in my stupid town. I know there's only two other really active taggers in my area, I hope I bump into one of them.
If somebody every caught me I wouldn't be one to leave all my stuff and run.


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Hey my friends! I hope everyone is having a great week! Thank you so much for your sweet comments about my antique wooden crate!
Isn't Spring wonderful? We are having the best weather here in the South. Gorgeous mild days, and chilly nights.
Speaking of Spring…check out my new "robins egg blue" cupboard.
I found this old chippy cupboard at a local shop called Art and Antiques (Smith Mason Legacies). They had the most beautiful architectural pieces, I wanted to bring everything home with me… but this cupboard stole my heart.
The doors have no glass, so I'm thinking about adding chicken wire or old screen. Or should I leave them alone? What would you do?
The doors look great closed, but very nice if left open, too.
The inside is made of wide wooden planks in the original stain… of course I wonder how it would look painted white??
You know I'm going to enjoy changing it up often, don't you…
I promised Mr. Buckets I wouldn't move the new cupboard around the house… I don't think he believes me :)
The sweet shop owners sent me home with some "fresh cake" candles, which I burned inside my cheese pot. Oh they smell heavenly.
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Posted by Joe Stanhope on the B2C Marketing Professionals Blog on June 16, 2010
It's a funny thing, I was sitting in my office on Monday trying to decide what to blog about next, and as if on cue we had very exciting news yesterday in the Web Analytics business. IBM announced its agreement to acquire Coremetrics. So ended the deliberations on blog topics.
You can read the official press release from IBM here and the Coremetrics blog post here. The deal is subject to standard regulatory approvals in the US and Europe prior to closing. IBM has substantial experience in M&A, acquiring 90 companies since 1999 (source: Wikipedia), therefore I would expect that this deal will proceed with a high degree of precision to a successful conclusion. It is also interesting to note that this is not IBM's first go at Web Analytics, which ended in 2006 when they divested Surfaid to Coremetrics...so in as sense we're going full circle with this transaction.
I benefit from fortuitous scheduling, as I had already planned to have dinner last night with John Squire, Chief Strategy Officer at Coremetrics. Timing, as they say, is everything. (By the way, if you are ever in the mood for an excellent pastrami sandwich and/or Belgian beer - on tap no less - I highly recommend Refuge in San Carlos, California)
Coremetrics will operate as a unit of IBM's application and integration middleware division, which is a common approach by IBM as shown by previous acquisitions such as ILOG. New business sales will shift over to IBM's core sales groups, but account management will remain within the Coremetrics team in an effort to make the transition seamless for current clients.


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Jonathan Winters (1925–2013)
Jonathan Harshman Winters III was born on November 11, 1925 in Dayton, Ohio. His father, also Jonathan, was a banker who became an alcoholic after being crushed in the Great Depression. His parents divorced in 1932. Jonathan and his mother then moved to Springfield to live with his grandmother. There his mother remarried and became a radio ... See full bio »
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Rumors are swirling around Washington D.C. of secret plans by the vice president to get America embroiled in a war against Iran. Cheney has been examining potential strategies which would be used in attacking Iran's nuclear development. One report being heard is Israel would launch an air attack on the Iranian nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz which most probably would result in an Iranian response. According to those close to Cheney, he believes such an Iranian response would enable the United States to launch massive air attacks claiming Iran had begun the war. there is speculation the September 6, 2007 Israel attack on a Syrian "nuclear facility" was a test run for this plan. Neither Israel nor the Bush administration has openly acknowledged there was such an attack.
Military officials repeatedly have warned such an attack would result in economic, political, and psychological chaos in the world. As thousands of Iranian and Hezbollah rockets and missiles reign down on Israel it would end any possibility of resolving the Palestinian-israel conflict. Iran would attempt to block oil shipments from the Arabian peninsula creating even more chaos. Thousands of suicide bombers would flow into the Middle East creating even more turmoil. The Egyptian government would come under great pressure from its Muslim fundamentalists to do something while General Musharraf in Pakistan might even face a military overthrow of his government by incensed Islamic officers. President Bush continually accuses Iran of seeking to create WWIII, but an attack on Iran would result in global warfare.
Mitt Romney, a candidate for the presidency was asked his reaction to attacking Iran without congressional approval and he indicated the need to study whether or not a president can initiate war without consent of Congress. One would assume he has at least once in his life actually read the Constitution. It states under powers of the legislature: "To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning capture on land and water."


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33Beau Massey
2002: The top short reliever on the staff who made 19 relief appearances, the second most on the staff ... Led team with a 3.35 ERA while going 1-1 with one save in 37.2 innings ... Was extremely tough on right-handers as they hit just .194, while lefties hit .224 ... Did not allow a home run ... Picked up victory over Vanderbilt 5/17 in 2.2 no-hit innings, while earning save over Kentucky 4/6 in 3.1 innings ... Logged a career-high 4.2 innings twice against Arizona State 2/9 and South Carolina 5/10 ... Had a 9.2 inning stretch covering five appearances 2/9-3/15 where he did not give up an earned run ... Worked at least two innings eight times ... Appeared in relief in five consecutive games from 4/17-24 (ETSU, Arkansas and Tennessee Tech) ... Struckout a career-high four batters three times ... Made at least two appearances in four of 10 SEC series ... Went 1-1 with a 3.91 ERA in league play.
2001: Went 1-0 with a 4.85 ERA in nine relief appearances, covering 13.0 innings ... Picked up his lone victory against the College of Charleston 2/19 in 3.0 shutout innings ... Worked more than one inning in five appearances ... Gave up one earned run in his first six appearances, covering 10.2 innings ... Struckout three in 2.0 innings versus Morehead State 3/6.
HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Jefferson County High School in Dandridge, Tenn. ... Honorable Mention USA Today 2000 All-USA team selection from Tennessee ... 2000 First-team All-State at third ... Suffered broken collar bone during senior campaign, but managed to hit .579 with eight home runs and 20 RBI while playing third base ... His .472 career average ranks second in Jefferson County HS history, while his 19 career home runs is fifth ... First baseball player in school history to have number retired ... Also went 4-0 on the hill with a 0.91 ERA in 23 innings with 33 strikeouts ... Was a two-time first team All-East Tennessee selection, a two-time All-Lakeway Region choice and a three-time All-Inter Mountain Conference honoree ... Set school record by belting three home runs in first three at-bats ... Helped team to three district tournament titles, one conference championship and two second place finishes in the regional tournament ... Member of the Johnson City Press "Super 22" team in 2000 ... Played in the 2000 East-West All-Star game ... Hit .528 as a junior with eight home runs and 22 RBI, while going 3-3 with a 2.37 ERA with 26 strikeouts in 27 innings ... Batted .370 with three home runs and 18 RBI during sophomore season, while posting a 3-3 mark on the mound ... Coached by David Holland.


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Professor Benson and NAACP Coalition Obtain Victory at United States Department of Justice
DETROIT (Jan. 16, 2008) – The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently issued a rare ruling stopping Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land from closing the Secretary of State Branch Office in Buena Vista Township, Mich. Wayne State University Law Professor Jocelyn Benson, along with the Detroit Branch NAACP, Michigan State Conference NAACP, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, Michigan Department of Civil Rights, and Michigan State Representative Andy Coulouris, filed the request to stop the closing.
The proposed closing would have created difficulty for Buena Vista Township residents to register to vote, update their voter registration and comply with Michigan's Photo ID law. If the Buena Vista Secretary of State Office had closed the next closest Secretary of State office would have been over 90 minutes away assuming no delays via public transportation.
"The Detroit Branch NAACP along with its partners are very pleased with this recent decision from the Department of Justice," said Rev. Wendell Anthony, president, Detroit Branch NAACP. "Although it is not a victory in every area, it is a victory for the right of the people to continue to be represented and heard in the electoral process. It serves notice to Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land that the will of the people must still be respected."
According to the Department of Justice, "Several factors establish that the State has failed to sustain its burden of showing that the closure of the Buena Vista office will not have a retrogressive effect on minority electoral participation." Buena Vista Township's population is 55.6 percent African American and 9.6 percent Latino. The proposed closure of the Buena Vista Township Secretary of State would be in violation of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). This ruling by the DOJ upholds the pre-clearance section of the VRA. Buena Vista Township is one of the two jurisdictions in Michigan covered by the VRA.
Professor Benson joined the Wayne Law faculty in 2005. She teaches courses in Election law, Education Law, Race and the Law, Sports and Inequality, and Civil Procedure. She has also published numerous articles on election administration and voting rights for English Learning voters.
Some of Professor Benson's past professional experiences include: serving as an adjunct faculty fellow at the University of California Berkeley Law School's Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity; serving as a law clerk to The Honorable Damon J. Keith on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; and serving as the National Field Director for Election Protection for the Democratic National Committee during the 2004 presidential election.
This past year Harry Belafonte appointed her to serve as his Detroit Director of the Gathering for Justice program he founded in 2006. Her work for Belafonte culminated in a 2-day conference at YouthVille Detroit that brought together 130 high school students and 200 community members, including Congressman Conyers and Grace Lee Boggs, to build an agenda for grassroots economic and educational empowerment in Detroit. She currently serves on a number of boards and committees including the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Election Law, and the board of directors for Community Legal Resources and Transportation Riders United.
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I was wondering excactly when the bee season ends. It's already getting cold at night here in Ithaca NewYork, but I still see zillions of bees returning to my hives in the early evening. Will they keep foraging until all nectar producing flowers are dead or do they stop when there are freezing temperatures at night?
From what I've seen, if it's below 52 degrees F. They don't fly.
Finman, you say the bees muscles must have 77F to fly, but they can fly if it is as low as 41F. I'm confused. Unless you are implying that the bees can warm their muscles up to 77 when the air is much colder. .
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Here is a guide so you can decide which axle bearing set up you have and which one you may want to get......
The down side ( IMHO ) of all the 8 inch rears is the small wheel bearing....and the small brakes. Their bearings are over .300 smaller. Most came under light duty vehicles and the brakes are smaller, compared to the 11x 2.5 drums available on the 9 inch rears...
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What kind of vehicle are you going to put it in and what is the application?
A neat way to narrow a 9 inch: IF you have the 28 spline 9 inch rear end, you can graft the axle tubes from an 8 inch out of a Granada or Maverick, or one of a myraid of Fords produced with the 8 inch rear end, to the center housing of your 9 inch. The 8 inch also incorporates the 28 spline axle and they will fit perfectly.
The 28 spline is a knurled spline while the 31 spline is a machined spline.
OR for that matter, save yourself a lot of cutting etc, and just use the 8 inch rearend. The biggest limitation of an 8 inch is gear selection. You cant get as deep of gears for an 8 as you can a 9, but I suspect, unless you need deeper than 4.63 gears, the 8 inch will do the trick. While a lot lighter in construction, the 8 inch is a very sturdy rear, and will handle most anything on the street up to around 450-500 HP.
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I dont know what size you need but: I think the Ranchero has coil springs ; does your project have leafs? a 57-59 Ford has the shortest 9 inch , and the Lincoln Versaille has about the same and so does the Granada. They have 43 inches perch to perch ( middle of) they might bolt in and be the right lenghth .
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It is common practice to narrow a 9 inch Ford the way you describe. I have done it the same way many times. You just have to be careful when swapping in another axle shaft because Ford got weird along the years of the mid 70's. Some of the Rancheros had the 5 inch bolt circle.....like the Lincolns. And there are two or three different wheel bearing set ups.....
There are companies that specialize in narrowing axle shafts ( about $65 ) and narrowing housings ( about $95 ) But sometimes.......it is less expensive to just get another more narrow set up... Especially since you are not needing a real narrow one.
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Narrowing 9 inch rear end
I have a Ford 9 inch rear end from a 1976 Ford Ranchero. The rear end is about 2 1/2 inches to wide for my project. When I pulled the axels to check the spline count I noticed the axels are two different lengths by about 2 3/4 inches.
I am thinking why not get another short axel from another Ranchero and shorted one side only, use the second shorter axel and have the width I need.
Seems like it would be a cheap way to narrow the rear end using factory parts????
Pinion would be offset about an inch or so, not enough to make a problem
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Citation: Resop, J.P., Fleisher, D.H., Wang, Q., Timlin, D.J., Reddy, V. 2012. Combining explanatory crop models with geospatial data for regional analyses of crop yield using field-scale modeling units. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 89(1):51-61. Interpretive Summary: Potential crop production capacity for a region (how much can be grown and where) is a complex system that is affected by large-scale phenomena such as global climate change and land use change due to urban development and soil erosion. Production capacity is important to quantify since it is directly related to the food consumption demands of the population. As populations grow and fuel costs increase, there will be a greater demand for locally produced food. While computational crop models have been developed for simulating production at specific sites, more research is needed in the area of simulating production over entire regions. In this paper we have outlined a methodology for organizing publically available data (weather, soil, crop management, and land use) and linking the data to a crop model to simulate production over a region of interest. This methodology allows for researchers to observe trends in crop yield and resource requirements over a large area in an automated manner. Increased knowledge of regional food systems can assist food growers, policy planners, and scientists in further studying potential production capacity under different future scenarios.
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Well, here is yet another ESB paint job (Sorry). I basically had to do it since so many of you have great helmets, I was inspired to get off my butt and re-paint. Thanks for all the pics, paint and tutorials (DPR, Rogue Studios, Kibosh, Shinobi, ect... ) and all the other people who posted their pics on-line. It really helps to see as many paint jobs as possible.
By the way, I used the Rust-oleum Sage Green 1933 for the Dome and cheeks.
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The dam runs water daily, mainly during the week and during peak power consumption times. It's primarily a peaking plant, which sells electricity to the grid during business hours. The best time to see the eagles there is during April and May.
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I have to say I would not mind seeing that. Is there a scheadule or place they publish when the dam is open?
Here in Maine we fight to remove dams and celebrate their demise. Two big ones are being removed from the Penobscott River now. There are lots of eagles. We paddle the Susquehanna River every Memorial Day and enjoy the river valley's upper end. I do understand Maine is a bit more remote than the Susquehanna's watershed. Our concern with the effect of dam releases is the impact on the anadramous fish. Providing a feeding station for other species is better than not. I guess? We have to salvage what we can from our impact on this planet. Here is hoping that fracking doesn't eliminate the runs of fish. Eagles won't be the biggest losers. They can come to Maine.
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I have to say I would not mind seeing that. Is there a scheadule or place they publish when the dam is open?
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I guess I'm fortunate in that there are lots of bald/American eagles residing at the head of Chesapeake Bay. One of the reasons behind this is a forage species known as gizzard shad, which swarm at the base of Conowingo Dam, located about 6 miles upstream of the Susquehanna River's mouth. When the hydroelectric dam opens the gates and water rushes through the turbines, huge quantities of gizzard are drawn through the system and ejected at the base of the dam. I've seen up to a dozen eagles show up when the dam's warning siren sounds, which is a signal that the water below the dam will be rising. The eagles are joined by gulls, herons and ospreys who circle above the rushing water awaiting stunned and disoriented shad to rise to the surface. Striped bass, smallmouth bass, walleye, channel catfish and perch join in on the feast just beneath the water's surface. It's a sight to behold, particularly during early spring when various spawning runs are taking place.
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You said you were from cny, iirc, I live on Owasco Lake. We have an Eagle that nests in Montezuma Wildlife Refuge and will occasionally hunt for food along the shoreline of Owasco. It really is a sight to behold. It was a bucket list item since I have never seen one before they nested in Montezuma.
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Cynical is good. We need more cynical
The only thing that gives me hope is knowing some (many) things were worse when I was a kid. More and more of the toxic waste sites are getting cleaned up. Air quality is better in many places. These days, it's not uncommon to see a bald eagle and occasionally a perigrine falcon, both basically doomed species around here when I was a kid. I put out more recyclables than I do garbage, these days. Change just seems too slow, and too political.
We need cynical people need to keep the pressure on.
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that is what I thought, Gary. Can't clean up the bay when there is nothing to clean it up. While I do not advocate bringing in an invasive species, have to wonder what the zebras would do
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Yeah, I'm still cynical
The only thing that gives me hope is knowing some (many) things were worse when I was a kid. More and more of the toxic waste sites are getting cleaned up. Air quality is better in many places. These days, it's not uncommon to see a bald eagle and occasionally a perigrine falcon, both basically doomed species around here when I was a kid. I put out more recyclables than I do garbage, these days. Change just seems too slow, and too political.
We need cynical people need to keep the pressure on.
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Ugh! Your stories are familiar. It isn't going to get better, soon! Catching all the "common" species here in Maine used to be a given. We would watch Ospreys catching flounder on the flood tide and join them when a feed sounded good. Pollack were so thick at times the schools would push fish onto the shore and they could just be picked up. Fresh haddock. No problem. I caught my last Atlantic Salmon in 1981. The only sustainable fishery I know of is lobsters. There was a day when they were almost wiped out, too.
Maine is still hanging on by a thread and I choose to escape here.
Thanks for all the advocacy your career represents. It made a difference.
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Actually, the decline of oysters began back in the early 1840s, a time when most folks thought they were quite abundant, but that was actually the turning point for the bay's oyster population. Prior to the U.S. Civil War the bay supplied nearly 75-percent of all the world's oysters. "After the Civil War, the oyster harvesting industry exploded. In the 1880s, the Chesapeake Bay supplied almost half of the world's supply of oysters. New England fishermen encroached on the Bay after their local oyster beds had been exhausted, which prompted violent clashes with competitors from Maryland and Virginia. Watermen from different counties likewise clashed."
When the oyster population crashed in Chesapeake Bay, commercial watermen switched to catching other species of shellfish, mainly softshell and hardshell clams. It didn't take much to wipe them out as well.
Looking for new ways to make a living on the bay's natural resources, commercial watermen switched to striped bass, a species that until the early 1900s was used for fertilizer on waterside farms. It took a lot of years to wipe them out, but by the late 1950s the entire east coast population of striped bass was doomed and headed toward extinction. However, it took nearly 30 years before scientists decided the striper population was in trouble. By that time it was almost too late and a complete moratorium was enacted in 1985 in Maryland's portion of Chesapeake Bay, while northern states put stringent catch restrictions in place for recreational anglers.
Atlantic menhaden, one of the bay's most important filter feeders, came under attack as the striped bass population rapidly declined. Menhaden feed exclusively on various forms of plankton, with phytoplankton being at the top of their dietary preference. The largest commercial fishing industry in the nation targets Atlantic menhaden and is based out of Reedville, VA. The schools of fish are encircled with large, purse nets, and then sucked up large tubes into a hold. They are then transported to the menhaden reduction plant where the fish are essentially cooked down, the oils extracted and used for paints and omega3 fish oil tablets, and the carcass is used for poultry and hog feed.
In 2006 the Atlantic menhaden commercial harvest fell to under 110,000 metric tons. This was a far cry from harvest levels of just a decade earlier, a reduction of more than 90 percent. There was no reduction, however, in harvest effort, which actually increased over the same period. Spotting a school of migrating menhaden in Chesapeake Bay and the nearshore Atlantic waters is almost unheard of these days. Three decades ago, schools measuring up to 40 miles long and 10 miles wide were a common occurrence.
Other filter feeders on the bay include barnacles, which until recent years were probably as common as zebra mussels in the great lakes. When I was a youngster every piling in Baltimore's Inner Harbor was totally encrusted with them. In some locations they were an inch or more thick, and they covered the pilings from the high tide line to the muddy bottom.
Sure, you can still find barnacles in the bay, but they no longer live in depths below 10 feet - mainly because they need oxygen in order to survive. The same holds true for all bay species, most of which that are still alive can only survive during mid summer in depths less than 15 feet, and that includes those that can tolerate relatively low oxygen levels.
With the exception of barnacles, all the other bay's filter feeders have been wiped out by commercial exploitation. And, until recent years, there was essentially no catch restrictions, at least anything meaningful. Ironically, Maryland's commercial watermen have essentially been putting themselves out of business for the past two centuries, mainly by depleting one bay resources after another. Additionally, they are among the only self employed businessmen that are able to collect unemployment compensation with a particular fishery closes because that fishery's population crashed.
There's a lot more to this story than meets the eye, and I didn't just pull this information out of the air and post it here. As an investigative reporter, I wrote about the Chesapeake Bay and it's fisheries for more than two-dozen publications for more than 35 years. I've spent thousands upon thousands of hours both on the bay, and SCUBA diving beneath it's surface. I also fished nearly every state in the nation, and fished several countries, often fishing with the area's top fishing guides, interviewing leading state and federal fisheries scientists, and managed to collect tens of thousands of photos in the process.
One of the things I learned from more than three decades as an investigative reporter was you're not going to change some things, human nature being at the top of the list. People began using the world's waterways as a waste disposal system long before we were born, and this will likely never change. The out of sight out of mind scenario. We continue to dump human and animal poop into the streams, rivers, bays and oceans as if it will just go away. It never has. We bury our disposables in landfills, cover it with dirt, then cover it with plastic, and finally another layer of dirt, thinking it just went away. It's biodegradable, isn't it? Not in anyone's lifetime! There was an old saying by a long since deceased U.S. Senator "The solution to pollution is dilution." a rationale that still exists to this day.
I sincerely wish I were dead wrong on this issue, but I'm very confident I'm right on the money. Everything on the planet is now considered disposable. At one time it was pretty much limited to diapers, which at the time took up more than 66 percent of most U.S. landfills. Now, in 2013, telephones, TVs, computers, cars, homes, everything - we just toss them into a landfill, or into the water. Then we find some scientists to investigate why the water is polluted and you cannot safely eat anything that comes out of it. We have another team of investigators that are studying the worlds groundwater supplies, trying to figure out how they became so polluted. We have people investigating why springheads and groundwater supplies are drying up at an alarming rate throughout the nation, while agriculture and municipal users continue to drill deeper and deeper to obtain more and more water. They do this instead of creating reservoirs.
Then, here in Chesapeake Bay, we have Governor Owe-Mally, (O'Mally), who has presidential aspirations for when O'Bamma leaves office. Owe-Mally just enacted a stormwater management tax on everyone in the state, $125 per year for homeowners, more for business, claiming that all those impervious surfaces are why Chesapeake Bay is fouled. He figures that if we pay a lot more money, the bay can be cleansed of its impurities. Yeah, right! He says the money will not be dumped into the state's general fund. Of course, he has a track record of lying about these things.
Yeah, I'm still cynical!
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The decline in oysters is more likely a symptom, not a cause. Silt and excess nutrient runoff, and decline of wetlands are probably more at the root of the problem. I have a spring on my property, high on a hill in the Fingerlakes area of NY that turns into a stream. It eventually, makes it's way to the Chesapeake. When you realize just how large the Chesapeake watershed is, you realize that fixing the problem down there is a huge undertaking that has to include even where I live. It can't be fixed by introducing an invasive like the zebra mussel. Everything we do up here, with regards to agriculture, road ditches, industrial activity (like gas exploration and fracking...a hot topic right now in NY state), directly effects the Chesapeake Bay.
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Discussion in 'Off The Beaten Track' started by skipaway, May 10, 2011.
Schwarzenegger/Shriver split after 25 years
I'm not surprised at all.
Was he really gov for seven years? Geez time is flying by.
This is a shocker. Right up there with the split of Al and Tipper Gore last year. What's the world coming to?
The only shocker about this is that it didn't happen sooner. There have been rumors for years.
I have heard that Der Ahnold is known to have a roving eye...
I'm not surprised. Maria grew up in a family that's used to keeping it together while a spouse holds office. Now that he's private citizen Arnold, there's no longer a need.
That was my thought. where does the time go?
I heard a month or so ago, that he was moving back to Austria.
You made my day!
It seems that she has freed herself.
I always wondered why they got married in the first place. The only thing they had in common was politics and she said that she didn't want him to run for office, so what were they planning to do together?
Hot monkey sex.
Well, somebody had to say it. In the early days, they were a hot-looking, if toothy couple.
Guess Der Ahnuld found an answer to that musical question, "How do you handle a problem like Maria?".
I've always thought she was really quite unattractive and I have never been into big muscles so for me they have always grossed me out.
She looked okay, except for her TKGS (Toothy Kennedy Girl Smile). YMMV. And she has not really aged that well. YMMV 2.
And I like big muscles.
Are you often "grossed out" by people you find physically unattractive?
I think if Maria wasn't so ultra-thin she would have "aged better." I can't remember if it was Grace Kelly or Catherine Deneuve who once said that at a certain age a woman had to decide whether she wanted to maintain her face or her waist and she had chosen her face.
I've never found anyone in her family, with the semi-exception of her late uncle Robert, remotely attractive, at least as far as blood relatives go. RFK (and, okay, much as it sickens me mentally to even think of it, YOUNG, as in pre-Dallas, Ted) got the only decent looks genes in the family. Their eldest sister Kick was okay but even she had the toothy grin.
Don't forget JFK, Jr. But that was half Jackie.
Few of the women were fortunate-looking.
Eh. I don't generally like curly hair on men, but overall yes, he got his best genes form his mother.
This is no longer accurate. With the facial fillers on the market plus Botox, you can be as thin as you want.
It's still accurate for those who don't want to resort to injecting sustances/toxins into their faces.
So since she is Catholic, is she going to follow the other Kennedy familiy tradition and ask for an annulment?
Or for those who can't afford it...
I don't think she will unless she wanted to remarry "in the church". I always thought annulments were bizarre when there were children from the marriage.
Some people like Maria, and Sarah Jessica Parker, have, unfortunately, chosen their waists. Princess Grace got fuller figured near the end of her life, but was still very pretty.
everything can be a toxin at a wrong dose, including water and Tylenol. Correct use of Botox has a long safety record at higher doses for medical problems before it was used cosmetically. Fillers are all natural substances, some with calcium suspended in water and some with hyaluronic acid.
But Andora is right--it's quite expensive.
Aww, but you don't have to get married for that. I thought as a Kennedy she would understand that. Maybe she was rebelling.
Not when they got married. I remember there being huge at the time because he was a staunch Republican and she was from a family of very famous Democrats.
Some people will not want to inject substances into their face for cosmetic purposes, whether they are "natural" or not. Obviously, many have quite different preferences.


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I've won a State Championship with a mono-colored deck (Academy), have two other top 4 finishes with mono-colored decks (Goblins, Rogue Black), and a top 8 Pro Tour qualifier finish with a pure-black Necropotence creation. And I finished second in 2006 States with a three-color deck (Solar Peace), losing two games to one in the final. During Grand Prix Minneapolis, mono-color White Weenie dominated the format. For a newer player, mono-color decks are actually a good thing because they eliminate the need for expensive multi-colored land and they can actually be more consistent and faster than a two-color deck.
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It's Come To This: TSA Screener Accosts A Screaming 3-Year-Old
posted at 2:46 pm on November 14, 2010 by Cassy Fiano
In all of the reports I've seen of TSA security oversteps, this one might just be the worst I've seen — and the most difficult to watch. It's bad enough to see TSA screeners groping adults. Now they've stooped to accosting a terrified, screaming three-year-old.
As a parent, how would you react if this was your child? Most parents teach our children that no one is allowed to touch them. They're not exactly used to having people pat them down, nor are they capable of understanding why a rude stranger would be forcibly touching them all over their body. For a child, that must be terrifying. Are we supposed to let our children think its acceptable for strangers to touch them against their will?
In this video you can see the entire problem with our airport security system. Why did this child need to be patted down? Does she look like she might be a tiny terrorist? Sure, TSA has a policy that if the metal detector beeps twice everyone must be searched, regardless of age. So let's just terrify children, who cares? As the TSA official stated, it's not the policy that's the problem, it's "how we handle the child". After all, why should we exercise common sense? The Taliban uses children as human shields, so surely soccer moms from, say, Nebraska, could be doing the exact same thing. And hey, if CAIR has their way, it will only be soccer moms and their children who get patted down. Muslim women wearing hijabs? Nope, sorry. No patdowns for Muslim women. Considering the absurdity of TSA's current policies, I wouldn't doubt that they'd find it perfectly acceptable to accost terrified children and let hijab-wearing Muslim women right on through. Figuring out which one would be most likely to smuggle a bomb is irrelevant anyways.
We have to ask ourselves: do we really feel like we're going to be any safer with these idiots patting down children? We have a security system in place that refuses to profile the people most likely to be terrorists — they could be called racists, heaven forbid. Most of us are reasonable people, and are willing to accept some inconveniences in the name of airline safety. But these aren't mere inconveniences anymore, and as we saw last Christmas, they aren't keeping us any safer. There is one group of people responsible for every incidence of terror in the skies, and I'm pretty sure that three-year-olds are not included in that group.
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you guys are fucked up- Playin with my head and shit
don't hate BS cause he is drunk
Hit me up for a trade. will get u up no doubt.
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-stickers belong on streets...
just woke up and all my trolling got me nothing. fail..
So I found a word that I like and it flows for me...so I am going to stick wit it..
Its "LAVA" by the way..
I write "NEET"
fuck jsut do hollows if you have a fourth of a white. or just don't paint.give your throw some style
Hit me up for a trade. will get u up no doubt.
hit me up on flickr
-stickers belong on streets...
DAMN..!!then Im figuring Larv is tooken also..maybe I will do hunt..
I write "NEET"
Why dont you pick a word that represents you and who you are. Im not trying to hate on random letter words at all but personally i think its more of a challenge when you have a actual word because the letters might not go together at first and you need to work at them and tweak them to get them to work.
Its hard to for me to think of a word that represents me.
where can I go to see if the word "GAS" is tooken..
I write "NEET"
already taken by an established writer in cali.go for it if you want tho.i mean if you dont live there then fuck it.
Naw if he is already established I will respect it...maybe Gnaw..
oh and thanks for helping me out so far..
I write "NEET"
Alright I am going to write Motif..its pronounced (Mo-Tiff). It means a single or repeated design or color.
I write "NEET"
actually its pronounced (Mo-Teef)
I write "NEET"
which one should i stick with and experiment more with...any?
^^ I like the "a" and "s" on the cecond one and I like the "i" and "m" on the first one..
I write "NEET"
i know my A is fucked up
Dude a's are hard..but yea work on them....and E,M,K..like im just not feeling it..whats the thing behind the a?...try and go a little more basic with your style....like use the keys on the keyboard...
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Seems like it could be a quick fix. I don't know why they just wouldn't issue a quick delta update. This just kinda falls in line with the other glitches that apple's been getting a bad rep for. It does sadden me. I love apple products.
Do not Disturb...has always seemed like a completely useless feature to me...If my phone has something important to tell me...I want it to disturb me. I think the bigger problem here is that people cannot simply turn it off, or figure out how to get their notifications manually for a few short days....come on.
That's the problem.
Don't get me wrong. I love apple products. It's just a shame that with all of the criticism that apple has taken lately, something as small as this is going to be added to be added to the list.
Weird I wonder why it takes a week to auto correct.
Really never understood people who criticise a feature they can't be bothered to figure out the reasons it might be used.
Other than which, nothing comes between me and my sleep - particularly not frivolous texts, etc.
Anyone who surrenders their sleep to the consideration of others is a bit needy IMNSHO.
Tim Cook needs to effin resign.


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Windows 7 was a follow-up to Windows Vista, which was one of the more maligned versions of Microsoft's operating system in recent years. Windows 7 lured many upgraders not only from Vista, but from the older XP operating system as well. Windows 8 doesn't have the luxury of following an unloved version of Windows like Windows 7.
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