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This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Dead to Rights: Retribution.
Oh thank god!
You have NO idea how much I've needed this.
Thanks Yahtzee
Made my day as always!
Brilliant one this week, found a new insult too in the realm of "Manorexia". great stuff
How Dead to Rights: Regrettable. I was actually hoping the game would be good.
Hehe, great review as always! Pretty much sounded like I expected.
Awesome, I didn't know that dogs can see through walls... I wish I where a dog...
I laughed at all the Dead to Rights bits that were done and now Ms. Mayes i making a song..i hope it does well.
The game, by all accounts, is Dead To Rights: Repulsive, but this was Dead To Rights: Remarkable.
Seriously, it's a real stand-out. I enjoyed this week's thoroughly.
Really looking forward to Ms. Mayes' song.
ocelot god? hilarious!
Really really really really really really............ dumb.
Hehe, "Bang punch bang punch bang punch woof".
Great review YZ, as always.
I got home before this came online, which almost broke my day :<
Better now.
Awww, puppy :P
Think I'll give this one a pass, as I was thick enough to play the original
Woot, I made it in time to see it just posted.. best review i've seen in a while. I laughed so much.. People's Republic of Madbodia. So awesome, and love that last joke.Keep up the great work.
This one was Dead to Rights: Right funny!
Yeah, sorry, had to do one - a small one that sucked >_>. Played the game at a friend's of mine and I really have to quote what was said in the Escapist review of the game. The only remarkable feature is really just how unremarkable the whole game is.
Could he have thought of any more words beginning with 're-'? Love it, great review!
First off, I LOVE YOUR AVATAR!!!
OT: But yeah, Yahtzee got some much needed anger out on this on...thanks for the laugh!
Heh Heh Heh...
That is all.
Calumon: No really. That is it. Maybe the next comment will be interest... oh dear.
damn...he is buffalo bill's dog,also you're the first person to notice that Jake has the body shape of a T-bone steak...bout time!
No Max Payne cracks, Yahtzee? For shame! Dead to Rights was developed to ape Max's style, kinda like how Leifeld tried to ape Miller's grim and gritty style and failed.
And can't the dog fetch ammo? Dogmeat could do that and pick up meds. Shadow's a dumb dog.
Great as always
personally i never liked the Dead to Rights for the ps2 and i thought the new one would probably also be crap. So i won't be picking this up.
Good episode. Not much else to say.
Rebecca and Yahtzee, sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g ^_^
Great Dead To Rights: Review!
Holy shit. It said Two comments when I started this page, now there's all this. There went my hopes of a comment actually being seen. Yahtzee, you are too popular for my own good.
Edit: Oh, what do you know, I made it onto the first page after all. Damn, now it makes me wish even more that I had something interesting to say.
Yahtzee, you sly bastard you. How's a cynical, cold-hearted prick like you win the affection of someone like Ms. Mayes? No, really... I'd like to know how you did that. Teach me, Croshaw!!!
I love this review because it actually kinda funny.
I love shadow the dog
"ocelot god" bit made me LOL
"Someone dog!"
Brilliant. Sounds like you're enjoying this particular review.
>Dead to Rights is on the Playstation 2
>It will be very cheap
>Will buy
I keep getting this game confused with Red Dead Redemption, was looking forward to your views on a game getting it's arsehole licked by every critic who is taking the game behind the bushes for a hard piece of cottaging. please review it next and make this british man sigh as nothing can please an englishman unless it's an american being dumb
Dead to Right: Rebecca's writing a song? I hope it's any good...if a little creepy.
Keep up the good work yahtzee.
Wait WHOA!?! A love song? Well.... I guess everyone is allowed to have an opinion.
This review was Dead to Rights Refreshing and Relaxing.
Another example that games nowadays are becoming Dead to Rights: Redundant. I weep for the video game industry.
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thanks fluffy! Do you know what criteria pictures must have to fulfill the rules to be a fanpic. would have been really nice to be able to see them in public as all of the other fan art pics. but I dont know. Maybe pics have to be paintings to be called fan art. But maybe this could give opportunities for creating a new fan art form here on JCO.
Kind of you! Any favourite pic?
Well would have been nice. You know what I mean I think. Directly now when you visit Jim Carrey Online the first news are 50 new fan art on the site. hope someday that my pics will be among them. But I dont know the JCO stuff and who is the person to ask.
it's Tommy he's the person to ask...... TNPihl drop him a PM
i really like them all and i've seen your myspace stuff.........you've got a very unique style......they are really good i've never seen anyone else do stuff like it......
oh are you visiting me on myspace too. nice! mostly I am active on facebook. but I add all my pics to myspace. well yeah I kind of inspired of other artists. last of my had an Andy Warhol style. I also have done Tim Burton Art project. Maybe i will add them to the off topic forum. I talk to Tommy. Hard to explain my idea maybe. I am from sweden and somtimes very ashamed of my bad english. But I will try. Well to another thing. I heard that JCO have published a book. I just wonder what it look like inside. Kind of feels like I know the people a little bit on this site. Maybe I should buy it.
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OOH!....I like this one!
Schmoyoho-oh-oh-oh accent on the YO!
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I like the Me, Myself & Irene one.
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Your photos are now a news article Retard_Messiah. They are really good.
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Embroidered Wonder Bread [food art]
Artist Catherine McEver uses an unexpected medium for her embroidery projects: Wonder Bread. Working "very, very carefully," she stitches the colorful floss into scenes from nature (chicken, fish, flowers), and an homage to Van Gogh's "Starry Night." If you're thinking these pieces are some sort of commentary on temporality, think again: says McEver, "I have a couple of slices that are over four years old that look just like new." Gives new meaning to "wonder," huh? Additional pictures below.
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Agi Architects, the designer of the awarded project Fawsec Campus by Agi Architects points out, Fawsec Campus has been designed as a mid-rise building where a dense development would provide the best thermal conditions for the apartments and the exterior shaded areas. The long interior courtyard is split into different levels, where various open spaces contain sport and leisure areas. Open areas situated between the blocks are treated as interior educational collective spaces, where the whole community can profit from the surrounding individual knowledge. The living units in the buildings are mainly one-bedroom apartments for temporary lodging and short term residency. .
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Robert Reich and 'Amend 2012' Launch Campaign for Constitutional Amendment to Overturn 'Citizens United'
Robert Reich appears in a new video from a new organization, Amend 2012, calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United. In just over two minutes, Reich clearly and effectively explains how Citizens came about and why it is dangerous to U.S. politics. The campaign focuses on the idea that corporations aren't people, only people are people. Reich then asks everyone to take action in support of Amend 2012's call for a constitutional amendment:
Thanks to the Supreme Court and Citizens United, the same big corporations and billionaires that destroyed our economy and caused millions of us to lose our jobs and homes, are spending obscene amounts to drown out our voices in elections and take over our government.
But together, "We the People" can set things right.
The campaign website has a petition, a way for supporters to donate to the cause, and a way to sign up for the campaign's 'Constitution Crew' with numerous other ways to support the amendment drive. The website also offers state-by-state toolkits for activists, the latest news about related issues and a more thorough explanation of the court ruling and the problems it creates.
The campaign is a project of Common Cause. Public Citizen is also pushing for an amendment to overturn Citizens United.
A recent poll shows that two-thirds of small business owners say that Citizens United hurts them, while only nine percent found it to be a positive thing.
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Very much enjoyed Jamelle Bouie's call for a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing the right to vote. It may well be necessary, and I'm not one to instantly bag on putting rights into writing.
I do have a few questions that I'll pose here. Such an amendment would likely result in a substantial expansion of the Justice Department. I'd guess it would look something like the Voting Rights Act, with the feds identifying problematic states and counties and paying them special attention. So...
What limiting principles would there be for such oversight? Is having to wait in line a violation of the right to vote? Are voter-ID laws in violation of such an amendment? Are states with shorter intervals for voter registration in violation? Are felons exempted from this right? If so, is there anything that might strip said right? Bouie brings up several of these as reasons for such a right, but I'm uncertain to what extent he feels we should empower federal authorities to act.
I'll wait for a response from Bouie. It's an intriguing idea, but there is much more to discuss.


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Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
Release: NBER Macrohistory Database
Ratios Through 1920 Were Computed From Monthly Averages Of Weekly Data For Reserves And Note And Deposit Liabilities. Deposit Liabilities For 1915-June 1917 Were Computed From Items Listed In Weekly Condition Statements. January And February 1921 Reserves Are For $3,300,000, The Average Daily Amount Of Gold Held Abroad By The Federal Reserve Banks. Data For 1921-1948 Are Monthly Averages Of Daily Figures. Source: Federal Reserve Board, Data For 1914-February 1921: Computed By NBER. Data For March 1921-1935: Federal Reserve Bulletins. Data For 1936-1941: Banking And Monetary Statistics. Data For 1942-1948: Unpublished Frb Data.
This NBER data series m14072 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 14 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter14.html.
NBER Indicator: m14072
National Bureau of Economic Research, Ratio of Reserves to Note and Deposit Liabilities, Federal Reserve Banks for United States [M14072USM156NNBR], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M14072USM156NNBR, July 3, 2020.


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Many communities offer some kind of outdoor skating; rinks are maintained on a regular basis, but are often restricted to residents only. Some rinks charge admission, and also offer skate rentals.
Pond skating is (usually) free and open to anyone, but conditions can vary.
The following - in a map and in text below it - is a sample of the outdoor facilities available.
Casey Park, 124 Watertown St., Watertown. Hours are Mondays-Fridays from 2-9 p.m. and weekends, holidays and school vacations from 2-9 p.m.
Emerson Field and Rideout Field, Concord. Information: http://concordma.gov/289/Emerson-Field-Skating-Rink
Farrell Field and Ghiloni Park, Marlborough. Public skating hours 10 a.m.-7 p.m. daily. Hockey stick time hours from 7-9 p.m. daily. Information: http://www.marlborough-ma.gov/gen/marlboroughma_recreation/outdoorskating
Fletcher Park Ice Rink, Lexington. Corner of Woburn Street and Massachusetts Avenue, near Lexington Center. Information: https://skatelexington.com/
Field School rink, 20 Alphabet Lane, Weston. Open to the public. Information: https://www.weston.org/1182/Winter-Ice-Skating
Frog Pond, Boston — Boston Common. Winter hours Mondays from 10 a.m.-3:45p.m., Tuesdays-Thursdays from 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday-Saturday from 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Sundays from 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Ticket sales end 30 minutes before closing. Admission is based on a skater's height — 58 inches and over, $6, under 58 inches free. Rentals and Services — skates, $12 for adult men and women, $6 for kids (sizes from 8T to men's 15); lockers $4, skate sharpening $10 per pair; Bobby the Skating Seal, $15/hour. Information: https://bostonfrogpond.com/winter-programs/pricing-season-passes/
Kelly Outdoor Skating Rink — 1 Marbury Terrace, Jamaica Plain. Information: 617-727-7000.
Kendall Square Community Skating — 300 Athenaeum St., Cambridge. A seasonal outdoor ice skating rink; offers skate rentals, lessons, private rink rentals, and a cafe; rink is refrigerated and zamboni-maintained. Information: http://paddleboston.com/skating/skating.php
Larz Anderson Skating Rink — 25 Newton St., Brookline. Outdoor rink offers heated skating pavilion, snack bar, ice skate rentals, skate sharpening shop. Information: 617-739-7518.
MarketStreet Lynnfield — 600 Market St., Lynnfield. Open through February. Hours: Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4-9 p.m., Wednesdays from 1-9 p.m., Fridays from 4-10 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m.-10 p.m., and Sundays from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Admission: $8 for adults, $6 for children 12 years, free for children under 3. Skate rentals available for $4 (limited sizes available). Information: https://www.marketstreetlynnfield.com/eventscalendar
Oval at the Common — Worcester Common, adjacent to City Hall. Hours Thursdays and Fridays from 5-8 p.m., Saturdays from 1-6 p.m., and Sundays from 1-6 p.m. Public skating is $10 for adults ($5 admission + $5 rental skates) and kids under 6 may skate free (+$5 rental skates if applicable). Please note that there is a $25 refundable deposit per skate rental. Information: https://www.discovercentralma.org/articles/ice-skating-at-the-worcester-common-oval/
Patriot Place, Foxborough — Winter Skate takes place Mondays from 4-8 p.m., Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 4-9 p.m.; Thursdays from 4-6:30 p.m.; Fridays from 4-10 p.m.; Saturdays and all school holidays from 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sundays from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Rates are $8 for adults, $6 for children 12 and under, and seniors 65 and older. $2 off admission price with a coat donation to Cradles to Crayons. Information: http://www.patriot-place.com/winterskate#.Wkvj57enGUk
Note: Skating, as well as snowmobiling and ice fishing, is at your own risk. Most municipalities do not check the thickness of the ice.
Featherland Park, Sudbury — 491 Concord Road, Sudbury. Outdoor skating rink. Information: https://sudbury.ma.us/locations/featherlandpark/
Chickering Pond, Medfield (Rocky Woods, Trustees of Reservations) — Information: http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/greater-boston/event-36659.html
Natick — Outdoor sites include Coolidge Field, Fisk and Dug ponds. Information: https://www.natickma.gov/1083/Facilities
Needham — The town of Needham offers several outdoor locations, including Reservoir and Rosemary Lake. Information: http://www.needhamma.gov/index.aspx?NID=1456
Newton — Auburndale Cove, off Commonwealth Avenue. Skating hotline: 617-796-1536. Operational hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 3-9 p.m.; Tuesdays, 2-9 p.m.; weekends, holidays and vacations, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Turner Pond, Walpole — Information: http://www.walpole-ma.gov/pond-management-committee/pages/turner-lodge
Wellesley — Skating is available at Farms Station Pond, Caroline Brook Parkway, Centennial Reservation, Rockridge Pond, Hunnewell Field Complex. Information: http://wellesleyma.gov/Search?searchPhrase=outdoor+skating
College Pond — 269 Concord Road, Weston. Open to the public. Information: https://www.weston.org/1182/Winter-Ice-Skating


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There will be a seasonal extreme low tide at my Tidal Earthcache at 6:03 AM on Friday, 31 March. Anyone interested in getting as close as possible to the cache location should try to be there!
Time and tide wait for no one, so be sure to get there early enough to walk out to the water, about ¾ mile.


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Darkness, I'm blind and moving through you.
I tucked away little notes, instructions
On how to never be found again.
Darkness, I'm blind
I want to taste a new freedom
Carve away at the burden
And set my sights to the empty sky
We did not deserve your disease
You gave each of us a story to speak of
Puzzle pieces that tell of your negligence.
Yet You call this love?
I want to taste a new freedom
I want to Carve away the burden
And set my sights to the empty sky
Better to pacify
Than to eliminate the true beast We loved
With no brighter days in sight
This is what makes our family strong
Freedom, I set my sights to an empty sky


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The Rights of the People–Women are People. Suffrage Victory Map, 1920
On August 24, 1920, Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution making woman suffrage legal throughout the United States. Nine southern states withheld ratification, including Virginia. Despite Virginia's failure to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, the prosuffrage women of the state worked tirelessly to organize and gain "votes for women."
The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia (ESL) was founded in 1909 in Richmond. The ESL became one of the most influential suffrage organizations in the country. Among the twenty founding women, Lila Meade Valentine, a Richmond native, was elected the league's first president. The league's members included several prestigious women, Ellen Glasgow, Mary Johnston, Adéle Clark, Nora Houston, and Dr. Katherine Waller Barrett. During the league's first year, almost 120 members joined, most of them residents of Richmond. Recruiting new members initially proved difficult. Among the obstacles league members met with were the objections of fathers to their daughters participating in the league and women with a lack of knowledge on the subject of or interest in woman suffrage.
From the beginning the ESL faced enormous challenges that well-established organizations, such as the National American Woman Suffrage Association, had already met. Virginia women needed to start an education campaign that would bring public awareness to the issue of woman suffrage. In an effort to spread the word for woman suffrage, member writer Mary Johnston spoke at women's colleges and Valentine gave more than 100 speeches across Virginia encouraging suffrage support. Other members did their part by visiting schools, fairs, and union meetings and distributing materials on city streets. These strategies worked. By 1911, membership had grown to 290, and by 1919 to 30,000 and with numerous branches across Virginia.
Although progress was made, the women of the ESL confronted additional challenges when groups like the Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (VAOWS) formed in opposition to the cause. The VAOWS used racist and political arguments to promote antisuffrage, claiming that woman suffrage would destroy state's rights and often drawing parallels between it and the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave black men the right to vote. One of the most prominent arguments that antisuffrage organizations made was that if black women were allowed to vote it would endanger white supremacy. This could potentially explain why nine of the ten states that initially refused to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment were in the South.
The Equal Suffrage League expanded its objectives to appeal to more women. Instead of simply promoting the vote for women, the league examined all aspects of women's lives and called attention to the inequality women faced legally, socially, and economically. Adopting truly feminist ideals, the ESL helped paved the way for woman's rights campaigns in the future. In spite of these progressive ideals, traditions in Virginia proved too difficult to break both socially and politically early in the twentieth century. The General Assembly refused to submit a state woman suffrage constitutional amendment to the voters, and it was not until 32 years after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified that the assembly ratified the amendment.
1. How many states refused to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920?
2. Where was the Equal Suffrage League started?
3. What are some of the challenges the Equal Suffrage League faced?
4. Did Virginia ratify the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920?
Further Discussion
1. Why did Virginia and so many other southern states refuse to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment for so long? What characteristic of southern culture and society during this period contributed to that refusal? Granting the right to vote to women would mean that African American women would be able to vote. What were the implications of that reality?
Working Out Her Destiny: Women's History in Virginia
"Women Suffrage in Virginia" In Encyclopedia Virginia, published by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Suggested Reading
Graham, Sara Hunter. "Woman Suffrage in Virginia: The Equal Suffrage League and Pressure Group Politics, 1909–1920." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 101, no. 2 (April, 1993): 227–250.
Lebsock, Suzanne. "Woman Suffrage and White Supremacy: A Virginia Case Study." In Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism. Edited by Nancy Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsock, 62–100. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Green, Elna C. Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997, esp. 151–177.


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Angel Heredia became joined a select group of San Jose Earthquakes Youth Academy players to receive an invite to participate in the US U-17 Reisdency Program when he got a call from Bradenton, Florida last week.
The San Jose native recently wrapped up the Quakes' first season at the USSF Development Academy level. Heredia was discovered in the club's Pre-Academy program, but was a key addition to the U-16s after being called up in March. In 15 games, he scored one goal and had 10 assists while playing as an attacking midfielder.
One year ago, goalkeeper Kendall McIntosh and right back Travis Pillon each received invites. McIntosh went on to earn the starting keeper spot for the US at the U-17 FIFA World Cup in Mexico last June. Also joining Heredia in Residency will be Earthquakes U-16 player Nedine Tucakovic.
Heredia will live and train on the IMG Academy campus in Bradenton, Florida until next summer. Before departing for the East Coast, the creativer attacker sat down with SJEarthquakes.com for an interview:
SJEarthquakes.com: You just got called up to US Residency.
What was your reaction when you got that phone call?
Angel Heredia: I was really excited, and shocked. It's so surreal. I wanted to shout and just say, "Yes!" I'm very excited and looking forward to the opportunity.
SJEQ: Were your parents pretty excited for you?
AH: They were very excited for me. Actually, my mom got the phone call first. She told me to call Sam Pugsley (former Quakes Fan Relations employee and current team administrator for the US U-17s).
SJEQ: Your parents must be a little bummed they won't have
an extra body around the house to do chores.
AH: (Laughs) Yeah, it's going to be pretty quiet.
SJEQ: Tell me about your style of play. What do you think
you bring to the residency program?
AH: I think I bring a quick speed of play. I want to move fast when the pace is slow. I can keep the ball and I like attacking.
SJEQ: Having played in the San Jose Earthquakes Academy, how
did that help you get to where you are right now?
AH: The Academy has been great. I would like to thank my coaches. They changed my game completely from before I got here. They showed me where I could improve my game and they helped me want to improve. I improved every day, every practice, every game.
SJEQ: What was the best piece of advice an Earthquakes
Academy coach gave you last year?
AH: Keep your head high and always go forward.
SJEQ: What is your ultimate soccer goal?
AH: To play for FC Barcelona … and the San Jose Earthquakes, of course.
SJEQ: So you can't like Lionel Messi at all…
AH: (Laughs) No, I love Lionel Messi. He's my role model.
SJEQ: Is he a guy you model your game after?
AH: Definitely. I watch every game and enjoy watching the moves he does on the ball, his speed of play and his vision. He's great.
SJEQ: Marquis White and Stephen Wondolowski are going to be
coaching the group this year. What do you know about those two and what kinds
of positive interactions have you had with them?
AH: Last year, they were great. The positivity around them is great and now having them as head coaches, I think it's going to be even better this upcoming season. I think all the players here are excited to have them.
SJEQ: Do you have a favorite Earthquakes player?
AH: Chris Wondolowski because he loves scoring.


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Today's topic is bring versus take.
Exceptions: "Bring" and "Take" in Idioms
I suspect one reason some people are confused about "bring" and "take" is that there are many exceptions to the basic rules. For example, idioms such as "bring someone down a peg" and "take a bath" and phrasal verbs such as "bring up," "bring about," "take down," and "take after" don't comply with the rule that "bring" means to cause something to come to the speaker and "take" means to cause something to go away from the speaker.
Exceptions: "Bring" and "Take" for Future Events
Further, the simple rules fall apart when you consider an event in the future where nobody has arrived yet. Do you bring rum cake to the school bazaar or do you take rum cake to the school bazaar? It simply depends on where you want to place the emphasis of the sentence—which perspective you want to adopt.
If you want to focus on the school and write from the perspective of the bazaar, you bring the cake to the bazaar.
If you want to focus on your kitchen and write from the perspective of home, then you take the cake to the bazaar (which puts the focus on taking it away from your home).
When you start writing about the future and have to choose between "bring" and "take," imagine where you are in the scenario, and make your word choice based on that location.
The Past Tense of "Bring"
As an aside, the past tense of "bring" is "brought," as in, "He brought me flowers." In some regions people say "brung" or "brang," but it isn't standard English.
What About "Come" and "Go"?
An interesting note is that the words "come" and "go" follow rules that are similar to those for "bring" and "take."
"Come" is like "bring": you ask people to come here—to come to where you are. "Go" is like "take": you tell people to go away—to move away from your location. Aardvark and Squiggly will come to my party, and when Aardvark calls Squiggly, he'll say, "Let's go to Grammar Girl's party."
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MyHeritage.com gives me a perfect way to see all the duplicate family trees and the variations. I will go to my standard ancestor, my Great-grandfather Henry Martin Tanner. MyHeritage.com, with its Smart Matching software, shows me 46 family trees that have Henry as a common ancestor. Conveniently, they also have compilation of the differences from each of the other trees along side my information. So how do I know my information is correct? Let's just say that the basic facts are well beyond dispute and I presently have a long list of sources supporting each fact. Se here are the results of the comparison:
My file:
You will have to click on the image to see any detail.
OK, so here is the compiled information from 46 other family trees that share this ancestor on MyHeritage.com:
First of all and notably, the variations in his birth information go from close match to far-fetched. As a matter of note, Henry never lived and was not born in South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah. He was born in 1852 but the actual date is 11 June 1852 and the place, as shown on my entries, was San Bernardino, Los Angeles, California, United States. Actually, California was state (1850), but San Bernardino was not yet a county. That might explain why some of the entries say San Bernardino County, but doesn't at all explain why some miss the state entirely. As I said above, if they were merely copying, why are there so many wrong entries?
This comparison makes me start thinking that I need to revise my opinion of online family trees. They aren't inaccurate because they are copies, they are inaccurate because they are unaware of the facts and don't even know it. Why would I say (or believe) such a thing? Well, Henry Martin Tanner is probably one of the most completely documented people you can find outside of a president of the United States or a few other famous people. It takes absolutely no effort to find correct (or essentially correct) information about his and his entire family. As a matter of note, the John Tanner book (his grandfather) and the Sidney Tanner book (his father) and the Henry Tanner book, all have the correct information. The John Tanner book simply omits the county in the birth information for Henry Martin Tanner.
Here are the books, by the way:
- Tanner, Maurice, and George C. Tanner. Descendants of John Tanner Born August 15, 1778 at Hopkintown, R.I., Died April 15, 1850 at South Cottonwood, Salt Lake County, Utah. [S.l.]: Tanner Family Association, 1942.
- De Brouwer, Elizabeth. Sidney Tanner, His Ancestors and Descendants: Pioneer Freighter of the West, 1809-1895. Salt Lake City, Utah (4545 S. 2760 E., Salt Lake City 84117): S. Tanner Family Organization, 1982.
- Tanner, George S. Henry Martin Tanner; Joseph City, Arizona Pioneer, Born June 11, 1852, San Bernardino, California, Died March 21, 1935, Gilbert, Arizona. 1964.
Now, you can see that Henry's Grandfather, John Tanner died in South Cottonwood, but how did it happen that all those people decided that Henry was born there? His death information is a little easier to explain. Henry had a cousin named Martin Henry Tanner who lived in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah. I guess it must be really easy to mistake, Henry Martin Tanner of Joseph City, Navajo, Arizona with Martin Henry Tanner of Grantsville, Tooele, Utah.
Now here is real issue. MyHeritage.com has made big deal out of finding source information for all its users. You don't even have to do anything and the program tells you the correct information from original sources. Doesn't this go beyond simple copying? Doesn't it get a little bit weird that these people don't correct their files? After all they are getting the same Smart Matches I am getting and they can see the same confusion. This goes way beyond mere copying.


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Request for Repurchase or Replacement
When you have met the requirements of Steps 1 and 2, or you met the requirements of Step 1 and your vehicle has been out of service by reason of repair for a cumulative total of thirty (30) days within the Lemon Law rights period, you can request that the manufacturer either repurchase your vehicle (buy it back; that is, take it back and give you a refund) or provide you with a new replacement vehicle.
Whether you purchased or leased your new motor vehicle, a replacement vehicle would be identical or at least equivalent to that vehicle. The manufacturer would also pay you an amount equal to any reasonable incidental expenses associated with the repair of your vehicle, such as towing, alternate transportation or repair charges, plus any charges you might incur as a result of the replacement transaction. You are not responsible to pay an offset for use.
If your vehicle is repurchased, a refund to you for a vehicle you bought would include:
- The purchase price (the cash price of the vehicle indicated in the contract, including any reasonable allowance for a trade-in vehicle);
- Collateral charges (including but not limited to sales tax and other government charges, dealer charges, dealer-installed items, extended warranty, and all interest you paid on any loan from a lending institution);
- Incidental expenses associated with repairing the vehicle, such as towing, alternate transportation or repair charges;
- Minus a deduction or offset for use based on a formula that includes the purchase price and the miles you put on the vehicle up until the time of the first repair visit for the defect or condition [(Purchase Price x Miles) ÷ 120,000].
If your vehicle is a motor home, the formula is (Purchase Price x Miles) ÷ 90,000.
If your purchase was financed, the manufacturer, at the time of repurchase, would pay the amount you owe on the remaining balance (principal) to the lending institution. This amount would be subtracted from the refund to you.
If your vehicle is repurchased, a refund to you for a vehicle you leased would include:
- All payments made by you under the lease agreement;
- The amount allowed for any trade-in;
- Incidental expenses associated with the repair of the vehicle, such as towing, alternate transportation or repair charges;
- Minus a deduction or offset for use based upon a formula that includes the purchase price (which is the agreed-upon value of the vehicle shown in the lease agreement) and the miles you put on the vehicle up until the time of the first repair visit for the defect or condition [(Purchase Price x Miles) ÷ 120,000].
If your vehicle is a motor home, the formula is (Purchase Price x Miles) ÷ 90,000.
You would have no further obligations to the leasing company, provided you did not owe the company any past-due charges.
If your vehicle is repurchased, any credit card or other awards program points you used to purchase or lease your vehicle will be credited back to that account.
What should I consider when choosing between a repurchase and a replacement of my vehicle?
If the authorized dealer is unable to repair the problem in the required number of attempts, you should keep these considerations in mind when deciding whether you would like the manufacturer to replace or repurchase your vehicle:
- In the event of a replacement, is the same model with identical or similar features available?
- Would I be satisfied to have another vehicle from the same manufacturer?
- Am I in a financial position to buy another vehicle with the refund I might receive?
The mathematical calculations could make a repurchase of your vehicle less attractive in some situations:
- Were you upside-down on the car you traded in? If you are seeking a repurchase and you had refinanced the negative equity from your trade-in, be prepared for your lender to require you to pay any outstanding negative equity debt. The lender will most likely demand full payment of this debt at the time your vehicle is repurchased.
- Do you have a substantial number of miles on your vehicle? If you put thousands of miles on your vehicle prior to your first repair attempt for the problem at issue in your case, the reasonable offset for use could be $1,000, $2,000 or even more. This offset for use amount would be deducted from your vehicle repurchase award.
- Did you receive a rebate, credit or other incentive when you purchased your vehicle? An arbitrator has the discretion not to include incentives in your vehicle repurchase award.
In the above situations, if you elect and receive a vehicle replacement award, your new replacement vehicle will be substituted in your loan agreement for the vehicle being replaced; any negative equity will continue to be handled as originally negotiated; and any rebate, credit or incentive benefit would remain in the deal. Since there is no offset for your use, you will receive a new vehicle, possibly one from a newer model year, without incurring any additional cost to you.
How do I make my request to the manufacturer?
For either a purchased or a leased vehicle, you would notify the manufacturer of your choice on the Vehicle Repurchase or Replacement Request (Form B). If you prefer, you may write a letter requesting repurchase or replacement that includes the following information
- Your contact information (address and phone numbers);
- The vehicle make, model, year and identification number (VIN);
- Whether the vehicle was purchased or leased;
- The name and address of the selling or leasing dealer;
- The date the vehicle was originally delivered to you;
- The date the vehicle was registered in Georgia, only if purchased or leased in another state;
- The odometer reading on the delivery date;
- The odometer reading at the time of the first repair visit for the defect or condition;
- The date and mileage on the 30th day the vehicle was out of service for repair (if applicable); and
- The date the manufacturer received your request for a final repair attempt (if applicable) and an indication that the defect or condition was not corrected on the final attempt.
Your request form or letter must be sent by overnight mail delivery or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the manufacturer at the address provided in the owner's manual. (You should also send a copy of your letter or Form B to us for our records. Mail it or fax it to 404-656-3569.) After the manufacturer receives the form or letter, you will receive a green card or other receipt or you can get proof-of-delivery information from the overnight courier service. The card, receipt or delivery information will show the date the manufacturer was notified of your request to repurchase or replace the vehicle. Keep this document for your records.
|Important note to consumers with motor homes
|If you are filing a claim for a motor home, you would also write such a letter or use the Vehicle Repurchase or Replacement Request form. Your request must be sent to all known manufacturers of the motor home, including both the vehicle and the chassis, regardless of which manufacturer you believe was responsible for repairing the problem. You should call Georgia Department of Law's Consumer Protection Division if you have any questions about this procedure.
What happens after I send my request for repurchase or replacement of my vehicle?
From the date the manufacturer receives your notice, it has 20 days to honor your request.
IMPORTANT: It is not uncommon for the manufacturer to contact you during this step in an effort to settle your dispute. The offer could honor your request for a replacement or repurchase of your vehicle; or it might include some lesser remedy, such as another repair attempt, an extended warranty, or a cash payment where you keep the vehicle. Carefully evaluate any offer made to you, and remember that any settlement you agree to receive may affect your ability to proceed under the Lemon Law.
Before you sign any papers, or if you have questions, please call our office at 404-651-9397. While we cannot provide you legal advice or represent you in settlement negotiations, we can help you compare the terms of the settlement offer with the relief the Lemon Law would provide.
What to Do Next
- At this time, no manufacturer is certified to offer an informal dispute settlement program for Georgia. Call us or check our website when you reach this step to verify that a program offered by the manufacturer of your vehicle has not become certified. If your manufacturer's program is still not certified, skip to Step 5. If the manufacturer's program has become certified, follow the instructions you will be provided.
- If you accepted a settlement offer in which the manufacturer takes back your vehicle, your Lemon Law complaint is resolved.
- If you accepted any other type of settlement, please call us at 404-651-9397.
VERY IMPORTANT: As you proceed to either Step 4 or Step 5, a deadline applies; you must file your claim within one (1) year of the expiration of your Lemon Law rights period.


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First off, to purchase artillery you will need a minimum of 4 things: Money ($), War Supply (WSU), Conscript Companies (CC) and a City that you control[SUP]1)[/SUP] in a region in which you have at least 50% Militry Control (MC) and 25% Loyalty.
Given a location meeting the requirements you of course also need enough $, WSU and CC to meet the purchase requirements of the unit(s) to be purchased. Because the Economy Status Panel only gives a close estimate to budgeted Income and Expenditure
if purchases are listed as being very close to the projected balance, circumstances during the executed turn can cause any of these resources to fluctuate and render any ordered purchases to be canceled without notice. Especially in turns in which a large number of units are being purchased entire blocks of these purchases can fail to be executed even if only a small part of the purchase order would not be covered.
Since Update 1.16 there are additional restrictions for states west of the Mississippi starting with Missouri and southward.
Extract from the 1.16 Update file
[color="#FF0000"]Effective with patch 1.16 [RC5 and later][/color]
Explanation of the "Raise Rule" applied when buying new units or when the annual Militia muster occurs:
- $recWSU: Only raise in a region that is producing War Supply.
- All field Artillery (separate units) Units with "imbedded artillery" do not require WSU in region.
- This is WAD: KS, TX, MS, MO, AR require Industrialization to build artillery
- $recTown and $recCity use different probability on which city the unit gets built in Area (recCity squares the size of city) , so a bigger city is more likely to be chosen as build site.
- $recHarbor and $recHarborWSU add to these the requirment of a port
- $recHarborWSU: Coastal and Fort Batteries, Ironclads, Monitors, Steam Frigates, Armored Frigates
- $RecCap will only allow build in your Capital
- Army HQ Units
- $RecObj will only allow build in a controlled Objective
- Signal, Medical, Engineer, Naval Engineer, Baloons
- For all cases you need >=50% Miltary Control to build (and note that MC increases slowly with only small units in a newly captured region)
- For all cases you need >=25% loyalty to build in a region
- All units that require WSU to build have an Alternate Area defined that allows unit build outside the Home Area if no controlled Region that generates WSU is in the Home Area.
Example: if you are raising a unit in Missouri, you'll need at least 1 city with >50% MC and >25% Loyalty for the unit to appear in MO.
Additionally, you'll need a region with these values that produces WSU to build Artillery. Otherwise, you'll need to meet the
requirement in the Alternate Area (South West for CSA MO) to build.
What is not mentioned here is that almost all artillery units now have the $recWSU restriction[SUP]2)[/SUP] and that only KS, TX, MS, MO and AR have Alternate Areas designated for building these units if those states are not producing WSU. For artillery to be built in all other states they must produce WSU. If you plan a purchase of artillery in a state required to produce WSU and that state is not producing WSU the purchase will simply not be processed. In this case the planned expenditure of $, WSU and CC will not be assessed.
1) To control a city your faction must be the last faction to have had at least one line infantry or late war cavalry unit inside the city. An exception to this is if your faction has >= 50% loyalty in the region, in which case militia and irregular units can also control a city. Having 100% MC of the region will not give you control if the city.
2) Artillery units that are not affiliated to a specific state have no $recWSU restrictions other than their purchase costs.


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After expanded background checks failed in the Senate, gun control advocates are refocusing their efforts, while the NRA is thanking the support of one key Senator, New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte. NBC's Kasie Hunt reports.
HOUSTON -- At this weekend's National Rifle Association Convention, Carrie Bradshaw met Annie Oakley.
On display in the 9-acre firearms expo alongside Civil War-era antique guns, black AR-15 rifles and camouflage-patterned hunting gear? Pink rifles and hand guns, "Concealed Carrie" purses with hidden handgun pockets, and "Flashbang" holsters that attach to the front or side of a bra.
"We kinda started this because we didn't want women to have to dress like a man to be able to carry a gun," said Taylor Johnston, a Flashbang Holsters sales representative. "We want them to look feminine, look good, and still feel safe.
Leslie Deets modeled her concealed carry purses on high-end designers.
"It looks like a Coach bag," she said, adding that she named her "Concealed Carrie" company after the leading character in HBO's "Sex and the City" because "Leslie just didn't have the same ring to it."
Retail options aside, the NRA is stepping up its outreach to women after facing criticism in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings that killed 20 elementary school children and 6 adults in December. At the convention, they offered a luncheon, cocktail hour and pistol shooting course just for women.
In February, they hired Natalie Foster -- who founded the blog "Girls Guide to Guns" -- to assist with NRAWomen.tv, a website promoting ways to "explore, connect, celebrate and unite with the women of the NRA." Sections include "Armed & Fabulous," and "Refuse to be a Victim."
"The NRA is definitely making an effort to really let our voices be heard," Foster said.
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A pink assault rifle hangs among others at an exhibit booth at the George R. Brown convention center, the site for the NRA annual meeting in Houston on May 5, 2013.
There's a political motive: The GOP is concerned about wooing female voters, and women overwhelmingly favor stricter gun laws. An April NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed that 65 percent of women favor more restrictions, compared to just 44 percent of men. Among women with children living at home, support runs even higher.
That's an overwhelming gender gap that could cause a problem for the NRA. The group claims 5 million members, but just a fraction of them are women. Foster said the NRA has a goal of reaching 500,000 women members by 2014 -- so right now, women make up less than 10 percent of the organization. More than half of the electorate, of course, are women.
The gun lobby helped defeat a Senate gun bill that would have expanded background checks to cover all commercial gun sales -- a less aggressive measure than banning assault weapons and a policy that polls show most Americans support.
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre drove the convention with aggressive rhetoric on that issue -- he said that President Barack Obama's background check bill "ordered the law-abiding to participate in a maze of regulation that could criminalize lawful firearms transactions and potentially create a massive government list of every gun-owning citizen in the country."
But Foster took a notably softer tone in her interview with NBC News.
"When it comes to expanding background checks, we all want people to be safer. These laws that have been proposed recently have not been effective to that end, unfortunately," Foster said. "We all want people to be safer, we all want to protect our children. That is absolutely critical in our society."
From the beginning of the post-Newtown focus on gun control, Republicans -- with behind-the-scenes advice from groups like the NRA -- have put women front and center in their fight against new restrictions. At the first major hearing on gun control after Newtown, Republicans invited Gayle Trotter of the Independent Women's Forum to testify -- and she told the committee stories about women who used guns to protect themselves.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., underscored the point, arguing that women need high capacity magazines to appropriately defend themselves.
"My basic premise is that one bullet in the hand of a mentally unstable person or a convicted felon is one too many. Six bullets in the hands of a mother protecting her twin 9-year-olds may not be enough," he said.
That, in turn, drew a response from Vice President Joe Biden, who told a Google hangout he would advise his wife to use a shotgun, instead.
"You don't need an AR-15," he said. "Buy a shotgun. Buy a shotgun."
Biden is continuing to push for new gun control laws. Supporting him are groups like Moms Demand Action, which had members protesting the NRA Convention. They argue that women want more restrictions, and are planning a week of activism surrounding the upcoming Mother's Day holiday.
"I think every mother knows where she was when she heard about Newtown," said Michelle Green, who heads the Houston chapter. "It resonated so much and mothers want to take care of their children."
Related stories:
- 'Stand and fight': NRA convention gets call to arms for 2014 election
- Republican politicians pay tribute to NRA clout at annual meeting
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Perennial, shrub, tree
Stem: bark often peeling distinctively
Leaves simple, generally cauline, alternate, opposite, rarely whorled, evergreen or deciduous, often leathery, petioled or not; stipules 0
Inflorescence: raceme, panicle, cyme, or flowers solitary, generally bracted; pedicels often with 2 bractlets
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial; sepals generally 45, generally free; petals generally 45, free or fused; stamens 810, free, filaments rarely appendaged, anthers awned or not, dehiscent by pores or slits; nectary generally at ovary base, disk-like; ovary superior or inferior, chambers generally 15, placentas axile or parietal, ovules 1many per chamber, style 1, stigma head- to funnel-like or lobed
Fruit: capsule, drupe, berry
Seeds generally many, sometimes winged
Genera in family: ± 100 genera, 3000 species: generally worldwide except deserts; some cultivated, especially Arbutus, Arctostaphylos, Rhododendron, Vaccinium
Reference: [Wallace 1975 Wasmann J Biol 33:188; 1975 Bot Not 128:286298]
Subfamilies Monotropoideae, Pyroloideae, Vaccinioideae sometimes treated as families. Nongreen plants obtain nutrition from green plants through fungal intermediates.
Shrubs, small trees
Stem prostrate to erect; fire-resistant burl sometimes present at base; bark generally reddish, smooth or gray, rough, and shredded; hairs generally alike on twig, inflorescence axis, bract
Leaves alternate, spreading to ascending, evergreen; blade surfaces generally alike, sometimes convex, differing in color (stomata restricted to lower surface) or hairiness; margin flat to rolled
Inflorescence: raceme or panicle-like, terminal; branches raceme-like; flowers bracted; bracts leaf-like, generally flat or scale-like, generally folded, keeled; immature inflorescence present late summer through winter
Flower radial; sepals generally 5, free, persistent; corolla generally 5-lobed, urn-shaped to ± spheric, white to pink; stamens generally 10, included, filament base glabrous or hairy, anther 2-pored, awns 2, recurved; ovary superior, base surrounded by nectary disk, chambers 210, ovule 1 per chamber, style 1, stigma head-like
Fruit: drupe, berry-like, generally ± spheric; pulp generally thick, mealy; stones 210, free, separable, or strongly fused
Species in genus: ± 60 species: North America (especially CA) to C.Am, Eurasia
Etymology: (Greek: bear berries)
Reference: [Wells 1988 Madroño 35:330341]
Observation of hairs requires 10X magnification. Distribution of many species local; hybridization occurs in areas of overlap
Horticultural information: Beautiful but mostly DFCLT due to fungus and often salinity and alkali. Avoid overhead watering in hot weather. CVS are the easier garden subjects.
Shrub, tree-like, 25+ m; burl 0See the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Stem: twigs finely tomentose with long, white bristles
Leaves strongly overlapping, clasping; petiole 14 mm; blade 24 cm, 12.5 cm wide, ± oblong-ovate, base deeply lobed, margin entire or toothed, ciliate near base, surfaces alike, ± glaucous, dull to ± shiny, puberulent, becoming glabrous, smooth
Inflorescence dense; branches 14; bracts 815 mm, leaf-like, ± linear-lanceolate, tip acuminate, rigid, margin ciliate; pedicel 510 mm, ± recurved in fruit, glabrous; immature axes 1015 mm, dense, framed by lower bracts
Flower: corolla 68 mm, ± conic in outline; ovary glabrous
Fruit 812 mm wide, glabrous, becoming glaucous
Chromosomes: n=13
Ecology: Shale outcrops, chaparral, coniferous forest
Elevation: < 850 m.
Bioregional distribution: s Central Coast (Pecho Hills, sw of San Luis Obispo)
Horticultural information: In cultivation.


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So unpopular or unqualified as to be unable to be elected to even the lowliest role. A hyperbolic phrase, especially since animal control officers are appointed, not elected. Primarily heard in US, South Africa. After making off-color remarks about several demographics of voters, the would-be mayor couldn't even get elected dogcatcher.


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Crimson Bears reflect on team's development
Published: 08/19/2010 13:50:00
The JYFL's Crimson Bears are off to a good start this season with a 2 and 0 record so far and we caught up with them at a recent practice to inquire how the team is coming together.
VIDEO: The JYFL's Crimson Bears are off to a good start this season with a 2 and 0 record so far and we caught up with them at a recent practice to inquire how the team is coming together. (Image: JYFL)
Vinh Le, a Defensive Back for the Bears, says "I think our team, we have a really good chemistry, I mean during the off-season we didn't really get together that much so during like practices and stuff like this, coaches say that we've really got to get together and bond well and I think that's worked pretty well."
"in the last two games quarterbacks haven't really been able to pass it because by the time they turn their back or when they hike the ball, turn their back and look for it we already have pressure in their face because we're a really fast team this year."
Coach Rich Sjoroos agreed, and added "We are fast, we have good team speed, we have a lot of veterans returning in the skilled positions which is a bonus for us because our line is relatively inexperienced as far as working together, they've all played football in the past, but coming together as a group that's going to take a little while still, so they have some veterans around them that can make some big plays, takes a little pressure off of them as a unit, but I think as the weeks go by the lines going to be playing a bigger, bigger role in each game as we close out the regular season and hopefully move towards the playoffs."
One of the steps toward the playoffs is their upcoming game against Palmer, and we asked the coach how he felt about their chances this season.
Coach Sjoroos replied "Well, you know we're off to a good start, you know I think everybody would agree that we've come out of the gates with two you know solid performances but that's week to week I mean we're going to go back on the road again for week two of a three week stretch on the road and we're going to take on the Palmer Moose which you know is as tough as they come not only in our conference but in the state, I mean they're a very fundamentally sound, well coached team, could throw a lot of different things at you and they really study you, they're going to be prepared for us as good as anybody we're going to face all year so you know I just want the kids to stay humble, stay coachable and everybody's kind of put in perspective that yes, we've played two games and we've done well, but there's a lot bigger things waiting for us down the road."
Vihn Le summed it up by saying "We each know what our job is and as long as we do our job then we can work together well."
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does anyone know how to trouble-shoot an Isomca Tea that causes the electric system to shut down after I put it on?
This problem turned up after I had backflushed the machine yesterday. Could it be a water leak, any broken valves, burned electrical wiring? By the way, some sticky stuff comes out of the operational core of the machine,
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Phase 2a Study of Dapivirine Ring in Adolescent Females
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02028338
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 7, 2014
Last Update Posted : March 19, 2018
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|Condition or disease
|Human Immunodeficiency Virus
|Combination Product: placebo ring Combination Product: dapivirine ring
|Phase 2
MTN-023/IPM 030 is a Phase 2a, two-arm, placebo-controlled, double-blinded, multi-site, randomized trial of dapivirine vaginal ring (VR) versus placebo VR. The clinical trial is designed to assess the safety of dapivirine (25 mg) administered via a silicone vaginal ring (primary objective) and evaluate the acceptability of the dapivirine or placebo VR in sexually experienced, HIV-uninfected adolescent females, when inserted once every 4 weeks during 12 weeks of study product use.
Approximately 96 participants will be randomized in a 3:1 ratio to receive either a silicone elastomer vaginal ring containing 25 mg of dapivirine or a placebo VR. The ring will be replaced every 4 weeks during the 12 week study product use period.
Use of a VR to provide sustained delivery of microbicides is a novel investigational method for prevention of heterosexual transmission of HIV in women. This drug delivery method may circumvent potential difficulties related to adherence to daily or coitally-dependent uses of microbicide regimens.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|96 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Double (Participant, Investigator)
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|Official Title:
|Phae 2A Study of a Vaginal Ring Containing Dapivirine in Adolescent Females
|Study Start Date :
|March 2014
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 2016
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|July 2016
Experimental: Dapivirine ring
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Combination Product: dapivirine ring
intravaginal ring silicone elastomer intravaginal ring containing 25 mg dapivirine
Placebo Comparator: Placebo ring
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Combination Product: placebo ring
intravaginal ring silicone elastomer intravaginal ring containing no drug product
- Grade 2 AEs judged to be related to study product, Grade 3 or higher AEs [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 15 through 17 years (inclusive) at Enrollment, verified per site SOPs
- Able and willing to provide written informed assent/consent and able to obtain written parental or guardian permission (as specified in site SOP) to be screened for and to enroll in MTN-023/IPM 030
- Able and willing to provide adequate locator information, as defined in site SOPs
- Able to communicate in spoken and written English
- Able and willing to comply with all study procedural requirements
- Per participant report at Screening and Enrollment, willing to abstain from inserting anything into the vagina for 72 hours prior to each follow-up visit, including abstaining from penile-vaginal intercourse. Note: In the event the vaginal ring has been expelled and requires reinsertion, repositioning the vaginal ring is permitted
- In general good health as determined by the Investigator of Record (IoR)/designee at Screening and Enrollment
- Assessment of onset and progression of puberty, as measured by Tanner stage 4 or 5 at Screening, per participant report and/or clinician assessment
- HIV-uninfected based on testing performed at Screening and Enrollment (per protocol algorithm in Appendix II)
- Per participant report at Screening, history of sexual intercourse (at least one episode in participant's lifetime)
- Per participant report at Screening and Enrollment, agrees to use condoms for sexual intercourse
- Negative pregnancy test at Screening and Enrollment
Per participant report, using an effective method of contraception for at least 30 days (inclusive) prior to Enrollment, and intending to continue use of an effective method for the duration of study participation; effective methods include:
- hormonal methods (except contraceptive ring)
- intrauterine device (IUD)
- sterilization (of participant, as defined in site SOPs)
- At Screening and Enrollment, participant states a willingness to refrain from inserting the following vaginal products and/or objects into the vagina; spermicides, diaphragms, contraceptive vaginal rings, menstrual cups, cervical caps (or any other vaginal barrier method), douches, lubricants, for the 5 days prior to Enrollment throughout the duration of study participation. Note: Neither the use of tampons or sex toys, nor participant engagement in coitus is restricted.
- At Screening and Enrollment, agrees not to participate in other research studies involving drugs, medical devices, vaginal products, or vaccines for the duration of study participation, unless approved by the PSRT
Exclusion Criteria:
Per participant report at Screening, intends to do any of the following during the study participation period:
- become pregnant
- relocate away from the study site
- travel away from the study site for more than 4 consecutive weeks
- Diagnosed with a urinary tract infection (UTI) and/or reproductive tract infection (RTI) at Screening and/or Enrollment. Note: Otherwise eligible participants diagnosed with UTI during Screening will be offered treatment and may be enrolled after completing treatment and all symptoms have resolved. If treatment is completed and symptoms have resolved within 56 days of obtaining informed consent for Screening, the participant may be enrolled.
- Diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease and/or an sexually transmitted infection (STI) requiring treatment per current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines within 60 days of Enrollment (inclusive)
- At Enrollment, has a clinically apparent Grade 2 or higher pelvic exam finding (observed by study staff)** Note: Cervical bleeding associated with speculum insertion and/or specimen collection judged to be within the range of normal according to the clinical judgment of the IoR/designee is considered expected non-menstrual bleeding and is not exclusionary. Note: Otherwise eligible participants with exclusionary pelvic exam findings may be enrolled/randomized after the findings have improved to a non-exclusionary severity grading or resolved. If improvement to a non-exclusionary grade or resolution is documented within 56 days of providing informed consent for screening, the participant may be enrolled.
Participant report and/or clinical evidence of any of the following:
- Known adverse reaction to any of the study products (ever)
- Known HIV-infected partner
- Non-therapeutic injection drug use in the 12 months prior to Screening
- The use of HIV Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) and/or Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) within the 6 months prior to Enrollment
- Currently breastfeeding
- Last pregnancy outcome within 90 days or less of Screening
- Participation in any other research study involving drugs, medical devices, vaginal products, or vaccines, within 60 days of Screening
- Participant report of 3 or more penile-vaginal sexual partners in the month prior to Screening
- At Enrollment, as determined by the IoR/designee, has any significant uncontrolled active or chronic cardiovascular, renal, liver, hematologic, neurologic, gastrointestinal, psychiatric, endocrine, respiratory, immunologic disorder or infectious disease
Has any of the following Grade 1 or higher* laboratory abnormalities at Screening Visit:
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine transaminase (ALT)
- Creatinine
- Hemoglobin
- Platelet count Note: Otherwise eligible participants with an exclusionary test may be re-tested during the screening process. Please see the MTN-023/IPM 030 SSP for additional details.
Has any other condition that, in the opinion of the IoR/designee, would preclude informed assent/consent, make study participation unsafe, complicate interpretation of study outcome data, or otherwise interfere with achieving the study objectives
- Division of AIDS Table for Grading the Severity of Adult and Pediatric Adverse Events Version 1.0, December, 2004 (Clarification dated August 2009) **Female Genital Grading Table for Use in Microbicide Studies Addendum 1 to the DAIDS Table for Grading Adult and Pediatric Adverse Events, Version 1.0, December 2004 (Clarification dated August 2009)
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02028338
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|Alabama CRS 84519th street south, BBRB 203A
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294-2170
|United States, Colorado
|The university of Colorado, 13123 E. 16th Ave., Box 025
|Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
|The University of Colorado; 13123 E. 16th Ave., Box 025
|Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
|United States, Massachusetts
|The Fenway Institute, 1340 Boylston Street
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
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|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
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|Bronx, New York, United States, 104467
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Immune System Diseases
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"The Most Phenomenal Dj In The Galaxy".
Although the New Orleans Native began in High School honing his craft creating mixtapes for classmates, it wasn't until 2002 that his skills and dedication landed him a residency at the House of Blues. Within this venue he worked alongside popular acts such as "L.L. Cool J", "Common", "Snoop Dogg," "Robin Thicke", "Doug E. Fresh", "Pharrell," and many more rocking the crowd at concerts and premier events.
While spinning records on the air at KNOU Hot 104.5 in 03' he got a call to become the road Dj for former Cash Money Recording artist B.G.
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From: Miss marple16 March 2012 Freedom of Information Request Dear Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College,Please provide a detailed list of all subjects / courses on theHibbert Lane Campus and Buxton Lane Campus for the periods2006-20072008-20092010-2011Also the subjects / courses that are currently available on both Marple sites for this year 2012Can you also highlight courses/subjects that have been transferredduring any of the requested periods to The Cheadle siteYours faithfully,Miss MarpleNow this should be interesting But I sincerely hope I am proved wrong. I will keep you posted !
Quote from: Dave on March 14, 2012, 10:59:27 PMYes, but what they would earn is small beer, especially in the current financial climate. It would certainly be nowhere near the millions they need to finance a new build. In that case, there isn't a business case for it, simple as.
Yes, but what they would earn is small beer, especially in the current financial climate. It would certainly be nowhere near the millions they need to finance a new build.
I really really hope that the planning committee base this decision on politics if they say yes because that would be fantastic. sure a judical Review under those circumstances would be extremely easy to win just based on them ignoring national planning regulations and clearly openly ignoring the local plan.. would be brilliant!! However it wont happen..


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UMass Lowell will resume on-campus instruction, research and campus life for Fall 2020. View the plan for more info.
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A university project has tapped the imagination of the state's schoolchildren to educate the public about climate change.
Students from third grade through high school created artwork for the university's Cool Science contest to educate the public about climate issues. The contest's top six entries are displayed throughout the region on 9-foot-long placards on Lowell Regional Transit Authority (LRTA) buses, and inside buses and terminals. Second-place and honorable-mention entries are featured on the university's Cool Science website.
At a recent recognition ceremony, Chancellor Marty Meehan congratulated the contest's 24 winners, along with their parents and teachers.
"I am inspired by you, our younger generation, for how you are using visual arts to educate and inform the public about the need for action on climate change," said Meehan at the event where the artwork was unveiled. "It is critical for the future of our planet, for all of us, to slow the effects of climate change. I applaud all of you here today – students, parents and teachers – for taking a stand and educating the leaders of tomorrow."
An LRTA bus featuring Cool Science artwork by student Sam Mwea of Lowell provided a dramatic backdrop for the event. The placard features the headline – "We Can Change!" that sits next to a wind turbine flanked by electric cars plugged into electrical outlets of two homes.
The Cool Science project – led by Prof. David Lustick and Prof. Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier, both of the Graduate School of Education, and Prof. Robert Chen of UMass Boston – educates thousands of commuters about climate change in the neighborhoods where they live, work and shop. The project includes research to gauge what students throughout Massachusetts have learned about climate change and measures how the project's mass-transit media affects the public's understanding of the topic.
"Climate change is one of the greatest challenges to our generation," Lustick said. "Cool Science aims to engage teachers, parents and students in learning about this issue. Considered one of the oldest forms of communication, media like placards and billboards have proven their effectiveness in marketing products and services. Using children's artwork to communicate complex information is a powerful learning experience for both the artist and the audience."
The contest received nearly 600 entries from more than 25 schools from across the state.
"We are excited to bring these students to campus to honor them for their work and creativity in crafting messages about climate change," Lohmeier said. "The interest and artwork we received from the 600 students who entered the contest attest to the fact that climate change is an issue that both adults and kids can learn about and find ways to address."
View the winning artwork.
Winning entries were selected for their clarity of message, scientific accuracy, creativity and artistic appeal.
First-place winners included:
The LRTA and Anastas Advertising Associates donated more than $13,000 in advertising space.
Cool Science is funded by a $32,000 grant from UMass President Robert Caret's Creative Economy Initiatives Fund, which supports faculty projects in the arts, humanities and social sciences that benefit the state's economy and improve quality of life.


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Wow...last week was a record with 37 project links and they were amazing!! I didn't even know how to choose because the projects were all so fun and creative!
So....I let you pick! Here are the 3 most viewed projects from last week's Thrifty Thursdays .....
The $185 bracelet for $5.00 from Henry Happened....
Stephanie made an amazing knock-off from twine and hex nuts.....who would have thought!!
And speaking of knock-offs.....how about this DIY "Vintage" Dessert Stand from {K.I.S.S}??
Tatum is quickly becoming one of my favorite blogs to watch! She just recently posted an awesome tutorial on how to grow wheatgrass for that dessert stand!
Another reader favorite was the Under $15 Gallery Wall from A House to Fill....
Kelli transformed her Goodwill frames with some spraypaint, foam board and scrapbook paper!!
Now here are some of my favorites!
Jenny at An Apple for the Crafter re-made this hand-me-down mirror. Opting to go for a bold turquoise rather than 0il-rubbed bronze...
.....love the difference the turquoise makes...and it looks great with that quilt in the reflection!
And I love what Natalie at A Turtle's Life for Me did with this pedastal bowl......
I don't know what I like best....the bowl or the yarn eggs?? They are both so cute! She also has a tutorial for how to make your own pedastal bowl from Goodwill trash!
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I love Dungeons & Dragons. We all do. But here are four ways I think S&W actually improves on the original rules it emulates:
1. Ascending AC
I admit, I was sceptical at first. I took one look at D&D in the 3e era and bleurgh, I hated it. I grew up with B/X and AD&D 1e, and I never had a problem with descending AC. Nevertheless, after trying both, I have to say that I find AAC more intuitive and faster at the table. So much so that even when I'm running B/X now, I mentally "swap" every AC to its ascending equivalent on the fly.
2. The single saving throw category
Saving throw targets are (more or less) arbitrary numbers. How many of those do you really need? Five? Three? Why not just one? Easy to remember. No pausing the game because someone used the wand of polymorphing against the 9th-level evil cleric and wait a minute while I look that up. Also, the single saving throw is usable for all sorts of other things. Thieves' skills, for example.
3. No level titles
I know some people love them, but I never liked the level titles in any version of D&D. They just seemed muddled. For example, why is a Curate (5th-level cleric) higher than a Village Priest (3rd-level cleric)? In the Church of England, at least, a Curate is usually an assistant to a Priest. Moreover, a Priest may well be called a Vicar (4th-level Cleric). So those are just synonyms, not different "levels" of anything. As for Lama, whoa, Gygax, hold it right there! What religion is this supposed to be, exactly? OK, let's look at thieves instead. They get to be Burglars (4th level), Cutpurses (5th), then Sharpers (6th). What's that about? Those are just different dodgy vocations; there's no hierarchy involved. Anyway, rant over. I never saw the point of level titles, and I was happy when AD&D 2e ditched them. Some of the retro-clones out there use them; I'm glad S&W doesn't.
4. The name Swords & Wizardry
It's unimaginable now that the original fantasy roleplaying game could have been called anything other than Dungeons & Dragons, though of course it could. And "D&D" trips nicely off the tongue. However, not all sessions of D&D contain dungeons. (Some games are wilderness hexcrawls, or city-based adventures, or multiversal plane-hopping quests.) Certainly not every session involves dragons. But Swords (fighting! done by fighters!) & Wizardry (magic! used by magic-users!) are surely right there at the conceptual core of the game. Moreover, Swords & Wizardry sounds a bit like "sword-and-sorcery" (the subgenre of fantasy that largely inspired D&D) and a lot like Fritz Leiber's Swords Against Wizardry, with the significant difference that the swords aren't necessarily pitted against the wizardry; perhaps they are, but also perhaps they might team up and fight side-by-side. You know, like in a party of adventurers or something.
Thoughts? Arguments? Any other things about S&W that make you happy because - finally! - someone got the game "right"?


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Abercrombie & Fitch, one of the nation's trendiest retailers, settled race and sex discrimination lawsuits yesterday, agreeing to alter its well-known collegiate, all-American -- and largely white -- image by adding more blacks, Hispanics and Asians to its marketing materials.
After a federal judge in San Francisco approved the class-action settlement yesterday, the two sides announced an agreement that calls for Abercrombie & Fitch to pay $40 million to several thousand minority and female plaintiffs. Abercrombie also agreed to hire 25 diversity recruiters and a vice president for diversity and to pursue benchmarks so that its hiring and promotion of minorities and women reflect its applicant pool.
In an unusual step, the settlement calls for Abercrombie to increase diversity not just in hiring and promotions, but also in its advertisements and catalogs, which have long featured models who were overwhelmingly white and who seemed to have stepped off the football field or out of fraternities or sororities. Plaintiffs' lawyers said they insisted that the company agree to add more diversity to its marketing materials so as not to discourage minorities from applying for jobs.
In another unusual move, the settlement requires Abercrombie to stop focusing on predominantly white fraternities and sororities in its recruitment. Many Abercrombie workers have said that company employees were often told to go to college campuses and to urge good-looking fraternity and sorority members to apply for jobs.
When Abercrombie was sued in June 2003, several Hispanic, black and Asian plaintiffs complained that when they applied for jobs, they were steered not to sales positions out front, but to low-visibility, back-of-the-store jobs, stocking and cleaning up.
"Abercrombie had a back-of-the-bus mentality," said Kimberly West-Faulcon, Western regional counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. "Now instead of hiring them in the back of the store, they will have diversity recruiters. It sends a message to young people that we're moving past this kind of thing."
Bill Lann Lee, the plaintiffs' lead lawyer and former director of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said Abercrombie had refused to hire many minority students who had impressive work and school records. He added that the percentages of minority and women managers at Abercrombie were far below industry averages.
"We're talking about discrimination being visited on some of the best and the brightest within their community," Mr. Lee said.
He applauded the settlement, approved yesterday by Judge Susan Illston of Federal District Court. "The import of this settlement is that a major American company has stepped forward and become a model," Mr. Lee said.
Abercrombie, which did not admit guilt, agreed to hire a monitor, to provide diversity training to all managers who do hiring and to revise performance evaluations for managers, making progress in diversity goals a factor in bonuses and compensation. The settlement also called for $7.2 million in lawyers' fees.
In a statement, Mike Jeffries, Abercrombie's chairman, said: "We have, and always have had, no tolerance for discrimination. We decided to settle this suit because we felt that a long, drawn-out dispute would have been harmful to the company and distracting to management."
Several industry analysts said the settlement would help Abercrombie's marketing. The company has 700 stores and 22,000 employees and had $1.7 billion in sales last year.
"Their profile, their image is going to evolve," said Robin S. Murchison, a retail analyst with Jefferies & Company. "It will still be the cool kids. You can walk onto any Ivy League campus and there's a lot more going on than Waspy-looking guys and girls. I think they'll tap into that. I actually think it will work to their advantage."
In an interview yesterday, Carla Grubb, a 21-year-old black plaintiff who is a student at California State University at Bakersfield, said that after she applied for a sales job at an Abercrombie store, she was hired to dust, clean windows and vacuum.
"I was always doing cleaning -- they said I was a good window washer," said Ms. Grubb, who later landed a job elsewhere repairing computers. "I should have received the same treatment as everybody else. It made me feel bad. No one should be judged by the color of their skin."
Eduardo Gonzalez, the lead plaintiff and a senior chemistry major at Stanford University, said that when he applied to an Abercrombie store in Santa Clara, Calif., managers urged him to apply for the overnight stocking crew. Noting that his application was rejected, he said that when a store manager interviewed him and 13 other applicants at once, the manager overwhelmingly favored the two white applicants.
"I love this settlement," Mr. Gonzalez said. "It's a landmark thing for an American icon. They were portraying this image that all-American is all white. That's not the case."
Thomas Lennox, Abercrombie's director of communications, said that with the settlement, "we're bringing this issue to closure as well as implementing policies and practices that will ensure greater diversity throughout our organization."


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