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Syrian refugees in Lebanon face suspicion
BEIRUT (AP) — They're lightweight, easy to assemble and have covers that are supposed to keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The U.N. refugee agency wants to test these individual housing units with an eye toward using them as shelter for Syrians fleeing their country's civil war.
But the plan is meeting stiff resistance from Lebanese officials, who fear that elevating living conditions for Syrian refugees ever so slightly will discourage them from returning home once the fighting ends. That frustrates aid organizations who are desperately trying to manage the massive refugee presence across the country.
Lebanon's refusal to set up any kind of organized accommodation for tens of thousands of Syrians — including refugee camps or government-sanctioned tent sites — is a reflection of its own civil war demons. It underlines the nation's deep seated fear of a repeat of the 1975-1990 war, for which many Lebanese at least partly blame Palestinian refugees.
Many regard the Syrians with suspicion and are worried that the refugees, most of them Sunni Muslims, would stay in the country permanently, upsetting Lebanon's delicate sectarian balance and re-igniting the country's explosive mix of Christian and Muslim sects.
"It's the fear of everything permanent, or semi-permanent, because of the Palestinian experience in Lebanon," said Makram Maleeb, a program manager for a Syrian refugee crisis unit at Lebanon's Ministry for Social Affairs.
"Any move toward a camp situation is quite worrisome because it suggests a permanent situation for the refugees," he told The Associated Press.
Palestinians living in Arab countries — including the 450,000 in Lebanon — are descendants of the hundreds of thousands who fled or were driven from their homes in the war that followed Israel's creation in 1948. They remain in Lebanon's 12 refugee camps because Israel and the Palestinians have never reached a deal that would enable them to return to their homes that are now in Israel.
The civil war in Syria, now in its third year, has killed more than 100,000 people and uprooted millions from their homes. Many fled to Iraq, Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, a short drive away from the capital, Damascus.
On any given day in Lebanon, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of refugees arrive in cars loaded with children and belongings. Their presence has swelled the country's population of 4.5 million by a fifth. It's an astounding statistic for the tiny country and represents the highest number of refugees per capita of any country in the region.
Officials say an estimated 1.2 million Syrians are now in Lebanon — including some 620,000 registered refugees. Most arrived over the past eight months.
With the government providing none of the facilities and land that authorities in Turkey, Jordan and Iraq have allocated for the refugees, many Syrians in Lebanon live in appalling conditions, finding shelter in slums, tents and tin shacks strung with laundry lines and wedged between farm lands outside towns and cities.
On a casual walk in Beirut, one finds Syrians sheltering in underground parking lots, under bridges and old construction sites with no running water, sanitation, electricity or protection from Lebanon's sizzling summers and its freezing winters.
"The kids get sick all the time here," said Raghda, a 48-year-old mother of eight, living in an abandoned police station in the eastern Lebanese town of Majdal Anjar, along with 21 other relatives. They are crammed into three rooms without proper sanitation or clean water.
About 10 percent of the refugees are accommodated in unfinished private houses, and others live in garages, shops and collective shelters, according to the UNHCR. Most of them — over 80 percent — rent accommodation that costs more than $200 a month on average.
Lebanese officials say they are aware of the magnitude of the crisis, the health risks involved and the possibility that deepening resentment of refugees among the hosting population could turn into an armed conflict inside Lebanon as the civil war drags on in Syria.
Still, they insist the government will not approve any plans for setting up refugee camps or sanction erecting any kind of structure specifically designed to accommodate refugee families on Lebanese soil no matter who designs it and who pays for it.
"It's distressing and everyone is feeling anxious, wondering if they will ever go back as the fighting goes on and on and on," Maleeb said.
Still, he said it was unlikely the housing unit would be approved.
Ninette Kelley, UNHCR representative in Lebanon, said the refugees "desperately want to return home." But having people live in appalling conditions will not force them out of Lebanon before the fighting stops in Syria, she said.
″'There is this psychological worry that if people are put in a semi-permanent structure, they will never leave," Kelley told the AP. They will leave, she said, adding that one of the greatest impediments of going home after the fighting ends is not having a place to live in Syria.
The 17.5-square-meter (yard) refugee housing unit would offer a family of five a "more dignified life in exile," said Kamel Deriche, UNHCR's operations manager in Lebanon, and enables refugees to dismantle it, pack it and carry it home to reuse as a temporary accommodation until their family home is rebuilt.
Compared to a tent, which has to be replaced every three to four years, the unit's life span is expected to be up to seven years. And the price of about $1,000 per unit makes it more economical, Deriche said.
"It's not a permanent structure and we are not establishing camps by any stretch of the imagination," Kelley said, adding that the unit would be only one of several shelter options for the agency to use.
A prototype of the prefabricated house designed by the Swedish furniture manufacturer IKEA has been sitting in the front yard of UNHCR's Beirut headquarters for a month.
The agency has been lobbying Lebanese officials for permission to try out 15 units over a period of six months before they can be deployed, but so far to no avail. UNHCR also intends to test the units in climate conditions of northern Iraq and in Ethiopia, Deriche said.
Lebanese officials say the historic connotation of a tent for refugees, let alone a housing unit, weighs heavy on the nation that is still reeling from the devastating 15-year civil war. The Syrian fighting has frequently spilled over into Lebanon over the past two years, deepening tensions between pro- and anti-Syrian politicians, who have been unable to form a new government since the prime minister resigned in March.
"There will be no camps and family shelters, wooden or pre-fabricated, whatsoever in Lebanon," said Maleeb, the government official.
Anything to do with the Syrian refugees, he added, is "a big political decision, and one that cannot be taken by a caretaker government."
Associated Press correspondent Diaa Hadid contributed to this report.
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Notice of availability of preliminary budget pamphlets and hearing on Fiscal Year 2007 budget
Notice is hereby given that:
A. Preliminary budget pamphlets of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District concerning its preliminary annual budget for the fiscal year July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007 were made available beginning April 10, 2006, to persons requesting them at the Office of the District Secretary, 23rd Floor, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA.
B. On Thursday, May 25, 2006, at 9:00 a.m. in the BART Board Room, Kaiser Center 20th Street Mall, 344-20th Street, Third Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, pursuant to the direction of the Board of Directors, the District will convene a hearing for the purpose of receiving comments regarding the fixing of the annual budget. Any person may appear there and be heard regarding the increase, decrease, or omission of any item of said budget or the inclusion of additional items.
By order of the Board of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.
May 10, 2006
Kenneth A. Duron
District Secretary
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Download the Preliminary Annual Budget
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Tehran: An Iranian court has convicted two men on charges of spying for Britain and Israel and sentenced them to 10 and five years in prison, respectively.
State television today quoted prosecutor Yadollah Movahhed in southeastern Kerman province, where both were tried, as saying that the man sentenced to 10 years had "exchanged information with four British intelligence operatives."
Movahhed says the other man passed on intelligence to a security officer at the Israeli embassy in Thailand. He was arrested last August.
Both men are believed to be Iranians but Movahhed did not provide their names. It was not known if the suspects had defence lawyers or who they were.
Iran occasionally says it has dismantled Western spying networks in the country and announces arrests of individuals on espionage charges.


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My sister says it did not bother her - the lack of interest most had in attending a birthday party two days after Christmas. It bothered some of the family, however. With people traveling in the Christmas season, many kids were simply not available for a party two days after Christmas. Some merely did not want to attend such a party so close to Christmas and New Year's Eve.
A couple of years ago, we decided to surreptitiously cancel our family Christmas and replace it with a surprise party for my sister. It came off beautifully. We surprised her and finally gave her a decent celebration on her birthday, with many of the family in attendance.
My niece's husband was born on January 1st. He's saddled with New Year's Day as his birthday. It's the day after New Year's Eve, which is traditionally a day of celebration which goes late and often involves fairly serious partying. New Year's Day is a traditional day of football games. Once holiday celebrants wake up late from their New Year's Eve antics, it's time for football games and their socializing.
He is an identical twin, so at least while a child he had someone with whom to share his birthday, even if it was his own twin. January first is tough for the adult as a birthday, however, because children do not celebrate New Year's Eve or New Year's Day the way adults do. It is one of those days many adults already have their own variety of plans that do not include a birthday party for a friend or relative.
Steven, like my sister, takes it well, however. He's totally fine with little celebration on his birthday, or with having a celebration on some other day. Sometimes we celebrate on a day several days or a week removed from his birthday. He does not seem to mind at all.
Here's my list of days you do not want to be born on: Christmas, Christmas Eve, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, July 4th, and Halloween. These are all set days. They do not rotate the way some holidays do - such as Easter, Memorial Day, and Thanksgiving. If your birthday is on one of those days, not to worry, as it will not be next year or the year after that.
No one ever declined a birthday party invitation because the party was on February second - Groundhog Day - except perhaps Bill Murray, who starred in the hilarious film of the same name.
If you get invited to a birthday party near Christmas, or New Year's, or one of those other special days, try to remember there is a person who is celebrating their once-a-year birthday. Especially if that person is a child. Everyone deserves to have their special day once a year.
© 2014, Jim "Pappy" Moore, All Rights Reserved.


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Strabo Pathfinder continues to grow in complexity as more and more robots adapt Strabo. If you want to give your robot the ability to move about freely, you owe it to yourself to check Strabo out.
We are trying to find robot conferences to go to so we can show it off but we're not having a lot of success at it.
I've started another robot project. This one is a PC based full sized robot that will be fully functional with the ability to go indoors and out. The mobile platform is a tread based design using treads off a garden machine. Will be using the wheelchaire motors off the battlebot, vantec ESC, shafte encoders, Ultrasonic, IR and Video for collision detection and object recognition. It will also have a propane powered gas generator to keep the batteries charged. DGPS, Digital compass and Strabo for navigation. Since the PC already has seech recognition and Text to Speech, that will be integrated along with a redundant wireless connection to the Strabo server. All of this will be built into the base. I hope to be able to have this running by mid March and by then, I should have an idea about what to put on the base. I am thinking about several possiblilties, but it certainly will have arms and grippers to grab things.


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Stay at the St. Regis, Meet a Princess
To attract return business and extend stays, luxury hotels and resorts are increasingly offering exclusive "experiences" for guests. WSJ's Andrea Petersen joins Lunch Break with a look at which experiences are attracting guests and which have been bombs. Photo: Starwood Hotels & Resorts.
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The prices of new pianos are nearly always negotiable. Only a handful of dealers have non-negotiable prices. If in doubt, just ask—you'll be able to tell. Some dealers carry this bargaining to extremes, whereas others start pretty close to the final price. Many dealers don't like to display a piano's price because not doing so gives them more latitude in deciding on a starting price for negotiation, depending on how they size up the customer. This makes shopping more difficult. Use the price information in the "Model & Pricing Guide" [in Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer] to determine the likely range within which a given model will sell. Don't give in too quickly. It's quite common for the salesperson to call a day or two later and offer a lower price. If there's an alternative piano at another dealership that will suit your needs just as well, it will help your negotiating position to let the salesperson know that.
Due to the high cost of advertising and conducting piano mega-sales (such as college sales, truckload sales, etc.), prices at these events are often actually higher than the price you could negotiate any day of the week, and the pressure to buy can be enormous. Shop at these sales only after you've shopped elsewhere, and look for the real bargains that occasionally exist.
If you're buying a new piano to replace one that's no longer satisfactory, you'll probably want to trade in the old one. Dealers will usually take a trade-in, no matter how bad it is, just to be able to facilitate the sale. In fact, in many cases the dealer will offer you what seems like a king's ransom for the old one. The downside is that when a generous trade-in allowance is given on the old piano, the dealer is then likely to offer you a less-generous price on the new one. To see if you're being offered a good deal, you'll have to carefully analyze the fair-market value of the old piano and what would be a likely price for the new one without a trade-in. Sometimes it will be to your advantage to sell the old piano privately, though in that case you'll need to take into account the hassle factor as well.
For more information about new-piano prices and negotiating, see the introduction to the "Model & Pricing Guide," [in Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer], as well as in The Piano Book.
Used-piano prices may or may not be negotiable. If the used piano is being sold by a dealer who primarily sells new pianos at negotiable prices, then the used-piano prices are probably also negotiable. Prices of restored pianos sold by the restorer are less likely to be negotiable, as technical people are usually less comfortable with bargaining. Prices of pianos for sale by private-party sellers are usually negotiable, in part because the seller often has little idea of what the piano should sell for and has just made up a price on the basis of wishful thinking. But even knowledgeable sellers will usually leave a little wiggle room in their price.
Prior to the Great Depression, most pianos were outfitted with player-piano mechanisms—the kind that ran on pneumatic pressure and paper rolls. Today's player pianos are all electronic; they run on CDs, iPods, floppy diskettes, or electronic downloads from the Internet, and are far more versatile and sophisticated than their pneumatic ancestors. Now you don't have to wait until Junior grows up to hear something interesting from the piano! A substantial percentage of new pianos, especially grands, are being outfitted with these systems. In fact, many pianos are being purchased as home-entertainment centers by buyers who have no intention of ever playing the piano themselves.
Several companies make these systems. Yamaha's Disklavier system is built into select Yamaha models at the Yamaha factory. PianoDisc and QRS Pianomation, the two major after-market systems, can be installed in any piano, new or used, typically by the dealer or at an intermediate distribution point. If installed properly by a trained and authorized installer, none of these systems will harm the piano or void its warranty. However, such installations are complicated and messy and must be done in a shop, not in your home.
The most basic system will play your piano and accompany it with synthesized orchestration or actual recorded accompaniment over speakers attached to the piano. These systems generally add about $4,000 to $7,000 to the price of the piano. Add another $1,500 to $2,000 to enable the piano to record your own playing for future playback. For a little bit more, you can mute the piano (stop the hammers from hitting the strings), turn on a digital piano sound, and listen through headphones. The range of prices reflects the variety of configurations and options available, including what music source you use (CD, iPod, MP3 player, etc.), and how much memory storage you purchase, among others. There are also higher-level systems at twice the price that provide touch screens with wireless connection for instant downloading of songs from the Internet. See the article "Buying an Electronic Player-Piano System" [in Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer] for more information.
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"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
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Why Prop 8 Won: TV Commercials Based on Reason, not Fear
To understand why Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that banned gay marriage, won in California, watch the campaign's TV commercials at the What Is Prop 8? website. Not only were they well-made, featuring a multi-ethnic cross-section of very normal, quasi-hip, young to middle-age Californians, the commercials were models of serious, rational… READ MORE >
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After Obama: Why Catholics should open a 'second front' in the Democratic Party
I have a commentary in this week's National Catholic Register entitled "What Now? Will New Voters Refashion the Democratic Party?" I argue that the election had a silver lining for Catholics: the same voters who turned out in large numbers for Obama—blacks and other minorities—voted strongly for California's Proposition… READ MORE >
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Sarah Palin Meets Woody Allen, Across the Great Divide
If you're feeling down about the ever-widening gap between blue-state and red-state America (and the even wider gap between blue and red Catholics), you can find hope in Sarah Palin. Ironically, the woman who's been blamed for single-handedly re-igniting the culture wars is showing signs that she can appeal across the cultural divide.… READ MORE >
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Sarah Palin blasts Obama's radical abortion policies
If you want to extract information from suspected terrorists, force them to listen to an endless loop of Sarah Palin speeches. I guarantee it would work. (Fortunately, John McCain is against torture.) Yet despite her grating voice and her muddled syntax, Palin managed on Saturday to pull off an effective pro-life speech that artfully strung… READ MORE >
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Alan Greenspan, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian God that Failed
In today's NY Times, Peter Goodman's excellent profile of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan confirms what I've been writing, that it was a specific "structure of sin"—financial speculation—rather than mere human greed (or bad home loans) that created the credit crisis. I'd always wondered how a rigid anti-government… READ MORE >
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A new Gallup study, "What Americans Really Believe," suggests that if anti-religious crusaders Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins want a more rational, less superstitious world, they should encourage people to go to church. A recent Wall Street Journal article reported that, according to the study… "…traditional Christian… READ MORE >
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How to avoid the next war
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Adam and Eve make a stand in California
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Amniotic fluid index is a way of measuring the amount of
liquid that is around a baby (fetus) in the uterus during pregnancy. It is
usually done as part of the biophysical profile (BPP), which is a series of
tests that measure the health of the baby during pregnancy.
Amniotic fluid protects the fetus from
temperature extremes and from being bumped or hurt as the mother moves around.
It also allows the fetus to move around in the uterus and is important for lung
and limb development. A problem with the amount of amniotic fluid could point
to a problem with the growing fetus. Too much or too little fluid could also
cause problems during labor and delivery.
Doctors use ultrasound to calculate the amniotic fluid index. The doctor
looks at the amount of amniotic fluid in four different areas of the uterus.
The four areas are called quadrants. The doctor measures how much fluid is in
each quadrant. Then he or she adds up the numbers to get an idea of the total
amount of fluid that surrounds the baby.
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It's time to tip off.
It's time to tip off.
While some area basketball programs got their postseason underway Friday with outbracket games, tonight marks the first full round of girls playoff basketball playoffs in the Sac-Joaquin Section.
Some of the more intriguing tournament storylines include St. Mary's, McNair and Brookside Christian.
The Rams (25-2), who host No. 16 Bear Creek (18-9) at 7 p.m., generally use the section tournament as a tuneup for the state championships. The Rams are seeking their sixth consecutive section banner, their 13th in 15 years and their 14th overall. A title would be their first in Division I.
Guard Onome Jemerigbe likely will miss the section tournament after rolling her ankle in last week's regular-season finale against Sacramento-St. Francis. Coach Tom Gonsalves, who said the senior was shooting free throws at Monday's practice, may return in a couple of weeks.
"I would not say definitely (out for the year)," Gonsalves said. "I think it's going to be close. She has a chance to come back if we can get through sections."
Gonsalves said the Rams need to get back on track. They lost on the road to Bishop O'Dowd, 80-59, on Feb. 9. There's a good chance the teams will meet again in the NorCal open division championships with a trip to the state finals on the line.
"Honestly, we're not playing extremely well right now," Gonsalves said. "We haven't had real good practices lately and I'm not quite sure how to fix it. I think Bishop O'Dowd took a lot out of us. I think we just need a couple of games to get our confidence back."
The Eagles (24-3) have the No. 2 seed in Division II. They open at home at 7 p.m. today against No. 15 Kimball (17-10).
Unlike last season, however, bringing home the program's first section championship is realistic. With St. Mary's moving up to Division I, there isn't the gap this year between the Eagles and top-seeded Sacramento (23-4).
Brookside Christian (23-4), the defending Division V section and state champion, earned a first-round bye as the No. 1 seed. The Knights will open section tournament play at 7 p.m. Thursday at home against the winner of tonight's game between No. 9 Forest Lake Christian and No. 8 Central Catholic.
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I just need a moan I think! I'm feeling very sorry for myself today.
Firstly, I was off sick last week with gastroenteritis, I went to the doctor on Monday and he signed me off for the week so I couldnt go in even if I wanted to. I've come in this morning and been told that I'm out of sick pay (as I've already had tonsillitus twice this year and missed 8 days of work from that) and I had nearly 500 emails to deal with. This makes me want to cry a little bit on its own, I'm really skint at the moment and desperatly trying to pay off my credit card and two hen dos and a wedding coming up in the next month, everything is so expensive and I couldnt afford it before I lost a weeks pay :'(
Secondly, I crashed my car on Friday. I dont think it was my fault and my passenger said it definitely wasnt, but in all honesty, I cant remember what happened properly, the whole thing is such a blur in my head that I couldnt say for certain that I couldnt have done something differently. The police came and they said they thought it was her fault and she was likely to get done for dangerous driving, but it means I've spent my whole bank holiday weekend sitting around making phonecalls to the insurance company/solicitors etc and not being able to do anything. I've had a call from the insurance company today saying the woman in the other car is saying it was my fault. The guy at my insurance company said that because there are no impartial witnessess, the claim is likely to get split 50/50, which means I lose my no claims bonus (and it's my first year of driving - when my friend lost his no claims in his first year, his premium tripled). I'm really worried and my car is written off which means I have to get a new one, but I got mine so cheaply that Im worried I wont be able to find something to replace it in time.
I just feel like crying, I've had this banging headache all weekend because Im stressed out and I just want to curl up in a ball and let someone else deal with it.


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create a moving alphabet (eg. eyebrow raise = alpha, toungle sticking out = beta, forward lunge = gamma, streetfighter II uppercut = delta, etc) and then memorise the volumes by performing each character of your alphabet as you read, as a graceful dance
Qimmik wrote:But in all candor, you have to concede that no one has managed to make a living off of wildly unfounded speculation as successfully as Homerists, with the possible exception of astrologers. At least astrologers have a kind of system to their craft.
Paul Derouda wrote:Ok, maybe in the last hundred years we've started to have some results
pster wrote:Paul Derouda wrote:Ok, maybe in the last hundred years we've started to have some results
What results exactly? According to the American Medical Association, medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death. In antiquity, it certainly ranked lower. So it is trending upwards and will probably one day become the number one leading cause of death.
pster wrote:I'll look for more.
Here's one: http://www.injurylawfirmworcesterma.com ... eath.shtml
I had read previously that it was number four.
pster wrote:I myself have been a victim of medical malpractice on two occasions and seriously considered litigation.
And when I was in college, a top college, the pre-meds were widely regarded as being some of the weakest students. And they were far and away the least interesting and the least curious students of all...(Sorry Paul to hijack your thread. Attic is too hard...)
daivid wrote:pster wrote:
injury lawyers have a vested interest in exaggerating the risk. I suspect if we were able to see the original article things would look a little different
daivid wrote:injury lawyers have a vested interest in exaggerating the risk...
Markos wrote:daivid wrote:injury lawyers have a vested interest in exaggerating the risk...
And why should lawyers be spared in these hijacked away from the Greek thread?
ἐκ τοῦ νομικοῦ, οὐ νόμος, ἀλλὰ νομαί!
Scribo wrote:Qimmik, ha I get where you're coming from, I don't think it quite near that bad but I suspect the problem is that whenever one finds a good book in the area its flanked with several bad ones.
Qimmik wrote:"whenever I get sick I respond by sacrificing poultry and going to sleep. 60% of the time it works 100%"
I highly recommend enkoimesis.
do we know how he was appealed to by thieves in Antiquity? Just asking, not that I wanted to steal anything...
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Quick Background:The discussion over at TAGN site seems to be focused primarily on what action CCP will need to take to make things right with the player.
CCP recently changed the rules regarding PLEX (a system for trading EVE game-time for game currency between players) so that it can be looted or even destroyed by EVE pirates. Previously, you could not move PLEX and it could only be traded safely in the hanger. And now, according to Massively, some player lost 74 PLEX cards (1 PLEX = 1 month game time) worth around $1300 real-life dollars. Destroyed. Not looted.
The part that is getting lost here is that with the old PLEX system, CCP had nothing to gain except future sales. For example, trading PLEX for ISK didn't add net new money into the pocket of CCP -- it simply allowed one person to effectively pay for someone else's game time.
But if PLEX can be DESTROYED...
It's a much different story.
From CCP's perspective, it's a paid subscription they no longer need to honor that has been destroyed. Unlike the virtual Ore that gets mined, someone paid real money for that PLEX card. A game card that will never be redeemed if it is destroyed.
And what happens to the real life dollars? Those aren't destroyed. They stay in CCP's bank account.
Is money the real Reason for the policy change on PLEX?
The major benefit to CCP of the old PLEX system is that it encouraged players to purchase game time they might not need in order to trade it for the in-game currency (ISK).
From a cash flow perspective, this is a great thing for CCP because they are are getting money upfront today for a future promise of service. They are still beholden to honoring that promise, but they get the money sooner rather than later.
But one thing always rubbed me wrong, what happens when there are more unused PLEX cards being openly traded than their are players who could reasonably use them?
In other words, if you have 1000 months of game cards and only 800 months needed by players, then a couple of horrible things happen from CCP's perspective:
- Cash Flow Stops or Slows - your players don't need to pay you because they have already paid.
- The in-game price of PLEX suffers dramatic deflation and your primary product (subscriptions) is de-valued.
I would even hazard to guess that CCP started to see cash flows slow down as less and less players find themselves needing to purchase PLEX because it already exists in-game.
But, you ask, why is cash flow important? After all, doesn't CCP already have the money from the game cards they sold?
Well, the problem is that in all likelihood, CCP management didn't just set that money in the bank. It's going to be invested -- likely back into the company to pay for development costs on a future project for future returns. If those returns aren't realized right away, they need continued cash flows to keep coming in order to keep the lights on.
Destroying PLEX for Profit
What's the best solution to having a surplus of something? Why blowing it up, of course!
The moment that PLEX is destroyed and rendered unusable as game-time, the promise of future services is gone and it becomes pure profit for CCP.
But more importantly, you no longer have as large a surplus of game time and it reverses the two trends I addressed earlier. Less PLEX means PLEX is more valuable. Less PLEX means more players will need to purchase additional game time.
It's for this very reason that I believe the change by CCP was deliberate, intentional and entirely motivated by self-interest.
The irony is that EVE has a player culture that revels in such losses. They don't want it to happen to them, but the fact it CAN happen is oddly appealing.
Contrast that change with Blizzard. Can you imagine the reaction from WoW players if you could get ganked and lose your game card in WoW?
Legal challenge?
From a legal standpoint, it's an intriguing situation. Does CCP have the right to void those promises of future services?
If I'm CCP, I would argue that what I am providing for the fee is not game time until it has been converted. Instead, I'm selling a virtual currency similar to ISK. What the player chooses to do with that virtual currency is up to them. Based on their actions, it can be traded, stolen or even destroyed.
Assuming the player losing the PLEX is not the same person who bought the PLEX, they have to agree with this interpretation. After all, if they don't agree that it's simply virtual currency, how did they trade for it?
It's a much murkier prospect if the person losing the PLEX is the same person who bought it. But even here, however, I think CCP is protected because there are other alternatives to adding game time. It could be argued that the only reason a player would buy PLEX over other methods is to at least have the option of trading it.
On the legal issue, I particularly like Old Tom's comments at No Prisoners No Mercy:
Leaving out all extraneous analogies, the transaction between CCP and said customer is for a game-time code. That item has 2 possible functions – 1) Can be used to add game time to a particular account, or 2) can be transferred into an in-game item which then can be bought, sold, lost etc.This is right in-line with my thinking that PLEX is first and foremost an in-game item subject to the rules for in-game items. That it can be redeemed for game time is secondary because the purchaser chose to turn the game time into an in-game item subject to those terms in the EULA.
The transaction worked as promised. The issue is not the PLEX .. it is the game-time code. Seeing that the game time code was effectively transferred into PLEX, CCP's implied warranty was fulfilled.


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Highland Community College Announces Holiday Vocal Concert Date, December 6 & 8
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Ceremony will include all HCC graduates from the Highland campus, Regional Sites, & Online. Click here for information about Technical Center graduation.
Students planning to graduate from any Highland Community College Location in the Spring 2019 must meet with the HCC Registrar to complete a degree check and complete an Application for Degree by the first week of their last semester of attendance. Students missing this deadline may apply for graduation until March 15 of the year they plan to graduate and will be provided the opportunity to participate in the ceremony if they will have graduated or be within 6 hours of receiving their degree at the time of graduation.
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Dynamic Languages Day @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel, February 13, 2006. Video available of Pascal Costanza presenting on CLOS, Generic Functions, and the Meta-Object Protocol.
Document location: http://prog.vub.ac.be/events/2005/BADL/DLD/dld.html
Generic Functions and the CLOS Metaobject Protocol (Pascal Costanza)
The Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) is unique in two ways.
This presentation introduces these two notions. The code for an interpreter for generic functions that performs selection and execution of methods will be developed live during the presentation. This will be followed by a discussion how that code can be extended to introduce, for example, multimethods and AOP-style advices, and a sketch how generic functions are implemented efficiently in the "real" world. In the second part, the extensibility of the CLOS MOP will be illustrated by implementing - live - the (hashtable-based) Python object model as a metaclass. Other practical extensions based on the CLOS MOP are also sketched, like object-relational mappings, interfaces to foreign-language objects, and domain-specific annotations in classes.
Biography: Pascal Costanza has a Ph.D. degree from the University of Bonn, Germany. His past involvements include specification and implementation of the languages Gilgul and Lava, and the design and application of the JMangler framework for load-time transformation of Java class files. He has also implemented ContextL, the first programming language extension for Context-oriented Programming based on CLOS, and aspect-oriented extensions for CLOS, which all heavily rely on the CLOS MOP. He is furthermore the initiator and lead of Closer, an open source project that provides a compatibility layer for the CLOS MOP across multiple Common Lisp implementations.
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The couple, who has been dating for five years, has split because of the 45-year-old's hectic work schedule, reports contactmusic.com.
A spokesperson told The Sun on Sunday newspaper that the break-up is "amicable".
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I'm not sure if it's just me, but as interesting as the whole Titanic thing is, are we losing some kind of perspective? There are a couple of issues about the Titanic where the romanticism and popular culture has overshadowed some important parts of history. Sure, the Titanic was a marvellous ship, and its cultural impact, and its effect on safety at sea, stands for itself. But how many people know about other ships that were sunk just four years later, with a much higher loss of life and a less than 2% chance of survival?While it is popularly thought that the Titanic set sail from Southampton, it subsequently called at Cherbourg and then Queenstown in Ireland. Admittedly, Southampton was home to many of the crew, and it was the point at which the majority of the wealthy passengers boarded. But what about those who boarded in France and Ireland – in particular the many poorer steerage emigrant passengers from Queenstown? And what about the thousands of men who spent years slaving over the construction of the ship at Harland and Wolff in Belfast? Might they not have a strong claim to cultural 'ownership' of the Titanic? I suspect that many of us have been seduced by the glitz and glamour of the wealthy, influential Kate Winslet-esque passengers who joined the ship at Southampton, rather than Northern Ireland's shipyard workers who spent years grafting over her.
When the Titanic foundered, she was carrying 2,224 passengers and crew. 710 of these survived (32%), whilst 1514 perished (68%). Perhaps, in retrospect, the sinking of the Titanic did prove to be the beginning of the end of the carefree Edwardian period, and in a rather more sober manner, it did lead to more serious legislation regarding safety at sea. But we only need to look at more catastrophic loss of life only a few years later to try and put things into context.
In November 1914 two Portsmouth battleships were sunk. HMS Bulwark work lost at anchor off Sheerness in the Thames due to an accidental explosion. Of her 750 crewmembers, 738 were lost. Only 12 survived – a survival rate of just 1.6%. And this for a ship anchored close to shore, in British waters, in the estuary leading to London. Also in November HMS Good Hope was sunk off South America in the Coronel. All of her 900 crew were lost. Yet who knows about HMS Bulwark and HMS Good Hope?
On 31 May the British Grand Fleet joined battle with the German High Seas Fleet in the North Sea of Jutland. Jutland saw perhaps the greatest loss of life in a single action that the Royal Navy had ever witnessed. The Battlecruiser HMS Invincible was sunk, and of her 1032 crewmen, only 6 survived, while the other 1026 men lost. A crewman on HMS Invincible at Jutland had a chance of survival of 0.58%. Another Portsmouth Battlecruiser, HMS Queen Mary, was also sunk. Of her 1284 crew, an incredible 1266 men lost, with only 18 – 1.4% – survived. The other large ship from Portsmouth sunk at Jutland – the armoured cruiser HMS Black Prince lost all of her 857 crew, with no survivors. That's 3,149 men on three ships – and that's just the Portsmouth based ships.
Why is it that one liner, sunk in peacetime by misadventure, completely overshadows the even more catastrophic and perilous loss of life just over four years later? Why, and how have forgotten about these thousands of sailors, their ships and the battles in which they were lost? Surely righting a wrong of history has to be a motivation for all of us heading into the 2014-18 Centenary period.
Related articles
- Titanic Memorial Cruise Sets Sail (newsy.com)
- Preserving Titanic History (backstory.blogs.cnn.com)
- Titanic Again (retrorambling.wordpress.com)
- Random Thoughts on Titanic (bettysbrownies.wordpress.com)


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USB to Parallel Port Printing
Yes, the nightmare that thought would never again arise has indeed returned (at least for me).
My client has an old HP OfficeJet R80 all-in-one printer that she bought back in the 1990's, and having spent $800 on it, she really doesn't want to give it up. Her old Windows XP computer died, so she bought a Core i5 Windows 7 x64 Home Premium laptop under the assumption (and promise of the salesman) that the new system would play nice with her R80. Of course, those old printers only have Parallel ports, so we used a USB to Parallel cable to connect the laptop to the R80. In the Devices and Printers sections, Windows 7 recognizes the cable as an IEEE 1284 controller (as a printer), but when it searches for the R80 driver, it fails to install. Now, the printer driver should be included in the OS (which I found while trying to manually add the R80 as a new printer). I've tried adding the printer using the LPT 1 (printer), USB001 (virtual printer), and r80 (local) ports. It still won't even print a test page. My next idea is to try connecting the cables to my computer to see if it will take, in which case, I'll load a spare Windows 7 hard drive into her computer and see if that also works.
Is there something I'm missing? The only other thing I can think to try is editing the registry, but that seems like a sketchy idea. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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|2012-01-15, 14:37
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the problem is you bought Laptop, another option it was buy PCI card paralel. but in laptop is very difficulty to resolve the problem, because is problem to hardware, not by software.
is a compatibility problem, so will Windows Vista
|2012-01-15, 16:28
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This seems to work according to the majority of the reviews. I'm not guaranteeing anything though.
If PCI/e has a higher chance of working as Transition said. An ExpressCard (PCIe) to Parallel might be a better solution if your client's laptop has an ExpressCard slot.
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|2012-01-15, 19:36
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yeah, its well beyond the "capital amortization and depreciation" point in tax advantages. I'd recommend *donating* it for tax purposes. and buying a new one.
That's assuming she uses it for business. Windows 7 broke quite a few connections with "obsolete hardware".
You might also look to see if there's a dedicated *network* printer server (wireless or wired) that has a parallel port and simply have the laptop print to it over the network. Those have gotten pretty cheap in the last couple of years (<$50) (there are also a few routers that have printer ports).
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If the laptop has a PC Card (PCMCIA) slot, there's a slew of parallel port cards available, but since most recent laptops no longer have PC Card slots, I'm also looking into some other ideas (such as this one here).
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Another possibility, along the lines that Vexx suggested, would be to connect it to an xp machine, connect the printer to it, and then share that over the network via wireless or ethernet? This assumes win 7 x64 has drivers for the printer you could install locally on the laptop, of course. If it does, then you can install that printer as a network printer.
In theory, of course.
Best of luck!
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A consummate statesman who led France through many of the greatest threats and challenges of the 21st century, François Hollande brings insights gained from a lifetime spent at the highest levels of public service to the most pressing issues of our time. From terrorism to climate change, to the global economy and beyond, he has faced them all with a measured calm cultivated by years of experience.
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I didn�t pay any federal income tax in 2011.
You can probably figure it out, but just in case, I will explain myself. I had federal taxes withheld from my work check throughout the year. When I did my taxes for 2011, I got all that money back.
My wife stayed home with our children in 2011. So we didn�t make a ton of money, but we did take a ton of federal tax deductions � child credits, charitable donations, mortgage interest and property taxes and a ton of medical expenses. And I do mean a ton.
So we didn�t give anything to the feds in 2011. And considering how much money the federal government wastes, I�m OK with that. It�s the first year I didn�t give them anything.
And that makes my family one of the rhetorical tax dodgers talked about in this year�s presidential campaign. Mitt Romney talked about a statistic, already passed around in the politisphere for a while now, that 47 percent of Americans pay no federal income tax.
It�s a stunning statistic. It kind of made me mad at first. Then I became one of those people. And Romney, in a speech at a private fundraiser in May that set off a bomb on the campaign trail this week, said that I�m a no-good layabout.
I hate these political percentage memes. Our politics are already way too divisive, and this just feeds into that. So I�m not going to lay claim to being a 47 percenter.
But I do want to point out what Romney�s remarks say about taxes, and tax reform.
I think it�s an issue that 47 percent of the population doesn�t pay federal income tax. With a debt hole like the one we are in, that percentage has to be lower. But it�s wrong for Romney to characterize all those people as being dependent on government.
Romney, by all accounts, got rich in large part by taking advantage of the federal tax code, both on personal and corporate taxes. As far as I know from reading all the stories about him during the campaign, he didn�t break the law when he did it.
I did the same thing in the 2011 tax year. Obviously on a smaller scale.
So when it sounds like Romney is pointing a finger at half the American people, what he�s really doing is pointing a finger at Washington. He�s pointing a finger at the tax code.
I think reforming the tax code should be a big priority in Washington. It�s a bizarre mess chock full of loopholes won with connections and campaign donations.
Some of the sacred personal income tax deductions might be on the chopping block. The mortgage interest deduction is the one I see written about the most.
Obama and Romney have both made noises about simplifying the tax code. Who knows if either one is serious.
But it seems to me that we could close the loopholes and bring in the same amount of tax revenue, if not more, and do it more equitably.
One way or another, federal taxes are going up in the coming years. How much we are willing to cut the size and scope of government, of course, will affect how much they go up. That remains to be seen.
Also still to be seen is how those taxes will be raised. We can reform the tax code or we can continue to have nearly half of the population not paying anything.
I trust that next year, I will be back among the 53 percent.
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UNIVERSITY of Illinois (UI) researchers have teamed with Monsanto to identify genes in corn that can be used to increase the oil concentration through traditional plant breeding or genetic engineering. A recent UI study identified 50 distinct genes that control the oil content of corn, meaning that changing the oil content would be difficult to accomplish by changing any one gene.
The hybrid corn considered to be high in oil content currently being grown and sold has only about 5 to 6% oil. Experimental corn lines with higher oil content tend to have other, undesirable characteristics such as low yield, weak stalks or a tendency to rot.
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Who owns the land? Only the land knows. We mortals are passersby, and our lives are but a brief moment in the great span of time and space. We are born, we live out our lives, and most of us do the best we can with it, but the wind is forever, and the rivers flow forever to the sea, and all the seasons of the weathers will come and go after we are gone. But the Earth endures, the Earth is eternal" - Earl Hamner
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skinny flower trousers
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by lcsimpson
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These trousers were meant to be for summer and was going to make them a bit looser but I didn't quite like how they looked. The first time I finished them they seemed to fit OK but when I wore them, the fabric gave quite a bit (it was meant to be stretch but it only seemed to stretch out and not back in again) and I had to keep pulling them up. I had to take off the waistband and take them in (probably a good thing because I didn't quite have enough fabric for the waist band and had to patch in another bit and really messed up the button hole) but was too lazy to re-do the pocket size so the pocket opening only just fits my hand in. This detracts a little from the overall look but isn't too bad.
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cotton elastane
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Mar 26, 2013, 07.03 PMby shazba
Love this & intend to make some floral pants … well done!
Jan 15, 2013, 01.47 PMby alessandra69
molto belli, hai dovuto modificare il modello? mi piacciono anche le scarpe!
Jan 14, 2013, 05.10 PMby madebymeg
god i love these! really great fabric and cut!
Jan 14, 2013, 06.55 AMby timesha christiaN
Nice fabric, Very nice.
Jan 12, 2013, 08.34 PMby smallone
you may have to had wrestled with this a bit but your fabric is totally on trend and these look fabulous!!
Jan 12, 2013, 05.03 PMby prettysewinggirl
love it :) You've inspired me now to try this pattern too!!! I actually only have one trusty pants pattern – and keen to try some others… putting yours to my favourite folder :) hope you will wear it often – pretty indeed!!
Jan 12, 2013, 04.30 PMby zsyzu
I love the fabric you used and I'm going to write this pattern down on my to do list. You did such a nice job with this.
Jan 12, 2013, 03.16 PMby tessi
These are very fashion-forward, IMHO! LOVE the fabric and I think you did a good job with the adjustments needed to get the fit you wanted.
Jan 12, 2013, 03.35 AMby Kerie
I like these, and I love the fabric! :)
Jan 12, 2013, 12.26 AMby candyjoyce
Fab fabric choice. It sounds like these were a bit of a struggle but the finished look is pretty cool!
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I think it will turn out fine, the studio thus far has tried to present them the way they were intended. Considering that it's pretty much the CMOA of the arc (perhaps even the entire series) it's pretty hard to screw up.
*knocks on wood so hard knuckles start bleeding*
|2009-12-26, 10:08
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ONE GODDAMN PERVERT!!!! OMFG!!! BUT there is a HUGE possibility of:
-he may have something to do with that the angeloids
-his being OMFG perverseness MIGHT be just a limiter or something barring him
-tho he is like that... he has redeeming qualities....
|2009-12-31, 03:08
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no no its a very good thing that girl joined.....
Spoiler for spoiler related...:
I wonder when the raw will pop out ^^ since it seems interesting...
btw. is the apperance of "her" the end of chapter... or is there some more pages ?
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|2010-01-03, 08:43
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but I wonder when translation will come out from this chapter... I can somehow read the hiragana and katakana so I somehow can understand what they say... but still its nice to see english text ^^
|2010-01-03, 09:25
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so maybe here she would somehow die (maybe duo Chaos return... or council send someone to punish her for betrayal [like getting closer to a downer])... everyone thinks she is dead... but in reality she just woke up on synapse [and maybe deidalos would save her and so both girls would wait together ^^]
but for now lets not think she will die ^^ she might bring interesting things into the story plot... in both romantical and what's going on things ^^
I wodner if that girl (Hiori) is even aware of her beign an angel on synapse.... I wouldnt be supprised if the sleeping angels have no idea about it.... jsut like in matrix... they sleep in real world (synapse) while living in an illusion world life (earth)
like a method to keep the citizen of synapse under control...since the methods of the council could be evil and most of them couldnt agree with that.... so to avoid the risk of rebellion... the synapse council put all citizens to sleep world.... and replaced everyone with angeloids who are obbeying all his commands and wont rebell againt them (sicne angeloids fate is to serve its master)
since isnt it strange that there are no citizen in synapse... and the council is made from few evil guys and maybe 1living angel chick while rest is angeloids..... and all citizen are in sleeping pods (which makes them live lifes on earth)
what I tihnk is that... the evil council took over the synapse... put everyone to sleep pods... changed the pillar rules (even sohara a downer noticed that the words looked like beign writen by hate, anger, rage... all negative feelings) for their own good.... create angeloids to take all chores of normal citizen (and implant all the angry rules in them so they would competly obey them).... but still there is the question why Deidalos betrayed council and stopped to make angeloids and is currently hideing and waiting for help from tomoki...
It would be interesting if Tomoki was in reality an angel from synapse too ^^ one that fell to earth and started to live there ^^ while forgetting all memories of him beign related to angels :P (heh and where are tomokis parents... heh it would be funny if his parents (mother or father) was from synapse... than fall in love with a human man/female.... and so tomo was born (like a sign of possibility of haveing angels and humans coexists and love each other)
|2010-01-03, 14:18
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I really doubt Tomoki is an angel because wouldn't Synpase know he was one then? They have called him a downer and he was special because his dream connected to synapse even though he was a downer. I can believe Tomoki can be some kind of special being but I can't believe synapse wouldn't be able to tell if he was one of their own.
|2010-01-03, 15:15
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since his dream resembles the system on synapse.... like Angels on synapse are sleeping and duo that they appear at the earth surface... and when tomoki is sleeping on earth surface he appears thought his dream on synapse
(angels: synapse -> earth; tomoki: earth -> synapse [so mostly if he was sleeping at synapse he would appear at earth xD] )
I hope there will be an explanation how deidalos met Tomoki... and how Hiori got to know tomoki so much that she fell in love with him (was she soemhow observing him all the time duo some synapse system... or she only saw him in some places [but was that enought for her to fall in love with this mega pervert XD]
sadly we have to wait for next month to see some new development >__>
|2010-01-03, 22:58
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Hmm... So Nymph never actually completed the imprinting as I expected.
I guess the author intends to make her actual imprinting a far more dramatic event rather than having it come at the end of a very climatic chapter 31. Oh well, can't wait for that to happen!
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not sure how much dramatic he needed to make it. I thought it was the perfect moment for those 2. he had just stuck up for her in one of the most badass scenes, so it would have been really pimp to have them imprint and just as they do have her wings grow back. Maybe they will prove me wrong, but thats my opinion.
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Google hinted we would see some new Google TV devices at CES 2013, and today ASUS revealed the Qube. Device specs are limited, but ASUS is touting that the Qube will feature a remote with motion controls — a first for Google TV.
Rumors suggested that ASUS and Google might be working on a Nexus-like Google TV box, but the Qube is said to run a custom "Qube interface." Their unique interface displays functions via a rotating cube shape that can be controlled with the advanced remote or an Android app from ASUS called Mobile Remote. ASUS also announced they would include 50 GB of cloud storage space with every Qube with Google TV, similar to offerings on their other Android devices.
Pricing and availability were not revealed, but $99 has been the sweet spot for recent Google TV boxes. Customers might be willing to pay more for the exclusive motion controls, but we will have to wait and see what other features ASUS decides to pack in.
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WILMINGTON, DE — The Fitness Co. (TFC), which opened its first club in 1981, filed Chapter 11 petitions last month in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
The filing comes after four consecutive years of losses and a failure to identify a third-party buyer, according to the Delaware Business Bankruptcy Report. The debtors will propose to sell their assets, under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, to TFC Acquisition Corp., which is a wholly owned entity by one of the debtors' secured lenders and also is an affiliate of the debtors, according to the report.
TFC's first club was known as the Executive Fitness Center, located on the top two floors of the Vista International Hotel in what was the World Trade Center in New York. The club reached maximum capacity within two years, and not long after, Simon & Schuster's "Complete Health Club Handbook" called the Executive Fitness Center "by far the most impressive corporate fitness facility in the country."
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Scarlet ibis
(Eudocimus ruber)
Facts about this animal
The total length (tip of beak to tip of tail) of an adult Scarlet ibis is 55-63 cm. Wingspan in males is 26-28 cm, in females it is 23-26 cm. The plumage in bright scarlet red (sometimes orange red or more or less deep pink; colouring depends on individuals, populations, season and food). Only the tips of the wings are black. The head, neck and under-parts are sometimes paler. In captivity the plumage generally looses its brightness and becomes paler. The naked skin parts in the face and the long, curved beak are pinkish to reddish. The beak sometimes becomes blackish to a variable extent, especially during the breeding season. The legs are also pinkish to reddish, with blackish brown nails. At first sight no sexual dimorphism is visible, but males are slightly larger than females, with a longer beak.
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|Name (Scientific)
|Eudocimus ruber
|Name (English)
|Scarlet ibis
|Name (French)
|Ibis rouge
|Name (German)
|Roter Ibis
|Name (Spanish)
|Corocoro rojo
|Local names
|French Guyana: Ibis flamant, Courlis rouge
|CITES Status
|Appendix II
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|Northern part of South America, mainly in coastal areas. Regular visitor to the Isles of Margarita and Trinidad.
|Mangrove swamps, estuaries and mudflats, freshwater marshed, shallow lakes, ponds, lagoons, flooded areas, and rice fields. Nests on islands with mangroves, often in or near river mouths, or on trees and shrubs at inland wetlands.
|Wild population
|Still common and even abundant in some regions. But most populations are decreasing alarmingly, as in French Guyana. (The fact that the species likes to change its breeding places from one season to another has to be kept in mind.)
|Zoo population
|Frequently kept in zoos. 2136 reported to ISIS (2007)
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How this animal should be transported
For air transport, Container Note 17 of the IATA Live Animals Regulations should be followed.
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Why do zoos keep this animal
The scarlet ibis is not a threatened species. It is mainly kept for educational purposes and for promoting wetland conservation, ideally in mixed exhibits (walk-thru aviaries).


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DES MOINES, IOWA Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today announced that his Regional Director, Tom Larkin, will hold a meeting in Reinbeck, Friday, January 18, 2013 to listen to constituents' views on a wide variety of issues. Residents can express their opinions about current legislative issues or seek assistance if they have concerns with a federal agency.
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The Grand Canyon may be much older than widely believed, according to a new study that challenges the view that the American landmark was born 5 million or 6 million years ago.
Analyzing helium levels in rocks chipped away from outcrops in the western portion of the canyon, geologist Rebecca Flowers of the University of Colorado at Boulder and geochemist Kenneth Farley of Caltech concluded that the gorge was already there — and within a few hundred meters of its modern depth — around 70 million years ago, when dinosaurs still roamed Earth.
The findings, published online Thursday in the journal Science, add fuel to an ongoing debate between scientists who argue in favor of an "ancient Grand Canyon" and colleagues who maintain that the 280-mile-long, mile-deep formation must have been carved far more recently by the Colorado River.
"It's one of these classic conundrums," said Caltech geologist Brian Wernicke, a supporter of the ancient canyon theory who has worked with the coauthors in the past but was not involved in this research. "You have two pieces of information that butt heads against each other. One of them isn't going to be right."