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In absence of a poem.I chewed my pen to the niband swallowed the ink thoughtlessly,but no matter how long I thought,I couldn't say what you mean to me.I tried, I tried and I tested,every word in my diminutive range,but I screwed up more pieces of paperand happened upon something strange;I noticed words, which have served me,for all of my formative years,had no power to convey my gratitudefor the times that you dried my tears.Whenever I doubt myself (often),You're the one who tells me I'm wrongYou lift up my chin and remind me, waitfor the good things that will come along.I can't find a way to express howyou are the saving grace in my head.So words can't tell you how I love you -I hope my silence will tell you instead.
Star-writHear me read it!It is nebulonic fate that we should dancetogether in this burning bald ballroomas the flames lick up the sepiatic wallsand drip curled paper down upon us.It is our right to spin each other herein the torrentous reign of flames and ashas the chandelier, already hanging,spits and sparks at us, trying to take us too;and as everything we ever loved or cherishedin porcelain veneer or hand-crafted sycamorecrumbles to a close, still the thought remains-that it is our star-writ fate to dance on.
ScarsSee the sharpness of my tongue-nibAs the metallic taste in my mouth draws outA barking cough, forced outBy the dirty nicotine lining my lungs.See the blade of stubbornnessThat slices across my cheek bone;An amalgamation of all the times you pushed me.See the residue in my eyes,The remnants of all those times you forced meAnd I forced myself not to cry;Those tears condensed into a thick blinding syrupThat colours all things red.See the crinkle in my nose,The wrinkles on my heartAs I remember how you didn't love me. (Don't love me).See the burns on my psalmsAnd fingerprints singed offBy all the times you called me nothing.See the manacles, the barnaclesThe mutations and tumours.See the invisible scars of the Battle of Us.
Undying LoveShe screams, pain holding her, hands holding her hair and pulling tight, each strand reins to her conscious will. The drugs running through her system become a geas, an imposition stemming from the necessity in her soul.The tetter barked and shouted it's way down her arms, her misery congealing in her wrists and at her throat, forming a lump that pressed down weightily on her trachea until clawing a breath in was more effort than she had energy for. She choked on a sob and the angular bite of the sound released some of the tension. She fell.The beige, tiled floor rose to greet her decrepit, falling form. Undone, as if a string on her soul was pulled, undoing the knot that was -that could've been- her life.On the ground, she weeps as quiet as her ragged breath – or lack of breathing – and she turns, turns on her swollen elbows, and kicks with her swollen knees, trying to stand. Her head hits the bathtub side, and she sees stars, and darkness, cloud her vision. Her dizzy t
HAIKUWRIMOCOMPLETE 2013February 28th, 2013Dire desperationA feeble whimper for help;roar of these raw times.February 27th, 2013Gluttonous ash cloudsucks the moon's bloodand swallows the night.February 26th, 2013Bark! An explosion!Angry bodies escape thenetwork of lung cells.February 25th, 2013Silently cloning,multiplying, honing in,determined to kill.February 24th, 2013Tea and sympathyreadily availablefor my dear sister.February 23rd, 2013I will hold my breathas the north wind does the samewaiting for your love.February 22nd, 2013He hovers behind;Hamletian apparition.Always following.February 21st, 2013A long slow curve,your smile upon my shoulder,a scar of your touch.February 20th, 2013Dandelion seed,Where do you go while I sleep?To whom do you run?February 19th, 2013Whorls from fingersImprinted in the treesCount their rings too.February 18th, 2013Orchid explodes.Sudden
Sometimes, it's the little things.He always told me I was deep.An unfiltered distillation of a humanitarian ocean.He accepted me, gills and all - He knew that I needed my eccentricities to breathe under the seascrapers of pollution that hung over my head. Or he said he did.At the end of it all,he tugged the gills open to expose me; my innards trailed across the coral reef as I swam trustingly forward, hoping for the best. I tried to believe.I believed him, gills and all -But eventually, he left me, with holes in my sides Where he had spooned out my intestines To tether them to a boulder. I tried to breathe.He always told me I was deep.It must have been a surprise to read: Death by puddle.
A chance secondI lie awake, staring at the cornices.3AM: my fingers worry at the corners of my sheet.My anxiety worries at the corners of my rib.I bite and tug and huff out my miseryAs the silence keeps me awake.I lay with pressure of your absencePressing down over my nose and mouth.A soft asphixiation of the heart, of the sanity.It is a hot grey night in London.You are awake, startled by the sunlight.7AM: you can't lift your weighty skull from the sheet.The day sirens, but you stay, settled,Under the weight of your shroud, your loss,Only the silence keeps you awake.Unknowingly, for the first time in weeksWe are unintentionally in sync;Laid out in funerial colours as we die.It is a dull blue day in Dubai.
The White ThingsNothing is as far away as a minute ago.No matter how hard you row against the tidewe can never reach it, never return there.It's hard to sleep in the light of my regretsthat creeps through curtain and barriersto rot away and bleach all things white.It's hard to sleep knowing that no distanceis as far away as sixty small seconds ago.Immalleable, we rot, and things turn white.
Something(someone) Smallmy curious ivoriestucked between these lipsbeg to see what kisses taste like,to feel what love looks like,but dampened downbetween safety and soundthe tiniest bones in my body, in my ears,vibrate with a fake smileand the nod of my dainty doll headas i lie (with you/to you) againand grimace; i'm okay.
desiccatei.you were 22 years in the making,a sponge without watersince the day they plucked you from the oceanand left the sea salt to sink into your pores.ii.I was something too heavy to wade in,barely able to breathe,21 years in the makingwith floodgates barring my emotionssince the age of four.iii.At the first sign of droplets,the salt of you drew me inand eased the heaviness of my heart.iiii.In your confessions of self-love,in your tales of embrocation,I was only ever your liniment;our brevitywas a thing to be forgotten from the start.
Remember MeRemember MeEveryday is the same.I'm just playing life's game.I need something newSo I don't stay blue.When I try to tell one,They don't listen, they run.I just take this abuse like a pillEven though it makes me fall ill.Now I know why the caged bird sings.It wants to stop this painful sting.I have made a vowThat forces me to bow.I help them like I am their slaveBecause my life is what I gave.Tears try to run down my faceLike they are about to race.I cannot let them passOr I'll look like an assWho will throw a fitBecause they got hit.I can't take this another day.I am going to end this play.With a handful of pills,My mouth is what fills.After a final yawn,I am finally gone.When my face hits the tile,All that's left, is my smile.
A SoloistFlying along above a passing cloud,while flirting with a floating harmony,I wish to play the song to you aloud,and create such a perfect melody.But I am never quite in the same key;the unwilling chords refuse to align.So I must keep my song a silent plea,no harmony for this short tune of mine.On the wind, yet another song soars past,and I turn my head so that I might hear;the perfect tuning won't for much time lastbefore it once more dwindles from my ear. And so, a soloist I still remain, Sometimes with beauty, and still others plain.© Benjamin Court, June 2013
cup of tea and poetryblank pageslong daywishing yourmistakes awaylight a firegrab a cupmake some teaand fill it upin the cornerwith a penwriting downyour thought againsimple rhythmsimple rhymenever perfecteverytimejust a wayof putting outeverything thatyou're aboutjust let othersread and seeyour cup of teaand poetry
NaPoWriMo: Day 7Watch out.She's a devil,that one.Glad for her spine,& her teeth,even God hands fear her.For she has arched her backfor a flower-womanwith sin drippingfrom her fingers-who taught herhow to laughlike the stars.
sometimes i forget how to breatheAn overwhelming need to shut myselfunderwater and drink in my inevitabledeath. Crawl out to shore and gaspout apologies while tending to cut knees,but leave the internal damage. Find somethingto tether me to the ground, clutch itbetween pruned and shaking hands.Water drips off my nose, down my arms,plinks into the puddle in my lungs.I am drowning on dry land, chokingon the irresistible thought of you.
The OceanThe OceanSheis the oceanand Ibut a drop of waterShe lieswaitingas Ifall from the mountaintoprolling andtumblingalong the riversevertravelingever yearningto bepart of Herto addmy essenceto her wholebutShe is the Oceanand Ibut a drop of watermyimportance issmallbut yetI travel ontill Ilie once againcradled inHer armsfor Sheis the Oceanand Ibut a drop of water
WorthWhen you finally lie in all this darkness,you realize the light.It's that flask within his hand."May I?" He's just like you,eyes blank and gone.That stare of his,it just pierces right through. "Are you the same?Do you want a drink too?"He gives you the flask and smiles."Where is your light?" Flask, oh heavenly flask,it's in your hand,it's worth more than your soul.Drink, drown, desire. That's you. That's me. That makes us two. Let us go down that path of stupidity.Let us drown this can empty.Let us desire every drop of high and darkness,and scream out to the world. I don't know you,and I'll forget you,but this night will always be there. People wi
Alone in this world.Are you okay? Yes, I am.Are you afraid?Yes, I am.Will you ever be afraid of nothing? Will you ever be completely happy?Someday all your feelings will stop roughingAll of them are becoming scrappy.Being okay is not what it seems"okay" is a word of slothit may be a word of dreamsbut mostly it's a word of both.Sadness and reclusion.
Never The Gold.I want my silver back,I need to melt it down and forge a new connectionWith someone else.I want all the precious bits of myselfthat I so willingly quarried for you.I want my silver back.
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Hi all,
I am redesigning a page for somebody and I'm having a little trouble figuring out a problem with the CSS layout.
The test page is at http://togevi.com/aquarius
On this page, there should be 2 containers, one under the other. The first container is displayed correctly and inside this you can see the reading and the right-panel with further links to other readings.
The second container (premium-container with pink background) should appear underneath but for some reason, it's appearing in the same spot behind it.
I have checked all of the CSS and HTML for the page and I cannot find out why it is not appearing below, like it should be. I tried to give it a "relative" position but this placed it on top of the first container but still in the same place.
A little push in the right direction would be appreciated. There is clearly something really obvious I'm missing here.

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Update on development of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
"A joint assessment of condition and change in ecosystem goods and services undertaken for the Convention on Biological Diversity, Convention to Combat Desertification, Convention on Wetlands, and other partners, facilitated by the United Nations Environment Programme"
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is a four-year international scientific assessment of: (a) the condition of Earth's ecosystems, (b) potential impacts of changes to ecosystems on their ability to meet human needs, and (c) policies, technologies, and tools to improve their management. The MA is designed to improve economic and environmental decisions by:
- Improving the information used by decision-makers and the public;
- Building capacity to undertake ecosystem assessments and act on their fmdings.
In 1998, The World Resources Institute (WRI), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank established an exploratory Steering Committee comprised of leading scientists and representatives of conventions, UN agencies, NGOs and the private sector to explore the demand and need for the MA and to recommend its focus, design, and governance. After extensive consultations, in October 1999 the Steering Committee called for the creation of the MA.
Ramsar participation
At the time of Ramsar COP7 in May 1999, participants received copies of an information paper concerning the proposed Assessment project, and as a result, in paragraph 10 of Resolution VII.20 on "Priorities for wetland inventory", the Conference of the Parties noted "the scope of the proposed Millennium Assessment of the Worlds Ecosystems, currently under development, to deliver valuable related information of relevance to the application of the Convention".
The MA project is now almost ready to be launched, with more than 50% of the USD 20 million budget practically secured. The MA has acquired a particular significance for Ramsar, since the project is intended to provide "a joint assessment process to meet specified information needs" of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention to Combat Desertification, and the Convention on Wetlands. At the recent COP5 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (May 2000), the COP adopted a paragraph within its Decision on "Operations of the Convention" that endorses CBDs secretariat and SBSTTA participation in Executive Committee of the project.
The Millennium Assessment will be carried out under the guidance of a Board that comprises institutional representatives, including the executive officers and the chairs of the scientific bodies of the three Conventions, and "at large" Board members. The first meeting of the Board, at which the project and its general modus operandi will be formalized, will take place in Trondheim, Norway, on 16-17 July 2000, at the invitation of the Norwegian Government. The Ramsar Convention will be represented by the Secretary General, the Deputy Secretary General, and STRP Member Dr. Yara Schaeffer-Novelli (Brazil), representing of the Chair of Ramsars STRP, Dr Jorge Jiménez, who is unable to attend.
On 13 May 2000, there was an "Organizing Meeting", in preparation for the Board meeting in Norway, at UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi, with the participation of the main institutions involved in the project: the three Conventions directly involved (Ramsar was represented by the Secretary General), UNEP, GEF, the World Bank, WRI and the Government of Norway. Further to prepare for the Board meeting in July, the Ramsar STRP has been invited to consider this issue at its 9th meeting, 28-30 June, and to provide advice to the Ramsar representatives on the Board on the issues to be discussed.
Further information on the MA will be provided as the project progresses.


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It was actually still accessible to all classes in Wrath, and may still be there (I haven't tried recently). The trick was to hop onto the pipe directly across from the instance portal, run into the smallest corner of the wall on there you could, then use a potion of giant growth while jumping, which would displace you through the wall. Then you had to slow fall or use some ability to slow your descent, mount up and run-leap forward to get enough forward momentum to hit the water instead of falling to your death in nothingness.


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I love them all! Send in more than one photo… showing it in all stages! :)
You may send whichever you wish, but if your face is in the photo, you MUST send with a letter with your REAL name and accurate AGE stating that you give permission for your photo to be used. This letter will not be shared with anyone, your name will not be shared with anyone, this is ONLY for my records as a model release form.
I should thank you for the always interesting content. ;)
Someone's writing I enjoy…
I have told a few stories, but now I just want to crack the cap off of this bottle of syrup that is my imagination and let myself pour all over you, my reader. I want to drown you in my thoughts until you are sticky and drunk and dying from a sugar high. I want to overwhelm you, dear reader. Will you let me?
You're still reading, so I assume the answer was "yes." That's good because that's my favorite answer. Well, I must tell you that I prefer a "Sir" at the end of each affirmation. It's not too much to ask, is it? Respect for my letters and words and the long leash of my sentences that wrap themselves around your delicate neck and then squeeze the air form you as you try to speak them all the way to their sharp and stinging period punctuation mark end. Gasp. I like to think of sentences like strips of leather – a leash or a collar – either punishing you and your imagination or dragging you along to eventually do my bidding. I want my words to force you to submit. I want my words to punish and reward and anoint and destroy each and every one of you.
Do you still want more?
As I reach into the wet center of my imagination, I can feel the subtle heartbeat of anticipation and the shudders that stumble across the surface of my mind. Words become leather-handled tools that I swing above my head and bring down into the world until I hear the SMACK of their repercussion. I am a Sadist, and I like to bring pain to others… but with my words I want to tease and tickle as well as torture. I want my language to undo you, to untie you, to defile you until you're left crumpled like a pair of jeans that have been peeled from their owners legs and left still warm in the middle of the kitchen floor.
I am the household tool that becomes a pervertably dangerous weapon. I splice you and draw blood and watch you drip long legs down the side of your ceramic ribcage. My words draw slowly across skin to unzip you and let you bloom rose-red as I unseem you from safety to risk. I am risk. I speak into your blindfolded face as you are a stone-still pair of eyes, open wide and welcoming my imagery and my alliteration and my stuttered staccato speech.
I ache. I creep. I command.
My rear teeth rattle as I release desire after desire into the fetid air and the unbearably thick thoughts of the countless white smiles that crease the corners of the room with their hapless misery and perpetual disapproval. I strike the decades of denial. I punish the years that I lost pretending to be a stuffed statue instead of a column of bone or a tornado or a Master. I am a Master, and I demand defenselessness as I wrap you in my powerful will.
I see my words snaking their way across this page, and I imagine their inky black stained fingers pulling and prying you apart, entering you against your wishes and melting your insides until your body is a dictionary of wet dreams and desire and submission and yes, yes, and YES, SIR. And then I am your corruption, turning all of your vibrant colorful innocence into the steel collars and ropes, wound endlessly around your obedient lips. I am a mile of rope that wraps and binds you and burns you where it trusses you. I am a word. I am The Word that commands your tiny heart to beat and beat and bleed your spirit into me. I am a gauzy bandage and a cotton ball of rubbing alcohol. I am the sting. I am the minutes you spend without air as my poetry wraps four hard fingers over your mouth and nose and you are released from worry and only inches away from the end of your story.
Do you feel how my story becomes you? It replaces you. It traps you in a tiny cage and then torments you and pulls you by your heels and drags you into the empty circle of light and presses you until you are small and worthless and unafraid. My story releases you and all the words and sentences and pages that you never want to say again. My story becomes you, and it finds a rhythm and welcomes you to pain and smiles so sweetly and seductively as you roll into the thousand natural shocks. I become the raft and flatten you, and you let me have my way as you float for hours. The river is a lifetime of hurt that you didn't invite or seduce or welcome, but the raft is my word, my palms, the tools that I swing and swish and slam against you, and you blissfully navigate waterways and land smiling and naked as a tiny ball under the crook of my arm.
Two more words: Good night.
Well I suppose it's just a matter of perspective, lol.
All submissions should be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com. I do definitely need your age included with the submission (the age at the time of the photo). No underage or minors are allowed to submit.
If you wish to show your face in any of your photos, the permission letter is a little more complex and I'd be more than happy to help you with that in private email. If you have no face shots, then no worries about the extra stuff.
We had a temporary set back with the blog but things will be up & running again with a cock shot of the day being brought to all the followers… thank you all for your patience while I deal with my personal life.
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Cock shots appear on all 3 URLs… if there is a specific one you 'd really like to see yourself on, please let me know… ALL posts go on the blogspot site.
Well I took the time to check out your blog this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see how fun it is! Thank you so much for directing my attention to it. I would certainly LOVE to host some of your pictures on the blog… and feature you on the main cock blog (http://thebeautifulcock.blogspot.com/)
Anything you'd like to see published there, please send to me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thanks, and have a great day!
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A few years ago I was trolling the Food Network site, looking for a dessert to bring to a friend's birthday party, when lo and behold I saw it -- Chocolate Pizza! Yum! Have two foods ever sounded so beautiful together? Since then I have made this dessert countless times, and each time the crisp dough and hot and gooey chocolate get better and better.
This recipe comes from Food Network and chocolate-lover herself, Giada De Laurentiis -- and not only does it have Nutella in it, it's super easy to make! Easter dessert, anyone?
Chocolate Pizza from Food Network
Position the oven rack on the bottom of the oven and preheat to 450 degrees F.
Line a large and heavy baking sheet with parchment paper. Roll out the dough to a 9-inch-diameter round, then transfer it to the prepared baking sheet. Using your fingers, make indentations all over the dough. Brush the dough with butter, then bake until the crust is crisp and pale golden brown, about 20 minutes or so.
Afterwards, immediately spread the Nutella (or chocolate-hazelnut spread of your choice) over the pizza. Sprinkle all the chocolate chips on top. Bake again just until the chocolate begins to melt, about 1 minute. Last, sprinkle the hazelnuts all over the pizza. Cut into wedges and dig in!
Ingredients/Directions for Pizza Dough (If you're feeling ambitious!):
Mix the warm water and yeast in a small bowl to blend. Let stand until the yeast dissolves, about 5 minutes. Mix the flour and salt in a food processor to blend. Blend in the oil. With the machine running, add the yeast mixture and blend just until the dough forms. Turn the dough out onto lightly floured surface and knead until smooth, about 1 minute. Transfer the dough to a large oiled bowl and turn the dough to coat with the oil. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set aside in a warm draft-free area until the dough doubles in volume, about 1 hour. Punch he down dough and form into ball. The dough can be used immediately or stored airtight in the refrigerator for 1 day.
Another shot. Sorry about the dirty stove!
That looks so rich. I have to try that.
There is a pizza place in my hometown that serves dessert pizzas and they are YUMMY! You can get S'more pizza, peanut butter and jelly pizza, apple pie pizza, peach cobbler pizza, worms in dirt pizza, I could go on. It also serves other crazy pizzas like baked potato pizza, mac and cheese pizza, speghetti pizza, etc. It was featured on the food network too on a show about outrageous foods.
Yum, yum and more yum!
Holy cow, how many calories are in that?! (not that it doesn't sound decadent, tho)


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Ecuador is one the most diverse countries in the world, with snow-capped volcanoes, tropical beaches, and lush jungles. The diverse topography allows travelers to easily venture to different climates within a matter of days. The largest ethnic group in Ecuador is the Andean Quechua, consisting of around 2 million people. The Quechua have preserved their culture, traditions, and language quite well. Distinguished by the Andean flute music, foods such as quinoa and cuy (guinea pig), beautiful wool ponchos, and colorful embroidered blouses, learning about the Quechua culture will no doubt be a highlight of your Ecuador tour.
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How Polluted Is Your City?
We all know that global warming is caused by greenhouse gases, largely carbon dioxide, that is emitted by everything ranging from home appliances and SUV's to the heating and lighting systems of office buildings. But since we don't see the gas, most of us simply shake our heads in dismay and then continue on with our bad habits. Now, researchers at Arizona State University are trying to change that.
Spearheaded by associate professor Kevin Gurney, The Hestia Project's main goal is to make something that is currently intangible into something a little more tangible, by allowing all of us to visually see how much each and everyone of us is 'contributing' to global warming.
In order to obtain a complete picture of the city's environment, the team begins by compiling data from multiple sources, ranging from property filings to EPA and even DMV records. Then, using special software they lump the emissions into three categories - commercial entities (office buildings and power and industrial plants), households and vehicles.
This is the stage where things start to get really interesting. That's because instead of showing all this information using boring graphs that we all instantly lose interest in, they create an interactive visual 'film', that depicts not just the carbon emitted by each entity, but also the exact location it is coming from and the also the amount, which varies depending on the time of day or season. So for example, the car emissions during rush hour are the highest as is the case for commercial buildings during the day, especially during winter months when the heating is on.
Kevin knows that some of the data revealed may start a blame game among the residents of the city. However, he is hoping that the people will go beyond that and instead use it to make changes in their daily lives or that city planners will use it to improve energy efficiency by adding insulation programs in buildings that reveal the highest rates of carbon dioxide output.
So far, the team has just tracked the emissions for the city of Indianapolis. They are next planning to do the same for Phoenix and Los Angelesand then hopefully all the other cities, not just in the U.S. but also, across the globe. If each city works on reducing their emissions by just 10%, it could go a long way in reversing global warming, something we all know needs to be done, before it's too late.
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|Field Demonstration of Lead-Based Paint Removal and Inorganic Stabilization Technologies (EPA/600/R-01/055) October 2001
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Today, the most widespread source of lead exposure in children in the United States is lead-based paint applied to residential buildings before 1978. Exposure to lead in paint can come from the paint chips themselves, from dust caused by abrasion on friction surfaces, or from chalking of exterior paint.
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The average lead loading of the paint coating on the wood and brick substrates was 6.9 and 51.9 milligrams per square centimeter (mg/cm2), respectively. The effectiveness of the lead-based paint removal technology was determined using an X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrum analyzer (L&K shell). The XRF measurements were corroborated by analysis of substrate samples using inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy.
The effectiveness of the technologies in stabilizing the debris was evaluated through the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure. Aerodynamic particle size distributions of lead particulate generated during paint removal were measured using a multistage personal cascade impactor. Personal and area air samples were collected to evaluate the potential of the wet abrasive blasting technology to generate exposure levels of lead above the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) of 50 grams per cubic meter 8-hour time-weighted average.
Wet abrasive blasting effectively removed the lead-based paint coating from both the wood and brick substrates to below the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Guideline (1 mg/cm2) with minimal or no damage to the underlying substrates (p<0.0001). The mean area air levels of lead-containing particulate generated during paint removal were significantly below the PEL (p<0.001), whereas the mean personal breathing zone lead levels were approximately three times higher than the PEL. Neither of the two stabilization technologies consistently stabilized the abrasive media paint debris to achieve a leachable lead content below the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act regulatory threshold (<5 milligrams per liter).
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More SHINee! Good for those of you who likes them and neutral for those who don't. This time is solely Key and him at two different airports.
(1) Even with his many efforts, Key, did not succeed to stop fans with his "Don't Follow Me" shirt or else how did they get this picture? The top is from Levi's Vintage, the baseball top (130$).
(2) Here we have Key wearing a scarf shirt, see the tassels/fringe? This is by Vivienne Westwood and available for 75 Pounds here.
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Leonardo da Vinci discussed the parachute in a notebook entry now contained in the Codex Atlanticus. Although it is unlikely that he actually tested his idea, a drawing by da Vinci in the codex shows a pyramid-shaped parachute and is accompanied by the following text:
Se un uomo ha un padiglione de pannolino intasato, che sia 12 braccia per faccia e alto 12, potrà gittarsi d'ogni grande altezza senza danno di sé.
(If a man has a structure made out of coated cloth 12 arms wide and 12 tall, he will be able to throw himself from any great height without hurting himself.)
On June 26, 2000, British balloonist Adrian Nicholas proved da Vinci right. In a parachute built of wood and canvas to the artist's specifications, Nicholas was hoisted to 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) by a hot-air balloon and then released. He slowly and gently floated downward in da Vinci's parachute, disproving predictions that the structure would not keep a man aloft. Fear that the weight of the parachute, some 185 pounds (84 kg), could crash down on top of Nicholas upon landing caused him to cut away the da Vinci parachute at 2,000 feet (600 metres) and use a conventional parachute for the remaining descent.
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Trio-Fi at Miami Art Walk - October 2012
We set out last Saturday to check out some of the events going on at this month's Art Walk in Wynwood. We caught some good music at 004connec, some really dope art and pieces at Wynwood Cigar Factory, and ended the night with drinks, live art, and a DJ at the Oh Really?! Concert Series. This videos serves as a small glimpse of the night. You can find some photos of the night on our Instagram (@trio_fi). Enjoy.
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TED comments should be no more than 4 lines
More is too much so please, be succinct. I could go on (and have) but that would defeat my position. Besides, who likes a blowhard?
Topics: Making a point attention span education writing
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Becky CMay 9 2012: Comments should be four lines IF it is quite simple debate and there answer is short like 'Yes I agree with you.' If it's a very complicated question and your comment adds a very different and complicated side in the debate then you may need to expand your answer to over four lines. This I can understand, when I'm in a rush I will only read the short comments and for other people 4L is just the right length for there attention span. There should be some exceptions for very hard topics.
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Dyed All Hues 30+May 9 2012: Not everyone can cater to another persons needs, and adaptability would be possible, but not in this situation. No such limit is reasonable. There are just too many ideas, but it would be nice if the content was more focused. That would not be possible though because Ted would need to hire a bunch of revisers to revise every post, so we leave it to the individual to learn from each post (hopefull).
May 9 2012: I wanted debate (learning) on this issue as I do not have the time (or won't make it) to read everything. I would not like it if TED insisted and I concede, unreasonable. However, although they cannot be supported almost any idea can be posited in 4 lines. Perhaps the position should have been ask every one to begin with a Head that is no longer than four lines?
May 8 2012: I have read many insightful, articulate responses in TED Conversations that were longer than four lines. I am so glad we do not have such an artificial limit.
Four line explanations are not necessarily more enlightening than ten line arguments.
If you do not like to read arguments of longer than four lines, just don't read them, but let the rest of us read them if we find them valuable.
May 9 2012: One of my jobs involves running a discussion board for a course. Rather than putting forward limits such as length, my first post is of guidelines for academic discourse. The intention there is to ask people to consider not rolling too many questions into one, lay out how to support claims in an academic setting, and so forth.
There are different useful ways of discussing things though. Twitter works in sound bites. As I don't care for that kind of discussion, I choose not to use Twitter. Facebook is, I believe, mostly social banter. I don't prefer that either.
Here we have some questions that lend themselves to compact replies and others to the sharing of arguments or experiences that defy a four sentence form.
Each of us needs to choose where we want to spend our time, including which discussions here we give our time and which we don't. If someone poses questions in an excessively long-winded way, those who respond will be those who are fine with it.
And thus an open community moves in the direction of the tastes of its participants.
Jeff CableMay 8 2012: 1. It does not follow that the search for clarity (in explanatory prose) mandates anything more than four lines is prolix.
2. Succinct writing can leave too much detail requiring to be guessed and that probably leads to misunderstanding.
3. You (wrongly, in my opinion) conflate a 'blowhard' with those who would desire to be clear to others.
4. Your 4 line limit was easily exceeded by YOU... when describing your own TED story - seems inconsistent to my mind.
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May 12 2012: Post in bits of information, and think in bits of information and sometimes that's the perfect comment or response. Effectively conveying a thought or a point is an art of one's use of language and to be read is to hold onto the reader.
So does that mean longer posts with credit points merit more member attention because the communicator is asking more of the reader's time and connection?
May 9 2012: 4 is the right number for you. 2 and 7 are fine numbers for other people. 5 and 11 seem appropriate at times. I kinda like flexibility and people expressing themselves according to their standards for quantity rather than using your standard. I trust you will stick with your standard of 4 lines, but if you feel like going over, feel free. Happy Today.


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I live in a townhouse community. Last week, three residents put out debris for bulk-waste pickup. One person put it out on Monday, another on Friday and the third on Saturday.
Miami-Dade came out and removed one pile of debris. I asked the worker if they were going to pick up the other two piles that had signs with the confirmation numbers on it. He looked at his written list and said they were not on it and that he could only pick up one pile.
Three days later, the same truck and four-man crew came out again. This time they picked up the second pile, but left the third one. Now they will have to make another trip with a four-man crew to pick up the last pile. They could have picked up all three piles in five minutes the first day. What a waste of time and money.
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It's not easy, what's going on with me. My "powers"are stronger than I feel my body/heart/mind can handle. I'm not crazy damn it.
Every since I've been pregnant my dreams have went from predicting things in a sense of if I dreamed of running with new shoes on the next day I might find a pair of old shoes I had been missing and loved to straight up if I dream a long lost friend of 15 year called at 1130 am they would call at 1130 am.
We are now straight to the point
I know what's a "dream" and what's really going on…or going to go on….
Family,friends,lovers,pets,news,the world. It all racks my head to the point I'm at a loss right now.
I don't want to say the things out loud cause I don't want them to come true and jinx myself, but I know it's gonna happen either way.
I'm blessed and cursed.
Normally when I awake after a psychic dream, I have a special feeling about what I have dreamt about; the psychic dream almost always seems to have a unique quality and sense and feel to it making it stand out from other 'normal' dreams, and it often remains long in my mind after I've woken up.


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Danny Graham flies out to join Hull City in Portugal as deal 'very close'
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HULL City target Danny Graham is set to fly out to Portugal tomorrow to finalise his season-long loan move from Sunderland.
(Update: Graham transfer from Sunderland to Hull City confirmed.)
Graham has been given the green light to depart the Stadium of Light for the 2013-14 season and held talks with City's chief executive Nick Thompson at the KC Stadium yesterday.
Manager Steve Bruce last night admitted a deal for the 28-year-old striker is now "very close" and the Mail understands a medical is all that stands in the way.
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That is expected to take place at the Tigers' training base on the Algarve tomorrow and, providing there are no 11th hour hitches, Graham could be announced as a City player before the weekend.
Bruce fell short of confirming the deal following an evening training session last night but admitted talks with the striker had gone smoothly.
"We're very close and we're hopeful we can get it done before the weekend," Bruce told the Mail.
"It looks as though there's a deal to be done with Sunderland and that's now in the hands of our chief executive.
"All the talks have been encouraging but we'll have to wait and see now. We hope we can get something done soon. As I've admitted, he's a player I like and it would be a big boost to our squad to have someone like Danny join."
City have adopted a guarded approach following the last-minute collapse of a £4.5m deal to sign Burnley striker Charlie Austin last week, but no problems are envisaged with Graham, who passed a medical in January when joining Sunderland from Swansea for £5m.
The proposed capture of Graham will finally help ease Bruce's shortcomings in attack but the search continues for further goalscoring options.
Although last season's long-term injury absentees Sone Aluko and Matty Fryatt have both trained fully out in Portugal, City have turned their attentions to the foreign market for additional firepower.
"Danny is one player we're looking at but, if truth be known, I would like another one to go with him," Bruce added.
"Fryatt and Aluko have been out a long time and hopefully they can have a good pre-season, but we've got to realise we can't pin all our hopes on them.
"It's no secret that I'm probably going to have to look abroad if we're going to work within our budget but other than Danny there's nothing close at this stage."
City enjoyed their first full day of training in Portugal yesterday ahead of facing Sheffield Wednesday in a friendly on Saturday.
The travelling party does not include out-of-favour forwards Cameron Stewart or Aaron Mclean, with Bruce admitting both have been left behind to assist their search for new clubs.
Stephen Quinn has also returned to England to undergo treatment on a toe injury and faces 10 days on the sidelines.
Maynor Figueroa, who missed the opening friendlies with North Ferriby United and Winterton, is being eased into full training following groin surgery at the end of last season, but Ahmed Elmohmady could feature against Wednesday this weekend.
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Lib Dems press for Urban Task Force measures
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has taken a leaf out of William Hague's book by producing a 'premanifesto document' sprinkled with the political party's thoughts on how it would deal with the built environment. Freedom in a Liberal Society, published last week, is structured around three tenets: independence, fairness and caring for the environment, with energy pledges in areas such as crime, health, transport and the economy.
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Birds eye view of the city of Cedar Rapids and Kingston, Linn Co., Iowa 1868.
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Charter Community Day School provides a high quality alternative education program for at-risk students in elementary school up to grade six. The program builds upon student strengths and assets while identifying and developing areas of need. The program is designed so that students will be successful, even though they have had difficulty meeting the behavioral, social, and academic standards necessary thrive in a traditional school setting. A low student to teacher ratio is maintained to ensure improved behavior and academic performance through positive reinforcement, individual attention, and clear consequences. An individual learning plan is carefully developed and followed for each students. Communication and partnership with parents are central elements of the program.
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Andy Hume - Web Fonts as a progressive enhancement @ Ampersand Conference
"Progressive enhancement attempts to ensure that content is delivered to all web users regardless of technology. How do web fonts fit into this methodology? What and where are the possible pitfalls, and how might we work around them? Andy will look at some learnings from implementing web fonts on high performance and high availability sites including the Guardian."
Gerry Leonidas - The Newest New Typography @ Ampersand Conference
"It takes four seconds to make up your mind about a typeface, and about eight minutes to explain why, in detail. It takes about ten years, give or take a couple, to figure out why all the print typographers moan that there's more to Good Typography than a nice typeface; they'd say it would take as much to explain the whole thing. Gerry will attempt to do it in 44 minutes, leaving just enough time for a joke about old typographers."
Jamie Neely - Prototyping Web Typography @ After the Jump (Type Directors Club)
Using Photoshop to design websites certainly has it short falls. There has to be a better way. Thanks to smart people like Jamie Neely, founder of Typecast, there are new tools available that make designing the web more like the web. Neely proposes an entirely different approach to digital design that places typography and content as the center of a brand's digital expression and allows for real-time prototyping so that what a client sees at the design stage is what the client can expect in the end result.
Jamie Neely is the Creative Director at Typecast, a web design prototyping tool recently acquired by Monotype. typecast.com
Frank Chimero - The Shape of Design @ Build Conference
To really think about design, you need to learn and think about everything other than it. Design is a vessel: the most important part is what it holds. As makers of things, the work gets better from outside influences, and gives us clarity about the purpose of the work: to inform, to persuade, and to delight. We'll spend some time ruminating on what it means to delight our audiences, think of different ways to do so through mechanisms like storytelling, and realize that the real benefit of making anything is to nourish lives.
Frank Chimero is a graphic designer, illustrator, teacher, maker and writer hailing from Portland, Oregon. He also teaches graphic design & typography to eager minds at Portland State University and is managing partner of graphic design blog, Thinking for a Living.
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Dixon Education Association negotiating team members and the school board's negotiating team sit down for another round of contract bargaining Friday afternoon.
Teachers have been on strike for more than a week. They're asking for a 3.75% annual salary increase, but district leaders say that will break the bank. School board members latest offer is a 3-year contract equal to the cost of living. Plus, they want teachers to contribute more to healthcare.
Some Dixon parents are facing tough times as options for daytime childcare are limited. Administrators have set up daycare inside schools for K-5 students, but some moms and dads, siding with union members, say that's not a school's purpose.
Superintendent Mike Juenger and DEA members say they hope an agreement comes out of this latest round of negotiations. As far as we know, both sides are still at the bargaining table. We will update you with more information as it becomes available.
If an agreement isn't reached, both parties could meet again Sunday.
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tee hee looks like vris and john have plans!! ;D
omg major OTP feels!!! >.< i simply love that ship!!!! :D :D :D so happy right now!!! >.<
haha decided to drop the bomb on poor little dave. hope he's okay. >:]
OH…MY…. GOG….. that update it just…. i think john likes davesprite! it is so going in the shipping book for me!! i already shipped johndave anyways so whynot johnsprite?! :D :D heh heh. never thought of dave and jade going out though…. even if he is a sprite. and i wonder what's up with dave anyways… :? hussie must be fucking shit up. that or he's grieving. like the death of his bro may be finally getting to him… who knows…. all i know is that i feel kinda odd from it. especially when JOHN meantions davesprite-ghost-butt…. >.< NO! well….. maybe…. :/ BLARGH!!!
simply beautiful. of course i did not play this although i wish that i could. perhaps i can learn to play violin next summer. that would be nice.
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heh heh turned equius into a bunny, dave kissed john, and an oc kissed gamzee. this is getting interesting. >:D
oh my god this chat that i am at right now is so fucking hilarious! unfortunately equius is a racist asshole but he always was so it's okay. truth or dare with an OC rose, john, terezi, gamzee, and equius is pretty funny. i love it!!! mwa ha ha ha ha ha! but unfortunately this rose is sick and pukes a lot…. poor rose. whoever does equius and gamzee does really fuckin good. i'm starting to feel like i am actually terezi. her persona has taken me over completely. it's maddening. so i'm going to go back to my little chat now. and yeah. see ya!
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Pyloric stenosis
Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis refers to idiopathic thickening of gastric pyloric musculature which then results in progressive gastric outlet obstruction.
Pyloric stenosis is relatively common and has a male predilection (M:F ~ 4:1), and is more commonly seen in Caucasians 4. It typically occurs between the 4-8 weeks of life. There may be a positive family history. Incidence of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is approximately 2-5 per 1,000 births per year in most white populations,
HPS is less common in India and among black and Asian populations
Clinical presentation
Clinical presentation is typically with non-bilious projectile vomiting in the second month of life.
The hypertrophied pylorus can be palpated as an olive sized mass in the right upper quadrant. It is suggested that palpation of an "olive" with the appropriate clinical symptoms is diagnostic and that such infants do not need confirmatory imaging studies.
A succussion splash may be audible, and although common, is only relevant if heard hours after the last meal 6.
Radiographic features
Children with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis may show gastric distension prominent, peristaltic waves (caterpillar sign), and mottled retained gastric content.
A upper gastrointestinal series (barium meal) excludes other, more serious causes of pathology, but the findings of a UGI series infer rather than directly visualise the hypertrophied muscle.
Plain film (abdominal radiograph)
Non specific and may show a distended stomach with minimal distal intestinal bowel gas.
Ultrasound is usually the primary imaging modality 3, and its advantages over a barium meal are that it directly visualises the pyloric muscle and does not use ionising radiation. Unfortunately it is incapable of excluding other diagnoses such as midgut volvulus.
The hypertrophied muscle is hypoechoic, and the central mucosa is hyperechoic. There are measurement criteria that vary slightly from source to source. In a normal situation, the pyloric muscle thickness (diameter of a single muscular wall on a transverse image) should normally be less than 3 mm (most accurate 3) and the length (longitudinal measurement) should not exceed 15 mm.
With the patient right side down the pylorus should be watched and should not be seen to open.
Described sonographic signs include:
The pylorus is located near the gallbladder, thus an easy technique is to find the gallbladder and turn obliquely sagittal to the body in an attempt to visualise the pylorus longitudinally.
Fluoroscopy (barium meal)
Barium meals demonstrate delayed gastric emptying. When some contrast does pass into the duodenum, the pylorus appears elongated with a narrow lumen (string sign) which may appear duplicated due to puckering of the mucosa (double-track sign). The pylorus indents the contrast-filled antrum (shoulder sign) or base of the duodenal bulb (mushroom sign). Additionally the entrance to the pylorus may be beak-shaped ("beak sign") .
Described barium signs include:
Treatment and prognosis
Initial medical management is essential with rehydration and correction of electrolyte imbalances. This should be completed prior to surgical intervention.
Treatment is surgical with a pyloromyotomy in which the pyloric muscle is divided down to the submucosa. This can be performed both open and laparoscopically. The operation is curative and has very low morbidity 4-5.
Differential diagnosis
There is usually little differential when imaging findings are appropriate. Of course clinically it is important to consider other causes of vomiting in infancy, including midgut volvulus.
A degree of pylorospasm is common in infancy and is responsible for some delay in gastric emptying. The pylorus, however, appears normal.
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- 2. Hernanz-schulman M. Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Radiology. 2003;227 (2): 319-31. doi:10.1148/radiol.2272011329 - Pubmed citation
- 3. Blumhagen JD, Maclin L, Krauter D et-al. Sonographic diagnosis of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1988;150 (6): 1367-70. AJR Am J Roentgenol (abstract) - Pubmed citation
- 4. Fischer JE, Bland KI. Mastery of surgery. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (2007) ISBN:078177165X. Read it at Google Books - Find it at Amazon
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- 6. Howe CT, Spence MP. Pyloric stenosis in adults. Postgrad Med J. 1960;36 : 743-8. Postgrad Med J (link) - Free text at pubmed - Pubmed citation
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Not everyone is a Steven Slater fan….http://minivanmonologues.blogspot.com/2010/08/steven-slater-effect.html
Are they incinuating that Steve is a homo in the end of the video? (when he comes home and is received but a dude in open arms)
Khkia,rkijqm;aofy'balj that my Chinese name and comment in chinese. ….I think the illustration helps to understand what may have happened however it is speculation that is converted into reality at least in the mind of the viewer.
I think Steven should get a second chance. Totally understandable how he had a meltdown after 28 years. First of all, the passenger was WRONG for getting up to get her luggage while the plane was flying. Steven was doing his job by asking her to sit down until the plane stopped. She started the cursing and Steven WAS nice enough to let all the passengers know WHY he helped himself to a couple of beers and exited down the slide. He should not lose his job OR go to jail. We are all human. My vote is for Steven.
If I owned a business I would offer Steven Slater a job! Why should a passenger hit him in the head and curse at him. I cannot blame him at all for what he did. He should SUE the woman!
I'm not sure which is more disturbing to me? The fact that everyone in the media thinks Mr. Slater is an unemployed folk hero or that Mr. Slater is a pinhead that could have killed someone. People are making songs about him on the Internet and talking about him on all the news stations. I'm concerned that this is going to start a new trend when employees leave their job. It's not funny at all! Mr. Slater has committed employment suicide! Anybody that leaves their job in a blaze of glory is only going to hurt themselves looking for their next job. Quitting your job in the fashion Mr. Slater did will make him ineligible for unemployment benefits too. I wonder how cool and funny it will be when Mr. Slater has to write a check for rent next month? The nature of a true professional is how well the person performs under pressure.
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First of all @ElGrandRicoSuaveAZ . . . . there is no insinuation intended Mr. Slater is openly gay and not ashamed of it, nor should he be.
@TomJtt – the plane was NOT flying; it was taxing toward a gate; the rule is you keep your butt in your seat; seatbelt buckled until the plane comes to a full and complete stop; then, and only then, do you get up and start getting your overpacked, oversized suitcase out of the overhead bin. It is the passenger that could have killed someone with her suitcase. How, exactly is she more important than any other passenger on that airplane that she needs to get up and start getting her stuff together before the plane stops?
Finally, the airlines have brought this on themselves. They are nickel and dimming passengers to absolute death. Charging for stowing a suitcase in the baggage compartment is only encouraging more and more people to NEVER check their baggage, whether it is small enough to fit in the overheads or not; then they expect the flight attendants to hoist their belongings for them. Here's an idea, if you can't even lift your suitcase, it doesn't belong OVER MY HEAD!
This guy is a complete punk. Bad day we all have them. How about how some of these 'Flight Attendants" treat some passengers when they are having a bad day. No job is perfect and certainly a Flight Attendants job might harder than others they are in the service business dah. NO ONE FORCES THESE PEOPLE TO TAKE THESE JOBS if you don't like your job resign. YOU DON'T THROW a TEMPER TANTRUM and take your ball and go home. YOU ARE A POS SLATER PLAIN AND SIMPLE. DON'T LET YOUR UNION TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE NOT IN THE SERVICE BUSINESS. DON'T LIKE YOUR JOB RESIGN.
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I find it absurd all the media attention and the support for an individual that behaved in a very unprofessional manner.
I liked his style. did you know he now has a theme song? It's called, "Fly Away"; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6S4E9fCHO4
Shame on Jet Blue!! What ever happened to company loyalty?? Steve Slater was gainfully employed
by this airline for several years without incident. I n this age of "iSSUES", "MISSPEAKS", ETC., give him a break.
why no info regarding the passenger who violated airline rules — e.g. take your seat while we are taxing
before landing.
Not sure what really happened but I have seen some very rude and obnoxious passengers on flights….OF course this doesn't give Slater the right to do what he did…he should have reported her to airport security or informed the planes captain….who has the right to have her restrained and possibly more. It's a sad situation. I saw a guy jump up right as our plane landed and open the overhead and a bowling ball in bag fell out and hit the guy below on the back of the neck….bad idea. The guy was an offensive tacke for the Colorado college football team….who cursed the guy out and almost clocked him….So these things do hapen….
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Published on August 26th, 2013 | by Jamie843030
Blast Trax Review
Summary: Make 'trax' down to your local App Store as soon as the game is in stock, this is a blast!
A heads up.
If you follow '@Jayenkai' on twitter and/or have read my recent news article, then no doubt you are itching as much as I to get your hands on Blast Trax.
Well, you won't have to wait much longer as the game lands in the App Store *tomorrow morning! (Tuesday the 27th of August. ) At which time, James Gamble will also be activating the Android edition and HTML5/Windows demo-editions.
The iOS version will cost you mere pennies, 69 to be precise, 99/80 cents, or the equivalent depending on your country of residence. The Android version will be priced approximately the same.
Luckily I managed to get some early hands-on gaming in, so to bring you a review on or before the release date ,and my first impressions were somewhat similar to those of when I initially saw the first gameplay video. You know, eyes and mouth wide open, there may or may not have been some drooling involved. It is always nice when a game lives up to its hype!
For those of you who don't know what Blast Trax is you can catch up with it here: http://www.sentralgamer.com/coming-soon-to-android-ios/ and then come back to continue reading the review.
My thoughts.
How to define Blast Trax? Well, if you must pigeon hole it, I guess it would sit nicely in the shoot-em-up category. Though there are tracks to travel along with goals to reach, but it is not really a racing game as such. You have no opponents and your game is not timed. Now there's an idea for an update! Multiplayer mode, the first to cross the line wins? …Have I just planted a seed?
Now I know you can see and hear how good this game is from the screenshots and videos shared in both of my posts and I know it's a cliché, but you really cannot appreciate them until you witness for yourself. The same goes for how the game plays.
The beautiful 2D rainbow sprites with customisable shaders, upon a monochromatic starry backdrop are nothing short of eye candy and give the graphics both depth and life. The retro arcade-like sound effects are music to the ears and sound incredible even through the tiny speakers of the iPhone. Aside from the haunting synthesized voice which counts down your inevitable doom that is, that's just plain creepy! The gameplay, well, obviously you need to experience the smooth one-touch control system, fun, challenging and addictive experience for yourself and let me tell you, it's even better than it looks!
The rundown
At the main menu there are difficulty level options, blur and sound toggles, an icon to access a list of achievements completed and not yet, as well as your top and last eight high scores, Game Center integration ( three leaderboards to compete on and 32 achievements to unlock ) and the credits via agameaweek.com icon.
The object of the game is to move your ship along a track, shooting baddies and collecting gems on your way to the goal. The lanes are winding and the levels endless and they become more chaotic the further your progress.
It's not so much how fast you complete levels, but more how much destruction you can cause and how long you can survive!
Starting each level you are given a heart with 25 health. Every time you get hit one point is docked, lose all and it's game over. There are but two power-ups in the game, these are attained by collecting gems, but are reset at the end of each level along with your craft's energy level. Collecting gems also regains health points, two per 100.
Your score accumulates at the top of the screen beneath a progress bar which shows how far you have travelled. Pressing the pause button brings up a simple menu with options to toggle the sound, resume or quit.
I deliberately failed to mention something else found on the main menu earlier as I wanted to save it for now and that is, that this game also offers iCade support. While I cannot personally take advantage of this feature yet, I feel it is a welcomed addition more developers should integrate if possible. Nevertheless with the approaching influx of 'Made for iPhone, iPod and iPad' controllers shortly believed to be arriving with iOS7, I can understand devs may not be as inclined to add it. That's not all though, another genius yet rarely seen feature featured in this title, is the option to play the game in landscape or portrait mode. I adore this and don't think I've seen it since Punch Quest. ( Indie ) developers of (games for) iOS! If it works well, then I can't recommend you do this more.
An extremely well built arcade space shooter, on a track. Whether it's the graphics style or high quality audio that seduces you. The gameplay experience alone, will have you coming back for more.
iOS : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blasttrax/id689619329?ls=1&mt=8
Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.AGameAWeek.BlastTrax
and Jayenkai Archive : http://jayenkai.socoder.net/GameList.php?ShowJust=308
*Quote from the indie developer himself via twitter a few minutes ago, "As it begins to pop up, around the world, BlastTrax's staggered timezone-dependant AppStore release begins early!!! "
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S.1549: american jobs act of 2011 – u.s. congress, Opencongress summary this is the obama jobs bill as announced before a joint session of congress on september 8th. it would extend several stimulus measure that are.
Daily kos: unless congress acts, nearly 5 million long, But amid all the talk of these 1.3 million, it shouldn't be forgotten that it's estimated that another 1.6 million will cross over into "long-term.
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Two Metro riders rescued a 70-year-old man who fell onto the Metro tracks Friday afternoon.
The man reportedly lost his balance at the Farragut North station just before 1:45 p.m., according to Metro spokeswoman Cathy Asato.
Navy veteran Michael Schearer, told The Washington Examiner that he had just looked down the tunnel and saw a train coming. Then out of the corner of his eye he saw the man slip.
"It looked like he was just walking along the edge and tripped or something," he said.
The man was about 25 to 30 feet away, but near the mouth of the tunnel where the train was coming.
"There was no choice," Schearer said. He and another rider raced to help. The man had his arms on the platform, then the two hoisted him up by his shoulders, Schearer said.
The train passed by about 15 to 20 seconds later, Schearer estimated.
They tried to comfort the man, who was in serious pain and coughing up blood, until medical crews arrived. They found his phone and called his wife.
The man was taken to George Washington University Hospital, Asato said, but the extent of his injuries was not available.
Schearer tweeted under his handle, @theprez98, about the incident shortly afterward, saying, "My heart is still on over-drive."
He soon added: "Just doing what I hope any other passenger would do for me or anyone else. Not a hero just a fellow citizen."
Surprisingly, such rescues are not unheard of at Metro. In December, riders rescued a person in a wheelchair who fell at Potomac Avenue. Last April, riders rescued a couple in their 70s who fell at Gallery Place. Another rider who fell during President Obama's 2009 inauguration was saved by a visiting police officer who rolled her into the safety crawl space beneath the platform before a train could hit her. And a video of another rescue by riders went viral in 2010.
However, not all falls onto the tracks have such happy outcomes. At least four people since 2009 have been killed after accidentally falling into the tracks.


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FALL FROM GRACE. Giants bemoan having 30th-ranked defense in the NFL.
FALL FROM GRACE. Giants bemoan having 30th-ranked defense in the NFL.
"That's a fall from grace," defensive tackle Chris Canty said. "It's tough to realize that's the position that we're in, that's the quality of work that we put together. But the facts are the facts. That's what it is. It's disappointing. I'm sure that every guy on the defense in this locker room would say that. So, for whatever reason, we didn't put our best effort on a consistent basis throughout the season, but with every game there is an opportunity to turn that around."
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Mark wouldn't even let the blame for the struggles rest on Wayne Hunter:
I don't know. I'm sure on the outside it might look that way but we all had our share in not scoring a touchdown yet. We're in the red zone and I had a pass picked off and taken back for a touchdown. So, we all had our share of mistakes and we've all had games where we haven't played our best. It's not just one guy's fault, we all had a hand in it.
Sanchez had plenty of opportunity to sound frustrated with his offense, and it would have been justified. There are a lot of guys out there that would come unglued with all the pressure he has on him, between the situation with Tebow, and the struggling offense so far. But no, he stays positive, he keeps his emotions cool. This is the mark of a guy that can be a great quarterback.
We hope sooner rather than later.