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The FTC said it was looking into assertions that oil companies are using their influence over retail gas stations to block consumers from accessing gasoline blended with extra ethanol.
By TENNILLE TRACY
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Trade Commission said it was
looking into assertions by some members of Congress that oil
companies are using their influence over retail gas stations to
block consumers from accessing gasoline blended with extra
The inquiry underscores the deepening divide between the
renewable fuels industry, which wants to promote E15 gasoline
containing 15% ethanol, and the oil industry, which says
consumers don't want E15. Oil producers and refiners are
pressing Congress to repeal the United States law that requires
refiners to use ever greater amounts of corn ethanol and
renewable fuels.
A pair of lawmakers, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota) and Sen.
Chuck Grassley (Iowa), called for the FTC inquiry, saying they
had reports of instances where oil companies pressed
independent gas stations to sell premium gasoline in addition
to regular gasoline. Since most stations own only two storage
tanks, such a demand would make it impossible for gas stations
to offer higher ethanol blends without installing a
new tank, said the senators, both of whom hail from states
where ethanol is produced.
"Given the implication these alleged activities could have
on competition in the marketplace, we urge you to
investigate them and consider whether any action is necessary,
they said in an Aug. 2 letter to the FTC that" described the
oil companies' alleged actions as a possible antitrust
The FTC said in a response that it would look into the
issue. The letter didn't suggest the FTC was opening a formal
The Justice Department hasn't yet responded to the
lawmakers' request, according to Mr. Grassley's staff.
The American Petroleum Institute, which represents oil
producers, and the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, which
represents refiners, said they were reviewing the senators'
letter and didn't have immediate comment on it.
A 2007 renewable fuels law forces refiners to blend a
certain number of gallons of renewable fuel into gasoline each
year. The 2013 standard requires the use of nearly 17 billion
gallons of renewable fuel, most of which is corn ethanol.
The oil industry and other critics have questioned the
wisdom of the law in recent months as overall gasoline
consumption fails to keep pace with lawmakers' expectations.
Refiners say the law forces them to use more renewable fuel
than is physically possible given that most gasoline contains
only 10% ethanol, a problem known as the
blend wall.
The Environmental Protection Agency has
approved the use of 15% blends for newer cars, but E15 hasn't
become popular with consumers. According to the Renewable Fuels
Association, roughly 30 stations in eight states offer the 15%
Renewable fuels companies say oil companies are trying to
block the use of E15. The Renewable Fuels Association, a
lobbying group for the industry, says it knows of at least one
Kansas station owner who was allegedly pressured by an oil
company to stop offering E15.
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I agree with Geoffrey and Bill.
Prakash Lakhapate
First option should be to use renewable energy sources such as Solar, Wind etc.If it is not feasible then use CH4 as fuel.If CH4 is not available then use gasoline , diesel etc by using Ethanol.For reducing pollution use of Ethanol is email@example.com
Norm Ferguson
Most of the energy companies are also in the ethanol business, having read the writing on the wall many years ago that methanol was the next best thing to sliced bread. Unfortunately ethanol absorbs water and if you live in a coastal area or are in marine service ethanol causes other issues. Not the magic elixir many thought.
Geoffrey Mbaku
It takes one and a half gallon of gasoline to produce on gallon of ethanol. Ethanol comes from corn. So many of the consumer goods we use comes from corn. When it is mandated that E15 or at least 15% of gasoline we use be made up of ethanol, the price of corn goes up and so do the price of the so many items that are made from corn. Whenever you read an article such as the one below, know some one from the corn producing states or corn industry is behind it. The US now has plenty of crude oil and natural gas. At this time we do not need the help of corn as part of our abundant energy solutions. Geoffrey Mbaku.
Why doesn't the article state the whole story about E15? The absence of the following facts makes the both article partisan and misleading regardless of the writer's intent. Automakers have declared E15 unsuitable for use in nearly all new (2014) and older cars. E15 has been determined by engine manufacturers to cause severe engine (cylinder head) damage. As use of E15 violates a car's warranty, car manufacturers have publicaly stated they will not cover or repair the damage. If a gasoline producer's pure gasoline is blended into E15, does any intelligent individual believe that the resulting class action lawsuit will focus upon the local, independent gasoline retailer or the refining industry? The EPA ruling is purely a political move that steadfastly refuises to accept the professional engineering claims of the automobile manufacturers. Look at the two corn-bribed politicians demanding this truly 'phony' investigation. Given the certainty of damages to the public caused by E15, what refiner would choose to risk suffering a costly lawsuit caused by a 3rd party using its gasoline to blend a damaging fuel? I would consider a manufacturer's efforts to prevent consumer complaints / damages and avoid lawsuits a laudable effort and a 'best practice'. Do PAC-funded politicians exhibit the same behavior? If you agree, please vioce your support of the refining industry by contacting your congressmen and demanding that they 'defend the consumer' against the self-interests of the corn & ethanol lobbiests and the politicized EPA.Personal Disclosure: I do not work for any refiner or oil producer. I do own mutual funds in my 401k that may be invested in them. Most importantly, my family drives gasoline powered automobiles and uses gasoline powered lawn mowers that would be severely damaged should they be run on E15.
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Hotel Palacio Santa Ines
Palacio Santa Inés is a charming property situated in the Albayzín, old neighbourhood declared Inheritance of Mankind by the UNESCO, wich overlooks the Alhambra and very close to Plaza Nueva.
The Hotel is composed of two Mudejar buildings built in the first third of the 16 th Century.
Crossing the small hall at the entrance guests will be fascinated by the beauty of the of the patio with its fountain, columns, balustrade , ornamental tile and renaissance paintings.
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If it's not something like beet juice,Annatto Extract or like that then The FDA does not require companies to disclose ingredients of color or flavor additives so long as all the chemicals in them are considered by the agency to be GRAS ("generally recognized as safe") enabling companies to maintain secrecy of formulas. It also hides the fact that flavors often contain more ingredients than the foods to which they give taste. A typical artificial strawberry flavor contains over 30 chemicals. According to manufacturer safety data sheets those chemicals cause eye irritation, corneal damage, eye burns, skin irritation, severe / permanent damage to digestive tract, gastrointestinal irritation, gastrointestinal tract burns, CNS depression, neurological effects, liver abnormalities, cardiac abnormalities, or other harm. Natural flavor, according to the FDA, must be derived entirely from natural sources (herbs, spices, fruits, vegetables, beef, chicken, yeast, bark, roots, etc). Consumers prefer to see natural flavors on a label out of a belief they are more healthful. Natural flavor is not necessarily more healthful or purer than an artificial flavor. Almond flavor when derived from natural sources may contain traces of hydrogen cyanide, a deadly poison. When derived by mixing oil of clove & amyl acetate, it does not. Natural flavors and artificial flavors are often manufactured at same chemical plants. Flavor manufacturing may also involve biotechnology, using enzyme reactions, fermentation, & fungal and tissue cultures. Flavors created by these methods are considered natural flavors by the FDA. In addition to flavor chemicals also think about genetic engineering of food, DNA or gene alteration, and medicines and hormones given to cows, cattle, hogs, and chickens. What affect does it have upon us? Some are suspected causes of cancer or other problems. When a natural flavor or artificial flavor is added to a food or drink the resultant processed food is no longer natural & is potentially harmful. Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20030608101921/www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/opa-bckg.html Most artificial colorings are synthetic chemicals that do not occur in nature. Because colorings are used almost solely in foods of low nutritional value (candy, soda pop, gelatin desserts, etc.), you should simply avoid all artificially colored foods. In addition to problems mentioned below, colorings cause hyperactivity in some sensitive children. The use of coloring usually indicates that fruit or other natural ingredient has not been used. Any color added to a product to enhance its esthetics. Every batch of artificial color has to be certified safe by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before it can be used. In 2000, for example, the FDA certified more than 13 million pounds of color additives. The "FD&C" in the name of an artificial color stands for the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the 1938 legislation that gave the government authority to regulate the dyes used in foods, drugs and cosmetics. The artificial colors used in foods are identified by number and appear on the ingredient statement as (for example) "FD&C Blue No. 2."All things considered, food colors have an excellent safety record. A few colors have been pulled off the market when they were suspected of causing cancer in experimental animals. This sounds intimidating, but it should be kept in mind that connections have been tenuous at best. Massive amounts are used in studies while extremely small amounts of colors are used in foods. Another concern to consider, however, is allergies. The intake of tartrazine (FD&C Yellow No. 5), for instance, has been associated with allergic reactions and behavior problems in children; still, this occurred in a small segment of the population. Artificial coloring can utilize a gluten-containing grain or by-product in the manufacturing process, or as an ingredient. (source:http://www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm)


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We had an old site that had html pages in it. One of the pages in that site was linked to from many other sites.
Now we moved to a WordPress site, and we created a page with that name, but of course it doesn't have the ".html" extension, so links to that page lead to an empty page...
I saw a plugin that adds html extesnsions to all pages, but I don't want that - I have only one page to which I want to add .html.
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Rutgers Law Review Article Declares All U.S. Wars Since World War II Unconstitutional
July 26, 2011 –A detailed article in the upcoming issue of the Rutgers Law Review (63:2) has challenged the constitutionality of all the wars fought since World War II, because they have not been declared by Congress. Instead, Congress has allowed the President to decide on war.
Rutgers School of Law–Newark Professor Emeritus Alfred W. Blumrosen and Steven M. Blumrosen, the authors of "Restoring the Congressional Duty to Declare War," rely not only on the language of the Constitution that "Congress shall have the power to declare war" but also on the debates in the Constitutional Convention that began June 1, 1787. On that day, Charles Pinckney from South Carolina made clear that he opposed giving the power of war to the President because that would render him "a Monarchy of the worst kind, to wit an elective one."
The Convention took two votes. The first put the power of war in the Congress and the second prohibited the Congress from transferring that power to the President. In the following weeks all but one member of the Convention joined Pinckney in the conclusion that Congress, and not the President, should declare war.
Later in the convention, after Pinckney pointed out that Congress might not be in session when the country was attacked, the Convention provided that the Congress could allow the President to call out the state militias in cases of insurrection, invasion, or resistance to federal laws. Congress later implemented its power by declaring a limited war on France for seizing seamen from American ships under claims that they were French. In 1880 the Supreme Court approved this procedure by interpreting the Declare War clause as encompassing "any contention by force" with another country, including both full-scale wars and limited wars. But the events at the Convention and the early Supreme Court opinions were not considered by Congress and the lower Federal Courts when the president was allowed to determine on war in Vietnam in 1964 and against Iraq in 2003.
The authors found that the Federal judicial system had ignored the decision of the Constitutional Convention and the early Supreme Court opinions. They participated in a case against President Bush (NJ Peace Action, et al v. President Bush, changed by the Court to recognize President Obama), which demonstrated that, in 2010, the federal courts were continuing to ignore the Constitution. Based upon their findings, the authors recommend that there be additional litigation.


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What is Young-Earth Creationism, and the Biblical basis for it?
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Young Earth Creationism is the belief that the Earth is between 6000 and 12000 years old (depending on the tradition.) The Biblical basis for it is taking the periods starting with Genesis 1 and adding them up. The variation in years depends on counting methods, the largest variation being that of considering Genesis 'days' to be 1000 years each.
Young Earth Creationism, abbreviated YEC, is the idea that the earth is relatively young (several thousand years old) compared to Old Earth Creationism (OEC) which agree with secular science that currently claims the earth is 4.55 Billion years old.
While there is a lot of good physical evidence for YEC discussed elsewhere the question at hand is what is the Biblical basis for it.
Here is my opinion on the Biblical basis:
The bottom line is to get an Old Earth View, you have to change the standard interpretation of much of the scripture and take many words out individually nit picking at what their meaning could be, instead of looking at the passage as a whole. Also the main proponents of OEC such as Hugh Ross, for an example, have come from first from a secular background and tried to reconcile what they already believed with the bible. Look at his bio; he states clearly that he went looking for a religion that fit what he understood to be true about science. Instead of coming to Christ and trying to find out what is truth, they do the opposite; they say, "This is true, now how can we make christianity agree with it?"
1 Romans 5:12 states that death entered the world because of the sin of Adam. Now some YEC's taken that to an extreme and say that the 2nd law of thermodynamics entered the world at that time, and that's a big stumbling block for OEC's like Hugh Ross. I don't make that claim and don't think the bible makes the claim that entropy = death. In fact in there is allot of chaos in genesis before man shows up. But while some will claim there is no biblical support for the idea that death means anything other than human death, I think it's very clear if you look throughout the bible you see the ideal that man's sin is the cause for animal suffering.
2 It's true the Hebrew word
3 as stated in many arguments against a global flood, if it rained for 40 days enough to cover the current topography of earth it would rain so hard that the friction from the water would burn the atmosphere and also the rain would so much force as to brake the ark itself. But instead of saying the rain caused the flood it says he broke open the fountains of the deep, AND it rained.
Young Earth Creationism is the view that the universe and all that is in it (including earth) was created by God in a 6 day period, not by unaided natural processes over billions of years. As a result, the earth is thousands of years old, not millions or billions.
The biblical basis is a straightforward reading of the creation account in Genesis 1.
An article on the Biblical basis for young earth creationism.
1. Matter in the universe is bounded. 2. The universe has expanded. 3. The Earth is near the centre of the universe. 4. The universe is young as measured by clocks on Earth. 5. The original matter God created was ordinary liquid water. 6. God transformed the water into various elements by compaction.
Another article: (It's not just about the Biblical basis but these are the main headings for the Biblical basis.)
1. The Bible Places Man at the Beginning 2. The Scriptures Affirm a Brief History of Man 3. A Compromise with Evolutionary Chronology
Yet another webpage that links to several articles about the Biblical basis for young earth creationism.
1. The Age of Humanity 2. Creation According to the Bible 3. Evidence from the Grand Canyon 4. The findings of human and dinosaur footprints together 5. Evidence from the flood
Young Earth Creationism (YEC) is the view that the world was created by God in a 6 day period only a few thousand years ago. Surprisingly, it requires a non-literal reading of the Bible.
The biblical account in Genesis 1:1-2:4a is straight-forward enough in telling us that creation took just six days, but what it does not tell us is how long ago those six days were. For this we need to harmonise the first creation account (Genesis 1:1-2:4a) with the second account (Genesis 2:4b-25). The second account tells us of the creation of Adam, and then a biblical genealogy, from Adam onwards, tells us that Adam was created around six thousand years ago.
However, a careful reading of Genesis tells us that the two stories are independent of each other and, when read in the Hebrew language, do not even appear to have been written by the same author. Leon R. Kass says in The Beginning of Wisdom, page 56, that once we recognise the independence of the two creation stories, we must scrupulously avoid reading into the second story any facts or notions taken from the first, and vice versa. Young Earth Creationism suffers from the restriction that without the assumed link between the first story and the second, it is only possible to say when the life on earth was created, but not when the earth itself was created.


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An example like the extJS API-Documentation
i'm new to extJS and i'm looking for an example that looks like the API-Document-Browser. This means that there should be a menu (treeview) on the left side and a tabpanel on center-region. Everytime i click on a node in my treeview, a tab opens in the tabpanel. all tabs must be closable, expect of the last, which should be invisible (only the tab, NOT the content ).
My questions: Is there such an example anywhere? Or: How can i link the nodes in the treeview with a tab-open-event and which property must be set, if i want to load another sub-site with ajax in the newly created tab?
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Thank you, this is excellent!
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Starting next month, Kentucky residents may see a new label on vegetables and farm products: Homegrown by Heroes.
The label is part of a movement to help interested veterans learn to farm.
Michael Lewis, the director of the Growing Warriors program, said farming helped both him and his brother after leaving the military.
Lewis told The Lexington Herald-Leader, "You start to farm and you realize it could benefit your family, your community, and that's extremely rewarding. You're bettering your country."
More than 60 percent of the active-duty military come from small-town, rural backgrounds, so farming often resonates with them.
Lewis said veterans already have the discipline and work ethic needed to make a go of farming, but often need help on the business side.


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The PLU choral tradition is featured prominently throughout the 2015-2016 season. This of concerts features music from a wide variety of the choral genres including classical masterworks, exciting new trends in choral music, multi-cultural composition, and arrangements from our American musical heritage.
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Choir of the West NCCO Preview Concert
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Choral Union
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Saturday, December 5, at 8pm – Lagerquist Concert Hall, PLU
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Sandstrom: St. Matthew Passion
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University Chorale Spring Concert
Thursday, April 21, at 8pm
University Singers, Chamber Vocal Ensemble and Men's Chorus
Tuesday, April 26, at 8pm
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Let $S$ be a finite set. Now $\mathop{End}(S)$ is a monoid, and we may build a ring $R$ by allowing formal sums of functions.
Preliminary questions, since $R$ is surely well-known: What is it called? In a general category, what is the name of the construction that builds a ring out of the endomorphisms of an object?
My real question is about $A = R \otimes \mathbb{C}$. Restricting to the subalgebra generated by the automorphisms of $S$, it is clear that understanding the representation theory of symmetric groups is a prerequisite for understanding $A$. Are the symmetric groups on sets of size smaller than $| S |$ responsible for all nontrivial properties of $A$? If so, what suitably strong formulation of inclusion/exclusion is at work?


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What a fascinating, varied group of people we find on BT!
. . . as a former administrator of parisian cemeteries . . .
Paris/Ballet questionMontmartre Cimetiere
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Posted 12 May 2007 - 02:56 PM
Well, congrats to Pierre Lacotte and others, because as a former administrator of parisian cemeteries I know very well how it's difficult to get to have the location of someone's grave on the maps. Who did handle the request ?
I don't know specifically, but I know that the Registrar of Vital Statistics and the Academie Française were active in the matter. As late as 1990, the Registrar for Marseilles had no idea that any person named "Marie Taglioni" had EVER lived or died there! The office was, however, aware of a certain "Comtesse Gilbert de Voisins", but had no idea of what she did other than be a countess! You just have to admire bureaucracy, don't you?
Posted 12 May 2007 - 06:01 PM
Pere Lachaise is a very beautiful cemetery, but it can be difficult to locate specific graves, even with a map. It's well worth a visit but I recommend that you go early in the morning to avoid the midday sun. It also gets more and more crowded as it gets later in the day. And wear comfortable shoes - that's really important!!
Posted 13 May 2007 - 01:07 AM
You just have to admire bureaucracy, don't you?
Well I don't know the City of Marseilles' administration but I can tell you the city of Paris' is terribly bureaucratic
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I was very strict on that policy, families can (and sometines do!) intend lawsuits against administration. Nevertheless, you can't control everything from your office, and often if you go to the offices of the cemeteries (there are 19 in Paris) and ask for a particular grave, you may be told the answer. I don't know how strict is their policy now. I was amazed to see how it's easy to get infos from American cemeteries !
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Well, for the ones who would be tempted to get infos from french cemeteries, I have to warn you that french legislation related to secret of private life doesn't allow those who aren't "tenant in common" of the plot to get some infos. The only thing they can do is to go in the cemetery, try to find the grave and see what's written on.
I appreciate your comments, cygneblanc.
We had elaborate handwritten notes, several years ago, from someone who had visited the gravesite of
Olga Preobrajenskaya at Montmartre cemetary. After failing to find it during our visit, we went to the office
and asked. The person told us she could give us the location only if we provided the exact year of death,
because that's how names are listed.
We knew approximately but not exactly.
We never found the gravesite, although saw many others, including Nijinsky's, during our search.
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Posted 14 May 2007 - 01:00 AM
Excel doesn't work for those things since there are about 7 000 000 000 bodies in parisan cemeteries There is a special sofware developped especially. Some names are already computarized and the full thing should be finished in 10 years !
Err, could you explain why there are so many bodies ? 7 *billion* sounds so enormous, compared to the world population...
Posted 14 May 2007 - 01:48 AM
Well, there are a lot explanations. I won't enter into details very much because the thread will become gruesome, but you can do a lot of things with a single plot. Cremation until a few years ago wasn't usual and it was thought in the 19th and 20th that it was important to have a big plot with a deep vault and an impressive monument.
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My camera takes .mov files as movies. How can I remove all metadata from them so I can feel confident sharing them on youtube without accidentally sharing when/where they were filmed, what type of camera I have, etc. A command line one-liner is nice, but if it's too confusing, a GUI program would be better.
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With Nation's Eyes On Newtown, Washington Distracted By Fiscal Cliff
Anyone hoping that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre might change dynamics in the nation's capital when it comes to the issue of guns met some level of Washington reality on Wednesday.
President Obama held a news conference to announce his response to the Connecticut killings of 26 grade-schoolers and educators, including his naming of Vice President Joe Biden to head a team that will recommend in a month actions that might help prevent future Sandy Hooks.
But when Obama began taking questions, the White House press corps didn't ask about gun violence. Instead, journalists focused on fiscal cliff negotiations. And the president accommodated them with the kind of lengthy, discursive answers he is famous for, which cause many a listener's mind to wander (and perhaps on Wednesday, wonder if the session would end before someone could follow up with a gun violence question).
This did not go unnoticed by some in the mainstream media and others on social media.
Journalists eventually did get around to asking the president follow-up questions about his gun announcement, including ABC News' Jake Tapper, who asked the president a question that has been on many minds, namely, "Where have you been" the past four years on the issue of gun violence?
To which the president essentially said he was busy on other matters, like rescuing the U.S. economy.
Obama's news conference was followed by an appearance by House Speaker John Boehner, advertised by his office as a "media availability." As it turned out, the speaker wasn't all that available.
He stood before the mics and cameras for all of 51 seconds to chide the president for allegedly being unserious in the fiscal cliff negotiations, then disappeared back into his office. Reporters didn't have a chance to ask him about guns.
A group of House Democrats, meanwhile, held a news conference to call on the Republicans who control the House to schedule a vote by Saturday on legislation by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy of New York and Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado that would ban the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines.
But there are no signs that a vote will be scheduled for the legislation — which was drafted months before the Newtown massacre.
In a sign of just how little the prevailing partisan atmosphere has been changed by the Newtown tragedy, DeGette said that since House members returned to work Monday, "in just over 24 hours we've picked up 21 co-sponsors, and we believe we'll have even more by the end of today.
"Sadly, none of those co-sponsors are Republicans, and we have approached many of our Republican friends and colleagues. Some of them say they're thinking about it," said DeGette. "And we hope they think hard about it."
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I'll be at Intervention7 this September!
We STILL seem to have a RANDOM ARCHIVE GLITCH where clicking on the next comic will take you to the next comic page, but oddly display a comic from a totally different date. Hitting Refresh sometimes helps.
Comic for Monday 03/11/13
REFERENCES (and there may be a lot this chapter!)...
Gwynn: First Appearance | Last Appearance (walking off in the first panel) (2009) | Although not if you count the semi-canon awesome guest week "The Proof"!
Aylee: First Appearance | First Appearance in current form | Last Appearance (with nose!) (2010)
Lacey (who has never been seen with Gwynn or mentioned as a friend of Gwynn previously): First Appearance | Last Appearance (demon lacewing form) (2008)
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Stack Exchange is a fast-growing network of Question and Answer sites on diverse topics from software development to cooking to photography and gaming. It is an expert knowledge exchange: a place where physics researchers can ask each other about quantum entanglement, computer programmers can ask about JavaScript date formats, and photographers can share knowledge about taking great pictures in the snow.
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STEUBENVILLE - Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge David Henderson will order the computer servers that contained information pertaining to an Internet blog site that is the focus of a slander lawsuit be preserved until he makes a ruling on what, if any, information from the servers can be used in court.
Cody Saltsman and his parents, James and Johna Saltsman, filed the lawsuit through their attorney, Shawn Blake, in connection with comments made on the blog prinniefied.com, operated by Alexandria Goddard of Columbus, in connection with a rape investigation that led to the arrest of two Steubenville High School athletes and students.
Goddard hasn't been served with the lawsuit and wasn't in court Monday during a hearing about the information on the computer servers. Goddard was represented by attorney Thomas Haren of Independence during the hearing, who refused to say where she is located based on attorney-client privilege.
The Saltsmans are seeking an injunction to have alleged false and defamatory statements removed from the blog site. The family also is seeking monetary damages and a public apology. The injunction hearing can't proceed until Goddard is served with the lawsuit.
Blake has had private investigators searching for Goddard but hasn't been able to locate her.
The lawsuit claims Goddard created several blogs on her Internet site regarding the sexual assault. The lawsuit also names 15 people as defendants by the fictitious names they created and registered on the blog.
The lawsuit states Goddard has control over her Internet site and can publish or remove any comments posted by registered users. Goddard has knowledge of the registered user's Internet protocol addresses, as well as their e-mail addresses, and can ban their postings, the lawsuit states.
Blake issued a subpoena on the Internet server company Hostgator.com, located in Houston to get the Internet protocols that can be used to identify the names of the unknown defendants.
Haren objected to Blake's request and Blake's motion heard by Henderson on Monday seeking discovery along the same lines.
Blake said Goddard has since switched server providers to Kuddos.com, located in Hong Kong.
Haren claims Blake has made no effort to resolve the discovery issue prior to filing the motion heard Monday.
In a letter to Blake, Heren said, "Shawn, your clients' attempts to stifle public debate about a horrible alleged crime in your community are anathema to the founding principles of our liberal democracy."
Blake claims it is appropriate procedure to serve subpoenas on Internet service providers and ask the ISPs to provide notice to the anonymous defendants for the opportunity for them to assert objections on their own behalf. Blake said, at this point, the ISPs are the only source of the information related to the defendants' identities.
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Q: My son will be going to kindergarten in September. What can I expect his evaluation to include and how can I prepare him?
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Some schools give a screening that is based on academic readiness -- children may be asked to identify colors, letters, numbers, write their name, and count. Other schools give a test that shows developmental maturity through fine motor and social skills -- children are asked to build with blocks, draw pictures, and answer questions about family and friends. Still other schools give tests that are a combination of both academic and developmental readiness.
Whatever kind of screening your son's school uses, the best preparation is to help him feel confident. Kindergarten screening tests are best used to help teachers know where to begin in their work with the children rather than to assist in placement decisions. If your son feels comfortable in separating from you and confident that he will be able to do everything that he needs to do, he will be able to do his best on the screening.
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CAIRO (AP) — A hammering 6-1 loss to Ghana was more than just a blow to Egypt's faltering hopes for a spot in next year's World Cup finals. The humiliation immediately became entangled in Egypt's bitterly divisive politics.
Supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president crowed that the debacle was payback for the military coup that removed Mohammed Morsi.
Politics even intruded during Tuesday night's World Cup qualifier match, held in the Ghanaian town of Kumasi. Some Ghana fans in the stands held up a four-finger gesture symbolizing support for Morsi and the Islamists — apparently to taunt the Egyptian fans, some of whom replied with angry thumbs-down gestures.
"The coup team has been defeated," proclaimed one Morsi supporter, Mohammed Ibrahim, on Twitter.
Another blamed military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who removed Morsi. "You jinxed us, el-Sissi," Mohammed Dardeer wrote on Facebook, calling the general "religiously defiled."
Egypt has been profoundly polarized by the July 3 coup. Since the ouster of Morsi — the country's first freely elected president — the new military-backed government has waged a fierce crackdown on his Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist allies.
Supporters of the military say Morsi and the Islamists tried to take over Egypt and represent a violent, radical force. Morsi supporters, in turn, accuse the military of wrecking a fledgling democracy and leading the country back into autocracy.
"It cannot be a coincidence," Alaa Sadeq, a career sports commentator turned Morsi supporter, wrote on his Twitter account after the loss. "Can success be on the side of a nation being run by a coup?"
The pro-Morsi camp was quick to note that the Pharaohs' lone goal was scored by the team's star, Mohammed Aboutrika, who openly sympathizes with the Brotherhood.
Egypt's soccer addicts have been buzzing for months that Aboutrika's political persuasion may be causing divisions in the locker room. In one incident, he got into an acrimonious political argument with an army officer assigned to escort the team to its hotel when it returned home from a foreign trip after nighttime curfew.
Brotherhood opponents accused pro-Morsi fans of rooting against their own team. That too had a political overtone: Many accuse the Brotherhood of being more loyal to its international Islamist agenda than its own nation.
"Pro-Morsi supporters who are cheering for Ghana are simply sick and twisted," wrote Nervana Mahmoud, a well-known anti-Brotherhood activist, on Twitter.
Brotherhood "people hope that Egypt loses," tweeted Mahmoud Salem, a prominent blogger known as "Sandmonkey."
Heading into the match, the government had given a pro-military spin to the team.
The sports minister said the Pharaohs were taking to Ghana "the spirit of October," referring to the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war that is touted in Egypt as a victory for its military. The minister also accompanied the team to Kumasi.
Even the airing of the match got pulled into politics. The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera network accused Egypt's state television of violating its exclusive broadcast rights by airing the match on its terrestrial channel. Egyptian authorities loathe Al-Jazeera for its perceived pro-Brotherhood bias, an accusation the network denies.
State TV chairman Essam el-Ameer insisted it was "our right" to air the match and "we will do it again with any matches we want."
"We will never surrender the rights of our people," he told the official Al-Ahram newspaper Wednesday.
The entanglement of sports and politics is not uncommon in this soccer-mad nation. Egypt's losses to Algeria in qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup finals sparked a stone-throwing assault on the Algerian Embassy in Cairo and a diplomatic spat between the two countries.
The return leg against Ghana will be played in Egypt on Nov. 19. But the Pharaohs' coach, American Bob Bradley, admitted that after Tuesday's heavy loss it was "nearly impossible" for the Egyptians to win a spot in the 2014 finals in Brazil.
The Pharaohs last reached the World Cup finals in 1990.
Egyptians have been desperately looking for something to cheer about after 2 ½ years of turmoil, including a 2012 soccer riot that killed 74 people.
Tuesday's lopsided score was all the more painful because it came on the first day of a major Muslim holiday, the Eid al-Adha, or the feast of sacrifice.
"Ghana slaughters the Pharaohs on Eid al-Adha," said Al-Ahram al-Masai, alluding to the Islamic tradition of sacrificing a sheep, goat or cow to mark the holiday.
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We saw with Steven's demonstration of the new task manager that metro apps are suspended when not visible. Is it possible to create apps that perform background tasks - for example an app which watches a folder and when a file within it changes it does something with it and then (excuse the osx reference) posts a growl like notification to inform the user.
Yes, check out this SDK Sample http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Background-Task-Sample-9209ade9 to download them all see http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Windows-Developer-Preview-6b53adbb (they are awesome!)
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Hamachi sashimi, a Chilean sea bass, a bone-in filet—it all sounds scrumptious, right? It certainly was, and the small group who attended the Lexus VIP Dinner at Mastro's Ocean Club, which celebrated the launch of the automaker's lS model, indulged on all of it. Chef Matt Briggs prepared the decadent fare for guests like Keith Jarrett and Sara Guggenheim Jarrett to enjoy on the alfresco patio. Wine was poured for each course, and the gourmands savored every sip while Briggs shared his inspiration behind the meal. To finish the culinary affair: a signature butter cake and a striking sunset over the ocean—a perfect pairing for the night. –Photos by Xuong Do of Happy Photos


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This Week's Liturgy
To lay down one's life
May 10th, 2015 (see other dates)
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Discussion Questions for Reading 1Brainstorm the various groups and communities to which you belong. What requirements, if any, do people have to meet in order to become members? How would you respond if you thought that some new members did not meet the requirements? Some of Jesus' first followers found it hard to accept those who were not Jews into the Church. Why do you think they resisted the newcomers?
How would you describe Peter's behavior throughout this story? How does your parish welcome those who want to join the Church? What would you say is the most important truth we can absorb from this reading?
Reading 1 Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48
Reading 1 ReflectionThis reading describes a shocking event in the life of the early Church. Because the first followers of Jesus were all Jewish, they believed that his good news was intended just for the Jews. However, God had other plans. He inspired the centurion Cornelius to invite Peter to his home. And when Peter arrived, he suddenly saw that "God shows no partiality" between Jews and Gentiles. Then the Holy Spirit placed his "seal of approval" on this wonderful revelation by descending on Cornelius and his entire household.
Peter welcomed these newcomers into the Christian community by ordering that they be baptized. He remained with them for a few days to teach them about Jesus and strengthen their faith.
Discussion Questions for Reading 2With your partner or group, come up with as many endings to this statement as you can in one minute: Love means. . .
How would you summarize your group's statements? Who are the people who have shared God's love with you? What are the signs of God's love alive in your parish?
What does this reading say about those who are "without love"? Suggest ways of helping these people come to know God's love.
Reading 2 1 John 4:7-10
Reading 2 ReflectionWe can safely say that the writer of this letter has love on his mind. In fact, he uses the word in one form or another ten times. What he wants all of Jesus' followers to be absolutely certain of in their hearts is that God is love. And before we ever thought of loving God, he loved us first. It is his love in us that we share with one another.
In this joyful Easter season, we are celebrating the greatest proof of God's love for all people. What is that proof?
Discussion Questions for GospelHow many times does Jesus use some form of the word "love" in this gospel reading? Why do you think he repeats it so often? In what ways does Jesus describe how he loves us? What is your favorite statement in this reading? Why? If you had been present at the Last Supper, how do you think Jesus' words would have affected you?
In what small, ordinary ways do you see members of your family, class, or parish "laying down their lives" for others? Consider how they place the needs and desires of others before what they want. Recall how they sacrifice their own time, talents, and material goods to help others.
Gospel John 15:9-17
Gospel ReflectionAnyone who happened to be in a selfish mood when they heard this gospel could not get away from it. Love is everywhere in Jesus' conversation with his friends at the Last Supper. He gives them and us his memorable commandment: "Love one another as I love you." It sounds simple. But he reminds us that loving as he does involves a willingness to "lay down one's life for one's friends."
During Lent we saw this love of Jesus in action. Now during the Easter season we rejoice that such love is victorious over sin and death.
Proclaiming Faith Activities for Primary Grades
Share the LoveIn the gospel, Jesus commands us to love one another.
Have the children make a treat to share with someone they love. Prepare a crisp cereal marshmallow treat. Recipes may be found on cereal boxes or on different web sites. When the tray of marshmallow crisp treat has set, use a heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut two hearts for each child. Provide pink or red icing and small candies for the children to decorate their hearts. Let the children eat one for a snack and package the other one to take home. Encourage the children to share the heart treat with someone they love.
Love One AnotherEncourage the children to show love to each other. On the prayer table place a small basket and a supply of pink or white paper hearts. Each time a child shows love to someone, have him or her illustrate this on one of the hearts and place it in the basket. When the basket is filled, have a celebration.
Proclaiming Faith Activities
Celebrating DifferencesAt the home of Cornelius, Peter caught on to an important message from the Holy Spirit. God shows no partiality among people. God accepts, and wants us to accept, anyone who is open to receive the Spirit.
Brainstorm all the differences you can think of among the people who worship at your parish. Sketch a circle of stick figures and label them with their different characteristics (age, ethnic or racial identity, how they serve or participate in the liturgy, etc.).
Celebrate these differences by writing a prayer, a poem, or a song of gratitude for all these various people God has called together in your parish.
Celebrating FriendsToday's gospel assures us that Jesus calls us his friends.
And he wants us to love our friends as he loves us.
Call to mind one or more friends of the past or the present.
For each friend, name one way he or she has shown true friendship for you.
Now name one way you have shown true friendship for each of these people.
Decide how you will thank Jesus for your friends and celebrate the gift of friendship by sharing a meal, a movie, an athletic event, a concert, a party, or an outing of any kind.
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What does backdoor technically mean in strategy games like DotA or League of Legends? Is it an accepted tactic or there are some rules that forbid it?
Backdooring typically refers to the act of taking out an enemies base tower or inhibitor/barracks while the enemy team is slow to respond to your presence, unaware of your advances on their base (due to poor map vision coverage), or otherwise occupied with fighting or pushing on their own.
Generally speaking, in League of Legends, a backdoor will occur while one team is pushing on 5v4, while the last remaining member of the defending team goes to take out towers. Strong backdoor champions include Master Yi (due to his high autoattack damage, steroid skills, and high mobility), Twisted Fate (long range ultimate), Pantheon (long range ultimate), or any other character that excels in dealing auto-attack damage and pushing.
Backdooring is not explicitly disallowed, nor is it a core part of gameplay (meaning you wont see a backdoor happen every game). However, as a rule of thumb, it's generally looked down upon by people in mid to low ELO brackets. You generally wont see it happen as much in higher level play as the enemy will be much more attentive of problem characters like that and wont give them the chance to do so. It's a perfectly legitimate tactic, just difficult to pull off in higher levels of play.
It should be noted that you should not be confusing "backdooring" with "split pushing". Split pushing is when the offensive team attempts to take down two or more towers simultaneously through the use of a single lane distraction. For example, a team may send 3 players to a single lane to push on the tower. The defending team overcompensates and sends all 5 to defend said tower and hopefully secure a few kills. Meanwhile, the other 2 offensive players have full potential to go and destroy another lane's tower.
In both cases, you can utilize long range ultimate characters like Pantheon, Twisted Fate, Nocturne, Shen or Karthus to dissuade or completely stop split pushing / backdooring. Additionally, the summoner spells Teleport and Fortify are great for preventing these tactics. It's not uncommon to have at least one person running Teleport on a team, and in Draft matches (where you have the ability to see the enemy team during champion select), it's often wise to have one character take Fortify if you identify their team as a push team.
A backdoor is when a single hero goes to attack enemy base while allied minions and enemies aren't there.
Example would be : A team fight is taking place near blue base, one of the five blue heroes avoids the fight to go and attack red towers while red team is occupied with the team fight !
In LOL, good heroes for backdoor are Master Yi, Twisted fate (because of his ult enabling him to back in 2 seconds), Udyr, or any hero dealing good auto-attack damage and that can survive long enough to tower shots.
Backdoor is when you start attacking enemy tower without your creep wave near that tower. Proof of that is the following.
Backdoor protection in dota 2
From official dota 2 in-game tip
From wiki:
Legality of backdooring along with some other rules depends on the host and the type of the tournament.On official Dota 2 International tournament there were no additional rules against backdooring(except the in-game backdoor protection passive),while on some smaller tournaments there are strict rules about it.
Backdooring was seen in dota 1 as a game guideline(fairplay) not as a major rule.The idea in dota was to help your creeps advance and push towers,rather than heroes just charging towers,and Icefrog wanted to point it out first by game rules later by backdoor protection.
But if Icefrog wanted to make backdooring a serious rule he could simply make it impossible to backdoor,instead he made it just a bit harder to accomplish(especially solo) or in early/midgame.
In public games there are no specific rules about using backdoor,it is only matter of fair play to avoid using it and keep the game fair.On tournaments there could spectator as a referee that follows specific rules and keeps game in line.
This is not the official terminology, but I see backdoor as way to take down the enemy base without going there by normal walking.
So in this definition you are backdooring when:
Thus, you avoid any kind of detection the enemy could have place to control the map. This would better suit the original meaning of the word. Note that even with that definition, I find it a perfectly legal way of playing. At the end, this is war and you want to win no matter what.
To go to the real definition, you can see here that it is when the enemy (one or more) attack one of your structure without support of their minions.
Backdooring has been endorsed as a acceptable tactic by Riot. And by the way, when you attack a tower without the support of your minions, turrets take only half damage from champions. So the rule is: if you can sustain the damage, you can backdoor.
Many players tend to reject that technique because of BDing being forbidden on the time of DotA (due to imbalance in some heroes capabilities). But as far as LoL is concerned backdooring is not a banable technique.
The definition of backdooring has changed over time.
The original usage was the act of attacking towers that were not the most exterior. For example, I would attack your base towers, barracks, or throne while you still had a complete set of outer towers standing. Changes in game mechanics have since made this impossible: you now must kill the most exterior tower in a lane, then the next tower, before moving on to the base tower in that lane.
IceFrog currently refers to backdooring as beginning an attack on towers without allied creeps present. Because he felt this was a problem, he has implemented extra defenses for towers when this occurs: they will take less damage and regenerate quickly to the health they were at prior to the backdooring attempt, if not killed off completely.
Backdooring in competitive play has in the past been explicitly banned in some tournaments, but rarely if at all in DotA since the above change was implemented. In HoN, it is still common for tournaments to ban backdooring base towers and Barracks, because neither the above change nor something which would address the problem have been added to the game.
Backdooring is thus, in high-level DotA, considered an acceptable tactic, typically countered through the use of TP scrolls and/or the structure fortification ability. Backdooring in HoN is still rarely seen but can be problematic. Opinion is split on whether this is acceptable or counterable. I do not know what the stance of LoL players is on the issue.
Backdooring means "attacking an enemy tower without the presence of allied minions" that is all it is. The number of allies or enemies present is irrelevant.
As for rules and "acceptance". Different games deal with it in different ways. DotA used to give towers regeneration if no minions were present so that you couldnt chip away at towers. LoL gives towers added armor and magic resist to make them tougher. These are the "in-game" mechanics to balance backdooring. For individual tournaments they may impliment different rules regarding the tactic. That being said, you need to kill towers to get to the enemy nexus so why not take one out when you have the opportunity? It is part of the game and the designers have addressed the matter in a manner they deem sufficient.


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David Yao
David Yao
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Noisebridge China Trip
My contract manufacturer for TV-B-Gone and TripGlasses and Trippy RGB Waves kits (and a few other things) has a plant in Shanghai and a plant in Ji Ning (about half way between Shanghai and Beijing) (both are SEZs -- Special Economic Zones).
Mike Zhao, an American who lives in San Rafael, but born in Shanghai, is the head of the contract manufacturer, called Etonnet. He's also a total geek, and goes to Maker Faire, and has been to Noisebridge. He's going to Shanghai and Ji Ning starting 20-October-2009, and asked me if I'd like to go, and asked if other NB people (and/or others) would like to go check out the manufacturing scene and China. Mike will return on the 27th, but I think it would be cool if the rest of us go to Beijing for a few days and check out a bit of China-ness there, as well as visit with some hacker-types at Beijing university. We will return on 3-November-2009.
To give a little taste of what it might be like:
A few months ago, Bunny, who manufactures Chumby in China, organized a trip to China to show interested people the manufacturing scene (and China). Evil Mad Scientist went along: Evil Mad Scientist Schenzhen trip
The cost will be very reasonable, as these things go, and the bulk of the cost would be the plane tickets to and from China. At the moment, a round trip ticket costs $694 (SFO to Shanghai, and then Beijing to SFO). When I went last time, nice hotel rooms were about $15 per night in the part of Shanghai I stayed in, and the total cost for me besides the plane ticket was about $350.
Note: We will need to limit the trip to the first 5 people other than me and Mike to buy their tickets, since we only have one large van to take us around once we get to China.
If you are interested, please add your name, below.
People interested in going to China from 20-October-2009 through 3-November-2009:
You do not need to be a member of Noisebridge to go on this trip.
Mitch Altman
David Yao
David Kelso
please add your name here
How to purchase an airplane ticket for $694 (if there are any of these remaining)
If you want to go on this trip, I would recommend buying your airplane ticket ASAP, since these cheap seats might not be available after today. Other seats may be available for $900 on other Airlines, such as Northwest Airlines. But it would be nicer if we all flew in together to Shanghai on the same plane.
Here's how Mitch got his plane tickets for $693.50:
- go to Kayak.com
- Click on the "Multi-city" radio-button.
- Fill in the first two lines like this:
- From: SFO To: PVG Leave: 10/20/09 Time: Anytime
- From: PEK To: SFO Leave: 11/03/09 Time: Anytime
- Click the "Search" button.
- If cheap seats are still available, the first item on the resulting screen (after a few false screens are possibly displayed first) will be the flight from Asiana Airlines for $694.
- Click on "select", which is underneath "$694". You can use Orbitz or CheapTickets or Expedia to purchase the tickets (Kayak does not charge anything). I used CheapTickets. Click the "Go" button.
- You are redirected to the site of your choice, where you can purchase the ticket.


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Quick bread alternatives were one of the hardest things for us to come up with when my husband was diagnosed with celiac disease. We love toasted bread for sandwiches, so I decided to create a savory waffle for our quick bread needs. These waffles are quick and easy, as well as, full of fiber and whole grain. We love having them with over easy eggs on top or they work perfectly with your favorite sandwich fillings. They also freeze perfectly!
Chickpea Oatmeal Waffles
(makes 1 sandwich)
- 1/4 cup Chickpea Fava Flour (Garbanzo Fava Flour)
- 1/3 cup Oatmeal (I used Quick Cooking)
- 1 Tbsp Flax Seed Meal (plus 3 Tbsp hot Water)
- 1/4 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tspSsalt
- 1/2 hot Water
Mix everything together and cook in a waffle iron. If you want it toasted, leave it in for a little longer.
Sarena is The Non-Dairy Queen. She writes about her family's adventures in eating healthy with multiple food allergies and intolerances. Read more from her here and here.


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Could anyone point me to a deal on Insanity or P90X?
I'm looking to score a great deal on either the Insanity workout program or the P90X program. Ideally I need to shed a reasonable 600lbs and I've heard these workout series work wonders for someone like me. Chinese counterfeit copies welcome also.
I just wish someone would post a deal on either of these so I can stumble my pudgy self through them. But where?
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did you see this:
@rlapid2112: nice, thank you. any more?
@w00tgurl: typically, I go to ebay for stuff like this.
@iggz: cough its why i don't wpost movies cough
just how fat are you?
remember, the chinese knockoffs contain lead and cadmium.
and melamine
600 pounds i would not recommend p90x or insanity, these workouts are nothing to write off. I have a friend who is a personal trainer and she says they kick her butt. supposedly insanity burns on average 1000 calories per workout
@kamikazeken: i would consider myself big-boned, or pleasantly plump, or fluffy.
i've never heard of those dangers in the knockoffs. could you elaborate? i don't want to risk my health over dangerous weight loss programs
@w00tgurl: 600lb is very reasonable amount to lose. I myself have about 700 or 800 pounds to lose. I plan on doing the bourbon and marshmallow diet to lose it. You should probably try it.
@coolphilip04: yes, i thought so too. i am a very confident person and can do whatever i put my mind to. there are some new p90x and insanity deals posted today, i may check those out.
any spam, i mean.. links for the bourbon and marshmallow diet? i'd even eat tapeworms at this point! summer's coming up
I want to believe that someone (not naming any names here, but you can guess) is pulling our collective leg. A need to lose 600 pounds would put a person at a 700+ pound weight. Stupid television shows aside, that's a dangerous amount of weight to carry around, and sudden exercise routines that are obviously not the norm for a person of that size could easily cause heart failure, a stroke, or other major health event.
What I suspect happened is that the OP posted 600 when 60 was meant, and is now just having a bit of fun. Might as well; it's Tuesday.
On the assumption that losing 60 lb is the goal:
Only the OP can now her current state of health, and whether or not such exertion would be helpful, or dangerous. There are people who are 50 or more pounds overweight, but lead an active life, and are not couch potatoes. There are others who are within the appropriate weight range, and do nothing. Obviously they'd be more at risk.
Is it really 600, or are you messing with Wooter Minds?
@w00tgurl: Um... well.... I invented the diet. You breakfast on bourbon, lunch on the mallows, and have bourbon for supper. You'll lose weight. Be sure to take vitamins, though.
Free Beer and Hot Wings show runs a 90-day guarantee with it if you aren't worried about the price.
That's how I ended up getting my P90x and I can say it is worth every penny.
www.freebeerandhotwings.com if you are interested in the guarantee, right hand side of the page.
Er, I interpreted this post as honestly a satire about the fact that someone keeps creating accounts and spamming the fresh tab with 87,000 "deals" on this insanity workout everyday, that I keep tattling on as spam. It's getting old.
@ocheri, you have any plus size outfits for our 600lb friend to make the pics interesting?
@kamikazeken: i'd need about 4 ohcheri thongs pieced together to take the sexy pic. that's why i need p90x. you guys can peek at my ankle for now
@tiamat114 i've been doing the same :(
You're going to be hard pressed to find an actual deal on a Beachbody product. They have their supply chain locked up pretty tight. Anything that's a good deal is likely fake. Maybe used, probably fake.
I have done both (and am currently mid cycle with Insanity) - if you aren't already in good shape, don't bother with Insanity. You'll be hunched over sucking air the entire time. You may leave the DVD on and "get through" the workout by doing 35% of the moves, but you won't see results.
Try P90X. I started P90X when I was about 285 pounds. 90 days later, I was 240 pounds. Yeah, half a pound a day. P90X is slower paced, better scalable to your fitness level, and has better technique coaching than Insanity does. It's also plenty hard - don't take away that I'm saying "Insanity hard P90X easy." Both workouts have left me wringing sweat out of my shirt (literally, I have done that). P90X is also a bit more flexible - you'll notice it when you're in it.
That said, spend the $120 on P90X. It isn't worth trying to find a deal, it won't happen. Otherwise, acquire it through less than ethical and legal means, I guess. But seriously, it's not that expensive.
Also, tangental, but make a commitment to eating right. Both Insanity and P90X include a nutrition guide (and a meal plan, if you are so inclined) - I never stuck to the plan, but have read the guides. It's really just eating what you know is healthy - grilled chicken instead of breaded, eating a salad instead of a burger, etc. You may also consider some supplements along the way.
Last thought - both P90X and Insanity are addicting. It's 6:27AM - I'm hitting submit, getting dressed, and pushing play on Insanity Cardio Recovery.
I have never done these workouts, but they must be intense judging by the sheer numbers of people on Craigslist trying to sell them off.
Oh, PS. Search on Craigslist.


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Here are five fairly large photos of Lopatkina as Nikaya. Two appended photos are of Lunkina in DQ. Click on each to make large.
Wonderful photos, thanks for the link. Is that Zelensky with her in the Shades scene?
I was so excited when I heard that the Kirov was bringing Bayadere to DC in June, I figured the chances were good that Lopatkina would come for the engagement. Now that they've switched the schedule to Giselle & the Forsythe program, I don't know. I don't think she dances in any of the Forsythe pieces, and while I'm sure whe'd be a great Mytha, it's not the same as seeing her Nikaya...