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hello all, I would like to know how to turn two engines at the same time, I read the topic about this, but I have not found the solution, I read all kind engine far, but I have not found a way. ahh and it wants to control themselves without using the class as well if the pilot is done.
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March, 2011
The March issue of Budget & Tax News leads with a report on the $7 billion tax hike passed by Illinois Democrats in the dead of night on the last day of the state's lame-duck legislative session. Lawmakers approved a 67 percent personal income tax increase and a 46 percent corporate tax increase.
Also in this issue:
- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has persuaded lawmakers to pass several bold reforms to slow government spending and ease the state's tax burden.
- Oregon voters last year approved measures raising the income tax on the wealthiest 2 percent of the state's residents, but the new tax has brought in much less revenue than expected. The state received only $130 million of the expected $180 million in the first year and may have lost some high-income residents.
- A private bus service owner in Hickory, North Carolina claims another bus operation has illegally landed government subsidies that could put his transit company out of business.
- You know something is up when a Washington Post editorial advises the Obama administration to do a "reality check" on its plan for high-speed rail. From the beginning the plan included more slow-speed than high-speed rail, and both components of the plan could be in trouble.
- High tax rates on cigarettes are driving up the rates of illegal cigarette smuggling. Arizona has the worst smuggling problems. More than half of all smokes there are smuggled, the result of cigarette tax hikes and easy access to less-expensive tobacco across the Mexican border.
- Facing skyrocketing budget deficits, governors are readying themselves for a fight with public-sector unions as they look for ways to rein in spending. Nothing is being left off the table, including ending collective bargaining, banning the right to strike, and requiring state employees to shoulder a portion (or a larger portion) of their pensions and health care costs.
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Which is better for search engines?
Which is better for search engines?
Although there seems to be less difference now than there was in the past, hyphens are recommended if you want each of the terms in your URL recognized as an individual word.
The reason for this is that search engines find it easier to treat hyphens as word separators, just as they are in the English language. Underscores, however, are not normally used in English as word separators. In many cases it is desirable to see them as part of the characters before and after them, for instance when underscores are used in function names for programming, and other similar situations.
There are a couple cases where this might matter. For one, if someone uses the full URL as the anchor text for a link, then the search engines will be able to pull out those terms as relevant words. For another, it is possible that search engines use words in the URL as correlative factors to determine the relevance of those terms to the page content.
Matt Cutts has a dated piece that explains this, and there is a more recent Google Webmaster Help video from August 2011 saying that Google still does not treat underscores as word separators. You may as well make life as easy as possible for the search engines, for the same reason that you give them valid HTML.
If you are starting a new site, you are definitely better off using dashes.
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This article by Jeff Atwood always clinched it for me: Of Spaces, Underscores and Dashes:
... though this no longer seems to hold in the case of Google (try searching for "web-site": it is considered as one word).
Another downside of underscores is they will be invisible in some browsers when the entire URL is rendered as a link with an underline, which may be confusing if the user attempts to use the URL without copying and pasting (e.g. writing it down or reading it out).
I think hyphens are easier to read, and it's what is in use the most (so your users will expect the URL to contain hyphens).
I believe hyphens will do better on search engines, since they are used as word separators. Plus they are a little easier for users to read.
I personally think dashes are easier to type than underscores because you don't need to press shift to get them. I'm also wondering if many people would even know where to find the underscore on the keyboard.
Of course, this isn't a big deal because most users are not typing in website addresses, but it's possible someone might be at sometime.
I'm all for hyphens. Using underscores for a multi-word phrase makes sense too. Hyphens are a tad quicker to type because you don't have to hit the shift. It may end up being a preference thing, but with the end user in mind, if hyphens are easier to read, then use em.
For me, it's easier to read hyphens than underscores. I think it's probably easier for most other people too.
Hyphens are treated as word dividers, which help your page names be seen as real words, which is a good thing.
Underscores, in many, if not most, cases are not treated as word dividers, which renders a page name as a big cluster of letters and underscores.
This means that -- all other things being equal -- your pages will score lower in most places if you use underscores rather than hyphens in your pages names. How much lower? Not much. Will this always be the case? No.
Lots of good answers here. Another point that should be added is that the pixel-width of a hyphen is smaller than an underscore, which may allow you to get another keyword into the SERP.


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I'm referring to the repetition of names such as "Dangdang" and "Renren." Why is this the case?
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If you compare Chinese with English, you will find a lot differences and similarities. Similarities may help you learn Chinese a little bit easily, while differences are the things you need to keep in mind and to get used to.
Here are the ways how English/Chinese sentences are constructed.
English: Letters ----------------- Words ---- Sentences
Chinese: -------- Characters ---Words ---- Sentences
You may have noticed that I located Chinese characters somewhere between English letters and words. Each Chinese character has its own meanings, and we combine characters to make words (a lot words contain only one character though, like 我,你,他, etc.). Most of Chinese words (more than 80% maybe) have meanings related to the meaning of each character used in that word. For the rest words, their meanings have NOTHING to do with the meaning of each character in the word. Most of the words in this category are those translated from foreign languages by pronunciation, like 马达(motor),基因(gene). There are a lot such words in English as well, like lychee (荔枝),ping-pong(乒乓).
One important feature of Chinese is that most Chinese words are two-syllable words. I guess two-syllable words sound more rhythmic than single-syllable words.
In your example, "Dangdang" 当当 (probably from the website name 当当网) is just a two-syllable name. 当当 is also used as the mimetic word for bells.
"Renren" is 人人。人 means man/people/person/mankind etc. 人人 means everybody. Other same pattern words are: 天天(everyday), 月月(every month),年年(every year),处处(everywhere),个个(each and every one), etc.
Repeating characters in the SAME WORD emphasize the meaning of that character, and also sound more rhythmic. Same idea behind all the 4-character words in the patter of AABB, like 时时刻刻,日日夜夜,分分秒秒,吹吹打打,来来去去,年年岁岁,熙熙攘攘,热热闹闹,高高兴兴,干干净净,整整齐齐,恭恭敬敬,花花草草,战战兢兢,形形色色,从从容容,利利索索 and a lot others.
However, the above explanation doesn't apply to the repeating characters NOT IN THE SAME WORD. For example, 银行行长。银行 is a word, meaning bank. 行长 is another word, meaning the head of the bank.
Another example: 小明明天去上学。小明 is a name (probably a boy). 明天 is a word, meaning tomorrow. While in 明明天天去上学, 明明 is a name (probably a boy). 天天 is a word, meaning everyday.
It is very common in Chinese that repeating characters are used in the same word. Here are some cases where repeating characters appear.
Sometimes, you have to use the words consisted of repeating characters, and it can't be replaced by the word containing only one character, for exmaple:
这是我的奶奶. Here 奶奶 is grandmother (Dad's mom).
这是我的奶. This sentence is totally different from the previous one. Depending on the context, this sentence can mean " this is my milk" when the speaker is having his/her breakfast, or it can mean "this is the milk from my breasts" when a mom breastfeeding her baby is talking to another mom.
If you regard Chinese characters as something similar to English words, you will be surprised to see repeating characters. However if you think characters as something similar to English syllables, then you will feel a lot comfortable.
Here are some English words that have repeating syllables: mama,papa,yoyo,banana,Kijiji,Honolulu,Mississippi,Lady Gaga,Paganini,poopoo, etc.
In addition, some Chinese word which contains 'repeated' characters has related with the single character, but the word has more implicated. The common way of implication is about space or time.
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In the US, "gringo" is usually understood as a disparaging reference to a foreigner (see the Merriam-Webster definition). What exactly does gringo mean in Spanish? Is it neutral, or does it have disparaging connotations? When is it considered offensive? What regional variations are there on the word's use?
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While looking for the origin of the word
You can find the whole text here for those interested in reading it.
Wikipedia mentions that the word had been known since the 18th century:
As far as the meaning, I would concur that in Latin America is used to refer to anyone with white skin, blond hair, green or blue eyes and a "peculiar" pronunciation of the Spanish language, regardless of his nationality.
In high school, I was taught that during the Vietnam war, the word
I just saw César's answer. Interestingly enough, César was told sort of the opposite of what I was told; that is, that the word Green-go was used by the american troops to encourage their soldiers to move forward.
In Argentina, the word gringo was quite used in the past (not so much today, I'd say), especially in the inland, but with some ambiguity. Generally it pointed to people with "foreign" aspect (not from Spain or native), presumably anglo saxon, specially english, blonde hair and pale-rosy skin, etc. But it was also applied sometimes to some Italian immigrants. Not pejorative at all, in my experience. It was even sometimes applied, affectionately, to local people that had some traces of that appearance, even if they were fully criollos; similarly as the word negro was used for slightly dark-skinned members of the family (I myself recall some uncles and cousins...)
I'm pretty sure it refers to something like a Caucasian and naive American, or any American Caucasian in general. My native language is Spanish, and I'm 99% sure that is what people mean when they say it.
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But I would say that when we use
I researched the origin of the word "gringo" when I was in graduate school after one of my professors offered the silly "green-go" myth as the explanation. The term has clearly been in use for centuries to describe non-Spanish people. The most widely accepted theory among etymologists was that the word was derived from "griego," the Spanish word for Greek. According to the theory, the preponderance of Greek sailors in the Mediterranean meant that Greeks were the most common foreigners that were present in Spain in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance era. Over time, the word came to be applied to all people of non-Spanish origin, and was corrupted from "griego" to "gringo." Since English and Dutch visitors became more common than Greeks in later centuries, the term had become associated more with northern Europeans by the time the Spanish colonized the Americas and brought the term over with them.
Etymology isn't quite clear, but it's generally agreed that it's originates from Mexico or Central America. Meaning varies, and may mean:
Merriam-Webster definition is incorrect, as word gringo is not used in Spain. Somewhat analogous term used in Spain would be guiri, which means foreign tourist, especially from northern Europe.
I´ve heard this word used by a Vietnamese interviewee in exactly the same derogatory sense as it is often used -nay, usually used - in Spanish, irrespective of the Spanish-speaking country concerned. Whether or not it is pushed as very offensive or just slightly offensive, the sense is the same as "chink" "paki" "kraut" "commie" etc; there is no way to remove all trace of offense from these words, no matter how you frame them.
Just putting it out there that the word gringo is also part of Vietnamese vocabulary, at least.
It's a trick question. Since the word gringo truly born of the war between USA and Mexico. Why Mexicans began to tell them "Green Go Home", so he quickly began to distort the word and spread throughout the Latin America. Until Gringo, also changed its meaning a bit today is
Is classified as an insult, that this is somewhat pejorative and discriminatory. Until now no more variations to registration of the word.
In Costa Rica, Gringo means a person from the United States. It is used for white people, people of African descent, and even Mexican-Americans who speak Spanish.


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Four mallets is a percussion technique, usually referring to a marimba or vibraphone. It is achieved by holding 2 mallets in each hand
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I am aware that there are 2 popular ways to hold 4 mallets while playing the marimba. There is Burton's and there is Steven's. I am not really even sure which grip I currently use, as I just started ...


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8 Gadgets That Lie to You Every Day
Back in the old days, we didn't have all these gadgets to tell us how full something was or how hot the day was, we just looked at the thing or noticed how much we were sweating. Now that we have all the fancy gauges and buttons modern life provides to us, we may have gotten a little bit overdependent on them.
As it turns out, many of these gadgets are scarily inaccurate or even deliberately configured to lie to and appease us.
#8. Fuel Gauges
For most people, there's no mystery to fuel gauges other than "Why is something spelled 'gauge' when it is pronounced 'gage'?" The gas tank is 100 percent full when the needle is pointing to "F" and completely empty when the needle is at the bottom, right?
Actually, no. You might have noticed that for the first 50 or so miles, the needle hardly moves down at all, whereas when you get down to the last bit of gas, the needle goes down to empty and scares the shit out of you, even though you find out after filling up that you still had well over a gallon left.
The biggest reason for this is the float used to measure your gas level, which is a bulb on an arm like the one in your toilet tank. Bulbs are always going to be fatter than the arm, so you can go from full (float is completely submerged) to a little less full (float is floating on surface of gas but is touching the top of the tank) without the arm moving.
For the exact opposite reason, you can go from almost empty to empty without the arm moving.
So since your fuel needle is going to be in the same place for both full and slightly less full, the engineers chose to point it to full. The alternative is a fuel gauge that would never point to full and just confuses the driver. And since it's going to point to the same place for empty and almost empty, they chose to point it to empty.
On the other hand, think about how stupid you'd have to be to run out of gas if your fuel gauge was accurate down to the last drop, instead of forcing you into a guessing game once the fuel light came on. For something that everyone relies on at least once every month, it's weird that fuel gauges only actually convey information for the part of the gas tank when you need them the least, and are totally incapable of conveying information when you're on the verge of running out of gas on a desolate, serial killer laden wooded road. It may not cost you money, but not knowing the difference between 5 and zero percent means that you have to spend 5 percent more of your life standing at a pump.
It's not like math has ever helped anything.
It's one of those ideas that seems smart in theory when it's controlling the behavior of those other idiots who can't handle the truth. But when you're late for a meeting and don't know if you have 40 or zero miles left before empty, it's harder to swallow.
But at least it's a mechanical error. It's not like they're intentionally tricking us, like a dog owner pump faking a tennis ball, unlike ...
#7. Elevator and Crosswalk Buttons
With all the things we have to helplessly wait for in our daily lives -- traffic lights, customer service, Final Fantasy cutscenes, old people in line -- it's nice to know there are some things we have some control over, like closing the elevator door faster with the handy "door close" button.
Unfortunately, this is a lie from the Man to appease the masses. In most cases, elevator "door close" buttons do nothing. According to 47-year elevator maintenance veteran John Menville, the "door close" button is just there to give people the illusion of control. It's a release valve so that after you have to wait for a million stupid things during the course of the morning, this isn't the straw that breaks the camel's back and causes you to go postal on the elevator and maybe break something.
It's also a counterbalancing visual design element for the "door open" button.
Firefighters and other emergency personnel actually do need to speed things along sometimes, so the button does work for them if they use their key, but if you're not there to haul people out of a burning building, you are probably out of luck.
Crosswalk buttons are the same deal, at least at timed traffic lights like the ones in busy downtown areas. The light was going to change every two minutes anyway, and you pushing the button doesn't hurry it along any faster, although it does stop you from spazzing out about how long it's going to take. "I've given the order," you think. "Things are being seen to as we speak."
"Don't worry, folks. I've summoned the little white walking guy."
Good Morning America had a lot of time on their hands and actually checked out buttons in a number of cities, only finding one functional one. It's important to note that many traffic lights (especially in the suburbs) are sensor-driven instead of strictly timed, to the point where sometimes the light for the smaller side street actually never turns green unless something triggers it -- like a car, or a pedestrian pushing the button -- so obviously the buttons have to work there.
But apparently downtown districts are full of people pushing buttons that do nothing, and feeling very satisfied about it.
#6. Scales
We all know our bathroom scales lie to us all the time because there is no way we could be that fat after we've been so good about eating a salad once a week, but we expect professional scales -- at places like hospitals, stores and airports -- to be pretty accurate.
The stakes are pretty high, especially in hospitals, like when doctors need to calculate a cancer patient's radiation dosage according to their weight. Turned out the 4-year-old in that link was measured on an inaccurate scale and would have got an excessive dose of radiation if someone hadn't stopped it at the last minute. Even worse, a 2008 U.K. inspection showed that one-third of all hospital scales in the country were inaccurate.
"Ma'am, it looks like you are about 4,000 pounds."
It's more than just a Brit problem -- an American study of scales at the University of North Carolina found 20 percent of scales to be off. Only two other studies on U.S. scale accuracy have been done since 1981, so we could be overdosing patients left and right and not even know why.
Even when inaccurate scales aren't killing people, they are cheating people (or companies) of millions of dollars. In Maine, tons of people complain every year about being cheated by inaccurate firewood weighings, and while we do make a lot of baseless complaints in the U.S., inspectors found 90 percent of those complaints to be true.
"Ha! I knew this wasn't 50 pounds of firewood!"
If you want to go to Maine to see the firewood cheating in person for some reason, you'll pass through an airport and weigh your baggage on a scale, paying more if it's over a certain weight. Those scales are pretty questionable, too. Inspections found a surprising number of inaccurate scales at a variety of airports, including over one-third of the scales at Long Beach Airport and over half the US Airways scales in Phoenix.
Most of the scales were biased in favor of the passenger (underestimating baggage weight), so you might think it's no big deal since you don't get overcharged, but an overburdened plane running out of fuel in mid-flight could be equally inconvenient, depending on your priorities.
#5. Office Thermostats
Of all the workplace conflicts people usually talk about -- politics, glass ceilings, harassment -- the thermostat wars might just take the cake in pervasiveness and vitriol. News outlets document the battle on a slow news day, and even the Today Show has taken a shot at it.
"I'm ready for the meeting!"
One vocal segment of people (often mostly women) are too damn cold, and another angry segment (more men than women) are too damn hot. Saboteurs from each group sneak up when the other group isn't looking and turn the thermostat up or down, which would wear out the building's HVAC system in a day ... if the thermostat actually did anything.
Luckily (?) it doesn't. Building facilities people know better than to trust us employees with those controls. One specialist estimates 90 percent of office thermostats do absolutely nothing. In an industry newsletter poll, 51 out of 70 respondents said they'd personally installed a fake thermostat.
Rendering all of those past temperature arguments at work totally pointless.
And psychology is a beautiful thing. Apparently for most people, just turning a dial on a thermostat can make them physically warmer. One bank installed three fake thermostats, one for each complaining teller, and they were all completely satisfied with their "personal temperature controls."


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Clear the Air: EPA Report and 6 Defenses, Plus Air Filters 101
When a brown layer of air seems to have taken up residence around your city or town, you might think you're better off staying inside. But that's not necessarily true.
A five-year Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study found the concentrations of 20 toxic compounds to be as much as 200 times higher in the air inside homes and offices than outdoors. Poor air circulation is partly to blame — and it worsens in colder months. Plus, newer homes tend to be more airtight than older ones. That means they exchange less air with the outside, which can be good and bad. A tighter house loses less heat to the outdoors, yet it also holds indoor toxins longer.
Chemicals Seep into Air from Dry Cleaning and Furniture
Unburned hydrocarbons from cooking, exhaust fumes from attached garages, formaldehyde from particle-board cabinets and furniture, and perchloroethylene from dry cleaning are constituents in the chemical mixture we breathe in every day. When these air pollutants get trapped in the house, they can cause short-term and long-term health effects that cost Americans $15 billion to $100 billion in annual health care expenses, according to the National Academy of Sciences.
Of course, one way to breathe in fewer pollutants, chemicals and toxins is to bring fewer synthetic chemicals into your home in the first place. There are some great tips on how to do this in this article Detox Your Home: Best 5 First Steps by Annie Bond.
Use Ventilation and Filtration to Clear the Air
You can improve your home's air quality with these simple changes:
- Use the exhaust fan, especially when cooking with gas stoves.
- Ventilate an attached garage. Set up an exhaust fan wired to the garage door on a timer, so it turns on when the door opens.
- Eliminate particle board if you are building or remodeling. Particle board off-gases formaldehyde for years. Formaldehyde has been classified as a human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and as a probable human carcinogen by the EPA.
- Use VOC-free paint. Volatile organic compounds do little to improve the performance of paint and may cause cancer in humans, according to the EPA.
- Air out dry cleaning. Hang your dry cleaning in the garage overnight to release harmful fumes before putting the clothes in your closet.
- Use or add a High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filter. HEPA filters improve indoor air quality and can be retrofitted for existing furnaces with some fan speed modifications, or they can be designed into a new system. Smaller unit filters can also be placed on different levels of your home to eliminate dust, pollens and dander as well as many other airborne irritants.
Choose the Right Type of Air Purifier for the Job
Look for an air filter that combines all five of the following filtration technologies for the best all-around air filter you can put in your home.
Activated Carbon: Best for Removing Chemicals
Removes many common gaseous pollutants and VOCs, ozone, odors and tobacco particulates.
HEPA: Best for Breathing Easier
Traps at least 97 percent of all particles down to 0.3 microns in size, such as asbestos, pollen, dander and smoke particulates.
Ion Generator: Best for Intangibles
Removes tobacco particulates, airborne irritants and bacteria, all with no filters to replace. Plus, studies show negative ions in the air create a feeling of well-being and produce greater mental and physical energy.
UV Light: Best for Killing Germs
Uses ultraviolet light to kill airborne germs, bacteria and viruses, but does not filter the air.
Zeolite: Best Waste-Reducer
Great for removing odors and many gaseous pollutants, including VOCs. Plus, there are no filters to replace — simply recharge in direct sunlight to release absorbed pollutants.
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Day 7 in Downtown Mobile AlabamaWritten by on June 11, 2010
As is the case every morning Day 7 of the 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour started with the drivers' meeting just after 8 am. David Freiburger thanked everyone for attending Power Tour and send us on our way.
Arriving into Mobile we saw the red carpet rolled out for us downtown and at the convention center. While the field was massive people got a chance to find some shade and cool off some. This weather this year was hotter than in recent memory, but that doesn't stop the Power Tour. We have to say it was another great Power Tour. We thank every participant and spectator for attending this year! You make the Power Tour what it is-family. Without you we'd just be some crazy magazine people driving through the countryside.
Get ready for next year as we're already gearing up for another great Power Tour in 2011! Stay tuned to the website for all the details!
Gerald Martin from Marion, AR. is the president the Delta Cruisers of Marion. Six of the club members also made it to Mobile, including Plan B driver Joe Todd. Joe's car brokedown just outside of Springfield and he rented Plan B to finish the tour. Gerald and a few others inthe club are on their eleventh Power Tour and ninth Long Haul. We hear it from everybody, Power Tour is more than just cars and driving from city to city. Its about friendships and being part of the Power Tour family.
One of the great sponsors on Power Tour this year has been the Austin Hatcher Foundation. Founded by Jim and Amy Jo Osborn to help families dealing with pediatric cancer. The Osborns had been involved with pediatric cancer charities before they were blessed with their own child, Austin Hatcher, in August 2006. Sadly Austin succumbed to cancer at nine weeks of age.
Jim is a doctor by trade and professional race car driver by avocation. Jim and Amy Jo used his motorsports connections to help pedatric cancer affected families and found the Hatcher Foundation. Being the official charity sponsor for the Hot Rod Power Tour they have been holding Pinewood Derby races at each stop. Contestants purchase their car and build it. It then goes through tech inspection and is run down the track. Each day's winner recieves a $500 gift certificate provided by other Power Tour sponsors.
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...It has a Lincoln 368 ci engine with power steering, power brakes, cruise control, four-way power seats-all standard items on the Mark II......His wife's grandfather, Frank, bought the car new in 1956. He saw it introduced at the Paris Auto Show in 1955. Because he made tools for Ford Motor Company he knew Henry Clay Ford. He wrote Mr. Ford and asked to have one of these cars. This is the 38th car of 450 made. It was taken to Vegas in 1956 where comedian Eddie Cantor saw the car and asked for a ride. Well, Frank tossed the keys to Cantor and said "make sure to bring it back." In 1957 sugar was put in the tank so he called Clay Ford and was told to put it on a truck and drive up from Ohio. He and Mr. Ford had a "two martini lunch" and when they returned it had a brand new engine and fuel system installed. Henry Clay told it was taken care of under warranty. The car hasn't been on the road in thirty years and was recently freshened up.
...An Art Morrison backhalf with a narrowed 9-inch rear gets the power through a 4L80E manual transmission.Steve Rowe of Chicago, IL walks to the main stage as one of the many winners of the daily prizes given out during Power Tour.Steve shows off the swag he won when the license plate to his "ABADSS" picked out among the hundreds of cars in Mobile.
Contestants could purchase their and build it in plain or with Skins that turn it into a new Camaro, Challenger, or Mustang depending on their preference.They could also preorder the kits as some entrants did to get a headstart on the cars. These two had the best paintwork seen all week.Lonnie Ianazzo and his son Vincent from Tulsa drove their 1995 Mustang GT convertible on 2010 Power Tour for third time. In Du Quoin Vincent built his car and got some tech advice from Pinewood Derby inspector Eric Johnson from Detroit.The race was a single elimination format with the winner recieving a $500 gift certificate from one of the other Power Tour sponsors.Erik Brock with MSD presents a $500 MSD gift certificate to Lauren Sendelbeck and her father, pictured here. They purchased 12 cars before the Power Tour and had them ready when the Derby started in Newton, Iowa. After winning for the third straight day they pulled out of the contest in fairness to others. A gracious gesture to say the least.
It got out of control where now Erik has an 8 oz. outlaw car. It has bearings, alignment adjustments and other tricks that he wouldn't divulge. We watched it run and its the fastest thing we've seen!In a family grudge match all the way from Iowa this family of five kids built and raced their cars head to head to who's was fastest. Their were no losers and each kid got a t-shirt from the Hatcher Foundation for their efforts.He says, "I remembered Rat Fink from my childhood and Mad Magazine and thought it'd be to see if the kids know what it is." He'll run the exhibition, but won't be able to compete.


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I have the 'Company' as an entity for which can I place the attribute of 'idShares', despite of having the foreign key of Shares Entity in the Company entity.
As, it can fetch the Share entity attributes automatically from the foreign key. So, Can I place the attribute in the Entity, when the foreign key is also already present?


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Directive 58 of the ERD
At their meeting this week, the bishops approved a revision to Directive 58 of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care services. The Catholic Health Association has summarized the change here. The core of the change is summarized by the CHAUSA as follows:The new Directive 58 makes three points:
Traditionally, the standard for optional life-sustaining treatment was that if the treatment offered no reasonable hope of benefit and the treatment was excessively burdensome, it could be stopped. Directive 58 now interprets no reasonable hope of benefit as no reasonable hope of prolonging life. Someone in a persistent vegetative state may live 30 years irreversibly comatose and without the capacity to interact with others. I am not saying that such a life has no value, but it is hard to see how prolonging life through a surgically implanted feeding tube benefits anyone.
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If we could divorce this issue from its politics there is a chance to reach unanimous aggreement on the matter. So there is "prudential" reasons for torture and debatable issue for killing women and children in a preemptive war but none of this applies to keeping a virtual corpse sentient for possibly thirty years. The same people who argued that God is on our side to kill Iraqis (even tho there was no attack) argue that a person turned vegetable should be kept going while hundreds of children could remain alive with the funds that such a state would cost. I know the bishops were against the Iraq war. But how frequent were the salvos against it compared to the missiles hurled at Notre Dame. Like a ratio of 1%.How about the affirmation of Humanae Vitae. Perhaps worth its own thread. Will that be proclaimed in the parishes?
I did not get into the high weeds on this because they are so far over my head. I wonder what, if any, consideration is given to advanced directives when it comes to these procedures. Is it out of our hands, as individuals?
Of course throwing around slogans, catch phrases and accusations solves nothing.I am glad we have groups such as Catholic Health Care services and CHAUSA and that we can confidently leave these sorts of important matters in the capable hands of these folks. They have experience and expertise and as an arm of the Church, ultimately are accountable to Catholic Ordinaries.In serious and delicate situations - like that which the Teri Shivo family faced for example - nothing is perfect and things can quickly become quite complicated. Frankly, I am far more comfortable with this arrangement (i.e., development of this ERD under the direction of CHAUSA) than with a government oversight board.
it is hard to see how prolonging life through a surgically implanted feeding tube benefits anyoneSuch utilitarian considerations are irrelevant to the inherent dignity of the patient, as well as to the dignity of the caregivers who should not be in the business of killing, either directly/actively or indirectly/passively.
Such utilitarian considerations are irrelevant to the inherent dignity of the patient, as well as to the dignity of the caregivers who should not be in the business of killing, either directly/actively or indirectly/passively.Bender,I had a friend whose father was had an inoperable brain tumor. It had grown to the point where it had distorted the shape of his head. When my friend went to visit his father, he could not tell if his father recognized him or not. Obviously the father was terminal, but there was no clear idea of how long he might continue to live. One day, he had a heart attack, somebody called 911, and when the paramedics arrived, they resuscitated him. If one of the relatives had stepped in and said he had terminal cancer and should not be resuscitated, would they have been indirectly/passively killing him?
I would certainly appreciate some analysis from those with a background in bioethics or ethics in general. And I also hope this thread won't veer off course on to topics like abortion, the war or just general attacks on the hierarchy. I wouldn't find that helpful at all.
I'm very uncomfortable with the locution, "prolonging life", for obvious reasons, and would suggest that those who tend to use it regularly think twice.
My two cents:1. PVS is uncommon. Alzheimer's is not. In late-stage Alzheimer's, patients eventually lose the capacity to swallow. This is after most, if not virtually all, capacity to interact in even a minimal way is gone, though they still react to pain and other physical stimuli. If you do nothing but comfort care, they die peacefully in a few days. If you implant a feeding tube, they can live on for months. They cannot be said to be "dying," if by that term the bishops mean imminently. But neither will they ever recover. The traditional teaching left room for families not to subject a non-interactive patient to such pointless invasions. The new teaching does not. This cruelty will be inflicted mostly on the families of these patients. And it will happen more and more as the Boomers age.2.David--yes, it seems to me that it would mean that an advanced directive specifying no ANH where no benefit was expected would not be respected at Catholic hospitals. 3. Ken--This ERD revision, voted on by people largely without medical expertise or even clinical experience, takes the decision OUT OF the hands of people who know the issues best. You're right--the Schiavo case was hard and complicated, in part because of ill-informed people misrepresenting Catholic teaching to the press. The new directive says that the people closest to the situation at hand--clinicians, chaplains, and family--are not capable of making a decision in these matters.4. Bender--the traditional teaching respected the dignity of the patient as a whole: body, soul and spirit. The new revision seems to regard metabolic life as an absolute end, even if the patient is, by any reasonable human standard, "no longer with us," and never coming back. To clutch at physical life so desperately seems to reject any notion of the holistic humanity of the patient or confidence in a life after this one. The traditional teaching wasn't about killing--it was about respect, faith, and letting go.
"4. Benderthe traditional teaching respected the dignity of the patient as a whole: body, soul and spirit. The new revision seems to regard metabolic life as an absolute end, even if the patient is, by any reasonable human standard, no longer with us, and never coming back. "Hi, Lisa, as reported in the original post, the new directive seems more nuanced than this. My interpretation is that sustaining life via nutrition and hydration would be the "default assumption". But that is not absolute; there are circumstances that would alter that approach:* If the patient is dying* If food and hydration would be unduly burdensome,* If food and hydration would convey no benefits to the patient
David N., your situation certainly is a troubling one, although, inasmuch as it doesn't seem to involve food and hydration, it doesn't seem to apply to the directive under discussion.FWIW - I'd think the "key moment" in your scenario was not the acitons of the EMTs but rather the decision of someone to call 911 in the first place. EMTs revive and stabilize people; that is the nature of their job. Should the caller have called 911? I'd think we'd need to apply the traditional benefit/burden analysis to that decision. Was it more painful and burdensome to revive him, or to let the effects of the heart attack take their course? (I don't know the answer, but I'd probably err on the side of calling the EMTs, too).
David N., your situation certainly is a troubling one, although, inasmuch as it doesnt seem to involve food and hydration, it doesnt seem to apply to the directive under discussion.Jim,It was a response to Bender's statement about killing "directly/actively or indirectly/passively," and my point would be that a great deal of what happens with terminally ill patients might be called (by some) killing indirectly/passively. It had always seemed to me that the Catholic Church was very humane and reasonable in this area, but it looks to me like they have lately become less so. And if Lisa is correct that Catholic medical ethics would require resuscitation of someone terminally ill with an inoperable brain tumor, I am appalled. I thought one of the basic Catholic principles was not to needlessly prolong suffering and dying. One of the principles that I believe is an integral part of deciding when to discontinue treatment is expense. I have seen one estimate that the cost of keeping one PVS patient alive is $250,000 a year. We have been discussing what is and what isn't medicine (or elective, or worthy of being paid for by insurance). Where does the cost of caring for someone who is not aware and has no hope of being so figure into all of this?
A couple of Commonweal articles that might shed some light on this topic...Daniel Sulmasy's "Preserving Life: The Vatican and PVS," from Dec. 2007The Consortium of Jesuit Bioethics Programs, "Undue Burden?: The Vatican & Artificial Nutrition & Hydration," from February 2009We also wrote about this in editorials in Dec. 2007 (the issue Sulmasy's piece ran in) and briefly in the current issue.
The closest thing to the text I can find (it's not on the USCCB site, at least not where I could find it,) from CNS reads: "Medically assisted nutrition and hydration become morally optional when they cannot reasonably be expected to prolong life or when they would be excessively burdensome for the patient or (would) cause significant physical discomfort. For instance, as a patient draws close to inevitable death from an underlying progressive and fatal condition, certain measures to provide nutrition and hydration may become excessively burdensome and therefore not obligatory in light of their very limited ability to prolong life or provide comfort."It would seem to hinge on the interpretation of the role of the example. If "excessively burdensome" is intended to reflect the earlier teaching, then there would seem to be no need for the current revision. That's the traditional position and that of the previous directives, and that's the position ignored in the Schiavo case. If the example here is intended to indicate that the bishops wish to define the range of exceptions to those who are imminently dying, (in which case the burden may be seen to be excessive,) then the new revision would seem to define benefit and burden in terms of prolonging life, as Paul said in the original post. A third reading is that the purpose of the amendment is to address principally the situation of those ina PVS who will live if artifically fed, and die if they are not. Again, the tradition would hold that the benefit TO THE PATIENT is relatively small in these rare cases, so ANH is morally optional.The revision would insist that they be fed. Not surprisingly the CHA has interpreted the document as reflecting no fundamental change in teaching. I ask again--so why the revision? David N: no, the tradition absolutely would not require the resuscitation of a terminally ill person. If I implied that at any point, I didn't mean to. The traditon defines benefit and burden in terms of the holistic situation of the person in his or her specific context. Does the patient stand to benefit overall in a way that is proportionate to the burden of the intervention. Since resuscitation is often a fairly violent process (broken ribs, etc., ) then a person terminally ill or suffering chronically may validly refuse such.
Lisa,Thanks for the clarification. I am relieved. The condition of my friend's father was like something out of a horror movie. If someone with inoperable brain cancer can't be considered to be dying, I don't know what dying means. I think it was wrong to prolong his suffering and the suffering of the family. Of course, I think it would take a great deal of courage for many people to say, "Please don't revive him." Our instinct is to hang onto our loved ones as soon as possible. I don't know how often in my life I have heard statements like it would be a blessing if someone died, or it was a blessing that they died. But I can only imagine how tough it is to be in a position to actually withhold treatment, even when the suffering person has made his or her wishes clear.
"It would seem to hinge on the interpretation of the role of the example. If excessively burdensome is intended to reflect the earlier teaching, then there would seem to be no need for the current revision. Thats the traditional position and that of the previous directives, and thats the position ignored in the Schiavo case. "That was more or less my thought, too - nothing new here. A further codification of the notion that food and hydration are always considered ordinary care.
As an addendum to my previous comment: of course, that notion - that food and hydration are always considered ordinary care - is itself somewhat "new" - it depends on your time horizon. The hospital chaplain who mentored me in patient visits never accepted that it should always be considered ordinary - it was too different from what he had been taught, and had always taught his students.
"The traditon defines benefit and burden in terms of the holistic situation of the person in his or her specific context. Does the patient stand to benefit overall in a way that is proportionate to the burden of the intervention. Since resuscitation is often a fairly violent process (broken ribs, etc., ) then a person terminally ill or suffering chronically may validly refuse such."As David described the patient, it's not clear that the patient would have been able to decide on his own, or communicate his decision - thus perhaps one of those terrible third-party-decider situations. Not being medically knowledgeable, I wouldn't know how to weigh the burdens and benefits of that situation, and it sounds as though it were a situation in which time really mattered - no time for research and debate. Not an easy call.
As an addendum to my previous comment: of course, that notion that food and hydration are always considered ordinary care is itself somewhat new it depends on your time horizon. Jim,Also -- and I believe there is an explicit statement of this somewhere -- it depends on the level of technology and where you are. In a poor country with badly equipped hospitals and scarce resources, the situation would be different than in a country like the United States, where the required technology is readily available. That probably goes without saying, but if you are a tiny hospital in the middle of nowhere with a budget of $250,000 a year, you wouldn't spend it all to tube-feed and hydrate one patient and have nothing left over for the rest of the community.
The distinction between ordinary and extraordinary care is not an especially useful one, for the reasons that David N. notes. It depends a great deal on the patient's condition, available resources, and so forth. I think it helps to see the PVS/ANH debate through the lens of double effect. Catholic moral teaching includes an absolute prohibition on the intentional termination of life, something that applies to both withholding and withdrawing treatment (another well-known distinction that isn't actually much help). To state it differently, one can never aim at death, one's own or that of someone else. Of course, not all instances of withdrawing or forgoing treatment count as aiming at death. Sometimes the aim is to end excessively burdensome and/or pointless treatment. In such cases, removing treatment does not count as intending death and so can be permissible. The question then becomes this: what is the aim or intention when removing ANH from someone in PVS? Some will say that there can be no aim other than intending death, because people in PVS arent capable of experiencing ANH as burdensome and it does accomplish its particular medical purpose. Others deny this, and argue that it is possible to remove ANH from people in PVS without intending the persons death. My philosophical sympathies are with the latter view. David G., the point about advance directives is interesting. (I am actually working on a paper on this topic!) Even if there is a justifiable prohibition against removing ANH from people in PVS , it doesnt follow that there is a justifiable prohibition against advance directives that specify the removal of ANH in case of PVS. This is because there is a fundamental asymmetry between what I can permissibly sacrifice for myself and what others can demand that I sacrifice. I can choose to forgo treatment that others cannot rightfully withdraw from me. Indeed, given the cost of maintaining people in PVS, I think there may be compelling moral reasons to request that one not be maintained in such circumstances, and I do not think this necessarily counts as intending ones own death.
I think one clarification that might help here is what the word "benefit" is supposed to mean. The original statement is trying (I think) to constrain the area of prudential judgment, particularly in terms of any judgment about a patient's "quality of life." The "benefit" that ANH would be said to provide to a PVS patient would be nutrition and hydration. Lisa Fullam rightly brings up the analogous case of advanced Alzheimer's, where death is not "imminent" in the strict sense, but where there is no hope of recovery and no conscious interaction remaining. She states that treatment in such a situation is "pointless" (= "no benefit"?). But there is a benefit: nutrition and hydration. But it's not a benefit in terms of restoring or even maintaining the potential of restoring anything that would resemble typical "quality of life." In order for the positions to meet here, it would seem the issue of what is meant by "benefit" is what needs to be clarified.But this debate could distintegrate into unfortunately tedious and endlessly debatable distinction-making. What really seems at issue here are two things: 1) If there is no "underlying terminal disease," then can death be permitted by starvation? The rules seem to be trying to rule out any possibility that we allow anyone to die because they are starved. 2) The key implication of this seems seen most vividly in Lisa's example of advanced Alzheimer's. The rules seem to be trying to maintain that keeping such a patient alive for a potentially substantial amount of time is a witness to their continued worth and value ("dignity"), despite seeming pointless from our point of view, which theologically only makes sense because we see their life as a witness to the fact that a person's dignity is entirely given by God, and so we are to make absolutely no judgments about "quality" of life in deciding this matter.I'm not necessarily defending either one of these implications. But they seem to be the substantive issues underneath the distinction-making.
I suspect "prolonging life" is essentially "prolonging biological existence" for an indefinite/indeterminate period.In other words, because we have the machines to keep a body warm even in the absence of any prognosis of recovery, we should do so. After all, we can do it!I recall a moral theologian (name escapes me) who envisioned a special facility dedicated to keeping PVS/comatose bodies warm indefinitely. He asked, "Do the people who run this place believe in life after death?"The bishops appear to want to make gods out of our advanced technology.lI'll take a pass.
I suspect many people will feel compelled to add to their instructions on end-of life options a notation that should they be subject to PVS or late stage Alzheimer's they do not want to be cared for in a Catholic-run facility.


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I am learning Python at the moment, and I come from a Java/C++ and C background. I usually like to "examine" the "objects" in debuggers to get a better understanding of what is going on, so excuse my question if it seems odd for python.
I was reading the
urllib2 documentation at Python's website. The following example was shown:
>>> import urllib2
>>> for line in urllib2.urlopen('http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl'):
... if 'EST' in line or 'EDT' in line: # look for Eastern Time
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I understand that
urlopen will download the content of a page.
urlopen download the HTML content? I tried doing the following:
content = urllib2.urlopen('http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl')
print content
which yields an object. What is the nature of this object? Is it a dictionary-like object? If so, how can I examine what its key-values are? Would that be done using
pickling in Python?
I am aware of the
geturl() method, but I'd like to understand fully what
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5 Internet Annoyances That Are Way Older Than the Internet
#2. The 19th Century Had Obsessive Fanboys
It's hard to imagine something like ComicCon or costumed fans lining up for a midnight release happening prior to the Internet age. After all, it was the Web that allowed obsessive fanboys to gather and reaffirm each other's zealotry, from Tumblr accounts filled with video game cosplay to lengthy articles devoted to analyzing the minutiae of cartoons originally written for children (which we at Cracked know nothing about).
It's the kind of fandom that surely is only possible thanks to millions of people living trivial lives with too much spare time. It's hard to imagine readers in the 19th century caring enough about fictional characters to get all worked up, considering that they were probably spending 16 hours a day in the coal mines.
The smoking offsets the black lung.
But you'd be wrong. For example, when Sherlock Holmes was "killed off" by his creator Arthur Conan Doyle in 1893, the fanboy rage was comparable to when the show Firefly was canceled in 2002, only instead of spamming message boards, they spammed the real world. In London, grieving "Sherlockians" took to the streets wearing black armbands and flooded the offices of Conan Doyle's publisher with hate mail. It was an Internet shitstorm before there was an Internet.
In America, "Let's Keep Holmes Alive" clubs started appearing in several cities, which were apparently the 1893 version of all those online petitions to bring back Arrested Development. More than 20,000 people boycotted the magazine Doyle wrote for by instantly canceling their subscriptions. Other fans decided to do something a little more productive: They started writing their own Holmes stories, "fixing" the ending so that the character didn't die.
"Oh, no need to consult with me. I just wrote the fucking thing."
This tendency persisted even after Holmes was brought back the following decade: Obsessive fans began writing long essays dissecting Sherlock Holmes' continuity, pointing out inconsistencies and debating possible solutions, like Trekkies but without the Spock ears. Conan Doyle said of one of those essays, written in 1911:
"That anyone should spend such pains on such material was what surprised me. Certainly you know a great deal more about it than I do, for the stories have been written in a disconnected (and careless) way without referring back to what had gone before."
If anything, giving in to the angry readers and bringing back their idol only seemed to encourage their insanity. When the first new Holmes story came out in 1901 (it was a prequel; Holmes wouldn't be resurrected until a few years later), a long line of fans set up camp for blocks around the printer's building to get their copy early. Not the bookstore, but the actual place where the magazines were printed. Not even Harry Potter fans are that dedicated.
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Substitute "John Watson" for "Ronald Weasley" and this is exactly what it looked like.
#1. "Nigerian Prince" Scams Date Back to the 16th Century
Those scam messages from "Nigerian royalty" (promising vast unclaimed riches in exchange for a relatively small "bank fee") have been around for over a decade and will probably never go away. It only takes one sucker in thousands to make it all worth it for the scammer, since a single victim can be stringed along for months or even years.
"He's still not saved? All I have left to give is this laptop, hat and mustache."
But the "Nigerian prince" scam is actually just a repurposed version of a centuries-old con. As far back as the 16th century, gullible people have been falling for a scam known as the "Spanish Prisoner Letter" or "Spanish Swindle," so named because it originated primarily from Spain instead of Nigeria. Other than that, it worked exactly the same way. The victims received letters claiming to be written by a previously unknown relative trapped in a Spanish prison who just so happens to be immensely rich. In the letter, the prisoner would promise to share his massive fortune with the victim if they could just come up with the money for his bail. So the promise was the same: Give us a little cash and you'll get a lot of it in return.
"Spanish jail? That's so specific, it must be legit."
Anyone foolish enough to send the bail money would be strung along with further implausible scenarios that required more and more cash (like money for bribes or to save the prisoner's daughter from a tyrant) until they either wised up or went broke. The scam was so common that the U.S. Postal Service even began printing information to help postal inspectors recognize it. And 200 years from now, the mail that's delivered directly to our brains over Wi-Fi will be full of requests from wealthy space royalty suffering in the prisons of Phobos, only needing a few thousand Federation credits to secure their release.
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When I typed
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Can anyone help me?
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If a reboot does not clear that up for you you can look inside the folder
You can move the file by opening a terminal and typing
As an option you can also press Ctrl+h in Nautilus to be able to see hidden files/folders, navigate to the
Don't forget to logout and back in after moving the file.
If this fails you can also check your startup applications list to see if you can disable it there. To have a look at your applications list open the user menu (cogwheel right next to the clock on the upper right corner) and click on Startup Applications.
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I installed ubuntu netbook edition on my netbook* expecting to get the best performance out of it, but apparently, that didn't turn out.
Unity is a bit slow on it, and when I click on Files and folders it takes a while to load the respective interface and the bar at the top disappears and then loads in.
Is this expected? Is there anything I can do to improve the performance? Is this problem specific to my netbook?
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So I unpack and set up my brand new M1L. I am using a Nikon D300 and a Nikon 10.5 lens. I get the rig calibrated and start shooting. When I take a look at the Nadir patch shot, I am disappointed to see the knob on the lower rotator clamp sticking way out into the picture. The knob overlaps the tripod leg in the patch shot rendering the patch shot not useable. It does not matter which way I put the clamp on the rotator. The knob sticks out way too far. I had to fabricate a low profile knob in order to get a useable Nadir patch shot.
I am shooting 6 around + Zenith + Nadir + Nadir patch shot.
For those of you following at home, I am NOT using the lens ring clamp. I am using all the standard stock parts right out of the box. This includes the camera body plate.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Even a rural festival celebrating the harvest of Georgia's famous sweet onions isn't safe from the federal budget battle 600 miles away, as automatic cuts are threatening to take away the star attraction for the Vidalia Onion Festival's popular air show: the Navy's daredevil fighter pilots, the Blue Angels.
The $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that took effect March 1 have thrown planning for the festival's air show into a tailspin, just weeks before the April 20 event that officials agreed to hold a week earlier than usual so they could book the vaunted group. The Navy plans to cancel Blue Angels shows booked next month in Vidalia and three other cities. And there is a good chance dozens more air shows across the U.S. could get the ax as well, leaving host cities facing threats of lost tourism revenue and dwindling ticket sales.
"It's going to hurt us," said Marsha Temples, chief organizer of the Vidalia air show, who estimates past festival weekends have drawn 15,000 extra people when the Blue Angels were on the bill. "People like to see the Blues because they put on an absolutely phenomenal show. You have people who actually follow them and a lot of people come from out of town just to see them."
While the Blue Angels' spring schedule is in doubt, the Air Force's formation-flying Thunderbirds and the Army's Golden Knights skydivers have canceled their performances outright. Combined, the three teams had booked more than 190 performances between the spring and fall. That's left many air show organizers scrambling to find replacements, such as civilian pilots with loud, fast jets from the Vietnam era or vintage planes from World War II. The uncertainty has forced others to simply cancel altogether.
John Cudahy, president of the Virginia-based International Council of Air Shows, said at least 150 U.S. air shows each year count on military performers to draw big crowds. A group like the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds can account for 10 to 30 percent of attendance — in some cases enough to determine if a show makes or loses money.
Canceled appearances don't just mean fewer dollars spent on tickets, souvenirs and concessions. They also mean fewer fans traveling to shows out of town and spending on hotels, restaurants and gas.
"If the military does not participate in air shows during the 2013 season, the economic impact will reach far beyond the show itself and deeply into the communities in which those shows are held," Cudahy said.
Several air shows hosted by military bases, which show off their flashiest planes for publicity and as a recruitment tool, were canceled almost immediately. They include shows at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla.; Luke Air Force Base, Ariz.; Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C.; Langley Air Force Base, Va.; Dover Air Force Base, Del.; and Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas.
Businesses and community boosters at Pensacola Beach, Fla. — where the Blue Angels are stationed — are already trying to avert possible cancellation of the team's July show that's become one of the city's biggest tourism bonanzas. An economic impact study last year estimated the Pensacola air show lured more than 15,000 visitors in addition to the normal July weekend beach crowd of about 109,000.
Buck Lee, chairman of the Santa Rosa Island Authority that oversees Pensacola Beach, said business owners and sponsors are offering to donate $100,000 or more to pay for jet fuel and other costs if that means the Blue Angels will commit to flying.
"We have a restaurant that just opened that contacted me and said, 'We're in for $10,000 if you need it,'" Lee said. "It's a $2 million weekend for the area. That's for hotels, employees, restaurants, souvenirs. It's just a great three days out here."
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Test scores must be sent directly from the testing agency. Photocopied, scanned or faxed score reports will not be accepted.
The minimum scores SLU requires for academic admission are as follows:
Paper-based TOEFL (PBT) = 550
Internet-based TOEFL (iBT) = 80
Computer-based TOEFL (CBT) = 213
Click here for more information about test scores and English proficiency.
Please note:
- Exceptions may be made on an individual basis. Saint Louis University reserves the right to require additional testing of any incoming student's English skills.
- Make sure that your name on your application to SLU as well as your standardized test registration form match your name EXACTLY as it appears on your passport. Discrepancies can cause significant delays in the completion of your application for admission.
- Students who are completing their secondary schooling in the United States will need to complete the proper steps in order to transfer your SEVIS record to SLU upon graduation from high school. Click here for the Transfer-In form.
Saint Louis University
Office of Admission
DuBourg Hall Room 150
One North Grand Blvd.
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Audi A3 2011
Audi furnished details about the all-new 2011 Audi A3 and A3 Sportback models. A3 has been the sporty models from Audi in the compact segment and the new A3 is no different. A3 will have an option of eight engines - four gasonline and four diesel. All are cutting-edge four-cylinder units featuring turbocharging and direct injection and badged as TFSI and TDI. They offer all the qualities of Audi engine technology – efficiency, refinement, power and high torque.


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Crocodile Creek BPA-Free Lunch Box - Princess
Product Description
School lunches is more fun when packed in the Crocodile Creek BPA-Free Lunch Box - Princess. Not only is it free of the bad plastic stuff, it is beautifully-designed and is made of high-quality non-toxic materials. Simply wipe with a damp cloth after each use. Made of quality materials with extra lining and padding to keep food fresh. Conforms to or exceeds U.S. and European safety standards. Free of BPA, phthalates, PVC, vinyl, and lead. Lunch box is 10"w x 7.5"h x 3"d.
You take the time to put together healthy meals for your child. Protect it by using a non-toxic container like Crocodile Creek BPA-Free Lunch Box - Princess.
Made Of / Made In
Crocodile Creek BPA-Free Lunch Box - Princess is made of high quality, non-toxic materials. It is child safe with lead-free linings and are PVC free and phthalates free. Meets or exceeds established US safety standards. Made in China under stringent quality and safety controls. Certified child-safe and non-toxic.
Manufacturer / Safety Compliance
Crocodile Creek is based in Durham, North Carolina with manufacturing facilities in China. It works with independent testing firms to ensure that its products are child-safe and conform to the relevant safety standards set by ASTM (American Society of Testing Materials) and EN 71 (European Standards). It also works with an independent company who oversees the production and quality control of all of its products to assure a continuous high level of quality.
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Quad-Core (3.2Ghz) / 8GB / 1.5TB PC Kit for $299.99
For get buying a refurb......get this and build for cheaper.
GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-S2P AMD 760 Motherboard - Micro ATX, Socket AM3+, AMD 760G Chipset, 1333MHz DDR3, SATA II (3Gb/s), RAID, 7.1-CH Audio, Gigabit LAN, USB 2.0
AMD HDZ955FBK4DGM Phenom II X4 955 Processor - Quad Core, 6MB L3 Cache, 2MB L2 Cache, 3.20GHz, Socket AM3, 125W, No Fan, OEM
Thermaltake TR2-R1 / AMD Socket AM2/939/754 / Aluminum / 92mm Fan / CPU Cooler
Sony Optiarc AD7280S-OB 24x DVDRW Drive - 24x, SATA, Black, OEM
ADATA Premier Series AD3U1333C4G9-SH Desktop Memory Module - 4GB, PC3-10666, DDR3-1333MHz, 240-pin DIMM
ADATA Premier Series AD3U1333C4G9-SH Desktop Memory Module - 4GB, PC3-10666, DDR3-1333MHz, 240-pin DIMM
Seagate ST1500DL003 Barracuda Green Hard Drive - 1.5TB, SATA 6Gbps, 3.5" 5900 RPM, 64MB
DiabloTek CPA-0280 Elite ATX Mid Tower Case - ATX, Micro ATX, 450W PSU, 2x Ext 5.25", 1x Ext 3.5", 2x Int 3.5", 2x USB 2.0 Front Ports, Black
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For any real gaming, you'd need a good graphics card, and probably a better power supply, but this sure is tempting!
I have almost this same build. All you have to do to play most current games on High settings is add an HD Radeon 6750. I can play skyrim and Left 4 dead 2 on high settings with this build. Also this board takes the new FX processors so if you want to add one down the line when they fall in price you can do that later.
Perfect for browsing and light gaming, add a better graphics card and you've got a pretty solid machine!
I always look at these, but like they said above, the crap PSU and lower end video card holds me back.


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Job fair scheduled for more than 200 positions at Amazon.com's Spartanburg County Fulfillment Center
Published: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 5:43 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 5:43 p.m.
A job fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the SC Works office in downtown Spartanburg for more than 200 positions at Amazon.com's Spartanburg County Fulfillment Center.
The Seattle-based online retailer's staffing provider Staff Management | SMX will be seeking to fill full-time and part-time warehouse associate positions across all shifts. The jobs pay up to $11.50 per hour.
Applicants must be at least 18 and have a high school diploma or GED. Drug testing and background checks will be required. Candidates must be able to lift up to 49 pounds and stand for the duration of their shifts.
Jobseekers are asked to bring two forms of identification and proof of education to the recruitment event. The SC Works office is at 220 E. Kennedy St.
Applications can be submitted online at apply.smjobs.com.
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