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Takeya has rolled out a new Flash Chill Iced Tea Maker that allows consumers to create handcrafted, artisan iced tea beverages at home and serve and store all in one unit. The Iced Tea Maker freshly brews hot tea in minutes and flash chills it in 30 seconds, according to the company.
Airtight, the Iced Tea Maker locks in the aromas and flavors of the brewed tea. The large, fine mesh Tea Infuser easily twists into the Iced Tea Makers lid and provides room for loose leaf tea to bloom and fully release their flavors. Takeya also offers a range of iced tea accessories, including a fruit infuser and citrus juicer.
The patented brew and Flash Chill process combined with the premium loose leaf teas ensures fresh and flavorful iced tea in every glass, according to the company. The teas are available in Classic Black, Tropical Black, Fresh Green, Green Mint, Hibiscus Pomegranate and Coconut Lime Rooibos.
Takeya has created T-PAC technology, which offers loose leaf teas and herbal blends in an innovative packet. Foil sealed and pre-measured for consistent flavor and freshness, T-PACs are designed exclusively for the Takeya Flash Chill Iced Tea Maker. Each box contains six, 1-quart T-PACs.
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Skip to comments.AP source: Dorner's license found in burned cabin
Posted on 02/13/2013 7:45:15 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. As police scoured mountain peaks for days, using everything from bloodhounds to high-tech helicopters, the revenge-seeking ex-cop they wanted was hiding among them, holed up in a vacation cabin across the street from their command post.
It was there that Christopher Dorner apparently took refuge last Thursday, four days after beginning a deadly rampage that would claim four lives.
He never emerged from the ruins and hours later a charred body was found in the basement of the burned cabin along with a wallet and personal items, including a California driver's license with the name Christopher Dorner, an official briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at wpxi.com ...
Are they sure it wasn't some illegal immigrant that was stealing his identity?
Who is Christopher Dorner? This is all the guns fault.
I expect that the body is Dorner. However, given that the media botched reporting on Sandy Hook, I will not trust news reports. Waiting for official confirmation from the authorities.
Shootout? Impossible. Guns are illegal.
"Claim four lives"
The MSM may be walking back the last death, which some have speculated was blue on blue trigger happy crossfire.
Considering the trucks shot up in L.A., that bears looking at.
"Claim four lives"
The MSM may be walking back the last death, which some have speculated was blue on blue trigger happy crossfire.
Considering the trucks shot up in L.A., that bears looking at.
I thought his license was found near Mexico a few day before he went to Big Bear?
To the very end, he was thus plagued with racist taunts!
this guy will go down as the next D.B. Cooper.
The cabin was an inferno for hours. They body would have incinerated, even bones burned to a crisp. But we are supposed to be believe a plastic drivers license was found.
And I believe in the tooth fairy. Not saying he didn't get burned to a crisp, but making possible identification is impossible.
They need to do a DNA test after the wild animals are done.
The federal affidavit says "wallet and identification cards" were found by Detective Anschick, near the U.S. Mexico border.
The LAPD returned it to him.
I was certain of that myself, so I looked again this morning — they were very careful to always say only "ID" or "photo ID" there at the border, not "driver's license".
The guy is not stupid, just insane.
Until, I read the coroners report with DNA evidence, he is not dead.
Dental records will work. He was in Navy so they have records to compare. Let "Bones" handle it.
Scrape up the garbage and give it a DNA test. Then take the rest of it and feed it to the worms.
My apologies to the worms.
Loved your comment.
How does a man with a "DISHONORABLE" military discharge become or remain a police officer?
If he was in the basement he no doubt was sitting on the floor with his wallet in his back pocket against the cold concrete when he shot himself. There was no fire beneath him when the burning floor collapsed on top of his lifeless body. The fire wouldn't reach through the wallet unless he was reduced to ashes.
I don't know. Maybe dental records?
Or maybe I watch too much CSI. :)
Yea, well didn't I read that his I.D. was found somewhere close to the Mexican border? Just sayin'...
I'm sure it's him. But it would sure as hell be entertaining if it was found out that it was not him.
I wonder if the owners insurance company will pay for this "fire loss?"
'How does a man with a DISHONORABLE military discharge become or remain a police officer?'
Through a stupid process known as "Affirmative Action"
As always, political correctness means innocent people die.
If he was in the basement, there could be remains. There are many times after a house fire that there are items left that were done in the basement. Debris falls down on top of them as the fire rises above. The debris then insulates them from the fire above.
This is why if you a have a safe, you should bolt it to the floor in your basement. In many cases the items on the floor of the basement will survive the fire, where everything on the first or second floor is burned tro a crisp. Atleast that is what a buddy of mine who was in the fire dept for years told me.
I was wondering that too. Most home insurance policies have clauses ruling out "acts of war" and I think "civil unrest" too, but neither would seem to fit this.
In addition to his victims, I also feel sorry for the lady who lost here vacation cabin in the fire.
You are right.
"After authorities interviewed the boat captain early Thursday, they found Dorner's wallet and identification cards "at the San Ysidro Point of Entry" near the U.S.- Mexico border, according to the court records."
Quote from http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/11/local/la-me-dorner-charges-20130212
You are right.
"After authorities interviewed the boat captain early Thursday, they found Dorner's wallet and identification cards "at the San Ysidro Point of Entry" near the U.S.- Mexico border, according to the court records."
Quote from http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/11/local/la-me-dorner-charges-20130212
Drudge has a report that the final assault using tear gas and vehicles was carried out by the LAPD SWAT. Why was LAPD given that role. San Bernadino and CHP have SWAT. I can't see the NYPD ESU being given this role if a fugitive of this type were to show up 80 miles away in Riverhead, Suffolk County. There would be officers there to formally arrest the suspect and transport him back but I doubt Suffolk County PD would hand off the the apprehension role to the NYPD.
The fish cops who faced down pistol fire and then engaged him deserve a medal.
They may have disabled his truck or wounded him..at least they drove him to ground.
Two points: 1. Dorner was not to survive.
2. As far as SWAT teams go noe even the public library has one.
1) The cabin burns to the ground and everything in it is burned to a crisp,,,except his license?
2) And why would he keep his license on him? Was he worried they would give him a ticket if he didn't have it?
3) 2:20 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 7: "A shuttle bus driver turns in a wallet with an LAPD badge and a picture ID of Dorner to San Diego police. The wallet was found fewer than five miles from the boat, near San Diego International Airport."
So how many wallets did Dorner have?
Dorner screen test for Rambo turned out to be only good for up in smoke.
Military and police ID's possibly.
"I was wondering that too. Most home insurance policies have clauses ruling out acts of war and I think civil unrest too, but neither would seem to fit this."
My guess is that the homeowner will have to sue the LEO's who set fire to her home, because they are not going to willingly pay to have it rebuilt. But in the end, after shelling out tens of thousands of bucks to their lawyers to try and avoid payment, they will have to pay with our money. Ditto for the trucks that they shot up!
From what I recall, he was both a police officer and a reservist, and was discharged from the military AFTER he was fired from the LAPD.
If their claim gets denied, I wonder if the cops will cough up $500K (or whatever it's worth). It's a little more than a shot up pick-up truck.
and homophobia.
Dorner was charred but his license was miraculously saved. Destruction of private property to get one guy who they just heard shoot himself? The whole thing was nuts.
Dorner was charred but his license was miraculously saved. Destruction of private property to get one guy who they just heard shoot himself? The whole thing was nuts.
This works, but I was hoping the resolution of the matter would have been about 26 bullets to Dorner's head.
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It's no secret that application logs can go well beyond the limits of naive log viewers, and the desired viewer functionality (say, filtering the log based on a condition, or highlighting particular message types, or splitting it into sublogs based on a field value, or merging several logs based on a time axis, or bookmarking etc.) is beyond the abilities of large-file text viewers.
I wonder:
- Whether decent specialized applications exist (I haven't found any)
- What functionality might one expect from such an application? (I'm asking because my student is writing such an application, and the functionality above has already been implemented to a certain extent of usability)


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Energy and Global Warming News for June 16th — A car charging infrastructure takes shape; Siemens, Munich Re study $555 Billion, 100 GW concentrated solar project in the Sahara
A Car Charging Infrastructure Takes Shape
Having shipped hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations, and with repeat orders now coming in from Europe, Coulomb Technologies, a privately-held Silicon Valley company, expects to be profitable by the 2010 introduction of the Chevy Volt, according to its chief executive, Richard Lowenthal.
(Mr. Lowenthal appears in the video above, explaining the company's ChargePoint Network.)
"Our plan was to sell a thousand stations, but we will probably double that," he told Green Inc. last week after the company secured its third Bay Area order this year. "Our company is structured to be profitable based on early adopters."
Founded in 2007, Coulomb is looking to crack the chicken-and-egg riddle that bedeviled the hydrogen fuel cell industry. Without a refueling infrastructure, consumers won't buy vehicles. But no one invested in refueling stations without potential customers on the road.
I'll be doing a long post on the chicken-and-egg problem soon.
Siemens, Munich Re Study $555 Billion Solar Project
Siemens AG, Germany's biggest engineering company, and Munich Re are holding talks with utilities on developing solar plants in the Sahara desert to supply 15 percent of Europe's power needs by mid-century.The discussions, which include German power companies RWE AG and E.ON AG, as well as Deutsche Bank AG, are in the early stages, Siemens spokesman Marc Langendorf said today. Turbines built by the Munich-based manufacturer may be used, he said.
The German companies want to harness a free fuel source that's plentiful in one of the world's poorest regions and sell the power to industrialized Europe. The plants may cost 400 billion euros ($555 billion) through 2050 and stretch across 130 square kilometers (50 square miles) of the North African desert, Munich Re said in a document published on its Web site today.
Note: That Munich Re document is well worth reading for those interested in renewable energy and potential European actions.
Memo to Bloomberg News: You appear to have a picture of a PV panel for your solar thermal story.
Reuters also has a good story on this here:
"We have approached Munich Re to get industrial companies on board and Munich Re organised the meeting with the other companies," said a spokesman for the Desertec foundation, which is fostering the idea to generate solar power in Africa.
The 20 companies and Desertec aim to sign a memorandum of understanding to found the Desertec Industrial Initiative which would commission studies on possible projects, he said.
A first power station with a capacity of 2 gigawatts in Tunisia with power lines to Italy would take five years to build once it gets regulatory approval, the spokesman said.
A possible long-term project could be a 100 gigawatt solar thermal power station in northern Africa and the Middle East. It could be finalised by 2050 with power lines connecting it to central Europe and would cost an estimated 400 billion euros ($555.8 billion), he said.
As Iraq runs dry, a plague of snakes is unleashed
Swarms of snakes are attacking people and cattle in southern Iraq as the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dry up and the reptiles lose their natural habitat among the reed beds.
"People are terrified and are leaving their homes," says Jabar Mustafa, a medical administrator, who works in a hospital in the southern province of Dhi Qar. "We knew these snakes before, but now they are coming in huge numbers. They are attacking buffalo and cattle as well as people." Doctors in the area say six people have been killed and 13 poisoned.
Germany's 'clunkers' scheme boosts sales of foreign-made cars
Germany's plan to encourage car owners to ditch their gas-guzzlers to purchase newer, more fuel-efficient models was intended to lower pollution, boost the economy and put German car manufacturers back to work.
But so far, most of the government-issued $3,500 vouchers for new automobiles have been used to purchase foreign cars. One of the clear winners has been Skoda's compact, fuel-efficient Fabia, manufactured in neighboring Czech Republic.
To be sure, Germans car dealers are selling more cars: Registrations for new vehicles in Germany were up 40 percent last month compared with the same period last year. But only 24 percent of the bonus money has been spent on German-made vehicles.
Agency joins 'sustainable communities' initiative
U.S. EPA has teamed up with other federal agencies to create "sustainable communities" by linking transportation planning with housing development and environmental protection in communities nationwide.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced today that the agency has entered the initiative announced earlier this year by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan.
"The partnership recognizes that the work of our agencies is interconnected," Jackson told a Senate panel today. "In designing or improving our communities to be sustainable for the long term, mobility, housing and environmental issues are entirely interconnected."
Study maps best spots for harnessing high-altitude winds
Jet streams have enough wind to power the entire planet, so some far-sighted researchers are working on technologies — high-flying kites and floating turbines — that just might harness that power.
"High-altitude winds represent the largest highly concentrated form of renewable energy available on Earth, and if we could learn how to extract energy from winds and distribute it globally, we could potentially power all of civilization," said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist with Stanford University's Carnegie Institution.
Best suited for high-altitude wind development are population centers in the eastern United States and East Asia, according to research by Caldeira and Cristina Archer at California State University, Chico.
In a study published recently in the journal Energies, Archer and Caldeira report using historical data to conduct the first global assessment of high-altitude wind power.
How To Get Wind Turbines To Work Harder
How much usable energy do wind turbines produce? It is a question that perplexes engineers and frustrates potential users, especially on windless days. A study published this month in the International Journal of Exergy provides a formula for answering this vexing question.
Abolfazl Ahmadi and Mehdi Ali Ehyaei of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Iran University of Science and Technology-Arak Branch, in Arak, have investigated the "exergy" of wind power. Exergy is a term from thermodynamics that measures that the energy a system that is available to do work.
The next 'moon landing?' Norway plans deep-sea CO2 storage.
At a high-level conference in Bergen last month, the oil-rich Nordic nation announced that it will work with Britain to study how the base of the North Sea could be used for carbon dioxide storage for European countries. It will also allocate nearly $200 million toward carbon capture and storage projects in the European Union.
Although some environmentalists aren't yet convinced of the long-term prospects of sequestering carbon dioxide emissions deep under the ocean, the idea has become something of a holy grail in the effort to stop global warming.
25 Responses to Energy and Global Warming News for June 16th — A car charging infrastructure takes shape; Siemens, Munich Re study $555 Billion, 100 GW concentrated solar project in the Sahara
All looks encouraging today.
David says encouraging I conclude the opposite. $555B for 100GW sounds pretty pricy. The Sandia study had claimed CSP would get considerably cheaper once the industry scaled, this number doesn't seem to reflect that. Is this because of the cost of transmission from a remote area? Or is it just a very conservative estimate? Current PV panels are already less than that -although they may not have as high a capacity factor.
So I'm hoping you'll jump in and say the 100GW is not peak, but average (over say 24hours)!
How much would it increase demand for electricity if the entire fleet of American cars shifted from gasoline to electricity? That is a key fact that I never hear mentioned in articles about electric cars.
My guess, of the top of my head, is that it would increase demand by 50% – making it much harder to phase out dirty power plants.
[JR: It gets mentioned all the time — it's a major benefit of all electric cars. There are lots of zero carbon electric generation technologies, including wind which is perfect for charging at night and the batteries solve the storage/intermittency problem. But there are essentially no zero carbon liquid transportation fuels.]
The interesting thing that Charles brings up is that the Great Plains has lots of night wind, exactly when we'd be charging our cars. And the SW has 300+ days of sun.
If we want to continue with transport that requires a ton of steel and lots of energy to move a single person, well, great, let us tap new sources!!! We have to figger out the 'lektrick part if we want to go down the same loser path we are going now.
RE: Richard Lowenthal of Coulomb Technologies
Very good guy, very strong technically and entrepreneurially, and interestingly, was mayor of Cupertino, i.e., has experience on the local government side of things. [I used to work with him in early 1980s]. I don't know how all this will work out, but it's good to see *very* strong people working on it.
The Independent article on Iraq is a major eye opener. Anyone who wants a glimpse into future water conflicts should read it. A similar situation could easily play out in dozens of regions around the world. The most worrying being the Indus watershed because both sides are nuclear armed.
The short-term implications for US security are bleak as well. As reported in this UPI article,
Iraq faces intense water shortages this summer that could lead to an "agricultural disaster." That would not bode well for maintaining the fragile peace in the country. And last time I checked, the US still had around 180,000 soliders there.
Q: Are the Chevy Volt batteries exchangeable?
That would speed up refuelling considerably. A crucial detail…
…You could e.g. keep a spare battery at home, for recharging plus perhaps electricity trade. Or, the expensive batteries could be owned by the electricity trade post (formerly gas station) and rented to vehicle users. That could make the vehicle a whole lot cheaper. Moreover, batteries could be distributed by service trucks to customers waiting by the road (e.g. on German Autobahn Pannenstreifen, dunno if you have that on U.S. highways).
If the batteries can't be exchanged quickly the whole thing would be yet another classic piece of tech junk.
"Charles Siegel Says:
June 16th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
How much would it increase demand for electricity if the entire fleet of American cars shifted from gasoline to electricity? That is a key fact that I never hear mentioned in articles about electric cars.
My guess, of the top of my head, is that it would increase demand by 50% – making it much harder to phase out dirty power plants."
Charles, America spent $700 Billion on importing oil last year. That is just one year, so let's consider $7 Trillion over the next 10 years.
How many solar, wind and geo-thermal electric plants would that buy? Enough to replace every dirty fossil fuel plant, with plenty of money left over to fund health care, education, public transportation, and finance the creation of new innovative industries to create a millions of jobs, a thriving economy and higher standard of living. As a side benefit, we get cleaner air and put a stop to global warming.
But I suppose you prefer that all that money goes to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela instead? I hear some Saudi oil sheiks still have yachts that are under 300 ft long, so they certainly need our help!
"Our plan was to sell a thousand stations, but we will probably double that," he told Green Inc. last week after the company secured its third Bay Area order this year. "Our company is structured to be profitable based on early adopters."
My education tells me to stay with gasolene. I can fill the car, pay for fuel, have my kids take a potty break and buy candy and be good to go for 500 miles in 5 minute turn around. E Mini sys 2 hours for a fast charge that runs 2 hours?
More facts. 150 mile range and 2.5 hour charge with special high amperage wall box.
Now that means with 75 mph speed limit, I can't run an average ground speed including charging of 35 miles per hour. My educated decision says no.
[JR: These are plug in hybrids! The electricity is for commuting. The gasoline is for longer distances and rapid refueling.]
SamB, you are not one of the early adopters. Most people don't regularly drive for 500 miles, stop for 5 minutes and go another 500 miles. I haven't made a trip like that in 10 years. Once in 10 years I could just rent a gasoline car for the trip. More likely, I would just fly instead.
Electrics will work fine for most people in most situations. They are steadily getting better. The Tesla Model S will be able to go 300 miles, and recharge in 45 minutes. There will be even better ones after that. Eventually they will be good enough even for you "late adopters".
BTW, if most people buy electrics and greatly reduce demand for oil, folks like you will benefit from the resulting lower prices. If electrics catch on, you still win even without buying one!
In Japan, it's raining tadpoles …
… and fish and frogs. Downpours that deposit dead creatures from Hiroshima to Iwate bewilder meteorologists
Joe I'd be very interested to hear your views on high altitude wind. Is this an area you might look at in the future?
Coal plants have to phase out CO2 emissions now if we are really going to have any impact on worst case scenarios….
letter to UK minister:
Miliband must end coal emissions
Daleep Mukarji
Director, Christian Aid
Andy Atkins
Executive director, Friends of the Earth
John Sauven
Executive director, Greenpeace
Barbara Stocking
Director, Oxfam
Graham Wynne
Chief executive, RSPB
Deborah Doane
Director, World Development Movement
David Nussbaum
Chief executive, Officer, WWF UK
Just a quick note on the German scrappage scheme story. Skoda, despite being a czech firm, are actually owned by Volkswagen-Audi Group, so the situation is more complex than the article presents.
however, here in the UK, it has been estimated that the biggest gainers from our recently introduced scrappage scheme are Kia, a south Korean firm, which backs up the German unease over such schemes, which is mentioned in the article.
The latest uptick in CO2 concentration is worrying.
This could be the signal that the tipping action is about to flip us in to the next climate state.
Its probably caused by a few things in concert:
– the escalation and geographical spread of forest fires which are burning for longer;
– increasing of methane levels;
– a reduction absorption of CO2 by the oceans
On first pass, a Sahara-powered Europe strikes me as a security problem. A new target to attack so as to socio-politically destabilise. Although obiously attacking it wouldn't have some of the consequences of attacking a nuclear plant.
A massive project like that isn't in line with with the direction of the industry either towards distributed power generation.
Too simple? What am I not thinking about here?
BBHY writes: "I suppose you prefer that all that money goes to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela instead?"
No, I would prefer that people drive less. The average Americans drives twice as much now as in the 1960s, and I don't think we are any better off because we put in all those extra miles on the freeway.
No matter how quickly we build wind and solar power plants, we clearly will not be able to phase out dirty power plants as quickly if we have this major new source of demand for electricity. So, I think we should and inevitably will shift to plug-in hybrids, but I think we should be aware of how much electricity this would demand if we keep our current driving habits, so we realize that we should try to reduce the amount we drive at the same time as we shift to cleaner cars. To draw attention to this point, I would like to see that elusive number that is never mentioned: how much would it increase our demand for electricity if we shifted to electric cars?
I myself have not owned a car for many, many years. I bicycle as my main form of transportation. I presume that you have sent lots of money to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela by buying gasoline over the last decade, Mr. BBHY, but I have sent very little.
Dano, it is good to hear from you. The idea that cars could be charged at night is a common defense of our current loser path, as you say. Of course, the obvious response is that, rather than storing that energy generated at night in our car batteries and using it to power cars during the day, if we drove less, we could store that energy in some other way and use it for less destructive purposes.
How about this claimed solution to the hydrogen fuel cell 'chicken and egg' problem?:
It might not suit individuals but perhaps businesses could consider it for their company car fleets.
[JR: It gets mentioned all the time — it's a major benefit of all electric cars. There are lots of zero carbon electric generation technologies, including wind which is perfect for charging at night and the batteries solve the storage/intermittency problem. But there are essentially no zero carbon liquid transportation fuels.]
Joe, I still have not seen a number. If it gets mentioned all the time, please pass it on to me: what percent of our current electrical generating capacity would it take to power electric cars, assuming people keep driving as much as they now do?
There are lots of zero-carbon electric generation technologies, but there are economic limits to how quickly we can deploy them. To avoid the worst effects of global warming, we clearly need to reduce the amount of energy we consume as well as shifting to clean energy.
If we can store energy in car batteries and use it to drive, we can also store that energy in batteries and use it to meet peak electrical demand during the day.
Saying that we should shift to electric cars and not mentioning that we should also reduce the amount we drive is like saying that we should use electric heaters in our homes and not mentioning that we should also insulate so we need less heating.
Let me repeat that I think the shift to plug-in hybrids is both beneficial and inevitable – but we also need to reduce the amount we drive. The numbers would emphasize this point: how much added electricity would we need to keep driving as much as we do today?
Charles Siegel wrote:
"…rather than storing that energy generated at night in our car batteries and using it to power cars during the day, if we drove less, we could store that energy in some other way and use it for less destructive purposes…If we can store energy in car batteries and use it to drive, we can also store that energy in batteries and use it to meet peak electrical demand during the day."
Where are the millions of batteries going to come from to store all this energy? Currently, energy storage is so expensive that most utilities simply dump the electricity at night because they can't find anything profitable to do with it. Electric vehicles would solve this problem in two ways, first by storing this energy to release some at peak times while plugged in during the day: V2G (vehicle-to-grid). Also by actually providing millions of high capacity batteries to utilities at the end of their useful lifetime as car batteries they can further facilitate adoption of wind and solar energy (they still typically have 80% of their capacity left.)
I am glad to hear that like me, you cycle instead of driving, but unlike me you don't seem to be a realist about driving habits. The average Joe is not going to stop driving so the sooner we can offer carbon free options the better.
You ask: where are the millions of batteries going to come from to store that energy? It is obviously cheaper just to produce the batteries without producing the cars along with them. If we can produce millions of plug-in hybrid cars to store energy generated at night, then we can more easily produce millions of batteries without the cars wrapped around them.
I am also realistic about driving habits. The average person is not going to stop driving but could reduce driving. Have you been following the debate in congress over the reauthorization of TEA legislation? For the first time ever, Democratic leadership is talking about passing a bill whose goal is to reduce VMT in order to deal with global warming.
I think the Democratic leadership is more realistic that you are. They are realistic enough to see that, in order to control global warming, we need to reduce the amount Americans drive.
Yes, we can produce millions of batteries but who is paying for them? When they are produced with "cars wrapped around them" you have people buying them instead of buying gas guzzlers at no extra cost to anyone. You get all of the benefit of energy storage, grid management, load levelling and (eventually) full use by the utilities. In addition you have vehicles that are at least three times more efficient than the best ICE vehicles so it is like people driving three times less!
Also, instead of attempting to limit emissions from millions of tailpipes (nearly impossible) you at least have a chance in the medium to long term of capturing emissions from power plants. So even if all our electricity were produced by coal plants, the situation is far superior to continuing with business as usual. We need to start large scale production of electric vehicles immediately in order to allow economies of scale to reduce costs and start to replace our worldwide fleet of gas guzzlers.
BTW, your demands for "that elusive number" are unlikely to be met unless you are specific about energy demand. Are you interested in the increase at peak demand time, because that is likely to be a negative % for the reasons mentioned earlier. Are you assuming 10%, 50% or 100% replacement of the transportation fleet? On the whole, I don't think the number even matters because our total energy use will decrease, our portion of renewables can be increased and every analysis of electrification agrees that it will decrease greenhouse gas emissions substantially.
Well, clearly everyone read the article. Some misunderstood some of the details but that does not matter.
One detail, one thought the distance too far.
Evidently, more reading on American High Voltage lines would help.
In California, we have 1,000 mile (or so) Million volt DC lines, transformers bought from Sweden, long ago, they have higher now.
Re: Batteries, the charge is so cheap, that some may do it for free, like certain parlors in Las Vegas, Safeway in California and others that expect to benefit from your stay in their store or barber shop, or movie theatre, their overly cooled and overly lit stores.
Batteries: China will sell cars that go 100 miles between recharges, companies may provide free recharge to their workers and avoid the bookiping expense, call it VoltPerk.
GM's car is said to have a 40 mile range, how long before the 2 Battery version comes out? Two days?
How about replacing batteries like we replace empty Natural Gas tanks for fulled ones for BBQ and cooking? Well, "I take good care of my battery, why should I …." What?
Sequestration: Seems like a pipe dream but history teaches that the same was said of the airplane, so I will not call it that for the next 10 years, then I will call it the worst I know at that time in life beginning with "You know what they…."
"Yes, we can produce millions of batteries but who is paying for them? When they are produced with "cars wrapped around them" you have people buying them instead of buying gas guzzlers at no extra cost to anyone."
"Also, instead of attempting to limit emissions from millions of tailpipes (nearly impossible) you at least have a chance in the medium to long term of capturing emissions from power plants."
Unfortunately, in both of these comments, you are assuming that I want people to keep buying gasoline cars. As I said clearly above (quoting the second time I said it): "Let me repeat that I think the shift to plug-in hybrids is both beneficial and inevitable – but we also need to reduce the amount we drive."
Assuming that we both reduce the amount we drive and shift to plug-in cars, the same people could pay as utility rate payers instead of paying as car buyers. It is cheaper to live in a neighborhood where a family only needs one car instead of two, and to buy one plug-in hybrid and pay the utility to buy one battery pack, rather than buying two plug-in hybrids.
"your demands for "that elusive number" are unlikely to be met unless you are specific about energy demand. … On the whole, I don't think the number even matters because our total energy use will decrease
As a start, I would like to see the total amount of kilowatt hours that would be used to replace 100% of our current VMT with electric cars. I think this would show that we would need to reduce VMT as well as shifting to electric. Needless to say, our total energy use would decrease even more if we also reduced VMT.
Would you reason in the same way about China and India? Do you think it would be fine for the Chinese and Indians to drive as much per capita as Americans as long as they use plug-in cars, because the power would be generated off peak?
Are you against California's SB 375, which is meant to reduce the amount people drive by reducing sprawl? Are you against proposals to reform federal TEA spending by giving more funding to transit to reduce the amount people drive?
I am sure that you are not against these things, any more than I am against plug-in cars. I think we both take the only reasonable position: that we should both shift to plug-in cars and reduce the amount we drive.
It sounds like we are mostly on the same page. There is no question we need less urban sprawl, more public transit and more carpooling. I think what sends up a red flag for me is when I see people questioning the implementation of electric vehicles based on their impact on the grid. We desperately need to get off oil, whether you care about climate change, national security or impending peak oil. Electrification is the only way to do this and we need to start 10 years ago. Oh wait, we did … then killed it… let's just get it moving because it takes a long time to replace a whole fleet of petroleum burning automobiles.


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Finally has anyone taken a look at this http://www.brickanimals.com/ ? Good to see that more entrepreneurs are coming forward to fill the gap left by TLG. May be someday this thread will become irrelevant as all (LEGO compatible) animals will be available from 3rd parties just like mil. arms and accessories.
WOW! Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that before. I have no problem going third party - I've happily bought from brickarms, brickforge, ME Models, and most recently, brickwarriors. I'd love to choose official LEGO first, but I'll take what I can get.
As for brickanimals, the problem I see is that the dogs look TOO nice for the level of detail in minifigures. They're too nice.


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Nahapet Kuchak
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Nahapet Kuchak (Armenian: Նահապետ Քուչակ) (died 1592) was an Armenian medieval poet, one of the first ashughs.[1] He is best known for his hairens (հայրեն), "couplets with a single coherent theme."[2] Kuchak was probably born in the village of Kharakonis, near the city of Van.[3] He lived his entire life near the Lake Van area.[4]
- ^ "Նահապետ Քոչւակ". ArmenianHouse.org. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
- ^ Roland Greene; Stephen Cushman; Clare Cavanagh; Jahan Ramazani; Paul F. Rouzer (2012). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 84. ISBN 9780691154916.
- ^ "Nahapet Kuchak". Writers.am. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
- ^ Holding, Nicholas. Bradt Armenia: With Nagorno Karabagh (3rd ed.). Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks: Bradt Travel Guides. p. 44. ISBN 9781841623450.
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Beautiful room with modern decor and clean bathroom, great price. Perfect location at the beginning if Fremont Street. Nice view as well. There is a $10 per day resort fee, which includes fitness center, bottled water in the room, wifi, and parking.
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Very friendly and helpfull
I just got back from vegas (2Aug-6Aug 2003) we stayed at the plaza hotel and casino. The rooms were very clean and big, The staff was extreamly nice and helpfull, I didn't like the area too well the strip is much nicer but basically your in a hotel to sleep and get ready so it's worth it, we payed $29 a night. We had to move rooms on our last night because they had to fix the carpet, but they gave us a upgraded room, with free dinner and breakfast and free admission to a comedy club just to move! The pool is cool, it's on top of the building and you can see the mountains and strip from the hotel, there's also buses close by, and cabs, and shuttles that come to the hotel from the airport. If you planning on going to Las Vegas, I recommed renting a car, it's a long walk on the strip, and cabs can get expensive.
Rude & Inconsistant Info at Desk
Stayed Jully 25 03. We usualy go 2 to 3 times a year. Each time we go the service seems to get worse. This time the help was rude and unhelpfull to say the least. Won't stay there again.
Great time at the Plaza
My wife and I just stayed at the Plaza (june 15-17, 2003) and had a fantastic stay. We had a one bedroom suite which was terrific (I booked it through Orbtz and got a great rate of $58.00 per night). The furniture and carpet looked brand new, and it appeared to have been just painted. We were on the 22nd floor and had a great view of the strip. The suite was nicely appointed and very comfortable. The staff was friendly from check in to ceck out. Had a excellent dinner at the Center Stage over looking Fremont Street. I especially liked the casino because it has that "Old Vegas" look and feel. We go to Vegas about every other month and this is the first time we stayed Downtown. To me Dowtown IS Las Vegas and we will definatly return and stay at the Plaza. I absolutly recomend it.
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I visit las vegas approx. 5 times a year and we always stay at the Luxor or Alladin. I decided to stay downtown this time because of the Jazz festival. I was very happy with my room and the service. The food was so-so but it was what I expected. I would stay at the Plaza again and would recomend it to anyone who wants a decent room at a great price. I payed $22 a night for 4 nights and got free breakfast every mourning...
I don't know what everyone is so flustered about
I was reading all the reviews - and must say - people are not doing their research. If you want to stay in a luxury hotel - by all means do so. the Plaza never advertised that it is a Luxury Hotel. What are you in Vegas for - to stay in your hotel room? I've been coming to this hotel for over 5 years now, yes -i had a few complaints - but I was comped with dinner and free rooms, security very friendly. That the elevators stink - that's a fact - but common - how many hours are you in an elevator - or are you just to lazy to walk the steps? All in all - you get what you pay for - and the Plaza has very reasonable rates. If you need more luxury comfort and money waist-go to the strip---and stop complaining.
Like the Plaza
Stayed here about 3 times and have had great experiences each time. Room worn but very clean. They have a 50's type restaurant with good food and great specials. The Front Stage restaurant overlooks Fremont Street and is reasonable. There is a guest laundry. Security was very good on each of my visits. Staff friendly.
Ripped off by housekeeping!!!!
On our original reservations we had requested a veiw of fremont street. Upon our arrival from a seven hour drive
we come to learn a convention of Harley Davidson bikers were
staying at the hotel which the hotel was sponsoring. As a result, our parties were split up onto different floors due to no vacancy!!
Instead of overlooking fremont street we were overlooking a parking lot of blarring loud motorcycles.
After several complaints were made we were moved into a another room.
Did things improve our stay? NO!!!
Now our bags were gone through and money was taken. We reported this to security and informed them the only one that was in there during the incident was housekeeping.
Securities response was very rude and did not show any interest in taking proper measures to find out who commited the crime.
Till this day the hotel has done nothing to make this matter right nor has security followed up with a report.
I am appauled on the way the hotel treat there guest, especially thier security who was very unprofessional!!
I would not stay again nor would I recomened the Plaza. Regardless if there rooms are reasonable or not. You basically pay for what you get.
No Response to complaints
We have gone to the Plaza for about 15 years and it has become rundown and unkept. Wallpaper is falling from walls, furniture is so soiled, one hestitates to sit in it. We immediately complained about these eye-sores and have gotten no response from anyone.
The rates they are charging for the rooms is too high for what they have to offer.
Panhandlers abound at this sub standard, run down establishment. It was frightening to step from the dirty parking structure into the filthy stinky entry halls. Up to par with a run down welfare tenament building. The place needs a complete renovation or demolition. The large bus station next door lends itself as an appropiate travel and stay partner. Was rated at three stars but 2 would be very generous.
This has got to be one of the worst places I have ever stayed. The elevators smelled like a mixture of throwp and cigarettes. In the room it was no better, They gave you one pillow if you could call it that. The room also was equipped with a television that had melted faces and warped colors. The sheets smelled like cigarettes and under one of the mattresses there was an half drunk bottle of Lord Calvert Canadian whiskey and a well worn prono magazine. To get a meal at anywhere in the casino took at least an hour, and when I went to the Seattle's Best Coffee to get a cup, the employees were more intrested in repairing the cash register than wait on a customer. There are absouletly no comps, no in room treats, the pool area was locked on the South side but open on the North. The whole trip was a waste of time due to staying there. One other thing, the air conditioner belched out smoke and dust when turned on. Ughh.
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Reviewing the Hypershade Window improvements
Let's go ahead and take a look at some of the rendering features in Maya 2011. But before we get started, let's go ahead and set a project so that our textures will show up. I'm going to go File > Project > Set. And let's make sure we have Chapter 05 set. And then let's go ahead and open a file. It's called Plane_01.ma. This is just a simple airplane that has some textures on it. The first thing we're going to take a look at is the new Hypershade window.
There have been some additions to it. So let's go ahead and take a look at that. We're going to find that under Window > Rendering Editors > Hypershade. Before I actually go into that, let me point out that there is one thing missing from the Rendering Editors window, and that's Multi-Lister, which had been around since before Maya was a leftover from alias. And so that has finally been taken out of Maya. And now Hypershade is the only way to edit shaders and textures.
So let's go ahead into Hypershade and take a look at this new window. Now like the new interface it actually is sleeker. It looks a little bit nicer. Let's go ahead and actually quickly jump over to Maya 2010 and take a look at the old Hypershade window. And you can see it's pretty similar. You have all of your Create Maya nodes here. You've got your Materials, Textures, all of your tabbed interface here. And we have our work interface here, similar to what it is in Maya 2011. So let's take a look at some of the changes in the interface.
The first thing you'll notice is that this actually now has two vertical panes here. What you're going to find is you're going to find one main entry for each renderer in Maya. So in this case we have the standard Maya renderer and all of the different render nodes that we can use for that. And then we also have the mental ray renderer here and all the default render nodes we can use for that one. Now notice that under each of these we have multiple nodes, so each one of these is really kind of a folder containing additional render nodes.
So you have to click on one of these. And you can get just one, such as the shadow transparency, or you can get dozens of them like we have here, which has all the different types of mental ray shaders. So since we have so many different ones of these, one of the nicer new features is this search box. You can type a word and all the different render nodes that have those letters will show up. And of course, you can use global such as asterisk and question mark and so on.
So for example, if I type phong for phong, I get the five different types of phongs that we have. We have Phong, Phong E in the Maya renderer, as well as in the mental ray renderer, as well another mental ray phong, which is the illumination phong. So that's kind of nice. And we can also again just delete that and go into whatever we want and just search manually. Now another nice little feature is this little slider here which basically is a zoom.
So we can zoom in or out. Depending upon how good your eyesight is, you can probably get more on the screen. And my eyesight is not so good, so I can just make it bigger so I can read everything. And then also another one is if we go up to the top here, we have this one called Favorites, which means that you can actually create favorite render nodes that you can easily access. Again, we really can dig through a lot of these. So you kind of want to be able to bookmark the ones that you like. So for example, if you're using car paint a lot, you can just right-click over it.
And when you right-click, you can just add it to Favorites. So now I've got a mental ray shader. Under Materials, I have car paint. Or if I want, I can go, let's say I wanted to add the dgs_material and so on. So now under Favorites I've got these already setup and ready to go. Now the rest of the window, even though it looks a little bit different, operates very much in the same way as the previous version of Maya. So I'm not going to go into a full Hypershade tutorial.
But I just want to let you know what the differences are and what some of the cool new features in the Hypershade window can do for you.
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China's KingMed Diagnostics inked a deal with Qiagen to operate as a centralized laboratory offering the latter's digene HPV assay. Independent laboratory network KingMed will act to process and analyze samples sent from hospitals that don't directly provide the digene assay themselves, to help expand access to the test across the country.
The digene HPV test was first registered in China in 2000 and is available in a number of the country's largest hospitals and private laboratories. Qiagen says the deal with KingMed represents a milestone for its molecular diagnostics franchise in China, and its drive to expand in emerging markets. The firm expects the collaboration will expand access to the test in second-tier and third-tier cities, and in less developed regions with a high cervical cancer burden.
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Announcement of the deal with KingMed coincides with International Women's Day, and Qiagen's confirmation that it is donating HPV tests for screening thousands of underprivileged women across China. The free testing, which Qiagen has offered for the last five years, is part of the 3.8 Program, a nationwide cancer prevention campaign instigated by the Cancer Foundation of China, and which is partially sponsored by Qiagen. The campaign has to date screened about 16,000 women using the digene HPV test.
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We had Room 135 in the back. Good things first. The room itself is large. The bed is comfortable though don't expect high end linens and duvets because you won't find them here. Now this is where some improvement could be had. There are two pieces of painted white bamboo type garden furniture in the room: a loveseat and a chair and ottoman. The webbing on both is so old and stretched out so as to render them un-sittable which is a shame since they're actually kind of pretty is a retro '60s kind of way. The upholstery is faded and past its prime. Long story short: look at this furniture but don't use it unless you want your bottom scraping the floor! Electrical outlets are in short supply. The bathroom has none. I wanted to straighten my hair and the only outlet available (there's one by the desk by the door but my cell phone was charging at the time) was the one on the back wall by the big mirror. Fine you say, no problem...except that for some weird reason the mirror was hung almost near the ceiling! My husband's 6'2" and even he couldn't see his face in the mirror. Why would anyone hang a mirror that high? It makes no sense. I had to drag the desk chair over it and stand on it to do my hair. That's a little bit stupid. The floor also slopes downward. A lot. I live in an old house so I know that's part and parcel with old buildings but if you're not used to it, consider yourself warned.
The bathroom is very small. Toiletries were adequate. Towels, though unstained and untorn, were just this side of threadbare. I can understand not having fluffy towels (the bathroom was so small big fluffy towels simply wouldn't fit, no kidding) but there's no reason for such old towels! The sink faucet was old too, to the point that the stainless steel finish had worn off to the brass. C'mon now. New faucets aren't that expensive.
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Here, is the displacement of point on string.
The displacement at time of the neighboring point will then be given by
The length of the string is between and .
Here, if we consider gravitational force and the tension in the string .
The tension is on the left and is on the right of the portion.
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Resolve these forces into components that give:
Net vertical force
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Net horizontal force
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The vertical acceleration of the string is given by .
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Hayley Atwell will romance Chris Evans in 'Captain America'
Marvel Studios announced today that Brit Hayley Atwell will join the cast of Joe Johnston's "Captain America: The First Avenger."
The 28-year-old actress, who is best know for her role in AMC's mini-series "The Prisoner," will play Peggy Carter, Captain America's love interest. Late last month, Chris Evans beat out a slew of prime candidates for the film's leading role of Steven Rodgers, the U.S. military soldier who is transformed into America's greatest WW II hero. As for the rest of the cast, Hugo Weaving has been reported to be on board as the villainous Red Skull and "Gossip Girl's" Sebastian Stan has been recruited to play Cap's sidekick Bucky.
Alice Eve, best know for the recent comedy "She's Out of My League," was also in contention for the role.
In an official statement, the studio says "Captain America" will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America."
American audiences will next see Atwell in "Pillars of the Earth, an 8-part mini-series debuting on Starz July 23. She's also had supporting roles in "The Duchess," "Brideshead Revisited" and Woody Allen's "Cassandra's Dream."
Note, previously referred to as "The First Avenger: Captain America," the Disney division has seemingly decided to switch the monikers around for the film's official title as production ramps up.
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My brother and I do this a lot. We only pack what we need and take direct flights to large cities. We don't rent cars, stay at hotels, we basically stay up for 48 hours and do stuff.
Sleep on the plane. If you need a nap go to some stupid ass movie and get some shut eye. We only do this is the summer. Hit baseball games, shows, and historical sights.
My wife will never do it, but we basically cram a 4 day trip into 2 days.
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That's ****ing awesome! That's the kind of shit I'd do in my early 20's. I may have to round up a buddy or two and do something like that this summer.
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If I load up TFS Web Access and go to Security > Users, I only see the 3 people I've added to my team. However, when I try to assign a task to someone in Web Access or in Visual Studio, it lists a bunch of users from the domain (not all users, looks like all IT people). Where does this come from? How can I change it... without exporting, editing and importing files via command line?
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I really don't understand... this is our own team's server, a separate install from the main dev team. I have no idea how these other 30 or 40 users got in this group. Major bonus <3 for any help on this. MikeR's answer will allow me to set administrators as the only assigness which will technically fix the issue, but I'd rather be able to use the groups as they were intended if possible.


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In Defense Of: Used Games
There's been a lot of grumbling about used games lately. As part of Eject Disk's ongoing series on the topic, we're going to grumble some more. They're bad for developers, they're choking the industry, they're a cunningly-crafted scheme of Lucifer's own design to destroy everything you hold dear. You've heard the arguments and so have I. But do they hold any water? Are used games really cannibalizing developer profits, or is this a long-perpetuated myth rooted in sheer, shameless greed?
Well, technically neither, but it sure as hell leans more closely to one side than the other.
No, developers don't see any profit from a used game sale. Not directly, anyway. Certainly used sales represent the opportunity to explore a new title at a lessened financial risk, thereby resulting in interest and loyalty if the title happens to be good, which just so happens to be the building blocks of a successful franchise and support for future projects, but there is no immediate monetary benefit to a developer from a used sale. That is a cold, hard truth, and it isn't one I'm wild about.
I want to support developers. I don't know anyone that doesn't. But you know what? Consoles make that very, very difficult. Games are sixty bucks a pop. Should three titles you'd like to play drop in one month, that's $180 plus tax. I don't care who you are, that is a considerable chunk of change to drop on luxuries. Now yes, I know devs don't set prices and that is utterly beyond their control, but the reality is there are very few people with the disposable income to buy every new title they'd like to support. It's not going to happen.
Enter the trade in market.
When a big title drops, a consumer of limited means digs up an armful of games they haven't played in ages and drags them down to their local GameStop. That consumer could trade them in for cash, but they'll get quite a lot more – as much as 50% more – if they opts for in-store credit. Suddenly that $60 title is now within reach for $30, and they are able to justify a purchase that would not have been feasible without this system. In the vast majority of trade in transactions, this is exactly the aim of both retailer and consumer.
Please tell me how this doesn't support the developer.
In an interview with Gamasutra, GameStop president Paul Raines has commented on this exact transaction. According to him, some 70 percent of what consumers net in trade-in value is then spent on new games, resulting in $1.8 billion dollars of revenue that devs and publishers otherwise wouldn't see a penny of.
Whether you believe his statistics or not, this is a crucial component of console sales. This is a driving force behind the financial feasibility of gaming. This is important.
But what I would like to know is why the game industry gets some kind of magic pass that absolutely no manufacturer of any other good in the world is granted. I bought my car used. Did the good folks at Toyota see a penny of that sale? Absolutely not, but when the original owner of my car bought it off the lot, it became his to do with as he pleased. Sell it, crash it, drive it till the wheels fell off – he purchased a physical unit and it became his property. When faced with rising piracy and dropping physical sales, the music and entertainment industry didn't start throwing a tantrum about used CDs and DVDs ripping food from the mouths of executives. They invested in new, more affordable options for legally obtaining the goods they were producing, and lo and behold, iTunes, Netflix, and companies like them were born, cutting down on piracy and dramatically increasing revenue for producers, manufacturers and artists alike. So why is it video games that are exempt from all notion of property and ownership? Why does this industry get to demand total supplication from its consumers without any attempt to meet their changing needs? Why is this okay?
If game makers are incensed by their consumers trading and selling the goods they have purchased and legally own, that is just too damn bad. They want to change the way games are bought and sold? Fine. Give us better options. Give us any other avenue. If digital distribution is the future, then by god, make it work for us. Don't tell me you have to charge me the exact same price for a digital copy of a game when there is no distribution overhead, no risk of overproduction, no chance of being stuck with a warehouse of unsold games. Don't point to Origin as if it solves anything. It doesn't.
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The outside mirror on the passenger side of a car is convex and hasa focal length of -7.0 cm. Relative to this mirror, a trucktraveling in the rear has an object distance of 18 m.Find (a) the image distanceand (a) the magnification of themirror.
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Spicy Chicken Fajitas
|Orange juice
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Lime juice
|2 Tablespoon
|Lemon juice
|2 Tablespoon
|1 Clove (5 gm), minced
|Boneless skinless chicken breast halves
|1 1⁄2 Pound (4 Pieces)
|Chili powder
|1 Teaspoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Vegetable oil
|1 Tablespoon
|Red bell pepper
|1 Medium, cut into strips
|Green bell pepper
|1 Medium, cut into strips
|Yellow bell pepper
|1 Medium, cut into strips
|1 Medium, sliced
|Flour tortillas
|10 , warmed
|Sour cream
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Canned sliced black olives
|2 1⁄4 Ounce, drained (1 Can)
Combine orange juice, lime juice, lemon juice and garlic in large bowl. Season chicken with chili powder and salt. Place chicken in juice mixture, turning to coat. Cover; marinate in refrigerator 30 minutes. Remove chicken. Place marinade in small saucepan. Bring to a rolling boil over medium-high heat; keep warm. Place chicken on broiler rack or grill about 6 inches from heat. Broil or grill, turning and basting with marinade, 10 minutes or until no longer pink in center. Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add peppers and onion; cook and stir about 5 minutes or until onion is tender. Slice chicken into strips; add to pepper-onion mixture. Divide chicken-pepper mixture evenly in centers of tortillas. Roll up tortillas; top each with dollop of sour cream, salsa and olives.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 278 Calories from Fat 93
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12 g17.9%
Saturated Fat 3.9 g19.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 51.4 mg17.1%
Sodium 603.4 mg25.1%
Total Carbohydrates 24 g8.1%
Dietary Fiber 2 g7.9%
Sugars 5.2 g
Protein 20 g39.2%
Vitamin A 18.2% Vitamin C 106.7%
Calcium 14.4% Iron 14.3%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet