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Thursday, 5 April, 2001, 14:29 GMT 15:29 UK
3G faces EU setback
EU ministers have agreed an ambitious new telecoms package to harmonise regulations across member countries.
But telecoms firms, already struggling under a heavy burden of debt, fear tighter regulations could further delay the launch of the next generation, or third-generation (3G), mobile phone networks.
Telecoms firms will not be able to recoup any of the heavy investment in buying 3G licences and building networks until the new fast-speed services are rolled out. The news comes after Hans Snook, former boss of the UK's Orange phone network, said he does not expect to see serious use of the new networks before 2004, almost two years later than expected. Speaking at the Accenture Global Communications Forum in Miami Beach, Snook said that there will be no "meaningful" building of 3G networks until the end of 2003. Regulatory burden Mobile phone operators had called for less regulatory pressure ahead of the EU meeting. "In order to create a suitable environment for investment, it is necessary to impose clear limits on regulatory intervention and to increase reliance on competition law," said leading operators such as Orange and T-Mobile in a letter to EU telecoms ministers ahead of the meeting.
The deal was reached only after ministers had rejected a controversial Commission proposal to have the last say in telecoms regulation. This leaves regulatory power in the hands of national telecoms authorities. EU telecommunications Commission Erkki Liikanen accepted that the time was not yet right to give EU-wide regulatory power to the Commission, but warned that it will happen sooner or later. Mobile future is bright But despite expecting delayed launches, Mr Snook remains optimistic about the outlook for mobile phone companies nevertheless.
A bullish Mr Snook said mobile phone firms have not paid too much for licences to operate the 3G networks that will let operators offer a slew of novel services. But operators will have to work hard to drive customers to new services or risk getting pushed out of the way by other companies keen to reach consumers via a mobile phone. |
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Gosh, it's been a while since I've posted. More than two months, in fact! My 3rd year of being on T slipped by during that time, without much notice. Really, year three doesn't feel much different than year two...which I suspect is the crux of these writing gaps. My transition (and the entirety of my gender, really) isn't as interesting to me as it used to be. I foretold this, and I'm not surprised about it, but how quickly the memory of angst disappears! It's nice to feel normal, and it's seductive- I am reminded daily why it's so hard for people to raise their consciousness when they've never had their privileges challenged, and why cissexual (that is, non-transexual) people sometimes find it so hard to understand what gender dysphoria really means.
It's so comfortable having my gender identity and physical sex be in sync! Almost hard for me to empathize with gender variant folks, and I used to BE a gender variant person! Heck, I still am, in some ways, but they're very different ways.
Anyway, I've got dishes to do and sleep to get, but I'd like to start writing in this again. Just because my life isn't angsty anymore doesn't mean it isn't still interesting, and I'd like to keep making this record for myself and my friends and family and any who might find it helpful.
So I'll end this post with my old standby easy-out: pictures!
First is me in early spring sunshine with my beard at its wooliest, sometime in March:
Then a somewhat more restrained beard picture from about the same time-
Mostly to contrast with the below picture from a year ago (may 2008) to show that yes, my beard pattern is filling in. I thought I looked quite good at the time, but it looks so patchy to me now, alas.
I sure was skinny- I've put on some padding since leaving NYC, aka the land of walking everywhere.
And here are two shots from tonight- recently clean shaven for the summertime (my coworkers tell me it makes me look about 13, alas, so it probably won't last long), and then a topless photo just because.
In August it'll be 3 years since my surgery with Dr. Brownstein.
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Familiar Diversions
I'm a librarian who loves anime, manga, and reading a wide variety of genres.
Reading Challenge 2017
A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions
Currently reading
The Mystic Marriage
Heather Rose Jones
Progress: 302/426 pages
Ichi-F: A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
Kazuto Tatsuta
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The Naked Sun
Isaac Asimov
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50 Girls 50 and Other Stories
Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Gary Groth
Jennifer Foehner Wells
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: A Novel
Becky Chambers
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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I was 10 pages into this book when I almost quit reading it. It wasn't at all what I expected. Granted, I haven't read many of Agatha Christie's books – one Miss Marple and one Poirot, I think – but what I've read was enough to make me at least expect a mystery starring an interesting detective/amateur detective. Tommy and Tuppence didn't seem particularly interesting to me.I'm glad I continued reading, though, because The Secret Adversary turned out to be a lot of fun. While I've seen the book referred to as a detective novel and as a mystery, now that I've read it I consider it more of a thriller.As I've already said, I didn't consider Tommy and Tuppence to be all that interesting at first. A particularly dangerous moment made them and the story more exciting. Up to that point, I think Tuppence viewed their attempts to find the document as an exciting adventure, like something out of a dime novel. I don't think she really took it all seriously until Tommy disappeared, possibly hurt, captured, or even killed (readers know he hasn't been, since there are more stories, but Tuppence didn't know) by Mr. Brown's people. I liked that, for a period of time, she had to continue on without Tommy's help and support and, although she was upset and frightened, she didn't fall apart.Tuppence was more energetic, imaginative, and adventurous than Tommy. As individuals, I found her to be more interesting right from the start, but, like Tuppence, Tommy also became more appealing after real danger entered the story. Tommy managed to talk his way into being captured, rather than immediately killed, and Tommy was also the one who arranged things so that Mr. Brown did not get the better of them all in the end.For those who like a bit of romance in their stories, The Secret Adversary has some of that as well. It takes a while to show up: Tommy and Tuppence come across as nothing more than really close friends during the beginning of the book, and it's not surprising that at least one character thinks they're related. In fact, I probably wouldn't have expected any romance if I hadn't been alerted to it by some stuff I read online about the two characters. Anyway, when Tommy goes missing, Tuppence worries about him, but it doesn't occur to her that she's actually in love with him until Julius proposes to her. Tommy, I think, realized he loved Tuppence well before Tuppence realized she loved him. I really enjoyed Tommy's reaction to Julius telling him that he'd proposed to Tuppence, as well as his reaction when he though Tuppence might be dead.Speaking of Julius, he was a fun character. He waved great wads of money at practically everything and everyone, to the point where I sometimes wondered if he might not possibly go broke. My favorite "Julius gets stuff done with money" moment was when he bought a Rolls-Royce. Julius had asked Tuppence what kind of car she liked and then left to go get one, leaving her stunned and certainly not expecting what happened next."Thirty-five minutes had elapsed when Julius returned. He took Tuppence by the arm, and walked her to the window. 'There she is.' 'Oh!' said Tuppence with a note of reverence in her voice, as she gazed down at the enormous car. 'She's some pace-maker, I can tell you,' said Julius complacently. 'How did you get it?' gasped Tuppence. 'She was just being sent home to some bigwig.' 'Well?' 'I went round to his house,' said Julius. 'I said that I reckoned a car like that was worth every penny of twenty thousand dollars. Then I told him that it was worth just about fifty thousand dollars to me if he'd get out.' 'Well?' said Tuppence, intoxicated. 'Well,' returned Julius, 'he got out, that's all.'"Oh, I do love that part.When this book was first published (1922), the sinking of the Lusitania and the end of World War I was recent history. I don't know if it's that I'm a modern reader, not very good with history, or both, but I had problems keeping in mind what Tommy and Tuppence were hoping to find and why it was so important. I didn't really feel the tension of the impending deadline for finding the document the way I'm guessing a 1922 reader would have. I loved reading about Tommy and Tuppence running around and trying to outwit Mr. Brown, but I had to keep reminding myself that they weren't doing all of that just because.Speaking of Mr. Brown, that aspect of the story was tons of fun, even though I giggled a little almost every time his name was said, because it was almost always said super-dramatically. A few examples:"'We look at each other – ONE OF US IS MR. BROWN – which?'" ----------"'I am directed by – Mr. Brown, to place the summaries of the reports from the different unions before you.'" ----------"'I am accountable to no one. I take my orders only from – Mr. Brown.'" ----------"'You feel - as we all feel - THE PRESENCE OF MR. BROWN. Yes" - as Tuppence made a movement - "not a doubt of it - MR. BROWN IS HERE....."There was so much drama, Mr. Brown might as well have been a monster that hid under secret agents' beds.I guessed who Mr. Brown was well before his identity was revealed, although I admit to not figuring out the clue Agatha Christie left. To be precise, I recognized the clue as a clue (she might as well have attached a neon sign to it that said "CLUE!"), but I was too into the story to want to take the time to try to puzzle it out.My grade for this book: B+. (Original review, with read-alikes and watch-alikes, posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)


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As a useful guideline, if you're distracted and haven't gotten the details right, you might not want to post and broadcast your unreadiness to the entire community.Originally Posted by Curmudgeon
I stopped enumerating after the first 5 illegal components in your build. There were more, but (as I noted) I'm not going to bother fixing any more of them for you.
- Illegal Mage Slayer feat (prerequisite not met)
- Illegal Shadow Blade feat (prerequisite not met)
- Illegal stance @ Swordsage 1 (not 1st level)
- 2 bogus custom items (scabbards). These don't exist in the game, and you need to be a magic item creator with Craft Wondrous Item, plus DM approval, to introduce such into the game. You don't have those.
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National Bank of Arizona (NB|AZ) announced the hire of new business banking manager, Ward Hickey. Hickey has more than 25 years of experience in the Arizona banking industry, specializing in entrepreneurship, business development and small business administration (SBA) lending. "I am thrilled to join the NB|AZ team," Hickey said. "I'm looking forward to expanding the… Read More →


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I have a top of the line computer, and I can't even record minecraft.....on the lowest settings, without massive amounts of lag, so is there a solution to it? or is there a better recording software?
What are your Fraps setting as by that i mean what are you FPS your recording at. And what are your computer Specs? other than that it could be a graphics card driver problem try downloading the newest one.
I record at 30fps and my Graphics Card is NVIDIA GTX 460
There should be no problem.
I have the same card and I don't get any lag when I record.
Thats weird, Because minecraft will not record (without lag) GTA IV will have lag every now and then and numerous other games aswell.
Would taking my computer apart peice by peice and cleaning it work?
Taking it apart hum, well it would take away the dust and make it run cooler but i don't think so but its worth a try.
Are you on half-size? It's hard to render anything fullsize without a fast HDD (10,000 RPM) or a separate HDD.
Half size like the minecraft screen or the option within fraps?
Try the opinion in Fraps and if the does not work try half in both
What CPU do you have? Fraps is mostly CPU intensive. My Intel i7 2600 Quad Core causes Fraps to only drop my FPS with like 5-10 FPS - while recording of course.
I have recently started a Dead Space 2 Let's Play where my fps drops with 5, while in Minecraft it can drop with 10-15 for some reason. Might be the Java coding, never liked it implemented in games.
I have a HD 6850, which is just like the GTX 460 as far as I know.
Record at 720p, not at native resolution. I have a mobile GTX 460 and haven't had hiccups except when everything is explodin.
Your processor and graphics card play the most important parts in terms of recording with FRAPS. Having a separate hard drive hooked up (via motherboard SATA port) would be another excellent solution, as it takes the strain of having one hard drive load and save data (from game) and then having to record a huge file onto the same hard drive.
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Many people, including myself, suffer from lower back pain. Unless treated properly, back pain can affect your ability to carry out typical, everyday activities such as bending, lifting, and in some cases, even walking. I still experience back pain from time to time in spite of having lower back surgery. So, how do I deal with this problem?
The way that I deal with lower back pain is by exercising and stretching daily. I also walk on a regular basis. I only take pain pills when the pain is excruciating - which only occurs when I overdo my limits in a physical activity such as tennis or basketball, or attempt to lift something that is too heavy.
I will share with you 5 of my favorite stretches or exercises.
Abdominal Trunk Stability Exercise Lying on back with knees bent, contract or tighten your stomach muscles while pushing the surface of your lower back toward the floor. Hold this position for 5 seconds. Repeat 20 times per set. Do 2 sets.
Single knee to Chest Stretch Lying on back, with hand behind knee, pull one knee in to chest until a comfortable stretch is felt in the lower back and buttocks. Hold for 15 - 20 seconds. Repeat with opposite knee. Repeat 5-10 times on each side.
Bridges Exercise Lie on your back with your knees bent and with feet and knees 4-6 inches apart. Raise hips toward ceiling. Hold for a count of 5. Then lower hips slowly. Repeat for 10-20 times. Do 2-3 sets per day.
Straight Leg Raise Exercise Lie on your back. With right knee bent, lock left knee straight and lift leg off of floor 10 inches and hold for 5 seconds. Pull toes and foot back toward knee and maintain knee completely straight until leg is resting on floor again. Do 2-3 sets of 10 to 20 repetitions per day.
Lower Trunk Rotation Lie on back. Bend knees of both legs. Keep knees together and feet on floor. Rotate legs to left side. Hold for 5 seconds. Rotate legs to right side. Hold for 5 seconds. Repeat 15-20 times. Do 2-3 sets per day
I suggest that the exercises be done daily. If done on a regular basis, these exercises and stretches will strengthen, help to stabilize, and make your lower back muscles more flexible, thereby, alleviating pain. Remember to contact your physician before trying these stretches.
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This themed collection from the folks at Now Music features 18 prime cuts of 1980s new wave. In the decades that followed, bands like the Psychedelic Furs, the B-52s, and, Echo & the Bunnymen would have been labeled alternative or indie rock, but when they first arrived in the latter days of the punk movement, they were blazing new trails. The new wave movement that led into the '80s encompassed many styles of bands, from the all-female rock of the Go-Go's to the synth pop of the Thompson Twins to the new romanticism of Adam Ant. It was broadly defined and highly creative, and remains one of the defining sounds of that decade. While it would be tough to define new wave through a single disc, Now That's What I Call New Wave 80s does manage to hit on major players like R.E.M., the Cure, the Human League, and Tears for Fears. ~ Timothy Monger


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Posted by madmarckPosted by YdocProverbs 9:7 - "Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse."Man, the Bible was telling people not to feed trolls before the internet even existed. Gotta love religion. So many insights. I think i am pretty much done responding to Rick now. I have had people PM me telling me that he has crossed the line. And i dont really care. He is just making people not like him. Nobody thinks of me in a bad way from this thread ( i hope). and as that is so i won't post here anymore has i stated above, i don't care about what he has to say.
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HETAS is the Independent UK Body Recognised by DEFRA
HETAS is the independent UK body recognised by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) for the official testing and approval of domestic solid fuels, solid fuel burning appliances and associated equipment and services.
The list has been prepared by HETAS at the invitation of DEFRA for the guidance of local authorities and others concerned with the choice of solid fuel appliances for new houses, or as replacements in existing houses.
Mark of Confidence for the Installer & End User
The HETAS Approved Product logo gives reassurance to the installer and end user that the appliance they are going to buy complies fully with current energy efficiency and safety requirements. To an installer, using a HETAS approved product saves them a significant amount of time as they know the product is suitable for use. Without the appliance being HETAS approved the installer would need to check the products test reports and ensure installation and user instructions give the correct advice.
Approval brings with it access to the HETAS approved three tick logo which can be used as a marketing tool as a demonstration of compliance with standards and regulations. The three tick logo is a mark of independent 3rd party verification provided by HETAS which also builds and demonstrates an additional trust in the manufacturer and its brand.
Compliance with Ever Changing Regulations and Directives
With the need to live in an ever increasing environment of safety and risk aversion, both British and European regulations and standards are continually being reviewed, updated and amended. It is very easy to lose track of the implications of these changes and consequently produce an appliance that doesn't fully comply with the requirements.
The appliance manufacturer needs to demonstrate that it's appliances can be fitted in accordance with Building regulations, the Approved document L and that claimed efficiencies are reliable. HETAS approval is the simple way of giving independent certification of these efficiencies as approval will mean your appliance test reports and instruction manuals are checked and verified as being correct by the UK's appliance Industry experts.
Appliances Listed in HETAS Guide and HETAS Web-guide
The HETAS Guide of approved wood and solid fuel burning products and services is updated every year to give details and guidance on a wide selection of solid fuel products and services. The guide is distributed to local authorities,manufacturers, installers, sweeps, stove shops and consumers.
Approved products in the HETAS Guide are listed alongside fuels and equipment for burning solid fuel and wood and also listed alongside installers and sweeps. As well as the HETAS paper based guide updated and distributed every year to 10,500 people, they have also introduced a new Interactive web-guide that is regularly updated and available online here.
The online version of the HETAS Guide, as well as being updated monthly with the very latest listings and latest approvals from HETAS, contains interactive hyperlinks to the manufacturer's, stakeholders' or fuel producer's websites and their contact information..
Listing Gives an Easy Accessible Central Database of Appliances, Efficiencies and Requirements
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With the huge drive to look at greener heating and hot water solutions the UK Building Regulations have put in place a number of requirements e.g. "must meet a minimum required efficiency"; and, for replacements must be no more than 2% less efficient than the previous appliance, and also be on a SEDBUK database giving seasonal efficiencies.
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Route for Wet Appliances to be Added to SEDBUK Database for Boiler Equipment
SEDBUK is the average annual efficiency achieved in typical domestic conditions, making reasonable assumptions about pattern of usage, climate, control, and other influences.
HETAS offers a simple declaration form and process that supports manufacturers in getting their appliances on the official SEDBUK database for boiler equipment. SEDBUK was developed with the co-operation of boiler manufactures to give a fair comparison of different boilers energy performance.
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I feel your pain on carrafix, it doesn't work on 99% of the applications I need it to. Throttled works well, if you install the dev tools and compile it yourself. Its a little tricky to setup since you need to know which ports NOT to block, but it works much better than Carrafix. If anyone would happen to know another bandwidth throttler for OS X, I would love to know too. My D/L speed dies badly my DSL when my U/L maxes out.
or if someone knows an FAQ for throttled that would also be helpful. i'm not the most UNIX literate (i.e. i know about four commands and one of them is LS) so something that steps me through how to get it running (and how to turn it off) would be excellent.


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The bad men reappeared, sneaking through the house. I knew not to say anything. They saw me, I saw them – the code of fear/silence kept me still. They snuck away. He came back downstairs, except he was edebroux now. I was able to communicate everything to her with a single gesture. She grabbed a – something – and held it like a baseball bat, ready to attack. I hadn't even thought about defending myself – I'd assumed they were just here to steal, not hurt us. The bookshelf next to me had candlesticks on it, but nothing heavy, nothing I could grip comfortably. I picked up a large kitchen spoon and waited.
They came back, noisy now that they had found what they were after. They were bitter about it, sarcastic - the $8000 you stole from us! Oh, is that all, edebroux and I said to each other with our eyes, and lowered our weapons. The men left through the front door.
Gillian Anderson/Helen Hunt followed the men out. Beautiful coiffed 40s hair. She was polite, flirtatious with the leader, who was crazy and said she "triggered" him. He wanted to kiss her and showed it by not being able to stop whistling. He already loved her deeply. George from Seinfeld's parents were just getting home from vacation. They were coming in as the men were leaving. Who are all these people? still happy from their trip, trusting us to have had nice men over. The leader of the men grabbed George's mother and slapped her on the ass and would not stop slapping, hooting. His focus safely removed from Gillian/Helen, I was relieved.
I dreamt that the devil was following me around. He drove a nice sports car and was very friendly. He was persistant without being too pushy. He just kept asking if I wanted to hang around with him seeing as I was already doing some of the things he wanted to do. I was cordial in return and just kept telling him that I was trying to quit.
This time, aside from it being a more vivid and a longer dream than usual, I had a permanent shift: Friday mornings from 11 AM to 1 PM. But I only had about ten minutes to prepare, so I ran to the record library (CD players weren't used much when I was last on the air, owing to the station's large amount of legacy vinyl), and tried to think of what to play. I was lost, though not as lost as in previous dreams; I wanted to play something by Graham Parker, but couldn't figure out where the beginning of the "P" section was.
I had a wide variety of items among the five or six LPs I grabbed; I planned to go back to the library to restock as the shift went on.
As I was putting the first record on the turntable, I noticed there was duct tape placed over the controls of the board, making things impossible. And some inspector person was leaving; apparently the station was being shut down for some reason. He and the station manager continued arguing about this, and the inspector was acting odd, like some released damn-the-medication mental patient.
The station manager decided to defy the shutdown; the duct tape was removed, and I was allowed to go on with my first shift. He took the microphone for a second to announce what was going on with the non-shutdown.
Another recurring motif in these dreams is my failure to queue up or even find the next song to play. This happened again (and again), but it was because I was being constantly distracted by well-wishers, welcoming me back. I asked somebody with a clue to grab the first Graham Parker record he could find in the library; might as well make use of all this help.
Things were still a little hectic, perhaps because of that weird inspector, or maybe just the normal busyness of daytime hours - my normal hours had been evenings and late nights, when often I had the place all to myself. So there were no PSAs to read, which annoyed me a bit, because I wanted to show off; I felt ready to read anything placed before me, and make it sound like I'd written it myself.
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As energy stocks continue to slump and remain out of favor, many stories you'll read will trumpet the doom and gloom of low share prices for energy companies and their investors. Right now, many energy stocks, particularly small- and mid-cap companies, are priced as though there will be no growth over the next few years.
Usually this is the time the C suites of these companies start to think, "Why bother promoting my company to investors?"
However, what goes down must come up, and a correction can be an amazing opportunity. With energy company share prices close to correction territory — a significant drop off of 52-week highs — the time to cultivate new investors is here and now.
Energy demand may be down but not dying. While no one can guarantee that all energy companies will recover, the chances of their stock prices staying so low for a prolonged period is highly unlikely. When demand rebounds and supply returns to normal levels, and even starts to grow again, C suites that did not start a dialogue with investors will likely be kicking themselves. They will see their peer companies that cultivated new investors and maintained a dialogue with current investors reap the benefits of the recovery while they will be sitting on the sidelines.
It may seem outrageous to promote shares of anything right now while markets tumble all over the world, but the truth is that corrections only happen every so often. When they do, there's an opportunity for out-of-favor sectors to improve shareholder value for their investors.
And for investors who want to make money, it only makes sense to buy the correction dips and bear market lows.
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Having set a brand new smasher on the horizon lately and with the beautiful Rain Clouds under his belt, Swedish-stationed Frederic Van Hooft teams up alongside Karl Aberg to unleash the long-awaited beast named La Deng. With a brilliant set of melodies on their hands, the two talents have certainly created a smashing tune worthy of recognition. It's available now on Another Label Records.
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With the beautifully crafted Rain Clouds under his belt, Swedish talent Frederic Van Hooft gives us a preview of a brand new single of his, which was manufactured alongside Nag. What starts off as an absolute brilliant interaction of melodies continues into slamming synth lines and pounding beats, graced with an amazing vocal. Any release info has yet not been provided for this smasher but its future is surely looking bright.
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The Swede Frederic Van Hooft has a great upcoming progressive track called Rain Clouds. It's getting released in the beginning of 2011 through the newly established label We Recommend Records.
An awesome progressive house track by the Swede Frederic Van Hooft got released yesterday through Ooze Recordings. Big support!
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Frederic Van Hooft – Tarantella
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It appears our Miss Lemon has avoided becoming the latest member of the "I Screwed Up A Poll Club." Good job!
The polls are closed! To the winners of the EPISODE CONTEST: Congratulations to HopefulRomantic for winning the first prize! Not one, not two, but three handsome men in one avatar! It's almost too much! And hurray for Aliennesse who came in second with her lovely picture of two of the most adorable men of Enterprise and one Andorian who is not Shran. * To the winners of the THEME CONTEST: It has been a nerve-wrecking competition! So many wonderful Shran avatars! Yours truly won with only one vote. We have a two-way tie for second place between Alienesse and Skywalker. * Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all the entrants and voters for taking part. The next episode is.... Sleeping Dogs What about Dangerous Women as our next theme?
Thank you kindly for the votes! And wow, Miss Lemon, you're really on a roll! _____our names up in lights_____ Dangerous Women is a great theme. New thread will be up soon.
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this is easy and beautiful, thanks for the pattern.
Great colour combination. Fabulous job.
If I want to make this wider, how many would I chain? multiple of what?
HHHi Jennifer, I am making this scarf now andd the first row does not work unless I chain 19 instead of 18. Tried several times and it works and am working on it now. Just wanted to let you know, not sure why..
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'Downton Abbey's' Theo James Nabs Male Lead in Summit's 'Divergent'
Summit Entertainment has found its male lead for the dystopian thriller Divergent. Downton Abbey's Theo James will star as "Four" opposite Shailene Woodley.
Additionally, Aaron Eckhart, Ray Stevenson, Kate Winslett and Miles Teller are in the process of joining the cast of the film that is based on Veronica Roth's New York Times best-seller.
Earlier this week, Heat Vision broke that Maggie Q, Zoe Kravitz and Ansel Elgort sealed deals to join the cast.
Neil Burger is directing from a screenplay by Vanessa Taylor. Evan Daugherty penned an earlier draft.
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James, whose credits include Underworld: Awakenings, is known for a short but memorable stint on Downton Abbey as Lady Mary's (Michelle Dockery) lover.
Divergent is set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on their personalities. Tris Prior (Woodley) is warned she is "divergent" and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy to destroy all Divergents, she must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late. A man with a mysterious past, Four, is Tris' intense yet charismatic instructor and one of the leaders of the Dauntless faction.
Principal photography begins in April in Chicago.
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There has been a lot of tough news lately when it comes to local jobs and the economy. But in spite of it all, there are some bright spots. New businesses are opening in Montrose and their grand openings and ribbons cuttings are bringing new life to the area. Although Montrose has seen a lot of change in the last few months with businesses closing or moving out of the area, seeing new businesses open is a positive sign.
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The affects of hydrodynamic shock wave treatment on the bacterial flora of raw beef and poultry were evaluated. Hydrodynamic shock waves were generated in an aqueous treatment medium by either the detonation of two types of explosive charges (explosively-generated hydrodynamic shock waves [EHSW]) (a binary or a molecular explosive) or by electrical discharge (high voltage arc discharge Hydrodyne (TM [HVADH; Hydrodyne, Inc.]). A variety of sample types (whole steaks, ground beef, a water and ground beef slurry) were used to determine the lethality affects of EHSW on cells of the marker microorganism Listeria innocua suspended in a simple broth medium. These sample types were used in order to evaluate the affects of the process not only on the surface, but throughout the bulk of the samples in order to determine whether EHSW could also be used as a non-thermal alternative to reduce the bacterial flora of non-intact or ground meats. The levels of psychrotrophic, lactic, and coliform populations on the surface of whole eye of round steaks submitted to EHSW processing did not differ (P> 0.05) from those of untreated whole eye of round steaks. Parameters expected to influence the nature, magnitude, and propagation of the hydrodynamic shock wave were also varied and evaluated in order to determine which individual parameter or combination of parameters affected the bactericidal potential of EHSW or HVADH processing. Treatment with EHSW failed (P > 0.05) to produce lethality effects on the psychrotrophic, lactic, and coliform populations of ground beef, regardless of the composition and mass of explosive used, the number of successive EHSW treatments used, the relative distance between the explosive charge and the top surface of the sample, or the temperature of the water used in the treatment chamber. EHSW processing did not change (P >0.05) the bacterial population of treated ground beef samples when compared to untreated controls during a five day refrigerated storage study. No lethality effects were observed (P >0.05) in ground beef samples treated by HVADH when samples were subjected to one, two, or three successive HVADH treatments. Minimal penetration of surface inoculated bacteria was observed for both beef steaks and boneless skinless chicken breasts subjected to EHSW and HVADH, respectively. In EHSW-treated beef eye of round steaks, marker bacteria were detected within the first 300 um of tissue below the inoculated surface, 50-100 um beyond the depth of untreated surface inoculated steaks. In HVADH-treated boneless skinless chicken breasts, marker bacteria were detected within the first 200 um below the inoculated surface, 50-100 um beyond the depth of untreated surface inoculated boneless skinless chicken breasts. This suggests that although no difference in the bacteriological populations was observed between EHSW treated, HVADH treated, and untreated control samples of whole steaks (and ground beef treated with both HVADH and EHSW), HVADH and EHSW treatments affect the movement of surface bacteria. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) guidelines suggest intact beef steaks be cooked to achieve a cooked color appearance on the surface and raw poultry be cooked to an internal temperature of 77Ã¢Ë Å¾ C to inactivate the pathogens Escherichia coli O157:H7 and salmonellae which are of concern in beef and poultry, respectively. By following these guidelines during proper cooking, consumers achieve thermal inactivation of these pathogens. Since the movement of the marker bacterium observed in treated steaks and boneless skinless chicken breasts was minimal, proper cooking of the products would be expected to inactivate vegetative bacterial cells at this depth. Therefore, EHSW and HVADH treated whole beef steaks and boneless skinless chicken breasts would not be expected to pose a bacterial hazard if the products were properly cooked.
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