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Did J.Lo's diva attitude lose her a spot as a judge on American Idol? That's the word. But J.Lo is fighting back. Behold, this telling Twitpic, captioned with, "Hmmm… what should I wear today?"
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Joe Clark
- On the Parliament site
Crucial Fact
- His favourite word was question.
Last in Parliament May 2004, as Progressive Conservative MP for Calgary Centre (Alberta)
Won his last election, in 2000, with 46% of the vote.
Statements in the House
Right Hon. Member for Calgary Centre May 13th, 2004
I have to say, Mr. Speaker, that I preferred these parliamentary tributes when they were about someone else but I appreciate deeply the tribute that the House has paid. I thank my fellow Albertan, the Deputy Prime Minister, for her remarks. I want to thank the Leader of the Opposition and, more particularly, his very engaging son, Benjamin.
I would of course, like to also thank the leader of the Bloc Quebecois. He is right, we do not see eye to eye when it comes to certain basic issues relating to Canada, but I think that we both, myself as much as he, appreciate each other's sincerity of commitment to our objectives. He is a little less bilingual than I, but these things happen.
My colleague, my friend and, dare I say, former youth member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, when there was such a thing, has now, I am pleased to see, confessed his collaboration or the collaboration of his party with the Liberals in bringing down my government in the beginning of our life.
I have to express a particular appreciation to my friend and my colleague in the other part of the Progressive Conservative caucus in the House of Commons, the member for Fundy—Royal. I admire him as a parliamentarian and an individual, and I very much appreciate his words today.
Mr. Speaker, I think this will be one of the least controversial interventions of my career. I want to begin my remarks where I began my career, which is with the men and women who elected me in the four constituencies in two provinces which it has been my privilege to represent here in the House of Commons.
I am immensely grateful to the voters of that spectacular but short-lived riding of Rocky Mountain in Alberta; the riding of Yellowhead, which I had the privilege to serve for so long; and the riding of Kings—Hants, from which the Deputy Prime Minister comes as does her now colleague, the current member for Kings—Hants; and of course my constituency of Calgary Centre.
I want to express my thanks to literally thousands of other individuals in Canada and abroad, in this House and outside, who have helped me in good times or in bad times or in both.
Everyone here knows, and it has been acknowledged, just how much members of Parliament owe to our families. That is always true but I have to say that in no case has it been more true than in the case of Maureen McTeer and of Catherine Clark.
Maureen sought election here herself, in a difficult constituency and time. She would have been a formidable presence in this House of Commons. It may also be appropriate for me to say, and this is perhaps the most controversial thing I will say today, that Maureen, Catherine and I, under fire, have learned something about family values.
The spokesman for the NDP referred to the defeat of my government in 1979. I have had the privilege of several dramatic moments in this House. I will not recite each one of them.
I remember clearly how that defeat came about after a vote on our budget in 1979. On that vote, the Liberal Party wheeled in every member who could draw breath. They literally evacuated the hospitals. Members of Parliament, on whose desks cobwebs had grown, showed up miraculously to vote. The present Prime Minister should have seen it because I learned that night that just because a member of the Liberal Party might be worn out, battered and beaten up, he can still come back to haunt you.
Now, almost everyone who serves here leaves with a larger vision than they brought. The diversity of Canada becomes a personal experience which lifts most of us beyond the natural Canadian boundaries of region and language and local experience.
The real privilege of working here goes beyond service to our constituents or to our country. In an age of invention and uncertainty there is no other profession so consistently subject to change and to surprise. In an era where people are always learning, there is no better school than public life.
I learned the other official language here, learned it in my fashion. That helped me understand that the distinct society is not a dead phrase in a constitution, but the living reality of most of French-speaking Canada, and a defining feature of our history and our future.
Serving in this Parliament became my passport to communities and realities I would otherwise never have known so well: aboriginal Canadians, Canadian Jews and Canadian Arabs confronting ancient tensions, farmers seeing their way of life threatened, the transforming imagination of our artists and scientists.
But this Parliament is more than a school. It is a place to act. It is the principal place where the Canadian community can act together.
This House can reflect our country at its worst or at its best. I have been here for both experiences. At our best this House of Commons defines the public interest of Canada. That happened, I believe, when we argued for and against specific constitutional changes in at least two Parliaments; when we argued for and against a free trade agreement; and when we acted together, as others have mentioned, as a Parliament in a practical campaign against apartheid.
In such debates there are bound to be deep disagreements, because that is in the nature of a diverse country that is continent wide with roots and interests reaching literally everywhere. That very diversity makes it imperative that there be a place where broad public interest can be expressed. There are plenty of voices for private, regional or special interests. At our best in this House of Commons, the whole community can find its Canadian voice.
I have been honoured to serve here. Maureen and I look forward to the next chapters in our lives. I hope my colleagues in the House are able to draw as much satisfaction from their public service as I have from mine.
Health May 12th, 2004
Mr. Speaker, my question for the Prime Minister is about HIV-AIDS funding within Canada.
I commend his international initiatives, but he knows that HIV-AIDS is a major issue at home too. He knows that last year the Deputy Prime Minister said "it's important to at least double" domestic funding "on an annual basis".
Will the Prime Minister honour the word of the Deputy Prime Minister and "at least double" domestic funding on HIV-AIDS?
Criminal Code May 11th, 2004
Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for those concluding remarks. I will be gone, I assure people of that.
The purposes here are not at issue. The minister said that the purposes of the foundations were vetted by Parliament when they were established. He knows that these are matters of such enormous complexity and that they were whipped, which is to mean that there was not the kind of scrutiny that would normally justify a $7.5 billion annual departure from the rules of parliamentary accountability.
What I am interested in hearing is that there will in fact be a deliberate review of this arrangement with an eye to finding some procedure that is consistent both with the independent actions of the foundations and the fundamental principle of accountability to Parliament. I would like to receive that now.
I would like to receive from the minister some indication that there will be regular reports to the House as to the nature of the consideration that he and his colleagues are undertaking. It seems to me that a simple place to start would be to make these foundations accountable not by choice but by requirement to the audit of the Office of the Auditor General.
Criminal Code May 11th, 2004
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that the President of the Treasury Board is in the House for this point. In an earlier incarnation, he chaired a standing committee of the House of Commons that looked at the issue, which was a subject of exchange between myself and the Deputy Prime Minister the other day in the House.
The issue fundamentally is the degree to which the so-called arm's length foundations, which were established for good purposes to which I will come, should operate free from the normal instruments of accountability to the House of Commons.
I should say at the outset that I certainly do not question the value of these foundations. I do not question the idea that there needs to be some separation between the normal influences on governments and parliaments, partisan and short term influences, and the long term goals with which these foundations are seized. There is no doubt that it had to be done, and that something out of the ordinary had to be done in the establishment of these foundations. Therefore, the purposes are not at issue.
However, it ill-behooves the Deputy Prime Minister to respond as she did in the House in terms of the defence of the purposes of these foundations, when what is at issue is not their purposes but their accountability to the House of Commons.
The foundations, which include Genome Canada, Canada Health Infoway and a range of others, were set up, as I say, with a good purpose; to maintain a distance on issues that were too sensitive to be left to simple partisan consideration.
In setting them up in this way, the result has been that there is absolutely no accountability to the House of Commons. They are not subject to the audit by the Auditor General. It is true that they can choose to have an audit, but they are not subject as most agencies of government are to an audit without choice by the Auditor General of Canada. They are not subject to access to information regulations. They are not in most cases subject to the provisions of the Official Languages Act. They are not subject to any kind of intervention by a member of Parliament, or indeed by a minister, if something goes wrong.
I understand the reasons why they were set up in that way. I am not suggesting any malign intent. I am however suggesting that there is a fundamental principle at the base of this Parliament. The purpose of Parliament is to control all spending that occurs in the name of the Government of Canada.
Whether it was by design or by accident, we have established here a system amounting to billions of dollars a year in which major decisions regarding the public policy of Canada in issues of particular importance to our future are taken in flagrant disregard of the principle that Parliament has the right to hold government agencies accountable for public spending.
This issue can be resolved today if the President of the Treasury Board will rise in response to this point and give an undertaking to the House that his review of accountability of government will include a serious examination of ways by which we, on the one hand, retain the independence of these foundations and, on the other hand, respect the fundamental principle of their accountability to Parliament. I do not pretend that it is easy, but I am absolutely certain that it can be done. All it requires is a will.
Before I take my seat, I should raise a defence of this practice that was made to the committee by the president of one of these outstanding foundations. The president said that even though they were not required to, they tried to respect the rules of accountability. That is not good enough. Trying is not good enough. What one chair of a foundation might do one day does not impose an obligation upon subsequent chairs in subsequent years. There needs to be a rule.
I hope the President of the Treasury Board will indicate that there will be a rule henceforth.
Budget Implementation Act, 2004 May 5th, 2004
Mr. Speaker, I vote no.
(The House divided on the motion, which was agreed to on the following division:)
Criminal Code May 4th, 2004
Mr. Speaker, I am voting no to the motion.
Question No. 75 May 4th, 2004
What public opinion polling has been commissioned by the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation since December 31, 2000, and, in each case, specify: ( a ) the purpose of the poll; ( b ) the date of the poll; ( c ) the public opinion polling company involved; and ( d ) any other crown corporations involved?
(Return tabled).
Health May 3rd, 2004
Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the Deputy Prime Minister that is supplemental to those put by the member for Medicine Hat.
The Auditor General has automatic access to the books of government agencies and departments. She is denied automatic access to so-called arm's length corporations like Health Infoway, Innovation Canada, Genome Canada and others.
Why the double standard? Why does the government not fight the democratic deficit by giving the Auditor General automatic access to those entities which she seeks?
Yemen Water Project April 26th, 2004
Mr. Speaker, I draw to the attention of the House the signing by a Calgary company, Canadian Nexen, of the first community water project in the Middle East under the UN secretary-general's new global compact initiative. The pilot project in the rural village of Rassib in Yemen will be a model for other communities.
In rural Yemen only 17% of the people have access to safe water. Hygiene practices are poor. Sanitation and waste disposal facilities are inadequate. Children are particularly susceptible to water-borne diseases.
The agreement was encouraged by the government of Yemen and was signed in Sa'ana on April 24. Canadian Nexen will contribute up to $1 million U.S., and the UNDP up to $500,000 U.S.
As a corporate citizen, Canadian Nexen sets high standards for Canada and the world. Now it is taking the lead in making the UN's global compact initiative a reality, fighting poverty and improving the basic health of thousands of people in a part of the world where Canada can make a significant difference.
Health April 19th, 2004
Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister. The Standing Committee on Health has unanimously recommended increasing annual HIV-AIDS funding to $100 million. Last June, the Deputy Prime Minister said, "It's important to at least double the funding on an annual basis".
The current health minister said on March 10, "We will have to wait for the budget". There was no mention in the 2004 budget about doubling annual funding for HIV-AIDS.
I have three questions. Why not? What specific commitment will the government make today regarding new funding for HIV-AIDS? Will the Deputy Prime Minister keep her word?


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GW's Winning Streak Stops at 11 With a Loss at Duquesne, 77-60
Colonials Fall to 12-2 in the Atlantic 10
Feb. 22, 2004
PITTSBURGH, PA - Cathy Joens had a double-double and Anna Montanana scored 19 points, but it wasn't enough as George Washington's win streak was snapped by Duquesne, 77-60, on Sunday, February 22. The Colonials (19-6, 12-2) had won their last 11, but they couldn't overcome a three-point barrage from the Dukes (15-11, 10-5).
GW fell behind by nine early in the game at 18-9, and Duquesne was able to push the lead to 12 at halftime 35-23. The Colonials turned the ball over 13 times in the first half and made only nine of their 21 attempts from the field.
The Colonials cut the lead to six with 12:11 left, but were unable to get any closer thanks in large part to the Dukes hot shooting from three. Duquesne went 13-21 from behind the arc, which included seven in the second half. Candace Futrell led Duquesne with 28 points and 11 rebounds.
GW lost for the first time this season when outrebounding their opponent (35-33). They finished the game shooting 42 percent (24-57), while Duquesne shot 46 percent and 62 percent from the three-point line.
The Colonials will try and get back on track when they travel to Amherst to play Massachusetts on Thursday, February 26 at 7:00 p.m.


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Myths abound about how scientists do not talk with the media or communicate with the public and if they do so, it is only because they are required to by funders' "broader impact" requirements. The evidence, however, does not support this view. This article is another in a series of communications based on a multi-national…


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The Ultimate End-of-Summer Hamptons Dining Guide
Knowing where to dine in the Hamptons for specific occasions takes experience and inside knowledge. We've done the legwork for you. Below, a list of options, from the perfect place to watch a sunset to a casual local favorite and a special new spot in Montauk. There are only a few weeks left in the season, so make those reservations and get going (once you've spent sufficient time on the beach, naturally).


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Head coach Norv Turner has long been regarded as one of the best play callers not just in the NFL today, but in the history of the game.
On Sunday he showed just why.
Turner called a near flawless game against the league's number one ranked defense as the Pittsburgh Steelers looked lost for the most part on the field. As a result, the Chargers came away with an impressive 34-24 victory.
"He's great," said
Just one example of Turner's excellent play calling was a draw to
"It took me a bit by surprise, but it was a good call," said Brown. "Like any other play, I was thinking let's go and make this work. Even though it's kind of tough in that situation to get that call, I trusted coach knew what he was doing and sure enough he did. Everybody was probably thinking let's get a field goal, especially against a team like that. You don't expect to bust out a big run but he called the right play in that situation. I made the best of it and it gave us an opportunity."
Even when Turner doesn't call a play, such as when
"I called it," said Weddle. "If I see a look, Norv and (special teams coordinator) Rich (Bisaccia) let me call the fake. If I see it they have trust in me to make the right decision. All week we study and they give me the confidence and range that if I see the look, and if it's the best for our team, then I can run it. It's a lot of work that goes into it."
"When Norv is on point calling the plays like he was today, it's hard to stop," he said. "You can tell when he gets a play or two ahead of the defensive coordinator and we're really clicking and the ball is moving. He was good. He was on fire tonight."


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text: A Robber Called 911 After Invading a Home Because He Thought the Homeowner Had a GunCasey Chan3/08/11 8:00pmFiled to: WtfCrimeGun911EmergencyStupidDumbCriminalsPolice196EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink I'm not sure if this has ever happened before because it's just so...ridiculous. Timothy James Chapek, the 24-year old robber in the story, broke into a home and for some odd reason decided to take a shower. Okay weird, but I can roll with it. Advertisement It get more ridiculous because when the homeowner came home (accompanied by two German Shepherds) and asked Chapek just what the hell he was doing in his house, Chapek panicked. Instead of making a run for it, Chapek freaked out and locked himself in the bathroom and then called 911 to tell the police he had just broken into a house and was afraid that the homeowner had a gun. Police came and arrested Chapek moments later. Genius. [CNN]Reply196 repliesLeave a reply


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Jewish World Review Dec. 9, 2011 13 Kislev, 5772 Who needs pants? Newt has passion By Roger Simon
We wish for you to whir us, stir us, fill our hearts and lure us. Inflame us, reclaim us, take our souls, don't blame us. Newt Gingrich, I admit, stirs me to poetry. There is something very different about his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. "You are going to be the nominee?" Jake Tapper of ABC News asked him last week. "I am going to be the nominee," Gingrich replied. True, no one has actually cast an actual vote in a single Republican caucus or primary. But all that voting stuff, that campaigning stuff, is really all so … vulgar. And so yesterday. Newt's campaign is an immaculate one. It is pure, unstained, unblemished by the grubby demands of the old politics. Organizing? He does not need organizing, not even in the first contest, Iowa, long thought to be a state where organizing was indispensable. With the Iowa caucuses less than a month away, Newt opened his first — and only — campaign office in a suburb of Des Moines a few days ago. He has not built a statewide organization and sees no need to. As an adviser to his "skeletal Iowa operation" tells Trip Gabriel and Jeff Zeleny of The New York Times, "The reality is we're flying by the seat of the pants." Pants? Who needs pants? Not Newt. "I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to," Newt once said. Today, Newt has immersed himself in something larger than political organization. "Passion," Alex Castellanos, a super-savvy Republican media consultant unaligned with any campaign this year, told me last Saturday. "Passion is the new organizing." Sunday, Matthew Dowd, the chief strategist for George W. Bush in 2004, wrote in the National Journal, that when it comes to Iowa this cycle, "Don't watch the organization. Watch for the outward signs of momentum, energy and passion for a candidate." On Monday, veteran political reporter John Harwood wrote in The New York Times that Gingrich possesses "an organic connection" to the Republican conservative base. Passion. Energy. Organic connection. These are what Newt revels in. And it allows him, he believes, to say the most outrageous things. "Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works," Newt said recently in Iowa. "So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash,' unless it's illegal." Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in Washington and in the media consider "must reading." Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here.
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- Planning for Manufacturing Workpieces by Storing, Indexing and Replaying Planning Decisions (1996)
- Planning for manufacturing workpieces is a complex task that requires the interaction of a domain-specific reasoner and a generic planning mechanism. In this paper we present an architecture for organizing the case base that is based on the information provided by a generic problem solver. A retrieval procedure is then presented that uses the information provided by the domain-specific reasoner in order to improve the accuracy of the cases retrieved. However, it is not realistic to suppose that the case retrieved will entirely fit into the new problem. We present a replay procedure to obtain a partial solution that replays not only the valid decisions taken for solving the case, but also justifications of rejected decisions made during the problem solving process. As a result, those completion alternatives of the partial solution are discarded that are already known to be invalid from the case.
- Complete Eager Replay (1996)
- We present an algorithm for completely replaying previous problem solving experiences for plan-space planners. In our approach not only the solution trace is replayed, but also the explanations of failed attempts made by the first-principle planner. In this way, the capability of refitting previous solutions into new problems is improved.


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In a computer, an interrupt request (or IRQ) is a hardware signal sent to the processor that temporarily stops a running program and allows a special program, an interrupt handler, to run instead. Hardware interrupts are used to handle events such as receiving data from a modem or network card, key presses, or mouse movements.
Interrupt lines are often identified by an index with the format of IRQ followed by a number. For example, on the Intel 8259 family of PICs there are eight interrupt inputs commonly referred to as IRQ0 through IRQ7. In x86 based computer systems that use two of these PICs, the combined set of lines are referred to as IRQ0 through IRQ15. Technically these lines are named IR0 through IR7, and the lines on the ISA bus to which they were historically attached are named IRQ0 through IRQ15.
Newer x86 systems integrate an Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC) that conforms to the Intel APIC Architecture. These APICs support a programming interface for up to 255 physical hardware IRQ lines per APIC, with a typical system implementing support for only around 24 total hardware lines.
When working with personal computer hardware, installing and removing devices, the system relies on interrupt requests. There are default settings that are configured in the system BIOS and recognized by the operating system. These default settings can be altered by advanced users. Modern plug and play technology has not only reduced the need for concern for these settings, but has also virtually eliminated manual configuration.
x86 IRQs[edit]
Typically, on systems using the Intel 8259, 16 IRQs are used. IRQs 0 to 7 are managed by one Intel 8259 PIC, and IRQs 8 to 15 by a second Intel 8259 PIC. The first PIC, the master, is the only one that directly signals the CPU. The second PIC, the slave, instead signals to the master on its IRQ 2 line, and the master passes the signal on to the CPU. There are therefore only 15 interrupt request lines available for hardware.
On newer systems using the Intel APIC Architecture, typically there are 24 IRQs available, and the extra 8 IRQs are used to route PCI interrupts, avoiding conflict between dynamically configured PCI interrupts and statically configured ISA interrupts. On early APIC systems with only 16 IRQs or with only Intel 8259 interrupt controllers, PCI interrupt lines were routed to the 16 IRQs using a PIR integrated into the southbridge.
The easiest way of viewing this information on Microsoft Windows is to use Device Manager or System Information (msinfo32.exe). On Linux, IRQ mappings can be viewed by executing cat /proc/interrupts or using the procinfo utility.
Master PIC[edit]
- IRQ 0 – system timer (cannot be changed)
- IRQ 1 – keyboard controller (cannot be changed)
- IRQ 2 – cascaded signals from IRQs 8–15 (any devices configured to use IRQ 2 will actually be using IRQ 9)
- IRQ 3 – serial port controller for serial port 2 (shared with serial port 4, if present)
- IRQ 4 – serial port controller for serial port 1 (shared with serial port 3, if present)
- IRQ 5 – parallel port 2 and 3 or sound card
- IRQ 6 – floppy disk controller
- IRQ 7 – parallel port 1. It is used for printers or for any parallel port if a printer is not present. It can also be potentially be shared with a secondary sound card with careful management of the port.
Slave PIC[edit]
- IRQ 8 – real-time clock (RTC)
- IRQ 9 – Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) system control interrupt on Intel chipsets.[1] Other chipset manufacturers might use another interrupt for this purpose, or make it available for the use of peripherals (any devices configured to use IRQ 2 will actually be using IRQ 9)
- IRQ 10 – The Interrupt is left open for the use of peripherals (open interrupt/available, SCSI or NIC)
- IRQ 11 – The Interrupt is left open for the use of peripherals (open interrupt/available, SCSI or NIC)
- IRQ 12 – mouse on PS/2 connector
- IRQ 13 – CPU co-processor or integrated floating point unit or inter-processor interrupt (use depends on OS)
- IRQ 14 – primary ATA channel (ATA interface usually serves hard disk drives and CD drives)
- IRQ 15 – secondary ATA channel
In early IBM-compatible personal computers, an IRQ conflict is a once common hardware error, received when two devices were trying to use the same interrupt request (or IRQ) to signal an interrupt to the Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC). The PIC expects interrupt requests from only one device per line, thus more than one device sending IRQ signals along the same line will generally cause an IRQ conflict that can freeze a computer.
For example, if a modem expansion card is added into a system and assigned to IRQ4, which is traditionally assigned to the serial port 1, it will likely cause an IRQ conflict. Initially, IRQ 7 was a common choice for the use of a sound card, but later IRQ 5 was used when it was found that IRQ 7 would interfere with the printer port (LPT1). The serial ports are frequently disabled to free an IRQ line for another device. IRQ 2/9 is the traditional interrupt line for an MPU-401 MIDI port, but this conflicts with the ACPI system control interrupt (SCI is hardwired to IRQ9 on Intel chipsets);[1] this means ISA MPU-401 cards with a hardwired IRQ 2/9, and MPU-401 device drivers with a hardcoded IRQ 2/9, cannot be used in interrupt-driven mode on a system with ACPI enabled.
In some rare conditions, two devices could share the same IRQ as long as they were not used simultaneously. To solve this problem, the later PCI bus specification allows for IRQ sharing, with the additional support for Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) in its later revisions. PCI Express does not have physical interrupt lines at all, and uses MSI exclusively.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Oshins, Jake (December 30, 2001). "RE: ACPI Machines and IRQ 9 [was: Communicating with the NT developers]". Retrieved April 17, 2014.
Further reading[edit]
- Gilluwe, Frank van. The Undocumented PC, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley Developers Press, 1997. ISBN 0-201-47950-8
- Shanley, Tom. ISA System Architecture, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995. ISBN 0-201-40996-8
- Solari, Edward. PCI & PCI-X Hardware and Software Architecture & Design, Sixth Edition, Research Tech Inc., 2004. ISBN 0-9760865-0-6
IRQ interrupt request(HTTP:404)Expansion Bus Configuration(HTTP:404)
External links[edit]
- IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 3A: System Programming Guide, Part 1 – more information on the Intel 8259 PIC and its IRQ lines
- Ralf Brown's Interrupt List


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Potato Pancakes Latkes Recipe
Potato pancakes is a classic Jewish recipe, and the Jewish potato pancakes are called "latkes". Latkes are traditionally made for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah – the Festival of Lights – that happens in December.
This potato pancakes recipe is an authentic Jewish latkes recipe. Shredded potatoes and grated onions are mixed with an egg and a little flour and pan-fried until brown and crispy. Making latkes is really easy if you have a food processor. Food processor allows you to shred the potatoes and grate the onion in seconds!
The secrets for crispy latkes is to squeeze out as much liquid out of the potatoes as you can. The less liquid in the potatoes, the crispier are the potato pancakes! Also, make sure you preheat the frying pan enough so it's hot before frying the latkes. If you follow these instructions, you'll make the tastiest latkes ever!
Potato Pancakes Latkes Recipe
Ingredients For Potato Pancakes
- 6 medium potatoes
- 1 onion
- 2 eggs
- 4 tbsp flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 4 tbsp oil
Instructions How To Make Potato Pancakes
- Shred the potatoes using the food processor (shredder disk).
- Put shredded potatoes in the colander in the sink, and squeeze out as much liquid as you can.
- Grate the onion using the inside steel blade of the food processor.
- Mix potatoes, onion, eggs, flour, salt and pepper.
- Heat the oil in the non-stick frying pan on a medium-high heat (I use 2 frying pans on 2 burners to save time or a double griddle).
- Form the potato mixture into patties (squeeze out excess liquid as you go) and put on a frying pan.
- Cook the potato pancakes for 5 minutes, then flip and cook for another 3 minutes (or until golden-brown on both sides and cooked through). Check the potato pancakes from time to time and adjust the heat setting – if they are starting to turn too dark, the heat is too high, and if they are pale, it's too low.
- Remove the latkes from the frying pan and serve immediately.
Potato pancakes taste best when served immediately – when reheated, they lose their crunch.
Serve the potato pancakes with apple sauce – apple sauce and latkes are a classic combination, they'll go perfectly together!


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LSU- Jmarc, Flynn, RP now they dont have good qb play
The fans, and most everyone else has figured out it isn't the QB's.
LSU- Jmarc, Flynn, RP now they dont have good qb play
Josh booty and Marcus randall?
I really find it amusing that Miles' quarterbacks had no problems at OSU and the first few years he was here... high flying explosive offenses we the norm. What has changed so much?
Bc we dont need a QB to throw the ball 35 times a game for 350 yards to win games. This isnt the Big12. We count on our defense. We run the ball to keep the other team's offense off the field and when our run game (i.e. O-line play) is gelling, our passing game is ther
I wouldn't call them a "string of bad QB's." There was decent QB play in between.
Don't have to have a spectacular offense. You do need to be able to turn it on when it's necessary though.
Just imagine if even half those drops didnt happen or maybe if 5 of those deep balls that Mett overthrew were complete.
quote:It's just to point out that offensive production was n't coaching. It was lack of a QB who could play the position.
t wouldn't have to be repeated if the fallacies it addresses weren't. Hard to blame a guy for being asked to do more than he is capable.
I really hated the people that constantly bashed jordan. what was he gonna say, no coach im not going to play? What person in their right mind would say that?
Randall and clausen didnt develop under Jimbo and Saban. They were both below average qbs.
Then did not play despite the worst QB in our histroy stinking it up.
Bama- broyle and jpw didnt get it doen. Mcelroy and Mccarron did.
UF- Leak and tebow, now they dont have good qb play
UT- Vince young and mccoy, now they dont have good qb play
But im not going to sit here and say LSU is the only one that has had qb problems. That shite seems to go in cycles for every team regardless of the coach.
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The New Sherman Letters
Extraordinary correspondence, never published before, takes us inside the mind of a military genius. Here is William Tecumseh Sherman in the heat of action inventing modern warfare, grieving the death of his little boy, struggling to hold Kentucky with levies, rolling invincibly across Georgia, and—always—battling the newspapermen whose stories, he believes, are killing his soldiers.
July/August 1987 | Volume 38, Issue 5
"Naturally a good strong mind and a head as strongly marked as Webster's. I have known him since 1836 as a hard student. In our voyage round Cape Horn [in 1846 en route to California] many a time when others were struggling to kill time, he was using it in hard study. When the sea was high & ship rolling, the sky darkened so that daylight did not reach his state room, he stood on a stool, his book and candle on the upper berth and a bed strap round his middle secured to the frame to support him in the wild tossing of the ship. In such a man the country must have confidence. I am willing to repose in his strategy all confidence, and I think the other Generals, not politicians [commanders appointed because of their political connections], will do the same....If Halleck cannot handle 100,000 men in a campaign, no one can...."
During June and July, while the 5th Division under his command was rebuilding railroad trestles and bridges destroyed by the retreating Rebels and fighting off enemy cavalry, Sherman wrote a letter to Phil Ewing touching on many subjects:
"...the enemy far outnumbers us in cavalry. I have 8 companies of 4th Illinois—420 on paper, about 350 in camp—but to save my life I cannot even get 250 in the Saddle. Sick, extraduty, wagoneers, cooks &c &c. Hurlbut has 8 cos 5th Ohio with about the same results. His men have pistols & no carbines and are afraid of the Southern Cavalry armed with the fine Double Barrelled guns....
"The people should know that this war will consume 300,000 men per year for a long time....To allow our armies to run down in the face & country of the enemy invites defeat and prolongs the strife. We have all to conceal even from ourselves the awful mistakes of the war in not preparing men by drill and organization all last summer, fall and winter. It may be the government could not collect men & arms faster, but I think few comprehended the vast task before us....
"Buell [who replaced Sherman in Kentucky] is our best soldier. Halleck the ablest man—Grant very brave but not brilliant. [Gen. George Henry] Thomas slow, cool & methodic. I dont think much of [Gen. John] Pope or [the politically appointed Gen.] McClernand...."
Late in July 1862 Sherman took over the District of Memphis, retaining command as well of his 5th Division, and that winter he led the first Union assault against Vicksburg—and thereby became embroiled, unintentionally, in a dramatic battle with Western war correspondents.
The massive Confederate battery at Vicksburg controlled the long southern sweep of the Mississippi from below Memphis to New Orleans. Sherman embarked his troops downriver on December 19. Grant was to have taken part in the operation, but he withdrew at the outset when Rebel cavalry destroyed his supply base. Sherman went in alone and suffered seventeen hundred casualties in a fruitless attempt to gain the Chickasaw Bluffs north of the city.
Ignoring Sherman's specific orders, an undetermined number of reporters had been aboard the Army transports. They now wrote their separate accounts of the disaster and mailed them to intermediaries in Memphis and Cairo, Illinois, for forwarding to their respective papers. However, Sherman's regional superintendent for the U.S. Army mails noticed these suspiciously fat envelopes and intercepted them. Not to be deterred, the correspondent for the New York Herald, Thomas W. Knox, angrily rewrote his account and then steamed upriver to Cairo, where he filed his dispatch without interference. In the New York Herald of Sunday, January 18, 1863, Knox's six-column story charged Sherman with gross, even criminal, negligence and confusion. "General Sherman was so exceedingly erratic," the story concluded, "that the discussion of a twelvemonth ago with respect to his sanity was revived with much earnestness....Insanity and inefficiency have brought their result. Let us have them no more."
When Sherman saw the story, he immediately ordered Knox seized. He had the story read aloud to the reporter and demanded the source of each assertion. In a burst of honesty Knox declared, "Of course, General Sherman, I have no feeling against you personally, but you are regarded as the enemy of our set and we must in self-defense write you down." Sherman directed that papers be drawn up for Knox's court-martial.
On February 6 he wrote Senator Ewing about the press coverage of the Union defeat at Chickasaw Bluffs:
"...I am in battle & was pushed forward, catching all the path of the balls & bullets in front, and then the curses & malediction of the nonthinking herd behind. The Newspapers declare me their inveterate Enemy, and openly say they will write me down. In writing me down are they not writing the Cause and the Country down? Now I know and every officer knows that no army or detachment moves or can move that is not attended by correspondents of hundreds of newspapers....


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"I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream" is the title of a popular 1927 song. However, the spelling "I scream" for "ice cream" has been used in New York City since at least 1825.
"What do ghosts eat for dessert?"/"I scream (ice scream)" is a popular Halloween riddle.
The Yale Book of Quotations
Edited by Fred R. Shapiro
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
Pg. 530:
Billy Moll
U.S. songwriter, 1905-1968
I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream.
Title of song (1927)
Heptune Jazz and Blues Lyrics Page
I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream
(Howard Johnson, Billy Moll, Robert A. K. King)
Transcribed from vocals by Tom Stacks performing with Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks, recorded January 14, 1928;
From Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks, volume 2, The Old Masters, mb 128.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
In the land of ice and snows
Up among the Eskimos,
There's a college known as Ogiwawa!
You should hear those college boys,
Gee, they make an awful noise
When they sing an Eskimo tra-la-la!
They've got a leader, big cheer leader,
Oh, what a guy!
He's got a frozen face just like an Eskimo Pie!
When he says, "Come on, let's go!"
Though it's forty-five below,
This is what the Eskimos all holler:
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Tuesdays, Mondays, we all scream for sundaes,
Boola-boola, sarsaparoolla,
If you got chocolate, we'll take vanoola!
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
Rah! Rah! Rah!
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Frosts and malts that are peppered and salted,
Oh, spumoni, oh, cartoni,
And confidentially, we'll take baloney,
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah!
April 1962, New-York Historical Society Quarterly, "New York City in 1825: A Newly Discovered Description" by Bayrd Still, pg. 2:
(Quoting a newspaper of 1825—ed.)
Met a strong-lunged fellow with a large tin bucket, shouting with hideous gesticulations, "I scream!" Found he had ice-cream for sale.
30 November 1839, Baltimore (MD) Sun, pg. 1:
I likes to holler for oshters better than ice cream—caze the boys plagues me, and hollers, "I scream,"—and some of the little fellers kin holler "lilly, lilly, lilly," as well as most as I kin—but they hain't got the voice, poor little things.
1 July 1851, Huron Reflector (Norwalk, OH), pg. 3, col. 6:
And now we will lay you a wager,
If you will call on Rose & Gager,
You will find some nice Ice Cream,
So cold 'twill almost make you scream.
(Norwalk Saloon by Rose & Gager—ed.)
6 May 1871, Portsmouth (OH) Times, pg. 3, col. 3:
GREENUPSBURGERS now scream for an ice cream saloon, as the warm weather approaches.
4 June 1873, Critic-Record (Washington, DC), "The Ice Cream Makers' Home," pg. 1:
They make a practice during the Summer months of carting their stuff, which would never be eaten if once seen while in process of manufacture, about the streets during the evening, the vendors screaming aloud the familiar cry of "I scream," "I scream, ten cents plate, small plates five cents."
13 July 1873, New York (NY) Times, "The Fourth Excursion." pg. 8:
The ice-cream tickets called forth the inquiry from some of the boys, "What do you do when yer mother licks yer?" followed immediately by the answer "I scream." The application to the ticket is easily seen.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music
I scream; or, Ice cream / by M. H. Thornton.
Thornton, M. H..
Boston: Perry, John F., 1877.
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano
Music for a nation: American sheet music, 1870-1885.
1 score
10 June 1879, Macon (GA) Weekly Telegraph, pg. 1:
Sauntering about the place one day, he was passed by a burly negro with a wheelbarrow, yelling at the top of his voice, "Ice Cream—Ice Cream." "You Scream?" said the good old man.
3 June 1885, Wheeling (WV) Register, pg. 4:
I Scream Festival.
An Ice Cream festival will take place at the Fulton M. E. Church on Thursday evening, June 4th, for the benefit of the church.
7 June 1889, Columbus (OH) Daily Enquirer, pg. 4 ad:
They Scream!
I Scream!
Everybody Screams!
Boyce Bros.' Ice Cream Cakes.
4 January 1895, Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer, pg. 6:
In summer days ice makes ice cream
And o'er it sweet girls gush.
In winter thaws it makes "I scream"
As they flounder through the slush.
26 April 1901, Terril (Iowa) Tribune, pg. 5, col. 1:
I scream for ice cream! Don't! Go to Cook's Restaurant and get a dish.
Chronicling America
21 June 1904, Paducah (KY) Sun, pg. 5, col. 6 ad:
She Scream
You Scream
Ice Cream Freezers R Now Ripe
(Geo. O. Hart Sons & Co.—ed.)
8 September 1926, Xenia (OH) Evening Gazette, pg. 6, col. 2:
"You scream and I scream for ice cream," was one of the yells heard in the grandstands this year.
OCLC WorldCat record
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
Author: Billy Moll; Howard Johnson; Robert A King; Anthony J Franchini
Publisher: New York : Shapiro, Bernstein and Co., ©1927.
Edition/Format: Musical score : Popular music : English
Time magazine
Friday, Jan. 26, 1968
Died. Billy Moll, 62, songwriter who in the 1920s composed Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, and I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream; in Stoughton, Wis.
Google Books
I Scream for Ice Cream: Pearls from the Pantomime
By Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Published by Eyre Methuen
Google Books
We Scream for Ice Cream
By Bernice Chardiet and Grace Maccarone
Illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Published by Scholastic
Google Books
We All Scream for Ice Cream!:
The Scoop on America's Favorite Dessert
By Lee Wardlaw
Illustrated by Sandra Forrest
New York, NY: HarperCollins
Google Books
Scream for Ice Cream
By Carolyn Keene
Illustrated by Macky Pamintuan
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster
[it would] cause the warm blood to freeze in thy veins even like unto that of skimmed milk in an I scream freezer.
Isaac S. Lyon, Recollections of an Old Cartman [Old New York Street Life] Graham Hodges, ed., N. Y.: New York Bound, 1984, p. 6 [misnumbered p. 9]
As a young girl I had this song on a 78 speed slate record. This was my pride and joy, I loved that song. Then in the 70's my daughter decided to take it to school for show and tell and didn't tell me. She managed to break it and threw it away and didn't say anything, until I missed it. Then it was too late. We go to auctions and I look at 78's when there are any, and have never found it. I would love to get ahold of this record if possible. Thanks Ginny


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text: PokeBase Battle Subway Meta-PokeBase Q&A Login Register All Activity Questions Unanswered Tags Users Ask a Question Rules Chat Is this allowed? 0 votes http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/rmt/933/suggestions-for-my-triples-legendary-team-unresolved I gave a good answer then he took my suggestions edited and down voted me. I am pretty sure that is not allowed. Please note I am not upset about the down vote I am just trying to clarify whether or not this is allowed because it seems like something that would be against the rules. It is giving good advice taking advice then yelling at them for telling them to change something they already did. allowed asked Oct 22, 2011 by Speed freak Please log in or register to add a comment. Please log in or register to answer this question. 1 Answer 0 votes We're supposed to downvote if it is a bad answer, and incorrect one, or a badly written one. We can't really say it's incorrect, since it's a pretty subjective question (there are tons of suggestions you could have made, right? You only gave what you thought was best.) What you posted is good enough that you can read it. The grammar isn't perfect, but we're not grammar nazis here, and it doesn't really matter as long as you get the point across. Last one is the "bad answer." These are very subjective questions, so you're at the mercy of whoever answers it. It's not like "where can I find TM 35 in black" where there is a solid answer that can be proven. When you answer these questions, try to give as many suggestions as possible. If you give just thinly written answers, the reader isn't going to be as satisfied, ergo, voting you down for a "bad answer." I just summarized your answer here: Victini-Give it flamethrower or Flare-burst. Darkrai-Give him a Timid Nature. Palkia-Give him a timid nature. Rayquaza-Drop Overheat and use Dragon dance instead. get a Jolly Nature. (Actually, I think he had overheat to do a mixed emergency attacker, similar to Infernape, that's just a guess though.) Groudon-Go with Jolly especially considering you already have Bulk-up for Attack. Kyogre-TIMID, Water-spout, Thunder, Ice-beam, Thunderwave. Overall team-It is a good team but I think you forgot that Earthquake damages your team mates, Groudon will take damage from Raquaza, and Kyogre will be 2-3KOed by Groudon. The majority of this is just "change the pokemon's nature." That doesn't really help him out much, does it? you could have summarized it as: I suggest going more with speed natures that way your pokemon could outspeed more dangerous threats" In short, the answer doesn't really go deep into the team. Remember that the RMT is more subjective than the rest of the pokebase, and like the moveset questions, you're at the mercy of the reader. So don't answer a question unless it actually goes with several suggestions, possible threats, etc. Think from the viewpoint of the reader; they won't be very satisfied if your answer doesn't go very deep into answering their suggestion. answered Oct 22, 2011 by DarkTyphlosion OK I made it a comment but still it is very rude to down vote if you took the advice you could just say it is unresolved. You didn't need to make it a comment, it's an answer to the question. If the OP doesn't agree then so be it. Well, that's the nature of the RMT. It's possible for it to help, just not very much. If you don't like it, don't answer. Please log in or register to add a comment. Related questions Is this sort of question allowed on the Pokebase? Are things like this allowed? (Read description) Am I allowed to do this? .3. Are we allowed to answer a question that has an answer selected, but that answer is incorrect/not very good? Selecting our own answer to a question is allowed ? Is this ok to post my my profile? Is this okay? This is confusing... Useful Posts Vote for new moveset questions How to change your username How to add a user avatar Why was my post hidden? The points system Question etiquette Flags vs Downvotes Anime FAQ PokemonDb Tournaments PokemonDb Showdown server Help out Report users Report minor site errors Name Origins corrections Location guide corrections New Pokemon Sun/Moon info


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Three Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates took on the issue of how to promote the biotechnology industry in a forum sponsored by MassBio last week.
All three - Charlie Baker, Tim Cahill and Gov. Deval Patrick - vowed that they would take action on the state's pharmaceutical and medical device gift ban governing interactions between companies and doctors. Industry executives, and many doctors, have complained that the law inhibits interaction between the two groups and stifles innovation.


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Church Cove in South Cornwall is a fairly exposed beach break that only works once in a while. Summer in particular tends to be flat. Offshore winds are from the northeast. Waves just as likely from local windswells as from distant groundswells and the best swell direction is from the southwest. The beach break offers both left and right hand waves. Best around low tide. When it's working here, it can get crowded. Surfing here means negotiating dangerous rips.
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- The closest passenger airport to Church Cove is St Mawgan (Newquai) Airport (NQY) in England, 49 km (30 miles) away (directly).
- The second nearest airport to Church Cove is Plymouth Airport (PLH), also in England, 93 km (58 miles) away.
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|Well, that's it. Power Rangers just aired its last new episodes for the foreseeable future.
These episodes were not only the conclusion to a year-long arc, which many fans had felt was one of the better seasons we've ever had, but it also brings the entire franchise to a close, effectively ending a 17-year saga. That's more than half my life!
Expectations were understandably high for the series finale, but how much did it live up to the hype that was generated in the gulf between the show's recent hiatus and now? Ultimately, the finale remains true to what made the show what it was this season, though the execution of its major story elements may have fallen short in some areas.
"Danger and Destiny" begins immediately after the events of the previous episode. Dillon looks as though the virus has overtaken him, but he quickly remarks that he can feel the virus running inside him as he resists it. I found this a cool idea- that he might be dealing with the internal struggle for the duration of the finale. Little did I know how quickly he was going to defeat the virus altogether and move on to something else. I can't say I loved this choice. After he found Doctor K's antidote and injected himself, I kept thinking the virus would come back somehow and they would have to deal with Evil Dillon until he finally managed to do the rest of the antidote's work on his own. At least he kept getting knocked around so it wasn't just amazingly easy for him, I guess. Â
Speaking of knocking things around, Venjix gets proactive in this finale, and drains the memory banks of the lab before "destroying" it. I hesitate to use that word because I know the Rangers spend an awful lot of time in the garage long after Venjix seemed to blast part of it to kingdom come. I do, however, enjoy the fact that Venjix was smart enough to download everything about the Rangers' bio-fields (aka the Morphin Grid) so he could pretty much whip their asses without even trying.
Meanwhile, Ziggy and K are captured and they get to do what they do best, which is banter and give each other bashful smiles as they try to get out of this latest catastrophe. Ziggy's ability to slip through his shackles and unlock K's was nice. Though I had to laugh later on when Scott literally just karate-chopped his father's shackles in half. Maybe Colonel Truman's shackles were purchased at the 99-cent store.
I gotta say, the confrontation between Kilobyte and Tenaya felt like it came a bit out of nowhere. Though I will never get tired of seeing Tenaya get hit with a sword and thrown across the room. That sort of attack always feels so much more brutal when they're not wearing costumes that cover their entire body from head to toe. I just never expect them to go all-out on someone whose face we can see (albeit through a giant, flowing wig to obscure the stuntperson's identity).
What I loved about this scene was that it was another example of Dillon and Ziggy complimenting each other perfectly. They both had moments to be heroic toward the people they cared for most- Dillon defending his sister, and Ziggy pulling K out of the path of Kilobyte's gun blast. And Ziggy is the one to grab the antidote vial and toss it to Dillon so he can cure his sister. My only issue with the sequence is that Kilobyte was despensed with far sooner in the finale than I would have liked. Personally, I felt it should have been him in the control tower fighting Tenaya towards the end of the last episode, and the other robot getting blasted to pieces in this moment instead.
So, once the Rangers regroup, and Dillon is down for the count after his valiant efforts to save his sister, Tenaya has once again switched sides. It's only now that Doctor K comes up with the plan to upload a virus into Venjix and eradicate him completely. Yeah… I seem to recall complaining that the hybrid antidote wasn't properly set up long before it was imminently needed in order to resolve the plot. I feel twice as strongly about the virus solution here. My sensibilities would have had K working on a virus for several weeks now. All it would take is just showing her busy with something on a monitor and being annoyed when she's interrupted to deal with the crisis of the week. Anything, as long as she's able to earnestly say "I've been working on a virus for over a month" so it doesn't feel like she just crapped out a master plan in two seconds. Ah well…
Tenaya, for some reason, has reservations about using herself as a means of uploading the virus. And Flynn gets his last big moment to be awesome, as he tells her to get over herself and start helping them correct the mess she had helped create. I loved it. In a perfect world, Flynn would have gotten many more scenes like this, in many episodes. But at least he wasn't denied a real moment where the show gets to focus pretty much just on him and what he means to the team. If no one else is going to speak up and tell it like it is, then he will. Awesome.
So, Tenaya gets her rear in gear, but not before Gem and Gemma have been "deleted" by Venjix and his newfound manipulation of the Rangers' bio-fields. Now, unfortunately, someone thought it was a good idea to tell us exactly what happens to them in a summary of the episode's premise, so there was no real shock value there for me. And this is not the first, or second, or third time a Ranger has supposedly been killed and brought back five minutes later. But as far as fake deaths go, I'd say this one was fairly effective for me. Of all the people to become casualties, it had to be the ones whose faces were the most innocent (despite all their actions that made them far less innocent than they appeared).
When Gem says "We would have kept fighting" I believed him. I genuinely felt bad that he wasn't going to be there for them the way he wanted. Gemma's "Never give up" immediately reminds me of the Wild Force season, as that was the catchphrase of some of their characters (and I suspect this was done intentionally) but it obviously applies here, and felt like an earnest plea from a dying hero. Forgetting, for a moment, that I wasn't convinced that they were really dead. The fact is the other characters had no idea. And the cast's performances were all fantastic as the grim reality of their situation set in. Kudos. I also loved Dillon's straight-forward attitude about the loss, as he knows there's work left to be done and wants to prevent more "deaths."
However, it's towards the final stretch of the finale that I'm wondering where the hell all the hybrids went to, and why aren't any of them doing anything interesting? I mean, that was kind of the main hook of the previous episode. Hybrids are everywhere. They're slaves to Venjix. I would have loved to see a moment where the Rangers are aiming at Venjix, and a bunch of hybrids run up and just stand there as human shields, blocking their shot. Sadly, we don't even really get any action beats with them that I could remember. Did any of them even fire a laser gun? This is one aspect of the finale that I found rather disappointing. I didn't expect to see hybrids thrown around and injured by morphed Rangers, but SOMETHING would have been nice.
So, Tenaya finds her way to the Corinth control tower and gains access to the Venjix mainframe, thereby giving K the information she needs to restore the Rangers powers, as well as Gem and Gemma. Not the best resurrection ever, but certainly not the worst. Meanwhile, Ziggy fights off some Grinders to defend K while she works, and Dillon is headed out to save his sister.
Even though I was hoping for all the Rangers to stand united, I can appreciate that it was just the original three facing Venjix in the final battle. We got a few precious moments where Venjix offers them new lives as part of his mechanized empire, but they reject the oppressive reality he wants to create for them. I'm always wishing there's more stuff like this in the show. It's important, dammit!
And then there's the action. Again, watching Rangers get slammed around without helmets is so much more intense than seeing them completely shielded. Plus, I think a lot of us just like seeing helmetless Rangers in general. Though I still think it's odd that their helmets are the only thing that disappear when they get hit by that attack. At least it's better than the SPD finale, where the helmets are suddenly gone, just because.
Now, the climax of the battle is… interesting. On the one hand, I think the idea that the control tower slams down onto Venjix is really badass. On the other hand, I thought it was hilarious how Dillon just finds himself a parachute and jumps out a window with Tenaya at the last second, and that Venjix seems to be looking up, watching the thing fall directly toward him for, like, three days without even thinking of moving.
I mean, Dillon's a Power Ranger. He could easily have morphed and just jumped onto a nearby building. We've seen this sort of thing thousands of times on the show. It is actually more plausible that he would do this than it is that he would randomly find a parachute and glide peacefully through the air with his sister attached to him. Hell, even if he was unable to morph, I would have accepted hybrid strength as an explanation, pseudo-science be damned. Anything but the random-ass parachute.
So, Venjix gets a building dropped on him and is defeated, and… suddenly the atmosphere outside the dome is clean and Earthy again. Wait… What did I miss?
I guess the Rangers aren't going to be needed anymore, so it looks like everybody's going their separate ways. So they re-enact another moment from Wild Force as they give back their morphers one-by-one. I did like Ziggy's quiet "Get in gear" as he returns his morpher though.
I like that K can't tell "Tenaya" if she'll be able to keep her ability to see or not. Especially after she tells K that she'll be fine either way. I'm not sure how intentional it was, but I thought it was a nice little gesture about the resiliance of humanity despite adversity. Plus, it's just a nice way to wrap up her journey from human, to machine, back to human with a new life waiting for her to discover.
Dillon and his sister are heading out, and thankfully they're bringing Summer along, so we don't repeat the same awkwardness that was the Nick/Madison "goodbye" scene from Mystic Force. We can assume that they are indeed an item and that they'll make plenty of ridiculously good-looking hybrid babies in the future.
Also, the idea of Ziggy and K running a school is both frightening and heartwarming at the same time. Scott joining his father is not altogether unexpected, but I suppose that's what he wanted before the world ended. Gem and Gemma following him, to "blow things up and get paid for it" is nice as well. Though I really wish Flynn and Gemma were allowed to have more of a moment together. Flynn really has gotten the shaft more often than he should have on this show, and I would have been fine sacrificing the episode recap (which is fairly useless, since the show is completely over now) if it meant giving him some time with Gemma (brief as it would have been). They may not have had much shippyness this season, but I could easily see a connection that would have been nice to acknowledge as things wrapped up.
But setting aside the confusion about how the atmosphere suddenly became so pleasant again, I will say that the final scene with Dillon, Summer, and "Tenaya" was an awesome way to bookend the story. This part of Dillon's journey ends where it began, watering a yellow flower in the desert. But then discovering that it's only one of many, and that the natural world has begun to restore itself. It was at this point that I became teary-eyed, realizing that it was over.
There were no more bad guys to fight, no more fallen heroes left to resurrect, and no more megazords to sacrifice. For the first time in about 17 years, the power is OFF. And while many of us look forward to the re-airing of the original Mighty Morphin season, we know that "Danger and Destiny" was conceived as the final new episode for the foreseeable future, perhaps forever. And it is with a healthy dose of bittersweetness that I sum up my experience with this show in three words.
It was fun.
"Danger and Destiny" gets a B.
May the Power protect us always…
-Dr. Tristan of HeroPower


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Cliffhanger no more? House pushing to final vote
Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, walks with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., following a closed-door GOP meeting as the "fiscal cliff" bill passed by the Senate Monday night waits for a vote in the Republican-controlled House, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Weary lawmakers pushed at last toward a final vote on emergency legislation to avoid a national "fiscal cliff" of major tax increases and spending [auth] cuts in a New Year's Night culmination of a struggle that tested divided government to the limit.
Passage would send the measure to President Barack Obama for his signature and hand him a political triumph less than two months after he secured re-election while campaigning for higher taxes on the wealthy. The extraordinary late-night House vote was coming nearly 24 hours after Senate action spilled over from New Year's Eve into the pre-dawn hours of 2013.
In addition to neutralizing middle class tax increases and spending cuts that technically took effect Monday at midnight, the legislation raises tax rates on incomes over $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples. Remarkably, in a party that swore off tax increases two decades ago, dozens of Republicans supported the bill at both ends of the Capitol.
Republicans did their best to minimize the tax increases in the measure.
Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., in the final days of a 32-year-career in Congress, said the legislation was "not the grand bargain we'd hoped for" to reduce federal deficits. "But it is an essential bridge to what I hope will be a comprehensive and long-term solution. It will bring us back from the edge of the fiscal cliff and implement tax cuts for 99% of taxpayers."
Declared Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio: "This is a great victory for the middle class, whose taxes will not go up tomorrow."
The bill would also prevent an expiration of extended unemployment benefits for an estimated two million jobless, block a 27 percent cut in fees for doctors who treat Medicare patients, stop a $900 pay increase for lawmakers from taking effect in March and head off a threatened spike in milk prices.
It would stop $24 billion in spending cuts set to take effect over the next two months, although only about half of that total would be offset with spending reductions elsewhere in the budget.
Even with enactment of the legislation, taxes are on the rise for millions.
A 2 percentage point temporary cut in the Social Security payroll tax, originally enacted two years ago to stimulate the economy, expired with the end of 2012. Neither Obama nor Republicans made a significant effort to extend it.
The fiscal cliff measure had cleared the Senate on a lopsided pre-dawn New Year's vote of 89-8, and House Republicans spent much of the day struggling to escape a political corner they found themselves in.
"I personally hate it," Rep. John Campbell of California, said of the measure, giving voice to the concern of many Republicans that it did little or nothing to cut spending.
"The speaker the day after the election said we would give on taxes and we have. But we wanted spending cuts. This bill has spending increases. Are you kidding me? So we get tax increases and spending increases? Come on."
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told reporters at one point, "I do not support the bill. We are looking, though, for the best path forward."
Within hours, Republicans abandoned demands for changes and agreed to a simple yes-or-no vote on the Senate-passed bill.
They feared that otherwise the Senate would refuse to consider any alterations, sending the bill into limbo and saddling Republicans with the blame for a whopping middle class tax increase. One Senate Democratic leadership aide said Majority Leader Harry Reid would "absolutely not take up the bill" if the House changed it. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity, citing a requirement to keep internal deliberations private.
Despite Cantor's remarks, Speaker John Boehner took no public position on the bill as he sought to negotiate a conclusion to the final crisis of a two-year term full of them.
The brief insurrection wasn't the first time that the tea party-infused House Republican majority has rebelled against the party establishment since the GOP took control of the chamber 24 months ago. But with the two-year term set to end Thursday at noon, it was likely the last. And as was true in earlier cases of a threatened default and government shutdown, the brinkmanship came on a matter of economic urgency, leaving the party open to a public backlash if tax increases do take effect on tens of millions.
The economic as well as political stakes were considerable.
Economists have warned that without action by Congress, the tax increases and spending cuts that technically took effect with the turn of the new year at midnight could send the economy into recession.
The Senate-passed bill was designed to prevent that while providing for tax increases at upper incomes, as Obama campaigned for in his successful bid for a second term.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said the measure would add nearly $4 trillion over a decade to federal deficits, a calculation that assumed taxes would otherwise have risen on taxpayers at all income levels. There was little or no evident concern among Republicans on that point, presumably because of their belief that tax cuts pay for themselves by expanding economic growth and do not cause deficits to rise.
The relative paucity of spending cuts was a sticking point with many House Republicans. Among other items, the extension of unemployment benefits costs $30 billion, and is not offset by savings elsewhere.
Others said unhappiness over spending outweighed fears that the financial markets will plunge on Wednesday if the fiscal cliff hasn't been averted.
"There's a concern about the markets, but there's a bigger concern, which is getting this right, which is something we haven't been very good at over the past two years," said Rep. Steve LaTourette of Ohio.
House Democrats met privately with Biden for their review of the measure, and the party's leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, said afterward that Boehner should permit a vote.
"That is what we expect. That is what the American people deserve," she said.
For all the struggle involved in the legislation, even its passage would merely clear the way for another round of controversy almost as soon as the new Congress convenes.
With the Treasury expected to need an expansion in borrowing authority by early spring, and funding authority for most government programs set to expire in late March, Republicans have made it clear they intend to use those events as leverage with the administration to win savings from Medicare and other government benefit programs.
McConnell said as much moments before the 2 a.m. Tuesday vote in the Senate — two hours after the advertised "cliff" deadline.
"We've taken care of the revenue side of this debate. Now it's time to get serious about reducing Washington's out-of-control spending," he said. "That's a debate the American people want. It's the debate we'll have next. And it's a debate Republicans are ready for."
The 89-8 vote in the Senate was unexpectedly lopsided.
Despite grumbling from liberals that Obama had given way too much in the bargaining, only three Democrats opposed the measure.
Among the Republican supporters were Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, an ardent opponent of tax increases, as well as Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, elected to his seat two years ago with tea party support.
It marked the first time in two decades that Republicans willingly supported higher taxes, in this case on incomes over $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples. Taxes also would rise on estates greater than $5 million in size, and on capital gains and dividend income made by the wealthy.
Associated Press writers Andrew Taylor, Larry Margasak and Julie Pace contributed to this story.
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This single family listing located at 609/15-17 Union Street, City Centre, Auckland offers one bedroom and one bathroom. The property is presently offered for Price Upon Request.
This property is listed by Alex Allan of Barfoot & Thompson located in New Zealand.