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July 16, 2009
Back-off, Pup! New New Moon Still
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I love it!
LOVE it!
It's the scene were they almost kiss!
November 20th can NOT come fast enough.
That makes me want to barf. Sorry Juju. glad you finally get some wolf lovin' but Bella is such a trader in that scene. LOL! Im gonna need Mylanta when instead of popcorn when I see this movie.ReplyDelete
Team Edward!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Hmmmmm. Thinking unpure thoughts right now. Truthfully I am Team Edward but when I first read New Moon I was strongly Team Switzerland. If you thought your love was gone forever......I think we would all considering tapping into that. (My apologies in advance to Taylor's parents for having such thoughts). Must go fan myself now.ReplyDelete
It's cool Kerri :)
We all love Twilight differently.
Personally I think Edward left and told her he'd never be back.
So she's not a traitor under those circumstances.
Especially when the guy is so hot and wonderful.
But yah we all love it differently.
I agree with VitaminR completly! lol.ReplyDelete
Team TaylorReplyDelete
This part off the book New Moon is beautifull.
I really had hope taht she would choose Jacob...
I'm 100% Team Edward, but you've gotta admit that Taylor is a dollface . . .ReplyDelete
Wow, what a moment!!! I have always been team Switzerland BUT most absolutely team Robert i must say:)ReplyDelete
Have a great day! /Ann-Helen, sweden
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2009 at 8:46 PM
uhgh this is excibit A why I dont really like bella plus the whole Jacob part of New moon was like sleepreading Boooring. Team Edward all the wayReplyDelete
TEAM EDWARD ALL THE WAY! Can't wait for the Italian scenes when Bella bis back in the arms of the man who she truly loves.ReplyDelete
Sorry Jacob, your nice kid, but a poor subsitute, Edward is just to HOT.
Ooooh...Yay! This is what I have been waiting for. Way to get my excitement going for New Moon again! I love how Jacob smolders ;-)ReplyDelete
When will hawtness be 18? I'm too old to be looking at this boy like I am. But I can't help it - he is just too good looking for his own good & I must admit I'll be shrieking like a little child at any scenes were the pack are sans shirts.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2009 at 9:04 PM
<3 <3 <3 the truck scene *sigh*ReplyDelete
He is absolutely gorgeous and caring and in tune with her thoughts, so I can see how she'd be attracted to him in Edward's absence.
When is this young man 18?
idk how to feel bout that....... yes it looks like a VERY comfy place to be, who wouldnt mind cuddleing up to that pup?? ........ but i am team edward through and through so im glad it all stoped with a cuddle.........ReplyDelete
kerri, I couldn't agree more!ReplyDelete
i'm with ya kerriReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2009 at 10:24 PM
i have to admit i do see a lot of chemistry here too.....i personally love jacob AND Edward but Bella and Jacob as a couple just doesn't look good to meReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2009 at 10:59 PM
After this pic Us weekly ore something will probably come with thisReplyDelete
Breaking News:
Taylor dumps Selena for Kristen.
Will Kristen go for Taylor?
- thparkleJuly 17, 2009 at 12:49 AM
I'm team Edward all the way baby, but I just don't understand why some peeps hate Jake so much. I felt sorry for the ol' pup in NM. Taylor is undeniably a cutie though. Like Stephenie Meyer said, there's really no Edwards in the real world but we all would be lucky with a Jacob.ReplyDelete
- thparkleJuly 17, 2009 at 12:54 AM
P.S. I predict Taylor's only going to get more good-looking with age. After all, he's still a young pup.ReplyDelete
Hey Juju, For a wolf girl is this smoldering pic of Jakey-poo the equivalent of jaw porn for Edwardians?! LOL! :-)
Team Edwarddd!!!! I'm dying too for the scene in Italy!! That's soooo hott!!! That kisssss!!! Ufff! Guys I have to wait until November 24 to see the movie!!! Pleaseee let me know your thoughts!! haha This is depressing!ReplyDelete
They look so intense and cute together. Too bad he has to loose the love of his life:((( I feel for Jacob so much in New moon and Eclipse. And Taylor puts so emotion into his character, I almost forget he's acting.ReplyDelete
I'm trying so hard to be excited about this just b/c it's part of New Moon...but my Jacob barfometer is kicking in and I just CAN'T STAND IT!!!ReplyDelete
Bella and Jake look great , and as friends.It's just awkward seeing them too close and Jake's arm around Bella.I'm jealous of Kstew , so i'm just going to tell myself "they're just acting and doing their job"...JAKE IS MINE!In my crazy imagnation i'm married to Jake and i'm too a Cullen.My family is are the Cullens and i'm married to Jake , so he's my hubby =) I actually had a dream that i was laying on Taylor's shirt-less chest , and he was making me comfortable.Ha!I'm so werid.Now i understand why everyone at school is as hell scared of me , 'cuz my Twilight prob.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2009 at 7:36 AM
OMG!!! IM TEAM JACOB!! AND I HATE KSTEW!!! OMG! IM SO JELOUSE! (Spell check) god! i can't believe she got to be THAT close to him! Taylor Lautner is the love of my life!!!!ReplyDelete
i am on my nth time of reading the books, and everytime i would be on my cycle of reading new moon i begin to feel sad. even if i obviously know there's nessy. =D i can't wait for new moon!!!ReplyDelete
I am so excited to see this movie!! I've re-read all the books, and I have my own Edward, and my own Bella in my head. But Taylor IS Jacob...and that makes it that much harder to be Team Edward! I feel so terrible for Jake through the whole saga.ReplyDelete
...I'll be the one to volunteer to give him a hug and a shoulder to cry on. I'll take this one for the team. ;-)
Um freak out.... But where is Edward when you need him... lovin this!!!!ReplyDelete
Compared to Edward, Jacob just doesn't do it for me!ReplyDelete
- Katie KupcakesJuly 19, 2009 at 11:52 PM
O GOD he looks yummy! I CANNOT wait for that scene in the movie!!!! im soooo excited i reread new moon last night! :D:D:D:D:ReplyDelete
But, im team switzerland <333


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It would come as no surprise if the California coaching staff wanted to keep jumbo athlete Takkarist McKinley under the radar after seeing him excel at the program's full-contact camp in mid-June. Even at 6-foot-3, 235 pounds, the Richmond (Calif.) John F. Kennedy defender is also one of the fastest runners in the state, clocking a personal-best 10.52-second 100m time in the state semifinals.
During the one-month interim, McKinley received a scholarship offer and finally decided that Berkeley was indeed the place for him. On Thursday afternoon, he called recruiting coordinator and linebackers coach Kenwick Thompson to say just that.
"I talked to coach Thompson last night, and he wanted me to commit to Cal," McKinley said. "I talked to my uncle about it, my coach, and I'm doing it. I'm committed."
Academics turned out to be a deciding factor for McKinley, as well as faith in the coaching staff.
"I believe in everything that coach Thompson and coach [Jeff] Tedford tell me. They really do believe in me," McKinley said.
Bears were the first and only team to offer McKinley (despite hard pushes in the last week by Nevada and Fresno State[)thereby assuming a big risk. McKinley has the skills and the ability, but it will be up to him to decide if he wants to take full advantage.
"I'll put the hard work in," McKinley said. "I was really excited. I thanked them when they offered me, because I didn't expect it. I was really excited."
McKinley's commitment punctuates a big week for Cal football recruiting, as the Bears hosted four-star defensive back L.J. Moore in a last-minute trip on Tuesday, and three-star tailback Terrell Newby on Wednesday. On Friday, offensive tackle Sean Harlow will be in the house, along with Oak Park (Calif.) defensive end Luca Bruno. Three-star offensive lineman J.D. Hinnant will finish things off with a trip to Berkeley on Sunday.
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McKinley's commitment is the second in this class from a linebacker. Though he plays a flex position for the Eagles similar to Cal's OLB/DE hybrid Predator, he'll be standing up to play outside linebacker for the Bears.

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NORTH FULTON, Ga. — Six new principals will be in place at area schools when the school system opens its door to more than 95,000 students Aug. 12.
Schools with new principals for the coming year include Birmingham Falls, Esther Jackson, Lake Windward and Manning Oaks elementary schools, along with Hopewell Middle and Centennial High School.
At Lake Windward Elementary, this will be first change in the top spot in more than a decade with the retirement of Marcy Messina at the end of June. Known as "Ms. Z" for years until her marriage in 2006, Messina came to Lake Windward in January 2001 from New Prospect Elementary where she served as the assistant principal.
"As I looked at life from my perspective, I just wanted to let the 'kids be kids' in elementary school because once they reach middle school, childhood disappears very quickly," said Messina in a farewell note to her school. "We have a wonderful community school with parent support… I feel extremely lucky to have been able to do a job I loved."
Taking her place is Tara McGee, who has been the assistant principal at Medlock Bridge Elementary in Johns Creek since 2008. McGee is a graduate of the University of St. Thomas (Houston, Texas) and Texas A & M University, and began her teaching career in the Fulton County School System in 2004 at Northwood Elementary after time spent teaching overseas in Italy.
Other new principals include:
Birmingham Falls ES – Windy Bottoms
Overseeing the academic and social experiences of elementary school kids will be a change of routine for newly-installed principal Windy Bottoms at Birmingham Falls elementary. In a career reaching back to 1999, Bottoms has spent most of her career at the high school level; most recently as the assistant principal at Chattahoochee High School, as well as at Lumpkin County High School.
She moves to Birmingham Falls Elementary to fill the spot vacated by former principal Susan Matzkin who moved out of state.
Bottoms is a graduate of Lincoln Memorial University (Tenn.) and North Georgia College and State University, and began her teaching career at Milton High School where she was a social studies teacher for five years. She worked in a similar position at Alpharetta High School for the next five years before moving into administration in 2006 at Riverwatch Middle School in Gwinnett County.
Esther Jackson ES – Jennifer Cassidy
Also making the move from high school to elementary school is Jennifer Cassidy who is the new principal at Esther Jackson Elementary in Roswell.
Cassidy was most recently the assistant principal for curriculum at Centennial High School, and worked previously at Ridgeview Charter Middle School in Sandy Springs where she was the Title 1 data support specialist since 2001. In 2007, she was named the Teacher of the Year at Ridgeview.
She is a graduate of West Virginia University and California State University of Pennsylvania, and holds her masters of education from Kennesaw State University. Cassidy replaces former principal Constance Coles who retired at the end of the last school year.
Centennial HS – Kibbey Crumbley
Kibbey Crumbley brings an international perspective to her work, by virtue of her early education years spent overseas in India, Nepal and the Congo from elementary through high school. She returned to the United States for college, earning degrees from the University of Georgia (bachelors in journalism/broadcast), Agnes Scott College (masters in teaching), and Lincoln Memorial University (Tenn.) (educational specialist).
Crumbley came to Centennial from Northview High School where she served as the building administrator since 2009, after five years as language arts and journalism teacher at the school beginningin 2004. She has been the interim principal at Centennial since last January following the resignation of former principal Steven Miletto.
At Northview, Crumbley was awarded the "best new advisor" academic fellowship for her work on the student publications, as well as the STAR teacher award from the College Board for having the greatest impact on the academic career of a student with the highest SAT score at the school.
Prior to her educational path, Crumbley was involved in the visual arts and marketing fields, producing educational training videos.
Hopewell MS – Michael LeMoyne
Michael LeMoyne comes to Hopewell Middle School from Alpharetta High School where he has been the assistant principal for curriculum since 2011. Prior to that, LeMoyne spent time in the New York State school system where he served as an assistant principal, director of athletics and physical education and a teacher since 1997.
He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Brockport (masters of science), State University of New York at Oswego (bachelor of science) and holds a Georgia Certification in Education Leadership and Earth/Space Science.
LeMoyne replaces former principal Lenora Patterson who resigned at the end of the last school year.
Manning Oaks Elementary – Donald Webb
Donald Webb has spent his entire professional career in Fulton County Schools, most recently at Summit Hill Elementary where he been the assistant principal since 2006. Prior to that, he was a fifth grade teacher at Dunwoody Springs, State Bridge Crossing and Cogburn Wood elementary schools.
A graduate of Purdue University (Ind.) with a bachelor degree in elementary education, he received his masters of education leadership in 2004 from Kennesaw University. Webb is also a graduate of the Aspiring Principals Program through Fulton County Schools in 2010.
Webb is replacing former principal Kirk Shrum, who left Manning Oaks Elementary for a position in central office administration.
This article appeared in the August 8 issue of the Milton Herald.


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The state capital will begin identifying the portion of the starter route running over Tower Bridge and into Sacramento proper, linking with the city's light rail transit line. In addition, the Sacramento study will evaluate a larger streetcar network.
Sacramento's move, made late Tuesday night, makes it possible for the city and West Sacramento to seek federal funding support in a cohesive manner.
"We're ready to step up and join as true partners," said Sacramento Councilman Steve Cohn before making the motion to endorse the study. "The time has come for streetcars in Sacramento."
West Sacramento voters in November 2008 approved a local financing measure to pay for a 2.2-mile, $70 million starter streetcar line. Current cost estimates, including Sacramento's portion, run at about $125 million.


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major macro economic indicators
|2017 (f)
|GDP growth (%)
|Inflation (yearly average) (%)
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|Current account balance (% GDP)
|Public debt (% GDP)
(f) Forecast
- Market of 38 million people
- Proximity to West European markets
- Price competitiveness / qualified and cheap labour force
- Integrated into the German production chain
- Leading beneficiary of European structural funds
- Diversified economy (agriculture, variety of industries, services)
- Resilient financial sector
- Coal reserves
- Inadequate level of investment / Domestic savings rate too low
- Weakness in R&D
- Developmental lag of eastern regions
- Rigidity of the labour market encouraging informal economy estimated at 23%
- Structural unemployment and low level of female employment
- Lack of competition
- Low birth-rate
Vigorous consumption and upturn in public investment
Growth is expected to increase this year after the slowdown recorded in 2016.Household consumption will remain the principal driving force. Household incomes will continue to rise thanks to strong employment and the benefits created in April 2016 aimed at modest families with at least two children (PLN 500 per child and per month). Public Investment, reduced in 2016 during the transition between two European funding programmes, should pick up. House building should benefit from a government imitative aimed at supporting renovations and rental choices for medium income families. Private investment however is more uncertain given the scale of the political and social uncertainties. Exports (automobiles, machines, white goods, consumer electronics, food, furniture, ships, and construction materials) are expected to benefit from the upswings in the country's leading markets and the depreciation in effective exchange rate. Only its exports to the United Kingdom (around 2.5% of GDP) are likely to suffer from the fall in the pound sterling. However, as imports, driven by increased consumption, will increase faster than exports, the contribution from foreign trade to growth will be virtually zero.
Expansionist budget policy places burden on the public accounts
The public deficit is expected to widen again in 2017 and go back over the 3% threshold. Public spending will continue to increase with the first full year payment of the so-called "Family500+" children's allowance (estimated annual cost of 0.9% of GDP). Moreover, the income tax threshold has been raised to favour taxpayers with low income. In addition, the abandoning of the plan to raise the minimum retirement age to 67 adopted in 2013 and the return to 65 for men and 60 for women is expected to cost the equivalent of 0.5% of GDP. Finally, the state as employer will feel the impact of the 8% increase in the minimum wage as of 1 January. Additional revenues will be generated through the 0.44% tax on bank assets imposed in 2016 (expected worth: 0.2% of GDP) and the increased tax rate on higher earnings. The introduction of the retail distribution tax, revised downwards under pressure from the European Commission, was initially delayed until 2018 and recently to 2019. In addition, there will be no repeat of the one-off boosts received in 2016. Under these conditions, the public debt, 60% held by non-residents, is likely to deteriorate slightly. This should however be placed in context as the net debt held by the Polish public sector accounts for only 20% of GDP. Finally, the government is clearly working hard to avoid falling within the remit of the European Excessive Deficit Procedure.
Surplus in the trade in goods and services, marked deficit in investment revenues
The small surplus on the trade in goods, although shrinking, will continue in 2017. The trade in services will remain in surplus (in excess of 2% of GDP) thanks to tourism and international road transport. However, the surplus in goods and services is counterbalanced by the significant deficit in investment revenues linked with the extensive presence of foreign investors. Remittances for Polish workers abroad (800,000 in the United Kingdom) are offset by the remittances from foreign workers working in Poland (Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Belarusians, etc.). In the end, the current account balance will remain close to equilibrium. European funds (almost 3% of GDP) and new FDI (2% of GDP net) amounting to a stock equivalent to half of GDP, a sign of the degree of integration of Polish industry within the European production chain, will help reduce the external debt to 70% of GDP (from 73% in 2013) and boost the currency reserves held by the Central Bank.
Deterioration of the political and social situation
The conservative and nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party won a majority of seats in the Sejm in the legislative elections of October 2015, with 37.6% of votes ahead of Civic Platform, the main opposition party. Its leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, gave the post of Prime Minister to Beata Szydło, moderate in image, but retains significant influence over the government agenda. The promulgation by the conservative President, Andrzej Duda, of laws to change how the Constitutional Court operates, but deemed to be non-constitutional by this latter, has resulted in an institutional impasse, alongside the friction with the European Commission concerning the Rule of Law. As any European sanction (suspension of the right to vote) was unlikely, the Polish government ignored Brussels' recommendations. This attitude, together with the imposition of taxes targeted at certain sectors (finance, retail, energy), in which there are significant foreign presences, could, as a result of a loss of confidence among investors and consumers, act to dampen activity. Popular opposition however forced the government to backtrack on its pledge to outlaw abortion. At the same time, the monetary authorities have tempered plans for the mandatory conversion of Swiss franc denominated mortgages (= 9% of GDP) limiting the cost for banks in reimbursing exchange rate spreads.
Last update : August 2017
Standard bills of exchange and cheques are not widely used, as they must meet a number of formal issuing requirements in order to be valid.
Nevertheless, for dishonoured and protested bills and cheques, creditors may resort to a fast-track procedure resulting in an injunction to pay.
However one kind of bill of exchange is commonly used - it is thewekselin blanco, an incomplete promissory note bearing only the term "weksel" and the issuer's signature at the time of issue.
The signature constitutes an irrevocable promise to pay and this undertaking is enforceable upon completion of the promissory note (amount, place and date of payment) in accordance with a prior agreement between issuer and beneficiary.
Wekselsin blancoare widely used, as they also constitute a guarantee of payment in commercial agreements and the rescheduling of payments.
Cash payments were commonly used in Poland by individuals and firms alike, but under the "Freedom of business activity Act" (Ustawa o swobodzie działalności gospodarczej), of 2 July 2004, which came into force on 21st August 2004, companies are required to make settlements via bank accounts for any transaction exceeding the equivalent in złotys of 15,000 Euros even when payable in several instalments.
This measure aims to counter fraudulent money laundering.
Bank transfers have become the most widely used payment method. Leading Polish banks – after an initial phase of privatisation and a second phase of concentration – use the SWIFT network, which offers a cheap, flexible and quick domestic and international funds transfer service.
Debt collection
Standard court procedure can be also fast and effective when creditor can provide documents from which clearly shows the amount of debt and the confirmation of delivery of the goods (or the proper performance of services) – especially documents approved (signed) by the debtor.
Court issues an order of payment which states that debtor should pay amount of debt in two weeks or set an written argue (in the same period of time). When order of payment is not argued and becomes enforceable court gives back ¾ of court fee paid by creditor with lawsuit (5% of the amount in dispute).
However in standard procedure it is quite easy for defendant to postpone the case. When defendant argues at the order of payment in this kind of procedure than it can take a long time before final verdict due to the lack of judges and large number of cases held in courts.
Since the term of limitation for receivables arising from a merchandise sales contract, and any ensuing past-due interest, is only two years, suppliers should exercise extreme vigilance.
From 1st January 2004, interest may be claimed as of the 31st day following delivery of the product or service, even where the parties have agreed to a longer payment time. The legal interest rate will apply from the 31st day until the contractual payment date.
Thereafter, in case of late payment, the tax penalty rate will apply and it will very often be higher than the legal interest rate, unless the contracting parties have agreed on a higher interest rate.
A Bill to implement the directive 2011/7/EU of 16 February 2011 on "combating late payment in commercial transactions" provides between the contracting parties a maximum payment term of 60 days. Similarly, default interest will be due the day after the deadline, without the need for a formal notice.
Implementing EU Directive, Poland introduced new rules regarding compensation for payment default in commercial transactions. The Act (Ustawa z dnia 8 marca 2013 r. o terminach zapłaty w transakcjach handlowych (Dz.U. 2013 nr 0 poz. 403)) imposed on debtors to pay the costs of recovery when the payment term expires. This amount is 40 euros - lump sum and it is possible to demand a larger amount if the costs of recovery will prove to be higher.
It is also advisable to seek an out-of-court settlement based on a payment schedule drawn up by a public notary, which includes anenforcement clausethat allows creditors, in the event of default by the debtor, to go directly to the enforcement stage, subject to acknowledgement by the court of the binding nature of this document.
Creditors may seek an injunction to pay (nakaz zaplaty) via a fast-track and less expensive procedure, provided they produce positive proof of debt (like unpaid bills of exchange, unpaid cheques orwekselsin blanco, or else acknowledgements of debt). If the judge is not convinced of the substance of the claim – a decision he alone is empowered to make – he may refer the case to full trial.
Since 1st January 2010, when the claims are certain, the district court of Lublin has jurisdiction throughout the country, to handle electronic injunctions to pay.
The clerk of the court examines the merits of the application, to which is attached the list of the available evidence, then, with its electronic signature, he validates the ruling granting the injunction to pay.
This procedure appeared to be fast, economic and flexible but it turned out that it can be quite opposite due to enormous amount of cases which are conducted.
Ordinary proceedings are partly in writing with the parties filing submissions accompanied by all supporting case documents (original or certified copies) and partly oral with the litigants, their lawyers, and their witnesses heard on the main hearing date.
At such legal proceedings, the judge is required, as far as possible, to attempt conciliation between the parties.
Although each party bears his own legal costs incurred in the course of the proceedings, after making a ruling the court will generally require the losing party to bear most of the cost of the procedure.
Commercial disputes are generally heard by the economic courts (sąd gospodarczy), falling under the jurisdiction of either district courts (sąd rejonowy) or regional courts (sąd okręgowy), depending on the value of the claim.
*It is important to be noted that in 2016 the new regulation on bankruptcy proceedings enters into force. It is called restructuring law and will be based on two basic principles: protecting the legitimate rights of the debtor and the rules of dominance group (collective) interests of the creditors. The purpose of the Act is to be at the same time to avoid declaring bankruptcy by debtor and allowing him to restructure through an arrangement with creditors, and in the case of the rehabilitation proceedings also by carrying out the remedial action, whilst safeguarding the legitimate rights of creditors.


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1941: CROSLEY PLANT IS BUILDING ARMY FIELD CABINETS, 1/16/2013, 12:00 am
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Reminder from: Crosley Yahoo! Group Title: 1941: CROSLEY PLANT IS BUILDING ARMY FIELD CABINETS Date: Wednesday January 16, 2013 Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am Location: Richmond, Indiana., CROSLEY CAR OWNERS CLUB (CCOC) Notes: (National Road, Cambridge City, Indiana, January 16, 1941)Another Richmond factory to have a part In the national defense program will be the Crosley plant, where 110,500 field range cabinets are being made in connection with the plant's army field kitchen contract, according to Harold Ward of Cambridge City, who is employed there.
The cabinets will be made in Richmond and the 12,000 gasoline fire units will be manufactured in the Crosley plant in Cincinnati.
The field range cabinets are chiefly of aluminum and duralumin. They are 21 inches square and 44 inches high.
Deliveries on this war department control for the quartermaster corps are scheduled to begin before Mar. 19 and must be completed by June 30, necessitating an average production
of about 3,000 units a month.
Recently, the government awarded to the Crosley Corporation a
special development order for radio equipment and a quantity of radio and other equipment for the signal corps and Coast Guard.
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I have 4 and my wife has 3. No old helmets here. when they get 5 years old, they get thrown in the trash!!!
Lifes too short to ride an ugly Motorcycle
Four motorcycle helmets - two in current use, one bycycle helmet, one ski helmet, four retired firefighting helmets (plus two that I still use that are actually owned by my employer).
Ed Miller, Calgary, AB
I can't wait to retire and have a fixed income. The one I have now is always broke.
Five lined up on the garage shelf: my current helmet, the damaged Shoei that saved my life last year (to remind me that I'm not invincible anymore), two older helmets that don't match my current bike, but I keep them as spares or loaners, and one failed experiment with a cheap modular that won't stay open.
At the tender age of five, a bear told me that only I could prevent forest fires. Why I was chosen, I'll never know.
You can order one here: http://www.designerhelmets.com/index.php
And, BMW dealers sell them in Canada.
Kent Christensen
Currently in inventory
For bike
Nolan 103 - noisy POS with a nice latch
Shoei Neotec - replacing above
Shoei RF 1000- 2, my preferred full face for bikes
Bike helmets equipped with Scala bluetooth sets...
4 helmets for track use in cars, with and without vent hookups, plus a 3/4 helmet. Mostly Bell with an HJC.
I tried on a System 6 a few weeks ago, and quite like it, but I'm intrigued by the new HJC RPHA Max.
Anyone have this?
"When you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there."
6. 2 bell, 2 nondescript half helmets, a Nolan and a shoei. Looking for another Nolan.
R75/6, Non functioning 2014 FJR1300A
I only have 1 helmet in use which is an Arai Vector. I have all my previous helmets except the Arai that backed into with my truck. I was so pissed, I had to throw it away to keep from looking at a reminder of a stupid moment. Doh!
No longer in use.
- Harley Modular
- Harley half
Two - my current one year old Nolan and I kept its predecessor four year old Nolan as a backup.
Paul Glaves - "Big Bend", Texas U.S.A
"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." - Bertrand Russell
Two active: Schuberth C3 and a Shoei RF1100 that I use for dusty dirty rides
I have 4 or 5 inactive helmets around.
Kevin Huddy
Tm Pterodactyl MT Outpost
Schubert C3
Shoei Rf100
Stand21 for when I go really fast
Gentex HGU 55 for ultra fast moving
Arai Corsair - touring with Sena BT
Scorpion EXO-1100 - my solo riding helmet
Icon Variant - dual sport
Enjoying the ride, but always on the alert for a rally.......
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Filmmaker Tyler Perry donated $5,000 to Gwinnett County's Phoenix Red Boys soccer team after $4,000 of funds that would have helped them get to an out-of-state tournament was stolen.
"It's not about winning or losing games. It's about more for the boys to do a showcase there, so that the college coaches can offer them scholarships," Coach Bruno Kalonji told WSB.
WSB reports that the Red Boys are ranked No. 1 in the country and the team needs the funds in order to attend this week's regional tournament in Oklahoma and a national tournament in Kansas.
The money was allegedly stolen by a motorcyclist while the team was eating at a restaurant last week.
The team has done other fundraisers and Church's Chicken has also pledged $3,000 to them.
This marks the second donation Tyler Perry has made this week, according to the station. Perry also donated $50,000 to Mike Patterson, a Georgia father with no health insurance who became paralyzed after saving a drowning 4-year-old girl at the Rockmart Dam.


text: I made this hot pad spice mat this afternoon. It was a kit that I had got from a shop hop I went to on thursday. The applique stitching I did isn't very good it's only the second time I've done it being a newbie to sewing and quilting. I think it turned out ok. I would probably make more but change some of the pattern to make it easier to make. Just thought I'd share.:) Almost forgot there is a little pouch inside that holds spices so when you put your kettle or other hot item on top it lets off a nice smell.


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It looks like House Dems led by Nancy Pelosi have succeeded in keeping their fucking knees from knocking long enough in fear of the shitheel Republicans to pass a FISA amendment bill that lacks the most egregious of Bush's self- and corporate oligarch-supporting measures. And Pelosi stood up strongly against the sick-fuck right-wing accusation that Dem opposition to expanded warrantless eavesdropping powers and retroactive telecom immunity is gonna mean YOUR CHILDREN ARE GOING TO DIE DIE DIE!~!!!~!W!!!11!11!~!~1~1111!!!!!:
Bush appeared on the White House's South Lawn Thursday to demand House passage of the Senate legislation, warning lawmakers: "The American people understand the stakes in this struggle. They want their children to be safe from terror."
Then the House went off script. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) responded by all but calling the president a liar.
"We understand our responsibility to protect the American people. What the president is trying to do is something that we think should be stopped," she said. "I am stating a fact. The president is wrong, and he knows it."
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Trader's, Here's Your Sign!
Comedian Bill Engvall has made a long career noting the usual and unusual that myself and our neighbors here in th South do every day in his classic comedy routine and song "Here's Your Sign". But I think it would be so much better if we could all 30 MLB clubs right now to even post some kind of sign somewhere in the ballpark where the fans and the other teams can see it to even have a faint idea of what is going on as we come into turn 4 of the Trading Deadline. Yes, I just made a NASCAR reference………….Here's your sign!
I mean this is the time of the year where we want to know if our team is "Closed" for business and basically set for the last run of the season, and that other teams should not even waste their AT&T rollover minutes, because we do not want to wheel and deal to ruin the chemistry of the team. Who is truly to say who is a "Buyer" or even a "Seller" right now without a For Sale or even a Closed sign dangling off the GM's desk or mounted somewhere near the owner's box of a stadium. If need be, we can always go down to the stadium receiving dock and get some cardboard, a sharpie and make the sign for you………..Here's Your Sign!
But then there are teams that acting like they are game meister Monte Hall and have options from behind the curtain in a suspected trade. They are not being totally upfront and showing their true cards right now. I think that is the option being handed out in Toronto right now. They want a King's Ransom for a "Doc". Is it worth it? Can it be done without crippling my farm system for 4 seasons? And will they throw in a parting fit if we leave the sweepstakes as losers? If you think they will offer minor league pieces as consolation prizes………Here's Your Sign!
But how can we tell if a team is just teasing the market or just might be testing the waters? Maybe a sign in glitter and gold leaf made on a sheet of pewter would indicate it is going to take a blockbuster deal. Or maybe just a simple Lowe's/Home Depot bought "Clearance" sign if you are just shaving some dollar signs off your budget and want to look frugal doing it. Or maybe you are in the running right now for quality,not quantity. This type of team could sport a "In Search of…" sign with a big enough space for other teams to fill in the blank with their guys names who are on the block. But then again, you could be upfront and just list your shopping list and make it easier for team to showcase talent for you. And for those teams……………Here's Your Sign!
And that is the hard thing to read at this juncture in the Trade Deadline. You hear multiple arrangements with several teams for the same guy. It is not like the guy is a slaughtered steer that can be portioned off and deliver to prospective buyers without anyone knowing the difference. Teams have poked and checked out the "meat" to be sure they are getting their dollars worth. Some teams have even been bold enough to say they are on the fence right now as to their indication to be on the buying or selling end of the market. Well, you better decide quick Mr Man before the market flies by you and you are stuck with that $ 3.5 million reliever you wanted to sell so bad this summer. If you get stuck holding onto him because you are shy……….Here's Your Sign!
Okay,let's take the Player du Jour, Cleveland Indian pitcher Cliff Lee as an example here. And I did not pick him because I like his first name. He currently has about 5 teams that are kicking his tires trying to find the right combination of talent and maybe even money to pick him off the "For Sale" rack in the Indians Team Store. And there is a standing line of teams that are eager and willing to fork over a bevy of prospects, and maybe a MLB ready guy to get the former AL Cy Young winner. But what if this is a ploy by the Indians front office to pick and choose their trade partners for the Fall, and not at this moment. If that is the true actions, then I have no problem saying to you…………Here's Your Sign!
And just the fact that Lee makes every staff in the league, even Boston's better by just walking into the clubhouse should be an indication of the power that this guy can have on the last two months of the season. But don't you think there should be a sign around his neck like the options sticker on the back window of a car telling you what it is going to take for you to drive him off the lot and into your rotation? I seem to think that the requirements and the needed players to complete a deal anymore depend on how many times an hour the phone is going to ring in the GM's office. If the interest is heavy, the price goes up. If it is light, well then he becomes a bargain basement piece.
Since when should a baseball player or even a car be subject to the amount of calls or responses via the Internet to the price. Well, that kind of dealing did make the guys who started E Bay millionaires……………..Here's Your Sign!
We know certain teams that are in the "Buyers" market right now. Anyone within 5 to 6 games of the division top spot or Wild Card is clamering to find the pieces to boost their squad towards the champagne wishes and Skoal dreams. And I am totally fine with that. Hitting the playoff is a financial windfall for some teams, while others it is just a rite of passage. We know that the Red Sox, New York Yankees and the Rays in the AL East are looking for pieces to twist the standings in their favor over the next two months. But why is there not a sign somewhere on either Red Sox GM Theo Epstein, Yankee used car salesman Brian Cashman, or the quiet, silent guy in the corner, Rays VP Andrew Friedman's neck? Why is there not a neon sign, or even a message board imprinted on their shirts to broadcast their intentions this week. Wait a minute, GM's showing their intentions to the public. Oh heck, I deserve a sign for that last idea…………..Here's My Sign!
But come on people, do we not want to know if our team is seriously going for the gusto, or just doing a Public Relation posturing move. We all know someone has to lose, but sometimes a team will thrust its nose in there with no intention of giving up the top choice cuts for a player who might just be a rental for the rest of the season, or who might financially ruin the upcoming year's payroll. Perception might be the biggest winner or loser this week. We all know that Boston and New York are 100 percent buyers with an intention to put distance between themselves and their two biggest rivals. If they did not want to push towards the top……….You guessed it, there fans would hand deliver their signs…….Here's Your Sign!
Maybe in the past teams in the AL East top spots might stay pat if they felt the chemistry of their teams were strong, but there is a huge bucket of cash sitting there come playoff time from concessions to ticket sales that motivate moves that two years ago might be viewed as unsound. So you buy into a player/pitcher that will help you gain 3 to 5 games. But unlike the past, those games might be the difference between a Wild Card and a Divisional title. So you nibble some from column A and maybe steal a sliver from column B to keep those players out of the competition's fold. Some call it a shrewd business strategy, others call it raiding the cookie jar…………Here's Your Sign!
So if you are a team like Tampa Bay who is looking for a Filet Mignon on a meatloaf budget, or maybe even a Boston or New York who will do anything to keep a guy off your foes rosters, this is the time of year to be a salesman. Sometimes these guys need to dress up in those loud suits with the bold ties and come straight at use and tell us what we need. You know the type. The guy in the used car lot that come up to you telling you "I think you would look great in this car", and you wonder what he said to the other 30 people who looked into the windows at the interior. This is the time for deals and disappointment. Someone has to win, someone has to lose. But thank goodness they do not have a sign for that yet……….or do they? Here's Your Sign!
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Funny post! I've given up trying to tell if the Yankees have a sign out front. Cashman will say one thing and do another, so I never know what he's up to. I think we're in the market for an outfielder and a starter, but for all I know we could end up with neither. Where's my sign?????
Your sign is actually a placard with your name and your autograph signing times on it.
I think this week has been a total nightmare for most of the teams seeking any help.
Maybe the waiver wires will fill up in August and we can all get a few helpful pieces before the September AL East showdown starts. I think all five of us do a merry-go-round through our division most of the month.
Always fun.
Rays Renegade
I think their reluctance to pull any trigger is exactly why the Rays (or any team like them moneywise) can't compete with the big boys down the stretch. They proved me wrong last year, but everyone was clicking… I'm not seeing that same drive as last year… at least not yet, but there are 2 more months to go so I'll keep my fingers crossed for your boyz.
Cliff – I think, in the Doc example, teams are asking WAY to much for certain players and I really think that teams looking to pick up players have to take a long hard look at not just this year but the next few also. Take a team like the Red Sox – do you give up so much home grown talent that can help you over the next 2-5 years on a chance that someone might give you that extra push this year? What if that super star gets hurt and can't perform? This is such a crazy time of year!! Is it 4pm yet on the 31st? I'm ready for it.
We have 24 hours for them to atone for some of the off season misfires.
It would be their first big push into this arena, and that might be why we missed out on pitcher Cliff Lee.
Sometimes I think we value our minor leaguers more than some of the guy at the MLB level.
If Jonny Gomes had gotten this kind of protection, he would still be a Ray. Same with Rocco Baldelli.
Tick Tock, Tampa Bay, Tick tock!
Rays Renegade
I can undertand that Roy Halladay is featured as a "franchise player."
I have no problem with that, but the way he is dangling just above the waterline with plenty of sharks in the tanks is a bit much at times.
Boston, Tampa Bay and a few other still have not been "s hot down" as of 10 am, but it is getting harder to believe that something is going to come out of this with any positive results except for the Toronto faithful.
28 hours from now, well in reality 36 hours from now after all the dust has settled and MLB has okayed all the ruckus we will see where everyone lies, and who misfired on the whole gun show.
Rays Renegade


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When a critical component is declared end-of-life (EOL) by a manufacturer, a ripple effect begins. Like a stone being thrown into a pond, the immediate impact of EOL seems small; then the ripples spread out and cover the entire surface of the pond.
Prior to the adoption of the EUs Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS), EOL largely meant securing a long-term supply of a component or finding a partner to continue its manufacture. (Thats one ripple.) In this post-RoHS age, finding a drop-in device for long-lifecycle equipment has become significantly more difficult. Re-manufacturing the part in an environmentally-friendly manner has also become a challenge. (Ripples two and three.)
Electronics equipment manufactured prior to RoHS could contain substances such as lead which is used in solders; and components compatible with lead-based solders provide the best performance and quality. Even after RoHS was enacted, exceptions to the mandate are granted and demand continues for leaded devices. However, many component makers have discontinued their leaded parts in favor of non-leaded solutions, and that has increased the scarcity and cost of the leaded devices still available.
An alternative to securing finished EOL parts is to find someone who will re-manufacture a device based on the suppliers specs. In this post-RoHS environment, the manufacturer of those devices faces a dilemma: the very process of re-manufacturing may have an impact on the environment. Lead may still be preferable for older parts; and certain manufacturing processes and solvents may not be as environmental-friendly as newer solutions. Overall, the electronics supply chain as a whole is trying to reduce its carbon footprint. (The ripples continue to spread.) It is imperative upon a re-manufacturer to have the least possible impact on the environment.Rochester Electronics has developed re-manufacturing solutions that provide the best lead-free and green products possible. When Rochester continues to manufacture a device that is no longer produced by the original manufacturer, the part can be made lead-free/green compliant. For devices that were discontinued prior to the RoHS initiative, Rochester can draw from its wafer bank of more than 10 billion die, and continue to manufacture the device as fully lead-free/green. Depending on customer demand, these may be available in stock or made to order. Rochester also partners with foundries that meet our supplier and customer expectations in quality and sustainability. A team of Rochester quality and technology engineers performs an onsite, multiple-day audit of wafer fab foundries and we work with each fab to evaluate each facilitys environmental-, process- and quality-control. The audits combine the requirements of ISO, TS, AS, and Mil standards. In cases where a DSCC product is involved, the audit is coordinated with a DSCC audit team as well. The audits cover the facilitys control of inventory, mask storage, documents, de-ionized water and the environment. They also assess wafer parametric probe, epitaxial growth, diffusion/oxidation, photomasking, etch, metal deposition, dielectric deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, glassivation/passivation, ion implant, control of non-conforming product, control of rework, back lap/grind, the fabs quality self-audit program, training system, incoming inspection, calibration, and SPC system/ and associated controls. Finally, Rochester performs stringent tests on the performance of all re-manufactured items. The sourcing of EOL and obsolete components was a challenge even before many environmental initiatives were enacted. Now, the process is even more complex. As the electronics supply chain strives toward sustainability, selecting partners that align with those efforts becomes crucial. Rochester has positioned itself to become one of those partners when the re-manufacturing a device becomes a necessity.
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Press Release: TeleTech Government Solutions Providing Hosted Cloud-Based Technology Infrastructure for 2010 CensusWednesday, April 28th, 2010
Here's another company that we will be watching over:
ENGLEWOOD, CO, Apr 27, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — TeleTech Government Solutions, LLC, a subsidiary of TeleTech Holdings, Inc.(TTEC 17.63, -0.41, -2.27%), has engineered and launched a secure telephony solution to support approximately 8,000 call center agents across five call center outsource providers for the 2010 U.S. Census. As part of this solution, TeleTech also provides custom-designed desktop applications, sophisticated workforce management tools, call recording and business intelligence across the 11 call centers supporting the project.
TeleTech is providing these technology services for the census as a subcontractor to IBM as part of the Lockheed Martin-led Decennial Response Integration System contract. TeleTech supports inbound and outbound operations in 11 call centers nationwide to either answer questions from respondents about the 2010 census and the questionnaire or to call respondents to allow for more coverage follow-up. TeleTech's fully redundant, secure, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) infrastructure will enable the 11 call centers to support up to 60,000 inbound calls per hour. Call processing began on February 25 and it is estimated that TeleTech's network will support more than 15 million calls by the time the program ends on August 14, 2010.
In addition to being the principal provider of call center technology, TeleTech is staffing approximately 1,300 call center agents in the Stockton, Calif. and Kennesaw, Ga. call center locations who are skilled in six languages including English, Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean and Spanish and support an 18-hour day that spans from Puerto Rico to Hawaii.
"TeleTech is proud to have been selected to support the 2010 Census," said Mariano Tan, president of TeleTech Government Solutions. "We have been developing this solution for the census since TeleTech was selected in 2006, and believe our selection is a testament to our ability to consistently deliver industry leading technology solutions."
The 2010 Census forms began arriving in the mailboxes of 120 million U.S. households in early March 2010. People with questions about the form contact one of five census call centers through TeleTech's network where agents offer Telephony Questionnaire Assistance (TQA). Callers are able to get answers to frequently asked questions and request forms through a fully automated interactive voice response system. More complex questions are automatically routed to a geographically dispersed pool of trained call center agents ready to provide questionnaire assistance. The system also features an integrated satisfaction survey to enable continuous measurement of the caller experience across the various call centers.
After the questionnaires are returned, the Census Bureau will go through an extensive Coverage Follow-Up (CFU) data validation process. TeleTech's technology infrastructure is expected to schedule and manage more than 8 million outbound calls allowing call center agents to reach out to respondents for the purpose of completing missing data elements or clarifying responses. By using this solution to support the validation process, the Census Bureau will be able to save the cost of sending a census taker door to door to follow-up with each household that fails to respond. TeleTech began supporting the CFU call follow-up on April 11.
Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau is tasked with surveying the entirety of the nation's growing and changing population. Data is collected through mailed paper forms, field enumerators, and call center agents. To promote the speed, accuracy, and security of data collection, the Census Bureau is embracing an unprecedented level of information technology in 2010. For every one percentage point increase in the national participation rate by mail, taxpayers can help the Census Bureau save about $85 million in operational costs.
ABOUT TELETECH GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS: TeleTech Government Solutions provides full service front- and back-office business process outsourcing and customer and enterprise management services on five continents. The company helps government agencies implement large-scale solutions tailored to meet specific needs and challenges by delivering customer management, transaction-based processing, and database marketing services. TeleTech Government's comprehensive solutions include fully managed, OnDemand services including infrastructure, software, and business intelligence, interactive voice response (IVR), self-help Web, back-office processing, fulfillment, training, staffing and other management applications. For more information visit www.teletechgovernment.com


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Gwyneth Paltrow's Mom-Dance May Very Well Be the Whitest Thing in the History of Ever [VIDEO]
Gwyneth Paltrow rang in the New Year onstage with her husband, Coldplay singer Chris Martin, their children and, of course, Jay-Z — because Gwynnie's life is never quite perfect enough.
But since she showed off her awesome white girl mom-dance, we're all a little better for the experience.
Warning: What you're about to see above (and below) is the whitest thing you'll see today unless maybe you go head-first into a ball pit of angel food cake.
In the video, Hova did his thing while his BFF Chris — we're still not quite sure how that friendship works — grooved around him. And he was so damned adorable that we even temporarily forgot he's that reedy annoying voice in Coldplay.
Meanwhile, his wife clutched a flute of champagne as she bounced around, fist-pumped, head-bobbed, swayed her arms and gave us a rare peek into what house parties in the Hamptons must look like after everyone's had too many gin and tonics and relaxed their sphincters long enough to release the sticks therein.
You can almost hear the wildlife documentarian. Shhh. Watch the WASP in her natural habitat. No sudden moves!
And thanks to Buzzfeed, we even have a slew of animated GIFs in honor of the occasion.


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April 18, 2009
Extended ET Clip! (P.S. Who is the Sexified Mountain Man?)
...and why is Taylor's hair short? Maybe it's rehearsals. :-)
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Jacob is the sexified mountain man! Thanks for the clip!ReplyDelete
his hair is probably short because he cut it after he turns into a wolf. love the clip by the wayReplyDelete
My hope is that his hair will be short in the movie after he becomes a wolf...since in the book he does cut it short, and because I think Taylor looks better with his short hair. So my guess (or my hope) is that the reason his hair is short is because it's a post-fursplosion scene and they're ditching the wig.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the wonderful clip!
Oooh, I can't wait til the 23rd let alone for New Moon. I may perish from the anticipation, if only Edward would save me with a tiny bite!ReplyDelete
I've read somewhere that Jacob's wig is going off when he becomes a werewolf! harrrrharrrahwhhhoooo!!!!ReplyDelete
Ahhh my goodness! That just made me sooo excited!!! Post-fursplosion! hahaha awesome wording Katie!ReplyDelete
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gosh, they're making me more excited.. ugh~ReplyDelete
Oh yeah, I almost forgot to say that Taylor looks amazing & KStew looks gorgeous as always!ReplyDelete
So exciting!
lol i love her comment "SEXIFIED MOUNTAIN MAN" LOL HAHA SUITS JACOB!!ReplyDelete
Here , a youtube versionReplyDelete
Oh dear God I want the answer to Taylor being single!! If it's a no...I'll seriously die!ReplyDelete
"Sexified mountain man"? Jacob in your sun girl. And a fine sun at that. ;)ReplyDelete
I can NOT wait.
What do you girls think of the tattoo looking thing?
And I want her blouse. It's really cute.
Yeah I think you guys are right, in the book Jacob cuts all his hair off because his long hair makes his wolf fur too long and shaggy to run very well.ReplyDelete
Yup. I agree. It is short because he cuts it off after he turns into a werewolf. And Jacob HAS to be the SEXIFIED MOUNTAIN MAN! Who else?ReplyDelete
Yah he cuts it in New Moon but grows it a bit in Eclipse. He later admits to Bella that he grows it a bit cause he thought she liked his hair longer.ReplyDelete
ahhhhh i cant wait 4 the 23rd and yes he does cut his hair in new moon but it doesn't explain why till the 3rd book that he tells bells that the longer his hair is the longer his fur is as a wolf but if its short his fur is short and i pray to god tht the "tattoo" on his arm is fake i would die if it was real alsoo IS HE SINGLE?!?! i wanna know soo bad!ReplyDelete


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I'm trying to do something that I remember having seen somewhere, though I can't remember where I saw that... I try to pass in a function an object that's not yet defined, I don't know how to explain it, but I believe it has something to do with constant casts...
I saw something like that somewhere, I know that it convert the "array" to assign it to the variables defined in the class that is kind of "casted"... As if a "foo" object was defined directly in the sent params, as you would simply do with any number constant...Code:struct foo { int a, b, c; foo(int d, int e, int f) { a = d; b = e; c = f; } }; void func(foo obj) { //Something with the "obj"... } //Under main: func( (foo){1, 2, 3} ); //Or something that'd give the same result: foo OBJ(1, 2, 3); func( OBJ );
How can I achieve to make "(foo){1, 2, 3}" works? Is it a cast, const cast, or an overloading of constructor or whatever? Because I think it may not be an overload, if you don't initially have an instance var of that structure... Or there is some concept I am mixing up... Casting "(foo)" doesn't create an instance of that structure, right?
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University of Wisconsin Stout | Wisconsin's Polytechnic University
UW-Stout Spotlight Featured Stories
What's New and in the News. Keep up-to-date on what is happening at UW-Stout.
What's New and in the News. Keep up-to-date on what is happening at UW-Stout.
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Board of Regents meetings to be held on campus Thursday, Friday
The University of Wisconsin-Stout will play host to the UW System Board of Regents Thursday and Friday, Oct. 4-5, the first time since 2005 that the policy-making board has visited campus.
This also is the first time the meeting will be held at UW-Stout since the board designated UW-Stout Wisconsin's Polytechnic University in March 2007.
"We are excited to show the board and our other guests how UW-Stout has been transformed," said Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen, who is in his 25th year leading the university. "A lot of hard work has gone into making UW-Stout into the fine institution it is today, and we will be highlighting that progress and those innovations."
Sorensen will give a presentation to the board entitled: "Transforming a University: Twenty-five years of Moving UW-Stout Forward," during which he will discuss the university winning the 2001 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the e-Stout or laptop program, improvements to the planning process, the polytechnic designation and the creation of the Discovery Center.
Sorensen also will introduce a student, Justin Nelson, a junior from Rhinelander, who will detail for the board his summer cooperative education experience with NASA in Virginia.
Friday morning UW System President Kevin Reilly will recognize two University Police officers, Lisa Pederson and Jason Spetz, who helped saved the life of a UW-Stout student Sept. 13 on campus after the student suffered a cardiac arrest. Read more here.
The board or board committees will hear presentations on improving education in the fields of science, technology, engineering and management; the long-term plan to renovate UW-Stout residence halls; improving business processes through technology; and what has been accomplished through the UW-Stout planning process. The Research, Economic Development and Innovation Committee will hear a presentation and panel discussion about ways UW-Stout has helped business and industry to be more effective and profitable.
The Education Committee is scheduled to consider a new advanced degree program for UW-Stout, the professional science master of industrial and applied mathematics. If the committee approves the program, the full board will vote on the recommendation Friday.
All meetings will be held in the Memorial Student Center, which reopened in January after a $19 million renovation project.
The full board meetings will be held in the Great Hall, while committee meetings will be held in the Great Hall and other student center rooms. More information is available here and here. All meetings are open to the public.
UW-Stout will be covering the meeting on Twitter (@uwstout) using the hashtag #uwregents. The official UW-Stout Facebook page also will have meeting updates.
Live streaming of the meetings will be available at the UW-System Board of Regents
Audio and Video Streaming webpage.


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The Grafalloy BiMatrx Tour Prototype Wood Shaft brings the stability of steel and the high performance of graphite together for the ultimate in performance . through a proprietary process, the ultralight high performance graphite body is combined with a premium steel tip section resulting in the best combination possible for performance and control. The ultralight graphite body provides the distance, and steel tip provides the accuracy. The bend profile provides a low, penetrating ball flight, and when combined with slightly higher driver lofts can provide a high launch angle with lower spin rates to maximize distance. This versatility in creating different launch conditions based on loft and swing speeds makes the Grafalloy BiMatrx Tour Prototype Wood Shaft one of the most versatile high performance shafts available.
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You see why I've been offline, right?
This precious munchkin has my attention.
She's finally over jet lag – HOORAY!
I plan to be back blogging recipes in the next week or so. Zoe has already been munching on some oatcakes that have a bit of cinnamon in them for her teething and breakfast. (Somehow I didn't think just sucking on the outside of empty plastic Easter eggs was going to fulfill her nutritional needs.)
I have no idea what recipe will strike my fancy – but I have a few ideas floating through my head. I think this weekend I will whip up a loaf of Pepita Bread before My Love goes back to work.
Ah…. family life is grand!
I hope you are all well and forgive me for not being able to follow up with reading all of your blog posts. You guys are BUSY – and I'm finding myself without the time to keep up!
Much love – and as always, Happy GF Eating.


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- Crafted from 2" round steel tube, 18" wide
- Available in Standard Length and Extended Length for lifted trucks and SUVs (availability depends on your vehicle)
- Unique design gives your truck a rugged off-road look
- Diamond-tread step pad provides sure footing in any weather
- Rotating mounting heads make for easy installation and a precise fit
- Mounts to your rocker panels
- Available in Polished Stainless Steel or Black powder coat finish
- Sold in pairs
- Lifetime Warranty
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Adult Lap Swim & Stay Fit Class
Friday, April 28, 2017
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Noon–2 p.m.
Location: Student Recreation Center
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Category: Recreation
Description: Participants will receive stroke improvement drills and instruction on the four swimming strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breakstroke, and butterfly. Our goals are comfort with each stroke as well as improved endurance. Participants may attend as many or few classes as they prefer.
Registration opens April 3!
April 10 - June 16
M/W - Coached Technique 12 Noon - 1:00 PM & Independent Practice 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Tu/Th - Coached Disance Workout 12 Noon - 1:30 PM
Fri - Independent Workout 12 Noon - 2:00 PM
SRC Members Free, Non-Members $60
Open to: General Public
Admission: Free
Sponsor: Student Recreation Center
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"All creatures are born isolated and have no need of one another." (The Marquis de Sade)
"Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime." (The Marquis de Sade)
"If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be." (The Marquis de Sade)
"What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you ... every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates." (The Marquis de Sade)


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There can be two teams boys against girls. Sit in a circle and sit boy/girl/boy/etc. Roll the dice to see who goes first and then follow these rules:
- Even - take a shot
- Odd - take off a piece of clothing of your choice
- 1-1 = make the call (shot or clothing)
- 2-2 = pass a shot to the person to the right of you
- 3-3 = it's your lucky roll, you go free
- 4-4 = truth or dare to someone of your choice
- 5-5 = lucky roll again, put a piece of clothing back on
- 6-6 = kiss the person to our right
Object - team with most clothes on at the end wins. You might not wanna play this with your boyfriend or girlfriend.


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, January 6, 2011, 7:53 AM
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New DA restoring 'Conviction Integrity' and 'Cold Case' units
Original post made on Jan 6, 2011
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, January 6, 2011, 7:53 AM
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Jan 6, 2011 at 8:50 am
Thank you for reinstating the Cold Case unit. Hopefully, some of the crimes committed against the poor will be solved. I hope that the welthy of Santa Clara are treated the same as the poor when a crime is committed
Good ridens Carr!
Hello Rosen!!!!!!!!!!
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jan 6, 2011 at 11:33 am
> better described the scope of what the unit will do which includes
> developing best-practices for police and prosecutors to minimize the
> chances of wrongful convictions.
It will be interesting to see how much money is spent on this effort, and what results in terms of deliverables. This looks like another of those make work projects for friends of the DA.
a resident of Green Acres
on Jan 6, 2011 at 11:48 am
This is the start of fairness and equity in the legal system. Well done. Exoneration of the innocent should be as important as protecting the public
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jan 6, 2011 at 1:44 pm
> Exoneration of the innocent
The implication of a statement like this is that the legal process is corrupt, or at least so significantly flawed that no one can expect a fair deal from "the system". This is a very disturbing point-of-view. If true, the whole core of the District Attorney system needs to be "on trial".
Given the vagueness of this idea, and Rosen's failure to run an honest campaign--it's really difficult that the taxpayers will see anything of value from the expenditure of funds on this effort.
a resident of Woodside
on Jan 6, 2013 at 4:59 pm
Milpitas Council woman Debbie Giordano stole a mail box that is on video on the internet. She confessed to the SCC Sherriff department. They wrote her up for a misdemeaner! The video shows Giordano stealing a U.S Postal Mailbox-Felony, and delivering her real-estate adds without postage also mutiple counts of crime. The Santa Clara County D.A. office did nothing! The Sherriff's office did not arrest her! The U.S. and local Milpitas women Postmaster filed no charges. Oh, their was mail in the mailbox?...Counts none filed! She voted to not outsource the Milpitas Police department services and so the Police Union supported her winning another term. All this took place in 2011. Real-estate gatherings shows attendance by Dolores Carr(former Scc D.A. remenber she got rid of the corruption unit) and realtor Giordano. Some things never change. Jeff Rosen was already in office. Remember the words to the T.V. show "Welcome Back Kotter" "...well we tease him alot cause we got him on the spot welcome back...! Oh, and don't forget the character "Horshack" (Whoreshack).


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SHANE Warne doesn't look much like Warnie any more. Nor does he bowl much like Warnie. Last Friday night, he cut in all senses a lesser figure. Admittedly, he still sounded like Warnie. ''Think I'll make him wait a bit here,'' he said into his wire as Aaron Finch tapped at the crease. Finch waited, and waited, for the ball to be bowled, for it to get to him. Then, insouciantly, he whacked it over extra cover for six, and made everyone wait again.
Only when talking about an Ashes comeback does Warnie still appear his old self. The effect is still mesmerising. Fans believe it. Seemingly, Michael Clarke believes it. Perhaps Warne believes it. He could put a stop to it, but why would he? Spin has always been his game. His denials are like his flipper, leaving you to ask: ''What was that again?'' And everyone is tantalised anew.
But they overlook one thing: Warne is no longer Warnie. There is less of him, and good on him for that. But the ravages of time show. He doesn't field like Warnie, as if he cares to be reminded. Admittedly, in Test cricket, he could stand augustly at first slip all day, a luxury that Twenty20 does not afford. He might bat like Warnie, but who knows: more than a year later, he hasn't faced a ball in Big Bash cricket yet.
To the extent that four overs at a time - and last Friday just two - permit judgment, he doesn't bowl anything like Warnie. He games like Warnie, but without Warnie's game. And that's the whole point.
If there is a moral to recent cricket developments, it is that the game is speeding up in all its forms and disciplines; it is less gentle than it ever was on its older folk. That is the Twenty20 effect. Ricky Ponting got out in the nick of time, or just after it, but Sachin Tendulkar plods on, more's the pity.
Warnie hasn't played Test cricket for nearly six years. Not even in his pomp did Warnie much like the rigours and stringencies that govern the life of a modern cricketer. Now he is living the life he wants, squiring fiancee Liz Hurley, flitting between Australia, England and the US, spending quality time with his now teenage children, and dabbling in Twenty20, which is still essentially exhibition cricket, but scratches the headline itch, gratifying both the promoters and himself.
It is a life that does not leave much room for the train-play-travel treadmill. No one would make an exception for him now, not even for the sake of an Ashes fairytale. And it is fanciful that without the grind, even Warnie could be reconstituted as his former self, with all that front and all those magical powers. A click of the fingers is one thing, a snap of the wrist another altogether.
I'd rather remember Warnie the way he was, and accept him for who he is now, than watch some horribly misguided effort to mash the two into one. However falteringly, Australia is moving on. It should be trying to unearth a successor to Warnie, not disinter him.
But I accept that sport is nothing if not hopelessly romantic. Warne casts almost no shadow now, but Warnie always will. And on the distant eve of every Ashes series, until Warne is bent double over a walking frame and the Ashes themselves are nearly returned to dust, there will always be talk of a comeback. And Warnie will play up to it.
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- ContemPLAY Pavilion 1Students at Montreal's McGill University don't believe a beautiful campus is just something that happens by accident. Rather than depending on school officials and trustees to create a campus pavilion that would encourage socialization and relaxation, the students decided to take it upon themselves to design a place they'd actually like to use. Several design concepts were submitted for consideration around 18 months ago. Since then, the winning design was selected and built. The result is the ContemPLAY pavilion, a dynamic piece of outdoor furniture that conjures up multi-generational perceptions of contemplation and play.1
- ContemPLAY Pavilion 2Built entirely out of locally-sourced materials, the pavilion is a three dimensional mobius strip which is supported by a triangular truss of plywood and steel elements.2
- ContemPLAY Pavilion 3The wooden lattice work swoops and coasts all around a general seating around below.3
- ContemPLAY Pavilion 4As one approaches the pavilion, the eye is instantly drawn to the lattice's mind-boggling visual effect.4
- ContemPLAY PavilionThe viewer is subconsiously drawn to the structure, eager to know more about what's going on inside.5
- ContemPLAY Pavilion 7The structure's aesthetic becomes contemplative as one is enveloped by the wall which morphs into the canopy. The light filters through the cladding generating an ambiguous relationship between the notions of inside and outside as well as furniture and shelter.6
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HALF MOON BAY — If game wardens had captured, not killed, two mountain lion cubs that were found recently hiding in a backyard on the edge of downtown, Joe Maynard would gladly have taken them.
"We would have flown up there the next day and picked them up," said Maynard, who runs the Feline Conservation Center, a facility in the desert southeast of Bakersfield that breeds, rehabilitates and displays exotic cats.
And if the wardens had needed help trapping the 25- to 30-pound cubs, Maynard could have done that too — no sweat.
"I would have walked up to them and grabbed them by the scruff of the neck and put them in a crate," Maynard said. "If we couldn't reach them by hand, we would have just used a net or a catch pole around the neck."
Instead the wardens shot the cats to death the night of Dec. 1 as they cowered underneath a porch. Attempting to sedate the animals would have been too risky, California Department of Fish and Game officials later said, because the roughly 9-month-old cubs could have escaped, posing a threat to public safety.
The wardens' decision, made in consultation with a supervisor, generated a storm of criticism from local residents and wildlife organizations, who say the cats could have been spared and either released or placed in a zoo.
Now the California-based Mountain Lion Foundation — which has criticized Fish and Game for past killings of cougars, including one earlier this year in Santa Monica — has renewed its call for the department to overhaul its public safety guidelines for encounters with mountain lions and other wildlife.
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The nonprofit is pushing for the agency to implement several changes, including:
"We have been advocating for some time for the department to give themselves a nonlethal option," said Tim Dunbar, president of the foundation, "and to quit using their public safety authority to kill lions when they don't need to."
So far the department has given no indication that it will reconsider its protocols. Several Fish and Game officials said last week that public safety must trump the welfare of animals.
The proposition that banned mountain lion hunting in 1990 gives Fish and Game wardens the authority to kill any mountain lion that is deemed an imminent threat to public safety.
That law is incorporated into Fish and Game guidelines for evaluating threats posed by wildlife, but critics say the protocols lean too much toward killing lions rather than tranquilizing or trapping them. And the department does not rehabilitate or relocate those lions that are captured.
Marc Kenyon, Fish and Game's mountain lion coordinator, said the agency prefers to catch wayward lions and then immediately release them where they came from, but that isn't always possible. Any cougar that is considered a public safety threat is killed. Injured lions are sometimes put down. There are two options, he said, for orphaned cubs that are not considered threats but are too young to survive on their own: euthanasia or life in a zoo or sanctuary.
"Those facilities aren't always knocking down our doors," Kenyon said. "There aren't a plethora of places that want or need one."
But Maynard, whose conservation center distributes cats to zoos worldwide, said there are lots of sanctuaries that will take them. Last year, for instance, his team flew to Oregon to pick up a pair of orphaned cubs and found a home for them at the Orange County Zoo. The Mountain Lion Foundation claims the Association of Zoos and Aquariums has eight openings for cougar kittens.
No reason
Maynard said he has told Fish and Game on several occasions, including in a 2009 letter to then-Deputy Director Sonke Mastrup, that his organization will take in any orphaned cubs and pay for all the expenses of housing and treating them. He said he hasn't gotten a response.
"There's no reason for the killing," Maynard said, "when we can take them, and have taken them, and there are good zoos that want them."
The Mountain Lion Foundation wants Fish and Game to go even further. The two cubs should have been captured and treated, then evaluated for eventual release, Dunbar said, with outside groups such as the foundation paying for the rehabilitation.
"They would have been ideal candidates to put radio collars on, put back into the wild, and see if they're able to survive and stay away from humans on their own," Dunbar said.
But holding lions for treatment habituates them to people, according to Fish and Game's Marc Kenyon, making them dangerous to release. Wildlife groups counter that aversion therapy can restore to captive lions a healthy fear of humans.
And while some mountain lion advocates say the animals do not belong in zoos, Maynard argues life in captivity is better than no life at all.
"Any option is better than killing it," he said.
Contact Aaron Kinney at 650-348-4357. Follow him at Twitter.com/kinneytimes.


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