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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) urged President Obama on Thursday to intercede in the growing congressional effort to change the automatic spending cuts to military and domestic programs triggered by the supercommittee's failure to strike a deal. – The Hill
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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Nov. 30 continued to warn about the negative effect $1 trillion in defense spending cuts over the next decade would have on the military should Congress not find alternate ways to reduce the national debt. – Defense News
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A guided missile prototype funded and developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully hit two high-speed boats during recent testing in Point Mugu, Calif. – Aviation Week
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Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) writes: While the Pentagon is being forced to make tough decisions about how to align itself for the future, our national security policy demands that we remain forward deployed and forward engaged. – The Diplomat
The world's space-faring nations must forge a cooperative strategy for the costly and technically challenging elimination of orbital debris that poses a growing threat to strategically important robotic as well as manned spacecraft, according to Nicholas L. Johnson, NASA's chief scientist for orbital debris and the top U.S. representative to the United Nation on the issue. – Aviation Week
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will host the inaugural summit on Friday of a new regional bloc that excludes the U.S. and Canada, in a gauge of the leftist leader's international aspirations. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
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President Jacob Zuma — at odds with the judiciary and critics who accuse him of improperly appointing loyalists to public posts — suffered a blow on Thursday when an appeals court ruled that he had violated the Constitution two years ago with his highly contentious pick for the country's top prosecutor – New York Times
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Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by Triskelion, Aug 21, 2013.
In the fantasy world, President Ford can kick President Washington's ass.
True, I was thinking of the classic, Ford is down on the ground, they just fought over the gun on the floor, For realistically is a tiny bit worn out by Washington, Washington is just about to pull the trigger when Foster clumps him over the head with a phone or something. This distracts Washington just long enough for Ford to get back up and gain his breath and finish the ass kicking. In the end Foster grants Ford some kind of honor. Perhaps Ford left office in disgrace and now his honor is restored.
^ I read the names and thought of this:
What's The Frequency Kenneth?
Leonardo DiCaprio plays William Tager, a futuristic convict from the year 2265, who's roped into a dimensional shifting experiment, by Earth Vice-President Kenneth Burrows (Russell Crowe), under the promise of early parole, and ends up in an alternate dimension in the year 1986, trying to complete his mission before the countdown communications being transmitted to a receiver in his head expire, and he is forever trapped out of time & dimension
When it becomes clear there are others from his dimension there working against him, he fights against them, only to end up in jail when the deadline passes. After being released, & being completely unsuccessful in finding a way home, Tager is still crippled by continual transmissions. Upon watching CBS News, Tager recognizes news anchor Dan Rather as the man who sent him , as he is this universe's double of Kenneth Burrows.
Believing that he can get this man to stop the transmissions, he publicly assaults him, demanding the frequency on which they're transmitted, so he can block it. As time passes, he becomes convinced that the entire news center is a front for the group from his dimension that sent him, after failed attempts at gaining entry, he is arrested and committed to an asylum where the transmissions continue to haunt him
Meanwhile, this universe's double of William Tager, under the name Kenneth Burrows, is successful in using the news network for nefarious work in connection with the alternate universe's government conspiracy
Nick and Zach star in "Conjoined at the Hip."
We have Tonto and Tarzan..now to find Frankenstein
In that context, Washington would kick Ford's ass.
I have always thought that Kim Newman's short story, Red Reign could be made into a movie. He later expanded the short story into the novel Anno Dracula.
The synopsis is
in this alternate fictional world, Count Dracula has killed Van Helsing and an injury sustained to Doctor John Seward's hand during a fight with Renfield resulted in the group lacking the men to drive Dracula away from Mina Hacker resulting in Dracula killing Quincey Morris and Jonathan Harker before escaping with Mina.
With no one to oppose him, Dracula turns Mina into a vampire, adding her to his collection of brides, and proceeds to spread his vampire curse creating thousands of undead throughout England. He soon seduces and marries Queen Victoria ushering in a period of increasing British vampire domination. Dracula is well-advanced in imposing a police state on Great Britain, where dissenters may be jailed or impaled without trial.
Jack the Ripper stalks Whitechapel murdering vampire prostitutes. Charles Beauregard, a (non-vampire) agent of the Diogenes Club, is sent to track the murderer down, and finds himself enmeshed in a plot to free England from Dracula's rule.
I like that idea. Good novels or short stories would make interesting films. Now we see more and more of teen supernatural/adventure book series like The Hunger Games, et al, but it would be great to see more adult- oriented film adaptations of novels, both classic and modern.
EmoBorg: Newman's short story was the precursor for the novels Anno Dracula and The Bloody Red Baron (iirc). You should read them, there are some similarities.
Hard to say. I've seen only 20 percent of the shows. But two of the 603 villains of the ''movie'' were ''casted'' to be Nancy Cartwright and Dan Castalaneta...voices only. They'd play Twitter and Itchynipples respectively. Twitter almost makes it to the end of the ''movie.'' Itchynipples buys it halfway through after being slugged with a toilet seat and flushed down the attached toilet.
582 of the 603 bad guys are the parakeets, but only one of them, the leader, is a true character. Three of the villains are human, and one is under cover in a sense. The final 18 are larger birds of various types. One is much more prominent than the others. Only 20 of the total birds have legitimate if MOSTLY brief speaking parts and are all stunt-casted by 1996-era actors. All these characters including Twitter are male. More to come on this.
Thematically, HOT FUZZ and the first KICK-ASS are quite similar in my approach. But when this was assembled in my head my key influences were DIE HARD, TRUE GRIT (with a blonder, older version of its heroine), THE USUAL SUSPECTS (for a key mysterious subplot) and THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING for its comedic emphasis gradually shifting to 90 percent seriousness.
What you may want to do at this point is tell me what specific aspects, parts and characters of DIE HARD you enjoyed the most, then I can tell you how those moments or characters were adapted or corrupted. The script is written and it's way too long for two hours, but I can provide comparative answers. Don't worry if your thoughts are ultra-specific. This is a kitchen sink spoof conceived half-a-year before SCREAM.
Lastly, thanks to Admiral 2.
You're welcome.
Two things i'd immediately green light if i had the money and the clout in Hollywood
- Battletech
30 foot tall walking Battlemechs have become the Kings of the battlefield in a distant future where humanity has spread to the stars but interstellar politics have not become enlightened instead. Wars are legitimate tools of politics and used as such in both small skirmishes and large scale engagements.
If successful can be easily expanded into a TV show with the added bonus of introducing the Clans
- Shadowrun
It's the year 2050, technology has become so advanced that technological and biological body modifications have become normal and Man/Machine interfaces are the standard, huge Megacorporations that rival (or in many cases surpass) states in power who battle it out on the stock market as well as in the shadows where a group of people called Shadowrunners do every job from stealing data to killing people in order to further the plans of their temporary employer
The twist? With the end of the Mayan calendar Magic has "returned" to the world instantly causing some people to transform into fantasy races such as Elves, Dwarves or Orcs and some few ones can actually use magic in both offense and defense making them highly sought after specialists
Please, please tell me you're using trained birds and not CGI!
I like the part in Die Hard when he says "DIE HARD!!! YEAAHHHHH!!!"
Yeesh. I shudder to think about using real birds, since CGI wasn't always used as often in '96. At the time I just thought my parakeet Blooper would be intelligent enough to handle the vast majority of stunt doubling. He's no longer with us either, but unlike all but two of the 603 villains, he died of natural causes. You'd definitely have to go all-CGI now for this.
''DIE HARD, YEAHHHHHH!!!!!'' sounds like the moment Bruce Willis jumped OUT of the sckyscraper, but I only remember the ''YEAHHHHHH!!!!'' Since my version is set at a three-story shopping mall, that particular moment was pretty impossible me to top, or match....
A "Family Guy" movie: Peter Griffin vs. Chicken
I always love the fight scenes between Peter and his nemesis – the big rooster. I could watch a whole 2–hour sequence of the two just fighting each other. It would be epic!
This may be more of a comic book than a movie, but I'll pitch it anyway.
I was reading a book last night and in one section of the book, the author was describing a Revolutionary War hero. This is a no-fiction book. The man's name was General Anthony Wayne. It suddenly struck that maybe I could make a fictional connection to Bruce Wayne. I did some further research and came up with a basic idea.
General Anthony Wayne (the real guy).
Fictional BIO: Born Jan. 1, 1745, Presumed Dead, December 15, 1796. Wayne was a Revolutionary War hero and an Indian fighter in the Northwest Territory. As a result of the Treaty of Greenville of 1795, Wayne helped establish Fort Gotham along the Gotham River.
The real Treaty of Greenville established Fort Dearborn, which was outside of Chicago and basically evolved into Chicago, so it ties in well with the Gotham/Chicago connection.
Here is my fictional history for Gotham. Fort Gotham was established in 1795 to fight off Indians and establish trade routes to the East. The word Gotham comes from the Miami Indians. The term refers to an offshoot of their tribe, the Goshe-Tahm, a word meaning men who live like bats. They live all band together in the Winter and live in caves and in the Summer, they spread out in the forest along
the Gotham River. This pattern is similar to the Indiana Bat that lives in that area.
On his way back to his home in Pennsylvania, General Wayne is attacked by group of bandits and his trusty companion and Indian guide Rouge-Gorge is killed. Rather than returning home, the General became distraught over the incident and decided to forge a new identity. Wayne faked his own death and began seeking vengeance against criminals and avenged the death of his guide. He remained in the now booming Fort Gotham area. As a hooded figure dressed in black and riding a black stallion, Wayne became a legend in his own time; the Gotham Horseman.
Ugh, I hate stories where it turns out that one of Bruce's ancestors was also a masked vigilante.
"Gotham" is European in origin.
And why not just pitch a movie about the actual General Wayne?
For obvious reasons, my story's titled FLY HARD. Two years later or so an episode of ''Lois and Clark'' used that name. No birds used in the episode as far as I know....
Of the 603 terrorists in the tale, only 24 have character names. One of them is a non-entity which required no voice-casting. Here are the rest of the bad guys, in the order of their departure from the story (character names to come later):
Ted Raimi
Adam Wylie
Dennis Dun, followed by George Takei
Dan Castelaneta
John Rhys-Davies and Richard Belzer together
William Christopher, then Bill Paxton moments later
Eric Idle
Then in the grand finale extended battle:
Lance Henriksen
Rodney Dangerfield
Gary Busey
Robert Townsend
Andrew Robinson
DeForrest Kelley, Ed Begley Jr, Jack Palance, Dennis Miller, Nancy Cartwright and Ice-T simultaneously.....
............Bruce Willis seconds later....
.......and last but not least, except in net weight and size, Roddy McDowall.
The human villains here are Willis, Henriksen and Raimi. When it's over, only Townsend and Robinson survive but are thoroughly unconscious.
IIRC, Mad Anthony Wayne is already an ancestor of Bruce Wayne.
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Would you rather we wrote our own bitmap output
Of course I still need to munge the Makefile some more to make it interactively ask if it should install $module if the user wants / needs it for something.
Autodia has been doing Database Diagrams (from DDL/SQL or DBI and even Druid XML) for yonks. Hopefully I can add the new pureperl directed graph module as an alternative to GraphViz.
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Jumped on the bike this morning and a puff of white came out on start up... went away as it was running... until I hit the throttle again, and a lot more white smoke. CRAP!
- Let it cool down and let the oil settle and the oil in the glass has dropped from just over the mid mark (1600mi since oil change in March) to just under a quarter of the glass.
- Pulled the plugs and they are both black
- FYI in March the valves were done
I have a buddy coming over to help with a compression test and a air leak down test. Any thoughts? My first thought is piston ring, but then again I know very little about engines...
As much as this sucks, being there is a rally this weekend... at least it didn't happen on the road!!


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I and another gent from bmwsporttouring.com will be hosting a BMW tech day on Saturday Sept 26 in Zeeland (next to Holland), Michigan.
The Tech Day will take place at my business, Black Swamp Percussion. What the heck is that? We manufacture concert and orchestral percussion musical instruments. We have an 11,000 sq ft manufacturing facility with plenty of room for bikes. There is a large parking lot out back too. People will be free to use the tools we have, plus we have compressed air, and a variety of metalworking equipment like saws, buffers, grinders, a lathe, plus a wire welder. If someone has it in the their brain to make some custom gizmo for their bike this will be the place to do it. We do have some scrap metal like aluminum bar stock, rod, etc. that you can freely use. We have plenty of large fans for TB syncs.
The business name is Black Swamp Percussion and the offices face James St. However, riders will want to come north off of Business 196 (locally known as Chicago Drive) onto 112th Ave. You will cross some tracks and be approaching a light. You will want to turn into the driveway on the right (east) side of the road right next to Fastenal and before you get to the light. We'll put up a BMW Tech Daze sign at both the office parking lot (on James St.) and on the driveway that leads to the back of the building (on 112th).
Also, my friend Terence has a professional photography business in the same building, and is a '97 R1100RT rider. He is checking his availability to come that day, but if he does I've asked him to shoot photos. I bet if we talk nice to him he'll take some sweet shots of you and your ride.
Address is:
Black Swamp Percussion
11114 James St.
Zeeland, MI 49464
R.S.V.P.'s are very helpful to plan for space, food, etc. You can do that by emailing me, Eric Sooy, at email@example.com. Putting something like "BMW Tech Day" in the subject line is helpful for me to find your email in my obscenely full inbox. If you are a tech guru your help and presence would be greatly appreciated! Shed your modesty and let me know if you are full of mechanical mojo!
Here is a map to the location:
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"Today, scientists were told that an epic battle is raging -- and they must don their armor, head for the trenches and join the fight." Thus a report on Nature's newsblog from the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, where Barbara Forrest and Kenneth R. Miller were presented with Public Service Awards on December 10, 2006.
In the latest from the United Kingdom, the Guardian (December 7, 2006) reported that the British government is preparing to "write to schools telling them that controversial teaching materials promoting creationism should not be used in science lessons." The materials in question, which include two "intelligent design" DVDs, were sent to the science heads of every secondary school in the United Kingdom by a new creationist group styling itself Truth in Science.
As Ohio's Governor Bob Taft (R) prepares to leave office, he is planning to appoint four new members to the state board of education.
When Sally Cauble and Jana Shaver take their seats on the Kansas state board of education in January 2007, the balance of power on the board will shift to favor the supporters of the integrity of science education. But the return to a set of state science standards in which evolution is properly treated is not likely to be immediate.
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A Scene from 'Girls' You've Never Seen
The complete first season of the HBO comedy "Girls," created by Lena Dunham, will be released on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download on Dec. 11.
Speakeasy has a sneak peek at one of the season's deleted scenes. In the clip, Dunham's character, Hannah, gets a dressing-down by her boss Ray, played by Alex Karpovsky, at her "menial job."
"Don't just think, okay? That's an extremely unattractive feature of your generation. Grab those two pitchers and follow me," he tells Hannah, before reminding her she needs this job so she can write her "whimsical prose poetry."
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Grammy Award Winner Common to Perform at Southwestern Feb. 26
Southwestern University's 5th annual Large Act Concert will feature Grammy Award-winning rapper Common on Friday, Feb. 26th, in the Corbin J. Robertson Center (Building #17 on the campus map). The doors will open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m.
Tickets for the concert are $10 for Southwestern students and $15 for Southwestern faculty and staff. Tickets for the general public are $20 and will be available beginning Friday, Feb. 12. There are several options for purchasing tickets:
1. Tickets can be purchased online using a credit card at www.southwestern.edu/studentactivities/concert
2. Tickets can be purchased in person at the Southwestern University Student Activities Office on the third floor of the McCombs Campus Center (Building #30).
3. Tickets can also be purchased at the door, if available.
Chicago-born rapper Common was nominated for two Grammy Awards, including Best Rap Album (Universal Mind Control) and Best Rap Performance by Duo or Group (Make Her Say – Kid Cudi, Kanye West and Common). Common won an award for Lyricist of the Year in 2007 at the BET Hip Hop Awards and has been nominated for numerous other Grammy Awards.
Common is the founder of the Common Ground Foundation, which is committed to the empowerment and development of urban youth in the United States. The Common Ground Foundation utilizes the influence of hip hop to serve as an advocate of justice, education, the fight against poverty, and the need for health awareness among underserved communities.
In addition to his activism, Common is in the process of filming two movies: Just Wright, which has him starring alongside Queen Latifa, and Date Night, which features notable actors such as Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Ruffalo, Leighton Meester, James Franco and Mark Wahlburg.
Common is also preparing a new album, The Believer, which is expected to be released in early summer. On this album, Common has enlisted the assistance of Kanye West, No I. D. and Twilite Tone.
Common will perform during the Student Peace Alliance 2010 National Conference, which is being held at Southwestern University Feb. 26-28. The Student Peace Alliance is a national organization mobilizing youth to create and sustain peace. This conference will bring together 500 students from across the nation and will focus on presenting initiatives that reduce and prevent violence at a domestic and international level that will help build sustainable peace. For more information on the conference, visit http://www.studentpeacealliance.org/conference
The annual Large Act Concert is made possible by Southwestern University and the University Programming Council. Previous Large Act Concerts at Southwestern have featured Wyclef Jean, Cake, The Decemberists and New Found Glory.
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WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after the Department of Labor released its jobs report for January:
"The jobs report released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us what we already know: our recovery continues, but there is more Congress must do to help the private sector create job opportunities. With 166,000 private sector jobs added in January, more Americans are getting back to work. Yet too much uncertainty about America's finances and our ability to invest for the future still makes it difficult for the private sector to expand and create jobs that pay well and grow our middle class.
"The best way to end the uncertainty our businesses face is for Congress to achieve a big and balanced solution to deficits. Doing so will also enable us to invest in our future economic competitiveness through education, infrastructure, and innovation. Democrats and Republicans must work together to bring the certainty necessary for business to invest in their own enterprises, unleashing the over $2 trillion in cash on hand sitting on corporate balance sheets today. I urge House Republicans to set partisanship aside and work with Democrats to put fiscal discipline and job creation first so we can move our economy forward and enable more of our people to make it in America."


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CALGARY – The government of Alberta, facing a ballooning deficit as resistance to major oil export pipelines builds, is preparing to launch an international competition to "identify innovative uses for carbon emissions."
Alberta environment minister Diana McQueen will join the province's Climate Change and Emissions Management Corp. (CCEMC), which collects money from a $15-per-tonne levy applied to companies that exceed set emissions limits, to unveil the competition, dubbed a "grand challenge," Thursday.
Up to $35-million in grants will be made available over five years through the province's climate fund "to produce multiple technologies that will provide significant net reductions in greenhouse gas emissions," according to a CCEMC news release.
Alberta has been whacked by discounts on its heavy oil as production from U.S. tight oil formations surges, clogging up continental pipelines. It now faces a deficit of up to $4-billion, compared to earlier projections of $2.3-billion to $3-billion, according to a third-quarter fiscal update released Tuesday.
The move to spur a global technology competition comes on the heels of a major demonstration against TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline in Washington D.C., as well as the recent suggestion by U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson that Canadian action on curbing carbon emissions might help cast the oil sands in a better light south of the border.
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Index to current volume
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Over the past few decades there has been great progress in understanding the nature of human speech production and perception, and in applying this knowledge to problems of speech processing (coding, recognition, and synthesis). Given the interdisciplinary nature of the enterprise, important papers in these areas have appeared in a wide range of journals, proceedings, and books from such diverse fields as engineering, linguistics, physics, psychology, and speech and hearing science. The current volume forms part of a three-volume series whose purpose is to bring together a number of these important papers. The series is sponsored by the Acoustical Society of America and, following the classification system of the Society's journal, one volume focuses on speech production, one on speech perception, and one on speech processing.
The idea of the three-volume series originated within the Speech Technical Committee of the Society. The Committee discussed and enthusiastically endorsed the project at the Society's fall 1989 meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, and subsequently chose the editors and editorial boards. A formal proposal for the project was then drafted by the Chair of the Speech Technical Committee and was forwarded to the Executive Council of the Society. The Council gave final approval for the project at the Society's spring 1990 meeting in State College, Pennsylvania.
We have organized each of the three volumes into topical sections, with the papers within each section ordered alphabetically by author. To help guide readers-especially students and nonexperts-we have written editorial commentary for each section. The commentary is intended to provide a brief context for the individual papers, placing them within the history of the discipline. We have also included a topical subject index at the end of each volume, keyed to individual papers. Finally, because the three volumes are so closely interrelated, at the end of each volume we have included the table of contents and the index of each of the other two volumes.
We have worked closely with our editorial boards in selecting the papers that appear in these volumes. The members of the boards were involved in all stages of the selection process, from the initial generation of a list of potential papers to the final decisions on selection. In making the selections, we were guided by the goal of including papers that are important in their own right and, in addition, collectively reflect progress in the field and present a range of viewpoints, approaches, an methodologies. Given the vast literature on speech, and practical constraints on the size of the volumes, the choices were difficult, and many important papers are not included. We can only hope that the volumes, as constituted, will prove useful to the speech community as research on speech communication proceeds.
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I am looking at purchasing a 74' R90, unknown mileage, very good driver condition.
I am concerned about the disc brake though. The owner said the master cylinder has been rebuilt. The front brake does not stop the bike like I believe a disc brake should. It feels like an old drum brake. No modulation, no grab, just a hard wood like feel to the brake lever. I cannot get it to lock the front wheel up no matter how hard I try.
What is the collective consensus about this? I am not opposed to rebuilding or replacing the master cylinder and or caliper if need be, I just would like to know if this brake is normal or should the disc brake be more like the modern day disc brakes? ...yes I know this is a 1974 single disc and will not be like a 2013 system.
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The Jackson County Green Energy Park was featured on the Facebook page of the National Endowment for the Arts [NEA] on Oct. 27. The NEA asked the public to nominate arts organizations for a spotlight feature, and here are five words used in the GEP's nomination: "Innovative, environmental, educational, visionary, Leader." Live glassblowing and metal smith demos are given regularly. Classes available. For group demos and a tour of the facility and gallery please call 828.631.0271 to schedule. For more info about JCGEP visit www.jcgep.org.
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Very nice. I guess you hoped for 6/8 to catch up with the rest on Day 1, but 5/8 is already very impressive. Good luck today and for the rest of the race.
No niin, näyttäkääs ettei Blizzardin hidastusyritykset yksinkertaisesti tuota tulosta ja pyyhkäskää BL, Vodka yms progresslistojen perälle... Vähän niinkuin http://naurunappula.com/z/551385 malliin... :D
Good luck as soon as you get spine down first, think you will have it in the bag!
Ignore all the drama and do what you do best. DREAM Paragon>Blood Legion, by far. I have no doubt we'll see you on top again, gogo guys!
comeon paragon t will be the best comeback in raidings history if your going to do this :-D your the ELITE OF THE ELITES
hoping for a world 2nd spine and world 1st madness, just for the lulz :D
Well done ! How many raids are you guys running? It seems that all your mains are not playing the same raid ID,.. ? I am wrong?
Harmillista että teiltä jäi toi eka spine tappo ottamatta . noh onnea nyt kummiskin ton Maddnessin kanssa.
2 ID´s a Week for only a single Region?! They come along with almost 22-Legendary´s?! BLIZZARD is doing everything wrong, they are so FAIL without any exception :((
Yeah they have 2 ID resets so technically they dont count :P
what is it ther makes spine so hard for EU and US guildes that some of the top top top guildes in the world keep fighting for a kill on it when 2 KR guilds take it down now ?
If two EU guilds had 7/8 right now, would you be asking what makes the fight so hard for US and KR guilds?
Hello. Guys. Korea Server 즐거운 공격대 Heroic Rage of Deathwing Down 12月 20日 18:34 8/8
You guys deserve not to come first for exploiting the LFR bug.
I used to look up to you guys with such pride. I thought you guys were amazing.
There is no need for so many people to post saying who got World First, I am sure Paragon can see for themselves without 10+ posts on their website about it.
Regardless of who got World First, Paragon are still incredibly skilled raiders and hope you guys can finish before the US =P
they had 2resets per week so obv they can make it faster as their gear is better way faster than EU/US players.
Not for DS, stop trying to make excuses. They won fair and square, it doesn't mean Paragon is any less of a guild because they're not.
Rantsi - They do not get 2 resets per week. That is only for previous Tier Bosses...
didnt you heard that they had around 6Legendary staff's for the maddness? and yes i had an 'typox' on my old comment. 2resets for Firelands pretty much helped em get their 6staff's right?...
grats. GoGo World 2nd before Christmas :p
Is it over?! No King rules forever, my son!!! ^^
Unfortunalety we will never know, wheather DREAM Paragon would have done World 1st without the 8-Day-Bann!
now say thank you to the kind korean's for the lovely kill video. I do believe that it would be the mature thing to do.
Lawlz i am sure that it did
Congrats on your progress! =) Fight to the end and reclaim your crown in the next tier!
While I'm all for rooting for you guys, it's nice to see an Alliance guild on top for a change. Not that you Hordies aren't any less lovable, of course. You've got taurens who are by any standard the epitome of cuddly. =)
Taiwaneille toinen madness tappo HC 25m. Joululoman pitäminen ei tainnut olla mikään paras idea :E .
I don't know why people are bugging them about not getting world first on spine.. They were down for a week and the guilds that downed it before them did use a pretty big exploit. Spirit Link totem gets rid of the debuff. Thats why Kin used 4 restoration shamans.
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The presence of hypercoagulability is difficult to assess antemortem in dogs, and the importance of hypercoagulability and thromboembolic disease has not been well defined in veterinary medicine. Thromboelastography (TEG, see Thromboelastography (TEG)) enables global assessment of hemostatic function in whole blood; advantages of TEG include the evaluation of the viscoelastic properties of the developing blood clot (including clot formation, kinetics, strength, stability, and resolution) and immediate detection of hyper- and hypocoagulable states.
Certain diseases in animals have been associated with increased risk of thrombosis. Cats with cardiomyopathy, more commonly the dilated form but also the hypertrophic and restrictive forms, can develop large thromboemboli in the aorta or brachial artery. Thrombosis has been seen in dogs with protein-losing nephropathies, hyperadrenocorticism, neoplasia, chronic hypothyroidism accompanied by atherosclerosis, and instances of autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Thrombi and thromboemboli have been seen in horses with systemic inflammatory diseases (such as colic, laminitis, or equine ehrlichial colitis) and in instances of prolonged jugular catheter placement and infusion of drugs that irritate the vasculature.
Neoplasia is a risk factor for hypercoagulability and likely associated complications, such as thromboembolic disease. Many of the cells and proteins involved in maintaining hemostasis are also involved in the processes of cancer growth, invasion, metastasis, and angiogenesis. Deep venous thrombosis is a significant clinical complication in human cancer patients, but whether this is true in dogs with cancer is unknown.
In protein-losing nephropathies (eg, glomerulopathies, nephrotic syndrome, renal amyloidosis), a deficiency of antithrombin has been well documented. Antithrombin has a molecular weight of 57,000 kilodaltons (kD), which is similar in size to albumin (60,000 kD); therefore, glomerular lesions sufficient to result in albumin loss also result in loss of antithrombin. Other abnormalities identified in renal disease include increased responsiveness of platelets to agonists, increased procoagulant activities, and decreased antiplasmin activity. Currently, the cause of thrombosis is thought to be multifactorial.
Hypercholesterolemia has been associated with increased risk of thromboembolism. It is hypothesized that endothelial and platelet membrane phospholipid concentrations are altered, which leads to damaged vasculature and increased platelet responsiveness to agonists, respectively. Increased production of thromboxane via the cyclooxygenase pathway in platelets has been seen. Diseases characterized by hypercholesterolemia include hyperadrenocorticism, diabetes mellitus, nephrotic syndrome, hypothyroidism, and pancreatitis. All have been associated with increased risk of thrombus formation, often pulmonary thrombosis.
Cats with cardiomyopathy have increased risk of thromboembolism. Endomyocardial lesions and turbulent blood flow through the heart chambers and valves secondary to altered myocardial functioning are thought to initiate thrombus formation. Specific deficiencies of anticoagulant or fibrinolytic proteins have not been seen. Interestingly, antithrombin is markedly increased but does not provide protective benefits. Cats with cardiac disease secondary to hyperthyroidism are often treated with drugs (eg, propranolol, atenolol, or diltiazem) that abate clinical signs of cardiac dysfunction. These drugs appear to protect against increased risk of thrombosis by altering platelet responsiveness to agonists.
Horses with colic associated with endotoxemia have decreased plasminogen activity and protein C antigen concentration. These horses have increased mortality and risk of thrombus formation. Laminitis is thought to be the end result of several diverse systemic disorders. Microthrombi in the vasculature of the hoof lamina have been identified in the early stages of laminitis. One theory is that endotoxin has direct effects on the vasculature and activates contact factors in the coagulation cascade. Ischemia of the lamina secondary to edema, vascular compression, and possible blood shunting at the level of the coronet also damage endothelium. When circulation is reestablished, reperfusion injury results, and the exposed subendothelial collagen promotes thrombosis.
The most appropriate treatment of an animal with thrombi or thromboemboli is diagnosis and management of the underlying disease process, along with good supportive care. Maintenance of adequate tissue perfusion is critical. Dissolution of clots and prevention of clot recurrence by administration of anticoagulants (eg, heparin and coumarin) has had mixed success. Heparin facilitates the action of antithrombin, but to be effective, adequate antithrombin must be present. In dogs with protein-losing nephropathies or in horses with endotoxemia, plasma transfusion may be necessary before heparin therapy is effective. Coumarin has been most useful for control or prevention, rather than for treatment. Fibrinolytic compounds have been administered to animals to enhance dissolution of clots. Tissue plasminogen activator (TPA) has more fibrin specificity than does streptokinase or urokinase and, therefore, provides more localized fibrinolytic effects (although not totally). The main deterrent to use of TPA is its high cost. One study of cats with aortic thrombosis treated with TPA found a risk of reperfusion injury after the clot dissolved. Streptokinase is more available and less expensive, but the therapeutic dose is difficult to determine. Many animals have naturally occurring antibodies to streptokinase as a result of previous streptococcal infections. Administration of streptokinase must be sufficient to neutralize all antibodies but not produce a systemic fibrinolytic state with resultant bleeding diathesis.
- Hemostatic Disorders
- Overview of Hemostatic Disorders
- Coagulation Disorders
- Platelet Disorders
- Vascular Disorders
- Coagulation Protein Disorders
- Pathologic Thrombosis


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Energy in the form of hydrogen, as well as biofuels, is one of the few mainstays of hope for clinging to global economic growth. When it comes to today's growing worries over both the world peak in oil extraction and global warming, government and industry favor certain renewable energy technologies to supplement and then supplant decades more of fossil fueling.
What of lifestyle change and truly sustainable, local economics? That's not what's being planned for you by the corporate state or even by some entities we would trust. Therefore, we are all allowing a tragic waste of time and more global warming that is avoidable. The technological solution (or "the technofix") is what we examine in this report, for its appeal serves to excuse the absence of immediate, realistic national and global action on preparing for what a growing number of people see as petrocollapse.
The funded environmental movement is in the technofix camp rather than tackling maximum petroleum reduction, and has thus far generally not addressed the issue of Peak Oil. So, such organizations are hampered in trying to curb global warming.
Many proponents of hydrogen and biofuels do want to see massive conservation of energy and other resources. Such green proponents are also often anti-war, anti-nuclear power, in favor of global veganism, and ready to acknowledge the Earth's need for a much smaller population of humans. It is obvious to green proponents of massive alternative energy systems that action must be taken immediately to deal with greenhouse gas emissions and runaway species extinction. But that action and its relation to one's vision of the future are a burning issue involving every one of us.
The latest Pentagon-sponsored Energy Conversation featured Jeremy Rifkin as its speaker on May 22, in Crystal City. That's across the Potomac River from Washington DC where Rifkin's Foundation on Economic Trends consults for governments and energy utilities. Rifkin is of two worlds, activism and high-finance business planning with corporate clients. For example, he is close to Italy's new prime minister and gives consultation to him for free. Rifkin has not left behind his earlier concerns of entropy (having published a classic book by that name), abandoning animal-based dieting, and genetically engineered crops. So, one hopes his support of "sustainable growth" really refers to qualitative growth.
Rifkin makes a smooth presentation in support of rapid hydrogen-systems implementation, and before this Pentagon/DC energy crowd he urged more research and development in the best tradition of the military's know-how. He tried to disabuse the audience of going the fossil-fueled route of deriving hydrogen to carry energy, while trying to get us all to imagine little fuel-cells that will be even more ubiquitous and essential than i-Pods or laptops. Rifkin hopes the military can come up with an Internet-like technological grid that will involve a billion or more people in generating energy in a free market. This vision of the future raised questions that I voiced publicly; more concerns were formulated later as I tossed on my pillow.
Let us put aside for a moment the issue of practicality from a physics standpoint: in brief, hydrogen "has to be chemically extracted from substances, such as water or coal. Extraction consumes significantly more energy than is released when hydrogen powers a fuel cell." (Energy Bulletin, Mark Derewicz in Endeavors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, quoting astrophysicist Gerald Cecil "whose energy outlook doesn't include hydrogen.")
The big assumption that Rifkin and other proponents of a grand technofix make is that there will be a continuity of the fossil-fueled system to allow for a transition to a cleaner version of what society is doing. It sounds like a dreamland of billions of consumers using manufactured gadgets that somehow get past resource limits and the poisoning of our land, air and water. This Culture Change report does not aim to disrespect the very serious work of planning to use energy more efficiently in the future. After all, utilities and car-makers are looking at major inroads for non-fossil-fueled, non-nuclear energy systems that are beginning to be mandated in places such as California and the European Union.
Be that as it may, there is almost universal lack of awareness on the nature of the oil industry. Such as, the need refiners have to run at high capacity and churn out a balance of light, medium and heavy products to be disposed of immediately and without end. Very little of the vast, vertically organized fossil-fuel business is set up to cut itself back to cope with post-peak falling extraction. Without adequate supply to keep everyone going as consumers, the whole process will unravel as significant numbers of people cannot keep commuting for lack of fuel. The same goes for distribution of food and other just-in-time delivered materials and products. It will then be suddenly clear to millions upon millions of former consumers that the local ecosystem, such as it is, is what must provide all needs.
This kind of collapse and economic transition is almost never spoken of in mainstream circles because there seems to be no cure to it except for an unthinkable culture change equated with poverty at best. This transition, for better or worse, as we fight for sustainability on a crippled and compromised planet, is what I see as humanity's next revolution – not what Jeremy Rifkin envisions to be our species next phase, a Hydrogen Economy revolution.
Rifkin appears to have missed SAIC's report headed by Robert Hirsch, "Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management" given to the U.S. Department of Energy in February 2005: If peak is dealt with only upon its clear arrival, then "severe economic hardship" results. Keep in mind the need for language to be restrained by scientists and consultants for politically-astute bureaucracies.
Rifkin makes the intelligent appeal to extend, if possible, fossil fuels only as the conversion means for getting to his eventual Hydrogen Economy liberated from fossil fuels and nuclear. Other analysts have made the case for using remaining, dwindling petroleum to make solar or wind systems, and even decommission roads to restore nature.
Rifkin won over a segment of the crowd early on by providing an answer to how can we have a biofuel-based agriculture system for the global consumer economy when growing food on available crop land is vital for our huge population. Simple: eat lower on the food chain. You can have it both ways, the present economy with plenty of energy and food, Mr. Steak-eater, if you eat veggie burgers instead. In other words, free up cropland being used to produce grain for animals, and go produce, on that formerly wasted land for animals, plenty of biofuels. Rifkin is not impressed with corn for alcohol fuels, but believes beets and other crops can make the energy desired for, presumably, much of the car fleet and other supposed needs of the American lifestyle. Rifkin needs to be more impressed with the need to leave biomass on the ground where it's grown, to build soil and prevent erosion and drought.
The obvious problem with freeing up animal land to grow fuel, to anyone looking at peak petroleum, is that the nation's crop production is already completely hooked on natural gas and oil to grow food. When that system crashes from petroleum shortage, there is hardly going to be a change-over to biofuels as people starve. People will deal suddenly and desperately with the wasteful energy practices and water demands of cattle raising by haphazardly slaughtering the cattle for meat, and trying to grow plant-based food crops on those ranches and pastures. Besides lower yields, the trouble will be in trying to truck that food around for hundreds and thousands of miles – not possible in a petroleum-starved world. But, what if hydrogen fuel and a vast new infrastructure are available very quickly?
Hydrogen energy will not grow food, in terms of supplanting the human and animal power to put seeds in the ground, water them, weed them, thin them, feed them, or pick the crops or harvest the seeds. Can non-petroleum made-and-powered machines and chemical products do those things for us if based on hydrogen and other "renewable energies?"
Such questions aren't raised when the illustrious Jeremy Rifkin, advancing his well-paced presentation and name-dropping, chug along confidently. I felt envy whenever I heard him say "I was advising the Chancellor of Germany… I tell CEOs this…" I would love to be well paid to tell them what I believe, seeing them scratch their heads over the end of growth and the lack of profit-taking in a petrocollapsed era. What folks from top to bottom prefer not to anticipate is that the oil market will turn a modest, initial but permanent shortage into a paralyzing supply crisis that will take down the global economy in a matter of days. Think of the federal government trying to fix a national Katrina, or the 1970s oil crises in the U.S. Any frantic action will add to the snowball of market forces to exacerbate shortage. Rationing fuel now would be too risky to today's false but profitable calm.
From Rifkin's book The Hydrogen Economy's webpage, at The Foundation on Economic Trends' website:
"Looming oil shortages make industrial life vulnerable to massive disruptions and possibly even collapse.
"While the fossil-fuel era is entering its sunset years, a new energy regime is being born that has the potential to remake civilization along radical new lines, according to Rifkin. Hydrogen is the most basic and ubiquitous element in the universe. It is the stuff of the stars and of our sun and, when properly harnessed, it is the "forever fuel." It never runs out and produces no harmful CO2 emissions.
"Commercial fuel-cells powered by hydrogen are just now being introduced into the market for home, office and industrial use. The major automakers have spent more than two billion dollars developing hydrogen cars, buses, and trucks, and the first mass-produced vehicles are expected to be on the road in just a few years.
"The hydrogen economy makes possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, becomes obsolete. In the new era, says Rifkin, every human being could become the producer as well as the consumer of his or her own energy – so called "distributed generation." When millions of end-users connect their fuel-cells into local, regional, and national hydrogen energy webs (HEWs), using the same design principles and smart technologies that made possible the World Wide Web, they can begin to share energy – peer-to-peer – creating a new decentralized form of energy use."
In this approach, Rifkin and his consultancy are telling big business and government what they want to hear, and getting paid for it. A lot of unrepentant consumers find appeal in this approach as well, whether they have a problem with George Bush's fossil fuels world or not.
The Pentagon-sponsored Energy Conversations are something amazing, in that the nation is served with transparency on energy issues – disclosing who knows what, and what we might expect as a society. In July the topic will be biofuels, led by Suzanne Hunt of Worldwatch Institute. I asked her if she would cheerlead the Pentagon audience into visualizing tanks and missiles inflicting collateral damage via biofuels. She came across as humane and sensitive while appreciative of my attempt at humor.
The Energy Conversation series is a very good thing. It is just as wonderful that a Pentagon audience – the energy brains of the Military Industrial Complex – hears something as soulful as Jeremy Rifkin's unflinching advocacy of a stabilized climate and an end to species extinction. His honesty about optimum population size for the planet, about having to renounce climate-changing dirty fossil fuels as well as nuclear energy, and about eating animals as a staple no more, were even falling on sympathetic ears, although some questioners did not understand why we cannot continue to spread nuclear power as some kind of answer to energy decline.
All told, the greatness of the forum – blessed by Donald Rumsfeld who was gotten to by the right Pentagon staffer at a party who wanted energy addressed openly – and the opportunity to have Rifkin share his vast knowledge and valuable guidance, do not make the technofix any more viable. He ended his talk with a appeal to learn more, on the spot or later on, about ways the military is improving the chances for a network based hydrogen energy system – just as the military developed the Internet so that communications could not be taken out at any one central target.
We have run out of time to change our society away from petroleum in a graceful way as an industrial society. Some of the few options for maintaining the world's 85 million barrel per day crude-oil frenzy are clearly unlikely to keep the patient alive: liquified natural gas will never be provided to the U.S. in vast enough quantities or cheaply enough, and the tar sands of Alberta will at best provide 5 million barrels a day of oil-equivalent within 10 years (at a net-energy loss and with vast damage to the environment).
When listening to Jeremy Rifkin or Lester Brown, both of whom know well Earth's ecological plight, it's as if simple curtailment of fossil-fuels use – to the necessary extent of even throwing economics into shrink mode instead of growth – is just too simple. So, to smile at well funding inquiring minds, a "have our cake and eat it too" and "win-win" vision is cooked up with much hope and good intent. However, not up for discussion is getting rid of cars, even though they will be just useless trash clogging quiet post-petrocollapse streets. This is not a fundable or happy outlook, and rather inconvenient for drivers who presently don't use bicycles or mass transit.
More bad news for the four-wheeled technofixers and optimists of status-quo continuity: Richard Register of Ecocity Builders reports to Culture Change that
"A market analysis group called CNW Marketing Research, Inc. out of Bandon, Oregon did a two year study of hybrids and found they were worse, not better in terms of life cycle energy consumption than comparable gasoline powered cars. That includes energy used in manufacture and recycling and disposal of very complex systems including loads of batteries. Then they are $4,000 to $6,000 more expensive than comparable non-hybrids. They are virtually un-reparable by anyone without a PhD in repairing hybrids, and many auto repair shops are declining to fix them – they go back to dealers where the price for repair is four to five times repairing similar problems on a conventional car. This means they are for the rich faux environmentalist crowd who want to keep driving and feeling good about themselves all at the same time. Shops have to gear up by buying $20,000+ in special tools, which means the home mechanic and person aware of peak oil would be an idiot to buy one even if they believed the hype that they were supposed to be better cars for the environment. Forget fixing it yourself. In addition to the $20,000 the car repair shop owner needs to train the mechanics in completely unfamiliar territory, which is advanced electronics and computers, a yet greater though widely variable cost. I learned most of this from the San Francisco Examiner, Car and Driver Magazine and interviews in the Sacramento Bee of many car shop owners in the Sacramento area who are refusing to repair hybrids."
Question and challenge for Rifkin et al
Wondering how this Internet-like hydrogen revolution might actually come about if some mighty big questions had good answers, I asked this question in the well-packed ballroom after giving my name and affiliation:
"Jeremy, I have a similar position on decentralization as you, but I'm for lower tech. It sounds as if you are advocating a continuation of the consumer economy with the same population size or larger. Have you quantified how much resources such as plastics from petroleum could float how many consumers for how long to have this global economy – assuming there's no entropy or starvation from petrocollapse? Do you have an equation for your vision?"
Two things struck me from his response: it was in effect an admission that he and his adherents do not have the equation, nor do they understand the potential for petrocollapse. But it was Jeremy's earnest appeal for a phased "population reduction to two billion on the planet by a century or two" that earned extra respect from me and others for him. One can't get much more progressive before any Establishment audience.
Nevertheless, when do we put all our facts on the table and come up with honest options to cope with the end of the Oil Age and its associated crises? The answer may be that there are no leaders, and everyone is on his or her own. National leaders are becoming irrelevant and obsolete for ecologically based, local economics.
I knew Jeremy would not have a comprehensive, satisfactory answer to my question. I was later approached by the moderator and praised for my question. By now I am fully prepared to challenge the Triumvirate of Technofixers, Amory Lovins, Lester Brown, and Jeremy Rifkin to a public debate on petrocollapse and the technofix. (So that the oil industry is not left out, let's include Trilby Lundberg of the former family firm Lundberg Survey that I used to manage.) The sooner such a debate and airing takes place, the sooner the public will stop expecting miracles or "something for nothing" (Jim Kunstler's pet peeve about American consumerism). Perhaps many folks would then start taking action toward mitigating the effects of peak oil and other shortages and resultant conflict unprecedented in history. What part of "petroleum reduction to the maximum" is hard to understand?
We are also out of time for Mother Earth: her breast of nurturing milk is being microwaved. Buried in the back pages of the Washington Post on May 23, in the "Findings" mini-column – billed second fiddle after flu shots – is the story "Global Warming May Be Faster Than Predicted":
"Greenhouse gases spur global warming, and scientists said that global warming in turn spurs greater greenhouse gas emissions, which means Earth could get hotter faster than climate models predict.
"Two scientific teams, one in Europe and another in California, reached the same conclusion: When Earth has warmed up in the past because of the sun's natural cycles, more greenhouse gases wee spewed into the atmosphere. As greenhouse gas levels rose, so did Earth's temperature.
"But previous periods of heating and cooling were not influenced by the burning of fossil fuels, as is the current warming trend, said Margaret Torn of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
"Current climate models predict temperature increases of 2.7 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit, but Torn's team found that additional carbon dioxide cause by the natural solar cycle could push these temperatures higher.
"That could mean increases of 2.9 to 11 degrees, and the higher temperatures are more likely, the scientists said in a statement. Both articles are to be published Friday in Geophysical Research Letters."
Be seeing you at the depaving parties and out on the former highways with our pedal machines! We'll be planting food and gathering acorns more likely than toying with little fuel cells. Yes, there will be renewable energy systems and other technology, but peak oil means an entirely new ballgame that is ours to shape now. To get there we must take the time for the unfortunate distraction of bursting bubbles of fantasy and deception.
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The Dept. of Energy's Hirsch report (SAIC):
Jan Lundberg's latest peak-oil conference reports are on Energy Bulletin: energybulletin.net/16169.html
The Hydrogen Economy – Energy and Economic Black Hole, a Culture Change report:
The Foundation on Economic Trends' hydrogen economy:
Feeling the Heat, by Mark Derewicz, Energy Bulletin, May 24, 2006:
Ecocity Builders, Richard Register (president)
Worldwatch Institute's Biofuels Project with the German government: