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St. Louis actually outgains Arizona by 17 YPG so far into this young season. Tannehill just lit up this defence for 400+ yards as well.
1 question I would like to know is in regards to Patrick Peterson. Does anyone know if he plays the same side of the field the whole game? Or does he just cover the opposition's best receiver? If it's the former I like St. Louis even more as I like Amendola a lot here.
Hey Si1ly,
What prompted me to write is the joker that trys to tout his "crew". He appears on several Forums...like anyone is going to fall for his BS. I see that they have already removed him. That's why I love these Cover Forums...they're so professional.
Thank you for all the effort you put into your Baseball and Football stats. They really help.
I'll continue lurking, pal.
People are playing the Rams tonight just because they think it's a 'sharp' play or because Arizona is due to 'come back to earth'. Neither of these are sound reasons to make a bet. Handicap the match-up. How many offensive touchdowns do the Rams have this season?
Not disagreeing with you bro, but you have to look at everything when betting on football. Letdowns, lookaheads, shorts weeks etc.....it all adds up. Its never as easy as simply looking at stat sheets.

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Randi's goal is to provide a safe and enjoyable photographic experience for you and your horses. At the end of the session she wants you to have cherished pieces of art and the media marketing materials you need to professionally present them in today's competitive market. As every session is unique, please contact Randi regarding planning, pricing, and scheduling a time to photograph and film your horses and perhaps your family as well!
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St. Louis, Mo.-based Donaldson Aerospace & Defense (Booth 8451) is holding an engine filter seminar at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12. The workshop, "Engine Protection—Realizing Return on Investment (ROI) Quickly," comes after a series of recent agreements with various operators across the spectrum, including for offshore, EMS and police, in addition to military users of the company's inlet barrier filters (IBFs).
Just before the show, Donaldson inked a contract with Saudi Aramco to supply IBF systems on a fleet of 14 AgustaWestland AW139s. With the order, Saudi Aramco is set to become the largest fleet operator for the AW139 filter system.
Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare (IHC)'s Life Flight has also chosen an IBF for its AW109SP. The HEMS provider operates the Wasatch Mountain Range around Salt Lake City and in hot landing zones of St. George in southern Utah.
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It's week number three for Beer Cans for Boobs and the Banana Crew is broadcasting live until 7pm at Williams Gunsight in Davison. Swing on by with your deposit bottles or cash donations as we raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness for Life, which is a great local charity in the fight against breast cancer. Check out what you have missed so far here.
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Center John Mann, a former Corona del Mar High standout, and defender Tim Hutten, a former UC Irvine All-American, are on the U.S. men's senior national team roster for the 2013 FINA World Championships that begin on Monday in Barcelona, Spain.
Mann and Hutten are among the 13 athletes selected and two of the five returners from the team that competed at the 2012 Olympic Games.
The team competed in a Four Nations Tournament held in Belgrade, Serbia this week as a warm-up to the world championships. Team USA was set to compete against Canada, China, and Serbia.
The FINA World Championships start on Monday, when the United States will take on Croatia. The Americans will meet Canada and South Africa to close out group play.
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2013 FINA Men's World League Super Final Roster
Tony Azevedo - Attacker (Long Beach, CA/Stanford/NYAC)*
Alex Bowen - Attacker (Santee, CA/Stanford/Stanford)
Shea Buckner - Attacker (Villa Park, CA/USC/NYAC)*
Matt DeTrane - Attacker (Moraga, CA/Pepperdine/NYAC)
Tim Hutten - Defender (Seal Beach, CA/UC-Irvine/Newport WPF)*
JW Krumpholz - Center (Santa Ana, CA/USC/NYAC)
John Mann - Center (Newport Beach, CA/California/NYAC)*
Merrill Moses - Goalkeeper (Palos Verdes, CA/Pepperdine/NYAC)*
Alex Obert - Center (Loomis, CA/Pacific/Sac Polo)
Chancellor Ramirez - Defender (Pasadena, CA/UCLA/Rose Bowl)
Michael Rosenthal - Attacker (Miami, FL/USC/Raider)
Andy Stevens - Goalkeeper (Villa Park, CA/LMU/NYAC)
Janson Wigo - Attacker (Fort Lauderdale, FL/Stanford/NYAC)
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248 and others before or after it are exactly the same in both.
So I tried adding more messages to mess up the order, since I thought if it's blank maybe it's pointing to a blank message and messing them up would cause another message to appear there instead so I could see where it's pointing to, and nothing lol.
I guess if that was the case like I listed with the bigger file, that more stuff would be wrong.
From a quick test, Inspections, marching out a transport unit or regular unit, and if someone succeeds or fails a search are all missing. If you drill troops, have officers arrive somewhere, build something, or things like that, those show up fine.


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Dave Duell Was Into These Things Before They Became Hip
In the last several years, as the supply of purebred musclecars began to dry up, other Mopars started to increase in popularity. The big C-Bodies, previously relegated as a mere source for large-displacement motors, found a niche on the street. The pre-'64 machines, from the era before big compression ratios and lightweight engine designs, have also come into their own. However, if one area has garnered a stronghold, it's station wagons. Practicality, parts interchangability, and comfort have played a role in this. Eight years ago, Evansville, Indiana, Chrysler/Plymouth dealership owner Dave Duell of Newburgh, Indiana, began work on a '64 Plymouth Fury wagon, but it was not the first time he had put his passions into such a project.
Duell is a longtime drag racer, and back in the heyday of '60s-era factory involvement, he had not been behind the wheel of a Hemi coupe or A-Body. Nope, Duell had a 425-horse Max Wedge Dodge 440 wagon with horsepower courtesy "Akron Arlen" Vanke. This machine set NHRA national records and was one of only a handful of wagons that raced competitively in any form of racing. Vanke, the well-known Super Stock star, was involved in every aspect of the wagon, and Dave credits him greatly for the success garnered by the early Drag'n Wag'n. Though Duell's involvement with the automotive business would take him away from racing for many years, the memories remained. After creating a '64 Max Wedge Sport Fury clone in 1990, he decided it was time to turn back the clock. His son Doug took over the controls on the two-door and Dave and his crew got down to business to create a near identical wagon.
Of course, times had changed, and Duell, who races in nostalgia-type drags now, was no longer under the NHRA Stock Eliminator rules. The basis for the new ride was a solid '64 Fury wagon from Loveland, Colorado. After it was driven back to Indiana, it was turned over to Mat Wright's BRC Racecraft, where a full cage was installed, along with Wilwood brakes, S&W ladder bars, a fiberglass tailgate and front fenders, and widened rear tubs. Koni shocks now reside in the back, and the car rides on Center Line wheels shod with Mickey Thompson rubber. Lefler Body Shop did the paint, while Creative Signs handled the lettering.
The car was originally launched with a 440 wedge built by Ken Lazzeri, who was at McCandless Performance at the time, but just as the need for greater speed drives the sport, Dave was also driven. The wagon has since evolved to a 588-inch aluminum stroker Hemi mill that kicked out 900 horses on the dyno at Indy Cylinder Head, which is where Lazzeri now plies his trade. Since nostalgia-class success is based on indexes and reaction times rather than flat-out performance, this might seem like overkill, but, hey, we are Mopar guys; too much is just enough! Lazzeri and the crew at ICH provided most of the internals, supplemented by peripherals by Hedman, Comp Cams, Wisco, BME, and Callies. A pair of Edelbrock 850 cfm carbs is atop the trick Max Wedge-style intake developed by Indy, while MSD provides the firepower assisted by an Optima battery cleverly located in a rear quarter-panel. The Charlie's Oil Pan holds Kendall Oil to keep the engine roaring to its 7200 rpm limit. Behind this beast is a Rick Allison-built 727 Torqueflite with a bulletproof Dynamic 5500-stall converter, and a stock Dana 60 housing with heavy duty parts from Moser Engineering, and a 4.56 Richmond ring is out back.
In A/FX trim, which has a 9.50 index, Dave has tripped the top-end lights with times in the 9.40s at over 140 MPH. Traveling via motorhome to events, he is assisted by his wife Sharon and sons Doug and Greg. Credit is also due to fellow racers Joe Ewing, Jerry Meny, and Mat Wright, and the car has won both tech awards and events over the past few seasons.
Of course, Dave's not one to stand still. In addition to racing this car, he owns several others, including a crate-motor Hemi '68 Barracuda that was just finished for IHRA Stock Eliminator racing. But that's a story for another day.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Sophomore Raphael Girard of the Harvard men's hockey team has been named ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Month, the league office announced Friday.
Girard was unbeaten at 3-0-2 in seven February appearances, posting a 1.75 goals-against average and .944 save percentage. He allowed surrendered only 10 goals on 180 shots, and five of those scores came on opponents' power plays. He made 27 or more saves in each of his four starts and stopped all 26 shots he faced in a relief win against Quinnipiac Feb. 3. Girard stopped a month-high 32 shots in a 3-3 tie at Brown Feb. 17.
The Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., native stopped 58 of 61 shots to come his way over the final weekend of the regular season Feb. 24-25, leading Harvard to wins against St. Lawrence and Clarkson to clinch an ECAC playoff bye. Two of the three goals he allowed came on the power play. Girard made 31saves in a 4-1 defeat of the Saints, including 15 on SLU power plays and 14 during the scoreless second period. He then logged 27 stops and an assist on the tying goal in a 3-2, comeback win against the Golden Knights.
Girard was named ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week for his performance against St. Lawrence and Clarkson. It is the second monthly honor for the Crimson this year. Patrick McNally was previously named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Month for November.
The Crimson (10-8-11, 8-5-9 ECAC Hockey), seeded third in the ECAC Hockey Championship, begins the tournament with a three-game quarterfinal series March 9-11 at Bright Hockey Center. The winner of that series will advance to the league semifinals March 16 in Atlantic City, N.J. Quarterfinal tickets are available here.


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wow, taut you might want to reread some of this thread if that is what you to out of it.
2 or 3 people come on here and give D a bad time trolling and then he comes on and says
somebody else answered your questions so i am not going to feed the trolls again
and what you heard was D is the problem
PS and yes you are all Naish all the time, it is a bit over the top as if they are the only kite company on the planet making worthwhile gear. at least that is how you sound.
and no i do not have a dog in this fight


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Surprising Lessons from Codebreaking
Oh, boy do you owe it to yourself to give this a read: Tunny, Colossus and Ada: Keeping an Open Mind .
It's a great story of a contest centered on the rebuilding of the Colossus Mark 2 codebreaking machine used by the Bletchley Park boffins. To celebrate, the British National Museum of Computing issued a challenge: They would transmit a signal encoded with an original WWII German cipher, and then receive and decrypt it with the Colossus. Anyone who could receive and decrypt it faster would win the contest.
The winner of the contest, Joachim Schüeth, learned along the way that we all can be limited by calcified thinking about languages, and that it's best to abandon your preconceptions.


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I'm not a Ron Paul fanatic (although I did vote for him in the Florida primary, as I find his anti-NDAA, anti-police state message to be one I am increasingly attracted to, especially after several warrantless molestation incidents by the TSA -- the new normal is getting your testicles squeezed before boarding a domestic flight, evidently, and no one seems to care!)
With that said, in an ideal world where the corporate broadcast media wasn't constantly trying to marginalize or insult him, Ron Paul would survive -- and perhaps even win the GOP primary gauntlet. The problems that this country faces require a brave push of the ideological reset button, not merely four more years of the same hard-right-of-center policies which have brought us odious ideas, including but not limited to:
- Endless wars.
- Warrantless wiretapping and spying on American citizens.
- An aggressive push for patently innovation-destroying Internet surveillance and censorship bills like H.R. 1981, SOPA, Protect IP Act, etc.
- US national debt of $15,363,318,000,000. That's more than $15 trillion, which would be enough to buy every ounce of gold on the planet Earth, and still have about $5 trillion left.
- The introduction and signing into law of NDAA, which effectively nullifies a large portion of the Bill of Rights, and allows American citizens to be detained by military force potentially for life without trial, attorney, and formal charges being brought against them. Even on U.S. soil.
Is Ron Paul a perfect candidate? No, I don't believe he is. Has he said some weird things in the past? It appears so. But he is the only 2012 GOP presidential candidate, aside from Gov. Buddy Roemer, who is even addressing these enormous issues.
I find it frightening that those in the lead -- including Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich -- have not sharply spoken out against the NDAA's dictatorial banana republic powers, or the outrageous amount of money we spend on "defense" at the expense of things like education and infrastructure, or the need to keep the Internet free from Big Brother censorship and surveillance.
Hear more, David's full videocast:
David on RT America discussing a possible anti-Ron Paul media bias:
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Penny Martin: When did you first move into your studio?
Boudicca: Around the time that Brick Lane was developed by Property Developers using European Community money.
Penny Martin: What made you choose it?
Boudicca: A 20mtr Long table, close to Hackney Marshes and the old canal system: all great escape routes.
Penny Martin: What are the different roles of the people working in your studio?
Boudicca: To make... To create... To cook... To live...
Penny Martin: Please describe what happens there on a typical day.
Boudicca: Chaos, laughter, nightmares, and dreams....
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Boudicca: Scavenging Night Times Thieves and Daytime Believers.
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As you can see, they are incredibly super cute. For the cookies, I used my favorite old standby recipe from "Joy of Cooking," only slightly veganized. So far, they've been a big hit with everyone! Also, it's a really easy recipe to crank out, because I made a bunch of batches of the dough on the weekend, and it keeps in the fridge for at least 8 days. So, every day I just pull out one or two batches of dough, cook up a sheet of ginger yogis (and they only bake for 8 minutes!) - and I'm good to go. Very easy!
I also made a big batch of gluten-free gingerbread people - because I know some of my students are GF. I used Mandee's recipe from this post, and they've been a big hit too! (I also made some of the xgfx ones as regular gingerbread people for my gluten-free cousin).


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WASHINGTON — American political dynasties historically have been built on power passed from fathers to sons, brothers to brothers, even husbands to wives: the Adamses, the Kennedys, the Bushes, the Clintons.
Now, it is the daughters' turn.
When Michelle Nunn announced her bid to become a U.S. senator from Georgia this week, she scrambled the usual red-state/blue state political calculus, putting in play a seat that could tip the balance of power in the Senate.
Without Nunn's powerful political last name, there would be little hope that the 46-year-old Democrat who has never run for public office could win in that solidly conservative state.
But in politics, names have coattails. In Nunn's case it will boost her ability to raise money and build support from backers of her father, former senator Sam Nunn, revered in his home state for his 24-year Senate career and his post-congressional work on nuclear non-proliferation.
A similar father-daughter tale is unfolding in Wyoming, where Liz Cheney, daughter of longtime congressman and former vice president Dick Cheney, is mounting what would otherwise be a long-shot bid to topple incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi in the Republican primary.
Perhaps more than any previous year, the 2014 midterm campaigns feature a wave of daughters eager to embrace their fathers' political legacies while forging their own political futures. And at a time when the 2016 presidential field appears likely to include both the son of a prominent politician (Rand Paul) and the wife of a president (Hillary Rodham Clinton), it is no surprise that daughters are forming a political class of their own.
Political newbie Gwen Graham is expected to amass an impressive war chest in her bid for a north Florida House seat, thanks in part to her father, former Democratic senator Bob Graham. In Nevada, Democratic political consultant Erin Bilbray-Kohn is running to unseat two-term incumbent Republican Rep. Joe Heck. Her campaign website identifies her only as "Erin Bilbray," perhaps trading on the name recognition of her father, former congressman James Bilbray.
And Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes is trying to unseat Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, a task that might seem quixotic — yet her political pedigree (her father, Jerry Lundergan, is a former state senator and a political bigwig in the Bluegrass State) has helped make her a credible candidate.
Another political scion, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, has launched her first Senate run. Though the seven-term Republican is no newbie, she owes some of her political chops to her dad, Arch Moore, a former West Virginia governor and congressman.
By contrast, there's only one son of a lawmaker, Mike Collins of Georgia, son of former Republican congressman Mac Collins, seeking a congressional seat in the next election.
"When I was growing up, there was no expectation of the girls going into politics," Kathleen Kennedy Townsend recalls of her experience as a daughter of America's most storied political dynasty. The former lieutenant governor of Maryland is the eldest child of the late senator Robert Kennedy, just one luminary in a clan that has also produced a president, two senators and a handful of congressmen.
Kennedy Townsend remembers that her own political ambitions were welcomed, if not expected, something that's changed for a younger generation. "These women grew up in a very different time, and I'm excited to see that change."
Politicians passing down political DNA to daughters isn't new: Prominent female lawmakers with political lineage include House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sens. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. But as women enter politics in greater numbers, it's becoming more common for a daughter to be the one to take up the family mantle. The current boomlet of political daughters may be a signal that politics is an increasingly gender-neutral family business.
It used to be that a woman got into politics "over her husband's dead body," a morbid joke reflecting how common it was for a women to launch her public career only by filling the seat left by a deceased spouse. Dozens of women took that path, and many — like Margaret Chase Smith, who filled the seat left vacant when her husband, Rep. Clyde Smith , R-Maine, fell ill — went on to have distinguished careers in their own right. Chase Smith eventually won a Senate seat and became the first woman have her name placed in nomination for the presidency by a major political party.
Debbie Walsh, the director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, sees the rise of political daughters as "part of an evolutionary trend," in how women come to power. "You've always seen children going into the family business, whether that's a grocery store or politics," she says. "It's a situation where women hadn't been as welcomed into the business or political world, and that's changing."
The same advantages that have long applied to the sons of politicians seeking office themselves apply to women, of course. Name recognition is a big benefit. If a political race is a 100-yard dash, having a well-known name can put a candidate at the 10-yard marker just to start.
Access to a ready-made political network and potential donors also doesn't hurt.
But Matt Canter, the deputy executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, says names are only part of the equation. Family stories, he says, are important for any candidate, whether their surname is well-known, like Kennedy, or unfamiliar, like Obama.
"If a candidate does come from a family that has a strong tradition, that has done remarkable things, and a voter already has information about that, it can be helpful," Canter said. And he notes that though candidates with political family connections may well have networks they can tap to raise a campaign war chest, so might other candidates with deep roots in her home state or district.
For some, the biggest advantage might be learning the nuts and bolts of politics at the dinner table.
Pelosi, the highest-ranking political daughter right now, didn't have the benefit of strong name recognition, and she ran 3,000 miles from the district represented by her father, Tommy D'Alesandro, the legendary Democratic congressman and Baltimore mayor. But she learned some job skills early on. As a little girl, she was in charge of the book her father kept that tallied favors owed and paid.
And in the campaigns of the political daughters now running for the Congress, one can see their fathers' influence.
Lundergan Grimes, for example, is drawing from her father's friendship with former president Bill Clinton: The Clinton imprimatur is expected to give her a fundraising boon, and Lundergan Grimes' staff includes veterans of Hillary Clinton's failed 2008 presidential bid.
In Cheney's case, her father's national profile might help with fundraising, but the goodwill he enjoys in the Cowboy State is considered to be her best defense against accusations of carpetbagging: She spent decades in the Washington area before moving back to Wyoming last year.
It's too soon to tell where — or if — the candidates will break with their famous fathers' political views. Cheney, in particular, is seen as an alter ego of her notoriously hard-line conservative father. "We can get our nation back on track," Cheney said in a video announcing her candidacy. "Instead of cutting deals with the president's liberal allies, we should be opposing them every step of the way."
All of them appear happy to accept the gravitas that might be implied by their parents' often-storied careers. Yet the names on the ballots will ultimately be their own, and voters' brand loyalty extends only so far.
"Eventually, of course, you are judged by your own accomplishments," Kennedy Townsend says.
The next step in the " evolutionary" process may very well see women as the bequeathers of family political legacies, not just inheritors.
There is a handful of female lawmakers whose sons and grandsons have gone on to succeed them or join their ranks in Washington — think of the late congresswoman Julia Carson, D-Ind., whose grandson André Carson now holds her former House seat. But so far, there hasn't been a woman in Congress with a daughter who followed her footsteps.
Stephen Hess, the Bookings scholar who wrote the book "Political Dynasties," predicts that it's only a matter of time.
For example, EMILY's List, the organization that recruits pro-choice Democratic candidates, already has its eye on Hannah Pingree, the former speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and the daughter of Rep. Chelli Pingree, D-Maine.
"In time, we'll start to see dynasties that look very female," Hess says.


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gbrance wrote: The question will be if enough of a market exists for a 3rd party solution.
"...A new offer to come: Renault ZOE used with 300 km of actual range
"Given the prices currently traded in the second-hand ZOEs in circulation in 2013 and / or with more than 50,000 km on the counter, some potential buyers have taken out their calculators to get a better idea of ??the acquisition cost Of a used ZOE + battery change.
"The number is then without appeal: for less than 12 k € (to which it is obviously necessary to add the cost of the monthly rental of the battery), it is now possible to drive in an EV with a real range of between 250 and 300 Kilometers. An offer that no other manufacturer is able to offer to date...."
Sjabba wrote:Yes, Renault offers current Zoe-drivers an upgrade to a 40Kwh batterypack.
The former Zoe has a lease construction for the pack. But within some month you can order the new pack. They charge you fittingcosts (arround 3500 EUR) and off couse still a monthly fee for the lease of the pack. You wouldn't be owner of the pack. If you buy the new Zoe you can choose to lease or buy the pack. So if you buy a "old" Zoe you must invest another 3500 to get the pack fitted. That are costs you make but you still will not be owner of the pack.
The offer to upgrade is an unique selling point. The reason why Nissan doesn't do that reminds me of Kodak. They invented the digital camera but put it on the self because the film was selling so good. The a tirdparty started to selling them and it was to late.
jlsoaz wrote:Where it says "without appeal" .... something seems wrong with the translation, as the rest of the message seems to be the deal may be appealing to some
parkwright wrote:In other words, stop throwing good money after bad, cut your losses, don't buy or recommend a Leaf


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Packers offensive lineman Josh Sitton, who ripped the Lions' defensive line and coaching staff, has found an unlikely ally in former Lions defensive lineman Lawrence Jackson, who says that Sitton's comments about Schwartz are accurate.
Sitton described the Lions as dirty cheap shot artists, and then added, "That starts with their head coach, Schwartz. He's a dick, too. I wouldn't want to play for him." Jackson, who did play for Schwartz from 2010 to 2012, wrote on Twitter that Sitton had a point.
"I don't disagree with him about Jim," Jackson wrote.
Asked by a fan on Twitter what his issue is with Schwartz, Jackson elaborated.
"I don't have anything against him. I just don't have a ton of respect for him," Jackson said. "Not everyone is held to the same standard and things are done because he wants to do them not because they're good for the team. He will also lie right to your face. I asked a question I knew the answer to and he tried to bulls–t me. I saw right through it."
Jackson added, however, that he didn't agree with Sitton's feelings about the Lions' defensive line. According to Jackson, the Lions' defensive linemen don't go after quarterbacks with any more ill intent than any other defensive linemen in the league, and Jackson thinks that if Sitton has a problem with hits that the Packers' quarterbacks have taken against the Lions, then Sitton should look in the mirror.
"If you don't want any problems," Jackson wrote, "protect your QB."
That's good advice for Sitton, who will do battle with a fired-up Ndamukong Suh and Nick Fairley on Thanksgiving.


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Result for 7th Teachers Registration Exam 2011
7th Teachers Registration Exam 2011 results have been published. Total 57,203 people have passed the exam. You can check your result below. Enter your Roll No. & click on 'Submit' button.
Education Ministry announced the result on Sunday March 4, 2012, in which 1,65,400 person attended from schools and 93,714 attended from colleges. Out of all 34,961 passed from schools and 22,242 passed from colleges.
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Certificates will be send to respective district education officer within 3 months from the date of result publication. If any examinee needs a temporary certificate, then he/she can use the printed result sheet from NTRCA website.


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Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) March 26, 2012
ShoreTel® (NASDAQ: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple premise and cloud-based business phone system and communication solutions with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced the release of M5 Communicator, part of the M5 Unified Communications Suite in ShoreTel's Cloud division and free to all existing M5 clients.
An extension of the Suite, M5 Communicator is an application accessible from the desktop of a user's PC or Mac. In addition to offering instant messaging across the enterprise, peer-to-peer video chat, file transfer, and screen-sharing capabilities, Communicator's "Presence" feature enables users to see when their colleagues are on the telephone.
"ShoreTel understands the voice 2.0 value proposition – it's all about the applications and the experience – not just cheaper, reliable connectivity," said Jon Arnold, Principal of J Arnold & Associates, an independent telecom analyst and marketing consultancy. "High value applications, like M5 Communicator, give customers the easy to use Unified Communications tools they crave." Communicator is part of the M5 Unified Communications Suite, a cloud-based communications service for employees that want to focus on their business instead of the business of running a communications platform. Based on the M5's Call Conductor platform, the Suite integrates communications and business data, providing M5 clients with access to business intelligence that can be used to increase sales, gauge customer satisfaction, and implement operational efficiencies. The Suite also includes:
- Hosted, managed voice-over-IP (VoIP)
- Conferencing and Collaboration: telephone-based audio conferencing, screen sharing, and file transfer.
- Unified Messaging: personal voicemail, shared voicemail, voicemail to e-mail, transcribed voicemail, and voicemail to customer-relationship management (CRM).
- Portal: administrative and end-user self-service.
- Recording: inbound and outbound call recording with full time and ad-hoc support and look-back.
- Contact Center: fully-feature prioritized skill routing, live dashboards, analytical reports, agent performance management, and more.
- Business Intelligence: reports and analysis with real business impact.
"We offer a complete bundle that doesn't ignore the most important modality today: voice," said Jeff Valentine, M5 Networks senior vice president of product marketing. "While other competitors offer voice as an add-on, they don't provide the full breadth of functionality, the professional installation, the proactive monitoring, the advanced features, the intelligence, or the end-user support, all in a powerful yet intuitive platform like M5's."
For more information about M5 Communicator, the M5 Unified Communications Suite, or other products, please visit http://www.m5.net.
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ShoreTel, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR) brings unmatched flexibility, choice and value to brilliantly simple business phone systems and unified communications (UC). With its award-winning premise-based IP phone system with integrated unified communications, contact center capabilities, and its proven hosted VoIP services, organizations of all sizes can select the best option for their needs. ShoreTel's ongoing mission is to eliminate costly complexity and give customers the 24/7 freedom to leverage rich voice, video, data, and mobile unified communications capabilities they need. ShoreTel is based in Sunnyvale, California, and has regional offices in Austin, Texas; New York, New York; Maidenhead, United Kingdom; Sydney, Australia; and Singapore. For more information, visit http://www.shoretel.com.


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Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie has reached the point of his career when he's the veteran mentor, and so he's going to get together with some teammates over the next month to show them the right way to stay in shape for the time off between the end of minicamp and the start of training camp.
Cromartie told Conor Orr of the Star-Ledger that a group of teammates including cornerback Kyle Wilson, cornerback Aaron Berry, safety Josh Bush and receiver Stephen Hill will stay at a house he's renting in California and work out each day with his personal trainer. Cromartie said the California locale isn't the draw; what's important is that younger players can benefit from the kinds of offseason workouts that keep Cromartie in top shape.
"It ain't Cro West. It's just the Cro Workout Regimen," Cromartie said.
Jets coach Rex Ryan has preached the importance of team unity, and Cromartie said he likes that aspect of the workouts as well.
"By us working out together and understanding each other, we get a better feel for each other, too," Cromartie said. "Not just here, but outside of this building. That's something we're trying to build on."
With Darrelle Revis gone, Cromartie sounds like he's taking seriously the responsibilities of being the unquestioned leader of the Jets' secondary.


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Are Men or Women Better Cooks? — Survey of the Day
A couple of generations ago, preparing meals was pretty much the job of the woman of the house.
But that has changed with more women entering into the workplace and male celebrity chefs making the kitchen a safe place for the fellows to embrace.
In fact, according to a Conversion Hub and Asia Food Recipe of survey of 2,806 women, 58 percent of the respondents are willing to concede that men are better cooks then women.
While this might all be a ploy to get their husbands to cook more, it's an interesting result, indeed.


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Giacobbe Giusti, The Painted Garden of the Villa of Livia
This lush painted garden covered the walls of a semi-subterranean chamber, probably a cool triclinium (dining room) for summer banquets, in the suburban Villa of Livia Drusilla, the wife of Augustus.
This Second style fresco, the most ancient example of continuous garden painting (30 – 20 BCE), presents a variety of plants and birds rendered in a naturalistic way.
Many are the botanical species identified: in the foreground, the umbrella pine, the oak, the red fir; beyond a marble enclosure grow apple quinces, pomegranates, myrtles, oleanders, date palms, strawberry trees, laurels, viburnums, holm oaks, box trees, cypresses, ivy and acanthus.
In the meadow under the trees bloom roses, poppies, chrysanthemums and chamomile, while along the footpaths in the foreground, ferns alternate with violets and irises.


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Alabama signed two players and Auburn signed three on the first day of the college basketball early signing period Wednesday.
Alabama signed a center and a forward, while Auburn added three players to the Tigers' program Wednesday, during the first day of the early college basketball signing period.
Center Jimmie Taylor and forward Shannon Hale are slated to join the Crimson Tide on the court for the 2013-14 season.
"We are very excited to have Jimmie and Shannon sign National Letter of Intent's with the University of Alabama," Tide coach Anthony Grant said. "They are both outstanding young men who come from quality families. They also have a passion and excitement level for Alabama and our basketball program."
Taylor is a four-star recruit and brings an inside presence for Grant's squad next season.
Taylor helped lead Greensboro High School to back-to-back Class 3A state titles in 2011 and 2012.
Last season, the 6-10, 235-pound center averaged 9.6 points and 5.2 rebounds while blocking 97 shots. During his sophomore year, Taylor averaged 10.2 points, 8.1 rebounds and 5.6 blocks a game.
Taylor's performance in the 2011 state title game was a memorable one, as he collected 15 points, 13 boards and nine blocks in the victory over Clarke County High School.
Similar to Taylor, Hale, a 6-8, 200-pound power forward from Johnson City, Tenn., is another player who could help in the post next season.
He is listed as a four-star recruit by rivals.com and is ranked as the No. 19 power forward and the No. 93 overall prospect by the same site.
In addition, ESPN.com lists Hale as the No. 6 recruit in the state of Tennessee.
The Auburn Tigers signed two 7-footers and a 5-foot-10 point guard to play next season.
Auburn coach Tony Barbee's early signees are centers Ronald Delph of Winter Haven, Fla., and Benas Griciunas of Silute, Lithuani, and guard Tahj Shamsid-Deen.
Shamsid-Deen, of Decatur, Ga., is ranked as the No. 91 prospect by MaxPreps. He has helped lead Columbia High School to three-straight Class AAA state titles. He chose Auburn over UCLA, UConn, Richmond and Northwestern.
Delph is attending IMG Academy after starting three seasons at Lake Region High. He averaged 10 points and 10 rebounds last season.
Delph chose Auburn over Texas A&M, Cincinnati and Miami.
Griciunas is in his third year attending Findlay Prep in Henderson, Nev. He chose Auburn over Georgia Tech, Boston College, St. Mary's and Washington State.


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NEW YORK—There were plenty of risk-takers on the Met gala red carpet.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art fundraiser known as "the party of the year" had a red carpet Monday night to rival the Oscars. But with stars on the arms of designers and the theme "Punk: From Chaos to Couture," many braved the chance they'd end up a "don't."
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Miley Cyrus (in Marc Jacobs), Anne Hathaway (in Valentino) and Cameron Diaz (in Stella McCartney) were among the celebrities to embrace the punk theme, and Beyoncé, the event's honorary chairwoman, seemed the girl on fire in a flame-motif gown by Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci.
Tisci also dressed Rooney Mara — the kind of star who can pull off punk — and a pregnant Kim Kardashian, a less obvious candidate. Kardashian faced insta-critics online for her floral-print, high-neck gown.
The Met gala is largely orchestrated by Anna Wintour, Vogue's editor-in-chief, who acknowledged the edgy theme could have thrown some people off their fashion game.
"I think (punk) is so eclectic and so original and maybe it sort of represents what's very fearless about fashion," she said.


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Skyrme Sphalerons of an O(3)-oe Model and the Calculation of Transition Rates at Finite Temperature (1997)
The reduced O(3)-oe model with an O(3) ! O(2) symmetry breaking potential is considered with an additional Skyrmionic term, i. e. a totally antisymmetric quartic term in the field derivatives. This Skyrme term does not affect the classical static equations of motion which, however, allow an unstable sphaleron solution. Quantum fluctuations around the static classical solution are considered for the determination of the rate of thermally induced transitions between topologically distinct vacua mediated by the sphaleron. The main technical effect of the Skyrme term is to produce an extra measure factor in one of the fluctuation path integrals which is therefore evaluated using a measure-modified Fourier-Matsubara decomposition (this being one of the few cases permitting this explicit calculation). The resulting transition rate is valid in a temperature region different from that of the original Skyrme-less model, and the crossover from transitions dominated by thermal fluctuations to those dominated by tunneling at the lower limit of this range depends on the strength of the Skyrme coupling.
A formula suitable for a quantitative evaluation of the tunneling effect in a ferromagnetic particle is derived with the help of the instanton method. The tunneling between n-th degenerate states of neighboring wells is dominated by a periodic pseudoparticle configuration. The low-lying level-splitting previously obtained with the LSZ method in field theory in which the tunneling is viewed as the transition of n bosons induced by the usual(vacuum) instanton is recovered.The observation made with our new result is that the tunneling effect increases at excited states. The results should be useful in analyzing results of experimental tests of macroscopic quantum coherence in ferromagnetic particles.
The tunneling splitting of the energy levels of a ferromagnetic particle in the presence of an applied magnetic field - previously derived only for the ground state with the path integral method - is obtained in a simple way from Schr"odinger theory. The origin of the factors entering the result is clearly understood, in particular the effect of the asymmetry of the barriers of the potential. The method should appeal particularly to experimentalists searching for evidence of macroscopic spin tunneling.


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Plot Synopsis
Main Plot
Spike's daughter, Emma (Miriam McDonald), is told by her online boyfriend, Jordan, that he is coming to Toronto for a school field trip. He asks her if she would like to meet him for the first time. Her friends J.T. Yorke (Ryan Cooley) and Toby Isaacs (Jake Goldsbie) warn her of the potential dangers of meeting somebody she knows only on the Internet, also pointing out that schools do not take field trips in the middle of summer, which Emma says that they planned it in spring. However, Emma is undeterred, convinced that Jordan is just a normal boy with whom she shares the same interests.
Sub Plot
Snake Simpson (Stefan Brogren), a former student of Degrassi High and now teacher at Degrassi Community School, has arranged a mixed reunion for the classes of 1992 and 1993. Spike Nelson (Amanda Stepto), Caitlin Ryan (Stacie Mistysyn), and Lucy Fernandez (Anais Granofsky), who also attended Degrassi High, plan on attending and try to persuade Joey Jeremiah (Pat Mastroianni) to join them. Joey, however, is reluctant as he is still dealing with his grief over the recent death of his wife. Along with Caitlin's fiancée Keith (Don McKellar), the five friends go out to a bar for the night, reminiscing about the past and discussing their present lives.
Extended Overview
It is revealed that Caitlin Ryan is now famous and on the cover of a magazine, and Christine (Spike) Nelson has now grown up and is sporting straight, black hair which long replaced her spiky blonde style. The series premiere commences in Emma Nelson's room where she and her best friend Manny are reading a thank you e-mail from Emma's internet pen pal, Jordan. Spike reminds Emma and Manny that they need to leave, as they are late, and J.T. has been waiting for them. They're rushed out to Ms. Nelson's 10 Year Degrassi Reunion before Emma gets to read a new e-mail message sent to her.
Upon arriving at their new school, Emma, Manny, and J.T. are asked to drop off a series of boxes by Spike, as the school will be opening in a few days. J.T. is overburdened with boxes, but Emma and Manny hardly realize that he is straining, as they are too busy talking about Jordan and his environmental efforts. It's discovered that Jordan has received over 6,000 names for his petition, initially suggested by Emma, to "keep the polar wildlife refuge untouched". J.T. eventually, falls from the weight and upon opening one of the boxes on impact, Emma, Manny, and J.T. see a picture of Joey's old band, The Zit Remedy, with his flamboyant and retro haircut.
The bald, modern day Joey is now seen as a car salesman trying to sell a Volkswagen Beetle to his old-time friend, Lucy Fernandez. She's skeptical of the car's performance and practicality, due to its size, and states that she needs to move to New Mexico in a more adequate vehicle. Joey eventually convinces Lucy to try it out during the trip to Degrassi Community School for their school reunion. Angela, Joey's daughter, comes out reminding Lucy that Joey was unconfirmed for the reunion and that it has been a year since Joey's wife, Julia, passed away. Lucy believes that Julia would be upset if she thought that Joey was cutting himself off from people while Joey responds by quickly changing the subject.Back at the empty school, Emma, Manny, and J.T. eventually find an older, more mature Snake (now a teacher at Degrassi) to give the boxes to. Snake reacquaints himself with Emma, and starts to reminisce about some of his high school life by taking Joey's fedora from J.T. Relieved that they had finally dropped off the boxes, the three start to wander the school.
They soon discover the new media immersion computer lab, but much to the ridicule of J.T. and Manny, Emma wished to check Jordan's new e-mail on the computer and is about to enter the lab when they see Mr. Raditch, who is now the principal of Degrassi, giving a tour to Toby Isaacs and his father. Excited to see his friend from camp, J.T. introduces Toby to Emma and Manny while Mr. Raditch carries on his tour with Toby's father. Emma and Manny enter the computer lab while Toby and J.T. stand guard. Emma checks her e-mails and to her surprise, she realizes that Jordan will be coming to Toronto and wants to meet Emma the next day. Emma is excited and thinks about agreeing to his offer, while Manny worries about her decisions.
Outside in the streets of Toronto, inside a limo, an older and now famous Caitlin Ryan is talking on her cell phone with her new fiancé, Keith. She's dropped off at Degrassi and after she and Snake refamiliarize themselves, Joey and Lucy also make it to the school. When Caitlin spots Joey, the moment lingers while the two old friends stare at each other and seeing how much they've changed over the past ten years.
Meanwhile, Emma, Manny, Toby and J.T. are in the playground, contemplating Emma's dilemma in either meeting Jordan or not. J.T. teases Jordan saying that he may be a creep living in Scarborough, and working at a video store while Toby warns Emma about the dangers of meeting someone unknown from the Internet. Emma responds by citing that Jordan is not an unknown person, and that she has known him longer than she has known Toby. Manny explains that Jordan is arriving as part of a class trip and J.T. remarks that it's the summer. Emma defends Jordan by saying that the trip was booked back in the Spring, but he only got to go at the last minute and that J.T. was "making the situation into something it wasn't nor did it have to be".
Emma arrives home to find her mother with Caitlin looking at the Degrassi reunion website and, after revealing that she's quite a fan of Caitlin Ryan's work, they quickly become friends. Later, Emma and Manny recheck all the e-mails and find that there were no mentions of a video store or missing teeth when Manny speculates that J.T. was simply just worried about Emma, which Emma quickly rebuts saying that, "J.T. is just immature". She praises that she's never met a guy so smart and mature for her age. Manny also points out that Emma's never had a real boyfriend before.
Meanwhile, at a bar, Spike, Joey, Lucy, and Snake finally meet Caitlin's fiancé, Keith. He's a big time movie producer who critiques one of Joey's car ads which just aired, saying that Joey should avoid the shifty car salesman vibe. The ad, which featured Joey ripping his shirt off for advertisement purposes, makes Caitlin remark that he was a total ham during high school and despite everything he's been through, he's still the same old Joey. Joey remarks by saying "he actually has changed". Upset about what everyone said, Joey promptly gets up and seats himself alone at the bar. Snake walks over and confronts him regarding Joey's life decisions and after a discussion, Joey's left to reconsider his choice to "cut himself off from the world" and perhaps go to the reunion.Spike, Lucy, and Caitlin then arrive back at at the Nelson's house and Emma comes downstairs. She privately talks to Caitlin for advice and asks if she thinks that she should keep seeing Jordan, even though her friends think it isn't safe. Caitlin, not knowing that Emma had met Jordan on the Internet, tells her that sometimes "you just have to take a chance and go for it". Emma thinks about it and decides to meet Jordan despite the warning of her friends. While the three women reminisce in the living room downstairs, Emma e-mails Jordan back saying that she wants to come to Toronto and meet him.
- This episode shares its title with the 1972 song, "Mother and Child Reunion" by Paul Simon.
- Although this is the series premiere episode in Canada, it is aired as the season one finale in the US. However, it's currently being aired as the season premiere when shown in rerun on TeenNick.
- This is the only two-part episode of season 1.
- This is the season one episode that features the most absences.
- The character featured in the final freeze frame for this episode was Emma, appearing for the first time.
- The scene, in the beginning of the episode, where Emma is listening to Manny reading Jordan's e-mails is one of the clips used in Miriam McDonald's video montage in the season 6-7 opening credits.
- This is the second episode to take place during Summer Vacation. The other were School's Out!, Degrassi Takes Manhattan, Nowhere to Run, and Summertime.
- The pajamas that Emma was wearing in the scene where she asks Caitlin for relationship advice, looks very similar to the ones that Manny wore at the end of the season 5 episode, Weddings, Parties, Anything.
- Although it is never confirmed on-screen or during the episodes closing credits, Internet Movie Database (IMDb) claims that Keith's last name is Barra.
- Joey's fedora goes around and is taken possession by various people in the episode
- Manny finds it at Emma's house as she is seen wearing it when the episode starts.
- Spike then takes it back to bring it to the reunion.
- Spike then places it on J.T.'s head for him to carry upon arriving at Degrassi.
- Snake takes the hat from J.T. and wears it for himself, reminiscing about Joey wearing it.
- Snake shows it to Caitlin and she puts it on.
- When Joey arrives Caitlin takes it off and gives it back to Snake.
- It is eventually placed down on the table at the bar.
- Spike is seen wearing it when she comes back home with Caitlin and Lucy.
- Lucy takes it off to fan herself and then puts it on. She then takes it off and puts it on the couch.
- Finally, in the next episode, Emma seems to have found it and is now wearing it.
- Ironically, Joey, the owner of the hat, is never seen wearing it.
- Emma Nelson was born the end of the school year dance in June 1988 in the original series, Degrassi Junior High. This episode is said to be taking place at the end of the summer in 2001 and therefore, Emma should be 13 by now. However, she claims to be only 12 and starting grade 7.
- The writers seem to have changed Emma's age entirely, making it the same as her best friend, Manny Santos, who claims (in a later episode) that she was born in 1989. This date alteration would make Emma's age make sense in this episode.
- In the beginning of the episode, Christine Nelson (Spike) looks at a photo of her with Emma as a child, proving the continuing storyline of the two reprising characters from the original Degrassi series.
- When Emma shows Spike the Degrassi Reunion website, several Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High characters are shown in the online photos. Spike is later seen looking at a reunion website with Caitlin Ryan.
- When Emma, Manny and J.T. are carrying boxes into Degrassi for the reunion, Emma notices a photo in one of the boxes of Archie Simpson (Snake), Joey Jeremiah and Derek Wheeler (Wheels) as The Zit Remedy, which was a band the three had created in Degrassi Junior High. Emma made a comment by saying, "people in the 80's were weird", noticing the old style clothing and hair.
- When J.T. walks down the hallway at Degrassi with Joey's fedora on his head, Snake says "I can see fedora's are making a comeback", in reference to the fact the Joey always wore a hat, and usually a fedora in Degrassi Junior High and Degrasi High.
- Caitlin arrived at Degrassi with a headband as a item to represent one of her best memories from when she was in high school there. When Snake laughed upon seeing it, Caitlin claimed that it was a phase she went through and that he should remember as it was the 80's.
Character Revelations
- This episode marks the first appearance of Manny Santos, J.T. Yorke and Toby Isaacs.
- Although Emma Nelson has already made several appearances in the original Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High series, this episode marks the first time she is being played by Miriam McDonald.
- This episode marks the first appearance of Angela Jeremiah, who is introduced as Joey Jeremiah's four year old daughter, in a recurring role. This suggests that Joey met another love interest during the ten year series hiatus. He confirms this to be true when he mourns about the recent death of his wife, Julia Jeremiah.
- This episode also marks the first appearance of Jeff Isaacs, who is introduced in a recurring role as the father of Toby Isaacs, who plays a central main character.
- In the beginning of this episode, Emma leaves her computer on and her e-mail inbox opened with Jordan's previous messages showing. However, later that day, Spike goes on the computer with Caitlin to look at the Degrassi reunion website and they somehow don't see the message box or e-mails from Jordan. Although, they may have just simply closed it without taking the time to look at anything.
- As previously mentioned, the writers seemed to have made a retcon in Emma Nelson's age as she is only 12 years old in this episode. Unless this is a continuity error, she should really be 13 at this point, having been born in June 1988 and this episode taking place in August 2001 (according to the Degrassi timeline).
Regular Cast (Ordered alphabetically)
- Stefan Brogren as Archie Simpson
- Ryan Cooley as J.T. Yorke
- Jake Goldsbie as Toby Isaacs
- Miriam McDonald as Emma Nelson
- Cassie Steele as Manny Santos
- Dan Woods as Principal Raditch
Also Starring
- Anais Granofsky as Lucy Fernandez
- Pat Mastroianni as Joey Jeremiah
- Stacie Mistysyn as Caitlin Ryan
- Amanda Stepto as Christine Nelson
Supporting Cast
- Nigel Hamer as Jeff Isaacs
- Don McKellar as Keith Barra
- Alex Steele as Angela Jeremiah
- Emma: "Read it again, Manny." (Emma Nelson's first line)
Manny: "Again? I've read it six times." (Manny Santos' first line)
Emma: "Just one more time. Please?"
Manny: "Okay." (reading e-mail) "Emma, you saved my heart and my project. If you protect the wildlife refuge, I'll owe it all to you. Love you - Jordan."
- Spike (showing Emma and Manny her high school photo): "What do you think? How's that for a hair-do? Could I have been any cooler?"
Emma: (scoffs) "Yeah."
- Spike: "So, expecting an e-mail from your boyfriend?"
Emma: "You hacked my e-mail? Haven't you ever heard of privacy?"
Spike: "Relax, I couldn't hack my way out of a paper bag."
- J.T. (referring to Jordan): "He's probably 40 and drools."
Emma: "So? You still wet the bed, and I'm friends with you!"
- Emma: (reciting Caitlin's advice) "Sometimes you just have to take a chance! Go for it!"
- Snake: "Cutting out the rest of the world isn't going to bring her back. You know that, right?"
Joey: "Will you save the Psych 101 crap for your students."
- Joey (on TV): "Hey! We got white ones. We got red ones, we got big ones and we got small ones. I'm gonna give you a bumper to bumper warranty. That's right. At Jeremiah motors, if you find a lower price anywhere else, I'll give you the shirt off my back!"
Lucy: "Joey! That's awful!"
Joey: "I needed a commercial, I made a commercial."
- Emma: "Girls are so much more mature than boys. That's why I like Jordan. I've never had a boyfriend so smart, so thoughtful."
Manny: "Em, you've never had a boyfriend."
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|2009-04-11, 13:35
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I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
And apparently, our paperwork is worse... Also, there's a strict, legal limit to how much we can borrow based on our income. And the possibility of being blacklisted by the banks - that means no check or debit card.
I'm not saying our system is better. But it is possible to lend and borrow without looking to deeply into people's history.
And I'd just like to note that your Credit Score system didn't save us from the financial crisis.
|2009-04-11, 14:03
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Not Enough Sleep
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As one of the poster on page you link to. The French system seems more like the Chex system for American banks. However i did note that the blogger said that if the French were aware of how much she had in student loans, she would not be able to get loans in France. So to me that means the French do have some sort of credit score system. Not the same as ours but they are tracking how many loans a individual has and how big they are.
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|2009-04-11, 14:56
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I disagree with you all.
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I don't know if the banks tell each other these things (I don't think it's even legal, without a waiver signed by you), or if they just ask you.
But let's say you had a financial problem last year, failed to pay a few credit card bills, but set everything right between then and now. Then it shouldn't matter to you getting a loan or not.
|2009-04-15, 17:57
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Considering what Obama has been doing lately with regards to the economy, I am starting to have doubts of his capability to lead a nation and fix the economic crisis. I think he does not have the ability to succeed. If this feeling of mine is correct, then the next 4 years will be tough luck for the world, especially the ones who live in the States.
20 more days and it will be his first 100 days in office, nothing achieved. Very impressive!
|2009-04-15, 21:35
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Location: Singapore
Age: 33
If one thinks that this crisis can be solved within the first 100 days, perhaps you want to rethink your train of thought. This problem would not be solved, even in a year or two. The fact is that the administration has to be reminded that there are OTHER pressing stuff besides the crisis. Long-standing elephants in the living room include the Arab-Israeli conflict, and North Korea.
|2009-04-15, 22:26
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Noone expects the administration to solve the crisis within 100 days... It's going to take time until recovery comes... even though the worst is already over. Remember, they inherited the crisis from the Bush Administration which did little to try to fix the problem.
|2009-04-15, 22:28
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|2009-04-15, 23:10
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I would say, even if the majority of the "promises" he is working on are smaller scale, the sheer fact that he has started (or finished) the process of working on so many is a good sign of progress, even if only slow and steady...
|2009-04-16, 00:06
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|2009-04-16, 00:48
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^That wasn't quite my point. I am not currently trying to criteque Obama's Presidency (we have another thread set up specifically for that). Rather, I was disagreeing with the notion that Obama has made no progress what so ever, and that nothing has been achieved (which is why I used the clear number count of campaign promises and those that have been presently addressed as a means of showing that the President has been working on what he originally said he would be working on).
|2009-04-16, 04:10
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On the economic front, things are not yet moving at a radical pace. The house-cleaning just began.
|2009-04-16, 06:30
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|2009-04-16, 06:41
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|2009-04-16, 06:43
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Well, it's your choice. And I thought the term "war on terror" was already dropped?
The ground forces are facing a well-known challenge in Afghanistan. This land chews up foreign armies and spits them out without a second thought. Given the shortage of funds, people should watch this front tightly.
|2009-05-22, 22:34
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Obama signs a Credit Card bill which limits credit card companies to charge or raise the interest rates... but the question is... will it work since it doesn't go in effect until February 2010
|2009-05-23, 21:41
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Since they passed a provision that allows concealed weapons into parks... yes.. it was probably used so it will gain Republican support, but now national parks are unsafe because people can now bring weapons. He should of thought about that provision before passing the bill...
|2009-05-24, 01:23
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
National parks weren't very safe *before* people could legally take weapons there.... wildlife and human predators are a problem when law enforcement can be hundreds of miles away and there's no cell coverage.
People who carry concealed permits undergo background checks and many states require training both legal and tactical. Many people who *live* near national parks *have* to cross their boundaries to live their daily lives. The support for the amendment was bipartisan amongst western and large state congressmen who understand the problem. It had nothing to do with "urban concentration" issues of gun ownership. (and little to do with the economic crisis).
The *best* estimates I've ever seen on the economic mess is 2-4 years before any significant recovery. The most I'll critique Obama for is that Geithner(?) is way too chummy with the fatcats who need to share the pain they oversaw and don't seem to want to. The finance boys have had a "free lunch" for the last 25 years and now are scrambling to avoid the tab. The Republicans are totally bereft of working ideas at the moment -- 8 years of Bush seems to have sucked whatever clues out of them they had in the 90s.
|2009-05-26, 04:34
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Leaving aside the usual pork that come with bills, there will likely be unintended consequences arising from this bill. Everything from (1) more - and possibly higher - annual fees to (2) immediate higher rates instead of teasers to (3) immediate charging of interest without grace periods to etc. Banks don't provide credit for no reason, and if they can't make money, then they will either stop or charge more.
OTOH, if this means people save more - perhaps due to an immediate notice that they have less money in their bank accounts - that isn't a bad thing. At least, not on a personal and individual level.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- It's crunch time at the U.S. Supreme Court this week for proponents and opponents of same-sex marriage as the high court, like Oz, retreats behind the curtain to work its magic.
The nine justices are scheduled to conference behind closed doors Friday and decide -- or delay deciding -- whether to hear any of the five challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act or California's Proposition 8 case.
The odds appear good they will accept at least one of the DOMA cases and the Prop 8 case. All six of the petitions were scheduled to be considered Nov. 20, but were delayed until next Friday, Nov. 30.
Some major media outlets are reporting the justices eventually may decide whether same-sex marriages must be allowed. But when it can, the high court avoids making sweeping constitutional rulings and tries to find the narrow path to a decision. Some of the issues may involve "standing" -- whether a person or a group has suffered an injury and therefore has the right to challenge or defend a law.
Another factor favoring the acceptance of the cases: Only four votes out of nine are needed to grant a writ of certiorari -- or acceptance of review -- so that a case can be heard. DOMA and Prop 8 all have taken a beating in the lower courts.
The Supreme Court's four-member conservative bloc -- five if you include swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy -- might be inclined to grant review to either save DOMA or Prop 8, or write an opinion that gives Congress and the states some guidance on same-sex marriage.
The federal Defense of Marriage Act says federal benefits and considerations for married couples apply only to heterosexual unions.
The Obama administration is enforcing the 1996 act, but is one of the main challengers in court.
The entire law is not under attack. Section 2 says no state is required "to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of another state that treats a relationship between two persons of the same sex as a marriage under its laws."
In other words, the law says a same-sex marriage in Maryland, Maine and Washington state, which just approved such unions, would not necessarily have to be recognized in any other state.
None of the challenges targets Section 2. Section 3, which is targeted in all the DOMA cases, says, "In determining the meaning of any act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word 'marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word 'spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife."
"Although Section 3 of DOMA does not purport to invalidate same-sex marriages in those states that permit them," the administration told the Supreme Court in a petition brief, "it excludes such marriages from recognition for purposes of more than 1,000 federal statutes and programs whose administration turns in part on individuals' marital status. ... Section 3 of DOMA thus denies to legally married same-sex couples many substantial benefits otherwise available to legally married opposite-sex couples under federal employment, immigration, public health and welfare, tax and other laws."
With the administration refusing to defend DOMA, U.S. House Republican leaders took up the banner. A group called the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the United States House of Representatives, or BLAG, filed its own petition to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Massachusetts case, and has filed friend-of-the-court briefs in other DOMA cases.
"DOMA does not bar or invalidate any marriages but leaves states free to decide whether they will recognize same-sex marriage," the BLAG petition said. " ... Section 3 of DOMA simply asserts the federal government's right as a separate sovereign to provide its own definition, which 'governs only federal programs and funding.'"
Moreover, Congress did its own research before passing DOMA, the BLAG petition said.
"Before enacting DOMA [in 1996], Congress received and considered advice on its constitutionality and determined that DOMA is constitutional" after consulting a number of political and academic sources. "Congress specifically sought constitutional advice from the executive branch, and the Justice Department under the Clinton administration advised Congress three times that DOMA was constitutional."
In addition, the executive branch has a "constitutional duty to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed,'" the BLAG petition said in footnote, citing Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution. The petition said the Justice Department during the Bush administration successfully defended the act several times.
"This court 'does and should accord a strong presumption of constitutionality to acts of Congress. This is not a mere polite gesture. It is a deference due to deliberate judgment by constitutional majorities of the two Houses of Congress that an act is [constitutional],'" the petition said, citing a 1953 high court precedent.
California voters approved Proposition 8, the California Marriage Protection Act, in 2008 with slightly more than 52 percent for, nearly 48 percent against. Prop 8 said in part, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."
An earlier, similar measure, Proposition 22, was overturned by a ruling from the California Supreme Court. For Prop 8, opponents went to federal court where a federal judge declared it unconstitutional. A three-judge appeals court panel in San Francisco agreed 2-1.
The petition to the Supreme Court filed by ProtectMarriage -- its sponsor is a state non-profit, California Renewal -- argues the appeals court misinterpreted Supreme Court precedent. It also argues the state has a compelling interest in limiting marriage to a woman and a man.
"The unique procreative potential of sexual relationships between men and women implicates vital social interests," the petition said. "On the one hand, procreation is necessary to the survival and perpetuation of society and, indeed, the human race; accordingly, the responsible creation, nurture, and socialization of the next generation is a vital -- indeed existential -- social good."
The petition said: "A central purpose of marriage in virtually every society ... is and always has been to regulate sexual relationships between men and women so that the unique procreative capacity of such relationships benefits rather than harms society. In particular, through the institution of marriage, societies seek to increase the likelihood that children will be born and raised in stable and enduring family units by both the mothers and the fathers who brought them into this world."
With U.S. Supreme Court evenly divided by the four-member liberal bloc and four-member conservative bloc, the fate of DOMA or Prop 8 might come down to swing vote Kennedy.
Kennedy most often votes with the conservative bloc, allowing it to rule the roost at the high court.
But proponents of same-sex marriage might take comfort in two older opinions written by Kennedy and often reviewed by United Press International.
In 1996's Romer vs. Evans, a number of Colorado municipalities had passed "ordinances banning discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, employment, education, public accommodations, health and welfare services, and other transactions and activities."
But in a statewide referendum, Colorado voters adopted Amendment 2 to the state Constitution, which banned legislative, executive or judicial action at any level of state or local government designed to protect the status of persons based on their "homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation, conduct, practices or relationships."
The affected communities filed suit and a state judge issued a preliminary injunction declaring Amendment 2 invalid. The judge was sustained by the Colorado Supreme Court.
Then the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 majority opinion written by Kennedy, said Amendment 2 violated the U.S. Constitution's equal protection clause.
"We must conclude that Amendment 2 classifies homosexuals not to further a proper legislative end but to make them unequal to everyone else," Kennedy wrote. "This Colorado cannot do. A state cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws."
Justice Scalia led the dissenters, saying, "Today's opinion has no foundation in American constitutional law, and barely pretends to."
In 2003's Lawrence vs. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a state appellate court and declared the Lone Star State's sodomy law unconstitutional. In a 6-3 opinion, Kennedy said the statute violated the U.S. Constitution's due process -- or fair proceedings -- clause.
Kennedy basically told government to get out of the bedroom.
"Liberty protects the person from unwarranted government intrusions into a dwelling or other private places," he wrote. "In our tradition the state is not omnipresent in the home. And there are other spheres of our lives and existence, outside the home, where the state should not be a dominant presence. Freedom extends beyond spatial bounds. Liberty presumes an autonomy of self that includes freedom of thought, belief, expression and certain intimate conduct."
Again, Scalia led the dissenters, saying almost prophetically, "One of the benefits of leaving regulation of this matter to the people rather than to the courts is that the people, unlike judges, need not carry things to their logical conclusion. The people may feel that their disapprobation of homosexual conduct is strong enough to disallow homosexual marriage, but not strong enough to criminalize private homosexual acts -- and may legislate accordingly. The [Supreme] Court majority today pretends that it possesses a similar freedom of action, so that we need not fear judicial imposition of homosexual marriage, as has recently occurred in Canada [in a decision that the Canadian government has chosen not to appeal]. ...
"At the end of its opinion -- after having laid waste the foundations of our rational-basis jurisprudence -- the [Supreme] Court [majority] says that the present case 'does not involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter.' ... Do not believe it."


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Juno Jupiter probe gets British boost
Nasa's Juno spacecraft will execute the second of two big burns on its main engine on Tuesday.
The manoeuvre will put the probe on a path to flyby Earth in October next year. This sweep around the home planet will then give the mission a gravitational boost and the velocity required to get it out to Jupiter in July 2016.
What you might not know is that this critical event depends on British-designed and -built hardware.
Juno is equipped with a Leros-1b apogee engine prepared by Moog-ISP of Westcott.
Westcott has a rich history. It was at the old Buckinghamshire RAF base after WWII where the government established its guided weapons programme, producing solid motors and liquid engines.
Today, this quiet corner of England is developing propulsion systems for important spacecraft like Juno.
The Jupiter probe's Leros-1b was originally designed to put telecommunications satellites in the right part of the sky.
When these platforms are dropped off by their launch rockets they are in a large ellipse around the Earth running from just a few hundred km above the planet out to 36,000km.
An apogee engine makes a series of burns at the top of the ellipse to circularise that orbit and bring the satellite into a "stationary" parking position where it can then relay its TV pictures, phone traffic, broadband, etc to a particular region, 24/7.
The major American manufacturer Lockheed Martin was the first to use the high thrusting (635 newtons) Leros-1b on its telecoms platforms, but the engine has also found favour at the US space agency down the years.
The Mars Global Surveyor, which mapped the Red Planet from the late 90s, and the Near-Shoemaker probe, which visited an Asteroid Eros in 2003, both carried the Westcott technology.
Of those Nasa missions in action today, the Messenger venture at Mercury has a special reason to thank its Leros hardware.
"Messenger was particularly nice for us because it was the first time that any artificial satellite had gone into Mercury orbit," explained Dr Ian Coxhill, the chief engineer at Moog-ISP
"It was a proud day for us to know that our engine actually did the insertion burn to drop the spacecraft into the correct orbit.
"The engine braked the orbital speed. It was a delta-v opposite to the direction of travel and that slowed Messenger enough so the relatively weak gravity of Mercury could capture the spacecraft and put it into an elliptical orbit around the planet rather than the Sun."
The Leros-1b on Juno will be required to do something similar in July 2016 when the mission arrives at Jupiter. But first it must put the probe on the right path to the Gas Giant.
Juno was launched in August last. It has since travelled some 480 million km from Earth, beyond the orbit of Mars.
Two 30-minute burns of the hydrazine-fuelled Westcott engine - the first was conducted last Friday - will bring the spacecraft back towards the home planet for a classic gravitational slingshot out to Jupiter.
"We're pretty much hands off at this stage," Dr Coxhill says.
"Nasa's mission control is running things. If they see something they don't like - such as temperature readings that are too high - they might give us a call.
"We always like to get some feedback, which is not always possible because of security restrictions, and we understand that. But we put blood, sweat and tears into making our engines and just hearing there was a 'nominal burn' gives us a warm feeling."
Moog-ISP now produces a 1c derivative of the Leros as well. This is trimmed for slightly less thrust (450N). It was fitted to the Boeing-built Intelsat-21 and -22 telecommunications spacecraft that were launched in August and March of this year.
You will see the 1c on the next generation of the US DoD's Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, also - GPS-III.
"We're an export business. We're a UK company that makes most of our money selling into the US," emphasises Dr Coxhill.