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Manager Don Mattingly will have his annual kickoff team meeting and club president Stan Kasten has flown in for the occasion.
"The last day of calm before the whole group is here," Mattingly said before Thursday's workout. "It will be more hectic tomorrow."
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I was out there in Mulgore at 1am, running circles around the tents finding eggs. I didn't get to sleep until very, very late... and then was up again at 10am to start it all up on my feral druid, too! By 4pm (with breaks for gardening, housework, shower, and dailies), I had gotten the Noble title on my main, and need only to complete the Shake Your Bunny-Maker ear-ing of people on my feral druid.
I understand that the frustration of fighting for spawns of little eggs hidden around out-of-the-way towns is not for everyone, so I will share some suggestions on how to handle this achievement.
The Egg Hunt
- To begin, head out to one of the "starting villages" for your faction (does not have to be your specific race). These are the towns a lowbie first reaches that have a mailbox. For horde, I found the lowest density of people in Mulgore and Brill; for Alliance, I found the least in Kharanos and Dolanaar. If you're feeling adventurous, you *can* go to the starter towns of your opposing faction to loot eggs, but you won't get the starter quests there.
- Speak first to the quest-givers outside of the inn. They'll give you a starting goal and a click-use basket offhand that gives you a 60% speed boost buff. I recommend keybinding this somewhere where you can comfortably spam it. This does work while in cheetah/ghost wolf form, but does not stack: you will either be 40% speed from cheetah (etc), or 60% from the basket.
- Scout the whole town, picking up eggs (which are painted in some variation of blue/purple/green) as you find them. Make note of the locations that others are camping as spawn points.
- Within bushes
- Under wagons
- Under windowsills
- Wedged into corners of buildings
- On grills, tables, or racks
- In fountains
- Under benches and tables
- In boxes
- Under ramps
- Up against Mailboxes
- Between baskets and crates
- Etc.
- The "Tiny" eggs are not lootable. They are laid by players who were turned into bunnies and sat too long in one spot.
- If at all possible, attempt to egg hunt during a low(er)-pop realm time: while most are sleeping, are at work, or at school. Lunchtime will probably see a heavy burst around noon to 2pm server.
Hunting Style
There are two egg-hunting methods you can choose from, or switch between: the Camper, and the Hunter.
- Camping: choose the best location you can, preferably with no one else camping that clump of bushes or corner. Some spots are better than others as they may have 3-5 egg spawns within click range, some may only have 1. Your initial scouting should help with selection. Cons: this is incredibly dull, and you often feel territorial about your chosen spot. This leads to further frustration with the event, and may lead to harsh words with others who want their fluffy bunny as much as you do (I saw people cussing each other out in Goldshire). Above all, the camping method requires patience, as you wait for them to spawn in under your mouse. Sylly at Rolling Hots has written up her camping method here.
- Hunting: choose a circuit that includes as many non-camped egg spawns as possible, and run it. You need a good eye for this, and keep rotating your camera with mouse-look as much as possible so you can notice the eggs better. The quicker eggs are looted, the quicker they'll respawn around the town. Keep an eye on the comings and goings of the campers, as they may alter your route. If you aren't finding many spawns on your chosen route, change it up. Usually, the best route is to circle the largest building in the town, or a couple of the buildings. Don't ignore nearby trees, as they likely hide an egg or two of their own on the far side. Cons: if there are lots of campers, you won't find much.
The Achievements
I recommend aiming first for the Chocoholic achievement, or work towards purchasing a pet bunny (or the mage book as applicable) with 100 chocolates once you complete the initial quest. This gives you lots of egg-hunting time to collect various pieces of garb and possibly even have the pet bunny drop. Everything off of the vendors except for the click-use egg (purchased for 5 chocolate) can be collected from the eggs themselves. You will need in total:
- 100 chocolates consumed
- Spring Rabbit pet (drop or 100 choc)
- Spring Robes (drop or 50 choc)
- Spring Flowers (drop or 50 choc)
- Blossoming Branch (quest, drop, or 10 choc)
- White Tuxedo Shirt (drop, 25 choc, or gift from a buddy)
- Black Tuxedo Pants (drop, 25 choc, or gift from a buddy)
- 1 NobleGarden Egg (5 choc)
Once you have these necessary things completed and gathered, you can leave the egg hunting behind and focus your efforts on completing the achievements:
- Spring-Fling: begin working on this the moment you have your bunny pet, to cut down on travel. When your Spring Rabbit comes near someone elses' Spring Rabbit, they will... get hearts over their head and make baby bunnies using some sort of floral sorcery. You'll need to let your little sailor of a rabbit have such a fling in each of the four starting towns of your faction.
- Shake Your Bunny-Maker: the flowers have a 5-minute cooldown, so take care of this as you go about your dailies and travels. Dalaran is one of the best places to find each race. The hardest to track down will usually be female dwarves, orcs, and trolls. IMPORTANT: check if the person has the 2-minute carrot-icon ears buff on them before you use your flowers on them, or you won't get credit, but you'll still be sitting there with a cooldown on your flowers.
- Noble Garden: sometime in your travels you will likely end up in Stormwind or Silvermoon City, and at that time you'll want to have an egg on hand from the vendors that you yourself can hide. Either leave this for a friend or random passerby, or you can loot it yourself after dropping it!
- Blushing Bride: don your tux shirt and pants, find someone wearing the peachy-pink Elegant Dress, and send them a kiss. Easy to do, just don't wait til late in the week to take care of this, or there may be fewer dress-wearers lurking about the cities.
- Desert Rose: don your Spring Robes and port out from Dalaran to the Caverns of Time (Tanaris). Once out in the desert, click-use on the robes to plant a flower. Ride up past Gadgetzan into Thousand Needles/Shimmering Flats, and repeat; then head back to the flightpath at Gadgetzan to fly to Ungoro. In Ungoro, take care of your Hard-Boiled achievement (see below), then ride up to Silithus to plant your next flower. Fly from Silithus to Desolace for your fourth planting, and then hearth/travel across the world to Badlands for your final flower.
- Hard Boiled: while stopping by Un'Goro, have a friend with you, or find a pug-type who also has the Blossoming Branch. Head to the hot springs on the western side of the crater and bunnify each other, then wait quietly in the water until you lay an egg.
Try to get all of this done before Children's Week begins, so that you have less pressure to do both at the same time! Good luck, and have fun :)
(Oh, and if all those Chocolate Eggs give your character a tummy ache, I recommend some Goldthorn Tea.)

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Lemon curd is a thick citrusy sauce of velvety texture. This luscious, smooth and creamy curd can be spread on toasts, lemon cakes, cup cakes, drizzled over ice creams, cakes, scones, tarts and also used to sandwich macarons. As lemons are the prime ingredient and the one that dominates the flavour use fresh lemons that are plumb, juicy, firm and don't have any blemishes on them. Fresh lemons contributes a lot to the flavour of the sauce, so, do not replace fresh lemon with the bottles ones you get in stores.
As the lemon curd calls for cooking of eggs, I cooked it over a saucepan of simmering water instead of stove top cooking. You can also cook it over stovetop on a very low heat with constant stirring to prevent scrambling. But, if you leave it unnoticed, you might end up having some scrambled eggs in the mixture. To be on the safe side, it is always best to pass the sauce through a strainer once done to get rid of any lumps. Cover with a cling film to avoid a film forming on the surface and let keep refrigerated. You can also freeze this.
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3 egg yolks
1 large egg
½ cup (100g) sugar
¼ cup lemon juice (Juice of 1 ½ large lemons)
50g cold butter, diced in small pieces
Finely grated zest of 1 or 2 lemons
2 tsp corn flour, mixed in 2 tbsp water
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Opened 7 years ago
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#21947 closed defect (bug) (wontfix)
Fix 3-column dashboard display
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Issue #20015 'enhanced' the dashboard with a pure-CSS based multi-column dashboard. Excellent.
The CSS used makes gross assumptions about how many columns are appropriate for different-sized displays. Double plus ungood.
Users should be left to decide how many columns they wish to use.
There was considerable discussion of this when 3.4 was released, but no remedy yet, other than to hack away at the CSS of one's install, precluding upgrades; I've changed
@media only screen and (min-width:800px) and (max-width:1200px){ to
@media only screen and (min-width:800px) and (max-width900px){ in wp-admin.css to get a usable interface.
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7 years ago
- Priority changed from normal to low
The current css tries to maintain min-width for the dashboard postboxes/widgets. Yes, the values in @media are averages. In some cases it may seem that 1200px is too much depending on what postboxes are shown. In other cases it's just right.
Thinking that preventing overlapping postboxes (broken looking dashboard) is better UX than allowing more columns on narrower screens (keep in mind that relatively few users change Screen Options).
If we need to change the trigger values in @media, would be nice to see some screenshots with the proposed changes in action.
7 years ago
It makes no sense to me that screenshots should be required when the principle of least surprise dictates that the change should not have been made in the first place; don't take away features, and leave the user in control. Nevertheless, I have uploaded a snippet of my dashboard, showing the effect of customized CSS to allow 3 columns.
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7 years ago
Related #17586.
If I understand this correctly, you propose to reduce the width where 3 columns are possible to 900px. This is what I see with 3 columns @ 900px: dashboard-900px-3col.png.
In any case that css is in need of improvement. It should separate 3 and 4 columns the same way it separates 1, 2 and [more]. @belg4mit would you be willing to patch that?
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7 years ago
Replying to azaozz:
Related #17586.
In any case that css is in need of improvement. It should separate 3 and 4 columns the same way it separates 1, 2 and [more]. @belg4mit would you be willing to patch that?
That's an odd screenshot, but as you noted in the other ticket, the purpose of the multiple settings is to let the user pick the best one, especially since browsers differ in their interpretations of CSS i.e; the column margins should prevent that, given that that there are no positive min-widths for their contents. Added is a patch to disentangle the 3 and 4 column options. Setting additional columns is left as an exercise for the reader.
It also lowers the threshold for two columns to match the absolute minimum of 300px per column for the dashboard itself, not the editor. And it removes some (seemingly) redundant code:
#dashboard-widgets #postbox-container-3 .empty-container, #dashboard-widgets #postbox-container-4 .empty-container { border: 0 none; height: 0; min-height: 0; }
Which is covered by:
.metabox-holder.columns-1 .postbox-container .empty-container, .columns-2 #postbox-container-3 .empty-container, .columns-2 #postbox-container-4 .empty-container, .columns-3 #postbox-container-4 .empty-container { border: 0 none; height: 0; min-height: 0; }
7 years ago
Disentangle 3 & 4 column settings, lower size thresholds, allowing user to make best choice for him-/herself
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7 years ago
Replying to belg4mit: It's not going to be that easy :)
Some screenshots with dashCols.patch:
Dashboard @ 901px with 3 columns selected:
Dashboard @ 901px with 4 columns selected:
- 600px is too narrow to switch to two columns.
- 900px is too narrow to switch to three columns.
- When switching from four to three columns the forth column should move under the third (same as when switching to two or one column).
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7 years ago
- 600px is too narrow to switch to two columns.
- 900px is too narrow to switch to three columns.
No, it's not. Just because some are using browsers which squish things together does not mean others should have their options unnecessarily limited. If someone is using a browser that causes column overlap that they cannot tolerate, they can simply select one fewer columns or resize the window. Those of us that are using browsers which behave nicely can have more columns e.g; Chrome and Firefox ESR. See original screenshot dash3.png for an example of three columns at 900 px in Firefox ESR.
That is the whole point of this ticket: return power to the user.
- When switching from four to three columns the forth column should move under the third (same as when switching to two or one column).
It does that already/still in FF, but it seems in Chrome the 4th column contents can be in either the 2nd or 3rd column, depending upon the width of the window. This issue exists even with the original CSS. Webkit--
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7 years ago
Note that all of your screenshots have the admin menu collapsed, while azaozz's does not.
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7 years ago
Replying to nacin:
Note that all of your screenshots have the admin menu collapsed, while azaozz's does not.
Ah, good catch! With an uncollapsed menu (blechh) I can also get overlapping columns. I will poke around, but the width triggers are then dependent upon whether body.folded is set, and that's not accessible in a media query.
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Replying to belg4mit:
...but the width triggers are then dependent upon whether body.folded is set, and that's not accessible in a media query.
Yeah, that's the catch... The menu is non-folded by default. It auto-folds at 900px but the user can unfold it. So we will have to support non-folded menu on all widths.
7 years ago
Looking at this more: we can have different trigger widths for @media that also depend on
body.folded and
body.auto-fold. Even re-think/re-code the whole css that auto-folds the menu and moves dashboard columns around. A bonus: @media rules don't work in IE < 9, so we don't care about these (no IE7 compat, yay!).
7 years ago
The column-overlap.patch should be applied atop the first. It changes the left-hand menu to be position: fixed, like the admin bar, thereby allowing us to replace margin-left of the content container with a left position. This seems to work fine for me in FF ESR and Chrome.
7 years ago
Any chance this simple fix can get a little attention and make it into 3.6 since it wasn't in 3.5.1?
7 years ago
The best enhancement here is to take into account whether the menu is collapsed when calculating how many columns to show. This is quite tricky as the menu can be collapsed and expanded by the user (with css class) or from responsive css. Implementing three-way switch for collapsing the menu (and always having a class to tell us which option is set) would simplify this.
Imho this should be handled together with the above two tickets.
7 years ago
Those tickets are not really related as far as I can tell.
Please also see previous messages in this ticket.
These patches already handle expanding and collapsing of the menu (#14 above).
7 years ago
These patches already handle expanding and collapsing of the menu...
I may be missing something but applying both dashCols.patch and column-overlap.patch breaks the Dashboard badly when a user folds/unfolds the menu.
Also the setting for columns switches from 4 to 3 at about 1200px but if a forth column is displayed it stays as-is and the columns overlap. The forth column should move under the third column in that case.
7 years ago
Would you mind providing some detail as to the platforms on which you are experiencing a "badly broken Dashboard", or even a screenshot? The patched CSS works well for me on FF10 ESR, FF18, Chrome, Chrome OS, and IE10... regardless of the state of the menu, or it being toggled once the page is rendered.
Under some circumstances the columns may overlap by a few pixels, but I do not think "badly broken" would be a fair characterization of the situation, which is an artifact of different rendering engines handling CSS differently; it does not occur universally. Regardless, it is central to the whole purpose of this patch: The *user* should have the power to control their dashboard display, as they did pre 3.4. If a user wishes to sacrifice a small amount of "beauty" for functionality, they should be able to do so. If a 4-column interface is too muddled for them with their particular browser and window-size, they can opt to use 3 columns. This allows more people more options, versus the situation inflicted on users since 3.4, in which those whom have the ability to display 4 columns well (see screenshots) are precluded from doing so by arbitrary constraints.
The 3.4 change was made to remove JavaScript dependency. These patches preserve that, while restoring the full range of functionality previously available.


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Bush Booed at Inauguration...But Will History Agree?
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In January 2001 I had the honor and privilege of attending the inauguration of President George W. Bush. The country was ready to put the finishing touches on eight years of the Clinton Administration. The weather, much like the Obama inauguration, was freezing but the crowd of approximately 300,000 joyfully received the new president. The crowd also respectfully applauded when outgoing President Clinton and Vice-President Gore were introduced.
It was a much different scene when President Bush and Vice-President Chaney were introduced to the estimated crowd of 2 million at Obama's inauguration. Bush was openly booed by the crowd causing even the ultra-liberal MSNBC commentators to cry "bad form." Vice-President Chaney hurt his back earlier in the week and was forced to take the platform in a wheelchair. Many in the crowd found that to be funny, making snide comments loud enough to be picked up by nearby network and cable microphones and broadcast around the world. It was a disgusting and embarrassing display from people who had bathed in media generated Bush hatred for the last eight years.
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Right out of the gate, it should be acknowledged that after the attacks of 9/11 everybody believed we would be attacked again…. everybody. Attacks took place around the world in places like Spain, England, Ireland, and India…but not in America. You have to admit that for seven years, Bush Administration policies kept America safe from terrorists. For that alone I say, thank you, Mr. President.
From an evangelical perspective President Bush should receive high marks for persistence on the life issues and for fulfilling his word to place pro-life justices on the United States Supreme Court. Early in his presidency, Bush had to decide what to do about embryonic stem-cell research. He was being pressed from the scientific community and from many high-profile celebrities to open the floodgates for full embryonic research that would have set the precedent of an "anything goes" policy; subjecting human embryos to full scientific experimentation. Instead Bush chose life by allowing research only on the lines of embryos that were already designated for that purpose. He refused to treat human embryos like laboratory rats. Throughout his presidency he stood firm against embryonic stem-cell research, vetoing a bill with bi-partisan support that cost him support in his own party. It would have been easy for Bush to cave and allow the majority to have their way with the unborn. But Bush took the high road and stood in the gap for those who could not yet stand for themselves.
President Bush re-instated the "Mexico City Policy" which prohibits federal money used overseas to provide for abortions. He pushed for and signed into law the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act that protects the lives of babies who survive abortions. He signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act that allows prosecutors to bring charges against someone who harms a baby in the mother's womb. He signed into law the Partial Birth Abortion Ban that forced abortion-minded physicians to step back from the brink of infanticide. For all of this and much more, President Bush deserves the cheers of pro-life evangelicals everywhere.
President Bush also made history by appointing two of the most conservative, constructionist judges to the Supreme Court. Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts have proven to be reliable pro-life, pro-family Jurists who see the Constitution as an anchor holding us on course rather than merely an untethered lifeboat that is driven by every wind of popular opinion.
President Bush's two biggest perceived failures, the war in Iraq and the Federal Government's response to Hurricane Katrina are failures only if viewed through the prism of a Left-wing ideology. Granted, Bush was slow to respond to the conditions on the ground after the initial battle for Iraq was won. But in the end, Iraq has held two free elections and even the hyper-critical New York Times has had to admit that things are so much better in Iraq now that families have returned to afternoon outings in public parks and shopkeepers in Baghdad's market district are enjoying robust business. Twenty-seven million people in Iraq are now free to build a country that rejects terrorism and tyranny and embraces peace and stability. In the closing months of 2008, the Iraqi Parliament officially recognized Christmas as a legal holiday allowing Christians to attend worship services for the first time without fear of government persecution. Opportunities now abound for a strong Christian witness in this former Muslim only society.
Katrina would have been a national disaster regardless of who occupied the White House. The failure of the levy system surrounding New Orleans brought incredible human suffering and a withering death toll. However, blaming President Bush for Katrina is like blaming the weatherman for the thunderstorm that ruined your office picnic. The Federal Emergency Management Agency took the fall but FEMA was never intended to be a first responder rescue operation. FEMA has always been the organization that moved in after the local response to offer low interest loans and to help manage reconstruction. The 30,000 people rescued from rooftops in the early hours following Katrina are an often-overlooked testimony to the rapid response of the federal government. State and local agencies in Louisiana and New Orleans failed miserably to respond. When FEMA did respond by setting up temporary trailers for the homeless and giving out credit cards, they were exploited by people who used the credit cards to party in bars and used the temporary trailers as excuses to refuse to work toward permanent housing. None of this should be laid at President Bush's door.
For conservatives, President Bush supplied plenty of disappointments. He fumbled the ball completely on immigration siding with those who want amnesty and open borders. He gave us an oxymoron…conservative big government. And he was far too open to those who want America to blend into some form of a global community while sacrificing our American distinctiveness.
But when the dust of partisan politics settles and history has a clear view of President Bush's eight years in Washington I believe the boos he received at President Obama's inauguration won't even be remembered as footnote.
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Nissan's NV range of cargo vans, introduced for the 2012 model year, goes head to head with other well-established commercial vans like the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, Ford E-Series, and Chevy Express. The heavy-duty 2012 Nissan NV3500, with its 317-hp 5.6-liter V-8, shares its truck-based underpinnings with other F-Alpha platform vehicles like the Nissan Titan, Armada, and Frontier. Unlike those offerings meant for mainstream consumption, the NV3500 is strictly a commercial vehicle, and boasts some serious cargo-hauling capability thanks to a gutted interior and available High Roof configuration. In addition, the NV is easily adaptable to suit many other jobs, with sidewalls that can accommodate aftermarket storage systems without much modification.
A five-speed automatic transmission with a manual shift mode is the only gearbox offered, and sends power exclusively to the rear wheels, unlike some of the NV's more off-road-focused platform-mates. There's seating for two, and with the right features equipped, the ride can be reasonably comfortable (for a work van). Payload capacity ranges from 2755 to 3141, and with the NV3500's 234.1 cubic feet of cargo volume with the standard roof, moving large objects isn't really a problem for it. Also not much of a problem is towing, as the NV3500 is rated at 9500 lbs towing capacity with the optional tow hitch equipped. A Class I fixed-in-bumper tow hitch comes standard, and is rated at 2000 lbs.
Though the NV is meant more for work than play, the interior's water-resistant cloth seats, standard two- or four-speaker CD audio system, available XM satellite radio, and Bluetooth connectivity makes riding in the NV bearable – or to some, even a bit enjoyable.
Body style: Cargo Van
Engine: 5.6L V-8
Transmission: 5-speed automatic
Models: NV3500 S, NV3500 SV
The Nissan NV is all-new for the 2012 model year, offering similar performance to some of Nissan's other truck-based vehicles along with cargo van utility. The NV is offered in three different models, including a medium-duty NV1500, heavy-duty NV2500, and heavier-duty NV3500. In addition to the Nissan NV's three distinct models, each model has two trim levels, S and SV. A 317-hp 5.6-liter V-8 is standard in the NV3500. A High Roof option is available on the NV 2500 and NV3500, and extends the roof by 21 inches. That additional height raises the cargo volume from 234.1 cubic feet with the standard roof to 323.1 cubic feet, which should be plenty of room for most jobs.
The NV3500 utilizes a classic two-box design, which gives it the appearance of, well, a cargo van. The front end features plenty of DNA from the NV's mass-market cousins, the Titan pickup and Armada SUV. Nissan's trademark divided grille is front and center, and is bigger than ever on the NV. Multi-reflector halogen headlights flank the grille, while large folding side mirrors extend from the doors – black on S models, and chrome on SV models. An available High Roof configuration extends the roof by 21 inches, increasing cargo volume inside the van. The NV3500 rolls on 17-inch steel wheels, which come wrapped in all-season tires. A passenger-side sliding door provides access to the cargo area, as do the 50/50 split barn doors in the back, which can open to 243 degrees for easier loading. Rear windows can be added to those doors, for increased rear visibility.
The interior of the NV3500 is basic, though with standard and available features equipped, the passenger compartment can be made more livable. Water-resistant cloth upholstery covers the seats, which come four-way manual adjustable for both driver's and passenger's side in the S model. SV models, however, get a standard eight-way power adjustable driver's seat. An optional vinyl seat material is available on S models. The floor of the passenger area comes lined in Thermoplastic PolyOlefin (TPO), a rubberized, high-strength material that's water-resistant and easy to clean. A two-speaker CD audio system is standard on S models, while a four-speaker system comes standard with the SV trim level. XM satellite radio is available on the SV model, as is Bluetooth connectivity and a navigation system with five-inch touch screen.
Being based on the same F-Alpha truck platform as mass-market stablemates Titan and Armada, the NV is gifted with a competent and proven chassis that can handle its fair share of punishment. The NV3500 gets a standard 5.6-liter V-8 engine, producing 317 hp and 385 lb-ft of torque, which is mated to a five-speed automatic transmission with a manual shift mode. A Class I fixed-in-bumper tow hitch rated at 2000 lbs comes standard, though an upgraded tow hitch is available, and ups the NV2500's tow rating to 9500 lbs.
For safety, the NV gets dual-stage supplemental front airbags as standard equipment. Driver and passenger front seat-mounted side impact airbags and roof-mounted side-curtain airbags are optional. The NV also gets Nissan's Vehicle Dynamic Control (VDC) system with traction control, two-wheel Active Brake Limited Slip (ABLS) system, an ABS system with Electronic Brake force Distribution, and a Tire Pressure Monitoring system as standard. Nissan's Sonar proximity sensor comes standard on SV models, while a rear-view camera is optional.
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Everyone is doing thoughtful year-end pieces on President Obama. Writers and reporters agree he's had his worst year ever. I infer from most of their essays an unstated but broadly held sense of foreboding: There's no particular reason to believe next year will be better, and in fact signs and indications point to continued trouble.
I would add that in recent weeks I have begun to worry about the basic competency of the administration, its ability to perform the most fundamental duties of executive management. One reason I worry is that I frequently speak with people who interact with the White House, and when I say, "That place just doesn't seem to work," they don't defend it, they offer off-the-record examples of how poorly the government is run. One thing that's clear this holiday season: New York's Democrats, to the degree they ever loved the president, don't love him anymore, and have moved on. They are not thinking about what progress he might make in Washington next year, they're talking about what Hillary might do the year after that.
My worries came home with a certain freshness after the Mandela memorial, where the United States Secret Service allowed the president of the United States to stand for 19 minutes next to the famous sign-language interpreter who, it was quickly revealed, was not only a fraud but a schizophrenic con man who is now said to have been involved in two deaths. In fairness, the event was in another country and the Secret Service wasn't strictly in charge. That said, it still looks like very basic negligence, as if no one is keeping enough of an eye on the Secret Service, no one's checking the quality of the advance or sending emails asking: "Hey, what do we know about the sign language guy—any chance he's a mentally ill criminal?"
It all looks so lax, so loosey-goosey. In the place of the energy and focus that would go into the running of things, the administering and managing of them, we have the preoccupation with spin, with how things look as opposed to how they are. The odd thing still is that the White House never misses a speech, a list of talking points, an opportunity to shape the argument on TV. They do the talking part, but the doing? They had 3½ years to make sure ObamaCare will work, three years to get it right top to bottom, to rejigger parts of the law that they finally judged wouldn't work, to make the buying of a policy easy on the website. And they not only couldn't do that, which itself constitutes an astounding and historic management failure, they make it clear they were taken aback by their failure. They didn't know it was coming! Or some knew and for some reason couldn't do anything.
And it's all going to continue. One reason this scandal isn't Katrina is that Katrina had a beginning and an end. The storm came, the storm left, the cleanup commenced and failed and then continued and succeeded. At some point it was over. ObamaCare will never be over. It's going to poison the rest of the administration. It's the story that won't go away because it will continue to produce disorder. Wait, for instance, until small businesses realize it will be cheaper to throw their people off their coverage and take the fines than it will be to reinsure them under the new regime.
I'm worried, finally, that lines of traditionally assumed competence are being dropped. The past few weeks I can't shake from my head this picture: The man with the football—the military aide who carries the U.S. nuclear codes, and who travels with the president—is carrying the wrong code. He's carrying last month's code, or the one from December 2012. And there's a crisis—a series of dots on a radar screen traveling toward the continental U.S.—and the president is alerted. He's in the holding room at a fundraiser out west. The man with the football is called in and he fumbles around in his briefcase and gets the code but wait, the date on the code is wrong. He scrambles, remembers there's a file on his phone, but the phone ran out on the plane and he thought he could recharge in the holding room but there's no electrical outlet. All eyes turn to him. "Wait—wait. No—uh—I don't think that's the code we use to launch against incoming from North Korea, I think that one takes out Paris!"
I have to say, I've never worried about this with any previous administration, ever.
"They mistook the White House for the government," said an experienced old friend, a journalist and Democratic sympathizer. We were having holiday dinner and the talk turned to White House management. His thesis was that Obama and his staffers thought they could run the government from there, from the White House campus, and make big decisions that would be executed. They thought the White House was the government, but the government is a vast web of executive agencies that have to be run under close scrutiny, and within their campuses, to produce even minimally competent work.
I have come to see this as "West Wing" Disease. Young staffers grew up watching that show and getting a very romantic and specific sense of how government works. "The West Wing" was White House-centric. It never took place at the Agriculture Department. But government takes place at the Agriculture Department.
Anyway, my friend made me think of a story about Harry Truman. On leaving the White House after the 1952 election of Dwight Eisenhower, Truman made a small prediction about the general and his presidency. From memory: Eisenhower, Truman said, will pick up the phone and say do this and do that, pull this lever, and he'll be shocked when nothing happens.
Ike was a general used to giving orders within an organization that takes the order and executes. But a government has to be leaned on every day, through management talent earned by experience. Generals can issue orders but federal agencies must be gently guided and clubbed around the head, every day.
People who run big businesses learn these facts of executive leadership early on. So do leaders of small businesses and great nonprofit organizations, and local political leaders in charge of local agencies whose success or failure can be charted.
Most of the Obama people just don't have a background in executing. They have a background in communicating, not doing. That's where their talent is—it's where their boss's talent is—and it's a good talent, but not one that will in itself force a government to work well.


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Private Goddess Natalia vs. Pale Fire Vanessa
I looked back to see other ballgowns in the Fashion Royalty line and came up with the Pale Fire Vanessa doll.
On several levels the PG Natalia pales in comparison - no pun intended. Pale Fire was part of the 2007 Cult Couture line available from FR dealers. She was an edition of 1000 and was the most expensive doll of the five issued at $159.00. The bodice of the gown had a corset-like construction and the skirt was crafted from a high quality, moderate sheen fabric. There are actually two skirts with the top layer lined in the same color as the full bottom skirt. The drapes and folds were voluminous and did not need to be arranged to look right. Her jewelry is still sought after by collectors. It was an intricate collection of woven beads with hair ornaments, neckpiece, earrings and bracelet. Collectors had been clamoring for more jewelry and this was the answer. The entire line that year had excellent jewelry, beautifully crafted fashions with terrific handbags and shoes. There was no fried, frizzy hair either. It was to be the last superbly dressed and coiffed Vanessa - not counting the convention dolls which were to follow. There have been eleven Vanessas since then and not one regular line issue has been anywhere near Pale Fire.__________________
In Bloom - W Club Doll - 2007
Going Places* - The Royal Life Convention Souvenir Doll - 2007
High Tide - Style Du Jour Basic - 2007
Color Therapy* - The Glamorous Collection Premium Spring - 2008
Metal Maven - The Glamorous Collection Basic Spring - 2008
Stirred Not Shaken* - The Heist Convention Centerpiece - 2008
Cruise Control - W Club Doll - 2008
Night Warrior* - Dolly Style Convention Souvenir Doll - 2009
Aerodynamic - Future Perfect Collection Spring - 2009
Luxe Life* - Iconic Convention Collection - 2009
Temptation - The Dazzle Collection - Basic Doll - 2010
I put stars next to the dolls that appear to have been designed and constructed on a higher fashion level. Metal Maven and the other basics are just that - basics. One doesn't expect that much in terms of fashion.
I focus so much on Vanessa because she has been my muse. Once I couldn't wait to see the next Vanessa. Now I tremble in fearful anticipation. But I have gone off the subject of this post.
I'm not pleased with the direction of the premium dolls. I do not think that the Monogram dolls can ever take the place of Fashion Royalty although that is apparently where they are going. All the talent (Jason's ?) goes into designing their clothes. But then what about the Monogram Brilliance outfit? I think that if the construction error on the front of the jacket hadn't happened.....
I can understand that Jason's interests lie elsewhere and I applaud his success. But he was the design talent of Integrity and Fashion Royalty. Now what?
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This is a great post, lots of super information and a great opinion piece. Question, wasn't Vanessa a 2009 doll or was she just made in 2009?ReplyDelete
Are you asking about Pale Fire being a 2009 doll? I don't know which one you want to know about. Here is a great link to a resource for Integrity dolls.ReplyDelete
Ooh, whoops! I meant to say Cruise Control Vanessa. Worked today and my head is two steps behind what I type.ReplyDelete
@MJ: Very often a Club Doll belongs to a certain year but we don't get it until the following year.ReplyDelete
Could not agree more with what you wrote. I have photographed Pale Fire Vanessa for my blog and she is amazing.ReplyDelete


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Economists forecast stable growth pending a fiscal cliff resolution
South Carolinians can expect more stable growth across a broader array of industries in 2013 if Washington strikes a deal and averts the fiscal cliff, say University of South Carolina economists. The growth would mean more jobs and greater income for the state's residents.
That was welcome news for the nearly 250 business and government leaders who attended the Darla Moore School of Business' 32nd Annual Economic Outlook Conference Wednesday (Dec. 12) at the University of South Carolina.
Job creation – the most important measure of economic progress in South Carolina – is expected to grow 1.2 percent in 2013, according to forecasts presented by Doug Woodward and Joseph Von Nessen, economists in the Moore School's Division of Research. Last year they predicted employment growth of 2 percent, which came very close to South Carolina's performance of a 1.8 percent increase based on a comparison of October 2011 and 2012 employment figures.
Presentation: Von Nessen Presentation: Woodward
Von Nessen, who said the Palmetto State has seen steady growth in 2012, will see growth in the coming year from industries that extend beyond manufacturing.
"Though manufacturing has largely been responsible for South Carolina's economic recovery, we've started to see other industries expand this year, and we expect more diverse growth in 2013," Von Nessen said.
Gains are expected in transportation and warehousing, health care, education and even construction, an industry that has been hard hit during the recession.
"Residential construction turned a corner in 2012," Von Nessen said. "Sales activity is up and house prices are rising again, which suggests a better year for housing ahead." Von Nessen expects construction to increase throughout 2013 and anticipates industry job growth for the first time since 2008.
However, he said the nation and state are at a precipice, facing prosperity or peril depending on the actions of Congress.
The demand is there, but the resolution of the fiscal cliff is a major piece of the puzzle that remains," Von Nessen said. "We don't know what the resolution will be, but we definitely will feel the effects in South Carolina of any increases in marginal tax rates, payroll taxes or reductions in federal funding to our state through various measures such as military sequestration or the elimination of extended unemployment benefits.
John Connaughton, an economist at UNC Charlotte, said he expects Washington to strike a deal before Jan. 1, and expects very slow growth to result in the Carolinas.
We are going over a 'fiscal cliff' on Jan. 1, 2013. The only question is how severe," said Connaughton, Babson Capital Professor of Financial Economics. "If Congress and the president don't reach a deal by Jan. 1, the consequences could be quite bad and the U.S. economy would enter into a mild recession during the first half of the year. Unemployment, nationally, could reach 9 percent by the fall of 2013.
If Congress and the president do reach a deal, the most likely scenario is that the combined tax increases and spending cuts will be enough to slow the economy to a 1 percent or less growth rate during 2013. There is no good economic outcome to these talks. 2013 will be a year where we pay for our borrow-and-spend past," he said.
Von Nessen addressed South Carolina's current unemployment rate of 8.6 percent, which hovers at 12th highest in the nation. He told EOC attendees that projected job gains in 2013 should continue to bring the rate down and that much of the job creation will come from temporary hiring and contract labor.
"If workers are regularly going on and off payrolls as they take various temporary positions, we're going to see higher fluctuations in month-to-month employment changes and the unemployment rate," Von Nessen said.
In addition to the economic forecast, the annual conference focused on the role of entrepreneurism and business startups.
"Firms with less than 20 people have accounted for about one quarter of total employment in South Carolina but over half of the job growth in the state. There is no question that our ability to support new ventures in South Carolina will be a key driver in our economic growth," said Dirk Brown, executive director of the Faber Center for Entrepreneurship at the Moore School. "
Brown was one of four participants on a panel that discussed innovation and entrepreneurial activity in South Carolina. He was joined by Ed Sellers, board chairman of BlueCross and Blue Shield of South Carolina; William D. Kirkland, entrepreneur-in-residence at the USC/Columbia Technology Incubator; and Bill Mahoney,CEO at the South Carolina Research Authority.
The group addressed the state's economic climate in 2013 and how the fiscal situation in Washington may affect startups in South Carolina. They also discussed emerging clusters of innovation and startup businesses, markets in the state that have the best chance to become leaders, what startups must do to gain access to capital and the need for a technology-oriented workforce.
Jonathan Zucker, president of InterTech Group, a North Charleston-based manufacturing firm that specializes in chemicals, textiles and other products worldwide, discussed Israel's success in creating an "innovation economy" with startup businesses playing a prominent role and what that means for South Carolina.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of the House of Representatives has signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to insist on new rules against currency manipulation in a proposed trade agreement with Japan and 10 other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
"As the United States continues to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it is imperative that the agreement address currency manipulation," said the letter released on Thursday. It was signed by 230 lawmakers, including 181 Democrats and 49 Republicans.
The lawmakers sent the letter so it would coincide with testimony Obama's nominee for U.S. trade representative, Mike Froman, was to deliver before the Senate Finance Committee, which is considering his nomination.
During that hearing, Froman said currency manipulation was an important concern, but did not commit to addressing the issue in the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact.
"Obviously, the Treasury Department has the lead on such issues, but if confirmed I look forward to working with them and all of you to determine how best to move forward on that," Froman told the panel.
The United States has not pressed for rules against currency manipulation in its previous free-trade deals. But some lawmakers and industry groups are concerned that Japan might be deliberately weakening the yen to help its exporters.
"Over the last couple years I've been in countless meetings with USTR and Treasury pressing them to include meaningful currency provisions in our trade agreements," said Representative Michael Michaud, a Maine Democrat who was one of the driving forces behind the letter. "To date they have done nothing. I'm hopeful this strong bipartisan letter convinces them to finally take action. American jobs are at stake."
The Obama administration hopes to finish talks on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, by the end of the year. New demands on an issue as contentious as currency could slow the negotiations.
The American Automotive Policy Council and two other manufacturing groups, the Alliance for American Manufacturing and the American Iron and Steel Institute, praised the letter.
"Strong, enforceable rules prohibiting currency manipulation must be included in the trade agreement, but before Japan can be allowed to become a TPP partner, it must establish a clear record demonstrating that its domestic auto market is completely open to foreign competition," said AAPC President Matt Blunt.
Many lawmakers also want to send a message to China, which many believe is the worst currency manipulator, even though it is not a part of the TPP talks.
"Incorporating currency provisions in the agreement will strengthen our ability to combat these unfair trade practices and help to create a level playing field for American workers, businesses, and farmers," the lawmakers said in the letter.
Most Japanese brand autos sold in the United States are made in North America, rather than imported from Japan, according to Global Automakers, a group that represents Japanese, South Korean and some European auto companies.
In a letter earlier this month to U.S. lawmakers, the group argued against including currency provisions in the TPP pact since it would cover only 12 countries.
In addition, Japan is pursuing the same policy of "quantitative easing" that the Federal Reserve has used to revive the U.S. economy, the Global Automakers said.
"If currency provisions were included in the TPP, those disciplines would also apply to U.S. policies, restricting our own economic policy options necessary to achieve future economic growth," the group said.
The push to include currency rules in the TPP has support at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a non-partisan Washington think-tank, which estimates currency manipulation by China and other countries has cost the United States as many as 1 million jobs.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Female and minority junior partners in professional service firms may benefit from using different clientele-building strategies than their white male counterparts according to recent research co-authored by Forrest Briscoe of the Penn State Smeal College of Business. By encouraging and supporting these varying strategies, firms could increase both revenue and diversity among senior partners.
Briscoe, associate professor of management and sociology, and his co-author Andrew von Nordenflycht of Simon Fraser University identified two primary methods for building clientele -- the inheritance strategy and the rainmaking strategy -- and found that, while inheritance is effective for white male partners, rainmaking tends to be more lucrative for females and minorities.
According to the researcher's paper, although both inheritance and rainmaking strategies may be viable in general, they may differ in their effectiveness for women and minorities.
Because the professional-client relationship is based largely on an ongoing social relationship, building clientele in professional service firms is dependent upon building social networks. The inheritance strategy relies on building networks within a firm -- often by developing a relationship with a senior partner and inheriting his or her clients upon their retirement.
The researchers explain that, because people tend to build stronger interpersonal relationships with others like them in terms of race and gender, females and minorities find themselves at a disadvantage in building strong relationships with senior partners—still predominantly white males.
The rainmaking strategy, on the other hand, focuses on building networks and acquiring new clientele from outside the firm.
Rainmaking may be a more effective strategy for females and minorities because, in drawing upon social networks external to the firm and having the freedom to choose which clients to pursue, the tendency to build relationships with like genders/ethnicities can work to their advantage.
The researchers posed that, in recognizing the varying results of each strategy, professional service firms can better support junior female and minority partners, leading not only to increased revenue overall but an eventual more diverse group of senior partners.
The research shows that as firms increasingly fund and empower rainmaking efforts, they may recognize the particular benefit of those activities for the career development of female and minority partners. Supporting diverse junior partners by enhancing their rainmaking abilities may yield a double payoff in terms of the firm's overall revenue as well as diversity goals.
The paper, "Which path to power? Workplace networks and the relative effectiveness of inheritance and rainmaking strategies for professional partners," appeared in the March issue of the Journal of Professions and Organization. Smeal's Briscoe holds a doctoral degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and a bachelor's degree in environmental sciences from Harvard University.


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HONEST? We want to go on record as saying that we think zombies and superheroes can get along. Think? Know. They have a lot of common ground, right? They both have unusual ways of getting from point A to point B (zombies get draggy, superheroes tend to fly). They have their own catchphrases (zombies moan, for the most part, while superheroes say something shiny like "up and onward"). And both are famously persistent, whether their activity is scratching at the door of a haunted house or saving Metropolis. See? Commonalities. Which is why we're hoping that the participants of the Superhero Pub Crawl and Zombie Walk, two separate, Comic-Con-close events which are scheduled for Saturday, July 23, will mingle well.
THE DETAILS: Not only are we taking a shine to these two events because, well, um, superheroes and zombies fascinate, but we like it because it gets people out of the convention center for a few hours. Oh, we love being on the con floor, we do, but anyone who has been Comic-Con-ing for a couple of days needs a breather. A chance to set down the bags and let go of the camera and get out of a queue and raise some heck in San Diego proper. Donning a cape and heading out with several other similarly attired people for a brewsky charms. Our only question is can you do *both* the zombie walk and superhero event? Have a change of outfit ready? That is Comic-Con-style pluck.


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FBI Joins Search for Missing 5-Year-Old Oakland Boy
The FBI is now involved in the search for a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who was last seen in Oakland on Monday afternoon.
FBI spokeswoman Patti Hansen said she could not give details about the case but confirmed that the FBI is helping search for five-year-old Hassani Campbell.
Campbell was reported missing from the area of 6000 College Avenue at around 4:15 p.m. Monday, according to the Oakland police youth services unit.
The boy, who uses leg braces to walk and is considered at risk, had not been located as of this morning, police said.
Hassani is described as a black boy with light complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs around 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants.
Anyone with information regarding Hassani's whereabouts should call Oakland police youth services at (510) 238-3641, or call 911 if he is believed to be in immediate danger.


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Michigan Tech's Shiyan Hu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Design Next-Generation Computer Chips
A basic law of the road is that traffic can slow to a crawl when the highway narrows to one lane, creating bottlenecks and crabby drivers.
Integrated circuits have a similar problem. The narrower the copper wires connecting the transistors on a computer chip, the greater their resistance to electricity, and the more slowly they transmit information.
This phenomenon, called interconnect delay, puts the brakes on the processing speed of smartphones, tablets, PCs and all manner of computerized devices. That's because the wires in a typical computer chip are very narrow indeed: with a width of about 22 nanometers, a bundle of a thousand is no bigger than a human hair.
"Those wires have been getting thinner and thinner, because people want their chips to do more and more things, and for that you need more and more transistors, billions on a single chip," said Shiyan Hu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan Technological University. "But then the chip gets slower and slower . . . unless you do some magic."
Hu has something up his sleeve. With a $429,406 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, he aims to design new chips that will put computing into the fast lane. The CAREER Award is the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars.
Hu's target is the interconnect delay. To overcome it, he will be designing chips that replace those copper wires with carbon nanotubes or graphene.
"They are not regular matter," he says. "They have superconductivity and are much better materials for circuitry."
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Hu came to Michigan Tech in 2008 and is the director of the Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) Research Lab which focuses on the computer-aided design of VLSI circuits and smart home systems. He is a member of IEEE Technical Committee of the Building Automation, Control and Management and a senior member of IEEE. Hu received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University and was a visiting professor at IBM Research in Austin, Texas, during summer 2010. For more information, visit his faculty webpage.
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Hello, I hope there isn't harm in when I ask you to find mistakes in this essay. I've got just holidays (I'm only 16, and so I still go to school), so I don't need it so necessary, but I would love you to correct the mistakes. If you'll do that, then, really thank you very very much.
Here is the essay:
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare is the most famous writer of plays in the English language. He was born in Sratford-upon-Avon on 26 april 1564, in time of Queen Elizabeth I, and died on 23 April 1616. He wrote thrity-seven plays and many famous poems. His plays are about different subjects. Some of them are about famous people in history. Others are stories from the literature of time. He was not only a writer of plays he also acted in them. His plays were very popular and succesful.
In 1582 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, and they had three children a boy and two girls.By 1597 he was rich enough to buy New Place, the largest house in Stratford.
Shakespeare began writing Romeo and Juliet in 1594, when he was about thirty years old. The idea for the story was not Shakepeares. It came from a story in 1562 by Arthur Brooke about two young lovers who killed themselves. Shakespeare took Brookes story and wrote his play around it, but he added new characters too.
In Shakespeares time, the actors were all men. So the part of Juliet was played by a boy.
The characters in the play:
Prince Escalus Prince of Verona
Mercutio relative of the Prince and a friend of Romeo
Paris a relative of the Prince, he want to marry Juliet
Servant Pariss servant
Lord Montague head of the Montague family
Lady Montague Lord Montagues wife
Romeo Lord Montagues son
Benvolio Romeos cousin, Romeo and Mercutios friend
Abram - a servant of the Montague family
Balthasar Romeos servant
Lord Capulet head of the capulet family
Lady Capulet Lord Capulets wife
Juliet Lord Capulets daughter
Tybalt Juliets cousin
Nurse Juliets nurse
Cousin Capulet Lord Capulets old cousin
Peter Lord Capulets servant
Sampson and Gregory servants of the Capulet family
Friar Laurence a religious friar
Friar John assistant to Friar Laurence
Doctor from the town of Mantua, he sells the poison for Romeo
Six Guards guarding Verona at night
Townspeople of Verona
Servants the Prince of Veronas servants
Young men in masks friends of Romeo and Mercutio
Tybalts friends
Guests at Lord Capulets party
Act 1: The Capulets and the Montagues
Scene 1: The town square in Verona
Montagues and Capulets still fight together. Romeo is sad because he loves Rosaline but she doesnt love him. That is why Benvolio tries to persuade him to look at other beatiful girls, not just at her.
Scene 2: A street near the Capulets house
Paris wants to win Juliets heart and to marry her. Juliet isnt yet fourteen ( shell be in July).
Lord capulet prepares (takes) a party. Romeo gets known that rosaline is invited to Capulets party too, so he decides he has to go there too and see her.
Scene 3: Juliets bedroom in the Capulets house
Lady Capulet is talking to Juliet about marriadge with Paris. Juliet is ready to go to the party and to see him and agree or disagree with the marriadge.
Scene 4: A street near the Capulets house
Mercutio, Benvolio, and Romeo prepare for the party.
Scene 5: A large room in the Capulets house
Lord Capulet welcomes guests to his party. Later he talks with his cousin Capulet. Romeo sees Juliet. They both fall in love. Juliet asks her nurse to ask Romeo his name. This is the moment when Juliet gets known that her love is her enemy.
Act 2: Marriage Plans
Scene 1: The Capulets garden, with Juliets bedroom above
Romeo, Mercutio and Benvolio leave the party. Romeo jumpes over Capulets garden wall and hides himself. Mercutio and Benvolio look for him but they arent succesful, so they decide to go home, to bed.
Romeo meets Juliet at her house balcony. They arrange that in the morning at nine oclock Juliet will send a message telling the place where to meet with Romeo.
Scene 2: The garden of Friar Laurences house
Romeo tells friar Laurence about his love to Juliet and asks him to marry them today. Laurence doesnt like that Romeo started to love another girl (however he knew Rosaline didnt like him and Romeo was just too sad because of her so he didnt want him to suffer because of her so much) he doesnt like that Romeo changes girls often. But he decides to help him perhaps the marriage will end the terrible hate between two families. Perhaps it will turn that hate into love.
Scene 3: The town square in Verona
Nurse gives the message of Juliet to Romeo. Romeo asks her to tell Juliet to come to friar Laurences house today afternoon to marry and to put a rope to her bedrooms window to he could climb in to Juliet.
Scene 4: Juliets bedroom
Nurse delivers Romeos message to Juliet.
Scene 5: A room in Friar Laurences house
Romeo and Juliet marry t friar Laurences house.
Act 3: Murder and Banishment
Scene 1: The town square in Verona
Mercutio dies in a fight with Tybalt. Just Tybalt was he, who started this fight. So, some (just a little) time later Romeo wants to avenge on Tybalt Mercutios death. Romeo kills Tybalt. Prince of Verona banishes Romeo from Verona. He has to leave Verona or he will be killed.
Scene 2: Juliets bedroom
Nurse tells Juliet news about tybalt who is dead. Juliet gives her nurse a ring to give it to romeo who is hidden in friar Laurences house.
Scene 3: A room in Friar Laurences house
Nurse comes to Romeo to friar Laurences house and tells him that the rope he wanted to use for climbing to Juliets chamber is prepared and gives him Juliets ring. Friar gives him an advice to leave Verona for Mantua (a town about 40km from Verona).
Scene 4: A room in the Capulets house
Lord Capulet wants to marry Juliet to paris on Thursday (its Monday today)
Scene 5: Juliets bedroom
Romeo tells goodbye to Juliet its morning now (they spent night together). Lord Capulet tells Juliet: if you want to continue as my daughter, Ill give you to Paris. If not, then die in the streets.
Act 4: The Sweetest Flower
Scene 1: A room in Friar Laurences house
Juliet comes to friar and asks him for help. He gives her a bottle with medicine. The effect is a sleepy feeling after drinking it. Her face will turn white, her eyes will close and her body will become cold. Shell be like that 42 hours and then shell wake up. When Paris comes for her on Thursday morning, hell find her dead in bed.
Friar sends a friar to Mantua with a letter for Romeo.
Scene 2: A room in the Capulets house
Juliets father decides to marry Julietalready tomorrow on Wednesday.
Scene 3: Juliets bedroom
Juliet drinks the medicine and falls on her bed. However she is afrid, she is willing to do everything to meet his love, Romeo.
Scene 4: A room in the Capulets house
Juliets parents prepare everything (food, music etc ) for the marriadge.
Scene 5: Juliets bedroom
Nurse goes to wake Juliet up, but she findes out Juliet is dead. So, instead of happy marriadge the family prepares for sad funeral.
Act 5: Death in the Vault
Scene 1: A street in Mantua
Balthasar tells Romeo sad news Juliet is dead. Romeo decides to go to her vault and to kill himself and to lie there fallen in death with her.
He goes to a doctor and asks him to sell him a poison to kill himself. However he doesnt want to sell it, at last Romeo persuades him.
Scene 2: Friar Laurences house
Friar John comes to tell friar Laurence that he (John) couldnt give the letter to romeo in Mantua (because he wanted another friar to travel with him, but he was visiting some rich people. Then the health officers of Verona came and closed the house. So he couldnt leave.)
Scene 3: The church garden with the Capulets vault
Paris goes with his servant (whom he ordered to stay in the church garden) to the vault to see juliet again.
When Romeo arrives with his servant Balthasar and Paris sees him, Paris wants to kill him. When Pariss servant sees this, he goes to call the guards. Paris dies. Romeo wants to die, so at last, he kisses Juliets hand and drinks strong poison to die. Friar Laurence comes to the vault (for Juliet) and sees Romeos body and then even also Pariss body.
Juliet wakes up. They can hear the guards coming, so friar Laurence press Juliet to run away of the vault, but Juliet wants to stay. Juliet sees Romeos dead body. She wants to die too, but Romeo drank all the poison. So she kisses his mouth (perhaps there is still some poison on it) and wants to join him in death. Juliet sees Romeos knife, picks it up and pushes the knife into her body with words: My body will be your final resting-place.
Pariss serant comes in with 6 guards. They call Prince and Lord and Lady Capulet and Lord Montague. Lady Montague (Lord Montagues wife) died last night from sadness about Romeos banishment, so, now, Lord Montague has to suffer even his sons, Romeos death. Prince asks friar to explain the deaths. So friar explains everything what happend.
Frair Balthasar and Servant explain what they were doing there.
Prince reads Romeos letter that Romeo wrote to his father, Lord Montague. Prince got the letter of Romeos servant Balthasar, who should have given it to Lord Montague.
Lord Capulet makes peace between himself and Lord Montague. They both decide to pain a picture of Juliet and romeo and to hang both these painting (Romeos next to Juliets) in a building on the town square.
My own opinion: I think this play is very nice, but quite unrealized. I dont believe in love at first sight, so that is perhaps the reason I dont like the subject of the book, that both these lovers are willing to die only because of they dont want to live more, without their love, who they knew only some days. I think this is stupid. But I liked the book, it is full of surprises and nobody can be bored of reading it, perhaps because it is a play, not a novel.
Lenka, I've had a quick look through and made a few changes. I'll have a second look later when I have some frre time.Originally Posted by Lenka
tdol, I really thank you very much! Youre ussually the only one person from this server that helps me with my essays. Did you look through all the essay? It seems to me incredible that I did write only these mistakes! I expected much more of them
I have some questions according to the mistakes of my essay. Here they are:
1) isnt yet fourteen ( she will be in July). why cant I say shell be in July? it isnt so formal or why?
2) when Juliet finds out that her love is her enemy. why I cant use words gets known instead of finds out? Is there a very big difference or it just sounds better with finds out?
3) his love for Juliet do I have to remember that we have to use this preposition in this connection?
4) Tybalt, who started it. How can I recognize what looks better (why not who started this fight?)
Thank you These questions that I have just asked you are mostly totally stupid, I know, you cant answer it very good. I know, I have to learn and learn and study and study to become more sensitive to English to know what does and doesnt sound or look better. But, try to answer those questions, please, anyway.
I avoid contractions in any formalwriting- if writing about literature, then don't use informalforms.
2 Facts become known, people find things out
3 his love for someone\of something, not 'to'
4- 'it'avoids repeating the word 'fight'
Thank you. I have got one last question.Originally Posted by tdol
Capulets or Capulets house? I suppose Capulets, but Im not sure.
Pariss or Paris love? Here I really dont know
The Capulets' house (there are many of them)
With names ending in 's', some people write 's and others just put an apostrophe. With names that are not English, generally you'll see people just use an apostrophe.
Tdol,my name is Victoria i have a question i am doing roemo and juliets play right now and im wondering wat was the strong hate between lord montague and lord capulet
please reply
sincerly Victoria
The source of the feud is not known.The blood feud between the Montagues and Capulets has been going on for a long time.These two families are involved in a family feud that goes back years before any of the members were born.Yet the feud still continues due to the fact that neither family is ready to forgive and forget the past.


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Bellaire Swimming
Lifeguard class of 1986 at the Bellaire City Pool
Before there was a public swimming pool in Bellaire, many people swam in the Ohio River. There was a public beach not far from the Interstate Bridge that was used for swimming. There were also some public boat docks that used to be near this area. Several drownings in the Ohio River lead to the consideration of a public swimming pool in Bellaire,Ohio.
The Bellaire Swimming Pool was constructed in 1940 by the Works Progress Administration created during Franklin Delanor Roosevelt's presidency. The money for construction of the pool was donated in 1936 by James F. and William Mellott. The brothers contributed $10,000.00 through the Bellaire American Legion Post so they could use WPA funds. These were the same brothers who gave the money for the Mellott Memorial Building in which the Bellaire Public Library is now housed.
The pool was one of 45 built by WPA workers in Ohio. Steam shovels excavated the area. Construction started in 1939 and finished in 1941. On Memorial Day in 1941, the pool was dedicated to the city. The first person to use the pool was Richard Tobin of Bellaire, who later became a lifeguard at the pool. Other first day swimmers were Jack Tobin and Tino Esposito, who later became mayor of Bellaire.
Originally, there was a large water fountain on the shallow end of the pool and a platform just beyond the diving area in the deep end of the pool. A small water slide was later installed in the shallow end. All of these items were taken out at a later time. For many years the Recreation Department of the City of Bellaire ran the swimming pool. Mrs. Flowers was the last Recreation Director. When her position was not funded, the swimming pool almost closed. However, the Bellaire Fire Department Association under the direction of President Lou Valloric rescued the pool from closing in 1988. The Fire Department Association ran the pool for several years. Then the city maintained the pool for a few years. More recently, a park district was formed that currently controls the swimming pool and other park property.
The original bathhouse developed some cracks in the walls, especially around the filter room, in 1990. A new bathhouse was built about 2 years later at a cost of about $100,000.00. Numerous repairs have been made over the years. One year, in the mid 1990's a driver, who was fleeing from the police, crashed through the fence by the diving boards. He hit the low diving board. The low diving board was the only thing that prevented his vehicle from falling into the drained pool.
There has long been a swim team in Bellaire. Members of the swim team competed with other swim teams in Belmont County. The other swim teams are Barnesville, Martins Ferry, and St. Clairsville. Previously there were swim teams at Shadyside and Powhatan Point. Laurie Parker has been head of the swim team in Bellaire for several years. Before her, Bill Dunaway was head of the swim team.
The American Red Cross has offered swimming lessons for 46 years at the Bellaire City Swimming Pool. Charles and Clara Dankworth were in charge of the swimming lessons for about 36 years. In recent years, John Kniesner has been teaching swimming lessons.
There also used to be a synchronized swim team at the Bellaire City Swimming Pool. Dr. Thomas Ring was in charge of the synchronized swim team for many years. Dr. Ring also donated the rhododendron bushes that were planted near the swimming pool around 1994.The Bellaire Swimming Pool closed at the end of the 2002 season.
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DuPont recently opened its latest ballistics testing facility at the DuPont Knowledge Center in Hyderabad, India. The state-of-the-art facility houses a ballistic testing range, a 600-ton helmet press and stab testing equipment. It is the fifth DuPont site for testing protection materials in ballistic applications. Others are located in Richmond, Virginia; Meyrin, Switzerland; Paulina, Brazil and Wilmington, Delaware.
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UPDATE: Sony went ahead and confirmed the existence of God of War: Ascension this morning via the PlayStation blog. So yes, the game officially exists, and yes, it is a prequel of some fashion. How far back that prequel story will go is yet unknown, though it's safe to assume it'll be some chapter of the story that includes as-yet-unseen vengeance and violent, visceral death. Unless, of course, Sony has really jumped the shark and gone the Star Wars prequel route, with the intent to show Kratos as a really angry little kid. While I will admit I would derive a bit of weird amusement out of seeing Kratos as a stab-happy toddler, that would probably get old pretty quick.
We'll know more come April 30, as the PS Blog entry says more details are expected to be released then. I'm guessing they won't be giving those details to Amazon early again, so odds are you'll actually have to wait this time. Sorry about that.
What you see above is a trailer for God of War: Ascension. "But Alex," you ask, "Sony hasn't announced a game called God of War: Ascension yet!" Oops?
Blame Amazon for the early leak. They evidently posted up this teaser, alongside some placeholder box art for the game this evening. Considering we've been hearing no shortage of rumors regarding a forthcoming God of War IV (or, in this case, God of War: Ascension) announcement, one can imagine that Sony was prepping some kind of big reveal for the title...at least it was. Until now. I bet it was going to be really cool, too.
Instead, here is your teaser trailer and box art, ingloriously shoved out the door into the harsh reality of the Internet before its time, forced to fend for itself with no major marketing event nor official press release to properly help usher it into a world it never made. Really tragic, that.
On the other hand, there's a new God of War game coming, which is actually rather awesome. Though I am going to have to replay God of War III at some point. I can barely even remember what happened in that game. What about you guys? Anyone else good and ready for some more heavy metal Greek God slaying?


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