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Pairing glasses to the ST60?
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When i got my 60st60 last week, the glasses paired right away, then 'unpaired', and it took me like an hour to get them to pair up to the TV...
well as some of you know i had this weird pink line on my TV so today i exchanged it for another 60st60....
anyways, same problem...i have 3 pairs of glasses (2 that came with it, plus a $20 samsung pair)... the samsung pair instantly worked with the press of a button, but i cannot get the panny glasses to work....
i have TV, xbox/kinect/ps3/ charter cable box all on my console stand, tv is on wall.
what i've been trying, is what the instructions say. turn on tv, press and hold power button on glasses for 1-2 seconds, hold glasses within 1.5 feet of the screen...and if that don't work, restart tv and repeat...
i've tried having the glasses right up close touching the bezel of the tv....i've tried standing 6ft away, i've tried holding the glasses near each side, top, bottom.. you name it.
also, i tried removing the battery for 10 minutes, thinking maybe that would reset the glasses.
also, these glasses were paired to my other tv, i opted to keep the glasses and let bestbuy keep the 'new' ones that came with this tv (because i forgot them at home)
please help! thanks
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I've never held down the power button on my 3D glasses -- I just click it to turn them on -- and I've never tried to turn them off when I'm done watching 3D. I didn't walk up close to the TV the first time I used them. I haven't had any problem.
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i figured it out.
after failing to find anything on the internet...and nothing else on the Ehelp menu, or the manual... i accidentally discovered a reset tactic or something.
i decided i wanted to break the glasses because i was mad....and out of curiosity before breaking them, i held the power button down and just kept holding it to see what would happen. the light came on for a couple seconds then started rapidly blinking... then all the sudden a thing popped up on the TV (picture of glasses syncing)
tried it with the other pair, as well.. worked for both!
so i guess all you have to do, is decide to break them, and instead, think of one more thing you havent tried! yaylol!
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20 "I have spoken openly to the world," Jesus replied. "I always taught in synagogues1 or at the temple,2 where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.3 21 Why question me? Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I said."
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Tell was roughly pushed into the boat, where he sat closely guarded on either side by soldiers. His bow and arrows, which had been taken from him, were thrown upon a bench beside the steersman.
Gessler took his seat. The boat started, and was soon out on the blue water of the lake. As the people of Altorf watched Tell go, their hearts sank. They had not known, until they saw him bound and a prisoner, how much they had trusted and loved him.
On the lakes of Switzerland storms of wind arise very quickly. The Swiss used to dread these storms so much that they gave names to the winds as if they were people. The south wind, which is the fiercest, they called the Foehn. There used to be a law that when the Foehn arose, all fires were to be put out. For the wind whistled and blew down the wide chimneys like great bellows, till the fires flared up so fiercely that the houses, which were built of wood, were in danger of being burned to the ground. Now one of these fierce storms arose.
No one noticed when Gessler’s boat pushed off from the shore how dark the sky had grown nor how keenly the wind was blowing. But before the boat had gone very far the waves began to rise, and the wind to blow fiercer and fiercer.
Soon the little boat was tossing wildly on great white-crested waves. The rowers bent to the oars and rowed with all their might. But in spite of all they could do, the waves broke over the boat, filling it with water. They were tossed here and there, until it seemed every minute that they would sink.
Pale with fear, the captain stood at the helm. He was an Austrian who knew nothing of the Swiss lakes, and he had never before been in such a storm. He was helpless, and he knew that very soon the boat would be a wreck.
Wrapped in his mantle, Gessler sat silent and still, watching the storm. He, too, knew the danger.
As the waves dashed over him, one of Gessler’s servants staggered to his master’s feet. “My lord,” he said, “you see our need and danger, yet methinks there is one man on board who could save us.”
“Who is that?” asked Gessler.
“William Tell, your prisoner,” replied the man. “He is known to be one of the best sailors on this lake. He knows every inch of it. If any one can save the boat, he can.”
“Bring him here,” said Gessler.
“It seems you are a sailor as well as an archer, Tell,” said Gessler, when his prisoner had been brought before him. “Can you save the boat and bring us to land?”
“Yes,” said Tell.
“Unbind him, then,” said Gessler to the soldier, “but mark you, Tell, you go not free. Even although you save us, you are still my prisoner. Do not think to have any reward.”
The rope which bound Tell’s hands was cut, and he took his place at the helm.
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(Ike Delorenzo for The Boston Globe)
November 11, 2009
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Serves 12
In this unusual method, the potatoes are simmered in the chicken stock, then green beans and meatballs are cooked without stirring, so the meatballs and potatoes stay intact.
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large onion, coarsely chopped
3 pounds mixed ground beef, pork, and veal
1 cup seasoned Italian breadcrumbs
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan
1 bunch parsley, stemmed and finely chopped
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups chicken stock
1/2teaspoon sea salt
1/4teaspoon crushed red pepper
1. In a soup pot, heat the oil and cook the onion, stirring often, for 10 minutes or until it begins to brown.
2. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, mix the beef, pork, and veal with the breadcrumbs, Parmesan, parsley, and eggs. With clean hands, work the mixture well. Shape it into meatballs about 1-inch wide; set aside.
5. With the back of a ladle, gently press the meatballs into the liquid so they’re just submerged. Cover and simmer gently for 1 hour without stirring. Some potatoes may stick to the bottom of the pan - and scorch. If you’re lucky you’ll get one of the charred red potatoes in your dish. Ike DeLorenzo | http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/articles/2009/11/11/green_bean_and_meatball_soup/ | dclm-gs1-197470002 | false | false | {
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border collie, Border collie.© Paddy Cutts/Animals Unlimitedbreed of herding dog, typically an outstanding sheepdog, which has been used along the English-Scottish border for about 300 years. Considered among the most intelligent breeds, border collies also excel at agility competitions. The border collie stands about 20 inches (51 cm) and weighs 31 to 50 pounds (14 to 23 kg). It is usually a long-haired dog, often black and white in colour, but sometimes red and white or tricolour. The physical appearance of this dog is less important than the ability to herd; for years many breeders resisted breed recognition from groups such as the American Kennel Club (AKC) for fear of encouraging the breeding of border collies that conformed physically to type but were unsuited to their work. In 1995 the border collie became eligible to be registered with the AKC in the Regular Classes.
Border collies compete in trials under the auspices of a number of groups, the oldest being the International Sheepdog Society, which held its first international trial in Scotland in 1906. At a trial, a dog is expected to perform tasks such as bringing sheep to a handler and rounding sheep into a pen. The trial lasts for nine minutes, and each fault or error leads to a deduction from the 100 points the dog and handler have at the start of the trial (points can only be subtracted, not added). Handlers use verbal commands with the collies, such as “come bye” (move clockwise around the flock), “come away” (move counterclockwise around the flock), “look back” (shift your attention to another part of the flock), and “that’ll do” (essentially a command for the dog to come, it means the herding is finished). Border collies are known for glaring at sheep in order to intimidate the stock into doing what they want; this trait is known as “eye” and comes perhaps from the collie’s wolf ancestor who stares down a victim and establishes dominance before attacking. | http://www.britannica.com/print/topic/73944 | dclm-gs1-197510002 | false | false | {
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0.024077 | <urn:uuid:97d1af12-361c-44ae-868e-684f555c4ef8> | en | 0.977256 | The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut has shattered that community and once again re-defined our notion of safe harbor. To most, what happened in that once-bucolic, New England town is unthinkable. To many it will be unrecoverable.
I've watched the coverage and read the blogs. To no avail I've tried over and over to meld all that into a cogent piece. Those who tell us that they will make sense of it for us are pandering to our lust for closure and the belief that it is inevitable. You can not make sense of the senseless.
Some will use the events of Friday morning to further their own agendas, especially gun control proponents. I support the Second Amendment, but I agree that we need to do more to restrict gun accessibility to the mentally unstable and criminally intended. How that can be accomplished, I do not know, but I doubt if any type of gun restriction would've prevented Friday's tragedy. This is not a perfect world and there is no way to ensure everyone's safety at all times.
A priest on TV smiled and said there were 20 new stars in Heaven. I'm not a believer. I don't think there is a "better place" for young children than with the families that give their worlds meaning. If there is a God and this was his His plan, I challenge Him to come up with a better plan. Some can accept life dealing them a crappy hand and are kept in line with the promise of eternal bliss. I'm not one of them.
In "It Takes A Village", Hillary Clinton tells us that we need to make America into the kind of village that enables children to become smart, able, resilient adults. It would seem to the casual onlooker that the idyllic town of Newtown, Connecticut was just such a village. And yet, something was missing, something that might have revealed a looming horror brewing in the mind of a young man in the midst of what has been described as a "tight-knit" community.
When President Obama spoke on TV he was not speaking as the President of the United States. He spoke as a father who understands what it is to fear for the safety of his own children, as a man who could understand the depth of despair this parent's worst nightmare inflicts. The tears he wiped from his eyes were real. He was visibly shaken. This was clearly personal for him, as it should be for all of us.
This shooting, more than any of the others is so disturbing on so many levels, it seems to speak to the very core of our culture and who we've become. It should take some time for any sane person to gather thoughts about something so shocking and yet, at the same time so tragically mundane.
Like mis-matched pieces of a puzzle, I can't quite squeeze these thoughts into a complete picture. I know a little bit about bullets and the damage possible when their trajectory intersects with flesh and bone and I can clearly visualize the carnage Adam Lanza's arsenal of weapons wreaked upon those tiny bodies. I can't imagine, though what abject terror those children felt as they watched their classmates ripped to shreds, knowing that they themselves had only moments to live, their lives cut short before they even began.
Arguably, many more innocent lives will be lost in the maze of our urban culture of illicit drug trafficing and its companion violence. Nonetheless, we can't minimize the impact and the tragedy of Sandy Hook Elementary School. If we can't protect our children in Newtown, Connecticut, can they be safe anywhere in America?
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Cooperative Extension (CE) has over 100-years of experience in delivering science-based decision support to clientele from multiple sectors. The CE structure enables a high level of connectedness and awareness of local issues and provides opportunities to assess local and multi-sector climate services needs. We will to work through CE offices to capture snapshots of local climate science and services needs across rural areas of AZ and NM. Since CE agents in these states work closely with both private land owners/producers (e.g. ranchers and farmers) and state/federal natural resource managers, we will be able to assess both the needs and interconnections between private and public resource managers, consistent with the ‘nested matrix’ concept of assessing climate change impacts and responses at multiple scales.
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This project is part of the US National Climate Assessment (Assessment) coordinated by the US Global Climate Research Program.
The Assessment's purpose is to synthesize, evaluate, and report on what we presently know about the potential consequences of climate variability and change for the US in the 21st century. It has sought to identify key climatic vulnerabilities of particular regions and sectors, in the context of other changes in the nation's environment, resources, and economy. It has also sought to identify potential measures to adapt to climate variability and change. Finally, because present knowledge is limited, the Assessment has sought to identify the highest priority uncertainties about which we must know more to understand climate impacts, vulnerabilities, and our ability to adapt. This project is part of a more comprehensive assessment led by CLIMAS that includes: “Knowledge Exchange and Needs Assessment on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Colorado River”, “Poverty and Climate Change in the Southwestern U.S.”, and “Climate Mitigation and Agriculture: Public Policy Education”.
These projects seeks to build upon CLIMAS’s well established network of stakeholders and collaborators to: 1) broaden the scope of our existing work into new domains (e.g., urban poor populations), emerging challenges (e.g., impact of mitigation policies on agriculture in the Southwest), and underrepresented parts of our region (e.g., the Rio Grande river basin); 2) make critical linkages amongst ongoing adaptation efforts across the region, and 3) expand the reach of CLIMAS’s network (e.g., by directly engaging the Cooperative Extension service on climate adaptation needs and capacity). Collectively, these projects will contribute tangible inputs to the US National Climate Assessment effort (e.g., new analyses of climate vulnerabilities and implications of mitigation policies, catalogs of ongoing and planned regional adaptation and mitigation efforts, and locally focused understanding of adaptation and mitigation needs and capacity). In addition to these product-based inputs, these projects will also help develop critical knowledge network infrastructure in support of the explicit desire for this National Climate Assessment effort to build a robust and enduring process. | http://www.climas.arizona.edu/book/export/html/1400 | dclm-gs1-197630002 | false | false | {
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0.068535 | <urn:uuid:c5dbaafb-84d4-4408-9e75-1d7071f2f0c8> | en | 0.835386 | NAME Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::EOL - Author tests making sure correct line endings are used VERSION version 0.04 DESCRIPTION Generate an author Test::EOL. This is an extension of Dist::Zilla::Plugin::InlineFiles, providing the following files: ATTRIBUTES trailing_whitespace If this option is set to a true value, "{ trailing_whitespace => 1 }" will be passed to "all_perl_files_ok" in Test::EOL. It defaults to 1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This module is a fork of Dist::Zilla::Plugin::EOLTests and was originally written by Florian Ragwitz. It was forked because author the Test:: namespace is preferred and because I would prefer to have EOL tests be Author tests. BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature. SEE ALSO Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this module. * Test::EOL * Dist::Zilla::Plugin::EOLTests AUTHORS * Florian Ragwitz * Caleb Cushing COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is Copyright (c) 2012 by Caleb Cushing. This is free software, licensed under: The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible) | http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/X/XE/XENO/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-EOL-0.04.readme | dclm-gs1-197670002 | false | false | {
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Time to retire?
When he's ready - and she's not
By Barbara CainSpecial to The Christian Science Monitor / February 20, 2002
Having raised three children, two terriers, and a rose garden, Lou and Debra are facing their first major marital impasse in over four decades together.
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The couple, who asked that their last name not be used, took part in interviews conducted with dual-career couples over the age of 62. These talks explored their attitudes toward retirement and their struggle to coordinate their retirement plans.
Lou, a surgeon, has spent a large slice of his life in the operating room. Now in his 60s, he's eager to turn in his scalpel, and troll for trout in a faraway stream. Debra, who was a stay-at-home mom for 16 years, launched her dream job as a pediatrician in midlife, climbed the career ladder, and isn't ready to retire.
Their dilemma is increasingly common among the generation that is now approaching retirement age.
Often, the husband, older than his wife, began working shortly after graduation, has continued working without interruption into his early 60s, and now dreams of spending days languishing in a rocking chair.
In contrast, the wife may have stayed home until the children were in school, and then joined the workforce. Now at the peak of her career, she can't imagine spending days playing golf or relaxing in a rocking chair.
Debra, for instance, considers retirement a virtual death sentence. But Lou would like nothing better.
It might seem simple to ask: What's stopping the partner who wants to retire from doing so, while the other keeps working?
But the answer isn't always so simple. Often, one person's dream of retirement includes moving to another area of the country, or traveling - both of which could interfere with the working spouse's career.
"I'm frequently invited to give talks, to write articles, to sit on important committees, and I can't give it all up now," says Debra, explaining why she isn't ready to retire. "My work is the air I breathe. Without it, I'd simply fade away."
But when her husband rhapsodizes about retiring to a sleepy village where there are no phones, her resolve weakens. As she recalls his many midnight trips to the hospital, she chides herself for being egocentric and believes she should relinquish her career and stand by her man.
With more than a dollop of difference between them, this couple struggles to reconcile two contrasting visions of the next part of their lives.
This dilemma is further compounded in May-December second marriages, where the silver-haired partner is ready to retire while the young spouse is working in a rapidly advancing career.
"Only now has our age difference really made a difference," reports Marlene. "I'm constantly on the move, promoting my career, while poor John - who just retired - is home alone counting the hours for my return."
Department of Labor surveys suggest that women between 55 and 64 are remaining in the work force in higher percentages than their husbands. Reasons vary. Some women delay retirement to ensure increased pensions, Social Security benefits, and supplementary income - especially when their husbands are casualties of company downsizing.
Others believe themselves to be more engaging partners, and decidedly more interesting people, when they are involved in the world of work. Many more unabashedly admit that they enjoy the power and recognition a position of authority confers.
But most women interviewed stated unequivocally that relationships among co-workers provided the most compelling reason for continuing to work.
"We talk, therefore we are," Jane Giddan, a speech and language pathologist, jests. "Friends at work are always there, and you don't have to rejigger your schedule to have a good heart-to-heart."
Though husbands likewise claim they would miss office camaraderie after retirement, they more often cite emblems of prestige as the greater loss. You can always find a fishing buddy, they say, but the office suite, the impressive title, the name on the letterhead - those symbols can never be replaced. | http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0220/p14s01-lifp.html | dclm-gs1-197690002 | false | false | {
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0.018248 | <urn:uuid:d7a14393-c042-423d-b044-90bd00c40d4a> | en | 0.963843 | Netflix Does the Unthinkable
It took more than two years, but Netflix has finally hit a fresh all-time high.
The leading video service barreled through its old high of $304.79 established two summers ago, when the market initially thought that Netflix's plan to charge separately for its streaming and DVD plans would be a goldmine.
It didn't play out that way. Consumers balked at what translated into a pricing increase of as much as 60%. The short-lived Qwikster fiasco a few weeks later was the icing on the cake. Then came the quarter of subscriber defections, and the shocking reality that average revenue per subscriber was actually heading lower. Folks weren't paying for both plans. They were nixing their higher-priced DVD plans in favor of just the $7.99 a month streaming service.
The stock bottomed out at $52.81 last summer, and dreams of Netflix revisiting its earlier highs seemed insane. It could have happened, but it would have realistically taken years, if not a decade, for the nearly sixfold advance necessary to get the stock back above $300.
Well, it took just a little more than a year.
Yesterday's rally was triggered, in part, by Liberty Global's Virgin Media offering Netflix in its set-top box in the United Kingdom. This is the first cable provider to directly offer Netflix.
This has been a dream of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings for more than a year. He was talking up the prospects of being bundled into cable packages the same way as premium movie channels HBO and Showtime are.
Netflix doesn't necessarily need this anymore. It now watches over nearly 38 million global streaming accounts. Having pay-TV companies on its side would make things easier, but it's not as if Netflix needs validation these days. Studios know that they need to go through Netflix if they want to reach a streaming and influential audience.
However, we also saw what overconfidence did to Netflix two years ago. Is a repeat performance in the cards? The shares certainly aren't cheap by most measuring sticks. It's unlikely to be another six-bagger by next summer.
It also doesn't help that many of the skeptics have cleared out of Dodge. The number of shares sold short have been cut by more than half over the past year. Short-squeeze rallies will be harder to come by, even though one can argue that the value of the total short positions has roughly tripled over the past year during the stock's sixfold advance.
This doesn't mean that the stock is heading lower. A breather would be perfectly natural, but it's not as if there's a disconnect between elated shareholders and frustrated subscribers the way things were two summers ago.
Wall Street and subscribers are loving Netflix these days, and that doesn't show any signs of easing.
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0.913369 | <urn:uuid:40d28948-c8fc-4131-aa71-bd4259cd646e> | en | 0.877567 | Definitions for riddleˈrɪd l
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word riddle
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
rid•dleˈrɪd l(n.; v.)-dled, -dling.
1. (n.)a question framed so as to exercise one's ingenuity in answering it or discovering its meaning; conundrum.
2. a puzzling question, problem, or matter.
3. a puzzling thing or person.
4. (v.i.)to propound riddles; speak enigmatically.
Origin of riddle:
bef. 1000; ME redel(s) (n.), OE rǣdels(e) counsel, opinion, riddle =rǣd(an) to counsel, rede+-els(e) deverbal n. suffix; loss of -s- in ME through confusion with the pl. form of the n. suffix -el -le (cf. burial )
rid•dleˈrɪd l(v.; n.)-dled, -dling
1. (v.t.)to pierce with many holes suggesting those of a sieve.
2. to fill or affect with (something undesirable):
a government riddled with graft.
3. to sift through a riddle, as gravel; screen.
Category: Mining
4. (n.)a coarse sieve, as one for sifting sand in a foundry.
Category: Metallurgy
Origin of riddle:
bef. 1100; (n.) ME riddil, OE hriddel, var. of hridder, hrīder, c. G Reiter; akin to L crībrum sieve; (v.) ME ridlen to sift, der. of the n.
Princeton's WordNet
1. riddle, conundrum, enigma, brain-teaser(noun)
a difficult problem
2. riddle(verb)
a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
3. riddle(verb)
pierce with many holes
"The bullets riddled his body"
4. riddle(verb)
set a difficult problem or riddle
"riddle me a riddle"
5. riddle, screen(verb)
separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
6. permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle(verb)
spread or diffuse through
"An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"
7. riddle(verb)
speak in riddles
8. riddle(verb)
explain a riddle
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
1. riddle(noun)ˈrɪd l
a game in the form of a question with a difficult or funny answer
Webster Dictionary
1. Riddle(noun)
2. Riddle(noun)
3. Riddle(verb)
4. Riddle(verb)
5. Riddle(noun)
6. Riddle(verb)
to explain; to solve; to unriddle
7. Riddle(verb)
to speak ambiguously or enigmatically
1. Riddle
Translations for riddle
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
a puzzle usually in the form of a question, which describes an object, person etc in a mysterious or misleading way
Can you guess the answer to this riddle?; The answer to the riddle `What flies for ever, and never rests?' is `The wind'.
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The rulling by Vicki Miles-LeGrange, a federal judge in Oklahoma who has rescinded the vote by 70 percent of Oklahoma voters to ban Sharia law in that state, should be a wake-up call to all Americans.
LeGrange is known for her liberal rulings, but this one is truly off the mark. Recognizing the law of any religion over the constitutional laws of the U.S. is wrong on any level. What’s next? If we allow one religion’s laws, will we also have to have Baptist law, Methodist law, Catholic law, Buddhist law, Shinto law, etc. Why just Muslim law? Is there a real move by the Obama administration to instill Sharia law into the U.S. judicial system? Is this yet another example of reaching out to the Muslim world by Obama? Unless I woke up in the twilight zone, I think this is still America, where we have established constitutionally-inspired rule of law. But that law is no Sharia or Muslim law. If Americans allow Sharia law, even if it only applies to Muslims, we will be following Islamic strategy whereby we have allowed the nose of the camel to come into the tent.
This is America. If you come into our country and become a citizen, you must abide by our laws — not your country of origin or religion laws. Do you think that Saudi Arabia or Indonesia would allow the use of Baptist law when trying an American in their country who happens to be a Baptist?
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1. lukmisz 38 months ago | reply
niezły klimat dzięki temu światłu
2. shelmahh 38 months ago | reply
jak w teatrze :)
3. Magi)(igaM Photography 38 months ago | reply
You captured very cool lighting. Great contrast between the big dominant pillars and the many cold and somewhat scattered people. The tram track lines and the lines coming from the upper left corner really add to the image and direct your eyes to your subject. I would guess that your subject is the need of the people to get on the tram. Nice work! :) (Hope you understand English. Unfortunately my Polish isnt so good yet. Wkrótce ;)
4. WROBLEN1 38 months ago | reply
Thank you for your comments / dziekuje :)
5. BroGuggs 32 months ago | reply
Very evocative of Warsaw's bone-chilling winter nights, and technically first-class.
I speak as a onetime Warsaw resident ('96-'97).
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the bag calls for 6 squares on each side but I didn't have enough yarn, so I'm doing 4 to a side. This is crocheted with the Wollmeise worsted samples. Used 40 out of 42 colors.
Also...this is my first crochet project. I taught myself as I went along.
1. esoteric knitter [deleted] 73 months ago | reply
Very cool! I'm thinking of trying out a bit of crochet myself. :)
2. ibmomof2 73 months ago | reply
Thanks! And beware, it's just as addicting as knitting. I find myself making a list of crochet patterns I just have to make now :)
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Yacouba Moumouni is a singer and flautist, leader of the jazz-ethnic band from Niger, Mamar Kassey. Moumouni is probably the best known Nigerien musician outside the country, and is much beloved in his home country. Born in 1966 in a small sahel town some 125 miles from Niamey, Moumouni herded cattle with his family until his father died when he when he was 10. Falling out with his brother, he ran away to the capital, where he lived on the street for two years until his talent attracted the attention of a music teacher, and he was taken on as an apprentice. Mastering the traditional flute, he joined the Ballet National of Niger and then formed Mamar Kassey, an eight man group featuring Moumouni and guitarist Abdallah Alhassane.
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1. cookiesound 25 months ago | reply
great picture, how did you get thetre? plane, car??
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ohhh beautiful like candies....
Seen in my contacts' photos. (?)
2. lla 76 months ago | reply
it is! It's like a candy shop!!!!
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Organized OCD Style, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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No, Brian, no more babies. I know, you're cute and you were a really easy baby, but that doesn't mean that the next one would be. Yes, you have big beautiful blue eyes and I hate saying no to you - but I will.
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hidden entrance for a secret world
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I love a behaviour that throws a good amount of water around :D
Kayla Thrash Alien (or is that a Marlin? or is a Marlin a thrash kicker? I can't remember...)
One Ocean - SeaWorld Orlando
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1. RukatheBlackfish 18 months ago | reply
SWF named it the Marlin at one point long ago. SWC calls it a thrash alien.
2. CetusCetus 18 months ago | reply
Thanks :) I get a little confused when different places have different names for behaviours.
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Like this shot a bunch
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that actually is a bus dealership called Transit Sales p.s wow they have alot of EX OCTA Newflyer D40
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It's finally out and not in too bad a condition. The hexagonal stem
plinth is missing (I was not the most right I've ever been on that
call) but it's looking good. Next step: moving, restoration and
sourcing someone to recreate the stem hexagonal plinth and dog bowls.
It will also need the large hexagonal step area and commemorative
blocks. Not even thinking about the (probably expensive) top section.
1. archidave 36 months ago | reply
Hmm. Yeh it's damaged quite a bit here at the bottom. It's not impossible to have a new section grafted on here, but it's a nucience for sure. Is there a section of it designed to sit as a foot underground? Is that the worst damaged bit? So you might not see it?
2. FAÇ 51 36 months ago | reply
Yeah, when you see it you'll see that it's not overly bad. Yes, this plinth sits on a hexagonal plinth around 25cm high which then sits on the wider standing slabs. Do you want to come and have a look at it next week? Also, is there anyone out there with a lorry/van with a tail lift to transport it?
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#1spooky96Posted 11/14/2012 7:21:41 AM
I don't have access to this game yet, but I would like to know how the maps are in this game. Are most of them small/medium/large? Is there any map smaller or equal to Dome? (Besides Nuke Town of course) and overall are they fun to play on?
Do you like spoons?
#2buttcobellPosted 11/14/2012 7:23:07 AM
Theyre good. I like them more than MW3 ones. but not as good as MW2 ones.
#3dpcdominoPosted 11/14/2012 7:37:02 AM
So far so good but it is early. They seem small to medium sized but there are a lot of sight lines so it makes up for it.
I have not seen a map I hate....yet
#4gigano25Posted 11/14/2012 7:37:44 AM
I would say that the maps are medium and small sized, Also the maps does has a lot of narrow paths and also has alot of multiple paths and openings, which result in to alot of complaining that the maps sucks because people have to defend (or camp as others would say) to many openings.
So far I am liking the maps, since there are more paths to flank campers that are defending certain points.
#5reptyle101Posted 11/14/2012 7:41:19 AM
I like most so far. They are more like MW2/3 maps on the surface (very colourful and usually fast-paced) but are also quite clean with lots of flanking routes and lines of sight like WaW/Blops.
Best of both I'd say.
Chase the morning
Yield for nothing.
#6Lauz84Posted 11/14/2012 7:43:58 AM
I really like the maps, maybe my favorite (standard) map-set of all CoD's, previous installments got allot of meh-maps and a couple of real good ones. BO2 reversed that, allot of awesome maps and maybe 2 or 3 lesser ones
"Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it"
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What type are you?
#1TJ_17_Posted 9/7/2013 6:24:07 PM
Personality wise? Is say I'm either earth or water. Quite steady, unmoving and calm, stubborn, and difficult to control. Not very precise, with no great rush, but reliable, and effective.
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how can i get higher DP?
how can i earn easily more DP?
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From: Nick_Kazama 5 years ago
Find Nova, the Obelisk Blue student. He can be found at the main gate (after class) or at the classroom before class. Duel him and you will find that he is not actually worthy of being an Obelisk - all he seems to do is draw and draw and draw. He has a few annoying cards like Cyber Jar (Flip: Destroy all monsters on the field and then draw 5 cards, summoning all level 4 or lower monsters along the way), Morphing Jar (Flip: Both players discard their entire hands and then draw 5 cards from their Decks) and Exchange of the Spirit (swap each players Graveyard with their Deck).
Other than that, he's not hard at all, I mean, he has 3 Thunder Dragons in his Deck but no Polymerization or Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon! He even has cards which he never uses for some reason...
So yeah, go and Duel him. Wait for him to Draw half of his Deck in one turn and then chip away at his Life Points with your Monsters.
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There is no fast way to get D.P just keep dueling everyone till you get the amount you want.
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U can go to free duel and duel with a noob example damon and set the settings to 2000lp and no time limit so tat u will win faster.U can oso play tag team with two same charecters
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Find the character called Nova - he's in the classroom before class, and at the main gate afterwards. He's an Obelisk Blue student with an Exchange deck, but he sucks horribly at using it, so if you make a deck with strong monsters (1700+ attack, level 4 or less) and rush him, you should utterly destroy him before he can mess around with his deck.
He gives 200DP just for beating him, plus the usual bonuses, meaning you will get anywhere between 300 and 400 points usually, plus eventual levelup bonuses.
Damon (the Tarzan wannabe who does nothing but draw) and Gillian (blonde Slifer Red outside your room) can also be crushed fairly easily, but they don't give nearly as many DP as Nova.
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Eggplants2 Large, sliced 1/2 inch thick but not peeled
Salt2 Teaspoon
Onions3 Medium, peeled and chopped
Garlic1 Clove (5 gm), peeled and crushed
Olive oil/Vegetable oil2 Tablespoon
Tomatoes4 Medium, peeled, cored and coarsely chopped (Reserve Juice)
Rosemary leaf1⁄4 Teaspoon, crumbled
Minced fresh mint/1 tablespoon mint flakes2 Tablespoon
Minced parsley2 Tablespoon
Sugar2 Teaspoon
Salt1 Teaspoon
Pepper1⁄4 Teaspoon
Tomato sauce8 Ounce (1 Can)
Cream-style cottage cheese10 Ounce (1 Carton)
Grated parmesan cheese2 Tablespoon
Rosemary leaf1⁄8 Teaspoon, crumbled
Mace1⁄8 Teaspoon
Salt1⁄4 Teaspoon
Pepper1⁄8 Teaspoon
Olive oil/Vegetable oil4 Tablespoon
Grated parmesan cheese2⁄3 Cup (10.67 tbs)
Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 2363 Calories from Fat 1287
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 146 g224.1%
Saturated Fat 42.5 g212.5%
Trans Fat 0.5 g
Cholesterol 356.4 mg
Sodium 9235.4 mg384.8%
Total Carbohydrates 182 g60.8%
Dietary Fiber 54.9 g219.6%
Sugars 93.3 g
Protein 105 g210.2%
Vitamin A 217% Vitamin C 349.4%
Calcium 190.4% Iron 75.3%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet
1. Sprinkle both sides of each eggplant slice with salt; place between several thicknesses of paper toweling; weight down; let stand 1 hour.
2. Meanwhile, make the Tomato Sauce: Stir-fry onions and garlic in oil in a large, heavy skillet over moderate heat about 8 minutes, until limp and golden. Add tomatoes, their juice and all remaining ingredients except tomato sauce and heat, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until tomatoes begin to release their juices. Cover; lower heat and simmer 1 hour, stirring occasionally; stir in tomato sauce and simmer, uncovered, 15 minutes longer.
3. Prepare Cheese Filling while Tomato Sauce simmers: Mix together all remaining ingredients except the 4 tablespoons oil and 2/3 cup Parmesan cheese; refrigerate until needed.
4. Brush both sides of each eggplant slice lightly with olive or vegetable oil, then broil quickly on each side to brown.
5. To assemble Moussaka, spoon half the Tomato Sauce over the bottom of a 13x9x2-inch baking pan; sprinkle generously with grated Parmesan, then arrange half the browned egg plant slices on top. Spread with cheese filling; sprinkle with Parmesan. Arrange remaining egg plant slices on top; sprinkle with Parmesan. Finally, cover with remaining Tomato Sauce and one last sprinkling of Parmesan. | http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/moussaka-ala-greque | dclm-gs1-198380002 | false | false | {
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Member Rating 5 out of 5 by Fiver29 on July 18, 2009
== Grizedale Forest. ==
=== Location ===
Grizedale is located between Esthwaite Water and Coniston. Parking always used to be a problem here, but they've created a larger car park a couple of years ago, so chances are you shouldn't have a problem now.
To reach the forest from the North you need to take the A591 to Ambleside, leave Ambleside A593 to Langdale/Coniston. First left B5286 to Hawkshead. Bypass Hawkshead follow B5286 south then first right at tourist sign "Theatre in the Forest", follow to Grizedale approx 2 miles.
Or from the South M6 junction 36 take A591 first exit A590, Barrow follow A590 past Newby Bridge Havethwaite Crossroads, right turn, tourist sign "Grizedale Forest Park", follow signs for Satterthwaite/Grizedale north.
During the high season (Easter to Oct/Nov) you can reach Grizedale via the Cross Lakes Experience, where you can arrive from either Coniston Water or Bowness Pier. There’s also a bus service that runs from Hawkshead to Grizedale to Newby Bridge.
=== The Forest ===
At the old car park (which is still useable) you'll find the visitors centre, the shop, the cafe and a massive playground for the children which is all wood and looks like a ship. There's also a place to hire cycles and the Go Ape tree top experience, where those over the age of 10 can swing through the trees and clamber around 19 metres in the air!! I have to say I've never tried it, the trees would probably bend under the weight, but I've watched people doing it and they always look like they are thoroughly enjoying it, and I admit I'd love to have a go on the zip wire. It's open for children over 10 and adults, currently the prices are £20 for children up to 17 and £25 for adults.
For the less adventurous among you there are several different walks around the forest, all of differing difficulties and distances. Some of the walks are free of stiles, so they are suitable for wheelchair users, although none are actual pavemented walks, so they might still be hard going depending on the style of wheelchair, because I know some are far more difficult to push or handle than others. The other walks range from a 1 mile blue walk which is classed as easy to a 9 and a half mile orange walk, which is classed as strenuous. The walks are all marked out with arrows of certain colours along the route, so you don't accidently go along a more difficult path. All in all there are 8 marked walks. The forest is also home to the country’s largest off road cycling facility, it has 5 marked cycle routes of differing difficulties.
As you're walking round you'll find statues hidden among the trees, I say hidden, some of them are quite obvious and out in the open, but the kids love to be the first one to spot the next statue. The statues are mostly made of natural materials, although some of the newer ones are metal rather than wood. Some of the figures are interactive, for instance you can play the forest xylophone.
At the beginning of the forest close to the Go Ape area there is a small stream running through the forest. Providing they have wellington boots on this stream is just right for the children to jump in and splash about, without any worries about it being too deep.
=== Visitors Centre ===
The visitors centre is open all year round, except for Christmas week. It opens at 10am each day and closes between 4pm and 5.30pm depending on the time of year (later opening during the summer). The visitors centre has details of the walks and cycle trails, they have leaflets which show all the walks, but as previously mentioned all the walks are well signposted with colour co-ordinated arrows. They also sell souvenirs, and just across from the main centre there’s a small cafe which has hot and cold snacks as well and hot and cold drinks, although they are a little expensive, so I’d advise packing a few of your own drinks. There are indoor and outdoor seats, the outdoor seats are also available for anyone who wants to take a picnic.
On the opposite side of a small stream you’ll find a cycle hire shop, so you don’t have to take your own cycles, the latest you can hire a cycle is 3pm, and it has to be returned by 5pm.
Also close to the visitor’s centre is a large children’s park. The playground has a large wooden structure in the centre which is shaped like a pirate ship, and has slides and climbing frames. This is usually being used by children aged 10 and under, with a few children around 11-13, after that age it seems like it isn’t ‘cool’ enough to be used.
Just outside the Visitors Centre you’ll find the Theatre in the Forest. There are different plays and performances going on through the year. For instance the Brewery Art will soon be performing their hilarious adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III.
The forest is busy nearly all year round, but during the summer you’ll find the area very busy. This means you are unlikely to find any quiet time around the visitors centre, and the shorter walks will be quite crowded. No matter which walk you decide to take I would recommend you plan for a full day at Grizedale, the scenery is beautiful and despite what I mentioned earlier about crowds, you’ll still be able to find some time and space to enjoy the tranquillity of the forest.
=== Final Opinion ===
I love going to Grizedale because there's something for everyone. My children love it because they enjoy the playground, they love to hunt for new sculptures, and they really love jumping in the stream!
I find the cafe and shop expensive so we generally take our own food and have a picnic, and will just buy an ice cream or something small during the afternoon if we need to.
The routes are well signposted (and by signpost I don't mean great big ugly things that spoil the forest, they are small and don't detract from the natural beauty), however, if you don't pay attention, or head off without looking to see which colour is which, you might find yourself on a much longer walk than you thought. As I did once when I ended up on a cycle trail not a walk, and 4 hours later was starting to worry that I'd never get back. Although in a way it was a wonderful mistake because it took us up quite high and the view was outstanding.
A lovely day out, that's well recommended.
Grizedale Forest
Lake District of NW England
Hawkshead, Cumbria
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Business Technology: Offshore Outsourcing: A Means To An End
Offshore outsourcing is today perhaps the most emotional and least-understood business practice in the world. To be sure, in a lot of cases it is and will continue to be wrenching and deeply disruptive for not only many individuals but also large groups of professionals caught on the wrong side of this trend.
Offshore outsourcing is today perhaps the most emotional and least-understood business practice in the world. To be sure, in a lot of cases it is and will continue to be wrenching and deeply disruptive for not only many individuals but also large groups of professionals caught on the wrong side of this trend. An example of free-market capitalism at its most coldly impersonal and even merciless, offshore outsourcing is today touching not just some anonymous groups of people in some far-off locale in some obscure industry; rather, it has hit many of us increasingly closer to home: relatives, friends, and colleagues whose jobs have been transferred to other people in other countries.
But beyond the understandable emotional reactions to these displaced jobs, there's still a lot of fog and myth shrouding the true nature of offshore outsourcing. Lots of people still believe it's nothing more than paying lower wages for lower-quality work. No offense to those who believe this, but that theory is, in today's extremely competitive business climate, preposterous. Then there are those who believe that the sole value proposition of offshore outsourcing here in 2003 is to pay lower wages in return for the same quality. But that view, while perhaps at least somewhat accurate in the recent past, is outdated and simply not true.
The truth--as galling and bitter as it might be for many in this country to accept--is that companies are turning today to offshore outsourcers because in return they can get better quality in shorter times at lower cost. Hell, there are lots of ways to pay less and get less in return--nobody has to go halfway around the world for that. And any company relying on such a strategy would soon be out of business. So that myth needs to be tossed in the trash where it belongs.
No, there's something much more significant being sought here, and the relentless search for it has gone offshore because, simply, it's too hard to find here in this country. And the object of that hunt is twofold: new sources of reasonably priced innovation and new sources of reasonably priced quality. Here's an example: A prestigious hospital in Boston is swamped with unhappy patients who have to wait inordinate amounts of time to have their X-rays analyzed, so the hospital finds new sources of high-quality health-care expertise in another country. As soon as the X-rays are taken, the hospital sends digital images to a partner hospital in India, where teams of fully qualified physicians read and interpret the X-rays and send their analyses back to the Boston hospital overnight. The patients are happy, the hospital is happy, and the doctors in Boston who for whatever reason could not find or make the time to read the X-rays are probably happy, too--clearly, that was not a high-priority task for them.
As economic, political, and technological forces continue to shape a more truly global economy, such anecdotes will become not the exception but rather the norm. But we all need to remember that the goal is not offshore outsourcing; that, rather, is a means to a very different end, and that end is reasonably priced new sources of innovation and quality. When companies in the United States--and our universities and high schools, as well as our sprawling free-market system--catch up with this thought and realign their priorities, we'll find lots of new ways to compete effectively in new businesses and new markets. But that edge won't come because of an accident of birth--that is, that we happen to live in the United States and are therefore endowed with some right of preeminence. Rather, it will come because we have refocused our thinking and our behavior and our reward systems on creating value and innovation and opportunity, and NOT on protecting it and legislating to protect it and erecting barriers to keep us and what we have in, and to keep outsiders and what they want out.
Not only has Mr. Silverstein proved singularly resistant to the notion of any kind of responsibility beyond his commercial interests--a blindness to human and moral values that defies comprehension in these circumstances--he has also pursued those interests relentlessly."
-- Wall Street Journal architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, July 24, on developer Larry Silverstein and his involvement in plans to develop the World Trade Center site ( la/?id=110003787)
Let me offer an example: Dell Computer. The company largely eschews outsourcing of any type--offshore, onshore, near-shore, far-shore, for sure--NOT because it has ingrained philosophical clashes with outsourcing but rather for the very practical reason that the company believes that its best chance of gaining and constantly enhancing its competitive advantage is by doing all those things internally better and faster and cheaper than anyone else--here, there, or anywhere--can do them. But despite the different approach it takes, Dell has the same objective as do many of the thousands of companies that have chosen to pursue those objectives offshore at the same time Dell pursues them in-house: relentless innovation, higher quality, greater customer intimacy, real-time responsiveness--and all at reasonable and highly competitive costs.
So I have to conclude that I really don't understand the hand-wringing in which some companies are engaging as they try to hide their relationships with offshore outsourcers or even try to pretend to the outside world that those very relationships don't exist. Who can forget the classic scene in The Wizard Of Oz when Toto pulls aside the screen hiding the all-too-human "wizard," causing the big and scary and imaginary projection of The Wizard to shout, "Pay no attention to the man behind the screen!"
The fly in the ointment, though, is that there was indeed a man behind the screen, just as there are lots and lots of U.S.-based companies that are employing offshore outsourcing companies. I think those companies should step forward and say something like, "We're doing this because it helps us give our customers what they want, it helps us be more competitive, it helps us meet our numbers, it helps us provide a good return to stockholders, and it helps ensure that this company will not just survive but will also thrive in coming years. And we promise that if alternative sources of such powerful creativity and quality and innovation arise within the United States at competitive prices, we'll give them every opportunity to become a part of our global web of customer-focused excellence and relentless business-process improvement."
And I think there are lots of reasons to say something like that, and one of those is that some of our elected lawmakers will no doubt soon get the idea to craft legislation mandating that all U.S.-based companies must publicly disclose offshore relationships. Sound crazy? Maybe it is. But notice how prominent your company's Regulatory Compliance Department has become? But that's another story.
As for this story, it's about over. The point is, offshore outsourcing is a powerful means to a more-powerful end. The goal, as always, is to identify and drive business-process improvements through the application of new sources of innovation, quality, and speed, all at reasonable prices. And whether you choose to do that in the United States or in India or China or Ireland or Israel, it should be a source of pride, not shame. Because remember, too, what the man behind the screen said when Dorothy called him "a very bad man": "Oh no, my darling," he replied. "I'm a very good man; I'm just a very bad wizard."
Bob Evans
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Ah, ah, ha ha ha well, hello there little buddy, come on in!
Whatcha got there with you?
That your dog?
Guess there's no reason you can't have dogs up there on the moon,
That's a good pretty good looking pooch....
Betcha come back for more of dr. neptune's delicious elixir is that right?
Ha ha ha i knew you would i'll get that for ya...
Oh, i see, you figured out where it is, didn'tcha.
Well, alright, i'll tell you what i'll do, i'll set up the checkerboard here,
We'll have us another game of checkers...
One without all that cheatin' you done last time...
We ain't gonna have no more of that i can tell ya'...
I seen what you done...
[(?)] glasses like that up there on the moon...
When the bomb's activated and mutilated the leg and arms
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[hook 2xs: pharrell & uncle charlie wilson]
Ohhh-ohh-oh-ohhh-ohhh... (oh-hooo!)
Yeahhh, yeahh, yeah, yeahhhh... (ehh... oh yeah, there's something about
[chorus 2xs]
Beautiful, I just want you to know (oh-hooo!)
Youre my favorite girl... (ehh... oh yeah, there's something about you...)
I know you gon lose it, this new snoop shit
Come on baby boo, you gotsta get into it (oh-hooo!)
Don't fool wit the playa with the cool whip
Yeah-yeah, you know Im always on that cool shit
Walk to it, do it how you do it
Have a glass, lemme put you in the mood and, (oh-hooo!)
Lil cutie lookin like a student
Long hair, witcha big fat booty
Back in the days you was a girl I went to school wit
Had to tell your moms and sister to cool it (oh-hooo!)
The girl wanna do it, I just might do it
Here to walk wit some pimp-pimp clue wit
Mommy don't worry, I wont abuse it
Hurry up and finish so we can watch clueless (oh-hooo!)
I laugh at these niggas when they ask who do this
But everybody know who girl that you is
[chorus 2xs]
[verse 2]
When I see my baby boo, shit, I get foolish
Smack a nigga that tries to pursue it (oh-hooo!)
Homeboy, she taken, just move it
I asked you nicely, don't make the dogg lose it
We just blow dro and keep the flow movin
In a 64, me and baby boo cruisin (oh-hooo!)
Body rag interior blue, and
Have them hydralics squeakin when we screwin
Now she's yellin, hollerin out snoop, and
Hootin, hollerin; hollerin, hootin (oh-hooo!)
Black and beautiful, you the one Im choosin
Hair long and black and curly like you're cuban
Keep groovin, that's what we doin
And we gon be together until your moms move in... (oh-hooo!)
Pharrell: ehh... oh yeah, there's something about you...
[chorus & hook: 2xs]
[bridge 2xs: pharrell & uncle charlie wilson]
...see I just want you
To know that you are really special...
Ohh why, oh why, oh why, oh why...
[verse 3]
Snoop dogg clothing, that's what Im groomed in
You got my pictures on the wall in your room-in (oh-hooo!)
Girls be complainin you keep me boomin
But girls like that wanna listen to pat boone (ehh... oh yeah, there's
Something about you...)
Yous a college girl, but that don't stop you from doin
Come and see the dogg in a hood near you-in (oh-hooo!)
You don't ask why I roll wit a crew, and
Twist up my fingers and wear dark blue-in (ehh... oh yeah, there's something
About you...)
On the eastside, that's the crew I choose
Nothin I do is new to you (oh-hooo!)
I smack up the world if they rude to you (ehh...)
Cause baby girl you so beautiful...
[chorus 2xs]
[bridge 4xs]
(p): ehh... oh yeah, there's something about you... oh-hooo!
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The car's owner—famed auto customizer George Barris, of Los Angeles—transformed a one-of-a-kind 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car into the sleek crime-fighting machine. On the show, it boasted lasers and a "Batphone" and could lay down smoke screens and oil slicks.
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Average Movie review score: 56
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543 movie reviews
1. The Best Man Holiday alternates smoothly between raucous comedy and soap opera for a solid hour... Yet the balance begins to tip toward leaden melodrama in the crazily overloaded third act, which speeds past the line separating crowd-pleasing from crowd-pandering.
2. Even though Gondry and Chomsky’s very different sensibilities don’t mesh in such a way that either man’s work gains substantially from the alliance, they’re each such good company individually that Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? is still entertaining.
3. The film’s engine stalls from time to time, but it never dies—much like the city it’s set in.
4. Mettler is in no hurry to get to any particular point in The End Of Time. The film leaps from subject to subject—slowly, and somewhat haphazardly.
5. While Black Nativity often lacks polish and restraint, at least it never lacks for soul.
6. Driven by Paul Grabowsky’s deceptively jaunty score, Swerve is ably performed and tightly paced... But it doesn’t stick the landing.
7. Breakfast With Curtis is so gentle, it doesn’t bother with antagonists, or even much conflict.
8. Some Velvet Morning is absorbing and enraging, sure to spark debate both about its meaning and its method. More importantly, it’s a phenomenal performance piece, with LaBute capturing the incredible gifts of two masters of pretense.
9. Those willing or prone to buy into the idea of “Disney Magic” are likely to choke up at least once or twice over the course of Saving Mr. Banks, while those who resist it—the Traverses of the world—will choke on the heaping spoonfuls of sugar the film ladles onto its story.
10. It’s hard to fight the feeling that The Hobbit simply isn’t an epic story, and the efforts to expand it into one leave it feeling like an anvil crammed into a sock: The sock is taking on some weird shapes, and it’s being stretched awfully thin.
11. Bogliano provides a steady series of jolts, all the way to an ending that’s twisty but ultimately unsatisfying.
12. Despite its limitations, Nuclear Nation remains a quiet, painful reminder that disasters aren’t disasters because of the sound and excitement, but because of the blank spaces they leave in people’s lives.
13. While the movie isn’t a consistently riveting four hours, Hoogendijk does keep finding images and moments that demystify the museum business while making the art seem all the more magical.
14. All The Light In The Sky is a refreshingly grown-up exploration of a woman at a personal and professional crossroads that’s stronger for never pushing its narrative or its finely wrought lead character in the direction of big moments or bullshit epiphanies. It’s casual, but also quietly moving.
15. Dupieux might have done better to construct an entire movie around his best idea.
16. Interior. Leather Bar.’s intriguing curiosity provides ample food for thought, in part because it’s the rare film that devotes much of its running time to its own principals discussing what, if anything, the film ultimately means.
17. Unfortunately, as with so many social-survey documentaries, the film’s macro view comes at the expense of any microcosmic depth.
18. This is time-worn, overly familiar material, indifferently directed by journeyman Tim Story, but Hart’s manic comic invention and textured persona elevates it somewhere beyond the level of pleasing mediocrity onto the slightly more distinguished realm of the agreeable-enough time waster.
19. Keshales and Papushado have great filmmaking chops—as Israeli imports go, this is as far from the austere norm as it gets—but there’s a hollowness at the core of Big Bad Wolves, a creeping sense that they have no clear perspective on they mayhem they’re presenting.
20. Generation War never becomes great, but it overcomes its stiff start in large part due to its scope.
22. Farmiga and Garcia have a chemistry that’s unassuming and sneaky, and the pleasure they get from each other’s company ultimately proves infectious.
23. 7 Boxes is way too simple, but it mostly works, because every twist of the plot and turn of the street leads back to this one kid, who’ll do anything to make enough money to become someone other than himself.
24. Even though the film’s overall impact is blunted by Wheatley’s frequently inscrutable plotting (co-written with Amy Jump), Rose’s images...speak louder than words.
25. The film is hyper-aware of the ridiculousness of the patriarchal obsession with masculinity-as-penis-size—and yet, in the end, and rather helplessly, it’s still mired in a banal narrative of masculine self-actualization.
26. To its credit and sometimes detriment, Grand Piano keeps a frothing-at-the-mouth level of insane melodrama going for 75 minutes, aided by Wood’s sweaty, terrified performance, a screenplay rich in ridiculous contrivances, and a swooping camera that never stands still.
27. There’s a sense with Jimmy P. that Desplechin and his co-screenwriters, Julie Peyr and film critic Kent Jones, are doing everything they can to steer away from contrivance and stick as closely to Devereux’s recollection as possible. What they’re left with is a rigorous, keenly intelligent therapy session that’s largely absent of dramatic tension.
28. The Visitor is like a puzzle jammed together by a 3-year-old, with the polyglot pieces forced into place whether they fit or not. In other words, it’s an essential curiosity.
29. Chow’s go-for-broke sensibility has been sorely missed, and a tale of demons is the ideal context for the gravity-defying, logic-impaired stunts he favors.
30. Screenwriter Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy And Rosie Get Laid) sometimes overdoes the emotional-seesaw routine... But director Roger Michell (who’s previously worked with Kureishi on The Mother, Venus, and the miniseries The Buddha Of Suburbia) maintains a slightly jagged rhythm that proves disarming, and he has two magnificent collaborators in Broadbent and Duncan.
31. Exposed is really just a series of intermingling profiles, which is perhaps why its observations eventually begin to feel slightly repetitive.
32. The Kevin Hart brand is clearly doing well, but Let Me Explain doesn’t seem interested in providing anything more than a surface-level presentation of the product.
33. The default middle ground between true-to-life and wacky in I Give It A Year turns out to be a place of dreary artificiality.
34. White House Down is never more than a sliver away from gleeful self-parody. It’s pure patriotic kitsch, the cinematic equivalent of a black-velvet painting of a bald eagle clutching an American flag in its talons as it soars majestically over Mount Rushmore.
35. As routine and undercooked as Beneath’s one-wet-corpse-after-another plot is, the movie is still breathtakingly beautiful at times, with compositions and color tones that resemble a high-class fashion-magazine layout circa 1965.
36. Compared to other, similar offbeat monster movies, Grabbers is under-realized. It isn’t as smartly plotted or funny as Tremors, nor as politically charged as The Host.
37. A film that grows less compelling and original by the minute, R.I.P.D. serves due notice that the mismatched-buddy-cop movie is wearing out its welcome all over again.
38. There’s a strain of gross-out humor—most bodily fluids make cameos—that doesn’t mesh well with the rest of the movie. But more bothersome is a tendency The To Do List shares with its heroine: mistaking checking items off a list for progress.
39. Wasteland reveals itself as little more than a bloodless plot engine, but it purrs and hums under the ultra-slick chassis.
40. It deserves credit for avoiding the conventions of romantic comedies and defying audience expectations, but only to a degree. Instead of hitting the expected notes and beats, Drinking Buddies instead ambles sideways. It’s headed nowhere in particular, but at least the voyage is pleasant.
41. Duhamel and Fogler play off each other nicely in the early going... The arguments and contrasting worldviews are banal, but the relationship feels genuine.
42. Sometimes it’s fascinating, but just as often, it’s frustrating: It’s a film without a net, and it tends to land with a thud.
43. It’s a modest, reserved character piece that doesn’t push an agenda. The problem is that it comes across as if it lacks opinions, rather than holding them back.
44. If Schrader and Ellis set out to prove that movies are dying or already dead, they might have done their job too well. The Canyons doesn’t play like the cure for a moribund industry, so much as a mildly effective, highly depressing administration of the last rites.
45. The movie fails, but it’s like watching R.P. McMurphy try to lift that huge marble fixture in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest—at least they tried, goddammit.
46. Bell is too inherently sympathetic to turn Leigh into a credibly flawed protagonist, and first-time writer-director Liz W. Garcia seems more interested in indulging the fantasy of the jailbait fling than in seriously interrogating her heroine’s psyche.
47. While the setups are often laughably forced—two words: “weed baby”—the script navigates its way out of them relatively gracefully, and sometimes hilariously.
48. There’s a context to Struzan—not just biographically, but culturally—and while Sharkey seems to understand that, his movie, ironically, doesn’t illustrate it particularly well.
49. Austenland embraces convention, and the result is a romantic comedy in which the ending seems not just foreordained, but promised via contract from the first moment of the film.
50. You Will Be My Son works best when it’s at its most unforced, and when the world of wine-making—with its anticipation of the season’s cycles and its fascination with subtle changes in flavor—intersects naturally with the life of a European business leader who has skewed priorities.
51. Inch’Allah tries hard, and serves up a few moments of compelling specificity, but for the most part, it has little to offer beyond good intentions. For a subject this daunting and knotty, that isn’t nearly enough.
52. This is the rare martial-arts film where the martial arts are tedious and the conversations more compelling.
53. Mauriac’s portrait of a society obsessed with family honor and the appearance of propriety at all costs comes through strongly, but that can’t entirely compensate for a character study with a hard-working vacuum at its center. Like Keanu Reeves, Tautou requires a perfect fit; when she tries to stretch, she gets stranded.
54. It’s a slickly packaged, proficient thriller first, political statement a distant, speck-on-the-horizon second.
55. It’s well-intentioned, but it’s all diagnosis, no prescription.
56. While Good Ol’ Freda will surely fascinate hardcore Beatles fans, there simply isn’t a feature-length story here.
57. A Teacher feels a bit like watching some fool cross a busy freeway on foot over and over again for an hour and change. There’s little to do but await the inevitable splat.
58. There’s a wealth of information in My Father And The Man In Black, but Holiff’s directorial choices don’t always help in conveying them.
59. Populaire’s initial appeal comes largely from its airiness, and it simply doesn’t have the heft or gravity to tackle weightier emotions.
60. There’s an overlay of gender politics, but it isn’t so firmly ingrained in the material that it transforms Levine’s throwback ’80s slasher film into a much nobler, more thoughtful endeavor.
61. A film that veers between caustic comedy, melodrama, and heartstring-tugging, without finding the spark of sympathy that would hold the film together around its disparate tones.
62. Gandolfini delivers a funny, poignant performance befitting a great actor. It’s heartbreaking that the film doesn’t measure up to his exemplary turn.
63. Just as the documentary doesn’t really have the goods when it comes to solving the photograph’s mysteries, it only skims across the surface of what the picture represents.
64. It isn’t good by any stretch of the imagination, but B-movie lovers who like their dance movies flashy, fun, and spectacularly dumb shouldn’t mind.
65. An advocacy doc constructed to make a clear political point first and function as a film a distant second.
66. Ultimately, all the metafictions and social commentary are too vague to have any meaning, beyond giving Johnson a foundational justification for this movie. But while The Dirties is in some ways appalling, it’s also effective.
67. Where before, Porterfield seemed to be recording life as it’s lived, here, he’s mostly recording plot. The difference is glaring.
68. The best parts of Runner Runner feel like a Rounders facsimile—right down to the metaphor-heavy narration—and the worst seem like a case of mission drift, as if the filmmakers set out to make a behind-the-curtain thriller about online gambling, but got hung up in paying off the plot.
69. Lumpy is the nickname of a significant character (the eponymous best man, in fact), but it’s also a fair description of the movie itself: an earnest-bordering-on-sappy serving of dramatic oatmeal with ungainly chunks of broad comedy thrown in here and there.
70. Zero Charisma is a comedy by classification, but its cruelties have a way of turning it into a psychodrama inadvertently. The tone is often as abrasive as its hero.
71. All the horror hallmarks do little to compensate for a dearth of genuine scares or surprises, and DiBlasi’s workmanlike approach isn’t distinctive enough to transcend the script’s clichés.
72. As a stand-alone documentary, it begs for more conflict and a broader canvas from which to explore the contemporary theater scene.
73. It’s all tasteful and polished to a fault, but it feels like exactly what it is: an abbreviated version that preserves the high points, zips past the rest, and never approaches the depth of the full text.
74. After performing many narrative backflips in an attempt to lucidly resolve things, Haunter eventually settles for half-baked uplift that renders much of what came before ridiculous and nonsensical.
75. Of all the possible ways Diablo Cody’s directorial debut might fail, perhaps the least likely was that it would be innocuous enough to potentially bore the audience into a stupor.
76. Every time Peaches Does Herself seems to be falling into an inescapable rut of sneering and shock, Peaches comes up with with an image that deepens the whole endeavor.
77. Despite the talent involved and the notoriety of the source material, Carrie feels strangely small, even television-sized.
79. Rare is the Western that’s too low-rent to be satisfyingly lurid, but with hardly any tension or personality to its name, Sweetwater just misses the mark.
80. Pasikowski isn’t interested in actual characters or narrative nuance; rather, the prime concern here is censuring Polish anti-Semitism, which, no matter how righteous an aim, eventually comes at the expense of engaging storytelling.
81. At its best, Running From Crazy is a powerful portrait of a woman who’s wrested control of her life by understanding the patterns her relatives fell into, and consciously breaking them.
82. It’s a brutal story and a heady high-concept idea, but it plays out through characters with no identity other than their symbolic ones, and through shouted, simplistic arguments that repeat the same points over and over.
83. There are mysteries and ambiguities aplenty about Armstrong and the current state of professional cycling, but Gibney has trouble accessing them without getting in his own way.
84. Too much of Dear Mr. Watterson is taken up by Schroeder and an array of non-professional C&H-lovers offering vague praise, with little to no real analysis—aesthetic, historical, or cultural.
85. Occasionally entertaining but rarely memorable, 12-12-12 never goes beyond the level of a really good bonus feature on a special-edition concert CD.
86. The movie seems regressively punitive, to the point where it arguably qualifies as slut-shaming.
87. It’s a pleasure just to spend 85 minutes looking at Corbijn’s photos and videos, but as a character sketch (which is really all this documentary is), Inside Out is, perhaps appropriately, pretty spare.
88. With a radically different tone and less naturalistic performances, The Truth About Emanuel might conceivably have worked. Gregorini didn’t commit to the synthetic; paradoxically, that’s what makes the film feel false.
89. At its core, Homefront is thoroughly generic, a grim exercise in formula whose action sequences are edited into a frenetic, incoherent blur, especially the awful opening setpiece.
90. Lacks a sense of structure and purpose, ambling from one tense conversation to the next without effectively making a impact.
91. Perhaps Gurfinkel means to suggest a society off-course, but the game feels rigged, his conception of male and female roles so limited that the characters have little choice but to fall in line.
92. Despite its wealth of urgent footage, including clips of raids on pimps’ homes and arrests of johns that expose the seedy masculine desire and domination driving the sex trade, Tricked doesn’t have anything new or particularly eye-opening to say about its subject.
93. From the evidence here, Walker’s forte may have been not action but stillness—a knack for embodying ordinary Joes without any fussiness. That we’ll never find out is truly a shame.
94. Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s comedy (based on Delaporte’s play) comes across as a poor man’s Carnage, with bitter resentments and cruel assumptions erupting from beneath its characters’ seemingly cheery, jovial façades.
95. The triumphs feel engineered, and the realizations overheated. Seldom has a globe-spanning, soul-plumbing search for what really matters looked so inconsequential.
96. The simplicity of Lone Survivor eventually becomes a handicap, because after a certain point, the film becomes just one long battle sequence, lacking narrative ebb and flow.
97. The shocks are no less effective than the ones in the other Paranormal Activity movies, but no more original, either, with only the whipping of a handheld camera to set it apart from the offscreen gamesmanship that’s long been the series’ stock in trade.
99. It’s appropriately weighty and filled with loss-of-innocence undertones and some fun cultural detours, yet the film’s odd flatness makes it hard to invest in.
100. Jamesy Boy has its heart in the right place, and first-time director Trevor White shows some skill with actors, but the film lacks a compelling reason to exist, except perhaps as a public-service announcement.
101. Life Of A King manages to sustain a hilariously over-the-top tone of naked sincerity from start to finish.
102. There’s promising raw material here, particularly in the early scenes. But the film’s second half seems determined to snuff out the promise of its first, making it hard to wish for this incarnation of the character, or any, to have more big-screen adventures.
103. 24 Exposures is a transparent auto-critique (or self-justification, depending on how you look at it) in the form of a rather vague thriller, and doesn’t work particularly well in either mode.
105. Whether it’s possible to go on loving somebody who’s no longer himself is a momentous question that this movie largely ducks, ultimately providing an answer that seems imposed from without rather than arrived at organically.
106. Too bad no one else in Enemies Closer can match Van Damme’s oddball charisma.
107. Title notwithstanding, Somewhere Slow doesn’t dawdle and luxuriate; everything is presented right up front, then underlined three or four times for good measure.
108. The way the film hews to tiresome conventions is itself a buzzkill, but worse is its sheer lack of energy, as Pearlstein stages serious and/or heartfelt conversations that go on twice as long as necessary and treat the characters as more than the two-dimensional caricatures they actually are.
109. All in all, The Pretty One is too lightweight to justify such a disturbing act of reinvention.
110. Habie’s fractured narrative style—particularly her arbitrary shifts from Khaled’s perspective to Eyal’s to (apparently) third-person reality—stymies the accumulation of any dramatic momentum from scene to scene.
111. It’s a valuable historical document, to be sure; as a movie, however, it’s a dry, grueling experience, lacking Shoah’s monumental grandeur.
112. Through all the ham-fisted lunacy, writer-director John Huddles displays an infectious love of philosophy, coupled with an exhilarating, anything-goes filmmaking style.
113. Fantastic Fear leaps all over the place narratively and conceptually, servicing the comedy of every individual scene without considering or linking the others. Some of those individual scenes are marvelous, though.
114. Date And Switch is a plucky step in the right direction for diversity in teen comedies, but it lacks the extra oomph to stand on its own merits.
115. Hall and Hart have appeared together in several movies, including 2012’s Think Like A Man, but have never been paired as love interests. Here, they lock into a manic, improvisational groove from minute one.
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Competently shot and edited, and imbued with a gentle sense of affection for its setting, Angels In Stardust doesn’t ultimately insult its audience’s intelligence. But it doesn’t really engage it, either.
116. Neeson’s innate dignity can often serve as a gravitational force for movies this ludicrous, but in a cabin filled with so much flying debris, he is but an ineffectual paperweight.
117. The Bag Man is always teetering on the edge of amateurish absurdity, before being tugged back from the edge by its actors.
118. Whether it’s worth seeing a film solely for one amazing performance is a personal judgment call; for those who take that particular leap once in a while, though, here’s a worthy candidate.
119. The story is a hopeless mess that from the outset seems to be missing key exposition that might help fill in some of its many gaps.
120. Director Joe Pearson (who also has a mysterious “created by” credit) and screenwriter David Abramowitz have ginned up a fan-fiction-y premise that suggests much more apocalyptic fun than it ultimately delivers.
121. The film respects its cartoon roots, but never its audience.
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While her film abjectly fails in reconciling its modest ambitions with its ungainly story, Bercot was certainly right to trust that Deneuve’s compulsive watchability—and her palpable connection to the part—would be enough to anchor this otherwise weightless coming-of-old-age saga.
122. Verbinski orchestrates complex action sequences, including two spectacular bits of derring-do on a moving train, with a precision few in Hollywood are capable of pulling off. Yet The Lone Ranger, like his last two Pirates movies, seems conceived to deliver spectacle by the bulk, which means carrying the baggage of multiple subplots for the purpose of multiple climactic sequences.
123. There’s a potentially compelling story here about children of divorce and the tentative ways they set about forging their own relationships, but the filmmaking is too rudimentary to draw it out subtly.
125. V/H/S/2 is content to recycle the conventions and stylistic restrictions of the original while pursuing the default vision of just about every horror sequel: more of the same, with less inspiration, a bigger budget, and more gore.
126. Apart from its shallow analysis, Terms And Conditions is, if anything, not alarmist enough: Its worst-case scenario has already come true.
127. Given that the camera always seems to fall or get knocked into the perfect position to capture the craziness at hand, any vérité pretenses soon prove ridiculous. But it’s no more ridiculous than the plot, which incessantly wastes time trying to flesh out its characters, but barely bothers with building suspense.
128. Shelton seems so preoccupied with making Touchy Feely feel natural and real that she’s forgotten to add any incident.
130. It’s a pleasant enough expression of a series of familiar story beats, but apart from a few brief action-sequence moments, it could hardly be more rote or vanilla.
131. A messy, confused, over-the-top mixture of brutality and sick comedy, puckishness and ugliness, self-awareness and tone-deafness.
132. Instead of committing wholeheartedly to telling the story of a single family, Daniels gets distracted trying to tell the story of our nation’s complicated racial history.
133. It’s bloated, overwrought, and nakedly sentimental, a sappy and cliched celebration instead of a searching and incisive exploration.
134. Ford and Oldman’s scenes together are Paranoia’s sole redeeming facet.
135. There’s a germ of something interesting and different within the film’s narrative tangle, but it’s unfortunately been subsumed by Hollywood’s dedication to replicating previous successes.
136. Harlan’s film—written by Vikram Weet—is a routine low-budget genre picture, with blandly attractive young actors overmatched by the freakiness lurking in the wilderness.
137. The doc proves more concerned with promotion than analysis or inquiry, thereby making it a disingenuous non-fiction portrait: an inhibited look at an uninhibited event.
138. Even with all the SFX overlays, it’s questionable whether any of this is entertaining enough to sustain even a svelte 92-minute runtime, but Spurlock and the boys can’t be faulted for holding back.
140. Ultimately, the filmmakers are more interested in congratulating Occupy for taking a stand than in shedding light on its fascinating infrastructure and backstory, as though a protest’s existence automatically spells victory for its cause.
141. The film’s lack of seriousness isn’t the problem; rather, it’s that its jokey carnage is all caricatured poses devoid of original verve or legitimate wit.
142. Given the level of sophistication at which the movie operates, they might as well have called it Motherlover, after the Lonely Island video in which Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake sing about the exact same taboo foursome. The only significant difference is that the comedy in “Motherlover” is fully intentional.
143. More of a fawning love letter than a nuanced profile of a woman who surely must be more fascinating than she comes off here.
144. The film is curiously joyless and inert.
145. The Short Game is like a tape-delayed Olympics: old footage, slick bios, no substance.
147. Its pleasures are all glib and surface-level, although Luke and Patton have enough chemistry to make their painfully clichéd relationship go down smoothly.
148. It has a good heart and a good cast, mixing Hollywood veterans with some of today’s better young TV stars. But the movie is strenuously, exhaustingly unfunny, in a way that makes its phoniness harder to bear.
149. Despite its shortcomings as a narrative, Man Of Tai Chi nevertheless feels like Reeves made exactly the movie he set out to make, assuming he didn’t set out to create a movie that was “good” by any stretch of the imagination so much as intermittently entertaining, albeit probably not for the reasons intended.
150. It’s neither consistently funny nor poignant enough to make the most of its impressive cast, all of whom are capable of delivering better than what A.C.O.D. asks of them.
151. As a focused spoof of exploitation tropes, Machete Kills is, frankly, terrible. But as a surreal stream of subconsciousness from a filmmaker who’s spent a lifetime watching bad movies, it’s an occasionally entertaining diversion.
152. Putting Faulkner’s dialogue in actors’ mouths only underlines the fact that it was never meant to be read aloud, and simply cutting between one perspective and the next does nothing to evoke the rushing stream of collective consciousness that runs through Faulkner’s South.
153. Condon seems to hope energetic staging and furrowed brows will compensate for a script that’s essentially an exchange of halfhearted arguments.
154. In The Name Of… might have worked moderately well as a character study, if not for the film’s insistence on treating other priests as mustache-twirling villains.
155. Sal
156. Angels Sing is a heartfelt but less-than-polished piece of work that isn’t for everyone, particularly those who can’t suspend the disbelief required to accept preposterous plot developments, or the sight of Lyle Lovett wearing a variety of snowman sweatshirts. But graded on a Christmas-movie curve, it actually isn’t bad.
157. It’s the geriatric equivalent of a ramshackle teen sex comedy, only intermittently elevated by the caliber of the talent involved.
158. The amusements here are mostly of the unintentional kind.
159. It’s a monster movie made with energy, but no real enthusiasm, and its setting just makes it feel like a long way to go to get the same old thing.
160. Paris Countdown has style to burn, where “style” means “uses lots of lighting gels and some camera flourishes,” but it doesn’t have a coherent point of view or a solid take on the genre.
161. Cold Turkey is well-acted, and at times even well-observed, but about 20 minutes of the material actually matters, and the rest is mere putter.
162. It feels like 100 minutes of arch nudges, a highlight reel from Politicians Say The Darndest Things. Political junkies may find that appealing, but for more general viewers, the film—like Rick Santorum’s campaign—feels largely irrelevant.
163. Freely adapted from Goethe’s two-part play, Sokurov’s Faust is a work of crushing tedium, relieved only by the spare moments of beauty that pop out like dandelions in a washed-out landscape of oppression and grotesquerie.
164. The Book Thief crams story after story into such a small space that it can’t realize any of them in depth.
165. Delivery Man has sentiment and affability embedded in its DNA, but Scott and Vaughn don’t do enough to nurture the film to its full potential.
166. Perhaps fittingly, part of the problem with Everyday is that it’s too short, both in micro and macro terms. Ninety-odd minutes isn’t long enough to make the full weight of the elapsed time register.
167. McCormack admirably tries to squeeze a lot of real-world messiness into Expecting, but her film’s essential phoniness refuses to make room for it.
168. The screenplay relies far too heavily on coincidences, misunderstandings, and characters purposefully not saying things for reasons rooted in plot contrivances rather than clear motivation.
169. As a lesson in how not to make a historical biopic, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom proves remarkably complete: It’s a dull, glossy, uncomplicated portrait of a man whose personal and political legacy is marked by serene idealism and shrewd calculation.
170. This is a very confused movie, designed for an audience that doesn’t exist.
172. The cast is too big, the setting too obviously stagey, the issues too diffuse, the personalities too simple.
173. Kitano’s surreal autobiographical phase was maddening, but it’s depressing to see him stoop to giving audiences what he thinks they really want.
174. As Walter White, Cranston proved he possesses more menacing charisma than anyone would have previously imagined, but that doesn’t mean he can fill a complete vacuum with his penetrating stare.
176. The small company of actors make convincing pilots, flight attendants, and air-traffic controllers, but their activities, tragic and brave though they may be, quickly grow monotonous.
177. While Blash intends The Wait to be a study in stasis, depicting emotional paralysis in various forms, the thin, amorphous nature of both this film and Lying suggest that he simply doesn’t have much to offer apart from uncontextualized moodiness.
178. Reitman has placed a not-unreasonable bet that sensual creatures like Winslet and Brolin can convey the passion necessary for their relationship to make sense, but the film carries itself too stiffly, like it’s so afraid of making the wrong choices that it doesn’t make any good ones.
179. The chief problem is that no matter what the nameless dude is up to, it hardly seems to matter.
180. In a movie like this, where plot points are practically an aside, the characters’ depth and the dialogue quality are what give it potentially memorable zing. Cavemen is not only zingless, it practically pulls a muscle attempting to generate some.
181. While the film is often playful, it never attempts to be particularly funny, perhaps out of a fear that too much levity in a World War II-themed movie would be in poor taste. Instead, it loads on great quantities of tacky crowd-pleasing moments and clichés.
182. Co-writer/director Douglas Aarniokoski has a nasty little neo-noir thriller tucked into Nurse 3D, but he buries it in his all-chocolate-all-the-time conceptual sloppiness.
183. Fans of the books might enjoy seeing their world brought to life, but most everyone else will likely leave feeling as if they’ve just completed a seminar on vampire lore, and they’re likely to fail any pop quiz that follows.
184. There’s no harmony at all to the elements tossed into the new remake of RoboCop, but credit screenwriter Joshua Zetumer and director José Padilha for at least having some elements in play.
185. The movie’s ludicrous narrative continually forces its characters to behave like cretins, and even when Leven’s dialogue is tolerable, it can barely be heard over Craig Richey’s aggressively sprightly score.
186. It’s a greeting card of film, full of platitudes and pleasant imagery, and destined to be thrown in a drawer and forgotten in short order.
187. There’s a sluggishness to The Returned throughout, attributable to generally weak acting and a plot that requires a lot of exposition.
188. Though it sounds like a contradiction, the film could be described as both dull and over the top.
189. Pompeii just feels like an excuse to rain digital terror on screaming extras. There’s much to see here, but little to feel, and even less to remember.
190. It’s never fully clear whether Daisy is a severely damaged woman with the mental development and social skills of a 10-year-old, or just a wide-eyed, unconventional waif in need of some tender loving care. Barefoot vacillates between the two almost at random, depending upon the needs of its hackneyed screenplay at any given moment.
191. In the end, there just isn’t much of a movie here; Almost Human clocks in at a mere 76 minutes, and that includes what may well be the slowest end-credits crawl in cinema history.
192. it’s hard to not see the puppet strings above everyone’s heads as Alaimo tugs them into big statements about suburban emptiness, economic flim-flammery, family dysfunction, and other hallmarks of America’s foundational rot.
193. Sommers’ typically hyperactive touch robs the material of most of its charm, placing way too much emphasis on Koontz’s goofy plot, and making Odd a bland paranormal cousin to Guy Ritchie’s ass-kicking Sherlock Holmes.
194. Bondarchuk mingles the you-are-there grittiness of close-quarters combat and constant assaults from above and below with war-movie clichés that haven’t been updated since before the real Battle Of Stalingrad. It’s history written with airbrush.
195. All the pieces are in place for a gripping indie horror flick, but this pointless, motivation-free film just goes around in circles.
196. The film feels epic in scope, visually at least, but the depth of its deep-focus composition is bitterly at odds with the flimsiness of its characterization and plotting.
197. The focus is much more on Sarah, Frank, and their repetitive, ugly dynamic than on the giddy elements that made the first film trashy fun.
198. Wiig’s new comedy sulks limply along with her, unable to bring the kind of energy that might complement her tendency to underplay every scene.
199. Shamelessly exploitative, but never entertainingly so.
200. At every turn, Frankenstein’s Army exhibits a preference for jolt scares and gore over actual suspense, which never materializes, thanks to a general indifference to plot and minimal interest in character.
201. Stranded isn’t a for-the-ages howler—just a terminally stupid, monotonously unimaginative rehash of umpteen space-horror classics.
202. As bluntly unimaginative as its title.
203. The film overflows with inspired comic ideas that fizzle and die in execution like a marathon fireworks display of nothing but duds.
204. It couldn’t be a simpler, more workable premise for a good B-movie, but the amount of effort put into making it fast and edgy is inversely proportional to the scant thrills it yields.
205. Afternoon Delight is one of those bad films that seem to drift further and further away from a recognizable reality the more we get to know it.
206. Though Dorff isn’t the only thing wrong with Zaytoun, he is still its biggest liability, and the rare case where one miscast role ruins a film’s essential premise.
207. That My Lucky Star isn’t serious is less an issue than the fact that its comedic action is so broad, ridiculous, and predictable that it soon feels juvenile, akin to a training-wheels variation on various genre formulas.
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Game Program - Speedskating / Short-TrackAkari Uchida (Lyrical!)
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Game Program - Ski Jumping / AerialsD. Yamamoto (Liddle)
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OpeningHidehiro Funauchi, Reiko Hagiwara
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Product DesignShun Yoshinari
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SupervisorGōzō Kitao
Special ThanksMizuno, Seiko, Imagica, Side by Side Ltd., Takashi Hayashi, Architect & Associates Inc., Tama‑Chang, Yamane [Kai], Masaaki Harada, Tarō Miyake, Kazumasa Shiohara
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What is the treatment for mild GD? I'm 28 weeks pregnant with my 2nd baby (and had no indication of GD with the last babe). My 1 hr glucose test levels, taken last week, were elevated. Instead of taking the 3 hr test I am considering going straight to the treatment - i.e.: dropping sweets and other bad foods out of my diet, drinking more water and exercising more. I usually eat pretty well (whole grains, organic foods, no sugar except the occasional treat, no juice, def no other drinks/soda etc) but I have to admit that I have been eating a lot of sweets lately (frozen yogurt and chocolate mostly) and since we're moving this month (beginning this week) I've been neglecting the exercise. I should know better! I am so disappointed in these test results. I started this pregnancy with great healthy intentions and felt like I was in pretty good physical shape and now because our lives have been a little crazed I feel like it has gone down hill. :( I would really like to skip the 3 hr test, a day of fasting, hospital and the sugar drink are just what I don't need right now. I've read a lot about GD online and here on MDC. Has anyone found themselves in the same boat?
post #2 of 9
Check out the gestational diabetes thread - there is some good info. The old thread is very long but might be worth looking at as well.
The problem with the 1 hour is it has a high false positive rate - so MANY women fail it but pass the 3 hour - so it may be less hassle to do the 3 hour than to go directly to treating as if you have gd. It's so much more than cutting out sugar - it's about managing all your carb intake & what works is very individual for each person.
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Definitely go in for the three hour test. You easily could have had a false positive. Basically, in order to manage my GD I have to test my blood sugar 4 times a day. Once first thing in the morning, then 2 hours after breakfast, lunch and dinner. I also had to start seeing my midwife every week instead of every two weeks. You may be able to just test at home for a week to see how your sugars work, but honestly, it's a pain in the butt! And the test strips are expensive. I hope you pass the three hour test!
post #4 of 9
I would definitely not skip the three hour test.
post #5 of 9
I can't give too much advice about GD treatment, although I do know that it varies from person to person depending on how your body reacts to different things.
I do know that I have a friend who is the healthiest, best eater ever and she got GD.
I ate horribly in the first half of my pregnancy (think gummi worms, soda, and ramen...embarrassing but true) and I do not have GD.
So if you do end up testing positive at the 3-hour test, please don't blame yourself! A lot of it is just luck/genetics.
post #6 of 9
If you do want to skip the 3 hour and go straight to treatment, it is more complicated than just cuting sweets. I do fingerpricks 4x a day. It takes a while to understand what your body can eat. I get 15 carbs at breakfast, 15 snack, 30 lunch, 15 snack, 30 dinner. From day to day my body reacts differently. Somedays the same meal gives me high blood sugar, the next day it is fine. Even following the diet perfectly, I had to go on insulin because my fasting numbers (the most important) are too high. It's more than just healthy diet-- a GD serving of whole wheat pasta or brown rice is 1/3 a cup. I can hardly eat fruit (like a couple strawberries a day is about all I can handle and work into my carb allowances, 1/2 an apple is a serving-- It is a lot of work! I spend large periods of time each day staring into the fridge wondering how to get enought calories and protein into a tiny amount of carbs. I keep losing weight. If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't.
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Hi Everyone
Thank you for all of the replies. Sorry that it's taken me so long to follow up but I wanted to wait until after I took the 3 hr GD test (yes-I decided to take it) and then write up my results in case anyone is reading this in my boat. Everyone is completely correct in advising that if your numbers are elevated in the 1 hr test that yes, you should do the 3 hr test no matter how yucky the drink is or how it cuts into your week because... I passed the 3 hr test--hooray! My 1 hr test was 142 and my midwife said she wanted it below 130. in the 3 hr my numbers were 80 (they wanted it below 95), 133 (165), 118 (145) and 46 (125). I'm going to cross post my numbers and write more in the GD thread.
Edited by beautifulboy - 9/18/11 at 3:51am
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Congratulations! I was going to say, it's not just sweets, it's breads, grains, cereals and pasta too. It's a real pain. I had elevated #'s on my 1 hr test last pregnancy and went straight to treatment.
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I always find myself wanting to post on these kinds of threads even though I know its probably annoying... but you absolutely do not get GD (or Type I or Type II diabetes, for the matter) *because* of what you eat. When you are unfortunate to have impaired glucose tolerance (in pregnancy caused by placenta hormones which affect some of us differently than other) then you must change the way you eat if you want to maintain normal blood sugar. I think many people look at the restrictive diets of diabetics and assume that somehow we gave ourselves the disease due to eating a lot of sweets or something, and this is not the case at all. And many things considered super healthy (like oatmeal) are absolutely off the table for diabetics who are using diet as part or all of their control. (many if not most diabetics must use a combination of diet and medication. I just have relatively mild GD and use only diet for control, but my diet is quite restrictive when pregnant).
Sugar and sweets are certainly capable of exacerbating diabetes. Other issues are complicated as well: like being overweight. Being insulin resistant can cause you to gain weight. AND carrying excess weight can exacerbate insulin resistance. So its a vicious cycle- not necessarily that just being overweight causes the insulin resistance- does that make sense? The insulin resistance can just as much be causing the excess weight as the reverse.
OP- glad to hear you had such a normal 3-hour test. I had a similar situation with my first, and then with my second I was screened twice for GD, and only came up as borderline with my second 3-hour test during that pregnancy, but when I began self-monitoring, for sure I had to be very strict and careful with my diet to keep normal numbers.
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Employing and then losing Andy Coulson illustrates the Prime Minister's worst flaws.
You're in favour of abolishing the monarchy and have probably done it more damage than anyone since Cromwell. You despise the class-ridden nature of contemporary Britain. And you played a central role in Labour's three crushing general election victories, supporting the party in every poll between 1997 and 2005. But still the left hates you. So who can you be? None other than Rupert Murdoch, who's in a bit of trouble. Not his fault, of course – how was he supposed to know what his bestselling newspaper was getting up to during that brief period when one rogue individual was getting up to whatever it was? Why on earth would Rupert have paid attention to that, then or since?
No, all this has obviously come as a vast shock and has, right now, right in the middle of this pesky Sky bid referral business, just this moment come as a shock to Murdoch. But while there is absolutely no possibility that the owner of the News of the World is in any way personally culpable for what his paper did; David Cameron can't escape responsibility for his sins of commission in quite the same way. For employing and then losing Andy Coulson illustrates all the Prime Minister's worst flaws and promises plenty more harm to come.
The first thing that needs to be said about the phone-hacking scandal is that the internet has had nothing to do with it. This has been a story that has been kept alive by antique media, being almost entirely the work of the Guardian and the BBC. (Though perhaps that gladdens Rupert's romantic heart?) It's hard for Tories like me who fall into the "shut it down" rather than the "sell it off" camp, as far as the BBC's concerned, to face up to what it would have meant if the corporation hadn't existed. Fleet Street is so compromised by its own relationship with the police, past and present, that it hasn't been willing to give any heft to this story, if it can avoid doing so. It took the BBC to make this story -- and all those Tory flacks who screamed that there wasn't one here are discreditable fools. But for all that Murdoch is the real story, it's the Andy Coulson chapter that tells us a depressingly large amount about the Tory party that Cameron leads.
Even in the manner of his departure, Coulson reminded us, and more pointedly, the Prime Minister, what sort of man he is: "I've kept a diary!" being one of the century's most unsubtle threats thus far. When Cameron made him his spin doctor, immediately in the wake of the first elements of the News of the World scandal emerging, plenty of Tories shook their head.
Cynics wondered about the practicality of the second chance being offered, and whether it would end in tears, while traditionalists simply wondered what the leader of the Tory party was doing giving hundreds of thousands of pounds to man who ran front page after front page attacking and undermining the royal family. However modern the party was, it surely didn't need to be quite that modern? But how those monarchy-knocking stories came to be on Coulson's front page has come back to bite Coulson and Cameron good and hard.
One of the problems with the left is that, at root, you just don't respect the right: you think we're absurd, unreasonable, dishonest, or merely dim. Thus if you read that pro-monarchical sentiment motivated some of the people who were right when David Cameron was so very wrong, you either don't believe it, or you laugh it off as being risible. Yet, it was taking on the monarchy that was the step too far even for News International.
Hacking into the phones of royalty obliged an intimidated Met to act and that's what has set in train the greatest challenge Murdoch's empire has ever faced in Britain. It's certainly getting a far harder time than it ever got during any of those three parliaments, with their massive Labour majorities, for which Rupert had his papers campaign. You really might want to consider standing up for "God Save the Queen" the next time you hear it, as the press regime isn't anywhere as nice.
Who can blame the police for their reticence? When they arrested Damian Green for being in receipt of the contents of ministerial safes, because one lone civil servant felt he knew best where those contents should be, who stood up for them then? Partisan, Cameron-cheerleading Tories frothed at the mouth and disgraced themselves by calling the police "Nazis". And the liberal left wasn't exactly vocal in its defence of John Yates et al, either.
Having been burned by that experience, and after the frustrations of having to accept that no crime had been committed under the inadequate laws that provided for the cash-for-honours investigation, who exactly were the Met to look at for help in taking on any element of our sacred free press? Labour? Even today Ed Miliband can't wait to assure Rupert that he'll come running, should he ever be called.
Labour's ongoing fear of Murdoch was amply demonstrated by PMQs this week. Only the heroic Tom Watson stood up and asked a question about the phone-hacking scandal. The leader of the opposition certainly didn't feel the need to waste any of his questions asking, oh, "Did the Prime Minister discuss News International or any of its subsidiaries when he secretly met James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks in the immediate wake of Cablegate?" Even though, thanks to the Independent, we know that Cameron's I've-always-got-away-with-it arrogance is so colossal that he willingly ran the risk of his conclave emerging last year, in the heat of Cablegate.
There's a school of thought, exemplified by the Telegraph's Charles Moore, that says that Cameron is an admirably cold-blooded, sure-footed master of business. In short, a grown-up who knows how things are done. If only. Anyone whose judgement is so poor that they go to a meeting like this merely confirms everything that went into his mistake in appointing Coulson in the first place.
The new Tory comfort-blog about Cameron's serial incompetence is that, with Coulson gone, the story goes away as a problem for the Prime Minister. But it's the opposite that's true: precisely because Cameron needlessly drew Coulson into his inner circle, every subsequent eruption from News International is now going to rain down on No 10, too. And if last week shows nothing else, there's plenty more hot stuff to come. | http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/christopher-montgomery/2011/01/cameron-coulson-news-prime?quicktabs_most_read=0 | dclm-gs1-198830002 | false | false | {
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Rockaway Beach, in the Queens borough of New York City, after Superstorm Sandy. i i
hide captionRockaway Beach, in the Queens borough of New York City, after Superstorm Sandy.
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I've covered hurricanes, earthquakes and even tsunami cleanup, but I've never had a disaster hit home.
My fiancee's family is from one of the areas suffering the most after Superstorm Sandy — Rockaway Park in New York City. You don't just live in Rockaway, it's a place that you're from. Sarah's mom grew up in Rockaway. It's where her parents bought their first home and where her grandmother has lived for more than 40 years.
When Sarah's brother and sister decided to ride out the hurricane, we got a late-night phone call. Her sister said, "The basement and first floor are flooding. We're fine right now, and we'll call you if we're not."
The next morning we saw the horrifying pictures. Six square blocks in the Breezy Point part of Rockaway burned to the ground.
We got a text message that her family was OK, but we knew the community was not.
So when it stopped raining, we all went to Rockaway. We drove up with a week's worth of food, bleach, generators and the thing that made us most nervous — red cans of gasoline.
The first day of cleanup was the worst. Sarah's uncle leaned hard against the fence outside his basement apartment as we went through his life's worth of stuff, now covered in sewage and dirt. A diary from 1985, the handmade hutch that was a wedding present, and a $6,000 air conditioner he just put in last week.
Eventually, the trash heap towered over Sarah's 6-foot-9-inch brother, matching the small mountains outside of nearly every house in the neighborhood.
It's been almost two weeks since the storm, and the streets still are deeply covered in sand and moldy trash.
It's hard to imagine how much force that water had to have to bust open windows and carry 2 feet of sand into a basement. But we got all the sand out — an army of cousins, neighbors and some people we didn't even know — one shovel and one bucket at a time.
We emptied and scrubbed her parents' house until the bleach smell finally overpowered the smell of sewage. My future father-in-law pulled a dining table out of his trash heap and tried to hose it off. He said it was his first table when he got married and had wanted it to be ours, too.
But it's not really about the stuff, or about the houses with flooded basements. What stayed with me is the sense that an entire community is now broken. It's about the elderly neighbor limping over to ask where the shelters are and who was going to pump her basement. It's about the houses that didn't have mountains of trash out front — because their basements are still full of water and sewage.
It's about the snow that came, and the power that isn't expected to be back for at least six more weeks.
It's the people whose families can't bring them gas and food, and who have nowhere to evacuate to. And it's about that community slogging away day after day, feeling that it has been forgotten.
I've learned that people from Rockaway have a special breed of grit and resilience. It's a community of cops, firefighters and nurses who stepped up for New York City on Sept. 11 and every day after. They will rebuild, and by next summer, the basements will be dry and we'll all go back for long days roasting on the beach. But the rest of us could have done better.
Amita Parashar is a producer at NPR's Tell Me More.
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This week, Americans have been remembering Neil Armstrong for what made him famous - being the first man to walk on the moon. Our Planet Money team has a story about Neil Armstrong overcoming a less famous challenge - financial planning. Here's NPR's Chana Jaffe-Walt.
CHANA JOFFE-WALT, BYLINE: The space race was on, Apollo 11 was set to launch in 1969, and Neil Armstrong had a problem. A space historian and collector told me about this, Robert Pearlman with He says just think about it, you're an astronaut...
ROBERT PEARLMAN: You're about to embark on a mission that's more dangerous than anything any human has ever done before, because you're literally entering the final frontier of space. And you have a family that you're leaving behind on Earth and there's a real chance that you will not be returning.
JOFFE-WALT: Exactly the kind of situation a responsible person plans for - financially speaking, you know, takes out a life insurance policy or something.
PEARLMAN: And the cost for Neil Armstrong would of - at the minimum, would have been around $50,000.
JOFFE-WALT: A year, in the 1960s - risky job means high premiums.
Now, Neil Armstrong had something unusual going for him. He was famous for exactly those risks he was about to take. The whole Apollo 11 crew was: Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins. People really wanted their autographs.
PEARLMAN: These astronauts had been signing autographs since they day they were announced as astronauts. And they knew that, even though eBay didn't exist back then, that there was a market for such things. There was a demand.
JOFFE-WALT: Especially for what were called covers. These were envelopes that were signed by astronauts, sometimes they'd be postmarked. And so, about a month before Apollo 11 was set to launch, the three men entered quarantine.
PEARLMAN: And while they were in that secluded area together, they sat down and they signed hundreds, if not thousands, of these covers of these envelopes. All three of them signed each one.
JOFFE-WALT: They gave them to an astronaut friend. And on the day of the Apollo 11 launch, he got them to the post office - got them postmarked - and then distributed them to astronauts' three families.
PEARLMAN: So that they had their signatures on something that was postmarked on the day they launched.
JOFFE-WALT: Life insurance in the form of autographs.
PEARLMAN: If they did not return from the Moon, then these covers could be sold by their families to collectors and to the public. And that their families could sell them, to not just fund their day-to-day lives, but also fund their kids' college education and other life needs.
JOFFE-WALT: That is so clever.
PEARLMAN: Yeah, I mean they are astronauts.
JOFFE-WALT: The life insurance autographs were not needed. Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the Moon; came home safely, and in the years following they signed probably tens of thousands more autographs for free.
But then in the 1990s, Robert Pearlman says the insurance autographs did start showing up in space memorabilia auctions.
Do you have any?
PEARLMAN: I don't, but I've held them. It's hard to just put into words, but to me they're beautiful.
JOFFE-WALT: Other people feel the same way. An Apollo 11 insurance autograph, right now, can cost as much as $30,000.
Chana Joffe-Walt, NPR News
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By Jane E. Brody
Published: July 29, 1987
MOST of us grew up thinking of cheese as healthful, a food high in protein and calcium at an affordable price. Adding to the attractiveness of cheese is its versatility. It can be used as is or in recipes for every course from appetizer to dessert. It is a popular snack for young and old because it is portable, can be eaten with the fingers, is widely available and easy to digest. Cheese is a favorite with parents, who offer it as meals and snacks, and carry it on outings to provide instant, nutritious satisfaction for the ''hungries'' that often beset young children when there is nothing but junk food to buy.
In the last two decades cheese has become increasingly popular with adults, some of whom substitute it for meat in the interest of health. Per capita consumption of hard cheese was 23.2 pounds last year, more than double the 9.6 pounds per year in 1965, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. This has delighted dairy farmers, who have faced a shrinking market for fluid milk, a far more perishable commodity.
The fast-food industry, with its cheeseburgers and pizzas, is largely responsible for this growth. And with more cheese being produced in the United States than Americans buy, the Federal Government buys the surplus and offers it free to school lunch programs and recipients of food stamps.
But is cheese really that good for you? Are the part-skim and reduced-fat cheeses better than those made with whole milk? Are the processed and ''imitation'' cheeses worse? And how meaningful are the label declarations as to part-skim or lower fat?
Here are some facts worth knowing before you decide to replace that burger with quiche. How It's Made
Cheese is made by coagulating the solids in milk and pressing out the liquids. Enzymes (usually rennet from the intestines of ruminant animals), lactic acid or acid-producing bacteria are added to milk, causing solid curds to separate from the liquid part of milk, called the whey. The curds are cooked, pressed into forms and aged to make cheese, and the nutritious whey is often dried and added to processed foods for people and pets.
Depending on the variety, it takes 8 to 10 pounds of milk to make a pound of cheese. Most cheeses in this country are made from whole milk, some from both milk and added cream, and others from skim milk, whey and mixtures of milk and cream.
The curdling process concentrates the protein, fat, cholesterol, calcium, vitamin A and phosphorus in the milk, but most of the B vitamins, some of the minerals and most of the milk sugar, or lactose, go out with the whey. When the curds are further processed to make cheese, salt is normally added, which significantly raises the sodium content of cheese.
In the industry, ''natural cheese'' is simply pressed curds that have been aged: two to three months for mild cheese and longer for sharp cheese. ''Pasteurized process cheese'' is a blend of fresh and aged natural cheeses that have been shredded, mixed with an emulsifier and heated to stop the ripening. ''Pasteurized process cheese food'' is similarly prepared but slightly lower in fat because it has less cheese, more water and more nonfat milk or whey solids. ''Pasteurized process cheese spread'' has even less milk fat and more water.
Among the cheeses that are not aged are cottage cheese, made from pasteurized skim milk to form curds that are usually then creamed with whole milk or cream and salt; cream cheese, made from pasteurized whole milk and cream coagulated by lactic acid, and Neufchatel, which is similar to cream cheese but made with less fat and more water. Nutritional Value
Most cheeses are good sources of quality protein, protein as useful to the body as that in meat, poultry or fish. One ounce of a typical firm cheese like cheddar, Swiss or mozzarella supplies 6 to 8 grams of protein, about the same as that in an ounce of meat.
But while a typical serving of cheese is one to one and a half ounces, the usual serving of meat is three or more ounces, so a serving of meat provides considerably more protein. Cream cheese has little protein, only 2 grams an ounce. However, a serving of cottage cheese - half a cup (four ounces) - supplies 14 grams of protein in the creamed varieties and about 20 grams in dry-curd types.
But the protein in most cheeses comes at a price: high fat and thus high calorie. Two slices (one and a half ounces) of American cheese, a mild cheddar, contain about the same amount of fat as three and a half pats of butter. As with meat fat, half the fat in cheese is saturated and thus can raise cholesterol levels in the blood.
Nearly all hard cheeses, including those labeled part-skim or lower fat, are high-fat foods, the exception being sap sago, a cheese suitable only for grating. There are 9 grams of fat in an ounce of cheddar, American or part-skim Muenster, 8 in an ounce of Swiss, 7 per ounce in Camembert or Brie, 6 in feta and regular mozzarella and 4.5 in part-skim mozzarella.
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For Gibson, 'The Passion' Seems Mostly A Blessing
Published: June 24, 2004
Two months after the phenomenal success of his film about the Crucifixion, ''The Passion of the Christ,'' the director and movie star Mel Gibson is being courted by many in Hollywood for his connection to middle America, but still held at arm's length by others who found his film divisive.
Despite the long odds of the television development process, Mr. Gibson's Icon Productions will have no fewer than three prime-time television series on the networks' fall schedule: ''Clubhouse'' on CBS, ''Savages'' on ABC and ''Kevin Hill'' on UPN.
In the film world, meanwhile, studio executives say that Mr. Gibson's reputation is up with audiences, and thus on the rise with them, whether or not they were fans of ''Passion''
Yet while agents and executives say that Mr. Gibson's representatives are trying to land him a leading role in a romantic comedy, he has not been cast in any movies since his ''Passion'' triumph. That may be because of his age, 48, and the scarcity of leading romantic parts. But it also reflects the hesitance of some executives, who said they disapproved of Mr. Gibson's comments about the Holocaust during the run-up to the release of ''Passion.''
That film sparked a raging controversy over its graphic depiction of the Crucifixion and its portrayal of the role that Jews played in the death of Jesus. But the film was embraced by audiences and took in $608 million worldwide to rank as this year's highest grossing film so far.
Since that success there has been much speculation about what Mr. Gibson might do with his newfound clout and resources. Just last week, Forbes magazine named him the most powerful celebrity in the country, a ranking based on news media coverage and financial success. There have even been press reports that he was being wooed by European investors interested in having him buy the Walt Disney Company.
As an executive in his own production company, complete with a library of purchased films and television shows and flush with cash from ''Passion,'' Mr. Gibson is well positioned in Hollywood to make career choices.
Mr. Gibson and his agents declined to comment for this story. His spokesman, Alan Nierob, said the actor's standing in Hollywood ''is wherever he wants it to be.''
But the entertainment business is highly collaborative, and for now, Mr. Nierob said, ''the only thing that's come about is these three TV shows.'' Icon, he added, has other ''projects in development that are moving forward,'' including a script about Boadicea, a warrior queen from the first century, and another about the Maccabees, Jewish rebels in the second century B.C.
The television shows were proposed and developed last year, but the networks did not decide until spring to put them on their fall schedules. And while none of the shows have religious themes, television executives said they believe that Mr. Gibson has a distinct sense of what American audiences want.
''I'm sure that some people were nervous about 'The Passion,' but we were not among them,'' said Jonathan Levin, president of Spelling Television, which is producing ''Clubhouse'' with Icon. That show is about a teenager who becomes a batboy for a New York baseball team. ''We have confidence that Mel has the populist touch,'' Mr. Levin said. ''He clearly understands what moves people.''
The shows are all family-friendly. ''Savages'' is a half-hour comedy starring Keith Carradine as a single, blue-collar dad raising five sons. (Mr. Gibson has six children.)
''Kevin Hill'' stars Taye Diggs as a hotshot entertainment lawyer who finds himself the custodial parent of a baby girl after his cousin suddenly dies.
Chris Ender, a CBS spokesman, said that ''Clubhouse,'' a one-hour drama, was generating significant advertiser and press interest. ''It's a very different show for us,'' he said. ''There are so many crime dramas on the air.''
Mr. Gibson's involvement in the shows is limited. He was co-director of the ''Savages'' pilot. But Mr. Levin said that he had not met Mr. Gibson, and a spokeswoman for Touchstone Television, which is co-producing ''Kevin Hill,'' said Mr. Gibson had no direct involvement in that series.
As for the movies, one studio head, who asked not to be identified because he did not want to insult Mr. Gibson, said he thought ''Passion'' emphasized negative stereotypes, but added that Mr. Gibson ''is as big a movie star as ever,'' adding, ''He can do anything he wants to do.''
Still, there are some people in Hollywood who are reluctant to work with Mr. Gibson. A senior Sony executive said that Amy Pascal, the chairwoman of Sony's Motion Picture Group, turned down a request by Mr. Gibson's agents to consider him for the lead in a remake of ''All the King's Men,'' based on the Robert Penn Warren novel about a politician modeled on Huey Long. The executive declined to be named, on the chance that Sony might want to work with Mr. Gibson later.
Ms. Pascal, this executive said, was offended by Mr. Gibson's unwillingness to distance himself from his father, Hutton Gibson, who has repeatedly denied that the Holocaust happened, a stance he repeated just before the release of ''Passion.''
Ms. Pascal said that ''Sean Penn had already been cast in the lead'' of ''All the King's Men'' when she was approached by Mr. Gibson's representatives. She declined further comment.
The chief executive of another major studio, who was also displeased with the way Mr. Gibson handled his father's remarks about the Holocaust, said this week that he would strenuously resist casting Mr. Gibson in one of his films. But the executive, who also declined to be identified, added: ''He'll find a movie. Nobody's going to blacklist him.''
Significantly, in the movie industry, which tends to be liberal and secular in outlook, as well as disproportionately Jewish, few people interviewed about ''Passion'' said they had actually seen the movie. But many said they admired Mr. Gibson's courage in financing and producing it himself.
Warner Brothers executives said that Mr. Gibson was being considered for a cameo in one of their films. Fox was developing ''Mad Max: Fury Road,'' which would have been the fourth installment of the futuristic ''Mad Max'' series, but its production offices have been closed since September.
In any event, executives note that Mr. Gibson can now green-light his own movies, as he did with ''Passion.'' Mr. Nierob said, ''Basically he already runs a ministudio.''
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Re^4: How do you master Perl?
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I like the Kung Fu example, although I never did watch the show. :)
It that the same thing as saying that the world is what it is, and you just have to deal with it according to its nature? I've been thinking about that too, especially with Perl. People have all sorts of reasons for liking or hating Perl (or some other language), but the language just is what it is. Maybe we get annoyed by something in it, but there's no reason to take these things personally.
Or maybe I need to watch more Kung Fu.
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by samizdat (Vicar) on Apr 13, 2005 at 18:37 UTC
It's too bad it's not shown any more. Our world would be more empowered if more people saw that show when growing up.
It's not just the ISness of things, but their nature / texture / quirks. If you consider this in the sense of 'just have to deal with it', you've already lost ground. Just as somebody who really appreciates Perl references is a lot further along than someone who just uses them when he/she has to, the environment in which your program runs has it's quirks but they are to be taken advantage of, not just endured.
Recall the old saying "That's not a bug, it's a feature!" EVERYTHING has such fatures, and a programmer who turns them to advantage is on his way to dancing with the Tao.
A good example is the Macintosh single-button mouse. "Damn, but that's a huge design screwup," I used to think... until I used one. :D
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I have two lines, lets say "-line1-" and "-line2-" and between these lines I have some lines. The amount and the content of these lines are unknown. Like this:
some lines -line1- lineA: xxx lineB: y lineC: zz -line2- more lines
So, I want to remove everything between "-line1-" and "-line2-", in this case lines A, B and C. How can I do this?
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Here's some working queuer/consumer code based on Thread::Queue. Hope it helps.~
#!/usr/bin/perl use threads; use threads::shared; use Thread::Queue; my $q : shared; use constant FINISH => 'finish'; main(); exit 0; sub main { $q = Thread::Queue->new(); my $queuer = threads->create('queuer', 10); my $worker = threads->create('worker'); $queuer->join; $worker->join; print "main thread finished\n"; } sub queuer { my $numItems = shift; my $str = "foo"; while ($numItems-- > 0) { print "queueing $str\n"; $q->enqueue($str); $str++; sleep 1; } $q->enqueue(FINISH); print "queuer finished\n"; } sub worker { DOING_WORK: while (1) { while (my $pending = $q->pending) { my $str = $q->dequeue; print "worker found $pending items, got $str\n"; last DOING_WORK if $str eq FINISH; } sleep 3; } print "worker finished\n"; }
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Last week, almost 20 months after the big banks on Wall Street drove our economy off the cliff, the president signed into law tough financial services reform legislation. House Resolution 4173, the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, will demand accountability from the big banks and financial titans on Wall Street and put in place rules to prevent the growth and collapse of another massive speculative bubble.
The bill did not go as far as I wanted in regulating gambling with derivatives or breaking up some of the "too big to fail" conglomerates like Citibank and Goldman Sachs. But it is the most significant regulation of Wall Street since the Great Depression, and a good start toward reining in Wall Street's dominance of our economy to the detriment of Main Street America and the real economy.
The big banks and Wall Street traders deployed more than 3,000 lobbyists and spent $1.4 million a day to try to stop the bill. Their lobbying had a big effect - nearly every Republican and a handful of Democrats opposed the bill. These Wall Street apologists are still backing the failed policies of the last 30 years in asserting that markets and big banks can regulate themselves.
The deregulatory binge began in the early 1980s. Since then, our nation has experienced at least four significant financial scandals costing taxpayers, average investors and pension funds trillions of dollars - not to mention the 8 million jobs we have lost since September 2008. These deregulation failures were the savings and loan collapse of the late 1980s, the 1999 Enron scandal, the 2000 Internet bubble collapse, and the 2008 Wall Street bust.
The shock of the collapse of some big Wall Street firms triggered a panic in the Bush administration. It convinced Democratic leaders in Congress to jam through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a bailout I vigorously opposed. If Wall Street firms want to set their own rules, then they should live or die by those rules, and not come running, bonuses in hand, with their other hand reaching for a taxpayer bailout.
I have been working to regulate derivatives since the mid- 1990s when I heard Warren Buffet describe them as "financial weapons of mass destruction." Unfortunately, the Clinton administration and the Republican majority in Congress prohibited the regulation of derivatives. In this particular case if you had a collateralized debt obligation of $100 million of bad loans, billions of dollars of bets were wagered against it - magnifying the crisis many times over. … | http://www.questia.com/library/1G1-236578237/wall-street-reform-bill-isn-t-perfect-but-it-s-a | dclm-gs1-199210002 | false | false | {
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This is a poor argument. I could go shoplift a pack of gum from the grocery store and not get caught. Does that mean I'm clean?
Funny you should mention that. Bob Knight has never been in trouble with the NCAA and had high graduation rates. Does that mean he is clean? Glass houses...
Did you read my post? It seems as if you did not. My issue was that Cal likely knew of the benefits, but even if he didn't, he still tried to defend Kanter as an amateur after. That's arrogance or ignorance right there.
Call it what you want, but I'll stick to what I said in the previous response:
What the NCAA did with this ruling was ludicrous. Not so much because of what it did to UK (we made the FF without Kanter), but because the ruling is going against everything the NCAA says they want to promote, which is international talent. Kanter accepted money, but as Scrap said, the money that was accepted was put toward tuition and schooling so he could improve himself academically to play in the United States.
How do you think the Kanter ruling is going to affect international players coming to play collegiate sports in the US? European basketball is one of the shadiest businesses around where teams hold talented players for ransom for a high priced buyout. (Ricky Rubio) College would have likely been an alternative for some of these players, but I see the current "draft and stash" routine continuing.
Show me a quote where Cal said he turned Camby in please. No prognostications or purported stories, I want a real quote from Cal.
Regardless, Calipari was the coach and Camby was under his tutelage. Calipari is responsible for Camby and his actions involving the sport of basketball, period.
Cal was a great supporter of his kids grades, including Camby too, right?
What has Cal's graduation rate been for his career? How many of his players have been ins some sort of academic trouble? Do you know Scrap Irony?
Welcome to the world of Atlantic 10 (or even C-USA) basketball. In order to survive in college coaching, you have to take risks on talented athletes, some of which aren't so talented in the classroom. I'm sure you could dig up similar articles on other coaches.
That being said, before the fall semester, UK had twice posted 3.0+ GPA's since Cal came to Lexington. This past semesters GPA was actually down to 2.7, and that is the LOWEST it has been since Cal has been here.
Why did Cal bolt for the NBA when the investigation was underway? And why did he leave for Kentucky when there was fire in Memphis with Rose & Dozier? Cal reminds me of Pete Carroll. Cal was the coach when Rose allowed his brother to travel to the games for free and that is a violation. Are you claiming he had no knowledge of that? Then you have the test score scandal too. Cal is the coach, his players play for him. Did he ever speak out against the issues with Rose? If he did, I sure don't remember it.
I can't speak for the Camby situation, but the Derrick Rose scandal did not break until Cal was hired at Kentucky.
I can't harp too much since the NCAA has allowed it, but I certainly frown upon it as I think it's a shady practice. To the best of my knowledge, IU has never resorted to it.
Thats your opinion. It's a competitve advantage and UK is not the only other team that does it. See my previous response with Marquis Teague, Xavier Henry, Chris Duhon, and Mario Chalmers.
If anything its like oversigning in college football. You might not agree with it, but its legal, and its going to happen.
As I said before, did Cal forget how many wins he had? Did he forget about the vacated seasons? It's either arrogance or ignorance. He could have stopped the celebration or said something and he didn't.
Did you think maybe there is arrogance on behalf of the NCAA? You can say whatever you want about Cal, but the NCAA is one of the most corrupt and indefensible organizations in this country. They have made millions exploiting "student-athletes" and Cal has spoken out against the NCAA with the "superconference" concept which basically does away with the NCAA and pays athletes.
I think one thing that people can't stand about Cal outside of the cheating is how his teams are fast tracks to the NBA. Coaches such as Roy Williams and Coach K (with exceptions) have done more to hinder the development of freshmen players and kill their draft stock. Cal's dribble drive system allows freshmen to showcase their talents for the next level, and Cal is absolutely honest with them in whether or not they should return to college or leave. Imagine Coach K ripping up a kids scholarship to tell him he's ready for the NBA. Cal did that with Dajuan Wagner.
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ABSTRACT: While a large body of work exists on the design of catalytically-driven colloidal particles, little work exists on particles with the ability to permeate fluid through its surface that may be used for applications in lab-on-a-chip systems and drug delivery. We propose a model for the catalytically-driven motion of a semipermeable particle (e.g., non-motile microorganisms and vesicles) surrounded by reactant solutes in a Newtonian fluid. It is assumed that a first-order consumption reaction of surrounding reactants---which could be enzymatic or catalytic---occurs on half of the outer surface of the membrane. In equilibrium, the osmotic pressure inside the particle balances that of outside. The reaction creates an imbalance in osmotic pressure, causing outer fluid facing the catalytic side to permeate inside the particle as inner fluid permeates through the passive side. This fluid motion satisfies mass conservation inside the particle, causing particle motion towards regions of low reactant concentration by a mechanism known as osmophoresis. Preliminary results show that the particle velocity--defined as a P'eclet number--is a function of the permeability of the membrane, a "characteristic" osmotic velocity, and the Damköhler number--which is a measure of relative impacts of the diffusion and chemical reaction. The permeating fluid retards particle motion by dragging the solute against the induced osmotic imbalance.
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Some of the audiophile-disc manufacturers eschew that kind of temporal butchery and allow the work to be played all the way through before going back to correct fluffs. But many of the performances they get are still uninspired, perhaps because the conductor and the orchestra are bored with the potboilers that comprise the core of audiophile discography, and almost certainly because there is no audience to bounce a mood off.
The French record company Lirynx (which also releases Sirynx, unless I have that backwards) has come up with an ingenious solution to the problem. First they record the work all the way through in the traditional style, doing whatever retakes are necessary to get everything right. Then they invite a small audience—small enough to not change the acoustics—for a concert runthrough. The musicians are relaxed because they know the recording is "over," and the players and audience can interact as at a live performance. It is the live-performance tape that is used for commercial release. Only bits and snatches of the first tape from the "recording session" are used as needed to patch up fluffs and extraneous noises in the "concert" performance. This is certainly a step in the right direction, but even under such ideal circumstances it is unlikely the concert recording will turn out to be one of those rare, inspired performances, simply because those happen so rarely even in a live-performance situation.
Every performing group that can play 80% of the notes properly stands a chance of producing a really memorable performance. If there is no tape recorder running when it happens, it is lost forever. In order to capture one of those performances on tape, every performance of that work by that group must be taped, routinely.
In truth, many amateur and professional performing groups are routinely recorded, but not seriously. The recordings are usually done with mediocre equipment owned by a local amateur recordist, and microphone placements are more often than not dictated by laziness—it's a pain to hang the mikes and take them down again for every performance—or by aesthetic considerations (the mikes must not be conspicuous). This is okay if the tapes are only going to be used for playback by the orchestra members at their after-concert party, then to be added to the conductor's personal vanity archive.
But what happens when something goes wrong and the orchestra happens to turn in an absolutely inspired performance? The conductor's first thought, typically, is "Let's make a record to sell locally." But it's too late then. The recording, subjected for the first time to critical appraisal, just isn't good enough. And the performance turns into just another fond memory, becoming increasingly inspired with the embroidery of lengthened remembrance.
This kind of thing happens all the time. But it shouldn't, because anything as rare and precious as a stupendous performance ought to be preserved for others to enjoy. Routine concert recording should be done with the thought that someday a recording of that group may be commercially released.
And there's a second reason for recording every performance. If a real winner comes along, it will invariably contain at least a few rough spots or extraneous noises. These can be edited out and replaced with bits and snatches from the other evenings' takes. (That is, as long as the recordings were not made in both directions on a 4-track tape.) Editing should take place as close to both sides of the fluff as possible; replacing whole measures because of a single wrong note will invariably destroy the flow of the music.
But what about the cost of all that tape? Forget it. If at least one performance of each concert is recorded anyway, that tape can be considered already paid for. The backups, from other performances, can be erased and reused if they aren't needed to edit a release tape.
For a major orchestra like the Philadelphia or the Boston SO, which is always contractually straightjacketed by one or another of the big record companies, it is impossible to get permission for the release of a concert recording, presumably because the parent record company is afraid a spontaneous, well-miked recording will compete with sales of their ersatz plastic "formal" recordings. With other union orchestras, recently revised union regulations (1979) now permit the release of live-performance recordings. But because of musician payment stipulations the cost can be quite high.
On the other hand, if the orchestra itself and not an outside producer will be issuing the record, and the orchestra members agree to the idea, it is usually possible to negotiate a payment schedule whereby sales of the record first pay off its production costs, at which point further income is distributed among the musicians up to a specified limit—typically the tariff for an evening's performance. Any additional proceeds could go toward the orchestra management. Of course the recordist should get a little something for his efforts too.
Some small record labels will buy master tapes for commercial release, others will handle distribution of discs that they feel meet their musical and technical (sonic) standards. Either way is recommended over trying to distribute on one's own. National record distribution is a headache, and is best done by those who by experience have evolved suitable remedies.
Even if an inspired performance is only distributed locally, it is worth making available because of the pleasure it can bring to those who love good music. And it could turn out to be the definitive recorded version of something.
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Newcombe Cres, which runs off Karori Rd, is easily identified by the large A-framed St Ninian's Church on the corner.
The 400-metre street was named after Englishman William Newcombe, one of the early Karori land-owners. It has changed markedly over the years.
Initially it ran west off Karori Rd into a dead end. Between the wars the street was pushed through to connect with Reading St and became a crescent.
The Newcombe family, who owned a farm in neighbouring Friend St, moved into a house opposite St Ninian's before World War II. William Newcombe's daughter, Gwen, lived there until her death in 1991 at the age of 92.
The street's longest surviving residents now are Pam and Don Paterson, whose family moved into No 16 in 1928, when the house was only a few weeks old.
"In those days," said Don, now 87, "the street was not asphalt.
"The horse and cart delivering the milk would come down the street and the part at the bottom had to be wide enough for it to turn around. That area is now used as a car turning bay."
The street has had some other notable residents.
Sid and Dorothy Moses, National Party stalwarts, moved into No 6 about 1940 and lived there for 60 years.
Dorothy was a pioneering women's journalist who worked for New Zealand Freelance and New Zealand Woman's Weekly for decades.
Her husband, a champion motorbike racer in his younger days, was a principal in the Maple Furnishing Company in Manners St and chairman of the Decimal Currency Board from 1964 till 1968.
The Shallcrass family, including noted educationalist Jack Shallcrass, have lived in Newcombe Cres for decades.
St Ninian's was built in the late 1930s and had the distinctive A frame section added in 1961, at a price of [PndStlg]31,000 ($1.3 million in today's terms). It was initially a Presbyterian church, but in 2003 became St Ninian's Uniting Church.
At No 11 is the Marsden Club, a daycare centre for elderly people suffering from neurological disorders. It moved to Newcombe Cres in 1987.
Newcombe Cres has a large stream running under it, which may explain why at least one of the houses has a well in its back yard.
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Where is America's centre (center) party?
I'm writing this in the light of the fiscal cliff approaching rapidly and even though this has been heavily debated and reported in the media, no compromise has been made yet.
It makes me wonder why there isn't a centre party in American politics. If such a party refrained from entering the presidential election, which is extremely costly and requires an unrealistic amount of votes to win, and instead sought to gain seats in the senate and congress, such a party could realistically succeed in winning enough seats to be the decisive vote in both houses.
It's simple game theory and would change the political climate dramatically. As it would be impossible to simply block the opponents policy, both of the traditional parties would have an incentive to negotiate and compromise in order to gain influence and avoid being rendered obsolete.
Theoretically 20 seats for a centre party in the senate could also end filibusters.
I think it would be essential for such a party to “steal” votes from both moderate conservatives and moderate democrats. The advantages would be enormous. You would avoid these stall mate situations and by negotiating with both sides of the houses, legislation could accommodate a larger group of the population.
It would change the rhetoric of politics as well, as advocating extreme viewpoints would be less beneficial.
What do you think?
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• Jan 6 2013: What does 'centrist' mean? Does it mean keeping all of the people's needs in mind and balancing all needs? Political parties are, by definition, creators of division and divisiveness. Red, blue. Who's who?
There is NO party that can be anything but partisan. This party-based political system is broken; not able to be repaired. Can we think outside of the box and imagine a system where each person has to know the issues and vote based on their own assessment of the situation, rather than relying on their party platform? Is that what Robert means by independent? Where once a decision is made everyone supports it as if it were their own idea and does not subvert the decision because it was not their own? Where forming a bond of unity with all people is desirable? This would not be Utopia. It is called the necessary evolution of humankind and was proposed by a Persian sage over 100 years ago and is in operation in communities all over the world..
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What happens if the Tories and the Liberals agree a coalition? What happens if they can't?
Why is parliament hung?
No single party won a majority of seats in the election. Without a majority, no party can pass laws without help from other parties.
But didn't the Conservatives win?
They got the highest number of votes and the most seats, but not enough to form a majority. They are the biggest party, but can't form a government.
But neither can Labour, so why is Gordon Brown still prime minister?
The election was for a new parliament. The prime minister is appointed by the Queen. She generally asks the party leader who can form a majority in parliament to do the job, and until it is clear who that person is, Brown remains PM.
So the Queen could just sack him and ask Cameron to have a go?
She could try, but it would trigger a constitutional crisis. In anticipation of this happening, guidelines were drawn up in Whitehall that acknowledge very clearly the precedent that the incumbent prime minister remains in office while any coalition talks go on.
But if Clegg and Cameron do a deal, that's game over for Gordon?
If it's clear that Cameron can form a government, Brown is duty-bound to go to the Queen, resign and suggest that she invite the Conservative leader to form a government.
And if there's no deal?
Technically, Brown could carry on and try to govern with the new parliament, proposing laws and hoping that they don't get voted down.
Yes, but that won't happen.
It is pretty far-fetched. Far more likely, if there were no cross-party deal, is that Brown would bow to the inevitable and ask the Queen to name Cameron as PM. The Conservatives would then have a minority administration; they would propose laws and gamble that parliament wouldn't block everything they tried to do.
And would it work?
It depends. It would look pretty reckless if the Liberal Democrats, for example, sabotaged a Cameron government from the very start, especially at a time when it was endeavouring to tackle an economic crisis. Meanwhile, the Tories might not try to push ahead with things that the Lib Dems would really hate, so as not to provoke them.
Sounds tricky. What if Labour and the Lib Dems do a deal?
They would still need a vote or two from other parties, so it wouldn't be the most stable arrangement. But a Green here, a Scottish Nationalist there – they'd get by.
And Gordon Brown would be prime minister?
Technically, a Lib-Lab coalition could make Clegg PM, or Labour could quickly stick in a new leader and make him or her the premier. But it would look a bit fishy.
'Fishy' – is that what it says in the constitution?
Well the constitution isn't exactly written down. It comprises the amassed volume of laws, traditions, conventions and protocols built up over centuries.
Right. So this could all take a while to work out?
Not really. If there isn't a deal by early next week, global markets might panic that Britain is ungoverned and start ditching sterling and UK bonds.
So who is more powerful: the Queen or the financial markets?
Good question.
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I'm considering trying to put three monitors on my Windows 7 PC. I currently have two running off my graphics card. I'd like to add a second graphics card to use for a third monitor (not looking to do crossfire or anything fancy like that). Is it possible to just buy a relatively cheap PCIe graphics card for this purpose? I have a PCIe slot open on my mobo, but I don't want to spend the $50-100 on another card just to have this not work.
(Also: does the second card have to be an identical graphics card?)
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You have a 5770 so if you buy a Display Port (DP) monitor you should be able to just plug it into your 5770. You can also buy an active DP to DVI adapter and do the same thing. You might as well turn on Eyefinity, it will make all three screens act as one. Even if you don't turn it on you should be able to use all three screen, they will just act as three different screens.
If for whatever reason you don't want to go this route then just buy a second GPU. Plug it in, hook up your monitor, and possible turn it on in windows. (sometimes you need to activate it) Should be just like turning on your second one.
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This story is No. 17 in the series "Waifs and strays". You may wish to read the series introduction and the preceeding stories first.
Summary: The sequel to Luna Lovegood and the Dark Portrait
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You've got mail
Author’s Note:
This is the direct sequel to Luna Lovegood and the Dark Portrait.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, J.K. Rowling and Joss Whedon do.
Thanks very much to my Beta Letomo, but all mistakes are still mine.
Speech: “Who’s on first.”
Thought: *What’s on second.*
Vision: #I-don’t-know’s on third.#
Many thanks to tosca for recommending this story. I deeply appreciate it.
Chapter 25 You’ve got Mail
Hogwarts, Lupin’s quarters, January 30th 1996
Remus Lupin wasn't stupid by any means. Nor was he badly educated. Quite the contrary. Whereas Sirius and James had approached magic, and the study of it, as their natural right, with an insouciance only wealthy purebloods could muster, and Peter had done the same in a far more dogged fashion, with rather less flair, Remus had shared with many Muggleborns a supreme wonder that he was doing what he was doing and that he was doing it at Hogwarts.
To him, the fact that he was allowed to be there at all, allowed to use a wand, allowed to learn more than the most basic of things, was a miracle, an amazing gift he never would have thought, hoped, to receive except in his wildest dreams.
That meant that he had concentrated on his studies and learned a great deal. He knew there would be no or little chance of him ever gaining any higher education, whether as an apprentice or in one of the very rare Wizarding Universities.
So he had made the best use he could of his stay. And now, now that he was a teacher, he had access to sources he could only have dreamed of as a pupil.
He was currently looking at a pile of no less than seven books from the Restricted Section and two from the books that Albus and other headmasters had removed or gathered over the centuries. Albus called it the Forbidden Section, and the usual twinkle had not been there when he'd called it that. Remus could see why, from looking at the books.
But he needed the information and after a short explanation what he needed it for, Albus had offered him these two books. And the twinkle had been back. With interest.
Revenge was going to be sweet.
January 31st
Luna Lovegood was a bit surprised when Professor Lupin called out to her after her DADA class. “Miss Lovegood? May I have a word with you?”
Luna looked around as if to look for another Miss Lovegood. “Me? Of course, Professor. Was there something wrong with my essay on the Suppression of the Transylvanian Vampire Rising of 1469? Wasn't it long enough? Was it too long? I did tell Myrtle that two and a half feet might be a bit long, but she and Hermione said that otherwise it didn't sufficiently cover the subject matter and reflect the diversity of opinions and the breadth of the sources.”
“No, no it was fine,” Lupin assured her. “Yes it was slightly too long, and perhaps a bit advanced for someone your age, but very good. Miss Lovegood? You seem a bit tense. Is everything alright?”
Luna shrugged. “Well, Daddy went to the Colonies. He's there to meet a lady.”
“A lady. I see,” Lupin smiled. “I'm sure it will be fine, Miss Lovegood.”
“I'm sure it will be. I just hope he doesn't get distracted and fall into the Grand Canyon again. Mummy isn't there anymore to get him out this time,” Luna smiled serenely. “What did you want to see me about then, sir?”
“Ah yes,” Lupin coughed. “I'm doing a little research and I was wondering... Professor McGonagall told me that you have at least one rare book which was written by one of your ancestors? Do you have any others?”
Luna nodded. “Yes, the library was one thing that was never sold, no matter how hard things became. Mummy and Daddy dug a special basement for it.”
Remus cleared his throat. “Would it be possible to check if that library contained “Sur les Metamorphose humaine et la transcendentalisme: L'Animus Humaine et l'âme des Bêtes. And maybe La Revolution Humaine, la forme feminine et la magique internalle?
Luna frowned. “I think we have them, yes. Great-great Grandmère Heloise, wrote them, non? But why would you...” her eyes widened. “Oh! I didn't realise you and Professor Snape were quite that serious! Don't worry, sir! Your secret is safe with me. I'll get the books for you the next time I'm home, once Daddy returns from the Colonies.”
She smiled widely and skipped out of the classroom, humming Brahms’ lullaby.
Lupin ran a hand over his face. “Oh dear. That might very well cause more trouble than it's worth.”
Remus leaned back from the careful arithmantic calculations he'd been making all day in between his classes. With knowledge from the books borrowed from the Library and Albus, he ought to be able to achieve what he had in mind. The books from Miss Lovegood might allow him to do it in a more elegant fashion, but that was not essential. What he needed, and wanted, was to get even. Admittedly Severus had pulled an elaborate, even beautiful prank, on several levels and on the entire school, with Remus himself and the Weasley Twins as the primary targets.
But right now he was preparing himself mentally to read a letter he had never expected to get. Though he had to admit he hadn't been a regular correspondent in the past. He’d sent his last letter to his parents a good five years before, a terse reply to say he had received their notice and that he now knew they had moved, buying an old Herbary and moving there. The last letter before that had been his written acknowledgement of their move to the States, ten years ago or so. But apparently his mother had an incredible capacity to forgive her erring son, much like she had for forgiving her husband for speaking out at the wrong moment and thereby bringing Voldemort's, and Greyback's, anger down upon them, cursing their son, Remus, to lycanthropy.
Transatlantic mail was carried by owl to the coast and there was attached to either the Express Eagles, who were charmed to be able to fly far greater distances than normal, or to what was called Porpoise post, thrown in a water tight bin and attached to a harness worn by dolphins or porpoises.
This was a slow method, as the marine mammals thought it was all a splendid game and attempted to use the bin as a ball, dove with it as deep as they could, used it to knock against Muggle ships bottoms and any of a thousand tricks they had devised in the last thousand years. Attempts to Imperius them to swim straight had ended very badly for the wizards involved.
Remus had heard that recently Mug- Normal were accepting the fact that dolphins were very intelligent. Wizards had known that since Rombardo de Santiago had been found dead, drifting in the harbour of Barcelona with his wand in two pieces, one in his mouth, through his palate into his brain and one in his anus, the splinters driven deep into his bowels and perforating both them and his stomach. That had been a week after he had cast that first Imperius. It had taken ten years before any Dolphin would come near a wizard again. And a lot of fish.
Kettleburn had used it as an example of why you should never, ever abuse an animal. It might be quite capable of getting even, or even a bit more then even, and bit you on the arse (well-behaved, male students were shown his own bite in that location upon special request. Whole generations had been permanently mentally scarred.). So despite being un-magical, Dolphins and Porpoises were classed as magical creatures.
But in this case a bird had carried Remus' parents' letter. And that bird had flown in among the parliament of owls that morning, and had been huge and pearly white, with slight grey tinges.
The regal looking albatross had arrived at breakfast and swooped in, scattering the few early risers among the Staff with its huge wingspan, casting aside cutlery and flatware with its great clawed feet and had, with screeching claws ripping deep gouges in the varnished and ancient wood of the high table, come to a precise halt right next to Remus. It had given him a look of utter disregard and had then stolen his entire kipper, smoothly throwing it up and then catching and swallowing it.
That had sent Albus off into chuckles. The Headmaster had spent all of breakfast feeding the albatross morsels from his own plate. Remus had been waiting to open the letter ever since. But he'd delayed doing so until he'd finished his classes and his calculations. The albatross had needed to rest anyway. It was actually doing so in Albus' office. Remus spent another second thinking about an overweight albatross. Then he realised that if his mother had bothered to answer, by Albatross Mail, it was unlikely that the letter contained anything too bad. And that all the things he'd been doing and thinking were just delaying tactics, to postpone the emotional upheaval reading the letter would surely cause.
With trembling hands Remus broke the seal and folded open the stiff, crackling parchment.
My dear, dear son,
We were so very pleased to hear from you, dear Remus. We were so very frightened for you, and worried about you. I'm writing this letter, since your father's handwriting is as bad as yours.
Remus huffed. His handwriting was a sore point with his mother, who wrote in a beautiful clear hand. Some things never changed.
We are very well. Very well indeed. I regret not moving here long ago. I think your life would've been much easier if we had, though you probably would have missed those Three Terrors you called friends.
Remus smiled. The Three Terrors had been his mother's name for the other Marauders. It was a name that was taken up by various other parents. Though each had of course excluded their own dear boy, at least for the first three years. Then they had agreed that apparently all their children were inveterate and incurable troublemakers at school. Peter's mother had used it, too. *Must go visit her again. She's so happy to talk to me, whenever I go.*
The Herbiage is quite successful and the investors are most pleased, as are we. Pretty soon we’ll have paid of the debt. I know you don't like herbology very much, but it has it's interesting side. Your father is glaring at me. Covered in welts and bumps and bright purple, after an encounter in greenhouse three with a young Whip Armed Slime Mould.
So if you must fight creatures of darkness, you could try that.
Or even better you could come over and baby-sit. Enclosed are some pictures. You've missed the first three years of your little brother's life, so I suggest you get over here as soon as you can. You wouldn't want to miss the first weeks of your little sister's too, now, would you?
Remus sat looking at the moving images. A little boy, laughing at the camera on his father's shoulders. The same boy, jumping in a muddy puddle again and again, just as his mother ran to stop him and got a face full of water for her trouble, sitting on a swing... A last picture, his mother, obviously pregnant, his father, beaming with pride with the little boy between them, in front of a large greenhouse.
His name is Isengrim Edward Lupin. We call him Izzy. I hope that coming to see them, and us, will be sufficient reason for you to be careful? That job you have now, if that is the best you can do, things must be bad. Any other job at Hogwarts would be fine, but DADA? There is no anti-werewolf legislation in the States. The Concordat won't have it.
Apparently the Grand Magisters provide options for education, and even methods of controlling the wolf, or if that fails, strong cages. Then again, those werewolves who do not abide by the laws of the Concordat and the Alpha Strictures are dealt with swiftly and mostly finally. But I hardly think you'll be going round chasing after cattle or attacking Muggles at isolated farmsteads.
Please write again and soon! The Albatross needs to rest for a day. I'm sure you can manage to produce something, even if it is barely legible, in that time.
Remus grinned. She would never stop harping on that; he might as well accept it.
And let us know when you're free of that job, and can come for a visit, even if you won't stay. And tell Dumbledore that if the job kills you, I'll get Augusta Longbottom to help me hunt the two of you down!
Much love, Mum and Dad.
Remus blinked away a few tears. Despite all the distance he tried to put between them, his parents still loved him. And he was a big brother! It was uncommon for Wizards and Witches to make full opportunity of their longevity and longer fertility, but hardly impossible. His mother had barely graduated Hogwarts when she married and Remus was born ten months later. So even among Muggles it could be possible. Just, even if it wasn't exactly healthy or advisable. Among Witches it was custom more than anything else.
*The Herbiage really must be doing well...* Remus tapped the letter. *It won't do any harm to inquire into the cost of travelling to America. Just... checking.*
Hogwarts Library, February 1st 1996
Luna Lovegood scowled at the page in front of her. “Oooooh. Porcupine!”
Myrtle giggled. “Must be pretty bad, the spines are getting longer.”
Hermione sniffed. “Really, Luna. If your father could hear you!”
Luna sighed. “Stop it, you two. And I've heard you use much worse, Hermione Granger! And I have your parents’ address!”
Hermione crossed her arms and glared, though she also seemed a bit uncertain. “You wouldn't!”
Luna rolled her eyes. “Of course I wouldn't, Hermione. I'm not a Snitch.”
“Well, you've got the colouring. Luna Lovegood, the golden snitch,” Myrtle giggled again.
“Oh haha. You sound like the boys,” Luna sniffed. “All they talk about is Quidditch. Or chess. Or Gobstones, or Exploding Snap. Actually, they talk about a lot of things, as long as it isn't anything to do with school.”
Hermione nodded. “True. I honestly wonder how any of them ever get a passing grade.”
Luna turned back to her book. “They probably bat their long eyelashes and waggle their hips at Professor Snape.”
“Luna!” Hermione whispered, shocked.
“Oh really Hermione,” Luna replied airily. “Everybody could see that he and Professor Lupin were desperately in love, the way they kept looking at each other, and glaring. The Germans have a saying for it, Was sich liebt, das neckt sich, those who love each other, bicker.”
“Luna, haven't you and Harry had a couple of fights?” Hermione asked pointedly.
Luna pursed her lips. “I've shouted at him. I'm not quite sure if he's been angry with me. Maybe I should apologize for that, what do you think?”
Hermione had gone very quiet for a second, only letting out a breath when Luna showed no obvious interest in Harry. “Maybe you should. I'm no expert on boys.”
“I shall ask Penelope, she's got a boyfriend and is a Ravenclaw. That ought to make her an expert, I think,” Luna decided. Then she turned back to her book.
Myrtle looked at Hermione and then winked at the dark corner by the door where Professor Snape was scowling.
“Harry?” Hermione plonked a thick book in front of him. “We're going to read this.”
Harry looked at the fist-and-a-half thick tome with trepidation. “We are? What is it?”
“Lady Bedell's notes on propriety, etiquette and protocol, amended by her elder sister and Mrs. Weas- Lady Prew- your mum,” Hermione explained firmly. “They want it to be read by people who don't know anything about wizarding culture. We qualify.”
Ron let out a breath of relief.
Harry shifted uncomfortably on his chair. “I've got Quidditch practice Hermione.”
“Headmaster Dumbledore has agreed that proofreading this will be worth extra credit for Comparative Culture next year. And you’ll know the material, so you needn't work so hard on it then,” Hermione pointed out. “We can get another copy if we need it.”
“But Hermione!” Harry whined. “I don't understand this sort of thing!”
“And isn't that exactly the reason to study it?” Hermione pointed out primly. Seeing Harry's stubborn expression she pleaded. “At least think about it.”
Harry nodded heavily. “I'll look at it first, okay?”
Hermione flashed him a brilliant smile. “Thanks Harry.”
Harry's heart skipped a beat and he wondered what that was all about.
“So what was in the book that got you so upset” Myrtle asked.
“Nothing, that's what, just that Umberto Collocoecci invented Moving Painting and Animated Portraits during a stay at Hogwarts in the early twelfth century,” if Luna believed in pouting, she would have done so, “So much for Hogwarts in the History of Magical painting. And it took me two days to convince Madam Pince to let me read it.”
“Why?” Myrtle frowned.
“Well, it's quite old. And there's a whole section on magical painting. I'd imagine that people like Fred and George would need to be kept away from that,” Luna mused. “Might be quite interesting to see what they could do with the knowledge though. From a safe distance.”
Myrtle laughed. “Like six counties away!” She let out a ghostly sigh. “But still no luck on finding out who Porty is.”
Remus Lupin was glaring at a large, white bird. He was holding the letter to his parents but any move to attach it had been thwarted by the owner of the leg it ought to be attached to.
The huge albatross who Dumbledore had gleefully named Dead, gazed back impassively.
“Look you insufferable bird! This letter is going onto that leg of yours whether you like it or not!” Remus fumed.
“Really Remus, that's no way to talk to the poor thing,” Albus chided. “He's going to carry that letter all the way over the Atlantic for you. Aren't you, Dead?”
Dead looked at the older wizard. Dumbledore smiled. “As soon as he's asked you politely and brought you another kipper.”
Hogwarts Stables
Sirius Black was a big, black dog. Big black dogs, especially those who were born to the House of Black were not supposed to whimper, or bury their heads in their blankets and whine pathetically. But Sirius really felt like it. Not only was he unable, even with the help of the half-kneazle, and much easier access to the Castle than he ever had expected, to get at Peter, he was the continuous target of dozens of girls who submitted him to unending torture. Or boys who made him chase after sticks. Admittedly the attention and exercise were doing wonders for his fur and muscle tone. And he was really getting to know Harry, even if Harry didn't know him. At least not as a man. And he really had to remember not to lick his balls in front of him. That was something he'd never live down once he took his rightful place in the boy's life.
But this latest news was a blow that he might never recover from. Remus Lupin apparently was involved in a deeply committed and physical relationship with Severus Snape. It was enough to make a grown dog cry, or howl at the moon.
Suddenly a strong but gentle hand grabbed him by the scruff of his neck. “Aha! Perfect. A prime example, just like you said, Rubeus,” Kettleburn's voice sounded approving. “With this fellow, Neville's toad and Miss Granger's half-Kneazle we can cover a great many of the more common familiars and pets. And with that old rat of Mr. Weasley Three that Weasley Six now has, we can have them show how proper care can extend the life of even the commonest of animals. He seems to be in excellent shape, much better than I expected from your description of him.”
“Yerse, Silvanus. 'E's plumped up pretty nice,” Hagrid told him with obvious pride in his voice “An' we may as well check 'is anal glands again while we're at it, they were fine last time, but the breed does suffer from it.”
Sirius howled at the indignity of it all. Sometimes life just wasn't fair.
Great hall, after lunch
“Mr. Potter, kindly come see me after your classes and dinner, eight o’clock will do,” Professor Kettleburn told Harry in passing as he hastened towards the paddock, Hagrid in tow. “Not a detention, don’t worry.”
Harry nodded, his mind already on a way to dodge most of what work there was in divination.
At ten past eight Harry had been waiting for ten minutes and was looking rather uncertainly at the door to Professor Kettleburn’s office. He could hear adult voices from inside, raised in some sort of discussion and in Harry’s experience when adults fought it seldom boded well for him. He thought he recognized Snape and Hagrid and what he thought was his Dad, but there would hardly be a reason for him to be there. He hoped. They tended to be angry at him, and he would feel the consequences, or they would take out their frustration on him. Neither was pleasant or good.
The door opened and Kettleburn looked out, annoyance on his face. He saw harry, looking hesitant and it cleared up. “Ah, Mr. Potter. I assume you’ve been here a while?”
Harry nodded. “Yessir! I could hear you talking, sir!”
“Ah, of course. Do come in. We were waiting for your arrival,” Kettleburn waved him inside.
“Yessir!” Harry slipped inside, looking around with a mix of curiosity and uncertainty. Seated in the chairs around the fire were Snape, Hagrid, and indeed his foster father, Arthur Weasley. Arthur rose and came over to hug him.
“Mr- D-dad? Is something wrong?” Harry asked anxiously.
“No, no. Well. Yes,” Arthur ran a hand through his loose red curls. “We were discussing the basilisk.”
“What about it? It is dead, isn’t it?” Harry sounded even more anxious.
Arthur snorted. “After the dissection, I should hope so. No, I just found out how big the beast was.”
“He was rather upset,” Snape noted dryly.
“Oh. So why am I here?” Harry looked from his father to the teachers.
“To discuss what to do with the proceeds of the sale of the beast. If the whole thing with Black and the Dementors hadn’t happened the Headmaster also wanted to ask you to help explore Slytherin’s tunnels,” Kettleburn settled into his specially built chair. “We think there are at least six doors sealed so they can only be opened by a Parseltongue.”
“There is no way I’m going to allow that, Kettleburn!” Arthur interrupted.
Harry frowned. “Are there any other parseltongues?”
“No,” Snape stated decisively. “And I’d prefer it if you were older, the last thing we want to do is encourage your hero complex even further.”
“He does not have a hero complex!” Arthur snapped.
“He does,” Snape drawled. “A mile deep and a league wide.”
Snape rolled his eyes at the other adults’ looks, and started counting on his fingers. “Troll. Quirrell. Basilisk. Miss Lovegood and my niece and the Dementors. The last thing we need is to encourage him to risk his life, he does so quite often enough on his own. Need I go on?”
Arthur raised his eyebrows. “Now that you mention it…” he looked at Harry, who smiled rather sheepishly.
“We’ll talk about that later,” Arthur decided. “Now there’s the basilisk to discuss.”
“But you knew that I fought it and everything,” Harry was wondering at his foster father’s tense tone.
“Not that it was the biggest basilisk seen in well over five centuries, if not longer!” Arthur growled at Kettleburn.
“Oh. But Hagrid and Professor Kettleburn killed it,” Harry pointed out.
“At the very least it was a team effort. And Professor Snape and I think, from the autopsy we performed, that it would have died from the injuries you inflicted with the Sword of Gryffindor,” Kettleburn grinned. “You might have died because of it if we hadn’t been there, but you were still instrumental in killing it.”
Harry rubbed his arm and shoulder, feeling the burn of the serpent’s poison again. Arthur put an arm around his shoulder. “Very well, accepting that, what do we do now?”
Snape withdrew small book from his robes, and then enlarged it, but it remained thin and narrow, a ledger of some sort. “This contains everything we harvested from the beast. Which is, well, everything. We had the House elves gather the dried blood. A conservative calculation shows that if we market them in a prudent fashion, we can realise a profit over a period of a decade of slightly over one and a half million Galleons, more if we spread it out further.”
Arthur paled, as did Harry. “H-how much?”
“A million and a half. We’re still using bits from the one Professor Kettleburn killed,” Snape reminded them. “That was thirty years ago.”
“Oh. So we won’t get all that at once?” Harry took Arthur’s hand, stressing the we.
“Not if you’re smart. Selling it all at once would mean that most of it would be bought by dealers would take most of the profit. It would glut the market, and very few dealers have the sort of funds needed to buy so much basilisk part anyway. Eight percent will go to me, for the services in preparing the beast for sale. The rest should be divided among those who killed it,” Snape explained.
He put the ledger on the table. Arthur frowned. “Eight percent. That’s rather cheap, Severus.”
Snape shrugged. “I don’t need the money. But if you insist, you can make the rest up with parts. There are a number of potions I’d like to try and recreate and brew and some experiments of my own I’d like to perform. And you might want to explain to your son I’m not gouging you.”
Arthur grinned at Harry’s mulish expression. “A creature that has been prepared by a Potions Master will bring in more than one just cut up by anybody, Harry. It probably increases the value by twenty-five or thirty percent. That goes even for common creatures like rats. Those harvested under the supervision of a Potions Master are still worth about ten percent more.”
“Not to mention it’s bloody dangerous. And with one hand, not something I’d care to try myself. I lost half a hand to the last one I gutted,” Kettleburn grimaced.
Harry nodded. “Okay. I understand. Dad? If you and Bill were there, and maybe Charlie, could we go into those tunnels?”
Arthur gaped.
Snape gave him a look through narrowed eyes. “Explain, Potter.”
Harry frowned. “Why? You know why I need to.”
Snape raised an eyebrow at Arthur who frowned at Harry. “Harry, apologize and behave. Explain yourself to Professor Snape.”
Harry looked at his feet, then back at Snape. “Sorry, sir. I was thinking there might be something else dangerous down there, and we ought to get it before it became more dangerous.”
Snape lifted the eyebrow again at Arthur, who sighed. “I‘ll discuss it with your mother. She’ll probably agree. But she won’t be happy.”
Hagrid leaned over and slapped Arthur’s shoulder. “Don’ worry, Arthur! We’ll keep the boy safe!” he fingered his wand with his other hand and beamed happily. Then his face fell. “Pity we ‘ad to kill the poor beastie though. If Riddle ‘adn’t been there, we might of talked it ‘roun’.”
The others exchanged glances and Snape rolled his eyes.
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Crabs, lobsters and shellfish are likely to feel pain when being cooked, according to a new study.
Two large lobsters are weighed in Bath, Maine. These guys are in for excruciating deaths if the findings of a recent study are correct.
Some say the hiss that sounds when crustaceans hit the boiling water is a scream (it's not, they don't have vocal cords). But lobsters and crabs may want to since a new report suggests that they could feel pain.
In a British lab experiment published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, European shore crabs were likely to avoid dark shelters in a tank that delivered electric shocks to the crabs. The data "are consistent with key criteria for pain experience and are broadly similar to those from vertebrate studies," the authors say.
Robert Elwood, a biologist with Queen's University in the United Kingdom and author of the report, says it is impossible to know whether or not an animal feels pain because humans are unable to experience it for themselves. It has long been known that crustaceans and other animals experience something known as "nociception," a reflexive action—moving away from a toxic chemical or fire, for instance—that has evolved as a survival skill but is not necessarily unpleasant. But the crabs' behavior in his study—crabs who were initially exposed to shocks in a certain shelter avoided that shelter in future trials—suggests they may feel true pain.
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"They're consistently showing that this is more than just a reflex," Elwood says. "Infuriatingly, I cannot conclude for certain that they feel pain, because it is a logical impossibility. … But their behavior has given me data that is consistent with pain."
Elwood says he won't lobby for the seafood industry to make changes to the way it does business—lobsters are kept in small tanks, some crabs have their claws removed at sea before they're tossed back into the water, many crustaceans are boiled or steamed alive—because he doesn't want to lose his objectivity as a scientist. "I'm a scientist, not a campaigner," he says.
But he also says it might be time for people to, as novelist David Foster Wallace once wrote, "Consider the lobster." In a 2004 essay for Gourmet Magazine, Wallace asked: "Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?" Elwood says it might be time to make some changes.
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"Whether my experiments will change how the seafood industry works, I doubt it very much, but it might be the first step," he says. "Animals should have a good life and a good death, and I think in many cases these crustaceans don't have a good death."
A representative for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says that much of the success they've had lobbying for better treatment for crustaceans has come on the consumer end.
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Bill Sieling, executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Seafood Industries Association, which represents more than 70 seafood processors in Maryland, says the news is unlikely to change anything.
"They've been cooked since the [Native Americans] first started doing it many years ago and it's not going to stop now," he says.
Sieling says some high-end restaurants will soak crabs in ice water before they're boiled so that their claws don't come off during boiling, and others will kill crabs with an ice pick immediately before they're cooked. But the vast majority of them are boiled alive.
"Crabs don't have a brain in the way we have one—they have a collection of nerve cells so they have some ability to decide what they want to do," he says. "But I've never heard of anyone raising issues about how they're treated."
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Malpractice defense: Shoulder Dystocia / Erb’s Palsy Injury
Posted Sep 22 2011 10:30pm
In addition to my consulting work and writing the Health Business Blog , I’m chairman of the board of Advanced Practice Strategies (APS), a medical risk management firm that provides litigation support for malpractice defense and an eLearning curriculum focused on enhancing patient safety.
To learn more contact: Timothy Croke, Director of Demonstrative Evidence Group. or 617-357-0553 ext. 6664.
Here’s the Advanced Practice Strategies case of the month.
Judgment for the Defense
Shoulder Dystocia / Erb’s Palsy Injury
The plaintiff was admitted following spontaneous rupture of membranes for induction of labor. She received an epidural in the active phase of labor and approximately 90 minutes later was initially thought to have reached the start of the second stage of labor. She began pushing at 5:47 p.m. but at 6:05 p.m. was told to stop because her cervix was not completely dilated— a small anterior lip of the cervix was found still present. Around one hour later, the patient’s cervix became fully dilated, so the patient resumed pushing with contractions. Two hours later, the defendant physician was summoned to the room for the delivery. Within 15 minutes of the physician’s arrival, the patient delivered the fetal head, and a shoulder dystocia was encountered. The patient pushed herself into a sitting position at the top of her bed and closed her legs together. In response, the defendant physician first asked that the patient be pulled down into the usual delivery position on the bed and then attempted the McRoberts maneuver to help effect delivery. After this proved unsuccessful, the defendant physician performed an episiotomy , asked for application of suprapubic pressure , and subsequently moved to deliver the posterior shoulder . Following release of the posterior shoulder, the remainder of the delivery quickly followed. The child was later diagnosed with a brachial plexus injury (Erb’s palsy).
The plaintiff maintained that the shoulder dystocia, and ultimately the Erb’s palsy, could have been avoided if the defendant physician had noted the length of time the plaintiff pushed and had intervened appropriately. The plaintiff also believed that the defendant should have recognized, given the extended second stage, that the fetus was likely large and that a cesarean rather than a vaginal delivery was necessary.
The defense disputed the plaintiff’s claims, arguing that nothing signaled a potential shoulder dystocia or that any complications were likely from a vaginal delivery. The patient’s labor progressed at a normal rate, with no sign of a problem due to the fetus’s size. Furthermore, once the cervix was confirmed to be completely dilated and the patient had resumed pushing without interruption, at 6:59 p.m., the fetus descended normally, giving no cause for concern until the shoulder dystocia was encountered at 9:44 p.m. Immediately after diagnosis of the shoulder dystocia, appropriate steps were taken to relieve the problem.
Collaborating with the defense experts and attorney, APS created a visual strategy that helped to describe the delivery and to show how the defendant followed proper standards of care, performing appropriate maneuvers to resolve the shoulder dystocia once diagnosed.
The first diagram illustrated an anterior cervical lip and how it compares to a fully dilated cervix.
The next diagram demonstrated the typical series of events leading to a shoulder dystocia , with the anterior shoulder lodged behind the maternal pubic bone.
A third diagram illustrated how the McRoberts maneuver and suprapubic pressure are applied in cases of shoulder dystocia to free the fetus’s anterior shoulder from behind the pubic bone, thus effecting delivery.
A fourth diagram showed delivery of the posterior shoulder .
Several additional visual aids indicated how brachial plexus injury occurs and the nerves affected by Erb’s palsy .
Charts pointing out the increased risks associated with a cesarean delivery as compared to a vaginal delivery helped show the jury why the defendant physician had felt it was safer for the patient and fetus to continue with a vaginal birth.
Chart 1: List of Risks of Cesarean Section
Chart 2: Risks of Cesarean Section per 1000 Women
Chart 3: Risks of C-section Compared to Vaginal Delivery
Another chart showed the number of needless cesarean deliveries required to avoid risk of one instance of a permanent brachial plexus injury in a fetus weighing less than 4500gms .
Finally, a timeline set out the patient’s labor course, including the timing and duration of pushing.
This series of illustrations helped the defense successfully convey to the jury the following key points:
• During the plaintiff’s labor, nothing indicated any increased risk of shoulder dystocia. Both the patient’s cervical dilation and the fetal descent occurred normally.
• Once the shoulder dystocia was diagnosed, the defendant physician immediately followed appropriate steps to resolve the emergent situation and deliver the infant, with the unfortunate outcome of an Erb’s palsy.
The jury found in favor of the defense.
“This case involved an infant who suffered a fairly significant shoulder injury at birth. At trial, the child was 8 years old and presented with fairly significant disability. There was a large sympathy factor at play during trial as a result. The illustrations that APS developed were instrumental in allowing the defendant physician to explain her medical decision-making in great detail. They allowed her to stand in front of a jury and ‛teach’ them in a friendly and caring way about each and every decision that she made. In this way, the focus of the trial was diverted away from sympathy and toward the clinical decision-making in the case. The visuals were instrumental in obtaining a defense verdict.”
—Attorney, Bernie Guekguezian, Adler Cohen Harvey Wakeman and Guekguezian LLP, Boston, MA
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Carbon Beta 2
New Features:
Dropbox support
Save Groups/batches of apps
Select All apps for backup
Backup app data only
Backup/restore window now only pops up once, instead of once per app.
"Backup now" and "Restore now" button is now automatically pressed.
This version still requires root. Next beta will include a non-root release.
This beta will stop working on January 25th. There will be one more beta (with non-root support) before the Google Play release.
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How much is the final version going to cost?
Koush, this looks very cool! Thanks very much, and keep up the hard work. Can you re-post think link to the .apk please?
I'm just curious (but i may have missed your other posts) but is it possible for app & data backups instead of backing up the app it will download it from Google Play and then after installation it will restore the data?
Sorry if it works like that! :)
And now I've just expanded the post and seen the link shame
Take my money!! dammit! :)
Great work +Koushik Dutta, are you going to price it around the same as TiBU?
Do it fast. I can't wait to buy it!!! :D
Downloading now to try again. Are the backups on GDrive organised this time, or still all in one folder?
The most useful app in android world.. and it does in amazing way... btw, I want a N4 :(
Keep it up..
Wow! This is such an improvement on the previous one!
The new icon is great too +Koushik Dutta, the final one?
Got a error on connecting to Dropbox, something about checking internet connection... Using two-step authentication if that's the issue?
Otherwise, I love the app. I finally feel justified using 2 phones. :p
It's coming at a perfect time :D
My new Nexus 4 is getting delievered right now and now I can sync my settings from my Nexus S to the Nexus 4 as soon as I have rooted it :D
I will report if I ran into any troubles
BUY BUY BUY! On a serious note, this is awesome for people who have many devices and tinker with many different ROMs. Cheers, dude.
Getting a dropbox error. It says make sure you're connected to the internet.
How's it different from the "DataSync" app?
Another fantastic job Koush.. I do have a few questions though - will you do a subscription based model or a normal model? Is there anyway to enable tasker support? I'd love to have my phone connect to my home WiFi and automatically sync my game progress i made while at work to my Nexus 7.. That would be awesome :-)
+Koushik Dutta Yeah. I'm willing to try with it disabled if you think it'll help narrow it down?
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Koushik gracias por tus grandes aportaciones, probando carbon no me deja hacer respaldo ni en Dropbox ni drive, dice que revise si tengo conexión de Red y claro que la tengo y full. Sony Xperia S.
I get the same error, no 2 factor authentication
This app is gonna be big. Finally something to back up and sync data files easily on multiple devices... Android needs something as easy to use as Carbon...
I am having problems using my dropbox account though. Google drive is working fine but since my dropbox is larger i would prefer saving the data on it. It's saying that I'm an invalid user. Lol
Beautiful app. One suggestion: Make the arrow indicating that the bottom tab can be pulled up either bigger or more obvious. It may be that it's early in the morning but it took me several minutes to realize I could drag it up. I almost gave up on it before that, thinking that there was no Select All option. Also showing sync progress in status bar would be nice.
EDIT: *two suggestions
I am having the same issue with DropBox integration.
+Simon Rüfenacht What browser are you opening that login in? Or is it opening dropbox for android, do you have that installed?
When I click accept, an error pops up saying check my internet connection when I don't have any internet issues.
+Koushik Dutta i have the dropbox app installed. the login opens in the dropbox auth, which normally (with other apps) works without problems
Hi all, I found the Dropbox problem. The app is still in "development" status in Dropbox's system, so their SDK limits me to 5 accounts max. I have applied for "production" status. Once that has been granted, more people will be allowed to connect with Dropbox.
+Christopher Nee +Simon Rüfenacht
Thanks for looking into it Koush, I look forward to testing this app with dropbox since my drive doesn't have enough free space.
Installed and did test backups to drop box, drive and USB storage. Works flawlessly. GS2 E4GT JB 4.2
+alex miller haha i just noticed in the Dropbox control panel that you managed to sneak in and grab one of the 5 tester spots ;)
Thanks for looking into the Dropbox issue. Tried out a few things and everything else works perfectly. Can't wait to buy app once released.Very helpful.
Really liking the app, functions great and is well laid out. However, some views from my side:
1) It wasn't obvious to me that I could scroll the black bar up in order to get to the "data only", "Select all" and "Save groups" settings. Can this be made more obvious? At first I kept clicking on the four blue boxes with the dashed border as usually that means select all in Android.
2) Can the app display and update a progress bar in Androids notification tray?
FANTASTIC! Batch uploads seem to work fine. Mines chugging along right now. I cant wait to give you my money!
+Mark Hands I agree, I didn't notice that until you mentioned it here.
Also would it be possible to add a button to cancel backing up?
+Søren Siim Nielsen I don't think Carbon and Titanium Backup have the same aim though. Titanium Backup has more options, such as backing up SMS, system settings and other power features.
no way to bypass google authenticator to backup its app data ? sucks not being able to copy the data to a nexus7 for example
in beta1 i could back up authenticator. now i cant.
yeah beta 2 marks authenticator as not able to backup
+Mark Hands True, but Android has been saving those settings for a while and there are better ways to back up sms. Carbon does what I need and is so much more intuitive than TB. And looks about a zillion times better. Add scheduled backups and TB will be off my Androids for good.
Warning: If you select all, it WILL upload your google play music cache, which in my case, is about a gig. Oops :)
The backup/restore API lets an app developer selectively control what portion of the app's data is stored / restored. An example of why this might be important is something like the core phone app, where if the configuration for a CDMA device were blindly backed up and then applied to a GSM restore target... bad things happen.
That selective control also gives the developer a way to indicate that the app's data must not be backed up off-device at all. Google Authenticator explicitly uses this -- there's already a standard workflow for migrating your 2factor master from one device to another, and it's viewed as a major security risk if it were to be possible to clone your 2factor endpoint onto multiple devices simultaneously.
(And the issue of application opt-out comes up in other domains as well. For example, applications that handle HIPPA-domain health records need to be very stringent about what data exposure might be possible.)
this, is gonna be epic. i have loads of friends that dont' root that are always asking how to backup app data. now they will have a way, some time in February!
Havent download yet, buy does this have/or at some point have a box support? Thanks +Koushik Dutta
Do you think Carbon will eventually also access Box?
+Søren Siim Nielsen but that requires yet another app, if you want one to specifically backup SMS/SMS. One feature I like about Titanium Backup, is the ability to restore a devices previous ID because it prevents Google Music from registering your device as 10 different ones, when you install a new ROM and then telling you that you've reached the device limit. Agree that Carbon UI is very intuitive and easy to use but that's to be expected when it's designed to have 20% of TBs features.
Koush I love your work. But let's up the convenience factor and get Steve to bake this into CM
Could the app list be alphabetically sorted in the next version to be able to locate a single app from a long list easily?
+Mark Hands Very true, horses for courses and all that. For me, (and all my friends who don't even root) Carbon looks like a winner.
another request, have the groups/backup folders to be created prior to backup and list at the top instead of below, allow reordering etc and editing of groups
+Søren Siim Nielsen it's definitely a great application and I would prefer to do away with the need to root my devices because Sky Go (UK satellite TV service provider) doesn't run on rooted devices. Unfortunately, I still need to use the likes of SixAxis Controller that requires root because game pad support isn't consistent enough on Android. I would say a fair comparison is Carbon vs DataSync and Carbon does seem to have a lot of advantages over DS but then again, I've not really used the DS Beta.
I'm having an issue where it gets an error on the first app when I try to back up to Drive that causes it to stop. Any ideas?
+Koushik Dutta only thing I would like to see is a notofiction icon while backing up like tb so you know when its done. Awesome job cant wait for the release.
Moved apps from one n4 to another without issue. It worked so quickly that I thought there must be some kind of mistake!
Great work - thanks so much for filling in the gaps that Google leaves behind.
We can add that to automatically detect the update function? Thank you?
Koush you are a GOD in the Android community
+Koushik Dutta A couple features I would like to see add especially the last one.
1. Scheduled uploaded/download.
2. Download/uploaded when changing or on wifi(with or without the schedule).
3. The ability to automatically restore my application after flashing a rom with Rom Manager(could be for the premium version of Rom Manager).
Wow, nice work Koush! There was a small hiccup the first time I tried to steal an apps data off my N7 via this app, but was successful the second time. Once small kinks like that are worked out then this app will shoot to the top of any "Must Have" lists for users with two or more Android devices!
got a couple errors which should be sent to you. one backing up all apps > data only (~70 apps). Then backed up 13 apps > app+data = worked fine. Then backed up 3 new apps and 3 of those 13 apps > data only and that errored, but each set of 3 separately > data only worked fine.
Other comment is when backup starts and you can encrypt with password, that screen only stays for like 1-2 seconds, not enough time to read or respond, then backup simply commences.
As far as feature requests, I like some of the simple one click options Super Backup has as far as backing up SMS/Call Log etc, not sure if that is in your scope as this looks like user apps only.
other than that the UI is beautiful, pretty user friendly. i echo that i almost missed swiping up the bottom panel though.
This is very nice, but it's almost impossible to delete an app from a group when that group has more than 20 apps..
No backup to ext sd? auto sync? Please add in, otherwise great app.
Liking it so far.
Nice surprise on the save group option.
Only issue I am having currently is screen rotation. Portrait only for most screens, rotation active for others (G drive restore). It would be nice to have rotation active on all screens.
Best addition would be scheduled synchronization, or synchronization between devices after application or user data updates. Preferably selected on a per application basis so that natively synchronized apps like evernote could be ignored while non-synchronized apps like games could by synched through carbon across devices without having to manually synch when switching devices.
Very nice app. Should have option to save to SD.
would be nice to have an option to detect and only backup apps with updated data or apps with new versions.
Jojsp G
Hi Dutta, e borrado drive y dropbox reiniciado el móvil y reinstalado todo de nuevo y sigue sin funcionar carbón. El error continua siendo el mismo me gustaría comprar esta excelente aplicación cuando salga pero la quisiera 100% funcional gracias por tus aportes
the backup to PC option is nice, but there should be "select all" here too.
Doesn't work on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus on 4.2.1 (died backing up, it sent logs), it doesn't remember selected apps, there is no select/deselect all. Not sure how it backs up but I'd prefer to be able to backup all to one file or individual (that way if one app prevents restore you haven't lost everything).
Great app and I like the styling of it. Is there any chance of adding backup scheduling?
Time for my talents to shine...
Hey, +Koushik Dutta, I think you should change it to "Deselect All". :D
Are we getting,gasp Skydrive support?
I had an issue with Dropbox too (chrome beta), I tried regular chrome and it worked flawlessly. Awesome app!
Had a few problems getting my 2 devices (Gnex, n7) to load the other's list this morning, but after a few minutes of messing with it I got it working. I updated my ROM before hand, maybe that caused it. All is good now though. I love this app!
+Koushik Dutta Thanks again for updating this! The Select All is nice, as is the saving it as a group. Things I've noticed:
1. Still won't upload to Google Drive w/ 2-step authentication turned on (Verizon Galaxy Nexus, CM 10.1, rooted). Tried doing it while connected to 4G and it failed (possible loss of signal issue?), and then when I got back on my home network (was on the home network continuously; still failed after trying to back up some apps). Upload folder still shows up on Google Drive, but nothing's in there.
2. Doesn't work at all on my TF300T tablet with CM 10.1, rooted. Tries to start, then says it fails.
3. After creating a group name for selected apps and going back, it doesn't seem to save the group name. Couldn't find it.
Sorry if these have already been mentioned. Thanks again!
+Nathan Humphries
3. I think it is throwing the saved group at the very bottom of the list. If you back out of the app and reopen it, you should see it. Please confirm! I fixed this bug just a bit ago.
2. Root permission dialog ever show up? I think CM disables root for apps by default now. May want to check that.
1. Let me turn 2 step on and see what happens...
+Koushik Dutta
2. Yeah, it showed up previously and I accepted it, so that part should be fine. I restarted my tablet and I'm retrying it and so far so good, it's backed up 5 so far to the SD card and still going.
3. Huh, you're right, it's there, at the top of the app list. Not sure if I'm an idiot or not. We can chalk it up to that. :)
+Nathan Humphries
3. Nah, it's just a bug that fixes itself after a restart. I fixed it so it doesn't go to the bottom of the list.
2. I think there's also an issue with the first usage of root. I have to figure out what the problem is.
1. I turned on two step. Works fine. After it asks for a password, it then asked me for a verification code, and once I entered that, it worked.
+Koushik Dutta Huh, that's odd, I never got the part about a verification code - that's what seemed weird to me. I'll try logging out and logging back in and see if it comes up.
+Nathan Humphries I don't think it should matter. I'm doing a full wipe on one of my test phones to check 2 step.
With 2 step on, do any apps get backed up at all? Try just one, and see what happens. Log out and back in too.
+Nathan Humphries Also, let me know if you can view your google drive backups (an empty list means it is working).
If it gives an error (vs an empty list) when viewing your drive via the app, then there may be an auth problem.
Also, still working for me after a wipe :/
+Koushik Dutta It shows 32 of my 84 apps in the list (must've failed the backup around then), but I don't see them anywhere on Google Drive. Where does the app store them? Nothing's in the Upload folder in my account. (One time it did mention an error when I tried to pull up the list, but the other 3 times it showed the 32 apps.)
I uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and when I go through connecting Google Drive, it never asks for a code. I allow Superuser at some point in the process, and it just says the account was connected successfully. Weird!
+Koushik Dutta Hmm, no folder labeled that in my Google Drive account. Must not be connecting still, and I'm assuming it's because of 2-step since I don't get the same "enter code" screen that you do.
Only noticed a couple issues. The big one I'm having seems to be all my backups not showing up in my Google Drive through Carbon. When I look in my Drive account they are all there, but Carbon doesn't show them all. Not sure if that is known or there for a reason.
The second one I noticed was when I started deleting the backups I selected one then deleted it without un selecting it and it left the option to restore even though I had deleted it. The restore option stayed there until I backed out of Drive.
Hope these are helpful.
+William Kane can you take a screenshot of your google drive carbon directory, and a screenshot of carbon while viewing google drive? That will be helpful.
I'll fix the second bug.
Will it get a BOX account support??
+Koushik Dutta same here with the Google Drive backups, I upload 63 apps from my i9300 but the Sensation only see 20+ and fail every time to restore those, haven't tried Dropbox yet.
Another thing with restore:
1. choosing something in portrait mode and switch to landscape, the list is refreshed and the selections is gone.
2. you can't choose restore all as you implement under the backup.
will keep testing once beta 3 is out.
Question.... I want to play with another ROM (am using stock on Galaxy Nexus)... assuming I wipe the device (factory reset), and install new ROM (e.g. CM 10.1) , then Carbon, will restoring my apps/data (storing on Dropbox) just work?
Hello from Michigan and keep up the great work! Thanks.
There are some screen caps from my Drive and phone. I just selected all that were available and took the picture so I didn't have to take several caps, hope that is alright. I took one then uploaded some more and took another. From the looks of it, it limits me to 32 apps visible. Once I start deleting them from Carbon, back out, then go back into it the ones that were missing show up.
Hope these are what you needed to see.
+William Kane Thanks. It seems to limit the number of files returned in a google drive list to 100. Each backup has 3 files (json, ab, png).
100 / 3 = ~33. Which is why you see roughly 33 backups.
I think I can fix that.
I really need this App... it is really annoying to loose all local App data on the internal partition when moving to a new device or doing a full reset. This should be part of stock Android!
Really enjoying the app. Its simple and very effective. I only use that to backup my game data for saves and high scores and find it highly annoying game devs don't all make it easy to cloud save/sync data and this does it all for me.
Sync from devices is epic.
Shame Google Drive is a tad sluggish but doesn't worry me much.
Perhaps something like this should indeed be part of stock Android. As you have a Google account to use Android/PlayStore/backup and restore, they could even link it into GDrive to manage data saves!
Awesome, looking forward to the non-root release!
The Android backup manager does not yet support backup/restore of secondary users. You can assume that the Android team (a) is aware of this and (b) considers it a significant bug....
+Koushik Dutta I'm sometimes having problems with one device seeing another device's app list. After a few tries on my n7 I refreshed my shared devices and that fixed the issue on my 7. But I'm still unable to get my Gnex to see my 7. Keeps giving me the "An error occurred while retrieving you app list" error. I have had it work in the past. Any suggestions?
Edit: after a restart and another devices refresh i finally got it to load the list.
+Koushik Dutta one other dumb question that might have been asked/answered before, but will this be able to backup sms messages? I would love you forever if it did! :)
Love the changing grid size. Awesome addition.
Does anyone know where on the SD Card these backups are stored?
+Koushik Dutta any chance of backup to FTP/SFTP?
Probably not widely used, but useful nonetheless.
When I hit "backup" and choose the service, I get a very fast window with space to enter some text... but it goes straight through to "performing backup" before I can see it. It starts with "a full backup..."
After two tries each with both Google Drive, Dropbox and then SD card, I eventually (after 1-2 min?) get the error "An error occurred while performing your app backup. A log of the error has been sent to ClockworkMod." Rebooted, didn't solve the problem.
The integration with Dropbox and Google Drive look excellent!
Is it possible to specify a custom folder for the backup in Dropbox?
Hi +Koushik Dutta When I try and back up directly to Drive it craps out after a short period, usually only half way through the first App, backing up to SD works perfectly.
+Koushik Dutta Hi Koush do you know when you are likely to have a non-root version ? I am wanting to root my phone but know that when i unlock my bootloader i'm going to lose all my info so was going to wait for a non root version of carbon before i go ahead.
+Rick Jagger He said that there would be one more beta version after this one (which expires Jan. 25th) that would be a non-root version. Just a few more days! :-)
+Koushik Dutta I can't seem to get it to backup at all. Got all my cloud drives connected (even using 2-factor on Dropbox), but when I try to backup, it brings up the ADB backup screen, that goes away, I get a Performing backup... screen, then it errors. No files get created. Doesn't matter which backup destination I use.
It says it sent logs. Is there anything else I should try?
+Koushik Dutta Ah. I am rooted, though not versed in the usage of logcat.
* Fire up terminal emulator.
* su for root
* cd /sdcard
* logcat -f carbon.txt
* switch to Carbon and try a backup
Should that work?
Very Nice! All of us NON-root people are patiently waiting, Looks great! Clean and to the point on test device.
+Koushik Dutta Hmm, this seems relevant:
W/System.err(30973): bad header
W/System.err(30973): at com.koushikdutta.backup.parser.AndroidBackupInputStream.<init>(
W/System.err(30973): at com.koushikdutta.backup.BackupServiceHelper$7.onContinue(
W/System.err(30973): at
W/System.err(30973): at com.koushikdutta.async.Continuation.start(
W/System.err(30973): at com.koushikdutta.backup.BackupRestoreService$1$
I/System.out(30973): bad header
How should I get you the whole log? (I did find logcat -c so it isn't quite so long)
This is on a Galaxy Nexus (VZW/toro) running stock 4.1.1 ROM (just rooted). At least for now. Going to install another ROM (hence trying the backup).
I've not managed to get this to work as advertised, when backing up to Drive over Wi-Fi it fails, local back up works fine, I have then flashed my phone back to stock and rooted, installed Carbon and attempted a restore, it fails every time, I did manage to get one app to restore (Angry Birds Star Wars) but it didn't actually restore it's state, any ideas.
Please add an option to sync only apps data between device.
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Disclaimer: I own nothing. Not even Zita. I just gave her a name, cause I couldn't call her the girl, or junkie, or that druggie girl, etc. Please don't sue me. I don't want to be sued, and I don't have much money as it is. Just like, twenty bucks. But if you would like to give me the rights to Nomak, I'd appreciate it very much, since nobody else seems to want him or want to do anything with him.
The blood. It tasted so sweet, so deliciously sweet. It made him almost delirious, delirious with relief. It was a faint relief the blood brought to him, cold as a dead body yet not coagulated, smooth, cooling his feverish body.
Nomak had known the dealer was vampire all along. The girl had been human, just another mortal junkie who would probably do anything for that white dust she'd been given for the right price. The drug dealer probably got a kick out of the sight of her, probably thought he was so much better than her.
The girl probably thought she was so much better than him, the tall, hooded stranger, the wreck whose face was barely visible. She probably garnered some comfort as she passed him by, sniffing her drug. He looked worse off than she did, he probably looked more desperate than she was.
Only Nomak could see them all for who they really were - they were all junkies, all addicts. They each had their own poison, their own drug they needed, they craved to the point it was painful it they didn't get it soon enough. He was the only one out of the three of them aware how pathetic they all really were.
It made him despise them even more.
Now the dealer was dead though. The victim of his own kind gone wrong. Killed so Nomak and those like him could get their fix. Now Nomak had gotten his drug, and those behind him were getting their own, all to sate the hunger, the addiction that made them burn.
The familiar sent of the female lingered, tinged with fear, and as Nomak emerged onto the street, he turned. Saw the girl, saw the fear in her wide, hazy eyes. He could tell she was high, but not too far gone to realize what he had done, what she had heard. The reaper should have had an idea she might stay, might wait to see what would happen.
Her glance, suspicion and fear and the comfort that perhaps she wasn't the lowest lowlife there all mingled in her glance, it should have told him. It should have been clear he might have an audience, but he was caught by surprise, seeing her there, half out of it from the drug, half out of it from the fear.
Milky blue eyes, surrounded by thick streaks of blood and thin streaks of white, narrowed, grew cold with hate. Teeth were bared in a snarl, the fire casting shadows on Nomak's already twisted visage, rage surging in the barely cooled veins with blood that had already been starting to boil from his feverish temperature.
Zita had gotten bad vibes from the man the moment she'd glimpsed him, forcing herself not to stare in wary suspicion as she passed him by. She had felt chills run down her spine, even as she sniffed, inhaling and soothing her body before it could go too far into withdrawal. She'd been too afraid to get too high though, her buzz dampened by the sight of him.
She'd glanced back over her shoulder a few moments after passing him. Morbid curiosity she supposed, the kind that could get you killed, but she couldn't quite stop herself. After all, she wasn't in her right mind at the moment. She was almost euphoric in that sick sense that her body was starting to stop hurting, even while fear made her blood run cold.
Her dealer was walking towards where the man had been, only he was gone, disappearing behind the wall, and soon the dealer had as well. She had shuddered, worried. She had seen the man, glimpsed his face, seen he was worse off than she was. If she wasn't so frightened by him, she would have been comforted.
Nobody liked being a lowlife.
Something told her to run, but she stayed. Like a stupid child she stayed, waiting to see if her paranoia was well founded or if the man was just another junkie and once he had his drug, he'd leave, leave everything in peace, and in one piece.
Zita had heard the crash, the shatter of glass. She heard the scuffle, she heard shrieks, strange shrieks. She'd told herself to run, but her body wouldn't move, and she was having trouble staying coherent. The high and the fear didn't mix well, they made her nausea, made her want to run away and puke.
But she stayed put, frozen in place, and she'd watched as the man came into view again, his hood down, revealing how sick, how inhuman he looked. She started to back away as she saw him become angry, like an animal, a rabid animal on the high of a bloodlust.
Nomak watched the human female start to back up, watched her as she finally moved, her feet taking small steps backwards, away from him. He growled low in his mutated throat, now dry as before he'd fed, and then he leapt up onto the brick wall, crawling towards her, moving like a spider.
He watched her eyes widen in terror, shock, her feet moving faster, moving wider, her steps taking her farther away even as he came closer. He watched as she suddenly turned, about to scream, and he lunged. He landed before her, quickly walking up to her, one hand clamping over her mouth, the other grabbing her neck.
There was fear all around, in her eyes, in her breath as it hit his hand, in her trembling body, in her scent. It made him sick and hungry at the same time, as if he would throw up the moment he ate, but he needed to eat. There was confusion and disbelief as well, there was a silent, wordless plea, echoed in her muffled whimpers.
She reeked of fear and drugs and semen and fresh blood under warm flesh. Her heart could be heard, music to his ears, the humming of her veins calling to him, but she was warm. Not like he was, not feverish, not scalding, but she was still warm.
Nomak wanted cold. He wanted that sweet, cool blood that vampires possessed inside their bodies. He wanted to rip out her throat and drink from her, but she was warm, her blood wasn't good enough to give him any relief. Perhaps for a few seconds, but she wasn't worth it.
The girl was still trembling, still whimpering in his hands, her arms between their bodies, trying to push him away from her, but his hands only tightened roughly, and he pressed her closer. She stared up at him in wide, glassy eyed fear, even as he leaned down, sniffing her.
"Pretty little thing. Or you would be. You would be if you weren't so far gone to your drug," he whispered, his voice rough, gravelly, and his throat protested, aching and burning and telling him not to talk, but he ignored it. "That dark make-up makes you look more sickly than you are, than you are right now, anyway," he continued, his eyes looking over her face, her hair, down her body, something tugging at him.
Please don't kill me, please don't kill me. I want to live. God, if there's a God, let me live through tonight. I'll find a clinic or rehab or whatever, I'll give up this drug, just let me live. My life's nothing, it's barely a life even to me, but it's my life, and I'm not ready, I don't want to die.
Zita tried to speak, tried to plea, but she couldn't have formed the words had her mouth not been covered, so it was useless to try and form them when her fear and his hand wouldn't let them out.
He wasn't human. He couldn't be human, not after what she had witnessed. She had never believed in the supernatural, but now she was starting to, because he couldn't be human. He barely held any resemblance to a human, how could he be human, the way he looked, the way he moved?
She felt her heart race inside her chest, pounding so hard she was afraid she would die of a heart attack or her heart might even pound its way out of her chest. She barely registered his words, but once her mind made them clear to her, she whimpered, feeling her eyes moisten and burn with tears. She didn't know what he was planning, but he sounded like one of those psychos in the movies, the ones Mama always warned her about.
And she had laughed her mother off. She had promised her mother she would stay a good girl, free of drugs, away from prostitution, out of harm's way. Now look where she was.
"Please," she whimpered, barely aware she had gotten a coherent word out, though his hand muffled it, making it harder to tell she had been successful at last. She could tell her had heard her, understood her though, his hand loosen, though the one around her neck was still tight.
His hand around her throat still tight, making it hard for her to breath, especially since she was panting hard with fear, he stared down at her, eyes lowering, probably looking at what his hand had been covering, not getting that part of her studied during his first look over. His gaze made her shudder and fear the worst, but he showed no signs of acting on any sick impulses.
"Please, I won't tell anyone. I don't even know who you are. And the police would never believe me anyway," she whispered in English, her voice shaking like the last leaf on a tree in winter. Her body shook as pathetically as well, but she didn't care. She couldn't stop herself. She was just thankful she had been able to remember her English well enough.
Nomak listened to her plea, his eyes taking in what his hand had covered, and then his gaze returned to her shining eyes, wet from her terror. He tilted his head, sniffed her again. He knew she was right - he had a good idea she probably would be arrested, not listened to.
But he didn't let her go yet. He studied her, took her in. Part of him wanted to know how she worked, what made her the way she was. Why had she let herself become dependant on such a harmful substance, why had she let herself sink to this level? He wanted to understand, he wanted to comprehend her.
"We're so different, yet so alike," he murmured, leaning down and sniffing her neck. He felt her stiffen, whimper. He looked up, saw her eyes were clenched, tiny droplets of water trickling from each eye. He snarled and shoved her on the ground, panting hard with anger. He stared down at her in contempt, then looked away, motioning with his hand for her to leave.
"I won't follow you. None of the other will either," he assured her as he stared up at the sky, unable to look at her, look at her fear of him. "Just get up and run, and don't look back," he instructed, and he heard her scramble away and up, panting and whimpering and nearly crying from relief and lingering fear.
He didn't watch her as she ran past him, ran as fast as he imagined she could, leaving him, leaving the dead drug dealer, leaving Nomak in his confusion and his hunger and his ache.
Zita did as the man had told her, not questioning, just running. She never looked back, no curiosity in her body, only fear and the desperate need to get away. She prayed to the God her mother had worshipped that she wouldn't be followed, that he would keep his word.
She ran until her body hurt, giving out with exhaustion as she reached her shabby home, falling to her knees in front of the rundown complex. She panting and cried, her whole body aching as her fear induced adrenaline left her, leaving her weak and drained.
There were a million questions in her head, so much confusion, but she didn't think on it. She couldn't. She couldn't think about him, about what had happened. She couldn't think about the way he'd held her and looked at her and spoken to her, sending chills through her body, making her want to cry and puke and run and scream.
Whatever ever reason had led him to let her go, she was thankful for it. But she wasn't going to try and figure it out. She was lucky to be alive. She had been heard, she had been spared. Maybe this was her second chance. Maybe now she could finally get the courage and strength to quit, to stop, to get herself some help.
The sound of someone approaching made her tense, head jerking up and wide eyes looking to see if he had lied to her. But she saw it was only a normal looking man, human and coming towards her with a concerned expression.
"Are you well?" the man asked in her native tongue, and Zita nodded, sagging with relief as he came towards her, kneeling down. He looked her ever, noticing the bruising on her neck. "Were you attacked?" he asked, and she shook her head.
It was an obvious lie, but one she had to tell.
The man didn't believe her, she knew, but he didn't press her with anymore questions. He examined her neck, told her he was a doctor who came into that area. He was a good Samaritan she supposed. Until his eyes changed, until he bared his teeth, until he lunged for her neck.
She screamed, struggling to get away but she was weak, tired, drained, drugged, and his was inhumanly strong, almost as strong as the other being. She whimpered and screamed for help, help that would never come, not in that part of the city. She closed her eyes, praying it would be quick, and then she heard him grunt, felt him being yanked away.
Zita opened her eyes, fear and confusion in them, and she saw the man on the ground, and she saw, she saw him standing over the vampire, then he was down on him, feeding on the vampire like some sick form of poetic justice.
Nomak drank from the vampire, drank hungrily, eagerly. He had never intended to follow, he had never intended to be near that wretched girl again, but he'd caught the scent of the vampire. His hunger had won out over his disgust with the girl.
He was thankful he had gotten over his disgust and contempt though. He was thankful he had followed, arriving there before the vampire had left, in time to yank him off the girl and drink his fill. He ignored her, his entire being focused on feeding, on finding relief of his own. He felt the last of the vampire's blood enter his system, leaving the vampire dry and dead, already starting to turn.
With disappointment that all the relief he could get had already been gotten, Nomak removed his face from the vampire's neck, letting his mouth close up before he turned, facing the girl. He stood up, towering over her again, but she stared up at him with more confusion than fear right now.
Despite himself, he returned the confused look. He stared back at her, wondering why he hadn't done the smart thing and waited for the vampire to feed on her, possibly turning her. Perhaps he didn't want to take the chance her warmth would warm the vampire enough to spoil Nomak's brief reprieve from the fever in his body. Still, it didn't make sense.
It wasn't like he cared. Nomak didn't possess the capacity to care. He hated her. He felt contempt and disgust for her, for her fear and her whimpering body and the way she found him repulsive and the way he wanted to sniff her and find out what drove her.
"Get inside," he ordered, wiping the blood from his mouth. "Get inside and get to your apartment, and don't come out till sunrise," he told her, speaking without really understanding his words and his motivations.
The girl nodded and hurriedly rose, moving towards the door. But then she came towards him, looking at the vampire and then at him, and through her fear and her confusion, she muttered a thank you in her native language, and then she ran inside. Her words lingered long after she had disappeared into the building.
Nomak stared at the door, hearing nothing but her thank you, her words that made him feel like maybe he wasn't a lowlife himself. He stayed still for several moments, then walked away, knowing the vampire would be fully turned in moments, following him, like all the others. Desperate for blood, like him and all the others. He didn't wait around though, he didn't pay attention to the others as they came to him, hungry, mindless, vampiric zombies.
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Disclaimer: Joss Whedon owns BTVS. Panzer/Davis owns Highlander. I'm not making any profit off of this so please don't sue me.
Spoilers: None for BTVS. As for Highlander, that whole thing with Methos's rebellious youth, I'm sorry I don't know the season (Episode: Comes a Horseman?).
Death rode on horseback and knew no mercy. Truly it was a glorious ride; he and his brothers laid waste to everything that crossed their path. Want. Take. Have. That was the rule they lived by. The power of life and death rested in their hands, they were gods. No one would dare say different.
As the four horsemen approached their encampment Methos felt a knot form in his stomach. "Brothers we have done well on this day. What say we celebrate in my tent with mead?"
"Uh brother, a generous offer indeed, but it has been a long ride and we wish to rest." Kronos said not quite looking at him. Methos noticed that Silas and Caspian were doing the same.
"Ah it is of no consequence, another time then." Methos weakly excused them.
Slaves and servants appeared to relieve them of their many burdens. Methos walked in the direction of his quarters but stopped short when he saw her. Anya stood in front of the open flap of his tent waiting for him. She did not look happy. He paled as he followed her inside. Steeling himself, Death prepared to deal with one incredibly pissed off wife.
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Hello all! 10,000 Fists here, and I am new on this scene! That's right! We have yet another over-educated, American live-in. I am a male, 20's-ish, college boy residing in the North-East of these United States (Go America!). Got two stories up, and I should have more, but I am only on the first chapters of those, so I am putting them all into a single work, called, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Plot'. No idea when that will be up, though.
Pet Peeves:
1. Mary Sues- Can't stand these people. I have always valued the under powered, Under dogs more than any superhero, because without the protagonist being weaker than the antagonist there is no serious conflict. There are, however, exceptions to this rule. The Doctor, Superman, and Batman, are such exceptions because they all have glaring weaknesses. The Doctor's compassion for Human-kind is employed against him time and again, Superman has kryptonite (obvious), and Batman is mortal, and has to suffer all kinds of debilitating injuries over the course of his career.
2. Any Fanfic whose summary has a rhetorical question followed by an answer followed by the words, 'Of Course!'- Because every single other person on the planet would make your particular jump of logic because, lets face it, we are all thinking the exact same thing (sarcasm). Or if it's so obvious that one has to include 'Of Course' in the description, then it should be obvious enough not to have to point it out in the first place. Ergo, the only purposes your statement serves are to concrete your (the writer's) opinion about where you want the story to head, and to serve as a warning as sure as any sign of 'Yaoi' of EXACTLY where it is you intend to put that story.
3. Stories that Dissapoint- With these stories, you find yourself thinking that 'This one has it all! The Romance, the Action, the Humor, the Plot, the character development. There is nothing that this story can do wrong.' And then they do. Oh, it doesn't have to be something enormous (like someone declaring love for someone else out of nowhere, the sudden appearance of dead people/Mary Sues, or even God himself (or some godlike figure) coming down and helping out the character), it can be a small thing (deliberately going against where you said the story was going, contradicting something earlier that was stated as fact, etc). But then the mistakes start to snowball. The character is figuring things out as a plot device (SASUKE!), inconsistent character development, now the vocabulary is off, now the spelling is! It's like someone else is writing this story! Then you get to the end, because you were 3/4 of the way through, of course you were going to finish, and all you feel is discontent. You wish you never started that story, because it got your hopes up in the beginning, then crashed them into the ground, making it hurt all the more than if it were just trash to be avoided all along.
4. Lazy Protagonists- You'll find this a lot in stories, particularly in the beginning of them. The lazy doesn't necessarily mean that the character is Sloth, but that they don't realize their potential. Harry Potter, for instance, casts, consistently, a grand total of less than 15 spells. Before he graduated school, his father was a master of transfiguration who, along with all of his friends, learned to be animagi. His mother was extremely gifted with charms. Dumbledore was being hailed as one of the greatest up and coming wizards of all time, as was Riddle who was also laying the foundation for his future dark empire. Even Draco Malfoy masters legillimency before his sixth year. But Harry is content to wait and let the Dark Lord find him. This would be fine when he was a child and he didn't know the danger, but after second year, and fourth year at a stretch, he should have gotten more on top of his game, not to mention after fifth year. I imagine a conversation between Ron and a serious harry going like this. "Hey Harry, me and the team are heading down to the quidditch pitch for a game, and then over to the Three Broomsticks for a pint of Butter Beer. D'you wanna come?" and Harry says. "No thanks. I'm studying up on how to alter spells to track heat. It should give me an advantage over those Death Munchers." "But Harry" Ron says, "You study all the time! How about a quick game?" "No Ron, I have to study now, so that I live when an evil Wizard pops up and tries to murder my face...again...like they do every year." Get on the ball.
What makes a Good Fanfiction?
What is it that makes a fanfic noteworthy, or worthy to be praised? That make us read on in awe, or cry in joy or shed tears of sorrow?
We should divide this undertaking into parts, if we try to piece together the entire portrait at the same time, this endeavor is doomed to failure.
1. What makes a good beginning?
-A good beginning starts with a good series, or the foundation imparted onto you by the author previous. It is from here that we can make (an) adjustments.
-Another thing that makes a good beginning is a simple/small change. This is nowhere more evident than in stories like 'Forging the Sword', 'Prince of the Dark Kingdom', and 'Better Left Unsaid'. In all three stories, the author makes a small change that completely redesigns the entire series, most notably the main character around which the fanfic develops.
2. What makes a good plot?
-A good plot first establishes the setting (Main Character(s), area, and normal routine for the characters)
-It then should be centered around conflict. Not neccesarily battles and explosions(although I believe violent conflict is integral to any truly great story), but any kind of conflict. Romantic, Violent, Environmental(not eco-friendly, but when the main character is lost adrift in a foreign land, and must adapt to the rules/customs of this new place), etc, etc, are all valid forms of conflict. Be sure to be liberal with the conflict that you impose upon your main character.
3. What makes a good ending?
-The climax of your story brings everything that happened over the course of your story to bear. It can end in one almighty clash between the Hero and their Arch-Nemesis, a confession of love between characters, the birth of a child, or any one of a hundred different ways. The thing to keep in mind is that this is where the conflict reaches it's highest point, and thus should be suitably epic or awe inspiring. This part should bring the readers to the edge of their seats as they read, barely daring to hope for a fruitful conclusion.
-The conclusion is where the story gets wrapped up, and all the extraneous tangled pieces of the story form a single remarkable whole. That is, unless you're planning on a sequel, in which case leave a fair number of issues unresolved so you actually have something to write about(the best series for leaving an appropriate number of issues unresloved is the Dresden Files). You have the villain defeated, the girl rescued, and the friends are alive. That is if you are going for the single story route. If you want a sequel. Kill off a friend or two, let the villain escape despite all the sacrifices the hero makes to prevent it, and make it so that the girl is so traumatized that she cannot ever go back to the life she once lived.
Why I hate Road to Ninja
This movie generated a lot of hype over the course of the past year or so due to the extreme attraction to the idea of an alternate Naruto reality. The questions were boundless. What would it be like? What is different? Who will be Hokage? What changes have been made in the history that would result in this new place? So many questions, many of them about the new personalities of the main characters that started appearing on the web. This movie looked like it was going to be really good!
So how was it? Terrible, absolutely terrible.
And here is why.
1. No Plot: There wasn't a plot in this movie. I know that seems ridiculous, but there wasn't. The original thing that makes the plot seem seem interesting was that Akatsuki were back and Alive, but that was never explained, and turns out is irrelevant, as in the other world they seem to actually just be mercenaries, which opens up a whole can of worms, like 'Why would Itachi be there?' or 'If Itachi is there, then doesn't that mean he killed his clan and is a wanted felon?' and 'If Itachi is a wanted felon, then what is the Hokage doing hiring him and his team later on in this picture?'. There was a McGuffin scroll that was supposed to solve the worlds problems that Naruto has to get but it isn't actually too important. The fact that all of Naruto's friends are radically different takes up all of one scene. Honestly. One scene. They might as well not even have been in the feature. Then there was Naruto's parents, who were in there for a quite a bit as Naruto reforms all of the attachments that he knows he will have to break as soon as leaves this parallel reality. This brings up a huge question, but we will save that for the next point.
2. Terrible Characterization: Honestly, no Naruto characters are actually done well. But the ones in the movie are especially bad. Starting with Sakura, she is a horribly selfish person. When they get to the alternate reality, she is actually hapy that she gets to take a brief vacation from her clinging, embarrassing parents. What she doesn't consider, is that Naruto is an orphan, who has for his entire life dreamed of living simply with parents that loved him, and he knows that now that he has it in this parallel reality, he is going to have to give it all up to go home, or forsake his duties to have his childhood dream. But nope, she just wants a vacation, and chides Naruto for being unhappy. Then there are all of Naruto's friends, but the biggest mystery of those is Sasuke. See, all of the others have a single difference, or a reflection, either physically or emotionally, some aspect of their personality that is the opposite of what it was in the other reality. Tsunade has small breasts, Hinata is confident, Shino hates bugs, Kiba is a cat person, Ino is shy, you get the idea. Sasuke is a ladies man. So what does that reflect back to? He isn't overt back in Canon-verse? Or that he doesn't like women? There are a few things it could mean, but none of them reflect well upon any future pairings with Sasuke. The most screwed up thing, is Naruto's parents. Naruto is named Menma in that reality, and the reflected version of him is evil, so one assumes that that was the different character trait. So if Menma was evil, why do his parents immediately think that he is just like their son? That they wouldn't recognize their son's personality to the point that they would recognize someone with the complete opposite personality but the same face put's the parents innatentiveness to their son at such a level that it isn't a surprise that he went evil. And here is something else. If reflected Naruto, Menma, was also a jiinchuriki, did Naruto's parents offer him to the Hokage as the tribute for being a container, or did Sakura's parents order them to give up their child?
3. Setting: Aside from Alternate Reality, what do we know about the world? Next to nothing. We don't know what is going on in the world at large, we don't know the history, and we don't know the characters. The characters were griped about above, but the situation in the world at large is never mentioned. Are they at war? Is it peacetime? What is going on with the villages? We don't know, never explained or mentioned. The history? Oh, by the way, Sakura's parents are dead and her dad was the fourth Hokage. So if he was, then he must have been profitable and powerful, or at least profitable enough to get a better house than an apartment right off a main street. Or why is Naruto's dad, whom was at the same skill level that he was in the other world, not the fifth Hokage? If there was a person who was young, and a candidate for Fourth Hokage, and the Fourth was dead from whatever, why not put him in charge?
If you have anything else to add, or to subtract, from the above statements, PM me, and we can discuss it at length.
Why Naru/Hina is so Awesome
Many people may gawk at the non-sequitorness of the statement above. Others may shake their head in disagreement, wondering why they are even still reading the rambling of a naive mind hopelessly clinging to some perfect imaginary world. Others still might shrug it off, say they have nothing better to do all the while remembering that people also put on their profiles their politcal standing on such fabulous issues like abortion (true story). For the few out there who are actually mildly interested in what I have to say, THIS IS FOR YOU!!!
1. Comparison of the Underdogs- Normally someone would put up for their first reason that they would only be inclined to pull for a Naru/Hina because they want to root for the Underdog. In this sense, Hinata is the Underdog in her quest to get Naruto. But I respond, "Isn't Naruto also an Underdog in his quest to win the affection of Sakura?" Naruto is nearly constantly put down by Sakura in favor of Sasuke in Part 1 (when they are both still 12-13). In part 2, the only two times to my knowledge when Sakura was being nice directly to Naruto was first, after she had hit his exhausted self upon returning from defeating Pein and thus saving the ENTIRE VILLAGE, and second, when she was pretending to confess her love to him. I call those long odds to win her affections. So now no matter which Underdog I back, I still am putting the other down (no pun intended). Thus I must analyze the reasons behind the quest to win others affections. Hinata wants to get with Naruto because she admires his strength, his confidence, and because she feels that if he believes in her, than she could do anything. Naruto wants to win Sakura's affection because she is attractive, and... also because... no, I got nothing. He just wants an attractive girl. In the entirety of the manga, the show, and the movies, I cannot recall Naruto at any point confessing exactly what it is that he finds attractive about Sakura that is not a physical characteristic. He confesses to others (Shizuka in the Adventures at Sea Arc) that he loves Sakura, but never explains why. Given the reasons presented before me, I cannot in good conscience allow Naruto to be with Sakura for only that shallow of a reason. So, NARU/HINA
2. Comparison of Hinata and Sakura- In the anime, the are literaly dozens of potential pairings. If we narrow it down to the three people most likely to end up with Naruto, it comes down to Hinata, Sakura, and Sasuke (I am loathe to put in this option, but honestly, if he thinks about Sasuke as much as he does in canon, it's either not healthy or sexual). Ignoring the Sasuke option we then have Sakura and Hinata. Let's take a look at how they act towards Naruto. Hinata most oftens faints, but she also tried to defend him from Pein while confessing her feelings towards him, and nearly died doing so. Now lets look at Sakura. I have yet to see an episode in the entire series where Sakura has abstained from beating Naruto in a brutal fashion. She also constantly puts him down, refers to him off-handedly as a moron/idiot/fool/baka and at one point boldly lies to him in order to get him to stop going after Sasuke. Now lets examine how they act towards others. Hinata acts passively, holds back her thoughts about others all the time, is timid/ shy in conversation, she cringes when people insult her (she seems to fold in on herself I think the phrase is), and she has little to no self worth, immediately jumping into the line of fire to save Naruto (twice) and accepts what people tell her about herself as truth (i.e., Neji insults her, and she thinks she is worthless while naruto puts faith in her and she thinks she is strong). Sakura is violent and rude towards everyone immediately around her (Sai, Naruto, Ino) with the exception of people she would actually get in trouble for yelling at or hiiting, and with the exception of people she hasn't had an opportunity to be rude to yet. When in battle, Sakura used to doubt herself through Part 1. Then she got her act together, managed to become superstrong, and ... still doubts herself too much to actually make any significant change through Part 2. She doesn't manage to fight Sasuke seriously at any time, but she saved the "Battle Paint" wearing puppeteer. Way to go. So we have an adoring, strong, shy, selfless character, and a rude, brusqe, useless character, who are both attractive and potential pairings. So, NARU/HINA
3. Emotional Support in the Relationship- In a proper relationship, the parties involved need to support each other, both physically and emotionally and physically during moments of significant stress. Let's examine those moments. Sakura in Part 1 doesn't really get into moments of significant stress while Naruto is awake except for when Sasuke has left her and then Naruto does support her and promise to bring back Sasuke. Hinata's moment of doubt is when she is about to face her cousin, and Naruto tells her that she can kick his ass, moralizing her. When Naruto doubts himself in his upcoming fight against Neji, it is Hinata who tells him he can do it. So Naruto is there for people, and Hinata is there for Naruto. In Part 2, there are few parts of duress where the characters need encouragement, so what are the little things in part 1 and 2 that show support. Saying someone looks pretty? Being there for someone when they need a friend? A jar of healing salve when they are hurt? All of the above. So part 1, when Naruto was hurt, Hinata gave him some healing salve for his wounds. When Sakura was feeling down, Naruto, disguised as Sasuke, lifted her spirits. None of them were there for each other as friends, though. Never there to help take their minds off of difficult times when they needed one, so we move on to part 2. When Naruto was being impaled and captured by Pein, it was Hinata who rushed in to her own mortal peril to save him. When Sakura is in mortal peril with Sasuke, it is Kakashi, and then Naruto that saves her. When Hinata was in mortal peril with Pein, no one saved her until Pein and Naruto had both left to have their fight. Part 2 on the whole, however, is very back and forth with character development and emotional attachment, so the signals are very mixed. Because of this, I have to judge pretty much exclusively based on part 1, and in that it is pretty clear that Naruto and Hinata are the ones who give the most emotional support. So, NARU/HINA
4. Conversation with the Parents- Many times over the course of a debate over whom Naruto should fall in love with, or what should be the true main pairing, the subject of Naruto's parents come up. Mostly the subject of parents in a discussion on relationships take a turn for the Freudian, but in these cases it is what Naruto's mother says to him when they spoke on Turtle Island. The words are, paraphrased, That Naruto needs to "Find some girl like me", me in this case referring to the speaker, his mother. When this gets brought up, the question immediately becomes, what in his mother is Naruto supposed to look for in other girls. Is it her nature, or her love for Naruto? Naturally any girl that Naruto wants to settle down with should love Naruto as much as he does her, so one would assume that his mothers dying would be about something more profound. But she is talking to a child, and along side such pieces of advice as go to bed early and eat your vegetables, so we have to take the most basic lesson out of it. So she means for Naruto to find a woman who loves him. As the Sakura and Hinata confessions are both already infamous and famous, respectively, I will go ahead and pick the latter based upon it's honesty. So, NARU/HINA
Why I dislike the Mangekyo Sharingan
1. Cost/Benefit: In the show when a character attains the Mangekyo, they have to do it by killing their best friend. That's completely understandable given the nature of the much touted 'Eyes of Misery'. When the characters use the power that this enhanced sharingan provides, it causes a detrimental loss in chakra, loss in vision (ironic for a clan with a prized doujutsu), and bleeding. However, all of those are cleared up magically when the character gets the NEXT stage of it. Before there was a ratio of cost to weigh against the benefits. Power has a price and all that. But once the Eternal form is unlocked, that entire stage just gets lobbed headfirst out of a fourth story window.
2. Inconsistent powers: Now, I would be fine with most of the powers filed under the Uchiha eyes. Enhanced hand eye cooirdination, photographic memory, these are completely understandable, as both actually relate to vision in one form of another. That whole platform is tossed, however, when the next tier gets introduced. At that stage Amaterasu, Susanoo and Tsukyomi are pulled out of a hat. I understand the need to power things up to make them seem bigger, so one of these could fly. Tsukyomi is a great illusion power, and since it completely dominates a victims mind, through the eyes would probably be a good way to send such an illusion. Amaterasu? Doesn't have much to do with sight at all, but the Uchiha were supposedly preternaturally obsessed with fire, so again, it can fly. Susanoo however, has absolutely no link with the Uchiha, and therefore should not be a thing. I know mecha's and monsters are cool, but leave them to Orochimaru's experimentation's and the Puppeteers, as in people who would actually have something like them. Then in addition to this, some space/time jutsu that creates wormholes or teleports you? How is that connected in any way? Between all of these powers there is no common thread.
3. The Tsukyomi: Here was something done terribly, terribly wrong. It is a jutsu that allows one to torture a persons mind for a period of 72 hours over and over again, the laws of that reality being written by the caster. But here's what I don't get. If you have a jutsu, where you can go in and physically alter part of someone's mind in order to even make this work, why couldn't you instead simply use it to implant suggestions? Danzo Shimura could have created dozens of sleeper agents with this one jutsu alone and basically run the world, and I would have respected him greatly for it. This would cause Naruto and co to actually attempt to break the mental conditioning of whatever important plot piece was going on then, instead of just once again relating to their past and causing them to go back on their beliefs and convictions. And that would have been awesome. We had a potential Inception here, and all we got was the Cell.
4. Rinnegan: See Uchiha Logic, Chapter 1.
5. Too Many Powers: The thing that just about everyone hates about the Sharingan (that hates the sharingan that is, Down fanboys, DOWN!) is that it is too overpowered? How is it overpowered? Several reasons, most of them contained in the points 1 and 2 above, but the final reason is because there are too many powers based off of it. It's like another one gets invented every chapter. Kinda like that particularly dense kid who keeps saying 'Everything-Proof shield!' on the playground is hated by all the other kids. Honestly, I would be allright if Kishimoto could throw up his hands and say, "Fine, every MS is like a snowflake! Each one gets its own individual power in addition to the base sharingan powers." That way, Madara has his MechaZord or whatever, Sasuke has his Fire, Itachi has illusions, and Tobi has time and space with Kakashi. And everyones on a similar field. Then when any of them switches eyes, they don't have their own power they can use without limit anymore, like Sasuke can use illusions infinitely, despite never using them. Pro and con.
6. Mary Sue:People get the wrong ideas about what it is to be strong in a comic like this. Largely the crowd that think Superman is the strongest because he can lift Oklahoma into space and throw it into the sun in an act of rather reprehensible waste management would be correct. He is strong, but he also has a very large glaring weakness that allows virtually anyone to take him down. To be strong in something like this, one must have a weakness that one covers very very well. Pein is a good example with the five second delay of power usage (five seconds being a lot when people flit by so fast you barely have time to shout a shocked "Outini!"), and Itachi was another one, with his downfall being the fact he abused the hell out of himself and was practically dead. Sasuke, Madara, and Tobi, however, have no weaknesses. No fatal flaw to be taken advantage of, and thus nothing really to care about when it comes to a fight. Sure, it would be somewhat entertaining to see Cthulu use a crowd of protestors to paint the things they are protesting with various shades of red mottled grey with not but a stern glance, but you would get the sense there was no real challenge in it. "But they are antagonists, their supposed to be uber powerful!" You cry. "No" I would respond, "That's stupid. They are supposed to be more powerful than the protagonist, or even less powerful but with greater skill in how they utilize the power they do have. If they were uber powerful, then there would be no real point fighting them, as they would simply get what they want anyway." "But they are!" You cry petulantly "That way Naru(co) can learn the value of teamwork and friendship in order to defeat them!" "I've ridden this train before." I snark back condescendingly "With bosses and arch-villains where you really felt everything was on the line, you could see that they did in fact have a weakness to being hit repeatedly, and eventually fall over. Whereas we all saw what the Uchiha Sues would do when faced with the power of friendship and superior firepower. They run out of health and mana and immediately call up their giant plot device so they can escape unharmed. This is not Resident Evil, the bosses don't need 19 death scenes before actually having the decency to die so one can move on with their lives. If someone realizes that they are overmatched and that the only thing holding them there is their pride, then have that be their downfall, not some 3/14 bs that only leaves me angrier."
Challenges (or ideas that I might try to use for stories later):
You know what? I have over a hundred different story ideas that I would like to see written, so If you are interested in a good challenge with a solid grounding, PM me, and we'll talk.
Upcoming Stories
1. The Once and Future Kage: In the waste of what used to be called a field, ninja fought, bled and died. In the midst of a battle during the Third Great Shinobi War, a time displaced Naruto struggles to find his home.
2. The Emperor's Pride: Story follows retired stormtrooper and father, Sgt. Canaan Williams, as he struggles to protect his daughter from the same law that he once so brutally upheld.
3. Harry Potter: Extended Universe Edition- Harry, dies in his second year at the hands of the basilisk, only to have a menu pop up in his face and that crazy old wandmaker presiding over his life. Starting his life over Harry has to go through all of it again, and hopefully make the right choices. Elements of Final Fantasy X, Legend of Dragoon, and fantasy games ever, . Won't be added for awhile.
4. Uchiha Logic: In which the Uchiha do not possess logic.
5.It's a Mad Mad World: In which Naruto is bitten by Orochimaru and things go horribly, horribly wrong. And along comes Wade Wilson.
6. History Lesson: Post fourth Shinobi World War, Naruto encounters a menace from before the age of warring clans. The continent across the sea, led by the God-Emperor sets it's sights on the Elemental Nations once more.
Fate Section
1. A warning to all of those who are looking forward to seeing Akatsuki in all of it's glory. There will be changes made to the characters and their personalities. Seamless improvements will be made to most, if not all, characters. Many of those character that are being changed are undervalued, under utilized, and dumb. Those who are worried about Itachi being changed, don't. He's fine. The man is already the 'Ninja version of Chuck Norris' (Sage of Seals), so his awesomeness need not be improved. Kisame may be less keen on sharks. Stuff like that. But all of this is down the road a bit, so you don'worry about this for awhile.
2. There are some other crossovers involved in this fic. Some of which have to do with the bit above. Mercer will make an appearance, for instance, but not as you know him.
3. The opponents in Naruto are too narrow, constricted even. They will be diversified. It will no longer be ninja's, and people-who-don't-look-like-ninja's-but-that's-because-they-are-ninja gods/legends-and-now-no-longer-need-to-worry-about-acting-like-a-ninja-should, summons, and occasionally a biijuu. There will be zombies, robots, ancient war machines, dark gods and their heralds... as well as all of the other stuff.
4. Naruto's choice of clothing is going to be changed in this fic, for the most part. He will still enjoy the color orange, but he will no longer wear a jumpsuit of it whilst mid mission. He is now too intelligent to let such a bright color possibly hurt his ability to hide in a scenario where hiding becomes a necessity. He will also be wearing armor soon.
5. Computers and Science. While originally part of Fallout and a part of this text, it has since been removed due to the lack of actual computers and 'seal masters' or electronic experts to construct them. So I have removed Science as a skill and had it replaced. Computers will still be seen occasionally, but Naruto will need instruction on how to use one, and he will be unable to access accounts without the corresponding passwords.
6. The guidebook. Will be out and posted as a chapter as soon as I finish it. Nearly done, just need a few more sections to fill in. And when I say a few more, I mean that there is seemingly a never-ending stream of one-last-details I need to put in for it to explain everything. At the present, it will also probably end up going into the side story of this one, containing Naruto's in different Play-through's.
Breaking the Rules Section
1. This is set in the Marvel MOVIE verse. That means all the live action movies that Marvel makes are fair game... except for Howard the Duck.
2. Chakra: Naruto will continue to find more uses and different applications for this throughout the story.
3. Relative Intelligence: I have been receiving an alarming number of correspondence to the point of blatant accusation regarding Naruto's intelligence, all of which agreeing that he is moronic, or astoundingly stupid. To answer all of those concerns, here is a one sentence answer, or rebuttal, to placate you. He is not. To elaborate, he is as intelligent as most children would be in his circumstances, and perhaps then some.
4. As many fans, I have a few problems with Marvel, and in particular some of their movies (I'm not going into Howard the Duck, that should be self explanatory), and none more so than both X-men the Last Stand, and Spiderman 3. Then the Reboot of Spider-man as well kinda messes with any reasonable timeline I could make where I could say with a straight face, "Yes, all of this is happening in the Same Universe." So it should come as no surprise that I am going to change things. At some points it will be an altered detail, or an alternate person. But in the cases of aforementioned crap storms, I am going to be doing what is called an "Overhaul". For instance, I am incorporating the Amazing Spiderman at the beginning of the Spider-Man franchise (Meaning it will go Amazing, then SM 1, 2, and 3(which will be radically different)). Wondering what I will do with them? PM me, or wait around for the updates like a normal person.
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Plot... Section
1. If anyone has any ideas about taking these stories for their own, Well Don't! Or message me first with an idea of what you want to see out of the story and where you want to take it.
2. It will be ridiculous.
3. The stories that people find most attractive (ie they comment on the most) will be put up as their own free standing story provided they have enough material to do so.
Harry Potter and the Natural 20 by Sir Poley reviews
Milo, a genre-savvy D&D Wizard and Adventurer Extraordinaire is forced to attend Hogwarts, and soon finds himself plunged into a new adventure of magic, mad old Wizards, metagaming, misunderstandings, and munchkinry. Updates Mondays.
Crossover - Harry Potter & Dungeons and Dragons - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 52 - Words: 227,114 - Reviews: 3272 - Favs: 2,400 - Follows: 2,813 - Updated: 3/11 - Published: 5/7/2012
Naruto: Potential Realised by Iron Monkey Fist reviews
The old man survived the invasion and acknowledged Naruto's services to Konoha. How would the shinobi world cope with a Naruto who realises his full potential and becomes the splendid shinobi only few believed he could be?
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 24 - Words: 276,719 - Reviews: 2876 - Favs: 5,436 - Follows: 5,649 - Updated: 2/23 - Published: 6/24/2011 - Naruto U.
Life in Konoha's ANBU by Shezza reviews
ANBU!Naruto. Drafted into ANBU at a young age, Naruto works under the Third Hokage as his aide. He will need to steel his resolve and use his abilities to defend the Village and protect the Hokage to the best of his abilities. Meanwhile, the drums of war beat and ancient enemies begin to return. The Fourth Great Shinobi War looms...
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 42 - Words: 301,150 - Reviews: 3376 - Favs: 3,811 - Follows: 3,615 - Updated: 2/23 - Published: 4/1/2012 - Naruto U., Hiruzen S.
Prince of the Dark Kingdom by Mizuni-sama reviews
Ten years ago, Voldemort created his kingdom. Now a confused young wizard stumbles into it, and carves out a destiny. AU. Nondark Harry. Mentor ok VII Ch.6 Amelon's investigation comes to him, Snape bites off more than he can chew, Enid suspects, Remus and Sirius commiserate, and Voldemort reminds Harry he's a terrible, terrible man.
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 145 - Words: 1,220,148 - Reviews: 9807 - Favs: 5,090 - Follows: 4,511 - Updated: 1/26 - Published: 9/3/2007 - Harry P., Voldemort
Once More, With Feeling by Illusor Meaneld reviews
If you could start your life over, knowing how things could turn out, what would you do differently? Cloud is offered this chance, and tries to change the future, but he quickly discovers that fate and destiny play a high stakes game.
Final Fantasy VII - Rated: T - English - Humor/Fantasy - Chapters: 43 - Words: 133,869 - Reviews: 2350 - Favs: 2,301 - Follows: 2,361 - Updated: 1/16 - Published: 1/23/2009 - Cloud S., Sephiroth
Better Left Unsaid by Kenchi618 reviews
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 63 - Words: 815,937 - Reviews: 6151 - Favs: 5,962 - Follows: 5,179 - Updated: 1/14 - Published: 12/14/2010 - Naruto U.
Swapping The Cage by Rathanel reviews
Konoha wakes up one morning to find that the Naruto they knew is gone. But the replacement claims he's Naruto too, and they can't be that different... right?
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 17 - Words: 145,475 - Reviews: 921 - Favs: 1,583 - Follows: 1,511 - Updated: 1/5 - Published: 2/13/2012 - Kyuubi/Kurama
Time MixUp by Lucillia reviews
Four different people from four different time-lines travel to the past for various reasons, and end up in the same time-line upon which they wreak havoc. Follow the adventures of the "time traveling" Naruto, Kakashi, Jiraiya, and Tenzo.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 33 - Words: 84,009 - Reviews: 1920 - Favs: 3,157 - Follows: 2,977 - Updated: 12/22/2013 - Published: 11/7/2009 - Naruto U., Kakashi H., Jiraiya, Yamato - Complete
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Less Wrong reviews
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 101 - Words: 561,086 - Reviews: 23622 - Favs: 13,189 - Follows: 12,092 - Updated: 12/11/2013 - Published: 2/28/2010 - Harry P., Hermione G.
On the Way to Greatness by mira mirth reviews
As per the Hat's decision, Harry gets Sorted into Slytherin upon his arrival in Hogwarts - and suddenly, the future isn't what it used to be. Spoilers for all books.
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 19 - Words: 205,384 - Reviews: 2712 - Favs: 6,141 - Follows: 6,987 - Updated: 11/26/2013 - Published: 12/26/2008 - Harry P.
Wand and Shield by Morta's Priest reviews
The world is breaking; war and technology are pushing on the edge of the unbelievable, and S.H.I.E.L.D. desperately attempts to keep the peace. The soldier and the scientist are not the only lights that push back against the darkness, however; magic will encompass the world again as the last wizard makes himself known.
Crossover - Harry Potter & Avengers - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 30 - Words: 230,603 - Reviews: 5411 - Favs: 8,101 - Follows: 9,416 - Updated: 11/19/2013 - Published: 6/2/2012 - Harry P.
Forging the Sword by Myst Shadow reviews
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 13 - Words: 125,793 - Reviews: 2357 - Favs: 4,886 - Follows: 6,036 - Updated: 10/31/2013 - Published: 5/26/2007 - Harry P.
Stop The Future by DarkMasterStarr reviews
Powerful Naruto, AU, Time Travel Fic. In order to write the future, one must rewrite their past. Naruto travels back in time to fix the mistakes he has made. Along the way, however, he finds things aren't as easy as he thinks and everything cannot be fixed. Pairings will be disclosed soon enough. Rewrite in the works soon. Read profile for more details.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Adventure - Chapters: 29 - Words: 236,574 - Reviews: 431 - Favs: 1,122 - Follows: 1,200 - Updated: 10/23/2013 - Published: 7/17/2011 - Naruto U.
Naruto: Ramen Days by Rathanel reviews
After dying at the end of the Sand-Sound Invasion, Naruto finds that his life is governed by a strange set of rules that he is still trying to figure out. VideoGame!Naruto
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 14 - Words: 122,571 - Reviews: 1662 - Favs: 3,422 - Follows: 3,616 - Updated: 10/20/2013 - Published: 2/9/2012 - Naruto U.
Nothing but Trouble by Mister Cynical reviews
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 33 - Words: 97,299 - Reviews: 1853 - Favs: 3,040 - Follows: 2,791 - Updated: 9/7/2013 - Published: 4/17/2009 - Naruto U. - Complete
Team 8 by S'TarKan reviews
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 22 - Words: 255,693 - Reviews: 12708 - Favs: 14,480 - Follows: 11,995 - Updated: 9/6/2013 - Published: 1/1/2006 - Naruto U., Hinata H.
Little wooden men by Writing bunny reviews
Naruto gets adopted at an early age. How far can he get with somebody actually supporting him? And how will he influence the Elemental nations? Rating for language.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 63 - Words: 335,255 - Reviews: 1107 - Favs: 1,705 - Follows: 1,697 - Updated: 8/8/2013 - Published: 2/13/2010 - Naruto U., Hana I., Yamato
The World's Greatest Chunin Exam Team by Dane Namor reviews
Set a year after the war. Naruto, frustrated at being told he's going to have to miss out on another Chunin exam due to no available teams, seeks to solve the problem himself. The story of an S-Class Ninja forming an equally ridiculous team to compete against Genin. [Some NaruHina] (Complete)
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 3 - Words: 61,419 - Reviews: 143 - Favs: 504 - Follows: 178 - Updated: 5/18/2013 - Published: 5/6/2013 - Naruto U., Hinata H. - Complete
First Try: Team Tetsuo by Lucillia reviews
Kakashi was a bit late to fill out a bit of paperwork, and Tetsuo manages to keep Naruto as his student and gain that year's Rookie of the Year and Top Kunoichi. With what he sees as a potential dream team, or at least one that won't drag Naruto down, he decides to prepare them for the Winter Chunin Exams that are coming up in two months. Diverges from First Try Chapter 11.
Naruto - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 36 - Words: 81,186 - Reviews: 1118 - Favs: 1,512 - Follows: 1,710 - Updated: 5/10/2013 - Published: 6/29/2012 - Naruto U., Sasuke U., Sakura H.
Naruto: Game of the Year Edition by Majin Hentai X reviews
When Naruto was killed, he was expecting a lot of things. What he wasn't expecting, was to find out that his entire life is a video game. Trapped in an endless cycle of death and rebirth, Naruto can only wonder: Why is this happening? Who caused this? And how do I get out of the Game Of The Year? Naru X Harem. Based off of Chibi-Reaper's Naruto The Videogame, with his permission.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Adventure/Parody - Chapters: 21 - Words: 208,449 - Reviews: 2375 - Favs: 4,363 - Follows: 4,321 - Updated: 5/5/2013 - Published: 1/27/2009 - Naruto U.
Patriot's Dawn by The Pro reviews
Uzumaki Naruto was born to be a shinobi. He was supposed to be a killer; a protector of unparalleled skill. His lineage and the demon in his gut ensured that. In canon, his growth was stunted. In here, he had a reason to be strong. He has to survive. AU.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 17 - Words: 150,793 - Reviews: 1945 - Favs: 4,269 - Follows: 4,279 - Updated: 3/25/2013 - Published: 10/31/2010 - Naruto U.
Escape from the Hokage's Hat by anothvortex reviews
My attempt at Perfect Lionheart's MH challenge. After recapturing Sasuke, Naruto is forced out of Konoha. However, he takes along some unexpected allies for the ride! First submission, and counting! Now NarutoxHinata!
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 43 - Words: 371,546 - Reviews: 2751 - Favs: 3,203 - Follows: 3,050 - Updated: 11/25/2012 - Published: 4/13/2009 - Naruto U., Hinata H.
Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past by S'TarKan reviews
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 39 - Words: 390,734 - Reviews: 11997 - Favs: 14,183 - Follows: 12,843 - Updated: 10/19/2012 - Published: 10/28/2005 - Harry P., Ginny W.
Connecting the Dots by Afalstein reviews
"Bruce, tell me again why this arm is so important." "Because it came from another dimension." A desperate move by Kakashi sends the rookies into another dimension, revealing a world crisis for both the Justice League and the Teen Titans. BONUS CHAPTER UP
Crossover - Naruto & Justice League - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Friendship - Chapters: 33 - Words: 329,584 - Reviews: 1460 - Favs: 1,621 - Follows: 882 - Updated: 4/30/2012 - Published: 2/11/2010 - Naruto U., Hinata H., Clark K./Kal-El/Superman, Bruce W./Batman - Complete
Sexplosion by Meinos Kaen reviews
As we all know, when the Yondaime sealed the Kyuubi, Konoha should have gotten away from it without any more collateral damage than what it had already incurred in, but... Demons are a malicious bunch. Adopted from Legendary Legacy.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 10 - Words: 81,826 - Reviews: 374 - Favs: 970 - Follows: 883 - Updated: 1/22/2012 - Published: 12/12/2010 - Naruto U., Ayame
No Limits by Meinos Kaen reviews
In the aftermath of the Superhuman Civil War, Naruto finds himself in a spiral composed of his own problems, the still setting new order of the superhuman community and of course new enemies, challenges and troubles waiting for him. Sequel to No Reading
Crossover - Marvel & Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10,546 - Reviews: 89 - Favs: 339 - Follows: 337 - Published: 1/2/2012
The Chronicles of Harry Holmes by ZenoNoKyuubi reviews
What if the Dursleys gave Harry the Sherlock Holmes books when he was a child to make sure he knew that there was no such thing as magic? What if he did everything to become just like Holmes? May seem rushed, but more coming. Sequel in the making!
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 19 - Words: 112,160 - Reviews: 1119 - Favs: 2,174 - Follows: 1,034 - Updated: 11/8/2011 - Published: 10/23/2011 - Harry P., Neville L. - Complete
The Denarian Apocalpyse by Shezza reviews
Fourth Book in the Denarian Series: Harry Potter. Albus Dumbledore. Lord Voldemort. The machinations and plots of these three wizards have had unseen consequences that are, now, only just beginning to catch up to the Wizarding World. They are coming...
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 9,780 - Reviews: 239 - Favs: 744 - Follows: 730 - Updated: 7/30/2011 - Published: 7/16/2011 - Harry P., Albus D.
Who I Am by TwinTrouble reviews
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Friendship - Chapters: 16 - Words: 113,164 - Reviews: 2032 - Favs: 3,140 - Follows: 3,103 - Updated: 1/10/2011 - Published: 2/13/2009 - Naruto U., Sasuke U.
The Fifth Act by Sinnatious reviews
Cloud has an accident with a Time materia. There are people to save, and for that, some people need to die.
Final Fantasy VII - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 38 - Words: 169,887 - Reviews: 2435 - Favs: 3,213 - Follows: 903 - Updated: 9/15/2010 - Published: 5/7/2010 - Cloud S., Sephiroth - Complete
Harry Potter and the Wastelands of Time by joe6991 reviews
Take a deep breath, count back from ten… and above all else – don't worry! It'll all be over soon. The world, that is. Yet for Harry Potter the end is just the beginning. Enemies close in on all sides, and Harry faces his greatest challenge of all - Time.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 31 - Words: 282,609 - Reviews: 2794 - Favs: 3,392 - Follows: 1,873 - Updated: 8/4/2010 - Published: 2/12/2008 - Harry P., Fleur D. - Complete
Deadly Decisions by Alrissa reviews
Haruno Sakura that actually caught a glimpse of the real world and woke up to smell the blood. Basically a 'what if' preview of what could have happened if Sakura didn't revert after the Chuunin exams. No princess to be rescued here. No pairing.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17,819 - Reviews: 121 - Favs: 556 - Follows: 235 - Published: 6/9/2010 - Sakura H. - Complete
No Reading by Meinos Kaen reviews
When dealing with things that you will no longer have in control after your death, it's always wise to have a back up plan. The one regarding Naruto had the effect of dropping him in the middle of Westchester county. COMPLETE
Crossover - Marvel & Naruto - Rated: M - English - Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 27 - Words: 243,404 - Reviews: 1250 - Favs: 1,473 - Follows: 903 - Updated: 4/17/2010 - Published: 9/5/2008 - Naruto U. - Complete
Polarity by Chris Myers reviews
When a Romero-style zombie outbreak hits, three supervillains, led by a long time loser, find themselves doing whatever it takes to save themselves, and eventually, the rest of humanity.
Spider-Man - Rated: T - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 38 - Words: 325,457 - Reviews: 193 - Favs: 396 - Follows: 114 - Updated: 1/19/2010 - Published: 6/9/2009 - Shocker, Rhino
The Denarian Lord by Shezza reviews
Lord Voldemort readies for war while Albus Dumbledore seeks peace- through any means necessary. At the same time, Harry Potter moves to eradicate the Order of Blackened Denarius. In the middle of this is the Winter Lady, whose motives remain unknown...
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 36 - Words: 245,544 - Reviews: 2137 - Favs: 2,119 - Follows: 1,114 - Updated: 12/28/2009 - Published: 6/30/2008 - Harry P. - Complete
Reload by Case13 reviews
They've been there. They've done that. And they didn't even get a shirt to prove it. Reload - because sometimes things are just as they seem to be, and at times they are even more.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 11 - Words: 153,280 - Reviews: 1223 - Favs: 2,958 - Follows: 2,171 - Updated: 9/22/2009 - Published: 4/17/2008 - Naruto U., Sasuke U.
Timely Errors by Worfe reviews
Harry Potter never had much luck, being sent to his parents’ past should have been expected. 'Complete' Time travel fic.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 13 - Words: 130,020 - Reviews: 1718 - Favs: 5,456 - Follows: 1,468 - Updated: 7/7/2009 - Published: 4/15/2008 - Harry P., James P. - Complete
Spying no Jutsu by daniel-gudman reviews
Disguised as a girl, Naruto will spy on Kage level kunoichi at the Cute Polar Bear Hot Springs Festival. On a related note, Sasuke deals with his growing attration to a mysterious new kunoichi. Also, the first ever Iruka Love Polygon. That I'm aware of.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 11 - Words: 89,511 - Reviews: 1155 - Favs: 2,714 - Follows: 1,325 - Updated: 1/11/2009 - Published: 3/24/2006 - Naruto U., Iruka U. - Complete
Tomato Soup by Case13 reviews
For shinobi, the difference between victory and defeat can stem from observing the smallest of details.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,417 - Reviews: 80 - Favs: 440 - Follows: 81 - Published: 8/12/2008 - Naruto U., Sasuke U. - Complete
The Denarian Knight by Shezza reviews
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Supernatural/Adventure - Chapters: 34 - Words: 191,276 - Reviews: 1626 - Favs: 1,909 - Follows: 834 - Updated: 6/29/2008 - Published: 10/26/2007 - Harry P. - Complete
Biohazard by Yellow Mask reviews
Complete. A dangerous disease is spreading through Konoha like wildfire, and it is a race against time to find the source...and a cure. SasuSaku, NaruHina, NejiTen, ShikaIno.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 11 - Words: 41,502 - Reviews: 751 - Favs: 1,125 - Follows: 246 - Updated: 6/26/2008 - Published: 4/18/2008 - Sakura H., Sasuke U. - Complete
The Art of the Deal by Case13 reviews
No one starts on top of the world. Bereft of his dream, or even a chance for it, Uzumaki Naruto starts his own path to the top of the world.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Adventure - Chapters: 4 - Words: 38,546 - Reviews: 1124 - Favs: 2,577 - Follows: 2,336 - Updated: 5/23/2008 - Published: 5/5/2007 - Naruto U., Anko M.
A Black Comedy by nonjon reviews
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 31 - Words: 246,320 - Reviews: 5052 - Favs: 7,955 - Follows: 2,344 - Updated: 4/7/2008 - Published: 2/18/2007 - Complete
Larceny, Lechery, and Luna Lovegood! by Rorschach's Blot reviews
It takes two thieves, a Dark Wizard, and a Tentacle Monster named Tim.
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 83 - Words: 230,739 - Reviews: 2187 - Favs: 2,138 - Follows: 828 - Updated: 4/4/2008 - Published: 7/31/2007 - Harry P., Hermione G. - Complete
Two Weeks in the Alley by BajaB reviews
13 years old, a vault full of gold, and two unsupervised weeks in Diagon Alley – What’s a boy to do? Summer before PoA AU, some adult themes.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12,075 - Reviews: 275 - Favs: 1,765 - Follows: 344 - Published: 1/26/2008 - Harry P. - Complete
The Denarian Renegade by Shezza reviews
By the age of seven, Harry Potter hated his home, his relatives and his life. However, an ancient demonic artefact has granted him the powers of a Fallen and now he will let nothing stop him in his quest for power. AU: Slight Xover with Dresden Files
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Supernatural/Adventure - Chapters: 38 - Words: 234,997 - Reviews: 1767 - Favs: 2,971 - Follows: 1,066 - Updated: 10/25/2007 - Published: 4/3/2007 - Harry P. - Complete
Learning by ashez2ashes reviews
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 3 - Words: 12,740 - Reviews: 371 - Favs: 715 - Follows: 114 - Updated: 9/13/2007 - Published: 4/6/2005 - Hinata H., Naruto U. - Complete
Altered Destinies by DobbyElfLord reviews
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Suspense - Chapters: 39 - Words: 289,078 - Reviews: 3361 - Favs: 4,870 - Follows: 1,692 - Updated: 9/1/2007 - Published: 9/15/2006 - Harry P., Tom R. Jr. - Complete
Harry gets Motivated by BajaB reviews
Harry finds a way to get motivated, really, really motivated. A super!Harry oneshot. Post HBP, AU, No DH.
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10,709 - Reviews: 273 - Favs: 1,256 - Follows: 233 - Published: 3/6/2007 - Complete
Harry Potter and the Hero's Path by TheJackOfDiamonds reviews
AU Ritually abused by the Dursley's, young Harry Potter learns to count on himself. After discovering magic at a young age, he practices to become stronger to protect those weaker than him. Full Summary inside.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 23 - Words: 201,769 - Reviews: 3335 - Favs: 3,670 - Follows: 3,622 - Updated: 12/24/2006 - Published: 3/31/2006 - Harry P.
Browncoat, Green Eyes by nonjon reviews
Crossover - Harry Potter & Firefly - Rated: M - English - Adventure - Chapters: 39 - Words: 298,538 - Reviews: 4058 - Favs: 5,110 - Follows: 1,318 - Updated: 11/12/2006 - Published: 3/23/2006 - Harry P., River - Complete
Blessed by Erised Burning reviews
A story about Harry growing up and killing things.
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Adventure/Horror - Chapters: 9 - Words: 70,600 - Reviews: 115 - Favs: 203 - Follows: 68 - Updated: 9/2/2006 - Published: 8/27/2006 - Harry P. - Complete
Prove the Pervert Wrong by KyuubiMan reviews
Jiraiya is disappointed that Naruto is still determined to retreive Sasuke, and refuses to train him unless he changes his mind. Naruto, being as hardheaded as ever, is unwilling to give up, meaning that he has to train himself.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 9 - Words: 120,055 - Reviews: 1008 - Favs: 1,602 - Follows: 1,456 - Updated: 8/30/2006 - Published: 7/5/2006 - Naruto U.
Probationary Member by Adrian Tullberg reviews
DC Superheroes - Rated: T - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16,029 - Reviews: 84 - Favs: 282 - Follows: 38 - Published: 7/23/2006 - Complete
Make A Wish by Rorschach's Blot reviews
Harry has learned the prophesy and he does not believe that a schoolboy can defeat Voldemort, so he decides that if he is going to die then he is first going to live.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 50 - Words: 187,589 - Reviews: 9112 - Favs: 10,466 - Follows: 2,836 - Updated: 6/17/2006 - Published: 3/23/2005 - Harry P. - Complete
Dimension Hopping for Beginners by nonjon reviews
COMPLETE. In the heat of the battle, he swore a blood oath to defeat Voldemort in every form. But when you factor in his understanding and abilities to travel to alternate dimensions, it presented the sort of problem only a Harry Potter could have.
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Parody/Adventure - Chapters: 10 - Words: 56,035 - Reviews: 988 - Favs: 1,964 - Follows: 569 - Updated: 3/13/2006 - Published: 3/4/2006 - Harry P. - Complete
Justice League: The Spider by Agent-G reviews
The Justice League get a new surprising member, SpiderMan from the Ultimate Marvel universe. Please R&R.
Crossover - Ultimate Marvel & Justice League - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 40 - Words: 178,385 - Reviews: 1651 - Favs: 1,131 - Follows: 274 - Updated: 2/10/2006 - Published: 9/25/2004 - Complete
Breaking the Rules reviews
Naruto uses a jutsu from the Scroll of Forbidden Seals, and gets a lot more than he bargained for! Catapulted to the Marvel Movie-Verse, can Naruto find his way back, or even survive this strange new world? Rated M for Gratuitous Violence, and eventual sensual content. Eventual Sarcastic!Naruto, Not-Dumb!Naruto.
Crossover - Marvel & Naruto - Rated: M - English - Adventure - Chapters: 9 - Words: 43,258 - Reviews: 205 - Favs: 563 - Follows: 693 - Updated: 2/12 - Published: 1/15/2013 - Naruto U.
Naruto: Fractured Fate reviews
During his battle with Sasuke at the Valley of the End, Naruto passes away only to find that his life is a video game. Intelligent!Naruto, Sarcastic!Naruto. Rated M for violence, language, and some sensual content much later on.
Crossover - Fallout & Naruto - Rated: M - English - Adventure - Chapters: 11 - Words: 86,852 - Reviews: 368 - Favs: 1,200 - Follows: 1,346 - Updated: 1/19 - Published: 11/6/2012 - Naruto U.
Turn and Turn About reviews
When going into an alternate universe, or reality, sometimes it's best to keep in mind exactly how alternate 'alternate' can be. AU of Road to Ninja. Some Graphic Content; Rated M
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Adventure - Chapters: 4 - Words: 19,776 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 34 - Follows: 36 - Published: 1/19 - Naruto U., Sakura H., Menma
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Plot reviews
Dumping ground for all of my One-shots, Plot Bunnies, and Potential Stories until they have the strength to stand on their own. Nothing is Sacred
Crossover - Naruto & Game X-overs - Rated: M - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 9 - Words: 22,810 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 13 - Follows: 8 - Updated: 12/9/2013 - Published: 7/9/2013
God of Shinobi reviews
When you reach Genin, you are the lowest of the low. When you reach Chunin, you are the average stock and file. When you reach Tokubetsu Jonin, you are respectable, if disposable. When you reach Jonin, you are considered exceptional. When you reach Kage, you are one of the mightiest beings in the land. But when they declare you a God...
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,400 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 52 - Follows: 40 - Published: 5/6/2013 - Sasuke U., Danzō S., Hiruzen S. | https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4004280/10000-Fists | dclm-gs1-200280002 | false | true | {
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's name was the reason no one realized he had a visa to enter the united states which should have set alarm bells ringing. according to this official, one letter was dropped from mr. abdulmutallab's name when an employee cross-checked his name against a government database. this happened back on november 20th. had mr. abdulmutallab's name been entered correctly, officials apparently would have seen that he was classified as a possible terrorist and then the fact that he also had a visa to enter the united states would have kicked him over into what they call a 3-b classification. a 3-b classification would have kept him from boarding the plane. one letter in his name. the fact that the failures in this case have been narrowed down to that level of detail gives you some idea of how intense the security reviews have been over the last few days. in his remarks today, president obama also vowed to redouble u.s. efforts to defeat al qaeda. >> here at home we will strengthen our defenses, but we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values
of the united states. i've never seen something like that. but i like to say that only democrats would consider themselves in the minority with 59 seats in the senate and only republicans would consider themselves the majority with 41. a sad state of affairs. >> entitlement and lack of experience. great thanks for coming it-n on the breaking mys for us. >> any time. thanks so much. >> that's "countdown" for this the 2,461st day since the previous president declared mission accomplished in iraq. one other late bit of news. bill o'reilly's lead story tonight was again bill o'reilly. i'm keith olbermann. good night. and good luck. uçb+!iok÷[!!e me to death. there's so much to learn. i just shut down. but liberty walked me through it all like, when i test at night or after i eat makes a big difference. a good diet and testing your blood sugar regularly can help you manage-even reduce-the risk of complications. that's why liberty offers a wide selection of most brand-name meters. and, all the help you need to understand your meter. if you're over 65, have diabetes and are on medicare, call no
's "washington post" detailed the extent to which the united states missteps in yemen allowed al qaeda to expand and grow there as well. this super focused 9/12 mentality that conservatives now say we need to return to also wasn't able to capture the perpetrators of 9/11. as we learned incidentally from last week's suicide bombing that killed seven cia officers in khost, afghanistan, we are still looking for osama bin laden and ayman al zawahiri. the jordanian double agent recruited by the cia was brought in to help u.s. officials find zawahiri 8 1/2 years after our super focused 9/12 mentality. the danger in these bush policies being romanticized and retroactively impud with efficacy they didn't have is gwei may put those failed policies in place again. today we heard president obama announce a new program for screening passengers coming into the united states. >> as of yesterday, the transportation security administration, or tsa, is requiring enhanced screening for passengers flying into the united states from or flying through nations on our list of state sponsors of terrorism or other count
umar farouk abdulmutallab and prevent him from boarding an airliner and entering the united states. we must be able to stop such attempts. the intelligence community has made considerable progress in developing collection capabilities, but we need to strengthen our ability to stop new tactics such as the efforts of individual suicide terrorists. the threat has evolved and we need to anticipate new kinds of attacks and improve our ability to stay ahead of them and protect america. we can and we must outthink, outwork and defeat the enemy's new ideas. the intelligence committee will do that working closely with our nation's entire national security team. the statement today from the director of national intelligence. we got, he says. during president obama's speech today, the president announced that some changes would be coming, as a result of the failure to detect the christmas day attempt. >> counter terrorism officials have reviewed and updated our terrorist watch list system, including adding more individuals to the no-fly list. while our review has found that our watch listing syst
that scott brown is the winner of the massachusetts united states senate race. again, this is an ap projection. the associated press projecting that scott brown is the winner of the massachusetts senate race to replace the late ted kennedy. again, this is an ap projection. norah o'donnell has confirmed martha coakley has called scott brown to concede the race. we're here in doyle's cafe in jamaica plains cafe. the results are not coming as a surprise to anyone who's been paying attention throughout the day. as america tries to absorb the news that democrats have lost ted kennedy's senate seat to the republican party. the next thing people are going to be doing is learning who this republican is, who has taken this seat from a democratic party that appeared remarkably complacent in terms of holding on to the seat. joining us now is editor of the boston globe. i want to thank you for coming on the show tonight, appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> let me ask you first for your reaction to the big headline. the associated press has projected scott brown as the winner. what does this
to the united states with her when she leaves. according to the state department, more than 1,000 americans have been evacuated from haiti back to the united states. in addition, 200 haitian earthquake survivors have been brought for treatment to dover air force base in delaware. and in a really significant move today, the obama administration announced that an estimated 200,000 haitians who are currently living in the united states illegally, they have been granted temporary protected status. that allows them to stay here for the next 18 months. >>> the big story on the ground in haiti appears to be the growing frustration of the lack of aid. a senior defense official telling nbc news tonight that the ineffectiveness of the police presence in haiti now is becoming a real concern. according to this unnamed official, again, speaking with nbc news, u.s. soldiers with the 82nd airborne division will be tasked with security when the situation there deteriorates. again, according to this official in his words, it's not if the situation deteriorates, but when, which itself is a harrowing choice of lan
of that bipartisanship was actually the president of the united states saying picking out easy to identify enemies, say, big banks and say we are going to go and -- go and punish the big banks because nobody likes the big banks and everybody hated the bailouts and even though we had a part in both of those things coming past, we all hate them now and i dare the republicans not to follow me. that kind of bipartisanship in here as well? >> i'm all for that. and i think that the president was also very effective in sort of using railying around the flag-type receiptic to essentially force republicans to plod along saying do we want to be second in the world in energy independence and alternate fuels. do we want to be second in china and europe? of course. nobody wants to be second. especially in this country. i thought that was very effective and i would like to see more of in a and more of the populist talks. bank bashing. that will be gold in 2010. we need to see more of that. >> clearly that's it. takeaway from last week in massachusetts is not they elected a republican, ted kennedy's seat was lost. th
road in, and one road out. united states southern command has taken control of the airport but the sheer volume of supplies coming into haiti has nearly paralyzed that air space. the other main entryway into haiti's capital is through its port. that option is also presenting problems tonight. this is what the port looked like before the earthquake. here's what it looks like today. as you can tell from this image the port is nonoperational essentially at this point. three working cranes that have all been destroyed, a main dock now partially submerged under water. the haitian government essentially unable to respond to the needs of its people. it has largely been left to the international community to at least try to help. >> after suffering so much for so long, to face this new horror must cause some to look up and ask, have we somehow been forsaken? to the people of haiti, we say, clearly, and with conviction. you will not be forsaken. you will not be forgotten. in this, your hour of greatest need, america stands with you. the world stands with you. we know that you are a
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to concede that for the first time in american history, every single vote of consequence in the united states senate will be subject to a filibuster and will take 60 votes. either get rid of the filibuster, because it's being abused in a way that it never has been before -- look at that chart -- or at least change the rules of the filibuster. or pass everything through reconciliation, where you need 51 votes and not 60. there are limitations to that, but it's not like big policies don't pass this way. that's what president bush did with his tax cuts in 2001. passed through reconciliation with 58 votes. bush's tax cuts in 2003, passed through reconciliation with 51 votes. the deficit reduction act of 2005, which reduced spending on medicaid, passed through reconciliation with 51 votes. you don't have to get 60 votes every time. and now that 60 isn't even theoretically possible, with republicans pledging to vote no always on everything, now that the mythical unicorn of the 60-seat majority is gone, it's time for democrats to choose a path forward. either quit and let the party with 41 votes con
. >> the united states is offering our full assistance to haiti and others in the region. we will be providing both civilian and military disaster relief and humanitarian assistance and our prayers are with the people who have suffered. their families and their loved ones. >> secretary clinton speaking today, president obama also released a statement saying "my thoughts and prayers go out to those who have been affected by this earthquake. we are closely monitoring the situation, and we stand ready to assist the people of haiti." we will, of course, continue to watch this story and keep you updated with new information as it comes in over the course of the next hour. >>> we turn now to the next chapter in the career of the most famous republican in america. yesterday sarah palin the former half term governor of alaska turned republican vice presidential nominee turned again announcing her latest gig is as a paid contributor to the fox news channel. the announcement was yesterday, and today she got to work. >> there is an obvious disconnect between president obama and the white house, what they
trials here in the united states. >> he wants us to believe that it's his position that anybody who attacks us here in the united states shouldn't be tried in a civilian court. so says the guy that after the first world trade center bombing in 1993, applauded the conviction of four of the planners. quote -- nearly an hour years later, the master mind of that attack was sentenced. straight from "the new york times" that day -- okay, if you want to give him further benefit of the doubt, those trials were pre-9/11. maybe after that, he decided that any terrorist wo attacks here ought to be tried in civilian courts. has nothing to do with him trying to make political hay out of this. then what accounts to his response to the federal court conviction of the coconspirator in 2006. >> it shows we have a legal system that we follow it, we respect it and it's what's missing in a lot of the parts of the world breeding terrorism. it says something remarkable at us. >> the once promising political career of the new york city mayor who has national aspirations because of his supposed credibility
that described him o'keefe as, quote, owed a debt of gratitude by the people of the united states. tonight that same james o'keefe is facing federal felony charges for aiding and abetting an attempted wiretap of a democratic senator. charges that carry up to $250 million fine and ten years in prison. the complaint alleges that mr. o'keefe waited in the new orleans office of louisiana senator mary landrieu yesterday morning. mr. o'keefe allegedly used a cell phone camera in that office to film two of his accomplices. these accomplices were dressed up as telephone repairmen. after those two fake repairmen arrived at the office, according to the complaint, they manipulated the phone system at senator landrieu's reception desk and then they at least tried to do the same thing with the office's main phone system which was located in another room in the same federal office building. the fake repairmen were joseph basil and robert flanagan. mr. flanagan the soften the acting u.s. attorney in louisiana. mr. bassel, flanagan, o'keefe and stan dai waiting in a vehicle with a device that could pick u
in the special election in massachusetts became both senate majority leader and president of the united states. i've never seen something like that. but i like to say that only democrats would consider themselves in the minority with 59 seats in the senate and only republicans would consider themselves the majority with 41. it's a sad state of affairs. >> entitlement and the lack of experience respectively >> great thanks for coming in on the breaking news. >> any time. thanks so much. >> that's "countdown" for this the 2,461st day since the previous president declared mission accomplished in iraq. one other late bit of news. bill o'reilly's lead story tonight was again bill o'reilly. i'm keith olbermann. good night. and good luck. >>> now to discuss more on the president's state of the union and that breaking possible blanch lincoln news out of arkansas, here is rachel maddow. >> thank you. we begin with breaking news out of the white house. we have learned just this evening that president obama plans to propose a spending freeze during his state of the union address on wednesday. obama administ
in jamaica plain, massachusetts, covering the united states special -- united states senate special election here. a democratic aide said this to nbc news of tonight's shocking result in the massachusetts special election. paraphrasing here. if this had been written into an episode of "the west wing," nobody would have believed it. an unheard of republican taking the seat of a beloved deceased party patriarch and monumental upset and ends up killing his signature issue, the one that was to be his legacy. too absurd. comment tonight from a democratic aide speaking to nbc news. it may be absurd. the question whether it will kill health reform tonight. this result tonight, will it kill health reform? as far as i'm concerned, it remains to be seen. it only kills health reform if democratic hopes for health reform is completely dependent on 60 votes. i'm not sure that's true. on the inside. my inner-workings a work of art. a digestive tract that should be bronzed. and an immune system so stunning... [ low growl ] my vet thinks i'm the eighth wonder of the world. [ female announcer ] introducing i
's president for about an hour and a half on saturday and then the very next day on sunday the united states shut down our embassy in yemen citing security threats. so did the brits. today the french, germans, japanese and czechs followed suit either closing embassy in that country entirely or limiting access to them. andrea mitchell reported on nightly news tonight that truck fulls of explosives are said to have gone missing somewhere inside yemen which may of course be why everything just got so suddenly shut down. we will keep you posted. while we are talking about things going wrong in important places, political instability remains the huge story of iran. a vast, growing, and powerful protest movement that has continued long beyond the summer's botched election. government crackdowns have led to mass arrests, violence, and censorship. politically speaking it is therefore incumbent upon the iranian regime to at least try to appear unfazed, unified, and gaff free in the face of this strong and growing opposition. now you can cue the inadvertently hilarious new year's related government fa
. the ones who attack us here in the united states. >> again, let's give rudy giuliani the benefit of the doubt here. he wants us to believe it's his position that anybody who attacks us here in the united states shouldn't be tried in a civilian court. so says the guy who after the first world trade center bombing in 1993 applauded the federal court convictions of four of the planners. straight from "the new york times" that day, "it should show that our legal system is the most mature legal system in the history of the world, that it works well, that that is the place to seek vindication if you feel your rights have been violated." nearly four years later the mastermind of that attack was sentenced. again, straight from "the new york times" that day. response to the sentence came quickly from city and federal officials. mayor rudolph w. giuliani said the sentencing sends a clear message to the world, the united states will vigorously prosecute and punish those who murder and maim the innocent. okay. if you want to give him even further benefit of doubt, those trials were both pre-
. massachusetts special election tomorrow to fill the seat that ted kennedy held in the united states senate for 47 years. that's our subject matter when we return. [ male announcer ] this is america. and this is our cheese. kraft singles. american cheese. only one nation could create it. and that nation is...america. a nation of dreamers, try-harders, doers. try doing this with roquefort. it's made with milk, never oil like some other slices. it is the culmination of the american dream, all wrapped up in individual slices. kraft singles. the american cheese. >>> quite frankly barack's mom had him when she was what, 18 years old? >> and married. >> i don't know about that. >> open up the antibarack obama conspiracy theory vault and you never know what you'll find. that guy for example seems to be advancing a far less popular cousin of birtherism. it's not the crackpot theory that barack obama was born in kenya or wherever. it's apparently a new crackpot theory that wherever barack obama was born, it was to an unwed mother. totally untrue of course. it says nothing about barack obama but it d
, do you believe barack obama is a citizen of the united states? ask them, do you believe the tenth amendment doesn't allow for health care of every citizen in the country? do you believe medicare and social security and medicaid is socialism? i think these questions need to be driven to them. it needs to be put to them. then as we move toward the general elections -- that's in a primary contest. i'd get those candidates out there now defining these people as to where they stand. and then secondly, in the general election, i think that driving these substantive issues, as we create jobs -- and even there, you know, i want to see republicans, what they're going to say when it comes time to cast a vote to create jobs in america. you know, when we have an emergency in this country like flood -- flooding or hurricane disasters, we consider a disaster when 15 million american bread winners don't have a job, i consider that a disaster, one that has to be responded to by the federal government. let them choose on whose side are they on. trying to get families back to work in america or tak
, maybe we do have say the 1,000th smartest people in the country is the president of the united states. maybe he's 999, maybe 993. but the sense that guy knows what he's talking about under almost all circumstances and all topics is overwhelming. and i think this is the entree into it. to what degree it changes anything, i would imagine there are -- we've already heard from some of them, there are republicans who are going, what did we do that for? you know, i'm -- you remember this, chris, better than -- as clearly as i would have, if not better. the story about when rosemary woods was supposedly the one who erased the tapes on the white house dictaphone or eight-minute gap and for some reason let "newsweek" into the white house to photograph her reach back and do something physically impossible to erase the tapes and it looked stupid and it was just a disaster because it was towards the end of the nixon presidency. leonard garment said afterwards, i don't know why we did that. everything went wrong. all we've seen off the record, on the record from the republicans after this tells yo
the largest airport police department in the united states. we are very interdisciplinary in our approach. we have randomized a number of method ol gist and counterterrorism strategies. i look forward to doing that and also returning to the university. i'm associate director for the center of risk and economic analysis of terrorist events, running the executive program, teaching, and being part of the solution to this problem of terrorism in the country instead of a political football for people that want to decide that it's not quite important enough to move forward. >> erroll southers, former tsa nominee who heads counterterrorism efforts for los angeles's airports the nation's largest aviation law enforcement agency and a man who i would appoint if i could. thank you for talking to us first. i'm sorry for what a trial this has been. thank you for your service. >> thank you, rachel. pleasure to be here. >> all right. >>> up next, haiti. the international response to haiti and a really specific piece of good news about something potentially catastrophic being done to haiti by the internation
racial gaffes and went on to become vice president of the united states alongside the clean guy. then there are those who not only survive racially charged statements but sometimes seem to have their careers thrive in part because of them. >> white men were 100% of the people who wrote the constitution, 100% of the people that signed the declaration of independence, 100% of the people who died at gettysburg and vicksburg, probably close to a is 00% of the people who died at normandy. this has been a country built basically by white folks. but if i look at the u.s. track team in the olympics and they're all black folks, i don't automatically assume it's discrimination. >> that was pat on this show last year, pat buchanan. we ran a correction on some of the factual errors made in those statements but as you can see, pat was back on the air today talking about harry reid's race problem. sometimes racially charged comments just fly under the radar. that appears to be the case with republican senator lindsay graham of south carolina. >> i have 12% unemployment in south carolina. my s
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There are two unrelated versions of ID3: ID3v1 and ID3v2.
After the creation of the MP3 standard, there appeared a problem with storing data about the file. Standalone MP3s didn't have any special method of doing this. In 1996 Eric Kemp had the idea to add a small chunk of data to the audio file, thus solving the problem. The method, now known as ID3v1, quickly became the de facto standard for storing metadata in MP3s.[2] The format was released by Damaged Cybernetics, an underground group that specialized in cracking console gaming systems. There was no identifying information for any of the ROMS, thus an ID tagging system was created to make tracking easier. Eric and associates carried this over into mp3 files. This format was used for a number of file formats unknown at that time.[citation needed]
Extended tag[edit]
The extended tag is an extra data block before an ID3v1 tag, which extends the title, artist and album fields by 60 bytes each, offers a freetext genre, a one-byte (values 0–5) speed and the start and stop time of the music in the MP3 file, e.g., for fading in. If none of the fields are used, it will be automatically omitted.
Some programs supporting ID3v1 tags can read the extended tag, but writing may leave stale values in the extended block. The extended block is not an official standard, and is only supported by few programs, not including XMMS or Winamp. The extended tag is sometimes referred to as the "enhanced" tag.
ID3v1: 128 bytes
title3030 characters of the title
artist3030 characters of the artist name
album3030 characters of the album name
year4A four-digit year
comment28[3] or 30The comment.
zero-byte[3]1If a track number is stored, this byte contains a binary 0.
track[3]1The number of the track on the album, or 0. Invalid, if previous byte is not a binary 0.
genre1Index in a list of genres, or 255
Extended tag (placed before the ID3v1 tag): 227 bytes
title6060 characters of the title
artist6060 characters of the artist name
album6060 characters of the album name
genre30A free-text field for the genre
start-time6the start of the music as mmm:ss
end-time6the end of the music as mmm:ss
In 1998, a new specification called ID3v2 was created by multiple contributors.[4] Although it bears the name ID3, its structure has virtually no similarity with ID3v1.
Textual frames are marked with an encoding byte.[5]
$00 – ISO-8859-1 (LATIN-1, Identical to ASCII for values smaller than 0x80). $01 – UCS-2 (UTF-16 encoded Unicode with BOM), in ID3v2.2 and ID3v2.3. $02 – UTF-16BE encoded Unicode without BOM, in ID3v2.4. $03 – UTF-8 encoded Unicode, in ID3v2.4.
However, mojibake is still common when using local encodings instead of Unicode. In particular, some Japanese editors are known to use Shift JIS encoding, which usually has disastrous effects: it will assuredly not work with any standard-compliant software regardless of local settings (since it is not supported by the standard), assuredly not work outside Japan (since Shift JIS has very little support outside of Japan), and will not even work on all Japanese computers even with a specifically non-compliant reader (as it is software-dependent and settings-dependent).
There are 83 types of frames declared in the ID3v2.4.0 specification,[6] and applications can also define their own types. There are standard frames for containing cover art, BPM, copyright and license, lyrics, and arbitrary text and URL data, as well as other things. There are three versions of ID3v2:
Windows Explorer and Windows Media Player cannot handle ID3v2.4 tags in any version, up to and including Windows 8 / Windows Media Player 12. Windows can understand ID3v2 up to and including version 2.3.[8][9]
ID3v2 Rating tag issue[edit]
There is a loose de facto standard for implementation of song ratings. Most apps will display 0-5 stars for any given song. How they implement that display, can vary. For instance, when rating a song in iTunes, the rating is not embedded in the tag in the music file, but is instead stored in a separate database that contains all of the iTunes metadata. Other media players can embed rating tags in music files but some software creates its own tag frame or method. As a result, a song which is rated on one media player sometimes won't display the rating when played on other software or mobile device.
However, there is a "Popularimeter" frame in the ID3v2 specification meant for this purpose. The frame is called POPM and Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player, Winamp, foobar2000, media monkey and some other software all map roughly the same ranges of 0–255 to a 0–5 stars value for display.
This chart details how windows explorer reads and writes the POPM frame:
Windows Explorer uses the following syntax: Windows Media Player 9 Series | 255 | 0 (the 0 is the play counter portion of POPM as per the ID3v2 POPM specification; it should not be confused or conflated with the PCNT frame, which is an entirely separate frame meant solely for playcounts). If an app supports granularity however, it should write 1 for one full star, and then 2-31 would be granular points under one full star. Please note that the ID string Windows uses isn't even an email address, as called for in the spec. Further, Windows Explorer/Windows Media Player up to and including Windows 7/Windows Media Player 12 (and possibly beyond) have a bug such that if you use them to rate files, any Replay Gain tags you have will be corrupted.
ID3v2 Chapters[edit]
ID3v2 Embedded Image Extension[edit]
The metadata can also contain images of the following types:[11]
$00 Other $01 32x32 pixels 'file icon' (PNG only) $02 Other file icon $03 Cover (front) $04 Cover (back) $05 Leaflet page $06 Media (e.g. label side of CD) $07 Lead artist/lead performer/soloist $08 Artist/performer $09 Conductor $0A Band/Orchestra $0B Composer $0C Lyricist/text writer $0D Recording Location $0E During recording $0F During performance $10 Movie/video screen capture $11 A bright coloured fish $12 Illustration $13 Band/artist logotype $14 Publisher/Studio logotype
ID3v2 Frame Specification (Version 2.3)[edit]
AENC Audio encryption APIC Attached picture
COMM Comments COMR Commercial frame
ENCR Encryption method registration EQUA Equalization (replaced by EQU2 in v2.4) ETCO Event timing codes
GEOB General encapsulated object GRID Group identification registration
IPLS Involved people list (replaced by TMCL and TIPL in v2.4)
LINK Linked information
MCDI Music CD identifier MLLT MPEG location lookup table
OWNE Ownership frame
PRIV Private frame PCNT Play counter POPM Popularimeter POSS Position synchronisation frame
RBUF Recommended buffer size RVAD Relative volume adjustment (replaced by RVA2 in v2.4) RVRB Reverb
SYLT Synchronized lyric/text SYTC Synchronized tempo codes
TALB Album/Movie/Show title TBPM BPM (beats per minute) TCOM Composer TCON Content type TCOP Copyright message TDAT Date (replaced by TDRC in v2.4) TDLY Playlist delay TENC Encoded by TEXT Lyricist/Text writer TFLT File type TIME Time (replaced by TDRC in v2.4) TIT1 Content group description TIT2 Title/songname/content description TIT3 Subtitle/Description refinement TKEY Initial key TLAN Language(s) TLEN Length TMED Media type TOAL Original album/movie/show title TOFN Original filename TOLY Original lyricist(s)/text writer(s) TOPE Original artist(s)/performer(s) TORY Original release year (replaced by TDOR in v2.4) TOWN File owner/licensee TPE1 Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s) TPE2 Band/orchestra/accompaniment TPE3 Conductor/performer refinement TPE4 Interpreted, remixed, or otherwise modified by TPOS Part of a set TPUB Publisher TRCK Track number/Position in set TRDA Recording dates (replaced by TDRC in v2.4) TRSN Internet radio station name TRSO Internet radio station owner TSIZ Size (deprecated in v2.4) TSRC ISRC (international standard recording code) TSSE Software/Hardware and settings used for encoding TYER Year (replaced by TDRC in v2.4) TXXX User defined text information frame
UFID Unique file identifier USER Terms of use USLT Unsynchronized lyric/text transcription
WCOM Commercial information WCOP Copyright/Legal information WOAF Official audio file webpage WOAR Official artist/performer webpage WOAS Official audio source webpage WORS Official internet radio station homepage WPAY Payment WPUB Publishers official webpage WXXX User defined URL link frame
Multiple values in v2.3 tags[edit]
The version 2.3 of the standard prescribes that some fields can contain multiple values separated by the "/" character. The fields that can contain multiple values are:
ID3v2 Frame Specification (Version 2.4 – delta respect to 2.3)[edit]
EQUA replaced by the EQU2 frame IPLS replaced by the two frames TMCL and TIPL RVAD replaced by the RVA2 frame TDAT replaced by the TDRC frame TIME replaced by the TDRC frame TORY replaced by the TDOR frame TRDA replaced by the TDRC frame TYER replaced by the TDRC frame TSIZ deprecated.
New frames
ASPI Audio seek point index EQU2 Equalisation RVA2 Relative volume adjustment SEEK Seek frame SIGN Signature frame TDEN Encoding time TDOR Original release time TDRC Recording time TDRL Release time TDTG Tagging time TIPL Involved people list TMCL Musician credits list TMOO Mood TPRO Produced notice TSOA Album sort order TSOP Performer sort order TSOT Title sort order TSST Set subtitle
Multiple values in v2.4 tags[edit]
Version 2.4 of the specification prescribes that the text fields (all the fields starting with a T except TXXX) can contain multiple values separated by a null character. The null character is the one represented by the termination code for the character encoding used.
Editing ID3 tags[edit]
Implementation in non-mp3s and alternatives[edit]
ID3 tags were designed with MP3 in mind, so they would work without problems with MP3 and MP3Pro files. However, the tagsets are an independent part of the MP3 file and should be usable elsewhere. In practice, the only other format which widely uses ID3v2 tags is AIFF, where the tag is stored inside an IFF chunk named "ID3". The same could be accomplished in WAV, but isn't. The only tagging system in wide usage for WAV is the Broadcast Wave Format, stored as a RIFF chunk. Windows media ASF files (WMA, WMV) have their own tagging formats but also support ID3 Tags embedded as attributes.[12] MP4 also allows the embedding of an ID3 tag,[13] and this is widely supported, especially in Apple's iTunes, which uses MP4 standards in its audio and video file formats. Other container-based formats use their own tagging formats. An example of this is Ogg, which uses Vorbis comments. Adding ID3 tags to these would break the container structure. Earlier versions of Winamp such as 2.xx have been proven able to add ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags to MP1 and MP2 files.
See also[edit]
1. ^ ID3 History page
2. ^ a b Practical Common Lisp, p. 335.
4. ^ ID3v2 Contributors
5. ^ id3v2-00 -
6. ^ "ID3v2.4.0 Native Frames". Retrieved 2012-12-27.
9. ^ "Microsoft support community". 11 January 2011.
11. ^ ID3 Tag Version 2.3.0
13. ^ The 'MP4' Registration Authority
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Most people don't realize that even the best photographers have a fair number of average or just plain awful shots. They are just smart enough to make sure nobody sees them.
Long ago I went to a photo workshop at the now defunct Disney Institute. It was great fun and I learned a lot. But the thing I always remember most is John Shaw saying "Edit ruthlessly. If you have an emotional attachment to a shot that really isn't great, put it in your 'images-I-have-an-emotional-attachment-to-but-wouldn't-show-anyone' file, and then DON'T show it to anyone." Then I think he added something about the difference between a pro and an amateur being that the pro knows what to hide. Maybe that was someone else - but the point is valid. Never show anyone less than your best work. That way you build a rep as a great photographer.
RatingsSo, how does Expression Media help you edit ruthlessly? First there is the rating system. Rating is as easy as clicking on the little plus marks under each image. You can rate images 1-5. Early on, I tried to go through once and throw away all obvious non-keepers. Then I'd go through them a second time and assign ratings to all the keepers. What I discovered there is that if I went through 5 times, I'd rate images differently each time. So here's my current strategy and it seems to work for me:
1. Go through all the images and rate all keepers as a 1. Here's where ruthless is important. If it's at all fuzzy in a non-artistic way, bad composition, bad facial expressions, badly exposed, etc., it's out.
2. Find all unrated images and delete them - yes, DELETE them. (If you must keep a backup of everything you have ever shot, you can put them on DVD before you start this process.)
3. Show all files and go through them again, rating all the ones you think are better than a 1 as a 2.
4. Repeat for 3, 4, and 5.
I'll proudly show all my 5s, most of my 4s, some of my 3s. But to be really honest, I seldom show anyone a 1 or a 2. I'm seriously thinking about deleting them. <g>
I almost always run up against two or three shots that are almost identical. Maybe more if taken with a burst. I try to save one vertical and one horizontal from each set. You never know what your orientation needs are going to be.
Using LightTable and the magnifierBut how to pick between them? Say I have 6 shots that are nearly identical. I'll take the first two and show them in LightTable. I'll look at them with the magnifier (shortcut m) to see if one is sharper. If one's softer focus - out it goes. If they are equally sharp, I'll turn off the magnifier and just choose the one that is more pleasing esthetically, kicking out the other. Then I take the best of those two and compare it against the third shot. You get the picture. Eventually I only have the best of the best left.
Then I can proudly show the collection from my shoot to others, and wait for one of them to say, "Wow - your camera really takes good pictures." I tell them that I send it out every morning and see what it comes back with. I think I got that from John Shaw, too. | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/xmediasupport/archive/2007/10/29/edit-ruthlessly.aspx | dclm-gs1-200470002 | false | false | {
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Cheondoist flag.PNG
Korean name
Hangul 천도교
Hanja 天道教
Revised Romanization Cheondogyo
McCune–Reischauer Ch'ŏndogyo
Cheondoism, spelled Chondoism in North Korean sources[1] (Korean Cheondogyo; hanja 天道教; hangul 천도교; literally "Religion of the Heavenly Way"), is a 20th-century Korean religious movement, based on the 19th century Donghak Confucian movement founded by Choe Je-u and codified under Son Byeong-hui.[2] Cheondoism has its origins in the peasant rebellions which arose starting in 1812 during the Joseon Dynasty.
Cheondoism is essentially Confucian in origin, but incorporates elements of Korean nationalism, Taoism and Buddhism. It places emphasis on personal cultivation, this-worldly social welfare, and rejects any notion of an afterlife.[2]
Cheondogyo translated literally means "religion of the Heavenly Way", where cheon means "Heaven", do means "Way" (written with the same character as Chinese Tao), and gyo means "religion", "teaching", "-ism".
In keeping with its roots in Confucian thought, Cheondoism venerates Heaven as the ultimate principle of good and justice, and is referred to by the honorific term Haneullim (하늘님) or "Master Heaven". This title implies the quality of Heaven as a revered teacher or instructor. Also in keeping with its Confucian background, Cheondoism places emphasis on personal cultivation in the belief that as one improves their innate nature, one comes closer to Heaven, and that all things are the same as Heaven in terms of their innate quality.[2]
Thus, Cheondoism rejects the notion of an afterlife, and instead works to create a paradise on earth through peace, moral virtue and Confucian propriety, while reforming society and overcoming old, outdated customs in Korean society.[2]
Over time, Cheondoism has also adapted elements of other Korean religious traditions including Taoism and Buddhism.[3]
Cheondoism originated from the Donghak ("Eastern Learning"), a Confucian movement that arose in the 19th century as a reaction to Western encroachment. While the Donghak movement began with Confucian scholar Choe Jeu, it did not become a religious movement until the 3rd patriarch, Son Byeong-hui.
Choe Jeu formulated the Donghak ("Eastern Learning") ideology in the 1860s to help ease the lot of the farmers suffering from abject poverty and exploitation, as well as to restore political and social stability. His ideas rapidly gained broad acceptance among the peasantry. Choe set his Donghak themes to music so that illiterate farmers could understand, accept, and remember them more readily. His teachings were systematized and compiled as a message of salvation to farmers in distress.
Cheondoism as a religion evolved in the early 1900s from the Donghak peasant liberation movements in the southern provinces of Korea. Members of Donghak were severely persecuted by the Korean Empire, and so, on December 1, 1905, Son Byeong-hui, who was the third patriarch of the original Donghak movement, decided to modernize the religion and usher in an era of openness and transparency in order to legitimize it in the eyes of the Japanese. As a result he officially changed the name of Donghak to Cheondoism ("religion of the Heavenly Way"). During the waning days of the Joseon Dynasty, King Gojong himself embraced Cheondoism and promoted it nationwide. The King added Buddhist rituals and codices to the new religion, which was organized into a formal organizational hierarchy.
Cheondoism today[edit]
As of 2005, Cheondoism had about 1.13 million followers and 280 churches in South Korea.[4] Very little is known of the current numbers or activities of Cheondoists in North Korea. According to official statistics, Cheondoism had 2.8 million adherents in North Korea (12.9% of the total population) as of 2000,[5] and Cheondoists are nominally represented in North Korean politics by the minor Cheondoist Chongu Party. However, independent religious activity of any kind is not tolerated by the North Korean government,[citation needed] and large numbers of Cheondoist believers fled to South Korea during the Korean War.[citation needed] By 1956, the last year for which any independent figures are available, there were probably no more than 10,000 practicing Cheondoists left in the north.[citation needed] Since 1959, when its original Cheondoist leadership was purged, the Cheondoist Chongu Party has been merely a satellite party of the ruling Worker's Party of Korea[citation needed] intended to appeal to South Korean Cheondoists (the current leader is Ryu Mi Yong, a South Korean Cheondoist who defected to the North) and maintain an illusion of religious freedom and multi-party democracy.[citation needed] The party leadership is appointed by the North Korean government and never oppose the WPK on any issue.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
1. ^ "Anniversary of Chondoism Observed, KCNA". Retrieved 2012-06-23.
2. ^ a b c d Yao, Xinzhong (2000). An Introduction to Confucianism. Cambridge University Press. pp. 121–122. ISBN 0521644305.
3. ^ 韓國 近代宗敎의 三敎融合과 生命·靈性 - 원불교사상연구원
4. ^ "Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Toronto". Retrieved 2012-06-23.
5. ^ North Korea
This article incorporates text from Korea Web Weekly. Used with permission. Korea Web Weekly is not an independent source of information but is instead associated with various North Korea government sources.
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Miss Martian
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
Created by Geoff Johns
Tony Daniel
In-story information
Alter ego M'gann M'orzz
Species White Martian
Place of origin Mars
Team affiliations Teen Titans
Notable aliases Megan Morse, Star-Spangled Kid
Miss Martian (real name M'gann M'orzz, alias Megan Morse) is a superhero in the DC Comics Universe. Miss Martian was created by Geoff Johns and Tony Daniel and first appeared in Teen Titans #37 (2006). Miss Martian is named "Megan Morse" after Marvel Comics editor Ben Morse's wife, Megan. Morse is a friend of Johns'.[1]
Character biography[edit]
Brightest Day[edit]
The New 52[edit]
Powers and abilities[edit]
Miss Martian possesses abilities similar to Martian Manhunter and all other Martians. She has Superhuman strength and stamina comparable to that of a Kryptonian. She is invulnerable and has been shown to repel attacks from the likes of Despero. She can enhance this invulnerability by making herself super dense. This invulnerability also extends to her being able to survive in the vacuum of space. She has enhanced reflexes and move at high speeds. She also has the ability to shapeshift and she can use this to regenerate herself at a rapid rate. Her shapeshifting can be used at will and in an unlimited application. This also extends to her being able to expand or lengthen her limbs or to create natural body weapons. This control over her molecular structure also gives her the abilities of invisibility and intangibility. She can use her lungs to store more air than usual and to expel it in a forceful blast. [25]
She is a powerful psionic with major applications of this being telepathy and telekinesis. She can use the telekinesis to fly at extremely fast speeds. Her telepathy is one of her strongest abilities and allows her a wide variety of abilities including creating illusions, locating other sentient beings, controlling other’s minds, inducing sleep, astral travel, and transfer information to people directly. [26] Her psionic abilities can also manifest themselves in a psionic blast. A further application of her powers is Martian vision, in which she expels energy from her eyes. Martian’s have nine senses compared to humans, which gives them stronger perception of the world.[27]
Like all Martians, she can be weakened by fire. This comes in the form of pyrophobia, with fire being the Martian's "Achilles heel", equivalent to Kryptonians weakness to Kryptonite. Exposure to fire typically causes her to lose the ability to maintain her physical form, 'melting' into a pool of writhing green plasma. It was revealed, during the Trial By Fire storyline,[29] that the Martian weakness to fire is an inbuilt psychosomatic effect, placed in the Martian race long ago by the Guardians of the Universe. The purpose of this was to prevent the Martians from reverting to a previous evolutionary state in which they were highly aggressive, on the verge of interstellar conquest, and required flames and the psychic suffering of others in order to reproduce.
Other versions[edit]
Smallville Season 11[edit]
Smallville: Titans[edit]
Miss Martian is a member of the team with Conner Kent/Superboy, Speedy, Blue Beetle, Zan and Jayna at Jay Garrick's school for the "gifted."[31]
In other media[edit]
Miss Martian in Young Justice.
Miss Martian is a lead character in the Young Justice animated series (loosely based on the comic book series),[32] voiced by Danica McKellar.[33] Within the show, she is introduced as the niece of the Martian Manhunter. M'gann is 48 human chronological years, but only 16 by Martian biological standards.[34] She states that she has 12 sisters on Mars, indicating a surviving Martian society.
She has shown strong telekinetic and telepathic abilities as well as flight, camouflage (though not truly invisibility) and shape shifting, but she initially had trouble mimicking men (when she tried, they appeared as female versions.) However, she was able to mimic Red Tornado flawlessly (possibly due to his inorganic nature and simplified anatomy.) Her shape-shifting allows her to heal faster than a human would. Miss Martian has strength and durability above that of a typical human.[35] Like Kid Flash and Superboy, her other comic-based abilities (super speed, super senses and laser vision) are not indicated, though she cites "density-shifting" as an "advanced technique". However, in "Failsafe", Martian Manhunter states she is the most powerful telepath he has encountered in terms of raw power and potential growth, even in comparison to himself.
She developed a crush on Superboy since meeting him, blushing when he compliments her in "Dropzone" and almost kissing him in "Bereft". By the episode "Terrors", they began a romantic relationship, which they initially keep secret from the team. In the episode "Targets," she joined the cheerleading squad on her and Superboy's first day of school. Miss Martian's humanoid form and personality, as well as her catchphrase "Hello, Megan!" is based on a character, also named Megan, from an old Earth TV show she enjoyed watching on Mars, and she chose Connor's name from another character in the show, as revealed in the episode "Image". When Garfield Logan requires a blood transfusion to save his life, she shifts hers to match, saving him but beginning a process which transforms him into Beast Boy. During battle with Psimon in the episode, he exposes her true form as a White Martian, but she manages to conceal it from her team-mates. Later, she claims to be a Green Martian, and that her true form is a female version of Martian Manhunter's human appearance. Due to Miss Martian's fear of her team-mates reaction to her White Martian form, Bialya leader Queen Bee blackmails her, but Miss Martian ultimately reveals her true form to the team, to only momentary shock. Superboy revealed that he had known Miss Martian's secret since they shared a strong telepathic connection in Bilaya, and had simply chosen to wait for her to tell him in her own time.
M'gann appears in the second season titled Young Justice: Invasion set five years later. She remains with the team, sporting a shorter haircut and wears her stealth costume at all times. She is also considerably more serious and experienced. Superboy has ended their relationship, but she is now involved with Lagoon Boy. Following his mother's death, she has accepted Beast Boy as an adopted younger brother. She is now capable of using density shifting. Her personality is darker than before, aggressively probing the minds of her enemies, which leaves them in a catatonic state. It is revealed in the episode "Depths" that Superboy's disagreement with M'gann's blatant disregard for the side-effects of her probing mind on her enemies led to their break-up, with the final straw being M'gann's attempt to erase his memory of their argument. M'gann shows visible remorse of the event, particularly given Superboy's anger over the violation of their deeply personal connection. In the episode "Before the Dawn", M'gann confronts Aqualad and telepathically attacks him as revenge for his supposed killing of Artemis, but her probing reveals that Artemis is alive and working undercover with Aqualad. She breaks off the attack, horrified that she has left Aqaualad catatonic. She subsequently enters a state of mental shock, becoming almost non-responsive and requiring prodding from her Teammates to use her powers, which results in a swift defeat at the hands of Black Beetle, and then refusing to use her Telepathy. After, Black Manta has her captured by Tigress and Deathstroke to make her fix Aqualad's mind. After succeeding, Miss Martian, Tigress (Artemis) and Kaldur come up with a plan to escape, which is compromised by Sportsmaster and Cheshire's assassination attempt on Black Manta. In the end, Miss Martian and Sportsmaster make a deal and both end up escaping without blowing Kaldur and Tigress' cover. After her escape, she breaks up Lagoon Boy out of guilt about going out with him because he made her feel better, though he had forgiven her later in "Summit". At this point she asks Nightwing where Connor is and is upset to hear that he is spending time with Wendy Harris from their old High School. In "Endgame", she and Superboy discuss their feelings towards each other and she is overjoyed to hear that Connor was just helping Wendy out with aher relationship with another old school friend. Following the death of Wally West, while discussing the new relationship between Tim Drake and Cassie, they both reconcile their own relationship, but before they can kiss they are called to the briefing room by Aqualad, where they are dispatched for a mission on Mars with Beast Boy.
Video Games[edit]
Miss Martian will appear as a playable character in the video game Young Justice: Legacy. Danica McKellar will reprise the role.
See also[edit]
10. ^ Terror Titans #6 (May 2009)
17. ^ Brightest Day #6 (July 2010)
18. ^ Brightest Day #7 (August 2010)
25. ^ Teen Titans (vol. 3) #39
26. ^ Teen Titans (vol. 3) #60
27. ^ Teen Titans (vol. 3) #32 (August, 2006)
28. ^ Teen Titans (vol. 3) #50
29. ^ JLA #84-89 (October–December 2003)
30. ^ Smallville Season 11 Special #1
32. ^ Cruz, Eileen (2010-04-21). "Toonzone at the Cartoon Network 2010 Upfront (UPDATED 11:45 AM)". toonzone.net. Archived from the original on 2012-12-09. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
35. ^ http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=13712
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The 3-adic integers, with selected corresponding characters on their Pontryagin dual group
In mathematics the p-adic number system for any prime number p extends the ordinary arithmetic of the rational numbers in a way different from the extension of the rational number system to the real and complex number systems. The extension is achieved by an alternative interpretation of the concept of "closeness" or absolute value. In particular, p-adic numbers have the interesting property that they are said to be close when their difference is divisible by a high power of p – the higher the power the closer they are. This property enables p-adic numbers to encode congruence information in a way that turns out to have powerful applications in number theory including, for example, in the famous proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles.[1]
p-adic numbers were first described by Kurt Hensel in 1897,[2] though with hindsight some of Kummer's earlier work can be interpreted as implicitly using p-adic numbers.[3] The p-adic numbers were motivated primarily by an attempt to bring the ideas and techniques of power series methods into number theory. Their influence now extends far beyond this. For example, the field of p-adic analysis essentially provides an alternative form of calculus.
The p in p-adic is a variable and may be replaced with a constant (yielding, for instance, "the 2-adic numbers") or another placeholder variable (for expressions such as "the ℓ-adic numbers").
p-adic expansions[edit]
When dealing with natural numbers, if we take p to be a fixed prime number, then any positive integer can be written as a base p expansion in the form
The familiar approach to extending this description to the larger domain of the rationals (and, ultimately, to the reals) is to use sums of the form:
\pm\sum_{i=-\infty}^n a_i p^i.
A definite meaning is given to these sums based on Cauchy sequences, using the absolute value as metric. Thus, for example, 1/3 can be expressed in base 5 as the limit of the sequence 0.1313131313...5. In this formulation, the integers are precisely those numbers for which ai = 0 for all i < 0.
With p-adic numbers, on the other hand, we choose to extend the base p expansions in a different way. Because in the p-adic world high positive powers of p are small and high negative powers are large, we consider infinite sums of the form:
\sum_{i=k}^{\infty} a_i p^i
where k is some (not necessarily positive) integer. With this approach we obtain the p-adic expansions of the p-adic numbers. Those p-adic numbers for which ai = 0 for all i < 0 are also called the p-adic integers.
As opposed to real number expansions which extend to the right as sums of ever smaller, increasingly negative powers of the base p, p-adic numbers may expand to the left forever, a property that can often be true for the p-adic integers. For example, consider the p-adic expansion of 1/3 in base 5. It can be shown to be …13131325, i.e., the limit of the sequence 25, 325, 1325, 31325, 131325, 3131325, 13131325, … :
\dfrac{5^2-1}{3}=\dfrac{44_5}{3} = 13_5; \,
\dfrac{5^4-1}{3}=\dfrac{4444_5}{3} = 1313_5
\Rightarrow-\dfrac{1}{3}=\dots 1313_5
\Rightarrow-\dfrac{2}{3}=\dots 1313_5 \times 2 = \dots 3131_5
\Rightarrow\dfrac{1}{3} = -\dfrac{2}{3}+1 = \dots 3132_5.
Multiplying this infinite sum by 3 in base 5 gives …00000015. As there are no negative powers of 5 in this expansion of 1/3 (i.e. no numbers to the right of the decimal point), we see that 1/3 satisfies the definition of being a p-adic integer in base 5.
More formally, the p-adic expansions can be used to define the field Qp of p-adic numbers while the p-adic integers form a subring of Qp, denoted Zp. (Not to be confused with the ring of integers modulo p which is also sometimes written Zp. To avoid ambiguity, Z/pZ or Z/(p) are often used to represent the integers modulo p.)
\dfrac{1}{5}=\dots 121012102_3.
\dfrac{1}{5}=2.01210121\dots_3\mbox{ or }\dfrac{1}{15}=20.1210121\dots_3.
In fact any set of p integers which are in distinct residue classes modulo p may be used as p-adic digits. In number theory, Teichmüller representatives are sometimes used as digits.[4]
Analytic approach[edit]
p = 2 ← distance = 1 →
← d = ½ → ← d = ½ →
‹ d=¼ › ‹ d=¼ › ‹ d=¼ › ‹ d=¼ ›
‹⅛› ‹⅛› ‹⅛› ‹⅛› ‹⅛› ‹⅛› ‹⅛› ‹⅛›
17 10001 J
16 10000 J
15 1111 L
14 1110 L
13 1101 L
12 1100 L
11 1011 L
10 1010 L
9 1001 L
8 1000 L
7 111 L
6 110 L
5 101 L
4 100 L
3 11 L
2 10 L
1 1 L
0 0…000 L
−1 1…111 J
−2 1…110 J
−3 1…101 J
−4 1…100 J
2-adic (p = 2) arrangement of integers, from left to right. This shows a hierarchical subdivision pattern common for ultrametric spaces. Points within a distance 1/8 are grouped in one colored strip. A pair of strips within a distance 1/4 has the same chroma, four strips within a distance 1/2 have the same hue. The hue is determined by the least significant bit, the saturation – by the next (21) bit, and the brightness depends on the value of 22 bit. Bits (digit places) which are less significant for the usual metric are more significant for the p-adic distance.
Similar picture for p = 3 (click to enlarge) shows three closed balls of radius 1/3, where each consists of 3 balls of radius 1/9
The real numbers can be defined as equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers; this allows us to, for example, write 1 as 1.000… = 0.999… . The definition of a Cauchy sequence relies on the metric chosen, though, so if we choose a different one, we can construct numbers other than the real numbers. The usual metric which yields the real numbers is called the Euclidean metric.
For example with x = 63/550 = 2−1·32·5−2·7·11−1
|x|_2 & = 2 \\[6pt]
|x|_3 & = 1/9 \\[6pt]
|x|_5 & = 25 \\[6pt]
|x|_7 & = 1/7 \\[6pt]
|x|_{11} & = 11 \\[6pt]
|x|_{\text{any other prime}} & = 1.
This definition of |x|p has the effect that high powers of p become "small". By the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, for a given non-zero rational number x there is a unique finite set of distinct primes p_1, \ldots, p_r and a corresponding sequence of non-zero integers a_1, \ldots, a_r such that:
|x| = p_1^{a_1}\ldots p_r^{a_r}.
It then follows that |x|_{p_i} = p_i^{-a_i} for all 1\leq i\leq r , and |x|_p = 1\, for any other prime p \notin \{p_1,\ldots, p_r\}.
It is a theorem of Ostrowski that each absolute value on Q is equivalent either to the Euclidean absolute value, the trivial absolute value, or to one of the p-adic absolute values for some prime p. So the only norms on Q modulo equivalence are the absolute value, the trivial absolute value and the p-adic absolute value which means that there are only as many completions (with respect to a norm) of Q.
The p-adic absolute value defines a metric dp on Q by setting
d_p(x,y)=|x-y|_p \,\!
where k is some integer such that ak0 and each ai is in {0, …, p − 1 }. This series converges to x with respect to the metric dp.
With this absolute value, the field Qp is a local field.
Algebraic approach[edit]
In the algebraic approach, we first define the ring of p-adic integers, and then construct the field of fractions of this ring to get the field of p-adic numbers.
We start with the inverse limit of the rings Z/pnZ (see modular arithmetic): a p-adic integer is then a sequence (an)n≥1 such that an is in Z/pnZ, and if nm, then anam (mod pn).
Every natural number m defines such a sequence (an) by an = m mod pn and can therefore be regarded as a p-adic integer. For example, in this case 35 as a 2-adic integer would be written as the sequence (1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 35, 35, 35, …).
The operators of the ring amount to pointwise addition and multiplication of such sequences. This is well defined because addition and multiplication commute with the "mod" operator; see modular arithmetic.
Moreover, every sequence (an) where the first element is not 0 has an inverse. In that case, for every n, an and p are coprime, and so an and pn are relatively prime. Therefore, each an has an inverse mod pn, and the sequence of these inverses, (bn), is the sought inverse of (an). For example, consider the p-adic integer corresponding to the natural number 7; as a 2-adic number, it would be written (1, 3, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, ...). This object's inverse would be written as an ever-increasing sequence that begins (1, 3, 7, 7, 23, 55, 55, 183, 439, 439, 1463 ...). Naturally, this 2-adic integer has no corresponding natural number.
The ring of p-adic integers has no zero divisors, so we can take the field of fractions to get the field Qp of p-adic numbers. Note that in this field of fractions, every non-integer p-adic number can be uniquely written as pn u with a natural number n and a unit in the p-adic integers u. This means that
\mathbf{Q}_p=\operatorname{Quot}\left(\mathbf{Z}_p\right)\cong (p^{\mathbf{N}})^{-1}\mathbf{Z}_p.
Note that S−1A, where S=p^{\mathbf{N}}=\{p^{n}:n\in\mathbf{N}\} is a multiplicative subset (contains the unit and closed under multiplication) of a commutative ring with unit A, is an algebraic construction called the ring of fractions of A by S.
Zp is the inverse limit of the finite rings Z/pkZ, but is nonetheless uncountable,[5] and has the cardinality of the continuum. Accordingly, the field Qp is uncountable. The endomorphism ring of the Prüfer p-group of rank n, denoted Z(p)n, is the ring of n × n matrices over Zp; this is sometimes referred to as the Tate module.
Define a topology on Zp by taking, as a basis, all sets of the form
Ua(n) = {n + λpa : λZp, aN}.
Then Zp is a compactification of Z, under the derived topology (it is not a compactification of Z with its usual discrete topology). The relative topology on Z as a subset of Zp is called the p-adic topology on Z.
The topology of Zp is that of a Cantor set; the topology of Qp is that of a Cantor set minus a point (which would naturally be called infinity).[6] In particular, Zp is compact while Qp is not; it is only locally compact. As metric spaces, both Zp and Qp are complete.[7]
Metric completions and algebraic closures[edit]
Qp contains Q and is a field of characteristic 0. This field cannot be turned into an ordered field.
R has only a single proper algebraic extension: C; in other words, this quadratic extension is already algebraically closed. By contrast, Qp has infinite degree,[8] i.e. Qp has infinitely many inequivalent algebraic extensions. Also contrasting the case of real numbers, although there is a unique extension of the p-adic valuation to Qp, it is not (metrically) complete.[9][10] Its (metric) completion is called Cp or Ωp.[10][11] Here an end is reached, as Cp is algebraically closed.[10][12] However unlike C this field is not locally compact.[11]
Cp and C are isomorphic as fields, so we may regard Cp as C endowed with an exotic metric. It should be noted that the proof of existence of such a field isomorphism relies on the axiom of choice, and does not provide an explicit example of such an isomorphism.
If K is a finite Galois extension of Qp, the Galois group Gal(K/Qp) is solvable. Thus, the Galois group Gal(Qp/Qp) is prosolvable.
Multiplicative group of Qp[edit]
Qp contains the n-th cyclotomic field (n > 2) if and only if n | p − 1.[13] For instance, the n-th cyclotomic field is a subfield of Q13 if and only if n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 12. In particular, there is no multiplicative p-torsion in Qp, if p > 2. Also, −1 is the only non-trivial torsion element in Q2.
is finite.
The number e, defined as the sum of reciprocals of factorials, is not a member of any p-adic field; but e pQp (p ≠ 2). For p = 2 one must take at least the fourth power.[14] (Thus a number with similar properties as e – namely a p-th root of e p – is a member of Qp for all p.)
Analysis on Qp[edit]
The only real functions whose derivative is zero are the constant functions. This is not true over Qp.[15] For instance, the function
\begin{cases} f: \mathbf{Q}_p \to \mathbf{Q}_p \\ f(x) = \begin{cases} |x|_p^{-2} & x \neq 0 \\ 0 & x = 0 \end{cases} \end{cases}
Let R = Q, then given any elements r, r2, r3, r5, r7, ... where rpQp, it is possible to find a sequence (xn) in Q such that for all p (including ), the limit of xn in Qp is rp.
Rational arithmetic[edit]
Eric Hehner and Nigel Horspool proposed in 1979 the use of a p-adic representation for rational numbers on computers[16] called Quote notation. The primary advantage of such a representation is that addition, subtraction, and multiplication can be done in a straightforward manner analogous to similar methods for binary integers; and division is even simpler, resembling multiplication. However, it has the disadvantage that representations can be much larger than simply storing the numerator and denominator in binary; for example, if 2n − 1 is a Mersenne prime, its reciprocal will require 2n − 1 bits to represent.
Generalizations and related concepts[edit]
|x|_P = c^{-\operatorname{ord}_P(x)}.
Local–global principle[edit]
Helmut Hasse's local–global principle is said to hold for an equation if it can be solved over the rational numbers if and only if it can be solved over the real numbers and over the p-adic numbers for every prime p. This principle holds e.g. for equations given by quadratic forms, but fails for higher polynomials in several indeterminates.
See also[edit]
1. ^ F. Q. Gouvêa, A Marvelous Proof, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 101, No. 3 (Mar., 1994), pp. 203–222
2. ^ Hensel, Kurt (1897). "Über eine neue Begründung der Theorie der algebraischen Zahlen". Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 6 (3): 83–88.
3. ^ Dedekind, Richard; Weber, Heinrich (2012), Theory of Algebraic Functions of One Variable, History of mathematics 39, American Mathematical Society, ISBN 9780821890349 . Translation into English of Theorie der algebraischen Functionen einer Veränderlichen (1882) by John Stillwell. Translator's introduction, page 35: "Indeed, with hindsight it becomes apparent that a discrete valuation is behind Kummer's concept of ideal numbers."
4. ^ Hazewinkel, M., ed. (2009), Handbook of Algebra, Volume 6, Elsevier, p. 342, ISBN 9780080932811 .
5. ^ Robert (2000) Section 1.1
6. ^ Robert (2000) Section 2.3
7. ^ Gouvêa (2000) Corollary 3.3.8
8. ^ Gouvêa (2000) Corollary 5.3.10
9. ^ Gouvêa (2000) Theorem 5.7.4
10. ^ a b c Cassels (1986) p.149
11. ^ a b Koblitz (1980) p.13
12. ^ Gouvêa (2000) Proposition 5.7.8
13. ^ Gouvêa (2000) Proposition 3.4.2
14. ^ Robert (2000) Section 4.1
15. ^ Robert (2000) Section 5.1
16. ^ Eric C. R. Hehner, R. Nigel Horspool, A new representation of the rational numbers for fast easy arithmetic. SIAM Journal on Computing 8, 124–134. 1979.
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In West Borneo, Indonesia, palm oil farmers monitor big business and send the news they find to their fellow farmers via mobile phones.
They learned how to gather and report this news--which is critical to their livelihoods--as part of a program led by Knight International Journalism Fellow Harry Surjadi. Surjadi, a longtime environmental journalist, says the program fills an information void in a poor, rural community too often ignored by Indonesia's mainstream media.
The farmers and other citizen journalists around Indonesia have learned to share information and news reports via text messaging using the FrontlineSMS and Swara voice-over-mobile systems. A training center at Ruai TV, in the provincial capital, trains people in basic journalism, including understanding of facts, observation skills, data collection, news writing for SMS, inverted pyramid and basic reporting.
Surjadi is also taking the concept beyond citizen journalism, to empower influential local community members and activists, whom he calls "information brokers" or "IBs," to use journalism tools to inform community members about issues such as climate change. Many are indigenous communities near forests facing environmental conflicts.
"We are proving that communication can empower communities to resolve and change policies that have a negative impact on people's lives," Surjadi says.
Surjadi talked with IJNet about his work and the potential for citizen journalism in Indonesia.
IJNet: You've worked in environmental reporting for 20 years. Have you seen changes in coverage of the issues since you started?
Harry Surjadi: I can say there have been no big changes in environmental reporting in the mainstream media. Environmental issues have become an important subject, but there are still more political and economic subjects on the front pages of mainstream media. Most environmental problems are faced by communities in prone areas and they are poor people. Mainstream media have no interest in reporting these cases. Some mainstream media in Indonesia belong to "big guys" in businesses with bad business practices related to environment. Their media have never reported the cases that related to their businesses. I founded the Society of Indonesian Environmental Journalists and the organization continues growing. Some serious environmental journalists have their own blogs with environmental news. But the mainstream are still the same. My job is to see how citizen journalism can empower communities that never get attention from mainstream media or even from government.
IJNet: How are citizens becoming a more important part of the news ecosystem in Indonesia?
HS: Citizen journalism began in 2005, but it was not named citizen journalism then. For instance, a nationwide radio network had a program that allowed citizens to call in to report news events such as traffic accidents or traffic jams.
Now, almost every mainstream media organization (print, radio and television) has a section for citizen journalism. Citizen participation in news production is growing. Especially in big cities, where there is Internet access and smartphones, more citizens are aware of the opportunity to participate in news production for mainstream media. Their motivation is to share information or just to express themselves. Media organizations have limited human resources, but they would like to cover more news.
IJNet: In your experience, do professional and citizen journalists need and/or depend on each other?
HS: In terms of learning from each other, yes, professional and citizen journalists need and depend on each other. In terms of covering and writing stories and sending news/information, most of the time they work independently. When I do my training workshops, I always tell the CJs to work as a team. Since each community has at least two CJs, they can work together. In one community, the 20 CJs who joined the training workshop decided that only one of them would submit the news. Others would report to that person.
IJNet: What distinguishes a citizen journalist from an information broker?
HS: The CJ's role is to send reports to a media organization, while the information broker is a CJ with the added role of sharing important information with community members. An information broker does not have to report to mainstream media, but can report to the organization he/she belongs to, such an an NGO or non-mainstream media, like a community radio station. The information broker’s role is to find important information or data that is needed by the community to solve problems. The information broker becomes the eyes, ears, and voice of the community. Likewise, the information broker is a source of information for the community.
IJNet: Can you give us an example?
HS: In October 2011, I had a training workshop in Silat Hilir [in West Borneo], where many participants were members of Asmoja, a palm oil farmers cooperative who had been fighting for their rights against a large company for more than 10 years. When we met them, the spirit of the farmers was very low. Some of them had sold their land to the company or to other people from the cities.
My co-trainers and I helped the Asmoja cooperative install FrontlineSMS as an internal communication channel. After the training, there were two information brokers, Hendrik and Simon, who became active in finding information for their Asmoja cooperative members.
Hendrik, especially, knew how to use the system. He knew what kind of information the community needed. He used the system to raise the spirit of the Asmoja members. He sent SMS to inform members about regulations on palm oil plantations. He [distributed] information on illegal cutting and clearing of forests. He found information on how the company had borrowed money from a bank on behalf of Asmoja members [although] the Asmoja had never approved it. He found out the collective owed a large debt that it was unable to pay.
Last month, after a year fighting for their rights, in a special meeting with high-ranking local government officials, bank representatives and police, the Asmoja cooperative got their rights back. The company agreed to pay the debt and the farmers got the right to manage their own lands.
You might say Hendrik is more of an activist than a citizen journalist. But he was practicing journalism in order to find and publish the information that was important for his organization. He was using journalistic concepts (collect, process, publish) to empower.
Learn more about Surjadi’s work here.
Image: Harry Surjadi trains CJs in Borneo. Provided by Harry Surjadi.
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But that doesn't make them easy for plenty of women, especially those who had a wanted pregnancy, or who were actutely aware they were miscarrying, or who experienced painful and/or sometimes scary physical symptoms.
Imagine you're one of those women in the state of Virginia, and then you get charged with a CRIME for not calling the POLICE when you miscarry.
That's the actual text of a bill introduced to the Virginia House last month. Required items to be reported -- within a mere 12 hours of a suspected miscarriage -- might well be things like the weight and sex of the "fetus." Not only do determinations like that again show a total lack of understanding about miscarriage (with the vast majority of miscarriages, there will be no visible fetus to weigh), but a total lack of understanding for the emotional state of many women who have miscarried.
Now, why on EARTH would something like this be proposed?
It's not a big leap to assume that the end result wanted here may not be about miscarrying women at all, but to further the anti-abortion agenda by essentially making any miscarriage -- something which in many instances, is in very few ways different than a normal menstrual period -- recognized as a death. I would also posit that it could easily be used, should more abortion rights change, to charge women with crimes for aborting. The truth is, there is NO practical reason for something like this whatsoever: doing so serves neither women nor children. Purportedly, some of the aim with this is to prevent the abandonment of stillborn fetuses, or perhaps those assumed to be dead who are not, but again, MOST miscarriages are not stillbirths or full births, and in many, no fetus at all would be discernable. However, even if that is the case, there are huge logistical gaps in how a law like this would practically help with that, and endless applications of a law like this that would easily do far, far more harm than any real good.
This is likely yet another assult on women from the anti-choicers. It is an affront to women's privacy, autonomy, ownership of their own bodies, and something like this would further endanger the health of women and their children by (justifiably) making women reticent to report pregnancies in the first place and seek out healthcare for pregnancies, including vital pre-natal care. And per usual, it's coming not only NOT from women, but from those who likely don't even fully understand how women's reproductive systems work in the first place, OR, assuming this is at least in part about abandoned stillbirths, from those clearly not taking into account the myriad women's issues and class issues involved in not reporting, sans law, a miscarriage or even a stillbirth. If that's the issue, rather than seeking to criminalize women, why not instead seek to provide more affordable and more easily accessible pre-natal care as well as affordable, safe, legal abortion services? Why not work, then, proactively, and in the real interest of women and children, on providing pregnant women (whether they choose to bring a pregnancy to term or to terminate it) MORE agency and care, rather than seeking a means to charge them with crimes for often uncontrollable, normal yet difficult aspects of their own reproduction?
Mortified? Hopping mad? Confused? You can write to Delegate John Cosgrove who is proposing this and ask him about it, at:
More information on being proactive and updates to this issue in general are available via the top link, thanks to the great post on this at the Democracy for Virgnina blog. At this time, Cosgrove has sent a letter to the blogger at that site, explaining some of his intent with this matter and apparently readying to change the text of the bill, but I remain incredibly wary as well as validly concerned that a bill like this -- even if, perchance, it is not INTENDED as anti-choice -- could be grossly damaging to women and reproductive rights, and set an awful precedent for other states, so keeping a vigiliant eye on the bill would be wise.
All the more so because in his response, Cosgrove didn't say a single word about the reproductive rights and/or choice of women being important to him.
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From: Gerald C. Simmons <>
List: current-users
Date: 01/01/2002 22:00:31
ftp> ls
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||61403|)
200 EPRT command successful.
I'm running NetBSD-1.5.2. I re-set IPF back to passing all, and it still does this.
However, the Windows FTP client didn't do this. ???
Try it! Anonymous ftp to
Also, gave me this:
ftp> ls
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||64097|)
total 8896
I never noticed ftp going into passive mode before.
Any Ideas?
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Taunting fan goes home before Dallas polishes off Thunder
Just when the coals that have fueled the NBA's hottest team were finally cooling off, a courtside spectator inside Oklahoma City Arena fanned the flames and re-ignited the fire by throwing some misguided trash talk on the red-hot Mavericks.
In the end, the Mavs went home with a 103-93 win.
The fan went home before subjecting himself to the final score.
With Dallas star Dirk Nowitzki saddled with a right knee injury, it was reserve guard Jason Terry who supplied the theatrics. And the always affable Terry thoroughly enjoyed swishing shot after shot in the decisive fourth quarter to sit down and shut up the blabbermouth who took aim at him from the opening quarter.
“Every arena I go to, they always pick on me,†Terry said. “I don't think it's the high socks, but I always find one or two fans that will pick on me.â€
Monday night, it was a middle-aged man who regularly sits in the first seat next to the scorer's table by the Thunder's bench. The chatter intensified when Terry missed six of his first seven shots.
“Terry, keep shooting. You're with us tonight,†Terry recalled the fan saying, enunciating every syllable as he reiterated the statement. “I said: ‘Don't worry. I'm really going to keep shooting now.'â€
Terry entered the fourth quarter shooting just 1-for-9 from the field. He had two points and two fouls. The fan blurted out that fact to Terry, suggesting the shooting guard keep scoring or keep fouling.
Terry did the former.
Terry made five of eight shots in the final frame to help Dallas outscore Oklahoma City, 24-12. Terry had 11 points, including a back-breaking 3-pointer with 8:36 remaining that gave the Mavs an 86-84 lead they never relinquished. Terry then assisted on two pivotal buckets that pushed the Mavs lead to seven and then eight.
And as Terry splashed each shot through the net, he pointed to the fan and passionately rattled off a few words unsuitable for print.
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We will be installing both Subversion Edge and Redmine, but have the requirement that they run on the same box.
The easiest way to install Redmine would appear to be using a BitNami Stack.
Our Inf Struct team only has IIS experience so I'll be helping them, but I'm unsure on the easiest way to get it up and running since both require Apache, but both have they're own pre-setup configurations that most likely are not compatible.
How should I suggest we go about this?
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I did exactly this setup today in a vmware (Windows Server 2003) and i only had to change the default port of the apache server running in the bitnami stack to be different from the CollabNet apache port. You can do this on one of the bitnami stack install screens.
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Comment: Re:No shit (Score 1) 298
by Beuno (#35474378) Attached to: Tech Expertise Not Important In Google Managers
Also, I would not want to be "modded down" in the workplace for my political views. Slashdot people love free speech - as long as it agrees with theirs.
I don't think they meant it in a "Democrat vs Republican" sense, but rather internal company politics (ie, focusing on certain aspects of the project because it's good for a promotion).
Comment: Re:Contacts good, Calendars would be better (Score 1) 115
by Beuno (#31749240) Attached to: Ubuntu One Gets iPhone App For Contact Sync
If that where the case, then couchdb is not the smartest way to do it, considering that each user has it's own DB. Cross-referencing anything from user to user is incredibly expensive (load-wise) and hard to do ;)
Canonical could be after world domination and selling data to the CIA, or we could be trying to provide a valuable service to users. Who knows.
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by Beuno (#30672316) Attached to: Ubuntu "Memberships" Questioned
I am a member of one of the membership boards (Americas board)
No, Ubuntu Members are people who contribute to Ubuntu directly, not indirectly. There is a lot of work involved in getting Ubuntu out the door every 6 months, and membership recognizes the people who help do that in a direct way.
That said, upstream developers and Debian developers have the advantage of already knowing how a lot of things work, so they will probably have a higher chance of getting through than anyone else (there are separate councils for community involvement and technical involvement).
Comment: Re:What does this mean? (Score 1) 104
by Beuno (#28772603) Attached to: Canonical Fully Open-Sources the Launchpad Code
Is it the code to the Launchpad site itself? Like I could use a copy of it to manage and track bugs and development on my own projects? Or are they talking about some kind of framework / os that Launchpad runs on?
As far as I can tell from my limited browse of Launchpad, it seems like an alternative to Sourceforge no?
This is the full exact source code launchpad.net runs.
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by hankwang (#46405757) Attached to: The New PHP
"WIth a VM you have to install, maintain, patch and monitor everything yourself"
My experience with shared hosting is that they change system configuration all the time without informing me and thereby breaking my scripts. Never have that problem with a VM, but I admit that setting up a VM with dns, apache tweaks, iptables, and so on, is a major effort for someone who doesn't do that for a living, like me. But after that it's very little maintenance.
By the way, the site in my sig runs on shared hosting, including perl CGI and ssh, for EUR 7.95/yr. Cheaper than my time in figuring out how to setup multi-domain email in CentOS on my VM. But I had to tweak my scripts to deal with the peculiarities of this hoster and live error logs only available via directadmin...
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by hankwang (#46385979) Attached to: Invention Makes Citibikes Electric
the NYC law I wonder how it'd handle an electric bicycle that uses some sort of strain sensor to decide how much 'assist' to give the rider. IE you could set it to 100% and it'd try to match the power the user is putting into the bike
Well, it says: "motor that is capable of propelling the device without human power", so that should be legal. Here in the Netherlands, e-bikes have such a strain sensor; I think it measures strain near the back-wheel axis. And it is for legal reasons -- otherwise they would count as a moped and need a license plate and liability insurance.
By the way, e-bikes are getting rather popular in Netherlands, despite our lack of hills and bike-friendly temperatures. Still feels weird to be taken over at a considerable speed difference by an old lady sitting upright catching wind, with bags of groceries.
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by hankwang (#46204973) Attached to: Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC
A big difference is that those are speakers with separate woofers and tweeters. A typical audio signal has the vast majority of the acoustic signal in the low frequencies, so a loudspeaker capable of handling 100 W could have 90 W for the woofer and 10 W for the tweeter. If you send a maximum-amplitude high-pitched sound to the speaker, it will fry the voice coils in the tweeters. (I've had this happen when I tried to check whether I could hear up to 20 kHz from my loudspeakers ....)
One could wonder why tweeters are not fused, though. Apparently this is not trivial.
Anyway, laptop speakers are most likely a single driver for the whole frequency range, so tweeter overloading is not an issue.
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Slashdot classic even if the code wasn't broken somewhat is great for a desktop but horrid on a mobile.
If you have a web server with cgi/perl support somewhere, you can try installing this: Avantslash. The main page loads in 33 kB and a typical comments page is below 100 kB at threshold 2. And it is optimized for efficient use of screen real-estate and low CPU demands. Works even on my ancient Nokia N82 (2008-era, 64 MB internal memory).
Comment: Re:Wasn't this a movie? (Score 1) 237
by hankwang (#46127289) Attached to: Now On Video: GCHQ Destroying Laptop Full of Snowden Disclosures
Overwrite your data once and it's gone. Even if you don't overwrite it randomly no data recovery group have been shown to be capable of recovering overwritten data
That's if you want the data to be overwritten and you're the owner of the drive. If you want to delete data on someone else's drive, you would have to ensure that the drive does not have some custom firmware installed that messes with the overwriting process...
Comment: Re:Ridiculous premise (Score 1) 267
by hankwang (#46126829) Attached to: When Cars Go Driverless, What Happens To the Honking?
"I don't understand why we don't have driverless trains"
For one, unionized train personnel has a lot of power by the threat of striking. I once talked to an engineer doing railway systems design. He told me that they have to tread very carefully when introducing any technology that might appear to take away the autonomy of the driver.
Another thing is that a train driver is supposed to be able to deal with hardware malfunctioning, maybe even getting out to move a stuck switch.
Comment: Re:Jet Fuel? (Score 1) 230
by WolfWithoutAClause (#46075609) Attached to: New England Burns Jet Fuel To Keep Lights On
No, wind and hydro are very good matches.
When the wind blows, the hydro holds back its water; it saves the energy for later (at a storage efficiency of about 99%). When the wind drops it lets the water through faster to make up for the lack of wind.
So the combined system has more average power; the wind is able to enhance the hydro generation and the hydro smooths out the wind.
Comment: Re:Jet Fuel? (Score 1) 230
by WolfWithoutAClause (#46075579) Attached to: New England Burns Jet Fuel To Keep Lights On
That's a nice, clear explanation of how wind power means you use more fuel.
Unfortunately it's absolute, total bollocks.
The reason it's bollocks is because wind is used for about 20% or so of the total production, whereas the combustion turbines are only used as an emergency back-up.
In nearly every case, when the wind drops (which they have several days advance warning for) all that happens is that the other sources (the more efficient sources) increase their output.
Only if you have major failures elsewhere do the combustion turbines kick in.
Comment: Re:I've always wondered that about antihistamines (Score 2) 351
by hankwang (#46036463) Attached to: Fighting the Flu May Hurt Those Around You
"Things like fever and coughing are part of the body's immune response,"
But not necessarily effective ones. If your lungs are irritated, you cough, whether or not there is something that needs to be expelled. Worse, extensive coughing can cause irritation, which leads to even more coughing.
If you are coughing up mucus, take an expectorant to decrease the viscosity of said mucus (e.g. bromhexine, acetylcysteine) and make the coughing more effective.
If it's a nonproductive dry cough, you should don't hesitate to take an anti-tussitive (cough suppressant), e.g. codeine, noscapine, dextromethorfan.
There's also a theory that common cold symptoms are an allergic reaction that's best suppressed with 1st-generation antihistamines. At least, runny nose and coughing don't expel the virus which is multiplying IN YOUR BODY CELLS.
Disclaimer: I am not an M.D..
Comment: Re:Double bind (Score 1) 1431
by WolfWithoutAClause (#46020295) Attached to: Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie
No, in practice armed people don't actually have to be polite to unarmed people at all; because armed people don't have to worry about being shot by them. I mean, they may be, but they don't have to be.
So far from taking away the ability to be rude fucks; it's arming the rude fucks, they will tend to want to be armed more than polite people; they're the ones that are more likely to need a gun, because they're the ones that tend to kick up problems.
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+ - Brit social services try to censor Youtube
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+ - Elderly Woman Jailed for Not Watering Lawn
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Comment: Re:Real World (Score 1) 66
Comment: Re:get'em laid (Score 1) 66
Comment: Re:Real World (Score 2) 66
Comment: Re:Um, (Score 2) 66
Comment: Re:Well (Score 3, Interesting) 209
Comment: Re:seperate mobile GPU's is declining market (Score 1) 58
Windows Operating system: Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7
Processor: 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Video Card: ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM
Direct X 9.0c
Audio card required
Processor: Dual Core CPU
Memory: 2GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 8 GB Free
DVD-ROM Drive: Required for disc-based installation
Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
DirectX: DirectX version 9.0c
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Comment: Re:This is more than a little bit naive. (Score 1) 596
Comment: The latest get rich quick scheme (Score 1) 175
by Kjella (#46468045) Attached to: The Future of Cryptocurrencies
1. Start your own cryptocurrency
2. Make the world use it (Implementation: ???)
3. Profit!
Granted, it was much the same with Bitcoin but there everybody was pooling their work and pulling in the same direction, so either Bitcoins would fly or cryptocurrencies would crash and burn. What does 100 copycat currencies run by people who figured the best way to get in early is to start a new currency get you? It reminds me of the guy who in the dotcom boom made a 1000x1000 pixel page of pure ads and sold space at $1/pixel. He made almost a million dollars because it became a "thing" to see, creating money out of thin air. Of course afterwards there were tons of DIY kits and whatever to set up your own page, naturally they all bombed. Who'd really watch a copycat page with nothing but ads? These "altcoins" are the same kind of halo hype, my guess is most if not all of these will be worth $0 in five years.
Comment: Re:Hilarious (Score 1) 868
by Kjella (#46465959) Attached to: How Do You Backup 20TB of Data?
Exactly. I very much doubt he has 20TB of data that changes very often, plug in a 4TB external drive, fill it to the brim, take note of what you've backed up. This is how I used to do it with CD-R/DVD-Rs back in the day, I had one "incoming" directory and one "archived" directory. When I had enough to burn a full disc I'd burn it and move it. Keep a text file saying what's on the different discs. It's very very low tech but it's simple and it works. Unless he's for some reason keeping a 20TB database at home with random changes everywhere.
Comment: Re:reduce the amount (Score 1) 868
by Kjella (#46464945) Attached to: How Do You Backup 20TB of Data?
While it eventually only had one unreadable file on one unreadable disc, what I found was that with old discs the drive would spin up and down and finally read it very, very slowly like 30-60 minutes to read a single CD/DVD. So in practice what should have been a one night's job turned into a couple weeks. Never again, now I'm backing up to HDDs and if it spins up at least it'll probably finish in reasonable time. Oh, and you don't have to swap TB drives that often...
Comment: Re:Yes. (Score 1) 451
by Kjella (#46460431) Attached to: The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery
Maybe people are perfectly comfortable with the status quo - after all, it's not like this box would save anyone, it would just help to find their corpses a little sooner.
And assuming the plane has more or less disintegrated mid-air or in a catastrophic ocean impact, probably not even that. Here's the final statistics from Air France Flight 447:
Between 5 May and 3 June 2011, 104 bodies were recovered from the wreckage, bringing the total number of bodies found to 154. 50 bodies had been previously recovered from the sea. The search ended with the remaining 74 bodies still unrecovered.
Comment: Re:Ignorance... (Score 3, Insightful) 379
by Kjella (#46460345) Attached to: Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents
FRAND patents are not of little value, and are not normally licensed for little value. They are normally part of cross-licensing agreements between companies
That doesn't make any sense at all, patents licensed under FRAND terms need to be non-discriminatory as that's what the ND stands for. Typically that means that if you sign an agreement and pay $0.20/unit, anybody can make something with a HDMI port or something like that. Cross licensing agreements are the opposite of that, you get to use my patents if I get to use yours. If you don't have any interesting patents, no agreement for you so they're discriminatory and because the patents involved are unique the cost is not uniform either. In short, you don't have any clue what you're talking about and apparently neither do the mods.
Comment: Re:for the record (Score 1) 379
by Kjella (#46460217) Attached to: Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents
Apple doesn't really seek significant revenue from litigation---it's not quite worth it. It does seek to inhibit other phone companies from making phones which are too much like the Apple phone by making their profit margins smaller through litigation and patent license.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, if Apple can significantly reduce the profit margin of other vendors the boost to its own profit margin should be significant too despite the overhead of lawyers.
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Comment: Re:CS is not IT / system admin (Score 1) 137
by smooth wombat (#46456311) Attached to: Computer Science Enrollments Rocketed Last Year, Up 22%
I hear complaints from every field these days about not enough jobs for graduates, even in the medical fields.
Not according to companies. If you listen to them, there isn't anyone who's qualified for their positions which is why they have a worker shortage.
Witness this article which claims employers are whining they can't find enough people to fill these ten positions which include the medical field.
Comment: Re:Shill (Score 2, Insightful) 542
by smooth wombat (#46444689) Attached to: Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty
if it harms the overall society in the end.
By that logic, stop using your computer. Between the mining of elements used in its construction, the huge amount of water needed to produce the parts, and everything else that goes into making a computer, it's harming society.
Oh wait, it makes you happy using a computer? Well then, carry on, society be damned.
Comment: Re:Creative Commons exists for this kind of thing (Score 4, Funny) 66
by smooth wombat (#46421343) Attached to: Getty Images Makes 35 Million Images Free For Non-Commercial Use
but people who are intent to steal their images are going to do it anyway.
Except it's not stealing, is it? Nothing is being taken. The people are just using the image for their own purpose with the idea being the image is still attributed to Getty, the distributor, and the photographer, who doesn't get paid for the use of their work.
Obviously at some point the person would return the image since they're just borrowing it, not stealing it. That's what happens when someone "shares" their music with someone else, right? They let the other person borrow the music and when done, the person returns the music back to the person who bought the cd/album/mp3/whatever, not keeping a copy for themselves.
Comment: Because it works (Score 2) 856
by smooth wombat (#46407849) Attached to: Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires
Comment: Re:The worst kind of human beings (Score 3, Insightful) 144
by smooth wombat (#46370225) Attached to: Study: Half of In-App Purchases Come From Only 0.15% of Players
she'd spent something on the order of $400 playing Candy Crush. That amount floored me... I couldn't believe anyone would do that!
But it's okay if someone spends the same amount of money on a video card, camera lens, monitor or anything else they want to spend the money on, right?
Just because you wouldn't spend that much money on a game doesn't mean others won't. How much money did you spend (if you're old enough to have done so) on video games growing up? I would be willing to bet you easily spent that much enjoying yourself playing games.
Comment: Re:It's not all about the recording (Score 1) 921
by smooth wombat (#46357693) Attached to: Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass
flaunting that they had an extra $1,500 just lying around.
Point of order. I just spent significantly more than that on a camera yesterday. I agonized over the purchase for the last several months in the process.
Did I have the money lying around? Technically, yes. I had no problem with the monetary aspect. Does that mean I'll be flaunting to everyone else who doesn't have said camera that I am a have rather than a have not?
While Glass is an annoyance, just because someone buys something somewhat expensive does not mean they are flaunting their wealth. Maybe, like me, they want to have it because it will allow them to expand their horizons.
P.S. If you're going to reply I'm just as annoying as they people are because of my purchase, I'll be sure to remind you the next time you purchase your $200 headphones, $500 video card or something similar which other people would categorize as flaunting your wealth.
Comment: Staying behind the curve wins again! (Score 0) 93
by smooth wombat (#46346117) Attached to: IE Vulnerability Exposing Banking Logins, Spreading Rapidly
Still running IE8 so no problems.
Comment: Re:Forgone conclusion? (Score 0) 47
by smooth wombat (#46288273) Attached to: BREIN Gives Up on Dutch Pirate Bay Blockade
People will pay a reasonable price for content make it more easy than pirating.
Such as .99 cents on the Apple Store and elsewhere?
The fact of the matter is people believe they are entitled to take whatever they want without having to pay the artist. Period. You can try to use whatever semantics you want but in the end the result is the same. People have taken something which they do not have a right to and have not compensated the person/group who has created the work.
Comment: Re:Classic Slashdot (Score 2, Insightful) 131
by smooth wombat (#46164547) Attached to: Why the Latest FISA Release By Google Et Al. Means Squat
I said the same thing. I have no idea what drug the people were on when they considered redesigning nbcnews.com, but if ever there was a drug that needed to be outlawed, that is the one.
Who in their right mind could possibly think that making a web site look like Windows 8 was a good idea?
Comment: About time (Score 1) 225
Something needs to be done to get them to lose weight and stop leeching off everyone else who has to pay for their high medical expenses.
Unfortunately we can't force them to lose weight, only make "suggestions", unlike being forced to hand over your money to a private company or have the government reach into your bank account and forcibly extract the money.
Comment: Re:From the maker's perspective? (Score 1) 360
by smooth wombat (#46153973) Attached to: Why Games Should Be In the Public Domain
When dealing with woo, there is no train of logic. What the OP said is correct. Some people believe if you add something to water, then dilute that water to the point where there might be a single part per billion (or even trillion) of that substance in the water, that somehow, magically, the water will "remember" what was put in it and act as a conduit for a "cure" of what ails you.
In fact, when you read homeopathic literature they will tell you the more dilute a substance is, the stronger its potency.
What these scam artists fail to explain is how water can retain this memory of a substance while completely forgetting about all the piss, feces, rotting vegetable matter and dead carcasses that have been run through it over the eons. By their own logic, these substances, by being so dilute, should be exponentially more powerful than whatever they put in the water.
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Comment: Re:Obsoletes Older XBox 360's - Thanks Microcrap! (Score 1) 176
by jaraxle (#32676508) Attached to: New Xbox 360 S Uses Less Power, Makes Less Noise
Yah well, they may call the newer XBox 360's -' XBox 360's' but they aren't the same and the games being made now aren't the same either - I have an older XBox 360 and it flat out won't play the newer games.
Umm... what? I would really like to know what games your XBox 360 won't play, because I have an original Arcade (replacement for the Core system) as well as a newer but still discontinued Pro (just 2 years old) and both of them play every game I've tried recently without issue. Not to flame you or anything, but you really should cite not only what model/revision of 360 you have as well as what games it will not play, and what it does instead of playing them.
Comment: Re:no (Score 1) 631
by jaraxle (#32335408) Attached to: Emergency Dispatcher Fired For Facebook Drug Joke
Absolutely, 100% wrong. They can. The fact that the individual works for a public service and not a private corporation is actually worse for their case, not better for it.
Correct. I work for a police organization and there are a great many things I simply cannot do in my private life (that could become public knowledge) that I could do while being employed by a private organization. With government/police/paramilitary organizations (and especially the one I work for) perception is everything, and you can get in serious shit for even small things if the perception of the thing gets out of proportion.
What I do on my own time no longer can only be considered as to what could be embarrassing to me, but also the organization I work for. It's unfortunate, but I've come to live with it (and it's not like I go out of my way to do stupid shit, particularly being a family man with teenage kids now).
Comment: Re:Responsible reporting (Score 1) 509
by jaraxle (#31581826) Attached to: Germany Warns Against Using Firefox
Specifically, the article states that the government is also warning people against switching browsers "willy nilly" every time a security hole is found because you never know what you'll be getting into. They're saying to be cautious if you're using Firefox and patch your browser with the security patch as soon as it's available.
Very responsible indeed on their part.
Comment: Re:This Is Not Censorship At All (Score 1) 492
by jaraxle (#31258316) Attached to: Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset
Nor are you restricted to using an iPhone as your cellular/handheld device.
You got an iPhone knowing that Apple has sole control over what you can and cannot put on it from their app store (jailbroken iPhones notwithstanding) so the onus is on you as a consumer at that point. There are numerous other choices to pick from with respect to cellular/wireless devices; just because you picked the one most locked down doesn't mean it's suddenly Apple's fault that you can't get apps that they don't approve of.
by jaraxle (#31248248) Attached to: Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset
This is pretty much similar to Blockbuster "censoring" porn in their video rental stores.
You can get porn from other video rental stores, but it's Blockbuster's decision to not provide it from their stores. How does this infringe upon your rights at all? Don't like their stance on what they choose to carry in their own store? Don't provide them with your business. It's as simple as that.
Comment: Re:Ubisoft? Pfft (Score 1) 497
by jaraxle (#30916814) Attached to: Future Ubisoft Games To Require Constant Internet Access
If someone like Ubisoft does it, and it's just one more reason for people not to buy their crap, and they go under, maybe it will make other companies think twice before trying similar stupidity. Maybe.
No, it will just cause a failed Ubisoft and other game companies to scream "Pirates!" all the louder. What other reason could there possibly be for declining sales of the PC versions of their games? Certainly not the horrific methods they use to combat piracy causing problems for legitimate users... oh no.
Regardless of the reason for them potentially going under, namely their own stupidity, they will never cede that point. From here onward, the bogeyman will always be piracy.
Comment: Re:Deja'vu (Score 2, Interesting) 107
by jaraxle (#30916194) Attached to: Microsoft Facing Class-Action Suit Over Xbox Live Points
However, as stated above, when you "redeem" your purchased Microsoft points on XBL to download something, if that download fails for whatever reason you can always start it again later.
If your internet connection goes down halfway through a download and doesn't come up until two days later, you can always go back to the XBL Marketplace, locate what you were downloading, and choose the option to download it again. WITHOUT paying more MS points for it. I really don't think MS can be held accountable for this, nor should they be.
While I enjoy kicking MS a bit as much as the next /.'er, this seems spurious at best. On top of that, how many people use XBL to download game addons/demos/videos/etc without any problems whatsoever? I highly doubt that poor download connections over XBL would be the fault of Microsoft in this case. I realize this is only anecdotal, but honestly some of the best download rates I've gotten are either from MS websites or over XBL (torrents notwithstanding).
Comment: Re:DND had it's issues (Score 1) 189
by jaraxle (#30831008) Attached to: Looking Back At <em>Dungeons & Dragons</em>
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+ - Stanford Researchers Spot Medical Conditions, Guns, and More in Phone Metadata->
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+ - White House urges 'geeks' to get healthcare coverage, launch start-ups-> 1
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dcblogs writes "The White House is urging tech workers, or "geeks," to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, and said having the coverage will give them the "freedom and security" to start their own businesses. "There is strong evidence that when affordable healthcare isn't exclusively tied to employment, in more instances people choose to start their own companies," wrote White House CTO Todd Park in a post to launch its #GeeksGetCovered campaign.Bruce Bachenheimer, a professor of management at Pace University and director of its Entrepreneurship Lab, said the effort is part of a broader appeal by the White House to get younger and healthier people to sign-up for Obamacare, and is in the same vein as President Obama's recent appearance on Between Two Ferns,"
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+ - Monster Rare Yellow Hypergiant Star Discovered-> 2
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+ - What It Was Like to Surf the Web in 1989->
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+ - A New Frontier for the Sharing Economy, Hiding in 170M New York Cab Rides
Submitted by curtwoodward
curtwoodward writes "Wanna share a cab? Despite all of the powerful communications devices in millions of pockets and purses, that's still the quickest way to split a fare in a big city. Researchers at MIT's Sensable City Lab say the system's overdue for an upgrade. They mapped all of the taxi rides in New York City in 2011, more than 170 million trips made by more than 13,500 cabs. By comparing the GPS coordinates of the pickup and drop-off locations with the timestamps of those rides, they figured it's possible to reduce cab miles by 40 percent if just a fraction of cab passengers were willing to add a few minutes to their trip and double up with someone else. You can play with the data yourself at HubCab."
+ - Snowden, The NSA and the Future of the Offensive Internet
Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes "Despite everything that has transpired in the last year, Edward Snowden sounded calm, reflective and in some ways wistful yesterday discussing the fallout and consequences of the multitude of NSA programs and methods he’s revealed. Snowden bemoaned the fact that the NSA specifically and the intelligence community in general have shifted its focus to offensive operations, implying that defense should be focus. But now that those agencies have the tremendous offensive powers they’ve accumulated in the last decade, they’re never giving them back.
Whatever your feelings are about Snowden, listening to him speak about why he did what he did, what he hoped to accomplish and how he feels about the public reaction is informative. He spoke Monday for about an hour from an undisclosed location in Moscow and, while he touched on many subjects, Snowden returned several times to the idea that the NSA and other government agencies have hijacked the Internet for their own purposes, all in the name of protecting us fromsomething.
Given those abilities, and more importantly, the legal authority to use them, the NSA is, of course, going to do so. If you have a Ferrari, you don’t leave it sitting in the garage, you drive the hell out of it. Technology advances, regardless of our desire for it to slow down sometimes, and, as Bruce Schneier often says, attacks only get better, not worse. And the NSA is the apex predator of this environment. The agency hasn’t abandoned its defensive mission, not by a long shot, but offense is sexy and provides tangible results to show the higher-ups.
Offense is the present and it’s also the future. And, to borrow a phrase, the future will retire undefeated."
Comment: It's all in the accounting (Score 1) 116
by sjbe (#46466143) Attached to: US Court Freezes Assets of Mt. Gox CEO
Bitcoins may have no legal value, but wouldn't Gox remain on the hook for the dollar-denominated balances in their care?
Not necessarily. Depends on the nature of the custodial agreement and how the accounting was handled. Local laws play a role too. Remember that we we aren't talking about a regulated bank here so the usual rules regarding currency and banking don't necessarily apply.
And the bitcoins have a legal value, they just aren't considered currency by Japan. Big difference. They're still an asset, just legally speaking they are a different kind of asset. It's a distinction that in the end probably doesn't matter all that much.
+ - How the NSA Plans to Infect 'Millions' of Computers with Malware->
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+ - Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buy Out of Coal Industry - to Shut it Down
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Comment: What happens when you drive across a border? (Score 1) 74
by sjbe (#46464953) Attached to: AT&T, Audi Announce In-Car 4G LTE Plans, Starting At $99 For 6 Months
I'm curious what happens when you drive into another country. For instance I drive from the US to Canada about once a year. Would I receive some obscene roaming data charges just for driving into another country? I have to turn off my cell phone data in Canada to avoid sticker shock on my next bill. Don't really want to have to do that for my car too.
+ - Popcorn-time: MPAA's nightmare come true
Submitted by felipou
felipou writes "A nice and simple UI wrapped around a handful of APIs. An application for simply watching movies. Just pick the one you want, and start playing.
Basically, it "streams" movies using torrents, and use some APIs to get the list of movies available, metadata and subtitles.
The hosted packages were already pulled from the service Mega for violating their terms of service.
But the source is on Github :)
Main link: http://getpopcornti.me/
Github repository: https://github.com/popcorn-time"
Comment: Re:Why dealerships get a free ride (Score 2) 298
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Problem Found: Part of the response (Message body) contains "" which is an invalid XML character. Any idea how to remove it?
I'm using Exchange Web Services to pull in a large number of emails from an Inbox. It worked for the first 1141 emails, but it is failing on 1142 (Skipping ahead to 1143 works fine). I have no idea why it's failing to retrieve the email, but the error I'm getting is this:
Uncaught SoapFault exception: [Client] looks like we got no XML document
I outputted the response XML to a file for 1142 and 1143, and the only difference was the ItemId line (As expected).
The email does exist in the Inbox, although it contains some odd characters (Represented by those weird square symbols).
I am using a slightly modified version of the php-ews library. Here is part of my code:
$response = $ews->FindItem($Request);
$items = $response->ResponseMessages->FindItemResponseMessage->RootFolder->Items->Message;
foreach ( $items as $item ) {
$ItemRequest = new EWSType_FindItemType();
$ItemRequest->ItemShape = new EWSType_ItemResponseShapeType();
$ItemRequest->ItemShape->BaseShape = EWSType_DefaultShapeNamesType::ALL_PROPERTIES;
$ItemRequest->ItemShape->BodyType = EWSType_BodyTypeResponseType::TEXT;
$ItemRequest->ItemShape->BodyTypeSpecified = true;
$ItemRequest->ItemIds = new EWSType_NonEmptyArrayOfBaseItemIdsType();
$ItemRequest->ItemIds->ItemId = new EWSType_ItemIdType();
$ItemRequest->ItemIds->ItemId->Id = $item->ItemId->Id;
$response = $ews->GetItem( $ItemRequest ); // Code fails here
So I have no idea why the request would fail. I've tried adding the option "exceptions" => 0, "trace" => 1, an d I can see that __last_response DOES contain the response I was expected. Why did it mysteriously fail even though I got back the right response?
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I fixed the issue by extending my SoapClient class and implementing a __doRequest method that cleaned invalid characters from the XML message.
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Now that shared_ptr is in tr1, what do you think should happen to the use of std::auto_ptr? They both have different use cases, but all use cases of auto_ptr can be solved with shared_ptr, too. Will you abandon auto_ptr or continue to use it in cases where you want to express explicitly that only one class has ownership at any given point?
My take is that using auto_ptr can add clarity to code, precisely by adding nuance and an indication of the design of the code, but on the other hand, it add yet another subtle issue when training new programmers: they need to understand smart pointers and the fine details of how they work. When you use only one smart pointer everywhere, you can just lay down a rule 'wrap all pointers in shared_ptr' and be done with it.
What's your take on this?
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To provide a little more ammunition to the 'avoid std::auto_ptr' camp: auto_ptr is being deprecated in the next standard (C++0x). I think this alone is good enough ammunition for any argument to use something else.
However, as Konrad Rudolph mentioned, the default replacement for auto_ptr should probably be boost::scoped_ptr. The semantics of scoped_ptr more closely match those of auto_ptr and it is intended for similar uses. The next C++09 standard will have something similar called unique_ptr.
However, using shared_ptr anywhere that scoped_ptr should be used will not break anything, it'll just add a very slight bit of inefficiency to deal with the reference count if the object is never actually going to be shared. So for private member pointers that will never be handed out to another object - use scoped_ptr. If the pointer will be handed out to something else (this includes using them in containers or if all you want to do is transfer ownership and not keep or share it) - use shared_ptr.
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Mike, unfortunately there is no tr1::scoped_ptr. Apparently they wanted to keep it simple. I don't know about the status in TR2 but since the next standard will introduce the unique_ptr instead, I doubt there will be a scoped_ptr. – Konrad Rudolph Oct 14 '08 at 9:16
Sorry about that - you're right. – Michael Burr Oct 14 '08 at 15:03
Accepted this one, didn't know auto_ptr was being deprecated. Like you say, that alone is an authoritative reason to not use it; I liked MSalters' example of 'relinquish ownership semantics', though. – Roel May 7 '09 at 9:59
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auto_ptr is nice in signatures, too. When a function takes an auto_ptr<T> by value, it means it will consume the T. If a function returns an auto_ptr<T>, it's clear that it relinquishes ownership. This can communicate your intents about the lifetime.
On the other hand, using scoped_ptr<T> implies that you don't want to care about the lifetime of the T. This also implies you can use it in more places. Both smart pointers are valid choices, you can certainly have both in a single program.
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Best description of what auto_ptr should be used for. – Loki Astari Oct 13 '08 at 18:53
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"Use shared_ptr everywhere" is a good default rule, and certainly a good starting point for teaching people about responsible use of smart pointers. However, it's not always the best choice.
If you don't need shared ownership, shared_ptr is overkill: it has to allocate a separate memory block for the reference count, which can impact performance, and it is less clear documentation-wise.
Personally, I use std::auto_ptr in many places where boost::scoped_ptr would also suffice: e.g. holding a heap-allocated object before ownership is transferred elsewhere, where the intervening operations might throw.
C++0x will have std::unique_ptr to complement std::shared_ptr as a better alternative to std::auto_ptr. When it becomes widely available I'll start using that.
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I believe that it's best-practice is to substitute all uses of std::auto_ptr by boost::scoped_ptr unless std::tr1::shared_ptr meets the requirements better, if you don't mind using Boost. On the other hand, it was surely intentional that scoped_ptr wasn't included in TR1.
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scoped_ptr has its use, namely single-ownership that doesn't require transfer. In those cases, it should take the place of auto_ptr. However, where single-ownership, transfer semantics is appropriate, auto_ptr should still be used. :-) – Chris Jester-Young Oct 13 '08 at 9:33
What makes scoped_ptr better than a const auto_ptr? There is an item about auto_ptr in Exceptional C++ and a paragraph especially about const auto_ptr; from reading about scoped_ptr I don't see any advantages over a const auto_ptr. – Roel Oct 13 '08 at 12:16
auto_ptr may yield ownership. Often, this isn't required. Basically, a scoped_ptr implements just RAII for an arbitrary pointer in a given block. – Konrad Rudolph Oct 13 '08 at 13:37
const auto_ptr can't yield ownership. The copy constructor takes a non-const reference. I would still use scoped_ptr though as I think it conveys the intent a little bit better. – Greg Rogers Oct 14 '08 at 15:20
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I believe that "wrap all pointers in shared_ptr" should indeed be the default mode, and is suitable advice to give to your junior coders. However, in the special ownership cases that you mentioned, auto_ptr is indeed more appropriate and its use should be encouraged under such circumstances.
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I have 4 text files that I want to read and find the top 5 most occurring names of. The text files have names in the following format "Rasmus,M,11". Below is my code which right now is able to call all of the text files and then read them. Right now, this code prints out all of the names in the files.
def top_male_names ():
for x in range (2008, 2012):
txt = "yob" + str(x) + ".txt"
file_handle = open(txt, "r", encoding="utf-8")
line = file_handle.readline().strip()
while line != "":
print (line)
line = file_handle.readline().strip()
My question is, how can I keep track of all of these names, and find the top 5 that occur the most? The only way I could think of was creating a variable for each name, but that wouldn't work because there are 100s of entries in each text file, probably with 100s of different of names.
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Look into collections.Counter in the standard library. – Wooble Nov 25 '13 at 14:34
There is no need to file_handle.seek(0). Delete that line with no fear. – Roberto Bonvallet Nov 25 '13 at 14:41
+1 for Counter, see docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#counter-objects which has an example almost identical to what you are trying to do. – jonrsharpe Nov 25 '13 at 14:41
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This is the gist of it:
from collections import Counter
counter = Counter()
for line in file_handle:
name, gender, age = line.split(',')
counter[name] += 1
print counter.most_common()
You can adapt it to your program.
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If you need to count a number of words in a text, use regex.
For example
import re
my_string = "Wow! Is this true? Really!?!? This is crazy!"
words = re.findall(r'\w+', my_string) #This finds words in the document
>>> words
['Wow', 'Is', 'this', 'true', 'Really', 'This', 'is', 'crazy']
"Is" and "is" are two different words. So we can just capitalize all the words, and then count them.
from collections import Counter
cap_words = [word.upper() for word in words] #capitalizes all the words
word_counts = Counter(cap_words) #counts the number each time a word appears
>>> word_counts
Counter({'THIS': 2, 'IS': 2, 'CRAZY': 1, 'WOW': 1, 'TRUE': 1, 'REALLY': 1})
Now reading a file :
import re
from collections import Counter
with open('file.txt') as f: text = f.read()
words = re.findall(r'\w+', text )
cap_words = [word.upper() for word in words]
word_counts = Counter(cap_words)
Then you only have to sort the dict containing all the words, for the values not for keys and see the top 5 words.
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I want to squish a whole bunch of stuff together from various sources around my local network When I run the following code I get the error 'http://cdn.mydomain.org/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.js' is not a valid virtual path ehich is fair enough, because it isn't
Is there an option in SquishIt or any other 'squisher' that will take uri's for arguments?
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If you're trying to use a remote resource there is AddRemote, which expects the following, a localPath when debugging and a remotePath when in release. As you are forcing release, it'll always use your remotePath.
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tebsu 10-01-2012 12:30 AM
Infected Ground Elite - How to survive?
I am a tactical officer and i dont know a lot about ground skills and so on. I would like to know how to survive the Borg in the boss room. I usually position myself at the ramp in front of the door so i can just duck there to avoid being shot. However, after a while, the Borg drones on the left and right start to fire. When one of them fires, i can heal myself but when there are 2, i have a serious problem and usually get killed. I run the complete MKXI MACO ground set and i would like to get the MKXII but this will be hard if i dont know how to survive.
ps: i tried to cloak myself but this didnt help. the drones continued attacking me.
elandarksky 10-01-2012 12:56 AM
Ill try give you what i do when i play Elites on a tact captain :D
No obviously being a tact means your high dps, but squishy due to lack of healing abilities.
The maco set is great, use the shield capacitance carefully.
The kits you choose can make a huge impact on your gameplay too, the only 3 kits i find viable for combat are;
-Fire team, lots of buffs, good damage
-Squad leader, Overwatch and rally cry GREAT for exposing enemies for exploit attacks
-Operative, Not as handy vs elite borg (they perceive too well, this is why they still attack you when 'cloaked') but great spike damage.
What kit for the boss room?
-Squad leader is great for IGE on the way to the boss, but in the boss room... not so, rally cry will actually aggro nearby borg, big no-no
-Operative again, limited use because of borg's natural high perception,
-Fire team i usually use, high dps spikes.
Some tips about the boss room that come in handy:
- No security escort AT ALL!, the use 'draw fire' (aggros borg) and randomly attack borg that havent been aggroed, also act as chain-lightning-bait for becky
-Draw Fire, (a useless ability for a tactical in all fairness)
- Using the 'LRC' (stand at doorway kill borg to left, right then center then 3 people jump) tactic you will know the borg on the left/right will be re spawning about the same time becky is free, so stay away from that half of the room (being at the entrance means you suffer flanking damage from the left/right) I would suggest move to the 3rd/4th node and utilize your maco sniper
-AOE weapons can inadvertently aggro borg that have not noticed the team, e.g. splitbeam rifles/ full auto rifles, pulsewaves etc, if you are using one of these as a secondary weapon be VERY careful when using the secondary attacks
hereticknight085 10-01-2012 09:38 AM
Feel free to use pulsewaves when freeing up the nodes, since their knockback is a good way to push drones into the plasma (which we all agree is muuuuch easier than actually killing them). And ONLY use it on Manus when she is up close (less than 8m).
A tactic I have found is good is to sit on those pipes that jut out from the sides of the plats. They actually reduce your profile enough that drones on the middle and some of the sides have trouble targetting you, so they just sit and stare, and usually don't shoot.
Also, if Manus starts to target you, never stop shooting. She switches targets regularly, so if you think that lowering your dps will make you less targetted, it doesn't, just means you're wasting damage and not really helping your team. Lastly, do NOT stay close to ANY of your teammates. Manus has that evil arc attack, and it really hurts.
skhc 10-01-2012 01:34 PM
If you are looking for a loadout recommendation, I'd recommend Fire Team, a Sniper/MACO Rifle, a Pulsewave and any decent armour/shields with Plasma resist. Your MACO gear should be more than sufficient in that respect.
But to be honest, the boss room in IGE is a team affair. Survival boils down more to how your team does the room rather than what you have equipped. The most common way to do the room is LRM, although centre first can be done too, and I personally prefer it as a strategy.
LRM works like this:
The team snipes & kills the drones at the front Left and front Right of the platform, before moving into the Middle platform and clearing it. The team then goes to the front right platform, enters the sequence there, uploads the virus and then goes onto the front left without any intereference from drones (because they've already been picked off). When you've got the front two platforms done, you can go to the back. Don't attack the drones at the back until you're on the platform with them, and then use a Pulsewave or HD rifle to knock them into the plasma. Then enter the sequence at the back platforms upload the virus. The advantage of this method is that the first Tac Drones to respawn will be on the front platforms, out of range of where the team will be by that stage.
Centre first works like this:
The team eliminates the drones in the centre platform, then goes to the platform nearest the entrance on the right side, elimintates the drones and enter the sequence, and then proceeds around the room clockwise, defeating the drones and entering the sequence at each corner. You don't engage any drones until you're on the same platform as them, which, so you can blast at least two of every three off with a pulsewave if you position yourself properly. The advantage of this method is that it's a bit quicker overall and you have a better chance of completely avoiding any Tac Drone respawn.
Most teams use LRM, but I always ask before going into the room to be sure. As a general rule, you shouldn't be engaging any platform of Tac Drones by yourself.
When you say you stay at the ramp, do you mean you stay there for the duration of the room, or just after the boss spawns?
You shouldn't be staying at the ramp for the whole room, because once you clear the front left and front right platforms, you won't do anything for your team, because you need to help them do the consoles and clear the back. Some teams leave 2 players on the middle, but I'm not a fan of that approach and think the team should stay together as a five, that means you should be moving clockwise around the room until the boss spawns, after which you'll want to spread out, because the boss has an electrical attack than can chain from one player to another. So get away from and/or break line of sight with each other.
If you're only moving back to the front after the boss is spawned, then it's probably not the best place to be because the front right and front left platform Tac drones will be the first to respawn if your team is LRMing. If you're looking for a place to keep your head down and break line of sight with the boss or with a team mate who's been hit when the boss is active, the consoles you enter the sequence into can be used, although you have to crouch behind them. You can also use the pillars on the platform Rebecca is floating in at the start.
Elan's point about not using pets (security escorts, quantum copies) or ranged AoE to reduce the possiblity to aggroing the whole room at once is good advice too. Don't use them after the boss spawns either because she'll be able to target them and "chain" her electrical attack from them to other players.
tebsu 10-01-2012 01:39 PM
only when the boss appears (worked in normal so hoped that it would work in elite too but it didnt, thats why i went to the forums). thanks for the hints so far.
glassguitar 10-01-2012 03:44 PM
My experience is that the borg on the platforms don't aggro unless attacked. I have often tanked Becky crouched on the ramp. What is likely happening to you is either you or one of your team has inadvertently shot at the platform borg.
nicha0 10-02-2012 06:11 AM
The final room is pretty easy, but timing is the key, bad teams create worse situations for themselves.
Plan it before entering. As mentioned, LRM method.
Enter, crouch on the ramp. Take out the left platform drones, the right platforms drones, then the centre platform. Disable the right shield tower. Have the 2 people not on console duty one step ahead of the console team and clear the next set of two borg. Disable the left, then the far left tower, and finally the right. No borg should have respawned yet.
Split up, but don't have the whole room agroed.
The key is to kill fast, you are going to have borg respawning very soon and making a mess. If they respawn one person has to deal with them, if that person has Boss agro they are dead.
The advice about a tac captain using the Maco set is bad advice. Use the omega set, even a tac captain can tank Becky as long as no drones agro them. Crouch plus set stats and bonus gives you near 100 dodge, which isn't as good as it sounds but Becky isn't terribly offensive nor accurate. She doesn't fire as much as normal drones, and a miss allows for your shields to regen, on bad streaks use the hypo.
abystander0 10-08-2012 03:41 PM
As mentioned above, using the left, right, center (middle) method of clearing when you enter is the most effective. It will dictate what spawns where.
I usually play KDF, but when I am using a tactical captain, I like to use a high density beam rifle as a primary weapon (with the honor guard weapon as offhand). The beam rifle is a long range weapon with a 100% chance at +25 repel. This will allow you to launch any borg on the corner platforms into the plasma with ease. Pulsewaves have a 66% chance for knockback, which make them inferior to the beam rifle for the purpose of shooting the borg into the plasma
I have found that when using the LRC/LRM method, that after the last generator is disabled, that jumping to the front right platform is a fairly easy way to control what spawns on you. Since the front right should be respawning about the time the generator in the center is blown. When they do, you have a window of opportunity to shoot them off the platform using the beam rifle, into the plasma. With this platform cleared, you can just use this platform to shoot "becky" from. Just remember to keep your distance from the center platform right side spawn.
Fire team kit is pretty good. I usually use the squad leader kit though, since I usually don't draw aggro from the tactical drones with the team heal and having damage resistance for when I do get shot at is always a good thing.
Though bear in mind...your mileage may vary, not every method may work for you.
dassemsto 10-09-2012 02:18 AM
Lots of good advice here, but the way I read it, your problem starts when you start fighting Rebecca?
First condition when fighting rebecca, is that noone on your team runs around aggroing borgs randomly. If they do, you don't have a chance.
I usually like to crouch on a pipe near one of the platforms. I carry a HD rifle, and the MACO Sniper rifle. If a drone near me on my platform aggros, i raise up, shoot it with the HD, and crouch again. Then it will most likely have lost line of fire. The same if the centre drones aggro on me. Push them out of range with HD rifle.
That said, if rebecca gets stuck on you, you will die without heals. Just put in as much damage as you can before you die, and hope your teammates do the same. If you're hitting her hard enough, she will die before you.
I prefer the Fire Team kit, because of the increased damage, and because of Supressing Fire, that reduces you enemys damage output a lot!
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3/24/2006 12:05:00 AM - Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON -- Today's big debate over Iraq seems to be: Is there or is there not a civil war? Yes, say the defeatists, citing former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a man with an ax to grind against the current (elected) government that excluded him.
No, not really, not yet, not quite, say U.S. officials and commanders, as well as Iraq's president, also hardly the most neutral of observers.
This debate appears to be important because the perception that there has been an outbreak of civil war following the Samarra bombing pushed some waverers to jump ship on their support for the war. Most famous of these is William F. Buckley, who after Samarra declared that it is time for ``the acknowledgment of defeat.'' Defeat? Yes, because of the inability of the Iraqi people to ``suspend internal divisions'' to allow a new democratic order to emerge.
What we don't want to see is the private militias taking the law into their own hands. The army, by all accounts, has remained cohesive with relatively good discipline. The problem is the police forces, which have been infiltrated by some of the Mahdi Army and other freelance Shiite vigilantes.
We cannot allow parts of the police apparatus to become instruments of Moqtada al-Sadr or other private interests. And not just because they act viciously and vindictively, but also because their insubordination and independence are a threat to the very stability of the new Iraqi state.
The principal issue, and measure of our success, is the shaping of disciplined and effective security forces. And that is why the political negotiations that have been dragging on are so critical. It is the political track that must secure leadership for both the defense and interior ministries that are nonsectarian and committed to a unitary force whose members do not answer to private warlords.
Civil wars are not eternal. This war will end not with an Appomattox instrument of surrender. It will end when a critical mass of Sunnis stops supporting the insurgency and throws in its lot with the new Iraq.
How does this happen? The stick is military -- the increased cost in the Sunni blood of continuing the fight. But the carrot is political -- a place at the table for those Sunnis, some of whom are represented in parliament, who are prepared to abandon the insurgency for a share of power, a share of oil income and a sense of security and dignity in the new Iraq.
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Consider what the French electorate just said.
In Greece, the returns were equally dramatic.
PASOK, the governing center-left party, ran third with 13 percent of the vote. New Democracy, the center-right party that is in coalition with PASOK, ran first but won only 19 percent.
These two parties saw their combined support sliced in half since the last election and may be unable to form a government that can continue to impose the austerity the German-led eurozone is demanding as the price of Greece's bailout.
The parties that gained most were the communists with 7 percent, Syriza, a radical-left party, with 17 percent, and Golden Dawn, a far-right party that has called for land mines on the border, with 7 percent. All three will bedevil any coalition that accedes to German demands.
What is causing the collapse of the center in Europe?
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Exactly! The democrats aren't the only people who blindly follow whatever the party tells them. Conservatives are suppose to be smarter than that, but many just pick the "R" and think only on party lines. When are conservatives going to be true patriots and stand against liberals-both democrat and republican? The only reason I voted for romney was because my husband would have blamed me if Obama won. We are being played and if you want to play there game, just keep doing whatever your told by the republican elitist. I'm done following orders. I won't stand by and let others control me or "reason" our country into socialism/maxism. I think people, including many democrats who aren't bleeding liberals are tired of the two parties. | http://townhall.com/social/usercommentprint/6405995 | dclm-gs1-201460002 | false | false | {
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Stoke boss Tony Pulis criticised Jack Cork for his reaction to the challenge that earned Steven Nzonzi a red card in the 3-3 draw with Southampton and confirmed the Potters will appeal the decision.
"I was disappointed with the reaction of the player. That didn't help. I'm a great advocate for players getting up and getting on with things and that doesn't help referees.
Rickie Lambert opened the scoring in the 10th minute but Kenwyne Jones made amends for an awful miss by equalising with a smart backheel six minutes later.
A mistake from Robert Huth, who miscued a clearance against the bar, presented Jay Rodriguez with Saints' second in the 24th minute, and 12 minutes later Andy Wilkinson's own goal made it 3-1.
Southampton should have extended their lead but Asmir Begovic saved Rodriguez's shot and Guly Do Prado missed an open goal from the follow-up, and they were made to pay as Stoke went down the other end and Upson scored from a corner in the 67th minute.
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DJ JOHNBOY - Accomplished DJ, Promoter, Producer as owner of Energy Productions and co-creator of the group 2-OHMS (find below in 'Like" or "Album") - JB got his start in Atlanta, GA with his first residency 17 years ago. As his skills progressed so did his residencies. JB has also spun alongside such talents as Huda Hudia, Trixie, Mea, Donald Glaude, Scott Henry, Freaky Flow, Majik Mike, Keith McKenzie, Factor e, Trashy, Malicious Mike, Baby Anne, Jen Lasher, Bassbin Twins, DB, Danny the Wildchild, Phantom 45, Diesleboy, Viro, Charles Feelgood, Cirrus, Omar Santana, Keoki, Lab 3 and quite a few others. JB produced countless events under Energy Productions in Atlanta from '96 to '02 including a Moonshine Over America Tour in '99. Being considered 1 of the top 5 producers in Atlanta during that time, JB earned his place as a Regional Promotional Manager for Moonshine Records. After taking a short break he moved to Wilmington, NC and produced a slew of events at a club in which he held his residency for 4 years, Fusion nightclub. JB spun at many other clubs from NC to FL while at the same time owning 2 record stores Newwax and Heavy Rotation. Now living back in ATL and DJ'ing at Halo Lounge JB specializes in all kinds of bangin' House and Breakbeats. He loves to spin it all including Dubstep, DnB and even Progressive Trance. With his electrifying performances and Intense ENERGY JB will hype up the entire audience and he is definitely unforgettable! Studying music for over 30 years, JB has what it takes to move the dance floor and the world! Live for music cause music is life... Please check out my side project 2-OMHS with my lil bro - DJ DREW B
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1. Abdullah Badawy
2. John Barber aka: DJ JOHNBOY
3. Steve Aoki
4. A-Trak
6. Heroes x Villains
7. Oh Snap Kid
8. Coachella Festival
10. Dj Puzzle
11. Romeo Cologne
12. chuckyfoto
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