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WILLISTON, Vt., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Laborie Medical Technologies today announced that the TETRA(TM)-NIRS (Near Infrared Spectroscopy) system was given clearance to proceed with marketing efforts for this new and exciting technology in the USA by the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA).
Laborie Medical Technologies is initiating final product packaging as per its internationally-recognized quality system (ISO-13485) so that TETRA(TM) can be made available to the broadest urological and pelvic floor assessment installed base.
"TETRA(TM) is expected to provide insight into bladder activity using non-invasive laser patch technology. TETRA(TM) has been tuned to analyze bladder outlet obstruction as well as bladder activity not readily available on simple uroflowmetry. Further studies towards additional uses are being made available through our extensive luminary network of Aquarius and Triton centers of excellence," says Ing Han Goping - CEO of LABORIE.
Preparations are underway to provide new and existing LABORIE clients compatibility with TETRA(TM) via appropriate upgrade paths. These upgrade options will allow many LABORIE users to preserve their existing investments as much as possible when adapting the new infrared measurement modality.
About Laborie Medical Technologies
Founded in 1967 by Ray Laborie, Laborie Medical Technologies is the leading global manufacturer of urodynamics equipment used in the diagnosis and treatment of incontinence, BPH, and voiding dysfunction.
As LABORIE enters its 41st anniversary in business, it has established itself as "the" supplier of pelvic floor assessment systems in many of the key academic centers. LABORIE's AQUARIUS Wireless Urodynamic System is considered the benchmark diagnostic device for clinical trials and medical research.
LABORIE's product line includes: urodynamic diagnostics, biofeedback/stimulation systems, compact ultrasound, computerized and physical bladder modeling tools, EMR solutions, consumables, as well as accredited education.
The network of installed users has afforded LABORIE the opportunity to feed this network with new and exciting technology on a continuous basis. Recently, LABORIE introduced the world's most compact, high resolution USB ultrasound system (NuWav(TM)), and it intends on providing the TETRA(TM) technology in the same manner. LABORIE has offices in Canada, USA, Belgium, China, UK and now Paris, France and San Paulo, Brazil. It has direct sales and distribution networks in 52 countries across North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
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Well, the red ring of death would seem to indicate that MS's gear isn't always the highest quality...
Xenoblade, Last Story, Monster Hunter Tri
See, now, that's precisely the problem. Even their good games sound like stupid kids games from the 80's. Maybe they should make the translations from Japanese a bit less literal...
Nah, Nintendo couldn't care less about older gamers. Their target audiences are children, teens and young adults. They can continue to re-release effectively the exact same game over and over forever to this group because the group it's self it transitory.
it's self it...
Wow. Even for slashdot, that's quite some mangling!
If they don't steal some core players from MS and Sony, they're sunk this time around.
Because if there's one thing that the recent success of the Wii, games on mobile devices, and the move to freemium models has shown us, it's that the market for casual gamers is much smaller than the market for "core" gamers.
No, wait. I have that backwards.
As much as I would LOVE to think otherwise, the fact is that casual gamers outnumber hardcore gamers by a wide margin, they're quickly becoming worth more to the companies making games, and companies have no need to cater to us if they want to succeed. In
and normal people are getting frustrated by the difficulty of dealing with consoles that require constant firmware updates and patches. They want an appliance, not a computer.
Actually computers still let you work while they are downloading upgrades. They also let you choose when you want to get your upgrades. And what irritates console gamers the most, from what I gather, is being forced to wait while a full Gb of updates is downloaded just so they can play their games (I still hold a grudge, Heavy Rain). I have a 512Kbps connection - and a very unstable one, to boot -, so a console like that would be highly impractical for me.
Anyway, my point is that you kind of got it backward
I don't disagree with what you said. Traditional computers are definitely about giving users control, whereas appliances are not. That said, I think that's a discussion along a different axis than where I had intended to go. The axis I was talking about was the level of hassle. Computers, because they give users more control, also offer more nuisances than locked-down devices. That's just the nature of the beast.
Appliances are supposed to be things that you simply use without having to think about the detai
I don't disagree with most of what you said, but I think you misunderstood some of what I said. Let me clarify.
I do disagree regarding game sales for the Wii mattering as much as you say. The lack of sell-through on games isn't, I believe, as much of an issue as we might hope. I know a few different people with Wii consoles, and the only one getting dusty is mine. All of the others see regular use with their older games. A group of light-gaming college guys I know still play Super Smash Bros. Brawl regularl
A handful, yes. I also have a few original Xbox games as well and no way to play those either.
These days, in addition to new games I love picking up games that passed by me the first time and playing them, and I plan those purchases out well in advance. I knew I wanted to play these games years ago, so when I spotted good deals on eBay, I went ahead and picked them up, knowing that I'd eventually pick up a 360 (or a later device with the same compatibility) when the price was right. All told, I doubt I've s
Nintendo proved that you could sell an underpowered console at a profit from day one and still make piles of money. Apple and numerous Android manufacterers have shown that you can sell a nifty device at a decent profit margin and satisfy millions of people with $1 games.
Yeah, if anything I think it's the other way around. Casual gamers are often very casual - a $1 smartphone/tablet game may be enough, why get a $200-300 console? In 2006 there really weren't many other casual gaming options except flash games, in 2013 there are plenty. Hell, sometimes they drive an insanely crazy bargain against themselves, for example I got Hector: Badge of Carnage for the iPhone and it's a steal for $3 - actually 3x$1 so you can try it for a dollar, as opposed to paying $19,99 on the Telltalegames site. I can get Angry Birds [amazon.co.uk] for the PC at a bargain price of only 6.47 GBP. It's like they don't want to sell for the PC at all unless you're hemorrhaging money.
As for the xbox/ps3, I think they both know the next generation will last much longer than this one - just look at graphics card reviews and how far they have to crank it up to 2560x1600 at Ultra/Extreme/Enthusiast/Maximum quality level and the most punishing AA modes to show the difference. The next gen consoles will have full HD and "enough" shaders for a 1920x1080 screen and will not be outdated for at least a decade. They're waiting because they want to have a little edge over the other - better to have an edge in 10 years than be first to the market for 1 year. Microsoft couldn't honestly couldn't care about their positioning relative to the Wii U, it's their positioning relative to the PS4 that matters to them.
I think I agree with everything you said, except the reason for your post.
The point I was trying to make by pulling the quote I did was that I do not believe it is necessary for Nintendo to cater to hardcore gamers to succeed (i.e. it was not my intention to suggest Nintendo is in a solid spot, merely that they have other viable options than catering to hardcore gamers). It's reasonable that they could establish a successful business plan that caters exclusively to casual gamers. They helped to demonstra
Also, thanks for the post! I love reading well-considered responses.
Wii won in unit sales
And turned a profit on every unit sold.
but they have turned a generation off
That "turned off generation" already abandoned them on the gamecube. But nintendo found a whole new market of people to replace them.
continued rehashes of old franchises.
Lets see what's most anticipated according to gamestop's website:
Assassin's Creed III
Another Ghost Recon
Witcher 2
Borderlands 2
Tiger Woods PGA 13
Another Star Wars Game
Halo 4
Prototype 2
Warriors Orochi 3
Darksiders II
Resident Evil 6
Another Bioshock
Max Payne 3 (with BONUS!)
Sniper Elite 2
Dragons Dogma * first game that is not a continued rehash of an existing franchise?
Another Medal of Honor
Lollipop Chainsaw * second game that is not an existing franchise
Far Cry 3
Yep, continued rehashes of old franchises for the win. And a near uninterupted parade of FPS games. How is it you are not turned off by the xbox360?
they need to out-power the big boys and deliver some adult games
Why is that? There aren't enough Medals of Honors and Halo's on your xbox that you'd buy a wii 2.0 to play even more of them?
Hate to break it to you, but Nintendo already lost you. Pandering to you with a parade of FPSes featuring giant robots that dismember alien zombie hookers isn't really going to win you back... that market is saturated.
Going after new markets is a winning strategy... New Super Mario Bros Wii is probably one of the best games I've ever played. Super Paper Mario and Super Mario Galaxy were great too. The Metroid Primes were well done,and Kirby's epic yarn was pretty much adorable, and the kids loved them all too.
Wii won in unit sales, but they have turned a generation off with a (yes, huge-selling) fad device and continued rehashes of old franchises.
And, more to the point, lost *badly* in game sales. There are a LOT of people with Wii consoles, and most of them have Wii Sports and maybe another game or two.
That didn't put Nintendo out of business, as they don't sell the Wii at a loss, but it sure limits the upside of each sale. Sony and MS make dramatically more money per console sold, because they sell so many more games per console.
First is that they tend to be an "and a" console. Meaning people seem to own one of the others "and a Wii". Ok, nothing wrong with that, but it does seem to be that it isn't so much competing and taking away the market for the other two, but living along with them. That does, of course, mean fighting in terms of getting game sales. People may well elect to buy for their other console.
Second thing I've noticed is they don't seem to get used that much both by the people who have multiple consoles, and those t
It's highly debatable whether the Wii really "won" anything in this generation. The Wii hard great hardware sales at the beginning, but its software attachment rates were awful, it's hardware sales eventually bottomed out (while the PS3 and 360 kept going strong), and with its weak online system it had no real way to make significant income from DLC and subscriptions (just think about how much MS makes each year off of Xbox Live alone).
If there's anybody to be blamed for the Wii losing momentum, it's the third parties. They saw the Wii was selling out, and there was a huge untapped market, and they released... Rehashes, ports, and shovelware. Nintendo can only do so much in terms of software production, and there was a lot of money on the table for third parties to develop a decent game for the Wii. So what did they do? They chose to leave that money on the table, and piss away their money developing 'blockbuster' titles for the PS3
it was a fad
other than nintendo fanboys it was people like me buying the wii fit and EA Sports Active and that's it. the fit board sucked and now i have an x-box with kinect
I think it comes down to one thing, why replace a money maker, the buzz about Kinect has seemed to breathe a bit more life into the platform, the latest generation of the entry level console has brought the price point down to be competitive against Wii, and more and more of the game complexities are being handled on the server end. So again why replace a money maker, instead spend more time developing Kinect 2.0, get it right, and then own the industry.
While Microsoft has always produced quality products and by far they are the best on the industry on lots of products, they don't know how to capture that market. They want it badly, but they want to look how Nintendo succeeds with their Wii successor. By delaying the release they can learn from Nintendo's mistakes and hit them hard next year and become the #1 of next generation consoles.
Sorry, but the reason I won't own a Xbox is because of the quality. My Sony devices can run 24/7 and be just fine. Xbox on the other hand tends to burn up if you play regularly (better now, but still not the same quality as Sony or Nintendo).
A few people I worked with were Xbox fans. All of them had the same issues. 5-6 hours of hard game play daily and their Xbox would die. One guy complained to Microsoft after having to have his Xbox replaced for the 4th time in 3 months and received a reply from the
Sold about 20M more units but from what I've read in Business Week I think it was a few months ago the problem is in game sales. Those casual gamers tend to by a few games and then stop. XBox and PS3 gamers tend to by a few games a quarter. Wii has a lot of add ons too but I suspect XBox with Kinect and its higher initial price probably makes the hardware sales a wash but they sell more games.
A bigger issue might be Kinect: maybe they don't have a new piece of hardware available yet and don't want to get ca
" While Microsoft has always produced quality products"
Never owned a Xbox360 have you. The graphics chip falling OFF the board because of a massive defect in cooling design is not my definition of "quality product"
Just keep in mind, MS and Sony, that every year your systems age is another year for more of your users to look at their friends' new PC's and say "Wow, that blows away my console!" Being more-and-more obsolete is not a good position to be in in the videogaming world. Every time I've turned away from consoles in the past, it's been because I was impressed by how advanced the PC's had gotten compared to the consoles.
ok, until you get to the part where you have to buy a $500 graphics card plus the other parts of the PC
Yay that lame ass argument again. Right now you can put together a PC for $650 that will be better specced then even the next gen consoles will be. There is no reason to spend $500 on a GPU unless you are gaming across 3 monitors.
and my consoles double as blu ray players, music players, youtube on TV, watching movies from USB stick, etc
So you're a Linux user, eh?
Except for youtube and games my Asus O!play does it too for $65 AND watching moves from an USB HD. Take that USB stick. Wait my TV takes an USB stock too...
I really wanted to use my xbox for movie watching but it was too loud. How is the ps3 in terms of noise?
PS3 is a lot better
PS3 is a lot better
Now, that is an understatement.
and TV's are 1080p and will be for years to come. no need to build a super powerful super expensive console anymore
Every time I've turned away from consoles in the past, it's been because I was impressed by how advanced the PC's had gotten compared to the consoles.
Fortunately 90% of PC games are now just crappy console ports so they don't have to worry about the PC looking better.
If anything is going to kill off console gaming it certainly will not be desktops. It will be cell phones. Within a few phone generations (which are remarkably short) we'll have pretty staggering graphics capability on our cell phones. Perhaps the 3rd gen XBox will be a mobile phone + controllers...
Just bought daughter iPhone and Xbox. We're replacing a Wii that died. Daughter (11) is ready to move on from basic Wii games but still likes iOS games.
Within a few phone generations (which are remarkably short) we'll have pretty staggering graphics capability on our cell phones.
Indeed. In a few years you might be able to play a game on a tiny phone display which looks as good as a current console.
You might even be able to play it for ten minutes before the battery goes flat.
Why would I want to lose the ability to use my phone as, well, a phone to plug it in to my TV and play games or watch movies on it? I could instead just buy a device that plays games and does so better, and then keep my phone as a phone.
To me this is like suggesting you get rid of your oven, toaster, kettle, and so on and only have a microwave. Yes, technically you can get along with just a microwave, it'll cook most things, with some potential issues and reservations. Or, you know, I could not get rid of t
Try looking a little deeper into the crystal ball.
If I can use my phone as a console, playing games on a large TV with a wireless controller, I am pretty certain that I'll also be able to use (or already wearing!) a wireless Bluetooth headset as well. The phone menu will allow me to answer my phone and chat to friends, or use Google+ Hangouts to have team based voice chat going. This doesn't seem like particularly far-fetched science fiction.
As an added bonus, you can bring your phone with you to your friend's house, and access your apps, your saved progress, your controller settings, your favorite servers, etc. I think that would be extremely awesome. God help you if you lose it or someone steals it, of course, but by then I'll hope to have Steam For Phones that will let me re-download anything I've bought already. (Does the Android market do that already?)
Or you could set it in the dock that is sitting under the TV that routes the picture up to the same screen that the traditional console would have used, and then use a bluetooth controller to control it. The Game Console/Phone market is ripe for convergence.
That's one of those ideas that sounds nice, right until the first group gathering where the person whose phone is being used as a game console gets an important call...
Meanwhile, you can now piece together a PC from 5-year-old parts from the garage and have a PC that's capable of playing games better than the 360.
You're forgetting that the 360 was meh for hardware when it came out. A $400 PC will run circles around it today, as will a $400 PC from several years ago.
I don't have any friends who have PCs.
Just keep in mind, MS and Sony, that every year your systems age is another year for more of your users to look at their friends' new PC's and say "Wow, that blows away my console!" Being more-and-more obsolete is not a good position to be in in the videogaming world. Every time I've turned away from consoles in the past, it's been because I was impressed by how advanced the PC's had gotten compared to the consoles.
Most of the games industry is focused on consoles (more recently mobile devices) anyway because that's where the profits are. Sure PCs are more powerful but these days games companies want to reach more users across more platforms which means developing for the lowest common denominator. I haven't seen that many PC games that whip the current gen console games aside from cranking up the resolution, which doesn't really matter when you're comparing it to a HDTV that you don't sit particularly close to anyway
Why pre-announce something that is far from being ready to ship? All that would do is steal sales and thunder away from your existing product. The only reason to announce a new console early is if a competitor is getting ready to release something significant enough to affect your market share. Seems like this is just an excuse for a fluff article.
The current Xbox 360 is still generating massive amounts of revenue, http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/01/12/xbox-360-extends-win-streak-to-12-straight-months-with-banner-holiday-sales.aspx [technet.com], if they introduce a new platform, it will kill off the current version and forego the millions in additional revenue by extending the life of the 360. only when sales start to slump will the 720 be announced.
It's ok, because they will just suddenly pull the plug and cease all development for the Xbox 360 when the 720 is announced. Microsoft did this with the first get Xbox and I have the utmost confidence that they will do it again once their next gen is ready to be launched.
there are lots of GOTY editions of awesome games to keep you playing for another few years. Mass Effect games, fallout, dragon age, etc. you can buy them cheap with all DLC included
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1. Bella called and called Jacob to try to find out what was wrong. Do you think it was the right thing for him to try to just ignore her and move on? Or do you think Jacob should have tried to get a message to her sooner?
I think Jacob was doing what he thought was best for Bella at the time. He knew that it was dangerous to loose his temper around her. So I think he did the righ thing, he needed time to get adjusted to this new reality.
2. What was your first impression of the "new" Jacob with his short hair and larger frame? Did you think he was frightening? Di you think he really had Bella's best interest in mind?
I kinda of prefer Jacob with long hair. No i did not think he was frightening, a little more intense maybe. And yes I think he had Bellas best interest in mind.
3. Billy accuses Bella of leading Jacob on. Bella herself uses the term "breaking up" to refer to the end of her relationship with Jacob. Do you agree with Billy that Bella was playing Jacob, or do you think she was sincere in her feelings?
*Sigh*..I think that while Bella was honest with Jacob about her feelings..she was still kinda, sort of leading him on? I dont know, its hard to explain.
4. What did you think the sound was tapping at Bella's window at the end of the chapter. Did you think it was Jacob... or Edward... or Victoria... or someone else all together?
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker College is pleased to announce the hiring of Kevin Kelley as the Cobras new head men's and women's cross country coach. Kelley takes over for Keith Solverson who led the Cobra men and women for the past two seasons.
No stranger to the Hartsville area, Kelley has spent the past two years serving as the head track coach at Hartsville High School and prior to the was the head track and cross country coach at Darlington High School.
"We are excited to have Kevin join the Coker family," said Director of Athletics Lynn Griffin. "I think the he is going to be a great addition to our staff that can really help take our cross country teams to the next level."
A native of Seneca, S.C., Kelley was a Top 25 performer in the Big South Conference for cross country at Charleston Southern University. His best times were 4:08 in the 1500 meter, 27:02 in the 8k and 33:25 in the 10k. During his time at Seneca High School, Kelley was the South Carolina State Cross Country Champion ('88) and a two-time All-State selection.
"I look forward to this great opportunity and am honored to be a part of Coker College Athletics," said Kelley. "Coker cross country has a rich tradition and I look forward to bringing that competitiveness out in all of our runners. With a lot of hard work and dedication, I expect to see a strong team in by the time we finish the season in November."
Kelley holds a Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science from East Carolina University. He is also pursuing a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction with a Physical Education Minor from Salem International University. In addition to his coaching duties, Kelley will continue to teach physical education at St. John's Elementary School in Darlington.


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I need to write a function named:
int getNumAccidents()
the function is passed the names of a region within a city (north, south, east, west) The function also asks the user for the number of car accidents in that region, then returns that number. The function will be called once for each region.
I cannot figure out how to do this without using a void function. Because I have to ask the user to input an accident figure, it runs the cout statement asking for the numAccidents when I just want to return the figure, not run the whole content of the function.
anyone have some ideas?


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BALTIMORE -- Midway through a conversation with a reporter at his locker Wednesday, Baltimore Ravens safety Bernard Pollard was spouting all sorts of knowledge when he spit out two words that caused a need for immediate application of the brakes: panic button.
"It's going to be OK, man," Pollard said in an almost consolatory, apologetic tone of voice. "We're not hitting that panic button. Nobody is hitting the panic button."
Seriously? Look, I understand Baltimore hasn't exactly played "Ravens defense" lately. I get that 37-year-old linebacker Ray Lewis isn't playing like a 27-year-old version of himself. Everyone can see the flaws, but panic button?
Here are two more words for anyone who actually believes Pollard or anyone else on the Ravens really even needs to rationalize the first quarter of the season: "four" and "one." Only two teams in the NFL have a better record than Baltimore. So why would Pollard even suggest the panic button?
"Well, everyone is talking about what our defense is doing, can we hold up, can we expect to go to the playoffs," he said. "If we're not panicking, nobody else should.
"Championship football teams learn how to win. You figure out a way. We're five games into the season, and obviously we want to get the stats all figured out, but when it's all said and done, we're trying to build for later in the season. We've got to set ourselves up, and I think that's what we're doing."
Here's the key: It isn't as concerning that the Ravens' defense ranks 24th in the NFL because the unit also ranks fourth with 12 takeaways so far this season. We get so caught up in trying to decide if Lewis is still playing at a Hall of Fame level that we fail to realize there are still big playmakers around him.
It's one thing if Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles rushes for 144 yards and the Ravens can't keep him out of the end zone. It's another, though, when all nine of the Ravens' points are scored off turnovers and the Chiefs gain nothing but two field goals out of all that rushing output.
Give me turnovers over total defense every day of the week.
"The biggest thing was probably the way we handled the situation in terms of finding a way to win the game," coach John Harbaugh said. "If you don't get better from one week to the next, you have no chance at the end of the year to be successful. So we've got to find a way to be better every week."
Maybe that's what makes this week's game against the Dallas Cowboys particularly interesting. Dallas has encountered severe struggles trying to run the ball, despite major success when the team does actually commit to running back DeMarco Murray. The Cowboys are 2-8 when Murray has 12 or fewer carries -- and they are 7-0 when he has more than 12 carries.
And yet, the Cowboys continue to be a passing team.
It should be no surprise, then, if Dallas comes into this game with an altered plan, attempting to once again expose the Ravens' run defense -- just like the Chiefs did during the first half last week. Lewis clearly understands that possibility.
"They can look to do whatever they want to do, but it ain't going to be what they think it's going to be," Lewis said during a conference call with the Dallas media.
That much, we'll have to find out. The Cowboys seemingly would be very wise to keep the ball on the ground as often as possible, noting their own vulnerability to turnovers when quarterback Tony Romo puts the ball in the air too often. That's the reason why it will make sense for this to turn into a ground-and-pound situation on both sides.
And it's also the reason why, before we start worrying about whether the Ravens' defense is actually legitimate, we need to see a game like this play out in its entirety. Yes, more and more teams will begin to challenge Baltimore's potential vulnerability. But until their record indicates otherwise, there's no reason why we should discount this team.
So remove your hand from anywhere near that panic button, Mr. Pollard. Statistics are important, but not nearly as important as the record.
"You look around the league and you always hear these personal stats by guys, and their teams are 1-4," Lewis said. "I throw those things out the window. There is not an accolade or record I don't have. None of that impresses me. What impresses me is having my team ready to play every week. For us to be where we are right now, I am really excited because we're just fine-tuning where we're going.
"For us to pull that off, and then come out of that with a 4-1 record, it's just awesome how much better we can get."
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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea's top governing body warned Thursday that the regime will conduct its third nuclear test in defiance of U.N. punishment, and made clear that its long-range rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the United States.
The National Defense Commission, headed by the country's young leader, Kim Jong Un, denounced Tuesday's U.N. Security Council resolution condemning North Korea's long-range rocket launch in December as a banned missile activity and expanding sanctions against the regime. The commission reaffirmed in its declaration that the launch was a peaceful bid to send a satellite into space, but also clearly indicated the country's rocket launches have a military purpose: to strike and attack the United States.
While experts say North Korea doesn't have the capability to hit the U.S. with its missiles, recent tests and rhetoric indicate the country is feverishly working toward that goal.
The commission pledged to keep launching satellites and rockets and to conduct a nuclear test as part of a "new phase" of combat with the United States, which it blames for leading the U.N. bid to punish Pyongyang. It said a nuclear test was part of "upcoming" action but did not say exactly when or where it would take place.
"We do not hide that a variety of satellites and long-range rockets which will be launched by the DPRK one after another and a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out by it in the upcoming all-out action, a new phase of the anti-U.S. struggle that has lasted century after century, will target against the U.S., the sworn enemy of the Korean people," the commission said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"Settling accounts with the U.S. needs to be done with force, not with words, as it regards jungle law as the rule of its survival," the commission said.
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Hewlett-Packard Tuesday rolled out an overhaul of its PartnerOne channel program backed up by a partner recruitment effort that could add more than 3,000 new solution providers to the fold.
The new PartnerOne initiatives were unveiled at the company's Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas this week where 2,000 of the $120 billion company's partners -- representing more than $35 billion in sales -- will gather to gauge HP's channel commitment.
At the heart of the channel charge is what HP is calling a simplified "pay for performance" PartnerOne program backed up by a recruitment initiative. HP, in fact, is looking to add 2,500 new partners in its Enterprise Group, 500 new partners in its Software Group and 200 new cloud service providers.
"We are recruiting like crazy," said Doug Oathout, vice president, channel and alliance marketing, for the Enterprise Group, in an interview with CRN. "We are out there trying to get value-added partners in storage, networking and servers. We are out there trying to get software partners."
[Related: Is It Too Late For HP's Whitman To Mend Channel Fences?]
The recruitment offensive comes with HP doubling down on its back-end rebate program, allowing partners to qualify for those incentives from the very first sale. That's an important change, as 40 percent to 50 percent of partners did not qualify for that back-end rebate last year because they failed to meet their HP sales quotas. Under the old program, partners did not qualify for those rebates until they hit 80 percent of their sales target.
"We're really excited about the opportunity with the new program," said one top executive at an HP enterprise partner, who asked not to be named. "This would have been a year where we might not have seen as much of a back-end bump because we had such a great year in 2012," said the partner, which posted nearly 40 percent growth in its HP business last year.
The executive said HP has made the PartnerOne program much more predictable, with less time having to be spent trying to determine channel compensation. "I know what I am going to earn and if I overachieve I can earn more," he said. "That predictability is the secret sauce. We are very bullish on HP right now. They are doing a lot of the right things, from Meg Whitman's positive channel messaging to new rules of engagement."
HP paid out $2.5 billion in back-end rebates to roughly 160,000 partners in the last fiscal year and plans to exceed that dollar amount this year, said Oathout. He said the program will allow the average partner to earn 5 percent to 10 percent more in total back-end rebates.
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I don't get why everyone is really worked up over familiar imagery. The real question to me, is if she is really wearing leather masks etc. and using whips in her actual sex life. I would hope that the video really is some sort of homage or commentary on popular imagery for blonde female pop stars OR her commenting on her newly found sex life. If neither of those are correct, then what is the point of the video?
I'm hoping that the rest of the album is better. Isn't that her track record now? The singles always flopped on the charts but the album is gold. I have no problem with the video except the product placement of her fragrance. Nothing wrong with promotion but it looked tacky. Who's the guy on the bed in the last scene? Hottie!
Just because you can reach a particular pitch doesn't mean that you can do it well, or that it does have any degree of musical value. Maybe your fanaticism is the real problem, and not what you suppose to be pretension on my part.
Okay here's my point of view now...
Why people always compare her to other artists ? I mean everybody copies everybody. Gaga didnt create anything, neither did beyoncé and neither did Aguilera.
The problem is that people expect much more from aguilera and even when she tries to do different things, people always criticize her. when she' doing something popular she's copying Gaga and madonna. When she goes back to basics she has a lack of inspiration... anyway.
Even tho I always supported aguilera, I have to admit that after seing the video, it's not the aguilera I like. That's all I have to say, it's not about she's going gaga or whatever.
i like the fighter mode or the B2B mode. But the trashy aguilera is not my thing. Hopefully the next singles will be more mature
^ I hope so too. To be fair it took me a while to like the "Dirty" Christina too.
I like the cleaned up version of Xtina. I wasn't feeling the Diirty era and I'm not feeling this. Sorry to say but this reminds me a lot of Gaga and only one person can be the incredible goddess that is Gaga.
What I don't understand is why can't this chick sell as well as Beyonce? Aguilera's voice is PHENOMENAL but her record sells pale in comparison to her competitors. The public gets it wrong everytime.
Also, Christina takes more risks in her music and in her image, which gives her more of an edge, but makes her less mainstream; Christina does make commercial music, but her musical style, lyrical content, or her image did not follow a trend at one point which affects her sales. Beyonce has catchier, radio/club friendly music.
She is desperate to be relevant again. She has no real identity as an artist. Epic Flop.
I think what X-tina wants to say with NMT video is that she can do all the "super-cool" things Lady Gaga does. She wants to proove her talent.
For the most of her fans, she doesn´t need to do it. We all know how great she is,and never mind she had a break for 4 years. We didn´t forget about her.
She slap Gaga with this song and video. Xtina show us, she can do everything thah gaga or I don´t know who can. Her biggest triomph is the main diffrence between her ang Gaga. X-tina can actually SING!
^ I think she was kidding.
Very disappointing.
She needs to release another single before the album is out
I have seen similarities to Madonna and Gaga on Xtina's new vid but come on...Xtina is doing her thing and will def. have great success with this new project. I think this is her way of paying homage and respect to them. BTW- Xtina has a great voice and her music is nice lol
Lets end the comparisons between these artists
I love the song, and I've expecting more from her new album....I hope this will turn out to become another "Stripped", because that's one of the best Album...that I'm keep listening.....
And i cant wait for her tour...All the songs will be pop and all those beats....wohoooo
#1 ON US ITUNES Hell Yeah
Some audio leaked from her VH1 Storytellers from the songs "You Lost Me" and what I believe is the intro. "You Lost Me" has Sia all over it, I love it.
You Lost Me is AMAZING!!!
That is simply, Christina at her finest!!! It has the old-school, ballad feel that you'd think would've been from her last album, Back to Basics. However, I can totally see her talking this classic feeling song and pairing it with modern imagery.
Ah! I hope she releases this song before the Grammy deadline. It has great potential.
Kudos to Sia, for writing an amazing song!
You Lost Me is absolutely brilliant I'm so excited about the album
HAHAHAHA I bloody love love love this video!! For those who keep insisting that Gaga is original, think again!!
Bionic standard version has 18 tracks and the deluxe version has 23
"Bionic" Deluxe Tracklist
I saw her performance on Oprah and I like it, especially her runs.
The performance was awesome but I don't like her hair like that
her hair was horrible...but the performance was good for the most part
If she would have danced, the performance would not have been lackluster for me.
The Oprah effect on "Not Myself Tonight":
Up one spot to #39 on iTunes.
Time to call it a buzz single and move on, I think.
^^ The song just doesn't have that much appeal. There's nothing she can do to make it become a legitimate hit. Time for the next single already.
Meh, "Keeps Getting Better" was better then NMT.
I'm going to have to agree with everyone else, this single was a total dud.
Life is a celebration. So celebrate, and live!
Christina is struggling to find herself. Her image makes no sense to me. Just yesterday she was on Oprah talking about how her son has changed her life and made her feel so empowered... talking about how she loves being a mother... so I'm a little confused by this video. There's nothing wrong with being risque, but she looks and acts like a $2.00 whore in this video.
Is she trying to be another Madonna with the constant reinventions? When she first came out she was a sweet little pop star on the heels of Britney, then she went the skanky route with "Dirrty," then she tried turning herself into Pink circa "Misundaztood" (even stealing away Linda Perry), then she went "wholesome retro" with Back to Basics, and now she's back to being an in your face slut. What is her real image?
Also, is it just me or does it sounds like her jaw is clenched when she sings? She definitely has talent, but sometimes she just sounds weird. She tries to do too many vocal tricks with all the riffs and runs to the point that some songs (her covers in particular) are almost unrecognizable. Less is more.
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When she came out she said she wanted to be a blend of Mariah and Madonna, and I think this is what she's been doing. I do have to agree NMT is one of her worst singles, hopefully she'll release something way better as a second single to save this upcoming album.
Woohoo leaked today. I thought it was a joke that it featured Nicki Minaj but I was so wrong. I love it, it totally better than Not Myself Tonight.
This is so left field for Christina and I can't get enough.'
Hot I love it, She'll perform NMT & Woohoo @ MTV movie awards it's definitely the second single.


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WILMINGTON, Mass. — Earlier this week, Toronto general manager Brian Burke said that his phone has recently been ringing more as far as trade talk after a lull.
General manager Peter Chiarelli says that hasn't been the case with his phone.
"It's been pretty consistent," said the GM in a brief chat with TheBruinsBlog.net prior to his team's practice at Ristuccia Arena.
The Bruins' impending salary-cap crunch once Marco Sturm and Marc Savard return to active duty is a continent-wide-known fact. Some teams might even try to exploit the Bruins' position. But Chiarelli said he's not receiving any low-ball offers or ones that would make him scratch his head. And he's prepared to take other steps to clear cap space if a trade doesn't pan.
"We have to do some moves with regard to our cap," he said. "No one's going to take advantage of us. If we have to put someone in the minors, we'll put someone in the minors."
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You know what it's like when you meet a family for the first time and everyone seems a little odd, maybe even frightening at times? That's the feeling evoked at the start of David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook."
Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) is a former teacher who has moved back in with his parents after a stint in a mental institution. It is not known why he was there only that something terrible happened and he was committed. Now after months of therapy with a kind and humorous psychiatrist (Anupam Kher), and some coaxing on his mother's part, he is released. Determined to apply his therapy to good use, Pat decides to find the silver lining in all things, read good things, and resume the life he had with his wife. One of the funnier scenes early on has Pat storming into his parents' room in the wee hours of the morning to discuss Ernest Hemingway's decision to end his "A Farewell to Arms" on a sad note. Whether he's a good guy is still unclear, but because it is Cooper (and who doesn't like him) the character is given the benefit of the doubt.
Pat's parents, Pat Sr. (Robert DeNiro) and Dolores (Jacki Weaver), are a middle-age, middle-income couple, whose lives revolve around their sons (one of whom is out of the picture until the end) and Philadelphia Eagle football. Pat Sr. has lost his job because of a violent incident alluded to early on and unveiled later. That's kind of strange but pretty normal considering our economy. The way that he obsesses about the Eagles, even believing his son Pat is a good luck charm despite the unlucky life he leads, is odd, but only if you do not like football or have never been a fan of something.
Danny (Chris Rock) is also from the institution and, though never released officially, shows up now and then, as if stowing away a few hours with the Solatano family is his own form of therapy. Rock is funny but in a more subdued way than we are used to. Instead of in-your-face humor, he steals the scenes with a chuckle and a nudge. His character is kind and we can sense there is a bond between him and Pat, perhaps formed because they are both fighting for the same thing, to be normal.
The film is an adaptation by Russell ("The Fighter") of Matthew Quick's novel of the same name. Although dubbed a romantic comedy, it's really more of a drama about life with elements of humor and romance thanks to Tiffany, the deceased policeman's widow played by Jennifer Lawrence who is introduced to Pat, on a blind date.
Her life is screwed up, too -- having buried her grief in a string of one-night-stands -- but she likes to jog. And it's this normal behavior that leads her and Pat to become friends, and eventually partners who find a way to rebuild their lives.
In the end, we understand the Solatano family, and see that they are people like us trying to cope with everyday life in their own quirky way.
Russell's portrayal of the family and outstanding performances by Cooper, Lawrence and DeNiro, could earn it an Oscar nod. There's good reason it won the People's Choice Award following its fall debut at the Toronto International Film Festival.
"Silver Linings Playbook" is Rated R for language and some sexual content/nudity. It opens in limited release today and will roll out across the country Nov. 21.


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Pittsburgh Pete
Steeler Steve
Steel City Steve
Heinz Steel
How about Steelski (lol) or Yinzer????
How about "Lumberjack being pawned off as a steelworker"
"Racing doesn't teach a lesson. Nor do most racers. Many of them can't even tell you why they're in the cockpit. They don't know. Racing isn't what they do. It's who they are."
R.I.P. Dan Wheldon
there is actually a team called the lumberjax up in portland. The mascots look somewhat similar.
I'm blind, I'm deaf, I wanna be a ref! Get on your knees ref your blowing the game!
Big thank you to pa state Daryl Metcalfe. For doing the right thing.
Some of these names you all are coming up with are fantastic
Hahha what an ugly looking costume.
How about I look Dumb? That is the goofiest looking mascot.
I'm A "Champion"
Steel Smith
"When Gotham is ashes, you have my permission to die."
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But afraid I'm not gonna read One Piece. Waaaay too many chapters to catch up on, and it didn't interest me much when I watched the anime episodes.
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Re: Natsu soloing DF Sting and Rogue, that was sooo weird, and a big part of the post-timeskip powerlevel mess. Considering pre-powerup Natsu was struggling with Max, it would mean Second Origin was a frickin' huge powerup. That's unfortunate, since Second Origin was a really lame plot device that they basically got for free. The other problem is Erza got the same powerup, but Kagura still mopped the floor with her. (Unless Gray was right about Erza already having Second Origin, which would make her the only one who got double-screwed by the double-timeskip... But that's not a confirmed thing.)
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Then again, people have complained about standard shonen trappings. Training and getting much, much stronger is very shonen. Mashima made us all think that's what he was going to do, and then totally subverted it with an instant power-up.
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^ Maybe we could've had a small arc to address the "training" part. Dunno, some adventure where they find some OP dudes but through the power of nakama they break through (not serious) (maybe).
I dunno, maybe something more interesting. I don't get worked up over it but I think the whole training part could've been made into something far better.
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Putting aside whether it's parallel to cheating/doping, it's still lame that the cast's single largest powerup to date came as a freebie out of nowhere. It devalues the natural growth from all the life-or-death battles they'd been in up till then.
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More specifically what people likely are thinking of when they say they wanted "training" is training like Naruto and Hunter x Hunter get. The "Here's a basic ability of your power that you really should have already known if it weren't for circumstances/plot. Use it to develop a new technique for your skill set." The problem is that's training for callow youths. For characters that started the series at the bottom, with essentially no power, no skill set, and are working their way up.
That doesn't work in a case like Cell Saga DBZ. Goku already had an essentially full skill set. He didn't need to master a bunch of new special attacks, he needed to increase his base power.
The same largely holds true for Fairy Tail. Natsu and Gajeel already have a essentially complete skill set of Dragon Slayer techniques. Gray is proficient with his chosen style of Ice Make. Erza proficient with her armors. Etc, and so forth. There are a few exceptions, but in general they all already possess an essentially complete skill set. Which means the boring, magical equivalent of strength/endurance training to increase their base power is what's required. For example, the training that Lucy was doing that amounted to meditation. For the ones like Lucy and Elfman that do need some expansions to their skill set, it's pretty much just a matter of study and practice. They don't need to be taught a new way of doing things, they just need to apply their existing skills. Again, something best left to a training montage.
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Looking at it from a story-telling standpoint and how one can alter the story in the manga... the absense of the 3 months of training takes away at least one episode that could have been a training filler episode or two. Not so much of them actually training but like mtgowns mentioned, one or two adventures to break the montonomy of the training:
A fight between Erza vs Natsu (a real fight like in the beginning of the series)
Gray and Juvia training with and against each other...
Wendy training against Lucy's Summons with Levy calling out different types of combinations for Lucy to try to guage effectiveness and to push their magic...
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Mashima hasn't done a training chapter, let alone a training arc, since the start of this manga. He's probably not interested in doing one. Looks more like he'd rather write a comedy chapter instead. That's the only reason for second origin. He wanted to give them a power-up, didn't want a training arc, came up with second origin and wrote a comedy chapter to explain the 3 month time-lapse. It's just a one-time thing. It doesn't matter, doesn't make any difference in the end, and it's getting more attention than it warranted.
After so many iterations of hyperbolic time chambers, I'm totally fine with it. Mashima even joked indirectly about the hyperbolic time chamber at the end of that chapter.
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Besides there were enough of other villains where Natsu could easily lose. Just because he is an MC, doesn't mean he is invincible. This arc is one of them where Natsu could lose without dying.
Never watched DBZ so duno what you are talking about.
Besides even a typical winning could be portrayed better like for example in Seirei No Mrobito.
MC won the fight but she suffered a serious injury that handicapped her. While here no matter what injury they get it is nothing. Makes you wonder why authors even bother creating them.
Balsa didn't one shot anyone while every fight in FT tends to end up with one shot even though they got their asses handed to them moments ago. LAME!
I could buy it once, twice but not every single time.
I watch it because I hope that it will get back on right path. Besides discussions are called that way for a reason. If it was all about fans, they should be called "Fangasm thread".
Discussions are meant to talk about both positives and negatives to explore both sides of each show and that's exactly what I'm doing.
Not my fault that lately FT is filled with negatives.
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So the more realistic version of "Erza puts her enemies down in one hit" would be "Erza puts her enemies down in one hit".
|2013-02-16, 16:26
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You don't quite understand how real fights and injuries work, do you? In reality, when two people are sword fighting, it usually is over in one attack. They may clash blades a few times, but then someone manages a gut thrust, or cuts deeply into a limb which hampers someone enough that the fight is essentially over. Even street fights with people going hand-to-hand are usually over in a few moves. People get tired, take a powerful blow to the head or gut, or get a limb broken, and it's over.
Very very very few shows actually show realistic fights, because it's not entertaining. Why do you think Pro Wrestling is fake? Because people want to see entertainment, rather than actual competition. Boxing matches can last awhile, but that's because they heavily restrict what you can do, and give frequent breaks.
In short, I don't think you really want, or understand, what you say you want.
Seriously, if the show has gotten so bad, that you hate it this much, then you really should move onto something else. Fairy Tail ain't gonna change, so you're in for more of the same. And you'll simply tick everyone off by being obsessively hate-filled with every post you make.
I understand how you feel. You perhaps thought FT was decent at one time and liked it, and now you don't, and thus you feel a little betrayed. You want everyone else to come around to your point of view and hate it as well, as that would justify your self beliefs. It's not going to happen. And even if it did, Fairy Tail would continue on, uncaring of what you or I or anyone else thinks. You'd have to convince a ton of people in Japan to stop reading it.
Oh, and you really should watch Dragonball Z. That has the kind of "realism" you are looking for. People die in that series.
Lastly, Seirei no Moribito is a decent series with a couple of good fights... but pays for it heavily in it's incredibly slow pacing. They blew their animation budget on their couple of fights, leaving little for everything else. It's also a much different genre than FT, appealing to a different demographic, so can't really be compared.
|2013-02-16, 22:19
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Geez, it's like I'm talking to a rock -_-
You guys only keep hearing what you want to hear to make yourself look better.
For starters, an unconscious Natsu in a water would never be able to jump back in a fight.
Edward Elric lost several fights like the one with Kimblee yet he still was alive.
Tournament is a perfect opportunity to make main cast lose without dying. And by main I don't mean Lucy who gets shortest end of the stick all the time.
Seirei No Morbito might be a different genre but there are lots of ways how you could use it's positives in a shounen.
By realistic take I did not mean one punch = dead.
If character got his leg crashed, it should be crashed all the way through and not just in one page when it was convenient for a shock factor and then fine in next page. Otherwise it is a total waste of time.
Also whole lava thing with Arcadius... In reality they wouldn't be able to even stand near it without burning to ashes but I stopped carrying about that detail long ago. However, surviving without any injuries a lava bath is way too much! What's the point of calling it a lava then and get scared?!
It simply killed it's whole purpose altogether.
I mean really?
Everyone: Oh no, Lava! We will die!
Arcadius swimming in it
Everyone: I guess not...
Sadly this so called realistic take only works for main gang.
Erza got crap kicked out of her, by that logic she should never be able to stand up ever again. She took hundreds of powerful hits and yet she is fine.
However, it took Erza only one simple blow to take her enemy down. It was nothing special, enemy did better than that yet enemy is unconscious while Erza is jumping around happy like nothing happened.
It is very one sided standard. How could anyone in right mind enjoy it after 100th time is beyond me.
Won't argue, shounen gradually turns into the most pathetic genre I have ever seen. It clearly is meant for children who don't care about logic. Most of them don't even know what logic is anyway.
The only reason why I still watch shounen from time to time, is to find gems like FMA.
I don't know how well things will go later but right now Magi has a potential to be great.
|2013-02-16, 22:52
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Age: 40
omg, how a thread about erza turning in thread about manga/anime gender????, about natsu? and about dbz? traning?(lol it's ok if erza still in the middle of the chat but when she vanish completely from the topic then the things start to look really wrong.
wtf kitten320 you can stop to being a hater and complainer? along this forum??? or you want another round of deleted posts????, if you dont like FT then "dont read/watch" it's simple this is not that "Seirei No Mrobito" who you want, stop of compare, this is the worst argument for haters when their start to compare two completely differents works(even different demograph like shounen and seinen), if fairy tail is so boring so bad for you go watch magi it's simple dont waste your time watching something just for the sake of hate, and dont make all this off topic(end even when you are on topic is just for hate).
it seems that some people do not know the difference between hate, dislike, complain and criticize...
criticize: when in "your personnal opnion you dislked something and maybe for yourself only(and maybe others peoples with the same opnion) can be better in other way(not forcing your personnal opnion in the others peoples) showing really valid and good arguments(with some little exceptions of just hate/complain)
dislike: when you simple dont like something, this dont means "hate"(dislike and hate are two completely different things) however you can also "hate"
hate: when you simple hate something and start to "bash and complain about that thing trying to force your personal opinion (hate) above the opnion of other, and using excuses to make comparations with others things just to find more reasons to hate.
complain: bash and complain about what you hate and dont give any positive argument about that thing, just looking at his faults (and in severe cases even creating new defects), without ever pointing the positives and making comparations even completely without logic.
about the lava thing, i think was explainned who he survived because he was wearing a "jade necklace" who the princess give to him who have some sort of jade dragon power who protected him from the lava and also the horologium who caught him when that protection started to fail, this is a manga/anime/cartoon/magazine logic if you dont like, dont complain.
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|2013-02-17, 04:24
|Link #98
Join Date: Oct 2011
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And before you say anything, I had no problem with her fight with Azuma since that fight was not as one-sided as her fight with Ikaruga or Kagura (eh, confusing names) with both contenders drawing equal (although, censored ) blood from start to finish.
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|2013-02-17, 07:55
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Join Date: Jul 2007
If you didn't notice, you guys are the ones forcing your opinion down my throat just because I don't agree. My comments were originally Erza based only yet you people started to prove your point by bringing whole cast into a discussion which simply shows that you are the ones losing the argument since you can't stay on topic.
I simply replied to questions I was asked, I don't see my fault here.
Besides it is clearly useless talking to you people, you see only what you want to see and keep twisting my words and missing the point.
Different genres or not, you can easily use positives of each one in another.
Also telling me to drop something that I started to watch when only 25 episodes were out is harsh. I also was one of the people who insisted on bringing this show onto the main thread. It really is not that easy to drop something with what you've been so closely connected for years.
It is just sad to see it fall apart like that after having so much potential
I don't remember necklace part but if that's the case, I take my comment back. It is enough of an excuse, at least it means that others would not survive it.
That's exactly my main issue! No matter who(good guy), though for Erza it became very common, and how much damage they get, they are always fine. However, for them it just takes one strike to take enemy down even though they received more beating till now.
I won't even bother saying word "sense" since you people keep twisting its meaning so I'll simply say "ONE SIDED" and "UNFAIR". It makes villains look pathetic like if their punch = baby slap.
In Kagura's case it was so much worse because she unshielded "powerful" sword of hers and yet got shit kicked out even though she did so well with shielded one.
Why empethise on her sword when it was nothing special?
Anyway I'm stopping here, it is clear that we won't get anywhere. We keep seeing things differently.
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|2013-02-17, 09:41
|Link #100
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Orlando
...the 'one strike' is a cultural thing for the Japanese. No matter how much one dislikes it popping out in a manga, it won't go away, even if one thinks that the situation is not good for it.
This isn't the first time that Erza's one-shotted someone who was strong (Aria) while she was pretty much 'on the ropes' as well, having taken a head-on shot from Jupiter back then too. She's taken down Midnight easily and nearly all of her opponents have been taken out within a few moves. Azuma's pretty much the only guy who's made Erza go the distance and he would have won if he didn't use Fairy Tail's own magic against her.
Erza is over-powered, so is Laxus and Gildartz. Those three are nearly impossible to beat conventionally. That's the entire point. Laxus lost to Natsu and Gajeel because he lost his cool. Take Laxus mentally out of the fight and you can win it - if Laxus keeps his head together, you're done for.
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The Desert Fox. My `84 DL Wagon
Posted 13 January 2013 - 01:06 PM
And intrigued to see what's coming from Colorado.
Posted 14 January 2013 - 02:30 PM
I always find it intriguing to look at the crumple zone design on the inner fenders on the body of the car. If you've seen Ben, our 93 Loyale, you'll know that his crumple zones were put to the work, and the design really does work 100 percent as it is intended to. Minimal energy transfer to the occupant in the vehicle, and the front of the car just crumples right at that spot.
Here's to TDF never having to have it's crumple zones used though, of course!!!
Posted 14 January 2013 - 03:23 PM
Posted 16 January 2013 - 04:38 PM
Pulled the rear end apart to find little to no rust!
I also removed the rear fender flairs and mud flaps. This side has a bit of surface rust. :-\
I'm thinking of putting this hood scoop on. Any thoughts?
I work in a powder coating shop as a painter. I'm not really a big fan of this job. I deal with a lot of brain dead alcoholics and the management there is running the place in to the ground. The plus side is, I can powder coat anything I want though! Here's the factory skid plate after acid dipping it to remove the old paint.
And here it is after coating it with "Stormy Gray" This stuff is pretty heavy duty, so I figured it would work well under the car. I also wanted some contrast under the front end. I was going to go white to match the wheels, but maybe the gray wont look so bad if the engine leaks any oil on it.
Just as I was getting home today, Fedex showed up with my new EMPI axles from rock auto. I also got a small Sunpro tach from Amazon.com, along with an 8 ball shift nob.
I should be getting the metal I need for the rockers either tomorrow or Friday. Still waiting on a few sweet parts from Ebay and that big ticket item I mentioned earlier. I get my W2 tomorrow from work as well, so once I get my tax returns I'll be able to throw a little bit more money at this thing.
I also may be moving next month, and it will be to a house with a small garage. This would really be huge for me. I've been working on TDF in my grandma's garage because I don't have one at my current house. Its a 20 mile round trip every time I want to work on TDF, and that's the main reason this isn't going as quickly as I would like. I hope the move works out. Fingers crossed.
Posted 16 January 2013 - 04:52 PM
Keep at it!
Posted 16 January 2013 - 06:06 PM
Posted 20 January 2013 - 01:54 PM
Posted 21 January 2013 - 04:05 AM
Having a garage to work in is nice. Having heat in that garage is even better. Especially with the wind and low temps we had here yesterday.
Keep up the good work!!
Posted 17 February 2013 - 10:24 AM
So some small updates.
I had to finish up the floors and put the car back together without doing the rockers. Everything is sealed up pretty well, and your feet no longer get wet when driving! My Oldsmobile took a crap, so it was up to TDF to get me by until then. I wasn't too upset about it, because the snow had been melting, but we just got more of it. Ohh well, if it rusts any more, I'll just be patching it up once I complete the move to my new house.
We drove TDF Friday night, to Mt. Pleasent for a punk/Grind show. It was pretty cool. We found out about half way there that the heater wasn't cutting it though, So I taped up the grill and all the hood seams and cowl vents. That gave us a little bit of warmth. Good thing we were bundled up!
Before the trip, I finally installed the tape deck that THE SUCKER KING sent me from CO. It works great, and thanks again for the hook up man! I also installed a $2 8 ball shift knob, and finally got to listen to COURTESY SPIT's tape in TDF.
This is what the wheels looked like the next morning after the trip.
and after a day of cruising around with a friend. We had to make a 40 mile trip for some tires for her Impreza. It was fun sliding around in the snow. I met up with the local old school Subaru Guru. He has been out of the EA game for a while, but used to deal with tons of them. His jaw dropped when he saw TDF. That felt good. I know he's seen a ton of them, and to see the look on his face made me feel like I'm not doing a totally bad job fixing this old girl up.
This Lil Fox is a long way from the desert
Posted 17 February 2013 - 01:20 PM
It can snow in the desert, just not real often.
I hate having to rush repairs, done it to many times.
Posted 17 February 2013 - 02:32 PM
I would vote no for the hoodscoop for 2 reasons:
1. it compromises the original paint/decal aesthetic
2. It wont look right against the contours of the hood with the ridge in the middle. you may want to chop out the middle of an impreza or legacy hood and graft it together to look right.
3. it would be fibbing about what's under the hood.
this is my opinion, but each his own. I like to see original examples in great shape stay original.
Posted 17 February 2013 - 02:39 PM
Yeah, I don't think the hood scoop will be happening haha. I do have a smashed Impreza hood here to cut the middle out of for the next project.
Would anyone have any experience with why my heat sucks? It just blows luke warm at best. Seems like all the controls are working. The fan works as it should. I've noticed no smells of coolant. when running down the road at 55mph, temperature gauge stays about 1/4 of the way up. Could some one have taken the thermostat out to fix an over heating issue? I've come across that before with a few of my old Loyales, but don't have as much experience with the ea81
Edited by Mechanical_misfit, 17 February 2013 - 02:40 PM.
Posted 17 February 2013 - 03:24 PM
On the heat issue, there's a few probabilities.
Clogged heater core;
with heat and fan both on hi, feel the heater hoses under the hood. Should not be a great temp differance, one cooler to the touch yes, but not a great amount cooler. Could swap hoses around to backflush core. May help.
yep, like you said, someone could have pulled it, or it's stuck open.
Heater bypass valve;
it could be bad, not opening to allow coolant thru the core.
control cable off/disconnected.
If it is the core, plan on a long day to swap it out. Dash needs pulled to do it correctly.
There is/was a write-up to replace it without pulling dash. In the "Old USRM" if I remembers right. Did that on the Black '82 BRAT.
Edited by TomRhere, 17 February 2013 - 03:25 PM.
Posted 17 February 2013 - 04:00 PM
You could try reversing the hoses the the heater core to see if that backflushes any debris, then flush out the system. Or take the hoses off and route a garden hose through it backwatrds to flush it out.
Definitely check to see if the thermostat is present. Being from the midwest, i could imagine some old-timer redneck technology may have been employed at one point or another. No offense to old-timers or rednecks, but that kind of general automotive knowledge must be thrown out the window when it comes to subarus.
Tom knows what i am talkng about being experienced in both realms.
As far as the hood goes, i would say you could make an attempt at it if you had a spare hood to chop up while preserving the original one.
Posted 17 February 2013 - 04:28 PM
quote milesfox
Tom knows what i am talkng about being experienced in both realms.
end quote.
Yeps, I be your runofthemillold-timer redneck. Done quite a bit of "redneck errornering umm er engineering" in my days.
Not to much into that whole "here, hold my beer and watch this" stuff though. I'll hang onto my beer and watch the other guy/gal do the antics.
Edited by TomRhere, 17 February 2013 - 04:30 PM.
Posted 17 February 2013 - 07:20 PM
that last photo is way rad!
Posted 04 April 2013 - 08:15 PM
Drove to lake Michigan to unwind.
Posted 05 April 2013 - 09:20 AM
Ok, real lightning? Can't tell. Cool pic though.
Posted 05 April 2013 - 02:14 PM
Posted 05 April 2013 - 11:48 PM
Anyway, New axles are in and it feels lighter in its feet. The steering feels smoother. It looks like I may need new outer tie rods. Maybe an inner as well because I think its slightly bent.
I ordered new rear brake shoes and a hardware kit. I plan on bleeding the entire system aswell. I think one of the adjusters may be bad because you kinda have to pump the brakes a bit if you wanna stop in a hurry.
I have every intention to drive this thing from Michigan to WCSS this year, but there's no way it will make it in its current sketchy condition. I still have so much work to do.
Posted 09 April 2013 - 08:12 AM
Got the rear brakes done, and working. The pedal had been a little spungy, but not as bad as some junker loyales I've driven in the past. Much to my suprise though, when I took the drums off, everything fell out. The springs were broken on both sides. It's weird that I never heard any grinding. This thing stops so much better now. I still wouldn't mind swapping to rear discs though.
I also managed to install new rear shocks. The old ones looked like the originals. I then found that 19mm bolt under the rear seat, and cranked up the rear end. Over all the ride is much better! I also like the increased rake. The fronts are up all the way as well, so it should be a little smoother in the dunes this season.
Next weekend I'm going to change the trans gear oil, and the rear diff. I had originally thought my trans was leaking but after further inspection, it looks like it could be my oil pan and rear main seal. This thing is pretty nasty underneath, between engine oil, and having had two blown inner axle boots. I've got lots of cleaning to do.
Posted 10 April 2013 - 09:14 PM
Good progress! I can't wait to get home and start working on mine over the next few weekends!
Posted 11 April 2013 - 11:13 AM
TDF rode great on the two tracks. Was a total blast. Cant wait to get back to some wrenchin'.
Posted 26 April 2013 - 10:43 PM
Posted 27 April 2013 - 06:27 AM
Damn, good score. I loved my cobras! They are pretty done now, good thing I'm going five lug or I wouldn't know what to get for tires.
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We're suckers for folksy wisdom and cliches, but one particular phrase speaks directly to our hot rod hearts: build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. It touches a certain progressive chord: improve upon a design and people will respond.
The hot rod world is certainly no stranger to progression. Whether it's climate controls or crossmembers, innovators improve upon a theme and carve themselves a niche in a market. The serpentine-style accessory drive system seems a pretty popular target lately: both a Big Three automotive manufacturer and a street rod market heavy hitter released utilitarian drive systems that each touched on a particular aesthetic theme. Both garnered rave reviews.
During the hullabaloo, though, Billet Specialties quietly worked away on a clean sheet-design of their own. They incorporated a few proven elements, threw in a pinch of flair, and crunched the numbers. When they finished it, they polished it up and gave it a name: Tru Trac Serpentine Belt System.
The Tru Trac system has little precedence. It assembles simply and straightforwardly on any first generation (pre-LT and LS-series) small-block Chevrolet without any fussy spacers or washers. It bolts straight to the cylinder block via the water pump locating holes and the front motor mount bosses. The design permits any cylinder head or induction system, whether bracketed, threaded, or not. Billet Specialties also based the system around the hot rod-friendly short-length GM-style water pump. Furthermore, this kit uses no gaskets; all joining surfaces seal via neoprene O-rings for a leak-proof installation.
Billet Specialties then loaded this kit with top-shelf stuff. They start the kit with polished aluminum mounting plates, brackets, and their own distinctive pulleys. Billet Specialties also includes a polished Sanden A/C compressor, a 105-amp Powermaster alternator, an alternator fan, a Sweet aluminum power steering pump (for power steering applications), and one of Edelbrock's aluminum water pumps--just to preclude fitment problems and to maintain high standards. They top the kit off with a Tru Trac-specific tensioner and pulley, a fresh belt, and all the stainless fasteners required for installation. And last, but not at all least, the system looks good--a welcome element to a world hell-bent on things that look as good as they operate.
Of course it's logical to assume that a kit like this would carry a heady price tag, but it doesn't. Billet Specialties engineered this kit to compete with other similarly appointed comprehensive accessory drive systems. Our man out Midwest, Arvid Svendsen, got the opportunity to follow Rad Rods by Troy's Troy Trepanier as he installed one of these kits on a Whipple-charged small-block Chevrolet. Whether you're building from scratch or upgrading a keeper, this is a kit worth looking into. It's handsome, it's economical, and it's slick.