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Hello everyone!
I have a topic to discuss that I'd like to hear people's opinions on. So about last year when all the photos of the new sets starting coming out, I noticed a certain new piece. The Brick, Modified 1 x 2 with Masonry Profile (as named by Bricklink) pictured here:
Now when I first laid eyes upon the new piece, I was at first excited and then skeptical. Here's the crux of what I'd like to talk about. I really, really dislike this piece. It feels and looks (to me) non-Lego. This really affirmed by thoughts about it when I saw the train station done by Selander on Eurobricks.
When you combine a whole bunch of these together, it really takes away (what I feel) is the Lego aesthetic and makes a MOC turn into what looks like any other plastic playset from some cheap line of toys. (To clarify, I'd like to say that I'm using Selander's building as an example, and do not wish in anyway to diminish from his building skill. He makes some great trains, check him out here.)
In the Battle for Helm's Deep set, I think they were used in order to avoid the big grey wall syndrome, but in my opinion, it makes it look as awkward as the stickers of the big bell tower looking thing (sorry, not a big enough LOTR fan to actually know what that is. )
(Photo from FBTB)
Now, a lot of people would probably say, "What about these modified bricks?":
(From left to right: log, grille (grill), groove) (All names from BL)
For the Log, I'd say it's more of a commitment as to a single shape while the masonry brick has rounded rectangles while this has more definitive shape than the log(if that somehow made sense to anyone). Although, I've still never really liked the log piece though. In my opinion, the grill works really well with its pointed edges and still is identifiable. Same with the groove.
So yeah. That's my two cents. As a mosaic nerd, I should probably be happy that we have a new texture to the wonderfully broad pallet of pieces, but I just can't get past it. Maybe it's the round areas of the bricks, and they're just not pointy enough. It feels like something we don't need. Almost like a prefab. Because we can already create bricks by taking headlight bricks and placing tiles on side of them. Who knows, that's probably a less efficient way of going about it. Anywho, from when I talked to my friends at Brickworld 2012, a lot of them were ecstatic about the the new piece. I just can't get behind it.
Do you feel the same? Agree? Disagree? I'm curious to see if anyone agrees. Let me know. (Also, apologies if there was a thread that existed talking about the new piece.)
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BEIJING — The massive frame, bug-eyed headlights, huge retro front grille and scarlet glass hood ornament can mean only one thing: China's big and brash Red Flag limousine is back.
The giant homegrown sedans were once among the most distinctive icons of the People's Republic. Chairman Mao Zedong perched in the back of one to inspect Red Guards in the 1960s. President Richard Nixon rode through Beijing in one during his breakthrough 1972 visit. Bob Hope rode in one, too, and was mysteriously told that the trunk was off-limits.
The Red Flag disappeared in the 1980s, replaced by humbler joint efforts with foreign partners that produced boxy Lincoln copies and rebranded black Audis. Now Beijing is reviving the brand to its former glory as a rolling chrome-and-steel embodiment of national pride and ambition.
Since this spring, the newly designed L7 model has conveyed dignitaries including French President Francois Hollande and South Korea's Park Geun-hye in motorcades from Beijing's airport.
"China wants to make clear to foreign visitors that it will not become just another Western society with Western goods and taste," said Jonathan Holslag, a research fellow at the Institute for Contemporary China Studies at the University of Brussels. "China in the first place wants to be different from the West, and in the second place to be respected as a strong, muscular power."
The L7 is a 6-meter (20-foot) dreadnought of an automobile, boasting a mammoth 12-cylinder engine and roughly resembling an oversized Bentley Flying Spur.
Foreign dignitaries and officials above the rank of minister get the L7, while top-level Chinese officials are chauffeured in an even bigger version, the leviathan L9, which reportedly costs about $800,000 and looks like the kind of car rock stars might drive into swimming pools. Almost 40 centimeters (15 inches) longer than the L7, the L9 comes with an armored chassis, rear-opening "suicide doors" and an optional sun roof from which Chinese leaders emerge when reviewing troops.
Ministerial-level officials are assigned the much more modest H7, which starts at around $50,000.
Chinese car enthusiast Liu Weining, who owns a 2000 version based on the Audi 100 and wishes he could afford one of the latest models, thinks the future of the brand is bright because of its iconic status.
"It's a sturdy car with a very distinctive look and lots of power," Liu said. "There's no other brand like it because so many key events in modern Chinese history have somehow had a connection to Red Flag."
The cars have featured heavily in coverage of official visits, and drivers say they've gotten positive feedback from their distinguished passengers.
"The response from top leaders has been excellent," said a driver surnamed Zhang who had just ferried a Chinese vice premier in an H7 to a meeting with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan at Beijing's Great Hall of the People.
"It's as big as the Audis I used to drive, and at least as comfortable," he said.
The re-emergence of the Red Flag, better known by its Chinese name, Hong Qi (hong-CHEE), coincides with newly installed President Xi Jinping's promotion of the "China Dream," a vague concept intended to instill national pride and fire China's further development.
The Red Flag's revival "is part of the general attempt to revive respect for the Chinese Communist Party and its revolutionary heritage, rather than worship of things foreign," said Anthony Saich, a China expert at Harvard University.
"I think it would be odd to promote the China Dream with senior officials riding around in foreign limousines, so it seems to me to be a natural extension of (Xi's) desire to boost respect and prestige for the made-in-China brand of the revolution," Saich said.
That plays into China Inc.'s ambition to establish global brands such as Red Flag's parent company, First Auto Works, more commonly known by its initials FAW.
So far, sales of Chinese car brands in China — the world's largest car market since 2009 — have been hampered by poor quality, clunky design and less-than-stellar customer service. Foreign makes account for 70 percent of the country's new car purchases, with the figure rising to 80 percent for vehicles purchased by officials and government agencies.
But local brands are now getting a leg up with a new government policy requiring officials to gradually replace their Audis and Volkswagens with local brands. China's government is reported to spend up to $16 billion annually on its fleet of roughly 5 million vehicles.
Red Flag's storied reputation could give it an edge over other local marques, said Klaus Paur, global head of automotive at market research company Ipsos.
"While other Chinese car makers are not really up to the challenge, Red Flag is probably the only domestic brand that may be accepted by Chinese officials as an alternative to international brands," Paur said. "If Hong Qi is able to succeed with officials, this may also have a positive impact for the private car market."
One of China's top three automakers, FAW produces vehicles from buses to SUVs, but the Red Flag has always been its flagship brand.
The Red Flag was hatched in a tossed-off comment by Chairman Mao. Arriving in a Russian limousine at a meeting of the Politburo in 1956, Mao questioned out loud when he would travel "in one of our own sedans." That led to a prototype in 1958. Production began in earnest in 1959.
For more than two decades, FAW churned out Red Flags in a variety of sizes and styles. In 1965 it introduced Mao's CA770, which featured a luxury interior and three rows of seating.
Production ended in 1981 under then-leader Deng Xiaoping's drive to reduce waste and revive the moribund economy through his policy of reform and opening.
In the years that followed, no less than three attempts were made to revive the brand through hook-ups with foreign brands, resulting in such combinations as the CA7465 C8, based on a second-generation Lincoln Town Car, as well as the rebranded Audi 100.
While such iterations haven't had the gravitas of the classic limos of Mao's era, the brand has managed to retain its mystique, said Liu, the car enthusiast.
"It's much more than just a type of automobile," Liu said. "For the citizens of China, there's really nothing that can replace it."
Louise Watt contributed to this report.

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Q: I thought Target Corp. was such a great company. Why haven't my shares done better this year?-- K.L., via the Internet
A: The nation's second-largest discount retailer is a fine company, renowned for offering merchandise with style and low price. Nonetheless, it can never relax in its competition with industry leader Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Target has more than 1,400 stores; about 140 of them are SuperTarget stores with bigger grocery departments. It intends to add about 100 stores this year with no plans to go overseas anytime soon. That tally compares to around 5,700 Wal-Marts located in a number of world markets.
Recent concerns about Target that have hurt its stock price don't involve comparative store count, however, but its rapidly growing credit card operation. Its success there could turn out to be too much of a good thing.
A large portion of Target earnings lately have come from that credit card business, rather than retail sales, which could become worrisome if the economy tanks and delinquent accounts increase significantly. Management rejects that idea and maintains that its credit card business is sound.
While June sales were better than expected as Target outpaced Wal-Mart and other competitors, its July same-store sales were at the low end of its reduced forecast. It has deeply discounted its furniture and Global Bazaar home accessories, and there are doubts about grocery profit margins.
Shares of Target (TGT) are down 14 percent this year following last year's 6 percent gain. The company recently increased its regular quarterly dividend. It has a significant amount of debt but generates enough cash to service it.
None of the concerns change the fact that Target is a well-run company that tackles all of its problems in an efficient manner. Its brand name has a positive connotation with shoppers and it has held its own with Wal-Mart, which has recently been trying to revive its own sales momentum by aggressively remodeling stores.
The consensus analyst rating on Target shares is a "buy," according to Thomson Financial, which consists of five "strong buys," 11 "buys," seven "holds" and one "sell."
Earnings are expected to increase 15 percent for its fiscal year ending in January, compared with 12 percent forecast for the discount variety store industry. Next year's predicted 14 percent gain compares with 16 percent forecast industrywide. The expected five-year annualized return is 15 percent versus 14 percent for its peers.
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A: Smart woman, your mother. I feel younger already.
This fund was hit hard in the market's latest downturn, but in the long run has been an outstanding investment and a good way to diversify an individual's portfolio. It invests primarily in convertible securities, which are either preferred stock or bonds.
The $6.3 billion Calamos Growth and Income Fund (CVTRX) is up 6 percent over the past 12 months and has a three-year annualized return of 11 percent. Both results rank in the upper one-third of convertible securities funds.
"John Calamos and his nephew Nick Calamos have been in charge a long time, building a boutique investment shop into a solid organization that delivers the goods across a number of their funds," said Kerry O'Boyle, analyst with Morningstar Inc. in Chicago. "An investor nearing retirement who wants to ease back on equity exposure but not go whole-hog into bonds just yet could see this fund as a nice hybrid."
Convertible securities make regular dividend or coupon payments, though yields are lower than those of regular bonds, and give the opportunity to convert at some point to common stock at a preset ratio. They're recognized for featuring some of the upside of stocks with less volatility and more downside protection.
The convertibles this fund owns often are low- and mid-quality issues of small- and mid-cap companies. It owns quite a bit of common stock as well.
"Despite their positives, convertibles are a small niche area of the overall market and we wouldn't recommend putting more than 10 percent of your overall portfolio into them," O'Boyle said. "They can be a quirky market."
The fund's top holdings include U.S. Treasury notes and common stock of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Infosys Technologies Ltd., United Health Group Inc. and Nvidia Corp. It also owns bonds of Merrill Lynch & Co., Valero Energy Corp., Liberty Media Corp. and Halliburton Co.
Calamos Growth and Income Fund requires a 4.75 percent "load" (sales charge) and has an annual expense ratio of 1.06 percent.
Q: How does buying on margin work? When does it work best?-- M.C., via the Internet
A: As with many investments, it works best in a positive stock market environment. Down markets, as the 1929 stock market crash painfully dramatized, are the worst times to have margin accounts.
When you sign papers to open a margin account with your broker, it enables you to borrow up to 50 percent of the purchase price of a stock. Consider it a loan from the broker. When you sell the stock in a margin account, proceeds go to your broker against repayment of the loan until it is paid in full. Interest charges on the loan are applied to your account unless you decide to make payments.
"If the stock falls far enough in price, the brokerage will issue a margin call requiring you to come up with the money to maintain a certain level in your account," said David Bendix, certified financial planner and certified public accountant with the Bendix Financial Group in Garden City, N.Y. "That makes it a risky undertaking, for if you can't come up with the money, the broker will liquidate your equity to come up with it."
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The Shelby County Schools board voted Tuesday, Feb. 25, to close 10 Memphis schools with the new school year.
But the final plan approved by the board on a split vote and recommended by superintendent Dorsey Hopson gave a one-year reprieve on closing Northside High School, removed Alcy Elementary School from the list completely and keeps Riverview Middle School open but closes neighboring Riverview Elementary School to make Riverview Middle a k-8 school starting next August.
The board approved the closing of Westhaven Elementary School in southwest Memphis for the coming school year and sending students at the school now to nearby Fairley and Raineshaven Elementary Schools.
But the board also voted to seek capital funding from the Shelby County Commission in the budget season to build a new school on the site of Westhaven that would replace all three schools in the area.
The present Westhaven school will be demolished. The school's structural issues were what prompted Hopson to recommend the closing of a building he described as being in the worst condition of any school building in the system.
School board member Shante Avant pushed to keep Westhaven Elementary open for the 2014-2015 school year and build the new school on a different part of the site.
But Hopson urged the board not to do it because of the logistics of using portable classrooms and difficulties the school system has encountered in similar construction scenarios.
Other school board members questioned what the school system would do if the county commission does not approve funding for a new Westhaven Elementary at least for the new fiscal year. Board member David Pickler thought it unlikely the commission would fund any new school construction.
However, the board also voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a resolution by Avant that calls on the commission to fund a new Westhaven school.
The Riverview k-8 school to come complicates the school system's previous strategy for Carver High School and puts the south Memphis high school on the same bubble as Northside.
The preliminary recommendation for Carver had been to keep it open and merge Riverview Middle School into Carver and make Carver a 6-12 school.
Hopson said the school system will work on strategies for both high schools with possibilities including locating alternative schools the school system plans to move anyway to the two campuses.
The strategies also include trying to develop programs that will draw more students to the under-utilized school buildings and at the same time improve student achievement as well as basic literacy at the schools.
But Hopson made no guarantees about the future for the high schools beyond next year. And he noted that in Northside's case, its under utilization was mostly a result of more students living in the area who are zoned to Northside who do not attend the school than do attend the school.
These are the other closings approved Tuesday by the school board:
•Corry Middle School students who do not attend the Achievement School District school on the site will be zoned to Hamilton Middle School with the new school year.
•Cypress Middle School is another colocation with the ASD using the KIPP Memphis Collegiate Schools. Students from Cypress who don't attend KIPP go to Grandview Heights Middle School.
•Gordon Elementary School will merge with Caldwell-Guthrie Elementary School, itself the product of an earlier merger between the once-separate Caldwell and Guthrie schools.
•Graves Elementary School will close and its students will go to Ford Road Elementary School with part of Ford Road's current attendance zone closer to Levi Elementary School than Ford Road being reassigned to Levi.
•Klondike Elementary School will close and its students will attend Vollentine Elementary School with the new school year.
•Lanier Middle School closes and its students will be sent to A. Maceo Walker Middle School. Hopson indicated he is working on a plan to reuse the Lanier building as a 9th grade academy for Whitehaven High School to be operated by a charter school.
•Shannon Elementary School is another ASD school with a partial takeover of several grades per school year. The Achievement School District starts with kindergarten and the first grade in the coming school year. The students in other grades will attend Douglass k-8 starting in August.
•Vance Middle School will close next school year and its students will attend Booker T. Washington High School which becomes a 6-12 school. Hopson's final recommendation is that the Vance building could house a regional schools office or become an alternative school.
In other action, Tuesday, the school board unanimously approved renaming Fairview Middle School as the school prepares for a transition to optional school status in the new school year with a science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics – or STEAM – curriculum.
The new name of the school will be the Maxine Smith STEAM Academy in honor of the late Memphis City Schools board member, NAACP executive secretary and civil rights icon.


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QuickLaunch was updated today and this update brings BlackBerry7 support. The new version number is 3.8, and it comes with a few new features. A few to many to list on the front page! lol Make sure to head to our forums for a full change log.
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* Auto Fill
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital and his refusal to release more extensive tax records continue to dog his campaign. Host Michel Martin takes up these topics and other political news of the week with Republican strategist Ron Christie and Joy-Ann Reid, managing editor of The Grio.com.
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Pictures of dead girlfriend make Oscar Pistorius sick in the dock
Pretoria: Graphic images of Reeva Steenkamp's dead body, the pistol used to kill her and the blood-soaked bathroom where she took her last breaths have been shown to a South African court, prompting her killer Oscar Pistorius to once again throw up in the dock.
As the evidence resumed for day nine of the murder trial, Pistorius initially sat impassively as some images depicting blood stains in the aftermath of the shooting were shown on screens set up in the court.
But a few moments later, a fleeting shot of Ms Steenkamp's slumped, wounded body was accidentally shown to the whole court, including some of her friends and "Johannesburg family" who were in attendance.
Pistorius saw the image too, and reacted swiftly, throwing his head forward and covering his face with his hands, leaning onto the dock as he rocked back and forth.
The cross-examination of a forensic expert continued, but soon came the second error from the computer operator - graphic, close-up images of the young model's head after the shooting were inescapable for those in the courtroom.
The Blade Runner immediately began gagging, and shortly thereafter was seen to repeatedly throw up into his hands.
The court adjourned as Pistorius continued to retch and vomit into a hastily-produced bucket, his sister Aimee rushing into the dock to comfort him.
Mercifully, distraught friends of Ms Steenkamp's had left the court moments earlier; the first accidental viewing having been enough.
In the adjournment, he was seen angrily talking to his lawyers, clearly livid at the inadvertent developments.
It was another dramatic episode in the trial, which enters day 10 on Friday.
The first police officer on the scene, Colonel Schoobe Van Rensburg, was the next witness in the case, leading the court on a photographic tour of Pistorius' home on the night of the fatal shooting.
The 30-year police veteran and former station commander gave his evidence largely in Afrikaans, although an interpreter engaged to assist him was repeatedly corrected on his translations.
It was still on fire … you just had to pull the trigger
Col Van Rensburg told the court he had been at another crime scene when he was called to attend the Silver Woods estate.
He arrived at 3.55am to be told by paramedics a female shooting victim had died before they reached the home.
After observing Ms Steenkamp's body, he saw a tearful and "very emotional" Pistorius being comforted by the estate's manager and his wife, who told him the Olympian had shot her thinking she was an intruder.
Col Van Rensburg said he ordered the crime scene be secured, and requested fingerprints experts and a police photographer be engaged to record the scene.
Under the guidance of chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel, the court was then shown a series of images from the interior of the Pistorius home, revealing blood spots on cream arm chairs on the ground floor, and smears along a pillar beside the staircase.
Col Van Rensberg said the images depicted "the blood trail we were following".
Cautiously, the camera edged towards the bathroom, recording close ups of drops of blood on a railing, a trail of red along the carpeted hallway.
Through this imagery, Pistorius sat in the dock concentrating on a notepad on his knee as the court saw snapshots of his life prior to Valentine's Day 2013.
More than 30 pairs of sunglasses in a cupboard referenced his sponsorship by Oakley; plasma TV screens, a large sound system, multiple mobile phones, and a dozen or so watches in a box, all symbols of his success.
Once inside the bedroom, chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel asked the witness if the scene depicted matched what he saw in the early hours of February 14.
"Yes, that's what we found at the scene," referring to himself and his colleague, Hilton Botha who had joined him at Pistorius' home.
Images of the bedroom where Pistorius says the pair had gone to sleep at 10pm the night before revealed possessions belonging to Ms Steenkamp: a black overnight bag sat on a leather sofa, a black bra and black jeans visible inside. A pair of her sandals were on the floor beside the lounge.
A gun holster was on a bedside table and, as the next photographs showed the scene along a short passage way between the bedroom and bathroom, a bullet cartridge was visible on the floor.
Once in the bathroom, the court could see a scene of total carnage: grey, blood-drenched towels covered the tiled floor; broken wooden panels from the door to the toilet cubicle were strewn on the floor. Atop one towel, the court saw the 9mm Parabellum pistol "with the hammer still pulled back".
"It was still on fire … you just had to pull the trigger," Col Van Rensburg said.
An iPhone sat next to it, and he explained that police initially thought there were two mobile phones in the bathroom; but one was just the case to the other.
The final image for the day was of the toilet cubicle where Ms Steenkamp likely took her last breaths, alongside a small wooden magazine rack.
A huge pool of blood could be seen next to the toilet, the seat of which was also stained red.
Col Van Rensburg will likely face a tough cross-examination from Pistorius' counsel, Barry Roux.
The 30-year police veteran resigned late last year after it emerged Pistorius' toilet door had been stored in his office for a week or so instead of in the evidence room.
He denies that was the reason he quit.
Lisa Davies is editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Dr. D'Adamo's formula, Intrinsa, has quite an interesting history.
The Basics
Intrinsa supplements support stomach, small intestine, and colon health.
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Caprylic acid is a medium-chain fatty acid that is absorbed from the intestines and carried by blood lipids. Caprylic acid is known to have anti-fungal properties. Mounting evidence also suggests that some of the naturally derived, medium-chain, saturated fatty acids also possess anti-microbial and anti-parasitic properties.
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TONASKET Students returned to normal school activities Thursday afternoon following the lockdown of the K-12 campus and arrest of a local man carrying a pellet gun.
Devin Martinez, 18, was booked into the Okanogan County Jail on suspicion of possession of a dangerous weapon on school grounds.
Tonasket Police Department Chief Rob Burks said the school campus – which includes the elementary, middle and high schools -- was locked down about noon after officials received a report of a man with a handgun walking toward the campus.
Martinez was located outside the building by school officials and turned over to police, Burks said. Nobody was injured.
Superintendent Paul Turner said parents were notified of the shutdown via the school's electronic message system.
They will also receive printed copies of the notification, he said.
Police, the Okanogan County Sheriff's Office, fire and ambulance crews, and U.S. Border Patrol responded.
This is the second time in less than four years that Tonasket schools have been locked down.
The campus was locked down May 3, 2010, when an unidentified parent allegedly made inappropriate comments to a third party about unsafe things he could do on campus.
The lockdown was the second in the county in as many months.
Okanogan schools were partially locked down Sept. 17 while deputies arrested a woman on suspicion of stealing a pistol from a vehicle in Okanogan. The woman was arrested about a block from that school.
See the Oct. 30 issue of The Chronicle for more details on the Tonasket incident.
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Kit Harington, the actor cast as Jon Snow in HBO's Game of Thrones, is presently playing in Posh, staged by the Royal Court Theatre in London from April 9th to May 22nd. The Royal Court Theatre has release a photo of the young actor in his role as Ed Montgomery. Two more photos, out of costume, can be found here and here.
A notable feature? His long hair, longer than at the Eason's Signing (see last photo). According to those present, Harington said he wore a wig for filming but if the series recieved the greenlight he'd grow out his hair, and that does seem to be what he's doing.
For those in the London-area who might want to see the play and report on Harington's performance, there's a review with some commentary.
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You think that Soulcalibur might be the best 3D fighter series on the planet. You appreciate the series diverse roster of characters, enjoy creating your own combatants, and maybe you have a great idea for which guest character Namco should include in the
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If you bred HK-47, Shale, Chai Ka and Wrex, the gaming world would explode from sheer badassery.
My top three are as follows:
1. Raphael
2. Yoshimitsu
3. Taki
Wow...other than Raphael and Yoshimitsu, I had to really think about that third one. I guess I chose Taki because I love her ninja style, but it was still really hard to choose from so many great characters.
Top 3
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2. Seong-Mina
I like them because they are asian.
Now that I've played the fifth game, I would have to say that one of my favorites now is Ezio. I love how diverse his style is, and I'm also a fan of the Assassin's Creed series.
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A swarm of tractors and motorcycles were seen filling the streets of Brush last Saturday, as families from all over the state ushered in the fourth annual Morgan County Antique Tractor & Power Show.
Held once again at the AMA Complex, nearly 70 tractor models were registered to participate in this year's event which enticed farmers, motorcycle riders and collectors of every kind to enjoy a day of family, fun, food and entertainment as families perused and reminisced over various models of ag equipment, both past and present.
From a line of 1950s John Deere models to the McCormick Farmalls. and even an array of collectors' models, enthusiasts of all-things agricultural were treated to an array of equipment that also included corn and wheat threshing demonstrations.
Not only could folks in attendance enjoy tractor games, a variety of vendor booths and food trucks, but they could also come face-to-face with historical and antique machines, with a number of personal stories and adventures also found in meeting with the collectors and owners.
Slow but sure, the line-up of tractors from this year's event made their way down Main Street in Brush and ranged from historical antiques to new, used and refurbished models complete with owners and their families who took obvious care and pride in their machines, much to the delight of weekend-goers and on-lookers including the residents of the Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center, who delighted in seeing the tractor parade pass by.
The morning of the event also featured a Poker Run that hide riders hitting up local businesses who were ready with deals and discounts.
The breezy but sun-filled morning began with the official opening ceremonies, followed by the annual kids' tractor pull, which saw the top three girls and boys from each age group vying for rights to qualify for the state sanctioned youth tractor pull, to be held at the Old Threshers event in Yuma on September 5-7.
The 2014 edition also featured a live auction held by Auctioneers Miller and Associates on their AMA grounds featuring items such as collectors' toy tractor models, Rockies tickets, lawn and garden items, jewelry and much more.
Each year the organizers of the event, the Morgan County Antique Tractor & Power Show Group, composed of about 10 Morgan County residents who volunteer their time and efforts to create, organize and work the event each year, also match monies raised at the live auction up to a certain amount and donate the funds towards scholarships that are awarded to one student from each of the five Morgan County schools.
This year, the committee received three applications and were able to award scholarships to those three students to help in continuing their agricultural education in a variety of fields. The group also invites anyone else who might be interested to join them in bringing the now annual event back each year.


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"There, I said it. Microsoft has been bombarding the media with claims about how much better IE9 is than all the other browsers, more HTML5 and CSS3 compliant than any other browser that ever existing and ever will. It's the only browser that passes all the tests they made up. And, Microsoft has finally implemented the CSS3 selectors that were implemented by other browsers back in, what? 2003? Because Microsoft has updated IE to support CSS3 selectors and rounded corners, they want us to believe that somehow IE9 magically supports the whole slew of CSS3 visual styling. I'm afraid it doesn't. As a matter of fact, IE9's support for CSS3 visual styling is so poor that the results are shocking."
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Without your own investigation and validation from reliable don't just rush /jump and post something and create a false opinion to the users.
Err, no. OSNews doesn't have any responsibility in "checking" whatever is submitted. We, the readers, are educated enough to spread some knowledge and enlighten each other. To the point that your own first impression has been changed by insightful remarks and comments challenging the news item. That's what a community is for.
I believe the community has been remarkable on this very news item. It may well teach a lesson to those who read the teaser or the article without reading the comments.


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[QUOTE=Beerfish;4873775]No reason to cut Sanchez at all.[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, Sanchez is the media face of this team's ineptitude. Whether that is right or wrong can be debated. Nonetheless, there are multiple threads on this blog railing against the media treatment of the Jets. Much of it can be eliminated with management biting the bullet and cutting Sanchez. His roster spot needs to be filled with a player of promise. He's done in New York!
Competition. Keep the best QBs and cut the rest. Let iron sharpen iron. Sanchez is NOT the worst QB in that group, and he is going to cost you whether he's there or not. And then Gerrard/Geno/whoever will be cheered when enter and booed/demonized/run out of town when makes 1st mistake. It is the way of the Jet fan and the media.
Cutting someone you invested so much into - when part of his failures were your own fault (surrounding him with a crappy QB coach, two very crappy OCs, and a lack of depth and injury-riddled problems at OL, WRs, RBs, TEs...) just to make a point is what stupid organizations do. And petty fans mindlessly cheer for.
Then again... this is the Jets. :D And... well, these are Jets fans! With every QB since Namath and probably before.


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AMD Mixes Gaming & Hollywood With Cinema 2.0: On Monday AMD had made an announcement surrounding the convergence of computer gaming and Hollywood film making with Cinema 2.0. Cinema 2.0 is not a new GPU technology, a new piece of software, or anything tangible, but it's been described as just an inflection point and vision/road-map. Cinema 2.0 is similar to the Web 2.0 ecosystem and they believe it will be a defining moment in the gaming and graphics industries.
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The moment news of Mike Sherman's firing as Dolphins offensive coordinator became public, speculation about his successor started. The name most tied to the vacancy is that of Ben McAdoo, the Green Bay Packers quarterback coach.
And while it makes sense based on ties you'll soon understand, one cannot accuse the Dolphins of acting fast if they have interest. The Dolphins as of this writing had not sought permission to interview McAdoo.
Therefore there is no interview scheduled with McAdoo.
The Cleveland Browns, meanwhile, have received permission to interview McAdoo for their open head coach job, according to the NFL Network and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. That will happen Wednesday.
(Yes, McAdoo is out of contract after this season. But as contracts don't expire until March, teams have to get permission to interview McAdoo anyway).
So why has McAdoo's name come up?
Well, he worked with Joe Philbin in Green Bay. He was the tight ends coach while Philbin was on that staff as the offensive coordinator. When Philbin came to the Dolphins to turn the Dolphins into a playoff team around, McAdoo became the quarterback coach for the Packers.
Interestingly, McAdoo, 36, has never been an offensive coordinator. He's never called plays.
So why is he so hot?
He's been compared to Kansas City coach Andy Reid, who rose from Green Bay tight ends coach, to quarterback coach to head coach in Philadelphia.


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The Lexington City Council voted to renew uptown Lexington's Municipal Service District after a public hearing on Monday.
The Lexington City Council voted to renew uptown Lexington's Municipal Service District after a public hearing on Monday.
Uptown Lexington was formed in 1993 and of the 61 North Carolina Main Street programs, 32 of those use the special tax district tool to fund their programs. Properties within the district of Third Street to Third Avenue and roughly South State Street to Salisbury Street are taxed an additional .20 cents per $100 valuation. At the inception of this district, property owners agreed to the additional tax and decided a renewal was required every five years.
This is the fourth time the MSD tax has been approved.
Before the public hearing, Tim Ragan, president of Uptown Lexington, made a brief presentation about the success the organization has had on Lexington.
Ragan showed photos of 20 years ago when uptown Lexington was called downtown Lexington, noting the utility lines that crisscrossed the roadway and the cracked and old glass block sidewalks.
"There were a lot of 'for rent' signs throughout the district," Ragan said.
Through a proven system developed by the Main Street program, Uptown Lexington began to revitalize the district. The four pillars are promotion, economic restructuring, design and organization.
Since 1994, over $221,000 has been granted through the City of Lexington to Uptown for façade grants and that has leveraged over $507,000 in private investment. Ragan said public and private investment in the district totals more than $31.6 million.
"The facade grants provide funding to small projects such as changing flat metal awnings to total redesign of buildings such as what has been done to Café 35 and Magnolia's," Ragan said.
In the course of 20 years, 117 facades have been redone in the district, 60 buildings were renovated, and there was a net gain of 87 businesses and 262 jobs. In that same time frame, the property value in the district has increased from $21 million to over $50 million in 2012.
Uptown Lexington has also achieved recognition on the state level for projects such as Pigs in the City, the BBQ Capital Cook-off and the streetscape project. The organization is also responsible for special events.
"We invited over 250 business and property owners to hear about what we accomplished and what we are planning. We asked for letters of support from uptown property owners and businesses," Ragan said.
Twenty-eight letters of support were included in the council's packet. Property owner and retail merchant, Toby Prince of All About Education, supported the MSD tax.
"We bought our building in November 2004 and opened our store, All About Education, in January 2005. Since opening, we have benefited from the support and promotions of Uptown Lexington … We would have been lost if we had not received guidance from Uptown Lexington during our first year. This organization is a vital part of our Uptown Lexington Community … Please continue to fund Uptown Lexington with the MSD tax," Prince stated in a letter.
Greg Turlington, on behalf of Lexington Investments, Turlington Properties and MBJ&J, also supported the district.
"As property owners, we have a vested interest in maintaining uptown Lexington as a healthy, vibrant business district … We encourage you to vote for reauthorization of the Municipal Service District and the property tax," Turlington stated in a letter to the mayor.
Before Ragan finished the presentation, he noted Uptown Lexington was a very important part to growing the city.
"Uptown is the heart and soul of our community," Ragan said. "We hope you will continue to let us be one of your economic development partners for the next five years."
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Those who live in Parker are powerless to stop high-voltage power lines from running across East Bay from Parker to Tyndall Air Force Base.
Friday morning, those lines began going up with a helicopter actually stringing the high voltage lines from tower to tower across the bay.
A conflict began over a year ago when Tyndall Air Force Base needed more electrical power to help maintain the F-22 program which is being located at the base.
Parker wanted an underwater power line rather than one built on a series of towers across East Bay. The Public Service Commission stepped in saying an underwater line would cost an additional seven to $9 million.
Since the cost would affect rates customers pay for electricity, the lines are being installed overhead across the bay.
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The Spa at Charleston Place is hosting its sixth annual "I Will Reflect" Fashion Show and Cocktail Party to promote sun safety in the Charleston area 7-10 p.m. Thursday.
This year's event, dubbed the SPF (Skin. Party. Fashion.) Event, features "I Will Reflect" ambassadors, skin protec-tion tips from the Medical University of South Carolina, a fashion show featuring local designers and retailers, cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, and a silent auction.
A donation of $20 is suggested. Proceeds will benefit skin-cancer research at MUSC. RSVP by email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Since the spa started on the most visible melanoma awareness campaign in the area in 2008, it has raised and donated $30,000 to the MUSC Foundation for skin cancer research through the sales of "I Will Reflect" UV-detection bracelets, special events and other donations, according to Annette Sandford-Lopez, director of the spa and health club.
"The Spa's campaign encourages the public to pledge 'I Will Reflect,' and join the movement to help reduce the impact of melanoma, which is the most serious, often life-threatening form of skin-cancer."
While the fashion show is the highlight of the spa's efforts, it has undertaken other outreach efforts as well in recent years.
This year's effort included getting first-graders at three local schools to compete in a contest for sun safety "superhero" using elements of the "I Will Reflect" campaign in a storyline.
A class taught by Cari James at St. Andrew's School of Math and Science Magnet won for creating "SunnyPants Kid."
Sandford-Lopez says she was "blown away" by all the entries, which included Belle Hall and Laurel Hill elementary schools, but that a panel of judges selected SunnyPants in March.
The superhero will be turned into a short video on sun safety.
"Teaching children to practice sun safety, such as putting on sunscreen, is just another aspect of basic health lessons, such as brushing your teeth," says Sandford-Lopez. "We talk to them about the importance of nutrition and exercise. Sun protection is just one more element of that."


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2004-05-04 ATI Radeon X800 New high end graphics chip succeeding the R350/R360 based on a completely new design also known as project Loki. Was to be shown at Comdex in November-03, but was only shown to NDA-signing people on CeBIT-04 and launched to the rest of us in May. Was earlier said to support unified DX 9.0c and Pixel and Vertex Shaders 3.0, but only DirectX 9.0b is supported.
The R420 is a simplified version of the R400 (now R500) to get a new high-end chip out quicker. R420 still uses 24 bit precision (96 bit in total) but adds 3Dc compression.
Native PCI-Express support shows up in the R423 (X800 PCI-E), formely known as X880 on June 1st.
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Irons is among the prominent hosts of "Shakespeare Uncovered," an inventive series tracing the origins of eight of the writer's plays through a combination of history, new analysis, selected scenes -- and, for Irons, a gallop on horseback across a fabled battlefield.
The series began Friday (check local listings) on KRMA-TV6, which happens to be the home of the hit period soap opera "Downton Abbey."
"Shakespeare Uncovered," along with PBS' planned fall airing of new films of four of Shakespeare's plays, "open up to this huge American audience this gold dust," Irons told reporters recently, and demonstrates that TV "doesn't end with 'Downton Abbey.'"
After then mischievously comparing Shakespeare to an Aston Martin and "Downton" to a Ford Fiesta, Irons admitted he hadn't seen the serial and was just having a bit of fun. But he's serious about the Bard of Avon.
"Watch these Shakespeare productions and you'll see what real writing, what real stories, what real characters are about," he said.
The programs also present actor-writer-producer Shakespeare as a 16th-century impresario who knew how to please audiences and exploit his own work by bringing back popular characters and crafting "prequels."
"Shakespeare Uncovered" opened with Ethan Hawke's exploration of "Macbeth," including visits to the play's Scottish sites, a look at recent productions starring Patrick Stewart and Antony Sher, and an illumination of Shakespeare's grasp of the criminal mind.
It's paired with "Shakespeare Uncovered: The Comedies With Joely Richardson," about "Twelfth Night" and "As You Like It."
"Richard II" with Derek Jacobi and "Henry IV" and "Henry V" with Irons air on Feb. 1, with David Tennant's look at "Hamlet" and "The Tempest" with host Trevor Nunn concluding the series on Feb. 8.
There's travel as well as scholarship for the hosts. Irons visits the battlefield at Agincourt in northern France where, in productions of "Henry V," actors get to tear into the famed St. Crispin's Day speech ("We few, we happy few, we band of brothers").
Irons, who will star this fall in PBS' "Great Performances" adaptation of "Henry IV," said he was shooting the film when he was approached by "Shakespeare Uncovered" producer Richard Denton about taking part.


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Papers around the world lead this morning with the first test-tube example of artificial life, developed by American scientist Craig Venter. The implications are huge but ethical questions have been raised. We also look at the latest showdown between the Koreas, the sentencing of a gay couple to 14 years in prison in Malawi and Britain's decision to investigate torture and rendition. FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010


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We made another connection! Maria and Linda made an appointment to chat about a shared reading meeting via Skype. We had a good lesson on "sound" in second grade- using http://www.skrbl.com/. But the most fun was creating our portraits on the easy to use Portrait Ilustrator Maker.


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Nice xckd reference ^_^
http://xkcd.com/498/ [xkcd.com]
Posted anon, because I've got good karma already, and don't need to whore.
Perhaps the most on-topic xkcd soundbite ever:
"...it's like herding lolcats." [xkcd.com]
Not posting anonymously, 'cuz it's not whoring if you do it out of love.
See, and here I thought the CEOs of the major cable companies would be too busy to post on Slashdot...looks like I was wrong.
The entrenched cable and telco companies wouldn't argue in favor of reducing regulatory barriers. On the contrary, they willingly accept such minor restrictions as they can't work around in exchange for effective protection from competition. An invasive regulatory environment best serves the incumbent providers.
And it's clear deregulation has worked so well for us so far! Look at our financial sector!
Over here, they created telco regulations at the turn of the century, at a time the incumbent providers were already very few and very entrenched.
It was horrible.
The regulations got used. When the entrenched telcos tried to stifle the growth of up-and-coming providers with underhanded tactics, they got punished -- I kid you not! The mind boggles. Those guys were only trying to keep making money!
So now we got up to 20Mbps (in the countryside, don't know about cities) with no cap, with such things as custom reverse DNS and IPv6 as free options, installation on Linux officially supported, TV-over-DSL with hundreds of channels, and, oh, free phone to half the planet, too, all for a fixed monthly rate of about $22. The horror! The former entrenched telcos weeped a lot as they lost the marketshare they were rightfully entitled to.
Some silly liberals are probably going to bring forth some silly theory about the point of regulation being to prevent attempts by private interests to stifle competition, but that's a silly notion, of course. And probably a little subversive.
I hope the FIRST thing he does is start working on eliminating all these local-municipality "time warner/cox cable/comcrap/etc paid the city council a bag of money and sent them some whores in exchange for a local monopoly right" practices, and require equal-infrastructure access so that 'net service works the same way that power and phone service now do.
It's a good thing regulations protected the people who got screwed by Enr... oh wait.
It's a good thing regulations protected the town that the movie Erin Brockovicth was based on.. oh, wait.
You, sir, got lucky, and think that because things went a certain way for you, they go that way for everyone. They don't. The world is a larger sample set than the town you lived in.
It's a good thing our finance industry has stayed so heavily regul.. oh. wait.
It's most of the deregulation effects (things like repealing Glass-Steagal and entering into "free trade" with GATT/NAFTA/WTO from the Carter age onwards) that caused our problems there, actually. Just like how Radio has been effectively fucked to smithereens with the removal of mass-market ownership limits; we dropped from having over 5,000 radio station owners, most of who were comfortably making a profit (if not insanely rich),
Erin Brockovitch is based on a true story, by the way. To raise awareness that yes, things like this happen, and good luck
heavily deregulating franchising laws
This would go farther towards real network neutrality than any misguided law. Comcast wants to cut off google and iTunes? That's ok, a half-dozen more companies will show up and advertise the "real internet" to Comcast's customers.
Bonus points if it leads to the installation of empty conduit, the real infrastructure solution to "wah I don't want everyone and their dog to be ripping up the road every other day!"
Let me be the first to say that I, for one, welcome our new sane, Slashdot-answering, fair-use-aware internet overlord.
I've never heard the Chairman of a Subcommittee referred to as an overlord before
"Sub" because it's a subset. The smaller the committee, the greater the actual power.
Legislation related to the copyright into the committees of the judiciary and courts, the internet, and intellectual property.
Occasionally copies of bill go to the commerce and energy committee, but mostly its just a gesture rather than actual authority, as any approved bills usually get passed back to the afore mentioned committees for another pass.
If he's leaving either of the others, it's actually a reduction in the influence of reformists. Either way i'm at least glad he's still there.
Very true. Markey wasn't that great an advocate as the former chair of this subcommittee, but it's not the coup we were all hoping for. Howard Berman did head over to chair Foreign Affairs after Tom Lantos died, but it's apparently not clear yet whether he's ever going to relinquish the Judiciary IP subcommittee chairmanship that the Content Cabal pay him to cling to. [opensecrets.org]
Boucher hasn't been 100% perfect, but I'm sure the Content Cabal wanted their fair-haired kept boy in there instead. For the record, Berman IS my congresscritter. And I didn't vote for him this time. Just as I didn't vote for him two years ago.
Legislation related to the copyright into the committees of the judiciary and courts, the internet, and intellectual property.
I read this sentence a number of times, and I tried really hard to parse it. First, it has no verb at all. I tried concatenating it to the title of your post, and it still has no verb.
How did this get +4 Interesting? "Occasionally copies of bill go"? Your first sentence does not parse. The second sentence says, "Occassionally bills go to the committee, but approved bills go back to the committee for another pass". Again, this is not a logical statement. You're also talking about commerce and energy committee, where this story is about the Internet committee.
Third paragraph is talking about him leaving, and him being still there. The article is about him gaining a chairmanship of a commitee.
So, first sentence makes no sense. Second sentence also makes no sense and is off topic. Third sentence makes no sense.
In conclusion, please posts on the slashdot.org webpage and onto the internet, the universe, and the grand unification.
I made some typos and left a couple words out of my sentences while i was distracted, Whoopdy-freakin-doo.
The third paragraph is SPECULATING about him leaving other committees he was seating last I checked, if you'll notice the "If" at the front of the sentence.
I'm not proud of the mistakes, but the message is still quite clear.
I'd be happy to have one of the
I think you misunderstand me. I REALLY, TRULY can't understand your post. I have no idea what you're trying to say. It SOUNDS like you have something to say, but I can't follow AT ALL.
Something about copies of bills not being distributed? Something about copyright law and the internet?
I'm totally up for a better explanation of what you're saying - I suspect you're far more informed on these issues than I am these days.
Then I submit to you a corrected copy.
Legislation related to copyright generally goes into the committee of the judiciary and from there to the subcommittee on courts, the internet, and intellectual property.
Occasionally copies of bill go to the commerce and energy committee, but mostly its just a gesture rather than actual authority, as any bills which are approved by said committee usually get passed back to the judiciary anyway (or a copy is sent to the judiciary at the same time), just to show they're the top dogs.
If he's leaving either of his other committees (IIRC he was seated on the one on courts, the internet, and intellectual property), it's actually a reduction in the influence of reformists. Either way i'm at least glad he was re-elected.
I hope this clears up any problems.
Is that you Summer? [xkcd.com]
Boucher is great for this post, and I'm thrilled that he'll be there. I'm also thrilled that he'll be giving up leadership of the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. Boucher is a coal guy from a coal region of southwestern Virginia. He was weak on energy and environmental standards relative to the Democratic caucus.
So, this is good for Net Neutrality and other Internet issues.
It's also good for climate change and other environmental issues.
P.S. Like Boucher? Click on my sig link and send him some bucks!
I live in his district and still don't have high speed access at home, but I guess he is trying. Yeah if he went against coal here he would loose that battle and the next election.
No. He's been in the House for 20+ years.
He's honest, smart, knowledgeable. Yet despite those handicaps he's served in Congress for many years.
We know that while it is difficult to survive with that sort of integrity on the hill, it isn't impossible...Look at Ron Paul, and there are a few others...It looks like Franken will be one.
I'm grateful to the politicians who kept that from going into law, but let's be realistic: key escrow never had a serious chance. If it were the law, everyone who needed/wanted security would just have broken the law. And the only time anyone would have been charged for breaking that law is when they were already being charged with breaking a bunch of other stuff too -- it would be one of those "let's add a bunch of extra counts to this" thing, sort of like a "robbery with a gun" charge.
Nobody knows if
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French stage and film director, artistic director, dancer and choreographer Philippe Decouflé trained in many disciplines. His earliest ambition was to become a cartoonist, but after studying at Annie Fratellini's circus school and Marcel Marceau's mime school, he turned to modern dance and came into contact with choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais.
For Philippe, cooperation with others is essential to his process. In 1983 he gathered together a group of artists and artisans who have been with him ever since as members of his dance company DCA, which has created scores of playful and fantastic productions that represent a veritable revival in contemporary dance.
Philippe directed some music videos and commercials in the 1980s, and in 1992 he created the magnificent opening and closing ceremonies of the Albertville Olympic Games, working with his frequent cohorts costume designer Philippe Guillotel, and set designer Jean Rabasse. For Philippe, putting together the parade of 3,000 performers was akin to writing a symphony. Watched by two billion viewers, this work earned him an international reputation.
In 1995, Philippe moved his company into an old heating plant that he transformed into a bubbling laboratory where artists, designers and technicians could share their ideas. This was the birthplace of such original creations as Triton (1990), Shazam (1998), Solo (2003), Sombrero (2006), Cœurs croisés (2007) and Octopus (2010). He also wrote the show Désirs, which has been playing at the Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris since 2009.
Among his many honors Philippe was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1994, and the following year he won the Grand prix national du ministère de la culture for his show Decodex.
IRIS is Philippe Decouflé's first engagement with Cirque du Soleil. "I wanted this work to belong within the great traditions of Cirque du Soleil, but with my own mix of humor and seriousness," he says.
Philippe Decouflé was born in Paris, France.


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When disaster strikes, solve problems on your own and belittle those around you!
Actually, educational games are great. Number munchers changed my life: multiply or die.
Damnit, where do I train what to do if we're overrun with zombaliens? I already know how to survive after a disaster from playing Fallout 3!
It's only the best if it has dialogue as cheesy as Disaster: Day of Crisis [youtube.com].
But we loot anyway.
Assuming there's a "Survive Russian Invasion" mode
I suggest that you try Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2. One of the scenarios is called Wolverines! for just that reason.
Obama needs to know what to do during and after an emergency. It's obvious that at present he hasn't a fucking clue.
And sorry, threatening to kick BP's ass doesn't count.
Obama needs to know what to do during and after an emergency. It's obvious that at present he hasn't a fucking clue.
And sorry, threatening to kick BP's ass doesn't count.
And what do you suggest he does?
FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT! [youtube.com]
(all while not using too many caps, Mr. Obama. We have a lameness filter to avoid, here.)
There are tons of web-based games out there, aimed at little kids. The best ones manage to integrate some form of competitive nature. I remember way back in the day, when I was a young'n, there was this little site called neopets. [neopets.com]
Some of you might be familiar with this child-attracting monstrosity. It is full of minigames which give them points which they can spend on a variety of stuff. Stuff for your Neopet, as your Neopet is kind of like your avatar, or about as close as you're going to get. I find that they did well in attracting to the "Cool & Cute", the two fields that attract younger kids, however in retaining their audience that had to make it fun enough to keep playing. The best way to do this is to make it competitive with other players.
You could open a shop, and little kids would start playing the market like the stock market (despite neopets actually having its own built in stock market) - kids would understand the investment skills of buy low sell high. There was also a combat arena where you could face off your neopet against other people's neopets. A leveling system I can't remember, weapons, gear, all that stuff.
I'm sure its still like that somehow today, but thats about all I remember.
So, if there is any tip I can give to anyone making a web-game for kids: it's appeal to that social interaction and competitiveness that keeps kids playing webgames, keeps jocks playing football, and keeps nerds playing WoW.
So, if there is any tip I can give to anyone making a web-game for kids: it's appeal to that social interaction and competitiveness that keeps kids playing webgames, keeps jocks playing football, and keeps nerds playing WoW.
And rip-off Pokemon! Oh wait...
It's not cute and cuddly and aimed towards kids though.
I hope it's better then that real bad firefighter pc game that came out around 9/11
I don't know, I would lean towards a game that played out a scenario MMORPG style. The game would be first person a-la Quake/America's army. You run around the map doing things, collecting gear, maybe doing home improvements that would keep you safe in an emergency (locking down your water heater here in Southern California for example). Then at random intervals a disaster strikes and your forced to deal with the situations that you weren't prepared for.
Then after so much time after the disaster, the
Teaching kids to wear highly electric pants (as the pictured hero seems to) in a flood seems unwise.
Sure I have had folks make fun of my Zombie Apocalypse survival stuff, but when the power was out for a week due to ice storms I was ready. If you cannot survive without power for a week in your own home you are doing something wrong, excluding those with medical conditions who really should have generators and an UPS.
gives you high-level general knowledge, and it might even teach you something useful, but do more research and besides the standard bug-out-bags, water and stuff - - consider:
- Paper towels
- Boots that shit washes off easily from
- Rags and more paper towels
- Alcohol (the rubbing and drinking kinds)
- Firearm (I know
- Paper towels
- Cash (cash and more cash, and make it look like
- Firearm (I know
... but were you in Katrina after the floods. and if you were, were you in the neighborhoods I was in? Hunger can be a deadly force)
Good suggestion, really, really, really stupid reason.
If you're ever lost in the bush (yes tourists, when in Australia you can get lost easily, you could drive for 6 hours at 100 KM/h and not encounter anything) a firearm is a very good method of getting attention, which is what you want when people are looking for you.
But once again, you should feel a
:D Like many thing on the net, we typically only respond with blinders on to a directed topic/question. The items you mentioned are definitely must-haves - but that's what I meant by a "bug out bag". As to survival in the environment: I have desert, cold weather, and ocean survival training.
My point was in jest to highlight that, often, the simple things (such as paper towels) are left out.
About the gun:
I can't say for sure that you haven't been in a life threatening situation with armed people - but I have
The fat green alien rapper on the right of the Disaster Hero page made me laugh. It may do the same for you, just saying. Bling!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/6/17/ [penny-arcade.com]
Hopefully this remake will cover the vital "keep people from stealing your umbrella" survival skills.
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Making Better Decisions: Why I Tried The Honest Company Diapers
"Making Better Decisions" is a blogging series by Naturepedic marketing director and mom of one, Heidi Baumgart, and her path to making better purchasing decisions for her family.
When I first became a parent, there was a lot to research in general about baby "stuff." Of course the one thing that all my parent-friends joked about needing the most was diapers. Which to choose? Ads, coupons, product packaging overwhelm you when you stand at the wall-o-boxes at any retail establishment. Marketing message inundate you: best wetness protection, best fit, cute designs… What diapers were really best!? Yes, you're on the Naturepedic blog, so yes, I considered cloth. My husband just didn't love the thought of it. My mom had visions of 1980's "rubber pants" that were bulky and a mess. So with two votes against one, we went with disposable.
I believe in "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all," so I won't mention the diaper brands I have tried. Bulky, smelly, instant diaper rash with one brand! etc. And what is in them? Moving on.
When I first started working for Naturepedic, I heard about The Honest Company. Sounded good. Looked great! So off I went to our brand new local buybuybaby to purchase some in person.
Our nursery is nautical themed, so of course I grabbed the adorable anchor pattern.
Before I continue, full disclosure of course: The Honest Company didn't ask me to write this, they aren't paying me to write this, and I actually forgot my buybuybaby coupons so I paid full price for the diapers.
I'm obsessed with the diapers. Seriously. And for a few reasons.
First of all: I know I made a better decision. The Honest Company diapers are made with PLA, which is a plant based fiber. I know the benefits of PLA! We use non-GMO PLA in some of our organic mattresses!
Secondly: They are free of: chlorine processing, latex, lotions, fragrances, common allergens, phthalates, optical brighteners, PVC, heavy metals, organotins (MBT, DBT, TBT) & harsh petrochemical additives. Well I love that. I know that using latex – even organic latex is a no-no for baby products because babies can be highly allergic to it! And, just like our crib mattresses, there's no need for PVC or petrochemicals.
Third: Okay, plain old mom love here. They fit amazing. They are designed wonderfully and have you SEEN the cute designs? I love coordinating baby outfits anyways and now cute flowers or fruit or animals show instead of some over-marketed cartoon character.
So a necessary commodity becomes a smile a half a dozen times as day. Try 'em. You like em, too. Our friend Beau of #theoandbeau wears The Honest Company diapers, too, and has a coupon code for you.
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(www.syncardia.com), manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart, said today that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has discharged its first patient to be implanted with the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart. Michelle Johnson, 39, left the hospital to wait for a matching donor heart at home using the Freedom@ portable driver to power her Total Artificial Heart.
"The SynCardia Total Artificial Heart has given me one more day at life, and that day has turned into weeks and months, allowing me to become healthier for my heart transplant," said Johnson, a single mother of three. "The Freedom driver allowed me to leave the hospital and enjoy a better quality of life at home, where I'm able to see my kids and enjoy the closeness of my family. The light weight of the driver allows me to move around with little hassle or strain." Johnson was first diagnosed with congestive heart failure in her late twenties after she sought medical attention at an emergency room for shortness of breath. Doctors placed her on medication and she started feeling better.
However, in 2003, Johnson's doctor told her she would eventually need a heart transplant. They implanted her with a defibrillator in 2004 to help manage her worsening heart failure. Her condition continued to deteriorate and on Dec. 31, 2010, Johnson received a heart transplant at Cedars-Sinai. However, she was in and out of the hospital seven times in the next year.
"I made it almost a year with my first donor heart," she said. "But in October 2011, they started to see the signs of rejection, and on Nov.
30, 2011, I was admitted to the hospital. They tried several treatments to try to save the donor heart, but they didn't work. The doctors said my only option was to get the Total Artificial Heart." On Jan. 16, 2012, doctors performed the hospital's first implant of the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart to bridge Johnson to her second heart transplant. Six weeks later, Johnson's condition had stabilized and she was switched to the 13.5-pound Freedom portable driver, the world's first wearable power supply for the Total Artificial Heart. On March 15, she was discharged from the hospital to wait for a matching donor heart at home.
"I'm just grateful that the doctors and SynCardia have this technology available to help people like me," said Johnson. "My doctors and nurses at Cedars were a real blessing and very helpful. They treated me like they were my second family while I was away from home going through this situation." After she receives her transplant, Johnson says she would like to go back to school so she can help educate others on getting regular checkups, eating right and exercising.
The Freedom driver is CE approved for use in Europe and undergoing an FDA-approved Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) clinical study in the U.S.
CAUTION - The Freedom@ portable driver is an investigational device, limited by United States law to investigational use.
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Today, the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs sent a bipartisan letter to Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Chuck Hagel urging him to follow through on a February 2013 plan to improve disability benefits claims processing for transitioning service members and veterans. The mutually agreed upon plan that the DoD and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) struck calls for the DoD to begin the transfer of complete and certified Service Treatment Records (STRs) to VA immediately, with electronic transfer capabilities to be in place by December 31, 2013.
"This agreement has been represented by VA as a "game-changer' in enabling and improving its disability benefits claims system," wrote Committee members. "Ultimately, this will allow VA to issue compensation to disabled veterans faster. We support this joint initiative, and want to ensure that the resources required to execute it remain in place."
The complete text of the letter sent by the Committee can be found below and is available in PDF format in the link below.
Dear Secretary Hagel:
As you lead the Department of Defense in its tremendous operations, we write to underscore the importance of your continued and enhanced communication and collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs. In February 2013, DoD and VA mutually agreed on a plan of action to improve disability benefits claims processing for transitioning service members and veterans. The plan provides for DoD to begin the transfer of complete and certified Service Treatment Records (STRs) to VA immediately, with electronic transfer capabilities to be in place by December 31, 2013. This agreement has been represented by VA as a "game-changer" in enabling and improving its disability benefits claims system. Ultimately, this will allow VA to issue compensation to disabled veterans faster.
We support this joint initiative, and want to ensure that the resources required to execute it remain in place. The VA/DoD information paper codifying the agreement states that success is dependent upon approved Joint Initiative Funding for labor and hardware. We request that DoD confirm current funding approval, and, if necessary, coordinate with VA and this Congress to forecast and ensure this initiative's funding needs are met. We note that all concerns regarding funding of this initiative must be resolved promptly and in coordination with VA and this Congress.
We learned that the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs wrote to you in recent days on this very same issue. This demonstrates that concern for our veterans and the effects of the disability claims backlog is both bipartisan and bicameral. The members of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs echo the request of the Senate - that you work to strengthen DoD's existing partnership with VA as it improves its disability benefits claims system. As the Senate Committee noted, a seamless electronic transmission of records must be achieved and must include active duty service members as well as the Guard and Reserves. In upholding the promises made to this nation's service members and veterans, we will do all in our power to ensure the continued and enhanced partnership of DoD and VA.
The expectations of the American public, including the men and women who have worn the uniform, are reasonable. Veterans' disability benefits claims must be adjudicated in a timely and accurate manner and veterans must receive the benefits to which they are entitled. In the VA/DoD information paper provided to the committee it states that a veteran waits, on average, over 250 days for decision on a disability benefits claim. In some locations the wait is considerably longer. In that period, the information paper also indicates that the veteran's claim sits stagnant for up to 175 days as VA awaits transfer of complete STRs from DoD. Thus, the necessity of DoD and VA's cooperation cannot be overstated. Claims processing of veterans' disability benefits simply will not achieve a satisfactory timeline until the process for transfer of records between DoD and VA is updated, improved, and streamlined.
As we highlight the importance of this DoD/VA initiative to provide for electronic transfer of complete and certified STRs, both for active duty and the Guard and Reserves, and the requisite inquiry into the adequacy of the program's Joint Initiative Funding, we also welcome your input as we work to fulfill our obligations to the men and women who have served this nation.
Jeff Miller Mike Michaud
Gus M. Bilirakis Corrine Brown
Doug Lamborn Mark Takano
David P. Roe Julia Brownley
Bill Flores Dina Titus
Jeff Denham Ann Kirkpatrick
Jon Runyan Raul Ruiz
Dan Benishek Gloria Negrete McLeod
Tim Huelskamp Ann McLane Kuster
Mark Amodei Beto O'Rourke
Mike Coffman Tim Walz
Brad Wenstrup
Paul Cook
Jackie Walorski
Source: http://veterans.house.gov/sites/republicans.veterans.house.gov/files/2013%2004%2016%20HVAC%20to%20Sec%20Hagel.pdf


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Back from the sea are the jam bands and funkmakers of last week's Jam Cruise: Femi Kuti brings the Afrobeat of his Positive Force to Grand Central tonight at 8 ($33, GrandCentralMiami.com), and English reggae will blast through the Culture Room at the same time, when Steel Pulse performs ($37.20, Ticketmaster.com). You can read an interview with Femi Kuti at SouthFlorida.com/music.
Also off the cruise, festival-circuit mega-players Galactic are booked for an 8 p.m. gig Saturday at Revolution Live ($33.25, Ticketmaster.com). Miami's funk-hip-hop group ArtOfficial will open for the NoLa natives.
In the meantime, catch Johnny Mathis croon, "It's Not for Me To Say" at the Broward Center 7:30 p.m. Monday ($55-$85 plus fees, BrowardCenter.org), or watch Paul Rodgers without Bad Company or Queen at the Hard Rock 8 p.m. Wednesday ($53-$83.50, Ticketmaster.com). And, no, it's not the Australian Pink Floyd, but the Machine has been putting on Floydian cover shows for two decades, so its stint at the Seminole Coconut Creek should be fine-tuned enough to please die-hard fans ($29.55-$34.65, Ticketmaster.com).
Also on Saturday, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi will lead their Tedeschi Trucks Band into the Sunshine Blues Festival in Boca Raton. The fest will start at 11 a.m., with a full lineup posted on SunshineBluesFestival.com ($62.50, Ticketmaster.com). Later that night, Pink Martini will fill the Fillmore Miami Beach with chill, hip-swaying tunes at 8 ($75-$95, Ticketmaster.com).


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that's what happens when the owner puts a terrible product on the field and doesn't sell out. the ny jets, we win out SB's in the offseason on the back pages.
So many times in the past, the shoe has been on the other foot, with opposing fans invading Miami. (StubHub, quite frankly, is not a friend of the Miami Dolphins ticket office). Pittsburgh games come to mind. Even in the early 1990s, Buffalo fans seemed to turn late-season games between the Dolphins and Bills into something of a vacation. Well, this weekend a hearty group of Dolphins fans -- approximately 760 strong -- will be taking over practically every seat in section 322 and 323 at MetLife Stadium while the Dolphins visit the Jets. They're calling it a MetLife Takeover. You know the thing's a big deal when it has its own hashtag and Facebook page ... #MetLifeTakeover. This is the second year that a group of NYC Dolfans get together to attend this game. Last year, there were 200 fans who participated.
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that's what happens when the owner puts a terrible product on the field and doesn't sell out. the ny jets, we win out SB's in the offseason on the back pages.
Other then the Steeler game, and the Steelers do it to everybody, the Jets home crowds have been great.
They'll supposedly be in sections 322 & 323. Hopefully they get drounded out
Those pansies won't be able to take it unless it is 70+ degrees.
A sea of gay teal in the upper deck?
This must be Marino's year to win it all.
It could never compare to the amount of Jet fans when the Jets play down here.. I've been at Sun Life Stadium every year since I moved to FL and there is no shortage of Jet fans at the games..
Take over what? Are depression after being trounced. Cause thats whats gonna happen. We're gonna beat that ass Sunday.
LOL the last time we saw them here we got clubbed 30-7. I do not expect much difference this time, they are a MUCH better team then we are. I plan on doing something else this Sunday, I refuse to watch my team get pummeled for a third straight week, especially by a team wearing gay assed uni's.
They can have the dump
I'm surprised. They have trouble filling up two sections in their own stadium.
Just blow them out and these handful of fans will be gone by 3rd quarter.
Rootin' for the Jets. **** the Phins and their dumbass mascot. After they tried to buy their way into the playoffs by overpaying for that one trick pony Wallace I hope they end up dead last in the division.
Fin fans should worry about taking over their own stadium before trying it at anyone else's.
I guess this is the few fans in Miami's way of getting even for the massive take over of their stadium by JET fans "EVERY Year" for the past 25 years. Of course that won't happen this year cause the NFL screwed Jet fans again by making game 4 days afterX-Mas & 2 days B-4 New Years Eve,flights are insane out of Newark.Thanks again Woody!


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