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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Sketchbook... Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Sketchbook..." Overlord_Sabatykosjunior memberMember #Joined: 16 Apr 2009Posts: 4Location: Kew Gardens, New York Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:14 pm Hi guys, I've been haunting Sijun for a while now and finally decided to make an account the other day. Anyway, it's time to get serious and post some artwork. Is DeviantArt an acceptable image hosting website? I hope it is cause most of my artwork is over there. Anyway, I'm going to post a few pieces or at leas attempt to. Let me know what you guys think. My name is Pavel by the way. I am currently working on a Web Comic and any advice would be very useful to me. -Pavel Another image in the MetalDrago series. The third image. The fourth image. The fifth image of eight. The sixth image of eight^. The seventh image of eight^. I am adding the entire series in this post. One of the Images I am not posting because the artwork was done by a close friend of mine. This is my friend's Character named MetalDrago. I was asked to draw him in my style._________________Given enough imagination, you could change history itself. Back to top Overlord_Sabatykosjunior memberMember #Joined: 16 Apr 2009Posts: 4Location: Kew Gardens, New York Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:17 pm Another set of sketches. 1 of 3. 2 of 3. 3 of 3. This is another WIP I'm working on. I have more artwork to post up, but I wanna see how these do first. I want to post up artwork at least a couple of times a week if my sketchbook becomes a success. I am new to using GIMP so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks gang![/img]_________________Given enough imagination, you could change history itself. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Work in Progress All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group

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DAVIS — The Davis Oklahoma Animal Volunteers will raise funds Saturday that will go toward an animal shelter in Murray County.
The fundraiser is from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Murray County Expo Center. Numerous items have been collected for a silent auction which will be in conjunction with a garage sales. Slow cooked barbecue sandwich meals will be available for $6 as well as baked goods.


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1) The site will be up and down throughout this weekend, starting Friday night.
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Gotta keep it running smooth. We apologize for the inconvenience!
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Monday, January 31, 2011
love, oh love.
I hate to re-post things that I have seen on other blogs, especially when I never remember the blog to give credit where credit is due but... some wonderful blog that I read posted about the Love Ever After series by photographer Lauren Fleishman.
As many of you know my background and first passion is in photography, and this still informs my daily practice as an artist. Therefore, I am still constantly inspired by contemporary photography and if I ever have the money a huge part of my art collection would be a reflection of this. And of course any one that reads my blog knows that I am a big fan of love and intimacy. So this project is one after my heart.
The series is a series of "portraits" accompanied by text that documents the experience of couples towards the end of their life that have been together for MANY years. Not only do I love to see the obvious love in the images but also the wisdom that they share.
They all seem quite at peace with the place they are with each other and their life. Something to aspire to.
I particularly like this project more then some of Lauren's other projects because of its simplicity, directness. The images seem to be more "real" and a little less slick then her other work. She has an incredible eye and is obviously a trained see-er. But this series seems to have more truth to it both in concept and in the artists vision.
With that said there are some total gems in her other projects so take the time to peruse her website.
Posted by Joetta M. at 7:46 AM
3 comments:
- Monica said...
like Bruce Springsteen said:
With you I don't hear the minutes ticking by
I don't feel the hours as they fly
I don't see the summer as it wanes
Just a subtle change of light upon your face
(Kingdom of Days)
- January 31, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- Joetta M. said...
lovely quote. Thank you for sharing it:)
- February 3, 2011 at 1:13 PM
- Lauren Fleishman said...
I think my heart just melted! What a beautiful quote.
- February 3, 2011 at 6:02 PM
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Baptism for the dead
Baptism for the dead is the ritual of baptising deceased persons by proxy, currently practiced by Mormons. Mormons do not baptise corpses. Instead they are baptised on the deceased's behalf.
Mormons believe that certain rituals, including immersive baptism by someone holding the Aaronic priesthood, are necessary for salvation. Because billions of people have lived and died before Mormonism was founded, without having the opportunity to be converted to Mormonism, Joseph Smith introduced the doctrine of baptism for the dead. Mormons perform geneological research to find the names of their ancestors, on whose behalf they are baptised.
Mormons have also baptized historical figures, including several U.S. presidents, the signatories to the Declaration of Independence and the drafters Constitution of the United States.
Criticism from other religions
Mormons have been criticized by many other sects, who find it offensive that Mormons baptise (by proxy) persons who are also their ancestors.


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Lawsuit seeks to tag WGA nagware as spyware
Rebranding from bother to beast
A US lawsuit has alleged that Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), Microsoft's controversial anti-piracy software, is little better than spyware.
A lawsuit (which seeks class-action status) filed in Washington district court last week also cries foul over false advertising as well as allegations of privacy law violations, Electronista reports. More specifically, the suit alleges that the XP version of WGA was offered to users as a security update rather than as an anti-counterfeiting technology.
WGA phones home to Microsoft daily with IP address and other information on users. The latest lawsuit, like others against WGA before it, takes exception to this behaviour.
The suit further says 'no fair' over the the alleged difficulty of purging the technology once it gets installed, behaviour that the latest complaint against WGA likens to that of spyware.
At least two lawsuits citing similar concerns about WGA were launched in 2006. Neither has come to anything as yet, and Microsoft has bundled modified versions of the technology within both Vista and Windows 7.
Also, since early 2007, Microsoft began offering Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) as an anti-piracy tool for Office productivity suite products.
Online validation using either WGA or OGA is normally needed to allow downloads of security updates or access to add-ons from Microsoft. As well as the accusations of invading the privacy of users, WGA has been criticised over allegedly high false positive rates (where genuine copies of Windows are flagged up as counterfeit). ®
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Color block sweater, $195
When it was announced that Ariel and Shimon Ovadia were taking the helm of a new venture by venerable clothier J. Press, menswear enthusiasts rejoiced. The two young designers are known for their appreciation of elegant, timeless staples, with an eye for modern style and a perfect fit. What blew us away when the J. Press York Street line debuted last fashion week was that we were seeing the Ovadia twins really have fun with the notions of American sportswear and the heritage of the brand. Sure, there are conservative oxfords, polos, chinos and navy blazers to satisfy diehard preps, but we're glad that they're not afraid to give new takes on cozier off-duty favorites like sweatpants, graphic T-shirts and surplus-inspired military jackets and bags. Instead of just a slimmer-fitting interpretation of tried-and-true basics, we're treated with a full-on lifestyle collection and seasonal vision, which we think is worth celebrating. Here are a few things on our wish list from the brand's recently launched web shop:
From the left:
Bandana T-shirt, $85; M-65 jacket, $525; Sweatpants, $145 and Army duffle bag, $185
$65, at Zappos


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Dixon, ex-KATV news director, takes Pryor Center helm
Posted: January 14, 2013 at 9:04 a.m.
The David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History at the University of Arkansas has made Randy Dixon its director effective Monday.
Dixon, the former news director at KATV, Channel 7, in Little Rock with at 31-year career at the station's news department, was hired after a national search, the university said in a statement. After leaving KATV, Dixon founded Dixon Digital Media, a media consulting firm and video production company, in 2011. Later that year, he began working with the Pryor Center to review and digitize the KATV archive.
His new role will entail managing all aspects of the Pryor Center, which holds as its mission to document Arkansas history by collecting audio and video interviews and images and to make the materials available to the public, the university said. Duties will encompass hiring, training and supervising staff; budgeting and fundraising; and devising ways to share the center's collections.
"I am very pleased to have someone with the passion and the qualifications of Randy Dixon," said Chancellor G. David Gearhart. "The work of the Pryor Center is of tremendous importance to anyone who cares about the people and the history of our state. I can think of no one better to lead this project into the future."
Dixon will also be responsible for two forthcoming projects: launching the Arkansas Story Bus, which is intended to collect more interviews with people across the state; and supervising the center's move to a new location on the downtown Fayetteville square.
"This is a very exciting time to become a part of the Pryor Center," said Dixon. "I'm looking forward to the challenges ahead. Personally, I feel the Pryor Center is a perfect fit for me: I spent more than three decades covering Arkansas news; now I have the opportunity to preserve Arkansas history."
The Pryor Center was established in 1999 with a gift of $220,000 in unspent campaign funds from Sen. David Pryor. Since then, the center has compiled hundreds of interviews and images, the university said, and its archive includes 24,000 hours of video and news film, dating back to the 1950s, that was donated by KATV in 2009.


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When the Federal Reserve announced a few weeks ago its newest – i.e., third – round of quantitative easing intended to once again try to juice a sluggish economy, an employee of FTN Financial couldn't resist a metaphor for the Fed's open-ended commitment.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has issued a third round of quantitative easing – the so-called QE3, or QE-infinity – in hopes of sparking the still-struggling U.S. economy.
(AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
As relayed by Chris Low, chief economist for FTN Financial, which is the capital markets subsidiary of Memphis-based First Horizon National Corp., that employee described the central bank as cruising joyfully down the highway. And it is allowing itself to stop for donuts whenever the economy needs a sugar rush.
"The flexible, open-ended approach to QE3 could result in a great deal of confusion, and market volatility, going forward," Low said in a recent commentary distributed to FTN clients.
The central bank's plan, dubbed QE3 and announced last month by Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, is to hold interest rates down for a few more years by buying huge sums of long-term assets indefinitely, adjusting the program as the nation's unemployment rate ebbs and flows.
Meanwhile, investors presumably will see no place else to take their money but the stock market and other short-term assets. If it goes according to plan, the stock market improves. Voila, the so-called wealth effect. People feel richer. People spend more. A virtuous cycle takes hold, and the economy improves.
Unless it doesn't.
Critics of the Fed's move, and there are plenty right here in Memphis, see the Fed's actions on the "monetary" side of the equation and the federal government's attempts at stimulus on the "fiscal" side of the equation as one interrelated thing, a kind of single economic boogeyman. To them, it's all the same, these artificial efforts to jump-start an economy that can't seem to get there on its own.
It's like a drowsy person who drinks a cup of coffee to get a little jolt, one argument goes, and then keeps on gulping down the java. That coffee fiend, some Fed observers say, can't keep doing that forever without lasting harm, and neither can the government.
Fed analysts and critics express that analogy in different ways. Josh Brown is a New York City-based investment adviser who regularly appears as a commentator on CNBC. He also runs a feisty Twitter account mostly featuring his thoughts about finance.
"So crazy, woke up this morning and found $750 in cash under my pillow," Brown tweeted, tongue-in-cheek, the day after the Fed announcement. "A note read 'from Ben.' Central banking RULEZ!"
Setting aside the medicine for a moment, there's no doubt that in Memphis the economy could use improvement in some areas, according to the Fed. The Federal Reserve's latest "Burgundy Book" – a region-specific complement to its "Beige Book" – shows that the Memphis metro area's economy is performing "better than the nation in some aspects but worse in other respects."
"In terms of employment growth, Memphis has performed similar to the nation," the report reads. "Housing activity in the Memphis area thus far in 2012 has been much stronger than the nation's pace of activity. At the same time, house prices over the past four quarters have declined a bit more in Memphis than for the nation, and Memphis' unemployment rate remains higher than the nation's rate."
QE3 is being derisively referred to among some critics as QE-infinity, citing the open-ended nature of the Fed's commitment.
On his company's most recent earnings conference call with analysts, FedEx founder Fred Smith made a passing reference to why he sees the cost of fuel going up, something he laid squarely at the feet of the Fed's "money printing." (Money printing is a colloquial term for what the Fed is doing, although quantitative easing generally involves electronically adding to bank reserves as opposed to printing gobs of green paper.)
Said Smith, "I mean, as the Fed puts more money out there, people put more money into commodities and drive the price up."
Robert Trimm, chief investment officer for Memphis-based Legacy Wealth Management, is not a fan of the Fed's program. He believes that because the Fed has been open about its intentions for a while now, market participants have had time to adjust their behavior based on what they think the Fed will do next.
– Robert TrimmChief investment officer, Legacy Wealth Management
"I would (compare the situation) to the overuse of antibiotics to kill certain bacteria," Trimm said. "Eventually, bacteria can become resistant to what is thought to be the cure.
"I fail to see why forcing additional resources in a market (like real estate) that actually should command fewer resources will ultimately improve economic conditions. Hence, I believe the effect will ultimately be less than what is expected. Sometimes, like with antibiotics, less is more."
Scott Stafford, president and CEO of Evolve Bank and Trust, put his thoughts on the Fed's move this way.
"QE3 continues to highlight the Fed's commitment to maintain low mortgage rates for the foreseeable future," Stafford said. "The Fed believes that one of the best ways to ignite the economy is to promote and support the housing market.
"Most economists believe that the housing market makes up approximately 25 percent of the economy. If the unemployment rate begins to drop, expect housing to improve. In some markets, we are already seeing multiple purchase offers for properties as many prospective buyers have been on the sidelines for the past few years. These low interest rates should keep the refinance market strong well into 2013."
Jim Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis – the Fed regional district that encompasses Memphis – was in Memphis in recent days to speak to the Economic Club of Memphis. His comments were eagerly anticipated, partly because in the days after the QE3 announcement Bullard told the Reuters news service that not only did he think the Fed shouldn't have pulled the trigger on its new move when it did, but he's concerned about the Fed sparking inflation.
So much so that Bullard supports a push from congressional Republicans to strip away one plank of the Fed's constitutional mandate – to promote "full employment" – and for the Fed to focus exclusively on the other side of its mandate, price stability. Or, in other words, preventing runaway inflation.
One of Tennessee's two Republican U.S. Senators, Bob Corker, has been a vocal proponent of ending the Fed's dual mandate.
"Anything that the Fed does is going to only have temporary effects," Bullard told Reuters. "We have to get back to that notion. Too much is creeping in about the ideas of permanent trade-offs, which I regard as a misunderstanding of what monetary policy could do. So I would back going to a single mandate."
Regarding Bullard's Memphis speech, one local investment firm president told The Memphis News that, while he would be unavoidably out of town for Bullard's speech, his firm would have no less than four representatives present to hear what the regional Fed president had to say.
In a recent commentary circulated to clients, Low said Bernanke was peppered with questions during his press conference announcing the Fed's move.
"Yes, QE might result in lower mortgage rates, but will it lower the unemployment rate?" Low wrote. "It's a valid question. Everyone has probably seen the graphs … showing stocks and bonds through the Fed's various extraordinary programs. Bond yields fall before and after QE, but rise during. And stock prices rise before and during, but fall after. And the dollar typically gets shellacked (yes, that's the technical term) by 10 percent to 15 percent.
"All that said, the market impact of QE is not very well understood, in part because each QE round has targeted different assets, has differed in size and has been implemented against a different economic and market backdrop. And, perhaps most important, investor reactions have evolved as people start to anticipate what happened over the course of each QE round in the past."
Even the program's chief evangelist, Low noted, couldn't seem to muster a wholehearted endorsement.
"The economic impact is not well understood, either," Low said. "Even Bernanke, when asked if QE3 would help the job market, said it can't hurt. That's not much of an endorsement, but it was the best he could say for sure."


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(For comparison it's only in the last week or so that Linux has been made to boot on the Dual Core G5s, since they use a bridge chip that differs significantly from those used in earlier versions)
Running MS Windows on a MacBook Pro is like letting a retarded kid drive a Ferrari.
Power Up With MagSafe
The new power adapter with MagSafe connector is designed to magnetically guide your cord into place and disconnect smoothly if someone (else) trips over it.
I think that's awesome. I can't tell you how many times I've grabbed my PowerBook thinking it wasn't plugged in, only to have the chord yanked out, or worse, have the laptop almost pulled out of my hands.
And a MacBook Pro that's 10x more powerful than a iBook?!? There goes the iBook market...
What machines does Apple make the largest markup on ?
Profit is the only motive that makes sense to me. Consider that Apple knows it's going to be seeing a somewhat limited supply of chips and chipsets from Intel. With that as a given, where do they want to put those chips- in low-margin designs like the Mac mini and iBook, or in higher-margin designs like the desktop and pro laptop ?
Also, what chipset would Apple put in a lower-end machine ? I'm going to guess that due to Apple using Trusted Computing crap to keep you from building your own MacIntel and pirating OS X, they're not going to use any chipsets ( and thus chips ) that are pre-Yonah, so the low end of what they have right now is the slower 1.3-1.6Ghz Duo Core chip... too powerful and expensive for real low-margin machines, so... no low-end Mac Intels for now, and we won't see any until Intel introduces newer chips that can move in on the high end, maybe. Of course, I'm just speculating, but nothing else makes sense to me... I don't think there's a pure market-based reason for Apple to abandon the low end, I think it's just what they're able to do right now.
Too bad, too, I think that if Apple weren't so paranoid about OS X ending up on a Dell, they'd be able to make a seriously cheap Mac mini based on a Pentium M or something...
Only difference, Apple is running OSX, so Apple should charge less then the Acer Travelmate, Acer has to pay Microsoft for Windows, Apple doesn't have to pay anybody for OSX.
Why not package the new iMac guts in a case without a monitor? I understand the desire to use their allotment of Yonah processors in the machines that will give them the highest markup, but all the PC fanboys are going to complain now that they don't want to pay for a monitor just to upgrade their machines... and even Mac fanboys aren't going to buy PowerMacs, iBooks, or Mac minis when iMacs and this ( IMHO poorly named ) "Mac Book Pro" are so far ahead of them and clearly on the way out, if not already gone.
Anyone have thoughts on why there were no Mac mini, iBook, or eMac updates ( or Intel conversions ) today ? What is going to happen there ?
"The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected." -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972


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The Rock, A "Curandera", An Industry Interview and an Infatuation: Dwayne Johnson stars in Snitch - based on true events. We review Bless Me, Ultima, based on the best selling novel, interview Sharon Seymour - production designer for Argo, and check out the new suspense thriller, Stoker, plus our DVD pick of the week.
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Aug 02, 2010
Photo of Dean Gibbons courtesy of Gil Talbot.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior attackman Dean Gibbons and junior attackman Kevin Vaughan have been selected as the captains for the Harvard men's lacrosse team for the 2011 season, Chris Wojcik, the Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse announced Monday.
Gibbons, who hails from Garden City, N.Y., was tabbed to the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) All-America team last season, garnering honorable mention accolades. Gibbons led Harvard in scoring in 2010 with 41 points, scoring 27 goals and dishing out a Crimson-high 14 assists. He averaged 3.42 points per game, which ranked 21st in the nation, and stood second in the Ancient Eight in points and fifth in goals.
Gibbons also scored six man-up goals and tallied multiple goals in nine of 12 games last spring. A two-time All-Ivy League and New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (NEILA) choice, Gibbons has scored 62 goals and handed out 34 assists for 96 points in his career.
A native of Ridgewood, N.J., Vaughan ranked third on the Crimson with 15 goals and 23 points as a sophomore in 2010. He also collected 26 ground balls and paced the team with two game-winning tallies. Vaughan was named COOP Student-Athlete of the week April 26 after having a hat trick, netting the game winner and picking up for ground balls in Harvard's 11-8 win over No. 6 Princeton at Harvard Stadium April 24.


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The following property transfers were recently recorded at the Bureau County Recorder of Deeds' office in the Bureau County Courthouse:
Oct. 28, 2013
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation to Julius and Peggy Maes, warranty deed, part of Lot 1 in McIntire's Addition, Neponset, $23,000.
Bank of America to John Johnson, warranty deed, Lot 113 in Elston's Addition, Princeton, $42,500.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation to Janelle and Joseph McCarter, warranty deed, part of Lot 78 in Princeton, $61,500.
Annette and Bob Williams to Eugene Costin, warranty deed, Lots 2-8 in Block 11 in Neponset, $19,500.
Oct. 29, 2013
Eric Ellis to Angelica and Jose Mendez, warranty deed, Lots 14-16 in Block 2 in Keim's First Subdivision, DePue, $10,000.
Aleksander and Lucia Nowak to Debra and Rodney Grunloh, joint tenancy deed, part of Section 23 in Milo Township, $150,000.
Oct. 30, 2013
Ronald Glovetski and Patricia Halperin to Andrew Gehm, warranty deed, part of Sections 22 and 27 in Hall Township, $1,296,000.
Daniel and Jane Horwedel to Katherine and Michael Pratt, warranty deed, part of Section 29 in Macon Township, $351,000.
Richard Zdany to Quinzell and Shannon Affeldt, warranty deed, Lots 198-199 in lake Thunderbird Grove, $137,000.
Edward and Marion Rinehart to Melissa and Rodney Brisbin, warranty deed, part of Lot 6 in Downey Subdivision, Princeton, $131,000.
Oct. 31, 2013
Tobi Holdings Inc. to ACM-Ljanks Holdings Inc., warranty deed, part of Section 35 in Selby Township, $134,000.
Ronald Thompson to Douglas and Susan Dylo, warranty deed, Lot 32 in Elston's Addition, Princeton, $76,500.
Gary and Luann Nass to John and Sarah French, warranty deed, Lot 2 in Block 130 in Greenwood's Addition, Spring Valley, $40,000.
Gary and Luann Nass to John and Sarah French, warranty deed, Lot 4 in Block 44 in Ladd, $30,000.
Gary and Luann Nass to John and Sarah French, warranty deed, pat of Lot 156 in Block 104 in O'Beirne's Second Addition, Spring Valley, $48,000.
Margaret and Thomas Stewart to Julie Pagano-Puhr and Timothy Puhr, warranty deed, part of Sections 17 and 20 in Arispie Township, $332,500.
Bradley Byers to Christopher Miller, warranty deed, Lot 13 in Block 20 in Sheffield, $2,000.
David and Shanna Cruse to Patrick Hirschman, warranty deed, part of Lots 17-19 in Block 6 in West Addition, Princeton, $85,500.
Nov. 1, 2013
Matthew Becker, Barbara Meloy and Tyler Meloy to Kenneth Luck, warranty deed, part of Lot 75 in Princeton, $40,000.
Tomasita and Eliseo Garcia to Clarissa and Louis Salinas, warranty deed, Lot 58 in Reavley Addition, Wyanet, $78,500.
Diane Stangel, Jennifer Virlee and Paul Virlee to David and Jennifer Kutter, warranty deed, Lots 7-8 in Block 6 in Newman's First Addition, Cherry, $42,000.
Ashley and Eric Egan to Lydia and Mark Vanhyfte, warranty deed, part of Lot 81 in Mineral, $45,000.


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By: Lanetra Bennett
March 26, 2013
Tallahassee, FL - Patricia Levesque with the Foundation for Florida's Future, says there's a number of misconceptions of the Parent Empowerment Bill, also called the Parent Trigger Bill.
One of the biggest misconception, she says, is that the bill allows for-profit companies to take over Florida's public schools.
Levesques says, "I think it's nonsense. That's not what the bill is for. What the bill does is give parents of kids of failing schools a seat at the table so they can help make a recommendation to the school board on how the school board should intervene with that failing school."
There has to be 50 percent of parents, plus one, to recommend how a school board should turn their child's failing school around.
Levesque says that's more of a legal standing than a parent just speaking at a school board meeting.
"That's what the bill is about--empowering parents." Says, Levesque.
Supporters also debunk the myth that the Parent Trigger Bill makes it easier for charter schools to expand.
They say that's not true because the existing process for charter schools is easier than the one involved in the bill.
Patrick DeTemple with Parent Revolution, says, "The real success of the Parent Trigger Law will not be through charter conversion at all. But, it will be through using the Parent Trigger Law as leverage to get the districts to improve and do the job they need to be doing."
The bill also includes a provision that ensures that students are assigned to an effective teacher at least every other year.
The Florida School Boards Association recently approved a resolution that opposes any Parent Trigger initiatives.


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Other topics of discussion include Rock Band versus Guitar Hero III, Skate versus Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, A2M's just-announced WET, The Creative Assembly's also just-announced VIKING: Battle for Asgard, derivative characters, the role of moral choice in games, and more. All this in just over an hour!
Play or download the episode now, browse the podcast through iTunes, RSS, or Digg, or check out the full breakdown.
Here's the full breakdown:
00:00: It's a song!
01:08: Call of Duty 4 beta impressions (story, preview)
04:44: Jeff Minter's Tempest-esque Space Giraffe, featuring J Allard! (story)
06:48: BioShock killed my cat but I'm playing it again! (review, interview, demo)
11:59: Beautiful Katamari's online multiplayer is wacky, cookie faces!
16:11: Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection works well online! Surprise(?)! (story)
19:11: I am terrible at Ace Combat 6 online, but it seems good!
20:00: Steve likes Medal of Honor: Airborne! He really likes it! (demo)
22:33: Xbox Live certification still seems to take a while.
24:45: VIKING: Battle for Asgard looks vaguely similar to God of War. (story)
25:54: WET's Rubi looks vaguely similar to Lara Croft. She splits taints. (story)
30:46: Rock Band & Guitar Hero III track overlap: bad news for GH3. (story)
33:34: Tony Hawk's Proving Ground comes with GH3 demo. Synergy! (demo)
34:22: EA & Activision face off in music and skating: bad news for ATVI?
39:02: Faylor says something about Indiana, I think?
40:54: Faylor hates Diablo. Remo flips out.
42:39: Faylor likes The Witcher. Remo simmers down. (story)
46:27: Nick and Remo are beginning to tire of transparent moral choice.
56:04: BioShock Contestgate 07: Free mouse pad and Xbox 360 faceplate!
58:47: It's over! Outtakes!


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CRYSTAL LAKE – Erin Lightfoot and Clayton Rife, both of Crystal Lake, were married in a double-ring ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 26, 2012, at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Crystal Lake. Monsignor Daniel Hermes officiated.
She is the daughter of Lynn Lightfoot of Crystal Lake.
He is the son of Tim and Cathy Rife of Crystal Lake.
Given in marriage by her mother, the bride wore a strapless ivory, fitted-bodice Allure gown with asymmetrical ruching and layers upon layers of chiffon on the skirt.
She carried a bouquet of pink Calla lilies, white Dendros and stephanotis.
Matron of honor was Megan Bly of Janesville, Wis., sister of the bride. Bridesmaids were Erika Hansen of Dixon, friend of the bride; Chelsey Lochner of Crystal Lake, friend of the bride; and Tessa Rife of Crystal Lake, sister of the bridegroom. Flower girl was Morgan Webb of Bemidji, Minn., cousin of the bride.
Best man was Eric Rife of Crystal Lake, twin brother of the bridegroom. Groomsmen were Barrett Rife of Navarre, Fla., brother of the bridegroom; Adam Rife of Crystal Lake, brother of the bridegroom; and Abe Wathen of Fort Rucker, Ala., friend of the bridegroom. Ushers were Dominic Shababy of Crystal Lake, friend of the bride; and Mike Campbell of Fort Benning, Ga., friend of the bridegroom. Ring bearer was Mason Webb of Bemidji, Minn., cousin of the bride.
The reception was at Turnberry Country Club in the village of Lakewood.
The bride is a 2008 graduate of Prairie Ridge High School in Crystal Lake and a 2012 graduate of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. She is a high school Spanish teacher.
The bridegroom is a 2006 graduate of Prairie Ridge High School and a 2011 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He is a second lieutenant serving in the U.S. Army.
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It's roughly translated to "Woman Read Chairman Mao To Inspirational Music In Front of Picture of Chairman Mao." And I hear it looks *amazing* in 3D.
The only three programs on Chinese television are dramas set in Ancient China, dramas set during the cultural revolution, and sappy Korean soaps.
Although it's no worse than anyone else's programs.
3D Television is great. You can have a great big TV blaring away in your living room, and all of your flatmates, not having goggles of their own, will think it's a blurry mess. They'll leave you in peace.
3D Sound is easy, as long as you can avoid tripping over the speaker wires.
In 3D it's easy to circumvent by looking around the side of the black rectangles.
I wonder what pixelation looks like in 3D.
I wonder if they can do a volumetric cut of "offensive" images, so they can for example, cut off the image of a guy's dick so you don't see it when it is broadcast. Might be easier to cut it off in real life first though, especially if he is a political dissident.
Even better, broadcast a 3D image of the police coming to arrest you if you say anything treasonous to scare potential dissenters. They will never know if it is a 3D projection, or the real police, Like Arn
Oh, neat. I'm in Jiangsu. Except for some reason all of my channels come from the Philippines. I'm getting good at Tagalog, which doesn't really help me in China.
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42 "So you, too, must keep watch! For you don't know what day your Lord is coming. 43 Understand this: If a homeowner knew exactly when a burglar was coming, he would keep watch and not permit his house to be broken into. 44 You also must be ready all the time, for the Son of Man will come when least expected. 45 "A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his other household servants and feeding them. 46 If the master returns and finds that the servant has done a good job, there will be a reward. 47 I tell you the truth, the master will put that servant in charge of all he owns. 48 But what if the servant is evil and thinks, 'My master won't be back for a while,' 49 and he begins beating the other servants, partying, and getting drunk? 50 The master will return unannounced and unexpected, 51 and he will cut the servant to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 24
War, famine, floods, earthquakes and all kinds of disasters. Bin Laden killed and the extremist and terrorists vow revenge. Our future seems more unsure now than ever before. When will Jesus return? When will the end come? What will it be like? What will happen to those of us still here to experience it? Will we still be here? Questions, questions and more questions. Very few answers except by those brave enough to venture a guess and say it out loud. The rest of us are standing by ready to wag our fingers in their face and quote verse 42, "For you don't know what day your Lord is coming." We aren't supposed to know, the Bible says that not even the angels know, only God the Father knows when Christ will return. And when He returns we will know it's Him. Before He comes there will be others who proclaim to be Jesus and people, even believers will be fooled. I just heard last week that there are at least 2 men saying they are Jesus Christ and many are following them, but this isn't what the Bible teaches about how it will happen. We don't know much, but here is what we do know – we must be ready all of the time. God doesn't want us just prepared at the very end; He doesn't want us to wait until there is no time left. He doesn't want us to spend all of our time figuring out the signs and calculating the date, He wants us to live our lives in the manner we would if He were to return tomorrow. I don't believe that He would have us quit our jobs, stop paying our bills and wait out on the doorstep, but we should be building our faith and living in such a way as to please Him. We should be taking the opportunities placed before us and sharing the good news with others, invite them to church and start relevant conversations. We should be living as an example that makes sense to non-Christians and makes them ask, "What is different about them?" and say, "I want that in my life."
I must not take life for granted. I must not get used to the events going on in the world and think that they are just business as usual. I have to live like the end is near. I won't know when it's going to happen and I don't want to have tragic regrets of not acting sooner or living differently when the time comes. I have to try to influence those that are important to me and not all, or even most, may see the light, but shame on me if I never try. It's no time to be lazy or casual in our attitude, it's time to think clearly and live intentionally. Make plans for improvement in all that we do; I can't just sit back and let life dictate the direction and pace of my life. I must press in to Jesus more each and every day.
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Alabama's governor says he plans to sign legislation mandating stricter abortion clinic standards like Mississippi has done.
Opponents say Alabama's legislation will be challenged in court like Mississippi's.
The Republican-led House and Senate approved the bill Tuesday night, mostly along party lines. It now goes to Gov. Robert Bentley. He said Thursday he plans to sign it after his lawyers make sure there have been no unanticipated changes from the bill he endorsed early in the legislative session.
Bentley says he's opposed to abortion, but he believes the bill will make abortions safer.
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Jeremy T. Copeland, 23, of Royal Oak, was sentenced last month to three months probation, with the first year in the Macomb County Jail, less 207 days of credit, after pleading guilty to an added count of possession of a methamphetamine. His original charges of maintaining and operating a meth lab, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, and maintaining a drug house were dismissed in the plea deal.
Zigila also had his driver�s license suspended for a year and will be able to reside in Florida upon release from jail as part of his Feb. 27 sentence by Judge James Biernat Jr. of Macomb County Circuit Court in Mount Clemens.
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A new sign was rededicated on Independence Day thanks to the sponsorship of the Gothenburg Gardenaires Club.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 5, 2008
Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project Announces Traffic Changes This Weekend
Motorists traveling near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Virginia this weekend should prepare
for changes in Virginia and consider alternate routes. Starting at 9 p.m. on Friday evening, the Inner Loop (I-95 South) will be reduced to two lanes from just east of Telegraph Road Interchange to just west of the Eisenhower Connector Interchange. The closure will last until Saturday evening. The closure is needed to shift all three lanes of the Inner Loop to a new alignment slightly south of the existing alignment.
Currently, the Inner Loop from the Wilson Bridge is three lanes and widens to four lanes at the Telegraph Road Interchange. This weekend's activity will extend the three-lane configuration an additional two miles through the Eisenhower Connector Interchange. The continuation of the three lane configuration through this portion of the Inner Loop is expected to remain in place until 2011.
This traffic shift is necessary to enable continued progress on new Beltway lanes that ultimately will separate local and long-distance travelers. The work on the Beltway will conclude Saturday evening, barring weather delays.
On Sunday, beginning at 6 a.m. and lasting through the afternoon, southbound Route 1 will be closed between Franklin Street and Fort Hunt Road in Alexandria and traffic will be detoured to Telegraph Road. In addition, the Inner Loop ramp to southbound Route 1 will be closed until Sunday evening. This lane closure is necessary to allow paving and striping of new tie-ins to allow for traffic to switch on to the new southbound span of the Route 1 bridge. As with the work on Saturday, this work is weather dependent and would be rescheduled in the event of inclement weather. The U.S. Route 1 Interchange is expected to be completed by the end of 2008.
Specific details are as follows:
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Starting at 9:00pm, Friday, June 6:
• I-95/I-495 South/Beltway Inner Loop will be reduced from three lanes to two from East of Route 1 to the Eisenhower Avenue Connector.
• No ramps to or from Telegraph Road will be closed or detoured.
• Motorists may experience some delays during peak Saturday travel times (8am-8pm).
Evening, Saturday, June 7:
• Once all paving and striping work is complete, the third lane on I-95/I-495 South/Beltway Inner Loop will reopen to traffic on the new Beltway alignment.
Route 1 Southbound Closed between Franklin Street and Fort Hunt Road
Starting at 6:00am, Sunday, June 8:
• Southbound Route 1, beginning at Franklin Street to Fort Hunt Road in Alexandria, will be closed. This southbound Route 1 traffic will be detoured to Telegraph Road via the Inner Loop to the Outer Loop and back onto Route 1.
• The ramp from I-95/I-495 South/Beltway Inner Loop to southbound Route 1 will be closed.
Afternoon, Sunday, June 8:
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Ending Evening, Sunday, June 8:
• Once all paving and striping work is complete, all lanes and ramps will open, ready for Monday morning commute.
• Traffic exiting from the Outer Loop to southbound Route 1 will be in its final traffic alignment and will be able to merge onto Route 1 south prior to the Fort Hunt Road signal.
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Question: Is it a good idea to exercise if I'm undergoing cancer treatment?
Answer:The issue of exercise and cancer is an especially important one, because it turns out that if someone has been a couch potato all of his or her life and then receives a diagnosis of cancer, if that person gets up and engages in physical activity, even walking briskly 20 minutes a day, you have an increased benefit in survival. The survival of those patients who do exercise is 50 percent better than patients who do not.
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Finally, March Madness is here. Get the office pools ready. Channel your inner bracketologist. We're about to have three weeks of serious basketball fun.
And hooray for that, because the college game this season has been a long, fitful snooze.
The Sporting News' Player of the Year is Victor Olapido, prompting the question, Victor Olapido? The latest No. 1-ranked team is Gonzaga, and if you know a single Gonzaga player, you are one ahead of everyone else. Extra credit if you can name Gonzaga's home town. We do not accept Somewhere Out There.
Instead of names we've never heard and places we can't find on the map, men's college basketball once gave us familiar, comforting stories. Duke and North Carolina, Kentucky and Indiana, Georgetown and Syracuse brought us seasons that came with a novel's richness.
We watched Larry Bird when he took on Magic Johnson. Michael Jordan beat Georgetown with the game's last shot. Patrick Ewing tilted his head to look up at Ralph Sampson, and John Thompson stared down at Jim Boeheim. The Kentucky-Louisville "Dream Game" divided households. Jerry Tarkanian ' Tark the Shark! ' took Las Vegas to Arkansas, where Nolan Richardson ran his beautifully terrifying full-court press called "40 Minutes of Hell." We saw players so often that we knew when they last trimmed their flat-tops. (Looking at you, Chris Mullin.)
Once, we lived for March Madness. It was the final, thrilling chapter of a winter's tale filled with heroes, fools and other dreamers. We were pumped. What would happen next? But this season, not so much. This has been a slog through a forgettable four months. For some of us, this is March Sadness.
Perhaps unwittingly, Sports Illustrated reminded us two weeks ago that college basketball isn't what it used to be. The magazine picked the 10 greatest players in NCAA tournament history, only one of whom had played in a Final Four in the past 33 years.
SI named Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton at UCLA, Bill Bradley at Princeton, Jerry West at West Virginia, Bill Russell at San Francisco, Wilt Chamberlain at Kansas, Oscar Robertson at Cincinnati, Bird at Indiana State and Magic at Michigan State. The youngster in the group is Duke's Christian Laettner. His last college game was in 1992.
It's not that we've run out of great players. We've run out of epic stories. Laettner played in 148 college games and four Final Fours. That doesn't happen now. The great pros Kevin Garnett and LeBron James skipped college. Others gave it one season: Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose, Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving, John Wall and Anthony Davis. Kids, you were great, but we never saw you on the Quad.
Mark Bradley, for 29 years a columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, grew up in Kentucky, where basketball is all but a state religion. The University of Kentucky's legendary coach, Adolph Rupp, won four national championships and established a program so powerful that it has won four more with four more coaches.
Recently, Bradley decided what he thought about the game this year: "Put bluntly, college basketball stinks. . . . After nearly two decades of descent, Â the sport has hit bottom."
A harsh judgment, but look:
Long before now, basketball lost its way. Curmudgeons blame the ESPN highlight culture for suggesting to players that only the most flamboyant slam dunk is worth doing. The good midrange jump-shooter has become a rarity. In both the college and pro games, teams have taken advantage of the poor shooting by playing hyper-physical defense. A game built on grace and speed now often looks like guys playing football in their underwear.
Then came a series of administrative decisions that had on-court implications. First, in 2005, the National Basketball Association decided that a player must be 19 years old to enter the league. The rule transformed universities into one-year prep schools for the NBA. The players who became known as "one and dones" made their college teams better, but only in the short term. Their departures for the pros left spaces filled by lesser players.
Kentucky is a dramatic example. UK won the 2012 national championship with Anthony Davis and two other one-and-dones. This year, with a new crop of would-be one-and-dones, coach John Calipari has complained, without irony, that his team's lack of experience has made its game inconsistent. This time, Kentucky might not make it into the tournament.
In 2009 came the confusion called "conference realignment." The Big Ten started it by adding schools to cash in on television's insatiable need for football programming. Some universities had played for most of a century in leagues dictated by geography and shared values. They abandoned those alliances for bloated groupings designed to produce football revenue in multiples of anything basketball can do.
A quick test: How many schools are in the Big Ten? (Soon to be 14.) Which Midwest river-city university is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference? (Louisville will be.) What school considered joining the Big East? (Boise State. That's Boise, as in Idaho, as in five feet east of the Pacific Ocean.)
Then there is football. From August to February, America is hooked on the game's spectacle and brutality. Basketball's regular season hasn't just fallen off the casual fan's radar; it has been pushed off. In six months, Texas A;M quarterback Johnny Manziel rose from anonymity to rock-star celebrity. As for the National Football League, had the Roman Empire been as powerful as today's NFL, we'd all be speaking Latin.
How big is football? "Here in Indy, you'd think the 'Hoosiers' myth would be the strongest," hoops zealot Van Curtis told me. Curtis attends a hundred college hoops games each winter and spends his idle hours working as a lawyer in an Indianapolis exurb. "But with the Colts in this town, especially after winning the Super Bowl, football's all you hear, 24-7. It's painful. I'm down to my last OxyContin with a chaser of Jack Daniel's."
Some veteran basketball observers reject the notion of March Sadness. The Washington Post's John Feinstein told me: "If you think college basketball is only about glamour teams, then this kind of season isn't for you. If you really love the game, not just the names, this season's been fabulous. Gonzaga number one? I'll take that every day over a bunch of pros-in-training dominating at Kentucky or any of the other factories."
David Teel of the Newport News Daily Press: "While championship-game ratings are unlikely ever to approach Bird-Magic levels, the Butler-UConn game of 2011, eyesore that it was, drew the highest number since '05 Carolina-Illinois."
What's certain is that the NCAA tournament is still important ' only now it's important in a different way. It must redeem the failures of the season that preceded it.
It starts Sunday night when the NCAA announces the field of 68 teams and places them in tournament pairings. The new subset of American geniuses ' "bracketologists" ' will analyze, predict and make wild-hair guesses as to what will happen in the three weeks leading to the national championship game in Atlanta.
My guess is that fewer than 10 teams are good enough to win the six straight games necessary to take the championship. But in this most unpredictable of seasons, maybe 30 or 40 are good enough to reach the Final Four.
Those are our darlings, the "maybe" teams. We may have been ignoring them, but they are now our last best hope at deleting the past four months from our memory banks. There is precedent, after all, for the unexpected.
In '83 we saw coach Jim Valvano running in circles, arms flailing, looking for someone, anyone, to hug after unsung North Carolina State beat mighty Houston for the national championship. Villanova beat Georgetown in '85, and no one yet understands how that magic trick was done. In '06, George Mason beat Connecticut. Only historians of the American Revolution had ever heard of George Mason. Good ol' George wrote Virginia's Constitution. Better that he beat UConn.
Our all-time favorite darling, Butler, did it in 2010. The little school from Indianapolis ' "Hoosiers" made real ' put together a string of implausible victories. It beat Texas-El Paso, Murray State, Syracuse, Kansas State and Michigan State. Then it won its first national championship. It beat Duke on a beautiful, floating, last-second, no-one's-breathing shot from mid-court.
Yes, it did. It beat Duke. In our dreams, it did. If only the shot had been two inches shorter . . . two inches shorter, is all . . . two inches and the entire city of Indianapolis would have risen into orbit.
It's what March Madness can do. In this time of March Sadness, it's what college basketball needs.
Dave Kindred, a longtime sports columnist, is a member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement in sports journalism.


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|2003-12-17, 18:06
|Link #1
she's old and married now
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: HFIL
Age: 32
is there a php script to keep track of what series/ep # of anime you watched
or one that can be used as it, where i can login and add new serieses or change the ep # that I have watched and then it makes a table??
|2003-12-17, 18:37
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Uber Coffee for da win!
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Middle of insanity
hehe. I've been wanting to do this myself, but been too lazy to do it. As far as doing it via PHP, no need to. It's a lot easier to do this via a simple shell script than putting together a php script. If you're on nix, you can do it using a simple shell script. Windows on the other hand will present a bit more of a challenge. Tell ya what. I'll play with this on my bsd box and see what I come up with. Should only take me maybe 15 minutes unless I hit a snag.
I'll post what I find once I'm done.
|2003-12-17, 18:38
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: AnimeSuki Forums
s0nicfreak, I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but scripts take a lot of work to write, and you could just make a text file and list all of the anime series that you've watched? A Microsoft Excel document is just as good as that, probably even better (since it makes the table for you).
Also, as ashibaka said, I think you can do the same thing at animenfo.com :P
|2003-12-17, 18:55
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she's old and married now
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: HFIL
Age: 32
I only said for him to make one cuz he said it was easy, and I was joking anyway.
Text/excel wont work because I want to be able to put it online, & update it without having to re-upload a file whenever i change it. Animenfo wont work cuz I want to be able to have it look like I want and be all on 1 page, and it would be a prob if I start to dl a series that isn't on animenfo yet.
|2003-12-17, 19:03
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|2003-12-17, 19:21
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|2003-12-18, 03:33
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Uber Coffee for da win!
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1. It will search the site by show name and group.
2. It will automatically store which new episodes have shown up on the site.
3. It will automatically email you when a new series that you are wanting to follow is posted.
4. It will be really easy to setup and use.
I'm doing this the smart way and building it using config files so that they can be edited with easy too. I'm kinda glad someone asked for this. For one, it gave me an excuse to dust off my perl skills, and second it gave me an incentive to actually make one of these. Been threatening to do it for ages, but now I have. I am packing up for the night cause my brain is near the shutdown point after something like 5 hours of straight coding.
I'll work on finishing this up by tomorrow afternoon. As soon as I'm sure it's working, I'll post a zip of the finished product. If someone's a perl nut, you're welcome to critique it and improve it if you want as it's been....gads, a long freaking time since I last had my hands in a perl script, (as the numerous head shaped dents in the wall lay testiment to) so it's likely I may have missed some small detail, or someone may find a faster way to do something I did.
EDIT: Ok, I just compared the times of my two posts, and all I gotta say is "Holy sh**!! I just coded for 8 hours straight!!" Man, talk about some hard core coding. Of course it would have been maybe only 2 hours if I wasn't so darned rusty at it. But after 8 hours I'm definately getting faster at it. Might be back to my old self again if I keep going at it for a couple more weeks.
|2003-12-18, 12:31
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|2003-12-18, 13:39
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Evangelist of the Kazoo
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Location: AnimeSuki Forums
However, I doubt that he has a domain of his own. He might be trying to get this thing to work on geocities or something. Because of that, I think that using a separate file to store the information would work better than a database. It won't work quite as well, but it'll at least get the job done.
I just checked sonic's "website" that he has listed in his profile and I don't think he'll have access to a database :P Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go scratch my eyes out after seeing the images on that webpage.
|2003-12-18, 17:36
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Uber Coffee for da win!
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Middle of insanity
I've got a working script if you guys wanna play with it. Not everything's completed and working yet, but the script's about 90% done. Things I still have to do to it are:
1. Add mail routine. Can't send yourself a mail if the mail routine isn't there.
2. Finish the comparison and logging routine. I'm down to just comparing against the existing previously listed animes file and the wishlist file (user watched animes). This way each time it pulls the list it only displays new entries that haven't been seen before and only if they're in the user's wish list file.
3. Simplify the script. If you read the script, it's freaking huge!! That's kinda how I work. I do it sort of "longhand" programming style. AKA I take the long way around an issue to start with to get the script working, then I go in and find ways to tighten up the script, dump unnessisary code, simplify code lines, etc.
If anyone wants to review it, maybe do some editing or help out a bit, you're welcome to. I'm so bloody out of practice at perl I'm now officially 12 hours into this and only this far. So if you want to jump in and help out with the script, please feel free too. You can download all the nessisary work files here:
anime tracker script
PM me if you want to help with it. I probubly won't get this finished before tomorrow. But after that I'm on vacation for a week, so I can polish this off at that point. Of course if I get help along the way, that could be much sooner.
|2003-12-18, 17:40
|Link #16
she's old and married now
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: HFIL
Age: 32
I have 3 domains and access to databases thank you
Although I may not know how to write my own scripts yet I do know how to use php & mysql and change some things. So don't asume things.
Anyway I found a script that does exactly what I want after a few simple changes.
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Dark Souls 2 only launched on Tuesday, but there's already been a whole of dying across both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. In fact, there have already been over 4.3 million instances in which players have been greeted by the tauntingly brutal 'YOU DIED' screen.
From Software (via Kotaku) has posted a website counting the number of player deaths across both console versions of Dark Souls 2, as well as the cause of their demise. As of this writing, nearly 3 million PS3 players have met their end, while 1.3 million Xbox 360 players have fallen.
The site includes more information, besides how many warriors have died. It also features other stats, like how many people have cleared the game, what items players are using, and how many souls have been lost. It also includes information on updates, maintenance, and whether the servers are experiencing any outages.


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She snapped my Canmake Lip Eraser too – grrr.
Anyway – I just wanted to add some info on Meg's videos. Once or twice now, I have had some negative comments on her videos along the vein of, shouldn't a seven year old be playing out instead? (Most comments are lovely, by the way).
Well, as I include on the decription of the videos, they are purely for fun, and she makes them when she feels like it, the rest of the time she is at school, playing with her friends, or terrorising the cat etc. etc. etc.
Its also strange when people seem to think that she is actually allowed to wear make up in her day to day life – she's SEVEN and barely up to my bum, so no she isn't allowed to wear make up out and about.
I think she has a facination in make up because to her its play, like painting and she like watching me apply it.
I hate to come out with a long justification of why she makes these videos, just because some people just don't seem to sense irony or the fact that they aren't real make up application videos, just something that she finds fun, and increases her confidence because she learns to speak to an audience and clearly.
There was a comment I never published a while back, where someone said that this kind of the thing epitomised "everything wrong with our society". I would suggest drugs, illegal wars, selfishness, greed, crime, child abuse, aids, terrorism etc. etc. would epitomise wrong doing more than a seven year old playing with make up?
Or maybe I just need to accept that people are a helluva lot more braver on the internet with critcisms than in the flesh…
I also had a funny comment today – (I shan't name the poster):
"this is not very… usual is it? should a 4 year old wear make up? even if just for a minute or so… you know that mascara, at this age, will ruin her lashes…"
No I guess it's not very usual, but I presume Youtube isn't the place for the "usual", otherwise we could just sit on our sofas and watch people, whilst holding a cut out frames and say, "Ooh, look how usual that is".
Also, she is seven not four. She probably has it on her face for ten minutes max – incase you haven't noticed she has a face like a little peach! If her skin showed any allergy then I would not allow her to apply make up to it. And as for mascara ruining lashes – I presume no woman alive would use mascara if it was damaging at all. And incase you haven't noticed, she's using Faux Cils (only the best for Meg!) and like I say, she must have it on for no more than 5 minutes in total.
As Thumper's mum said, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." Or – if you don't like what you see, don't watch it! Don't get me wrong – I'm all for freedom of speech and since this stuff is on the world wide web, feedback is expected – but really, picking on a little girl who reads her comments?
I already point out with videos that this is all for fun, and anyone with a brain could see that Megan is no Laura Mercier (yet). I am sure some people love to be the spanner in the works; if someone has too many nice comments, lets add something negative, even if it is a pointless comment.
Did I suspect there may be some negativity? I suppose. Some people will refuse to read descriptions, and love to take a twisted spin to things no matter what you say.
Meg is a tomboy in real life (not that it would matter if she was a girly girl), but she doesn't wear mini skirts or drink lager on street corners, incase you are wondering. She doesn't even own a Bratz doll (which in my opinion, does encourage a kind of vanity – and they look weird with gigantic heads!). Meg is not being encouraged to be vain or grown up, she is very much a kid, and if you have seen what she looks like at the end of her "tutorials" she is clearly being playful.
More importantly, if she still wants to make videos, she can, and if she doesn't that's fine too…I won't force her either way, but if she decides she'd rather climb a tree than do another video, it will because she wants to, not because some people are spoil sports – hopefully a quality that that will stay with her as she grows. As Tyra said on ANTM (yes, I am quoting Tyra Banks!), "Never dull your shine for anyone".


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'I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.'
"'What might it be that you've got in the box?'
"And Smiley says, sorter indifferent-like, 'It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't—it's only just a frog.'
"And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, 'H'm—so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?'
"'Well,' Smiley says, easy and careless, 'he's good enough for one thing, I should judge—he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.'
"The feller took the box again, and took another long, particular look, and give it back to Smiley, and says, very deliberate, 'Well,' he says, 'I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.'"
Apparently Julie A. MacDonald didn't see anything special about the California red-legged frog either. MacDonald's the former deputy secretary of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who was forced to resign after an investigation found she may have ignored science to render decisions favorable to interests with influence in the Bush Administration. The croaker, immortalized in Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865), was one of at least eight endangered species affected by MacDonald's rulings, which are now under review. The Sacramento Bee reports:
The new reviews will reopen some intensely fought endangered species battles. They range from removing protections for a jumping mouse in Colorado to shrinking the critical habitat designed for the Southwestern willow flycatcher and the Canada lynx.
In California, the agency will be reviewing MacDonald's role in drastically reducing the critical habitat set aside for the California red-legged frog. Last spring, the agency designated 450,288 acres as critical habitat for the amphibian . . . Under MacDonald's guidance, the frog's final critical habitat was 39 percent smaller than scientists had proposed.
MacDonald, for instance, was found to have leaked endangered species information to the California Farm Bureau Federation and the conservative Sacramento-based Pacific Legal Foundation that she did not make available to environmental groups.
The worldwide crash in populations of frogs and other amphibians has been well documented—some 90 percent of yellow-legged frogs in the Sierra Nevada have disappeared.


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Lockout problems familiar to NHL
It's been so long that only five Bruins recall missing the 2004-05 season, a testament to the team's youth and how quickly the professional sports planet revolves.
And the labor issues for hockey then and the NBA now are strikingly similar. The primary issues were and are a hard salary cap, luxury taxes, and rollbacks on salaries, with the owners claiming that nearly half the league was in debt.
The National Hockey League Players Association refused to agree with the owners' assertion that the league was dying financially and blamed teams for being mismanaged. The owners wanted to retake financial control of the league and blamed the players' demands for escalating salaries.
Talks became personal and poisonous, with hours of negotiations doing little but adding to the frustrations and forging an insurmountable wedge between ownership and the players. And when the NHLPA responded to the league's offer of a $42 million salary cap with $49 million, commissioner Gary Bettman extinguished the season, making the NHL the first major professional sports league to lose an entire season because of a labor dispute.
Doesn't this sound familiar? While the NHL floated the idea of "cost certainty,'' the NBA has threatened a flex cap. While the NHLPA was led by the volatile Bob Goodenow, the NBA players are represented by the temperamental Billy Hunter. Those NBA contentions sound eerily familiar.
"It's big business and it's always tough when guys take it personally,'' said Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference, who was just completing his fifth NHL season with the Calgary Flames at the time of the NHL lockout. "It is a really tough thing to go through because obviously everyone's careers are so short and your potential to live your dream is pretty limited. We lost a whole year. It was awful but it was just part of the deal.
"But it's hard to be in the middle of it and not see the light at the end of the tunnel.''
There were a couple of distinct differences between the NHL situation and that of the NBA for the players. The American Hockey League was a capable and competitive minor league system and the NHL ruled that players under entry-level contracts could be sent by their teams to the AHL.
So, of course, teams flooded the AHL with younger players, making the league NHL-like that season.
The NBA does run the NBA Development League but current NBA players, regardless of experience, are ineligible to play in the D-League.
"The lockout year in the AHL was pretty much like an NHL team,'' said Bruins left wing Daniel Paille, a 20-year-old rookie in 2004. "The [AHL] all-star game was pretty much who is playing in the all-star game now. It was amazing. It was a good year, competitive.''
So, the NHL players possessed more leverage because they not only had opportunities in the United States but also in Europe. Many players spent the season in locales such as Russia and Finland, enhancing their skills against other NHL players.
While Europe is an option for NBA players, teams have limited space for American players, especially those headed back to the NBA when the lockout ends.
Stanley Cup playoffs MVP Tim Thomas was a struggling goalie during the lockout year, playing in Finland to increase his NHL stock.
He said the lockout year was critical to his success because he played against such a higher level of competition, which leads to another potential byproduct of the missed year.
Not all players returned for the 2005-06 NHL season primed for a remarkable reentry. Some veterans passed on overseas hockey and returned a physical shell of themselves. Add to that a slew of younger players who thrived with a year in the AHL, and the lockout cost several players their careers.
That could be the biggest concern about a missed season in the NBA. Players such as Grant Hill, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and Jermaine O'Neal are all 35 or older and may not physically be able to respond to a missed year.
"I was in Philly, so Keith Primeau, it ended his career,'' said Bruins defenseman Dennis Seidenberg, who played parts of two seasons before the lockout year. "There were some guys, if you don't stay with it; it's kind of tough to get back with it.''
Already slowing down in 2003-04, Primeau played just nine games after the lockout season and retired. And the previous NBA lockout that limited the 1998-99 season to 50 games claimed victims such as Shawn Kemp and Kenny Anderson, who were never the same after the long layoff.
Obviously, the missed NHL season damaged the sport's reputation and left a black mark on the legacy of Bettman. But the league also attempted to reengage fans with rule changes that opened up the game and encouraged more scoring.
The NBA still has an opportunity to reach a settlement and avoid such devastation.
And the consensus among the Bruins is that although the NHL has recovered, the sport would have been better off if tensions weren't so high and emotions so raw during those critical negotiations that could have saved the season.
"It just seemed from the last lockout that there was a bit of miscommunication,'' Paille said. "Players were just getting frustrated and we needed to solve the problem by coming together as a group and understanding the consequences. It's one thing for us to pay attention to everything and not take it for granted.''
NBA players and owners, you have been warned.
In court rather than on court
The owners filed one with the National Labor Relations Board claiming the players refused to negotiate in good faith, which could justify the legality of the lockout. Last week, the players' trade association filed lawsuits in Minneapolis and Oakland, Calif., with Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, and Anthony Tolliver as plaintiffs, similar to the class-action lawsuits Tom Brady and Drew Brees filed against the NFL during the football lockout.
Such matters could take years to settle. NBA players, through legal representative David Boies, are banking that the owners are afraid of the possibility of losing billions of dollars in court and will pursue a new collective bargaining agreement that could perhaps save the season. But the owners offered no hope after a 20-minute conference call Thursday, making no announcements after the session.
"The fact that the players filed two lawsuits is a sign that this is going to be a more extensive litigation process than initially assumed,'' said legal analyst Michael McCann, a Harvard Law School graduate who has followed the NBA lockout closely. "Right now there are three courts in different jurisdictions looking at the same set of issues. So if the goal is to have a season, having three separate lawsuits, it complicates the situation and it makes the season less likely. It adds a layer of complexity that wasn't there before.''
Boies told reporters last week that he hopes the owners don't stand pat and allow these cases to reach court, which could result in catastrophic losses for the league. But antitrust cases are difficult to win, and the owners appear ready to test the players' resolve, especially since game checks are being missed.
"I don't think the owners are going to make any more concessions,'' McCann said. "I think the owners are sort of prepared to stand by their position. If the players really want to play out the litigation process, it's not something that's going to get resolved.
"I think NBA fans have to be prepared to lose this season.''
And it's not as simple as commissioner David Stern calling up former NBPA executive director Billy Hunter, who remains on the trade association's legal team, to come to a settlement. There are legal hoops for negotiation and the result would be a settlement out of court in addition to a new collective bargaining agreement.
The NBA now has to negotiate with the legal team of Hunter, Boies, and Jeffrey Kessler, whom Stern said is responsible for ruining a potential agreement two weeks ago. Boies recently represented the NFL (not NFLPA) in the lockout talks and is considered an expert on antitrust lawsuits.
"I don't think there's a lawyer out there who has such a familiarity with these issues,'' McCann said. "By virtue of being a lawyer for the NFL, he has intimate knowledge of the law and I think he's able to know weaknesses and strengths of the competing arguments. And he has made a career out of being a players' lawyer, that gives him a huge advantage, that he's able to put himself in the shoes of the other side. I just think having a new person in the room is going to help because I don't think the bargaining was working with Kessler and Hunter.''
Allen ignores exhibitions
As you would expect, Allen is keeping himself in immaculate condition with a daily workout program that includes running and working on the elliptical machine. He would be ready physically if the lockout ends.
"The couple of times that I have played pickup basketball, I have felt great,'' he said. "I've really stepped it up on the treadmill and on the street when I have been running. Conditioning-wise, I feel so good that the times I have played basketball, I didn't feel less in shape. I didn't feel slower, I felt like I was right on point. But there's never really game shape when I am on the floor, it's how you feel afterward, how you come down from it the next day, your recovery. I try to recover better and get stronger.
"If the season starts and we have a fresh schedule with a lot of games in a short amount of time, my body has to be ready to endure that.''
There have been no plans for a team workout, especially since there are only seven signed players and they are scattered all over the country.
"That's the challenge,'' he said. "Everybody was close when the season came down to the end of September, but talks stalled and everybody went and branched out to where they need to go to get their workouts in and be around their families.''
When asked why he doesn't participate in the various charity games, such as the Boston All-Star Classic last night at Harvard, Allen said, "It's not really smart. You can get hurt doing anything but you just run the risk. I think playing in those all-star games, you know there's no defense played. I'd rather go to the gym and get on the treadmill and do what I have to do to stay in shape.''
The time off also allows Allen to spend time at home with his wife, Shannon, and three sons. The younger Allens are accustomed to dad being scarce at this time of year.
"My 7-year-old [Walter], he wanted some cookies the other day in the cabinet,'' said Allen. "And dinner was about to be served so I come in the room, and I walked in at the right time and said, 'Nope, nobody's getting any cookies, food is about to be served,' and the next thing out of his mouth was, 'Dad, when does your season start?' They know I'm the enforcer and I'm enforcing right now.
"It's definitely a positive side to it. I'm sure a lot of guys who have kids get a chance to drop their kids off at school, and it's great to be home for them.''
Overseas an option
Aaron Brooks agreed to a contract with a Chinese team. Brooks is a player the Celtics may want to look at when China's season ends in March. He consistently burns the Celtics, and his scoring ability and quickness could make him a capable backup to Rajon Rondo . . . One player who tried the overseas experience is Celtics guard Avery Bradley, who returned from Israel after just a two-game stint. Bradley is back in his native Washington and was seen at a recent University of Washington basketball game. Huskies guard Abdul Gaddy is Bradley's longtime friend and high school backcourt mate at Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma . . . Celtics forward Paul Pierce is the team's representative for the now-defunct union, but he did not attend the NBPA's first gathering to review a previous labor agreement, choosing instead to organize a conference call to pursue decertification. And last week as the NBPA filed a "disclaimer of interest,'' Pierce again chose not to attend, allowing Rondo to go . . . Cuttino Mobley is suing the Knicks, saying the club forced him into retirement because of a heart ailment. Mobley, the former University of Rhode Island standout, has considered returning to basketball the past few years but couldn't because the Knicks disqualified him medically. Mobley is 36 and is likely done with the NBA but he has yet to file retirement papers . . . Celtics coach Doc Rivers said his son, Austin, has not paid much attention to the labor talks, which likely will involve him because of his NBA potential and the decision he will likely have to make whether to leave school before his eligibility expires at Duke. The one-and-out rule has been considered a secondary issue for the players and owners but there is a plethora of college players this year unsure whether they will be eligible to enter the NBA draft. Doc has maintained he would not mind if Austin left school early if he was prepared to play in the NBA. Doc left Marquette a year early nearly three decades ago. "He's just trying to be a better player,'' Doc said. "He's had good games and bad games as a freshman and he's just trying to not be a freshman. He has not mentioned it at all.''
Gary Washburn can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Material from interviews, wire services, other beat writers, and league and team sources was used in this report.


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text: Sometimes you love something so much you can come to take them for granted. That's the story for me with hella jongerius' work. I love almost every single thing she makes and yet I rarely speak of her work here. Love, adore, covet. Every word of admiration I can muster applies here. Plus other words like revolutionary, smart, stunning, beautiful, magical...oh, I could just go on and on.


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Meet Violet Marlowe Followill
Courtesy Nathan Followill
It's the newest addition to the Kings of Leon!
Drummer Nathan Followill and singer-songwriter Jessie Baylin introduce their little lady, 6-week-old Violet Marlowe, via Twitter Friday evening.
"Hello world, my name is Violet, nice to meet you," Followill, 33, wrote in the voice of his daughter, sharing a photo of her diapered and wrapped in a cozy blanket.
The couple, who married in November 2009, welcomed their baby girl on Dec. 26 and were quickly smitten.
"Violet's hair color needs to be bottled… perfectly strawberry blonde." Baylin, 28, Tweeted earlier this week.
The Kings will hit the road again in June for a string of European dates.
— Sarah Michaud


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The lights are on
What is your Favorite Nintendo game of all time?
Oh man this is tough, I am assuming it can be across any Nintendo platform. I too am going to have to say Twilight Princess, however I played it on the Wii. It is amongst my favorite because it reintroduced me to the Zelda series which I now love.
"You know nothing Jon Snow"
Super Metroid.
Ocarina of Time for the 64. Conker's Bad Fur Day follows a close second. But to be honest there were so many great games in Nintendo's early years. The NES was my first console and I have many fond memories playing Nintendo consoles. Unfortunately, with the introduction of the Xbox, I switched over. This was because my oldest brother was a big computer nerd and insisted that it was the superior console. I have to admit, I'm glad I switched. (flame on)
EarthBound for SNES
Zelda: Twilight Princess, although Ocarina of Time and Pokemon SIlver are close seconds.
Wind Waker without a doubt
Super Mario World.
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In early October, Santa Clara hosted a roundtable to examine what happens "When Politics, Religion, and Journalism Collide," as the program was titled. The event was hosted by Sally Lehrman, the Knight Ridder/San Jose Mercury News Endowed Chair for Journalism in the Public Interest in SCU's Department of Communication. Here Joshua Richman offers the veteran newspaper reporter's angle on what it means to cover the intersection of religion and politics today.
Religion has played into 2012's presidential race more than any race for the White House in recent memory: persistent, pernacious myths about President Barack Obama's faith, and curiosity and misunderstanding of Gov. Mitt Romney's faith.
I've written about both, as have many journalists. But there aren't nearly as much of us as there used to be.
If a big political story broke in the Bay Area just a few years ago, you'd likely have seen reporters from the San Jose Mercury News, the Oakland Tribune, the Contra Costa Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle covering it.
Today, there might be just two: somebody from the Chronicle, and me. As a political reporter for the Bay Area News Group—which includes the Mercury, Tribune, Times, and many other daily and non-daily papers—my story might run from Marin to Monterey, but it's still just one where once there were several.
I'm happy to have survived the journalistic bloodbath that has swept the nation in recent years, but I can't help but wonder if readers are ill-served.
I'm from a brand of journalism that strives for objectivity. Yet ultimately each of us sees the news through our own eyes, and whenever we go from having three pairs of eyes on a story to just one pair, the readers lose a diversity of news-gathering experience and methods from which they once could have assembled an aggregate picture of their world.
This might be especially true when politics, religion, and journalism collide. I like to think that because I'm not a person of religious faith, I have no bias here—I put no faith over any other.
But a clear lens, rather than a stained-glass lens, might be a lens nonetheless, and I often wonder whether a person of faith would have a different nuance, a different way of framing and reporting a story.
More from the Roundtable: Gerardo Fernandez, an editor and journalist of an important Spanish-language outlet in the Bay Area, Alianza Metropolitan News, examines how Latino voters may play a pivotal role in this year's elections—and what's most important in their minds when it comes to voting—in his piece, "Hispanics, religion, and the elections."
And still more about the roundtable on "When Politics, Religion, and Journalism Collide."


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