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Warman's Kickfighting Show #59: FIKA, MPL in the Netherlands, Shoot the Shooto and More!
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Yet another episode of Warman's Kickfighting show with Steven Wright and myself discuss the wild world of Kickfighting, from Muay Thai to Kickboxing. This week we start off taking a look at the announcement of FIKA and how it has been received and what we know. Of course, when discussing anything K-1 related there were a lot of concerns and things that we wanted to see.
On top of that, we run down the MPL card coming up this week from the Netherlands. It is an unbelievably packed card and we tear it down fight-by-fight, looking at the good, the bad and the whatever. From there we enter into the realm of Shoot Boxing and just how well will Toby Imada fare this time around?
The show can be accessed from going to Steven's blog or by searching on iTunes (keyword: LordGaul). As always, I'll post it in this thread, but there is a timeout for it, so listen while you can!

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In Living the Drama: Community, Conflict, and Culture Among Inner-City Boys (University of Chicago Press), Harding depicts the daily lives of teens — often using their own words — growing up in some of Boston's most troubled neighborhoods.
Harding concludes that, rather than looking at social conditions as roots of violence, we need to understand that, to a surprising extent, violence is causing the dangerous and deadly social conditions in parts of Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan. It might seem irrational or contradictory, from our outside perspectives, but to the boys living with constant fear, self-destructive behavior can provide a roadmap to survival.
This startlingly bare-knuckled conclusion is painfully relevant to the gun violence that is once again dominating so many media reports.
The latest tipping point came in late May, when two gangbangers allegedly grabbed 14-year-old Nicholas Fomby-Davis from his scooter, at around 8 pm on a Sunday, and shot him to death on Bowdoin Street in Dorchester.
Fomby-Davis was the third murder victim that age in the city this year. And those were just the most horrific examples. A 10-year-old girl was shot in the leg on Creston Street this past Friday. The 27 murders in Boston through the end of May are the highest since the bad old days of 1995.
This spate of violence follows a relative calm that saw the annual homicide tally drop from 75 in 2005 to 50 in 2009.
The city's official response has been similar to its reaction every other time such incidents hit the headlines. Police swarm "hot zones" looking for "impact players" to take off the streets, while well-meaning pols and activists call for funding of summer-jobs and youth-services programs to get at the "root of the problem."
These reactive efforts might help temporarily reduce the body count. But they will do nothing to change the underlying dynamic in Boston's troubled areas, where the fear of violence ironically pushes adolescent boys to copy the same behaviors, and end up on the same paths, as those before them.
That means youth that would ordinarily not be inclined toward violence will join or form groups for protection, defend others in the neighborhood so they will themselves be defended, emulate older teens and young men who have survived the streets, and, frequently, choose activities that bolster a tough image over those that lead to success in life. The complex message of the book is that, in certain neighborhoods, violence reshapes the culture and social dynamics so dramatically that it leads boys to embrace and perpetuate the very lifestyles that we think of as the root of the problem.
"We're forcing these kids to make decisions on how to survive in the short term," says Harding, "which might not be so good for them in the long term."
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Her computer is in the shop for a complete overhaul, and she hopes to get it back tomorrow. She has been without her addresses and passwords and has wanted so much to write to Don and to see how Carol is doing. She is praying for them--and so am I. She got a shot for arthritis in her right hand, and I'm praying that will ease her pain. She is so very dear!
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Friday, July 07, 2006
Cycling in Darlington - Putting It In Perspective
A fine cycle path along West Auckland Road was already being built anyway, and is spoilt by the fact that at every road crossing, cyclists must give way to cars. There is the Local Motion campaign, with lots of hype and PR and, more usefully, door-to-door visits of local people, trying to help them change their travel habits.
Then there is the Pedestrian Heart, a building site at the moment, but with the promise of??? Cyclists, already ignored by road engineers during the building phase (where do cyclists go, for god's sake?), will be given 6 months to prove that we are all angels, after which (since all humans are not angels) we will be banned from using our bikes there.
We are promised a number of new cycle paths, but there is no plan to join any of them up into a proper set of complete, safe, cycle routes. The nearest we have got to this is unsafe, on-road, "advised" routes.
The research that launched Town on the Move in 2004 stated clearly that cycling was the key to changing peoples' travel habits. Yet cyclists are still being treated like second or third class travellers.
The local authority's aims are both time and vision limited. There is a reluctance to engage with the real problem - that motorists have been given the freedom of town roads for too long - for fear of alienating potential voters. But this also reflects the meagre sums being allocated to cycling anyway, when compared to motoring. A recent article in Guardian Unlimited points out that the Department for Transport budget this year is £13.4 BILLION. Last month it made a great PR song and dance about doubling its grant to Cycling England - from £5 million to £10 million. Maybe you can figure out what that is as a percentage of its total budget.
Truth is, the level of government commitment to cycling is pathetic, and the level of ambition at local level reflects this. There has been much talk of using "soft measures", ie persuasion, to encourage more cycling, and indeed much money is being spent on PR by Local Motion. But the execution of this PR has been hijacked by the New Labour Spin Industry to sell a product that is devoid of substance. Of prime concern now are the "good stories" being pumped out to national media about the wonderful things that are happening in Darlington. Any dissent - or even critique - is strictly verboten.
The sad fact is, the council's own research repeatedly confirms Darlington Cycling Campaign's position - that many people would cycle more if only it was safer and more convenient. But as long as the motorist's "King of the Road" psychology is not openly and politically challenged, we'll all have to either continue Rambo Cycling to get through the traffic, or accept that we must break the law and share pavements with pedestrians. And cycling in Darlington will continue to be a minority sport.
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- Beatrix Wupperman said...
Yes, I agree with Richard's view. It is very sad, how the council and admin in Darlo act towards cyclists. I am always happy to go back to Germany and cycle there every day without being hassled by cars. German drivers in Bremen respect cyclists very much and pedestrians as well. But in Darlo I always feel like prey and there is obviously no intention from the administration to protect the weaker members of transport, to educate car drivers. Instead we have to give way to cars all the time like on West Auckland Road. As a result, car drivers and their "kings of the road" attitude is supported by the council. It is a joke to call Darlington a Cycling Demo Town. For what do they get the money?
Beatrix Wupperman, also a citizen of Darlington
- 7:58 am, July 08, 2006
- Mike said...
I agree!
Many of the proposed schemes seem to involve moving riders off the road entirely. The proposed cycle path along the field between Mill Lane and Great Burdon is one of these; it's already possible to ride from Mill Lane to Great Burdon, avoiding Stockton Road, by going a little way up Mill Lane and then cutting through the housing estate. This could be made easier with a couple of dropped kerbs and some signage, rather than cutting up a strip along the very narrow field, a huge waste of time, money and resources.
The newly redesigned junction between North Road and Thompson Street is an example of a highways project ignoring bikes; no advance stop line, no filter lane.
- 11:39 am, July 08, 2006
- richardgrassick said...
Once you get down to the details, as you do, Mike, it becomes obvious that these decisions are still being made without reference to experienced cyclists' views. We have tried - via our submission to the former Cycling Officer (see previous posts), by attending cycle forum meetings, and now with a proposal to produce a DVD with council support - to participate responsibly in decision making. But the feeling is sadly growing that the agenda is not pro-cycling but pro-spin. "Look we are a green council". The cycling campaign has been snubbed repeatedly. So there is only one place for us to go - on to the streets.
- 11:58 am, July 08, 2006
- Mike said...
Mill Lane to Great Burdon:
proposed new bike path - a new track along a very narrow field, heavily used by dog walkers
current possible route - existing, quiet residential roads and footpaths
Now, which makes more sense?
- 12:17 pm, July 08, 2006
- Beatrix Wupperman said...
Well, I agree, street engineers, the planning department, does not take into account that cyclists exist and have needs (it is like kids were treated in the fifties). They rebuilt the scene around the main station - Parkgate - but they did not build any cycle paths, though there is enough space for that. But Darlo is a Cycle Demo Town! Obviously the message has not reached the planning department. Are they all asleep in the highways department? Chaps, how about talking to each other and even listening or did the highways department never hear about "Local motion". Don't tell London how you spend her money, Mummy will be very annoyed.
Beatrix Wupperman
- 6:07 pm, July 08, 2006
I have to say, although I am not an avid cycler myself, it does seem mad that the local council can ignore such things. I always think of how cyclers are hassled by people for cycling on walk paths, when there are no cycle paths... it makes me think how stupid the people 'in charge' can be. People should learn that cyclists should be respected more, instead of being shut out all together.
- 6:22 pm, July 08, 2006
- Mat said...
Mike, most of the cycle money will get used building footpaths suitable for cycling on, instead of developing the roading system to be suitable for the co-existence of cyclists and motorists. This fundamental flaw in approach will succeed in dirverting the funds from cycling to completing pedestrianisation objectives.
I suggest the town planners take a ride along McMullen road cyclepath (oh yeah-it's a footpath too) as if they were a commuter running late for work. Will they stop at every intersection and risk a bollocking from the boss, or keep pedalling across the dangerous intersections? Maybe they will take the safe and fast option and ride along the road like the cyclepath doesn't even exist.
- 8:28 pm, July 10, 2006
Are any of the cycleways the council has provided worth it? The only one I've seen isa pointless stretch of painted pavement outside Cummins on Yarm Road, and that doesn't run any closer to town than the roundabout by homebase.
There should be an onroad lane either side of the A167 ring road and for a few miles out on each of the main roads.
At junctions, there is no reason that there should be one rule for drivers and another for cyclists.
Steve, from South Park
- 9:42 pm, July 10, 2006
- Mike said...
Agreed, I very rarely use the cycle paths around town for a variety of reasons.
For example, I could ride along the Riverside Path to get to work, instead I take a longer route along Thompson Street and North Road to avoid: the wet clay the path turns into after even the slightest rain; the dog walkers who let their dogs wander about uncontrolled or (worse) on those extendable leads; the pedestrians who are drawn to the red tarmac; and riding on unlit paths after dark.
On other paths, I'd have all that and giving way at every junction.
- 9:51 pm, July 10, 2006
- richardgrassick said...
I agree. Using cycle paths as currently being built is a real waste of time and money, and that, I think, is why many cyclists just want to see more priority for us on the roads.
Maybe it's because I have a lot of cycling experience abroad that I like to think that the use of paths could be better organised. Now I suspect that, whether cycle paths or on-road provision, the issue is basically the same - much more priority for cyclists and much less for cars.
Last week I cycled along a main road near the centre of Bremen that was made into a one-way street for cars so that enough space could be made for cyclists. The cycle "path" was in fact half the main road. Because of adjacent tramlines and trees it was the only solution.
Imagine if our Cycling Demonstration Town took this approach to making ALL of Yarm road quick and safe for cyclists. For one thing, it would be a helpful demonstration to the rest of the UK of what was needed. Darlo would be on the map! Instead, we get tiptoeing around every road junction and absolutely no disruption to the great Car God.
PS Videoed the above example for our campaign DVD which the council has refused to fund out of their £7m. Will let you know when and where it's up on the web.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo during a trip to Syracuse announced that there is no set back when it comes to the rule making process for hydraulic fracturing in New York.
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Southern Tier (WENY) - Governor Andrew Cuomo during a trip to Syracuse announced that there is no set back when it comes to the rule making process for hydraulic fracturing in New York. This is a response to earlier news from a DEC spokeswoman that the agency expects to miss a Nov. 29 deadline for finalizing regulations, and therefore delay the process for another year. The news upset many proponents of Hydrofracking in New York. The delay is linked to the review of a DEC health study that must be examined by the state health commissioner. The review of the health study could extend the decision past the November deadline. Cuomo said in a statement Tuesday that "there is no step back", and the health study will be thoroughly reviewed. As for the local members of the New York Landowners Association, they are thrilled to hear the news from Cuomo. Jeff Heller has been a member of the New York Landowners Association since 2008. He hopes there still is a chance the rules and regulations could be approved this year.
I think New York should just open up to drilling with the regulations we had, we are going to have the toughest regulations in the world and the best regulations in 2008, says Heller. When it started everywhere else in the Marcellus. Other states went ahead with the understanding that as there were problems you made adjustment to those problems.
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New book "Everything Obama Knows About the Economy" is completely blank
posted at 12:45 pm on December 20, 2011 by Tina Korbe
Tennessee banker Jimmy Moncrief just self-published his first book — a 150-page stunner called "Everything Obama Knows About the Economy." Those who buy it won't have much to read: Every page of the book is blank. No matter: Moncrief has already sold hundreds of copies as Christmas gag gifts.
The Daily Caller's Alex Pappas, with more:
Moncrief said the book was inspired by a similar gag book from Sheridan Simove, who wrote a 200-page bestselling collection of blank pages called: "What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex."
He self-published the book and sells it on Amazon and on his website. He describes the book as "a humorous talking point" that "can also be used very effectively as a notebook." A couple cigar shops in Chattanooga are also carrying them, Moncrief said.
"Where I live, there's just so much hatred for Obama," said Moncrief, an independent voter who says he doesn't support any GOP candidate this cycle.
"I like capitalism so I was like, 'how can I make money off this.' It's just a funny gift, you know? I just wanted to get people to laugh," he said.
If that doesn't show the beauty of capitalism, I don't know what does.
Here, he presents his authorial interpretation of his own work. Brilliant.
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What a great idea this is! A new line of blank books could perfectly represent the Emperor-Has-No-Clothes mentality of the modern Democratic Party–an unethical group that believes you can spend money you don't have, lie about it, and hates America and wants to be Europe again (putting them very firmly on the wrong side of history).
The blank book series could rival the "Books for Dummies" and "Idiot's Guides To This and That Thing," and the titles that could go into the series should be quite endless.
Do you have some suggestions?
How about "The Democratic Party Guide To Decency, Honor, Respect, Integrity and Hard Work!"
And "The Top Reasons George Washington And Thomas Paine Would Be Proud Of The Democratic Party in 2012."
Allendundit on December 20, 2011 at 3:49 PM
Okay, wait a minute: How about delivering at least some content? For example, this proposed title from my earlier post, "The Democratic Party Guide To Decency, Honor, Respect, Integrity and Hard Work!" could include classic dated and attributed quotes on individual pages from the most thoughtful leftist luminaries. Immortal quotes could receive the longevity in book form they deserve, such as those revolving around the notion that Republicans are all evil, or should go straight to hell, or that those who believe in sober financial objectives are simply masking their plans for mass annihilation of the populace.
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Card Kingdoms (Name not official at this time) is a new card game in development. After spending around 6 months on the project writing rules, tweaking gameplay, and just generally screwing around, I have decided to post the semi-finished idea online for feedback.
The game is a medieval fantasy style card game, I do not wish to contain any modern or futuristic elements. While this game is a TCG, it is played with a mat, with specific places to place cards.
(Map Image will be posted soon enough)
On the map there are 7 places to play building cards ( See -Card Details- Below), and the goal is to have one of your buildings on every place. The gameplay consists of many rounds of the card game to complete the actual game. The fighting consists of fighting for the slots for buildings, with each players life for that round equal to the building they are defending or the building they are attacking from.
-Cards and Decks-
There are 2 Decks for each player in the game.
1 - Your Kingdom deck
2 - Your Battle deck
Your Kingdom deck consists of 60 Cards
10 Building cards
10 Supply cards
10 Mechanical(Trap) Cards
30 Open slots for customization( you may only add Mechanical/supply/building cards in these slots)
Your battle deck consists of 60 cards
Any number of the 3 battle cards
- Character/monster
- Equipment
- Magic
-Card Details-
1 - Breaking down the cards
Kingdom Deck
Your Building cards are the cards you will play on building slots on the map.
Buildings are what players use to represent their health in battle. Battle commences when one Building declare an attack on another and war begins.
Your supply cards will help you in using other cards.
Supply cards must be Tributed in order to use mechanical cards( Unless the card says otherwise)
Supply cards are used to play Equipment cards( Unless it says otherwise)
Supply cards can be used to summon High level characters to the field without the need to tribute
Mechanical/Trap cards can be put down pre-emptively for use during battle. Acting somewhat like "Yu-Gi-Oh" Trap cards, they can be activated at any time when your opponent performs and action. The effects can be harmful for your opponent, helpful for you, harmful for both ETC.
Battle Deck
Character/Monster cards
Character/Monster cards are used for fighting other Card and destroying buildings.
The stats on the card are -
Health - The amount of punishment the card can take before being destroyed
Attack - How much damage you can dish out
Defense - How much damage you can negate
Tier - What level it is and how much of a tribute it costs to play this card
Effects - An effect that the card can use.
Equipment cards
Can be equipped to Characters/Monsters to give them a boost
The parts of the card are
Name - Name of Equipment
Tier - Level of equipment and supplies required to use it.
Effects - What stats it affects and how much it adds/subtracts from the stats
Magic Cards
Can be played to affect the game
Parts of the card
Name - Name of spell
Tier - Level of spell
Effects - The effects of the spell card
Each player draws 5 cards from their kingdoms deck and 9 cards from their battle deck.
The Supplies and building cards drawn are placed in their respective piles and trap cards are added to the battle hand.
Each player claims their side of the battlefield and places one building down on the starting slot, this becomes your home building.
Passive stage
During this stage, there is no battling going on.
Phase 1 - Draw
Draw 3 cards from your kingdoms deck
If you receive a supplies card, place it in your supply pile
If you receive a building, put it in your blueprints pile
If you receive a trap place it in your kingdoms hand
Phase 2 - Building
During this phase you may place one building down at the cost of supplies, and place as many traps as you want at the cost of supplies
Phase 3 - Attack
You may declare an attack on a building during this turn, which initiates the Offensive stage.
(Note: The first player that goes may not Attack or lay down traps on the first turn)
(Second Note: When supplies are used up, they are shuffled back into your Kingdoms deck)
Offensive Stage
Phase 1 - Draw
Draw a card from your Battle deck
Phase 2 - Main Phase
During this phase, you may summon cards to the field, play equipment, and use spells and effects.
Phase 3 - Battle Phase
During this phase you may attack and use the effects of your Character/Monster cards.
You may not attack a players building directly if there are Characters/Monsters on your enemies field.
If a monster is destroyed, the owner of that monster looses 100 life on their building.
Phase 4 - Secondary Phase
This Phase is used to activate any Magic cards and other effects.
The game is over when a persons home base is destroyed
-Places on the Game board-
Map -
7 slots on the game board where buildings can be placed, these slots are fought over and the goal is to slowly move your way to the enemies Home base.
Blueprints - Where your buildings are stored until you play them on the field
Supply pile - Where supplies are placed while not used
Rift - When cards are removed from play you place them here.
Discard Pile - Where used and destroyed cards are kept
Front lines - Where your Characters/Monsters are placed
Library - Where you spells are placed down, there are 4 slots here meaning you can only have 4 spells at one time
Trapped land - Right behind the front lines, where trap cards are kept.
Discard pile - Where used cards from your battle deck are kept.
(AT THE END OF EACH BATTLE, RESHUFFLE YOUR ENTIRE BATTLE DECK EXCEPT FOR CARDS IN THE RIFT. Discarded cards from your battle deck are re-used in the next battle, they are never truly gone unless they are put in the rift.)
And that is the rough draft of the official rules(Its still in HEAVY progress)
Feel free to leave suggestions and feedback, I will provide images of the map and cards as soon as I can.


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This was just posted over at AICN. I hope it ends up being true, as it would be a great way to tell the story of the Clone Wars going on between E2 and E3. Bring on the Clone Wars!! Plus there was some rumblings of a huge Shadows of the Empire event crossing all products, books, toys, comics, not to long ago. Could one of those products be an Animated Series? Let's pray. :)
CLONE WARS Animated Series on CARTOON NETWORK!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... As always my spies in Lucasfilm, well... pretty much they kickass. I love em, because as always they provide me with the ability to see and hear things far before the average person. So much so at times that the news seems made up, but in reality... It's just out there waiting for the rotation of the earth to pass round the sun enough times to catch up to the news.
This came from a source that I ABSOLUTELY TRUST, he/she/it has been providing news to AICN for years out of Lucasfilm - and he/she/it doesn't drop the ball. I'm told that very very few people know the following bit of info, so getting confirmation on it will most likely be a *****, but since this sort doesn't tickle the jewels without following through, I'm going with it.
There have been top secret meetings between Lucasfilm and Cartoon Network, and they are in ADVANCE DISCUSSIONS to do an immense animated series called CLONE WARS. The time frame is still being discussed as either starting the year before Episode 3 hits theaters, or the Summer of Episode 3. Lucas is negotiating for a huge 50-60 episode order!!!
I just hope that they get smart and get some of the talent that worked on DROIDS a billion years ago that has evolved into somebody super great at the Animated Series... How cool would it be if they brought on Paul Dini to be a Writer/Producer for this? Can you ******* imagine? Ok, that's me being a fanboy, but dammit, nobody writes better toons on TV! NOBODY! This news will most likely be denied till Lucasfilm and Cartoon Network are ready to Announce, but you heard it here first!
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves has branded media reports that the PlayStation 2 has reached its sales peak as "bullshit," stating that the console still has 50 per cent of its hardware sales to come.
"We get many headlines in the media saying that PlayStation 2 has peaked," Reeves told delegates at a summit in London arranged by UK publisher trade body ELSPA. "It's bullshit - it has not peaked. We're only halfway through the life cycle."
Reeves argued that the PlayStation 2 has yet to reach the "magic price point" - referring to the reduction in price of the original PlayStation to around the UKP 99 mark which caused its installed base to skyrocket - and scotched rumours of an imminent price drop, saying that despite the US PS2 price cut at E3, "we have no intention of going down in price immediately in the PAL territories."
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So... What's your thoughts? Personally, I'm shocked at the 'we're only halfway through our life cycle (of the console)' line. Do you expect to see the PS2 around for another 2-3 years without it being dwarfed by the new consoles from Nintendo and Microsoft?
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I'm sure he's talking more that there will still be PS2 games being made even after the PS3 is out...much like there were still a lot of PSX games made when the PS2 came out for at least a year into its life. So, I'm willing to bet a PS3 release in 2006 and software for the PS2 through 2007, meaning it is currently at only the halfway point in its life.
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The article pretty much states that he is talking sales.
I have to wonder if we are going to see a "PSTwo" sometime around the release of the PS3.
Still, the PS2 is showing its age, and unless there is a chip that tells PS2's to break after a certain time, if people don't have one by now, they most likely won't be getting one.
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Given how many PS2s go defective, I'd say they already included that chip.
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They keep dropping the price and more people will buy them. It is hard to look at that huge library of games and not be impressed. Even xbox/gc fanboys have to admit there are some good PS2-only titles to be had. Sure, there are plenty of exclusives for each system, but the PS2 library is unrivaled.
I happen to think $149 for the PS2 w/network adapter bundle is a pretty good deal, but we have seen what the GC did at the $100 price-point.
Even the PSOne outsells the Xbox in Japan! (at least it did last I saw the charts)
At the end of the day it's all about software sales anyway. I wouldn't be as concerned with selling more hardware, but more games. They are quite capable of that.
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I'm probably going to buy my first PS2 next week
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There's nothing quite like that new console smell, not to mention the first time you turn it on, after plugging everything in.
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Yeah the Ps2 library is daunting, I've bought one twice because of it, but each time I realized that as much as I saw games I wanted to play I never played them and never got the motivation too do so...
It was very odd, lots of great looking RPGs, Platformers and whatnot, yet I'd play em once or twice never really get hooked by any of them.
I've had quite the opposite happen with the Cube and Xbox games. I think I just like the feel of the Cubetroller more than anything with the system, and well XboxLive is more than enough to keep me involved in games.
I don't think that the PS2 has peaked either, it'll go to 99, probably get a PSOne type remodel and then end up 50 bucks. It'll still sell like gangbusters and it will totally feed the PS3 beast.
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My personal problem with the PS2, or rather its gaming library, is the selection of RPGs, basically. That is to say, for some odd reason, I feel that the RPGs on PS2 are lacking something. They all feel less epic, somehow. Though I could swear part of the reason is because every single damn RPG lacks the damn familiar overhead map. Damn.
Even Final Fantasy X (..I won't mention X-2..) falls into this.
Also, the music is lacking. That is to say, there're quite a few PSX games I can easily point out to have an excellent music, and yet with the PS2, I was expecting the same "quality of music", with more clarity, and more.. I don't know.. oompf? There are
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Now, it may be that I purchased the PSX after it had already aged relatively well, and the selection of RPGs was very varied (FFVII just released, Xenogears, Suikoden 1/2, Wild Arms, etc.), and I purchased the PS2 on day one, so the best are yet to come. And I'm sure it is.
Nevertheless, I'm still somewhat miffed that the RPGs themselves didn't live up to whatever delusional expectation I had of them. And since I purchase consoles mainly
the RPG experience, it's a bit of a bother.
Having said all that, the PS2 still sees the most playtime of all the three consoles, for me. I've never had a problem with the hardware(knock on wood), or software(knock on wood). Overall, it hasn't disappointed.
...And I seriously hope this isn't me becoming jaded on all future console games. I really don't want to end up being one of those people who harp on the golden age of gaming on a specific console and then belittles everything of today and morrow. Ungh.
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I think a lot of the problem with RPG's on the next-gen consoles is all the energy being spent on graphics. I like the graphics, but I don't think I need to see a five-minute real-time movie every time I cast a spell.
The stories are another thing. They are just so much teenage melodrama. I haven't decided if the writing or plot is any better than the crap on the Soap magazines at the grocery store checkout lines or not. For all I am concerned we might as well just go back to the old "somebody stole the princess! Go save her (and the world in the process)" cliche. Somebody takes their craft way too seriously.
I used to really like console RPG's a lot more. I don't know what happened. I wouldn't mind seeing something more like the Baldur's Gate series, but with the emphasis on graphical sheen that is unlikely.
be better as production budgets and storage increases.
I still think some of the simpler 2D RPG's are stellar. While not always perfect, they often forced the developer to add a little extra to make up for the primitive graphics.
I don't purchase consoles for RPG's. Quite the opposite, actually. But I know I am jaded! I'll also take this opportunity to harp on the golden age of consoles: Sega Saturn, RIP. GBA = the last bastion of old school.
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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend by John E. Miller
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Bare with me while I try to explain this. It was done in the Grindhouse trailer to give you an idea of what Im talking about. I want to do is have the video melting or burning from over use. Anyone have any idea what Im talking about?
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i know ulead has that transition
and i cant remember if the WAX plug in has it or not
and i cant remember if the WAX plug in has it or not
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ANBU_Itaichi1986 wrote:it does, but it kept on saying i had to register Plus something or other with an activation code. I had no idea what it was.
Don't try to use Wax as a plugin - it doesn't work (least it never worked for me). Download Wax and use the program itself, it's like a mini-AE.
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TaranT wrote:Fifth one down the left column.
No. Just no.
I agree more with the fractal noise idea as posted by Metro, as long as you can get it to expand properly. You'll probably also want to play with warping the layer and adjusting the zoom to get that "film slamming" look.
I've actually done this effect twice that I know of in my work, but this is the better example:
At about 0:24 - 0:25, I used what I believe was Cycore's Film Burn transition combined with a glow/shine to give it an ember look, and warping it with various filters to make it look as though it was being torn apart.
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Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement. --- Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
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...the 2-2 to Woodsen and here it comes...and it is swung on and missed! And Tom Browning has pitched a perfect game! Twenty-seven outs in a row, and he is being mobbed by his teammates, just to the thirdbase side of the mound.
We need three catchers, like in the good 'ol Narron days.
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I do think he's a useful piece and that he's only 25 and could improve. His 0.423 OBP looks nice, and I'd much rather see him hitting second than Cozart. Much less likely to GIDP with Choo on first.
I know it's another thread but that just aggravates the hell out of me. Choo on first opens the 2B hole for a LHH. Even if Robinson forces Choo at 2B with a GO, we still have excellent speed on 1B.
And Raisor would approve of that. So it's inarguable.
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Yesterday, in a disturbing report published on CNET, new documents obtained by EPIC reveal that Obama administration officials have authorized a new government program involving the interception of communications on Internet service providers, including AT&T—one of the key players in the NSA warrantless wiretapping program.
US House of Representatives Shamefully Passes CISPA; Internet Freedom Advocates Prepare for a Battle in the Senate
Internet freedom advocates everywhere turned their eyes to the US House of Representatives as that legislative body today considered the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.
For the second year in a row, the House voted to approve CISPA, a bill that would allow companies to bypass all existing privacy law to spy on communications and pass sensitive user data to the government. EFF condemns the vote in the House and vows to continue the fight in the Senate.
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Update: Note that the Hill article referenced below was working with an earlier draft of the amendment. The version introduced today was different from the version made available to the Hill.
An amendment to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) was just adopted on the House Floor. See the text attached.
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Economic Mud Wrestling
by Bill Bonner
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It's the Ultimate Fighting Event - Worldwide Economic Mud Wrestling! See it now!
First, the Honey Hun...German Chancellor Angela Merkel... took on a whole pack of central bankers and economists, charging that they were going to make the situation worse - by spending money they didn't have...and causing inflation.
Then, historian Niall Ferguson - Professor Punchy - took a jab at the meddlers in the pages of the Financial Times. His point was simple enough; that the feds were spending trillions of dollars without really knowing what they were doing. If they borrow money to stimulate the economy they are just taking money out of the private economy and diverting it to public spending. There's no gain in that, he said.
Watch out Niall...! The Nobel Knucklehead - economist Paul Krugman - hit back.
We'll return to this grapplefest. But first, let's take a look at what is happening outside the arena...
Yesterday, for the third day in a row...not much happened in the markets. The Dow fell 24 points - hardly worth mentioning. Gold held steady at $955. Oil rose a dollar - to $71. And the dollar itself remained about where it was - at $1.39 per euro.
It is as if everyone were waiting to see what happens next. Let's see...
We've seen the biggest stock crash in history...
..the biggest property crash in history...
..the biggest deficits in history (four times the previous record!)...
..the biggest bailouts in history (we can't even count that high)...
..the biggest bankruptcies in history...
..the auto industry and the finance industry have been largely nationalized...
..the president of the United States of America is now making financial decisions for formerly private industries...
What's left to see?
Oh yes...the depression...and hyperinflation.
"Get ready for inflation and higher interest rates," warns Art Laffer in the Wall Street Journal. Remember him? Creator of the 'Laffer Curve.'
But don't worry about inflation, adds Harvard professor Gregory Mankiw, also in the Wall Street Journal: Inflation is just what we need. "In the current environment, the goal could be to produce enough inflation to ensure that the real interest rate is sufficiently negative..." to force people to get rid of their money as fast as possible.
Over in the bond market, investors are finding out what a little bit of inflation - or even hints of inflation - can do. People bought US Treasuries during the panic of '08 for safety purposes. Now, they're getting what we predicted. Alas, yes, they are getting what they deserve, not what they expected. Our friend Chuck Butler points out that prices of 10-year Treasuries have come down from $110 as recently as 5 months ago to just $94 this week. How's that for safety - a 15% loss!
What they were fleeing from was the uncertainty and risk of the big wide world of investing. When Lehman Brothers went broke foreign investors took the first available plane out of India, for example. But now, our friend Ajit Dayal reports that they're coming back. We're working with him now to develop an international report on investments in the BRIC countries, with ace editors on the ground in each. As soon as the report is ready we'll give you first crack at reading it here. Because right now things are looking up on the sub-continent:
"What a month!
"The 36% surge in client portfolios after the election results in India have brought the value of the client holdings back to where they were before the Lehman bankruptcy in September 2008.
"We see this as a base for a possible assault on a new peak by June 2010.
"That is the good news.
"The bad news is that many of the lessons learned in the implosion of capital markets in the year 2008 may be forgotten. Memories are short - in fact they may not exist."
Memories? Here at The Daily Reckoning we've got all the memories you could want. We may not be able to remember what we did with our car keys, but we remember that fateful day - August 15, 1971 - when Richard Nixon 'closed the gold window.' It's been downhill ever since...
In his blog, Krugman accused Ferguson of "living in a dark age of macro-economics, in which hard-won knowledge has simply been forgotten."
The "hard-won knowledge" he referred to was Keynes' "proof" that extra government spending was indeed a plus to the economy - as long as there was not full employment. Once full employment was achieved, things changed, he said. Then, government borrowing just "crowded out" private borrowing.
We don't expect Daily Reckoning readers to be deeply interested in these squabbles; you've got better things to do.
We just bring it up to make a point. The world's governments - led by the United States of America - are spending trillions to head off what they believe could be a terrible depression. Yet the theory on which they hang their reasoning is such a thin string, some of the world's leading thinkers can't seem to hold onto it. Merkel thinks the theory is wrong; Ferguson thinks it's wrong. Heck, we even think it's wrong.
Not that that proves anything. We could be wrong. But we're not spending trillions of dollars based on an idea that is the subject of hot dispute. It's a dangerous plan...
"Keynsian revolution was not a triumph of good science, but of good judgment," says the FT's headline from yesterday. Ha ha...that's a good one. They're right, of course. There was no science in Keynes' oeuvre. It was all guesswork. But good judgment? Not much of that either.
As for Keynes' "proof," it is defective. He argues only that when the feds borrow and spend in a recession they can't "crowd out" private borrowing without also increasing economic activity - which he takes as a gain.
Which reminds us how simpleminded economists can be. Imagine a town where people borrowed and spent too much. Faced with unemployment and a slump, the mayor borrows money to build a new town hall - thus putting "idle" resources back to work.
He doesn't "crowd out" private activity, because private citizens are hunkered down, trying to pay off their debts. They save. They lend to the mayor. Private borrowers have no better use for the money.
That is the theory of it. On the surface, it appears that the mayor's stimulus plan is a big success. Pretty soon, people are working again. Money is changing hands. The new city hall is going up.
But what has really happened? The citizens will have a new town hall. But it's a building they hadn't particularly wanted when the good times were still rolling. And now they have their share of the debt the mayor incurred to build it.
Yes, it may look as though the town is more prosperous - with people employed on the new town hall, collecting paychecks and spending money. But the prosperity is phony. Citizens got not just one thing they didn't want, but two - a new town hall and more debt. And somehow, sometime in the future...other spending plans will have to be shelved so that the town hall can be paid for!
That's what Angela Merkel was saying in her attack on the central banks. When all is said and done, 10 years from now we'll be back to where we are now.
This morning, we got a call from a reporter. "How long do you think this rally will continue," she asked. "Why do you think it won't last?"
"As to the first question, we have only an intuition...based on very few historical precedents. When you get a crash as big as we had until March...you can expect a rebound for 3-6 months after. The current rebound is now almost exactly 3 months old. By our guess it could run 3 months more...which takes it to September. But it's very dangerous. If you're playing this rally, be sure to use tight trailing stops...the next leg down could be worse than the first. Remember, after the Crash of October '29 the market rallied until the following May. Then, it went down. And it didn't bottom until 1932.
"As to the second question...why can't the rally become a real boom?...the answer is very simple. Debt is either expanding. Or it is contracting. When it gets to an extraordinary high...it tends to go down. Because it can't go up any more. That's where we are now. Since consumer debt can't increase - and since consumer incomes are definitely not increasing...especially not in Britain and America - there is no way that a consumer economy can expand. Since it can't expand, it must contract. You can't have a boom in a consumer economy when consumer credit, consumer incomes, and consumer spending are all going down. Forget it."
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Gollancz Team: Jen - December 12th, 2012
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We just can't let it go! The great Big Bang Theory debate rolls on. This week's What We're Watching Wednesday is conclusive* evidence that Community is better than The Big Bang Theory.
1. The lack of studio audience laughter
We know that Charlie has waxed lyrical about this already, but it cannot be reiterated enough times: we are adults. We will laugh if it's funny. We do not need prompting. You sound ridiculous.
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Er, hello? Have you … More
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Nolin RECC Chief Executive Officer Mickey Miller contacted Kentucky State Police to report that several of the co-op's customers were receiving telephone calls from a man with a foreign accent asking for credit card information or a green-dot money orders to reconcile past due bills.
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The next happening thing in healthcare - Genetic diagnostics
Thanks to the Human Genome Project, scientists now have a set of tools that can be readily used to understand the complexity of diseases and their variability in human beings. These tools assist scientists in refining risk prediction and also in evaluating the response to therapies with greater precision. The project has in turn fuelled the diagnostic industry, which was not perceived to be as exciting as therapeutics but is now one-of-the-fastest growing segments of healthcare.
From being a method to identify whether a patient has a specific disease, diagnostics are now being used to support clinical development of drugs, predict diseases before appearance of symptoms, forecast the progress of a disorder and identify patients who are most likely to respond (or not respond) to specific treatments.
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Currently, healthcare applies a trial-and-error method where patients and their physicians are faced with uncertainty of outcome. In the patient's case, it often entails greater physical and financial burden. Advances in genomics enable scientists to examine the DNA of an individual and predict if the person is susceptible to a particular disease or whether a particular medicine will suit him or her.
As a result, companies have started investing in pharmacogenomics, which offers advantages such as eliminates the unpredictable nature of drug development, to bring new products to the market.
Indian start-up Xcode Lifesciences has come up with the In DNA technology to provide solutions to lifestyle-related diseases, such as coronary diseases, diabetes and obesity. A person can order the test online. Following which a saliva kit is shipped to the customer. This kit, which is non-invasive and safe to use, is used by the customer to ship a smaple of his saliva back to the testing lab. DNA extracted from the saliva is used to determine the allelic information of the individual using high-throughput genotyping techniques.
Talking about the new kit that the company launched this year, Dr Saleem Mohammad, CEO and co-founder of Xcode, said, "Xcode's preventive program, Lifelong Wellness, is a unique offering that combines DNA and healthy living. Lifelong Wellness aims to empower individuals with knowledge about their genes and pointers to modify their lifestyle, so they can lead a healthy life." The genetic assessment provided by Xcode gives insights into two things: health risk, especially to diabetes, obesity, CVDs and stroke, of a person and his or her metabolic profile or how the person metabolizes fats and carbohydrates. "Using this information, our team prepares nutrition and fitness plan that is personalized because we provide recommendations that are best suited to your genetic makeup," he said.
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RE:please, please, HELP !!!
thanks for your advice & support guys.
ive managed to trim awat the excess carbon fiber & filled the cavity with epoxy resin up past the slinter.
the repair seems not so bad & seems to work & flex fine during testing.
ill be trying it out this weekend to see if it works.
once again, thanks for all your help.
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Jason, you may be able to repair this(if not under warrenty) by using the spigot type ferrule. get the right size for the female end then grind down the other end till it fits into the cut off part of the male end. i would cut off as little as possible then buy some fiberglass sheeting(for bodywork or canoe repair) pull a single thread out and 1 drop of superglue to anchor it wind it around the blank till you get very close to the spigot tack down again(sparingly, you only need to hold it temporarily). coat with flexcoat and your good to go in a couple days. good luck, and let us know how you make out , and what method you use.
RE:please, please, HELP !!!
Juro's right - if the rod has a warranty you should take advantage of it and get a replacement. Otherwise, here is a repair method that may work:
1. Cut off the splintered end.
2. Mix up some epoxy and put it into the male end of the blank. Add enough to fill the blank in the ferrule.
3. Seal the end of the blank with tape.
4. Hold the rod vertically with the broken end downwards until the epoxy cures. This should leave you with broken end of the rod filled with an inch or two of cured epoxy.
5. Sand the end of the blank down enough to fit into the female ferrule. Use very fine sandpaper (400 grit???) and go very slowly.
This will be a real pain to do and may not work. Personally, I'd use this as an excuse to get a new rod. Good luck and let us know how it turns out.
RE:please, please, HELP !!!
Hi Jason -
I'll ask Smitty (Rod Builder's Workshop) and although I ain't no doctor the prognosis looks pretty bad. If the rod is splintered at the male ferrule for 2", the critical mating of the two parts will not work and thus the male part of the blank (and therefore it's parts) will need to be replaced. I've heard of emergency fixes but realistically, a splintered ferrule is best dealt with via replacement of the section or entire rod.
Is it a 2-pc / 3-pc / 4-pc?
Is it a warranted rod?
Tell us some details!
please, please, HELP !!!
please someone help me,
i just broke my fly rod at the section. the pice that broke is the male section that butts into the female section.
can someone please tell me how to fix my rod , desperatly.
incidently, my rod is the carbon fibre type, but the break seems to have splintered by about 2 inches up the top section.
please please help.
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