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Re: FAVORITE character through the sw films?
Does anyone like Kir Kanos from Crimson Empire?
He's one of my favourites....
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Does anyone like Kir Kanos from Crimson Empire?
He's one of my favourites....
1. Boba Fett
2. Vader
3. Yoda (Episode III)
4. Jawas
Yoda is so darn annoying though!
Yeah, but only in ESB. That "EHeheheheh!!" laugh is soo annoying!! He sounds like a which!
I actually enjoyed his laugh...it is hillarious...ROFL. My little bro has the same kinda laugh AND he used to look like him when he was little...lol. Yoda isn't all THAT bad. I was a little irritated by him in Episode 2 when he started jumping around. I guess it was because I was used to him hobbling around and not the CRAZY FLIPPIN ADD fighter that he really is.
My favorite character through all the films..... erf, I haven't watched them in a while, but I always related more to Obi-Wan (am I the only one here to love Ewan's part in Episode I? )
And among the villains, of course there's Boba Fett...... but let's be the average SW fan and say Darth Vader
I liked Padme up until the third movie. Then she turned from this really strong woman to someone who just fell apart. Obi-wan was very cute in Episode 1. Then, he got to old for me to like like that. I loved Qui-gon though. He should NOT have died. But, of course, props to my man, Boba.
alot of chicks liked Qui-Gon....maybe that was just me..
A lot of chicks like Qui-Gon cuz he's FREAKIN LIAM NEESON!!!! The chicks dig Liam Neeson. ..................I think.....:/
Hmmm never heard that....he seems to have a big chin lol maybe that is just my oppinion also. lol
Hey, how would I know. I'm a guy. Thats just what I heard.
Hmmm never heard that....he seems to have a big chin lol maybe that is just my oppinion also. lol
ya he does have a big chin lol
Really?!? I never really noticed that. I'll have to look at a pic of him.........................................
Wow! I cant belive I never noticed!
LOL,a big chin!Does it matter?I really enjoyed watching him fighting Darth Maul.His choreography was great!
Well Owen Wilson has a very peculiar nose...
Doesn't seem to make him anymore unpopular.....
Look at it.... its like
How did we go from favorite characters to Qui-gon's chin? And now this guy's nose. I'm sure you people know what I'm going to say...let's stay on topic shall we folks?
Yes, I agree. We should just start a topic where we can just roam free! Just go from topic to topic! Any one in?
Boba rules!
Hehe, Han's my personal favorite. I've been through this before, I think...I love scifi fringe society, and it doesn't get any more fringe than smuggler. Fast ship, quick draw, street smart- just too cool. A regular space cowboy.
And how about that stunt on the Death Star? Charging the stormies and driving them back with his battle cry? My absolute favorite scene from the movies.
HAN: AAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH! *chasing stormies down corridor*
*runs into barracks to see dozens of them standing there*
*fires a shot and runs the other way*
I love it. Cracks me up every time.
I agree with you Gunslinger.Han's very cool...especially when they were in the beast's bell and he flirted with Leia....
I like how they added more Stormtroopers into the Special Edition. Just makes the expression on his face, all that more funny.
My favorite in the SW films would have to be Count Dooku!!... I don't know I just have alot of respect for the guy...
But the emperor...ahhh!... I just hate him! why did he have to tell annikin to kill him...*sniff*
I don't know about Count Dooku,but I don't think anyone likes the Emperor...He only cares for himself,and how to gain more power.....(stupid Emperor!)
Oola- yeah she died and was barely in the movies for that long but she's awsome!(and Boba and Maul mabey Vader)
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The Maressa in Black is a J. Renee classic stiletto heel. This versatile heel is a must-have in your pointed toe heel collection....
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When I phoned customer service, she was surprised I was as open in my TG Girl lifestyle. I am so excited about adding these pretty heels to my closet. I have numerous new summer outfits and the white patent heels will be just perfect. Living in Florida, this will be a perfect color long into autumn. Thank you J Renee for remembering those of us women with slightly wider feet.
I Love this shoe! I have them in blue, green, black, placid blue! And my purple ones are on the way! I don't know why the black run smaller than the other colors, But I love them anyway. They are a must have ladies.
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Mixed Messages: US Talks Of Cleaning Up 'Rogue' Internet... While Underwriting Censorship-Proof Shadow Internet
from the follow-along deptIt appears the US government is giving out mixed messages these days. On the one hand, we keep hearing about the need for laws to stop "rogue sites," to punish Wikileaks, and to shut down online black markets and alternative currencies like Bitcoin... but then you have President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton constantly praising the importance of internet freedom.
To make matters even more confusing, the NY Times now reports that the State Department has been funding the creation of various tools and services to help dissidents route around online censorship:
The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype "Internet in a suitcase."The article also discusses "stealth" networks being deployed in various other countries as well. It's a fascinating article, and while I'm not sure that these projects are really quite as interesting (or, in some cases, workable) as the article and the project cheerleaders suggest, it is certainly nice to see the US government supporting such projects. It just seems pretty odd that it's doing it at the same time as it's supporting efforts to censor other forms of internet communication at home. Of course, all that needs to happen then is for people to use the same "stealth" technology here at home as well...
Financed with a $2 million State Department grant, the suitcase could be secreted across a border and quickly set up to allow wireless communication over a wide area with a link to the global Internet.
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Reports of wafting Japanese radiation reaching the West Coast have been crawling across news tickers and popping into headlines for a few days now, but is there any cause for concern? In a word: no.
The EPA RadNet radiation monitoring system is tracking gamma and beta radiation (bad stuff) in the LA area, and says, as of now, "These levels are thousands of times below any conservative level of concern." Thousands. So, as dire as things in Japan are, there's no need for domestic panic at the moment. [EPA via Slate]


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Alexa Meade at the National Portrait GalleryJune 7th, 2012 by admin
Alexa Meade is an artist based in Washington DC. Her increasingly well known work consists of painting real life spaces and figures as if to look as though they were inside an oil painting and then photograping the scene. A kind of trompe l'oeil occurs when viewing her photographs. It is hard to believe that the vivid lines and colors have not been drawn over the image, that everything represented is actually the tones and dimensions the camera is picking up as "reality." One is reminded of rotoscopy (waking life), where the real blends with the drawing blends with the real. Most of Meade's work is in the closeup and the detailed contours of undulating clothing and skin are remarkably well rendered. Integrating perspective and distance into the work would be a lovely exploration. I tried to imbue my photographs with this sensibility.
The architectural space inside the Kogod Courtyard at the National Gallery is lovely and you can see more photos of it in this post, including a night shot.


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Disappearing Acts
Valentine's Day is just around the corner and it may very well be a made-up holiday but your loved one probably won't care who made it up as long as they have Valentine status. If you don't have a special someone on the day, who cares? We are celebrating love. Love. Everyone has that - don't let the crappy candy tell you otherwise and if you want to see the softer side of V-Day, I have the perfect choice.
Disappearing Acts is a made for HBO film based on a best selling novel by Terry McMillan. It tells the sexy and heartrending story of Zora and Franklin - a new couple dealing with the beauty and land mines their love encounters. Sanaa Lathan and Wesley Snipes are a gorgeous and skilled duo whose initial chemistry and lust might set your plasma screen on fire. They are hot and then hotter. So much fire and it seems inevitable that someone will get burned, but far from one dimensional these two lovers come complete with personal history that informs without slagging on the pace or script. Their new love is surprising and fun and it is a treat to watch them discover deeper levels of emotional intimacy as they tackle the obstacles between them.Continue Reading


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Hal Rubenstein is used to chatting up top designers and celebrities in his role as fashion director of InStyle magazine.
But at Neiman Marcus Tuesday night in Denver, he offered a personalized approach to fashion to a mostly female audience sipping champagne and nibbling on canapes.
"Belts are your friend," he said in a session that was as full of confidence-boosters as it was wardrobe tips."Find a great dress that isn't black."
It was appropriate that the fashions on the runway on the second floor atrium at the store were by Donna Karan. "I've known Donna Karan for two decades," he said. "I love her as a person and respect her as a designer."


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Air Academy boys lacrosse offense sparked with help of lacrosse legend Ryan Boyle
Air Academy boys lacrosse coach John Mandico and his Kadets went on a spring break trip to Arizona with plans of improving their offense. What the team actually got was a complete offensive awakening.
After returning from the intense five-day training camp through Trilogy Lacrosse, the Kadets' new 1-4-1 offense has taken major form, and No. 7-ranked Air Academy (7-5 overall, 4-2 Pikes Peak League) now sits top five in Class 4A standings for goals scored (152).
"Our offense is just a production machine right now," first-year head coach Mandico said.
Mandico and his staff are defense-oriented and went to the March training camp seeking someone with an offensive mindset to help with their attack. Not only did Air Academy get the offensive guidance it wanted, the Kadets received arguably the best instruction out there — from lacrosse legend Ryan Boyle, who is considered one of the smartest players in the sport's history.


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Yes, folks, it's even more on hair! Shapeling Heather Bailey recently sent us the story of her latest haircut, and it was too good not to post. –Kate
My hairstylist for the last three years has been a guy who's a bit of a wunderkind stylist in this town, awesome with the shears. The problem started when I came to him last summer wanting to razor off my shoulder length hair to pixie, and he flat out refused. He said, "I don't think that would be right for your face." What he meant was: "You're too fat for a pixie cut." So I conceded and got a chin-length shortcut, feeling a little ashamed that I couldn't pull off a pixie (a professional said so!). I believed him and told myself, yeah, I need this bit of bang covering half my face to frame it properly.
A few months ago, I got my dream job working in a library, where I am frequently found pushing around 100 lb carts of books, doing deep knee bends and reaching high to shelve things, lifting tubs of books to and fro. And guess what? That fucking hair, it just kept getting in my face and generally annoying the hell out of me. I started keeping it in a constant ponytail and then I was like, fuck this. I picked a different hairstylist. It turns out that she has also got skillz, double-mad. Also, when I showed her the pixie I wanted, she immediately said, "That will look so awesome on you. You have great features to show off."
Fuck me, I've been going to a stylist making me crazy with pixie-cut fear for the last 12 months, and now I find out that it was him, not me, all along? And that with longer hair, I look the same size as with short hair (fat, fat)? And now that I got the cut, I have gotten several thousand compliments from stray library patrons who never spoke to me before? Apparently, I have really great glasses, amazing eyes, a lovely neck, a fantastic outfit, good posture, and one charming and elderly patron thinks that I am "just beautiful!" Plus, I am playing more with makeup and styles for my new hair, and I am generally in love with the confidence it gives me.
I'm a relative newbie to FA, but I consider myself pretty solid in the "diets don't work, and Weight Watchers is a diet" mentality. I dress well, take care of myself with exercise, relaxation and enjoying the food I eat. I don't think badly of my fat. I stand up for my body when others put it down. I found a doctor who asks me my habits rather than my weight to determine my health level. But this one area tripped me up: I believed that hair can magically make you look fatter/thinner and I was afraid of that. We are what we are, and if our culture wants us to "blend in" and feel that we have to hide the fat bits on our hips, thighs, faces – well, it's up to us to tell them we're not obligated to make them feel better by feeling bad about ourselves, and we aren't going to disappear anything about ourselves.
The moral of the story is, all those dos & don'ts of the fat girl fashion & beauty diktat? Add up to one big don't. Don't listen.


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You for Youth (Y4Y) is a virtual hub for Out-of-School Time (OST) providers. This website offers free professional development courses, tips on training staff, resources and tools for designing high-quality programs, and answers to questions.
This website offers a wealth of information, resources, and state and national data sheets on a range of topics related to promoting positive youth development and helping deal with challenges that may arise such as pregnancy, mental health issues, obesity, substance abuse, relationships and dating violence, or illness.
This webpage offers a variety of resources focused on building resilience in children who face adverse experiences, challenges, and/or hardships.
This website is tracking a number of issues on emergency preparedness relevant to school-age care (SAC) providers, including a new training to prepare for an active shooter, a listserv to share leading practices and resources, mobile texting resources to connect directors with parents, and tracking of severe weather. Some trainings are offered as webinars.
This website offers resources on a range topics related to healthy youth development, with the goal of helping users create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs.
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Culver Police Property Auctions Go Online
October 3, 2012
Culver City Joins More Than 2,800 Police Departments and Municipalities on Leading Police Auction Site
Property Room.com (www.PropertyRoom.com), the auction site known for making police auctions available to a nationwide audience, has signed on with the Culver City Police Department.
The site conducts online auctions from the law enforcement agency's forfeited, seized, found or surplus items, which often end up collecting dust in the property rooms of law enforcement agencies and city municipalities. The Culver City Police Department joins more than 200 other local California police departments and municipalities in adopting the services of Property Room.
Founded by former police officers, Property Room provides an auction platform for products from more than 2,800 police departments and municipalities nationwide. Generally, in the past, police departments and municipalities had offered these unclaimed items in a live public auction. Now, all Culver City residents can conveniently access hundreds of bargains with the speed of an online auction from the comfort of their home.
"We offer tremendous value and streamlined solution to law enforcement and municipal partners across the country, as well as online shoppers looking for great deals," said PJ Bellomo, CEO for Property Room.com. "With this new partnership, we look forward to extending these services to the Culver City Police Department."
The auctions Property Room facilitates relieve the city from the time and expense of holding their own auctions and generate proceeds that are later returned to the community. To date, these communities across the United States have benefitted with more than $41 million in returned proceeds. Items up for bid cover every category of consumer goods, from watches, jewelry and coins, to laptops, power tools and cars. Unique and offbeat items on the website haveincluded eight-person bikes, coffins, Persian rugs, kayaks and most recently a state-of-the-art, unused X-ray machine.
"It's a win for everyone involved, because Property Room manages the entire process, offers fantastic bargains to consumers, and returns a percentage of proceeds back to the community," said Bellomo. "We expect that our customer base and online expertise will prove to be a great fit for Culver City."
With a team of trained inventory experts, Property Room rigorously evaluates all merchandise listed on the site, and destroys all counterfeit merchandise. Property Room works with many of the largest law enforcement agencies in the country, including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, among others.
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Whenever I visit Malaysia restaurant in NYC that sell breakfast,I will definitely get some of their special local cake/kuih if it's still available on the display counter. Usually the kuih/cake gone before lunch time!! One of my favourite kuih is Kuih Keria!! Sometimes I'm quite disappointment when my favourite cake/kuih sold off..so I vow to make this kuih myself..The verdict: This kuih is so easy and simple to make ,yet taste so delectable and savoury!!
1/2 cup all purpose flour (sieved),plus extra for dusting
1 tsp baking powder
enough oil for frying
Ingredients For Coating:
1/2 cup sugar
4 tbsp water
1:Peel and boiled sweet potatoes until soft tender.Mashed sweet potatoes and combine with flour and baking flour.If it's too dry,add in 1-2 tbsp water.
2:Knead the dough well ,use rolling pin to roll the dough out to 1 1/2 inch. Dusting some flour on the surface if necessary,then use donut cutter or round cookies cutter to cut the dough shape out.If you use cookies cutter to cut the outer round shape,then use icing pipping tip to cut the hole out.
3: Prepare oil in fryer at medium heat,deep fry sweet potato rings rill golden brown.Dish and drain.
Method For Coating:
1: Use a clean small pot with low heat to cook sugar and water till syrupy and thick.Add fried sweet potato rings and keep stirring till all potato rings are well coated with syrup and eventually crystallized.(Do not use high heat.
2: Serve warm or cold with tea.
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Dinosaurs grew big in a hurry
- A 190-million-year-old fossil bed points to early fast growth of dinosaurs
- The 200 bones from smashed eggs point to rapid leg-bone growth
- Adults likely were more than 20 feet long and weighed almost 2 tons
How did dinosaurs grow so big? By starting early, suggest paleontologists reporting Wednesday on the discovery of 190-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur eggshells and bones, among the oldest ever found.
The discovery, near Kunming in southern China, suggests that the dinosaurs grew fast, even inside the egg.
"This is the first time we can actually look and see how fast the dinosaurs were growing," says study lead author Robert Reisz of the University of Toronto Mississauga. About 200 tiny bones were found among the eggshell fragments. Less than an inch long, the bones show numerous young dinosaurs at the very earliest stage of development, his team reports in the journal Nature. All the fossils appear preserved in nests inundated by slow flooding in ancient times.
"This study may at long last shed light on the mystery about how some of the giant dinosaurs got so big," says paleontologist Kenneth Carpenter of Utah State University-Eastern in Price, Utah, who was not part of the discovery team. Taken together, findings can serve as a "road map," he says, to understanding embryo development in other dinosaurs. "What is also cool is that the bones suggest rapid growth," Carpenter says.
The baby dinosaurs likely belonged to a two-legged, short-armed dinosaur called Lufengosaurus (LOO-feng-oh-sor-uss), named after the part of China where they were first discovered 75 years ago. When grown, the species likely were more than 20 feet long, stretching their necks like giraffes to eat vegetation they raked in using sharp claws. They were also forerunners to the humongous four-legged, long-necked and long-tailed "sauropod" dinosaurs seen in museum displays.
At full size, an adult Lufengosaurus likely weighed almost 2 tons; two full grown skeletons were found near the eggshell site. The eggs were likely more than 3 inches long when they were flooded out of nearby nests and deposited in silt that became a layer of red sandstone less than 8 inches thick.
Thigh bones from the site show that even in the eggshell, the baby dinosaurs were growing longer and thicker rapidly. The baby Lufengosaurus grew much larger and more quickly in the egg than other kinds of dinosaurs, or than birds do today, say the study authors.
Using high-tech bone scans, the team found thickening of those baby dinosaurs thigh bones, which indicates they were flexing their muscles even in the egg, nudging bones to grow into their adult shapes. That represents the earliest known evidence for this kind of interplay between muscle and bone growth in animals. And the scans reveal signs of residue from "dinosaurian soft tissues," says the study, likely collagen in the bones.
"The eggs were likely first smothered in water and then mud, leaving the animals behind," Reisz says.


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CPTI is an international peace movement focussed on "Taxes for peace not war," seeking to direct taxes away from preparation for war and towards peace building.
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The ethical principle of freedom of conscience, a moral imperative governing the behaviour of an individual, is central to the objectives and work of CPTI.
CPTI aims to win recognition of the right to conscientious objection to paying for armaments, war preparation and war conduct through taxes.
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2016 International Peace Bureau (IPB) World Congress Held in Berlin
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New Legislation in Germany and the U.S.
In mid-March of 2011, peace tax legislation was newly proposed in Germany and the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund bill was resubmitted in the U.S. Congress. (Information on 10 nations' peace tax legislation.)
The Case of Bayatyan v. Armenia
In July 2010, CPTI joined with four other international organizations to submit an amicus brief in support of an Armenian Jehovah's Witness's complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) under Article 9, Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (new window). It would be a major breakthrough if the ECHR were, at last, to acknowledge conscientious objection to military service as a human right in line with the UN Human Rights Committee. Read the brief (new window). We eagerly await the court's decision. More.
A Persistent Voice: A Book Review by Ruth Flower
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Republic of Korea—An Historic Decision
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CPTI Documents Submitted to the UN Since 2001
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Recent submissions: Oral Statement by CPTI to the 12th Session of the Human Rights Council, 18 September 2009
UPR Submissions for Armenia, Belarus, & Turkey, May 2010.
CPTI Submission to the 96th Session of the Human Rights Committee: July 2009: Conscientious Objection to Military Service: Azerbaijan, Chad, Netherlands, United Republic of Tanzania
CPTI Submissions to the 6th Session of the UPR Working Group, December 2009: Cyprus and Eritrea
CPTI Submission to the 5th Session of the UPR Working Group, April 2009: Chile
Oral Statements by CPTI: Adoption of UPR Reports on Colombia, Israel, Turkmenistan—Human Rights Council, 19 & 20 March 2009
Joint Statement by Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers) and Conscience and Peace Tax International, Human Rights Council, 16 March 2009
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After spending a little over two months in the beta-zone, Opera for Android is now ready for prime time. The Norwegian browser maker has published the first stable version of Opera with Chromium rendering engine to the Play store.
Opera for Android is a major revamp for the popular mobile browser. Under the hood, it ditches Opera's Presto engine in favor of Google's Chromium rendering engine, which itself is based on WebKit. The biggest advantage of Opera for Android is that it supports Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and up. Chrome for Android on the other hand requires at least Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). This is crucial as almost 40% of Android users are still on Gingerbread. Opera also mentioned that it intends to "stay closely in sync with the Chromium development cycle, doing frequent updates". This might indicate that Opera intends to move away from feature driven release cycles to schedule driven rapid release cycles like that of Chrome and Firefox. Google has already announced that it will be forking WebKit to create its own rendering engine called Blink, which Opera will also be adopting.
In addition to everything that Chromium 26 supports, Opera for Android also features some additional 'standardsy goodness' like WebGL 3D context and CSS3 @supports. Another new feature is background playback support for native HTML5 audio. You can start playing a song on Soundcloud, switch to a different tab or even a different app, and the audio will continue playing. You will be able to control the playback from the notification area.
Opera for Android also features a complete revamp of the user interface, which is now more in line with Android design guidelines. It adds a new speed dial with folder support, a discover feature with latest news and updates, a combined search and address bar, and an off road mode. Off road mode is the new name for Opera Turbo, which compresses web pages to save bandwidth and improve browsing speed on slower networks. Some of the major features that didn't make it to this release include Opera Link (sync) integration, custom search provider support, and access to about://flags. Support for tablets like the Nexus 7 and the Nexus 10 is also missing.


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Taylor Lautner Gossip
Taylor Lautner gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Smutty Social Media, July 29, 2016
Yesterday I posted a Maverick throwback, and today Annabelle Wallis shared this from the set of The Mummy. We don't get a lot of Tom on social media, but do you think he secretly uses Instagram? Is that frowned upon by the organization or is he "clear" enough to be able to do it anyway? #THEMUMMY in Africa. #Namibia, you are beautiful and we are so excited to be here. Thank you for having us! @universalpictures #TomCruise @mrjakejohnson #courtneybvance #Africa photo by @cbj_photo Full Story
Smutty Social Media, June 15, 2016
"Happy Anniversary, here's a shot of you admiring me." Seriously, it's the back of his head! 2yrs. Te Amo. Dont ever change❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉 Full Story
The Ridiculous 6 premieres because there is no god
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Adam Sandler's "movie", The Ridiculous 6, premiered last night in advance of its 12/11 release on Netflix. I will be reviewing this eyeball garbage because I'm a masochist, but also because I feel you can't really sh*t on a thing until you've seen it, so I'm going to have to live this hell to determine if Sandler's string of (alleged) cinematic crimes Full Story
Taylor Lautner in Tracers
There was a moment when watching Tracers that I thought it wasn't half bad, and was sort of surprised that I wasn't outright hating it. It gets off to a slow start, but once it gets going it's kind of like if 1990s rollerblading classic Airborne and The Fast and the Furious had a parkour baby—that would be Tracers. Full Story
Taylor Lautner pod-personed Andy Samberg
Today in completely improbable news, Taylor Lautner is replacing Andy Samberg on the BBC comedy Cuckoo. Let's give that a moment to sink in: We now live in a world where Taylor Lautner is an acceptable comedic replacement for Andy Samberg. Cuckoo is about a British girl who marries a hippy-dippy American during her gap year and takes him home to her uptight British family. Full Story
Tom Cruise Jr still has a girlfriend
You know how bad sh-t puts bad sh-t into perspective? Twilight 5 was on the other night. Not the greatest movie. But now that I've seen The Sound Of Music Live, well, suddenly Twilight not such an abomination. Now that I've cringed through Stephen Moyer, Taylor Lautner's lookin' pretty good. Full Story
Tom Cruise Jr and the older woman
Taylor Lautner has been shooting a movie called Tracers in NYC. His co-star is a Canadian actress called Marie Avgeropoulos. Apparently the two are dating now as they've been seen, and papped, off-set holding hands. Taylor is 21 years old. Marie just turned 27. So Tom Cruise Jr is with an older woman, just like Tom Cruise was early in his career. Full Story
Bike Boy & Skater Girl
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First reaction seeing these shots of Taylor Lautner on set today in New York: I thought they already made this movie...? It was the one with Lily Collins. Didn't see it but the trailer showed him on the run all the time and super intense about his identity -- one of the reasons I call him Tom Cruise Jr. Full Story
Flesh Friday: Bears VS Twinks
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Two very different types of stars, two very different body types. Today we're kicking off the weekend by taking off the shirts of Michael Phelps and Taylor Lautner. Ok yes, some of the Taylor pics below are of a wax figure, but we've included the real thing for your pleasure and to illustrate the point that when it comes to body hair, variety is the spice of life. Full Story
Dusk Falls on Twilight
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Does that even make sense? I don't know. But I'm running out of times of day. And moon phases. Waning Gibbous on Twilight didn't sound so good. Anyway, the MTV Movie Award nominations were announced yesterday. Mega Twi-Hard anxiety ensued because Twilight, which has dominated this event for the last few years, only received one nomination… and not even the most important one: Best Kiss. Full Story
There will be a "young Han Solo" movie
All your nightmares are coming true. In a move that surprised no one, Disney chief Bob Iger announced that not only are they continuing Star Wars with Episode VII, but they'll also make spin-off films of popular characters. EW is reporting that two of the projects are centered on the origin story of Han Solo and a "bounty hunter adventure" starring Boba Fett (the guy who hands Han over to Jabba the Hutt at the end of Empire Strikes Back). Full Story


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Movie Review
Man of Steel
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, action and destruction, and for some language. Two hours, 23 minutes.
Publication date: Jun. 14, 2013
Review by Tyler Hanley
Released: (2013)
Though Superman's faster than a speeding bullet, "Man of Steel" lags behind Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, Joss Whedon's "The Avengers" (2012) and several others (Jon Favreau's "Iron Man" and Tim Burton's "Batman" come to mind) in the growing library of superhero cinema.
Even those who have never touched a comic book likely know Superman's origin by now. Kal-El, the last son of the dying planet Krypton, is shipped off to Earth where his spaceship crashes near the Kansas farm of Jonathan and Martha Kent (Kevin Costner and Diane Lane, smartly cast). The Kents name the boy Clark and raise him as their own, concerned about his powerful abilities but encouraged by his altruistic behavior. When Clark reaches adulthood, he dons the cape and costume of Superman, always striving to protect the citizens of his adopted home-world.
Ironically, British actor Henry Cavill ("Immortals," Showtime's "The Tudors") takes the reigns as the iconic American superhero. "Man of Steel" steers away from over-trod territory, focusing more on Superman's Kryptonian roots. A nomadic Clark Kent (Cavill) learns about his alien ancestry and discovers an avatar of his father (Russell Crowe as Jor-El) while working on a military project (don't ask). Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane (Amy Adams) is along for the ride, but exiled Kryptonian soldier General Zod (Michael Shannon) and his violent cohorts are planning a full-blown attack on Earth, which might throw a wrench into Clark's whole genealogy thing.
Snyder and his filmmaking team present Superman's origin in periodic flashbacks, which break the flow but protect the audience from unnecessary backstory. Fans of "Superman" (1978) and "Superman II" (1980) will spot some plot similarities in "Man of Steel," though visual effects have improved by leaps and bounds since Christopher Reeve sported the red-and-blue unitard. In fact, the effects are stunning and finally offer filmgoers a chance to see Superman's powers in all their glory (don't bother shelling out for the lackluster 3D).
The design team deserves a wealth of credit for the excellent costuming and set pieces, which showcase Krypton beautifully. But the conflagration of action and visual effects, especially in the film's final act, lead to a sensory overload (Advil, anyone?). The wanton destruction that takes place during the picture's big-budget action scenes is dizzying even the Incredible Hulk would say "enough's enough" and the filmmakers may have been better served prioritizing story over visuals rather than vice versa.
Cavill holds his own in an uber-high-profile role, backed capably by veteran actors Costner, Crowe, Lane and Laurence Fishburne (as Daily Planet editor Perry White). Adams portrays Lois Lane with just the right balance of gumption and grit. Unfortunately, the chemistry with Cavill is less engaging.
Crowe is terrific as Jor-El, playing the part of a warrior-scientist hybrid; and while Shannon gives Zod an intimidating tenacity, his performance doesn't compare to the psychotic calm Terrence Stamp brought to the part in "Superman II."
DC still has much to learn from Marvel in the filmmaking realm (a post-credits scene or cameo by Christian Bale would have been nice additions), but "Man of Steel" at least offers hope. Hope, and a slight headache.
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Christopher Sieber wants to hear boos on Broadway
NEW YORK (AP) -- When you suddenly need a Broadway leading man, who can you call? What about if you have to have someone at a moment's notice to do demanding physical comedy?
It turns out that, at 6-foot-3 and with both matinee idol looks and an ability to absorb a script quickly, Christopher Sieber is a go-to for theater producers, his phone number a must-have.
Sieber has jumped into some big musicals with only a few days' notice. With him, you're guaranteed the show will go on -- even if he's sucking down oxygen backstage.
"A day and I'm off-book. I'm ready to go," he says. "I'm that fast. I'm crazy."
The two-time Tony nominee and "Spamalot" star jumped into "La Cage aux Folles" in 2011 as Georges when Jeffrey Tambor withdrew. When the show went on tour, he switched to playing Albin and his high-kicking onstage drag persona, Zaza.
In "Shrek the Musical" as Lord Farquaad, Sieber spent nearly two years on his knees with a set of puppet legs in front of him. "I only do shows that apparently hurt me," he says.
So when two big, complicated Broadway shows needed someone quickly this spring, they turned to Sieber. He replaced Terrence Mann in "Pippin" without an audition or even having seen the show.
"They were like, 'So can you juggle?' I was like, 'No!' They were like, 'Can you ride a unicycle?' I was like, 'Ha, ha, no!' They asked me 'Can you throw knives?' I was like, 'I will learn.' And I did."
Now he has stepped in as the new child-hurling Miss Trunchbull in "Matilda the Musical." He wears a fat-suit with a vest underneath packed with frozen gel to keep him cool. He leaps and jumps on a trampoline. In other words, it's a perfect Sieber role.
At one point last week, Sieber had to pinch himself: The stage manager at "Matilda" asked him what his show schedule was like at "Pippin" so they could work rehearsals around it.
As a kid growing up in Minnesota, he dreamed of one day just getting on Broadway. Now he had two at the same time. "This never happens! How fabulous was that?"
Sieber did suffer a bit of a setback. While rehearsing "Matilda" in a gym, he broke his hand on a vault, delaying his opening. Desperate to heal quicker, he went to Chinatown and got an herbal bone-knitting formula. "It comes in these little bonbons and it tastes a little like bile. It's horrible," he says. "Three weeks later, I went to the doctor and he said, 'You're healed.'"
Sieber took time before a recent safety check at the Shubert Theatre to talk about his skills, the role that made him pass out and his take on Miss Trunchbull.
AP: You've gotten quite a reputation as the guy to call when someone needs a multitalented performer immediately.
Sieber: It's a good and bad thing. It's a great thing because people are like, 'Oh, you know who can go really quickly and do it really well? Christopher Sieber.' But the other side is, 'Oh my God! I have to go in a show in four or five days?' It's a good reputation to have but it also gets dangerous.
AP: What is it like to go into shows so quickly?
Sieber: You don't have time to cry. You don't have time to think about anything. You just have to make sure you're out of the way of other people. I don't want to be that guy who inconveniences everybody and is the pain in the butt.
AP: Was that your most demanding show?
Sieber: As far as the most dangerous show, and most exhausting show, and most physically demanding show? Playing Albin and Zaza in 'La Cage Aux Folles' is quite possibly the most difficult part I've ever played. It's 3 1/2 hours of nonstop.
AP: How bad did it get?
Sieber: A year into it, I actually asked the producers, 'Give me bottles of oxygen.' I was so exhausted my body wasn't able to handle it. I passed out twice in Dallas. I was singing 'I Am What I Am' at the top of my lungs when I passed out onstage. I had to get in an ambulance.
AP: Wow. Are you sure you want to keep doing this?
Sieber: I can't stop! I'm the guy! It's like, 'Get him! He'll hurt himself.' But you know what? Comedy hurts sometime.
AP: Is your Miss Trunchbull going to be different?
Sieber: Yes, I think it is. I think I'm scarier than any of the other Trunchbulls because I'm not playing this for laughs at all. I could take this part a whole other way. But I think it's much more interesting to make her scary. She's a horrible person. Let's make her horrible.
AP: Is it fun being that mean?
Sieber: So much fun. When I go up the aisles, I see the audience lean away from me, like, 'Don't touch me!' I love it! They're like, 'You're horrible!' I'm like, 'Thank you!' One day when I come out for my curtain call and the entire audience boos, then I've made it.
Online: http://www.matildathemusical.com
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Marriage is considered an important turning point in one's life. Every young girl or boy looks forward to meeting the person of her or his dreams. A good mate is a major goal in life and young people are almost "indoctrinated" with the importance of finding one, which is certainly a natural wish. However, relations between man and woman are fundamentally based on unsound grounds in ignorant societies, namely societies in which people do not accept the Qur'anic way of life: "friendships" are solely romantic relationships in which both sexes seek emotional satisfaction. Yet, marriages are usually based on mutual material benefits. Many women try to find a "prosperous man" in expectation of a high standard of living. For such a purpose, a young girl may easily accept to be the life-long spouse of someone for whom she has no affection. On the other hand, what a man seeks in a woman is very often "good looks".
Yet the rationale behind the viewpoint of an ignorant society neglects a crucial fact: all these materialistic values are eventually doomed to perish; Allah can take back the fortune of a man in a moment. Similarly, it takes but a few seconds to lose good looks; as city dwellers, for instance, our daily commuting to and from work can at any time be thwarted by an accident that may leave hideous and permanent scars on the face. Time, meanwhile, deals irrecoverable damage to our health, strength and beauty. Under such unpredictable conditions, what consequences are there in a system based on purely materialistic values? For instance, think of a man who only marries a woman because he is impressed by her good looks. What would he think if her face is badly injured in an accident? Would he leave her when wrinkles start to appear on her face? The answers no doubt reveal the unreasonable basis of materialistic thinking.
A marriage becomes precious when it is intended purely to obtain the good pleasure of Allah. Otherwise, it becomes a burden both in this world and the next. If not in this world, man will ultimately understand in the hereafter that this is an improper way for the human soul. Yet, this will be too late; on the day of judgement, he would hold his wife, to whom he felt so close in this world, a ransom for his own salvation. The terror of that day will render all relations in this world meaningless. Allah gives a detailed account of the relationships between immediate family members on the day of judgement in the following verse:
Though they will be put in sight of each other, the wrongdoer's desire will be: would that he could redeem himself from the penalty of that Day by (sacrificing) his children, wife and his brother, kindred who sheltered him... (Surat al-Ma'arij: 11-13)
It is evident from the verses that people will no longer attach any importance to women, friends, brothers or sisters on the day of judgement. In their desperate efforts to be saved, everybody will be willing to pay their immediate family or relatives as a ransom for their own personal salvation. Furthermore, these people will curse each other since they never warned each other against such a terrible end. In the Qur'an, the case of Abu Lahab who deserved eternal punishment in hell and his wife is recounted:
The power of Abu Lahab will perish, and he will perish. His wealth and gains will not exempt him. He will be plunged in flaming fire, and his wife, the wood-carrier, will have upon her neck a halter of palm-fibre. (Surat al-Masad: 1-5)
The type of marriage acceptable in the presence of Allah is, however, based on totally different criteria. Contrary to the marriages common in an ignorant society, where people are heedless about earning the good pleasure of Allah, the criteria is not money, fame or beauty but a marriage intended to gain His good pleasure. For believers, the only criterion is taqwa, in other words, 'the avoidance of all that is prohibited, the fulfilment of all that is commanded, and the fear of Allah. Consequently, a believer can only marry someone who displays a deep loyalty to Allah. People find peace and happiness in this marriage. The relevant verse follows:
And among His Signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves, that you may dwell in tranquillity with them, and He has put love and mercy between your (hearts): verily in that are Signs for those who reflect. (Surat ar-Rum: 21)
Taqwa being the sole bond, believers will surely meet a pleasant life in the Hereafter. As they remind each other righteousness and guide one another to the paradise all through their lives, they will also remain close friends for all eternity. Their relations are described as follows:
The believers, men and women, are protectors one of another: they enjoin what is just, and forbid what is evil: they observe regular prayers, practice regular charity, and obey Allah and His messenger. On them will Allah pour His mercy: for Allah is exalted in power, Wise. (Surat at-Tawbah: 71)2009-07-21 20:46:38


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Hi, I'm currently working with a custom scheduler in linux kernel 126.96.36.199. Or actually I'm porting a scheduler I all ready made in Solaris, anyway in sched.c in the schedule() function, I need to determine if a task is a real-time task or not, what is the best way to do this? Do real-time tasks got any flag set that I can check?
Also a question about jiffies, how many ns is a jiffy?
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How much of your scarce, precious internal memory will the new WiiWare games take up? About thiiiiiiiiisssss much. Oh, can't see my "one that got away" fishing-arms size comparison? Then consult this handy chart, put together by the Virtual Console Database, which will tell you exactly how many memory blocks the first round of WiiWare titles will consume. Bear in mind while calculating that your Wii's got a total of 2163 blocks, but then keep on bearing and remember that if even if you've got just a few extra channels and only a Virtual Console game or two, your free space is going to be a lot less than 2163.
Defend Your Castle: 121 blocks [121 needed]
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King: 287 blocks [287 needed]
LostWinds: 258 blocks (1 save block) [259 needed]
Pop: 110 blocks (2 save blocks) [110 needed]
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The Summer Tanager is a medium-sized songbird that may be a relative to cardinals. Their preferred breeding habitats include open but wooded areas, including oak forests throughout the United States. During winter months, the Summer Tanager migrates south to Mexico, Central America and northern South America. This bird is rarely seen in Western Europe as well. Food is foraged high in the trees, and insects are also caught in-flight. Diets may also include bees, wasps and berries. Nests are built in a cup shape on horizontal tree branches. The conservation rating for the Summer Tanager is Least Concern.
Summer Tanager: Large tanager, dark-red overall with a large, pale gray bill. Legs and feet are gray. It is the only entirely red bird in North America. Female has olive-yellow upperparts and dull yellow underparts. Some red morph females have a red wash, red splotches, or are entirely red. It specializes in eating bees and wasps, which is why it is also known as the bee bird. Swift direct flight with quick wing strokes.
Summer Tanager: Breeds from southern California, Nevada, southern Iowa, across the Ohio River Valley to New Jersey, and south to the Gulf Coast and northern Mexico. Spends winters in tropics, from central Mexico south. Prefers open oak, hickory, and mixed oak-pine woodlands; also found in parks, orchards, and along roadsides.
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Tanagers (Thraupidae)
The tanagers are one of the one hundred eighteen families of birds in the order PASSERIFORMES (pronounced pas-ser-i-FOR-meez); a large taxonomic order that also includes the cardinals and grosbeaks, the Old World orioles, and the New World blackbirds.
The tanager family, Thraupidae (pronounced THRAU-pih-dee), is a large family composed of three hundred and ninety-six species in one hundred and two genera restricted to the Americas.
There are seventy species of Thraupidae in twenty-four genera that occur in North America. Included among these species are the Scarlet Tanager, bush-tanagers, and the spindalis species of the Caribbean.
The Scarlet Tanager, like many members of this family, is known for its brightly colored plumage. Vivid red and black, this bird shines like a red light against the green foliage.
The tanagers are small to medium-sized birds with medium length tails, fairly long wings, medium length legs with strong feet, and medium length fairly stout bills.
The tanager family is among the most brightly colored family of birds in the world. Just about every shade of color imaginable is shown by this family, especially in the glittering plumages of Tangara genus species in South America. The plumages of North American species are mostly red, yellow, and black, the females with duller yellow-olive coloration.
In North America, members of the Thraupidae occur in forested areas from southern Canada south into Mexico. In the United States and Canada, the Scarlet Tanager occurs in eastern deciduous forests and is mostly replaced by the Summer Tanager in the southeast and the Western Tanager in western coniferous forests. The Hepatic Tanager also occurs in southwestern coniferous forests, other tanager species in the United States being vagrants or introduced.
A few tanager species in North America are long distance migrants to Central and South America.
The North American tanager species are solitary birds on their breeding grounds, but often migrate in flocks and join mixed flocks on their tropical wintering grounds. Most species are arboreal birds that often occur high up in the canopy where they slowly forage for invertebrates and also take fruit.
The North American members of this family are not threatened, although a few species in South America are threatened by habitat destruction.
The Summer Tanager eats a great deal of bees, often taking them right from their nests without too much apparent discomfort from their stings. Although the stings may not bother it too much, the Summer Tanager does not enjoy eating the stingers because it is often seen rubbing the stinger off on a branch before swallowing the bee.
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Gene hunters fine-tune marker for common obesity gene
Genomics researchers, seeking to replicate another group's discovery of an important gene associated with obesity, have further refined the signal to a particular variant in DNA that may be more helpful in identifying this gene's role in obesity in various human populations worldwide. The finding suggests that the gene variant, identified in DNA from African American children, may be a tag of an ancient mutation that first arose in Africa, where humans originated.
The research team, led by Struan Grant, Ph.D., and Hakon Hakonarson, M.D., Ph.D., both of the Center for Applied Genomics of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, was studying the FTO gene, identified by a British group in 2007 as raising the risk of adult and childhood obesity. Although environmental influences are certainly important, family studies have indicated that obesity has a genetic component as well.
The research team, from Children's Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, reported its findings in the March 12 issue of the journal Public Library of Science One.
The 2007 British group had originally found the FTO gene variant among obese Caucasians. Using samples from Caucasian and African American children, who were either obese or not, the Children's Hospital group used a genetic screening technique to replicate the previous finding. They found the same gene variant among Caucasian children, but not among the African American children.
Instead, a second variant, found in both Caucasians and African Americans, was the only marker significantly linked to obesity among the African American children. Both variants were changes to a single chemical base along the DNA strand, which geneticists call single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs.
For genomics researchers, said Grant, the findings mean that if other investigators look only for the first SNP in subjects with African ancestry, they would find no association with obesity. The second SNP may have deep roots in evolutionary history. Scientists have multiple lines of evidence indicating that humans originated in Africa, and this SNP may be related to an original mutation in the distant past that initiated a human predisposition to obesity.
The fact that mutations in the FTO gene carry a comparable risk of obesity in both children and adults, said Grant, suggests that the gene may be primarily associated with obesity that begins in childhood. Future medical treatments may benefit patients by targeting the FTO gene pathway, added Grant, although such treatments await a better understanding of the underlying biology of obesity.
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Abstract: The article analyses how government spending is determined under different exchange rate regimes in the context of a small open economy. Assuming nominal wage contracts which last for one period and assuming a benevolent government which determines government spending to optimise a representative individual's utility, it is demonstrated that there are differences between exchange rate regimes with respect to the level of government spending. These differences arise first because a rise in government spending affects macroeconomic variables differently under different exchange rate regimes, and second because the government's inclination to expand government spending is affected by inflation which depends on the exchange rate regime. At low rates of inflation, the government is inclined to set a higher level of government spending under a fixed exchange rate regime than under a floating exchange rate regime in which the monetary authority optimises preferences which include an employment target and an inflation target. As government spending affects the representative individual's utility, the choice of exchange rate regime has an impact on welfare. Keywords: exchange rate regimes; fiscal policy; monetary union; inflation targeting. JEL classicification: E42, E61, E62, F33. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7140
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Ukrainian sand animation artist Ksenya Simonova, who came to fame in her country via an American Idol styled TV show, has been taking her country by storm -- even moving people to tears -- with her unique handmade sand art, which she creates live as a kind of requiem to those who died during the Great Patriotic War. As in the video clip above, her real time public performances of sand animation are typically made up of Simonova swiftly hand crafting various war images, quickly morphing from one tragic image to the next, all to the accompaniment of a somber soundtrack of classical & traditional music plus soundbites of wartime news footage.
Working with a mixture of regular sea sand and volcanic sand, all spread out on a glass pane as canvas, Simonova uses her hands to craft her engaging moving stories. At the end of each dramatic live art performance consisting of tales of death and destruction she blows out a votive candle. Usually at this point audience members are seen tearing up. Surprisingly, Simonova, who is also a part time model, only took up the unusual art form (she is only one of a handful of such artists -- the others are from an older generation) just one year ago after becoming a victim of the credit crunch. Reportedly her next project will be a Michael Jackson themed live art installation piece.


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Max has a simple built-in text editor object that can display and edit text in conjunction with your object.
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When the editor window is about to be closed, your object could receive as many as three messages. The first one, okclose, will be sent if the user has changed the text in the window. This is the standard okclose message that is sent to all "dirty" windows when they are about to be closed, but the text editor window object passes it on to you instead of doing anything itself. Refer to the section on Window Messages for a description of how to write a method for the okclose message. It's not required that you write one—if you don't, the behavior of the window will be determined by the setting of the window's w_scratch bit. If it's set, no confirmation will be asked when a dirty window is closed (and no okclose message will be sent to the text editor either). The second message, edclose, requires a method that should be added to your object at initialization time. The third message, edSave, allows you to gain access to the text before it is saved, or save it yourself.


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There's an ideology that runs likes blood in the veins of DIY punk culture that goes something like this: write a song, play it, record it, put it out, repeat. With bands that follow these five simple rules there are no gestation periods or PR strategies; there's no faffing around, defining a sound, whatever that means. There's just a series of honest statements that say, 'This is what our band sounds like right now – buy it, steal it, ignore it, whatever'.
For Wooderson (put the terms 'DIY', 'punk' and 'Sheffield' into Google and you'll spot them in the first result) these statements have been made sporadically over the last four-or-so years, in the form of 7-inches, split singles, EPs and demo upon demo upon demo. If they'd wanted to, they could have made half a dozen albums by now, but they haven't. Let The Man Speak is only their debut LP, and by releasing it now, almost half a decade into their career, they're having their cake and eating it.
You can't question the band's DIY ethos – the endless gigging speaks for itself, as does the constant stream of recorded material, all of which was available online until fairly recently. Even this album, which comes accompanied with a press release (sell outs!), was largely recorded at Wooderson's rehearsal space in Sheffield, run by the Audacious Art Experiment DIY collective, and it's being put out by a two unashamedly DIY labels.
And yet the fact that it's taken them this long to make Let The Man Speak shows some real business savvy. Because Wooderson could easily have let DIY dogmatism lead them into a trap early on, where they'd have written ten songs, played them, recorded them, put them out… and that would have been it. Debut album done.
But they didn't do that, and thank God, because that debut album wouldn't have been anywhere near as good as this one. You can hear the core components of Let The Man Speak in 'Safeguard', the first song Wooderson ever recorded – the deadpan vocals, the snotty stop-starts, the decadent discord and the fanatical Fugazi-isms. But now, more than four years on, Wooderson have taken all of that and made it much, much better.
Opener 'Deluxe', for example, is a post-punk party anthem, with chiming chords that transcend the sweaty severity with which they're played. It isn't just an outward expression of anger – it's more cathartic than that, turning aggressive energy into something wildly upbeat and fun to have around, instead of sounding bitter and introverted. It's followed by 'Janet Bruce' which, similarly, has a vicious temper in its stuttering bassline that springs into life with an ecstatic proto-punk chorus.
Later, 'Cardinal' reeks of War All The Time-era Thursday, with its glum harmonies and stark arpeggios, but Wooderson replace all of that album's adolescent melodrama with stabs of guitar that stick out at all angles and delirious gang vocals. The lyrics to 'Sleepwalking', meanwhile, sound like they were written with an exclamation mark at the end of every line, judging by the way they're so animatedly thrown out over a jutting, cyclical riff and blasts of brittle discord. 'Mint Condition' is sleeker, with guitars that slip and slide rather than chop and change, but there's the same attacking spirit in the vocals. Strangely though, it's the raucous rockabilly of closer 'Let The Man Speak' that finds two of Wooderson's three singers sounding their most violent, with cold, distant, chants in the verses followed by snake-like rasps, gasps and whispers.
What Let The Man Speak isn't is an album of unwieldy aggression bundled together in the name of keeping the DIY punk spirit alive. It's far more sophisticated than that, with its cleverly overlapping vocals and riffs far sharper and smarter than your bog-standard three-chord punk, under-pinned by a relentless, uncompromising energy. It's hard to imagine that Wooderson could have hurried out an album this strong when they first started, so it's a good job they didn't try to. They've bided their time, become a better band and made a debut record they can be very, very proud of.
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When Joanna Krawczyk of Biglerville ran for Pennsylvania Apple Queen in 2012, she said she was nervous.
"I was scared to death of public speaking," the 18-year-old explained to the Gettysburg Times.
But after winning the 2012 contest, she has spoken to countless Pennsylvanians about Adams County's top agricultural industry — and feels she is the better for it.
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"I don't think it's anything I'll be able to replicate," she said last week. "It's one of the best decisions I've ever made."
A senior at Biglerville High School, Krawczyk will hand her crown to the 2013 Pennsylvania Apple Queen at the Apple Blossom Festival on May 5. But until then, she is reflective of her time advocating for apples.
"It's sad that it's almost over," said Krawczyk.
Like many Apple Queens before her, Krawczyk hails from Biglerville, where apples adorn light poles and spill out of market bins and orchards line the roadways.
Her father is an entomologist at the Penn State Fruit Lab, and she has worked at Adams County Nursery and at Hollabaugh Brothers Inc.
"It just sort of draws you in," she acknowledged.
That experience, said Pennsylvania Apple Queen Coordinator Sandy Kime, is what has made Krawczyk a valuable resource for the apple industry over the past year.
"She did a great job," said Kime. "She's very knowledgeable about the industry. She never once had an apple question that she could not answer."
Krawczyk is the 27th Apple Queen Kime has guided. Kime has been involved with the Pennsylvania Apple Queen program for nearly 30 years.
Throughout the year, according to Kime, Krawczyk has participated in approximately 25 different promotions, including the Pennsylvania Farm Show, the Apple Harvest Festival, Pippinfest, and Apple Crunch Week.
According to Krawczyk, the week involved traveling to schools both in Adams County and Mechanicsburg to hand out apples, encourage reading, and talk to kids about apples.
"Apple Crunch Week was a big thing," she said.
With healthy eating becoming more important, Krawczyk said people often ask her why apples they are encountering aren't organic.
"The answer is kid of really complicated," she said. She continued on to explain many Adams County growers use integrated pest management, and that organic is expensive and difficult to sustain for smaller operations.
"You're expected to know your apples," she explained.
Krawczyk said she ran for Pennsylvania Apple Queen to educate neighbors about apples.
"A lot of people, even though they live in Biglerville, don't realize a lot of the extent of the industry," she said. Plus, "little girls also love seeing big girls in a tiara."
In addition to spending time as Pennsylvania Apple Queen encouraging local shopping and healthy eating, Krawczyk has kept busy as a high school senior.
With past experience playing soccer and running cross country, she has also been a sports manager for high school teams, though she wasn't able to participate in 2012 because of her duties.
"A lot of the heavy apple time is in the fall," she explained.
Additionally, she is involved in yearbook, drama club, knitting club, National Honor Society, student council and concert band.
"I don't like not having anything to do," she said.
And although she's very modest about her achievements, Kime reported Thursday that Krawczyk has been named Biglerville's Class of 2013 valedictorian.
After next week's Apple Blossom Festival, Krawczyk will spend her summer working at Hollabaugh Brothers before moving on to the University of Pennsylvania, where she plans to major in biology as part of a pre-med program.
Her advice for young women who may be thinking about running for Pennsylvania Apple Queen in the future?
"Go for it!" she said. "If you have an opportunity like that you definitely shouldn't pass it up."


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- Failure to pass gun background checks one of the most disappointing things in Senate career
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WASHINGTON — The 20 women in the Senate had plans to get together for dinner Tuesday, at Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's house. Then President Obama called and asked them to come over to his place instead.
"I hope he has a chance to get a word in edgewise," Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said. "We'll have a lot to say."
Obama has hosted one dinner with a small group of Republican senators and another of Democratic ones in an effort to forge closer ties in Congress as he pushes his second-term agenda. Now he is joining one of the few enduring bipartisan conclaves on Capitol Hill, the regular dinner series held by the growing number of female members of the Senate. On the agenda: trying to reach a compromise budget deal and the prospects for passing a comprehensive immigration bill this year.
Klobuchar, interviewed for the USA TODAY video series "Capital Download," rejected the suggestion by some Republican senators that the Boston Marathon bombing — thought to be the work of two Chechen immigrants — was a reason to reconsider an immigration overhaul. "I don't think it's a reason to slow it down," she said. "I think it's actually a reason to make reforms," underscoring the need to more closely track "who gets in here and how they get in and who they are."
Those urging a slowdown "were going to oppose the immigration bill anyway, is my guess."
She said the odds of passing an immigration overhaul "are incredibly high" in the wake of a proposal unveiled last week by the so-called Gang of Eight, four Republican and four Democratic senators. But hopes for passing a gun-control bill have faded, especially after supporters last week couldn't muster the 60 votes necessary for a bipartisan plan sponsored by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., to expand background checks of gun buyers.
"One of the most disappointing things for me, really, since I've been in the Senate was when Sen. Manchin and Sen. Toomey put themselves on the line, were able to broach this compromise and bring people together — that that failed," she said.
A USA TODAY Poll published Tuesday found support for passing a gun-control bill has ebbed a bit, to 49%-45%, four months after the shooting rampage at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., fueled calls for action.
"This has gone on through history, where an incident happens that's very tragic and then people get focused on it and the next thing you know, you have Boston and people focused on that," Klobuchar said. "This year may be hard, but the American people are mad about this."
Klobuchar had kind words for former comedian Al Franken, the junior senator from Minnesota and a fellow Democrat who was elected in 2008 by a margin of 312 votes. He is running for re-election in 2014.
"He would like to more than double his margin, that's his goal," Klobuchar joked, then added, "He's clearly done a good job in the Senate. He's put his head down and worked. People thought, 'Oh, his former life on Saturday Night LIve, is he going to just be a laugh riot and come over and be a celebrity?' That just hasn't been the case at all. He's put Minnesota first and done his work."
Klobuchar, a two-term senator who turns 53 on Thursday, dodged a question about whether she was interesting in running for president. "I love my job right now," she said. "This is what I'm doing." She noted that Minnesota's tradition, including Walter Mondale and Hubert Humphrey, was to be elected for the No. 2 job.
"In fact, the joke is that in Minnesota, new moms bounce their babies on their knees and say, 'One day, you can grow up to be vice president.'"


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