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I found this book at a garage sale one day but its all Japanesse. I was wondering if anyone here has seen an english version of it? http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j35/jejex1/Book.jpg
The person on the cover kind of reminds me of one in Samurai Deeper Kyo... Dewa Mata,Niji-Hana OTAKU NINJA"If you listen to the world, you'll hear all kinds of false claims about morality. But the gospel offers an unchanging standard of truth." </

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Schalk Burger's growth as a leader bodes well for the Boks in a World Cup year.
Burger has led the Stormers and WP to three play-offs in the space of two seasons, and the fact that the Cape-based team hasn't won a championship trophy is no indictment on his leadership ability.
In the new issue of SA Rugby magazine, on sale Wednesday, former Bok captain Corné Krige says Burger is the right man to take the franchise forward, and that his burgeoning leadership skills will be a boon to the Boks.
'I had my doubts initially about Schalk as a captain because I thought he didn't want it enough, but he's proved me wrong with some passionate and determined performances,' says Krige. 'He leads by example which is exactly what a captain needs to do. It's a pity he never got the chance to carry that form through to the Tri-Nations because he would have added value to the Boks' leadership core.
Burger also talks about his leadership style and development, and looks ahead to his third World Cup campaign.
Also in the new issue:
– Why South Africa's top Super Rugby franchises fell short this season
– The new Super Rugby format took its toll on players and spectators
– Heyneke Meyer on how Super Rugby will shorten players' careers, why he believes the Boks have a good chance of defending the World Cup, and whether he will apply for the Bok job
– The Tri-Nations changed the face of southern hemisphere rugby
– Frans Steyn has grown up as a player and a person during his time with Racing Métro
– Are the players, the referees or the impractical laws to blame for the profound mess at the scrum? SA Rugby magazine's panel of experts identifies the problems and offers possible solutions
– The Baby Boks couldn't handle the pressure at this year's Junior World Championship
– Griquas scrumhalf Sarel Pretorius on his move to the Waratahs, being snubbed by the Springboks and why the Currie Cup format should stay the same
– Frédéric Michalak has rekindled his relationship with the Sharks
– Schoolboy rugby players who take performance-enhancing drugs are playing a dangerous game
– South African-born Saracens lock Mouritz Botha has set his sights on playing Test rugby for England
– Kings coach Alan Solomons on winning the Nations Cup, their latest signings, and why they don't want to play in a European club competition
– Butch James tells his funniest tour tale
– Free double-sided poster of Schalk Burger and Frans Steyn
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26 Jul 2011, 11:15 amHonestly, I would have prefered JDV or Bekker is Captain than Schalk
26 Jul 2011, 11:35 am@XhosaKid(XhosaKid)-51: I say Jacques Fourie. He already runs defence in the backline which is one of the strongest part of the Stormers game.
26 Jul 2011, 11:48 am@Lazer(Lazer)-31: please NOT Jean Div he is a D. oos just ask the players no respect …. some of them do not even talk to him
26 Jul 2011, 12:05 pmThe next Bok captain will depends on who replaces Snorre. If it is Allistair Coetzee, Schalk or Jean will be the captain. Juan Smith will be a better choice (imo) but then, his injuries is a mayor concern. Not one of them will make RWC 2015.
Don't forget that Chilliboy is seen by rugby adminastrators (hidden politicians) as a future captain. At least we will have a better hooker than Barney.
26 Jul 2011, 12:12 pm@Divz(Divz)-53:
really? or are making things up, stretching the truth? -
26 Jul 2011, 12:16 pm@Tjokker(Tjokker)-54: How about someone like Andries Bekker as captain?My guess is they will go with one of the frat boys in Hargreaves.
26 Jul 2011, 12:48 pm@ruan has told his dad that he is busy building a legend…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-55: I know some of the stormers its the inside word. He apparently shines for cameras and chicks and becomes a real pri..ck when he is with the team. Dissing the jnr guys in the team in front of everyone is a favourite.
26 Jul 2011, 13:06 pmHe leads very well by example, but his decision making in the pressure situations leaves much to be desired
26 Jul 2011, 13:17 pmHe does not read game situations well.
Nothing wrong with his work ethic.
26 Jul 2011, 13:22 pm@Divz(Divz)-57:
did not know that. -
26 Jul 2011, 13:45 pm@PissAnt(PissAnt)-59: Agree, he has one of the highest workrates in world rugby
26 Jul 2011, 14:38 pmBurger is a sadomasichistic lunatic who is dirty as hell. I'd rather have Juan Smith as captain if he is fit to play that is. We must be the only team that has such a crisis at captain. Jeez doesn't SA produces any leaders anymore? PdV has turned the Boks into a bunch of braindead fckwits! We need a captain who can actually play and a fcking game plan! How hard can it be?! Even Scotland and Italy possess these key aspects!!
26 Jul 2011, 14:58 pmMust say was pleasantly suprised with Burger's leadership this year, Next season with victor and John gone, really only leaves stormers and cheetahs to come up with someone. Lions??
26 Jul 2011, 15:25 pmDisregarding ALL the C R A P you wrote there, bar one, allow me just a question or two wrt one aspect.
Is it the smallest of the 8 wrist bones, the itsy bitsy Pisiform, that he needed his effin arm in a cast for? I guess we should consider ourselves so lucky he did not put his upper body in a cast.
What needs to be in a cast is his teeny peanut sized 'brain'. -
26 Jul 2011, 16:35 pmRSA… WP… do not deserve Schalk… yet he doesn't give a fark about their fair-weathered fans… he's a straight A student, comes from an awesomely successful family… has a degree in Viticulture… is earning a mint playing the 'sport' he loves… and is dominating on the world stage according to his international peers..
And when it's all over will go back to making some of the most progressive Wines to come out of 'boring' Old World RSA wines…
26 Jul 2011, 16:44 pm@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-65: hahahahaha
26 Jul 2011, 18:28 pm@grant10(grant10)-2: Steyn isn't the problem, he has shown his team can play running rugby with him at 10 for years.
The problem is the guy he gives the ball to – Wynand Olivier, this player runs into brick walls rarely passing before contact and when he does it's often a poorly timed pass which creates nothing. Bok backline moves die with him.
At Super level it works because he gets over the gainline, at test level he gets nowhere.
26 Jul 2011, 21:35 pm@ruan has told his dad that he is busy building a legend…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-55:
That's nonsense. I saw a Stormers group at dinner at Hudson's in CT a week before the S15 semi. Mostly younger players like Koster, Flo and Deon Fourie. Jean DV joined them and was warmly welcomed by all. You could see he was one of them. -
27 Jul 2011, 04:40 amOk I'm going to put it out there.
Francois Steyn at 10. Pat Lambie at 15. Steyn does everything in general play as well as Lambie if not better, plus he can kick the ball a hell of a lot further then Lambie, and is a lot more physical on defense in that 10-12 channel. His drawbacks, he sometimes has brain explosions… but he's been getting experience playing inside backs at Racing Metro.
I have favored Butch, and still do slightly depending on how he goes in the Tri Nations tests at home. But next year I really think our best option would be a combination of Pienaar & F Steyn as halfbacks, with Lambie at fullback where he can be brought into the line rather then being required to run the ship. Lambie will also probably spend the entire Super rugby campain next year at 15 while Steyn plays 10 & 12 at Racing.
2012 Bok backline that I'd love to see. 9 Ruan Pienaar 10 Francois Steyn 11 Bryan Habana (until someone good who can also tackle comes along) 12 Juan de Jongh 13 Johann Sadie 14 JP Pietersen 15 Pat Lambie.
27 Jul 2011, 04:55 amJa plain rubbish. From what I've heard JdV is the joker in the side, but we don't know their personailties. Most people on here only know what their names are and what they look like, because they also don't know much about how well they play rugby.
It's funny how we get idiots like this who can't wait to drag the next SA rugby player through the mud. Jerry Collins can piss on the field and the kiwis laugh it off. In SA Wynand Olivier only need to have good looks and everyone south of Pretoria hates him with a passion.
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Sitting in a hockey locker room, Steve Chase became the latest die-hard fan fed up with the NHL lockout.
Living in Los Angeles, Chase believed the league had squandered all the goodwill built in the area after the Kings won the Stanley Cup. His weekly pickup games with friends became his only taste of the sport he loved because of the ongoing labor strife that has dragged on for months.
So he took a poll of his buddies, then took a pledge:
"We're not coming back."
Not for good. Just not after the lockout is settled, not for a while.
Chase started the grass roots "Just Drop It" campaign that encourages fans to boycott one NHL game for every game canceled after Dec. 21st. No tickets, no TV, no merchandise — not a minute or a penny spent on the league, punishment for what he believed are continued abuses of loyalty on their fan base.
He made a video and started a Facebook page, urging fans to click the "like" button and join the cause. More than 11,000 angry fans have joined since the weekend, a puck drop in the circle compared to the millions of fans who attend games, but the latest small sign fans won't again be easily won back.
"People are trying to crush the NHL," Chase said. "That's not our goal. Our goal is just to get hockey back. Hopefully somebody, somewhere cares about this and decides, 'Guys, we've got to get back and talk.' The fans are right.
"They're fighting over our money."
The days of letter writing and 30-second phone calls to sports radio stations have ballooned to steady streams of hashtags, Facebook posts and homemade videos from fans who just want to come in from the cold of this labor battle and watch their slapshots and saves. They are exasperated over a work stoppage with no end in sight and little regard for the fans. Continued...
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby understood why fans are upset over the third lockout in Commissioner Gary Bettman's 20-year tenure.
"I don't blame anyone for being frustrated with this process," Crosby said. "Everyone's got to be frustrated with the way this has gone. It's pretty easy for everyone involved to feel that way."
Kind of like they sing in a song about union executive director Donald Fehr's old sport, some fans vow it's one, two, three lockouts and they're out.
"I wouldn't blame them if they did that by any stretch," Penguins forward Craig Adams said, "but I can't predict that."
It's actually pretty easy to call this shot.
For all the angry tweets, texts, threats and organized campaigns, fans will still pick up the remote and print out tickets as soon as the strife ends.
They always do. In every sport. Remember 1994? After the World Series was wiped out, baseball loyalists vowed never to return to the old ball game. Fueled by super-sized sluggers and retro ballparks, attendance topped 60 million in 1996, 70 million in 1998 and soared to 79,503,175 in 2007.
The NHL, of course, can't match those numbers. But the story arc is still the same. The NHL drew 20,854,169 fans when the sport returned in 2005-06 — 497,970 more than the total in 2003-04, the season before the lockout.
The NHL saw an attendance uptick each of the next three seasons and totaled a record 21,468,121 fans in 2011-12.
Fans are filling stadiums from A (Air Canada) to X (Xcel Energy) and most geographic points in between. If there are fans still holding out over the lost season and refusing to step foot inside an NHL arena, they're at least throwing on their oversized Winter Classic sweaters and watching from home. Continued...
The 2004 Stanley Cup finals between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Calgary Flames averaged 3.286 million viewers on ABC/ESPN, the Nielsen company said. Those numbers actually dipped in 2006 and 2007 when Carolina and Anaheim, two nontraditional hockey markets, won the Cup.
When hockey-mad cities like Pittsburgh, Detroit, Philadelphia and Chicago all reached the finals, though, the ratings soared. The Blackhawks-Flyers series in 2010 on NBC/Versus averaged 5.167 million viewers, the highest for the finals since 2002, Nielsen said.
The NHL is coming off its sixth consecutive year of record revenue, with a projection of more than $3.2 billion by the end of the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs, the league said.
Don't forget, the NHL has a $200 billion, 10-year deal with NBC Sports Group through the 2020-21 season.
"Our fan support coming back last time was outstanding and we were probably a little bit surprised to see how good it was," Adams said. "That speaks to how much the fans love the game."
The NHL clearly caught some breaks coming out of the last lockout.
The league marketed its comeback around rising stars like Crosby and Washington's Alex Ovechkin. They added fan-friendly shootouts and the New Year's Day Winter Classic. The league made the two-line pass legal to help bust up the neutral-zone trap and created chic commercials to appeal more toward casual fans.
This time — whenever the lockout ends — the league might be all out of tricks. They'll need to dig. And it could take years to recover from the wreckage.
Some teams are trying to keep their brand alive among an increasingly uninterested public. The Flyers aired classic games and brought back former stars for autograph signings at a sports bar in the same complex as the Wells Fargo Center.
Gerry Helper, special assistant to the president and senior vice president for the Nashville Predators, said the team enjoyed their best season ticket renewal year in franchise history this past offseason. Continued...
The Predators have stayed aggressive in developing benefits packages for season ticketholders during the work stoppage. They organized "Preds Pride Day" activities and something called a "Smashmob" for a youth hockey game last month where they brought their public address announcer and mascot, and created a Predators' game-like atmosphere. Helper wrote in an email to The AP the Predators have stayed in touch with season ticket holders via email and phone.
Not every Predators fan feels appreciated. Tom Begley, of Franklin, Tenn., canceled the two season tickets he has held since Day 1 of the franchise. He also estimated approximately 1,000 people like himself are season-ticket holders from the first day. He said the team has done plenty of events for all season-ticket holders, but nothing special for that select group.
"I got not even a phone call from the Predators just to say, 'Look we know you're a loyal die-hard season-ticket holder from Day 1. Why don't you come down and do something at the arena?'" he said. "Hey, if I feel like it down the line and I want to buy tickets again I can do it. Right now, I don't know. I'm not convinced that hockey here in Nashville is going to be viable long-term. I am scared to death of what Donald Fehr is doing to the game and it's a shame. It really is."
In Pennsylvania, the government is getting involved in the messy dispute.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey on Wednesday urged the U.S. Small Business Administration to provide additional assistance to Pittsburgh and Philadelphia businesses that have been adversely affected by the lockout. Casey claimed small business in Pittsburgh are losing nearly half of the $2.1 million in revenue generated for each Penguins home game. He wrote Philadelphia is losing $1 million in revenue from each lost home game.
All the bluster of a boycott is easier tweeted than done. Fans can't quit Sid the Kid, Ovi, Big Z, The Warden, Phil the Thrill and The Doaner.
On Opening Night in January 2013 or October 2013 or November 2015, whenever, the teams will be back ready for the first faceoff.
So will the fans.
At least some of them.
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Young Mavs' backcourt fights through growing pains together
With a 25-year-old backcourt of point guard Darren Collison and leading scorer O.J. Mayo swept into starring roles while 11-time All-Star Dirk Nowitzki battled back from preseason arthroscopic knee surgery, Carlisle saw his budding stars struggle to begin the season while the Mavs slid down the standings. But now, with Nowitzki back in the lineup the last 15 games and the Mavs winning five of their last six outings, Carlisle may have finally tapped into the potential of his young guards thanks to a bevy of brutally honest film sessions and plenty of tough love on the practice court.
"In my four and a half years here, I haven't had this kind of collection of younger guys that has this kind of upside, that needs the kind of work that these guys have needed," Carlisle admitted after Wednesday's practice. "So they've been coached hard, some of their teammates have been on them hard at times, but they've done a great job of taking everything and working to get better."
"He's a Jack of all trades," Mayo said of Carlisle's coaching style. "Some days he'll definitely bring it to us and some days he definitely understands we're tired or a little beat up, and he'll give us a refreshing day to get some shots up, break a little sweat and get out of here. He's a Jack of all trades and that's good."
With the team currently going through a four-day layoff between games, Carlisle's coaching versatility has been on full display as the Mavs try to continue moving in the right direction after building up momentum in the last six games. Meanwhile, the duo of Mayo and Collison hope to have their growing pains to begin the season behind them, after their turnover-prone play was prevalent while struggling to manufacture offense while Nowitzki was sidelined.
And after Collison's late-game dagger 3-pointer closed the door on the Orlando Magic on Sunday in a 111-105 road victory, the Mavericks (18-24) will try to continue their fight to get back into playoff positioning after falling 10 games below .500 back on Jan. 9.
"I think we're getting better and we can continue getting better," Mayo added. "You know, we had our struggles but I think due to the film sessions, wanting to get better and wanting to win, we had to understand that we had to get better in those areas. And with Dirk coming back, it took off a lot of pressure from us. It's going well, though. It's going in the right direction."
Note: The Mavericks will return to action Friday night at home against the San Antonio Spurs. The Spurs lead the season series 2-0 after two double-digit wins back in December. The game will air locally at 7 p.m. CT on Fox Sports Southwest and nationally on ESPN. Tickets are still available and can be purchased by calling (214) 747-MAVS (6287) or by visiting Mavs.com.


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A Somali terror leader implored his fellow countryman in California to send money 'to finance jihad," triggering a chain of events that ended with four convictions.
U.S. government agents recorded dozens of such calls a few years ago, according to the Department of Justice.
And on Friday, a jury found four Somali nationals guilty of supporting terrorism in their native country.
The verdict came after prosecutors played the recordings to jurors in a San Diego federal court during weeks of trial.
The four, who included an imam and a cab driver, had raised $10,000 and wired it to the Islamist terrorist group Al-Shabaab, according to the original indictment.
Cab driver Basaaly Saeed Moalin had many phone conversations with former Al-Shabaab leader Aden Hashi Ayrow, before a U.S. missile strike ended the latter's life in May 2008.
Investigators from the FBI, Homeland Security and a San Diego anti-terror agency recorded dozens of them.
Federal prosecutors filed charges in November 2011. The group pleaded not guilty. But the recordings convinced the jurors otherwise.
The money wasn't coming fast enough for Ayrow, who implored Moalin in at least one recorded call to hurry it up. "You are running late with the stuff," Ayrow told him. "Send some, and something will happen."
Ayrow pushed the cab driver to get his local imam to come up with some funds. Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud ran the City Heights mosque in San Diego, which many in the Somali community attended.


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SACRAMENTO -- There are times when Sacramento Kings forward John Salmons gets caught between a rock and a hard place.
"I just try to play the right way," Salmons said after scoring 19 points in the third quarter to help lead the Kings to a resounding 119-83 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats Sunday afternoon before a crowd of 14,555 at Sleep Train Arena.
"I'm not a focal point of the offense so I can go five or six possessions without even getting a touch, much less a shot. That's part of it. So I can get caught up trying to play the right way and not being aggressive enough."
Salmons found the happy medium midway through the third quarter when he scored those 19 points during a three-minute span.
"I've got to give all the credit to God because through him all things are possible," Salmons said. "I try to keep that moderation when things aren't going well and play through the struggles.
"After I made that first one in the third (quarter)," he said, "I started getting my confidence, and then when the second one went in, my confidence kept growing and growing."
By that time, as teammate Chuck Hayes said, "It was get the ball to Johnny time. That's what it was."
Salmons made five of eight field-goal attempts, including four of seven 3-point attempts and five of five free throws in the third quarter.
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A relatively recent arrival on the photography market, Panasonic has rather limited experience in the field and does not yet have the same name recognition and reputation as its principal rivals and partners (starting with Olympus). To add some gravitas to its line of high-end lenses, Panasonic had the very good idea to team up with one of the most experienced and reputable lens manufacturers in the field (in terms of image quality), Leica. This arrangement is similar to the one for Sony cameras and their high-end Carl Zeiss-signed lenses. |
Following the 20mm, 28mm, and 35mm, we end our review of the Nikon AF-D series lenses by taking a look at the results for the Nikon AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.8D. |
To follow our review of the MZuiko 12mm f/2.0, here is the Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f/1.8, also announced in June 2011. With identical finishes, these are two upscale and very high-quality micro 4/3 lenses. |
The Nikon D800 was finally announced and we are looking forward to publishing some great image quality test results soon. But while we wait for a production sample to measure, here are 3 very interesting comparisons. |
DxOMark continues with its series of reviews of micro 4/3 lenses. Following our review of Panasonic's very good kit lens, we present here the results for a bright wide-angle lens — the Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 12mm f/2.0, announced in June 2011 and on the market now for several months. This 12mm wide-angle lens is the equivalent of a 24mm 24x36; its design is upscale, all-metal and with a very pleasant grip. This lens has another nice feature in terms of handling — users can quickly activate the manual control simply by sliding the focus ring toward the camera. |
DxOMark continues its study of Nikon's vintage AF-D Nikkor series, this time focusing on the 35mm f/2. Photographers enjoy shooting with this lens because of its versatility and its very light weight. Mounted on a full-frame camera, this wide-angle's field of view is the equivalent of a 53mm lens mounted on a Nikon APS-C (such as the D7000). |
We are starting here a new series of reviews of the best micro-four-thirds lenses from Panasonic and Olympus. Let's begin with the Panasonic LUMIX G X VARIO PZ 14-42mm / F3.5-5.6 ASPH. |
Having analyzed the Nikkor AF Nikkor 20mm f/2.8D last week, we continue with our series of articles about Nikkor AF-D lenses, this time focusing on the famous Nikon AF Nikkor 28mm f/2.8D. |
Yesterday, Olympus stepped into the retro design game with a brand new line of micro 4/3 cameras, the OM-D. |
Today Olympus is reviving its legendary range of OM SLRs with the launch of the Olympus OM-D E-M5, a vintage-design micro 4/3. |
After months of rumors and constant delays, the Nikon D800 has finally arrived on the market — and what a camera it is, too, with some technical specifications that are very impressive indeed. |
Today Nikon announced the long-awaited D800 with a 36 MPix full-frame sensor. This new high-end DSLR has many promising aspects. |
Following the hybrid camera trend and after the limited success of the Pentax Q, Pentax is announcing today a new compact camera with interchangeable lenses, the Pentax K-01. |
This review of the Nikon AF Nikkor 20mm f/2.8D is the first in a series of reviews about these renowned AF-D lenses. |
With 15 MPix on a 14.0 mm x 18.7 mm sensor in an $800 bridge camera intended for the general public, the appearance of the Canon PowerShot G1X was one of the big events at CES 2012. |
Tokina announces a new version of its wide-angle 11-16mm lens for APS-C cameras, featuring an aspherical element, an improved surface coating ,and an autofocus motor (AF-S equivalent) called SD-M (Silent Drive-Module). |
When Fujifilm launched the X100, they certainly didn't expect it to raise so much interest among photography enthusiasts. Earlier this week, they announced the Fujifilm XPro1, which more specifically targets this demanding market. |
At CES 2012, Canon just announced what could be their answer to the emergence of compact cameras with interchangeable lenses: the Canon PowerShot G1 X. |
Last Friday we had the chance to attend the Nikon press conference introducing the Nikon D4 and lay our hands on a pre-production model used for filming and broadcasting the conference live on the web. |
In response to the announcement of the Canon EOS 1D X, Nikon just unveiled its new flagship camera, the Nikon D4, which replaces the D3s at the top of the Nikon DSLR line-up. This new model features impressive specs: a new 16-Mpix FX sensor with sensitivity up to 200,000 ISO, uncompressed Full HD video recording with autofocus, 11 fps burst mode, improved 51-point autofocus module, face detection, wireless control... |
After months of rumors swirling about, today Canon finally launched its new flagship DSLR: the Canon EOS 1D X. This new camera will replace not just the EOS 1Ds but also all EOS 1D current models... and will bring the APS-H sensor size to an end. |
The long awaited and rumored mirrorless Nikon camera was finally announced today. And it's not just one but a pair of new mirrorless compact "1 System" cameras that are coming to compete with the Sony NEX 7, the Pentax Q, the Olymps PEN EP3 or even the Fujifilm FinePix X10. These 2 first models in this new Nikon 1 series are the Nikon J1 and Nikon V1. |
With its Powershot S line, Canon offers pocketable cameras to enthusiastic photographers. After the Powershot S90 in 2009 and the Powershot S95 in 2010, Canon now announces the new Powershot S100. |
Fuji announces a second premium camera in its FinePix X series: the X10. This new compact camera is expected this autumn with a 12-megapixel sensor and a zoom lens equivalent to a 28-112mm lens at f/2-2.8. |
Nikon unveiled Wednesday the successor of the Coolpix P7000, the Nikon Coolpix P7100. |
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5. | supre | ||
the shop where stupid pre-teens, wHo TaLk LyK dIs oN mSn and act like their 14 so they can have their own myspace pages buy all their clothes from. they sell clothes that either fall apart after 3 washes or they go out of fashion after 3 months. the store consists of slutty skirts at size XXXXXS and baggy t-shirts with big fluro sayings on them like, love you longtime, dirty dirty house music or i love the oc. the store is turing the australian teenage and pre-teen female population into clones. when you walk into the store you go deaf because of how loud they play their stupid techno remix shit and their plastic sales assists try and make you buy every piece of fluro clothing in the store. i would gladly be happy to watch every supre store burn down in flames along with every piece of fluro clothing item on this planet. plastic wannabe: OmG lYk LeTs ToTs gO sPeNd AlL oUr $$ @ sUpRe oN dA kEwLeSt NeW fAsHiOn EsPeCiAlLy AlL dA fLuRo sTuFf (they walk into the store)
normal friend: ahh i've gone deaf from the music and all the fluro shit has blinded me |
1. | supre | ||
A tacky overpriced chain of stores which cater for sluts of all ages looking for flimsy mini skirts and other such cheap, revealing apparel. 1. 'Hi welcome to supre, are you looking for clothes that show off your g-string or your cleavage?'
2. | supre | ||
A shop where little teeny-boppers shop with overpriced, too slutty even for Christina Aguilera clothes. Also considered the Hot Topic of Australia due to its abundance of "punk/rock chick looking clothing" (hahahaha) and it always being occupied by Good Charlotte fans. Example 1.
Little Wannabe: " OMG theres Supre, WE HAVE TO GO IN THERE. Won't this top make me look so sexy?" Other Little Wannabe: " Oh yeh totally." Example 2. GC Fan: Man, i'm so punk, oh look here's a 30 dollar t shirt with a "clever" saying on it, LETS LIKE TOTALLY BUY IT." |
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Supre. It's origins go all the way back to the invention of the brothel. When all their 'escorts' needed 'special' clothes for their 'performing' they went to supre. The people who shop here are quote from specky's definition "slutty little try-hards." To top it all after the pleading of Natalie for me to ask if I can try on a mini-skirt the service is appalling as I was told to fuck off. Considering the customers that was a very realistic statement in the case of someone desperate. Fat bogan bitch "I want to show everyone my fat rolls so I'll buy some clothes from supre."
4. | supre | ||
A store where alot of aussie teenage girls shop for clothes.
Supre clothing is usually low-quality, tacky, overpriced and will most likely go out of fashion within the next 5 months. Not all supre clothing is slutty, such as not so short shorts, plain tops etc. though alot if it is. They sell shirts with slogans such as 'I'm a bitch, just not yours', 'wanna be a rockstar', 'bad kitty' and at christmas, 'jingle my bells' or 'dear santa, please define good' and other stupid sayings. They cater for almost every highschool steriotype, and have a small section in the store which has 'punk, emo and goth' style clothing and accesories, which are usually bought by who most would label 'posers' or 'tryhards', or other 'non-conformist' people who buy it when its on sale, then try to cover up the fact that it was bought from there. Most of the store could be described as preppy, with mini-skirts, low-cut tops, short shorts, and anything fashionable. Sometimes you will find other things sold at the counter, such as bubble gum, cleavage cups, supre brand water, body spray and more. You can find supre stores pretty much anywhere in Australia, they're also found in New-Zealand. Non-stop, irritating and extremely loud techno, pop, hip-hop and rap music is constantly played in the store. I got a top from Supre and it broke after about 4 washes
6. | supre | ||
Supre is a store throughout Australia and New Zealand that sells whatever crap is in fashion. Right now, it's oversized tee's stating 'I <3 Myspace' 'Dirty Dirty House Music' 'It's All About House' and other stuff along those lines. That's funny.. two months ago they were in love with 'emo'.
The assistants, supre girls, wear whatevers in fashion. Most of the time, they're annoying with fake niceness and high pitched voices. Most of the time, they won't shut up about anything they're on about. It's true, not everything from Supre is slutty, some of it is actually okay. Although, they go down to XXXXXS and only to XL. And if you fit into M jeans, your legs MUST be five feet long. The main target is for about 12-16 year olds, but it's not uncommon and see thirty year olds and nine year olds shopping there. The girls who shop there say the only girls who don't like Supre are the ones who are fat and ugly. Completely not true. Maybe the girls who don't shop there want to keep their dignity? Supre Assistant: Hey! You just want to buy that?
My Friend, under her breath: No.. I just stand in line for the fun of it.. Supre Assistant: OMG it would look SO cute on you. The colours and.. *more rambling* My Friend: I was actually buying it for my nan.. |
7. | supre | ||
a stupid shop where slutty little tryhards go and shop for strips of cloth that barely cover them, these strips of cloth are stolen from the monkey people of africa who de-evolved from humans back into monkeys when their planes crashed in nuclear power plants placed there by george dubyah bush who is the leader of the so called "super race" the americans. The monkey people have no peices of cloth now because of the evil sluts of supre and now millions of monkey people will not be able to hide their boobies........ Please donate kindly to the save the monkey peole of africa foundation. (courtesy of the commonwealth government canberra) "Fucking supre sluts their such fucking turds making the monkey people have to show their boobies like that."
"Jimmy you little shit its rude to swear" "sorry mum" |


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Sophomore Lorna Lyles recalls being seated in the hallway with classmates when she heard a teacher yell, "Get down," as the tornado passed nearby.
Lyles explained they covered their heads for roughly five minutes, but nothing happened, and they returned to class.
The realization of how close the tornado actually came to the schools became apparent when she saw the devastation.
"We didn't know how close it came to us until we drove through and saw," said Lyles. "I have grown up in the Farmville and Sonoraville communities so it was sad to see some places I remember growing up, completely gone."
The shock did not stop Lyles from feeling like she needed to do something to help. The same feelings were evident in the approximately 20-25 volunteers who became involved with Lyles through online social media.
"My friend and I tweeted that we wanted to help and within two hours so many people got involved," said Lyles. People including teachers from Sonoraville and even principal Bruce Potts.
Sonoraville High School has since become the unofficial donation hub in the community.
Also giving back is the Gordon County Chamber of Commerce who is donating the food from its annual banquet to those who lost their homes. The event was scheduled for tonight at 7 p.m., however many members involved are participating in community clean up efforts.
"With so many in our county in immediate, dire need and so many important community partners tied to the banquet, it seems more appropriate to donate the food to those who need meals and free those professionals to do what they do best: make Gordon County a better place to live, work and play," said Joni Harbin, with the chamber.
More than 500 volunteers so far have used Sonoraville High School as a gathering place before going out to help with cleanup efforts.
Lyles and her team gathered at Sonoraville High School at approximately 7:30 a.m. Thursday morning and assisted with minor clean up efforts in the Stonemill subdivision, where much of the damage from the tornado occurred.
Lyles explained major cleanup such as tree removal would not be allowed until insurance processes had been completed, which Lyles was told could take up to three days.
The Stonemill community is open only to homeowners, according to Lyles, who says a friend with the clean up group lived in the neighborhood and was able to get them in.
Lyles says she hopes to be able to go back to continue to help clean up.
Other places available for volunteer opportunities are Crane Eater Church of God, located on Red Bud Rd. Donations will be available for those displaced by the tornado. Donations can be taken to the church from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. for the next few days. Sonoraville High School students were out of school Thursday and Friday as power outages and impassable roads made transportation dangerous for students.


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While traveling out of town to an industry related convention, I arrived at the Starbucks on the 111 in La Quinta..located in a shopping center. It was April 9th at 7:45 AM and I had set a meeting there with clients. When they arrived, we had a three cars between us and a total of 5 people. We went inside and were early enough to get right to the counter with no wait. We quickly placed our order and then looked at each other because we were all noticing a terrible smell. Immediately going outside, we found that was not an escape either. As people began to arrive and the front door was opened for them, the smell came outside and over us again like a wave. It seems someone had thrown up at the far end of the counter where you order on the way to the bathrooms. The more people who went in, the more the smell seemed to spread. My mistake was failing to cancel the order and leave to find another Coffeehouse. With a business meeting to hold and three cars, so many people, I opted that outside would work--not imagining it would turn out to be so bad. Why didn't they close the store until they could get it clean? This is a "food" store for goodness sake! The nauseating smell stayed with us for the entire morning and no one stayed to enjoy lunch after our meeting. I know each person will immediately recall this horrible experience the next time they spot a Starbuck's sign for a very long time.. it couldn't have been worse. One of my guest had to visit the bathroom, held her breath to run in, and turned around because she couldn't bear to go back inside. Each of these people needs encouragement to come back into a Starbucks again soon and they need to have a great experience in order to "erase" this debacle. Could you find a way to please help me entice them back and help me make things right with them by sending me 4 separate $10 gift cards and one for me as well, totaling 5? This way I could "gift" each person in a nice card, apologizing and making an effort to make things right--for your company, and for my choice to go there as well. If you can contribute the cards, I will do my part by making the most gracious apologies to each, inviting them to please come back to a Starbucks to help make a new more pleasant association with your firm. I would be grateful for your support. This horrible experinece is the kind of publicity neither I nor you need.
Kudos to Starbucks for stepping up! They responded quickly and madean invitation to each person involved to return to a Starbuck's astheir guest. No company can ensure that things are perfect at alltimes. They can however, care when things go off track and demostratesame by responding and making the customer feel valued. Starbucks didthat and for that I thank their customer service department. Thankyou.
I must say...that no food service industry should allow the smell ofvomit! This should have been taken care of instantly. This is veryunsanitary. The minute I walked in and smelled the odor; I would havewalked out and held the meeting at another location. I went to aStarbucks a couple weeks ago and walked in and it smelled like sourmilk, I left.
Where was this Starbucks? Outer Zimbabwe? Go to another place. Simple solution. I worry about a business ownerlike yourself who doesn't even know enough to come up with that. You should compensate the others for being too stupid to figure out togo somewhere else not Starbucks.
Greg....Thank you for taking your time to respond to me personally insuch a proactive manner. The spirit in which you are continuing toevolve the site is commendable and shines with tremendous integrity. Your passion is clearly to bridge the sincere consumer with the personactually empowered to make a difference within corporate America. Thisallows hard working companies to have access to information theyotherwise would have no way to envision from real life experience. This is a valuable means of communication offering great potential forboth parties to become the best of who they are presently and togrow/learn something new about how they represent themselves; allowingthem to see that they can affect real change for the better in someoneelse. If everyone did something with this kind of potential, however small,every day.. how big could that become? We each have the opportunityto spread some negative energy many times each day, as we trip acrossit being dished out in our path. When we are encouraged to step up andcreate/spread something better, than we run across from others, itspeaks volumes about who we are and whom we can become. You have put your time and money into providing a stage where this canhappen globally. Accolades to you for stepping up and puttingyourself out there, continuing to stay the course as you aspire tolofty goals, settling for steps forward every day; trusting that thepath and passion for what you are doing is as important as thedestination. I for one am grateful to have access to this vehicle that allows me tocapture and pass along an opportunity to be "better"... to stretch myability to write, communicate, contemplate ways to make things better,making well based suggestions in that regard...affecting someone elseto offer them an opportunity to step up and respond in kind...ornot...as they see fit. Offering information/communication that can manifest the best inpeople... now that doesn't sit with me as such a denigrating waste ofmy time when I see it that way. If I had even a small part in doingwhat you say this letter has done ..passing that spirit along, then myperception of this experience has been entirely transformed pursuantto our conversation. Again, thank you for responding to my inquiry...gifting me with yourtime and such an illustrative snapshot of your story..your passion foryour work; giving me a way to recast my experience so my perceptioncan evolve away from wasting my valuable time and further cementing anunpleasant experience into the realm of demeaning on your site. After all that... we'll see if Starbucks steps up to say that theircustomers matter to them simply by taking a moment to respond... ornot... after all, the point is in the communication, right? Best, CJ Gehlke, Entrepreneur, CEO, Co. Founder
Okay, the info regarding (1) whether she spoke to an employee and (2)why they'd eat lunch after an early morning coffee meeting should NOThave been buried in the numerous responses CJ posted to the variousresponses from others. I wasn't going to read all of the defensive posts. It was all I coulddo to read several of them to get the gist of what is going on. CJ, you are answering WAY too many responses here. I've not seen thatbefore. It is not swaying public opinion in your favor.
Inconsistencies: (1) "The nauseating smell stayed with us for the entire morning and noone stayed to enjoy lunch after our meeting." But you said the meeting was at 7:45 a.m. and was to last 45 minutes. Lunch at 8:30 a.m.? (2) I saw at least TWO responses here that specifically asked you,"Did you complain to an employee at that time? What did they say?" You responded to other comments in the responses, but didn't ever seemto address this. So you didn't say anything to the employees at the time? As a"business owner," wouldn't you want to know of some awful, egregiouserror/mistake immediately, rather than days later when it was toolate? (3) I find it VERY difficult to believe that anyone who owns abusiness would take the time and energy continue to submit post afterpost in response to people's comments to the original story. You seemVERY defensive. If I am wrong, I'm sorry. It's the impression I am getting andjudging by the rest of the responses, many others feel the same way. If that's OUR take on it, imagine the impression Starbuck's isgetting.
CJ, While browsing PFB I came across your letter and noticed that you'vetakent the time to respond to nearly every posting on here. May I makea suggestion? Don't. Seriously. It's pointles. You have your point ofview, and certain readers WILL have theirs (as you MUST have realizedwhen you chose to share your letter), and you WILL NOT convince themotherwise and the only thing you will do is provide hours of endlessfun for people who get off on arguing via message board (okay, okay,I've entertained myself via message board debating in the past, I'lladmit it - but over an issue more vital than coffee). By providing"clarification," all you're really doing is fueling the fires you'retrying to put out. I'd agree you don't have $50 coming for nearly allthe reasons previously posted, and I won't sit here and repeat what Iknow you and everyone else has already read. I know you wanted to makeStarbucks "aware," but trust me, the poor saps who had to clean thatmess up and the manager who oversaw them are conscious of howunpleasant the situation was for everyone. Okay so that's it, you'vemade your argument, everyone's response has been recorded andre-recorded, if I were you I'd say "to heck with what they think" andmove on. Just a suggestion.
WOW...coffee cost 10 dollars? I would never spend 10 dollars on a cupof coffee. I'm curious. Let me know if you get that 50 bucks fromStarBucks.
Did you say anything to the staff? Ask to talk to a manager? I find ithard to believe that no one stayed to enjoy lunch because of a badsmell with their morning coffee. If you want to "gift" your clients,use your owm money.
This whole thing is ridiculous. I believe a pukey Starbucks falls intothe "s**t happens" catagory. Lets face it you didnt have to stay thereyou could have left. Being from out of town is no excuse I'm sure youcould have asked a staff member where the next closest Starbucks waslocated, or you could have asked another patron about other diningpossibilities. The fact of the matter is you were'nt stuck you choseto stay there. You cant go back later and say even though we stayedand had our meeting and drank our coffe I think we should getfreebies, its doesnt work like that-at least it shouldnt. The fact that you keep defending your position over and over justproves to me that you just dont get it. Maybe after a client critizesyour business and asks for freebies that they dont deserve via PF thenyou'll get it.
Don't hold your breath waiting for those gift cards. Starbucks owesyou NOTHING!
I don't think I would have held a meeting in a room that smelled likebarf. In my town, there are at least a dozen Starbucks within a fewmiles. When I visited Starbucks.com and punched in La Quinta, CA 8locations came up within 5 miles. SO, that was the first mistake. The second was, did you complain tothe manager about the unsavory smell when you were there? I have foundStarbucks to be very customer oriented, usually very free with thecomped drinks, free samples, free coupons, esp if you are unhappy? Youdidn't mention if you spoke to anyone at Starbucks? Third, if your clients are nauseated by the idea of Starbucks againwhy would they want a gift card to return there? If anyone should buythe giftcards though I think it should be you, as an apology. I DO agree though, that if the vomit was in an open area (not in therestroom) Starbucks should have closed the store for a few minutesthen kept the doors open to air the store out for awhilet. It seems tome that not doing so is not only unappetizing but also unsanitary. Ittakes awhile for the smell to dissipate and of course that is a busytime of day but I'm sure a sign on the door explaining the situationwould be all the explanation anyone would need.
I just hope your clients didn't think the smell was coming from you.
If I were in your shoes, I would be more worried about theirimpression of me and my abilities than those of Starbucks. You are theone who took them there, caused them to stay there despite the smelland conducted business in an environment obviously not conductive togood relations. If you truly want to 'erase this debacle' then you arethe one who needs to spring for the gift cards out of your own wallet,not Starbucks. They didn't make y'all stay, you did.
yea I dont think their gonna give you anything...
Why were you having a business meeting at starbucks?
What were you trying to sell to multiple clients in a Starbucks at7:45 AM? I'm guessing Amway. By all means, please fill me in if I'm wrong. :D
Let's say that Starbucks does not give you the gift cards. Are youwilling to spend the money yourself to get them gift cards since ityour mistake to fail to cancel the order and go to anothercoffeehouse. You are talking about how Starbucks can motivate thecustomer's to come back. Even if Starbucks does end up giving freegift cards, don't you think that you should also do something tomotivate them. You could motivate them by giving them free moviepasses or gift cards for a restaurant to motivate them. You admittedthat you did make the mistake of not canceling the order and goingelsewhere, so should you not do something to motivate them. IfStarbucks does give you the gift cards I think that you (thinking theway you do about motavation)should give them something from YOURmoney, because you failed to cancel the order and go somewhere else. If Starbucks did give you the gift cards and you presented it to themthey are going to think StarBucks is a company that motivates theircustomers while your company does not. So let me ask you this onemore time. What are YOU willing to do to motivate your clients? Howmuch are you willing to spend. After all you could have simplycancelled the order and went somewhere else and then you would nothave been in this situation in the first place.
I think you just want the five gift cards for yourself, if they truelydon't want to go back they why do you need gift cards for them. Nooffence but if Starbucks was that bad with the smell, a gift card willnot make them want to come back especialy if they recall theexperience for a long time everytime they see a Starbucks location. I think if the Starbucks was closed because they were cleaning up thebarf smell, then you would probably demanded five gift certificatesbecause the Starbucks was closed and you could not tret your friends. It would have been nice if they had used air freshener, but then youwould probably have wanted five gift card's because the smell ruinedyour order. Your letter may have been good if you did not ask for freebies, anddid not exgarrate on some points.
The big bad Starbucks doesn't owe you a thing. You were too cheap torent a meeting room so you went to a public place and took up spacemeant for real customers so you could have a free meeting room. Thenyou complain because someone had the absolute audacity to be ill whereyou'd have to smell it. What a horrible experience for you! How doyou deal with such injustice? Wait...I know--beg for gift cards! Yeah, that'll do it! Seriously, get a grip and realize real lifeincludes unpleasantness, stop harassing Starbucks for gift cards youhave no right to and realize some people have real problems. Donatesome money to St. Jude's-- those kids have real problems. And nexttime, cough up the money for a private meeting room. You oweStarbucks an apology for attempting to steal from them.
"Each of these people needs encouragement to come back into aStarbucks again soon and they need to have a great experience in orderto "erase" this debacle." Why are you so concerned that your colleagues return to Starbucks? Youshould be more interested in the impression YOU and YOUR company lefton them. Did you show any of them this letter? I'd be curious as tothe impression that THIS makes on them. "help me make things right with them by sending me 4 separate $10 giftcards and one for me as well, totaling 5?" Ah, you as well. So it's not just about THEM. "This way I could "gift" each person in a nice card, apologizing andmaking an effort to make things right" Or you could keep all five for yourself. Why not provide the names ofaddresses of each person so Starbucks can contact them directly? "This horrible experinece is the kind of publicity neither I nor youneed." Well, if you don't want "publicity" for this, don't post about it on apublic forum. I kinda doubt this incident made the NY Times. If iteven happened, that is, and isn't just a pathetic gimmee grab.
"Each of these people needs encouragement to come back into aStarbucks again soon and they need to have a great experience in orderto "erase" this debacle." Why are you so concerned that your colleagues return to Starbucks? Youshould be more interested in the impression YOU and YOUR company lefton them. Did you show any of them this letter? I'd be curious as tothe impression that THIS makes on them. "help me make things right with them by sending me 4 separate $10 giftcards and one for me as well, totaling 5?" Ah, you as well. So it's not just about THEM. "This way I could "gift" each person in a nice card, apologizing andmaking an effort to make things right" Or you could keep all five for yourself. Why not provide the names ofaddresses of each person so Starbucks can contact them directly? "This horrible experinece is the kind of publicity neither I nor youneed." Well, if you don't want "publicity" for this, don't post a
"It's not about a freebie..it's about motivating people to rewrite thememory of a terrible experience so they'll return again." Does this sound like psycho-babble BS to anyone else or somethinglearned in a "business" seminar?
If these people were YOUR clients and you were trying to impress them,then YOU should take it upon yourself to give each of them a gift cardat your own expense. That way they'll think more of you thanStarbucks. One time at a concert, I wasn't seated more than five minutes when theperson right in front of me vomited. Just my luck. However, anemployee immediately put something down to cover and clean it up, andthe smell was completely gone within a minute. I would thinkrestaurants would be aware of a product like that. I guess I just findit hard to believe the smell was as bad as you described.
Close the store because somebody puked in it? Ha ha, you're quite afunny person. I work in retail, and people do puke in my store. All we do is blockthe area off and clean it up as best we can, spraying air freshenersto try and kill the smell. ANd we do sell food products. It is very obvious to me you're just fishing for freebies.
Barf happens. It happened at Starbucks but it could happen anywhere.Did you say anything at the time? Or did you just sit there andcomplain about the smell amongst yourselves? I do have a "better idea" for you. Let it go. Your letter reeks (nopun intended!) of fishing for freebies. Maybe that's why everyone isaccusing you of doing so. I seriously doubt that the other 4 peopleare never going to enjoy Starbucks delicious coffee again because oneStarbucks had someone throw up in it. What are the odds of thathappening when you go back? Are you really that traumatized? If youchoose not to go there again, it's truly your loss, not theirs. Not to mention you aren't the only people that were there that day.Maybe they should just have a free coffee day for everyone who camein. Really, I'm sure you aren't the only ones who found the smelloffensive, so if you should be compensated, shouldn't everyone else?
lol, CLOSE THE STORE to clean it up?
So what happened when you complained to the employees? What did theysay? Why should you get $50 bucks when you probably didn't spend nearly asmuch as that? You could have taken your coffee to go. I highly doubtthat because of this one incident that none of you will ever go toStarbucks again. If that IS the truth then you are just beingimmature!
I have to agree with the other posters.....this is COFFEE for cyringout loud, not a lobster dinner. Starbucks cannot control the odor ofsomeone being ill, and if it was a bad as you are attempting toportray, I wonder how $50 in gift cards will "Re-write" theexperience?
You've got to be joking asking for freebies. Because you were to cheapto arrange for a meeting room you want $50 worth of coupons. The staffcleaned up the mess even though it wasn't their fault someone gotsick. Think of that poor employee who makes minimum wage cleaning thatmess. Next time spring for a meeting room or if meeting with clientsuse an office. No wonder lots of complaints are ignored.
Next time try going to a place for your business meeting that actuallycaters to meetings. There are many hotels and restaurants that haveconference/meeting rooms. What would you have done if Starbucks wasfull that morning and you had nowhere to have your "meeting." You arejust fishing for freebies here.
You can't be serious. They cleaned it up. Sometimes you're still goingto have an odor. You stayed and you want freebies? Yes, it would have been on thedifficult side to leave considering it was a meeting but you decidedto stay.


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Although some of the studies did not show this tapering off of protection from selenium, the reviewers speculated that selenium levels and intakes in these studies may not have been high enough to show the possible detrimental effects of having too much.
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