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Strange but true: Video game consoles are illegal in China. The country of origin for a never-ending tide of bootleg video game console games—China's ShenZhen Ninjing Technology was pumping out bootleg versions of games like Final Fantasy VII for the NES as recently as 2005—does not legally allow the sale of the consoles to actually play those games. Legally, that is. Game makers have been finding loopholes to that law, first instituted in 2000, for years. There are signs that the ban may be lifting or at least softening as Sony's PlayStation 3 gains official certification in the country.
Posters on Chinese social network Sina Weibo (via Tech In Asia) noted that a "China Compulsory Certificate" was granted to Sony earlier this year for the PlayStation 3. The certificate is "a compulsory safety mark for many products imported, sold, or used in the Chinese market." Sony's certificate will be valid through 2016, the year that the PlayStation 3 will celebrate the ten-year lifespan Sony touted for the machine before it released in the US, Europe, and Japan in 2006.
Sony and its consoles have a strange history in China. The Chinese government banned the sale of game consoles back in 2000 because, it claimed, video games corrupted young minds. At the time, Sony was preparing to release the PlayStation 2, but the Japanese government was leery about the export of that console to some continental Asian countries. (The fear was that the PlayStation 2's processor could be repurposed for use in nuclear missile guidance systems.) Sony did plan to release the PlayStation 2 in China, and gained legal approval to do so, but delayed plans in 2003 and eventually released it in 2004. The launch was a complete failure, though, with both the console and its games pirated en masse.
How did Sony get around the ban then? It's not too difficult. Lenovo-backed Eedo skirted around the ban when it released its Kinect-like CT510 game console back in May by designating the machine an "exercise console" rather than a gaming machine.
With certification in hand, when will Sony release the PlayStation 3 in China? It might not at all, since the certification is far from a guarantee that Sony will enter the market. With PlayStation 3 sales flagging worldwide, Sony is in sore need of a new market. Given Apple's success selling legitimate goods in China over the past few years, there may be an opportunity for Sony to make a mark on an untapped, legal market in China.


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Chicago Police Officer Joseph Lopez accepts the Lambert Tree Award from Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, left, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The award is given out for bravery in the line of duty. Lopez, an 8-year veteran, responded to a call of shots fired. Upon arrival, a witness told Lopez the subject fled in a SUV. Lopez located the parked vehicle several minutes later. As he approached, the rear passenger door opened and a male subject fled. Lopez pursued the subject to a residential parking lot, where the subject turned toward Lopez, pointing and firing a semi-automatic handgun at him three times. Fearing for his life, Lopez aimed his weapon at the subject, but did not return fire as he was concerned additional gunfire would endanger citizens near the scene. The foot pursuit continued to a rear gangway and up some stairs. The subject, realizing he had nowhere to go, walked down the stairs, coming face-to-face with Lopez. At that point the subject pointed his handgun at the officer. Fearing for his life, Lopez discharged his duty weapon one time, fatally striking the subject. The subject's weapon, a loaded 9mm semi-automatic handgun, fell to the ground but was recovered immediately.
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The Detroit Tigers opened spring training expecting Bruce Rondon to be their closer. Tigers manager Jim Leyland refuses to commit to the rookie right-hander, who been erratic this spring and struggled again in a 4-1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday.
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) ? The Detroit Tigers opened spring training expecting Bruce Rondon to be their closer.
Tigers manager Jim Leyland refuses to commit to the rookie right-hander, who been erratic this spring and struggled again in a 4-1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday.
Cole Hamels had his final start of the spring for the Phillies and pitched three scoreless innings, while Justin Verlander, who will start for the Tigers in Minnesota on opening day, allowed an earned run in 5 2/3 innings.
Despite Philadelphia's and Detroit's aces putting in quality work, Rondon remained the topic in the Tigers' clubhouse.
He pitched only 2/3 of an inning in relief and allowed two earned runs, raising his spring ERA to 5.84. Rondon also walked two and was charged with a balk.
Leyland wouldn't give any final comment on the closer situation. He has said all spring he is only comfortable if he has a regular closer and that a bullpen by committee isn't his first choice. He said he has answered every question he can about Rondon and the closer situation.
"We need to stop talking about Rondon," Leyland said. "A soon as I have any answer I'll let you know."
Rondon has pitched 12 1/3 innings this spring in 13 games. He's allowed at least a run in five of those games. Leyland said he still likes what he's seen out of Rondon, who pitched in back-to-back games for the first time this spring.
"He's just happy to still be with the team," Leyland said. "It's been hard on him see the way things are written about him every day and I think he's handled all of that pretty well."
Rondon has never pitched in the majors but can hit 100 mph on the radar gun. Catcher Alex Avila said he's impressed by what he's seen.
"He really looks OK," Avila said. "Everyone has placed all these high expectations on him. They expect him to strike out three batters every inning and that's just not going to happen."
Avila said Rondon is going to be fine if he doesn't give in to the pressure.
"Everybody is talking about him and writing about him," Avila said. "There's a lot of pressure being put on a kid who has never been put in a position this tough. He's still learning."
Verlander said he is as ready as he can be for the season opener. He took a shot to his right heel on a line drive by Ben Revere, but he stayed in the game and said he expected a bruise but nothing more.
Hamels got in his work and was done after three innings. Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said he was ready to get Hamels ? and the rest of the Phillies ? out of Florida.
"We're ready to get back to real baseball," Manuel said. "Cole has been dominant and he's just ready to start the season. I know what we need to get out of him I know he's ready."
Hamels will start for the Phillies on Monday at Atlanta.
Ben Revere raised his spring average to .325 with two hits for the Phillies.
Torii Hunter had two hits, including a double, for the Tigers.
NOTES: Phillies INF Kevin Frandsend was hit by a Verlander pitch in his left wrist and said it wasn't a problem. ... The Phillies will play their final spring game in Clearwater on Thursday when Roy Halladay starts against the Blue Jays. Brandon Morrow will start for Toronto. ... Tigers OF Quintin Berry was optioned to Triple-A Toledo. He has been sidelined for much of the spring with patellar tendinitis. ... Non-roster invitee IF/OF Don Kelly was told by Leyland that he has made the team. He batted .186 in 75 games for the Tigers last year and signed as a minor league free agent. ... LHP Drew Smyly, who lost out on the final spot in the Tigers' rotation and was sent to the bullpen, allowed five hits and one earned run in a Triple-A game Wednesday. ... Verlander said he wasn't concerned that the temperature in Minnesota on opening day is expected to be in the low-30s. ... Anibal Sanchez will start for Detroit on Thursday in Kissimmee against the Houston Astros. Philip Humber will start for the Astros.


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Be default, Windows Update treats Internet Explorer 9 like an important update, and automatically flags it for installation. If a user isn't careful the next time they run Windows Update, they could install the browser without meaning to. During this week's episode of TR Dojo, I show you how to stop Windows Update from marking IE9 as an important update—reducing the chance for an accidental install.
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USDA researchers seek to solve major agricultural problems and to better understand the basic plant biology relating to crop science. Researchers may use biotechnology processes to discover things that may not be possible by more conventional means. This includes introducing new or improved traits in plants, animals, and microorganisms and creating new biotechnology-based products such as more effective diagnostic tests, improved farm animal vaccines, and better antibiotics. The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) conducts research on the economic aspects of the use of genetically engineered plants, including the rate of adoption of biotechnology by farmers. Beyond major requirements within the agricultural technology department, you may consider Kingsborough Community College fuel cell design as a complementary elective.


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Department of Public Safety officials have released the names of a Big Spring man and woman killed Monday afternoon when the pickup in which they were traveling struck an 18-wheel tractor trailer near the 181 mile marker of Interstate Highway 20.Eugenio Martinez Arellano, 50, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash at 5:20 p.m. by Howard County Justice of the Peace Kathryn Wiseman, according to accident records filed with the Texas Department of Public Safety.Maria Rodriguez Lownes, 61, a passenger in the 2001 Chevrolet S-10 pickup driven by Arellano, was also killed, according to DPS officials. Lownes was pronounced dead at the Scenic Mountain Medical Center emergency room at r at 5:31 p.m. by a doctor at the hospital.Also injured in the traffic accident was Enriquez Hernandez Jr. of San Elizario, Texas, who was behind the wheel of a 2006 Kenworth tractor trailer traveling west at the time of the accident. The extent of Hernandez's injuries are unknown at this time, according to DPS officials.The accident was reported at 4:39 p.m., according to law enforcement officials, seven-tenths of a mile west of the 182 mile marker on Interstate Highway 20.According to officials with the DPS regional communications office in Midland, Texas, the accident occurred when Arellano's pickup struck a piece of 12-inch pipe, sending the vehicle over the median and into the westbound lane.The pickup hit the Kenworth tractor-trailer head-on, according to the report.Officials with DPS said it's unclear if the piece of pipe that caused the accident was lying in the roadway or was dropped from another vehicle moments before the accident.Funeral arrangements for both Arellano and Lownes are being handled by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring.


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Adagio Blender Set??
Has anyone purchased this before? It says "Each sampler set comes equipped with 8 teas and 4 inclusions." But it does not say HOW MUCH of each; I'm wondering if it's just cheaper to buy the samples and mix it myself?
I was looking at this also. I look forward to the replies!
Haha I was literally JUST looking at this!
I've bought some samples to mix myself. That works pretty well.
As I recall, I did the math & you don't save any money by buying the sampler, plus some of the teas it includes didn't really appeal to me, so I just picked out the ones I wanted to sample & bought them. I think there is an oz in each one.
Do any of you buy anything other than Thai chai and custom blends from adagio? :P
My sons (ages 20 & 23) & I have been really having fun with the custom blends, but I've also tried a few of their straight out teas. The yunnan noir was pretty nice, as I recall.
The Fujian Rain is on my list of teas to sample next :)
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NEW YORK — The New York Giants are returning from their Super Bowl win to a celebration the likes that only New York can throw: a ticker-tape parade in the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway, where the city has honored stars for almost a century.
Members of the Giants will be showered with a mile of confetti as they travel up Broadway from Battery Place. Then, in a ceremony at City Hall Plaza, the team will be presented with symbolic keys to the city.
Thousands of fans poured out of the subways and headed to the streets, dressed in head-to-toe Giants jerseys, hats and sweats. Some waited since 6 a.m. to catch a glimpse of their favorite players. About half of a Long Island high school class skipped school to see "a whole nation coming together in one place — this parade," said Mike King, 16, of Wantagh, N.Y.
King and seven school friends got up at dawn, arriving by subway in lower Manhattan to join the crowds packed behind police barricades lining Broadway. He attributed the win to the stellar performance of quarterback Eli Manning and the hold-your-breath catch by Mario Manningham that led to the game-winning drive.
"It was one small step for the Giants, and one giant leap for the fans and the nation," King said.
Frank Capogrosso, 11, from Staten Island, with friends, standing at this beginning of parade route, leaning against the barricade with a grin on his face.
"This is better than TV. I love the cop cars, the toilet paper, and the ecstatic fans." He added: I'm ecstatic. I love the Giants, I love their style: They play, they don't talk."
The parade for the Super Bowl champions will have an estimated economic impact of up to $38 million for the city, depending on the number of spectators, Bloomberg said. As many as 1 million are expected — about a third of them from outside New York.
After the parade, the team will travel to New Jersey for a 3 p.m. rally at MetLife Stadium.
This will be the second Super Bowl championship parade for the Giants in four years. They also beat the Patriots in the NFL title game in 2008.
But it's hard to imagine a victory more exciting than the Giants' last-minute, 21-17 victory over the Patriots. The hero of this year's parade undoubtedly will be Super Bowl MVP Manning. Manning and Manningham connected on the clutch play, as the receiver made the over-the-shoulder catch along the sideline.
Even before the parade started, city Sanitation crews with hand-held vacuums were ready to suck up the piles of confetti that would rain on Broadway.
New York City Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty said he expected to see about 40 tons of paper showered down. That's a lot but not one for the record books. The city threw 5,438 tons of ticker tape on returning veterans at the end of World War II in 1945.
The second-highest amount of paper was thrown to honor astronaut John Glenn in 1962 — 3,474 tons. The actual ticker tape from those days has been replaced by recycled paper that's shredded into confetti.
Sanitation spokeswoman Kathy Dawkins says the department picked up 34.2 tons of paper after the Giants' last parade in 2008.
The streets Tuesday were a mass of metal police barricades, and security was tight with helicopters flying overhead and police command centers parked nearby.
The parade ends at City Hall. On Monday, 250 fans nabbed pairs of tickets to the festivities at City Hall. About 50,000 people entered sweepstakes for a place at the ceremony. Three large screens around City Hall will allow members of the public to watch the ceremony. Streets will be closed between Broadway and Church Street from Canal to Pearl streets, as will Brooklyn Bridge access to and from Park Row.
New York has feted its public heroes since 1919, with the first parade for World War I General John Pershing and his victorious troops.
They were followed by more than 200 parades honoring everyone from aviator Charles Lindbergh to scientist Albert Einstein, Pope John Paul, South African leader Nelson Mandela and pianist Van Cliburn. Their names are chiseled into the Broadway sidewalks.


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Moscow: Russia has criticised Washington`s decision to recognise Syria`s main opposition group as the country`s legitimate representative saying the move is a violation of earlier accords.
President Barack Obama said yesterday that the newly-formed Syrian Opposition Council "is now inclusive enough" to be granted the elevated status and deemed his move "a big step" in the international diplomatic efforts to end Syrian President Bashar Assad`s embattled regime.
Recognition of the council as the sole representative of Syria`s diverse population brings the US in line with Britain, France and several of America`s Arab allies.
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The majestic ruins of Rievaulx Abbey rising from the depths of the narrow valley of the river Rye, serves to illustrate the power, wealth and importance that these monastic communities held in medieval England. Rievaulx Abbey was founded in 1132 and was the first Cistercian abbey in the North of England. The Abbey's period of greatest prosperity and importance came during the rule of its third abbot, St. Aelred 1147-1167, when many of the buildings surviving today were constructed. At this time the community peaked at 140 choir monks and 500 lay-brothers and servants, when the abbey was suppressed in 1538 under the reign of King Henry VIII, there were only 22 monks but still 102 paid servants. Small wonder that the King saw a need for the reform and ultimate destruction of monastic institutions.
The Cistercian order originated in France about 1098. The centre of the monastic philosophy was an uncompromising insistence on poverty, simplicity of life and the need to separate the communities physically from the outside world. With this in mind the Cistercians positioned their monasteries away from other settlements and insisted that they be self sufficient, renouncing all cash revenues and feudal ties. They introduced a system of lay-brothers who would work their estates and be bound by monastic discipline.
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Congress hereby declares that the continued regulation and taxation by the several States of the business of insurance is in the public interest, and that silence on the part of the Congress shall not be construed to impose any barrier to the regulation or taxation of such business by the several States.
(Mar. 9, 1945, ch. 20, § 1, 59 Stat. 33.)
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July 22, 2013
Arizona State Museum has named Martina Dawley, Hualapai (enrolled)/Navajo, its new assistant curator for American Indian relations.
Primary among her responsibilities will be management of ASM's Southwest Native Nations Advisory Board, oversight of the museum's American Indian internship program, facilitation of tribal consultations related to programs throughout the museum, and providing training and technical assistance to tribal museums, libraries, archives, and cultural centers.
"I am honored to have been selected for this position," said Dawley. "I feel that an American Indian relations office at ASM will enhance the museum's already strong relationships with tribal communities. Having been a student at ASM myself, and a beneficiary of the very internship program I will now be overseeing, I'm excited to have the opportunity to help Native students interested in the museum profession. I look forward to the work and to the challenges of my new position."
When Dr. Patrick D. Lyons assumed ASM's directorship on June 1, 2013, he did so with specific and immediate goals. Topping the list was this hire. Lyons, at ASM since 2006, has a history of successful collaborations with the state's tribal communities when it comes to cultural preservation, archaeological excavation, and repatriation.
"My priorities for ASM are excellence and relevance," he said. "Relevance, I believe, requires improving how ASM communicates and collaborates with its many constituencies, including, and perhaps most importantly, Arizona's tribal communities."
From Peach Springs, Arizona, on the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Dawley has experience in many areas of ASM's mission, having done archaeological field and lab work, collections management, and conservation. Dawley also has experience in college-level classroom teaching and educational outreach.
A McNair Scholar and graduate student intern, Dawley worked in ASM's conservation lab on various projects since 2006. In the past year, with funding from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, Dawley worked on detecting arsenic contamination levels in Navajo textiles from ASM's permanent collection, using a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer.
Dawley earned her BA in anthropology in 2006 (focusing on the archaeology of the US Southwest) and her MA in American Indian Studies in 2009 (focusing on Indian boarding school tattoos), both from the University of Arizona (UA). Dawley is currently finishing her PhD in American Indian Studies, also at UA, addressing the question of why so few American Indians become museum professionals.
"My research emphasis is finding out who's who among professional American Indian conservators and, in addition, understanding the difficulties American Indian professionals face in becoming experts and the sole custodians of their own cultural materials and human remains."


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Exclusive Barcode reader specialist and soon-to-be Motorola subsidiary Symbol may be set to launch its latest PDA phone in Q1 2007, Reg Hardware has learned, a more lightweight alternative to the beefier devices it's offered to date.
Dubbed the MC35, the handheld is said to be a "durable, lightweight... all-in-one enterprise communication device", according to company blurb sent our way this week. Alas, the information - from a source in a position to be familiar with the company's plans - didn't include a full specification sheet, but the MC35 is thought to contain full mobile phone functionality and a built-in GPS receiver. It will run Windows Mobile software, almost certainly version 5.0. We'd expect Bluetooth to be part of the spec too.
Symbol's launch schedule should see the MC35 ship in February, a month after the company unveils the product. March and April will see the non-English language variants ship, along with what's down as a "WLAN version", suggesting Wi-Fi support will be offered as an optional extra.
The MC35 will apparently offer "multi-mode voice and data communication", including push-to-talk functionality. 'Multi-mode' may refer to voice calls over VoIP as well cellular, though the information we have isn't conclusive. VoIP is a part of Symbol's currently available MC50 PDA, so it's a good bet the technology will be included in the MC35 too. ®


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Sometimes I get confusing (to me) comments about people using my templates in PSE and not working right. I have no experience in PSE myself and so I don't really know what they're talking about, and also I haven't ever "tested" anything in PSE to see how it works.
Shannon just left me this comment in the tutorial forum:
I'm new to the site and I love the tutorials as well as the templates. You've done an excellent job with this site! I've downloaded a bunch of the templates and have been experimenting. In several files, there is a 'non editable adjustment' setting that is blocking me from recoloring the elements. I'm guessing it's a 'group' setting in regular Photoshop. I haven't been able to figure out how to turn it off in Elements (what I'm using). Would love a tutorial on this. 'Flower10-a.psd' is an example of what I'm speaking of. I've also run in this in several of the ribbons. I'm unable to see the layers to recolor them. In this file for example, instead of showing the flower petals, the only layer showing is a folder icon with a 'non editable adjustment' icon to the right.
If anyone has any advice for her or me on fixing this problem, please share.
Also, if you've had trouble with other templates, or suggestions to make things more PSE friendly, please let me know that as well.


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(AP) CINCINNATI - Neil Armstrong never capitalized on his celebrity and just wanted to be part of a team yet ended up making history and becoming an American hero, fellow astronauts said Friday as mourners gathered to celebrate the life of the first man to walk on the moon.
Former astronauts, political and business leaders, and family and friends gathered in suburban Cincinnati at a private club for a closed service for Armstrong.
"America has truly lost a legend," said fellow Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan, who said Armstrong was a hero who "came from the culture of our country," growing up on a western Ohio farm, flying combat missions, and then joining the space program.
A program stated that the service included a Navy ceremonial guard, and comments by Armstrong's two sons and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio. A flyover by Navy fighter planes was planned at the end of the service, in tribute to Armstrong's Navy pilot service that included combat missions in Korea.
Armstrong died last Saturday at age 82. Family spokeswoman Allison Ryan said there would be a national memorial service in Washington Sept. 12.
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No guest list for Friday's memorial was released, but among some 10 former astronauts attending were space pioneer John Glenn and Armstrong's fellow Apollo astronauts Cernan, James Lovell and William Anders.
Earlier Friday, Cernan and Lovell spoke at a Cincinnati hospital to help launch a children's health fund in Armstrong's memory.
Cernan and Lovell recounted visiting U.S troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with Armstrong, saying he always had an inspirational impact when meeting troops, schoolchildren and other admirers around the world.
Lovell said Armstrong was "a great American" who never capitalized on his celebrity and just "wanted to be a team player." While Armstrong said any of the astronauts could have been the first to walk on the moon, Lovell and Cernan said Armstrong was the right choice for the way he handled suddenly becoming an icon.
"There's nobody that I know of that could have accepted the challenge and responsibility that came with being that with more dignity than Neil Armstrong," Cernan said.
Cernan was the last astronaut to walk on the moon. Lovell was commander of Apollo 13, where an oxygen tank in the spaceship exploded and the moon mission was aborted.
Lovell and Cernan said they had visited Armstrong two months ago in his suburban Indian Hill home, and he cooked breakfast for them and burned the eggs, Cernan said.
"Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life," he said.
Armstrong's family has suggested memorial contributions to two scholarship funds in his name or to the Neil Armstrong New Frontiers Initiative at Cincinnati Children's. His wife, Carol, is on the hospital's board.
The astronauts were joined Friday by 14-year-old Shane DiGiovanna, an aspiring aerospace engineer with a rare skin tissue disease. He is able to hear after a cochlear implant, with a device developed by a NASA scientist.
Before the announcement, Shane, who said Armstrong has always inspired him, quizzed the two astronauts about details of their missions. Lovell recounted the streams of oxygen that wrapped their spacecraft "like a cocoon" after the tank explosion. The harrowing Apollo 13 flight was recounted in his book and depicted in the popular movie, in which Tom Hanks played Lovell.


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IE8 has been working for me.
Flash 10.1.102.64
Windows 7 64 bit
Its been crashing regularly for the past 2 weeks on crunchyroll only. All other websites using flash work fine.
Frustrated is an understatement. I will be canceling my membership if this continues into December since I'm basically paying for a service that I can't use.
crashing a lot lately for me after updating to flash 10.1.102.64
Whatever it is...it's failing with the latest flash update which I'm really regretting on getting right now....<.< what was wrong with the old flash?
It was working last night...and as I updated everything....all went to hell...
hunh....it works now xD
Dunno what happened, but a day or so ago Crunchyroll started working again. Yay! Not sure what happened but thanks to whoever fixed it!
I'm not exactly sure, but I noticed everything went bad when i started to see limelight networks on the IP list when I visit crunchyroll. Might be an issue on their end rather then the flash player itself. >_>
Version: 10.1.103.19
mine crashes excessively. flash is baked into chrome, how would i uninstall it?
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Version: 10.1.103.19
mine crashes excessively. flash is baked into chrome, how would i uninstall it?
AFAIK, you cannot uninstall it, but you can turn it off and use another Flash installation:
Yes, that's my real age
It does rarely work after some combination of uninstall reinstall and cache clearing but mostly I get crash messages. Even tried changing dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs to -1 but no luck.
EDIT: After reading this tread i saw someone say its only a problem on the newer stuff, so I tried out some Strike Witches 2 episodes and they worked perfectly fine. Went back to milky holms episode 6 and it instantly crashed. So yeah it does seem to be new stuff only.
EDIT 2: Everything seems to be working perfectly on my powerful pc without messing with anything. The problem seems to only come from my less powerful laptop. Unfortunately the laptop is how I prefer to watch crunchyroll.
On my 32bit desktop I sometimes get a crash, but a quick page reload fixes it.
On my 64bit laptop I often get a crash and reloading doesn't help.
Both computers use firefox
Also, on my laptop, when I try the videos in IE8 they never crash (but videos are choppier, so I prefer Firefox... when it works of course)
As others noted it seems to happen more with newer series (HD ones)
I've had issues where I'll leave a video paused and then start up a game like WoW or such, and when I come back, flash has crashed, and no number of reload attempts will fix it.
The solution that I've found that works for me seemingly 100% of the time, is clearing my web browser cache.
I use Firefox and this works on both WinXP and Vista platforms so far as I've tested.
So for those who have problems with flash crashing, try clearing your browser cache and see if it works.
yeah for the past month ive been having issues with the site...i continue to get an error message stating that something was wrong with the page and has caused the tab to reload...
anyway i cant watch any video as soon as i try the tab continues to recover continually...
Have been having this since about a month. Upgraded to latest version of flash (two or three weeks ago) and still happens.
What I do to get around it is start the previous episode (which crashed the week before) and then move the timeline to the end so it jumps to the current episode. Has worked every time since I started doing that.
And as has been said, this problem is only with newer episodes AND crunchyroll. No problem on other sites.


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From The Independent The editor-in-chief of a climate science journal has resigned in response to an academic controversy triggered by his publication of a paper co-authored by a leading climate sceptic.
Prof Wolfgang Wagner wrote in an editorial published on Friday in Remote Sensing that he felt obliged to resign because it was now apparent to him that a paper entitled On the misdiagnosis of surface temperature feedbacks from variations in Earth's radiant energy balanceby Roy Spencer and Danny Braswell, was "fundamentally flawed and therefore wrongly accepted by the journal". Spencer has frequently appeared in the rightwing media in the US criticising "climate alarmism" and is the author of a book called The Great Global Warming Blunder.
Paper : http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/9/2002/pdf
Wagner, who is the head of the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at the Vienna University of Technology, added he "would also like to personally protest against how the authors and like-minded climate sceptics have much exaggerated the paper's conclusions in public statements".
Wagner specifically referred to headlines such as "New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism" on the Forbes magazine website and "Does NASA data show global warming lost in space?" on Foxnews.com, which both attracted considerable attention online.
The paper in question – which, Wagner says, was downloaded 56,000 times within one month after its publication in July, as a result of the attention it attracted – purported to show how the Earth's atmosphere is more efficient at releasing energy into space than is programmed into the computer models used to forecast climate change.
"Satellites show energy being lost while climate models show energy still being gained," Spencer said at the time of publication. The University of Alabama, where Spencer works as a principal research scientist at the Earth System Science Center, added in a press release in July: "The natural ebb and flow of clouds, solar radiation, heat rising from the oceans and a myriad of other factors added to the different time lags in which they impact the atmosphere might make it impossible to isolate or accurately identify which piece of Earth's changing climate is feedback from man-made greenhouse gases."
But Wagner says he now accepts the subsequent criticism from other climate scientists that the peer-review process used to test the paper's findings was flawed. "As the case presents itself now, the [peer review] editorial team unintentionally selected three reviewers who probably share some climate sceptic notions of the authors … The problem is that comparable studies published by other authors have already been refuted in open discussions and to some extend also in the literature, a fact which was ignored by Spencer and Braswell in their paper and, unfortunately, not picked up by the reviewers. In other words, the problem I see with the paper by Spencer and Braswell is not that it declared a minority view (which was later unfortunately much exaggerated by the public media) but that it essentially ignored the scientific arguments of its opponents. This latter point was missed in the review process, explaining why I perceive this paper to be fundamentally flawed and therefore wrongly accepted by the journal."
Spencer is no stranger to academic controversies. He has long maintained that satellite observations showed that atmospheric temperatures were cooling rather than warming until it was shown that the satellites in question suffered from "orbital drift".
John Abraham, an associate professor at the University of St Thomas's school of engineering in Minnesota who criticised the Spencer paper upon its publication, told the Guardian: "It is remarkable that an editor-in-chief has stepped down from his role at a journal because of the publication of a flawed paper. This significant event reflects on the significance of the flaws in the paper and its review process. It is commendable that Wagner has reacted responsibly to the situation."
He continued: "Spencer and his colleagues have a long history of minimising the effects of human-caused climate change; they also have a long history of making serious technical errors. This latest paper is only one in a decade-long track record of errors that have forced Spencer to revise his work as the errors are brought to light. Spencer is well known in the scientific community for publishing high-profile papers that initially dispute global warming and only later are found to be faulty.
"This latest article reportedly showed that the climate is not as sensitive to increases in greenhouse gases. It also called into question the cause-and-effect relationship between clouds and climate change. Wolfgang's resignation was based on the quality of the review the paper received and the obvious technical errors which the paper contained."
Next week, Prof Andrew Dessler of the department of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, is due to publish a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters offering a detailed peer-reviewed rebuttal of Spencer's paper.
Spencer responded to the resignation via his blog. He said: "I want to state that I firmly stand behind everything that was written in that paper … It appears the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] gatekeepers have once again put pressure on a journal for daring to publish anything that might hurt the IPCC's politically immovable position that climate change is almost entirely human-caused. I can see no other explanation for an editor resigning in such a situation."
Related articles
- Editor-in-Chief of Remote Sensing agrees that Spencer and Braswell (2011) should not have been published; resigns [Deltoid] (scienceblogs.com)
- Scientific Journal Editor Resigns Over Climate Change Denier's Paper (littlegreenfootballs.com)
- Spencer's Paper Reviewed; Remote Sensing Editor Wolfgang Wagner Resigns (wmbriggs.com)
- Journal Editor Resigns Over Contrarian Climate Paper (news.sciencemag.org)
- The Warming Religion's Latest Victim (adamcollyer.wordpress.com)
- Comment On The Resignation of Wolfgang Wagner As Editor-In-Chief Of The Journal "Remote Sensing" In Response To The Publication Of Spencer And Braswell (2011) (pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com)
- Cool climate paper sinks journal editor (blogs.nature.com)
- Editor who published controversial climate paper resigns, blasts media (arstechnica.com)
- Remote Sensing: A case of editorial cowardice in the face of bullying from the orthodoxy (ktwop.wordpress.com)


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Open Office Layout is Bad for Brain !
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Open office layout is usually considered the default layout for Agile teams. Cubicle farms are boring and a thing of the past. Open office layout is known to improve communication, collaboration and build stronger teams. Is it all as good as it sounds?
A recent research showcased on "The Secret Life of Buildings" mentioned that working in open-plan office is bad for the brain. The study revealed a 32% drop in workers well being and a reduction in their productivity by 15%.
Dr Jack Lewis, a neuroscientist who conducted the test, said: "Open plan offices were designed with the idea that people can move around and interact freely to promote creative thinking and better problem solving.
But it doesn't work like that. If you are just getting into some work and a phone goes off in the back ground it ruins what you are concentrating on. Even though you are not aware at the time, the brain responds to distractions."
Open-office layout leave little room for people to personalize their space. According to Dr Craig Knight, a psychologist at Exeter University, creating a personal space and a comfortable setting for work increases productivity.
Jordon quoted Joel Splosky when he mentioned that open-office layouts and the similar concept of war rooms are the places where bugs are bred. According to him, in such settings, no-one can concentrate for long due to constant interruptions and distractions.
Another study conducted in Australia mentioned that 90% of their results proved that working in open office layouts led to higher levels of stress, conflict, high blood pressure and high staff turnover.
The high level of noise causes employees to lose concentration, leading to low productivity, there are privacy issues because everyone can see what you are doing on the computer or hear what you are saying on the phone, and there is a feeling of insecurity.
Richard k Cheng mentioned that taking the open office concept to the extreme is the main reason for worry. According to Richard,
While an Agile team with it's own space that is comfortable and pleasing does promote "hyper-productivity", there should be caution to this thought. In many ways, this is a throwback to the days where developers and development teams were the cellar dwellers and left alone to do their techie stuff while the rest of the company does business. This is a major step back and seems un-agile to me.
So is it a problem with the open office layout or a problem with 'just' having an open office layout?
Dave Nicolette commented, when people start to think about collaborative work space they tend to assume it is an all-or-nothing proposition. The two extremes which come to mind are either to have a cubicle or spend your time in a pod with many people. According to Dave the idea is to have a combination of these spaces.
The open or bullpen sort of space (where we would do pair programming, for instance); semiprivate spaces for brainstorming or sitting/reading; and private spaces (which may be shared, hotel-style) for making personal phone calls, one-on-one discussions, and so forth.
Dan Benjamin had similar thoughts. According to Dan, he experienced distraction, decreased productivity and low morale in plain open office layouts. The open layout might be good for some situations but is definitley not an everyday environment.
For the record, I think offices when used as places to meet, to share ideas, or to bust out code in a 2-week sprint are great. But as an everyday environment, open offices come at a price.
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I tottally agree
Mihai Dinca
1. Companies with over 20 employees prefer open space - too much noise (must use headset to listen to music) / too much conflicts (some wants window opened, some don't)
2. Companies with less than 20 employees usually have location inside an apartment with 3-4 rooms. You "live" with 5 to 10 coworkers. Less noise, less conflicts.
3. Working from home. No noise. No conflicts. But a lack of interaction with some team members may be crucial in some cases.
4. My dream place of work was in a small house inside an orchard. The house had only one floor with a long hall and more rooms accessed from it. Only 4 persons in a room. This environment was truly agile.
Diego Fernandez
Really good recommended reading.
Has there been any succes using an Agile space?
Paul Spencer
In summary an open space is:
a breeding ground for buggy software
leads to depression and sickness
leads to 'hyper-productivity' which is un-agile
also leads to low productivity
leads to low morale
I completely disagree!
Ronald Miura
MS Office is too easy, it rots your brain!
raj n
Re: I tottally agree
Isra Saleh
Confusing purposes?
Josh Gough
I believe their should be open spaces and areas for people to collaborate, and people should have the ability to work side-by-side in the same work area when they feel it is beneficial.
They also should be able have privacy and be able to focus intently, either at their individual work space, OR in an even more private area.
This is very possible where I work because we have terminals located outside the main suite, but we can use remote desktop to get bcak to our main workstations, and we also have laptops.
In a number of meeting rooms and "war rooms" we have whiteboard walls as well. I believe this has been fairly good, but it would also be nice for us to start having a display panel where we can put statistics about builds and tests and all that.
Re: Confusing purposes?
Cameron Purdy
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The best choices were either cell offices (cubicles/indivual room) or flexi-spaces (different work place for different tasks) and shared-room offices (up to 4 people in each room, preferable 2-3).
Those types lead to happier and healthier employees, and that directly translated into a more efficient company (given that efficiency in your employees matter in the bottom line).
Shared-room scored higher on the social side (happiness/willingness to go to work) while cell-space scored higher on the satisfaction on the individual work satisfaction (efficiency on one given individual item).
However, no matter efficiency and/or time savings, people who like their offices spoke well of their company, and not many companies want/can afford bad press in the long run. So a good office space is a good investment for a company almost either way you slice it.
And no matter how you looked at it, the most common office type today, the middle/large open office spaces is the worst possible solution to the problem, driven by a too high focus on building cost and not a full life cycle analysis. Optimizing one variable(building/room cost) hurts the other(efficient, health, productivity etc) if they are connected as they are in this case.
The report is long, but worth a read perhaps.
Utter Nonsense!!!
Paul Korney
Want to be more productive? Get rid of your cell phone!!! I've worked in both cubicle and open team workspaces and there is nothing more distracting than cell phone ringers and cell phone conversations. Unless there is a culture of common courtesy/respect and ground rules associated with the workspace, this research is is pretty bogus since there are no constraints on behavior.
Newsrooms have had open seating for decades
Don Carlson
Working effectively over working efficiently
Richard Cheng
Thank you for quoting my blog post on Agile office space. However, the context of my statements were for Agile war rooms. A war room is a room where the agile team is put together and left along to hyper perform. While it has it's advantages, one of my concerns is that they become isolated from the rest of the company.
However, I DO like the idea of having an open space. Sure, coders may be able to code faster (and more bug free) in their own space. Similarly, coders may be able to code faster if given a large stack of requirements and left alone. However, what I like about the open space is the ability to pick up context of the entire project just from picking up snippets of conversation and information. This could be the developers hearing some business conversations, or the BA's observing some developer designs. I argue that an open space enables us to work smarter, which I prefer to a closed space that allows us to work harder.
Make the best use of what ya got!
Rob Lofthouse
Having the best of all possibilities, I work from my home office when I want NO distractions, go to my employers office to get the obvious interaction and 'water cooler' scuttlebutt, and have set up a team room where my team comes together every other week to work in an agile kind of mode. We're not working at peak performance, but we are on that trajectory.
You have to develop the discipline to adapt to, improvise through and overcome distractions no matter what they are. Only then can you become a focused and high performance professional.
I wish there was another option…
The problem is that it is many years since I have seen a programming job where the office is not open plan (Manchester/UK). Openplan offices are great for keeping everyone informed, but the productivity of each person is lower.
I tried to stop caring about being productive as I am not responsible for the design of the office, the problem is I do care about doing a good job!


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The Columbus Crew finally have another recognizable member of the US national team on their roster.
With the acquisition of defender Michael Parkhurst on Monday, Crew sporting director and head coach Gregg Berhalter made good on an offseason mission to bring a well-known USMNT player to Columbus for the first time since former winger Robbie Rogers left the squad in 2011.
"Part of our scouting process is to identify all the Americans abroad, especially those who have been playing with the national team, and look at their current situation, look at if they might be leaving or possibly coming back to MLS," Berhalter told MLSsoccer.com by phone on Monday. "He was one that we identified that potentially wanted to come back, and we got word from his agent that he was, so it was good timing, and he filled the need that we had."
When the Crew traded away veteran defender Chad Marshall in December, central defense became a clear hole for the club. But Berhalter said the team "absolutely" didn't have the 29-year-old Parkhurst in mind when they made the move at the time, and instead the deal to trade the fourth-overall pick in this week's MLS SuperDraft to the New England Revolution came about "rather quickly over the course of about a week."
Though Parkhurst has largely played at right back for the USMNT, he played centrally for former German club Augsburg and with the Revolution during the early days of his career.
Berhalter said it's likely he'll line up centrally for Columbus.
"I would envision over the long-term he'll probably play more in the center," Berhatler said. "But that's not to say he can't fill in on the right or play games on the right."
Along with his ability to play multiple positions across the backline, Parkhurst seems to fit into Berhalter's wishes to build a more technical team with players comfortable with the ball at their feet.
"He's a very intelligent player, he's a very technical player, and he has a lot of versatility," Berhalter said. "His positioning is great, tactically he's very strong, he's a good organizer. So we feel like we have a good piece."
The addition of Parkhurst is one of the biggest of the Crew's offseason, but Berhalter said there's enough cap room and flexibility for other significant moves to follow, though the defense may be nearing completion.
"[The defense is] getting there," he said. "But we're moving toward finishing that up, and we feel like the group is coming together. We might add some pieces, but it may or may not be in defense. ... We have [cap] room. Part of this plan is to create space, so we have it."
Parkhurst has an outside chance at making US head coach Jurgen Klinsmann's squad for the World Cup this summer after appearing in eight games for the team in 2013. The last member of the Crew to make a US roster at the World Cup was Frankie Hejduk in 2006, after both Rogers and Marshall narrowly missed making the 2010 World Cup squad.


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Galaxy of Terror (IT - DVD)
Gabe has nothing to fear but fear itself, especially when it's tryin' to kill him...
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A rescue crew is sent into deep space to salvage and save some space folks stuck on a scary planet. The crew finds a no survivors, and a big, ancient alien pyramid. Everyone's initial reaction is to assume hostile aliens killed the endangered space folks, and when a member of the rescue party is found mutilated, the theory seems sound. But as events unfold, it seems that it's not extra terrestrials killing the humans, but their own deepest fears.
Totting Galaxy of Terror as an extra gory Alien rip off is fair. It was produced by exploitation king Roger Corman within a few years of the popular Sci-Fi/horror hybrid, and shares a fair number of basic plot points. What I didn't suspect, and what I'm sure I would've had I actually read the plot synopsis, is that Galaxy of Terror has a lot in common with Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon. Event Horizon isn't the most original motion picture in the world, and was based on a book, that for all I know was also the inspiration for this film, but the inspiration seems genuine.
Visually, and to a lesser extent thematically, Galaxy of Terror seems to predict its inspiration's direct sequel, Aliens. This isn't the pure coincidence it may seem, as Aliens creator James Cameron was actually in charge of the film's visual effects. Cameron's work adds quite a bit of production value to the typically low budget New World production.
Exploitation and horror fans will squeal with delight when they see Rob Zombie's killer clown Sid Haig, and of course, Freddy Kruger himself, Robert Englund. Haig's character is a nearly mute heavy that prefers throwing crystal throwing-starts to shooting laser guns, and though a small part of the film, he gets one of the better deaths when he's killed by his own severed arm. England on the other hand, is more of a lead, and is probably the best actor in the film. Some viewers may think the actor's been cast against type here, but prior to Freddy Kruger, Englund had always displayed a dramatic range, and an uncanny ability to develop real sympathy (just catch a few episodes of V if you don't believe me).
Though these thematic similarities to other films, and a fine exploitation cast (including soft core porn writer/director Zelman King) are good enough reasons for genre fans to catch this fun little flick, it's the absurd and grisly deaths that make the film a near-must. Though Event Horizon is the scarier film, Galaxy of Terror is the more imaginative. The idea of characters being murdered by there own worst fears is ripe for visual intrigue, as we've seen in the better Nightmare on Elm Street films, and considering the flick's budget the kills are gleefully and bizarrely inspired. This is a film best known for its 'rape by giant, slimy maggot' scene, if that's any indication of its quality for you.
On the not-so-good side is the fact that even at eighty-one minutes, the film really drags. The script's attempts at some kind of Star Wars-esque mythology fall pretty flat, and though they add a bit of texture to overall film, an even leaner gore-hound freak show would've been a better film. I also didn't care for any of the characters other than Haig's and Englund's, and though I'm sure this had something to do with the fact that I was already a fan of the actors, I have to give them props. Anytime a character other than Haig or Englund is talking instead of dying horribly, the film loses a large chunk of its appeal.
There are two versions of Galaxy of Terror available for purchase, and which one a consumer picks will be dependant on his or her preference when it comes to video problems. The UK DVD is pan-and-scan, so the viewer will be missing the sides of the image. The Italian DVD, the one I've reviewed here, has a descent anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen presentation, but has forced subtitles during English language playback. So the question is, does the consumer hate pan-and-scan or forced subtitles more?
If you speak Italian, then this disc is the way to go. The overall image quality is soft and dark, but one suspects that this is due to the fact that the original film was supposed to be both dark and ethereal. There are only a few occasions when the image becomes too dark to really tell what's happened, and for the most part the more graphic scenes (the reason you'd ever want to see the film) are clear enough. Grain is prevalent, but not distracting, and compression artefacts are minimal. Headroom does appear a bit cropped, leading me to believe that the original intended ratio was closer to 1.78:1 or 1.66:1.
Again, if you speak Italian, this is the definitive version of Galaxy of Terror. The Italian 5.1 Dolby Digital track is nice and robust, though honestly pretty weak when it comes to surround effects. This is low budget, pre-digital filmmaking, so the 5.1 is actually pretty unnecessary, but if you watch the film with this track playing you avoid the forced subtitles. It may be worth watching the film in English the first time to get the jest of things, and then simply utilize the Italian track for future viewings. It's not as if the dialogue is particularly important here anyway.
The English Mono track is perfectly acceptable, however, and though not particularly dynamic, it is mostly free of distortion. Volume levels could've been a little louder, as I had to crank up my receiver pretty high, but I didn't notice any audio hissing when I did this. Most of the sound is on an even keel, with the notable exception of some of the film's more cartoony sound effects. Some of the slimy alien noises would be right at home on the set of a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
Here we've got a small case of the nothings. There's a weak image gallery (not nearly enough hand painted posters for this one), and some in Italian only bios.
Galaxy of Terror can really lag, but when it picks itself up, it really gets moving. As a ultra-gory Alien coattail rider I stick it a notch above Contamination and a notch below Inseminoid (which I can't seem to find on DVD anymore). Fans of Sid Haig and Robert Englund will want to scoop the flick right up, and I think I prefer forced Italian subtitles slightly to a cropped frame, though I'm not sure how much of the frame has been cropped on the U.K. release. There aren't any special features here, though maybe someday a studio like Anchor Bay or Blue Underground will get their hands on a print and interview Corman and/or James Cameron for an extra. Until next time, watch out for giant, slimy maggots.
You can purchase this, and many other euro imports from our friends at Xploitedcinema.com.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Worst Nightmare Senior Member Join Date: July 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 6,716
Great B-grade Sci-Fi this one - a shame about the extras....
You get to review all the good ones Gabe!
You get to review all the good ones Gabe!
Chris Johnson Member Join Date: October 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1,465
Sid Haig and Robert Englund! This is a drive-in classic for sure! Sid still looks the same too.
Hairyhausen Member Join Date: June 2006 Location: United States Posts: 20
Hey Gabe, you forgot to mention the Academy Award worthy performance by Erin "I'm not Joanie Dammit!" Moran. Her performance as the crew's "Telepath" was so believable that she must have know how much I though she sucked.
Let's not forget Ray "My Favorite Martian" Walston, who later in the film gets tramsformed into a shaft of light. Ohhh, scary stuff kids!
This film is lame on so many levels that it's fun. James Cameron's effects are quite good and actually make the film watchable.
Oh yeah, can't forget Taaffe O'Connell's Giant Worm Rape Scene. That's what you get when you think bad thoughts.
If ever the "Mystery Science Theater" guys were going to do a reunion, this should be the film they rip on. It's perfect fodder for them.
Overall, I have good memories of this film. It was alot of fun, and I would actually like to see it again, shame I don't speak Italian.
Let's not forget Ray "My Favorite Martian" Walston, who later in the film gets tramsformed into a shaft of light. Ohhh, scary stuff kids!
This film is lame on so many levels that it's fun. James Cameron's effects are quite good and actually make the film watchable.
Oh yeah, can't forget Taaffe O'Connell's Giant Worm Rape Scene. That's what you get when you think bad thoughts.
If ever the "Mystery Science Theater" guys were going to do a reunion, this should be the film they rip on. It's perfect fodder for them.
Overall, I have good memories of this film. It was alot of fun, and I would actually like to see it again, shame I don't speak Italian.
Dave Brock Banned Join Date: November 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,237
Shame it completely vanished up it's 'lets try to be deep and meaningful' arse at the end though.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
I almost (almost) liked the deep and meaningful finally simple because it was so B-movie stupid. I love it when bad flicks (good-bad that is) think they're good enough to do something deep at the last minute.
BuddyRevell Member Join Date: July 2005 Location: United States Posts: 29
I never understood why that bald dude lived and died by the crystals. I mean what the hell does that mean?
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
It's probably some kind of psuedo Jedi relegious thing that wasn't developed enough in the early scripting stages.
Disc Details
Release Date: 11th December 2003
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, single layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Italian, Dolby Digital Mono Italian, Dolby Digital Mono English
Subtitles: Italian (Forced)
Extras: Still Gallery, Bios (in Italian)
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Bruce D. Clark
Cast: Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Bernard Behrens, Zalman King, Robert Englund, Sid Haig
Genre: Sci-Fi
Length: 81 minutes
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Nuclear energy field fascinates David Parkinson, chemical engineer
David Parkinson gains relevant career experience
David Parkinson, an undergraduate student, gains relevant experience in his career field while working with the Actinide Engineering and Science group. He currently designs and tests a separator used in processing plutonium. Parkinson collaborates with his mentor on the entire design process, including researching different separator designs, creating models, and testing with modeling software.
A reaction involving plutonium creates outlet gases that are contaminated with particles. The newly designed separator removes the particles more efficiently than the current separator, therefore protecting equipment and saving costs. The plutonium from this process can be used for national defense or space programs. By safely and efficiently processing actinide materials, his group helps expand the scientific and engineering basis of nuclear weapons-based manufacturing.
Laboratory mentors commit themselves to planning student work, coaching and providing constructive feedback throughout the student's experience. Parkinson comments on his mentor, saying, "He is really experienced and has taught me a lot about how the Lab's science programs have grown and developed through the years."
The Summer Lecture series are held annually at the Lab, featuring talks designed for students and postdocs. Parkinson describes his interest in the lectures, "The coolest thing about the Lab is hearing about the unique things people do here and learning about the broad diversity of science." His favorite lecture was Laboratory Director Emeritus Sig Hecker on "Plutonium Science and Diplomacy."
For two summers Parkinson worked as a student with the High Explosive Science and Technology group. He had the opportunity to transfer groups this year, helping him gain more experience in his field. He adds, "I hope to work in the field of nuclear energy. The work I do here fits in with my career goals."
Parkinson grew up in Los Alamos and graduated from Los Alamos High School. He currently attends Brigham Young University in Utah, studying chemical engineering. After he graduates, Parkinson will be working year round. He states, "I am excited to come back during the winter. The ski hill is so close." Parkinson loves the outdoors, enjoying activities such as fishing, hiking, and skiing.
The Lab student programs provide students with real-world experience while they pursue their degrees. Parkinson recommends working at the Lab "because there are a variety of fields here; any top scientist can teach you and help you learn your future job."


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USPS Labor Inflexibility
U.S. Postal Service management has repeatedly told Congress that it needs greater labor flexibility to reduce costs. Despite increased automation and workforce reductions, labor continues to account for 80 percent of the USPS's cost structure.
Paul Krugman and Regime Uncertainty
Paul Krugman is dismissing concerns that the Obama administration's fiscal and regulatory policies are fostering uncertainty in the business community, and thus inhibiting job growth and an economic recovery.
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The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance program provides $5 billion annually to the states, which distribute the funds to businesses, nonprofits, and homeowners. Unfortunately, the states do a poor job making sure the money isn't lost to fraud and abuse.
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The long-term prospects for the U.S. Postal Service monopoly are bleak. To help stem the flow of red ink, the USPS intends to seek a rate increase. Only a government monopoly would try to raise prices when the demand for its services is plummeting. The rate increase will only push its already declining customer base to use cheaper, more efficient electronic alternatives.
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Burger chains are the biggest business in the restaurant industry, pulling in $69 billion in sales each year. Nearly nine in 10 consumers say they grab burgers away from home at least once a month.
Half of that business goes to McDonald's -- the behemoth that in recent years has upgraded its sandwich offerings, followed quickly by other fast food giants such as Burger King, Wendy's and Carl's Jr.
But Six Dollar Burgers, Big Macs and Whoppers still leave many foodies uninspired, driving demand for chains that offer convenient, affordable burgers that are also thoughtfully made with high-quality ingredients.
Cue the horde of "better burgers," which have begun beefing up the industry with premium toppings, fresher meats, better service -- and often higher prices. Their fans are fiercely loyal, their detractors often vicious.
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Throughout the year, the Office of Admissions receives
notices of scholarships that are offered through external
organizations. Information about the scholarship awards
that are currently available is listed below. Award
notices are listed in the order in which they were received.
You may also find information on other outside scholarship
awards on the Internet. The following sites are useful
for finding scholarship and financial aid information:
NEW! The Chicago Bar Foundation Marovitz Scholarship (for incoming first years)
Application Deadline: May 14, 2010
The Chicago Bar Foundation (CBF), the charitable affiliate of the Chicago Bar Association, recently announced the guidelines for its 2010 Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Public Interest Law Scholarship. The CBF's Marovitz Scholarship is intended to support a needy law student who is deeply committed to public interest work so that upon graduation financial need will not prevent the student from pursuing a public interest legal career. The Scholarship provides funds for needy public interest-minded students so they may complete law school with as little debt as possible.
These funds, payable over a three-year period, will enable an incoming student who intends to pursue a career in public interest law to have a significant portion of his or her tuition and related expenses covered by Scholarship funding. Contingent on the recipient's continued compliance with the terms of the Scholarship, the student will receive $10,000 in the first year of law school, $15,000 in the second year, and $15,000 in the third year. (The payment schedule may be modified for part-time students).
The guidelines and application form can be found online. Applications are due by May 14, 2010 and the recipient will be announced in early summer. To access the forms online or for additional information, please visit the CBF website at http://www.chicagobarfoundation.org.
NEW! The Albert Pick, Jr. Fund Scholarship (for incoming first years)
Application Deadline: June 1, 2010
The Albert Pick, Jr. Fund Law Student Scholarship Program opens May 1, 2010 for applications from law students who are long-term residents of Chicago, planning to enroll as first year full-time students at one of the schools listed below.�
Applicants to the Albert Pick, Jr. Fund Law Student Scholarship Program must-
One $5,000 scholarship will be granted each year.� Awards are not renewable. For more information and to apply, please visit http://scholarshipmanagement.org/.
NEW! The Robert Masur Fellowship for Civil Liberties
Application Deadline: May 15, 2010
The Robert Masur Fellowship for Civil Liberties is open to current first-year law students. Offered annually by The Nation Institute, it consists of a $1000 honorarium for students�who intend to carry out significant activities during the summer (in between their first and second year) in the areas of civil rights and/or civil liberties. Proposed activities may include a writing or research project, work with a public interest organization in the areas of civil rights or civil liberties, work on a civil rights or civil liberties law case under the supervision of a faculty member or lawyer, or any other work in the areas of civil rights or civil liberties.
Applicants should send a proposal, no more than two pages, describing his or her intended summer project, along with a resume, a brief letter of recommendation, and the name of their faculty or organizational sponsor. All applications must be postmarked by May 15, 2010. For more information, see http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/masur or call 212-822-0269.
NEW! The My Recipe - My Heritage Scholarship Essay Contest
Application Deadline: Open
My Recipe � My Heritage Scholarship Essay Contest - $4,500 worth of prizes will be awarded.� Both US citizens and foreign students currently attending a US college, university, or another institution of higher education are eligible to participate.� The essay should explore the place culinary traditions hold in one�s cultural/ethnic identity.� For more information and submission guidelines, visit
My Recipe � My Heritage Scholarship Essay Contest
The scholarship essay contest aims at exploring the place culinary traditions hold in one�s cultural/ethnic identity.� We hope that the scholarship will serve to increase the awareness of culinary history as a vital aspect of cultural studies and a means of preserving and perpetuating ethnic traditions and values.� FastRecipes.com is a non-commercial online culinary arts journal.
The Darleen J. and Robert L. Walker Scholarship Fund
Application Deadline: June 25 , 2010
The Darleen J. and Robert L. Walker Scholarship Fund is accepting applications for the upcoming academic year. Information and instructions for applying may be obtained on our Web site: www.walkerscholarship.org.
Preference will be given to a son or daughter of a member of Masonic Lodge 1098 in Lombard, Illinois, or to former residents of the Masonic Children?s Home in La Grange, Illinois, and those who come from Masonic families.
Scholarships may be renewed each year upon verification of continued financial need and good standing at the law school.
The application deadline is June 25, 2010.
The Little Village Chamber of Commerce Ambassador Scholarship
Application Deadline: April 30 , 2010
Since 2002, the Little Village Chamber of Commerce has striven to provide over $450,000 in educational Scholarships for Hispanic students through the "Ambassador Scholarship" Program. The organization is proud to serve the large Latino population in the Chicago land area. The vision of the Little Village Chamber of Commerce is to strengthen communities by advancing the college education of Latino Students through its Ambassador Scholarship Program. Interested students can access the application online at http://www.lavillitachamber.org/. The deadline to apply is Friday, April 30.
Kane County Bar Foundation Scholarship
Application Deadline: May 1 , 2010
Through the generosity of Kane County Bar Association members, the Foundation has been able to award at least two scholarships of $1,000 each year.� Qualified applicants are Kane County residents (or whose parents reside in Kane County) who are attending law school in the 2010 � 2011 academic year.� The scholarship application deadline is May 1, 2010 and applications can be obtained on the Kane County Bar Foundation's website:� http://www.kanecountybar.org/files/KCBFScholarshipApplication2010-11.pdf.�
Essex County Bar Association Scholarship
Application Deadline: May 7 , 2010
The Essex County Bar Association (ECBA) and its Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in conjunction with the Honorable Vincent J. Biunno Memorial Fund is pleased to announce the continuation of the Biunno Scholarship Program for the 2009-10 school year. The scholarships are designed to offer financial assistance to persons with a disability who are currently attending law school. For purposes of this scholarship, a disability is limited to a permanent physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the individual having such an impairment. Persons wishing to apply for the scholarship should know that apart from the requirement that they demonstrate a permanent disability consistent with the criterion outlined above, a variety of other factors, including financial need, law school achievement and commitment to the practice of law will enter into the decision making process. Applications are available in the Office of Admissions, Suite 230.
Asian American Bar Association for the Greater Chicago Area Law Foundation Scholarship
Application Deadline: June 30, 2010 DEADLINE EXTENDED
The board members of the Asian American Bar Association for the Greater Chicago Area�Law Foundation (�AABA Law Foundation�) and members of its scholarship committee, announce the AABA Law Foundation's scholarship program.� The AABA Law Foundation�was established in February 2009, and is a non-profit, charitable and educational affiliate of Asian American Bar Association ("AABA") that is tax-exempt under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3).�
One of the goals of the AABA Law Foundation�is to�provide financial assistance to Asian Pacific American law students who have demonstrated academic excellence and social leadership.��Starting this year, the AABA Law Foundation will award annual scholarships to law students who have demonstrated a commitment to serving the needs of the Chicago-area Asian Pacific American community, and who will continue to serve the needs of the Chicago-area Asian Pacific American communities through pro bono, public interest, and/or public service legal work in the future.� This year, the AABA Law Foundation intends to award two Inaugural Scholarships of $2,500 each to law students who have exemplified that commitment. Interested students can pick up the scholarship application in the Office of Admissions, Suite 230.
Crusade for Education Financial Aid Program
Students of Polish descent in need of financial aid may apply to the Knights of Dabrowski Crusade for Education program for help. A limited number of scholarships are available on the basis of documented financial need, academic performance and community involvement. Students are eligible to apply who meet the following requirements: full-time student enrolled in law school at a fully accredited college/university in the U.S.; U.S. citizen or documented legal alien of Polish descent; good academic standing and documented financial need; resident of Chicago metropolitan area for at least four years (proof of residency required); and recipient must be able to attend a scheduled interview in late spring and Award Presentation Ceremony in the fall of 2010. To apply, interested students should contact the organization by email at email@example.com or call 773.792.1800 to request an application.
Polish Women's Civic Club, Inc. Scholarships
Application Deadline: July 1 , 2010
The Polish Women's Civic Club, Inc. is a philanthropic organization of American women of Polish descent interested in discovering the richness of their Polish heritage and sharing it with others. The Club supports educational activities and personal efforts of Polish American students, male and female, through financial scholarships. To qualify for consideration of a scholarship, a student must fulfill the following requirements: be a U.S. citizen; have at least one parent of Polish heritage; be a Chicago resident; currently enrolled full-time second or third year student attending Chicago area school; demonstrate financial need; and permanent resident of State of Illinois. For additional application requirements and to apply online please visit www.pwcci.org.
DuPage County Chapter of the Justinian Society of Lawyers Scholarship
Application Deadline: April 30, 2010
The DuPage County Chapter of the Justinian Society of Lawyers will once again award a scholarship to students of Italian extraction who have completed at least one semester of law school and are currently enrolled in law school. Scholarships range from $1,000 to $5,000. The scholarships will be awarded May 27, 2010. The scholarship committee must receive applications and letters of recommendation from law school faculty no later than April 30, 2010 for full consideration. Applications are available in the Office of Admissions, suite 230.
Seventh World Conference on Nonsmokers Rights Writing Contest
Contest Deadline: May 1, 2010
The Seventh World Conference on Nonsmokers Rights will be held June 12-13 in Washington, DC where students can network with other attorneys involved in public health law, environmental law, and international law. For students interested in public interest law, health law, public policy, medicine and law, and administrative law, this writing contest is an opportunity to get involved in legal research, advocacy, and affect change in legislation. The writing contest is open to all law students and requires a 1000-word submission of a proposal for legal action to protect nonsmokers' rights. Prizes range from $1000 to $5000. All students who enter the writing contest are invited to the invitation-only conference in DC. For additional details, visit http://nosmokingcontest.orgor email firstname.lastname@example.com.
For a complete list of the awards that have been posted
in the 2009-10 Record, click
here. Although the application deadlines for these awards
have already passed, this information can aid you in planning
for next year by assisting you in determining the time of
year that certain awards are typically offered. You
may also access a complete list of the 2008-09 scholarship
notices by clicking here.
If you have been awarded a Chicago-Kent scholarship for
the 2009-10 academic year, please refer to the Scholarship
Policies from the current Student Handbook for important
information concerning your award. Please direct any
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TORONTO (AP) Anthony Bennett is focused on the upcoming NBA season. His uniform is completely out of his control.
It has been one unusual summer for two of Canada's top young players.
Bennett and Andrew Wiggins, the last two No. 1 overall NBA draft picks, are expected to be traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Minnesota Timberwolves in a deal for All-Star forward Kevin Love, perhaps as soon as this weekend.
The blockbuster move can't be finalized until Saturday, when Wiggins is eligible to be traded.
Wiggins deftly danced around questions about his future when he returned to his hometown of Vaughan, Ontario, last week to shoot a commercial.
It was Bennett's turn on Monday when he attended the opening day of the NBA Americas Team Camp at the Mattamy Athletic Centre. The forward wouldn't bite when asked about the reported deal, but said he has kept in touch with Wiggins over the last few weeks.
''We've been going back and forth a lot,'' Bennett said. ''I know he's busy so I don't really try to hit him up too much. But he said he's working too. So there's not much we can do, you know.''
Bennett struggled in his rookie season with the Cavaliers, averaging just 4.2 points and 3.0 rebounds in limited action.
He has dropped some weight over the last few months and was impressive in summer league play. Bennett said he learned a lot over the last year and is determined to come back strong next season.
''I can fight through adversity,'' Bennett said. ''It wasn't the best of seasons for me. I will admit that. Fighting the injuries and just the way things were, just never really made me give up. I always just stayed in the gym.''
Bennett, 21, said he isn't worried about being traded and the rumors have not been a distraction for him.
''I'm just a young man that's ready to work,'' he said. ''Wherever I end up, it doesn't really matter to me. I just want to play basketball.''
Bennett opened up a little when asked about whether he had any advice for Wiggins as a fellow first overall pick.
''Pretty much I just told him to work hard,'' he said. ''Just try not to listen to everybody. You can have one bad game, you can have one real good game.
''But you know, it's just a long season full of ups and downs.''