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Dressed as Pope John Paul II for Halloween, 1978.
By James Lopata
I have a photo of me dressed as Pope John Paul II from 1978.
Sometimes I laugh when see it. Other times, not so much.
It was a great time to be Catholic then. In the vibrant post-Vatican II parish where I was raised, we sang, we danced, we waved daffodils and launched multi-colored balloons at Easter. There was a spirit moving all over.
It strikes me as funny that, as a baptized Catholic male, I am technically eligible for the position of pontiff, even though I haven't attended Mass in several years.
Funny, yes, but even more, sad.
The desire to have much of anything to do with the Catholic Church that I loved so much has departed. I know I am not alone. According to the Holy See's own statistics, there are millions of lapsed Catholics all over the world.
Using the Vatican's Statistical Yearbook of the Church, Catholic News Service noted that although the total Catholic population is up 29 percent from 1990 to 2010, confirmations are up only 10 percent, and first communions are actually down 5 percent. These figures demonstrate that the faith is in global retreat.
Catholics are absenting themselves from the life of the Church in the millions, but the Vatican still keeps them on record, which makes the population appear robust. In fact, I am one of the 1.2 billion people the Vatican officially counts as a Catholic. Why? Because I was baptized in a Catholic Church and was never excommunicated.
The Church is changing, even if the current pope emeritus does not seem to agree.
As a young priest active at Vatican II, Benedict XVI was considered by many to be a liberal voice. When asked many years later to account for how conservative he had become, he famously quipped, "It is not I who have changed, but others."
I don't get asked much anymore why I left the Catholic Church. To those in the circles in which I run the answers need no further articulation — the way the Vatican handles woman, nuns, life issues, and LGBT issues (I happen to be gay). But on the occasions when the question is asked, I often respond that I never left the Church, the Church left me — and many others as well.
One Easter, a few years back, I decided to try and recapture a bit of my childhood Catholic Easter joy. So I suited up, picked a daffodil, and, on a brilliant sunny morning, I strolled over to St. Thomas Aquinas near my apartment in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. Inside this cavernous, grand, old Catholic Church, which could probably hold a thousand or more, sat maybe twenty people. The priest hailed from across the sea and spoke with a thick accent and broken English. Singing was kept to one verse per song and the psalm was spoken. No dancing. No balloons. Not much in the way of smiles either. The resurrection never felt so dead.
I couldn't leave Easter this way. So I hoofed it over to a nearby Episcopalian congregation, St. John's. The contrast could not have been more jarring. Standing room only, families, children, people of all races, backgrounds, economic backgrounds, and sexual orientations laughed and sang and waved balloons and daffodils. Oh, and there was a woman priest.
I stood in the back and tried to hold back my tears so that those squeezed shoulder-to-shoulder by me wouldn't notice.
This is what we've lost, I kept thinking to myself. This is what we could have had. This is Easter. This is the resurrection. This is what we Catholics are missing.
When the cardinals gather to choose a new leader this week, I would like them to hold these contrasting images in mind. If they want a truly dynamic, and, well, conservative candidate for pope, then they might want to consider a lapsed Catholic, a woman, a nun, or maybe even a gay person like me.
Many of us would like to conserve what the Church had and bring it back — back to 1978.
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Jason Statham stars as Detective Quentin Conners, a troubled cop who is brought out of his long suspension (which he acquired for accidentally shooting a hostage) when bank-robbing kingpin Lorenz (Wesley Snipes) demands to hear from him during a hostage negotiation. Conners' best efforts are in vain when Lorenz and his cronies blow-up the banks façade to pieces and escape. For some reason, though, there isn't any money missing from the vault, and it's up to Conners and his new, young partner Detective Shane Dekker (Ryan Phillippe) to solve the twisty-turny case.
Is there any way to dam the every expanding trickle of STV Lionsgate releases featuring better then average casts and derivative scripts. Why haven't I ever heard of any of these cookie cutter thrillers? Are they only released theatrically in Europe? Are all these actors hard up for cash? Has no one involved ever seen a heist or buddy cop movie before? What's going on?
The cowboy cop who's taken the law into his own hands one too many times let back in for just one more collar? Vomit. The young partner forced onto the cowboy against his will? Hurl. Another bank robbery stand off featuring a crafty criminal teasing the cops with his perfect plane and his knowledge of the cowboy's past? Puke. Chaos theory is a plot point? Barf. Ah, another convoluted final twist. Dry heave.
Writer/director Tony Giglio's script is just dreadful. I know it's my cliché to complain about clichés, but this film goes above and beyond the call of mediocre. Characters don't speak in human or dramatic terms; they speak in expressions of mood. Instead of expressing in words how a certain event makes them feel they take the words from every other cop film ever made, until there words turn into some kind of cliché driven binary code. The poor actors stop even trying after a while and their voices start sounding like rickety dot matrix printers. At least he's studied his John McTiernan films close enough to not embarrass himself visually. Maybe with someone else's script he could do something interesting next time.
This particular cast's cred shouldn't come as a huge shock. I suppose we can assume Wesley Snipes needs the money to cover his tax debts. Based on his acting effort here I think we can also assume that he didn't really care about the script. Ryan Phillippe's the tragedy of this cast. He was racking up a decent indie career for a while there; he surely doesn't need tripe like this dirtying up his resume. Maybe the divorce was messier then we thought. Statham's participation isn't even a little surprising, the guy's a magnet of charisma, but he'll do anything for a cheque. Chaos is just another in a long line of poor man's Bruce Willis out of an actor that should have more then two or three really great roles by now. Wait a minute, the releases date is 2005? My God, Transporter 2 and Blade Trinity hadn't even come out yet.
Chaos is presented in an anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 aspect ratio, and looks exactly the same as about every other modestly budgeted Lionsgate STV release—perfectly average. The relative absence of edge enhancement is pretty impressive, and details are reasonably sharp, but the grain and noise can be overbearing in some shots. Tracking shots reveal some lumps and slight shifting in backgrounds and wide shots especially. The colours are bright and solid, though there's a bit of a green influx into some of the yellows and a bit of a blue influx into the reds. Contrast levels are well balanced enough to separate objects in the darker scenes, but blacks aren't ever fully black, more like really dark blue. Our biggest issue is the interlaced nature of the transfer, which leads to some overt combing effects.
More of what you'd expect from a modestly budgeted Lionsgate STV release. The Dolby Digital 5.1 track is full of enough noise to impress when the action kicks into gear, the bass is good and rumbly when things blow up, and the dialogue is well centred and separated. The sound effects design is full of obviously canned effects, which are a little over edited among the rear channels, but it adds a slice of production value. The score is overbearing (during the commentary Giglio points out a moment where he didn't want any score, and I think he should've stuck to his guns), and often doesn't meld organically with the rest of the soundtrack.
Director Tony Giglio's director's commentary is lively enough, but it's also full of lame false modesty, and his apparent ignorance when it comes to his film's blatant clichés is a little annoying (he acknowledges it a few times, I'll admit). He's good about keeping things moving, giving us the behind the scenes scoop and generally doing his job as a commentator. Giglio seems like a nice guy, and I wish I didn't hate his movie, but this commentary changes nothing. The commentary is followed by 'Order out of Chaos', another fluffy EPK with apathetic cast interviews, excited director interviews, and lots of footage from the movie. The featurette lasts about twelve minutes, and is followed by a collection of Lionsgate trailers.
Long story short— Chaos never overcomes its cliché-riddled script, and isn't worth your time unless you're a really hardcore Statham or Snipes fan (those people should know what they're in for). Everything about this disc screams 'dump' on Lionsgate's part, including the minimal extras, the half-hearted A/V presentation, and the slap-dash box art.
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Cinque Member Join Date: June 2007 Location: United States Posts: 710
Well, so much for this being Wesley Snipes' "comeback" movie....
douglask Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: United States Posts: 66
I liked it actually.
Dunny Member Join Date: October 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 347
I like all three actors but I agree, this movie is forgettable.
On the other hand, it's certainly better than anything Snipes has been in for a while.
On the other hand, it's certainly better than anything Snipes has been in for a while.
Lexx-2 Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 114
Nope, it was released theatrically here in Australia too!
Sam Spade Member Join Date: January 2007 Location: United States Posts: 2,032
Jason Statham needs to go back to making British films.His American films are horrendous.
ShaiBrooklyn Member Join Date: March 2004 Location: United States Posts: 257
Thankfully I only paid $1 for this it was just so horrible and so BORING! You nailed it pretty good in your review!
Phil Mills Member Join Date: September 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 141
I thought this was ok, not amazing but harmless entertainment
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Disc Details
Release Date: 19th February 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, single layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Director Commentary, Behind the Scenes, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Tony Giglio
Cast: Henry Czerny, Wesley Snipes, Ryan Phillippe, Justine Waddell, Jason Statham
Genre: Action and Crime
Length: 106 minutes
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There are different types, but they are all
'talking treatments' in which you talk with another person. It can
help you to overcome:
The person carrying out the treatment is
usually called a therapist, while the person being seen is the
patient or client.
Most psychotherapies can be done one-to-one or
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy gives you a
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about yourself and other people (especially your family and those
you are close to). You discuss:
The therapist will help you to make these
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unconscious feelings from your past. And if it is happening in the
therapy sessions, it will also be happening in your day-to-day
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy usually involves
regular, 50-minute meetings. These can be weekly or more often if
needed. If you have a more straightforward problem, you may only
need a few weeks or months of therapy. If your problems are more
complicated – or long-standing – you may have to carry on for
several months or longer.
Behavioural psychotherapy helps you overcome
problems by changing how you behave. For example, you may need to
overcome a fear, or phobia. The therapist will help you, very
gradually, to spend more and more time in the situation you fear –
and will help you to feel comfortable and relaxed in that
Cognitive therapy focuses more on the way that
what you believe and think can keep problems going. It helps you to
test any unhelpful beliefs by talking about them, and then
developing ideas that are more helpful for you. You then try these
out in between sessions and so develop more helpful ways of
thinking and acting. It can take account of what has happened in
the past, but mainly looks at the present and future.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) combines these two
techniques. It is structured, usually aimed at a particular problem
and is fairly brief (6-20 sessions). It's a bit like being coached
– you have a number of exercises to do between sessions. In a way,
you learn to become your own therapist. The National Institute for
Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends CBT as a treatment for
a wide range of problems. For further information, see our
factsheet on Cognitive Behavioural
Your problems may not just be yours – there
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family and marital therapies:
In marital therapy, a
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couple, so that they can work on their problems together. The
therapy might deal with problems between the partners or stresses
that both partners are facing (i.e. loss of a child).
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can help the therapists and family members to reflect on what has
happened during the discussion. Systemic
psychotherapy works with a family's strengths to help
family members think about (and try) different ways of behaving
with each other.
Like CBT, this is usually quite short, often
about 16 sessions. The therapist helps you to:
The therapist puts this all into writing after your first few
sessions. At the end of treatment, the therapist gives you a final
letter which summarizes your difficulties and the ways you have
worked out how to cope better.
This is a treatment for depression, but it has
also been used with other problems. It aims to help you to
understand how your problems may be connected to the way your
relationships work. It then helps you to find out how to strengthen
your relationships and find better ways of coping.
These therapies are mostly aimed at helping people with
borderline personality disorder. Both treatments involve regular
sessions over a period of 12 to 18 months. The treatment may
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This is often provided in primary care, at
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to be clearer about your problems – and by being clearer, to come
up with your own answers. It is often used to help someone cope
with recent events they have found difficult. It does not aim to
help you change as a person, as most of the other therapies
described here do.
These approaches may be different but they all
help you to understand better how you work - which can help
you to make changes in your life. Psychotherapists may use a
combination of techniques to suit you. For example, you may start
with individual therapy and then move to group therapy, or from
marital work to individual treatment.
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meetings at the same time and same place every week or two weeks.
In most cases you will agree the length of the treatment with your
psychotherapist within a month or so of starting. What happens
during a session is usually considered confidential and will only
be discussed with the psychotherapist's supervisor.
You meet a therapist on your own to talk
together in a quiet room, usually for 50 minutes or so.
You meet regularly with a group of people who
have similar problems and a psychotherapist. The sessions are
usually longer than in individual psychotherapy, often around 90
minutes. It is not provided because it is cheaper but because it is
the best treatment for some people. It is particularly
helpful if you have problems in relationships that happen again and
again. It is actually powerful and encouraging to find that
you aren't alone with your problem – and that you may even be able
to help other people in the group.
Your GP has always been able to refer you for
psychotherapy, but there have often been long waiting lists – and,
in some areas, very little psychotherapy available. However, the
Improving Access to
Psychological Therapies programme (IAPT) means
that psychotherapy services for depression and anxiety in
England are more readily available.
Many GPs also have mental health workers
and counsellors working in their surgeries. For less serious
problems you may be able to use self-help material from books or
online. These can be combined with some contact with a therapist to
guide and support you while you work through them.
Your GP may refer you to a:
You may find that a self-help book is useful
to you - there are a number of books now on the market, mostly
based on CBT principles. These will not usually be a substitute for
psychotherapy, but may be enough with mild anxiety or
There are currently two software programmes
recommended by the Department of Health:
These can both be used via an internet
The National Institute for Health and
Care Excellence (NICE) produces regular guidelines and updates
on therapies that research has shown to work. There is now good
evidence that the psychotherapies can help anxiety, depression, the
effects of trauma and psychotic symptoms.
This will depend on what sort of problem you
need help with, how bad it is and how long it has been going on
for. Long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy seems to work better
than short-term therapies if you have complicated or long-standing
Your sessions are confidential. However:
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practitioners who are required to follow their ethical code
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ARS408 Graphic Design Thesis II
The design thesis is a focused exploration of a design idea or area. Students pursue their idea verbally and visually. Their investigation positions students relative to conventional and contemporary practice. Both visuals and text are formally presented to the design option at the completion of the project. FEE FOR MATERIALS.
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By: Mark McGrouther, Category: Science, Date: 21 Mar 2011
The 'official'* southern limit to the distribution of the Sargassum Anglerfish, Histrio histrio is Burrill Lake, New South Wakes (35.37°S).
This movie, kindly sent to us by Kerryn Wood (Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre, Eden) shows a fish filmed in 18 March 2011 at Bar Beach, Merimbula (36.85°S), well south of the known range of the species. Thank you Kerryn!
*'Official' distribution from the AFD.
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by Susan Mikula Campbell
Pierogi, popcorn, local honey, in-season fruits and vegetables and plenty more can be found on Wednesdays, starting June 13, at the Wheatfield Farmers Market.
The Farmers Market will be open from 3 to 7 p.m. in the parking lot at the Town Hall campus, 2800 Church Road, near Niagara Falls Boulevard.
While the market officially opens next week, a special Grand Opening/Family Day also is planned for the following week on June 20, and other special event days are planned through the season.
At the Grand Opening/Family Day, the YMCA, which will be hosting a summer camp program in the Wheatfield Youth Center this summer, will provide a Bounce House, arts and crafts, games and face painting for the children. In addition "sample treats" will be provided.
This will be the market's third year. Judy Ponzi, market committee member, said she expects the numbers of vendors to grow as the season progresses.
"The return of many of our very loyal vendors has made what we feel is a 'friendly management style' success and hopefully is an indication of only good things to come," Ponzi said. "We not only provide the farmer's selections, but also "specialty" items, baked goods, crafts, etc. We welcome ideas from our residents in an effort to develop a larger, much needed local customer base."
This year's market, set up near the Youth Center, will include a "gathering area" for customers.
"We're looking for additional vendors, both produce, and specialty food and craft vendors," Ponzi said. Vendors must submit applications. "We don't want it to be a flea market; we want it to be nicer quality," she said.
The market was developed through the Town Centre Focus Group and is managed by town volunteers.
Ponzi said the market committee also is looking for more volunteers and for people willing to place signs on their property advertising the market.
Anyone interested in the Wheatfield Farmers Market as a vendor, a volunteer or in providing a sign location should call Town Clerk Kathy Harrington at 694-6441.


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We've certainly done our share of knocking Gov. Nikki Haley in 2011, particularly when it came to matters involving transparency, the signature issue of her campaign. So when the governor's office does something positive in that arena, it's only fair to give credit where credit is due.
After a number of well-publicized hiccups involving missing or deleted emails from her office, the governor wisely chose last week to work toward a new policy, in cooperation with the state's Department of Archives and History.
According to the release sent out by the governor's office, "The updated policy, which will be finalized and released in January, will include retaining all records, including the governor's and staff e-mail, which are of long-term and enduring value as required by law and defined by DAH."
This is a great step forward for public transparency in our state. While the ability and the right to read the governor's emails may seem like small potatoes when it comes to keeping tabs on our leaders, these records of our officials' thoughts can provide important and intriguing insights into how our state government functions. For evidence of this, we need look no further than the series of emails uncovered by the Charleston Post & Courier, which included a missive from Haley directing the outcome of what was supposed to be an independent panel. But we digress.
The new policy, which is expected to be extended to include guidance to all public agencies, will be another important tool for citizens to keep their government accountable, and for that we thank our governor.
"We have also found room for strengthening the policy," Haley said in announcing the change, "and, as we always do, when we see something that needs to be fixed, we fix it. It's the right thing to do."
It's been a while since South Carolina's Gamecocks and Clemson's Tigers both were headed to significant bowl games with hopes of ending highly ranked nationally and setting a foundation for greater success the next season.
But that's exactly where the Palmetto State's two major college football programs find themselves. The Gamecocks, ranked No. 10 in The Associated Press poll at season's end, are preparing to play Nebraska in the Capital One Bowl in Orlando on Monday. No. 14 Clemson will square off with West Virginia in the Orange Bowl on Wednesday. These teams both had amazing seasons — one expected and one unexpected — that thrilled the faithful and brought a much-welcomed positive spotlight on our state.
USC came into the year with a Heisman trophy candidate at running back, an all-world receiver, a fifth-year senior quarterback and a stout defense. Injuries to Marcus Lattimore and others as well as poor play and the eventual dismissal of signal-caller Stephen Garcia pressed coach Steve Spurrier and his staff to adjust and play to the strength of the players they had; they did so ably, ending the season with 10 wins for only the second time in school history. A triumph in the Capital One Bowl would produce an 11-win season for the first time in school history and would have the Gamecocks poised for even more success entering next season.
This is the kind of year that's been anticipated ever since Spurrier arrived. It has taken time, but he has built a solid foundation that should make the Gamecocks SEC East contenders for the foreseeable future. ...
While those who cheer these in-state rivals on might feel otherwise, it's exciting — and good for our state — to see both of these programs on the rise.
It also makes for an engaging and healthy rivalry. Clemson dominated for years, but the Gamecocks have turned the tide, knocking off the Tigers in each of the past three contests, including a 34-13 victory this year. The way things are going, who knows? Next year's game might feature two top-10 teams looking for a shot at the national title. But first things first: Go Gamecocks. Go Tigers. Beat Nebraska. Beat West Virginia. Make us even more proud.


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Since Dr Puzino has moved to his new practice in Parsippany, I feel like he has been rude and uncaring. I have seen him for several years but will no longer go to him after the past few visits. He was extremely rude and wouldn't even tell me what was wrong with me. He cursed my work in front of me because I asked for a doctor's note. There was a time that I liked going to him. When I had mono a few years back, he was a great dr and kept me informed. I don't know what changed but I refuse to go back to see him. On top of that, the staff is rude and unorganized.
Dr. Puzino is a great doctor..has an amazing diagnostic ability...and he is a pleasure to see and work with...
Dr. Puzino is excellent. He is to the point and doesn't waste your time. I can always get in to see him when I need to. On my very first visit several years back, he saw something he didn't like in my test results and sent me to an excellent specialist. He gave me the name of a few, but when I asked him who he would go to, he gave me the one that saved my life. I can see how some people have an issue with his personality, but I like him alot. He's a good doctor who does listen to what you have to tell him. I would recommend him to anyone.
Dr Puzino is a fantastic Doctor. He has treated each of my family members for many years. He calls back promptly and answers all questions. Yes he is "short" sometimes, but he has never missed anything medically. He has become more compassionate and his bedside manner was excellent when I was hospitalized. He is a worthy Doctor and I commend him highly.
Puzino is very rude and condescending, uncaring and not helpful. I don't understand why this man decided to become a doctor. He did not listen or even have the courtesy to speak to me face to face. I left feeling worse about my condition than when I got there.
Dr. Puzino has no bedside manner, and is in such a hurry he doesn't listen to his patients. I told him several concerns, which were important to me, but he seems to be annoyed and made me feel that I was imagening things. Have not been back since!
Having just graduated from a mid-west university and recently moved to this area, I was recommended to this physician by a family friend. He is one truly no nonsence, smart physician. He was great and really put me at ease. Actually made me feel good about getting back on a regular visit schedule.
I agree with the 7/31 comment. No bedside manner. I heard he is better with much older patients.
One of the best doctors I have ever had and I've had many. I still use him even though I moved to Florida. I travel twice a year to see him. He's smart, fast, efficient, has a great sense of humor and takes his medicine very seriously. He's a rare entity, in that, he is in the medical field to acutally help people, not just earn buckets of money.
Absolutely no bedside manner. He would prescribe meds without even telling me what was wrong with me, I had to ASK HIM what I was taking the meds for!!! I was also concerned about a couple of moles on my body and asked him to look at them. He did, from about a foot and half away from me said "it's fine"....turned out to be precancerous, along with several others!!!! He's very knowledgeable, but doesn't explain things and is very snide and sometimes very sarcastic.
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Hey Brikwars community, heres some of my MOC's designed for warfare. But they're on brickshelf, so it'l take a while for them to load. Brickshelf Mods checking 'em for innapropriate content, stuff like that. Please be patient
Petra - War Mech (With the New Head design)
Its a mecha, currently armed with a rifle of some sort. It's been known at times to hold a beamsword (I'm not allowed to say Lightsaber, according to the Manual) or a smaller pistol. As you can see, it's designed to move like a Minifig does.
Its not entirely an automaton, but... oh god, whats it called..? Has anyone ever seen the lost in space movie with that guy from "Friends" in it? And how the little kid controls that robot from another room like he's playing a Wii game? Yeah. Thats how its controlled. and THATS why its designed to move like a 'fig.
Theres another version of Petra with a samurai-ish head.
I would post instructions, but theres one piece thats not in Lego Digital Designer (from what I can find). So I posted assembly pictures so you can put it together (hopefully) yourself if you so desire.
Nera - Starfighter
I spent more time thinking of a name for this than actually assembling it . Its a starfighter, half inspired from the rebel snowspeeder from Star Wars, half inspired by an MOC ship my sister's old physics teacher's friend made. Equipped with four "hidden" blasters and two Engines, both underneath the wings. It's focus is speed and agility. I didnt intend for it to have the atlantis colour scheme, it just sorta happened. If I had the bricks for it, this and the Petra would have a Dark Blue + White color scheme. But oh well.
Black Knight - Minifig Enhancing suit
(theres a much larger, better quality picture on my brickshelf account.)
Inspired by the matrix. The pilot has full-body armor, except for the head. So, he/she wears a helmet.
The Black Knight is equipped with a generic big gun, and a rocket launcher for desperate measures.. Oh, and a headrest.
Anyways, hope you like em. More to come soon... maybe.


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As we already established in the purism editorial, the fact that English is now the language of commerce, science, and international relations has had a profound impact on Dutch - and I'm sure, on other minor languages too. It's easy to point towards specific words such as "computer" or even a golden oldie like "okay", of which there are quite a few.
However, those have more to do with the global importance of English in and of itself, but not about the influence the computer might have had on the Dutch language. I want to take a look at two distinct cases where the increasing reliance on computers has forced a change in how the Dutch language operates. One has to do with punctuation, the other with the shortened form of the genitive inflection of the Dutch definite article (breath, pause, continue).
Quotation marks
Let's start with the case where the usage of computers has changed (or better put, is changing) Dutch punctuation. In Dutch, the correct, old-fashioned way to denote a direct quote is to open the quotation with a left low double curved quote, and close it with a right [high] double curved quote. Like this:
I'm assuming you can translate that on your own. Anyway, this is how I've been taught how to properly open and close direct quotes when I was in primary school. All my friends were taught the same rules, just like my parents and grandparents. Officially, the same notation is used for cases of irony or the use-mention distinction.
Fast forward to the age of ubiquitous personal computing, and everybody and their dog has a computer running Microsoft Word, or, if they're cheeky, OpenOffice or WordPefect. Now, these programs come from the United States, and in the English language, quoting is done using different quotation marks. In English, the above would looks like this:
The difference is clear: English opens with a (here we go) left [high] double curved quote and closes with a right [high] double curved quote. This is the common English use of quotation marks to denote direct speech.
Now, because word processors like Word were designed and coded by and for English language users, Word isn't particularly open to using the proper, Dutch form of quotation. If you open the character map in Windows, for instance, you'll find the left low double curved quote somewhere at the bottom (treasure troves, those character maps).
It's not all Word's fault, though. The left low double curved quote cannot be found on keyboards either. For some reason, manufacturers have forced the US keyboard layouts upon the Dutch market, and our own Dutch keymap can no longer be found (at least, not easily). Then again, if my memory serves me right, not even the Dutch keymap had a key for the left low double curved quote.
Now that word processors are pretty much the norm all over the country - from homes to the office to schools - the proper Dutch quoting rules are slowly but surely being forgotten, pushed out of the collective consciousness. The English quoting rules are taking over.
This is a process that is currently under way. Maybe I'm too much of a language geek, but I get really excited about things like this - a clear-cut change in language use happening right in front of my eyes, in my lifetime. "How jolly exciting," said Alice.
To me, the English way of quoting looks all wrong and ridiculously out of place in Dutch text, but in all honesty, I'm too lazy to do proper keymapping in Word to "fix" the situation. And if I, as a nerd, am already too lazy - I can't really blame others for not doing so either. What you do sometimes see, however, is Dutch people constructing the left low double curved quote using two commas - like so:
Word will turn the closing marks into curly ones, but the commas will remain as they are. This looks hideous.
I'm not sure if the proper way of quoting is still being taught in primary schools, but seeing how computers have
infested enriched that environment too, I'm pretty sure our children's textbooks are being updated too. That's what you get in a ridiculously rich welfare state - school materials get updated quickly.
A long, long time ago, when computers did not exist and man still got around on horseback, the Dutch language was much more closely related to German than it is now. Back then, declension was a core part of Dutch, much like it still is in German today. The definite and indefinite article were two of those things that once inflected according to the grammatical cases (nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative).
Today, this is no longer the case. However, whereas in English this transition is complete, and you'll barely find any remnants of case declension, the transition is not entirely complete in Dutch. You'll find remnants of case declension all over the place - especially in fixed expressions and in more formal discourse. In general, however, case declension is gone, and you'll mostly only deal with the nominative.
Whereas the dative and accusative have been relegated entirely to the realm of fixed expressions, the genitive still lingers around, and gets used even beyond mere fixed expressions - especially the genitive of the definite article. One of my mannerisms is to say "dat is niet des [name]" ("that is not of [name]"), which is something I say whenever someone does something which he normally wouldn't do.
In order to gain a better understanding of what's going on here, let's look at the case declension of the Dutch definite article (I'll omit the plural, and focus on the singular):
Now, look at the two marked inflections - the genetive masculine and genetive neuter des. In Dutch discourse, the genetive inflection des often gets shortened to just s. Now, in order to indicate that it has been shortened, and that it is not just a random 's' who got lost on his way to Mi_sissippi, we use an apostrophe, much like English does when you write down contractions like "can't".
Now, we're going to get extremely pedantic. This is probably as pedantic as I'll ever be, so let me apologise, and assure you that it won't happen again. With that out of the way, let the pedanticness commence.
A proper apostrophe in Dutch (and I'm sure, in English too) looks like a comma floating in the air - a small dot with a tail curling to the left. However, many computer programs and websites can't handle the apostrophe in the correct way, and end up using a straight single quote. Like this:
Under the influence of computing, the second type has become much more prevalent in Dutch, even though it's technically incorrect. At school, we were taught the proper, fancy apostrophe, but computer programs tend to prefer the straight one. Luckily, though, Word has gotten smarter over the years, and in Word 2007, it properly recognises the Dutch apostrophe, and uses the fancy one. So, with a but of luck, we'll see the proper method push back the incorrect one in the coming years.
As a side note, did you know that the straight single quote is not only forced to perform the job of the apostrophe, but also of the prime? Yes, the prime, used to denote all sorts of units of measurement, is actually a typography in its own right. The differences:
The prime: yet another innocent victim of the computer. Sad.
This is not purism
Now, as you may have noticed, I have made no qualitative statements about these developments. That's because in all honesty - this is just the way language works. Language evolves under the pressure of all sorts of external (and internal) influences, and the computer is just one of them.
Still, the reason I wrote this article is to show you how the advent and popularisation of the computer is changing language right before our very eyes. If you look hard enough, you'll find all sorts of changes going on right now that are caused - or at least sped up - by our reliance on computers.
In any case, please - every now and then, take a few moments to think about the poor straight single quote on your keyboard, who carries the burden of not just being the straight single quote - since the advent of the computer, the poor little guy has to perform the role of his relatives the apostrophe and the prime as well.
Poor little guy.


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April 21, 2007
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - The Santa Clara University Broncos West Coast Conference Championship hopes were dashed on Saturday afternoon as they lost 4-1 to the University of San Diego in the semifinals. The tournament host Toreros won two out of three doubles matches and three out of four singles matches to earn the victory. Brian Brogan and Jay Wong won in doubles, while Blane Shields picked up a win in singles for the Broncos.
The day started well for the Broncos with Brogan and Wong winning 8-2 at No. 3 doubles over Matt Ozurovich and Ryo Sekiguchi. However, SCU fell in the final two doubles matches 8-3 at No. 1 and 8-5 at No. 2 to lose the doubles point.
San Diego kept the pressure on in singles with a 6-2, 6-1 win by Sekiguchi at No. 5 over Robert Gallman. Freshman Jay Wong then fell 6-3, 7-5 to Jonas Mouly at No. 3 to put the Broncos in a big hole.
Shields brought SCU back with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Ozurich at No. 6. The win gave Shields a 14-2 record in dual matches in 2007 and made the score 3-1 overall.
The Broncos hopes ended at No. 4 singles. In his return to singles after a long lay-off due to a broken hand, Bobby Rasmussen lost a close 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 match to Charles Wolmarans. USD clinched the match with the win to move into the final against Pepperdine.
Santa Clara now faces Saint Mary's on Sunday, April 22 at 12:30 p.m. in the third-place match. The Broncos defeated Saint Mary's 5-2 in Moraga earlier this season.
No. 3 San Diego def. No. 2 Santa Clara 4-1
Doubles: (Order of finish 3, 1, 2)
1. Chris Coetzee/Thomas Liversage (USD) def. Jan Macek/Bobby Rasmussen (SCU) 8-3
2. Jonas Mouly/Charles Wolmarans (USD) def. Robert Gallman/Blane Shields (SCU) 8-5
3. Brian Brogan/Jay Wong (SCU) def. Matt Ozurovich/Ryo Sekiguchi (USD) 8-2
Singles: (Order of finish 5, 3, 6, 4)
1. Thomas Liversage (USD) vs. Jan Macek (SCU), DNF
2. Chris Coetzee (USD) vs. Brian Brogan (SCU), DNF
3. Jonas Mouly (USD) def. Jay Wong (SCU) 6-3, 7-5
4. Charles Wolmarans (USD) def. Bobby Rasmussen (SCU) 7-6, 6-4
5. Ryo Sekiguchi (USD) def. Robert Gallman (SCU) 6-2, 6-1
6. Blane Shields (SCU) def. Matt Ozurovich (USD) 6-3, 6-2


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Centrally situated close to schools and the business areas and easy accessible.
Dankhof was built between 1935 and 1937 for Mr. Albert Kuit, High Commissioner.
Staying with us means we want to cater for your every need, from breakfast to dinner.
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This work forms part of a collection of 57 paintings donated by the Trustees of Sir Denis Mahons Charitable Trust through the Art Fund to 6 museums in the UK.
The Oath of Semiramis by Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini), 15961669
© Ashmolean Museum
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- Oil on copper
- Dimensions:
- 40.7 x 60.6 cm
- Acquired in:
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- Bequeathed by:
- Sir Denis Mahon CH CBE FBA FSA through The Art Fund
Sir Denis Mahon was one of the most distinguished art historians and collectors of the 20th century, and a determined campaigner on behalf of museums into his 90s. Mahon formed his collection over several decades, progressively demonstrating the range, significance and quality of the Italian baroque despite its comparative neglect by previous scholars. His passion and erudition and the sheer quality of the works he brought together changed hearts and minds and had a discernible impact on its very status in the history of European art.
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Behind the curtain
So, the good lads at Piranha Bar have posted a few behind the scenes bits from some of the jobs we did over the past while as a part of the rollout of the new website. I didn't put the behind the scenes bits themselves together (I'd guess that was the work of Aaron and Paul) but here are some breakdowns of a few ads I had hand in.
First up is ESB:
Next up are some Bord Gais bits:
And finally is a Two FM ad we did, I only had small role in this but its still pretty cool to see how it was put together:
That's all from me for tonight folks. Bars open till' 2am. DJ Toupé will take it from here and play you out with all your favourite hits from the golden years of cruise liner cabaret.
Hit it DJ Toupes…
All work completed at Piranhabar.


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NEW YORK -- Citigroup Inc. says Vikram Pandit is stepping down as CEO and a board member.
The New York bank's new CEO will be Michael Corbat, the CEO of the company's Europe, Middle East and Africa division.
Pandit says that "now is the right time for someone else to take the helm at Citigroup" after the bank "emerged from the financial crisis as a strong institution."


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Mushroom Home Goods for Spring
While walking to a friend's house in Lincoln Park last month, I stopped by local boutique Tabula Tua to browse. I ended up impulsively buying the mushroom sculpture pictured above — a pretty, much more reasonable option to the Lars Bolander sculptures I've long admired.
Then two weeks ago, I ended up in a conversation with some amateur mushroom hunters about how it's almost morel season here in the Great Lakes. Now, I keep seeing mushroom-bedecked products everywhere. So, in honor of spring mushroom season, here are 12 lovely options for your home:
1. The sculpture I bought is carved from fallen trees by artists in Provence. $30-$115, in store only at Tabula Tua.
2. Mushroom silhouettes dance across this neutral-colored tea towel. $26 at MakeLike.
3. A festive tray for alfresco springtime lunches. Approximately $42 at New House Textiles (part of their Wild Mushroom series).
4. Elegant, handpainted china for true mushroom aficionados. $280 a plate at Tabula Tua.
5. A woodsy terranium kit full of golden mushrooms. $20 at Terrain.
6 Quirky mushroom bedding, perfect for a cabin or woodland-inspired room. $30-$98 at Garnet Hill.
7. Shimmery, mercury mushrooms for your bookshelves or tabletop. $10-$24 at West Elm
8. This doormat would look great on a small city deck, surrounded by a container garden. $35 at India Rose
9. These nickelplate mushroom pulls could work anywhere from an old dresser to a desk in the kitchen. $6.45 at Michael Aram.
10. Playful, brightly-colored fabric from Alexander Henry. $25 at Duckcloth
11. If approximations won't do, grow your own shiitakes on this mushroom log. $32 at Terrain.
12. Serve your sushi on these unexpected, low-key dishes. $32 at Bailey Bowls' Etsy Shop
13. Colorful, vintage-inspired coasters would look great on a midcentury table. $13 at Little Coaster Gnomes' Etsy shop.


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To qualify for 2012 Top Safety Pick, a vehicle must earn good ratings in the moderate overlap front, side, roof strength and head restraint tests.
The photos and videos shown here may be of a different model, model year or body type from the one selected. The ratings of one vehicle often apply to other models if they are built on the same platform. In addition, a test of a vehicle from one model year may apply to earlier or later model years if the vehicle hasn't been significantly redesigned.
The Kia Forte was introduced in the 2010 model year as a replacement for the Kia Spectra.
Two tests of a 2010 Kia Forte were conducted. In the first test, forces recorded on the dummy's head and neck were high, leading to a Marginal head/neck injury rating and a Marginal overall rating. In response, Kia modified the airbag control computer to deploy the side curtain airbag, in addition to the frontal airbag, in certain frontal crashes beginning with cars manufactured after January 2010. Kia initiated a service campaign to reprogram the airbag control computer on all 2010 models produced before the change was made on the production line.
In the second test of a car built after the modifications were in place, the driver side curtain airbag deployed during the crash, and forces on the neck were low. However, forces on the head were still elevated.
The evaluation of the Forte is based on the second test, except for the structural rating, which is based both tests.
In the second test, measures taken from the neck, chest, and both legs indicate low risk of injuries to these body regions in a crash of this severity. Forces on the head when the dummy's head hit the steering wheel through the airbag indicate that head injuries would be possible.
Dummy movement was well controlled in both tests. During rebound in the second test, the dummy's head contacted the driver side curtain airbag.
How this test is conducted
The Kia Forte was introduced in the 2010 model year as a replacement for the Kia Spectra. Beginning with 2011 models, Kia made design changes to the side curtain airbags and side structure to improve occupant protection in side impact crashes. Side ratings are assigned by the Institute based on a test conducted by Kia as part of side crash test verification. The car tested was a 2010 model that incorporated all the design changes included in the 2011 models.
Driver — Measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.
Passenger — Measures taken from the dummy indicate a left femur fracture would be possible in a crash of this severity. The risk of significant injuries to other body regions is low.
Driver — The dummy's head was protected from being hit by any hard structures, including the intruding barrier, by a side curtain airbag that deployed from the roof and a side thorax airbag that deployed from the seat.
Passenger — The dummy's head was protected from being hit by any hard structures, including the intruding barrier, by a side curtain airbag that deployed from the roof.
In the test, the strength of the roof is determined by pushing a metal plate against one side of it at a slow but constant speed. The force applied relative to the vehicle's weight is known as the strength-to-weight ratio. This graph shows how the ratio varied as the test of this vehicle progressed. The peak strength-to-weight ratio recorded at any time before the roof is crushed 5 inches is the key measurement of roof strength.
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Salvete omnes!
Volo sententiam talem latine scribere:
"Bob said that Bruce said he was hungry," aut "Bruce said that Bob said that Dave said that Mike said that he was hungry."
Quomodo sententiam talem scribere possum?
ptolemyauletes wrote:Latin normally gets around this problem by using 'se' as opposed to 'eum'.
'se' is supposed to refer back to the original subject of the sentence.
...I know I have seen instances in Latin of the se actually referring to the accusative subject rather than the original subject.


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DescriptionThis is a native annual plant up to 3' tall and branching frequently. The hairy stems are green to light pinkish red. The leaves are up to 6" long and 4" across, and are opposite or alternate along the stems. They are deeply pinnatifid, broadly lanceolate (in outline), and usually much wider at the base than the tip. Mature leaves are relatively hairless, but small emergent leaves often have hairs on their undersides. Many of the upper stems terminate in one or more cylindrical spikes of flowers about 1-4" long. Near the base of the central flowering spike, one or two small spikes may develop that are only half as long. The small flowers are initially green, but later turn yellowish green or brown as they mature and develop into achenes. Each flower is about 1/8" long, the males producing a fine yellow pollen that is easily carried by the wind. This pollen is usually released during late summer or early fall. Numerous seeds are produced, which can remain viable for 5 years or more. The extensive root system is fibrous. Cultivation


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After years of searching, I finally found the little jeweled metal pig I'd been looking for. I had one just like this when I was a child in the 1960s, but I couldn't tell you where he came from or why he mattered so much to me. Do you know when and where and who this type of pig came from?


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There's a pretty good chance this is just troll mail.
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
Hello Inquirer of Weird Logic:Your premise is "why doesn't God heal amputees" as an inquiry, to base your entire cult on? Why are you leading a cult of skeptics, based on the foundation of "healing" and "lack of healing" for your very strange teaching?
I just wish you'd sit on the OUTSIDE of the Kingdom and watch as people are given their limbs back,
You must have had a bad father, or were left orphaned.
Hello Inquirer of Weird Logic:
Your premise is "why doesn't God heal amputees" as an inquiry, to base your entire cult on?
Why are you leading a cult of skeptics, based on the foundation of "healing" and "lack of healing" for your very strange teaching?
Also, you realize that in the purest logical argument, you've provided to all the people who are foolish enough to even entertain your sad, pathetic teachings -- that you've invented some form of misleading never seen before (yes, it's original, to the point of completely ridiculous, not innovative in thought, and especially where LOGIC is concerned).
I find it extremely ironic that your false dichotomy is blasted over and over again, with your crowd of foolish listeners actually paying attention.
The logic is so flawed, and the irony is that you try to use logic to prove your argument. Instead, you end up arguing in circles[1] over and over again, and you never answer any questions. You pose questions, and you answer them yourself. You ask foolish questions and then provide irrational stories to support your OWN THOUGHT and subjective opinions on the matter. 1. corrected your spelling
Who told you that God is out healing everyone left and right?
Did you go to some revival[2] tent meeting and feel bad because it was like being shown a magic trick at a circus, then you find out it's a trick later? So you make a whole website or blog devoted to your hatred for magicians and people who perform magic tricks on stage, and your hatred for circuses ENTIRELY because of that one poorly done show that left you disappointed when you said, "You cut that woman in half with a saw, and put her back together. Why don't you heal me, I have no legs!!!" Oh Great and Powerful Oz! 2. spelling correction
You are pathetic. I hope you are an amputee, and I hope you can't wipe your own butt when Judgment comes to you. I will sit and judge you, and order that you have all your limbs removed, as a return with interest -- on your "ministry" in the earth. You sad, sad and foolish man.
You must have had a bad father, or were left orphaned.
That's even sadder. I also wish you didn't hate everyone in the world who wants to believe in God, simply because you want to believe in a Great and Powerful God who gets involved in everyone's life, healing limbs like lizards whose tails fall off, and grow back. If God made humans to regenerate, we should just be immortal as well based on your false logic. Why does God let everyone DIE? Hmm, because based on your logic, there is no God -- because people DIE. Right! Your logic is undeniable. There is darkness and pain, therefore God doesn't exist?
You are so foolish it hurts to even address you in this email. It's painful to just ask you WHY you waste so much time with your false reasoning, your irrational arguments, and your persistent waste of space! Go away, and abandon your folly -- it's really getting on people's nerves, especially the amputees who HATE you, and believe in God still.
Good work on making an entire group of veterans and those who lost limbs, feel like shooting you in the arms and legs, and letting you experience the LOSS of your limbs; unless you already lost them. Good, it serves you right if you're without limbs. You really don't deserve to have arms and legs, if that's your entire audience -- and your target audience, and people who truly despise you (veterans especially, all of them I know, think your website is a joke at first, and then upon seeing how dead serious you are about robbing them of the only hope they have in this life -- that one day they will be restored and see justice -- you come along and try to STEAL that hope from everyone I know). You sick bastard. Grow up, and get over your daddy issues, or your pathetic hatred of revival[3]tents. Everyone knows wrestling is fake as well -- it's a show -- it's show-business! Get OVER it! 3. fixed spelling
No one at any time, EVER, indicated to the people who know their God (not the people who know the Bible, the people who KNOW their Maker) -- such as Native Americans who never HEARD of "the Bible" for example -- still had faith greater than the smallest amount of confidence you ever could conceive of in your short, pathetic, mortal life. It's people like you who make me wish I was never born to begin with;
I wish I never came into this world to meet the likes of you. I care about the amputees and my friends who have been injured and return from a terrible war, WHICH APPARENTLY -- God lets happen in this world..
...look around, IT'S WAR you idiot! Wars are determined until the end, and so far, they're pretty messed up. But there's no war I've ever seen that compares to the one you're waging against people of faith. That, and your SICK and TWISTED premise makes me want to vomit. You are SICK. You are disgusting!
Please remove your DISGUSTING and SICK website, and avoid the lawsuit that should be prepared in defense of EVERY God-fearing amputee I know. You SICK and TWISTED monster!
You don't deserve a platform, so get off your soap-box and APOLOGIZE for years of abuse, and misuse of your freedom of speech, you disgusting criminal!
So what's your premise? You talk A LOT about the Bible. Where do you come off thinking the Bible is so damned important to those who have any real faith?
The Bible is USEFUL, and that's all intelligent sceintists who have faith will EVER teach. But you're not a scientific observer. If you were, you'd have some logical, rational, common sense, and realize the Bible is for people who are still brand new to a faith that's extremely hard to grasp with just words. But truly, you're entirely misled by the Fundamentalists who are saying they are "Christians" and the Catholics through history... but more so than not, you are focusing on what appears to be "Revival Tent Meetings" where false teachers love to swarm, and sway even more weak-willed and lesser intelligent people.
You are coming off as the most judgmental person on earth right now. I find your "ministry" to be appalling, and unfortunately for you -- every jury in this country has at least one person with faith in God sitting there, and sadly, the way juries like to handle cases like yours, is to see the actual damages you are causing and rate them on a scale for judgment that allows you to see the truth, and face justice, when you may have kept "all the laws" you are still defaming character, especially of veterans, who I believe you make references to just by default. It's the most disgusting thing on the web -- and I've seen war, and have dealt with amputees.
Now, take offense or try to defend yourself, but it's not going to slow down the anger you've boiled up against those who only have faith left, and THAT is hard for people who've had their LIMBS BLOWN OFF, okay? So, quit trying to teach people your twisted logic.
You have these twisted thoughts that no one can help. Your logic isn't based on the science of correct thinking, or you'd actually know that your premise is the most flawed garbage to be made into any concept. And you've devoted a whole lot of time and energy to, what appears to be, convincing yourself that there's no God, and if there was a God, people without limbs would have them magically grow back -- then EVERYONE would know there was a God. Good work. Aren't you the brightest crayon in the box!
Now, please, understand your offensiveness, because no one's really buying this. God-fearing amputees hang on to their faith, while you sever people's only extension of hope, the hope that they will be restored one day and be able to walk again, or have limbs again. If you only knew that their faith was so strong -- you'd give up on your pathetic campaign.
But you haven't heard the last of this.
I just want you to have the burning coals of anger well up inside your own conscience, for how many people you've personally offended.
You come off as being extremely pompous, foolish in your logic, and extremely presumptuous where "Christian fundamentalists" seem to be the group you're targeting. Well, let me just tell you they're all flawed, and the idea of "God" is difficult in any culture and in any religion. But the idea still exists, and someone like you isn't going to come out and prove a negative all at once, based on some flawed premise of people's limbs not being healed.
In Judgment, I stated you should have your limbs removed -- but honestly, I just wish you'd sit on the OUTSIDE of the Kingdom and watch as people are given their limbs back, restored health, and watch as people who were hungry have food given to them, the poor being made rich, and the humble being given crowns -- while you sit on the OUTSIDE, in the darkness, by yourself, all alone with your webpage in front of you, the only thing you have all the time on earth to think about, until you beg for forgiveness and see that it will be those who have their limbs restored, who will literally stand up and look at you, in awe, and say what they want to say about YOU. I determined in logic, that from what harsh words you use, and how disgusting your teachings are -- they will stand up and say together that you ought to have your limbs blown off, and I get this deep feeling that's what you're up against.
So, you can doubt the Judgment is a real thing -- but when it is time, you'll either (A) enter the complete blackness of nothing and darkness forever, where non-existent you will be as though you were never born (that's the atheist nirvana of course), or (B) you'll face the other Truth that the world has yet to determine, if they don't have any faith at all... regardless, the Truth will stand in the end if (A) is found to be a lie.
I don't play dice, and I'm more leaning toward the side of mercy where Judgment is concerned. A better premise for you if you EVER decide you have faith, or a conscience, let me give you a different task in how you can constructively get a message across to a much larger crowd: the doctrine of hellfire can't exist with the teaching of a "merciful and kind and loving God of justice and mercy" -- so chew on that one. If you wanted a more powerful premise, it should be something more convincing than your "amputee" rationale; the doctrine of hell is a complete lie, and misleads more people than anything else. It's more disgusting than even your teaching; false teachers IN THE CHURCH have been using hell to instill fear in people for the ages... and they think it's a REAL PLACE of torment. They are mistaking the Judgment, which is temporary, and the wrath of God, which is temporary -- for "eternal pain and suffering in flames of torment with Satan and the fallen angels and demons, forever!" Now consider carefully what I just shared with you. Think about the notion of HELL, and how sick it is. People burning, literally, forever? That's perverted in a way I can't even begin to express. If you think I'm crazy for confronting you like this, and for telling you I believe in God -- but it's impossible for me to have faith and believe in a God who created all things with a purpose, including the knowledge of good AND evil -- so that there will be no desire for evil and no secrets whatsoever... we know evil now. Great. But to what purpose? For the majority of people to burn forever? That's sick.Now, if you want to be constructive, use your talent for reaching an audience, al beit, a small one, and a pretty sick-minded one if you ask anyone I know (amputees from war for example). Nice to hear from one of those on the other side of the fence for a change? I bet you only hear from other skeptics more often than not -- and maybe some Christian yells at you that you're going to go to hell, and you need to believe the Bible.
Well, I'm not telling you that you're going to hell, nor am I saying you should believe the Bible. Though it wouldn't hurt to confront the problems you have with the Bible and figure out what is really motivating your hatred of God... is it... because you're gay? Is it... because you're selfish and loaded down with lusts of such perversions that you know you'd "go to hell" if there was one? Is that it?I just don't think these judgments on either side, are MERITED. So, if you stop with your sick judgments, I'll cease to pass these hypothetical judgments of you and your character, and your "twisted logic". Fix it, or face a court in the real world if you so desire to hear from angry amputees who really, really don't like your website, and would rather see it taken down. Okay?
Thank you!
Very Respectfully:
You have these twisted thoughts that no one can help. You are coming off as the most judgmental person on earth right now. ...You don't deserve a platform, so get off your soap-box and APOLOGIZE for years of abuse, and misuse of your freedom of speech, you disgusting criminal!...You SICK and TWISTED monster!...You are so foolish it hurts to even address you in this email....Go away, and abandon your folly I care about the amputees and my friends who have been injured and return from a terrible war...I hope you are an amputee, and I hope you can't wipe your own butt when Judgment comes to you....what is really motivating your hatred of God... is it... because you're gay? ...You are pathetic.
[...]Very Respectfully...
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ABOVE : A simple Fourth of July setting on our side porch. I cut some blue hydrangeas from our yard and put them in a white pitcher - requires very little skill. Ok, it requires no skill. Just make sure you have plenty of water - the hydrangeas will drink it up in a hurry. The handled mason jars are great glasses, especially as they display with small flags. A light blue cake plate holds piles of stars and strawberry sugar cookies (get recipe here!).
I decided to make some strawberry sugar cookies to go along with the blue and white stars in honor of the Verrill Farms Strawberry Fest and Recipe Contest this weekend. I'm looking for a recipe to enter into the competition... I'm leaning towards a berry cake of some sort? Leave a comment with your suggestions!
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|2012-10-30, 10:01
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Lets get things straight: Most people wouldn't care unless it was someone close to them dying. Thousands of people die in the street due to hunger, but I doubt you'd see most people giving a shite unless they suddenly became friends with that person before they died.
The cast of IS in particula come off as self centered brats 9/10 times so they really wouldn't give two shits about any OC dying unless he was their hidden friend that we mever hear about or something.
|2012-10-30, 10:25
|Link #37903
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
My guess is they wouldn't care. The girls were jealous of pretty boy Charles when he and Ichika got close, but at no point do they converse with him when Ichika invites him for lunch. Short version: Canonically the girls don't give a shite unless it's a rival, in which case they give them he evil eye. If you want to make them care abot Rong, then you'll have to derail their characters slightly to you desired fanon result.
I use the canon approach in regards to OC fics. Irish being terminally ill gets barely a shrug in response and most of the kids from FI get no special treatment unless its from their own parent.
|2012-10-30, 10:56
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
^ Perfectly in character, that is.
I wonder if OCs with Centaurian Knight-shaped unit is too narmtastic, with England prince and all...
Like this, but with retractable wing/thruster module.
Even Cecilia wonder how the hell that work.
|2012-10-30, 11:15
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
It's a ground support for BT, ridiculously agile in spite of size, though only because it's longer than most I.S. overall, and shorter than most of them even. In fact, it's exactly the size of actual horse (with larger leg of course).
Funny thing, it's sustained gallop speed is only 80 km/h -almost twice that of actual horse, but still far slower than any ground I.S.-, the horse-like feet carries small jet that used during hovering leap and dash (same as Blue Tears), therefore it kick like a human does -tibia centered-, rather than a horse
|2012-10-30, 11:26
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That one guy
Join Date: Nov 2011
centaur mode is strictly for pack muling. For example, carrying extremely large array of launcher type weaponry. But that would be moot due to the equalizer system so meh.
Shifting to human mode only requires that the horse body fold up into a backpack. The hind legs have powerful thrusters normally used for jumping gallops but also work as the main thrusters XD
The lance is interesting as it reminds me of Yukianesa(a certain katana). The lance is used as a lance, but actually it's just a scabbard =))
|2012-10-30, 11:38
|Link #37912
I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
The rear body is actually detachable (leading to Squall freaking out in fact), and yes, it was mostly used for heavy cargo hauling. This is because Armored Stratos cannot store their equipment in digital form. Their auto-maintenance and damage regeneration is limited as well. The rear body is actually mostly hollow, mostly composed of internal storage system, leading to more odd moment. Similar to this
Think Optimus Prime's trailer from Third Bayformers Film
The lance is the same as Tate's, only carrying single barrel 'heavy musket' instead of a multi-barrel Gatling. It can't control water either. While the name sounds hilariously retro, it's actually because the projectile and propellant casing is separate until loaded into chamber (like tank cannon), it's still perform like modern smoothbore gun and could fire advanced ammo, like HEAT or APFSDS.
|2012-10-30, 11:55
|Link #37914
I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
No, it's the only way to carry more small arms than usual, all large weapon, such as artillery or heavy launcher, is mounted outside, for smoother ride that is (because quad leg are more stable). The structural frame is durable, just that the frame and armor are separate component than joined together (also called Monocoque)
Except retrofited Shiro Kishi and Kure Zakura (both are normally humanoid, just with more covering), all Armored Stratos are just that odd. The Chinese guy's unit is a massive tiger-like unit with a small cockpit on its back, similar to how you ride a motorcycle, the Germans are gigantic, flying horseshoe crab that fly like a jet aircraft
|2012-10-30, 11:58
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Just another Idiot
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Delusion world
You really took that idea of Centaur serious.....
Either that or Strange mind think alike.
|2012-10-30, 15:59
|Link #37916
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Got another one in the archive.
IS Wings Of Fire
|2012-10-31, 01:24
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Tenshi's Defense Squadron
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Fighting against those who oppress the system
|2012-10-31, 02:10
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Titans Test Team Pilot
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Elysium
(Then again, given how occupied they will be during their final attack on Gospel, having them separated would be... urgh.)
|2012-10-31, 04:59
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Titans Test Team Pilot
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Elysium
I just thought it'll be hard seeing as how the two battles will occur concurrently. Also, seeing how much teamwork was required to bring down the Gospel, I don't know if having one of them splitting off would be a good idea.
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Nvidia GTX 480 Review
Activision's Call of Duty: World at War goes right back to the bread and butter of the franchise - WWII FPS action. In this rendition, you start off in the South Pacific and move through a series of missions that flip back and forth between the Russian front and the island hopping advance toward the Imperial Japanese homeland. Included is a mission on Peliliu Island, arguably one of the more difficult and costly battles in the Pacific theater. The gameplay in the single player mode is rather short, but the game makes up for this shortcoming in online gameplay. If you thought CoD4 looked nice, this game is amazing with the graphics maxed out playing at a high resolution. This game just may be my reason to move to a 30 inch monitor. I will use Fraps to measure a section of gameplay in the Semper Fi map on Makin Island to compare the performance of these video cards.
- Game Settings: Maximum
- FPS measured via Fraps
The highest performance in this game is delivered by the Dual GPU HD 5970 and GTX 295. When it comes to single cards (GPU) the GTX 480 is unmatched, delivering 6 FPS more than the HD 5870 at 2560x1600.


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Every employer who during any calendar year provides group-term life insurance on the life of an employee during part or all of such calendar year under a policy (or policies) carried directly or indirectly by such employer shall make a return according to the forms or regulations prescribed by the Secretary, setting forth the cost of such insurance and the name and address of the employee on whose life such insurance is provided, but only to the extent that the cost of such insurance is includible in the employee's gross income under section 79(a). For purposes of this section, the extent to which the cost of group-term life insurance is includible in the employee's gross income under section 79(a) shall be determined as if the employer were the only employer paying such employee remuneration in the form of such insurance.
Every employer required to make a return under subsection (a) shall furnish to each employee whose name is required to be set forth in such return a written statement showing the cost of the group-term life insurance shown on such return. The written statement required under the preceding sentence shall be furnished to the employee on or before January 31 of the year following the calendar year for which the return under subsection (a) was required to be made.
1986—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–514, in amending subsec. (b) generally, substituted "information is required" for "information is furnished" in heading, and in text substituted reference to employers required to make a return for former reference to employers making a return and reference to employees whose name is required to be set forth for former reference to employees whose name is set forth.
1976—Pub. L. 94–455 struck out "or his delegate" after "Secretary" wherever appearing.
Amendment by Pub. L. 99–514 applicable to returns the due date for which (determined without regard to extensions) is after Dec. 31, 1986, see section 1501(e) of Pub. L. 99–514, set out as an Effective Date note under section 6721 of this title.
Section applicable to group-term life insurance provided after Dec. 31, 1963, in taxable years ending after such date, see section 204(d) of Pub. L. 88–272, set out as a note under section 79 of this title.
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