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A Google search on the PS Vita yields hundreds of stories about Sony's dual-stick, powerhouse handheld's "disappointing sales." It's too expensive, lacks a decent library of games and worst of all, it's irrelevant since millions of consumers play games for free on mobile phones and tablets. Truth be told, this author was close to selling his PS Vita for the same reasons. But now it appears Sony is ready to lay a serious smack down on competitors (and whiny gamers) thanks to three brilliant moves pulled off this week.
waahay! Positivity!
I don't know if the Vita will crush the 3DS (sales wise). But, the Vita is a great device that people should lay off on all the hating on it an allow it to grow and see where things go.
It shouldn't have to grow. It's a monster of a handheld device that should have been very successful from the start, but it wasn't. It isn't hate toward the device, it's hate toward Sony for yet again making poor marketing decisions.
I wonder how many people saw the COD Vita commercial, thought about getting it, but saw the poor reviews on Metacritic and decided against the console altogether. Of all the games Sony chose to market Vita with, Declassified was one of the worst choices.
Sometimes I feel that Sony fans have better marketing ideas than Sony themselves.
til I looked at the paycheck which had said $7984, I didnt believe that my friend was actualey erning money part time on there computar.. there aunts neighbour has been doing this 4 only 10 months and recently cleard the morgage on there mini mansion and got a gorgeous GMC. this is where I went,.. http://youtube.qr.net/jNUN/...
Griffin.... Please tell me, what system WAS successful when it was first brought out?????? I don't recall any system being successful until its first price cut and that happens after a year. Not one single system has been killing in numbers right out the gates. Xbox nope, ps3 nope, wii nope, 3ds nope, ect. Developers are putting out monster games for the system already and it under a year old. A year from today it will produce games better than what it is now. The vitas potential is scary. Once that price drop comes it will sell better.
If memory serves, the wii did well at launch and also years following. Am I the only one that remembers how people were having a hard time finding a wii cause the supply couldn't meet the demand. Also the price for that console didn't drop until near the end of 2009.
@ divine
I never stated the wii or ANY console didn't sell well at launch. I stated that they weren't considered successful until the price drop. And what i meant by "killing out the gates" means it wasnt a like say,apple does. the reason the wii was sold out is the same reason every home console is sold out at launch, including the wiiu they make them slow just for the sold out headlines, making people believe they are missing out on something so they try to buy too. How many times have u heard of a system sellin on eBay for ridiculous prices because of the sell out? It happens to every home console. The wii btw came out costing lower than its other competitors at the time ( something the wiiU should have done again in my opinion) and there for sold good at launch.... So did n64 and look how ps1 crushed it. In America at least it all about the deal, lower cost better sales. Simple really, the company's know this so they launch a console at high price to get the hardcore gamers $ ( people who will buy it because they like to be " first" to own it) after a year or so depending on how sales are ( the wii sold well so Nintendo didn't have to drop as fast btw) company drop prices to continue sales then, and only then will a console or handheld be considered successful . It's far to soon for fail or success story's for the vita or wiiU because they are still in the infant stage in their life span.
@ logic.... Cod declassified is a very fun game in my opinion. I'm pretty sure u haven't played the game with that comment . Yes sp was wakk. But mp is super fun. thos reviews that u let make choices for you have taken u away from that fun. I'm not judging you or nuthin but play it first then make your opinion.
It seems to be popular near me. I'm sitting in a McDonalds right now and the near app shows 18 people within 1 mile of here.
To me, I look at the Nintendo DS game library and I barely see anything that would count as top-quality games, beyond a few simple First-party games like Zelda/Mario and Nintendos' neverending brand name mascots, but it just didn't have what PSP had of a large diversity in strong 2nd party and 3rd party games that stood out beyond what Sony themselves made.
Killzone Liberations and MGS Peacewalker, FF7 Crisis Core alone made me buy a PSP, although a refurbished one as I sought PSP-2000 as I heard of the screen issues for 3000 due to hardware limitations messing it up. Peacewalker and Crisis Core had SO many god damn hours of gameplay that would alone trump the replayability and life of most other handheld titles on the market to this day. I think I have around 200 hours on Peacewalker, 70 hours on CC. Only thing on Nintendos' handheld that could compete time-wise would be Pokemon.
Why Declassified got those bad reviews is beyond my understanding. I think it is a great game on the go. It plays like CoD and it has quite some game modes.
If you expected a full length game like on consoles you might be disappointed, but it has great visuals, "THE" CoD controls, and the typical game modis. Those reviews are idiots, seriously. The game was obviously targeted at a quick in and out mobile market and not the hour long online play a console covers. Everything else is top notch with that game.
The problem is exposure. A buddy of mine has a PS3, and PsP. I was talking to him, and he mentioned that if a new version of the PsP came out he would get it. He had no idea the Vita even exsisted. He was surprised when I told him it's been out for almost a year...
I don't see enough of it for it to be a household name. It needs a good advertising run. A catchy commercial that when you see it you say, "Holy shit, I want that".
shouldn't the headline read crush handheld competitor?
Since you know its only Sony and Nintendo.
*throws up powder*
Delusion... Delusion everywhere
lmao I wish I can find those articles and quote some n4g peeps
on some of the things they said about the vita
I remember words like
kill Nintendo
lol ahahah
its like wiiu is off to a better start than the vita and it gets tons of hate,
vita is failing for almost a year now and people just pat it on the back and tell it to try harder and then n4g users attack the ds and the 3DS lmao. comedy all over man.
comedy and delusion = this thread.
I own a 3DS, had it since launch. The Vita might not be selling well but it blows the 3DS out of the water. and we're only 8 months in.
Here's a pic of my 3DS, http://i.imgur.com/fGMaj.jp... pretty dusty.
Its cool to hate Nintendo, its cool to like Sony. Vita is selling like crap but if you say something about it you get attacked. WiiU seems to be selling good, but if you say anything good about it you get attacked. The internet is a weird place.
I don't neglect my 3DS because its cool to neglect it, I neglect it because I have nothing to play besides 5 hour long games with no content, when I have my Vita with 20+ hr games with loads to do. I will however be picking up prof. Layton soon so I'll have to get the pledge.
well this is news for gamers so as a gamer who likes games i want a awesome game device that playes great games and gaming is what i like to do alot so if my games can be in hd and my games are high quality a gamer like me can be happy with playing games on this gaming device.
No sales = Less/No games.
There has to be a game before the sale, if there is no game sales cannot exist.
The chicken or the egg ordeal, lol, so there will always be games, but there can be only less games.
lol how many times do you wanna use the words gamer, games and gaming in a sentence, lmao
Who approved this positive vita news? must be a mistake?
Yet a journalistic report on the fact the Vita didn't hit top 100 on Amazon even with the black friday price drop got deleted without much word, lol
actually The vita was on gamestop's best sellers top 5 and the 3ds was nowhere in site. Who actually uses amazon to buy video games?
I primarily use Amazon for all my gaming related needs. They have the best prices, free shipping, and no tax in my state. It's a triple win in my book.
A lot of people use amazon for video games, they match steam sales and sometimes even surpass them, you're missing out on a lot of sales. Also the vita bundle did sell, it got sold out..
Gamestop is shitty btw.
PROBABLY BECAUSE THAT IS FALSE BRO. I ALWAYS look at the amazon top 100 selling videogames as my default amazon page to see what new game may be on sale and see whats selling hot.
The AC VITA bundle made it up to around number 40 when it first came out and was the highest the vita has been in a while.
LOOKS LIKE THE AC VITA BUNDLE IS NOW #2, yes #2, on the top selling videogames on AMAZON and is now sold out to buy from amazon. so I guess your info was incorrect.
This might be this highest a vita has ever been in the amazon top 100 selling videogame items.
EDIt--- HAHAHAHAH I just have to laugh again that you call it a "FACT" and I checked and it was at NUMBER 2 bestsellers, easily the highest the VITA has EVER been on amazon, even when it first came out. I look at taht top 100 page almost every day so I would know.
Edit 2-- I got mine in faburary and have barley played my PS3, 360, or PC since; only for the occasional must play game. I like the vita so much because you can just pause whenever and then pick right back up where you left off. I hope everyone enjoys their new vita as much as Ive enjoyed mine.
#1 now and the deals been over for hours lmao. This is a great thing to see that vita is selling really well over the holidays
I just left the black friday sale at walmart and they still had tons of vitas in stock and 2 expensive ps3s and no 360s and most of its games were gone. Looking from what I see from the usa biggest store the vita is not doing well even with the bundles as they had ple ty and i left the store 24 hours after the lines and madness began.
I want to live in a world where Faburary is a real thing.
35 days in the top 100
@xteampro, like every dumb haters : "psp is dying" "bluray is dying" "ps3 is dying" "vita is dying"
Reality is always telling you that you are wrong..
They can't be gamers with that kind of stupid hate for sony (most important brand in the game industry) ..probably shareholders, employees, or worst, americans who hates japaneses.
well all I know was the ps vita and ps3 500 gig models sold out in almost every major retailer in m area and they both are in the top 5 best sellers on gamestop's website. Guess that $199 price tag is the sweet spot for consumers.
This is what I like to hear!!! Sony went full out advertising this device this holiday season with ads and commercials. It looks like the price drop on Black Friday will turn out to be very successful for them especially that amazon one which I was able to get and from the looks of it that has already sold out. Also the free vita games from ps+ are very nice addition. I'm excited to see what developers are making for this system
These Forbes contributor article are always terrible.
The Vita is the finest piece of gaming hardware ever produced by Sony.
i simply cannot put my vita down for long nowadays between playstation all stars and virtua tennis online for me and browser i just love it .
seriously im playing my vita more than my ps3 nowadays. I like portable for now
I have been doing that as well. I still have a decent amount of PS3 and 360 games still sealed. The Wii U pulled me a way for a day but my Vita has become my trusted sidekick when I need to satisfy my gaming needs.
"3 Reasons Sony's PS Vita Will Crush Handheld Competitors"
ohhhh that's why noone wants it?
"LOL at this."
i loled too this guy must not read the news.
maybe you should read the article and not only the headline. -.-
PS Vita is a great device, with growing library of games. The apps are pretty cool with added email app. The graphic is little less than console, but still looks super great. I love my Vita and with the new PS Plus for vita, you can expect a lot more!!!!
I found this funny.
$100 on Vita pulling out of the market within 2 years.
i found your comment not as funny.
$100 that you will be pulled out from this site way before. ;)
I will bet 500 your wrong, might as well say a million cause we both know the vita will stay around at least as long as the psp has. Its a fantastic handheld with some really good games and the brilliant ps+ has just added even more to an already brilliant handheld.
Same history with the PSP doom and gloom and look at it now.
So many people on N4G are out of touch with reality. The problem with the Vita isn't the price or hardware. It's the lack of DEMAND. Playing console quality games on a handheld gaming console isn't something the masses are interested in anymore.
The reason why is the types of games that people want to play on the go are the types that you find on smart phones, IPod touches, and tablets. The exception being the 3DS just because Nintendo tends to make games that have mass appeal.
I'm not trying to HATE on the Vita. I actually want one. But I'm going to wait and see how much support it gets before I buy one. Sales do matter. The Vita will be lucky to reach 4 million units sold by the end of the year. If the Vita doesn't start selling then 3rd party developers won't support it. There is no way the Vita can stay relevant with just 1st party support from Sony.
Why can't it? I thought, Nintendo was famous for mostly relying on 1st party studios?
Look at 1st party game sales for the PS3 in comparison to 3rd party game sales. HUGE gap. Both Microsoft and Sony rely on 3rd pary games sales more than 1st party games sales.
Nintendo is the only company that relies on and thrives off 1st party game sales. Even Nintendo is trying hard to get more 3rd party software support with the 3DS and WiiU. Because they know the majority of game sales come from those developers.
Because Nintendo first party content is better in every objective metric. Nintendo has proven they can carry a console single-handedly, for better and worse. Sony relies more on 3rd party to sell their systems.
My needs have outgrown what the Vita can deliver and tablet gaming has come a long way in the last 2 years. Bards Tale an Baulders Gate are prime examples of how far tablet gaming has come. With the release of the Tegra 4 next year you'll also start to see some of the best mobile visuals yet!
There is simply nothing yet available on the Vita that I can't experience better on other devices, be it a console or tablet. But my needs are also about apps and media playback.
If my needs were only about gaming and the Vita's future was not looking so uncertain then I might have picked one up for Xmas. But as it stands I simply don't have a need for one as yet.
The control argument is also becoming less relevant as I can use a DS3 with my tablet and more and more games are supporting it.
If your needs have outgrown a Vita, why does it even matter to you? Why the hell are you always in a Vita article spreading the doom and gloom?
Play your damn tablet and leave the rest of us alone.
Good luck experiencing anything like Gravity Rush- let alone better- elsewhere.
Oh, and how convenient is it to carry around a DualShock to use with your tablet? And how many of those games- hint: none- are on the same level as what you get on the Vita? For that matter, how many home consoles- hint: none- can you take with you and play on the go?
You're so busy wanting the Vita to be... something... that you don't even recognize what it IS. And you've said it yourself: your needs aren't about gaming. Well, genius, that's what the Vita's primary function is: gaming. Quality gaming on the go, to be specific.
Something neither your home consoles nor your tablets are capable of doing.
Hicken, why should my comments bother you? you're obviously enjoying your Vita so just pass my comments by. Let me ask you a question however. Did you vocally support the PSP Go like you do the Vita or were you unconvinced it would succeed?
Since when is a tablet a gaming console? Especially a handheld one? Ya see a handheld can fit in your pocket with comfort.... Can your tablet? A console a controller does your tablet? Handhelds and consoles first priority is games is your tablet? Lastly and the biggest killer does it have buttons? It doesn't count if u use your ps3 controller.... Because its belongs to a ps3 not your rooted tablet. I like tablets but face it, it's only fun gaming wise for micro games (angry birds bejeweled ect.). It's first and best use is for things like bangbus or redtube and the like. If I'm wrong (god help us all if I am) then that is the most expensive console or handheld I've ever had and the sad thing is none of its games are worth comparing to the cheaper console/handheld/pc games. Just play angry birds, games like uncharted and halo and gravity rush and Mario are not worth your time in your micro gaming world.
The 3ds had the same problem when it launched at a high price and forced Nintendo to drop the price, the psvita did good with the 200$ price and the bundles, expect to see the sales go up after the first price drop.
If it doesn't sale after a price drop then you can say its doomed.
It already crushes the 3DS's lineup of games, but I don't think it will ever catch it, in terms of sales. :/ It's a shame, too. The Vita is the only handheld I've taken everywhere with me since the Gameboy Color. It's so freakin' addicting!
Actually, it doesn't you can look at the critics for each game in the vita and the 3ds, most of them are black ops declassified and all stars quality, the only great game that was released this month it's Persona 4 Golden.
I don't care what critics say. I play All-Stars every day. So do my friends, whether it's on their PS3 or Vita.
There are tons of other games to play, too. That, and Plus just came out, so we all got more games this week.
The 3DS has more higher rated games. They aren't very good though. Bejeweled HD was one of the top rated games this year, but...I think I'll take Uncharted, instead. Just sayin'.
"It already crushes the 3DS's lineup of games" Maybe on planet Zercon.
My Samsung Galaxy 3 is the only handheld I've taken anywhere with me since the original Gameboy.
I am enjoying the games on that then any other handheld and aside from that, I get a lot of games for free.
lol crushes the 3ds' lineup? To each his own I guess but the 3ds has the better games imo. Not to take anything away from the Vita, I mean I love my Go cause its a PS1 in my pocket, but as far as unique gaming sessions the 3ds takes it. It compliments the console as opposed to try and replicate it. Plus the 3d effect is great. Sony just needs to figure out what the Vita is really supposed to be and then market it as such. There are way too many all in one devices out now, do we really need another? Run with the games and give it enough to stand on its own two feet. If PSO turns out to be as addictive as PSO Ep. 1 n 2 were on GC then I'm sold.
I read so many comments/articles about how the vita will share the same fate as the dreamcast, but I just cant see that happening. The second joystick alone makes the vita a hell of a system for me, I remember my hands cramping up just from using the shoulder buttons on the psp to constantly adjust the camera angles in games.
It's all about that Vita... very refreshing article amongst all of these doom & gloom articles. Of course I love gaming on the home consoles. But knowing that I have this "little buddy" (Gilligan reference) with me, this skipper can go anywhere and just immerse myself in the Vita whilst on the go. Got my music, great screen for Netflix watching (Sons Of Anarchy BOYEEE).
Cheers to all my Vita mates... hope to catch yall on Near one day. Send a Treasure Park sheet, or some other goodies. I just may send yall some Sunflowers out of my garden. Peace


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SURF CITY � Surf City�s town council on Nov. 6 unanimously approved plans for a Walmart Neighborhood Market, construction of which may begin as early as this year.
SURF CITY � Surf City�s town council on Nov. 6 unanimously approved plans for a Walmart Neighborhood Market, construction of which may begin as early as this year.
The planned 41,839-square-foot store, which is expected to bring about 90 new jobs to the community, typically takes about nine months to build, a Walmart official said last month.
Smaller than super centers, Walmart�s markets are grocery stores with pharmacies. The store in Surf City would be roughly 10,000 square feet smaller than the Harris Teeter in town.
The market will be built near the intersection of N.C. 210 and N.C. 50 on land previously intended to be the location of the Surf City Promenade, a proposed movie and family entertainment complex. The site already has infrastructure, including water, sewer and roads.
N.C. Department of Transportation is conducting a traffic study to determine whether a stoplight needs to be put on N.C. 210, town planner Todd Rademacher said during the board�s Wednesday night meeting.
Before the town council voted to approve Walmart�s plans, Mayor Zander Guy allowed residents to comment on the matter.
Resident Angela Sox said she doesn�t think the town needs another grocery store.
�I haven�t heard a lot of support for Walmart,� she said. �I think it spoils the image of our town. I think the competition is unneeded. I�m really surprised there is not more opposition to it.�
That�s been the case in Burgaw, where residents are fighting a proposed Walmart.
Burgaw�s planning board last month delayed a decision on the company�s application for a conditional use permit.
In other business, a majority of Surf City council members approved a new town ordinance allowing the operation of golf carts on town roads where the speed limit is 35 mph and lower.
Carts must be inspected and permitted each year by the Surf City Police Department. Drivers must be at least 18.
Citing safety concerns, Councilwoman Nelva Albury and Councilman Buddy Fowler voted against the ordinance.

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MILWAUKEE — The loudest sound in the visitors clubhouse at Miller Park hours before Thursday's game was the echo of bat meeting ball from an adjacent room. There, Jimmy Rollins worked. He hit a ball off a tee for some 20 minutes while teammates watched TV and lounged.
Upon arriving at the ballpark, Rollins was summoned to Charlie Manuel's office for a meeting. At times, Rollins said, there was laughter.
"We have two rules: Hustle and be on time," Manuel said. "We'll see. That's all I have to say."
Manuel was not enraged enough to yank Rollins from Wednesday's game after not running out a grounder to shortstop. They did not chat following the 9-2 loss to Miami. After the pregame talk Thursday, Rollins appeared at the top of Manuel's lineup.
"I'll handle it," Manuel said. "And if I don't handle it, that's my fault."
Three team sources, each of whom requested anonymity in respect for Manuel, believed it was a larger problem that no player in the Phillies clubhouse chided Rollins for his mistake.
"That was terrible," one of the sources said.
Another noted Rollins has done similar things in the past that were easier to overlook with the team's success. Headed for a long winter, there is more criticism.
"Winning kills all," that source said.
Rollins agreed with that sentiment.
"Those things only come about when you lose, and that's the truth," Rollins said. "Nobody said nothing the day before when you win, or when you go from first to third on a ground ball up the middle, or when you score [from first] on a ball hit down the line. So you take it with a grain of salt."
Rollins, calm and relaxed Thursday, indicated there was a problem before he stepped to the plate in the sixth inning Wednesday.
"I was just upset before I even got up there," Rollins said. "I was already out of it. Mentally just upset."
"It's nothing to be talked about," he said. "It's not an excuse."
Asked if he regretted it, Rollins said, "Sure."
Manuel said there is no use in singling out one player for a lack of hustle. He has benched Rollins for similar situations in previous years. The manager estimated "75 to 80 percent" of players don't run at times.
"Every time I watch a game I see it," Manuel said. "But at the same time, that gets old after a while. You don't have to accept it."
He believed his intended message was understood.
"Everybody is going to hustle. That's my job. That's for the integrity of baseball. That's for respect for the manager, the players and the organization. Everything. No matter who you are."
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Britney Spears Made Several People Cry on The X Factor
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Those expecting sunshine and catatonia from Britney Spears' new gig as X Factor judge must have been surprised to see how dismissive and blunt she proved to be on last night's Season 2 premiere of the Fox singing competition.
She hasn't seemed as with it, if you will, in years and she bordered on delicious bitchiness at times. Were it not for the brief verbal flub, "I feel uncomfortable with you even staring at me," would have had come off as the barely affected words of a reality TV veteran. It seems like this is one job that Britney Spears might actually enjoy? (That's as opposed to the pop-star thing that she's been sleepwalking through for the past few albums.) She was put on the spot when a guy she sang with on her debut album, Don Philip, showed up as a jittery mess who could no longer sing. She was sensitive and honest, which exceeds my expectations for superstars twice over.
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The show knows they've got a winner here and included a montage of her curt send-offs. Instant supercuts are what we get in 2012. More interesting from a subtextual perspective is Simon Cowell's incessant negging of this season's other new judge, 20-year-old Disney vet Demi Lovato. Creepy with a chance?
Britney joining this show means that she is making herself available for the iconography of today: the reaction gif. The Internet will be flooded with these, if it isn't already. Welcome home, Brit.


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Next month, among the slew of third-party apps hitting the iPhone's App Store, blogging tool TypePad will be giving its users a new way to blog on the go. The native application was just announced at Apple's WWDC Monday morning, but I got a sneak peek at it last week. I think it's going to be a lifesaver for bloggers who want to monitor and administrate their blogs while away from a laptop or home PC.
The app will let you write and edit posts on your phone and save them for later, helping people avoid that potentially great write-up from getting lost because you're in a cellular dead spot or your browser crashes. Six Apart's Open Platforms Technical Lead David Recordon tells me the company is expecting users to treat it as more of a monitoring tool to keep an eye on comments, traffic, and posts from other contributing writers.
Last year, the company introduced two smaller-scale efforts that offered similar features--one for its hosted blogging solution Movable Type, and another for TypePad. Both ran in Safari, whereas the new app runs natively and gets access to Apple's new developer service that allows for application notifications that can be pushed over the air without wearing down the phone's battery with extra processes.
Similar apps for other blogging platforms including WordPress and Blogger should be expected in the coming weeks. I'm also expecting to see Six Apart add support for Movable Type later this year.


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Perhaps I can comment on a property of the truth, in light of a discussion with one reader. Where I'd like to go here is to demonstrate that the truth can be used as a therapeutic tool to guide us in our personal work.
I imagine that readers of this site may agree that life was designed. The Creator, the One, the Source created life, as we've discussed on occasion, (1) so that God could meet God in a moment of our enlightenment.
God wanted to meet Him/Her/Itself and cannot do that when He/She/It is all there is. So God created illusory life forms (us) and gave each the task of knowing its true identity, essential nature, or real form.
Each time one of God's creatures realizes itself, God meets God.
If we accept that this may be so (and it may not be so; I could be wrong), then we may come to see the special role that truth plays in life. The end of life is to realize the truth. Therefore truth has a very special place in life. It is what we all seek to know by God's own design.
Knowing the ultimate Truth of our being sets us free from the round of life and death. Those who realize the ultimate Truth need not be reborn. They've completed the task for which they incarnated into this school we call life.
The Divine Mother raised the Child of God, teaching him or her by means of universal laws that mirrored back what was divine and what was not. The Child of God learned about the divine qualities and then modelled them. He or she became more and more like God. And then finally he or she realized the Truth – that he or she is God. Voila! Purpose of life accomplished.
If what I've said so far is acceptable, would it be any surprise that the interim truth, the truth of the moment, your truth and my truth, would also set us free in more minor ways?
For instance, would it be a surprise to say that my telling the truth of my situation would result in release from any unwanted (psychological) conditions I'm in or upsets I might feel?
If I'm feeling upset, examine what the situation is, hit upon what is really, really happening and actually tell you what that is, would it be any surprise that knowing and telling the truth of the matter would set me free from any upset feelings and other unwanted conditions?
If we know that the truth plays a special role in the drama of life, I personally would not be surprised to find that the truth would set me free from the unwanted condition. After all, needing to be reborn into this vale of tears is itself an unwanted condition and the truth sets us free from that.
So, again, if you accept what I've said so far, would it also be surprising if I said that this situation provides us with a very good therapeutic tool – a compass – to help us know which way to go in life? Knowing that the truth will set us free from upsets as well as from the incarnational round of life itself can be used to show us the way.
Let me describe what I'm trying to say. If I know the truth would set me free from the upset, could I not watch myself and see if what I'm saying to you is setting me free from the upset or getting me more upset than I was? If it's setting me free from it, if I'm experiencing more and more relief and more and more release, would I not be justified in saying and thinking that I must be telling the truth or getting closer to it?
And if I found myself feeling more and more bound, more and more upset, would I not be justified in thinking that what I'm saying to you cannot be the truth of the matter? Is not my feeling more tension and bondage proof that I'm not telling the truth?
So I could use this circumstance as feedback to myself on whether I'm telling the truth, could I not? More tension and bondage, no truth here. More relief and release, hmmmmm… I may be getting somewhere.
So the fact that life is designed such that the truth will set us free can be used as a therapeutic tool to help us know whether we're getting closer to the truth or farther away. And the fact that it can be so used is deducible from the design of life itself.
(1) For instance in the papers to be found here: http://goldenageofgaia.com/spiritual-essays/the-divine-plan-for-life/


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from Dynamo Salem
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Preki is patiently waiting for his coaching debut in
the English second division.
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mastroeni... the question is not if but when. and if not, the question is, what exactly are they smoking in colorado and can i get some of it? from Shaolin Mystigods
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Pablo almost got the job by forfeit when mgmt had to hire somebody, anybody. More than anyone I think Caleb Porter has some explainin' to do from The Laws of Lalas
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porter has more talent, that is for sure. colorado just seems to have no tactical plan. no personality. no je nais say quoi. how do you have gabriel torres on the bench and three guys i have never heard of going the full 90. he wants to play his formation and boring style of soccer instead of playing to his team's strengths. one more thing (and this one is not his fault, really). the crowds at the Dick are a joke. if you watch the highlights, you see there was basically nobody there last night. i get they are bad and the stadium is not in the best place... but it was sad. from Dynamo Salem
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If anyone is on the hot seat right now it is Porter. Down below the red line with another anemic performance at home versus an opponent the Timbers failed to score on, failed to look dangerous despite having the majority of possession.
He is an analytical guy, very good at presenting his ideas, the big question is if Merritt Paulson has lost patience.
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Too many foreign imports and not enough development
player development for me. I wouldn't be sad to see
him go.
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I hope they keep him . . . from Dynamo Salem
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We are at the stretch. What will happen? Who knows. So far only Yallop and Klopas have been replaced. Is there blood in the water?
Ratings 1 completely safe to 10, the villain pushes the button, the small cannon emerges from the car hood and fires.
Portland, Caleb Porter 8- The Timbers have been unconvincing and anemic all year long. Now that they are below the red line, even if the Timbers can claw their way into the playoffs, no one considers them a threat in the post season. AND, a series of flaccid home losses are not helpful. Porter would be at 9 if the Timber�s owner/GM were crazier.
NYRB, Jesse Marsh 1- I heard Ali Curtis rewrote the page in his binder that says to fire the coach for no good reason.
Toronto, Greg Vanney 6- Geovinco is that team. When he is gone, they relapse into horribleness. When he is on the field there is little to no defense.
Philly, Jim Curtin, 8- Now that Sakiewicz is gone the crazy factor has gone away. Ruud Gullit is out there, maybe he can fill in.
Colorado, Pablo Maestroaenni 9.99- There is a rumor that the moustache is in for next year, one can only guess to finish clearing out the stadium of any fans.
Houston, Owen Coyle 5- hey Houston is playing! Zzzzzzzzz.
Jason Kreis, NYFC, 5. NYCFC is looking better.
Jeff Cassar, Salt Lake, 7- Watching Salt Lake move from a Western powerhouse to an also ran under Cassar is painful. Losing Lagerway is part of that equation, but when the players can�t figure out the formation, red flags.
Diminic Kinnear, San Jose, 1- Watching Kinnear move this stinker back above the red line is amazing.
Siggi Schmid, Seattle, 9- Last weekend in Seattle Schmid as shown, I think definitively, that Seattle cannot beat the Galaxy. My guess is that his contract ends at the end of the season and it will be time to move on.
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Grant Wahl is reporting that Jason Kreis' job may be in danger and he may be replaced by Patrick Vieira.
My prediction, if Patrick Vieira takes over NYFC, they will miss the play offs but worse than this year.
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If true, Kreis would be unemployed for all of about
50 seconds if that's what he wants.
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Empire Soccer says it's true.
With everything that came at him this year, a no
show star in Lampard, Pirlo who he didn't need but
had to take, and a bunch of other stuff. Kries
didn't do a bad job.
If they get a bunch of Europeans in there, NYFC will
fall flat on its face.
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As reported by CNET, apparently a user of both Facebook and Google+ wanted to cross-pollinate his social networking farms and, since Facebook is still the more fruitful territory at the moment, decided to take out an ad with Facebook to get folks to add him on Google+. These two are, of course competitors, currently vying for users attention and loyalty. Apparently Facebook believes the best way to do that is to not only block this gentleman's Google+ ad, but all of his ads on Facebook. The notice he received?
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So Facebook, embroiled in a war to win the hearts and minds of internet users, is pretending that the war doesn't exist. There is no Google+, at least not in Facebook-Land, where everything is milk, honey, and Farmville requests. We know why ostriches didn't evolve this kind of behavior.
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Gregorio de Ferrari (Italian, Porto Maurizio 1647 - 1726 Genoa)
Love Conquers All
Verso: Study for Pyramus
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, black chalk, white heightening, on grey (formerly blue) paper
14 15/16 x 60 3/4 in. (38 x 154.2 cm)
General Acquisitions Fund and Friends of Art Endowment Fund, 1973
This large sheet is a preparatory study for part of the ceiling decoration in a gallery in the Palazzo Balbi-Senarega, Genoa. Representing episodes from famous classical love myths, perhaps to celebrate the marriage of a Balbi heir, Ferrari's decorative work embodies an important phase in the development of ceiling painting in palaces of the Genoese nobility.
Construction of the Palazzo Balbi-Senarega was begun in 1618 for Giacomo Balbi (d. 1630), a prominent citizen of Genoa. His son, Francesco Maria Balbi (b. ca. 1619), inherited the palazzo around 1644, and subsequently commissioned many vault paintings there beginning in the 1650s. 1 The Oberlin drawing documents a portion of Ferrari's decorative scheme for the long gallery, one of the palazzo's major interior spaces. The theme of the gallery is the triumph of love over mortals and gods alike. The central, oval portion of the vault is illusionistically open to the heavens to reveal Cupid's triumphal procession in a chariot. In the lower zone of the vault, tumbling cherubs surround reclining mythological pairs grappling with the consequences of love. The scheme is completed by additional lovers represented in the lunettes on the end walls of the gallery. 2
The Oberlin drawing presents a nearly completed design for a portion of the upper wall and vault. The focus of the drawing is not on the illusionistic vault, which is only partially rendered at the top of the sheet, but on the narrow space between the upper wall and the lower zone of the vault. Depicted in the drawing are, from left to right, Pyramus and Thisbe; a satyr, Bacchus and Ariadne; Mercury, Pan, and Syrinx; Neptune; and Nessus and Deianeira. 3
The drawing is a generally accurate model for the figures and their precarious positioning atop the jutting architecture. 4 The squaring of the right half of the drawing suggests that this was the final state of the design before it was transposed to the upper wall and vault. Yet the drawing also reveals that Ferrari was still considering alternate decorative systems for the architecture: on the right-hand side of the drawing, dentils are featured in the cornice above the pilasters, while on the left-hand side, palmettes are used. For the final articulation of the continuous band, Ferrari chose the more festive palmettes.
The drawing also reveals Ferrari's concern with merging an actual space--the gallery where the spectator stands--with an imaginary, narrative realm: the site of love's passions in the heavenly domain of the upper vault. As was generally favored in Genoese architectural decoration, Ferrari extended the room's walls upward with fictive painted architecture, to give the impression of an actual view of the heavens rather than, for example, a framed picture of a heavenly scene. 5 As in the earlier decoration of another room in the Balbi palace, 6 Ferrari articulated the rectangular form of the room below with one cornice, and framed the mythological apotheosis with another, curved cornice located immediately above the first. 7
To improve upon the illusionistic means of his predecessors, however, Ferrari opened up the entire vault to the heavens, and gave the vault a greater sense of spaciousness by clustering the figures around the edges. 8 He also extended the fictitious space more directly into the beholder's realm by merging the human activity in the lower vault, which was painted in two dimensions, with the architectural ornament of the walls, which was represented partly in three dimensions. In the drawing the fictitious and real realms appear inseparable. In the actual gallery, Ferrari achieved a bravura integration of two and three dimensions by a sophisticated technique that overlaid painting on stucco, so that two-dimensional figures appeared to rest naturally upon, or even overlap, the projecting stucco capitals and cornice.
This technique of merging painting, sculpture, and architecture for an illusionistic purpose had been developed mostly by artists outside Genoa. 9 Ferrari studied such works by Parmigianino (1503-1540) and Correggio (ca. 1489-1534) in Parma, 10 where he also encountered Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Baciccio), a Genoese artist who worked with Giànlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) in Rome. 11 He may have also encountered Baciccio in 1693 in Genoa, after the latter had executed the vault in the church of the Gésu, Rome (1672-85, after Bernini's designs). 12
No documents have come to light fixing the exact date of the execution of the gallery's decoration and thereby suggesting a time frame for the drawing. Stylistic features are consonant with a date in the 1690s, which fits well with Ferrari's return from Marseilles in 1693 and the marriage of the Balbi heir in November of that year. 13 In contrast to Ferrari's earlier works, both the drawing and finished fresco give the impression of lightness to the figures, both through the figures' diminished size in relation to the vast space rendered in the illusionistic vault, and, in the fresco, through a more pastel palette. Gavazza has detected the presence of a less able hand in the center of the completed fresco, and has therefore proposed a date as late as the second half of the 1690s, in order to accommodate the hypothetical participation of Gregorio's young son Lorenzo (1680-1744). 14 Given the echoes of Baciccio's work in the Gésu in Ferrari's ambitious integration of two and three-dimensional media, it is tempting to fix the terminus post quem to 1693, when Baciccio returned to Genoa.
Although guadratura painters often collaborated with figural specialists in creating elaborate frescoes for palaces and churches during this period in Italy, the Oberlin drawing indicates that Ferrari alone was responsible for both the architectural and figural composition of the executed work. 15
The subject of love's triumph has a long history in Italian palace decoration, notably in the loggia Raphael painted for Agostino Chigi (ca. 1518) in the Villa Farnesina, Rome, and in Annibale Carracci's gallery in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome (ca. 1600). Ferrari's repetition of many scenes from the Farnese gallery suggests this famous monument as an iconographic model for the celebration of an important dynastic union. 16 Whereas Carracci gently mocks the love-induced weakness of the great, Ferrari, however, implies the eventualheavenly apotheosis of those who love. This interpretation corresponds with the general inclination, in Genoese palace decoration of the later seventeenth century, to aggrandize noble owners through allegorical linkage with classical gods. 17
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After the death of Domenico Fiasella (1589-1669), a Genoese fresco painter with whom Ferrari studied from about 1664 to 1668, Ferrari went to Parma for approximately four years, where he copied works by Correggio and probably also encountered Giovanni Battista (Baciccio). On his return to Genoa, he began working with Domenico Piola (1627-1703), an important Genoese palace decorator of the period, and influenced Piola's subsequent painting style. Ferrari married Piola's daughter in 1674. In addition to numerous ecclesiastical commissions, Ferrari painted works in Genoese palaces and villas, including the Palazzo Balbi-Senarega, Palazzo Brignole-Sale (now Palazzo Rosso), Palazzo Centurione, and Palazzo Saluzzo, as well as the Villa Balbi allo Zerbino in Gropallo. Ferrari may have worked on the decorations for the Real Palazzo in Turin (now destroyed) about 1690. Ferrari is not known to have traveled to many other artistic centers in Italy, but nevertheless learned of major trends in illusionistic painting elsewhere on the peninsula from fellow artists and from drawings and prints. In 1692, he was invited to work in Marseilles, and returned to Genoa in 1693.
After the turn of the century, Ferrari was occupied mainly with painting ecclesiastical commissions; his last were frescoes in the church of Santa Croce and San Camillo, Genoa (1715-26).
General References
Soprani, Raffaello, and Carlo Giuseppe Ratti. Delle vite de'pittori, scultori, ed architetti Genovesi.... Genoa, 1797. Reprint, Bologna, 1969, vol. 2, pp. 109-18.
Griseri, Andreina. "Per un profilo di Gregorio de Ferrari." Paragone 6, no. 67 (1955), pp. 22-46.
Gavazza, Ezia. "Contributo a Gregorio de Ferrari." Arte Antica e Moderna 24 (1963), pp. 326-36.
Newcome, Mary. "'Et nos cedamus Amori': A Drawing by Gregorio de Ferrari for the Palazzo Balbi-Senarega in Genoa." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 31, no. 2 (1973-74), pp. 78-91.
Dufour, Colette Bozzo, et al., eds. La Pittura in Genova e in Liguria. Vol. 2. Dal seicento al primo novecento. Genoa, 1987, pp. 266-67.
Newcome, Mary. "Gregorio de Ferrari and the Influence of Domenico Fiasella on his Work." Antichità Viva 33 (1994), pp. 23-31.
Sale Amsterdam (no date) (as "Italian School, 18th century") 18
With Ferdinando Peretti, London, from whom purchased in 1973
Binghamton, N.Y., University Art Gallery, State University of New York, 1972. Genoese Baroque Drawings. 1 October - 10 December. Cat. no. 74.
Beam, Jacob. "Review of exhibition, Genoese Baroque Drawings." Master Drawings 11 (1973), p. 294.
Newcome, Mary. "'Et nos cedamus Amori': A Drawing by Gregorio de Ferrari for the Palazzo Balbi-Senarega in Genoa." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 31, no. 2 (1973-74), pp. 78-91.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (Oberlin, 1976), p. 24, fig. 120.
Newcome, Mary. "Notes on Gregorio de Ferrari and the Genoese Baroque." Pantheon 37 (1979), pp. 142-49, ill. p. 149, fig. 14.
Gavazza, Ezia. Lo Spazio dipinto (Genoa, 1989), pp. 197, 205-6, 258, n. 218, ill. pp. 120-121, fig. 152.
Technical Data
The drawing is made of three overlapping sheets joined together to accommodate the large spatial representation required. The artist laid out an underdrawing in black chalk on the (originally blue) paper, then sketched the main features in brown ink, and finished the drawing with brown wash and white heightening. Some of the architecture was defined with a straightedge.
Prior to acquisition by the museum, the drawing was glued to a mount around its perimeter; the mount was removed in 1973, at which time the study of Pyramus was discovered on the verso. 19
The watermark of an anchor surmounted by the letters "MA" (once "MI"?), in a circle crowned by a six-point star (visible on all three sheets) most closely resembles Briquet 552. 20 It indicates that the paper is probably of North Italian origin.
1. Ezia Gavazza, Lo Spazio dipinto (Genoa, 1989), p. 38 n. 2, p. 39 n. 25. Today the palace houses the Istituti e Dipartimenti della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Genova. Rooms in the Balbi-Senarega palace decorated in an earlier campaign (1650s-60s) include vaults representing Peace with Happiness and Abundance, by Valerio Castello and Andrea Sighizzi; the Rape of Proserpine, by Castello and school of Sighizzi; a Chariot of Time, by Castello and Sighizzi; Leda, by Castello; Jupiter among Personifications of the Arts, by Domenico Piola; Apollo and the Muses, by Piola and Paolo Brozzi; and Strength Triumphing over Vices, by Piola; op. cit., pp. 9-38, 74-76, 146-47. Other rooms executed beginning in the 1670s by Ferrari under the aegis of his father-in-law Domenico Piola include the rooms of Hercules and of Zephyr and Flora; op. cit., pp. 152-53. The small room in an alcove adjacent to the gallery, related stylistically and iconographically, represents Myths of Love, and was painted by Ferrari, possibly with assistance from his son Lorenzo; idem, p. 206.
2. On the decorative scheme of the gallery, see Mary Newcome, "'Et nos cedamus Amori': A Drawing by Gregorio de Ferrari," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 31, no. 2 (1973-74), pp. 78-79; and more recently, Ezia Gavazza, Lo Spazio dipinto (Genoa, 1989), p. 206. The lunettes may depict Cornelius Gallus and Lycoris, and Helen and Paris. They bear inscriptions, respectively, of "E[t no]s cedam[us] amori" and "Utrinq[ue] triumphus amoris." The first inscription (from Virgil's Eclogues 10, 69) abbreviates the passage, "Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love." The second refers to the triumph of love over both the seduced and the seducer.
3. Not represented in this drawing are the mythological figures populating the other side of the frescoed vault: Vulcan; Venus and Mars; Hercules and Omphale; and Jupiter, disguised as a satyr, with Antiope.
4. For slight variations from the completed fresco, see Mary Newcome, "Notes on Gregorio de Ferrari and the Genoese Baroque," Pantheon 37 (1979), pp. 79-82.
5. The Genoese tradition that Ferrari responded to was influenced by the Bolognese quadratura painters Colonna and Mitelli, who were active in Genoa in the 1650s; see Ebria Feinblatt, Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Ceiling Decorators (Santa Barbara, Calif., 1992), pp. 89-101. See also Ezia Gavazza, Lo Spazio dipinto (Genoa, 1989), passim.
6. Representing Peace with Happiness and Abundance by Valerio Castello and Andrea Seghizzi, this room was completed before Castello's death in 1659; Gavazza, Lo Spazio dipinto (Genoa, 1989), p. 74.
7. This allusion to the older framing system gave a sense of harmonious continuity to the chronologically separated rooms of the palace, and thus lent an appearance of dynastic permanence to the Balbi family seat.
8. Pietro da Cortona had created a similar design in the Room of Mars in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence, executed 1644-45/46; Malcolm Campbell, Pietro da Cortona at the Pitti Palace: A Study of the Planetary Rooms and Related Projects (Princeton, 1977), pp. 199-205.
9. Two Genoese rooms reflecting these influences are the room of about 1684 featuring the Triumph of a Warrior in the Palazzo Centurione, and the room of 1687 of Spring in the Palazzo Brignole-Sale (Palazzo Rosso); see Ezia Gavazza, "Problemi relativi alla cultura di 'decorazione' del primo Settecento a Genova," Studi di Storia delle arti 1 (1977), p. 121; Gerhard Gruitrooy, "Three bozzetti by Gregorio de Ferrari and some related documents," The Burlington Magazine 128 (1986), pp. 666-70; and Ezia Gavazza, Lo Spazio dipinto (Genoa, 1989), pp. 151, 321. In some other rooms of the Brignole-Sale palace, a stuccoworker was employed; this choice of medium reinforced the traditional tendency to treat stucco as a discreet, enframing medium.
10. For Ferrari in Parma, where he copied Correggio's Assumption of the Virgin in the cupola of the Duomo, see Mary Newcome Schleier, Disegni Genovesi dal XVI al XVIII secolo (exh. cat., Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, 1989), p. 144.
11. For Ferrari and Baciccio, see Ezia Gavazza, "Contributo a Gregorio de Ferrari," Arte Antica e Moderna 24 (1963), pp. 326-36.
12. In 1693 Baciccio returned to Genoa after winning the commission to decorate the vault of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in the Palazzo Ducale, where Ferrari surely encountered him again. For this unexecuted project, see Mary Newcome Schleier, Genoese Baroque Drawings (exh. cat., University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Binghamton, N.Y., 1972), p. 43, cat. no. 113. For Baciccio's Genoese students in Rome, who also encountered Bernini's techniques, see Mary Newcome Schleier, Disegni Genovesi dal XVI al XVIII secolo (exh. cat., Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, 1989), p. 170. For Bernini's merger of media in the service of an illusionistic "reality," see Irving Lavin, Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts (New York and London, 1980), esp. pp. 43-44, 54-57, 127-29. For Bernini's designs for the Gesù, executed by Baciccio, see Steven Ostrow, "Intercession of Christ and the Virgin," in Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini, ed. Irving Lavin (exh. cat., The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1981), pp. 310-15.
13. Francesco Maria Balbi II married Clarice Durazzo di Agostino on 16 November 1693; Ezia Gavazza, Lo Spazio dipinto (Genoa, 1989), pp. 206 and 262 n. 280.
14. Ezia Gavazza, Lo Spazio dipinto (Genoa, 1989), p. 206.
15. For Ferrari's sculptural collaborations, see Fausta Franchini Guelfi, "Appunti su alcuni problemi della cultura figurative a Genova alla fine del Seicento," Pantheon 33 (1975), pp. 318-27; and Mary Newcome Schleier, Disegni Genovesi dal XVI al XVIII secolo (exh. cat., Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, 1989), pp. 158-60, cat. no. 80.
16. Mary Newcome, "'Et nos cedamus Amori': A Drawing by Gregorio de Ferrari," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 31, no. 2 (1973-74), p. 86; Ezia Gavazza, Lo Spazio dipinto (Genoa, 1989), p. 206. For the Farnese gallery as depicting a visual epithalamium, or ancient poetic celebration of marriage, see Charles Dempsey, "'Et nos cedamus Amori': Observations on the Farnese Gallery," The Art Bulletin 50 (1968), pp. 363-74.
17. Colette Bozzo Dufour et al., eds., La Pittura a Genova e in Liguria, vol. 2, Dal seicento al primo novecento (Genoa, 1987), p. 197.
18. Wolfgang Stechow, Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (Oberlin, 1976), p. 24.
19. Note by Marjorie Cohn, Associate Conservator, Fogg Art Museum, dated 15 November 1973, in the museum files.
20. Charles Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionaire Historique des Marques du Papier, 4 vols. (Leipzig, 1923).


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Determine When You Ovulate
You might remember from high school sex ed that an egg can only survive for 12 to 24 hours after ovulation, while sperm can survive for 48 to 72 hours after sex. Unfortunately, this means that there's a pretty narrow window of opportunity for babymaking.
To up your chances of timing things properly, it's helpful to know when you ovulate. While you might have a vague notion that ovulation typically happens around day 14 of your menstrual cycle (counting the first day of your period as day 1), that is probably the case only for women with a regular 28-day cycle, which is a minority of us (most women fall somewhere in the 24- to 35-day range). What's true on a broader scale is that ovulation usually occurs about 14 days before the last day of a woman's menstrual cycle, or the day before she gets her period. So, for a woman with a 24-day cycle, ovulation likely happens around day 10, while a woman with a 35-day cycle would likely ovulate around day 21.
If you're not sure how long your menstrual cycle is naturally or when you ovulate, it may be helpful to keep track on a calendar of when you get your period and how long it lasts, to give you a better sense of when you're most likely ovulating. If you're feeling slightly more high tech, a Fertility Calculator can be a handy tool when time is of the essence.
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Chart Your Basal Body Temperature
Another way to determine when you ovulate is by charting your basal body temperature (BBT). To do so, you'll need to buy a basal thermometer, which shows tenths of degrees. You'll need to take your temperature every morning immediately upon waking—before even getting out of bed to pee. Your temperature usually drops subtly the day you ovulate; then it rises the following day and stays elevated until you get your period (or throughout your pregnancy, should you conceive that month).
Charting your BBT likely won't be very helpful that first month, as you'll only know after the fact that you have ovulated (courtesy of that temperature spike)—but charting your BBT for a few months in a row can help you determine patterns in your menstrual cycle and better predict when you will ovulate the next time around (and therefore when you and your partner should be getting busy). But, basal body temperature can be thrown off by a number of factors, including illness. And if you don't remember to do it first thing, it won't be accurate.
Additionally, charting your BBT can help to confirm that any fertilized eggs would have time to implant. If your luteal phase (the time between ovulation and your next period, during which your BBT should be slightly elevated) is shorter than 11 days, that may mean that any potential pregnancy could have difficulty "sticking," explains Ringland Murray, M.D., a reproductive endocrinologist in Chattanooga, TN.
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Spotting or Bleeding
One of the first signs of miscarriage can be bleeding, ranging from light spotting to a heavier, bright red flow. Of course, many women who experience bleeding early on end up having a healthy pregnancy, but call your doctor to have it checked out, just in case.
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Use an Ovulation Predictor Kit
If charting BBT or monitoring cervical mucus sounds like a bit much, you can also pick up an ovulation predictor kit (OPK) at your local drugstore ($20-$50), although they are by no means a necessity when you're just getting started trying to conceive, says Dr. Banooni.
OPKs help to give you a heads up that you're about to ovulate, which is a signal that you and your partner should schedule some immediate sexy time. They work by detecting a surge in luteinizing hormone (LH) in your urine, which generally happens about 24 to 36 hours before you ovulate.
Kit instructions generally recommend testing at the same time each day, but it's usually best with the second pee of the day (this is because the hormone surge often starts around 3 am, so there's not enough of it in your first urine of the morning to be detected). To test, simply pee on a test stick (or dip the stick in a cup of urine), and wait for the results to appear. Depending on the kind of test, it may show a second line (the first is a control line to show you the test is working properly), or a symbol like a smiley face to indicate that it's go-time.
It's helpful to use an OPK in conjunction with another method of determining when you ovulate, like charting your BBT, so that you'll have a better sense of when to use the OPK, because they usually come with only about 5 to 7 test strips, which means you need to have a good sense of when to start testing during your menstrual cycle. If you're sure of when you ovulate, then feel free to head straight for the OPK.
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Try a Fertility Monitor
Another, albeit more expensive option, would be to use a fertility monitor, like the Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor ($200, plus $50/pkg of 30 test sticks), which tracks not only the LH surge but estrogen as well, potentially identifying up to 6 of your most fertile days. This works best for women with cycles between 21 and 42 days long, and is not recommended for women who have recently been pregnant, breastfeeding, or taking hormonal birth control or fertility drugs (instead wait until you've had two full menstrual cycles without any of these factors that could affect your cycle).
To use a fertility monitor, you'll get started on the first day of your next period and will choose a 6-hour window for daily testing. Check the monitor each day during those 6 hours to see if you should use a test stick. If so, you'll do the same kind of urine testing as with a regular OPK, but instead of reading the results on the stick yourself, you'll insert it into the monitor, which will give you a reading of low, high, or peak fertility. The monitor will ask you to use at least 10, if not 20 sticks during a cycle to obtain sufficient information about your hormone changes through that time.
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Have Sex Before Ovulation
To ensure that your partner's swimmers are meeting up with your egg at just the right time, try to have sex every other day, starting five days before you expect to ovulate (this 6-day period is sometimes referred to as the "fertile window," ending on the day of ovulation). If you're using an OPK and you get a positive result that day (around day 12 in a typical 28-day cycle, where ovulation would take place on day 14), have sex that day and the next two days, if possible. While there is some evidence that having sex daily may lead to slightly higher pregnancy rates, every other day should suffice—and daily sex should be avoided if it's just adding to the stress of trying to conceive for you or your partner. If you're up for it, though, sex every day won't do you or your partner any harm—there's no evidence that frequent ejaculations decrease male fertility, according to the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM).
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Don't Sweat the (Sexual) Details
While we're all for a girl getting exactly what she wants, don't worry about it if you can't achieve orgasm during sex; although it certainly adds to the enjoyment of the moment, it won't impact your chances of getting pregnant.
On a similar note, just do what feels good to the two of you. Don't worry about which position will increase your chances—the best is the one that feels good to you. And while you should feel free to hang out on your back for a few minutes post-sex, don't feel like you have to, as sperm can be found way up in the cervical canal seconds after ejaculation, regardless of which position a couple was in, according to the ASRM.
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Skip the Lube
This is a great excuse to encourage your partner to really amp up the foreplay: lubricants can be toxic to sperm and may reduce your chances of getting pregnant. And while there are some lubricant formulas that claim to be fertility-friendly, you can also just go for more kissing, touching, and whatever else you need from your partner to get in the mood. And who knows? Maybe he'll even learn a thing or two. (But should you need an additional form of lubrication, the ASRM recommends mineral oil, canola oil, or hydroxyethylcellulose-based lubricants, like Pre-Seed, if foreplay alone doesn't do the trick.)
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Don't Be the Sperm Police
Although you may have heard that guys should keep their "boy bits" cool for optimum performance and maintaining sperm count, there's no evidence that wearing briefs instead of boxers alters scrotal temperature significantly, so don't go throwing out all of his tighty-whiteys just yet.
Additionally, most men likely aren't greatly affected by time spent in hot tubs or saunas, according to the ASRM, as long as it's done in moderation.
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Quit Smoking
Yes, there are dozens of valid reasons to quit smoking, but if you (or your partner) haven't kicked the habit yet, add one more reason to the list: you could negatively impact your fertility—as well as that of any potential kiddos (yep, smoking may actually harm your child's fertility too).
Virtually all scientific studies on smoking and fertility show that smoking leads to a higher rate of infertility and a longer time to conceive, according to the ASRM—and that seems to hold true whether your exposure to cigarette smoke is first or secondhand. Not only does smoking harm a woman's ovaries, but it likely hastens the loss of eggs and may even bring on menopause 1 to 4 years early. Additionally, smoking has been associated with an increased risk of miscarriage, premature and low birth weight babies, and an increased incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
If your fella needs more convincing, let him know that smoking may lower sperm count and motility, as well as lead to increased abnormalities in sperm shape and function.
In short, you and your partner should both kick the habit if you want the best chance at conceiving quickly and having a healthy pregnancy and baby.
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Cut Back on Alcohol
Although many of us know women who got pregnant seemingly thanks to a few drinks, there's not a whole lot of clear information about the link between female fertility and alcohol. There has been some indication of a higher risk of infertility in women who consume two alcoholic drinks per day, so it's probably best to avoid having two or more drinks per day when trying to get pregnant. However, there's no evidence that more moderate alcohol consumption decreases fertility.
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Caffeine in Moderation
Many of us rely on our morning cuppa to help us ease into the day—and it's totally fine to have a cup or two of coffee per day or its equivalent when trying to get pregnant. But, high levels of caffeine consumption (more than 5 cups of coffee per day or 500 mg of caffeine) have been associated with decreased fertility—and consuming more than 200-300 mg/day during pregnancy may increase the risk of miscarriage. So feel free to continue enjoying your morning latte—just know that a 16-ounce (grande) cup of Starbucks brewed coffee can pack a whopping 330 mg of caffeine.
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Eat Well
Although fertility rates are decreased in women who are super skinny or obese, there's little evidence that any particular diet helps increases a woman's chances of getting pregnant quickly. Good general guidelines are to eat a well-balanced diet and avoid heavy consumption of seafood high in mercury, as elevated blood mercury levels have been associated with infertility (so avoid eating shark, swordfish, king mackerel or tilefish, and eat up to 12 ounces a week of a variety of fish and shellfish that are lower in mercury, like shrimp, canned light tuna, salmon, pollock, and catfish, recommends the FDA).
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Seek Medical Help If You Need It
We get that it can be incredibly frustrating to get your period while you're trying to get pregnant, knowing that yet another month has gone by without a pregnancy. But, rest assured that the vast majority of couples (about 85 to 90 percent) do conceive on their own within a year. More specifically, at age 20, a couple has a 93 percent chance of getting pregnant within 12 months (or a 25 to 30 percent chance of becoming pregnant each month), but by age 40, that number drops to 70 percent (or a 10 to 15 percent chance of becoming pregnant each month), according to Dr. Christopher Williams' The Fastest Way to Get Pregnant Naturally.
For women younger than 35, the general rule is that if you're not pregnant within a year, you should seek medical advice. For women 35 and over, speak with your healthcare provider if you're not pregnant within 6 months.
But, Dr. Murray advises that women think not just about the time they have been officially "trying to get pregnant," but instead about the length of time they've been at-risk for pregnancy. If you and your partner have had unprotected sex for some time before you were officially trying to conceive, take that period into account when deciding whether to seek medical advice or any kind of infertility testing.
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Relax and Have Fun
"Just relax" are likely the least favorite words of many women trying to conceive, especially if it's taking longer than you hoped. But there is growing evidence that stress may indeed play a role in infertility. If it sounds appealing, you may want to consider trying yoga or another mind-body program to learn relaxation or stress-reduction techniques that could help you chillax while trying to conceive. Or, try to do more of whatever gets you to your happy place.
Stein adds, "Once women catch baby lust, nothing will satisfy them except for a baby, but you don't want to be emotionally bankrupt by the time you get there. Don't make having sex a chore."
There are 16 Early Signs of Pregnancy to look for when waiting for that special moment.


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Volunteering Abroad
We are currently seeking ESL teachers as volunteers to help build lessons, games, tips, etc. for a new ESL website, "We Learn Free," launching in October 2008. Our initial student-base resides in Thailand, so we expect thousands of Thai-speaking students to sign on soon. The first phase of the site is aimed at Beginners, but there are plans to expand to Intermediate and Advanced students.
We Learn Free is supported by The Justin M. Dart Foundation, http://justindart.net
The Justin M. Dart Foundation is committed to ensuring that access to education is not restricted. We believe in the power of community to encourage every person to reach their personal and professional goals. We Learn Free is a manifestation of that belief, creating a network of teachers and students from across the globe who are excited about the ever-expanding potential that lies within each of us to increase our understanding of the world.
The director of the foundation, Justin Dart, has spent many years teaching and learning in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It is his experience that has inspired his determination to create an on-line learning community that will revolutionize the way students from around the world approach education.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer or if you have any questions, please email email@example.com
Please send a short description about your teaching experience, teaching interests, etc.
We are also looking for illustrators or those with design skills to help create visuals for the lessons, as well as volunteers to help with audio recordings for listening activities.
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Kiss me, I'm… from LA? We asked singles around the country about their love lives this past year, and found Irishmen weren't the only ones with lucky charms in their pockets! Here are the cities that were luckiest in love in 2011, based on our Singles in America study:
Cities that went on the most dates in 2011:
2. Phoenix
Cities that had the most committed relationships in 2011:
1. Detroit
2. Chicago
Cities that had the most sex in 2011:
2. Boston
Was your city lucky in love in 2011? Were you included in the list? Tell us in the comments below!


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Sometimes when creating an online users guide to help an end user with a product, words cannot describe how to perform various actions well enough on their own. You might even be thinking about making that quick tutorial screencast, but feeling that the freeware capture programs are too limited for your tastes. Well, one company wants to give you all the tools you need while keeping the experience consistent.
Capture it
Debut Video Capture is a comprehensive video/audio capture package by NCH Software for Microsoft Windows. This utility aims to take the video-screen capture functionality to the next level, with support for microphone voice-overs, an easy-to-use window/section selector to keep Debut's focus in a certain area of your choosing, and solid support for a plethora of video formats.
Debut even prides itself in the finer touches, such as mouse cursor "visual click" cues, text captioning, basic visual effects, and window tracking. You can also adjust the frames per second and resolution of the final output as well. For those wanting to give this program a spin, the trial version of the product is extra generous by not placing any nag-ware or trial watermarks in the exported videos.
However, during my use of the tool, not everything was perfect. I had issues getting the configuration for the AVI file format settings, which eventually caused the program to hang and crash. Luckily, this problem was easily mitigated, once I switched to a different file format like MP4 or FLV. Also, when the application would first load, sometimes the mouse would stick momentarily and then unstick itself within a few seconds. These issues aren't serious by any means, but they might slow you down a bit at first.
Bottom line
Nevertheless, I still recommend Debut Video Capture to anyone looking into some good screen video capture software that allows you to do more than the mere basics. Don't forget, you can also use Debut for more than just screen capture. You can also hook up external video devices like VCRs, DVD players, and even cameras over a network, and record what you see straight to the hard disk. With that said, even at the higher-than-usual price point of $59.99, NCH Software's offering is well worth the money.
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An avid technology writer and an IT guru, Matthew is here to help bring the best in software, hardware and the web to the collective consciousness of TechRepublic's readership. In addition to writing for TechRepublic, Matthew currently works as a Customer Success Professional for Ultimate Software in Santa Ana, California.


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Children in Care - Education
The education of children in care is supported by the Virtual School for Children in Care.
There are over 160 children and young people in the care of Bath and North East Somerset, all attending a wide range of schools and colleges.
We support their education by monitoring their progress, championing their educational needs and provising or commisioning additional support.


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For the most recent Strategic Plan documentation, please visit us here.
The UHCC Strategic Planning Council (SPC) established a process to identify additional areas of emphasis to be grouped under the current UHCC strategic plan's goals. Working groups, chaired by a Chancellor with Faculty Senate Chair (not of the same college), and a Student Leader supplemented by members knowledgeable and appropriate for the work have been formed. The organization and process for updating the plan beyond 2015 was part of the VPCC's spring visit to each of the institutions. The working group goals or focus are: (goals from UHCC Strategic Plan)
The working groups will review current performance measures; identify which should stay and/or be revised; identify potential new measures during spring and summer 2013 meetings. The full SPC will discuss and compile measures at its Fall 2013 meeting followed by visits by the VPCC to each college for open, systemwide dialogue. Based on the results of those meetings, the measures will be refined and the full SPC will finalize outcomes and performance measures for the 2015 and beyond update. Results, progress and next steps will be chronicled in the SPC proceedings or as an attachment thereto.


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A Rs. 250 rebate for you and your friend.
Tikona now brings to you a unique Programme - Refer A Friend. It helps your friend also benefit from the speed, security, service and savings you enjoy with your Tikona connection.
As a token of Appreciation, we will give you Rs. 250 off on your bill.
What you need to do:
- Refer a friend from your building to us by filling the form below.
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We will do a demo of our service at their home and post their subscription, we will activate the discount scheme for you.
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A rebate of Rs. 250 adjusted at the rate of Rs. 50 per month against your subsequent bill payments post successfull activation of service at your friend's premises and realization of subscription amount paid along with the Subscriber Registration Form. You can refer up-to 6 friends and receive a maximum rebate of Rs. 300 on your monthly broadband bill.
Offer applicable from 3rd March 2017.
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Skyline Releases Softball Report #2
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Clifton Park, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the second softball report for the 2010 season on Monday, March 22nd, including Player of the Week, Pitcher of the Week, Rookie of the Week, Honor Roll and Conference statistics. Junior Nicole Farber was named Player of the Week, sophomore Hope Zino was named Pitcher of the Week, and freshman Jennifer Jarczynski was named to the Honor Roll.
Junior shortstop Nicole Farber (Oakdale, N.Y./Connetquot) had a big offensive week last week, batting .727 (16-for-22) with five doubles, three home runs, 18 runs batted in and 12 runs scored in six games. Her top game was a 5-for-5 performance with two home runs and eight runs batted in against Daniel Webster. She had at least two runs batted in in five of the six games.
Sophomore pitcher Hope Zino (Bay Shore, N.Y./Bay Shore) tossed a
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starts last week. In 11.0 innings of work, Zino surrendered just six hits and one walk while striking out 12. She tossed a five-inning one-hitter against St. Joseph (Conn.) and a six-inning five-hitter against the University of New England.
Freshman catcher Jennifer Jarczynski (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon) batted .538 and had eight RBI's and scored five runs this week. She went 3-for-4 with two doubles, four runs batted in and two runs scored in the doubleheader against Daniel Webster.
To view the full report, click HERE.


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Hip Hop Producer Needed
Presupuesto $250-750 USD
We are currently looking for an expert Hip Hop Producer in Logic, Ableton or Cubase. Certified trainers are encouraged to apply but certification is not necessary. Compensation is project-based, depending upon the project and candidate experience. We do not offer benefits, nor do we withhold taxes.
We are specifically interested in candidates with Hip Hop music production experience.
Minimum requirements include:
* At least 3-4 year of experience working in your platform of choice
* Full knowledge of the host application's native plugins ( all productions must only use the host platform's native plugins)
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If you meet any of these requirements,you MUST send your work to our soundcloud drop box. The link is [url removed, login to view] We will follow up with you immediately. Again, We will not respond unless you upload to our soundcloud or provide us a direct link to a sound reel of your work.
We don't just look for freelancers, we look for long-term relationships. We pay for all work completed and can keep work coming if you're interested. If you feel this works for you, please respond.
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Brian Sims Introduces Marriage Equality Bill In Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State Rep. Brian Sims, one of our prestigious Leading Men of 2013, introduced marriage equality legislation in Philadelphia's Love Park on Thursday morning. Along with Rep. Steve McCarter, the pair announced HB 1686, a bill that would extend marriage rights to same-sex couples in the state, and expect it to pass.
"The majority of Pennsylvanians now support marriage equality, and that support continues to grow," Sims said. "Neighboring states, including New York, Maryland and Delaware, have all decided to be on the right side of history and have granted equal rights to their LGBT citizens. The time has come for Pennsylvania's legislature to stand up and let our citizens know we see them as truly equal members of society and they have the right to choose whom they marry."
"This goes beyond simply legalizing gay marriage," McCarter said. "This is about ensuring all Pennsylvanians have equal benefits and protections before the law. Marriage equality and the benefits associated with it need to be afforded to all of our citizens, and the people of Pennsylvania support that idea. The issue is getting our fellow legislators to listen to their constituents and the voice of Pennsylvanians who are calling for this bill to proceed."


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In the aftermath of every major episode of violence, we get the inevitable explanations trotted out anew. Perhaps the dumbest and least supported claim is that violent video games and movies cause people to be more violent and provoke such spasms of murder and mayhem. Nope.
As a video game violence researcher and someone who has done scholarship on mass homicides, let me state very emphatically: There is no good evidence that video games or other media contributes, even in a small way, to mass homicides or any other violence among youth. Our research lab recently published new prospective results with teens in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence indicating that exposure to video game violence neither increased aggressive behaviors, nor decreased prosocial behaviors. Whitney Gunter and Kevin Daly recently published a large study of children in Computers in Human Behavior which found video game violence effects to be inconsequential with other factors controlled. And as for the notion of that violent media "desensitizes" users, recent results published by my student Raul Ramos found that exposure to violence on screen had no influence on viewer empathy for victims of real violence. (A study published by Holly Bowen and Julia Spaniol in Applied Cognitive Psychology similarly found no evidence for a desensitization effect for video games.) Finally, a review of the literature by the Swedish government in 2012 has joined the U.S. Supreme Court and the Australian government in concluding that video game research is inconsistent at best and riddled with methodological flaws.In fact, during the years in which video games soared in popularity, youth violence has declined to 40-year lows. And while it's natural, in such an emotional time, for people to search desperately for answers, that often results in misinformation. In 2007, after the Virginia Tech Massacre, pundits such as Dr. Phil immediately blamed video games. Only later did the official investigation reveal that the perpetrator was not a violent game player after all. In the Sandy Hook case, after the shooter was misidentified as Adam Lanza's brother Ryan, the Facebook page of the video game Mass Effect (which Ryan "liked" on his own Facebook page) was attacked by angry hordes.
The fact that society is actually becoming less violent by nearly every measure is rarely discussed. But the fact is that violent crime has been going down steadily for 20 years, though it's still much higher in America than in nearly any other Western nation. But it's crisis time, a time when we exploit tragedy to find simple solutions. As Mencken wrote in the Divine Afflatus, one of my favorite essays of all time, "There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong."


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On a crowded box-office weekend, where four new films will fight for No. 1, "Elysium" may hover just above the competition.
The sci-fi flick starring Matt Damon is set to debut with a solid-if-not-spectacular $32 million, according to those who have seen pre-release audience surveys.
Its only real rival is likely to be the 3-D animated "Planes," a spinoff of Pixar's "Cars" franchise, which is expected to launch with a healthy $28 million.
PHOTOS: Hollywood Backlot moments
On Wednesday, the R-rated comedy "We're the Millers" and the sequel "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters" both hit theaters in an effort to get out ahead of the packed weekend.
The mid-budget "Millers," costarring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis, looks poised to collect $24 million between Friday and Sunday. The "Percy Jackson" sequel, meanwhile, is likely to gross a so-so $19 million.
The well-reviewed "Elysium," set in 2154, stars Damon as an earthbound factory worker. After being diagnosed with cancer, he tries to get to Elysium -- a luxurious world hovering above Earth where only the most fortunate reside.
The movie is the second feature film from South African native Neill Blomkamp. His first release, "District 9," became a surprise box-office success in 2009, opening with $37.4 million domestically and ultimately grossing $210.8 million worldwide.
"Elysium" was financed by Media Rights Capital for $115 million, but is being distributed and marketed by Sony Pictures. Heading into the weekend, the picture appears to be generating the most interest among older males.
As for "Planes," not only does the movie have to contend with three other debuts this weekend, it also will face competition from other animated movies still in the marketplace. "The Smurfs 2" just hit theaters last weekend and "Despicable Me 2" is still a force to be reckoned with even after a month at the multiplex.
However, Walt Disney Studios says the DisneyToon production was made for just $50 million, meaning it has a decent shot at financial success. "Planes" was initially slated to go directly to video, as most of DisneyToon's films do. However, after screening the movie for audiences, Disney decided to give it a theatrical release and is now planning a "Planes" trilogy. The film features the voices of Dane Cook, Teri Hatcher and Brad Garrett.
"We're the Millers" is almost certain to be a hit for Warner Bros. and its New Line label, which made the film for just $37 million. The movie stars Sudeikis as a drug dealer who ropes a stripper (Aniston) and two teenagers into a ruse in which they pretend to be his family members and help him smuggle marijuana out of Mexico.
Those who saw the film Wednesday enjoyed it, assigning it an average grade of A-, according to market research firm CinemaScore. The comedy is the first release for Sudeikis since leaving "Saturday Night Live" and will be a test of his draw with moviegoers as a leading man. The movie's success would also be good news for Aniston, who is coming off a flop in last year's comedy "Wanderlust."
"Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters," financed by Fox and the Seelig Group for $90 million, is expected to launch with far less than the original film did in 2010. After starting off with $31.2 million in the U.S. and Canada, "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief" went on to gross $226.5 million -- roughly 60% of which came from overseas.
Based on a beloved bestselling novel by Rick Riordan, the original "Percy Jackson" movie was met with lackluster reviews. So far, the sequel is faring even worse with critics: On Thursday, the film had notched a 33% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, compared with a 49% grade for the original.
"Sea of Monsters" stars Logan Lerman as Percy, son of the Greek god Poseidon, who sets out on a journey to heal a magical tree that protects his home. Opening-day filmgoers gave it an average grade of B+ -- the same grade the first film received three years ago.
Review: 'We're the Millers' can't fake the laughs
Priyanka Chopra hopes 'Planes' will help her U.S. career take off
'Elysium' director Neill Blomkamp on political sci-fi: Society gets to me
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Associated British Foods is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of £13.3bn and 113,000 employees in 47 countries, headquartered in London. It has significant businesses in Europe, southern Africa, the Americas, China and Australia. It aims to achieve strong, sustainable leadership positions in markets that offer potential for profitable growth, and deliver quality products and services that are central to people's lives. The business comprises five segments: Retail; Sugar; Agriculture; Grocery; and Ingredients.


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Digging around, found this radio programming software (instead of getting someone else to do it)
Radio newfag 'ere, I could be in the flaming firing line on this one!
http://kickass.to/commercial-ham-radio- ... 19111.html
Enjoy!This is a compilation of radio programming software for transceivers, both commercial and amateur, and some scanners. I have gathered these from the net and the manufacturers. These are only for use within the context of FCC regulations and licensing. This software allows you to program your radios yourself instead of paying someone else to do it. If you are not familiar with offsets, CTCSS, DCS, and bandwidth, please have someone knowledgeable do the programming until you learn about these and other aspects of transceiver set-up. Do not program your radio for frequencies outside of your license and radio service. General class and higher ham radio operators should have no problems with using any of this software to program their radios.