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The Big Bang Theory: The Complete
First Season (2007-2008)
Warner Home Video
DVD Released: 9/2/2008
All Ratings out of
Review by Mike Long, Posted on 9/2/2008; Updated 7/12/2012
What happened to sitcoms? When they suddenly begin to die off? For decades, dating back to the dawn of television, situation comedies were the cornerstone of TV. Just name some of the great shows of each decade, and most will probably be sitcoms. So, what happened? Why is it that when we channel-surf today, we mostly see one-hour dramas or reality shows in prime-time? Had the medium simply died? Was there a lack of quality material? I'm not sure, but in this day and time, it's now more than simply a pleasure to discover a good sitcom and The Big Bang Theory more than fits the bill.
The Big Bang Theory focuses on the lives of Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons). The two young men are roommates, they are both physicist at Cal-Tech, and they are both geniuses. When they aren't working on experiments, they enjoy playing video games or debating over science-fiction movies or comic books with their friends Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) and Rajnesh Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar). The guys exist inside their own social circle and they don't see anything wrong with it. Then, one day, an attractive young woman named Penny (Kaley Cuoco) moves in across the hall and things change. Leonard is immediately smitten by Penny and the obnoxious Howard constantly puts moves on her. Instead of looking down on Leonard and Sheldon and judging them as nerds, Penny is very nice to them and suddenly her world is invading theirs. How will two geniuses who lack in social skills handle this predicament?
At first glance, The Big Bang Theory looks very formulaic and doesn't appear to have much going for it. And, truth be told, it is formulaic because, on the surface, everyone here is a stereotype. Leonard and Sheldon are nerds who don't know how to act around girls, and Penny is a hot-blonde who has men fawning over her.
However, the show quickly reveals itself to be something different. There have been plenty of smart people on TV, but few like Leonard and Sheldon. They are both geniuses and they speak in a very scientific language. The show isn't afraid to let these characters throw out terms and names which are going to mean nothing to the average viewer. We soon learn that due to their advanced IQs and the ways in which they see the world, science is often the only way in which they can relate to everyday situations. Most any conversation is peppered with scientific jargon, or barring that, a reference to a movie or comic-book character.
Speaking of characters, they are what drives the show. Leonard is good-hearted and shy, and it's clear that he wants to do a good person and do the right thing. Of the group, he is the best around strangers. Howard, who wears a dickie with everything, lives with his mother and takes everything one step too far. Raj has a crippling social anxiety and he can't speak around attractive women. As noted above, Penny is more than meets the eye as well. She's new in Los Angeles and she doesn't judge. Thus, she's able to become fast friends with Leonard and Sheldon...well, Leonard at least. Even though she doesn't always understand what the guys are saying, she's not afraid to jump in. One of the best parts of The Big Bang Theory is that Penny isn't portrayed as a bubbleheaded blonde. She merely has an average intelligence, and, like the rest of us, easily gets lost when Sheldon starts talking.
As the show progresses, all of the characters become more and more appealing, but none take off like Sheldon, who simply steals the show. For a sitcom, Sheldon is a complex character. He was raised in Texas and graduated college while still a teenager. He has had very little socialization and, while he's a scientific genius, he knows little about how to interact with others. He views every conversation as a science problem and views the world with steely logic. He also very anal and obsessive-compulsive. This character could have easily come off as a jerk, but Jim Parsons has created a character who is so alien, that he's hilarious. Sheldon has the best lines of every episode and his bizarre, yet rational reactions to situation are so different from anything else that we've seen, that we can't help but laugh. He's like the love-child of Felix Unger and Frasier Crane (and any comparisons to Tony Randall or Kelsey Grammer would be very apt). Sheldon may view everyone around him as inferior, but his jokes are superior.
Again, The Big Bang Theory may seem trite at first, but give it a chance and you'll probably find something to love. (If you're like me, you probably met someone like Leonard or Sheldon in college.) It's interesting to note how the show changes over the course of its first season. In the beginning, it appears that the focus is going to be solely on Leonard's infatuation with Penny, but as the season progresses, that storyline is actually pushed to the back and the way in which Leonard attempts to guide Sheldon through the real world comes to the fore-front. And this is a good thing, as nerds rule on this show, and you'll find yourself quoting Sheldon. The only thing that I don't like about this show is the laugh track. Do we still need those today?
The Big Bang Theory: The Complete First Season explodes onto DVD courtesy of Warner Home Video. This three-disc DVD set contains all 17 episodes of the show's first season. The shows are letterboxed at 1.78:1 and the transfer is enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs. The image is very sharp and clear, showing no grain and no defects from the source material. The colors look good and the image is never overly bright. There is no artifacting here and the picture is never soft. The image rivals digital broadcast quality. The DVD offers a Dolby surround stereo audio track which provides clear dialogue and sound effects. The bulk of the audio emerges from the center channel, but we do get some nice stereo effects when a character is off-screen and, unfortunately, the laugh track fills the speakers.
The Big Bang Theory: The Complete First Season DVD set contains only one extra. "Quantum Mechanics of The Big Bang Theory" (17 minutes) features an interview with series creator Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre who discuss the ideas behind the show and the characters. We then get comments from the cast who discuss their characters and their approach to the show. Some of the comments here verify the theory that the show changed over the course of the season. I wish that they would have included the unaired pilot, which sounds as if it had a different tone.
On July 10, 2012, Warner Home Video brought The Big Bang Theory: The Complete First Season to Blu-ray Disc. The 17 episodes are spread out over two Discs. The shows have been letterboxed at 1.78:1 and the Disc contains an AVC 1080p HD transfer which runs at an average of 19 Mbps. The image is very sharp and clear, showing no grain or defects from the source material. The colors look good and the image is never overly dark or bright. The image has a distinct crispness to it and the level of detail is good for a sitcom. The video transfer certainly rivals HD broadcast quality. The Disc carries a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track which runs at 48 kHz and an average of 2.1 Mbps. The track provides clear dialogue and sound effects. This is one of those shows where you wonder why they bother with a 5.1 track. The all-important dialogue also sounds great. There are some occasional stereo effects which highlight noises coming from off-screen. The studio audience laughter also comes from the front channels. However, I didn't detect any surround effects. The familiar swirling atom graphic does provide some bass effects.
The Big Bang Theory: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Disc offers only one extra which wasn't available on the DVD release. We get a 8-minute GAG REEL which features flubbed lines and on-set accidents.
Review Copyright 2008/2012 by Mike Long


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Anniversary Gift Ideas: There's something about giving something to someone that does something special to us, humans. As the ancient scriptures said, to quote: "there is more happiness in giving, than there is in receiving" and that truism has remained unchallenged for over 2000 years.Well, of course, as with every wise saying, there are many who would question it and challenge its validity in this greedy dog-eat-dog world, but those generous souls who still inhabit this amazing planet stick by this principle and I would wager to say that even though they may not be the richest folks financially, they would definitely be richer in happiness and in human relationships.
Gift giving concept problems
There are many…. but this article crystallizes them into just a couple of objections
1. If you keep giving, you will only attract takers who will just bleed you for everything you have and…
2. Gifts are often not given spontaneously but rely on occasions to prompt the action. The danger being that the action is taken not necessarily out of a true feeling of love but out of a feeling of obligation.
Giving to those who don't appreciate it
To address the first objection, it would have to be said that this will always be the case. No matter how you try to be generous, there will always be people who will keep taking and will not reciprocate buy a demonstration of appreciation.
If you are a generous person you will just have to expect this and not allow it to destroy your good intentions. For the number of folks who will treat you in this way, you are sure to find folks who will really thank you for your kindness and will hand back to you on a platter, feelings that will give you the greatest happiness.
No matter how much we are told that humans are really only just another form of evolved animals, those who really think about it know that happiness is more important than 'things' and the greatest happiness is achieved by generosity and the habit of doing things for others without making them feel that they have to give you something back. So, again, as the old scriptures say: "Do not forget the doing of good…for by doing this, some have entertained angels"
Anniversary Gift Ideas
(Gift giving to those who have a special place in our hearts) No all 'triggered' gift giving is wrong. Sometimes, because of the busy lives we live, we sometimes forget to say thanks or do something to show we appreciate those close to us (or for that matter, strangers too) Anniversaries are an example of this.
Too many marriages are ending up in divorce because of taking one another for granted. Despite what evolutionists would tell us, we are not Chimpanzees!. We are affected by what others say and do and a spoken word at the right time can serve to dissolve difficult situations that are bound to arise between two people who love one another.
Anniversary Gifts by year
And nowadays there is no excuse if you have a calendar in your email program so that a little note comes up reminding us of anniversary gifs by year. Unfortunately, a lot of these email-based calendars don't even give you a days notice so the good old sticker note attached to your monitor might be a better option.
This might sound a bit mechanical but like we said, it is a busy world and if you are like our family, people are coming and going all the time, demanding our time and everything seems to stop when we make sure that folks feel welcome over a cup of coffee.
Anniversary Gifts for HER
Hesitatingly we say that gifts for the girls might be said to be slightly more important than the opposite, considering the makeup of many of our dear wives or girlfriends, many of whom just CANNOT do without jewelry and flowers.
The guys mostly have a different point of view on that subject. (You would be correct in assuming that there is a guy writing this article so I am trying to be as neutral as possible and if anyone has some objections, please make your point in the blog in this site. We would be delighted to hear from you)
So, we have to make it pretty easy for the guys in this case because it wouldn't be any revelation to state that guys are not the best at selecting clothing, or ornaments, or other things that girls like.
Flowers are always a good bet because guys can get their gift giving training on this commodity by observing what type of flowers the girls like, or what they have bought for them on previous occasions.
In the case of jewelry, this takes a bit more thinking and budgeting because you can go crazy spending more than your budget very easily because we are not talking about a $20 bunch of carnations or a liver orchid that could set you back $50 to $100.
We are talking about something that you could easily spend thousands of dollars on and that's ok if you are in that financial league but most folks are not.
Anniversary ideas in jewelry
If it's a girl reading this article, there should be no need to go into too many details about the different types of jewelry, but keeping in mind that approximately 50% males and 50% females read blog articles at least at our site, www.opalmine.com it would make sense to make sure that the guys know what we are talking about.
Anniversary pendants or necklaces
For example, what's the difference between a pendant and a necklace? Well, they both hang around the neck but there is a difference. Pendants are usually single jewelry items with a bale (a hole for the chain to go through) at the top, whereas a pendant is often a multi-layered jewelry piece often involving multiple jewelry designs and, or, gemstones with a chain attached without the need of a bale.
Rings don't need any explanation, but styles of rings certainly do. Rings can be made of metal such as gold in various karats such as 9k, 14k,18k, with or without attached gemstones. For anniversaries, some choose to have a name engraved in a ring. Others would like to buy a ring with one of the many varieties of gemstones either claw or bezel set into the gold or silver.If you are a guy reading this article, certain decisions must be made that can be difficult, particularly if you want to keep the gift a secret until the appropriate time. If you are deciding to get a gemstone, you must think about the type of gems your wife or girlfriend is attracted to.
Nowadays, since diamonds are becoming more plentiful with the use of many tiny diamonds that are not so expensive as large ones, the trend is to wear something a bit more imaginative such as a colored gemstone.
Colored gem categories, to state a few are: Blue, green, and party-colored sapphires, amethysts, citrines, emeralds, rubies etc. One gemstone which seems to encompass and contain a little bit of all the gemstones is Opal since it features a change of color from red to blue, green, yellow, orange and all the rest of the color spectrum. Often you can figure out what your wife likes by the color of the outfits she favors.
As far as ring design is concerned, ask yourself if your wife likes more plain straightforward designs or does she prefer more complex intricate designs in clothing and attire. It could be that she will like something with an outstanding opal or sapphire as the center stone, encased in small diamonds as a feature.
Anniversary gifts for husband.
This can be a real challenge for you girls. And it could be that his workshop is full of all sorts of saws, drills, hammers, screwdrivers and chisels the result of both things he has bought for himself combined with previous anniversary guesses.
Of course, guys really like tools and 'fix it' things but in one way, they are pretty impersonal. Buying a guy a hammer and a shovel might imply something a bit separated from the concept of romance and marriage consolidation.
Guys usually don't look at it that way, but it could well be that something more personal such as a gents ring or a bola tie might be more appropriate as an anniversary gift.
Rings for guys again take different forms although not as complex as the girls. There are signet rings which usually feature either a rectangle, square or oval top with a gemstone set or just plain gold or silver perhaps with some sort of design or workmanship engraved on the top. I could be a plain top with one single small faceted stone in one corner.The problem can be that guys generally wear larger rings than girls and large gemstones can be extremely expensive unless you go for a synthetic stone. A really interesting compromise to this is to invest in a Queensland Boulder opal from Australia. These amazing pieces have varying colors and patterns appearing naturally in a bed of chocolate ironstone which is part of the natural boulder they come from.
Again, depending on whether your guy is more the type who likes refined and less rugged looking attire, you could go for a very neat small oval stone. But if your man likes more 'blokey' styles as we would say in Australia, you could shop for a ring that has not so much color but more of the natural ironstone with interesting abstract features that add interest to the jewelry item.
If your guy likes wearing ties and dress shirts, you could opt for either a tie tack or a tie bar, and, or cufflinks to match.
Anniversary Gift Ideas for a boyfriend
Well, this terminology seems to be a bit out of context because anniversaries are meant to be for married folks and you measure them from the first year on. Well, I guess if your marriage day is being put off for a while, you could measure the time from when you first met. Anyway, the advice in this section would be a repetition of what has been said in the former paragraphs.
Anniversary gift ideas for parents
This now comes into the realm of sons and daughters making the right decision for their parents. The focus of attention in this area obviously is based on expressing appreciation for what mums and dads have done for their kids over possible a long period of time.
It could be that your father and mother are celebrating 50 years of marriage, or it could be any time in between. The same principles as mentioned above can be applied to anniversary gifts for parents and jewelry is quite often an excellent option as Anniversary Gift Ideas.
Source of article:
Peter Brusaschi
Opal expert since 1972


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Hello, Mr P. signing in for Gitika tonight. Well since the accident yesterday, I have been trying hard to keep my spirits up and remind myself that it is 'business as usual". I am not ready to go into details about what happened at the zoo -but as they say, the camera never lies. Perhaps after the weekend I shall be able to tell you more about it. Also I am going to be quite busy, what with the choir practices next week which I shall have probably have to to take over, so I am about to take a crash course in conducting ( it's amazing what you can find on the internet these days). I wish I had concentrated more when I was in the audience and Gitika was flapping her arms about.
It has been snowing in London this evening, and it is now at least 4″ deep. I ducked out and took a few snaps in the snow. It is amazing – when you use a flash and it is snowing as the flash catches the snowflakes and makes them look huge! Just as well about the snow really, as this week I shall be much too busy running Gitika's choirs to be building gardens. I suppose I better take a crash course in singing too. And as for this posting everyday…well I almost did not make it today and I am only on day 2.
It is probably good to see the up side of this whole situation, which includes the fact I can eat as much ice cream as I want, and I get to choose the song of the day, so watch out, as the music is about to get a whole lots classier.
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- Immortality, the Other Side of Death, G. R. Habermas, J. P. Moreland, Nelson, 1992, pp. 166ff.
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Ever wanted to know what animals are saying? Neuroscientists at the University of Delaware have taken a big leap forward in decoding the sounds made by one particular animal in a way that takes us a whole lot closer than anyone has gotten so far. The animal in question? The humble mouse.
To study mouse vocalizations, the team gathered data as groups of four mice — two males and two females — interacted. They interacted for five hours at a time in a chamber that was kitted out with eight microphones and a video camera. In total, the researchers recorded encounters between a total of 44 mice. Starting with the enormous amounts of ensuing video and audio data, the researchers then used machine learning A.I. to develop a system that's able to connect specific sounds with distinct animal behaviors. In short, it could work out which mouse was squeaking, where, and in what scenario.
"To link mouse vocalizations to specific actions, we needed multiple technological advances," University of Delaware neuroscientist Joshua Neunuebel told Digital Trends. "First, we needed to be able to assign specific vocalizations to individual mice that were socially interacting. To do this, we developed a sound source localization system that simultaneously recorded mouse ultrasonic vocalizations on eight different microphones, as well as the position of the mice with a video camera."
The combination of microphones and camera allowed the team to estimate the location of where a particular vocal signal was emitted and then assign the signal to a specific mouse. Once they were able to assign vocalizations to specific animals, the team used an unsupervised learning algorithm that groups items with similar features to categorize them. Finally, they used a tool called JAABA, the Janelia Automatic Animal Behavior Annotator, to automatically extract specific social behaviors with high fidelity.
"It's not necessarily a translational tool per se, but it's a tool that helps us interpret mouse social behaviors," Neunuebel said. "However, this being said, mice are good models for understanding the neural basis of social behavior, which may ultimately shed light upon how the brain circuitry of humans is functioning."
The work is the subject of two new papers published in the journals Nature Neuroscience and Scientific Reports. Both papers report on different aspects of the work on how communication shapes social behavior and the neural networks that encode this information.
As Neunuebel says, they haven't developed a full-fledged human-to-mouse translation tool. Nonetheless, this work — alongside similar research into communications of animals like dolphins — certainly brings us closer to understanding the subtleties of animal chat.
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When Lotus Symphony faces the music, the question becomes, "Do we really need another proprietary office suite based on OpenOffice.org?"
Talking about IBM Lotus Symphony in any meaningful way is impossible without constant references to OpenOffice.org. Consisting of three applications—the self-explanatory Documents, Presentations and Spreadsheets—Symphony is not only a proprietary rival to OpenOffice.org in the cross-platform office space, but also is based on OpenOffice.org code, a move made possible by OpenOffice.org's release under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Under these circumstances, comparing the two applications is by far the quickest and most accurate way to explore Symphony's general features and interface, as well as what new features it adds to the codebase and what it leaves out.
To say the least, the result is mixed.
Specifically, Symphony is the OpenOffice.org 1.14 code dropped into an Eclipse framework, without any attempt to include the various add-ons available for the original. The version choice has the advantage of ensuring that Symphony is based on a mature codebase, and the reliance on Java sidesteps the need to bring developers up to speed on every intricacy of OpenOffice.org's notoriously cryptic code.
However, these choices also extract a price. For one thing, version 1.14 is two years old and missing many of the improvements in the 2.x releases. These include such features as version 2.3's new chart system, the ability to use movie and sound clips in presentations, and the expansion and improvement of the on-line help. All that Symphony seems to have borrowed from later releases is the enhanced drawing toolbar.
As for any add-ons, forget them. Symphony does not even include ExtendedPDF, which gives users expanded control over exports to PDF. Although Symphony does allow exports to PDF, the feature is basic compared to the one offered in the latest versions of OpenOffice.org in most distributions, which install ExtendedPDF by default.
Similarly, although reliance on Java may speed development—IBM boasts that the current beta 2 was developed in less than two months—it does not make for compact apps without careful coordination of development. Symphony's installation size is huge—683MB compared to less than 200MB for recent versions of OpenOffice.org, even though it does not include versions of OpenOffice.org's drawing, database and equation editors. Symphony's start-up speed is slow too, taking at least twice as long as the latest versions of OpenOffice.org using the same equipment. Although these figures may improve in later releases, they seem unlikely to match OpenOffice.org's any time soon.
Despite improvements during the last two years, including a change from battleship gray to beige, OpenOffice.org's interface has never been an example of beauty. It tends to be ramshackle, never sure if it should borrow from MS Office and other proprietary apps or develop its own design. Nor has any attempt been made to enforce design standards, which means that new features, such as the dictionary and font installers, follow a logic of their own. If there ever was a program that demanded an interface redesign, it was OpenOffice.org.
And, at first glance, Symphony provides that redesign. Its selection of blues with the occasional orange highlight may be chosen mainly for IBM branding, but the overall effect is much more unified and pleasant to the eye than anything OpenOffice.org has managed to offer so far. However, this unity is mainly on the surface. Open a dialog box, and you are back with OpenOffice.org's familiar, starkly functional designs.
In much the same way, Symphony attempts to edit and rearrange OpenOffice.org's menus. Because many OpenOffice.org features are omitted (see below), Symphony can hardly help but have shorter menus, making them easier to use. In fact, Symphony even has the space to make some features more prominent, dragging the Direct Cursor out of Tools→Options to place it in the Edit menu, or to make page numbering a top-level item rather than hiding it among Insert→Fields to the puzzlement of new users. Such changes can only increase ease of use.
Too often though, the changes seem arbitrary. Replacing Format Cells with Text and Cell Properties in Spreadsheets does nothing for clarity, any more than replacing the Format menu with Layout or the Insert menu with Create does. And, is there any reason for labeling spreadsheets with letters instead of OpenOffice.org's numbers?
The same mixture of usefulness and arbitrariness occurs with the positioning of items. Moving the Options item from the Tools menu to the File menu (where it is called Preferences) seems sensible, because the File menu is where you expect to find basic setup settings. But, why shift page setup from Format/Layout to the File menu? The fact that MS Word used to do so hardly seems reason enough.
A more concrete improvement is Symphony's borrowing of a Web browser format, opening on a useless Home page and opening new documents by default in tabs in the same window. From there, a document can be opened in a separate window via a right-click. This arrangement is enhanced further by a thumbnail view of documents in the Window menu, which can be set to view only a specific type of document.
However, the addition of a docked Properties window on the right side of the editing window is less useful. This window displays elements that are selectable from the menu in OpenOffice.org, showing Text and Paragraph settings in Documents, Page settings in Presentations and cell settings in Spreadsheets. Anyone familiar with OpenOffice.org might wonder not only about the advisability of another floating window to add to the Navigator, Styles and Formatting, Gallery and Data Sources (although Symphony eliminates Data Sources), but also why the Properties window is so important that it is the only floating window that can be docked on the right side of the editing window.
Even more important, the effect of showing the Properties window by default is to encourage manual formatting at the expense of styles. Particularly in the word processor, this emphasis is equivalent to teaching someone to make hand signals when learning to drive and not bothering to mention the signal light. More than any other office suite, OpenOffice.org relies on styles, with several features, such as tables of contents and outlines, being much more difficult to use if you rely on manual formatting.
Perhaps the Properties window is in response to OpenOffice.org users who do not want to be forced into using styles (as though styles were anything except a time-saver for them), but its prominence suggests that Symphony's designers do not understand the logic of the program they are mutating. If you are using the code the way it was intended to be used, the Properties floating window is an irrelevance.
To those familiar with OpenOffice.org, one of the distinguishing characteristics of Symphony is how many features have been ripped out. In all the applications, the list is a long one.
To start with, many features for interoperability are missing. For instance, unlike in OpenOffice.org, in Symphony you cannot store data for use in other documents, embed one document in another or export a list of headers in the word processor to create the slides in a presentation.
In Documents, the list of the missing continues. All wizards are gone, as well as any capacity to create labels, business cards or anything else that requires a mail merge. No Autotext, bibliographies, hyphenation, thesaurus, outline numbering, autoformats for tables or master documents are available. Neither are many types of fields, including ones for hidden paragraphs or text, input lists, document information or user data.
Presentations and Spreadsheets are somewhat less devastated. Still, Presentations lacks the initial wizard or any sound support, and Spreadsheets lacks the ability to split or freeze windows to improve the viewing of long documents or to autoformat selected cells. However, in Presentations, you might think that more is missing than really is the case, because many items are concealed in main and right-click menus, and combo boxes for things such as slide transitions list only a half-dozen items at a time and require clicking Other to see other selections.
In none of the three programs can you edit keyboard shortcuts or customize menus and toolbars. You still can run macros, but without these customizing features, they are less accessible. Instead of assigning them to keystrokes or adding them to the toolbar, you have to drill down through several levels of menus in order to use them.
What is left is enough for most users in undemanding circumstances. Still, the logic behind what is omitted is obscure. Although the tendency is to exclude anything that requires instruction to learn or increases users' ability to customize, perhaps the true reason is to trim the hard drive requirements as much as possible.
Against these omissions, Symphony boasts only a handful of innovations. The single window for opening applications includes a Web browser accessible from the New button, but this hardly seems the time to introduce one. OpenOffice.org dropped its Web browser when its code was first released, and the integration of applications on GNU/Linux desktops is strong enough that nobody has missed it since.
Otherwise, new features—as opposed to ones made more prominent by repositioning—are surprisingly few in Symphony's applications. Aside from the single window with search and thumbnail features, probably the main addition is the Freehand Table feature it borrows from MS Office. And this feature, although showy, is slow and impractical compared to choosing the number of rows and columns by dragging the mouse over a grid.
However, Presentations does include one legacy feature that longtime OpenOffice.org users might still be pining for: the arrangement of slides in tabs. This arrangement is more economical with space than the slide pane that replaced it in OpenOffice.org's Impress, allowing much more room to display the currently active slide. But, this feature is hardly enough to attract users by itself.
How Lotus Symphony fits into IBM's corporate strategy is anybody's guess. Perhaps it is a matter of corporate pride, an attempt to revive a product line that was a contender in the office application market more than a decade ago? A desire to support open standards by releasing programs that support the Open Document format?
If the intent is to undermine MS Office's dominance on the desktop, as some have alleged, then as an under-featured, proprietary application, Symphony seems to have poor odds for success. So far, at least, there is not even any evidence that Symphony will integrate with Lotus Notes to offer the combination of office applications and calendaring that OpenOffice.org lacks. IBM would strike a greater strategic blow if it contributed directly to the latest version of OpenOffice.org instead of focusing on what seems a quixotic and halfhearted project at best.
That, in the end, is why Symphony disappoints. As a project, OpenOffice.org badly needs some fresh ideas. Its interface probably needs redesigning from the ground up, both in terms of names and positioning of features. Some features deserve to be more prominent, while some may be no longer relevant or require radical redesign. Symphony attempts all these things, but with no clear vision and only halfheartedly.
In the end, all Symphony offers is a version of OpenOffice.org stripped to the basics and suitable mainly for those who won't take the time to learn to use office applications properly. Such an outcome is disappointing for those who would like to see OpenOffice.org undertake some basic improvements, and not nearly sufficient to justify Symphony's independent existence.


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Komunitas Nelayan Tomia (KOMUNTO, Fishing Community of Tomia)
The Komunitas Nelayan Tomia (KOMUNTO, Fishing Community of Tomia) is a community-based organization composed of representatives of fishers' groups from East Tomia, Indonesia. The organization was established in response to shared community concerns regarding foreign commercial fishing, the use of destructive fishing methods, and a vacuum in local government leadership on the sustainable management of Wakatobi natural resources.
The initiative encourages the local management of natural resources to improve community wellbeing. It has promoted local participation in zoning and spatial planning of Wakatobi National Park, and established three protected areas around the island of Tomia to allow fish stocks to regenerate. Financial contribution from members fund savings and loan services and support for members with in times of need.
Key Facts
Equator Prize Winner: 2010
Founded: 2006
Location: Tomia, Wakatobi Archipelago
Beneficiaries: 18 fishers' groups
Biodiversity: No-take zones, sustainable fishing methods
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Equator Prize 2010
Asia And The Pacific
Biodiversity Conservation
Marine and Coastal Resource Management
Contact Information
Saharuddin Usmi
KOMUNTO secretariat
Desa Waha
Kecamatan Tomia
Kabupaten Wakatobi, Indonesia
Tel: 62 856 962 36610
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What Is Diego Luna Worth?
Diego Luna's Net Worth is $4 million
Luna made his film make a big appearance in an uncredited part for Antonieta (1982). His next part was in the telenovela El Abuelo y Yo (1992) with his youth closest companion, Gael García Bernal. In 1995, he played Laura León's pained child Quique in the Mexican cleanser musical drama El Premio Mayor. Luna and García Bernal featured in the widely praised film Y Tu Mamá También (2001).
Luna has become famous in the United States advertise, having featured nearby Jon Bon Jovi in Vampires: Los Muertos (2002) and the Academy Award-winning Frida (2002). He likewise featured in Open Range, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, The Terminal and Criminal. In 2008, he featured in the Harvey Milk biopic Milk as his depressed mate, Jack Lira. Luna and Bernal claim Canana Films which, alongside Golden Phoenix Productions (possessed by Tom Golden), mutually create various TV documentaries about the unsolved killings of more than three hundred ladies in the outskirt city of Ciudad Juárez.
In 2011, Luna played the male lead in Katy Perry's music video for "The One That Got Away".
In June 2012, he coordinated his first English-dialect film Cesar Chávez, a biopic about the life of the American work pioneer, who established the United Farm Workers. Amid that year, Luna and Bernal featured together for the fourth time for the American Spanish-dialect film Casa de Mi Padre.
On 20 March 2015, he joined the thrown of Ana Lily Amirpour's Savage film The Bad Batch.
In 2016, he was an individual from the jury for the Un Certain Regard area of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. He played Cassian Andor in the Star Wars Treasury film Rogue One.
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Pat Harrington
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As the meddlesome but lovable handyman Dwayne Schneider on the popular sitcom "One Day at a Time" (CBS, 1975-1984), comedic actor Par Harrington put an exclamation point on an already successful career while establishing one of the most popular characters of 1970s' sitcoms. A veteran showbiz comedian, Harrington rose to fame as Italian golf pro Guido Panzini on "The Jack Parr Show" (NBC, 1957-1962) and as one of Steve Allen's "Men on the Street" on "The Steve Allen Show" (NBC, 1956-1960). On the big screen, he had notable roles in "The President's Analyst" (1967) and "Easy Come, Easy Go" (1967), but it was television that provided him his most fertile ground as well as his most famous role. With "One Day at a Time," Harrington was both a father figure and comic relief, providing both advice and levity on a sitcom noted for tackling serious issues like teen pregnancy, suicide and infidelity. Following his nine seasons on the show, Harrington parlayed Schneider into a lucrative series of ACE Hardware commercials while making numerous guest appearances on comedies and dramas like "The Golden Girls" (NBC, 1985-1992), "Diagnosis Murder" (CBS, 1993-2001) and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (HBO, 2000- ), which only added luster to Harrington's long and varied career.
Born on Aug. 13, 1929 in New York City, Harrington, Jr. was the son of renowned Quebec-born vaudevillian Pat Harrington, Sr., whose career on the stage had a huge impact on his son. The young Harrington earned a bachelor's from Fordham University in the Bronx in 1952 and served as an intelligence officer with the rank of first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. When he returned, he followed in his father's footsteps and appeared in a Rod Serling-penned episode of "The Motorola Television Hour" (CBS, 1953) and sold ad time for NBC from 1954-58. But it was appearing on "The Jack Paar Show" (NBC, 1957-1962) that broke Harrington into the big time on television. With host Paar playing the straight-man interviewer, Harrington portrayed stereotypical Italian golf pro Guido Panzini, often with Don Knotts as his caddy. The character proved enormously popular, and Harrington's experience playing Guido on the show clearly had as big an impact on him as it did on the audience.
In 1959, Harrington cut a comedy record with Bill Dana, while television host Steve Allen then snapped up the young comic for his Emmy Award-winning "The Steve Allen Show," using Harrington in his famous "Men on the Street" segments that also featured Don Knotts and Tom Poston. Between 1960 and 1963, he performed in nightclubs and was invited back to television's "The New Steve Allen Show" (1961-65). He also guested on "The Littlest Hobo" (CTV, 1963-65), "The Bing Crosby Show" (CBS, 1964-65), "McHale's Navy" (ABC, 1962-66), "F-Troop" (ABC, 1965-67) and "The Munsters" (CBS, 1964-66). Harrington showed his talent for comic voice work in several NBC-animated "Pink Panther" shorts, playing Inspector Sergeant Deux-Deux in "Napoleon Blown-Aparte," "Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat," and "Plastered in Paris" in 1966. The following year, he appeared in a typically tepid Elvis Presley feature film/musical, "Easy Come, Easy Go" (1967), in which he played Presley's former business partner whom the singer enlists to help him retrieve a treasure from a sunken Navy ship.
Meanwhile, Harrington reprised his Inspector Deux-Deux character in a slew of "Pink Panther" shorts that year and appeared in one of the best roles of his career, as Arlington Haven in "The President's Analyst." Hailed as one of the funniest films of the year, it featured Harrington as a sinister, smarmy telephone company PR flack who kidnaps presidential analyst Dr. Sidney Schaefer (James Coburn) and tries to persuade him that the phone company is his friend. On the small screen, Harrington was cast as a regular for the first time in his career on the short-lived series "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (ABC, 1969), where he played another public relations guy, Tony Lawrence, in the TV version of Frank Capra's 1936 Oscar-winning satire of big-city corruption. Harrington next appeared in the first of three Disney live-action films featuring boy genius character Dexter Riley (Disney contract actor Kurt Russell), "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" (1969). Guest appearances on many well-regarded TV series kept Harrington busy in the early 1970s, including spots on "Marcus Welby, M.D." (ABC, 1969-1976), "Love, American Style" (ABC, 1969-1974) and "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" (ABC, 1969-1972).
In 1974, Harrington made a fairly bold career move when he did voice work for "The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat," the follow-up to "Fritz the Cat" (1972), which was the first animated feature to receive an "X" rating from the MPAA. Based on a Robert Crumb comic book in which an idealistic college student degenerates into a boozing, womanizing ne'er-do-well as the flower power of the 1960s wilts and dies, the film's politics and humor were regarded as either satiric, sophomoric or offensive, but was nevertheless nominated for a Palme d'Or Award at Cannes that year. Meanwhile, Harrington was cast on Norman Lear's "One Day at a Time" (CBS, 1975-1974) as affable building superintendent Dwayne Schneider, who becomes something of a surrogate father to the two teen daughters (Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli) of a divorced mom (Bonnie Franklin). Mixing comedy with serious social issues, ranging from premarital sex to suicide, "One Day at a Time" struck a chord with viewers to become both a ratings hit and a multi-award winning show. Harrington's role was chiefly comedic, as he appeared in moments that required levity to balance out the show's more dramatic elements.
A popular figure on the show, thanks to his obsession with his tool belt and his trademark cigarette pack rolled up in his sleeve, Harrington won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1984. After "One Day at a Time" left the airwaves, Harrington parlayed Schneider into a lucrative gig as the character in a series of ACE Hardware commercials. He also landed numerous guest spots on shows like "The Love Boat," (ABC, 1977-1986), "Who's the Boss?" (ABC, 1984-1992), "The Golden Girls" (NBC, 1985-1992) and "Empty Nest" (NBC, 1988-1995). Harrington appeared on several dramatic series including the Emmy-nominated "The Ray Bradbury Theater" (HBO/USA Network, 1985-1992) and "Murder, She Wrote" (CBS, 1984-1996), while on the big screen he made an unfortunate appearance in the forgettable sex romp, "Road Trip to Heaven" (1992), starring Corey Feldman. Harrington forged a second career as a voiceover artist on animated shows such as "Yo Yogi!" (NBC, 1991-92), and continued making guest appearances on "The George Carlin Show" (Fox, 1993-95), "Burke's Law" (NBC, 1993-95) and the short-lived remake of "Fantasy Island" (ABC, 1998-99). Into the new millennium, Harrington stayed busy with episodes of both comedies and dramas such as "Diagnosis Murder" (CBS, 1993-2001), "Yes, Dear" (CBS, 2000-06), "Las Vegas" (NBC, 2003-08), "The King of Queens" (CBS, 1998-2007) and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (HBO, 2000- ).
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Cold House Media checked out a new spot for them in South West Utah : Ibex. The area looks like straight out of Mars, with big faces and cool boulders. Unfortunately Josh takes a bad fall on his heel and is out for weeks. As bad news don't come alone, they also announce a big break in the production of their monthly episodes, in order to focus on other projects that you'll also see on EpicTV. Enjoy that last episode and keep an eye out for their future videos!


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Doctor Who Spin-offs
|Doctor Who has generated spin-offs since the moment the series began. In recent years, there have been a plethora of spin-off novels and audio plays, most of which are designed to fit in with the style of the tv series. But perhaps the earliest spin-off was the comic strip, which started only a year after the programme debuted. Barring a few short breaks, the strip has run continuously ever since (featuring in several different publications) - even during that long period when the tv show was off the air. The comics have deviated wildly from the style of the tv series, often being aimed at a more juvenile market - though in the early 1980s, it could be argued that the strip was of a much higher quality than the programme.
|Another long running spin-off was the Doctor Who Annual. For years, these books were the staple of every fan's Christmas stocking. Like the comics, the Annuals would often bear very little resemblance to the tv show - so much so, you'd be forgiven for thinking the writers and artists had never even seen it. In fact, they probably hadn't. They've been derided by fans for many years, but I love these Annuals - especially the psychedelic artwork and wilfully surreal stories of the late seventies editions - preferring to see them as fantastic expressions of the wonderful diversity that is Doctor Who.
Peter Cushing
|Doctor Who has featured in almost every conceivable medium - how about a story made up by collecting the different wrappers of a chocolate bar? - but perhaps the most notable is the medium of film. There have been three Doctor Who movies made. The first two were cinema releases in the mid-sixties, starring that wonderful actor Peter Cushing. It would be thirty years before another film was made. Although there were many rumours and aborted projects during the seventies and eighties, in the end it was an American tv movie that saw the light of day in 1996. This starred Paul McGann, and was intended to launch a new series of Doctor Who in the US. In this it failed, but McGann has featured in plenty of comic strips, novels and audio plays, firmly establishing him as the eighth Doctor.
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Rowan Atkinson
|In 1999, we were presented with a ninth Doctor, in the person of popular comedy actor Rowan Atkinson. He starred in a spoof Doctor Who story as part of the Comic Relief charity evening. Affectionately parodying the show's clichés, this proved to be the highlight of an otherwise lacklustre night of entertainment. The programme also featured the Doctor's subsequent incarnations in the form of celebrity cameos. Another ninth Doctor appeared in 2003, in an animated adventure webcast on the BBC's Doctor Who site. The voice of the Doctor was provided by Richard E. Grant, who ironically had played one of the celebrity Doctors in the Comic Relief spoof. (Both of these were before the "real" ninth Doctor's debut in 2005, of course...)
|Another noteworthy production was K-9 and Company, which for a long time was the only tv show ever to have spun off directly from Doctor Who. The Doctor's robot dog K-9 had been popular with younger viewers, and the new show sought to capitalize on that - teaming him with former companion Sarah Jane Smith (played by Elizabeth Sladen) who could handle the actual acting requirements. Like the Paul McGann movie, this was intended as a pilot to launch a new series, but nothing ever came of it. Nevertheless, a number of K-9 and Sarah adventures subsequently surfaced in other media - these are recorded in the additional adventures listing.
|25 years later, Sarah and K-9 turned up in another spin-off show. The popularity of
the new Doctor Who series had turned it into a massive snowballing franchise - and
after a triumphant return appearance, Sarah must have seemed a good bet for a spin-off.
(Elizabeth Sladen had already headlined her own series of audio plays by this point as
well, and was ever-popular with fans.) The new show was called The Sarah Jane
Adventures, and was pitched as a children's adventure series - this time the emphasis
was firmly on Sarah and some new young sidekicks, with K-9 relegated to a cameo role. And
this wasn't the only spin-off from the 2005 series - the ninth Doctor's companion Jack
Harkness (played by John Barrowman) turned up in Torchwood, leading a team to
investigate alien activity and paranormal phenomena in contemporary Cardiff.
|Peter Cushing, the cinematic Doctor Who


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We're all familiar with the controversy surrounding Star Wars Battlefront II in regard to the loot box controversy and the pay-to-win mechanics that many people felt plagued the game. It's only fair that Battlefield fans as well as the wider gaming community have been awaiting the release of Battlefield V quite cautiously. I'm happy to report that both EA and DICE seemed to have learned some valuable lessons, and then some.
Battlefield V takes everything good that Battlefield 1 delivered on with a WWII twist. It feels like an all-round improvement on the franchise's core values and this is highly evident in the game's maps. I can't remember the last time where I played a multiplayer game and absolutely loved each and every map, but this was definitely the case with Battlefield V.
Spanning across multiple countries and two continents, each location offers the player something different. French maps, Twisted Steel and Arras, are contrasted in both size and layout but are equally brilliant. The bridge in Twisted Steel makes for some intense, narrow firefights as you push the central objective, while the open flower fields of Arras paired with its compact and modest town centre forces you to play smart and always keep on your toes.
In Norway, Allied troops storm the German-occupied Narvik, a snow-laden harbour town which features multiple vantage points over the open map, as well as a fun combat zone along a destroyed train depot line. Then, atop a treacherous mountain, Fjell 652 is a kamikaze pilot's dream (i.e. me, because I can't fly to save my life- might as well die). Small pockets of land are connected by narrow and winding paths, making for some very interesting encounters when rushing objectives.
Next, you've got the North African maps: Hamada and Aerodrome. While Hamada is laid out almost too symmetrically, the verticality and openness of the map make it a playground for all vehicles. Aerodrome is a sniper's haven; from the numerous watchtowers, to the raised rocky outskirts. Both African maps are not surprisingly dry and barren, so remember to customise your company characters with the appropriate gear.
And finally, the Netherlands maps – My favourite two of the bunch. Rotterdam is a spectacular map set in a dense residential and commercial part of town. The cobblestone streets weave underneath a immobile light rail system, and the surrounding buildings create a myriad of flanking routes via first, second and even third floors. Then Devastation happens. Set in the very same town, the remains of Rotterdam see a sad-looking church looking over the rubble of neighbouring collapsed buildings. Fortifications are a great idea on this map, and I'll explain that next.
Every map has something special about it, both visually and in composition, forcing you to think and play strategically. It's easy to tell these maps were worked hard on to give the player a sense of how battles were won and lost in WWII – and it's up to you to find out how to best play each map, each mode, and each situation.
I mentioned fortifications, which are a brand-new addition to Battlefield, and a very useful one at that. Every class can fortify on set parts around each map. Simply take out your hammer and whack the build icon closest to you. The support class can build faster than all the other classes, too – and by an advantageous pace at that – making support players highly valuable when taking over an objective before getting ready to quickly defend. You'll find sandbag walls, anti-tank obstacles, wooden barricades and platforms, turrets and razor wire fences amongst the things you can fortify your position with.
Previously, I had found it hard to adapt to Battlefield's system over Call of Duty's, but honestly, there is an undeniable charm in Battlefield V that is so satisfying I cannot ignore. Maybe that's just my preferences changing, maybe that's the game being better, or maybe it's both.
I absolutely adored the guns and bullet physics in Battlefield V. The models of the weapons, the unique sound of each weapon working, and watching the tracer bullets drop and you lead your shots on a moving enemy – I would consider myself only moderately skilled when it comes to first-person shooters, but I'll be damned if that tracking headshot doesn't raise my self-esteem for a week.
Get a quality pair on headphones and jump into a game, and you'll honestly be Private Ryan cowering and screaming as debris flies everywhere. I legitimately felt small amounts of fear during my play time and I loved it. Invoking that emotion is exactly what DICE aimed for, and I sure as hell felt it. Everything from dirt hitting the ground after a grenade blast, to the banter shared and expletives yelled by the characters- it feels authentic. That's all I can really say. As far as sensory experiences go, you just need to hear it for yourself.
Activision opted to drop the single player in Call Of Duty this year, but DICE were adamant that Battlefield V would maintain a single player campaign, which was absolutely music to my ears. War Stories is back in Battlefield V. Similar to Battlefield 1, they're short, impactful stories, which I actually appreciate over a long-winded campaign. A solid, impactful story that lasts a good hour or so is what you can expect from each War Story, and with EA DICE putting in the miles into the narrative of Battlefield V's depiction of World War II, you would be robbing yourself of some genuine gaming experiences if you glaze over this mode.
With Battlefield V, Grand Operations will be your go-to for the real action. Being the successor to BF1's Operations mode, but on a much grander scale, this mode has it all. Played over 3 or 4 "days", Grand Ops essentially give you a campaign, through the pairing of maps in each country, with varying modes of Conquest, Breakthrough & new addition, Airborne. What's so striking about this game mode is the feeling of determination to succeed
It's worth talking a little bit about the 'Game Economy' which is laid out plain and simple within the game. Company Coins (or 'Grind Coins' as Senior Producer Andreas Morrell called them) are the main currency which you earn by playing through the game and can be used to purchase anything. 'Battlefield Currency' is the premium currency that you buy with real-world money and will be introduced months after launch, but this can only be used to purchase cosmetic items. There won't be any loot boxes in Battlefield V and everything can be obtained by playing. Now, this isn't something that EA should be greatly praised for, it was clear after last year that this is the way that gamers wanted it to be and the change is worth celebrating.
Battlefield V was only days away from launch when I played, and there are issues that I worry will affect the game – some ways worse than others. I experienced many times some insane (but admittedly, always funny) rag-doll physics upon death. One match on Fjell, before even seeing an enemy, I witnessed an ally get thrown down a mountain in spectacular fashion, screaming helplessly as she cartwheeled out of play. In another instance, I was hit with a melee shot out of nowhere on Aerodrome, and while I slowly died alone and forgotten, I could see the player who stabbed me. The character model frozen in time. When I returned to the scene of the crime and sure enough, she was still there, arm stretched out firing a pistol shot every few seconds. Suddenly, while standing a few metres away to her 4 o'clock, multiple shot spam impossibly in my direction, killing me.
Whilst I was playing in a review event environment, I'm slightly worried about is server issues. At multiple times I witnessed and experienced game crashes of varying sorts. After a death, I returned to the overview to find clicking on nothing worked, while the player next to me could see inside his dead soldier's legs and boots, with no sign of respawning. More instances like these were apparent, but hopefully somewhere in the day 1 patch notes directly acknowledges and fixes these issues.
In saying that, DICE is adamant (and it's been the case with Battlefield 1 and Battlefront II) that they'll continue to support and improve the game as time goes on, so it's worth helping to improve the game as time goes on.


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WWE Over The Limit PPV AI Simulated Matches [SDvR2011]
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Our 7th edtion of what Gouki.com calls the Madden Bowl of Wrestling. WWE PPV Over The Limit simulated w/ the AI of SmackDown VS Raw 2011. Featuring an exclusive Michael Cole CAWs, this is our most accurate simulation yet. A must see for any wrestling fan.
Each time we do one of these productions our SmackDown VS Raw 2011 gets further and further away from the game was originally released as. I'd go as far as saying we've practically rewritten half of the code by now. (Why this game doesn't get updates throughout the season is a question I will most certainly ask the DEV's at E3.) We add our own music to our CAWs, update music for current superstars and adjust Heel/Face status with the crowd. We've added some sweet Gouki.com and DropTheBelt.com signs. All the Champions are accurate and come the ring with the belts. We're very excited to share this with you. Please leave some comments below. Thanks for watching.
Rey Mysterio VS R-Truth
This is one of the more exciting matches we filmed. Spectacular moves and a great finish.
Intercontinental Championship Wade Barrett VS Ezekiel Jackson
Divas Championship Brie Bella VS Kelly Kelly
Sin Cara VS Chavo Guerrero
*Side note - FnJimmy screwed up Sin Cara's finisher, so I don't to hear it.
Tag Team Championship Big Show and Kane VS CM Punk and Mason Ryan
There was a little post production involved here. I really like how Big Show and Kane's intro worked out.
World Heavyweight Championship Randy Orton VS Christian
Jerry Lawler VS Michael Cole
WWE Championship John Cena VS The Miz
Special Bonus Match:
Gouki.com Championship Scramble - Featuring: GoukiJones, Core, Choke, BatRastered and FnJimmy.
Very special thanks to all of the hard work FnJimmy has done to keep our SmackDown VS Raw 2011 copy up to date.
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text: Born in Ireland in 1898, Clives Staples Lewis gained a triple First at Oxford and was Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College from 1925-54, where among others he was a contemporary of Tolkien. In 1954 he became Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. C. S. Lewis was for many years an atheist, until his conversion which he memorably described in his autobiography Surprised by Joy: "I gave in, and admitted that God was God ... perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." He is also celebrated for his famous series of children's books, the Narnia Chronicles (which have been filmed and broadcast many times), as well as his literary criticism and science fiction. C. S. Lewis died on 22nd November 1963.


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Along with raking up the leaves and winterizing your sprinkler system this fall, you may be considering whether or not you should cover your air conditioner.
There's been some debate in the industry for some time now regarding whether homeowners should cover their air conditioner. Most air conditioning manufacturers don't specifically recommend covering the air conditioner. However, depending on where you live, especially if it's an area prone to ice and snow, covering your unit may be a good idea.
Unfortunately, there is no perfect answer. The truth is, it's entirely up to you. There are good reasons you should cover your air conditioner. Conversely, there are good reasons not to cover it. So, while we can't give you a concrete answer, we can give you the pros and cons of covering your air conditioner so you can decide which course of action you'd like to take.
Covering your air conditioner provides protection from falling ice. It may also keep the coils cleaner so it runs more efficiently the next summer.
A cover stops debris like leaves, sticks, branches and other yard waste from becoming lodged inside the unit. You can find Bryant factory-approved covers here.
Covering the condenser prevents water from resting directly on the coils and freezing, which could damage them.
Trapped moisture can lead to rusted components if the condensation freezes. It may also bend the condenser coils.Depending on where your unit is located, it may be susceptible to damage caused by ice and other debris falling from the roof or eaves.
A cover can create the perfect habitat for critters, such as mice, to nest in during the winter, leading to chewed wires and damaged components.
If you do decide to cover your unit for the winter, here are a few tips to help the winterization process go smoothly:
- Clean the debris from the condensing coils
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- Use a breathable material to cover your air conditioning unit
- Remember to take the cover off in the spring!
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Partiers of the Week: See Leo DiCaprio, Alexa Chung, and More Get Wild
In the post–Met Ball haze, the rich and famous and gorgeous took their pretty, stylish faces to galas, dinners, and other events to celebrate everyone from Andy Warhol to Playboy's newest Playmate of the Year. Among those spotted at the Tate Americas Foundation Artists Dinner were a kooky Alexa Chung doing upside-down Batman eyes, Sarah Jessica Parker, and the upgraded, newly blonde Anne Hathaway. The Brant brothers frolicked giddily alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and the Walkens at the Brant Foundation Opening for Andy Warhol.
But the most intriguing party happened outdoors in Morocco, where the social network called ASMALLWORLD threw a celebrity-swarmed carnival: Olivia Wilde gingerly wrapped a serpent around her neck; Dianna Agron walked around with a tray of candles balanced atop her head; and Derek Blasberg rode a camel. Click through the slideshow for a glimpse of the chicest nights out around the world.


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Icicles on ceiling fans, airboats on snowy roads and ice skating down residential streets are just some of the surreal sights that have emerged following a deadly and devastating winter storm in parts of the South this week.
Nearly a million people across the region are facing their fifth day without power, and in many cases heat, following the harshest winter conditions in decades. Single-digit temperatures have also caused pipes to burst and flood residences.
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"This is how cold it is at my Apartment," a Texas resident tweeted alongside a photo of icicles dangling from his ceiling fan. "As a Texan, yes, I'm certainly not built for this."
The storm has resulted in outdoor scenes like something out of the Arctic instead of Texas and Louisiana. Other imagery shows people burning household items for warmth and waiting bundled in line to fill propane tanks as they try to cope with the frigid temperatures.
In north Texas, a man was seen ice skating right down the middle of the street in a residential neighborhood.
In Louisiana, an airboat that would normally be used in a swamp coasted down a snowy road in a Facebook video.
Backyard pools in Texas have been turned into makeshift ice hockey rinks.
While there have been some playful sights, there also have been frightening scenes of homes being flooded and pipes bursting from the cold.
"This is what's going on in texas, our houses are not prepared for this type of weather , pipes are bursting and flooding our houses, I lost a lot of things today," one person shared on Twitter with video of flooded floors and collapsed ceilings. "My friend lost her whole house , and my other friends house caught on fire."
Others shared that they were burning furniture to heat their homes after days without power.
"Greetings from Austin, Texas! 🤠 In case you are wondering how we are doing, we are sawing up boards & burning our fence to keep warm tonight," Texan Janet Janssen tweeted.
"I chopped up a dresser," fellow resident Patina Medai wrote. "Untreated pine I planned to paint. My procrastination finally paid off. 😂 Got us through the dark hours. I had fire watch all night 😴 Got to feed our neighbors today too. Really thankful for chance to share our blessings."
Others are using birthday candles for light and melting snow on the stove for water.
The extreme weather has also caused water facilities to issue notices for some Texas residents to boil their water after scores of water systems were affected by blackouts.
The eye-opening scenes come as nearly 115 million people from the southern Plains to New England are still under winder weather alerts.


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A happy customer is a loyal customer. How you keep them happy is up to you. There are different Customer Experience examples we can give but first, Customer Experience (CX) is quickly becoming the key differentiator in a market filled with clones providing similar services and products.
CX encompasses the entire range of experiences your customers will have from interacting with your helpdesk to using your website and products. It is a constantly evolving and competitive aspect of commerce (both e-commerce and traditional brick and mortar services and products).
5 Customer Experience Examples:
Looking for more ways to improve customer experience? Here's a tip.
1. Site Navigation and Design
Customers need to find what they are looking for and fast. Much like the huge department stores of the 1960s you must be able to find exactly what you need and fast. Otherwize your users and customer will flock to a competitor.
Tabs need to be clearly laid out, key filters provided (price range, products), and most importantly the in-site search bar needs to be optimized with products being recognizable by multiple keywords (searching for men's jeans should give you all the 'denim' in the database).
Amazon and Zappos are giants in the e-commerce field with good reason. Finding what you are looking for in seconds amongst millions of products is the result of good site design and search optimization.
Customer Personalization on the home page and saving recent search data are also customer experience examples that provide a feeling of personalized use and engender continued use.
2. Product Information
Your customer can now find what they are looking for, good job. Now, they need information about the products they are looking at. Apple does a great job of delivering non-cluttered product descriptions and giving clear tables of included features across their line of products.
Simply put, if your site is not doing a good job of informing customers on the basic features of a product and giving guidance on which product is appropriate for each customer, then your site is failing and churn will abound.
Real Customer Reviews are another trusted source of product information that gives reliability to a product and helps to sell it. Amazon again has one of the most trusted customer review systems integrated into the product descriptions of each product. Complete with ratings and the ability to filter comments.
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3. Talk to Customers
On a very basic level, customer, support lines need to be open and available in multiple channels (phone, email, social media). All sites should also include short and easy to fill out surveys to gauge the customer experience and determine sticking points and areas you can improve. Some sites also opt for a simple survey bar that is always available and provides an easy outlet for customers to give feedback about whatever they want.
Live chats are very useful customer experience examples in the case of specialized products that may require technical expertise. Lenovo provides live chats to help you pick the right computers. "Build.com" gives professional advice on designing your home DIY build projects.
4. Seamless Checkout
Amazon and Zappos again have mastered the checkout. It is easier than ever to shop and find exactly what you need. Whether customers are on an Amazon Prime binge, and buying random products or buying a new laptop with research and care, the ability to go quickly from finding the product to the purchase is integral in actually converting the sale.
Confusion along the way when navigating a new site can lead customers to a competitor.
5. Cross Channel integration
Having the ability to purchase online and pick up in-store is a common feature that you can find nowadays at Best Buy or Apple. This integration between websites and brick and mortar locations is important for all business.
An example of poor integration that I have is from personal experience with a sports ticket reseller. Aside from trouble alone on the website with locking down certain seats to be purchased with different credit cards, when I arrived at the stadium, the ticket reseller bar code was not recognized by the stadium and I was directed to a long line of people with a similar problem in order to get my ticket printed out. I missed close to the first half of the game. This customer experience example is certainly not promoting any kind of customer loyalty on my part.
When talking about CX I am always reminded of the Maya Angelou quote "People will not always remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel." I feel similarly that we will not always remember the particular products we bought, but we will remember how the Customer experience made us feel in deciding to go back or not.


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Arts and Activities Programs
The mission of the Peoria Unified Arts Education Department is to deliver an outstanding arts program for our students. We strive to foster creation, understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the arts through quality curriculum and instruction, community advocacy and educational leadership. Vistancia Elementary's Art Department strives to create a quality educational experience for our students in the area of visual arts, general music, choir, and band.


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Lubbock Arboretum To Host "Water-Wise Garden Tour" This Weekend [AUDIO]
On Friday's edition of Lubbock's First News, Jennifer Simek from the Lubbock Arboretum talked with Tom Collins and Laura Mac about their upcoming garden tour.
The Lubbock Arboretum, in association with the City of Lubbock Water Service Department and Lubbock Master Gardeners, will be hosting the Water-Wise Garden Tour this weekend. There will be 7 homes featured on the tour, plus the arboretum itself.
Simek said that this time, the focus is on water conservation, and how you can have a beautiful yard even in the midst of a drought. She explained that each house will feature a different aspect of water conservation, and that there will also be experts on hand to explain how people can use those techniques in their own yards as well.
The Water Wise Garden Tour will take place this Saturday, September 21st from 9 AM to 2 PM. Admission is $5 for adults, and children 12 and under get in free. Tickets are available at the Lubbock Arboretum, or at any of the homes featured on the tour.
Listen to the full interview with Jennifer Simek here:
You can also listen to the interview on your iPhone, iPad or other mobile device by using the link below:
Be sure and tune in to Lubbock's First News with Tom Collins and Laura Mac weekday mornings from 6 AM to 8:30 AM on NewsTalk 790 KFYO and online at KFYO.com.


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New Criminal Minds Season 12,Episode 2 Intense Spoiler Promo Clip Released
New Criminal Minds season 12,episode 2 intense spoiler promo clip released. Last night, CBS served up the new promo/spoiler clip (below) for their upcoming "Criminal Minds" episode 2 of season 12, and it looks very drama-filled, super dangerous and intense as hell as lots of fires are spotted going down by a new vicious criminal that's on the scene.
We see some major explosion action take place towards the end of the clip, and more! Check it out, below. The episode is called, "Sick Day."
In the new episode 12 official description: When JJ arrives home shaken after a rough case, she will end up breaking down and is going to tell her husband about the abduction of two children.
Episode 2 is due to air on Wednesday night, October 5th at 8pm central time on CBS. Stay tuned.


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A. Definitions and Introduction to the topic.
B. Christianity. What are we comparing these religions to?
1. The Christian World View
Our outline of world religions: from those most distant in worldview from Christianity to those most similar to Christianity.
C. Eastern Religions
1. Hinduism
2. Buddhism
3. Jaina, Taoism, Sikkhism, Confucianism, Shinto
4. new Age
D. Other Monotheisms: Islam, Judaism, Bahai
E. Scientology, Christian Science and other
rather strange religions
F. Pseudo-Christian Religions
1. Mormonism
2. Jehovah's Witness
G. Other Christian Movements We Should Be Aware Of
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The parents of an Oak Bay teen who died from an accidental overdose are calling for a coroner's inquest into the events that led to his death.
The intent is not to lay blame, they say, but to prevent other parents and families from having to endure the unnecessary and tragic death of a child.
Elliot Eurchuk was 16 years old when he died of an opioid overdose at his Oak Bay home on April 20. He battled drug dependency after he was prescribed opioids for four major surgeries in 2017, as a result of sports injuries. When his prescriptions of the highly addictive opioids ran out, he turned to street drugs. His parents say they are calling for an inquiry to find out what systemic changes need to take place to prevent this from happening again.
The request for the coroner's inquest into the death of Elliot was sent in a letter to the Chief Coroner on June 29 and the Solicitor General on July 3 by Michael R. Scherr, the lawyer representing Elliot's parents, Rachel Staples and Brock Eurchuk.
"It is the family's belief that only with a full and public investigation will similar deaths be prevented. In addition to the prevention of deaths, the overall health and wellness of many children in the province can be improved," reads the letter.
Elliot's parents say that current legislation blocked them from helping their son, as it allowed Elliot to request that medical staff withhold all information regarding his high risk behaviour from his parents.
"Kids try to make these decisions for themselves. If they don't want the help, there is nothing in our legal system that allows us as parents to get them the help they need," said Staples.
The letter lays out a timeline and the parents' corresponding concerns.
On Feb. 10, while in care at Victoria General Hospital, Brock Eurchuk says Elliot was found not breathing and unresponsive in his hospital bed. A "code blue" was initiated and Elliot was revived with Naloxone – a medication used to block the effects of opioids. That event was the first clear indication Elliot's parents had of the severity of his drug use.
On Feb. 12, his parents say they pleaded with the hospital to keep him under care until they had "an effective, well laid out plan to address substance abuse difficulties."
On Feb. 14, four days after Elliot's non-responsive episode, Elliot's parents say he was discharged with no plan or supports in place to address the addiction.
On Feb. 16, his parents admitted Elliot to the hospital with police intervention under section 28 of the Mental Health Act for a 6-7 day stay.
Elliot was released and the physicians, according to his parents, ceased prescribing opioids. Elliot turned to street drugs and died on April 20 of an accidental overdose.
"The circumstances around the health supports (or lack thereof), school situations, institutional engagement with the family, legislative and health institutional policies and practices have yet to be investigated," states the letter.
The Vancouver Island Health Authority conducted an internal review of the standard of care that Elliot received while at the hospital, producing a report with recommendations that have not yet been released.
"While VIHA has investigated the matter, the results of that investigation are not being made public. VIHA has confirmed that the investigation report will not even be disclosed to the family. This is insufficient," reads the inquiry request letter.
VIHA clarifies that Section 51 of the BC Evidence Act prohibits them from disclosing information and documentation collected as part of a hospital's quality of care review. However VIHA confirmed that the Eurchuk family will receive the recommendations that come out of the report. The family is currently awaiting those recommendations.
BC Coroners Service has confirmed they have received the request for a public inquest into the death of Elliot Eurchuk.
"While there are cases that under our legislation are mandatory to go to an inquest, these are mostly police-involved deaths, and would not apply in this case. Thus, it will be up to the Chief Coroner to decide whether this case would benefit from a public inquest," said Barb McLintock, BC Coroner's Service.
The Chief Coroner will wait until all the investigative research has been completed, and all the necessary reports – such as autopsy and toxicology– are received. The Chief Coroner will then review the file in detail, and make a decision. The family's views are taken into account in that review.
"We do always announce publicly all inquests that are scheduled once a time and place are decided upon," said McLintock.
It is Brock Eurchuk's hope that the coroner's inquest will help to advance an amendment to the Safe Care Act prioritizing a parent's right to access their child's medical information in circumstances where that child is exhibiting lethal at risk behaviour.
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Hartwell GA Vasectomy Reversal Cost: Experience, Success and the Best Total Cost in Georgia.
Helping couples with the precious addition to their family: Hartwell GA Vasectomy Reversal Cost
Hartwell GA Vasectomy Reversal Cost: Dr. McHugh specializes in microscopic vasectomy reversal. He is one of Georgia's most experienced no scalpel vasectomy and microscopic vasectomy reversal urologists. He uses a Zeiss operating microscope with microscopic instruments and sutures.
Dr. McHugh performs surgery in our on-site practice owned and accredited urological surgery center. Anesthesia is provided certified anesthesiologists. Over 600 microscopic vasectomy reversals have been safely performed in our facility since 2008.
Dedicated Vasectomy Reversal Urological Surgery Center
Our ambulatory surgery center is accredited by AAAASF. We have performed thousands of procedures in our facility and have an impeccable safety record.
Hartwell Georgia Vasectomy Reversal Cost: Our surgery facility is equipped and licensed to perform a microscopic vasectomy reversals with general anesthesia.
Since our center is practice owned, your surgery will not be scheduled at an outlying facility or hospital. The facility, instrumentation and staffing are optimized for performing vasectomy reversals.
Vasectomy Reversal Success Stories
Practice owned vasectomy reversal surgery center decreases cost.
We control costs by owning our facility. As a result, the process is streamlined and lowers our all-inclusive fee. This is a total cost package with no hidden fees.
The vasectomy reversal patient can take comfort in knowing that Dr. McHugh is a board certified urologist and the anesthesiologists are certified. Our team performs vasectomy reversals with microscopic instrumentation in our accredited facility on a weekly basis.
Hartwell GA Vasectomy Reversal Cost Components
Because a vasectomy reversal is not covered by insurance, the patient pays an all-inclusive fee to the surgeon. This fee covers all of the components of having the vasectomy reversal procedure to include:
- The surgeon's fee to perform the reversal.
- The facility fee: the cost of the nurses and staffing.
- The accredited facility (operating room).
- Microscopic suture materials and the operating microscope.
- The anesthesiologist and the anesthesia instrumentation to safely provide general anesthesia.
- The cost of overnight accommodations (if necessary).
Our All-Inclusive Vasectomy Reversal Price
The total cost for a microscopic vasectomy reversal at the Northeast Georgia Ambulatory Surgery Center is $7,200.00.
This represents a total cost package with absolutely no hidden fees.
CareCredit is an option for couples preferring to pay by an installment plan with a medical credit card.
Contact us to schedule an informative and free vasectomy reversal phone consultation. (Highly Recommended)
Call 770.535.0000 or email: email@example.com for more information or to schedule a free consultation.
Vasectomy Reversal Success Factors
In addition to asking about cost, the most common question the couple seeking information about reversing a vasectomy is, "What is the success rate?"
Three factors have the most important impact on the success of a vasectomy reversal:
- The number of years since the vasectomy.
- The skill and experience of the surgeon.
- The findings at the time of surgery (the quality of the fluid).
- All of these factors are discussed as well as other questions important to you, will be addressed during the phone consultation.
Vasectomy Reversal Success Rates:
Less than 3 years Patency 97% Pregnancy 76%
3-8 years Patency 88% Pregnancy 53%
9-14 years Patency 79% Pregnancy 44%
Greater than 15 years Patency 71% Pregnancy 30%
Belker AM, et al. Results of 1,469 microsurgical vasectomy reversals by the Vasovasostomy Study Group. Journal of Urology 1991; 145(3):505-11.
Ga Vasectomy Reversal Microscopic Technique
Using an operating microscope, suture the size of hair (9-0 Nylon) is used to align the openings of the vas tubes. Dr. McHugh uses the Modified Two-Layer technique. The first layer joins both the outside of the vas and the inner opening (the channel that carries the sperm).
The second layer joins the outside of each of the vas tubes. As a result, this method provides for both the proper alignment of the lumen as well as support of the repair assuring a tension free connection.
Studies have shown that this technique has similar success rates as other methods which take longer to perform and can incur a greater expense. A total of 12-14 sutures are placed on each side. The procedure lasts two hours. The entire time spent at our facility is usually around 3 hours.
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"Dr. McHugh is incredible. Wonderfully personable and terrific bedside manner. Made me feel comfortable through the entire process while maintaining the highest form of professionalism. Highly recommend!" JS
The vast majority of our vasectomy reversal patients live outside of the Gainesville area. For this reason, a hotel stay is provided for patients requiring an overnight stay. This is included in our all-inclusive price.
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Kalani was born December 31, 2022 at home under the care of a midwife and nurse at 8:11 pm. It was magical as the fireworks from the New Years celebrations exploded outside along the Florida coastline on a foggy sort of mystical night. Our boys are so in love with their baby sister!
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Thank you so much for my husband's successful reversal that you performed in October 2021. We found out we were expecting in the beginning of January and our son was born on September 7th.
Jen and Kristafur
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Dr. McHugh is very thorough and answered any questions we had prior to surgery. His team was very kind and thorough post surgery as well, following up via phone and email to be sure my husband had the best recovery he could. Our chances for conceiving were less than 50% and we just had our daughter a month before the one year mark from surgery. Leanna T. September 2022
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"Dr. McHugh is loads of fun. Really nice guy. Excellent staff. Easy, short, and (mostly) painless procedure. Great practice here." D.D.
Thank you so much for the positive feedback. Enjoyed comparing "Beatles Trivia!" I hope you do well. John McHugh
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Dr. McHugh and his wonderful staff are without a doubt the best in the industry.
"You and your staff were wonderful! I love the relaxed and laid back atmosphere that y'all provided especially the Music! Definitely helped my anxiety. Thank you."
I appreciate everyone's friendliness and kindness during the multiple office visits and surgery center procedure. Thank you for the good care you gave me!
Even after a miscarriage, with time, prayers and of course a great surgeon we now have a healthy 7lbs 2oz baby boy! Thank you.
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Two for the price of one!
After extensive research, we found that the technique performed by Dr. McHugh was the best fit for us. It was the least invasive, and offered the fastest recovery. Dr. McHugh & his team delivered a high caliber of service & comfort for me, & I am extremely thankful for his practice.
Naomi was born just 12 months after having my surgery, & we couldn't be happier with our newest addition!
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Fantastic bedside manner, office and surgical staff were top notch. This coming from a nurse of 12 years. I was never nervous or uncomfortable. (Microscopic Vasectomy Reversal)
My husband asked questions ahead of time and from friends that previously had the procedure. He felt confident going in and completely comfortable during the procedure. Highly recommend them.
Dr. McHugh is the one you should see. We HIGHLY recommend him! Thank you so much again to him and all of his staff. INCREDIBLE!
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Azimuth 2
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SKU: int_AzimuthII Maker: intellijel designs
The Azimuth is back! This is a completely new circuit jam packed with 12 VCAs to perform three core and independent functions:
linear input VCAs + Constant Voltage panning/fading + super stereo processing.
External signals are first processed by the input VCAs, they are then fed to the panning circuit and then processed by the stereo enhancement section.
- 10HP and skiff friendly
- Stereo linear input VCAs with independent CV controls and attenuators
- WIDTH control determines functionality of the Panning knob:
- Full CCW is MONO width and the Panning knob acts as a linear xfade control between the left and right source signals.
- Middle setting is normal STEREO operation. A mono signal in the left input can be panned between L/R and a stereo source can be balanced.
- Full CW is the super stereo mode which employs a special trick to create the aural illusion of an extra wide stereo image.
- Full CV control with attenuator of the width amount
- Switch for changing the direction of panning/fading
- DC coupled inputs
- 6pin header to normal the stereo outputs to the stereo inputs of the uJack via ribbon cable.


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Khoresh Bamieh comes originally from Khuzestan province in southern Iran, where it is traditionally prepared with tamarind sauce. This variety, which is more common elsewhere in Iran, substitutes tomato sauce for the less well-known tamarind.
Okra, or Bamieh in Farsi, has its own share of controversy. "Oh, not another one", you say! Okra's flavor profile is often compared to that of an eggplant, and it has both fans and enemies, with strong opinions on both sides of the fence. It can have an unpleasant texture when not properly treated in the cooking process: it has an unfortunate tendency to become slippery and gooey in texture. Can you tell that I am trying very hard to avoid saying the word "slimy"?
But with a pinch of knowledge and a spoonful of care, one can overcome this challenge. When okra is cut and its cell walls are exposed, it produces a very sticky substance that tends to be off-putting. So to avoid this scenario altogether, buy them small, and cook them whole. If you must slice them, make sure that you do so into larger pieces. Then cook them with sufficient oil and at a higher temperature, don't overcrowd them in the pan, and don't stir them too much.
Whether you fry the okra or roast them or incorporate them in a stew, be sure to cook this misunderstood vegetable properly (approximately 15-20 minutes) so as to keep the texture from misbehaving.
Khoresh Bamieh
- 1 pound whole okra, approximately 20 pieces, stems trimmed
- 8 tablespoons oil, divided
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 pound beef, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon turmeric, ground
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper, ground
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 cup water, more as needed
- 1 teaspoon salt, adjust to your taste
- 2-4 tablespoons Ghooreh (unripe sour grapes), or lemon juice as a substitute
- In a large frying pan, saute the okra with 6 tablespoons of oil over medium-high heat for 10 minutes. Stir gently as needed, but avoid over stirring.
- Once the okra has been sauteed on all sides and has turned a dark golden color, remove from the pan and set aside.
- Add the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil and saute the onions over medium heat for about 10 minutes.
- Add the beef, garlic, turmeric, pepper and tomato paste, increase the heat to medium-high, and saute for 2 minutes.
- Add 1 cup of water, reduce the heat, cover and cook the stew over low heat for 75 minutes or until the meat is nearly fork tender.
- Return the sauteed okra to the stew, add salt and Ghooreh.
- Cover and cook over low heat for 20 minutes or until the okra has fully cooked.
- Adjust the liquid level as needed. The stew should be moist but not watery.
- Serve the stew with steamed saffron basmati rice.