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During the summer, I had the feeling that the everlasting flow of criticisms against the flawed academic processes becomes stronger. Some scientists still try to address classic problems of peer reviewing, or to revolutionize the habits of their community. The most cynical ones emphasize that the actual reality of academic sciences is that it is all for the Art of writing papers. In this depressive context, the "P is not equal to NP" truc occurred. Here is the timeline of this event.
As mentioned in this NYTimes article, one of the greatest outcomes of this "bomb" is the spontaneous collaboration, which has emerged between scientists. In my opinion, it is not so surprising. Indeed, the community of "Theory of Computer Science" has already embraced many tools of the web. Many scientific leaders blog and tweet with high frequency. Look for instance at this aggregator. They also make efforts to put online the articles accepted at the flagship conferences.
In comparison, the communities related with Computer Science that I know are not so well organized. Typically, I observed that no scientist tweets during the PODC conference! I am also not aware of a lot of bloggers among the networking community. Therefore, when a major new idea is published, the debates are not online. Every team silently work in order to produce the most artistic paper, which will be accepted at the next must-be conference. For example, look at the (lack of) reactions to this great post from one of the very few blogging scientist in the network community.
In this context, I see my tiny blogging contribution as an experiment of new scientific collaborations beyond conferences, journals, h-index, etc. Besides, I want to be ready when my communities will switch to the new web-based science era!


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An expression of those pre-war racing cars that used to wiz around the track at Monaco during the 1930s. A wooden toy carefully crafted in solid oak and finished with oil and wax to give that tough but soft satin finish. On the wooden toy all of the wheels turn and there are no metal or small parts. The length of the racing car is about 370mm and from hub-to-hum approximately 150mm.
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Crews tackle recycling plant fire at Glenfarg
About 100 tonnes of rubbish caught fire at a waste recycling site in Perthshire.
Scottish Fire and Rescue crews were called to the blaze at Binn Farm at Glenfarg, south of Bridge of Earn, at about 02:20.
About 45 firefighters were at the scene at the peak of the fire, which took hold in a steel waste storage shed.
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Lisa Marie Presley has used a medium to introduce her father Elvis to her newborn twins.
The 40-year-old is quoted by the Daily Star as saying: "This was my dad, this was Elvis coming through! I would know his energy anywhere and this was him, I have no doubt.
"Not only was it his voice, but I could also feel the exact same love that he gave me when I was a little girl. It was so overwhelming that I started to cry."
The medium told Presley that Elvis was watching over her and her children Harper and Finley Lockwood.
"The medium comforted me with his words by telling me he was proud of me, the babies were beautiful, he's doing just fine on the other side, he watches over me," she said. "After I sort of got acclimatised to all this and dried my eyes, we had this amazing talk.
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Chatting with a friend last weekend, he remarked that he could forgive and understand communists even if communism fared poorly in practice, because at least they were acting out of a good impulse. They saw poverty and injustice and wanted to improve it. But he saw no redeeming features for right-wingers who seemed, he said, 'just mean'.
I have come across those 'mean' right-wingers over the years. Some were proud hybrids of Ayn Rand and Ebeneezer Scrooge, who presumed the worst in all others and thought any charitable act was a cynical bid for attention. These were suspicious people who feared outsiders and were eager to resort to war as an early response to every international challenge. Aggressive, rude and cruel: mean.
But they were a minority and lots of the right-wingers I would come across held subtle and complex perspectives. Many were polite, friendly and introspective, some more willing to admit uncertainty and reconsider their opinions than their left-wing equivalents. The very first blog post on The Harvest explored some of those right-wing perspectives, especially paleoconservatism and libertarianism.
So here I'll say something about the nice and well-intentioned libertarians I've come across, their views and attitudes.
On War
Here is libertarian economist Bryan Caplan, arguing against war. Not any specific war, all war. Caplan believes that even 'defensive' war is morally unjustifiable, and he defends this argument on pragmatic grounds:
1) The immediate costs of war are clearly awful.Caplan is a pacifist. He thinks war is never acceptable. And here he is, strongly supporting the arguments of the 'far left' on Christopher Colombus, who he denounces as 'a brutal slaver' and 'a pioneer of slavery'. He sounds like a hippie.
2) The long-run benefits of war are highly uncertain.
3) For a war to be morally justified, its long-run benefits have to be substantially larger than its short-run costs.
Am I cheating with Caplan? Surely this is a half-hearted right-winger, still keen on public health and welfare for the poor? Absolutely not, Caplan is about as far to the right as possible, deeply opposed to any government interventions to help the poor.
On Poverty
Sometimes right-wingers are seen as lacking in compassion for the poor, blaming them for their own poverty and making little of that poverty. Caplan seems guilty here:
It may seem strange, but when leftist social scientists actually talk to and observe the poor, they confirm the stereotypes of the harshest Victorian. Poverty isn't about money; it's a state of mind. That state of mind is low conscientiousness.Mean! Caplan blaming the poor for their own poverty! Well yes, he does explain some modern First World poverty by looking at the behaviour of the poor, and he uses the controversial concept of 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor:
If I sound harsh, notice: by my standards, many of the poor are clearly deserving: low-skilled workers in the Third World, children of poor or irresponsible parents, the severely handicapped.... Starving Haitian children really do deserve your help more than almost any American.On Immigration
But Caplan isn't without compassion for those deserving poor. He thinks the government has a role to help them, not in what it should do, but what it shouldn't. Governments shouldn't control immigration:
The Third World contains hundreds of millions of deserving poor: desperate people who would love to work as a janitor for $25,000 a year. If we owe charity to anyone, we owe it to people who struggle to earn a dollar a day. But when First World governments hand out charity, the deserving poor in the Third World get next to nothing. Foreign aid's about 1% of the budget. Indeed, First World governments actively prevent the world's deserving poor from helping themselves: They make it illegal for them to move to the First World and accept a job from a willing employer. Even if we owe charity to no one, the least we can do is stop kicking the world's deserving poor while they're down.Not mean! Caplan wants open borders, to give the absolute poor of the world the same chance at climbing out of material poverty that people in the First World enjoy already.
It's about freedom
So why the collage of judgement and compassion? How do we make sense of this? At the heart of it is the libertarian belief that taxation, because it is involuntary, is oppressive. Some argue that taxation is simply armed robbery, even if the tax-collector is empowered by a democratic state. The state in this narrative becomes a Mafia gang, offering 'protection' to its people and sending aggressive agents (police) out to anyone who refuses to buy into the racket. So there are libertarians (and some other right-wingers) who think that forcing other people to give up their money is unacceptable. There is no generosity in putting a gun to one's neighbour's head and demanding that they surrender some of their income to help someone else.
So taxation is out. Wealth redistribution is out. No social welfare, no housing projects, no public health or public schools.
But giving, voluntarily, is good. Caplan's colleague at Econlog, Arnold Kling, explains:
From a libertarian perspective, your generosity is reflected in what you do with your own money, not in what you do with other people's money. If I give a lot of money to charity, then I am generous. If you give a smaller fraction of your money to charity, then you are less generous. But if you want to tax me in order to give my money to charity, that does not make you generous.... But being libertarian does not mean you have to have a cold heart. You can be a bleeding heart, but you show it by what you do, not what you advocate forcing other people to do.Are the libertarians correct in this moral opposition to taxation? I don't know, but at least see that for many of them their opposition to social welfare systems isn't about cold, cruel hardness, but about gentle opposition to coersion.
This is a very simple beginning. There are other shades of right, with other justifications and explanations of their views, pragmatic or principled. Plenty of them are nice, caring people who worry about poverty and the environment and fairness. Some have argued passionately with me that free market capitalism is better at reducing poverty than other economic systems, and that government regulations and welfare that is intended to help the poor only creates economic drag and hurts them in the long run.
There are a few real dickheads, sure. But there are dickhead hypocrites in any movement, like the occasional socialist I see publicly wringing hands over the poverty of the working classes and privately complaining about scumbags and skangers, and deriding the popular culture of the people they claim to represent. Not all the right-wingers are mean. They're just not always very good at pointing that out.


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Time was when the only available adult toy for men was a badly made plastic blow up doll with a vagina about as realistic as a three dollar bill. Either that or strange little bottles of the aphrodisiac Spanish Fly. It's strange to think that one of man's most primal urges was so incredibly badly served. How times have changed. Today the adult toys for men market has exploded to become part of a $15 billion business that is growing each year by 30%.
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"Nine Principles of World Law"
Lighting the candles of peace and unity prior to the seminar.
This one-day Seminar was entitled "Nine Fundamental Principles of World Law"
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Outline of these "Nine Fundamental Principles"
1. The purpose of world law is to deal with all those global issues that are beyond the scope of nation-states and their unworkable treaty system in the United Nations.
2. World law establishes a peace system by institutionalizing peace into democratic world law and abolishing the system of "sovereign" nation-states that is intrinsically a war system.
3. World law is enforced by civilian based police with no military. The profound differences between all forms of military and civilian based police.
4. A founded system establishes the fundamental principles from the start and supersedes an evolved system in which the most basic principles are always compromised and watered down. The Earth Constitution founds a world order on universal moral principles applying equally to all persons.
5. World law is binding and enforceable over all persons. "International law" is not law at all but largely a set of treaties agreed to by sovereign nation-states.
6. World law establishes world government, effective to deal with our immense suicidal global problems. Global "governance" is not government but a profound lie of the present failed system.
7. Striving for moral ideals outside of effective world law is almost useless. Justice and human rights are merely empty ideals unless they are concretely embodied in enforceable world law.
8. World law institutionalized justice and democracy, for both of these are 90% procedural involving rules for police, courts, and legislatures that protect people's rights throughout the system.
9. Justice, love, and democracy are universal concepts, involving our common humanity. There is no justice unless it is planetary justice. There is no freedom unless it is planetary freedom. There is no peace unless it is planetary peace. Only effective world law under the Earth Constitution can bring this about.
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Continuing with my theme of being realistic with this blog, I wanted to give you some real life yoga tips.
1. You don't have to sweat your butt off in yoga. I used to do much more flow or power yoga, but these days I argue that slow is better. In our busy, always connected world, our bodies and minds need time to slow down.
2. It's Ok to make modifications and use props! I love my Sunday yoga class. One lady brings a mini-fan, because she is having hot flashes. Another lady brings her Yoga Jellies because of wrist and knee issues. I prop myself up with blankets to tilt my pelvis forward due to a tailbone injury. The key is our instructor who makes us feel comfortable and encourages modifications.
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3. Find a qualified instructor who offers modifications. It is now a pet peeve of mine to go to a class where modifications are not offered - and it happens a lot. Newsflash - many of us are doing chaturanga wrong. You have permission to put your knees down to maintain correct form. I now look for teachers who have been teaching a while. I also have been beginning to look for instructors with 500 hours of training, most have 200 hours.
4. You don't need to do a full 90 minute class, seven days a week. If you can - great! My schedule doesn't allow it these days. My yoga looks more like one 45 minute home practice and one 90 minute studio class per week. I will also add a few poses at the end of a walk or run.
5. Yoga isn't about the poses anyway. You can practice yoga all day long by just trying to be mindful.


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Community activists from Make the Road New York added new complainants to join a pending civil rights complaint with the New York State Attorney General's Office against language discrimination at pharmacies throughout Brooklyn.
"Our approach is to find one sweeping resolution that will affect all pharmacies in the area to provide more translation services to ensure the quality of care and that patients stay healthy," said Theo Oshiro, a health advocate with MRNY. "Pharmacy staff should be speaking with patients in a language they can understand."
Make the Road, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and the New York Immigration Coalition filed its original complaint, which is not a lawsuit, with the Attorney General's Office on July 26, 2007, on behalf of five limited English proficient New Yorkers who experienced discrimination at four pharmacies. According to the 2000 Census, one out of every four New Yorkers do not speak English and 47 percent of all New York City households speak a language other than English at home.
The complaint seeks to enforce the rights of those who are limited English proficient who have been denied mandated translation and interpretation services by pharmacy staff and are put at risk by medicines with English-only instructions. The number of pharmacies on that list health activists accuse of violating civil rights law has grown to 25 while eight new complainants were added to the ongoing civil rights complaint that MRNY members hand delivered to the Attorney General's office.
"People aren't getting translated labels in the community and they might go home with the wrong medication," Oshiro said. "We want to thank the Attorney General for listening to us we hope he finds a speedy resolution to this problem."
A number of pharmacies in Brooklyn have made the list, including the CVS Pharmacy on 6502 18th Avenue, Rite Aid Pharmacy on 355 Knickerbocker Avenue, Kraupner Pharmacy on 457 Knickerbocker Avenue, Woodhull Prescription Center on 751 Flushing Avenue, Gardner Pharmacy on 371 Broadway Avenue, St. Jude's Pharmacy and Surgical Supply Store on 121 St. Nicholas Avenue, and Duane Reade Pharmacy on 749 Broadway Avenue. Each of the pharmacies on the list has a similar set of alleged statutory violations including a failure to provide skilled interpretative services for LEP individuals and written and oral translation for medication labels.
"In the Civil Rights Law of 1964, language is a proxy for national origin," said Nisha Agarwal, an attorney with NYLPI. "Labels must be clearly understandable for patients of these pharmacies."
Irania Sanchez, a MRNY member who joined the complaint, went to a Rite Aid in Queens to fill a prescription for her diabetes medication, but the pharmacy staff told her to find a translator at home.
Some patients have to rely on children or grandchildren to translate their medications, putting their relatives in an uncomfortable position and changing the family dynamics.
"I take many medications and I usually have to ask my granddaughter who is ten years old to translate my medications," said Maria Sanchez, a Make the Road member and complainant. "This is too much responsibility for a young child and we need a solution."
Other patients, such as Aida Torres, often withhold taking medication prescribed by their doctor because no one at their pharmacy was able to translate the instructions.
"I went home very confused because I didn't understand the dosage or effects of the medication," Torres said. "Instead of taking the medication, I just took Tylenol and that only alleviated the pain a little bit."
Officials with the New York State Attorney General's Office took the updated complaint from Make the Road but were not willing to comment about particular details surrounding the pharmacies listed on the complaint.
"The Attorney General is grateful to Make the Road for their commitment to this issue and for working with us to ensure the rights of all New Yorkers," said Attorney General spokesman Matt Wing.
Craig Burride, executive director of the New York State Board of Pharmacies, which represents licensed professionals and independent owners, said that those pharmacies have staff that speak multiple languages or the language from the demographics of the neighborhood. Others have software to print out labels so that one set that is English and another set that is Spanish, Russian or other languages.
"What you have in the city is a number of chains coming in now that may not have hired staff or gotten the demographics down on their base. Hopefully they will start moving in that way," said Burride.
According to CVS spokesman Mike DeAngelis, the pharmacy offers a program of language interpretation services to supplement the bi-lingual abilities of the store personnel in assisting pharmacy customers who speak a language other than English, and all stores have access to telephonic language interpretation services to provide prescription drug counseling to pharmacy customers who are not proficient in English for over 150 languages.
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Thanks, I will read Charlton in more detail. I definitely have some years that are pl when compared to coins from rolls. The RCMP told me yes , they are pl but was I talking with a salesman. The RCMP has another section for more detailed questions, and I will give it a try.
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Former HS Football Star Brian Banks Has Name Cleared After False Rape Accusation Ten Years Ago
As a high school student, Brian Banks had big dreams for the rest of this life. He was a star middle linebacker with the Long Beach Polytechnic High School football team in California and had attracted national attention. Schools like the University of Southern California, the University of Michigan, and The Ohio State University had all expressed interested in Banks. In fact, Banks had verbally agreed to a full scholarship at USC.
But then, in an instant, his college football dreams and hopes of eventually making it to the National Football League took a backseat to a more dire and pressing focus: The fight for his freedom.
Banks was falsely accused of kidnap and rape by a longtime friend, Wanetta Gibson, in 2002. Faced with the possibility of 41 years to a lifetime in prison, and being told by his counsel that Banks, a big, black teenager, would have to take his chances in this he-said, she-said case with no physical evidence or witnesses, Banks took the advice to plead no contest. He was sent to prison for five years when he was just 16 years of age.
When the five years were up, Banks faced the plight of so many when released from prison. He could not find a job because he was a convicted felon. On top of that, he was a registered sex offender. Appearing on NBC's "Today" show on Friday, Banks said that label was like being branded. The words "rapist" and "sex offender" were his scarlet letters and no one would look past them.
The dreams Banks had as a 16-year old star athlete seemed even more distant as he tried to find a way to make a living as a 22-year old young man.
The California Innocence Project took on Banks' case, focusing on inconsistencies in Gibson's story.
Wanetta Gibson unbelievably contacted Banks a year ago via Facebook, saying she wanted bygones to be bygones. With the assistance of a private investigator, Banks obtained a recording of Gibson confessing that she had lied about the charges. In fact, she admitted that she had never even had sex with Banks. And he certainly didn't kidnap her.
Per the Huffington Post,
In two meetings, she said she had lied and offered to help him clear his name, but there was a catch. She did not want to return a $1.5 million payment from a civil suit brought by her mother against the Long Beach schools.
Thankfully, the videotaped confession was accepted at the hearing that was a long time coming. The office of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Brentford Ferreira conceded that Banks' case should be dismissed. Superior Court Judge Mark C. Kim agreed and the hearing was quickly over.
Banks was finally free with his name cleared He was in tears that finally, after ten years, his story was finally heard.
Wearing a t-shirt with an image of a license plate reading "XONR8" on his "Today" show appearance, Banks was poised and reflective about his experience. When asked if Gibson should go to jail for her made-up story, Banks stated that he believed all people are responsible for their actions but doesn't seek revenge. He certainly has felt that way, but knows that such negative energy hurts no one but himself.
Banks would still love to have an opportunity to play in the NFL, asking teams to, "give me an opportunity and let me show you what i can produce. I think any team that gives me an opportunity will be really impressed with what I can do despite everything I've been through…"
The chances of Banks receiving more than a tryout with a team, if even that, are slim, as he has missed out on the increased knowledge and skill that comes with a college career. But regardless of happens with football, Banks has now achieved his greatest dream of the past decade.
After the hearing that finally cleared his name, Banks stated, "My only dream in the world was to just be free and to have the same opportunity as everyone here."
Banks' segment on "Today" can be viewed here.


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Proverbs 16:9 – In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.
Statements that sum up our sons' personalities thus far:
Josiah: I just wanna have fun (and food) on my timing!
Sheehan: I just wanna be the boss!...and everyone should follow my rules…especially Josiah.
Yesterday was a little more eventful. It rained most of the day, but the boys and Steve were able to get in a little swimming time before it really started to come down. After swimming, we dressed the boys up in their new Chinese outfits and took them around the hotel to get photographed. We took some on the traditional red couch, where all adopted children get their pictures taken, as well as in front of the waterfall and the fish.
Then we ate lunch at the deli downstairs again (super cheap!) and then Josiah took a nap and Sheehan watched a video. After the nap, we went to the US consulate. Helen, our guide, had called earlier in the day to tell us that she wouldn't be able to meet us, but another person would (Steve couldn't understand the name) at 2:30pm in the lobby.
At 2:30pm, nobody showed up and there was still nobody at 2:45pm. Adoptive families came and went and a person named Kenny came and gathered a bunch of families and so we thought maybe we were supposed to go with them??? We really needed to be at the consulate b/c this was where we would get Josiah's visa and all the applications for him to immigrate into the US. If we didn't make it, we would have to wait another week. Steve was becoming very frantic, to say the least. I don't think I've ever seen him that anxious (usually it's me).
We saw a familiar-looking woman herding a bunch of families onto a bus to take to the consulate and we told her our dilemma and how there was no guide to meet us. She said she would take us. It turned out that this woman, Elsie, was our same guide in Guangzhou, when we adopted Sheehan, through Children's Hope International. We were so thankful! Plus, she entertained everyone on the bus with singing, telling jokes, and sharing some information about Guangzhou. While we were on the 30-minute bus drive she received a call. We heard her say the word, "Helen," and knew it must be about us. She got off the phone and told us that there were two women waiting to meet us and were following behind us in the hotel bus. They said we were supposed to meet us at 2:45pm, and we said, we were told 2:30pm. Everything worked out in the end and we got Josiah's visa and the mysterious "brown envelope" that we're not allowed to open. Only immigration in the US can open it.
After we got back, we headed straight to Lucy's for our 4th and final meal there. I had spaghetti (tasty), Steve had a grilled chicken wrap, and the boys split some satay, which neither of them ate.
After dinner, we packed and went to bed a little earlier. Today, we are leaving on a train for Hong Kong. It is a two hour ride, but only costs $25/adult (kids are free). I think the only reason a person would fly to HK is b/c they don't know just how cheap it is to take the train. We were told that it would be MUCH more expensive than it actually cost us….like $55 more and we thought we'd have to pay for the boys. This morning, we will pick up the last of our artwork and souvenirs and then head out on the 11:15 shuttle to the train station with our guide.
Praise God for Zicam. I have not gotten full blown sick yet. I have been taking that stuff religiously and have felt kind of tired and weak with a soar throat around 8pm (my China bedtime) and then sleep well at night and wake up refreshed. Josiah has not gotten sick either (maybe he gave us the cold). Steve is on the upswing (or at least he's hopeful that he is) and so is Sheehan, but they still are very congested, coughing, and kind of tired.
Hey Melissa, have any tomatoes grown on my plants yet? Big Boy or Cherry?
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Conferences can have from a few dozen to several dozen participants and are usually held in hotels, resorts or conference centers. This enables those who attend to break away from their normal routine and focus on themselves in order to discover solutions to the struggles they face.
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Type of Elders caring:
Perspectives of Caretakers
1. Home care: Elders live in their homes, and family members take care of them directly.
2. Community care: community care is the caring service that when elders are in trouble or have some problems at their homes, we can care about them by using the resource in community.
3. Institutional care: elders live in caring institutions/organizations, they will take care of everything in daily life.
Perspectives of caring organizations
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a. Provide non-technical support, ex: cleaning, feeding, taking bath…
b. Solve problems much faster.
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2. Economic care: allowance from family, government, and caring organizations.
3. Health care: medicine taking, nursing, recovery…
4. Mental care
Ways of elders' caring services providing:
1. Un-institutionalization of elders' service.
2. Subjects targeting and rationing: provide services for those who really need it.
3. Emphasize rules and quality of service.
4. Increase the dependence on home caring.


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Obviously here's another Maxx cover.. this is one of the unpublished maxx covers i did, about 20 years ago. Since no one saw it as a cover, I used as a trading card at one point. Today, i used it on the IDW reprints and just added the new logo for fun.
Kinda more of an homage to Heavy Metal logo... instead of the typical Maxx logo.
But then i've been slicing, dicing and generally screwing around with comic book logos since my old Marvel Presents cover days.
Yeah, another tree.
This is my favorite part of this one.. the white high lights I added . No clue what those white bits are. But they could be roots... or just a goof.
Luckily there's no wrong way to draw a tree if your someone like me.
Here's a close up of that 'Twout-a-verse' Poster. It's very large.. the is a photo of a Magic Box i built years ago... printed out the photo, then painted and drew over that.
A few Trout ads decorating the edges.. just for fun.
Finally scanning Worlds of Kieth Vol 2.
This period will have all the classic 'fan-fave' stuff, MCP wolvie covers, first Aliens series, Epicurus, Zero-Girl, Four Women, Lobo, Hollows, Scratch, various unpublished crap sprinkled through out. If you grew up in the 90's & 2000's - this one's probably for you.
Vol 3 will just be a mish-mesh of weirdness, might just scrap a third vol... and instead do a series of smaller art books, by subject? a book of ....
Sam Kieth Girls.
Weird creatures.
Asian themes.
Of maybe it's easier if these are all grouped together in Worlds Vol 3?
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Recently, sake brewery tours have become one of the best sightseeing activities in Japan.
When you visit, you will visibly feel the traditional ambience of sake brewing, and you may even get the opportunity to drink sake for free.
Describing the sake brewery experience is beyond the ability of written words. Going there and immersing yourself is the (only) best option.
So, which ones should I visit? Scroll down to find out!
1. What goes on in a Sake brewery?
To get an overview of the activities being held in a Sake brewery, watch this video:
Some of the activities include washing and steaming rice, making malted rice and fermentation mash, fermentation, squeezing, mellowing (aging), and, eventually, bottling the finished product.
All these activities are done under strict control, in terms of, time and effective teamwork.
2. Breweries are very old
Although it is rare to see old buildings in Japan, sake breweries come in with more than 100 years of history in them. The oldest being 'Sudo Honke' in Ibaragi prefecture, which was established in 1141 and has over 875 years of history.
If you're going on a sake brewery tour, there is a very high chance that you will end up in one of these old Japanese buildings. You will be pleased to find that most of them are still well-preserved.
3. Some offer FREE booze
Did you say, free?
Some breweries offer sake-tasting opportunities to their visitors, either for free or for a small fee. Seeing and feeling the actual sake-making process, plus getting to actually taste the finished product will be one of the most inspiring and priceless moments in your entire visit. Trust us!
You also have the option of buying bottled sake products as souvenirs.
4. English Tours may not yet be Available
English tours may not be easily accessible especially in breweries along the countryside. Unfortunately, they have yet to realize how sake is getting popular among tourists, nowadays.
But do not fret. What we recommend is looking for English-speaking guides who advocate sake tourism. They can join you during the tour and translate as you go along.
This site provides individual tours in breweries around Tokyo. Personal arrangements are also possible: Tour.anchorman
5. Where to visit?
So, the last and the most important thing you should know is where these breweries are.
We've listed the breweries that you can visit while you're in Tokyo. The black line in the image map indicates the train routes.
We recommend visiting the breweries during the sake-brewing period, which is October to March. Ideally, book your trip during October or November. Although there is still a lot to see during December and January, these are also the the busiest time for the breweries and booking may become an issue.
You might not be as lucky to witness the actual sake-making process in other months outside the sake-brewing period.
Ozawa brewery
Brand: SAWANOI
Established: 1702
Address: 2-770, Sawai, Ome-shi, Tokyo
Sake tour:
Everyday except Mondays and the next day of National Holidays
4 times a day (11:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00)
Reservation: required
English guide: not available
Free tasting: Yes
Sake tour contact: +81-428-78-8210
URL: Ozawa Brewery
Note: This brewery produces sake all year round, and an English brochure is available for the tour.
Nakamura brewery
Photo Credit: http://www.chiyotsuru.jp/
Brand: CHIYOTSURU
Established: 1804
Address: 63, Ushinuma, Akiruno-shi, Tokyo
Sake tour: Depends upon request/ Personal Arrangements
Reservation: required
English guide: not available
Free tasting: —
Sake tour contact: +81-42-558-0516
URL: Nakamura Brewery
Tamura brewery
Photo Credit: www.tachikawaonline.jp/
Brand: KASEN
Established: 1822
Address: 626, Fukuo, Fukuo-shi, Tokyo
Sake tour:
Available for more than 10 people.
For < 10 people, you can join the monthly tour instead (see the website below for more information)
Reservation: required
English guide: —
Free tasting: yes
Sake tour contact: +81-42-551-0003
URL (only in Japanese)
Sake tour: Tamura Brewery Tour
Monthly tour notification: www.seishu-kasen.com
Ishikawa brewery
Photo Credit: www.tamajiman.co.jp
Brand: TAMA-JIMAN
Established: not specified, probably about 200 years
Address: 1 Kumagawa, Fukuo-shi, Tokyo
Sake tours:
Mondays-Sundays including National Holidays
10:00, 14:00, 16:00
Reservation: required
English guide: available upon prior request
Free tasting: yes
Sake tour contact: +81-42-553-0100
URL: Ishikawa Brewery
Toshima brewery
Photo Credit: osakelist.com
Brand: KINKON
Established: 1596
Address: 3-14-10, Kumegawa-cho, Higashi-murayama-shi, Tokyo
Sake tours: available periodically with a small charge (USD 5.00)
Reservation: required
English guide: —
Free tasting: included
Sake tour contact: +81-42-391-0601
URL: Toshima Brewery
Koyama brewery
Photo Credit: www.koyamashuzo.co.jp
Brand: MARUSHIN-MASAMUNE
Established: —
Address: 26-10, Iwabuchi-cho, Kita-ku, Tokyo
Sake tours:
Available for more than 5 people and with a small charge (USD 5.00 each),
Reservation: required
English guide: not available
Free tasting: included
Sake tour contact: +81-3-3902-3453
URL: Koyama Brewery
Note: this brewery provides only video presentation and sake tasting.
So, this is pretty much everything you need to know about sake brewery tours. When you visit Tokyo, you wouldn't want to miss this great opportunity!


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Lawd, there's going to be several plots and twist to the Kim Kardashian robbery story.. Kanye West abruptly ended his concert after getting word that his wife was robbed and held at gun point in Paris…..
Well more details are surfacing about what happened during the invasion….
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The French Interior Ministry said five men threatened a concierge with a weapon, handcuffed him and forced him to open Kardashian's private apartment. Per Today, the Paris Prosecutor's office confirmed two of the men gained entry to her room. One of Kardashian's rings, worth an estimated $4.49 million, as well as a jewelry box, worth an estimated $5.6 million, were stolen.
Kardashian's children, North West and Saint West, were not in the room.
According to NBC News New York, the five men escaped on bikes. They are still at large.
A source reveals to E! News Kardashian was gagged and bound at her hands and feet, then handcuffed and held at gunpoint. "She begged for them to let her live and [said] she has babies at home. Then they wrapped her mouth in tape and put her in the bathtub." Scared and alone, Kardashian feared the worst. "She thought they were for sure going to kill her," the source says.
After the men left with "all her jewelry," Kardashian "broke out of her bindings and got out," the source tells E! News. Later, after speaking with Parisian police, the reality star boarded a plane. Kardashian's sister, supermodel Kendall Jenner, left Paris on a separate plane Monday.


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How Old is the Earth?
(Video #5 in the BioLogos Basics video series.) A central feature of young earth creationism is the claim that the earth and universe were created no more than 10,000 years ago. At BioLogos, we believe that a serious and faithful reading of Scripture doesn't call for such a recent origin, and we are persuaded that God has shown us through the natural world he created that his creative work began much earlier than that. This video gives a quick overview of some of the dating methods scientists use today.
Next steps for exploring this topic:
- How do we know the earth is old? – An infographic presenting quick overviews of dating methods.
- How are the Ages of the Earth and Universe Calculated? – From our Common Questions page.
- It's An Old World After All – A two-part series presenting information on dating methods via pictures and audio.
- When Appearances are Deceiving – A blog post by Pastor Scott Hoezee confronting the claim that perhaps God made the earth and universe to look older than it really is.
- Radiometric Dating – A detailed resource from the ASA website on radiometric dating (and other dating methods) by Roger Wiens of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- Biblical And Scientific Shortcomings of Flood Geology – A four-part blog series by Gregg Davidson and Ken Wolgemuth describing the timescale represented by geological features of the earth, and why Noah's Flood cannot be used to discount these.
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So how old is the earth? Some people think the Bible says it was created about 6,000 years ago. While the Bible does include a number of genealogies, many conservative Bible scholars believe that these lists are not intended to be a complete method of dating the age of the earth. Instead God gave us another means to discover this kind of information: he created the natural world through faithful, consistent processes. And as we observe these processes and their effects today, we can develop reliable conclusions about the past.
Most people know that tree rings are a record of growth from year to year. If we look at the cross section of a tree today and find 75 rings, this is a window into the past 75 years, including the atmospheric conditions of each year. And rings from the same years can be correlated among the petrified remains of trees of different ages, providing an unbroken record from the present back to more than 13,000 years ago.
There are other dating methods that use layers too, like the annual ice layers at the poles of the earth, which have been measured to over 100,000 years in Greenland, and over 700,000 years in Antarctica! These methods allow us to determine information about the past from data that is available today.
Another method counts "varves" which are found at the bottom of many lakes. During the summer months the lakes are fed by streams that carry a lot of sediment. The heavier particles settle on the bottom, but many of the finer particles stay in circulation around the lake. In the winter when the water freezes, the circulation of the lake slows down and allows the finer particles to settle on the bottom too. This process creates distinctive layers that can be counted just like tree rings, some going back more than 50,000 years. When these layers harden into sedimentary rock, millions of years of deposits can be preserved.
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Other forms of radiometric dating work on non-living objects and provide much longer timescales. Potassium 40 has a half-life of 1.3 billion years. Using this method, rocks in Greenland have been dated to over 3.6 billion years ago.
There are many other independent means of determining the age of the natural world. These are incredibly consistent with each other and point to the earth being created four and a half billion years ago. Such an immense span of time is also consistent with what we learn about God from Scripture. He doesn't seem to be in a hurry, but works patiently through the ages to bring about his intentions—think of 40 years wandering in the desert, centuries waiting for the Messiah, or millennia for the return of Christ. The God we encounter in the Bible is the same God who created this vast and ancient universe. In the next video we'll start looking at the process he used to bring about the diversity of life on earth.


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Your Guide to Kitchen Cabinet Refacing
Beyond Sanitary: Tips to Encourage a Healthier Kitchen Environmentby Melissa Bullard
Face Your Kitchen Columnist
Remodeling your kitchen or refacing your kitchen cabinets is an excellent time to consider ways to keep your kitchen healthier. Of course, there are basic measures you can take to keep your kitchen sanitary, including using different cutting boards for raw meats and vegetables and using an eco-friendly, non-hazardous cleaner on your countertops, but there are also some ways to pursue healthier kitchen environment after a refacing job.
Tips for Healthier Kitchen Air
Kitchen health goes beyond what's in the food, in the sink, and on the counters. With just a few simple actions, you can make a big difference in your kitchen's air quality.
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Melissa Bullard earned a Bachelor's degree in English Literature, then a Master's Degree in Spanish Language and Literatures from the University of Nevada, Reno. She has taught writing, literature, and Spanish classes, and is currently working as a fre
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This is part one of a series on writing a technical article. The advice might apply to non-technical articles, but I'm focusing specifically with my examples on technical pieces. Other parts are listed at the end of this article.
I deal with a lot of first time authors, people that are working in a technical field and want to publish some type of article to share their knowledge or work. And I see all sorts of quality of articles from highly polished and ready to release to drafts that aren't as good a quality as my ten year old might write.
Even allowing for the language differences from around the globe (I get submissions from many countries), the quality of writing is appalling at times, and even when it's not poorly written, it's often not well structured.
Pick a Theme
The first thing that I'd really suggest for people is to pick a topic, or theme, for your article. Think about what you want to write about and then write an abstract or at least a topic sentence.
As you write, you should be able to go back to your topic sentence or your theme at any point, at any paragraph, and you should be supporting that theme. You can diverge in your writing to make a point, or give an example, but your writing should almost always be supporting your theme. If it isn't, you're off track.
Focus, Focus, Focus
Too often I find technical writers worrying about losing people, worried about covering their bases, and so they try to spell out every detail, or they include lots of background about lightly related subjects, or they want to be sure that someone implementing this technique understands everything needed for the entire infrastructure.
Don't do that.
Focus on your small topic. If you are teaching someone about encrypting data in SQL Server or in an ASP.NET web page, don't tell us about configuring IIS or creating server certificates in SQL Server. If that's needed, mention it, but don't go into details. Point people to another article, or just the vendor documentation. Or Google if you must. But write about the one small piece of technology you have chosen and leave other parts for another article.
Write about what you are teaching us, and assume people have some base level of knowledge. That might be a beginner in a topic, or an advanced used, but no matter which level you write for, you can still focus on your one area.
One thing I usually tell people is that a good technical article tends to be in the 2-5 page range (perhaps longer if you have lots of images or code), but beyond that you might want to consider splitting it into two parts.
Tell Me, Show Me, Tell Me
Everything above is general advice for trying to determine what goes into the article, but how do you structure it? The "default" advice, the advice that I think everyone should follow until they're established and comfortable writing articles that someone else publishes, is this:
- tell me what you are going to write about
- show me what you told me
- tell me at the end what you told me
Or in other words, have an introduction, a detailed middle section, and then a conclusion. This is standard essay advice that most people get in grammar and high school, and it still applies for articles. Blogs can be different, but for an article, follow this advice.
The introduction should have your theme or topic sentence, and then some details that explain what you're showing, and perhaps some back story about how you discovered this, or how it fits into a common situation.
The details should be just that. Walk the user through your code, your settings, explaining things. You ought to be able to give the article to a non-technical, or low-technical user and they should be able to follow along. They might not understand, but they should be able to follow things.
I tend to advise people to show snippets of code and then explain them as they go rather then show a huge section of code at the beginning or end, but it can work either way. You can even make the code a download and reference sections or line numbers. If a technical person can't load code into an editor, they probably shouldn't be reading your article anyway.
For the conclusion, it feels silly, but summarize what you've said. Restating the theme does two things. One it reinforces things for the person reading. They'll agree that you've shown something and it will stick with them. Of course if you haven't done a good job, hopefully there's a feedback mechanism for you to find that out. The other thing is that in writing that conclusion, you should go back and think about what you've written up to that point. Does your conclusion really summarize things?
The conclusion for me also tends to include a teaser to another article, a way for the reader to move on, or perhaps a quick note about what (specifically) this technique has done for me.
Writing a Technical Article Series
The rest of the series on how to write a technical article.
- Part 1 – Structuring Your Article
- Part 2 – Finding Ideas
- Part 3 - Where to Publish


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This is our neighborhood in the lovely little town on the hills of the Shomron where we live. On a clear day you would spot the sea on the horizon, and the skyscrapers of Tel Aviv to the left.
Images of a morning walk with my husband and Ella in a sunny break between the rains.
The first wild narcissus started to bloom, dressed in light green narrow leaves, their pretty stars bridal white, embellished with yellow chalices in the middle.
We met Ella's Labrador friend Rico, and they had a go - running and jumping, chasing each other, being frolicsome and happy.
The dry season starts here in May, not a drop of water falling from the sky for many months. By the end of October we are really quite yearning for rain, and this year we got lucky early. It is raining on and off for almost two weeks now, and the downpour is strong and plenty. But when the rain stops for some hours, the sun is always peeping out from the clouds. We scarcely have melancholic misty days, or slow and soft dripping rain for long periods of time, either it is raining heavily or the sun is pleasantly shining.


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Our last post got you through the first half of the day with all the steps you need to begin planning your next video campaign in record time — a single workday! Here's what to do in the second half of your day. We pick up where you left off, and go from research to storyboarding and budgeting.
12:15 pm – Learn from prior videos: 30 minutes.
If you've produced videos before, you should have a sense of what works and what doesn't. Refresh your memory, and check available data on the videos people visiting your site have responded to best.
You can use Google Analytics to get a general sense of your website traffic. Even better, use SproutVideo's analytics reporting to quickly and simply gain insights into the performance of your videos.
12:45 pm – Analyze your data and choose a topic: 15 minutes.
Combine your knowledge of past performance with your market research about your target audience. Then, use it to narrow your list of topics down to the one that will likely get the best response based on your research.
1:00 pm – Break for lunch: 60 minutes.
Good work so far. You're halfway there. Combine protein and carbs for the best recovery and brain-energy boost, then get back to work.
2:00 pm – Refine your concept: 30 minutes.
Now that you've got your topic and a lot of information in front of you, spend half an hour brainstorming what your video should ideally include. Try to get a basic outline in place.
2:30 pm – Storyboard: 60 – 90 minutes.
Storyboarding is the process of breaking your video into visual or modular steps in order to plan production efficiently. You can do it using pen and paper, or you can use a program like StoryBoard Pro — this is totally up to you.
Based on your brainstorm and outline from the last step, break your video down into camera shots, and draw or render a simple image for each shot that communicates what that shot might look like.
Then, make note of practical points crucial to each shot, for example what verbal content needs to be delivered, how long the shot should last, location or setting, props you'll need, special effects, subtitles, or anything else to be added in post-production, and so on. Being fairly detailed will help you in the last steps of the planning process.
4:00 pm – Dynamic rest: 30 minutes.
Your energy is fading. Run up and down the nearest staircase. Get some herbal tea.
Then, find a teammate, or the nearest person, who has ten minutes to spare. Run the video concept by them, requesting constructive feedback.
3:50 pm – Refine your storyboard. 10 minutes.
Based on feedback from your team, get your video down to its vital elements: cut things that didn't resonate, and refine details to make your video truly pop.
4:00 pm – Resources: 30 minutes
Now go through your storyboard and list everything you'll need for video production, from filming equipment to makeup to lighting to video editing software. Then, write out a draft production schedule for filming, and call your team, because you've got a video to make!
Note: The one thing that's missing here is scripting. Unfortunately, depending on the type of video, it's hard to guess how long scripting will take. Some videos rely on team interviews, visuals, or ad-libbing, so scripting isn't intensive. However, videos with a lot of verbal or textual content may take time to script.
That's your video planning day, with an hour to spare! Be sure to let us know how it worked for you if you test it out.
Have any ideas for making the video planning process even more efficient? Get in touch through comments, or find us on Twitter, @SproutVideo. Happy filming!


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Hello once more NAGorians, and thanks for spending part of your weekend with us. This week we'll discuss Microsoft pulling out all the stops on the Xbox One sales pitch, why a Brazilian PS4 is worth more than my car, Crytek's social media faux pas, Activision's mild-mannered trash-talking and Ubisoft's plans for world domination. Then of course there's gameplay videos, Bruce Wayne, stuff you can win and a healthy sprinkling of my self-indulgent monologues. Drama, intrigue and unchecked narcissism, all after the jump.
Console News
As the release of the next-gen consoles approaches, Microsoft is now touting a new feature of the Xbox One – the ability to increase performance over time.
According to VP of Xbox Phil Harrison, Microsoft can use the cloud to "add features, add functionality, and performance increases over time." Phil thinks all that will "keep the platform very fresh over a long period of time."
Mark Cerny of PS4, on the other hand, has said in the past that he is dubious about upgrading performance through the cloud. For my money, the real "performance upgrades" will come from the developers themselves, and what they can manage to squeeze out of the hardware. If you compare a release PS3 title to something like The Last of Us or GTA V, the difference is phenomenal.
Nintendo continues to find success with the 3DS where they can't with the Wii U, as the global phenomenon Pokémon X&Y has sold 4 million units in just 2 days.
I don't know what it is about Pokémon that makes normal, well-adjusted people into obsessive children's-show-character-collectors, but I have multiple friends who bought a 3DS just for this game. If anyone can explain this departure from sanity to me, I'm all ears.
We like to think we get the short end of the stick here when it comes to consoles and games due to import fees, but this week I learned we have absolutely nothing on Brazil.
It was announced yesterday that a PS4 in Brazil will set you back a hilarious $1800. What? According to Sony, this is due to "importation taxes imposed by the local government." Can you imagine paying R20,000 for a PS4?
If you like you can go for the more competitively priced Xbox One, which will only cost you a meagre $1,015. It's still hilariously expensive, but why would an Xbox One be taxed less? What the hell, Brazil? Oh well, at least the games are cheap at only $82 apiece. Did I say cheap? Sorry, typo, I meant stupidly overpriced.
Gaming News
Crytek came under fire this week over a the Twitter hashtag #RyseFacts, which they used as a kind of trivia game to make a joke out of "crunching", a term used in the industry to describe the period where developers work absurdly late hours in order to get a game finished before deadline.
Employing trivia such as "guess how many dinners we've had to serve to employees", a lot of Twitter users (Twitterers? Tweeters?) lashed back, accusing Crytek of mistreating their employees. Hey, at least they got dinner.
Personally, I'm a little ambivalent about the whole thing. Many people I know have periods at work where they have to work insane hours in order to get a big project done; it's something that's expected of you, to be a team player. It depends entirely on the environment really – there's a big difference between a taskmaster forcing devs to work late under fear of punishment or a group of motivated employees working hard to finish something they're passionate about and want to be as good as it can be. What's your take on the whole thing?
Speaking of Crytek, their free-to-play multiplayer shooter Warface will be going public as of next week Monday. The game has already exploded in Russia, with over 5 million users shooting each other's faces off. That being said, every online game I've ever played seems to be 70% Russian; I guess that's what happens when you combine incredible internet with rampant unemployment.
The browser-based title features a lot of co-op PvE gameplay, but if you're anything like me you'll be far more interested in jumping into the competitive PvP modes. A Crytek developed, online, competitive multiplayer FPS? I know how I'll be dealing with the Monday blues.
When you think of EA's DICE, it's hard not to go immediately to Battlefield 4. However, the studio will be working on a game that's possibly even more anticipated, Star Wars: Battlefront.
Talking to IGN, executive producer Patrick Bach (no relation) said that the expectations are "scary", and detailed how DICE ended up with the license.
"We had a discussion at the office about what happened to Battlefront. You know, the old IP that someone else made that was a rip-off of Battlefield. Bastards! We should've made it. It was a competition of powers. We couldn't do both at the same time.
"For some reason EA was negotiating with George Lucas as to who should make the new Star Wars games. And just a week later it was like, 'Oh, by the way, that discussion you were having about Star Wars? Do you want to make it?' 'Well, yeah.'"
I feel like it's in safe hands.
Diablo 3 expansion Reaper of Souls will be at Blizzcon, and not only that, it'll be on a PS4. Blizzard is promising some sweet controls which make full use of the Dualshock 4, and feature single-player and same-screen co-op.
Honestly, I'm just excited for the death of the auction house, which I think will breathe new life into the game alongside the expansion.
GTA V took the sales crown away from Call of Duty this year, but Activision is confident they're going to get it back. In a somewhat cheeky compliment, senior brand manager Kevin Flynn said, "Congratulations to the team at Rockstar for their success. We look forward to getting the record back before the next GTA title."
CEO Eric Hirshberg is also confident, saying before GTA V's release that there is "room for more than one successful blockbuster", and "if people only have money for a few games, I like our chances that Call of Duty will be one of them."
With Call of Duty breaking their own records every year, and Ghosts being an Infinity Ward title (generally agreed to be a notch above Treyarch's offerings), it'll be interesting to see if they can take the title back.
Ubisoft, on the other hand, is thinking a little further ahead with two big next-gen titles being delayed, Watch Dogs and The Crew.
Ubisoft defended this decision, saying that it's the right one to make "both in terms of satisfaction for our fans and in terms of value creation for our shareholders". According to the publisher, their long term goal is "to win the next generation".
At least there's still Assassin's Creed.
Sources: VG247, Joystiq, CVG, Joystiq, CVG, Escapist
Final Fantasy, like Pokémon, is another one of those Japanese things I can't bring myself to get excited about. Coincidentally, just like Pokémon, I'm in the minority. In that spirit then, Square Enix has released an 8-minute gameplay video for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, which I've linked below for everybody who sees what I don't.
Call me old-fashioned, but I still find it kind of surreal that video games are now advertised on television. When a video game makes more money than Avatar, I guess you kind of have to accept that games are mainstream, pack up your lawn chair and let the kids play on your lawn. Batman: Arkham Origins releases in less than a week, and this is its very own TV commercial.
Microsoft have been making a big Xbox One push this week to try remind everyone they're awesome and forget about all that nasty DRM business. In this five minute video, you can get the sales pitch on Kinect integration, cloud computing, SmartGlass and the console's design.
Sony's video for the week, on the other hand, is more Square Enix released gameplay footage, this time of fan favourite franchise Kingdom Hearts 3. Ironic seeing these two side-by-side, as Microsoft's reveal was criticised for being too focused on the consoles non-gaming capabilities, while Sony did the exact opposite. Déjà vu, anyone?
Best of NAG
Resident indie reviewer Rogan Louwrens took Steam cheapie Legend of Dungeon for a spin this week. It's a sidescrolling roguelike with rainbows and kittens. But is it any good? Find out right here.
Amidst all the next-gen hype, Valve dropped the bombshell that is the Steam Box, and more importantly, that wacky controller. This week I used my column space to talk about whether or not the unassuming living-room PC can take on the mighty consoles.
Beyond: Two Souls has some of the most mixed reviews of any big release I've seen in a while. The game has been both criticised and lauded for prioritising story over gameplay, and it's a confusing and difficult game to score. See how Matthew Vice tackled it here.
It's competition time on NAG! Who am I kidding, every week there's awesome stuff being given away to loyal readers, and we're not about to stop now. First of all you can get some high-tech accessories courtesy of Leitz by going right here, or I believe there's still time to get your hands on one of FORTY Hearthstone beta keys. As someone hopelessly addicted already, I both recommend and discourage you from posting here.


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There is one thing I have learned about our society, and that is some people take themselves too damn seriously. I got some funny responses to my blog and then I also got some truly ridiculous responses. I was even accused of having "animus" towards women.
Even though I do know what that word means, it sounds like something Harry Potter would say in a magic spell. It doesn't belong in a critique of a silly blog called the "Fool's Crusade." Its some strange folk out there. I will post these responses next week because you wouldn't even believe how silly they were.
Anyways, I find myself missing my friends quite a bit. They are all spread out over the country and I don't make new friends easily. Mainly because I am surrounded by people who have no personality and cover that up with endless conversations about their bland children, or folks who talk about Jesus all the time, or folks who find ways to further segregate themselves away from the rest of society (black fraternity/sorority members, cops, military, and fake intellectuals).
So the pickings are slim for a dude who likes talking about politics, video games, breakfast cereals, and old TV theme songs. I believed I was alone in the world for many, many years, because even the dudes I grew up with were a bit too preoccupied with sports and fake gangsta life for me to share all my interests with.
I didn't really connect with other folks who shared my interests until I moved to Boston after undergrad. I will go on record to say that there are some great people in Boston, but the majority of the population are people who hate anything that isn't white. Even the black Bostonians hate everything non-white. Its the racial Twilight Zone of America. More on that in a future blog.
Anyways, while working at a Japanese animation spot and a comic book store while in grad school, I met a bunch of guys who are the coolest people I have ever known. Sure, most people would call them unrepentant geeks, but damn, if I would start singing the theme song to "One Day at a Time" those bastards would chime right in with me.
That's a damn rare thing.
I won't give you their real names, but I will start with a short rundown of their personalities and quirks --
BDB = Asian guy who loves Boston almost as much as I love Baltimore. Has a problem understanding how much Boston sucks as a city in terms of personality. BDB stands for Back Down Buddy, in the sense that he is that friend who pulls out of major plans at the last minute because he is afraid of his parents. Mind you, he is in his late 20s. Needs to get laid in this century.
August = Funny, white, yuppie guy like those dudes from the movie WALL STREET. Loves money. Talks about his conquests with women ad nauseum. Some of these stories are fabricated. I call him "august" because his best woman stories seem to happen in the month of August.
NoBankAccount = Good Salvadoran guy who has no bank account despite being in his mid-20s and this causes him lots of trouble whenever he needs to cash his paycheck. Spends about 60% of his income on video games and the like. Because of some issues growing up, NBA didn't learn the basics about how to conduct personal financial business. Things that should come to people immediately take about 3 months for NBA to process. While it doesn't really affect me in my personal life, it gets hard to make plans with a guy who may or may not have the money whenever you want to go out and have fun. Desperately needs to get laid on a regular basis.
Leech = I couldn't make up a name for this guy because that's his nickname. He got it because he never had any money, hung out at a comic book store for years living off the kindness of the employees. Great dude, but has a very unhealthy desire for young girls. I have tried to ween him off of this fetish, but I figure he will stop when he ends up in prison for statuatory rape sharing a cell with a guy who hates child molesters. Some people have to learn the hard way -- no pun intended.
JailHouseMike = One of the guys I grew up with. Love him like a brother. Problem is, he seems to have lost the ability to experience joy in his life. He was always a dour kind of guy, but if it doesn't relate to sports or disfunctional women, he ain't really interested. Recently, I became the potential godfather for his new son. This has changed a lot in his life, although he still doesn't get excited about much.
MovieUsher = Another guy I grew up with. He is probrably the closest of all of them to having my exact same personality. And for that reason, we have been at odds for quite a long time. MovieUsher is intelligent, funny, and hard working. But what separates us was my educational ambitions vs. his desire to have fun when graduating from high school. I went straight into undergrad, he spent that summer having sex with a girl everyone warned him about. So of course, she gets pregnant, and to this date, he hasn't earned a college degree. I only bring that up because he talked about it being a personal goal 15 years ago. We are all in our early 30s.
The Dreamer = I met this dude at Ithaca College. He is like a much more idealistic, bright-eyed, and naive version of myself. He is a very talented writer and he has the exact same taste in women as I do. Problem is, there was a point in time when I stopped being naive and idealistic and started to practice a cautious optimism that has served me very well in the last decade. The Dreamer still hasn't developed that necessary survival skill. So he jumps headlong into things under the umbrella of being "romantic" but careful examination reveals an overall laziness at attacking a situation from the most logical point of reference. Moved out to Arizona on a whim. Still out there comprising 25% of the black population of that state.
I do have quite a few women friends whom I haven't dated or slept with. But they usually get insecure boyfriends who have issues with them having a male friend so I don't push the issue too much and I hear from them about every 6-8 months when they break up with those losers.
But for all their quirks and percieved lunacies, I really love these people. Sadly, we are all over the country, so whenever I get to hang out with them, its an event and we try to bring the house down wherever we go. Problem is, the roof usually ends up on our collective heads.


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COMET P/2010 TO20 (LINEAR-GRAUER) Observations obtained by I. Melville, A. Kasprzyk, N. Howes,E.Guido and G Sostero with the 2.0-m f/10 Ritchey-Chretien "Faulkes Telescope South" at Siding Spring shows a cometary appearance; six stacked 60-s R-band exposures taken in good seeing conditions on Oct. 19.6 UT show a sharp central condensation, a compact coma about 5" in diameter, and a wide, fan-shaped tail at least 45" long toward p.a. 250 deg. Five stacked 60-s R-band follow-up images taken by Sostero, Howes, and Guido with the 2.0-m "Faulkes Telescope North" at Haleakala on Oct. 20.4 again show a sharp central condensation, a compact coma about 6" in diameter, and a tail at least 30" long toward p.a. 247 deg.


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On August 7, 1913, at 8:00 p.m., Patrolman Daniel J. Lane was walking his beat when he observed that a street lamp located at the corner of Cooke and Grove Streets was not functioning. Patrolman Lane walked to a call box and notified the Desk Sergeant of the broken lamp.
By 10:33 p.m., no one from Connecticut Light and Power arrived to repair the lamp so Patrolman Lane climbed the lamppost and attempted to repair the light himself. The lamppost collapsed and the 2200-volt wire that ran inside the lamppost electrocuted Patrolman Lane. Patrolman Lane also received a fractured skull from the lamp post falling on top of him.
Patrolman Danield Lane was 34 years when he died.