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Top 10 Most Memorable GTA Characters
The Grand Theft Auto games have always been about granting the player freedom, but since GTA III that freedom has been supplemented with a tightly woven narrative containing a colourful cast of characters. So as the release of Grand Theft Auto V looms closer and closer, we thought that now would be as good a time as any to remember the personalities that have made GTA one of the most popular video game series of all time. Here are the top 10 most memorable characters in GTA history.
Hare Krishnas
Over time the Grand Theft Auto series has matured and, just like any series in the 21st century worth more than a grain of salt, has developed something of a political edge. But long before GTA IV's damning of the corrupt so-called "American dream", there was the nihilism of the original Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto II. While these games didn't feature characters as memorable as the ones we would encounter in later iterations in the series, they did introduce us to the Hare Krishnas who, in what was obvious censor-baiting on behalf of developers Rockstar North, we were actively encouraged to kill for bonus points. The lampooning of the religious group throughout the first two GTA's showed early signs of Rockstar's trademark dark humour, and as such made the Hare Krishnas the most memorable characters from the series' humble beginnings.
GTA III's Silent Protagonist
The silent protagonist of Grand Theft Auto III's inclusion on this list is obviously not due to his charm, but rather due to him being the face of a video game that inarguably changed the shape of the industry forever. While the only real character development he received was through a humorous cameo in San Andreas wherein his name was finally revealed (it's Claude, by the way), GTA III's anti-hero and his trademark leather jacket were as important to a generation of gaming as 8-bit Mario and his blue overalls.
Carl Johnson
San Andreas' Carl "CJ" Johnson may not be cool enough to be as memorable as Tommy Vercetti nor sympathetic enough to be as memorable as Niko Bellic, but he still made for a worthy protagonist. Considerably less violent than all of the GTA series' other anti-heroes, CJ was often hesitant to resort to gunfire, even showing remorse for killing Big Smoke despite Smoke's involvement with his mother's murder. While it was refreshing to take control of a character who was considerate about when and when not to commit wanton mass-slaughtering, CJ's relatively low placement on the list is due to him being overshadowed by a cast of weird, wild and wonderful supporting characters.
Maccer and Kent Paul
San Andreas was set in the early 90s, which in Britain was an era of excessive drug use soundtracked by bands such as Happy Mondays. So Rockstar, being as thorough as they are, decided to incorporate two wired Brits into GTA: SA and have one of them voiced by none other than Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder. Maccer (Ryder) and Kent Paul (returning from Vice City and voiced by walking English stereotype Danny Dyer) only have small roles, but their dialogue remains the most quotable in the entire game. "I can't feel me legs, our P – I've wanked the use out of them!"
Yusuf Amir
Voiced by Iranian-British comedian Omid Djalili, The Ballad of Gay Tony's Yusif Amir is an exponentially wealthy, imbecilic real estate developer with a penchant for gold-plated vehicles and saying the "N word" (much to protagonist Luis' annoyance). Yusuf was the stand-out character of the second episode of GTA IV's add-ons, and initially seemed to be just another selfish, money-hungry member of Liberty City's elite. However, he later proves that he is more than high-class prostitutes and "Arab Money", coming to Luis' aid in his golden helicopter in the final mission.
Lance Vance
Betrayal is a common theme in the Grand Theft Auto series. So common, in fact, that it is often more surprising when a supporting character doesn't betray the protagonist (see Ken Rosenberg for evidence of this). However, when Tommy Vercetti's partner-in-crime Lance Vance (voiced superbly by Miami Vice's Philip Michael Thomas) betrays him by joining forces with villainous crime boss Sonny Forelli, despite Vercetti having saved him from death at the hands of Ricardo Diaz's men, well, that's just plain cold. But despite Vance's questionable moral choices at the end of the game, it's difficult to remain angry at the inventor of the Lance Vance Dance.
Officer Tenpenny
The world of Grand Theft Auto has featured some loathsome individuals over the years, but none inspire more hatred than Officer Frank Tenpenny. The crooked cop character has been done many times across many different mediums, but rarely are they as obnoxiously and relentlessly evil as Tenpenny. From the minute you encounter him he frames San Andreas protagonist Carl Johnson for the murder of a police officer who he himself killed, and then proceeds to spend the rest of the game doing everything within his vast power to make CJ's life a living hell. It also didn't hurt that his dialogue was voiced with menacing conviction by the inimitable Samuel L. Jackson.
Brucie Kibbutz
If there's one character that Rockstar is skilled at creating, it's the idiot. From Red Dead Redemption's Seth Briars to Bully's Russell Northrop, each title in their back catalogue includes at least one individual who you wouldn't trust with a pair of scissors. However, Grand Theft Auto IV's Brucie Kibbutz reaches another level of idiocy, and is all the more memorable for it. The GTA series is well-known for its colourful cast of characters, and they don't come much more colourful than Brucie. A 'roided up, exuberant, closeted homosexual, Brucie steals every scene he's in with his childlike enthusiasm and, in The Ballad of Gay Tony, even manages to inspire some sympathy thanks to his strained relationship with his overbearing brother Mori. The greatest non-player character in GTA thus far.
Tommy Vercetti
After the voiceless, nameless protagonist of GTA III, Tommy Vercetti was a breath of fresh air. Voiced by Ray Liotta, Rockstar's inspiration for Vercetti was clear (a former small-time, Italian-American drug dealer who eventually builds an empire before engaging in a climactic shootout in a mansion – hmm, who does that sound like?), but Vercetti does have a few advantages over Tony Montana. He doesn't get addicted to the stuff he's selling, for instance. Oh, and he doesn't die at the end. But regardless of the glaring similarities Vercetti's story shares with Scarface, he's still one of GTA's most memorable characters, second only to…
Niko Bellic
Following the era-specific narratives of San Andreas and Vice City, Grand Theft Auto IV's tale of searching for success in a city which seems to award wealth only to those willing to kill for it was, in a year where the words "global recession" made their way into every newspaper on an almost daily basis, uncomfortably poignant. Niko Bellic's arrival in Liberty City under the false pretences of his brother's "success" in America, only to then find himself doing unsavoury and undignified things all in the name of keeping himself and those around him safe, made him more sympathetic and human than any of his predecessors. While he was relatively joyless and stoic by nature, his ongoing battle with his own morality made GTA IV's narrative the most compelling and engaging in the entire series, and as such made him the most unforgettable character we've yet seen in a Grand Theft Auto game.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Unis vs intl schools Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Unis vs intl schools Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Latin America Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message MrWrightJoined: 27 Feb 2008Posts: 167Location: Arizona Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:52 am Post subject: Unis vs intl schools Hello. I am a certified teacher in Az and have just started my M.ED in Tesol. My question what is the best fit for these qualifications. How much pay difference is there between an intl school and a univeristy in LA.? And is the pay in LA THAT much worse than Asia or the ME? Thanks in advance. Back to top naturegirl321Joined: 04 May 2003Posts: 9041Location: home sweet home Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:00 am Post subject: Yes. It's VERY different. I worked at two top unis in Peru. The first, I was a FT instructor and made 700 per month, for 12 months. The second I was a PT instructor and made 800 per month for only 8 months, since we didn't get paid during exams or vacations. INtl schools can pay from 1500 to 5000 plus benefits. AS far as pay in LA, you mean intl schools? It depends on lots of things, the most important is if you're hired in country or abroad. If you have a license and two yrs experience, go for the intl school. What subjects do you teach? Back to top MrWrightJoined: 27 Feb 2008Posts: 167Location: Arizona Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:47 am Post subject: I teach History and Science, mostly Biology and Integrated Science Back to top naturegirl321Joined: 04 May 2003Posts: 9041Location: home sweet home Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:58 am Post subject: Then check out the IBO and TES. You should be able to find a job teaching those subject. Back to top spanglishJoined: 21 May 2009Posts: 742Location: working on that Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 7:12 pm Post subject: Here in Colombia, good uni jobs are 'cushier' as in you have nice students and easy work hours. K-12 will involve working with affluent children and teenagers and all that entails plus long hours. In terms of money if you compare the elite uni jobs with the elite international school jobs, you'll definitely make a lot more money teaching K-12, but you'll earn it. Teachers working full hours at top unis here will make $1400-$3100 USD/month. A K-12 teacher at a top international school should make from the middle to upper end of that range plus nice, furnished housing and other benefits like flights. Universities tend to cater to the more long term, savvy expat types who already speak Spanish, know their way around and don't expect flights. The British Council would be a happy medium between these two options, as it's probably slightly more demanding than a uni job, but less so than a high school, may involve teaching both children and adults, pays about the same or slightly less than a top international school and has both savvy expats and wide-eyed newbies. Back to top smurfettaJoined: 14 Nov 2010Posts: 38 Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:54 am Post subject: Check out these websites: www.internationalschoolsreview.com (good forum there and the pay side is worth the money) www.tieonline.com (for job ads... Good place for looking for jobs if you are not ready to shell out the money to go to a fair.) www.tes.co.uk (Check out the forum called teaching overseas under the roles section. The jobs posted tend to be geared towards British teachers but still worth a look since it is free.) For fairs: Google Search Associates and International School Services) There is this fair in Atlanta that may interest you. http://www.aassa.com/index.asp Good luck with your job search! 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Joe KL needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 205 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
SKIFISH ?????? Whassat? Its 2 sports in 1 day - snow ski in the morning, fly fish in the afternoon, lie about both all night long. I've been doing it for years and would like to create an edgy, exciting, flashy and cool logo to use on my website, hats, shirts, jackets, whatever. Nothing that can't be shared at the family table please. But skis w/fish hook tips - maybe. A cool skiing trout - now we're talkin, a guy on skis waving a fly rod and line - could be. Get your creative juices flowing - get your SKIFISH on!
The winning LOGO will be an eye catcher. It will have color, exude style, depict action, be edgy and infer cool. It must communicate the sport of snow skiing and the sport of fishing yet create a conceptual connection between them. The winning art will be strong enough for its outline to be iconic. A modern style in your design is key. Use your imagination - get your SKIFISH on!
- Most of all, I humbly request your best ART. Think SKI and FISH - the logo art must communicate and connect both. The winning logo will become a BRAND.
- It should be creatively conceived, action depicting and cool to look at.
- The design must be simple enough to be easily identifiable from afar.
- It could celebrate the natural grace of both sports.
- It must be memorable and unique.
- The winning design could be either simple or complex.
- A modest genius award awaits the winner - get your SKIFISH on!
- The logo should not rely on or be an artful presentation of the word SKIFISH - it should be a picture. The word MAY or MAY NOT be used to support your art.
- The logo must not be copied art or a montage of others artwork - it must be original.
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Last night for gaming we had five people, so we decided to give Airlines Europe a try. I felt it was a pretty playable family game, but I don't have much desire to play it again.
Airlines Europe is a reimplementation of Union Pacific. Your goal is to acquire the most stock in the airlines that are the most profitable (or make the airlines you have the most stock in more profitable) so that you get the biggest payout when the scoring card comes up. Each turn, you can take one of four actions:
- Play one or two airplanes (each plane claims a route between two cities), which costs $3 or more for each plane; the stock price for the company owning the plane goes up by the cost of playing it. You then draw a stock certificate, either one of five face-up choices or a random one from the deck.
- Trade in stock for Air Abacus at a rate of 1 for 1 or 3 for 2; Air Abacus shares work like those of any other company, but score based on the phase of the game rather than by the stock price.
- Play shares of stock from your hand; you can play any two shares, or any number of shares from the same company. Having stock in play is how you score points. For each stock you put into play, you take $2 from the bank.
- Take $8 from the bank.
The game is relatively simple to follow, and ran about 75 minutes with 5 people (including rules). Given the different mechanics (set collection, stock holding), I think it would be a good introduction to more complex games for people who normally play things along the lines of Ticket to Ride. However, it doesn't have a lot of deep decisions – you play planes where they'll boost the companies you have stock in, or plan to have stock in soon, and take stock for the companies that are doing well) and I don't see myself ever requesting it.


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The life cycle of a salmon is the sort of incredible, Upworthy-ready story that you find in picture books, not textbooks: A fish that survives in fresh and saltwater; that commutes home against a raging current; that somehow returns, guided by a mere memory of a smell, to its natal home to give birth. This is more than a story. It's mythology.
But like all heroes, salmon has a tragic flaw: It is pink. (Or according to the literal minds at Pantone, it is salmon.) It is cute. And as with everything we find cute, we have mauled it to death.
I will not argue that salmon is not uniquely delicious—that fat, that mouthfeel—but I will argue that it has been uniquely victimized by its hue. This is especially true of our heartless children, for whom salmon is always that red fish. My children are irredeemably child-like and so they love salmon, and I confess to always feeling vaguely disappointed by this love, the way parents sometimes feel when the dreaded Princess Phase begins. Really, I think, despite myself: You have to like the pink fish the most? You fell for that? I am raising a couple of suckers.
What do I want? This is America: I want competition. Couldn't bluefish be more blue? Is that too much to ask?
But as Donald Rumsfeld famously said, you go to dinner with the fish you have, not the fish you might want or wish to have at a later time.
So here we are, alone with our defrosted salmon. Which is sustainably caught, if only for reasons of Rawlsian fairness: Life as a salmon is hard enough already. It would be unjust to rig the odds against salmon any more than they are already rigged. You'd think leaping up waterfalls would be enough, really.
You know that this column is not long on weeknight dinner tips. On the other hand, it is long on being really unsure what to have for weeknight dinner, which sometimes means that the column ends up feeding its children stale toast points for dinner. (Bonus points: If you dip them in milk, you have two courses.) Which is totally a weeknight dinner tip, now that I think of it.
But that's the recipe for the next column. (Check back!) For this week, we have an actual shiny, beribboned, weeknight dinner hack and it is this: Squeegee your salmon.
Really. I blame Russ Parsons, who in turn blames Thomas Keller. Here's the thing: You take your salmon fillet and a chef's knife, and with the dull side of the knife, you squeegee the skin, running the knife firmly along it until moisture appears, wiping off the moisture, repeating until the moisture no longer appears. You now have a salmon with skin that is about to be extremely crispy. And perfectly cooked, once cooked how Parsons advises: hot pan, vegetable oil, skin side-down, until the flesh lightens a third of the way up—then flipped it and taken off the heat. That's it.
This comes from Parsons's How to Read a French Fry and I've included the recipe he serves it with, a luxurious leek-cabbage side. (The leeks are not squeegeed. Sorry.) It's fantastic, but more time-consuming. Consider saving it for the weekend. But squeegee your salmon tonight.
Russ Parsons' Crisp Skinned Salmon (Plus Creamy Leeks and Cabbage)
Serves 4
The Salmon
1½ pounds salmon fillet
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
The Creamy Leeks and Cabbage
2 large leeks
1 cabbage (roughly 3 pounds)
1 slice of bacon
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
¼ cup whipping cream
See the full recipe at Food52.
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SecretBiz necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 53 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
10K represents just that, $10k ($10,000), but should be read 10K without a dollar symbol.
10K should be like an icon to represent our brand--then we include that on everything 10K related.
For example I mentioned I needed to logos, one is for our 10K DVD, an online video that we will sell (like an ebook, except a video). It would be used as a logo in the lower right hand corner of the video and maybe appear on some eCover. It may also be used in the header/footer of a site we're working on now, 10kdvd.
10K University: Its an online marketing membership site where people pay a monthly subscription to go through our videos, training calls and coaching to receive the tools, resources and help they need to make money online. This logo would be used on an eCover as well, and possibly on a header/footer of our website.
Both sites are under development.
However with both of these logos we would not need the logos to be printer friendly as this is for online use only. This is not a brick and mortar type of business.
Keep in mind, the 10K itself is the one logo we need. It will never change. As we add products or services, only the following words in the logo would have a different look/color/feel. Remember, we need it to be almost like an icon and 10K should be able to have a stand-alone look.
The words DVD, University etc would just be an extension of the 10K logo.
We're targeting anyone who wants to make money online, anyone looking for a home based business, etc.
Here's a list of competitor sites in the same "making money" niche if you need an idea of what our sites will promote (not that we want their look), but to get an idea of what we're selling:
However we have some ideas we'd like to bring to the table that would hopefully help with the concept to creation which we've attached as well as color schemes we'll end up using on our site, to ensure the logos match.
In fact if you go to that last website, http://www.20minutepayday.com/, we'll have the same blue, silver, gray, and yellow color scheme.
I'm thinking the 10K would be good in yellow. Maybe even have the K stand out with a different color.
1)We need the 10K logo/icon.
We need it as a stand alone file so we can add the 10K brand to any product or service we create in the future and we'd simply add the following after 10K Widget.
2) Once that's complete we basically need the following for our 2 products....
10K DVD (or maybe it could read 10KDVD) and the other would be 10K University. Again, 10K would always remain the same, look the same, its almost like the Golden Arches of McDonald's, but we also need 2 logos for our 2 products above. So the DVD and University would have a different look and font to them.
Here's some ideas we had, as well as attachments, and keep in mind that the winner of this design we go with will be hired exclusively for our entire online product line we're launching in the upcoming months.
For 10K University we'd like a tag line under it that says:
"Our MBA = Massive Bank Account" (in italics)
We've attached a stock photo of a graduation cap and cash that we'd like to use or maybe a collegiate type of insignia (we attached some we liked) so it has that "University" look to it.
10K DVD we like the idea of the official DVD logo attached, if that could be worked in somehow with the 10K icon. And since 10K refers to $10,000, perhaps a stock photo of 10K in cash? Also, if any images are used, we don't want any clip art only photos, preferably with a white isolated canvas.
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Web Design from Scratch is just one way in which Ben Hunt and his team are building a world where all websites are pleasant, easy to use, and appealing to use. Ben started sharing his particular insights into what makes websites work here back in 2004.
You should also check out Ben's "Pro Web Design Course", which he created in 2010/2011 as a comprehensive course in professional web design, and 2014's "Ultimate Web Design", which proved so powerful, we had to make it freely available!
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OSM gives business owners, startups, sole traders, web designers, agencies, and professional marketers a standardized (and very powerful) way of working, totally free, which will stimulate faster, fairer growth and wealth creation around the world.


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Friday, February 24, 2012
30 Jays in 30 Days - Was Jason Frasor Ever Really Gone?
Tao-Approved Nicknames: The Sausage King. After Abe Froman. Because he's from Chicago. You can look it up.
History: Eight MLB seasons and 475 games with Toronto and the White Sox. (Yes, that last part really happened. For 20 lousy games.)
Contract Status: Follow us closely on this one. The Blue Jays offered Frasor arbitration last year, which he accepted. The two sides couldn't come to an agreement on a one-year deal (because really, why would Alex Anthopoulos ever do that?) But then, just before they went to the Jays' first hearing since Bill Risley in 1764 (or something), a deal for one year plus an option was reached between the parties. Then there was some strange business of a trade. And the other team picked up the option year on Frasor at a cost of $3.75 million, then traded him back to the Jays, who had given him the option year in the first place.
Career Stats: 3.74 ERA in 478.2 innings pitched. 446 strikeouts, 205 walks. 36 saves. 6,999 sprayed loogies expectorated onto the mound pensively and deliberately. Expect (ha!) the milestone to be reached in the season opener.
2011 Stats: 3.60 ERA in 64 innings pitched. 57 strikeouts, 26 walks. Ranked first in Player Appreciation Added In His Post-Trade Farewell Interviews (PAAIHPTFI).
Perfunctory Nerd Stats: Frasor's Win Probability Added (WPA) in Toronto was 1.10. In his sweet home of Chicago, it was -0.25.
Looking Back: Was Jason Frasor ever really gone? Was this the Blue Jays' Bobby Ewing moment? Just days after slipping past Duane Ward to become the Blue Jays' all-time leader in appearances for a pitcher, Frasor found himself caught in the middle of the Colby Rasmus trade and swept out of town.
The trade wasn't kind to Frasor. He left Toronto with a 2.98 ERA, but in his first 20 games with the White Sox, he posted a 5.09 mark, giving up three homers and 11 walks in 17.2 innings. Maybe Frasor was a really hardcore Cubs fan. Or maybe it's something about Hawk Harrelson's presence that inspired him to such depths.
Or, maybe it's the fact that for some reason, Frasor backed off on throwing his arcane "fosh" breaking ball in favour of a more pedestrian slider after the trade. In Toronto, Frasor tossed the the changeup/splitter hybrid 16.8% of the time, but dropped that to 13.5% in Chicago. He also threw a slider just 11.2% of the time, but cranked that rate up to 18.3% with the Pale Hose. Although that latter rate was on par with his pitch selection recent years. So maybe none of that means nothing.
On second thought, it probably was Hawk.
Looking Forward: Given the mess of humanity that the Jays will attempt to cram into their bullpen this year, we guess is that Frasor won't be asked to throw many of the later innings. He pitched 37.0 of his innings in the seventh or eighth frames in 2011, but we figure he'll be called upon to fill the void left by Shawn Camp. Last year, he threw just 6.1 innings in the sixth and the two-thirds of an inning in the fifth.
The side benefit to such a move would be that Frasor would be removed from the high-leverage situations where his ponderously deliberate approach to pitching is positively agonizing. The long exhales and stares into the horizon might make for drama, but it's infuriating to watch when the game hangs in the balance.
2012 Expectations: Since mixing the fosh into his arsenal in 2009, Frasor has been a steady and consistent contributor, and there's no immediate reason to suspect that he's incapable of once again posting an ERA in the mid-to-high 3.00's over 60-some outings. He won't be the key to the team's bullpen success, but getting solid fifth, sixth or seventh innings out of him can help to keep a few extra games close.
And given what a sport he was about leaving the first time, he might be a decent trade chip come this July as well.
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I was more than happy to see him go. Not so thrilled to have him back.
- February 24, 2012 at 5:39 AM
We call Frasor "The Vulture" and not because of wins in relief
- February 24, 2012 at 9:44 AM
True story, I wore out the batteries in my remote control last season changing channels between Sausage King pitches. Here's to an agonizingly slow yet effective 60IP this year! Even if it comes with the inevitable 2-4 blow-ups where he can't find the strike zone and/or gets hit all over the place.
- February 24, 2012 at 12:01 PM
"The human rain delay"
- February 24, 2012 at 4:13 PM
Truer words never spoken. But still I like him for te 6 and 7th.
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Pixelated Bits needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 42 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Our app is called BlueGestures, and it's a social networking productivity thingamajob utility. It is all about connecting to the world around you - controlloing your data, As well as re-purposed access to other sites, users will control their files, photos and music, and most importantly their friend lists.
BlueGestures is fun, slightly street and non-corporate. We're open to influences from ambient (music, stuff floating around you) and the sixties modern cool look (groovy, man) but also very open to other ideas. (Kinda like the whole wired magazine vibe.)
If they use Facebook or Twitter have an iPhone, Blackberry or G1, have visited sites like Mashables, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, or Mahalo they are probably in our target market.
Source provided, in vector-based format
Works on dark or lightbackgrounds
Different, unusual, memorable
Icon must at least echo what the app is about, not be too abstract
Icon must have square corners
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Corporate look and feel
A logo that's just text
Any text on the icon
Don't like the use of blue as a major colour, though it's fine with, e.g. greens and aquas Please don't add the standard apple shine and rounded corners to the final product. But please DO show the shine and round corners when you post. We want to see what the icons will look like when apple automatically rounds the corners and adds in shine
If the logo includes the word "BlueGestures" it should also have an identifiable widget that can be used alone without 'BlueGestures' as a part of it, which would be identifiable and memorable to users who have previously seen the full logo.
Application Icons
We also need the icon that the user selects to run the application. This should echo the logo somehow. I'll be generating a 57x57 icon for the phone and a 29x29 icon for spotlight and a 512x512 version for the app store from the vector-based PSD you supply.
iPhone application launch image
The first time the user starts the application they will be presented with the launch page. This launch page is secondary in importance to that of the icon but it also must convey similar qualities to that of the icon, I suspect that this page will include the icon in some way or another with some supporting design although I don't want to constrain creative flair and make this a requirement. The design of the launch page MUST contain the words 'discover.accept.connect' and will have to comply with the launch page specs from apple of 320 x 480 pixels. (examples i like for launch page Whrrl,beejive,ATT my wireless)
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PS : Did not its very meaning militate against it, this noun would cry out for an adjective. But I'm too lethargic, sluggish, soporific, torpid, uninspired, and unmotivated, not to mention indolent and just down-right lazy to go look for one !...
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• lassitude •
Pronunciation: læ-sê-tyud • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun, mass (no plural)
Meaning: 1. Lethargy, torpor, listlessness, a lack of energy, spirit, vitality. 2. Apathy, a lack of interest in things.
Notes: Although this Good Word is close to the meanings of lethargy, torpor, and listlessness, it is distinct. Lethargy is a drowsiness that interferes with alertness. Torpor is a deeper drowsiness, right on the edge of sleep or unconsciousness. Listlessness suggests more of a disinclination to move or be active rather than a change of mental state. Lassitude is more of a lack of motivation. So these words provide a nice little lexical toolkit for dividing inactivity up into several more precise senses.
In Play: Hot weather often affects us in the direction of this Good Word: "The tropical heat brought out a lassitude in everyone, driving them inside with the air conditioner for most of the day." You can, however, find other motivations behind lassitude: "The overbearing personality of the manager spread a lassitude over the shop that sapped all interest in the job." Molassitude would be the slowest sort of lassitude—if only it were a word.
Word History: The Good Word today comes from Old French which inherited it from Latin lassitudo, the noun from adjective lassus "weary". This word is based on a stem (las-) that goes back to Indo-European *le- "let go, slacken" plus a suffix –d, *led-, that also gave English let and late, and German lassen "let". With the suffix –n, it pops up in Russian as len' "laziness", in Latvian as lens "slow", and Latin lenis "soft, gentle", which is at the bottom of English lenient. (We are happy that Ann Walper, who lives somewhere in Tennessee, overcame any lassitude on her part to suggest this as a Good Word for us all.)


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The magician shows the audience a black tube and a red ball. He asks a member of the audience to pick a number between 1 and 10. He/she picks - for example: 5.
The magician pushes the button on the tube 5 times and then drops the ball into it. The ball does NOT come out the other side! The magician points to his watch (turning the tube upside-down as he does so), and counts out the seconds:
1-2-3-4-5. The ball still does NOT come out of the tube!
After the 5 seconds is up, he turns the tube back to its' starting position and the ball falls out from the bottom of the tube!
Members of the audience can press the button as much as they like, but the ball will simply fall through the tube and immediately come out the other side. The interior of the tube is completely empty!
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Article Summary: This article provides information on the similarities and differences between the DNS resolver cache, present on all Windows machines, and the DNS server cache, present only on a DNS server.
The Resolver Cache
Every Windows machine has a DNS resolver cache built in. The function of this cache is to store the results of previous DNS queries for a length of time in order to expedite future queries for the same data. For example, if the machine needs to resolve dc01.mydomain.local to an IP address, it will query its DNS server, get a response (if all goes well), and store that response in its resolver cache. If it needs to resolve that same fully qualified domain name again, it can retrieve the data from the resolver cache rather than querying the DNS server again.
Retrieving data from the resolver cache is a much faster process than querying a DNS server and waiting for a response, especially if the DNS server can't answer the query and has to query other servers. Data in the cache is only valid for a certain time, though. This is important, since DNS records can and do change. If the IP address of a host record changes, for example, any machine with the old record in its cache will not be able to reach the associated host by name until the cached record expires.
It is possible to view the contents of the resolver cache with the ipconfig /displaydns command, though the output may be lengthy:
As you can see, each record in the cache is displayed with its Time To Live (TTL) value, which is the amount of time in seconds until that record expires and is purged from the cache. The TTL value for records in the resolver cache of a Windows machine is either 24 hours or the TTL value assigned to the record itself on its authoritative DNS server, whichever is less. The resolver cache also stores negative responses (responses indicating a certain record does not exist), but these are only stored for five minutes by default.
You may sometimes find it necessary to purge all data from a machine's resolver cache. This is a common task when troubleshooting name-resolution issues and is accomplished with the ipconfig /flushdns command:
A Note About the hosts File
The hosts file, located in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc folder, provides a way to prepopulate a machine's resolver cache with persistent data. Any entries added to the hosts file will immediately appear in that machine's resolver cache. You can verify this by clearing the cache with ipconfig /flushdns, adding an entry to the hosts file, saving the file, and running the ipconfig /displaydns command. Entries in the hosts file will persist when the resolver cache is cleared.
The Server Cache
A Windows DNS server maintains a resolver cache like any other machine, but it also maintains a separate server cache. As it does on other machines, the resolver cache stores responses to queries that originated on the server itself, while the server cache stores responses to queries issued to the server by other machines on the network. (Note, however, that if a DNS server is configured to use itself for DNS, which is the recommended configuration on the first DC in a domain, the response to a query that originates from that server will be stored in both caches.) Unlike the resolver cache, the server cache does not store negative responses.
Data in the server cache is handled just like data in the resolver cache - individual records are purged from the server cache as their TTL values expire - but the server cache is only used for queries originating from other machines. A DNS server will not check its own server cache when it issues a query itself unless it is configured to use itself for DNS. Likewise, a DNS server will never check (or modify) the data in its resolver cache in response to a query from another machine.
Data in the DNS server cache can be viewed in the DNS Manager console by selecting the server in the left pane and choosing Advanced from the View menu. A folder named Cached Lookups will then appear in the left pane of the console. The data in the cache is arranged hierarchically, starting with the DNS root zone and continuing through top-level domains, second-level domains, and so on, down to the cached records themselves, as shown below:
It is possible to delete individual records from the server cache using the DNS Manager console, just as one would delete records from a zone: by right-clicking the records and selecting Delete. It is also possible to purge all records from the server cache by right-clicking the server (or the Cached Lookups folder) in the left pane of the console and selecting Clear Cache. Finally, the server cache may also be cleared with the dnscmd /clearcache command. The ipconfig /flushdns command has no effect on the server cache, just as clearing the server cache by one of the methods mentioned has no effect on the resolver cache.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Custom Play Around Quilt
12 comments:
- Lauren Deel said...
Oh, I LOVE this!! Great job!
- December 18, 2013 at 5:41 AM
- Teje Karjalainen said...
Hi! love everything is this quilt! x Teje
- December 18, 2013 at 6:12 AM
- Judy said...
What a beautiful quilt and you did such a wonderful job!
- December 18, 2013 at 7:12 AM
- Prima Donna said...
Love those fabrics. This is one of the cutest kid's quilts I've ever seen. But, like you, I would love to have it in my own stack.
- December 18, 2013 at 8:34 AM
- Quilting Dee said...
Georgeous quilt!! Very cute. Great design to use the embroideries.
- December 18, 2013 at 1:22 PM
- Willit Neverend said...
Very cute and sweet and girly. I love the embroidery.
- December 18, 2013 at 4:45 PM
- A Quilter's Mission said...
What a fantastic quilt! Why wouldn't she love it? The embroidery is so cool.
- December 19, 2013 at 12:07 AM
- Sewn With Grace said...
Gorgeous quilt! Love the embroidery!
- December 22, 2013 at 5:32 PM
- A Quilter's Mission said...
Oh so cute! What a fun and beautiful quilt.
- December 25, 2013 at 10:43 PM
- Kiky Febrianty said...
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10.06.12: The CCRI men's soccer team welcomed the No. 20 ranked (NJCAA DI poll) Mustangs of Monroe College from New Rochelle, NY to the CCRI soccer complex in Lincoln, RI on Saturday. The Knights lost to the Mustangs 1-0. With the loss the Knights fall to 5-6 on the season.
The Knights were eager for kickoff coming off two big Regional victories, a 7-1 win or Springfield Tech Thursday and 1-0 over Dean College Tuesday. Coach Toro has been very happy with the team's growth and development over the past week. In addition, the Knights played well this game against Monroe, they took control of the tempo of the game and they were passing the ball effectively. Defensively the Knights did another solid job shutting down the high-powered Monroe offense. Chris Munoz (Talcahuano, Chile), Preston Kar (Providence, RI), Ian Duncan (Barrington, RI) and Kyle Ferreira (Westerly, RI) were able to balance the back line as they made a solid line in front of their goalkeeper Rob Gallucci (Coventry, RI). Gallucci made some key saves, but the Knights had more opportunities to score during the game than did Monroe did but were not able to put the ball away. Captain Manny Alves (Pawtucket, RI) had several shots and other players had some good looks to put the Knights ahead as did forward Prince Tahyor (Providence, RI). However it was Monroe that was able to score on the Knights with just minutes left in regulation. Right before the score, Prince Tahyor was accidentally elbowed in the face as he tried to create some offense. The play came over to the Knights side and a corner kick was awarded as the referee saw Prince down on the field. The game was restarted when Tahyor regained his feet after a few minutes. Unfortunately, the Knights lost their focus on the ensuing corner kick cross and Monroe was able to capitalize on this mental mistake and score themselves making the score 1-0. Knights would go on to lose the game 1-0.
Head Coach Gabe Toro added after the game" Despite good overall play, we were unable to score and put the game away. Monroe kept battling and was able to put one away at the end."
The Knights will travel to Brockton, Ma to play Region XXI foe Warriors of Massasoit Community College on Wednesday, October 10th at 3:30pm.
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BME 695N Lecture 4: Designing "Theragnostic" Systems
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- Bridging the gap between diagnostics and therapeutics
- How conventional medicine is practiced in terms of diagnostics and therapeutics
- The consequences of separating diagnostics and therapeutics
- A new approach – "theragnostics" (or "theranostics")
- Examples of current theragnostic systems
- Example: Rituxan ("Rituximab)(an example of not using diagnostics to guide the therapy)
- Example 1: Herceptin ("terastuzumab")
- Example 2: Iressa ("Gefitinib)
- How theragnostics relates to Molecular Imaging
- Conventional imaging is not very specific
- Types of In-vivo Imaging
- X-rays, CAT (Computed Axial Tomography) scans
- MRI (magnetic Resonance Imaging)
- PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans
- "Molecular Imaging"
- Engineering nanomedical systems for simultaneous molecular imaging
- Using nanomedical cores for MRI contrast agents
- Difficulties in using PET probes for nanomedical devices
- Using cell-specific probes for molecular imaging of nanomedical devices
- Breaking the "diffraction limit" – nano-level imaging
- Theragnostic nanomedical devices
- Using nanomedical devices to guide separate therapeutic device
- When might we want to combine diagnostics and therapeutics?
- BJJ Abdullah, Molecular imaging: spawning a new melting-pot for biomedical imaging Biomed Imaging Interv J 2006; 2(4):e28 pages 1-7.
- Chul Ahn, Pharmacogenomics in Drug Discovery and Development, Genomics & Informatics Vol. 5(2) 41-45, 2007
- Eric Betzig, George H. Patterson, Rachid Sougrat, O. Wolf Lindwasser, Scott Olenych, Juan S. Bonifacino, Michael W. Davidson, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Harald F. Hess Imaging Intracellular Fluorescent Proteins at Nanometer Resolution SCIENCE VOL 313: 1642-1645, 2006
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I like to do Leslie Sansone's walk aerobics, stair master, elliptical, walk/jog on treadmill or outside, lift hand weights, use stretchie band, weight machines. My fitbit really keeps me motivated.
I go to the gym 3 times a week for 1.5 hours and swim every day, I am on a vegetarian diet with no carbs and still no weight loss, so I am thinking let's look at where I'm at I was 12st when I was 24, I'm now 48 and 21st but most of it appears to be in my gut region. I stopped smoking over a year ago and that was when my weight rocketed as a result so I gave up all alcohol for 3 months but that just made me unsocial and miserable. I guess I am not a moaner about my weight- according to my GP I have low blood pressure low cholesterol and no signs of diabetes. So apart from everyone else's problems with me being over the norm or the perceived perfect weight I am fine. I still occasionally have sex with real people but do not miss it as if you don't have something regularly then what's to miss!
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Testosterone is the major steroidal hormone produced by the interstitial cells of Leydig in the male testes. Lesser amounts of this hormone are produced in the adrenal glands of both sexes. Synthetic testosterone forms a white or slightly creamy white crystalline powder or crystals that are practically insoluble in water and freely soluble in alcohol, chloroform, and vegetable oils. Odorless, crystalline testosterone melts from 153 to 157 degrees Celsius.
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The male androgens, including testosterone, are responsible for spermatogenesis, sexual differentiation, development of secondary sexual characteristics, and male pattern baldness. The dreaded cholesterol is the immediate precursor of gonadal steroids and the daily secretion rate for the average adult man is about 5 milligrams. In the blood, testosterone is carried by a plasma protein known as sex hormone binding globulin. Only about 2 percent of the circulating testosterone is able to enter cells and exert its metabolic effects, while most is metabolized to 17-ketosteroids in the liver, and after transformation to sulfate or glucuronide, is excreted in the urine. In addition to metabolic and physical changes linked to testosterone's action, behavioral changes including aggression initiate at puberty. Surprisingly, because of a steroid feedback loop, exogenous testosterone may actually result in a decrease in sperm count.
Formerly known as androsterone, Nobel Laureate Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (1939 in Chemistry) first isolated testosterone as a chloroform extract from male urine. He found that the crystalline substance, with the physiological properties of a male sex hormone, had some similarities with the female sex hormone estrogen. Based on the molecular structure of cholesterol, Butenandt outlined the formula for testosterone in 1934. Independently, Dr. Leopold Ruzicka, the Croatian co-winner of the chemistry award in 1939, synthesized androsterone from epi-cholestanol. Because of political pressure associated with the beginning of World War II, Dr. Butenandt, a German biochemist, did not receive his gold medal and diploma until 1949.
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Definitely not the two. In fact, it's my new walkman! :D
I looooooove my new Sony Walkman! Best part? I got the Hello Kitty edition..woohooooo! :)
It's 7 mm slim and comes in a variety of bright eye-catching colors. I love the simplicity it offers because we can easily drag and drop files without having to install any softwares on our PC and fuss about sync-ing files yada yada yada..
The earphones are sooooo good (sound wise – because it eliminates background noise) and comfortable to wear as well. Some built-in features which I find super awesome:
- SensMe™ Channel – which automatically categorizes music tracks into different channels so you can conveniently listen to music that matches your mood.
- Karaoke Mode – I'm a karaoke freak. End of story. With this feature, the volume of your voice is dynamically reduced so you can hear your own voice clearly over the song. Aaaannnnnd, you can even adjust the Key up or down to match your vocal reach!
- Synchronised Lyrics - which automatically displays the lyrics of your current song on screen while it plays. OMG.
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Lure Meetings 2007
December 13, 2007
Created in 1952 by Maximilien Vox with Jean Garcia, Jean Giono, Lucien Jacques and Robert Ranc, Rencontres Internationales de Lure (Lure international Meetings) take place avery year in Lurs-in-Provence (France). These meetings are managed by a very young team, which excellently operates in their hardest tasks (and there are lots of them) and which shows communicative enthusiasm and dynamism. These team consists of graphic designers, typographers, editor, designer-writer, philosopher, student, drawer, images' collector. But whoever the specialists are, passion principally federates this exceptional event in its whole. This year's theme is "All or nothing - Encyclopaedia, universal typography", that is a pleasant holdall which can serve any possible view of mind. /// I particularly appreciated Michel Melot (former director of the Public information library of Paris' Pompidou Center amongst other things), for his fine and bright early and philosophical raisings. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Melot /// Yves Perrousseaux, a historian of the epistolary art, revealed to us some parts of his researches, which cover the 18th and 19th centuries. http://www.perrousseaux.com /// Claire Paulhan, a great editor, told us about her books' factory, her vision, choices and passion: an original. literary collection concerning its contents as well as its style. Splendid. http://www.clairepaulhan.com /// Perrine Rouillon is also exceptional. This drawer unvailed her work and her character (the small thing). An enormous sensitivity, much personality and talent. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Petite_Personne /// The Meetings team set up a beautiful exhibition about Michel Olyff, graphic designer of international fame, showing a committed and timeless art. /// In somehow the same way, Massin made a conference altogether traditional. But what a man though. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massin /// Thierry Puyfoulhoux (Presence Typo), atypical and talented typographer revealed about his research concerning a fonts family dedicated to the problematics of the "Petit Robert" encyclopaedia, a work on space's optimization, legibility and harmony. A remarkable work, particularly throuh its subtlety, aesthetics and the aesthetic and economical answers raised to the problematics. The project is progressing and is one of the high spots of the Meetings. http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/foundry/presence_typo /// Alain Rey (Le Robert), talked specifically to us about the words that he is supposed to review and to officially make live. http://lerobertv2.customers.artful.net/alain_rey.htm /// David Poullard and Florence InouÃ, trying to stretch set French, were having a good time about some old and set phrases as "tiens donc", "dites voir" or "sous peu". The duet constituted a kind of Bescherelle (French conjugation reference book) of the expressions which give birth to a new language. Each phrase under an "Ordinary" typo reveals his potentiality. They created a great demonstration of the evolution of the set French language, raised from a very simple idea (similar to a long dinner between friends), and through their respective meetings, a book called "Le prÃcis de conjugaisons complÃtes". A funny and refreshing work which will encourage children (and grown-ups) to play with the French language and not to be afraid of it. http://www.exb.fr/livres_notice.php?cat=4&id=27 /// Thomas Huot-Marchant, typographer and graphic designer, introduced his "Minuscule", a typo designed specifically for very small bodies (2). This was another great moment, which echoed Thierry Puyfoulhoux. Starting from a quasi-scientific approach, he developed the "Minuscule" typo. Just as a spiritual son of Ladislas Mandel, he delighted the audience with his extremely rational approach leading to a surprising but nevertheless obvious result. A big man, already. http://www.256tm.com /// Johannes Bergerhausen. This typography teacher studied the Unicode font and its most exotic signs. A gigantic decoding attempt. "Unicode or how to frighten typographers". A great system, still surprising. http://www.unicode.org /// R2 Design. Liza Ramalho and Arthur Rebelo. The Portuguese duet introduced their most recent works: photography, signing, signs and editorial projects. Many works, fully explained and decoded. Talent, that's it. http://www.rdois.com /// Antoine Denize. As a multimedia designer and musician, Antoine Denize created many interactive works like the "Machines â¡ Ãcrire" (Typewriters) CD-ROM (Gallimard, 1999, many times prized), the "Ecoutez voir" and "SystÃme mode d'emploi" facilities for the â¦coute and Roland Barthes exhibitions (Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2004 and 2002), several commissions for museums (Cità des Sciences et de l'Industrie, BNF, Le Compa, Le P SS, etc). This author shows an eccentricity close to Michel Gontry's one in his creative workshop "Lis tes ratures", in which draft, erasures and corrections become a piece of work. A special mention for his works where he inserts fun and wit behind lines of codes. http://a.denize.free.fr/mezig/page-multimedia.html /// Jan Middendorp. Jan is a Dutch editor, author and designer working in Berlin. Among others, he wrote "Lettered, Typefaces and Alphabets by Clotilde Olyff" in 2000, and more recently "Dutch type", a complete presentation of Dutch typography and typographers from 15th to 20th century. http://www.dorpdal.com /// Always thrilling. Therefore I wish to thank the whole Meetings team, the audience as well as the great lecturers: Antoine Barnaud, Johannes Bergerhausen, Christian Bessigneul, Viviane Cabannes, Marc Combier, Antoine Denize, Mytil Ducomet, Martin Friedl, Thomas Huot-Merchant, Pierre Huyghebaert, Nathalie Latinus, Julien MasanÃs, Massin, Michel Melot, Daniel Mermet, Jan Middendorp, Claire Paulhan, Yves Perrousseaux, David Poullard, Thierry Puyfoulhoux, Liza Ramalho and Artur Rebelo (R2 Design), Alain Rey and DaniÃle Morvan, FranÃois Richaudeau, Perrine Rouillon, Jean-baptiste Soufron and Michel Olyff. The pleasant and original Daniel Mermet, who I don't need to introduce. 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Apathetic Jerk-Asshole's "just going through the motions" Aristocrats Joke
A family walks into a talent agency. It's a father, mother, son, daughter and dog. The father says to the talent agent, "We have a really amazing act. You should represent us."
The agent says, "Sorry, I don't represent family acts. They're a little too cute."
The mother says, "Sir, if you just see our act, we know you would want to represent us."
The agent says, "OK. OK. I'll take a look."
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So the mother and daughter come out on stage and waste no time and begin to perform tribadism on each other. The mother's all pregnant with their third baby so while at it, the daughter who's about 6, starts pounding on her belly while screaming "Get rid of it, we don't need another mouth to feed. Don't you love us."
The father enters the room all pissed and yells "who do I choke first!?"
They both try to run away however, the dad catches the mom who's all fat from the late stages of pregnancy and starts choking her. He then lays her down and starts to violently fuck her on missionary position to the point that his cock penetrates the tiny fetus's asshole. Blood and baby shit start to flow out of her pussy.
The daughter starts punching the father but then the son runs out and begins to mouth fuck his sister. Meanwhile the family dog, who's a big German Shepherd walks out and begins to hump the dad in the ass while he continues to pound both his wife's pussy and his unborn son's fetuses asshole.
The son unloads all over his sister's face and then begins to throw M&Ms at her face which stick to it thanks to the sticky cum.
The son then starts stroking the horny dog's penis while the dog proceeds to lick the cum and M&Ms from the daughter's face.
The dad then pushes with both hands on the mother's belly causing the baby to shoot from the pussy and eventually dies from the backlashing impact of the umbilical cord.
The German Shepherd then bites the son's balls. The son starts running around the stage holding his bloody balls and screaming like a little girl until he accidentally slips on a puddle of shit, blood, and cum.
The father the grabs the dead fetus by the umbilical chord spins it high above his ahead and whips the daughter hitting her with the fetus end.
The mother then places a funnel on the unconscious son's mouth, squats down and starts pissing on it. The dad then pisses on it. Then so does the daughter and even the German Shepherd. But of course, the dog's aim is way off and most of the piss ends up on the son's chest and face.
The son wakes up. Both father and son proceed to double fist the daughter in the ass. This is too much so she starts spraying bloody diarrhea all over the mom.
The son and dad come out wearing overalls and waving confederate flags. They yell "nigger!" to the mom and proceed to brutally beat her and then anally rape her.
The father and son then start to 69. While the dog pukes all over the dad's back who was on top.
The mom then sprinkles salt all over her daughter's pussy and starts eating her out. Half-way through her mouth gets all dry and she starts mumbling. The daughter then slaps her in the face and says "stop it you sound like a retard!"
The salt then causes this nasty urinary infection turning her pussy all orange and yellow. The father gives her some diuretics and she starts pissing out blood, puss, and urine while screaming in pain.
The dad cuts a tiny hole on the son's belly button and begins to fuck the new hole cumming all over his intestines. The daughter takes a crap on that tiny hole as well. The son then pukes out blood, shit, and cum which flowed from his intestines all the way up through the esophagus and out the mouth.
The dad then sprays shaving cream all over the dog's mouth and goes backstage and grabs a baseball bat.
The dad then yells out "rabbies, the dog's got some fucking rabbies!" and clubs the poor dog to death.
He then looks up to the daughter and mother who are weeping cause that dog's been with them for a long time and says "fooled ya."
The mother and daughter get mad and start beating up the dad.
Suddenly, "Freeze! You're all under arrest!"
Turns out the agent has called the cops after witnessing all this terrible acts. So the cop handcuffs everyone. Including the son who's passed out and bleeding to death on the floor.
The cop then takes his helmet and sunglasses off to reveal he's indeed Uncle Buck the Perv. He bends the daughter down and jams the nightstick up her ass. She then goes limping and jumping on stage with a black nightstick end sticking out her ass.
He then takes out a gun. Stuffs it up the wife's pussy and tells the dad "Tell me where the money is or I'll blow her pink zone off!"
"Screw it! I'm broke."
So Uncle Buck the Perv shoots the wife in the pussy causing blood to squirt all over.
Finally the Uncle says "And now for our interpretation of the Rodney King incident"
The uncle then removes the nightstick from the daughter's ass and starts to savagely beats the father with the bloody and shitty nightstick while the dad pleads "can't we all get along!"
Then the uncle takes the handcuffs off from everyone. He gives some crack to both the mother and son and miraculously they wake up and start twitching and screaming. The entire family take a bow.
For the longest time, the agent just sits in silence. Finally, he manages, "That's a hell of an act. What do you call it?"
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Also, you're using a standard-upper-class-desktop-computer as the Retro server?
As opposed to what?
A real server maybe?
A server can have literally any specification as possible, usually hardware is modified and designed for server use. Retro's specifications are fine. A dual-core server with 4GB RAM and 500GB of space is suitable for Retro's things. I mean, if you're gonna bitch about server specs, the SSRG's server has an Intel Celeron processor and 512MB of RAM.


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This GLEP proposes a new format for the Portage Manifest and digest file system by unifying both filetypes into one to improve functional and non-functional aspects of the Portage Tree.
Please see [1] for a general overview. The main long term goals of this proposal are to:
The new Manifest format would change the existing format in the following ways:
Addition of a filetype specifier, currently planned are
Future portage improvements might extend this list (for example with types relevant for eclasses or profiles)
Only have one line per file listing all information instead of one line per file and checksum type
Remove the separated digest-* files in the files/ subdirectory
Each line in the new format has the following format:
<filetype> <filename> <filesize> <chksumtype1> <chksum1> ... <chksumtypen> <chksumn>
However theses entries will be stored in the existing Manifest files.
An actual example [6] for a (pure) Manifest2 file..
To maintain compability with existing portage versions a transition period after is the introduction of the Manifest2 format is required during which portage will not only have to be capable of using existing Manifest and digest files but also generate them in addition to the new entries. Fortunately this can be accomplished by simply mixing old and new style entries in one file for the Manifest files, existing portage versions will simply ignore the new style entries. For the digest files there are no new entries to care about.
It is important to note that this proposal only deals with a change of the format of the digest and Manifest system.
It does not expand the scope of it to cover eclasses, profiles or anything else not already covered by the Manifest system, it also doesn't affect the Manifest signing efforts in any way (though the implementations of both might be coupled).
Also while multiple hash functions will become standard with the proposed implementation they are not a specific feature of this format [2].
While using multiple hashes for each file is a major feature of this proposal we have to make sure that the number of hashes listed is limited to avoid an explosion of the Manifest size that would revert the main benefit of this proposal (reduzing tree size). Therefore the number of hashes that will be generated will be limited to three different hash functions. For compability though we have to rely on at least one hash function to always be present, this proposal suggest to use SHA1 for this purpose (as it is supposed to be more secure than MD5 and currently only SHA1 and MD5 are directly available in python, also MD5 doesn't have any benefit in terms of compability).
The main goals of the proposal have been listed in the Motivation, here now the explanation why they are improvements and how the proposed format will accomplish them.
Normal users that don't use a "tuned" filesystem for the portage tree are wasting several dozen to a few hundred megabytes of disk space with the current system, largely caused by the digest files. This is due to the filesystem overhead present in most filesystem that have a standard blocksize of four kilobytes while most digest files are under one kilobyte in size, so this results in approximately a waste of three kilobytes per digest file (likely even more). At the time of this writing the tree contains roughly 22.000 digest files, so the overall waste caused by digest files is estimated at about 70-100 megabytes. Furthermore it is assumed that this will also reduce the disk space wasted by the Manifest files as they now contain more content, but this hasn't been verified yet.
By unifying the digest files with the Manifest these tiny files are eliminated (in the long run), reducing the apparent tree size by about 20%, benefitting both users and the Gentoo infrastructure.
When multiple hashes are used with the current system both the filename and filesize are repeated for every checksum type used as each checksum is standalone. However this doesn't add any functionality and is therefore useless, so the new format removes this redundancy. This is a theoretical improvement at this moment as only one hash function is in use, but expected to change soon (see [2]).
The current system theoretically allows for a DIST type file to be recorded in multiple digest files with different sizes and/or checksums. In such a case one version of a package would report a checksum violation while another one would not. This could create confusion and uncertainity among users. So far this case hasn't been observed, but it can't be ruled out with the existing system. As the new format lists each file exactly once this would be no longer possible.
Right now portage verifies the checksum of every file listed in the Manifest before using any file of the package and all DIST files of an ebuild before using that ebuild. This is unnecessary in many cases:
Switching the Manifest system is a task that will need a long transition period like most changes affecting both portage and the tree. In this case the implementation will be rolled out in several phases:
Each step has its own issues. While 1) and 2) can be implemented without any compability problems all later steps have a major impact:
Another problem is that some steps affect different targets:
While it is relatively easy to get all devs to use a new portage version this is practically impossible with users as some don't update their systems regulary. While six months are probably sufficient to reach a 95% coverage one year is estimated to reach an almost-complete coverage. All times are relative to the stable-marking of a compatible portage version.
No timeframe for implementation is presented here as it is highly dependent on the completion of each step.
In summary it can be said that while a full conversion will take over a year to be completed due to compability issues mentioned above some benefits of the system can selectively be used as soon as step 2) is completed.
While one long term goal of this proposal is to reduce the size of the tree and therefore make life for the Gentoo Infrastructure easier this will only take effect once the implementation is rolled out completely. In the meantime however it will increase the tree size due to keeping checksums in both formats. It's not possible to give a usable estimate on the degree of the increase as it depends on many variables such as the exact implementation timeframe, propagation of Manifest2 capable portage versions among devs or the update rate of the tree. It has been suggested that Manifest files that are not gpg signed could be mass converted in one step, this could certainly help but only to some degree (according to a recent research [3] about 40% of all Manifests in the tree are signed, but this number hasn't been verified).
A patch for a prototype implementation of Manifest2 verification and partial generation has been posted at [4], it will be reworked before being considered for inclusion in portage. However it shows that adding support for verification is quite simple, but generation is a bit tricky and will therefore be implemented later.
Some things have been considered for this GLEP but aren't part of the proposal yet for various reasons:
Thanks to the following persons for their input on or related to this GLEP (even though they might not have known it): Ned Ludd (solar), Brian Harring (ferringb), Jason Stubbs (jstubbs), Robin H. Johnson (robbat2), Aron Griffis (agriffis)
Also thanks to Nicholas Jones (carpaski) to make the current Manifest system resistent enough to be able to handle this change without too many transition problems.
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Brazilian dude wrote:Why? Would you call him Soda?
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Just soda's no confusion , we're not related.
sluggo wrote:gailr wrote:
The interview segments are often short, unless the person is a well-known pop icon or political figure. It was good exposure for the alphaDictionary, though. I also noted the reference to "Mr. Beard"...
Scandalacious! He's a well-known icon 'round these parts, though I'd hesitate to call him "Pop".
Bailey wrote:In my conversations with the good Doctor, I find he is entirely too dignified (in a very scholarly way of course) for screaming linguistic groupies, My very brief conversations.
Bailey wrote:Mayhap. We were discussing some good word of the day suggestions in PM when he said he had to take off to do the interview. Just a few messages. He was telling me that they changed their email addresses due to the hacking. I should, prehaps, have gushed when he mentioned the interview on NPR.
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So it's been a fair while since I sculpted anything, and I was feeling the vacuum keenly for a while before I started this little fellow (ok, he's not that little, it's about 10 inches tall or thereabouts). I dub him... creepy zombie unicorn thing! Or.. I dunno... I'm not the best with names.
He is destined for a disgusting zombie paintjob and a mane/tail/fetlock/beard extravaganza with some doll hair I managed to get my greasy paws on. I do love doll hair. Hope you all enjoy! I will post more pics when I have them.


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This year's theme for the contest was "Flying with the Sun". We had many submissions and it was difficult choosing our winners. Each person will receive a prize purchased by the South Dakota Pilots Association and the Office of Local Transportation Programs-Aeronautics and a laminated copy of their poster. Below are pictures of the winners' submissions which will also be published in our co-sponsor's news letter, the South Dakota Pilots Association News.
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Cooladdi was once a thriving railway town, but when the rail connection closed the residents slowly drifted away. Today only a handful of residents can be found keeping the Outback town alive, however, during the September school holidays, hundreds flock to the town for the annual Gymkhana.
Cooladdi also boasts a great fishing spot close by at Quilberry Creek, so why not take the time to visit, kick back for a day or two and fish? Quilberry Creek has waterholes suitable for fishing, swimming, catching yabbys and camping.
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Trophy Brewing's Les Stewart describes his style as "Belgian-American fusion."
It's evident in one of the Raleigh nanobrewery's flagships, Best in Show, an "American saison" with a Belgian farmhouse ale body and citrus hop aroma.
To further steep himself in Belgian beers, Stewart traveled with Trophy's chef Dave Mitchell and owners Chris Powers and David "Woody" Lockwood to Belgium and France in mid-February.
In a recent interview, Stewart talked about the trip and how it will influence his brewing. Here's an edited transcript:
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Q: How did the trip originate?
A: It was really Chris and Woody's idea. They really wanted to bring myself and our chef over and visit a section of Belgium that will show us some beer styles you don't typically see in the U.S. This was a new experience – the first time I've ever jumped the pond. Of course, I've read a lot about Belgium, mostly in the context of beer, but never had the opportunity to go.
Q: What makes Belgium so special in the beer world?
A: They are such independent thinkers. You look at Germany and you look at Britain (where beers fit traditional styles) but Belgium doesn't even like to classify their beer styles. It's a Wild West kind of atmosphere. You can bring in tart cherries, you can use lavender and bizarre ingredients and nobody blinks an eye at it. It's their tradition.
Q: What did you see there that you will bring back to Trophy?
A: A lot of it is just mind-opening – what beer is and what you can use in it and the way you can ferment with multiple strains of yeast are things I can embrace now. Honestly, some of the best stuff I walked away with is what I see for the vision of our brewery in the future: how we design it to be as flexible as we can.
Q: How do the American and Belgian beer scenes compare?
A: In some ways, I think the American spirit mimics some of the Belgian spirit across hundreds of years, in the sense that we're adventurous and don't hold anything sacred. They have always defined their brewing traditions against the German styles; perhaps that's even what the American craft beer industry is doing against the American macros (such as Coors Light). This is our chance to really open up and be something different, and in a way that's what Belgium's been doing for hundreds of years.
Q: Did you get to talk to fellow brewers in Belgium?
A: At Oud Beersel, we got to talk in a very open and deep way with the brewers and the owners. When you are talking beer, the language barrier that would otherwise exist kind of falls away because you understand each other's context when you're talking, so it's really easy to communicate."
What I'm tasting
Just in time for the warm weather, Mother Earth's award-winning pilsener is now on bottle shop shelves in 12-ounce cans. The Kinston brewery won a bronze at the 2013 Great American Beer Festival, now named Park Day.
It tastes like the weather with a bready, light fruity taste that finishes spritzy clean. And at 4.8 percent, it's built for a long sunny day outdoors.


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As a surgeon at Boston Children's Hospital, Dr. Amir Taghinia has seen things that would crush the souls of most mortals.
But to help kids with one particular affliction, he and his colleagues have launched an ambitious project — to provide transplants for children who have lost both hands or both arms. Children's created the world's first hand transplant program for youngsters last year, after the hospital's ethics committee spent two years reviewing the idea.
It's a difficult undertaking for many reasons, and an actual transplant may still be years away, Taghinia said. But he's willing to wait.
"I've seen patients lose their hands and their legs. Unfortunately too many,'' Taghinia said. What he'd most like to do is restore them to their full healthy state. But if that's not possible, he said, a transplant may be the next best thing.
"In the right patient, I think it can make a huge difference in someone's quality of life,'' Taghinia said.
Hand or arm transplants for children are a tricky business. Taghinia's group is targeting kids who are at least 10 years old and has already screened many candidates. But there have been no surgeries yet.
"You really want a patient who has good family support, who is psychologically fit so they can potentially withstand the complications that may arise from having a transplant,'' Taghinia said. And importantly, "They completely understand the risks that are involved.''
That's partly why the kids have to be at least 10, he said. They have to want the surgery themselves and to fully comprehend the choice they are making. That includes being willing to take medications to suppress the immune system and endure the side effects, potentially for life, so that the body won't reject the new limbs.
Then there's the difficulty of finding donors. Happily, not many children die. So sourcing donors is far more difficult than with adults donating organs, not least because the donor's size must match the recipient's.
"For all these reasons, it's a challenge, and it will require a lot of patience to find the appropriate candidate and find the appropriate donor,'' Taghinia said.
So they're taking it slow, he said.
"We may never do a hand transplant, and that's OK,'' Taghinia said. But, "We would like to do one. And we think we can help the appropriate patient.''
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