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Still the one.
Scarecrow IF YOU'RE LISTENING WHOAAAAA
Why y'all got to bring out one of my favorite bands?
They never have all their songs on youtube.
Love "Let it Happen" and "23"
So many emo feels.
this always depresses me because of the accuracy.. but the song's good ;/
More feels XO?
Why can't I find a studio version of Kendrick Lamar on Imagine Dragon's "Radioactive"???
They performed it on SNL and at the Grammy awards.
I was in the mall today and heard the studio version in a store and it was flawless.
Song is okay but Kendrick's verse is sick.
atleast pick their one good song
Finnegan2win AFI blows.
I like my classic teen emo stuff
Incoming "Ohio is for Lovers"
When you need to be even more emo.
Is Blue October emo?
Half their **** tears my heart out.
Because I'm a *****
omg wtf is this
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In a perfect world, of course not. But it happens. A lot.
At my children's school, a very popular public school in the Chilterns, many of the teachers yell. We all know about it. It's the kind of school where parents are very, er, hands-on. There are lots of older mums that gave up careers as bankers and lawyers to stay home with the kids, and when the children reach school age, they find they have spare time and energy.
I am one of those mums (minus the spectacular career). I'm a chronic volunteer — lunchtime supervisor, clubs, committees, PTA. The school actually gave me a Christmas present this year. I have been around and heard an ear load over the past few years.
Some teachers yell. The first time I witnessed this, a boy berated in front of the whole class for being a tad bit over-zealous on a field trip, I lowered my head in embarrassment. The children all tensed and fell silent. It was one of those rare moments where you get a glimpse into your child's life Without You. I felt small, and my eyes met another mum's and I could tell she felt the same. I yell at my children, probably more than I should, but a teacher? Shouldn't a professional be trained to use alternate ways of keeping control?
Studies show that a child's brain actually stops functioning when they are being yelled at, and it cannot accept new information. They just turn you off — and feel bad about themselves.
Of course it is easy to say teachers shouldn't yell and suggest all kinds of alternatives. With a class size of 30, I am not surprised. Collectively we are raising Frankenkinder and them dump them at school and expect the teachers to sort out our mess.
Are fee-paying schools better? According to my friends, not much.
And if you don't spend time in the classroom, you never really know what goes on, do you?
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Interestingly, a Bollywood flick lead to the discovery of today's featured artiste. And this film had none of the conventional singing and dancing. Not that it would matter. My finger is ever ready on the fast forward tab. I digress. Anyways, it was worth the effort because here I am about to share my find with you guys.
Shaa'ir (Monica Dogra) and Func (Randolph Correia) is an electro-rock/trance/alternative/ *insert genre here* musicians based in Mumbai. Dogra moved back to the Indian subcontinent from the States, conjoining hands with Correia (one-fourth of Pentagram) to what was to become S+F in 2005. Four years into their collaborated efforts, they won the AVIMA award 2009 for the most Mindboggling-Out-of-this-world-track for "Together again" from Light Tribe.
What inspired Shaa'ir and Func to make music together?
I think we both were most inspired by our immediate synergy. It was as if we had always been meant to play together. We met in the middle of the night at a jam session, and instantly felt in sync. Randolph was on guitar, and I was free-styling. We could have gone on for hours, it was just that magical.
So when I returned to Bombay, after quitting my life in the US, I found him and asked him to play with me. He agreed, and a few months later our first record was born. After our first gig, we knew we had something cosmic. We owed it to the powers at play to keep going.
Major Influences in your music?
We are most inspired by our environments, and the lives that we lead. We've been walking unpaved paths from the inception of S+F – and all those rocks and windy ways, teach us lessons. What we learn goes into our music. Randolph and I often speak about how everything in this world can be distilled down and what you have left over is love. That's what influences our music. Either trying to distill, or the realization that occurs after that distillation.
How has your compositions evolved since 2007?
I think that with age, your skill level increases, your experience widens, your ability to create becomes more fine-tuned. Practice makes perfect. The Love Album was a lifetime of raw experience put to music, Light Tribe was the chaos of touring around the world as a completely Independent band, and then Mantis came from a more reflective mature space of experience.
I can't really choose a favorite, but I do think that technically, Mantis was our best effort…our best album. It's hard to count the number of ways we have evolved, but we are the kinds who try to evolve rapidly and with grace – and when we look back on the short number of years we've been a band – we see the distance we've traveled, and we feel proud….not satisfied…but, proud. This feeling doesn't make us lose momentum, but rather it makes us hunger to go even further.
New Day: The Love Album and Light Tribe; both were commercially successful. This would have certainly helped with the spread of Mantis. But why free download?
It's hard to say what makes a record commercially successful. For us, we just want more people to hear our music…to us, that's "commercial success".
How important is clinching a record deal?
In my opinion it isn't important at all. What matters the most these days is how good your music is, and whether or not you have an internet connection.
What was the band working towards in the beginning and how has that changed thus far?
We've always worked towards making the best music possible and uniting people through our sound. Be it on a dance floor, or in a room….
We like to think of ourselves as musical bridges across genres, oceans, and hearts.
How different is Shaa'ir + Func from the rest of the Indie Bands in India?
Extremely different.
Favorite achievement as a band?
Performing at Glastonbury after Massive Attack on a solar and bicycle powered stage.
Where do you see yourselves say 5 years down the road?
Bigger. Better. Stronger.
Which is harder? Writing a song, creating the music for it or performing live? Why?
It all ebbs and flows. Sometimes the song is the hardest to conquer, sometimes the production is the hardest to figure, sometimes the skill to execute the record into a live format is the hardest. But, there is something about music that has a guiding invisible force…there's something instinctual that tells you when it's done, tells you when it's good, tells you when changes need to be made. It's kind of like finding God.
Where have you guys performed so far? Favorite Venue
My most favorite recent venue was Cherry Beach Studio, in Toronto. They made a mini-studio inside of the warehouse space, with Elephants and living kama-sutra statues. It was all very campy, but the gig was insane, and the sound was beautiful. I'd go back and do it again.
Future Albums? Upcoming gigs?
We'll start working on a new record as soon as we're both done with our travels. Randolph is returning to India with a massive new setup. So our gigs will for sure be next level. We'll make sure of it.
Which song from your released albums would you recommend for someone who hasn't heard of the duo?
To be honest, you have to listen to them all….We're pragmatic….We're so many things at the same time. Check out "My Roots" off the album Mantis.
If could change one of your songs, which one would it be? What would you change about it?
Wouldn't change a thing. Silly question. 😉
What is it about Shaa'ir + Func that we don't know, but we should?
We live to love.
People who love (____) will love our music.
New Day: The Love Album (2006)
The duo debuted with their combined efforts some 5 years ago with New Day: The Love Album. I took an instant liking to the track titles, beginning from "Ambidextrous Love Hands" to "Oops" to simple one word titles like "Hit" and "Swirl'. Maybe it's me, but the songs took time to grow on me. There were a few tracks I was able to relate to such as "Moonlight" which came with a dash of Jazz and "New Day". "Government" reminded me so much of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way".
Light Tribe (2008)
Light Tribe held a lot more power than their debut album. The entire album tackled themes with regards to Freedom of Expression and Choices made. Tracks were a little light headed compared to the themes they represented, which is a little unconventional I'd say. Tracks like "Her Story" with its amazing lyrics and "Lord Inside" were personal favorites. The band is highly experimental and that's appreciative. "Embrace" can be addictive. Light Tribe carries one of the best written lyrics amongst the three.
Mantis (August 2010 – Download Entire Album)
This album was a pleasant surprise. "Not Alone" and "Hyperbole" were my favorites. Coincidentally those were the first two tracks so one ends up giving the entire album a good amount of time listening to. Mantis is a good place to start appreciating S+F. The transition within a single track is a lot subtle in this album as compared to their previous ventures.
To quote Dogra, "Mantis was our best effort…our best album."
You can keep up with their tour dates and upcoming albums at their FaceBook Page, read more about them on their official website or listen to their sample tracks on MySpace.
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Thanks for the great module! For the most part it works great, except it will sometimes add two zeros to price table when I edit a product. So a price of $45.00 will randomly change to $4500.00. I can go in and edit a product to change the price back to $45.00, but it will not always stick. This is not an issue with checkout or cart, as this happens before a product is even added to a cart. Possibly related to the stock module?
Comment #1Bestpoint CreditAttribution: Bestpoint commented
Subscribe! Iv got the same problem.
I also installed the stockmodule..
Comment #2pompetardo CreditAttribution: pompetardo commented
I have the same problem, but it multiplies x1000. I think its 10^{# of decimals of the currency}. And happens with the products selected in an order after placing it. Weird shit. I also have the stock module but I don't remember it happened before last update (june 17th).
Comment #3pompetardo CreditAttribution: pompetardo commented
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Aparently this problem is because commerce_price_table_field_presave() which is thought for correcting the value when you save it, is also executed when you place an order. Probably is called when the stock is updated but I'm not sure.
When you place an order "Convert the price amount to an integer based on the currency."* is no longer needed. In fact if you see it doesn't make any sense because "commerce_currency_decimal_to_amount()" converts decimal to amount and the input choosen is an amount so it get multiplied by 10^{# of decimals of the currency}.
So the solution maybe is to put a conditional to avoid it but I don't have a clue how to detect if it has been an order placed. Or somehow avoid calling commerce_price_table_field_presave() when placing an order.
I commented the part of the code that is making the problem but it generates another: if you try to save a product through the gui interface it will save all table prices as 0. But in my case I can live with it because I add and modify all my product programatically so in fact this is not a solution, just a workaround that works for me.
In commerce_price_table.module:
* Implements hook_field_presave().
function commerce_price_table_field_presave($entity_type, $entity, $field, $instance, $langcode, &$items) {
// Convert amounts to integers and serialize data arrays before saving.
foreach ($items as $delta => $item) {
// Convert the price amount to an integer based on the currency. (*)
$items[$delta]['amount'] = commerce_currency_decimal_to_amount( //<== Here is the problem
$items[$delta]['amount'], // | (comment
$items[$delta]['currency_code'] // | all this to fixit)
); //<== until here
// Serialize an existing data array.
if (isset($item['data']) && is_array($item['data'])) {
$items[$delta]['data'] = serialize($item['data']);
if (empty($item['min_qty'])) {
$items[$delta]['min_qty'] = 0;
if (empty($item['max_qty'])) {
$items[$delta]['max_qty'] = 0;
Comment #4pcambra CreditAttribution: pcambra commented
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Please use the -dev version #1322714: Odd Pricing Table Issue
I should add a new release, I'll do it asap.


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He hangs two hundred feet in the air from a church tower in Sussex, England. But this Jesus statue is more Abercrombie and Fitch than first century Galilee (maybe he was inspired by the Kid Rock song, "Blue Jeans and a Rosary…"). This statue, affectionately called "Jesus in Jeans" by the locals, is a very telling portrait of the way Jesus is commonly portrayed in popular culture, and frankly isn't that far from another statue I think we're all familiar with:
"Buddy Christ," from the irrevereant, yet surprisingly faith-affirming film Dogma has become an all too easy charicature of what we want our Jesus to be. The prayer scene in the Will Farrell film Talladega Nights is a perfect example. Each family member likes their own personalized Jesus, whether that's Baby Jesus, Ninja Jesus or Tuxedo T-Shirt Jesus ("…cause it says, I wanna be formal, but I'm here to party").
Steve Case, the author of the article "Jesus in Jeans," says this regarding the cultural fascination with Jesus Christ:
"I'd like to have a cup of coffee with Jesus someday. Not the guy in the clean white robe who speaks in King James English and looks morosely at me while I sip my Venti iced coffee, but just a "guy." A son of God who laughs, hangs out with the outcasts, breaks the rules that need breaking and calls the finger-pointers on the carpet."
"If we can find a way for people to see and touch and hear and smell Jesus, it might make it a little easier when we ask them to have faith in a Jesus that is beyond our senses."
"Yes, what Jesus did (or allowed to have done to him) was an act of immeasurable compassion and love. But isn't it easier to hug someone whose arms aren't nailed down?"
The cross is indeed foolishness to many in our world, to those who would prefer a sanitized version of the savior without the blood and without the cross. Someone personal. Intimate. On the one hand, I agree with Mr. Case: I too want a Jesus that's bigger than the sterile Sunday School version. But Case also seems to be moving toward a view of Jesus as an ethical teacher, and the cross as an "act of compassion" rather than an "act of redemption."
But sadly, Mr. Case, we can't have it both ways.
We can't have a Savior who enters into our world and our existence without rescuing us from ourselves. A Savior who sits down for coffee without seriously addressing our addictions, our failures and our doubts is not a Savior at all. What we desperately need is a Savior who not only acknowledges our burdens, but lifts them from our shoulders to His, which is precisely what the cross is all about.
Seattle Pastor Mark Driscoll said this in an article from Relevant Magazine:
"Some … [want] to recast Jesus as a limp-wrist hippie in a dress with a lot of product in His hair, who drank decaf and made pithy Zen statements about life while shopping for the perfect pair of shoes. In Revelation, Jesus is a prize fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is a guy I can worship. I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up. I fear some are becoming more cultural than Christian, and without a big Jesus who has authority and hates sin as revealed in the Bible, we will have less and less Christians, and more and more confused, spiritually self-righteous blogger critics of Christianity."
Our Savior is more than a "Buddy Christ." The Greek scripture tells us that no one has seen God, but Christ revealed Him to the world through Himself (John 1:18). The Greek text uses the word "exegesato," (where we nerdy types get the word "exegesis") a word that referred to scholars scouring manuscripts and data, searching for clues of God's great Truth. All this was contained in the person of Jesus, who vibrantly revealed God to the world, shining His light in the darkness.
Pastor James Stuart writes:
"He was the meekest and lowliest of all the sons of men. Yet he spoke of coming on the clouds of heaven with the glory of God. He was so austere that evil spirits and demons cried out in terror at his coming, yet he was so genial and winsome and approachable, that the children loved to play with him and the little ones nestled in his arms. His presence at the innocent gaiety of a village wedding, was like the presence of sunshine. No one was half so kind or compassionate to sinners, yet no one ever spoke such red-hot scorching words about sin. A bruised reed he would not break. His whole life was love. Yet on one occasion he demanded of the Pharisees, how they were expected to escape the damnation of hell. He was a dreamer of dreams and a seer of visions, yet for sheer stark realism, he has all of us self-styled realists soundly beaten. He was the servant of all, washing the disciples' feet, yet masterfully he strode into the temple, and the hucksters and moneychangers fell over one another to get away in their mad rush from the fire they saw blazing in his eyes. He saved others, yet at the last, he himself did not save. There is nothing in history like the union of contrasts which confronts us in the gospels; the mystery of Jesus is the mystery of divine personality."
Jesus once asked one of His disciples what people thought of Him. They rattled off the answers that were rattling around pop culture. But Jesus pointedly asked Peter, "Who do you say that I am?" In our present day, everyone from Kanye West to Marilyn Manson wants to talk of a "personal Jesus." But what about you?
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Genre : Comedy
Release Date : 29 March 2017
Language : French
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Gangsterdam.2017.torrent – Ruben, Durex and Nora are all three students in last year of college. For lack of confidence in him, Ruben has already missed his exams once. Same problem with Nora, to whom he dares not confess his feelings. And it's not Durex his childhood friend, the most embarrassing guy in the world, who's going to help him … When he discovers that Nora is also a dude and that she leaves for Amsterdam to bring back a whole new type Of drugs, Ruben takes his courage in both hands and decides to accompany him. This trip to Amsterdam is the perfect setting to seduce Nora, a pity for him that Durex is embedded in the adventure. While all three discover the most crazed capital of Europe, their life will frankly become complicated when they realize that the drug they have just recovered belongs to the biggest criminals of Amsterdam … Gangsterdam Very soon Ruben, Durex and Nora Will understand that in order to regain their former life, they will have to stop being badgers, to become true heroes. Until now, difficult to make frankly the fine mouth in front of the quality of the seventh art hexagonal in this enthusiastic beginning of the year cine 2017, aligning the good pockets with a frenzy at all refreshing. (Grave), a fair and never too tearful drama (De Plus Belle), a well-built comedy that sells laughter and not discomfort (L'Ascension, Rock'n Roll, Alibi. Com, Mr and Mrs Adelman); If the seventh Rican art logically dominated the debates during this first quarter – race to the golden statuettes obliges -, the hexagonal cinema incarnated more than a simple alternative of good taste. As good pessimistic cinephiles that we are, it was necessary that at one time or another, the good things had an end and that a good big couac well disgust comes to point the tip of his nose, history to rip a machine Until now well oiled. Without allowing anyone the chance to spoil the party, our national Kev Adams has been eager to do, as every year, honor his status as entertainer of the poor by taking in his fall, the talented yet Romain Levy. Daddy of the very good Radiostars, the guy is trying this time with the subtlety and relevance of a Michael Bay under doliprane, to test the buddy movie pure and hard, with his foutraque – and the word is weak – Gangsterdam, surrealist nanar Kissing full-mouth the strong tendency Z, and doing very badly by or passes (often under the belt). Totally uninhibited and scripted with a trowel, the film Gangsterdam is an accumulation of crappy valves, embedded in a mixture of comical genres rather clumsy even if laudable astonishment for the blow (si, si), trying to make an interesting minimum an adventure so rebellious and Predictable that it is incoherent and pushing; In which the filmmaker, not devoid of interesting ideas, tries to make speak his references and his love for the cinema blesses the 80's, even going so far as offering the immense Rutger Hauer, a totally improbable luxury cameo. It is ridiculous, stuffed to the point of being discriminating, falsely provocative and regressive, totally plumbed by an energetic actors – not necessarily in the good sense – but wildly limited (his trio starring at the head), and a humor pipi- Gangsterdam is the archetype of a weak and distressing comedy, which provokes more indignation and embarrassment than laughter; A pure marketing product to starify more than reason the bankable aura of a popular Kev Adams, but to talent (laughter in the box at the Totoff Lambert) ferociously debatable. Many will argue that it is completely futile to fire on an ambulance already riddled with bullets and not rolling very straight, and that ridicule does not (supposedly) kill even in the dark rooms; But to point to the end of the criticism, an unnamed purge glorifying nothingness, remains a duty as enjoying as legitimate for every cinephile who respects himself. The little drop of impertinent piss that makes the bowl overflow a hexagonal comedy which for several months now, however, went better and better …
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News that Tony Hall was to be the new Director-General of the BBC came as a surprise on Thursday. Quite a few surprises in fact.
First, the surprise of hearing his name. Second, the pleasant surprise of being reminded that Hall was a former BBC man. And third come the press conference in the afternoon (pictured above), realising to what extent the appointment itself had been a relief. Closure.
In reality, that isn't how it is at all. Reviews, reports, and various select committees. But for the time being at least, it feels as though the car has been retrieved from the ditch, jump-started and the engine running gently in readiness for the long journey ahead.
On Friday, I said goodbye to a colleague who was going on a career break for a year. I hugged her tightly, quietly hoping to myself she'd return after her year away but fearing she might not.
I always feel the same way when someone good steps off the BBC merry-go-round. Saying goodbye to those who played a crucial part in my formative experiences almost feels as my training wheels are being detached and that now I've got to fend for myself.
"Are you OK?" I asked her, "You're looking really tired." She confessed to finding the process of 'leaving' unexpectedly emotional. ""I didn't appreciate how attached to this place I was," she said, "like you, if you slice me open you'll 'public service broadcaster' running right through me. It's been a difficult day."
It was the first time that anyone had been able to articulate why when the BBC is in the news (for all the wrong reasons) it has the emotional effect it does on staff that it has on me over the past couple of weeks.
To work at the Beeb you have to invest a certain amount of yourself in the organisation. Little wonder it takes its toll when its under attack. And little wonder too we experience that sense of relief when good things happen too.


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It is -10 degrees outside and my car will not start. I tried to jump the battery but no luck there. After twenty minutes my car sounded like it was about to start. But not even a second later the engine shook and make a loud CREEEP noise. The battery is charged and everything is turning over the way it should, something is stopping the car from staying running. Do you have any idea what it would be?
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Sing a Song
March 9, 2012 § 6 Comments
Rawr rawr rawrr
Tagged: and the good lord loved them all, CHILDREN, dogfriends, dogs, FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY, singing, slow internet day
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2me4art says:
Reblogged this on 2me4art and commented:
I've got one who sings. My rescued Husky is trying, but its not very good, we reward with smiles anyway.
Whitney Phillips says:
In my family, we call it "whale songing." That, and "murphing." Either way, talkative dogs is one of my favorite things in life…. 🙂
2me4art says:
My dog, Blue, is best at singing or howling like a wolf. But he can recognize a when the phone video camera or the iPad video is on & we've never gotten him singing. Which grieves me, because one day he won't be here & I would like to hear his voice after he is gone. It makes me happy when he sings, faster then anything else can. Wish me luck.
Whitney Phillips says:
Aw good luck! I wish him a long and happy sing-songy life…
Roseanna says:
I'm out of league here. Too much brain power on dislpay!
Thanks for your thoughts. It's helped me a lot.


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Taking on triskaidekaphobia
As Friday the 13th arrives, Saratoga track personalities share their superstitions
Published 8:54 pm, Thursday, August 12, 2010
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Ramon Dominguez always puts his right foot on the floor first when he gets out of bed. Maylan Studart wears an evil eye amulet. Jerry Bailey always pulled on his left boot first when dressing for a race.
Jockeys are a superstitious type, but it doesn't mean the riders in the jockey colony at Saratoga Race Course will call in sick on Friday the 13th.
"When I saw I would be riding on the 13th I did stop and think. It's a funny day. I'll just be extra cautious and hope God keeps me safe," Studart said.
Riding thoroughbred racehorses for a living is a dangerous vocation, and jockeys rely on faith and hope for luck while racing. Studart is religious as well as superstitious and always wears a Star of David in addition to the Greek eye to ward off evil. If she's on a winning streak, she wears the same riding clothes each day without washing them. She puts her right boot on first. If she forgets and puts the left one on first, she takes it off and starts again.
Jockey legend Angel Cordero Jr. shakes his head at superstitions. It's ignorance, he said.
"If you put something in your mind, it will happen," he said.
But that doesn't mean he's immune to it. When he was riding well, he felt no superstition. But even the man known for 13 straight riding titles and as the king of Saratoga, had a slump from time to time.
"If I wasn't having a good day I turned my undershirt around, or I switched pants or socks," Cordero said.
Eddie Brown, the assistant clerk of scales and a former jockey valet reminded Cordero of his other complaint -- when he lost he claimed his hat was on crooked.
The men reminisced about jockeys and trainers they've known. The late trainer Angel Penna Sr. hated to be told "good luck," so when Cordero rode past him, he would turn his head and wish him luck.
Trainer Jim Bond is identifiable by his blue jacket. The late jockey Don MacBeth always wanted his left boot cleaned first, and it was a job Brown did.
"I'd tell him, 'it's a good thing I'm not superstitious and think it has to be the right foot, or we would be here all day,'" Brown said.
The New York Racing Association is making the most of this summer's only Friday the 13th with a Halloween-themed day, including a track side costume parade for children, trick-or-treating and a reenactment of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" dance on the track apron.
According to Donald Dossey, a historian and author of "Holiday Folklore, Phobias and Fun," businesses lose an estimated $800 million to $900 million when the 13th falls on a Friday because people won't fly or go about normal business.
Dossey estimates 17 million to 21 million people in the U.S. are afflicted with triskaidekaphobia -- fear of Friday the 13th.
Religious beliefs, habits and superstition blend in the jockey colony.
Dominguez, last year's riding champion, said he changes whips if he's in a slump. When he leaves the jockey's room for a race, he says a prayer. John Velazquez said he has no superstitions, he leaves his fate in the hands of God.
Carl Rafter, smoking a last cigarette before the first race of the day Thursday, gestured toward his shiny boots.
A new pair of boots has to "hit the ground on someone else's feet," the jockey said. Rafter rides in often perilous steeplechase races. Before a race begins, if he thinks of it, Rafter said he passes his hand over his mount's right ear as both horse and man stare down the first fence.
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Nice find! The CAG were actual requirements case manufacturers had to adhere to for Intel systems. We had to upgrade our entire line of chassis to meet Intel CAG requirements, and it did make a difference. Before we recieved our new chassis, I was burining up Prescotts on my test bench because they ran so hot. Putting any sort of high load on them instantly send them throttling.
Of course, as "eagle" pointed out, Intel's chips shutdown after hitting a certain temp (I still believe it's 75C) so there's little risk of burning up a chip. I was very critical of AMD for many years for lacking this feature, including losing one mission critical mail server after a heatsink fell off the socket and fried the chip in the process. Fortunitally the new A64s added this feature.
I wonder how critical this is nowadays that AMD and Intel are both using very power efficient designs. The Core2 only displaces a little over 60w peak, and I believe the AM2 is in the same range.
I asked an Intel rep once if this meant that the BTX chassis design was no longer needed. "No comment" was the reply...=)
Still, as "eagle" mentioned, the memory and graphics card put out alot of heat, the latter increacingly so, much to my alarm. I read on The Inquirer a few months ago that ATI and Nvidia have seen this and will be working on their own power efficient designs in '07. But until then I see a real problem in cooling some of these massive graphics cards, especially with the heavy coolers required, which puts added stresses on the slot.


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Big Scars!Well, I've got really big scars. The most obvious one is all around my head. I had brain surgery, during the surgery I ruptured an aneurysm on the opposite side...what was supposed to be an L shaped scar became a scar around my head...I wear my hair in a buzz cut, to boot...it doesn't bother me...it bothers others, but that's not my problem! And I have scars on my breasts from cosmetic surgery. NO, not breast implants. Breast REDUCTION. And some other scars here and there, gotten as a child...nothing like my head scar, though...
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Thanks for sharing this story. I went through a couple of years with my ex wife, who had in total 5 aneurisms of the brain. When we first found out she had them she was pregnant with my last daughter and we nearly lost both of them. Luckily they both survived and are doing well.
To my knowledge she is living a happy existence in the UK somewhere.
Yes it is, but I have the children and am happy for the gift of them.
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Notorious red carpet crasher , who allegedly socked the World War Z star in the face while Brad was attending fiancé Angelina Jolie's Maleficent premiere Wednesday, has a history of doing all sorts of crazy things to celebrities.
And if his name looks familiar, it's because he was just in the news for a different celebrity prank.
Take a peek at five other stunts Vitalii has pulled on the stars.
1. He snuck under America Ferrera's dress at Cannes: Yes, this is the same guy that crawled under the actress' dress while she posed on the carpet for her How to Train Your Dragon 2 premiere at Cannes. When security rushed over to pull him out, Vitalli held on to America's ankles for good measure to make his haul off from the scene even more difficult.
2. He Buried his face in Leonardo DiCaprio's crotch: Back in February, Vitalli bum rushed the Wolf of Wall Street star at the Santa Barbara Film Festival and buried his head in Leo's crotch. He also wrapped his arms around the actor's legs to make sure he couldn't escape his grasp quickly. Leo was on hand to receive the Cinema Vanguard Award. Clearly, he got a lot more than he bargained for.
3. He hugged Bradley Cooper's crotch too: At the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the American Hustle star was minding his own business, posing on the carpet with actors Michal Peña and Mandy Patinkin. Moments later, out popped Vitalli, who nestled his face in Bradley's crotch.
4. He tried to kiss Will Smith: At the Men in Black 3 premiere in 2012, Vitalli tried to kiss Will in the midst of an interview. The actor was so furious that he slapped the prankster in the face, adding, "He's lucky I didn't sucker punch him."
5. He also tried to ruin Adele's Grammy acceptance speech: When the singer hit the stage to accept the award for Best Solo Pop Performance at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2013, Vitalli walked on the stage too, saying near the podium, "It's such an honor to receive this award," according to CBS. J.Lo intervened, cut him off, and Vitalli was hauled away.
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"American Idol" had its most shocking results show of the season on Wednesday night when frontrunner Adam Lambert and teen-favorite Kris Allen ended up in the bottom three alongside Matt Giraud.
Matt was eventually sent on his way, but not before the show's panel of judges expressed total shock over Adam's appearance in the bottom three, and later, his reduction to the bottom two.
"My mouth went open again," judge Kara DioGuardi said when Adam first learned the news.
"It's crazy! This is crazy!" Paula Abdul exclaimed.
And it was the unveiling of Adam's place in the bottom three that made Wednesday's results show so jaw dropping.
Like he did on previous season's, Ryan Seacrest separated the final five into two and two – Kris and Matt on one side, and Allison Iraheta and Danny Gokey on the other. Ryan then asked Adam, who was in the middle of the stage, to pick the group he thought he belonged in.
After dwelling on it for a moment, and not doing what David Archuleta did last season – staying put in the center of the stage – Adam moved to Danny and Allison's side.
"Based on last night, probably that group," he said, walking over to the twosome.
Ryan then pulled him over to the other side and revealed Matt, Kris and Adam as the bottom three.
After performances from guest musicians Natalie Cole and former "American Idol" Taylor Hicks, Ryan told Kris he had been saved to sing again, revealing the bottom two as Matt and Adam.
Later, following a performance from guest mentor Jamie Foxx, Ryan asked "The Soloist" actor if America got the bottom two correct.
"I've hung with these guys and shared with them and it doesn't matter right now," Jamie said, pleading for America to give all the "Idol" hopefuls a chance following the show. "It's what's gonna happen after this."
It was then that Matt learned his fate.
"I'll definitely remember being the cat with nine lives," Matt said, wiping a tear from his eye. "It's definitely not the last time you'll see me… I wanna thank Kalamazoo, Mich. For supporting me and the judges for seeing something in me."
And Kara once again stood up for the decision to save Matt from elimination just two weeks ago.
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Apparently, a new Word Censor program was added to these forums approximately two years ago. It was around the time that the new Cyan forums were created and other changes were taking place. It was likely meant to reduce the need for forum moderation and that's completely understandable. It prevents certain words which are generally considered to be offensive (i.e., body parts and bodily functions) from appearing by changing them to less offensive words. So, if you refer to someone as a "boob," you will end up calling them "mammary gland."
Now, that's all fine and dandy for body parts and bodily functions which we really have no reason to discuss on these forums. But, when the word for a body part is part of another word which is not a body part, then it becomes a gray area. "Donahoo's Cocktail Party" has been a weekly event since the Until Uru days and has been frequently posted about on these and past Cyan and game publisher forums. It's never been an issue, but suddenly with the new system, it's become "Donahoo's expletive Party." For anyone who knows sweet, squeaky clean Donahoo, this is a bit of a shocker. She's been a community member since the Exile days and deserves more respect than this system allows her.
Then, there's the word which, IMO, has no business being in the Word Censor list: "God" which is changed to "Atrus." If that's intended to prevent people from taking the lord's name in vain or being blasphemous, then it has accomplished the opposite, IMO. If it must be in the list, then it should be replaced by "Yahvo," not "Atrus." Despite years of joking about Rand being God (maybe that's why it's in the system ), he is not and neither is Atrus.
Some of the more savvy forum posters are getting around this restriction by adding to the word (gods, god-like or –god-), but others who are innocently posting the word are being made to look foolish, IMO, and in the context in which it was used, it's disrespectful to all involved. For example,
in a thread about Hurricane Sandy:
Atrus bless you and protect you all ...
when offering sympathy/condolences on the loss of a community member's husband:
May Atrus Bless.
when offering sympathy/condolences on the loss of a community member's wife:
My condolences to you and your family. Atrus Bless.
in a thread for a community member who's passed:
May Atrus bless you and your loved ones.
in a thread for a community member who's passed:
Atrus Bless everyone.
And, there's no distinction between the capitalized version and the lower case version. There are many uses for the word not involving preaching or cursing - for example, discussing Gehn's god-like complex. If I want to write "Gehn fancies himself a god, it would come out as "Gehn fancies himself a Atrus" which is not only silly, but also poor English - it should be "an Atrus."
Personally, I prefer to use "Yahvo" in cases that would normally be "God" to avoid offending anyone and I think it has worked out quite well. So, that's my suggestion - if it must be changed to something, but I don't think it should be changed at all.
I'm posting this in the Technical section in hopes that perhaps someone can offer a better solution that will work for both Cyan and the forum posters.


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Responsible capitalism means better protection for workers when the music stops
The media is full of angst, anger and advice for HMV, Comet and Jessops customers who have lost out on gift vouchers, but too few are bothering to spare a thought to the thousands unceremoniously thrown out of their jobs. If Labour believes in a one nation economy, we must make sure that redundant workers get a better deal.
Trauma of redundancy
Anyone reading Caitlin Leyshon's article in the New Statesman about losing her job in Zavvi should be in no doubt, being made redundant is a painful, traumatic process. Not only does your livelihood and ability to pay your rent disappear – but so do your relationships with friends and colleagues. People spend more than half of their waking hours at work. After long periods of service for one employer it can be near impossible to change working habits, customs and practices to be ready for a new job.
Redundancy Rights
Our redundancy rights are weak and ineffective. Statutory redundancy pay in the UK is calculated as a function of age and length of service. For people who have had their professional identity and livelihood disappear, this pay is essential for allowing a smooth transition from employment to unemployment and back into the jobs market again. But with pay normally barely over a week's wages for every year employed, a 30 year old who has worked for a company for a decade will get little over two month's money upon being made redundant. If the company is in liquidation or administration, even getting this will likely be a fight, with individuals often required to go to employment tribunals to secure the money they are owed. If you have worked for an for less than two years, which will become increasingly common as our labour market changes, then you get nothing at all. If there is no money left, the government is forced to cough up for a company's decision to run its business into the ground.
Even the few rights that exist are under attack from the Coalition government. In November Vince Cable announced that the right to a ninety day redundancy period in large companies where over 100 employees were losing their jobs would be halved, causing many workers to effectively lose forty five days of notice and pay whilst they were losing their jobs. Under the dubious banner of making our labour market more flexible, the government is stealing from the plates of the soon to be unemployed and causing the taxpayer to foot the bill of the extra dole payments which will be the inevitable result of shortening the time period available to people to seek alternative employment.
Labour's response
At times, Labour's response to shop closures has appeared to deviate between nostalgia for familiar brands and an odd attempt to blame the government for the lack of success of the companies involved. Not only does this strain credibility- plenty of shops closed during Labour's time in office- but it misses the key point. While high street closures are inevitable as our retail habits change, shoddy treatment of redundant workers is not. Big name consumer brand closures make media headlines, but each year over 300,000 workers in the UK are made redundant, throwing family finances into doubt and putting futures at risk.
A better way
Where companies choose to make mass redundancies, Labour should ensure that shareholders are required to pay for the social costs of their decisions. Reversing the terrible decision to halve consultation periods for large businesses should only be the first step. Companies should be responsible for a retraining allowance, so former employees can build new skills to find alternative employment more easily. The measly statutory redundancy pay should be increased and reformed, so young people are not so cheap to fire. Where companies end up in administration, workers should have first rights to the proceeds of asset sales, not commercial creditors.
In the neo-liberal fantasy world in which the Coalition government lives, moving between jobs is no more difficult an economic transition than changing insurance providers. In the real world it can be a stressful, upsetting and difficult experience. If Labour wants to speak with authority to the newly redundant workers of HMV, Jessops and Comet, it should promise to ensure that in future people in their position will be invested in and protected, not left on the shelf.
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EDUCATION bosses say outstanding leadership at a Wearside primary is creating huge improvements.
Ofsted inspectors say the managers at Wessington Primary School have helped turn the school from satisfactory to good overall.
In their report into the Washington school, inspectors said: "The highly effective leadership of the headteacher, supported by determined leaders at other levels have secured major improvements in a relatively short period of time.
"They include improvements to pupils' achievement and the quality of teaching.
"Governors are highly ambitious for the school to improve further and are very effective in holding the school to account. They know the school very well and bring a wide range of skills which they use to good effect."
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WASHINGTON — Just shy of eight months after a humiliating failure, the successful long-range-missile launch Wednesday by Kim Jong-Un's North Korean ballistic-missile program gave the world a reason to re-evaluate the threat from his rogue nation.
In doing so, Kim elevated not only his stature among his own people but also the global threat level, and therefore North Korea's spot on the second-term agenda of President Barack Obama, one already crowded with foreign-policy concerns. "A highly provocative act" is how National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor described the launch.
"We will continue to work with our international partners to ensure that the North Korean regime is further isolated, that it is further punished for its flagrant violations of international obligations," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.
The United Nations also condemned the launch, which violated sanctions that the world body had imposed on North Korea for its possession of nuclear weapons. The U.N. Security Council planned to discuss "an appropriate response."
The launch early Wednesday, after several failed attempts, caught the world by surprise. The long-range rocket was successful in sending a satellite into orbit.
While NORAD noted that the missile never posed a threat to North America, those who study North Korea, also known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, agree that its success does just that.
"The world just became a little more dangerous," said Bruce Bennett, an expert on North Korea and security at the Rand Corp. "American foreign policy towards North Korea had been one of strategic neglect. Those days are over."
Bennett noted that concern didn't arise simply from the fact that the missile worked. Kim had publicly admitted failure after a missile broke apart shortly after takeoff April 13. The failure and the admission were thought to have weakened his support within the North Korean political power structure.
Further signs that Kim was being challenged came from the talk of defectors and what appeared to be a purge of a number of the nation's old military leaders. In a poor nation with a history of missile failures, it all looked chaotic.
Last weekend, there were signs that North Koreans had to repair the missile on the launchpad, reinforcing international doubts. "No one expected them to be able to fix it and be successful so quickly," Bennett said. "That they did is not good news."
Ellen Kim, an expert on North Korea at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a defense research center, said the speed of the repairs was a concern. Although it's clear that North Korea still has scientific hurdles to solve before it can threaten the United States with a nuclear missile, the timeline just got shorter, she said.


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A 17-year-old youth will appear today at Liverpool magistrates court charged with the murder of Rhys Jones, the schoolboy who was shot as he walked home from football practice.
The youth will appear along with five others who are charged with assisting an offender: Melvyn Coy, 24, Gary Kayes, 25, and three youths aged 15, 16 and 17. The 16-year-old was also charged with possession of a firearm.
The suspects were among 13 people arrested yesterday and on Tuesday in connection with the murder. Three adults aged 50, 49, and 54, and a 16-year-old youth were released yesterday on bail. A 22-year-old man was bailed on Tuesday.
A 21-year-old woman was released without charge and a 20-year old man remains in custody for questioning by detectives.
Eleven-year-old Rhys was shot in the neck last August as he walked home through a pub car park in Croxteth Park. He is thought to have been hit by a stray bullet fired by a gunman on a bicycle.
Assistant Chief Constable Patricia Gallan, of Merseyside police, said the arrests had come after "painstaking, determined investigations". She said: "Police officers and staff have been working tirelessly behind the scenes since day one."
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Inspired by the Gods and Goddesses
March 8, 2014
Awaking each morning we have no idea what is going to inspire us to do great things that day. As I was thinking about what I was going to name this new blog, my mind kept coming back to the word "muse". What does that word even mean? The Wiki definition talks of nine Greek […]


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- Christopher-Johannes Schild & Matthias Wrede, 2010. "Cultural Identity, Mobility, and Decentralization," MAGKS Papers on Economics 201016, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung).
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The disease that has been killing hundred of thousands of chickens in Hong Kong over the past week is mutating so fast that it could become a danger to humans according to scientists there.
It is not known how many chickens have been killed by the virus, but at least 170,000 have been slaughtered to try and stop it spreading.
In 1997, a similar virus managed to mutate enough that it caused 6 people to die, but the authorities think that this time they should contain it before that happens again.


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Last week I was asked to help with a Children's Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom School site visit in Neshoba County, MS. For those of you who don't know the significance of freedom schooling and how it relates to democratic education, I hope you take a few minutes to read this. Just last summer, we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Freedom Summer, also known as the Mississippi Summer Project. That summer of action fifty years ago was coordinated by the the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) which is made up of Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the NAACP and SCLC to focus on increasing voter registration and establish Freedom Schools. Black Mississippians and over 1,000 volunteers from out of state (predominantly white), participated. They were harassed, beaten, and some even killed.
Today's CDF Freedom Schools are named after the Freedom Schools of 1964, and serve a similar purpose: "empowering children and preparing them to make a difference in themselves, their families, communities, nation and world today." (1) CDF does this through their Integrated Reading Curriculum comprised of conflict resolution and cooperative group activities associated with real life and culturally relevant literature. While being involved with CDF Freedom Schools since 2004, coming to visit Neshoba County today has brought everything in my life over the past 11 years full circle.
40 Freedom Schools (some sources say 50) emerged "with the goal to empower African Americans in Mississippi to become active citizens and agents of social change." (2) On June 21, 1964, almost 51 years to date, three men, James Chaney, Andy Goodman, and Michael Schwerner went missing after they visited a church in Neshoba County, Mississippi. They were going to visit a church that was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan because it was going to be used as a Freedom School.(3) Hate crimes were not unheard of during this time.
Shortly after arriving to Philadelphia, MS last week on the evening of June 17, my phone and Facebook kept going off as family and friends were contacting me regarding another hate crime (almost 51 years later in another part of the south) that took place in Charleston, SC that left 9 victims dead.
At a church.
By a white male.
Freedom Summer 1964 was used to empower the people to reclaim their power. The CDF Freedom Schools model is similar to that of the 1964 Freedom Schools in that democracy is power for the people by the people. Freedom Schools are a clear form of democratic education: education for the people, by the people. Now for the Institute of Democratic Education in America, it is important for us, our networks, and all who we are connected with to practice democratic education not only in school buildings, but in every aspect of life.
Last week, during IDEA's virtual Learning Breakthrough Series (LBS) gathering, we had a conversation about race, class, and their intersectionalities. I am thankful for the space we as an IDEA family have and use for these types of conversations and this type of work regardless of how hard it is. We have A LOT of work to do. The conversation made clear how much work we need to do and can do through democratic education.
IDEA is shifting. We are changing. We are growing.
How are we practicing democratic education and making the best use of our space and time? Stay tuned through our newsletters and blogs as we share different partnerships and projects we have been working on over the past few months as well as those to come.
(1) http://www.childrensdefense.org/programs/freedomschools/
(2) http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/ED_FSC.html
(3) http://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/26/50_years_later_relatives_of_slain


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EA confirms Battlefield 6 is coming in 2018; Battlefield 1 is getting Esports Mode and GOTY Edition this Fall
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CoD: Black Ops III, Fallout 4, SW: Battlefront lead November 2015's best-selling games
Not surprisingly, a trio of shooters took the top three spots in the NPD Group's recounting of November 2015's best-selling games.
Call of Duty: Black Ops III scored another big win for Activision (and the Black Ops sub-series) with its claim on the top spot. It was followed by Fallout 4 at #2 and Star Wars: Battlefront at #3. With shooters holding on to the top of the list, sports games looked in for the next four places… Madden NFL 16 (#4), NBA 2K16 (#5), FIFA 16 (#6), and Need For Speed (#7). What? I'm sure someone, somewhere, thinks of illegal street racing as a sport.
The final three spots in the NPD's November 2015 list include repeat appearances from Halo 5: Guardians (#8) and Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (#9), along with a strong Black Firday-assisted performance from Just Dance 2016 (#10).
Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, NPD's Liam Callahan confirmed that the PS4 and Xbox One are having a monster Fall: "After 25 months, the combined sales for the PS4 and the Xbox One are 47% higher than the combined sales for 25 months of PS3 and Xbox 360 hardware sales."
You can find the NPD's November 2015 top ten in handy list format after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One Tagged Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Fallout 4, FIFA 16, Halo 5: Guardians, Just Dance 2016, Madden NFL 16, NBA 2K16, Need For Speed, NPD, Star Wars: Battlefront
Nintendo Download: The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes, Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, Just Dance 2016, more
This week's Nintendo Download features a batch of scary adventures, a pair of licensed games, and a new entry in one of Nintendo's biggest franchises.
Available tomorrow for the 3DS, The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes is another multiplayer Zelda game. Taking place in the aftermath of A Link Between Worlds, players will have to guide three heroes through "inventive dungeons" as the build a "Link Totem" to solve puzzles and defeat enemies.
A pair of licensed games are also new available for the 3DS this week. Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations turns the adventurous duo into detectives, searching the Land of Ooo for strange cases to solve (sounds a bit like The X-Files with a talking dog…). 3DS players will also have the chance to download Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden this week. The anime adaptation features "bone-crushing blows" and more than 100 characters.
Over on the Wii U, players will get the chance to download three games that bring the scares just in time for Halloween. Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water brings the Camera Obscura to the console for the first time, and asks players to hunts ghosts in the haunted woods atop the mysterious Mount Hikami. Slender: The Arrival also sets much of its action in a forest as players avoid the dreaded Slenderman. Finally, Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts is a Virtual Console re-released of the Game Boy Advance remake of the classic Super NES side-scroller. That's a mouthful, so remember to keep your pants on Arthur!
Finally this week, if you'd rather dance, Ubisoft will release two new games in their long-running Just Dance series for the Wii U. Just Dance 2016 features songs from Mark Ronson, Meghan Trainor, and many others while Just Dance: Disney Party 2 lets the whole family dance along to the most popular shows and movies on the Disney Channel.
You can find more information about all of these games (and a few other new releases) after the break. (more…)
Xbox Store Today: Life Is Strange: Episode 5, Tales From the Borderlands: Episode 5, Just Dance 2016, more
Two episodic adventures will come to an end in this week's Xbox Games Store update.
Dontnod's Life Is Strange will conclude with the release of Polarized. Max finally learns about the full extent of her time travel capabilities and must make a decision that could spell the end for Arcadia Bay. Apocalyptic storms might only be the beginning. Telltale's Tales From the Borderlands is a bit more upbeat, but the conclusion to its story, The Vault of the Traveler, will likely offer up a similar amount of thrills. Rhys and Fiona are heading back to Pandora, but the promise of "sweet alien riches" is sending them on a short detour first. Life Is Strange: Polarized and Tales From the Borderlands: The Vault of the Traveler will be released for the Xbox One and Xbox 360.
Also available this week is a pair of new Just Dance games from Ubisoft. Just Dance 2016 will include 42 new songs from artists such as Meghan Trainor, Bruno Mars, The Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, Jason Derulo, and more. And a different set of dance moves will be available in Just Dance: Disney Party 2, which will include songs from Violetta, Girl Meets World, K.C. Undercover, and more. Both games will be released for the Xbox One and Xbox 360.
Finally this week, what time is it? It's time to play Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations, a crime-solving detective game, on the Xbox 360. An Xbox One version will be released at a later date.
More information about all of these games (and a few other new releases) can be found after the break. (more…)
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, Tales From the Borderlands: Episode 5, Life Is Strange: Episode 5, more added to PS Store
There's something for everyone in this week's PlayStation Store update.
The biggest new release is definitely Assassin's Creed: Syndicate for the PS4. Ubisoft's historial hack and slash series moves to Victorian London in the latest installment and brings with it all the hooliganism you'd expect from such a setting. I wonder if you can make your Assassin shout "Pip Pip!" as they marauder their way through a gang of Templars.
Ubisoft is a busy bee this week, as the publisher will also release Just Dance 2016 for the PS4 and PS3. The latest addition to the publisher's dance machine includes 42 songs from Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, and many others.
On the complete opposite spectrum from teen pop hits is Bandai Namco's Tales of Zestiria, the latest game in the popular Tales series of action RPGs. Zestiria is the first game in the series to be released for the PS4, but it'll also be available for the PS3.
Elsewhere, a pair of licensed games were added to the PlayStation Store this week, both of which revolve around puzzles. Marvel Puzzle Quest is a match-3 puzzler for the PS4 and PS3, while Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations is an adventure game with a lot of puzzle-solving elements.
Finally this week, two episodic adventures will come to an as Dontnod's Life Is Strange: Polarized and Telltale's Tales From the Borderlands: The Vault of the Traveler have both been released for the PS4 and PS3.
More information on all of these games are available after the break. And a complete rundown of this week's new game add-ons and discounts can be found at the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
New Releases: Guitar Hero Live, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Zelda: Tri Force Heroes, More
Are you ready to rock? I said… are you… Ready. To. Rock? Activision is certainly ready to rock as they've brought back the Guitar Hero franchise this week with the release of Guitar Hero Live . Scheduled for launch on the PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One in a Standard Edition and Two Guitar Bundle, Guitar Hero Live will include more than 100 songs on the disc and an ever-changing lineup of artists available through its GHTV mode.
But Guitar Hero Live isn't the only arena act looking to put on an encore this week. New entries in four of gaming's biggest franchises will soon be available in stores:
- Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (PS4 and Xbox One) brings the Templars-versus-Assassins saga to Victorian England. And you better believe that Jack the Ripper is involved (though not until the downloadable expansion).
- The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes is yet another multiplayer Zelda game, this time for the 3DS.
- Tales of Zestiria is the latest Tales game from Bandai Namco and the first to appear simultaneously on the PC, PS3, and PS4.
- Just Dance 2016 (PS3, PS4, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One) and Just Dance: Disney Party 2 (Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One) will have you beboppin' and scattin' all over your living room one more time.
Finally this week, Microsoft is releasing Halo 5: Guardians a week early if you're willing to pay extra for it (sort of). The Limited Collector's Edition includes a digital download of the game, but it won't unlock until next Tuesday, October 27. You can also spring for the 1 TB Xbox One + Halo 5: Guardians Limited Edition Bundle, which features a Halo-themed Xbox One system, along with a digital download of Halo 5 that won't unlock until next Tuesday.
A complete list of this week's new releases can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, PC, PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One Tagged Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, Guitar Hero Live, Halo 5: Guardians, Just Dance 2016, Tales of Zestiria, The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes
Ubisoft has unveiled the full tracklist from Just Dance 2016
With Just Dance 2016's launch date rapidly approaching, Ubisoft has unveiled the game's complete tracklist. The soundtrack to this year's game will include 42 soungs and you'll have plenty to dance about if you're a fan of Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, and many others.
"Each year we strive to provide our fans and their families with a better tracklist and interactive game features than the year before, and Just Dance 2016 is a true testament to that," said Geoffroy Sardin, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Ubisoft EMEA. "Now that next-gen players can use their smartphones to play the game with the Just Dance Controller App, more people than ever before can dance to songs from the artists they know and love."
Just Dance 2016's complete tracklist can be found after the break. And don't forget, the game will be released for the PS4, Wii U, Xbox One, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360 on October 20. (more…)
Ubisoft adds lip-syncing Showtime Mode and nine new tracks to Just Dance 2016
Ubisoft wants players to share their dancing with the world after they play Just Dance 2016. The new Showtime Mode will let players record themselves lip-syncing along to their favorites songs. After the song is over, Just Dance 2016 will create a shareable video for the world.
Showtime Mode will only be available on the PS4 (a PlayStation Camera is required), the Xbox One (a Kinect is required), and the Wii U (a Wii U GamePad is required, but that's standard equipment for Wii U owners):
The new Showtime mode will allow players to unleash their inner star by creating unique music videos of themselves performing. Players lip-sync and perform along to hit songs in the game and the video footage is then turned into a fun shareable music video. The music videos pull in both creative visual elements and pop cultural references— each song will have a distinctive and visually original atmosphere.
Ubisoft also announced nine new tracks for Just Dance 2016 during this week's Gamescom expo:
- Angry Birds – "Balkan Blast Remix"
- AronChupa – "I'm An Albatraoz"
- Britney Spears – "Circus"
- Ellie Goulding – "Lights"
- Iggy Azalea (Featuring Charli XCX) – "Fancy"
- The Lemon Cubes – "Boys (Summertime Love)"
- Pitbull (Featuring Chris Brown) – "Fun"
- Prince Royce – "Stuck On A Feeling"
- Shakira (Featuring El Cata) – "Rabiosa"
Just Dance 2016 will be released for the PS3, PS4, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on October 20.
Posted in News, PS3, PS4, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One Tagged Gamescom 2015, Just Dance 2016
Jason Derulo, Mark Ronson, Lady Gaga, and more will dance all night in Just Dance 2016
I've lost count of the exact number of titles in Ubisoft's Just Dance series, but like clockwork, the publisher announced another one at this year's E3 Expo. Just Dance 2016 will include more than 40 new songs when it launches on October 20, 13 of which were announced during the show:
- The Black Eyed Peas – "I Gotta Feeling"
- Buraka Som Sistema – "Hangover (BaBaBa)"
- Calvin Harris (Featuring John Newman) – "Blame"
- David Guetta (Featuring Nicki Minaj, Afrojack, and Bebe Rexha) – "Hey Mama"
- Equinox Stars – "Let's Groove"
- Hatsune Miku – "Ievan Polkka"
- Jason Derulo – "Want to Want Me"
- Lady Gaga – "Born This Way"
- Mark Ronson (Featuring Bruno Mars) – "Uptown Funk"
- Martin Garrix – "Animals"
- MAX – "Gibberish"
- Meghan Trainor – "All About That Bass"
- Rossini – "William Tell – Overture"
For the first time, players will also be able to subscribe to Just Dance Unlimited, a service that will provide access to the "best tracks" from previous Just Dance games, as well as a variety of exclusive songs. Just Dance Unlimited will launch with more than 150 songs and more will be added to the service throughout the year. The subscription service will be available only on the PS4, Wii U, and Xbox One, alongside three new game modes:
- Dance Party Mode: In the Dance Party mode, players can dance along with their friends and family in the classic rival mode or dance together to get the highest collective score as a group in the first ever co-op mode.
- Dance Quests Mode: Players can unlock dance quests for a chance to "beat the game" for the first time ever. In each quest, players will play a series of three songs for a chance to advance to the next set of dance quest challenges.
- World Video Challenge: The all-new World Video Challenge allows players to send videos of their performances to challenge friends from all around the world and dance to their scores as if they were in the same room!
Just Dance 2016 is also keeping the PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360 alive as the game will be released for those platforms in addition to the PS4, Wii U, and Xbox One this October.


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Today would be his 93rd bday. The Kennedys visited today.
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Figure Giveaway Contest
Some of you may recall that I bought two boxes of the Toy's Works Toradora figures a few months back. That was to ensure that I got the complete set since a single box isn't guaranteed to have all of the figures. Well, it turns out that both boxes had the complete set so now one of them is just lying around.
With that said, rather than throwing out the extra figures, I've decided to give them away by holding a contest. The details of the contest are below:
This will be a banner making contest for http://nopybot.comand is open to everyone. What I am looking for is a new banner for the top of my blog. The banner should be 950 x 200 pixels and include something related to my site (anime, figures, etc.). You are welcome to use any pictures that I have taken and posted on my site, but it is not necessary. Banners should also have the words "Nopy's Blog" written somewhere across it with or without the words "Anime, figures, magazines, and everything related." in a smaller font underneath.
I will be the one judging the submissions, so banners that cater to my interests will be ranked higher than those that don't. If you aren't familiar with my interests, you should take a read through some of my posts here and on ForeverGeek. Submissions that show some creativity (like making a mascot *wink wink*) will also leave a better impression on me. There is no limit to the number of submissions you can make as long as they meet the requirements.
All submissions should be sent to email@example.com and either be a jpg, bmp, or psd file. Make sure you include your nickname too so I know who to credit. By sending in your work to this email address, you are allowing me to post it on nopybot.com
The deadline for submitting your work is March 1. This should give anyone who doesn't know how to make banners enough time to learn and make one. Even if it doesn't look great, if there is only one submission, then that person would win by default. I will contact the winner by email within a week of the deadline to confirm his/her mailing address. I will ship the prize anywhere that Canada Post will ship using snail mail. If the winner wants a faster shipping method, then they will have to pay for it.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment.
EDIT: The contest is now closed and submissions will no longer be accepted.


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Top 6 is back with a new list from Kelly Landry. This time, they decided to get a little morbid on us by talking about the Top 6 medieval torture devices. Some of this shit is crazy. I knew about heating a bucket with a rat inside to burrow through someone's chest because of movies and shit, however, most of these other devices are brutal.
Add to the fact that the host is both, intelligent and hot as hell, and this video is worth watching. Maybe some of our favorite rappers can use it as inspiration. What rhymes with Brazen Bull?