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Fresh off of a huge 1-0 overtime victory on Saturday afternoon, the Washington Capitals take on the New York Rangers in game three of their best of seven first round playoff series on Monday night at 7:30 pm at Madison Square Garden (CSN, NBCSN). A win for the Caps and it is a 3-0 series lead, and for a Washington franchise that is 39 years old, it would be unchartered waters in a best of seven (the Caps did defeat the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Islanders, three games to none, in best of five first round matchups in 1984 and 1986, respectively).
This Capitals team continues to get better each game under first year head coach Adam Oates. After winning 3-1 in the first tilt, the Capitals played another very good game but thanks to the superb play of Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist (37 saves), the Caps weren't able to gain the victory until the extra session. But Washington carried much of the play in that contest and despite the Rags getting forwards Brian Boyle and Derek Dorsett back into the lineup for the first time this series, the Caps still have more depth and as a result, have been able to win the first two games. A big difference has been special teams with the Caps going for 2 for 7 with the man advantage while New York is 0 for 7. But that still leaves a ton of even strength time and if you look at the ice times of both squads, it is pretty apparent that Oates has more confidence in all of his skaters while Rangers bench boss John Tortorella relies mostly on three lines and five defensemen. The fact that Tortorella's skilled guys are playing more at even strength could be a factor in why their power play is not as effective.
But as a former Capitals assistant coach has told me repeatedly, the playoffs are all about adjustments, and you can bet that Torts will do whatever he can in his own barn to get the Rags back in the series. Madison Square Garden will be amped up and with home ice the fiery coach now has last change. Midway through game two he switched up his lines putting Rick Nash with Ryan Callahan and Derek Stepan and that line was the Rangers best. The typical matchup had that unit against the Caps second line of Mike Ribeiro, Martin Erat, and Troy Brouwer. Does that matchup continue in New York? Will Ryan Clowe be back in for the Rangers giving them another top six forward? What can Tortorella do to fix his ailing power play? Those are the easiest things that seem changeable for a Rangers club that the Caps have on the ropes. The Rangers are struggling to generate offense so does New York, which is primarily a defensive team that is coached to mostly play dump and chase, change things up and open up the game? I have a hard time seeing them try that given they haven't been practicing it all season and they would likely be playing with fire with the Capitals highly skilled top two lines.
As for Washington, even when winning, they make adjustments and that's another reason why they continue to improve. Oates' club was much better on their breakouts on Saturday and the number of giveaways and odd man rushes dropped drastically. The Capitals also seem to have the Rangers tendencies down, especially in the offensive zone. A Rags team that relies heavily on diving to block shots was burnt on the game winner as Ribeiro faked Callahan to the ice before dishing to Mike "Game Over" Green for the winner. Oates might not have any lineup changes but given his penchant for video analysis and his technical savvy, you can bet that he's given his club some things to help the team be even better.
After minimizing turnovers, which can lead to odd man rushes, another important thing for Washington to do to win in New York is to limit the ability of Rangers defensemen Michael Del Zotto to rush the puck up the ice. It was Del Zotto, along with the traded Marian Gaborik, who really hurt the Caps in last year's series loss. After Del Zotto, New York really doesn't have any guys on the blue line who are excellent puck rushers while the Capitals boast Green and John Carlson plus Jack Hillen and Steve Oleksy bring that capability, as well. It is an advantage for the Caps that their defense is more mobile.
Still, you have to play the games and it is critical that Washington doesn't get overconfident or lose focus on playing one shift at a time. Based on what I've seen from Oates, he will have his club ready to go in a hostile environment.
So will this be the year that Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals finally take a 3-0 lead in a best of seven playoff series?


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Kurt Nimmo
April 17, 2012
ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, has decided to back away from defending the Second Amendment and the right of Americans to defend themselves. ALEC made the decision after the Soros-funded liberal attack dog Color of Change intimidated a number of ALEC's corporate sponsors, including Coca-Cola Co, McDonald's, Kraft Foods Inc. and PepsiCo Inc.
Color of Change is mobilizing to defeat "stand your ground" self defense laws in a number of states following the Trayvon Martin incident. ALEC said it will concentrate on economic issues instead of championing the right of people to defend themselves.
The Soros group said ALEC's announcement does not go far enough. Corporate members should hold ALEC "accountable for the damage it has caused nationwide," said Rashad Robinson, Color of Change's executive director, according to Reuters.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has also severed ties to ALEC in recent weeks.
Peter Bella, writing for the Washington Times, said Color of Change had managed to turn "corporate public relations people into quivering gelatinous masses of jiggling glop." He characterized Color of Change as "an organization dedicated to shutting down free speech, free expression, free markets, and free enterprise. They are against capitalism and civil liberties. They want to repeal the Second Amendment, force people to be victims, and are against stopping voter fraud."
The organization was co-founded in 2005 by James Rucker and Van Jones. Rucker was director of Grassroots Mobilization for MoveOn.org, another George Soros funded political group. Jones was Special Advisor for Green Jobs in the Obama administration, a position he resigned from after it was learned that he belonged to Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, a San Francisco Bay-Area Marxist-Maoist collective.
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Corresponds to the face value of currency units, coins, and securities. An international transaction may be denominated in US dollars, for example, or in British pounds.
The face value of a security. For bonds, it is usually $1,000 ($5,000 for municipals) or multiples thereof, and for stock it is the par value.


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'It has a great screen, looks good and delivers in every way that matters. '
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'The Asus Chromebook Flip C100 takes some real risks, some more successful than others, in order to provide a premium-feeling experience for only $249 (£249 in the UK; not currently available in Australia).'
'impressive build quality'
'It helps that the Chromebook Flip is one of the smallest and lightest convertible systems around, weighing 1.96 pounds and measuring 10.6 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches. '
'the Dell Chromebook 11 Non-Touch is ideal for any grade-school classroom or for use as an affordable, everyday laptop.'
'As an everyday laptop, though, this model falls a bit short of our expectations, especially considering the achievements of its older sibling. '
'The matte finish on the keys made them comfortable to use.'
'Snappy performance'
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Program outline
Teams race against the sand filtering through an hourglass to complete a series of challenges. In the Bat Cave they must decode the hieroglyphics and unjumble the letters to discover a word which is one clue to unravelling the desert mystery. While in 'The Desert Mine", teams guide blindfolded team members to discover the jewels.
'The Desert Crossing' challenges team dynamics as they work to move all team members to the right positions across the desert. While in "Jewel in the Pyramid" all team members are required to work a grabbing arm in unison to retrieve a jewel. Teams assemble a desert puzzle and read the clues to uncover the dinosaur bones from the desert sands in 'The Dig'.
Once all challenges are complete, teams come together with all their clues uncovered from the tasks and work together to solve the final mystery which leads to some light hearted fun!
Learning and development outcomes
Skilful communication and team dynamics are required to successfully complete each of the tasks. Then once complete teams must collaborate and share their clues and employ their various skills in order to solve the ultimate mystery.


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The skills gap: Who should foot bill to prepare workers?
With unemployment numbers still high, it's surprising to hear that there are a lot of middle skill job openings going unfilled. The problem is that people looking for work don't have the skills the jobs require.
What resources do we need to train workers for these jobs? Who should foot the bill: industry or government?
Andy Van Kleunen, executive director of the National Skills Coalition, will join The Daily Circuit Wednesday to discuss closing the skills gap. Chancellor Steven Rosenstone, CEO of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, will also join the discussion.
We heard from a lot of employees who said they were willing to do the training required if their company provided it.


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Getting Django to run on Windows, with pages served by IIS, and a SQL Server backend. Assume Windows Server 2003, IIS 6 and SQL Server 2005 where no versions are specified. You should already have Windows, IIS and SQL installed and working before following this guide.
Note: This doesn't work with Django <=0.91 as the IIS extenstion is written to the APIs in Django >=0.92 [SF]
- Install Python
- Install PyISAPIe - an extension for IIS to connect Python with IIS
- Install Django and connect Django to PyISAPIe
- Install Python Win32 extensions, as they are required by...
- ADODB-API - the Python / SQL Server driver
- Configure Django to look at SQL Server
- Test, celebrate
Install Python
A simple download and install for this bit, so open http://www.python.org/ and look for "Quick Links" -> "Windows Installer" in the menu on the left. Download and run it, following the wizard steps until it is complete.
Install PyISAPIe - an ISAPI extension for IIS
There is no installer for this, so there are quite a few steps, but they aren't very complicated.
Breifly, this is an IIS extension that loads the Python interpreter into memory while IIS is running, and uses it to serve page requests - it avoids the CGI overhead of restarting Python for every request. It does mean that some Django files will be cached and you wont see changes while testing your Django site until you restart the Python process. With IIS 6 you have to right-click on the application pool running your services and select 'recycle' for changes to take. Previous versions of IIS might need the whole IIS service to be restarted.
Now on with the setup: Go to http://pyisapie.sourceforge.net/ and download it (look in the menu on the right, under "Links" for a download link). Unzip the archive so you can copy files out of it.
I will assume you've extracted it to c:\pyisapie, and are using c:\python24 as the folder where Python is installed, but please change these where necessary for your setup.
There is documentation in the readme files, but at the time of writing the install consists of:
Setting up Files
- Copy c:\pyisapie\PyISAPIe.dll to c:\python24\
- Edit the properties -> security settings on that file, add "Network Service" and tick "read" permission. (So IIS can use it).
- Go to c:\pyisapie\source\PyISAPIe\Python\ and copy the entire Http folder to c:\python24\lib\site-packages. Note: the Http folder is case sensitive. Saving in 'http' (or any other variation) will not work [SF].
Setting up IIS
You don't have to create a virtual directory - you can do this with the root folder. If you do use a virtual directory, say /myfolder, then only urls starting with /myfolder will be handled by PyISAPIe. If you use the root folder, all URLs will be handled by PyISAPIe, and you risk anything else on the site being inaccessible afterwards if you're not careful.
- Open the IIS Management Console, and create a new virtual directory, and allow executing ISAPI extensions when prompted by the wizard.
- View the properties of the new folder and click on the "configuration" button (if it's greyed out, click 'create' first), then add a new wildcard extension (the lower box), locate the pyisapie.dll file and untick the "check that file exists" box.
- In the IIS Manager, go to the "Web Service Extensions" section, and right click -> add new web service extension.
- Give it a name (it doesn't matter what), add the pyisapie.dll fill as a required file and check the box to set the extension status to allowed.
- IIS 5.x doesn't support wildcard application maps, at least not through the configuration interface. On IIS 5, the procedure is as follows:
- Right Click on virtual directory and choose "properties"
- Ensure "Execute Permissions" is set to "Scripts and Executables"
- Click "Configuration" (opposite "Scripts and Executables")
- On "App Mappings" tab, select "Add"
- For Executable, browse to pyisapie.dll (needs full path if you enter manually)
- For extension enter * (this will redirect all requests to pyisapi)
- You should probably limit the verbs allowed; I left as all since it was for internal use.
- Untick the "check that file exists" box.
- 'OK' to close all the open dialogs.
That's it installed. In c:\pyisapie\source\PyISAPIe\Python\examples folder is a file called Info.py. Copy this to your new virtual directory folder, and then try and view http://site/Info.py to test it. It should work. If it doesn't, when you find out why, please come back and explain what happened and how you fixed it. ;)
I'm not going to say what this is; if you're here, following this, then you should really know by now!
If you want to keep up with the latest Django development version, you will need to download and install a subversion client for Windows, e.g. Tortoise SVN, install it, then create a new folder somewhere. Right click on the folder, and choose "SVN Checkout". Give the URL of the repository as: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/ and click OK.)
Otherwise, just download the latest Django release from the main site, and extract the archive to a folder, e.g. c:\python24\django\.
Installing Django
Drop to a command prompt (start -> run -> "cmd" -> OK), change to your Python folder and install Django. Example:
c:\> cd python24\django c:\python24\django> python setup.py install
NB: You will probably need to do some messing around with paths and such to make this work neatly. I'm afraid I'm leaving that to you for now, because I don't have clear steps. If you know any, please put them here. Without doing that you can still test the Django install, but will need a full path to django-admin.py:
c:\> md test c:\> cd test c:\test> d:\Python24\django\django\bin\django-admin.py startproject proj c:\test> cd proj c:\test\proj> python manage.py runserver Validating models... 0 errors found. Django version 0.95 (post-magic-removal), using settings 'proj.settings' Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.
Now open a web browser, and visit the site. It should serve a neat page to you.
Linking Django to PyISAPIe
Next, you must follow the readme.txt in the PyISAPIe examples\django folder, basically copy two files into specific folders. Then edit them a bit in order to fit your needs.
- Put Isapi.py in c:\python24\lib\site-packages\Http folder. According to the example given above, you'll make the following changes to it:
# Add these two lines, and python will import DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE with no problem import sys sys.path.append(r'c:\test') # Indicate the settings module of your project os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = "proj.settings"
- Put pyisapie.py in c:\python24\lib\site-packages\Django-xyz-123.egg\django\core\handlers folder. But there's a bug in PyISAPIe v1.0.3 that prevent it from working (hopefully they'll fix it in the next release). What you have to do is to add a single line of code to the pyisapie.py file you just copied:
# ...some stuff ahead class PyISAPIeRequest(http.HttpRequest): def __init__(This): # ADD THIS LINE! This.method = Env.REQUEST_METHOD # ...and don't need to change the rest # some stuff behind...
- It doesn't seem that IIS+Python+PyISAPIe support multiple Django sites.
Serving Django with IIS
Supposed that you have successfully settled everything above, and pointed the virtual directory /myfolder to c:\test folder, we'll now make a Hello World page in Django.
- Create a file called helloworld.py in c:\test\proj folder with the following content:
from django.http import HttpResponse def index(request): return HttpResponse("Hello world!")
- Modify urls.py in c:\test\proj folder, so you get the url "dispatched":
from django.conf.urls.defaults import * urlpatterns = patterns('', # Example: # (r'^newtest/', include('proj.apps.foo.urls.foo')), (r'^.*$', 'proj.helloworld.index'), # Uncomment this for admin: # (r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')), )
You have everything you need to have Django running from IIS. Now visit http://site/myfolder/ to take a look. Notice that you don't need to manually start a Django server.
Known Issues
- On IIS 5, you have to restart the World Wide Web Publishing service in Services console for code changes to take effect. Just restarting the website in IIS Management Console has no use. Any ideas about IIS 6?
Install the PyWin32 Extensions
Just a download and install for this bit - Pick them up from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018
Install the ADO-DB-API SQL Server interface
Go to the homepage, which is http://adodbapi.sourceforge.net/ then follow the link to download the latest version.
Then extract the zip file somewhere, e.g. c:\python24\adodbapi, and run 'setup.bat' from that folder.
Configure Django to look at SQL Server
At the moment (21st Sept 2006), the Django database backend ado_mssql from SVN trunk isn't fully working. I think the patch 'diff3' attached to this Trac entry looks promising: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2358
- http://thinkhole.org/wp/2006/04/03/django-on-windows-howto/ for the Django on Windows with Postgres/Apache guide, from which I took some parts of the django-on-windows setup.


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The Northeast Conference announced its 2013-14 television package and the Central Connecticut men's basketball team will make three appearances this season, including two at home.
The first appearance for the Blue Devils comes on Saturday, Feb. 8 at home vs. Fairleigh Dickinson. The game time for this home game has been moved to 11:30 a.m., and the game will air live on MSG, Fox College Sports and Comcast SportsNet New England.
Just five days later the Blue Devils will be on the airwaves again, this time on the road. Central will travel to St. Francis Brooklyn for a 7 p.m. tip live on MSG, Fox College Sports and Cox Sports.
The third and final regular season game will take place back in Detrick Gym as the Blue Devils host Mount St. Mary's on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. on MSG, MASN, Fox College Sports and Cox Sports.
All CCSU home games and all NEC road games will also be available in HD live on www.NECFrontRow.com.
Once again this season all men's basketball games will air live on Fox Sports Radio 1410 in Hartford and ESPN Radio 1300 in New Haven. Fans can also listen online at www.FoxSportsRadio1410.com or on their mobile devices at www.iHeartRadio.com.


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We have a feeling Jonathan Ive, Apple's chief of design, may be doing quite well at work. He reportedly just paid $17 million for a house on San Francisco's Gold Coast.
Ive, Apple's senior vice president of industrial design, did negotiate a deal, though. The 7,274-square foot, six-bedroom, 8.5-bath house was listed for $25 million, so Ive did manage a hefty 32 percent discount off of the price, according to the Wall Street Journal. The 1927 brick house is built with floors, with an oak-paneled library, courtyard garden and cathedral ceilings. There's also, of course, quarters for the staff.
Ive, 45, had been living in San Francisco with his wife and children and we would guess probably in a lot less fancy digs (oh, wait, here is an alleged picture and it is a lot less fancy and a lot more concrete.) Ive couldn't be reached for comment and Apple declined to comment on the report.
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Many Faces of Venus
Venus is the closest planet to Earth, it has long remained a mystery
due to the thick clouds that completely hide its surface.
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Is a Transit of Venus?
transit of Venus occurs when the planet Venus passes directly between
Earth and the Sun. Venus appears as a black dot moving across the
surface of the Sun.
six transits of Venus occurred between 1600 and 2000, but two will
take place this century. Click
here to see the timeline.
actually passes between Earth and the Sun every 584 days. Usually
when this happens, Venus appears to us to be above or below the
Sun, because Venus's orbit is tilted slightly with respect to Earth's
very rare occasions, however, Venus lines up directly between us
and the Sun, just as the Moon does during a solar eclipse. But because
Venus covers only a tiny part of the Sun, we don't notice any change
in the Sun's brightness. Unless we knew where to look, we would
miss the transit entirely.
ages, astronomers looked for a way to measure the distance between
Earth and the Sun. In the 1700s they realized that the transit of
Venus might help them do it.
comparing the different times of the start and/or end of a transit
of Venus from various locations on Earth, astronomers could use
surveying methods to measure the distance from Earth to Venus. Since
Kepler in the 1600s had determined the relative distances among
the planets and the Sun, astronomers could use the Earth-Venus distance
to calculate the Earth-Sun distance.
Earth-Sun distance - called the astronomical unit (AU) - was a yardstick
that could measure the entire solar system. In pursuit of the AU,
astronomers began chasing the transit of Venus in earnest.
key to finding the Earth-Sun distance using the transit of Venus
was in timing the exact moment when the edge of Venus's disk appeared
to make contact with the edge of the Sun.
There were four contact points that astronomers could measure as Venus passed in front of the Sun. However, an optical trick called the black drop effect prevented astronomers from obtaining the precise time of contact.
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University of Vermont
Rev. Worthington Smith (1849 - 1855)
The corporation unanimously elected the Reverend Worthington Smith as seventh president on September 7, 1848. Smith was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, on October 11, 1795. Following graduation from Williams College in 1816, he attended Andover Theological Seminary where he was a student with John Wheeler, Joseph Torrey, and James Marsh. After he graduated from Andover in 1819, he preached for three years before being ordained at the St. Albans Congregational Church on June 4, 1823. He married Mary Little of St. Albans, and they had a family of twelve children. From 1825 he served as a trustee of both UVM and Middlebury. In 1845 the university conferred upon him an honorary degree of doctor of divinity.
President Smith was handicapped by the continuing problem of the university's shortage of funds. Initially he refused the presidency on the grounds that the $1,000 salary was insufficient to provide for a family so large and expensive as mine. After he accepted, his family remained in St. Albans, and it was his custom to return home each weekend, although he sometimes preached on Sunday in neighboring towns.
President Smith was unsuccessful when he attempted to revive the merger negotiations with Middlebury. His most important achievement was the reopening of the medical college in 1854. Celebrations held at UVM in that same year to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first graduating class reveal that 113 students were enrolled in the undergraduate college, with another 27 in the medical college. The catalogue estimated that student expenses were likely to vary from $87 to $135 a year. Tuition had risen from the original $12 to $30, but room rents were only $4 per annum and board was $2 a week. The entire faculty salary budget for President Smith, five additional professors, and one tutor was six thousand dollars. Burlington, which had experienced three decades of expansion since the opening of the Champlain-Hudson Canal in 1823, had grown to more than 7,500 people as the harbor became a distribution point for lumber and Canadian goods. Church Street was paved in stone in 1851, and gaslights arrived in 1854. Professor George W. Benedict, who had resigned from the faculty, purchased the Burlington Free Press where he served as editor for the next fifteen years.
Shortly after the semicentennial celebration, President Smith's health began to fail, and he submitted his resignation to the corporation on June 27, 1854. His health deteriorated rapidly after his retirement, and he died in St. Albans on February 13, 1856, at the age of sixty.
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Different nations handle tariff barriers differently. A country may have a single tariff system for all goods from all sources. This is called a uni-linear or single-column tariff. Another type of tariff is the general-conventional tariff. This tariff applies to all nations except those that have tariff treaties (or a convention to that effect) with a particular country. A tariff may be worked out on the basis of a tax permit, called specific duty, or as percentage of the value of the item, which is referred to as ad velorem duty. Sometimes both specific and ad valorem duty may be levied may be levied on the same item as a combined duty.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim® VR
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PS VR Game
PlayStation®VR is not for use by children under age 12.
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Highlights included keynote speeches from Dr. Richard Flynn, president of Springfield College, who offered a prescription for leadership success in campus recreation; Bruce Christopher, who took a humorous look at how men and women think, speak and make decisions differently; Theme Night at SeaWorld; and the announcement of NIRSA's new president elect, Maureen McGonagle. The conference also included educational sessions, the Career Opportunities Center and the Honor Award Banquet where Patricia Besner, University of Toledo, became the 2005 Honor Award winner.


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Sure, Digital Storm's new DaVinci workstation is designed for pros in fields like video editing, it sure looks like a rig a rich nerd would bring to a LAN party.
The DaVinci sports an Intel i7 980X and NVIDIA's Quadro graphics card, both of which are pretty top of the line. And you'll pay for it! The base config of this thing is $2,952.
Digital Storm's DAVINCI Ushers in Workstation Renaissance for Creative Professionals
Fremont, CA – (March 17, 2010) – Digital Storm, the predominant name in system integration, proudly debuts its flagship line of workstations: DAVINCI.
Digital Storm's DAVINCI workstations harness the power of Intel's new i7 980X processor, NVIDIA's Quadro graphics card and are designed to fully utilize NVIDIA's ground-breaking CUDA technology. With the DAVINCI's line of custom workstations, Digital Storm has created a platform for creative professionals' that will boosts productivity, allowing them to accomplish more in less time.
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To access the datasets and for more information you can go here: https://contribute.imdb.com/czone
Are there still plans to keep Col's promise to make more data available, preferably taking into account all the concerns raised in that thread?
Could you please elaborate?
The extended datasets are only visible to folks who have made a large number of contributions recently. Those below that threshold only see the basic datasets. Folks who have not made any contributions don't get to see either.
I hope this helps to clarify this,
Please define 'large number' and 'recently'. Apparently making the top 250 list several times doesn't qualify me: is that because my number of contributions is still too low, or because I've taken a break for while?
And why aren't the requirements mentioned either in the announcement or on the page itself (there's not even any hint that anything else might be available)?
Hi! Chris H., Official Rep
The extended datasets are only visible to folks
who have made a large number of contributions recently
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Add to Titles and Name Pages: Created: ____ Updated: ____
for the contributors to see
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Saturday, December 22, 2018
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur96700000/ 96,700,000 IMDb members
IMDb Statistics
Titles: 5,626,984
Names: 9,572,880
Released at least 1874-01-01
5,095,020 titles
Males/Females (are there Others ?)
5,119,378 names
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9480000/ 9,480,000 titles
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10327500/ 10,327,500 names
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Contributor Hall of Fame
Only lists
- Top Plot Summary Writers
- Top Mini-Bio Writers
Not Titles, Names, Reviews, and maybe Trivia, Gooofs, etc...
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bob the moo
IMDb member since Feb 2001
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1002035/reviews - 8,875 Reviews
add to :
Quick Links
Ratings ... Lists
Watchlist . Checkins
Reviews ... Poll Responses (add 'Polls Started' and put polls on a separate page)
Bios ...... Plots
bob the moo
Joined on December 21, 2012
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https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2467618/ratings - 22,220 titles
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2467618/reviews - 22,492 Reviews
I'd like answers to the questions I asked over 2 weeks ago, please.
What are the requirements for accessing the mysterious 'extended datasets'? Exactly how many contributions are there in 'a large number'? Exactly how many days/months/years ago counts as 'recently'?
But I suspect that whatever your answer, I'll be asking you to reconsider your policy on this. For my own case, I have contributed over 45,000 items to IMDb over the last 5 or 6 years (according to Col's end-of-year reports). I realise that's nowhere near as much as some, but I still consider it to be a very large number, and it was enough to get me into the top 250 contributors list three times in recent years. So I'm disappointed that you seem to be demanding more, before I can access data that wouldn't even exist without contributors like me. I'm sure I'm not the only person in this situation. For all the flaws in the old ftp-based system, at least the data was there and freely available. Why are you now so reluctant to share?
Also, why are you being so secretive about this data? I still have no idea what might be included in these 'extended datasets' and in fact I wouldn't even know that such a thing existed at all if I hadn't asked here. Neither the announcement in this thread nor the datasets page itself makes any mention whatsoever of what might be available or what mystical incantation is required to unlock it. Why is that?
So I am afraid that the answer will never come.
(And thus I hope to tease and lead the bear to come out of his den !! :D)
Jeorj Euler :
... There may have been some esoteric widespread incidents
of individuals or organizations who have not contributed much,
if anything at all, to IMDb yet built up their own websites
by siphoning off IMDb.
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IMDb could add or already has added special names that are not real
and would not be found any other place but IMDb
IMDb could then do a Giggle Search for that name
and see who is publishing IMDb data as their own ? ?
Hey! Vincent Fournols
my reply to your reply to: "IMDb could add or already has added special names that are not real"
IMDb Test Titles:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4684222/ Probably the Best Test Title Around
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2418644/ Testing Movie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3239160/ Test
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4242990/ Worldwide Title - A Test Movie (original title)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4844946/ A Test Series (2016-2019)
This title does not exist. It has been created for IMDb testing purposes only
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by J.
I have no idea what, if anything, should be done with this curious entry:
Probably the Best Test Title Around.
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by Ed Jones (XLIX)
That curious title is an IMDb Test title I believe.
Think I remember Col explaining this once.
It was made up names (nm) sequence numbers that had bogus actors on it.
Running across one of these titles or names is rare.
If anyone's interested, in the meantime my recent contributions seem to have triggered the magic formula and unlocked the extended datasets for me. Looks very promising at first glance, so I should probably be thanking you for that. But, sadly, the discussion in this thread now leaves me wondering if I'll be able to find enough time to look at the data in detail before my recent contributions are no longer recent enough and I lose access again.
just for my curiosity sake, when you say "extended set", should I understand that it is different from the 7 files proposed here: https://datasets.imdbws.com/
name.basics 170 MBSome of these duplicate the initial sets, but some (for example title.crew) contain more data than the basic sets with the same name.
name.filmography 1 GB
name.jobs 37 MB
name.quotes 14 MB
name.trivia 47 MB
title.akas 52 MB
title.basics 95 MB
title.cast 463 MB
title.certificates 5 MB
title.crew 627 MB
title.episode 19 MB
title.principals 260 MB
title.ratings 4 MB
title.releases 45 MB
title.trivia 83 MB
Yes I am aware of the duplicate of crews, which aready occurs with the .principals, both available in the initial set of 7 files.
And I also know for certain that IMDb will not disclose what triggers the access to the extended set...
Let it be!
I was not making any judgement. Any of my activity around IMDb might be considered as a hobby, so no reason to take it too seriously.
Moreover, I have worked in IT for more than 25 years and I experience every week what priorization and project management means!
The Extended Datasets are available to those who have 1000+ approved contributions in the last 360 days, otherwise the Basic Datasets are available with just one approved contribution in the last 60 days.
I hope this helps.
Would it be possible to add a note saying this to the datasets page for people who don't yet have access, so that they understand that what they're seeing isn't everything available.
I see no way to qualify as I have a wide range of interests and I'm not from the industry so getting 1000 updates in 360 days will be never possible (I only made maybe 5 updates in the last 15 years and pointed to serveral issues with broken/incomplete exports of the LIST files via the normal support pages for ~19 years).
The Java Movie Database (JMDB) application...
What should make me qualify to access the data is the fact that I'm the author of the Java Movie Database (JMDB) which is available since 19 years (first versions only to a limited set of beta testers). --> http://www.jmdb.de/
Contact details can be found on the above website.
There is no other free application I know of processing the (public) IMDb data for that long. The only thing coming close is the IMDbPY project.
While the application was originally created by two persons I'm the only one left (since 15 years).
The JMDB application allows to import/process the old LIST files (which is still the base for the search inside the application) plus the TSV files (not yet used inside the application to search).
The reason that I didn't update the code to use the TSV content inside the application beside adding support to import the data is basically because the available content is so limited, that it is actually useless.
Sorry, but there is no other (nicer) way to sum it up when it comes to the TSV file format.
This is what the people already complained about in the original thread (https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/imdb-data-now-available-in-amazon-s3).
So I would really like to see how the "complete" stuff actually looks like and if it's actually for the following reasons:
- Extend the TSV data import that JMDB supports to the full data-set (not only limited to the "free" stuff available now - which is useless)
- Making the new TSV content searchable (if it's actually worth the effort - not for details limited to 10 entries (title.principals) per movie and TOP-4 movies/titles per name (name.basics) while the old LIST format offered the full list of people involved in a title)
- Maybe offering some functionality to the professional "contributors" to use the application to send updates to the IMDb website (API available?)
As this has been under the radar here other use of the IMDb data in the past...
I also want to share that the IMDb data has been and still is (at least the frozen LIST files) used together with JMDB:
- by students/postgraduates (postdocs) from universities for data analysis, etc. (also in master thesis) as can be seen e.g. here (there are more like TU Berlin, Germany): UiO University Oslo Norway - https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF3100/v16/undervisningsmateriale/filmdatabasen-og-post... and
- it is used in computer science teaching lessons at schools as can be seen here: https://www.swisseduc.ch/informatik/120-lektionen/principles/recollection/sql-imdb.html
Finally some technical issues with the format...
There are also some technical issues I have starting with the fact that inside each of the *.tsv.gz archives the name of the file is "data.tsv".
Normally the filename of the compressed file should be equal to the file found inside the archive minus the ".gz" compressor extension (Example: "title.crew.tsv.gz" --> "title.crew.tsv").
It's broken since the beginning. I you extract all files you have downloaded into the current/same directory you end up with only one file - that was extracted from the "last" archive processed.
When the data is imported with JMDB from the compressed gzip file and you try to add foreign key constraints to the filled tables containing the data it will not work for some cases as there are references in the e.g. title.crew.tsv (person reference) that has no matching entry in the name.basics.tsv file so the relational database tells you that your data basically is incomplete. There is more of this.
Kind regards,
Juergen Ulbts
I am an academic who has used his incredibly useful JMDB tools to manipulate and organize the IMDB LIST files as part of my research. His efforts have made using those IMDB flat files much easier for people like myself whose programming skills are sub-par, and as such I think advances the mission and visibility of IMDB.
I am pretty sure the target audience of the contributor files would include individuals like myself who are interested in having comprehensive files (in my case for statistical analysis). I imagine industry folks and those more interested in following certain titles would use either the regular webpage or (in the case of industry folks) using IMDB Pro.
So my hope is that these additional files are made available to volunteers like Juergen who provide the tools which many of us use to access the raw files. I think his software is a meaningful contribution to IMDB, and it would make sense both from the perspective of advancing IMDB and also for a reward for pro-social behavior behavior to expand the definition of "contributor" to include tool-making.
What are these secret data?
I remind you that the IMDB database was created over the years with the support of millions of people around the world, without them (and even a small contribution of mine) IMDB would never have been born.
It also seems absurd and insane that to get access to the extra data you have to enter 1000 contributions a month, but even if I enter a data a day I will never succeed.
Go back, and release the database to everyone, it and public assets.
Juergen is waiting for your reply, which may never come
It also seems absurd and insane that to get access to the extra data you have to enter 1000 contributions a monthFWIW, upthread, staff member Stewart said it is 1000 contributors in the last 360 days.
- name
- name.basics
- name.filmography
- name.jobs
- name.quotes
- name.trivia
- title
- title.akas
- title.basics
- title.cast
- title.certificates
- title.crew
- title.episode
- title.principals
- title.ratings
- title.releases
- title.trivia
now IMDB has become premium (soon to be paid) with the contribution of millions of users.
Stop contributing and we'll see if they come back
now no longer, unfortunately
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LONGMONT — A man accused of kidnapping his 3-year-old son from a Longmont home on May 25 and fleeing with the boy to Canada will remain behind bars in Winnipeg until a deportation hearing that could be as soon as this Friday or as late as July 2.
Global Winnipeg reports that the Canadian Border Service Agency is awaiting investigative documents from Colorado before hearing Monty Turner's deportation case. If the courts do not get the documents by Friday, the deportation hearing will take place July 2.
According to police, Monty Turner forced his way into his estranged wife's home, shocked Brandy Turner with a stun gun and sprayed her with pepper spray. With Brandy Turner disabled, he reportedly took their son and fled, sparking an Amber Alert and nationwide search for the boy. He and the boy were found in Canada the next day.
Monty Turner's father, Ronald Turner Sr., 72, is suspected of aiding with the kidnapping. He was arrested May 26 in Missouri and remains jailed. Missouri State Patrol troopers stopped the car Ronald Turner Sr. was driving because it was listed in the Amber Alert, but he was alone in the car. They reported that the older man denied involvement but that children's toys were found with the vehicle.
Boulder prosecutor Katharina Booth said Tuesday that Ronald Turner Sr. is fighting extradition from Missouri, where he is being held on a Boulder County warrant on suspicion of complicity to commit second-degree kidnapping.
Monty Turner, 51, was arrested in Brandon, Manitoba, about 27 hours after Luke was reported missing.
FBI agents and police tracked him to the Casa Blanca Motor Lodge, and Luke was recovered safely. The manager there told a Canadian newspaper that Monty Turner was driving a truck with Missouri plates.
Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur later said the plates were not registered to the truck Monty Turner was driving but did belong to one of his family members.
Monty Turner appeared via telephone for his court hearing in Winnipeg on Tuesday afternoon. He sought a "publication ban," which would have barred Canadian media from reporting on his hearing, but his request was denied, according to Global Winnipeg. He did not seek release pending a deportation hearing, the news agency reported.
Luke had been returned to Brandy Turner in March after police recovered him from Monty Turner, who did not return from a planned camping trip with the child in July 2012. Longmont police searched for Luke and Monty Turner, ultimately tracking them to a Washington County property owned by Monty Turner's family.
At the time, the parents did not have a parenting time arrangement, so police struggled with whether a crime had been committed.
Booth said prosecutors are now investigating whether Monty Turner might face additional charges for taking the boy for months.
After police recovered the child in March and returned him to Brandy Turner, she gained full custody and a restraining order meant to keep Monty Turner from contacting them.
Monty Turner is being held on suspicion of assault, kidnapping and burglary. Police and the FBI returned Luke to Brandy Turner on May 28.
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Miracle Tali
Talofa, and welcome to my page. My name is Miracle Tali, born and raised on the island of American Samoa. I attended American Samoa Community College and received my Associates Degree in Marine Science and Liberal Arts. I'm especially interested in studying the environment, and decided to become a marine biologist. After graduating from ASCC, I applied and was accepted to attend a Summer Research Program for Minority Undergraduates here at the University of Connecticut for ten weeks.
I was chosen to do research at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in Dr Louise Lewis' lab along with her two graduate students. My research is based on "Characterizing Green Algae in Desert Biotic Crusts". The goal of my research is to compare the species of desert green algae from North America with those from another geographic location in South Africa. I am to determine if desert green algae on different continents are similar or if they represent very different types/species. To understand my project better, I joined a weekly journal club where we read and discuss papers on several relevant topics of green algae, desert crusts, biodiversity etc… My experience at the University of Connecticut has taught me more than I could have ever imagined. This Summer Research Program has not only been one of the best experiences of my collegiate career, it has been the best experience of my life. I amount of information I have learned at the University of Connecticut is immeasurable. And without these people I wouldn't get the chance to have such great experience, be able to learn new things and meeting new people. Therefore, I would like to acknowledge the following: Dr. Ruth Washington, and Dr. Lee Aggison (Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology) for accepting me into their program, and be able to provide me with all my necessary needs; Dr. Louise Lewis - Molly and Karolina (Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) for allowing me to work in her lab with the help of her two graduate students. Thank you so much!!! And as well as the NEA and NSF for financial support. It was a pleasure to be here and meeting you all. Thank you all for the time that you spare for me, the lessons that I have learnt, but most of all this once in a lifetime experience that I will never forget. God Bless…
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire 100 years ago Friday helped bring about workplace protections, and it provided impetus to the emerging US labor union movement.
Francis Perkins, who witnessed the blaze that killed 146 garment workers – most of them immigrant women – and who later became Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of Labor, called it "the day the New Deal began." It was during this era that the National Labor Relations Act began prohibiting unfair labor practices.
Meanwhile, labor unions – sometimes in violent confrontation with mill and mine owners – organized into powerful political forces, changing the way of work across the country (bringing a two-day weekend, for example) and spreading to service sectors of the economy and to government bureaucracies.
As the major union-management confrontations subsided – one notable exception being air-traffic controllers early in the Reagan administration – the public grew generally supportive of labor unions.
As the economy faltered, union support waned
But in recent years, and as the economy has faltered, unions have lost public support.
"In 2009, Gallup found union approval dropping to 48 percent, an all-time low in its series dating back to the 1930s," writes Jodie Allen of the Pew Research Center in an analysis this week.
In a survey in February, Pew found that most Americans still see unions having a positive effect on salaries, benefits, and working conditions. But the survey also found people divided on whether unions have a positive or negative effect on workplace productivity (34 to 30 percent) or whether they increase the availability of good jobs (32 to 33 percent).
"Most tellingly … the survey found only 45 percent expressing an overall favorable view of labor unions – close to the lowest level in a quarter century – while 41 percent held an unfavorable view," writes Allen.
These days, public and political focus has been on public employee unions.
It's not just their numbers – government employees are more than twice as likely to be union members than are private sector workers, 35 to 13 percent, according to the Gallup polling organization. It's that they've been targeted as the cause of state financial woes by Republican governors such as Scott Walker in Wisconsin and Chris Christie in New Jersey.
Partisan divide over collective bargaining
Fights there and in other states over public employee unions – especially regarding collective bargaining – has become very partisan, Gallup finds.
"These differences are large," Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport wrote recently. "Last year, 71 percent of Democrats nationally approved of labor unions, compared to 49 percent of independents, and just 34 percent of Republicans."
"Gallup tracking data also show that the partisan composition of the union member population skews considerably more Democratic than non-union members or than the population in general," Newport adds.
That same partisan divide is seen in public perceptions about the collective-bargaining fight in Wisconsin.
According to a Quinnipiac University survey earlier this month, 45 percent of respondents said they would support limiting collective bargaining to save state governments money. Forty-two percent said they would oppose curbing such rights.
But the split between Republicans and Democrats polled by Quinnipiac University was much wider. Fifty-nine percent of those who identified themselves as Republicans supported union limits, while only 33 percent of Democrats did.
Public more supportive of Wisconsin public employees
Governor Walker has become a highly controversial figure in Wisconsin and around the country – inflammatory, say his critics. So it may not be surprising that in his case, the public has been more supportive of state workers facing an end to collective-bargaining rights than it has of Walker's position – 42 to 32 percent, according to Pew, and 61 to 33 percent in a USA Today/Gallup poll.
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Whitey Hagadorn of Amherst College led an interdisciplinary and international team of scientists that isolated 162 of the most well-preserved specimens. Each showed evidence of an intact fertilization envelope--the surrounding membrane that kept the dividing cells together--as a change in the encompassing rock. "Compositional variation tends to correspond to fossil boundaries," Hagadorn notes. "The embryos are intact. They are not deflated or deformed." This provides strong evidence that the embryos have not been influenced by either the decay associated with death or subsequent geologic processes. Using x-ray computed tomography as well as scanning and transmission electron microscopy, the scientists then peered inside these ancient animals and created three-dimensional models of their innards.
The models revealed intricate structures inside the cells, including a lack of stiff cell walls as are typical in the fossilized remnants of fungi and algae. "The cell membranes of the embryos are a lot more flexible," explains Shuhai Xiao, a geologist at Virginia Tech and a team member, also noting that embryos fossilized in the act of division show no increase in volume. "Putting all this evidence together, it suggests these embryos have some animal features and are probably allied with animals closer than anything else." And these oldest animal embryos already show some of the hallmarks of animal embryo development, such as cells dividing at different rates and specialized internal structures. "These old-time embryos also had membrane-bound vesicles inside them containing things that would be used in development," says team member Rudolf Raff, an evolutionary development biologist at Indiana University. "Furthermore, the fact that some of the cells are not dividing at the same rate as other cells looks like many kinds of living embryos." Such asynchronous cell division allows modern animals to relatively quickly create specialized cells for different organs, such as the gut or skin.
But the embryos also show their age, lacking structures such as skin, or epithelium cells common among even the most primitive animals, such as sponges. In another example, even the largest fossilized embryos found lacked a blastocoel, a fluid-filled hole in the embryo's center that is common to most living animal embryos. "Either these embryos are primitive and don't have a clear blastocoel, or a blastocoel existed but didn't survive the preservation process," Raff notes. And despite the astonishing similarity to modern embryos, the possibility remains that geologic processes could have resulted in rock formations that simply mimic the shape of animal embryos. "In the Cambrian time [roughly 542 million years ago] we have better evidence, the preservation style is broadly similar," Xiao says. "Preservation and morphology are similar and that makes us confident it's not diagenetic."
Although the scientists are reasonably sure the fossilized embryos are real, according to the paper presenting the research in the October 13 issue of Science, they have no idea what kind of animals these embryos represent. "What we think we have is a relatively primitive stem group metazoan," Hagadorn says. "But the next obvious question is not just what these embryos are but how many different kinds of animals are represented. We're trying to distinguish between soccer balls and volleyballs." That process would be helped immensely by finding fossils of the juvenile stages of these creatures, as is more common in the Cambrian era. "Getting larvae, which would be a dead giveaway, is hard because they don't seem to preserve very well," Raff laments. Then again, ancient embryos are not common either.


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Jennifer Klugh is a first team Capital One Academic All-District III Women's Track/Cross Country selection.
2013 Capital One Academic All-District Women's Track/Cross Country Release Liberty redshirt senior Jennifer Klugh was honored today as a first team Capital One Academic All-District III Women's Track/Cross Country selection, as voted upon by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). As a result of her inclusion on the academic all-district team, Klugh will now appear on the ballot for the 2013 Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Women's Track/Cross Country Team, which will be announced on June 27. Klugh is Liberty's first Capital One Academic All-District selection for women's track/cross country since 2010. That year, current assistant coach Rebekah Ricksecker was a second team academic all-district honoree. A native of Centerburg, Ohio, Klugh graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics with teacher licensure in May 2012, maintaining a 3.40 undergraduate GPA. She then graduated with her master's degree in secondary education earlier this month, finishing with a 4.0 GPA during her graduate studies. Last month, Klugh was named the 2013 Rock Royer/Mac Rivera Award winner, garnering Liberty's highest athletics honor. She has also earned numerous academic honors during her career, including six appearances on the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team, three Big South All-Academic Team honors and four Big South Presidential Honor Roll notations. Klugh was voted the Big South Scholar-Athlete of the Year for 2010 women's cross country and earned a spot on the 2011 VaSID Academic All-State Team. Klugh wrapped up her collegiate athletic career in style this past fall, qualifying for the 2012 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championship. She became the first Lady Flame to reach the NCAA meet in cross country since Heather Sagan in 2001. Klugh finished as a 10-time Big South individual champion and an 18-time All-Big South honoree, including cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field. She owns four school records, the cross country 5K (17:18.72) and 6K (20:35.78) and the indoor track 3K (9:44.62) and 5K (16:48.32). The indoor 5K mark is also a Big South Conference record. The Buckeye State native was a three-time Big South Women's Cross Country Runner of the Year, a two-time Big South Women's Outstanding Track Performer and a 12-time Big South Athlete of the Week.
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Now that I've received a good amount of interest here and elsewhere, I've decided to set the deadline. I'd like to try at an end of October release date.
Please read the following post: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/v ... 5#p1465895
New Deadline: November 20th
Complete, visit the announcement thread: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/v ... 3&t=112030
Submission Rules:
The Theme:
This MEP will feature AMVs which include the Psychopaths found in anime, or those who may seem to be violently Psychotic.
The main focus is on the heartless, violent, emotionless monsters who call themselves human and the atrocious acts they perform.
This may include any who kill without discretion.
Although this is not a comedy MEP, a humor oriented clip may be accepted, as long as it's "Dark Humor".
In other words, something you know you shouldn't laugh at and yet do.
Any amount of blood and gore is allowed. Even non-explicit nudity is allowed. Other than hentai, anything goes and should be fine.
I don't want to put any specific length restrictions, so as to limit creativity. But the majority of clips will likely be under 1:00min.
So try your best to at least keep it under 1:30 and to keep it interesting. No one likes an AMV that drags on.
Ideally your video should be 640x480 for fullscreen or 848x480 for widescreen and should be 23.976 fps Progressive.
The preferred method of compression is a "Huffy", "Lagarith" or "UtVideo" lossless AVI, with an uncompressed WAV as the audio.
Although, an h.264 MP4 with 320kbps MP3 or AAC may also be accepted. In this case, I highly suggest compressing it with Zarx264gui.
If you submit a clip that doesn't meet these guidelines, I'll do my best to work with it still.
But as long as you check the render settings in your editing program, you should be able to meet these specs.
Your video should be as high quality as possible, while still meeting the specifications above.
Unless subtitles are "intentional" and "necessary", they should not be present in your video.
No form of a watermark will be allowed. Although if you properly crop the watermark off, and it doesn't detract from the video to much, it should be acceptable.
Uploading Your Video:
Preffered methods of upload.
1. Dropbox
How To Upload:
How To Upload:
Considering each host has their own limitations and download limits, including expiration on how long files stay hosted.
Submiting Your Video:
Fill out the form located here: AMV Psychopathy Entry Form
It's suggested that you register an account, so you can check back on any feedback you may get from myself or one of the other judges.
And so you may also reply to any questions or concerns of the other judges.
If you choose to fill out the form as a guest, make sure to leave a contact email address.
In this case you will simply receive a message by email as to whether it was accepted or any needed modifications.
You will not receive any critique or opinions given from the other judges. Although, their opinion will effect the result of whether the video is accepted.
Question? Post it below and I'll respond as soon as possible.


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This week there will be some renovations made to our Town Hall to provide additional customer service to our residents. Our goal is to make every visit to Town Hall helpful, efficient and effective. Our Town Hall is actually owned by the Beaufort County School District and we pay $1-a-year lease.
We are moving our offices that are currently in rented space to buildings that the town owns. A "one stop permit customer service center" will be established in the entry to Town Hall. Three new customer service windows will be added in the foyer that will allow citizens to conveniently sit and talk with staff, complete applications or obtain other information.
General information, business license, building permit, planning, and municipal court representatives will be available to assist customers with more ease and accessibility. With this new installation, customers will be able to conduct about 90 percent of town business at this one location.
In addition to the customer service center, minor renovations will be made to the remainder of the building to accommodate staff. The Building Safety Department will relocate from leased space at 181 Bluffton Road to Town Hall by Wednesday, July 29, saving the town $4,209 per month in rent. With this move, all town operations will be out of costly leased spaces.
Renovations will continue during the evening hours through next week and on the weekends. Town Hall will be closed Friday, July 1, so that renovations can be completed over the long holiday weekend.
Lastly, the parking areas on the east and west ends of Town Hall will be improved for more efficient parking. The project is expected to be completed by the beginning of August.
By the time you read this we will all be getting ready for the Fourth of July holiday. Please be safe and enjoy the holiday with family and friends. Happy Fourth.
If you ever have questions about our wonderful town, don't hesitate to contact Town Hall at 706-4500 or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com


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3-Step Trick Reverses Diabetes in 11 Day
Here's something weird:
The latest breakthrough in fat-loss just came from the diabetes world:
It turns out... a scientifically proven, at-home method to lower your blood sugar is also a fat-loss shortcut.
Dr. Taylor is a professor of metabolism and nutrition at Newcastle University. He discovered a simple method to lower blood sugar and reverse Type 2 Diabetes in as quickly as 11 days.
But his research is helping more than just diabetics...
People all over the world are using his at-home method to lower their blood sugar and lose up to 14 pounds in 11 days.
Follow this link to find out:
>>>Try out Dr. Taylor's method to lower blood sugar and burn fat rapidly
Here's why it works:
High blood sugar isn't just a problem for diabetics. It's a problem for anyone who wants to lose weight. Because when your blood sugar levels are high, your body goes into "fat-storage" mode,
converting that extra sugar into belly fat and thigh flab.
But when you lower your blood sugar, it's like turning down a fat thermostat. Your body goes into "fat-burning" mode, turning that belly fat and thigh flab into pure energy...
...and leaving you with a body that turns heads.
The whole thing makes sense if you think about it. We all know grapefruit is a fantastic fat-burning food. But did you know the reason it boosts your metabolism and burns fat is because it lowers
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>>>Try out Dr. Taylor's method to Switch on Your Fat Burning Mode
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>Behind the Scenes>Where the heck am I?
The programmers amongst us might ask why the heck would I write my own when I can use existing software packages. The same can be asked of this site: why would I write my own when there are existing training logs? I do acknowledge that I'm reinventing the wheel, but I like to think that my wheel's a little rounder, produces a little less road noise, and handles a little better in the snow.
Everything about this site is a learning process for me. It will always be a work in progress. I am a computer programmer, and writing software is what I do. I learn something new every time I add a new feature to the site. By writing my own program to download GPS data, I learned a little about USB programming, and that makes me a little more valuable as a programmer. Besides, I'm enjoying it so why not?
When it's all said and done, will you have said more than you've done?
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The Logic of Long Distance
Physicist Richard Feynman once said, "VO2Max and five bucks will get you a cup of joe at Starbucks."
Professional Noob
Roads were made for journeys...
Imminent Catastrophe
"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"
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"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.
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Western States 100 June 2016
Country Fried
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
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I'm sure you've heard of this place. It has figured prominently in numerous cinematic features by Toho studios. But in those films it is always portrayed as a desolate island, overrun by monsters.
I must admit, when my pal Shu told me that Monster Island was more than just a fictional land populated by men in ill-fitting rubber costumes, I was in disbelief. He sent me some literature on the accommodations there and I was convinced.
Although Monster Island is a real place, the proprietors do not want the location to become too well known, fearing that they would then be overrun by the greatest monster of all: man. So my trip there was planned in secret and I had to remain blindfolded during my flight.
But it was all worth it, Monster Island was the best vacation I've ever had. Being able to walk up to a 20 foot high bug was just about the coolest thing in the world. I thought the giant ape and other "Monsters" on the island would be in cages, or inaccessible, but they are quite friendly and accessible.
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Damian Lewis gives drama school masterclass
The British actor, who has won both an Emmy and Golden Globe award for his role in the hit TV show, learned his craft at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London and he returned to the institution on Monday (21Jan13).
Lewis gave a masterclass on TV acting to students at the school, showing them how to perform for the cameras and teaching them tricks and techniques to get ahead on the small screen.
The actor studied at the college from 1990 to 1993 and other former students include Daniel Craig, Joseph Fiennes and Ewan McGregor.