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M I A in Austin???
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- robotmeister Jan 31, 2007 08:19 AM
Where can I get:
Classic Mexican food? (not Tex-Mex or Sonoran)
Authentic Carnitas? (Red Robin has them but they're rather bland)
Really great bakery?
Best eggs benedict?
Classic breakfast food? (Not Migas or anything stuffed in a tortilla)
Best fish tacos?
Bakery... depends on what you want. Oddly enough, the best bagels I've found in town are at Randalls (I go to the one at Brodie and Slaughter). I have tried every place in this town looking for a good bagel and those are the best around here IMHO. My husband's from NYC and they are the only ones he willingly eats in town.
For other things, it depends... I think Central Market makes a pretty good loaf of bread to make french toast with, but their cookies are lousy. Quack's makes a better cookie (many of the Whole Foods cookies used to come from Quacks... don't know if they still do), but I'm not impressed with alot of their stuff.
Classic breakfast food: I agree, this place has issues with good breakfast food. There is Kirby and Magnolia, but they are always busy. I went to the new Village Inn in South Austin recently, and they do a decent breakfast and I was far more impressed than I thought I would be. My general standby for solid breakfast fare is Jim's(south location... I can't speak for the others). However, Jim's on Saturday and Sunday mornings is different than Jim's on other days. On Sat/Sun AM, the crews working there have probably been there for 20 years minimal. Those are prime time shifts. The average age of a waitress on those shifts is probably 45. Consequently, the service generally rocks. I've eaten there at other times, and I have to say, the quality is much better on those shifts than other times (think W/Th/F evenings). I am also partial to Galaxy for a good breakfast. They aren't as classic as the other places, but respectable and very accomodating.
Fish Tacos: best I've eaten in Austin are at El Chile. I've gotten a bit bored with El Chile's menu but I really like their fish tacos.
re: shan
re: bagels
I do find Randalls bagels passable but lacking in moisture and chewyness. I usually grab a few at central market (hot jumbo bagel?).
Second choice is surprisingly, the bagels at Fiesta. Don't discount the Fiesta bakery either, I love their pan frances, much lighter than CM's baguette, which I find a bit too dense.
and they offer quite a variety of breads in addition to the mexican specialties.
Fave fish taco's are Polvos, but only if you are a serious garlic lover!
re: shan
Depends what you want in a bakery, because I worked in an amazing bakery when I was 16 and no danish or donut in this town comes close to the late Butterflake in NH. BUT if it is bars you seek, like lemon bars or toffee bars, you must run and not walk to MadCakes on Spicewood next to Triumph Cafe. And I agree Sweetish Hill is good for breads. The best biscuits in town for my money come from Cipollina. And Upper Crust has good scones. Any one have a rec for really good donuts, muffins or danishes?
re: kirelerya
For donuts we have an old-school heavy hitter:Mrs Johnson's on Airport...ol Mrs Johnson comes hobbling in there every afternoon and fires up the fryers and starts rolling dough...as she's done for most of her 87 years....ok,not really but they do have great donuts and they are open all night long.
re: scrumptiouschef
I have started going to Mrs. Johnson's and their donuts rock. I have never, ever been a cake donut fan because they are always greasy, cold, dense rocks. However, they are now my favorite donuts there...I even tried a non-glazed cake donut there earlier in the week and thought it was fantastic. They are crispy on the outside, and soft on the inside.
All of their donuts we've tried are fantastic, but be sure to ask if they are fresh because the day old ones aren't as good.
re: shan
Bagels in Austin? No, there are not...Not baked here. Just round bread with holes in it. Try the frozen H&H bagels (from NYC) found in the Central Market frozen food section.
Breakfast, nope, none to be found. Magnolia? Kerby? So sad....
Try Taqueria Arandas on S 1st. Nice eggs with beans and papas for under $3.00 before 11a, about $3.35 after 11a. Nicely cooked sunnyside-up...We now have a Galaxy in Clarksville. One choice of eggs - scrambled. Enough said...But, their burger is good.
re: AustinBear
I like the breakfast at East Side cafe, but am rarely willing to wait for a table. Also, a good and vastly underrated place is Azul on E. Cesar Chavez. It's one of the few breakfast places that doesn't have a 30 minute wait on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
re: karrieleague
As for East Side, call merely one hour in advance and you'll rarely wait. This is one of the few places that books minor reservations (less than a party of 8) on short notice.
In addition to a slick reservation for noon (booked at eleven), their fresh specials are honest-to-god fresh, not just stuff they're trying to get rid of.
re: karrieleague
I completely second the East Side Cafe. Lived down the road there in Hyde Park for a while, and they were a real standout whether we wanted breakfast, lunch or dinner. Tom's bang on target about calling ahead, too.
If you like eggs benedict, they won't disappoint - the eggs are cooked perfectly, and the hollandaise is rich, creamy and created from scratch. Herbs straight from their garden round out the fresh deliciousness. They also offer the variant with smoked salmon instead of ham, but I forget what they call it. I want to say eggs franciscan, but I'm not sure that's right. It's very good though, whatever it's called.
If you do end up having a bit of a wait for a table, go take a stroll around the garden and see what you're going to be eating in a little while!
East Side Cafe
2113 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722
re: Rowlock
They just call it the "Smoked Salmon Benedict".
I had it recently and can confirm that it truly satisfies.
I'm in the Foodservice Equipment Mfg business and I avoid eating at chains(especially for breakfast), unless they are independent. I like my eggs fresh, with bright orange yolks; my ham to come from a hog; my bagels dense and chewy; my Hollandaise sauce made from scratch and no grits, ever! I'm a purist...
re: robotmeister
I like a more tricked-out breakfast than you, so this might not be your cup of tea, but...
I really like Eastside Cafe's weekend brunch. Everything there is pretty good. My standard play is to split the baked brie w/ apple chutney, then get the smoked salmon benedict. The Hollandaise sauce that comes with it is delicious and fresh. I trade away the sides that come with it for bacon; in my opinion, Eastside makes the best slice of bacon in town.
The wine list there is also a treat, although that normally doesn't come in to play at breakfast.
re: tom in austin
I went to Eastside this weekend and had the smoked salmon benedict. I really wanted to like it, but it was just okay. The Hollandaise was good, but I thought it was somewhat boring as an entire composed dish. Maybe I just wanted some stronger flavors. I got the bacon too. It was good with a nice smoke flavor, but a bit fatty. Eastside is definitely better than Hoover's across the street, but I think I may stick with their lunch and dinner menu.
re: shan
Shan: Bummer! The flavor combinations for me are usually pretty ideal, capped by a perfectly poached egg. About one out of every ten times, I'll get overly fatty bacon, or imperfectly cooked bacon. In general, I find their brunch to be superior to their dinner.
Robotmeister: Eastside Cafe is on Manor road. Information available on their website:
re: robotmeister
Being a newby here, where is the Eastside Cafe and what are their hours? Do the serve breakfast 7 days a week?
re: robotmeister
Was going along with you all the way until you got to the grits....grits are forever in my books! Bring 'em on.
for non tex-mex mexican i like tacqueria arandas (cheap) or fonda san miguel (expensive)
i'm not sure what authentic carnitas are, but the carnitas at Angie's are divine.
there is no bakery in town i'm absolutely in love with but i like Uppercrust for cakes, Texas French Bread for ciabatta and ginger snaps (and turkey sandwiches!)
i've not eaten a lot of eggs benedict, but Y Bar and Ranch in Oak Hill has delicious lobster eggs benedict and one with salmon. they also serve a classic one.
i like omelettry for classic breakfast in normal sized portions (nothing is bigger than your face which is rare to find these days). for a treat i like the chocolate chip pancakes with no syrup, just lots of butter.
guero's has my favorite fish tacos in town.
re: yimay
Angies has carnitas? Yum! Where is the Omelettery? We live in the Hill Country...a barren place for foodies. We do like the Y Bar & Grill and Flores on Wm. Cannon @ 290 W has a pretty decent spicy salsa. We have not been to Fonda San Miguel yet (we're newbies) I grew up in So. CA and learned what good Mexican and Asian food tastes like.
re: robotmeister
Angie's Carnitas are phenomenal...Highly, HIGHLY recommended!
re: robotmeister
Omelettry is on Burnet I believe...
Regarding an Austin bakery - there's two I like. Russell's on Hancock west of Mopac and Upper Crust at 45th and Burnet (mentioned above). Of course, this partially depends on what type of baked goods you're looking for - Upper Crust has really good breads, cakes and pastries, Russell's concentrates more on pastries and cakes (they do wedding cakes as well - including the one at my wedding), but also bake bread for their lunch service. Russell's baked apple fritter is probably my favorite pastry indulgence in town - it's really good.
I had breakfast on Sunday at Austin Diner on North Burnet. I t was very good, and the home fries were the best I've ever had. They actually tasted like potatoes and were well seasoned. It may have been a one time thing, but I'll find out soon enough when I go back.
I too am on a quest for the best eggs benedict (other than at my house - add wine merchant sauce as a layer...mmmmm).
So far, the best one I ever had was at Gumbo's Sunday brunch, but they stopped the brunch. Bummer.
North by Northwest does a version with a crabcake. When it's on, it's really quite yummy. When it'f off, lackluster at best.
Congress Street Cafe has two versions on their Sunday brunch, but I'm sorry to say I have yet to try them.
Kerby Lane's are a sad story.
Eastside Cafe's sounds interesting...
My biggest complaint with getting Eggs Benedict out is that no matter how much you insist you want the yokes soft boiled (just where the whites are white and the yellow is warm, thank you very much), the bugger always comes out hard boiled.
re: amysuehere
amysue, tell me about this wine merchant sauce - I, too have been craving eggs benedict and plan on begging my S.O. to make them for me this weekend.
The best Eggs Benedict I've had in an Austin restaurant is at Eastside cafe. (The regular kind is much better than the smoked salmon, in my opinion).
I was recently looking over the Four Seasons' brunch menu, and they appear to have E.B. as well -- if you can splurge, I'll bet they're divine.
-- and it was SO much better than the Smoked Salmon that we were delighted they made a mistake.
re: catarata
Speaking of Four Seasons, you reminded me that the Mansion at Judge's Hill also has several versions of eggs benedict AND I have a $150 gift certificate. hmmm....
re: amysuehere
I wouldn't advise brunch at the Mansion, unless you are looking to gamble away your 150 bucks.
re: txtoddy
? What would you suggest I do with the $150 gift certificate.
amysue, that sounds delicious. I'll have to try to save some red wine to make it with (always easier said than done!)
$150 gift certificate! Wow, that's fun. I hope whatever you get there is good, I think that place is SO cute, but it seems to be having some problems (they've gone through 3 chefs I think?) The one time we went there, some things were really good, but some were not, and the service was so bad that it still makes me laugh to think about it. Our poor waiter was so flustered that he ran away in the middle of dinner (Literally! This was after he brought the wrong wine, then broke the cork in the wine, spilled the wine, and brought us the wrong apps...)
Maybe the waiters are more together (sober?) at breakfast?
re: catarata
holy-moly! he actaully ran out of the restaurant?! What a disaster. I hope they comped your meal. We had one of those type meals at North by Northwest once. We still talk about it. What did you like? What didn't you? I suspect we'll go to brunch with some friends, but just in case we decide to go for dinner...
re: amysuehere
I just looked at their menu and it is COMPLETELY different from when I went. The menu used to be divided into Air, Land, and Sea categories - and now it's a more traditional first, second, and third course-style menu. The brunch looks really good I will cross my fingers for you that it is!
bakery: sweetish hill, love it.
the bake house on manchaca actually does a decent job of breakfast food. it's an authentic diner.
I think the Bakehouse on Manchaca does great truckers' breakfasts--bacon and eggs, potatos, grits etc. The basics, but ample and good. It helps if you like your classic American breakfast a bit on the greasy side. Whole Foods bakery has, in my opinion, the best fresh breads in town, but for other stuff I'd go to Sweetish Hill on West 6th.
For fish tacos, I'd suggest:
Wahoo's (Cal-Mex, cheap, can be ordered blanckened)
Z'Tejas (Catfish + cabbage/carrot mix)
Roaring Fork (Fried, delicious, cheap during happy hour)
Berryhill Baja Grill (Houston chain w/ location on 360, fried or grilled, generous portions)
For classic (more interior) Mexican, the fallback expensive choice is Fonda San Miguel.
For a similar idea at much lower prices, try Manuel's on Congress Ave or El Chile on the East Side. Chango's (owned by Manuel's) also does fast-food style interior Mex (like tacos al pastor on freshly made corn tortillas) that is quite good for the low price.
For straight up breakfast I recommend the Nighthawk on Burnet. Sometimes Austin's Diner can pull together a good breakfast special. The Omlettetry is hit or miss...more often miss - they overload their omlettes and drown things in queso. Kirby, Magnolia, and Starseeds are in my unpopular opinion barely edible drunk college kid food.
Bakery recs: Mi Victoria on Burnet - also has pretty good tacos and prefectly reasonable salsa. The other bakery is a Mexcian bakery on South First next to Polvo's.
I'm a big fan of Polvo's. I always gorge myself like some kind of monstrous reptile when I eat there. Not proud, just saying.
re: hooliganyouth
hooliganyouth, what do you order at Nighthawk?
re: cstrombe
I highly recommend Cafe Java as well for breakfast. They are very reasonably priced and local and also homey. Their prices won't break your bank and unlike some other more well-known places, you won't be waiting an hour to eat either. I heard that they opened up another location in Round Rock besides the location that I'm familiar with on Metric Blvd.
regarding breakfast, i think old pecan street cafe on 6th has a good weekend brunch. the bread you get there is amazing too!
At the El Dorado grocery store on Airport, just north of 51st, there's a taco bar where I found excellent carnitas. The sign says that the taco bar is operated by El Meson, which is a restaurant on Burleson road that serves excellent and authentic Mexican food. The tingas (shredded picante chicken) were also nice.
re: Vgracewing
Tequila Azul has homey, not Tex Mexy mexican food. I get the albondigas
El Meson had carnitas on special today. Delicious. I ordered a carnitas taco and enjoyed it beside my usual pipian. (For those who haven't had the El Meson pipian, you are missing out.)
The carnitas was delicious. Thick, heavy, with subtle flavoring -- not bland, but takes a couple bites to get into it.
I also ordered a side of shredded cheese to throw on the second half of the taco (do it up Angie's style, so to speak). I felt that the carnitas was enhanced by the cheese.
Classic Mexican - I agree with Polvos
Carnitas - there is a mexican store called El mercado spread through out the city, and you can't really eat there, but their carnitas, cabeza, and lengua are all great.
Great bakery - my favorite is a mexican bakery called joe's bakery on east 5th (nopalitas are also great here for vegetarian breakfast tacos)
Fish tacos - Mariscos seafood grill on burnet. Also has the best ceviche. Nothing creative just classic mexican seafood rest.
I'm not big believer in purist breakfast items since I'm always eating breakfast on the run and I'm not a big believer in bakeries and eggs benedict, however:
I really love Cura's for good Mexican although it can be off at times. Polvos is usually the winner for me though.
Best fish tacos imho are over at Taco Deli. Their mojo fish tacos are just too good for words. Be prepared for long lines if you there for lunch.
Best wishes on your search.
Once again, Enoteca to the rescue for egg Benedict. They have sort of an Italian version that was very good, and, amysuehere, hear this, the eggs were perfectly cooked. I would advise getting the Hollendaise on the side as it was pretty rich and got nauseating before I finished.(just me maybe)
re: singlemalt
Enoteca? Really? It'll be hard to get the hubbers to go back, we had such a miserable experience there before but I'll give it the ole college try. What do they do to make it "Italian"? Maybe if I entice him with a description...
re: amysuehere
Eggs B== instead of English muffin they use It. style bread and for meat use prosciutto. The eggs were done perfectly for my taste.
re: singlemalt
Hoover's used to have an eggs benedict with a jalapeno cream spinach hollandaise sauce, but it wasn't on the menu when I was there a couple of weeks ago.
re: singlemalt
Finally got to Enoteca for brunch. Don't want to slam a place I like too much, but basically: disgusting.
Would have rather gone to Magnolia or Kerbey Lane. Gah. Gimme a time machine and I'll take that meal back.
The strengths that folks on this thread are hailing aren't legit. The bread they replace the english muffin with is borderline wartime atrocity for the job it has been tasked for; moreover, that is just the start.
Bail. Out. Now.


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The vintage toy head needs some improvement, but I don't want a 200x head on a vintage-styled body. It looked fine on the staction, but a heavy vintage-influenced head is a must for me for this line.
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The vintage toy head needs some improvement, but I don't want a 200x head on a vintage-styled body. It looked fine on the staction, but a heavy vintage-influenced head is a must for me for this line.
This is one where they should pack two heads.
In a perfect world, I would want Sssqueeze to be like this:
1) A direct translation of the vintage figure's design (head, armor, etc.).
2) He would have two sets of arms; regular and stretched arms that can swap
3) he'd have two sets of hands; regular and snake heads that can swap on the stretched arms
4) his gun is a mechanical weapon, not a pet
In a perfect world he would have bendy arms but alas we do not live in a perfect world :hmwink:. But seriously if he ends up with non-articulated arms like Octavia I'll be passing on yet another snakeman :hmsad:
2) Right on!
3) Again, totally with you here.
4) That's a gun? I always thought it was a staff, but since his arms were bendy, he had to have a staff that wrapped around his arms. Either way, like the Horde members so far, I expect him to come with a repaint of the Snake Men staff, especially if there's a lot of new tooling and already extra accessories because of the arms and hands.
Since bendy articulation is off the table, I wonder if they could do something similar to what LEGO did with their Doctor Octopus figure:
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Im interested in seeing what they do with a weapon for him. I would be down for a repainted snake staff, and as for the snake accessory he originally came with, I have no idea what it is. i hope they include it,just wondering what it actually is.
I am hoping for a similar head that was on neca statues & also the colours similar too.
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1. Classic vs 200x. How do you want Sssqueeze. Different armours and different heads or 2 separate characters?
Same characters, just update the head to a more snakelike look. 200X armor, but please give TJ's legs a rest.
2. The arms - how would you want Sssqueeze's arms - as attachment? As bendable rubbery plastic with a wire?
Well we know bendy is out. So I'd like to see extensions, use arms that plug into the wrists like TJ, HP, etc.., same or similar length of his existing arms. Give those arms the snake heads with the same joint. You could use either hands or heads, and get more than one Ssssqueez and have arms around the block.
3. The snake gun - should it be more "pet" snake or more mechanical?
Pet. I haven't seen a snakeman with a gun. KK doesn't count, he's a descendant, not a snakeman.
4. Should any other parts of Sssqueeze (e.g. the neck/legs) have the same feature as the arms?
Just the arms.
I bet squeeeze will be The next figure reveal.
Clearly the teeth on the vintage figure were a mistake and not supposed to be painted white, like flat human teeth, lol. I think the "teeth" were supposed the be the same color green as the figure.
It doesn't look good for Sssqueeze to enter the Classics toyline, and thats a shame cause we cant complete our snake men...can someone tell me I'm wrong!
Hope to get him sooner in the year rather than later. I want to finish my Snakemen army asap!!!!
I really hope they go to town on this guy, interchangeable long/normal arms and hands/snake heads.


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barking dogs
race after a rabbit
I lost a bundle
shrill voice cries
Servant! commands the queen
bossy little dog
the old dog walker
faithful, punctual, cheerful....
handler of much waste
Dogs for sale
will eat anything
fond of children
The old dog waited
By the front door, unmoving
Refusing death's call..
The Dog House
Caught, he lied to her;
His ebullient smile said all,
On the couch he sleeps.


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On July 1st South Korea's new Law on Non-Regular Work came into effect. The principle of the law was to protect non-regular workers, but in practice the way in which it has been put together and implemented has led to protection only for a few and increased precariousness for many.
A while ago I was able to visit the Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea. I haven't had much time since then to sit down and write up my reflections, but I have to give a short presentation on it in a few days so I thought I would put up a draft of my presentation as well as some pictures. Any comments, of course, would be highly appreciated as well.
(Writer note: This article is also posted at Global Voices Online)
Last year Macau has a recorded 17% GDP growth, the gambling and tourist industry is blooming. However, the May Day demonstration in the past few years has been getting more and more violent. This year, it has resulted in 5 open gunshots by the police in the city center among the crowd. There is one suspected injured. However, the Macau mainstream media has downplayed the issue and kept defending the police's action.
The demonstration was organized by 6 citizen groups including independent unions and rights of abode organization. Its themes were "anti-corruption, improve livelihood, reduce imported labour, stop illegal worker, housing right, family reunion right and harmonious society".
May day parade, organized by the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions and joined by more than 30 unions and organizations, called for legislating a minimum wage, regulating working hours, implementing collective bargaining, opposing subcontracting system and improving occupational safety and health. HKCTU said that more than 2000 people joined the march. I joined the march as well and want to know what is the main message in the march, which I think, highlights the goals of the current labor movements. In the rally, the HKCTU first cheered up all of workers to show solidarity and got prepared for fighting altogether. Various unions and organizations gathered in the Victoria park and waved their banners to express their identities and claims.
Translated from: Hong Kong Economic Journal 2007.3.29 - Reading China
Over the past few years, there are many controversies over the foreign owned fast food restaurants such as KFC and McDonald's in China. Recently, some part-time workers accuse them of unfair treatment including offering low wage, requiring long work hours, unequal agreement, and refusing to give workers labour contract.
According to an investigation of the working condition of 14,000 white collar workers in Beijing, 52% of respondents answer "always work overtime" and only 4% answer "rarely work overtime". 73% are not paid for overtime by their employers who violate labor law stipulating it as 150% of the basic salary. Some argue that there is an oversupply of university degree holders.
In 1998, only 1.084 million people were admitted to university. There were 2.158 million university students. Since 1999, there has been a rapid expansion of university enrollment. From 2004-2006, the intake increases from 4 million to 5.3 million. In 2006, about 1.24 million university graduates failed to get a job. In 2006, of a total of 4.13 million university graduates, 66.10% earned 1000-2000 yuan monthly.
A labor dispute broke out and soon resolved last month at Nicaragua's largest employer in the private sector, the Taiwanese investment Nien Hsing Textile.
The factory Nien Hsing Garments S.A., located in Managua's Las Mercedes Free Trade Zone, is one of eleven Nien Hsing factories in Nicaragua. The factory has been in operation for twelve years. There are approximately 2,500 workers in the factory. Currently the factory produces only pants—jeans, slacks and shorts—for Blue Riders, Wrangler Jeans, Osh Kosh B'Gosh, Faded Glory and Sonoma Carpenter.
"China" Union of Post Office protested against renaming the company as "Taiwan" Post Company Limited. Many newspapers published the picture of workers kicking doors to protest. This makes me think of what the unions in Vietnam, a country less developed econmically than Taiwan, are doing.
In October 2005, Vietnam government announced raising minimum wage of foreign owned company in a lofty tone. But the effective date was set in April 2006. After widely media coverage, there was an uproar in Ho Chih Minh City. Worker strikes spreaded gradually and affected enterprises owned by Japanese, European, Korean and Taiwanese. There are still scattered strikes even in the year of 2007. Many Taiwanese businessmen doubt: Is the Vietnamese government behind the wave of strikes?
Last week(Feb 8, 2007), Kim Youngkon and Kim Donghae (husband and wife couple), visited Hong Kong to network with local worker organizations for consolidating East Asian workers solidarity.
I had not prepared for the chat as I had not heard of Mr and Mrs Kim's visit before and I had little background about their trip. After learning their critique of labour movement and their proposal for East Asia labour Union, I decided to develop the informal chat into this interview.
Kim Youngkon is now a lecturer in University. In 1972, he left his study and became an air conditioner worker (underground labour activist) until 1987, when the military government had given way to civil government. Since then, he worked in labour organization as activist for 10 years.
DISNEY Refuses Responsibility for 800 Laid-Off Chinese Workers Students and labor groups protested outside the DISNEY Hong Kong office
From SACOM
Shenzhen-based Huang Xing Factory used to receive up to 80% of its orders from DISNEY and manufactured branded merchandise such as Mickey key chains and purses. It however had lost a substantial amount of the orders from DISNEY soon after SACOM drew the attention of mass media to sweatshop labor at Huang Xing in September 2006.


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Millions of critters and mosquitoes are planning their rebirth in Liberty County, and, unfortunately, they're imminently headed to a neighborhood near you.
Two Long County houses were destroyed in separate blazes Sunday night - neither related to the wildfire that consumed an estimated 1,600 acres, authorities said.
A bill that would give vouchers to parents of special needs students squeaked its way out of a key Georgia House committee last week.
Three Liberty County families are struggling to rebuild after unrelated fires destroyed or heavily damaged their homes. All of them are in need of donations.
The Liberty County Library Board was sharply focused Monday on a new main library for Hinesville and relocation of the Midway/Riceboro Branch to the Midway community center complex.
State Rep. Al Williams of Midway is among a handful of Georgia legislators who have had their state paychecks garnished because of delinquent income tax.
The Liberty County Development Authority attempted a meeting Thursday, but the only clear decision reached was to try to meet again at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Law enforcement personnel from throughout the area attended a cookout in their honor Thursday.
What started as a routine traffic stop Wednesday morning led to a drug bust that netted 75 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $250,000, according to authorities.
The preservation of the marshlands along the Georgia coast faces an uncertain future as development and population growth are expected to rise in the area.
Several residents from the Sand Hill area attended the April meeting of the Long County Commission and voiced their desires for a recreation park in their neighborhood.
An intergovernmental agreement among Hinesville, Flemington and Liberty County has been reached to create and maintain a non-profit organization to promote tourism, trade shows and conventions. The organization will be funded by a five percent hotel/motel tax revenue, which was previously allocated to the Liberty County Development Authority.
Liberty County officials are currently corralling the 10 percent of the public who are delinquent in paying their property taxes.
Midway is officially "a city on the move;" at least it will be on May 19, the second annual Midway Day.
Hinesville City Council discussed a number of issues during its meeting last week, including:
Torres Boles was found not guilty of malice murder, guilty of felony murder, guilty of all three cruelty to children charges and guilty of one count of deprivation of a child in the death of his daughter, 3-year-old Andraia Boles. Sentencing will be done at a later date. For a full story, see Friday's Courier.
Forensic scientists testified Tuesday that most of the blood taken from a crime scene in February 2013 was that of 3-year-old Andraia Boles.
The Liberty County Chamber of Commerce hosted the "Eggs & Issues" breakfast Thursday at the Performing Arts Center as a way to kick off its promotion for Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax VI.
Trash-can placement was an issue raised at Tuesday's monthly Ludowici City Council meeting.
The Liberty County chapter of the United Way of the Coastal Empire kicked off its 2014 fundraising campaign and held its volunteer of the year awards ceremony Tuesday evening at the Performing Arts Center in Flemington.
The woman injured Wednesday morning in a three-vehicle accident that involved a school bus has died.
Newly appointed Municipal Court Judge Kenneth Pangburn and prosecuting attorney Richard E. Braun Jr. took their respective oaths of office Tuesday afternoon in the Hinesville Room at city hall.
Four coastal Georgia communities recently were awarded community-development grants from the state totaling nearly $1.9 million.
A small, enthusiastic group gathered Saturday for the grand opening of the Liberty County Democrats' campaign office in Hinesville.
The Hinesville Rotary Club hosted Christy Divine, marketing and development director and foundation manager for Live Oak Public Libraries, at its regular meeting Tuesday.
The Coastal Resource Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources routinely sends out health advisories when coastal waters are found to be contaminated.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into financial improprieties regarding the Bryan County Probation Office and former county probation officer Shannon Rivera.
The city of Ludowici recently received a $500,000 grant through the state's Community Development Block Grant Program. The award was announced Aug. 19 in a letter from Gov. Nathan Deal, who said Ludowici was one of only 71 communities in Georgia to receive a grant.
Recent reports filed at the Hinesville Police Department include:
The price that students and adults pay for lunches increased this year in Long County, according to school nutrition director Stephanie Fox.
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The longer I've been doing this for, the more I've grown into my own sound and feel. I hope you guys can appreciate it. No "club bangers here" just emotion on wax :). I give all my work away for free so if you would like an mp3/ wav cut just let me know.
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[Verse 1]What kind of love just stays the sameWhat kind of love don't die aloneWhat kind of love would take this longWhat kind of love don't make you oldMeet me at the studioI just wanna play you somethingMeet me at the studioI just wanna tell you somethingCause you satisfy my heartEven though we'll fall apartCan't remember how to startLittle liesYou like to call me koalaI'll be your simba, you're nalaWherever you go I'll followLittle lies[Verse 2]Drove for hours just to see your faceSorryDrove for hours just to see your faceWe should've talked if just to clear the spaceBut now we stare at each otherBuryin' whatever feeling that wasHe texts to keep your heart D-stacksKeep your heartThese girls are smart D-stacksThese girls are smartI don't knowWhy get a dog, it's just gonna dieEverything you love's just gonna leave you one dayAnd that's just real shit he can still spitBut what's the pointI said a lot of stupid stuffI think that I was growin' upWhat kind of love don't hurt so badWhat kind of love don't feel this wayWhat kind of love would make me foldLittle lies (6x)Na na na na na na na naLittle lie
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A new instrumental piece of mine.
I call it "Social Currency"
I hope you guys like it. Hit me up on email if you'd like to have it…I give my shit away for free (email@example.com).
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A K U A - All of Lust
"Am I losing my grip on you?"
New creation of mine. Hope you guys can appreciate it.
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I'm so talented, lol jokes.
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Music is a part of me…so deep that i cannot leave it. To leave it would be akin to…well….just think of any serious act of walking away and that is it.
Anyways…new instrumentation/Beat…Enjoy
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Mad Catz launches STRIKE7 keyboard
Purveyors of positively potty peripherals, MadCatz, have finally got around to designing a keyboard which will go along with the uniquely bonkers look of their RAT mice. Just like the mice, the STRIKE7 keyboard is highly customisable, with a modular construction that lets you split bits off and put them where you want them.
If you want, you can split it in half to remove the number pad and program nine different macro keys on the fly. The most interesting thing, however, is the detachable touchscreen: a tiny colour LCD which displays system data, a list of current macro commands and details from third party applications like TeamSpeak.


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'The Price Is Right' Launches First Male Model Search
Web series competition coming this fall
"The Price Is Right" has announced its maiden search for a male model, and it all starts with an open casting call in Los Angeles. Contestants will be whittled down in a five-episode Web series airing in late September and then viewers will choose the winner. The winning hunk will land a one-week gig as a resident model.
Bing: More about "The Price is Right"
"The Young and the Restless" star Daniel Goddard (above) has popped into "The Price Is Right" to showcase a product or two. His success with viewers seems to have inspired an entire competition.
The show's first ever search for a male model kicks off with an open casting call in Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug. 30. During the course of the Web series, airing on PriceIsRight.com and YouTube.com/PriceIsRight in late September, "The Price Is Right" models and show producers will judge contestants on their verbal skills and their ability to strike a pose and properly showcase a product. Then the male models will compete in a series of challenges to test these skills, as well as their on-camera presence. The judges will eliminate contestants after each challenge. But sometimes, losers will get a chance to model their way back into the competition.
Plus: Female heartthrobs of the 1990s | TV spin-offs
Fans will get involved in the selection after the Web series finishes and the six finalists are revealed on the Friday, Sept. 28 episode of "The Price Is Right." Voting will take place online at PriceIsRight.com through Thursday, Oct. 4.
Guys who think they have what it takes should mark their calendars. The open casting call is Thursday, Aug. 30, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at KCBS Studios, 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, CA 91604.
"The Price Is Right" airs weekdays on CBS.
primetime tonight
tv news
- NY Times critic unapologetic over Shonda Rhimes 'Angry Black Woman' remark
- 'Supergirl' drama gets series commitment from CBS
- E!'s 'Fashion Police' will continue without Joan Rivers
- Jimmy Fallon to pay up wager, broadcast 'Tonight Show' in Chicago
- Mama June and Sugar Bear Split! Honey Boo Boo's Parents 'Taking Time Apart'


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The world lives in London.
The financial center of Europe, economic stronghold, and host to the world's biggest organizations – London is at the beating heart of global business. A long-time leader in the creative industries, London's growing reputation on the tech and start-up scene is opening up even more opportunities. It's the perfect environment for you to earn a Bachelor degree in business and launch your international career. Chances for you to take your first steps in to finance, economics, politics, marketing and entrepreneurship, are all around you. Our London campus puts you in the center of it all.
London offers choice on a massive scale. Career, cuisine, and culture – everything is available to you. Finding it is the fun part, you never know what you'll discover while you're looking for something else. People who have lived in London their whole lives talk about the surprise and delight of finding things they never knew existed. As the saying goes "If you are bored of London, you are bored of life."
Officially the most international city in world, London is home to people from more than 270 different countries with residents speaking 300 languages between them. Add to that studying at Hult, the world's most international business school, and you define international. Life on our London campus celebrates this diversity. It doesn't matter where you come from, you'll be at home here.
From London, you can explore the rest of Europe quickly and easily with most destinations no more than a two-hour plane ride away and many accessible by train. This is great for traveling and experiencing many different countries, but it's also ideal for gaining international work experience as you study for your Bachelor degree.
British music, art, and fashion sets trends all over world. With so much of it being created and shared in London, it's exciting to be a part of cutting-edge culture. This creative atmosphere makes for great entertainment, day and night, and can add inspiration to your study and work.
The student community in London is huge, diverse, and international. There are nearly half a million students studying at the city's 40 plus universities, with students all mixing in the same areas and hanging out together. Bringing great social opportunities, it also means you can network and collaborate with talented individuals from many different disciplines.


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Mastery Learning - 21st Century Learning That Works.
Some refer to Mastery Learning as advanced flipped learning. Mastery Learning enables students to take responsibility for their own learning. Students conduct experiments, watch vodcasts, work on assignments, interact with the class learning management site, have one-on-one discussions with their teacher, and get tutored by their peers and cadet teachers. This is Mastery Learning at work.
Mastery Learning allows students to work at their own pace through the curriculum. When they complete a unit they must demonstrate that they have learned the content by taking an exit assessment that includes both a project and an exam. If students score less than 85% on these exit assessments, they must go back and re-learn those concepts they missed and retake the exam. Grades are no longer determined by a percentage but rather how much content they have mastered.
The Flipped Classroom now has its own professional learning community! Click here to join the discussion.
Since students can take the test multiple times we obviously had to work on this. This requires different versions of the exam. We have also set aside some corners of the room where students take the tests and there is little chance of them cheating. We are right now working on doing many of our tests on a computer using Moodle. With Moodle I can write questions such that each kid gets a different question. For example a student might get a limiting reactant problem but student A starts with 3.4 grams and student B starts with 4.6 g. that way each student gets a unique exam, and in fact each time a student takes the exam they get a unique exam. We are right now working out the bugs of the system, but it is coming along nicely.
The students each week are given benchmarks: So for this coming week they must have completed:
We thus change which assignment they need to "get to" each week. So there is a moving line. And ultimately there is an assignment that they need to "get to" by the end of the semester and the end of the year. We also limit them taking tests once per day. So taking the exam multiple times costs them time that they could be progressing through new content. They are uncomfortable getting behind.
We also celebrate every time a kid scores an 85% or better on an exam. I am looking for a gong (on ebay) to celebrate each successful passing of each exam.
Yeah, it sounds kind of crazy, but we are seeing kids take responsibility for their own learning and they are actually learning the stuff.
If you need help in getting things set up we would be glad to help. It has taken us quite a bit of time to make this work, but it really does. . .
The further you get in the content the higher the student's grade. So for our first semester, to earn an A students must master half way through our unit 6. This includes taking, and mastering our final exam from last year and doing a project. Last year we finished the semester at the end of unit 5 (stoichiometry) so we set the bar for an A past that point. We have students now who are starting unit 6 and I anticipate that they will finish unit 6 and go above and beyond the "A" grade.
For student to earn a B they have to have completed unit 5, done last year's final (with mastery) and do a project. For a student to earn a C they must finish unit 5 and then master the final. So we have it scaffolded that way.
Right now we are thinking of actually delineating this even more. In the future we think that we could have all students who are taking a first year course in the same classroom at the same time. At our school we only have 2 levels of first year Chemistry: Principles of Chemistry (1 section) and Chemistry (7 sections): {We also have 2 sections of AP}. So what we are thinking is that students who just learn slower will have the option of getting Principles of Chemistry credit: Students who work at an average pace can get Chemistry credit, and for those students who excel and learn faster, they can earn Honors Chemistry credit (a class we don't currently offer). Students would all work through the same content, but their grade would be determined by how much material they master.
I think I have said this before: But this is working out VERY well. Students are being "forced" to learn. They can't just attend class, do some assignments, and then hope for the best on the exam. They are discovering that they really can learn. An interesting anecdote: We had a couple of students who were doing well on all of the assignments and then when they go to take the exam they don't even have a clue as to what to do. At first we thought of this as test anxiety, etc. Well, come to find out, they essentially were copying all of the other kid's work and it just looked like they were learning. After a hard conversation with these students, they acknowledged what they were doing and are now going back learning the material that they never really learned in the first place. So this system doesn't allow the kids to not learn. And for those students who are fully invested in the program, I am seeing them truly take ownership for their own learning. you can probably feel my enthusiasm for the program. It has been a truly remarkable year.
We are starting this program with our first year chemistry students. We also teach AP chemistry but with them we decided to not "experiment" with them. So they are doing what we call our pre-vodcasting model where students watch the podcast lectures at home and in class we get lots more labs and directed problem solving time with them. We are uncertain if we will do the mastery model with our AP students next year. That is still in discussion.
I have been thinking that this is my next step. I have not been to a POGIL training, but have read quite a bit on the topic and think this ultimately would be the most effective method. . .
I don't see any problems doing this with a 4x4 block. In fact I think it might even be better than what we do (1 block every other day for the year). Kids would have concentrated time to do their work with less classes getting in the way.
As of right now, Colorado does not a have state exam for Chemistry. However, I am on the committee, that will be mandating that in the near future. (Actually I am on the governors commission that oversees the re-writing of the standards which will ultimately lead to course exams in all subjects, Chemistry included).
That said: And I think that the mastery program will help test scores. Since my students actually are ALL learning Chemistry, though at different paces, I think that they will do better on any state exam. I guess it is possible that students might not have mastered some content, but with my system they will learn things more deeply. And everybody else out there on the list-serv. I welcome the questions and dialogue. This is great discussion and collaboration.
We had to think this through. For what it is worth, here is what we have come up with. We are going to set the "ultimate" benchmark for the year. We don't honestly know where that will land at the end of this, our first, year. So in our system at the end of this semester the benchmarks are:
So next semester they have to start where they left off. But what we are telling them is that if they "cross" the A line by the end of the school year then regardless of what grade they got 1 st semester we will give them an A for both semesters. This will require us to manually go back and change their grade. This only seems fair, since they truly have mastered to the A level. This also is giving hope to our kids who got behind 1 st semester. In the past week we have met with each kid and discussed where they are at and what they need to do to get to their target grade. There is only 3 weeks left until our semester ends on Dec 19 th . What we are finding right now with our students who have gotten behind is that they are working very hard right now and frankly, we think that about 1-2 students per class will end up failing. This is actually better than when we taught a traditional curriculum. Of course this is just my sense, but I will know in 3 weeks. The other think I am seeing is a lot more kids coming in at lunch working on labs, working on assignments, etc. It has been pretty cool seeing them beginning to take ownership for their own education. I would love for our Algebra classes to start this sort of program and start training the kids to do this. Then I think they would learn that learning is their responsibility. I think that before students had school "done to them." And with this model, for them to be successful, they must actually LEARN the content. My role is totally switched: I am a Chemistry coach, not the teacher authority figure.
We had to deal with this issue in class. We think some of the students were copying others's labs and so we decided to make sure that each student had done each lab. Students must get our signature to verify that they have actually done the lab. What I am now doing is also asking that they answer a key question about the lab in order to get "credit." In doing this I have "caught" a few kids who were copying work (mainly worksheets)and then I have had stern discussions with them about how they are not going to ever pass an exam unless they individually understand the Chemistry. I guess the moral of the story is that some kids will try and find ways to cheat. With a new system such as ours students will try and find the loopholes just as they always have in the past. I think our system actually "catches" more of these kids. No longer can a kid cheat his way through Chemistry.
Lab Logistics: We have set up around the room several labs. I would guess that there are 4-6 labs set up at a time. We label them and students go to that station to do the labs. Before students actually "do" the labs I require that they spend a few minnutes with me discussing the lab with me. This discussion includes:
Grading of Papers
One thing that we have been doing is checking the students work in real time. Students bring me their assignments (worksheets, labs, and even tests). I then grade them on the spot. If I see mistakes I hand them back and ask students to do them over. This is also done with tests and labs. So I don't end up taking papers home to grade. So much of my class time is used by me grading the student work. This makes class time truly crazy, but I think that the immediate feedback is very helpful to the students. It also allows me to differentiate. My top students must turn in "perfect" work. For those students who I know are going to barely pass the test with the 85% (often on the 2nd or 3rd try) I allow less than perfect work. If they generally get the topic then I mark them down as mastering the content. These students are usually behind the main group of students and it gives them some hope as they move along.
What has morphed over the past two years is a system that seems to work. 50% of a student's semester grade (not including their final) is their test grade. Remember that each student must keep taking each unit exam until they get at least 75%. If they do not get that grade they get 0% until they pass it. This motivates the kids to "pass" the exam. If they score greater than 75% and are still unhappy with their score they may take it as many times as they like. Also note that with Moodle we are able to give almost an infinite amount of versions of the exam.
The other 1/2 of their grade is what we are calling the weekly benchmark. At the beginning of each week (or the Friday before) we tell each class which assignment they must get through. If they get through assignment the weekly benchmark then they receive a 90% for the week. If they exceed that grade then they get a higher grade. And if they don't meet that grade then they get a lower grade. This undoubtedly is a "squishy" grade. It is somewhat subjective, but with the hard and fast testing grade it seems to be working.
And then at the end of the semester we will give a final. We will, in the spirit of our system, allow students to take it whenever they have mastered the 1st semester content--that might not be on the final day of the class. Hopefully that will be sooner. Thus if they take an exam and are unhappy with their score we will allow them to take a new version again (and again and again, etc). This will be worth 20% of their overall grade.
So essentially we really have:
We have flirted with the idea of doing this, but have rejected it because frankly we don't have access to the technology for this. Since much of the class time is taken up in kids working and learning, that would necessitate lots of computers in our classrooms. Right now we have 6 ten yr old laptops in each of our rooms. They are usually taken up by students doing exams and in some cases watching podcasts. So we have kept with the paper and pencil.
At the beginning of each unit we hand out a "packet" that contains all of the problem sets, labs, etc. This packet has all of the info for a unit. Right now students are starting our chemical reactions unit. We believe in inquiry so we are still using many of the same inquiry labs that we have used forever. And now that we are getting a hand on POGIL, some of our activities are directly from POGIL. So in short: yes--we are doing that.
I also teach freshmen Earth/Space Science. I am using the same mastery method and it is working brilliantly. And we are having some math teachers starting to think more this way as well. This method is not just for chemistry teachers. In fact I would argue that it is the hardest subject to do it with since we have to deal with dangerous chemicals, and such. Math and foreign language seems the best match for this kind of teaching.


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The announcement came at the first-annual NFL Honors awards show in Indianapolis, site of Sunday's Super BowlXLVI. Suggs received 21 of 50 votes.
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Suggs, 29, becomes the third Raven to win the AP Defensive Player of the Year award, following in the footsteps of his long-time teammates, middle linebacker Ray Lewis (2000 and 2003) and safety Ed Reed (2004). Suggs beat out a group of candidates that included Jared Allen (Minnesota Vikings), Justin Smith (San Francisco 49ers), DeMarcus Ware (Dallas Cowboys) andJason Pierre-Paul (Giants).
The award caps the finest season of Suggs' nine-year career. He led the AFC with a career-high 14 sacks and set a franchise-record with seven forced fumbles. A standout on the NFL's third-ranked defense, Suggs also tied career highs with six passes defended and two interceptions.
Suggs was especially dominant in three particular games, totaling nine sacks and five forced fumbles in victories against the Pittsburgh Steelers (Sept. 11), San Francisco 49ers (Nov.24) and Indianapolis Colts (Dec.11).
If there was a blemish on Suggs' season, it was that he was relatively quiet down the stretch, being held without a sack in four of the Ravens' final five games, including in both playoff games. However, Ravens general managerOzzie Newsome said at Wednesday's "State of the Ravens" address that was a result of the increased attention given to the linebacker by the opposition as the season went on.
"We saw people starting to do some things to scheme [against] Suggs – using tight ends or chipping him as they go out," Newsome said. "But what we like about both [Suggs and Haloti Ngata] is that they show up in both the run and pass. The stats show up as far as sacks, but the way both of those guys impact the way we play against the run, it's unbelievable."
There was plenty of competition for the award. Allen, the Vikings' relentless defensive end, finished with 22 sacks, just a half sack shy of tying former Giant Michael Strahan's NFL record. However, the Vikings' 3-13 record almost certainly affected his candidacy.
Smith had 7 1/2 sacks and three forced fumbles and led a physical 49ers defense that keyed San Francisco's rebirth. Ware had 19 1/2 sacks and Pierre-Paul finished with 16 1/2 respectively.
Suggs, who the Ravens selected in the first round of the 2003 draft, has already crafted an impressive resume. He is the Ravens' all-time leader in sacks (82.5), sack yardage (610) and forced fumbles (29). He is second in Ravens' history in fumble recoveries (11) and third in tackles (660).
He is a five-time Pro Bowl selection and a two-time AP All Pro. He also was named the Pro Football Weekly 2011 Defensive Player of the Year and the NFL 101's AFC Defensive Player of the Year for 2011. However, tonight's honor will certainly rise to the top of his resume.
"Terrell Suggs had another outstanding year," said Monachino, who is the Ravens' linebackers
coach. "He showed the rare ability that we all know he has. He was
technical, physical, tough and explosive in nearly every phase of his game.
People see the sack totals and know he is a special player, but it's all the
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General overview of the Northlands
History of the Northlands
Races of the Northlands
Overland map
House rules
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Kou Ogata arranges Michiko Naruke's Nora soundtrack
Celtic music aficionado Kou Ogata of k-waves LAB will release a Nora arrange album at Comic Market 81, reinterpreting Michiko Naruke's music compositions from the Nintendo DS role-playing game through the use of live instruments.
Sakura Note soundtrack samples online
Marvelous has added music samples from Nobuo Uematsu's soundtrack to Sakura Note to the official website for the Nintendo DS game.
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Samples of Square Enix's Blood of Bahamut soundtrack have been added to the track list page of the official website. Due out August 12, music is by Final Fantasy XI composer Naoshi Mizuta.
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Square Enix has updated the official website for the three-disc original soundtrack to the Nintendo DS release of Chrono Trigger. Samples of every track can be heard by navigating the "MusicList" section of the webpage.
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I've been asked to put a video on the front page of a website. It unfortuantly isn't optional.
Is there a way I can embed a flash video or a video file that will play automagically (I can do that bit fine) but if the person viewing the page doesn't have flash installed for example, instead of a popup telling them so or a link it just shows an image instead?
For example someone using IE6 with no Video player or Flash player installed hits the site instead of the video gets an image and is none the wiser that the video isnt playing? It's not integral to the site itself you see and I dont want people hitting the front page and being redirected to adobe or told to install something they havent got etc.
If you can find a bit of Javascript, that can check if Flash is installed on the users system, then you can build some Javascript that runs on page load to show/hide a video block / image block of html
Try these
Adobe - Flash Player : Detection Kit
Javascript Show Hide Element by ID from Internet Connection
Write your HTML so that you have an two blocks of code
1 with an id="video"
2 with an id="image"
You should then be able to write some onload Javascript function -
IF Flash is available THEN
document.getElementById("image").style.display = 'none';
document.getElementById("video").style.display = 'block';
document.getElementById("video").style.display = 'none';
document.getElementById("image").style.display = 'block';
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text: reduce cancer Archive Spicing Meat Helps Cut Cancer Risk By Arlene Miller II Healthy Information May 02, 2011 Spices will do more than just enhance the taste of ground beef. They may also cut down on the risk of compounds that can cause cancer. J. Scott Smith, a Kansas State University food chemistry professor, has pursued different projects in recent years seeking ways to reduce heterocyclic amines (HCAs). HCAs are the carcinogenic ...Read More 5 Comments Tweet


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Using PostgreSQL with Cloud9 IDE
December 22, 2013
I've become a big fan of Cloud9 IDE as a replacement development environment for when I'm away from my usual development tools. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of documentation about how to get a workspace up and running with PostgreSQL. Here's how I got my setup going.
1. Install PostgreSQL in your workspace. In the terminal type:
austinkeeley@postgres-test:~ $ c9pm install postgresql-9.2.4
And you should get the following output:
grep: postgresql-9.2.4: No such file or directory Installing postgresql-9.2.4 Checking for conflicts Adding package files Installed postgresql-9.2.4
2. Create a data directory by typing the following:
austinkeeley@postgres-test:~ $ initdb ~/postgres-data
And you should get the following output:
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042". This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.UTF-8". The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8". The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
creating directory /var/lib/stickshift/52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042/app-root/data/postgres-data ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 100 selecting default shared_buffers ... 32MB creating configuration files ... ok creating template1 database in /var/lib/stickshift/52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042/app-root/data/postgres-data/base/1 ... ok initializing pg_authid ... ok initializing dependencies ... ok creating system views ... ok loading system objects' descriptions ... ok creating collations ... ok creating conversions ... ok creating dictionaries ... ok setting privileges on built-in objects ... ok creating information schema ... ok loading PL/pgSQL server-side language ... ok vacuuming database template1 ... ok copying template1 to template0 ... ok copying template1 to postgres ... ok
WARNING: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the option -A, or --auth-local and --auth-host, the next time you run initdb.
Success. You can now start the database server using:
postgres -D /var/lib/stickshift/52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042/app-root/data/postgres-data or pg_ctl -D /var/lib/stickshift/52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042/app-root/data/postgres-data -l logfile start
3. Start things up (This will run it in the background, hence the ampersand at the end. You can also run this in a separate window).
austinkeeley@postgres-test:~ $ postgres -D ~/postgres-data -h $IP &
And if things worked out, you should see:
LOG: could not bind socket for statistics collector: Permission denied LOG: trying another address for the statistics collector LOG: could not bind socket for statistics collector: Permission denied LOG: trying another address for the statistics collector LOG: could not bind socket for statistics collector: Cannot assign requested address LOG: trying another address for the statistics collector LOG: could not bind socket for statistics collector: Cannot assign requested address LOG: disabling statistics collector for lack of working socket WARNING: autovacuum not started because of misconfiguration HINT: Enable the "track_counts" option. LOG: database system was shut down at 2013-12-26 23:23:27 EST LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
4. Now make sure you can connect to it
austinkeeley@postgres-test:~ $ psql -U $C9_USER FATAL: role "austinkeeley" does not exist psql: FATAL: role "austinkeeley" does not exist
Whups. Your username doesn't exist in the database (by the way, Cloud9 keeps track of your username in the $C9_USER environment variable, so you can use that in any scripts you write).
Let's add your user.
austinkeeley@postgres-test:~ $ createuser $C9_USER
We should also make you a database.
austinkeeley@postgres-test:~ $ createdb $C9_USER
Now you should be good to connect and start working with PostgreSQL.
austinkeeley@postgres-test:~ $ psql -l List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges --------------------------+--------------------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------------------------------------------------- austinkeeley | 52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042 | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | postgres | 52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042 | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | template0 | 52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042 | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042 + | | | | | 52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042=CTc/52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042 template1 | 52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042 | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042 + | | | | | 52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042=CTc/52b945a6e0b8cdb08c000042 (4 rows)
austinkeeley@postgres-test:~ $ psql -U $C9_USER psql (9.2.4) Type "help" for help.
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I actually forgot how to login to this thing.
December 21, 2013
The last time I wrote anything here was summer. Wow.
I've been doing more work with Rails and Heroku putting together a portfolio at my other website austinkeeley.com which has a big list of junk I've been up to. I have a few ideas for longer Python writing that might come together. In the meantime, I've been developing a new startup from Startup Weekend D.C.. It's pretty cool.
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Freedomhack 2013: A Hackathon for Good
August 8, 2013
I just wrapped up Freedomhack, a weekend-long hackathon in DC with the main goal of creating solutions for people and reporters in violent parts of the world. The Mexican border was the main place of concern. The entire event was sponsored by Amnesty International. I had never done a hackathon before and I spent a lot of time comparing how this one worked as opposed to a Startup Weekend.
We built a software platform called VozLocal (Spanish for "Local Voice"). We basically just redirected SMS texts to a Twitter account while maintaining them in a database. Really, it was a pretty trivial effort. I'm surprised no one has done it before, or maybe they do and the thing just gets shut down due to spammers overloading the Twitter feed.
I was a little frustrated that we spent about an hour talking with activists asking them what kind of software they needed and I don't think we got a definitive answer.
The project that won was a near field communication application. I didn't catch the entire pitch because I was off prepping our presentation.
One refreshing thing about this was that no one wanted to talk about revenue or how to make money on an idea. This kind of talk at Startup Weekend events really gets on my nerves. I'm there to build something cool and people will shut it down because it might not make a profit within the first 6 months. Although, at the end of this, I was actually thinking about how we could monetize our project.
Anyway, lessons learned.
- We used Cloud 9, a "cloud based" IDE which I'd heard of before but honestly when hearing "cloud" anything, I tend to be skeptical and dismissive. Honestly, it's good. Really good. I won't be switching over to it for my everyday dev tools, but if I'm away from my computer and need to code up a quick Rails app, this thing does the job. Basically it acts like a dev tool suite set up on a VM with editing tools in the browser. It really shines when you integrate it with your github account to collaborate. You can share workspaces within the tool, but that's kind of a lousy substitute for a real repo. To make things better, you can run a dev server or deploy the code to a cloud instance. The free version worked well enough for us all weekend. I'm not sure I would use it enough to justify the $12/month premium version, but it's definitely going in the Startup Weekend/hackathon tool bucket.
- Bootstrap has upped the ante for web design and basically if you suck at doing design you can just use Bootstrap and pull off a good looking page without a lot of effort. The downside is that everyone is using Bootstrap, so there's a good chance your project will look like someone else's. Worse still, if you don't use Bootstrap and present a lousy looking page, it's going to look terrible next to someone's glossy Bootstrap site. I think at one point in time, you could pull win a hackathon without a good looking page. Judges were more forgiving for skipping the cosmetic aspects of a 24 hour code crunch, but now Bootstrap has ruined everything. Oh Bootstrap. I wish I could quit you.
- The workspace, 1776, was pretty cool. There was a lot of alcohol at this one, so D.C. hackathons have some priorities. It's coworking space in the city and had a fun "let's do things that matter" feel to it. This was a much smaller event than Startup Weekend, so it had fewer people, which was nice because it wasn't as loud. Also, they had lots of tables. If you're going to host a hackathon, provide tables. That seems really basic and dumb, but at the past two Startup Weekends, it feels like there's a shortage of places to work.
- I was much more productive at home than I was at the venue. I called it a night at 9:30 pm on Saturday and we all went home. Once I got home, I actually cranked out a majority of the project code. Working with other people around a table is fun, but I don't think I actually got much work done. At future hackathons, I might just leave early and communicate with the team over Google hangouts.
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More Startup Weekends!
July 24, 2013
I did another Startup Weekend event, this one in Richmond, VA. The pitch I worked on was food truck logistics, which at a first glance, has been done before, but not particularly well (at least not in my limited knowledge of it).
The end result is StreetFoodSpotter.com, and it won first place and crowd favorite. A few things that I learned from this one:
- My Django skills are lame these days. I've been doing a lot of Ruby on Rails development lately and it's messed up my whole perception of how Django "works". I still have the fundamentals down but I learned on Django 1.3. Also, I've never had to use a virtual environment because I'm never really finding myself needing that level of control over my code.
- My git skills are hilariously svn-like. I have a GitHub account and I've been using that for my personal projects but I'm usually the only one working on them, so I can get away without needing to do a lot of branching. I pretty much just never take advantage of any of the really good features of git.
- South is a very cool Django app that makes DB migrations not awful.
- Richmond, VA is a chill place and has some attractive qualities to make it a startup hub. There's plenty of good universities within 2 hours to pull talent from, the cost of living is pretty cheap compared with other parts of the commonwealth, and it has a good urban environment.
- A lot of pitches were about health care. This is a tricky pitch idea; health care is complicated and controversial. Personally, I would avoid these for a Startup Weekend. Would a health care startup be successful? Absolutely. But 54 hours is a really short time to build up a plan for one.
- Getting users is a hurdle, and a lot of pitches seem to place a lot of expectations on the user. I think this is a major flaw. They want to make the users serve them instead of providing a service.
- Having a social media blitz isn't as important as I thought. Our Twitter account (@StFoodSpotter) had 1 follower on final pitch night and it was me.
Anyway, it was fun and we won coworking space at RVA804 for 6 months. Unfortunately, it's about 2 hours away, but I guess I have an office now in Richmond to work from.
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Startup Weekend Day 2
June 5, 2013
Why no day 1 coverage? Because I was up coding until late.
I signed up for Startup Weekend as a developer. So far, it's been a pretty good experience. The startup idea we're doing is called FlashThrift, it's a micro e-commerce site for impulse consignment items. You know how Snapchat lets you take pictures that self destruct? This combines that with online sales that are only available for very short periods of time (think 1 hour).
You go to the site, pick what you want to browse and you are given a constant stream of items for sale, but only a few minutes to consider the offer. You can take the offer, or leave the offer. Once you turn it down, it's gone. Sellers are people who want to just get rid of their stuff and don't want to wait for an eBay auction to end.
We should launch in the next few hours with a prototype with a plan to have a working app up by Sunday afternoon.
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BBC bosses feared alien discovery, banned ivestigation
But he claimed he was prevented from doing so because the Corporation was concerned that a discovery of aliens could violate BBC regulations.
Speaking on the BBC Radio 6 Music breakfast show on Wednesday, Prof Cox said: ŌĆ£The BBC actually said ŌĆśYou canŌĆÖt do that. We need to go through the regulations and health and safety and everything in case we discover a signal from an alien civilisationŌĆÖ.
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Thebuster893 wrote November 10, 2012 12:17:13 PM CET
Yep everything I was going to say is covered here. Great comments
Temps13 wrote November 10, 2012 11:04:38 AM CET
reminds me of when Hoyle & Wickramasinghe wanted to use one of the large telescopes to prove their theory of bacteria etc seeding earth all the time by studying close earth orbit..
they found,for the first time,what it means to be ostracised from the scientific community..and have all cooperation withdrawn etc
Temps13 wrote November 10, 2012 10:56:14 AM CET
he thinks he knows more than our predecessors with their elongated craniums..what he really needs is a hard smack in the mouth
Temps13 wrote November 10, 2012 10:54:25 AM CET
Brian Cox is an ARROGANT little shit who considers himself SO clever..thinks he knows everything when in reality he knows vey little about anything except his little narrow subject an being a rubbish pop star..
He scoffs at the knowledge of the ancients..the blokes a cunt
Sidewallfusion wrote November 9, 2012 3:18:56 PM CET
The BBC? Report on something factual? Don't make me laugh, they are just mouthpieces for the Zionist pervert child molesting homosexual savages that have subjugated and perverted the peoples government. They are now so obviously complicit in the child molesting rings of the Zionist perverts behind the kidnapping of our kids that they have become a laughing stock.
LISTEN! read my lips......The BBC is complicit in the cover up of child molesters. Who give a monkey's toss about whether or not the BBC report life on another damned rock. They can't even report the news on this god forsaken planet.
Zionist Savages are kidnapping and buggering our kids goddamn it!


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Model Hailey Clauson decked out in chartreuse Christopher Kane and Skippy's peanut butter. Photographs by Walter Pfeiffer; Styled by David Vandewal.
Model Hailey Clauson in a fresh pencil skirt and blouse by Carolina Herrera from our women's spring issue. Accessorized with a shiny Gucci belt, Moschino Cheap & Chic shoes, and a Rodarte barrette. Photograph by Walter Pfeiffer; Styled by David Vandewal.
Is it her voice, her smile or the way she wears her impressive spring blouse that turns prim into fabulous? In this shoot, featuring the model Hailey Clauson, the fashion editor David Vandewal and the photographer Walter Pfeiffer conspire to make grown-up looks that don't take themselves too seriously.