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What type of infection are we dealing with when talking about Plus-HD 7.5 adware?
Plus-HD 7.5 adware is generally installed alongside programs you find online. Like other forms of adware, it collects information about what sites you visit and uses this to target ads to you. It will send you pop-ups related to content found on websites you visit.
Danger Level: Moderate
What negative effects will you see with Plus-HD 7.5 adware
The most obvious symptom of Plus-HD 7.5 adware is a loss of control over your browser. Instead of only seeing information you specifically request, you might find yourself inundated with pop-ups and redirections to unrelated website. It will also inject content into websites, so you might suddenly start seeing banner ads on website where you saw none before. You may also see ads unrelated to the content you are reading. Plus-HD 7.5 adware feature a large number of coupon ads as well.
Browser vulnerability
Plus-HD 7.5 adware is known to affect Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers.
Operating System vulnerability
Plus-HD 7.5 adware targets Microsoft operating systems, including Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8.
How did I get the Plus-HD 7.5 adware infection
Yontoo, DealFinder, ClickDownload and Language Learning will all install Plus-HD 7.5 adware. However, there are a number of other programs that will install it as well. Most programs provide a checkbox that allows you to avoid installing Plus-HD 7.5 adware, but many people miss this and accidentally install it. Most people install the program inadvertently, but some simple don't realize how intrusive the program and choose to let it install.
Plus-HD 7.5 adware Screenshot
Plus-HD 7.5 adware Removal Steps
Follow steps closely:
Step 1: Locate a safe place to jot down our Support number. This is just in case you need help on one of the steps. We are here to help you get rid of Plus-HD 7.5 adware Plus-HD 7.5 adware Removal Hotline: 888.847.4130
Step 2: Completely power down the Plus-HD 7.5 adware infected computer.
Step 3: Please locate the F8 button on your keyboard before turning on your computer. F8 is normally positioned on the top row of the keyboard. Be ready to tap F8 immediately on step 4.
Step 4: Turn ON the infected computer and press F8 until the WINDOWS ADVANCED OPTIONS MENU pops up.
Step 5: The WINDOWS ADVANCED OPTIONS MENU will pop up, press down the menu using the direction keys on the keyboard and highlight SAFE MODE WITH NETWORKING. Press ENTER.
Step 6: Now the PC will start in what is called Safe Mode. Safe Mode will cause the display and desktop icons to appear enlarged. This is completely typical and not a symptom of Plus-HD 7.5 adware
Step 7: Plus-HD 7.5 adware may have changed your proxy settings so Plus-HD 7.5 adware can control your internet. We now need to check the proxy settings for this.
Step 8: Press and hold the WINDOWS KEY on your keyboard.
Step 9: Continue holding down the WINDOWS key and then press the R key. The RUN BOX will appear.
Step 10: Enter iexplore.exe in the RUN BOX. Click OK.
Step 11: The Internet Explorer browser will now launch. Along the top navigation menu select TOOLS. Within the next menu click INTERNET OPTIONS.
Step 12: Click the CONNECTIONS tab within the INTERNET OPTIONS box.
Step 13: Find and select LAN SETTINGS .
Step 14: Locate the PROXY SERVER section. If there is a check-mark in the box labeled "Use a proxy server for your LAN", then uncheck the box. If the box is not check then Plus-HD 7.5 adware did not change the proxy settings and you can move on to the next step.
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Step 15: To close the LOCAL AREA NETWORK box choose the OK button.
Step 16: Then press the OK button to close the INTERNET OPTIONS box.
Step 17: We now need to run Rkill. Rkill was developed by Lawrence Abrams at Bleepingcomputer.com. Rkill will attempt to paralyze Plus-HD 7.5 adware Plus-HD 7.5 adware will block and stop any processes from running such as removal tools. We need to disarm this self-preservation tool that Plus-HD 7.5 adware has. Please note that Rkill does not remove Plus-HD 7.5 adware Do not reboot your computer after running Rkill as Plus-HD 7.5 adware will restart as well. Bring up the RUN BOX again, by holding down the WINDOWS key and pressing the R key.
Step 18: In the RUN BOX, type "iexplore.exe http://www.malwareexperts.com/rkill". Then click OK.
Step 19: The download security box with Rkill will appear, choose SAVE and select the desktop.
Step 20: Close the DOWNLOAD COMPLETE box once the Rkill download is complete.
Step 21: Open your DESKTOP and find the Rkill.exe icon.
Step 22: Double-click the Rkill icon and run Rkill.exe. Rkill will flash a black MS DOS box and attempt to paralyze The Plus-HD 7.5 adware
Step 23: Rkill will create a Notepad log. Close that log and move to the next step.
Step 24: Now the computer is prepared to install Malwarebytes. Malwarebytes is a very popular Malware removal application. To install Malwarebytes, we need to bring up the RUN BOX again.
Step 25: On the Keyboard press and hold the WINDOWS KEY and the R key simultaneously. The RUN BOX will appear again.
Step 26: In the RUN BOX type "iexplore http://www.malwareexperts.com/malware-remover/" and press OK.
Step 27: The download security box with Malwarebytes will appear. The options to RUN, SAVE or CANCEL will show. Select SAVE and then choose to save the file to the desktop.
Step 28: Go to your DESKTOP and locate the Malwarebytes icon on your desktop.
Step 29: Double-click the Malwarebytes icon.
Step 30: Select RUN on the Malwarebytes install box.
Step 31: After that, the SELECT SETUP LANGUAGE box will appear. Select your native language and press OK. English will be in used in the graphics example.
Step 32: The Malwarebytes SETUP WIZARD will show. Choose NEXT to continue.
Step 33: Next screen to show is the LICENSE AGREEMENT. Accept the agreement and choose NEXT.
Step 34: The BASIC INFORMATION screen is shown. Click NEXT.
Step 35: The SELECT DESTINATION LOCATION screen will appear. Choose the location you wish to have Malwarebytes install the required files. The default location shown is the normal, recommended location. Click NEXT.
Step 36: The next screen is just the SELECT START MENU FOLDER which tells the program where to place the shortcut to the application. Click NEXT.
Step 37: If you want a Desktop Icon and/or Quick Launch icon then opt-in to the corresponding check boxes on the SELECT ADDITIONAL TASKS box. Click NEXT.
Step 38: Now the READY TO INSTALL screen will show. Click INSTALL to start the installation process.
Step 39: The final screen with the pre-checked UPDATE and LAUNCH Malwarebytes will appear. Click FINISH.
Step 40: Malwarebytes will download the latest updates and show a success box. Click OK.
Step 41: The main interface of Malwarebytes with the Scanner tab will launch. Make sure PERFORM FULL SCAN is selected.
Step 42: Next step is to launch the full scan. Click SCAN to start the scan.
Step 43: A box will popup with the local drives, choose the local drives to scan and click SCAN.
Step 44: The scanner will begin. Be patient as the scan is very thorough searching for all the remnants of Plus-HD 7.5 adware
Step 45: Once the scan is finished, a message box saying the scan is complete will appear. Click OK to close the box.
Step 46: After closing the box, click SHOW RESULTS.
Step 47: Once the results show, select REMOVE SELECTED to remove all the Malware found by Malwarebytes including Plus-HD 7.5 adware Malwarebytes will also delete all of the files and registry keys affiliated with Plus-HD 7.5 adware and add them to the quarantine.
Step 48: Malwarebytes may need to reboot the system to complete the removal of Plus-HD 7.5 adware Please allow the PC to reboot if Malwarebytes asks for it.
Step 49: After the reboot is complete and the system is relaunched, please follow the on-screen instructions and continue the removal process.
Step 50: A Notepad log will be created by Malwarebytes. Close the log once reviewed.
Step 51: Once Malwarebytes has completed the removal process and has removed all the traces of Plus-HD 7.5 adware, your computer should be 100% clean from Plus-HD 7.5 adware
Step 52: If Plus-HD 7.5 adware is not removed and you are still having issues. Please call the Plus-HD 7.5 adware Removal Hotline toll-free at 888.847.4130
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675cc, 97.6bhp, 141mph, Insurance group 14
Triumph's new Street Triple looks just like a Speed Triple but with the engine out of the Daytona 675 – and it's a revalation. The Street Triple is light, fast, fun, agile, sounds great, stylish, cool and cheap, too. Overnight the new Triumph has made its rivals seem like relics. The Street Triple isn't just the best in its class ...
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The MV Agusta F4 750 was the most eagerly awaited slice of Italian superbike exotica pretty much delivered on all counts. Simply stunning Massimo Tamburini styling was the most beautiful since the same designer's Ducati 916 of 1994 (and is generally considered to still be the most beautiful bike in production). Spec, build quality and handling was there to match. ...
535cc, 38bhp, 100mph, Insurance group 8
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600cc, 78bhp, 129mph, Insurance group 12
The Suzuki GSF600 Bandit was so successful it spawned a whole class. Budget middleweight roadsters. The recipe is simple take one aging but acceptable supersport engine, bung it in a basic, straightforward roadster chassis and price it as keenly as possible. The first Bandits proved best sellers, great for novices and as all-rounders. Latest versions are now 650cc and there's ...
599cc, 111bhp, 163mph, Insurance group 15
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749cc, 125bhp, 170mph, Insurance group 16
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If modern art has a single defining characteristic that sets it apart from the efforts of previous epochs, it is that no era of art has so fully, so consciously, and with such studied diversity, embraced consciousness as its subject. The Mona Lisa of the industrial and post-industrial eras has been the psyche; the foreboding and bewitching horizons that stretch across our own minds. More than outer space, psychology is the final frontier of our time and the undiscovered country that art has only just begun to traverse.
But the most fascinating, bleeding-edge meditations on the subject have come from what some might deem an unlikely source: anime.
For those who are unfamiliar, the Japanese animation style is one most commonly associated with such popularly translated, child-targeted fare as Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z, or Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. But the full oeuvre of anime has left me quite starry eyed about the politically revelatory possibilities of psychodrama; from a cyber-morality tale that takes on the excesses of Anonymous-style politics and charts a path to virtual revolution premised on the perfectibility of humanity, to a story that dwells deep in the fissures of neoliberal individuality to painfully explore the deep scars left by peculiarly modern crimes, anime is giving us a unique angle on modern life and quite a lot of fruit for the leftist, humanistic spirit.
Yet its flights of creative majesty pitch into inky miasmas of sexism and puerile gags that have come to define the stereotype of anime: a heaving, fan-service bosom and a palpating young male fan verbing to that noun. This is a dismal state of affairs, not least because many of the best recent anime programs promise salvation from the tepid explorations of even the best top shelf, black label Western cable drama.
Indeed, it might be said of the best anime that it makes a universe of interiority, in the process exploring the terrain on which we build our lives—somewhere in the fissures of peculiarly postmodern neuroses, traumas, and fears.
Cracking the World's Shell
Kunihiko Ikuhara, the playful director behind the astonishingly queer Revolutionary Girl Utena, and the strikingly less queer Mawaru Penguindrum, exemplifies this tendency.
The first program is a surreal high school psychodrama that details the struggles of its title character, Utena, with the demons that are endemic to a labyrinthine nightmare of self, created by the very environment she inhabits. An athletic student drawn into a world of revolutionary duels with the school elite, Utena finds herself inexorably trying to "crack the world's shell" and left with no choice but to "revolutionize the world." This conjures grand images of street battles, barricades, and raised fists bathed in tear gas. Yet what these words actually mean is far more chilling, and far more interesting. What is the world of nightmares that a high schooler might rebel against? The answer is much less, and much more than one expects.
This duality of self and society—making a world of the struggles of self—is a theme repeated in Mawaru Penguindrum, where the principals begin the program in the domestic counterpart of Utena's high school small world narcissism. How the series develops, however, is indicative of both anime's promise and the failings that drag it back to earth.
Himari, who suffers from a terminal illness, is brought back from death's door by a relentlessly adorable penguin hat, which her brothers—Kanba and Shouma—discover is the host of a foulmouthed alien spirit that wants them to find the eponymous "Penguindrum," with the aid of three equally adorable penguins. The show sprawls out from this premise, like the subways that are its guiding metaphor, into a spider web of warrens.
Penguindrum orbits a peculiarly modern tragedy, allowing it to descend deep spirals into each of its primary characters, who all bear the indelible scars of that trauma, and are all bound by a red thread—to the traumatic "incident" and to each other. From the homey premise the show gives us in its first episode, we free-fall into depravity, sexual violence, mass murder, and the tyranny of childhood in the shadow of neoliberalism's skyscrapers.
As the show clatters down its tracks, we see revelatory visions of personhood in the modern world—visions of pain and self that ten oceans could not stop us from empathizing with.
At its worst, however, we have one of those cute penguins looking up women's skirts, stealing their panties, and otherwise sexually harassing them. We have our "alien" dragooning a servant woman into a brief stint in pornography, and we have a litany of abusive misogynist slurs hurled at one of the principal characters—none of this is in service of the pretty picture I painted in the preceding paragraph, they're all meant as jokey, insignificant asides that "lighten the mood" amidst the chiaroscuro psychologizing.
This is more than a little shameful; Penguindrum moved me to tears with its excellent portrayal of childhood abuse and the terrorism of mothers and fathers; it wove a chilling tapestry of sexual entitlement, rape, and the distending of psyche and spirit occasioned by that abuse. There's no great artistic work done by turning around and making a joke of the foregoing, especially ones so artless, yet it's a trap anime stumbles into all too often. Of all people, Ikuhara ought to know better: Utena did not make the same mistakes, but it remained uproariously funny at points, bending surrealism into a ticklish feather-duster that coaxed laughter from the dourest of critics. The humor was dark and uplifiting; in Penguindrum it often felt forced and formulaic, as if the fallback to crudity was indicative of a creative vacuum.
Put bluntly, it got in the way; much as every panty-shot or closeup of unrealistically jiggling breasts (prominent features of the vast majority of anime, irrespective of quality or target-audience) gets in the way.
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The 2013-14 hit new series Kill la Kill is a case in point. At its loftiest points, this is a magnificent combat-drama about two strong-willed young women (of high school age, naturally); the unstoppable force investigating her father's death, and the immovable object dictatorially lording over a school of her own design like a majestically fallen Valkyrie. What dominates the series, however, and kept me looking away in scene after scene was the abject absurdity of the combat-suits each woman wears that define so much of the show's visual theme, and the pornographic contortions of each transformation scene.
It's a mite tough to explain in a sentence—but Kill la Kill is a show where the meaning of clothing, in a number of ways, is its guiding metaphor. Yet the chosen idiom for this lofty consideration is pornography. Scene after scene shows otherwise mighty women splayed like a four course meal for men's visual consumption and nothing more–it occasionally remarks on this, but with a handwave rather than profundity.
Worse, however, is the sexual assault to which one of the characters is subjected—and in a way that smacks of sheer exploitation rather than critical commentary, which invariably makes the viewer complicit in the violation for how the scene is meant to arouse them.
The visual language strokes your inner thigh even as it whispers a rape scene; it titillates as it defiles, repeating an all too familiar pattern in mass media.
In short, for all their virtues, Kill la Kill, Penguindrum, and other anime merely reiterate and reproduce sexism rather than thoughtfully comment on it. These shows make a subject of psychology, but the realm of sexism remains a childish joke rather than a subject for serious analysis. But Penguindrum's lurid flirtations are, at least, mere static that leaves the full picture less sharp, if still clear. Kill la Kill's repeated nods and winks about rape and objectification leave one's enjoyment of the show in ruins, by contrast.
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Gatchaman Crowds is a hopeful, very recent example of anime that breaks new ground without conceding much to the demands of "fan service," and gets more of its message out, unfiltered, in the process. Putatively a show about power-suit wearing superheroes, it blossoms into a majestic treatise on collective action, cyber-politics, and the role of emotion in changing society. The interior world of Rui, a tech genius and transgender woman whose social network, GalaX, forms the spine of the series, is rich, lavish, and heartbreaking; without that crimson-struck inner-self, her revolutionary ethic and dramatic intervention in Japan's sclerotic politics would make little sense.
Or consider another rather good recent entry: Puella Magi Madoka Magica, a show that parses as a superlatively darker Sailor Moon. Its title character, Madoka, and a cadre of "magical girls" do battle with malevolent witches in grotesquely nonsensical "labyrinths." Like Utena and Penguindrum, the series' plot is a fractal that blooms outwards like an ink stain from its basic premise, using its core elements as frighteningly elaborate set pieces for understanding the bonds between women in a world governed by calculations redolent of icily rational corporations. How do these young women survive in a nightmare imposed on them for "the greater good"?
Many of these shows play merrily with that dyad of self and society, and say something far grander than Breaking Bad or House of Cards in the process. The best contemporary US and UK dramas usually limit themselves to explorations of individual character. Anime, on the other hand, seems to effortlessly reunite personal troubles with the grand political problems of our age. It's a surprisingly powerful antidote to neoliberalism's individualizing gestures.
One never loses sight of the mighty world of that ineluctable Fate–call it social structure, call it oppression—that governs the lives of these show's traumatized individuals. For all the interiority of these shows, the universe they present us with reminds one of that old Howard Zinn lesson: you can't remain neutral on a moving train.
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If you are a Texas Tech fan, though, you prefer to think of it as a win away from moving on as one of the six teams still in the hunt for college baseball's ultimate prize: the national championship.
The Red Raiders (45-20) will face Mississippi (46-20) in a loser's bracket contest on Tuesday afternoon at TD Ameritrade Park. The winner will move on in the championship, but the loser will be sent packing, narrowing down the World Series field down to six teams.
Louisville was the first team to be bounced from the field, losing to Texas in a similar situation on Monday afternoon.
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Trent has given up only two runs in two quality starts (minimum of six innings pitched while giving up three runs or less) this postseason and has a 2.21 ERA in 101 innings for the 2014 campaign.
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Mosely did pitch six shutout innings against top-seed Miami in the Coral Gables (Fla.) Regional.
No explanation was given for why the choice of Mosely over Dusek. Perhaps Tadlock is hoping his offense will come through and the Red Raiders can get by the Rebels. If so, Tech would be in excellent shape with starting pitching when the challenge gets even tougher the further you advance in the bracket.
The Red Raiders are going to have to be more productive on offense against Ole Miss, however, it they hope to move on in the CWS. On Sunday vs. Big 12-rival TCU, Tech had nine hits, but left eight runners stranded in a one-run game.
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Gen. Martin Dempsey said the assistance is aimed at improving the two nations' military capabilities and could include sending in U.S. training teams and accelerating foreign military sales of weapons and equipment to Iraq and Lebanon.
Dempsey made the recommendation to U.S. Central Command in recent weeks, according to Air Force Col. Ed Thomas, a spokesman for the Army general. There have been no U.S. military trainers in Iraq since troops left at the end of 2011, as the war there ended. But the U.S. has provided military training and assistance to Lebanon for a number of years.
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He said that as he looked at the challenges being faced by Syria's neighbors, including the re-emergence of al-Qaida in Iraq, he determined that the U.S. should help them build up their military abilities. He said the assistance would not involve sending U.S. combat troops into Lebanon or Iraq.
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U.S. officials said the increased show of military might in Jordan was a signal to Syria that it must confine its civil war within its borders. The officials said it is meant to show that the U.S. was committed to its defense relationship with Jordan and that America intended to maintain a strong presence in the region. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the planning publicly.
Dempsey and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel declined to provide any additional information about U.S. plans to provide weapons to Syrian rebels, other than to say that the U.S. military has no role so far in that program.
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I think Ian finally got fed up with Chachi's obsession with him, her acting like a child, and (of course) their time apart from each other. This is just my opinion, I, obviously, have no clue what really happened to them, and it is quite sad to me because they were cute in the beginning, but every relationship runs its course.
Anonymous said: Do you kno where I can find that video of chachi and ian at WOD LA?
I'm sorry I didn't see this earlier! Here you go! http://telly.com/CTO8C3 *Credits to the owner, NOT MY VIDEO!*
Anonymous said: web(.)stagram(.)com/p/428950683321038443_284665188 chachi and Ian at wod :) there's a video too.
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When taxpayer-funded lobbying becomes treachery
If toll interests and DOTs don't want big brother breathing down their necks, perhaps they ought to stop sticking it to taxpayers by tolling everything that moves and keeping the toll rates OUT of the hands of elected officials and instead choosing to place toll rates firmly in the hands of UN-elected, unaccountable bureaucrats. Or worse, private corporations! [Read More]
RMA rejected for TIFIA loan: Tolls on 1604 won't happen anytime soon
When you look at those figures, it's looking a whole lot like it's more than a failure of leadership but outright malfeasance to allow San Antonio to 'donate' our tax dollars to everywhere else in Texas while our roads sit in gridlocked congestion and taxpayers are being told there's no way out of it other than paying MORE taxes through tolls. [Read More]
The NAFTA superhighway yet to be built
The House and Senate are worlds apart except for one thing — the reliance on tolling through 'innovative financing' tools — the TIFIA loan program and public private partnerships. [Read More]
TxDOT's coming debt 'tsunami'
Their message is clear: no toll roads, no local debt, no money. All this despite the fact that the State of Texas is more than $34 billion in the hole for roads already. [Read More]
Supreme Court hits home run on property rights
Devastated by the Texas Supreme Court's Texas Rice Land Partners v. Denbury Green Pipeline Company decision last August, Denbury Green, backed by key players in the industry, is asking the Texas Supreme Court for another re-hearing of the case, even though the court recently denied the motion for a re-hearing and re-issued its decision in favor of landowners. [Read More]
Why public-private toll roads won't work
There's a hefty price that comes with seeking private money to build public roads using public private partnerships (P3s), as well as loss of sovereignty and control over the surrounding free routes. [Read More]
TxDOT increases speed limits to 80 MPH, why may surprise you
The message this sends to private corporations is that laws can be suspended if you pay the State enough money for the right to set your own rules. [Read More]
TexPIRG: Hidden costs of road privatization
In Texas, proposals for private toll roads have come under much criticism, prompting heated debates with most public attention paid to soaring toll rates, seizures of ranch land through eminent domain, and concerns about foreign corporations owning vital Texas roads. [Read More]
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The proposal is to take some of this new-found $2 billion TxDOT announced was available for priority projects and allocate it to restore funding to one of THE most congested roadways in the state of Texas – Hwy 281 as well as to fix a very congested segment on Loop 1604. [Read More]
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The O'Jays are going to WAR with the people behind Crown Royal Whiskey ... claiming the booze company ripped off the band's most famous song for a pathetic commercial that "humiliated" the group.
Two members of the band behind the hit "For Love of Money" (you know the song, 'Money, money, money, money ... MONNNNEYY) ... have filed a lawsuit claiming they never gave permission for the people behind Crown to use their tune in a recent TV spot featuring NBA legend Dr. J.
FYI -- the song was used as a background track ... while a rapper drops some custom rhymes to sell the booze.
But Walter Williams Sr. and Eddie Levert (founding members of the group) ... are PISSED -- claiming the rhyme is "humiliating and demeaning by reducing them to background singers."
They also take a shot at the rapper -- saying he's nothing more than a "poseur with limited ability to carry a tune" ... who performed a "self-aggrandizing childish rap."
Williams and Levert are now asking for more than $1 million in damages.
Dr.J should be the one suing them
I see nothing wrong with the commercial, but I guess if you can get more money when you sue......, then sue, sue, sue.
They are RIGHT! That was embarrassing...... If Crown Royal wanted a cool sounding commercial, they should have just played the song without the rap crap. That is one classic soulful tune, that makes everyone's body start moving when they hear it....
They never even gave permission. So this is not MORE money
The O'jays obviously didn't listen to the record and neither did some of the who commented. The song is about coming from humble beginnings to being a king amongst his people, lending a hand, and being around family. His name is Big K.R.I.T. and it stands for King Remembered In Time. If they paid attention before opening their mouths K.R.I.T. actually lists them as an influence on his soulful music. Before you attack the artist, know what your talking about, because he is coming out with a short film with Spike Lee for an original song he did with B.B. King called "Praying Man".
That commercial is awesome!!! The Ojays should be glad someone has even bothered to use their music, and bring it to life. Ojays are jealous and trying to get some attention. The commecial is GREAT!
Wow, all of these ignorant comments stereotyping rap, that sure is surprising. The song was anything but negative. O'jays are looking for money, you can tell by how they stereotype the song as if a song that talks about shooting and screwing hoes when its nothing but positive, not one single shred of negativity. Its seems like you either didn't listen to the song, the lyrics at all and automatically assumed it was the typical rap song.
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Transformers, as any parent who has ever bruised a heel on Bonecrusher can tell you, were a line of toys that could, given sufficient wrenching, be turned from cars and planes into robots and back again. Nowadays, we would call this recycling, but at the climax of the Cold War it felt more like eternal readiness. You could sit moodily in the back of your parents' Pontiac Sunbird and imagine cruise missiles bursting out of the headlamps. Now these delightful objets d'art have a movie to themselves. We should not be surprised. Long ago, when the impact of "Star Wars" was beefed up by a line of merchandise, some of us noticed that the five-inch Lukes and Leias possessed a depth and mobility that was denied to their onscreen counterparts, and, decades later, we have reached the reductio ad absurdum of that rivalry: rather than spin the toys off from the movie, why not build the movie from the toys? "Transformers" is not the first effort in this direction; I distinctly remember finding a couchful of children enraptured by a DVD of "Barbie of Swan Lake" and realizing that Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" had not, after all, signalled the final disintegration of human personality. Bay's movie, however—as befits the bringer of "The Rock," "Armageddon," and "Pearl Harbor"—is the grandest proof so far that, when it comes to movie characterization, flesh and blood have had their chance. From here on, it's up to metal and plastic. There are two types of Transformers: the Autobots, who are fine, upstanding citizens in pretty colors, and the Decepticons, most of whom are mean, vengeful, and beige. The quarrel between the two sides began on their home planet. For the purposes of the movie, however, they duke it out on ours. One of the Decepticons disguises itself as a helicopter and trashes an American military base in Qatar; another pretends to be a boom box (who still has one of those?) and stows away on Air Force One. Their target is a slender naïf named Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), a teen-ager who happens to hold the key to the universe or some such useless item. Fortunately, his car, a trusty yellow Camaro, is in fact a saintly Autobot that has been sent to protect him. This shield-the-kid plot is pilfered from "Terminator 2," and there are matching nods to "Godzilla" and the recent "King Kong," but, if you really want to know what "Transformers" feels like, think of a hundred-and-thirty-five-minute, hundred-and-fifty-million-dollar retread of "Herbie Goes Bananas." The spectacle of life and feeling being vested in the inanimate is as old as cinema itself, and you could argue that it peaked early, in 1927, with the slowly opening eyes of the robot in "Metropolis." The latter was a woman, which is more than "Transformers" can muster—there's not a Femitron, or what Bay would presumably call a Chickibot, in sight, and we are left to wonder how, why, and via what stimulation his mounds of scrap metal might reproduce. "These things just don't die," a soldier says, which raises the question of whether they ever just live. Certainly, the director can't decide on their level of moral sophistication; early on, they seem merely aggressive and willful, not unlike a real Camaro, but then suddenly the Autobots—led by Optimus Prime, whose name suggests an ambitious, moist-palmed young curate out of Trollope—begin gushing sermons like oil. "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings," Optimus declares, shortly before he and Megatron, his opposite number, start cartwheeling through major conurbations. Personally, I tend to feel less, not more, sentient when a pair of battling robots lands on my desk, but that's just me. In previous movies, Michael Bay dabbled wearily in Homo sapiens. At last he has summoned the courage to admit that he has an exclusive crush on machines, and I congratulate him on creating, in "Transformers," his first truly honest work of art. Not that he needs my plaudits; as a passerby exclaims in the midst of the film, "This is easily a hundred times cooler than 'Armageddon'!" To be proud of your achievement is one thing, but to plant film critics inside your movie and review it favorably as you go along: that takes genius. Where it leaves real critics—rusty old Concepticons, with failing firepower—I hate to think. What does Michael Bay have in common with Werner Herzog? What links the showman behind "Transformers" with the maker of "Fitzcarraldo," "Aguirre, Wrath of God," and other excursions into savagery and silence? The answer lies in a charge that Herzog has levelled at himself: "I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony." Neither man is embarrassed by this lack, but, while it has helped to unbridle Bay and send him galloping into bombast, Herzog has been left to browse among the eccentrics and daydreamers who populate his films. To him, indeed, they are the opposite of eccentric; Kaspar Hauser, the hero of "Every Man for Himself and God Against All" (1974), is raised like a beast in a stall, and yet, as the director says, "he is at the center." Such relish of extremity, of what Herzog calls "radical dignity," led him to Dieter Dengler, a fellow-German. Born in 1938, four years before Herzog, Dengler grew up during the Second World War, then emigrated to America at the age of eighteen. He went to college, became an American citizen, joined the Navy as a pilot, and was shot down over Laos on his first mission, in 1966. He was caught, tortured, and imprisoned in a jungle camp for several months; after a gunfight, he and other prisoners escaped. Conditions in the jungle were, if anything, more hostile than in the camp, and it was only by chance that Dengler was spotted by an American pilot, picked up, and returned to safety. Herzog is so struck by the story that he has told it twice: first, ten years ago, in a documentary called "Little Dieter Needs to Fly," and now in "Rescue Dawn," a feature film. In the documentary, Herzog visited Dengler in California, filmed him in his home town in the Black Forest, and took him back to the jungle, inviting the hero to describe his ordeal afresh. (Not for the first time, the director's obsessive method skirted the sadistic.) In "Rescue Dawn," Dengler is played by Christian Bale; the film narrows its focus to the events of 1966, starting with the pre-flight briefing on board the U.S.S. Ranger, hauling us through his capture and breakout, and ending up back on the ship. That ending is triumphant, with Dengler surrounded and cheered by his comrades. This is accurate enough—the man himself confirmed it in the documentary—and yet nobody watching the freeze-frame of Bale's grin, and hearing the thudding surge of the musical score, would guess for a second that this is a Werner Herzog film. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a Michael Bay moment, but in its mood—the solid pomp of emotional relief—it slides into the groove of "Uncommon Valor," "Behind Enemy Lines," and other mainstream parables of men lost and found. Most of Herzog's previous films were made by his own production company; this one was made partly by Top Gun Productions. What is going on? The issue, I suspect, is one not of Herzog selling out but of Hollywood wanting to buy in, and Bale duly serves up a chipper portrait of courage under pressure, remaining fresh-faced even as his cheeks wither to a monkish gauntness. Yet his dramatized sufferings, however intense, pale beside the real ones recounted by Dengler—a middle-aged survivor, his courtesy and boyishness undimmed—in "Little Dieter Needs to Fly." Food was the strongest leitmotif, as he remembered his mother stripping wallpaper from the ruins of German houses (she boiled it up, for the nutrients in the glue) or showed us his own stash of emergency rations hidden under the floorboards in California. Like Herzog, Dengler was seized by the belief that civilization can falter and split at any time, leaving us to slip through the cracks: a dread that we rarely get from "Rescue Dawn," which offers its own vision of deprivation—Dengler munching a dish of live worms—but doesn't linger long enough, even mid-jungle, to leave us in the kind of directionless trance that was conjured by "Aguirre" and "Every Man for Himself." There is honor, boldness, and grip in the new movie, but other directors can deliver those. 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(HELENA, Mont) The Montana Supreme Court this week upheld the "Adaptive Management Adjustments" made to the Interagency Bison Management Plan in 2011. Those adjustments provide that Yellowstone bison may roam farther into the Gardiner Basin north of the park. The Supreme Court ruling was based on a procedural ruling of the appeal. As such, the ruling upholds a 2012 decision by state agencies allowing the bison seasonal access to winter range north of the park through May 1st each year. Bison are the only native wildlife species still being confined within the political boundaries of Yellowstone National Park for any part of the year. In past years, those bison wandering out of the park in search of food have been captured and sent to slaughter.


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i tried to apply this hint on my 10.5.2 machine but it seems to collide with a process "work" started by superuser. is there a way how to somehow run it simultaneously?
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Plasmid 1712: pPD117.20
See Fire Lab Vector Kit Documentation 2005. Fire Lab Miniprep Number pPD117.20, Ligation number L3704.
Addgene has sequenced a portion of this plasmid for verification. Full plasmid sequence is available only if provided by the depositing laboratory.
Please acknowledge the principal investigator and cite this article if you use this plasmid in a publication. Also, please include the text "Addgene plasmid 1712" in your Materials and Methods section.


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Bat-Family March Covers Preview
- Written by IvCNuB4 on Thursday, February 28 2013 and posted in News with Benefits
March covers will feature Bat-Family reactions to Robin's death
Source: BuzzFeed / Newsarama
Click here for Newsarama's exclusive first look at the "Requiem" cover for Detective Comics #18
Click the titles below for additional cover previews.
Batman #18 (by Greg Capullo)
Batman #18 variant (by Andy Kubert)
Batgirl #18 (by Mikel Janin)
Batman Incorporated #9 (by Chris Burnham)
Batman & Robin #18 (by Patrick Gleason)
Catwoman #18 (by Tony Daniel)
Nightwing #18 (by Eddy Barrows)
Red Hood & The Outlaws #18 (by Mico Suayan)
Teen Titans #18 (by Eddy Barrows)
Worlds' Finest #10 (by Kevin Maguire)
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About the Author - IvCNuB4
IvCNuB4, which translates into "Grown man riding a unicorn,"is a cool cat. Not much else is known about him except that he loves scooping Jude Terror and the rest of the staff secretly believes that he is the funny one.
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