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On a non-standard pattern in the Russian site does not work!
On a non-standard pattern in the Russian site does not work!
1. Be nice.
2. Be more specific. Eg. Give me some content that isn't working for you and the keywords and urls you're using for it. Are there errors showing? etc.
If all else fails, you are welcome to find another auto linking plugin. Here's one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-automatic-links/
A. All right. I am a Russian, for me it's polite.
Two. I have activated and correctly configured plugin. Sozherzhanie different, probyval a few words on different pages. None of the position does not work. Then you either do not work with kirilitsey or plug-in conflict
This plug-in according to the Russian inetrent review does not support Cyrillic, and is inconvenient to manage http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-automatic-links/
My site http://narkomanpavlik.tv/
I tested the next time your nedodumanny SEO Auto Linker Plugin
It turns out, guys, anchors on the Russian-language words are placed. But with excellent English even work!
Conclusion. No support for UTF-8 or Cyrillic.
I ask you to fix it. I beg you.
A bit of unicode...
A bit of unicode in a link...
And it seems to work even...
I can't fix something that I can't reproduce. It would help if you posted some sample content to which you're trying to add links along with the terms you're trying to link.
The fact that your plug-in I have some reason does not work with Russian words! Arbitrary. NOT zavismo of content. English - works. Russian - no.
Here's a photo report in response to your http://zalil.ru/33258291
I'm not going to download an arbitrary zip. Please post the file themselves on an image sharing site ala imgur.
Again, look at my photos. Are those not russian words?
Do what I requested, and stop telling me it doesn't work. I get it -- now I want to fix it. But I cannot do that unless you help me out here:
1. Post text to which you're trying to add links
2. Post the keywords you're using for you links
and by post text, I mean stuff that I can copy and paste, not images.
In the zip there are such photos:
Here is rebooted your exchanger:
Here is a link to the post of my screenshots http://narkomanpavlik.tv/personazhi/narkoman-pavlik/
There can follow any responses, and to see and copy the text you are interested in the word
Keyword (I combined your test words into a keyword):
Seems to work. Is it possible this is a server config issue.
I'm certainly glad that you are running. But I do not see how (((.
As for server configurations do not know. Tell me what files you need from the config. I will give.
However, I remembered one thing. The first time creating a site I have worked your plugin with Russian words. Then he suddenly stopped. During this time I did not change either the template or cms. But in the meantime, I installed some useful plugins. It seems to me likely to conflict with some sort of plugin. Please check this information and will assist.
Please try to install a plug as I have. And activate them. I wonder whether working links with the Russian words then
Please help me understand the reason of the plugin. If you have it running on pure cis and the usual pattern, it does not break. Need to test in real conditions and to achieve true health. Try to set a http://ru.wordpress.org/wordpress-3.3.2-ru_RU.zip Russian version. and also all the plugins in the screenshot as I have. We'll see whether or not to work the Russian words. Maybe then we will understand what it was.
I really am not your personal support. This is a free plugin -- I'll be working on the issue, but understand that this is not likely to align with your timetable.
Also, surely you can try deactivating plugins yourself to see if any of those are interfering?
Good idea. I will try to
Disable all plugins except yours. Nothing has changed. The only thing there is a suspicion of AdRotate. When it is turned off all of the text is not (
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DURHAM — Three players have been kicked off the Duke football team for conduct unbecoming of members of the program.
Blue Devils coach David Cutcliffe said Sunday night that freshmen John Drew, Kyle Griswould and Brandon Putnam had been dismissed from the team.
University officials say the three have been charged with felonious possession and discharge of a weapon after an early morning incident on campus.
Drew, the only one who saw action last season, made one start and played in all 12 games at defensive tackle. He made 34 stops and one fumble recovery.
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A burning cross? Hitler would approve, he really would.
Are you kiding?
Purity Ball?
This is the kind of thing that fetishizes virginity. I would prefer someone with experience, thx.
Not a moment too soon. This has to be the creepiest manifestation of all that repression, other than the dads actually fucking the daughters.
evengelicals tend to belittle liturgy, and the liturgical churces, but yet they come up with these bizarre rituals that are just a far creepier version of a liturgy anyway.
how much longer before these dads feel they need to veil their daughters?
My guess is you could attract the same 63 men to a fetish ball.
A purity ball *is* a fetish ball. For pervy dads and their little girls.
while this is creepy and all, your incessant posts ridiculing people of faith have really started to bore me.
you are perpetuating the same bigotry you so blatantly despise.
OMFG! Those creepy debs are gonna cruxify a hippie!
And fairly egotistical on the part of the fathers.
Purity Balls = great drag name
This kind of shit is what sets women up for a lifetime of sexual dysfunction. Most of these girls will eventually have premarital sex, of course -- but they'll be so neurotic about it that their relationships will be doomed.
I'd like to show those girls MY purity balls...
Wow, thats super creepy. Those girls are going to have ISSUES when they get older.
BTW Cato- I thought the cross was burning too, but with a closer look I saw it was just blurred back lighting.
...and then a bunch of these girls will get pregnant during high school, and their fundie parents will screech for more inane programs like this, because purity balls and retardedly-ineffective abstinence education wasn't enough, and the cycle will begin again.
Well isn't this lovely.
@13, I noticed that after posting BUT you know burning crosses, fundie Christians, Nazi's: well it just all goes together! They just are missing the cardboard cut out of George W Bush that they would be praying to.
Why not a mother/son purity ball?
I honestly thought that "struggling to cut their chicken" was a euphemism for something else.
This kind of shit is what sets women up for a lifetime of sexual dysfunction
Uh, that is kind of the point to EVERYTHING!
17 has a point. Why is it so important that the girls remain virgins and not the boys? Who are they supposed to end up sleeping with? Their fathers?
Also, @7 only the ridiculous can be ridiculed.
Ugh... this article was full of creepy religious, sexist bullshit (I loved the line about "if we don't get it from home, we'll have to go out and get it from the world" -- she isn't talking about sex, but, you know, it's funnier if you think she is).
But... for some damn reason at the end of the article, the focus on the dads trying to be better dads and the mention of the dad with terminal cancer taking his two daughters was slightly touching to me. They just want to be good dads, and it's freakin' terrible that this is how their crazy fundie religion tells them to do it.
@20, from the article, "Premarital sex is seen as inevitably destructive, especially to girls, who they say suffer more because they are more emotional than boys."
Right, girls are more emotional than boys, good luck with that then.
@18 i think we should make 'cutting the chicken' a euphemism for something.
Right @7, because Fundies doing "creepy" shit like holding "purity balls" clearly doesn't do enough to perpetuate negative stereotypes.
And people who are REALLY bored with something generally don't waste time or effort on commenting about their boredom.
The boys have integrity balls, where they're admonished not to ruin other men's property (oops, I meant daughters) before the ritualistic handing over of that property (oops, I meant wedding).
@7 ... sorry to say this but The Stranger is a place for people who have fallen out of religion (been kicked out usually)to come to commiserate and vent. You may call it anti-religious bigotry which really isn't fair. We are only products of our experience, and our experiences with "traditional" religion have been EXTREMELY shitty. And it's really shitty that people like you come tp invalidate our heart break, rejection, inevitable acceptance, and finally the celebration of our liberation from these repressed people, who drag us back to the stone age and poison the planet with their social mores and lifestyles.
Personally, I would rather believe God didn't exist than to hate him.
@25: It's not just ritual. The man and his new property sign the deed together.
So...no responses to number 12 making pervy comments about adolescent girls? Hypocrisy much? Jesus.
#26 I agree with most of what you're saying, but there are concepts of God and spirituality (loads of them) out there which have nothing to do with Christianity. Or which are Christian but don't have the bigotry (my home state ordained the first ever lesbian to be a Lutheran minister).
For those of us practicing in one of these traditions, Evangelical Atheists are just as alienating and offensive as the fundies, and I wish they'd realize that and decide if that's really what they want. I think it's silly for people who are opposed to the theocracy and oppression of the church - any church - to not be unified. Loving and supporting freedom means loving and supporting people's rights to do with their freedom what they wish - including things you yourself find stupid.
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@29 I see people like you trying to find some medium between the tradition and comfort of what you grew up with and the modern world. And that is fine ...
Some people find tremendous comfort in believing in a higher power, and that is fine ... it personally doesn't work for me.
And there are a number of people who do simpathize and support people who are trying to utilize the pleasentries, comforts, and communities of religion with resorting to the hatred. And that's fine. If religion is the opiate of the masses, opium still feels good.
Personally, I don't "hate" evangelicals, but I pity them. Maybe you want to help them, but perhaps I've resorted to a live and let die attitude, if they want to live in squalor and be uneducated that's great but I would rather it not effect my world. They have studies for this, religious people are generally happier (Remember ignorance is bliss) But loyalty and pride, and devotion to ones family and upbringing is a very strong force (They have a commandment for that, "Honor thy father and mother"). Because the irony is that deep inside they seem more lost when they are promised more and more universal truths.
I guess, I can summarize it best when I was at a funeral for a woman who committed suicide. The priest who spoke, gave the best, most honest, and heartfelt cermon I have heard. Basically that when he was a young man, he felt so confident in the world and that he had an answer to everything, but as he got older and older he found himself with more and more questions that didn't have answers. Maybe it's about time we started taking responcibility for own actions, our own happiness, and our own destiny and not rely on the god that made a bet with the devil to test a man's devotion to him. (Job?)
I'm sorry, I'm a little all over the place .... but I need to get some work done too.
What in the heck is that? That picture reminds of some sick terror movie where they make a virgin bath in blood and then sacrifice her!
It looks wicked not pure!
What is this corrosive hook-up culture and where can I get some?
The fathers promise to "cover" their daughters?
"If we don't get it from home, we will go out to the culture and get it from them"?
The fathers are "stiff"?
Who writes this stuff?
Gee this is creepy. And I'm in favor of teenage girls remaining abstinent.
I have to thank commenter #10 for making me laugh all day long - purity balls = great drag name! Good one! LOL
Evangelical atheists?!
Yes. We'll go meekly into the corner and not make a peep. You're in charge!
Yes, #30. Jokes about lusting after adolescent girls is hi-freakin'-larious. Especially in the context of a society where girls are increasingly sexualized and sexually abused. Comedic gold right there, champ.
#37 - why is it so hard to grasp? Aggressively proselytizing ANY religious belief is an annoyance to those who don't share it. Alliances should be made based on the idea that all people be free to believe whatever the fuck they want, not on forcing any version of the "right" belief down people's throats.
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Brazil's inflation quickened to the fastest pace in five months in September as food prices pushed the annual rate above the government's target.
Consumer prices as measured by the benchmark IPCA index rose 0.45 percent in September from August, the government's statistics agency said. Prices rose 4.70 percent from a year earlier. The readings were in line with the median estimates of economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
After raising interest rates by 2 percentage points this year, the central bank held its benchmark Selic rate unchanged at 10.75 percent on Sept. 1, saying it was adequate to keep inflation on target. The central bank will see today's figure as confirmation of its view that short-term inflation is being driven by a temporary surge in food prices, said Solange Srour, chief economist in Rio de Janeiro at BNY Mellon ARX.
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Today's report showed that after three straight months of deflation, food prices jumped 1.08 percent in September from August.
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The rebound in inflation last month doesn't warrant a reaction from the central bank, since it doesn't have "monetary roots," Moody's said in a report distributed today.
"Tighter monetary policy will be ineffective and will only depress domestic demand unnecessarily," the report said. "Even worse, a higher interest rate will aggravate the currency revaluation, which seems to be the policy makers' new headache."
Interest rates are already high enough to stop the economy from overheating, the report said.
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The real has gained 38 percent against the dollar since the end of 2008, the third-best performance among the most-traded currencies after the Australian dollar and South African rand.
Yields on Brazil's longer-term bonds are rising at the fastest pace in three months versus shorter-term debt as the government boosts taxes on foreign investment to curb gains in the real.
Traders expect policy makers to raise the benchmark Selic rate to 12 percent by September 2011, according to Bloomberg estimates based on interest rate futures contracts.
Brazil's gross domestic product grew 1.2 percent in the three months ending in June from the previous quarter, cooling from a 2.7 percent expansion in the first quarter.
GDP jumped 8.8 percent from a year ago compared with a 9 percent expansion in the first quarter that was the fastest pace in 15 years. The central bank estimates Latin America's biggest economy will grow by 7.3 percent this year.
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After Sam & Alex are turned into mimes, they go to WOOHP. For a few seconds, Sam is wearing her green spy clothes then it goes to Clover then back again and Sam's back in her mime version of her spy suit.
When Clover hits Alex with the accordion a second time because Alex can't keep secrets, her suit turns black and white with a big red flower on the lapel, but when the last frame is shown, her suit is yellow again and the only signs that she's still a mime is the white makeup and the red flower.
If everyone zapped by the accordion was made into a mime because of Jazzhandz's DNA, why was he such a blabbermouth?? He never shut up until they blasted him with his own machine. Mimes are supposed to be silent.
Sam and Alex got "mimed". Clover never did.
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Windows Update still hasn't given me SP1 yet and I have
According to the Knowledge Bulliten you shared, the problem lies with Intel. Microsoft says to check for a new driver from Intel. http://downloadcenter.intel.com/
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This is quite annoying when you have around 100 required models for a page; it'll take more or less 300ms just to load the core and the models.
Furthermore, I saw that this load time is not decreased when a cache system is enabled.
Have you an idea why it's so long and another to decrease this time for an application that need much models?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT : When I use the file cache system (whit debug mode to 0) I see that the creation date property of the file generated by the cache is always the same as the last time I generate a page. This means that the cache is regenerating the model files every time (despite of the debug mode set to 0). Is that normal?
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I recently replaced my color ink. I purchased HP ink that is supposed to go with the Officejet 4620. Now, the printer won't print in color. I've done just about everything I can think of besides replacing the cartidges again. Any suggestions?
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I see that you have an Officejet 4620 and you are having a print quality issue getting the color to print after changing cartridges.
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As well, have you run the Automated Printhead Cleaning utility found in the tools menu of the printer? I would advise running 3 levels of this in an attempt to unclog the ports in the printhead of the 4620.
I would advise taking a look at the document provided by HP for troubleshooting print quality issues in the 4620. The document can be found by clicking here.
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After changing blk cart printer will not print properly or in color. previously printed calendars in color or blk and white


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Panopto (Lecture Capture)
What is Panopto?
Panopto Focus is an easy-to-use lecture capture system. This software is installed on all the classroom computers on campus. You can also download it to your own computer.
Why use Panopto?
You can use Panopto to
- record your lectures so that your students can review them later.
- flip your classroom by creating mini-lectures for your students to watch before their classes.
- record your students' presentations.
- record talks by guests.
What can you record with Panopto?
Powerpoint/Keynote slide
If you use Powerpoint or Keynote, Panopto creates a table of contents for your students, and also create a searchable index of your presentation. This allows your students to search your video presentation for any word mentioned on your slides.
Audio & Video
You can record audio and video from the built-in videocamera on classroom computers.
Please note:
Sharpless Auditorium, Stokes Auditorium, Stokes 010, and Stokes 016 have a SMART Podium and build in camera and microphone.
In KINSC H109 and Stokes 004, you need to use a wireless microphone, which is available in the Podium drawer. There is a video camera mounted on the wall. You can control the camera from the touch panel on the wall.
In Chase Auditorium you need to borrow a webcam and tripod from the ITC since there is no built-in microphone/videocamera.
Computer Screen
You can capture a computer or tablet screen. This is especially useful if you use a SMART podium, which is available in KINSC H109, Chase Auditorium, Sharpless Auditorium, Stokes Auditorium, and Stokes 004 computer lab, Stokes 010 and 016.
Here is the Intro to SMART podium video. Please contact the Instructional Technology Services for more training.
Add a Panopto Link to your Moodle course
Use Panopto Lecture Capture and Video in your Course
Record Lectures and Presentations using Panopto
Create a Drop Box folder for students to record using Panopto
View recordings that students submit to the Drop Box folder
Get statistics on Panopto recording use
Instructions for Students
Create a Panopto recording in your course Drop Box folder
Additional Panopto Support Documentation
Please contact the Instructional Technology Services email@example.com for any questions.


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Perfectly organized, too warm for cyclists.
By Daniël
From Netherlands
About Me: Student
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Comments about Q Laptop Backpack:
Very organized backpack with lots of pockets to carry your stuff. Main compartment could be larger. Cyclists will find the padding to be too warm. Great build quality, sturdy pack.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Great Commuter Backpack
By KenC
From Columbia, MD
About Me: Practical
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Comments about Q Laptop Backpack:
I'm a bus commuter and have a 0.7 mile walk to my destination (one-way). I replaced a typical "student" backpack that had too much capacity for my needs. My key product requirements were mid-size, nylon construction (instead of poly), lots of pockets/dividers, under 2.5 lbs, a padded laptop compartment (not a sleeve) that is separate from the main storage area, a product guarantee, and priced under $100. This backpack met all of those requirements. I usually carry a 15" laptop with power brick, a book for reading (which fits in the same pouch as the laptop), lunch, umbrella, and other small items. No issues fitting and organizing all that I carry. The fit is comfortable (I'm 6'3")If you carry a lot of books for school, this backpack may not have the capacity you need (although it does have some elasticity to expand). No negative comments, but one suggestion: make the water bottle pocket deeper to hold an umbrella (it has a tendency to come out).
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Great quality, comfort
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Use this bag for travel and work, very comfort, many separate department to use.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Definitely worth the purchase
By Zach Attack
From Indianapolis, IN
About Me: Practical, Stylish
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Had the bag for over a month now and received too many compliments to count! Lots of pockets to help keep me organized and easily find stuff on the go. Fashionable enough that I can use it in my personal life but elegant enough to wear it in a casual office setting. Great for flying or walking to work. The only slight drawback is the main compartment is a decent size but after a few books or a few clothes, its totally full.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Great for school, if there's no textbooks
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I use this bag for school, and it is nice as long as you don't have textbooks. If you have textbooks, it could get heavy against your back. If I could change anything on the bag it would be that the zipper on the laptop pocket doesn't open all the way, which makes it a tight fit if you have a tablet and a laptop in there at once. The main pocket holds all of my notebooks, and a few small textbooks. Everything does fit nicely in my bag aside from the whole laptop thing.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Best gift I could have bought
By Miss Moci
From Barcelona, Spain
Comments about Q Laptop Backpack:
I had the idea of a laptop backpack as birthday gift for my boyfriend. I did some research online and TIMBUK2 was one of the most recommended brands so I checked it out. The designs were by far the best ones I found. My boyfriend is super happy with the backpack. He uses it for work and also for weekend trips. It stores everything perfectly and is super comfy.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
so cool i bought 2
By cobian
From Los Angeles
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I use the product for school and its easy to store my items and find them. With all the items that i do put in the backpack the weight is properly distributed and does not feel heavy on my back. Awesome product
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In a sea of generic laptop backpacks its nice to find something with a bit of style that's still functional. While I often use a more outdoorsy backpack there are times when something a little more understated and professional is required and that's where the Q fits perfectly. Its a low profile pack that carries my laptop and my iPad close to the body without any added bulk. Yes. it will carry some other supplies but in the city I keep it slim. The fabrics and textures are great.
On another note, its a big pack, by that I mean tall and wide. It swallows my 15" work laptop with plenty of room to spare and my 13" MacBook Pro looks absolutely tiny inside but I'm fine with that. Its a great bag for a professional on the go that doesn't want to blend in the masses of generic cheap black laptop bags.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Standout in the crowd
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Love it so far and priced right for similar purposes products. Unique product that differentiates me from the rest of the normal transit commuters!
Bag design allows for near vertical alignment wth back so there is no strain, bag does not bulge out when filled with items. Can barely notice carrying a load compared to previous laptop bag which was bulky and awkward and apparently ugly!
Tricot lined pocket is slightly small for sun glasses and smartphone, sometimes difficult to get both in. Zipper dimensions a bit too tight for iPhone6 with case, need to make effort which is frustrating. Larger smartphones will have more trouble.
Smart design and perfect for commuting and travel with business and school related items.
No comment on durability or weatherproofing yet, too new and it is always sunny in Arizona.
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Great Product!
By KG
From Indiana
About Me: Stylish
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This overall is a great bag. I bought it for my son who is getting ready to go to college. It's perfect for all his stuff. Good quality. The coloring was different than I expected when we got it, but it's still a great bag.
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Front zip pocket for small bits
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Smart power brick pocket remembers where your cords are so you don't have to
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Channeled airmesh ventilated back panel
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Fully padded laptop compartment lined with quilted tricot fabric; soft yet secure (fits up to 17" Macbook)
Padded front pocket offers protection for iPad mini or other small electronics
Loved by students and office warriors, the Q is a mid-sized backpack with laptop & iPad protection and organization for all the gear that entails. The front panel unzips to reveal a command center - full of places for pens, cords, cards, and keys. A bottom zip pocket provides a perfect place to stash the dreaded power brick, and a roomy internal pocket provides ample room for a sweater, headphones, or change of shoes. Finally, the Q's legitimately comfortably straps and ventilated back panel will keep you looking fresh and ready to rock, even when you'd rather be retired.
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Published: Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 2:38 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 2:38 p.m.
'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'
See what's playing at your local cinema
Movie lineup for the AMC Houma Palace 10 for the week beginning July 13:
"Brave" in digital presentation (PG)
11 a,m., 1:40, 4:10, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
"Katy Perry: Part of Me" in digital presentation (PG)
10:20 a.m.
"Katy Perry: Part of Me" in 3D (PG)
12:50, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15 and 10:35 p.m.
"Ice Age: Continental Drift" (PG)
1:50 and 7:20 p.m.
"Magic Mike" (R)
11:10 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7:30 and 10:15 p.m.
"People Like Us" (PG-13)
11:15 a.m., 2, 4:35, 7:20 and 10 p.m.
"Ted" (R)
11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5, 8 and 10:40 p.m.
"Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection" in digital presentation (PG-13)
10:10 a.m., 1:05, 4, 7:10 and 10:05 p.m.
Movie schedules and times at the AMC Houma Palace 10, 5737 W. Park Ave., are subject to change. For showings, ticket prices and view trailers, call 1-888-AMC-4FUN or visit www.events.bigfunonthebayou.com/houma_la/movies, www.movietickets.com or www.fandango.com.
Rated: R for violence throughout and brief sexuality.
Running time: 105 minutes.
One-and-a-half stars out of four.
Those four words, strung together in that order, sound like a lot of fun, don't they? It's a totally ridiculous premise, this notion that our 16th president lived a secret life, seeking out bloodsuckers at night. But it's a creative one, and it should have provided the basis for a free-wheeling, campy good time. Unfortunately, director Timur Bekmambetov and writer Seth Grahame-Smith, adapting his own best-selling novel, take this concept entirely too seriously. What ideally might have been playful and knowing is instead uptight and dreary, with a visual scheme that's so fake and cartoony, it depletes the film of any sense of danger. Bekmambetov, the Russian director whose 2008 action hit "Wanted" was such a stylish, sexy thrill, weirdly stages set pieces that are muddled and hard to follow, and the murky 3-D conversion doesn't help matters. He also keeps going back to some of the same gimmicky uses of 3-D, including slo-mo slashings and beheadings that send black vampire blood spurting from the screen; the repetition of this trick produces the same numbing effect that it had in Tarsem Singh's "Immortals" last year. The tall, lanky Benjamin Walker certainly looks the part as the title character but there's no oomph to his performance. He doesn't exude any confidence or charisma, either as he becomes increasingly skilled in vanquishing his foes or as he succeeds in wooing the sophisticated (and engaged) Mary Todd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). And once he becomes the Lincoln we actually know — with the beard and the hat and that big, famous speech — it feels like he's playing dress-up rather than embodying the spirit of a towering historical figure.
'The Amazing Spider-Man'
Rated: PG-13 for sequences of action and violence.
Running time: 138 minutes.
Three stars out of four.
It's impossible to avoid the comparisons, so we may as well just get them out of the way early so we can move on. This reboot — Prequel? New chapter? It's hard to decide what to call it — is pretty much different in every way from the staggeringly successful Marvel Comics-inspired trilogy that preceded it. The basics are the same: A high school kid gets bitten by a scientifically modified spider, discovers he has newfound super powers, decides to use them as a vigilante crime fighter and takes to the streets of New York in an unforgivingly tight red-and-blue suit. But in terms of tone, characters, performances and even visual effects, "The Amazing Spider-Man" feels like its own separate entity. It may not be as transporting an experience as those earlier films, especially the first two, but it finds a distinct voice. Much of that has to do with the central performance from Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker. In the hands of Tobey Maguire, who originated the role in "Spider-Man" a decade ago, Peter was nerdy, scrawny, insecure — that's how his everyman relatability manifested itself. Garfield plays Peter as more of a misunderstood outsider, a rebel with a chip on his shoulder. And that slightly arrogant attitude gives the whole movie a restless, reckless energy and a welcome sense of danger. At the helm, Marc Webb is a very different sort of director. He may not have sounded like the most obvious choice for a hugely anticipated blockbuster based on his only previous feature, the romantic comedy charmer "(500) Days of Summer." His big set pieces may lack some of the imagination that director Sam Raimi brought, but they'll do. More importantly, though, he conveys an emotional truth, a pervasive sense of humanity, which may be an even tougher feat in this kind of fantastical scenario. Emma Stone is bright as ever as Peter's love interest, Gwen Stacy, with Rhys Ifans nicely underplaying his role as Spider-Man's nemesis.
'Beasts of the Southern Wild'
Rated: PG-13 for thematic material including child imperilment, some disturbing images, language and brief sexuality.
Running time: 91 minutes.
Four stars out of four.
This is sheer poetry on screen: an explosion of joy in the midst of startling squalor and one of the most visceral, original films to come along in a while. The story of a little girl named Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis) living on a remote, primal strip of eroding land in the southernmost reaches of Louisiana is so ambitious and so accomplished, it's amazing that it's only the first feature film from director Benh Zeitlin. Working from a script he co-wrote with Lucy Alibar, based on her play, Zeitlin deftly mixes a sense of childhood wonder with the harsh realities of the adult world. His film is at once dreamlike and brutal, ethereal yet powerfully emotional. And he's coaxed some surprisingly strong performances from a couple of inexperienced actors he had the daring to place front-and-center. Wallis, who was only 6 when shooting began, has a fierce presence beyond her years but also a plucky, girlish sweetness. This is Hushpuppy's fairy tale but she's no damsel in distress. Her mother left long ago; now she and her ailing, alcoholic father, Wink (Dwight Henry), are living together on the narrow and ruggedly beautiful Isle de Jean Charles, known affectionately by the rag-tag locals as "The Bathtub." As her father becomes consumed by poor health and drink — and with a damaging storm on the way — Hushpuppy must figure out how to survive on her own.
Rated: PG for some scary action and rude humor.
Running time: 93 minutes.
Two stars out of four.
Pixar is long overdue for a feature with a strong female character at its center. Now that she's arrived, it's clear that she deserves better. "Brave" is beautiful to look at, as you would expect given the technical and artistic standard the animation behemoth has set. Set in the wilds of Scotland, this 13th Pixar feature is full of lush, green forests and dramatic, rolling hills, all of which look even more idyllic bathed in a delicate, mystical sunlight. Our heroine, the feisty and free-spirited Princess Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald), has a finely detailed mane of long, red curls that look so bouncy and soft, they'll make you want to roll around in them, then maybe take a little nap. And the story begins promisingly enough, with our heroine — an avid archer — leaping on her valiant steed and taking a thunderous ride through the countryside, expertly hitting her targets without missing a beat. She's obviously a character with a mind of her own, one who has no apprehension about breaking the rules — which is why it's such a shame that the film itself feels so old-fashioned and safe. The script, credited to co-directors Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman as well as Steve Purcell and Irene Mecchi, revisits some familiar Disney character types and themes: a princess in a long-ago kingdom who pays an ill-fated visit to a witch, a spell that changes everything and needs to be broken, and the misunderstandings and danger that ensue. "Brave" begins thrillingly but turns rather silly and slapsticky, as if it were aimed mainly at the little kids in the audience rather than the whole family. But the voice cast is strong, including Billy Connolly and Emma Thompson as Merida's parents, the king and queen.
'Katy Perry: Party of Me'
Rated: PG for some suggestive content, language, thematic elements and brief smoking.
Running time: 97 minutes.
Two-and-a-half stars out of four.
This Katy Perry documentary and its forerunner, "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never," are mesmerizing pieces of pop propaganda. Both 3-D concert films give a reality TV-style portrait of a young star, scrubbed clean, at the pinnacle of pop: touring sold-out arenas while making Herculean sacrifices, always finding time for their fans and goofing around with their entourages of stylists and assistants. They're unabashedly commercial movies made about unabashedly commercial enterprises. And yet they're kind of fascinating. That's because "Part of Me" is as good a document you're likely to find of modern pop stardom: how it's packaged, how it's sold and what kind of power it holds over screaming 'tween girls. The film, directed by reality show veterans Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz (the pair produced "Never Say Never,") follows Perry's 2011 California Dreams world tour. The blue-haired, dinner-plate eyed 27-year-old makes for a compelling character, but the film doesn't succeed as a full portrait. A less PG-friendly, more complicated version of the star surely exists off-screen. It must.
'Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted'
Rated: PG for some mild action and rude humor.
Running time: 92 minutes.
Two stars out of four.
Ben Stiller's Alex the lion provides a review so we don't have to. Halfway into the third animated tale about New York City zoo animals on their overseas adventures, Alex tells some new circus friends that their act was not too entertaining for families "because you were just going through the motions out there." So, too, for this latest sequel, which goes through a lot of motions — explosions of action and image so riotously paced that they become narcotic and numbing. With Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, creators of the first two "Madagascar" flicks, joined by a third director in Conrad Vernon ("Shrek 2"), the filmmakers just cannot stop stuffing things, to the point of distraction, into "Europe's Most Wanted." The result: A cute story about zoo animals running off to join the circus becomes overwhelmed by a blur of color and animated acrobatics. The pictures certainly are pretty, but the filmmakers apparently are unwilling to risk the slightest lapse of audience attention, so they put the movie on fast-forward and let centripetal force hurtle viewers along from start to finish. Joining Stiller are returning voice stars Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer, Sacha Baron Cohen and Cedric the Entertainer, plus newcomers Frances McDormand, Bryan Cranston, Jessica Chastain and Martin Short.
'Magic Mike'
Rated: R for pervasive sexual content, brief graphic nudity, language and some drug use.
Running time: 110 minutes.
Three stars out of four.
Steven Soderbergh makes movies about sexy subjects, then strips away the sexiness about them. He is fascinated by process, often to a clinical extent. In recent years this has been true of "The Girlfriend Experience" (starring real-life porn star Sasha Grey as a high-priced Manhattan call girl), "Contagion" (about a viral outbreak that claims lives worldwide) and "Haywire" (featuring mixed-martial artist Gina Carano as a special-ops agent seeking revenge for a betrayal). Even the glitzy, star-studded "Ocean's 11," one of Soderbergh's most pleasingly escapist films, takes its time laying out every detail of its ambitious Las Vegas casino heist. Now he's directed "Magic Mike," about the cheesy world of male stripping in the cheesy setting of Tampa, Fla. Yes, the dance numbers themselves exude masculine, muscular heat — how could they not with guys like Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Alex Pettyfer and Joe Manganiello strutting on stage in barely-there costumes? — but Soderbergh and writer Reid Carolin take us behind the scenes and linger over the mundane minutiae of the performers' daily lives. They go thong shopping. They rehearse their routines. They lift weights backstage. And they count their dollar bills when their work is done. Even the after-hours hook-ups with liquored-up ladies from the audience seem like one more obligatory step, like brushing your teeth before going to bed. It all seems glamorous and thrilling at first, though, for Pettyfer's character, Adam, who becomes known as The Kid. A neophyte in this neon-colored world, he serves as our guide once the more established Mike (Tatum) recruits him to be a dancer at the Club Xquisite male revue.
'People Like Us'
Rated: PG-13 for language, some drug use and brief sexuality.
Running time: 114 minutes.
Two-and-a-half stars out of four.
It's that increasingly rare kind of film: an adult drama. The filmmakers seem so nervous about this prospect that they fill the movie with action-film editing and a camera that moves so restlessly through domestic life that you'd think it lost its keys. It comes from the screenwriting duo of Alex Kurtzman (who makes his directorial debut) and Roberto Orci, who wrote the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot, among other blockbusters. Chris Pine stars as Sam, a glib New Yorker reluctantly summoned home to Los Angeles for his father's funeral, where he discovers that his rock producer dad secretly fathered a daughter (Elizabeth Banks). She's a recovering alcoholic working as a bartender, trying desperately to get by as a single mom to a sarcastic, troublemaking 11-year-old (Michael Hall D'Addario). Sam befriends them without revealing their shared roots. It's a soapy set-up of a familiar, heart-rending melodrama. But it owes much of its charm to the excellent Banks, who enters the film like a powerhouse, striding in heels and a black mini-skirt to the principal's office to pick up her son, while chastising a pair of ogling students: "I know your mothers," she says. She does much to enliven this awakening of a sibling relationship, forged as much over tacos as through blood.
'Rock of Ages'
Rated: PG-13 for sexual content, suggestive dancing, some heavy drinking and language.
Running time: 123 minutes.
Two-and-a-half stars out of four.
Just when you thought you'd never hear Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me" again outside of a strip club comes this big, splashy homage to the decadence of 1980s rock 'n' roll. Specifically, we're talking about 1987 on the Sunset Strip, the birthplace of bands like Guns N' Roses and Poison, and all the big-haired, eye-linered debauchery that defined that scene. Your enjoyment of this musical, based on the Tony-nominated Broadway show, will depend greatly on your enjoyment of this music — because director Adam Shankman crams in a lot of it. Did you make out in a car with your high school honey past curfew to Skid Row's "I Remember You"? If your answer is yes, you'll probably have a good time, even though the movie lasts an awfully long time. Sure, the characters are all broad types, from fresh-faced newcomers with dreams of stardom to grizzled, cynical veterans who've seen it all. And sure, their antics are glossed-up and watered-down compared with reality to ensure a PG-13 accessibility. But the movie has enough energy to keep you suitably entertained, as well as a knowing, cheeky streak that prevents it from turning too reverent and self-serious. Julianne Hough stars as Sherrie, a wholesome blonde fresh off the bus from Oklahoma who hopes to make it as a singer in Los Angeles. Instead, she ends up working as a waitress at the venerable (and fictional) Bourbon Room, where she quickly falls for aspiring rocker Drew (Diego Boneta). But the club has lost some of its cache, to the distress of its owner (Alec Baldwin in long hair and a leather vest) and his right-hand man (Russell Brand, being Russell Brand), so they're hoping a performance from rock god Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruise, easily the best part of the film) will keep the place alive.
Rated: R for strong brutal and grisly violence, some graphic sexuality, nudity, drug use and language throughout.
Running time: 129 minutes.
Three stars out of four.
Oliver Stone's latest is a lurid, pulpy film noir with a sexy, sometimes dreamlike California beach vibe. It's an intriguing contrast, this mixing of a genre and an aesthetic that may not necessarily sound like they'd blend well together, but the result is the most explosively poppy film Stone has made in a long time. "Savages" is darkly funny and stylishly violent but never reaches the overwhelming level of audiovisual assault of, say, "Natural Born Killers," for example. Directing from a script he co-wrote with Shane Salerno and Don Winslow (based on Winslow's novel), Stone draws us into this glamorous yet seedy world and draws strong performances from his eclectic ensemble cast. Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson co-star as best friends and business partners Chon and Ben, young surfer-dude bad-asses who got rich quick growing a particularly strong strain of pot. They live in a spectacular Laguna Beach home with endless views of the Pacific Ocean and happily share the affections of their mutual girlfriend, the beautiful, blonde O (Blake Lively). Everything's going great until the leader of a Mexican cartel, the regal but ruthless Elena (a fantastic, scenery-chewing Salma Hayek) tries to expand her territory by taking over their business. Much brutal bloodshed ensues. John Travolta, Benicio Del Toro, Demian Bechir and Emile Hirsch are among the players with something at stake in this increasingly deadly game.
'Snow White & the Huntsman'
Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and brief sensuality.
Running time: 125 minutes.
Three stars out of four.
Astonishingly beautiful and breathtaking in its brutal imagery, thrilling and frightening in equal measure, yet as bereft of satisfying substance as a poisoned apple. Director Rupert Sanders' revisionist take on the classic Brothers Grimm fable upends expectations of traditional gender roles while simultaneously embracing what a fairy tale should be. It's dark and dangerous, vicious and violent. And yet the performances — notably from Kristen Stewart as the title character — don't always live up to the film's visionary promise. First, there's the problem of casting anyone who's supposed to be fairer than Charlize Theron as the evil queen. But beyond Stewart's distractingly inconsistent British accent, she simply lacks the presence to serve as a convincing warrior princess. Theron, meanwhile, gets too screechy; with her imposing height, deep voice and mesmerizing beauty, she's far more powerful when she dials it down. Still, the look and the energy of "Snow White & the Huntsman" keep it engaging. Theron, as the magical and manipulative Ravenna, has married (and quickly killed) the widower king, locked his daughter, Snow White, in a tower and plunged a once-peaceful realm into a wasteland. Once the princess comes of age and earns her fairest-of-them-all status, Ravenna's power is threatened. This sets the film's chase in motion: Snow White escapes and Ravenna hires a veteran huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) to find her, but instead this tormented soul becomes her reluctant protector.
Rated: R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language and some drug use.
Running time: 105 minutes.
Three stars out of four.
A teddy bear who smokes pot, parties with hookers, beds pop stars and spews profanity in a New England accent as thick as chowdah? Such a creature could only come from the blissfully twisted mind of "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, confidently making his feature directing debut. If you love his show, you'll probably love this: In a lot of ways, "Ted" feels like a live-action, big-screen version of "Family Guy" with its pop-culture references and inappropriate racial humor, flashbacks and non sequiturs. (MacFarlane co-wrote the script with two of his longtime collaborators on the series, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild.) He's even included the same sort of full orchestral arrangements of jaunty transitional music between scenes. And Ted, whom MacFarlane himself voices, happens to sound exactly like Peter Griffin (which would have been obvious even without a throw-away joke spelling it out for us). Still, you chuck enough of this stuff at a wall and some of it will stick. Most of it does, actually, for most of the time, with only a few of the one-liners showing signs of strain. "Ted" also happens to be sweeter than you might expect, despite the predictability of its formula. Mark Wahlberg stars as John, whose wish upon a star as a lonely kid in the '80s turned his Christmas-morning teddy bear into a walking, talking friend for life. Decades later, John and Ted are still best buddies living in Boston; despite the adolescent attachment, John has managed to carve out a healthy, four-year relationship with the beautiful and exceedingly patient Lori (Mila Kunis, who voices awkward teenage daughter Meg on "Family Guy"). But by this point, something's gotta give.
'That's My Boy'
Rated: R for crude sexual content throughout, nudity, pervasive language and some drug use.
Running time: 116 minutes.
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Next to last year's abysmal "Jack and Jill," Adam Sandler's latest movie looks almost inspired. Yet this father-son story is just more of the same gross, lazy comedy that Sandler's been doing for years, the repetitiveness evident in his generally declining box-office receipts. Sandler's audience is outgrowing his movies, even if he isn't. The idea behind the movie isn't half bad and provides some parallels to Sandler, a guy who's made a career out of stunted adolescence. In this one, he plays a middle-aged loser who was in his early teens when he knocked up his seventh-grade teacher and has been the world's most infantile dad to his boy ever since. With his son (Andy Samberg) now a successful Wall Streeter preparing to marry his dream girl (Leighton Meester), Sandler turns up scheming to fix his own financial problems and reconnect with the son he hasn't seen in more than a decade. With some thought and effort, the movie could be fresher, smarter and much, much funnier, while still retaining all the gross-out gags and idiocy that Sandler loves. Sandler, also a producer on the movie, and director Sean Anders stay on the really stupid end of stupid, though.
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Obama Renames a Mountain while Russia Plays for Keeps in the Arctic
Russia has been busy in the Arctic in 2015. Its activities, according to a fascinating round-up by the New York Times' Steven Lee Myers, have included a massive military exercise featuring "45,000 troops, as well as dozens of ships and submarines, including those in its strategic nuclear arsenal, from the Northern Fleet," the permanent deployment of two new brigades of troops to the country's northern reaches, and increased air patrols. By contrast, the U.S. army is considering reducing the number of troops it keeps in Alaska. Earlier in August, Russia resubmitted a claim to a huge undersea expanse of the Arctic to the U.N. Russia fields 41 icebreakers, compared to two fielded by the United States, and is building 10 search-and-rescue stations with accompanying communications infrastructure along its northern coast. There is a lot of oil and gas under that ice, and Russia is playing for keeps.
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i was looking for a muted natural blush to wear for work/daytime & with brighter lippies, most of my blushes consist of very bright peaches. i tried to go with the bobbi brown illuminating blush in maui but it pulled so much red on me that i looked like i had rosacea cheeks. i stopped by mac when i was returning the bb and i would have never in a million years picked this color! it looked like a boring brown peach in the pan and i totally expected it to look muddy on me. its PERFECT-exactly what i was looking for. its a muted, matte peachy brown, very natural. i still get color but its not competing with my lippie. i am NC42, golden warm, asian skin for reference. i will buy this again!
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I wanted a natural blush, not very ''loud'' and i ended up here since i found it at a great deal. I am NC25-30 and i cant see the blush on my face. I think is too sheer and i thing i ve to put on much product to even see it. Maybe its just me and maybe the color isnt proper for my face...In general i like the texture of alla Mac blushes.Maybe i might try Melba :/
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I love this colour! I have just recently joined the MAC bandwagon and this blush is a beautiful colour on my asian skin. It gives a beautiful natural peachy/coral flush.
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With its clunky keyboard, low-resolution screen, pitiful RAM allocation and miserly hard drive, your first computer was probably the worst computer you ever owned. And yet it's likely you remember it with great fondness, either as the product that started your love affair with the PC or as a measure of how far home computing has come in such a short time.
Micro Men, the BBC drama about Sir Clive Sinclair's 1980s battle with Acorn founder Chris Curry, reignited PC Advisor's nostalgia for the home computer boom, so we asked several members of the team to spill the beans on their first home computers.
Join us in reminiscing about the glory days of the UK computer industry and the boom years of the 1990s by taking part in our online poll in the left-hand navigation menu. Then, discuss the results in our forum.
But first, read on for the full details of our first home computers.
Paul Trotter - Amstrad CPC-464
I'm going to start off by cheating because I have only a vague recollection of the first family computer in the Trotter house. It was referred to as "the Tandy" and in recent years I've come to the conclusion that it was probably a TRS-80. As far as I recall, it was only ever used for Space Invaders. Not a great anecdote.
So I'll skip a few years and focus on our first recognised home computer - the Amstrad CPC-464. It arrived in August 1986 and had a colour screen as opposed to the second-rate green screen version owned by my best friend at the time. I have a clear memory of the salesman demonstrating a word processing tool and a number of other worthy applications. I used it for games.
A number of titles in the 'Roland' series came with the CPC-464 (if you remember the Roland games and fancy a trip down memory lane, take a look at this and this) and after that I bought more or less every Amstrad football game available.
Amstrad CPC-464
Like others here, I tried my hand at programming - usually by typing in lines of code printed in Amstrad Action magazine. On one occasion, I spent hours typing in code to produce a personal finance management app, at the only period in my life when my income per week exactly matched my outgoings - £1.
As for the hardware itself, our CPC-464 had 64KB RAM and a built-in tape deck. A floppy-disc version was available at the time, and I distinctly remember reading the letters page of Amstrad Action in which a reader had asked whether the cassette had had its day. The magazine's reply was that cassettes were still the cheapest form of storage, and would be with us for a few years yet.
By 1990, even I'd lost faith in such promises, and made the switch to an IBM-compatible PC.
Rosemary Hattersley - Commodore 64
The first home PC I had access to was a Commodore 64. It was a little bit different as all my friends had ZX Spectrums. A couple of people had BBC Micros like the ones in our school library. I think the school had the sum total of three. We didn't get to use them unless we were on the GCSE Computing course though.
My brother and I used our Commodore 64 mainly for games. As well as the usual £2 games such as Frogger and Horace Goes Skiing, I'd buy books of games code and then tap it all in. The games were stored on C60 cassette and if you accidentally put a computer tape in your cassette player, you were treated to the screeching sound of binary. Not pleasant.
There weren't really any of the applications you get today - no proper word processor or email, of course. However, I wrote a program to catalogue the contents of my music collection (tapes and records, of course) and made a basic database.
I also had a plastic keyboard that fitted over the top over the computer keyboard and that I used to learn to play the keyboard - the 80s lent itself to this sort of stuff. I was really miffed when my brother sold the Commodore 64 to his mate along with all the games we'd typed in and, of course, my trusty keyboard.
About three years after we got the C64 my Dad decided to get one of these new-fangled laptop things - a white Elonex 386 model that cost about £3k as they were just beginning to import them from the US.
Join us in reminiscing about the glory days of the UK computer industry and the boom years of the nineties by taking part in our online poll in the left-hand navigation menu of the site. Then, discuss the results in our forum. But first, read on for the full details of our first home computers.
Simon Jary - Apple Macintosh LC
My first home computer was an Apple Macintosh LC, still one of Apple's classic designs, nicknamed at the time as the "pizza box". It was the first thing I bought when I left university.
Despite the LC standing for 'Low Cost', it set me back just under £1,500 in 1991 - I'm presuming a bank loan was called for. For that you got a 12-inch colour screen, and a separate slimline desktop running a 16MHz processor and boasting 2MB of memory and a 40MB hard drive.
For the same money today you'd get change from a 3GHz iMac, with 4GB memory, 1 terabyte drive and a stonking 27-inch widescreen. It was the first Mac to come with a built-in microphone, which allowed for hours of fun with the Mac's amusing text-to-speech function.
The Mac LC was the best-looking Mac since 1984's original and unsurpassed until the first iMac. Aimed at home and light-business users, many also found their way into schools. It could easily run QuarkXPress 3, which I was teaching myself to use. The 12-inch screen was a monster compared to the 9-inch version I'd been used to using to create the student union newspaper. I'm not sure they even made 27-inch TVs in those days!
The one-button mouse looked like a cigarette packet someone had half trodden on, and there was no sign of a CD drive - just a slot for one of those floppy disks you might recall.
The Mac LC remained a bedroom fixture for several years, before its eventual replacement with something bigger and uglier. I donated it to a school, but now wish I'd kept it for my little office museum of ancient Macs I've owned.
Andrew Harrison - Apple PowerBook G3
Some people dabble with a tired hand-me-down as their first PC, or maybe shop patiently around for a cheap but cheerful starter computer. Long-time IT hacks, meanwhile, get dewy-eyed at the question and will cite some lowly but revered piece of computing history as their first PC. My experience is probably a little different.
I'd just started at my second publishing job, having learnt in the first, over a six-month stint, why Apple Macs were the first choice in the print industry. As I came to appreciate, they were easy to operate and didn't crash so much when you least needed them to.
It was summer 1998, I'd just come onboard as technical editor, and I had as my new desk PC some beige Apple box, probably a Quadra. My editor, meanwhile, was totting his own PowerBook 1400, a tired but productive workhorse used for subbing and tweaking QuarkXPress 3.32 layouts on his daily commute. He managed that on this laptop's 11in, murky passive-matrix 800x600 screen.
With not too much encouragement, I set out to get one too. Fortunately, for the sake of the extra longevity that I would appreciate with my final buying choice, that 117MHz machine had just been discontinued. It was replaced by the Apple PowerBook G3 Series.
Also known by the codename Wallstreet, Apple's latest line of laptops had a shapely black and plastic rubber body, up to 13in 1024x768 screens - and scorching G3 processors.
With the help of an audio industry PR who knew Macs inside out, I sought advice on which model to get. After all, this was my first computer purchase, and I wanted to get it right. Especially given these lofty price tags that were starting around £1500.
I settled on the middle of three, as the 250MHz version had L2 cache ('which is good', I was assured), along with a roomy 4GB hard disk and 32MB of RAM. Other niceties included a removable CD-ROM drive, which you could replace with a second battery - I even added a Zip drive module at one point - and an S-video output, so I could play out video on the telly.
It was beautifully put together, and I didn't even mind the extra 3.5kg of weight on my shoulder, every single day of the journey to the office.
That curvy laptop nearly bankrupted me, of course. Or at the least, started a long spiral of credit card abuse. But I loved that computer: how it could connect to this big internet out there with its own built-in 56k modem, and could play QuickTime video clips without a hiccup, and how it opened up the secrets of the Mac OS 8.1 operating system.
It even tore through Quark XPress magazine pages, when I found some extra time to do work on it.
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Matt Egan - Acorn Electron
There aren't many upsides to your mum being a teacher in your school, but here are two: you get out-of-hours access to the school guinea pigs, and use of the computer each weekend.
In early 80s Yorkshire, this was up there with having a Soda Stream in terms of cutting-edge chic. As a consequence the first computer in our home was a regularly borrowed Acorn Electron, which became a permanent addition to the Egan playroom circa 1985. A budget version of the BBC Micro, the Electron had a mighty 32KB RAM, and ran BBC BASIC.
You could use any tape-recorder to load programs and, coincidentally, the interminable loading progress made a similar noise to the guinea pigs at feeding time. Hooked up to a black and white telly, we used it for word processing and digital drawing, but mainly games. Lots and lots of games, most of which were borrowed and copied from other kids, or scraped off the front of nascent computer mags.
Chuckie Egg was a big favourite, as was a slightly quirky space game: Elite. I remember the graphics taking an age to render and being particularly unreliable, and odd patches of random pixels appearing around the window, but I loved that computer.
It seems odd now that the first computer I personally owned, and the next PC I subsequently used regularly, was a Windows Me system from e-Machines that I purchased in 2000. What a different world we live in less than 10 years later!
Carrie-Ann Skinner - Tiny P75
In 1996 when both my brother and I were getting towards the point of choosing which subjects to study at GCSE, my parents decided it was a good point to upgrade from our Amiga 500+, purchased because it allowed us to play games and do school work, to a Windows PC.
My mum plumped for a Tiny P75, chosen because that's what they used in the four-person office she worked in at that point. The Windows 95 PC had 8MB of memory, a 630MB hard drive and was powered by a Pentium 75 processor. It had a CD drive and a floppy drive.
Although the machine came bundled with Microsoft Works, my parents also paid an extra £200 for Corel WordPerfect as, once again, that's what they were using in my mum's office. We hadn't heard of Microsoft Word at that point.
It was at least another year before we got internet access, so the machine was used to type letters and coursework (replacing an ancient Brother word processor) and to play an awful lot of solitaire.
Unfortunately, the Tiny P75 came to a bit of a sticky end only six months in. My brother thought he was, at the age of 14, competent enough to upgrade the sound card with one he'd 'acquired' from our school's stock room.
He thought it would be a good idea to dismantle the PC on a nylon carpet without earthing himself. He then proceeded to fit the sound card and put the PC back together. However, the machine refused to boot up. None of us were tech-savvy enough to repair it, or even guess what the problem was, so it was straight to Tempo (remember them!) to purchase a new machine.
Join us in reminiscing about the glory days of the UK computer industry and the boom years of the nineties by taking part in our online poll in the left-hand navigation menu. Then, discuss the results in our forum. But first, read on for the full details of our first home computers.
Marie Brewis - Toshiba Satellite
I was lucky to grow up with computers at home from an early age, and I had no need for my own PC until I started university. Being strapped for cash, my dad's Toshiba Satellite cast-off running Windows 95 was an attractive proposition for typing up essays and lecture notes.
But the laptop showed its age, and its need to be permanently hooked up to the mains for life support prevented it from enjoying a life on the road. A year or so later, I jumped at the chance to upgrade to his recently homeless Windows 98 laptop - another Toshiba Satellite. This at least survived half a lecture (admittedly, this was all that was left once it had started up), but it wasn't much fun to lug around on the underground.
The lack of wireless connectivity made connecting to the web at home impossible, and the difficulty in finding and installing supported applications and drivers made simple tasks such as accessing USB drives something of a chore. This was particularly irritating, given that the laptop would read but not write to DVDs. Its 3.5in floppy-disk drive certainly wasn't of much use. Attempting to edit images on the low-resolution screen was another activity I don't much miss.
With a good clean up and the addition of an external DVD drive and a copy of Microsoft Works, the Toshiba was dragged as far into the future as possible without undergoing internal surgery. It's now in retirement, but the laptop will still begrudgingly wake up on command.
Chris Byers - ZX81
My first computer was a ZX81 given as a birthday present in 1983. It was thankfully supplemented with a 16k RAM pack with the obligatory piece of blu-tack to stop it from wobbling and wiping out whatever it was you were attempting to do at the time! The other added benefit was that my family's portable TV was a black and white type so no-one complained too loudly when it disappeared into my bedroom on long-term loan.
As an introduction to computing, though, it was second to none and hours were spent typing out magazine listings for games which hardly ever worked until you waited for the next month's edition to print any missing sections that had been edited out by staff who didn't realise that the entire thing had to be published (this is true as many of the editorial staff were not technical at the time).
I had that machine for 2 years and by the end it had a 'real' keyboard stuck over the membrane type and quite a good knowledge of basic, but was still baffled by machine code. I then got a Commodore C16. My parents reckoning was that if it looked like a Commodore 64 then..... Ah well.
Join us in reminiscing about the glory days of the UK computer industry and the boom years of the nineties by taking part in our online poll in the left-hand navigation menu. Then, discuss the results in our forum. But first, read on for the full details of our first home computers.
Forum Editor - IBM XT
I had worked with a mainframe computer for some time before managing to talk my bank manager into lending me the money to buy a home computer. It was an IBM XT - the first home computer to have an internal hard drive. I clearly remember my excitement on the day it was delivered, and how impressed I was by its huge 10Mb hard drive and 256Kb of memory. It was 1983, and I thought I had well and truly entered the space age. It was a business machine mind you, no games ever graced its screen, and of course it wasn't connected to the internet.
I spent the whole of the first weekend marvelling at my machine's speed - the processor zipped along at a heady 4.77MHz - and at its size; when you were used to sitting in front of a giant mainframe that filled an entire room, a PC seemed miniscule.
I never ceased to marvel at how such a small machine could handle all my work so efficiently, and I've certainly not experienced quite the same sense of excitement with any computer since. The big green 'IBM' that appeared on the screen each time I fired up my new toy was the icing on the cake - colour like that was destined to impress the neighbours when they were invited in to admire the computer, and I made sure I invited all of them, several times - nobody was spared.
Heady days indeed, and what amazes me as I write this is the thought that it all happened just 26 years ago. How things have changed in just over a quarter of a century. My current machine is many times more powerful than the old IBM, and can do things that couldn't have been dreamed of back then. They say you never forget your first love however, and I certainly haven't forgotten the XT. We entered the world of home computing together, and a door opened which hasn't closed yet. I must remember to check my Direct Debits, I'm probably still paying for it.
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Tom Rosenbauer on the left giving instructions, Rick Carpenter on the rght. An attentive Jamie in the far right.
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Rick makes his way across the river.
Almost at the top of the climb on Delaware Rd.
Rick is not tired. He never is.
So far so good. The hump on my back is my Camelbak.
No Pizza at Louie's Pizzeria.
Somewhere along CR645.
This flat section was good relief amidst a first 70 miles of a lot of hills.
Rick celebrates!
The info controle on the top of the Tunnel Road climb. What is the number on the silver mailbox?
Rick says it's 8!
On the crossing into New Hope.
The beautiful Delaware River
Another river crossing
At the finish, enjoying a cheese filled pretzel. I look pretty exhausted.
Rick seems all jolly!
My bike at Tom's house, after the ride.
I think Tom is still celebrating.
The sign-in sheet, instructions, map and profile, hour-by-hour weather forecast, etc.