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Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3: A Look at Canvas and Amazon.com
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In this video, Seth McLaughlin, Program Manager for Internet Explorer, looks at a how developers can use HTML5 Canvas in the third build of the IE9 Platform Preview. This developer sample demonstrates a real-world example using Amazon.com and shows the value of hardware accelerated Canvas. This sample and the third IE9 Platform Preview are available on the IE Test Drive.
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text: Vogue Taunts Us With LOL-Worthy HorseDodai Stewart10/20/09 1:40pmFiled to: Mag HaglolvogueVogueHorses67EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Though the November issue of Vogue is already out, I can't move on from October — specifically the photograph on page 234. I feel like I've been challenged to LOL by Anna Wintour herself: A horse wearing a hat?!?! Advertisement On the one hand: When Vogue tries to be funny, it kind of sucks the fun out of mocking the magazine. On the other hand: A HORSE WEARING A HAT.I don't even know what to do. Advertisement Here's the obvious solution: But if you have something better, please use the awesome roflbot and paste your version in the comments.Earlier: Vogue's November Cover: Photoshop Of Horrors Previous LOLVogues Reply67 repliesLeave a reply

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Based on the Cash and Counseling model, this program offers qualified, Alabama seniors and disabled individuals the option to select and manage their own care providers. This consumer directed program is open to Medicaid participants that are currently receiving services under the State of Alabama Independent Program (SAIL), previously referred to as the Homebound Waiver, or the Elderly and Disabled Waiver (E & D).
The Personal Choices program shifts the money designated for services provided under the Medicaid waivers to the participants themselves and allows them to direct their own care services. To be clear, cash payments are not made directly to the participants, but rather to an intermediary financial management agency, and then to care providers of the participants choosing. Participating individuals no longer receive care from Medicaid.
This type of program, in which the consumer directs their own care, is referred to by many names, including participant direction, self-directed care, and cash and counseling. Nationally, these programs are growing in popularity in part because they allow eligible individuals to be hands-on when it comes to the care they receive. They have a choice as to what provider they prefer, what type of care they need, and when the care is needed. An individual may have someone represent him or her to help manage care if he or she is not comfortable doing so alone. This program may also allow certain family members to be paid as personal care givers, as long as they are over 18 years of age and pass a basic screening test.
This program is governed by the Alabama Medicaid Agency in collaboration with the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services and the Alabama Department of Senior Services.
To qualify for the Personal Choices program, individuals must enroll (or be enrolled) in Medicaid and be receiving personal care or personal assistance services under the SAIL Waiver or the E & D Waiver. Individuals must also be living in one of the 9 counties that offer this program. Under the rules for these waivers, a medical declaration is required that shows the client requires nursing home level care. In addition, there are certain financial requirements.
Income Limits - These change each year. For 2016, individual income cannot exceed $2,199 / month. However, if only one spouse of a married couple is applying, their joint income can be shifted to provide a livable budget for the non-applicant as well as help the applicant to qualify.
Asset Limits - These typically do not change as frequently as the income limit. For the last few years, the limit for a single applicant has been $2,000. However, for 2016, non-applying spouses can retain up to $ 119,220 in assets excluding the value of their home provided it is lived in by the owner(s).
Past Asset Transfer Considerations - This is an important factor. The state will review an applicant's financial transfers as far back as 60 months preceding their application to verify they did not give away assets to qualify for Medicaid.
Exceeding the limits by relatively minor amounts may not rule out qualifying. Planning professionals who specialize in Alabama Medicaid eligibility can help families to reach the state standards by shifting assets and using specially designed trusts. Learn more about how a Medicaid planner may assist.
The program pays cash to a Financial Management Service Agency in place of providing services. The Service Agency compensates care providers as determined by an agreed upon plan between the participant and their Personal Choice Program Counselor. Plans can include the following types of care:
If the prospective applicant lives in one of the nine counties served by this program, then they can apply for the program by contacting one of the two appropriate AAAs: West Alabama Regional Area Agency on Aging or South Alabama Area Agency on Aging. More information about the program is available on the Alabama Personal Choices webpage.


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The long-term goals of this project are to understand the neural systems that mediate the context-dependence of memory, particularly memory for traumatic events. To address these questions, we use auditory fear conditioning in rats to study the acquisition and extinction of aversive memory. Extensive evidence indicates that learned fear generalizes broadly across contexts (both in space and time), whereas memories of extinction are tightly bound to the time and place of extinction. Work in previous years of the project has identified a critical role for the hippocampus in the context-dependence of fear extinction to an auditory conditioned stimulus (CS). Further, hippocampal modulation of neuronal activity in the amygdala appears to be involved in gating the expression of fear memories after they have undergone extinction. This proposal seeks to characterize the neural circuits and cellular mechanisms by which the hippocampus gates the expression of fear and safety memories encoded in the amygdala. We hypothesize that the hippocampus modulates amygdala circuits involved in fear expression via the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. We will test this hypothesis by using a combination of electrophysiological recordings and permanent or reversible brain lesions. The first specific aim of the project will investigate the contribution of the medial prefrontal cortex to the context-specificity of extinction using both permanent and reversible lesions. The second specific aim will determine the essential connections between the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and amygdala that are required for the context- dependence of neural and behavioral responses to an extinguished auditory CS. The third specific aim will characterize the context-dependence of cellular firing in the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and amygdala during the retrieval of extinction memories. Parallel recordings in all three areas will seek to uncover correlated neuronal activity in the circuit, and the latency at which context-dependent neuronal responses to auditory conditioned stimuli emerge in each area. This work has broad significance for understanding flexible memory representations in the brain and potential clinical interventions to increase the generality and permanence of fear inhibition after extinction-like therapies (e.g., exposure therapy).
The long-term goals of this project are to understand the neural systems that mediate the context-dependence of memory, particularly memory for traumatic events. We have proposed that the context-dependent expression of fear memories involves an interaction of the hippocampus and amygdala. An attractive hypothesis is that this interaction involves a hippocampo-prefrontal cortical projection, which in turn modulates neuronal activity in the amygdala. The goal of the present proposal is to test this model using a combination of techniques, including high-density single-unit recordings, sophisticated behavioral designs, and temporary brain lesions. This work will not only yield critical information concerning the essential neural substrates underlying fear and extinction memory, but will also yield insight into the mechanisms underlying the context-dependence of memory, which is a key feature of many memory systems. Moreover, this work will have far-reaching implications for the design of therapeutic interventions for disorders of fear and anxiety in humans.
|Morrow, Jonathan D; Saunders, Benjamin T; Maren, Stephen et al. (2015) Sign-tracking to an appetitive cue predicts incubation of conditioned fear in rats. Behav Brain Res 276:59-66
|Maren, Stephen (2015) Out with the old and in with the new: Synaptic mechanisms of extinction in the amygdala. Brain Res 1621:231-8
|Maren, Stephen (2014) Fear of the unexpected: hippocampus mediates novelty-induced return of extinguished fear in rats. Neurobiol Learn Mem 108:88-95
|Fitzgerald, Paul J; Seemann, Jocelyn R; Maren, Stephen (2014) Can fear extinction be enhanced? A review of pharmacological and behavioral findings. Brain Res Bull 105:46-60
|Maren, Stephen (2014) Nature and causes of the immediate extinction deficit: a brief review. Neurobiol Learn Mem 113:19-24
|Goode, Travis D; Maren, Stephen (2014) Animal models of fear relapse. ILAR J 55:246-58
|Maren, Stephen (2013) Putting the brakes on fear. Neuron 80:837-8
|Maren, Stephen; Phan, K Luan; Liberzon, Israel (2013) The contextual brain: implications for fear conditioning, extinction and psychopathology. Nat Rev Neurosci 14:417-28
|Knox, Dayan; George, Sophie A; Fitzpatrick, Christopher J et al. (2012) Single prolonged stress disrupts retention of extinguished fear in rats. Learn Mem 19:43-9
|Maren, Stephen (2011) Seeking a spotless mind: extinction, deconsolidation, and erasure of fear memory. Neuron 70:830-45
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It's time we just admitted it's not working out. I cannot keep up this charade any longer and we need to just make a clean break. When we first started our relationship so many years ago, you were new and exciting, you were different. I had never met anyone like you. Every month you brought something new and mysterious to our relationship. You liked the things I liked, we had the same tastes and style. But now I have to look back and wonder what happened to the you I fell in love with.
I'll always fondly remember December of 2015, when you gave me a Christmas gift worth remembering. I still wear my BB-8 socks with my pixel sweater Christmas tee every year when the weather starts to get cold. It's strange how in only a year so much could change. Hell I used to write about you all the time, but now I don't even have the will to bother. I have enough trinkets on my shelves but you keep getting me more, and what's worse is they are so very frequently the same thing. How many Funko Pops do I need? If that is what I wanted I would have just gone with any of the many Funko boxes, but I choose you. And also, Funko Pops SUCK. It's the same damn thing every time. I used to think there was some kitsch to it but people are going to look back at this crap in a few years like Beanie Babies or Pet Rocks and weep at the money they wasted on Funko Pops for properties they didn't even like.
"Let your waves crash down on me and take me away" – Yellowcard
If you really knew me, you would know I want things that have value to me. Even a little thing like the Heartstone pack you gave me so many months ago, even if it was only a dollar value, that let me know you cared. How come you never give me games any more? Where are my Magic promos, or promo figures for games I may want to try. Magic has a new set out every 3 months, have you ever tried talking to Wizards of the Coast and seeing if you could get some Loot Crate exclusive alternate art promo card or something, or were you too busy trying to figure out how you could stuff another Mega Man thing down my throat.
Lately all you try to do is dress me in clothing that, if you really knew me, you would know I didn't like. A World of Warcraft movie shirt? A Walking Dead shirt? I haven't watched that show since season one, why would you ever think I would like that? To make it worse I know your just doing it because it's trendy, because whenever I go to the comic shop or the game store to play Magic, I see a bunch of other people wearing the exact same thing you got me. I can only imagine what PAXEast is going to be like. I don't think I can wear anything you got me.
"I want to thank you for being a part of my forget-me-nots and marigolds" – Motion City Soundtrack
What's worse though is how every time we talk, you try to get me to spend more money on you. You're always trying to get me to pay for your friends Loot Crate Gaming, Anime, and DX, trying to convince me like I am missing out on something. I don't know what kind of guy you think I am, and maybe when I was younger and more rambunctious I would have been into that sorta thing, but I was with you back when it was just you and I have been faithful the whole time. How do you think it makes me feel every time you tell me how much better these other boxes are? Where is the reward for my commitment? Because it seems like my reward is just you trying to make me feel like you are inadequate.
Hell, if I didn't know better I would think most of the things you have provided to me over the years were actually hollow marketing ploys that you were making me pay for instead of cool, curated gifts you discovered. I mean a lesser man would not recognize you were just being timely by giving me a Warcraft Movie shirt and instead think of it being a promotional item that Blizzard probably paid you for. I mean, it would strike me funny to think Disney would pay you to promote Star Wars, when we all know I was going to see it anyway right?
"I'm glad I didn't die before I met you" – Bright Eyes
Look, I want to be constructive here, and I am sure you will find someone else who is more into the stuff I am not. You're not some irredeemable monster or something, you do plenty of good. The pins you have been making lately are top notch and I think you should keep that up. Pins are a thing now. Plus you know how to wrap a gift like no one else. And when your not dragging your entourage around trying to get me to pay for them, you're not greedy, you are a pretty cheap date (in a good way). But we have to be honest here and just cut it off. It's over. We can still be friends, I am sure I'll see you at the conventions I go to, hell I think you'll be next to impossible to ignore frankly, but it's time we said our goodbyes and moved on. It'll be hard not hearing from you monthly, but alas it is time. Remember me fondly, and remember the good times. I will.
Your Ex-looter,
It's been a while. Truth be told we did record a different episode 130 before this one, but fate had other plans and wiped our recordings out. But we had to get together to discuss this year didn't we? Yes we did.
This episode we are also joined by young Alex O'Neil who helps us count down the least worst of 2016. Enjoy! Or don't! 2016 really was kinda rough.
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But being all about that BunkerLife™ can be lonely. Days and nights merge into one as time moves on, and other than your daily rations and workout schedule, you really have nothing much to do to kill the time. The older generations may have been OK to kick back and read a book, but your a tech savvy GenX'er / Millennial and you need some electronic entertainment. You didn't just run on that treadmill generator all that time just to get in shape for emergence day did you? So here I present to you my list of the top games you'll want to bring with you as you wait out the end times. Think of it as a shopping list for this coming Christmas, the last Christmas before you will never feel that warmth and love again.
Enter the Gungeon (or any Rougelike)
A rougelike or dungeon crawler is going to be your best friend in the dark cavern you now call home. You only have so much storage to wait out 4 years so you need to maximize your gaming utility. Procedurally generated games will provide the best gaming to shelf space ratio. Any rougelike you are partial to will probably be fine, I recommend Enter the Gungeon myself because of its difficulty curve. 4 years is probably not enough time honestly if you really want to get to the end, but certainly it will occupy a lions share of your waking hours. Other honorable mentions for this slot are The Binding of Issac or Torchlight 2.
Crazy Taxi
You are going to need some contrast while you are down in your new isolated world. It's dark and gloomy underground, so why not grab a game that is going to serve the purpose of brightening up your color pallet and put a smile on your face. The frenetic pace of Crazy Taxi, combined with its sunny color scheme will make you remember fonder times, times before all our money was on fire and when Las Vegas was not beachfront property. Just make sure to grab a copy with the original soundtrack, because nothing will kill your buzz faster than hearing the stock music version of the game boot up.
Government or City Sim
It may go without saying, but when you come out of your bunker any shred of society that is left will likely be roving bands of Anarcho-Fascists. The raging battles that will ensure between then and the BernieBro revolution collective are going to be bloody and never ending, fighting tooth and nail until neither remain standing. Basically a clean slate that the smart of the survivors will be able to mold into a new society dominated by reason and facts. Not an easy task for someone who studied Photoshop and poetry in college, so your going to want to bulk up on your world and government building skills. Now what title you pick here really depends on what you want to make of your fledgling new world. Most of you are going to want to grab a copy of Civilization VI to get a good, well rounded set of leadership and management skills, though I suspect there are a few of you out there who imagine its going to be more like Black and White out there, and you may not be wrong. Both of those titles are great options, though at this point RollerCoaster Tycoon may be more applicable than anything.
Nintendo Track and Field and Duck Hunt
Stay fit and stay frosty. We are not kidding when we say its going to be bad out there and these are skills you are going to need.
That's about it, but obviously depending on how classy your bunker is you may have some extra shelf space, so feel free to ad a smattering of personal favorite titles to the list. I'll only caution you two things before we wrap this up though. First of all, you may be tempted to bring one of the Fallout titles with you. Don't, it's going to be far to depressing and far to real when you see how damn well near utopian that society looks compared to what you are going to have to deal with. Secondly, is to get moving. By all estimations you have until January 20th at the latest, but as we have all recently learned, anything can happen between then and now. Godspeed.]]>
Powers is now in its somewhat miraculous second, 10 episode season. It is (loosely) based on the comic series of the same name. And when I say based, really it just takes the synopsis of the books and some key characters and events and then pretty much makes up the rest as you go along. They knew the book would likely not translate to the show 1:1, so they decided to go a different route, which is probably a smart idea, as we have seen some direct translations in the past that have failed for being too adherent to the source material. Instead of trying to spend a bunch of time rebuilding the shows mythology, they created a modified backstory. The show decided that if it was going to fail spectacularly, it was going to do so on its own terms.
If you have not yet watched this show, I know all I have written so far paints a pretty bleak picture. Let me tell you right away that this article is not one to try to discourage you from watching this show. The show is awful, and for reasons I will get into you probably should watch it.
First let's get talk about the acting. Without telling you who's who or does what, know that this show has prominent cast members from the High School Musical movies, The Bratz movie, and Sharlto Copley in it. Remember how good Sharlto was in District 9? Can you name one other production he was good in? Well it won't be Powers.
Most of the acting is pretty bad and over the top, and it is a superhero show so some of that can be forgiven, but just when you think it cannot get any worse it turns into some Disney channel drama class nonsense with Sharlto at the center chewing the scenery like it is his only source of vitamin acting. A great number of the actors in this show were cast for looks first (and there are some truly good looking people in the program) and acting talent somewhere in 5th place.
There are some fun performances in the show. Wolfe (Eddie Izzard) in season one is fun enough a villain that you won't hate the actor forever afterwards, and a few of the supporting roles are played adequately enough that they could deliver a line on some WB show somewhere, but for every scene that has a tolerable performance there is some equally cringe inducing thespian standing right next to it delivering (shouting) their lines like some high school production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Johnny Royalle (Noah Taylor) always feels like he is delivering his lines with the inflection he should have in a different part of the episode, while Calista (Olesya Rulin) is to busy looking like one of the missing Olson twins to remember not to act like she is in an Olson twin movie.
The director also seems to have a penchant for dramatic pauses and characters mumble-stuttering parts of the dialogue. Whenever they really want to convey drama on the show, it feels like the director told the actors to stare into the void as long as they could hold out, and to then rescue themselves from the brink just in time to deliver their lines in a confused tone. There are seriously some parts of the show where the dialog feels so unnatural I had to stop and ask myself if I was in this same fantastical situation in real life and I delivered my message in the same manner, would people understand what I was saying or ask me why I was speaking with such odd timing and inflection. Shatner would be so proud.
But Sharlto is on a level beyond everything else. The fact that he is trying to affect an American accent is so thick in every scene you could slice it and serve it on toast. The South African accent is not an easily hidden one, and if you watch anything else he has done you can see that he either has had to embrace his accent full on, or do something that sounds like a drive time radio caricature.
What winds up happening when Sharlto tries to elicit a serious accent in a moderately dramatic role not filmed in Johannesburg is it turns into an accent that is wholly un-recognizable, at least on this planet. It just never feels right. It's not American, not Californian, it is something new and unnatural. At times the sound he is making and his mouth movements do not pair up in my brain, and it almost sounds like his voice is either out of sync or disembodied. Sharlto also only has 2 speeds of dialog delivery, bland, and "the world is ending I left the oven on oh fuck oh fuck I just pissed myself."
There was a period of time in my life in the late 90's, and these are fond memories, when I lived upstate New York and on Sundays my mother would drive me and my youngest brother to Catskill to play Magic and various other card games. I think I was about 15 or 16 years old at the time. We would play for hours and then Mom would pick us up and drive us half an hour back home. When I got home my father would always be watching the same set of TV shows, which was sort of a reward for him because while everyone was out of the house he was able to get his work done. The high caliber of shows he would watch included Xena, Hercules, Star Trek Voyager, Deep Space Nine, and Babylon 5. There is something about Powers production value and just the feel that it gives me that really reminds me of those shows (and Highlander. Don't forget Highlander,) except that those shows were made almost 20 years ago and Powers has literally no excuse to not be high quality.
The shows of the 90's had limited budgets, and computer graphics were still costly and fledgling. When you had a scene with CGI, it was typically a fully rendered one, instead of one that integrated with the actors because of how deep the uncanny valley was back then. Directors still relied on camera tricks, editing, and implying what was happening off camera. I really wish Powers used some of these techniques instead of what they are doing.
The special effects are so inexplicably bad it makes you wonder if it is a social experiment to see how long people will tolerate it. Most of the flying scenes look like low rent matrix rip offs where you can see where the wire harness actually lifts the persons shirt a little, or really clumsy CGI masking with a lot of digital blur. We have come a long way since the original superman flying scenes in these here talkie pictures, but there are moments where I thought George Reeves was going to join the cast and try to sell me war bonds.
In any scene where someone has laser eyes or light powers or really any sort of fanciful thing happens, they slap these CGI effects on top of it that look painted on. They feel like such an afterthought that you cannot help but focus on the cast member doing pantomime hadokens behind the silly laser light show they added in post. It is like every super hero in the show has the same powers, and that is to make low poly count effects pop up out of nowhere.
Even worse than the super hero powers though are some of the blood effects all over the first season. The villain in this season, Wolfe, is able to absorb power from other superheros by "eating" them. The show handles this in a figurative way just as much as a literal one, in that Wolfe does actually attack, murder, and cannibalize people in the show. But whenever he does there is this cartoonist gore geyser that happens that is somewhat reminiscent of the bed scene from the first Nightmare on Elm St or the cellar in Evil Dead 2.
Except those scenes used practical effects so the blood acted like blood. In Powers these blood scenes use CG Blood which not only looks bad, but also looks as if it is coming from another video that was layered on top of the actual video and then someone just turned the opacity down. It is just terrible and you have to wonder if it is just because CG blood so much cheaper than practical. I mean I do not want to downplay how bad these scenes look. I have been to GWAR concerts with more realistic blood scenes.
There are also times when the show really does feel like it is being shot on a set. There is a flimsiness to a lot of the outdoor scenes, and during any of the fights you half expect a Styrofoam boulder to bounce off an extra in the background.
The story is probabaly the best part of the show (not a high bar) but it still has it's foibles.
The show mostly takes place in LA, and part of the reason they set it there is because they wanted to draw parallels between these heros trying to make it and how Hollywood is filled with failed actors all still trying to chase the dream. Superhero in this world in a lot of ways has replaced actor. This in and of itself is a great narrative, but it fails to resonate because we all know what LA looks like, and it does not look like Canada.
It would seem that even though they could afford what looks like stock footage blood effects they couldn't afford the licensing rights to some stock footage freeway shots. The show does not give you anything to make you thing you are in LA, it just asks you to take it's word for it and then when you are about the give the show your trust it hits you in the back of the head with a hockey puck.
The story goes to great lengths not to hit you over the head with the Hollywood parallels directly, but the stereotyped characterizations they make really detract from the story they are trying to tell. Every cop is street hardened and grizzled, every hero is aloof and losing touch with reality like a low rent Dr. Manhattan, and every agent is constantly swindling someone over a cellphone while wearing a sharp suit. Sharlito, who plays a detective, is consistently dressed like he is ready to audition for the role of sharp 80's douchebag, because I guess that is what they think LA is.
I still think you should watch this show. I know after all the complaining I just did about it that is a strange thing to say, but there really is a lot of joy to be had in watching a high level failure like this. Xena was a super high rating show in its heyday suffering from many of the same flaws, but for all its failings it was a fun show to watch unfold. Likewise I think the fact that Sony is trying to embrace a new story and distributing it in a new manner is something worth pursuing, and the story itself has a lot more meat on its bones that most of the old, bad network stuff. Netflix has shown us that unique content can break the distribution mold, and potential cord cutters like me love having the added value to our subscriptions.
At this point, after having watched two seasons of this show, I think I am on the hook for a third season. Not for the story, not because of the time invested, but just to see if they can actually make the show into a real program or to watch the greatest train wreck of all time unfold before me. And while I may be watching it purely in a hipster ironic fashion at this point, it has become a cathartic experience unlike most things.]]>
Space. The final fro… SPACE! GONNA GO TO SPACE!
In this episode Fred and Jon wax poetically about all the space games, the space movies, and being pandered to with 80's nostalgia. They had space in the 80s!
Jon also shamelessly plugs his new podcast, The Bro-C, the best and probably only The O.C. re-watch podcast on the earth. But not in space. If you are in space you should check it out though at www.thebro-c.com!
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So just to make sure we are doing everything we can to bring joy to the rest of the world, WE'RE BACK! New games, new show format, same old hosts. Well, mostly the same. Jon wears tank tops now, and Fred is recording it an echoy room (Hes gonna fix that next episode. Promise.) but it still the same discussion and banter you love!
So join us once again as we discuss some games and maybe some other stuff here on Fantastic Neighborhood!
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So I found me a copy of the first episode of the new Puzzle and Dragons Cross anime with subs. It is also no secret I usually hate anime, but I feel like this is either going to be a gem or a god damn unmitigated disaster so I decided what I am going to do is this. I'm predicting a Pokemon Yugioh hybrid, but likely with some sorta really uncomfortable Japanese female subjugation added to it.
I am going to watch the entire thing and write what I am feeling at the moments they happen in this post. It's not live because I do not type that fast, instead I am going to pause the show, write, continue until I get though this, then rapidly post it with hopefully minimal typos and swearing. Away we go:
Before the anime even starts, this "free anime site" that I got linked to on a forum page has SO MUCH CLICK BAIT PORN ON IT. This is a children's show damn it. I think. I mean I am 34 but fuck off.
This is a tank shooting at a dragon. I cannot identify what dragon off hand, but I can assure you the game has not had tanks and soldiers in it before. Not what I expected so far.
-5 points for bullshit anime nonsense words. Where is the pro-rave device?
Thanks Japan. In the cradle of human technology for reminding me that a dragon, a wizard looking guy, and a kawaii monster need a radio with an exposed antenna. How much you wanna bet in a few moments they are going to be using anti-rave beams to capture spirits inside magical lockets or some shit.
Fuck you and your fucking hair Japan. Faith in you after this = Zero.
There is something poetic about this frame with that subtitle.
Apparently in this show Pokemon trainers are called Dragon callers.
How is that not a broken wrist?
The way they explained the "Puzzle" element of Puzzle and Dragons so far is that there are things called drops that only some people can see I guess. So it's Pokemon but with some chosen one Harry Potter stuff. I GUESS?
Another -5 points for redundant phrasing. Physically attack with live rounds, as opposed to spiritually assault with phantom ammo I guess?
Back at the opening scene. Story telling device or cheap method to save on animation costs? You decide.
And there is your pokeball ladies and gents.
Our hero just made water power appear. Chosen One status confirmed.
"Subtly? Subtly is for Sissies and Babies! We are an Anime based on a match 3 mobile game damn it and we are going to own that fact. You don't like that fact I will 7 combo your ass out of here you fucking Nancy!" – Actual quote from one of the creative directors during script writing session. It sounds much better better in Japanese.
This makes me so excited to see what a Killer Instinct anime would be like.
And then it just ends all of a sudden and there is a cutesy song and dance scene for babies.
And just like that it is over. Episode one where the show really does not accomplish anything except make me realize that anime artists are just out of new ways to draw hair. How about a hat next time Japan? A kitchy hat with some sort of frills to it instead of a hair tattoo of a 4 pointed star?
What box did we get? Loot Crate "Dystopia" – June 2016
What is it? Loot Crate is a monthly themed subscription box that sends subscribers an assortment of toys and products. It is specifically for genre fans and often has exclusives.
What does it cost? From $17.95 to $19.95 monthly for the US, depending on your subscription level
Was this one worth it? Probably not for veteran looters.
It has been a hot second since I have written one of these, but I think it is high time I got back on the horse, and then subsequently ride that horse straight off a cliff.
This months Loot Crate was themed "Dystopia." Dystopia in Loot Crate speak means mostly older properties that we could licence on the cheap. Seriously I'm surprised there is not a Heavy Metal or Iron Maiden thing in this box some of the properties are so old at this point. Who's your audience Loot Crate? WHO!
My first reaction to this was "what the hell is a Dorbz?" Then I realized it was both a spin off toy line from Funko, as well as a sad reminder of the slow and ever present erosion of the English language that is being perpetuated by a corporate structure that is forever trying to cash in on trends by exacerbating them to the point of damaging the very fabric of our society. Totes, amirite?
It's yet another god damn vinyl statue of a thing I only sorta give half a shit about. Shelf space comes out a premium now days and I am not wasting it on a generic fallout thing. That space is reserved for Babymetal Pops if anything. Auction fodder or give away.
I know by most standards The Matrix is a pretty current property, but it seems like it came out eons ago. How relevant is this property to people younger than me?
I mean, jigsaw puzzles are fun. Once. And it really does not matter what picture is on them so it's not a total waste. Rainy day item, and by that I mean maybe we can put it in the bunker for the end of the world where we don't have the internet or video games.
WHAT? Robocop? Original Robocop? I mean I am going to rock this shirt hard. People are going to be envious of how hard this shirt gets rocked. But I'm 34 years old and I lived on the cusp of this movies relevance. Most of the kids subscribed to Loot Crate, like are they even old enough to remember Starship Troopers? Are they going to know what Verhoeven means when I say something is Verhoevenesque, which is something I say like 4 times a day?
I am going to see some 17 year old wearing this within the next few weeks and I am only going to have a single reaction:
In principal I think this is an interesting item. Based on the Bird and Cage key from the game, you can actually get this key cut and use it provided the grooves in the thing match your lock. That's cool. Neat idea Loot Crate.
Now let's talk about the reality of doing that. Hardware stores make money off selling blanks, not the actual act of cutting them. I've never walked into a hardware store with a blank key before. I feel like it's going to be a strange encounter for most people. Also you know how many bad cuts I have had before that had to be tossed in the trash. It would be even better if I didn't use a keysmart which completely invalidates the kitsch of this. All I'm saying is maybe be ok if this does not work out.
It's some stupid metal face thing. How many versions of this skull in different mediums am I going to get from Loot Crate? I would say throw it out but it's metal so you should recycle it. Maybe you can get like a 5 cents deposit for the trouble.
I normally do not review the pins because they feel like a filler item, but they have been getting much better for a while now. Where they used to just be crappy buttons now they are full on soft enamel ala Pinny Arcade or TeeFury. This one I like a lot just because it isn't tied directly to a specific property, it's just a cool bomb pin.
Oh, whats that? You said you like cool pins? Did you know, much to my wifes ire, I made a bunch of pins of my pixel man that you can read more about here. Do you want one? Ask.
So what is the real value of this box?
Combined Retail Value: ~$31? add like 5 cents for the deposit on the T2 skull.
Even with the subjective nature of evaluating the values on exclusive items, this box feels like total crap to me. The shirt is something I'll wear and the pin may come with me to PAX on my lanyard, but the rest of the box is give away at best. This is the worst box in some time sadly.
If this box interested you, I would recommend you join Loot Crate. And if you like getting free stuff in the mail, why don't you drop us an email at email@example.com with a question or comments or just say high along with your contact info, and we will be glad to send you some junk!]]>
I am of course talking about the convention giggles. Leading experts on the matter (me) predict that in the coming years Conventionus Hilaritum Giggleitus (or CHG,) which is the name I just made up for it as the leading expert on the subject, will take place at 100% of gaming and genre conventions. Even more disturbing is that in a pseudo-scientific informal survey that was conducted by me of the five or six guys I go to every convention with, almost 100% of them have experienced the effects of this phenomenon. Also Chris was totally lying when he said he didn't know what I was going on about, so take that for what you will.
But what are the convention giggles, and how do they happen?
The symptoms of this highly contagious condition are unmistakable, but they are shared with another common affliction of some convention goers, extreme obnoxious stupidity. It should be noted that both conditions can exist in a subject at the same time and are not mutually exclusive. If your suspected case of convention giggles starts more than 48 hours before the event in question or 24 hours afterwards, it is more than likely that you may just be a moron and should seek an immediate IQ test, because people probably really do not like you and you are too dumb to see it.
Early onset symptoms include drowsiness, and inability to fall asleep even though you have to be up in three hours to get in the queue room, and repetition of words and phrases that sound funny at the time but when looked at in retrospect make no sense at all.
Once the condition has set in a person can expect to come down with uncontrollable bouts of laughing and possible sense of euphoria and shortness of breath. A commonly observed symptom at this stage also includes making banal references to things commonly shared by the group in lieu of an actual joke, repetition of themes, and talking about that thing that happened only a few hours ago.
Late stage symptoms can also include physical exhaustion, sore throat, pain in the sides, and explosive diarrhea.
While these symptoms are all fleeting, they are extremely contagious and have a high occurrence rate. It is highly recommended to lock your hotel room door to prevent the spread. Cases have been recorded outside of the convention environment in the past, but almost exclusively among people with prior exposure.
It is currently unknown what causes the disorder. Bacterial and viral causes have yet to be ruled out, and if you were going to find a bacteria or virus that caused something like this, it certainly would be at the perti dish that is a gaming convention. I mean for shits sake Craig did you even wipe yourself after? You stink!
It is currently unknown what the long term effects are, if any. It is recommended to people suffering the ailment to avoid contact with the real world for at least 24 hours after the last symptoms have cleared up. Just stay indoors and recover, read the 2.0 rule book for that game you bought or maybe play one of the games you looked at all convention instead of wallowing in self pity or something.
It is also highly recommended that you avoid any high stress social gathering for the same time period, which includes weddings and funerals. It may not seem funny for a Rabbi to cough at a funeral, but let me tell you if you were there when Rabbi Schmuley did at grandpas wake and you could not tell if it was part of the Hebrew prayer or not… well it is better not to have to deal with what comes after that.
The most important thing to remember is that it will pass. The disorder is mostly harmless so enjoy it when you get it, you may even get a sense of longing to experience it again once it has passed, but don't worry because conventions are annual.
I want to take the time here to tell you about the first time I experienced CHG, now that I can finally talk about it after all these years. It was June 20th, 2003 and it happened in a hotel room in New Jersey. I only remember this because I specifically remember that the night we got to the con we turned on the TV and the show that came on was the Late Late Show with Craig Killborn with musical guest Skye Sweetnam, playing the preteen angst anthem Billy S. I looked up the date, the internet is amazing. Also, if you have not seen this video, just watch it and be amazed at how overly sexualized they make this at-the-time 15 year old as she sings a song about how she wants to be willingly ignorant. They are literally ripping up books at the end of it like some strange Canadian/German Anarcho Punk statement or something.
My friends and I took a late afternoon trip from New York to southern Jersey to go to a small gaming convention, which is redundant really since small dirt cons are the only kind they have in Jersey. We had to stay the night so we would make it for the start of the card game tournament we were playing in the following morning. The game was the now defunct Warhammer 40k CCG by the likewise defunct Sabertooth Games, and to understand what happened you have to understand a little about the Warhammer 40k universe.
This is a biovore:
In Warhammer 40k (or 40k for short) the biovore is a creature from a race of aliens called the Tyranid. If you ever played Starcraft, know that the Zerg were almost entirely ripped off from the Tyranids. The 'nids gimmick is that they are a hive mind race composed of genetic living weapons. Biovore here is basically a living mortar launcher, but instead of mortar shells they shoot out spore mines, those little floating guys next to him, which explode and release toxic gas.
So we are tired, it has been a long day, and we have a big tourney in the morning. We are finally in the hotel room unraveling, trying to get our backpacks ready for the convention ahead of us in the morning. Young Miss Sweetnam is playing on the TV in the background, and my longtime friend Ed is complaining about his feet hurting. Shortly after he mentions that a balled up sock whizzes over my head. So that not funny, he threw a sock right? Ed then stands up straight, looks me deadpan in the eyes from across the room, and just screams "BIOVORE!"
Within moments I cannot stand up anymore and fall half onto the bed, I am laughing so hard that I don't think I am going to maintain my bladder control. Because Ed threw a sock. He is on the other side of the room, also uncontrollably laughing at what may have been the dumbest, non-joke ever. I have tears in my eyes from laughing, I am exhausted, and I am literally in pain from all of it. Shortly there after the other shoe did literally drop and another sock went flying overhead an into the wall behind me. Ed tried to make a joke but only gibberish and laughter came out. You know when you're laughing so hard that you try to speak and words won't form correctly? That was the scene. It was one in the morning and we were both at the point where we needed to go to bed, but couldn't because we kept trying to say something, but then failing to do so and then laughing even harder at the fact that we were both incoherent. I think may have honestly past out at that point from laughing.
It was not till much later in life when I started to experience these symptoms almost every single time I went to a convention that I started to piece it all together. This wasn't some friends having fun at a convention and enjoying each others company. That would be far to coincidental. No this was a contagion, an laughing virus that must have incubated in someone at the con and spread to us in our weakened conditions.
As a long time recurrent host of CHG, I have gone on to live a full and mostly satisfying life, and I assure you that you can to. It is a manageable thing, so just remember next time you are at a con to drink plenty of water, try to get some sleep, and for goodness sake do not throw any socks.]]>
A former co-worker of mine was the victim of an attempted swatting, or rather a bystander of it as the swat team meant for her was sent to her mothers house. Some time later the harassment struck her again as a panel she was scheduled to speak on at SXSW was targeted with threats and subsequently cancelled, presumably by #gamergate, or if not them "formally" then someone using similar methodology as all these other harassment that the #GGers later denied was them and said was "radicals". The point is online harassment, when we refer to it, is not simple acts of anonymous name calling anymore. Maybe we need a new term, because performing an act against someone that has the real world implications of someone getting hurt or killed has probably crossed some sort of boundary where it becomes assault or criminal endangerment.
But how did we get to this point? One would assume that no one goes from nothing to swatting someone. There has to be a ramp up, a "gateway drug" that people take to get to this level of behavior. Most would point their fingers to online gaming as the breeding ground for this, though really any method of interactive communication can be to blame. Many other theories such as that of Toxic Masculinity exist to try to explain it, and though I don't want to get into a gender discussion in this article, I personally do not think that is the root cause. Harassment and violence have existed long before these new methods of employing them came about.
As a gamer I am a staunch advocate for and defender of my hobby. I do not believe video games cause violence as some political figures would have you believe, the same way that I do not believe that rock music makes you worship the devil. I do not want the government to step in and regulate gaming as it tends to do whenever any industry gets too large or faces a problem too big for itself to manage quickly. Up until this point the gaming industry has at least taken some steps to self govern, the ESRB or PEGI ratings systems being notable if not fully effective examples. But just because gaming is not responsible for it, does not mean they do not have responsibility to try to stop it.
I also happen to believe that the gaming industry has to take some blame for the chain of events that have taken place over the years that have lead to the escalation in online harassment. Game makers and the cottage industries that have sprung up around gaming such as fan forums, reddit, and video solutions like Youtube and Twitch have made it easier than ever for people to harass others, and have put the responsibility to solve these problem on the shoulders of the communities and the victims. I would contend that not only does the industry not do enough to self regulate, but it often seems as if they want to encourage foul behavior. At the least they are far more reactionary than proactive on the matter. To them the benefits of these systems often outweigh the negative stigma of online harassment, if only from a financial perspective.
I'll use the example of Hearthstone, which I play regularly. I am a good player, not a great one, but I enjoy the game. It also happens to be a game where because of the swingy and random nature of some of the mechanics and cards, upset come from behind victories are not uncommon. People get salty when they lose to a sudden top deck or a random aberrant roll. Anyone who has had a board full of minions and then lost the 1 in 8 roll against a Ragnaros knows how bitter a pill that can be to swallow.
Hearthstone is a game that requires no communication between players to function. There are no team mechanics in the game that would require communication, it is a 1 on 1 match up between two opposing players. Yet Hearthstone has two communication methods within the platform that can enable people to harass their opponent. The game is part of Battle.net, and as a result has retained the buddy list and messenger system that some of Blizzards other games use. Those other games have team elements contained within them that Heartstone does not, so the communication is important if not critical to some of them. I have received more friend requests after a bitter sweet win from my opponent who wished to tell me something I didn't know about my sexual orientation than I have ever received genuine buddy requests. In fact I have never received an unsolicited buddy request in Battle.net that was anything but someone telling me about what an unskilled player I was or about my mothers sexual prowess. I have friends on the buddy list from the real world, who if I did not have this list I would speak to with other means like AIM or Skype, but no friends who I causally met after a good game. There is no method to know that the person requesting your friendship is not doing so simply to call you names and threaten you, though at this point anyone who has played an online game for more than 10 minutes should know that it is pretty much 100% of the requests you will get.
I have a friend who I know from playing Magic. He is a very good Hearthstone player and regularly hits legend rank, which is the highest tier you can get within a months gaming season. Now to hit that rank you have to beat a lot of people, so certainly some of them are going to be miffed that he knocked them back down the ladder when they were on a hot streak. It seems that every month my friend gets some new buddy requests from players simply to tell him that his mother is going to rot in hell because he managed to beat them in some sort of "unfair" way. The images below are some of the more colorful examples, posted with his permission.
Now beside players who are young and relatively new to the game, it's not hard to ignore these requests. They are immensely frustrating to receive and still potentially toxic to younger players, of which Hearthstone has quite a few being a very PG-13 title, but still manageable. But what about the other harassment that takes place in the game, one that is infinitely more innocent and yet even more toxic?
There is an in-game emote system in Hearthstone that has some predefined speech bubbles, a system many other games also employ. The emotes range from saying thanks all the way up to taunting your opponent. But in reality each and every one of them is a taunt depending on the context and the stage of the match you are in. This system is often used solely to add insult to injury to a game you are about to lose. Some of the more colorful players will often use out of context emotes like hello over and over again, just burning time and making you sit there before they beat you. I would say it is unsportsmanlike to do something like this, but this behavior is not only tolerated by the community but also the games developers all the way up to the tournament level. The devs did willingly add this feature, it is not like it's a community mod. If you did something like this at a game of Magic or a sporting event, ran up to your opponent after the game was over and kept saying hello and good game over and over again, you would be penalized or tossed out, where as in Hearthstone it is often cheered.
To further make this feature frustrating, you can disable it but only for each instance. I, and I assume many other players, have no interest in taunts or being taunted. I do not feel obligated to say good luck to my opponent in an anonymous online game, so why is there not a global feature to disable this communication? Yes I can silence a single person who is being a jerk, but it does not prevent them from wasting time taunting me since they do not know they have been silenced. Without a global mute setting, I either have to mute my opponent every single game, or wait until they start acting up to mute them. It puts the onus on the player every single time.
Non-global mute settings are not anomalous to Hearthstone, and it permeates plenty of games, even ones geared to younger players. At some point last year I was playing Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare on my PS4 (they gave it away for free for some weekend event.) It's a perfectly great game and obviously acceptable for most all ages (the ESRB rates it E for everyone.) So in a game that openly invites young children to play, you would assume something like automatically on voice chat would be disabled, but you would be wrong. Not only is it enabled for every random kid to shout some gibberish slurs into their mic, even if you are not using a headset, but you can only disable it by muting that person though a convoluted menu system, that happens while you are playing the game, assuming you know who said it. It does not seem like a great system for kids, or reasonable adults.
If I had a kid playing an otherwise perfectly acceptable game like this, I would think I would want some parental control over this. Not only do I not want my (non existent) child to be exposed to this in a place that should be a safe space for their own safety, it is this kind of behavior that feeds itself. Young minds observe this lack of tact and think it is the norm, and learn to reciprocate it. This is one of the main factors that has lead to the ever increasing propagation of this behaviors that we see today.
These channels for harassment, or trolling if you want to make it seem less damning, exist in both intentional and unintentional forms. But game companies have been all too keen on enabling it even when they identify the problem and have a solve for it. Teabagging in FPS games is an all to common occurrence that came out of unintentional means. Having a crouch feature in most games is a relevant game play ability, but more often than not it seems as though it is only used to insult. Halo was notorious for this, and even after having removed to encourage better conduct, it was re-enabled in Halo 4. But why?
I would postulate that for the gaming companies, when it comes to their financial bottom line, find it much more lucrative to leave this type of behavior in the game than to remove it. Even though in some cases it borders on irresponsible for them to leave it in, the conflict these things create generate buzz. Conversations about how badly a player trolled someone, or videos of people flipping out on voice chat are everywhere online, and they are in effect free marketing for the games. Even bad press is still press, and people are more likely to hear about your game in this very crowded gaming market this way. It is the same reason you see obvious trolls in most every online forum. Even though these posters often provide nothing to a conversation other than negativity, they are playing within the rules, or at least just enough to not get booted for it. They tend to post more, they create conflict that creates more posts that creates more conflict that create more posts, and that generates more page views and in turn ad revenue. It's not hard to see why the path of apathy is the path to revenue in this situation.
Now most of these platforms have reporting tools, where you can submit complains about people who are over the line, but what the line is for one person may not be the same for another, and may not be actionable within the platforms rules. Realistically being a jerk is not against the rules most places. It also once again puts the responsibility on the person who was the victim of said harassment, or if not them at least a concerned party who had visibility into the exchange. This is problematic for a few reasons. One is because why should it be the victims responsibility, but also why should they do anything as opposed to go elsewhere? That is the stance most of the pubs have taken if you base it on their actions, why should the users feel any different? It creates a self perpetuating downwards spiral, where bad behavior begets worse behavior and increasing apathy. People who go in the other direction are labeled narcs or social justice warriors and often targeted themselves for doing the right thing. The people behaving poorly have been doing so for so long they feel entitled to it, because it is the status quo.
Not all gaming companies are deserving of this finger wagging mind you. Riot games, makers of League of Legends, has taken several steps towards combating this issue, realizing the negative effect it has on current and potentially new players. Some of it still makes it incumbent upon the players to take actions, such as awarding commendations to players who exhibit good behavior, but some of it is behind the scenes or automated. One great thing that they did was to make communication via chat optional, requiring a user opt in before being subject to chat or being spoken at in game. This at least puts up a barrier to prevent toxic chat from targeting players who may just want to play, and allows the game devs the ability to track a smaller subset of users who much first opt in.
So what is the solution? Do we create rigid policing methods that border on identifying thought crime? Certainly not, as even the most jaded of us (here, here) can see there is inherent value in communication tools in game. But taking the very free market stance of giving them the tools and letting the people sort it out has already proven to fail tremendously in many cases. Where as being harassed online used to be an anomalous experience by internet early adopters who frequented chat rooms, it has now become the norm to the point that we have to have after school specials on it to teach our kids. I would suggest to the developers of the world, take a long hard look at your games and ask a few questions:
Simple steps like the above can lead to great results both immediately and in the long term. The internet is not going to change over night, and there will always be those who truly enjoy being disruptive more so than playing the game, but at least you know you performed your due diligence to safeguard people and perhaps over time can contribute to a positive change. Never forget that these are people playing in your creation and that your image is tied to them. You want your game to be remembered as a reflection of your effort and love for its creation, not for what a hostile environment it was.


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If you've spent any time around very young children, you know they can sometimes be pretty stinky. But particularly pungent urine in a child that is fussy or feverish could be a sign of infection.
Urinary tract infections are common in kids, leading to more than a million visits to pediatricians' offices each year in the U.S. Bacteria or other microbes enter the body and can infect the urethra (urethritis), bladder (cystitis) and kidneys (pyelonephritis). Antibiotics knock out most cases, though serious infections may cause kidney scarring or blood poisoning if not treated.
So it's important to diagnose quickly, which can be difficult to do in children younger than 3. The symptoms – unexplained fever, irritability or vomiting – aren't all that specific, and collecting a reliable urine sample usually involves a catheter, which is invasive.
Reports of stinky urine in a feverish child should be another red flag for doctors, according to a newly published study by Canadian researchers in Pediatrics.
"If the child has fever and at the same time his urine smells stronger than usual, the risk of having a urine infection is a little bit increased compared to a child not having smelly urine," Dr. Marie Gauthier, a pediatrician at Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center in Montreal, tells Shots.
She and her fellow researchers studied 331 children ranging in age from 1 month to 3 years old who were brought into Sainte-Justine's emergency room and had a urine culture because doctors suspected infection. Parents were asked to complete an eight-question survey, including two questions about whether their child's urine smelled stronger than normal or offensive.
Parents mentioned malodorous pee in 57 percent of the 51 kids diagnosed with a urinary tract infection and in 32 percent of the 280 children who didn't have infection, according to the Pediatrics report.
Gauthier says the foul odor may be due to the production of ammonia from bacteria. While this is often cited as a symptom of urinary tract infection, previous studies have been contradictory.
She emphasizes that the latest findings are mostly something for doctors to think about, not parents.
Stinky pee accompanied by fever increases the likelihood of infection — but the association isn't strong enough to make a diagnosis one way or the other, Gauthier says. Still, the presence of another risk factor might help doctors decide whether to collect urine from a child when doing so might require invasive measures.
"I think that most of us do not ask parents this question when we assess a young child in the ER for unexplained fever," says Gauthier, who also teaches at the University of Montreal's Department of Pediatrics. "If the answer is yes, well, it's not necessarily a reason to do a urine test, but we should be a little bit more cautious."
Other things can also cause a funny smell. If a child hasn't eaten for 12 or 24 hours and has vomited and is a little dehydrated, it could cause a different or strong odor, she says. Certain foods such as asparagus can also produce a funky whiff.
So when should parents be concerned? Gauthier says if a young child has an unexplained fever for more than 24 hours, call the doctor.


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2:35 faithful priest. While the statement in 3:20 that Samuel was "established" as a prophet of the Lord suggests Samuel may have been the fulfillment of this prediction, the clearer fulfillment comes in the person of Zadok, who served as high priest alongside Abiathar under David (2 Sam. 8:17 note) and came to preeminence under Solomon (1 Kin. 2:35). The descendants of Zadok held the high priesthood from the time of Solomon to the time of Antiochus Epiphanes and the Maccabees (for details see "Introduction to the Intertestamental Period").
my anointed. This is the second allusion to the coming king in this chapter (v. 10 note).
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BRD-Groupe Societe Generale SA, Romania's second-biggest bank by assets, said its profit increased in the first quarter of this year as risk costs fell.
The bank's net income increased to 37 million lei ($12 million) in the January-March period from 13 million lei in the same period a year earlier, the Bucharest-based lender said in a regulatory statement today. The net cost of risk fell 30 percent to 246.5 million lei compared with 350.5 million lei a year ago, according to the statement.
"We will continue to work on normalizing the cost of risk and we will continue our efforts to implement the needed measures to optimize the costs," Philippe Lhotte, the bank's Chief Executive Officer, said in the statement.
Romanian banks, most of which are owned by western European lenders, have been struggling to contain a surge in bad-loan costs as the worst recession on record in the country and the government's austerity measures hampered borrowers' ability to repay debt. Bad loans accounted for 22 percent of total lending in the banking industry at the end of March, Central Bank Governor Mugur Isarescu said on May 5.
"Romania's banking system continued to see a decline in lending in the past 12 months, mostly triggered by the corporate sector," BRD said in the statement. "Even though the companies demand for credits remains low, a stronger economic growth in the coming months should be a balancing factor."
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Romania's banks faced a "shock" increase in bad loans at the end of 2013 due to a central bank probe into lenders' bad-debt reporting practices, the head of the central bank's supervision department said in December.
BRD increased its non-performing loan coverage ratio, gaging the provisions set aside to cover loan losses, to about 71 percent at the end of March from 69 percent at end-2013, it said in the statement.
The bank's 2013 net banking income, its main source of revenue, dropped 12 percent from a year earlier mainly due to a decline in its net interest margin and an increase in the bank's liquidity reserves, according to the statement.


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Dreading Valentine's Day
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1 - 20 of 25 Comments Last updated Feb 13, 2013
#1 Feb 11, 2013
How many guys are catching hell for not wanting to take their girl out on Thursday night? The day is nothing more than a major scam designed by the floral industry as an excuse to gouge some poor sucker!
#2 Feb 12, 2013
Find a non-commercial way to express your love. A handmade card, cook dinner, run her bath, etc. If she's a real woman, she'll appreciate it more than a $100 dinner.
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#3 Feb 12, 2013
I'd be happy to make it through Mardi Gras here today. Talk about commercialized half the family shows up for this every year now it's getting nuts. Valentines was a cinch compared to this crowd.
#6 Feb 12, 2013
Well, Being married more than 25 years, the novelty of the day wears off. I would prefer to sit and watch a movie after a long day with my wife. Unfortunately, women never get over the novelty. They believe the day is theirs, not OURS. So, men will continue to have to play the game.
#7 Feb 12, 2013
put a ribbon on your thing
#8 Feb 12, 2013
Confident women don't need a big charade on Valentine's Day. Just remember that.
#9 Feb 12, 2013
Some women are not into all that commercialism. If she is, she's superficial. Been married many years, all he has to do is tell me he loves me everyday, and keep being the wonderful guy that he is, that's all I need. :)
#10 Feb 12, 2013
Baloney, you are cheap or lazy. Nothing wrong with a nice day to show your other half that you love and appreciate them and what they do for you everyday. No price on having that special someone in your life. Others who have lost the love of their life, would give anything to share it with them again.
#11 Feb 12, 2013
Neither cheap nor lazy. Don't need a special day. My man makes me feel special every day.I don't need all that baloney.
#12 Feb 12, 2013
I'll be visiting my late wife's grave Thursday to place a single rose there and wish her peace on Valentine's Day.
#13 Feb 12, 2013
Yes, you are correct. I would do anything to be able to see her and touch her and speak with her again. The only thing I can really do is join her.
#14 Feb 12, 2013
Niether do fat or ugly women. Buy em a Big Mac and a pack of M&M's and they better appreciate it while I buy her slim sister a $50 box of chocolates and take her to Sumo's and then to a movie, lol.
#15 Feb 12, 2013
I'm going to visit my ex wifes grave on thursday too, to see if her family left her any flowers so I can give them to my current girlfriend before I propose to her thursday night.
#16 Feb 12, 2013
Correct. So why can't we just share the day with a glass of wine, maybe a movie, etc.... why does it have to involve the bells and whistles ? Cheap ? No. Lazy? Definately not. Tired ? Definately. I believe both parties should share the day, but not necessarily have to go to dinner, buy flowers, chocolates, etc. Watch the name calling.
#17 Feb 12, 2013
well, aren't you a treasure!
#18 Feb 12, 2013
The women are just dying to be with me. I may be frugal but I am indeed a gentleman.
#19 Feb 12, 2013
Have it your way, leave others to share their way. Some are tradional, apparently you're not. BTW, glass of wine, movie at home, sounds like any night not a day to honor love, romance and the one you love above all else.
#20 Feb 12, 2013
I dread it because I don't have a "special someone". There are many out there that feel this way. In fact, some of us celebrate "un-valentines day" just to not feel so left out!
It sucks for us singles out there.
If you have someone very special in your life... treat them to a little something special at the very least, no matter how trivial. He or she will appreciate it.
#21 Feb 12, 2013
Appreciate and respect her everyday that's the best Valentine's Day of all. Oh and that little thing she wanted that you pretended not to hear. Get her that.
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#22 Feb 12, 2013
Valentine's Day came about because an emperor banned marriages so that the men would go to war. Emperor Claudius believed that marriage made men weak. Still St. Valentine continued to marry people secretly.
It is believed that once the emperor found out, St. Valentine was executed on February 14th, and we celebrate on behalf of that happening.
Thus 14th February became a day for all lovers and Valentine became its Patron Saint.
So even if youre single you should still be happy for others. Don't be a stinker. Happy Valentines Day :)
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Inspired by Popp, Homestead seizes fifth state football title
Keel wins 250th game in rout of West
It was going to be "Hell or high water" but Homestead all-state football star Jack Popp was going to play in the WIAA Division 2 state title football game on Nov. 20 against Waukesha West, fractured arm or no fractured arm.
He had suffered the injury in the Level 3 victory over Brookfield East two weeks ago and missed the state semifinal victory over Chippewa Falls on Nov. 13.
But he simply had to close the door on his storied career, one that included a touchdown reception as a skinny freshman in Homestead's 14-0 state title win over Waunakee in 2012, the way he had opened it.
By leading Homestead to a fifth WIAA state title.
He got his clearance to play on Nov. 16 and then all his wishes came true on that overcast Nov. 20 afternoon.
Popp punted, played defensive back and served as a gigantic role model to the other Highlanders in their stunning, but thoroughly complete 28-12 dismantling of West this afternoon at Camp Randall.
So, as he and the rest of the Highlanders were happily gathering in the far corner of the end zone for the victor's team photos, he walked slowly amid the roar of the happy Homestead fans gathered on the chilly day in Madison, taking everything in.
He, like his teammates, who were given up by some two months ago as good but not great, decided to finish things with this most unlikely championship despite a less-than-promising start.
"When we were 2-2 (in September) we could have decided to pack it in, but instead we dialed it up and we decided to go all in and win a state championship," he said.
Because Popp is a company man, he understands the amount of work that goes into winning a title like this and how many others have done the same since the Highlanders won their first state crown in 1999.
It just didn't matter that the Highlanders had only four starters back on offense and just two on defense.
"I'm not surprised at all," he said. "We have an unreal tradition in this program. We have great players, great coaches and great teams. We love the competition."
Popp was clearly correct on all those assessments.
Great players included Tyler Woldt, who blocked a West punt on the first possession after the Wolverines had reached the Homestead 17 but were then backed up by an intentional grounding penalty.
"He's (Woldt) just a great athlete and we like to cut him loose in situations like that," said coach Dave Keel, who celebrated his 250th win with this championship. "We have complete trust in him."
Great athletes also include junior quarterback Eric Zoeller and senior back Patrick Minkin, who just a few plays after the block connected for a 33-yard TD pass on a fourth-and-22 situation.
Minkin slipped behind the West coverage in the end zone, caught the ball cleanly and withstood a couple of jarring hits for the score.
"It was just a great route and a great catch," said Zoeller.
Great players also included senior defensive back Sean Driscoll, who just a play after the TD catch, picked off a Connor Blunt pass and took it down to the West 10-yard line before narrowly being knocked out of bounds.
It was Blunt's first interception of the season.
Three plays later, Highlander senior running back Matt Winters, who pounded out a jarring 106 yards on 30 grueling carries, pushed it over from 3 yards out for a 14-0 lead with 3:46 still left in the first quarter.
It was all part of Keel's simple plan for success.
"Win the turnover battle and play great defense," he said.
The Highlanders continued in that vein just three plays later as sophomore defensive lineman Jordan Schroeder recovered a West fumble on the Homestead 40.
Eight plays later, Zoeller made a zone read, hit the right sideline and raced 34 yards for what was eventually the clinching TD at the 11:35 mark of the second quarter.
Zoeller said the great start was everything.
"We had so much respect for that team, that conference (the Classic 8)," he said. "It was so important. They were so good we knew we had to come out fast."
"This is such an astounding thing. A lot of people had counted us out, but they didn't know the amount of talent we had on this team. I knew we had a chance."
West made one good push in the third quarter as Peter MacCudden raced in from 20 yards out to make it 21-6 with 4:19 left in the third quarter.
But that was effectively their last gasp, because behind an almost completely rebuilt offensive line, the Highlanders sucked all the air out of Camp Randall and all the hope out of the Wolverines one excruciating first down after another.
The subsequent 79-yard drive included five consecutive third-down conversions and then two successful fourth downs including Winters' one-yard plunge for score with 3:22 left that made it 28-6.
In all, the drive was a preposterous 23-play affair that ate up 12:57 of the clock and left West virtually no time to rally.
Even the Highlanders' all-state tackle, Chris Malicky, who was also on the roster in 2012, was astounded by the effort.
"It was difficult, it was outstanding," he said. "It was hard staying focused for that long but we as a line kept pushing through right to the end."
"All credit to the O-line for that one," said Zoeller. "All credit."
"We spent a lot of energy on that drive," laughed Winters.
The Wolverines pushed through a consolation score in the final minutes, but it was a mere formality. Homestead offensive coordinator Drake Zortman then served as a decoy for the team as it hit Keel with the obligatory water cooler bath.
Then Zortman, who was brought over from Shorewood/Messmer this past year to become offensive coordinator, sat down on the bench away from the rest of the celebrating team, put his head on his knees for a few moments, wiped away a tear of happiness and got hugs from everyone he could.
As did his boss Keel, who recruited him to help his at first callow, but now thoroughly experienced players succeed.
"These kids are just fantastic, there's just no quit in them," Keel said. "We were down two scores to Chippewa Falls last week and we just kept battling and going and going."
"It just shows the commitment of the kids. Their ability to stay with it. They worked the plan and stayed with the plan."
Keel said he was nervous the whole game but his players were not.
Winters, who was one of the many veterans of the heartbreaking state semifinal loss to Menasha last season, gleefully handled many, many interview requests, stating in a forthright manner the main reason why the Highlanders were in this position.
"Oh my, the team chemistry was so great this year," he said. "It's why we're here. We set out to prove a point and I think we did."
And in the process, the Highlanders allowed one particular teammate to bring his career around full circle.
When asked how his arm is, Popp simply said:
"It feels great."
Much like the Highlanders were this day.
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This clown voted for the bail-out bill without reading. As of this date he still is not supporting HR 1207 to audit the Federal Reserve. We need to send a fiscally responsible candidate to replace him in 2010.
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BD is IT! Unfortunately he fell prey to the "UPS Guy" ruse. Here's the rundown of Epic Tag 2016:
1. Mengo transfers tag to Tbone (by plan?)on Feb 5 or so. If by plan then Tbone probably felt guilty for his treacherous back stab on Mengano at 11pm on 28th last year.
2. Tbone and Richie drive to Townsend, MT on Feb 6 and stay overnight in a cave with Leo DiCaprio. OK maybe not, but that sounds better than a motel.
3. Next morning boys go to church and sit in front row. Padre sees them and considers Montana's first Exorcism. Richie tags Padre and is allowed to speak words of our friendship history to the congregation. All are moved to tears not by his words, but his mauve leisure suit.
4. Rafty keeps the tag for a week and then drives to Spoke and by collaboration transfers it to Mengo. Mengo and Tbone plan to get Beef at Snake's Mom Marie's 90th birthday party at Quest Casino.
5. At Quest on Saturday the 20th about 11pm, JT announced that he lost a bet to Vern and that Beef had to go to the bar and buy 3 shots of Cuervo. Vern said that was an example of St Als math. As Beef was waiting for the drink order, a tall cowboy at the bar with tight Bugle Boys said, "Ordering quite a few drinks there pardner!" Beef was hit by Brokeback Cowboy Mengo. Beef drove back the next day to the West side and held the curse for one week.
6. Saturday the 27th drove to Tacoma in the morning. At the Grand Cinema in Tacoma waterfront area, Beef hit Leepy in the theater at 6:40 while he and Jules and friends waited for show to start...Abe Lincoln shot to the back of the head. Closed down the wine bar nearby with much chortling. Julie very proud of her betrayal. Beef had contacted young Will first via text, and he got mom in on it. Thought Leep might make a run but the pass looked snowy when I checked next day.
7. Lepus drove to Seattle to get BD Sunday morning and was able to successfully interrupt his family time. Took advantage of the rainy weather and put on his rain gear, hood up. Stood a little to the side looking out to the street so all he could see through the door window was a guy with package and a clip board. Tagged him when he opened the door. Johanna and her sister were there to witness it, along with BD's daughter.
8. After the UPS tag by Chris, BD drove to the Eastside and checked out Snake's house and Beef's abode. BD parked a few houses away and listened to some classic rock for an hour while watching both homes for any sign of life. Beef was a no show. His neighbors are pretty sketchy so BD came up with another plan: texted Snake to learn of Beef's habits. He described Beef's truck (sounds very butch). Snake told BD where Beef likes to hang out and "toss some iron" (that may be a euphemism). So, BD prowled the parking lots of three different establishments for another few hours. He even scoped out the local Safeway, and did a few drive-bys of a kiddie playground because, well you know. Again, no show.
BD's quote: "I sulked back home after a day of frustration and shame. I am IT."
Well done Boys! Another year of rousing arrested development! Good on ya, and Keep on Tagging'!