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On the diurnal cycle of urban aerosols, black carbon and the occurrence of new particle formation events in springtime São Paulo, Brazil
- DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-11733-2012
Large conurbations are a significant source of the anthropogenic\npollution and demographic differences between cities that result in a\ndifferent pollution burden. The metropolitan area of Sao Paulo (MASP,\npopulation 20 million) accounts for one fifth of the Brazilian vehicular\nfleet. A feature of MASP is the amount of ethanol used by the vehicular\nfleet, known to exacerbate air quality. The study describes the diurnal\nbehaviour of the submicron aerosol and relies on total particle number\nconcentration, particle number size distribution, light scattering and\nlight absorption measurements. Modelled planetary boundary layer (PBL)\ndepth and air mass movement data were used to aid the interpretation.\nDuring morning rush-hour, stagnant air and a shallow PBL height favour\nthe accumulation of aerosol pollution. During clear-sky conditions,\nthere was a wind shift towards the edge of the city indicating a heat\nisland effect with implications on particulate pollution levels at the\nsite. The median total particle number concentration for the submicron\naerosol typically varied in the range 1.6 x 10(4)-3.2 x 10(4) cm(-3)\nfrequently exceeding 4 x 10(4) cm-3 during the day. During weekdays,\nnucleation-mode particles are responsible for most of the particles by\nnumbers. The highest concentrations of total particle number\nconcentrations and black carbon (BC) were observed on Fridays. Median\ndiurnal values for light absorption and light scattering (at 637 nm\nwavelength) varied in the range 12-33 Mm(-1) and 21-64 Mm(-1),\nrespectively. The former one is equal to 1.8-5.0 mu g m(-3) of BC. The\ngrowth of the PBL, from the morning rush-hour until noon, is consistent\nwith the diurnal cycle of BC mass concentrations. Weekday hourly median\nsingle-scattering albedo (omega(0)) varied in the range 0.59-0.76.\nOverall, this suggests a top of atmosphere (TOA) warming effect.\nHowever, considering the low surface reflectance of urban areas, for the\ngiven range of omega(0), the TOA radiative forcing can be either\npositive or negative for the sources within the MASP. On the average,\nweekend omega(0) values were 0.074 higher than during weekdays. During\n11% of the days, new particle formation (NPF) events occurred. The\nanalysed events growth rates ranged between 9 and 25 nm h(-1). Sulphuric\nacid proxy concentrations calculated for the site were less than 5% of\nthe concentration needed to explain the observed growth. Thus, other\nvapours are likely contributors to the observed growth.
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Poached Chicken With Avocado Sauce
|Yellow onion
|1 Small, halved
|Bay leaves
|Black peppercorns
|Boneless skinless chicken breasts
|2 , halved (Whole)
|1 , peeled, pitted and diced
|Plain low fat yogurt
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Snipped chives
|2 Tablespoon (Fresh)
|Lemon juice
|1 Tablespoon
|1⁄8 Teaspoon (Adjust Quantity As Per Taste)
|Hot red pepper sauce
|1⁄4 Teaspoon (Or To Taste)
1 Place the onion, bay leaves, peppercorns, and salt in a 12-inch skillet, add 2 inches of water, and bringjust to a simmer.
Add the chicken, cover, and cook over low heat for 8 to 10 minutes or until the juices run clear when a breast is pricked with a fork.
Set aside 2 tablespoons of the poaching waterforthe sauce.
Transfer the chicken to a bowl, add enough of the poaching water to cover, and let cool to room temperature.
Cover with plastic food wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve.
2 Just before serving, prepare the avocado sauce.
In a food processoror blender, whirl the avocado, yogurt, chives, reserved poachingwater, lemonjuice, salt, and red pepper sauce for 30 seconds or until smooth.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 781 Calories from Fat 310
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 37 g56.3%
Saturated Fat 6.3 g31.5%
Trans Fat 0.1 g
Cholesterol 202.9 mg67.6%
Sodium 522.6 mg21.8%
Total Carbohydrates 28 g9.4%
Dietary Fiber 15.9 g63.4%
Sugars 6.3 g
Protein 88 g175.9%
Vitamin A 37% Vitamin C 85.7%
Calcium 21.2% Iron 28%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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Britney Spears' sixth album release, Circus is out today and thankfully she's been promoting this one. Last year, when her album Blackout debuted, the only promotion it got was on the radio; even then it fared well.
She's come a long way and this album really signals that she's, at the very least, in a better state of mind than she was previously. Blackout was an incredibly great album to dance to but was missing that Britney signature that her albums usually have. Circus marks the return of some fun pop songs and ballads that we've all come to know and love from the paparazzi cash cow.
Her first single, "Womanizer" has been out for awhile now and while it's a decent track, it's almost annoyingly repetitive. Who knew stuttering would ever go mainstream? Her second single which is out soon is "Circus", another decent track. Both songs are far from anything special but should appease the masses of Britney fans.
What about the rest of the album? Well, therein lies my biggest criticism of Circus. I hate when record companies feel the need to give you options. In this case, you can buy a deluxe version or a regular version. Both albums are overpriced online. (Blackout was no stranger to this mess, either.) The deluxe version features a few more songs and on iTunes, it comes with a digital booklet, a behind the scenes video, and the music video for "Womanizer". Oh but wait, if you pre-ordered the album (too late now!), you also get an extra bonus track! Why is it extra? Because they've included "Radar" as a bonus track on all the albums as well. Does that track name sound familiar to you?
Well the song itself sounds rather familiar too. It's from Blackout. Yes, they are actually taking a track from an old album and putting it on the new album all in the hopes that you've forgotten and feel special.
What a crock. If you really cared about the fans, if you really cared about the music and people enjoying this album, you'd release one album with all the songs. That's it. I would think that with all the trouble Britney has gotten herself into, legally, financially and mentally, not to mention all the controversy which has no doubt led people to scoff at her, they would make it simple for people to buy and listen to her music. I must be wrong.
My favorite tracks on this album are "Phonography" which has a great dance beat and will have you thinking about hands-free devices in a whole new way. "Kill The Lights" is another good dance song which I really enjoy and both songs are very reminiscent of the type of sound you heard on Blackout. There's been a slow progression towards ultra-modern dance songs by Britney, and I think her previous album was the epitome of it all.
A slower but much better song from the rest of the pack is "Unusual You". It's sultry and really quite beautiful. If another dance track isn't released as the third single, I hope this gets some radio play. The song "Rock Me In," which was written by Lady GaGa, is only on the deluxe album but is incredibly worthy of being featured in a commercial as it's a fun and kid friendly song.
Apart from the confusion of which album consumers should by, Circus is a return to the old Britney who's just a young girl that's made it big in the music business. It's no Blackout but it's cute, fun, somewhat friendly album (except for "If U Seek Amy", that song is a giant pun for naughtiness) and I recommend it if you're a Britney fan. If anything, buy it for Brit as a birthday present. She turns 27 today.Powered by Sidelines


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The Oppo PM-1 is actually better when compared to the HD 800 as based on my experience with both of these headphones the HD 800 sounded a bit dull and recessed when compared to the PM-1 and also the PM-1 has even better track separation as the it has 'perfect' I mean perfect sound reproduction once compared to the HD 800. I do recommend you audiophiles to demo the PM-1 before you purchase any other audiophile headphones as the PM-1 is defiantly worth the investment for mixing both at home or at a studio.
It shows just how important it is to own and listen to a headphone for a while before making quick assumptions.
Because in reality it is a rather ridiculous statement you just posted.
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First order of business … a big thank you
to Dennis for covering last week and doing it so brilliantly.
Honestly, I'm glad I didn't have to recap that episode, given it had one of the
most riveting cliffhanger moments we've seen on this show and I'm not sure I'd
have been emotionally capable of writing so soon after.
talking, of course, about Andy
storming out on his date with Holly,
leaving us all in high suspense over the future of their romantic relationship.
Oh, I
guess something also went on with Jessica
about to burn to death. Might as well kick off with how that all turned out …
Picking up right where we left off, Jessica
opens the mansion doors to blinding sunlight and immediately
bursts into flames, thereby freeing actress Deborah Ann Woll to star in that remake of Bewitched everybody's suddenly so keen on.
She's fine, other than some minor facial blistering (you didn't really think
they'd kill off Jessica, did you?). Because just as she prepares to exit, Jason comes running in and tackles her,
quarterback style, bringing her safely to the ground inside the foyer and
slamming the door behind him. Conveniently, they wind up in a position highly
conducive to dry humping.
Jessica flips Jason over onto his back, and starts snarling like she's going to
chomp on him. Jason screams. Then the credits roll just to make us wait a few
minutes before discovering that of course they're not going to kill Jason off,
and Jessica is going to quickly come to her senses.
hero!" she says, batting her eyes. Then they start dry humping.
course, there's nothing to stop her from continuing to march right back
outside, but fortunately the witches have decided at that very moment to stop
with the spellcasting. I thought that was hysterical, like they couldn't be
bothered to chant for a little longer, maybe send out a scout to make sure
there are vampires burning all over town. Instead, Mantonia's like, "Eh, what say we quit for now. I'm sure that
all worked, and I've got laundry in the dryer I've got to get to before Bachelor Pad comes on."
Bill, at least, thinks more pragmatically.
When Jessica and Jason return to the downstairs dungeon, he
suggests the witches have stopped only momentarily, just to get them to drop
their defenses. So he urges Jason to re-chain Jessica and even tighter this
time around.
Jason and Jessica delicately step over the bloody corpse of the security guy
she'd killed earlier, her all, "Oops. Sorry about the mess. I always was a
sloppy drinker."
chains Jessica down, and the blood and the seared skin steaming starts up again
while she moans in pain. And there's this hilarious bit where he tries to cheer
her up by telling her to think happy thoughts, like getting tan and eating
barbecue. Then he realizes she can't enjoy those things, what with being undead
and all, so he switches tactics, telling her to think of how great it is never
to catch cold.
realizes this isn't helping and suggests Jason leave them to get some rest. On
the way out, they cut a deal: Jason won't arrest Jessica for murdering the
security guy, and Bill will kindly overlook that Jason sort of shot one of his
security goons outside.
Later on, we see Jessica return home, to
find Hoyt waiting for her. She starts in with the dreaded "we
need to talk," and he starts babbling about how he's got all sorts of
ideas how to strengthen their relationship, maybe starting to wear his 'n her bowling
shirts, or taking that erotic massage class over at the Bon Temps Learning
tells him it's too late; she loves him, but she's come to realize that she's
just not hard-wired for monogamy, and she wants to move out. That's when Hoyt,
right before our eyes, shifts into a spineless jellyfish. He gets all pathetic
and needy and weepy, blubbering about how he always suspected he wasn't good
enough for her. He whines he'll do anything to make her stay, anything, like drink her blood every day,
or do that other thing they've tried a few times that kind of hurts him but
he's sure he can get used to.
She insists
she needs to leave him, and he says he'd rather not be alive than lose her.
"I'll die!" he blubbers. "Oh, just die then," she says, and
forcefully smashes his head into a table leaving it a bloody mess.
Then she
happily runs outside to find Jason in a waiting car. He tells her she looks hot
covered in blood like that, then he rips his shirt off and tells her he wants her
to "bite and f**k me at the same time." She happily hops in the car
and …
Dream Sequence! Gotcha! And
that's not even me making sh*t up the way I do sometimes – the show actually
unfolds that way. Nicely played, Mr.
Ball. Nicely played.
We see
that Jessica is still chained up in Bill's basement and has drifted off into
this dream sequence. She's now awakened by a blood donor who King Bill sent
down to let her drink from and replenish her strength.
Later, she returns home to Hoyt, and
tries the "we need to talk" thing for reals this time. I don't know
if you've ever seen the movie 500 Days of
Summer (a movie I adore), but there's this bit in it where there's a split
screen that shows how Joseph
Gordon-Levitt imagines an encounter with Zooey Deschanel on one side, and how it really happened on the
other. Well, this Jessica-Hoyt thing is like that.
again comes in and again tells Hoyt that she loves him but just isn't
hard-wired for monogamy (again with that? Did Dan Savage help write this episode?). But rather than getting all
spineless, he goes on the offensive, essentially calling her a 'ho and arguing
he suspects she's been cheating. Then he says Jessica doesn't deserve someone
like him. In fact, he deserves someone who can actually give him children and
is, you know, a real live human being, which is just cold.
completely flummoxed by this response (Jessica honey, if you dump someone, you
can't really expect them to thank you for it or break into a spontaneous tap
dance). Then he rescinds his invitation – basically the equivalent of kicking
her out and changing the locks. The kicker is he also says his mother was right
– "God hates fangs, and so do I!"
Where's a girl to turn? Why into the loving
of the new f**kbuddy/rebound BF she's got all lined up, right? She goes running
to Jason's house and is all, "Good news! I dumped Hoyt! Now you and I can
be together, take off your clothes." Jason's all, "Wait, what now?
Hoyt's my best friend!" He's horrified she would break Hoyt's heart this
way and guilty that he had something to do with it. So he rescinds his invitation, sending Jessica
forcefully flying out the door.
My goodness,
she's having a bad day! Like why not head over to Merlotte's now so Sam can fire her, rescind his
invitation, and send her flying ass-backwards across all Bon Temps?
WTF Rating: 3. With
Hoyt hating on all vamps now, it looks like we've got a new recruit for Team
Wicca. And I have to say I'm loving the Jason-Jessica relationship and how it's
progressing. How long will Jason stay honorable to Hoyt before his raging
libido takes over?
Post resurrection spell, Eric is lying
around still chained down, all bloody and neck-steamy and agony-y.
offers to help him remove the silver chains, starting with the one that's sort
of grafted to his neck, and he suggests the best way is to just rip it off in
one fell swoop. Clearly he's got that whole Band-Aid removal thing in mind,
which we all know is just an old wives tale that moms tell to soothe their kids
with no basis in reality whatsoever, just like "if you just ignore those
bees they won't sting you," and, "me spitting in this tissue and
roughly wiping your cheek is a totally appropriate and hygienic way of cleaning
your face."
sure enough, Sookie quickly rips away the chain, taking with it most of Eric's
skin and half his larynx as he screams, "OH. YOU. MUTHA!!!" Heh.
clearly in a weakened state and in need of some blood, stat. And we all know
True Blood is just gross, so Sookie does the only logical thing and offers
herself up. He asks if she's sure, and she says she trusts him not to, you know,
suck her dry the way he did her fairy godmother. He tells her that, just in
case, she should hold onto some silver and ram it up his butt if he gets too
this is a colossally bad idea, but this is Sookie we're dealing with so no surprises
she goes ahead and does it. She offers up her neck, he drinks hungrily, but
what do ya know? He shows remarkable self restraint and actually pulls out in
time. Then he bites his own hand and offers it to her to drink, all, "This
way we'll be one," and she goes ahead and does it! Ick. Let me tell you
something, if I ever date a vampire, there's no way I'm swallowing.
All blood-filled
and hot and bothered and naked now (with some nice boob/butt shots) they head
up to the shower, a clear nod to fans of the books and a certain infamous
shower scene. But fake out! No shower sex, because when she goes to turn on the
water it starts snowing. WTF? Oh, yeah, it's one of those cheesy v-induced
fever sex-dream sequences, like back in season one when Jason was dating Lizzie Caplan. And it goes on for about
12 hours, with them doing it in the woods somewhere and blathering on about how
awesome the sex is.
they lie in bed naked and Sookie makes sweet pillow talk about how they should
help Bill kill witches. Eric is all for them running away together, but she
says that wouldn't be right, given it would leave behind people they care about
to die. He says right and wrong are measly human concepts, and she counters
that he's more human now than she's ever seen him and that's why she's fallen
in love with him.
So they go for a meet and greet with King
Bill, who squeezes them into his busy schedule, right between
"golf with Andy Cohen" and "flossing the royal fangs." Sookie tells him that if
he's going to war with witches, they're on board.
sputters that he'd rather she not, on account of being a girly human (and him
obviously still pining over her). Eric shoots back that she's a fighter, and
the two men have an alpha-dog glare-off, where Sookie realizes something we've
all known for ages that all this stuff about her is really about the two of
them working out their overpowering desire for each other that will likely be
consummated sometime around Season Seven.
tells them to get their eyes back on her, or at least on her chest, then
reminds them that she's got gnarly wonder twin superpowers that can surely
help. So Bill reluctantly agrees to let them join the fight. (You'll see how
well that turns out.)
WTF Rating: 1. How is
it possible that sex scenes – even ones with pleasing naked butt/boob action –
could become so boring? At this point, I'm really hoping Eric has his memory
back (or will get it back soon) and is faking amnesia to get himself a steady
supply of fairy-blood, because that would at least liven things up a bit.
We see someone rummaging through a darkened
house, stealing women's clothes and accessories. At first I was
hoping we were about to find out some Bon Temps dude had a cross-dressing
fetish going on, maybe Hoyt or Terry,
because that would be totally hot.
then it becomes obvious it's Maxine Fortenbery's
place, and Tommy is grabbing her
stuff so he can shift into her. I'm actually glad about this, because I like
when shows deal with the practicalities of the supernatural, like it's all well
and good that you can shift, but what if you've been running wild as an animal
and come home covered in ticks or mange? Would you go to your regular doctor,
or a vet? I worry about stuff like that.
Later on, at Merlotte's, we see Tommy show
up as Maxine ("Toxine?"). Leaving aside for the moment
how he manages to sound just like Maxine even though when he was being Sam he still sounded exactly like
Tommy, it's actually hilarious how bad he is at the impersonating a woman thing.
it's not just that he's all foul mouthed and ordering shots of booze, but the
hair and makeup and the clothing are all a wreck. He's a hot shifty mess.
Somebody needs to get RuPaul in here
for one of those bizarre yet brilliant runway drag critiques, like Ru could be
all, "The shift is certainly hitting the fan, Toxine honey. Because your
Maxine drag is a maxi-pad of pain."
has called a meeting with the gassy rights guy from episodes ago and is trying
to convince him that "Maxine" is ready to sell, just so long as they
can cut a check ASAP. "Maxine" tries to negotiate a higher price, but
the guy actually talks her down, even when "Maxine" offers up some
special "bonus services" if that would help sweeten the deal (heh – I
would have loved to have seen that
happen!). The gassy guy is all, "Er thanks but no thanks, I'm not
insane," but he does agree to give her some instant cash.
Later on, we see Tommy running through the
woods. He's now back in Tommy-form but still decked out in oversized
Maxine drag (the eyeshadow is just priceless), looking like a little kid
playing Mama Rose for an all-boys-school
production of Gypsy. Also, he's
barfing blood.
WTF Rating: 2. It's
been fun watching different actors stretch their acting chops by showing Tommy
"doing" them. But I still on principle object to doppelgangers
messing with people's lives, which just irritates the hell out of me as a
storytelling device. I guess I have some deep-seated fear of being a twin or
Terry and Arlene have set up a nice little
portable crib in the kitchen of Merlotte's, because proximity
to spattering fry grease and racks of knives is of course the perfect
environment in which to nurture the devil baby in your life.
comes in and hollers at Terry that he's got his back turned to adorable Mikey,
and she fears Renee's ghost could
swoop in any moment and take off with him. But Terry shows how he's installed a
mirror over the stove to keep an eye on the devilish tyke.
they don't see, and what Lafayette of
course still does, is that Cajun Ghost
Lady is right there, singing her haunting lullaby. "Aw hell," he
groans, hightailing it away with a, "F**k this shit."
Later on, Lafayette is writhing around on his sofa having
one of those unsettling mystical backstory dreams. He sees Cajun Ghost Lady
walking to her home on a moonlit night, a doll in her arms. A white man comes
out of the shack and tells her that her baby is "gone."
cries in despair, explaining that she'd just run out to get this doll for the
baby. The guy won't let her see the baby's body or plan a funeral, and she
implies he somehow killed the baby, all because she's "a Negress" and
he's married. And apparently a total dick.
Lafayette wakes up and, right across the
room, is Cajun Ghost Lady herself. Who's apparently taken up smoking. As in …
she turns into a puff of smoke (the way Jesus'
Tio Luca did earlier), and inhales
herself right into Lafayette's
body through his mouth.
So now Lafayette is channeling
Cajun Ghost Lady, and unlike Tommy doing Maxine, he needs no advice from RuPaul
at all as to enacting a convincing womanly gait and appearance (seriously Nelsan Ellis is just brilliant here).
Possessed by her spirit, he goes to the
Bellefleur mansion, where Arlene and Terry are camped out
post-house-fire. "Lafayette"
finds a way into the house, steals a gun from a sleeping Andy, and then steals
adorable baby Mikey from a sleeping Arlene and Terry and making off with him. I
can't wait to see what happens comes breastfeeding time.
WTF Rating: 5. I love
how the more we find out, the more strange and mysterious this devil baby
storyline gets. I also love how it's now ensnared Lafayette. I'm curious: if Jesus sleeps with Lafayette while he's
possessed by a woman, does that make him bisexual? Or at least count as a
Alcide and Debbie go to a meeting of their
new pack, and I guess it says something about werewolf organization
that the big meeting is basically standing around somebody's backyard. Like
they couldn't dip into membership dues to rent out a decent space, one with a
few benches, maybe throw in some cookies and punch? Instead it's like,
"Hey, let's make a fire in an oil can … that'll be nice."
Marcus, the skeevy (but hot-skeevy)
pack leader is addressing the group, all, "First a few announcements. One,
we still need volunteers for the bake sale. Two, the monthly newsletter is
available for you all to take home and peruse at your leisure. And three, the
vampires and witches are at war and if any of you get involved I'm going to
totally f**k you up."
young pup is all gung-ho to take on the vamps, but Marcus insists that the
vamps are simply stronger and more powerful and they're best off staying out of
Alcide tells Marcus that he likes his stay-out-of-vamp-business policies.
Marcus responds that he thinks Alcide could go far in the pack, but Alcide
counters he's not one for politics.
Later on, Debbie ecstatically goes on about
how much she thinks they're going to love being part of the new
pack. In my favorite line of the episode, she happily tells Alcide that she
made some friends," a couple of real nice bitches."
only thing still troubling her though, is that Sookie might somehow ruin it all
for them. She asks Alcide to promise never, ever to see her again, and the
doofus actually agrees! D'oh! No good can possibly come from this. Because it's
a promise he can't possibly keep and now, even if it's totally innocent,
whenever he does cross paths with Sookie he's going to seem guilty in Debbie's
eyes. And Debbie's eyes can be crazier than a certain Minnesota congresswoman.
Marcus goes off to make a phone call, telling the party on the other end that
he's planning on coming by to see his daughter later on. Wonder who that could
possibly have been?
In totally unrelated news, Sam shows up at
Luna's door. At first she doesn't want anything to do with
him, on account of his skinwalking brother violating her and all. But he
assures her that he kicked Tommy out, explains that Tommy's the product of a
messed up family, and explains that while he can forgive him for murdering
their parents, he can't forgive him for what he did to her.
obviously her heart just melts at that! Especially when daughter Emma comes running out with her dolls
(the only toys she apparently ever plays with), asking if Sam can play Barbies
with her, even though she knows for a fact that one particular doll doesn't
like him. (Oh for pete's sake, is there really another devil doll on this
Later that night, they're enjoying a nice
quiet dinner all together, when who comes in but Luna's ex,
aka. Emma's father, aka. Marcus the hot-skeevy pack leader. Wow, so not a shocker.
He gets
all pissy about how Luna isn't supposed to have random men around his daughter
without his permission. So she does the only sensible thing and excuses herself
to put Emma to bed, all, "I'm sure you two will be fine." So they
have an alpha-male glare off, and take turns peeing on the furniture and wiping
their butts on the floor and scratching the wallpaper and marking their
territory and vowing that this isn't over.
WTF Rating: 2. We're
edging closer and closer to a Debbie Pelt freak-out, and an Alcide-Marcus-Sam
showdown, but we're just not quite there yet. For now, the werewolf-shifter
stories are on a pretty slow burn.
After all the witches' hard work (ie.
muttering in Latin, holding hands, and subjecting themselves to a rather frigid
indoor draft), they managed to get only one vampire to actually immolate
herself … Beulah Carter, Maxine's elderly
Beulah's dead body (which is basically vampire road kill), there's lots of
comic business surrounding Jason and a V-jonesing Andy
"investigating" her apparent "suicide." Jason is disgusted
that Andy appears ready to snort her up guts and all, and Andy sheepishly
replies, "Jesus, tits, and God America, Jason, I'm only good on
the V." In classic Jason fashion, he responds that he wasn't really
Meanwhile, Bill is being interviewed at the
site for the local news, and he glamours a bottle-blonde reporter into letting
him give a statement to the public.
proceeds to try to cover up what's been going on with the witches by giving a
statement (and I think glamouring the general public to believe it) claiming
that vampire suicide is all too common these days. Why? Because of the
increased "anti-vampire rhetoric" in the media and political
discourse that arose post-Edgington and has led many vampires to self-hatred
and despair.
Watching the telecast from the Moon Goddess
Emporium is Mantonia who, in addition to being befuddled by the
complex workings of the remote control, is outraged that vampires now live so
openly. She's also furious about how they only managed to fry only one vampire,
and bitches about it all to her new trusted sidekick, Tara.
finding that Fiona Shaw as Mantonia,
unlike back when she was plain old Marnie,
is something of a shameless scenery chewer. I'm also finding that with Tara now acting as her blindly devoted henchwoman,
there's a total Brenda Vaccarro/Faye
Dunaway Supergirl vibe to these
scenes that is utterly camptastic.
first Tara bristles at the idea that they're
now not only fighting vampires but planning on killing them all, but Mantonia
carries on about how they're all soulless and evil and deserve to be snuffed
out entirely.
few scenes point to how this show often attempts (especially in episodes
written by Alan Ball himself) to
instill its supernatural soap opera shenanigans with a deeper, more timely
subtext – with mixed results. Timely references give the appearance of being
satiric or thought-provoking but they're often haphazardly dropped in and not more
deeply explored or sustained.
comments about Beulah's "suicide" are obviously meant to recall all
those tragic suicides of gay teens in recent months. But I'm troubled by this
comparison, because of course Beulah didn't
actually commit suicide and anti-vampire rhetoric had nothing to do with what
happened to her; whereas those suicides of bullied teens are very real and I
have no doubt that anti-gay rhetoric played a part.
At the
same time, I'm intrigued by how Antonia's vengeful vendetta against the
vampires is now being framed, and I think we're getting a glimpse into why
we're meant to ultimately side with the vampires against the witches.
is referred to in this episode as a "fanatic" who wants to "eradicate
an entire group out of hate." While a small group of asshat vampires did
do her a terrible wrong, she now equates all
vampires with them and wants them all annihilated. We're getting a lesson here
in the dangers of associating an entire group of people with the actions or
beliefs of a few bad apples – something that certainly resonates with the
rampant Islamaphobia we've been seeing since 9/11 that's only seemed to get
worse. But that was explored so much more richly and deeply on the Battlestar Galactica revamp than it has
been here (at least so far). We'll have to see how this shakes out.
Anyway, back to recapping business. Wouldn't
you know it … just then the phone rings and it's none other than King Bill.
Tara answers, and he's somewhat (although not all that much) surprised to hear Tara is now in cahoots with the witches. She puts him on
speaker phone so he can speak to Mantonia.
apologizes on behalf of all vampires for what happened to her, acknowledging
that no real forgiveness is possible. But he urges her to attend a one-on-one
meet-up with him, mafioso style, so
they can broker a peace and avoid more bloodshed.
hems and haws, but he's persistent, all, "It'll be fun! I'll bring
donuts!" so she agrees. Obviously neither one trusts the other, and it's
interesting to consider what they're hoping to accomplish with this.
Bon Temps Cemetery, Midnight … time for the
big sit-down. Naturally both Bill and Mantonia have lied and
rather than showing up solo have brought extensive reinforcements. There's an
awkward moment where Tara and Sookie see each other on opposite sides, but
before they can screech at each other as they so love to do, Bill gets down to
assures Mantonia that no further harm will come to her or any humans, and his
only condition is that she un-do the spells she cast on Eric and Pam (who, BTW,
is looking hot again, so that demonic botox seems to have worked).
appears to be considering this deal, but then Sookie does the telepathy thing
and realizes she's quietly working a spell in her mind. She shouts out a
warning to Bill and … all hell breaks loose. Bill's goons show up with heavy
weaponry aimed right at Mantonia, while in a flash, Eric rips the heart out of
an attacking witch.
then casts a spell that induces some sort of supernatural fog (you don't play Harry Potter's Aunt for six movies
without learning a thing or two) exacerbating the confusion. In the midst of
it, several key things happen:
– Tara shoots
a vamp with a wood bullet, getting herself covered in guts. But then Pam easily
snatches the gun from her with a snappy, "You dropped something" She
enthusiastically announces she's about to eat her (and not in the good way,
then none other than Bill puts a stop to it, commanding Pam to cease and
desist. Pam is all, "This is so f**king lame," but he's her effing king
and, as his subject, she is forced to comply.
Tara wonders why he saved her, and he says,
"You know why." (It will be interesting to see if this changes her feelings
about vampires going forward. And have any of you noticed how obsessed Pam
seems to be with Tara all of a sudden?
Wouldn't it be great if somehow those two hooked up?)
– Sookie successfully uses her gnarly wonder
twin powers – to her own amazement – to defend herself and is promptly shot in
the stomach. She crumbles to the ground, but is then lifted and carried to
safety by … Alcide, who had heard the ruckus in the woods and gone to make sure
Sookie was safe.
he's been followed all along by a white wolf who's like two feet behind him and
naturally morphs into Debbie Pelt who sees him cradling Sookie in his arms.
Seriously? Aren't shifters supposed to have this keen sense of smell? Yet Alcide
couldn't smell this wolf right behind him … a wolf who also happens to be his
girlfriend? At least this development will bring on full-on Debbie Pelt craziness,
and I can't wait for that.
– What else? Oh, right! Eric, sensing that
Sookie's been hurt, struggles to find her through the fog, and runs right right
into … Mantonia. Who instantly does the Muppet-master move on him and easily
gets him under her complete control, on his knees before her. She celebrates
her dominion over him by patting his head, like a Park
Avenue dowager and her beloved pet schnauzer.
WTF Rating: 5. That
entire battle sequence was absolutely thrilling and has me completely in the
dark about what's going to happen next. Well played, Mr. Ball. Well played.


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This will largely entail lifting AccountActivity.createAccount and adding validation, and documenting its assumptions (e.g., about threading).
Also will need an option to ensure that no account already exists, to avoid ending up with two!
While we're here, we can also add a little API to check whether a Sync account exists, and strip that logic out of the main Fennec code.
In the future we can explore additional decoupling.
The beginnings of this:
Leaving open for any work required for Part 2.
Part 1:
(i assume there is more to add here since the bug was left open. maybe we should open a new bug and close this one?)
(In reply to Richard Newman [:rnewman] from comment #2)
> https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/a0df03570b26
> Leaving open for any work required for Part 2.
can you file a second bug for part #2 please?


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As each
DVD of Peter Watkins work is released, two things are clear. He is one of the greatest filmmakers of the
20th Century with work so challenging, intelligent and innovative
that he is also the most censored in a way even worse than Michael Powell after
Peeping Tom and Michael Cimino after
Heaven's Gate. By the mid-1970s, Watkins teamed up with a
Norwegian TV network to do a long biopic of one of their greatest artists and
the result is the impressive epic Edvard
Munch from 1976.
With a
very large cast of unknowns, Watkins has several things going on at once to
combat what he sees as the oversimplistic mediaization tactic of "Monoform"
which reduces the audience to idiots to have the same reaction over and over
again, which leads to a systematic (Communist, Fascist, etc.) animal control of
people through media. It also purposely
ignores the possibilities of how far you can go with an audience, but when you
are there to take their money and leave them with nothing, why bother? Watkins does bother. The film here continues his documentary-like
approach with a camera that has its hand-held moments, over use of zooming
where needed; voiceover that in this case offers a far more wide-ranging
context to history than usual and blunt showing of the times & lives in a
way that shows that history always affects us.
oversimplifying, Watkins concludes that Munch's work is so significant because
of the unusually privileged view of life and the world because of the large
family he had, the intellectuals he was meeting, the socio-economic classes he
could see distinctly, the technology not
available to him and the distinctive conclusions about where all this was going
informed his paints to the pint that they are classics and still ahead of their
time. As a matter of fact, that his most
famous canvas The Scream has become a fashion statement comes from the fear
by larger media interests of anyone figuring out what it really means, since
feeling anything is subversive in these days of mass media control, real or
To prove
his points, Watkins takes the long road and it bears fruit the way Heaven's Gate does, though the other
obvious film to consider around the same time is Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon from a year before. All three take the typical Hollywood epic
structure and personalize them in a way the audience has difficulty finding
entry into at first. Yet, they are all
classics that succeed in making the big statements they are making for the most
part. They all share issues concerned
with individualism in the face of powerful forces trying to hold people down,
of the promise of a better world being spoiled and ruined by man's inhumanity
to man with the incredible ignorance that takes. In the interview booklet included with the
DVD, Watkins states that the modern equivalent of those forces are afraid
people will think for themselves again and not be vegetables. That "they often disparage the audience,
claiming that people are not interested in large or complex themes, that they
are bored by them. This is an
outrageously elitist and arrogant accusation…" and he is so right.
By going
the long way, Watkins has created one of the greatest artist portraits of all
time, breaking far past Hollywood biopic limits and breaks the myth that long
films have to be boring. It is amazing
how compelling this work is in that the more you watch it, the more you want to
continue to watch. One possibly
unintended item is every time the narrator says Kristiania, the place Munch
(played effectively here by Geir Westby) grew up, it sounds and feels more like
Oceania in George Orwell's 1984. Add the times his works are attacked and
people are persecuted to the point they go to jail and it may not be such a
coincidence or maybe it is just the miserable side of controlled civilizations
are so darkly predictable. This film is
not, loaded with all kinds of intriguing ideas and loaded with a living record
of an ever-important artist. Audiences
are not "immature" as Watkins points out the media establishment always seems
to like to treat their audience, which in part tries to ignore and undermine
mortality and sexuality. The use of
hijacked religion to these ends is particularly of interest.
This is
why ironically Hollywood is in trouble, with so much other media competing with
them like never before as they see eroding demographics, audiences, franchise
films that shockingly underperform and other problems too numerous to go into
here, he is being vindicated by these troubles.
Without implying anything about ego or fantasy identification, there is
no doubt Watkins and Munch have some common denominators, which is the only way
his film could have been as amazing as it is.
He can see two histories repeating, one of which is successful art and
an ugly oppression, marginalization and trivialization of that art. New Yorker and Project X are doing a
fantastic job of reissuing and reviving Watkins in a way that gives them the
best chance of being seen and appreciated again.
The 1.33
X 1 image is a bit grainy and soft, as shot on 16mm film by Odd Geir Saether,
from a new digital High Definition transfer of a brand new 16mm
interpositive. This looks good considering
how Saether and Watkins purposely picked this look, but it can become difficult
to sit through for a 174 minutes-long work.
However, shooting and color are consistent. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono is second
generation because the best soundtracks were destroyed (by NRK, who also
destroyed al the original dubbing machines as well as first-generation
materials in what Watkins called "uncommon") for what are apparently political
reasons, so Watkins had to reconstruct the soundtrack with 16mm magnetic mono
tracks that were not always in the best shape.
Like the optical work on the restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954
classic Rear Window, it is a
painstaking reconstruction that pays off, but is not up to what it would have
sounded like if the film arts were more respected. This situation has not changed enough since
then, and in some ways has become worse.
Watkins approved the final result here, which should be interesting to
see in digital HD and new film prints when available for viewing.
are unusual for this release, because while the DVD itself is limited, the case
contains a remarkable booklet with a Watkins self-interview that is nothing
short of amazing. While the DVD has a
Watkins filmography, the booklet is 24-pages long on high quality paper with
dense text print and some solid stills here and there. It is a must-read as much as this amazing
film is a must-see. The Freethinker is the next Watkins DVD, but be sure to also see War Game/Culloden, The Gladiators and Punishment Park elsewhere on this site.
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In a rare public appearance, Bashar Asad visited Damascus University on 4 May to dedicate a statue to the martyrs from Syrian universities who have been killed in the country's two-year ongoing violence. While Asad's appearance is undoubtedly a calculated political move, there is no question that the state of education in Syria has been devastated by the conflict that has consumed the country.
Syrian students have been caught in the crossfire over the past two years of war, with carnage being inflicted on campuses and schools on several occasions. Aleppo University was hit with two deadly explosions on 15 January, resulting in eighty-two casualties and over 190 wounded. Two months later, mortar strikes hit Damascus University on 28 March, killing fifteen students according to the state-run news agency SANA.
While both the regime and opposition trade blame over who was responsible for these attacks and other acts of violence, the toll that the Syrian conflict is taking on students is severe, though difficult to measure considering the lack of accurate information from the country.
A report covering the state of Syrian youth, released by UNICEF in March 2013, notes that due to the effects of the conflict on Syrian youth and education, there will be a "lost generation." The report states that "many schools have been damaged, destroyed, or taken over by displaced people seeking shelter. Countless children suffer from the psychological trauma of seeing family members killed, of being separated from their parents and being terrified by the constant thunder of shelling."
The report goes on to note that nearly 800,000 children under the age of fourteen have been internally displaced as a result of the violence in Syria, leaving opportunities for schooling severely constrained.
At least 2,400 schools have been destroyed in the duration of the Syrian conflict, and an estimated 1,500 are being used as shelter for displaced families. Where schooling is still available, cases of overcrowded classrooms have been reported as a result of displaced families seeking schools for their children to attend.
Aside from the destruction of schools and universities and their transformation into shelters, it is becoming increasingly difficult for students to pursue education, especially in the north and south of the country, according to UNICEF.
"Even in those schools that are still open, attendance is very irregular," activist Omar Abu Layla told the New York Times. "Parents worry about sending their kids to school because warplanes usually target schools where the displaced have sought refuge."
While opportunities for a coherent education inside Syria are deficient, the situation for Syrian refugees in surrounding countries is not necessarily better. The University of California, Davis Human Rights Initiative and the Institute for International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund conducted a study on the status of refugee Syrian university students in Jordan. A preliminary report released by the study states that, "the collapsing nature of higher education inside Syria and the attendant internal and external displacement of faculty and students is a generally unacknowledged and unmet component of the larger civilian Syrian humanitarian disaster."
Preliminary findings by the study claim that the cost of schooling in Jordan is much higher than in Syria, making it difficult for some displaced Syrian students to continue their education in Jordan. Syrian academics are also having a difficult time finding employment in Jordanian academic institutions. In fact, Jordan's current economic challenges make it difficult for refugees overall.
The toll of war is often portrayed in the form of body counts and monetary damage. However, the infrastructure that is torn to shreds by conflict, whether such infrastructure is corrupted by politics or not, leaves a long-term negative impact on populations. The destruction of educational infrastructure is among one of the most difficult things to repair. It requires planning, equipment, an appropriate amount of instructors, and a sense of security in the population.
In an article for the Brookings Institution, Maysa Jalbout and Rebecca Winthrop summarize the need for attention to Syria's education system, emphasizing that, "for Syria, as in Iraq and in most countries affected by conflict, if education is not prioritized urgently and systematically, we can also expect the same devastating legacy. It will result in less children and youth going to school, fewer years of schooling, lower literacy rates and even worse outcomes for those who were marginalized before the conflict, including girls and women."
Youth across the Middle East have often been credited for being the catalyst for change in the Arab uprisings, including in Syria. Yet, while the actions of Syrian youth may be fueling an uprising and the demands for regime change, the impact of the resulting conflict on education will leave a lasting influence on the country's future.
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What's to say, it does what it says on the tin.
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New Huntress Trap: Blessed Crystal Trap
New item for Huntress
Name: Blessed Crystal Trap
Discription: Nobody knows who blessed it anyway
Stats : Party Effect Heal for 3 sec Radius 3
Damage: 65 Trap Radius : 4
-3 Dex
-2 Speed
+2 Defense
+4 Wisdom
Activate Cost 75 MP
Drops from : Crystal Prisoner & Asylum Wizzard
Drops in Whitebag
Drop Rate 0.04
it is just a example ....With this Trap can some Huntress alive
Cyclopsgod can you create the Item picture.....
@Oblivien I can really tell a ... lot of thought was put into this /s
Yes this is true i hope this trap can discover the Realm dungeons Dor more ideas pm me
Pringle Creativity Cafe ☕
Thank ... i searched it
Hailtion A Waste of Matter
Inb4 Huntress Metas EVERYWHERE.
Sees that he's using this trap.
Hailtion, Rank 444: "Hey, Meta. How many hours do you have on huntress again?"
"Meta:" "This trap has been out forever...right?"
Hailtion, Rank 444: "..."
Please give a feedback to the trap
It is so good ?
Or should we change something ?
@Oblivien Nice x D
No originality, incomprehensible English, no sprite, no reason for its uniqueness, not following the format, crystal prisoner/asylum wizzy already have really common whites, no need for another, the list goes on.
Please put some thought into ideas before posting them :/
69EatADick69 ☭ HammerSickle ☭
One word: TRASH
@jhui Make it better before you say TRASH .......
and i tested already the trap on y p server ... and it was very good ...so dont say Trash if you are just a retarded that only spamm the forum with 1 word messages !
69EatADick69 ☭ HammerSickle ☭
@Oblivien Oh, so I'm now a retard. COOlios then. And how am I the retard, when you're the one that posted this:
follow the format, kid.
Ashryver The Great Cabbage Thief
@Oblivien Item ideas take a long time to consider. But no one(Server's, players don't count as they are bias) wants an item that's opaf. It's taken me months to balance items before. If you want to see what people mean by 'Follow the format' look at this post;
As you item is an ability it's not quite the same. But you should be able to understand it. You're a pretty smart kid right
@jhui are you dumb scroll down there you see the real droprate ..... dont read all and post it ahahha dumb.....
@Oblivien Or you can just edit the post
Pringle Creativity Cafe ☕
Doesn't look like much time and thought was put into it.
A healing trap at first sounds like a cool idea, but I think when you're actually using it the healing function could prove to be near worthless.
Over all too weak to be used for offense and too unreliable to use for healing. Requires too much micromanagement and is far too slow to be used to hit and heal somebody unless it is yourself.
Gets outclassed by t1 trap?
Low damage.
Low radius.
Outclassed by t1 trap via offense.
Didn't say the duration of the trap.
Missing sprite.
Didn't follow layout.
Name and description are kinda bland.
Dex reduction makes it even more worthless, as Huntress already has low dex in comparison to Archer.
You'd have to wait until the trap is set off to get the healing effect, in which traps don't trigger on player contact. Unless the healing goes off on landing in which you should of specified.
Sorry, but this really needs to go back to the drawing board imo.
@Pringle Thanks , it was just a idea .... and thanks for replay and yes i would have low mana cost and low damge what the huntress need is just heal