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Wow, it's like every other show just got screwed real hard in the ass
And considering past records, I'd say Shana got the worst of it Tamayura v1 does 4,077 BDs, DVDs don't rank. Ikamusume !? v1 does 3,379 BDs, no DVD rank. Maken-ki! v1 does 3,119 BDs, no DVD rank. Shana III v1 does 2,828 BDs, no DVD rank. ...Siiiigh. Mirai Nikki v1 sells 2,336 BDs, no DVD rank. Ben-To v1 sells 2,101 BDs, no DVD rank. C3 v1 does 2,039 BDs, no DVD rank....Siiiigh. MajiKoi v2 sells 2,916 BDs, no DVD rank. Chihayafuru did not rank in either format, so under 3k. EDIT: Oh yeah, and to round of Summer and Spring- Quote:
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Oh I am so sad about Chihayafuru...that probably means a second season won't happen.
But I think 4000+ for Peguindrum is pretty good for the type of series it is. Not a hit but not bad either. It's expected that sales will go down after the 1st volume too.
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unless Peguindrum made money on something else the anime could be consider a bust sale wise.
2011-12-30, 20:56 | Link #424 | |
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Tamayura ~Hitotose~ doing over 4K in BDs is actually a bit of a pleasant surprise to me. This was not a heavily hyped anime at all, so to see it finish ahead of a lot of the more widely talked about Fall 2011 shows is pretty impressive. Plus, ~Hitotose~ didn't strike me as being a particularly high budget production, so TVO Animations might have actually turned a slight profit on 4.1 K BD sales. Biggest disappointment is Chihayafuru not even ranking in either format. That's very sad. I agree with Kirarakim on Penguin Drum. It's holding up pretty good given that competition is quite fierce right now. While I was initially very disappointed in Penguin Drum's sales due to some of the stratospheric sales speculations I once read for the show, I'm now pretty comfortable with it doing between 4 and 5 K. As with Tamayura ~Hitotose~, at least that's around the Manabi Line, IIRC.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the sales for the December releases end up being spread out a bit more than usual given the rather massive glut of releases between 21-23 December, including the Bakemonogatari and Toradora BD-Boxes and so on. I really don't know how many series the average consumer purchases per season (I collect about three shows/season on average myself), but a single BD-Box could certainly put a significant dent in one's monthly budget and cause people to hold off until the next time they're paid to catch-up a bit.
Not really wanting to get into this too much here, but I think the plan all along had been to time it with the end of the novels, but those ended up being stretched out longer than was expected as well. So rather than bridge directly into Shana III after the S-series OVAs, they instead animated Index II (which, by some accounts, had a shorter pre-production gestation period). In the grand scheme of things, I wonder if the amount gained by "striking the iron while it's hot" with Index offset the amount lost for Shana... but who knows. In either case, as has been said before, at least anime fans will see the conclusion, great sales or not.
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I wonder if a 12-episode season in 2009 or 2010 might've been a better momentum booster than the Shana S OVA (which opened with a bang but saw its sales halve by the final volume). As a stopgap, it wasn't particularly effective.
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I agree with relentless, I do think it was just as planned to have the Anime end at the same time the light novels otherwise they would just drag the story longer. If the Light Novel can't sustain interest in the story then there's really nothing else that can be done.
End of an Era I suppose. Back on topic with the sales number, the only other title I have vested interest in is C3- I wasn't expecting any miracles, but I did hope it would have the same numbers of Baka-Test at least
2011-12-30, 21:36 | Link #433 |
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Well, what can one expect in a season where Persona 4 (33k), Working S2 (18k) and Horizon (16k) sold like they did? Haganai will presumably be in profit territory but nowhere near what AIC reaped with Oreimo last year, where it was the high point of the 2010 October season in sales from memory. Who knows what on earth Guilty Crown could do? Really, a lot of these December shows would have been better off in July and maybe could have hit the 5k mark. Only high one from there was Prince no Uta-sama from memory. Lot of 5kish shows that season. October is no longer a weak season.
Fate/Zero has been somewhat smart in this regard delaying a release to March. Although there is a risk of sales of latter volumes of aforementioned shows chewing into it. Still, I get the feeling since it's a box rather than a volume, people are getting the signal of 'If you want this, here's 4-5 months to save up!' and will avoid buying anything else if they really want it. Time will teel whether that strategy paid off.
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Ano Natsu de Matteru, by the guy that gave us Toradora and Anohana, surely it's enough to guarantee success, and thats not even counting the Onegai nostalgia. ...And that's about all I'm certain.
2011-12-30, 21:48 | Link #436 | |
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Milky Holmes got another season due to its sales last year...but not to the degree of strong. Natsume S4 might plod the 10k the first three seasons have. Its fanbase is loyal. 8-bit are teaming up with Satelight for an Aquarion series. 8-bit leeched a fair bit of loyalty into Infinite Stratos from the Macross Frontier fandom. Maybe this show will determine how much that loyalty lingers? Although the original Aquarion series didn't do that well. Another is a P.A. Works adaptation. Their production qualities seem to attract sales these days, but the horror genre hasn't been one that has done well in recent times. Amagami SS - Haruka generated a lot of sales with her arc. Might happen again? High School DxD could be profitable if the quality of Miyama-Zero's artwork (which is gorgeous in the artbooks of his I have!) can be replicated fairly well and gel in the ecchi crowd - but I somehow doubt it. Yeah...Nisenmonogatari...It might run away with that season.
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As for next season, Winter isn't typically a very big season for top-selling releases (with notable breakout exceptions), so yeah, I agree with Chaos2Frozen's two suggestions (maybe ~10k range), and I would guess most of the additional ones Last Sinner mentioned to be around the 4k range. Black Rock Shooter will be an interesting one to watch (not too sure what'll happen). Things like Papakiki and Mooretsu seem like wildcards to me, both apparently committed to two-cour right off the bat; don't expect huge sales for either, but could be decent, depending. I think Lagrange will get a following, but it's hard to picture it selling well. I guess we'll see...
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That aside, I'm glad Penguin is at least about even on profit/cost. It was a risk and a trip.
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This week brought the odd juxtaposition of two seemingly unrelated events: the death of former South Korean president Kim Dae Jung, and the visit to the United States of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. What links the two events is America's human rights policy - or lack of it.
I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him. Over time, Reagan ended such policies and indeed saved Kim's life by intervening when the regime seemed intent on executing him. When Paul Wolfowitz led the East Asia Bureau, we worked closely together under George Shultz's leadership to press for democracy and human rights in South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and elsewhere in Asia. But at the beginning, people like Kim were persona non grata at State. The Tibetans were even worse treated: I had to meet with them over at the Watergate Hotel, because the Dalai Lama's representatives were not even permitted in the building. It was the same for many Latin Americans: for years, State's Latin America Bureau would not meet with dissidents who were protesting the region's military regimes. They were sent over to the Human Rights Bureau instead; "out of sight, out of mind" seemed to be the motto of many Latin specialists at the State Department. Of course, many of those who were being shunned ended up in power - from Kim in South Korea, to Social Democrats and Christian Democrats in South and Central America. Their jailers were often smarter than our bureaucrats: I remember one Latin American politician telling me he had been treated fine in prison because "the warden knows he'll be working for me sooner or later, when we get civilian rule back."
This week, Kim died - and Hosni Mubarak was greeted in Washington with hosannas from the White House. He hadn't been here in 5 years, skipping his usual spring visits out of pique at George Bush's suggestions that reform and democracy were needed in Egypt. It is no accident that he skipped the spring visit this year too, seeking a time when Congress would be out of town and thereby eliminating any risk of untoward remarks about democracy from the Hill. Unless he read the Washington Post's powerful editorials about Egypt and Obama's human rights policy, Mubarak must have been a happy man. When he sat next to the president for their press conference in the Oval Office, Mubarak must have noted that Obama didn't pronounce the word "freedom," or "democracy," or even "reform." In fact it was Mubarak who did, saying that "I have entered into the election based on a platform that included reforms . . . " This is laughable, of course, for Mubarak has never held a free election and immediately after the last one jailed his sole opponent, Ayman Nour.
While the visit to Washington must have been immensely satisfying for Mubarak, it did not advance American interests in Egypt. As Michele Dunne of the Carnegie Endowment wrote in the Washington Post, "something is missing from the meeting. That would be the interests of Egypt's 83 million citizens, whose collective hopes and aspirations have disappeared from U.S. considerations since President George W. Bush's freedom agenda flamed out years ago." Mubarak is 81 years old, so placing all our bets on him--even for so short a time as the three years left to President Obama--is unwise. Like the bureaucrats who kept Kim Dae Jung away, American officials who want to rely on a permanent military government in Egypt will eventually fail (and let's be clear: the Egyptian regime is led by a retired general, Hosni Mubarak, has never held a free election, jails its opponents, and is kept in power by the secret police and the army).
Mubarak has ruled for 28 years and done next to nothing to prepare Egypt for democracy; indeed this very week his government once again refused to allow the formation of a moderate Islamic party that would draw votes away from the Muslim Brotherhood. He has in fact created a dangerous two-party system: the ruling "National Democratic Party" and the Muslim Brotherhood are the only organized political entities. Moderates have been crushed, imprisoned, exiled, and forbidden to organize. This is sowing the wind and when Mubarak is gone the reaping may begin. So it was tragic to see all of this swept under the Oval Office rug, as we repeat the errors of the past. The story of Kim Dae Jung should have reminded the White House that handshakes and smiles for dictators are a bad policy for the United States, while support for democracy and human rights will ultimately vindicate our interests as well as our principles. The happier Mubarak was about his visit, the less reason we have to be about this week in Washington.
Elliott Abrams, senior fellow for the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations, was a deputy national security adviser in the Bush administration.
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Esteemed firms—including, but not limited to, the global "alphabets"—had seen their revenues fall sharply and responded with layoffs. Capital was scarce; new projects were exceptionally tough to win, and pencils-down orders on projects in hand became all too common. Somehow, though, we were able to produce a robust ranking our first time out. It helped that firms were being assessed on their revenues from 2008, a year that a lot of firms started (at least) with a backlog.
Embarking on our research for the second annual ranking, we were not sure what to expect. Would firms want to take part in a year when competition is especially fierce? Would partners worry about revealing weak financials, or that the ranking would just yield more bad news? In the end, some firms did decline to participate—but not many. Firm leaders had been enthusiastic about the Architect 50 on its launch, and most seemed eager to repeat the experiment.
The differences between last year's ranking and this year's are not dramatic. Three of our top five firms (overall) are holdovers. Some commercially focused firms that were prominent last year have dropped off the list; conversely, this year's biggest upward movers tend to be those with a bedrock of public-sector and infrastructural projects, like Denver's Fentress Architects and Chicago's Epstein.
The Architect 50 survey was administered from early January through mid-March to 161 firms, most of which were invited (a small number applied to the editors; all firms are welcome to). They completed a short entry form, which our research consultant, entered into a database before performing a thorough analysis. Although we tried to be as systematic as possible, the ranking is less than perfectly scientific, and it comes with a couple of caveats:
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1. Notions of Set Theory
Artin introduces a concept that is referred to as the canonical factoring of a map (function). The basic idea is that any function can be factored into three functions and in a somewhat unique way:
, where
is onto, is a bijection, and is an injection. The construction of these three functions is done in a canonical, or natural, way that doesn't require the use of objects outside the domain and/or range of .
Let be some non-empty set. If is a function from into a set , then we write
Suppose and . Then, we can form a composite function defined by for all . The associative law holds trivially for composition of functions.
Further, if , then the set of all the images of elements of , denoted by , is called the image of . In general, . We call the function onto whenever .
Now, let us partition the set into equivalence classes such that are in the same equivalence class iff . This partition is called the quotient set and is denoted by .
To illustrate, suppose and . Also, let such that and . Then, the quotient set, .
We construct now a function that maps each to its equivalence class. It can be verified that is onto. So, taking the above example, we have , , and .
Next, we construct a function where each element (which is an equivalence class) of is mapped to a where each is the image of the members of the equivalence class. Recall that are in the same equivalence class iff . Therefore, is one-to-one and onto. Continuing with our above example, we have , and .
And, finally, we construct a trivial function where for each . Note that is not an identity because it maps a subset, , into a possibly larger set, , i.e. is an identity iff is onto. In general, is one-to-one and into (i.e. an injection.)
Thus, if , we note that for every .
And, so,
Once again, is onto, is a bijection, and is an injection.
It looks like it doesn't make much sense to factor the way we did above, but we will explore more of this with respect to group homomorphisms in my next post.


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Last month Sonic Youth announced a new album was in the works--well, a new old album at least. Smart Bar - Chicago 1985 is a re-mastered compilation of live songs from their August 11, 1985 show at Chicago's Smart Bar, featuring material from 1985's Bad Moon Rising, pre-EVOL performances of "Secret Girl" and "Expressway to Yr Skull," and other rarities like a never before released live version of "Kat 'N' Hat."
As a teaser for the album (due out Nov. 14), stream one of the tracks below.
"Intro/Brave Men Run (In My Family)"
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Smart Bar – Chicago 1985 Tracklist:
Death Valley '69
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I'm Insane
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"Quit while you're behind" is not much of an attitude to take no matter the circumstance but sometimes it just fits.
Say for instance you're the head of a police union who lays awake nights trying to figure out how to let the mayor know that you have a problem with him separating the position of chief from membership in your union.
Night after night you lay there, "How can we…? What could we…?" Then suddenly, a brainstorm!
The chief is a very enthusiastic chief who has taken to performing police duties even when he's not on duty, right? I mean he's arrested people and he wasn't even on the clock!
How about you try this? "Why, he's a non-union cop performing work that union cops should be doing!"
If you could just highlight that angle and ask the public to believe that the mayor might go so far as to lay off some union cops because he has a non-union cop who's working even when he's not being paid!
That's the brainstorm.
Whoever came up with that must have been lying awake looking for an idea for an awful lot of nights in a row because I think sleep deprivation got the better of judgment here.
In a nutshell, the idea is, "The chief of police shouldn't be doing police work because he's not in the union." And worse, he shouldn't be doing it for free!
There's an old joke that's probably not proper to tell in it's entirety in this politically correct time in which we live but the punchline is, "Hey, I might be crazy but I'm not stupid!"
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Hey, was that W.C. Fields and Cruella Deville walking arm in arm during the big Cordaro /Munchak trial like they were the show? Nope, just the goof Corbett and his "lovley partner"!Let's see, 3 out of 4 shock jocks won't let comments on this pathetic site. When are you going to stop it Webster?
You Go Stevie!
Too much fun to be true. The Feds leak info to the Pig Corbett to get the public riled up, now he is on them. Seems Judge Vanaskie has a booze party foe Judge Nealon at the Federal Bldg., and some weasel leaks it to our hero Stevie, the cancer of Luzerne/Lackawanna County, and now he wants charges filed, some poor clerk fired, the LCB to file a citatation against the Judges. Wayyy to funny. Way to go WILK!! Hope you idiot businesses keep advertising with this low life station. An esteemed Judge is the longest serving Federal Judge in the 3rd Circuit, and his peers have a party, and this creep makes an issue out of it, with the assistance of a squealer in the Courthouse. Oh well, what do you expect from a SCAB like Stevie. Keep leakinf info to this creep Feds LOL!!!
WILK not what it used to be
Nancy and Webster= rock 107 wannabe and who writes those awful skits? ; Sue Henry=dry, boring, dull, baseball, jazz, pop culture puke, and NOT funny with all those weird voices; Corbett= agitator, mooselimb lovin', illegal aliens can do no wrong soshalist. ( wilk does not allow certain words, thus the mizspellingz.)
A BLOG that doesn't allow feedback.
only a WILK Corbett, Nancy. and Sue BLOG doesn't allow feedback. Someone may not agree with them- can't have that.----------and they wonder why their ratings are sinking. hmmmmm...
the only reason Joe snedeker has a job at WNEP is the bike ride.
making fun of church, joking about his kid all alone in his room looking at adult publications, mocking important holidays that church people hold dear, and just being an all around bone head would usually be grounds for losing a job. Not at WNEP. No no no. The almighty Joe will bike and make the station look good with that doation at the end of the week to St. j's center. St. J's should be ashamed to take money raised by the fool Snedeker. Did you notice some mornings while Joe was receiving a corp. donation he wouldn't even remember to thank them for the donation? Real class, Joe. What a jack ash.
Webster Understands...
Many of those WILK squawk(ers) about being forthright, but they could never work for a government agency. Living in the fishbowl would invite questions about previous indiscretions. Know what I mean newsguy! Neidhardt and Tom Woods were living off the public for many years lets get to work finding their former employers and how much they skimmed from the taxpayers before becoming self righteous. Right To Know. What are Corbett, Nancy and Sue afraid of? Have something to hide. Thanks for the free speech Webster!! I bet your next contract will close this loophole and give Nancy even more vacation than the government workers she vilifies.
leftie Nancy "jumped up and down" after hearing the jobs news
I wonder what Nancy did after S&P downgraded the US credit rating? Oh, that probably don't mean nuttin' to smarty pants Nancy. You see, Nancy don't get economics. Nancy didn't learn that boring stuff in high school or college (and it shows). Nancy too busy being Nancy. Like, duhhhhh.....
Nancy blames bad economy on Republican congress
Nancy doesn't democrat congress when Bush was Pres. Nancy, how about another week off and this time some brain surgery.
Happy new year WILK
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12:20PM PDT - Going hands on!
11:58AM PDT - We are done!
11:54AM PDT - Making tables while the Foo Fighters play, can I always work like this?
11:51AM PDT - Intel thankfully didn't schedule too much this morning, the big stuff comes later this afternoon
11:50AM PDT - Right after this we'll go hands on with the iPhone 5, before hurrying back to IDF for the rest of the day
11:50AM PDT - More Foo Fighters, not going to live blog the lyrics, my hands are enjoying a little break from the event now
11:46AM PDT - Apple's WiFi stayed up the whole time? That makes Apple and Intel both, able to do a great job of running WiFi at major events
11:46AM PDT - I switched the WiSpy DBx to 5 GHz a while back and captured, compared to 2.4 GHz much more sane.
11:45AM PDT - Refraining from doing comparative analysis on the Foo Fighters vs. The Kin from last week's Motorola/Google event
11:44AM PDT - They're playing Times Like These
11:43AM PDT - yep, Foo Fighters just rolled onto the stage, playing live now
11:43AM PDT - I'm almost as excited about the Foo Fighters as I was about the A6
11:43AM PDT - Foo Fighters about to perform?!
11:41AM PDT - (we wish we were reviewing the announcements)
11:41AM PDT - (Tim Cook, not us)
11:40AM PDT - Reviewing the announcements now
11:40AM PDT - Showing a new iPod ad
11:39AM PDT - Tim is back on stage to close things out
11:39AM PDT - Product RED models will be available for all of the iPod models
11:38AM PDT - New nano and touch available in October
11:38AM PDT - New iPod touch: 32GB/$299, 64GB $399
11:38AM PDT - 4th gen iPod touch: 16GB/$199, 32GB/$249 with iOS 6
11:38AM PDT - iPod nano - 16GB for $149
11:38AM PDT - 2GB iPod shuffle $49
11:37AM PDT - Will be included with the 5th gen iPod Touch, 7th gen iPod nano and the iPhone 5
11:37AM PDT - EarPods start shipping as a standalone accessory today
11:36AM PDT - Port in the back provides midrange frequencies, ports in the stem to provide bass
11:36AM PDT - Designed to not seal your ear but just rest nicely in there
11:36AM PDT - Spent a lot of time designing the size of the EarPods
11:34AM PDT - EarPods
11:34AM PDT - 3 years spent in designing an entirely new headphone
11:34AM PDT - "Doing a great headphone is hard"
11:34AM PDT - Shipped over 600 million sets of earbuds
11:34AM PDT - Talking about headphones
11:34AM PDT - "Since we integrate speakers into our MacBook, iPod, etc..."
11:33AM PDT - "Apple is one of the biggest provider of speakers in the world"
11:33AM PDT - Now talking about speakers
11:33AM PDT - Update the colors of the iPod shuffle to match the 7 new nano colors
11:33AM PDT - Five color options, silver, black, blue, yellow, red, each with its own color coordinated loop
11:32AM PDT - Siri is supported
11:31AM PDT - AirPlay Mirroring support
11:31AM PDT - Improved wireless: 2.4GHz/5GHz 802.11a/b/g/n up to 150Mbps, Bluetooth 4.0 with LE
11:31AM PDT - Front camera: 720p FaceTime HD, backside illumination, face detection
11:30AM PDT - 1080p HD video recording, video image stabilization, face detection
11:30AM PDT - They are definitely trying to turn this into a point and shoot replacement
11:30AM PDT - Push a button on the back of the iPod touch, it pops up and you can attach a looped wrist strap
11:30AM PDT - iPod touch loop
11:29AM PDT - Supports iPhoto from the app store
11:29AM PDT - Panorama feature is supported
11:29AM PDT - Brian: I think this is the same optical system from the 5, but same CMOS as the 4
11:28AM PDT - Significant upgrade to the camera: iSight Camera, 5MP sensor, backside illumination, hybrid IR filter, five element lens, f/2.4, AF, LED flash, sapphire crystal
11:28AM PDT - Now talking about iPod Touch camera
11:28AM PDT - Up to 40 hours of music playback with the new Touch, up to 8 hours of video playback
11:27AM PDT - Modeling more than just physics takes up a good amount of CPU power
11:27AM PDT - Clumsy Ninja will be out this holiday season, uses a good amount of compute if what they are saying is accurate
11:27AM PDT - Showing off Clumsy Ninja doing tricks on a trampoline
11:26AM PDT - Clumsy Ninja learns, the first time he sees a punching bag he's not good at it, but gets better over time
11:26AM PDT - Ray casting out of Clumsy Ninja's eyes, so he can "see"
11:25AM PDT - They modeled his central nervous system and a bunch of other stuff
11:25AM PDT - Clumsy Ninja is a "self aware" character
11:24AM PDT - Clumsy Ninja running on the iPod Touch
11:24AM PDT - New iPod Touch game demo time
11:24AM PDT - dual-core graphics as well, this is likely A5r2
11:23AM PDT - A5 SoC in the iPod touch, dual-core
11:23AM PDT - Nevermind!
11:23AM PDT - Aw man, no mention of silicon - have to check the website
11:23AM PDT - Exact same 4-inch Retina display from the iPhone 5
11:22AM PDT - Bottom: headphone jack, speaker and Lightning connector
11:22AM PDT - Made out of anodized aluminum
11:22AM PDT - Only 88 grams
11:21AM PDT - Brian: this is where the A5r2 will be
11:21AM PDT - iPod Touch ended up being a very popular gaming device
11:21AM PDT - Now onto the iPod touch
11:21AM PDT - 30 hours of music playback battery life
11:20AM PDT - Features all new Lightning connector
11:20AM PDT - Can wirelessly stream music to things like Jambox, car, BT headphones
11:20AM PDT - Fitness and pedometer integrated right into the nano
11:19AM PDT - Widescreen video is supported as well
11:19AM PDT - Integrated FM tuner with live pause so you can pause your FM radio and go back to previous points
11:19AM PDT - available in seven different colors with color matched wallpapers
11:18AM PDT - Home button, volume buttons
11:18AM PDT - multi-touch display
11:18AM PDT - 2.5-inch display
11:18AM PDT - 38% thinner than the previous gen iPod nano
11:18AM PDT - 5.4mm thin
11:17AM PDT - All new iPod nano, 7th generation, looks taller, bigger display
11:17AM PDT - Want to give the nano a really large display, thin, easy to use controls
11:17AM PDT - Want to reinvent the nano for its 7th generation
11:16AM PDT - Talking about the iPod nano now
11:16AM PDT - "add millions and millions to this every quarter"
11:16AM PDT - Over 350M iPods sold
11:16AM PDT - Plz no more major hardware announcements, too many things to benchmark
11:15AM PDT - Now time to talk about iPods
11:15AM PDT - New iTunes available in late October
11:15AM PDT - Brian brought a USB hub here to connect the WiSpy, USB LTE modem and more to his notebook to bring you the best coverage possible
11:14AM PDT - Brian is on photos, doing a great job, give him love up in the comments if you agree!
11:14AM PDT - I like the order of this keynote, iPhone 5 first, iTunes stuff later
11:14AM PDT - Redesigned iTunes store in the new iTunes looks like the new iTunes on the iPad (couldn't possibly fit iTunes more times into that sentence)
11:13AM PDT - Playing Avengers on iPad, can resume where you left off on your Mac using iTunes
11:13AM PDT - iCloud movies, TVs, purchases all integrated in the new iTunes
11:12AM PDT - Still waiting for Apple to talk about making the new iTunes more stable/robust
11:12AM PDT - Integrated search in the mini player
11:11AM PDT - New improved iTunes mini player
11:11AM PDT - Improved search, looks a bit like Spotlight for iTunes
11:11AM PDT - The UI looks different, clean and seems pretty neat, really more curious about performance/responsiveness of the application though
11:10AM PDT - Easy to add songs to play next
11:10AM PDT - New feature: up next, let's you see what songs are coming up next in your playlist
11:10AM PDT - Creating playlists seems pretty simple and quick now
11:09AM PDT - Playlists still on the left in playlist view
11:09AM PDT - Artists can now share photos with you through the new iTunes
11:08AM PDT - New feature called "in the store" lets you see top albums by the artist as well as other recommendations
11:08AM PDT - Clicking on an album expands songs in place
11:08AM PDT - Looks like the same launch icon, but new edge to edge application design
11:07AM PDT - New iTunes for Mac/PC demo happening right now
11:07AM PDT - for Mac/PC
11:07AM PDT - Introducing a brand new version of iTunes
11:07AM PDT - 15 billion downloads
11:07AM PDT - Over 200M customers using iTunes in the cloud
11:07AM PDT - Showing the old iTunes UI now
11:06AM PDT - ohoh talking about iTunes on Mac/PC now
11:06AM PDT - Improved search results in the new stores as well, available with iOS 6 on 9/19
11:06AM PDT - Now you can preview songs while continuing to browse the rest of the store without interrupting the preview
11:06AM PDT - Integrated Facebook likes into every product page in the new store
11:05AM PDT - I hope this means new iTunes for OS X as well
11:05AM PDT - New iTunes store on the new iPhone 5
11:05AM PDT - Same design for movies, TV shows and app store
11:05AM PDT - Everything is faster
11:05AM PDT - New iTunes store on the iPad
11:05AM PDT - Anand - I always felt weird about companies boasting about how many customers who have 1 click ordering enabled
11:04AM PDT - 435 million iTunes accounts with 1-click purchasing
11:04AM PDT - iTunes store is now available in 63 countries world wide
11:04AM PDT - 20 billion songs purchased since iTunes launched 9 years ago
11:03AM PDT - Starting with iTunes
11:03AM PDT - iPod and iTunes changes
11:03AM PDT - The iPhone 5 announcements are done
11:03AM PDT - Now onto music announcements
11:02AM PDT - Phil Schiller is off the stage, Tim Cook is back. Phil really does a great job with these things, almost perfect balance of tech specs and experience discussion
11:02AM PDT - On September 19th
11:02AM PDT - iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, new iPad, iPad 2 and 4th gen iPod touch will get free iOS 6 upgrades
11:02AM PDT - They all run iOS 6
11:01AM PDT - Fastest phone rollout ever
11:01AM PDT - 100 countries and 240 carriers by the end of the year
11:01AM PDT - 20 more countries a week later
11:01AM PDT - in the US, canada, UK, France, Germany, Aus, Japan, HK and Singapore
11:01AM PDT - Shipping one week later, September 21st
11:01AM PDT - Pre order starting september 14 (this friday)
11:01AM PDT - Brian: Looks like the 3GS went away, finally
11:01AM PDT - Both with a 2-year contract
11:00AM PDT - iPhone 4 8GB is free, iPhone 4S 16GB is $99
11:00AM PDT - $199 for 16GB, $299 32GB and $399 for 64GB with 2 year contract
11:00AM PDT - Same price as the 4S
11:00AM PDT - Nearing the end here, I'm guessing we'll hear about storage, pricing and availability next
11:00AM PDT - Not just the iPhone
11:00AM PDT - Apple has done a great job of pushing its suppliers across all markets
11:00AM PDT - Talking a lot about precision manufacturing here
10:59AM PDT - Variance between iPhone 5 units is now measured in microns
10:59AM PDT - Two high power cameras take pics of the housing, instantaneous analysis are done, the best match of 725 cuts is determined as the iPhone 5 heads down a conveyor belt
10:59AM PDT - Provides contrast between lightly textured back and all other surfaces
10:58AM PDT - All surfaces are machined of the enclosure, crystalline diamonds are used to polish the finish
10:57AM PDT - The video is going over iOS 6 on the iPhone 5 now
10:57AM PDT - We got a pretty cool shot of a bunch of tiny plastic aspheric lenses in a pick and place machine in the video there
10:55AM PDT - I really wish they were being more specific about the A6
10:55AM PDT - Recap video playing now about the iPhone 5
10:54AM PDT - Black iPhone 5, slate colored aluminum back, white iPhone 5 with a lighter colored black
10:50AM PDT - We're seeing all of the Siri improvements that have already been shown off previously, including better integration with places of interest, sports, and so on
10:48AM PDT - Now demonstrating Siri enhancements, including its new sports knowledge
10:47AM PDT - More iOS 6 demos
10:46AM PDT - We've seen all of this before however, nothing too new here
10:45AM PDT - Showing off iCloud tabs, now Mail
10:45AM PDT - Brian: I've been running the iOS 6 Beta for some time now and there are definitely some subtle changes here. Fingers crossed for a GM soon.
10:45AM PDT - Full screen mode now supported in iOS 6 Safari
10:45AM PDT - Now showing off Safari enhancements
10:44AM PDT - Looks like this is definitely a much newer version of iOS 6
10:44AM PDT - Brian: I checked two days ago and there wasn't Big Ben!
10:44AM PDT - Showing off flyover of Big Ben
10:43AM PDT - Brian noticed that they changed the flyover icon in the demo, "this must be a GM"
10:43AM PDT - I'm very curious about the GPU in the iPhone 5
10:43AM PDT - I'm curious about the Thunderbolt/Lightning naming similarities, clearly TB isn't supported on the iPhone 5
10:42AM PDT - Over 100M points of interest in the new maps app, free turn by turn navigation
10:41AM PDT - Showing off iOS 6 on the iPhone 5
10:41AM PDT - iOS 6 running on the iPhone 5, Scott Forstall is on stage to do the demo
10:40AM PDT - iOS6 has support for the 4-inch retina display
10:40AM PDT - (obviously)
10:40AM PDT - iOS6 runs on the iPhone 5
10:40AM PDT - No more obsoleting cars with new devices
10:40AM PDT - Can plug a 30-pin cable into it and you can plug it into your iPhone 5, will work with car connection kits, etc...
10:40AM PDT - 30-pin to Lightning adapter available
10:39AM PDT - Bose, JBL, more folks supporting it
10:39AM PDT - 80% smaller
10:39AM PDT - can plug in either direction, reversible
10:39AM PDT - adaptive interface depending on what you're plugging it into
10:39AM PDT - all digital, 8-signal design
10:39AM PDT - Lightning
10:39AM PDT - Time for the connector to evolve, new connector is called Lightning
10:38AM PDT - 4S used the 30-pin connector, first introduced in 2003
10:38AM PDT - Now time to talk about the new connector
10:38AM PDT - Sounds like Apple is taking full advantage of AMR-WB support on the new baseband
10:38AM PDT - Orange and Deutsche Telekom will support it at launch
10:38AM PDT - wideband audio fills up more of the frequency spectrum to make your voice sound more natural, 20 carriers supporting this
10:37AM PDT - wideband audio
10:37AM PDT - Makes it clearer to listen to your phone
10:37AM PDT - noise canceling earpiece
10:37AM PDT - 20% smaller speaker while sounding better
10:37AM PDT - five magnets in the transducer for the speakers (up from 2)
10:36AM PDT - Yep! Beam forming for voice recognition and Siri
10:36AM PDT - Brian thinks they are doing beam forming with the mics
10:36AM PDT - One in the bottom, front, and back
10:36AM PDT - Audio system updated as well, three microphones
10:36AM PDT - Front facing camera: 720p FaceTime HD, backside illumination, face detection, FaceTime over cellular networks
10:35AM PDT - Improved video stabilization, up to 10 faces for face detection in video, take photos while recording video
10:35AM PDT - Still take 1080p HD video recording
10:35AM PDT - Does a lot of real time processing while taking the panorama photo, the new ISP and new cores are clearly at work here
10:34AM PDT - While you're panning the phone takes slices of images, stitches them all together
10:34AM PDT - 28MP panorama images
10:34AM PDT - Tap to set a Panorama photo, sweep your scene to take the image
10:33AM PDT - Panorama feature in the iPhone 5
10:33AM PDT - Showing off photos taken with the iPhone 5
10:32AM PDT - 40% faster photo capture than the 4S
10:32AM PDT - Brian is chiming in here with camera analysis
10:32AM PDT - Better fixed pattern noise rejection using adjacent hot pixels it sounds like, new features in ISP with the A6
10:32AM PDT - Spatial noise reduction, smart filter, better low light performance, faster photo capture
10:32AM PDT - The front vertex of the camera system is topped with sapphire as well to make it resistant to scratches
10:32AM PDT - New next-generation ISP for the camera
10:31AM PDT - Apple is claiming that they will computationally combine multiple exposures to get better low light captures, all in ISP
10:31AM PDT - New features: dynamic low light mode, precision lens alignment, Sapphire crystal"
10:31AM PDT - 25% smaller camera design
10:30AM PDT - 8MP rear facing camera sensor (3264 x 2448), f/2.4 aperture
10:30AM PDT - Now talking about cameras
10:30AM PDT - 10 hours of video playback
10:30AM PDT - 8 hours of 3G browsing/talk time, 8 hours of LTE browsing, 10 hours of WiFi browsing
10:29AM PDT - Exceeded the battery life of the iPhone 4S
10:29AM PDT - Now talking about battery life
10:29AM PDT - Real Racing 3 coming to the app store later this year
10:26AM PDT - Real Racing 3 demo
10:26AM PDT - Rob Murray, exec producer at EA is on stage to talk about A6 performance
10:25AM PDT - Pages launch time 2.1x faster, save image from iPhoto 1.7x faster, load music app with songs 1.9x, view keynote attachment 1.7x faster vs. 4S
10:25AM PDT - 22% smaller SoC
10:25AM PDT - The A6 SoC is based on a custom Apple core dual-core ARM Cortex A15 cores
10:25AM PDT - 2x faster graphics
10:25AM PDT - 2x faster CPU
10:24AM PDT - Here we go!!
10:24AM PDT - A6 SoC!
10:24AM PDT - "we've updated every aspect of iPhone 5"
10:24AM PDT - Getting close...
10:24AM PDT - Brian: Yes! 5GHz WiFi finally!
10:24AM PDT - Up to 150Mbps
10:24AM PDT - 802.11a/b/g/n, 2.4GHz and 5GHz
10:24AM PDT - Big list of DC-HSDPA carriers in Europe
10:24AM PDT - We missed some names in Canada
10:23AM PDT - Deutsche Telekom, EE
10:23AM PDT - Telstra, Optus, Virgin Mobile
10:23AM PDT - SoftBank, KDDI, kt, SKt, SmarTone, M1, SingTel
10:23AM PDT - in Canada: Rogers, Telus, Bell, fido...
10:23AM PDT - In the US: Sprint, AT&T and Verizon
10:23AM PDT - Now we're talking about carrier coverage
10:22AM PDT - Receive diversity
10:22AM PDT - "dynamic antenna"
10:22AM PDT - Single chip, single radio
10:22AM PDT - LTE category 3
10:22AM PDT - GPRS, EDGE, EV-DO, HSPA, HSPA+, DC-HSDPA, and LTE all in the 5
10:21AM PDT - (still not at the big surprise yet)
10:21AM PDT - Ultrafast Wireless technology
10:21AM PDT - Now onto wireless
10:21AM PDT - "that's the first feature in the new iPhone 5"
10:21AM PDT - Less glare in sunlight, sharper image
10:21AM PDT - 30% thinner than the previous display
10:21AM PDT - Integrated touch sensors into the display itself (in-cell)
10:21AM PDT - Full sRGB color gamut!
10:20AM PDT - 44% more color saturation than the 4S display
10:20AM PDT - Showing before and after pics of updated applications that take advantage of the 5's new display
10:19AM PDT - Same is true in vertical position, black bars top/bottom for older apps
10:19AM PDT - Legacy apps run centered with black boarders on the sides
10:18AM PDT - iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband, all updated as well
10:18AM PDT - Keynote, Pages, Numbers, all take advantage of the new display
10:18AM PDT - Now see a 5 day workweek in horizontal mode on the 5 due to the higher resolution
10:18AM PDT - Safari, Mail, Calendar, all updated to take advantage of the new screen
10:18AM PDT - We are able to add a 5th row of icons to the home screen
10:18AM PDT - Design center for the iPhone 5 is the human hand/thumb
10:17AM PDT - Same width, but taller, giving it a 16:9 aspect ratio
10:17AM PDT - 1136 x 640
10:17AM PDT - The new screen is 4-inch display
10:17AM PDT - Retina Display, 326 ppi
10:16AM PDT - 20% lighter than the 4S
10:16AM PDT - 112g
10:16AM PDT - "it's the world's thinnest smartphone"
10:16AM PDT - 7.6mm thin, 18% thinner than the 4S
10:16AM PDT - "thinnest phone we have ever made, lightest as well"
10:16AM PDT - "the hardware and software engineering that has gone into this product is the most challenging our team has ever taken on"
10:15AM PDT - Made entirely of glass and aluminum
10:15AM PDT - Hooray for China
10:15AM PDT - It looks just like the leaked chassis images
10:14AM PDT - iPhone 5 on stage now
10:14AM PDT - "today we are going to introduce iPhone 5"
10:14AM PDT - You'll find out very soon :)
10:14AM PDT - Can you guess which prediction we were too conservative on?
10:13AM PDT - Sidenote: We were conservative in our predictions of at least one aspect of today's iPhone launch
10:13AM PDT - We love Phil, he usually puts a technical spin on everything Apple announces
10:13AM PDT - Phil Schiller is taking the stage
10:13AM PDT - Here we go..."today we're taking it to the next level"
10:12AM PDT - 400 millionth iOS device sold last quarter
10:12AM PDT - That's much higher than I expected as an average downloads per user
10:12AM PDT - Average customer downloads over 100 apps
10:11AM PDT - 700K iOS apps, 250K iPad apps
10:11AM PDT - I believe the iPad discussion now is to keep it in everyone's minds as Windows 8/RT tablets prepare to launch next month
10:11AM PDT - Talking about enterprise iPad apps now, this is a big area that Microsoft hopes to go into with Windows 8 tablets
10:10AM PDT - 94% of the Fortune 500 are testing or deploying iPads within their companies
10:10AM PDT - "iPad accounts for 91% of web traffic of all tablets"
10:09AM PDT - Apple claims the latest date shows iPad has 68% market share for the past quarter
10:09AM PDT - Apple claims iPad had 62% tablet market share a year ago
10:08AM PDT - 84 million total iPads sold through June
10:08AM PDT - "we sold more iPads than any PC manufacturer has sold of their entire PC line"
10:08AM PDT - 17 Million iPads sold last quarter
10:07AM PDT - Now onto the iPad
10:07AM PDT - 27% market share
10:06AM PDT - Apple is #1 in the US notebook sales in market share for the past three months
10:06AM PDT - 7 million copies of Mountain Lion have been downloaded, fastest selling OS X of all time
10:05AM PDT - On to Mac updates
10:05AM PDT - 83M visitors to Apple stores last quarter, almost 1M visitors per day
10:05AM PDT - Apple will enter its 13th country on Friday with its first store in Sweden
10:05AM PDT - We couldn't resist bringing along our WiSpy DBx and looking at 2.4 GHz spectrum, so far it is crowded. We're on LTE dongles for this.
10:02AM PDT - Switching to local timezone :)
10:02AM PDT - We're looking at the interior of one of the newest Apple stores. Tim is talking about the glass staircase.
01:02PM EDT - Looking at a new Apple store in Barcelona
01:02PM EDT - Cook is giving us Apple retail updates
01:01PM EDT - Tim Cook is on stage
01:01PM EDT - The lights are coming down...
01:00PM EDT - We are seated!
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atotroadkill - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - link
FInally!! I usually go on gdgt or engadget live blogs...but I prefer Anandtech! Reply -
dishayu - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - link
So, no one from Anandtech will cover the activities over at IDF today? That's a shame. Reply -
SorinN - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - link
I'm sad to say this, but I don't like this new direction AnandTech is taking. I was used to seeing really in-depth, high quality coverage coming from you guys, but now things have pretty much migrated towards quantity.
I know that if you would like to make lots of money on the Web you need to have as much content as possible, but posting articles like this isn't OK in my view. You should have waited for the event to start before publishing this.
I guess that I have to get used to the idea that my favorite hardware website is turning into a lightweight blog where SEO is king. Reply -
bupkus - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - link
02:28PM - And we're done! We'll be working on a deeper Haswell architecture piece over the next couple of days. Reply -
dishayu - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - link
What exactly do you expect in realtime? Day 1 of the conferece finished a few hours ago and you want in depth analysis and insights already? Give them some time before talking bullshit. Reply -
SorinN - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - link
I wasn't talking about Haswell, but about this iPhone 5 live blog. The Apple event hasn't even started and the article is already up, which is wrong IMO.
This is the sort of stuff that I was expecting from BGR, not from AnandTech. Reply -
nevertell - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - link
Have other people been using your head for a certain kind of intercourse ?
How making a blog post about an upcoming event is wrong ?
They are just making sure more people know about them doing a live blog from the event.
They still deliver quality content regardless of posting liveblogs from different events. Reply -
bupkus - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - link
"I wasn't talking about Haswell, but about this iPhone 5 live blog."
You were speaking of---correction---describing a general decay of the Anandtech reporting model and mission.
In the first of your 3 paragraphs you accuse AT of sacrificing quality for quantity.
Your second paragraph speaks of AT as newly directed towards financial gain while forgetting the goal of quality, content driven articles/reports.
Your 3rd paragraph portrays you as a sorrowful soul facing AT's inevitable decline into crass commercialism.
Why is your focus now only limited to iPhone 5 when you were clearly criticizing Anand for his efforts to serve those who like a real-time experience.
This is not an effort to replace good articles for real-time reporting.
My above post was a simple way for me to show you that even though the Haswell report was done (as a test of the real-time tech) there was at the end a promise to follow up with an article about Haswell in greater depth. This should have been enough, considering who Anand is and has been in the past with us, to allow some room for trust in his personal character. Reply -
colinw - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - link
is this guy serious...? Reply -
CZroe - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - link
That would guarantee that almost all followers are late. It's like not telling people when a TV show starts so they have to stumble on it and watch from where ever they stumbled in. Actually, it's worse because they wouldn't even know that the show was coming.
I think the concept of "live" is lost on you. Reply


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Does it matter what the bit rate of the video is? What about Video size, Audio or Video Codec? All the videos I have posted on the site are wmv.
I have some videos that were shot with an HD camera. The file properties of one is bit rate 5.58 mbps, video size 640 x 480, Audio Codec Windows Media Audio 9.2
VBR Quality 90, 48 kHz, stereo 1-pass VBR, and the length is 1:19.
Other videos that were shot with the movie feature of a digital camera . The file properties of one has a bit rate of 1.68 Mbps, video size 320 x 240, Windows Media Audio 9.2
VBR Quality 75, 44 kHz, stereo 1-pass VBR, and the length is 1:26.
The HD movies were worked on a different version of Movie Maker on a different computer.
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5.58mbbps! Too much for most DSL connections, and pushing it for cable connections. I get 12 mbps with my premium-level Cox connection, but don't typically see anything close to that over the Internet.
OK for downloads (But wowie! 55MB for a 1:19 video!), if you don't mind paying for the bandwidth, but isn't going to work streaming for most of your users.
OK, step back, screw-in the reality filter...
What is a better bit rate? How do I adjust it? I have movie maker on both computers that I work on.
Right now, bandwidth is not an issue since I have so much, but I would like to manage it better so that it is easy for visitors to my website to view.
Please offer suggestions.
I do want to keep the video clear.
WMV should play on any windows machine if your using series 9 codec.


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2012 compensation was down 22% to $11.3 million, but retail CEO cashed in stock and options worth another $39 million.
Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren and J.C. Penney rival Ron Johnson may be in a messy legal fight. But when it comes to compensation, Lundgren scored a 2012 knockout.
Lundgren received compensation valued at $11.3 million, Macy's said in a Wednesday proxy filing. That's down about 22% from the $14.4 million he received in 2011. But Lundgren gained another $39 million exercising previously awarded stock options and from vested shares.Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren may be in a messy fight with J.C.Penney's Ron Johnson. But on the compensation front, Lundgren scored a knockout in 2012.
Lundgren's compensation included $1.6 million in salary, a $4.6 million stock award and options valued at about $3.1 million, similar to 2011 levels. But his incentive award was reduced to $1.9 million from $5.1 million in 2011, according to Macy's proxy. The retailer said cash flow was below threshold performance levels.
Lundgren, 61, has been CEO since 2004. His compensation was disclosed just a day after J.C. Penney reported that Johnson received just $1.9 million after the struggling retailer stumbled in the first full year of a turnaround.The former Apple retail store chief got almost $53 million in restricted shares when he joined Penney in 2011.
Lundgren and Johnson have been embroiled in a protracted legal tussle over Penney's bid to sell items under home fashion maven's Martha Stewart brand, now featured at Macy's. The dispute aired out in court testimony and is now in mediation, with an expected resolution April 8.
Macy's shares rose 16.8% in 2012. On Wednesday, the shares ended up 0.9% to $42.39 apiece.


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This first look would be great for a kid birthday party, or a daytime holiday get together. Dark jeans, a cute top, and round toes flats. Add in a sweet little vintage scarf and I look pulled together enough but still super movable.
This second outfit is better for an evening (but still kid friendly, as all the parties we go to are!) party. All the same needs (nursable, ergoable, movement friendly) apply but this one is a little fancier and I even did my hair! Well, if no heat curls count as "doing" then I did it! I have been trying to figure out it peplum shirts would work for me (hips for days!) because I love how they look but wasn't sure if I could pull it off. Then I realized, who cares!, I love them and that's all that matters. And, I do think that they work well on my hourglass shape.
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Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Wed 14th of June 2006
Lisa was NOT your average high school girl.
Fucking Lisa, Part 1
I was your average high school boy, good looking, quite well built, but quite shy when it came to approaching girls for the first time. I had only ever had sex with one girl, although I had licked and fingered a few other pussies before.
Lisa was NOT your average high school girl. She was 17, 1.75m tall, blond hair, blue eyes, 36C tits, a perfect tight ass and a smile that could melt the polar ice caps. I had seen her so many times and often wished I had the guts to talk to her.
I started reading a few books and articles on how to approach women and to be more confident (Hoping they could help me). I knew Lisa used to work out in the gym after school, as she was a good gymnast and used to often train on her own. Sometimes she'd train till late, as I'd see her going home after dark. When I had the guts, I'd wave at her as she passed by my house. She'd always replied with a friendly smile.
I decided to get in some extra weight training for the swimming season and headed to the school gym, after the school had been deserted. I got a spare key from the gym teacher to get in. I was hoping that Lisa would be there. I walked into the gym, and saw Lisa practising a floor routine. She was so supple. Lotsa potential!!! I greeted her kindly and she smiled back. I nearly melted.
I put my kit down and proceeded towards the weight section. Suddenly a voice called my name "Ashton". Was it Lisa? I turned around to see her approaching me. "Ashton? That is your name, right?" "Yes" I said. "I'm Lisa" she replied "Pleased to meet you" she continued as she put out her hand. I shook her hand. It was so soft for a gymnast. "Likewise" I said. Lisa smiled again.
She continued, "Would you mind helping me stretch, seeing as I'm always here on my own with no one to help, I haven't stretched properly for a while." I nodded shyly.
She moved her back against the wall and lifted her left leg up and asked me to come and push it up towards to wall. I took hold of her calf and pushed it up. She rubbed her hammy as I pushed. I looked down and saw her gym pants pull tightly across her pussy lips. I had never seen such beautiful, full lips. My cock sprang to life, as she rubbed down her leg, nearly touching those lips. I let go and she put her leg down, lifting her right leg. We did the same thing. Lisa rubbed down her leg again and looking down she noticed the bulge in my shorts (I was not wearing underpants). I thought she would push me away and freak-out or something, but instead she rubbed over her pussy. My cock went harder. I let go of her leg and she put it down and dropped to her knees, taking my shorts down with her.
My cock sprang to life right in front of her face. She loved what she saw; I was completely hairless (Like a porn-star) and very big (Like a porn-star). She smiled eagerly.
Without even hesitating she licked the tip of my throbbing cock. Then she began to envelope it with her soft lips, spreading warm saliva over the entire length of my shaft.
She broke her lips away from my cock and sucked on my hairless balls, already tingling with intense pleasure, and then returned to my cock.
She sucked harder and harder, rubbing my balls with her fingers, until I began to groan with excitement. This was the greatest blow job I had ever had. She kept going for a while. She sucked like a pro. It became too much for me and the cum started to build up in my balls. I told her I was going to cum. She didn't look disappointed at all, instead she just said, "cum in my mouth right now". I blew my load as I grabbed her hair and shoved my cock hard into her mouth.
Sticky cum was dripping from the corners of her mouth as she struggled to keep it all in, swallowing quickly. I almost collapsed on top of her as my legs went weak with pleasure.
She fell back on the mat and pulled me down on top of her. She kissed me and I tasted my cum in her mouth. I loved it. I lay next to her and rubbed her tits as she slowly pealed of her gym tights. There was no underwear as she revealed a Brazilian style, blond cunt. Her lips were even fuller without the tights constricting them. She turned around on her knees, over me and planted her cunt on my mouth as she sat up.
My tongue flicked out immediately, and I licked her cunt in a frenzy. I pushed my tongue deep into her cunt. She spread her legs wide, allowing me to stick in as much as I possibly could. I licked her clit hard and sucked in her lips. I added a finger for increased pleasure, pushing it in deep. She jerked back and forth violently, until finally, she exploded into an awesome orgasm, almost screaming. Her pussy juices flowed out into my mouth. I lapped up as much as I could. The rest ran down my cheeks and onto the mat.
When she got her breath back and finding that I was quite hard again, she lay down on her back, and beckoned to me. I moved between her legs. Her legs went up in the air. I stared down at her cunt and falling forward I shoved my cock into her gaping, drenched pussy. Oh god. It was incredible!!! I started to rub her breasts through her sports top.
As I began to pump in and out, she placed her heels on my ass, shoving me in even harder. She wanted more! The feeling of my cock sliding in and out, the sight of her gorgeous face, the feeling of her rounded breasts, the taste of her juices still left in my mouth and the sound of her panting and groaning almost made me cum right then and there. I relaxed and slowed down slightly to delay my orgasm. I squeezed the base of my cock to help from cumming. Soon she had one of her own, arching her back and rocking about wildly. I was getting very close now. I didn't want to cum in her cunt, YET.
With a final thrust, I pulled out quickly, leaving her lying there, shaking. I grabbed her ankles and pushed them towards her tits, exposing the most beautiful ass I had ever seen. Lisa grabbed her legs and held them there, keeping her ass in the air. I shoved two fingers up her wet cut and then rubbed her juices on her exposed ring. I pushed the head of my cock against her ass and slowly pushed it in her tight hole. Lisa squealed in ecstasy as I went in deeper, slowly, until I was buried to the hilt in her ass. Lisa shuddered with pleasure. I saw her ass stretch around my big cock. What a sight!!!
I started pumping long, slow strokes. Gradually I pumped faster and faster. She reached down and spread her ass out wide. She pushed two fingers up her cunt, working them in and out in time to my thrusts up her ass. Her cunt juices were dribbling out over my cock, making it slide in out and out of her ass more easily. She started rubbing her hard clit with her other hand, driving her harder towards another orgasm.
I could feel the cum building inside me… It rose inside of me slowly, building pressure and speed. I began to moan, and just as she climaxed, my cum shot up my rod and out my cock at the speed of light, again and again and again. Deep into her ass. I thought I was never going to stop. She forced me in deep with her legs. It was fucking incredible. As we calmed down, I collapsed on top of Lisa, with my cock still buried deep in her ass. I lay there kissing her neck, tasting her sweat.
Slowly I lifted myself from her. I pulled my cock from her ass. Lisa still had her legs drawn back, showing off her wonderful pussy and well fucked ass. I looked down and saw the cum slowly dripping from her rear fuck hole. I reached for my one towel and started to wipe the cum from Lisa's ass, my soft cock and the floor.
Lisa smiled up at me and pulling me back down she whispered in my ear "Let's get you cleaned up, so I can suck and fuck you again" I could not believe my ears. I stood up, pulled Lisa up and then put my arms around her, kissing her deeply. I pushed my cock hard against her tummy, making it slowly harden again.
We grabbed our clothes, and headed towards the girl's locker rooms. Knowing that the school would be empty, we didn't bother to put our clothes on. In the locker room, we took off the rest of our clothes and jumped into a shower. Lisa turned on the water and we held each other for a long while as the warm water washed over our bodies.
Lisa got the soap and started washing my body from top to bottom, spending extra time on my cock and ass. She rinsed me off and then I returned the favour, paying extra attention to her pussy and ass. I bent down and with my face by her cunt, I reached around and pushed a finger up her stretched ass and moved it in and out a bit. This made Lisa moan with pleasure.
She turned her back to me and bent forward, showing of her puffy cunt lips. I took in the fucking hot view as I started licking her cunt. She pushed back hard, so I could get my tongue in deep. She moved from side to side as she started rubbing her clit.
I, who was hard by now, stood up and shoved my cock into her from behind. Lisa let out a squeal. I pumped hard at Lisa's cunt, while she rubbed her clit. She was again heading toward an orgasm while she pushed back in time with my thrusts. Her moans became louder and louder. I suddenly pulled out and Lisa nearly fell over when she pushed back.
I turned Lisa around. She went down on her knees and started sucking my pussy-juice covered cock. She rubbed my smooth balls, massaging them with one hand while squeezing my ass cheeks with the other. I loved it. She reached up with both hands and raked her long nails over my chest. I looked down at my cock in her mouth. The sight nearly made me cum. Lisa sucked harder and deeper than ever. She then stopped, stood up and said to me, "I want your cum all over my tits, my tummy and my pussy".
We got out the shower, dried off in hurry, my cock still hard and Lisa's pussy still dripping juices. Lisa lay down on her back on one of the benches with her head hanging over the side. I stood by her head, facing her feet. She greedily took my cock in her mouth and started sucking. I bent forward and rubbed her cunt lips and clit between my fingers. This caused Lisa to suck even harder. As I neared my orgasm, I pulled my cock from Lisa's hungry mouth. I started pumping my cock and Lisa sucked my balls. I shot another huge load over her tits, her tummy and her pussy. Lisa shook with pleasure as she rubbed it into her skin like a lotion. I kept pumping my cock, till the last few drops fell in Lisa's waiting lips.
Just then we heard a gasp. We both looked towards the door and saw Lisa's hot friend, Tracy, standing there, staring at us, with her mouth wide open. We were both so shocked that we didn't even try to cover up.
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anonymous reader
2013-03-29 00:39:38
Nice. The only problem I have with the story is that 17 is in college not high school
Horny Teen
2009-05-17 13:53:56
Good work mate!!!
2008-03-30 01:38:40
DAMN. thats all i got to say apart from i want the gIrls in my school to do that too
2008-02-12 16:46:10
nice shit bro
2007-12-06 20:09:27
Nice story, but u went way to fast for it
i agree with some of the reader comments like, she only just meet him and u did too many climaxes in one area u needed to space it out a bit more
plus write a sequal i want to read about what the firend does
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required's Event Journal
Sunday December 2, 2012 / 3:00pm
Great Russian Nutcracker
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How was your experience?
I was disappointed there was no orchestra during performance, just music from the tape. I had to park across the street at 2:20 pm for the performance starting at 3pm (not possible to park behind the theater-waited to turn left for 15 minutes without success). I was at my seat at 3:25pm! All the time was spent in the lane waiting to pick up tickets!!! Box Office had sign "Will be right back" at 2:30pm! It turned out that that was wrong place to pick up Gold Star tickets. When attendant showed up finally, that was the first thing she said. She could post a handwritten sign if nothing else before leaving the post at the most important time.


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teachers' chart See/Know/Read.png - Section 3: Teacher's Turn
Making Shadows with Foreshadowing While We Predict!
Lesson 5 of 8
Objective: SWBAT use questions, illustrations, words and background knowledge to make a prediction and describe how rhyming and rhythm add meaning to the text.
Big Idea: There are "shadow's" of meaning that help us predict – pictures, words, and what you already know!
- foreshadowing powerpoint shown on a screen
- There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colandro (to read to the group)
- Other books in this series - one for each group of students-mark the end of each book with a post-it so the students can predict
- black construction paper, set of crayons and white paper for yourself & students
- Set up the whiteboard
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: predicting, illustrations, questioning, rhythm, rhyme, onomatopoeia, exposition
- Group rules poster (see resources below)
I chose these books because the kids love them and I consider them classic literature. The kids all know about the 'spider version' but it was fun to read these other versions. The illustrations are excellent and very conducive to predicting.
This is one of the lessons in the middle of my prediction unit and my students have used the SEE/KNOW/READ strategy and are familiar with questioning. For more background on these strategies, take a look at Peek Inside and Predict (Lesson 1 of 2), Peek Inside and Predict (Lesson 2 of 2), Predict the Ending - It Goes Around and Around, Predict the Ending and Use the Characters' Voices, Predict Using Characters' Action and Rhythm, Go Figure with Figurative Language and Tie it Together with Transition Words.
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Let's Get Excited!
Underlined words below are lesson vocabulary words that are emphasized and written on sentence strips for my Reading & Writing word wall. I pull off the words off the wall for each lesson, helping students understand this key 'reading and writing' vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words.
Gain student interest
- "Today we will be predicting the end to a story. We're going to see how an author uses foreshadowing." Put that word on the board. "What word do you see in that word? Pause … "That's right- shadow!"
- "I brought some shadows today." Put up on the powerpoint and show slide by slide.
- "See if you can predict what we are going to read about from the shadows!"
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Teacher's Turn
Preview the task
- "We are going to read a story about a snowman today." Show the book. "I love this author because she has LOTS of great illustrations, and it's fun to predict the ending!"
- "The snowman picture that we looked at demonstrated foreshadowing. Authors use foreshadowing in books with illustrations and words to help us predict and build excitement."
- "Foreshadowing involves asking questions, looking at the illustrations and reading the exposition-beginning of the book. Here's the whiteboard with these foreshadowing ideas.
Review the strategies
- "Before we predict, we need to do some pre-reading. We've done this before-take a look at the chart on the board." If you have not introduced SEE-KNOW-READ, take a few moments now.
- "What do you SEE on the cover? Ask yourself some questions - Who is that? What is happening? …We can use the illustrations and questioning to help us find information. Let's write down some of your ideas." Take ideas, prompt with the characters, setting...write them on the chart.
- "What do we KNOW about this character? Some of you said that you had read books by this author?" Take ideas and write them down on the chart. "She swallows lots of silly things…. There are sounds - We call those sounds onomatopoeia. " Introduce or review that word as necessary.
- "I'll READ the first 2 pages. Let's ask a few more questions. Why is she doing this? ….?" prompt for ideas and write on the chart
- Here's the completed chart on the whiteboard.
- "Did you notice how I am reading? The sentences sound like a song. That's called rhythm. What about the words 'scarf' and 'barf' and 'snow' and 'know'? Yes, those words rhyme. This author uses rhyming and rhyme to give us meaning in the story!"
As students use rhythm, rhyme and onomatopoeia, they are describing how words and phrases supply meaning in this story. (RL.2.4) They are interpreting words and phrases as they are used in the text purposefully by the author. This figurative language shapes meaning and tone in the story. This kind of close reading with a focus on figurative language and wording is a shift in learning based on the Common Core State Standards.
Demonstrate the prediction
- "Let's predict the ending! I'll look at my clues that foreshadow the end. I'm going to use black paper and a white crayon because black is the color of a shadow. Each time I find a clue, I'll write in on the black page in a list."
- "Now let's read up to the marked page." Read the story, adding single words on a list on the black page, such as pipe, coal, scarf, hat ... Stop at the marked page (right before the picture of the snowman. Here's the list that I had for the inside of the project.).
- "Now I have lots of ideas and I'll predict. I think that the old lady"... guess it a little bit wrong by saying I think she'll become a snowman. "I'll write that idea on the bottom of the list and circle it, because it's my prediction."
- Read the last pages. "I was almost right with my prediction. I'll cross it off and write the correct ending and circle that. Now I'll make a snowman, since that's what was at the end." Draw a snowman on the white paper (as tall as the list) - and add some simple details. Here's my front of my project.
- "I'll cut the 2 pages together into a snowman shape and staple the black page on the back of the white page. Now the snowman has a shadow, because there was lots of fore'shadow'ing in the book!"
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The Students' Take a Turn
Explain the task
- "I brought some books from the same author for you to read. You'll be using the foreshadowing to predict the end." Pass out black paper and white crayons.
- "Read your books in a group and write down clues that foreshadow the ending. You can take turns reading or one person can read the story. Let's review the rules for group work.
- "Use the rhythm and rhyming to help you understand the meaning better. Look at the illustrations and words to get ideas. I'll be walking around to hear you questioning. Who..what..when..where.. why... how. This questioning helps us to understand better and predict more accurately."
- "Each person should add clues to their own black paper. Remember to write down the middle of the paper only. Stop at the end of the book where I put the marker and make your prediction. Try to use the clues to better understand the characters, setting and plot."
- "Write your prediction and circle it on your paper. Then raise your hand and let me check it before you look – don't peek !! After I check your prediction, then you can read the rest of the book."
- "You have 10 minutes to use foreshadowing to predict the end of the bookl" Give your kids 10 minutes and a one minute warning to finish.
This focus on asking and answering questions to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text (RL.2.1) helps students read closely to determine why at the text says explicitly and make logical inferences form it. They are citing specific textual evidence to support the answers. They are also using information gained from the illustrations and words to demonstrate understanding of the characters, setting and plot. (RL.2.7) As they integrate and evaluate the content presented visually and in words, I am encouraging the students to draw on their own abilities to discover answers by themselves rather than relying on adults to supply the answers.
Supervise and prompt
- "Wow, lots of good ideas! Now use your white paper and draw a picture of what you predicted from the top to the bottom of your paper in the middle (so it matches the list). Come up and get it stapled when you're done."
- "Great job predicting with foreshadowing today. You used illustrations, as well as what you could SEE/KNOW/READ to get lots of clues. The foreshadowing in this book really helps you to predict. We'll be doing more predicting in the future!!"
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Apply It!
Share the ideas
- "Now that you have all done such a GREAT job predicting, lets share. I need a volunteer group to come up and tell us your foreshadowing clues on the black paper. We can try to predict the ending to your book. Show us one good illustration from the book and tell us if there was rhythm and rhyming words. With good illustrations and words, we can better understand the characters, setting and plot of the story!"
- Have the groups come up and share their clues. Let the class guess and then let the kids share their projects.
- "That was great fun! I love this series because it's so fun to predict!! The foreshadowing, rhythm and rhyme makes reading the story more enjoyable!"
Scaffolding and Special Education: This lesson can be scaffolded up or down, depending on student ability.
For students with lesser academic abilities, the group work should allow them to have others read but give them a chance to contribute ideas. The books have great pictures, but they may need another student to read and help with vocabulary.
For students with greater academic skills, they should be challenged to really use the rhythm and rhyme in the stories and make some inferences. These books are full of humor and underlying ideas (there are extra characters in the pictures that can help the reader infer what will happen and they also are doing funny actions that add to the meaning of the story.)
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- UNIT 5: Summarizing: Use Main Idea and Supporting Details
- UNIT 6: Writing with Main Idea and Supporting Details
- UNIT 7: Writing About Informational Text
- UNIT 8: Vocabulary within Informational Text
- UNIT 9: Questioning - Get to the Heart of the Text!!
- UNIT 10: Imaging & Visualizing - Can You Make a Picture In Your Head?
- UNIT 11: Writing Opinion Essays
- UNIT 12: Informational Text - Use Story Elements To Help Us Comprehend
- UNIT 13: Inference-What Do You Already Know and How Does the Text Help You?
- UNIT 14: Poetry-Rhythm, Rhyme, Repeated Words-Let's Look at Different Kinds of Poetry
- LESSON 1: Peek Inside.... And Predict! (Lesson 1 of 2)
- LESSON 2: Peek Inside and Predict (Lesson 2 of 2)
- LESSON 3: Predict the Ending - It Goes Around and Around!
- LESSON 4: Predict the Ending and Use the Characters' Voices
- LESSON 5: Making Shadows with Foreshadowing While We Predict!
- LESSON 6: Predict Using Characters' Actions and Rhythm
- LESSON 7: Go Figure with Figurative Language - It Helps with Predicting!
- LESSON 8: Tie It Up With Transition Words To Write a Story!


text: The Pitt wiki last edited by rubicon on 12/03/16 01:00PM View full history OriginWhen Allen and Annie Bracken were on their way to a hospital, they were abducted by the Creed. Zoyvod took one of the eggs from Annie and sent it back to earth. The Creed genetically altered the egg so that he would become a weapon for the Creed. One day Pitt woke up and broke free. Pitt's escape attempt was halted by his half-brother Wroth. They thought Pitt was dead and his body was to be dumped. On his way to the dump, however, Pitt awoke and attacked his pilot. The pilot in self-defense shot Pitt out of the vessel.After that. Pitt lived in the wild for a while, learning how to survive and fight. Pitt was eventually caught and trained by the man who was supposed to dump him, Quagg. For years, Pitt was the personal assassin for Zoyvod until one day he went to the planet Chakra. There, Pitt's mind was merged with the mind of a young boy named Jereb. This changed him, and Pitt fled his homeworld. Zoyvod immediately went after Pitt as he headed back to Earth.Pitt ended up in a subway station in New York, where he saved his half-brother Timmy. After that, Pitt lived on the streets for a while, trying to adapt to his current situation. After a while, the Creed arrived on Earth because of the fact that Pitt and Timmy's DNA were very similar to the Creed target Timmy. Pitt, sensing something was wrong, rushed to Timmy. Pitt battled the aliens and during the battle Jereb left Pitt's mind and entered Timmy's. Jereb was a child blessed with a very strong spirit and using this spirit Timmy was able to defeat Zoyvod. This ended the battle between Pitt and the aliens.Timmy was soon kidnapped by the Creed. Pitt turned to the New York-based superhero team Axiom for help. Wroth teamed up with the leader of the Axiom, Professor Holdsworth, and they struck a deal: Holdsworth could have the power of Timmy in exchange for Wroth being able to have Pitt. Their plan failed, however and Wroth fled the scene. He returned later only to be defeated by a Zoyvod- controlled Pitt.Due to the war between the Creed and the Cenobite, Pitt would have been attacked by the Cenobite had they found him on Earth. The Cenobite Eurial therefore hid him in Shimmerspace until they were gone. There, Pitt again met Jereb. While in Shimmerspace, Jereb could see all time at once: past, present, and future. He told Pitt some of the things that would happen to him. Pitt was only in Shimmerspace for a very short period of time, but when he came out, five years had passed on Earth.While Pitt had been in Shimmerspace, an organization bent on world domination known as the Think Tank had created clones of Pitt to do their bidding. One of these clones was sent to steal some alien artifacts from a military installation. In reaction, the United States Army sent soldiers to kill Pitt. The battle ended with Pitt killing all of the soldiers and then heading towards the White House. Once there, he killed a body double of President Clinton. Pitt somehow found out about the Think Tank being behind it all and went to the Crossbow Technologies building where he killed their leaders, the Guileys.CharacteristicsHeight: 7'Weight: 1,000 lbsEyes: RedHair: BlackUnusual features: no nose, has claws and gray skin tonePowersPitt possesses superhuman strength and durability. He has a great healing factor, to which extent is not known. He uses pain as a stimulant, responding to it by becoming a more aggressive fighter. He also has retractable claws that can cut through a variety of substances.


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