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This 40-year-old lady never really liked the way her breast implants looked and wanted them removed. They were high profile saline implants placed by another doctor years before. The implants were removed, along with most of their associated scar capsules, so the tissue could heal together with minimal distortion.
Many patients benefit from additional breast lift or reduction surgery when implants are removed and not replaced. This woman simply did not need it.
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Our History
In 1988, after their long years and vast experience from one of the pioneer security agencies in the Philippines, two-young executives, Mr. Romero M. Isidro and Mrs. Aida A. Soriano have decided to pursue their vision in establishing their own Security Agency to help address security concerns as well as provide the unique security requirements of every businesses nationwide.
However, because of the considerable high standards and requirements needed to operate a security agency, Mr. Isidro came into an agreement with a relative who operates one of the well known agencies in Cebu, Criminology Anti-Crime Agency (CACA) to branch out CACA in Manila. Thus CACA Manila was formed in June of 1988.
The business grew and gained a number of clients. In June 21, 1993 just after five (5) years of successful operation, the inception of their vision to form their own security agency was finally established. (Anti-Crime Force, Inc.) Moreover, a branch office was opened on June 2003 in Naga City.
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Critical change about using $PFSDIR directory at OSC
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Sewing With Plush Fabric
Sewing with plush fabric can present challenges. But, overcoming them is fairly easy and the results (soft and cuddly quilts) are definitely worth the extra effort.
Working with Plush Fabric [1]
Plush fabric quilt backing makes quilts extra snuggly. But, they also present some challenges that you wouldn't normally have with cotton or other fabrics. Long-arm machine quilter, Nancy Sharr, offers the following tips for working with plush fabrics. The adorable fabric in these stitched samples are from A.E. Nathan Co.'s Coral Fleece collection.
Working with Plush Fabric [3]
After cutting plush fabric, machine-dry the pieces for a few minutes to remove the "fluffies" or "pills."
Plush fabric stretches across the width, but not on the length.
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Use a new needle.
Clean your throat plate, feed dogs, and bobbin case often.
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Watch the nap of the fabric, especially if you want it to smooth out in the same direction.
When sewing plush fabric to another type of fabric, put the plush fabric on the bottom.
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Plush fabric tends to curl when piecing, use a slightly larger seam allowance, from 3/8 to 1/2 inch. Press your seams open.
Use a longer stitch length, such as 3.0, when piecing plush fabric.
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Use a walking foot.
Keep your bobbin case clean.
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Set your stitch length to approximately 8 stitches per inch when quilting plush fabric. This allows the thread to sink into the fabric.
Use a lightweight, low loft batting.
Try to avoid the corner intersections when quilting, the thickness of the seams is very difficult to get your hopping foot over, it may jam your machine, or break your needle.
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http://www.facebook.com/subway/photosSubway may want to clean up its Facebook page, because fans of animated pornography have given the Five Dollar Footlong a whole new meaning.
4chan users hijack Mountain Dew contest
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Early Wednesday morning, dozens of pseudonymous contributors flooded the restaurant's official Facebook page with obscene photos of anime characters enjoying foot-long sandwiches (link is NSFW). In each pornographic image, male and female genitalia have been replaced with food.
According to one of the submitters who spoke to the Daily Dot, identifying herself only as Ember, the majority of the photos originated on Hatsune Miku Troll, a Facebook fan page dedicated to Miku Hatsune, an animated pop star in Japan.
Hatsuke Miku Troll started making daily sandwich pics censoring with a subway sandwich and their logo, Ember told the Daily Dot. So, the admin of that page asked if they should post the pictures to subway's page. Of course, a bunch of people agreed and joined in. We all went to websites for original pictures, saved them, opened them up in Photoshop or whatever other editing program we had, and placed the sandwich pic and or logo in there. Subway also banned us from the page afterwards, which isn't surprising at all.
Other photos originate in a FacePunch forums thread (also NSFW) dedicated to Photoshopping Subway sandwiches into hentai (a Japanese term for porn comics). Though the thread began on Dec. 26, 2011, its most recent post is from 36 hours ago.
Based on participants submissions and comments, the meme doesnt originate from any ill will for either porn or Subway sandwiches. Its just a bizarre juxtaposition.
Finally a thread for my extremely specific hentai, mayo and Subway-penis fetish! Thaard wrote.
When a screenshot of Subways Facebook predicament made it to Reddits r/funny, redditors blamed Subway for the mess.
This is what happens when a large public entity lets everyone tag them in photos, emarkd wrote. They should know better.
Subway apparently became aware of the incident Wednesday afternoon, and a moderator began removing the images. However, that has only encouraged submitters.
[S]o subway removed my post and a couple others. brb posting more, Yichao Ravioli wrote.
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There is an event floating around discussing reoccupation, and this online conversation seems to have potentially struck a chord and raised the question of whether this is maybe something we might want to do.
Online conversations kind of suck, especially at identifying who the stakeholders in a conversation are. They certainly aren't "consensus," and a decision of the sort that this conversation is replicating would need to be an open and horizontal conversation. This seems like the kind of conversation that should be had by the people who would be the ones doing it, without any pressures or expectations about what would come out of that conversation.
Occupy here in NYC is a lot of different groups, all of whom are stakeholders. Please help reach out to them and invite them to this conversation, so everyone who is invested in this can have a place to come together in community and be heard.


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The overall topic is "widget ------ling." The site's home page consists of links to pages optimized for keyphrases such as "widget ------ling in Springfield," "widget ------ling in Shelbyville," "Christian widget ------ling," and so on. The site has several hundred pages in all.
If you go to the page on "widget ------ling in Elbonia," you'll find a block of standard text that has been modified via a script or search-and-replace program to read something like:
"This page is about widget ------ling in Elbonia. If you're interested in widget ------ling in Elbonia, you can read our information on widget ------ling in Elbonia or chat about widget ------ling in Elbonia to learn all about widget ------ling in Elbonia."
The left column consists of AdSense ads disguised as a navigation bar. (Colors have been modified to eliminate ad borders and make the the "Ads by Google" hard to see.)
Clearly, this site violates the Google TOS, which state that an AdSense publisher's pages can't be created "for the purpose of displaying ads" even if the content is on target. (One might also think that the borderless ads disguised as a navigation bar would violate the TOS, but they don't, because Google made the mistake of listening to publishers who insisted that control over ad colors was necessary for "site aesthetics.")
I'd like to think that, when Google discovers sites like this, it takes action. Such sites are bad for users, bad for advertisers, bad for Google Search, and bad for the credibility of Google's "content network" among current and future advertisers. The question is, what can Google to do to discourage the creation of such sites? Here are some ideas for discussion:
1) Require that publishers obtain Google's approval for each site or subdomain where the AdSense code is to be used. Better yet, use technical means to ensure that code isn't displayed on non-approved domains or subdomains.
2) "Sandbox" revenues of new accounts and new sites under existing accounts for a reasonable period--say, 60 to 90 days--or until the AdSense QC team has done a couple of spot-checks to make sure that the site is legitimate.
3) Perform regular spot checks of any account that has revenues above a certain figure.
4) Tighten up the color and layout requirements for AdSense ads: e.g., require that the ads have borders and don't allow them to be used in lieu of navigation bars.
5) Work more closely with the Google Search team, so that any site banned by Google Search is also banned by AdSense and vice versa.
These steps might not eliminate the problem of "Made for AdSense" sites that threaten the viability of contextual advertising and clutter Google's search results, but they'd be be a step in the right direction.
Shades of grey apply here.
Yes there are some totally spammy 'made only for Adsense' sites that offend my sensibilities, but there are far more that are shades of grey.
There's an awful lot of sites changing the colours to resemble a navigation and placing the ads so close to the navigation bar that it can be easily confused. Personally, that doesn't bother me too much, but its not far from the 'adsense for navigation' that some seem to find offensive.
I personally have a finance site that does exactly that, y'all think thats wrong? How many of you are doing the same thing?
Anyone fancy getting on a soapbox to clearly define the moral difference here - its taking advantage of visitor confusion just the same.
Having said that, I think the criteria should be "value to the visitor". If the site is purely a device to pack'em off to an Ad without seeking to answer the search query, then that is bad for all of us in the long run.
I have seen some "Made for Adsense" site running as sponsered AD (including adwords) in the google site.
I think google would have definetly thought about it and would have realized that it is very difficult to police the same and hence has introduced "smart pricing".
If the ads on a spam site generate clicks and those clicks generate a healthy ROI for the advertisers, the only people upset will be competitors. If the clicks don't convert, smart pricing supposedly kicks in to make running the ads non-productive for the publisher.
The system basically polices itself (if it works as intended).
That's the rub, and I think the source of efv's concerns. What should Google do if they find out the "spammy" sites are converting for advertisers as well or better than the content ones?
This has been my experience as an advertiser, so I have no problem with them. The problem efv addresses is the large, corporate sites that don't want to be associated with us subhuman smarm that produce pages with less than 3,000 words of unique content. Even worse, some of us aren't very good web designers :O).
Do nav bars count as content?
The TOS says pages that were built soley for the purpose of displaying ads (make money?) are not eligible, even if there is real content on the pages (if I recall right).
That is not as clear a statement as it looks, by a long shot.
I've seen some pages that offer nothing but a couple lines of "content" a "back" or "home" link and an adsense ad block that provided real, useful content in those few lines. I'd bet that a some of these pages were auto-generated instant-sites. But they are still useful.
I've seen other pages with hundreds of words of useless "content" and adsense. On those pages the only useful content seems to be the adsense ads.
Does adsense count as useful content? I can imagine situations where Google would look at the page and say it does. I don't think that was the intent, but still.... who knows.
I think the problem are mostly with the unreviewed sites.
But it's entirely possible to take a clean site that was submitted and reviewed and later add new pages that clearly lack substance, but which work great to dump clicks into the adsense blocks.
And while we are talking about it, who would pay for greater quality control?
The advertizers? maybe they would bid higher if the ROI was greater, maybe not.
Google? Not likely.
That leaves the publisher, via even lower payouts.
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And while we are talking about it, who would pay for greater quality control?
If the AdSense network is perceived as the Wild West, fewer advertisers will be willing to risk their money in Google's "content network." This will result in less competition for ad placement, lower bids, and ultimately less money for publishers.
Two things to keep in mind:
1) Mainstream corporate advertisers and advertising agencies are pickier about their ads and direct-response marketing than the typical Webmaster World member is likely to be. That's partly because they have brand identities to protect, and partly because the ad managers and media buyers are answerable to bosses. Webmaster World members can say "Traffic from keyword-rich nonsense sites converts just as well as traffic from legitimate sites" all they want (whether or not they're correct), but that premise is a tough sell on Madison Avenue, where advertisers have deeper pockets than most of today's PPC advertisers do.
2) The impact of spam on e-mail marketing, the increased availability of popup blockers, and such draconian measures as default ad-blocking in Norton Internet Security show what can happen when spam and other annoyances go unchecked. Google knows this, and it knows that it can't afford to let its SERPs or the AdSense network be taken over by spammers.
If the AdSense network is perceived as the Wild West, fewer advertisers will be willing to risk their money in Google's "content network." This will result in less competition for ad placement, lower bids, and ultimately less money for publishers.
I absolutely agree with EFV. It is our interest and the interest of Google to make sure that Adsense remains a viable program for advertisers. I am also an Adwords advertiser and I have opted out of the content network after reviewing the quality and ROI of some sites where my ads were displayed.
It is our long term interest to help Google - all we need is a Google page where everyone can enter the URL of a site that in his/her judgment break the TOS and let them be the final judge. This will decrease the cost for Google and help the program remain viable for publishers, advertisers and Google.
I also have another problem with these �made for Adsense� sites and that is that by �lifting� other people�s keywords they are systematically infringing on trademarks of others and diluting the brand of many companies. Google should take note that their rather relaxed trademarks policy will bite them back in another way.
As I said I dropped out of the content network � another reason is because I do not want to see my brand associated with some very questionable spam sites.
Oetzi; I'm sure keyword stuffed pages can infringe on trademarks, but they don't have to. Still, I can see where that is a real concern. Just as not wanting to be associated with some sites is.
Just as not wanting to be associated with some sites is.
Quality is important to make sure that advertisers opt in the content network. We can't have the situation where advertisers are opting out of the content network in droves because the sites are too spammy or too low quality.
Another problem is the perception of the lead. Advertisers may not be too happy to learn that they got a click on their ads -- not because the user is actually interested in their product or service -- but because the only way out of the site is to click on an ad. The user may have brought "traffic" to the advertiser but not the quality traffic the advertiser was hoping for. Soon, Adsense will have the reputation of the type of traffic that can be brought from these popunder networks or other dubious sources of traffic -- and advertisers will opt out in droves.
I am saying this again : Adsense clicks from SEO'd sites (spammy or not) converts waaay better than adsense clicks from content sites which has a large source of repeat visitors.
If you want proof , just add a related affiliate link in your SEO site and in your content site!
>> I do not want to see my brand associated with some very questionable spam sites.
Its your decision ...As someone said Amazon and Ebay ads appear in millions of spammy affiliate pages . Do they harm their brand? . I bet not! ...
Amazon and Ebay ads appear in millions of spammy affiliate pages
The decision in choosing a site where you want your advertising to show is different from a decision from the perspective of Ebay or Amazon in growing their affiliate program.
When you buy advertising through Adsense, you pay for every click - whether the visitor buys or not. So your goal is to try to find sites that will bring you users who will become customers. With affiliate program, Ebay or Amazon will not care where their logos and banners are shown -- since they don't pay until that site (spammy or not) converts. Amazon or Ebay doesn't pay for each click sent by the spammy site.
You're comparing apples and oranges here. Pay per click and pay for performance are two different things with different decision making processes.
My second observation is that AdSense program is stronger than ever although someone mentioned that 75% of the top listed sites are SPAM sites.
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As someone said Amazon and Ebay ads appear in millions of spammy affiliate pages . Do they harm their brand? . I bet not! ...
See Alika's comments about the difference between affiliate programs and PPC ads. Also, Amazon and eBay aren't mainstream advertisers; they're commercial Web sites with populist roots. There's a huge difference between Amazon and eBay and the companies that spend nearly $250 billion per year on offline media in the United States alone.
According to Jupiter Research, online ad spending in 2003 was a mere 3.5% of offline ad spending. In 2004, paid search is expected to grow 35% to $2.6 billion, or barely more than 1% of total U.S. advertising expenditures. There's a huge upside potential for PPC advertising, but it won't be realized if the online ad networks fail to deliver the targeted audiences (not just targeted keywords) and controls that advertisers expect and receive from traditional media outlets.
So in the short run, the crummier G's serps are, the more money they make.
-more spammy adsense sites being created =
-more spammy site adsense ads being shown (and clicked on)= more $$$
in the long run?
Ads with better conversion rates will be in higher demand, and cost more for the advertisers. Ads with lower conversion rates will have less demand and be cheaper for the advertisers.
This will be true for publishers as well -- those who can deliver high conversion rates will earn more than those who deliver low conversion rates.
The problem at the moment is that none of the big PPC players provide this data to their advertisers or publishers.
If advertisers could see that ads running on site A had a 20% conversion rate at 25 cents per click but ads on site B had a 18% conversion rate at 7 cents per click they would obviously be rather spend their money on site B than site A.
Once the tools and technology are in place to track conversions, the lousy sites will dissappear by themselves.
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In most cases the sale of an expensive product (anything in the thousands $ and up) is the result of multiple exposures of the product to the prospective customer from different promotional channels including many clicks to the vendor site from different sites.
When people cannot measure the ROI of their ads they walk away from doubius channels.
Unless Google protects the integrity and reputation of the Adsense program, sooner or later it will fail. It is in everyone's interest to cooperate.
I stopped using content ads a while ago, because conversion wasn't there. There were some sites sending me nice traffic that I'd be happy to receive more from, but there were too many that sent me loads and loads of junk traffic.
Let me exclude the junk sites from displaying my ads, and let me bid differently for content than I do for search and not only am I a happier advertiser, but Google has all the data they need to know which sites to look more closely at.
i gave that example simply to say no ones brand will be diluted if it appears in spammy (percieved) sites ...I understand CPA is different from CPC . An advertiser has a choice here , if he finds content ads are not converting he can simply disable it.
The only problem now is since google dont give induvidual site stats one will have to disable the entire content ad even if there are some sites which convert good .
I still believe when stats like this will be introduced people will realise that SEO'd sites convert better!.
>> it won't be realized if the online ad networks fail to deliver the targeted audiences
A visitor become a targetted audiance (infact razor sharp target) when he types in "luxury hotels in hongkong" ... as a matter of fact he is more profitable to an advertiser than a surfer who reads about hongkong hotels in the travel section of NewYork times
>> According to Jupiter Research, online ad spending in 2003 was a mere 3.5% of offline ad spending.
Those maddison av types who control offline ad budget are into brand building but internet and especially Search engines/PPC will never be a branding platform ...Internet is a pull media and its better suited for ROI sensitive targetted advertising not some brand building . Thats the reason banner ads failed .
Like many of you, I have come to depend on AdSense for more then half my income. It's been good to me and I would like to think I am a publisher good to AdSense. I love the program and want to respect it.
Not out of greed, but appreciation.
Put me in the EFV camp because those "type" sites he describes lower the reputation and respect of the program for all of us. There is nothing I hate more then being sucked into one of these bait and switch sites (when researching something on the net)just to see some AdSense ads there.
It sickens me.
And when these %$#@ idiots build sites like those that could put in jeopardy the AdSense program then I WILL start dictating and lobbying for how there needs to be stronger QC and enforced guidelines.
Why? Because I will be d------d to h--l before I let some moron jeopardize the program for me and the money that helps support my family.
The PPC marketplace for advertisers is nearly a perfect market,����.. The problem at the moment is that none of the big PPC players provide this data to their advertisers or publishers.
Those two statements contradict each other.
Once the tools and technology are in place to track conversions
The problem that I see is that the tools and technology are not in place and that what affects the program will affect all publishers the same. You also have to account for all advertisers adopting these tools and technologies when they become available or just deciding that the whole thing is too much trouble and making a wholesale decision on the program and not single publishers.
I still believe when stats like this will be introduced people will realise that SEO'd sites convert better!.
is not a matter of conversion, is a matter of conforming to the existing rules and being true to the way the program is marketed.
martinibuster has a valid point but I make the point that adsense publishers who follow the guidelines should fight to preserve the reputation of the AdSense program.
Agreed 100%
I asked Adsense to specifically review this site before it went live - they had no problem with the site. In fact, they gave me suggestions for improving ad targeting and ASP methods.
Just give the advertisers individual site stats (atleast individual account stat) and tools to measure individual conversion rates and tools to disable on a individual basis ...Let the sponsors decide where to spend their money!
IMHO this is the best solution rather than letting some editor decide the quality of a site!
I recently created a searchable travel site that uses dynamic word subsitution to 'stay on topic'... reconfigures title and text... It seems you are criticizing this specific type of page (which happens to have adsense ads among many others).
I asked Adsense to specifically review this site before it went live - they had no problem with the site. In fact, they gave me suggestions for improving ad targeting and ASP methods.
This is an AdSense forum. It's not a web design contest so any criticism of your web type is not matter.
And when these %$#@ idiots build sites like those that could put in jeopardy the AdSense program then I WILL start dictating and lobbying for how there needs to be stronger QC and enforced guidelines.
To prevent someone jeopardizing the AdSense program is Google job, not yours as long as they did not violate any AdSense TOS. Spend your time to improve your site so that you can help supporting your family.
A -- Percentage of advertisers who will not even try and venture to participate in the content network because of the "perceived" low quality of publisher sites. They will not even want to test if there is any good ROI to be achieved in the content network. They think the sites are "spammy" and "low quality", however they define that to be.
B -- Advertisers who opted to participate in the content network may be turned off by the "perceived" low quality of sites where their ads are showing. Moreso if they are getting significantly less ROI than the search results. We've had a number here already who said that they have turned off the content network option for their ads.
B of course can be rectified if advertisers are given tools to select where their ads are being shown. However, since the program does not have that capability as yet, publishers are not able to maximize their potential revenue from Adsense given the exodus and non-participation of a percentage of advertisers from the program.
If the percentage of advertiser A & B increases, the Adsense publishers will be affected.
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A visitor become a targetted audiance (infact razor sharp target) when he types in "luxury hotels in hongkong" ... as a matter of fact he is more profitable to an advertiser than a surfer who reads about hongkong hotels in the travel section of NewYork times
That argument might work if Google were a low-traffic search engine and most users were arriving on Site X from Yahoo, MSN, or some other search engine. But since Google is by far the leading search engine (and since its rivals have a strong incentive to filter out "made for AdSense" sites), it's likely that the visitor is arriving on Site X from Google. So there's no benefit to the user, because he'd have clicked on an AdWord if he wanted to click on an ad. And there's little benefit to Google, because it's sharing revenue with a publisher who's using Google's own search results to cannibalize AdWords clicks.
Those maddison av types who control offline ad budget are into brand building but internet and especially Search engines/PPC will never be a branding platform ...Internet is a pull media and its better suited for ROI sensitive targetted advertising not some brand building.
Who said anything about brand building? We're talking about large advertisers and ad agencies that spend billions of dollars a year on direct-response advertising and direct mail. (I remember being in a meeting for an airline's direct-mail campaign and hearing the production guy say, "I need paper specs as soon as possible so I can reserve time at the mill." Believe me, those people weren't thinking about brand building.)
We're talking big money here--a lot bigger than what Google is currently earning from first-generation PPC advertisers.
We can argue for days which is spam which is not spam . My view is to let the market decide ...
If it were that simple, the AdSense network wouldn't have any standards at all, and Google wouldn't bother to fight spam in its search results.


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Plot | Following a butterfly |
Air date | January 2, 1996 |
Season | Season 27 (1995-1996) |
Sponsors | L, 18 |
Picture | Segment | Description |
| Big Bird, Gabi, Miles and Lexine play "Follow the Leader" in the park (with Big Bird leading), and suddenly spot a butterfly. Big Bird thinks the butterfly wants to play with them, but the kids don't think a butterfly could play the game. Big Bird argues that they shouldn't be prejudiced against butterflies, and so the kids agree to let the butterfly be the leader. | |
| Everyone has the same feelings, "No Matter What." Kids of all types play with a huge beach ball. (EKA: Episode 2782) | |
Parts of a face are drawn in black on-screen before forming a picture. | |
| Kermit shows what's inside of Herry Monster using an X-ray machine. (EKA: Episode 2254) | |
| Portraits of kids display the alphabet. Artist: Lisa Crafts (EKA: Episode 3203) | |
| Little Richard sings "Rosita," a song about feelings, to Rosita. (EKA: Episode 3225) | |
| A heart that says "I love you" is drawn. (EKA: Episode 2404) | |
| A boy hangs out with his friend Will, who is Jewish. He learns about their culture, and about Purim. | |
| A woman serves milk to her cat. Several other cats join him, including a lion. (new music added) Artist: Bruce Cayard (EKA: Episode 1102) | |
| | Big Bird and the kids follow the butterfly into a different section of the park they've never visited before. While they aren't looking, it lands on a statue, and they suddenly hear sad violin music playing. They inspect the statue, and see that the statue is playing the violin. It can also talk, and the figure reveals that she feels useless being a statue. Lexine thinks the statue is pretty to look at, and Big Bird points out that the birds can sit on her. Now she feels happy to be a statue, and plays happy-sounding music. |
cont'd | The butterfly flies away, so Big Bird and Lexine say goodbye to the statue before they go after it. Miles and Gabi are perplexed. | |
| "Dancin' Shoes" (EKA: Episode 3064) | |
| A girl dances with a tiger. Artist: Karen Aqua | |
| None, some and all of the dancers dance as Big Bird narrates. (EKA: Episode 3386) | |
| L - shooting stars (EKA: Episode 2313) | |
| The floating kids form an L. (EKA: Episode 3128) | |
| L / l (space paint) (EKA: Episode 3216) | |
| Kingston Livingston III sings "Just Happy to Be Me." (EKA: Episode 3178) | |
| Lillian recalls the time she joined her parents and baby sister on a hike up the hill. Lillian hiked to the top herself, and is proud of the fact. Artist: Craig Bartlett (EKA: Episode 2787) | |
| "Dressed Up" (remake) (EKA: Episode 3399) | |
| | The butterfly leads Big Bird and the kids to yet another section of the park. Miles still doesn't believe that the butterfly is really playing with them, but Gabi and Lexine are starting to agree with Big Bird - after all, if an 8-foot tall bird can play "Follow the Leader," why not a butterfly? Big Bird starts naming the people he'll tell about his experience when he gets back to Sesame Street, and remembers that Linda is deaf. He realizes he doesn't know how to say "butterfly" in sign language, and Miles and Gabi doubt that the butterfly knows either. Just then, the butterfly flies up to the screen and shows a film sequence of a girl saying the word "butterfly" in sign language. (EKA: Episode 3341) |
cont'd | Everyone saw the sequence except Miles, who still doesn't believe them. They follow the butterfly elsewhere ... | |
| A baby climbs up the stairs all by himself. (EKA: Episode 1736) | |
| Zoe sings "My Name Is Zoe." (EKA: Episode 3387) | |
| In Trinidad, Asha and her friends practice and dance on stilts in preparation for a carnival. | |
| "The Little Letter L: A Poem by Louise" Artist: Bruce Cayard (EKA: Episode 1576) | |
| L is for look, legs, light, lemonade, and ladybug. | |
| The Typewriter: L for lion Artist: Jeff Hale (EKA: Episode 1201) | |
| Big Bird and the kids follow the butterfly into a littered section of the park. Big Bird assumes that maybe the butterfly led them there so they could pick up all the trash. | |
| cont'd | As a joke, Miles pretends the trash can is a basketball hoop, and "scores" 2 points. Right then and there, Rap Master Squirrel pops up and delivers a rap about making a game out of picking up litter and throwing it away, as its corresponding film is shown. (EKA: Episode 2734) By the end of the rap, the entire section of the park has been cleaned by Big Bird and the kids! Now Miles believes in the power of this butterfly. They follow it elsewhere ... |
| The McDouble twins know how to help each other. (EKA: Episode 3213) | |
| A seal and a bear fight over a circus ball, but learn to cooperate. Artist: Frank Gresham (EKA: Episode 3295) | |
| Elmo sings "In Your Imagination." (EKA: Episode 3119) | |
| Abstract #18 (EKA: Episode 2859) | |
| Growing Numbers #18 (EKA: Episode 2933) | |
| Masked march #18 | |
| Big Bird and the kids suddenly lose track of the butterfly, and realize that they're lost. They seek the aid of a nearby policewoman and firefighter, who know Sesame Street by its theme. They proceed to lead the kids home, and Big Bird asks the concessions lady for a pretzel before he follows them. | |
| Where does the cow live? (Maria voiceover) | |
| Muppet & Kid Moments: Grover shows Torian the difference between back and front. (EKA: Episode 3109) | |
| "That's What's Best About Getting Dressed" | |
| A girl explains the concept of relativity by explaining how her house is a part of a neighborhood, the neighborhood is part of a city, the city is part of a country, etc. (EKA: Episode 2963) | |
| | The kids come home to their relieved parents, and explain what they were doing in the park. They thank the policewoman and firefighter, and go home. Ruthie announces the sponsors, ending with the butterfly. |
| Coming soon on Sesame Street: Gordon and Miles have dinner with The Three Bears, and are surprised when Papa Bear goes under the dinner table to pass them the ketchup. |
- This episode was written by Christine Ferraro.
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Join us in Delano for a series of four amazing and "peculiar" programs related to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children after the movie is released this weekend.
1.) October 5 - Miss Peregrine: Intro and Discussion of the Book and Movie - peculiar questions will be asked.
2.) October 12 - Miss Peregrine: The Wonder of Found Art - Ransom Riggs wrote his story based on old photos he found, creating each character from the photo. We will make whimsical art from found objects and...
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The streets around the Delano Public Library have a different look. Road construction has started on both roads adjacent to the building, Railroad Ave. and 2nd St.
The library remains open and ready to serve you. The parking lot across from the library is currently accessible, and there are signs for additional parking near the building. Our summer programs are going strong. Next Tuesday, July 26, at 1 p.m., Snake Discover will have a variety of snakes and reptiles at the library. You may even...
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Celebrate summer by escaping to the enchanted islands of Hawaii where life is always laid back and fun!
Make Hawaiian crafts, enjoy Luau foods, and listen to traditional Hawaiian music. Do the limbo!
Join us at the Delano Public Library on Wednesday, June 29 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. for this fun program. Limited to 20 lucky 10 – 15 year-olds. Please register online or call the library.
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The Reptile and Amphibian Discovery Zoo based in Owatonna visited the Delano library on Tuesday, June 30. The Radzoo brought a wonderful variety of animals including an albino boa constrictor. Other stars of the show included an American alligator, a tree frog, tortoise, snapping turtle and a variety of snakes. Children greeted each one with gasps of wonder and amazement. After the presentation, participants were invited to touch both the boa and tortoise. Call the Delano library or check the...
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Join intern Master Gardener Joyce Passananti (in bee costume) as she teaches about the "Plight of the Bee" at Delano Public Library on Tuesday, May 19 from 3:30 to 4:00 p.m. Learn why we have fewer bees, how they help us, and how we can help them. Plant a flower to attract bees to your garden. Limited to 20 children, ages 6-8. Registration is required. Parents are welcome.
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On Tuesday, April 21, Delano patrons celebrated "What the Library Has Made Possible for You."
They enjoyed a tasty "book" cake, had their faces painted and took a few minutes to write favorite library stories on the windows. Stop at the library anytime and let us help you make your "possibilities" happen.
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To kick off the Photo Exhibit at the Delano Public Library, local photographer John Peterson shared his 50 year journey in photography on Tuesday, March 2. He displayed the cameras he has used during his career, pointing out his Crown Graphic sheet film camera (World War II era) that he used taking wedding pictures to pay his way through college. You can view Peterson's photos along with others from local photographers during March at the Delano library. The exhibit features a total of 46...
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Delano teens enjoyed designing unique art pieces using a variety of industrial materials including metal, wire gears, keys and clock-faces with a Victorian flair.
Join us Tuesday, Feb. 10 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. for String It Up - an art class. Create an original wall hanging using hammers, nails, and colorful string. This class is limited to 12, ages 12 and older, so call the Delano Library to sign up, or sign up online.
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Sunday, January 20, 2013
I will no longer be publishing in this space. I have moved my blog to another site, my former site. I hope you will follow me there as my life and business continues to develop and grow.
Friday, January 18, 2013
February Workshops
This noon I finally got around to updating my workshops for February. I posted them in the Events & Workshops tab (above) and on my website if you are interested.
Last Saturday, I taught a furniture painting/3 technique workshop to Janice, a very lovely and very creative woman. She decided to paint a shelf in Provence with the Rustic Waxed technique. I love the way the color looks with a rustic finish and the dark wax. Beautiful!
Janice loved her results, and so did I!
Around 4:00 pm, closing time, I was feeling very feverish and weak. Little did I know
I was consumed with this awful, torturous flu. I have honestly never, ever had a flu that was unrelenting in its grip. I have been in bed all week, still am, and tonight I still am fighting a semi-high fever. I cannot get it to go away! Just when I think I might be getting better and I go downstairs "pretending" I am well, it is within a matter of minutes I am back in bed.
Some of you may know I have three cats. They all have loved having me home. For a person who never takes a nap, they all think this is such a marvelous change in their lives. No only am I home, I am in bed constantly! They are in for a jolt when I finally get back on my feet because I am never one to sit still unless I am sitting by the fire reading a book. And then they invariably find my lap a nice place to be cozy as long as I am residing there.
This is my man, Solon, the one who has greeted and helped anyone who walked in the door all week. He has the perfect Southern hospitable manner, bar none, and patience galore. I have to thank him here in this forum because many of my customers read this blog. I had originally hoped to get to my shop no later than Wednesday, but little did I realize the fierceness of this virus. Now I am shooting for Tuesday. I hope I make it. Solon needs a break too! Thank you for all your patience in my absence.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
January Whites
When I was thinking about taking the holiday decorations down and settling into the new year for the new location (which I love by the way), I was thinking about white and snow and lights reflected in that magical winter light. I grew up, for the most influential part of my childhood, in Massena, New York, a small town near the Canadian border where it could start snowing around Halloween and begin a melt down in late April. Now, living in a milder climate for the majority of my adult life, I never seem to get over the longing for this magical snowy existence and beauty.
So after I took the tree down and all the decorations, I decided a snowy existence or a semblance of one, was just what I needed for a transition from holiday to winter. This last Thursday when I was in my front room restocking paint, I heard some young boys walking home from school with a question...."why is that store all white?" I had to laugh. Well, I guess I did get my point across.
I love ambient light in a room and this was a chance to show one of my lampshades that I made and soon will be featured in a class with Annie Sloan's beautiful fabrics!
I love the store at night just when I am ready to shut off the lights and lock the door. I always leave three lamps on so people can peek in and wonder what is there on the shelves and way beyond. I think we all love to walk in our neighborhoods at night and peek into windows to see how people decorate and live their lives.
One discussion I had with my husband and a customer this last week was of past memories. We all recalled when January was a month when all of the department stores featured "white sales", and then in February there were the men's suit sales around the President's birthdays. In March everyone looked forward to appliance sales. I think these indelible memories for many much younger are long forgotten.
We are nearly to another holiday, Valentine's Day. I am hard-pressed to give up my white decor right now, but I may hang a few Valentine hearts somewhere in the shop. For now I am enjoying the imaginary beauty of snowflakes and magical light cast on snow at twilight. There really is nothing more beautiful.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
January Warmth and Inspiration
There is something about January and the adjustment of being so busy in December and the holiday tempo that makes it seem a little forlorn. Leaving my grandchildren is always hard and it never seems to get any easier even as some of them are reaching their teens. It was a nice boost this year to return to my fairly new location and shop and plunge right into a workshop with inspiring and energetic women. What a fun way to begin a new year.
What I love best about workshops is the mingling of mutual passions and ideas and ways to hunt for bargains whether it be furniture or hardware. There is always someone in the group who has a secret way to find the best deal. Everyone talks about design, color, and technique in a refreshing and sharing manner. We all love paint and being creative, but we also love a chance to share and know we all belong to a mutual group that loves design and improvement and recycling neglected pieces of furniture.
After we were done painting our wood samples, we decided to try painting some metal hooks. This is what I love most about Chalk Paint™. You can paint on absolutely anything and these decorative hooks took to the paint as any refined hook would do given the same opportunity!
How about Florence with Antoinette and a little distressing and some dark wax?
And then there is the regal beauty of a Primer Red with some dark wax and a distressing.
A Fleur-de-lis with Chateau Grey, a little distressing and softening with dark wax is pure elegance.
And who does not love Provence in any form? Here it is ready to hang in the warmth of a little distressing and dark wax.
And here is Antoinette in all her beautiful subtle refinement. I love the warmth of the dark wax and a little distressing to give this piece an extra charm.
At the ending of the workshop we all shared our information on Pinterest and Facebook. There will be more pins to pin and more friends to add to all of our pages and isn't this the best way to begin a January that at the onset seems a little calm and remote from families and friends where the miles may seem a bit long. I am warming up to a wonderful year at The Purple Pear. The wind may seem cold and the temperatures chilly but there is much to warm our hearts and keep our creative pulses beating.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
From San Francisco to The Lost Coast
We left LA on December 29th, and arrived in San Francisco on the 30th to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We had a drink at the bar in the Huntington Hotel, a classic and beautiful bar, and I loved the lamp that was there....the lights dim and the ambiance very special.
We spent a lot of time visiting our favorite haunts, places we loved to visit when we lived there...
Our favorite bakery was at Pine and Fillmore, La Boulangerie.
And Nest, my favorite boutique for home decor and inspiration was on Fillmore Street and Washington. If you have a chance to visit the bay area don't miss the chance to visit this magical place.
On our anniversary, the 31st, we headed over to the SF Giants Ball Park to see the brick we had to commemorate our place of marriage in San Francisco and to memorialize our years there together.
We were given a small bowl of fruit from the hotel and I had to take a picture of it. The stem was so wonderful, such a statement. Grace Cathedral is in the background.
From the time we arrived until we left the weather was spectacular. This was a view from our room. The Flood Mansion is in the forefront, now the Pacific Union Club.
On the way north we headed up through Mendocino and The Lost Coast, Humboldt County. We stayed at The Benbow Inn.
I could spend hours on their front porch even though the weather was very cold and foggy.
This inn was built around the 1930's and has the most amazing collection of antique furniture. I went around taking a few photos. This hall tree was on the second floor near our room.
This detail barely does it justice. I was so drawn in by the beauty of it every time we passed by.
This amazing statue was of an angel in flight holding a hot air balloon filled with people. Where in the world did they find these incredible pieces?
And what about this beautiful swan table with the intricate carving?
I think they had the most original and lovely light fixtures I have seen in some time.
This fixture was actually a standard one seen through out the hotel.
We are back in Portland now and returning to The Purple Pear in the morning. I can't wait to re-do the store and update the look for 2013. Happy New Year!!
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
"Levitated Mass"
The day before we left LA, our daughter wanted us to see an outdoor exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She described it as a huge displaced mass of rock (boulder?) that was poised over a structure that one could walk under. It sounded strange and fascinating at the same time.
The grounds and buildings of this museum are energizing and contemporary, fitting and appropriate for a city that sets trends in fashion as well as design.
When I approached this "rock" I was astounded, not only about the size and mass, but the way it had been set above this passage. The dimension of it as well as the feeling that it conveyed was one of awe and reverence. How something so massive could seem so majestic and balanced.
My grandson and I are standing next to the mass that is set above the tunnel, so you can see how massive this structure is in comparison to our sizes.
As we walked up to the museum there was another outdoor display with strings of yellow tubing, a visceral and tactile change of experience.
Jeanette, my daughter is in the foreground with her youngest son, and I am in the background with her oldest son. It is funny how this kind of experience seems to create a feeling of inclusion and security.
What a memorable experience this was for us to have as individuals as well as a family. And it reminds me how important it is to support our museums whether they are local or distant. The art is there for us to experience and whether it is visual or interactive, it is a gift for us to embrace. It is a time to feel and reflect and memorialize the experience. And it is always within our reach. It is an opportunity to recall and remember this gift as we approach a new year knowing that art is the one constant in our lives in a world that is in constant flux.
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The University of Wyoming is among the nation's top universities ranked by U.S. News & World Report and Forbes. It is Wyoming's only 4 year institution and it is situated between the Snowy Mountain Range and Laramie Mountains, both of which lie in the Medicine Bow National Forest.
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The only prison to house the infamous Butch Cassidy was built in 1872. The Wyoming Territorial Prison was restored and renovated in the 1990s by the efforts of the citizens of Laramie. Hours of Operation: 9:00am - 6:00pm daily.
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At Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston, Texas, Microsoft announces a major push to attract businesses to use Azure through a "cloud first" strategy
Microsoft is set to attract businesses to use Azure through a "cloud first" partner programme.
At Microsoft's worldwide partner conference, general manager Steven Martin said: "We are committed to helping our partners and customers embrace cloud computing, using a 'cloud-first' approach to all we do, from our partner programmes to our engineering principles to our product innovations."
To support integration with cloud applications, Microsoft unveiled Windows Azure Active Directory. This supports integration of identities across both Microsoft and third-party SaaS applications. Windows Azure Active Directory synchronises with on-premise Windows Server Active Directory. It is also built into Office 365.
Microsoft has pre-integrated Windows Azure Active Directory with 40 applications, including Box.com, Salesforce.com, Concur, DropBox and Google Apps Gmail. A browser-based user access panel enables users to find the SaaS apps and login using a single sign-on.
The company has also extended the SQL Azure database with a premium version, which it says enables database administrators to reserve dedicated cloud capacity to support mission critical applications.
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Martin urged Microsoft's partners to assist customers who want to integrate Windows Azure infrastructure services, the company's infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform.
As Computer Weekly has previously reported, demand for cloud computing is pushing up rates for Microsoft consultants.
Over the next year Microsoft hopes to extend the Azure platform by forging closer ties with the on-premise Windows server environment used by most businesses to run server-based applications.
The company is also encouraging third-party developers to build apps and applications hosted on the Azure cloud, made available to users through the Windows Azure store. At the time of writing, the store has few applications, but clearly Microsoft wants to make it a fully fledged marketplace for enterprise apps and applications.
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Movie review: 'The Impossible' an uplifting story of frightening event
January 4, 2013 10:00 AMEven though you know deadly disaster lurks around the bend, you think, what a lucky family.
What an idyllic getaway for Christmas -- a beachfront resort in Thailand, glowing lanterns drifting into the inky sky, full moon reflected in the shimmering water, brilliantly colored fish coursing through the clear current, orchids perfuming the lush greenery.
Brits Maria (Naomi Watts) and Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three boys, visiting from Japan where they make their home, are primed for the holiday of a lifetime, and that's just what they get but not in the way they imagined.
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They are caught in the jaws of the tsunami that slams and slaps everyone and everything with torrents of water. Trees snap, debris clogs the rushing waves and the eldest boy, Lucas (Tom Holland), is washed away as he calls, "Help me. Get me out of here."
Soon, Maria is beseeching him for assistance, and she's left bloody and battered as the pair cling to a tree for, literally, dear life. Her face is bruised and she has a huge bleeding gash on her leg while the length of his back is marked, too.
By the time they are transported to an overrun, chaotic hospital, there are still no signs of Henry and the younger boys or a guarantee that Maria's injuries can be treated in time.
"The Impossible" follows the story of a doctor (Maria's job by training although her practice is on hold) turned patient and of a child who must muster maturity and turn his attention to others -- just as the locals did for him and his mum.
The movie is based on the story of a Spanish family, but the watery terror experienced by the vacationers and subsequent kindness demonstrated by strangers was real and is remarkably staged by director J.A. Bayona.
He made his feature-film debut with 2008's "The Orphanage," a Spanish-language supernatural drama in which a woman discovers dark secrets hidden in her childhood home, an orphanage by the sea. "The Impossible" reunites him with "Orphanage" screenwriter Sergio G. Sanchez, working from a story by Maria Belon.
The re-creation of the catastrophe here is jaw-dropping in its ferocity and frightfulness. But the movie is equally adept at tapping into the family members' feelings, and, months after seeing it, I remember tears dripping onto my blouse.
Ms. Watts deserves a best actress Oscar nomination and young Tom Holland, one of the Billy Elliots on the London stage, easily handles the physical and emotional rigors of the role. Mr. McGregor and, as the younger boys, Oaklee Pendergast and Simon Joslin, beautifully round out the cast, which also counts Geraldine Chaplin (also in "The Orphanage") in a small role.
The monster 2004 quake and tsunami killed an estimated 230,000 people in a dozen countries. "The Impossible" draws from the lucky and miraculous side of the life-and-death ledger, making for a rare, risky story but an uplifting one, too.
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution squandered its interesting premise
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First, I'll be spoiling Deus Ex: HR, so stop reading if that's a problem for you. Second, if you please, watch this live action ad that was used to market Deus Ex: HR.
The Trailer
It's meant to be a propaganda piece of the anti-augmentation group in the game, Purity First, but the criticisms and issues raised are the kind of things that ideally would be primary components of the game's themes and focus. Granted, one of those issues, neuropozyne addiction, is a plot device that isn't necessarily intrinsic to the issue; human augmentations in the game have an issue where the body rejects them, and neuropozyne is not so much an "addiction" as it is an anti-rejection drug that is arbitrarily expensive. It turns out the companies don't do this on purpose to indefinitely milk people for money; they actually can't find a way to make the body accept the augmentations, and it's a really big deal when they discover that your character, Adam Jensen, has a mutation that allows him to accept the augmentations permanently. So that issue is given a lot of visual focus in the ad, showing people out on the street without the drug, but that turns out to just be a temporary setback of medical science.
That aside, the other issues all stand. What it means to give up your humanity, everyone getting into this arms race of augmentations to be better than the competition, how it changes warfare, how the augmentations make you dependent on corporations for maintenance and repair, and that they could track your personal data in a similar way to smartphones; all interesting social and ethical issues.
That live action trailer/ARG site for the game actually handles the moral and ethical quandaries of human augmentation in a much more interesting way than the game ever does. It's like an ad agency came up with this super interesting ad campaign, then the devs went "Oh wait, shit, the game is 90% done and it's too late to make the plot about exploring these issues AT ALL. Oh well." Should we call that Dead Island Syndrome?
My Summary of the Plot, Which Will Be Hard to Follow If You Haven't Played The Game
The whole game you're basically just obsessed with finding the mercs that killed (actually kidnapped) your old flame Megan, and you also spend goddamn forever tracking down this mysterious hacker from the Sarif factory early on. Then after you find him and sneak into Tai Yong Medical and accomplish nothing, you go to Montreal to find out that Picus invents/controls the news (appropriate for cyberpunk dystopia, but irrelevant to Adam's personal motivations and the augmentation themes in the game). You get to Megan who actually doesn't give a shit about being rescued, and Adam's relationship with her is this completely unresolved plot thread, despite seeming incredibly important in the first 15 minutes of the game. Then you spend the last 5% of the game worrying about this chip that is fucking up everybody with augmentations, then suddenly the game gives you the ending choices that are more about "Are the people prepared to know the truth about how much fucked up shit went down and who was responsible?" and really not at all about the ethical issues of human augmentation. Instead of addressing actual issues with augmentation I mentioned earlier, you have to blow up this absurd device that allows the Illuminati to mind control anyone with an augmentation.
Your ending choice just affects which political group is to blame for the big fuck up, and that affects public opinion on augmentation and how much it is used in the future. Sadly, like modern politics, it feels like your choice is based less on underlying ideals than it is on "Most of these leaders are dicks, I will vote for the one leader who is less of a dick."
Admittedly, it's easy to make a cool 3-minute short film thing with sick music in the background, and it's much harder to write a lengthy narrative that adequately uses those themes, but Deus Ex: HR didn't really even try.
The main characters in the game just don't have much complexity. Everybody who is pro-augmentation is a slimy businessman or Illuminati, and everybody who is anti-augmentation is basically a "sanctity of the human body" zealot/terrorist who is as closed-minded as anti-abortion advocates. A lot of time later on is spent uncovering the ways that these men have lied to Adam/the public (causing you to question their integrity), but less time is given to their personal beliefs about augmentation. Megan is a soulless scientist who is fine with doing horrific research because it's scientifically fascinating (what a delightful trope to continue to pass onto another generation of youth), and Adam has all of the philosophical depth of a beat cop; it's very hard to find dialogue choices where he gives any opinion other than direct, practical assessments of what is happening, and his thoughts on augmentation are "I was made half robot against my will, oh well, guess I gotta live with it. Pretty sweet that I don't have neuropozyne dependency for some reason, I guess."
There are a bunch of text logs and books and emails you can read, but the emails realistically capture how mundane 99% of emails are, while the books mostly just give factual accounts of the game's fictional history and fictional medical advances in human augmentation. There are a few Purity First pamphlets, but they read like the writing of religious zealots and don't explore the issues.
The one place they almost succeed is in conversations between NPCs in the city areas, who seem to always be having fairly candid conversations about the world they live in, sometimes discussing thoughts on augmentation. Unfortunately, some of the conversations are played for laughs because the participants are uneducated or ignorant, and even when they're not, they're almost always laypeople who only have a basic opinion on the topic. The bigger issue is that these NPC conversations are at best like 30 seconds long, which doesn't let them explore the topic much, and that many players don't have the patience to sit around listening to NPCs prattle on for 30 seconds.
Wasted Opportunity
Square Enix (or Eidos or whatever) will definitely continue the Deus Ex series, but it's unfortunate that they didn't do more with this story set at the dawn of human augmentation. The vast majority of your time is spent chasing after various elusive objectives, and the conclusion of those major objectives usually just meant a simple reveal of who was responsible for an event, or where to go next to get more answers. The protagonists of past Deus Ex games have never been particularly verbose, but they would occasionally let slip some interesting opinions; Adam almost never does this in his quest for answers/Megan. I would've vastly preferred if he was more of a...Solid Snake, I guess, if that meant he would occasionally engage his allies, adversaries, and superiors in some kind of discourse related to the themes of the game.
I feel like there have been big budget games that have bothered to explore the issues inherent to their fictional universe, even if they get a little pretentious or preachy about it. Metal Gear Solid and BioShock come to mind; I haven't played them, but perhaps Binary Domain and Spec Ops: The Line also explore interesting issues. But Deus Ex: HR is not one of those games. A film like District 9 can have a fantastical premise still used effectively to make the viewer think about issues of technologies that change society and how corporations will want to use them, and can have relatable characters that still make for an engaging story. Sadly, few games achieve this feat. The ending cinematics of Deus Ex: HR pretend that the whole game was leading you towards this philosophical choice, but the reality was you were tasked with chasing after uninteresting villains, and the game gives the player barely any context about the implications of human augmentation.


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Alma Services for Mildred Grobbe, 91, Festus, Mo., will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at R.J. Evans-Gentry Funeral Home in Alma. Burial will be later in Palenske Cemetery, west of Alma.
Mrs. Grobbe died Sunday, Dec. 8, 2002, at Crystal Oak Care Home in Festus.
She was born Sept. 30, 1911, in Alma, the daughter of Henry and Minnie Palenske. She lived in Wamego most of her life. She moved to Perry in 1978 and to O'Fallon, Mo., in 1993.
Mrs. Grobbe was the cook for Alpha Gamma Rho and Kappa Kappa Gamma houses at Kansas State University for several years. She and her husband also owned and operated Grobbe Gourmet in Wamego. She became housekeeper for St. Theresa Catholic Church when she moved to Perry.
She married Arthur Grobbe in Hays. He died earlier.
Survivors include a son, E.A. "Bud" Grobbe, Hillsboro, Mo., two sisters, Elma Palenske, St. Marys, and Lillian Phillis, Topeka; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
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Feds Asking Questions About $100k Donation
Thursday, July 4, 2013
The U.S. Justice Department is asking questions about a developer's $100,000 donation to the city of San Diego that was linked to a Kearny Mesa apartment project, it was reported yesterday.
The donation was revealed after the mayor's office made an about-face on City Council action to waive setback requirements for apartment buildings and a two-acre park being built by Sunroad Enterprises in the Centrum development.
Mayor Bob Filner vetoed the waiver, but his office later encouraged council members to vote for an override — which they did unanimously.
During discussion on the item, Councilman Scott Sherman mentioned the donation and said it didn't pass the smell test.
Last week, Filner told reporters that the donation had been refunded to Sunroad. He said he thought the donation was voluntary, but gave the money back when he learned of a memo that said the gift was in exchange for public land.
The pending investigation was reported by 10News, which cited federal sources speaking on the condition of anonymity.
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RegularChristian | July 4, 2013 at 8:31 a.m. ― 3 years, 9 months ago
Isn't Sunroad the same developer throwing cash at politicians while asking for a break on the height restrictions of a building near an airport a few years ago?
Mmikey | July 4, 2013 at 8:57 a.m. ― 3 years, 9 months ago
lets hope the feds net gets lots of stale fish.
CaliforniaDefender | July 4, 2013 at 7:09 p.m. ― 3 years, 8 months ago
Mayor Bob Filner vetoed the waiver, but his office later encouraged council members to vote for an override — which they did unanimously.
$100,000 bribe for reversing just one vote. Not bad.
I bet his last day in office a developer will give him a ride home to Pittsburgh in one of their corporate jets. That is after a luxurious vacation in Paris.
Oh wait, he just got back from Paris paid for by the People's Mujahedin of Iran. Maybe down to Havana for a genuine Cohiba to celebrate fooling all the San Diego Democrats.
laplayaheritage | July 4, 2013 at 8:19 p.m. ― 3 years, 8 months ago
The blame for Sunroad includes everyone. The least Mayor Filner, as he did not remove his Veto on the original shady deal, which violated the Municipal Code, Council Policy 700-06, and the City Charter.
Mayor Filner removed his objection to the unanimous City Council vote to override the Mayor's Veto. Only the City Attorney gave legal approval and City Council voted for the gifting of the two 9 foot public park easements.
Great investigative work by City Beat.
Former City of San Diego DSD Director Tom Story of Sunroad hired his own private Building and Fire Code Consultant to write the Civil Engineer's report instead of Development Services Department (DSD) staff, and bypassed the City's Real Estate Asset Department (READ) on the annual lease negotiation terms for public park easements.
The shadiest part is that Tom Story of Sunroad wrote the Staff report and intentionally left out Page 4 of 7 of Council Policy 700-06 that deals with the annual Lease payments for Encroachments on City Property. The City Council relied on this incomplete report at the City Council's Land Use and Housing Committee.
Including annual lease costs for the easements, and the requirement to go through DSD and READ Mayoral Staff. This is evidence of purposeful fraud, and the smoking gun.
"D. Fees and Costs.
1. It is the City's policy that the Permittee shall pay an encroachment authorization fee established to recover costs associated with processing the request for encroachment authorization, and with monitoring, inspection or installation of the encroachment where appropriate. In addition, the City shall require payment of an annual encroachment fee which will include a reasonable charge for use of City property and recovery of annual inspection cost.
E. Development Permits. It is the City's policy that departments which issue development permits shall be aware of City property interests and may not issue permits for development which encroaches on City property without proof from the Permittee that written authorization has been obtained from the Permit Issuing Authority."
RegularChristian | July 5, 2013 at 6 a.m. ― 3 years, 8 months ago
laplaya, Anyway you can summarize or put it in plain English?
HarryStreet | July 17, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. ― 3 years, 8 months ago
Doesn't look good for you, Bob. When you get a 100k donation you can bet you're going to know who's giving it and why. Any employee accepting that sort of donation is going to call you that second and tell you the good news. "Hey, we just got 100k. All you have to do is...."


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DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins end Cameron Wake and two other defensive starters are listed as questionable for Monday night's game at New Orleans.
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Death of a Cozy Writer By: G.M. Malliet A St. Just Mystery #1
SUMMARY Winner of the 2008 Agatha Award for Best First NovelFrom deep in the heart of his eighteenth century English manor, millionaire Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk writes mystery novels and torments his four spoiled children with threats of disinheritance. Tiring of this device, the portly patriarch decides to weave a malicious twist into his well-worn plot. Gathering them all together for a family dinner, he announces his latest blow – a secret elopement with the beautiful Violet... who was once suspected of murdering her husband. Death of a Cozy Writer was chosen by Kirkus Reviews as a Best Book of 2008, nominated for a Left Coast Crime award (the Hawaii Five-O for best police procedural), short-listed for the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery, nominated for the Anthony Award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the David G. Sasher, Sr. Award for Best Mystery Novel. G.M. Malliet's Death of a Cozy Writer won the 2008 Agatha Award for Best First Novel and a silver medal for the IPPY awards in the category of Mystery/Suspense/Thriller. REVIEWS "The mystery was complex and satisfying, with several unpredictable twists, and St. Just and Fear are likeable but funny investigators." "In her series debut, Malliet, who won a Malice Domestic Grant to write this novel, lays the foundation for an Agatha Christie–like murder mystery." —Library Journal, April 2008 "This tale cleverly adds modern touches to an Agatha Christie style classic house mystery." "Almost every sentence is a polished, malicious gem, reminiscent of Robert Barnard…the book is perfect for the lover of the classical detective story or the fan of great sentences." —Deadly Pleasures Magazine "Malliet's skillful debut demonstrates the sophistication one would expect of a much more established writer. I'm looking forward to her next genre-bender, Death and the Lit Chick." —Mystery Scene Magazine "Fans of English detective work will welcome Malliet's droll debut, the first in a new series."—Publishers Weekly "G.M. Malliet's Death of a Cozy Writer is a delightful homage to the great novels of Britian's Golden Age of Mysteries, which lasted from about 1913 to the beginning of World War II: a time when Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh's writing careers were in full bloom." —Nancy Pearl, KUOW-FM "The connections made by St. Just are nothing short of Sherlock Holmes at his most coherent. A most excellent first mystery!" —Midwest Book Review, July 2008 "A good old fashion whodunit that Agatha Christie would have been pleased to claim as her own." "Try Ms. Malliet's prize-winning debut for a classic cozy set in modern times." "All in all a delightful read." —Debra Hamel for Book-Blog "Good mystery, characters, descriptive phrases, and resolution. Malliet could have a great series on her hands." "I'm definitely a fan an eager for the next in the series. Keep them coming, Gin!" "[T]his novel delivers exactly what you hoped it would: a new packaging of the old formula, and a very enjoyable read." "Readers who enjoy all things British, as well as a good whodunit, will find these novels just the ticket." "An affectionate homage to the Golden Age of British crime fiction by a skilled writer rapidly attracting attention." —The Record (Sherbrooke, Quebec) "Malliet's debut combines devices from Christie and Clue to keep you guessing until the dramatic denouement." —Kirkus Reviews, April 2008 "Death of a Cozy Writer is a book anyone who cut their teeth on Agatha Christie's mysteries will treasure. I read it once for the story, and plan to read it a second time just to savor the language. 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Anderson Cooper Shades Homophobic Pundit On Twitter
The typically well-tempered Anderson Cooper couldn't let a snide remark from homophobic pundit Damian Goddard slip through the Twitter cracks, and just had to pull out the sassy Andy that we rarely get to relish.
"Mr. Cooper, you seem a good man with a warm heart. But you are dead wrong on #homosexuality. #praying for you," Damian wrote, practically begging for snark to come out of Anderson's keyboard.
"@heydamo with that tie and pocket square combo I am praying for you too my friend"
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#prayingforyou is that the new #ithinkyouwillburninhellyouhomo ?? ... well then, i suppose in that case #DamianGoddard is the new #ithinkyouareatwat
That should tell us all something, no one knows who the hell the other guy is. I am certain, no one still gives a crap. As far as it being "against this dudes religion" he can go to hell, because according to his zealot religion, that's where he will end up on the basis of judging others.
It's all cool/good. The more they talk about us the faster they will get used to us being main stream and move on. As a normal Gay man, I will take criticism and quite agree with Mr. Cooper. Dude! WTF with the pocket BS?
hahahaha. Love Anderson Cooper. And who the fuck is the other dude? Don't care! LOL


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Spring is here! To my family this means: planting flowers, cleaning (my favorite—not so much for my two boys…), rain, picnics, and DANCING! Yes, folks I said dancing. One of our favorite activities is going to our backyard, lighting some festive lanterns, and having a mini dance party (of course there is also turkey burgers on the grill and loads of snacks... we are foodies after all.)
Children don't care if they are getting the steps right (well... most don't), they just want to move! My boys and I enjoy spending time together dancing to just about anything. Not only is dance a good way to get some exercise in but it is also a fantastic way to cut loose, release stress from school/homework/chores, as well as spend some quality time with your loved ones. Which brings me to dancing with our favorite monkey: Curious George!
Do your little ones love Curious George like my kids do? Do they have some crazy moves? Well, I am happy to announce that Curious George is having his very first DANCE Contest in celebration of how much the arts influence our little ones! (Can you believe that Curious George is on its sixth season on PBS KIDS®? Yikes... I am feelings a little old here...)
You can enter a video of your child/ren dancing to the Curious George theme song for a chance to be featured on a Curious George DVD…Or maybe even win a visit from George himself!
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He looks so GOOD!!! I feel like I have seen have of the movie.
very nice :)
I think his shirt buttons are done up wrong?! How cute is that?Thanks TCA you are the best! :)
oh my GOSHHHHH thats all i can say. OMFG!!!
Aww, you are right limey.Wub him.
He looks hot! The only thing is Catherine Hardwick had him dress so much nicer in Twilight. What happened? I mean even in the New Moon official poster his shirt is like whatever.
HAAAAAAWT!That is all :)
Damn!!! Why do I think these things when I see him! I'm going to jail:)))
I know exactly what you mean Heidi Ho! LOL! I'm crushin on someone nine years my junior! Sad state of affairs, but God help me, he's hot!!!!!
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