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Illustration Friday – My Entry for Farewell
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This week is Farewell. This vibrant, colorful painting of Farewell is also named Wilderness!
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Create a Vivid Themed Illustration Using Simple Hand-Drawn Elements – Part I
Step 1
I always try to work on a big canvas, but for the tutorial purposes I will go use a document that is 815 px by 1050 px. Just to save you some money from buying large pictures. Anyway, drag the paper texture to our document, duplicate it twice and to each copy hit Command + T (Free Transform) and then select Distort. Refer to the second image below and look how to transform these two paper copies, they need to create a perspective as shown.
Now in the same image – two green frames show you where to cut the main paper to get a good connection. Finally, grab the Patch Tool and get rid of the bad looking textures (third image below).
Step 2
Next use Command + U and lower the Saturation of this background paper texture a bit. If the texture still needs some work (first image below), then use the Patch Tool or Clone Stamp Tool to cover some imperfections.
Then, let's say that the paper background is some kind of a room, so I thought these walls need some more contrast. To make the texture look better, use the Burn Tool (Range – Midtones), and burn in the connection lines to make it look more like a room.
Step 3
Now, while you still have the Burn Tool selected, make the diameter very small and paint in the top and bottom edges (first image below – where the arrows indicate). This should help to keep the walls, floor and ceiling separated.
OK, look at the second image below. From my experience I knew I'd give this image more contrast in the final product so for now I kinda lowered the overall contrast giving the feeling that all these walls are very light. To do this use levels as shown in the second image below.
Step 4
I assume you have merged all your wall layers together for easier work. If you didn't, let's do it now. Then duplicate (Command + J) the "walls" layer and change its Opacity to Overlay. Now go to Filter > Other > High Pass and add the value of 1 or 2. You should immediately get the result shown in the first picture below.
Now hit Command + Shift + A to select the whole canvas, then Command + Shift + C (Copy merged), and Command + V (Paste). Turn the previous "walls" layer off. Leave only the white background layer visible and the new merged layer.
Create a new layer above all, change its Opacity to Multiply, grab the Eyedropper Tool and sample some dark brown color. Then use the Brush Tool with 0% Hardness and around 3% Flow, and then paint as shown in the second picture below to create some irregular shading. Notice how the floor and ceiling is being created by doing this.
Step 5
Select the merged layer (the one with the whole canvas) and use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to select the top part of the image, then hold Command and drag this part down. This will help us repair the perspective, because in the beginning we made it pretty much random (if you can imagine this, the diagonal wall lines should cross in the center of the image). Next, look at the second image below and use the Patch Tool to get rid of the straight line indicated by the arrows (which is a result of repairing perspective).
Step 6
Let's open the scratchy texture (link in introduction) and hit Command + Shift + U to Desaturate it. Then you can add Levels (Command + L) and enhance the whites, just to make these tiny scratch lines more visible. Take a look at the second image below, what we need to do is place this texture in the floor spot.
There is also alternative way to do this step by stretching the texture (as you see in the third image below) to get the right perspective (using Command + T > Distort), but well, as not everyone has the correct eye to make this right, we can stick to the position in the second image below.
Step 7
As you have positioned this texture, go to Layer > Layer Mask > Hide All. This will make the texture totally invisible. So then grab the Brush Tool, make your brush setting very soft (Flow at around 4% and Hardness at 0%). Then use white for the color and paint on the layer mask of the texture.
The first image below shows the full mask view, and it's shown where I painted to reveal the texture. Now look at the second image below, and notice how nicely this texture blends with the white background.
Step 8
Use the same technique from the previous step to create the ceiling surface. Now open the face picture. Now grab the Eraser Tool set to 100% Hardness and 100% Flow, and get rid of the surrounding skin flowers. An accurate cut out is not necessary, as we will work the face shape in the following steps. For now we also need to resize down this face to make it more suitable to the illustration (third image below). Everything needs its own place in a quality piece, let your own eye be the judge of proportions.
Step 9
Now let's shape up this face. Grab the Pen Tool and draw a curvy path around the whole face. Pay attention to make lots of cavity shapes (absolutely no squares). After you're done, turn the path into a selection and hit Command + Shift + I to inverse the selection (first image below), then hit Delete. Now you should get something similar to the second image below.
When you work on an illustration like this you need to do a lot of work and planning. In the third image below I wanted to show you how I pictured in my head – what the next steps might look like. I sketched the face falling apart, and basically I wanted to do this by smudging the skin, but ultimately this turned out as splashes.
Step 10
I made some further corrections to the face, as I didn't like the face center (first image below). So if you want you can use the Pen Tool to cut more of the face. Pay attention to her nose, the holes are looking kinda weird (like the right one is barely noticeable). To correct this use the Burn Tool (with Range set to Midtones) and a small diameter. Burn the right nose hole (second image below). Be careful, the Burn Tool can affect the nose skin also, so that's why we need a small diameter to make it with precision.
If you still have the Burn Tool selected, make your diameter bigger and paint where the green arrows indicate (third image below). I wanted to enhance some shadows and also the bottom of the face. Soon we will drop some shadow below this face, and to make everything work properly it's good to add shade to the bottom part of this skin.
Step 11
The face seems kinda pale so let's warm it up a little. Select the "face" layer, hold Alt and go to the Layers Palette, and pick Gradient Map (check option Use Previous Layer To Create Clipping Mask). Look at the first image below and use similar colors as mine. Select the Gradient Map layer, change its Blending Mode to Soft Light and lower its Opacity to around 20-30% (not to overload the face with color). Then using Alt again, add another Adjustment Layer, which is Curves and adjust it just a little bit to get the similar look as in the third image below.
Step 12
OK, now make sure you no longer need to change anything in the color of the face and then select these two adjustment layers (Curves and Gradient Map) and also our "face" layer. Then hit Command + E to merge them. Next use Command + J to duplicate the "face" layer, drag the copy below original one and move it a little to the top left (first image below).
You can achieve even more variety and less plane results if you rotate this face (second image below). Then grab the Lasso Tool and make a selection around the indicated part above the nose, hit Command + Shift + I to inverse the selection (third image below) and use delete to get rid of all the unwanted parts.
Step 13
And what is this all about? This face looked very flat to me. To avoid that look it's good to add some depth. As you can see, the first image below is the view that we get after deleting all the unwanted parts from the previous step, and the face cut is barely visible.
We're going to use the Burn Tool (with Range set to Midtones) to add the skin depth by giving some shade to the duplicated "face" layer lying below the original one (second image below).
Step 14
I hope I clear up to this step, because if you didn't understand the previous one, this will be kinda confusing. You may want to review if needed. Now we need to repeat Step 13 to personally chosen parts of the skin. So use the Burn Tool (Midtones) to paint in cavity spots as in the previous step. Then use the Dodge Tool (Midtones) in convex spots (first image below, spots indicated by green arrows).
You can do this to each skin edge, but remember, this may not look good applied everywhere. Also notice that I did those cuts with different angles (on purpose) to get some irregular depth.
Step 15
This may be difficult to understand as well, but don't get terrified, the explanation is straight-forward. Look at the first image below. The selection that you see is nothing else than all these cuts merged together in one layer (the ones we did in previous step). And it looks so weird because there are some skin remains under our original face.
So I hold down Command and left-clicked on the merged "skin" layer's thumbnail to get this selection. So now that you have this selection, create a new layer just below the "face" layer, but above the merged "skin" layer. Now change its Blending Mode to Multiply and pick a dark pink or dark brown color color (like #653737). Grab the Brush Tool, with the settings as usual (Flow at 3% and Hardness at 0%). Then do the same thing as previously, darken the cavity spots again.
Use the same process for convex spots, create a new layer above the previous one, change its Blending Mode to Overlay. Now use the same brush settings (but with a very light, brownish color, almost white) to paint in the convex spots.
This step may not be necessary for you, but I always pay extra attention to details and well, it's important to make this look quality. And I did this because the burn tool and dodge tool don't always do the best job and sometimes you just need to correct it manually.
Step 16
OK, if you're done with the face cuts, I believe you can merge all the "face" layers including: "skin," "shading," "lights," and "face." Then make a new layer below the "face" layer.
Go to the Layers Palette, recall the selection of face (Command-click on the layer's thumbnail). Grab the Paint Bucket Tool, pick a dark color with a little red or brown tone (something like #5b5555). Fill this selection with it (on the new layer) – see the first image below.
Then deselect, and use Command + T to make face shadow (second image below). Lower the Opacity of the "shadow" layer to around 20-40%.
Next you can use the same color and a very soft brush to paint on a new layer in the shadow spot. Do this to correct shadow imperfections (third image below).
Step 17
Now, I took a fresh look at the image and decided to remove a small part of the face because it bothered me. So you can do the same using the Pen Tool (first image below). And you see, it's good to have the "face" layer merged, now you can work easily. It's even better when you have a backup of each part.
In the second image below I used the Dodge Tool on her eyes and eye shadows (first with Midtones, then a little bit of Highlights). When you take a fresh look, many new things can be noticed. Remember to work dynamically!
Step 18
In these final steps we will do some overall adjustments. Go to the top of the Layers Palette and create a new Adjustment Layer there of Black and White. Change its Blending Mode to Soft Light and adjust the Opacity to make it work for you fine.
The adjustment layer should automatically have its own layer mask. So now click on the layer mask and use a soft black brush to paint on the parts that you don't want to get affected the Black and White adjustment layer (I picked mostly the darkest illustration spots).
Step 19
Now, add some more adjustment layers in the top of the Layers Palette. First go for Curves and make the tones of the whole illustration look similar (like everything came from one picture). Then make some more adjustments using Color Balance, and basically it's the same idea. Fill it with your personal settings.
Step 20
Next we're going to add some room shading (first image below), create a new layer above all to do this, and use the Brush Tool with very soft settings (as usual). Pick a dark purple color (like #1a0a18) depending on how your illustration is colored – mine looks kinda cold purple to me.
Now create another new layer above all, hit D on the keyboard to set the colors to default. Grab the Gradient Tool, set it to Radial (from white to black) and fill the whole canvas (second image below).
Finally set this layer's Blending Mode to Overlay and turn the Opacity down to 15%. You can look at the third image below, the spot indicated with green circles shows where we added a little bit of focus by doing this.
Step 21
OK, now this is not necessary (as we will do this in the final product) but to successfully end this part, I hit Command + A (select whole canvas), then Command+ Shift + C (copy merged), then Command + V (paste), and added Filter > High Pass of value 1. Then I turned the Blending Mode of this merged layer to Overlay. This way we get a nice sharpened outcome.
It's great what you can achieve from scratch, having just two textures and a woman's face. The outcome is complete for now. To get the piece done, first we needed the place and main motive – character. So here it is. Now that you have the overall look, we can start planning what kind of effects we want to fill this illustration with, to make it fully complete. And for this we will take care in Part 2. Check it out soon!
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Yeah, thanks for that, Jeff.


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Egypt's Security Agencies Back, Now With A New Mandate
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Audie Cornish. We begin the hour in Egypt, where another clash between security forces and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi appears to have been postponed. The interim government had ordered an end to daily protests by Morsi supporters, by force if necessary. A large part of the Egyptian public backs a crackdown now, even though widespread hatred of security forces was a key reason for the uprising back in 2011 that ousted Hosni Mubarak.
SIEGEL: Many Egyptians say they are setting aside the past for now, so that peace and stability can be restored to their country. And today, a judge ordered a 15-day extension of the ousted president's detention. But Egyptian activists and analysts say the crackdown against supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood may be setting a dangerous precedent.
In a few moments, we'll hear from a supporter of ousted President Morsi.First, more on the security forces from NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson.
SORAYA SARHADDI NELSON, BYLINE: Just how much Egyptians hated the Amn ad-Dawla, or State Security Agency, can be heard in this online video of protesters storming the notorious agency's headquarters outside Cairo in March 2011. The protesters combed the darkened halls in the giant complex, searching for shredded files on tens of thousands of victims tortured or killed by the Mubarak regime in hopes of bringing those responsible to justice.
Afterward, agencies like Amn ad-Dawla that shored up Mubarak's autocratic rule appeared to vanish from the scene. A decades-long state of emergency that indemnified security forces for their brutal acts lapsed in 2012. Nowadays, some in the military-backed interim government say weakening the security apparatus was a mistake.
The interim president even suggested that he might impose another state of emergency.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Speaking foreign language)
NELSON: During a televised news conference last month, Interior Minister Muhamed Ibrahim said he was reactivating security departments that monitor political and religious activities to restore public safety. He blamed the current political crisis and violence on the, quote, "abolishment of those agencies."
Public reaction to the interim government's announcements was largely muted, save for a few harsh responses from activists like Ahmed Maher. He's a founder of the April 6th youth movement that was instrumental in forcing Mubarak from power.
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NELSON: Reached by phone, Maher says it's totally unacceptable for anyone in Egypt to use security forces to quash political dissent. He says the crisis with the Brotherhood should not be used to justify a return to oppression. Maher and others add it's ludicrous for anyone to suggest Egyptian security agencies were mothballed in the first place.
Instead, the security organs became less conspicuous after Mubarak left, but they continued to operate even under their former enemy, the now ousted President Mohammed Morsi. Activists say Morsi and his allies in the Muslim Brotherhood tried using the security sector to increase their control over Egypt.
ASHRAF AL-SHARIF: It's a kind of old wine in new bottles.
NELSON: That's Ashraf el-Sharif, an assistant political science professor at the American University in Cairo. He adds, most Egyptians don't want another police state but are nevertheless turning a blind eye to the increasing authority that interim leaders are giving security agencies because they want the Muslim Brotherhood stopped.
AL-SHARIF: They really want this to be over, and the Muslim Brotherhood are doing things, they're making things worse. They're escalating. So the more they are escalating, the more people get enthusiastic about giving the mandate to get rid of them.
NELSON: The popular mandate is spurring the security apparatus to act more aggressively than in the past, says Nathan Brown, an expert on Egypt who teaches political science at George Washington University.
NATHAN BROWN: There is an entire discourse of the necessity to root out terrorism and terrorism being a barely concealed code word for the Brotherhood that the security services are using in order to justify what is already a much harsher crackdown than Mubarak ever attempted against the Brotherhood.
NELSON: Brown says that the interim government's approach also means there won't be any changes to the security agencies to make them more accountable to the public in the foreseeable future. Kati Innatta(ph) at the Cairo office of the Egyptian Initiative for Human Rights agrees. He's worked on proposed police and security sector reforms since 2011, including plans to reshuffle the leadership, restructure the security departments, and create civilian oversight so that the agencies function more as they do in Democratic countries.
KATI INNATTA: But the fact of the matter is, these institutions are not even proper institutions anymore.
NELSON: Innatta predicts it could be a few years at least before that changes and only then if Egyptians stand up to the security agencies as they did in 2011. Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The old man's back was bent from decades of stooping over hot dogs. For the longest time, I thought he was a hunchback. That's how I described him to my wife the one time I took her over to Pete's Famous: We gotta visit the hunchback in Birmingham who makes the most amazing secret sauce.
His obituary told me different.
Before he died this spring at 81, Gus Koutroulakis came to work every day since he took over Pete's Famous from his uncle in 1948. Gus fixed so many hot dogs, for so many years, that it permanently bent his back in that position, difficult to sleep but easy to ladle on his sauce. Nobody but him knew the recipe. He worked the day he died, just like he'd done every day for 63 straight years. He closed the shop, went home to his chair. That's where they found him.
You've probably never heard of a Birmingham dog. If you live outside a tiny radius, they don't exist. Maybe your hometown has a food tradition like that. Is there something you once took for granted that you crave now that it's gone? For people who grew up in or near the Magic City, that's a Special Dog.
Traditions like that are called foodways, which is just a fancy word for any piece of food culture that sprung from the furnace of a time and a place. Food that tells a story about who we are. My friend, John T. Edge, who runs the Southern Foodways Alliance, is an evangelist against their extinction. His team is involved in many projects, but all share a common thread. They try to preserve things that, once gone, can never be recreated.
The surviving little mom-and-pop spots are frontier outposts. I think of Pete's Famous. I think of Vinny's at Night in the back of a Somerville, Mass., superette. I think of the Old Saloon in Emigrant, Mont., where I had hash browns and Budweiser for breakfast, and then played their upright piano. I think of all the places we've lost already. When I was a child, I loved fried chicken at Arnold's in Clarksdale, Miss., and a hamburger at Chamoun's Grocery. They're gone. We all remember our favorite places like that. We fiercely romanticize those that remain. We hunger for them when we move away to find work or start a new life.
Websites direct visitors to places that are "authentic." People pay to FedEx pieces of a former life to themselves. I've done that more times than I count. Books are devoted to the grease palaces of the American roadside. Television shows visit and beam nostalgia to orbiting satellites. The producers don't expect people watching to actually visit. That's not what they are selling. They expect you to watch and remember longingly a past that perhaps you never had at all. They are selling you a vision of what a simpler life might be.
In Birmingham, the hot dogs aren't simply for nostalgia and, by the way, I am a wildly nostalgic person. They're for lunch. Lawyers in ties slip in between depositions. The poor count out change. They go because it's close, and it's cheap, and it tastes good. They go to one of the handful of restaurants still specializing in Special Dogs. I always preferred Pete's Famous, mainly because of Gus.
You'd walk in, and he'd be there, just to your right. You'd order and he'd fire back a question: "All the way?" The dog would be prepared in several practiced motions and there it'd be, steaming in front of you. Gus' dad sent him to work in January of 1948, just for three months. "I'm waiting for the third month," he'd said.
Gus worked hard. He worked every day. He carved out a place, walking a thin margin, grinding because he cared. He could have cut corners. He didn't. He could have charged much more. He didn't. He could have hired someone to do the back-bending work for him. He didn't.
Now he's gone.
I count off the miles and the blow-through towns. Social Circle, Ga. Cook Springs, Ala. Leeds. Iron City. I wonder who'll be working the counter. Maybe it'll be a family member, so I can tell them how much Gus meant. Down the exit, winding through the maze of one-ways, finding a parking spot. It's a few minutes before 11. Pete's Famous has opened at 11 every morning, seven days a week, except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, since Gus graduated from high school in 1948.
I park and run across the street.
There's a white ribbon on the door. There's a black wreath to the right. There's a closed sign in between. I open the outer door and peer in through the window. Boxes of Grape soda sit stacked along the wall. An empty cardboard Coca-Cola box is there. A stack of Flowers Foods buns are wrapped up. Some of the packages had been used. The last hot dogs Gus ever made. I look at my watch. It's now 11. Maybe someone is just late. Maybe they are in the back.
I dial the number and press my head against the window.
The phone rings and rings, the sound echoing off the narrow walls. Gus died a week ago today, and he's not creaking over to answer it. I look around and find a meter maid. Officer Mitchell. I ask about Gus.
"He will be missed," she says.
"Are they keeping it open?"
She looks sad.
"No," she says. "I don't think any of those kids really want to do the business."
I don't know what to say. What will take that space? Another store selling cell phones? Will people remember a man who worked so hard he became permanently stuck in the position of work? How long until people forget? I start back across the street to my car.
Officer Mitchell looks down at the closed storefront.
"He took his recipe to the grave," she says.
Wright Thompson is the corn dog and cheap beer correspondent for Grantland. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. If you've got a favorite dive bar or restaurant, please let him know so he can try it.


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If you live in Utsjoki, the northernmost village in the entire EU, there are a few consumer items that are more important to you than others. The two top ones on your list are probably a seriously thick coat and one of those lamps that simulate daylight.
Sunglasses, on the other hand, can safely be stored in their box for now. Just over a week ago, this village on the border of Norway and Finland entered the period Finns call kaamos: for the next five weeks, the sun won't rise at all. There are a few daily hours of dim light, but they resemble a clear, moonlight night more than an actual day. The residents now have their sights set on mid-January, when the calendar promises a whole two minutes of sunlight.
In Southern Finland, the situation is a bit better. This week, Helsinki gets six hours of sunlight per day. But the sun doesn't rise until 09.00, which means that many people travel to work in pitch-black darkness or in the yellow gloom of the streetlights. By 3 o'clock the sun is gone again, and people leave for home, get children from day care and wait for the bus in darkness, darkness, darkness. We live – or rather, exist – entirely in artificial light.
No wonder then that the seasonal affective disorder, known as the winter blues, is common in these latitudes. Experts believe that 10 to 30 per cent of Finns suffer from its effects, which include extreme fatigue, sugar cravings and concentration difficulties. In other words: we oversleep, overeat and daydream at work. But as many people there are suffering from SAD, there are ways to battle it.
Here's the good news: experts say that the bright light lamps do work, which is a much cheaper way of treating depression than seeing a therapist once a week for three months. Caution is required, though: an overdose of light in the evening leaves you feeling perky instead of sleepy. Wolfing down chocolate, saffron buns, bananas and beer is far less recommendable, though.
Odds are that when the sun returns again in March, you'll get depressed about the inhumane diet required to get back in bikini shape. D-vitamin and fish oil are harmless and may help, but what doctors most often order is exercise, preferably outdoors and during the light hours. In addition to the official, clinically proven survival strategies, there are some that may lack empirical evidence but simply feel pretty nice.
They include getting that seriously thick coat from a seriously expensive store, standing under a hot shower for 15 minutes and stocking up on great magazines to read in front of a roaring fire. And don't forget to keep those sunglasses at close reach – after all, March is only 12 short weeks away.


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Hands On with the Moto Droid 4 and Droid RAZR MAXX
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Jan 10, 2012, 4:03 AM by Rich Brome
updated Jan 10, 2012, 4:03 AM
Motorola has a couple of new LTE Droids here at CES. The Droid 4 brings the original Droid series in the 4G era. The Droid RAZR MAXX uses RAZR engineering to deliver unheard-of battery life. We go hands-on with both.
The Motorola Droid is one of the longer-running series of phones in recent cell phone history. We should probably expect that from the company that brought us so many RAZR and StarTAC variants. With the Droid 4, Motorola updates the Droid with LTE, a new keyboard, and Motorola's new design language with the gently beveled corners.
Although it may look like a Droid RAZR from the front, hold it in your hand for an instant and you'll know that it's not. Motorola proudly claims that this is the thinnest 4G LTE QWERTY smartphone in the world. Sounds impressive, right? Well, the only other such in the world at the moment is the Samsung Stratosphere. So, sure, it's a tad thinner than that Stratosphere. It's still a damn thick phone.
The look and feel is quite nice. Aside from the glass front, it's all plastic, but it feels like a high-grade plastic, and has a nice fine texture to it. Its feels solid and is comfortable to hold. The build quality is excellent, with the two halves fitting very tightly. Too tightly perhaps, as the slide mechanism is difficult to slide open (there's no spring assist) and even more difficult to close.
The keyboard has been revamped. It keeps the wonderful five-row layout, but the keys have more separation and more shape to them, improving the feel quite a bit. The key backlighting is also redesigned, with light coming from the edge of each key. It's both attractive and practical. My only two niggles are that the keyboard (like the phone itself, held sideways) is very wide, so if you have small hands, your thumbs may feel like they're doing yoga. The second is that the plastic below the keyboard sticks up quite a bit, getting the in the way of hitting the bottom row of keys. It's not something that makes it difficult to type, it's just annoying.
The side keys could be better. The lock key is almost impossible to find by feel, but it's situated such that if you mash the center of the top of the phone, you'll hit it. The volume keys on the side are easy to find. The action is a little stiff, but they work well enough. Except that they're a strange shape with a knife edge that's simply uncomfortable to press. There's no camera key.
These aren't deal-breakers, though. The Droid 3 was a good phone, and the Droid 4 builds on that with LTE, a faster processor, and a better keyboard on the hardware side. On the software side, it brings over all of the neat Android tweaks and added feature found on the Droid RAZR, like Smart Actions.
What it lacks compared to the Droid 3 is global roaming. BUT asked about that, a Motorola rep smiled and told us to "stay tuned. Software updates are a wonderful thing."
Here's a quick video tour:
Jan 9, 2012
Verizon Wireless today announced the Motorola Droid 4, the fourth-generation Android device that has a 4-inch qHD display and support for Verizon Wireless's Long Term Evolution 4G network. The Droid 4 is a sideways slider that has a full QWERTY keyboard and a dual-core 1.2GHz processor.
Motorola's Droid RAZR MAXX builds on the foundation set by the original RAZR and makes a wide number of improvements to an already good design. Here's Phone Scoop's full review of the RAZR MAXX.
Motorola takes its fourth shot at the Droid that started it all with the Droid 4. For the QWERTY keyboard seeker, there's a lot to like about this LTE 4G smartphone for Verizon Wireless.
Jan 9, 2012
Motorola and Verizon today announced the Droid RAZR MAXX, a new flagship Droid RAZR phone. The MAXX boasts a massive 3300 mAh battery that can sustain 21 straight hours of talk time, yet measures only 8.9 mm thick (compared to the Droid RAZR's 7.1 mm.) The display measures 4.3 inches and uses Super AMOLED Advanced technology, like the Droid RAZR.
Mar 6, 2012
Verizon Wireless today published a list of its Android devices that it plans to update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The devices include the: HTC ThunderBolt, Droid Incredible 2, Rhyme, and Rezound; Motorola Xoom, Bionic, RAZR, RAZR MAXX, Droid 4, and Xyboards 8.2/10.1; Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1; and the LG Spectrum.
4" display 540 x 960 pixels
1,785 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot, Hardware Text Keyboard, Headphone Jack (3.5mm)
Droid 4 battery - is it removable?
I've been hearing different information about whether or not the Droid 4 battery is removable or not. From your video and pics it looks like there might be a battery cover on the back of the phone. So does this phone have a removable battery? Thanks in advance.
One odd feature: The battery door is removable so you can get to the SIM card. But the battery itself is not removable.
http://www.androidcentral.com/motorola-droid-4-hands »
Say in my current DINC, I can just remove the battery and thus reset the phone.... What can I do in situation like this on RAZR MAXX?
No spring assist..????
"...The slide mechanism is difficult to slide open (there's no spring assist) and even more difficult to close..."
Oh My GOD! That's a deal breaker for me!!! Why no spring-assist like everyone else does? It's so much easier. smoother, and easier!! Motorola, How many times do we need to repeat the same request, over and over again!! Are you deaf or what??
I was soooo hoping for that phone. I am afraid I will need to look elsewhere. Very sad and disappointed.! 😈


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Friday, June 1, 2012
Operation Cobra and operation JH Pandora in progress. Systems/Isidic security breach deflected. HVBN substable to stable. Phoenix APR attempt active.
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This just posted at nesaranews.blogspot.comReplyDelete
Scheduled to go live this evening at 6:00 PM EST from Wash. DC
Suppose to be live on all mass media networks.
Topics of discussion will be:
Basil III Banking Switch over
Currencies RV
The end of the Federal Reserve
Introduction of Treasury Banks
Timothy Geithner Dismissal And Replacement
Bernanke Dismissal And ReplacementReplies
I did not receive confirmation of this through my own sourcesDelete
Earth pulsating back to Sun.Delete
Cobra a few questions and remarksDelete
1, is the Galactic Central Sun the Alcyone or Sirius?
2, this page seems quite legit gaiaportal.wordpress.com
3, If Nibiru doesn't exist where did the Annunakis come from?
4, Jacob Rothschild confornted, and he is like, "Well guys, you got me" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sCioKnpHdY
Nesaranews seems to be blocked from my phone.It was working earlier...hmmmDelete
Victory of the Light !ReplyDelete
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Tornado warning headed straight for Washington DC. Very strange with this "announcement"to come at 6pm from DC on the arrest of Geithner and Bernanke.ReplyDelete
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Cobra, please check this one.ReplyDelete
"St. Germaine About Disclosure And The Landings" on www.sirian heaven.wordpress.com
All I can say is this, I've seen some of this activities in my dreams (?), since of the mid April.
By the way, this is for your eyes only. People believe you. So let's them hear from you.
Thank you so very much.
Thank you for the update, Cobra. Despite my inability to decipher your cryptic message, it's good to get confirmation that things are in fact moving along. You seem to have been absent from participating in comment feedback lately, but I can imagine you're quite busy with Resistance priorities. Luckily the community that has formed here has been able to sustain itself with insights from all those participating. Anyhow, thank you again and may the Source bless us all!ReplyDelete
Collectively we create our own reality. The reasoning behind collective global meditation would speak to this. If enough of us believe it to happen and be true than so it shall be. maybe this was an exercise. A workout to get us all thinking about a certain reality at the same time.Replies
I'm so with you on this ... envisioning the New Earth on a daily and hourly basis is what will bring it into form at it's perfect time ... breathing it in and breathing it out. As Thoreau said ... Go confidently in the direction of your dreams ... live the life you've imagined. The time is Now. Believe and it is so.Delete
Nesaranews "6pm announcement" rescinded. More "disinfo" Getting tired of this rollercoaster. I'm going to stick with Cobra and Cobra's sources.ReplyDelete
Nesaranews "6pm announcement" rescinded. More "disinfo" Getting tired of this rollercoaster. I'm going to stick with Cobra and Cobra's sources.ReplyDelete
I feel like I'm in a cocoon, its dark and everything is closing in on me. I can't see anything and it really hurts and I don't know what to do...ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJune 1, 2012 at 7:08 PM
When will you get some minutes on your phone Melody so we can talk because i know what you are going through and can help but we need to talk not message each other or e-mail.NamasteDelete
Talk to Sirian Melody!!Delete
I want to believe..... Can someone explain how you would address a group ofReplyDelete
people on the receiving end of class, racial and over all social
oppression. The fact that we are connected to everyone and everything is a
hard case to sell when your everyday reality is death, chaos, poverty, self
hatred etc. What is the truth behind it all?Replies
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It's a good of articles with which you can start with.
The movie Thrive's a good one.Delete
Also this kind of material is good introduction
Some David Wilcock as well is good to introduce
Also, go the the2012scenario.com..... Steve has a huge archive of materials and some great articles that might help you <3Delete


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The internet was designed to be resilient and decentralized. Its multiple, redundant pathways between any two network nodes and its ability to accommodate new nodes on the fly should enable it to keep carrying data in the face of blocked nodes, censorship from repressive regimes or natural disasters.
However, its implementation has far diverged from its original design, with ISPs now holding the reins of the highly-centralized platform into which the internet has evolved.
Nowadays, each end user/node is stuck at the end of an isolated cul-de-sac. With the flip of ISPs' switches, an overwhelming majority of a country's nodes go dark.
Which is exactly what happened to protesters in Egypt when they were plunged into digital darkness after the country's regime made some five phone calls to ISPs in the early hours of 28 January 2011.
The easily-persuaded ISPs pulled their plugs, disabling 93% of the country's internet access within a mere 28 minutes.
This is all detailed in a fascinating article by Julian Dibbell in the March issue of Scientific American.
In the article, Dibbell delivers an account of how Egypt's internet shutdown was "an object lesson in the internet's vulnerability to top-down control," with a shutdown that was "alarmingly instructive and perhaps long overdue."
The Egyptian cutoff is only the starkest of a growing number of examples of how vulnerable the internet has become to top-down control, writes Mr. Dibbell:
During the Tunisian revolution the month before, authorities had taken a more targeted approach, blocking only some sites from the national internet. In the Iranian post-election protests of 2009, Iran's government slowed nationwide internet traffic rather than stopping it altogether. And for years China's "great firewall" has given the government the ability to block whatever sites it chooses. In Western democracies, consolidation of internet service providers has put a shrinking number of corporate entities in control of growing shares of internet traffic, giving companies such as Comcast and AT&T both the incentive and the power to speed traffic served by their own media partners at the expense of competitors.
In the face of an internet that can be controlled all too easily by corporations and regimes, activists are building alternative mesh networks that can never be blocked, filtered or shut down.
These networks often amount to what's called an "internet in a suitcase".
For example: FunkFeuer, a mesh network in greater Vienna, relies on 200 small, weatherized Wi-Fi routers on rooftops, each owned and maintained by the user who installed it, and each contributing bandwidth to a communal, high-speed internet connection throughout the city.
It costs nothing more than the $150 hardware setup, which amounts to what FunkFeuer co-founder and lead developer Aaron Kaplan refers to as "a Linksys router in a Tupperware box, basically."
But can mesh networks replace the current set up?
Even committed supporters of mesh networking don't anticipate that its promise of low-cost, do-it-yourself internet access could or should force ISPs out of the market. Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard Law School professor and author of The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It, told Scientific American that the centralization of ISPs has real benefits, including ease of use.
The magazine also quotes Ramon Roca, founder of Guifi.net, who doubts mesh networks could ever take much more than 15 percent of the market from the ISPs.
With that low level of penetration, however, mesh networks can serve to "sanitize the market," Roca said, bringing the internet to low-income households and exerting downward price pressure on ISPs.
We can't rely on market forces, nor widespread adoption due to ease of use; that makes government the next logical place to turn, Mr. Dibbell writes.
Whereas wireless mesh would serve the public good by delivering a network resistant to surveillance and censorship – things the network interprets as damage – the payoff for government would be in creating a communications channel that would route around actual damage, such as hurricanes, earthquakes or other natural disasters.
In those terms, it's easy to imagine national security and law enforcement as being proponents of mesh.
But as Mr. Dibbell points out, it's just as easy to imagine such entities distrusting a national mesh network, given that it's outside the realm of surveillance and beyond earshot of the telephone and ISP companies that enable surveillance.
He writes:
Such are the complications of counting on government to support mesh networking when it is governments, often enough, that do the kind of damage mesh networks promise to help fix.
But we must bear in mind: surveillance actually does come in handy when you're talking about cybercriminals and terrorists. As such, we could rightly wonder what the security situation might look like in a network independent of the watchful eye of ISPs and telephone companies.
As it turns out, security will likely be as do-it-yourself as the hardware, protocols, scripts and other technologies the activists are now hammering out.
For their part, those working on Eben Moglen's FreedomBox mostly agree that it should serve as a web proxy to clean up and protect web traffic.
At this point, FreedomBox has posted a first draft of Privoxy, free software licensed under the GNU GPLv2 that serves as a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other "obnoxious internet junk."
According to the FreedomBox site, Privoxy upgrades web traffic to prefer SSL encryption wherever possible. It also strips tracking software from web pages to provide greater privacy and anonymity to web surfers.
Future FreedomBox work will include a script to test HTTPS Everywhere rules. HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension that ensures communications with a number of major websites are encrypted.
While the FunkFeuer Free Net in Vienna does maintain a list of known vulnerabilities, the group's policy is that the onus for security lies with each node operator.
Their policy, as tweaked a bit from a kludgy translation:
The Beacon IT security team helps the beacon node owners to maintain a safe and virus/Trojan/worm-free network (and thus a well-functioning network). This is done mainly by warnings and alerts . We will not directly help individual node owners to install anti-virus protection.
Ultimately, beacon is a "bottom-up" power. This means that users are also responsible for the security of their router.
The IT security team reserves the right to warn, and in extreme cases, to block spammers and others who disturb the quality of the network. This should only be a last measure to protect other users or to ensure the basic function of the network.
If the idea of an internet that's more robust in the face of surveillance and censorship appeals, now's the time to pitch in and help projects in your country or region.
Here are a list of resources and opportunities from Scientific American:
- FreedomBox is planning future hackfests in various cities. They need help with ideas, with bug squashing, with script writing, with script testing, and with hardware. Write to firstname.lastname@example.com.
- The Mesh Networks Research Group
- The FunkFeuer Free Net network in Vienna/li>
You may also find it interesting to listen to a Scientific American podcast where attempts to build a hardier alternative internet are discussed.
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You can almost hear Wall Street exhaling.
The Dow Jones industrial average soared more than 300 points Thursday after Republican leaders and President Barack Obama finally seemed willing to end a 10-day budget standoff that has threatened to leave the U.S. unable to pay its bills.
The news drove the Dow to its biggest point rise this year and ended a three-week funk in stocks. It also injected some calm into the frazzled market for short-term government debt.
Republican leaders said Thursday they would vote to extend the government's borrowing authority for six week. A spokesman for Obama said the president would "likely" sign a bill to increase the nation's ability to borrow money so it can continue paying its bills.
"Congressmen and women are coming to terms with how calamitous it would be if the debt ceiling was not raised," said Joseph Tanious, Global Market Strategist for J.P. Morgan Asset Management. "Cooler heads are prevailing."
The Dow jumped 323.09 points, or 2.2%, to close at 15,126.07, its high for the day.
The final surge came even as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Democrats would not negotiate with Republicans as long as the government remains partly shut. Mr. Reid's comments were reported about 15 minutes before the market closed at 4 p.m. Eastern time.
Stocks have steadily declined since mid-September as Washington's gridlock got investors worried that the U.S. could default on its debt and wreak havoc on global financial markets. While traders applauded a potential deal between the White House and Congress, more volatility could be ahead if it falls through.
"We don't need some grand bargain, we just need to avoid a default," said Brian Reynolds of chief market strategist at Rosenblatt Securities. "Just don't bring us to the edge again."
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 36.16 points, or 2.2%, to 1,692.56 and the Nasdaq composite rose 82.97 points, or 2.3%, to 3,760.75.
Thursday's gains were extraordinarily broad. Of the 500 stocks in the S&P 500 index, only 11 fell. Banks and industrial stocks rose the most.
A possible compromise between the two political parties could not come soon enough. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has said the government will hit its borrowing limit on Oct. 17. That would leave the U.S. with enough cash to last just a week or two before a default became a real risk.
A short-term extension of the debt limit is "the right approach," said Jack Ablin, who manages $66 billion as chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank.
"It allows politicians to turn down the heat a bit while still keeping the broader issues on the front burner," Mr. Ablin said.
In another bullish signal, small-company stocks rose even more than the rest of the market. Those stocks tend to be riskier than large, well-established companies but can also offer investors greater rewards. A sharp increase in small-company stocks means investors are more comfortable taking on risk. The Russell 2000 index jumped 26.04 points, or 2.5%, to 1,069.50. It is less than 20 points from an all-time high reached on Oct. 1.
There were also hopeful signs in the market for short-term U.S. government debt. The yield on the one-month Treasury bill eased to 0.21% from 0.27 late Wednesday.
The yield had spiked from near zero at the beginning of the month to as high as 0.35% Tuesday as investors dumped the bills out of concern that the government might not be able to pay them back when they're due. Investors demand higher yields when they perceive debt as being risky.
One major investor made a move to cut its exposure to short-term U.S. government debt. Fidelity Investments, the nation's largest money market fund manager, said Wednesday it had sold all of its short-term U.S. government debt.
In other government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note edged up to 2.68%, from 2.67% late Wednesday.
Still, the yield on the longer-term note has fallen in the past month. The move suggests that investors see any potential default as a short-term phenomenon and are predicting that economic growth will remain subdued in the long term.


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Q: Last year after you lost to the Redskins in the 15th game, you told the players it was an exciting time of year, they still controlled their own destiny and they should take advantage of it. After losing in Washington Monday night, you're in first place with four games remaining. Is it largely the same this situation?
Coughlin: "Yes, it is. Destiny is a matter of choice. We talked about that (Thursday) morning, but we also talked about the positive energy that has to be generated at this time of year about the opportunities that we have. We're 7-5. We lead the division by one game. We do have control of our own fate in our own hands and that's the way you want it. You don't want to be dependent on anyone else, and so that's where we are and trying to stay positive. The problem with a Monday night game is if you look at a normal cycle, it takes the players a couple of days to get back to where they're focused. It goes ahead and not back and when you don't see the players until Wednesday, even though I really didn't dwell on a lot from the other night, I did talk about three particular areas. One, consistency; two was the penalties, which came out of nowhere; and three was the finish idea, which we've always had but, quite frankly, in our last two losses we haven't finished. We talked briefly about that, but I tried to put it in a positive way."
Q: You mentioned on your conference call many of the good things the team did Monday night. When you're coaching this week, are you accentuating what you did well or are you focusing on what you have to correct?
Coughlin: "We take the opponent and we focus on what it's going to take to defeat the opponent. What we're trying to do is to create the idea where finishing the thing is so important. It's been a difficult time for me because one of the things I did say to the team right after the game was, 'What happened in the second half?' One hundred yards in the second half is not going to get it done."
Q: When you said you have to win the four games, that seems to be a real challenge to the players, both in terms of what they have to do to make the playoffs and the importance of improving their play. Have you challenged the players to go out and do that?
Coughlin: "I challenge the players to win every game, every week. What I was really doing, and I've done it consistently now, particularly since we came back from the bye, is it's now a four-game schedule. We need to win all the games in our four-game schedule. But really, just as importantly, we have to play consistently at a championship level. We had the Green Bay experience (a 38-10 victory), which was a great experience when we had great passion and our energy level was very, very high and we played like we expected to win. I wouldn't say that about the other night. So we have to get back to that. We have to play that way to establish yourself finishing the season that way, and if you're playing your best football, then you have high expectations and they're legit. But if you're not playing especially well, then that's another issue."
Q: Your current turnover differential is plus-14, which is the best of your career. That is something that is always very important to you. Do you feel like you really haven't taken advantage of that as well as you should have in terms of scoring points off of turnovers?
Coughlin: "I don't relate that directly to that. When you have all the amassed yards that you had in the first half (273 in Washington) and you have only 13 points, you just kind of ask, 'Where are the points?'"
Q: Plus-14 is something you've probably strived for.
Coughlin: "But you have to remember last year. There were people that were plus-28. San Francisco and who was the other team that was almost plus-30 (Green Bay was plus-24)? Hopefully, it does turn out to be that way. But it also means that (the opponent) has to earn it. When you're not turning the ball over, the opponent gets no benefit. And that's, quite frankly, what we're trying to do is to create takeaways, where you have a team that's averaging 11 drives a game and all of sudden it's eight. It's only eight he can do with, because we've got three of his. And if we get all 11, we've always figured if we get 11, then we'll have the points that will show it. Two weeks ago we did. Last week we didn't. But you had a pretty solid, solid football game in which the one turnover we did get in the game was deep in our territory. It didn't provide us with the field position you're talking about there."
Q: Do you feel fortunate you were able to replace Sean Locklear with David Diehl, who has 145 career starts?
Coughlin: "It was David Diehl's job. He was the starting right tackle. He's had injuries this year that he's never had before. Locklear stepped in and played and it's unfortunate that Sean is hurt and gone for the season. I feel badly for him. He's earned the right to be here and to help us at this point in the year. Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way. So now David Diehl coming off his most recent injury has got to help us take this thing to a better level, play our final four games at a much higher quality. We're starting to run it a little bit. Let's keep that going."
Q: Keith Rivers got extensive time the other night. Is he finally healthy?
Coughlin: "You're always going to try to match up according to the people that you play and what their strengths are and so on and so forth. Rivers is healthy and he continues to help us on special teams and also contributed obviously with the fumble recovery (in Washington). Chase (Blackburn) knocked it out and he got the ball."
Q: With Rivers in the lineup, can you take advantage of Mathias Kiwanuka's versatility by moving him upfront?
Coughlin: "Yes. He's in the rotation. He's been up there. He's been there since we came back from the bye week."
Q: Drew Brees leads the league in touchdown passes and also leads the league in interceptions. Is this a "bonanza" game, where you need to get a lot of sacks?
Coughlin: "The game we just showed the team (Thursday) morning was the (New Orleans vs.) San Francisco game with five sacks and two interceptions for touchdowns (by the 49ers). That certainly let them stand in good stead. We need to have pressure on the quarterback. We need to get to the quarterback here. That's our game, let's face it. That's what these guys have done best over the course of their careers. Now this team will run the ball. They ran the ball very effectively against us a year ago and they have done that and they are multi-talented at the running back spot, as they are at receiver and as they are at tight end and as they are at offensive line. They have a really good offensive machine. Look at them in the green zone: 70 percent touchdowns, first in the league. They're 44 percent on third down. They do an awful lot of good things."
Q: They seem as deep as any team you've ever played.
Coughlin: "Very deep."
Q: Their defense is ranked last in the league but seems to have improved recently.
Coughlin: "Absolutely. Atlanta had 273 yards the other day. Atlanta did run the ball, but they certainly didn't amass a lot of yards. You're talking about a 23-13 game where New Orleans has got a chance to score a touchdown or a field goal before the half and the clock runs out on them."
Q: How big a weapon is their punter, Thomas Morstead?
Coughlin: "He's a good punter now, no question. But he also has the benefit of playing nine games indoors (eight at home and one in Atlanta). You watch Atlanta go back and forth. They both play in that operation."
Q: Are Darren Sproles and Travaris Cadet very dangerous return specialists?
Coughlin: "Yes, they are. They put Cadet in there and he runs a 75-yarder right away. This (running back Chris) Ivory kid, he's 5-9, 222 pounds and he runs a 4.48. He tears them up. He's the third or fourth one that gets to play. He doesn't get to play much. Pierre Thomas gets it overall and (Mark) Ingram slams it up in there and this guy is their outside guy. But he's very good."


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My masterpiece is complete.
MTG players should recognize this.
I love putting these guys in my control decks, they've saved me a million times. Especially in multiplayer.
I'd just returned home from an exhausted high of running a D&D game with my friends. Within a few messages of getting back onto Skype I somehow got involved another game.
[18-06-2015 23:49:10] mAc Chaos: I was also thinking of doing a quick one-shot type game, maybe like 3 hours long, in 5th edition, where I could experiment with having players make characters using rolls instead of point buy, because every game I ever ran always used point buy.
[18-06-2015 23:49:10] mAc Chaos: I'm curious
Updated September 2nd, 2015 at 10:06 PM by mAc Chaos
I wrote something about RPG systems, so I figured I might as well post it here too.
There are three broad categories of RPGs. I'm not talking about genres, like horror or fantasy, but of the mechanics at play in the game. There's traditional games like Dungeons and Dragons, Storygames like FATE, and Forge games like Dogs in the Vineyard.
Traditional: this is the most well known kind of RPG, and what most people think of when you talk about RPGs. It's simulationist,
Updated January 31st, 2015 at 05:40 PM by mAc Chaos


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BEIJING (AFP) - The deadly H7N9 bird flu strain claimed a new victim on Monday when a hospital patient died in China, state media reported, bringing the death toll from the recently identified virus to 24.
A patient surnamed Chen died in the eastern city of Shanghai after 12 days of medical treatment failed, Xinhua news agency said. China has recorded more than 120 cases of H7N9 infection so far.
Most cases since the new strain was first identified in late March have been confined to eastern China, and the only one reported outside mainland China has been in Taiwan. The Taiwanese victim was infected in China.
But experts fear the possibility of the virus mutating into a form easily transmissible between humans, with the potential to trigger a pandemic.
The World Health Organisation has said there has been no evidence so far of human-to-human transmission but warned that H7N9 was "one of the most lethal" influenza viruses ever seen.
Chinese researchers, reporting in The Lancet on Thursday, said they had confirmed poultry as a source of the virus among humans.
Chinese health officials have acknowledged so-called "family clusters", where members of a single family have become infected, but have not established any confirmed instances of human-to-human transmission.
Most of the cases reported have not yet resulted in death, and some patients been discharged from hospital after apparently recovering.


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PS3: Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation
Game Released On: Jun 28th, 2012
Platform: Playstation 3
Cost: Free of charge, some pay-per-item scheme will be implemented
Age: 12 and up
Pricing Scheme Detailed: HERE
Infantry Gameplay Detaled: HERE
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Snooki is having a baby! Sources say she and Jionni LaValle are expecting a little guido in September.
After denying rumors, sources in New Jersey are reporting that Snooki and boyfriend Jionni LaValle are expecting a little girl (already named Snooki Jr.) in September 0f 2012.
Snooki and Jionni reportedly conceived the baby in a bathroom at a diner in Rutherford, New Jersey on New Year's Day.
"Snooki and Jionni were both enjoying their cheeseburger specials when they got a little frisky. They went into the men's restroom and locked the door. The whole diner heard them. It was gross," said Joan Marshand of Little Falls, New Jersey..
The "Jersey Shore" star, whose real name is Nicole Polizzi, is reportedly three months pregnatnt and that is causing an uproar at MTV.
The sources told WWN that Snooki, 24, allegedly has a deal in place to announce her pregnancy on the cover of Us Weekly. MTV has her under contract to actually shoot the birth of the baby and expect it to be the biggest show on MTV in the last ten years.
tSnooki went on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Feb. 2, to shoot down the pregnancy rumors, but that's because she already has deals cut to make the announcement.
"I definitely do want kids, but I'm not pregnant," Snooki told GMA. "Being pregnant should be a real thing and a happy thing, and I'm not."
Snooki has a spinoff show with her gal pal and "Jersey Shore" cast member Jenni "JWoww" Farley. "MTV went into crisis mode after they found out," a source told the Post. "They're trying to hide it because it would greatly affect the creative direction of the show. But they are also planning on a new Snooki Baby series."
There are rumors that Jionni mae NOT be the father… WWN is investigating.