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Synopsis, screenshots, recommendations ~ Add Recommendations Discuss individual episodes and first impressions of this anime here; reviews and final impressions should be posted in the Anime Reviews Forum. Post format and full rules can be found here. __________________________________________ uuummmmm.... What about new anime named Vexille?? here's previev of it http://youtube.com/watch?v=3LDi_-QVWE8 its cooll.. i havnt seen it, yet but i cant find it in database neather http://youtube.com/watch?v=hHFxtM-Q2vw Last edited by rockenroll4life; 10-01-2008 at 02:57 PM. |
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Re: Vexille?
Vexille looks impressively interesting. Computerized graphics are always an added bonus when they do not look artificially done.
The unfortunate drawbacks to many animated CGI films, especially found with anime, comes when it focuses on "wowing" the audience with their artistry, believing that it adds to the "cool factor." Even in the 10 minute preview, Vexille has it's share of slow-motion matrix-esque effects that is detrimental to the flow of the movie. The story is often times clouded by too much time spent with the "camera" directly scanning the nice, graphic details. The other issue that comes to mind is that the artists fail to render characters in a way that reflects realism. Quite often, body movements are extremely slow and jerky, likely counteracting their intended purpose to make them as real as possible. Nevertheless, Vixelle is filled with top notch CGI entertainment with a likely story that packs a full punch. It seems like a great title that'll be a perfect addition anyone's ever growing anime collection, or for that matter, animated collection. I will be buying it when it comes out on DVD. |
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Anyone seen this Yet? Is it worth watching?. So far Ive been hesitant to buy it seen it looks too CG to me to be any good but i might be wrong. And also does anyone know if this is Japanese or American Made Anime?
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Subjectively, the responsiveness of desktop operations has remained about the same, despite hugely growing memory and CPU power... As I noted in an earlier comment to a similar thread, back in around 1995 I used to run OS/2 Warp on a 75Mhz Pentium with 32MB, it was about as user-friendly as today's Linux desktops, and did not feel any slower. Unlike Windows at the time, OS/2 was a proper multitasking 32-bit OS, and its GUI was smarter.
It really is a mystery where all that computing power disappears.
Constant UI responsiveness
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Posted Feb 27, 2009 8:14 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]
OS/2 already had scalable fonts (Adobe's font manager), not sure how much antialiasing would add to that. It is true my old machine had a 8-bit-colour display and the resolution was 800x600, if I recall correctly. Compared to it, my current 24-bit, 1280x1024 pixel display needs about 10 times more memory for the display. Possibly many off-screen copies of images like icons etc. have with a similar ratio. But I don't think that alone would justify all of the increased RAM requirement.
Posted Feb 27, 2009 9:03 UTC (Fri) by farnz (guest, #17727) [Link]
When doing your calculations, remember that anti-aliasing increases the number of pixel values to calculate, and adds a stage to reduce back down to the physical pixels. In a TV targeted font rendering system I worked with, the manufacturer estimated that they calculated 16 logical pixels for every physical pixel.
Responsiveness has improved for me (although I've been buying more expensive machines over time), but I've also gone from 800x600x8bit (so just under 500kiB of frame buffer to fill) to 1440x900x32bit (so nearly 5MiB of frame buffer to fill), and switched on anti-aliasing, driving the new figure up to 40MiB of pixel data to calculate in the worst case, assuming the numbers from my past still apply.
The big difference I've noticed is not responsiveness when idle (which has always been beyond my ability to measure), but responsiveness under load. Instead of having my machine grind to a halt for 30 seconds when I print a photo, or compile software, I get to continue working unaffected, and background tasks complete faster - this is a win/win for me.
Posted Feb 27, 2009 9:10 UTC (Fri) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]
Scalable fonts just add a step in the generation of the characters, which can then be put in cache and only hurt performance the first time they are generated. And some scalable formats included pre-generated bitmaps for the common sizes. Windows would happily return a font of this already generated sizes, instead of generating a new one, if the size we wanted was close enough.
Anyway, just to point out one of the many things we now take for granted that are possible because we have the CPU power, and the memory, for it.
Posted Mar 1, 2009 5:56 UTC (Sun) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]
In the past, I found the display looking much better for me, if I recompiled FreeType with the "illegal" bits of code enabled, and then turned antialiasing off. Without this the letters would be irritatingly fuzzy. Lately I have not bothered, mainly because larger display resolutions make the antialiasing fuzz less offensive.
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(And anyone who thinks this is a sane way to expose configuration state to users should see a psychologist *fast*.)
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MMX instructions appeared on the Pentium Pro (don't remember the model) and on Pentiums at 166MHz (there was two versions, one without MMX). And MMX has that problem of sharing the floating point registers.
Multimedia instructions
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The MMX and SSE stuff is about doing the same operation on several data in parallel (but working on small inputs, i.e., integers 8 bits wide). Some RISCy architectures have their own set of "multimedia" instructions.
Posted Feb 28, 2009 9:29 UTC (Sat) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]
By the nature of the RISC architecture, a lot of simple vector operations coded by hand would always outperform the same thing on earlier x86 CPUs, like the first Pentium.
I suppose there are more complex multimedia cases where it makes sense to have dedicated instructions equivalent to SSE on RISC machines.
Posted Feb 27, 2009 17:08 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
That's all.
Try making that old Risc machine drive a modern LCD display with Alpha blending and see how far you get.
Posted Feb 27, 2009 12:05 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
With the EXA glyph cache patch applied, AA and non-AA client-side fonts are nearly equivalent in performance, but there *is* a little CPU consumption from the X server which wasn't visible before, and peak scrolling speed (on my 1650x1050 widescreen, 1250MHz Athlon, Radeon 9250 AGP) is about half that of core fonts (where the fonts spray past in an utterly unreadable blur with no CPU consumption to speak of). Antialiased font rendering is actually about 5% *faster* than non-AA rendering, so I suspect the overhead of the actual antialiasing is drowned by other overheads (or perhaps it's just that antialiased rendering, as the common case, has been optimized more).
However, the difference between an utterly unreadable blur and a nearly unreadable blur isn't very significant to me: it still scrolls text off the top of the screen in a tiny fraction of a second.
(Without the EXA glyph cache, non-AA text in some cases can be hugely *slower* to render than AA text, and in both cases I was seeing >20s to scroll the screen up by a single line. But that's not AA overhead: that's transfers from VRAM, which are always going to be slow as treacle.)
Posted Feb 28, 2009 10:15 UTC (Sat) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]
The application uses FreeType to display anti-aliased text, but without any special optimization techniques other than brute caching and double-buffering. It works well, but can't afford to do much more without more complex optimization techniques (and then the best way would probably be to start using X).
The target machines range from Geodes with the power equivalent of a Pentium MMX@266MHz to modern Celerons @2GHz, so it's bearable enough on the Geode and instant on the Celeron.
I also can't afford to optimize the code for a specific machine, so it's just compiled with generic optimizations.
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Friday night, while walking our dog, my wife and daughter met a family of five. Of the three children, the middle girl was around seven - close to the same age as my daughter. The oldest - a boy - was ten, and the youngest - a toddler between a year and eighteen months - occupied a stroller. It was cold last night in Portland, and the toddler was bundled up with extra clothes and blankets. The father asked my wife for money.
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And today, I read about Samantha Garvey, a kid whose family had been evicted just before New Years, and how she is a finalist in a national science fair, and how her family is getting a home - and I am really excited to read about her success, but the happiness I feel for her is leavened, because I can't get around the fact that there are thousands of families just like Samantha's who will not be written about in the national press, and who will not be getting off the street, into a shelter, or a home. They will be going precisely nowhere, at least not anytime soon.
And at some point, the three kids my family met last night will end up in school, somewhere. And my hope is that the teachers who have the opportunity to work with them to further their education will have the tools - the money, the time, the resources, and the support - to give them what they need. And I hope that the work these teachers and these students do will be judged and assessed on its own merits, against the backdrop of its own distinct context.
Within the current educational reform discussions, it's very fashionable to say that poverty is not destiny and that things would get better if we could only fire more bad teachers. And, in a very general sense, these truisms - like all truisms - are general enough to resemble something that might even be true. But these oversimplifications - like many of the "obvious" solutions to "fixing" education - break, hard, against the uniquely human conditions within which people are expected to learn. The specifics of the various educational settings are often left out of the discussion, as they don't fit neatly into a truism that makes a good sound bite.
And each day, families drift into homelessness, the distance between the very rich and the very poor continues to increase, social mobility continues to decrease - and against this backdrop, with 22 percent of the children in the US living in poverty, with just under 24 percent of children living in households that experience food insecurity, we need to drop the pretense that education, poverty, and health are separate issues.
Today, my daughter and I drove down Sandy Boulevard, and she looked for the family she met last night. We didn't see them.
She sat back in her seat. "Do you think they found a hotel?" she asked.
"I don't know," I told her. "I hope so."
She wasn't satisfied with that. She likes more precision. She likes to know.
I didn't have a better answer.
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I enjoy reading some of the posts that refer to discontinued and/or expensive colognes that were all time favourites.
Availability and money aside, what is your pick for the (single) best cologne ever?
I enjoy reading some of the posts that refer to discontinued and/or expensive colognes that were all time favourites.
Availability and money aside, what is your pick for the (single) best cologne ever?
That's a tough question my friend. It's like asking which kid you love the most. But if you were holding a gun to my head it would have to be TOBS Mr. Taylor.
To date, of all the colognes I have personally owned, I would have to say that Joop Nightflight works best on me. It is relatively inexpensive at anywhere from $40 - $60 per bottle depending on where you get it. But, it really is a great scent.
Since I sprayd a squirt of T&H Spanish Leather on my arm the other day, I must admit it comes in a very close 2nd. The scent is just intriguing.
I have now quite a collection and like them all, but if I had to make the choice - for me it would be my old companion Knize Ten. I use this stuff for some 25+ years....
Rudy, Central New Jersey
'If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.'
I couldn't choose. The point of accumulating a wardrobe of scents is that you can change them with your mood.
Tom S.
Middle of MO
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
-Thomas Sowell
"The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance."
-Thomas Jefferson
I hope eventually to select and sort down to 10 or 12 that I will pick from each day, and the "Cologne du jour" will be based on the day's activities, and my mood at the time. I expect each day to pick my favorite for that day's criteria.
I wouldn't ever want to limit myself to one. But currently my fave is Trumper Wild Fern
"The Footsteps Die Out Forever"
Today, at this instant, Pen's Douro in dead heart with Pen's BB.
I think Tam Dao is my favorite to date, but I have sixty or more samples and a whole lot of other choices that would come real close.
It's also fairly linear and if I wore it every day I'd probably grow weary of it.
Knize Forest.
For me personally it is Polo Sport. Ever since I was a kid and I stole my brothers when i went to school, it just stuck with me. Im never without a bottle.
Havana-JHL-Penhaligon's Duro/fern/BB or .....
English Fern. I am almost out of the sample I have.


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Summer love can be sweet. But it tends to be fast, feverish and often fleeting. In a season where emotions run hot, here are some rules to help avoid heartbreak.
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Joe Gibbs Racing goes into Daytona Speedweeks as the new home of the defending Daytona 500 champion, as well as the new home to a former Nationwide Series champ and the runner-up for the past two seasons.
Matt Kenseth, driving the No. 20 Dollar General Toyota Camry for the 2013 season, has two wins in the Daytona 500 (2009 and 2012), plus 11 other top 10 finishes in 26 total races at Daytona International Speedway. He also won the pole for the July race last season with Roush-Fenway Racing. Kenseth will also be in one of four JGR Nationwide Series entries in the DRIVE4COPD 300 on Saturday, driving the No. 18 GameStop Toyota.
Denny Hamlin, driving the No. 11 FedEx Express Toyota, has a best-finish of fourth in the 500, which he earned last season. His best finish at Daytona was a third-place finish in the July race in 2009.
Kyle Busch, in the No. 18 M&Ms Toyota, won the July race at Daytona in 2008; last year, Busch finished 17th in the 500. Busch will also be moonlighting for JGR – he's in the No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota in the Nationwide Series race; he's also racing in the Camping World Truck Series race Friday night for his own Kyle Busch Motorsports.
Joining Kenseth and Busch in the Nationwide Series are JGR newcomers Elliott Sadler and Brian Vickers. Sadler, the runner-up in Nationwide Series points the past two seasons, gets behind the wheel of the No. 11 OneMain Financial Toyota with the potent JGR Nationwide Series program. He started on the pole for the season-opening Nationwide Series race back in 1997, finishing 15th; his last three starts at Daytona in the series ended in top 10 finishes (eighth in July 2011, third and sixth in two races in 2012).
Vickers, driving the No. 20 Dollar General Toyota this season, was Nationwide Series champion in 2003, the last time he ran the series full-time. In 11 Nationwide Series starts at Daytona, Vickers has six top 10 finishes.
The Nationwide Series DRIVE4COPD 300 takes the green flag on Saturday, February 23rd at 1:15 p.m. ET, while the Daytona 500 gets underway Sunday, February 24th at 1 p.m. ET. Follow this weekend's action at www.nascar.com and joegibbsracing.com.
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The Jomres Demos
There are a number of demonstration servers for Jomres.
The main server is www.jomres-demo.net, which shows Jomres acting as a portal application integrated into Joomla. This would be considered the "main" demo.
This main demo is termed our quickstart demo because if you purchase a Silver or Gold membership license you will be able to download a complete copy of that demo to install on your own website to get yourself up and running quickly.
User demo
The demo on www.jomres-demo.net is not available for experimentation, however if you'd like to play around with the functionality of the system, you can use the user demo site at userdemo.jomres-demo.net which has login details for you to log into the frontend and perform property manager functionality.
Twitter's Bootstrap CSS framework is a thing of beauty and is designed to be responsive out of the box. Joomla 3, which is expected to be released in late September 2012 will use this framework and we've been working hard on ensuring that Jomres 7 will take advantage of the new functionality that this version offers. You can see it here.
Don't be put off by the seemingly plain demonstration. The reason we love bootstrap is because it is, as already mentioned, completely responsive out of the box. This means that not only Joomla but also Jomres will work as well on mobile devices as it does on your desktop, but it also means that unlike with previous versions of Joomla where you might have to adapt Jomres' (or indeed, any other component for Joomla's) layout to suit your choice of template, now with a coherent UI both components will blend seemlessly.
The next server is the "villa" demo which is a simple illustration of Jomres installed on a Joomla site with the "Is this a single property installation?" option in site configuration set to Yes. This effectively makes the default Jomres page the booking form for the first property in the system. Whilst the other functionality such as searching etc still exists and works, it's largely invisible to the guest user. Administration is done from the frontend as normal. This is a good demonstration of how Jomres is suitable for single property sites.


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#11 if the coat he stole was the one he's wearing in the pic then I'd say it was worth it! Good Coat!
#11 if the coat he stole was the one he's wearing in the pic then I'd say it was worth it! Good Coat!
I loved this movie and I never had a problem with this seen - I thought it was cool.
I can't believe it went on for that long..
I think the cutting board is awesome and people shouldn't be so snooty if you get something that wasn't on your registry. Be glad you even got a present and that someone put thought into it.
Just last month there was a moose shopping at Safeway in Smithers, BC. Where's that on here? Also, #6 is a special animal crossing bridge built specifically so they have a safe way of crossing the busy highway! Props to the Gov't on that one :)
This post is bad and you should feel bad!! Don't nobody mess with Abba.
Hooray for Monopoly!
super cool for the families that left packages for their descendants. I want to do something like this!!
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Newborn Boy Safely Surrendered in Torrance
Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe is pleased to announce the County's Safe Surrender Program celebrated success for the seventh time this year with the report of a safely surrendered newborn. This most recent safe surrender occurred on September 20, 2012 at a hospital in Torrance.
As is standard practice, the baby boy is in protective custody and will be placed with a family approved for adoption by the Department of Children and Family Services.
"It is important that we continue to get word out about the Safe Surrender program so that mothers in desperate situations know there is a better option for their newborn than abandonment," said Supervisor Knabe. "Thanks to the Safe Surrender program, this baby boy has a second chance at life and hope for a bright future."
This is the seventh Safe Surrender in Los Angeles County in 2012, and the 96th since the program began over ten years ago. The program was initiated by Supervisor Knabe and approved unanimously by the Board of Supervisors in 2001. It allows someone to surrender an infant that is nomore than three days old, as long as the infant shows no signs of abuse.


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Sukirti Kandpal is an Indian television actress. She became popular through the television series Dill Mill Gayye, where she played the protagonist, Dr. Riddhima Gupta. She also appeared as Pia Dobriyal in Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani. She plays the parallel female role of Jasbir "Jazz" in Rab Se Sohna Isshq.


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Simultaneuos HTTP requests in PHP with cURL
The basic idea of a Web 2.0-style "mashup" is that you consume data from several services, often from different providers and combine them in interesting ways. This means you often need to do more than one HTTP request to a service or services. In PHP if you use something like file_get_contents() this means all the requests will be synchronous: a new one is fired only after the previous has completed. If you need to make three HTTP requests and each call takes a second, your app is delayed at least three seconds.
An improvement of course is to cache responses as much as possible, but at one point or another you still need to make those requests.
Using the curl_multi* family of cURL functions you can make those requests simultaneously. This way your app is as slow as the slowest request, as opposed to the sum of all requests. And that's something.
A function
Here's a little function I coded that will allow you do multi requests.
function multiRequest($data, $options = array()) { // array of curl handles $curly = array(); // data to be returned $result = array(); // multi handle $mh = curl_multi_init(); // loop through $data and create curl handles // then add them to the multi-handle foreach ($data as $id => $d) { $curly[$id] = curl_init(); $url = (is_array($d) && !empty($d['url'])) ? $d['url'] : $d; curl_setopt($curly[$id], CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($curly[$id], CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($curly[$id], CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // post? if (is_array($d)) { if (!empty($d['post'])) { curl_setopt($curly[$id], CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($curly[$id], CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $d['post']); } } // extra options? if (!empty($options)) { curl_setopt_array($curly[$id], $options); } curl_multi_add_handle($mh, $curly[$id]); } // execute the handles $running = null; do { curl_multi_exec($mh, $running); } while($running > 0); // get content and remove handles foreach($curly as $id => $c) { $result[$id] = curl_multi_getcontent($c); curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $c); } // all done curl_multi_close($mh); return $result; }
The function accepts an array of URLs to hit and optionally an array of cURL options if you need to pass any. The first array can be a simple indexed array or URLs or it can be an array of arrays where the second has a key named "url"
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, the function will do a post request.
The function returns an array of responses as strings. The keys in the result array match the keys in the input.
A GET example
Let's say you want to use some Yahoo search web services (consult YDN) to create a music artist band-o-pedia kind of mashup. Here's how you can search audio, video and images at the same time:
$data = array( 'http://search.yahooapis.com/VideoSearchService/V1/videoSearch?appid=YahooDemo&query=Pearl+Jam&output=json', 'http://search.yahooapis.com/ImageSearchService/V1/imageSearch?appid=YahooDemo&query=Pearl+Jam&output=json', 'http://search.yahooapis.com/AudioSearchService/V1/artistSearch?appid=YahooDemo&artist=Pearl+Jam&output=json' ); $r = multiRequest($data); echo '<pre>'; print_r($r);
This will print something like:
Array ( [0] => {"ResultSet":{"totalResultsAvailable":"633","totalResultsReturned":... [1] => {"ResultSet":{"totalResultsAvailable":"105342","totalResultsReturned":... [2] => {"ResultSet":{"totalResultsAvailable":10,"totalResultsReturned":... )
A POST example
There's an interesting Yahoo search service called term extraction which analyses content. It accepts POST requests. Here's how to consume this service with the function above, making two simultaneous requests:
$data = array(array(),array()); $data[0]['url'] = 'http://search.yahooapis.com/ContentAnalysisService/V1/termExtraction'; $data[0]['post'] = array(); $data[0]['post']['appid'] = 'YahooDemo'; $data[0]['post']['output'] = 'php'; $data[0]['post']['context'] = 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.'; $data[1]['url'] = 'http://search.yahooapis.com/ContentAnalysisService/V1/termExtraction'; $data[1]['post'] = array(); $data[1]['post']['appid'] = 'YahooDemo'; $data[1]['post']['output'] = 'php'; $data[1]['post']['context'] = 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the funk will make me freak; If I should die before I waked, Allow me Lord to rock out naked.'; $r = multiRequest($data); print_r($r);
And the result:
Array ( [0] => a:1:{s:9:"ResultSet";a:1:{s:6:"Result";s:5:"sleep";}} [1] => a:1:{s:9:"ResultSet";a:1:{s:6:"Result";a:3:{i:0;s:5:"freak";i:1;s:5:"sleep";i:2;s:4:"funk";}}} )
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Pump It Up Radio News: Rihanna is a DJ Homie Hopper?
Yep you read that right. The pop princess Rihanna has been hopping DJ to DJ for their help in creating the hottest hits. Check this out. Rihanna worked with the "Scotty Hottie" Calvin Harris for her song "We Found Love" in 2011. In the United States, this hot single debuted at number 16 on the Billboards Hot 100. This dance→ Read Post


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June's art exhibition at Ananda's Mundo in Orgiva, Spain, turned out to be a real treat for Emma Plunkett, as her well loved friends turned out in force to see her new water colour paintings, sculptures and photographs. Canapes and cava flowed throughout the evening and an excellent time was had by all.
During this exhibition you can buy Emma plunkett's art at sale prices, much lower than the current internet gallery prices, so get down to the exhibition if you can! The show runs through til mid August.
I would like to give a big thank you to the graphic design studio – planXdesign for designing my new price tags and publicity, and for taking care of my printing and for all the technical support for my web gallery.


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Time and Again is a new historical fantasy manhwa from JiUn Yun (Cynical Orange). Set in Tang Dynasty-era China, it follows a dissipated exorcist, Baek-On, and his sensible bodyguard, Ho-Yeon, as they travel through the countryside completing jobs for hire. Though volume 1 does have a few stumbles, it's one of the most promising series openers that I've seen in a long while. Continue Reading →
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Cleveland Browns (0-1)
@Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1-0)
Sunday, September 12
Raymond James Stadium
Attendance: 47,211
Game Leaders
20/37, 227 yds, 1 tds, 2 int
17/28, 182 yds, 2 tds, 1 int
9 car, 52 yds, 0 tds
22 car, 75 yds, 0 tds
3 rec, 87 yds, 0 tds
2 rec, 49 yds, 1 tds
Tampa, FL (Sports Network) - Micheal Spurlock caught a 33-yard touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter, as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers rallied past the Cleveland Browns, 17-14, in the first game of the season for both clubs.
Josh Freeman completed 17-of-28 passes for 182 yards, two touchdowns, and a pick for the Bucs, who went just 3-13 last season.
Rookie Mike Williams caught a TD pass for Tampa Bay, which got 75 rushing yards from Cadillac Williams.
"Good win for our football team," Tampa Bay head coach Raheem Morris said. "We take them one at a time. This was not our best performance but I'm not going to cry about that when we get a win. It was a great job going out there and getting this win, but that means nothing in this league. We have long-term goals."
Jake Delhomme connected on 20-of-37 passes for 227 yards, a touchdown, and two interceptions in his Browns debut.
Peyton Hillis, who spent the last two years with Denver, carried the ball nine times for 41 yards and a score. Jerome Harrison rushed for 52 yards on nine carries. Mohamed Massaquoi caught a TD pass for Cleveland, which went 5-11 last year.
Trailing 14-10, the Bucs took over at the Cleveland 47 with 8:37 to play in the game. Following two incomplete passes, Sammie Stroughter caught a 14-yard pass for a first down. Three plays later, on another 3rd-and-10, Spurlock hauled in a 33-yard TD pass to give Tampa Bay a 17-14 lead with 6:45 to go.
Delhomme was intercepted by E.J. Biggers on the ensuing possession. Tampa Bay drove down to the two, but Earnest Graham lost the football. The Browns recovered at the three-yard line with 2:16 to play.
Faced with a 4th-and-9 following a penalty, Delhomme threw an incomplete pass. The Bucs, though, went four-and-out, leaving the Browns at their 11-yard with 34 seconds left and no timeouts.
Cleveland got to its 33 before time ran out.
"We got to get to the point where we're playing to win the game and not making mistakes that are going to cost us the game," Browns head coach Eric Mangini said.
The Browns' second possession of the game resulted in a touchdown. Faced with a 3rd-and-12 from the 47, Hillis gained the necessary yardage on the ground for a fresh set of downs. Delhomme hooked up with Massaquoi for a 41- yard score on the next play.
The Buccaneers drove down the field on their next possession, but settled for a 49-yard Connor Barth field goal. The 7-3 score stood after one quarter of action.
Cleveland took a 14-3 lead with 5:35 to play in the first half. Harrison's 39- yard run got the Browns down to the Tampa Bay 10. Hillis then found an opening on the left side of the field and scampered into the end zone.
Each quarterback was picked off late in the second quarter. Mike Adams intercepted Freeman to set up Cleveland at the 47. On first down from the Tampa Bay 39, Delhomme was picked off by Ronde Barber. A 64-yard return down the left sideline put the ball at the three. Mike Williams hauled in a deflected pass in the back of the end zone to cut the gap to 14-10.
A nine-yard return on a squib kick put the Browns near midfield. Following a five-yard pass, Phil Dawson came on the field to attempt a 62-yard field goal. The kick was off the mark, keeping it a four-point contest at the break.
Cleveland marched down the field to start the third frame. However, Hillis fumbled at the 14 and the Bucs recovered. Tampa Bay failed to do anything with the ball on offense, and the quarter went scoreless.
Scoring Summary
2:48 1st (6-0)
Touchdown - Jake Delhomme 41-yard pass to Mohamed Massaquoi
2:48 1st (7-0)
Extra-point - Phil Dawson
0:50 1st (7-3)
Field-goal - Connor Barth 49 yards
1st Quarter
5:35 2nd (13-3)
Touchdown - Peyton Hillis 10-yard run
5:35 2nd (14-3)
Extra-point - Phil Dawson
0:18 2nd (14-9)
Touchdown - Josh Freeman 3-yard pass to Mike Williams
0:18 2nd (14-10)
Extra-point - Connor Barth
2nd Quarter
No scoring
3rd Quarter
6:45 4th (14-16)
Touchdown - Josh Freeman 33-yard pass to Micheal Spurlock
6:45 4th (14-17)
Extra-point - Connor Barth
4th Quarter
Officials: Jeff Triplette (Referee), Jeff Rice (Umpire), Wayne Mackie (Head Linesman), Jeff Bergman (Line Judge), David Wyant (Side Judge), Steve Freeman (Back Judge), Scott Steenson (Field Judge)


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Tess, sweet gentle Tess. She came into my home November 4, 2010 with her brother Thor as fosters. Unfortunately the pair, through no fault of their own had to be surrendered from an extremely loving woman that cared deeply for her pups and was heartbroken she had no other option than to call Dobe Rescue as sometimes situations change. Tess had the same loving parent for her entire life, you could tell as Tess was so well mannered and loving, never causing a problem. Sadly, Thor was unable to handle the transition to a new home and passed on shortly after coming into rescue. Tess remained in hospice care with me and boy was I ever honored to have as much time with her as I did. Initially, vets said 6wks-3mths, here this strong girl made in about a year and a half. Tess was a very strong girl, yet sensitive. She kept my girl Maddie company during Maddie's last time with us whom we lost 12/17/2011 at the age of 12. Tess was sad to see Maddie go and to keep her spirits up she often had doggy visitors and fosters for company.
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After three years in a Chinese jail, Justin Solondz is taken into US custody
Justin Solondz spent years on the run before being arrested in China three years ago. This week, after years in a Chinese jail, he was deported and taken into US custody at a Chicago airport.
He is being charged with a role in two actions: the 2001 University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture arson (claimed by the Earth Liberation Front), and the arson and attempted animal release at the 2001 Litchfield Wild Horse and Burro Corral in Susanville, California (claimed by the Animal Liberation Front).
Recently, Solondz's former girlfriend, Briana Waters, entered into a plea deal in which she agreed to testify against Solondz at his upcoming trial.
A search for his name on the BOP Inmate Locator did not give any results, and his current jail address is not known.
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Now that we've all had a chance to settle down from the holidays and CES 2009, I think it's high time MP3 Mailbox Monday rings in the new year. (Am I the only one who's insanely happy to have finally made it to the end of January?) If you picked up a new device in these past several weeks, it's the perfect time to think post-purchase.
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There is an intervention group for each year group at Key Stage Three for students who need support with English. LTAs (Learning & Teaching assistants) are also provided to support students in class if they need help. Students are also supported with curriculum subjects in intervention groups. Some students are given additional one to one time to support with reading, speaking and listening and homework. There is a homework club which all EAL students are welcome to attend. In intervention lessons students are taught English as a Second Language. Every lesson has a speaking, listening, reading and writing focus and we make sure that students are taught new vocabulary and key words to enhance their understanding.
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EAL is taught at Key Stage 4 in an option block with the opportunity to complete our EAL iGCSE. We are currently following the Cambridge exam board for this. Students are taught ESOL via this curriculum and lessons are carefully differentiated to meet the different levels of English acquisition in this class. This exam course is equivalent to a GCSE. As with Key Stage 3, each lesson is comprised of speaking, listening, reading and writing. The exam itself has a speaking exam, a listening exam and a reading and writing paper. Equally, students are supported in class, with homework clubs and extra options for support with EAL staff if they need it. Further information can be found at the link below regarding the exam course.
The EAL department also encourages all EAL students to sit Mother Tongue Language exams where possible at GCSE and A Level. Three members of the EAL team also teach students Arabic, Portuguese and Bengali. We have bought all KS4 English curriculum texts in Arabic, Portuguese, Swedish, German, Dutch and French so that students can support their own understanding in English lessons.
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There is an intervention group for Sixth Form students where students are given differentiated support to improve their English Language skills. A separate class is timetabled to offer support for coursework assignments. This is a Drop-in class which is run weekly which students can attend as and when they need guidance. Sixth Form students who require help in class are also assigned LTAs to attend lessons with them.
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All EAL LTAs are bilingual and include Bengali, Arabic, Portuguese, Somali, Spanish and Albanian speakers and alongside a very multi-lingual staff support by making phone calls home, running an Interpreters' Desk at Parents' Mornings and Evenings. Equally, the EAL team have helped parents with advice, filling in forms, interpreting at meetings and translating documents and letters. If you would like to help your child at home please use the links above, encourage your child to watch English TV programmes, listening to radio programmes in English, reading magazines and newspapers in English. Please feel free to contact the EAL department if you feel you need more support with this. If you would like to contact any of the EAL team, please call Rachel Weekes on 02074793934. Alternatively please follow the link below to email the team directly.
EAL Team and Resources:
The EAL team is led by Rachel Weekes and is made up of one EAL teacher and nine LTAs. The EAL department is located along the Student Support corridor and has its own classroom which is fully resourced to meet the needs of EAL students; including bilingual dictionaries for all languages spoken at the school, reading books for students and computers. Excellent resources for bilingual students can be purchased here: www.grantandcutler.com
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The Director of EAL is also a Teaching and Learning Coach for staff and helps train teachers in how to best teach and support EAL students and differentiation techniques to ensure that all students can access the lesson and meet learning aims. This includes INSET, workshops and one to one support for staff to learn about how to best support students in their classrooms. EAL resources (for example, our bilingual dictionaries) are also made available to staff. Each year the English level of students is reassessed and this data is tracked and monitored to ensure that all students are making good progress. This information is shared with all staff. We strive to ensure that all students are provided with personalised support tailored to their individual levels of English, ability, educational need and background. The EAL department operates across the school supporting both students and staff, across the curriculum and pastorally. Paddington Academy is a diverse and multi-cultural community and it is an exciting and vibrant school to work in. We believe that being bilingual is wonderful and do our best to celebrate and support this.


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I'm surprised that nobody has asked the question, so it is probably an obvious stupidity. Anyway there it goes.
Why bother to port? Why not reimplement everything (including the kernel modules) and put it under GPLv2? Building a compatible implementation shouldn't require that much effort, even to the point where DTrace scripts can be shared (that is, those which are not too tightly coupled to Solaris internals).
DTrace real port
Posted Aug 9, 2007 15:47 UTC (Thu) by bcantrill (guest, #31087) [Link]
Posted Aug 10, 2007 23:13 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]
dtrace clone
Posted Aug 10, 2007 14:48 UTC (Fri) by fuhchee (subscriber, #40059) [Link]
Posted Aug 10, 2007 23:09 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]
And patent trouble has not stopped kernel developers before...
Posted Aug 11, 2007 20:53 UTC (Sat) by fuhchee (subscriber, #40059) [Link]
Not as much as one might think. Systemtap relies only on existing externalized kernel interfaces and hooks - no changes just on our account. That's not to say it wouldn't be nice to get some extra interfaces/hooks, or to offload some version drift maintenance to other folks. It means that we can work toward their development and upstream inclusion gradually, without blocking the rest of the work.
Posted Aug 11, 2007 22:09 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
the license and patent status of dtrace is very much a reason for it not being considered (in fact, due to these issues most of the kernel developers don't even look at it to avoid any accusations of them being tainted)
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - San Luis Obispo Police are looking for two transient men who attacked another man who was walking near Mission Plaza late Monday night and a transient woman who may have been involved.
According to the Police report: At 10pm, 26 year old Gareth Morgan was walking in the area of Mission Plaza. While he was walking he was attacked by two suspects described as "transient" by witnesses. Both suspects were described as white males in their mid 20's. One was wearing a blue crew sweatshirt and the other a grey hooded sweatshirt. Associated with the two male suspects was a female (also described as transient) who had two dogs with her described as a pit bull and a "shaggy" type of dog. The witnesses were able to yell at the suspects as they approached. The suspects and the female fled the scene. At the time of the attack the victim was in possession of a backpack and wallet. These items were missing and not recovered at the scene. It is believed the items were taken by the suspects. MORGAN suffered moderate injuries to include cuts to his face and a possible concussion. He was transported to Sierra Vista Hospital for evaluation. Anyone with information pertaining to this investigation is encouraged to contact the San Luis Obispo Police Department at 781-7317.


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By Ray Korona Band
TOUS ENSEMBLE (c) 1996 by Ray Korona
December of '95, most of France had had enough.
The so-called liberal president kept saying times are tough.
But everywhere you looked, the rich were getting more.
Everybody else was shown the door.
Tens of thousands out of work, now health care gets the ax.
Soon pensions will be sacrifice. Shut up and pay the tax.
The railroad workers vowed: These ghouls can take a hike.
Get out on the street we're gonna strike!
Chorus: Tous ensemble! Tous ensemble!
All together we will win.
Tous ensemble! Tous ensemble!
We can win together.
Just eight percent of workers were in unions now in France.
The railroad union could be crushed but still they took a chance.
And workers marched with homeless to bring down the elites.
Two million people took the streets.
repeat chorus
Nurses, teachers, artists, unemployed,
Black, white, women and men
Here to take our country back again.
The trains are running now and the factory whistles blow.
>From economic genocide, it's back to status quo.
But it's a different world. Now they know we're there.
Listen, you can hear it in the air.
repeat chorus two times


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