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HRTV, The Network for Horse Sports, will expand its coverage of prime equestrian events when it offers the live webcast, via www.hrtv.com, of the annual Cactus Reining Classic from Scottsdale, Arizona. Coverage began on March 5 and continues through Sunday, March 9.
The HRTV.com webcast will commence each day at 8 a.m. ET.
The Cactus Reining Classic, first established in 2005, is the first of a three-show series held in the Western part of the U.S., and is considered the Triple Crown of the Reining industry. The Cactus Reining Classic is held at WestWorld of Scottsdale each March. (The other two events are Reining by the Bay in Woodside, California, and High Roller Reining Classic in Las Vegas, Nevada.)
"The addition of the Cactus Reining Classic broadens our scope and reaffirms HRTV's commitment to providing 'horse sports' fans with outstanding programming," said Scott Daruty, President of HRTV. "We're delighted to offer this premier event in the world of Reining."
"We are really pleased to expand viewership of the Triple Crown of Reining to HRTV's online audience. It is a natural step in the growth of this 'horse sports' discipline, making more people aware of the excitement, challenges, and champions involved in the sport of Reining," said Amanda Brumley, President, Brumley Management Group.
Reining, the only Western discipline recognized by the Federation Equestre International, has grown dramatically in the U.S. and abroad over the past 10 years. During that span, membership in the National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) has grown by more than 50 percent, capturing the hearts of equine enthusiasts around the globe.
Highlighted events during the five-day event include: the SmartPak $15,000 Added Non-Pro Maturity, the Protect the Harvest $42,500 Added Non-Pro Derby, the Lucas Oil $67,500 Added Open Derby, and more.
HRTV, The Network for Horse Sports, is a television-based multimedia network dedicated to equine sports. HRTV's programming features horseracing from top U.S. and international racetracks, as well as a wide range of world-class English and Western horse competitions, news, original programming and award-winning documentaries covering the world of horse sports. The live stream of HRTV is available on a subscription basis to high-speed Internet users worldwide at www.hrtv.com. In the U.S., the HRTV television network is available via telco, cable and satellite in over 19 million homes.
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X-linked agammaglobulinemia
X-linked agammaglobulinemia, also called Bruton's agammaglobulinemia or congenital agammaglobulinemia, was the first immunodeficiency disease ever identified. "X-linked" means that the gene which causes this agammaglobulinemia is located on the X chromosome, and therefore only affects males. The disease causes the child to be unable to produce antibodies that make up gamma globulins in the plasma portion of blood. Antibodies are the body's primary defense against microorganisms (bacteria, viruses). In X-linked agammaglobulinemia, there is a failure of pre-B-lymphocytes to mature into B-lymphocytes (mature B-lymphocytes produce antibodies). As a result, there are no antibodies produced, and the child's body is unable to fight off bacterial infections and some viral infections.
Approximately one in 10,000 children are born with this inherited disease. These boys become very ill since they are prone to develop infections primarily on the surfaces of mucous membranes, which are found in the middle ear, sinuses, and lungs. The infections can also involve the bloodstream or internal organs. With new advances in treatment, most patients diagnosed and treated early are able to lead relatively normal lives, without the need for isolation from potential exposure to microorganisms. In fact, children are encouraged to lead active lives.
What causes X-linked agammaglobulinemia?
X-linked agammaglobulinemia is caused by inheriting a gene which is located on the X chromosome. Humans normally have 46 total chromosomes, or 23 pairs in each cell of their body. The 23rd pair determines gender; females have two X chromosomes, and males have one X and one Y chromosome. Females can have a disease-causing gene on one of their X chromosomes, but not exhibit any symptoms of the disease; they are referred to as "carriers" for the condition. Males, on the other hand, get only one X chromosome. So if their X chromosome carries a disease causing gene, they will have symptoms of the disease. Carrier females have a 50/50 chance with each pregnancy to pass the X chromosome with the faulty gene to a child. If a daughter receives the gene, she will be a healthy carrier like the mother. However, if a son receives the gene, he will have X-linked agammaglobulinemia.
Carrier testing for females in the family is available on a research basis, in addition to prenatal diagnosis (amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling) for pregnancies where the mother is a known carrier.
In some families, an X-linked pattern of inheritance is not present. This could be because of a small family size, or because, in some cases, the agammaglobulinemia is the result of a new mutation on the X chromosome that was not inherited from the mother.
The symptoms of X-linked agammaglobulinemia usually become apparent in the first 6 to 9 months of age, but can present as late as 3 to 5 years of age. The following are the most common symptoms of X-linked agammaglobulinemia. However, each child may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- numerous, serious, and/or life-threatening illnesses, including, but not limited to the following:
- sinusitis, rhinitis (nasal infection)
- pyoderma (skin infection)
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Cancers including leukemia, lymphoma, and colon cancer, have been reported in a small percentage of older patients with X-linked agammaglobulinemia.
The symptoms of X-linked agammaglobulinemia may resemble other problems or medical conditions. Always consult your child's physician for a diagnosis.
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A confrontation between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast, Northern Ireland, erupted into violence overnight, injuring 56 police officers and two civilians.
"Belfast's main shopping district was turned into a battlefield last night as thousands of loyalists clashed with riot police to prevent a republican dissident rally passing down the city's main thoroughfare," The Guardian writes.
Police say the clashes began when Protestant mobs tried to block a march by supporters of the Irish Republican Army.
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Police used rubber bullets, water cannon and dogs to control the crowds, which prevented the parade from passing as planned along Royal Avenue - one of the city's main shopping areas, near City Hall. Five of the injured officers needed hospital treatment."
Chief Constable Matt Baggott vowed to arrest those responsible, accusing the Protestants of "mindless anarchy and sheer thuggery."
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"The Catholic parade, marking the anniversary of the 1971 introduction of internment without trial by British authorities, eventually had to pass along a different route.
"Forty-two years ago, soldiers swept into Catholic districts and arrested more than 340 people as the British government sought to halt growing Irish Republican Army (IRA) violence aimed at extinguishing rule from London.
"In all, more than 3,600 people died in a sectarian conflict that began in the late 1960s, including more than 1,000 members of the British security forces. More than 36,000 were injured."
Britain's minister for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers, said in a statement, that Friday's night's violence was "shameful".
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Dust Lane is the sixth studio album by Yann Tiersen. Two years in the making, it was largely recorded on Tiersen's current home of Ouessant, a small island off the coast of West Britanny, with further parts recorded on an island in the south Philippines and last touches and final mix at The Chairworks Studio in Castelford with producer Ken Thomas (Sigur Ros, M83, Dave Gahan).
Dust Lane is, inescapably, an album preoccupied with mortality. During its recording, Tiersen lost his mother and a close friend, and the music within embodies what it is to be bereaved. It is also an album about life not as something lost, but something to be lived. "Not a sad thing, but a colourful thing - an experience sometimes painful, but also joyful," says Tiersen.
As such, it suits that Dust Lane is the product of serendipity, of experimentation as a means of discovery, and the happy accident that breathes life into a new idea. What began as a simple, song-based album, sketched out by Tiersen alone on acoustic guitar, mandolin, bouzouki and toy drums gradually took on new layers and added complexities. "I took some distance and decided to deconstruct most of the songs as I was quite tired with the traditional structure of chorus, bridge, etc," he says.
Dust Lane is ambitious new territory for Tiersen. An array of vintage synths add billowing, analogue textures, electric guitars and bass bring layers of fuzz and distortion. Songs slip from their moorings, take off on new and unexpected currents. "My plan was also to play with contrast between electric and quite dense parts and more sober and minimal quiet parts including piano and strings," he adds. So, voices join together in chorus, arcing violins and crashing drums build towards mighty fanfares - but then, clouds part, squall recedes to silence, and mournful piano and strings guide you home.
Yann Tiersen has been honing his musical aesthetic since he could stand on two legs. Born in 1970 in Brest, Brittany, on the western edge of continental Europe, he started learning piano at the age of four, taking up violin at the age of six and receiving classical training at musical academies in Rennes, Nantes and Boulogne. Then, at the age of 13, he chose to alter his destiny, breaking his violin into pieces, buying a guitar and forming a rock band.
Rennes was the perfect city for a young musical upstart. Tiersen got a musical education from the city's annual Transmusicales festival, seeing acts like Nirvana, Einstürzende Neubaten, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television and Suicide. When his band broke up a few years later, instead of hunting for some new musicians, he bought a cheap mixing desk, an eight-track reel, and started recording music solo with a synth, sampler and drum machine, poring over the grooves of old records on the hunt for loops and orchestral strings to plunder.
As it turned out, though, the key to his new approach lay in his own past. "One day I thought, instead of spending days on research and listening to tons of records to find the nearest sound of what I have in mind, why don't I fix this fucking violin and use it?" Through the summer of 1993, Tiersen stayed in his apartment, recording music alone with guitar, violin and accordion, guided not by the classical canon, but by intuition and his vision of "a musical anarchy".
"Let's live in an enormous world of sound we can use randomly, with no rules at all," says Tiersen, of his vision. "Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct - the same way punk did."
By the end of the summer of 1993, Tiersen had recorded over 40 tracks, which would form the bulk of his first two albums. 1995's La Valse Des Monstres, inspired by Tod Browning's Freaks and Yukio Mishima's The Damask Drum was the second album to be released on Nancy-based label Ici, d'ailleurs. It would be followed six months later by Rue Des Cascades, a collection of short pieces recorded with toy piano, harpsichord, violin, accordion and mandolin. Six years later, the record would find a much larger audience when several tracks, along with a couple of Tiersen originals, would be used on the soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amelie (2001).
Tiersen's commercial breakthrough would come earlier, though, and off his own back. 1998's Le Phare (The Light House) was recorded in self-imposed seclusion on the isle of Ouessant, where Tiersen spent two months living in a rented house. At night, he watched the Creach'h, the most powerful lighthouse in Europe, as it illuminated the surrounding scenery. "I was amazed how the rays of lights from the lighthouse revealed some hidden details of the land, how we can rediscover something we have everyday, just in front of us, by a light pointing on it," says Tiersen.
Le Phare went on to sell over 160,000 copies, confirming Tiersen's status as one of the most pioneering and original artists of his generation and commencing a run of successful albums like 2001's L'Absente (featuring orchestral group Synaxis, Lisa Germano and the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon) and 2005's Les Retrouvailles (with guests Stuart Staples of Tindersticks, Jane Birkin and Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins). In this period, Tiersen also took his music out around the world, playing shows with a full orchestra and an amplified string quartet - a set-up captured on 2002's electrifying live album C'etait ici. And following the box-office success of Amelie, Tiersen's skills as a soundtracker were much in demand, leading to scores for the likes of Wolfgang Becker's tragicomedy Good Bye Lenin! (2003) and Tabarly (2008), a documentary about the French sailor Éric Tabarly, who ate his final meal on Ouessant Island before he meeting a watery end in the Irish sea.
Perhaps the most surprising development on Dust Lane is the presence of vintage synthesiser sounds. "I was a teenager during the late '80s and '90s and was a huge fan of analogue synth," says Tiersen. "I have always tried to incorporate vintage electronic sounds that I liked in my music but for the exception of the [early electronic keyboard] Ondes Martenot, it never happened. I have several synths that I love so much at home. I started to spend my days in front of the beautiful knobs of my Prophet 5 and my Moog, and oh, miracle! It suddenly seemed natural to add their texture to Dust Lane, I really love the space they bring to the album."
Dust Lane features an extended cast. Joining on drums is Dave Collingwood, who Tiersen discovered while Collingwood's band Gravenhurst were on tour in Paris. Another Bristolian, Matt Elliott - formerly of Third Eye Foundation, now a solo artist in his own right - contributes lugubrious vocals, notably on 'Chapter 19', the lyrics of which are based on an excerpt from Sexus, the first part of Henry Miller's The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy. Breton singer Gaelle Kerrien duets with Tiersen on 'Fuck Me', a gentle closer where two lovers do the only sensible thing in the face of oblivion. "Fuck me, fuck me... make me come again," they chorus, sweetly, over dancing banjo and mellotron.
Elsewhere, on songs like 'Amy' and 'Ashes', Tiersen, Elliott, Kerrien and the band Syd Matters join up in warm chorus. Perhaps the album's most stirring group efforts is 'Palestine', where voices spell out the title, over and over, atop a tide of sawing violin and racing drums. Implicitly, such a move is political, but in the context of Dust Lane, it feels personal too. "I ended my last tour in Gaza City, and realized that even in the most unfair situation there is hope," says Tiersen. "It is when surrounded by mess and dust that everything comes to life again."
And if there is a truth that lies at the heart of Dust Lane, that is it. Life may be fleeting, and death is the only inevitability; but hope springs eternal.


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"This is the news of the millennium!" said the story on WorldPoliticus.com. Citing unnamed FBI sources, it claimed Hillary Clinton will be indicted in 2017 for crimes related to her email scandal.
"Your Prayers Have Been Answered," declared the headline.
For Trump supporters, that certainly seemed to be the case. They helped the baseless story generate over 140,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook.
Meanwhile, roughly 6,000 miles away in a small town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, a young man watched as money began trickling into his Google AdSense account.
Over the past year, the Macedonian town of Veles (population 45,000) has experienced a digital gold rush as locals launched at least 140 US politics websites. These sites have American-sounding domain names such as WorldPoliticus.com, TrumpVision365.com, USConservativeToday.com, DonaldTrumpNews.co, and USADailyPolitics.com. They almost all publish aggressively pro-Trump content aimed at conservatives and Trump supporters in the US.
The young Macedonians who run these sites say they don't care about Donald Trump. They are responding to straightforward economic incentives: As Facebook regularly reveals in earnings reports, a US Facebook user is worth about four times a user outside the US. The fraction-of-a-penny-per-click of US display advertising — a declining market for American publishers — goes a long way in Veles. Several teens and young men who run these sites told BuzzFeed News that they learned the best way to generate traffic is to get their politics stories to spread on Facebook — and the best way to generate shares on Facebook is to publish sensationalist and often false content that caters to Trump supporters.
As a result, this strange hub of pro-Trump sites in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is now playing a significant role in propagating the kind of false and misleading content that was identified in a recent BuzzFeed News analysis of hyperpartisan Facebook pages. These sites open a window into the economic incentives behind producing misinformation specifically for the wealthiest advertising markets and specifically for Facebook, the world's largest social network, as well as within online advertising networks such as Google AdSense.
"Yes, the info in the blogs is bad, false, and misleading but the rationale is that 'if it gets the people to click on it and engage, then use it,'" said a university student in Veles who started a US politics site, and who agreed to speak on the condition that BuzzFeed News not use his name.
Using domain name registration records and online searches, BuzzFeed News identified over 100 active US politics websites being run from Veles. The largest of these sites have Facebook pages that boast hundreds of thousands of followers.
BuzzFeed News also identified another 40 US politics domains registered by people in Veles that are no longer active. (An April report from the Macedonian website Meta.mk identified six pro-Trump sites being run from Veles. A Guardian report identified 150 politics sites.)
Their reasons for launching these sites are purely financial, according to the Macedonians with whom BuzzFeed News spoke.
"I started the site for a easy way to make money," said a 17-year-old who runs a site with four other people. "In Macedonia the economy is very weak and teenagers are not allowed to work, so we need to find creative ways to make some money. I'm a musician but I can't afford music gear. Here in Macedonia the revenue from a small site is enough to afford many things."
Most of the posts on these sites are aggregated, or completely plagiarized, from fringe and right-wing sites in the US. The Macedonians see a story elsewhere, write a sensationalized headline, and quickly post it to their site. Then they share it on Facebook to try and generate traffic. The more people who click through from Facebook, the more money they earn from ads on their website.
Earlier in the year, some in Veles experimented with left-leaning or pro–Bernie Sanders content, but nothing performed as well on Facebook as Trump content.
"People in America prefer to read news about Trump," said a Macedonian 16-year-old who operates BVANews.com.
BuzzFeed News' research also found that the most successful stories from these sites were nearly all false or misleading.
For example, the most successful post BuzzFeed News found from a Macedonian site is based on a story from a fake news website. The headline on the story from ConservativeState.com was "Hillary Clinton In 2013: 'I Would Like To See People Like Donald Trump Run For Office; They're Honest And Can't Be Bought.'" The post is a week old and has racked up an astounding 480,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook. (To put that into perspective, the New York Times' exclusive story that revealed Donald Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns generated a little more than 175,000 Facebook interactions in a month.)
The viral Clinton story was sourced from TheRightists.com, a site that admits it publishes both real and fake content. According to emails released by WikiLeaks, Clinton said in a private speech to Goldman Sachs that she would like to see more successful business people enter politics. But she did not mention Donald Trump in any way. The quote used in the headline is false.
Four of the five most successful posts from the Macedonian sites BuzzFeed News identified are false. They include the false claim that the pope endorsed Trump, and the false claim that Mike Pence said Michelle Obama is the "most vulgar first lady we've ever had." Those four posts together generated more than 1 million shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook. That resulted in huge traffic and significant ad revenue for the owners of these sites, with many people being misinformed along the way.
The Macedonians BuzzFeed News spoke to said the explosion in pro-Trump sites in Veles means the market has now become crowded, making it harder to earn money. The people who launched their sites early in 2016 are making the most money, according to the university student. He said a friend of his earns $5,000 per month, "or even $3,000 per day" when he gets a hit on Facebook.
The 16-year-old who operates BVANews.com with a partner said he also runs health websites in addition to the US politics site. They launched the site in early 2016 and it's now averaging 1 million page views a month, said his partner. (The teens declined to share revenue figures.)
The 17-year-old and his three partners are still waiting for Google's AdSense program to approve their site for ads. As of now, they're only generating about 800 views a day and aren't earning any revenue. The university student launched his site in August and stopped updating it in order to focus on another, more successful site he has that's focused on health and well-being. He estimated there are "thousands" of health-related sites being run out of Veles. US politics is just this year's opportunity, thanks to a combination of Trump and Facebook.
"I stopped because I didn't really enjoy doing it and we didn't actually make any money from it since there are so many people posting already," the university student said. "The people who started early are the ones reaping the rewards."
Aside from the allure of easy money, they also have an element of pride that web-savvy people — including teenagers — in a small country like Macedonia can earn money by gaming Facebook, Google, and Americans.
"A good chunk of the world thinks Macedonia is primitive, but that is not true," the 17-year-old said.
The young men running these sites know the Trump traffic bonanza will soon come to an end. They expect traffic and revenue to decline significantly once the election is over. But they also hold out hope that a Trump win will keep their sites afloat.
"If Trump loses I plan to redirect my site to sports," the 16-year-old's partner said. "It means that there will be no more politics [worth covering]."


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Philip J. Fry
Primary character | |
Philip J. Fry | |
Age | At time of freezing: 25; Chronologically: 2046 (If not counting the events of 6ACV07); Biologically: 49 See age section for more information |
Date of birth | 14 August, 1974[3ACV04][1] |
Gender | Male |
Species | Human |
Planet of origin | Earth |
Profession | Executive delivery boy at Planet Express,[6ACV16] previously delivery boy first class[BBS] |
Relatives | See "Family" section |
First appearance | "Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01) |
Voiced by | Billy West |
- "Fry" redirects here. For other people named Fry, see Fry (disambiguation).
Philip J. Fry (often referred to only by his last name, Fry) Fry is the main protagonist and character of Futurama. In the future, Fry is the executive delivery boy of Planet Express, which his distant nephew Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth owns. Before being employed by Planet Express in the year 3000 he had worked for Panucci's Pizza during the late 20th century. On New Year's Eve 1999 he was cryogenically frozen by accident while on delivery. The cryo-tube timer was set at 1000 years; hence Fry woke to the last moments of the year 2999.
Personality and abilities
Philip J. Fry is a dim-witted man from the 20th century who gets frozen for 1,000 years, thawing out on New Year's Eve 2999. His character is largely an attempt by the show's creators to make the connection between the 20th century and the 31st century much easier for the viewers. Often, Fry is faced with differences in the future, which he then relates to things in his time. As a result, he frequently has to defend the actions of the 20th century.
Although he is often depicted as stupid, Fry does occasionally come up with brilliant schemes to save the day, an ability which possibly comes from his intense love of Star Trek. Fry, rivaled only by the energy being of Melllvar, has the largest encyclopaedic knowledge of Star Trek in the future. Another example of Fry's occasional brilliance was during the Brain Spawn attack on Earth. With the rest of the crew stupefied, Fry was able to save Earth by exploiting the Brainspawn's weaknesses. Strangely enough, Fry's stupidity appears to be his greatest strength as he the only known person in the universe who lacks a Delta brainwave and therefore is immune to the Brainspawn's stupification fields. Ken, a Nibblonian, has noted he possesses a "superior yet inferior" mind. He lacks the Delta brainwave because he is actually his own grandfather (3ACV19).
Also because he lacks the Delta brainwave, he is immune to telepathy (5ACV16, 2ACV08).
Fry is also usually quick to make very rash decisions, such as traveling back to the year 2000 (BBS) or stowing away on Zapp Brannigan's ship to leave the universe after being upset about Colleen (TBwaBB).
Despite being lazy, Fry's heart is in the right place, and when the situation calls for it, he will rise up to formulate a plan to save his friends, though because of his lack of intelligence he rarely comes up with any good plans. Fry cares about his friends, and in spite of Bender's awful treatment of him at times, he is still willing to risk his life to save him, which Bender reciprocates. However, it shows that Fry enjoys Bender being "mean" to him, because when Bender has to leave the planet express crew for his own saftey, Clamps takes his place and behaves in the same way Bender would towards Fry and Fry just laughs and continues.
Fry loves video games, and as such, he is usually shown to be very good at them, although not all games. He never actually managed to finish the final enemy on Space Invaders; he always had to get his brother Yancy to do it for him. Though he may not be good at all games, his skills have made him a crackshot, and he usually mans the ship's weapons when they are under attack. He has also got a lot better at fighting, by "Fun on a Bun" (7ACV08) Also, Fry absolutely loves sewers, he once surfed (was surprisingly good) in various sewers around Earth cities with Turanga Morris & Bender, but got temporarily sick as a result.
Several instances throughout the series have suggested an abnormal mind tied to savantism and synesthesia:
- Shown in "All the Presidents' Heads", he is a compulsive counter.
- In "Roswell that Ends Well" and "The Why of Fry", he is a colour-gustatory synesthete.
- Throughout the series, he shows great intelligence countered by an inability to properly express it as such.
- He is capable of incredible musical creativity, but lacks the physical means to express it. [4ACV18]
Early years
- Further information: Fry's past
Philip J. Fry was born on August 14 1974, in the Brooklyn Pre-Med Hospital in Old New York, a native of Flatbush, Brooklyn. Fry is the second son of Yancy Fry Sr. and Mrs. Fry.
During his formative years, Fry endured a great sibling rivalry with his older brother, Yancy Jr. Yancy constantly stole his ideas and, shortly after Fry was born, even wanted his younger brother's name. Yancy also frequently belittled Fry. Fry also spent of a lot of time playing video games and watching Star Trek. He was never admitted to public school because his parents felt it would be a waste of taxpayer's money.
Fry never made a success of himself, and during his twenties (or late teenage years) he got a job at Panucci's Pizza as a pizza delivery boy. While working for Mr. Panucci, he met up with Michelle and they began a relationship. On a delivery in 1997, he meets up with Seymour Asses, a dog he names after the addressee of the prank caller who ordered the delivery. Seymour becomes his best friend.
Cryogenically Frozen - for a Thousand Years
- Further information: Space Pilot 3000
On the fateful night of New Year's Eve, 1999, Fry is sent on another prank delivery to I. C. Wiener. When he arrives at the destination, Applied Cryogenics, he realizes that it is a prank, but since he won't make it back to Panucci's before midnight, he decides to celebrate the New Year where he is. Then, while leaning his chair too far backwards, he falls into a cryogenics tube, which closes and freezes him for a thousand years.
On New Year's Eve, 2999, the tube's timer finishes and Fry wakes up again. He is not at all sad about leaving his old life behind, and actually happy and relieved that it is all now behind him. He meets Leela, who is employed by the Cryogenics Labs to assign unfrozen people to jobs. She tells Fry about his living relative Professor Hubert Farnsworth. Leela then tells Fry that the job that has been assigned to him is that of Delivery Boy. Faced with a return to the life of drudgery he knew in 1999, Fry flees. While running around New New York, he enters a suicide booth (having mistaken it for a phone booth) and tries to contact his nephew.
Fry meets a robot named Bender in the Suicide Booth and, after narrowly avoiding death, they grab a drink together. After a couple of beers, Bender decides to leave to re-attempt suicide, but Fry convinces him to stay by saying that he has always wanted a robot for a friend (or at least ever since he was six). Leela is still on his trail, though, after being forced by her boss, Ipji, to pursue Fry and force him to accept the career chip.
Leela follows Fry and Bender into the Head Museum and the ruins of Old New York, before finally catching up with them. To Fry's surprise, though, she decides to quit her job instead of forcing the job of delivery boy on him. Fry suggests they go to his distant nephew, Professor Farnsworth, to see if he can help. After confirming that he and Fry are related, the Professor decides to hire them as a replacement for his old crew.
Planet Express Delivery Boy, First Class
Fry is hired on at his nephew's company as a delivery boy. Faced with the ability to travel around space, Fry is pleased with his new position. At first Fry lives in the Planet Express building, but after an apartment hunt he ends up living in Bender's closet. Fry immediately develops an interest in Leela but, to his dismay, the feelings are not mutual.
His work at Planet Express sees him thrown into several absurd adventures: he is briefly in a relationship with Amy Wong, and while the company's bureaucrat, Hermes Conrad, is away, he has an affair with the company's replacement bureaucrat, Morgan Proctor. Neither lasts very long, but when he almost destroys the Planet Express building and Hermes fires him (along with Bender and Leela) he gets Leela's former job by accident and finds his old girlfriend, Michelle, unfrozen. She does not enjoy life in the future, and asks him to come with her to the year 4000. After they wake up and realize that they are actually just in Los Angeles two days later, she dumps him in favour of Pauly Shore.
At a truck stop Fry eats a bad egg sandwich and gets infected with parasites. The worms give him a complete tune up, and he becomes stronger, smarter, and is capable of impressing Leela with the Holophonor. He almost sleeps with her, but Fry fears that Leela is falling in love with the worms rather than himself, so he decides to get rid of them. He appears to be right: she immediately asks him to leave when he commits a relationship blunder; namely, talking about his previous fling with Amy Wong.
The most important person in the universe
- Further information: Season 3
The Planet Express crew had gone to observe a supernova up close. While the crew prepared for the event, Fry went to make popcorn. He ignores the warning label on the aluminum popcorn pan saying not to cook in a microwave, which he does. The microwave emitted radiation that collided with the wave from the supernova, causing the Planet Express crew to travel back in time to 1947.
After Bender breaks apart, Zoidberg was captured by the U.S. military while picking up pieces of Bender's body. Fry and Bender's head attempt to infiltrate Roswell, with the Fry disguised as a soldier. He runs into his grandfather, Enos Fry, engaged to Mildred. Acting on Farnworth's warning, Fry did his best to make sure that his grandfather is not killed, otherwise he in turn would cease to exist. However, he became paranoid in his attempts to protect Enos, driving and locking him in a house in the middle of nowhere. But what he didn't know was that he left Enos within range of a nuclear testing ground, killing him in the resulting explosion. But for some reason, Fry was still existing.
He comforts his grandmother, who begins to make sexual advances on him, which made him uncomfortable. He then reasoned with himself that because he still exists, Mildred can't be his grandmother and has sex with her. The next day, Professor Farnsworth, Leela and Bender knock on the window informing Fry that because of his actions, he himself became his own grandfather; Fry realized what he had done and freaked out. Because of the paradox, the Planet Express crew decided that they should get back to their own time, regardless of what it would cause to history. They storm Roswell, rescuing Zoidberg during an autopsy, Bender's reconstructed body and stealing a microwave satellite dish to return to the future.
It is later explained by the Nibblonians that because of Fry becoming his own grandfather, it caused a genetic abnormality that caused him to lack the delta brainwave, which rendered him immune to the Brainspawn and telepathy in general.
At some point the Brain Spawn attack Earth and make all humans stupid. Fry is immune to the attack as he lacks the Delta brain wave. The Nibblonians work with Leela to get the message to Fry, who confronts the Big Brain in the New New York Public Library. Fry defeats the Big Brain, but when everyone is back to normal, no one has any memory of his actions and just think he is crazy.
The Nibblonians call for his help again when the Brain Spawn are found to be collecting all information in the universe and plan to to destroy it when their task is complete. The Nibblonians explain that due to him lacking the Delta brain wave, and is immune to the Brain Spawn as long as he avoids prolonged thinking. It is revealed to him inside the Infosphere that it was Nibbler who made him fall into the tube and come to the future in the first place. Fry is sent back to 1999 by the Brain Spawn to stop Nibbler from freezing him, but Nibbler persuades Fry to allow himself to be frozen to save Leela's life, as no one would be able to stop the Brain Spawn from destroying the universe in the future.
A deal with the devil
- Further information: Season 4
During the events with his coworkers, he became a super hero, met the cast of Star Trek, wound up in a parallel universe where he and Leela had gotten married and gets his nose cut off.
But his passion and number one thing he always wanted still remains unexplored. He thinks back to when had the worms, and when he could play the Holophonor to impress Leela. Bender suggests that he should make a deal with the Robot Devil, and in an (to the Robot Devil at least) appalling ironic outcome, he gets the Robot Devil's hands. He can play the Holophonor now, and he becomes a famous musician, performing many classical numbers.
Hedonism Bot hires him to write an opera, Fry decides to write it about Leela. And after the first act of the opera, it is already deemed best opera of all time. But meanwhile the Robot Devil is plotting against Fry to get his hands back, because the Robot Devil is getting tired of Fry's hands. And so in the final act, the Robot Devil interrupts the opera and demands his hands back. Fry refuses, and the Robot Devil explains that if so, he will marry Leela for which she has unintentionally signed. Fry realizes that this ultimatum only has one solution: to give up the Robot Devil's hands. Since he cannot play any more, the opera is credited as the worst ever, though Leela remains behind to hear him finish.
The secret to time travel
- Further information: Bender's Big Score
Planet Express' delivery license is revoked by the Box Network, forcing the Professor to terminate his employees. But by the time the Professor gets around to telling them (two years later), their license is restored after a change in management at the Box Network- they are back in business. Fry becomes a centre of attention when Alien Scammers (led by Nudar) take over the Planet Express and find the machine language time code on Fry's buttocks. Using the code, a virus-infected Bender is ordered back in time to steal all of Earth's valuables from the past. However, Fry is more upset that Lars Fillmore is getting a chance with Leela.
The scammers feel it best to be rid of the time code once they finally become anxious that the universe will be destroyed. Utilising a mirror, Fry manages to read the code off his buttocks and escapes back to January 1, 2000. Here he attempts to get some food from Mr. Panucci, but is unable to since he has no money from that era. He takes the pizza he delivered to I. C. Wiener, and decides to travel back an hour when the pizza was warm. His time paradox duplicate refuses to do the same thing and walks off. But Fry himself manages to end up inside the same tube he was originally frozen in. When his frozen self wakes up, he closes the tube after him and leaves the timer for 7.95 years to wake up again appropriate to when he had left.
Even though Lars Fillmore calls off the wedding, Fry is unable to get Leela's attention. After having Hermes and Bender save the Earth, he decides on New Year's Eve of 3007, that Lars and Leela belong together. However, here it is revealed that Lars is the exact same time paradox duplicate he left at Applied Cryogenics.
Pope of new religion
- Further information: The Beast with a Billion Backs
After a brief relationship with Colleen, he left through the anomaly and met Yivo, they developed a relationship and Yivo took control of everyone in Universe Gamma (this universe) through tentacles in their necks. The brainwashed people joined Yivo's religion, with Fry as their new pope. Eventually they found out that the tentacles in their necks were "genticles" and that Yivo was mating with them. The religion was immediately abandoned. He was brought to live on Yivo, but was taken back by the Damned Army.
The bearer of the Die of Power
- Further information: Bender's Game
Fry took part in Planet Express' Attack on Mombil "Mine" and was taken to Cornwood by Bender's imagination. Once there, he became Frydo, and was given the duty of carrying the Die of Power and destroying it in the Geysers of Gygax. He was eventually corrupted by its power and fought Momon as a dragon. Momon won, and Cornwood was destroyed.
Saving the universe again
- Further information: Into the Wild Green Yonder
In 3009, Fry was needed by the Legion of Mad Fellows to help defeat the final Dark One and stop it from wiping out all life in the entire universe. Because he lacked the Delta Brainwave, his mind could not be read, and due to an accident he could temporarily read minds. With all of creation on his shoulders, he found the Dark One by chance after believing himself to be it. However, the Dark One was only a small leech, the Violet Dwarf Star became the final Encyclopod, which gave the once extinct plants and animals to the universe and easily destroyed the last Dark One, whom Zoidberg then ate. The whole Planet Express crew flew into a wormhole, after Fry and Leela expressed their true love for each other and kissed.
- Further information: Season 6
After emerging from the Panama Wormhole, the Planet Express crew crashed just outside the company headquarters and was killed in the explosion. Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, however, did not die, as he was using a safety sphere to protect his whole body. The Professor rebirthed his crew with the Birthing Machine. In the next few weeks, Fry helped save Earth from the V-GINY, became one of the most popular Twitcher users ever after buying Mom's eyePhone, and assisted in the passing of Proposition ∞, which legalized robosexual marriage in New New York. Philip also went to Planet Vinci with his nephew to uncover Leonardo da Vinci's shocking secret, participated in the 3010 Sith Invasion reenactment and forward-time-travelled through three different universes. In August, he witnessed the Thubanian Invasion of Earth, went to the Robo-Planetoid wherein Robots were capable of both Creation and Evolution and changed minds with Dr. John A. Zoidberg and Sweet Clyde. In September, Fry became one of the Mutant leaders of the Devolution Revolution (although he was, in fact, not mutated but was in actuality lodged in the mouth of the mutated Mr. Astor, which finally granted the sewer people their freedom with equal rights, as well as access to the surface of the city and celebrated his 100th delivery along with the rest of the Planet Express crew members. During that year, his relationship with Leela progressed largely. He also killed celebrated business consultant Dan McMasters, believing that he was a vicious alien killer.
Character description
- Himself, paternal grandfather and grandson.
- Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, many-times-great-nephew and many-times-great-grandson
- Ned Farnsworth, Hubert's father, many-times-great-nephew and many-times-great-grandson or in-law
- Velma Farnsworth, Hubert's mother, many-times-great-niece and many-times-great-granddaughter or in-law
- Floyd Farnsworth, Hubert's brother, many-times-great-nephew and many-times-great-grandson
- Cubert J. Farnsworth, many-times-great-nephew
- Igner, many-times-great-nephew and many-times-great-grandson
- Yancy Fry Jr., older brother and grandson
- Philip J. Fry, II, nephew and great-grandson, named in Fry's memory
- Yancy Fry Sr., father and son
- Mrs. Fry, mother and daughter-in-law
- Enos Fry, Paternal Grandfather / Legal Grandfather / Step Grandfather
- Mildred Fry, paternal grandmother and babymama
- Seymour, dog in the 20th century
- Turanga Leela, ex-wife[3ACV14], girlfriend (wife in alternate timeline)
- Mr and Mrs. Gleisner, maternal grandparents
- Lars Fillmore, time paradox duplicate/older self
- Yivo, ex-spouse
- An unnamed cousin
Fry was frozen at age 25 for 1000 years making him 1025. Then 4 years later at age 1029 chronologically, was youthisized to age 14, reverse-aged to near unbirth, then re-aged, supposedly to his correct biological age, 29, in the fountain of aging (4ACV09). 4 years later at age 33 he went back in time and was frozen yet again for 1007.95 years making him 2040 but still biologically only 33. Based on Leela's speculation there is a chance after the fountain of aging he is less than 30: the Professor never scans them with his age detector. After the events of the fourth movie he is about 2041 years old. His biological age may have reset entirely in "Rebirth" as, unlike the others, he was reduced to only a lump of flesh and his hair before being reborn. After the events of "The Late Philip J. Fry", Fry may potentially be over 20 duodecillion(short scale) years old, having travelled through the entirety of the universe twice with Bender and Professor Farnsworth. However, the forward time machine appeared to be insulated from the passage of time outside of it, and so this has only biologically aged him a few minutes older than he should be relative to the inhabitants of the new universe.
Lars Fillmore
- Main article: Lars Fillmore
In Bender's Big Score, he has a duplicate that lives in Old New York with Leelu and everyone from Fry's old, 20th-century life. He was thought to be killed by an explosion caused by an obedience virus controlled Bender, but it actually burns off his hair and damages his voice box, turning him into Lars Fillmore.
(In chronological order):
- Michelle
- Leela (see Fry-Leela relationship for more info)
- 21st-century girl (went on a date)
- Radiator (made out with)
- Amy (see Fry-Amy relationship for more info)
- Petunia (went on a date)
- Morgan Proctor
- Umbriel
- Ornik (snu-snued by)
- Mildred Fry (slept with and impregnated)
- Colleen
- Yivo
- Mrs. Poopenmeyer (slept with)
Alternate appearances
This list is incomplete.
- 1ACV01: Fry is seen for the first time.
- 1ACV05: Fry dresses up as a robot in an attempt to fool the inhabitants of Chapek 9.
- 1ACV07: Fry drinks the current emperor of Trisol, Bont, but Bont is still alive inside of Fry, and can be seen glowing inside of Fry's stomach.
- 1ACV09: Fry gets his Fryfro.
- 2ACV07: After a hovercar accident, Fry's head is sewn on to Amy's body by Dr. Zoidberg.
- 2ACV09: Fry is seen inside the internet.
- 3ACV04: Fry is seen as a teenager, and more of his 20th century life before he got frozen is shown.
- 3ACV18: Fry appears in the "Anthology of Interest II" segment, Wizzin', as the Scarecrow in a 'Wizard of Oz' parody.
- 4ACV04: Fry gains super powers and becomes a member of the New Justice Team; Captain Yesterday.
- 4ACV09: Many younger versions of Fry are seen.
- 4ACV13: Fry disguises himself as a diamond smuggler named Congo Jack as part of the plan to crash Bender/Coilette's wedding to Calculon.
- 4ACV15: Universe 1, 25, 31 and 1729 versions of Fry are seen.
- 4ACV17: Fry's nose is taken by aliens as an aphrodisiac.
- BBS: A time paradox version of Fry, Lars Fillmore, dates and almost marries Leela, but due to the Time Sphere's Doom Field, he is killed.
- TBWABB: Fry becomes the Pope of Yivo's Religion, and is used to make everyone on Earth accept the tentacle.
- BG: The Cornwood version of Fry, Frydo, is seen in Bender's fantasy.
- ITWGY: Fry gets a piece of jewellery lodged into his head, giving him the ability to read minds.
- 6ACV12: Fry is believed to have mutated by Lake Mutagenic, but really just stepped into the mouth of Mr. Astor.
- 6ACV18: Fry is infected with many diseases such as 'Simpsons Jaundice', 'Garfield Syndrome', 'Muppet Gangrene' and an unnamed disease that makes him look like a Smurf.
- 6ACV20: Fry temporarily becomes a woman.
- 6ACV24: Fry is seen as a teenager again, and more of his life in the 20th century is explored.
- 6ACV26: Fry is reconceived in three alternate animation styles: classic black-and-white, old-school videogame, and Japanese anime.
- 7ACV18: Fry is painted completely golden.
- 7ACV19: Fry is reconceived in three different TV-show parodies: A Scooby-Doo parody, a Strawberry Shortcake parody and a G.I. Joe parody.
- Bender (best friend and roomate)
The character of Fry was intended as the viewer's representation in the future, with the future being presented to the audience through Fry's eyes. Fry was originally intended to have a Pocket Pal with him to explain the future for him,[2][3] though that idea was scrapped with the future being described through the events the occurred around him.[2][3] Fry's jacket is based on James Dean's outfit in Rebel Without a Cause.[4]
The story of his brother, Yancy Fry, Jr., was not an original idea from the beginning of the series, but at the same time, they avoided specifying Fry's siblings in the early episodes, to leave space for additional stories.[5] In the original storyboard to the pilot, Fry mentions having a sister, but this was abandoned in the final episode.
Fry was originally set to be named Curtis, but was renamed Philip to honor Phil Hartman, a voice actor who had played several roles on The Simpsons over the years. Hartman was originally set to play Zapp Brannigan on Futurama, but died only shortly before Futurama's beginning. Within the show, Fry was named Philip by his father after Phillips screwdrivers.
Another actor who was intended to play Fry is Charlie Schlatter.
He is not to be confused with Philip J. Fry of Hovering Squid World 97A (4ACV10), his nephew Philip J. Fry II (named after him), or his time paradox duplicate who later identified himself as "Lars Fillmore."
Additional Info
- Though incompetent Fry has a very good heart as his mom used to say.
- According to Dr. Zoidberg, Fry is the only employee at Planet Express who doesn't hit him though Zoidberg may have excluded Scruffy as well.
- Survived five heart attacks (1ACV13, 6ACV19, 6ACV22).
- Became Emperor of planet Trisol in the year 3000 and later in 3008 tentacle pope of the world.
- Probably the greatest Star Trek fan still alive, with the possible exception of Melllvar.
- Hair was a tad darker in Season 1 than in later seasons.
- Tried to make out with a radiator once. And succeeded.
- Used to drink 100 cans of cola a week back in school, right until his third heart attack.
- In "Fry and the Slurm Factory", Fry was made infertile by Bender with the Professor's F-ray. However, he impregnated his grandmother in "Roswell that Ends Well".
- Probably sterilized by the F-Ray, if only temporarily. Speculation leads us to believe that when Fry was infected with worms, he was unsterilized. In the the commentary for "A Tale of Two Santas" it was stated that the worms fixed his testicles.
- Addicted to Slurm.
- Usually is the first character to declare something as "dead", although he has no medical experience.
- Once ate a big heaping bowl of salt (1ACV07).
- Is a slob.
- Briefly achieved a higher state of existence after consuming 100 cups of coffee.
- Temporarily became convinced he was a robot as a survival mechanism after being admitted to a robot insane asylum.
- Used to find "edible mushrooms" on his bathmat.
- Tried to swap his lungs for gills, and would have succeeded were it not for Leela stopping him.
- Great at video games, but bad at most other things.
- Possesses creative musical talent, but lacks the ability to physically express it.
- Once possessed a lucky seven leaf clover.
- Very impulsive, he has been known to eat food off his head, dance the hustle for days on end, and place his head in craters, to name a few.
- Dropout of Mars University and Coney Island Community College.
- Loves anchovies.
- The pin number for his Big Apple Bank account is 1077 (the price of a cheese pizza and a large Soda at Panucci's Pizza).
- Destroyed the Hubble Telescope in an epic space battle.
- Cannot swim, or at least not in Slurm, or in Royal Jelly (as far as he knows).
- Has no problems in dealing with robots and aliens, may even be a xenophile.
- Was almost snu-snued to death.
- Was once the Planet Express Ship Captain, but was extremely incompetent.
- Has stupid fingers, which prevents him from playing the Holophonor properly without outside help.
- Has had both arms, leg, head, hands and nose removed (In his hands case, twice.)
- Was briefly employed at Applied Cryogenics, New New York Police Department and the Head Museum.
- Very occasionally has flashes of profound insight, but instantly reverts to his usual self and forgets whatever it was he thought of.
- His favorite song is "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves, though he can only sing the first line of the chorus.
- His cellphone/telephone's ringtone is also this tune.
- He, along with Leela and Bender, appears in all episodes of the series.
- Had nose stolen by gray, big headed, human poachers.
- Almost had his "wing dang doodle" cut off.
- Is the Most Important Person in the Universe. This may also be true of his parallel self in the Parallel Cowboy Universe.
- His stool type is P-negative (BBS).
- His social security number is 03280810 (BBS). (Note: This is one digit short of that used in actual Social Security numbers. Further, the first three digits of a Social Securty number indicate birthplace. A Social security number starting with "032" would indicate a birth in Massachusetts, which we know is incorrect.)
- Became Frydo in Bender's Game.
- Along with Farnsworth, his facial hair is brown despite his hair being red.
- His copy (Lars) may have worked at a casino at some point between 2000 and 2012.
- Holds the title of "Universe's #4307697 Delivery Boy", according to his mug, as seen in "The Cryonic Woman".
- May be able to eat pizza with his feet, though since this was only mentioned in the Spanish dub, it cannot be considered canon.
- Has the ability to eat 5.1 pounds of cotton candy which makes his blood good on pancakes
- In a running gag in "The Duh-Vinci Code", he believes that the tool used to hammer a nail is another nail, though he has successfully used a hammer to hammer a nail before.
- Has apparently eaten rocks (6ACV05), and apparently showed interest in a marble-eating contest despite Leela stopping him (2ACV08).
- Claims to be immortal (6ACV05).
- Wrote the Delivery-Boy Man comic.
- Has twice suffered from Synesthesia. Once while being hit by radiation and once after Nibbler wiped his memory.
- His synesthesia may be part of his total mental condition (including his lack of the Delta brain wave and idiot savantism).
- There are three people named "Philip J. Fry" besides him: His nephew Philip J. Fry II (3ACV04), Phillip J. Fry from Hovering Squid World 97A (4ACV10) and Lars Fillmore, formerly known as Fry's time paradox duplicate (BBS)
- Usually survives despite being decapitated and having holes blown through his body. Other characters named Philip Fry show up in Bender's Big Score, including a bum and one of Al Gore's aides.
- In a non-canon segment, he claims to have ADD.
- His full name is revealed in the "Space Pilot 3000", incorrectly spelt with two Ls, but he is first called "Philip" aloud by Amy in "The Problem with Popplers".
- It is possible that he is an idiot savant as he said, "What's with the seventeen dungbeetles?" after being hit by a holographic branch with exactly seventeen holographic dungbeetles in "All the Presidents' Heads".
- Fry is mentioned in the The Cleveland Show episode "Harder, Better, Faster, Browner".
- Fry appears in an episode of The Simpsons, seen on an asteroid with Leela, far in space. He has made other appearances in The Simpsons as well.
- Fry, as well as many other characters throughout the series, says that he is "from the year 2000", despite the fact that he left that year (i.e., was cryogenically frozen) right as it began.
- Most folks just call him Orange Joe.
- Given that his birth year is 1974, Fry is of the Generation X generation.
- In The Beast with a Billion Backs, the order of his speed dial is as follows: Hermes, Leela, Scruffy's home number, Scruffy's cell number, and Yivo (now deleted).
- He has a tendency towards public urination (2ACV06), (2ACV09), (8ACV04). Frequently urinates on the locker room floor of Planet Express (7ACV11).
- His outfit is from now-defunct retailer Miller's Outpost (2ACV06).
Fry: Hey, I'm beginning to think you guys don't think I'm very smart.
Professor Farnsworth: You can barely remember your own name, Einstein.
Fry: Einstein is a hard name to remember!
Leela: I'm sorry Fry, but I have to install your career chip.
Fry: Yeah, well, if you're sorry, why are you doing it?
Leela: Acting like a moron won't bring your dog back.
Fry: Then all hope is lost!
Fry: No I'm... doesn't!
Fry: Bender! Have you seen my Sombrero?
Fry: People said I was dumb, but I proved them.
Fry: That's the saltiest thing I've ever tasted. And I once ate a big, heaping bowl of salt!
Fry: But, but, Bender need brain... for smart making.
Fry: Leela, let's turn back. There is absolutely no shame in wussing out.
Fry: Did everything just taste purple for a second?
Fry: Don't you worry about Planet Express, let me worry about blank.
Fry: Hey, wait. I'm having one of those things. You know a headache with pictures.
Leela: An idea?
Fry: Uh! Uh!
Fry: What smells like blue?
Morgan: Why is there yogurt in this cap?
Fry: [He stutters.] I can explain that. Uh, see it used to be milk, and well, time makes fools of us all.
Fry: I did do the nasty in the past-y.
Fry: OW! My sperm!
Fry: OW! My small intestine!
Fry: OW! My head! OW! My feet! OW! My head! OW! My feet!
Farnsworth: Keep your chin up, Fry.
Fry: OW! My chin!
Leela: Now, if you're all finished being stupid...
Fry: Well I had more but, you go ahead.
Fry: I'll be whatever I wanna do.
Fry: I'm literally angry with rage!
Leela: I'm sorry you saw that, Fry. I usually try to keep my sadness pent up inside where it can fester quietly as a mental illness.
Fry: Yeah, I do that with my stupidness.
Morbo: Are you ready to play?
Fry: I didn't come here to play, I came here to win. Now let's play!
Fry: Help, police!
Fry: Bender, could you smell this milk?
Fry: Help! Bender's gone crazy! Also, smell this milk.
Fry: You bastard! I'll kill you! YOU BASTARD!
Leela: You non-creatives can catch a bus home.
Fry: Non-creative? Ha! I'll have you know I bedazzle my own underpants.
Fry: Never bet against me being stupid.
Fry: Wha- what's going on? Why do I look like some stupid cartoon character?
Fry: Michelle, I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.
Fry: Fine. If it will make you happy, I'll overthrow society.
Fry: There, on the screen! It's that guy you are!
Farnsworth: And Fry, you've got that brain thing.
Fry: I already did!
Fry: Bender, if this is some kind of scam, I don't get it. You already have my power of attorney.
While Fry appears in every episode/film/comic, these categories may be of interest:
- ^ "sam512" (31 December 2004). Futurama timeline. (Everything2.) Retrieved on 21 September 2010.
- ^ a b Cohen, David. Commentary for "Less than Hero" on Volume Four, disc 1.
- ^ a b Cohen, David. Commentary for The Beast with a Billion Backs on the DVD.
- ^ Groening, Matt. Commentary for "Space Pilot 3000" on Volume One, disc 1.
- ^ Cohen, David. Commentary for "The Luck of the Fryrish" on Volume Three, disc 1.


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The rumors you've been hearing are true: nearly eight years after Sony announced its current-generation PlayStation 3 game console and media hub at E3 in 2005, Sony used a press event in New York City on Wednesday night to unveil the PS3's official successor, the long-awaited PlayStation 4. As Sony Computer Entertainment president and CEO Andrew House took the stage, he promised to give us "a glimpse into the future of play."
The event wasn't just about hyping a slab of custom-built computer hardware, either. Sony dedicated much of its presentation to new features like remote play, game streaming and social interaction — all stuff it says comes built into the PS4's DNA. And it even managed to pull off a few surprises no one saw coming, including a partnership with PC gamemaker Blizzard.
The Console Itself
Sony took us further into the weeds than expected, though just barely, laying out the PS4's specs in slight detail, revealing that it's powered by an x86 CPU, a "highly advanced" graphics processor that uses GDDR5 memory, a respectable 8GB of memory and of course a hard drive (size unspecified).
How powerful are we talking? Sony left performance comparisons with earlier systems up to developers, who teased abstract figures that only glancingly addressed the question. Given what was shown in game-play demos and sizzle reels, it's obvious the PS4 will pack more oomph than its predecessor, though eyeballing those same demos, it's also clear the company's playing catch-up to PCs, which have been capable of the sort of raw generational power demonstrated during the presser for years. Suffice to say the adage that "the last generation's prerendered cut scenes become the next generation's real-time game play" sounds about right.
Alas, we didn't get a peek at the physical console itself, though that's also no shocker, given that the system's final specs are probably still in flux.
The Not-So-Different Controller
The PlayStation 4's new controller — unimaginatively dubbed the DualShock 4 — looks a lot like its predecessor with slightly longer handlebar grips, but also includes a new touch pad on top, a light bar that can identify players ("a simpler, more friendly way to identify players," said Sony) and a "share" button that'll let users record game-play footage and instantly share it across Sony's gaming network (without having to edit it, apparently) or pipe it to popular online video-sharing sites.
"You can see that your friend is in trouble and reach out over the network to take over for them," said Sony lead system architect Mark Cerny, adding that we'll also be able to watch friends play a game in real time.
The Mystery Interface
Sony didn't show us much of the PS4's new interface, but did reveal that the console will support system suspend and resume, meaning you can simply press the power button once to freeze a game, then press it again later to continue playing precisely where you left off. While it's not exactly clear how quick any of that is, or how fast the system loads off a clean boot, the implication, made by Sony, was that it would be more or less instantaneous.
The company also claimed the PS4 will be "seamlessly integrated" with apps on tablets and phones (models unspecified), that it'll have dedicated, always-on video compression/decompression and that you'll be able to use your smart phone to browse game videos, say, of your favorite opponents in a fighting game.
Streaming Online Features
While it sounds like the PS4 won't be backward compatible with older PlayStation games, Gaikai CEO Dave Perry talked up a new PlayStation Store feature that'll allow gamers to play pretty much any older PlayStation game using the company's streaming technology. You'll also be able to use the PS Vita handheld to "remote play" PS4 games.
But the most intriguing Gaikai-related feature involves the ability on the PlayStation Store to try full, streaming versions of games for free — presumably with some form of time limitation — before actually unloading your wallet. Perry said the feature would also allow players to share (think "recommend") games they like with friends.
"What we're creating is the fastest, most powerful network for gaming in the world," said Perry.
Digital titles will be playable while they're being downloaded, said Sony, thanks in part to a dedicated chip designed to handle this as well as other background processes. The idea seems to be that the PlayStation 4 will be significantly more multitasking-friendly.
No surprise, the PS4 will include the usual media partners, including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon and Facebook.
New Games
Most of the two-hour-plus event turned into a game-demo lovefest: in order to showcase the PlayStation 4's new features, Sony welcomed a parade of game developers to demonstrate some of the titles that'll be available for the new console.
Like: Knack, a third-person action game in which you can change shape and manipulate physics to challenge enemies and environmental obstacles; Killzone: Shadow Fall, a first-person shooter safely in the mold of the Killzone series; and DriveClub, a splashy chrome-tastic team racer that supports multiple gamers competing cooperatively against other racers in "clubs."
Other developers took the stage, though more to highlight proof-of-concept demos, the most striking of which was probably an extremely realistic (and rather creepy) human face courtesy Quantic Dream's David Cage (Heavy Rain). But the surprise of the evening was probably Blizzard's Chris Metzen, announcing a "partnership" with Sony to bring Diablo III to the PlayStation 4 — a first for the traditionally PC-exclusive developer.
When Can You Buy One?
Sony said nothing about PS4 pricing or possible model variants, and only committed to rolling out the PlayStation 4 by "holiday 2013." Expect significantly more detail at E3 in June, in other words, and the console to (probably) ship in November.


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We're on the search for an Assistant Store Manager that will help lead the loudest store in the mall. You'll support the Store Manager in achieving store objectives with regards to hitting sales targets, recruiting, and development. You're a Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker rolled into one; you can handle anything that comes your way while driving sales and amazing customer service.
- Support your Store Manager in achieving the sales plan and/or comp sales goals. It's not all about the Benjamins, but then it kind of is
- Help recruit, develop and retain a super collaborative, passionate team to run your store alongside you
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Inbee Park of South Korea Wins Hond LPGA by One Stroke Over Ariya Jutanugarn
CHONBURI – Inbee Park of South Korea took advantage of overnight leader Ariya Jutanugarn's triple bogey on the last hole Sunday to secure a one-stroke victory in the LPGA Thailand.
Jutanugarn blew a two-stroke lead on the 18th when she first had to take a drop and then missed a 3-foot putt to force a playoff.
Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn, right, is consoled by her sister MoriyaThe 17-year-old Thai golfer, who had a hole-in-one earlier in the round, was moved to tears as the putt lipped out, while a surprised Park started celebrating in the clubhouse with her caddie.
"I just didn't expect this kind of finish," said Park, adding that she sympathized with Jutanagarn. "If I was in Ariya's situation, I would be very, very nervous and I don't' think I would have handled the pressure until the last hole. I think she handled the pressure well today and this week. Just the last day, I just think it's going to happen. I think something like this happening is just experience under her belt. She's going to be a great player later on."
The fourth-ranked Park finished with a 67 for a 12-under 276 total, with Jutanugarn a shot back after a 72.
Top-ranked Yani Tseng of Taiwan shot a final-round 63 to finish another stroke back in joint third with Beatriz Recari of Spain (70) and So Yeon Ryu of South Korea (68).
Jutanugarn's troubles on the par-5 last hole started when she landed in a bunker and had had to take a drop for an unplayable lie. She then overshot the green before three-putting for an 8.
"I was really disappointed because I went onto the course hoping to win not for myself but for the whole country," Jutanugarn said. "A lot of people came to support me and wanted to see me win. But I didn't make it. However, I was so happy that they still supported me even I didn't live up to their expectations."
Jutanugarn had fought back from a stroke behind Park by hitting a hole-in-one on the par-3 12th to regain the lead at 14 under — and win a car from a sponsor. But she then paid the price for playing too aggressively on the last.
"I went for two shots (to the green) instead of three on the 18th hole. I was crazy to do that and I learned my lesson," she said. "I thought I would finish with a bogey at worst and win by a shot but I never imagined this."
It was the fourth LPGA win for the 24-year-old Park after her most recent in the 2012 Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia last October.
"Out of all the other wins, this win just felt like it was not as much work this week," Park said. "It was a lot easier this week for me and I really want to congratulate Ariya for her fantastic golf the last four days. She has a lot of fans out here and she's very talented. So I think I'll be seeing more of her."


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Pink Dragons are primarily herbivores and only eat meat during the mating season, when mates will exchange kills. When it is not breeding season, pink dragons spend most of their time incubating eggs and caring for their clan's young. Due to their feminine color, it was traditionally thought that pink dragons were a strictly female breed, but this is not true.
Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.