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Olivia Palermo and her boyfriend, Johannes Huebl, enjoyed a sun-filled afternoon at a nude beach in St. Barts on Wednesday. While the beach was clothing-optional, both Olivia and Johannes chose to keep their suits on, with Olivia showing off her toned frame in an orange-and-pink bandeau bikini. The pair soaked up some rays on the sand and struggled with their rainbow-colored umbrella, which kept getting blown away in the wind. Yesterday, they were back on their towels. Olivia wore a bright cover up to dip her toes in the water while Johannes swam in red trunks.
Olivia and Johannes spent New Year's Eve in St. Barts, having been photographed displaying some serious celebrity PDA on the island last week. If you dig Olivia's boho St. Barts style, check out this breakdown of how to re-create Olivia's resort-ready looks.

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Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi wants his old job back.
The Democrat announced on his website that he plans to enter the race. He was narrowly defeated in 2009 by Republican Edward Mangano.
Suozzi said if elected he would restore "fiscal stability" to Nassau, which is under the control of a state agency. He said he would end "irresponsible borrowing and skyrocketing debt."
Mangano spokesman Brian Nevin told Newsday that Suozzi was thrown out of office for hiking property taxes, spending too much "and leaving behind an utter mess."
In 2006, Suozzi lost to Eliot Spitzer in a gubernatorial primary. He was mentioned as a possible successor when Hillary Rodham Clinton resigned her Senate seat to become secretary of state. The job went to Kristen Gillibrand.


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So another season is upon us and autumn in the wind, football ready and willing to help us through another grim winter devoid of global warming. BT have moved into the market to show games and the transfer window raging and big moves taking place, the Rooney, Suarez and Bale tremors likely to trigger an earthquake of moves if they go. But its all about new managers this season, Ferguson gone the biggest unknown, Mourinho returning, the biggest grin.
Last season was decided by Van Persie's surprise move to United. Fergies side, of course, famously lost the league on goal difference in 2011-12 with 89 pts and +56 to City's +64 and so needed ten more goals, and won the following year with the same 89 points but just +43, but Man City just +32, .halved in a year. You have to have the Blue Chip striker to win the Premier League. City didn't go hard enough for him.
It's the toughest year for many to call who will win the Premier League. The pressure on Moyes to win something early will be huge, United buying a hybrid of Ferguson somewhat questionable. Man City are on their 36th manager since the war, Manuel Pellegrini, Chelsea their 30th, but 8 since Jose was last at the Bridge. Last year I thought City would defend it but I really don't think I'm close to placing a bet on who will win the Premier League this year.
===My Champions===
===Bookies Odds to Win===
11/5 Chelsea
9/4 Man united
9/4 Man City
11/1 Arsenal
=== The Top 4===
Man United are as strong as they were last year but it takes that United way to win the league. Will this lot just back off a bit without the threat of a hairdryer? Moyes has clearly stayed at Everton as long as he did to get the United job Ferguson had promised him, a bit like Kate Middleton and Prince William. But now the ring is on the finger and nappies to change Moyes has to deliver. The Charity Shield may be it as he will not be given time.
RVP will bring the goals and Chico ready to move alongside. It is time to sell Rooney and gets some hard cash back as he is not the same player fitness wise. He smokes and drinks and it's catching up with him. If he stays his relationship will soon breakdown with Moyes, a man he sued ten years ago. Get rid and bring in midfield quality with that twenty or so million is the option for me. Moyes has yet to buy.
Chelsea could steel second or even top place as the addition of Hazzard and Mata with Loius in midfield last season means they don't need the blue chip striker, Andre Schrulle coming in that hope. They look the best team on paper. Getting rid of Torres is a must as he is simply not the same player he was and never will be. Marko Van Grinkel should compliment their midfield. Chelsea has bought but no real sign they are Jose type players. If the sign the right big money striker they could win the league under Jose. I do think Jose has lost his magic and he wont be worth the bounce he was but Chelsea have a ton of quality and the team going in the right way again. Without Morinhio they have been in the 70 point London club with Arsenal and Spurs, the City of Manchester the kings right now. They are surprise favorites though.
Man City didn't buy well last season and so lost the championship by Christmas. They have the players but they didn't fire consistently. In fact they have too many good players and that means trouble on the bench, more coming in, Navas and Fernandinhio the latest. Lescott missing out was crazy and why buy a bench player like Sinclair if you won't even put him on the bench? They can win the title but a new and inexperienced manager won't deliver, Mancini rather unlucky to be fired last season. Negrado is the Spanish manager's luxury pick striker, in for Tevez and so, at least, he will speak the lingo. 125 goals in 284 games in Spain is eye catching. Jovetic is their other new centre-forward signing, over priced at 22 million.
We all love Arsenal for the way we play but equally love sniggering when they have one of those dreadful runs. Van Persie seemed a big loss but he only cost them three points in the end, squeezing into the Champions League a massive boost for Wenger as it meant Spurs missed out and so Bale wants to leave. No Bale, no Spurs challenge for 4th place this season. Walcott stepped up last season and Corzula a revelation. But the defense remains unstable and mix and match and a top quality back four are needed to get into the 80 point bracket. Girould could come on this year but he needs an out - and - out finisher of quality alongside. Suarez has run out of options on the Arsenal move and so we await that striker. Its looks like 4th again, 4/6 to achieve that.
Liverpool have been proactive and signed Aspas for big money, but not the new Suarez, hopefully the vulgar Uruguayan on his way but that now looking unlikely as the big money bid isn't out there. As good as he is, he has only played 67% of Liverpool league games because of bans so time to go. Sturridge gels with Cortinhio zinging in quality ball and they may take that 5th spot, but Liverpool a long way off 70 points with their defense and midfield. Kolo Toure and Simon Minolet are the type of player they are bringing in now as the spending is cut. Lois Alberto was a bit player at Barcelona and looks a cast off to me.
Spurs without Bale are like tanks without tracks. He is the reason they finished fifth. It looks like he wants to go to Madrid. Solado has come in up front and Paulinho, Capoue and Chadli seemingly Bales replacements. They had a massive sale over the summer with 18 guys leaving or sacked, perhaps to fund a new stadium down the line, guys going including Gallas, Huddlestone, Caulker, Dempsey and forgotten man Bentley. Yes they will be top six but no more than that. You need a world class attacking player to be top four in the Prem.
Everton without Moyes will probably get a good start, notorious slow starters. Martinez maybe over-rated but the football will be good, ten players in and ten players out so far, bringing with him the exciting Kone and club captain Alcaraz. But can he hold on to his best players as Moyes presses the speed dial? Fellini stays and Baines waits for Fergies call. Swansea have bought well and Bony impressive pre season alongside Michu. If you want a crazy Each/Way on Premier League top scorer behind RVP then Michu is 66/1(top 4 places).
===Bookies Top Scorer Odds===
Van Persie 4/1
Aguero 8/1
Bale 14/1
Bentake 16/1
Negrado 16/1
Relegation wise you have to include new boys Crystal Palace and Hull City. I think Cardiff are more serious and will stay up. Fulham and WBA have work to do and Lukaka going back to Chelsea puts the pressure on the West Midlands team for goals. I think Norwich have bought there way out of trouble with their new strike force and my handicap bet at +40 (to finish within 40 points of the winners). Stoke City seem to have lived the Premiership and Cup dream and ready to fall now Pulis has gone and Southampton having a rocky time of it to. Sunderland's Di Cannio bounce was brief and they will be right in the mire.
===My Tips To Go==
Hull city
Crystal Palace
===Bookies Odds To go===
Crystal Palace 8/15
Hull City 4/5
Cardiff City 13/10
Norwich city 2/1
Stoke City 10/3
For most of you this will be a boring, dull, tedious and lifeless piece of writing but for those like me who bulk buy hundreds of blank discs each year (or month) and pretty much burn them faster than you would on a bonfire, getting the right blank media is a very important task. As a DJ i often burn mixes i did at home to play on the night, DVD's filled with folders of music, mix tapes, back ups and even word documents with lists of what song is on what CD... it gets frustrating then, to have rubbish discs, so here is my guide to buying some good ones.
I have already reviewed a fair few blank discs and am still continuing to so, so please take a look if you're still unsure after reading this.
@ Work Out what you want from a disc @
Do you want to burn media like movies and music? Do you want to just burn 10mb of word documents? if you just want to burn documents you just want some cheap CD-R's and done with it, but for DJ's burning music you dont want CD's that skip, have rubbish sound quality, or stop working completely after lightly brushing them leaving the worlds smallest scratch...
TUFF DISC is a brand that has been around for a number of years if you want durability.
DATAWRITE is a brand that i have known to give excellent buffering, and have never lost or corrupted data.
RIDISC is a brand which is classed as a AAA+ Burning quality and has given me uncompromised sound quality, even on 64KBPS mp3.
SONY is a brand which offers high quality audio playback like RiDisc but actually offers very high quality and high FPS video playback too.
TESCO offer the cheapest CD-R's i've ever seen. the sound quality is poor and audio skips regularly, video playback is not good. Ideal though for cheap throw away discs and documents (which are not that important if they corrupt that is)
@ A brief explanation of the +R -R ±R and RW formats @
+R DVD's are simply a write-once optical format with 4.7 GB of storage, used for non-volatile data storage or video applications.
-R DVD's and CD's are the generally accepted format by most DVD players and Pioneer did make a dual layer version in 2005 although the original discs came about in 1997 and hold 4.7GB of data.
±R and the ± symbol (plus or minus) is generally seen on spec lists and not on DVD/CD's and means the player can play both plus or minus type discs.
+, -, or ± RW Means the disc can be written over again and again although they do break eventually. Say if you don't want to keep buying discs you can burn then burn over the top later. These discs are much more expensive and if you are permanently burning photos or CD's its best NOT to choose RW format.
@ Disc Properties @
Choosing the amount of space is crucial for cramming lots of data onto a disc. For the odd document however, don't waste your money!
CD-R - Good for: Documents, mp3, music discs, small stuff
DVD±R - Good for: movies, large files, lots of documents (thousands), MP3's, MP4's, Large data, software
CD-RW Good for: See CD-R and Burn over and over to the same disc
DVD-RW - Good for: see DVD-R + Burn over and over
HD-DVD - Good for: HD Movies, vast number of documents and data
Blu Ray - Good for: HD Movies, colossal number of documents, MP3's, most other media files
The most common tubs available for each of these discs are 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 (You are unlikely to find 50 or 100 Blu-ray's though since you are looking at hundreds of pounds here.)
Drop me a dooyoo mail if you ever want to know about blank media, what is the cheapest and what you need etc, im happy to help. I know where you can get dirt cheap discs and very high quality ones. Thanks for reading.
How wonderfully useful is *this* category?!?!? "That Play What I Wrote" - currently touring in the UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- Do you like scary movies? Nope? Well, how about funny plays? And, the funniest play showing in Manchester at the moment is the wonderfully ungrammatical ?That Play What I Wrote?. We went to see it at the Lowry earlier this week, and I have to say, I?ve not laughed that hard in ages. The play is novel in that every performance comes with a ?famous? guest star. In the past these have included everyone from Roger Moore to Liam Neeson to Helen Hunt and Jeff Goldblum, and I was eager to find out who ours would be. However, I was a tad disappointed, I have to say, when they brought our some random bloke from Corrie. I know a few of the cast, but he?s not one I?ve ever met, and I forgot the name almost immediately. The other three actors, Sean Foley, Hamish McColl and Toby Jones are semi-well known, the first two being a well-respected double act in real life, and the latter the voice of Dobby in Harry Potter among other things. The play is set in the UK (or, according to other reviews, whichever country it?s being performed in), and tells the tale of a double act who aren?t doing too badly on the comedy circuit. One has higher aspirations, though, and has been writing his own plays for years. His latest is, in his own eyes anyway, a masterpiece just waiting to be signed, and with this in mind he wants to quit the double act and start getting his own stuff out there. To try and stop him, his partner comes up with all sorts of lies and stretched-truths, with varying degrees of success. The play is in two halves, split, naturally enough, by an interval. In the first the couple argue and laugh and joke and sing, helped along at times by a third actor who plays a selection of different ch
aracters, male and, being comedy, female, depending on what part of the tale they?re at. After the break the guest star comes out, and they all put on the new play written by duo member number 2. I?m too young to remember Morcambe and Wise, on whom a lot of the play, and the jokes themselves are based, but I still laughed non-stop for the entire performance. Knowing the duo and their style could have done nothing but make it even funnier. The comedy is a mixture of slapstick, physical humour, silly costumes and mad songs, and had the entire audience roaring in their seats ? quite a feat given the fact that I was by far the youngest person there, and my mother the second. Something that can appeal to 21 year olds and the 70 years olds making up most of the audience has to be a winner. The jokes aren?t (usually) rude, and none are obscene as Bottom can be ? they?re more current affairs / general knowledge based (one about Venus and Serena Williams for example), but general enough for most people to get. Sit in the front row of the stalls if you fancy leaving with a rubber duck. Otherwise sit anywhere- it?s comedy so you don?t need to see their feet (the reason I prefer front row circle seats for ballets), and almost any seat in any theatre will leave you satisfied. It?s well staged, with fantastic props and scenery (especially the topiary in the garden scene), and they move around a lot too, so no-one ends up missing out. It came across as being polished, well rehearsed and perfectly timed. In comparison with the other shows I saw in the previous 7 days (Coppelia and Fosse ? I was having a bit of a theatre week) it was outstanding. It?s not a serious show by any means. It?s humour all the way, and some of this can be childish pantomime style, but when combined with their OTT acting, dancing and singing, and intertwined with some side splitting jokes, they carry it off.. If the tour comes to a theatre near you, I?d certainly recomme
nd a trip, and I think young teenagers upwards would enjoy it. It was definitely the best £10 I?ve spent at the theatre recently. http://www.theplaywhatiwrote.com/
Channel 4 have covering test, one day infact anything to do with cricket for a long time now but it has only just come to my attention what a great job they have done of it. I can rember me moaning to my dad about how bad the coverage would be with channel four as they had adverts and had never done any sport coverage before, but I would rather stay with channel 4 than to go back to the good old BBC. I realized how used I had become of channel 4s coverage while watching a recent England match, there was a close dissection did he edge it or not, my intional instinct was to shout at the television 'show us on the sincomerter'. Now lets go back to the days when the BBC were converging the cricket, the same decision but instead of watching the jagged lines of the sincometer showing me a definite edge I would have been squinting at the screen trying to see if the ball moved when it went past the batsman. Now I know what you are thinking the BCC would have the same technology as channel 4 by now, but as rember it was pity much as soon as channel 4 got the rights when we were introduced to the sincometer, the red line for lbw decisions and other such quirks. Adverts, yes well they are always going to be a pain the backside and you will just have to live with it. But I must say that channel 4 have done a very good job with them they are not that frequent just at the end of the odd over at which point not much action happens anyway and whenever a wicket falls, these are the most annoying of the 2 as you want to see a replay of the wicket but it is only one advert that does not always finish. So I feel that channel 4 have got round the problem very well indeed. Simon Huges and his analyzing, I rember back in the early days of channel 4s coverage criticizing it, however now I find that I rather look forward to hearing it. He does a very good job explaining the Aussy tactics against Mike Atherton and Alex Stewart using wagon whiles showi
ng where the batsmen are finding it hard to score runs. Using the outline of a batsman and stumps and then placing different colored dots on the screen to show where the ball has been bowled in comparison to the batsman and how well they have scored off it. And drawing all over a shot played by the batsman with a white pen explaining as they draw in great detail. I feel that channel 4 have done the impossible made what I must admit to an unpopular sport into one that is watched in most homes during the summer from their highlights of the test match to the Saturday road show channel 4 have excelled and I think that the deserve a pad on the back, well done channel 4 and keep up the good work.
C4 cricket has moved the game out of the Jurassic era on TV to a polished product of innovation and exceptability to cricket fans and sports fans just looking to keep up with England in the big matches. Floppy fringed public school boy Mark Nicholas fronts the show in the summer and winter and looks at home in the sweat and dust of India and the old Empire echo's. This time around though to save money they are taking Sky and Indian TV pictures along with the subsequent commentators. Dermot Reeve who usually does the summer schedule is left at home in front of a mirror somewhere, Nicholas simply does an intro and a rap up with the mic on the field whilst his main job is writing for The Telegraph where he does an excellent piece. The main problem for cricket fans without satellite is the ridiculous scheduling of the highlights show on Channel Four.It just gets later and later as we near Christmas with the current slot being 12-45 am!. Now the majority of lovers of leather on willow (cricketwise!) are aged 55 and over so the teeth are long since plonk plonk fizzing in the Steridnet. Its England's thirteenth Test Match this year and its wasn't unlucky for some as captain Nasser Hussein won his second successive toss. And like the first win on the spin, he chose to bat as England opened the show for the third time in a row. And like those innings, we got off to a very nice start before getting the wobbles around 200.Even the mighty Trescothick failed with the blade as Michael Vaughn was this time the driving force. But he was bizarrely out handling the ball playing wicket keeper in front of the stumps. Its only the seventh time in Test history with Gouch in 93 being the only other for England to be out this way. Six of those seven have been in the last twenty years with four in the last 8 years, which suggests that the sportsmanship that this great game was built on is all but gone. Hilditch of Austral
ia was actually at the wrong end when he was handled out.Vaughn could have appealed to Ganguly their captain if he thought he had handled the ball deliberately or not. The slow motion suggests that the Yorkshire batsmen patted the ball to the ground in anticipation of the ball spinning back to the stumps between his gate. But no blood was spared in the appeal that it was merely a batsman courteously passing the ball to the keeper as the umpire greeted the lazy appeal with the finger, which i assume Vaughn passed onto short leg. The bonehead Flintoff quickly blasted one straight to the fielder to secure the batting stutter with Ramps making it three out in twenty balls with a shocking decision for a workman like 50. Only messing around with floodlights and worsening gloom spoilt the day as the match referees again mucked around with match starts because of Indian dew. Why we need floodlights at Test Matches i will never know. And its also a mystery why Flintoff who has failed miserably with the bat and was again put in ahead of Craig White.The Yorkshire blade revels in the sub continent challenge where as the ruddy cheeked Lancashire slogger always pi***es on the fireworks. But if we can recover some more from our indifferent 267-6 then it could yet be a winning last test for the ever improving captain Hussein and England.I wasn't his biggest fan we he took over and now im beginning to see why he's highly rated. Not many leaders can take a sub standard team of youngsters and pros and do so well without something up top. 1am start for the second days coverage, why can't they stick it on after Countdown or something. They are more likely to get viewers and ad revenue from silly loan companies and Stenna chairlifts than the 0898 in the early hours. Its not only the stairs they can't get it up you know. England looked on for four hundred with Foster going well until the ever improving cocky keep
er got out which curtailed the innings with the last two wickets quickly following. India trudged to 89-3 by the closes England persisted with the leg sideline against Tendulkar and co. At 22-2 it look like the thrustrating ploy was working. But it didn't take long for the brilliant Sachin to smash the green spinners around a bit with Nasser and Tendulkar exchanging words,as well as batting tips. But if we can start on the ball first thing tomorrow with a tight line then this test ain't over as i think the top is going to crumble for the team batting last. One match all in the series would be a fair reward for Hussein's gutsy leadership. Day three and the slot is lost to C4 early hors schedule hidden between a tack Hollywood drama and those brilliant short films no one ever watches. Mark Nicholas fringe is slightly limp like his tender wrist though as its been raining, yes raining in India. Only forty odd overs were possible as the Asians crawled to 218-7, still a hundred odd behind. Even Tendukar failed to impress with only ninety off the bat. Senghori who was the one banned in South Africa that caused a lot of the trouble here made a glorious 60 odd to show exactly why the Indians were desperate to play him unofficially. If the boys can eek out the last three for twenty or so then England can still win this test match on what is beginning to look more like a seamers pitch. India are playing three spinners which means we could really clobber them to set up a three hundred plus survival job for them on the last day of the series. But rain could yet ease India to a draw and a series win that England have won the percentage of sessions inThe players don't want to be talking about the weather to any suspicious Indian characters who want to know their thought s on it!. Even less time available today as this one ends up a damp squib of a draw. We had just enough time to knock them over a
nd add some quick ones. With 38-0 on the board and a lead of 136 going into the final day our extremely hard work and lack of luck with the weather will cost us the series. If we do get a full day tomorrow and crash it around a bit then we may get two sessions at them around the bat. If this was a five test series it would be in the bag. Alex Stewart is talking about offering his services in the one dayers after the New Year.Im a big fan of Alec but im afraid you can do one as you have let your country down like others and you are running scared from bookies. If you're innocent of match fixing charges then why are you afraid to go to the sub continent from day one. Iron Bottom (Ian Botham) got drunk again in an strictly no drinking province last week!,now that didn't make the papers so he's defiantly getting old and has been. No highlights on Channel Four as the final day was washed out. A soogy draw was a cop out, as England really deserved to tie this series with some gutsy cricket and captaincy. It turned out to be England versus Tendulkar and their wily spinners with England yet again battling hard in the heat of the sub continent.
Please could somebody tell me why Pakistans fans were allowed in to the last two games after the absolute fiasco against England its always the same one set of rules for english sports teams and another for the rest of the world you see just take a look at galatasary supporters murdering english fans and still in euro compation on more than one occasion but english make a noise outside a pub abroad and they are hit with batons and shot at and soaked we need to be tougher on our sporting neighbours fans and sports associations need to investigate this seemingly bias view towards the english fans of all sports. Cricket has and should remain a Gentlemans game and should not be getting a yob following we should not need high fences armed police and stewards by the thousands but if this is not dealt with harshly now it will turn out like being in prison to go support your teams whatever sport it may be and remember you still pay for the pleasure i hope it is sorted out soon and the above actions are not required
Channel four has taken cricket to a new dimension. On the BBC cricket 'was' boring. Only those who were really interested in the game would watch. Everything was straight forward. You watched the match through the camera, there were different angles, but it was pretty much straight forward. Sky television added a little life to criket, but not everyone has Sky sports, so not all of us can watch cricket on Sky. Chanel 4 recently took over the rights to show cricket matches. Channel 4 wanted to make cricket more interesting. Cricket is an interesting sport. I have been watching cricket from quite a young age, both one day internationals ad test matches. Test matches can be boring because they do drag on, but channel 4 has madecricket altogether a little more interesting. It has added more colour to the game in a way. The commentry, camera angles, and added accessorries have made it more interesting to watch. Channel 4's intention,I think was to get more young people in to the game. Cricket to many young people is an older persons game. BUT cricket is for everyone, and channel 4 should continue makin improvements so that more young people become interested in the game.
This is the time when Channel 4 really have to prove themselves to see if their coverage is up to scratch. In y opinion it is, but with the Ashes coming up in July, time will tell.... Channel 4 have used a lot of modern, technological equipment to supplement their coverage, which has made it very clever and gives you a chance to see for yourself, whether the decisions that the umpires are aming, are correct or not. Sky also have "clever cams" like the Snickometer and Hawkeye, the main camera angles and graphic pictures, showing you what is going on, and the movements of the batsmen, and whether lbw decisions are correct. However, with Sky, you have to oay for this, and as you get Channel 4 for free, it gives us, the viewers, the better deal, and would make it a prefernce over Sky's coverage. Channel 4 don't make their coverage too hi-tech and over the top, and they try to recuce the boredom of watching crcicket, by changing characters, seeing what people thinl, analysing what is going on, and showing facts and figures. These are nice touches, showing that their coverage is very in-depth, and they don't run out of things to show. However, with all these advantages, there are some disadvantages. One major one is the fact that every so often, they take sudden advertisement breaks, and we don;t knwo what has happened, which is just like Sky's coverage. Sometimes, they do keep it on for a long time, and if there is nothing happening, they go for some ads, but other times, they do it at the most inconvenient of times, and we don;t get to see what is going on. Also, there needs to be some fresh faces in the presneting team and the commentary team. Mark Nicholas holds things up well, and is a very knowledgable and interesting presenter, but the analysts alongside him, and the commenating tem, really need to be changed. Richie Benaud does his best, but they do need to give other commentators a go. Imr
an Khan and Ian Bishop are there a lot of the time, but most of the time, they don't know what to say, and they repeat themselves. Perhaps, if they got some people from Sky, or pick up people from other cricket coverage providers, it would be better all round. Overall, the Chanel 4 coverage is very in-depth, and there are always lots of talking points, which are nicely backed up by the clever"hi-tech" advances that they have.
So, here we are coming up to the fifth and final test between England and the West Indies. And though England are teetering on their first series win against the West Indies since 1969, the most successful thing this Summer has been Channel 4's cricket coverage. Mark Nicholas is the consumate presenter and the commentry team are top notch, perhaps the most interesting being Michael Slater and Dermot Reeve, two relative newcomers to the microphone. My only criticism is that the director had the chance of not giving Richie Benault a contract when the BBC coverage ended, but instead they had to include him, which is a shame. Channel 4's technological improvements to the coverage have been very refreshing, particularly the exiting new camera angles and the snick-ometer, and they certainly enhance the viewing. Also Simon Hughes is extremely interesting and could be used more. Perhaps the worst thing about the Channel 4 coverage is that it has to include adverts, but I suppose they are a necessary evil, and you'd get them on Sky anyway. All in all Channel 4 cricket coverage is a comprehensive package and, with the inclusion of the excellent Cricket Roadshow on a Saturday morning and their superb website at www.cricket4.com, their coverage is top notch. Let's only hope ITV can do as well with Match of the Day when they get it next year.
I think that the coverage of cricket on channel 4 has got a lot better. I think this is because they have lots of new camara angles which does interest people a loy more. The other thing i have found interesting is that the show all the latest technology out like the Snickometer and the new Hawk-eye which shows if umpires are making the right decisions and with these people get more interested in the game which can't be that bad. The things i think are bad are the breaks they randomely take in the match which is annoying and sometimes they stop showing the cricket and go to horse racing which i find appalling if they sort this out the coverage would be outstanding. I think they also need to bring in new commentators because i am sick of the same boring old sounds of Benued and Kahn who just ramble on about nothing. So overall there coverage ha got a lot better but they still have a long way to go
What can I say about Channel four's coverage. I was disappointed when 4 got the coverage a while back but i have been made to eat my words... The hawk-eye is amazing. It shows the umpires, in the previous test...which England won...by an innings...and more runs....how gppd they are.The hawkeye (if you dont know) is a 3d image generator with 6 cameras positioned around the ground...show the path of the ball after it has collided with the batsmen....the batsman is vanished from the picture and the ball is digitally imposed. From there, it shows whether the ball would of hit the stumps or not. Aswell as the hawkeye...there is the snickometer... this was another first. A camera, with an oscilloscope reader, can read whether the ball has hit the bat, pads or any other necessary part of the batsman. Quite amazing. Not to mention the redzone.... WELL DONE CHANNEL FOUR> Id just like to point out that since channel four have been covering the cricket tests and one day internationals.....ENGLAND HAVE BEEN WINNING......... THEY ARE DOING WELL...AND I LIKE IT THAT WAY
The decision to award coverage to channel 4 a couple of years ago could have been disaster, however the channel 4 coverage of the cricket has been a revelation. We have been seen many technical advancements such as snick-o-meter and the detailed analysis provided Simon Hughes. But the most attractive thing about the channel 4s' coverage has been the way that they have managed to refresh the way cricket is presented and broadcasted. The fact that channel 4 have presented an additional cricket roadshow programme, I feel has successfully exposed the great game to a wider audience. Over the last year Cricket coverage worldwide has changed to the same model as that of channel 4 proving that channel 4 cricket coverage have been successful.
Channel 4's coverage of England tests surely have to be the best sports shows on TV. I'm not even a big cricket fan but since channel 4 have been broadcasting I have regularly watching cricket and I have found it very interesting. Everything is done in such great detail that a new comer to the sport can learn lots just from watching for a little while. The jargon busting section is particularly useful I think. Mark Nicholas is a great presenter who rarely makes mistakes and is very professional throughout even though as far as I am aware he hasn't had a great deal of experience on TV. He really shines through when rain has forced play to stop, he always keeps things rolling and never loses my attention so I find myself still staying tuned even when there isn't any play. The analyst, Simon Hughes, comes up with small but relevant details about batting or bowling and how anybody can notice these things is just beyond me. Channel 4 have certainly recruited the right people for their coverage. I sincerly hope that Channel 4 continues to broadcast test matches, for me they have certainly brought new life to what I used to think of as a dull sport. I'm sure a lot of other viewers agree.
when channel 4 bought the rights to show england's home test matches, i thought that it would be the end of good cricket coverage on terrestrial tv. as it turns out, i was wrong. c4 have brilliant coverage. although i didn't think so the first time, the adverts create a break in the coverage, and make it easier to digest as it where. C4 are also the creators of the lbw camera, where it super-imposes the wickets behind the player. All of this makes for good viewing, and so my hat goes off to C4. long may this good coverage continue...
I have been impressed throughout the summer with Channel 4's competant and interesting coverage of cricket. At first I was very disappointed that Channel 4 had got Test Match TV rights from the BBC. I had always grown up with BBC coverage, and wasn't expecting too much from the new boys. I've been pleasantly surprised. First of all they have brought over the best thing about the BBC coverage - Richie Benaud. Professional as ever Benaud has helped establish the credibility of the broadcast team. Thankfully not everyone was brought over from the BBC. Instead of Jack Bannister's predictable calls of "That might be out... and is" you get more thoughtful comments from the likes of Dermot Reeve and Simon Hughes. Add-in the always intelligent presentation of Mark Nicholas and you get an excellent show. For me Nicholas is superb, combining his own comments with an ability to bring in other commentators and guests. Okay, I'm biased in liking Nicholas as he captained my old home county of Hampshire for a long period of time, but couldn't anyone be better than Tony Lewis and the old BBC cronies? On the down side there are advertisements, but thankfully they are never at the expense of the coverage, and so are only a minor irritant.


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I wrote a little program which allows to create a virtual machine and run any flavor of Mac OS X
- Mac OS X
- Mac OS X Server
- VMware Workstation for Windows
- VMware Workstation for Linux
- VMware Fusion for Mac OS X
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People are already asking me why my solution is better than the current solution at http://www.insanelym...howtopic=172474 .
Here is why. My solution:
- Allows you to create Mac OS X virtual machines using the UI, without having to hand-edit the .vmx file.
- Does not require modifying VMware's darwin.iso.
- Will boot Mac OS X guest using the VMware's virtual EFI, which brings tons of improvements: nvram support, System Preferences > Startup Disk support, panic reporting support, Snow Leopard guests boot the 64-bit kernel by default, ...
I decompiled the vmware-vmx and vmware processes, and painstakingly determined what to change to remove all the restrictions VMware put in place.
Then I wrote code to do that automatically (split the binary into code sections, then section disassembly, then search for some patterns, then code replacement) on all platforms, in a way that hopefully will adapt when VMware releases new versions.
I purposedly do not want to give too many details (hence no source code), because I don't want VMware to figure out too easily what to change to make the life of my unlocker harder in future releases.
I guess so long as the code remains in the product and the binary patches are kept up to date then a great solution.
One idea, this forum isn't the one most VMware users hang out in. Would you consider posting in the "Multiple Boot & Virtualization" forum?
After spending 2 and half years working on this, you have delivered something which means I can hopefully retire my solution. Great work!!!
UPDATE: Got it working as I forgot to change the smc paramter to true in my exisiting guests, as you are obviously adding the OSK0/1 fields into the emulation. ;-)
Yeah I wondered about that. I think my heuristics to find the code/data to modify are quite solid, but only time will tell if the unlocker is going to be a maintenance nightmare or not.
I will post there and give a link to here (I don't want to have comments in 2 places, and the tarball refers to this topic's URL).
Thanks. Given your creds here, it means a lot to me!
Yes, otherwise the unlocker would not work on non-Apple hardware. I highly recommend you create a new VM (i.e. really the .vmx) using the UI, so you get all the proper settings (firmware = "efi" for example) in it, then you can attach an existing .vmdk to that new VM.
I had the VM already hacked up with the firmware = "efi" status as was looking at modding the BIOS. Already had it fixed for non-server version, but not easy to add an SMC emulator into the raw files inside it.
If ever want to have something tested then please PM me, as would be very happy to help out.
Great work, I will test this tomorrow at work.
Good day.
I wrote a little program which allows to create a virtual machine and run any flavor of Mac OS X
inside the virtual machine, using any VMware product
- Mac OS X
- Mac OS X Server
on any Intel-based physical machine
- VMware Workstation for Windows
- VMware Workstation for Linux
- VMware Fusion for Mac OS X
I hope you will enjoy it. For details, please read the file README.txt. Give me your feedback about it in this forum.
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Do you have plans to run this on ESXi?
After spending 2 and half years working on this, you have delivered something which means I can hopefully retire my solution
Do you have plans to run this on ESXi?
Yes. They will have to expand the same amount of effort as VMware (or Apple) would.
As for not releasing the code, that is your choice. But anyone wanting to know what you did will load it up in IDA pro and see. Or use a decompiler.
From the look of the tar file, this is implemented as a binary patch to the emulation binaries that run the VM's. It would be similar (and even more scary) than the patching and resigning of the darwin.iso file. I would assume there is no way to patch a Bios file or some other
"in the VM" way to accomplish this like what Donk's method uses? I just won't ever be able to take advantage of this until it can (if ever) be done entirely in the BIOS (vmware's virtual bios) or EFI firmware.
Yes. They will have to expand the same amount of effort as VMware (or Apple) would.
Why won't you be able to take advantage of this?
modded ESXi runs just as fine as the unmodded one
Nested VMs are only possible when the host is running ESX 3.0 (with some caveats), ESX 3.5 (some AMD CPUs only), Workstation 6.0 (or later), or Fusion. Note that you cannot run nested VMs on Intel systems when the host is running ESX 3.5.
I have never tested on ESXi because I know very little about ESXi (maybe I should just try running it in a VM). Would you like to help me to test it? I probably just need a few answers to extend the unlocker so it can also handle ESXi.
1) What is the ESXi environment like? Can you get a shell and run Linux executables?
2) If yes, how can you distinguish between regular Linux and ESXi? I.e. what is an easy way (using file operations) to identify ESXi?
3) If there are executables named vmware-vmx* or similar on the filesystem, in which directory are they and how are they named exactly?
4) Is the UI to create VMs web-based?
~ # uname -aVMkernel esx-01.thismonkey.com 4.0.0 #1 SMP Release build-208167 Nov 8 2009 01:02:11 x86_64 unknown
~ # ls -al /vmfs/volumes/datastore-01/VMware-RCLI-3.5-U2-Appliance/drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2100 Feb 14 01:29 .drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1960 May 17 15:56 ..-rw------- 1 root root 1073741824 Feb 13 08:20 VMware-RCLI-3.5-U2-Appliance-flat.vmdk-rw------- 1 root root 8684 Feb 13 08:20 VMware-RCLI-3.5-U2-Appliance.nvram-rw------- 1 root root 497 Feb 14 01:29 VMware-RCLI-3.5-U2-Appliance.vmdk-rw------- 1 root root 720 Jun 4 2009 VMware-RCLI-3.5-U2-Appliance.vmsd-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3041 Feb 14 01:29 VMware-RCLI-3.5-U2-Appliance.vmx-rw------- 1 root root 283 Feb 13 07:46 VMware-RCLI-3.5-U2-Appliance.vmxf-rw------- 1 root root 1073741824 Jan 26 2009 VMware-RCLI-3.5-U2-Appliance_1-flat.vmdk-rw------- 1 root root 444 Feb 14 01:29 VMware-RCLI-3.5-U2-Appliance_1.vmdk-rw------- 1 root root 2147483648 Feb 13 08:20 VMware-RCLI-3.5-U2-Appliance_2-flat.vmdk-rw------- 1 root root 499 Feb 14 01:29 VMware-RCLI-3.5-U2-Appliance_2.vmdk-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1083758 Jan 28 2009 vmware-1.log-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40804 Feb 13 08:20 vmware-2.log-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24543 Feb 14 01:29 vmware.log
My ESXi environment is running from a USB Flash
That image is then dd'd onto the flash and hey presto ESXi running from flash.
ESXi runs a pared down linux kernel with just a handful of drivers and userland utilities.
ESX proper (note there is no 'i') runs a full Linux installation from what I understand.
I was thinking that the best place to patch the ESXi binaries would be on the disk image BEFORE it's dd'd over to flash.
Albert, I missed your question or I would have answered them.
A couple comments, current ESXi is installed to flash via booting the ISO and selected the flash as the install disk. So the /bin/dd method is deprecated.
VMware somewhere announced that ESX is going away in the future and all paid & free ESX will be ESXi. Current ESXi 4 is both paid and free, you unlock features by paying the license fee and entering the license (one prime example is jumbo frames on NAS.)
File /etc/vmware/ft-vmk-version has the version:
product-version = 4.0.0
ft-version = 193498
Compiling apps to run on ESXi can be done, but there are a LOT of libs you can't use (ncurses for example is problematic.) You also need to link it statically. I've got rsync and a few other apps built to run native on the ESXi systems.
# find / -name \*vmware-vmx\* -print
So no vmware-vmx executable.
Each vm does have a proc running:
# ls -l /bin/vmx
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 8690492 Sep 17 2009 /bin/vmx
It appears to fork off or is ran multiple times (I've never checked which) because
each VM seems to have multiple processes of this binary.
UI is web based, in a round about way I believe (again never checked) since the .Net app (Windows only) used to manage I believe does all it's work over an https connection to the server.
I guess the only way to properly do this is to dedicate a system to just Snow Leopard VM's. I've read about running Workstation in a VM, but I don't remember if that was "it works" or "it can't work." I know you can run ESXi in an ESXi VM, can you run Workstation in an ESXi VM? If so, it might be worth buying a Workstation license per Snow Leopard to do this.
Kills the idea of running Workstation inside an ESXi, since I only have Intel CPU's. ;-)
If your physical CPU is a Core i5 or Core i7 and you are running 10.6 guest, do _not_ run Software Update in the VM right now. Wait until Apple releases 10.6.4 (a matter of days I believe), then only you can safely run Software Update in the VM.
I am install 10.6 now. Is it safe to run updates? Any do's and donts?
There are no implications running other OSes alongside OSX.
I haven't read your instructions fully so I'm not sure if there are implications running other OSes alongside OSX.
Thanks for the details on how ESX(i) works. Why not launch the patcher from the console's shell?
I was thinking that the best place to patch the ESXi binaries would be on the disk image BEFORE it's dd'd over to flash. This way you can use either OSX or Windows to launch the patcher from.
Great. I'll try to cook up something in the next few days, as time permits. I have a day job too!
I'm happy to test if you need it.
Thanks for your details on ESXi.
Albert, I missed your question or I would have answered them.
If your physical CPU is a Core i5 or Core i7 and you are running 10.6 guest, do _not_ run Software Update in the VM right now. Wait until Apple releases 10.6.4 (a matter of days I believe), then only you can safely run Software Update in the VM.
There are no implications running other OSes alongside OSX.
Thanks for the details on how ESX(i) works. Why not launch the patcher from the console's shell?
Great. I'll try to cook up something in the next few days, as time permits. I have a day job too!
Thanks for your details on ESXi.
The /bin/vmx binary is probably what I'm looking for.
My unlocker does not depend on any lib beside basic Posix (open, mmap, printf, ...) functionality, so compiling it for ESXi should not be an issue.
OK I'll build the ESXi unlocker against that environment.
ESXi - the command line system is based on BusyBox so utilities would need to be compiled for that environment
It seems that version 4.1 of ESXi is going to be released soon. Hopefully it will have the same virtual hardware as Workstation 7/Fusion 3. Maybe I should just wait for that and see.
The vmware-vmx equivalent is the vmx process mentioned in the previous post. However it will not have all the hooks you have found for the latest hosted products. ESX tends to run one version behind the core virtual platform inside the hosted products.
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I consider myself an ok food photographer, one whose photos get better with every shot, but one who still has much to learn. Looks like I shouldn't just be taking tips from other food photographers, but from fashion photographers as well! Yesterday FabSugar introduced me to my new favorite fashion photographer, Miles Aldridge, who took these lush, delicious snapshots for a recent edition of the New York Times Magazine. Colorful, vibrant, and lux, I love how the photos feature luscious foods juxtaposed by the bored, trancelike model. It's almost as if he wanted the food to stand out more than the clothing, and it's interesting how he combines two normally distinct and separate subjects - food and fashion - to create art.
Clearly a foodie, Aldridge is spot on with the food trends in his images - many of which we have discussed here on YumSugar - ice cream sandwiches, non-plastic bags, sodas for adults, etc. I think one of these images would look amazing in a sleek kitchen and I will definitely keep my eyes peeled for his pics in upcoming issues of Vogue.
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Plans by the Scottish Government to keep the pound if Scotland wins independence have come under fire from financial lawyers.
• Scotland 'could not force UK to regulate its currency'.
• Scottish Government says keeping pound 'will preserve the highly integrated UK financial services market'.
Solicitors from law firm Brodies say that though there is "probably no legal obstacle" to prevent UK financial regulators monitoring foreign banks, Scotland could not force them to do so.
Even a temporary exclusion from the European Union "would make doing business with other member states more complicated", Brodies' partner Elena Fry and public law associate Charles Livingstone also said.
It is "unlikely" that the EU would "happily agree to an opt-out" of the euro currency for Scotland, the solicitors said in the Christmas issue of insurance business periodical Post.
"The Scottish government is insisting that an independent Scotland would be an automatic member of the EU, on the UK's existing terms, regardless of the views of other member states," they said.
"Unfortunately, there is no precedent to support that argument - it simply hasn't happened before.
"Without any obvious mechanism in place, it is difficult to see how the Scottish government could force the issue of its membership over any potential objections from ratified EU members."
They have urged the financial sector to watch out for a "Scottish Government plan B" for financial regulation, highlighting the difficulties with its current plan and pointing out its ability to create regulators under independence.
"The Scottish government has proposed that the Financial Services Authority (FSA), or its successor bodies, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority retain responsibility for financial regulation in Scotland.
"There is probably no legal obstacle that would absolutely prevent such an arrangement, although EU law might raise some difficult questions. But it is not something on which the Scottish government could insist.
"There would be no way to impose Scottish responsibilities on the FSA against the UK government's wishes, so political agreement would be required."
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: "Our policy to maintain the Bank of England as Scotland's central bank after independence is part and parcel of maintaining the pound as Scotland's currency, as part of a formal monetary union.
"Under these proposals, it therefore follows that the Bank of England will discharge the same responsibilities for an independent Scotland as it will for the rest of the UK in relation to the stability of financial institutions.
"A sterling zone will provide businesses both in Scotland and the rest of the UK with the certainty and stability for trade, investment and growth.
"As the Bank of England takes on the role of regulator for UK financial services, a very sensible and long overdue position, retaining the pound will preserve the highly integrated UK financial services market.
"Scotland has been an integral part of the European Union for almost four decades, so an independent Scotland will continue in EU membership. As many legal and constitutional experts have confirmed, Scotland is part of the territory of the European Union and the people of Scotland are citizens of the EU. There is no provision for either of these circumstances to change upon independence."


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The Bad Decision-Making of the Knicks Head-Coach and his coaching staff.
The Knicks STARTERS from Opening-Night should've remain the same unless injuries occured.
We have to many "EGO" Starters that will resent their teammates for such a change in the Starting Lineup (Causing havoc in the Lockerroom between teamates).
The Head-Man in charge need to stick with the PLAN he started with in Preseason by working hard on it.
Isiah Thomas Starters has been the Knicks main problem since the addition of Stephon Marbury.
The three seasons of 33 WIN seasons should've automatically took Marbury out of the Starting lineup, the icing on the cake was Marbury testimony in the Annucha Trial would've made me put him at the end of the bench with a Trading sign on his Jersey. I would not care what people thought of my action toward benching Marbury, because I know what the Jury thought when he got laid and I did'nt.
Being that I Started the season with these "STARTERS" I would have to follow through with them. However, there would've been nothing wrong with giving the bench players more responsiblities by putting them in the game (early) after the first 5 minutes of the first-quarter (PG-Nate or PG-Collins).
This immediate change of benching Starting PG-Starbury after a BAD Game was unwarranted for the sake of the team so early in the season.
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I didn't enjoy Eclipse either. I didn't think that Jacob was favoured as some people do, although certainly the motorcycle scene was NOT consistent with the characters. However, I believe that they put it in, not to favour Jacob, but because it was a quick and easy way to get her to La Push for the scenes there.
The movie and its script were sloppy and too quickly put together, and David Slade's approach was completely wrong for it. There were enough Bella/Edward moments for the romance to be prominent, but they were poorly done (as were, I believe, all the romantic moments in the movie) and usually the resolutions to Bella and Edward's arguments were cut. This added to the feeling that they did not have the love that they once had. Adding insult to injury was the final scene, when Bella says that she wants to be with Edward because she wants to be a vampire, not so much because of him. When you take all this, including the ridiculous notion of Jessica Stanley being valedictorian and Carlisle being able to sneak up on Edward ... just generally very sloppy. They were in too much of a hurry to release it. That's one of the reasons I'm glad they're taking their time with the next two.


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^^ Do I really need to go into why most (but not all) of your examples are laughable, or can we just agree your post is silly?
You didn't bother to put anything in your response. No doubt because you know you're wrong now and you can't demonstrate any grasp of the current technology, pricing and usage trends in the market.
I don't think you live in my reality. Do you know people who use Photoshop at home? Visual Studio? Gaming laptops? Two monitors? They're the outliers. You think Microsoft created Surface because they think PCs can't be replaced?
Tell me what planet you live on. Show me the demographics. My planet's PC are getting used for playing games and music, youtube, email and facebook at home. So are tablets, only tablets are better at those things.
http://www.asymco.com/2012/03/02/when-w ... pc-market/
Even 2 years ago, mobile was overtaking the PC among children:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/study-ame ... nics/29755
Where do people spend their time?
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/flurry ... -browsing/
And a handful of stats about the transition:
http://www.business2community.com/mobil ... -us-019447
I get all that, and agree that tablets have a strong place in the market. However, there is one simple thing that prevents tablets from completely replacing a desktop/laptop in the home and at work: data entry, and any other typing-oriented task. Touchscreens are terrible compared to a dedicated keyboard for writing long-form essays, filling in data entry forms, taking notes, etc.
This is a task ill-suited the all mainstream tablets these days, and it's one virtually everyone has to do at some point in time. Microsoft might possibly be pointing the way with Surface, or perhaps handwriting recognition becomes the interface of the future. Or maybe voice dictation. But for now, nothing comes even close to a keyboard, and everyone needs input often enough to make people still need something more than a tablet. (for now)


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You've all probably heard that Jake from Two and a Half Men says not to watch the show:
Uh oh, parody...
Could mistake it as being serious because Rainn is also a cheerleader for some cult.
Is Jake making love to the black mans anoos?
They look cosy.
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Two and a Half Men actor says 'Stop Watching Two and a Half Men! No seriously, stop it!'
If that's not a cry for help then I'm not sure what is.
If he wants out then surely he's free to not renew his contract that, incidentally, is currently worth around $300k per episode.
What an ungratefull f**,made his millions out of the show and now he's bagging it.hope they sack him and the rest of hollywood take note of his comments and in a couple of years he's broke with no chance of getting on the telly or movies again.His church will bleed him dry anyway.
Haha he's just as dumb in real life. Full of s*** too, self righteous little c***. I'd believe he really felt that way if he walked out on his $350k an episode cake walk.
The version that I watched last time (before I had to get it off my screen) had him ranting about satan being behind the show or whatnot, but that doesn't seem to be in this one?
Basically, it was even weirder.
Even Jake isn't that dumb.
another celebrity gets brainwashed by religious nutbags.
Heard about this on the radio. $350k per ep, deep religious values and he is now suddenly against the show. WTF?
Either leave the show then rage or STFU and take ur money.
Here we go, skip to 5:50.
I wonder if he has been this way for a long time or did someone put the "fear of god" into him. The show is not good anyway regardless of whether he thinks its evil or the TV executives are satan.
apparently he turned to religion after his parents divorced. not sure when that was though.
Funny, I turned away from religion around the time that my parents divorced. :P
(due to not being able to afford christian school in a 1 parent family)
My bro tried to send his kids to a catholic school after he divorced his Pentecostal wife. They told him to get f***ed because divorce is uncatholic, f*****g lol.
I went to a Christian school, my best friend was a Singh, the physics teacher - bald with tattoos all over his arms - came back from holidays as a woman, and at assembly we had a minute silence to pray to your God or reflect on life. The local church donated time in it's large hall to other religions and donated money for a mosque to be built. It really surprised me at the 'close minded, we are right you are wrong' attitude of religion here, America and what not.
It really surprised me at the 'close minded, we are right you are wrong' attitude of religion here, America and what not.
Me thinks that you underestimate evolution and survival of the fittest, especially when applied to assertions which require no proof (especially fictions where money, power, and free reign for superstitious indulgence can come into play).
Hang on mental, please clarify your beliefs without dancing around them. Explain.
stopped watching Two and a Half Men after they dumbed charlie sheen.. but lol@Op..
i have never watched two and a half men, due to it being such a terrible terrible show
I'm liking it more with Ashton Kutcher in it than Charlie Sheen. Plus that little s*** should just keep his mouth shut. It's obvious that black guy is brainwashing him. Soon that church will take all his money and then they'll kick him out of town like a crippled dog.
^ I really hope they don't do that to crippled dogs :(
Atheist. If there is a God or gods and I'm punished for not believing it isn't a God I would choose to worship. I thought my best friend being a Sikh hinted that you didn't have to be Christian to attend.
I thought the black guy was his "life partner" and they were just being b****y.
Atheist. If there is a God or gods and I'm punished for not believing it isn't a God I would choose to worship. I thought my best friend being a Sikh hinted that you didn't have to be Christian to attend.
Ah right, i see. My mistake.
I don't understand how he can do this without getting in trouble with his employers?
When the video started I was all 'the balls on this kid', thinking he was making some "wow-I-just-discovered-Jim-Morrison-and-weed-teen-coming-of-age-Rebel-Without-a-Cause-the-establishment-is-bad-free-your-mind" realisation ("and PS I have a boyfriend AND he's black so deal with Dad you square automaton) and I was like 'ok shooting yourself in the old foot a little there kid but good for you telling it like it is' and then he mentioned some s*** about religion and I relised "oh no he's just a brainwashed Christian do-gooder who is totally banging that black guy and feeling mega guilty inside while crusading about his half baked bulls***" and then I realised I am kinda conflicted about this cos he is saying Two and a Half Men is a terrible show and don't watch it and I agree with that but for completely different reasons and then I realised I don't care: he is s***, his show is s*** and I really spent more time writing a post on a forum than is warranted given all of the above.
Now come here, chicken kiev.
God dammit I want some chicken whatever.
like the simpsons (approximately) says, just don't watch?
there are much more entertaining things, such as being kicked in the balls and face
God dammit I want some chick
s*** show no loss
there are much more entertaining things, such as being kicked in the balls and face
Holy s*** that made me spit my Kiev.
Atheist. If there is a God or gods and I'm punished for not believing it isn't a God I would choose to worship. I thought my best friend being a Sikh hinted that you didn't have to be Christian to attend.
Your best friend is a Sikh Transgender......just to make it perfectly clear?
I don't think Angus Jones is "Winning".
Nope, my best friend was a Sikh. A science teacher was a Mr, came back as a Ms.
^ Who from Thailand?
Who, me?
No it's Mr Who the transgender Sikh from Thailand that wasn't allowed in the church to give back the stolen Mosque donations... or did I miss something?
We are all dumber for having watched the video and/or participated in this thread


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Concubinage in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature: A Historical Study of Xing-shi yin-yuan zhuan
This study explores the subtle patterns, variety, and changes in Chinese concubinage during the seventeenth century by focusing on cases described in Xing-shiyin-yuan zhuan, a seventeenth-century Chinese novel, and other literary and historical sources. It argues that the various social practices of concubinage in late Ming China diverged from government regulations. Chinese concubinage underwent remarkable changes by the seventeenth century in comparison with earlier periods. Even as concubinage was widely accepted, certain Confucian intellectuals of this period criticized the institution.
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Knee walker
I have to rent a knee walker but I have Charcot foot it is hard to walk with this problem. I have to get use to riding a knee walker.
Oh, the Freedom!
Like so many others, I hated my crutches from day one. Though I'm in my fifties, my body is in good shape from weight lifting and jogging, but crutches are just no fun and lead to sore spots on my hands and armpits. Plus, I have to rely on others to bring me beverages and food. The knee walker has tremendously enhanced my mobility while keeping me off of my left foot. In retrospect, i should have spent the extra money for the kind that turns, but I'm sure I'll get more and more comfortable with the roller's use as time goes on.
Works like a kid's scooter
This knee walker works great, but I earned the nickname "Sammi Scooter" after a bunch of my friends commented on how much it looks like a kid's scooter. But I can live with the nickname, considering how it made my non-weight bearing recover so much more manageable. Whoever invented crutches should be punished for crimes against humanity.
Great mobility device if you're the right size
This is a lot faster than using crutches and gives you free hands. This is ideal for moving around the house, and I found that I was able to interact with my kids more on a knee walker vs. crutches. My only complaint is that this knee walker is probably not meant for everyone. It was perfect for me, but it's only meant for people less than 250 lbs. I'm sure this would be a problem for a lot of people, especially bigger guys like me. Also, I'm just less than six feet and I had it set up at one of the shorter settings. I think this might make it a problem for people to use if they're around the five-foot mark, but I could be wrong. I only needed this for about a month or so, so I didn't need any advanced steering options like on the more expensive models. It's a bit of a workout to turn, but since I couldn't exercise due to my foot injury, this actually became a really big benefit.
Easy on my back, shoulders and arms
It's kinda ironic that I got a knee walker for my upper body, considering that I had an Achilles tendon injury. But after using crutches for almost three weeks, I felt like my upper body was training for Olympic weight lifting or something. It got to the point where I was popping ibuprofen every few hours just to deal with the muscle soreness. I'd recommend this knee walker for people who have weaker upper bodies or who may not want to deal with the inevitable soreness of using crutches. It's a great and affordable replacement.


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SALT LAKE CITY — The NBA trade deadline is coming up Thursday and a few Utah Jazz players have been at the forefront of the rumor mill.
Paul Millsap and Al Jefferson have been the subjects of the most speculation, while rumors of the Jazz acquiring a younger point guard have also been making the rounds.
When asked about trade rumors after returning from the All-Star break, Jazz players and coach Tyrone Corbin all shrugged off any talk about the subject.
"I've been in this league a long time. This is my ninth year and Paul's seventh. We're used to this,'' said Jefferson.
"You don't react. You just let it go,'' added Millsap. "You can't do anything about it because you don't really know for sure. If it don't come from (the Jazz's) mouths it's probably not true.''
Millsap's name has come up in trade rumors for years, and the Jazz forward says he's used to it by now, saying he takes it as a compliment that he's a wanted player. One of the latest rumors has him going to the L.A. Clippers for point guard Eric Bledsoe and others.
That trade would potentially affect Mo Williams, the team's current starting point guard, who has been sitting out with an injured thumb for more than a month.
"I'm a free agent after this year, so obviously they've got some options,'' Williams said. "Hopefully they understand my value and hopefully this is a place they want me to be for years to come. I know I do. We'll cross that bridge when we get there.''
Corbin was blunt in talking about trade speculation.
"It's rumors and we don't deal with rumors,'' he said. "We are who we are and everybody here is part of our family. We'll continue progressing in the way that we have and we expect everybody to respond accordingly.''
Jefferson has been traded twice in his career, but he knows if the Jazz are involved, it's unlikely anyone will know about it in advance.
"The one thing about the Utah Jazz is they're a very professional team,'' he said. "When a trade comes nobody's going to know until it actually happens. They've been consistent with that. They're just rumors.''
Still the possibility of a trade is on a lot of players' minds.
"After Thursday we'll take a deep breath,'' said Williams.
BOGUT BOMBS: Playing in his old "hometown" for the first time in three years, former Utah All-American Andrew Bogut had a dreadful night in the Warriors' loss.
Bogut started, but went scoreless in 14 minutes, missing all four of his shots, while grabbing five rebounds. He also struggled guarding Jefferson, who had 24 points on the night.
"It's hard to pinpoint the problem,'' he said. "I think collectively it's not going as well as it was.''
The 7-foot center from Australia is coming off an ankle injury that kept him out of 42 of the Warriors' 52 games this year. He has played in six games since returning to the Golden State lineup late last month, but he showed little Tuesday.
This was Bogut's first appearance in Utah since the 2009-10 season as he missed last year with the Bucks for "personal reasons" and the year before with a sore back. His best game as a pro in Utah was in November 2008 when he had 16 points and 20 rebounds in a 105-94 loss to the Jazz.
WHO'S BETTER? A couple of weeks before the 2005 Draft, former Utah coach Rick Majerus told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that Marvin Williams was the best player in the draft ahead of Bogut. "I think five years out it will be Marvin Williams who will be the best player'' Majerus told the newspaper.
Bogut still ended up being the No. 1 draft choice of Milwaukee's while Williams went No. 2 to Atlanta.
It's been more than seven years since that draft and the late Majerus hasn't proved to be a prophet. While neither player has turned out to be an All-Star, Bogut has better career numbers in every area, including points (12.6 ppg to 11.2), rebounds (9.3 to 5.2), assists (2.3 to 1.3) and field goal shooting 52.3 to 44.8
However, Williams was much better Tuesday night with 11 points compared to Bogut's goose-egg.
QUOTABLE: "Alec Burks is MVP in my book for the month of February — he really stepped up outside of his role and helped carry this team," said Jefferson.
DRAFT HELP: Tuesday's victory accomplished a couple of things. Not only did it lift the Jazz into a tie with the Warriors for sixth place in the Western Conference, it helped the Jazz in the NBA Draft, since the Jazz will get the Warriors' pick in the June draft. The more losses the Warriors have, the higher the draft pick that goes to the Jazz will be.
The Jazz's pick is conditional and they could have used it last year had the Warriors finished out of the top seven. However, the Warriors conveniently finished with the seven pick, which they used for Harrison Barnes, who has started every game this year.
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Vince is back in the fast lane, preparing for his driving test.
Amongst Friends
Eric invites Sloan to Vince's premiere, but just 'as friends.'
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Turtle contemplates his future career path, and seeks out Ari for advice.
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With production on his next film delayed, Vince finds for ways to amuse himself.
At a charity golf tournament, Vince and Drama up the stakes.
Murphy's Lie
Eric considers the offer while trying to patch things up with Ashley.
No More Drama
Vince and Turtle decide to arm themselves after a break-in.
The Sorkin Notes
Eric agrees to meet up with Sloan, but rethinks their whole relationship.
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The guys step up their security after a suspicious break-in.
Berried Alive
Citing their trust issues, Ashley asks Eric if she can read his emails.
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A group of teachers in the Russellville School District has achieved an honor shared by only a few teachers nationwide - National Board Certification.
The district currently has 12 teachers who have achieved the honor. The first, Alene Bynum, was certified in 1999, and three others followed soon after. In 2004, eight teachers in the district were certified, more than any other school district in Arkansas last year.
Nationwide, there are more than 40,000 teachers who are certified. In Arkansas, 239 teachers have achieved the honor, less than one-half of 1 percent of those nationwide.
"National Board Certification is a professional undertaking that requires teachers [to] possess a repertoire of instructional strategies to help all students meet high standards," Bynum said.
Bynum gave a presentation to the school board recently and recognized the 12 teachers who have achieved their certification.
According to a press release from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, National Board Certification is the highest credential in the teaching profession.
"A voluntary process established by NBPTS, certification is achieved through a rigorous performance-based assessment that takes between one and three years to complete and measures what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do," the release states.
Bynum said the process is a professional development tool used by the district to promote standards-based classrooms and teaching.
"Teachers improve their teaching skills through the process, and students reap the benefits," Bynum said.
Bynum, who now serves as acting principal at the junior high, was the first teacher in the district to become certified. She has been an advocate for the process ever since.
"She's been the leader," high school principal Wesley White said.
Bynum taught social studies at the high school before becoming an administrator, and she achieved her certification while working under White.
Bynum said the district currently has 30 teachers who are engaged in the National Board process, which can take up to three years to complete. Besides the 12 who are already certified, eight teachers began the process this year, she said, while 10 others are in the second or third year of completing the process.
"For the past two decades, the growing challenges facing public education have caused us to consider new ideas, strategies and programs to enhance teaching and learning in schools," Bynum said. "Educators have worked to strengthen their knowledge and skills as part of this national effort to make higher levels of achievement possible for all students."
National Board Certification is a process administered through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. The mission of the NBPTS, Bynum said, is to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do.
"The National Board certification process examines how a teacher plans for teaching, actually teaches, and analyzes student work and how the teacher engages in reflection to meet the needs of students," Bynum said. "[It] automatically ensures that a teacher is a highly qualified teacher under No Child Left Behind."
To go through the process, teachers must have at least a bachelor's degree, have three years of teaching experience, have a valid teaching certificate and presently teach at least four classes. A $2,300 fee accompanies the process, and teachers who are not approved for state funding must pay the fee themselves, Bynum said.
The 12 teachers who have achieved certification, with years of teaching experience in parenthesis) are:
Jennifer Akers (11), Russellville High School;
Cindy Broadhead (12), Russellville Junior High School;
Sue Busch (15), Russellville Junior High School;
Alene Bynum (13), acting principal, Russellville Junior High School;
Beth Cooper (12), Russellville High School;
Kimberly Hubbard (15), Russellville High School;
Nancy Madison (6), Crawford Elementary;
Kimberly Moore (9), Russellville Junior High School;
Liz Mullins (21), Oakland Heights Elementary;
Paula Reeder (6), Oakland Heights Elementary;
Sheri Shirley (16), principal, Oakland Heights Elementary;
Amy Wills (11), Russellville High School.
Shirley, who has served as principal at Oakland Heights for the past three years, was a teacher for 13 years before becoming an administrator. She achieved her certification while she was teaching at Crawford Elementary.
"These teachers are working very hard to improve teaching and learning in our district," Bynum said. "[These women] are involved in every aspect of school improvement."
White told the board he was a "very proud principal."
"It means a lot because our people are exhibiting the best practices in their profession," he added. "They can truly hold their own with any other teacher in the nation."