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Hi, I'm JM. I have been writing songs for over 20 years, sometimes in bands, sometimes in my home studio, and now I've jumped into the stock audio scene head first.
I was born in a generation of music listeners who listened to many genres, and saw how these genres have slowly been melding together. Sometimes this mixing of genres comes out when I'm writing, and is the reason why I enjoy writing many different genres on their own as well.
I am a self taught guitarist and can find my way around a keyboard pretty well. I'm not classically trained but I do write my music from feeling as I have a good ear and a great imagination. My ventures here on Audiojungle are a great experience in my life and an awesome outlet to get these songs out of my head and out into the world.
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LILING, China - Not long ago, Wen Xiujuan was swept up in a romance. Against the wishes of her parents, she moved to the small village of Liling, 300 km from her hometown, to marry a young man named Yang Liu. They lived happily with Mr. Liu's parents, who hoped the couple would have a son.
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On 25 April, UN Women is joining girls around the world to mark International Girls in ICT Day, drawing attention to the critical need for more girls and women in the ICT sector.
More than 3,500 children have been recruited and used by non-state armed groups in northeast Nigeria since 2013
More than 3,500 children, most of whom were aged 13 to 17, were recruited by non-state armed groups between 2013 and 2017 and have been used in the ongoing armed conflict in northeast Nigeria - UNICEF said today ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Chibok abduction.
Help prevent children 'from becoming victims in the first place', implores Guterres at campaign launch
From killing and maiming, to recruitment, sexual abuse and abduction, "violence against children in armed conflict can take many forms", said Secretary-General António Guterres, in a special message delivered at the launch of a new UN advocacy campaign on Tuesday - Act to Protect Children Affected by Conflict.
DARA'A, Syrian Arab Republic - With the crisis in Syria soon to enter its ninth year, the people of Dara'a Governorate face especially harrowing conditions, with hostilities killing civilians as recently as July. Dara'a residents continue to require life-saving aid, including the full spectrum of health assistance.
Damboya, ETHIOPIA/New York, UNITED NATIONS - Tadelech Ermias remembers the ridicule she faced when she refused to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), which was considered a requirement for brides in her community. "It was inconceivable then for a girl to get married without being cut," she said.
A teacher holds up a drawing of an adolescent girl who has just been caught unawares by her first menstruation cycle, while at school. She's addressing neat rows of young women sitting in class, in the town of Bol, in Chad.
Since its opening in 2015, over 1,800 young women and men in Zaatari refugee camp have benefitted from trainings on reproductive health and gender-based violence at the Questscope-UNFPA Youth Centre. This is the story of 16-year-old Yanal, who became an advocate against child marriage after learning about its harms at the UNFPA-supported youth centre in Zaatari.
During the mapathon hosted by UNFPA on September 28, over 6,000 volunteers in over 60 countries mapped more than 49,000 buildings and nearly 7,000 kilometres of roads – generating data that will help a range of FGM-related services and outreach programmes reach the girls, families and communities that need them most.
More than a year into the crisis in Cox's Bazar, the number of Rohingya refugees has reached nearly one million, with young girls in Bangladesh refugee camps sold into forced labour accounting for the largest group of trafficking victims, reported the UN Migration Agency (IOM) on Tuesday.

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So as you know -- I'm not super crafty or creative, but I'm always looking for things that are easy and fun that I can create myself.
I just realized recently that I didn't have a "baby's first Christmas" ornament yet. I was going to just buy one, but then my friend Alexis and I were making plans for a lunch date and told me she was going to make an ornament for her son. And she was so kind to invite us over and let us use all of her supplies.
Didn't it turn out so cute??
My little babe's hand print at 10 months!
All you need is:
a glass ornament ball {the color is up to you}
clear ink A.K.A embossing ink {to rub on babies hands}
embossing powder {to sprinkle over the clear ink}
q-tip {to clean it up a bit}
and heat. we used an embossing heat gun to seal it.
To this day, I'm not sure how we managed to get a clear handprint! Most babies want to clinch their first, that be warned that it will be quite the challenge!


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Yes, a post … and a 3 p.m. start for the PIAA Board of Directors meeting in Hershey.
In case you haven't been keeping track, new executive director Dr. Robert Lombardi and the staff have done a great job of streamlining the Board meeting agenda. In short, Doc has made it a priority to cut out the fat in Board meetings … and the meetings have lost about 50 percent of their previous weight.
Gone are the lumpy, 200-page agenda packets. The agendas and items are out nearly a week ahead of time so BOD members aren't hit with new matters when they walk in the door. And not the least, less talk, more action has been a focus under Doc Lombardi and new PIAA president Jim Zack (District 4 chairman).
Why this crazy 3 p.m. start time as opposed to the usual 7 p.m.? Well, more evil genius from the good doctor. Because there are 9 new Board members, Dr. Lombardi and other Board members thought it would be good for members to mingle and get to know each other a little better and take some of the mystery out of the process. Thus, the Board meeting starts early and dinner comes later, rather than the other way around.
But the real benefit of the new format is that Board meetings have moved much more quickly and efficiently. It helps, too, that there have not been any major issues in recent months to clog up the works. And there is no real hot-button issue on the agenda today. Nor are any hearings scheduled for tomorrow.
So, this meeting has the potential to be one of the quickest and least controversial in recent memory.
After the usual wave of co-operative sponsorships and financial reports – things are looking better for PIAA on the latter – the first real note of interest is the number of fall sports disqualifications, which are up 13 percent in soccer and 20 percent in football, not a good sign. There were 427 ejections in soccer (including girls), 356 players and 63 coaches. Really, it's time to calm down on the pitch. Football wasn't any better with 206 ejections, about the same as soccer when you extrapolate the number of games.
Most of the ejections were for foul language, according to assistant executive director Pat Gebhart.
A new policy in track and field will now permit PIAA to scratch an entire relay team at the state championship meet if a relay team member scratches for a reason other than a certified illness or injury and leaves the relay with less than four eligible members. The key phrase is "certified injury or illness". An athlete cannot just wander up to the Meet Directors, say he's hurt and leave the relay team. That injury or illness must be certified by a physician of medicine or osteopathic medicine or the meet referree.
Should a relay team be scratched under those circumstances, the next place finisher from that district will be eligible to take that spot.
One thing that will come up toward the end of the meeting is a report from the football steering committee. Since my daughter had to get her braces off today (yes, I scheduled it on a PIAA meeting day), I was unable to attend and have no idea what was discussed. We'll all find together, eh?
A request by Taylor allderdice of Pittsburgh to play a season-opening game against Steubenville, Ohio, on Thursday, Aug. 29, one day before the legal start date for football, was turned down by the Board by a 22-8 vote (the motion was made for denial).
Discussion has turned to football and a proposed heat acclimation program. The PIAA passed, on a first-reading basis, a policy that is modeled on New Jersey's heat acclimation guidelines.
The highlights:
(1) The first three days of the PIAA-defined fall season will consist of no more than 3 hours of on-field practice time. For football, helmets only may be worn the first two days; full protective gear can be used after that.
(2) The maximum allotted time for practice per day is 5 hours. A 5-hour practice day may only be followed by a 3-hour practice day. Further practices are affected by this rule.
(3) A minimum of a 3-hour recovery period must be provided after any session greater than 2 hours in length. A 3-hour recovery period should be provided before a walkthrough.
(4) The proposed rule provides a guideline for incremental increases in activity to provide better heat acclimation.
Please note this rule passed on a first-reading basis only. There will be a lot of discussion going forward on the matter, and there could be changes in the language.
One Response to "PIAA Board of Directors Meeting, Thursday, Dec. 13"
Rod thanks for the update…even if you can't frequently blog like before, your updates on PIAA BOD meetings and big state events is appreciated.
I can't think that the track relay situation happens very often … alternates are usually available.
I think that the proposed football preseason rules reek of unnecessary bureaucracy.
Jeff Fishbein's ideas for your site seemed great to me.


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Telephones are wanted by collectors if the phones are old enough or unusual enough. The first telephone may have been made in Havana, Cuba, in 1849, but it was not patented. The first publicly demonstrated phone was used in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1860. The phone made by Alexander Graham Bell was shown at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876, but it was not until 1877 that the first private phones were installed. Collectors today want all types of old phones, phone parts, and advertising. Even recent figural phones are popular. The Model 500 (1949), Princess (1959), and Trimline (1965) phone models were designed by Henry Dreyfuss, the famous industrial designer.
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Posted: Apr 19, 2013
BURLINGTON, N.C. – The Coker softball team will have to wait another day before taking the field in its second game of the 2013 Conference Carolinas softball tournament. Heavy rains have postponed play at the tournament until Saturday (Apr. 20). The No. 5 seed Cobras will take on the No. 1 seed King University at 4 p.m.
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Carney Will Gain by Exploring the Territory
Op-ed in the Financial Times
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Yes, Mark Carney will be taking over the only central bank in the world where he will be greeted by members of his security team wearing pink morning coats and top hats. Beyond that, the Bank of England (BoE) will not feel foreign to any experienced central banker, just as the United Kingdom will not feel all that strange to any Canadian. The Old Lady has been at the center of global monetary and financial policy making for centuries, welcoming foreign ideas for much of that time—inflation targeting, central bank independence, and now macro-prudential policy. And most of its failings are typical of other central banks rather than reflections of any lingering hidebound traditions or institutional culture.
However, a central banker who seems foreign to the BoE, and more importantly to the British people, will be a particular challenge. Great intelligence, technocratic skill, toughness, and an incredible capacity for work are traits shared by the current and incoming governor but they alone are not enough. The ability to anchor inflation expectations, supervise financial institutions, and to stabilize the British economy depends to a surprising extent upon the persuasiveness of the governor. The powerful policy instruments at the bank's disposal have their limits, and their use cannot be sustained without public support.
Carney will have to prioritize public engagement and open debate in the BoE, rather than closed international discussions and CEO-style decision making. Anyone who needed to be wooed with promises of a 60 percent salary rise over his predecessor's, as well as London living expenses in order to have the honor of serving as governor, will have an uphill climb to be perceived as a British public servant rather than a globetrotting corporate free agent. Coming from a central bank in Canada where the governor alone has the final say on monetary policy, to one where committees make the key decisions, puts the premium on collegiality even higher.
The three most important words I employed repeatedly in my time on the Monetary Policy Committee were "we", "us," and "ours." "We" the committee were deliberating and deciding, even if at times my views were out ahead of where we got to. And whether facing Members of Parliament (MPs) of the Treasury select committee, bankers in the City, or activists from trade unions, I always affirmed that the public were right to be holding all of "us" at the BoE accountable.
Most of all, it was "our" economy that was suffering, our households that had to adjust to energy price shocks, our growth prospects that had to be assessed. If a bank official makes such statements, it becomes more than a matter of form—they constitute an agreement with the British people. (Of course, it also helps to treat parliamentary appearances as chances to respond to the concerns of MPs and their constituencies, rather than as opportunities to give lectures.)
To be persuasive, as well as to improve the economic forecasts, the new governor also has to take into account the unique attributes of the country's political economy. I do not mean the various codes of British life, such as buying and wearing poppies ahead of Armistice Day (which I did) or the subtle nudges and winks of Oxbridge graduates (which I was oblivious to), let alone the latent snobberies within the BoE. What I mean is that Carney has to absorb substantive structural knowledge of the British economy, from the nature of its regional divergences, to the strengths of its labor market practices, to the deficiencies of its domestic business lending. It is not enough to simply apply general economic principles top down, though they are of course relevant. In learning these important institutional characteristics of the British economy, the incoming governor should use it as a great opportunity to empower and listen to the bank's staff, for that is one of its greatest areas of expertise.
My final advice to the new governor is to get out into the entire United Kingdom, all four nations and every region, using the geographic network created by the BoE's Agencies. The Canadian will be surprised and inspired by the welcome—and the insights.
Some will say that the inviting of a foreigner to be governor displays the openness of the City as a global financial center. Others will see in it a Gordon Brownesque "government of all the talents" push. Both have an element of truth. I believe, though, that the acceptance of foreigners into the halls of power in London is primarily a reflection of the liberal openness of the British people today well beyond the City and Westminster. I made nearly 20 regional visits during my three years on the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), speaking with a few thousand British citizens and businesses in total from Aberdeen to Bournemouth, from Anglesey to Skegness. In all of those encounters, not once did someone challenge my standing as a US citizen to speak about, let alone make, British monetary policy.
Nevertheless, in all of those encounters, it was critical that I was there to engage substantively with the public and to show with my openness that the BoE is concerned about the whole British economy, not just about the City and its global counterparts. That is the right orientation to demonstrate, not just for political reasons, but for policy reasons. How can Britain rebalance its economy if its policymakers don't engage with all the country?
Between the huge management challenge of implementing the bank's broadened financial supervision role, the incoming governor's continuing global responsibilities chairing the Financial Stability Board, and his acknowledged expertise, Carney's understandable temptation will be to focus on technical aspects of bank regulation. Doing so at the expense of engagement with the broad economic concerns of the British people and their representatives, however, would be a mistake, and it also would squander an opportunity to energize the BoE's staff when they can contribute most. To be a persuasive and thus effective governor of the Bank of England, a foreigner must go exploring.


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MISENHEIMER, N.C. --- Freshman Alex Hasler (Browns Summit, N.C.) tallied his first collegiate goal, and Matthew Cureton (Waxhaw, N.C.) added a goal and an assist to lead the Lees-McRae College men's soccer team to a 2-0 win over Pfeiffer University in Conference Carolinas play on Thursday afternoon.
With the victory, Lees-McRae (5-3, 3-0 CC) stretches its win streak to five and has now kept a clean sheet for 383:52 consecutive minutes, a stretch that includes four straight matches. The Bobcats outshot Pfeiffer (3-5-1, 1-3 CC) by a 14-11 margin in the contest, including an 8-6 edge in the second half, as the teams each attempted three corner kicks.
Hasler opened his collegiate account and tallied his first career match-winner with the same strike, as Cureton netted his second of the season while adding an assist on Hasler's opener. Jordan Wright (West Lothian, Scotland) paced the Bobcats with a match-high six shots, including three on frame, as Scott Alford (Hillsborough, N.C.) took a trio of attempts toward goal.
Thomas Rusling (Sheffield, England) kept his fourth consecutive clean sheet and 18th of his career, moving within three of a tie for third on the program's all-time list with a four save performance.
Nicolas Dulac made four saves between the pipes for the Falcons, as Luke James, Kyle Toler, Jaime Sanclemente, and Simon Leslie each took a pair of attempts toward frame.
Freshman Marvyn Rieger (Frankfurt, Germany) nearly got the Bobcats off to a flying start in the seventh minute, sending a header just wide of the post off a corner from Cureton. Sanclemente came within inches of netting the go-ahead goal for the Falcons in the 21st minute, only to be denied by a brilliant save from Rusling.
Neither team would find the breakthrough through the remainder of the first half, with perhaps the best opportunity for either side coming off the foot of Wright in the 44th minute that forced a save from Dulac to preserve the deadlock.
The Bobcats opened the scoring late in the 49th minute, when a strong buildup down the right flank paved the way for a cross in to Cureton, who found the onrushing Hasler for the cheeky side footed finish into the top corner for a 1-0 LMC lead. Cureton would double the advantage to 2-0 in the 57th, winning his own penalty before slotting the spot kick into the right corner as the keeper dove left.
Rusling would preserve the shutout with a superb save in the 83rd minute, putting his quick reflexes on full display with a top drawer reactionary stop on Leslie's point-blank chance inside the area.
Lees-McRae returns to the pitch on Saturday when the Bobcats celebrate Homecoming Weekend with a 4 p.m. conference matchup against Barton College on Tate Field.


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The Penn State Beaver Brodhead Cultural Center continues its summer performances with a free concert by the Pittsburgh Banjo Club, 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 17, at the J. P. Giusti Amphitheater on campus. In the event of inclement weather, the show will move into the campus auditorium.
The Beaver Valley Area Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association will sell concessions prior to and during the show. In addition, the group will sell Penn State Berkey Creamery ice cream in cups from 6-7:30 p.m. prior to the concert. Proceeds from concession and ice cream sales benefit the Alumni Chapter's scholarships for Beaver campus students.
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- Demonstrates strong communication skills and tact in a variety of settings and situations.
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- Demonstrates ability to work independently and with little supervision
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Are you looking to join a team that rewards and promotes top performers? Would you enjoy working for a reputable, environmentally- conscious company? If so, join Stericycle, where team members can grow/develop their skills and are encouraged to be innovative.
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A cheese-producing farm used RDP support to set up a new plant for producing speciality cheeses and ensure its long-term financial sustainability.
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Tularù is an organic and multi-functional closed-cycle farm born that began life as a centre for sustainable production. It offers an alternative approach to solving current environmental, social and economic issues for farms.
A dairy company used RDP support to build a new wing on its factory in order to increase its production capacity. This investment strengthened the local supply chains and helps prevent the abandonment of the farming activity in the area.
A cooperative of apple producers set up a joint effort among its members to control the codling moth, a major pest, by means of sexual confusion.
project focusing on the protection and promotion of a breed of cattle specific to Western Macedonia, the Greek Red Kastoria-Kristalopigi cow.
A modern hen farm producing eggs for human consumption, set up a new unit to process non commercial eggs and therefore increase its competitiveness.
An initiative to promote young farmers participation entrepreneurship and innovation
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A pilot programme in Scotland on Public Procurement led to new opportunities and markets for Scottish SMEs.
The Czech Republic's RDP has introduced simplified administration systems that improve transparency and reduce risks of errors concerning eligibility.
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I've converted all the red masks and all but one of the orange masks, my people are able to raom the heathens village but the remaining orange mask never visits its city and just keep causing trouble. I had an event where the orange one said he wanted to join the city adn seemed sincere so I said OK and he trashed my lab, please help - does anyone know how to get rid of or convert him??????
Thanks in hope
I was just wondering what's the oldest villager people have had nursing? I've played all 5 games and haven't been able to have a villager above 50 nursing before. I closed the game with it on fast speed and came back an just over an hour later to find a 72 year old villager nursing. Anyone else have this happen?
So, I'm kind of stuck.
I've finished all of the puzzles, converted all of the blue masks, everything like that. The only things I haven't done are convert the orange and red mask heathens, and finished the collections. Which leads to my problem.
I'm maxed out with population (until I finish those collections) and my capacity is currently at 787. The only thing to do is collect relics...
And NONE are popping up.
I've been on the game for about half an hour now, and NOTHING has showed up. No mushrooms or collectibles or anything. Believe me, I've scrolled around the whole map, too. Is this a bug, or just me being unlucky?
Those of you having trouble getting 10 jacks of all trades (as I have), don't give up yet.
I just got a barrel of babies, 3 blue mask heathens, 2 girls and a boy. I checked devotion on 3 villagers had them talk to the babies and then put them on the statue (this only works with adults). As the babies lights stop blinking I did the same with 3 other villagers. After doing this 4 times I now have 12 villagers with at least a start on devotion.
Good luck all.
You can increase parenting and get Master parents when your females turn 50 without having kids. Just keep dropping the woman on a man until she's a master and then do it the other way around.
Also, you can separate the orange and red heathens from the blue masked ones with bees. You can then pause the game and drop people on each blue mask that's not too near a red mask and convert them.
There are faster way to break Totems.
But it is random...
I got this message popup thing, Saying a Salt Wind that smell the whole map. Every runs and hide.
This is the advantage i found breaking 2 - 3 totems that can be break without advancing Techs for the time being.
Since it takes a long time for them to leave their post and reach a safe area to hide and takes 2x longer when they get out of hiding and back to their post.
This is the time you can break 3 totem in 1 go.
by using 3 adult on each totem that is, Rainbow , Hungry and Knowledge.
It took me 3 attempts to beat the Heathen Builder. What finally worked for me was to wait till the Heathen Builder was sitting by his project, choose my Master Builder, use the Time Warp on him and then move him to challenge the Heathen Builder. If I tried it at the building contest site, my Master Builder would disappear and lose.
you need to get an energy bar level of 100, when you do you will get lightning
you zap the hearthans around the totem with the lightning and they will run away, then use your oeople to dismantle it.
oh, and by the way, you get more energy by converting herthans, haveing babies, or collecting relecs
hi, i just had a question, how do you start the fire in the "safe zone" of your villagers? i gathered the fire wood, but could not seem to get any further than that. in the other ones there was always dry grass to collect, but i could not find any.
Also, i was looking in the trophy menu and noticed a trophy for starting the fire with lightning, so i gave it a shot, but nothing. Am i just missing where the grass is? what is going on?
All input is appreciated, thankyou :)
I have played it several times and had to download a different version because of an error. After downloading this version, I had a new account which was failing so I started a new one. On the new one, I started trying to convince the Master Scientist Heathren and I was able to do the chalkboard thingy 1. After that, the chalkboard wouldn't clear the writing and I couldn't write on the board the 2nd time. I waited 1 hour, 4 hours, 1 day and 2 days but it still wouldn't clear itself. How do I fix that?
To convert the Master Farmer, you have to have a Master Scientist. Put the scientist on the broken pipe beside the garden the farmer is sitting on. Then put builders (Might have to use Master Builders) on the same broken pipe. Keep both the Scientist and the Builder(s) on the pipe and the pipe will be fixed. The Master Farmer will then join you.
To Antoinette:
is the remaining orange mask child-like? If he's running like one, you could attract him into the broken village with butterflies and then use eathquake on him. If he's an adult, lure him step by step with a child or other villager (kind of hard)and do the same. I hope this was useful.
I have been playing virtual villagers 5 : new believers for about a week now and i have finished every puzzle exept for the dried up lake one. I have made the lake full again but i can not get the revive power. i had 580 energy, i left for 3 hours, then when i came back, i had 520. what happened? and how come i cant get anymore energy?
Try the following:
1. Look around each heathans station for a piece of the necklace.
2. Make sure you get someone to assembly all 4 pieces.
3. Fully unblock the mausoleum and get 3 villagers to use the pan in the corner to pan for gold dust.
4. Then get a villager to take the gold pot by the river over to the fire.
5. After it is melted, take the golden ball, from the fire, to the totem near the front of the forest.
6. Get someone to bring the assebled necklace to the chief in the forst.
Refer to puzzles 15 & 16 in the puzzles section for more help.
I just spent the last couple of days playing this game and solved some of the puzzles, accumulated lots of tech points, and increased the number of villagers to about 30 (inc. about 10 heathens). But when I tried to play it today I got a message saying that "the Fates have been unkind" to me and there is no one left in the village who believes in me, and my population was reduced to 0 without any explanation, and the game is over. Has this happened to anyone?? I'm so frustrated b/c I spent so much time building up my village population and now all my villagers have disappeared and the game is over for no apparent reason!
@Gabrielle: Check the walkhrough above for Puzzle 13, that's the one you're asking about.
@Melanie: By having a villager teach the children in the nursery, the children will earn experience in some of the skills so that when they're adults and ready to work, it won't take as long to learn.
@Ari: maybe all your villagers died? That can happen if they run out of food. My best recommendation is to not allow the game to run overnight or for periods over which you are unsure when you'll be able to play again. Always pause the game before you do, that way things like this won't happen.
Hmm, thanks Jay for the suggestion. There's still plenty of food left and everything else is the same as it was before--the only difference is that all the villagers (or at least the believers) mysteriously disappeared. And the first time I played the game I didn't play it for like a month and there were still some villagers left even though there was no more food left. Maybe it's a glitch in the game, or some really nasty random event in the game that seemingly only I have been subjected to so far. I've contacted the VV5 developers to ask them about this. I hate to have to start all over again, but if I do, I'll remember to pause it this time when I'm not playing.
An easy way to get your builders up to master builder is to send whichever one you want to make a builder and send it on the mausoleum, then get one of your followers to annoy the crap out of the heathens trying to rebuild it. THEN when it gets close to 0% let the heathens go and re-barricade it again
How on earth do you get rid of the knowing totem and how do you convert the building heathen or what ever? Please help!
[The answers to all your questions are in our walkthrough and strategy guide above. Please read that before asking questions here in the comments. Doing so will help keep the same questions from being asked over and over again. Thanks for understanding. :) -Jay]


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On October 28, 2005,[1] President George W. Bush denounced IslamoFascist movements that call for a "violent and political vision: the establishment, by terrorism, subversion and insurgency, of a totalitarian empire that denies all political and religious freedom."
The Muslim Brotherhood (Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimun)[2] also known as the Ikhwan is a good example of what the President described and what he must protect us against.
The Muslim Brotherhood ("MB") organization describes itself as a political and social revolutionary movement; it was founded in March 1928 in Egypt by Hassan al-Banna, who objected to Western influence and called for return to an original Islam.[3]
The Brotherhood is an expansive and secretive society with followers in more than 70 countries, dedicated to creating a global Islamic order that would isolate women and punish nonbelievers. Its members and supporters founded al Qaeda, as well as one "of the largest college student groups in the United States."[4]
The Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism, Juan Zarate, stated recently, "the Muslim Brotherhood is a group that worries us not because it deals with philosophical or ideological ideas but because it defends the use of violence against civilians."[5] In fact, The MB 1982 secret plan, (the Project) recently exposed, instructs all members locally and globally "To channel thought, education and action in order to establish an Islamic power [government] on the earth." [6]
The Muslim Brotherhood has historically and continues to actively pursue the establishment of a Muslim regime that will serve as the basis to re-establish the Caliphate, not only by defending violence against civilians, The current leader of the international Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammad Mahdi Akef,[7] "recently issued a new strategy calling on all its member organizations to serve its global agenda of defeating the West. He called on individual members of the Muslim Brotherhood worldwide to not only join the "resistance" to the U.S. financially, but also through active participation."[8] In the MB Project (1982), Point of Departure[9] instructs members," To use diverse and varied surveillance systems, in several places, to gather information and adopt a single effective warning system serving the worldwide Islamic movement. In fact, surveillance, policy decisions and effective communications complement each other."
In an interview to the London based Asharq Al-Awsat,[10] an international Arab newspaper on December 11, 2005, Akef stated that "the Muslim Brotherhood is a global movement whose members cooperate with each other throughout the world, based on the same religious worldview - the spread of Islam, until it rules the world."
To that end, Akef said, "the Muslim Brotherhood… are an all-encompassing Islamic organization, calling to the adoption of the great religion that Allah gave in his mercy to humanity." Meanwhile, according to its leader, the MB is busily cementing its ties: "We are in the global arena, and we preach for Allah according to the guidelines of the Muslim Brotherhood. All the members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the international arena operate according to the written charter that states that Jihad is the only way to achieve these goals[11]. "Ours is the largest organization in the world," he said.
Akef emphasized, "A Muslim in the international arena, who believes in the charter of the Muslim Brotherhood is considered part of us and we are considered part of him[12]."
In earlier interviews, 'Akef called the U.S. "a Satan that abuses the religion." He said: "I expect America to collapse soon," declaring, "I have complete faith that Islam will invade Europe and America[13]." Although U.S. observers often view the Muslim Brotherhood as well as Hamas as less violent than al-Qaeda, the Brotherhood has long been actively supporting global jihadi efforts. "Prior to the U.S.-led attack on the Taliban regime, the Muslim Brotherhood actually had training camps in Afghanistan where it worked with Kashmiri militants and sought to expand its influence in Central Asian states, especially Tajikistan."[14]
It is not surprising, therefore, that the Muslim Brotherhood reacted to Hamas' January 2006 electoral victory as not merely as a local achievement, but "a victory of the Islamic nation in its entirety,[15]" and as an expression of the concept that "the path of Islam is the true solution."
As the parent of all Sunni and many other Islamist terrorist groups, the MB, to deflect attention, uses its long-term strategy, known as "flexibility"[16] (muruna[17] in Arabic). This chameleon-like adaptation is tactical moderation with the ultimate objective of complete Islamization of society.[18] Indeed, the MB's 1982 project calls on members "To reconcile international engagement with flexibility at a local level."[19]
Today, when the West focuses on Islamist terrorism, the MB usually refrains from publicly advocating violence. The MB's 1982 Project, calls on its members "To master the art of the possible on a temporary basis without abusing the basic [Islamic] principles… we should not look for confrontation with our adversaries, at the local or the global scale, which would be disproportionate and could lead to attacks against the dawa or its disciples."[20]
As stated on its charter and its website, the MB seeks to install an Islamic totalitarian empire, a worldwide Caliphate, through stages designed to Islamize [21] targeted nations by whatever means available.
A principal danger of MB activities is that they are hidden behind "religious" ideology. Moreover, this ideology dictates concealment (Kitman).[22] In fact saying, "we should keep hush-hush on things that are still in preparation." This ideology controls every aspect of life and seeks to impose that control on everyone.
In the end, the MB intends to overthrow all secular governments and impose Islamic law (Shari'a) worldwide, and it is diligently pursuing this goal. In July 2005, former Kuwaiti minister of education Dr. Ahmad Al-Rab'i,[23] wrote in the Arabic London daily, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat: "The beginnings of all of the religious terrorism that we are witnessing today were in the Muslim Brotherhood's ideology." Thus, on its website,[24] the MB advocates, "Establishing the Islamic government."
"Building the Muslim state…Building the Khilafa…Mastering the world with Islam,"[25]; however, would necessarily deprive Americans of their First Amendment, rights.[26] The first clause in the Amendment states there shall be "no law respecting an establishment of religion." The First Amendment also upholds an individuals' right to religious freedom. But as determined by its doctrine, the MB would exploit that right—along with First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and assembly—to actively seek the imposition of laws that would deny religious freedom to everyone else.
Moreover, the MB guiding principles celebrate its major [and continuing] role in the struggle to liberate Muslims lands. The ikhwan's bravery in the 1948 Palestine war has been recorded by all sides. The total number of volunteers from the ikhwan in 1948 numbered 10,000 from Egypt, Syria and other countries. In addition to participating in the battle to liberate Palestine, they served to raise the consciousness of Muslims all over the Islamic World and restore to them the spirit of struggle and dignity. The ikhwan have played a role in liberating Muslim lands from colonialist powers in almost every Muslim country. The ikhwan were active amongst Muslims in Central Asian Muslim republics since the '70s, and their involvement can be seen recently in such republics as Tajikistan. More recently they had a major role in the struggle for Afghanistan and Kashmir[27].
Clearly, the MB strives for Muslim supremacy, often violently.
The MB's readiness to use violence was demonstrated in the U.S., in 1993 with the bombing the World trade Center in NYC. Exiled MB leader, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, in U.S. prison for plotting this attack, also planned to blow up bridges and tunnels in Manhattan.[28] Since then, the MB affiliated groups in the U.S., focused their activities and agenda to condition American minds and behavior to create an Islamic foundation from which violence can spring when the time is right.
And future violence is all but guaranteed: In 2004, MB leader Mohammad Mahdi Akef publicly promoted "Palestinian and Iraqi suicide bombers, called for the destruction of Israel and asserted that the United States has no proof that Al Qaeda was to blame for the Sept. 11 attacks."[29]
Actively promoting its radical religious ideology, the MB may well meet the definition of a "terrorist organization," under the Patriot Act, even though it has not been so designated by the U.S. government. The law stipulates "terrorist organizations to potentially include terrorist organizations not designated by the Secretary of State …A group that is engaged in terrorist activities might not be designated as a terrorist organization because, inter alia, the group's activities escape the notice of U.S. officials responsible for designated organizations as terrorist; the group has shifting alliances; or designating the group as a terrorist organization would jeopardize ongoing U.S. criminal or military operations". [30]
Terrorist organizations are legally defined as groups of two or more individuals that have "committed, incited, planned, prepared, gathered information or provided material support for terrorist activities." However, terrorist activity can in some instances include even "indirect" actions such as group membership and advocacy. [31]
In addition, the REAL ID Act of 2005 significantly expanded the legal definition "terrorist organization" as it pertains to U.S. immigration law. "Terrorist organizations" now include any group that solicit funds or memberships for either terrorist organizations or activities, or otherwise provide them material support. The definition now covers groups with subgroups engaged in terrorist activities, too. [32]As we discuss below, the MB has many such subgroups and has spawned many offspring— thus the MB and all its offspring now seem to fit these legal criteria.
The definition of "engaged in terrorist activity" was also broadened under the Real ID Act, to include belonging to, associating with, soliciting or recruiting for, or giving material support to a terrorist organization or even a single member, including non-designated terrorist organizations. Furthermore, if they so claim, the burden is now on aliens to prove that they could not reasonably have known that their actions supported a terrorist group. [33]
The Caricatures Riots
The riots following the publication of 12 caricatures of the prophet Mohammed in the then obscure Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten, [34] in September 2005, should have surprised no one. In fact, the seeds of Islamic attacks against Denmark, as a stepping-stone to the Islamist takeover of Europe, in line with the MB agenda, were planted long before the cartoons were published.
In April 15, 2005, five months before the cartoons ran, Palestinian preacher and leader of Hizb ut Tahrir (a radical group that works to establish the Caliphate), Sheikh Issam Amayra, from the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, called upon Muslims in Denmark to begin a holy war, according to his sermon translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Dahoah Halevi, director of Orient research Group in Toronto, Canada.
Amayra's sermon warned that: "…the three percent of the Muslims in Denmark constitute a threat to the future of the kingdom of Denmark. And that should not be a surprise. After all, the Muslims in Yathrib [the city of Medina, before Mohammed moved there from Mecca] constituted less than three percent of the population there. Yet they managed to change Yathrib into Medina. Thus, it should not be a surprise that our Danish brothers manage to bring Islam to all the homes of the Danes. Allah will grant them the victory in their country in order to raise the Caliphate in Denmark."
Amayra continued, "Afterwards the citizens of the Caliphate (which will be raised in Denmark) will wage war on Oslo, and after they change that city's name to Medina [for the Arabian holy city] they will fight their neighboring Scandinavian countries in order to join their lands to the territory of the Caliphate. In the next stage, they will wage a holy war and spread the message of Islam to the rest of Europe, until they reach the original city of Medina. Then they will join both cities under the banner of Islam."
Clearly, the riots in Denmark and throughout the world were not spontaneous, but planned and organized well in advance[35] by Islamist organizations that support the MB, and with funding mostly from Saudi Arabia.[36]
The MB and its offspring organizations employ the Flexibility strategy in the U.S. and wherever they operate. This strategy calls for a minority group of Muslims to use all "legal" means to infiltrate majority-dominated, non-Muslim secular and religious institutions, starting with its universities. As a result, "Islamized" Muslim and non-Muslim university graduates enter the nation's workforce, including its government and civil service sectors, where they are poised to subvert U.S. law enforcement agencies, intelligence communities, military branches, foreign services, and financial institutions.
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Much was made on the Internet about Oliver Stone bruising Shia LeBeouf's ego before the start of "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps." But as far as LeBeouf sees it, that was just Stone working to get a great performance out of him.
Stone told LeBeouf before cameras rolled, "Don't worry, Tom Cruise wasn't an actor when I first worked with him, either."
"He's wasn't being villainous or conniving," LeBeouf tells PopcornBiz. "He never said I wasn't an actor. His process is, he wants to tear an actor down to build him up."
"It's part of the process."
A big part of that was making sure that LeBeouf, coming off the monster box office success of the "Transformers" series, was going to come into the movie with his game face on.
"He didn't want an egotistical actor who thought he knew what was going on coming in," says LeBeouf. "He thought it was necessary to shake me up a bit. He wanted to instill fear in me."
In fact, the comment, which came at their second meeting, was crucial to elicit LeBeouf's performance as young Wall Street player Jake Moore.
"I needed to hear that," he says. "That was important to me."
And the two can live happily ever after, as the movie led the box office over the weekend (even if it was to mixed reviews).
So has Stone let him know that he's happy with the performance? "Definitely, in his own way?" says LeBeouf. "He's very happy with the film and very loving to me. We have a good friendship."
"I would work with Oliver any day of the week."
So does that mean there will be a "Wall Street III" follow-up? LeBeouf declines to go there.
"There are greater men than I working on that, gunga din," he says.


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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 8, 2012 (HealthDay News) — Patients with heart disease who are underinsured die sooner than similar patients with private insurance, new research suggests.
The finding held regardless of the patients' race, the investigators from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health noted. They suggested that the study results could shed light on racial disparities in outcomes for patients with heart disease.
Although black people living in poor city neighborhoods are more likely to have heart disease and die early from their condition, this may have more to do with their insurance coverage than their race, study author Derek Ng and his colleagues reported.
In conducting the study, the researchers examined information on patients admitted to one of three hospitals in Maryland for heart attack, blocked arteries or stroke. Nearly 5,000 of the patients had a heart attack, more than 6,700 had blocked arteries and just under 1,300 had a stroke.
The study, published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, revealed that the patients who were underinsured died sooner than those with private insurance. For example, underinsured patients who had a heart attack had a 31 percent higher risk of premature death, and those with blocked arteries had a 50 percent higher risk of early death, compared with those who were privately insured.
The researchers noted that there was no difference in survival rates between white and black patients. The survival effect was also independent of the patients' neighborhood and economic status as well as the severity of their disease.
Ng's team concluded that for patients admitted to the hospital for serious cardiac events — such as heart attack, stroke or blocked arteries — there is an increased risk of premature death among those who are underinsured compared with those who have private insurance.
"Given the recent changes in health insurance and health care reform, these results underscore the need to closely investigate the factors relating to health insurance that may explain these disparities. Indeed, targeting these factors may relieve the burden of mortality disproportionally affecting those who are underinsured," the authors wrote.
While the study uncovered an association between insurance status and survival rates, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.


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Despite the warnings of some GOP presidential candidates, we've got nothing to fear but fear itself -- and our own propensity for overreaction
The day the Twin Towers crumbled, more than 25,000 kids inhaled toxic substances. Ten years later, many of them are suffering from health problems that still haven't gone away.
Though the September 11 attacks were launched from Afghanistan and against the U.S., Pakistan and its 177 million people have endured much of the worst in the 10 years since
An unintentional double exposure miraculously places the before and after of the tragedy in the same frame
Politicians shy away from making public speeches on 9/11, fearing that they will politicize the mourners. But maybe our leaders should, in the style of Lincoln, provide a new narrative for the tragedy.
The Atlantic ran an essay in early 2005 imagining what September 11, 2011, would look like. Now that we're here, how did we do?
Dwelling on our own suffering makes us blind to the pain of others
A pitcher and a grieving mother remember the city's first pro sporting event after the attacks
Why are we so apt to see the terrorist group or its offshoots where they don't really exist?
In 1974, just a year after the Twin Towers were completed, French tightrope artist Philip Petit set out to achieve his ultimate goal: to string and walk a wire between the Towers. The original CBS News broadcast documents the unimaginable feat.
In 1974, just a year after the Twin Towers were completed, French tightrope artist Philip Petit set out to achieve his ultimate goal: to string and walk a wire between the Towers. The original CBS News broadcast documents the unimaginable feat.
Over the past 10 years, the basic features of how we live, communicate, and get our information have changed dramatically
In The Weekly Standard, writer Charlotte Allen skewers American universities for failing to commemorate the terrorist attacks with sufficient moralizing and self-righteousness
At a makeshift memorial near the crash site, Americans have paid tribute with a unique collection of religious and patriotic memorabilia
After the attacks, journalists were swept up in the national feelings of fear and outrage -- and failed to do their job
The real rise in terrorism has come in the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan wars we helped spark -- not in the West
Recovered documents portray Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's replacement, as diligent and more involved than we might have thought
Homeland Security has no plans to scale back some of the security measures put into place after 9/11
In the timeline of the hijackers' movements in the months before the attacks, New Mexico-born Awlaki and his followers seem to turn up nearly every step of the way
Television ably conveyed the two biggest breaking-news stories in recent memory. Could Twitter withstand news of that size?
The people who attacked America on 9/11 were suicidal and soulless, but they were still human. Ten years later, we should no longer fear them or deny them their rights as criminals.


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Tulo confident, ready to roll on Opening Day
Rockies shortstop eager to prove he's still among best in the game
MILWAUKEE -- Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki has spent 10 months waiting, and he became surprisingly good at it. On Sunday afternoon, he leaned against the visitors' dugout at Miller Park and gave the relaxed smile of a man who knew the payoff was coming in less than 24 hours, yet he wasn't staring at the clock.
Tulowitzki, 28, underwent surgery to remove scar tissue from his troublesome left groin and didn't play after May 30 last year. He wisely didn't risk his health just to get back into uniform to experience the end of the worst season in Rockies history (64-98). During Spring Training, Tulowitzki saved his patented leaping laser throws from across the infield and the trademark hustle until the final days.
Tulowitzki completed his spring with a jaw-dropping home run in Salt Lake City on Saturday against Mariners rookie sensation Brandon Maurer. Step by step, Tulowitzki has arrived exactly where he wanted to be -- ready for the Rockies' 2013 Opening Day game against the Brewers on Monday.
"This game is going to build some nerves and some stress sometimes," Tulowitzki said. "But the older I've gotten, I've become a little bit more relaxed. You've been through a lot, whether it be struggling or injuries, whatever this game can throw at me. I'm back at it again here and ready to try to help the team win games.
"More than anything, you just gain some patience to stick this thing, and hopefully it's going to be all right."
Patience wasn't always a Tulowitzki trait. It seemed he believed he could make what he wanted to happen -- right now -- through force of will. Sometimes that's what happened.
Tulowitzki's precocious play and attitude in his rookie year of 2007 was one of several delightfully unexpected attributes of the team during its run to a World Series appearance. His hard-driving style made him a leader of another team that went to the playoffs two years later. Rather than wait for arbitration and free agency to become factors and stresses, Tulowitzki signed two contracts, the last covering seasons through 2020.
But Tulowitzki has learned that neither baseball nor his career operate solely on his schedule. Originally injured during the first series of last season, Tulowitzki pushed until May 30, when his groin became so bad he couldn't continue to play. After an aborted rehab attempt, Tulowitzki underwent surgery in Philadelphia with sports hernia specialist Dr. William Myers.
The aftermath tried the patience that Tulowitzki didn't know he had. After healing, Tulowitzki played some Minor League rehab games but never felt confident enough to return to the Majors. After such a year of discontent for himself and the team, Tulowitzki believed the club would move him to fill multiple needs and escape some of its $140 million commitment to him. It was a long, painful reversal of fortunes for Tulowitzki. Not only was he an All-Star the previous two years, but he had embraced face-of-the-franchise status, the point that he vocally defended the Rockies when former pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez -- traded in 2011 -- expressed disappointment over contract issues.
But no deal happened, and rehab continued. Somewhere along the line, Tulowitzki moved toward a big-picture approach.
"You understand it," Tulowitzki said. "All you can do is just go out there, play the game the right way, help your team win games and let all that stuff take care of itself. Whether it happens or not, just be a professional."
Tulowitzki vows to at least try being patient with himself. He won't be able to resist postgame trips to the batting cage when his swing isn't right, but said he'll do it with the thought of regaining feel, rather than pounding out frustration. He has learned more about managing his muscles through rest, flexibility programs and massage.
But where the new attitude could show best is in dealings with others.
As a rookie, there was the clubhouse incident in Arizona when Tulowitzki announced to teammates that he had never lost before and wasn't about to start. Granted, it was months later that Colorado made an improbable run to the postseason and the World Series and, more accurately, he was putting himself in line with already-frustrated veteran players, rather than ahead of them on the leadership hierarchy.
But afterward, Tulowitzki struggled to find his persona as a leader. He became more vocal most of the time, but at times, he would withdraw when struggling. He also admits he didn't always have the best timing -- an issue that is difficult for managers and coaches, much less a teammate in his 20s.
"A lot of times, I confronted guys right when things happened," Tulowitzki said. "Now I sit back, watch, get to know the guy a little bit better. That's changed a little bit. I just have to keep in perspective how hard it is to play this game."
Now Tulowitzki says he better understands players like Todd Helton, still the team's elder statesman, Matt Holliday and Brad Hawpe, who led quietly by first making younger teammates feel accepted.
"You've got to show them some love, that's the best way to put it," Tulowitzki said. "Whether you're coaches or an older guy trying to help them, show them some love and they tend to listen a little bit better.
"That being said, I'm not worrying about that. I can be who I am. I don't have to do anything different to lead. Put my work in. Play the game the right way. That's the kind of leading I'm into."
Make no mistake. The fire can burn in a relaxed man.
Winning Gold Glove and Silver Slugger Awards in 2010 and '11 made Tulowitzki simply the best two-way shortstop in the game.
Yet, he hears the whispers that a guy 6-foot-3 and powerfully built simply isn't flexible enough to handle the demands of what traditionally was a little man's position. He hears the low expectations for the club this year, even though with Tulowitzki in the cleanup spot behind No. 3 hitter Carlos Gonzalez, the Rockies have a lineup that has a chance to overcome the team's iffy pitching.
For nearly a year, Tulowitzki has held back so much, physically and emotionally. But he knows Monday is time to let it all flow with his characteristic furor.
"I think the confidence I've always had is still with me," Tulowitzki said. "You hear those whispers of the injuries or, 'He needs to be healthy and put up his numbers before.' You want to do that, to prove to them that you've still got it. There's a lot of stuff built up inside of me of why I want to have a good year.
"Then again, there are some things you can't control, and I realize that, too. I can want all I want and that doesn't mean it's going to happen. You have to be out there on the field. But if I'm out there, I believe in my abilities."


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Kapoor and Sons changes the jaded frontage of dramedy!
It is good to see we are gradually rolling in an era where dramedy is no longer constrained to standing stiff characters, simulated backdrops and shoddy repetitive emphasizing music that we see on Television every day. The change is here, and we have stepped into it in an endearing mannerism.
Shakun Batra's latest Kapoor and Sons walks in with a certain unprocessed aura that is suggestive of a relatable context as you skim through its plot. When you show trivial things, like where the key to the house is placed, it propagates a natural comportment at things that exist the way they do in real life. It is realistically close to how we live. That factor is well milked by Shakun in her direction.
Comedy is squeezed in galore as there isn't a moment you stop smiling till things begin to go south for the family. A little instigation and the whole framework uproots into chaos flinging people into the depths of psychosis they aren't aware of but are living amidst. We have on the platter a dysfunctional family that has a lot of things already screwed-up, as we take a peek into their lives with the arrival of two sons on account of a certain heart-attack mockery that goes awry.
Rajat Kapoor, is at his usual best, as he plays a crunched dad who is terribly close to a failing marriage with Ratna Pathak, the typical Indian mom who has her hands full with chores, and a brain full of complaints. She is a brilliant actress who aces everything she does to perfection. So she manages on with her worrying Mom acts with her 'perfect' son Rahul in the vantage played extraordinarily by Fawad Khan. Fawad was the perfect cast, an exceptional choice that we have, who fills in the shoes of Rahul Kapoor in Kapoor and Sons. He brings home the right warmth of brotherly love for his sibling Arjun, and projects a perfection that is rare to find, also in a way reflective of good people in our society. He accepts a challenging role and sees it to fruition without leaving his charismatic zone for a second. He is fluent, candid and understanding. A spectacular blend!
To have a glimpse into the tawdry side of the flick we have many elements that unfortunately take it downhill too. Sadly the awkward makeup lingering on Rishi Kapoor's face can't be ignored. What was terribly sorry to watch was the inexperience Sidharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt manifest as they end up decimating drama with their unemotional acts. Sidharth's incapability to react aptly to a sad story playing in front of his eyes, fill you up with indifference. Same goes true for Alia who was a charmer when it came to delivering brilliant comic lines, but time came to show her real acting prowess, where it all mattered, she went down the dodgy lane. Her cuteness obscures the veracity that was the need of the hour.
Also, we cannot completely ignore the script of Kapoor and Sons. We could have lived without including too many hotchpotch side stories to it. The one with the plagiarism of the novel and the revelation was the worst story to have been included as things seemed to be terribly out of place. The latter being the part where we see acting go on dwindling lanes. The Anu aunty plot was well put and executed magnificently. Two brothers single girl seemed straight from "Dan in Real Life" (That guitar scene couldn't help but remind me of that flick). The reefer bit complacency came straight from the movie "This is Where I Leave You" and would make you question the originality of it. Also, humour hits a rock-bottom there!
Amidst all the confusion and vexation, grandpa with a dying wish to frame a perfect family picture gets lost as a side-plot conundrum. The poetry in it hasn't been well milked.
The drama of Kapoor and Sons eventually goes from sentient to cheesy as we make a time leap, something which breaks the gloomy flow which I was averse against. Unfortunately the LGBT issue is still frowned upon in Indian mindsets as I heard laughter around me in the theater when serious notes concluded which was kind of sad.
Overall Kapoor and Sons was really great to come out from a soapy cocoon, and discover Fawad the true gem he is, see comedy for the way it should be, and explore natural instinctive acting style that Indian Cinema has been lacking hitherto in a dramedy. An enjoyable hoot made even better with characters like Boobly, Kishore and Wasim who made humour all the way better!
Totally worth your time!
Kapoor and Sons
- Changing dramedy facet
- Great direction
- Fawad Khan is extraordinary
- Melodrama where it skimmed comedy was well executed
- Too many sub-plots gnaw at focus
- Parts taken from Hollywood questions its originality
- Drama where it mattered the most goes in a time leap


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I always thought the Streak was a bit under-powered.
When Dell released Ubuntu systems, they too where knobbled.
It's almost as if they want to make non-Windows OS appear bad.
That can't be right, surely?
At Dell World today Michael Dell pretty much said his company will produce a Windows 8 tablet. He said that fondleslab sales on Android had failed to take off. Talking about tablets he said: "You'll see us very much aligned around the Windows 8 introduction." He added that a range of slabs will be introduced. The …
Not necessarily. Commenting this from the 2005 E510 machine that would have been so bad on Windows. WInXP died around 2006. Ubuntu 10.04 GNOME desktop + Compiz is gorgeous with just 1.5 G of RAM. Dell is a bit overpriced though
HP is actually the worst quality, imho Yes, I agree, Dell's Ubuntu offer is a joke.
I'm fairly certain it's the enterprise issue. There are three issues. Firstly, corporate IT departments simply aren't comfortable with iPads - they don't know how to develop for them, how to lock them down, or even how to buy them. Apple don't exactly go out of their way to befriend the channel or the enterprise market, and killing Xserve only added to that fear. Dell tablets running Windows are a familiar world to sysadmins.
The second problem is existing enterprise apps. Most large companies have built up a substantial body of Windows and web-based (IE6-based) apps. These can't be ported to iPad without significant expense, not to mention recruiting a whole new team of Objective-C developers. If you're the manager of a team of Microsoft developers who stands to lose resources, you're going to instil as much FUD as possible until your boss stops going on about iPad.
Finally it's an issue of perception. The iPad is perceived as a toy, not as a serious business tool. Nobody in their right mind is likely to buy a Dell Win8 tablet for home use. For businesses this also means they are less likely to be stolen.
[quote]So what does Win8 give that Android doesn't?
Have you had your head in a bucket for the last 6 months? don't you realise windows 8 will have a new file copy dialog that more accurately predicts how long it will be until the file copy is completed!! oh and probably a few other things that nobody has really decided on yet.
This has the feel of Dell losing its warm and fuzzy because people didn't run out and buy their Android product.
Profits went flat.
Dell says -I don't feel so good- and Doctor MS says -here's the medicine-.
Isn't there is a slight difference between "a free OS" and "paid for product placement" ?
Will this go on the books at MS as advertising?
I guess if two party's agree to it, it must be legitimate.
SWEET DEAL and Dell feels the healing power Microsoft.
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They'd be better off sticking with Android and promoting the Android icon more - punters *know* what Android is now, they recognise the brand.
Windows has yet to make any brand inroads into the mobile market.
People perceive them as Desktop or Laptop.
When consumers think about tablet devices, they don't even think 'tablet', they think iPad.
I don't think any amount of marketing muscle is going to swing the status quo by any significant margin.
Microsoft isn't *cool* in any shape or form - people think "office" "work"
Same goes for Dell - it's just not cool. It's a known brand, but it's also associated with "work" - black monitors, keyboards, tower cases.
Android on the other hand, whilst not having the same *cool* factor as Apple, is a damn side cooler than Microsoft or Dell.
Amazon may have more luck with the Kindle Fire on Android, as there's *two* recognisable brands there now, Amazon & Kindle.
Dell? - boring company that makes boring work computers. Hell with freeze over before they have a successful tablet device.
Yes, work - and that will do nicely thank you. OK, lots of people might not buy a tablet because it reminds them of work, but lots of people might start to notice them too, and think, good enough for work, good enough for me. Hard to get inside other people's mindset. I will stick with my android tablet for a while though. Beer, because it is Friday.
* Genuine innovation in the GUI department?
Android follows the traditional GNU and F/OSS approach of "sincerely flattering" commercial products, while claiming to be morally and ethically superior on the grounds of, er, uhm, something to do with "openness"—whatever the hell that is defined to be this week.
At least Microsoft are actually trying a different approach to the multi-touch user experience.
* The option to switch to the traditional WIMP GUI when needed?
This has been frequently derided as giving Windows 8 something of a dual identity, but there is logic to it: WIMP at the office desktop; Metro on the move. It's not the most elegant solution, and there are bound to be some glitches and bumps to be ironed out in future releases, but it'll be "good enough" for most corporate buyers...
* ... corporate friendliness.
This is the crucial component. BOFHs are familiar with Windows, and corporate applications are usually written for Windows, not OS X or iOS. Granted, VMs can help with this issue if you really want to go the Apple way – and Objective-C 2 isn't *that* f*cking difficult to learn; I picked it up in a day! It's a hell of a lot easier to get along with than the vastly overrated C++ – but ultimately, if you can get to keep the status quo without spending money on programmers, that's a win for the CTO.
Microsoft "gets" corporate IT. Sure, they've dropped the ball on occasion, but MS are fundamentally a developer tools company that just happens to sell a convenient platform for those tools to run on and target. Windows 8 is their attempt to extend that platform into the tablet space.
Apple are happy to play on the peripheries, as much for pragmatic reasons—their own CEOs would naturally prefer to have their own products in their pockets all day—but have never been particularly interested in stuffing iMacs into the business world's offices. They're a *consumer* oriented company first and foremost, so they're not really competing with Microsoft in this sector.
Android has no clue where it wants to be, or who it is for. And no, most people have no idea what "Android" actually is. They may have seen the logo. They might think it has something to do with compatibility, but like the old "MSX" standard, there are enough differences between devices that it's nowhere near as simple as Android's advocates make it out to be. An app you've bought for your current Android phone is not even guaranteed to be *available* for your next one, due to form-factor issues, hardware differences and more. It's just not that consistent an experience for the user.
This isn't helped by the walled gardens operated by Android licensees and phone service operators. The hypocrisy from the F/OSS community is incredible.
My brother's iPhone 3GS was launched in 2009. Without any jail-breaking, he's received free upgrades iOS 4 and, this week, to iOS 5. At the same time as later models received the same upgrades. How many Android devices do you seriously believe will see that level of support? Google's Nexus devices, perhaps? You can talk about "planned obsolescence" until you're blue in the face, but the *only* platform that seems to make a virtue of this practice is... Android.
Similarly, Windows is well-known for regular patches and updates, all made available *directly* from Microsoft, on the day of release, to all devices, regardless of manufacturer.
Windows 8 tablets will likely eat a substantial chunk of Android's market share. And deservedly so.
So, "Windows 8 tablets will likely eat a substantial chunk of Android's market share". Since the latter is, what, around 20%, that's hardly something to be excited about.
In any case, I think it's a bit early to count Android out, now that Amazon has jumped into the market. They've been very good at selling things so far.
Personally, I don't find tablets of any sort at all interesting or desirable; but among those who do, I don't see much reason to believe that Win8 tablets will compete particularly well. And if they do, I expect it will be almost entirely due to the "enterprise" factor. I don't expect the Metro UI will drive significant sales. Most evidence suggests that most customers pay little or no attention to user experience when making purchasing decisions.
You rush out some ill-thought models built by Quanta or Kopal or Foxconn against the Ipad find they don't sell and you blame the OS? Well failed Mr Dell. Samsung and HTC are showing what can be done with Android if you are prepared to spend your own money on hardware and software development. You can't expect Google to give you it al, can you?
Run off to Microsoft and Intel for a big marketing budget incentive and everything will be better. Don't forget to turn off the lights when you leave.
Er, haven't you seen all the fuss about Windows 8 on ARM? Microsoft didn't spend $millions on buying an ARM *foundry* license (a rare thing indeed) for nothing you know.
MS may well end up with all bases covered with everything from ARM phones/tablets with fancy GUIs to servers with a healthy dose of corporate integration throughout. That could be a hard thing to resist. It could wipe out Blackberry. If the offering attracts enough content it will make a big dent in Apple/Android too.
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If a windows 8 tablet will run my windows apps, I'll buy one.
If a windows 8 tablet won't run my windows apps, I still see no reason whatever to buy a tablet of any kind.
Even given decent windows application compatibility, there's really only 2 reasons for me to get a tablet at all:
1) my 2-year old can use Rosetta Stone, (a graphical language learning program) by just pointing with the finger.
2) it'll work like a glorified music playback selector/controller for the house if it supports DLNA.
Any other uses I can think of are all preferable to just use a small laptop for, like Sony's SA models


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IE10 Platform Preview 4 includes support for a new CSS property,
-ms-user-select, which makes it easier for Web developers to control exactly what text can be selected on their Web sites. If you were to watch me all day at my workstation, you would notice that as I read on the computer, I select text. I'm not the only one who reads like this; selecting text on the Internet is important in many other scenarios.
Consider a typical news Web site. Most pages will include a news article, the contents of which the user needs to be able to select because they read by selecting text or because they want to share the content. Also on the news Web page there are some menus and links to other parts of the site. Users likely don't need to select these items. Using
-ms-user-select, the Web developer can specify that text selection is allowed in the news article but not allowed in the menus.
The IE Test Drive site includes an example that does this.
-ms-user-select:none on the entire page and then setting
-ms-user-select:element on the element containing the blog post allows only the contents of the blog post to be selected.
-ms-user-select:element is a new property first introduced by IE which we think could be useful in many situations. Setting
-ms-user-select:element means that the user can select the text of that element, however, the selection will be constrained to the bounds of the element. People who want to select the contents of a news article probably don't want to select the footer elements just past the article. Setting
-ms-user-select:element makes it easy for users to just select the contents of the article without having to worry about getting the mouse placement exactly correct.
-ms-user-select accepts four values:
text– the text is selectable
element– the text is selectable, constrained to the bounds of the element
none– the text is not selectable
auto– if the element contains editable text such as an input element or contenteditable element, the text is selectable. Otherwise selection is determined by the parent node's value.
auto is the default value for
A developer can turn off text selection by setting
-ms-user-select to
none. In IE, when text is set to
-ms-user-select:none, the user will not be able to start a selection within that block of text. However, if the user started selecting text on a different area of the page, the selection would continue into any area of the page including areas where
-ms-user-select is
none. In Firefox, if the developer sets
–moz-user-select:none then selections can't start in that area and also can't be included in any other selection. In Webkit, setting
–webkit-user-select:none will make it appear as if that the text is not included in the selection, however if you copy and paste the content, you will see that the content is included in the selection.
user-select was originally proposed in the User Interface for CSS3 module; this module has since been superseded by CSS3 Basic User Interface Module, yet it does not define the property. Both Mozilla and Webkit support their own prefixed versions of this property. However, as discussed above, there are some differences in the implementations.
Play around with the examples on the IE Test Drive site and let us know what you think.
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thanks for every body's input. l am still hanging out for more info on billet flywheel for Kawasaki fh721v 25hp twin.neil.
looks like it is very hard to get a billet flywheel for a Kawasaki fh721v, has any body had there cast iron flywheel machined [lightened] with a very very heavy duty guard around it for safety?
Do not lighten ANY STOCK FLYWHEEL PERIOD. It is not legal for racing and will get you hurt.
Lester, I am new at mower racing as you can probably tell. when you write ''easy to modify the steel hub'', from what l can see the steel hub is just the inner part of the billet flywheel, that sits over the end of the crank, with the o/d much smaller than the flywheel's o/d. Am l looking at a different type of steel hub to the one you are writing about? neil.
Thanks for your help. What motor steel hub did you start off with, and did you take your whole motor to a machining shop for them to machine the inner part of the hub?


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Passover's just a couple of weeks away. In anticipation of its arrival, today we give you one of Earth's mighty delights: the matzo ball.
Why you need to learn this
Full disclosure: This Irish Catholic writer is as goyish as they come, so, why matzo balls? Why not something more suited to my heritage, like potatoes? Or beer?
Regardless of your heritage, it never hurts to have some traditional dishes under your belt from a variety of traditions. And quite frankly, a bowl of matzo ball soup, at any time of year, makes me happy.
There are probably as many matzo ball recipes as there are grandmothers, and true aficionados tend to divide them into two camps: floaters and sinkers. Matzo balls are commonly found in a bowl of beautifully seasoned chicken broth, and depending on how they're made, they may contain enough air bubbles to cause them to float in that broth. Conversely, they may be so dense that they sink to the bottom of the bowl.
Let's talk about what goes into matzo balls, then, and what ingredients are likely to make them float or sink.
The main ingredient in matzo balls is matzo meal, which is simply ground matzo bread, itself made from flour and water. Available in most supermarkets, matzo meal comes in fine to coarse grinds, not unlike bread crumbs. To make matzo balls, you also need fat. Rendered chicken fat, called schmaltz, is traditional, but you could substitute oil or butter (though butter conflicts with kosher dietary restrictions prohibiting combining meat with dairy). Fat gives matzo balls a smooth texture, a silky mouthfeel and also adds tenderness and flavor, especially schmaltz.
There are a couple ways to get schmaltz: If you're making your own chicken broth (which we heartily recommend), chill it after it's done, and the fat will rise to the top and solidify. Scoop it off and melt it over low heat. Alternately, any time you work with chicken, trim away the extra fat before cooking and render it in a small skillet over low heat. Or, cut chicken skin into small pieces and render the fat. The browned bits, called "gribenes," can be used to garnish other dishes or flavor the matzo balls.
Eggs bind everything together because of the albumen in the whites. Some floater fans whip the whites separately before folding them into the dough to make a lighter product.
Liquid is also needed. This is most often water or chicken stock. For an airier product, substitute soda water or seltzer, and the gas bubbles will lighten the dough. Another way to get bubbles into the dough is with a chemical leavener, such as baking powder.
Generally, you'll need 3 to 4 eggs per cup of matzo meal, along with a 1 to 2 ounces of fat and, if needed, a couple ounces of liquid. One teaspoon of salt should be enough.
The steps you take
1. If you're using whole eggs, beat them in a metal bowl with liquid and melted fat. If you're whipping whites separately, start with only the yolks, liquid and fat.
2. Gently fold in the dry ingredients. If you've whipped the whites to soft peaks, fold them in carefully to avoid losing air.
3. Rest dough in the refrigerator overnight to fully hydrate the matzo meal.
4. Wet your hands and roll pieces of dough into the desired size.
5. Simmer the balls in salted water or stock until cooked through, about 30 to 45 minutes, depending on their size.
6. Serve matzo balls in flavorful chicken stock, and freeze any leftovers in the stock.
Jim DeWan is co-author with Jeffrey Elliot of "The Zwilling J. A. Henckels Complete Book of Knife Skills: The Essential Guide to Use, Techniques and Care."
Matzo ball soup
30 minutes
2 hours
8 servings
A friend, Jennifer Diamond, shared her grandmother Muriel Diamond's soup recipe with me. This version is adapted from that recipe. For best flavor and matzo ball texture, make this the day before serving.
3 pounds chicken thighs or 1 whole cut up chicken
1 tablespoon kosher salt
2 large sweet onions, cut into large dice
6 each, cut into bite sized pieces: carrots, celery ribs
3 to 6 cloves garlic, peeled, minced
2 bay leaves
1/2 cup parsley, chopped
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup matzo meal
2 tablespoons chicken fat skimmed from soup
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
Freshly ground pepper
1/3 pound thin egg noodles, cooked in water
1. Place chicken in a stock pot with salted water to cover. Heat to a boil; reduce to a simmer. Cook until chicken is tender, 45-60 minutes. Remove chicken from stock; reserve. Add vegetables, bay leaves and parsley to stock; simmer until vegetables are almost soft, 30 minutes. Cool slightly.
2. Meanwhile, make matzo balls. Combine eggs, matzo meal, chicken fat and salt in a bowl. Work into a dough. Refrigerate dough and soup, covered, overnight.
3. Remove dough from refrigerator; roll into walnut-size balls. Heat soup to a boil; reduce heat to a simmer. Drop matzo balls into soup; simmer, covered, 30 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, cut chicken into bite-size pieces. Season soup to taste. Place 1 or 2 matzo balls, some of the chicken, vegetables and cooked noodles in a bowl; ladle hot soup over.
Nutrition information
Per serving: 280 calories, 25% of calories from fat, 8 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 125 mg cholesterol, 29 g carbohydrates, 23 g protein, 297 mg sodium, 4 g fiber


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Same as The Amazing Race, the second placer gets 100k as well. (whether it has changed or not I do not know)
Also, is it true that the 1 million prize is not really given in cold cash (assuming its given without tax implication, but of course it has) i mean that the winner needs to wait for some time for his prize to be one million, or he/she has the option to just receive the "present value" of the million dollar prize?
Quote from: Jobby on December 23, 2013, 12:41:59 AM Same as The Amazing Race, the second placer gets 100k as well. (whether it has changed or not I do not know)That is NOT correct.... wish it was true!
Here in the Philippines, prizes and winnings have a final withholding tax of 20%. So for gameshow winners, if they won the grand prize of 1M pesos, they just ended up with P800,000.
Another question, can HIIs be played if there's a re-vote?
Quote from: scruffs on May 11, 2014, 10:00:43 PMAnother question, can HIIs be played if there's a re-vote?Nope, they must be played the first time votes are cast - after that, if they have a HII and there's a revote, they have to keep it in their bag
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Snow, slush, ice, mud, tornadoes and windstorms have led to less-than-stellar driving conditions in many parts of the country. It's not even safe to be driving a giant wiener. When the driving conditions get bad in this country we generally turn to trucks and sport-utlitly-vehicles for help. But there's a magical place, a place called "the rest of the world." And people who live in this mysterious land see a muddy road and think Ford Escort instead of Jeep Wrangler, Peugeot 205 instead of Chevy Tahoe and Renault Clio instead of Ford F-150. These are the people with the Spirit of the Rally.
While we've had a bit of a renaissance with the American rally racing seen, it's sad to see that most of the cars are not America. We may have great American drivers, like Travis Pastrana, but he still drives a deer dodging Subaru WRX STI. Though you'll see the odd Camaro at rallying events, it's still a sport dominated by everyone else. We think if you're going to have a great renaissance of the American rally, you're going to need a great American car to do it. But what car? We leave that to you to decide. (h/t to Franzouse for the inspiration)


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This is part of an on-going series of photographs of weather vanes in the Nutfield, New Hampshire area (formerly Derry, Londonderry and parts of Hudson, Windham and Manchester). Some of the weather vanes are historical, some are whimsical, and all are interesting.
Do you know the location of weather vane #42? Scroll down to the bottom to see the answer!
This week's eagle is located in Derry, New Hampshire. It is atop the central cupola on a building located on North High Street, just above the Nussbaum Electric office. There appear to be quite a few businesses using the eagle as a mascot in our area. Usually eagles are seen only on the cupolas and towers of civic buildings.
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