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"There must have been a large bung behind this shit."
"You've had some serious cowboys in here."
"You're telling me I have to simply fill in paperwork 9-5?"
Bradford is a City in the North of England with ambition that often far outweighs good planning, common sense and available budgets, in an effort to be the laughing stock of the entire of Europe CBMDC (Confused Bureaucratic Managers Demanding Change) have decided to literally bury the infamous Wastefield Shopping Centre under 1000 tonnes of mud and sand in the hope passers by will forget about what could have been.
Background of the hole[edit]
Before the barking mad idea of creating the urine filled pool known as the City Park, Bradford Council entered a contract with a company called Wastefield in 2003 to demolish much of Bradford's then successfully trading retail sites to replace them with a unique public realm attraction known as a huge fucking hole in the ground.
Given no other city in the entire of Europe had a huge fucking hole in the ground (at least not since WWII), it was decided that Bradford could set itself apart from other cities and build a successful and expanding retail base by flattening much of the retail units and forcing the traders to move out of the city centre onto Valley Road.
The people of Bradford were promised 3,000 new, minimum wage, 72 hour per week, exploitative jobs would be created by the year 2006 as a result of the demolition. However, by 2006 all the city had was a huge hole, piles of rubble and broken promises.
The director of Regeneration at city hall was on a salary exceeding £100,000, so at least one person was happy, very happy.
Expected retail boom[edit]
On the 7th February 2008 one of the key retail shops said to Wastefield "Yo G' stick the fucking BS mo'fo" or words to that effect, locals had hoped top end brands such as Lidl, TK Maxx, Cash Converters and Cash Generator would open superstores. Alas the only occupants of the Wastefield land were tumbleweed and a Womble looking for a new home.
Meanwhile, throughout the city centre, retail units closed, were boarded up or vandalised, those that were replaced became book makers, arcades or the odd fast food outlet, even pubs closed as the public realm enhancements around Centenary Square meant the dossers could drink booze from Tesco even cheaper on the tax payer funded benches.
Temporary Permanent Replacement Park[edit]
In February 2010, after spouting off enough lies in the local newspaper to have wasted 643 tonnes of carbon, Bradford Council finally conceded that the big hole had failed to boost the economy and had breached the human rights of dole dossers who had to walk around the Wastefield hoardings simply to sign on.
The Council decided, albeit years too late, something needed to be done, anything, well not quite anything as the Peter Sutcliffe theme park idea was rejected.
Finally though there was an opportunity for change, Bradford Council had a chance to fix Bradford's terminally failing retail sector by creating a temporary car park, that plan however was dismissed as a potentially successful idea and instead the
lessons mistakes learned from public realm around Centenary Square would be repeated by creating more space to wander around aimlessly, beg, get drunk and commit sexual assault.
The hole was filled in with 1000 tonnes of mud and sand, finally a path, benches, lighting, a couple of dummy CCTV cameras and some sharp stones for the EDL to throw were put in place. The site features a performance area, its first use was for a contemporary urban dance troupe lead by and EDL and UAF on the 28th of August 2010, the performance featured synchronised pushing, chanting, stone throwing and the use of pyrotechnics.
Flooded with bitter tears[edit]
In January 2011 it was reported that the Urban Gardens was flooded with the bitter tears of nearby retailers as they suffered with rising bills and falling income. Alas, it had come to this, all the retail staff could do was collapse to their knees bend over and cry and cry and cry, for no more would the council listen to their tales of woe published in the local newspaper.
The council's remedy (again) was a series of artworks, this time however the artists were instructed to paint their artworks on nappies so they would soak up the tears whilst creating a vision of joy and positive Bradford spirit, for all to enjoy.
City of Sanctuary[edit]
In November 2010, Bradford was officially recognised as a 'City of Sanctuary' which was celebrated despite the fact it was merely a nice name for branding the city as a soft touch to foreign criminals and gypsies. The success of the 'City of
Spongers Sanctuary' was overwhelming and sites throughout Bradford from Baildon to Shipley to Silsden were occupied by travellers, eventually they descended on the Urban Gardens but to avoid embarrassment at the scale of the camp the Council claimed it was an interactive art installation.
Since 2006 crime in Bradford city centre has been gradually eliminated thanks to operation "Head in the Sand" which involves the introduction of schemes to reduce recorded crime. Phase 1 of the operation was to outsource Bradford's 999 emergency number to a call centre in India manned by one individual who claims his name is Fred, this resulted overnight in 64% less crimes being recorded.
Phase 2 of the operation involves turning off the power to the CCTV motors so they no longer rotate and publishing the location of CCTV cameras on maps so the local criminals can avoid detection.
Phase 3 of the operation is the provision of an online crime map so the criminals can work to achieve a high score each month.
- As of 26/09/10 59,234 words have been published in the local newspaper in efforts to lie about Bradford's failed regeneration.
- The latest Mad Max film (provisionally titled Fury Road) was originally planned to have taken place on a number of locations around Bradford including the Urban Gardens as part of the Unesco city of film honour, Mel Gibson was said to have been attracted to Bradford due to the local anti-Semitic views and post apocalyptic locations.
- It helps when making decisions on the future of Bradford to live no closer than Keighley, Ilkey or Craven so that you do not spend your post political life being reminded of your failure.


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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Our Journey Continues - Ruche Lookbook Part II
Part II of our Spring Lookbook in San Miguel de Allende is finally here! Photography by Stephanie Williams of course.
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Chris Benoit, perhaps the greatest worker ever in the wrestling business, has died.
Benoit, his wife Nancy (former wrestling personality 'Woman') and their son Daniel, were found dead today at the family home in Atlanta. Benoit was 40 years old.
As authorities investigate the circumstances of their deaths, reports state that Benoit missed a house show over the weekend and failed to appear for the 'Vengeance' pay-per-view last night. Wrestler Johnny Nitro took his place against CM Punk in the ECW World Heavyweight Title match. Joey Styles and Tazz, the ECW announce team, stated that Benoit was absent for "personal reasons". Throughout the bout, fans cheered "We want Benoit!"
Born in Montreal, Benoit, who looked up to the Dynamite Kid as a child, was trained by the legendary Stu Hart in Calgary and grew to be a mainstay of the Stampede Wrestling scene and a close family friend of the Hart family.
Benoit took on the persona of the 'Pegasus Kid' in Mexico and Japan and in a classic bout defeated Jushin Liger to win the IWGP Light Heavyweight title and as 'Wild Pegasus' won the Inaugural Super J Cup in 1994 when he defeated a man who would become his life-long friend: Eddie Guerrero.
Moving onto ECW, Benoit was nicknamed 'The Crippler' by booker/owner Paul Heyman after he accidentally broke Sabu's neck in a match. Moving onto to WCW, Benoit off the hook work rate and natural wrestling ability won him on spot on the legendary 'Four Horsemen' wrestling stable headed by the one and only Ric Flair.
Bad blood erupted between Benoit and WCW booker and wrestler Kevin Sullivan when a storyline concerning Benoit stealing Sullivan's wife, Nancy, became a reality.
Perhaps his greatest accomplishment in WCW was Benoit's "Best of Seven" series with Booker T. Booker won the series but the phenomenal matches elevated both in the eyes of fans and industry types alike.
On October 4th, 1999, Benoit and Bret Hart engaged in a classic match in Kemper Arena in Kansas City in a touching tribute to Bret's brother, the late Owen Hart. A month later, Benoit would wrestle Hart again, this time losing in the finals of a tournament for the vacant WCW World title.
At the 'Souled Out' pay-per-view, Benoit defeated Sid Vicious for the WCW World Heavyweight Title then quit the company over backstage politics and headed to the WWE with friends Perry Saturn, Dean Malenko and Eddie Guerrero.
Appearing at his first Wrestlemania, Benoit defeated Kurt Angle and Chris Jericho in a Triple Threat Match to win his first Intercontinental Championship.
In 2001, Benoit was sidelined while having to undergo surgery to repair a pinched nerve in his neck and spinal disk problems, a procedure which caused him to miss out on participating at Wrestlemania XIX in Toronto's Skydome.
In late 2003, Benoit ran afoul of Smackdown General Manager Paul Heyman. Benoit become the number one entrant in the 2004 Royal Rumble and then went from number one entrant to number one contender, eliminating the Big Show to win the Royal Rumble.
At Wrestlemania XX on March 14th, 2004, Chris Benoit defeated Shawn Michaels and Triple H in the main event to become the World Heavyweight Champion. After successfully defending the title in a rematch at Backlash in Edmonton a month later, Benoit would lose the belt to Randy Orton at SummerSlam 2004. Fans didn't care though as Benoit was widely respected as one of the greatest, toughest and hard working grapplers the squared circle had ever seen.
Nancy Daus Benoit, had a memorable career in her own right. As the unforgettable and crafty valet and manager 'Woman', she managed Kevin Sullivan, the tag team Doom, Ric Flair, Tazz and The Sandman. As 'Woman', Nancy wasn't content to look pretty at ringside. She was known to physically interfere in matches and will be remembered for the enthusiasm for which she approached her wrestling role.
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Educator examines quality of parental involvement
Borenstein says that 'more' does not necessarily mean 'better'
How do schools involve parents?
This question should not necessarily mean, "'How do schools get more parent involvement?' but 'How can schools change the model for parent involvement?'" says Marci Borenstein, director of Brandeis' Office of High School Programs.
Speaking at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education's May lunch seminar, Borenstein shared frameworks and findings from an 18-month ethnographic study of immigrant parent involvement in two elementary schools in New York City.
Beginning in 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act required programs such as Head Start to provide for parental involvement, Borenstein explained. In order to receive federal funding, programs had to document parent visits and parent participation in school activities. Over the years, she said, these requirements encouraged the view that "more is better" as schools assiduously documented the number of parents attending school functions.
But schools send contradictory messages to parents about their involvement, Borenstein said, highlighting the role of organizational factors, including space, time and policies, in shaping and constraining parental involvement.
For instance, spatial organization positions parents as outsiders, she said. There is no place in the school for parents to congregate. Parents are only allowed in at specific times and in New York, as elsewhere, must be buzzed in or cleared by a guard. While principals announce at the beginning of the year that parents are always welcome, teachers have little time to meet with parents. Even parent-teacher conferences are limited by time constraints to 10 minutes at the two schools studied.
Parental involvement has both benefits and challenges.
For example, everyone benefits when parents get children to school on time, fed and rested, when they support education, and encourage learning and homework. Borenstein found that immigrant parents may be "ideal parents" in that respect. In many cases they have come to the United States to give their children a better education, so they are extremely supportive of school. Another benefit is the fundraising that parents and PTAs can provide.
A downside to parental involvement is that it creates more work for teachers. Also, when parents spend time in schools, they may be more disposed to criticize or question what they see. Borenstein even found complications regarding differences in the way that teachers and parents dress. In one of the schools she studied, teachers were asked to dress conservatively out of respect for the Islamic population, but the school could not ask parents to do so.
"The goal has been, 'How can we change parent behavior to get parents and families more involved?' but this is only part of the question," Borenstein said. "Any restructuring should take into account the organizational structures that influence involvement." She recommended that the question of parent involvement in schools be framed as a shared responsibility for children's education.
Sharon Feiman-Nemser, director of the Mandel Center, observed that "this probably works best when schools and parents have similar visions of schooling and similar goals for children's education."
The Mandel Center hosts a monthly spring and fall lunch seminar series open to the public and featuring researchers from inside and outside the Center. For more than 10 years, the center has been promoting thoughtful uses of educational research to strengthen the practice of Jewish education.
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The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning religious intolerance on Dec. 19, and it did not contain any of the language opposing the "defamation of religion" that was present in earlier documents and resolutions. Human Rights First reports:
The novelty of this text is that it does not include the harmful concept of "defamation of religions." Instead, the General Assembly resolution calls on governments to speak out and to condemn hatred, while encouraging open debate, human rights education, and interfaith and intercultural initiatives.The resolution marks a welcome departure from previous U.N texts. For over a decade, efforts were made in several venues at the U.N. to promote the concept that was intended to prohibit "defamation of religions." What it did, in fact, was provide cover for abusive national blasphemy laws. Human Rights First has long argued that this concept is inconsistent with universal human rights standards that protect individuals rather than abstract ideas or religions. Indeed, blasphemy laws promote a stifling atmosphere in which governments can restrict freedom of expression, thought and religion and persecute religious minorities. Such resolutions were sponsored by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
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Troy-based Talmer Bancorp Inc. climbed in its trading debut on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol TLMR after raising about $202 million in an initial public offering.
The stock rose 6.2 percent to $13.80 as of the close in New York, for a market valuation of about $965 million. Talmer sold almost 15.6 million Class A shares for $13 apiece, after offering them for $12.50 to $14.50 each. The company and stockholders, including WL Ross & Co., sold 22 percent of Talmer in the IPO.
The offering is the largest for a bank since BankUnited Inc. raised $900 million in 2011, data compiled by Bloomberg show. While financials have raised more through IPOs than any other industry this year, totaling $2.8 billion, Talmer is the first bank to do an initial share sale. Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc is readying an IPO for its RBS Citizens Financial Group Inc. U.S. unit, which is expected in this year.
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The British Prime Minister, who is a keen tennis player, admitted he was keen to shed the pounds.
Asked for his top resolution for 2012, he told Now magazine: "Probably to lose a bit of weight, I think. That's the key one for me."
Giving a glimpse into his home life, Mr Cameron revealed that one night a week he has a date night with wife Samantha where the couple "either stay in and do nothing or go out on our own".
Describing his wedding and honeymoon as the best 24 hours of his life he told Now: "I can still remember pretty much minute by minute."
Admitting that he "can't bear" children's programme SpongeBob SquarePants, the premier said he has got them into BBC wildlife series Frozen Planet instead. "Watching that's good for the karma," he added.
Mr Cameron gave the interview during his pre-Christmas visit to troops in Afghanistan and praised the "fantastic job" carried out by servicewomen.
He insisted he would be "delighted" but concerned if his daughters Nancy and Florence, signed up for the Armed Forces.
"I'd be delighted. Like any parent, I'd be nervous and worried about what they were doing, but I've spent a day here in Kandahar and met women who are specialists at imaging, fantastic at logistics, engineers - it's not as if the army, navy and airforce are simply about fighting.
"You get an enormous amount of skills and training and a brilliant career."
Asked how he would cope if wife Samantha had that kind of role, he replied: "Well, she didn't travel as much as being in the armed services, but when she was design director at Smythson and I was an MP, sometimes she'd go off to New York for five days and I was left looking after the little ones, so it has happened. The children wouldn't starve or anything; the food was OK - I'm a reasonable cook - and they'd get to school on time, but I'm afraid the house would quite rapidly deteriorate. I'm not as good about tidying up as you go along as my wife is."


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With future uncertain, Blanton ready to prove worth
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Conditioning was one of the few things that actually wasn't a problem for Joe Blanton last year, but the 33-year-old right-hander is nonetheless leaner than he's ever been heading into this uncertain 2014 season, shedding somewhere between five and eight pounds during a winter dedicated more to developing quickness than overall strength.
It's one of the many things he hopes is different.
"Last year was by far the worst season I've ever had," Blanton can safely admit. "I'm not scared to say that. That's 100 percent. No season has even come close to that. I don't want to repeat it."
Blanton unraveled in the first of a two-year, $15 million contract with the Angels, going 2-14 with a 6.04 ERA and a 1.61 WHIP in 132 2/3 innings. By July 23, he had given up a Major League-leading 24 homers and 157 hits, and had lost his rotation spot to an up-and-coming Garrett Richards, left to spend the final two-plus months in bullpen obscurity.
Blanton entered Spring Training in essentially the same position as Bobby Abreu in 2012 and Vernon Wells in 2013 -- a veteran coming off a bad season, with lots of money owed to him and seemingly no place on the roster.
But his importance suddenly grew on Saturday, when Mark Mulder suffered the ruptured left Achilles that derailed his comeback hopes.
Now, if the 22-year-old Tyler Skaggs doesn't prove he's ready to pitch in the big leagues, the Angels could turn to Blanton to temporarily round out the rotation until he is. If Skaggs wins the job, or if Matt Shoemaker or Wade LeBlanc impress in camp, then Blanton -- owed $7.5 million in 2014, plus a $1 million buyout of his 2015 option -- will either be traded or released before Opening Day on March 31.
"Where your pitching staff ends up from Day 1 of Spring Training to Day 1 of the opening season sometimes seems like a lifetime," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said, minutes before Mulder's injury. "Joe needs to put his best foot forward; Joe needs to make some adjustments. He had just a terrible season last year, but he's shown in the last couple years that when he is throwing the ball to his capabilities, there's no doubt he can get Major League hitters out."
Blanton has always pitched to contact and has never been considered a shutdown ace, but he joined the Angels having thrown more than 190 innings in six of his previous eight seasons while posting a 4.37 ERA in that span.
Blanton believes he tightened up several mechanical flaws down the stretch last year while working with pitching coach Mike Butcher. Blanton always used to rock back as he fired toward home plate, but last year his front side stayed low, which took away a lot of his deception. Blanton believes he finally got back to being more front-side late in the year, then continued to throw over the course of the offseason to not lose touch with the mechanical adjustments he made.
When he starts to face hitters again, Blanton believes there will be a significant difference.
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"That's one of those that's not in my power," said Blanton, asked if he believes there's a role for him on this team. "You go out and throw, and let it be.
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When Laura J. Alber was named chief executive officer of Williams-Sonoma in January, she got some advice from the company's 94-year-old founder, Charles E. "Chuck" Williams: "Don't change it. Make it better." If only it were that simple. The housing slump and sagging consumer confidence have hammered the home goods industry. Williams-Sonoma, which besides its namesake stores also owns Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, and West Elm, has seen sales fall for the past two years. While the San Francisco-based retailer expects revenues to rise to as much as $3.37 billion this year, 9 percent over 2009, that's well below the record $3.94 billion of 2007.
Alber, 41, a Williams-Sonoma veteran who ran Pottery Barn during the housing boom, says her strategy for tougher times involves snatching share by expanding West Elm and boosting online sales for the whole company. While a slump in home buying means less demand for couches, espresso machines, and bed linen, Alber is counting on Americans to renovate the homes they have. "When you start painting," she says, "it becomes a huge project because everything else then looks bad."
During her tenure at Pottery Barn from 2002 to 2006, Alber oversaw an expansion from 172 stores to 289. Now she wants to do the same with West Elm, which sells moderately priced modern furniture in 37 stores, largely on the U.S. coasts. Alber has broadened West Elm's offerings to appeal to a wider demographic. She stocked $7.99 soap dishes for budget-minded consumers who might otherwise head to Ikea while adding goods from name designers such as a $64 holiday decoration by David Stark. "West Elm is a brand that has national potential," says Joseph Feldman, an analyst with Telsey Advisory Group. "It plays well with the post-college urban consumer." Alber's big challenge, he says: finding good store sites. Since West Elm appeals to urbanites, its stores require prime street addresses that are harder to come by than space in a mall.
Alber's targeting of owners upgrading their homes makes sense, says Feldman, who estimates that four-fifths of home furnishings sales stem from renovations. The longer a family stays put, the more it's likely to spend, and on bigger-ticket items, he says.
Williams-Sonoma says online sales of home furnishings will grow by $2.5 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, and Alber wants a big chunk of that growth. Her company dominates home furnishings online, with $943 million in Web sales last year, more than triple that of its nearest rival, Crate & Barrel, says Matt Nemer, a Wells Fargo analyst.
Williams-Sonoma's exclusive merchandise makes it "Amazon-proof," Nemer says, because shoppers can't easily compare prices on the Web. And the 52 million names the retailer has collected partly through its catalog operation give it marketing punch. For example, it used data collected on buyers of its cribs to later sell toddler and twin beds, then teen goods, and now items in Pottery Barn's dorm catalog.
Still, the retailer faces plenty of challenges. Williams-Sonoma Home, which sells luxury home goods, is struggling. Alber will close two West Elm stores in coming months; she's looking for better locations. And she faces stiff competition from Crate & Barrel's 10-year-old CB2 stores, which target the same urban stylistas who shop at West Elm. Five years ago the red-hot home market would have made such problems seem small. Says Cowen & Co. analyst Laura Champine: "You're probably not going to get another housing boom like that."
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Superman Returns: The Videogame Walkthrough :
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SSSS U U PPPPP EEEEEE RRRRR MMM MMM A NN N S U U P P E R R M M M M A A N N N S U U P P E R R M M M M A A N N N SSS U U PPPPP EEEE RRRRR M M M AAAAA N N N S U U P E R R M M A A N N N S U UU P E R R M M A A N NN SSSS UUU U P EEEEEE R R M M A A N N RETURNS: The Videogame Intro: Yes this game follows the movie VAGULY. It was a fun little ditty, and you can definatly enjoy one of the best superman games ever made thanks in part to EA. I don't usually play EA adventure games, but this was a realativly pleasent suprise. Contents: Walkthrough.................[wkt] Combo List..................[cls] Trophies....................[trs] FAQs........................[fqs] Credits.....................[crt] Legal.......................[lgl] Notes: General Tips- If you find yourself 'dying' too many times during the chapter you can/should save inbetween each 'event'. That way if/when you do die, you can just select "load game" and it'll be at the same exp. point but with the city's full health. If you're not getting an event just standing around, if you superspeed fly and randomly stop, that will trigger an event at times. Don't waste your time 'saving up events' (ie: having more than one on the screen before you start one. They'll disappear as soon as you finish an event, they reset basically. Abbreviations- SS = Super Speed SSF= Super Speed Flight (these 2 only used when you could plausably do both) SSR= Super Speed Run SM = Superman O = Circle [] = Square /\ = Triangle FB = Freeze Breath SB = Super Breath HV = Heat Vision Story Walkthrough: [wkt] "It's a bird, it's a plane, it's flaming astroids!!!" This is the opening level, that doubles as a introduction to the controls. Take the instructions and change the controls around if they don't fit your 'feel'. You'll have to save a couple of buildings from fires and destory a couple of places where meteors land with the right type of power. Soon you'll need to intercept the meteors falling from the sky, some are icy others are flaming. Use your opposite elemental attack to destory them. My advice is to fly superspeed (SS) toward them WHILE using whatever power you need to destory it. IE: SS toward a flaming astroid while using your cold/freezing breath. This way you can save on running back and forth from meteor to meteor. And trust me you won't run out of energy, it replenishes very quickly the moment you rest, even if you're airborn. Now soon the astroids will be done, but for some odd reason a fire breaks out just below you. SSF down to it, put it out then return upward somewhat. Now a HUGE meteor is about to hit, but if you collide with it, you're SURE to destory it. So SSF right into the sucker. BOOM, gone. Unlocked/Obtained- KRYPTONIAN COMBO 'Superman Returns' Costume 'Meteor Mayhem' Trophy "Royal Galatic Rumble!!!!" If you've yet to learn by now SM is invicible ("YAY!" i know), so how can you lose?? Well it's all about crowd favor....ok AND your opponts health. So either get the crowd COMPLETELY on your side, OR deplete all their health. Your first opponent is pretty much a joke, but this level teaches you, more or less, about fighting. So practice your newly aquired combo, dodging, and blocking. Listen/follow the onscreen prompts and you'll get through all of them. Now when you really start to whoop him down, he'll split into 8 clones. More like 'clowns', but whatever. Some will hover in air and try to fire at you, others will jog after you, and the rest will just sit and wait for their demise. Two Square attacks will finish them off, yes i'm serious he's that easy. Just watch the air attacking guys, they may get a lick in. If you haven't started by now, use L2 to lock on to a nearby baddie. this helps will all targeting and even punching. After you beat all the mini-me's up, he'll come back to the middle as 1. Just repeat what you did before he split and in no time he'll go down. More than likely you'll deplete his health before the crowd's fully on your side. Planhtune like a ballon tied to a rock in the ocean. /cheesy Wow, just one 'gladiator' and you're already facing the 8-time champion? Well you ARE Superman. So here's Overcast, that's right, not 'cloudy' just overcast. /lame joke. You'll see why he's called "larger than life" soon. The first part is pretty much like the last goon, just circle around him to dodge his attack and then lay into him with a combo. As soon as he goes down hold O, cuz as he gets up he'll do a sonic-purple-pulse that'll hurt your rating and knock you back, we don't want that. Soon enough he'll transform to GIGANTO....well it's more like a bigger, more psychadelic, version of himself. Fly, up high, now. Remember that sonic-purple thing I mentioned earlier? Yea he's gunna do it here now repeatedly and without enough warning, but if you're high enough it won't hit you. But now you have to watch out for purple-homing-energy-spheres (what's up with this guy and purple??). If you SSF around the room enough you can outlast them, and if you're good enough, you can pick up an object and throw it at him before they hit you. So yes, as it says throw large objects at him. Well since you're flying this can be tricky, but you'll get it. You pickup stuff with X, so fly into an object (yes those pointy things on the pillers will work) and just before you run face first into it, press X, you'll lift it while flying, this way you can circle back around, target him and throw it. After about 3 hits, he'll shrink back down, now repeat what I said before, and don't forget to block, and more often this time cuz he will do random attacks this time around. Now rinse and repeat this process till he's done for, this will be another health victory, cuz the crowd is REALLY hard to please. Unlocked/Obtained- "Up in the sky" popup combo Well of COURSE Mongul is the "best of the best". Yea whatever, I'm Superman, bring it! This is mostly and out and out 'fight'. Make sure to block though. He'll do 2 quick strikes then 1 big one, as soon as you blocked all that, lay into him with a combo (I prefer the kypton one, the first one you got). His other attack is to do a short, but noticable, charge and then dash at you. You should notice the charge as well as the ring that emites fromt he ground right before he launchs. Block this and he'll be open. As soon as you get about 3 combos off he'll call in some trustly reinforcments. These little guys blow up when you hit them, just target them, though it can be tricky at time to target them and not Mongul, and use either your laser eyes or freeze breath. Do that when they're at a distance, and they'll be harmless. Just watch out cuz Mongul will use this time to dash in and nail you. Just start blocking and when he's open, lay into him again. Soon he'll go down. Best warriors in the Galaxy and there's 4 of us?? uhh ok. Unlocked/Obtained- Burst Superpowers "Home sweet home...." Walk forward to check out the cute kitty cat. Ok so it just triggers some old, short, weird, trickery guy, but it's worth it. Now look for those cats all over and once you collect enough, you'll unlock things. Ahh and don't forget to walk up to the doors that you found the cat next to, for whatever reason they give the city some boosted life. Metallo-one of your "interest" points will be to him. He's kinda like a mini boss, beat him and his 2-3 minions asap, they'll put the hurt on some people, but not much damage to property. Unlocked/Obtained- '1000 Fists' combo Now it's time to beat Metallo's 3 crews. After a few seconds of not being in a "battle" it will start an event where you will either fight the large robots, the lite ones, or the FAST ones. And by fast I mean FAST. They are the most dangerous of the bunch. They create a lot of distance and can do damage on the move. The key is to get close enough to one and target it and SSF following it, you'll quickly catch up, just continue to hold R1 and you'll ram it with your fist damaging it, but it'll still move. Just keep ramming it and it'll go down or stop and you can lay a combo down. The 'lite' and 'big' groups are easily taken care of with a few combos, most of the minor enemies here though, one hit will down them, it's the mini- bosses you just should worry about. There should be 2 groups of the speed guys, one without any bosses in them, just SSF into them until they blow up, hardest part about this one is not getting hit by them when they superspeed and catching/finding them. Just don't hesitate. Now it's time for a new chapter. Unlocked/Obtained- Freeze Breath lvl 2 "Come to the Dark Side Superman!" Ahh time for some air combat. This can be tricky cuz these guys move quite a bit, so use your upgrade and freeze them :D. Now it's just a matter of finding them all. The next one is more of the same, but you'll have 2 minor baddies on the ground, just SSF into them and they're gone. Ahh more speedsters, but now you can freeze the tires off of 'em. Ok about 3 more random groups, you've already faced 'em so just keep it up. Once you fill you exp bar you should head to the red "?" and trigger the next scene and chapter. Unlocked/Obtained- 'Supernova' combo Heat Vision lvl 2 "Infernal machines..." Go to the event indicator, and here comes Matello. This time don't focus on his goons unless he's pulsating that greenish cloud. Only cuz you can't get near him to attack with that thing. Once a few are down he'll drop the barrier and you need to open up a can of galatic beatdown! Once he falls all his goons will to. Now it's time to run around fighting random baddies again. You should be getting the hang of things now, if you see a citizen try to rescue them as it's the Superman way of doing things, oh and it'll also restore some of the city's health. Once you've done MORE of those it's powerup and big event time, so head to the "?" again. Unlocked/Obtained- Super Breath lvl 2 "Robot Roundup?? As long as there's no ho-down." A whopping 10 random events to get to the next section here. From personal experience don't let the city die when you're on number 9! They will switch it up even more on you, combining the fastest robots with the big bulky fighting ones. You may also run into a few fires here and there. Nothing special to finish off this Chapter, just do the 10 events and it's over. Unlocked/Obtained- Stamina lvl 2 "SOME assembly required.....riiiiight" Ahhh Matello is back. Time to do it again but this time instead of spawning those annoying tankies, he'll spawn the speedsters. Which means you have to SS around and find them before you can attack him again (remember his invincible green cloud will drop when you defeat them all). Don't worry TOO much, but get those speedsters cuz you know they can deal damage quickly. That's it! End of this chapter, see easy compared to before. "Blue Screen of DEATH!!!!" Wow, big Metallo, kinda reminds me of Matrix: PON, the end boss....well whatever. Now fly back allll the way to the Daily Planet, as you approach, another cutscene. Ahh time for the FINAL fight, really, no I'm serious. Now totally ignore the choppers, they really don't affect anything, they may do SLIGHT damage to the city, but you much more worried about Metallo. Don't try any direct attack, he's got some sort of kryptonite barrier and you won't be getting through it...yet. Just focus on picking up vehicles that are sitting around the square he's rampaging in. Now focus on him (L2) and throw them (X). Rinse and repeat till his life bar is empty. Now you'll notice that he walks back and forth demolishing buildings, well after each building he downs, he'll look at you and kryptonite-laser-beam you. Which will knock you down and deplete all your energy. As soon as he's done, just tap /\ and it'll replenish some and you'll get up. Ok, once his life bar is out, another cutscene. Now just catch up to the rocket, easy. You don't have to do anything special there'll be another cutscene (see how you know it's the final battle now? so many cutscenes!). Now SM will fly back to Metallo and say "I gotta hit him with a direct attack" but Metallo uses his laser eyes again, but this time you won't be denied. Now you'll begin a little "mini game" type fight. It's like a tug-of-war with you vs the laser. Just rapidly tap what button they tell you to press. It'll be one of the 4 right side buttons, nothing fancy here. He'll go down pretty easy now. CONGRATS on your first REAL boss! Unlocked/Obtained- Heat Vision lvl 3 'Up in the sky: it's a bird' combo "DNA huh?" Well it seems that monsters wrecking havoc in Metropolis is pretty norm. O_o Ok. Hey don't forget to save, you're almost half way there, don't wanna lose it now. Bizzaro?? He's like SM's dumb-zombie-twin brother! This is a realitivly easy fight. He usually uses 'Earthquake' or the the whole EQ combo. He will block your attacks somtimes, but if you keep attacking he may let his guard down. You can freeze him with the artic ice combo. If he gets a few licks in and knocks you down, he usually runs over to hit a pedesterian or trys to destory a car. Use this time to open up a combo on him, cuz he will not block it now. Another nice attack is the 'Suprise exchange' he'll usually miss blocking that. Keep it up and he'll soon flee. Ok now it's 7 more events fought till the next chapter, yea sorry no more Bizzaro for now. You will find new baddies though. They flying beasts, they kinda look like mini-dragons. They're actually 2 kind in the groups they send. One dragon will blow blue mystical stuff on you, that depletes your energy bar, those are very quickly killed by your laser eyes, so use it. The other are just as quick but they're two-fold. First freeze them, as they sit for a sec frozen, use R1 to fly right into them and 'air ram' 'em. One hit like that will kill them. They're new, but still not the hardest, you really don't have to worry much about them. "Don't be a menace to society while playing superman in your house" Metropolis and menacing baddies??? Noooo. O_o Ahh yay, Bizzaro again. Much more of the same from last time, but this time he'll hover at times. I say hover cuz he really doesn't flay high at all, he flys about as low as the game will let you. If he does knock you down with 'supernova' or 'earth- quake' he'll run away and try to damage buidlings or people, once you get up use your laser or freeze breath as you walk up to him cuz he'll block it but he'll stop attacking. This battle should really help replenish the city's health if it's hurting. Make sure to recuse injured people afterwards, don't need a lawsuit for neglet. Now own to more random fights. The will mix it up even more. You encounter the fire beasts, accompianed by a buidling fire! *gasp* Relax you can do it, you're Superman remember! Hint, use your super breath, not freeze breath, for fires, it does better. Ok once you've done about 8 events we'll move on. Unlocked/Obtained- Super Breath lvl 3 "Air combat fighter" An air raid I'LL say. You'll have both the laser-weak and freezing-weak fliers in this. The Freeze-weak ones will attack the blimps, and try to set them on fire. The others will attack you, seeing as how they can drain your energy finish them off quickly. IF they do actually drain your energy just tap /\ like a madman and you'll recover in air. If a blimp does catch on fire, just use your super breath to put it out. Near the end of their journey you should have the chance to rest if you'd like, and to also preemptivly strike the fliers approaching. Just remember freeze, and dash. Unlocked/Obtained- Freeze Breath lvl 3 "Cousin from a different planet? No, just a mutant." Mutant tankies, these are kinda like the big robots you fought with Metallo, but harder. You can freeze them and laser them to death. Well sorta, when they "die" they'll turn to statues that you have to punch till they explode (non-damaging), freezing dosen't do that much for you here, so I suggest the laser, it's quicker than fighting. They'll also use a radius blasts, which can move you back and damage surrounding cars and people. Kind of a pain. Ok you'll need to beat 10 events (again) for the next chapter. The 'baddie combo' to watch out for is "Clones and Drones", that's the new mutant tanks and the helichoppers that drain your energy. It's almost impossible to tank out the tanks BEFORE the heli's as they'll continually drain your energy and you'll be tapping /\ way too much to fight. Go beat the heli's quickly and you should have no problem taking out the tankies. "One on one, with yourself" Yay, finally Bizzaro! This battle may feel like it goes on forever, as if you simply can't end it, well after 3 'stare downs' it will end. First you will fight on the ground, like before. But once he takes enough damage it's time for a whole new ballgame. He'll fly off, go chase him, and start laser'ing building, SS air ram him, then lay into him with your own laser eyes. Once he takes enough damage he'll move to a nearby, but different, spot and start again. Just repeat till you go into the 'stare down'. 'Stare Down' is kinda like the laser block thing from Metallo, simply tap whatever button pops up on the screen repeatedly till it changes then change buttons soon (1 or 2 buttons changes later) you should 'win' the stare down. Now Bizzaro will fly off and start back at the top, go find him on the street and fight some more, but this time, as his health lowers, he'll bring in some backup. Remember your fire breathing dragons? They're here to help. Just jump up and fly, freeze them, air ram them all and go back to Bizzaro. He'll fly off, catch him, hurt him enough, stare down time. Now just before your 3rd 'stare down', Bizzaro should be laser'ing the statue of SM. Just keep air ramming and laser'ing him and it'll be the final stare down time. Long, but not that hard. Unlocked/Obtained- 'Rising Son' combo Stamina lvl 3 "Parole without trial? YESSS!" Well you can tell Lex is up to somthing, it's dark, cloudy and all around crappy! But you've got bigger fish to fry, for now that is. Yes it's time for randomness!! But there's a little somthing more now. Minibosses, again. First up is "Riot" the trouble with him as soon as you punch him he'll bring out two more of himself (the highest total baddies count I've seen was 8, so he won't if there's about that much already out). And he quickly dodges your laser eyes and freeze breath, so how does one defeat him?? Well double up your freeze breath, that's right use the upgraded, enhanced, ultra (whatever you wanna call it) version (where you press right twice to make the blue target bigger). Now hold down R2 and release after a couple of secs. It'll freeze everyone around you. NOW switch to your regular laser eyes and target one that's frozen and blast him till he's done for. Rinse, lather, repeat as desired. Just remember to NOT punch him or he'll multiply again, and you DON'T want that. Now you'll have about 12 events, 1 of them being the miniboss 'Riot'. Somewhere before your 10th event you should get Phot Finish Trophy (defeat 500 baddies). Unlocked/Obtained- Super Breath lvl 4 "Riots?? Looks like a job for.....the riot police!" Warworld, here?? I don't think so. Mongrul is looking to settle the score between you, let him know it's already settled. But just when you think you've gotten the best of him yet again, he brings in backup, and it's Overcast, though it's actually cloudly.....oh nevermind! You'll have to carefully attack between blocking Overcast's pink energy attacks and Mongrul's fists. It'll be tricky but get it done. Now that it's you and Overcast 1v1 again, just use the same tactics as before, block his 1 punch then lay into him with a combo. Soon enough he'll "go big" on you. As soon as you see him start to this, go grab a car and fly up. Remember how annoying the big radius blast he used to do was? Well replace that with the annoying homing pink energy spheres. He will still do the radius blast but not nearly as much. Just go get a car, and throw it at him from up high so he doesn't catch you with a blast, and make sure no spheres are close either. This should be easier than the first time you fought him. Once he shrinks back down 1 and 1/2 combos later he'll go down for good....again. This is one jam packed chapter. Your random encounters will include fires, Plahtune, Overcast, those crab looking guys (purple and yellow ones) and some older beasts you've fought before. The crabs will block your special attacks so you'll need to combo them (don't forget about your artic combo). Fires, of course super breath. Plahtune is actually harder this time around, cuz all of the clones will activly attack you, but >1 combo will put them down. Overcast will only grow once here, so make sure to grab a car and drop it down on him, almost litterally, fly just above him so the car can't fall short and miss. There should be about 8 events in all. Unlocked/Obtained- 'Corkscrew' combo "L.O.D. Legion of Destruction, sound familer...?" Well get ready for 10 rounds of randomness, but remember you're gunna start to see just about everything you fought so far mixed up and paired up with each other. Perhaps the toughest will be Plahtune and Overcast. Lots of blocking to start out with, block Overcast's shots and inbetween nail Plahtune's clones, it'll be slow going at first but soon enough it'll be just you and Overcast, and you should know how to deal with him pretty easily by now. (Hint-make sure when you pickup a car to SSF away and up so as not to be caught off guard by his radius blast) Once you're done with the 10 events it's the end of this "little" chapter. Unlocked/Obtained- Heat Vision lvl 4 "Gruge? I've got no gruge for for whooping Mongrul..." Ahhh Mongrul, at long last we meet again....and again, and AGAIN! Geez when will you leave me alone?! Ok first part, good 'ol hand to hand beat down. Make sure to block when needed, and when there's an opening combo him. After about 1/4 of his health is gone he'll call down meteors (that's new!) they fall quickly so target and ice them before they land, there's about 3-4 of them now. After that time to go back to beating him down. He'll, again, call upon some help. This time it's Plahtune(s). Not really much of a challange, Plahtune/Overcast pair is harder than this. Just get rid of Plahtune ASAP and then go back to focusing on Mongrul again. He'll use both of his "helpers" 1 more time each and then should be done for good. Unlocked/Obtained- Freeze Breath lvl 4 "Twist and shout" Wow, for the first time Superman doesn't seem so "super". These tornadoes will be tough. You gotta position yourself so that you use your SB to blow it back towards the water. Once over the water you can then switch to your FB. Just watch your energy, don't let it run out and let the tornado push you out of position. Be ready for a lot more building fires too, just SB them out. Once you finish with a few of the 'small' tornadoes things will pick up, litterally, the BIG DADDY of all tornadoes will come through. No use trying to blow this thing away, you can only hope to get some people out of harms way and put out some fires (though I have no clue why you're putting out fires when a giantic tornado is about to dismantle the whole building, but oh well). Ahh time to go IN the torando, and suprise there's a tornado IN the tornado (is that even POSSIBLE??). Well you'll actually be switching between your laser vision and freeze breath to damage the inner-nado. There will also be debris flying around in side (duh!) that will knock you for a loop, you can block them but it's really hard to tell when it's coming. The key here is to see what the outer-nado's color is. When it's red use your FB on the inner-nado, when the outer is blue use your laser vision. If you started this with a pretty good amout of city health you shouldn't worry too much about the debris hitting you, if you didn't though, this could be troublesome, but just do your best to block when you see debris or when a piece hits you. Unlocked/Obtained- 'Golden Age Superman' Costume "Everything that has a begining, has an End....or does it?" What could possibly be left after saving the earth from Luther? How about hundreds of random events to boost your EXP from @140k to 500k. Doing this will help unlock concept art, but you have to also collect the kittens. Is it worth it? Well that's up to you to decide, keep in mind that getting ALLLL that exp will take some serious time out of your life. Congrats, that's it! Yes you've finally beaten the game, although it took nearly 2.5 times as long as the movie, it seems very abridged doesn't it? Oh well, still it's the best SM game ever made, and seeing as how many there have been that's saying a lot. I'm not saying it's the best, nor the worst, but there is some definate fun to be had here. Combo List: [cls] These are the aquired combos from completing missions or getting enough exp. KRYPTONIAN COMBINATION - [] [] [] /\ [] /\ 1000 FISTS - tap [], /\, tap [] EARTHQUAKE - [] [] [] /\ [] hold /\ SUPERNOVA - Hold /\+O UP IN THE SKY - hold []+X UP IN THE SKY-IT'S A PLANE - hold []+X, /\ UP IN THE SKY-IT'S A BIRD - hold []+X, [] CORKSCREW - R1 []+X THE SUN SHINES - [], /\+O RISING SON - [], hold []+X Trophies: [trs] Globe Bowling Trophy - go the the Daily Planet at any time, and press X to pick up the big globe up top, now either press O to place it back down nicly, or X to heave it away. Bizarro Championship Trophy - complete all Bizarro mini-games. Photo Finish - defeat 500 villians. Outstanding Valet Trophy - pick up 500 vehicles. Kitten Finder Extraordinaire - find all 100 kittens. Meteor Mayham - obtained after the opening/training level by destorying the giant meteor. FAQs: [fqs] Ok, I'll be honest, the only question I've gotten so far is: "What actually happens at the end?". So I'll answer it here and save you all the trouble of emailing me and waiting for a reply. **Spoiler** **Spoiler** **Spoiler** **Spoiler** **Spoiler** **Spoiler** **Spoiler** The actual is a cutscene of basically what we saw at the end of the movie. However after that it does become open world and you're able to fly around and do whatever you want, but keep in mind baddies will spawn randomly. Have fun! Credits: [crt] First off big 'ups' to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who gives purpose to my life and meaning to my actions. Thanks to my wife for being there for me when I wanted to give up. And DEFINATLY thanks to gamefaqs.com for having such a great place to go find and post guides, FAQs, walkthroughs and codes. Plus love the msg boards, great way to share info. Legal: [lgl] This guide should only be posted: gamefaqs.com gamespot.com cheatcc.com supercheats.com All legal rights to EA and it's partners and creators involved in any way with this game. Also all rights to Sony for any equipment used in playing the game, including, but not limited to, the console for spinning that little disc around hundreds of times while I typed this guide.
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Liquidity squeeze amplifies market swings
Fixed Income Investment Director Michael Lake believes that the market volatility since the start of the year is largely sentiment driven and has been exacerbated by a lack of liquidity.
Conflicting signals challenge investors
Since the turn of the year, markets have been driven by sentiment rather than fundamentals.
In this uncertain environment asset prices do not, in our view, reflect the underlying economic data and are driven by powerful emotional responses, not well-reasoned argument.
Reduced liquidity in markets has exacerbated the moves in asset prices as sentiment has shifted, and we believe these market dislocations have created value in assets that are now priced for an economic contraction.
Arguably, markets gave up trading in line with fundamentals well before the start of the year, but a new year has not brought fresh perspective, just aggravated old wounds.
Financial market participants are currently challenged by a range of conflicting signals.
Not only are investors grappling with uncertainty over the nature of the collapse in oil price and its impact on the global economy, but also uncertainty regarding the outlook for China, and regarding the reaction function of central banks amidst tightening financial conditions.
The US Federal Reserve Senior Loan Officer Survey (Figure 1) - a survey of the lending activities of large US domestic and US branches of foreign banks - illustrates that financial conditions tightened for both large and small firms alike during Q4 2015.
In the meantime, investment grade1 credit spreads (Figure 2) and high yield spreads2 have also widened.
This represents an overall contraction in capital available to businesses, as well as a reduction in liquidity in financial markets as banks have less appetite to hold risky assets on their balance sheet.
During recent years, markets have also witnessed a reduction in the total value of the stock of debt owned by central banks and sovereign wealth funds as foreign reserves.
The drawdown of foreign reserves (Figure 3) also reduces the overall level of liquidity in the market.
While the level of reserves remains elevated, the growth in reserves - which had been supporting asset prices - no longer provides the same level of support.
The practical implication of this more challenging liquidity environment is that as market sentiment changes, the impact on asset prices is magnified, leading to increased volatility and price swings.
Given the elevated levels of market uncertainty, we believe that this situation is likely to persist over the next few months until the global economic landscape becomes clearer.
1. Investment grade bonds - The highest quality bonds as assessed by a credit ratings agency. To be deemed investment grade, a bond must have a credit rating of at least BBB (Standard& Poor's) or Baa3 (Moody's).↩
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DANA POINT – As the glass gate opened to the brand new maritime pier and 300-foot-long dock along Dana Point Harbor's Ocean Institute, hundreds of children flocked to the capstan, pushing the wood wheel around and around. They darted into the biological diversity lab, touching starfish and sea slugs in the correct "two-finger" style. They boarded the 118-foot tall ship Spirit of Dana Point and pretended to sail away.
"When we got to look at this amazing facility earlier this month, we were just in shock of all that had been accomplished," said Collie James, co-founder of the Maddie James Foundation, which raised more than $1 million in funding for the center. "There was just one thing I thought was missing; the children."
On Saturday, the children came.
Ten years in the works, the $4 million project handled its first wave of visitors effortlessly when about 1,000 guests attended the grand opening and ribbon-cutting celebration of the Maddie James Seaside Learning Center.
The center replaces the Ocean Institute's original landing dock built in 1972. The plan dock was supposed to be replaced in 2002 when then institute's facility was completed, but budget constraints and stricter marine building regulations postponed the project.
Over the years, the plans for the dock grew from a replacement project into a multiple-stationed learning center, marine research hub and historic maritime pier.
"All of these things came together, and we sketched out the plan in 2005, and started raising funds from there," said Ocean Institute president Dan Stetson. In 2007, the funding effort got a jolt with $1 million grant from the California Coastal Conservancy, but the economic downturn in late 2008 stalled the project.
"We put it on the shelf for a couple of years, weathered the storm," Stetson said.
Then in 2011, with about $1 million still needed in funding, Stetson was introduced to a 5-year-old girl named Maddie James, and her mother, Kajsa James. Maddie had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and wanted to enjoy some time at the Ocean Institute – her favorite place. "We put together a program for Maddie, so she could enjoy the touch tanks and the things she loved," Stetson said.
Halfway through the tour, Kajsa James told Stetson she was going to raise $1 million for the center.
Soon after, Kajsa and Maddie's father, Collie, founded the Maddie James Foundation. Within three months, they had reached their goal.
"I thought she was crazy, but she did it," Stetson said.
One of the main fundraisers for the foundation is the annual A Mile for Maddie walk, which starts at Strand Vista Park. Participants walk the 1.2-mile trail down to the Ocean Institute. This year's walk was held just prior to the opening of the Seaside Learning Center and raised an additional $108,000 that will continue funding the facility.
"Every person who raised even $1 is a winner today," Collie James told the 787 walkers who registered for the event. "All of the kids are going to be able to enjoy the Seaside Learning Center because of every single person's efforts that went into it."
With the center reaching completion, Kajsa James – who had been on site for every pile driven and every dock float poured – began wondering what would come next. The Ocean Institute answered that question, hiring her on as the new vice president of development.
"We put a woman who raised $1 million in charge of our fundraising – hold on to your wallets," joked Bill Steel, former chair of the institute's board of directors.
"The ending of this project was a bit scary for me," Kajsa said. "I knew the kids would finally be able to come enjoy it, but I didn't know what I would do after. It was scary without Maddie, but now I can continue working here, with a purpose."
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Why the additional anchor, and why that entry specifically? --[[User:CyberShadow|Vladimir]] 02:02, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Why the additional anchor, and why that entry specifically? --[[User:CyberShadow|Vladimir]] 02:02, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
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Weapon icons
First of all, thank you for your active and industrious work on WKB.
I would like to ask why you changed the weapon boxes to resample all icons larger than 48x48 down to 48x48. (Admittedly Weapon_longname was a quick hack, but I thought the fix would've been to give Template:Weapon a width parameter.) Doing a marginal resample like this creates a significant amount of blurring, and if 48x48 is indeed going to be the size limit on weapon info box icons, then I will want to recreate all the extra-large icons at 48x48 so that they don't have to be doubly resampled. But please, explain to me why 64x64 is too large.
Deadcode 00:47, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
- 1. Because I'm using 1024x768 resolution, and I usually think that the 48x48 icons in Windows Explorer looks good for me. However, if you prefer, you can change them to 64x64 (and I don't mind that).
- Also, if you can find and upload images whose size are multiples of 64 (like 128x128 or 192x192), do so. Because it'll be less blurry when down-sampling.
- Explorer09 07:46, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
- EDIT: If you can't, it's recommended to upload the largest image and let MediaWiki scale it down. [1]
- Explorer09 07:46, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
- 2. The Template:Weapon now uses the Width parameter as you wish. (I'm just learning how to use some template functions so I know how to change it.)
- Thanks.
- Explorer09 01:15, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Nice work on the Weapon Icon category page. Thanks!
Deadcode 08:17, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
You're welcome. Explorer09 11:15, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, what's the purpose of the People category, and its advantage over the URL classification, as well as the change to how auto-listing on Community works? A category seems to imply additional maintenance effort, how is it justified? I noticed that your change shortened the list considerably, so the logical follow-up would be to add [[Category:People]] to every People/* page, but why is this effort necessary in the first place? --Vladimir 15:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
- Because I found something that might confuse the reader. First, not all persons' articles are subpages of "People" (page titles begin with "People/*"); some pages are in the User namespace, which would not be shown on the list unless a redirect is made. Second, some people have 2 or more nicknames. Therefore sometimes 2 or more People/* pages will be made to redirect to the same user (take Glide for example), that would make duplicated items on the old list.
- For the reasons above, I decided to make a Category to clean things up. Actually, adding a page to Category:People isn't that hard. You may have noticed that I've modified the ParentArticle template so that EVERY page that is "up to People" will be listed in the category. So, just add {{ParentArticle|[[People]]}} and that's it.
- --Explorer09 15:51, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
- I still don't like your change. The correct thing to do to achieve what you wanted would be to either add redirects from People/* to User:* for people who only have a User page, or to hack the plugin to simply merge all User:* and People/* pages and ignore all redirects. However, I don't even think that people with just a User: page should even be on the list. The User: page is regarding the Worms Knowledge Base, and not a biography of their wormy history. But your change has actually removed people from the final list, and you haven't fixed this shortcoming with the fixes you suggested. --Vladimir 19:19, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
- I don't quite understand what you mean. First, not all User pages are in the category, are they? If you think a page should not be listed in the category, feel free to remove that ParentArticle template. (Also feel free to move the pages if you wish to make distinction between "People/*" directory and "User:*" namespace.)
- Second, thank you for telling me this issue. I've re-added the missing "People/*" pages I found to the list. Explorer09 13:44, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
PNG optimization
Just curious, have you been using PNGOUT for your png optimization? I notice you've gotten small sizes that pngcrush cannot acheive, and not even AdvanceCOMP or OptiPNG can acheive. I also noticed by experimenting with some parameters, that PNGOUT can acheive even smaller sizes than you've been getting, even preserving chunks (not that it'd be worth reuploading the images for such small improvements). Too bad it's closed source. —Deadcode 23:24, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
- Well, I used a combination of 4 programs to optimize the images: OptiPNG, AdvDef from AdvanceCOMP, PNGOUT, and DeflOpt. And you are right; there is PNGOUT included in. The idea was taken from here, so the "/ks" switch is used in order to preserve the setting from OptiPNG.
- By the way, can the image be even smaller by removing the "/ks" switch? I haven't tested that yet. --Explorer09 07:57, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
You should stop removing optional chunks. They contain interesting information, like creation and modification dates. They also contain color profiles (although if they're sRGB, I suppose it's fine to remove them, if you do so without removing the other chunks). I suppose if you're optimizing something that was already uploaded, the old version is still there; but if you're uploading something for the first time, the chunks will be lost. —Deadcode 10:03, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks, I'll be careful next time. (However, I've only uploaded screenshots and icons as new images, and I don't think the optional chunks were needed.) --Explorer09 12:16, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Regarding User and Talk pages
Hello there. I just thought I'd drop by and mention that editing other people's posts on talk pages, even for the sake of grammatical correction, is kinda disrespectful. The fact that you can do it doesn't mean you should do it. Same goes for the User pages, editing that is, unless in some special cases, the user's job, not outsiders' - although I vaguely remember someone telling you this before, I'm just saying just in case. Otherwise have fun editing. Balee 08:18, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
- I think it is free to correct other one's post as long as you tell him/her why you made such edits. And you may have noticed that CyberShadow has edited your post ([2]) before I made this reply. --Explorer09 12:18, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
- @Cybershadow: Are you agreeing what I said? (because you edited my post, too) --Explorer09 12:40, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
- I just did it for satirical value. I don't have a strong opinion either way, as I'm usually too lazy to edit others' talk messages. --Vladimir 12:47, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Why the additional anchor, and why that entry specifically? --Vladimir 02:02, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
- Because, too many people have that kind of problem, don't they? I made a shortcut so that people can easily link to it.


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The Feminist Majority joins with our sister organizations - and indeed the majority of women in this nation - in a united call to action to help stop this impeachment spectacle that has overtaken our political system. We stand today in disbelief that Congress is about to impeach a president who has the support of two-thirds of the American people - support which was voiced loud and clear on Election Day.
If you believe that the impeachment process must stop - call your member of Congress and your Senators at 202-225-3121. And call Speaker-elect Bob Livingston to urge him to allow a vote on censure. The Feminist Majority will join other women's groups, civil rights groups, and labor organizations in a vigil outside of the House of Representatives on Thursday from 10am to 2pm.
Women leaders felt so strongly that this mockery of justice must come to an end that on September 24 - before the elections - we issued the first public call to action to stop the impeachment process. Now, we come together again in an effort to end this partisan travesty before it is too late.
We should not be lulled into complacency by the assumption that the U.S. Senate ultimately will be able to put a stop to this madness. A Senate trial will paralyze this nation. It would irreparably weaken the position of the office of the president and the global standing of the United States. It would bring to a standstill our chances of passing the Violence Against Women Act II and the Fair Pay Act, strengthening Social Security for women, and raising the minimum wage.
Assume the worst - are these offenses crimes against the state - can we equate this misconduct - especially abhorrent to feminist leaders - with treason and bribery and abuse of presidential power? Of course not. We must keep some sense of proportionality. Precisely because of the sexual backdrop of this misconduct some of us felt compelled and duty-bound to speak out and to act.
Women have an unique role to play in the process. We have disproportionately supported the President because of his record on the issues. We deplore his misconduct, but we also understand the hypocrisy of his opponents.
The self-righteous right wing opponents of sexual harassment law in their self-appointed role as sex police are distorting the concept of sexual harassment into a tool of selective prosecution. How ironic it is that the chair of the House Judiciary Committee who himself lived a double life will be the prosecutor in a Senate trial.
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Great read. I find I spend more time reading then writing. If I may extend this argument, this concept applies to all code-bases, APIs, and libraries, even if you have no hand in writing it.
The article is a clear illustration of why the following are important:
- self documenting code
- comments (the why, not the how)
- modularity
- code readability
What do you all think?
While working on a codebase, developers spend a lot of time understanding code. We might be unwilling to admit it for fear of sounding dumb but the huge amount of time spent on making sense of code is staggering.


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Griffin spends relaxing day in NYC, at Fan Cave
Easygoing A's righty plays guitar, talks French cuisine on eve of start in Bronx
NEW YORK -- A.J. Griffin was a few subway stops away from Brasserie Les Halles, the French bistro on Park Avenue in Manhattan's Murray Hill district where TV travel chef Anthony Bourdain once served as executive chef. Oh, if only Bourdain were there on this night. Oh, if only Griffin could bump into him on the sidewalk.
"I'm going to maybe try to find something to do. Hopefully I'll run into Anthony Bourdain. He's one of my favorite guys in the world," Griffin said, sort of dreamily, while enjoying a carefree off-day Thursday before his next start Friday night at Yankee Stadium. "I think he's got the dream job."
Griffin, the A's second-year pitcher, is by all accounts one of the most multi-talented guys you will bump into along the Major League Baseball trails. And he's just 25. While visiting the MLB Fan Cave, the right-hander played another guitar solo as he had done during last year's pennant chase, this time entirely in Spanish. He taped an upcoming video skit as other players do when visiting the Cave, but in his case it was like bringing in a Broadway talent, made for it.
"I like learning stuff," Griffin said. "I'm not a big video-game guy, really. I like watching Travel Channel ... and 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.' I love that show. I'm an easy-going guy. I just like to hang out and play guitar a little bit. I really enjoy going to restaurants and trying new foods, too. I just like exploring culture and just having new experiences.
"I like French food a lot. I'm hoping to maybe go check out Les Halles, the place Anthony Bourdain used to be a chef at, or maybe check out another French restaurant or something tonight, just play it by ear, just wander around and enjoy the city ... and see how great it is."
The last time he came to New York with the A's, it was a "grindy schedule" with a night game and two day games, so there was little time for sightseeing. Oakland has won both games he has started against the Yankees, the first time last July 19 on the West Coast, where he shut them down, and the second time when the A's survived his "shaky" start. He gave up a four-spot in the fourth inning that day, Sept. 23. This time, he comes in with a 2-2 record, looking to bounce back after a pair of losses to American League East opposition.
"So far, the first few outings were pretty good for me," Griffin said. "Then I had a little scuffle there in Boston two times ago. But I feel like I made some good strides against the Orioles the other day. I'm just looking to go deep in games and give my team a chance to win. That's all I can do every time I go out there. Regardless of what happens, just being focused for the next pitch every time.
"That's what our whole team is doing, and I feel like that's why we have so much success. We kind of simplify the game a little bit and just take it one pitch at a time and just do the best with every pitch and every opportunity we get."
There is another notable difference in this start at Yankee Stadium. The Oakland offense is par none. Entering their last game, the A's were leading the Majors in runs, doubles, walks, extra-base hits and steals. What does it feel like to have that kind of offensive support behind you?
"Oh my gosh, man," Griffin shoots back, the thought always there. "Every time we're out there playing, when the game's over, [Josh] Reddick comes in and he's like, 'Don't worry, Griff, we rake.' It's good to have that kind of run support, obviously. We're just trying to enjoy our time and play some good baseball and give Oakland fans something to be proud of."
In Griffin, a native of El Cajon, Calif., who was drafted out of the University of San Diego, Oakland fans have the lead guitar on the team, so to speak.
"I've always been really passionate about music," he said. "I picked up my guitar when I was about 12 years old, and it's just something that you can do anytime. It's fun. I usually bring my guitar on the road, and we just play a little bit. We've got a few guys on the team who play guitar pretty well. We've got John Jaso and Evan Scribner -- forgive me if I'm forgetting anyone else -- and that's who I usually jam with.
"It's a good way to get to meet guys and have some fun and enjoy your downtime a little bit. I'm usually the guitar guy, so I'll bring one of my guitars and they'll come over and we'll hang out and play a little bit and watch TV and do that kind of thing."
As for his Spanish solo that he broke out this time, Griffin said he started learning that language as a freshman in high school, and it benefits him in a big way within today's MLB culture.
"There's a lot of Latino players -- it's just easier for me to communicate with them a little bit," he said. "Getting to know guys like Yoenis Cespedes and Bartolo Colon, it's been helpful. I kind of started late. I really dedicated myself, and to me it came easy. It was nice. A lot of my friends from high school are Latino. One of my best friends is from Mexico City. Growing up in Southern California, you have a lot of people to practice Spanish with, so it's been a helpful tool."
Speaking of Colon, Griffin said he marvels at what the veteran just did in April (3-0, 20 strikeouts and one walk). Colon turns 40 on May 24.
"I mean, he goes out there and throws strikes," Griffin said. "He's competitive. It's pretty impressive what he does with that fastball. He just throws fastballs, it seems like. It makes me kind of jealous. He's a competitor. He's always ready to go every fifth day. He's just one of those guys you can always count on."
Now it is Griffin's turn again. He will be acclimated to the Eastern time zone. He will be rested. Thursday was a glorious day in the Big Apple, walking weather, French cuisine calling.
Maybe he will run into Bourdain. If not this time, then next time. Somewhere.
"I don't really have too much of a routine" the day before a game, he said. "I just go about it, try to clear my mind, just enjoy my time. Especially on a day off. We don't get many days off during the season. It's a good day to just relax, chill out and try to relax for a while."


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This topic is quite interesting for me. I was born in Hong Kong, and still living in there. Few years ago, there were a lot of articles from different Hong Kong medias, which were talked about Hong Kong Government removed the graffiti works of world famous artist Invader from the walls in the city, the news have shocked a big group of local art lovers.
So what is street art and what is vandalism? I would say I am an art lover. But, what if there is suddenly a graffiti appear on the glass of your shop's window display? Do you think you must be like it or might be not? it seems depends, so the better way, I think is to discuss this in public, more advises, more close to the answer we want to achieve.


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Over 100 experts in innovation, entrepreneurship, and investment sought to educate and empower those who attended the Kingonomics Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, on August 23.
The conference, which was held in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, included panel discussions, economic "boot camps," and even an official casting call for ABC's Shark Tank, a TV show where self-made multi-millionaire and billionaires give budding entrepreneurs the chance to potentially secure business deals that could make them millions. "This event gave entrepreneurs the opportunity to access micro-loans, meet angel and super angel investors and connect with venture capital firms," said Dr. Rodney Sampson, coordinator of the Kingonomics Conference.
David A. Hinson, National Director for MBDA, was a panelist during the "Grow Up" boot camp, an event for companies headed toward profitability to learn about generating revenue. Also participating was Kimberly Marcus, MBDA Associate Director, who gave opening remarks during the "Invest Up" boot camp, which was for investors interested in understanding and investing in emerging markets and high-tech start-ups in America and beyond. Joann Hill, Chief of MBDA's Office of Business Development, gave opening remarks during the "Crowd Up" boot camp, a session designed to educate entrepreneurs and investors about the viability of donations, debt and equity-based crowd funding as a viable way of raising capital.
"It's important to remember that Dr. King's 'I have a dream' speech was not only about civil rights. It was also about economic rights," said Marcus. "Economic opportunity must go hand-in-hand with civil rights. This conference represents the renewal of Dr. King's dream for a better America."
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
The Lincoln Electric Co., Cleveland, OH, has acquired the welding-operation assets of Techalloy Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, and its parent company Central Wire Industries, to expand its product portfolio of high-alloy welding consumables. Also, the firm announced its acquisition of Applied Robotics, Inc. (known by its Torchmate brand name), a manufacturer of CNC plasma- and oxyfuel-cutting tables and accessories.
See also: Lincoln Electric Co.
Related Enterprise Zones: Welding