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Pandora is aiming to expand its territory in the music streaming wars.
The internet radio service is set to start offering two paid subscription tiers as early as next month, according to The Wall Street Journal. These tiers for on-demand streaming would complement Pandora's free radio stations and make the company better suited to rival Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and other music services.
Similar to those services, Pandora's on-demand subscription will cost $10 a month. Pandora's second paid subscription offering will be an upgraded version of its no-ads radio service, Pandora One, which will give listeners the chance to skip more songs and enable offline listening. Pandora One is currently $5 a month, and the price is set to remain the same after the added features.
The launch of these new added streaming tiers is dependent on Pandora closing the licensing deals required with the major record deals, which would expand Pandora's offerings from 2 million songs to about 30 million. Once finalized, these deals will allow Pandora streaming in the U.S. and abroad, suggesting the company is also looking towards international expansion. Currently, Pandora only operates in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
According to the WSJ, one major point of contention for the record labels is that Pandora, like Spotify, will have paid tiers as well as an ad-supported free service, which is less lucrative for the music industry. The record labels are in essence giving Pandora permission to stream their entire catalogues all over the world, but have no control over which songs are put on the free radio. Spotify's free tiers have also been criticized, most famously by Taylor Swift.
This is the first time that Pandora has had to negotiate with the music industry to ink these licensing deals. Previously, Pandora's free radio did not require permission from the labels because listeners could not select songs on-demand.
Why this matters: Even though the music streaming wars have gotten more competitive since the launch of Apple Music, Pandora does have a few advantages. For starters, over 80 million people listen to Pandora-powered radio stations every month. This gives the company a solid user base to try to convert into paid subscribers. In addition, Pandora is offering a $5-a-month plan that gives listeners a halfway point, price-wise, to the $10-a-month plans that are offered by the rest of the streaming services.

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"Sex with you is like an autopsy, and you're the cadaver."
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This post has been pre-scheduled. We're off volunteering at a sloth sanctuary!
Your daily dose of sloth:
"Sex with you is like an autopsy, and you're the cadaver."
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"Oh, humanity. You can go suck my fat hairy balls. I made you and I can break you whenever I want. See that? That's free will too, you know. I created that too."
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"You're just like an itch that I'd love to scratch… with a fucking chainsaw."
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This pleasant little number will be my last real-time post for a couple of weeks. We're leaving tomorrow for Costa Rica to volunteer at a sloth sanctuary for two weeks! But do not despair, for I've pre-scheduled posts from my nest-egg of STM gems. I'll miss you guys!
"It's not bullshit. It's mancrap. It means whenever I use it, I'm right."
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Adam so wishes this were true...
"Ice cream cake. Mmm. Love to the power of— I've just come in my pants. New pants, please!"
or click here"Stop throwing dinosaurs everywhere! It's gonna take me forever to get the pterodactyls down from the wardrobe. Oh, you messy little velociraptors."
What I find most amusing about this is that Adam has never had ice cream cake in his life. It's not such a thing here in the UK. But he is anticipating his first taste of what can only be a perfect combination with great excitement.
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"Well, thank you very much for taking me out of my happy place, you pus-gargling cock-turd."
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"Everybody kneel on your swimming towel. It is time to pray to the omnipotent baby squid. (chanting) Squidyyyyyy. Squidyyyyyy."
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And we had this in the middle night, as I sat up to get our restless little beagle settled:
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|Where are you going?
|I'm putting Molly under the covers.
|Okay, put Molly under the covers. Then I get ten more points worth of your attention.
|(pets his head)
|That's not ten more points.
|I don't know what we're talking about.
|Neither do I. I think I'm involved in a dream.
|Damn it. Go back to sleep quick, that was a good dream!
|Go, go!
(singing) "Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Head, shoulders, knees and toes. I'm going to smash all of those, all of those. I'm going to smash all of those. Yaaaaaaaaay!"
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Oh, we all remember that delightful childhood game! Smashing good fun!
"If sense of humor is a gift, yours is one of those unwanted gifts that gets passed on from person to person, never opened or appreciated. Best you keep that gift to yourself."
or click here"I'm living my life, my way. And loving it."
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Oh. Well that's an unusually healthy sentiment from STM.
"mmmmuuhhhhhhh... uhhhhhhh... COCK WOBBLER!"
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|mmmmuuhhhhhhh... uhhhhhhh... COCK WOBBLER!
|(snorts and giggles)
|Hm. What a perfectly charming way to wake up. And a good morning to you, STM.... you bastard.
|Do you think you said "cock wobbler" or "cock warbler"?
|How did I say it? Did I say it like "wobbler" or "waaaaaarbler"?
|I dunno. Wait a minute.
|A cock wobbler—
|is someone who goes up to you and go— Well, goes up to male genitalia and—
|wobble wobble wobble!
|—wobbles it.
|And then, a cock warbler—
|—warbler, let's not go there. (leans across to look at clock) Is that all it is?
|What is it?
|It's only 1:30.
|It is not!
|It is too!
|Are you serious? I thought it was already morning. It's like Christmas! Sleepiiiiiiiiiiing! I'm so excited!
|Unfortunately, being excited generally means you don't sleep.
|Okay, sleeping.
|See, I'm the opposite.
|(drifting off) Wowwwwwww.
|I'm not excited. (long pause, then voluble yawn) Jeez.
|Now I'm confused about what I was dreaming and what was real. Umm, I don't know anything.
|Well, nothing's happening. So anything that is in your head is probably a dream. So, work it out from there.
|I just dribbled.
|(slurring) I love you enough that I love your dribble.
|Shh. You talk too much.
"Mirror mirror on the wall... jealous?"
or click here"You're the kind of thing that's standing in the middle of a room, all alone, holding a warm codpiece in your hand."
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"What the fuck are you doing here? Piss off back to the sick part of my imagination. Reality shouldn't have to put up with your pathetic shit."
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And the reveal:
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|You said, "What are you doing here? Piss off back to the sick part of my imagination." It's like—
|Hang on, wait a second, is STM talking to me?
|Well, maybe STM thinks that—
|he's real and I'm not.
|Yeah. Wait, wait. Maybe it's like the movie Igor, where everything is backwards from the world as we know it. So, what we consider good is bad, and vice versa. So, the fact that you're this nice, generous, kind person is considered sick in his world, just as we think of him as sick in our world.
|Now we sleep.
|Oh, right, okay. Thanks.
|I've been ready from the minute I woke up and you started talking.
|Love you!
"Are you listening to me? Are you? 'Cause the last person who didn't listen to me had their throat ripped out. So tell me: what would you like on your toast?"
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I trawled my nest-egg of quotes for the most Friday the 13th-appropriate. This was the closest I could get.
"Speaking of fabulous, how are your breasts today?"
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Well, this one is OBVIOUSLY about me. Right, Adam?... Adam?!
"Hey, look at me! I just made bumble bee pajamas. They're so cuuuute, with their little leg holes. This one's bright fuchsia with some black spots. I think that's my favorite. And this one's got a night cap that fits right over the antennae... (gasp!) TOSS! Wing holes! I forgot to put wing holes! Oh, well. '...and all the honey was oozy woozy, sticky and gooey, but it tasted good.' Awww. Bed time story for tired little bumble bee. (whispering) Go to sleep, bee."
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"Ugh. What a mess! Everywhere, UGHHH! And up there, EWW! When are you gonna learn: when transporting giraffes, shouting "duck" every time you hit a bridge doesn't work!"
or click here"Be happy happy happy. Smile more. I said smile more, jerk."
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"If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then BEHOLD BITCHES!"
or click here"Red sky at night, shepherd's delight. Red sky in the morning— Get out of my fucking way and stop looking at the sky you idiot! Dickheaaaaaaaaaaad!"
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That's right, Americans! Here in the UK, they use "shepherd" in that idiom! I like ours better.
"I'll have a baby on the rocks. Yeah… What the fuck is this? Seriously?! A baby smoothie?! What the fuck, barkeeper, I asked for a baby on the rocks. Baby, rocks. Simple. Goddamnit, people. A baby on the rocks."
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Personally, I could really go for a baby smoothie right now.
"Now I'm going to batter you to death with chicken drumsticks! It'll be really messy, but I'm going to enjoy every hour of it."
or click here"Hey! That's MY bag of hair. Get your own! And stay away from the zoo, I'm going there next."
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And the ensuing discussion:
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|It's very strange that you said that, because I had a conversation—
|A REAL conversation about bags of hair?
|Get away!
|Yesterday afternoon, with Mark at work, we had a conversation about how much Molly sheds, and he was telling me how you can collect your pet's hair for a really long time, and then bring it to someone and they will knit it into a sweater.
|You will have a Molly sweater?
|Yes. BUT, the most amazing thing is that you said that—
|You never told me that discussion.
|No! Isn't that crazy?!
|STM can read your mind!
"Yup, it's time for anal flossing for you, my friend. Assume the position! Good lad."
or click here"You're such a fuck-up, your DNA is made up of X's and 'why me's."
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Yes, yes, STM meant "chromosomes", we know.
"Well, fuck you! Fuck you, Amazon. You don't KNOW me. I kill puppies. Suggest something for me NOW then, you shit spreading bastard— Ooh! Bathtub fairy lights! Mmm, pretty."
or click here"Nee nee nee nee nee nee nee OHHH! Pooooooooooo nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee... BOLLOCKS!"
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"I don't care if people think you're weird and you meow like a cat. Just don't go and lick your— Oh!... I now care."Happy New Year, fair readers!
Here's to another year of delightful irreverence from our friendly neighborhood Sleep Talkin' Man!
or click here"Fanny batter-go-lightly. I don't want the fatty stuff. No no no."
I have to be honest, people tend to think I'm a little weird (in a good way, right? RIGHT?!), and I do regularly "meow" my way through songs. But don't worry, STM, I'll try to limit my cat impersonation to that.
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This one hearkens back to about three weeks ago, when STM first coined the phrase "fanny batter". As a reminder, "fanny" here in the UK is mild slang for vagina. So "fanny batter" is... you figure it out.


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Digital transformation is an important step that organizations need to take to keep up with evolving industry landscapes. As the world currently grapples with the disruption brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, the need for such a transformation has become not only more apparent but also more urgent. With businesses pivoting their digital footprints and modernizing processes for their employees to work from anywhere, organizations are also having to reconsider how they meet customer demands and streamline change. This digital transformation has already become evident in the last few months, with the use of applications experiencing a notable surge across various sectors.
Applications now play an integral role, with many businesses and users relying on a wide range of applications for work, education, entertainment, retail, and other uses. In this current reality, development teams play a key role in ensuring that applications can provide users great usability and performance as well as security from threat actors who are always on the lookout for weaknesses, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other security gaps that they can abuse to conduct malicious activities. Security risks have become even more pronounced as organizations have had to rush applications to market in order to maintain business and revenue-generating processes. The privacy risks posed by recently rolled out contact tracing applications best exemplify the perils of rushing application development and deployment. In May, The Washington Post reported that contact tracing applications, while useful for governments and researchers in their efforts to contain the pandemic outbreak, can inadvertently provide hackers sensitive details of people who tested positive for Covid-19.
The serious risks posed by unsecure applications highlight the need for application security or the process of finding, fixing, and enhancing the security of applications in the design, development, and post-deployment phase. This article discusses the security risks and threats that applications could be susceptible to, how organizations can integrate adequate cybersecurity protections in their DevOps pipeline, and more.
The increasing complexity of applications and their reliance on third-party libraries, among other concerns, make them vulnerable to security risks and threats. Security professionals revealed that majority of external attacks are carried out through exploiting a software vulnerability or a web application, as stated in a 2020 Forrester report. The same report describes open-source software as a main concern in the security of applications, citing the 50% increase of open-source security vulnerabilities since last year.
The increased adoption of containers and necessity of APIs have also introduced new risks to applications. A 2020 Snyk report reveals that nine out of the top 10 official container images in Docker Hub contained more than 50 vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, a 2019 F5 report found API breaches that emerged from large platforms that offer many third-party integrations, mobile applications, and application misconfigurations.
The list below details the most common risks to applications that software developers should be mindful of in order to secure the code they produce. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation has a comprehensive list of risks for web applications and APIs. It is important that developers are aware of the most common application security risks – ones that usually result from unsecure code – so they can check the bases they need to cover at each stage of the development pipeline.
Security has a tendency to become an afterthought for developers working in traditional development teams because they are too focused on building applications and meeting release dates. Traditional processes result in insufficient security and communication gaps between development and security teams, and, in turn, pose the risk of huge financial losses to businesses due to data breaches. In addition, vulnerabilities uncovered in the implementation phase could cost over six times more to remedy than the ones spotted in the design phase, according to research by IBM.
To build secure applications, development teams should integrate adequate cybersecurity layers that conduct analysis in the container, source code, and dependencies, among other components. In particular, these are the cybersecurity layers they need to look into:
With the world increasingly relying on applications for a myriad of purposes, organizations are tasked to build applications that are secure enough to withstand a variety of risks and threats that they could be exposed to. Below are some best practices to follow to ensure that applications are developed securely. While some of these practices focus on the adoption of tools for scanning and testing, other practices also entail the encouragement of a culture that prioritizes data privacy and security.
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Jan.9 (GMM) Austria and Turkey will not be on F1's 2013 calendar, while the Nurburgring looks set to host this year's German grand prix.
"It should be the Nurburgring, we will try to make it possible," Bernie Ecclestone is quoted by the Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung.
Media reports said meetings between the financially embattled German circuit's officials and the F1 chief executive will take place imminently in London.
As for the identity of the mystery 20th race location this year, Ecclestone ruled out Austria, despite the reported candidature of the former A1-Ring.
"Too few hotels," said Ecclestone when asked about the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg. "That is the only problem; the circuit is great, the people are all friendly and a pleasure to work with.
"Unfortunately, there are just too few hotel rooms in the region," he insisted.
Despite efforts to revive the Turkish grand prix, Ecclestone acknowledged that the 2013 schedule could drop to 19 rounds.
Red Bull, however, is not giving up on the Austrian bid.
"So far we haven't received an official calendar. Nobody has spoken with us," said Dr Helmut Marko.
"I can imagine many things, even a year with only 19 races. But I can't comment and so I won't," he added.


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It was once a huge red flag: When a car's odometer would hit 100,000 miles, "it was almost a magic threshold that meant the car was probably worn out," says Kay Wynter, who runs an auto service center in Fort Myers, Fla., with her husband, Terry.
But thanks to improvements in car design and maintenance, the milestone of 100,000 miles now means something very different.
Although some cars are ready for trade-in at that threshold, many others can travel twice as far without major repairs.
What allows one car to pass the 100,000-mile barrier with few repair bills, while another is ready for the junkyard? It's all about preventive medicine.
"It's just like when you get to be 70 and everyone tells you the same thing: Exercise, eat right, take care of yourself," says Lauren Fix, author of "Lauren Fix's Guide to Loving Your Car" (St. Martin's Griffin, 2008).
Feeding your car the right things and taking it for regular checkups will make all the difference.
Open the book
The key to keeping your car running smoothly is probably tucked at the bottom of your glove compartment, under the spare napkins and ketchup packets. It's the owner's manual, which most people ignore at their peril.
"There is a schedule in the manual that runs well over 100,000 miles," says Fix, and it lists when to replace parts likely to be wearing out. The list will vary for different cars, so check yours and follow it.
Newer cars may have the maintenance schedule built into an internal computer. A blinking light or a beep will announce that it's time to replace certain parts, says autoeducation.com founder Kevin Schappell.
"Things like the water pump and timing belt should be changed before you notice a problem," Schappell says. Replacing them won't be hugely expensive, but "if that belt breaks, it can cause internal damage to the engine, or if the water pump fails, you can overheat the engine and warp the cylinder head."
That's when things get expensive.
"Typically, around 100,000 or 120,000 miles there are some major preventative maintenance things that need to be done," Schappell says, so it's a great time to catch up if you've been lax until now.
Get fluent about fluids
The liquids that go into your car (gas, oil, brake fluid, power steering fluid, etc.) are crucial to its survival. To extend the life of your car beyond 100,000 miles, these experts suggest frequent oil changes and fluid checks done at dealerships or full-service auto centers.
The staff at a quick-change lube shop, Fix says, isn't likely to have extensive training. Often, "they don't have experience," she says, "so they'll top off long-life fluid with non-long-life or they'll put power-steering fluid where the brake fluid ought to be."
These mistakes cause damage, but the car owner doesn't realize it until well after the discount oil-change was done.
In choosing oil, Fix advises buying full synthetics. They "actually will lube the engine better. It's designed for longer life. There are less emissions, so it's greener. There's slightly better fuel economy and better performance," she says. "There are no negatives except it costs a little more."
Whichever oil you choose, Schappell says, be consistent over time. That way you won't mix synthetics and blends, which can cause problems.
Gas also matters: Different cars benefit from different types, so check your manual. "For a Honda which runs really hot because of the compression, if it says run premium, then run premium," Fix says. "But if it says there's no benefit from premium gas," you don't need it.
Find the right shop
"Do your research," says Terry Wynter, and choose the best people to extend the life of your car. Ask friends and neighbors, and search online for reviews of repair shops.
Once you've chosen one, get to know the staff and ask questions. "Consumers are smarter now than ever before" about their cars, Wynter says, but many still are uncomfortable asking for details about work that needs to be done.
Sticking with your car's dealer can be a safe choice, because the staff will be trained to work on your car. But over the life of a high-mileage car, regular maintenance at a dealership can get pricey.
"Rates at an independent shop may be about $40 to $50 an hour," Schappell says, "but you're paying probably $60 to $90 an hour at a dealer."
The cost of repairs can vary widely depending on the brand of car. Parts for some vehicles, including exotic cars and some German models, can be hard to get, driving up their cost. That can be a reason to trade in a car just before the 100,000-mile threshold.
At 100,000 miles, Fix says, "it is out of warranty and you've got to consider that."
When you do replace parts, there are ways to save money: "A quick oil-change place will charge you $50 for an $18 air filter," she says, because you're mainly paying for labor.
But an auto-parts store will charge you only the $18 price tag, she says, and "you can buy it and say, I don't know how to put this on. They'll do it as a courtesy."
Type of miles matter
It may seem surprising, but highway driving puts less stress on a car that tooling around locally. It requires less quick braking and acceleration, and moisture under the hood has a chance to evaporate.
"Cars that do a lot of short trips will require exhaust work a lot sooner than car that travels on the highway a lot," Schappell says.
Fix agrees: With local driving, "if you sit in rush hour traffic, tow a trailer, idle outside a school, drive on dusty roads, that's considered severe duty."
Local driving in colder climates can also cause buildup of ice and snow under the car, which may contain corrosive chemicals. Fix suggests hosing it off on slightly warmer days. She also suggests waxing your car regularly.
Sound like a lot of work to keep a car zooming along past 100,000 miles?
"It's your second most expensive investment. You want to take care of it," says Fix.
"With your home, something needs fixing and you get on it," she says. "With your car, especially one with a lot of miles you have to get on it right away too."
These small investments will add years to the life of your car.


text: FAA Investigating So. Lake Tahoe Plane Crash that Claimed Life of Pilot Ky Plaskon Tuesday, July 23, 2013 | Sacramento, CA Listen / Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. The pilot, 66 year-old Steven Lefton of Palo Alto, died on impact and his wife is in stable condition at a Reno hospital. Lt. Pete Van Arnum with El Dorado Sheriffs Department says witnesses reported the plane had trouble right after take-off. "Several witnesses said that the aircraft was having difficulty getting lift as it was taking off from the airport and then it veered to the east and started loosing altitude and went down in forested area near a meadow area, crashed and flipped over," Van Arnum says. Lafton's wife was pinned in the wreckage that was leaking fuel. An off-duty nurse that was in the area helped console her until emergency crews arrived and freed her. High temperatures and high altitude are common problems for pilots in the Sierra. Van Arnum recommends pilots make sure their planes are not overloaded and check that they have sufficient power before take off. "With the high altitude and the warm weather the planes don't get the kind of lift they need to clear take off," he says. Follow us for more stories like this CapRadio provides a trusted source of news because of you. As a nonprofit organization, donations from people like you sustain the journalism that allows us to discover stories that are important to our audience. If you believe in what we do and support our mission, please donate today. Donate Today


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2013 Summer Season: Ravinia will come out swinging with jazz tribute to Benny Goodman
Ravinia Festival Best Bets: If you want to branch out a bit musically, the summertime Ravinia Festival in Highland Park is a good place for it. There, classical music lovers sample niche-expanding novelties of the sort that gave Brooklyn Academy of Music its must-see reputation. College students picnic on the lawn for free when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs. And family friendly movie prices rule for recitals featuring the latest contest winners and stars on the rise.


text: The new Fall issue of "Special Weapons for Military and Police" has an article on Russia's Nikonov An-94 Abakan rifle, written by Charlie Cutshaw. The AN-94 may replace the AK-74 as Russia's primary service rifle. Along with the AEK-971 and AK-107/108, it's one of the leading contenders in that race. CLICK HERE to go to the AN-94 page on Valery …Read More »


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Background story:
I write stories that I don't want my family or friends to read/know about, so I need an alias.
I'm looking for a first and last name, as well as a physical appearance drawing that fits all the requirements below.
- Male, age 20-25ish. Caucasian. Human.
- Names cannot be: Anthony, Tyson, Nathanial, Ashlin, Damian, Sky, Ace, König, Lucius, Valentine, Dietrich, Castiel, Leo/Leonard, Dorian, Dmitry, Terron, Alex, Ryan Kanters, Damon, Keith, John, Seth, Remond, Anderson, Patrik, Judice. (Sorry for being picky, but these are characters in my story lol)
- Unlimited submissions, but please don't spam.
- No fanarts of existing characters from anywhere.
- Colour not required, but greatly preferred.
Random facts that may or may not help/inspire:
I do martial arts. Like dogs/wolves, snow leopards, and hawks. Favorite band is Linkin Park. Favorite colours are white, black, and red. Forth year economics student.
What you will be judged on:
- Meeting all requirements mentioned above.
- How cool the name and design is.
- Some weight will be put on the actual drawing presentation and how esthetically pleasing it looks. Although this is not the focus of the challenge, how well you draw your design and how much effort you put in will have some effect on the judging.
Who will be judging:
Me, girlfriends, and 15385bic.
Prize for the Winner:
A drawing of up to 2 characters (fanart or OC). May or may not be coloured, depending on how the lineart turns out (some of my drawings just looks a lot nicer not coloured. You can see for yourself: Gallery)
With your permission, I might end up selling prints of whatever I draw you. If I do, I can send you a print of it free of charge if you want.
Oh, and you'll also get a theOtaku gift + medal XD
Other two winners will get gift + medal.
Deadline: One month.
Good luck and have fun!
Thanks to everyone who participated! The winners were chosen through voting. 70% of the decision was based on the name, and 30% on art.


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As a fan of faster computers from Apple, I'm heartened by this week's release of an Intel-based Mac mini. In fact, with the SPECint_rate_base2000 benchmark indicating speeds of up to four times faster than the Mac mini G4, this new crop of minis sounds just about perfect. I say "just about," because of one particular issue.
As I dug into the specs following Apple's mini announcement, I noticed that the new Mac mini features a 64MB Intel GMA950 "integrated" graphics processor. In English, that means that the mini's graphics come not from a video card (like the ATI Radeon 9200 in the first-generation mini) but from a chipset on the motherboard. This solution is much cheaper than a dedicated card, but it comes at a cost—the card gets its 64MB of RAM from the system's RAM, and it uses CPU power to do much of its number crunching.
In fact, until Tuesday morning, Apple's mini page had this to say about integrated graphics chips:
Go ahead, just try to play Halo on a budget PC. Most say they're good for 2D games only. That's because an "integrated Intel graphics" chip steals power from the CPU and siphons off memory from system-level RAM. You'd have to buy an extra card to get the graphics performance of Mac mini, and some cheaper PCs don't even have an open slot to let you add one.
As this article was posted, the mini Intel Core page now reads:
Mac mini features a graphics processor integrated into the system, and one that's no slouch, to boot. The Intel GMA950 graphics supports Tiger Core Graphics and the latest 3D games. It shares fast 667MHz memory with the Intel Core processor, for an incredible value proposition.
So, on Monday, February 27, an integrated graphics chip was something that stole power from the CPU and siphoned off system memory. As of February 28, it's suddenly capable of supporting the latest 3-D games and is an incredible value proposition? Ah, marketing!
The reality is that we won't know exactly how good (or bad) this solution is until a mini makes it into Macworld Lab for real-world testing. Personally, I'm not worried about gaming, but I'm curious as to how well it will work with six or seven large applications running when it's then asked to do something that's CoreGraphics-intensive—like opening 10 widgets in rapid-fire fashion.
Also keep in mind that the mini is not a gamer's Mac. Anyone buying a mini to play Quake 4 or Doom 3 is going to be disappointed. It's Apple's lowest-price Mac, the starting point for Mac performance. As such, it's important that it do well in typical non-gaming tasks, and support OS X's graphics needs well. Beyond that, if it happens to run some of the 3-D games in a reasonable fashion, it's a bonus.
But the question about the mini's graphics support, although very important, isn't what stuck with me when I read about "integrated graphics." Instead, I found myself thinking more about what the move to an integrated graphics chip meant for the future of Apple hardware. For many years, PC builders have used such chips on their entry-level machines. But Apple, mainly due to having no such option with the Motorola/IBM processors, had never gone this route before.
As such, my initial thought about the mini's new graphics chip wasn't performance related. Instead, it was more like:
"The Mac mini is the first Apple Dell!"
Or to put it another way, I found myself thinking "cheaper hardware in cheaper boxes." And since that's the same thing everyone else offers, that led to an immediate follow-up thought: oh no .
But is that really a valid concern? Will Apple become nothing more than an industrial designer of nice-looking boxes filled with generic hardware? And even if that does happen, should that worry me?
About Dell
As you probably know, Dell is one of the largest sellers of Windows-compatible machines on the planet. And they got to be huge, not by having the best R&D departments and manufacturing lines but by figuring out how to build and deliver machines faster and cheaper than everyone else. In contrast, Apple had an early history of designing and building everything itself—the company owned its own manufacturing plants in places like Sacramento, Calif., for many years.
Generalizing a bit (as I'm not privy to the inner workings at Dell), Dell purchases motherboards, keyboards, RAM, mice, hard drives, the operating system and BIOS, CD and DVD drives, cables, monitors, speakers, video cards, networking chips, and various other PC components as cheaply as possible from any number of suppliers (well, there's only one Windows OS supplier, obviously). Dell then uses the most efficient assembly methods possible to put those parts together inside the only thing that really makes a Dell a Dell—the case.
So here we have a company that sells $15 billion worth of Windows computers per year, and yet as far as I know, doesn't manufacture a single thing. Instead, the company is the world's most efficient assembler of parts, some of which it specifies the design for, and others of which are industry-standard. That bundle of parts is then nicely wrapped up and delivered in a case stamped with the Dell logo, all powered by Windows. And Dell does this very well; it makes some nice systems that perform admirably—I had a Dell at my last job, and it was one of the fastest and quietest machines I've ever used.
About Apple
Now consider Apple. For years, Apple had a serious case of using technologies that differed from the rest of the computer business. The auto-eject floppy (remember those?), the NuBus interface bus, the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB), Apple's seemingly-never-ending string of unique monitor interfaces, and even SCSI disk interfaces were all technologies primarily used by Apple. Many of these were even developed in house, through Apple's own R&D department.
These technologies were more costly than industry-standard alternatives, and in many cases, tied Apple to a sole supplier. (Only Sony made the auto-eject floppy, for instance.) Even the motherboards were an Apple-specific part, including quite a few Apple-designed integrated circuits. Most companies that sell Windows PCs (excluding the motherboard firms that have gotten into the PC manufacturing business) don't do anything with motherboards or chips beyond purchasing and assembling them.
For the consumer, all this technical wizardry meant really expensive systems. Remember the IIfx ? Introduced in 1990, it cost around $10,000 at the time. Adjusting for inflation, that's about $15,000 in today's dollars. (Granted, costs have dropped greatly on other components since then, so the IIfx wouldn't cost anywhere near that much today.) Even in its time, it was a very expensive machine—comparable DOS/Windows machines were substantially cheaper.
To reduce costs and improve parts availability, Apple has been slowly moving away from Apple-created technologies towards industry-standards. Hence, NuBus became PCI and PCI Express; ADB became USB; monitors are now connected via DVI or VGA standard plugs; and hard drives connect via ATA or SATA. In other cases, Apple has helped its technologies become standards (FireWire), which helps insure multiple manufacturers and lower costs. These changes have helped lower the price of the Mac, though they're still more costly (in general) than a typical PC.
The switch to Intel
According to Apple, the switch to Intel chips was justified on a "power per watt" analysis of Intel versus IBM chips. However, there are other advantages as well—namely, access to even more industry-standard technologies. Intel is a huge company that drives a lot of activity around the Intel standard. For Apple, this means access to lots of technologies that are already in use on millions of PCs. The integrated graphics chip is a perfect example.
With the G4 chip, Apple didn't have this option available, unless it wanted to custom-design an onboard graphics chipset itself. That would clearly be an expensive proposition, so sticking a third-party card in the low-end mini made the most sense. But with an Intel-based mini, Apple suddenly had access to an already-developed, ready-to-use integrated graphics solution. Economically, it makes a lot of sense for an entry-level machine, given the target audience. Performance-wise, we'll have to wait and see if it was a reasonable decision.
Is the new mini a 'cheap' machine?
As I mentioned earlier, the mini is not the machine to buy if you want to play the newest 3-D games. Nor is it the machine to buy if you want to work in Final Cut Studio all day, producing the next Star Wars . It's Apple's entry level Mac, the cheapest one you can buy. (Granted, it's missing a keyboard, mouse, and screen, but it's still pretty cheap.) As such, cost considerations do come into play.
That said, I must admit that when I read "graphics chipset," I cringed and immediately thought of nothing but abysmal graphic processing. In so doing, however, I made a couple of major mistakes.
The first mistake was not knowing anything about the GMA950's performance. On paper, at least, this chipset is technically at least as fast as (if not faster than) the Radeon 9200 it replaces. And the 9200 was also not much of a card for 3-D games use either—I found a couple of Doom 3 benchmarks that showed the 9200 scored around nine frames per second at 800-by-600 resolution, while the GMA950 managed to reach all the way to 13 or so. Ugh.
Real world tests will show, of course, if the new chip will outdo the old card in daily use. I still greatly dislike the concept of sharing RAM and CPU with the graphics card, and the 80MB of RAM reserved for the video card (64MB for the card and 16MB for a frame buffer) will effectively turn the mini into a 432MB machine.
Setting aside the performance question for the moment, my second mistake was a classic "can't see the forest for the trees" mentality. By focusing on the graphics change, I missed everything else that Apple seems to have done right with the new mini:
For all of that, the cost increased $100 for the base model. The AirPort card alone is a $99 retail item, so they've clearly added a lot of value and performance to the machine.
My main concern is still the performance of the graphics chipset. Will the improvements in system bus, CPU speed, cache, and memory speed make up for the sharing of CPU and RAM with the graphics chipset? And how well will the chip handle CoreGraphics' requirements with a number of applications running and using up RAM? If the GMA950 can do an acceptable job in these areas, then the new mini will be a real winner in my book. I have one on order, and will start running my "Rob Griffiths' benchmarks suite" once it arrives. Macworld Lab also has a machine in house to do more official testing and evaluating of the mini's performance.
So is the new mini really an Apple Dell?
In many ways, it is. It's got a lot of industry-standard technologies, including the new onboard graphics chip. As noted, this is what I originally focused on when I heard about the new mini. In so doing, though, I overlooked the one fact that will keep Apple from ever turning into just another box maker. It's also the reason I'm quite comfortable with my decision to put a mini in the macosxhints' labs for daily use. And that fact is…
The key difference between Dell and Apple is that Apple also owns, develops, and modifies the core operating system that runs their machines. Dell, on the other hand, basically gets whatever Redmond sends them every few years. As much as Dell would probably love to ship a machine with Vista on it today, it can't. The release schedule for their first Vista box lies completely in Microsoft's control. Dell will get the same version of Vista as every other vendor, leaving only price, hardware features, and case design as differentiating factors.
Apple, on the other hand, owns the operating system. If it wants a new feature to support some new hardware design direction, it can simply add it in as needed. They can also create those amazingly compelling applications (iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes, iDVD, Mail, Safari, etc.) that make using OS X on Apple hardware such a joy. Add-in the best industrial designers in the business, and you have the recipe required for Apple to continue building cool, useful hardware and software. Inside the box, the parts may look more like a Dell, but in terms of use, a Mac will always be a Mac as long as it's running an Apple-designed operating system.
So despite my worries about the graphics performance of the new mini, I'm not concerned that this is the general "beginning of the end" of Apple hardware as I know it. As long as the company still owns the OS, designs amazing applications, and wraps them together in great industrial designs, I'll continue to be a happy customer.


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Mom's out of town today so you know what that means, I am assuming my duty as co-blogger and taking over! I have chosen a book to share today which I know my Mom will love and which I think other dog lovers might as well.
Lauren Watt took her 160-pound English Mastiff to college—so of course after graduation, Gizelle followed Lauren to her first, tiny apartment in New York. Because Gizelle wasn't just a dog; she was a roommate, sister, confidante, dining companion, and everything in between.
Together, Gizelle and Lauren went through boyfriends, first jobs, a mother's struggle with addiction, and the ups and downs of becoming an adult in the big city. But when Gizelle got sick and Lauren realized her best friend might not be such a constant after all, she designed an epic bucket list to make the absolute most of the time they had left.
Bursting with charm, this unique, coming-of-age story of a girl making her way through life is a testament to the special way pets inspire us to live better, love better, and appreciate the simple pleasures. Gizelle's Bucket List is the humorous, poignant lesson our pets teach us: to embrace adventure, love unconditionally, and grow into the people we want to be.


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Enjoy board games and mini-games on the TV; play familiar tabletop games using the Wii U GamePad controller or transform your living room into a game show floor. No matter what kind of party you're throwing Wii Party U offers something for everyone.
- Everyone at the party competes with his or her own Mii characters in a medley of party games.
- Experience new ways to play with others using the Wii U GamePad. For example in 'Lost-and-Found Square' imagine you are the person holding the GamePad and you are lost in a playground. Your goal is to describe your surroundings based on what you see on the GamePad in order to help the other players find your location.
- Post your impressions of game sessions to Miiverse. You can rate your performance by adding a one- to five-star ranking after the match is over.*
- When you want to leave the TV behind you can choose to play exclusively on the Wii U GamePad with a wide variety of 'Tabletop Minigames' ranging from foosball to baseball for two-player competitive and cooperative play.
- In addition to the main games that everyone can play together there are 80 minigames that can be played on your own. These include the 'Tabletop Minigame' that can be played with the Wii U GamePad only.


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Newswise — Bunions bothering you? How about lower back pain, or impacted wisdom teeth?
As we humans evolved over the millennia to walk on two legs, grow larger brains and shorter jaws, bear big babies and live longer, we've also experienced some negative consequences on our way to becoming the world's most successful primate, at nearly 7 billion strong.
But keeping our evolutionary history in mind can help us better deal with issues from obesity to difficult childbirth in a much more productive way, according to Karen Rosenberg, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware.
Rosenberg co-organized and spoke on the "Scars of Human Evolution" panel at one of the largest scientific gatherings in the world--the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Friday, Feb. 15, in Boston.
The panel's title originated from a 1951 Scientific American article by Wilton Krogman that highlighted how our evolutionary history can account for many of the problems associated with the current human condition. Rosenberg and her co-panelists examined areas ranging from obstetrics and orthopedics, to dentistry, gerontology, diet and nutrition.
"We need to understand our evolutionary history in order to understand why we have some of the maladies that we have," Rosenberg says. "They either helped us in a previous environment, or they are trade-offs from adaptations that did confer important advantages like our obstetrical and orthopedic problems that are side effects of walking on two legs rather than four."
Today, the industrialized world faces rising obesity rates. Yet eons ago, food was scarce, and foraging was a constant activity to survive. The more fats and sugars that could be gained from food back then, the more energy to fuel those ever-expanding hominid brains.
The cavewoman of 100,000 years ago didn't have 10-pound babies, take drugs, smoke, or have hypertension, diabetes and other problems associated with a modern lifestyle, Rosenberg notes.
But, Rosenberg asserts, our prehistoric ancestors likely gave birth with others present for protection and encouragement, a practice still important in today's world where ever-larger babies squeeze through a "twisty-turny" birth canal, and infant mortality is still a serious problem in many nations.
"Studies show that women who give birth with a doula present — to provide emotional support — have significantly lower rates of obstetric intervention and shorter labors," Rosenberg notes. "This maternal care during birth and the help we give in caring for children of family and friends comprise some of the most important aspects of our humanness."
Although some may interpret the word "evolve" to mean we are moving toward perfection, Rosenberg reminds us that there is no direction to evolution.
"What's best today, probably won't be in the future," she says. "There's no inevitable directionality to it. Evolution is a tinkerer, not a designer. I would never be willing to predict where we will go next. Knowing what is advantageous in today's world doesn't tell us what will be advantageous in the future."
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Building the "Normally This Weird" Death Ray Weapon part 4Posted on March 29th, 2011 No comments
Here is the challenge: how to construct a detailed prop with virtually no budget. Well, there are some strategies for accomplishing such a task.
If you have a lot of money, time and resources every part can be meticulously designed, rendered or blueprinted . You can take the designs and manufacture every item on your prop by hand or subcontract it out. Or you can do as our little team did for the Death Ray prop built for "Normally This Weird," the Sci FI web series. Read the rest of this entry »
Building the "Normally This Weird" Death Ray Weapon part 3Posted on March 13th, 2011 No comments
As I mentioned in my prior post, my friend Diane Cook introduced me to a fantastic, low cost craft material that we put to use in a number of ways on our death ray prop and on a put-it-together-quickly "time machine."
What is this material?
Building the "Normally This Weird" Death Ray Weapon part 2Posted on March 3rd, 2011 No comments
As I began working on the Death Ray weapon for the web series, "Normally This Weird" I quickly had a number of realizations. The most sobering was that this was not going to be as easy as I thought!
I had forgotten how important a well tooled and supplied workshop can be to efficient model and prop building! I had taken for granted the quality of the shop when I was at Cascade Pictures, or the one in my own studio. Unfortunately when I went to work on Star Trek and got immersed in the digital world, I let my tools go to others. Now, what should have been straight forward tool cuts became laborious chew-it-out-with-my-teeth kind of endeavors. Read the rest of this entry »
Building the "Normally This Weird" Death RayPosted on February 26th, 2011 No comments
Sometime you just have to do a project because it is too cool to pass up and you just know it will be fun.
While I am semi retired (I am not retired yet!) from the visual effects biz, I still get the bug once in a while to do "just one more project." My son, Nathan Stipes, has been the Art Director and de facto prop master on a web series called, "Normally This Weird." http://www.normallythisweird.com/ It is a creative, web-based series of episodes written and directed by Phoenix film maker, Nathan Blackwell.
The series covers the strange adventures of a normal young couple who move into a neighborhood filled with some kinda' unusual people. You have an eccentric inventor who is married to what may be an alien disguised as a 1950 'June Cleaver' housewife. There is the 'Men in Black' style FBI agent and his men constantly trying to expose the strange goings-on. And more!
Night of the Creeps on DVD finally.Posted on November 17th, 2009 No comments
Finally, after years of waiting, "Night of the Creeps" has made it to DVD release. The 1986 horror / sci fi film, written and directed by Fred Dekker, has been a somewhat hidden away cult classic. My son, Nathan, and I found it at Wal-Mart for about $15.00. It has the cemetery ending Dekker originally planned for the film.