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Alabama-Mississippi All-Star awards
MORE FROM ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI: What we learned
Rivals.com analyst Kynon Codrington was in Alabama for last week's Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic. After watching the players throughout the week, he handed out his awards.
Best of the
Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic
Kailo MooreClick Fastest PlayerHere to view this Link. RB, Rosedale (Miss.) West Bolivar
Moore is a standout in track and field. As a junior, he posted a 10.77-second 100-meter dash and a 21.27 200-meter time to win the AAU Junior Olympic championships. On the gridiron, he runs a 4.40 40 and is a scoring threat every time he touches the ball. During the week, he was the fastest player on either team until he injured his leg. Despite the injury, there wasn't another player as electric as Moore.
Texas A&M commit Cameron Echols-Luper is sudden and explosive. He posted a 21.15 200-meter last spring and displayed above-average linear speed during practice.
Darius PaigeClick STRONGEST PLAYERHere to view this Link. DT, Foley (Ala.)
Paige is strong at the point of attack. He can get underneath the pad level of opposing offensive linemen and drive them back on a consistent basis. He is disruptive up front, allowing the linebackers to fill and make plays behind the line of scrimmage.
UCF recruit Wilson Bell was right behind Paige. Bell has a strong upper body and powerful base.
Jason SmithClick BEST HANDSHere to view this Link., ATH, Mobile (Ala.) McGill-Toolen
This may have been the easiest award to decide. Smith snatches everything with his hands and is a natural pass catcher. He has a wide catch radius and shows good concentration.
Ole Miss pledge Derrick Jones showed reliable hands after a rusty first practice. He hauled in a 41-yard touchdown pass over Florida State commit Marquez White.
Jarren JohnsonClick BEST ROUTESHere to view this Link., WR, Jackson (Ala.)
Jackson runs precise routes, and he was one of the top wide receivers during practice, according to teammates. He runs a 4.67-second 40 (laser-timed) and knows how to set up defensive backs coming out of his cuts. He also knows how to find the holes in zone coverage.
Nick MullensClick BEST ARMSHere to view this Link., PQB, Hoover (Ala.) Spain Park
Mullens isn't the biggest at 6-foot-1, but he throws a catchable ball and is very accurate. He has a good release to go with solid zip. He completed eight of 12 passes for 156 yards in the contest to lead all QBs. Showed touch and the ability to fit the ball in tight windows during practice.
Jeremy JohnsonClick STRONGEST ARMHere to view this Link., DQB, Montgomery (Ala.) Carver
Johnson didn't have a strong performance on Saturday, but his arm strength was the best among the quarterbacks in attendance. He can drive the ball downfield with ease. At times he will overthrow his target, and he needs to learn to take a little off, depending on the route. The ball jumps off his hand, and you can see why Auburn was the first to offer the talented dual-threat QB.
Johnathan FordClick BEST VISIONHere to view this Link., New Hope (Ala.)
Ford does a nice job of picking and sliding through the holes. He sees cutback lanes well and is patient setting up blockers. Late in the game, on third-and-long with the team clinging to a five-point lead, the Alabama coaches called for an iso run. Ford took the handoff and bounced outside to pick up a crucial first down. He is a complete back with big-play ability.
Foley, Ala.'s Cedrix Reed led all running backs with 57 yards on nine carries and a touchdown. Reed is shifty with good acceleration. He has a chance to be a productive back at the FCS level.
Chris JonesClick TOUGHEST TO BLOCKHere to view this Link., SDE, Houston (Miss.)
Jones was the unanimous choice among coaches and players. At the Mississippi practices, he was too quick for the offensive line. On Saturday, he took over and punished would-be blockers. He collected eight tackles, two for loss, one sack and one quarterback hurry. He was a mismatch against anyone he faced. The Mississippi State target helped his recruiting stock the most of the group.
Austin GolsonClick BEST BLOCKERHere to view this Link., OL, Prattville (Ala.)
Golson did his best when facing the previously mentioned Jones. He has great feet to go with lateral quickness. The Florida State pledge uses his hands well and can get to linebackers in the second level. Fires off the ball and opened a few holes for the Alabama run game.
Reuben FosterClick BEST PHYSICALLYHere to view this Link., ILB, Auburn (Ala.)
The 6-2, 230-pounder shed noticeable weight from the elite summer events, the Rivals Five-Star Challenge and The Opening. Foster had the best size-to-speed ratio of any player on either roster. He used his physicality on the first play of the game when he shot the gap to lay the wood to running back Darrell Robinson. The five-star 'backer has a stout, barrel chest with a solid lower body.
Antonio ConnerClick BEST TACKLERHere to view this Link., DB, Batesville (Miss.) South Panola
Conner is a sure tackler and can be left to defend center field. He wraps up well and is always in position. Takes proper angles and closes in a hurry. He finished with the second-most tackles for the day with seven and added two for loss and a pass breakup. The four-star defender will be an impact player at the next level. College defensive coordinators will probably use him in the box to stop the run or on safety blitzes. He has great range to go with excellent instincts.
Kamryn MeltonClick BIGGEST SURPRISEHere to view this Link., DB, Dothan (Ala.)
Melton entered the event with a chip on his shoulder. The three-star was pushing to be a four-star prospect in the last rankings release. He brought his four-star game all week and turned in a stellar showing on Saturday. Melton tied for the second-most tackles on the Alabama squad with four. He notched an interception, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery and a tackle for loss.
His secondary mate Jonathan Cook impressed with his sticky coverage. Cook tallied a pair of pass breakups and a pick. He returned his interception 57 yards to set up a score.
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Aphasia Dysphasia
Alexia Dyslexia
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- What is aphasia?
- Who has aphasia?
- What causes aphasia?
- What types of aphasia are there?
- How is aphasia diagnosed?
- How is aphasia treated?
- What research is being done for aphasia?
- Where can I get additional information?
What is aphasia?
Aphasia is a disorder that results from damage to portions of the brain that are responsible for language. For most people, these are areas on the left side (hemisphere) of the brain. Aphasia usually occurs suddenly, often as the result of a stroke or head injury, but it may also develop slowly, as in the case of a brain tumor, an infection, or dementia. The disorder impairs the expression and understanding of language as well as reading and writing. Aphasia may co-occur with speech disorders such as dysarthria or apraxia of speech, which also result from brain damage.
Who has aphasia?
Anyone can acquire aphasia, including children, but most people who have aphasia are middle-aged or older. Men and women are equally affected. According to the National Aphasia Association, approximately 80,000 individuals acquire aphasia each year from strokes. About one million people in the United States currently have aphasia.
What causes aphasia?
Aphasia is caused by damage to one or more of the language areas of the brain. Many times, the cause of the brain injury is a stroke. A stroke occurs when blood is unable to reach a part of the brain. Brain cells die when they do not receive their normal supply of blood, which carries oxygen and important nutrients. Other causes of brain injury are severe blows to the head, brain tumors, brain infections, and other conditions that affect the brain.
What types of aphasia are there?
There are two broad categories of aphasia: fluent and non-fluent.
Damage to the temporal lobe (the side portion) of the brain may result in a fluent aphasia called Wernicke's aphasia (see figure). In most people, the damage occurs in the left temporal lobe, although it can result from damage to the right lobe as well. People with Wernicke's aphasia may speak in long sentences that have no meaning, add unnecessary words, and even create made-up words. For example, someone with Wernicke's aphasia may say, "You know that smoodle pinkered and that I want to get him round and take care of him like you want before." As a result, it is often difficult to follow what the person is trying to say. People with Wernicke's aphasia usually have great difficulty understanding speech, and they are often unaware of their mistakes. These individuals usually have no body weakness because their brain injury is not near the parts of the brain that control movement.
A type of non-fluent aphasia is Broca's aphasia. People with Broca's aphasia have damage to the frontal lobe of the brain. They frequently speak in short phrases that make sense but are produced with great effort. They often omit small words such as "is," "and," and "the." For example, a person with Broca's aphasia may say, "Walk dog," meaning, "I will take the dog for a walk," or "book book two table," for "There are two books on the table." People with Broca's aphasia typically understand the speech of others fairly well. Because of this, they are often aware of their difficulties and can become easily frustrated. People with Broca's aphasia often have right-sided weakness or paralysis of the arm and leg because the frontal lobe is also important for motor movements.
Another type of non-fluent aphasia, global aphasia, results from damage to extensive portions of the language areas of the brain. Individuals with global aphasia have severe communication difficulties and may be extremely limited in their ability to speak or comprehend language.
There are other types of aphasia, each of which results from damage to different language areas in the brain. Some people may have difficulty repeating words and sentences even though they can speak and they understand the meaning of the word or sentence. Others may have difficulty naming objects even though they know what the object is and what it may be used for.
How is aphasia diagnosed?
Aphasia is usually first recognized by the physician who treats the person for his or her brain injury.Frequently this is a neurologist. The physician typically performs tests that require the person to follow commands, answer questions, name objects, and carry on a conversation. If the physician suspects aphasia, the patient is often referred to a speech-language pathologist, who performs a comprehensive examination of the person's communication abilities. The examination includes the person's ability to speak, express ideas, converse socially, understand language, read, and write, as well as the ability to swallow and to use alternative and augmentative communication.
How is aphasia treated?
In some cases, a person will completely recover from aphasia without treatment. This type of spontaneous recovery usually occurs following a type of stroke in which blood flow to the brain is temporarily interrupted but quickly restored, called a transient ischemic attack. In these circumstances, language abilities may return in a few hours or a few days.
For most cases, however, language recovery is not as quick or as complete. While many people with aphasia experience partial spontaneous recovery, in which some language abilities return a few days to a month after the brain injury, some amount of aphasia typically remains. In these instances, speech-language therapy is often helpful. Recovery usually continues over a two-year period. Many health professionals believe that the most effective treatment begins early in the recovery process. Some of the factors that influence the amount of improvement include the cause of the brain damage, the area of the brain that was damaged, the extent of the brain injury, and the age and health of the individual. Additional factors include motivation, handedness, and educational level.
Aphasia therapy aims to improve a person's ability to communicate by helping him or her to use remaining language abilities, restore language abilities as much as possible, compensate for language problems, and learn other methods of communicating. Individual therapy focuses on the specific needs of the person, while group therapy offers the opportunity to use new communication skills in a small-group setting. Stroke clubs, regional support groups formed by people who have had a stroke, are available in most major cities. These clubs also offer the opportunity for people with aphasia to try new communication skills. In addition, stroke clubs can help a person and his or her family adjust to the life changes that accompany stroke and aphasia.
Family involvement is often a crucial component of aphasia treatment so that family members can learn the best way to communicate with their loved one.
Family involvement is often a crucial component of aphasia treatment so that family members can learn the best way to communicate with their loved one.
Family members are encouraged to:
- Simplify language by using short, uncomplicated sentences.
- Repeat the content words or write down key words to clarify meaning as needed.
- Maintain a natural conversational manner appropriate for an adult.
- Minimize distractions, such as a loud radio or TV, whenever possible.
- Include the person with aphasia in conversations.
- Ask for and value the opinion of the person with aphasia, especially regarding family matters.
- Encourage any type of communication, whether it is speech, gesture, pointing, or drawing.
- Avoid correcting the person's speech.
- Allow the person plenty of time to talk.
- Help the person become involved outside the home. Seek out support groups such as stroke clubs.
Other treatment approaches involve the use of computers to improve the language abilities of people with aphasia. Studies have shown that computer-assisted therapy can help people with aphasia retrieve certain parts of speech, such as the use of verbs. Computers can also provide an alternative system of communication for people with difficulty expressing language. Lastly, computers can help people who have problems perceiving the difference between phonemes (the sounds from which words are formed) by providing auditory discrimination exercises.
What research is being done for aphasia?
Scientists are attempting to reveal the underlying problems that cause certain symptoms of aphasia. The goal is to understand how injury to a particular part of the brain impairs a person's ability to convey and understand language. The results could be useful in treating various types of aphasia, since the treatment may change depending upon the cause of the language problem.
Other research is attempting to understand the parts of the language process that contribute to sentence comprehension and production and how these parts may break down in aphasia. In this way, it may be possible to pinpoint where the breakdown occurs and help in the development of more focused treatment programs.
Although different languages have many things in common when specific portions of the brain are injured, there are also differences. Scientists are trying to understand the common (or universal) symptoms of aphasia and the language-specific symptoms of the disorder. Other researchers are examining whether people with aphasia may still know their language but have difficulty accessing that knowledge. These studies may help with the development of tests and rehabilitation strategies that focus on specific characteristics of one language or multiple languages.
Researchers are exploring drug therapy as an experimental approach to treating aphasia. Some studies are testing how drugs can be used in combination with speech therapy to improve recovery of various language functions.
Researchers are also looking at how treatment of other cognitive deficits involving attention and memory can improve communication abilities.
To understand recovery processes in the brain, some researchers are using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to better understand the human brain regions involved in speaking and understanding language. This type of research may improve understanding of how these areas reorganize after brain injury. The results could have implications for both the basic understanding of brain function and the diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases.
Where can I get more information?
NIDCD maintains a directory of organizations that can answer questions and provide printed or electronic information on aphasia. Please see the list of organizations at www.nidcd.nih.gov/directory.
Use the following keywords to help you search for organizations that are relevant to aphasia:
For more information, additional addresses and phone numbers, or a printed list of organizations, contact:
Jargon aphasia is a fluent or receptive aphasia in which the patient's speech is incomprehensible, but appears to make sense to them. Speech is fluent and effortless with intact syntax and grammar, but the patient has problems with the selection of nouns. They will either replace the desired word with another that sounds or looks like the original one, or has some other connection, or they will replace it with sounds. Accordingly, patients with jargon aphasia often use neologisms, and may perseverate if they try to replace the words they can't find with sounds.
Commonly, substitutions involve picking another (actual) word starting with the same sound (e.g. clocktower - colander), picking another semantically related to the first (e.g. letter - scroll), or picking one phonetically similar to the intended one (e.g. lane - late).


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Stay away from People's College of Law. For the sake of humanity and all things right, stay away.
Sounds a lot like People's College of Law...I'm guessing that it is their way of saying minorities. General rule of thumb, though- if you were to talk to 10 people on the street and less than two of them would have heard of the school, you should probably stay away. I would probably be wary of David A. Clarke School of Law... there are a lot of schools out there with the only purpose to eat up your money. Then again, some could argue there that is the purpose of all law schools.


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Though his previous work as a director was 1999's very different "Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade," Okiura and the key members of his creative team have connections to many classic anime, including "Ghost in the Shell,"
The key duality here is the classic Japanese one of the interconnectedness of the physical world we live in with the rich spirit world that surrounds us, a universe that we are too busy, or too adult, to ever see.
Yet one of the first things we notice about "Momo" is the beauty of its landscapes, the poetic reality of the Shinto shrines and carefully terraced mountainside fields on the imaginary island of Shio on Japan's Inland Sea, all rendered in a way that is both painterly and photo-realistic.
Heading toward that remote island is a young girl named Momo (voiced by Karen Miyama) and her mother, Ikuko (Yuka). The family's husband and father has died, and Ikuko is returning with her daughter to the place where she herself grew up to escape the ache and start a new life.
Standing on the deck of the ferry, Momo is introduced holding a piece of paper that says nothing but "Dear Momo" in her father's handwriting. The night before her father died, Momo had an argument with him, and not only did she not have a chance to apologize, she will never know what he planned to tell her in that unfinished note. That pain as well as the despair of losing a parent are key themes handled with quiet sensitivity.
Though Momo feels the universe is indifferent to her plight, this turns out to be not quite true. But if she is expecting anything like sensitive handling she is in for quite a shock in the trio of Three Stooges types who show up.
First manifesting themselves as three droplets of water sent from the heavens and later taking the form of goblin-type beings depicted in Edo-era illustrated books, the three yokai, or spirit creatures, nominally assigned to look after Momo and her mother are not business as usual. Largest of the trio, though not the brightest, is the massive Iwa (Toshiyuki Nishida), an ogre type with enormous teeth. There is the lizard-like Kawa (Koichi Yamadera), whose weapon of choice is, well, flatulence. Finally comes tiny Mame (Cho), a wacky infant with huge eyes and an enormous tongue.
The creatures' time on Earth is supposed to be quite focused, but staying on message is not this trio's strength. They may be powerful beings, but they act like impulsive, unruly children who have agendas of their own, which mostly means eating everything in sight up and down the island.
These broad comic relief moments, which include a disco-type dance apparently necessary to contact the next world, don't seem like they could be in the same film with Momo's very real sadness, but there it is.
Though all this wackiness, plus exciting moments during a typhoon, might indicate otherwise, "A Letter to Momo" is a very leisurely film, drawing us slowly into its very particular, very human world in which Momo learns, grows and becomes more self-reliant.
Which is why, though there are CG effects, Momo and her family and friends are hand-drawn in the traditional 2-D manner. As filmmaker Okiura put it, "I believe that if I'm telling a story about human feelings, the pictures should be coming from a pencil held by a human hand and not from a machine."
'A Letter to Momo'
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Running time: 2 hours
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As Expected, Prostitutes Move Elsewhere After Craigslist Change
from the good-job-doing-nothing dept
So, what happened after Craigslist implemented the change? Exactly what you'd expect. Ed Kohler checked it out and noticed (as you'd expect) that the number of ads on Craigslist's erotic services dropped significantly, but the number of ads elsewhere jumped up somewhat (including some on Craigslist's "Therapeutic Services" -- suggesting that some are trying to skirt the new charging system). Kohler only looked at one other site, so it may look like the increase in ads isn't that big -- but if you add up a variety of similar sites, you can bet that it's quite likely that in total it added up to quite a lot. It's just that, now, it's a lot more work for police to actually monitor.


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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Socket to Me" Sam and Sammy work on helping Ruff decrease his electricity consumption while Harsha and Noel get singing lessons and have to perform.LIVE!. D
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This American Land "Snowy Cave, Conservation Dogs, Underwater Oklahoma" The episode opens amid dazzling natural formations below a New Mexico recreation area. Researchers use GPS technology to help endangered bighorn sheep living in rugged terrain. Doggie detectives in Oregon help scientists save rare plants.G
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SAN FRANCISCO – Earlier this year, Daniel Ek, the CEO of the music service Spotify, was in a car with Mark Zuckerberg. Ek was visiting the Facebook founder in California while the two companies were working together on what eventually would be part of the massive announcement made by Zuckerberg today at his company's F8 developer's conference. It's an initiative that will unleash new waves of applications on Facebook that will greatly enhance the power of the service — already a major part of people's lives — by adding a limitless stream of lifestyle data that people can use to share and, ultimately, define themselves with a profile built on a stunning amount of personal information.
It's all about the Open Graph, Mark Zuckerberg says on a stroll around the company's Palo Alto headquarters.The Swedish-based Ek doesn't like to drive in the United States, so they were getting dinner provisions in Zuckerberg's car. Ek's mobile phone rang. The call was from American Express. Its representative told Ek it had detected bogus charges on his account and had cut off his card. It had already issued him another one. Ek asked how they knew this, and he was told that the charges were made in Florida. By examining Ek's recent card activity — data which provides a personal, even intimate view of a person's life — American Express had seen his flight to California, and felt confident to make the move.
Ek told his friend what happened. "Cool," said Mark Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg's reaction to Ek's little story comes as no surprise to anyone who has followed Facebook. Some people worry about negative consequences from all the information stored on them in places like credit card registries; others look for the benefits that come when others can use that information to help them. Zuckerberg is the spiritual leader of the latter camp. The company has always been straightforward in its mission to encourage people to share information.
Facebook believes that when people share within its system, without fretting about the data they generate, his company can deliver tangible benefits. (Just as American Express made productive use of Ek's information.) People will become closer with each other, be able to express themselves, and generally participate in a community of friends and contacts more deeply and fruitfully than they could hope to do so in the physical world. It is an idealistic vision, but self-interest is involved as well. Facebook stores all the data that people share with their buddies, family, business associates and people they sat next to on an airplane once and impulsively friended. And it can use that to allow advertisers to micro-target their sales pitches.
Over the company's brief history — it has taken only seven years to weave itself into the fabric of life for 800 million people — Facebook has added features that entice its users to share more. Sometimes it encounters objections and in a couple cases, Facebook has made strategic retreats, but generally its users wind up embracing the changes. Mark Zuckerberg's instinct that people like to share seems sound.
But Thursday at its huge F8 developer's conference Facebook is taking what might be its biggest step yet in fulfilling the vision. It annouced the culmination of "The Open Graph," an initiative that will allow thousands of developers to make social applications tightly woven into the Facebook system, much more so than with the existing platform. Media applications in categories like music, news, and video will not only be able to instantly make their content more valuable as friends share what they're reading, watching and listening to with each other, but the media itself will seem to be part of Facebook. Though media apps are prominent among the F8 launch partners, however, Facebook expects people to write programs that involve every imaginable aspect of life.
In other words, Facebook will be its own not-so-little internet, one on which people do the same things they have always done, but in a social way and, of course, on Facebook. What's more, all those activities people perform with these apps — listening to a Bjork tune, reading about same-sex marriage laws, cooking Arroz con Pollo, running four miles, donating to Amnesty International — will be stored permanently and made accessible (if the user allows it) on a greatly enhanced profile page that will essentially become a remote-control autobiography.
Combined with other Facebook recent announcements — "friend lists" that help you classify your contacts into groups, a Ticker that gives updates from your cohorts as they happen, and changes in the newsfeed to make it more reflective of what your close friends are doing — Facebook is not so subtly doubling down on its ambitions to enable people to shed the pre-digital cloak of isolation and treat their life as a 24/7 reality show, broadcast to those in their social spheres.
A few weeks ago, Zuckerberg explained the Open Graph to me in a private walk around Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters (he seems happiest when explaining himself while perambulating). When I ask for a taut definition of the term, he can't produce one. Unpacking some of the jargon he used to get the idea across, I figure out it's basically a term Facebook uses as shorthand for we're going to integrate far more apps, much more deeply into Facebook, and they will less annoying than they were the first time around.
"The Open Graph came from the idea that there's no way that Facebook is ever going to build all these services ourself," Zuckerberg says. "So therefore we should enable an ecosystem of developers to build great experiences." Apparently the first implementation of the idea was the "Like" button, which allows users not only on Facebook but on other websites to indicate approval of something by a mouse-twitch. In barely one year the button has become not just a valuable part of Facebook but a cultural icon, evoking over 3 billion clicks a day. "Our studies show that people are using the 'Like' button primarily as a form of self-expression," says Carl Sjogreen, head of the product platform management team. "So we staring thinking about how we could make that experience much richer."
What Facebook came up with is a double-barrelled plan. First is the generation of applications that made profound use of all of Facebook's key features. The previous generation of Facebook apps had limited access to all of a user's information, and focused much of their attention simply on getting people to sign up. People found their newsfeeds stuffed with notices that friends had joined this or that application. It got as bad as spam. The apps themselves were consigned to boxes on the screen, not fully integrated into all of Facebook. "This was all we could do," says former platform head of Facebook Dave Morin. "We had 20 million users then and 150 people working at Facebook."
The previous generation of Facebook apps focused much of their attention simply on getting people to sign up. Newsfeeds were stuffed with notices that friends had joined this or that application. It got as bad as spam.Worse, once users tried the apps, they were often unsatisfying. "The most successful things were games, and that's not what Facebook had in mind," says Joe Green, a former Facebooker who co-founded Causes, one of the few major apps in that class that didn't flame out. "There are all these areas of human life that have not experienced the revolution of social," he says. Now, he predicts, they will.
Facebook has plenty to offer those developers. So much so that even social networks that have tried to compete with Facebook in narrow ways have now decided to join up with the giant. "There are 35 million people on Facebook who have friend status with [the much smaller number of] friends who are signed up on our application — but many have not heard of us," says Travis Katz, the CEO of Gogobot, a travel recommendation site. He expects that some of those millions will discover his site when Facebook reports that their friends have posted albums of their London trips, or tips on Chicago restaurants.
Bill Nguyen, the CEO of Color — a much touted social photo iPhone app that flopped on launch, reworked his entire business plan after getting briefed on the Open Graph. "When we started our business, we saw ourselves as a Post-PC developer," he says "Now we're a Facebook developer." He is hugely impressed at how Color's new Facebook app can take advantage of all of the service's features. (The app in question is a real-time video stream from people's iPhones—it allows people connected on Facebook to participate in instant "visits" that lets them see the world from the camera of the friend's iPhone.) "Today feels like the first day of the iPhone," Nguyen says, anticipating a wave of social apps just as significant as the mobile apps that Apple's phone unleashed.
The second part of the equation how Facebook itself is changing to accommodate the anticipated wave of new activity it will log through those applications. Even before F8, Facebook announced a series of new features or alterations in anticipation of today's major news. Many of the familiar components of Facebook are going to be different, and new ones will be added. The Newsfeed will be now populated with a different mix of "stories" (Facebook's term for those short items in the feed). "Lightweight" stories–Joe Blow friended Sally Smith–appear in a stream called The Ticker. Not so apparent yet is an alteration under the hood with smarter algorithms, called "Graph Rank," that will allow new applications to flourish without spammng the newsfeed so you won't get notified every time one of your close friends listens to a song or works out in the gym.
Friend Lists are also an important component. This is the application that a lot of people have noticed is similar to the Google+ Circles feature. A lot of people have noticed in the last week that Facebook has been aggressively requesting them to hone the list of their closest friends. This can be useful in the same sense that Circles is — helping them share personal items with only those they trust. But while Google sees Circles mainly as a filter that enables users to maintain privacy, Facebook is using its close friends list as a launching pad for new applications that let people share within a tighter social circle. "It's perfect for us," says Dave Morin, who's now CEO of Path, a mobile social app built for sharing only among a small cohort. In another example, Causes will use the list to enable people to dun their closest friends for contributions to their favorite charities.
But the biggest shift, and what may be the most controversial, centers on the Facebook profile. It not only will look different — a large cover picture (users pick it) makes it look more like a stylish website than the bland resume of the original — but it serves a much deeper function.
"With the current profile, you look at my wall, you look at my photos, you're done — there's nothing else to do," says Chris Cox, Facebook's VO of Product. He compares it to the first five minutes with a stranger, when you simply find out the basics about a person — where they work, where they went to school, who they know. Even the more extensive information that Facebook has added over the years only adds up to five more minutes of conversation, where you might learn what the person was been doing very recently.
Facebook can now serve some of most micro-targeted ads in history. Will users balk at all that information about them in the hands of a private company? Zuckerberg is used to that line of questioning, and clearly doesn't think it's interesting.The new model is what Cox calls a "foundational narrative timeline." In a sense, Facebook is letting you write your autobiography in real time. But no writing is involved — instead your work will be in curating the vast amounts of personal information generated by your activity in Facebook and all those social applications utilizing the Open Graph. What tunes were you listening to in March 2008? How much did you exercise? What was your trip to Mexico like? When did you start your relationship with Brenda?
On the Timeline, Facebook will gather and organize the massive amount of data generated by the apps you use to tell your story, minute by minute, day by day, year by years. And each application will have a tab that allows sanctioned visitors to burrow into your very specific actions in this specialty or that. The Spotify tab might allow you to check out which songs you've been obsessed with lately or whether or how much you really listen to hip-hop. And the Washington Post Social Reader tab will give a rundown of what news stories you've been following. (What used to be known as The Wall is demoted to just a tile on the new, Timelline-dominated profile.)
Cox says that instead of that brief conversation you used to get by scanning the previous version of the profile, visiting the profile will be the equivalent of going to a bar to have a long overdue five-hour soul exchange. "It's that conversation where you play the jukebox till it runs out, the bar closes, and you walk about and say, 'Man, that was really deep,'" he says.
The profile will be "a visual scrapbook of your life," says Cox. At his F8 keynote Zuckerberg goes farther, calling it "the story of your life." Visitors come by to learn about who you are in detail — it will almost be like being left alone in someone's apartment and being able to check out their bookshelves, CD's, refrigerator and even their pedometer — but people will actually spend endless time on their own profiles, not only organizing them but eventually hanging out there to reminisce about the past.
"You can really put a lot more of your life into Facebook," says Dave Morin. And all of that is information that Facebook will store and potentially make use of. "Our primary business model and it always will be, is advertising," says Dan Rose, Facebook's VP of Platforms and Partnerships. "Our platform makes Facebook more interesting so people spend more time on it, because I'm learning about my friends and I'm sharing things about myself and I'm discovering new things. And it also makes it possible for us to put an ad in front of you that's likely to be interesting to you."
With a huge new source of personal information, Facebook can now serve some of most micro-targeted ads in history. You could probably call them nano-targeted ads.
Will users balk at all that information about them in the hands of a private company? Zuckerberg is used to that line of questioning, and clearly doesn't think it's interesting. He notes that Facebook will offer users multiple means to shield certain activities from some or all of their friends. This includes a clear permission form when you install an app. Then there's an eyes-only activity stream that people can edit. They can limit sharing to certain lists of friends. And they can hold off on sharing a particular item.
Of course, traditionally very few software consumers alter the default settings of a product — and in the Open Graph the default setting seems to allow all your friends to see this stuff. Those who want to change it will have to spend time using Facebook's tools to set who sees what.
Zuckerberg's strongest argument is that, duh, this is Facebook. The service for sharing.
"The whole point of this is that you use this app instead of whatever you were using before — because you want to discover things about your friends and share your activities with them,' he says. "We're not trying to make everyone use this stuff. Everyone has to make a choice up front to use it, and I think they'll be signing up pretty clearly because they want their friends to be able to see this stuff. They were probably be a set of people whose reaction is just, 'Wow, I don't want any service to know all of the stuff that I listen to, just because it is a lot of information.' But our belief is that people own their data and they should be able to share it or put it wherever they want."
Facebook is particularly confident that people are eager to share the media they consume—what they read, what they watch, and particularly what they listen and dance to. Naturally, the best showcase for that are the music applications rolling out today. "Music is such a great example for us because it's so tied to people's identities," says Facebook CTO Bret Taylor. "People wear T shirts with their favorite artists on them—in high school I had patches on my backpack of the punk bands I listened to."
Zuckerberg's strongest argument is that, duh, this is Facebook. The service for sharing.Facebook has long flirted with ideas to integrate music into the system, but Zuckerberg was particularly taken with Spotify, the Swedish-based service that offers both subscription and free versions. But though Facebook began working with Spotify last year of figuring out how to make music part of the Open Graph, its idea was to invite multiple services — indeed the launch partners besides Spotify include Rhapsody, MOG, Rdio, and even smaller ventures like the hot real-time listening experience Turntable.fm and a recent Y Combinator startup called Earbits.
This allows Facebook to get all the information about what people listen to without actually having to run a music service itself. Since Facebook offloads the actual streaming to its partners, there's no need to negotiate licenses with music industry honchos. When people see on their newsfeed that friends have been listening to a new Wilco tune, a single click on the song title actually plays the song, through the third-party service. (It feels like it's playing on Facebook.) If you're not a member of the service, you automatically get signed up, via your Facebook information. This makes Facebook the prime way that these services will now sign up new users and the Open Graph has sparked a gold-rush level frenzy among the various services, who see a limited window to lay claim to the all-or-nothing network effects that will ultimately funnel users into a very few favored services. "It's like going from Route 66 to a major highway," says MOG CEO David Hyman.
The frontrunner in this race is Spotify, a service perfectly tailored to the new Facebook platform, especially since it has a free version that most of its users prefer. While specifying that he is playing no favorites, Facebook's Dan Rose cites two aspects of Spotify that might give it an advantage over its rivals. "One is, they certainly have gone the deepest and farthest in making their product social from the ground up. And second, they have a business model that may be really aligned to the social discovery and serendipity that our platform is designed to enable. If I see that you're listening to a song or an album or an artist and I want to hear it, I can do that with very little friction using Spotify."
This has forced the other services to consider changing their own business plans to accommodate the new social age of music. For instance, David Hyman now is offering free option for MOG users who promiscuously spread their song choices — and lure more signups for MOG. When you join you are assigned a "gas tank" with a certain amount of songs in it — if you share promiscuously and your sharing winds up with your friends playing songs, MOG will top your tank. "The amount of free music you can get is based on how many friends you have," he says. "If you're really viral, you'll never have to pay." If it works, he says MOG could have a "Zynga-like viral effect" that benefits his company the same way Facebook catapulted the social gaming firm into stardom.
News articles might seem like a less promising category for social apps. Yet one of the most ambitious products launching at F8 is the Washington Post Social Reader. "Social is really important to the future of news," says Don Graham, the CEO of the Washington Post (and a Facebook board member.) Basically, it lets users see what their friends read and vice versa, and the articles are not only from the Post and its properties like Slate and Foreign Policy, but partners like AP, Reuters, Mashable, SB Nation and Wetpaint. The equivalent of a front page drawn from this trove of journalism isn't determined by a group of editors in a conference room determining importance of articles, but how popular those articles are among one's friends. "There will be some people who won't want to do it, but for those who try it, it's fun," Graham says. Graham himself says that while he was the least likely person to take to such an approach, he is getting hooked on the test version he's been using.
"Seeing news based on what your friends are reading is interesting," says Vijay Ravindran, chief digital officer of the Washington Post. He says that when setting up how the Social Reader would work, his team asked, "What would Facebook do?" That helped them put the social aspect at the center, and the application is smart enough to figure out which articles you read aren't so expressive (everyone probably will read about the hurricane coming through town) and which give useful hints to your unique interests (reading about Penn State football games might indicate your loyalty — and reading about Rick Santorium might indicate a possible vote). For now, the Social Reader doesn't have its own privacy settings — it's relying on Facebook's inline controls — but Ravindran says that high on the coming feature list is a "hide" button for articles you don't want others to know you're reading.
Movies are part of the launch, too, notably with the participation of Netflix. As with some of the music and news services, users will get to see what friends have streamed, and vice versa. Oddly, Netflix once had a social element to its website. It was called Netflix friends, and it was not a success. According to the company, only two percent of its users made use of the feature. The obvious reason is that people were uncomfortable sharing what movies they watched. Netflix has another explanation. "We were ahead of our time," says spokesperson Joris Evers. "Today people are more used to sharing their lives online."
Netflix's Facebook app will only be available overseas; users in the United States will have to do without. The reason, explains Evers, is the 1998 Video Privacy Protection Act. After information leaked out about Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's movie rentals, Congress imposed a strict privacy clamp on information about video-consumption, and the language in that act seems at odds with the Netflix app. The company is urging people to write their representative to adopt draft legislation that fixes the problem.
On one hand this is certainly an anomaly — there's a big difference between a video store sharing your files with an investigator and a Facebook user consciously linking his or her video account to a social network. On the other hand, Netflix can't offer its Facebook service—the one that works exactly the way all the other apps do — because the United States Congress believes it is an abuse of privacy.
When that law was passed in 1988 of course, legislators had no idea that an entire generation would regard sharing their activities and interests online as second nature. It does seem that millions already accept the tradeoff of traditional privacy to get the bounty of friend recommendations, updates on one's social world, and opportunities for personal branding by one's preferences. Facebook is wed to the premise that such activity is at the essence of what makes us human, and moving out of the darkness to share what you do, what you like and who you are is a liberating, enriching, and fun.
The Open Graph puts Facebook closer than ever to making this vision real, and Mark Zuckerberg is already reaping the benefits of his expanded platform. For months now he has been testing Open Graph applications among the small group of Facebookers and other insiders who have access to it. I ask him what he likes best about it.
"The thing I actually find the most interesting is discovering stuff about my friends," he told me. "Which is why we created this in the first place."
What has he learned about his friends?
"There's these interesting patterns that happen in the world, and that person isn't necessarily going to post an update about it," he says. "You see who is into what. One day you see someone watching a few hours of TV in a row, and you're just like, 'Oh, this person must be sick at home today.'"
That brings up an interesting point. Here is Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook, noticing from his employee's activity on the Open Graph that instead of contributing to the social revolution, they are indulging in a "Breaking Bad" marathon. In such a case, does he call up and ask whether he planned to come to work that day?"
Zuckerberg thinks for a moment. "I ask them how they're feeling," he says.
One day in the not distant future, he might not have to ask. Depending on the right app and the right settings, Zuckerberg could be able to go to the employee's Facebook profile page and check out his vital statistics from there. Cool.
See Also:
- Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social
- A First Look at Social Reader, WaPo's New Facebook App
- Google+ vs. Facebook on Privacy: + Ahead On Points – For Now
- Facebook Announces New Design, In-Browser Video Chat With Skype
- The Facebook Privacy War: What is Personal Data?
- Facebook's Gone Rogue; It's Time for an Open Alternative
- Facebook to Launch "Simplistic" Privacy Choices Soon
- Google+ Suddenly Looks Pretty Busy for a Ghost Town


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 24th Aug 2013 17:09 UTC
Google has revised its Play Store rules. This is new:
Apps and their ads must not add homescreen shortcuts, browser bookmarks, or icons on the user's device as a service to third parties or for advertising purposes. Apps and their ads must not display advertisements through system level notifications on the user's device, unless the notifications derive from an integral feature provided by the installed app. (e.g., an airline app that notifies users of special deals, or a game that notifies users of in-game promotions).
I've never encountered any of these, but good to see them banned.
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Back to School Recipe: The Ultimate Mac & Mornay
Wow. Have your ever had a gastronomic moment when you know you're eating the best version of a particular dish? Eyes light up, noshing sounds commence and belly sighs exhale as fellow diners exclaim, "No THIS is the best!", "Oh my God!" and "Praise Mac & Mornay!" This happened recently and thank goodness I had my camera and notebook to document and jot down the ultimate mac and mornay recipe.
Why am I referring to this recipe as "Mac & Mornay" instead of "Mac & Cheese?" The word "mornay" simply means béchamel with shredded cheese added to it. Béchamel sauce is a simple preparation of a roux (flour and butter cooked down together) and milk. There are endless variations of béchamel–based sauces transforming dishes depending on how much or how little of other items you add to it.
When thinking of the ultimate macaroni and cheese recipe, I was enlightened by a chef friend to think of béchamel preparation for the sauce and adding shredded Raclette and Parmesan, yielding a flavorful mornay sauce, then including a few special details to elevate this dish into legendary tastiness.
For me, it's fascinating to cook alongside trained chefs, as they all emphasize simple, high quality ingredients, proper technique and an unabashed use of butter and salt. This mac and mornay demonstrates all of these principles, and it is a rich food, but you really don't need a lot to be satisfied. When eating mac and mornay, I believe in a smaller portion of the really good stuff rather than a bowl full of low fat and low flavor.
The expression 'the devil's in the details' is apparent in all the subtle moves of this recipe. There's a hint of rosemary, light dusting of nutmeg and torn fresh bread cubes to infuse the rich, comforting taste of pasta and cheese. And there's the cheese itself. James, my chef friend and former cheese monger recommends using a favorite, flavorful cheese cut with Parmesan for this recipe. He selected an Alpine–style goat cheese, Raclette, for our version (a current favorite cheese of mine), but you could use Gruèyere or even a strong white cheddar if you prefer. It's a multiple–step meal, but once you get the hang of the textures and techniques, it's really pretty simple. Surprise your kids and loved ones with a delectable meal, accompanied by just a simple salad and glass of chilled white wine. This dish heavenly.
For the Sauce Mornay
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup flour
3 1/2 cups milk
freshly grated nutmeg
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
black pepper (or white pepper if you don't like little black specks in your sauce)
3/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
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|2006-02-07, 23:10
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Waterloo, Ontario
Age: 44
[Manga] Sasuke is still the most popular character!
Much to my surprise, despite not being in the manga at all, anymore, Sasuke is still the most popular Naruto character, according to the latest popularity poll.
Furthermore, Naruto's popularity has actually fallen back to fourth place. I've never seen him so unpopular before. It's quite interesting. Then again, Iruka is still in fifth place, so who knows what's up with these polls...
Lastly, I also find it interesting that Deidara is so popular, at third place.
Anyway, I think it's good that people are still eagerly awaiting Sasuke's return!
|2006-02-07, 23:26
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Join Date: May 2004
Age: 31
Naruto is probably losing popularity because Kishimoto spent a whole year in Part 2 without showing anything particularly impressive out of him at all. So far his growth over the past 3 years seems pretty pathetic. By using Kyuubi powerups as a plot mechanic to make him seem comparable to the main villains, Kishimoto is making him look like a chump in his normal form.
In a nutshell, Sasuke is still popular because he hasn't disappointed anyone.
|2006-02-08, 01:05
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Waterloo, Ontario
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2. Kakashi
3. Deidara
4. Naruto
5. Iruka (why?)
6. Sasori
7. Garaa
8. Neji
9. Yondaime
10. Shikamaru
11. Itachi
12. Sakura
Unfortunately, I can't read Japanese, so I don't know how Hinata ranked...
|2006-02-08, 01:39
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Location: Mushroom County, Mario World
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|2006-02-08, 03:11
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This poll only confirms what I've felt and have said since the beginning.
Naruto is garbage.
He is a pathetic main character, period. The only reason why he ranked up so high in the first place was because he was the main character. Judging him just on his own merits and personality, he is severely lacking. Frankly, it's just getting clear now that people are getting sick and tired of this dumbass, and are awaiting the TRUE main character in this series.
Honestly it's pretty telling that Sasuke not only is the one thing that's saving this manga in the first place (which the creator of the series said HIMSELF), not only is his character much more INTERESTING and not as PATHETIC as Naruto, but he is also the #1 favorite in Japan (where their opinions actually matter) as well as Masashi Kishimoto's (the creator's) favorite character.
Naruto is a completely typical and retarded shonen main character that even fails at being in the top 3 of his own series. He fails at being one of the most likable, which is basically all a shonen main character needs to do. A side character like Deidara who was just shown last arc even managed to beat him. Frankly, Naruto fans everywhere should feel ashamed at how pathetic he is and his pitiful showing here.
It's ridiculous how crappy he is. They should just change the focus of the manga to Sasuke, since that's basically what all the important people want and would make it much more interesting. You can even see how Mr. Masashi treats Sasuke compared to Naruto to get the idea. Sasuke is (and always will be):
-stronger than Naruto (Sasuke's natural potential is the highest in the whole series, surpassing people like the 3rd, the 4th, Itachi, Sakumo, AL, etc. The only reason why Naruto is even managing to stay on his level, and will continue to be around his level is because of Kyuubi. Even with that though, he can't surpass Sasuke)
-smarter than Naruto
-a better ninja than Naruto
-is "cooler" and more "badass" than Naruto in everything
-better looking than Naruto
-has a more tortured past than Naruto
-has a more interesting character
-is more developed with a more interesting story
-and is PREFERRED more by the important fans and the creator of the series himself
Basically Sasuke>>Naruto in everything that matters to a story and to a shonen character. This is why Sasuke is the number one character and will continue to be so (his only challenge will be Kakashi from now on).
|2006-02-08, 04:16
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They should've named the anime Sasuke in the first place, Kishimoto is making Naruto less and less impressive. Other than his determination, he got no jutsus, no brains but just a tactless idiot relying on Kyuubi chakra. Sad.
|2006-02-08, 04:45
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Location: In Maya world, where all is 3D and everything crashes
Age: 31
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|2006-02-08, 04:46
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: In Maya world, where all is 3D and everything crashes
Age: 31
it doent matter to me what all of you are saying, Naruto is one of my fav's i like Naruto and Sasuke, but Naruto a bit more then Sasuke, i have my own reasons.. i wont tell them cause im sure people will go all negative and tell me otherwise
*not trying to make a comotion*
i still have to see Sasuke in the new chapters, maybe then my opinion will change XD
|2006-02-08, 05:38
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Last poll I've seen (don't remember during what chapter) Sasuke was indeed number one. Naruto came seconds with around 2,000 votes less.
But now, what's really strange, is that Rasengan is the most popular technique in that poll Chidori was second.
As for myself, I like Naruto. If you think he's pathetic, maybe you should consider Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion. That's a coward and a loser... no matter how you look at him.
Really, I'm convinced that Naruto has some potential as character... maybe it's just a late-bloomer ^^'
Sasuke being number has certainly something to do with these Sasuke x Naruto doujins, fanfics etc where often he's the one in control over Naruto and their relation. They even make him look very kawai and mature at the same time (Naruto too but more naive/innocent ) Personally, I like Sasuke 'cause of he looks cool, but his personality is not something you'd envy. I feel sorry for him.
|2006-02-08, 06:41
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: もう東京ではない
Age: 37
Personally, I like Sasuke the most because he's simply the most interesting character. His character has been developed over every single arc, from loner and arrogant --> sceptic teamplayer --> sacrificing himself for naruto --> acknowledging Naruto during the chuunin test --> actually being scared of naruto when watching him fight gaara --> meets itachi and falls back into his old self, now envious at naruto for growing strong so quickly while he's hardly grown at all (at least in his own mind) --> after that it's just down hill for him. All of that, plus the extensive flashbacks of his childhood.
What does Naruto have? It's just the same old thing over and over. He might develop new skills and fight tougher opponents, but his character remains pretty much the same throughout the whole course of the series. Some might find that charming, but it is kind of dull.
|2006-02-08, 07:21
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That's the only reasonable explanation.
Probably also partially explains Diedara (Yes! There's finally someone attractive to slash Itachi with!)
I'm actually more surprised that Shikamaru and Neji both rank higher than Itachi. Particularly Shikamaru, since he's not very bishounen, and only had a small role in Part II so far.
|2006-02-08, 16:09
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Join Date: May 2004
How did Deidra make 3rd!? How did that thing beat Sasori, Sasori is clearly the better artists. Not to mention alot more "boss" than DD, fans have no taste....
Anyway Naruto stopped being number one the instant Kishi stopped devolping him. Simple as that. Sasuke's popularity skyroketed after the chase arc because Kishi bothered to devolop him.
The good news is that Kishi knows how to flesh out his creations. The bad news is that he made so many interesting characters that the series has lost its focus.
When I liked Naruot the most:
The Wave country arc where he called that kid a crybaby in his own drama.
In the Chuunin arc where he swore to beat Neiji (and did). When he KO'd Gaara and was crawling at him with his chin.
Those were great moments of Naruto, and lately they have been few and far between. His crying for Sasuke isn't very manly at all, like Kabuto said.
Favorite Sasuke moment: when he told Sakura that the pain of loniless was nothing compared to being nagged by parents. Way to put put her in check!
After the chase arc I've come to agree with Sai, Sasuke's a weak punk that betrayed his friends for selfish reasons.
Farorite Sasori moment (he would've gotten my vote this time around): When we found out he made himself into a living puppet. Just thinking that he carved himself up like that freaks me out (in a good way).
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