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Gnomeo and Juliet (US - BD)
Gabe feels a little guilty about using garden gnomes as clay pigeons now...
"The story you are about to see has been told before… a lot, and now we are going to tell it again… but different."
When I saw the ads for Gnomeo and Juliet, I assumed it was going to be a load of crap. I was generally correct, of course, as we need another adaptation of Romeo and Juliet about as much as we need scabies, and an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet enacted by lawn decorations sounds like just about the most unneeded case of scabies in the long, sad history of unneeded scabies. However, in the long, sad history of unneeded movies Gnomeo and Juliet ranks surprisingly high, and is even kind of, well, enjoyable. The version of the story, as stated, surrounds two groups of lawn/garden decorations, led mostly by two families of gnomes – the Reds, who live in the yard owned by one Mr. Capulet, and the Blues, who live in the yard owned by one Mrs. Montague. The yards are separated by a wooden fence, which doesn't stop the two families from bickering, playing pranks, and generally damaging each other's property. While committing an act of property damaging mischief the Blue's favourite son, Gnomeo (James McAvoy) meets a free spirit Red named Juliet (Emily Blunt), and the duo begin to see each other behind their family's backs.
This adaptation was written by no fewer than seven people (eight if you count Shakespeare, several dozen if you subscribe to those wacky Shakespeare conspiracy theories), and it certainly shows, especially in terms of the comedy stylings jumping all over the place. But it's also plenty obvious that a few of the participants are a talented lot, because some of the jokes are actually funny. The quality is certainly patchy. Sometimes we're privy to genuinely witty word play and well executed physical gags, other times we're trudging through stupid pop-culture references and bland appropriation of an over told story. The only example of this variation on the theme does anything clever is when Gnomeo meets a statue of William Shakespeare (Patrick Stewart), who in a very metatextual moment insists that both he and Juliet are destined to die (this is the only place to hear two generations of Professor Charles Xavier interact). However, the more patently successful comedy comes out the simple joys of slapstick. The animators do wonders with their limitations, finding an odd place where the movements of concrete and ceramic creatures seem somehow natural. The characters are expressive and zippy without major stretch and snap effects. The incredibly speedy eye movements are particularly memorable, along with the jittery movements of speechless characters like the stone rabbits and Gnomeo's sidekick stone mushroom.
Some of the comedy revolves around the fact that the characters are all lawn decorations, but most of these gags actually ended up depressing me. In the Toy Story universe the toys are loved, and live to be loved, but the lawn decorations are just objects with sentience. It's a concept I'm sure plenty of garden enthusiasts entertain, and I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to think about it this hard, but I am. A prime example is a gnome spends all day fishing the same fish, which itself is sentient, and not happy about the fact that it cannot escape the line. Twice the fish is freed only to sink to the bottom of the pond, where it sighs in disappointment, because it is unable to swim. This disturbing quality (which by the way, I didn't find offensive or anything) even extends to the proper plot. Since gnomes apparently don't require sustenance, Juliet's father isn't above gluing her to her pedestal after catching her with Gnomeo. Her sentence appears to be an eternity, or at least until the day she rots away entirely (in which case she is dead?). This isn't exactly torture since Juliet doesn't appear to experience physical pain, but she's a hyper vigilant free spirit (which is what got her into trouble in the first place), and in love, so the psychological damage must be immeasurable. I also wonder where this ends. A sprinkler is sentient, toys in the house are sentient, what objects aren't sentient in this universe? It appears that the computer and lawnmowers are not, so perhaps it doesn't extend to machinery? I'd hate to think that the toilet was aware of its lot in life.
It's certainly not as incredible to look at as some of the pricier computer animation, but Gnomeo and Juliet is a pretty good looking flick overall, and benefits greatly from 1080p enhancement. There are millions of pixels worth of sharp details, blindingly vibrant colours, and no real digital artefacts or compression issues in sight. As seems to be the case so much of the time, the close-up details are impressive, but not as awe-inspiring as the intricacy of the details in the wide shots. The more realistic natural elements are scientific in their super-fine elements, including dirt and gravel that can practically be counted by the grains, and the blades of grass beg to be touched. All the major characters are colour-coated for our viewing convenience, and the red and blue hues are surprisingly consistent given the changeup in texture and style. On the included DVD copy the bright reds are especially rife with blocking and blooming, while this Blu-ray features edges about as close to perfect as possible. This is the kind of ridiculously awesome perfection that I can't find anything interesting to say about. It's really good. Seriously.
This disc's DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 soundtrack is much more impressive than I'd like to admit, and adds a whole lot of production value. The sound department really made the most of their strange arrangement, finding every excuse to make a grinding or clicking concrete sound. Character winks? Concrete sound. Character touches something? Slightly different concrete sound. The same basic idea goes for the plastic or wood based characters. The action scenes aren't too bombastic, but feature plenty of aggressive stereo and surround work, strong directional work, and just enough LFE impact. When I read the Blu-ray's box art my stomach lurched as I realized Gnomeo and Juliet was kind of an Elton John vehicle, but I was relieved to realize that the filmmakers (which include John in a producer capacity) mostly used music from John's back catalogue (minus two meh new numbers), most of it from the days he was actually an interesting artist. I admit that I was entertained by the way composers Chris P. Bacon and James Newton Howard sneak melodies from John's recognizable songs into their symphonic score.
Extras begin with 'Elton Builds a Garden' (5:50, HD), a brief story from behind the scenes. This featurette mostly covers Elton John's presence in the film, especially his music, but includes quick glances at the pre-production, and casting. It was apparently a somewhat tortured production, moving from Disney to Starz, then back to Disney where it was released through Touchstone. From here we move onto the two alternate endings (4:50, HD), each in story-reel form, and each with filmmaker introductions. I prefer the first choice. This is followed by a lot of deleted/extended/alternate scenes (42:30, HD), which are presented in much the same way. These present an entirely different version of the flamingo character, and reveal more of the film's 'too many hands in the pot' problems, though they do sort of widen the scope of the universe. Extras end with 'Frog Talk with Ashley Jensen' (1:30, HD) and 'The Fawn of Darkness' (1:30, HD), two generally funny behind the scenes glances with voice cast Ashley Jensen and Ozzy Osbourne, a 'Crocodile Rock' music video, and trailers.
Well, Gnomeo and Juliet certainly isn't a 'good movie', or even one that 'isn't stupid', but it's more entertaining than I expected based on it's asinine, sub- Toy Story premise. It doesn't compare to the kind of wonderful, thoughtful, imaginative animated material we've been seeing out of the major studios lately, but frightful parents with excited children will be happy to know this one won't hurt them. The video quality and the DTS-HD MA soundtrack are both more or less perfect, and the extras are decent, including a whole lot of deleted, extended and alternate scenes that give some insight into the growing pains the film endured during production.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray's image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Woah, Ninja Gnome!
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That's Juliet in a sock. That way when she meets Gnomeo he won't know she's a red.
Pixarfan517 Member Join Date: August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 1,478
I actually agree. While it's not one of the worst animated movies, it's definitely not a terrible movie. It was actually a decent animated flick, but it's not something I would go crazy in buying. I would rather save my money for "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules."
Phil92 Member Join Date: January 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 760
The snap of Juliet in a sock had the best line in the whole film. "Take care - I'll tell your Dad you're doing your hair!"
All ages admitted
Disc Details
Release Date: 24th May 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH and Spanish
Extras: Deleted and Alternate Scenes, Alternate Endings, Elton Builds a Garden, Frog Talk with Ashley Jensen, The Fawn of Darkness, Crocodile Rock Music Video, Trailers, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Kelly Asbury
Cast: James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne, Dolly Parton, Hulk Hogan, Ashley Jensen, Stephen Merchant, Matt Lucas, Jim Cummings, Julie Walters
Genre: Animation and Comedy
Length: 84 minutes
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Stuffed mushrooms were one of the first dishes I learned to pull off and share with guests as a vegan. Italian background, Italian food, check. I can still remember my mom pulverizering the filling in the food processor, and that flavor, which was nothing like the other foods I ate (admittedly, it was full of parmesan and likely, crab, and I was such a picky eater). My late mother actually developed a severe, yet comical, allergic reaction to mushrooms at some point, yet still kept making these due to popular demand. Nowadays, I usually make them for potlucks, and there's nearly always wine (because mushrooms should nearly always be drunk), nuts, and breadcrumbs involved. Very recently, my mushrooms-have-the-consistency-of-eyeballs paranoia returned, as it is does now and then, so there I was, with creminis, yet, not wanting to slice them. Stuffed mushrooms are the least of my squishy mushroom fears, and there I went. You could easily sub red wine, or add roasted garlic, steamed greens, vegan crab, etc. Stuffed mushrooms = versatile.
The Recipe:
Marsala, Sun-dried Tomato & Mozzarella Stuffed Mushrooms
- 20-25 cremini mushrooms, stems separated, and gills scraped (optional)
- 2 cloves of minced garlic
- 1/2 cup dry Marsala wine
- 1/2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup shredded vegan mozzarella (I used Chicago Soy Dairy Teese)
- 1-2 tablespoons of chopped sun-dried tomatoes (re-hydrated or oil packed)
- 1/2 cup breadcrumbs (I used Dave Killer's Good Seed)
- Note: I used 3/4 cup initially, and had too much filling leftover, hence the cut. Not the end of the world if you run a little short or extra!
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon dried marjoram
- freshly ground black pepper
- pinch hot paprika
- pinch nutritional yeast
- additional olive oil for spritzing
- additional wine
- Preheat oven to 375F and lightly grease a casserole dish large enough to fit the mushrooms, such as an 8×8 or 8×4.
- Thoroughly mince the mushroom stems, either with a knife or in a food processor.
- Sauté the garlic and mushroom steams over medium heat for 5 minutes. Add the wine, stir for 1 minute, and simmer for an additional 5, or until most of the liquid evaporates.
- Add the herbs (excluding the salt & pepper!) and stir for 1 more minute. Remove from heat.
- Mix the breadcrumbs, sun-dried tomatoes, salt, pepper and nutritional well in a bowl. Carefully mix in the sautéed mushrooms mixture and vegan mozzarella shreds, and incorporate well.
- Using a 1/2 tablespoon, fill each mushroom cap with the mixture, packing tightly. Place the caps into your lightly greased baking pan, spray with olive oil and a couple good dashes of additional wine, and cook for 20 minutes. If you have extra mushroom caps, just save them to slice into a tofu scramble or something.
- Increase the heat to 425F, and cook for an additional 10-15 minutes, as needed. Check for browning.
- Remove from oven, briefly yet cool, pour some more wine, and serve.
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First off, there is the interface. Designed in an era before taskbars and context-sensitive menus appeared anywhere else, the RISC OS iconbar and pop-up menu system remains a pleasingly elegant way of launching applications and using them. The iconbar, in its day, was a fantastic innovation (see screenshot 1). Hardware such as drives and printers sits on the left, as God intended, and applications sit on the right. There's no program menu (unless you use a third-party application), and no trays cluttered with utilities and performance-sapping processes. Applications don't have menu bars attached to windows, but instead use the second mouse button to pop-up choices anywhere over a task's windows or its program icon (see screenshot 2). Nicely, this allows a clean division between options for the application as a whole or the file currently being edited.
Simplicity and clarity is another draw. The OS was designed to work with very low-powered computers by today's standards, and as a result flies along very nicely for non-intensive tasks. Deft use of a three-button mouse makes shifting windows around extremely quick and hassle-free. You can still edit window contents when they're under other windows, which sounds like a minor thing but really makes life much more pleasant for everyone. Comparative lack of bells and whistles, a problem for some, is a positive boon for RISC OS fans. We don't get asked to update our software every five minutes, or have virus checkers pop-up without being asked-to, or have talking paperclips emerge from the shadows when writing a letter. All of this is good. Really good.
On top of this, RISC OS still has some great applications which, for ease of use at least, often leave their bloated competitors on other machines far behind. Take ArtWorks, a lovely vector drawing programme maintained by the sainted Martin Wuerthner of MW Software. Speedy and clean in design, it nonetheless boasts a very respectable feature set and is being constantly updated. EasiWriter, a word processor, Ovation Pro, a DTP application, and Messenger, an email client, are similarly distinguished indigenous programs. In addition to home-grown stuff, a heroic band of developers led by Peter Naulls has made porting applications from Linux-like environments a great deal easier: although incomplete, the ubiquitous Firefox just about works on RISC OS, and will hopefully be integrated further in the months ahead. The Unix Porting Project lists dozens of applications on their website, most of which are recent additions to RISC OS.
It's not all rosy, however. Web browsing, even with Firefox, can be a daunting challenge, and there's little support for modern video standards or nice things like Flash. The hardware is a bit creaky as well: the fastest ARM-based machine is the Iyonix, clocked at a not-very-eye-watering 600MHz. Its diminutive rival, the distressingly badly-named A9home from Advantage6, weighs in at an even more modest 400MHz. RISC OS's generally lightweight nature compensates for some of this, but activities like 3D modelling or heavyweight compilation aren't much fun. Emulation, using commercial products like VirtualAcorn, provides access to faster PC hardware, but brings with it some of the disadvantages of sitting on top of Windows (see screenshot 3). Despite this, many developers have chosen this as a way of keeping hold of their beloved RISC OS while having access to the power and compatibility of Windows. Emulator solutions for MacOS and Linux may eventually emerge in due course.
So, all this being the case, why do I use RISC OS? Well, apart from a slight perverse enjoyment of using something different, lots of stuff really is easier and nicer than on other platforms. I briefly dumped the environment after its creator, Acorn Computer, folded in the late 90s. But I came back eventually, and will stick with it for as long as the party lasts. As for how long that is, who knows? RISC OS really ought not to be around any more. It's appallingly marketed, has a tiny pool of developers, and those that are left are fighting amongst themselves. But I still like it. It makes me smile. And when was the last time Windows did that for you?


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Mount Whitney Climber's Log
Redwic - Jul 9, 2007 8:57 am Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2007First Attempt A Success!
My hiking partner and I left to hike the Main Whitney Trail at 2:15 AM, so we were basically ahead of the other day-hikers when we started. The infamous (but appropriated named) "99 Switchbacks" were more intense than I imagined, but the 900-foot "gain" from Trail Crest to the Summit is very misleading, and tiresome, as you first need to descend and then you travel by several peaks. Overall, it was a very cool hike and well worth the summit!
dioid - Jul 4, 2007 6:41 am Date Climbed: Jun 24, 20077th time
1st - Main Trail (chute variation)
2nd - Main trail day hike solo
3rd - Main trail solo winter conditions (chute variation)
4th - Mountaineers Route
5th - East Face
6th - East Buttress
7th - Main Trail with girlfriend :)
mybackyard - Jun 25, 2007 7:44 am Date Climbed: Mar 10, 2007Winter solo ascent of Mountaineers Route
Having attained a permit at 11 am on Friday, hiked until dark, camping at 11,500 just below Iceburg Lake. Left before sunrise and reached the summit at around 9 am. Exhilerating climb!
Dave S - Jun 21, 2007 2:13 am Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2010Multiple Routes! And all are fun!
Date Climbed: 7 August 2010
Climbed the East Buttress with Amy! Her first Alpine rock climb, and first Sierra Peak! Great times!
Date Climbed: 15 Aug 2009
Climbed the East Face with Lea
Date Climbed: 25 Jul 2009
Climbed the East Face with Will and Luis. Fun climbing! Definitely enjoyed the exposure.
Date Climbed: 10 Aug 2007
Route: East Buttress
Climbed the East Buttress with Jim R, car to car in a day. Beautiful day in the mountains!! Swung leads for the first half of the climb, simul-climbed the 2nd half. Awesome route!
Date climbed: 19 May 2007
Route climbed: MR
Solo day hike this time. I actually had the summit to myself for almost 30 minutes (from 10am to almost 1030!!!). Then decided to go down the main trail and hit Keeler Needle and Mt Muir on the way down.
Date climbed: 18 July 2006
Route climbed: MR
Jim Carr - Jun 15, 2007 2:14 pm Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2004Stretcher Detail
Ascent via main trail. Ascended the switchbacks from Trail Camp the evening before to help carry down a heart attack victim on a stretcher. The victim was helicoptered out successfully just after dark.
forjan - Jun 12, 2007 11:41 am Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2007East Buttress
Climbed with fossana. Took the 5.8 alt start as they were two other parties on the main start. Belayed 2 pitches and simul'ed/solo'ed the rest. Got back in time at the Whitney Portal Store for burger & fries. Another awesome weekend in the Sierra!
Date Climbed: March 18, 2007
Route Climbed: MR
Climbed the MR as a day hike with Tina Tretina and Rick Kent. The highlight was soloing the upper 1/3 of the chute: nice consolidated neve for mid-March.
Date Climbed: August 21, 2005
Route Climbed: East Face
Climbed the East Face with Murray Zichlinsky with Mark Ingram and Steve Sauter following as a 2nd party of 2. We had a fantastic weather day in the Sierra (no clouds, cobalt blue sky, light breeze...nice!). Took 6 hours to summit because we're stuck behind a party of 3 (dad and his 2 sons) at the 1st tower traverse pitch. Murray and I passed the "dad" team at the washboards as we unroped there. Then, we waited for Mark & Steve to come up to the Giant Alcove. Murray led the Fresh Air Traverse while I led the last short (20 feet) offwidtch/left chimney pitch at the end of the Grand Staircase. Murray and I actually belayed 5 pitches: pitch 1 was the tower traverse; pitch 2 (less than 20') was to get up to the Giant Alcove; pitch 3 was the Fresh Air Traverse; pitch 4 was the short 5.5 chimney after the Fresh Air Traverse; pitch 5 (~ 20') was the short 5.7 offwidth/left chimney at the end of the Grand Staircase. With careful routefounding, you can keep the rest at class3/4 to the summit. I reached the summit at 2:25pm. Murray arrived some 20 minutes later. Then, after waiting 1 hour at the summit for Mark & Steve, I told Murray I couldn't wait any longer as I had to descend to the Portal that day. Left the summit at 3:30pm, down the Mountaineers Route and back at Iceberg Lake at 4:40pm. Packed up and down at the Portal at 7:38pm.
Date Climbed: April 3, 2004
Route Climbed: Mountaineers Route
Conditions have changed quite a bit since people summited last weekend March 27-28. This weekend was a different North Fork of Lone Pine Creek. The road to the Portal is dry as of yesterday. We drove right to the trailhead. Our plan was to camp between Upper Boy Scout Lake and Iceberg Lake and then up the MR and summit on Saturday. On the way up, it started with flurries just below the Ebersbacher Ledges,then it switched to snow. On Friday (April 2nd), teams were getting up the Ebersbacher Ledges. It was a totally different story yesterday (April 3rd). No one descended the ledges as they were totally wet from the melting snow. The boot track has mostly disappeared now with the recent snow storm. Most teams decided to camp at Lower Boy Scout Lake (by the way, the snow level pretty much begins at 9000 feet), including a team from Fort Collins, Colorado that we met. Anyway, we decided to press on and only found 1 tent camped at Upper Boy Scout Lake on Friday afternoon. Visibility really got poor starting at 4:00pm Friday April 2nd. We hiked 'til 5:00pm and made camp at 11,700 feet betweeb UBSL and Iceberg Lake. The snow storm really started to come down after 6:00pm Friday. It did not let up all night. By morning, it has snowed over 1 foot in less than 12 hours!! And it continued snowing well into mid-morning (10:00am) Saturday, April 3rd. At about 10:15am, I noticed a team of 4 climbers coming down from higher above us. The leader in front asked us how we're doing, and I immediately recognized the voice: it was Kurt Wedberg of Sierra Mountaineering International. He said they had camped just a few hundred feet higher from where we were. Kurt decided to turn around his clients as he witnessed fracture lines on the slope to Iceberg Lake. Avalanche activity had risen quickly over the night hours of Saturday morning (April 3rd): we had over 1 foot of new snow in less than 12 hours and more snow was still coming down, rapid warming temperatures from Friday to Saturday (I guess it was around 35 degrees F Saturday around 10:00am at our 11,700-foot camp). Kurt also had another large guided team (from IMG: International Mountain Guides) camped at Lower Boy Scout Lake. The IMG team packed up and headed back down to the trailhead. Without any further hesitation, we too abandon our summit bid and headed down. We noticed that the climbers camped at UBSL also went down. Then, the Colorado team too went down. BOTTOM LINE: Everyone on Saturday bailed out and headed back down to the Portal trailhead as avalanche risk was considerable. On our way down, close to the Ebersbacher Ledges, we witnessed a small avalanche on a north facing slope. This slope released as a result of the very rapid warming temperatures which lubricated the sandwiched layer between the harder snow below with the wetter snow on top. All in all, although our 3-day trip was cut short due to the freaky snow storm (which also caught the National Weather Service forecast off guard) and considerable avalanche danger, it taught us yet another lesson in mountaineering. Looks like the storm started to die down today and the weather looks favorable for next weekend. Safe climbing everyone!
Date Climbed: November 3, 2002
Route Climbed: Mountaineers Route
My goal was to climb Mount Muir as a day hike. So I decided to go up via the Mountaineer's Route (MR) instead of the main Whitney Trail. I left L.A. at 1:40pm Saturday and was at the Portal around 5:00pm. Parked close to the trailhead and slept outside. Got up and started walking at 2:45am Sunday (Nov. 3, 2002) by headlamp. Ascended the North Fork of Lone Pine Creek (MR). Reached Iceberg Lake around 7:50am. Filled up on water, ate and rested a bit before heading out at 8:30am up the main gully. Conditions on the gully were some snow; the last few hundred feet before the notch I climbed the main gully on the right side as there was decent snow, instead of the scree rubble. Took the first gully up after the notch and did a brief class 4th section before toping out onto the summit plateau. Summited Whitney at 10:39am. Stayed at the summit for 25 minutes trying to get my cell phone to work. Descended via the main Whitney Trail onto to tag Mt Muir. Summited Muir at 11:55am, and was back at the car by 3:50pm.
BTW, I hauled up ice axe & crampons and I did not need them at all yesterday Nov 3, 2002. Conditions may change by next weekend, though, if a weather system moves through.
Date Climbed: February 3, 2002
Route Climbed: Mountaineers Route
Sunny, mostly a calm day. Made the summit at 1:20pm Pacific time, Sunday, February 3, 2002. Click here for trip report.
Date Climbed: November 11, 2001
Route Climbed: Mountaineers Route
Failed attempt on the MR. Trip report here.
Date Climbed: July 8, 2001
Route Climbed: Mountaineers Route
This was my 2nd time atop of Mount Whitney. First time up and down via the main trail on August 2000, and now the 2nd time up and down via the Mountaineer's route. Went solo. I ended up climbing next to a group of 3 climbers from San Diego. Summitted at 11:39am. Stayed only 5 minutes as dark thunder clouds were heard less than 10 seconds away. My climb report here.
lasvegaswraith - Jun 12, 2007 1:10 am Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2007Whitney Trail
Fantastic day! Dayhiked the Main trail and bagged Muir along the way down (great view of the switchbacks). Snow/ice pretty much gone; the ax and crampons stayed in the bag.
MoabPeakBagger - Jun 9, 2007 8:37 pm Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2006the trail
summitted via the trail while a massive fire caused the evacuation of my town. My girlfriend was pissed.
Alpine72 - Jun 7, 2007 12:53 pm Date Climbed: Jun 2, 2007Great trip
Hiked up the standard route including a side trip to get Muir as well. Both peaks car to car in just under 12hrs.
sgica - Jun 5, 2007 4:34 pmDayhikes
Dayhiked the Portal Trail to the summit in late Sept of '93. Party of 4 hit the TH at 5:00AM and were enjoying the summit views by noon. Returned 9-21-2003 to repeat only to be turned back by icy conditions above the switchbacks. (The party was diverse and not everyone was prepared! Lesson learned....) Going back this Sept with a 1 night/2 day permit.
dvsanbt - Jun 5, 2007 9:42 am Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2007Some variation of East Face
Did some variation of the East Face route. Were planning to do the Great Book, but were feeling quite sodded by the altitude by the time we reached the top of the Washboard. Traversed around, but could not find the Fresh Air Traverse pitch. So, just went straight up a wide crack to get to the Grand Staircase. After the exit from the Staircase, did not find the scramble to the summit, so went straight up (and it was NOT a scramble). Took a while to summit, but was a nice day and a great climbing partner.
Blackmouth - May 30, 2007 8:19 pm Date Climbed: Sep 17, 2006MR-Day Hike
We did the Mountaineers route from portal to portal in 14 hours. The weather was perfect and the view at the top was worth the pain that my toes endured on the descent.
Blackmouth - Sep 25, 2015 1:23 pmRe: MR-Day Hike
Second Time
Sept 24, 2015
Solo dayhike up the Mountaineers Route to Whitney and then onto Mt. Muir and then the main trail to the portal. 16 hours car to car. A beautiful fall day in the Sierra with very little wind.
k2excursion - May 29, 2007 9:20 pm Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2005Highpoint # 33
So gorgeous! Hiked in 6 miles, camped overnight, summitted on Day 2, came down on Day 3. The permits and bear canisters are a major pain, but it's worth it. From the summit, you can see landscapes more than 11,000 feet below you. Not many places on Earth provide this without needing technical climbing skills. The 99 switchbacks are not as bad as they sound. It's probably the easiest part of the trail. The gradual increase in elevation is good for you anyway. Sleeping at 12,000 feet on Night 1 helped me acclimate. Plenty of snow around, even in August, although none on the trail. Maybe the most beautiful mountain I've climbed.
Bruce Christensen - May 28, 2007 1:57 pm Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2005One day summit from Whitney Portal
I did Whitney in a day with Hyrum Wright. We drove out from Utah on the 20th, camped at Whitney Portal that night to acclimatize a little, and summited the next day.
The 22 miles (round trip) and 6100 feet of elevation gain were pretty brutal. I'd probably do it in two days next time, although that involves more paperwork to get a permit to camp.
Hyrum has a complete trip report at http://hiking.hyrumwright.org/hike/Mount_Whitney
Luciano136 - May 21, 2007 1:27 pm Date Climbed: May 20, 2007Snow chute from Trail Camp
Finally got this one knocked off. Cancelled two attempts due to weather and failed to summit via the MR in November '06 due to horrible conditions and lack of time. Finally came back and did the classic overnighter up the main trail. Friday night: Whitney Portal. Saturday night: Trail Camp. Sunday: summit and down. Weather and conditions were great! I felt a little sick on Saturday night but turned out to be fine Sunday. We went up a snow chute to Trail Crest avoiding all the switchbacks. Steep but fun. Mike (gigamike) was one of the guys in our group.
Altitude makes this hike still a tough going at times. The last couple of miles down I also had some feet issues; a small blister from the week before opened up making for a rather painful end of the day.
Other than that, uneventful and great fun! Oh, and if you like nice views, the main trail does offer much better scenery than the mountaineer's route.
Went up the Mountaineer's route with Richard (piotrowski on SP) and some other folks. 2 out of the 5 made the summit. I ran out of time a little below the top of the couloir above iceberg lake. Weather was perfect. Trail conditions a little annoying; bigger parts of the trail have hard packed snow/ice on it. Also had to cross an ice field (ice=very hard) and the couloir is only partly filled with snow; the upper part is mainly loose rock, which is pretty annoying. All in all a fun trip!
Brad Mastros - May 20, 2007 11:00 pm Date Climbed: May 19, 2007Day Hike East Buttress
A very long day with Dave German who led the whole route.
phillinley - May 10, 2007 2:36 am Date Climbed: Apr 30, 2007Spring climb
Bit off more than I could chew on a one-day attempt.
LonePeakFreak - Apr 27, 2007 1:14 pmGreat Hike
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monuo_ripts wrote:hey guys,
Mine did an update at 7pm central. Logged back in but I'm still getting nothing harder than lvl5 arcee, sometimes a lvl4 arcee, but mostly 5.
Has anyone seen chromia or elita yet?
Still the same Arcee's for me...
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monuo_ripts wrote:hey guys,
Mine did an update at 7pm central. Logged back in but I'm still getting nothing harder than lvl5 arcee, sometimes a lvl4 arcee, but mostly 5.
Has anyone seen chromia or elita yet?
joesaysso wrote:So is it better to have 4 non-scanned 5X cards or two scanned 5X cards in your episode deck?
monuo_ripts wrote:Esclavo
That is true if you want to advance QUICKLY.
I'll be honest and say have patience, if your iOS and just got dropped right in the middle of everyone that was high rank and can't compete in this episode, just do your best and win what you can. Only use 1 cube to help others because you get the full pts for the enemy. Spread those cubes out across many enemies in hopes to get a bunch of space bridge medals. The silver medals for some reason are dropping rare 3 cards at a higher rate than the gold cards (at least in mine and joesaysso's experience)
When the first episode happened in December, I only had r3 ratchet and r3 chromia complete and I was not doing good at all.
By the end of the event, I had 2 R4 cards and a handful of R3 including a complete optimus and shockwave. I didn't have many cards to lvl them up with so that was a long trek to get them up but it does take time.
I've only spent $20 on this game, if I could do it over, I wouldn't have spent it at all because it really didn't get me much further. I did it because I wanted to win R4 snarl really bad, but by the end of the episode, I had spare cubes left over, so I really didn't need to spend the money anyways.
That's my opinion, take it for what its worth.
diseptikon wrote:I believe the general consensus is max level transcanning is the way to go.
sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:You are honorable enough to join the house of STO
Let us pick up arms and join the battle
gothsaurus wrote:Why is everyone getting all technical-game-talk when this is CLEARLY a side-boob thread!!???
carytheone wrote:It's kangaroo pinching time
joesaysso wrote:diseptikon wrote:I believe the general consensus is max level transcanning is the way to go.
I agree that would be the general consensus and I would agree longterm, yes, that would be best. But has anybody crunched the numbers? Remember, an episode isn't longterm. Its very short term. You have to do as much damage in the short term as you can.
Here's a simplified example: lets say, hypothetically, Episode Thundercracker is the 5X card for this episode. According to the Legends Wikia, TC's max attack, non-scanned, is 11,331 and his max attack scanned is 20,396.
Using those numbers, lets say you have 2 bot and 2 alt mode TCs, all at level 65. If max attack is 11,331, multiplied by the X5 attack bonus, mulitplied by 4 individual cards, you get a total attack of 226,620.
Now if you scan those cards: max attack 20,396, multiplied by the X5 attack bonus, multiplied by 2 scanned cards, your total is 203,960.
Simple math says that scanning may not be the best in the short term. At least this is my line of thought. I don't claim to be a mathematician though and I could be missing some factors. If anybody has any insight regarding the matter, I'd love the input.
Luscanun wrote:I'll start this with the caveat that I just started playing the game yesterday. However, despite my inexperience with the game, it seems to me that you're missing something in your considerations. For the sake of argument, I'll assume your math is correct above (not necessarily the formulas, but just the calculations). If you take your 4 TC cards (two bot, two alt mode) for a total attack of 226K, you're using 4 cards, with an attack value of 56,500 per card. If you scan them and get 204K, you're using 2 cards, with an attack value of 102K per card. You've also got two other card slots to fill, and again with an assumption, that would likely exceed the gap you've then created. It seems that if you've got cards that are maxed, you should be able to fill in the gap and exceed the 226K you would have had with the 4 TCs.
Again, new player, not sure about the math behind it all, but 102 is obviously greater than 56 and if you've got some comparable cards (save 10K value), then you could exceed your 4 TC scenario. Maybe it depends on the values in your deck...? If your maximum value for any 4 cards is less than 226K, I'd stick with the four TCs.
Obviously, if I'm looking at this completely backwards, let me know. Trying to figure out some of the intricacies of the game.
diseptikon wrote:Im paralyzed at the moment. I will not lose a bc to Chromia that only earns 5600 points. Time to sit and watch the ranks fall while I wait for better returns on my bc to get here.
diseptikon wrote:Oh and I turned in 8000+ silver medals for 1 rank 4 Prowl and 1 rank 4 Bumblebee....which I think are the lowest rank 4's in the game.
joesaysso wrote:Being that you are so high in the ranks, you have that luxary. The last time I did that, it derailed my whole episode. I was thinking the same thing as you but I'm nervous that will hurt me in the long run. Regardless of where my rank ends up, its imperative that I accumulate enough points to earn a Flamewar weapon card.
joesaysso wrote:Thats a good draw. I'm glad somebody has had some luck with the draws. Hopefully 4s start dropping with the gold medals.
MINDVVIPE wrote:They made Arcee adopt the TFPrime colour scheme? Fail.
paul053 wrote:Just a question. Do my battle cubes and silver/gold episode medals stay after this event is over and then accumulate and can use again when next event comes out?
joesaysso wrote:I am going to transcan my cards to experiment. Let it be known that prior to the transcan my deck power with the recommended setting is 8182.
monuo_ripts wrote:This is strange, maybe they unnerfed the gold medals.
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And I'm inclined to agree. Let's first start by making a straight forward assumption to work with: Apple's goal is quite clear—they want this to be at least as successful as the iPhone. Let's imagine that it is—that for all the winging of geeks—just like the iPhone the iPad goes on to absolutely dominate mindshare.
That makes a sizeable, affluent, and important market group that does not have Flash, nor can they even get it. This is serious. You can bet Adobe are not happy one bit. They sell expensive tools that cannot target this market group and any web developer with half a brain will realise that Flash is best avoided as there is no way you can develop with it and support the iPhone and iPad, and may as well code using HTML5 / SVG instead of duplicating effort.
Success of the iPad [and/or ChromeOS] will ensure a sea-change of web developer habits. If company X asks you to develop a website and it can't support the iPhone/iPad, then what the crap are they paying you for? They'll hire someone who has 'iPhone/iPad' on their CV.
No Flash means that you cannot distribute video with Flash. Think of that. How many sites a day do you come across that use Flash just to play video? They are turning away customers if they can't support the iPad—and that means only one solution: HTML5 video.
Or more accurately—H.264 video, because Apple don't support anything else. That is most worrying. If you are a small developer with a personal site and you want to get video to iPhone/iPad users, you are forced to use a riskily licenced video codec that means by 2011 you could end up with men in black suits knocking on your door demanding payment. Apple are encouraging a web where by only the major players can participate.
What about advertising? Ads use Flash all the time (much to the annoyance of users). Flash advertising has always made the assumption that everybody has the optional Flash runtime. It may be near ubiquitous, but Flash is not made by Microsoft, it's not made by Apple. It's purely a third party plugin and always has been.
I am not stealing from advertisers if they happen to use a delivery mechanism that I don't have.
The iPad not having Flash is a serious concern to many. The majority of sites (or more accurately, advertising companies) now have to contend with a market group that do not have Flash. How are they going to advertise to them!?
The writing is on the wall already. If the change the iPhone instigated in mobile web browsing usage (much to AT&Ts surprise) is anything to go by then prepare for a surge of web-app usage unlike anything seen before; and this time there is no Internet Explorer to even speak of. Doing it properly is going to be the only way to do it.
Update: Via John Gruber, Adobe have blogged about the 'omission' of Flash.
If I want to use the iPad to connect to Disney, Hulu, Miniclip, Farmville, ESPN, Kongregate, or JibJab -- not to mention the millions of other sites on the web -- I'll be out of luck.
Adobe and more than 50 of our partners in the Open Screen Project are working to enable developers and content publishers to deliver to any device, so that consumers have open access to their favorite interactive media, content, and applications across platform, regardless of the device that people choose to use.
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And Disney, Hulu, Miniclip, Farmville, ESPN, Kongregate and JibJab will move away from Flash and to either HTML5 video or native applications if the iPad becomes as popular as the iPhone.
Your Open Screen Project is a spear head to ensure the continued use of Flash where it doesn't belong. I've created Video for Everybody, which does truly play video "across platform, regardless of the device that people choose to use" because it uses HTML5 video where available and falls back to Flash where not available, all without JavaScript. Video for Everybody plays on the iPhone and by extension the iPad.


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Seems everyone in the political world was talking about Spielberg's splendid Lincoln this weekend. It turns out to be a movie about a living, breathing, horse-trading, occasionally mendacious genius of a politician. It resurrects the noble greasiness of politics at an incredibly appropriate moment: we're in desperate need of some inspired horse-trading in Washington over the budget and other issues.
And so I think Greg Sargent gets it a bit wrong when he writes that David Brooks, Al Hunt and other take the movie as a celebration of "compromise." Lincoln doesn't compromise his principles to win passage of the 13th Amendment. He compromises his morals, a little. He trades jobs for votes. He pulls a Clinton–lawyering the truth–over the question of whether he's about to commence negotiations with a rebel delegation. That's the miracle of Lincoln. He practiced the high art of moving history forward via patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is the highest art, the only way great deeds are done. I'll have more to say about our current need for Lincolnian politics in my print column this week.


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After all, David Perdue is a thin white man who looks nothing like Dorner. And he was questioned and released by officers just moments before another officer slammed a patrol car into his truck and fired shots at him.
Perdue left his Redondo Beach home and was driving through Torrance to the beach for some early morning surfing on Thursday when he was stopped. Officers guarding the home of a law enforcement official targeted by Dorner questioned him because his Honda Ridgeline pickup truck resembled the vehicle investigators believed Dorner was driving.
Seconds after he drove away, Perdue's truck was broadsided by a Torrance police car at the corner of Flagler Land and Beryl Street, said his attorney Robert Sheahen.
"These lunatics broadsided the side of his truck, spun him around and started shooting at him," Sheahen said. "Now they're attempting to say they couldn't tell if the guy they were shooting at was a white guy or a black guy because David's airbag went off."
Perdue suffered a concussion and a shoulder injury in the attack, which took place minutes after LAPD officers opened fire on another pickup truck nearby.
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EAST RUTHERFORD -- It is already windy here.
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The running game is important today.
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The comeback wasn't as big, but the outcome was much sweeter for the Prophetstown Prophets.
Riley Walters' layup with less than one second left sent the Prophets past the Oregon Hawks 48-47 at the Polo tournament Monday night. The one-point win avenged Prophetstown's 47-46 loss to the Hawks at the Oregon tournament on Nov.17, a game that saw a Prophets' rally from a 14-point deficit after three quarters but come up one point short.
"We didn't want that to happen again," said Walters, who had game-high totals of 23 points and eight rebounds. "It's nice to make that one last play to win it, and even things up a little bit."
As both of these teams have made a habit of doing so far this year, they went down to the wire again. Walters hit back-to-back buckets in the lane for a 44-43 Prophetstown lead with 3:57 to play, and the Prophets (11-1) burned some clock after a pair of missed free throws by the Hawks (6-3).
But Sam Lambrigtsen (6 points, 2 steals) hit a pair of free throws with 1:38 to play to give Oregon a 45-44 lead, then she nabbed a steal 20 seconds later. The Hawks extended the lead to 47-44 after two free throws by Emy Wright (11 points, 4 steals, 2 assists) with 39.6 seconds remaining.
But Oregon couldn't hold it. Prophetstown senior guard Cassie Reiley (9 points, 3 steals, 2 assists) drew a foul with 30.7 seconds left and hit both free throws, then Wright missed the front end of a one-and-one with 20 seconds left.
Another Oregon foul 6 seconds later put Corrie Reiley (11 points, 3 steals) on the line; she missed the front end of a one-and-one, but Karlie Stafford grabbed the offensive rebound to set up one final, frantic Prophets possession.
"I almost never use my timeouts, but I had used all of them," Prophetstown coach Don Robinson said. "I was wondering if I was going to be kicking myself for that, especially after our play 'Prophet' broke down out there.
"Luckily, my two seniors stepped up and made a really veteran play to win the game for us. Cassie is at her best when she gets into the lane and draws the defense to her, and Riley's deceptively strong and can finish down low."
With time winding down, Cassie Reiley drove around the top of the key and got into the lane. As the Oregon defense collapsed around her, she spied Walters on the right block. She bounced a pass to her fellow fourth-year varsity starter, who converted a layup and was fouled as the final buzzer sounded; since the Prophets had the lead, Riley didn't end up shooting the free throw.
"We had so many chances, and we finally got one to work out for us," Walter said. "That last play, we were pretty much looking for anything that would get us an open shot. We didn't even know what play we were running; I had no clue Cassie would be able to get a pass to me.
"But there was the ball, passed right to my hands. I knew we were running out of time and I just had to attack the basket. I'm just so glad it went in."
Attacking the basket was the key to the Prophets' win. After Oregon controlled things for most of the first half, Prophetstown stopped settling for perimeter jumpers and started feeding Walters in the high post.
The senior forward scored 17 of her 23 points after halftime, hitting seven of her 10 shots.
"We had three starters out for a lot of the game in foul trouble, and they just kept working it into the post and going up strong," said Oregon junior McKaylee Beeter, who scored all 11 of her points in the first half. "We had a lot of girls step up off the bench, but at the end, our fundamentals broke down, we played in too much of a rush and we just didn't finish."
The game was close throughout. Oregon's biggest lead was 11-4 midway through the first quarter, and
Prophetstown's largest margin was three points (20-17) midway through the second quarter after a tiebreaking 3-pointer from Clare Kramer (5 point, 5 rebounds, 4 assists) over the outstretched hand of Bree Tourtillott (5 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, 1 block).
The Hawks led 37-32 heading into the fourth quarter, but a 3 from Cassie Reilly and a coast-to-coast basket by Corrie Reiley after a steal tied the game with 7:19 to play. Oregon re-took the lead after baskets by Wright and Lambrigtsen, but Walters' three-point play cut the deficit to 41-40 with 5:16 left. A post bucket by Devyn Absher (6 points) put Oregon ahead 43-40 and set up the frantic final 4 minutes.
"Give tons of credit to Prophetstown; we knew they were going to give us a battle," Oregon coach Kristy Eckardt said. "We made some stupid mistakes – I mean, we've got a three-point lead and we want to foul and stop the clock and put them at the line – and just had a mental collapse at the end.
"We did a lot of good things, got a lot of good contributions from a lot of different players, and all the girls played their hearts out … but it came down to the end, and they made plays and we made some bad decisions."


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Since 2005, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) at Texas A&M University has been excavating the remains of a marble carrier wrecked off the Aegean coast of Turkey at Kızılburun. The ship was transporting the components of a newly-quarried monumental column comprised of a single Doric capital and eight enormous unfluted drums, each about 1 ½ meters in diameter and over a meter tall. Isotopic analyses of the marble indicate an origin in the quarries of Proconnesus Island in the Sea of Marmara, while transport amphoras and associated ceramics suggest that the wreck dates from the first century B.C.
In 2006 and 2007, each of the eight massive marble drums, which weigh nearly 7 tons a piece, was ballooned off-site, exposing the fragmentary remains of the ship's wooden hull. The relocation process also made possible detailed recording of the drums themselves, and careful comparison with finished, fluted drums from Doric temples under construction in the first century B.C. suggests that the Kızılburun column was intended for the peristyle of the Temple of Apollo at nearby Claros. The excavation of the Kızılburun shipwreck provides a unique snapshot of quarrying processes, long-distance transport by sea, and monumental construction in marble in Late Hellenistic Asia Minor.
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The latest episode shows a lot with Aoi and also Aoi finally realizing that Subaru was a lolicon <.< your too slow girl! so make your move already if not Subaru would just be taken to the dark side and never return.
And with this episode they will probably end the story in vol 4 which is probably a good one too end if they don't miss things up like animation and rushed stories. They change the order of things. They animate first vol 5 in one episode then rushed back to vol 4.
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Cainta, Rizal, Philippines
Anyways, another good match coming up. Three guesses what playbook Subaru will use.
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There are kids like that. And I can't entirely blame her, Subaru just found out again the problem with keeping a secret to avoid hurting someone. He didn't want to hurt Maho by telling her that they couldn't qualify for a match without five more girls, but the result was that she felt fooled, humiliated and betrayed when she found out. People handle those sorts of feelings their own way, and Maho apparently prefers to run her feelings off rather than let the offenders see her break down.
As far as the order change, this seems to be a very common scenario. Not all the light novels are as engaging as others, so the producers have to decide what part of the story would be most impactful as an end to the season/series(hopefully the former). It can be very hard to give everythingt a proper, full treatment and still hit the desired arc at the right time. If the arc is too far off, they either have to rush or move it forward. Here, like with a few series, it came just a little too soon, so they jumped forward a bit to fill in the gap with stuff that would come after. I'd say an end at this academy certainly looks like it will be better than an end at the beach, and it also looks like it will give us some more basketball for the conclusion.
|2011-09-10, 09:00
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Subaru & the girls at a training camp. Things didn't start well for them, but they managed somehow. Aoi still a bit jealous of the girls, her feeling towards Subaru are getting more & more obvious.
Yet another fun & relaxing episode ( ・ω・)
|2011-09-10, 12:26
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Location: France
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Ah, we're finally back to basketball. The new loli seems fun, and will surely make a good rival for Maho.
And yet another bath scene in this episode. Are they trying to break a record or something? I can't recall the last time I've seen so many bath scenes in a single cour show.
|2011-09-10, 14:39
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Location: NJ, USA
Poor Miho, hopefully she gets better. The other team's sensei was a real bitch. Like how her sister noticed Aoi likes Subaru and was worried that he's a lolicon. Tomoka had some nice moments with Subaru.
Too bad he didn't inform them earlier about the 10 requirement. Though it's Maho's own big mouth that got her in trouble. Don't like how she always runs away though.
Interesting how the other girl has a bigger mouth then Maho. Seems like the whole school is stuck up. What did she even call Subaru when she saw him? Didn't expect him to be doing one-hand push-up, have to give him credit for that.
|2011-09-10, 20:18
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W. T. and a whole side order of F?
Ro-Kyu-Bu! Lolita Tote Bag, T-Shirt Offered in Japan
The mind boggles, really it does.
|2011-09-10, 23:12
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In conjunction with its "if the porn character is A-Cup it is automatically child porn (even if the actress is CLEARLY an adult)" and Asian-hating policies when it comes in cultural imports, you'll be arrested before they even stamp your passport.
Heck, its the same country that banned "Dead and Alive 3D" because Kasumi was 17 and hence the ENTIRE macho testoserone-fest game was somehow now a pedophile game.... Redneck Hick Asian-hating politicians.
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I guess I can't make fun of Subaru anymore... Not when he can do one-hand push ups to 40 counts... But why do lolicons need to work on their forearm strength ?
Love all the Aoi parts, but I still feel the ending with Maho was needlessly dramatic -_- Whether she knows about needing 10 players or not has nothing to do with her and the team's current skill level -_- But now that they're down to four they definitely can't play...
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Location: Cainta, Rizal, Philippines
Oh my. Looks like Subaru's team seriously needs more manpower. A good opportunity to complete all the possible Moe Moe tropes, isn't it? Unless they're trying to Moe-fy Dear Boys, that is.
@shirt Wow. So. Cool. I want to have that.
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Recently, my family held a fund raiser to help send my son to Bethesda, Maryland for diagnostic treatment related to a serious blood condition that is keeping my son ill. We asked for help from local businesses as well as family and friends. The response was overwhelming and has deeply touched our hearts. The money we raised will go a long way in defraying the costs of the trip to Maryland. I know I will miss someone when I list the local contributors because there were so many and again I was overwhelmed by the response. I apologize in advance if I missed someone, but I do thank each and everyone of you for your support.
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How Video Games Make Brains Sharper
A recent study showed that cancer survivors suffering from loss of memory and attention span benefited from cognitive video games like those made by Lumosity. Krishna Kakarala, Lumosity CFO, joins digits to discuss how mind games can benefit everyone. Photo: Lumosity.
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I'm one of the unfortunate side effects of chemotherapy is a ... production in certain core cognitive ability is on ... experienced over time ah but during chemotherapy and ... unfortunately I it's a long term side effect even after chemotherapy ... is is over I'm ... that ... results in production and lower executive function I working memory cetera ... ok so when you say executive function why why was I am in the days that has us thinking basically ... yet it's essentially on one example of it would be your ability to serve plain plan your day to day activities ... on its things as simple as wanting to go to the grocery store them on ... what am I ... my friend or member the things that I need to ... buy at the grocery store I'm ... going to go to the drugs for afterwards etc ... so ... 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I'm chemotherapy and specifically they focused on breast cancer survivors that that had ... gone through chemotherapy is part of their treatment ... um so what they did was put ... out the study persistence through Mosby training for a period of twelve weeks ah for four sessions per week ... and then the other half wore on oh wait let's on them they ... up with the safer dispense both the active group and the wait was croup through ... pre and post sought cognitive assessment testing ... TUI determine if there is any effect of of cognitive training ... and exciting result was that they ... 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Scuffling Sioux Falls Skyforce Capitulate To The Canton Charge [VIDEO]
Confidence is in short supply for the Sioux Falls Skyforce as the Canton Charge put together a run in the final quarter to earn a 100-82 triumph at the Sioux Falls Arena on Friday night. The Skyforce (22-21) loss did double damage as the team got knocked from NBA Development League playoff contention by one-half game.
The two teams were neck and neck for about the first 40 minutes in the contest. So when Canton (27-17) scored nine straight points in the middle of that final stanza to stretch the lead to thirteen it was the largest spread of the game between the two teams. From there, Canton went to management mode as a desperate Skyforce squad tried without success to answer the spurt.
The Charge are firmly entrenched as East Division leader by four games over both Ft. Wayne and Erie, but Canton could improve their playoff seed with continued stellar play over their final six games. Bakersfield will likely earn the top spot, but Canton and Rio Grande Valley could switch spots before season's end.
Canton's effort were spearheaded by 20 points from Kyle Weaver who has fond memories of the Sioux Falls Arena courtesy of previous stints with the Iowa Energy and while on assignment from the Oklahoma City Thunder wearing a Tulsa uniform. Antoine Agudio notched 19 points with Michael Eric dumping in 14 off the bench. Sioux Falls got 21 points and 10 rebounds from James Mays while Jarvis Varnado returned on assignment from the Miami Heat to contribute 12 points 8 rebounds and 4 blocks. Both teams will return to the floor for another tussle on Saturday night.


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Something as small as the color of a generic medication can confuse patients enough to interrupt their treatment, researchers reported.
In a case-control study, changes in pill color increased the risk that patients would not refill their anti-epileptic drug prescriptions, according to Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and colleagues.
There was no statistically significant effect on refill rates based upon changes in pill shape, Kesselheim and colleagues reported online in Archives of Internal Medicine.
The researchers noted that generic medicines account for over 70% of U.S. prescriptions, and the proportion is expected to increase as some widely used drugs come off patent.
Such generic drugs must be biologically equivalent to the approved brand-name product, but they often vary in size, shape, and color, they noted.
"A patient taking five medicines, each produced by five generic manufacturers, theoretically faces over 3,000 possible arrays of pill appearances for what are, chemically and clinically speaking, the same drugs," Kesselheim and colleagues noted.
Those choices could confuse patients and result in poor adherence to therapy, they noted.
To investigate the issue, they conducted a case-control study among commercially insured patients who were taking an anti-epileptic medication. Cases included 11,472 patients who failed to refill a prescription within 5 days of the time they ran out of pills; the controls, 50,050 patients, had no refill delays and were matched to cases by sex, age, number of refills, and the presence of a seizure disorder diagnosis.
The researchers looked at the two refills preceding the failure to renew and determined whether or not the pill color and/or shape matched.
They found:
- The drugs dispensed had 37 colors and four shapes.
- A color mismatch discordance preceded 136 cases (or 1.2%) but only 480 controls (or 0.97%). Those numbers yielded an adjusted odds ratio of 1.27 (95% CI 1.04 to 1.55).
- A shape mismatch preceded 18 cases (or 0.16%) and 54 controls (or 0.11%), for an odds ratio of 1.47 (95% CI 0.85 to 2.54).
- Within the seizure disorder diagnosis subgroup, the risk of failing to renew after a color change was also elevated, with an odds ratio of 1.53 (95% CI 1.07 to 2.18).
The researchers cautioned that the absolute magnitude of the effect was small, so "changing appearance may have a small overall effect on medication adherence."
In addition, they noted, the focus on anti-epileptic drugs limits generalizability of these results, since patients and their physicians "may be particularly attentive to their pills' appearances."
As the use of generic drugs increases, the issues raised by the study "will become ever more urgent," commented Lawrence Yu, PhD and Gregory Geba, MD, both of the FDA's Office of Generic Drugs in Rockville, Md.
In an accompanying commenter articles, they noted that the FDA "is not charged to regulate products with regard for aesthetic factors such as pill color or shape."
But they added, agency reviews have begun to look at visual aspects of products "that could have an impact on patient compliance."
It will be interesting, they wrote, to see if studies of other types of drugs yield similar findings.
Journal associate editor Kenneth Covinsky, MD, commented that editors were initially divided on the significance of the finding. Some thought the effect was small, while others noted it could add up over time, he wrote in an editor's note.
But in the end, Covinsky wrote, the editors agreed that generic medicines should be required to look like their brand-name counterparts.
"Subjecting patients to this risk is absolutely senseless and absurd," he wrote. "With all the hurdles patients face, how on earth can we justify confusing them by needlessly changing the appearance of their medicines?"
The study had support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.
Kesselheim did not report any financial links with industry. Co-authors reported links with CVS Caremark, Aetna, the Commonwealth Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Teva, Lilly, and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.
The journal said the comment authors did not report any potential conflicts.
Covinsky is associate editor of the journal.
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Archives of Internal MedicineSource Reference: Kesselheim AS, et al "Variations in pill appearance of antiepileptic drugs and the risk of nonadherence" Arch Intern Med 2012; DOI:10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.997.
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Archives of Internal MedicineSource Reference: Yu LX, Geba GP "Generic pills from the patient perspective: Dressed for success?" Arch Intern Med 2012; DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.2283.
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Archives of Internal MedicineSource Reference: Covinsky KE "Debating effect sizes" Arch Intern Med 2012; DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.1545.


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A man alleged to have sexually assaulted other men at an office in Sydney's Pitt Street has been charged by police.
The alleged offences date back to 1995 to 2004, involving four victims.
Strike Force Woodcliff was formed to investigate the alleged sexual assaults by the man, who worked in the Pitt Street office.
The alleged offender, aged 60, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with seven offences including sexual intercourse without consent and indecent assault.
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An effiminate, bisexual or gay male. Height of popularity was from 1984-1986, geographic usage confined between Waterford/Montville, CT to Warwick, Rhode Island. Being "Gayling" had a major following, members of this "group" usually were GQ-fashion victims, shopped at Midland Mall in Warick or Crystal Mall in Waterford.
I was sleeping over Mark's house when I awoke to him going down on me, I mean he went total Gayling on me!
by Marco October 09, 2003
Like the previous definition. Describes a bi-sexual male who looks like a GQ model. Never has to worry about if he's going to get laid, he always does and with either gender! Terminology used in the Southeast CT & RI area back in the mid 80's. Only heard now in a reminiscent way.
Hang out with a gayling and you enjoy the best of both worlds!
by Eastside Mario November 27, 2003
Tom Cruise doesn't bang Katie Holmes for pleasure, just to produce more gaylings
by jonrox November 04, 2006
An insightful social cartoon featuring six colorful cartoon characters trying to live in a hetero world.
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The Onion's Great Escape
A new conceptual activity book by artist Sara Fanelli, from Phaidon Press, is an absolute surprise. Not only because it's a marvelous work of quirky design, offbeat collage, and whimsical paper engineering, but also because of the unexpected philosophical questions and imagination stretching exercises it asks kids to engage in.
"We onions are cheerful so lively and bright, but there is a dark horror that gives us a fright. It's called the Big Fry - such a terrible fate! If onions fall in, all help comes too late. Yet onions that learn to think and to doubt grow clever and wise - they find a way out."
So begins The Onion's Great Escape, in which the reader follows an onion through its existential musings in an attempt to escape a death by frying pan. Along the way, answering such questions as: "Is something less real because we cannot touch it?" "Do cherries taste the same for everyone?" "Does a butterfly remember being a caterpillar?" "Can a chair be happy?"
As each page of the book gets filled in, the reader can punch out another perforated layer of the die-cut onion head, until by the end you literally pull free the now enlightened vegetable from the book itself.
Listen to Fanelli talk about her new thought-provoking work and witness the onion making its escape in the book trailer below.
• The Onion's Great Escape, Phaidon Press, May 2012
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Isaac wrote:Spoofulated?
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Otto Nieminen wrote:
Whaaaat? Which year did this happen in? I just recently tasted the 2002 red and white and both seemed classic Graves to me. Their second wines where however classics of what the therapists call spoofulated. But I didn't see such in the Grand Vins - though maybe it being a tasting setting made me miss that bit.
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:08 pm
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Sounds like an exact synonym for Parkerized, international (style), and pointy.Otto Nieminen wrote:Isaac wrote:Spoofulated?
A very useful term to describe what is happening to wine and why I find that my tastes in wines are becoming more and more marginalized. Here's how it was defined to me by a character known as CMM:
"bigger is usually better
smoothness is the ultimate ideal for all wine
lower yields and longer hangtime must equal better flavor, without exception
prunes and raisins are desirable fruit flavors
acidity is overrated
any flavor not related to fruit or oak is probably better avoided"
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Smile is a sweet, joyful and highly motivational positive track which is an awesome pick for any kind of positive, motivational and corporate projects. This is quite a boost for videos, demonstrations or radio & tv commercials. Sweet piano tunes combined with electric guitar,drum, bass guitar and female vocal to create this joyful and positive feel.
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