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A Washington Post poll out Tuesday shows Donald Trump's lead at 2 percentage points in Texas, labeling the Lone Star state as a battleground, along with Ohio, Florida and Arizona.
In a four-way race, Trump, the Republican candidate for president, garnered 44 percent; Democrat Hillary Clinton 42 percent; Libertarian Gary Johnson 8 percent; and Green Party candidate Jill Stein 2 percent, with 3 percent having no opinion.
The poll was conducted Oct. 8 through Sunday, after the release of a 2005 tape of Trump speaking in vulgar terms about sexually assaulting women, something he has repeatedly denied doing.
A Democratic presidential candidate hasn't carried the Lone Star State since Jimmy Carter narrowly defeated Gerald Ford in 1976 and few, in any, political observers considered Texas a toss-up as the general election campaign got underway this summer. But several polls this fall show Trump with just a single-digit lead. One poll last week showed Trump's Texas lead within the margin of error.
The Post poll, conducted with SurveyMonkey, showed Clinton leading in enough states to put her well above the 270 electoral votes needed to win. Even if Trump were to win the four toss-up states identified by the poll — including Texas — as well as traditional red states Georgia and North Carolina, where Clinton has leads of 4 and 6 points, he would still lose.
Clinton's suprising strength in Texas — according to some polling attributable to support from white suburban women who traditionally have voted Republican — led her campaign to spend an estimated $1.5 million on a one-week television ad buy in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Dallas.
National political strategists have said that the demographic changes in Texas, where Anglos now make up less than half the population, will herald a political shift. That hasn't shown any signs of happening at the ballot box. In 2014, Republican Greg Abbott trounced Democrat Wendy Davis by 20 points in the race for governor, despite efforts by the nationally-funded group Battleground Texas.

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Length: 180 pages.
Publisher: Bantam Books, NY.
Tag-line: "The terror filled novel– based on a motion picture written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill."
Back cover blurb: "Before the light of dawn, you will know the vengeful fury of the dead. Tonight the fog that rises off the California coast is different. And deadly. A writhing icy mist pulsing with terror. It is too late to escape. Even now the people of Antonio Bay are cut off, engulfed. Along darkened streets, death searches them out. There is no sanctuary for the living. Those who are doomed will die horribly. Those who are spared will suffer the endless fear of a soul-chilling night when the dead, finally, return for revenge. THE FOG: NOW A MAJOR RELEASE FROM AVCO EMBASSY PICTURES."
Now here's some real Carpy marginalia– the novelization of THE FOG! Longtime readers will note that THE FOG is one my all-time favorite horror movies, and I did a write-up about it a few years back which you can read here. (Others will note that I was even so moved by THE FOG that I wrote a three-part series of John Carpenter fanfiction entitled "Carpy & the Cap'n" which chronicles the fictitious attempts to combine a CAPTAIN RON sequel with a spin-off of THE FOG.)
Anyway, as to the novelization: surprise, surprise– it's basically the movie. But amid its cheap and yellowed pages there's some nice ghostly atmosphere, the clear influence of writers like Ray Bradbury and M.R. James, and some fine horror nostalgia for fans of Young Adult lit in the 1980s.
A little background: from page one, you can tell that Dennis Etchison is a higher caliber of writer than those who usually pen these sorts of trashy mass-market rush-jobs. His C.V. is of interest, too: he was the President of the American Horror Writers' association in the early 90s, wrote an un-produced adaptation of THE MIST in the early 80s, was Stephen King's film consultant on the nonfiction DANSE MACABRE, and was a staff writer on TV's THE HITCHHIKER (you can read a rundown of my love/hate relationship with that particular series here). Later, under the pseudonym of Jack Martin, he wrote the novelizations for HALLOWEEN II, HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH, and VIDEODROME, one of which will be the subject of a forthcoming review.
Now, without further ado, my Top Six favorite moments from the paperback novelization of THE FOG:
#1. The opening lines:
"The moon rose over the bay, round and burnished as a golden doubloon. It hung there high above the black waters, breaking the even waves with yellow tips and tinting the flat sand and the beach houses and the jagged trees behind them with a faint, ghostly pallor, a reflection of its polished, uneven face."Etchison really sets the stage– evocative, ornate, maybe even a little overblown. But that's good. He's not a hack, and this isn't simply a paycheck for him. Right off the bat, he's letting us know that he intends to take the novelization of THE FOG very, very seriously. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
#2. Father Malone (Hal Holbrook in the movie)'s alcoholism:
"Ought to put the wine away, he supposed. But why bother? The boy had smelled it on his breath enough times. ...He turned slowly and gave the boy a sleepy smile, rotating the stem of the crystal wine glass in his fingers."and his self-condemnation:
"His robes flowed open, rustling over the uneven stones as the material filled with dank air and blossomed around his thin body. From time to time his bare heels caught and tripped on the hem, but he took no notice of the tearing of the vestment as he drifted on, circling the pews beneath darkling stained glass, doomed to visit, again and again, without end, the stations of his dispensation."Malone's soul, racked with guilt over the misdeeds of his ancestors, has become that classical archetype of the "whisky priest." This is what movie novelizations are all about– the writer has to fill his paragraphs with something extra– so why not explore in depth what is mostly alluded to in the movie?
#3. Evocative prose.
"He marched across the sand, packed smooth again during the night, the red float at the end of his fishing line swinging in the sky in front of him like a brave winking eye, leading the way. ... Already his cheeks were burning as the breeze combed his hair back with a fine spray from the riptide. Far down the beach at the cusp of the bay, a big dog, an Irish setter or golden retriever, pawed for sand crabs and then broke into a loping run at the gulls that were sunning themselves at the waterline, kicking up a muddy trail and then dashing for safety, his legs splaying wildly and his pink tongue flying, as the water washed in to fill his footprints with clear bubbles."The seaside has always impelled writers to employ poetic language, and Dennis Etchison is no exception. And though it's not quite worthy of William Faulkner, that closing sentence up there is pretty damn lengthy for a movie-based paperback, intended to be disposable reading for people on summer vacation!
#4. That stomach-pounder reference!
As I explained in-depth in my review of HALLOWEEN 6, a throwaway line in THE FOG has led to much debate about what, exactly, a "stomach-pounder" is.
Here, is that section from the novel, replicated in all of it's glory:
"'Mom, can I go get a Stomach Pounder and a Coke?'Well, now it certainly looks like the person who theorized it meant "Quarter Pounder from McDonald's" was right, given the reference to the "Golden Arches." But again this raises the question– why would he get a Quarter Pounder after lunch? Perhaps we will never know.
How quickly they change gears, she thought. Exit the wood to the junk pile, enter the Golden Arches. 'After lunch. Did you eat your breakfast?'
"Yeah. I'm gonna go look for another one [piece of driftwood -SG]. Maybe this time I can get the gold coin!'
He jumped off the bed and raced out of the bedroom."
#5. Added material.
There's not a whole lot here that's not in the movie, but, for example, Stevie (Adrienne Barbeau) notices a crucified starfish on her property; we spend a lot more time with Dan O'Bannon (Charles Cyphers) and his daily routine, which involves a daredevil coastal drive to the weather station; and Andy (Ty Mitchell, who plays Adrienne Barbeau's son) has an extended dream sequence with evil pirates, Davy Jones, and a giant manta ray ("...the remains of the great pirate Davy Jones himself. An electric eel was slithering alive inside the empty skull, lighting the eyesockets with a blinding florescence. A host of plankton jetted by, tinging the water around Andy with a glow like Greek fire.")
#6. Like the movie, it leaves plenty to the imagination.
The violence is muted and atmospheric, remaining true to Carpenter's vision. From the death of Mrs. Kobritz:
"Had he looked back over his shoulder one last time to argue, he would have seen a tall shape solidifying behind Mrs. Kobritz, a stringy black hand reaching around her head from the outside, closing at her chin, covering her mouth so that she could not scream, and lifting her as if she were a rag doll straight up into the air, leaving her empty shoes toppling on the welcome mat."And so there you have it. THE FOG: THE NOVELIZATION. Not an essential work of literature by any means, but far better than it needed to be!
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When it comes to MOBA games like Dota 2 and League of Legends, there are generally two types of people: those who don't get it, and those who know the mechanics and attributes of the more than 100 playable Dota 2 characters off by heart.
The MOBA (which stands for multiplayer online battle arena) has taken young PC players by storm, with a format that emphasises teamwork and emulates many aspects of traditional sports. Making the best players and teams instant celebrities, it keeps fans glued to live broadcasts of big matches when not playing themselves.
As the genre continues to expand and becomes a dominant force in online competitive gaming (at its daily peak, Dota 2 regularly has more than 900,000 people playing concurrently), many are looking to transform the format from an incredibly popular niche spectator sport for PC players to the future of mainstream gaming.
Several big names in gaming have thrown their hat in the ring, either with plans for their own MOBA (like World of Warcraft developer Blizzard with Heroes of the Storm) or for a more accessible game heavily inspired by MOBAs (like Borderlands developer Gearbox with Battleborn ).
Even Halo, a game that has led the charge for first-person shooters as eSports, is taking cues from the rise of the MOBA, recently revealing the marquee multiplayer mode of Halo 5 will take heavy inspiration from the genre.
This week, developer Hi-Rez Studios brings its established MOBA Smite to a home console, hoping to hook the casual gaming masses on a genre already experienced by millions and played in tournaments with prize pools of up to $11 million.
The MOBA began as a way to turn strategy games like StarCraft and WarCraft III into quicker, more action-heavy spectacles. Today games in the genre are not only played by millions but watched live as a sport on video services like Twitch. International tournaments give serious players a chance at the limelight and massive cash prizes.
It's a style of game only possible in the age of ubiquitous internet, as isolated players all over the world can team up or watch in real time.
The rules differ from game to game, but in general distil the themes of strategy and role-playing games into a single sport-like arena match.
Two teams face off, usually with the aim of destroying the opposition's base to win. Joining the player-controlled heroes on the field are weaker computer-controlled units that march along set lanes to attack the enemy base and also serve as fodder for attacking heroes. The area surrounding the lanes is sometimes populated with computer-controlled enemies not aligned to either side that guard items or power-ups.
Players do not "level up" a character over a long period of time, but rather each character starts at zero at the beginning of each match. Players earn gold constantly and can unlock new abilities by killing enemies or achieving goals. The order in which players unlock and apply abilities, experience points and items over the course of a match is a big strategic consideration.
Particularly notable MOBAs include League of Legends, one of the first widely-played MOBAs and still hugely popular today; Dota 2, a sequel to the game that literally started it all back in 2003; Vainglory, which is finding success with a take on the genre for iPhones and iPads, launching an Android version just last week; and Smite, the first hugely successful PC MOBA to attempt to cross over to the console market.
Adam Mierzejewski, who produces eSports content at Smite developer Hi-Rez, said top-level MOBA players have to put in as much time and dedication as professionals in traditional sports like basketball, and like traditional sports the game is so complex at a high level it needs to be broken down by a commentator (or "caster") when streamed online.
"Casters explain everything that's going on in the game as well as bring the 'hype' factor", he said. "Sometimes there's too much going on, but the casters explain it as simply as possible to keep new and veteran viewers interested in the game."
Many popular MOBAs, including all those mentioned above, are free to play. The developers and publishers make their money through micro-transactions that typically do not affect gameplay, like skin and voice packs to make heroes look and sound different. This accessibility accounts for some of the genre's huge popularity.
Smite wants to be the MOBA of choice for those just discovering the genre.
Launched on PC last year, Smite clearly hoped to expand the appeal of the MOBA beyond dedicated LoL and Dota fans. This week the game will be available to play for free on Xbox One, making it the first established game in the genre to try and make the leap to the more casual couch audience.
Moving the camera behind the player character to create a look and feel more like a traditional action experience, Smite features heroes taken from various real-world mythologies and religions to create an instant sense of recognition for viewers and new players.
Following on the theme of accessibility, the game has also recently launched a new mode called Arena, which replaces the traditional MOBA lanes with a large, open oval with goals at each end, obviously inspired by traditional sports. Novice players have the option to automatically purchase the best abilities and upgrades rather than select them strategically. These points of difference make the game a good candidate to make the leap from PCs to consoles, says Andy Anderson, lead producer on the Xbox version of the game.
"The third-person view player movement just feels right with a controller, so that part was easy," Anderson says. "It was a challenge mapping the abilities, actives and consumables from a keyboard to buttons on the controller ... [but] we feel very good about the options we have in the game and continue to get good feedback."
The Xbox One also features the ability to broadcast and view gameplay on Twitch, plus video and microphone options via the Kinect camera, and Hi-Rez hopes to build a lounge-room following comparable to its PC fanbase.
Anderson says the impressive uptake of the PC game in Australia has prompted the team to make sure local fans feel catered to as the Xbox version becomes open to everyone. From next week, Xbox players will have the option of using dedicated Australian servers, meaning better performance when playing with other locals.
Mierzejewski also noted the game's popularity down under (there's even a skin available for Chinese god He Bo that transforms him into cheesy ocker surf dude from Sydney), pointing out the Oceania Pro League competition allows a pathway for the best Aussie PC team to get to the Smite world championships in 2016. The championship has the third-biggest prize pool of any MOBA tournament.
"There's also an Australian amateur scene which teams can compete in and eventually get to play against teams in the pro league to try and earn a spot [at the world championships]," Mierzejewski says.
"Having this type of competitive storyline for teams and viewers to follow allows for a successful eSport in the long term. We've seen great growth in the competitive scene in Australia and we look forward to see what they can bring to the table."
Players looking to get in on the ground floor with Smite on Xbox One can do so from Wednesday.


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FARMINGTON - For 25 years, each spring Native American livestock producers from across the state have attended the Indian Livestock Days to learn the latest in animal husbandry. This year they will gather May 16-17 in Farmington at McGee Park and Fairgrounds, 5568 U.S. 64 (the Bloomfield Highway).
The school is a semi-annual event that New Mexico State University launched in the early 1980s to help tribal producers stay abreast of the latest industrial practices, said Gary Hathorn, program director for NMSU's Cooperative Extension Service office in San Juan County.
"Native Americans are skilled at caring for livestock, but they, like others living and working in rural areas, need opportunities to learn about new production methods and technology," Hathorn said. "Through the workshop, we can offer educational opportunities directly to tribal producers in the Four Corners area."
NMSU Extension specialists along with veterinarians from the Navajo Nation, Navajo Department of Agriculture and New Mexico Livestock Board will present sessions on beef quality assurance, body condition scoring and cattle selection, range management, low stress cattle handling, care of sheep and horses, wildlife damage control, and premises and animal identification requirements.
NMSU's Office of Biosecurity will kick off the event with a training session on livestock security to help tribes defend against natural disasters and terrorist attacks.
This year there will be a Hearth Healthy Cooking Demonstration by County Extension Home Economists Lynn Beam, Elena Bowers and Sandy Taylor. A health fair will also be held during the two-day event.
"One of the most important aspects of this annual event is the tremendous amount of networking and sharing of ideas between the participants who come from across the state," Hathorn said.
The workshop costs $20 for both days. It runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 16 and 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 17. Participants are encouraged to pre-register to ensure adequate seating space and meals are available.
For more information, or if you are an individual with a disability in need of an auxiliary aid or service to participate, call the McKinley County Extension office at 863-3432. If outside the Gallup area, call toll free at (866) 863-3432 or e-mail Kathy Landers at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The school is part of NMSU's continuing outreach efforts to help educate and improve the lives of people in New Mexico.
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By Tim Rostan
It may seem to have been a stunt worthy of the late writer George Plimpton, who famously sparred with Sugar Ray Robinson and Archie Moore; took the pitcher's mound against major-league all-stars; suited up for football's Detroit Lions and Baltimore Colts; absorbed the impact of NHL slapshots on goal; and took fliers against top-level tennis players, golfers and bridge players. And Plimpton, of course, was a co-founder of the Paris Review. But the Frenchman Greg Akcelrod claims he was merely seeking a leg up on a professional soccer career when he posted on a personal Web site details of ostensible exploits such as scoring for the onetime English Premiership side Swindon Town, signing with Paris Saint-Germain, and being selected as a global Live Strong ambassador, en route to landing a tryout with CSKA Sofia in the Bulgarian capital. The trial came to naught, though even there Akcelrod's version of events diverges from a more sober one. In any event, Akcelrod explains, his deception differs little from those of 99% of his friends in France, who, he says, have exaggerated their English-language skills on their résumés to get a foot in the job-market door. As George Plimpton said after having entered a marathon course with mere steps remaining: "They did not specify that I had to run the race from the beginning."
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Australia has just experienced its hottest summer since record keeping began in 1910, the country's Bureau of Meteorology announced Thursday, continuing the climate change-induced trend of hotter, record-setting temperatures.
The average summer temperatures just experienced were 1.1°C above the 1961-1990 average, beating the previous record set in 1997-98.
During parts of December 2012 and January 2013, Australians sweltered under a record-breaking heatwave, during which the Bureau had to add a new color, deep purple, to its weather forecasting chart, to reflect the unprecedented heat.
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Australia has warmed by nearly a degree Celsius since 1910. This is consistent with warming observed in the global atmosphere and oceans. And it's going to keep getting hotter. Over the next century, the world will likely warm by a further 2 to 5 degrees, depending on the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.
Under mid-to-high emissions scenarios, summers like this one will likely become average in 40 years time. By the end of the 21st century, the record summer of 2013 will likely sit at the very cooler end of normal.
Meteorologist Jeff Masters adds this:
What's notable about the new summer heat record is that is occurred during a "neutral" period in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (there was neither a La Niña nor El Niño event present.) El Niño conditions add an extra natural bump to temperatures over Australia, and it is difficult to set all-time heat records unless there's an El Niño present. Before 2013, the hottest three summers on record in Australia occurred during El Niño years. Breaking an all-time hottest month and hottest summer record during a non-El Niño year is the type of event that would be difficult to have in Australia without a warming climate.


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Episode #002: Interview with Small Business Attorney & Owner of Hand Law Offices LLC Gregg A. Hand, ESQ
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Details of recent burglaries carried out in the Horsham district have been released by police.
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Bentons Lane - between 9.45am-3.15pm, Thursday October 6.
Entry gained through smashed window and forced lock. Jewellery stolen.
Windmill Close - between 8am-5pm, Sunday October 2.
Unknown how entry was gained. Nothing stolen but items moved in the house
Greenfield Way - between 1.30-9pm on Friday September 30
A back door was smashed and jewellery stolen.
Downsview Avenue - between September 17 and October 1.
Attempt to smash patio doors and window, no entry gained.
Littlehaven Lane - between 10am-11am on Saturday October 1.
Entry gained through insecure door nothing stolen believed suspect was disturbed and fled.
Hurst Road - between 11pm-4.50 Monday October 3.
Door forced to gain entry handbag and car stolen.
Woodlands Way - 12.50pm Monday October 1.
Someone tried to break in, suspect seen on patio but no entry gained.
Manor Road - between 10.35am- 1.15pm.
Forced entry through door TV and cash stolen.
Morrell Avenue - between 11.30am-1.45pm.
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Study of an Alternativefor Repository of Radioactive Waste—Taiwan Caseby Deng-Bo Chen, Industrial Technology Research Inst, Taiwan,
Zen-Hwa Chen, Industrial Technology Research Inst, Taiwan,
Document Type: Proceeding Paper
Part of: High Level Radioactive Waste Management 1990
The accumlation of spent fuel and radioactive waste is forcing producers to look for repository systems in Taiwan. Tectonic setting, and geologic processes indicate that the Penghu Islands in the Taiwan Strait are located on the stable continental margin and away from the fold-thurst belt on the main island of Taiwan. Although the Mesozoic sedimentary basement in the Penghu Islands was buried under the sandstone-shale formations and plateau basalt, its low porosity and permeability make it more potential to be host rock for spent fuel repository. Hydrologically, designating a small island to store radioactive waste in the formation below the interface of freshwater and seawater is an attractive choice for a country with offshore islands.
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Orochimaru is perhaps the most famous and infamous person to ever inhabit Konoha. Trained by the Third Hokage, referred to by many as the God of Shinobi in his prime, he shares the group recognition with Tsunade and Jiraiya as one of the "Legendary Three" (Sannin). It is possible that he may have even been his tutor's favourite from the way that Jiraiya was asked to be more like him. However, his legacy would be smeared in blood before he ever surpassed his master.
Morino Ibiki, the sadistic and iron-gutted sadist confessed that Orochimaru gave him the creeps, something Ibiki was used to doing himself. Ibiki described him as though he was not human, just something evil that had a humanoid shape. With his dead-white skin, prehensile, long tongue and reptilian eyes, it's easy to understand why even Ibiki would be intimidated. However, unfortunately for many, Orochimaru's appearance was not the most horrible thing about him. Orochimaru was a perfectionist and showed unequalled devotion to learning and collecting techniques, a trait he almost passed onto his sole student, Mitarashi Anko, teaching her a number of forbidden techniques and passing on his skills related to snakes. He also branded her with something that would become his signature later, a "curse seal". Appearing as an inky marking on the body of the person he gave it to, they would go into a coma-like state, one that had a 1/10 survival rate. Anko survived, but later realised that the man she hero-worshipped was a manipulator and she was just his guinea pig.
In his later years, Orochimaru began to realise that no matter how good a ninja was, age and death would always overcome him. Seeing his tutor grow old and no longer shine as he once did, he committed a sin that would forever taint him. Already, his immoral ideals had spooked enough people, probably including the advisory council, into rejecting him for the position of Fourth Hokage. It was then that Orochimaru went to work on something truly nihilistic. Gathering living human subjects for experimentation, Orochimaru plucked victims from Chuunin, Jounin and even the ANBU. One such experiment involved Orochimaru infusing the genes of Shodai Hokage into 60 children. Shodai was unique in his ability to control the tailed demons at his will and also his ability to use Mokuton techniques. Though he would not be around to see it, 59 of the children soon died. One lived and grew up to be known as the elite ANBU "Yamato". Orochimaru's experiments would prove successful, with Yamato able to use Shodai's abilities as his own.
Eventually, the Third Hokage penetrated his booby-trapped lair and he was caught red-handed in a laboratory lined with the mutilated remains of the abducted hanging from chains on the walls. As he was questioned, he revealed his epiphany. He was working on something that would allow him to cheat death and gradually become a master of all techniques, gaining the knowledge that would grant him a title beyond even his tutor's – the ultimate being. However, instead of being punished, he took advantage of the compassion that his old teacher was known for and fled with his life. As he fled, Jiraiya took chase. Jiraiya pleaded for him to return, but Orochimaru mocked his feelings and his failure to see the truth of his actions. The two battled and Orochimaru fled for good. Jiraiya would thereafter give up on trying to save Orochimaru.
Orochimaru's activities around this point become muddy. It is known for sure that he was a member of the criminal organisation Akatsuki. However, he left at some point due to Uchiha Itachi. Orochimaru, at some time, decided a major factor in his goal to know every technique would be the Sharingan eye, enabling him to copy what he saw. However, Itachi would not give up his eyes so easily and Orochimaru proclaimed that he feared Itachi, presumably after seeing the Mangekyou Sharingan in action and deciding that trying to take Itachi's eyes would be too risky. Orochimaru left Akatsuki, fully aware of their plans and with bad blood between them.
It is known that after leaving, Orochimaru completed half his goal: He gained immortality. By using a technique where he caused his soul to forever remain in the mortal world and transferred his mind into the bodies of victims, he could never pass on. Orochimaru proved it true as he took a female's body and inhabited it for a number of years, although he gradually managed to reshape it to a certain degree to resemble his old one. The corpse of the old Orochimaru was probably disposed of, but a memento of his past remains in the form of his forearm and hand mounted onto a base like a trophy, with the Akatsuki ring he once wore still sitting on the decaying middle finger.
Orochimaru then decided upon his next plan of action, with both of his next accomplishments being in his old village. Knowing that Itachi left one other of the clan alive, Orochimaru set his sights on Uchiha Sasuke among other skilled ninja. Travelling around the world as a sage offering to help those lost and vulnerable, his real purpose was to collect talented young ninja as either servants or for the "luckiest", his next body. He managed to sway many to his side, including the allegiance of a Leaf ninja, Yakushi Kabuto, who would become his spy. His other converts included the last of the brutal Kaguya clan, Kimimaro and the orphan Zaku Abumi. Orochimaru's charisma and skill as a manipulator grew to the extent that he held influence over many clans as their saviour, even allowing him to persuade the Feudal Lord of the Rice Field country to allow him to found and establish a hidden village there for the purpose of training ninja and strengthening the country. Of course, none of Orochimaru's offers were benevolent, only self-serving. Regardless, the village of Hidden Sound came to be.
It was the year that Uchiha Sasuke attempted to become a Chuunin that Orochimaru made his move, sneaking into the exam in disguise – initially as the tutor of three Sound Genin participating in the exam, next as a participant from Grass after literally melting the face from his skull and wearing it as a mask. Under the Grass ninja disguise, he first engaged Sasuke in single combat to test him, and then gave him the curse seal. At the same time, he gave his trio of subordinates the command to terminate Sasuke. It was only thanks to Sakura that Sasuke lived long enough to wake up. The order was really to place Sasuke under as much stress as possible, forcing him to rely on the curse seal, as use of it over time would slowly divert Sasuke's will into serving him. Orochimaru also ran into Anko during his travels, humiliating her by almost allowing her to kill herself and him at the same time while bringing up their past relation. He also later came to mock Kakashi's efforts in suppressing the seal, telling him Sasuke would remove the barriers himself and come to Orochimaru of his own will.
Orochimaru's next move was personal. In the finals of the Chuunin exam, the Kazekage, a guest spectator, suddenly held the Third Hokage hostage and from nowhere, scores of Sound and Sand ninja flooded the stadium. It was revealed they were working co-operatively to wage war on Leaf. However, the Kazekage addressed him by his real name, Sarutobi. Instantly, he recognized his attacker, who tore off the Kazekage's robes and engaged his former mentor. Pulling the souls of the First and Second Hokage from the afterlife, he fixed them into the bodies of his teenage subordinates, who had been prepared for sacrifice through live burial in ash and dirt, finally using a charm to turn their minds into ferocious killing machines. Though a totally heartless act, Orochimaru did show an instance of emotion through a single question: "Do you know the happiness and sense of accomplishment you gain when you have a chance to hurt the one you called 'master'?"
However, even though the battle was in Orochimaru's favour, using his own reptilian sword, the combined Hokage slaves and his personal bodyguards forming a barrier, his defeat came when Sarutobi, knowing he would die, performed a suicidal technique that cost him his soul. Summoning the death god itself, Sarutobi instructed it to rip out and consume the souls of Orochimaru's slaves, then Orochimaru's soul. However, he was too close to death, especially with Orochimaru's sword in his back, to complete the task. Choosing the next best thing and possibly something worse than death for Orochimaru, the death god took away the portions of Orochimaru's soul that connected to his arms, which fell limp and impotent and rendered him unable to even make a hand seal. The irony of knowing so many techniques and not being able to utilise them hit Orochimaru as Sarutobi died in front of him, seeing not the furious abomination that almost murdered him as he closed his eyes, but the confident student he admired and raised. Orochimaru and his forces were driven away to their village, also cutting off his alliance with Sand as the Kazekage's corpse was found, alerting Sand that he was not co-operating with Orochimaru and instead, the Kazekage that ordered the strike on Leaf was Orochimaru himself.
For a while, Orochimaru's activity was limited. In constant agony from his incapacitated arms, Orochimaru decided to seek out the legendary medical specialist, his former partner, Tsunade. Coincidentally, Jiraiya had also decided to look for her as a replacement for the Third Hokage. It was Orochimaru who got to her first, proposing a deal with her. Knowing her history, he would use his resurrection technique, as he did with the former Hokage brothers, to bring back Tsunade's younger brother, Nawaki and her lover, Dan, who had both been killed when she was younger. Leaving her a week to decide, Orochimaru was well prepared for her, knowing of her phobia of blood and preying on her sentimentality, saying he could only perform the resurrection if his hands were healed.
A week passed and at their meeting point, Orochimaru raised his hands to her. However, Kabuto stopped her at the last minute, recognising that Tsunade was about to assassinate Orochimaru instead of healing. The two fled as Tsunade chased them, resulting in Kabuto exploiting her phobia and taking her on in combat, being a medical specialist himself although not quite on her level. Jiraiya arrived to even the odds, slowing Orochimaru down a lot while Naruto took on Kabuto. Orochimaru was stunned by the boy's capabilities, deciding his #1 priority, even over dealing with Tsunade and Jiraiya, was to kill Naruto before the Akatsuki Organisation abducted him. Tsunade used herself as a human shield, vowing to protect the boy. Orochimaru then decided to hold her to her position and slashed her up with his sword in his mouth, giving her fatal injuries. Tsunade, however, also intended to stick to her word and on that decision, accepted the position of Fifth Hokage, using a technique to heal herself even though it shortened her lifespan. Fighting back, the legendary three pulled out their trump cards, summoning the masters of all animals. Orochimaru's gigantic anaconda, Manda, held off both Jiraiya's toad, Gamabunta and Tsunade's slug, Katsuyu on his own and was about to bite into Gamabunta when Tsunade herself drove Gamabunta's huge dagger into Manda's mouth. With nothing to be achieved, Orochimaru once again retreated, taunting that there was still another way to heal his arms and that he was immortal.
Orochimaru then sent his personal bodyguards, The Sound Four, to sneak into Leaf with an invitation for Sasuke, who had suffered numerous losses. Each member of the group bore a Curse Seal, just like Sasuke and once they engaged him, they told him the seal had a second stage of release that they would help him acquire – IF he left Leaf behind and joined Orochimaru. However, while the temptation occurred, Orochimaru's arms were now putting him through unbearable torture. Cracked, bleeding and crumbling away, Orochimaru needed a new body and couldn't wait. Kabuto arranged for a royal rumble among selected prisoners of Orochimaru's, telling them to fight to the death until one remained. Orochimaru approached the winner and transferred his mind into the entranced ninja, ending his agony at a price – the transfer has a three-year "recharge" period.
When his bodyguards took too long, he sent out a solitary ninja as reinforcement – stricken by illness and almost crippled, Kimimaro Kaguya, the leader of the Sound Four (which was previously the Sound Five before his sickness). Moving by means he described more or less as mind over matter, Kimimaro held back the forces of Leaf sent to bring Sasuke back long enough for Sasuke to adapt to the seal and run to Orochimaru of his own (if somewhat warped) will. Although his bodyguards all perished in the mission, Orochimaru's face lit up as his new body, bearing a fully released curse seal and the Sharingan, walked down the halls of his lair. In three years, his ambition would finally be realised…
In the intervening years Orochimaru would escape the eye of Akatsuki and move bases. He, Kabuto and Sasuke would move every week to a new location, and only stay at that location for three days. Akatsuki member Sasori had utilized a memory block jutsu to place his subordinates in different ninja villages as a means to gather information and provide sabotage. One such memory block had been placed on Kabuto approximately five years earlier in the hopes of finding more information on Orochimaru's body transfer jutsu. Sasori had arranged to meet with Kabuto to gain updated information on Orochimaru. Sasori fell in battle before the meeting but Leaf ninja impersonated his Hiruko puppet form in the hopes of attaining the information meant for him. When Kabuto met the Leaf ninja Yamato and his team of Naruto, Sakura and Sai, he acted as Sasori's faithful servant. When Orochimaru appeared Kabuto jumped to Sasori's side but quickly revealed himself by cutting off Hiruko's head.
Orochimaru and Kabuto, who had actually had the memory block removed years earlier by Orochimaru, hoped to actually kill Sasori but now they were pitted against Naruto and the other Leaf ninja. Orochimaru taunted Naruto, comparing his strength with Sasuke's. In return he received a gigantic slash from Naruto as the boy slipped into a rage enhanced by the Kyuubi's chakra. Catching him in the face, Orochimaru was thrown back a considerable distance but showed little damage, simply repairing the mask he wore of his old face by swiping a hand across it, but complimented Naruto in a back-handed manner on how his behavior was that of a real Jinchuuriki. On the subject, he then revealed that Yamato was assigned to be Naruto's new superior for a reason, he was an old experiment of Orochimaru's to partially clone the First Hokage or at least his powers. Violating the grave of the First Hokage to steal his genetic material, he injected those genes into sixty children to try and reproduce the powers of wood manipulation and control over Bijuu. Yamato was the only one to live and grow up.
Mentioning Sasuke again, Naruto's anger grew and three tails of chakra sprouted. Faced with the unimaginable power of the Kyuubi, Orochimaru took an almost scientific approach to the situation, more curious than afraid. Berserk and out of control, Naruto cost Orochimaru his left arm. Standing on a tree, Orochimaru then opened his mouth and a pair of hands pried his jaw apart, pulling their owner free and a second Orochimaru stepped out from his mouth, with his arm restored. Mocking how Naruto was still weaker than Sasuke, a fourth tail began to appear, causing Naruto's skin to peel away and leaving him a grisly feral fox but still only inducing curiosity and amusement in Orochimaru. Vomiting a huge amount of snakes out of his mouth, each one bearing a blade in their own mouths, Naruto obliterated them with a single claw swipe and dug his claws underground, attempting to catch Orochimaru in his bloody chakra hand.
Orochimaru tried to halt it with another snake from his sleeve, but the serpent burned up on contact. Spitting out another Orochimaru that extending from the waist out, it attacked Naruto directly. Shockingly, Naruto sliced Orochimaru across the belly, but another swarm of snakes extended from the wounds, mingling and pulling each half back together even though Orochimaru now faced backwards. Snapping his neck and turning his neck 180 degrees, Orochimaru smirked.
Naruto began to gather blood and chakra together into a huge sphere, directed by his tails. Even Orochimaru finally showed concern as everything coalesced into a perfect ball of highly dense chakra, convinced that such an attack would kill him outright. Swallowing the sphere and blowing up like a balloon, Naruto released it as a huge blast. In desperation, Orochimaru summoned three of his Rashoumon gates. When the blast subsided, nothing remained of the gates and Orochimaru lay half-buried and mangled. As everyone looked on in awe, Orochimaru's head erupted from the ground on his snakelike neck, extending his sword into Naruto and extending the blade, pushing him far back but unable to cut him. Finally, Orochimaru began to feel fatigued and commenting his body was beginning to reject him. However, before he left, Sai appeared and told him that an official of Konoha, Danzou, had information to share with him.
Spitting a sword straight into Sai, he mocked Sai's lack of manners, seeing that Sai was actually an ink clone and invited him to show his true self. Ambushed by Kabuto, Sai was pinned down as Orochimaru inspected an envelope for him from Danzou. After reading the contents, Orochimaru commanded Kabuto to release Sai and bring him along. Aware that they were being followed, Kabuto suspected Sai of being less faithful than he was saying. Orochimaru decided that regardless, a corpse would be needed. Naruto and his team followed behind, but then came upon Sai, hanging limply by his neck from a tree.
However, the corpse was a decoy, slowing the Leaf team down as they thought they came across their dead comrade. Kabuto then asked if Sai could be used in an experiment, having nothing else to do when not being a spy. Orochimaru told him to do as he pleased. Making it back to his lair, Orochimaru introduced Sasuke to Sai as a fellow turncoat. Sasuke reacted coldly, simply demanding Orochimaru teach him a new technique. Before departing, Orochimaru handed Kabuto the information Sai brought, the real names and other sensitive information of the ANBU members, to make a bingo book of their own.
While they trained, Sai was found and revealed his true colors, assisting in an ambush on Kabuto. However, Orochimaru confronted the team reunited once more. In a moment of arrogance, he decided to let them live, since they were able to take on Akatsuki and had a common enemy, before pursuing Sai, who had gone after Sasuke. The lair came crashing down and the Leaf team stood face to face with Sasuke, who overpowered them all easily. About to use a devastating move, Orochimaru stopped him suddenly, with Kabuto reasoning that it would mess up their plans and possibly Sasuke's revenge on Itachi. Under protest, the three retreated, eluding Naruto once more. Another month passed, with Sasuke becoming even more of an excellent ninja, incapacitating around a thousand ninja without killing a single one. Even Orochimaru admitted to himself that Sasuke's efforts eclipsed his own at that age, but also that Sasuke lacked a certain level of ruthlessness.
Later, Orochimaru lay in bed with his body finally faltering and Kabuto administered the strongest medicine he had available. Moments later Sasuke pierced the door with a blade of chakra, which extended to stab Orochimaru. Sasuke taunted that there was no more Orochimaru could teach. He then pinned Orochimaru's arms to the wall and closed in to stab him. Before he could Orochimaru spat something out that landed behind Sasuke… Staring into a leviathan's face, Sasuke realized it at last. Orochimaru's countless experiments on his bodies and toying with the regenerative abilities his serpentine form gave him had reduced him from a human into a massive writhing collection of living snakes, capitalized by a gruesome, triple-jawed mockery of Orochimaru's real face. Demanding his body, Orochimaru attacked Sasuke, who defended himself by shifting into the second stage of his Cursed Seal release and slicing Orochimaru's body apart.
Orochimaru could only scream his name in anger, thinking back to his younger days. Standing at the graveside of his parents, he found the molted skin of a white snake. The Third Hokage mentioned they were rare, considered a symbol of good fortune and rebirth and that the discovery of the skin there may be a sign that his parents had been reborn in new bodies. Orochimaru asked when they'd meet again, a question that couldn't be answered.
Back in reality, Orochimaru was cut into 3 pieces, but still alive, gloating that the snakes were even capable of poisoning the air. Lunging at Sasuke, everything went black and Sasuke found himself inside what looked like a void with nothing but an organic floor. Soon, a clump rose up from the floor, shaping into Orochimaru's face, explaining the void was actually something like a dimension inside him where he transferred into the victim. More organic clumps rose and formed into snakes, writhing in and out of Sasuke's body. Around him, the faces of his former hosts could be seen, trapped in the clumps. Orochimaru had another flashback, from his time in Akatsuki where he tried to take Itachi's body. Pinned in place by huge nails in Genjutsu, Orochimaru raised his hands but Itachi swiftly sliced off his left hand, saying none of his techniques would make a difference before the Sharingan.
Then Sasuke used the same nail Genjutsu on Orochimaru, Slowly, Sasuke began to alter the organic clumps, turning them from snakes into eyeless, dragon-like worms and darkening the shade of the clumps. Using the Sharingan, he began to assert control over the dimension, directing the monsters to eat the clump that contained Orochimaru. In disbelief, Orochimaru denied what was happening, claiming his immortality and destiny to understand and control everything. His final words, "I refuse…" were croaked out as everything finally faded to black. Sasuke then walked out of Orochimaru's quarters, encountering Kabuto. Unsure of whom he was, Kabuto asked. Sasuke used the Sharingan to replay the events to him in an almost Tsukiyomi-like manner. Kabuto worried about his master's death, but realized the truth, which Sasuke confirmed with the words "I've taken over". Orochimaru is no longer truly alive, but might exist as a subconscious thought in Sasuke's mind.
Orochimaru Timeline
Before Series Start
After Series Start
(All dates approximate)
50 Yrs. BSS
- Orochimaru Born.
44 Yrs. BSS
- Orochimaru graduates academy, becomes student of Sandaime Hokage.
28 Yrs. BSS
- Orochimaru "consoles" Tsunade over brothers death.
14 Yrs. BSS
- Orochimaru denied Fourth Hokage position. Orochimaru continues horrific experiments, including infusing of Shodai Hokage genes into children. Flees village.
13 Yrs. BSS
- Orochimaru joins Akatsuki, begins working alongside Sasori.
6 Yrs. BSS
- Orochimaru attempts to take over Itachi, leaves Akatsuki.
5 Yrs. BSS
- Orochimaru goes to the Water Country and Kimimaro joins him. Begins preparations for forming own ninja village.
4 Yrs. BSS
- Orochimaru finds Zaku.
3 Yrs. BSS
- Gives Mizuki experimental animal strength tattoo.
2 Yrs. BSS
- Takes on body of young woman.
2-1 Yr. BSS
- Removes Sasori's memory block from Kabuto. Goes to the Rice Field Country and formally creates Hidden Sound.
- Series Start
6 Mo. ASS
- Orochimaru goes to the Wind Country and kills Yondaime Kazekage. Enters Chuunin Exam, Gives Sasuke cursed seal.
7 Mo. ASS
- Launches Konoha Destruction. Loses arms to Sarutobi but manages to help hasten his death.
8 Mo. ASS
- Searches out Tsunade to heal his arms.
9 Mo. ASS
- Awaits arrival of Sasuke. Forced to take body of Genyuumaru. Welcomes Sasuke to Hidden Sound.
10 Mo. ASS
- Leaves Hidden Sound for new hideout. Begins 3 year wait before he can change bodies again.
3 Yrs. 3 Mo. ASS
- Goes with Kabuto to kill Sasori. Fights Naruto and hastens need to change bodies. Flees hideout after it is discovered by Konoha.
3 Yrs. 4 Mo. ASS
- Further trains Sasuke, Attempts to take over Sasuke and is defeated.
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Since Labor Day, 2014 I have been taking a photograph a day for a year. Although not all photos have been very interesting, I have allowed myself the opportunities to try new things. Through these opportunities I have shrunk myself, floated in the air, and even removed my head and replaced it with a camera.
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hello admin,
can you provide the file list that needs to be updated for this release?
Thanks :D
hello admin,
can you provide the file list that needs to be updated for this release?
Thanks :D
Just download the ZIP, you will see actual files that need to be updated oor changed.
If you need a list, go to the install folder, there is a changed file list.
sorry but I wasn't able to find the changed file list under the Install folder.Originally Posted by admin
Check the first post in this thread.
will be available if you do that download.
It only contan changed files, just upload and overwrite, thats all.
Thanks, that worked great. One issue though, my members are unable to upload ".rm" files. Does this support the .rm conversion?Originally Posted by admin
vshare support .rm file extension.
But converting a video is done with mencoder. So you should make sure mencoder installed on your server support .rm files.
Well it does convert wmv files perfectly file just .rm is a problem...Originally Posted by admin
If your mencoder installation can't convert rm files, it will not work. So ask your host to fix it.
Upload a .rm video to http://video.bizhat.com you will see it working. If not working on your server, it is server problem.
OK, a little confused here...bear with me I'm a total SQL n0ob.
Instructions say not to upload the install folder (which contains CHANGED_FILES.txt and SQL.sql).
Then is says to run the SQL.txt from myphpadmin.
I don't have a "SQL.txt".
I'm assuming that's either a typo in the instructions OR the file that I have is misnamed. I need to know which it is.
Then, I'm assuming that when admin says "run the install/sql.txt" is to "import" the SQL file that I have...but before I do that, I need to know what the correct extention is. Is it SQL.txt or SQL.sql?
OK, I got brave and imported the SQL.sql and it was fine. Must have been a typo in the instructions.
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You pays your money, you takes your choice. Did you expect it to be completely trouble free for 20 bucks? Do you think that if you paid ten times that, it wouldn't have problems?
Can I ask, did you read this forum before buying?
I'm sure we will all be able to help you, given time and information about your problem.
Look, it's not steep till you need to stop ok !


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However, multiple unofficial polls in Nigeria ranks Lagos State governor Akinwunmi Ambode, Cross River State governor, Professor Ben Ayade, Ogun State governor Senator Ibikunle Amosun, and Anambia State governor Willie Obiano as the top best performing governors in 2016.
Lagos State governor Ambode has done extremely well to improve on the governance and history left by predecessor Fashola. There is a general consensus that he is a role model for other governors in Nigeria. ''If we have six of Ambode's out of 36 state governors, Nigerians would be smiling'' said the founder of Oodua People's Congress (OPC). Dr. Frederick Fasehun


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Alana Chandler Steel concocted a taste of her Southern roots when a job transfer landed her in a city where pimiento cheese was hard to find. Now back in the South, Alana says this savory soup is a hit with her friends.
How to Make It
Melt butter in a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add onion and celery, and sauté 5 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
Add chopped sweet potato, milk, and chicken broth; bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat, and simmer, stirring occasionally, 18 to 20 minutes or until sweet potato is tender. Remove mixture from heat, and stir in half of the pimientos. Add Cheddar cheese and next 4 ingredients, stirring until cheese melts. Let cool 5 minutes.
Process cheese mixture, in batches, using a handheld blender, blender, or food processor until smooth, stopping to scrape down sides. Stir in remaining half of pimientos before serving.
*1 medium potato, peeled and chopped, may be substituted.
Note: Our Test Kitchens professionals tested this soup using three different tools--a food processor, blender, and handheld blender. Though each worked well, the handheld blender produced the smoothest soup.


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Before any true new beginning, one needs to sift through the old, select the irrelevant from the things worthy of remembering and learn from past mistakes and actions. In similar fashion (pun totally intended), before we move on to what this new year has in store for us style-wise (and I'm sure we will not be disappointed), 2012 deserves a true farewell to arms with a short recap of its most memorable fashion moments.
1) Choupette - or, arguably, the most famous cat in the world, outshining probably even YouTube legend Maru. In any case, with its pristine white fur and exquisite grooming, Karl Lagerfeld's favourite companion has made her mark on the year and left us wanting more.
2) Angelina Jolie and the black velvet dress she wore at the Oscars - in truth, it was more the leg than the Atelier Versace couture that garnered the world's attention, but the dress deserves its kudos. After all, what is a leg without a thigh-high split to show it off?
3) Also at the Oscars - Gwyneth Paltrow in Tom Ford (personally, I would have liked it even better cape-less, but I believe I am alone in that assessment), Jessica Chastain in Alexander McQueen (I dreamt of her in that dress for a week straight) and Rooney Mara in custom Givenchy.
4) Rooney Mara all around - Rooney was a breath of fresh, edgy fashion air as she travelled the world to promote "The girl with the dragon tattoo" and she was, by far, my candidate for best fashion break-out of the year. Best thing of all? Consistently flawless make-up and hair elevated each look to sublime perfection. In my humble opinion, quite naturally.
5) Designer come, designer go - As far as fashion designer changes go, this year had plenty. In fact, I don't seem to recall any other time (within my memory span, of course) when there was so much change. First, Raf Simons took John Galliano's old seat at Dior and debuted in the summer with a well-received haute couture collection. Second, Hedi Slimane took over from Stefano Pilati at Yves Saint Laurent and debuted in October with a ready-to-wear collection which was not so well-received. Pilati, in the meantime, is at Ermenegildo Zegna. Come November, Nicolas Ghesquiere was announced to leave Balenciaga only to be replaced by Alexander Wang. Also making headlines this year was that Christopher Kane left Versus to reportedly focus more on his own line. With all these changes in the major league still so fresh, it's shaping up to be an interesting 2013.
6) YSL out, SLP in - Hedi Slimane's first big move as creative director of Yves Saint Laurent was to change the brand's name to Saint Laurent Paris. The official explanation? A "return to the fundamentals of YSL and revive the spirit and the intentions that reigned over the creation of 'Saint Laurent Rive Gauche' in 1966: principles of youth, freedom, and modernity". But was it really worth giving up on the history and power of the YSL brand name? I am torn.
7) Golden Olympics - Olympics opening and closing ceremonies are always something to behold, but this year's London edition seemed to be tailor-made for fashion fans around the world - there was the Spice Girls reunion, an Alexander McQueen tribute and... a walk of the greats, the British Supermodels. Naomi Campbell, Lily Donaldson, Georgia May Jagger, Jourdan Dunn, Lily Cole, Karen Elson and Stella Tennant all came out in gold, like goddesses among people. And that moment when the curtain went down to reveal a frowning, sensual Kate Moss in a gold-sequined McQueen gown? Unforgettable by any standard.
8) The rise and rise of Cara Delevingne - Quirky, goofy and a bit of tomboy. Those are the words that sprung to mind when thinking of Cara Delevingne. Quite a way off the model mark. Yet, this year, the socialite and all round girl about town got hot and heavy with the high fashion world by opening countless shows in the New York Fashion Week, scoring campaigns for Burberry, Chanel and Stella McCartney to name a few and, as a culmination of such a successful run, winning Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards. If that wasn't enough, last month she also put on her wings to walk the Victoria's Secret runway... can it get any better?!
9) Brad Pitt and Chanel no. 5 - It was like an earthquake - none of us saw it coming. Brad Pitt as the face of the iconic Chanel No. 5. Apart from the fact that he is, you know, a man, what he and Lady Chic Coco Chanel have in common is beyond me. Still, it was one of the most talked about collaborations of the year, and, marketing gimmick or not, it seems to have worked - sales of the perfume reportedly went up.
10) Anna Piaggi - In August, fashion lost one of its most celebrated front-row fixtures: journalist and quirky style icon Anna Piaggi. She may not have been everybody's cup of tea, but she sure will be missed.


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Moss Removal
All You Ever Wanted To Know About Moss Removal
Moss removal is a task that many homeowners will face at some point. While moss can be an attractive addition to a garden or pond, it can be a problem in many other instances. Moss on concrete sidewalks and driveways is not only unsightly, it is slippery and a hazard to people walking on them. Moss on roofs allows moisture to get under the shingles and can compromise the structural integrity of your roof, as well as lower your home's curb appeal. Moss removal is the only solution to these problems.
Moss growth is a common problem on residential roofing materials, and can lead to damage of the roof. If you have composition or shake shingles, you are in danger of developing a moss problem. Metal roofs do not develop moss, as it cannot grow on such a smooth surface. Moss growth is most common on parts of the roof that are north-facing or in the shade; areas with direct sunlight rarely develop trouble with moss. It is logical, then, that removing overhanging branches that shade the roof will help prevent moss buildup. Keeping your roof clean is another excellent method of moss prevention; debris on the roof will slow drying and encourage moss buildup.
If you already have moss on your roof, there are several methods of moss removal you can try. One method is to sprinkle powdered detergent on the mossy areas; dish detergent or laundry detergent will work. After a few days, you will be able to sweep the moss off your roof with a broom. Another is to simply try to scrape the moss off the shingles. Be warned that using chemicals on your composition shingles, even powdered detergent, has the potential to damage the shingles and shorten the lifespan of your roof. If you have a serious moss problem, it is best to call a professional. In some cases, the only solution may be to remove the shingles entirely, and replace the roof. If such drastic measures are necessary, you may want to consider going with a metal roof. Although metal roofs are more expensive than composition shingles, they are not at risk for moss buildup and have a longer lifespan that can make the price comparable in the long run.
Moss removal on concrete is a simpler procedure. Try mixing a laundry detergent, such as Tide, with bleach and dilute the mixture in water. Spread the solution on the concrete. Brushing it with a long-handled brush will help, but if you don't have much moss you shouldn't have to scrub hard. Let the solution sit for a while, and then hose off the concrete with the highest pressure stream of water you can use.
If you don't want to use chemicals, a high pressure washer on its own can do the trick for moss removal. You can buy a pressure washer or rent one from many hardware or home improvement stores. This will work for moss removal and is more environmentally friendly than using chemicals, but it will take a long time. Only very small areas can be washed at one time, so be prepared for a big job if you have a lot of moss to remove.
Moss removal is possible, but may take a bit of effort on your part. A pressure washer is almost sure to remove moss, but it can be a tedious procedure. The mixture of bleach and laundry detergent is often suggested and can work, but you should use it with care to avoid damage to the underlying material that is covered in moss. As with many things in life, prevention is the key. Taking steps to prevent moss buildup will make future moss removal unnecessary, or at least significantly easier.


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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. best-looking; -- used of clothing.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Proper to be worn to church; hence, best: applied to clothes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. used of clothing
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Many of the thirty thousand patrons pouring out of cabs and streetcars and pounding down the steps of the Addison Street L stop were dressed in go-to-meeting finery.
Ibsen, it is allowable to think, may sometimes have dreamed of a pill, "with arsenic in it, Hilda, and digitalis, too, and strychnine and the best beetle-killer," which would decimate the admirable inhabitants of Grimstad, strewing the rocks with their bodies in their go-to-meeting coats and dresses.
Unwilling to finish us off and pull the trigger, they are so desperate to preserve their Sunday go-to-meeting persona of the good guy.
Sure, it's great to plan for the baby and buy tiny garments and pick names, but after the first time, when you no longer have illusions about that perfect baby whose nose never runs, who never upchucks on your Sunday go-to-meeting clothes, and who sleeps at all times when not being actively displayed, there's not nearly as much anticipation and it's "ho-hum - crap, my ankles are swollen AGAIN".
Deborah asked, hands on her hips in her Sunday go-to-meeting outfit that was ready to come off at any time.
Miss Snark is laughing so hard she wrinkled her Sunday go-to-meeting ensemble.
That meant his best robes, for our durbar appearance at noon, with Flashy in full fig of frock coat and go-to-meeting roof, making my official bow to little Dalip enthroned in state; you'd not have recognised the lively imp of yesterday in the regal little figure all in silver, nodding his aigretted turban most condescendingly when I was presented by Lal Singh, who was second minister.
Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it.
Why, you might as well say we ought to pull down Westminster Abbey, and put up a go-to-meeting shop with churchwarden windows; or never read Shakespeare, but only Sheridan Knowles.
It is further reported that the large collection of go-to-meeting hats, frock-coats, and patent-leather boots extorted universal admiration from all beholders.


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A Letter from Richard Ochoa and Motorsport Showcase Events,
Motorsport Showcase Events is proud to announce a new direction we will bring to the sport of Lowriding and the Custom and Classic Motor sporting Industry. We have partnered with Lowrider experts across the United States from the Southwest, Southeast and Midwest to showcase the traditional lowrider style as well as the unique styles within the geographic areas.
In addition, the Motorsport Showcase website provides updated information of upcoming events, photo galleries and articles featuring local Lowrider motivators, history, music and culture. Blvd Art is an online and onsite exhibit of Lowrider and Chicano art throughout the nation. MS Blvd is a free social network which allows you to share your photos, videos and events within the Lowrider and custom vehicle community in one central online location.
Lowriding was created by automotive enthusiasts customizing their vehicles with Chicano art, culture and style which continues to grow in popularity. We have supported this movement exclusively in Arizona since 1983, and throughout the country as well in consulting and as service providers. Myself and the Motorsport Showcase team have also played vital roles as consultants and contractors in a vast array of duties and responsibilities since 1989 with Lowrider Magazine, loyally protecting its brand at the forefront. This includes 28 years as a contributing contractor, and over 34 years of producing the very first Lowrider Magazine (Sanctioned) event in Arizona and sanctioned event out of the state of California.
Motorsport Showcase brought you the first two years of the Arizona Supershow which resulted in record breaking attendance and exhibitor numbers. This was an extension of the 32 year production first started in Mesa, as the Mesa Supershow. Although we are no longer affiliated with the Arizona Supershow, we will continue to create and execute similar events in Arizona and throughout the nation with similar explosive results as an independent company.
I wish to sincerely thank the tens of thousands of Lowrider Magazine fans and exhibitors we have had the honor and privilege in being part of Lowrider history! And so with great enthusiasm and anticipation, we are moving forward in seeing new opportunities for future Lowrider and custom and classic motor sporting events to come!


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For sale Enicar Sherpa Guide GMT Worldtime!
Condition : Preowned with good condition
Movement : Automatic
Crystal : Acrylic, probably aftermarket
Case : Steel
Dimension : 43 mm without crown
Caseback : Stainless steel, screw in
Crown : Upper crown for inner bezel, lower crown for set the hands
Dial : Black colour with good aging, date fitur
Bracelet: Aftermarker bracelet with original enicar clasp
* GMT bezels (inner and outer) works fine.
Price $ 200 USD (include paypal fee and shipment), Rp 1.750.000 (blm ongkir di Indonesia)
Intenational sales are welcome. Shipping from Indonesia.
Payment via paypal. (International sales)
Price is firm, please do not offer anything lower.
For more information please PM or email me at hendrahutauruk(at)gmail(dot)com
Here is my little feedback in this forum:
Hendra324 for my Eterna Matic Kontiki, rare vintage has been sold to New York.
Hendrahutauruk is a nice seller my TITONI COSMO KING, BEZEL 14K GOLD has been sold to Singapore.


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When your boss spends 10 seconds creating a poorly formatted email containing no context, it's really annoying. You spend time trying to decipher the message and wonder why you don't understand what's going on.
The same goes for meetings. Someone asks you a question in a meeting with an attitude that suggests that you should know the answer. Unfortunately, you don't know what they are talking about.
Why do people do this?
Because it's the easy way to work, that's why. It takes less effort to just throw out messages and to make assumptions. It takes more effort to communicate properly.
Why take the time to communicate properly when your target audience will run around trying to figure it out for themselves?
Unfortunately, the easy way to work is also the worst way, especially when you are in a leadership role.
Failing to communicate properly has a dramatic impact when you're leading a team
There is significant impact when you concoct a hasty, poorly formatted email or call a meeting where nobody knows what will be discussed. It depends on the makeup of your team as to whether there will be lasting damage, or simply frustration and annoyance.
Let's look at a few situations where a leader doesn't communicate properly.
Situation 1: A leader writes a short email with very little context, allocating work to a team member.
This situation has a number of potential impacts:
- The team member wastes significant time trying to understand the message. They ask colleagues, search the intranet and previous emails for a clue
- Depending on the personality of the team member, they sit "spinning their wheels" for hours before daring to approach their boss to ask for clarification. Many people have trouble speaking up, which makes this situation even worse. At the very least, they'll call the boss and have a phone conversation which could have been a better idea in the first place.
- The team member gradually loses confidence in their ability, thinking that they just aren't handling the work or smart enough to be part of the team. This loss of confidence results in a downward spiral of uncertainty, with the team member second-guessing their decisions and ability to complete the work. Ultimately, you're left with a disengaged team member with no confidence to quit, or to do good work.
Situation 2: A leader calls a meeting and makes assumptions about what a team member already knows
The meeting involves discussions about work which the leader assumes the team already knows about, with reference to previous conversations that they weren't even privy to.
This has a similar impact to the situation above, except it's more public. People in the meeting see that one of the team "doesn't understand" what is happening. Many people are too afraid to speak up and question someone in a position of authority, so this poor leadership behaviour goes unchallenged.
The solution: Communicate properly, making sure that your team understands the context
If your team doesn't understand what's going on, that's YOUR problem as a leader.
This is even more important when you have new people in your team. Don't assume they know everything. Give them time to develop an understanding of the organisation and the industry.
Do you really want to be responsible for a team that is lacking confidence and second-guessing themselves? How do you think the leader of such a team would be perceived?
If it makes you feel like the alpha dog because you know everything and your team doesn't, then you don't deserve to have your job. You aren't doing it properly.
Go find another position and save us all the trouble of dealing with you.


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Polish composer Witold Lutosławski may well not have approved of my attempt to talk about his Third Symphony, one of the few postwar pieces that managed to invent a discourse that's at once a rejection of symphonic conventions yet is also a bracing renewal of the idea of "the symphony". Premiered in 1983 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and George Solti, it's music that's definitively "symphonic" even if it doesn't sound like many – or any – previous works in the genre.
My nervousness is because Lutosławski (who died in 1994) always resisted attempts to connect his life's work with the circumstances of is creation, either in terms of his personal life or the broader context of the precipitous Polish politics through which he lived. But his Third Symphony was composed and premiered at a time when Lutosławski's involvement in Polish public life had been suspended, when he was growing more sympathetic to and supportive of the Solidarity movement. Having been Poland's most feted and most powerful figurehead as composer, conductor and creative, Lutosławski left the public stage in Poland when martial law was declared in the country in December 1981, the same period in which the Third Symphony was being written and prepared for its premiere; after which, Lutosławski accepted an award from Solidarity's Committee for Independent Culture later in 1983.
If you do want to hear the Third Symphony as a kind of protest piece, there are some musical catalysts that might support your interpretation: listen to the way the piece starts, with a hammered-out, four-fold repetition of a unison E. That can't help but remind you, surely, of the symphony that started off this whole series, Beethoven's Fifth, and its supposed "fate knocking at the door" connotation (although that's just another interpretative can of worms, as we know!). Lutosławski's gesture of implacable force and violence recurs throughout the opening minutes of the symphony, contrasting with passages of filigree fragility, which are squashed into submission by the repetitions of those four notes – which are also the last sounds you hear in the piece, half an hour later. But that's just the start of this potential interpretative journey. The narrative of the symphony can sound like a search for a freedom of expression which is progressively achieved – in moments like this magnificently searching melody, one of the great lyrical moments in post-war music, I think, reclaiming and redefining what a genuinely moving non-tonal musical melody can be – and then revoked, stamped out, by the violence of the rest of the orchestra; and then the final repetition of that four-note fist of fate.
And even more powerfully, there's Lutosławski's unique musical grammar of sections of "ad libitum" or "controlled aleatoricism" (sections in which individual players are rhythmically un-coordinated, but in which the pitch field they have to play, and the character, and the overall affect of the music, are defined by the composer – in fact, there's more "control" here than "chance", but the idea of a musical individualism, of a multitude of separate voices as opposed to a mono-dimensional musical collectivism still stands), contrasting with "ad battuta" – conventionally defined, obey-the-conductor passages. That's a suggestive musical parallel, surely, between the ideas of totalitarian control and democratic freedom, especially given how Lutosławski characterises the music he writes for these different kinds of orchestral music-making.
With all of those suggestive grounds for interpretation, perhaps it's no surprise that one critic at the Chicago premiere said that the piece was "exactly what might be expected of a Polish composer at the moment", in voicing the people's protest at military rule. And there then came a revealing glimpse that Lutosławski was not – for perhaps the first time – completely ruling out any extra-musical interpretation of his symphony. As Andrzej Chłopecki reports, following the first performance, Lutosławski told a group of Polish musicologists:
"If we agree that music can mean anything extra-musical, it nevertheless remains ambiguous meaning. But man has a single soul and whatever he experiences in life must have some influence on him. If man has a single psyche, then the world of sounds, despite its autonomy, is still a function of that psyche. So I would limit myself to stating that if the last movement of the symphony makes the impression it makes and keeps the listener in suspense, it is certainly not by chance. I would admittedly feel honoured if I managed to express something connected not only to my personal experience but also to that of other people."
Now that's something: Lutosławski always wanted his music to communicate with his listeners (he talked about writing music as "soul-fishing" for like-minded sensibilities in the world), but he seems to go further here, knowing that "other people" in Poland in 1983 would surely mean the symphony resonated with a broader social political discourse about freedom and repression in people's "psyches".
Well: maybe. The point is, the problem with these descriptive words is that they limit the Third Symphony's interpretation and the way the piece can be imagined. Which is not to say those things aren't a legitimate way of thinking about the symphony's drama, but they are consequences of Lutosławski's unique symphonic solutions rather than the reason for it. This is music of virtuosic compositional coherence and expressive diversity. The coherence is important, since Lutosławski spent his life finding and refining a musical language that could be as malleable and communicative as the tonal system, but one which had to be fit for purpose as a new, modernist musical idiom.
But the range of expression is even more important. Lutosławski describes the structure of the symphony with words of fastidious jargonistic neutrality:
"The work consists of two movements, preceded by a short introduction and followed by an epilogue and a coda. It is played without a break. The first movement comprises three episodes, of which the first is the fastest, the second slower and the third is the slowest. The basic tempo remains the same and the differences of speed are realised by the lengthening of the rhythmical units. Each episode is followed by a short, slow intermezzo. It is based on a group of toccata-like themes contrasting with a rather singing one: a series of differentiated tuttis leads to a climax of the whole work. Then comes the last movement, based on a slow singing theme and a sequence of short dramatic recitatives played by the string group. A short and very fast coda ends the piece."
That bland architectonic crib-sheet can't prepare you for the impact of what you'll experience in the Third Symphony. (Or perhaps it enhances the shock of what you hear - maybe that's the cunning expressive ploy of Lutosławski's prose.) But I wouldn't attempt to try and figure out where you are according to his scheme if you're listening to the piece for the first time. Instead, it's better to thrill to the play of juxtaposition and contrast that's happening moment-by-moment in this symphony; something that paradoxically adds up to what should be an overwhelming cumulative experience, above all by the time you get to that breathtakingly dynamic coda. And if you're returning to this most convincing of post-tonal symphonies, you'll find that the more you enter its symphonic labyrinth, the more you'll discover. Back to that thorny question of interpretation for the final time: the deeper you go into its musical mysteries, the more profoundly expressive, and the more resonatingly meaningful, you'll find it. That's an expansion rather than limitation of its meaning - and Lutosławski surely wouldn't have wanted to complain about that!
Three key recordings
The composer's own recording has a unique authority, but there's a more visceral drama in Wit's performance, and refinement and tensile strength in Salonen's interpretation.
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Witold Lutosławski
Los Angeles Philharmonic/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Antoni Wit
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Antibodies taken from rabbits can improve the survival rates of leukemia and myelodysplasia patients who are receiving stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor.
Researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) have found that rabbits' antibodies trick the body immune system into accepting the stem cell from an unrelated donor. They claim that this discovery will improve the survival rates of leukemia and myelodysplasia patients.
Researchers had conducted a study on groups of patients who were going to receive stem cells.
Scientists injected rabbits' anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) into one group of patients who were going to receive stem cells from an unrelated donor whereas the other group received the stem cells from a related donor.
After the transplantation, scientists studied the outcomes of patients who received a transplant of stem cells from an unrelated donor and compared the result with people who had received stem cells from a related donor.
Scientists were stunned to find that the outcomes after implanting the cells were very similar in terms of mortality, relapse and development of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a common complication that can occur after a stem cell or bone marrow transplant in which the newly transplanted material attacks the transplant recipient's body.
"Unfortunately, we can't always find a related (genetically similar) donor for patients in need of stem cell transplantation," said Amir Toor, hematologist-oncologist at VCU School of Medicine, in a statement. "Obtaining better outcomes with unrelated donor stem cell transplants could represent a significant advancement in extending the lives of more patients with blood cancers."
Usually, when an unrelated donor stem is implanted into the body, the body immune system immediately rejects it. However, scientists found that rabbits' antibodies trick the immune system into accepting it.
Rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin ATG works by reducing T-lymphocytes, a key component of the immune system.
For the first time scientists have used rabbits' anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) for stem cell transplantation. It is usually used in organ transplantation to prevent patients' immune systems from rejecting transplanted tissue. It is also used to treat aplastic anemia, a condition where the bone marrow does not create enough new cells.
"Our study results should serve as a guide for designing future clinical trials using ATG to improve outcomes in unrelated donor stem cell transplants," says Toor.
"Our findings are encouraging. If many of the risks commonly associated with unrelated donor stem cell transplants are reduced, transplantation becomes an option for more patients," he concluded.


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CASSELBERRY — Mike Rich was very much the man of manners in a roomful of polite girls as he folded his paper napkin neatly, set his proper place with plastic cutlery and cups and approached his chair gracefully, from a slight angle. He was very very about the whole thing even though attending an etiquette class wasn't his idea.
''My mom mostly made me,'' said the earnest 10-year-old whose ambition is to be a chauffeur. Mike, who sported wire frame glasses, dark knee socks and khaki shorts, was among the 14 girls and two boys who attended the first of four sessions in an etiquette and modeling course Monday at Casselberry Elementary School.