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I guess that you have already seen the great demo "Logon's run – 3D meets the aging bits" by Overflow / Logon System, which was released on the Revision 2017 demoparty in Saarbrücken / Germany. Norecess worked together with Overflow and released a "Making of" on his site in which all the techniques, which were used in the demo, are explained and how they were evolved until they reached the final state. Be sure to read it, because it is a great way to understand how this great demo works and maybe you get an idea for your next production :-). You can find the article on Norecess homepage.
The Revision 2017 is over and I have already uploaded my recorded videos of the Amstrad CPC demo / intro entries in the previous news postings. Finally, the official results are only now and the downloads of Overflows and Krustys demos are still missing, but you can find them – as always – at the end of this news or on Pouet:
- Logon's run – 3D meets the aging bits oldskool demo by Overflow, Tom&Jerry / Logon System
- Wunderbar 4k intro by Krusty, Targhan, voxfreax / Benediction & Arkos
And finally the results of the Revision. I have highlighted the entries by Amstrad CPC sceners:
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Wunderbar by Krusty / Benediction & Arkos is a 4k Intro that was released on the Revision 2017 demoscene party in Saarbrücken / Germany. It was ranked on the 4th place in the 4k Intro compo.
|Krusty, Targhan, voxfreax
|Amstrad CPC
|April 18, 2017
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Logons Run - 3d Meets The Aging Bits by Overflow / Logon System is a Oldskool Demo that was released on the Revision 2017 demoscene party in Saarbrücken / Germany. It was ranked on the 2nd place in the Oldskool Demo compo.
|Overflow, Tom&Jerry
|Amstrad CPC
|April 18, 2017
4Sceners and Bitfellas published their favourite demoscene productions for the year 2016 and it is great to see three Amstrad CPC productions in their list, too. Ranked on 3rd place in the category "Best Music Disc" you will find the CPC vs. Virgill music disc by Tristar and Red Sector (TRSI). The other two productions can be found in the "Best Scene Game". The awesome Pinball Dreams preview by the Batman Group ranked on the 2nd place (hey, this is just preview – what can we expect from the final product :-)) and ranked on the 7th place you will find the game Outlaws by RetroBytes which won the CPCRetroDev 2016 competition. You can have a look the complete results on the 4Sceners website (german).
It is always great to see Amstrad CPC productions mentioned in demoscene :-).
Devilmarkus and ed209 / Slipstream released their new musicdisc "Remember the 80's" on the Sundown 2016 demoscene party. As you might have already guessed, it features well-known music from the 80's on the Amstrad CPC. They also participated in the wild demo competition and ranked 2nd.
You can download the musicdisc from Pouet.net (don't forget to vote :-)).
TRSI released a new musicdisc for the Amstrad CPC on the Nordlicht demoscene party. The disc features 7 tunes by Virgill, which you can select in a nice menu. It was also ranked 1st in the wild competition of the Nordlicht party. You can download the musicdisc at the end of this posting or from Pouet.net (don't forget to vote :-)) and if you don't want to listen to the tunes on the real machine or an emulator, you can listen to them on Soundcloud.
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CPC vs Virgill musicdisc by Tristar & Red Sector Inc.. It features 7 tunes by Virgill and ranked 1st at the Nordlicht demoscene party.
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FastKnockout »
Posted 9/24/10 8:39:00PM
Mixed martial arts (MMA) fans may be enamored with the rise of Ronda Rousey, but they don't appear to be rushing to the box office to watch her fight Liz Carmouche, according to early ticket sales.
Khaos »
Posted 6/27/07 8:20:00PM
Those ticket sales are brutal.
george112 »
Posted 1/24/07 7:00:00PM
Wtf? Dan and lyoto do their part??
Um they aren't the main event. Rousey is.
Goatenstein »
Posted 4/27/12 11:03:00AM
I hope nobody is shocked by this. I'm all for WMMA but not main eventing UFC PPVs.
Theoutlaw08 »
Posted 3/23/11 3:38:00PM
I dont see the big deal. The comain event is Hendo and Machida. The card is decent enough where sales should still be up. Plus who ever goes will get to see Rousey finish her fight with the armbar. Im sure the sales will go up.
TeamDEY »
Posted 2/1/11 3:41:00PM
agreed.. the card is pretty good but Rousey should not be the main event.
bjj1605 »
Posted 10/11/07 4:18:00PM
Can't have women headlining....
cowcatcher »
Posted 1/16/07 1:02:00AM
I'm sure the UFC is unhappy with the ticket sales so far, but it can't be totally unexpected. This is the first time they're having women headline an event, and of course there are going to be some people out there that aren't interested because they're women, but if they put on a good show, and the highlights get shown on various outlets, it could make future events featuring the ladies easier to sell. I think the jury will be out on whether they can sell tickets for at least a year or two.
machodog76 »
Posted 6/26/07 10:37:00PM
With all the fighters pulling out of events recently I wouldn't buy a tickket that far out either. Who knows what you're actualy paying for?
pmoney »
Posted 10/13/10 10:40:00PM
This will probably be the closest UFC event to me all year, but I don't see myself going. Machida-Hendo will be epic. Faber-Menjivar should be solid too. Its not a terrible card, there are some good style matchups, but I just don't find it compelling for some reason.
I think Rousey-Carmouche would be one of the main reasons I would like to go though. First women's fight in UFC, first women's title fight.... history is cool.
MuayThaiGeek13 »
Posted 12/28/11 3:18:00PM
I hope this is insight on the future of women headlining the most ferociously elite pool of fighters on the planet.
It doesn't seem that even the hard-cores care much about seeing women fight. I've never been fond of it. I feel like fans are being pressured into watching WMMA.
I like football but that doesn't mean i should have to watch women play football to. They simply aren't good. not even close.
shaneTpain »
Posted 7/30/11 2:57:00PM
Fuck I'd go!
crushedbacon »
Posted 6/11/07 6:31:00PM
I don't care what anybody says... Henderson vs Machida as a 5 Round main event is what should have happened, alongside a decent co main event.... and Rousey maybe opening the PPV card...
"But she's a champion and they should be a main event...."
Saying that, or believing it has any merit is some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
DrivenDavies15 »
Posted 8/10/11 1:23:00AM
This is too bad but hopefully with the event a month and a half away still people will still buy in. I wish I lived near there, I would go with a couple buddies seeing as I had so much fun at FOX 5 lol. I'll probs buy it on PPV because Rousey and Carmouche are both known for exciting fights and with a stellar card behind them I don't see why not.
Bubbles »
Posted 10/20/09 3:33:00PM
That's the main reason i went to UFC 152 to watch the first ever flyweight title fight
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WARD councillors have welcomed proposals to reallocate unspent money to help benefit residents and hope to see it used to create new apprenticeships.
It comes after Putting Hartlepool First councillor David Riddle, who represents the Hart Ward, called for council chiefs to divide £10,500 of unused funding to the benefit of residents.
Each councillor in Hartlepool is given a ward budget of around £5,000 to spend on worthy causes but former independent councillor Keith Fisher, who lost the Hart ward seat to Coun Riddle, hadn't spent any of his allocation in the last two financial years.
That led Coun Riddle to call for the £10,500 to be equally divided between himself and Hart ward colleagues, Paul Beck and Jean Robinson, of Labour.
Coun Riddle had initially proposed a motion with the aim of it being discussed by full council but it is now set to go to the finance and policy committee in June.
Council leader Christopher Akers-Belcher has supported the principle that Hart residents should not be disadvantaged from the benefits of the ward member budgets not used by a former councillor.
Now Coun Beck and Coun Robinson have welcomed Coun Akers-Belcher's support in principle to re-allocate the unspent money and they want to see the money used to create two new apprentice posts.
Coun Beck said: "It's excellent for the Hart Ward residents to receive this support from the council to ensure that they are not disadvantaged as a result of the previous underspends in the Hart ward member budgets."
Both Coun Beck and Coun Robinson have told the Mail they would like to see the money used to benefit the ward as a whole and will therefore be suggesting to the council's finance and policy committee that the money could be used to fund a further two environmental apprenticeships.
They say this would help to address concerns expressed about litter and the need to maintain a "cleaner, greener environment", while it would also create two employment opportunities.
Coun Robinson added: "It is imperative that we respond to the needs of our residents and I sincerely hope that the council's finance and policy committee will support the initiative, which will complement the ongoing work to tackle and prevent environmental crime."
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Beyoncé has her heart set on winning an Oscar. According to The Sun, she plans on taking matters into her own hands by writing and starring in a film about Saartjie Baartman, a South African woman who was exploited in London freak shows against her will during the late 1700s and nicknamed Hottentot Venus because of her large bottom. Eventually, Saartjie became famous and has since become a symbol of the abuse shown towards black women's bodies throughout history.
"Beyoncé is desperate to be taken seriously as an actress," an undisclosed source apparently told the paper. "Even though she's had a string of well-received movies, she still feels her breakthrough role is yet to come. She now wants to write a screenplay that gains her respect – and hopefully awards – from the film industry, and thinks Saartjie's story could be her ticket."
While she managed to score a Golden Globe nomination for her 2006 role as Deena in Dreamgirls, we all know there's no such thing as 'enough' when it comes to Bey so it's safe to say she won't stop until she has that Oscar in hand.
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There needs to be. It is flat out dangerous.
There needs to be. It is flat out dangerous.
No one seemed to mind when Matt Hoover did the same thing...it is strategy and people will get voted off. Think about it, Ryan, season 1 winner did the same with the water, dehydrating himself to win the moolah and now has ONLY MAINTAINED A LOSS OF 30 lbs...30 how much does that stink? I say croen them the biggest loser then let them know at a point sometime in the next 24 months they will be weighed again...if they maintain within 10 percent they get the cash.
to FORT, happycritter! What a great idea!
This guy is a real piece of crap. I have no sympathy for Ryan for getting the boot because he went along with the waterloading. If you lay down with dogs, you'll wake up with fleas Ryan. Neil didn't have to vote for him. Ryan was gone no matter how Neil and Nicole voted and they were pretty sure of it. It served no purpose other than to kick him while he's down.
This guy is a schmuk , he didn't seem to have a problem smiling and laughing it up when he actively strive to change the course of the game with waterloading with the intent to vote out the biggest threat. Last night no one tried to get Kae under the yellow line, it just happened and it was the smartest move to vote her out. He had no right to act all high and mighty. I will miss Kae she was in a class all her own.
Neil changed his ways and stopped scheming along party lines. Once he stopped, the black team started scheming and instead of eliminating people who deserved to go they started targeting red and blue team member.
Neil is now going gung ho playing the game the best way, trying to lose as much weight as possible each and every week. Right now he's playing wth as much integrity as anyone else.
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In honour of the greatest fighter to ever come out of Novojoa Mexico... Luis Ramon "Yori Boy" Campas, former junior middleweight champion of the world.
Integrity? Neil? . Neil has been trying to BS his way all along. He was more overt when he had numbers to back it up but now that there is nothing he CAN do to change the vote-he's in the minority-he's blowing sunshine up people's butts and hope they are dumb enough to believe the crock of crap he is shoveling. He didn't become gung ho until the second after he realized he lost the power of having majority voting block. Professor windbag is trying to save his own butt with phony talk
He does have as much intergrity as anyone else. They all play(ed) the shirt color game.
Nobody who voted out Kae can claim to have the moral highground.
In honour of the greatest fighter to ever come out of Novojoa Mexico... Luis Ramon "Yori Boy" Campas, former junior middleweight champion of the world.
Kae was in bottom 2 by her own doing for having not lost enough weight. The moral ground is not voting her out, it's about not playing dirty in order to get her under the bottom line so they could vote her out the way Neil did with Jez's boot. No doubt had they not immediatly made a waterloading rule as a result of his dirty tactics, the slob would have continued on doing it again and again. There are no underhanded tactics left for him to pull. He hasn't had any power or majority votes for awhile
Wrapping a can of trash in pretty paper and a bow doesn't change that it's still trash
Yep, all the people who vote based on shirt color is trash wrapped up with a bow. Well said.
In honour of the greatest fighter to ever come out of Novojoa Mexico... Luis Ramon "Yori Boy" Campas, former junior middleweight champion of the world.


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The largest LS blacklight party on the East Coast returns and its ONE night only as Klymaxxx nation invades the Lancaster Laser Dome. The theme is Beyond Thunderdome. Whips, chains and leather reins. Its all in the theme.
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Tickets are $30 a couple, $15 for single members. All past and current Klymaxxx SOTMs get in free. There are unlimited tickets for couples but only 20 single male tickets are available. Tickets go on sale May 10th 2013.
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Small business center to hold computer workshop
The Small Business Development Center is sponsoring a workshop about creating professional Web sites today. The instructor is David Edward Smith of Borealis Designs. The class runs from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Economic Development District, Mile 14.5 of the Kenai Spur Highway. Topics will include target marketing, defining goals, browser capability and search engine placement. The workshop is free. For reservations, call 283-3335.
The fourth annual Brain Awareness Walk will be held Saturday in Kenai. Beginning at 11 a.m. at Kenai Central High School, the walk goes through town and ends at the park strip near the community garden. The walk will be followed by a barbecue. All participants will receive a certificate of appreciation. For more information or to register, call 283-5711.
Tour of historic Kasilof cabin scheduled
Catherine Cassidy of the Kasilof Historic Society will lead a guided tour of the Victor Holm cabin Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The cost is $10 per person and $20 for a family. All proceeds go toward restoration and maintenance of this historic site. For more information or to register for the tour, call Kachemak Heritage Land Trust at 260-1999.
Swimmers, divers to hold garage sale
The Kenai Central High School swim and dive team will hold a garage sale Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 204 Norman St. in Kenai. The money earned will be used to complete the electronic scoreboard at the pool. For more information, call 283-8008.
Summer reading program begins Saturday
The Soldotna Public Library is sponsoring a summer reading program titled "Take a Library Safari." The free program is open to readers in kindergarten through sixth grade and runs from Saturday through July 22. Preschoolers and nonreaders are encouraged to join the companion "Read to Me" club that starts June 7.
For more information, stop by the library or call 262-4227.
Swimming lessons available
The Soldotna High School swimming pool is now taking registration for its summer swimming lessons. Classes are held Monday through Friday and cost $30 for a set of 10 lessons. Classes start June 5, 19 and July 3. Because of limited class space, preregistration is recommended. For more information, call 262-7419.
Healthy Communities meeting planned
The Healthy Communities/Healthy People Steering Committee's regular meeting will be held June 8 at Bridges, 145 Kasilof St. in Soldotna, at 1:30 p.m. For more information, call Lisa Parker at 262-1831.
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March 27, 2014
By Oliver Patton
The clock has started for comments on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's proposed electronic log mandate.
The proposal will be published in the Federal Register Friday March 28, starting a two-month period when the agency will accept comments.
At the core of the 256-page proposal is the requirement that interstate drivers who fill out paper logs must eventually switch to electronic logs.
It also covers technical standards for the electronic logging devices (ELDs) and the supporting documents that regulators need to confirm compliance. And it sets requirements to ensure that electronic logs are not used to harass drivers.
After the agency reviews the comments and publishes a final rule, perhaps later this year, carriers will have two years to comply. Carriers that already have recording devices that meet current specifications would have an additional two years to bring their devices into compliance with the new specifications.
The comments will spell out the detailed reactions of the various constituents.
While larger trucking companies generally support ELDs, they may have concerns about some of the technical details, the supporting documents requirements or the agency's approach to grandfathering devices already in use.
Owner-operators have long opposed ELDs and may not be satisfied by the agency's approach to harassment prevention.
I will sell my truck and trailer if Electronic Logs are forced on me! So tired of stupid Government laws being shoved up my ass by Congress and senate who are a waste of human beings
I think its a invasion of privacy we all ready went through the phone taps with the FBI and other countries that they taped with electronic logs they know where your at can check on your hours to use forced dispatch and i work with electronic logs your on your sleeper time yet they send messages all hours even when your sleeping it like texting you have to go back and forth with the dispatcher because some times your or they dont understand what there trying to tell you where a phone call once would of worked and they set them up where you cant turn them off or the volume down it interrupt your sleep time and i have gotten some rude messages because i didn't have the hour on the log to do what they asked where when i had to drive i had to deal with the quail com on my sleeper time i think quail com stands to make a big profit off this America all ready has a shortage of jobs what about the dot officers that run the scales and how many drivers will we louse with a shortage of drivers as is and constly having to find a place to pull over to read or send messages a lot of stats have know ramp parking are we the driver going to be exempt from that law because the company expecting answer right away or your written up by the company as a service failure and pulling to the side of a busy interstate is a safety issue having to pull into hevy traffic in a slow moving semi those are just a few things a driver has to deal with as far as i know we all want to comply with the guide lines dot has set for us but having our privacy rights invaded and put in a dangerous situation is not a good idea
If and when all these dumb rules go thru I will sell my truck and retire. I've been an o.o. for 37 yrs with none of these rules and everything was just fine til we got all these no-nothing people that have never been in a truck. It is just another money making idea to fatten federal and state employees pockets.
17 years otr. Own my truck. So far . Hos & Elogs have cost me just over 12,000 per year in lost revenue. Why are we the target for everything? I can not afford anymore electronic gadgets for this truck. Will have to park it & find a better paying job. Elogs are the most stressful thing ever in trucking!!! Hos. 30 min break ! Are we back in high school? The restart is a joke!! Who wants to head into Chicago or ny city after 5:00 am ???
17 yrs O/O. No accidents. Let's see , 14 hr rule gaveme a 20% cut in pay . ELOGS 2 years ago gave me another 10% cut in pay. H.O.S. change in july/ 2013 . Is costing me $200. Per week. Now you want to raise my truck insurance 40/50% . Do the math. 30 MIN BREAK, very childish ! The restart is the worse joke of all!!!! With ELOGS I am held prisoner!!! At a Truck stop!!!!. FMCSA SCARES ME TO DEATH!!!!. looking for another country to relocate to. This is not America Anymore.
Follow the money... It is so un-American for the fmcsa to 100% favor big business and not the small trucking companies and carriers, plus millions of O.O. who actually keep America supplied. I DEMAND that 85% of all employees/members of the fmcsa be from small trucking companies, O.O. and carriers,, and 15% from big wealthy trucking companies. You know the large trucking companies I'm referring to,, the ones that can influence the US Congress and the US Senate... Is this freedom of speech falling upon deaf ears ? I think not .
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It's a truism in the trade that the negotiation only begins when your bargaining partner says no. I cannot stress this point, particularly for women, enough.
The word no is not the end of the bargaining session. The word no signals that you've just begun.
Here are two of the best ways to reach agreement after your bargaining partner says no.
Ask Diagnostic Questions
If you adequately prepared for your negotiation, you've already learned a lot about your bargaining partner's interests - the hopes, fears, dreams, desires, preferences, proclivities, obstacles, preferences, priorities and values that drive him or keep him from saying "yes." You've learned those interests by asking wide-open "who, what, where, why, when and how" questions.
You've reached agreement on 9 of 10 deal points but you keep getting "no" on number 10. You need to close the deal and you're getting panicky. You've already committed resources to it. You might even be suffering from "sunk cost" fallacy - the cognitive bias that keeps us pouring resources in lost causes just because we've already spent so much or lost so much in pursuing our goal in the way we originally planned.
Think quagmire. Think Viet Nam.
When you hit a brick wall, you need to ask those diagnostic questions all over again - but targeted to the impasse.
I have a client who kept hitting that wall on a guarantee. He was taking a huge risk entering into the deal I'd been hired to advise him about. His negotiation partner - a Goliath to his David - kept sending him emails and Letters of Intent that built in hedges against risk on its side but none for him. We tried everything to get the other side to "yes" but the corporate giant was having none of it.
I was reluctant to let him fold even though he'd already put significant resources into the deal.
"Pick up the telephone," I finally said, "and find out what is standing in the way of them agreeing to give you as much protection from failure as they are giving themselves. Is there a hidden principal whose needs aren't being satisfied? Is there an obstacle we don't know about? Is your bargaining partner trying to serve an interest we haven't yet explored. Tell them how much you want the deal and how certain you are it will succeed. Invite them to sit on your side of the table and look at the problem not as a contest but as a mutual problem to solve."
I frankly worried about this all night, fearing that my client was in too weak a bargaining position to obtain adequate protection.
Happily, the next morning brought with it a positive response. The parties had been working off different definitions of the protection my client was seeking. Over the telephone, his bargaining partner, a corporate agent, told him he was putting too much emphasis on the clause we wanted. His principal was willing to provide the protection he needed, just not in the form we'd been asking. My client promptly dropped the deal term we'd been getting a negative response to for weeks and the corporate agent offered a better term than we'd thought to pursue.
Pick up the telephone. Ask open-ended questions. Be willing to concede what you think you want and ask your bargaining partner to brainstorm a solution to your mutual problem. After all, Goliath often wants David as much as David wants Goliath.


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Sometimes life hands out a little happiness and surprise from most unexpected and unsuspected sources. Yesterday I went to a particularly pretty part of Berkshire with my husband to meet a client of his for lunch. I hadn't really asked where we were going, I was very happy to be going out into the countryside with the thought of spending a lovely afternoon out in the sunshine. We were a little early, and as the surrounding scenery was so gorgeous we decided to have a little tour down the lanes and chose a route at random to explore. There were so many pretty Georgian houses in the area and such quaint cottages, I began to think I'd stepped back in time and wondered if I should meet with one of Jane's characters or even Jane herself. Just as I was admiring everything around we came across a signpost marked with four directions. One of the posts pointed to the direction of Kintbury, which immediately struck a chord with me. Could this possibly be the same Kintbury where the Fowle family had lived and where Jane and Cassandra had spent much time in their youth? If you remember, Cassandra was engaged to Thomas Fowle after he graduated from Oxford University. Jane and Cassandra's father, George Austen, took in Tom and his brother Fulwar to prepare them for university so Cassandra and Tom would most likely have met for the first time at Steventon Rectory. Jane's brother James was a particular friend to all four Fowle brothers whose home was the vicarage in Kintbury. Eventually, Cassandra and Tom fell in love and were to be married, but they were forced to wait because of a lack of money. He sailed as a military chaplain with a relative, Lord Craven, to the West Indies, in an attempt to increase his fortunes, but very sadly died of yellow fever in San Domingo in 1796. Cassandra, it seemed, never recovered completely as she didn't consider marriage again. Jane's references to 'long engagements' in Persuasion were surely inspired by Cassandra and Tom's predicament.
It was with a mixture of emotions that I had a quick look round the village as I thought of both happy and sad times that Jane and Cassandra must have spent there. I am so glad to have been to take a look. Coming across Kintbury like that out of the blue was a wonderful serendipitous moment!


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Four people, including a police inspector, were injured on Friday�in�a communal clash in Ahmedabad.
A scooter was also torched when members of two communities clashed in the Shah Alam area of the city. The police said sharp-edged weapons were used.
Preliminary reports indicated the violence in communally sensitive area was sparked by an altercation between members of the two communities in the wee hours
Two persons were injured when they were attacked with sharp-edged weapons, the police said. The remaining two, including the inspector, were wounded in heavy stone throwing by members of the two communities, they added
The inspector was discharged after first aid, while the rest were admitted to different hospitals.
The situation was totally under control and vehicles were plying as usual in the area, the police said.
They said the exact cause of violence would be known only after recording statements of the injured.
On November 2, three people were killed and 40 injured in communal clashes in Virangam town, some 70 kms from here, prompting imposition of curfew on the city.
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Perez K's 12, Mets Take NL East LeadJuly 24, 2008
Oliver Perez: big game pitcher? I think so.
The Mets' southpaw continued his dominance of the Phillies on Thursday afternoon in a game that would decide the leader of the NL East. Perez went 7.2 innings allowing just six hits, and the only Phillies run came on a Jayson Werth solo homer. Walks have been Perez's weakness this year; however, today he walked just one batter and it was an intentional walk to Pat Burrell.
Perez struggled a bit in the eighth and was removed by Jerry Manuel with two outs, the bases loaded and the game tied at one. Aaron Heilman got Jayson Werth to fly out to end the threat.
Perez struck out twelve Phillies, including stars Chase Utley and Ryan Howard three times each. Perez now has a 0.44 ERA in three starts against Philadelphia this season.
Unfortunately for Oliver, the Mets didn't do much scoring of their own until he left the game and he was stuck with a no-decision.
Jamie Moyer pitched well for the Phillies allowing just one run in seven innings of work. The run came in the third inning when David Wright hit a single to left to drive in Jose Reyes and collect his team-leading 78th RBI of the season.
The key inning in the game was the eighth. The Phillies chased Perez from the game and loaded the bases, but couldn't come up with a hit off reliever Aaron Heilman. Heilman has a nice 2.55 ERA since June 1.
Phillies reliever J.C. Romero, who had been particularly effective against the Mets (2.25 career ERA vs. NYM), was brought on to pitch the bottom half of the eighth.
The Mets' third catcher, Robinson Cancel, came up with a pinch hit single. Jose Reyes then laid down a sacrifice bunt to get the tying run into scoring position. After Endy Chavez lined out back to Romero, David Wright was intentionally walked.
Like he has for the last month, Carlos Delgado came through again for the Mets. He lined a double into the left field corner and both Cancel and Wright scored. The Mets' dugout erupted with excitement as Wright pumped his fist after sliding home.
Delgado is hitting .397 with five homers and 15 RBI in the month of July.
Billy Wagner came on in the ninth and picked up the save for the second straight game to send the Mets into sole possession of first place in the NL East.
These last two wins have been huge for the Mets after Tuesday night's meltdown in the ninth inning. A series win at home this weekend against the Cardinals is mandatory to keep moving in the right direction.
The Phillies will head home to take on the division rival Braves. Tomorrow, Kyle Kendrick (8-4, 4.87 ERA) will face Atlanta's Jair Jurrjens (9-5, 3.22).
The Cardinals come to Shea to face the Mets in a battle of NL playoff contenders. Mike Pelfrey (8-6, 3.81) will take the hill for the Mets. The 6'7" Pelfrey baffled the Redbirds earlier this year when he allowed just one run in seven innings. Pelfrey is 6-0 with a 2.70 ERA in ten starts dating back to June 5.
St. Louis will send out rookie Mitchell Boggs (3-1, 6.59). In the same game that Pelfrey pitched well, Boggs was hammered by the Mets to the tune of 11 runs in six innings.
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Hippity hoppity hobosBy Susan Aiello • Published: May 3rd, 2011
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You probably don't pick up hitchhikers, but that is exactly how two Cuban frogs moved into Florida and the southern United States.
Scientists believe that thousands of years ago, the greenhouse frog and the Cuban tree frog hitched a ride to the Florida Keys and other Caribbean islands. They couldn't swim the distance in deadly salt water, so the first frogs likely stowed away on floating vegetation.
The Keys provided the visitors with an inviting home, and over time, the two species adapted to life in more temperate climates. As transportation and commerce boomed in the mid twentieth century, these hopping hitchers moved north.
Today, the Cuban tree frog is found throughout coastal areas of southern Florida, and the greenhouse frog has established colonies as far north as Alabama. Not bad for a couple of hippity hoppity hobos.


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Ava and I hit the grocery store today (along with tons of other folks) to do our Thanksgiving meal shopping. I figured a Monday afternoon wouldn't be so crowded, but it seems I was wrong. The store was full of people for Miss Ava to converse with. I think she said "hi" to something like 27 people. 😉 Most replied, though some did not. Some replied to the first few greetings, but not to the 10 more that followed. 😉 What can I say – she's a very friendly girl. (Where does she get *that* from??) :oP
Her latest saying is "oh no!" which Jody taught her on Saturday to go along with "uh oh" (an old stand-by, of course). She always says "Wow!" and has gotten pretty good about repeating a lot of things we say. (Note to self: watch your mouth.)
Back to Thanksgiving…
We are having a quiet Thanksgiving dinner at home this year – just the three of us – though from the amount of food I bought today, you'd think we were having a full house. I figured we can have turkey leftovers for a while.
I thought about having a vegetarian Thanksgiving (I've done it in years past) and getting a tofurky, but decided to go the traditional route. My past vegetarian Thanksgivings have always consisted solely of side dishes, so I've not yet had the pleasure of eating a tofurky. Anyone had any experience with one? How are they?
We have a lot to be thankful for this year. Our health leads the list, with happiness following closely behind. Other things I'm thankful for are a roof over my head, heat and electricity, food, clothes, family and friends. What would I do without family and good friends?
I'm kind of bummed that we won't be having a big family get-together for the holidays this year, especially in light of some news we received regarding my father-in-law's health (he was diagnosed with emphysema). Hopefully we will get to drive down to Oklahoma City to see my in-laws in February for Jody's birthday.
As for my side of the family, my sister is flying in to see us in January (yay!) and then perhaps Ava and I (at the least) will travel to MI in the spring or summer to visit my folks if they don't come out here.
That's all for now. In case I don't write again this week, I hope everyone has a very happy Thanksgiving (and safe travels for those who will be on the roads or in the air)! 🙂


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1/4 tsp. Dried oregano
1/4 tsp. Sea salt
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Take a look at the below list of Top 10 Most Famous Staten Island Film Locations. Staten Island certainly has its share of sites for the visitor who wants to experience a little bit of everything. Many films feature Manhattan as their preferred film location, but a number of filmmakers have preferred Staten Island as their location. Film producers who have chosen to use Staten Island range from small, independent firms, to major motion picture production companies. The list of companies that use some portion of Staten Island is over 300 locations, but the following list will only share the top 10 locations. Be sure to check out these top 10 most famous Staten Island film locations when you are in the area.
List of Top 10 Most Famous Staten Island Film Locations
10. The Godfather
If you are old enough to remember this 1972 classic, you know that Staten Island set the stage for this classic mob movie. Later, because of this choice, Staten Island would be stereotyped as the favorite location for other mob movies in the future. Emerson Hill and the famous Godfather House at 110 Longfellow Ave. are some of the locations that you will want to visit while you are in the area.
9. Saturday Night Fever
The 1977 classic starring John Travolta features the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. The bridge is located where the I-278 crosses the New York Bay to Staten Island. Saturday Night Fever also use several other Staten Island locations, Including the Manero home at 221 79th street and several locations in Bay Ridge. In the film, the bridge represents the way to a better life. When Tony symbolically crosses the bridge, he is leaving behind his old life and the past.
8. War of the Worlds
If many of the scenes in the 2005 remake of War of the Worlds look familiar, it's because Steven Spielberg could not resist shooting in this iconic neighborhood. It starred the Korean War Veterans Parkway that was used by Tom Cruise to escape in the height of the alien invasion. However, it might not look the same, with all of the cars and buildings crashing around. The film featured the destruction of the Bayonne Bridge, but don't worry, no actual bridges were harmed in the making of this film. The film crew traveled quite a bit to make this classic. They found themselves in locations from New Jersey to New York, Connecticut, Virginia, and California.
7. Mr. Popper's Penguins
Staten Island might be the last place you would expect to find Mr. Popper's Penguins, but in 2011 Jim Carey took a trip to the Staten Island Zoo with his famous horde of penguins. The zoo was not actually portrayed as the Staten Island zoo, but was a double for a fictional New York Zoo in a few scenes. Staten Island was only featured in a few scenes, but you will certainly recognize many iconic New York locations as well.
6. The Avengers
You might have to look quick to see the Staten Island footage in the Avengers. The footage was shot for the movie, but it was only there for a few seconds. In the scene Iron Man chases a nuclear missile around the unmistakable image of the Verrazano Bridge. Think of that the next time you cross the bridge because you are now in the Marvel Universe.
5. How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days featured three Staten Island locations. In this 2003 romantic comedy, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson can be seen on the South Beach Boardwalk, Buono Beach, and of course on the Staten Island ferry. You can also see the Staten Island ferry in the official trailer for this movie. Much of the film was spent chasing Kate Hudson around Manhattan, but one cannot miss these famous Staten Island views.
4. Big Daddy
Adam Sandler's Big Daddy ended with scenes that took place at the Hooters on Staten Island. It was one of the most memorable birthday scenes in history. Consequently, the Hooters was located at the corner of Clover Road and Highland Boulevard but it is now a Walgreens. Even though this famous Hooters is no longer there, you can still think of that scene and the advertising exposure that Hooters received for taking part in that famous scene.
3. The Bourne Legacy
Dr. Marta Shearing's house were used in the 2012 movie, The Bourne Legacy. The house used in the film was not the original one that was selected for the film, but the dilapidated structure was not considered to be safe for shooting. All of the interior scenes were shot on a green screen stage and then edited later. The basement of the house is actually a basement in a different house. The exterior of the house had to be built out for the outside shots. This is a technique that is often used in filmmaking, where one house is represented by several different physical locations that are spliced together to provide a certain impression. In this case, you might recognize the façade of the house, but everything else was just moviemaking magic.
2. Easy Money
New Springville was used as the filming location for Easy Money, along with other locations around Staten Island. The film used a semi-attached house that was located on McVeigh Avenue. The Alfonzo Pastry Shoppe on Victory Boulevard was used in the scene where Nikki and Monty were rushing to get the cake from the bakery. In the crash scene when the cake flies through the window, the background is on Forest Avenue. You can celebrate the movie every time you get a pastry from this famous pastry shop. Alfonzo's bakery is located at 960 Manor Rd. It features Italian, French, and German specialties. As of 2015, it celebrated its 45th year in business. This pastry shop is worth the road trip, but be sure to watch the film beforehand and see if you can spot many of the sites in the film.
1. Staten Island Summer
The number one position for Staten Island filming locations is Staten Island Summer, a 2015 movie about a Staten Island resident's last summer or college. There are a number of Staten Island locations in the film, and a number of references to Staten Island locations in the trailer. Of course, one would expect that considering the name. The Great Kills Swim Club was the setting for this film.
These are the Top 10 Most Famous Staten Island Film Locations. There you have it, the top 10 films that chose Staten Island as a location. Sometimes iconic Staten Island locations appear as the main topic, and at other times they merely make a cameo appearance. If you stroll down the streets of Staten Island, you will see why it is a favorite among filmmakers, and you just might fall in love with it as much as they did. Staten Island has many things to offer the tourist and to those who choose to live there for their entire lives. For fun, you could see how many of the famous movie scenes you can reenact with your friends. Staten Island has many great locations for photographers and the self-proclaimed selfie enthusiast. Manhattan may be bigger, but Staten Island holds its own when it comes to scenery and ambience. Staten Island proves that it's not how much you have, but how you use it. See you on the big screen.


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OK, to continue... The SL65 is AMAZINGLY HEAVY and will never even in it's most tricked out state handle close to the current Ferrari's. As for the Lambo's, a good buddy has a 2004.5 Merc, unbeleivable performance, but I realized after he bought it he didn't, in my mind, have the funds to truly own that car. To me, you must be able to pay someone to flatbed it to the track of your choice, where no insurance will cover you, and IF you put it into a wall and crack the tub, get out and say 'Oh well' and move on. Until I have that kind of money I doubt I'd go the Lambo route. The R8 is OK, but wait for next year when the Gallardo motor comes out in it. As for me, I'll keep my 2002 CLK 55 Cab for now.
For speakers, I too heard the WP 8's in several rooms @ HE2007, though a great speaker, I really only adored them in the Lamm room... Now the Nagra Verity room was exceptional though the motor noise of the Nagra CD player opening and closing was pathetic but the sound truly rivaled the best analog rigs I've heard. If you want to go for the cheap, the DCM room was showing a system of their speakers and Jolida tube anp and CD player that for the sub $3K price complete was truly the bargain leader of the show. While a little soft in the bass and not the best in resolution, they offered smooth highs and rich mids for less than the cost of some interconnects!!
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Helen Clark: Annual Ministerial Meeting of the Group of 77 and ChinaSep 28, 2012
Remarks byUNDP Administrator, Helen Clark
on the occasion of the Annual Ministerial Meeting of the Group of 77 and China
Friday, 28 September 2012
United Nations Headquarters, New York
Thank you for inviting me to address this Annual Ministerial Meeting of the Group of 77 and China. UNDP has enjoyed a long and positive relationship with the Group, and your support is essential for the success of our work around the world.
Today's meeting is taking place in the context of a number of important multilateral processes including the high level meetings associated with the General Assembly this week. Many of these affect the future course of development co-operation, and are of great importance to this Group and to the UN development system.
At Rio+20 in June, Member States unanimously agreed that sustainable development is the only viable path for development.
The conference's outcome document highlighted how environmental protection and economic and social development are linked. It emphasised the social – or people-centered - dimension of sustainable development which is so important to human development and poverty eradication.
At Rio+20, Member States agreed to launch a process for establishing sustainable development goals. The discussion on this is occurring as attention turns to how the global development agenda beyond 2015 should be refreshed.
The Millennium Development Goals, launched in 2000, have mobilised support for development, bringing diverse actors together around common objectives, and guiding development frameworks and national budgets to adopt people-centered policies.
For the post-2015 development agenda to succeed in the same way, it too will need to set targets against which progress can be measured, and be easy to communicate.
Goals and targets will need to be established across the economic, social, and environmental strands of sustainable development. Within that, the unfinished business of the MDGs should be prioritized. For example, the 2015 target for MDG1 aimed to halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty. The success in reaching that target – which is estimated to have been achieved at the global level by 2010 – suggests that eradication of extreme poverty is indeed possible.
Meanwhile, it is important to keep momentum on the MDG goals and targets we presently have. With three years to go until 2015, a lot can be achieved. UNDP has been instrumental in launching the MDG Acceleration Framework, which is supporting countries to focus on the specific actions required to achieve the Goals.
Shortly, negotiations will commence in the General Assembly on the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR) resolution. In the UN development system, we take this member state process very seriously, as it sets the framework for our operations over the next four years.
In today's challenging global environment, an effective and results-oriented UN development system, responsive to country priorities and needs, is more important than ever.
The UN development system's universal presence, legitimacy, political neutrality, and convening power give us unique strengths in supporting development in diverse contexts.
We hope that the QCPR will give us the mandate, guidance, and support we need to continue to play our distinctive role, and support us to become even more coherent, effective, and responsive to national needs.
The design of the post-2015 development agenda and the negotiations on the QCPR occur in a very challenging environment. That has impacted on growth and development in developing countries, and it is impacting on resource mobilisation for development assistance, including on the core budgets of UN agencies, funds, and programmes.
Meanwhile the scale of South-South co-operation is steadily growing, and contributing to development around the world.
21st century development is very much about the exchange of ideas, knowledge, innovation, and best practice. South-South co-operation plays a big role in this, and linking with it and sharing experiences is very much part of UNDP's work. The strategic partnerships we are forming with a number of emerging economies are important in this regard.
UNDP is also pleased to continue hosting the now renamed UN Office for South-South Co-operation, which for more than three decades has played an important role in advancing South-South Co-operation.
Let me conclude by emphasizing again the great importance UNDP attaches to its good relations with the Group of 77 and China.
We are grateful for your continued support for our work, and wish the Group a fruitful 67th Session of the General Assembly.


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UTStarcom IPTV Contract With Bureau of Radio and Television in Santai County, Sichuan ProvinceWednesday, November 4th, 2009
Deployment in Sichuan Province to Aid Earthquake Recovery; Provide Interactive Streaming Media and Long-term Multimedia Entertainment Platform
ALAMEDA, Calif. — UTStarcom, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTSI) today announced a new customer deployment with the Bureau of Radio and Television of Santai County, Sichuan Province, a subsidiary of Beijing-based government agency SARFT, to resume their radio and television network capability following last year's traumatic earthquake. The Bureau of Radio and Television of Santai County, Sichuan province is the project contractor.
UTStarcom will help resume radio and television networks in earthquake-stricken areas in Sichuan province via its end-to-end RollingStream® IPTV platform. Phase one of the deployment will cover 20,000 users, providing them with access to delivery channels, such as television and radio, for critical information. Upon completion, users will have access to ongoing rich and colorful TV programs, as well as a broad platform for communication.
"UTStarcom, with our interactive IPTV technology, is the ideal partner to support SARFT and help the local Sichuan province and other regions resume television and radio networks following last year's major earthquake," said Peter Blackmore, UTStarcom's chief executive officer and president. "The IPTV RollingStream® platform will improve the technology and operation levels of Sichuan's radio and television sector by transitioning from a simple, one-way network to a dual high-speed network. In the future, SARFT and UTStarcom could work together to make similar network enhancements in numerous other provinces."
After facilitating the first-response phase of the deployment including an improved technology adaptation, the long-term goal is to provide a benchmark of interactive multimedia services for radio and television content providers to develop their dual, broadband and multiple-services operations. Once completed, the residents of Santai County in the Sichuan province will have access to rich television programming at their fingertips, provided by the RollingStream® platform which is able to simultaneously launch 7,000 video streams.
According to the contract, the deployment is scheduled to start in November 2009. The project will be carried out in every earthquake-hit area in the Sichuan province, though the applied technologies will vary. Some areas will apply the traditional one-way digital TV model, while others will use interactive streaming media technology.
Specifically, UTStarcom's integrated solution will include five sets of Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) TN715 in an urban trunk network to constitute a 10G RPR, satisfying all data services of users. Additionally, five sets of BBS4000 Ethernet passive optical networks (EPON) and local area networks (LAN) will be deployed at the end user side with 1,200 sets of optical network units (ONU) at the first phase.
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The central volcanic belt of Mexico runs east /west starting near Mexico City and meandering west several hundred miles to the volcanoes of Colima. This entire range of rugged mountains has allowed for a fantastic variety of avi-fauna to evolve, in a myriad of micro habitats at varying elevations. The western limits of the volcanic belt offer another component of bird life, that being the southern limit of Pacific Mexico and the Sierra Madre Occidental. The impact of the melding of west Mexico with the volcanic belt is impressive, and makes this area rich with a large number of interesting Mexican endemic birds. Views of the twin volcanoes known as Volcan de Colima (Fuego or fire, often smoking!) and snow-mantled Nevado de Colima (Nieve or snow), reach elevations of 12,500 and 14,235 feet respectively, provide a picturesque backdrop for nearly the entire trip. Here at the volcanoes we will have the opportunity to find somewhere around 300 species of birds including upwards of 40 endemics. Beyond the excellent birding, this area is home to a mind-boggling variety of plants and trees, one of the most diverse regions of all Mexico! We will bird in a number of different habitats but focus more on the lowland thorn forest and the pine / oak woodlands at the higher elevations where most of the endemics are concentrated. Some species include Long-tailed Wood-Partridge, Banded Quail, Balsas Screech-Owl, Bumblebee Hummingbird, Slaty Vireo, Red-breasted Chat, Orange-breasted Bunting, and Black-chested Sparrow.
This tour is an excellent opportunity to experience the diversity and richness on Mexico, both for the serious lister and for anyone new to tropical birding. Birders new to the tropics can expect to see an exciting, but manageable, number of new species (many groups of birds typical of latitudes far to the south are represented, including parrots, trogons, motmots, attilas, tityras, shrike-vireos, flowerpiercers, euphonias, caciques, and brush-finches).
During the trip, we'll stay in a few different kinds of hotels – a comfortable business hotel in Autlan, a mellow seaside hotel in Barra de Navidad, a bigger, nice chain hotel in the capital city of Colima and a beautiful, small colonial hotel in the charming city of Sayula. These locations allow easy access to a complete range of habitats typical of western Mexico, from the arid coastal plain to cool fir forests high in the Sierra Madre.
This trip starts and ends in Guadalajara.
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Looks like we can expect Jadakiss and Styles P to be featured on 50 Cent's upcoming, "Animal Ambition." What were your thoughts on their minor previous beef?
Looks like we can expect Jadakiss and Styles P to be featured on 50 Cent's upcoming, "Animal Ambition." What were your thoughts on their minor previous beef?
50 is desperate. He's squashing beefs for radio play. Oh well let's see how this goes…
50 Know Who He Can Mess Wit And Who He Can't So If You Can't Beat Them It Looks Like 50 Just Joined Them Boys The Lox I Never Looked at as beef I Looked at as a challenge and The Lox Rose To The Occasion Ms. Jackson That Joint Was Crazy!!! I'm Happy To See The East Is On A Comeback and Sticking Together I Know one thing My Mixtapes Will Be On Fire From Here on out Shout To The Lox & 50 Cent!!!
This a good and bad look in my opinion. If he had done this shit years ago it would have mattered. Whether you think its over for the boy or not, the fact that he moving in circles he shitted on previously speaks volumes. Rap is competitive, thats cool, but alienating yourself and your team doesn't work. That's why his career has hit a snag musically.
Jay did it with The Roc in the early days, wasn't fucking with anyone, barely doing features. Just so happens that nigga woke up, not to mention his actual talent carried him through.
Good luck Fif, the nigga can still can rap, his verse with Fat Joe i thought was fiery. Hopefully not everyone perceives this as desperation, even though it definitely looks that way.
If 50 was poppin still, he wouldn't be doin this shit. LOX are genuine, Curtis is pathetic.
….hmmmm…alot of niggaz saying 50 is done, wack, blah, blah, blah……gimme a break….in 2014 its all about product. Major distribution with Jeezy was dope…give it a chance, then say if its wack or not….dont u talk 2 someone u had a petty argument with years ago??? Rap is WWE…..all this shit is munny nigga…..He is beyond rich, u all had his mixtapes, and yes his music goes up and down, but uhhh….respect his shit, b….cuz hes doing great things as a black man with a fuckked up background, getting shot up and blackballed……niggaz iz crazy…..concentrate on your own $$$$$….watch and learn
well im glad he done this I think that animal ambition is going to be the mixtape that bring new York back since he working with the greatest
checkmate was crazy. for 50 to look passed that is gr8 plus they been linkedup when 50 did that big ny concert thing a fewyrs back
gonna be sum fiya
All about that check! Go get this money, NY shit!
c'mon if 50 was desperate he'd would be doing singles with YMCMB Drake Nicki Lil Wayne Future and them niggas everybody go to for a FEATURE
n Kiss n Styles aint the most mainstream relevant artist if you know what i mean
Gunit Dblock been deaded their beef 4/5 years ago… Kiss and 50 did a joint "Dump" awhile ago
Y'all forgot 50 squashed that beef years ago when The Lox performed on Governors Island plus Jadakiss put 50 on that song Dump. I think it's all good.
50 spent years alienating himself and now he'll work with anyone for a little attention. Everything he swore he wouldn't do, he's done. Its reallly enjoyable to watch
50 is the one that's desperate? He could brick albums from now until 2034 and still be richer than 99% of niggas out here. This is good for all parties involved I don't see how this can be seen in a negative light.
It's more than money for 50, he wants to be "that nigga" like when he first dropped an album and plus the sales. He doesn't like being musically irrelevant like most rap artist. So yeah, he is desperate.
co sign with Exec
Good look for New York! Man please. Real talk…. I am a big fan of hip hop and grew up loving the east/New York movement. They gave us fans so much versatility and spawned so many different styles and genres within hip hop. But NY, needs to put some of the old heads to sleep. Let the true underground shine. Maybe let the battle rap figure heads A&R their movement.
To have ever lasting legacy, you have to have mic Skillz? 50 is without Skillz so therefore he needs a gimmick. He cheated his way to get there and now he is cheating to get back there.
Exec a interview where 50 said this because i read 50 saying you only hot and on top concerned he already had that 50 clearly takes rap as a 2nd hobby compared to his movies and investments
people who listen to wacky You Masturbate Children's Minds With Bullshit or and ugly imposter rozy or weak ugly skinny mills and ugly pussy faced wale etc don't have any sense of hip hop music etc so stop hating on 50 Cent he is going a classic joint with Jadakiss and Styles P something you ugly pussy keyboard typers will never do so shut it you clowns until hip hop comes such as AZ LOX etc


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Good morning. The Saratoga Springs City Council will convene starting at 6:40 p.m. Monday (tonight) and not meet on its regular Tuesday date because of Election Day. Finance Commissioner Michele Madigan announced this morning that she will call for a vote on the 2013 budget at tonight's meeting. She appears to have the votes. The budget seeks no new taxes while putting renewed emphasis on public safety. Below is the preliminary agenda for tonight's meeting:
City Council 11/5
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At what point do we realize that the "renewed emphasis on public safety" is a waste of money. Madigan has a proposal to overhaul the Lake Ave fire department in her budget, and Mathiesan is asking for money to fix the roof on top of that. We just $50K to make the floor work. It's time to sell that old building, and cut our loses.
Wilton just got a brand new firehouse for $2.5 mil, out the door. With the money budgeted for repairs, and what the sale of Lake Ave property would bring, we could cover that and pocket the difference. Give the surplus back to the tax payers… where it rightfully belongs.
Build the new firehouse out on Weible Ave, and we maintain a presence on both sides of town, have better access to homes on Saratoga Lake, and remove the nuisance of the fire truck coming and going through our city center for every call. It just makes more sense.
I agree with Paul Kersey. (loved the movies too, Death Wish)
What about the huge increases in benefits to Public Safety? They are not sustainable, and I hope somebody has an answer soon. We cannot afford to keep going in the same direction.
EMS will cost us a fortune.


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The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice by Peter Sloterdijk, translated by Karen Margolis (Columbia, £13.95)
How did intellectual pursuits become unworldly? In these spicily vigorous lectures, Sloterdijk attempts a genealogy of the idea, so natural-seeming to us, that theoretical thinking should be associated with an ascetic retreat from life. The problem starts, he argues, with Plato's description of Socrates' death as the logical culmination of his philosophical practice. After that, despite the occasional heroic dissenter such as Nietzsche, the ideal of the thinking human was mainly that of "a kind of dead person on holiday". (The German title of this book is Suspended Animation in Thought.)
Sloterdijk can be very funny, in an intensely sardonic way, about "quasi-homeopathic philosophers", "loser romanticism", or the notion of intellectual "commitment". "A good part of what we call 'culture'," he snarls, "is a non-chemical 'sedative'." What should we do? Pursue a life that is "neither merely active nor merely contemplative", which Sloterdijk calls the "life of practice". I was ready to stride out into the world, but then my contemplation of Sloterdijk's passing reference to "the phenomenon of involuntary verticality" gently compelled me to become horizontal.
What Will You Do with My Story? by Elizabeth Meakins (Karnac Books, £16.99)
The phenomenon of involuntary horizontality, by contrast, might rear its head if your therapist happens to be in irritable mood: "I began to fantasise about getting her to use the couch," this psychoanalyst author winningly confesses of one session, "so that I could nod off (and repeat her experience of maternal abandonmment) without being noticed." Meakins describes her own various frustrations with patients and aspects of the discipline itself, while emphasising the virtues of a more ecumenical approach that does not fear encroachment by CBT or even poetry. (She has a habit of thinking of nicely apposite lines by Blake or Yeats during a session.)
The theory is interleaved with tableaux about specific patients written for the newspapers: men and women who self-harm, or can't choose, or retreat from life. (Not always into the ecstasy of theoretical contemplation.) We are shown numerous skirmishes in what the author nicely calls "the average neurotic civil war", as well as deeper reflections on issues such as the unconscious, secrecy, or breakdowns. I only wished some kind copy-editor had corrected Meakins's habit of referring to someone "towing the line", or maybe I just need to get out more.
Fifty Shelves of Grey: A Selection of Great Books Erotically Remastered by Vanessa Parody (Constable, £8.99)
The horizontality here is all voluntary: presumably aimed at the Christmas gift-book market, this volume consists of parodic extracts of classic and modern literature with added sex. So the snorting reader is regaled with Henry James ("Lady Pensil is a huge aficionado of the strap-on"), Dumas (the three gay musketeers), Immanuel Kant's "Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Cunnilingus", and so forth. The book is not completely devoid of humour, though the funny bits are not the schoolyboyish shagging jokes (the compulsion to which a literary psychoanalyst would no doubt find interesting) but the passing throwaways of invention, such as a character in The Lord of the Rings being named "Elronhubbard".
Since Fifty Shades of Grey is at least as much a fantasy of wealth as it is a fantasy of sex, it might have been a more interesting exercise to rewrite classics of erotic literature so that they are all about money. You can call it Fifty Shades of Payday, if I get a cut.


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When I first started teaching about 12 years ago I charged for lessons the only way I knew how – per lesson. It soon became apparent that this arrangement would not work for me long-term. Attendance at lessons was too sporadic, bookkeeping was a headache, and my monthly income was unpredictable. Eventually I settled on a monthly lesson fee as the best arrangement for my studio and I have never looked back! It makes everything so much easier this way for both the families and me, and it frees me up to invest my time and energy in teaching and other creative ideas.
However, for those families who are coming from a per-lesson fee background it takes a little while to make the mental adjustment. Sometimes I still get the occasional, "such-and-such a month only has three lessons scheduled, so do we pay less for that month?" I've found that the best way to respond is just to say something along the lines of, "Actually, I don't charge per lesson; it's just a flat monthly rate that covers all the scheduled lessons that month, overhead costs, supplies, etc. It's all wrapped up into the monthly tuition." This helps families see that the money they are paying covers more than just the weekly lesson time, and that I've incorporated all of the fees into that monthly amount.


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You might think of it something like this: See Dick read his hardcover library book. Watch Jane download her novel in audiobook form- or even onto a personal reading device
See Dick and Jane learn libraries are much, much more than stacks and stacks of books on wooden or metal shelves.
Tacoma Public Library will host the Digital Bookmobile on its national tour this week.
The 764-foot, high-tech tractor trailer reading rig will be at the Wheelock Library, 3722 N. 26th St. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday.
The event is free and open to the public, but you need a library card to check out materials. You'll be able to find out to download materials like e-books and audiobooks, according to a news release.
Library cardholders can download digital titles any time, anywhere by visiting this site: http://tacoma.lib.overdrive.com.
Visitors to the bookmobile event can get free library cards, if they meet residency requirements, and learn about library services and events.
The Digital Bookmobile is equipped with broadband Internet-connected PCs, high definition monitors, premium sound systems, and a variety of portable media players.
Interactive learning stations give visitors an opportunity to search media collection, use mobile devices and sample audiobooks and e-books, the news release said.
And this library's always open, giving Dick and Jane lots of time to get there. They may not be in a hurry, but their dog Spot might run along beside them anyway. (As he did in the Dick and Jane reading books.)
There are no late fees or damaged items, either, library spokesman David Domkoski wrote in the news release.
On the library's website, you "can you browse the growing collection of best-selling, new releases, and classic titles, and check out a digital title with a valid library card," the release continued. "Once downloaded, digital titles can be enjoyed on a computer or transferred to supported mobile devices. Many audio titles can also be burned to audio CD."


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Discussion in 'Drum & Bass' started by sdm, Aug 12, 2003.
Just passing the details on - If this fucks up your PC, DNBforum takes no responsibility.
People need to start installing firewalls.
I had this shit last night , appreciate the info man I'll get my PC sorted 2night
this one fucked me up last night.... turns out i was one of the first 11 people in the country to get this virus... which im weirdly proud of. Fuck knows how it got in though, ive got all the firewalls / virus scanners you could imagine
note to windows 2000 users... you need service pack 2 installed to run the patch
Ive just got that freebie Zonealarm program, hope no dirty worm slags try and get in my pc!!!
Windows RPC implementation is sorry as shit - anyone can write a buffer overflow on it.
i agree
u wanna know annoyance?
my beatch lil sister left my firewall off cos she was busy DLin films.... GRRRR!!!! got the virus innit, tryin my damndest to fix it now.
sooooooo off
I just came here to post a thread like this but it appears Stu beat me to it.
As I posted in Waffles, I just got my new PC running which is a Windows XP system (my old one was Win95). I was having a ball, surfing around the web and seeing all the icons pop up nice and fast untill about a half hour into my adventures I clicked on freeagent's freindster post when the now world famous message box popped up (only at the time I didn't know it was so famous and on the TV last night as my mother mentioned):
(this is a gif image, not the real thing)
I thought something was wrong with my computer for the longest time till I called DELL support and heard an automated message about the fact this wasn't a glitch in the OS but a Virus. I figured out how to get the patch and I updated my virus scaner. This took me about 3 hours when all was said and done.
What blows me away is that this virus downloaded and ran on my new computer without any intervention from me at all. This isn't suppose to happen but it does on this Windows XP because of this retarted feature called "Automatic Update". My windows 3.1 machine and Windows 95 machine didn't have this "Automatic Update" so why the frikken hell does Microsoft think I need it now? I got along just fine without it and you know what? I'm not turning it back on!!! I wanted to turn it off when I got this computer last May but I figured since I wasn't hooked up to the internet then It didn't matter...... then look what happens... only a half hour of internet browsing and I get "Automaticly Updated with a VIRUS!" As you British would say..... "BRILLIANT!"
I figured I aught to come back here and mention that I probably got it from this website somehow as thats when my computer first counted down to 0... But it looks like Stu figured this out already and I didn't read the message. Even if I did read the message I would never have beleived that a virus can actually download itself and run, all completely automated... Thats some serious hi-tech virus.
I'll tell you one thing.... Windows 95 fucking ROCKS because no one writes viruses for that OS anymore. Thats why I was fine for the 2 days it circulated around the net as thats what I was using to surf.
And who the hell is SAN? I'll tell you what I know.... I don't LUV him!
Maybe I should set up a firewall? I never did in the past and I've been ok. I'm actually more upset with the 700 messages of spam in my email box every weekend while I'm at the shore. I need to get myself some sort of good free spam filter..... :/
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Be careful with that one. I had that firewall and Norton Antivirus 2002 at home; they used to cause a lot of problems together.
After getting rid of both programs and installing new AV/firewall software from our ISP, the PC works like a dream.
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@1992, just use the XP firewall.
Disconnect from the internet. Go to Start|Connect To|, then right-click your internet connection and select properties, and under the last tab, it should have a check-box to activate the firewall. This isn't the best firewall, but it will save you from that stoopid virus. Also, get the removal tool here:
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Done! Thanks.
Been there done that. I have the patch and I removed WSBlast.exe The name of that virus reminds me of a Force Mass Motion record which has the sample "Techno Blast, Techno Blast, we have the Techno Blast".
i probed port 135 with that shit, it says stealth but i don't know what that means. So am i cool?
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