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The [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]] to the EstrogenBrigade, the Testosterone Brigade is an enclave of male fans within a traditionally female-dominated (or at least gender-neutral) {{fandom}}. While they dislike the FemaleGaze or the MrFanservice, it's very likely that they were pulled into the series in the first place because of a female character. Depending on the series, they may view it as a GuiltyPleasure due to the number of female fans. Occasionally, as with an EstrogenBrigade, [[FanDumb both sides will butt heads over largely superficial issues]], with buckets of opposite-sex awkwardness, which can get defensive. It should also be noted that not all male fans within such a fandom are necessarily of the Testosterone Brigade.
A Testosterone Brigade is easily attracted by hints of [[HoYay Les Yay]] or by {{fanservice}} from main characters. See also MultipleDemographicAppeal, GuiltyPleasure, BestKnownForTheFanservice. When the creators of a work acknowledge this demographic and make a "girly" show that's actually aimed at men, then you've got a JiggleShow or the trope WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForLittleGirls.
[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]
* Most male fans of ''Manga/MaidSama'' like it because of Misaki Ayuzawa, the female lead, and her dynamics with Takumi Usui, the male lead.
* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' has a ton of male fans, but mostly because of the story/characters.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon''. While it is primarily a shoujo anime, it has quite a bit of a male following as well, with all the Sailor Senshi being really hot, kickass {{action girl}}s. There are Testosterone Brigades for approximately all ten of the female leads.
* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' is also one, similar to the aforementioned Sailor Moon, has a large male fanbase in Japan, it has plenty of kickass {{action girl}}s and fight scenes, what sets it apart is its sheer amounts of [[GoodOldFisticuffs in-your-face fist fights]] and NoHoldsBarredBeatDown, for a ''shoujo'' anime. It helps that it was produced by Toei, the same company behind ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', ''Franchise/KamenRider'' and the above mentioned ''Sailor Moon''.
* ''Manga/ShirokumaCafe'' is a josei, but it has its loyal male fans.
* Part of ''Manga/WatashiNiXXShinasai'''s appeal is that Yukina is a really hot, unusually busty, smart and independent girl who likes to take the lead. Guys really dig that.
* While the YaoiFangirl is a common stereotype of ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' fandom, there ''are'' male fans who are attracted to either the history, characterizations or the female Nations.[[note]]or the HoYay.[[/note]] Somehow ironic considering it was originally [[{{Seinen}} intended for adult men]].
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'':
** Though the article says it is rare, it has a substantial male following for two main reasons -- [[RuleOfFunny it's very funny]], and [[{{Bifauxnen}} Haruhi]] is [[{{Moe}} cute]].
** There's an in-show EstrogenBrigade for each and every male character, as well as an IRL one.
* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' is nominally intended to be a Shoujo Series, but has many male fans as well, due its complex plot (it is oftenly compared with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' for a reason, after all) and also the LesYay subtext.
* Perhaps not so much in the United States, but in Japan and Latin America ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' was surprisingly popular among male viewers, being considered the most successful MagicalGirl series since ''Anime/SailorMoon''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF40G7x3J-w There was even a fan-made live action opening made in Japan]] (Please notice how said opening was played entirely by ''men''.)
* Most of the Creator/{{CLAMP}} fandom. It helps that CLAMP is basically one EstrogenBrigade themselves.
* Speaking of CLAMP, ''Manga/{{X1999}}'' is also worth mentioning: While technically speaking is a [[ShoujoDemographic Shoujo]] series, the dark and violent nature of the plot could made it to be easily mistaken by {{Seinen}}. Also, the many religious/ apocalyptic elements of the story made it popular among viewers who are into stuff like ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
* Similarly, other dark {{Shoujo|Demographic}} and {{Josei}} works like ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'' or ''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors'' are well liked by male anime fans who usually mistook them with {{Seinen}}.
* And in the case of the light-hearted {{Josei}} ''Manga/BunnyDrop'', the anime adaptation is well liked among male viewers simply because they find the story to be incredibly adorable and heartwarming.
[[folder: Film -- Animated ]]
* What male fans exist of the ''[[Franchise/DisneyFairies Disney's Tinkerbell]]'' movies tend to be a Testosterone Brigade, as there is a surprising amount of {{fanservice}} in the films.
* The Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es in general, especially those from [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation the Disney Renaissance]]. It's been joked that they helped usher an entire generation of adolescent boys into puberty in TheNineties.
** This is invoked in the first ''Film/AmericanPie'' with Jim gushing over how hot Ariel is (a sentiment Norm Peterson shared years before in an episode of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' and Joey Tribbiani shared years later in a late episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'').
** Also invoked in an episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' when the girls get a Disney Princess makeover at Disneyland. When Penny walks into Leonard's apartment he immediately drops his pants after seeing her dressed as Aurora. Howard does pretty much the same thing. Poor Amy fails to get Sheldon's attention.
** One Disney Princess in particular worth mentioning is Elsa from ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', who, despite being a queen and not a princess like her contemporaries, has become probably the most famous animated sex symbol since Jessica Rabbit due to her long blonde hair, clingy outfit, and SexyWalk. It helps that Elsa's and Jessica's dresses [[VaporWear have]] [[ShesGotLegs similarities]]. Yes, there are ''definitely'' a lot of Elsa fanboys on the internet. This is also the character that made a name for cosplayer Anna Faith Carlson, just for being a really accurate cosplay of Elsa!
[[folder: Film -- Live-Action ]]
* The ''Film/BringItOn'' movies. For the women that they were aimed at, they're about cheerleading as SeriousBusiness. For men, they're about seeing Creator/ElizaDushku, Creator/KirstenDunst, Christina Milian, Creator/HaydenPanettiere, Ashley Benson, and a whole bunch of other good-looking young women in [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders cheerleading uniforms]]. Amusingly, one of the TV spots for the original film even intentionally invoked this.
* ''Film/MeanGirls''. While written by [[Creator/TinaFey a woman]] and marketed heavily to teen girls, it was released at the height of Creator/LindsayLohan's [[HollywoodHypeMachine "it girl"]] popularity, and features Lohan and a number of other young women (specifically, [[SheIsAllGrownUp former]] ''Series/PartyOfFive'' star Creator/LaceyChabert and then-unknowns Creator/RachelMcAdams and Creator/AmandaSeyfried) in provocative dress throughout. It's no surprise that a lot of guys watch it for the hot high school chicks. The [[WhatCouldHaveBeen original version]] of the film (the script for which can be read [[http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/mean_girls.pdf here]]) was more explicitly targeted at both men and women. As originally written, ''Mean Girls'' was a hard-R sex comedy that {{homage}}d films like ''Film/{{Porkys}}'' and ''Film/AmericanPie'', filled with innuendos, drug references, and topless scenes from Regina and Karen; creator Creator/TinaFey said she originally envisioned it as having "wall-to-wall titties." It was {{Bowdlerise}}d after Lohan was cast as the lead (she was [[ContractualPurity still considered family-friendly then]]), and traces of this still show up in the final film.
* This is basically the point of the article [[http://www.filmjunk.com/2009/02/06/top-10-chick-flicks-that-men-secretly-love/ Top 10 Chick Flicks That Men Secretly Love]].
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'', despite (or perhaps [[AmazonChaser because of]]) it being a particularly girl-powered film with a very feminist slant, gets quite a lot of this. Part of it has to do with the action and [[DeadlyGame the premise]] and the deep political and social commentary, but the pre-Games scenes also heavily feature Creator/JenniferLawrence looking drop-dead gorgeous, while ''Catching Fire'' has her in a form-fitting wetsuit for the Games as well. ''Catching Fire'' also adds Creator/JenaMalone, most notably her [[EstablishingCharacterMoment elevator scene]]. Did we mention how hot Creator/JenniferLawrence is?
* ''Film/TheBlingRing'' is almost an entirely female-centred story, with teenage girls robbing celebrities' clothes and jewellery. The only prominent male character is also gay. But all four female leads - including Creator/EmmaWatson - are continually done up to the nines, walking around in sexy outfits and showing off their beauty. Marketing even centred around Emma Watson on {{Fanservice}} duty, abusing one shot of a seductive tongue roll for advertisements.
[[folder: Live Action TV ]]
* ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'', as well as any of the other ''Top Model'' shows, have enough FetishFuel and {{Fanservice}} to attract male viewers.
* ''Series/ProjectRunway'' to a much lesser degree, but it still has hot girls and sexy moments.
* ''Series/TheLWord'', as was inevitable for a show about a bunch of [[LipstickLesbian very good-looking]] [[GirlOnGirlIsHot lesbians]]. It pandered generously to straight males through extensive sex scenes, making one of the girls bisexual (which ensured ''at least'' some scenes would include a straight guy), featuring mainly straight guys in the supporting cast, and reducing gay guys to extras. Series creator Ilene Chaiken publicly claimed that the show would never have been made if it hadn't also brought in a male audience.
* ''Series/SexAndTheCity''. It's a show about [[MsFanservice four sexy]] [[ChristmasCake older women]] who like to [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex have sex]] and talk about it -- and this being {{Creator/HBO}}, they don't cut away from the nudity. (Out of the four main cast, Creator/SarahJessicaParker was the only one who had a no-nudity clause and didn't have to bare her naughty bits for the show -- and perhaps not coincidentally, she's also the one who is most frequently called [[HollywoodHomely "ugly"]] in lads' mags and gossip blogs.) While its male fanbase is often stereotyped as being [[FagHag composed primarily of]] CampGay men who watch it for the fashion, during its prime it also had a very large contingent of straight male fans, as it featured a ton of female skin and enough of the male perspective (at times) to occupy straight men's interest.
* The same could be said of ''Series/TrueBlood'' and other female-targeted {{Creator/HBO}} shows, for much the same reason (plus this one doesn't exactly skimp on the gore and violence). Jessica (part-time MagicalGirlfriend, full-time CuteMonsterGirl) seems to have been created specifically so straight guys would have a character to gush over.
* ''Series/DesperateHousewives''. Its description on this wiki even describes it as "not a porn mag, but a US TV drama." At the height of its popularity, Creator/{{ABC}} even ran an ad with a guy admitting he watched it and (unconvincingly) claiming that it was [[IReadItForTheArticles for the story]]. Riiight.
* Creator/VH1's ''Single Ladies'', for many of the same reasons as ''Series/SexAndTheCity''.
* A very, ''very'' frequent occurrence with [[TeenDrama teen-]] and [[KidCom tween-oriented]] shows, especially American and Australian ones. (And if any British tropers feel the UK is an exception, one word: ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}''.) The lead actresses are often meant to be viewed by such shows' young female fans as the type of people that they [[WishFulfillment wish they were]]... which includes looking gorgeous. Not surprisingly, appearances in fashion magazines and (for shows that skew a bit older) [[PublicExposure men's magazines]] are frequent for the stars of these shows, while those under the age of 18 may find themselves subject to some [[TheJailBaitWait fairly creepy gushing]].
* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'', being aimed at girls, has an amazingly high amount of good-looking males in the cast. It also has an amazingly high amount of good-looking ''females'' in the cast (Creator/TroianBellisario, Creator/AshleyBenson, Creator/LucyHale, Shay Mitchell, Janel Parrish, Sasha Pieterse, Tammin Sursok...), a trait shared with most of its fellow Warner/Alloy series like ''Literature/GossipGirl'' (which featured Creator/BlakeLively, Leighton Meester, and a young Creator/TaylorMomsen) and ''Series/TheLyingGame'' (Alexandra Chando, Alice Greczyn, Charisma Carpenter, Kirsten Prout in season 1).
* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' featured a cast made up of some of the hottest young actresses on the planet. While still aimed mostly at fellow teenage girls, Creator/LizGillies, Music/VictoriaJustice, Creator/DaniellaMonet, and Music/ArianaGrande attract a huge amount of interest from guys (and in the latter's case, her music career is only making it grow faster). Precursor show ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' also developed one of these once Creator/MirandaCosgrove and Creator/JennetteMcCurdy [[SheIsAllGrownUp grew up]] in the last few seasons, as did the short-lived {{crossover}} {{spinoff}} ''Series/SamAndCat'' with [=McCurdy=] and Grande. More Nickelodeon examples, like Kira Kosarin of ''Series/TheThundermans'', Brec Bassinger of ''Series/BellaAndTheBulldogs'', and Jade Pettyjohn of ''Series/SchoolOfRock'' followed afterwards.
* The Creator/DisneyChannel, being a veritable TeenIdol machine that employs a lot of attractive young people (see the point above about teen shows), often winds up with this no matter how [[TastesLikeDiabetes sickeningly sweet]] and kid-friendly they make their shows. Some (of-age) Disney stars, past and present, that attract this include Music/SelenaGomez of ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', Music/DemiLovato of ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'', Creator/BridgitMendler of ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'', Music/MileyCyrus of ''Series/HannahMontana'', Creator/HilaryDuff of ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'', Creator/DebbyRyan and Creator/PeytonRList of ''Series/{{Jessie}}'', Creator/LauraMarano of ''Series/AustinAndAlly'', Creator/DoveCameron of ''Series/LivAndMaddie'', Creator/BellaThorne and Creator/ZendayaColeman in ''Series/ShakeItUp'', Zendaya again (plus Veronica Dunne) in ''Series/KCUndercover'', and Lauren Taylor of ''Series/BestFriendsWhenever''. (Proving how old this trope is, it goes right back to when Disney ''began'' in TV (Through ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'') - as demonstrated and proved by Annette Funicello.)
** Disney XD shows, while actually targeted towards boys, also apply, such as Caitlyn Taylor Love from ''Series/ImInTheBand'' (which carried over to another Disney XD show, ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderman'', where she portrays Ava Ayala/White Tiger, and the effect is still the same), Creator/OliviaHolt on ''Series/KickinIt'' (which carried over to Disney Channel's ''Series/IDidntDoIt'' while adding Creator/PiperCurda to the mix), Kelli Berglund from ''Series/LabRats'', Oana Gregory from ''Series/CrashAndBernstein'' (Landry Bender never really got hers until ''Best Friends Whenever''), and Paris Berelc and, even though they're not part of the main cast, Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Brooke Sorenson from ''Series/MightyMed''. Kelli and Paris also carry theirs over to ''Series/LabRatsEliteForce''.
* As badly as Netflix's entries to the KidCom market, ''Richie Rich'' and ''Some Assembly Required'', were received (although [[AmericansHateTingle the latter is still well-respected in its native Canada]]), that didn't stop them from receiving testosterone brigades. The former is centered on Brooke Wexler and the aforementioned Lauren Taylor; Jenna Ortega, the other female on the show, is still a little too young to apply. As far as the latter goes, while Charlie Storwick isn't without her fanboys, it still pales in comparison to Sydney Scotia's (which is shown in-universe in the "Cupid's Bow" episode).
* The producers of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' tried to invoke this around the fifth season and so made sure the actresses' clothing was as sexy as possible. They also created plenty of episode plots where the sisters would be transformed into various magical creatures that required a different skimpy outfit. Creator/AlyssaMilano got the worst of it; a common joke was that her belly button deserved its own billing in the opening credits. (In fairness, a series with Shannen Doherty, Creator/RoseMcGowan, Creator/HollyMarieCombs, and Alyssa Milano was always going to have this.) Season 8 adds the beautiful Kaley Cuoco to the line-up as well.
* For more than a few male viewers, Creator/HaydenPanettiere is the primary/only reason to watch ''Series/{{Nashville}}''. (And, it has to be said, ''Series/{{Heroes}}.'')
* ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'' attracted this around its second season, when its three lead actresses had noticeably gotten older. It's a show about three teenage mermaids, all played by very beautiful actresses. As it's set in Australia, there are plenty of episodes featuring the girls in bikinis or walking around in short-shorts. Plus rather a lot of episodes revolve around parties, so the three leads are often dolled up. Interestingly enough the show doesn't feature that much male {{Fanservice}}, with Lewis only getting a couple of [[ShirtlessScene shirtless scenes]] (at least until [[MrFanservice Will comes along]]). Both this show and the trope did help make Creator/ClaireHolt and Creator/PhoebeTonkin [[StarMakingRole make it to the worldwide mainstream]] when they were brought over to ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' and ''Series/TheOriginals''.
* ''Series/GossipGirl'' in the same vein as ''Mean Girls'' is about elite high school girls and features a lot of cattiness and girl-oriented stories. But the fact that it's two leads are the fantastically beautiful Creator/BlakeLively and Creator/LeightonMeester, and later on Jessica Szohr and numerous stunningly pretty guest stars - and the camera [[MaleGaze letting you experience their beauty to its full extent]] - gave plenty of straight men opportunities to tune in.
[[folder: Magazines ]]
* Female fashion magazines and general female magazines feature enough sexily dressed women (especially in the ads) and attractive female celebrities to attract straight men who usually won't admit to flipping through them to ogle all the hot women in them.
* ''Allure'' has its own yearly "Nude" issue, that has featured Kaley Cuoco, Bridget Moynahan, and Music/AshleyTisdale to name a few, that feature tasteful nude pictures of females. This alone is justification for a straight man to flip through it.
[[folder: Music ]]
* This has been the rule for most female pop/R&B {{idol singer}}s and {{girl group}}s within the last 30 years. The girls come for the music, the boys [[StealthPun come]] for the ladies singing it. Oftentimes, female musicians go for HotterAndSexier images (or have it [[MusicIsPolitics pushed onto them]]) specifically to invoke this.
* Music/KateBush has a ''very'' large Testosterone Brigade among her fanbase.
* Female-fronted symphonic metal bands such as Music/{{Nightwish}}, Music/{{Epica}} and Music/AfterForever. While metal music as a whole already has a very large male following (and an EstrogenBrigade), a good number of these bands' fans are listening and going to concerts for a bit more than just the music.
* Music/TheWiggles are one of the very few children's music groups to sometimes include attractive female dancers in some of their videos, thus catering a bit to the fathers out there stuck watching the videos. Dads tend to be fans for that.
[[folder: Professional Wrestling ]]
* Female wrestlers in general are a case of attempts to exploit this trope working to the detriment of the medium. In many cases, pro wrestling companies, recognizing that many guys were watching the women's matches for the sexy catfights, have dropped all pretense of their women's divisions being about athletic competition in order to use them to supply as much [[{{Fanservice}} cheesecake]] as possible. This, however, turns off many fans who had been watching because they were legitimately interested in the matches. It's telling that the most celebrated female wrestlers, past and present, among the IWC are those who were genuine {{Action Girl}}s rather than just models hired to look the part.
** {{Wrestling/Lita}} is an interesting case. She became popular with young girls because of her OneOfUs image (she was a LadEtte). She also became popular with boys because of that as well. In addition to that, boys also were turned on by the fact that she had her thong on display and removed her top in several matches.
** Wrestling/TrishStratus was a similar case too; the majority of fans fell in love with her stunning looks ([[EvenTheGirlsWantHer male and female]]) but along the way earned numerous amounts of respect for her desire to improve. So in Trish's case, the fans came for her beauty and stayed for the wrestling.
** Wrestling/MickieJames got over big time with men due to her [[PsychoLesbian lesbian stalker gimmick]] in which she would [[GirlOnGirlIsHot kiss women]] and in one instance [[CanonDiscontinuity grabbed Trish's privates and seductively licked her fingers afterwards]] getting an earth-shattering pop for it. Even after abandoning those characteristics, she still remains popular due to her sex appeal, GirlNextDoor nature and the fact that she, like Trish, can actually wrestle.
** {{Wrestling/Paige}} represents a similar case of trying to cultivate a OneOfUs feel. Without tanning, she adopted a RavenHairIvorySkin appearance, overlapping with UnkemptBeauty - and had fans in the palm of her hand. A documentary about her reveals that she was this before she was in WWE too. Her mother said all she had to do was slap her daughter's picture on something and it would sell.
** Most Diva fans hated Wrestling/MariaKanellis during her WWE run (she was an AcceptableTarget on ''Website/DivaDirt'' for a long time). Male fans loved her, [[MsFanservice for obvious reasons]].
* ''Series/TotalDivas'' has a ''huge'' male fanbase. Producers likely had this trope in mind - which is probably why wherever the Divas go, they always have perfect hair, perfect make-up and flattering clothes. Various episodes feature the girls going on vacations (getting them into bikinis) and even multiple appearances by a sex therapist. The show draws roughly a million viewers every week and not all of them are women.
[[folder: Sports ]]
* Race car driver Danica Patrick, who has parlayed her Testosterone Brigade into both a UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} career and modeling work. She's a damn good racer, making the pole position for the 2013 Daytona 500, leading laps and finishing eighth (highest finish by a female in a Sprint Cup race so far) there, as well as a good 12th place finish at Martinsville, but most people seem to best know her for her [=GoDaddy=] ads.
* The strange case of high school pole vaulter [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/28/AR2007052801370.html Alison Stokke]].
* The [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands Dutch]] women's field hockey team at the 2012 UsefulNotes/{{London}} UsefulNotes/{{Olympic|Games}}s have [[http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/dutch-field-hockey-popular-reasons-beyond-field-hockey-232321640--oly.html developed one of these]].
[[folder: Stores ]]
* This was the genius of the lingerie chain Victoria's Secret (and [[FollowTheLeader its many imitators]]). Instead of only selling their products through brick-and-mortar shops, they did it through a catalogue, allowing men to shop for lingerie for the wives without the embarrassment of being seen doing so at a store. Even after the company got bought out by The Limited and focused more on selling directly to women, their catalogues were still very popular with men. To this day, Victoria's Secret stores have scads of pictures of half-naked women in the windows to get men into the store, they sponsor {{burlesque}} fashion shows that are aimed as much at men as women, and their models (known as "Angels") are regular features of men's magazines.
[[folder: Web Animation ]]
* ''WebAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat'': A cartoon heavily influenced by [[ShoujoDemographic Shoujo]] anime, which only needed two short episodes to become one of the most popular animations from Cartoon Hangover, along with ''WebAnimation/BravestWarriors'', which seems to be well liked by male viewers who enjoy stuff like ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. Considering that it was created by [[http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/Natasha_Allegri an artist from that series]] this isn´t very surprising.
* ''WebAnimation/BarbieLifeInTheDreamhouse'' has a diverse following that the creators actively nod to, complete with scads and scads of ShoutOuts. The following has been likened to that for My Little Pony, even spurring the epithet "Brobies", but "Dreamhousers" (as they prefer to be called) reject the comparison.
[[folder: Video Games]]
* {{Otome Game}}s tend to have a pretty wide Testosterone Brigade, since while there are plenty of pretty boys to encounter, the ''heroine'' will be just as beautiful, if not more. Her interactions with the boys can endear her to the male audience, and if there is an H-scene in the game, [[MsFanservice it is likely to be focused on her.]] One particular poll for ''VideoGame/AmnesiaOtome'' put its heroine in the top 10 most popular characters, with a quote from one of the voters asking why she wasn't dateable like everyone else.
* Like how its [[VideoGame/TheIdolmaster sister series]] can attract [[EstrogenBrigade the other way around]], ''VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM'' has quite the Brigade of its own. The great music, interactions, and wide range of character types have drawn in male players from previous installments, and for [[LGBTFanbase those of a different persuasion]], it helps that there's a sizeable amount of eye candy in the cast.
* ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'', due to its heavy action focus and JidaiGeki setting. It even proved popular enough to have a couple manga published in Shonen magazines and a completely [[Anime/KatsugekiToukenRanbu action-packed adaptation]] made for the male audience to get into as well.
[[folder: Western Animation ]]
* When a show is packed with as much FanService as ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', it's bound to pick up a lot of male fans along the way.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', as evidenced by the kind of fanart showing up on Website/DeviantArt and the abundance of {{Dark Fic}}s.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': The famous "Brony" fanbase is a rare example that ''doesn't'' use {{Fanservice}}. (Not for [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom most people]] anyway.) Female Cosplay and Gijinka (personified fanart of not human characters) of the characters invokes different reactions.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''. Much like the above example, this show garnered a decent male fanbase without resorting to {{Fanservice}}. Many can speculate as to why, but it's probably no small part due to it being one of the few shows with G-rated ass-whooping on Cartoon Network at the time.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' had and has tons of male fans. Part of it is a LGBTFanbase, but many boys watched it for the girls.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRa'', for boys who couldn't quite relate to uber-hunk Prince Adam and his army of beefcakes.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''


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Using Java EE with some Cloud to Build Real-Time Mobile App Performance Analytics Service
Tuesday July 30th, 2013 Meeting - Austin Java Users Group
AbstractInstaOps, a small start up based in Austin, which was acquired by Apigee and is now known as Apigee Mobile Analytics, used several Java EE based frameworks primarily JBoss Drools, Seam, Hibernate and JSF/Richfaces along with Amazon Web Services to build a real time mobile app performance analytics solution in cloud. Along with demo, this session will talk about reasoning behind using these technologies and how the architecture evolved to build a distributed and elastic solution that processes and visualizes real time events happening across thousands of mobile devices.
ChallengePrabhat would like to challenge attendees to register and give iOS or Android SDK a shot. You will get a Starbucks gift card if you can show him that you were able to send some data to Apigee's dashboard. Please see relevant docs. Recent stats show that it takes around 20 minutes from registration to do basic integration of our SDK.
About Prabhat JhaPrabhat Jha is currently director of software development at Apigee. He most recently co-founded InstaOps, now a part of Apigee Inc, that provides real time application performance analytics and management of mobile apps. He previously worked for several years at Red Hat where he was involved with multiple JBoss Projects including Infinispan, Portal Platform and Richfaces. On his spare time, he helps run a non profit called Eejot which helps with computer literacy in remote villages of Nepal.
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Landscape after Huang Gongwang
Full Title:
臨大痴山水; Landscape after Huang Gongwang
Ink on paper (frontispiece), ink and color on silk
58.58 cm (height) x 962.98 cm (width)
The artist Lan Ying was one of the most skillful and accomplished artists of the late Ming dynasty, active in Hangzhou, Zhejiang in the first half of the seventeenth century. He was a professional artist who was able to paint in the styles of many great artists of the past. For this reason he won the admiration of contemporary scholars, connoisseurs, and collectors of art. This large handscroll is a mountainous landscape on silk painted with brushes in ink and water-based pigments. Its execution includes features of the brushstrokes, rendering of trees and rocks and texturing of the mountains in the style of Huang Gongwang, one of the four Yuan masters. The Yuan dynasty was a period (in the late thirteenth and fourteenth century) that saw the emergence of artists who worked in distinctly individual styles.
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Reproduced with permission from the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
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Summary of Activities
Over the 2011-2012 year, the Research and Statistics Committee solicited and selected proposals for the 18th Annual Reference Research Forum. The committee selected three proposals. This year's forum included Lili Luo presenting "Best Practices of Text Reference Service: A Synergistic View," Susan Gardner Archambault and Kenneth Simon presenting "Apples and Oranges: Lessons from a Usability Study of Two Library FAQ Web Sites," and Alison Graber, Alison Hicks, Caroline Sinkinson, and Stephanie Alexander presenting "Research Assistance Interactions: Exploration of Users' Motivation and Perceptions." The Forum was held Sunday, June 24 from 1:30-3:30 at the Anaheim Convention Center.
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The committee submitted a request for special funding to the RUSA Board in order to be able to award a grant for research to be presented at the Reference Research Forum in 2013. This request was denied.
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The Village of Batavia, settled by Europeans in 1797, was established as a town in 1814. Batavia Township was established the following year. The village will celebrate its bicentennial year in 2014, and the Batavia Bicentennial Commission is organizing a celebration, which will center on the newly renovated Batavia Downtown area, where some of the houses date back to the era of the village's origin. The Clermont Sun will publish a series of historic vignettes concerning the community, some local to the village and others relating history of the large community, of which this is the first.
By Richard Crawford
Clermont County Historical Society
The village of Batavia, third county seat of Clermont County, was built on land surveyed on May 28, 1788, for Francis Minnis, a captain in the American Revolution for seven years. John O'Bannon was the deputy surveyor, Nicholas Keller and Archelus Price were the chain carriers, and John Ormsley was the marker man.
The first settler was Ezekiel Dimmitt, who built a cabin on the site of the present post office, 575 W. Main St., in autumn 1797. A Virginian, he and his wife, Phoebe, moved here from Kentucky. They settled by Donnells' Trace (present Old State Route 74 or 32) that John Donnells had laid out in 1797 from Mercersburgh (present Newtown) to Williamsburg. Donnells later continued the road to Chillicothe, which became Ohio's first state capital in 1803.
In 1807, George Ely purchased the Minnis survey, and on October 24, 1814, he laid out Batavia, which is believed to have received its name from Batavia, New York, home of some of the early settlers. Ely chose the site because it was located at the Donnells' Trace fording spot of the East Fork of the little Miami River, at the foot of Spring Street, which in early years was the main street in town because of the springs along it. Ely built a home for himself, a cabin on the northeast side of the East Fork along Old State Route 222 (S. Riverside Drive) or Elk Lick Road, near the intersection with present State Route 222.
Batavia was incorporated on February 10, 1842. In summer 1814, Samuel Gilbreath opened the first store in town near the fording place. Thomas Chichester established the first known school in 1819, on the northeast corner of Riverside Drive and Wood Street.
The first church was Methodist Episcopal, and it occupied the same corner as the school. For many years it was known as the Old Stone Church. In this building, on Thanksgiving Day 1909, was played the first reported high school basketball game in Clermont County.
Batavia became the third county seat of government on February 24, 1824. Ezekiel Dimmit built the first courthouse, on the northeast corner of Main and Market streets, in 1827. The second courthouse was built on the same site and was dedicated on December 19, 1936. The third courthouse, northeast corner of Main and Third streets, was dedicated in 1998.
A gold rush occurred in the Elk Lick Valley in 1868. This caused the formation of the Batavia Mining Company, which did not last more than one year. Prior to the gold rush, other excitement occurred in the village. In particular, on July 14, 1863, Confederate cavalry under the command of General John Hunt Morgan invaded Batavia. Some spent the night in town. They sought fresh horses and food and stole other personal property.
Because Batavia was the county seat, some notables lived here. Lt. Gen. Henry Clark Corbin lived on the northeast corner of Market and North streets. He became only the third man in U.S. history to earn the rank of lieutenant general. He served as Adjutant General of the U.S. Army during the War with Spain (1898).
Hugh L. Nicholas lived at 160 Wood St. He was Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and the first Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. On the southwest corner of Market and Third streets stood the Griffith home, where Ulysses S. Grant visited the Griffiths, to whom he was related.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad depot was the site of visits of many famous personages. Presidential candidates made speeches here. The depot was located on the east side of the N&W tracks between Clough Pike and Main Street. The first train arrived in March 1877; the last passenger train stopped in April 1971, and the depot was removed in January 1989.
The Cincinnati, Georgetown, and Portsmouth Railroad depot was located at 549 W. Main St. The first car arrived in Batavia on September 6, 1903, and the line was disconnected on June 12, 1934. A station on the Underground Railroad was located at 225 Wood Street. It is believed the runaway slaves hid in the small building behind the house. The first newspaper in town (1828) was "The Clermont (or Ohio) Sun." The original offices were located on the site of present 52 S. Market St. Arguably the oldest house still standing is at the northwest corner of North and Third streets. It was built about 1815-17. Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family of abolitionists stayed in this house when some of them were preaching (many times against slavery) in the original Presbyterian Church that stood on the southwest corner of North and Market streets.
Richard Crawford has been a student of Clermont County history his entire adult life, and he has become the county's most-sought-after resource person for local history. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Amelia High School, he has been a journalist for The Clermont Sun, the Clermont Courier, and the Community Press. He has written and edited several books of local history.


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I've just put the rest of the Engagement Party photos online. Some are a bit dark & blurry, but we'll remove those later. Captions will also come later.
On Sunday afternoon Lauren and I had our Engagement party to celebrate with friends & family our recent engagement. Not all of the photos are up yet, but the first batch are ready to look at.
The photos can be found in my gallery.
I've just put parts of my photo gallery back online, using a new gallery application I wrote in Django. I've only got a few sets of photos online right now, the rest should be ready to go shortly.
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John Edward Pierson, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, died Thursday, May 23, 2002, surrounded by his family. He was 77.
A memorial service for friends and family will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Peninsula Memorial Chapel.
Mr. Pierson was born in Watertown, Minn., on April 7, 1925, to Dr. Linus and Alice Pierson. He attended Watertown High School and graduated in 1943. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy on July 6, 1943. He served as a corpsman at Seattle Naval Hospital and then underwent field medical training at Camp Eliott and Camp Pendelton in California.
Mr. Pierson was deployed to New Caledonia, France, with the 5th Marine Replacement Group and then to Guam, where he joined the 3rd Marine Division. He was wounded in battle while in Guam and received the Purple Heart.
He was honorably discharged from the Navy on March 22, 1946. He then attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., from 1946 to 1950. He served as high school principal at several Minnesota schools between 1950 and 1956.
Mr. Pierson was then employed by Park Davis Company for 10 years as a detail representative. In 1968 he brought his family to Alaska and worked as a school counselor at the Kenai Middle School until he retired in 1983.
Mr. Pierson had a long and loving marriage to Kathryn Burbie. He loved fishing, gardening and spoiling his grandchildren.
"Our dad and grandpa was a loving, caring, gentle and patient man who provided for us, kept us safe and was always there when we needed him. He will be in our hearts forever," his family said.
He is survived by his wife, Kathryn (Kitty); brother, Bob; daughters, Jonna Encelewski, Kenita Stenroos, Loretta Rees and Jacie Marchetti; sons, Mark Pierson and Shaun Pierson; grandchildren, including Jenessa, Laurina, Derek, Jody, Nicole, Paul, Kristopher, Jesse, Deborah, Hannah, Jacob, Jordan, Olivia, Tyler, Kevin, David, and TJ; great-grandchildren, Stephanie and Rylan; and extended family in Minnesota.
Arrangements were made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel.
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Hi Dale, two blogs in one week – I'm so impressed. The photo you took in France made me laugh so much; it's a classic. I bet that menu has been photographed many, many times over; how funny.
Thank goodness it was only a sneeze, that's all I'm saying !!!
Take care and have a good week.
Mrs P x
As you may have gleaned from my comments on my last blog post – I picked up a cold – that's all! No temperature or hallucinations etc, just a cold! Now that shouldn't keep a fully grown man away from his work, now should it?
Well in my case 'Yes'. I'll explain – you know when it is on it's way, you can tell can't you, you start to sniff, only slightly at first, then comes the slightly gravelly throat and it develops from there. Well I was determined to beat this one.
I drank copious amounts of water, vitamin C drinks, hot lemon and so on, and went on air on Thursday night hopeful that my remedies would work. Well they didn't! As anyone who watched me In the Kitchen with Tracey Lautch and KitchenAid would attest!
The hour started well with my sniffles being cunningly concealed during mixing or blending demonstrations but I knew something was building inside, something big, explosive and uncontrollable. I had a split second to decide. What could I do? I was in full vision of the viewers! I couldn't secretly signal to my director that I had a monster inside about to erupt; I couldn't wait for the next promotions break. I know, I thought to myself, softly blow down your nostril – that often works !
'Often' is not 'always' and this was a case of the latter – I knew I just had to let the monster loose! Then fate offered me an olive branch – as I suddenly realised that I was not in vision, as luck would have it my director Theresa had just cut to a shot of the amazing mixing abilities of the KitchenAid blender with it's fantastic planetary mixing action as used by many a professional cook – I took my chance and reached for my tissue – and it was gone! Where? I didn't have time to look – as I clumsily fumbled for the one thing that could help control the destructive power of this huge sneeze, Theresa thought I was signalling to say something – she had no way of knowing what was to follow. She thought I wanted to communicate with our customers – well in a way I did, but not in the way she had anticipated !
She put me in vision at the precise point I had conceded defeat. As the 'Aaaaaa' started to exit I defensively spun away from both Tracey and the watching viewers, as if dancing on ice – I thought I'd got away with it, forgetting that despite my covering hand, my microphone was in the direct firing line and only inches away from the eye of the storm! 'aaaaaaccchhhooooooooooooooooooo'!!
Kitchen cabinets rocked, cameras shook, floor managers and camera operators froze, jaws agape – even all the blenders stopped and gawped! (okay I made that bit up). It was only a second that to me lasted about 10 minutes before anything happened. All I could do was to try and recover what was left of my dignity and apologise to all and I mean ALL. My wife told me later it was disgusting – which made me feel a lot better!
I'm sure I must have woken sleeping babies hundreds of miles away, whether they had QVC on or not! I went on to sneeze three more times that night. So dutifully, I decided not to put the crew or more importantly the QVC viewers through a repeat performance and Craigy kindly covered my hours the next day. Fortunately I am not due back on air until Wednesday, when you will see a 'beast unburdened' – me.
On an totally different note but kitchen-related, I enclose a photo I took in a restaurant in Epernay, France last September – the Moules sound enticing!
Take care,
Dale x
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February 9, 2011 at 8:42 am -
Hi Dale, two blogs in one week – I'm so impressed. The photo you took in France made me laugh so much; it's a classic. I bet that menu has been photographed many, many times over; how funny.
February 9, 2011 at 10:21 am -
Looking forward to seeing you back on air today Dale. Perfect host for Feng Shui! Hope you're all better. x
February 9, 2011 at 5:32 pm -
hiya Dale
I'm glad you are back on qvc, I always like to keep in touch with whats going on at qvc as I'm an addict, we have written to each other a few christmases ago and exchanged cards and messages.
Hope you are feeling better now
Take care
Chantel xx
February 10, 2011 at 12:25 am -
Hi Gail, I can confirm it was only a sneeze, but a mighty impressive one! Marian are you saying that because of the literal translation of Feng Shui ?! Thanks to you both Dale x
February 10, 2011 at 5:11 pm -
Just cos it's supposed to make you feel good Dale!
February 10, 2011 at 6:10 pm -
Hi Dale I hope you are feeling much better now from Geraldine in Wandsworth
February 11, 2011 at 5:56 pm -
Hi Chantel, Marian and Geraldine. Thank you for your comments, as always – I'm fine, really – everyone seems to have had or have this cold at the moment – it's not nasty but just will not go away.Hope you enjoy the weekend Girls. I'm launching a fab Acer notebook tonight and I'll be back Saturday evening, but for some inexplicable reason I'm not required for Beauty Day !!? Dale x
February 13, 2011 at 8:38 pm -
Dale, I'm a TV star. I took part in some filming at the Beauty Bash and it got played today in the Laura Gellar and Elemis shows. Awesome! My head is sooooooooo big! x (Apologies if this gets posted twice but not sure if my first attempt was accepted.)
February 14, 2011 at 6:32 pm -
Forgot to mention, I think Charlie Bears should do one modelled on you called Q'Pid for next year's 14 Feb! I'm full of good ideas you know!
February 15, 2011 at 10:35 pm -
Dale that's the funniest blog I've read in ages! I've had to muffle my giggles as my children are all tucked up! Think I'll be chuckling over this for a while. In fact just as I did when the 'builders were in' when you were presenting a jewellry show last year. Funny,funny,funny…Keep making me laugh,somethings just can't be scripted. X
February 16, 2011 at 1:05 am -
Marian or should I say TV Star ! I dont mind Q'Pid as long as Charlie & William don't call it Stu'Pid !! Lots of silver Grey Plush needed. Dale x
February 17, 2011 at 3:11 am -
Sarah Thank you – I'm glad you laughed – it's so good for you ! Hopefully I can find something amusing to blog about this week.
Take care Dale x
February 17, 2011 at 6:00 pm -
Lol! x
February 22, 2011 at 7:11 pm -
Dale, your next blog is overdue!
February 27, 2011 at 6:23 pm -
Why are we waiting,
Oh why why are we waiting,
Oh why are we waiting …………………..
(Don't know anymore………)
Take care, Gail xxxx


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INTERPOL strengthens cooperation in combating corruption in Africa
NAIROBI, Kenya – Enhancing skills in asset recovery and money laundering investigations is the focus of a specialized training course for African law enforcement officers.
The 16th INTERPOL Global Programme on Anti-Corruption, Financial Crimes and Asset Recovery has gathered some 60 senior investigators, judges and prosecutors from 18 countries to share experiences and best practices for investigating cases of corruption and recovering stolen assets.
Topics to be discussed during the five-day (5-9 September) workshop include corruption and money laundering, practical guidelines for the tracing and recovery of stolen assets, international cooperation in corruption and asset recovery investigations, facilitating secure exchanges using INTERPOL policing capabilities, and the management of seized and recovered assets.
The workshop is coordinated by INTERPOL's Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes unit in partnership with the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission of Kenya (EACC), the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) in Kenya, the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR), and the European Union Horn of Africa project on Combating Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism. Funding was provided by the US Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs,
In his opening address, Ndegwa Muhoro, Director of the Kenya Directorate of Criminal Investigation said: "Research has established a strong linkage between corruption and other forms of crime, especially organized crime. Investigations into crimes such as terrorism, poaching, trafficking in humans, arms and drugs, the trade in counterfeits, and indeed many others have revealed corruption as an enabler of these crimes."
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Speaking to the participants, Denis Dressel, Programme Manager of the GIZ Good Governance Programme, said curbing illicit financial flows requires strong international cooperation and concerted action by developed and developing countries in partnership with the private sector and civil society.
Participating countries are Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zambia.


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Precision Aspiration & Biopsy, a CLIA and California licensed laboratory, offers fine needle aspiration (FNA) of superficial masses (lumps and bumps) found in the breast, thyroid, head and neck, salivary glands, lymph nodes, extremities and soft tissue.
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Cal Ripken: Diplomat?
Fresh off his Hall of Fame induction last month Cal Ripken Jr. has conquered the game of baseball. Now, looking for a new challenge, Ripken is heading out into the world, and is joining the diplomatic corps.
That's right, Ripken is set to get a diplomatic role when he is named special sports envoy for the Bush administration and the State Department. He'll be traveling the world as a public diplomacy envoy.
The State Department said his new role was to increase young people's understanding of the United States by sharing with them his "impressive personal history and life experiences."Now don't get me wrong here, I think Ripken was a great player, and has truly proven himself to be a great family man. But is he the right guy to be a diplomat to the world? Will people in other countries even know who he is? I'm not sure. Yet the bigger question might be whether or not any of these sports envoys (Ripken, Michelle Kwan, etc) even have a real place in the diplomatic world.
"He will reach out to a worldwide audience of young people while visiting their schools and clubs, hosting baseball skills clinics and sharing the keys to his success: character, hard work and perseverance," said the statement.
The State Department has proven itself to know what it's doing, so perhaps we should take them at their word.
The State Department hopes that using sports and other public figures as envoys will stem a tide of suspicion over U.S. foreign policy goals, particularly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.Cal Ripken can be trusted when he talks about sports. But will be trusted when talking public policy? That's his next test.


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Cord-Cutters Rejoice! Comcast Offering Internet, Local TV Bundle that Includes HBOGo
You asked for it and it looks like HBO is going to deliver: through Comcast. Many of you pledged that you'd pay 20, 30 even 50 dollars a month to be able to use HBOGo without having to subscribe to a costly recurring cable bill. Today word is that Comcast is offering a bundle that will include 25Mbps internet, Comcast's Streampix service and, you guessed it: HBO freaking Go! See for yourself:
Here's another shot of the offer:
How much, you ask? How about 40 bucks for the first 12 months? That sounds like a great deal to us! Your bill goes to about 70 dollars after a year that still sounds like a great package for your high speed internet, HBO and access to whatever streaming content Comcast adds to their ever-growing library.
Game of Thrones pirates take note: You're able to subscribe to HBO Go without the massive bill!
This is quite frankly one of the biggest stories in this reporter's HBO blogging career as the Home Box Office makes it's way towards becoming more of the "online-only" option service millions of people around the world have been clamoring for.
We'll keep you updated as HBO and Comcast comment on this development. This is a huge piece of news given the recent love affair investors have had with Netflix in the past year. This could mean major developments for the world of TV and its evolution online as content providers take back control.
Stay tuned for more details as we're sure other cable companies are headed in the same direction.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Dog shelter officials say it's still difficult to find homes for pit bulls more than a year after Ohio stopped labeling them as "vicious."
Pit bulls now aren't automatically considered vicious without proof of that characterization.
Franklin County Dog Shelter director Joe Rock tells The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/16ATHIB ) dogs considered at least part pit bull take three times as long as other dogs to be adopted. He says the shelter provides new owners with information about training and socializing pit bulls, which helps address perceptions that they're fighting dogs.
At the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Cincinnati, pit bulls make up more than half the adoptable dogs at two shelters.
Some other county shelters transfer adoptable pit bulls to organizations better positioned to find them homes.
Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com


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Meizu is getting back in the game after months of silence. The Chinese smartphone maker launched the M3 Note smartphone in China earlier this month, which received great response with 100,000 units sold out in just seven minutes. Now, a new Meizu handset made an appearance on Chinese regulator TENAA's website and looks like it is going to be a successor to the popular Meizu m2.
The TENAA listing also has the photos of what appears to be Meizu m3 smartphone, which bears close resemblance to the m2 smartphone. The device appears to have a polycarbonate body with a sealed construction, just like its predecessor, Phone Radar reported.
As per the listing, the rumoured m3 smartphone will come with a 5-inch HD display with 1280x720 pixel resolution, 13MP primary camera with LED flash and a 5MP front snapper. The handset will be powered by a 1.5GHz octa-core processor, backed by 2GB RAM and 16GB expandable storage up to 128GB.
Meizu will also include the dual SIM feature, one of which will act as a microSD card slot, just like in the m2 smartphone. The m3 smartphone will include a 2,800mAh battery, 4G LTE, VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and microUSB 2.0 port. The product listed on TENAA runs on Alibaba's Yun OS 3.1.6, but the international variant will likely run on FlymeOS.
Since this is the first time we have heard about the m3 smartphone, we are expecting more details to follow. According to the Phone Radar report, the ultra-affordable handset will come in various colours including white, black, grey, pink and gold. As for the pricing, the m3 might cost around ¥599 in China, which roughly translates into around Rs. 6,000 if the handset makes it to India.
Meizu m3 is still a long way, but the company is expected to launch the M3 Note in India soon. If the rumours are to be believed, the Chinese smartphone company could launch the handset at an event on April 16.


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SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism
W3C Working Draft 09 February 2004
Section 4.3.1 Sending a SOAP message
The XOP package is constructed as described in 3. An Optimized MIME Multipart Serialization of SOAP Messages with the following restriction:
· Each optimized Node MUST generate exactly one extracted binary part in the resulting package, i.e., extracted binary parts MUST NOT be referenced with more than one xop:Include in the SOAP message part.
If transmission optimization is the goal of this effort, why do you specifically disallow reuse of a binary package that has been isolated in the document? I realize this may make some processing models more complex but the potential benefit is very significant. Messaging in military systems tends to have repeated information (the exact value of which is not predictable in advance but which reoccurs daily in many messages of all types). When a value (such as GPS, time, call-sign, unit-id) is used it is often repeated. While XML design considerations might allow reuse of the information via ID and IDREF, the influence of legacy systems (an environment that would not accommodate such referential complexity very well) continues to make such an alternative infeasible.
Independent of my operational concerns for the Army, it does seem that you would want to recognize that an optimization of the message transmission should allow the potential for re-use of a defined binary representation when an opportunistic optimizer "discovers" it.
Dr. Frank J. Mabry, Jr.
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U.S. Military Academy
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This child has had countless surgeries and several near death experiences.
Her family is in the middle of planning her "Make a Wish" trip to Disney World.
"I was very scared, nervous, bloody, didn't know what to do. He just told me shut up," the victim said, "All I wanted to do was go home."
The 13-year-old girl Eyewitness News will call "Kim" was kidnapped, beaten, and nearly raped.
We're hiding her face and disguising her voice, but her family feels it's important for people to hear her story.
Last night, Kim's uncle ran into a store at 109th Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens, leaving the SUV running outside.
Surveillance video from 109 Brothers Deli shows a man jump into the Ford Explorer and speed off with "Kim" sleeping in the backseat.
"I started kicking and screaming, saying 'Help, Help'. He punched me in my face," Kim said, "He broke my nose. He punched me. My eye, I can't open it that much."
"I'm just glad she fought like heck to get out of that car," Kim's mother said, "She ran and didn't stop running until she found an adult. She yelled, 'He's trying to rape me.'"
Kim's a truly special girl; she's has been fighting to live since the day she was born.
This 13-year-old has been in and out of hospitals, plagued with scoliosis and heart disease, and has dealt with five very painful open heart surgeries.
Her mother is just thankful to have her home, but she has one thing to say to the man who did this.
"I hope he gets forever in jail. The death penalty, I hope. Who does that to a 13-year-old girl," Kim's mother said.
23-year-old Kapri Dickson is under arrest.
He's charged with attempted assault, sex abuse, and grand larceny.


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Zombie Apocalypse
Four years ago I wrote that the political media was dead and didn't know it yet. I thought at that time we'd quickly bury that corpse. Tonight we drove another stake into its undead heart but like zombies the only sure kill is to kill the head. I'm sure everyone feels a huge sense of relief that the elections are over. Especially when we have spent what seems like an eternity listening to the media talk about the "race". Perhaps that is part of the strategy. We are so tired that now we are all going to go stick our heads under a pillow for another few years.
Elections always get characterized as a horse race, yet they are simply a decision that occurs on a given day. Leading up to that day seems to be an exercise in deciding what we are deciding. What is so difficult about making a good decision and sticking with it?
All my life I've noticed that the issues that get talked about in those final days of October every four years have nothing to do with really important issues. The kind of things that mean life or death to people, or to the species. Four years ago seemed a bit different but this year was just the same. The republicans and the media tried to make the centerpiece issue the economy. And the democrats went right along with their scheme. I guess the republicans thought that after a few years of filibustering nearly everything to stop President Obama's plans, they could turn around and blame Obama for doing nothing. Since the media wasn't about to remind people of the truth, they almost got away with it. Looking at the popular vote alone, you can see that about half the nation is convinced of the republican version of reality. I can't really blame my neighbors for their ignorance. But if they watch only TV, and only a news program that constantly repeats the slogan "fair and balanced" (while essentially being anything but fair or balanced) I suppose they will come to believe most anything.
The difference between reality and what people think is the real issue that needs to be addressed. The obfuscation of reality practiced every day by the mainstream media has poisoned our political system. Without that toxic cloud perhaps people would be able to appreciate the actual facts that confront us as a nation and as humans on this planet.
For example, take a look at this graph. I linked to the image from the page at http://www.planetforlife.com/co2history/index.html. I sure hope they don't mind.
The line marked Keeling Curve is actually where we are today. Notice that we aren't even in the ballpark compared to past cycles anymore. As it says at that site "…the amount of carbon dioxide currently in the atmosphere is unprecedented, at least in the past 415,000 years. The last time it reached even 300 PPM was 325,000 years ago." We are headed upwards of 400 parts per million.
That anyone in the media or any political group can dispute climate change, or that it is caused by man's activities is beyond belief. It's the kind of thing that just makes your jaw hang open. Yet clearly the media, controlled by corporations, investors and money has a vested interest in ignoring this. Instead we watch stories that are "fair and balanced" describing the jobs that fracking oil will bring, versus the "theoretical" environmental risks of the liquids pumped into the oil shale. Yet there is more oil in Canadian oil sands than has been pumped out of the middle east so far. Not once will you hear anyone discuss the risks of actually burning all that oil. Apparently that isn't a problem. And our government, the congress, keeps giving money to oil companies that make obscene profits already by producing a product which will change this planet forever.
The only way any of this is ever going to change is if we start demanding the truth from our media. And we won't get the truth as long as someone with more money can buy their own version of the truth. This election was bought. It wasn't about informed voting. It was money from my pocket and the pockets of a million other informed people pitted against the money of some big corporations controlled by a few people. A corporation is made up of people, but it is not a person. The rules have to be changed.
So when you hear the media mention Obama's birth certificate, or run a clip interviewing someone who scored less than 200 on their verbal SAT just ask yourself if you are spending your time wisely. Perhaps you need to look elsewhere for your news. Don't let the zombie eat your brain.


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Caroline has lent her voice as an announcer for cheerleading teams, an 8 year old girl (for an animated pilot), several animated pilots and corporate presentations for a variety of companies and other projects.
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the past nine years, your local Labour team has been working with residents to
raise money for a Dockers statue. It's
right by the Excel centre and has already become part of the local
Docks, and the people who worked on them, are a big part of our local history
and helped make the area what it is today.
We're proud of our past and are pleased that we've now got a fitting
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J.C. Penney's plan for transformation has caused quite a stir, but regardless of all the parts and outcome, there's one main reason why retailers succeed or fail. It all boils down to hubris vs. humility.
Hubris will kill a retailer as surely as Black Friday brings sales. Humility, on the other hand, tempers the arrogance that hinders success. Cliches exist for a reason and one that has always proven true is that we are the architects of our own success and often, our own worst enemies.
I've interviewed many retail executives over the years and there's one constant: once management starts stubbornly insisting that its current plan is the correct one, against all evidence to the contrary, things are going very badly.
For example, Circuit City executives would issue statements like "we believe the customer wants to buy from informed sales people and that our commissioned sales model is the best."
Customers didn't and it wasn't.
Sears executives are fond of bringing up the venerable store brands -- Kenmore, Craftsman, Die Hard -- and reminding the public they are an American retail icon. That isn't getting them very far.
And recently Best Buy's Brian Dunn and the company's communications staff sounded alot like a retailer on the brink when they responded to fellow Forbes.com contributor Larry Downes' post about problems at Best Buy by stating:
We disagree with the premise of blogger Larry Downes in his recent post on forbes.com. We think Best Buy is here for the long term. After all, Best Buy plays a unique role in the world of consumer electronics...
That post -- "Why Best Buy Is Going Out Of Business... Gradually" -- struck such a chord it garnered nearly 2.8 million page views and more than a 1,000 comments. Dunn and his fellow Best Buy brethren can say they believe in their strategy all they want but clearly the customers don't think it's so great. Best Buy's insistence sounds a lot like Circuit City's, before it went out of business.
A little humility in retail goes a long way.
Back when Circuit City was still around and Best Buy was a fierce competitor, management was quite humble. Founder and CEO Richard Schulze once told me that Best Buy shoppers were more likely to forgive them their mistakes than they were Circuit City. There was apparently data to this effect. That's no longer true, and not just because Circuit City no longer exists.
When J.C. Penney's new CEO Ron Johnson was asked by the Associated Press what retailer was its biggest competitor his answer was telling.
Our number one competitor is ourselves and our way of thinking, which is informed by decades of experience. It's not another store; it's not another format like the Internet. Our competition is ourselves and our best friend is our imagination.
If J.C. Penney can continue to think humbly and actually get out of its own way, it may indeed transform itself.


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Welcome to Benihana and a dining experience unlike any other! Our guests are seated at communal tables in groups, where your personal chef will perform the ancient art of Teppanyaki. Watch as we slice and dice, preparing a meal that will dazzle your eyes as well taste buds, whether you choose mouth-watering steak, tender chicken or succulent seafood. You can also enjoy sushi prepared by a talented sushi chef and indulge in a specialty cocktail.
Benihana Memphis is located in East Memphis off of Poplar Ave. and I-240, across from the Hilton Hotel.Take a seat at one of our 22 teppanyaki tables, prepare for a show like no other and watch as your personal chef shows off their skills. Happy Hour is offered from 5-7 p.m., Monday through Thursday and 4-7 p.m. on Fridays. Enjoy signature cocktails, specialty sushi rolls and an assortment of appetizers starting at just $3.00. An 18% service charge is added to all guest checks for parties of eight or more.


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| Originally Posted by NYJen
Geez Steph, now I'm crying!!!! Seriously, you are so freaking gorgeous!!! Love your dress, hair, makeup, flowers, cake, candy bar - the whole thing. I'm so happy for you that you had a great day. Can you believe it's over though. I mean, all that planning and it's over so quickly. How does it feel to be married now?
Oh you are too sweet! I actually thought about taking some of my make up off but my wedding coordinator yelled at me so I left it
I was kind of bummed yesterday about it being over ( and it was so freaking sunny ysterday to make it worse) but I am better today.
Chris took me out for a wonderful dinner and had them put flowers on the table and it said "To my wife, My love for you is always in bloom." He told my neice about it this morning at brunch and she asked where he learned to do that stuff. So sweet.
| Originally Posted by jamisoncollette
Oh they are beautiful! I love Chuck E Cheese, my daughter would have followed you every where too! I'm having memory charms also for my dad and FI's grandparents, I think we have the same ones.
I made my charms so PM me if you want to know how to do them very cheap.
| Originally Posted by LadyP
Ok I am trying to figure out how you ended up at Chuck E Cheese That is something I would do.
You look beautiful weather and all. Glad your day was great.
It was literally on the way to the parking lot. It's hard to describe but there is a stip mall in front of where we got married but you would have no clue because the back of the buliding is so well maintained. So we all just walked over and the place was dead so we had the run of the place. It was so fun. I can't wait to see more of what she got of us.