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McCreary to Compose Original Score for Series Exploring the Early Life of the Famed Genius from David S. Goyer
Los Angeles, CA - November 13, 2012 - Starz Entertainment and BBC Worldwide Productions announced today that groundbreaking composer Bear McCreary ("The Walking Dead," "Battlestar Galactica") will serve as the musical composer for the upcoming historical fantasy "Da Vinci's Demons," which will premiere on STARZ in the U.S. and will be distributed by BBC Worldwide in international territories in Spring 2013. The eight-episode series, written by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Man of Steel) who also directed the first two episodes, follows the 'untold' story of the world's greatest genius, Leonardo da Vinci, during his turbulent youth in Renaissance Florence.
Goyer commented, "I've been a fan of Bear's since hearing his score for 'Battlestar Galactica,' which was inspired and unexpected. We wanted something similarly grand, but unconventional for 'Da Vinci's Demons'."
Emmy(R) Award nominated, McCreary is one of the leading musical composers in television and has worked on some of the most successful shows in the medium. At the age of 24, he received widespread acclaim for his groundbreaking score to SyFy's hit series "Battlestar Galactica," for which he composed, "the most innovative music on TV today," according to Variety. He was declared as one of the "Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of All Time," by io9.com, listing him alongside legends John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann.
McCreary's recent credits include AMC's smash hit, "The Walking Dead," on which he collaborated with writer / director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) and producer Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator). His score for the FOX series "Human Target" featured the largest orchestra ever assembled in the history of series television and earned him his first Emmy(R) nomination. McCreary's many other credits include: "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," "Eureka," "Caprica," "Trauma" and "The Cape." His feature film work includes the upcoming Knights of Badassdom (starring Peter Dinklage and Summer Glau) and his videogame credits include Sony's successful SOCOM 4: U.S. NAVY SEALs. With degrees in composition and recording arts from the prestigious Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, McCreary's professional training came from film music legend Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments). He has also conducted orchestral performances of his music in North America and Europe and has been invited to conduct at film music festivals such as Fimucité in Tenerife and the International Film Music Festival in Úbeda, Spain.
"Da Vinci's Demons" will star Tom Riley, who has received wide critical acclaim in the UK for his performances in theater, film and on television and was nominated by the Drama Desk Awards for his performance in the 2011 Tony(R) Award nominated Broadway play, "Arcadia." Riley's co-stars include Laura Haddock (The Inbetweeners Movie, "Honest," Captain America: The First Avenger) who plays the celebrated beauty with obscure motives, Lucrezia Donati; Elliot Cowan ("Marchlands," "The Fixer," "Lost in Austen") who plays the shrewd de factor ruler of Florence, Lorenzo Medici; and Lara Pulver ("True Blood," "Sherlock," "Robin Hood"), who plays his wife Clarice Orsini. David S. Goyer, co-writer of blockbuster and critically-acclaimed films Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, and writer of the upcoming Man of Steel, is showrunner. Julie Gardner is Executive Producer, along with BBC Worldwide Productions' Head Jane Tranter. The series is currently in production in Wales.
About Starz Entertainment
Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie and original programming entertainment service provider operating in the United States. The company offers 17 premium channels including the flagship STARZ(R) and ENCORE(R) brands with approximately 20.8 million and 34.3 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs in total more than 1,000 movies and original series every month across its pay TV channels. Starz Entertainment is recognized as a pay TV leader in providing HD, On Demand, HD On Demand and online advanced services for its STARZ, ENCORE and MOVIEPLEX brands. Starz Entertainment (www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ: LMCA).
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BBC Worldwide Productions is one of five core businesses under BBC Worldwide America, the U.S. division of the main commercial arm and wholly-owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), BBC Worldwide. Led by Jane Tranter, BBC Worldwide Productions is based in Los Angeles and develops and produces scripted and non-scripted projects for U.S. cable and broadcast networks, as well as digital platforms. The production company is responsible for various titles currently on air and in production including Da Vinci's Demons (Starz), Criminal Justice (HBO), Getting On (HBO), Top Gear (HISTORY), Torchwood: Miracle Day (Starz) Breaking Pointe (CW), Richard Hammond's Crash Course (BBC AMERICA), What Not to Wear (TLC), The Week the Women Went (Lifetime) and the cultural phenomenon, Dancing with the Stars (ABC).


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GDT: Oilers 3, Canucks 2 – Pre-season Game 1 – 2010-09-22 @ 8:00 PM – SNET ONE
Well, it's the first game of the pre-season… this should be exciting. Or not… our team is laden with knuckle draggers and grinders, while the Canucks are icing a good team. But here are the lineups (per Jason Gregor at Oilers Nation).
Edmonton Oilers lineup
Alex Giroux/Shawn Horcoff/Jordan Eberle
Greg Stewart/Brad Moran/Zack Stortini
Colin McDonald/Ryan O'Marra/Teemu Hartikainen
Steve MacIntyre/Chris Vande Velde/Ben Ondrus
Ryan Whitney/Jeff Petry
Jim Vandermeer/Theo Peckham
Taylor Chorney/Jake Taylor
Devan Dubnyk
Martin Gerber
Vancouver Canucks lineup
D.Sedin/H. Sedin/Shirokov
L. Sweatt/Connaughton or
Should be an ugly one. I like the looks of our top line, but beyond that it's pretty weak. Come on Doobie….
Grit. Determination. Guys wanting to win an NHL spot. That's what this game was about tonight. Great performance by the Oil tonight, highlight by solid goaltending by Gerber, a strong game by the top line, some offensive power from unlikely sources such as the 4th line, and a nice beatdown by O'Marra on Connaughton. The Oil dominated most of this game, on some great performances by the blue collar guys. I was pretty impressed with Giroux as well too.. he's a guy I'll be keeping a close eye on.
Also, do the Oilers have an incredibly fortunate offensive blueline trio of Whitney, Gilbert and Foster, or what? I expect some big points from them, so long as they stay healthy.
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Incredibly Simple Interactive Storytelling
ISIS is being built under an engine designed for adventure stories or interactive fiction authoring system for the XO. This project isn't based on Z-Machine like Frotz, neither pure-text engine. The proposition is to allow children constructing IF games with media objects (images, videos, sounds) easily. The system has Python w/Pygame elements.
The ISIS project - Incredibly Simple Interactive Storytelling - was born as a result of the Summer of Code 2007 project, which resulted into a set of tools (an engine) capable to process stories written in a language near to natural language (but very simplified), in any language - as we have grammar rules for each supported language. We can't call exactly grammar rules as they are only matching rules - in other words, the ISIS engine search for patterns on story and match them with a database, recognizing the story written by the child. So we must provide an interface to build these interactive stories, so we help user to write a story that engine recognizes, as recognizing natural language is a too complicated field, even more if want to support internationalization. And we need to help with graphical elements, like positioning chars on a room, assigning elements, and so on - so here we have the need of ISIS Development Framework.
ISIS project was split into 4 modules: Engine, Parser, Player and Developer. After the Summer of Code, what I did in ISIS project is incremented the engine, the parser (until December/2007) and now, until the start of ISIS Developer (June/2008), I'm coding the Player Interface. The engine aims to bring all tools to help the other modules; Parser, as its name says, its responsible to parse the story from the text file into ISIS objects; Player cover the interfaces and classes to run a story, so it is crucial to the player user to play the created stories; Developer is the proposed project, which is the most complex of the four components, as what I'm proposing here - ISIS/Dev is a complete development framework. Faga 21:58, 19 March 2008 (EDT)
Design & Development status
ISIS design - here are original drafts from ISIS project / Storyteller engine.
ISIS/Dev - The development status and plans for ISIS.
ISIS code is in constantly changing, so if you want to test the last version, you can download from GIT OLPC's repository:
git-clone git://dev.laptop.org/projects/games-misc/
I retired stable releases for now, and pretend to release a playable release until June/2008. Faga 21:58, 19 March 2008 (EDT)
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Film Review: The PaperboySouthern pulp trash centered on a miscarriage of justice during the Civil Rights era that's wildly entertaining due to fearless turns from Nicole Kidman, John Cusack and a half-naked Zac Efron.
The Paperboy falls into that uneasy subset of films that set viewers laughing when they're not sure they should. An overheated mix of grindhouse, Southern pulp and racial commentary, it's at once out-of-control, appalling and highly entertaining. Flaws and all, this in-your-face chunk of Americana from director Lee Daniels (Precious) made both the lineup in this year's Cannes and the highly selective New York Film Festival.
Based on the esteemed novel by Pete Dexter, The Paperboy is framed as an off-camera reporter's interview with Anita (Macy Gray), narrating the story as if from the depths of a nasty hangover. She's a maid who worked for the family of Jack (Zac Efron) and his brother Ward (Matthew McConaughey), a journo for the Miami Times during the 1969 investigation of convict Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack), perhaps falsely accused of the murder of a racist sheriff. Ward has returned home to Moat County, Florida, in an effort to exonerate Van Wetter at the instigation of Charlotte (Nicole Kidman), who has only corresponded with the man but is convinced of his innocence. As one character elegantly puts it, Charlotte is "a 40-year-old woman obsessed with prison cock."
Thickening the stew is dishy young Jack's love for Charlotte. Sexploitation kicks in big-time as Daniels, not known for subtlety, gives us Efron lolling around semi-naked, sweatily lusting for Charlotte or driving her to her fiancé's prison. "I'm gettin' horny being this close to you," Charlotte tells Jack, which pretty much sums up the level of dialogue. Essentially a cub who misses his dead mama, the enamored Jack goes so far as to present Charlotte with his mom's ring. Inevitably they end up in the sack and, in a peculiar lapse of filmmaking, narrator Anita suddenly surfaces to cut off the scene with "I think y'all seen enuf."
Word was out early that The Paperboy includes a shot of Kidman urinating on Efron at the beach as a cure for jellyfish stings—this after fighting off a bevy of hotties who wanted to do the honor. That they're each big stars ups the titillation. But perhaps the most memorable set-piece involves Charlotte and Van Wetter's epic meeting in prison for the first time. In the presence of Ward, Jack, guards—and us—she hilariously gives her crazed, ecstatic betrothed what can only be described as an air blowjob. In what feels like real time. The Oscars should establish a special Outrageous Award for that scene alone.
Beside the Jack/Charlotte story, the rest of the film's ostensible plot feels like a MacGuffin. Do we really care whether the wildly unappetizing Van Wetter is innocent? A side strand, played to the hilt for sensationalism, involves Ward's secret life as a gay man with an appetite for rough sex that at one point turns near-lethal. Trust Daniels to get as graphic as possible. Some of the film's swampiest moments are set, literally, in a swamp retreat inhabited by Van Wetter's Uncle Tyree (Ned Bellamy), surrounded by rooting pigs and flayed alligators. The humans here seem as feral as the critters. It's to this less than idyllic place that Van Wetter brings his bride, triggering a violent and suspenseful showdown in the swamp.
Rambling in structure, The Paperboy struggles at the start to get its ducks in a row, before we finally perceive the bones of the story. Daniels also tosses in a clumsy attempt to nail the casual racism of the period, of which only Jack seems aware. But Jack's maudlin attachment to Anita, a surrogate mother, reads as condescending and coexists jarringly with the film's grindhouse elements. That said, the actors hit just the right over-the-top notes, with special plaudits for Efron, far removed from his teen-idol image; Kidman, cast against type and fearlessly trashy; and terrific, underused Cusack as a creature who seems spawned by his swamp habitat. Soul pop from the '70s provides a perfect score. Undeniably entertaining, The Paperboy captures a corner of the American South and lines up an indelible gallery of grotesques.


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This international meeting is convened to commemorate IYC 2011 by providing a forum for frontiers and rising stars in the field of molecular materials to discuss their 'BIG IDEAS' in the intersecting area between materials and chemistry and related developments in other scientific and technological arena.
Under the theme of molecular materials, we welcome not only chemists and materials scientists, but also leading researchers of other related fields such as physics, biology, medicine, engineering etc. with the intention of developing cross-disciplinary and collaborative research ideas. We expect to share your big ideas, and in return, we expect bigger ideas to emerge from this meeting. The symposium will bring together 68 speakers to focus on five major themes of molecular materials; Sustainable Materials, Lifestyle Materials, Healthtech Materials, and Materials for High-Value Manufacturing. The inaugural Molecular Materials Meeting @ Singapore conference will be held on 10 and 11 January 2011 at Level 4, Matrix Building at Biopolis, Singapore. For more details on the conference, please click on the M3 @ Singapore link.
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Among these names was the governor of Qena police general Emad Mikhail who used to be a general in the ministry of interior . It started simply with a sit in in front of the governorate HQ , normal Muslims and Christians refusing the new governor because he is accused of participating in the shooting of protesters during the revolution in Giza . Already one should wonder why someone like that is appointed as a governor and not being investigated for his role in the revolution !!? Again we would not have all this if there is better political decision making process.
Everything was fine and civil , people had demands and the government should have listened to them but suddenly with no introduction we found the radical Salafists jumping to the scene , in fact occupying the scene forcing the rest of the people whether Christians or Muslims to leave it. They reject the new governor because he is Christian , they do not want him because of that only as far as I see !!
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Of course some activists from Qena are disturbed by this and try to convince us that it is not a sectarian thing as even Christians refuse the appointed governor. I believe them but unfortunately the videos coming from Qena shows another thing. This is just a clip from series of video clips showing something terribly bad there.
To be honest I wonder why those people did not do such thing on January 28th in solidarity with their brothers in Cairo , Alexandria and Suez !!?
Now without any doubt here is another episode from the counter revolution soap opera and I am not being sarcastic in any way. Bloggers and activists from Qena are speaking meeting between former state security officers and some Salafists who used to work with the SS last Thursday , they also reported some ugly NDP faces were seen in the Salafist protests like Abdel Raheem El-Gol and Abdel Fatah Omar. I believe them.
It is a new set up for the army now , I was calling the army to interfere and end this circus on twitter as it ended the strikes in Tahrir square "tough on Tahrir but soft on Qena" yet thankfully people reminded me with the nature of Upper Egypt. We are speaking about Qena , the deep down of Upper Egypt and if the army interferes like What happened in Tahrir square April 8th , we can have a civil war there technically considering the facts that everybody is armed there and tribal values are over everything else. This is an original set up because now you are sending message to the rest of Egyptians and also to the world that democracy will bring out the bogyman : THE ISLAMISTS !!
It is a set up for the army , it is a set up for the government , it is set up for the new presidential candidates who seem to be afraid to go to Qena. For the record the previous governor of Qena was Christian and Christians hated him more than Muslims because they believed he favored Muslims over them for fear he would be accused of taking their side because of his religion. He was also police general , most of the governors in Upper Egypt come from the police in the previous era due to the special nature of area there. You got fully armed society , you got powerful and armed families that are more powerful than the state itself , you also have the 1990s terrorism years thus the regime believed Police generals will be better in dealing with these governorates.
By the way some people believe that it is a set up by the army itself to make us accept any governors the Salafists want !! There is no doubt that there is a huge trust issue between people especially young people and the army.
Knowing the nature of Upper Egypt , I would say that the governor position there is not like in Delta or the rest of Egypt , the families and tribes play important role here in shaping the policies of the governorate. This is why I insist that the army push on the families to end this circus in a reasonable way , people say that the families' powers are outside the city but all those protesting follow the orders of their families by the end of the day.The families of Qena are silent because according to those from Upper Egypt they do not consider the Salafists as danger yet.
It is no wonder that the PM sent the minister of interior along with a delegation to speak with the Salafists. Mansour El-Eissawy is already from Qena and he went there with delegation from the revolution activists like Mustafa Al Nagar but unfortunately the negotiations have failed. Now people are speaking of sending Sheikh Mohamed Hassan there and actually I am not comfortable with that role giving to him.
Of course the people should choose their governors freely in democratic elections and hopefully this will be put in our priorities after having a new parliament and constitution.Qena just like the rest of Upper Egypt governorates suffer from a lot of problem especially poverty , I hope that the civil society pay attention to Upper Egypt now because there is no excuse after the fall of the Mubarak regime.


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. - After another standout performance at Saturday's NCAA Division III New England Championship meet, sophomore sprinter Hulerie McGuffie (Lynn, Mass.) has been named the Little East Conference Track Athlete of the Week for the fifth time this season, setting a new program record for most weekly honors by one athlete.
In Saturday's championship meet she recorded the second fastest time in program history in the 60 meter dash with a time of 7.91 seconds to earn fifth place overall. In the preliminary she tripped the timer with an impressive time of 7.92 seconds to earn a spot in the final. She would also help the 4x200 meter relay team to a fourth place finish as the four sprinters recorded a combined time of 46.26 seconds.
With only two meets left before the national championship, the Lynn native sits tied for 30th in the 60 meter dash (7.89), 10th in the 200 meter dash (25.24), and tied for 24th in the 400 meter dash (57.87).


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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., about Gina Haspel's nomination for Director of the CIA. A member of Senate Intelligence Committee, he opposes confirming her, because of her involvement in enhanced interrogation techniques.
As we just heard, President Trump's nominee to run the CIA has detractors. Many Democrats say Gina Haspel's role in the torture of terrorism suspects disqualifies her. One of those critics is Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. He's a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and joins us now. Welcome back to the program.
RON WYDEN: Thanks for having me again.
SHAPIRO: In a statement today you accused the government of covering up disturbing facts about Mrs. Haspel's background. What are you referring to?
WYDEN: Well, first, let's try to put this into some context. The president said during the campaign that he would bring back - and I quote here - "a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding." Now, in the case of Mrs. Haspel, she really hasn't said anything public on these matters. And it seems to me the American people have a right to know exactly how their new national security team is going to approach these issues given what the president said in the campaign.
I start on these issues with the views of John McCain, who knows a lot about torture. I find it morally repugnant. And John McCain says torture just doesn't work. And I think what we're going to have to do in these hearings is really flesh out where this nominee stands.
SHAPIRO: Let me ask - you've seen classified material the public has not seen. Are you aware of anything specific in Mrs. Haspel's background that in your view would disqualify her that has not been made public?
WYDEN: Well, of course I cannot comment on classified, you know, matters. I mean, there have been numerous public reports linking her to the interrogation and detention program, the torture program, CIA officials connecting those matters to her. I mean, our Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report showed that this was a brutal program. The CIA lied about what they did to detainees. They made false claims that torture stopped terrorist plots. They lied to the Congress, to the Justice Department, to the press and to the public. So the question for the hearings with Mrs. Haspel is, what part of all of this might she have played?
SHAPIRO: We just heard from John Bennett, the former head of the National Clandestine Service, who said she stepped up to do a dirty job for the safety of the country at a time when the Bush administration declared those methods legal. What do you say to that?
WYDEN: Well, I don't outsource my oversight responsibilities to anybody. I heard his soundbite. But when you have a nominee who for all practical purposes has not said anything in public about her views, the Congress has a responsibility, the intelligence committee has a responsibility to do vigorous oversight on these issues.
SHAPIRO: We also spoke with John McLaughlin, the former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, who said you cannot find a seasoned CIA professional who has not been involved in some controversial program. Does this come with the territory?
WYDEN: Well, let's be clear about this. What we're going to do in these hearings is not divulge what are called sources and methods. Sources and methods are sacrosanct. That kind of information can't be given out. But I do want to go into her background in a way that doesn't compromise sources and methods. And by the way, Senator Martin Heinrich and I have tried to get that information declassified and we haven't been able to.
SHAPIRO: Are you prepared to hold up her nomination, just in the few seconds we have left, until you get some of that declassified?
WYDEN: I'm going to insist on transparency and accountability. I don't think I'll be the only senator who does so.
SHAPIRO: Senator Ron Wyden, thank you very much for joining us.
WYDEN: Thanks for having me.
SHAPIRO: He's a Democrat, a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee representing the great state of Oregon.
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Jun.9 (GMM) Formula one will scrap plans to return to Bahrain for pre-season testing next winter.This year, to guarantee good weather for all-important running of the radically-new cars and engines, the teams headed to Bahrain's Sakhir track for eight days of running ahead of the season opener in Australia.But with cost-cutting now such a high priority, the sport will not be returning to the island Kingdom ahead of the 2015 season, Speed Week claims.Pirelli chief Paul Hembery backed the move."Bahrain is much further away from everything than Spain is," he said, "so testing there is more expensive."Logistically, Bahrain is a nightmare," Hembery added. "If you have a problem, it takes a lot more time to fly out new parts. Six hours flights, not two."Speed Week correspondent Mathias Brunner said team bosses agreed in Canada at the weekend that three pre-season tests will take place next winter -- all of them in Spain.The precise dates have not yet been decided, but it is believed the winter testing will begin at Jerez and end with two sessions in Barcelona.It is also reported that, also for cost reasons, F1 could once again axe in-season testing, despite the fact the concept of post-race tests at some key grand prix circuits was only introduced this year.Brunner said: "It (the in-season test ban) is not yet set in stone. There are team bosses who want at least two tests during the season." comments powered by Disqus
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Sally Herigstad is a certified public accountant and the author of "Help! I Can't Pay My Bills: Surviving a Financial Crisis" (St. Martin's Press, 2006). She writes "To Her Credit," a weekly reader Q&A column about issues involving women, credit and debt, for CreditCards.com, and also wrote for MSN Money, Interest.com and Bankrate.com, and has guested on Martha Stewart Radio and other programs.
Dear To Her Credit,
I recently became more involved with my personal finances. Within this year, I paid off my student loans and car loan, got a new credit card with good rewards, and I am thinking about getting a house within the next two years.
I just checked my credit score — it's looking good at about 790. However, my credit report shows that I still have six credit and charge cards open. I don't use any of them, except the one I just got last month. They all carry a zero balance, and they seem like dead weight. I opened them over the past six or so years — mostly to get one-time deals at Best Buy, Macy's, Banana Republic and so on. I don't see a need for them and would like to get rid of them. I just want to keep the one I got recently.
Any suggestions? Should I get rid of them all or just a few? — Jana
Dear Jana,
A credit score of 790 is doing more than looking good! It's well above average. To achieve that score, your credit report must be pristine, with virtually no payments more than 30 days overdue. You've demonstrated financial responsibility by paying back at least two kinds of debt — installment debt and credit card debt. You are in excellent shape to go shopping for a house, assuming you also have the income and down payment to support your application.
It's debatable whether closing the extra store cards would change your credit score at all. Sure, your available credit will go down. If you carried a balance on any of your cards, that might affect your debt-to-available-credit ratio. However, because you keep a zero balance (yay!), that's not an issue.
With six cards open, you may have a notation on your credit score report under "factors that reduced your score" saying that you have too many cards. I have about that many cards, and my report always says that. However, my score is high enough that I think if it's hurting anything, it's sure not hurting it much.
Your credit score is high enough that a difference of a few points here and there won't change whether you get a loan or the best interest rate for that loan. That doesn't mean it's OK to slack off. It's amazing how quickly a score can drop if a person gets careless. But any score over 740 or 760 already qualifies you for the best rates possible.
I'd add one important asterisk, though — think twice before you close your oldest credit accounts. The length of your credit history accounts for 15 percent of your credit score. The scoring formula evaluates the ages of your oldest and newest accounts, along with the average age of all your accounts. The formula gives the greatest rewards to those with long histories of on-time payments. If you, with your good payment habits, close a long-standing account, the record of good payments will eventually drop off your report and could hurt your score down the road.
There are good reasons for closing extra cards, aside from credit score considerations. The biggest issue is that someone could use your card without your knowledge. If that happens, you can fight the unauthorized charges and not be liable for them, but why go through the hassle if you can avoid it? If you don't want the cards, go ahead and close some or most of them.
Another reason many people close cards is to get rid of the temptation to spend on them. Even if you don't carry the cards with you, it's easy now to show identification and charge purchases to your store charge account.
On the other hand, some stores, such as Macy's regularly have sales with additional discounts if you use its card. That extra 15 percent off can help you score some real deals. Having one or two department store cards where you shop regularly won't hurt anything.
In addition, you might want to keep one Visa or MasterCard account besides your favorite one. If something ever happens to one card, for example, if the issuer suspects irregular activity, your account can be frozen. If that happens when you're standing at the hotel desk a thousand miles from home, you'll be happy you kept a backup card open.
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ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — There are certain things you have to hear when you're at an NBA game — announcements from the home team to the crowd about basic services and rules. But that doesn't mean they have to be boring. The Atlanta Hawks already kicked up their pre-game announcements a few months back by setting them to the tune of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines." Their latest video covers similar ground, but is set to Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball," replete with a lip-synching cameo from legendary Hawk Dominique Wilkins, as well as a pixellated Harry the Hawk swinging on a wrecking ball.
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I love having a stash of all sorts of food items squirreled away in my freezer. Not just any old things, but homemade edibles safely packed and put down for a chilly nap, to have on hand for any emergency, and to be woken up when needed. Different kinds of stock and soup, cookie dough, small batches of béchamel, meatballs and burger patties already formed, apportioned tubs of slow-cooked meat sauce, pie dough, and anything else homemade and freezable.
Oh the smug contentment of knowing you have these nourishing provisions at the ready! Set to be whipped out at a moment's notice. Perhaps when you are too busy to get a proper dinner on, or you have sudden surprise visitors….or you are just in the mood for some pie.
Apple Galette
(pie dough recipe adapted from Dorie Greenspan's Baking: From My Home to Yours as adapted by Cenk of Cafe Fernando, filling adapted from Cenk's recipe)
For the pie dough:
For the filling:
– Pulse flour, sugar and salt in a food processor using a metal blade.
– Remove butter from freezer, add it in the processor, and pulse until it resembles a coarse meal. Do not over mix! The pieces don't have to be uniform. Dorie says some can be the size of fat peas and some the size of barley.
– Add ice water little by little, pulsing once in between each addition, until the dough forms clumps and curds (I lessened the water from 1/2 cup to 1/3 due to the moisture already present in my air). Again, do not over mix! Chunks of butter in the dough are fine (yum!) 🙂
– Turn the dough out onto a work surface and very lightly and sparingly, knead just to incorporate dry ingredients.
– Divide the dough into two even balls. Flatten balls into disks and wrap individually in plastic.
– Refrigerate dough for at least an hour (at this point you can stash one disc in the freezer for future use if you are not going to use all the dough).
– Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough between two sheets of baking parchment (you can roll dough directly on a floured work surface or between two sheets of plastic wrap but parchment works best for me) into a rough 11-inch circle. When rolling, turn dough over frequently and lift the parchment so it doesn't form creases. Trim the edges to form a clean circle (I didn't, oops!).
– Place your flattened dough (covered in the parchment) back in the fridge for about 20 minutes to chill again.
– Remove dough from fridge, peel of top layer of parchment, and transfer the dough, on the bottom layer of parchment, to a sheet pan or pizza pan (I used one of those pizza pans with holes on the bottom).
– Mix 1/2 tablespoon of the cornstarch and 2 tablespoons of the sugar in a bowl and spread on the bottom of the dough.
– Toss apples with the rest of the cornstarch, sugar, lemon juice, and cinnamon.
– Arrange the fruit on the bottom of the dough, leaving 2 inches of dough left outside.
– Fold up and pleat the dough (as best you can) over the top of the fruit, leaving the center uncovered.
– Lightly brush the top of the pastry with the beaten egg and sprinkle both the dough and the fruit with sugar (I used Demerara sugar with large crystals).
– Place the galette in 400F oven and cook for 40-45 minutes until golden brown and bubbly.
– Remove from oven and transfer to a cooling rack immediately.
This isn't a pie per se but a free-form tart, or galette if you want to sound cute and French (which I must admit I sometimes do). Unlike a pie you don't need a special tin or even a top crust to make this. Just roll out the dough, nestle the fruits in the middle, pull up the edges (as neat or as messily as you want), and place on any flat baking pan. Pop in the oven and that's that!
I have made this before using plums and nectarines and it is just as charming with apples, although of a different charm altogether. While the plums and nectarines were bright and tart and cheery, the cinnamon-perfumed apples are pure cozy comfort. I like both and I'd be hard-pressed to choose one over the other but I think it does say something that both C and my mom liked this one better.
I didn't peel the apples when I made this as I thought it would add some color, and, truth be told, I was lazy. I do recommend you peel them though (and have indicated peeled apples in the recipe) as it can be a bit awkward when trying to cut your slice with a fork.
I used the Good For Almost Anything pie dough from Dorie Greenspan's Baking: From My Home to Yours, as I did in the plum and nectarine version. I have typed out the recipe again here because this pie crust is truly so wonderful that I do believe it deserves repeating. For this galette I used some dough that had been sitting in the freezer for (the shame!) months. Aside from its old age, it was extremely hot in my kitchen making the dough too soft…I was sure it would be a disaster. But Dorie's crust must be imbued with magical powers because from less than promising conditions it still emerged golden and flaky and absolutely delicious!
One batch of dough will give you enough for two galettes, so you can store one in the freezer for the future. And as far any homemade-goods-freezer-stash goes, this is definitely an excellent addition!


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-151?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Myrna van Lunteren updated DERBY-151: ------------------------------------- Issue & fix info: [High Value Fix, Repro attached] (was: [High Value Fix]) Bug behavior facts: [Seen in production] > Thread termination -> XSDG after operation is 'complete' > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-151 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-151 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Store > Affects Versions: 10.0.2.1 > Environment: Linux kernel 2.4.21-243-athlon (SuSE 9.0) > Reporter: Barnet Wagman > Attachments: d151.java, derby.log, Derby151Test.java > > > I've encountered what appears to be a bug related to threading. After an INSERT operation, if the invoking thread terminates too quickly, Derby throws an XSDG. > The bug is a bit difficult to isolate but it occurs consistently in the following situation (with a particular database and an operation of a particular size): > Derby is running in embedded mode with autocommit on. > The application performs an INPUT operation from a thread that is not the main thread. The INPUT is issued using a PreparedStatement. The INPUT adds ~ 256 records of six fields each. (Note that INSERTs of this size seem to work fine in other contexts.) > > The preparedStatement.executeUpdate() seems to excute successfully; at least it returns without throwing an exception. > The thread that invoked the INPUT operation then terminates (but NOT the application). The next INPUT operation then results in an > "ERROR XSDG1: Page Page(7,Container(0, 1344)) could not be written to disk, please check if disk is full." > The disk is definitely not full. > HOWEVER, if I put the calling thread to sleep for a second before it exits, the problem does not occur. > I'm not quite sure what to make of this. I was under the impression that most of Derby's activity occurs in the application's threads. Could Derby be creating a child thread from in the application thread, which dies when the parent thread terminates? > Thanks -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Thursday, October 13, 2016 - Events and Conferences,Judge Arthur Tompkins,Luisa Gommans,Ngarino Ellis,Noah Charney,Penelope Jackson,Puāwai Cairns,Rebecca Rice,Simon Mackenzie,Tarisi Vunidilo,Victoria Leachman No comments
Conference: Artcrime 2016 - The New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust
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City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand 2009
Date: Saturday 15 October 2016
Location: City Gallery, Wellington
Times: 10:00 am - 7 pm
10.00am - Welcome; Formal Opening
Arthur Tompkins and Elizabeth Caldwell
10.20am - Introduction
Louisa Gommans
10.25am - Art Crime as a discipline: progress since 2008
Noah Charney
10.55am - Anatomy of an international statue trafficking network.
Simon Mackenzie
11.25am - Q & A
11.30am - Morning tea
12.00pm - Introduction
Ngarino Ellis
12.05pm - Repatriation in a museum context: no one size fits all
Puāwai Cairns
12.35pm - Stolen Art in Paradise? Stories of Illicit trafficking of Cultural Property in the Pacific: Case Studies from Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea
Tarisi Vunidilo
1.05pm - Q & A
1.10pm - Lunch
2.00pm - Introduction
Penelope Jackson
2.05pm - Copying for the colonies: W. S. Hatton and the forging of national histories
Rebecca Rice
2.35pm - Re-Use and Misuse of images of Museum collection items
Victoria Leachman
3.05pm - Q & A
3.10pm - Afternoon tea
3.40pm - Panel discussion: Security in the Galleries Catherine Gardner
New Zealand Police
Erika McClintock – City Gallery, Wellington
Courtney Johnston – The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
Reuben Friend – Pātaka, Porirua
4.40pm - Art Thieves, Fraudsters and Fakers: The New Zealand Story by Penelope Jackson (Awa Press 2016) Mary Varnham; Elizabeth Caldwell interviewing Penelope Jackson
Following the formal programme, attendees are invited to stay on for an informal cocktail and networking function at the Gallery from 5.00 pm to 7.00pm. This will include the launch of Art Thieves, Fraudsters and Fakers: The New Zealand Story by Penelope Jackson (Published by Awa Press 2016).


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My name is Michael Molina. I am a top-producing loan officer in the Salt Lake City, Utah area. I have been so successful, I have been recruited by a large mortgage banker and will be expanding my business to include all of California. I am totally reworking my personal branding and image. I have been doing loans for 17-years and I finance the rich and affluent as well as the humble, first-time homebuyer. I am "Everyone's Lender". I love the work. I love the people. I love taking a dream and turning it into a reality. This project is for MY PERSONAL BRANDING as a loan officer only...it is not to promote my company.
My logo must have broad appeal: Borrowers: both the rich and famous, the middle-class, and the meek and humble.
Professionals: Real estate agents; CPA's, attorneys, other professionals, etc. When you look at me and my logo, you should feel like you are seeing someone just like you.
As I said above, when someone looks at my logo, I would hope that they get the "feel" of relating to me. I feel like my picture should be central to any logo design, of course, but I am hoping to see options with and without it. I want to incorporate the term: "Everyone's Lender" in the design. Like me, my logo should be contemporary. Current. Relevant. Modern. Edgy. Sophisticated. Friendly. Happy. I want it to catch the eye and draw you in. Absolutely nothing cute or campy or silly or cartoonish. I have a terrific sense of humor, but I am also extremely professional and serious about my work and the service I provide to my clients. Greys, blacks and blues are a big hit with me.... but I am open to anything. Hopefully, my logo will convey the same feeling you get when you are sitting in an ultra-modern contemporary top-floor loft of a 55-story apartment building, talking to clients and friends while sipping a martini.
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• SingTel needs to help ensure that its investment in SME service innovation pays off. Its approach to innovation and funding is a positive move, but it must focus on projects that will develop into real services. Identifying and accelerating promising projects will be the key to commercial success. The SME market is notoriously difficult to address successfully. SingTel needs to focus on services that meet SMEs' business needs, simplicity in pricing, reliability, and ease of use.
• A major challenge for SingTel is to build on its momentum in the SME-dominated domestic market and turn this achievement into pan-Asian success. The market opportunity is clearly substantial: the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that Asia-Pacific will be the largest economic region globally by 2030, and SingTel aims to take a major share of this opportunity. It also has serious ambitions in Africa for mobile services. Altogether it sees a mobile market of 350 million subscribers.
• SingTel will surely face strong competition from other Asian competitors with equally ambitious plans, as well as global service providers with aggressive cloud services plans and established relationships with multinational corporations.
• Cisco is a strategic partner in cloud services for SingTel. In September 2010, SingTel announced that it will introduce enterprise cloud-based virtual data center services in Singapore with technology from VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment coalition created by Cisco, EMC and VMware. The services were scheduled to be available in late 2010.
• SingTel was one of the first telcos to announce a partnership with Google, and its OneOffice service for SMEs was successfully built on this collaboration. SingTel aims to attract a large number of partners for its SME cloud offer, including many small specialist players. Those companies known to be MyBusiness partners include CommonTown, Conversant Solutions, F-Secure, NCS, and Paper Terminal.
• SingTel has a strong partnership strategy. Among its other partners involved in its enterprise offers are: Intuit, Samsung, Arkadin, Ericsson, RIM, Juniper Networks, Nokia, Polycom, Riverbed, Sybase, and V3.
• For IT services, SingTel has its own system integration company, NCS, but also partners with a number of ISV players in major verticals.
• OneOffice: Office productivity and collaboration suite based on Google Apps
– Tariffs: basic service for five users with extra users charged per month; additional services (fax and Short Message Service [SMS]) pay per use
• ReputationWatch: Developed with social media monitoring company, JamiQ, this service allows tracking of reputation and brand presence on social networks and blogs
– Tariffs: basic service per three topics per month; additional topics per month
• V-Cube Meeting: Web-based video conferencing service
– Tariffs: one-time charge, or monthly charge per user
Success Factors/Metrics/Monetization
• However, with an early entry in the market, SingTel's cloud strategy is starting to pay off on multiple fronts, at least in terms of numbers of customers. It already has a significant number of customers, most of which are local Singaporean enterprises and SMEs. SingTel claims about 100,000 business users of software-as-a-service.
• Given the pricing of OneOffice compared with its standard broadband offer, it is not surprising that SingTel has had success in migrating its SME customers from basic services to higher value bundles and get them using the MyBusiness portal. The real measure of success in Singapore will be in the revenue growth, and profitability returned, from additional services, which will take far longer to achieve.
• In platform-as-a-service, SingTel currently works with 300 ISVs, developing applications, many sold through the MyBusiness portal. One of the company's objectives in setting up its innovation initiative was to develop stronger relationships with the development community, with the assumption that these relationships would lead naturally to new channels to market (that is, from developer partners selling SingTel connectivity as part of their offers). It is too early to measure the success of this strategy, but it looks promising.
• SingTel's infrastructure-as-a-service offerings include:
– Alatum, a virtual data center for on-demand cloud computing infrastructure
– EXPAN Grid, an on-demand computing power and storage offering, for which SingTel claims to currently have 20,000 users.
Company Background
• Read SingTel overview
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By Shawn Langlois
Facebook did its part last week, knocking out some stellar numbers that buoyed all things social media. Now it's Twitter's turn.
Good luck.
Results from a stretched stock with stretched expectations in a stretched market at a time when investors clearly have an itchy finger on the sell button is a recipe for a thrashing. In other words, load up, we're about to go parabolic (more on that below).
For now, markets don't seem too concerned about building on yesterday's momentum. Stocks are off again, lending a few more points of credence to bears like Jim Walker, who's surprised markets are holding on this well.
"It [the S&P 500] was up 35% last year on the back on money printing. By the end of this year, that $85 billion a month will be zero, because the Fed will keep going," the Asianomics CEO told CNBC in an interview. "We've had huge inflation for the last year in the U.S., and that inflation is now tapering off, and with it will be asset prices, they will taper off." So, he says, stocks are headed for a 20% drop this year.
If the Nikkei, is any indication, that might not be so farfetched (see chart of the day).
With margin levels hovering near records, investors better hope Walker's call to short the U.S. and go long India blows up in his face. Or else it'll take a lot more than a few social-media stocks to get this thing moving in the right direction. More thoughts on corrections here.
Key market gauges: The Nikkei /quotes/zigman/5986735/realtime JP:NIK caught a break from its downtrend with a rise of more than 1%, though much of the rest of Asia /quotes/zigman/6959860/realtime XX:ADOW declined. Futures on the Dow /quotes/zigman/25835223/realtime YMZ4 and the S&P /quotes/zigman/21588523/realtime ESZ4 signal that Tuesday's gains were a passing thing, and a slowdown in private-hiring numbers helped that red ink along. Europe fell as stock futures slipped and after a nasty set of retail sales number.
The economy: The ADP employment report showed 175,000 jobs were added in January, down from the 238,000 added in the prior month. Economists use the data to gauge bigger payrolls out Friday. At 10 AM, the ISM nonmanufacturing index comes out, with a slight move deeper into expansion mode expected.
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2004 Track & Field Recap: Ben met the Olympic Trials "B" standard in the 800m running a 1:48.00 at the Cardinal Inv...won his second Big West 800m title...runner-up in the 800m at the West Region Championship and advanced to the NCAA National Championship...800m PR is #2 on all-time Gaucho list...ran 3rd leg on fastest 4x400m relay at UCSB in 17 years (3:11.32).
2003 XC Recap: Ben ran 25:38 at the Stanford Invitational and recorded a UCSB Lagoon XC 8k best of 26:15.
2003 Track & Field Recap:
Red-shirted his 3rd year but still posted a competitive 800m mark of 1:50.98 to win the Pomona Invitational.
2002 Track
Enjoyed a great sophomore season, clocking a provisional time of 1:48.70, ranking him 13th in the nation at one point...Finished the season ranked 22nd in the NCAA and 33rd in the country...An excellent showing at the conclusion of the seaon, individually winning the 800 meter event and assisting in the 4x400 meter relay team that took fourth place with a time of 3:13.27.
2001 Cross Country
Continued to make a case for himself as a middle distance runner with longer range, clocking 26:19 on the UCSB 8K course.
2001 Track
Finished fourth at the Big West Conference Championships as a true freshman....Also improved his 800m mark by two seconds from high school...Had a 3:58.37 effort in the 1500m race.
High School
As a junior in 1999, placed third in the State Meet prelims of the 800m...Also as a junior, ran his personal best of 1:54.74 at the Southern Section Masters Meet to finish third.
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800m - 1:48.00 - 4/30/04
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Gal Zak avait besoin d'un nouveau design de logo et a lancé un concours sur 99designs.
Un gagnant a été sélectionné de 56 designs proposés par 18 designers freelance.
I'm a UI and UX designer, and I'm responsible for the site's branding and the final product look and functionality. I am looking for a well designed site, not just another web2.0 design, and I believe the place to start with - is the LOGO!
• Urban Diners (Singles/Couples/Groups) - BiteHunter.com will attract restaurant goers in urban areas who love to go out and are interested in saving when they dine. The search engine capability will enable these users to find exactly what they are looking for. For example, they can find a great prix fix menu offered by one of Restaurant Week's participating restaurants that decided to offer discounted entrees for an extended period of time, or a special incentive from OpenTable offering extra points to be redeemed for gift cards, if reservations are booked for specific days and times.
• Families - BiteHunter.com anticipates attracting families from cities or surrounding suburbs who dine out regularly or order food for delivery/pick-up and are looking for cost-effective dining options for their family.
• Tourists - Tourists will find the website very appealing; before they arrive at their destination they can search and find great dining offers and save money. Many of the tourists will be exposed to the site through travel partners such as Expedia, Hotwire and Hotels.com.
• Cell phone users - BiteHunter.com will have an effective application that will serve users on the-go by sending great restaurants offers based on their location directly to their phones.
BiteHunter.com will become the largest aggregator/search engine for outstanding dining deals, connecting patrons and restaurants, thereby providing customers with direct cost savings.
We will help customers find the best deals in any neighborhood, any cuisine and in any time of the day.
Brand attributes:
o Dining is all about 'fun'!
o 'Reliability' – BiteHunter is the authority for dining deal over the web
o 'Live and Dynamic' – the most updated source for dining deals and events
o 'Relevancy' - at biteHunter.com you can fins deals that are relevant for here and now
The site and the logo should look fun and vivid but NOT a mess of color. Not like corporate or web platforms sites. This website is about food, therefore it needs build an "appetite".
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OAKLAND — An apparent shootout between the occupants of two vehicles Monday morning in West Oakland left at least one man wounded, police said.
Several vehicles and a vacant apartment were also struck by gunfire but no other injuries were reported. The shooting happened about 11 a.m. in the 2800 block of West Street, across from the Marcus Foster school campus. The school, on break for the holiday, was not in session.
A few minutes after the shooting, a 27-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds police say were sustained in the shooting was dropped off at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center by some people who fled in a car. He was later transferred to another hospital where he was in stable condition and not cooperating with police.
No motive was determined and no suspects have been arrested.
West Street between 27th and 29th streets was shut down while police investigated. Dozens of bullet casings were found at the scene and police recovered an assault rifle.
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - WiBro Egg Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in WiBro Egg Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Technology Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message jkrishnamurtidotorgJoined: 04 Oct 2012 Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:52 pm Post subject: WiBro Egg I have been researching options for enabling the potential to use internet in my classroom. I am looking at using the internet occasionally for google images to describe things, dictionary/thesaurus, youtube vids, esl games via projector connected to my laptop, etc I've narrowed it down to: - Purchasing an unlocked smartphone with tethering capabilities + Data Plan - WiBro Egg One thing that is quite attractive about the WiBro Egg is that it might be able to double as my home router on the KT 50gb plan. Can anyone familiar with using the WiBro Egg mention if the 'portable router' is efficient enough for these purposes? Back to top dazzedJoined: 26 May 2007 Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 11:07 am Post subject: From what other past posts from Wibro Egg owners, you can connect 5 devices to the Egg. Back to top jkrishnamurtidotorgJoined: 04 Oct 2012 Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:09 am Post subject: OK Thanks for the response. But to be more specific: I don't plan to allow students to access the Egg (if that's what you were implying by addressing the number of devices that can connect to it). I would be the sole user of the Egg, which I could connect to my laptop/tablet in the classroom, then blow up images/games/videos onto a screen/wall with a projector. I'd like to carry the Egg to work for class wifi use, but if I was already paying for an internet plan on the device, I might consider doubling it's use at home as well instead of having 2 internet plans. I'm curious if anyone has experience with the Egg and whether it is capable of matching conventional speeds of typical home routers/plans? Back to top dazzedJoined: 26 May 2007 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:25 am Post subject: You're trying to compare 3g speed with digital line speed. No comparison. Back to top kimunJoined: 12 Dec 2010 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:32 am Post subject: I use the egg for home use and I take it with me sometimes to coffee shops when I know its going to be crowded and their wifi network is going to be slow. Nice thing about this, when I use the egg in public places I don't have to worry about network sniffers and people stealing my passwords and what not, because I'm on my private network. But anyways, back to your question. It's definitely feasible to use at home as your primary internet connection. I get about 6mbs downloads and 1mbs uploads with SKT (Olleh). KT has slightly faster speeds and (maybe) better coverage, but it's a little more expensive. If you don't think you will go over their monthly allotment than KT is fine. I have the SKT unlimited plan which is 20,000 won a month (cheap!), but actually finding a SKT store carrying their egg was a real pain. I had to go to like 10 different stores and finally this guy told me he could order me one. On the flipside, pretty much all KT stores have their eggs in stock, so it's much easier to get from them. I am a heavy internet user so I preferred the unlimited plan on SKT. Obviously home internet through cable is a lot faster - somewhere like 30MBS download/upload vs wibro's 6MBS/1MBS download/upload, but its not a huge difference in daily use. I can stream videos from youtube without problems and browse websites just fine. Only issue you might notice is if you video conference through Skype or Facetime a lot, because the upload is slower (the person receiving your video feed might notice crappy quality). Wibro is also much better than 3G service - even though theoretical download/upload speed might be similar. Not sure what it its called, but like the first byte to download on 3G is sometimes really slow, which makes everything seem to lag. You know visit a website, takes quite a few seconds for that page to begin loading. Wibro doesn't seem to have that problem. Everything works zippy and I'm more than content with it. I would recommend you getting the wibro for your purpose (home and taking it to work). Back to top thurstJoined: 08 Apr 2009Location: Seoul Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:11 pm Post subject: have you tried gaming on your wibro? if so, was it laggy? Back to top kimunJoined: 12 Dec 2010 Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:21 am Post subject: Sorry not a gamer and haven't ever tried playing online games through the egg, so not sure how well it would work for that. 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BY: Toria, OCT/31/2017, SSN;
The two prominent leaders of South Sudan who have witnessed the achievements of their objectives are Joseph Lagu and Abel Alier, these two fought for two parallel visions but also very divisive political agendas, one is for separation and the other for dominance.
Lagu fought to see South Sudan become an independent country and also he wanted his people, the South Sudanese, to be free from being dominated by some ethnic hegemonies and hence the regionalism also commonly known amongst the Southerners as Kokora, which was born to prevent what is happening in South Sudan today.
Contrary to his counterpart, Abel Alier's vision was to have his people the Dinkas to dominate the other ethnic minority groups based on population size and hence the phrase "born to rule" was born.
Judging from what culminated, Lagu got not only his desires to implement the regionalism agenda coined by the Jellaba in the North but also finally South Sudan got her independence from the Arabized Northern Sudan.
And also Alier got his desires of tribal monopolization in which his Dinka ethnic people became the new face of domination.
To this date these two leaders' visions impregnated the minds of people in the new nation, it is reasonable to assume that the new generation of South Sudanese are unable to move forward and to come up with new visions.
Most of the new leaderships are embroiled in bitter disagreements of which ways to take to move forward.
Any kind of move to reform the old system is seen as a suspicious move by either side, trust has eroded in our communities so much that even within the same families and clans and tribes to national level, everyone thinks someone is here coming to get me.
The regime in Juba thinks the opposition is coming up with regime change agenda and to levy punishments on regime supporters for the past crimes, meanwhile the oppositions see the regime in Juba are vying for more control and to continue the oppression and to grab power by force in the next elections, if there will be any elections.
If there is anything that South Sudanese will never tolerate is being subjugated to policies that they don't agree with. This is evident and can be seen from the historical backgrounds of our people's struggles.
They would rather opt to suffer rather than being treated like second class citizens or more or less like slaves in a country which all our peoples suffered to liberate, they will never put up with dictatorships.
Since the period of colonial eras our peoples resisted the attempts to being ruled by systems that suppressed their voices and neglected their traditional norms.
The real question to ask ourselves and this includes those foreign entities who are trying to implement lasting peace in South Sudan. As much as they have well intention to save the suffering people of South Sudan, but what they need to realize is that any system that they force upon the people without consensus will just be another breeding grounds for hatreds creating more challenges and it will backfire in the future.
By now; we as South Sudanese should understand that forcing each other's opinions and traditional systems upon other ethnic groups will not work.
By the same token, since Abel Alier and Joseph Lagu are still alive I suggest that it is about time these two need to sit face to face and make genuine peace, to initiate the national reconciliation. For both of them have already have seen the fruits of their initiatives.
Before they leave us they need to make peace and denounce the negative aspects of their visions, namely "Kokora" and "born to rule" visions were their worst failures.
But their vision of independence of South Sudan was the best achievement that 99% of South Sudanese agreed with and that should be the legacy that these two leaders need to leave behind.
Just as recently as we saw in his tours of the US, the leader of National Salvation Front or NAS, Gen. Thomas Cirilo, called for new system, which we as a nation should look at his visions more closely and examine his intentions with some keen interests.
Gen. Cirilo personally declared that his movement is to restore peace and bring about a system that will bring lasting peace, in what he claimed will make every South Sudanese be a shareholder.
We must not just blindly oppose his visions just because Thomas Cirilo comes from Equatoria. You might have heard some people on social media opposing his visions especially those supporting the government are antagonistic that Gen. Cirilo is trying to breakaway Equatoria region from the rest of South Sudan.
I am sure the opposite is true, and I challenge everyone opposed should give a listening ear for once as the General is crying out to everyone. He even mentioned about that they "Dinkas need to be rescued from the grips of the regime in Juba," there are many examples but that Dinkas are suffering just like everyone else.
Look at what is happening to the former Chief of Staff Gen. Paul Malong Awan. http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article63857
There have never been many leaders who eloquently can admit that the very people who are oppressing his own people and robbing everything like the regime in Juba grabbing his own ancestral soil in Rajaf.
How could anyone still stay calm and call for rescue of the people who torment his people?
This is a unique character of leaders in our time that we haven't seen for a long time. And perhaps only seen in the context of scriptures that was displayed by two people; Stephen in Acts of Apostles was being stoned to death and yet prayed that "forgive them because they don't know what they are doing".
Again Jesus Christ was nailed onto the cross, even at the excruciatingly painful moments of his life he looked up and said "father forgive them."
These are the real and true hearts of people who today have left lasting impacts on countless believers we call Christians today. I am not comparing Thomas Cirilo to Jesus or Stephen but only giving examples.
I believe part of the solutions of multi-ethnic society like South Sudan should be a secular system in which religion and personal beliefs should be left to individual choices, all that I am referring to are the ideals of self-sacrifice.
Genuine leaders must deny their personal interests and put the national interests first. As opposed to what we have witnessed in the hands of SPLM party, starting from the time of peace agreements with the North to the referendum, until today instead of progress all that we see is digressions.
Hence forth, from their own words we should be able to hold leaders accountable if they fail to deliver as what they promise. https://www.facebook.com/NASAnyaNya2017/videos/1741819869446652/
Putting tribalism aside, Thomas Cirilo went further admitting that his own Bari people are divided and others would say "he is from Rajaf", and some Equatorians would say "he is from Bari… it's a Bari movement" and yet some South Sudanese would say "he is from Equatoria, it is an Equatorian movement".
These are very painful and saddest moments in our lives, as a nation of multicultural heritage we are not the first to experience such downward spiralling, all our neighboring countries are no different but they have learnt to coexist, we should borrow from their experiences to resolve our differences.
In conclusion, Mr. Cirilo has displayed a unique character far from a tribal leader like Salva Kirr and some others, he again reiterated in an interview; https://www.facebook.com/GatKoang20/videos/1440167149392193.
That he wants to see the best of everything to ALL South Sudanese people regardless of who you are. I bet you will disagree with me but I also think many have disagreed with what is happening in our country now but yet we allow it to continue.
And so why don't we give Thomas Cirilo a chance to prove himself? If he is really who he claims, his fruition should be put to test by giving him our supports.
Thomas Cirilo said a lot of things and I cannot analyze all of them here. Without prejudices anyone should take a moment and listen to his speeches and interviews. Perhaps we have a man of peace right here before us and let us give him a chance.
Just as we have given our previous leaders the chances to prove themselves and when we don't like them we can as usual remove them from the seat.
I urge the great peoples of South Sudan and particularly the two majority groups of the Dinkas and the Nuers to give Thomas Cirilo a chance so that we could maintain the unity of our young nation. If we don't act fast enough then we may be risking the inevitability of disintegration.


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Awesome news!! Brave Wave will publish all three soundtracks from Art of Fighting 1 to 3 on Vinyl. I'm stoked
This will be the first time to have Neo Geo music on Vinyl actually. One can only dream of the other titles (Garou Densetsu, King of Fighters, Viewpoint...). I'm really looking forward to see what will happen in the future. Looks like they got an agreement with SNK
SNK and Brave Wave announce exciting new partnership for creating classic NeoGeo soundtrack restorations, starting with Art of Fighting series 25th Anniversary CD and vinyl releases
SNK and Brave Wave Productions are proud to announce that they have entered into a partnership for releasing classic NEOGEO soundtracks on CD and vinyl. This multi-year endeavor begins with Generation Series 005: ART OF FIGHTING, Generation Series 00X: ART OF FIGHTING 2 and Generation Series 00X: THE PATH OF THE WARRIOR: ART OF FIGHTING 3. First released in 1992, the ART OF FIGHTING series celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year in 2017. SNK and Brave Wave are eager to introduce the classic fighting game franchise to a new generation of gamers.
As part of Brave Wave's critically acclaimed Generation Series lineup of classic video game soundtracks, the ART OF FIGHTING soundtracks will feature each games' original music restored to the highest possible quality, in collaboration and consultation with SNK and the original composers of NEO Sound Orchestra. The CD and vinyl will feature artwork from the SNK archives by the legendary illustrator Shinkiro, in addition to thorough liner notes with insight on the production of ART OF FIGHTING.
ART OF FIGHTING The Definitive Soundtrack will release for CD and vinyl in October 2017, followed by ART OF FIGHTING 2 The Definitive Soundtrack and THE PATH OF THE WARRIOR: ART OF FIGHTING 3 The Definitive Soundtrack in the first half of 2018.
SNK and Brave Wave hope to expand this collaboration to other major NEOGEO franchises beyond ART OF FIGHTING starting in 2018. NEOGEO fans can expect many of their favorite classic soundtracks to make their way to CD and vinyl in new and unprecedented quality, under the same award-winning team at Brave Wave who previously worked on the Billboard-charted Street Fighter II The Definitive Soundtrack and the two-volume Ninja Gaiden The Definitive Soundtrack.


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For the last several years the most common lament about issues with the quality of WWE's television and PPV programming has been that the problems can be lain at the feet of the Hollywood writers which the company has hired. As the WWE has gone more corporate the impression that has been given to the public is that wrestlers have less and less freedom to improvise and be creative when on camera. So the question becomes is there any truth to this impression and what should be done.
In an interview shortly after he retired Shawn Michaels was quoted as saying how glad he was to no longer have to censor himself when he was on camera because of how difficult it was to remember everything they wanted him to say and to not say. Michaels is without a doubt one of the greatest of all-time not only in the ring, but also cutting promos and vignettes that are entertaining and draw the audience in. Yet this sentiment he expressed clearly indicates that by the time he retired things had changed from the days when he and Triple H would go out as part of the newly formed Degeneration X in the late 1990s and cut promos that shocked the audience. It is readily apparent that even Michaels was having to follow the scripts that the writing team was coming up with.
If the very thought of someone as creative as Michaels having to follow a script seems strange, imagine how it is for the young talent in the WWE. There have been too many moments over the last several years where there's been a young wrestler in the ring clearly struggling to remember what he or she is supposed to say and that is not because of stage fright. It's due to the wrestler having to remember the exact words that they've been given to say. Not everyone is cut out to be an actor, but that doesn't mean that a wrestler couldn't be successful if they were allowed to improvise what they want to say in the ring. The problem is that many are not being given that chance.
Even the WWE Champion CM Punk doesn't seem immune to having to follow a script nowadays. Everyone who has followed wrestling over the last several years remembers CM Punk's sizzling "pipe bomb" promos from the summer of 2011 when the audience was hanging on his every word. They were absolutely riveting and you could clearly see Punk's personality coming through in each and every one of them because he likely had input into them. Fast forward to 2012 and clearly Punk doesn't seem to be given the same degree of freedom to say what he wants. His promos are almost primarily focused on talking about being the best in the world instead of some of the more personal thoughts he expressed in the summer of 2011. While the audience is still interested in what Punk has to say, he just doesn't seem to have the same invested interest in what he's saying to the audience. He seems as if he's being stifled and micro-managed in what he says -- and this is the WWE Champion!
So clearly whatever the exact approach that is being used with writers in WWE is having an effect on the performance of the wrestlers in the company. The methodology that's been used seems to have made many performers more hesitant in what they say and characters that are tame, a bit bland, and somewhat generic. Many components of the audience point to the WWE Attitude Era as a time they wish the performers of today would follow as a path to a more entertaining product, but that may not be possible because of several key circumstances being different.
Nowadays the WWE is a publicly traded company and with that comes having to answer to a board of directors and ultimately the shareholders. Typically when a company goes public it tends to start to play it safe and tries to simply copy past successes without taking the chances that made something successful in the first place. In that kind of environment creativity only comes to the forefront when the company's fortunes decline. A great example of this was Apple. Only when Apple's fortunes were on the decline did they bring back into the fold Steve Jobs who they then gave the free reigns to introduce and create all sorts of products which have captured the world's attention like the iPhone, iPod, and iPad. With the passing of Jobs it remains to be seen if the company will still continue to be a trendsetter or if it will try to play it safe again.
Another factor that likely led to the current creative environment within WWE is Linda McMahon's run in 2010 and 2012 for a seat in the United States Senate. While the movement towards a more PG product in the WWE began prior to 2010, McMahon's Senate run had to have been a factor prior to that because to have any chance McMahon would have needed to be able to show that the company she is most closely associated with was safe for families and children. The product that the WWE sold during the Attitude Era, while very lucrative, generated a great deal of criticism from various groups that wrestling wasn't appropriate for children anymore. So a lot of the restraints that wrestlers find themselves operating under can likely be traced to the desire to stifle those who might criticize Linda McMahon during this year's Senate run.
Ultimately, the great question is whether or not the WWE should fire their writing team, which reports directly to Stephanie McMahon Levesque. The answer is that the problem is not so much the writers themselves, but how they're being used. In the comic book industry there has often been a separation between those who write the plots and those who write the scripts. The plots give the over-arching storyline and where to go with the characters, while the scripts are where the actual words for the stories are hammered out. The writers in the WWE need to be the ones that deal more directly with the plots for each of the storylines, while they need to collaborate with the wrestlers to work out the scripts for the promos and vignettes. By doing so the wrestler will have a greater investment in what he/she is saying to the audience and will be able to get across their character in a more natural way.
If the WWE doesn't change course no amount of the occasional drop-in by a star such as Brock Lesnar or The Rock will be able to boost the ratings and eventually the audience will begin looking for alternatives. One of those alternatives could become TNA and really this situation leaves TNA a wide opening to be able to grow and take a greater market share because it is not faced with the same creative restrictions that the WWE is.
The WWE needs to remember that its worst enemy is complacency. After all, if history is any indicator no one is on top for the long term without innovation and taking chances.
Matthew Byer is a Senior Project Manager who lives and resides in Victoria, BC. He thinks until the 2012 elections are over in the United States that it's unlikely we'll see huge changes in the WWE product. However, with breakthrough stars such as Austin Aries and Bobby Roode it's clear that TNA may have recognized what an opportunity it has now at growing the company's market share.


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