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The Douglas A-1 Skyraiderwas an American single-seat attack aircraft that saw service between the late 1940s and early 1980s. It became a piston-powered, propeller-driven anachronism in the jet age, and was nicknamed \"Spad\", after a French World War I fighter. The Skyraider had a remarkably long and successful career and inspired the straight-winged, slow-flying, jet-powered successor, the A-10 Thunderbolt II.
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The Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior, more commonly known as the Lockheed 12 or L-12, is an eight-seat, six-passenger all-metal twin-engine transport aircraft of the late 1930s designed for use by small airlines, companies, and wealthy private individuals. A scaled-down version of the Lockheed Model 10 Electra, the Lockheed 12 was not popular as an airliner but was widely used as a corporate and government transport.
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Designed as an up-market version of the Ryan S-T trainer, the S-C was a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a fixed tailwheel landing gear. The prototype first flew in 1937 and had a nose-mounted 150 hp (112 kW) Menasco inline piston engine. Production aircraft were fitted with a 145 hp (108 kW) Warner Super Scarab radial engine. With the company\'s involvement in producing trainer aircraft for the United States military, the S-C was not seriously marketed and only 12 production aircraft were built. One example was impressed into service with the United States Army Air Force and was designated the L-10. Four examples were still flying in the United States at the start of the 21st Century.
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The Mitsubishi A6M (\"Zero\") was a primary Japanese naval fighter in World War II. It was used by Imperial Japanese Navy pilots throughout the war, including in kamikaze attacks during the later stages. Allied pilots were astounded by its maneuverability, and it was very successful in combat until the Allies devised tactics to utilize their advantage in firepower and diving speed.
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The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd for the Royal Air Force (RAF). Although largely overshadowed by the Supermarine Spitfire, the aircraft became renowned during the Battle of Britain, accounting for 60% of the RAF\'s air victories in the battle, and served in all the major theatres of WWII.
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Republic Aviation\'s P-47 Thunderbolt, also known as the \"Jug\", was the largest, heaviest, and most expensive fighter aircraft in history to be powered by a single reciprocating engine.[2] It was heavily armed with eight .50-caliber machine guns, four per wing. When fully loaded, the P-47 weighed up to eight tons. The P-47, based on the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine, was very effective in high-altitude air-to-air combat and proved especially adept at ground attack.
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The North American F-86 Sabre (sometimes called the Sabrejet) was a transonic jet fighter aircraft. Produced by North American Aviation, the Sabre is best known as America\'s first swept wing fighter which could counter the similarly-winged Soviet MiG-15 in high speed dogfights over the skies of the Korean War. Considered one of the best and most important fighter aircraft in the Korean War, the F-86 is also rated highly in comparison with fighters of other eras.
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The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was an American single-engine, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground attack aircraft that first flew in 1938. The P-40 design was a modification of the previous Curtiss P-36 Hawk which reduced development time and enabled a rapid entry into production and operational service. The Warhawk was used by the air forces of 28 nations, including those of most Allied powers during World War II, and remained in front line service until the end of the war. It was the third most-produced American fighter, after the P-51 and P-47; by November 1944, when production of the P-40 ceased, 13,738 had been built, all at Curtiss-Wright Corporation\'s main production facilities at Buffalo, New York.
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The North American B-25 Mitchell was an American twin-engined medium bomber manufactured by North American Aviation. It was used by many Allied air forces, in every theater of World War II, as well as many other air forces after the war ended, and saw service across four decades. The B-25 was named in honor of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation. By the end of its production, nearly 10,000 B-25s in numerous models had been built. These included a few limited variations, such as the United States Navy\'s and Marine Corps\' PBJ-1 patrol bomber and the United States Army Air Forces\' F-10 photo reconnaissance aircraft.
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Hughes was a lifelong aircraft enthusiast and pilot. At Rogers Airport in Los Angeles, he learned to fly from pioneer aviators, including Moye Stephens. He set many world records and commissioned the construction of custom aircraft to be built for himself while heading Hughes Aircraft at the airport in Glendale. Operating from there, the most technologically important aircraft he commissioned was the Hughes H-1 Racer. On September 13, 1935, Hughes, flying the H-1, set the landplane airspeed record of 352 mph (566 km/h) over his test course near Santa Ana, California (Giuseppe Motta reached 362 mph in 1929 and George Stainforth reached 407.5 mph in 1931, both in seaplanes). A year and a half later, on January 19, 1937, flying a redesigned H-1 Racer featuring extended wings, Hughes set a new transcontinental airspeed record by flying non-stop from Los Angeles to Newark in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds (beating his own previous record of 9 hours, 27 minutes). His average ground speed over the flight was 322 mph.
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The North American Aviation T-6 Texan was a single-engine advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces, United States Navy, Royal Air Force and other air forces of the British Commonwealth during World War II and into the 1950s. Designed by North American Aviation, the T-6 is known by a variety of designations depending on the model and operating air force. The USAAC designated it as the \"AT-6\", the US Navy the \"SNJ\", and British Commonwealth air forces, the Harvard, the name it is best known by outside of the United States. It remains a popular warbird aircraft.
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The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the then-United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Competing against Douglas and Martin for a contract to build 200 bombers, the Boeing entry outperformed both competitors and more than met the Air Corps\' expectations. Although Boeing lost the contract because the prototype crashed, the Air Corps was so impressed with Boeing\'s design that they ordered 13 more B-17s for further evaluation. From its introduction in 1938, the B-17 Flying Fortress evolved through numerous design advances.
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Shoo Shoo Baby is the name of a B-17 Flying Fortress in World War II, preserved and on public display. A B-17G-35-BO, serial number 42-32076, and manufactured by Boeing, it was named by her crew for a song of the same name made popular by The Andrews Sisters, the favorite song of its crew chief T/Sgt. Hank Cordes. The B-17 flew 24 combat missions from England with the 91st BG, with three other missions aborted for mechanical problems, before being listed as missing in action on May 29, 1944. On its final mission, to the Focke Wulf aircraft component factory at Poznań, Poland, it crash-landed at Malmö Airport, Sweden.
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The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American heavy bomber, designed by Consolidated Aircraft Company of San Diego, California. Its mass production was brought into full force by 1943 with the aid of the Ford Motor Company through its newly-constructed Willow Run facility, where peak production had reached one B-24 per hour and 650 per month in 1944. The B-24\'s most infamous mission was the low-level strike against the Ploiești oil fields, in Romania on 1 August 1943, which turned into a disaster because the enemy was underestimated, fully alerted and attackers disorganized.
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The Bellanca Aircruiser and Airbus were high-wing, single engine aircraft built by Bellanca Aircraft Corporation of New Castle, Delaware. The aircraft was built as a \"workhorse\" intended for use as a passenger or cargo aircraft. It was available as land, sea or ski plane. The aircraft was powered by either a Wright Cyclone or Pratt and Whitney Hornet engine. The Airbus and Aircruiser served as both a commercial and military transport.
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The de Havilland DH 82 Tiger Moth is a 1930s biplane designed by Geoffrey de Havilland and was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and others as a primary trainer. The Tiger Moth remained in service with the RAF until replaced by the de Havilland Chipmunk in 1952, when many of the surplus aircraft entered civil operation.
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(News Focus) N. Korea's hacking capabilities advance
By Kim Kwang-tae
SEOUL, April 11 (Yonhap) -- A technical blunder by a hacker appears to have reinforced what South Korea has long suspected: North Korea has been behind several hacking attacks on South Korea in recent years.
The unidentified hacker accessed South Korean routes on Feb. 22 via an Internet Protocol (IP), just weeks before the massive hacking attack that paralyzed networks of South Korean financial firms and broadcasters.
The hacker exposed the IP address (175.45.178.xx) for up to several minutes due to technical problems in a communication network, giving South Korea a rare clue into tracing the origin of the hacking attack that took place on March 20, according to South Korean officials.
The IP address, the online equivalent of a street address or a phone number, is registered in Ryugyong-dong in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, according to the state-run Korea Internet & Security Agency.
Still, the IP address is registered by the name of Star Joint Venture, a company set up between the North Korean government and Thailand's Loxley Pacific Company Ltd.
Repeated calls to Loxley Pacific Company in Bangkok seeking comment went unanswered on Thursday.
Star Joint Venture, which provides limited Internet access for the isolated country, also did not respond to an email seeking comment on its alleged involvement in the March 20 hacking attack.
The IP address in question served as key evidence that the North orchestrated the hacking attacks that paralyzed three major South Korean banks -- Shinhan, NongHyup and Jeju -- and their insurance affiliates as well as three television stations -- KBS, MBC and YTN.
South Korea said North Korean computers were used in distributing malware, or malicious software, by accessing networks of South Korean financial firms 1,590 times since June last year. On 13 occasions, the North Korean IP address was exposed.
The rare evidence left behind by the hacker offered an intelligence windfall to the South Korean government, which has been striving for years to prove that Pyongyang is also responsible for a spate of hacking attacks on South Korea in recent years.
Kim Seung-joo, a professor at the Graduate School of Information Security at Korea University, said that the accidental exposure of the IP address is very fortunate for South Korea and that there is almost no possibility that the hacker forged the IP address when the North launched the attack.
"The North Korean IP address made it clear that the North is behind not only the latest hacking but also previous hacking attacks," said Kim.
South Korea said there is a remote chance that a hacker could fabricate an IP address as the latest cyberattack was carried out in a way that required the hacker to receive a reply after launching the attack.
In comparison, hackers can forge IP addresses when they launch distributed denial-of-service attacks that can disrupt targeted Web sites, according to the government.
Lee Seung-won, a government official handling the latest hacking issue, said Wednesday that an analysis of cyber terror access logs, malware and North Korean intelligence showed that the attack methods were similar to those used by the North's Reconnaissance General Bureau, which has led hacking attacks against South Korea.
Of the 76 pieces of malicious code used in the attacks, there were 18 bits of code exclusively used by North Korean hackers that had been used in previous hacking attempts, according to Chun Kil-soo, the head of the Korea Internet Security Center at the state-run Korea Internet & Security Agency.
The latest hacking attack also showed that the North used South Korea, the United States and eight other foreign countries as routing points in what could be an apparent attempt to disguise its identity.
South Korean officials said that out of the 49 infiltration routes detected, including 25 local and 24 overseas routes, 22 were IP addresses that the North has used since 2009 to launch hacking attacks on Seoul.
In the past, the North carried out cyberattacks on South Korea via Chinese IP addresses.
In 2009, North Korea used 435 different servers in 61 countries to carry out a distributed denial of service attack against South Korean government Internet sites, in the first major case of cyber terrorism.
Still, a police officer in charge of cyber terrorism remained cautious in pinning the blame on the North over the latest hacking attack.
"A police investigation is still under way in cooperation with (related agencies in foreign countries,") the officer said. He declined to elaborate on international cooperation and asked not to be identified, citing the issue's sensitivity.
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emptyspaceads necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 18 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
emptyspaceads.com needs a new design for its homepage. It's a relatively simple site with limited content. We need something that's simple, clean and professional. We generally prefer a "white based" design (eg, apple's site has a lot of white and light colors).
EmptySpaceAds is creating a tool to help website owners monetize their empty space (margins) by serving ads. The ads only show up when the user clicks on an ad. We have a current design with content up at http://www.emptyspaceads.com, but we're looking for something better.
LOGO: We like the logo, but we don't feel bound to it. Do not feel that you have to design around the logo or the current colors. We are open to designs with different logos.
- [Required] obvious link to "sign up now" and "sign in"
- [Required] clearly state the value proposition: Use the empty space of your webpages to serve ads in a non-obtrusive way (that exact text does not need to appear).
- [Required] slogan is "use it, don't lose it"- [Nice to have, but not required] A demo on the homepage (eg, a spots for ads in one or both margins) with some clear indication that the homepage shows the demo.
- [Not needed] The current icons / links to "people who use emptyspaceads" is NOT necessary.
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GDS-2072A Oscilloscope
Good Will - GDS-2000A Series
GDS-2000A Series Digital Storage Oscilloscope is equipped with an 8-inch 800 x 600 high-resolution TFT LCD display, 1mV/div to 10V/div vertical range and 1ns/div to 100s/div time base, the GDS-2000A Series is able to faithfully demonstrate waveforms of complicated and obscure signals. The GDS-2000A Series provides Waveform Search and Segmented Memory function. The events of interest can be captured and saved into the Segmented Memory, which can be divided into 2048 sections, for observation, while the irrelevant waveforms can be ignored. Consequently, the overall efficiency of memory usage can be enhanced. Under Waveform Search mode, after the input signal is triggered, the GDS-2000A Series is able to Search and Mark the waveform sections, which comply with user-defined search condition and threshold level within the whole memory. Meanwhile, with Zoom window and Play/Pause button to scroll through whole displayed waveform, the user can rapidly navigate all the waveforms in an efficient way.
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Disabled military veterans pick up football skills from ex-Patriots
Veterans work with former Super Bowl champs at Gillette Stadium
Nearly four dozen disabled military veterans from across New England were honored Saturday with a football skills camp at Gillette Stadium.
The 47 veterans and some of their children took to the field through the over-sized Patriots helmet where they had the opportunity to work with Super Bowl champions Patrick Pass, Matt Chatham, and Jermaine Wiggins.
"(It's) giving guys an opportunity to just come out here and kind of maybe live their dream," Wiggins said.
During the drill, the veterans used adaptive sports techniques they have learned through the VA's New England Adaptive Sports Program.
"It's fun. I mean, you get a lot of interaction," said veteran Joe Conner. "You get to block, pass, kick."
In partnership with the New England Patriots, the skills camp is an extension of CVS Caremark's commitment to individuals with disabilities and the overall commitment to recognizing and supporting America's military heroes.
"You know, once in a lifetime opportunity, come down here to Gillette Stadium," said veteran Sean Rea. "You know, come down here with Jermaine Wiggins and Patrick Pass, and it's great, be out here with other veterans."
The veterans, who hail from communities in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire, also had the opportunity to have a light dinner on the sidelines and get autographs from Patriots alumni and Patriots cheerleaders.


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This week's comprehensive study of how violent PG-13 films have become -- gunplay has tripled in such films in the last 30 years, and PG-13 movies are now more violent than R-rated releases -- did not single out specific films.
But in reviewing the 945 top-grossing films since 1950, the researchers behind the report for the American Academy of Pediatrics did identify several PG-13 titles that had a noticeably higher level of violent acts per hour than other similarly rated movies.
Those blood-spattered works included "The Dark Knight," "Terminator Salvation," "Inception," "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," "Captain America: The First Avenger," "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol," "The Avengers," "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "Taken 2."
The researchers easily could have included several other recent movies in their excessive violence tally -- movies that many reviewers have singled out for relentless bloodshed.
As the report noted, the original "Terminator" and "Die Hard" films in the 1980s were rated R, but their most recent sequels were rated PG-13, even though the updates actually contained more violent acts than their predecessors.
The Motion Picture Assn. of America has long defended its rating system, but some people argue that some recent PG-13 movies could -- and should -- have been rated R.
Here's a sampling of some violent PG-13 productions, along with the MPAA ratings explanation, that critics of the MPAA say deserved the more restrictive rating, along with some of the more pointed criticism of the films:
"Sucker Punch" (2011)
Rated PG-13 for thematic material involving sexuality, violence and combat sequences, and for language.
"'Sucker Punch' reportedly shed nearly an entire reel's worth of footage in order to land a PG-13 rating, and even then, the film feels highly inappropriate for young viewers. From the opening scene, young ladies seem to be under constant threat of being raped or murdered by grown men, and cutting around the brutality doesn't diminish the effect at all."
"Man of Steel" (2013)
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, action and destruction, and for some language.
"The story is an origins myth, which turns into another war-of-the-worlds battle epic, this time between Earth and the dying Krypton, with Superman on our side. Once again, Manhattan gets leveled (Don't worry: Brooklyn is spared). The movie consists of endless declamation, endless violence."
"Terminator Salvation" (2009)
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for language.
"Most of the running time is occupied by action sequences, chase sequences, motorcycle sequences, plow-truck sequences, helicopter sequences, fighter-plane sequences, towering android sequences and fistfights. It gives you all the pleasure of a video game without the bother of having to play it."
"The Dark Knight" (2008)
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace.
"The whole movie is a social experiment on a global scale, an ambitious, lavish attempt to see if audiences will turn out for a comic-book epic that goes beyond darkness into Stygian bleakness, grim paradox, endless betrayals and pervasive corruption. All of the early signs -- not just the ritual ravings of fanboys -- say that vast numbers of people will. But they may sustain lots more punishment than they signed up for."
"The Lone Ranger" (2013)
Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence, and some suggestive material.
"In trying to balance grandiosity with playfulness, to lampoon cowboy-and-Indian cliches while taking somber account of a history of violence, greed and exploitation, it descends into nerve-racking incoherence. Atrocities are followed by jokey riffs and sight gags, and what links them is not a creative sensibility (as would be the case in a Quentin Tarantino movie) but a carnival barker's desperate need to hold on to a distracted audience's attention."


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Video shows FHP's Turnpike takedown
FHP: Troopers worked to get dangerous driver off road
A man faces a host of charges after a Florida Highway Patrol takedown on the Florida Turnpike.
Troopers said they performed a pit maneuver Sunday to stop a dangerous driver, identified as Johnny Lee Fisher, 35.
Watch: DUI takedown captured on dash camera
"He was stopped in the travel lane of the Turnpike," Sgt. Kim Montes said. "In the middle of the Turnpike, which obviously wasn't wise."
According to an arrest report, Fisher was driving with a blank stare on his face and was drifting on the roadway.
"When we have a driver who is impaired, we know what can happen if they driver is not stopped," Montes said.
Troopers held back traffic and then clipped Fisher's vehicle to stop it. The SUV flipped and hit a median.
Authorities said once his vehicle was stopped, troopers made contact with Fisher and said he was seemingly well. They said he smelled of marijuana and alcohol.
According to the affidavit, Fisher said, "Come on man, you know I can't answer that," when a trooper saw pieces of a green leafy substance in his beard and asked about drugs.
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"Gloria" is so many wonderful things all wrapped up in one. It's an excitingly paced on-the-run-from-the-mob movie, a knee-slapping comedy, a hard-hitting drama, and a heartwarming yarn. This 1980 John Cassavetes film is arguably the director's most mainstream and straightforward work, but it still sizzles with the kinetic, character-driven energy that fueled his filmography right from the get-go, dating back to the freeform cinematic jazz exercises and performative improvisation of his debut 1959 film, "Shadows."
On the contrary, "Gloria" is strongly scripted - but, my, what a script it is (penned by Cassavetes himself) - and powerfully acted, the centerpiece players being the titular Gloria (a magnificent Gena Rowlands) and a young boy named Phil (John Adames, in an adorable, yet heartbreaking, performance that is emotionally wise beyond the actor's years).
Phil is on the run with Gloria after his family is marked and subsequently slaughtered by a group of gangsters seeking the patriarch's money book. Phil is given the book before he departs, leaving the mob on his tail and Gloria's. The twist? Gloria's with the mob, but the damn kid manages to capture this grizzled tough gal's heart.
A story like this is destined for cheesiness and schmaltz, but Cassavetes handles the material with such grace and confidence that it feels renewed despite the clichés. It's truly a fantastic film.
New to Twilight Time Movie on a limited edition release of only 3,000 units, this stunning high-definition release of "Gloria" includes the film's original theatrical trailers and an isolated music track featuring Bill Conti's remarkable, jazz-driven score.


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Hey Moxie Moxie Readers, Listeners and Watchers!
Long time no post, eh?
It's the time of year that I usually am furiously listing, categorizing and re-iterating the films I've seen, the ones I've loved or made a huge impression on me plus reminisce of fave festivals experiences, surprizes and disappointments. In other words, it's the time of year where I think about My Year in Film. But this year was very different for me. For the first time ever I took a break from the site and that was not intended to last very long, but it rolled into my current indeterminate hiatus (for health reasons) which feels like it's lasted forever, and in such I've missed months out of year year when it comes to film. It makes me very sad that I haven't been around here and also haven't been able to attend festivals in the last half of the year, it's not only challenging and it also feels really *weird* not to be here.
That being said, I couldn't let the year go by without sharing my faves / most enjoyed films of the year. And in true Movie Moxie fashion I've kept up my totally not-on-purpose tradition of changing how I do the list (See best/most enjoyed list of 2011, Perfect list of 2010, Faves Films of 2009, Faves Films of 2008, Faves Films of 2007 and Faves Films of 2006). Sigh. I love consistency, but this process keeps changing it and I just have to go with it.
I don't know what's in store for the for the site, but I'm sharing my film journeys right now over on my YouTube channel and I do have some fun things planned for the new year. Please swing on by and say Hi or keep in touch over at Facebook as that's where I can be found most these days.
I hope 2012 was good to you, and that you saw many awesome films and had many wonderful film experiences.
Take care,
Shannon the Movie Moxie's Faves/Best/Most Enjoyed Films of 2012
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iamthenightmare (4.5)A diverse and enjoyable tech-death album that will please old-fans and offers enough new ...BringMeTheWaffles. (4)The Faceless release a truly solid album....Necrotica (4)A very rewarding sci-fi tech metal album for those who are able to withstand 30+ minutes o...TomMilligan (4)A Superbly executed Tech-death album....
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Album Rating: 4.5The site must not be on my time zone. It's the 11th in North Carolina.
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awesome review and i completely agree. and yeah it's the 11th hurr too. but i'm in va.
5 minutes from the 11th in Oklahoma.
Anyways, good review.
Album Rating: 3.0That opening tapping fill in The Ancient Covenant made me rewind like 5 or 6 times...album is good but there are just a few parts that are meh to me for some reason...
hahah i did that too. the bass sweep tap. i was like WHAT THE FUCK?!?!
I don't doubt that this sucks.
Album Rating: 3.0It doesn't suck really...the technicality is enjoyable but there are to many parts of predictable chugageThis Message Edited On 11.10.08
might i add that im very pleased at the snare sound compared to akeldama.
Album Rating: 3.5Drums sound kind of stupid when they get all WHOA WE'RE BLASTBEATING MEGA FAST though.
Album Rating: 3.5Its brevity is a major plus. I couldn't take 40+ minutes of it.
is this as good as Fused Together in Revolving Doors? if they are comparable.
Album Rating: 4.5The album could have had one more song and been fine. 32 minutes is just a bit too short if you ask me. But since it's so short, it makes it easy to start over again.
and I don't think you can compare this with FusedThis Message Edited On 11.11.08
Album Rating: 4.5
but I can't think of another album that really sounds like this.
ill prolly end up checking it out, seeing as people who normally dont care for the genre are enjoying it.
Album Rating: 4.5check out Akeldama first
Album Rating: 3.5This is better though. Easily. A lot more derivative but that's almost a good thing.
Album Rating: 4.5It is definitely a more mature album, but aside from The Ancient Covenant it's nowhere near as catchy. At least on Akeldama they had their own sound, now it's obvious Special Defects/Spawn of Possession worship, which is still solid but a bit disappointing.
Album Rating: 3.5the only thing that stood out (and the only thing i can still distinctly remember) about Akeldama is the really terrible and invasive keyboard work.
Album Rating: 4.5...yet you gave it a 4?
Album Rating: 3.5I rated that the day it was added to the database. My ratings on this site aren't really accurate at all.
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Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark's most recent adventure, Iron Man 3 left many a hardcore fan grumbling, due to filmmaker Shane Black's subversive take on the superhero-verse. Nonetheless, the film was well-received by the general public and grossed over a $1 billion in theaters around the globe (thus starting "Phase 2" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in style). Now, it's the God of Thunder's turn to pick up the baton from his fellow Avenger and carry it forward, with the sequel Thor: The Dark World readying to invade overseas markets around Halloween - a week before it launches in U.S. theaters, that is.
As such, the first wave of reviews for the Thor sequel has crashed online, providing everyone with an early taste of the general critical response to the latest MCU installment. Thus far, director Alan Taylor's more Game of Thrones-esque version of the Nine Realms - compared to the Jack Kirby-style fantasyland established in director Kenneth Branagh's Thor - has collectively earned an imperfect, yet still very much admirable score from the judges - with (no surprise) Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston once agin earning high marks for their performances as Thor and Loki, in the sequel.
[NOTE: The Thor: The Dark World review excerpts are all SPOILER-FREE, but those who are wary of knowing too much about the film in advance might want to pass on reading the full reviews linked below.]
To start us off, here are what the most positive reviews for Thor: The Dark World have to say about the film (so far):
[Thor: The Dark World] finally delivers the big Thor movie we've been waiting for. This movie is completely off-the-wall bonkers. There are action sequences that won't make sense and a villain who you probably won't completely understand, but holy crap is this movie exciting to watch when the going gets, well, going.
"Thor: The Dark World" delivers the goods — action, otherworldly grandiosity, romance, humor — above and beyond its predecessor. That doesn't necessarily launch it into the pantheon of greatness, but it's at least a reassuring sign that the Marvel juggernaut is remaining firmly on the rails. Or the Rainbow Bridge. Whatever.
Despite its occasionally bipolar quality, Thor: The Dark World is a hugely entertaining and sharply written continuation of Marvel's Phase 2, combining heart, spectacle and a shrewd lightness of touch.
A number of the supporting cast members in The Dark World have already gotten their fair share of critical praise - in particular, both Idris Elba as the Asgardian gatekeeper Heimdall and Rene Russo as Thor's mother Frigga get to flesh out their characters (and kick some butt in the process). Unfortunately, it sounds as though Natalie Portman as Jane Foster is once again one of the weak aspects of the story, since multiple reviews claim that she is stuck playing the bland damsel-in-distress role for most of her screen time.
Similarly, although Hiddleston is said to make the most of his beefed up screen time as Loki, the Troublemaking God's heightened presence in the sequel has also been criticized by some for being a little unnecessary (read: larger than needed), with respect to the greater plot. More importantly, it may've come at the expense of development time for the main antagonist, Malekith the Accursed (Christopher Eccleston).
However, the complaints don't stop there...
Read the following mixed-to-positive review excerpts and then you'll see what we mean:
The proper villain just doesn't make much of an impression, and the heart and soul of the film are just far enough removed from the actual hero that – in the end – it doesn't feel like Thor went through as much as he should have to fully justify another whole movie dedicated to him. But if you still love Thor, and especially if you still love Loki, Thor: The Dark World more-or-less satisfies.
Thanks to Hiddleston and Hemsworth's impressive collective charisma, Thor: The Dark World is far from a franchise killer. Yet the film is missing Branagh's delicacy of touch: there are numerous comedic interludes, but nothing to match the ingenious cutaway scene from the first film in which Thor walks into a pet shop and cheerfully demands a horse. Taylor provides plenty of weepy material – but there is not a single segue to compare with the brief, pathos-laden shot from Thor of the power-deprived Asgardian hero ignoring his woes to serve a simple breakfast to his human comrades.
Still, as helmed by Alan Taylor, this robust, impersonal visual-effects showpiece proves buoyant and unpretentious enough to offset its stew of otherwise derivative fantasy/action elements... In the end, that humorous approach is largely the film's saving grace, keeping the action sufficiently lively and diverting that audiences won't recognize how recycled the material is, or how low the stakes feel.
Taylor, on his end, has earned kudos for bringing a greater sense of tangible and organic detail to the fantasy set pieces in Thor: The Dark World. In addition, critics have praised Taylor for executing the mostly straightforward narrative - featured in the script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Captain America: The First Avenger) and Christopher Yost (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes) - with occasional bursts of visual splendor and cinematic panache, especially during the dramatic events in the third act.
In fact, some have argued that Taylor's superhero movie is the most true-in-spirit to its source material out of the MCU installments to date:
In many ways, Thor: The Dark World is the most comic book reverent superhero film since the Avengers assembled. Little touches such as Odin's birds and references to Bor are welcome nods, but most impressive is the deepening of the mythology and the exploration of (some of) the Nine Realms (Asgard is far more layered this time round too).
Others, however, are not so impressed by the comic book-inspired qualities and feel that Thor: The Dark World bears too much of a resemblance to a glorified TV show; which is to say, Tayor's background as a TV director shows, much in the same way that Joss Whedon's (arguably) did when he worked on The Avengers.
Here are choice quotes from the naysayers, at this stage:
The result is a film that is enjoyable in spots, but haphazard and ultimately unsatisfying. As with "Iron Man 3," these films are increasingly feeling like episodes of TV shows or, perhaps more appropriately, issues of comic books.
The movie needed more grandeur and less dim attitude – above all, it needed a vision. Entrusted to director Alan Taylor, best-known for multiple episodes of The Sopranos, Mad Men and Game of Thrones, it feels entirely made by committee – the definition of house style, without a personal stamp in sight.
In conclusion, the initial consensus is that Thor: The Dark World isn't a home run, but represents another solid hit for Marvel Studios. And unlike Iron Man 3, it doesn't sound as though the geekiest of comic book geeks will be left shaking their heads about huge deviations from the source material by the time the Thor sequel draws to a close (at least, not complaining as much, anyway).
Look for Screen Rant's own review of Thor: The Dark World, when the film opens in the U.S. (in just over two weeks)!
Thor: The Dark World opens in U.S. theaters on November 8th, 2013.
Source: See the above links


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"A CPU(also called a processor) is a component in a computer which reads instructions and process them through a language called assembly."
This is a fairly vague definition, but it explains the main job of the CPU, to process things. The registers in the CPU are the holding spaces for each instruction, before it is processed. If you're trying to learn Assembly, you probably know the basic concepts of memory, and how each piece of data has an address and a value. If you know C++/C, this will be a review for you, but for people just going from the ground up, you probably don't know this concept. A Pointer is simply saying, "to the value of". It points to the actual memory of whatever you're pointing to. I'll give you an example:
int pointer = 0x46;
int *point = pointer;
Whoa, what's that star? That's a pointer. In C++/C you define a pointer with an asterisk sign(*). Breaking it down, you can see that the variable point is pointing to the value of pointer which is 0x46(hexadecimal) which in decimal(base 10) 70.
Another concept you should know before you jump into assembly is addresses. I think you can sleuth out what it means, but I'll tell you anyway. It actually means, "at the address of". Here is an example:
int address = 0x46; //Same thing as before..but..
int addressOfThat = &address;
That was different, right? So we know that there is an int called address with the value of 0x46(70). Then there is an int called addressOfThat which is the address of address. So pretend that our address variable was located in memory at 10001001(137 in decimal), but it held the value 0x46, addressOfThat would hold the value 10001001 but could have a different address. Here's a little diagram I made to explain this:
Now for our last obstacle for this tutorial, registers. Before the CPU can convert to machine code and ship off our data and instructions, it needs to place it in groups for us to use while programming, these groups are called registers. If data is not put in registers before runtime, your assembly assembler(no, not compiler or interpreter) will crash and burn. This is because, when the assembler looks at your instructions, it will look for addresses and values, and if none of them are in the appropriate registers, it will think there is no data. This will put the assembler in a bewildered state, and it will spew data out all over the place. An example is for simple addition. Usually for arithmetic there is a register called ax(or eax in 32 bit mode) used. If I were to add two numbers, both would have to be in different registers. Here is an example of a quick assembly program to add 4 and 2.
MOV ax, 4 MOV bx, 2 ADD ax,bx
In the next tutorial, you will make your first program in assembly, but for now work on studying pointers, addresses, registers and the CPU. You will need them very soon
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Fram v Grótta Prediction & Preview
Betting Tip by Kenedylen
This fixture features no. 3 vs No. 7 in the league, Fram Reykjavik vs Grotta. The hosts coming from a 0 - 1 away win to Njarvik (no. 9 in their league) and their last home game a 3 - 1 win over Afturelding. The visitors coming from a 0 - 0 home draw to Fjoelnir (No. 1 in their league) and their last away game a 1 - 2 win over Keflavik. The hosts should win this one but they come from playing a team below the visitors scoring just one goal and not conceding then playing a team below the visitors in their last home game and scoring multiple goals and conceding facing a team coming from a game to a team higher than the hosts but drawing the match then playing a lower table team and winning the match so an over 3 goals is best to tip.
Bet Type: Over/Under
Total Goals: 2.5
Odds: 1.5
Prediction: Over
Kenedylen | Published 12/06/2019 22:24
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