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Let's Play: Pokemon Ruby Post Game 4: In which we face off against evil
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Let's Play: Pokemon Ruby
Pokemon Ruby was a game released for the Gameboy Advanced back in 2003. It brought with it the third generation of pokemon. The game was a success, as it, along with Pokemon Saphire, sold 13 million copies (Thank you Wikipedia). It holds a 82% on Metacritic, and a 84% on GameRankings. Despite being successful, I don't think many fans of the series talk about it as much as the others. As of the writing of this LP, the fifth generation has been out for 7 months. I purchased Pokemon Black... and then gave it to my cousin after I got bored about 7 hours or so in. I felt like it had lost some of its charm. I went back and replayed Ruby and had a blast. So I thought it would be good to LP it.
Who are you?
When did you get this game?
Have you ever done a LP before?
How often will you update?
Why are the pokemon a bit of a higher level than they should be?
What input do we get to have?
Will you be doing breeding?
Will you use cheat codes
What will be the tone of the LP? Will you be covering the story much?
What is your favorite pokemon game?
Why are you LPing this game then rather than silver?
Will you be doing a Nuzlocke challenge?
Your spelling is bad
I think you could improve in the following areas...
Your first few updates suck!
So here we are. Here's what I want from everyone
A small rule here though. I'll name the pokemon anything... except something crude or crass. Yes, yes, I know we all named a Metapod "Penis" or something along those lines, and then snickered when it used "harden". But come on. Some of us are adults here. I don't mind clever things, but nothing too profane, m'kay?
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I'm really liking that people are starting to do LP's on this forum; Adds another reason to come back to it. I really don't blame you on the Nuzlocke challenge: i attribute it to my vietnam flashbacks...
I feel Nuzlocke takes some of the fun out of the game, to be honest. You lose a pokemon forever due to a small mistake. Oh well.
That, and I'm really not super good at pokemon, good enough to do a Nuzlocke.
Alright. Lacking suggestions I'm going to go with this:
Trainer Gender: Female
Still, you've about 12 more hours to give me another name if you'd like that.
After the last time I played Pokemon Ruby, I was forever banned from naming anything in a video game ever again. The potential for abuse is simply too great. But, if one insists...
(Also, I had a box of inbred mice (Azurrils, I think) organized by generation. True story.)
Given a lack of originality, I recommend the Fire Chicken of Kickliness as your starter, and that you name it Le Punt (or Norris, if you must), assuming you get a male. I...dunno what you'd call a female flaming kickboxing chicken.
For the character name: Raven, if female. Chase, if male.
You gotta be kidding me....
I DID THE EXACT FREAKING THING! No joke.
Raven is a good name, I think It sounds rather pretentious. By the way, which do you vote for: male or female?
The bolded lines are good.
Although, I'd go with a something a little... unique for the female name.
How about Dee Zaster?
Also, did you forget to involve Sea Incense when you were breeding your mice?
make your character a guy and name him fuck me
7 is the maximum number of characters for a character name. I like it, but it doesn't fit.
You know, I think I looked up a guide. Back in silver, I kept a ledger of Pokemon I bread. All the inbreeding got a little creepy. Just a little.
Sorry, but that's against one of the rules.
Oooh...Pokemon Pedigrees.
If I recall, I bread a pokemon with its own mother, who was also his half sister.
It reminds me of when I played Viva Piñata. I didn't even BOTHER keeping track there.
The child weilding a hair brush does Not. Approve.
Ahh, lets see...
Ana Sasin. That's good, right?
With a space, that's 9 letters. Which is more than 7, last I checked.
That reminds me of this....
OT: This seems pretty neat, I can't give a better suggestion than your idea for a starter xD
As for an actual name, I'd go with the Yahtzee Crosshaw Tradition and name him/her something like "Fagballs" but that goes against a rule :/
Well, that song is going to be stuck in my head.
And no offense, but I find the whole idea behindto be a bit silly.
Did Triple H get a sex change?
I'm afraid I don't know who that is. Is he a wrestler (Google search turned up this)
Yes. Sometimes referred to as "The Game".
I see. Well, I can assure you that our character is not a 30 year regressed transgender person. At least, I hope not...
Bah I was gonna do this! :) Ah well, hope you'll be using a team of rarely-used/not fully evolved mons. Don't grind too much either, if you have a level 50 starter by the first gym I don't need to read your updates to know what's gonna happen.
As for your name/starter I'd say a female character named Kesla with the grass starter whose name I can't remember called Smogon.
They can be pretty fun to play but they'd make a boring as hell Let's Play. "Oh no half my team died in the fight against this gym leader! Coming next week - an update where I do nothing but grind levels to recover the team I already had in the first place!"
I won't be overly grinding, no. But I will be training up my pokemans.
I'd say that there's also a huge problem with Team Magma/Aqua as the central enemy. But I'll get into that later.
So far, it appears that most people want a female character, and short of a large swing, that's what I'll be doing.
I also like the name "Raven" so far.
Oh, and I agree about the Nuzlocke thing. It doesn't sound like something good for a LP. I may replay silver doing one some time. But that's neither here nor there.
i got that from zero punctuation
For the name I would personally suggest "Ana Lee" (say it fast) for a joke name, "Leandra" for a serious name. if you're set on the female trainer.
Probably because of RedChocobo's LPs.
I'm well aware.
I saw the one for Pokemon Red. But that's it.
They're well worth a look, they're some of the best LPs I've ever seen. All of the ones except his Platinum one are available on the lparchive if you don't have a Something Awful account.
I'll save that for after this LP, when I (Hopefully) move on to NWN2, because I don't want to subcontinental steal jokes without thinking about it.
How about we name him Yamcha? Or Caesar? Or even Roberto?
Caesar is an interesting name. However, I think the consensus is that we're going for a female. Still, I think I should name a pokemon that somewhere along the line
What about a very obscure name like Xander or Baltar?
I'm afraid that I don't know what it's a reference to...
Like I said, a very obscure reference. Xander is a Buffy reference and Baltar is a Battlestar Galactica reference.
I still like the name "Raven" a lot. Perhaps it's because I love the horrid fanfiction "My Immortal" but it's just resonating with me well.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Thousands of truckers are still promising to ring the Beltway Friday in a kind of general strike against the government.
It's hard to know how many will actually show up. Virginia State Police say they are monitoring the situation. But that as long as the truckers obey the law, they won't intervene.
The truckers say they'll gather at the Doswell Truck Stop Friday morning at seven and then head north.
One guy told US News they had blockade the Beltway, even head up Constitution Avenue and try and handcuff some members of Congress -- although he now says that was just a ploy to gain attention from the mainstream media.
On YouTube, organizers are promising massive disruption starting Friday and running through the weekend. "We got a load of crap riding around America that ain't worth hauling and it's time we shut it down," says an unidentified protestor.
They're calling it the Ride For the Constitution, and it starts with a whole series of complaints about the struggles of truck drivers, but then organizers veer into wild rants about what they call treasonous government officials. It focuses on the President.
"I don't think President Obama obeys the Constitution. I think he just passes them as he sees fit. He reminds me of a dictator," trucker Jeff Hartley told me in Doswell..
The protest seems to have hit a raw vein of anger. "I used to be in business for myself, and Obama run me out," said one trucker who didn't want to give his name, but had a hard time explaining why the President is responsible for his business troubles.
'Our forefathers would flip over in the grave. It's them the government, not we the people anymore,' said another trucker, who says he's furious at both Republicans and Democrats.
Zeeda Andrews, he woman leading the Ride For the Constitution website is now disavowing Earl Conlon, the Georgia trucker who promised three lanes of trucks barricading the Beltway -- and the arrest of Members of Congress for allegedly disregarding the Constitution.
The sometime radio talk show host and former Mack Trucks spokesmodel, says 3,000 truckers have already promised to participate.
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Close your eyes. Well, not yet. Read the next paragraph first.
Picture a hard-boiled bad-ass. That noir anti-hero with blood-flecked armor, imperfect but too cool to show it. Lighting a cigarette and staring off into the distance with that world-weary look of someone who knows all the angles but still can't figure out how the hell they got into this mess.
OK, now you can close your eyes, and once you get that image of that person in your head, open them back up.
You pictured a guy, didn't you?
I'd bet good money you did, and maybe it's not a sexist thing. It's fair to say that the hard-boiled crime genre has long been a boy's-only club. Sure, there are strong female characters, but at the end of the day, the person at the end with their finger on the trigger is almost always carrying a bottle of whisky and a Y chromosome.
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Retired from her life as a porn star, Angel Dare now owns Daring Angels, a high-class adult modeling agency. Life as a desk jockey is pretty predictable until an underfed foreign girl named Lia shows up asking to contact one of Angel's models. Before Angel can figure out what the girl really wants, Lia makes a hasty exit through the bathroom window. Next thing she knows, Angel herself is locked in the trunk of a battered blue Honda Civic—beaten, raped, shot up and left for dead. Recovering and resolving to exact justice and clear her name of the frame job she's also been left with, Angel turns to the only person who can help, her part-time agency security guy, ex-cop Lalo Malloy. Feisty Angel wises up to the rancid underbelly of the sex trade as she and Malloy take down the hoods one by one.
It's a great book, mixing mystery with an engaging story and some truly beautiful writing. Faust's work spans from short stories to movie tie-in novels like Snakes on a Plane and Final Destination. The bio on her Web site cuts like a blade without waiting for details: "I'm a writer, a cynical, hardboiled bitch with a fetish for noir cinema, tattoos and seamed stockings. I'm older than you think and younger than I feel. I've got great gams and perfect size five feet, if you can handle the razor-edged tongue that goes with them. Want more? Read my books."
Luckily, she was willing to tell us a little more.
Rob Hart: Tell us a bit about yourself - how and where you grew up, and whether you have any formal education or experience as a writer.
Christa Faust: I grew up in New York City, divorced parents split between Hell's Kitchen and the Bronx, and I've been making up stories for as long as I can remember. I do have a B.A. and I took a couple of writing related classes back in college but honestly I don't feel like that had any real effect on me as a writer. The true school of hard knocks for me was my gig writing novelizations and tie-ins. Talk about being thrown in the deep end and learning to swim. You can spend the rest of your life going to writing classes and critique circles, tweaking and polishing your great American novel that no one will ever read, or you can bang out 95,000 words in six sleepless weeks and make your bones as a pro. That was the best education I ever had.
RH: What attracted you to the noir genre? And can you tell us your favorite writers/books from the genre?
CF: I didn't get seriously into noir until I was in my 30s. When I was younger I was more into Splatterpunk and erotic horror but when I crossed over that too-old-to-be-trusted border, I started becoming interested in books that feature older protagonists and more mature themes. Gritty, realistic stories that explore the dark, bleak and ugly side of human nature without hiding behind the metaphor of monsters. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy the occasional horror novel and I like the fun stuff too. Lighter, more pulpy, two-fisted Gold Medal era writers like Richard S. Prather are real comfort reading for me.
Some of my old-school faves (in addition to Prather) are Richard Stark, Day Keene and Chester Himes. Current favorite writers are Megan Abbott and Ray Banks.
RH: Drawing a line from Chandler and Hammett to the crime writers of today, what's changed about the genre? And how do you remain faithful to the trappings while updating it for a modern audience?
CF: Well, on the surface it seems like the big change is the explicitness of violence and sex, but I don't think that's exactly true. Back in their day, the Black Mask-era writers were considered extremely base and vulgar, both shockingly violent and outrageously sexy. Their stories featured realistic scenes involving criminals and underworld denizens who spoke in the unvarnished vernacular of the street. The heroes were often nearly indistinguishable from the villains and the authors defended these stories as much more honest and real than the milder, more genteel traditional mysteries.
While society's standards for what is considered "shockingly violent" have certainly changed in a progressive kind of moral inflation, on average the modern noir genre remains at approximately the same level above the acceptable norm as it has been in decades past. Noir authors today make that exact same argument; that the violence, sex and crude language in their books is simply an unflinching, realistic view of the world around us. I think they are just as right now as their predecessors were back then.
As far as updating the genre for a modern reader, I think you need to start with genuine love and respect for what came before. I don't like books that are written with a campy nudge-and-wink, referring to the genre clichés while remaining above it all with a self-consciously retro kind of meta-ironic hipness. I prefer authors that tell the classic noir stories of betrayal and desperation in modern settings, populating them with flawed, complex characters that modern readers can relate to.
RH: Are there any "rules of the genre" you tried to stick to in writing the book?
CF: No, not that I'm aware of. However, I'd argue that Money Shot is a more of a hardboiled novel than a noir novel. That was a conscious choice on my part. I didn't want to flush my characters down the emotional toilet in the classic downward spiral of traditional noir. I saw Angel Dare as a more complex, female version of the normally male hardboiled protagonist. A lone tough guy unfettered by traditional morality who walks through the grimy underworld and makes his home there but yet still somehow finds a way to come out on top in the end. More like Mike Hammer or Sam Spade than a character like, say, Walter Huff in Cain's noir classic Double Indemnity or any one of Day Keene's benighted, sexually frustrated protagonists. I definitely never saw Angel as a femme fatale. I think a lot of modern reviewers use that term to mean any tough sexy woman in a crime novel or film, but a traditional noir femme fatale is a villain, an amoral temptress who uses her sexuality to enslave and manipulate unsuspecting men. The femme fatale is all about male fear of female sexuality and that's got nothing to do with my book. Angel is not scheming villain, she's a female hero.
RH: Money Shot is about a porn star, and you worked as both a Times Square peepshow girl and a dominatrix. How much of your past did you draw upon, and how did you research the book?
CF: I've never done porn myself but I have done a lot of fetish videos and many of the women and men I worked with on those videos also did the more vanilla stuff. When I was researching Money Shot, I visited sets and talked to people in every aspect of the adult film industry, from producers to shooters to talent. Or more specifically, I listened.
Forget the damn internet, the best research for any writer can be achieved simply by being a good listener. If you're respectful and willing to listen, you can get almost anyone to open up about almost anything.
RH: The sex industry in Money Shot is full of angels and demons. Having worked there, what's your view of the industry, and is there anything about it in particular you were hoping to put across in the book?
CF: The main thing I wanted to get across is that the adult film industry is just a business like any other, populated by good guys and bad guys and a whole lot of in betweens. So many books and movies portray porn as the lowest a woman can possibly sink and seem to view all female porn stars as pathetic, drug-addicted victims who need to be rescued from their grim and unspeakable fate. I wanted to write about a woman who was successful and happy in her chosen profession. On the other hand I didn't want to come off like I was sugar-coating the downsides either. I just wanted to tell it like it is. I wanted to create a complex, believable protagonist and surround her with supporting characters who were just as real as she is, characters who reminded me of the real people I've met in the industry.
RH: The cover is spectacular. Did you have any input into that?
CF: I was so excited to score the amazing Glen Orbik for my cover. He's my favorite of the Hard Case artists (with all due respect to Robert McGinnis) and I really love what he did for me. Ardai and I had talked a bit about what sort of images would be right for the cover; I wanted a POV of a woman with a gun and Charles suggested the folded hundred dollar bill. Orbik ran with it and I couldn't be happier with the result.
RH: Tell us about your writing environment. Are there any rituals you adhere to? Do you have a set process for writing and editing? Can you take us through the process for Money Shot?
CF: My writing environment is far from ideal, since I live in a teeny tiny house and don't have a separate office, just a desk in one corner of my living room. However, I do live alone so it's not all that bad. I will say that I'm definitely not a coffee shop writer and will never understand how people can work in a public place like that, surrounded by annoying, inane conversation and endless distraction. I like my privacy.
I used to just write by the seat of my pants when I was younger, but since I started doing the novelizations, my process has become a lot more structured. The work for hire gigs involve a series of synopsis, character outlines and chapter breakdowns and while I don't get that detailed on the personal projects, I do like to write down scenes on post-it notes and play around with them, rearranging things. I always start with an idea for an opening scene. For Money Shot, it was Angel in the trunk, and then I had to figure out how she got there and how to get her out of there. I usually have a pretty solid idea of the complete plot before I start the actual writing, but things almost always change along the way.
RH: You've also written a ton of short stories. How do you approach those, and is there one in particular you're most fond of?
CF: A short story's like a barfight while a novel is a full on war. I often write a short story in a single sitting, just riffing on some image or idea that strikes me with no particular plan in mind. The novels are much more involved and complex and (at least for me) require a lot more forethought. I can't say I really have a favorite short story, but the latest one always seems like the best. At least until I write the next one.
RH: How did you break into the industry? Can you tell us a bit about the path you took?
CF: It wasn't so much of a path, I kind of fell into it backwards without even thinking. A friend suggested I submit one of my stories to a horror antho that was looking for edgy stuff. I did and was accepted. After that I started getting invited to submit to other anthologies. I sold my first novel with a little hustle and then wound up collaborating with Poppy Z Brite on a novel length version of our novella Triads. I got invited to work for Black Flame writing tie-ins and novelizations. I was invited to submit to Hard Case Crime. Then, after some unrelated correspondence about his novel, vintage pulp and other shared interests, my agent asked if he could represent me. Practically every step I've taken has been requested by others rather than initiated by me but I didn't do it that way on purpose.
So when people ask me how to get published, I never really know what to say. Truth is, I don't know myself. I guess your best bet would be to write all the time and get as good as you can be so that when an opportunity comes up, you'll be ready.
RH: Is there any Christa Faust in Angel Dare, or are there any other characters in the book you identify with (or identify with other people)?
CF: All of my characters have little pieces of me in them, no matter if they are male or female, hero or villain. On the other hand, Angel is also very different than me in many ways. I've had people ask if I'm from Chicago (by people from Chicago), or if I was raised Catholic. I'm neither and I have to take that as the ultimate compliment for a writer. Clearly I'm doing something right if my characters are so believable that people think they must really be me.
RH: What, in general, inspired you to write the book?
CF: Same thing that inspires me to write anything. I just want to tell a good story.
RH: Who are your favorite writers, outside the crime genre?
CF: Let see… I really like Larry Brown, though I bet he'd be classified as "crime genre" if he wasn't so damn brilliant. I also have a thing for crossover genre bashers like Joe R. Lansdale and Michael Marshall (Smith). I cut my teeth on early Clive Barker and will always have a soft spot for his darker stuff.
RH: This site, while a general stomping ground for aspiring writers, also highlights the work of Chuck Palahniuk. Care to share any experiences you may have had with his books, if any? Or the movie Fight Club?
CF: By far my favorite Palahniuk novel (and one of my all time favorite novels by any author) is Invisible Monsters. I can't say it directly inspired Money Shot but I was thinking a lot about the underlying themes touched on by that novel -- body image and beauty and how it feels to have that beauty taken away -- when I was writing the scenes of Angel dealing with her swollen and battered face after she is beaten, raped and left for dead.
I got a Kindle for my birthday this year and bought Snuff as my first download. It was fun to read another author's take on the adult industry.
RH: What sort of music/musicians do you listen to? Does music play into your writing process?
CF: I have pretty odd, eclectic taste in music. I like Fletcher Henderson and Rammstein but I can't stand to hear music (or any kind of sound at all) while I'm writing. I find it intensely distracting.
On the other hand I can't work out without music, especially skipping rope or working on the speed bag, and I actually solve a lot of my plot problems in the gym. Go figure.
RH: What else do you do, besides writing? (Or are you one of the lucky few who can support themselves solely on that?) Any hobbies, besides tattoos?
CF: I do support myself (barely) with my writing but I don't know how lucky I am. I think I'd prefer to be rich off some boring day job, only I don't know how to do anything else. I do still take the occasional Domme session, mostly foot worship clients.
When I have time for hobbies, I collect vintage shoes and vintage paperbacks. I love good food. I like to cook and eat out when I can afford it. I love Film Noir and try to see my faves projected on the big screen as often as I can. Mostly I just like to hang around at home with my black and white beasties (two Boston Terriers and two Persian cats.) My life is really not all that glamorous.
RH: As an avid tattoo recipient, what attracts you to them? Do you have a favorite?
CF: I like to say that I only have one tattoo, it's just really big. However if I have to pick a favorite, it would be the winged typewriter on my belly.
All of my tattoos have personal meaning to me and I worked with my artists to design each one. I hate the cheesy generic stuff like the ubiquitous tribal tramp-stamp or the barbed wire armband. What's the point of going into a tattoo shop and picking something off the wall at random? I wanted to choose images that were timeless and beautiful and personal. Images that would make me happy whenever I saw them. I didn't want something that would eventually feel like last year's silly, trendy hairstyle, only permanent.
RH: You've written a number of movie tie-in novels. How do you approach those, compared to an original book? Do they let you watch the movie, and then you write? Do they let you take liberties? Do they let you spend time on set?
CF: It's like this. The book and the movie need to be released at the same time, so I'm usually turning in my manuscript before they've even started shooting or sometimes even casting the film. All I have to go on is a draft of a script, often not even the final draft. If you read my novelization of Final Destination 3, you'll see it has a totally different ending than the film, because the director reshot the final scene at the very last minute, long after the book was turned in. On the other hand, the writers are not allowed to make any of our own changes. We can add in more background material and flesh out the characters (in fact we have to do that because when you're fluffing a skimpy 120 page script into 400 manuscript pages, you need every extra word you can get) but we can't change the story or the basics of the characters. For example, I couldn't make the Sam Jackson character in Snakes on a Plane into a Jewish grandmother but I can give the generic character of a foul-mouthed black male FBI agent a little more depth and background.
RH: What kind of advice would you give to aspiring writers? Is there anything you picked up along the way, or any mistakes you would advise someone to keep an eye out for?
CF: I can't tell you how to get published, but I can tell you how not to get published. Never pay anyone to represent or publish your book. A reputable literary agent will take a small percent of what you earn (usually 15%) after a deal is made, never in advance. A legitimate publisher will pay you for the right to publish your work, not the other way around. Period. The internet is full of hustlers who prey on the desperate and naïve so stay alert and never be afraid to ask questions and check references. No legit agent or publisher will be offended by a little background check because they should have nothing to hide. Be smart and don't get scammed.
My only other piece of advice would be this: Don't keep on trying to sell a book that no one wants, It doesn't matter how brilliant you might think it is, if it's not selling, put it away and write something else. And something else after that. I'm not saying give up after one or two rejections, but if, say ten agents and/or publishers (who you've carefully researched and who are currently representing/publishing the same type of book as the one you are selling) have passed outright on your project, it's time to move on. I think too many would-be writers get hung up polishing the same precious masterpiece for years and years. I say, if it doesn't sell let it go and do something else.
RH: Do you have anything in the pipeline? Any books coming out that we should be looking for? Any more of Angel Dare in our future?
CF: As always, I have a few things in the works. A new novel. A new tie-in project. Mostly stuff I can't really talk about yet, but check in with me over at www.christafaust.com and you can stay current on the next big thing, whatever that may be. And yeah, I think there may be more from Angel, but the jury's still out. You'll just have to wait and see…
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One of the classes at Passim Baraura Primary School near Srimangal. Some of the kids in the area go to this public school. Others go to the Islamic madrassa. Others don't go to school at all.
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photos of children always capture attentions. i like the depth of this photo... there r at least a dozen of expressions. Well done!
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In the 2004–2005 academic year, 80 PSU students worked in teams through the BOP to provide business assistance to 30 companies, including Buddha Belly Bakery, Chef Sheila, Dragonfly Chai, Annie Mae's Gifts and Apparel, Montego Bay Restaurant, Nola's Nuggits, Pasta Bangs, Platinum Fade Hair Salon, Sock-it-to-me socks, Soul Chain Boutique and The Abbey Cafe. Through a combination of mentoring by counselors and technical assistance provided by the student teams, BOP consulting services include creating business plans, researching market potential, developing human resource plans, and developing and implementing financial and accounting systems.
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Since its inception in PSU's School of Business Administration in 1994, the BOP has worked with 370 companies, 1,080 PSU students and has helped created hundreds of new jobs in North and Northeast Portland–more than 150 in the past three years alone. The BOP's mission is to help small and emerging businesses achieve their potential by providing knowledgeable and relevant mentoring and technical assistance, to provide students the opportunity to engage in community-based learning with local small businesses, and to collaborate with other service providers to improve the overall economic well-being of the neighborhoods the BOP serves.
The Spring Luncheon celebrates the progress of participating businesses partners, recognizes the contributions of BOP supporters and advisory board members, and applauds the student consultants' efforts. The luncheon features Scott Dawson, dean of the School of Business Administration, a brief awards ceremony and a keynote address from Bruce Feathers of Featherlite Enterprises, an entrepreneur who knows first-hand the struggles small business owners go through in establishing and maintaining their businesses. Media wishing to attend the luncheon should call Erin Malecha Arias at 503-725-8794. For other information, call the BOP, 503-725-3705, or visit www.sba.pdx.edu/outprog.
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This week, Papa Kenn reviews the latest comedy starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, a satire of American politics: THE CAMPAIGN!
"The Campaign"
Director: Jay Roach
Writers: Chris Henchy, Shawn Harwell
Starring: Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Dylan McDermott, John Lithgow, Dan Aykroyd, Brian Cox, Karen Maruyama
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Remember when Will Ferrell was really funny? Legitimately funny? Saturday Night Live, Anchorman, Old School…the man has a number of movies that are not only funny, but good films as well! Then Step Brothers happened and it has all been downhill from there. He's falling into a similar pattern as Sandler, where all of his roles are basically the same overacted character with the same delivery of the same jokes with minor differences. In The Campaign, he has a southern accent and non-white-boy-afro hair, but the comedy delivery is just more of the same old, same old.
From the trailers, it seemed like Zach Galifianakis (whose last name is incredibly hard for me to spell correctly) was just what a Will Ferrell movie needed to pull him out of his cinematic rut. A strong comedian working off of another strong comedian.
Oh but wait! Galifianakis plays pretty much the same role in all of his movies too. (sigh) Crap.
Unfortunately that pattern continues in The Campaign, with Galifianakis acting just like all of his other roles, but this time with an incredibly annoying (and sometimes creepy) version of a southern accent.
I'm just going to get to the point. This movie is a comedy. It's marketed that way; it stars two big time comedians (four actually); it has a big cast of characters that are more than capable of giving a great performance for the comedy to play off of; but as a comedy this movie fails. It fails hard. There are moments that had me and the theater audience laughing hard, but there are far too few of those moments. Like another movie that shall not be named, I can count on one hand how many times I laughed. Sure those were big laughs, but nowhere near enough to make this a good comedy.
While it fails comedically, The Campaign performs quite well in the area of political satire. It presents an annoyingly accurate portrayal of American politics today, ranging from political tactics and smear campaigns to Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow playing direct parodies of the Koch Brothers. Yes, Koch like the drink Coke. Not- oh nevermind.
In the third act of the movie, I was surprised to see some strong character development from one of the lead roles. It was actually a pretty inspiring scene up until they ruin it with the exact same horrible and unfunny gag that they had already done three times earlier in the movie. In fact, the whole movie has the core of a good dramatic political satire. The problem is that it's hidden under ten layers of crap comedy, leaving us with only the occasional glimpse of what it could have been.
What this movie has is a good political message for all sides. It makes fools of both ends of the spectrum, rolls them through the mud, and gives us all an idea of just how bad it could get for politics in our country. For that reason alone, it might be worth seeing once after being released on DVD. Maybe. Or if you would rather save your money, not buy overpriced snacks and drinks, and get some actual quality entertainment to go along with your eye-opening political messages, you can watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report at home for an hour and a half!
I give The Campaign: 3/10
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Three female employees of TRUMPF Inc., Farmington, CT, have been recognized by The Manufacturing Institute, Deloitte, University of Phoenix and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers with a Women in Manufacturing STEP (science, technology, engineering and production) Award for excellence and leadership. They are: Christine Benz, manager, project engineering; Annette Doyle, assembly department manager; and Dr. Myrna Reyes, R&D applications engineer. The STEP Awards are part of a larger initiative launched to examine and promote the role of women in manufacturing.
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Quote:Okay try these. Attacks come from all angles, not just the front. To interpret kata look at attacks from different angles and see what you get. Stacked hands imply grappling such as keylocks. Crossed hands imply grappling. Elbow strikes are not always strikes. They can be interpretted as elbow spikes to enter the clinch range. Especially if preceded by a kick or a punch. Crossed legged stances such as kosa dachi implies a knee strike, kick, or tai sabaki, or all three.Many techniques in low stances such as horse stance or front stance are throwing techniques. Many turns in kata are throws or unbalancing techniques. The chambering hand should be holding or trapping something when it chambers. A step can be a kick with the shin to a downed opponent or a knee strike to the thigh. These are just a few and some of it depends on your particular style and kata.
Quote:floating - anytime when you are using another force to counteract for stabilty - in aikido for instance, they use sophisticated methods of centrifigal force in 3-dimensions. similar thing, but less complex in what we do. but then you listen to wristtwister, and his karate likely has more utilization of this...depends what your art's influences are. I will say this, whatever art people do - drawing principles from other arts will likely awaken hidden principles that you didn't see before in your primary art of choice. ...plus it's more fun. screw tradition. lol Arts aren't meant to be stagnent...when they are, it becomes ritual.
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Amazon.com is wielding the ax.
The Goliath of Internet retail sent out an e-mail to its estimated 10,000 California "associates" on Wednesday afternoon, saying it will end their relationship should Gov. Jerry Brownsign the online sales tax bill passed by the Legislature.
Well, Brown signed the bill later that afternoon, which means the battle has been joined over the $200 million the state expects to collect from the heretofore unpaid tax.
Calling the legislation "unconstitutional and counterproductive," the Seattle company said its enactment into law "compels us to terminate this program ... as of the date that the California law becomes effective."
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It also accused "big-box retailers, most of which are based outside California," of seeking to "harm the affiliate advertising programs of their competitors." It said similar legislation in other states "has led to job and income losses, and little, if any, new tax revenue."
Whether Amazon follows through remains to be seen. It has done so in Illinois, Connecticut and Arkansas, where laws are on the books, but not in other states, such as New York.
[On Thursday, the Associated Press reported, smaller online retailer Overstock.com also alerted its associates that it would end its relationship with them because of the new law.]
Amazon's associates, better known as affiliates or marketing affiliates, use Amazon to help sell their products, and either pay a percentage of each sale to Amazon or collect a small commission from Amazon on each sale, depending on the arrangement.
"Amazon sales have been good, and profitable," said Richard Boehl, president of QTE North America, a tools company in Rancho Cucamonga (San Bernardino County), some of whose eyeglass parts are advertised and sold on Amazon.
"We get orders from them every day," said Boehl, who pays a 15 percent commission to Amazon. Boehl says he collects and pays California sales tax, unlike many other affiliates.
"Now what do I do?" he wondered after receiving the notice from Amazon.
One thing he and other affiliates might do, should Amazon pull the plug, is to check out other retailers with a large online presence, such as Walmart, Sears and Barnes & Noble, which have offered to replace Amazon as their marketing partners.
What Amazon gets out of its move is not entirely clear. Apart from losing the income generated by the affiliates, the company would still have to pay sales taxes on goods purchased by Californians directly from its site, assuming the law stands up to likely legal challenges.
Former Chronicle business reporter Dan Fost is an Amazon associate. "Meaning I have an Amazon ad on my Web site, and if anyone clicks through to buy my book, I get a little share," said Fost, author most recently of "Giants Past & Present," about our favorite baseball team.
"I barely make anything on this, but I presume others do very well."
Fost, who also received a notice Wednesday, said he was "intrigued that Amazon is threatening to take that away from me and other associates if the Brown tax passes."
"I don't see the connection at all - they'd rather not make the sales from our sites if they have to pay tax on those sales? I think they're just trying to punish Californians for whatever the governor and Legislature do."
Ever so supportive: The white-shoe bankers who took LinkedIn public last month came out with their first reports on the Mountain View company this week after its initial public offering.
The unanimous verdict: two thumbs way up.
"Every once in a while, a company comes around that transforms an industry in such a way that investors have difficulty grasping just how big it may one day become," raved a research analyst with Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter for LinkedIn's initial public offering.
Analysts' reports from its other underwriters, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and UBS, were equally glowing - "transformative," "disruptive," "$10 billion long-term revenue opportunity" were some of the terms employed.
The reaction: LinkedIn's stock, which had drooped to the low $60s after its first-day pop of $100-plus per share, jumped 12 percent Tuesday, the day the reports came out.
On Wednesday, the stock price rose again, to $91 before closing at $87.99, matching the analysts' 12-month price targets of $85 to $92.
That's a far cry from the $45 offering price the underwriters came up with a month and half ago. Suspicions were raised in some quarters that the price was set deliberately to benefit the banks and their elite clients, who got in at $45 and whose holdings are now worth gazillions more.
Conflict of interest? Apparently not. After a 40-day "quiet period," analysts employed by bankers who manage a company's IPO are quite entitled to weigh in publicly on the company's prospects.
Whether investors should take their views with a grain of salt is another matter.
They could seek more independent analyses, for example, from Evercore Partners, an investment banking firm with no connection to the IPO, which came up with a more modest price target of $70 this month.
Which is the price LinkedIn closed at Friday.
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Firefighters were dispatched to a fire at a residence at 359 S. Jones St. at 8:02 a.m., said Chief Raeford Dorsett of the Denton Volunteer Fire Department.
Upon arrival, firefighters found heavy smoke showing and flames coming out of the right side of the house through the windows, the chief said. Firefighters, while in an offensive mode, went in through the front of the house and put the fire out, Dorsett said.
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SKF builds to last: 3 000 tonnes of concrete anchor large size bearing test centre in Germany
2016 March 30, 10:00 CET
SKF is currently building the world's most powerful large size bearing test centre on its Schweinfurt 'Werk 3' site. This pioneering project is now one major step nearer completion – weighing in at around 3 000 tonnes, it took just two days to cast the foundations for the larger of the two new test rigs.
Gothenburg, Sweden, 30 March 2016: Around nine metres wide, six metres deep and 22 metres long, the pit that had to be filled for the base of the future SKF test rig was the size of two detached houses. It had to be filled quickly to ensure the concrete could set correctly.
Over the course of 19 hours, 150 mixer trucks brought in their load and discharged it in the pit, practically one vehicle every six minutes; so almost as if on a conveyor belt. "Obviously this was a logistical challenge," says Armin Schaab of SKF's Construction and Factory Planning team, "but quite clearly our detailed advance planning paid dividends. In addition, the entire team put in a magnificent effort on site, with everything running like clockwork and no incidents of note. This meant we were able to cast the 1 200 cubic metres as planned."
The base is such a huge block because of the enormous forces likely to be unleashed by the test rig that will be anchored to it. The colossus among test rigs is intended in particular for the testing of gigantic rolling bearings for wind power. "It will be the first test rig in the world capable of testing not just a single main bearing but a complete bearing unit all at once," says SKF's Senior Vice President, Technology Development Bernd Stephan, hinting at the dimensions of this unique installation. "The bearings themselves can have an external diameter of anything up to six metres, being intended for turbines in the 10 megawatt class. The test rig can subject structures of that kind to dynamic forces in all directions that, when combined, are many times greater than on the strongest test installation currently available."
Quite apart from that, the future test rig will also allow rotational speeds on testing that will be considerably higher than currently available. Using these exceptional capabilities, SKF wants to simulate extreme dynamic loads of the order of several meganewtons or meganewton metres in as realistic a manner as possible. In view of power capacity of this order, the engineers from RENK Test System GmbH, the firm entrusted with the development, even had to come up with a special fixing method that would direct the forces exerted on the station in a controlled manner along the correct paths.
"We are making these efforts because the existing computational simulation models simply aren't capable of making truly realistic prognoses," says Dr Martin Göbel, Manager of the test centre project at SKF in Schweinfurt. "Our two new test rigs will provide a remedy in this respect and give us insights into processes that were previously inaccessible. The relevant findings will make the new test centre a pioneering instrument in helping many customers from a wide variety of industries gain access to an energy-efficient future in a way that is tailored to the application in question."
"In the final analysis, the 360 MSEK investment in the new test centre will help us customise large size bearings to their subsequent uses much more precisely and efficiently than has previously been possible," says Manfred E. Neubert, President of SKF GmbH. "This means that our customers benefit from significantly higher levels of robustness and reliability in the new generation of large size bearings." For SKF itself, the new test centre is like one of those final pieces in a puzzle soon to be completed, adding to the expertise in large size bearings already available on the Schweinfurt site.
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MySQL database clustering needs some help, and Schooner Information Technology thinks it has cooked up the code to help companies that rely on MySQL do a better job scaling out their databases.
"There's a widespread concern that MySQL clustering is a little kludgey, doesn't have great performance, and can sometimes lose transactions," Jerry Rudisin, Schooner's CEO, tells El Reg. Which is why Schooner has created Active Cluster, an extension to its own Appliance for MySQL 3.0, a software appliance that the company announced back in February, that as the name suggests provides active-active clustering for server nodes running a tuned-up version of the MySQL Enterprise Edition database.
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Flash-based solid state drives have gone mainstream in general-purpose servers, so in February Schooner ditched IBM's hardware, packaged up its goodies as two RPMs for Linux distros, and announced the Appliance for MySQL 3.0 and Appliance for Membrain 3.0. These software appliances – which are not virtualized for performance reasons – run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and 5.5 and their CentOS clones; flash drives from Fusion-io, LSI, Unigen, Intel, OCZ, and Pliant are supported inside of x64 servers from Hewlett-Packard, Dell, or IBM.
The Appliance for MySQL 3.0 software appliance does the scale up, and now the Active Cluster for MySQL Enterprise Edition is helping databases scale out using synchronous replication. Oracle, which took control of the MySQL database through its $5.6bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010, offers a number of different clustering technologies. The replication feature inside of MySQL Enterprise does asynchronous replication, which means database changes are passed from a master database to one or more slave databases and queued up to be applied to the slave databases after the master files are changed. The time lag in asynchronous replication is useful if you are replicating over long distances or slow network connections, but it means that a master and its slaves can get out of synch.
"The slaves can get way behind, anywhere from minutes to hours," explains Rudisin. "And sometimes you have to slow down the master node to let the slaves catch up." This is obviously not a desirable situation.
MySQL Cluster, another Oracle add-on to the relational database, does synchronous replication across a cluster of database nodes and provides high availability failover, too. But MySQL Cluster does not support the InnoDB database engine that many MySQL shops prefer because of its high performance on transaction processing.
With the Active Cluster feature that Schooner has delivered for its software appliance, the company is providing synchronous replication between a master and up to seven slave database nodes while also supporting the InnoDB engine. (Schooner has licensed InnoDB from Oracle, which took control of that database engine before it acquired Sun.) Because the master and slave nodes are kept in lockstep, if a master fails, any one of the slaves can take over and be designated the new master in a cluster. You can also take down a master or slave node to apply updates or fix hardware without having to take the application that is smacking into the MySQL databases offline.
The Active Cluster appliance, which has been in beta testing since last November, is a superset of the MySQL appliance that Schooner already sells. The master and slave nodes are using the goosed version of the MySQL Enterprise Edition and InnoDB engine (which is not available in the open source version of the database) as well as the new synchronous clustering feature. A subscription to it costs $9,500 per server per year, the same price that Schooner is charging for the standalone MySQL database appliance. (The Membrain 3.0 Web caching appliance costs $8,500 per server per year for a subscription.) Schooner will be offering free trial downloads of Active Cluster at the end of April when the software begins to ship. ®
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