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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
We had killed heroic Sindragosa 3 raid lockouts ago (this week will be our 4th kill of hardmode Sindy), and had been wiping horrifically to heroic Putricide since then. This is notable only because it is so "fail"... every other (10-strict) guild to be 10/12 had Putricide down yet struggled with Sindy, while we did the opposite.
Well, I think I've established before that my guild is weird when it comes to raiding, I guess this is just another page in the case file :)
What we found that worked for us flies in the face of the other recommended strats we've read or that have been suggested to us: every other guild we've talked to swears by stacking on the green ooze-spawn location to dps it immediately. Now, I can understand this if you're running a melee-heavy raid, but tonight, we had two melee: and they were the tanks. Not only that, but the person targeted by the red ooze often gets caught up in the green's first explosion if you stack at the green spawn point, and they can't get healed quickly enough to survive more than two ticks of the red's own damage.
On TOP of that, having all of your casters sailing through the air and then running around trying to reposition for the next explosion really cuts into your dps. Significantly.
So what did we do?
We stood in the middle by the door for transitions (and made sure we held transitions to not have three oozes up). Equi-distant to the two ooze spawns, it gave the red-ooze target time to react and flee, and our ranged dps were able to kill the green before it even reached us... even without our abom slowing it. After that, it was only a short few seconds before the red ooze died its own bubbly death, and we could pour "free" dps into Putricide himself while he was fiddling with flasks at the table. It went fast. P3 was a breeze compared to P2: it was just a matter of keeping the plagued person away and the tanks alive.
With 2 healers, 6 ranged dps, and two tanks, with the above transition strat and a lot of vocal communication to swap off the plague BEFORE it killed its current host (I got a bit rabid about that and started inserting myself into the disease rotation to make sure the host didn't die from a slow runner), the fight went way.too.smooth. Eerie, /facepalm, omgwhywerewewipingonthisbefore kind of smooth. As in, we spent full 4-hour raid nights wiping to him in previous weeks, and tonight, after clearing blood and lower wings, we put 4 attempts on him and had him down. After wiping on the trash to Marrowgar, we pull down heroic Putricide, who has been haunting our nightmares for weeks, on the first night of the week.
11/12 heroic ICC10.
/stares at Arthas and grins.
Edit: I looked back down the list, looks like there are some other 10-strict guilds that have followed our trail in the weeks since our Sindy kill and they have tagged Sindy before Put hardmode, as well. Good job, fellow Sindy-slayers!
Edit2: our turkey gave more detail on our strategy, and even used MS Paint (cheer!). You can check out the strat we used on his blog, here!
13 comments:
- Niniel said...
Yay! Congrats! :D
- May 19, 2010 at 3:20 AM
Yea we have downed Sindragosa and not yet Putricide, you're not the only ones! Just out of interest, which healing setup did you have? We have resto druid, shaman (myself) and disc priest healing and are considering two healing this...
Congrats on your kill!
- May 19, 2010 at 6:21 AM
- Kae said...
We used a druid and a shaman. Best to have at least one healer who is mobile, I think, but not absolutely necessary. We easily survived a transition when the shaman got the red ooze bloat on him, just due to the speed at which the dps killed the oozes (green never reaching group).
- May 19, 2010 at 8:46 AM
- Bell said...
All top guilds on my server went Sindragosa then Putricide. :)
- May 19, 2010 at 9:20 AM
- Kae said...
But is that for 25s, or pure ten?
Guildox's ten-strict rankings (worldwide) were all listed as 10/12 with Putricide and not Sindragosa.
- May 19, 2010 at 9:24 AM
- Beruthiel said...
Yay! Grats Kae!!!
Frostworms inc! :)
- May 19, 2010 at 10:18 AM
- Lemontree said...
Grats! I knew you'd get it! Now onto Bane, which I'm on in 10 man but cheating in my 25 man gear.
Blizzard seems to have failed to balance this for 10 man guilds judging by the 10 strict rankings on Guildox, but I'm still cheering for them to do it, good luck!
- May 19, 2010 at 12:36 PM
- Hana said...
Grats! :D I always think it'a great when a guild develops their own strat to conquer a boss. You guys are trailblazers.
- May 19, 2010 at 1:57 PM
I'm reminded of a line from Lord of the Flies.
If i could have spit on his corpse IRL without tarnishing my pristine LCD, i would have.
I'm renaming him, Professor PutriJERK!
- May 19, 2010 at 4:03 PM
- Vidyala said...
Awesome, congrats Kae! We were definitely one of the 10/12s who did Putricide first and then Sindragosa. I don't know why Put was so much easier for us than Sin. And I knew you had downed her, and you were still putting in hours wiping on Put while we wiped on Sin and I was thinking, "We need to trade brains or something, why is this so hard for us?" Onward to H LK! I'll be cheering for you guys. :D
- May 20, 2010 at 11:14 AM
Grats Kae! See, we took a different approach to the whole deal, and killed both Putricide and Sindragosa Heroic in the same week.... after wiping on both for about a month. Heroic LK is INSANE, let me know what you think. We're trying to get Frostwyrms this week (damn Mystic Buffet), then next week it's gonna be our serious tries on LK.
- May 20, 2010 at 11:36 AM
- Kae said...
We skipped on the heroic LK work this week in order to pick up drakes achievements. We're wondering now what we're going to do with ourselves for Sunday... since we have no ICC to work in!
Tsark, for the All-you-can-eat Buffet achievement, we used three tanks, rotating at 3 stacks in case a icy grip gave the tank a few more before they could successfully LoS :) We had to force a wipe a few times to try again,
- May 20, 2010 at 12:03 PM
- Beranabus said...
That's not MS paint! That's highgrade photoshop... can't you tell from the kill shot? I mean you can't even tell Grom/Rul wern't there!
Oh who am I kidding :|
- May 21, 2010 at 9:21 PM


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Out in the fizz pop crackle world of the internet, where every move, right and wrong, occupies a corner of infinity, can something ever truly die? Can blogs die? I hope so, because the death of something is an affirmation of its life. For something to die means it had to have been living, had a body that breathed, wandered, giggled, fought and loved. By killing my blog, lipstickeater, here and now, I hope to give it the flesh it always deserved. And hopefully, a non-Christian, non-mystic, but witchy reality of afterlife. The text pieces that are amassed here on this blogspot domain ain't going nowhere, and by the very stillness of their stasis they form the flesh of a body that you and I can now confirm did inhale and exhale. These words are the long white flowers I am laying at the grave of lipstickeater.blogspot.com.
Five years ago, I began writing in/ as lipstickeater to stabilize the vulnerable molecules of my own body. I was two years into being a gay divorcée, trying to figure out how and if I was going to be able to maintain being a femme without a butch husband: I had to learn to be tautologically feminine. At the same time, I had recently, impulsively, brought to end a two-year negotiation with a prestigious university press over the publication of a book, a version of my doctoral thesis on black femininity. I wanted to write a book that changed the direction of not only queer theory but also the discourse of critical theory itself. I wrote purposefully in a chatty, gossipy voice; my footnotes were minimal because I believed that citations should be functional, referring only to work with which one actually engaged, rather than an bloated but dribbly farce of academic rigor. (Anyone can do a JSTOR search and plug in citations for a billion footnotes.) But the reviewers engaged by the press saw my aesthetic and conceptual choices as either laziness or inability (probably both) and in their rejections of the manuscript, condescendingly harped on my need to change my rainbowbabywoman into something other than what it was. Mainly: books they had written. Don't believe their progressive poses: academic theorists, and particularly queer theorists, love to live the Oedipal narrative. My book was not a traditional academic book; its title is rainbowbabywoman, for fuck's sake. But the editor agreed with them, and like a girl who had gone on too many dates with a guy who fucked her hard while telling her she's ugly, I decided to stop revising and submitting to that press. So there I was, a single femme, an unpublished academic, still furiously feminist, but the body that had to hold those identities, my body, was just a cloud of electrons going quickly to ash.
I am stretched next to the white flowers over this grave. I always thought that writing could hold together my too disappearing flesh. Ever since I was a child, I've been writing because I can't sing, dance, or get pregnant. I was a frontwoman without a band, a failed ballet dancer, and a transsexual who doesn't believe transsexual surgery can solve my problems. When I entered graduate school in 1997, I was determined to write a book that would not only express my particular tangle of racial and gender identities (I've always felt myself to be a black girl trapped in an Asian gay male's body; I've been a feminist since I was 12 years old) but turn my own psyche into a live test for the theories of performativity which is my formal training. rainbowbabywoman was to be a performance of the performativity of race and gender. I laid out a detailed phenomenology of cross-identification, showing that to embody the race and gender that you are not requires a rigorous ethics of emotional, political and physical positions. But this wasn't just an idea; it was me, my body.
The magic of these white flowers is that roots regenerate from their snipped feet, like lizards. Eventually I left rainbowbabywoman gasping in its shoebox, and decided to write new theories through a blog. I did so not because I wanted to give my sentences a consolation prize but because I sensed a certain kind of freedom and opportunity in digitalia as not platform, but medium of writing. When a painter finishes a painting, it begins to exist. If she has a gallery behind her and has a show or sells the thing, hooray, but she doesn't have to have a show or sell in order for the painting to have a bodily integrity. Whether anyone wants it or not, the finished painting simply is. In direct contrast, a writer's work doesn't exist unless it is desired, not by a person, but people who proxy for conglomerates. I've always found this to be profoundly unfair: my text pieces were always my girls, my daughters, my guardian fairies the moment I tapped the last period into being. Then suddenly, with the advent of digitalia, it was suddenly possible for my textual pieces to become the little paintings they've always wanted to be. Lipstickeater was born. Blogspot allowed me to fuse text making to the labor of creating a body for myself. To evoke my beloved Félix Guattari, it is an assemblage of my feminist femininity. It taught me so much: to be fearless in vulnerability, to write and think quickly, to produce a rhythmic body of work rather than one ur-text, to believe in the power of the immaterial to accomplish material things.
I wore white to match the white flowers. I feel like a widow although it's only a tail of me that's died. If I've been slowing down on writing in/ as lipstickeater, it's because its flesh has been gradually congealing into its own infinite objectness. I am always going to be all about femininity and feminism, but my daily body craved other forms. I'm working on a book-length piece about pure feminism. I want to think big, to write a manifesta, a daintier sequel to The Second Sex. One might call it The Fourth Sex. I call it Artificial Menstruation. I also completed a book of stories and named her Lace Sick Bag. I've been supremely lucky to work with my new feminine feminist heroes, Patricia No and Antonia Pinter of Publication Studio Portland, who will bring Lace Sick Bag out in early September. In terms of taking my digital prosemaking to the next level, I'm most proud of this collaboration because Publication Studio is doing the kind of work that is going to be the future of books. When they publish a book, it is tripartite: an e-book, a free digital reading copy uploaded to their reading commons that can be annotated by readers, and a hand-made physical book. They are turning books into electron clouds. With their reading commons, they are infusing the often cold bodylessness of the internet with the tactile intimacy of touching a book. And in elegantly converse symmetry, their production of the physical book is informed by the digital model of commerce and object-production. The beautiful physical books are produced on demand: the book only comes into its paper body after a reader purchases it over the Publication Studio e-shop. The traditional publishing model is clunkily capitalistic: gobs of books are published, and then hawked to a public in whom desire must be whipped up, like pounds of cheap and cheaply-made clothes so desperate at H&M. The physical books at Publication Studio are never wasted, never have to fear a death in remainder bins or cold dark storage, because they germinate from the reader's desire.
The words I'll be writing from now on will sit at girlscallmurder.com. Lipstickeater is dead, but maybe someday it'll come back to life. But the good thing about being dead is that you can now become a ghost! Lipstickeater will keep appearing at its whim on girlscallmurder, in its new ethereal form: hashtag. I'm laying lipstickeater deep into the grave, but its desire keeps wafting up like a heavy perfume: the desire to hover, be granular, dissipate. It creates a desire in me, too. I make myself ready to be haunted, and my digital skin is growing pores like uteri. I'm holding white flowers in mourning but I'm looking up at you because the earth is not where the body of lipstickeater is; it's in you, out there, in the fizz crackle pop world of sparks and want.


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Thank you for helping me with the questions I could not answer, very much appreciated.
I appreciate it is a rather large post but if a teacher could read and correct the post I would be very grateful.
Kind regards.
Student or Learner
Good afternoon, I have applied for the CELTA course at my local college in Ireland. I have an interview on Friday morning and I have to complete a pre-interview task and bring it with me.
I was wondering if someone could correct my answers and give me some feedback. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
1. Write a sentence giving an example of each of the following tenses.
a) Present Simple: I like sunny days.
b) Present Continuous: He's learning Japanese.
c) Present Perfect Simple: I've been to Australia.
d) Present Perfect Continuous: He's been waiting for over two hours.
e) Past Simple: He went to Paris last week.
f) Past Perfect Simple: I'd just finished work.
g) Past Perfect Continuous: He'd been waiting for over two hours when he finally arrived.
h) Future Simple: I'll meet you at the train station tomorrow.
i) Future Continuous: I'll be cooking dinner when you arrive.
j) Future Perfect Simple: I will have finished by 10pm.
k) Past Simple Passive: The window was broken.
L) Present Perfect Simple Passive: She has recently been given money.
2. What would you say to a student who asked you the difference in meaning between these pairs of sentences? Identify the verb form and explain the difference in meaning.
a) He's always combing his hair (Present Continuous)
He always combs his hair. (Present Simple)
The Difference in meaning is that the first sentence implies that he's currently combing his hair at that time and has not finished. The second sentence is a general statement based on past observations.
b) She speaks Spanish. (Present Simple)
She's speaking Spanish (Present Continuous)
The difference in meaning is that the first sentence is a general statement providing information; the second sentence implies that the person is currently speaking Spanish at that time and has not finished.
c) I had breakfast this morning. (Past Perfect)
I've had breakfast this morning. (Present Perfect)
d) She stopped to listen to the music.
She stopped listening to the music.
3. Look at the following words and decide which syllable carries the main stress. Mark the words accordingly.
a) Photographer Photographer
b) Photographic Photographic
c) Politics Politics
d) Advertisement Advertisement
e) Objective Objective
f) Advise Advise
g) Practical Practical
h) Investment Investment
i) Intoxication Intoxication
4. The Following Modal verbs perform a specific language function (e.g. giving advice, making complaints, asking for permission etc.) state the use of the modal verbs underlined in the following sentences.
a) You must stay at home. Necessity
You must have left it at home. Advice
You really must come round for a drink sometime. Strong recommendation
b) I'll (I will) help you with the washing up. Voluntary Action
I'll (I will) see you tomorrow. Prediction
I won't tell anyone. Promise
c) He should be on the train by now. Expectation
You should take an aspirin. Advice
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Owners of the 5300 convenience stores across Scotland will be the focus of a new awareness-raising campaign on the introduction of a minimum unit price for alcohol.
This is the first stage in a large-scale campaign to ensure retailers and customers are ready for the implementation of the new legislation on May 1.
It comes as the Scottish Government is set to recommend a minimum unit price to the Scottish Parliament.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "Minimum unit pricing will tackle the scourge of cheap, high-strength drink that causes so much damage to so many families and is going to save the lives of thousands of Scots.
"Retailers are the key to ensuring the legislation is implemented, which is why it is crucial we raise awareness of this change in the law early and give people time to get prepared.
"These materials will allow shop-owners to access a valuable bank of information to educate themselves and their staff ahead of the change on 1 May.
"Our consultation on the price of a unit of alcohol recently closed, and I am looking forward to presenting our recommendation to the Scottish Parliament next week."


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SEC Finds Social Media Common Ground
The Securities and Exchange Commission found a middle ground in the wedge that developed between social media and disclosure regulations.
Essentially, the watchdog agency said to companies and executives they can go ahead and be contemporary in their communications, but first warn investors where to look so they are prepared.
The agency decided not to go forward with any action against Netflix Inc. Chief Executive Reed Hastings after SEC staff alleged Hastings might have violated Regulation Fair Disclosure in July 2012 by announcing a monthly viewing milestone via Facebook.
Better yet would have been the SEC adopting a proposal made in late January by Joseph A. Grundfest, former commissioner at the SEC and a professor at Stanford Law School.


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I've released a very minor update to resolve an incompatibility issue with WordPress 4.4:
Tag Archives: Wordpress
Minor ThinkTwit Update 1.6.3
I've just uploaded a very minor update of ThinkTwit.
ThinkTwit Update 1.6.0
I've been a busy bee over the last few weeks: this is the biggest update to ThinkTwit that I've made in a long time, since before the upgrade to Twitter REST API v1.1, and it fixes a number of things that I have wanted to update for a while but also which I've had a number of requests for.
ThinkTwit Update 1.5.2
A ThinkTwit update is long overdue – I'd like to announce some changes I have recently made that overhaul the debugging output as well as another feature that has been discussed back and forth with an avid ThinkTwit user for sometime – thanks to Jeffrey Granger (weightlossexercisediet.com) for his usual tireless assistance!
ThinkTwit Update 1.5.0
I have just launched an update to ThinkTwit which brings to us a new feature that I have wanted to add for quite some time. Thanks to a kind offer from Maria Ramos at WebHostingHub.com I have finally been able to add this feature. Here's a brief summary of the changes:
How to add a Twitter feed to WordPress blog
You may or may not know that I'm the developer of a Twitter plugin for WordPress, called ThinkTwit – this very easily allows you to add your tweets to your blog, which can make it very easy for someone to see your thoughts in one place and is also a great marketing tool to have on your corporate website. There are hundreds of tools out there that do this, but few are as flexible as mine.
Not many people are aware of ThinkTwit, and those that do find it could easily think that it's just for developers, so I thought I'd post a blog on how to use it to show how easy it is to use – and generally to help people who want a quality, reliable tool that is easy to install now but can be very easily expanded further down the line.
Continue reading How to add a Twitter feed to WordPress blog
ThinkTwit Update 1.4.3
Just a quick update to ThinkTwit:
Updated the readme.txt, and both shortcode and Output Anywhere as there were some inconsistencies in naming but also some of the instructions were out of date and hence wrong. Should resolve any issues anyone is having with either of these or with multiple usage on one page.
Many thanks to Martijn Pantlin, from Orgone Media, for testing and pointing out issues to me!
ThinkTwit Update 1.4.2
It's been a while since I last posted or made any changes to ThinkTwit as work is very busy at the moment – apologies if anyone has missed me, but I'm guessing not as I've not had a lot of feedback. One request that came through recently which stood out has prompted this latest release, here's a summary:
ThinkTwit Update 1.4.1
I've made some very minor updates to ThinkTwit following on from some issues that I found during my last update and also a very small addition to the new settings page which I thought people would find interesting.
How to implement application-only authentication of Twitter API v1.1 in PHP/WordPress
As with everything, once you know how this actually quite easy – but when you first look at documentation on Twitter's website about how to do this it can be a little daunting.
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You may not have heard of Heron Oblivion yet, but that'll soon change.The psych-rock band recently signed to the venerable Sub Pop label, despite only having publicly played live just a few times prior, and have now toured with stoner-rock troubadour Kurt Vile. Part of that has to do with the band's pedigree — guitarists Ethan Miller and Noel Von Harmonson played in brain-fryers Comets on Fire, with Von Harmonson also playing in Sic Alps and Six Organs of Admittance and Miller in Howlin' Rain and Feral Ohms; Charlie Saufley played in the similarly minded Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound; and singer/drummer Meg Baird has played in psych-folk band Espers as well as solo.
The rest has solely to do with the sheer power of their debut, self-titled album. Over seven songs, the bands' axes clash like fighting wolves, tangling like the brambles and branches that adorn the album cover. Keeping all this Crazy Horse-style madness reined in is a grounded rhythm section and the heart-stopping vocals of Baird. Her voice can simmer low and quavering like a classic British folk singer and then rise to seemingly unattainable heights on songs like the climactic "Your Hollows."


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Swivelling Eye-of-Sauron style WiFi maker preps $100m IPO
Crazy fools are making and selling actual stuff
Wi-Fi signal booster biz Ruckus Wireless has set in motion a $100m stock market debut, and hopes to be listed early next year.
The company requested the stock symbol RKUS but didn't specify how many shares will be sold nor which exchange will host the listing - the fields are blank in the initial public offering paperwork filed with US regulators. The registration fee is specified and indicates a maximum listing of $100m.
Breaking with Silicon Valley tradition, Sunnyvale-based Ruckus is already making money and turning a profit in the first half of this year in a trend that shows every sign of continuing. Annual revenue is growing: the company took $120m in 2011 compared to $75m in 2010, up 60 percent year on year.
Ruckus makes directional Wi-Fi technology, which is incorporated into wireless routers and access points to point the radio signal in the right direction thus improving connectivity while reducing the need to bump up transmission power. The basic concept - having multiple antennas and switching between them depending on where the user is - is deceptively simple, but the implementation is a little more complicated.
The beauty of the Ruckus tech is that client devices are not aware that clever stuff is going on. So a punter's laptop, phone, tablet or iDevice is tracked as it moves around the office, but it isn't required to support directional signalling.
Ruckus isn't alone in doing that, even Cisco is in on the directional act these days, and Ruckus also competes with Meru and Aruba Networks, not to mention the 802.11ac standard that mandates standardised beam forming (as the technique is known). But despite that, Ruckus is an innovator and is prepared to paste the faces of its senior management over bizarre pop hit Gangnam Style, which surely counts for something. ®
Sponsored: Detecting cyber attacks as a small to medium business


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The portion of the city's student transfer policy that includes race will stay in place for another academic year after School Committee members said Thursday night that they were not ready to remove it from the district's policy handbook.
A subcommittee discussed the issue May 7 and was prepared to take the voluntary de-isolation policy out of the handbook, but after objections from other committee members and Democratic activist David Coyne, they decided to take a year to research and deliberate the policy.
Worcester signed a voluntary de-isolation agreement with the state in 1989 that requires the student body at each of the city's elementary schools to have a minority population that is within 15 percent of the school system's overall elementary minority population. If a school's population is persistently outside those goals, students seeking to transfer in or out could be refused based on whether they were helping to balance the school racially.
The majority of the school system's students are "minorities," and no one racial group makes up more than 50 percent of the student body. Latinos are the largest group with 38.1 percent.
In addition, the state has not enforced the de-isolation agreement for years; a June 2007 Supreme Court ruling restricted how districts can use race in school assignments. Even one of the state's old incentives has disappeared. School Committee member Brian A. O'Connell said the district should not abandon the agreement, because it had received 90 percent state reimbursement on building projects in the agreement's early years. However, the state has since changed its school building process.
While the student body and the state's position appear to have changed, racial isolation has persisted. In the 2010-2011 school year, for instance, more than a third of schools were out of compliance with the policy.
By default, students are assigned to their neighborhood school, but they can also ask to go to a magnet school or other school outside their geographic area. But the process is not balancing out.
"Unless we hold one person back or force another to go, the voluntary process, because of the shifting demographics, is not getting us there," Superintendent Melinda J. Boone said in an interview.
With increasing enrollment, the district also has fewer seats open to transfer students.
Mr. O'Connell said it would be "a violation of a moral obligation" to abandon the policy, while committee member Tracy O'Connell Novick said, "We do have majority white schools in this district … and we're not working on it."
Committee member Jack L. Foley noted that "we have a handbook that really is not being followed."
Mr. Coyne said the district has the same ability to de-isolate its schools as it did in 1989; it's just a different group in the minority.
While the transfer policy will be held for a year, the committee will hear more in two weeks about proposals to eliminate the suspension as a penalty for students who are truant or who have demerits. The district does not use demerits, but committee members Dianna Biancheria and Mr. O'Connell spoke in favor of keeping both policies.
Committee member John F. Monfredo, meanwhile, said suspensions should be reserved for safety issues.
Mayor Joseph M. Petty, chairman of the committee, said the discussion about changes to the handbook was unlike anything he had seen in 16 years on the City Council and could have been averted with a simple phone call to subcommittee Chairman John F. Monfredo to request the report go back to subcommittee.


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3.2 Logging Tools
There are several logging tools available for Pharo: Logging, Toothpick, SimpleLogger.
Logging developed by Keith Hodges is available at
Gofer new squeaksource: 'Logging'; package: 'ProcessSpecific'; package: 'Logging'; load
The documentation says: Logging, a front end to Toothpick, SimpleLog or LogEngine
Toothpick developed by Joseph Pelrine from MetaProg. http://www.metaprog.com/Toothpick/. It is the most advanced and provides a nice documentation.
SimpleLogger developed by Germán Arduino is available at http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/SimpleLogger.html. SimpleLogger is a really simple text only logger.
It's simple to install, only point your Monticello Browser to:
MCHttpRepository location: 'http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/SimpleLogger' user: '' password: ''
and load the latest version.
Use it is also simple:
aLogger := G9Logger new.
Creates a new instance of SimpleLogger, opening a text file named for example: "15 July 2010 6#15#01 am.txt"
Then, to log things on such file you can use the following messages:
aLogger log: 'Text to log on the logfile'.
Will log the phrase 'Text to log on the logfile" on the logfile.
aLogger logSeparator.
Will log a line of '-' to separate sections on the logfile.
aLogger logWithTimeStamp: 'This text was written at: '
Will log a the phrase 'This text was written at: 15 July 2010 6:24:03 am' in the logfile.
aLogger closeLogFile.
Will close the log file, writing some closing text.
The complete session of the previous samples will generate this log file:
---------------------------------------------------------------- G9Logger started at: 15 July 2010 6:15:01 am ---------------------------------------------------------------- Text to log on the logfile ---------------------------------------------------------------- This text was written at: 15 July 2010 6:24:03 am ---------------------------------------------------------------- G9Logger ended at: 15 July 2010 6:27:09 am ---------------------------------------------------------------- -------G9Logger is a product from Arduino Software-------------- ---Web: http://www.arduinosoftware.com---Mail: email@example.com---
Another simple logging approach method using syslog
If you're prefer to use standard syslog facilities found in Linux or in Windows with cygwin installed, you can use the method below to send log statements over UDP to syslog.
Create a class SysLog and put this method on the class side, or if you prefer an instance of a logger, put it on the instance side and create a constructor to pass in the IP address upon instance creation.
Syslog will then handle all the messy details of concurrency, files, log rollover, etc, using the standard facilities of the system rather than reinventing everything in Smalltalk. This is merely an example, not a final solution. - Ramon Leon
SysLog>>sendPriority: aPriority body: aBody toServer: anIPAddress | logServer client logHostIP | anIPAddress isEmptyOrNil ifTrue: [ ^self ]. logServer := Socket newUDP setPort: 514. [ client := Socket newUDP. [ logHostIP := ((anIPAddress split: '.') collect: [:e | e asInteger ]) asByteArray. client sendUDPData: aPriority , ' ' , aBody toHost: logHostIP port: logServer port ] ensure: [ client closeAndDestroy ] ] ensure: [ logServer closeAndDestroy ]


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I have harvested a Surface mount USB connector from a broken Sony digital camera. I mapped the colors of wires to the connector internally on the iGesture and will add the mini-USB connector to the iGesture numberpad in place of the 4" USB cable.
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It's becoming a desktop web. Reactive interfaces are blurring the lines between desktop applications and web applications, which in consequence, makes the web more powerful. It's all built on JavaScript — a language known for making coding a chore.
In this tutorial, we'll look at how Dijits work and how Dojo can help you write some powerful web applications.
What you'll need
- HTML and CSS experience
- A little JavaScript experience
How Dojo is Different
If you're expecting yet another JavaScript framework, Dojo will surprise you. Where libraries like jQuery and Prototype focus on accessing the Document Object Model (DOM), Dojo creates a rich layer on top of the DOM.
In its core library, Dojo has some functions you would expect. The real power, and where this tutorial focuses, is creating rich interfaces. As it turns out, Dojo does this with often very little JavaScript.
Dojo also loads only the files it needs, when it needs them. So, if you only need the button widget, that's all the JavaScript you'll need to load. All this is done for you from a single Dojo file reference.
In the sections below, I'll show how to add a couple widgets to your website using mostly markup. Then, for the JavaScript coders, I'll show how Dojo still lets you use your programming skills to increase the mojo of Dojo.
Let's get started.
Preparing the Dojo
Now that you know what's up with Dojo, let's use some of it. Before we can get down and dirty with it, we need to set the stage. Copy the following text to a new file.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Alternatively, copies of the code are hosted on the Dojo template Webmonkey code library or right click on this link and select Save Link As instead.
Chances are pretty good that the code looks familiar to you. It's straight-forward HTML, but with three little hooks for Dojo's JavaScript and CSS.
The Dojo JavaScript
As with any JavaScript framework or library, the first thing we have to do is include the code file. But, wait, we haven't downloaded anything to include, right? Good observation!
With Dojo, you can load a single file from the AOL Content Delivery Network (CDN), and don't have to host the file yourself. The file will be delivered fast, it will be appropriately cached and you don't have to mess with downloading and unpacking the code. Cool!

The first line calls to the Dojo JavaScript and also prepares a message for Dojo. It says that we want Dojo to parse the page as soon as the page loads. That way, it can find the other pieces of Dojo code. We'll write the other pieces—and the stuff within the second set of script tags—in later sections.
If you prefer to host the Dojo JavaScript files yourself, you can download the latest version. This tutorial will continue to use the hosted Dojo for its many conveniences, including letting you run each example as a single HTML file on your own computer.
The Dojo CSS
Since the big deal about Dojo is its stylized widgets (or Didjits), how things look is an important part of Dojo's appeal. Design is controlled via CSS themes. You can create and alter your own themes, but the default one is called Tundra and can also be loaded from the AOL CDN:

Like the JavaScript, you can host the file yourself if you want. Tundra, and two other themes, come packaged with the Dojo download.
The Dojo Class Name
At this point we have loaded the JavaScript and the CSS, but the widgets won't look right without this next simple line:

Here I've given the class "tundra" to the HTML  tag. If you take a look at the CSS theme, you'll see that just about every line begins with .tundra, so having everything within an element with
class="tundra" is important.
At this point, we've done enough stage-setting. It's time to start the Dojo-writing. In the next section, we'll start out nice and slow by changing the way a simple button looks.
Create a Simple Button
For this first example, you'll be styling an ordinary button. The Tundra CSS theme takes care of how it looks. Dijits, the widget-making part of the Dojo Toolkit, is used to transform the regular button into a special button.
You can the entire HTML file or follow along below to write or copy the important sections piece by piece.
The first thing you need to do is make sure the code that produces the button is loaded. The link to the Dojo JavaScript file we included earlier takes care of this for you, but since Dojo only gives you what you need, you need to tell it what you want.
Place this line inside the empty script tags in your file:
Now Dojo is ready to create button, but we need to show it where. That happens in our HTML. Place this markup where you would like the button to appear:
<button dojoType="dijit.form.Button" id="buttonTest"> Clicky  </button>
Save and reload your file in a browser. You should see a normal button for a moment, then a square button with a slight gradient. Something like this:
At a glance, the code looks like normal HTML, but you might have noticed some strange attributes and embedded JavaScript. Let's look a little closer.
<button> tag contains a
dojoType attribute. This tells Dojo how we want to transform this object. We want to make it a button. Or, as Dojo calls it, a
dijit.form.Button (remember that from the JavaScript?).
The non-tag content within the button makes up the text of the button. In this case, "Clicky."
Finally, we have another script block. Its a special one, though, because it is of type
dojo/method and declares the
onClick event. We can put any JavaScript code within this block, but since it's nested inside the button, it's best to keep it short. If you need more than one or two lines, use a function. We'll show you how in the final example.
In this case, we'll just toss an alert function in there to make sure everything is working.
You've probably already clicked on the button by now. If for some reason you've held off, go for it. A default JavaScript alert box pops up annoyingly. That's how you know it's working!
Are you wondering if that box could be less annoying and look a little nicer? I was, too. And Dojo has an answer for you in the next section.
A Better Alert Box
I cringe whenever I see the alert function used on production websites. Even Google does it. And yet, when it comes down to examples, I still find myself often using the normal JavaScript alert function. It's such a handy way to prove something's happening.
Dojo has a much better alert box, called Dialog. In this section, we'll trigger this new alert box with the same button we used on the previous section.
As with the previous sections, the impatient can download the entire HTML file here. To learn what each piece of code does, read on.
In the script section at the top of the page, add this line below the
dijit.form.Button line:
This tells Dojo that we're going to be using the Dialog widget.
Now you can remove that alert line from the dojo/method script tag. Don't you feel better already? Where you used to have the alert line, replace it with this line:
Here we tell Dojo (via dijit) to grab an object with the id
dialogTest and then display it with the
show() function. This object does not exist yet. So, let's create it.
This is the object that will become our Dialog. Paste this special

 tag below your button (but before the ending body tag).

Woohoo! You clicked and now you see this box.

dojoType may look familiar from the button code, which used a similar syntax. In this case, the type is
dijit.Dialog. We also gave the div an id,
dialogTest, which is the same as what we passed to
dijit.byId above. Awesome! This stuff is starting to come together.
Have you saved the file and reloaded yet? Click the button and you'll see a better alert box:
This is much better than the alert function in several ways. First, we have control over the text in the title bar of the box. Secondly, it doesn't make an annoying beep that makes the user think something is wrong. Lastly, it looks a lot nicer because it blends in with other interface elements, thanks to Dojo theming.
Despite all these improvements, this alert box could get better. I'll show you how in the next section.
Make Your Alert Box Programmatically
At this point, you've seen how Dojo can change the way interface elements look. If you've done much JavaScript programming in the past, one thing might have bothered you a little: we haven't done much actual JavaScript programming.
The Dojo Button and Dialog were both created completely with HTML-like code, relying on Dojo itself to do the parsing. To have a truly useful alert box function, we don't want to toss in a special div every time we want to display a message. For this, we need a programmatically-involved alert box!
Here's the code now or read on for constructing it yourself.
Much of our code from the previous section will remain the same. Inside the script tags at the top of the code, we need to add a new function that I've written. I'm calling it
function dialogAlert(txtTitle, txtContent) { var thisdialog = new dijit.Dialog({ title: txtTitle, content: txtContent }); dojo.body().appendChild(thisdialog.domNode); thisdialog.startup(); thisdialog.show(); }
We can call this new function as often as we like, much as we used to call the alert function. Instead of a single message, this alert box also uses a title.
The function, as you see, contains four lines. In the first, we create a new Dialog object with the title and content. It seems like we're done, right? Not yet; we need to add it to the page (the second line), call the
startup function (third line—more on this in a moment) and finally show the Dialog.
Why do we have to both call
startup and
show it? The functions do two totally different things. In
startup, Dojo prepares the object for display, but also makes sure that it's currently hidden. After startup is called, we're exactly to the point that we were in the previous section before the button is clicked. Once /
show is called (and we called that same function in the old Dialog code), the box is displayed for the user.
Now we have to call this new function. Replace the code inside the
onclick event with this line:
dialogAlert('Clicky-click!', 'Woohoo! You clicked and now you see this box.');
Save and reload. When you click the button, you should see the same dialog you saw in the previous section. Now it's been created with JavaScript, without the need to add a special div to the markup.
The best part is that if you want to call it again, you can. You can also use different content for each time.
Copies of this code are hosted on the Webmonkey code library or right click on this link and select Save Link As instead.
Where to go From Here
This tutorial has given just a taste of what Dojo can do. You've restyled a button and created a better alert box in two ways. There are many other widgets, including sliders, date selection objects and even a full rich text editor.
The obvious place to go from here is to start incorporating these widgets into your user interfaces. The official Dojo documentation is a bit lacking for beginners, though the online Dojo book can be helpful. If you're looking to create more widgets, there are some great examples at DojoCampus, including code.
If you need a little inspiration, check out Sites and AOL, which each make a healthy use of Dojo. Then, try it yourself, and let Webmonkey know what you make.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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The 2015 Mazda Miata is a two-seat, rear-drive convertible available with a soft top or hardtop roof. It is powered by a high-revving 2.0-liter I-4 making 167 hp (158 hp in the automatic) and 140 lb-ft of torque. The base Sport model is available with a five-speed manual or six-speed automatic. In the Club and Grand Touring trims, the manual transmission is a six-speed unit. Fuel economy is acceptable at 22/28 mpg city/highway with the five-speed manual and 21/28 mpg with either of the six-speed transmissions. A redesigned Miata will go on sale as a 2016 model in the summer of 2015.
With a lightweight chassis and a high-revving engine, the 2015 Mazda Miata excels in handling with impressive balance and high levels of control that inspires driver confidence. Even though it isn't the most powerful sports car on the market, the Miata accelerates quickly thanks to its high-revving engine and excellent transmissions with the soft-top variant being quickerthan the hardtop. While there is a little bit of body roll, the Miata's responsiveness makes it one of the most confidence-inspiring vehicles thanks to its sharpness, near-perfect front to rear balance, and a drivetrain that work together perfectly.
Inside the cabin is where the 2015 Miata shows its age since it isn't available with a navigation system or a rearview camera, both of which are optional or standard in its competitors. Space in the cabin is tight particularly in the hardtop variant, where taller drivers may find that they can't fit in the car with the roof raised.
The NHTSA and IIHS have not crash tested the 2015 Miata.
When it comes to providing driving fun, the Mazda Miata delivers in spades, with excellent handling, balance, and sharpness. In a 2012 First Test review, we said that the car is a superbly capable car with high levels of grip and cornering capability. Its near-perfect weight distribution contributes to the car's engaging dynamics since it enables the person behind the wheel to have greater control of the car, allowing him/her to drive it closer to the limits confidently.
In a comparison test against six two-door sports cars, the Miata placed third despite its age, becauseof its excellent handling, and superb steering feel, which gave the driver a good sense of the car's movements. The Miata's tight cabin, however, means that not everyone can fit in the car. Additionally, its dated interior puts it behind the competition.
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Guam is a small island owned by the USA in the Micronesia archipelago.
It is a 3 hours flight from Tokyo, right at the south of Japan.
A big part of Guam is taken by the US Army bases Guam being a strategic position for the South East Asia access.
Asia is the biggest continent on Earth, a darling little gem floating around in space.Hm, what is Asia? Who's in on it?China and India are safe bets for Asian nations. Korea, Japan, Thailand, you're fine.Europe? No. Europe would sort of be on the "Asian continent" if not for those pesky Ural mountains dividing things up in the middle, and then also the whole lineage of kings and wealth and nations and the EU and all that "give me my respect" stuff.Russia would probably be happiest as its own continent, so for now we'll leave it in "Eurasia" and just hope the natural gas supplies keep flowing.Pakistan and Afghanistan are dang close to Asia, but politically they show up in "Middle East" news stories an awful lot. Verdict: Eurasia.I guess we'll actually have to consider everything from Turkey on eastward to be "Eurasian", although the moniker seems overlappitory of the territory.The Asian economy is now officially raging like a wild furnace of lava that consumes everything in its path. Japan has had the largest individual economy in Asia for decades, but it is forecast that both India and China will outstrip Japan within twenty years.China is the largest holder of United States debt and is positioned to become the world's next superpower, provided that Godzilla doesn't return and decide to stomp everybody back into the Shang Dynasty.Text by Steve Smith.


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Woo, go GB!
Germany win on pens, LOLZ
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RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.
Spain fighting hard against the Hockeyroos
Hockeyroos wear skirts tbh.
are there any Aussie teams that don't have a nickname?
Netball. that's about it.
bet no one expected Australia - Netherlands to be the bronze medal match?
Spain are a very good team and in Maurit Hendriks possess one of t
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I thought they were in with a reasonable chance against the Aussies and I was proved right.
Also thought there may have been some complacency on the part of the Aussie think tank.
Barry Dancer was pleased to have drawn Spain rather than Germany but his comments that Spain were "more predictable" struck me as being very odd.
No team coached by Maurit Hendriks is "predictable". He always has tricks up his sleeve that he reveals at the most opportune moments.
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The viciously anti-Semitic 1940 German movie "Jew Süss" is one of the most notorious films ever made. Produced under the aegis of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, who made the film required viewing for the SS, and directed by Veit Harlan, it premièred at the Venice Film Festival – a festival that was the brainchild of Mussolini – and was seen by some 20 million German moviegoers and another 20 million throughout the rest of Europe. Today it is one of the few Nazi-era films that still cannot legally be shown.
The documentary "Harlan – In the Shadow of 'Jew Süss,' " written and directed by Felix Moeller, chronicles the history of Harlan's film and its effect on his extended family down through the years. By focusing primarily on Harlan's children and grandchildren, Moeller transforms what might have been mere cultural scholarship into something larger – a microcosm of postwar German guilt and redemption.
Harlan, who was not a member of the Nazi Party, was the only "artist" from the Nazi era to be charged with war crimes. Using the I-was-only-following-orders defense, he twice was exonerated. He died in Capri, Italy, in 1964, and in the interim directed a dozen more films in Germany. He never publicly expressed remorse for having made "Jew Süss," from which Moeller – the son of famed German director Margarethe von Trotta – shows ample, nauseating clips.
A full-scale historical drama set in the 18th century, "Jew Süss" is the story of a Jew who passes himself off as Christian while corrupting a local duke, enslaving the citizenry with high taxes, and forcing himself upon a beautiful, married Christian woman (played by Kristina Soderbaum, a beloved German movie star and Harlan's third wife). While not as deliriously, mystically Teutonic as Leni Riefenstahl's infamous "Triumph of the Will," "Jew Süss" was, in some ways, even more insidious because it was more straightforward and accessible. It's like a big MGM costume picture drenched in poison.
Of Harlan's four surviving children (Susanne, a fifth daughter who married a Jewish photographer, killed herself in 1989), the most vociferously antagonistic is Thomas Harlan, a writer and filmmaker who has spent much of his life denouncing his father's film as an "instrument of murder." Thomas's position is that "The inheritance of guilt involves having an obligation to deal with it," and yet we see how this inheritance has not only inflamed him but broken him. He has made his anger his life.
His other siblings – the actress Maria Körber; the architect Kristian Harlan; and Caspar Harlan, a filmmaker and environmental activist – are more lenient toward their father's legacy. Maria wishes her father had apologized; Kristian, the least remorseful, at one time responded to the taunts of his classmates by renaming himself "Veit." (Neither sibling apparently speaks to Thomas.) Casper seems the closest in spirit, though not in temperament, to Thomas.
Closer still is journalist and film critic Jessica Jacoby, the daughter of Susanne, who identifies as Jewish and who alone among the family believes her grandfather was actively anti-Semitic (as opposed to being a conscienceless opportunist who just got carried away). She pins this belief on the fact that Harlan's first wife, who was Jewish and who ultimately died in Auschwitz, left him for another Jew.
Psychobiography of this sort runs throughout the film, and Moeller lets it all unspool without undue editorializing. Some of the ironies are flabbergasting. Harlan's niece, for example, is Christiane Kubrick, the widow of Stanley Kubrick. She tells us at one point that her husband, who was Jewish, wanted very much to make a movie about Harlan. "After all," he told her, "It's my family, too." Imagine what the director of "Dr. Strangelove" might have fashioned from this crazy quilt material! Grade: A- (Unrated.)
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
W. David Shaw: "Every sketch... a potential finished picture"
Yet Shaw was able to produce a tremendous amount of work for a broad range of both advertising and editorial clients. His pictures appeared in Esquire, Holiday, Collier's, Woman's Day, This Week, Reader's Digest and many others.
Advertising clients included Grace Line, T.W.A., American Express, the Nassau Development Board, Johnson and Murphy Shoe Company, and National Distilleries.
Watson wrote, "the answer [to Shaw's prodigious output] lies particularly in the character of his work and the astonishing facility with which he handles the watercolor brush."
Shaw never did rough sketches of comps - every piece he began was a potential finished piece. If a drawing didn't come off at the first attempt, he'd throw it out and start a new one! If that also failed to please him, he'd begin a third.
In this manner, writes Watson, "[Dave's] work is impressionistic; it is free and impulsive. It is entirely devoid of laborious and time-consuming detail."
"His brush does unpremeditated things as the picture develops."
* My W. David Shaw Flickr set.
* My thanks to Harold Henriksen, for today's scans, and to Jaleen Grove for providing the W. David Shaw article from American Artist magazine.
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Gawd those are beautiful---!ReplyDelete
Let me re-write that Shaw heading; 'Every illustration a work of ART"....
As always, thanks...
Some lines appear to be done with a french curve or an ellipse guide but on closer examination are freehand.ReplyDelete
His illustrations done in this way are worth looking at closely.
Wow! this guy was great. You always turn up yet another great artist!ReplyDelete
My WORD! Yet another example of loving an artist all my adult life without having a clue of who he/she is! Shaw is great!ReplyDelete
As usual, thanks a million Leif. :)
My pleasure, Les - Shaw's work almost has a Mitch O'Connell vibe about it, doesn't it?ReplyDelete
wow, these are soo nice! And while I've got you on the line a huge Thanks for shedding light on all of these fantastic artists. Do you have a contact email? I'd like to ask something off topic...ReplyDelete
Sure Michael - I can be reached through my website : leifpeng (dot) com - and my email address is also under my profile in the top corner of this blogReplyDelete
- Sophia M8:42 AM
Just picked up a painting of his at the local charity shop -amazing! He made it all the way to London and his work reminds of me of Raoul DufyReplyDelete
W. David Shaw, was my mentor. I was so inspired by his work and his occupation as a commercial artist as a teenager back in Boonville, IN. He and his wife came to visit my neighbor usually once or twice a year during the mid early to mid 1950's. David married into the Youngblood family that lived next door to me. I followed his career all the way through my High School years and met and talked with him several times while he was visiting his wife's relatives. He was a very kind man and always took the time to give me a few words of encouragement, after viewing my then crude watercolor paintings. I always admired and tried to copy his loose line and wash style of painting. Never quite succeeded in mastering, or even coming close to, his style of painting. I did, however, continue painting and went on to become an advertising layout artist and later an illustrator. Working primarily in the Publishing industry as a freelance illustrator.ReplyDelete
W. David Shaw, was very instrumental in my becoming the artist I am today.
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PS Plus EU: next round of free games live today – friendly reminder
PlayStation Plus members across Europe have another batch of free games to look forward to from today, starting with Hitman: Absolution.
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EU PS Plus May update adds Catherine, Sine Mora, Malicious, Velocity Ultra
Sony has added three new PS3 games and two for PS Vita to PlayStation Plus for May in the way of Catherine, Sine Mora and Velocity Ultra.
PS Plus EU: May update revealed, adds free Hitman: Absolution, Catherine & more
Sony has announced its European PS Plus content for May. Subscribers can look forward to free downloads of Hitman: Absolution, Catherine and more.
US PS Plus update includes Malicious, GTA discounts
This week, North American PlayStation Plus members score a free copy of Alvion's Malicious. The rest of this week's content is of the discount variety, and adds extra savings to Sony's Spring Fever sale. You'll get 20% off new cross-buy release Dragon Fantasy Book, and up to 50% off the whole Grand Theft Auto franchise. […]
Malicious: Rebirth screens show new capes and bosses
Alivion has released yet another enormous stack of screenshots and artwork for Malicious: Rebirth. The Vita version features all new content while still looking just as lovely as the original downloadable PlayStation 3 title, Malicious; visit Andriasang to paw over all 44 new images. The portable release hits Japan shortly but hasn't been confirmed for […]
Alvion's Malicious arrives on PSN July 24
Sony has announced Malicious, the game where players control a Spirit Vessel awakened by prophets to defeat the Holders, will be released on July 24 via US PSN. Players will use the "the Mantle of Cinders," a magical artifact that takes the form of weapons or a shield to defeat these evil giants. Players can […]
Malicious: Rebirth screens show off Vita port
Head on over to Andriasang to check out a huge pile of screens for Malicious: Rebirth, the Vita remake of Alvion's PlayStation Network brawler. The stylish PlayStation 3 exclusive appears to have made the transition to portable fairly well, if you can forgive a jaggie or ten. It hits Japan some time in the next […]
Malicious: Rebirth headed to Vita this summer
Dengeki is carrying an update on the Vita version of PlayStation 3 brawler Malicious, Andriasang reports. The Vita release has gained a subtitle – Rebirth – because it's more than a direct port; Alvion has packed in new stages and even new moves. It should arrive in Japan during northern summer, although expect a delay […]
Malicious arrives in this week's PSN update
Alvion's gorgeous action game Malicious, previously exclusive to the Japanese PSN, arrives in Europe this week.
PSN game Malicious finally getting English version
Last year, a gorgeous PSN game called Malicious was released in Japan, but it was unknown whether the game would ever make its way to North America or Europe. Finally, today, Siliconera spotted a listing on Korea's Game Rating board for an English language version of the title. Malicious stars a character who carries a […]
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It's shorts time again. Get the sweet little stuff below.
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I'm feeling ill today and can only cope with news in teeny tiny slices. Like these.
English version of Malicious confirmed
Alvion 3D has confirmed via Twitter that an English version of Japanese PSN release Malicious is inbound.
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PS Plus EU: next round of free games live today – friendly reminder
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PS Plus EU: May update revealed, adds free Hitman: Absolution, Catherine & more
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
"When People Don't Laugh (And You Know Exactly Why)"
3 comments:
- joe said...
That "haircut" reply would have been gold.
Still, you have learned and (ideally) filed it away.
- January 26, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- Max Clarke said...
James Bond funny. Sean Connery would have said that. I think a girl just like that gave him a massage in Miami Beach near the beginning of Goldfinger.
Don't regret it, though, because it led to the better "haircut" reply, and I learned something about comedy today.
Come to think of it, Dudley Moore did something like this in Arthur. He visits Susan Johnson's father because he's going to propose. The butler takes Arthur's coat and asks if he needs anything. Arthur replies, "Do you have today's Pravda? I like to keep up with Russia."
- January 26, 2011 at 10:04 AM
- Gary said...
That was a swing and a miss. No foul just a big ol' swing, the kind where you're so far off balance that the momentum will likely cause you to fall down. And it happens to everyone, pros and amateurs, too.
- January 26, 2011 at 10:15 AM


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Look, let's face it – I'm a two coats and top coat kinda girl, so it always take me a while to comprehend strange nail accessories and art.
I'm talking about fake nails and big massive stick on chunky things that look like they could fall into your baguette at any moment. I'm talking- how the hell do you do ANYTHING with those nails? type inventions. (I do appreciate the painted on cute designs though).
So for something completely different, check out Illamasqua's Nail Quills!
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And ALL I could think of was Cartman:
A closer look:
Yeah, it looks like a fountain pen nib. Shame you can't write with them…
Look, I'm just not into fake nails.
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Secondly, my mother calls excessively long nails (translated) 'ghost-nails' (it sounds better in Chinese). Because when people die their nails keep growing right? That's what excessively long nails looks like to her. And that's what they remind me of. (Unless you are one posh corpse with someone who digs you up just to give your nails a trim….)
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Me: I think they are creative and different. I wouldn't wear them because…well can you eat a doner kebab with these things on? I thought not. I'm also too clumsy, I scratch to hard, I point at things and someone would lose an eye (yes, I point with my thumbs).
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Expert Reviews
2009 Dodge Charger
The Dodge Charger is a full-size, four-door sedan that makes a bold design statement and backs it up with serious horsepower. A wide range of models is available, but all are comfortable cruisers, offering drivers a friendly haven from traffic and bumpy freeways.
The model line ranges from the basic but entertaining 2.7-liter Charger SE to the high-performance 425-hp SRT8. Between them are 3.5-liter V6 and 5.7-liter V8 models. The 3.5-liter V6 delivers entirely adequate performance for the mid-grade SXT model, while the V8s generate thrilling acceleration performance and make all the right noises. All-wheel drive is available for all-weather capability.
The Charger illustrates just how multi-talented and accomplished today's high-performance cars are compared to the unidimensional hot rods of yesteryear. The Charger has all the pavement-ripping, gut-thumping power of the old muscle cars, but it's packaged with modern creature comforts and tempered by handling competency. With either V8 engine, the Charger is fast in a straight line, and it corners better than those muscle cars of the past. However, it is large and heavy, measuring more than 16 feet in length and tipping the scales near two tons, so it's not as nimble as a sports car, or even a pony car.
On the inside, the Charger has plenty of room for a family of five, but the interior is largely plastic and the sightlines are partially obstructed in several directions. Buyers can opt for several entertainment features that will pacify both the kids and the adults. And if you need to carry cargo, the Charger has a large trunk with a handy split-folding rear seat.
The Charger used to be the only V8-powered large American car on the market, but it now faces competition from the Pontiac G8 and an improved Ford Taurus. The Charger offers a lot of room and great straight line power, but it appears to be falling behind the competition in driving dynamics and interior quality.
For 2009, the Charger gets a new taillight design, the 5.7-liter Hemi V8 gains power, and all-wheel-drive models get Active Transfer Case with Front-Axle Disconnect. SE models add alloy wheels, additional interior chrome trim and more equipment, while the SRT8 model adds more standard equipment, a retuned suspension, and new calibrations for the anti-lock brakes and electronic stability control systems. The SRT8 also adds a Super Bee package. LED lighting becomes standard for the front cup holders on all models, and the MyGIG hard-drive radio is now called UConnect Tunes and UConnect GPS when ordered with navigation system. Front side and curtain side air bags now optional instead of standard on most models.
Model LineupDodge Charger SE ($23,895); Charger SXT ($25,510); Charger SXT AWD ($28,850); Charger R/T ($31,860); Charger R/T AWD ($33,960); Charger SRT8 ($38,670)
Walk Around
The Dodge Charger recalls the 1966 Dodge Coronet. Despite its fastback, two-door hardtop styling, the old Charger was somewhat blocky, with a squared-off front end, superficially sculpted slab sides and an equally vertical backside. There was the barest hint of a so-called Coke bottle look, with the body sides slightly pinched in about where there would have been a B-pillar. Not until the 1968 model year was any attention paid to moving the car rapidly through the air with minimal disturbance. The 2008 Charger starts at much the same place on the automotive styling evolutionary curve.
The same design team that parented the Chrysler 300 and Dodge Magnum designed the Charger. The Charger is built on the same platform as those two, but is three inches longer overall.
With this legacy, the upright silhouette comes as no surprise. The front end tilts forward as if it's leaning into the wind, specifically to recall the brutish, pre-aero-age styling of its muscle car era namesake.
Dominating the front of the car are the trademark Dodge crosshairs, chromed on the SXT and R/T, body-color in the SE and SRT8, and flat black on the Daytona. Compound halogen headlights peer out under hooded, almost scowling brows. A thin, trifurcated air intake slices across the lower portion of the front bumper. The Daytona and SRT8 wear a flat-black chin spoiler. Fog lamps on the SXT and higher models fill small, sculpted insets at the lower corners.
From the side, the demi-fastback roofline and glasshouse look more grafted onto the somewhat fulsome body than a natural extension of the overall styling theme, as if the designer were trying to make a sedan look like a coupe. The beltline arcs softly back from the headlights, where it droops slightly, to about the midpoint of the rear side window, then kicks up over the rear quarter panel, visually bulking up the car's already hefty haunches.
The rear perspective shows a tall, almost vertical backside, with large taillights draped over the upper corners. A modest, Kamm-like lip stretches across the trailing edge of an expansive trunk lid, atop which sits a lift-suppressing spoiler on the Daytona and SRT8. A recess in the bumper holds the license plate. On the SE and SXT a single exhaust tip exits beneath the right-hand side, while the V8-powered models sport chrome-tipped, muscle car-idiom, dual exhausts.
The fabric-covered seats in the standard Dodge Charger are comfortable, with adequate thigh support and side bolstering. The suede-trimmed sport seats that come in the SRT8 have more pronounced bolsters, which is good for those rare times when a twisty two-lane beckons, but not as good for climbing in and out of the car every day.
Visibility from the driver's seat is compromised by safety measures and styling dictates. The thick A-pillars (between the windshield and front windows) are designed to meet federal rollover standards, but their width makes checking for pedestrians and crossing traffic difficult at times; this is common, however, and the Pontiac G8 is the same way. Meanwhile, a glance at the rearview mirror quickly puts to rest any lingering illusions about the Charger being a coupe: the rear window is a long way back. The C-pillars are also fat, and require careful checking of the blind spot during lane changes. In addition, the front of the roof juts out far in front of the seating position, so it can block your view of overhead traffic signals when you get close to the intersection.
The Charger's dashboard is largely plastic. It's mostly sturdy, but it seems cheap for a car that quickly tops $30,000. The instrument cluster arrangement is pleasantly informative. The big, round speedometer and tachometer share the top half of the steering wheel opening, with fuel and coolant temperature gauges down in the left and right corners. The climate controls are conveniently positioned beneath the radio and are easy to operate.
Entertainment features are plentiful. In addition to an AM/FM/CD stereo, buyers can opt for Dodge's UConnect Tunes or UConnect GPS systems. Both have 30 gigabytes of hard drive space (up from 20 gigs last year) to hold music and picture files, but the GPS version also includes a navigation system with real-time traffic and voice activation.
The rear entertainment system installation takes a novel, but well-integrated approach. The screen hides beneath a cover on the front center console when not in use, then pivots up between the front seats for viewing. The interface, for DVD and input and output jacks, is incorporated into the rear of the console beneath the screen and above the rear seat ventilation registers. Without the entertainment system, the center console functions as a traditional storage bin. The system comes with Sirius Backseat TV, which includes three child-oriented channels, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. Two headsets are provided, so children in the back can watch the screen, while front occupants can listen to the radio.
SRT8 owners will be entertained by the Reconfigurable Display located in the vehicle information center. It displays what Chrysler calls Performance Pages. This feature can provide readouts of lateral and longitudinal G forces, 1/8- and 1/4-mile time and speed, 0-60 mph time, and braking distance.
Rear-seat room is plentiful, thanks to the long wheelbase, even with the front seats at their rearmost positions. No head restraint for the rear center seat is provided, however, making this car better for four adults than five.
Cubby storage includes a small, horizontal storage bin in the lower portion of the center stack, and there's a similar, longitudinal slot in the console to the right of the shift gate. A bin in the forward-most part of the front center console is large enough for coins and the like. Above it is a small, fold-down drawer where the Smokers Group ashtray would be, and next to that is a power point that would hold the lighter. Two cup holders sit in front of the console bin, and another pair can be found in the forward end of the rear seat center armrest. All four doors have good-sized map pockets, though the front seatbacks lack pouches for reading materials and headsets. The glove box is roomier than many.
The trunk is large. Loading items into the trunk is aided by a comfortably low lift-over height, at 30 inches. The trunk opening is shaped such that it swallows longer objects more readily than large parcels. All models except the base SE get 60/40 split folding rear seatbacks.
Driving Impressions
We've driven all the Charger models. The 2.7-liter V6 engine is barely adequate, but all agree it's the most frugal choice, with an EPA-estimated 18/26 mpg City/Highway.
The 3.5-liter V6 produces 250 horsepower and is EPA rated at 17/24 mpg City/Highway with rear-wheel drive and 16/23 mpg with all-wheel drive. When pushed, the big V6 breathes a bit harder than the V8 and requires more room when passing on crowded two-lanes.
The 5.7-liter V8, updated for 2009, makes the Charger R/T a muscle car. Horsepower is up from the previous 340 to 368 hp, while torque increases from 390 to 395 pound-feet. These figures add up to robust straight-line performance. The 0-60 mph acceleration test drops from about 6 seconds to the mid-5-second range, a significant increase. The 5.7-liter V8 features Dodge's Multi-Displacement System that conserves fuel by shutting down four cylinders when they're not needed to maintain the car's momentum. The system cannot be felt through the seat of the pants, at least not easily, but it can be monitored. For 2009, Dodge has added an ECO light in the electronic vehicle information center to indicate when four cylinders have been shut down.
The 6.1-liter V8 in the SRT8 cuts the 0-60 time to right around 5.0 seconds and provides thrilling passing punch and throttle response. Rated at 14/20 mpg, the Hemi is saddled with a $1700 Gas Guzzler Tax.
2009 all-wheel-drive models come with Active Transfer Case and Front-axle Disconnect. When all-wheel drive isn't needed, the system automatically disconnects the front axle and opens the transfer case to reduce friction and rotational mass. The system reconnects the axle whenever AWD is needed, and drivers can opt to stay in AWD by shifting to AutoStick mode. Another light in the electronic vehicle information center indicates when the system switches modes. Dodge says Active Transfer Case and Front-axle Disconnect improves fuel economy by up to 1 mpg on the highway. AWD allows use of the Charger in winter weather and makes it more stable in heavy rain.
The five-speed AutoStick transmission works equally well in either Automatic or Manual mode. In Automatic mode, full-throttle upshifts wait until redline, and downshifts for passing are executed with minimal delay. In Manual mode, the transmission holds a gear to red line before shifting (unless you shift sooner manually, of course). By tromping the gas in manual mode you can force a downshift and it holds as long as the pedal is held to the floor; ease up ever so slightly, and the higher gear takes back over, and somewhat abruptly.
The Charger's brake hardware is shared with Mercedes-Benz, but the software code for the stability program, brake assist and traction control is written by and for Dodge. Mercedes engineers could learn something from Dodge. Pedal feel is firm, braking is reassuringly linear, and there's no perceived interference from the electronic watchdogs, yielding smooth, controlled stops. We haven't always been able to say the same about the braking characteristics on some of the Mercedes models (but they've improved also).
All of the Chargers are good cruisers, comfortably motoring along at 70-80 mph. The Charger is quiet at that speed, with little wind buffeting or road noise from the SE, SXT, and R/T, which come with 17- and 18-inch wheels. The 3.5-liter SXT model felt perfectly in its element on the bumpy highways between Detroit and Michigan International Raceway. Steering in the SE and SXT models we drove seemed a bit over-assisted at times, and could have used more on-center feel.
We drove a Charger along winding, two-lane back roads in southern Virginia then at Virginia International Raceway near Danville. The Charger is moderately nose-heavy and understeers when turning into corners before the electronic stability program steps in; the program's threshold seems set high enough to allow altering the line through a corner with deft throttle application. Given its size, it is slow to react to quick changes of direction, and the driver can really feel the car shift its weight from side to side.
The R/T Road/Track package comes with fatter, stickier tires (P235/55R18 Michelin MXM4s), recalibrated steering with better feel across the speed range, and suspension tweaks that combine to reduce body lean in corners and quicken turn-in response. A price is paid, however, as the sportier suspension and tire combination resonates more over broken pavement, not harshly, but noticeably. Some drivers may also find the rumbling exhaust note of the Road/Track tiresome over long distances.
The Super Track Pack makes the Charger even sportier. Thanks to a higher numerical axle, Dodge says 0-60 time is as low as 5.3 seconds. Handling is a bit sharper, approaching SRT8 levels of performance, though the suspension is not quite as firm as the SRT8 suspension.
The SRT8 is the sportiest and fastest Charger. It handles better than a big car should, but it still feels big. While there is a ride penalty, we found the SRT8 easy to live with, even on pockmarked Midwestern streets. Be aware, however, that the lowered ride height calls for care when parking the SRT8 to avoid scraping the front fascia. That's not much price to pay for a true muscle car that you can drive every day.
The Dodge Charger delivers pony car excitement and style and recalls a bygone era, all while providing the roomy accommodations of a full-size car. The availability of all-wheel drive is a bonus for customers in the north, and the range of engines and suspension setups allows buyers to choose between fast and comfortable models. The design is a little long in the tooth, as challengers from Pontiac and Ford are pushing into the Charger's once-exclusive territory.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Tom Lankard filed this report from North Carolina and southern Virginia; with Mitch McCullough reporting from Michigan, and correspondent Kirk Bell reporting from Chicago.


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Sacred Heart football posted the first shutout in program history Saturday, beating Old Colony 20-0 in the season-opener.
KINGSTON - Sacred Heart football posted its first shutout in program history Saturday, beating Old Colony 20-0 in the season-opener for both teams.
"Things clicked for us Saturday," Head Coach T.J. Byrne said. "We initiated contact and we were quick to the football. You could see that experience was starting to settle in and we were moving to the ball instinctually instead of having to think about things on the field."
After a scoreless first quarter Sacred Heart got rolling and put some points on the scoreboard just before the end of the first half. Quarterback Maguire Duggan connected on a 20-yard pass with Joe Krochko, putting the Saints deep into Old Colony territory to set up a short touchdown run by Krochko to make it 7-0 at the break.
Krochko carried the football 10 times for 78 yards and two touchdowns in the win.
Sacred Heart put the game away with two touchdowns in the final quarter. Byrne said the first scoring drive, a 14-play effort that chewed up 70 yards, was a thing of beauty.
"I loved what we did on that drive," Byrne said. "We took the ball and we were determined we were not going to stop until we reached the end zone. We played with confidence and I think we were able to wear Old Colony down on that drive and took control of the game."
Senior Captain Peter Pioppi (five carries for 40 yards on the drive) came up big in the running game with a couple of key third down conversions and a fourth down run to keep the drive moving in the right direction. Krochko capped things off with a short touchdown run for his second score of the game.
Duggan iced the cake with a pass pick-off with less than two minutes to play to wrap the scoring at 20-0.
Byrne credited P.J. Buettel for a great game punting the football, often trapping the Old Colony offense deep in its own end of the field.
D.J. Doncaster had a another great game on defense with a team-high 12 tackles.
Sacred Heart has this weekend off and will be back in action during the school's Homecoming celebration on Saturday, Sept. 23, against South Shore Voke. Kickoff is at 3 p.m.
"This week we'll take the opportunity to look at the game tape to try to fix the areas that need to be worked on," Byrne said.
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2015 Wills Ste.Claire Reunionites visit Stahls Foundation 80 Car Collection, St. Clair Shores, MI.
Look at all of these classy Juke Boxes and Musical Furniture that we saw in the lobby of Stahls Foundatiion 80 Car collection in St. Clair Shores - like WOW. And, then you go into this fabulous huge room filled with automobiles of every type, a Big Boy Restaurant from times past and an incredible organ that was being played by a professional. This was another treat for our Saturday before our gala event dinner at the Wills Sainte Claire Automobile Museum. Just look at these pictures and drool. Now, you have to admit that we had a fabulous day starting in Marysville, going to Detroit and then to St. Clair Shores and then back to our Museum for dinner. Please enjoy the pictures and when you get time, please stop by and see this museum.Read More