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wrightlabs necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 351 diseños de 93 diseñadores freelance.
143Company is a general company with the ultimate goal of helping the world and making the world a better place.
143Company will initially offer different technology products. Some will be web based, some will be mobile apps and possibly other types of technologies. Some products may be pay, some will be free.
See also, 143company.com
The 143Company logo should be clean,simple and for a wide audience. The logo should be designed for a shopping audience with as big and as general of an appeal as Walmart, Amazon,
Target and other major brand names related to general (all categories) retail shopping. (look at there logos to see what I mean by simple and clean).
Also a simple web 2.0 look is good. (See the ad.ly logo)
The target audience would be those who shop at retail stores online. In many cases this audience would be female, I'd like the logo to appear neutral in gender but appeal to females. In other worlds, the logo shouldn't look masculine or feminine but it must appeal to females.
The logo package should include color and black & white versions. Also the source vector graphic file so I can resize the logo and render it in different graphics for different purposes.
The prominent feature of the logo should be "143" with the words "Company", "Network", "Co" and "Net" (and possibly others) easily interchanged with each other and attached to it.
The logo will be initially used to represent 143company.com and related sites (143co.com, and 143network.com and others in the future).
As you may know, 143 stands for "I love you". But the logo should not be themed with love or hearts. If a heart can be inconspicuously or creatively hidden in the logo that is fine but it should not be a prominent feature. A logo having or not having a heart will not be a determining factor for it winning.
Again the prominent part of the logo should be the number "143" or the numbers "1", "4" and "3" creatively placed in that order.
Update: 12/17/2010
- From seeing the current entries, I'm leaning toward a "143" with "company" on the below it bottom, but I'd also like to have two versions of the logo with the exact same font but with company on the side like "143Company".
- I think gradients/fades inside the fill of the logo is not going to work.
- The source vector graphic file so I can resize the logo and render it in different graphics for different purposes.
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Marlys Jean Tomlinson, 84, of Traer passed away Sunday, August 3, 2014 at Sunrise Hill Care Center in Traer with the family at her side after a long illness with cancer. Funeral Services will be held Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 11:00 AM at the United Presbyterian Church in Traer with Pastor Brice Hoyt officiating. Interment will follow at Buckingham Cemetery in Traer. Visitation will be held on Thursday, August 7, 2014 from 10 AM until the time of service at the church.
Marlys was born on March 16, 1930, in Waterloo, Iowa, the daughter of Frank and Matilda (Horstman) Karkosh.
She graduated from Dinsdale High School in 1947.
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On June 27, 1949, she was united in marriage to Donald William Tomlinson in Dubuque, Iowa. They recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary.
Marlys enjoyed living and working on the farm. She enjoyed her hobby of ceramics, going ballroom or square dancing, and camping and traveling when the kids were at home. She liked to cook and try new recipes. She looked forward to the family coming home and welcoming each new grandchild and great grandchild.
Preceding her in death were her parents; one granddaughter, Jennifer Peters; and two brothers-in-law, Paul Howard and Delbert Jensen; and a sister, Barbara Karkosh in infancy.
Survivors include her husband, Donald of Traer; two daughters, Janice (Paul) Peters of Wellsburg and Audrey (Michael II) Macri of Clive; one son, Mark (Cindy) Tomlinson of Traer; seven grandchildren, Angela (Matthew) Buttjer of Aplington, Andrew and John Peters of Wellsburg, Michael III (Kristin) Macri of Clive, Matthew (Megan) Macri of Chicago, Ill., Steffanie (Kevin) Bonnstetter of Knoxville and Dallas (Kaitlyn) Tomlinson of Traer; seven great-grandchildren; two sisters, LaVonne Jensen of Reinbeck and Marcia (Robert) Howard Ketter of Traer.
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What is a Noitamina? I watched the raw and I had no idea what's going on. I guess this is one of those series best watched subbed for people who know few Japanese.
The opening sequence is whacked. A hip hop song for an ancient Japanese setting? It's a pretty weird effect. I like the ending theme however. It sounds like one of those old Japanese songs (chants?) at first but yet it actually has a melody and a beautiful one at that.
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Noitanima is a recent late-night anime slot on Fuji TV that is aimed at older girls (josei anime). It aims to make anime that is fresh and different from the usual stuff these days (subtle hint at the oversupply of moe shows...).
I forgot to mention, I love the ED song- and guess what, it's by Chitose Hajime, the same person who did the Blood+ ED!! Very happy about that.
Edit: the ending song is also composed by a very famous singer from the 70s/80s in Japan, Yumi Matsutouya (used to be Yumi Arai). You might know her from the famous Rouge no Dengon, the opening song to Kiki's Delivery Service.
EDIT2: OK, so Yotsuya Kaidan (looking it up, it's actually very famous!!! It's been made into kabuki plays and so on and so forth. One of Japan's most famous old ghost stories it seems.) is going to be 4 episodes. Then follows Tenshu Monogatari (also known as The Tale of Himeji Castle) by the supposedly goth Japanese writer Kyouka Izumi - the scriptwriter is a famous j-dorama scriptwriter, and the director also directed (AFAIK) only live-action (j-doramas, maybe movies,can't remember) There's aseparate role for "Anime Director" - so does this mean it'll be part live-action? Who knows... The last one, Bakeneko, seems to be an original work. I guess each part will be 4 episodes long, fitting nicely into 12 episodes. Maybe one will have 5 episodes.
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I think in this case it's quite different... usually if it was the animation director in the normal sense, it would be 作画監督. But here, it's listed as アニメ監督. Why on earth would Moonphase put that rather than 作画監督 which everyone knows and which it always uses? In fact, why would the put the name of one animation director there when A. it's not the general animation director and B. thus it would change every episode...
|2006-01-14, 01:33
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I've just finished the first episode. While I like this kind of story a lot, I think this anime is a tad.... too fast. Not a single shot is longer than 4 seconds, and I cannot be sure if that's the right treatment to classical Japanese ghost story. I have an ok, sort of sub par impression on this episode, but yeah, the faces of the characters are superb and the music isnt bad at all.
While I have to confess maybe I have too high an expectation of the series at the outset, I hope that it can be somewhat slowed down in the next episode. Still it is a series I think that can have a lot of potential.
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That's true... older stories ought to be treated with a slower place (ala Mushishi, though that's not an old story really)
But considering they have 4 eps to cover the whole play, I guess it's not enough.
|2006-01-15, 01:28
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Oh, so this first story is not finished yet? I'm still wondering if I should watch it. I hope a group subs the first episode soon. I had no interest after skimming through the raw though. The character designs are nice but it's just their eyes... They look weird, it's not that they don't like anime-ish. It's just that they look weird.
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Thanks for subbing episode 1, I finally watched it. It's actually really good when you know what they're saying. Man, people are so corrupted. And I just love these kinds of stories because they sort of have "proof" to back it up with the grave and everything. Would they really spend the money to create a shrine and grave if it was fake? Why would they make an empty grave anyway?
The story sort of makes you want to figure out if it's true by digging up her grave. Or is that just me...? I'm always curious. Anyway, I'm jumping on the Ayakashi bandwagon.
|2006-01-19, 13:58
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ahh I was wondering if anyone would pick this series up ^^! your subs are really nice dark` =)
very interesting show! i watched the older movie version of kaiden before - i think from 1960-ish - but this anime version is really lovely too. the amano art in shown in the opening seems to fit the mood of the anime too. i recognized his style so quickly. xD
anyway, very nice replacement for the previous paradise kiss and honey + clover slot. pity it isnt as well known as some of the other new shows.
|2006-01-19, 15:06
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But yeah, this anime looks promising, although so far the first ep doesn't really seem to have gone into the "horror" theme yet, but instead has focused more on corruption. Let's hope we see some more "horror" stuff in ep 2.
|2006-01-20, 00:46
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Well, the raw for episode 2 is out. Did anybody see it and care to comment? Also, does anyone know of any anime blogs that are summarizing and commenting on this series? I'd like to read the story before the sub comes out but nobody is doing this series unfortunately.
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OK, OK, I had a look at this because of the ParaKiss thread ... even though horror is not really my thing. Quite a bit of nastiness in that first episode. I'd like to buy the house a round of karma. I love the character designs and how they look like ukiyo-e. Granted I'm in a big Japanese medieval kick so I threw caution to the wind and decided to watch these ghost stories to further my understanding of the time and stories. It certainly will be interesting to see how 4 episode stories work ... or don't.
|2006-01-20, 03:14
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The character designs are by Yoshitaka Amano, the famous guy behind Angel's Egg and Final Fantasy (I to VI), as well as old classic shows like Gatchaman and Casshern... I'm somehow haunted very much by the eyes... I don't think the show did justice to them though, I was hoping for less bright colour choices. Oh well.
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The episode was nice. I actually don't like the character design at all, but oh well.
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Red Faction 13 Years-Later Review
Thirteen years ago, the original Red Faction title was released, which is likely causing you to wonder why I am reviewing it. While I could explain the reason in a single sentence, I do not want this introduction to look too short.
Last year THQ declared bankruptcy, and part of those proceedings involved the selling of assets, including game franchises. Some of these franchises were still having games made, but others had seen their end. The Red Faction franchise fell into the latter category, but the new owner, Nordic Games, may change that. To help it decide, it will be releasing collections of the franchise for the PlayStation 3 and Windows PCs. As that will bring all of the games in the franchise into the realm of current gaming news, there may be new interest in the games, and therefore in reviews of the games. That is why I do these Years-Later reviews, so here is the first.
Red Faction is a first-person shooter that has you rise from being a miner on Mars to hero of the Red Faction. It uses the Geo-Mod engine that allows for real-time, arbitrary geometry modification, which translates to explosions that can cause realistic damage to structures and objects. This is among the earliest games with such unscripted destruction.
At the time it was released, Red Faction earned itself an M rating for violence, blood and gore. Now, I am not sure if its content would earn it that rating today, but that is its rating and I shall repeat my warning again, if such content is not suitable for you, this review likely is not either.
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History could be made at Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Saturday, August 17th, when the Colorado Rapids tackle the Vancouver Whitecaps, kick-off 7.30pm MT (TICKETS).
The club's first-ever Designated Player, Gabriel Torres, is set to make his full debut, while Vicente Sanchez is in line for his home debut.
In this week's Rapids Podcast, presented by the club's play-by-play announcer, Richard Fleming, we hear from Dillon Serna - on playing alongside Torres for the Reserves - as well as Atiba Harris and Chris Klute.
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State Sen. Neil Breslin (D-Albany) and Assemblyman Buchwald announced that the bill has gained the support of the League of Women Voters of New York State and Common Cause/NY. The Assembly bill picked up 91 co-sponsors, more than the 76 votes needed to pass the bill on the Assembly floor. A majority of Democrats and a majority of Republicans in the chamber support the measure, according to the release. The bill was included in a legislative ethics package endorsed by the Senate Democratic Conference.
"Groups like the League of Women Voters and Common Cause/NY do a wonderful job advocating on behalf of New Yorkers," said Assemblyman Buchwald. "I look forward to working with these important organizations to keep New York State government accountable. When we take our oath of office as public officials, we are given the honor of the public's trust. This trust is not something any public official should take lightly. I'll fight to clean up Albany and make sure taxpayers aren't forced to pick up the tab for corrupt officials."
"Elected officials who betray the public trust and are convicted of felonies due to their unethical, corrupt actions do not deserve any pension benefits," said Senator Breslin. "To expect the hard working taxpayers of New York State to continue to support these corrupt individuals is ludicrous. That is why I have sponsored legislation to amend the State Constitution to close this loophole and ensure that those who betray the public trust no longer receive benefits long after they have been punished for their crimes."
Since Assemblyman Buchwald held a press conference on the bill in March, 30 additional Assemblymembers have signed onto the bill, according to the release.
"The League has long felt that the laws of New York State should adequately define, monitor, and discipline unethical behavior in the public sector on the part of public officials," said Barbara Bartoletti, Legislative Director of League of Women Voters of NYS. "This bill offers a constitutional amendment to add forfeiture of pension benefits as another possible tool for such punishment."
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The most intense ideas or experiences from Poland Personally: A Study Seminar to Poland are impossible to choose because traveling with a Holocaust survivor and doing the things planned was one of the most interesting experiences of my life. I'd say that, if I had to choose, the most moving experiences would be between hearing Howard Chancellor's stories in the barracks of Birkenau, bonding with him and the others, learning all I could from Avi and the Reform Shabbat service at the Galicia Museum with a Reform congregation that was the only one in Krakow only two years old. After this experience, I can't understand how Holocaust education can happen without going to the sites. I look back and my whole Holocaust education in school seemed black and white, two dimensional. There is something to be said about seeing that wild flowers grow in concentration camps after all that had happened. It is incredibly important to view the amount of human hair and collection of prosthetic legs and crutches that are exhibited behind glass at Auschwitz and to experience the human connection felt from the group hugs and sharing these moments together with everyone.
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The aspect of the trip that sticks with me most is Howard Chandler dancing in the streets at the Jewish music festival ... this made me reflect more deeply on how fragile and seemingly unpredictable life can be. After all, the fact that a boy who was destined to die in a country that was invaded and seemingly lost to Germany could now be a spry older man celebrating life was extremely moving. It gave me hope that the human spirit can survive any hardship.
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Poland Personally: A Study Seminar to Poland far exceeded my expectations! Classrooms Without Borders definitely put together a extremely organized trip with a very thorough itinerary and great resources. We not only studied history, we witnessed history in the making on a number of occasions. The diversity of the group was amazing. The information that Avi, our scholar and guide, taught us blew me away. Having Holocaust Survivor, Howard Chandler, and his family with us meant a lot to me.
There are so many stories to take back to my students and so much to discuss about what Poland is like today. We will discuss how groups in society interact and what we need to do to understand each other and live together, why conflicts result in societies and when conflict resolution does not work, the ethical issues-why we need to speak up, what makes a "righteous person"? How should we study the Holocaust?
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Highly developed countries are often able to effectively convert their power resources into desired outcomes,but determining what exactly constitutes a developed country is subject to debate. The World Bank considers countries with a per capita income of less than $12,275 as developing countries. According to the World Bank, China's per capita nominal GDP was $7,594 in 2014, which ranked 79th among 183 countries. Yet in other ways, China might be considered a developed country. Over 97 percent of Chinese have access to tap water and over 95 percent of Chinese over the age of 15 can read and write. Additionally, 95 percent of the Chinese population owns a mobile phone.
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In other news, that was a cool finish to the episode.
Suou showed off her slightly sadistic side, I was wondering how long shed continue to impale that woman with shards of glass.
And all three are beginning to understand each other a bit more, the interaction among the three(or 4) is interesting.
|2009-11-20, 15:59
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This episode gave me alot to think about.
On a different aspect of the episode. I think that Hei is very intellegent. He regularly meets new contractors, figures out their powers, and uses that knowledge to help him kill them. That's really fast thinking.
When Hei tells Suou that she should "thank July", I think that one Hei knows that observation ghosts exist, two July observes through glass, three the enemy contractor exclamed like he was seeing something when Hei couldn't see anything, therefore Hei knows that July's observation ghost did something to help.
|2009-11-20, 16:12
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It's ironic how without Hei around Suou did exactly what he didn't want her to do, (almost) killed somebody. I think we can all agree that if Mao didn't stopped her she would have killed that woman. On another Suou note, she looks a lot taller this episode. I thought she was suppose to be the same high as July. Perhaps we'll see her buying a bra a couple of episodes down XD
Hei doesn't seems to affected must without his powers, he can still kill contractors left and right. I suppose taking away his powers is a way to keep him from killing every body he runs into =)
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Still, one thing makes me feel uneasy. A contractor has a superhuman ability and Pollux in Greek myths is a god, but a devine ability (ie. revival of life) in the DTB world? Well, isn't it too much? Also, I don't know what Shion's remuneration would be in this case.
|2009-11-20, 17:36
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It's only like 10 seconds, seriously.
I don't know if this episode was written by another person, but personally this was the weakest episode so far. The contractor dying in this episode shouldn't really be a problem, he wasn't that interesting to begin with and we didn't really get to know anything about him at all except some few details. In other words, his death didn't really change anything.
|2009-11-20, 17:52
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That is a sharp look for Hei. The idea of him swinging around like Batman looking like that breaks my brain a little, though.
Another fan of Suou's underage ass. And she really should dress better for the weather.
Suou is badass. Hell yes glass knife assassin.
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The biggest thing for me in this episode was in the preview, when we saw Hei with Repnin on the train: there was a huge pile of plates in front of Hei. Perhaps Hei is becoming Hei again. Perhaps some of Pai's powers are going to surface in him?
I enjoyed the ep, because it advanced the story quite a bit: Dr. Pavlichenko and Shion; the reappearance of Repnin; the addition of a criminal syndicate to go with the Japanese agency (agencies?); Misaki possibly remembering Kyouko's warning and not agreeing to cooperate with Genma; the Russians; I was glad to see July being humanized, as Yin was last season; and a nice bit of Suou using weapons other than her gun.
Unlikely: Suou, who couldn't hit Mao/Petya with a snowball, putting four shards of glass into that woman. And yes, how did Hei know that July helped him? Another hint of returning powers?
My own opinion is that Okada Mari seems to be a better writer than this guy. There wasn't much flow. It was somehow mechanical. Too simple for me, this time, although the plot was more complex. To me, the previous "softer" episodes were more serious than this one, since they had what seemed to me more human content. But we all have our own perceptions and preferences.
And the super-powerful contractor lasted half an episode, as was mentioned, but that was not the episode writer, I don't imagine. That has to be the overall director, Okamura Tensai. I also suspect that that he, rather than the episode writer, decides when to put the mahou shoujo scene in (i.e., have Suou use powers).
|2009-11-20, 19:16
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I don't know why but that episode felt like a complete waste of a whole episode for some reason. Maybe that's because it's going to be only 12 episodes and there a lot of things to cover and we're halfway through already.
Still we leared a couple of new things about Izanami and Izanagi. We also saw Shion and from the way he looked he must have used his power again at some point after he escaped but we still don't know what his power is so that really doesn't help much. I thought it was something connected with revivng as you guys mentioned above but he couldn't have used it on his father since he ran away on foot from there meaning he didn't use his ability at that point. and form the info in the report the body was a day old meaning it was created right before the events in episode one.
About Suou - well the episode showed a couple of important things about her. She still has feelings for people around her and she acts on them, she thinks rationally and logically unlike in the previous episdes and in a complete contrast with the first one she seems to loose herself in her contractor killing nature at times. Also she seems to view doll the way Hei did in episode one -as something more than just tools but she has stornger feelings for them.
The scene with the glass was qutie brutal. Now why didn't she use her power the moment she saw that guy and instead tried to run away. She was near him so she should have figured at least something about his power and while he was talking she could have shot him seing she brutally impailed a woman with pieces of glass just a second ago. Ok that was done due to the fact that they had to move on with the episode so it wasn't really anything one could complain about.
Another thig is that unlike before the FSB now doesn't seem to want to kill Suou. There was also that creepy glasses guy who I might add felt really out of place and his background which hinted he was a serial killer that only killed women didn't really help, not to mention he freeked out when he saw July's observation ghosts. How is he considered a good agent when he killed a person that had nothing to do with what he had to do? Well he died so there's no reason to mention him anymore.
We again saw that dolls do have feeling but they're not vary good at showing them. I think it's clear July is acting on his own free will in joining Hei and Suou.
Mao doesn't really fit in the story for me. He's mostly there to provide us with funny scenes and every now and then say something important but that's it. And what's with him always grabbing strange things - there was the bath scene in episode one and now Suou's skirt. I mean really - fanservice squirrel moments?
From the way things are going and the preview it seems that the FSB now only wants info from Hei and Suou. I think that maybe Section 13 is a organistion of the Syndicate so we might seem everyone trying to bring them down in the end. Of course with that we loose the Tanya vs Suou development which was sure to be very interesting if done right and would be a good point to show the Darker than Black atmosphere - killing one of your best firends and all the doubt, fear and regret that comes with it.
Basically the epiosde wasn't bad at all but it slowed down the progress of the plot since it mostly showed events that have no major impact on future events. And as I said considering it will only be 12 episodes this isn't really a good point.
|2009-11-20, 20:08
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I'll have to go against public opinion and say this was the best episode in a while. Much improved over last arc.
They didn't try to do too much and the pacing was well handled. A lot of intrigue and questions raised. It is a perfect setup episode to the coming episodes. The scene where Suou was viciously throwing glass shards into a defenseless women and had to have Mao tell her to stop was very well done. She definitely has a vengeful streak and didn't take kindly to July being stolen. The only down part of this episodes was when the contractor showed up. They tried so hard to show he was some sort of badass but in the end he was pretty weak fodder. They could have done without including him in this episode.
We had a lot of things happened this episodes but unlike previous episodes they didn't try to cover up the lack of things happening with randomness to take attention away from the lack of story to tell. They kept the fetish fanservice down to the minimum, only had to deal with a naked Shota, and had very good characterization of all characters.
I don't know why people are saying this is "just 12 episodes" since I think it's pretty obvious the story can be wrapped up in 2 or 3 episodes if they really wanted to. The last few episodes we filled with loads of stuff that will have much less influence on the actual main plot than this episode which was actually filled with a lot of relevant material to expanding on that plot.
|2009-11-20, 20:16
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Also, I'm truly amazed by BONES decision not to employ Suou firing her rifle scenes. It's kinda crazy. Fire the producer tbh
And what was that car chase thing? What are they thinking? Was feeling kinda surreal watching such hollywoodish scene in anime series...
Anyway, this ep. was the last drop. I'm dropping DtB-2 cause it has nothing to offer me... Shounen / adventure just not my genre I guess. Pity I didn't do it earlier, but was hooked by Suou+rifle combination and didn't know BONES will waste its potential so incompetently (she didn't kill a single person still!).
P.S. DtB-1 was good though. It was seinen, it was smart and stylish, it had good plot and good ending, and I loved the detective duo
P.P.S. I think in eps. 12-13 Suou will do some shooting, so I'm going to watch them
P.P.P.S. Ah, and squirrel + scotch was nice too
|2009-11-20, 20:25
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This series seems much like season 1 to me, if season one had been one big story instead of lots of smalls stories ending in a kind of bigger story influenced by some of the smaller ones.
Anyway I liked this episode, it showed that Suou has at least really learned some skills other then just her gun and continued with the fun game of introduce some deadly contractor followed by their death later in the same episode.
|2009-11-21, 02:25
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It seemed like the content is this episode was more than the last few, and had far bigger potential, but the writer couldn't pull it off properly. As far as story progression I loved it, but it definitely didn't flow right. There were parts that made me yawn even though they should have been interesting, and the car chase at the end seemed like it was just put in to get some action going before the ep ended.
|2009-11-21, 02:47
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I agree for 13 episode series, things are moving a bit slow, but it seems like the whole point of Suou's character is to have her retain her humanity while transforming into a contractor. I think the overall message here is the whole "losing emotion =/= not human anymore". So her killing someone would probably be a BIG thing in the story (especially when Hei is beginning to develop sympathy for her character, and doesn't want to corrupt her anymore). They might be saving it for the end or later in the series. Fine by me to be honest, it's not like we don't have enough Hei whooping ass action.
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MILWAUKEE—The list of creditors for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee includes hundreds of child sexual abuse victims, along with a bank, pension funds and others typical in bankruptcy cases. It also includes one less usual: a priest removed from the priesthood amid allegations of abuse.
Marvin Knighton was charged with child sexual abuse in 2002 but acquitted by a jury the next year. The church still removed him from the priesthood, however, saying its investigation found two allegations against him had merit.
Knighton steadfastly fought his dismissal and has put in a claim for $450,000 for back pay from the archdiocese in federal bankruptcy court. A church bankruptcy expert said while the claim is not unique, it is highly unusual. Knighton's victims called it "disturbing" and "grossly inappropriate."
"That money should be going to survivors, not child molesters," said Thomas C. Bersch Jr., who said he was abused by Knighton in the 1970s. "During the bankruptcy proceedings, if he gets even a nickel of this money, it would be the most unbelievable thing that could happen. I wish there is something I could do to prevent that."
Attorney James Stang, who has represented sexual abuse victims on creditors councils in nine bankruptcy cases involving Catholic dioceses and religious orders, said a few priests have filed claims for back pay, health care or legal costs even when they've been credibly accused of abuse. In most cases, the claims are eventually dismissed.
The church may argue that any money it owes the priest is offset by the cost of the abuse, or "there have just been objections based on the fact that these are evil men," Stang said.
The Milwaukee archdiocese is the eighth in the United States to file for bankruptcy. Five of the other seven said no priests filed claims during their bankruptcies. In Wilmington, Del., three priests who had been removed from ministry following allegations of abuse filed claims, diocese spokesman Bob Krebs said. He didn't know the details or outcome of those claims.
The remaining diocese, in San Diego, Calif., didn't immediately respond to inquiries.
Jerry Topczewski, chief of staff for Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki, said the archdiocese will object to Knighton's claim. Knighton, 63, declined to comment and hung up when reached by telephone.
The archdiocese released Knighton's personnel file earlier this month, along with those of dozens of other priests with verified allegations of abuse. The documents showed that while Knighton had been dogged by one allegation since the early 1990s, no formal complaints were made until early 2002, when a scandal in Boston focused national attention on clergy sexual abuse.
Brian Flynn, now 39, told archdiocese officials that Knighton had abused him during the late 1980s, when the priest was on the faculty at a Catholic high school in Milwaukee and both lived in the suburb of Wauwatosa. About a month later, Bersch reported that he had been abused in the 1970s.
The Associated Press does not usually identify victims of sexual assault, but Flynn and Bersch gave permission for their names to be used.
The statute of limitations had passed in Bersch's case, but Knighton was charged with second-degree sexual assault in Flynn's case. Knighton and Flynn both testified at the 2003 trial, with Flynn describing Knighton kissing and touching him and Knighton insisting the actions never happened. A jury found Knighton not guilty.
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who was then archbishop in Milwaukee, still took steps to have Knighton removed from the priesthood. In a March 2004 letter to the Vatican office responsible for clergy sex abuse cases, Dolan noted the archdiocese had received a third report of abuse and believed there could be a fourth case as well.
"After preliminary investigation, I am satisfied that these have the semblance of truth to them," Dolan wrote.
A church trial found two of the allegations, those made by Flynn and Bersch, were valid. Knighton wasn't removed from the priesthood, however, until 2011 after a yearslong appeal.
Knighton's criminal defense attorney, Gerald P. Boyle, said he still believes the former priest is innocent. Boyle criticized the archdiocese for not contacting him during its investigation.
"I couldn't understand that," he said, adding, "I have no reason to believe it was anything other than a good verdict."
Knighton's bankruptcy claim has been transferred to a federal bankruptcy trustee in Arizona, where the ex-priest filed for bankruptcy in February 2011. John Carter, the attorney for the bankruptcy trustee responsible for Knighton's case, said in an email that the claim was being pursued and any money would go to pay Knighton's debts.
Bersch and Flynn are not involved in the bankruptcy case.
Bersch, a 53-year-old business development executive who now lives in Illinois, said he settled with the archdiocese in 2004 for $40,000. He described Knighton as a warm, outgoing, bear of a man whom everyone loved. He said he was about 12 when the priest befriended him, taking him to movies, out to eat and for sleepovers before eventually molesting him.
"The only thing that's important me today is that this man never gets the opportunity to teach or be around children," Bersch said.
The Arizona Department of Education said Knighton is licensed to teach in that state but couldn't say whether he was actually working as a teacher.
Flynn said the bankruptcy is difficult because he worked hard to come to peace with what happened, and every time Knighton comes up, "it triggers the pain, and the helplessness."
"It's like this is never going to go away," he said.


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Sinfully addictive, vibrantly colored, and fantastically fun, this is Sinterra. Sinterra is a Match-3 game featuring bright balloons including traditional round balloons as well as fun shapes of ducks, hearts, kites, stars, and clouds. A summers day sky-scape drifts lazily behind the semi-transparent board.
The premise of Sinterra is to drag balloons vertically (both up and down) creating a horizontal line of at least three symbols, and up to five. The board is 11 columns wide by 7 rows high. If your placement of the balloon results in a match, the cascade will *pop* with fun sound effects. If your placement isn't valid, the column will return to its original position. The more balloons you match, the greater your score. A match with rarer balloons may result in an even higher score yet. Consult the Score Matrix with a tap of the info button, the board will flip over to reveal all.
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Honeymoon Beauty, Part II: What to Buy on Vacation
Welcome to Part II of this week's honeymoon series! Going abroad for your honeymoon? Lucky you! Not only will you be vacationing with your hubby, but you can sneak off and get some international beauty buys, too! One of my favorite parts of traveling is seeing the various products that are rare in the States, so I've created a guide to beauty brands available in three common honeymoon destinations.
If you're going to Paris, head to Printemps, where you'll find the largest beauty department in the world. More than 300 brands are available, so set aside some time to shop. Start by browsing the full line of adorably-packaged Paul & Joe cosmetics, which are hard to find in the States. Stock up on the La Roche-Posay skin care line, which has the best sunscreen I've ever tried, Anthelios SPF 60 (!) for around 15 euro. Anthelios is available in the US, but very rarely at that level of sun protection (and never so cheap). Don't bypass the Lancome and Chanel counters, which often have colors that aren't available in the US. For two more honeymoon buys,
Going to South America? Whether you're in Rio de Janeiro or Buenos Aires, look for Natura, Brazil's biggest beauty line. It's a collection of skin care, hair care, fragrance and makeup infused with (sustainably-harvested) Brazilian plant ingredients like guarana, cacao and pitanga. The packaging has a cool organic-ish design, too—making these products perfect souvenirs for your loyal bridesmaids back home.
Okay, so Hawaii isn't "international," but it's a world away from, well, just about everywhere else. If you're on Oahu, stop by Lanikai Bath and Body, whose body butters and lotions use island ingredients such as papaya, aloe, kukui, noni and macadamia. As a bonus, the shop is in Kailua, which has a beautiful and very romantic beach!


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This exhibition features more than 20 sets of large-format images that showcase the wide range of research being conducted at the Museum as well as how various optical tools are used in scientific studies.
Through January 5, 2014
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Whales: Giants of the Deep
Whales: Giants of the Deep brings visitors closer than ever to some of the mightiest, most massive, and mysterious mammals on Earth.
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Tuesdays, September 3–October 22, 2013
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Tuesday Morning Fall Bird Walks
Observe the exciting fall migration of birds in Central Park with ornithologist Paul Sweet.
Wednesdays, September 4−October 23, 2013
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Observe the exciting fall migration of birds in Central Park with ornithologist Joseph DiCostanzo.
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Experience the Museum halls free of crowds on this special night for adult Members.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
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Grab your binoculars, put on your hiking shoes, and join ornithologist Paul Sweet for a day of birding at the Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge, in southern New Jersey.
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Sackler Brain Bench: Neuroscience of Sports: Your Brain in Action
From the psychology of sports fans to the cognitive benefits of team sports to understanding the impact of repetitive brain injury, this course will give participants a practical understanding of the latest research in the neuroscience of sports.
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In this workshop you will explore space by studying the Museum's meteorite collection, flying in the Hayden Planetarium, and more!
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In this workshop students will train to go on space walks, conduct experiments on a space station, and experience the thrill of space travel.
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Discover the remarkable adaptations frogs have developed, from vivid colors to protective poisons, and go behind-the-scenes of the Museum's exhibition of live frogs.
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In this presentation which draws on the scientifically rigorous 3D Digital Universe atlas, educator Brian Levine and astrophysicist Emily Rice explore how astronomers use the entire light spectrum, from radio waves through gamma rays, to study astrophysical phenomena both familiar and exotic.
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Finally, after a couple of weeks of people not feeling ready to tackle Cata content and just going there and checking stuff out, we have actually started raiding. Our first week so far has brought us two kills. Halfus and Magmaw have now fallen to the SAINTS!
Halfus is a fight that changes from week to week, some combinations are a lot tougher than others and this weeks combo is probably one of the easier ones. Magmaw is all about the adds… those little worms can really make a mess. Once our healers got geared and our tank got less squishy we were able to get them both in about 4 attempts. We are also making our way through trash a lot quicker than before, so a couple of hours of raiding should get us a couple of bosses next week. Not lightning fast progression (OMG Paragon is already done with this tier!), but for casual guild, progression nonetheless.
We took a peek for the first time at Conclave last night and the fight looks like a lot of fun. I think we have the strategy that will work for us.
TH to Blacksen for making me aware of the goodness that it is BossBluePrin.
On PvP news, we got our first guild win as a rated battleground group last week and did some 10s this week, but some people are still getting their gear up. Our 2s team are doing well, with a couple of them hitting 1550 and even the 3s team I am on getting 1550!
Overall we have having a lot of fun leveling the guild and right now we are concentrating on fishing from pools so we can get the awesome feast!
We are patiently waiting for 4.0.6 so that a couple of our healers don't have to sweat as much when we are raiding and hopefully everyone but me gets nerfed on PvP! Bring on the PATCH!


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Q: The Winged Serpent (Blu-ray)
Director, producer and writer Larry Cohen has, over the course of a long and varied career in movies, perfected the art of, and created the blue print for how to succeed in independent film making -- inspiring people like Bill Lustig ("Maniac") in the process. He has proved himself extremely good at thinking up original and imaginative ideas, has the skills to bring his vision to the screen with minimal financial resources, and displays a quick and confident director's eye for detail. These qualities probably explain the fact that Cohen has consistently masterminded a larger than average number of cult favourites over the years. The word "cult" gets bandied around a great deal these days and has become almost a genre tag in itself. Where once the word was reserved only for movies that didn't fit comfortably into any bracket, yet had gradually gained a following, it is now often used to describe movies which are being made specifically to appeal to a certain type of "cult" audience in the first place.
Cohen's films are cult items in the true sense of the word though: small films that have developed a big reputation through word-of-mouth over time. Cohen continues to write screenplays such as the excellent "Cellular" (2004) and the Joel Schumacher directed "Phone Booth" (2002), but "Q: The Winged Serpent" is a good example of his abilities as a film maker: put together in a week after he'd been sacked from "I The Jury" (which eventually opened on the same day as "Q" to considerably less acclaim), and shot in eighteen days, the film still looks like a slick, well-made television movie from the eighties and boasts several standout performances from a wonderful cast, despite an, almost, guerilla approach to its production. With a small crew and an interesting premise at his disposal, Cohen manages to forge a weird alliance between the well-loved stop-motion animation monster movies of Ray Harryhausen, gory Gothic horror flicks and seventies TV cop shows, coming up with an imaginative and quirky little treat that works all the better for Cohen's pragmatic approach to movie making and the film's endearing rough-around-the-edges style.
The NYPD have a baffling series of murders on their hands: office-window cleaners, topless sunbathers and rooftop construction workers alike are being snatched from the skies -- resulting in a rain of blood and severed limbs descending on the residents of the Big Bad Apple! While hard-bitten detectives Shepard (David Carradine) and Powell (Richard Roundtree) struggle to deal with bizarre sightings of a winged serpent over the city, a spate of horrific ritual murders are also pressing on their limited time. Flayed bodies are being found scattered all over the place, showing all the hallmarks of being sacrificial offerings to the Aztec serpent god, Quetzalcoatl! Meanwhile, ex-jazz pianist and small-time criminal Jimmy Quin (Michael Moriarty) is on the run from both the police and his criminal colleagues after a bungled diamond heist (at "Neil Diamond's" no less!) results in him losing all the stolen loot! While attempting to find a hide-out in the spires of the Chrysler building, Quin stumbles upon a giant bird's nest containing a huge egg! It seems a real winged serpent has, indeed, been raised by the Aztec murder-sacrifices and, attracted by the towering temple-like skyscrapers of the New York skyline -- in particular the baroque bird ornamentation of the Chrysler building -- Quetzalcoatl is now making the people of the city his prey! A loser all his life, Quin now finds himself holding all the cards when Shepard and Powell need his help to track down the winged killer.
Despite all the enjoyable quirky elements Cohen brings to the script, it is the time & attention spent on characterisation that has probably ensured the film's longevity. A noteworthy cast consisting of stars, David Carradine and Richard Roundtree -- who bring a great deal of wit and charm to, what could be deemed, fairly standard "TV cop" roles -- and introducing some up-and-coming talent in the form of Candy Clark ("The Man Who Fell To Earth") and Michael Moriarty ("Law & Order"), helps to give it much more authority than such b movie material would normally be thought to deserve. In fact, Moriarty (a regular of Cohen's films with a reputation for being difficult) steals the show with his portrayal of small-time hood Jimmy Quin – it's a performance that strikes a delicate balancing-act between the dramatic and the comic and perfectly encapsulates the ironic tone of the movie. Candy Clark is also charming as Quin's long-suffering and sympathetic girlfriend.
Director of photography, Fred Murphy manages to make the film look a great deal more expensive than it actually is, and, with the help of "Superman" special-effects man Al Cerillo, Cohen comes up with some of the most dizzying and fluid helicopter shots of New York ever shot (including some poignant shots of the Twin Towers), which really create a unique atmosphere when combined with the strange sound effects and some ingenious "serpent shadow" special effects work! This helps the film avoid having to rely on the rubbery model creature stop-motion effects too much -- although even they are done with such panache and energy that, despite being rendered completely obsolete by today's CGI methods, they are able to engender a marvelous sense of excitement precisely because of their innocent naivety. It's this attitude, combined with the usual b movie requirements of gore and nudity, and real locations rather than sets, that gives the film its unique sensibility. A fantastic orchestral score by Robert O. Ragland provides the icing on the cake of this clever and well-made classic.
Scream Factory releases "Q: The Winged Serpent" in a solid 1.78:1 transfer that, while a bit on the soft side, is quite the improvement over previous DVD releases. One has to assume the source materials are not in the best of condition and that, barring a full restoration, this is about the best we can expect this low-budget gem to look, so, in that regard, Scream Factory have done a fine job, here. The accompanying DTS HD 2.0 Master Audio track is also much improved over its lossy cousins, with a richer, fuller sound than its DVD ilk.
As for bonus features, Scream Factory only includes one of any consequence, and that's a new feature-length commentary track with writer/director, Larry Cohen. Rounding out the bonus features are trailers/teasers for the film (SD).
"Q: The Winged Serpent" seems to have had a very large influence on many other films for such a small scale affair: everything from "Reservoir Dogs" (check out the heist scene) to the remake of "Godzilla" owe it some sort of debt. It now looks set to expand its cult status thanks to this nice Blu-ray release. Well worth checking out.
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NEW YORK - While Boston College gained some cushion on third-place LSU in the Bowl Championship Series standings and Ohio State held firm to first place, Arizona State moved into position to make a big stretch run.
The unbeaten Sun Devils raised their BCS average to.849 after beating California 31-20 on Saturday. Arizona State, with its most challenging games still to play, might not need teams ahead of it to lose to move up the standings.
The Sun Devils play at Oregon, which is fifth in the BCS standings, on Saturday, then finish with games against USC, UCLA and Arizona.
"If they win all of those games, that type of run would be difficult for voters to ignore," said BCS analyst Jerry Palm, who runs collegebcs.com.
The top seven teams in the BCS standings remained the same this week, with Ohio State and Boston College still in position to play for the national title in New Orleans on Jan. 7 if they can maintain their rankings.
Ohio State was No. 1 in both the Harris and coaches' polls and tied for second in the computer ratings with Arizona State. The Buckeyes had a BCS average of.976.
BC was second in both polls and first in the computer rankings. The Eagles have a BCS average of.956 and a lead of.068 on LSU.
The Tigers who were off this week, have a BCS average of.888.
Ohio State, Boston College and LSU also are the top three teams in the AP Top 25.
Both the Eagles and Buckeyes are coming of big road wins. Boston College rallied from 10 points down in the final 2:11 behind quarterback Matt Ryan to beat Virginia Tech 14-10 on Thursday night.
Ohio State had little problem staying unbeaten at Penn State, beating the Nittany Lions 37-17 on Saturday night.
The rest of the BCS top 10 was Oklahoma in sixth place, followed by West Virginia, unbeaten Kansas, Missouri and Georgia.
Unbeaten Hawaii moved up three spots to 14th place in the BCS standings. The Warriors of the Western Athletic Conference need to be in the top 12 of the final BCS standings to earn an automatic bid to one of the five marquee bowl games.


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Windows Phone 8 is here, and while it will be available only on new hardware, rather than rolling out to previous models like the Nokia Lumia 800, it's worth covering in detail what is new and improved and what's not and ultimately whether or not it is worth opting for the Microsoft operating system.
New Start Screen
The key focus of Windows Phone has always been the Start screen with its bevy of home tiles that jostle and jive according to the information they pull in. Where once this viewpoint was alien and strange, with the introduction of Windows 8, and some heavy marketing from Microsoft and Nokia over the past six months, everything should be a lot more familiar.
This time around we've got even more tiles to fill the Start screen, with three different sizes that each deliver different types of information. If you like the grid of icons from the iPhone or Android, then Windows Phone can replicate that with a stack of small icons that do nothing. If you find the jostling is too much, then its actually quite liberating, but it just doesn't tell you a lot about what is going on.
For those who need more information, then there's the next size up. This is akin to the Windows Phone 7 tiles, and they give a little more information without going overboard.
Finally, there is the larger tile, which can give you even more visibility into the app. In the case of the email app for example, you get to see who the last email is from, what the subject line is, and the first line of the email.
All these tiles can be arranged and rearranged on the Start screen providing an endless array of possibilities and a Start screen than can adapt and change with you.
We like it. A lot.
We loved the People Hub in Windows Phone 7 and it is even better in 8. For contacts you'll still see single card contact pages that tie together a number of information points from the rest of your phone, depending on what you are logged in to: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.
New to the mix is the Together pane, that houses Groups and a new feature called Rooms.
Groups are virtually identical to how they were in Windows Phone 7, however, now you can create and manage Groups via your Live account with the phone automatically pulling in data from there.
Rooms is a collected space for you to share a calendar, photos, and notes with others, regardless of what phone they have, although it works better with WP8 devices, of course.
In practice and Rooms works very well allowing you to have your very own private social network with a set group of people very much in the same way apps like Path, or photo sharing elements of iOS (Photostream) work.
You invite people in and then can share notes, messages, calendar appointments and more importantly photos with them. It obviously works best if they are also on a Windows Phone device, but testing it in the office with people that weren't on WP8, but instead an Android device or an iPhone there are still ways you can benefit.
Sadly there for non WP8 users there is no group chat for anyone other than those on a Windows Phone 8 smartphone. however calendars do work and so do shared photos as long as they have SkyDrive installed on their device. Photos are automatically added and synced across all your Skydrive apps in everyone's SkyDrive folder. Something worth bearing in mind is what information is automatically uploaded to the group.
Something that is worth noting however is that if you are friends with any of the members on Facebook you'll instantly be able to see all their Facebook photos as well. It's something that Windows Phone does very well, however something that when sharing a room, you might not be aware of.
OneNote Mobile
In Windows Phone 8, Microsoft has moved the OneNote Mobile app from the Office Hub to a dedicated app on the Start screen, making it easier to jot down notes without having to create a Word document. OneNote saves to SkyDrive automatically, so your notes will always be synchronised across your phone and PC.
Email in WP8 gets some new features too, all to its benefit. As with iOS and Android, you can now dictate your emails to your phone. In a series of tests we were impressed with the results, although it doesn't get it right every time, but it was easily accurate enough to make it worth using, over the built-in keyboard. We found it worked well in noisy environments too, which is crucial.
Other new tricks in Windows Phone 8 include the ability to keep the dark theme, although this doesn't extend to the actual email itself, just the inbox. It s a little detail but one that we are sure will please those who wanted it from WP7.
Attachments now also automatically show up in the Office hub. Useful, especially for business users who might get sent a lot of office documents they later need to see in one, central, location.
One problem we have experienced however is that the email app sometimes completely garbles our emails to other devices. It's annoying and we are trying to get to the bottom of why it does this, but it is worth bearing in mind.
Kids Corner
Kids Corner is the concept that allows you to give your kids your phone without the worry that they are posting gibberish to your Twitter or Facebook accounts, or sending your boss emails calling them a "poo poo head".
It's simple really. You access it by swiping left on the lock screen. This opens your phone, in the normal way, but only to apps you've selected - and only those you've allowed. That means no email access, no phone dialler, and only games - if that's what you, and your kids, want.
In principle it's a great idea, and it works just as you would expect, keeping your phone safe, but allowing your kids to play games, listen to music or do stuff that is safe for them.
Skype for WP7 was hampered, at best, with the app unable to run in the background. Here the opposite is the case, and Microsoft is promising deep integration with WP8. Sadly Skype wasn't available on the Windows Phone 8 handset we used for our testing. As Microsoft launched WP8, Skype also told us that its app will be available very soon.
Those new features include an experience that is built in at the core of the WP8 operating system rather than something superficial sitting on top, as was the case in Windows Phone. Promising limited battery drain, the new app enables you to receive chats and notifications for voice and video calls even if you've navigated away to another app or have your phone on lock.
"We've set out to bring Skype to Windows Phone 8 with a clean, beautiful and modern interface. When you first open the app, your most recent conversations and chats are the first thing you'll see. From there, you can pan over to your contact list or the newly added Favourites screen or see your entire contact list," Skype has told us.
Additionally you'll now be able to see what's going on inside Skype without being in the app and Skype notifications can be added to the lock screen to appear alongside missed calls, unread emails and text messages. You can also see Skype notifications at the top of the screen when you're in other apps, so keeping up with the conversation has never been easier.
As with the other areas that are still being completed, we'll update this review when it becomes available.
Apple has Passbook and Windows Phone has Wallet. It's a new area that will allow you to access deals, store tickets, and pay for things either via the web or using the NFC chip embedded in the phone – both the HTC 8X and Nokia Lumia 920 will be NFC ready.
At the moment, this area on WP8 is incredibly empty, with no apps taking advantage of the new feature. However, like Passbook on iOS 6, the feature has plenty of potential, perhaps even more so because of the inclusion of NFC.
Rather than have a stack of different camera apps dotted on numerous Start screens for you to try to find when a good photo opportunity presents itself, the Windows Phone 8 approach is to have them in one place, and that place is within the camera app itself. This makes a lot of sense.
To use a lens, you hit a dedicated button in the camera app and it brings up possible "Lenses" for you to implement. It means you have just one destination for taking photos. Bing Vision is present by default, and it's a QR, barcode and Microsoft Tag scanner that will let you get the best price for CDs, DVDs and Books. But we've also tried others like Photo Strip, that will take several pictures in a row, as if you were in a passport photo booth.
Sadly there is no Panorama mode as standard, but Nokia has already added a Panorama lens for its customers - HTC has yet to do the same at the time of writing. You also get plenty of options for sharing pictures once you've taken them, so getting photos off your phone isn't going to be an issue.
Although WP8 isn't just available on Nokia devices, all Windows Phone 8 users will get Nokia Maps as standard, and Nokia Drive if the manufacturer wants to offer it - we can't think why they wouldn't. This gives you the ability to download country maps before you get there - very handy if you are travelling, and want to avoid data costs. It's also dead handy if you're on the Tube, and want to find a nice place to have lunch. You won't get lost, like you do with a certain "other" phone.
Lock screen
Windows Phone is all about glancing at information as quickly as you can, and here Microsoft has worked to improve the lock screen experience. Now, rather than just being able to pick your own image to display, you can have the Bing homepage image every day to give you something different to look at when you pull your phone out of your pocket. It's an idea Pocket-lint put to Microsoft some time ago, so we are going to take full credit for it, obviously.
It's a feature that extends to other apps as well, and the new Facebook app allows you also to have your Facebook images automatically and randomly selected for the Lock screen. Good and dangerous in equal measure.
But it is not just about making it look pretty. Like the email tile, the Lock screen can also dip into your last email and display that info on the screen, and beyond missed calls, messages, and email, you can also opt for a fifth app notifications to appear on the Lock screen too.
New colours and screenshots
A simple thing, but we like the new colour palette's introduced, giving a greater colour range for your tiles. Sad we know, but having the ability to colour your phone interface mauve is really important to some people.
Yep, you read the headline correctly, you can finally take screenshots from Windows Phone 8 and have them automatically saved to SkyDrive.
If you own an Xbox 360 one of the exciting new features is SmartGlass. It allows you to share things from your phone straight to your games console, including web pages, extra content from games, and when it comes to movies, additional information about the cast, and what that thing was called that they were in before, that you can't remember the name of. It should save a lot of relationships.
There are issues with SmartGlass, mainly that, in browser mode, you are using the screen as a trackpad but it's vertical, rather than landscape – so it doesn't match your TV. Combine that with an oversensitive control mechanism, and it's not ideal. You'll also need the Xbox 360 and your phone to be on the same network of course.
We found this new version of the mobile IE fast and easy to use. It offers a few new features, including the ability to share links via NFC, and, of course, to the Xbox 360.
As before it's hardware accelerated, so the faster the phone the better the performance. Microsoft has also added greater support for warning you when you are about to go to a dubious site.
What's still missing?
While the backup and restore options have been improved, the OS is still incapable of just reinstalling your apps on your device in the same way that Android and iOS do. And we still believe the keyboard could be better in coping with mis-typed characters - Swiftkey on Android and the iPhone has spoilt us on this one.
We'd also really like to be able to reject a call with a text message – something you can do on pretty much every other platform.
The apps problem
Windows Phone 8 brings with it a different screen resolution, and that means all third-party apps will have to be re-submitted to remove a thin black bar at the top of the screen. It's a problem that affected Apple with the launch of the iPhone 5 and it is apparent here too. We suspect it will take longer for this to get sorted on WP8, but we're happy for app developers to prove us wrong.
As a standalone mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8 offers some cracking features and some great usability, and is hampered only by the hardware available to run it on.
For Gamers, PC and Office users and those who want simple phones, there are plenty of features that outshine Android and the iPhone.
It's a diamond in the rough, but like all greats it has an Achilles' heel, an urge for app developers to design apps for it first rather than third. Sadly, that will never be a priority for developers while the platform is lagging behind in users.
But, until that happens, no matter how good the core OS is, many won't even give it a glancing look. It's a Catch 22 situation, but we really hope it manages to break the shackles of this paradox, and become the OS it's capable of being.