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Try and keep up with Dave Barry — the key word being "try."
The charismatic and infectiously energetic CEO of Trust Company of America, which just reported the best quarter in its 40-year history, was trying to squeeze in as much in as possible during a recent whirlwind tour of the custodian's Colorado campus, which meant the small group he was leading almost broke into a run.
The group made quick stops at the trading desk, service department, transition team, technology, even warehouse and fulfillment (with a peek at the gym for good measure) before a cautious conclusion in an active work zone; they viewed the complete remodeling of the spacious atrium in the building's center.
The remodeling was an apt metaphor for the company as a whole, one that's been successful in its roughly 40-year history, but subject to a number of "fits and starts," as Barry put it.
The most recent was a heavy technology push two years ago, and the successful launch of its Liberty platform ("freedom, empowerment, movement; you get the idea," we wrote at the time). Soon after then-CEO Frank Maiorano, citing a skill set better suited to sales and other client-facing endeavors than C-suite politics, left to head the RIA business at Baron Capital.
At about the same time, Fidelity made Bob Oros, TCA's vice president of national sales, an offer he couldn't refuse, and he was off to Boston to become the investment behemoth's head of sales in its institutional wealth services division. Chief marketing officer Jennifer Nealson departed soon after.
About the only remaining senior staff member was chief information officer Dennis Noto, responsible for heading something of an industry coup on the part of the company, of which it's still proud — the ability for its affiliated RIAs to access company technology anywhere, anytime and on all major tablet brands.
"We're the only financial services company with that ability, period," Joshua Pace, senior vice president of business development, proudly stated. "The advisor can trade for his clients while sitting under a tree in Central Park."
It's an attitude that made the atrium renovation particularly appropriate, as it seemed more suited to a Silicon Valley startup than what should be a staid financial services company. And that's really the rub; Barry himself seemed better suited to the creativity (and whimsy) associated with the tech industry (he actually has a background in both that and retail). The fact that he's able to transfer his style, skill set and, well, mania to the financial world might be exactly what it needs, especially with the rise of Gen Y and their penchant for modern communication tools and techniques, as well as a very different style of business than their older counterparts. A chat in his expansive office while preparing a latte (almost cliché at that point) revealed a childhood in Montreal and an entrepreneurial streak that pulled him away from home at a young age. His prior success running a number of companies led to his being asked six years ago to sit on TCA's board. When Maiorano left, the board asked him to take the lead, figuring he knew the company and what it needed.
Tapping on random windows and cubicles to wave at seemingly dozens of employees on the aforementioned tour of the facility, Barry's anecdote about a recent project illustrated his philosophy.
"We finished up and the person running the project wondered what to do next," he related. "I said, 'I don't know, you tell me.' I gave her three weeks. She went back to her office, and the term isn't up yet, but I see her furiously scribbling on white boards. I avert my eyes and hurry past so I don't see it until it's ready to present."
That type of employee empowerment is a hallmark of his leadership style; the atrium will have room for town hall-style meetings in which discussions of what the company is doing right, as well as where they're "blowing it," will be encouraged.
Barry at one point proudly pointed to an employee who recently won an award for service excellence from a partner firm, which the latter noted was the first time it was given to someone other than its own employees.
All of which is great for the company, great for employees and great for morale, but what about that other critical part — the RIAs they service?
The mobile technology is undoubtedly a plus. While decidedly out front in many of its capabilities, Barry compared it to a mountain ascent where one never reaches the top, requiring continual reinvention and, therefore, reinvestment.
Another plus? The boutique niche of the firm.
"If you want more handholding and touch points as well as someone who really knows your business, we're the firm for you," Pace added, conceding it may cost more than its larger competitors, but countered with claims of better service and no consumer brand with which its advisors are forced to compete.
"I recently received a call from an office manager telling me I had to fly out to this particular RIA," Barry interjected. "I asked her why and she wouldn't tell me. So I got on the plane and flew there and she brought both of the advisor partners in and said to each of them, 'Either you resolve your differences, or I'm leaving.' So I spent the whole day as an outside, impartial party as we talked not about business, or investments or practice management, but about their interpersonal issues." A bit touchy-feely? Yes, but the RIAs know it's genuine. Together with increased efficiency, a high level of service, energy and openness, it's responsible for a recent spate of good news; namely, the company experienced its best performance ever in the third quarter of 2013. Total assets under custody grew to a record $12.4 billion, which outpaced its previous best in the quarter before, one in which the company rebranded and announced strategic partnerships with RIA in a Box and United Planners Financial Services.
During the past three months, TCA brought on six new RIAs which the company claims collectively represent approximately $250 million in AUM.
Among other highlights from the third quarter:
• Additions to senior leadership and sales teams. Kathleen Brenk joined TCA as vice president of people and culture (its' a Barry thing). Sue Summers was hired as regional vice president to lead sales efforts in "the Heartland."
• Key enhancements to its technology platforms, including TCAdvisor, its model-based trading program, as well as Liberty.
• The RIA Roadshow. TCA is participating in this inaugural education series, which hosted half-day events in six cities across the country in September and October.
Whether or not the new direction and initiative will stick remains to be seen, but so far it's all pointing (energetically) in the right direction.
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Get a side-by-side comparison of your selected electronic cigarette kit against the best or the next 5 best kits in your selected price range, based on our community reviews. To learn more about each individual kit, simply click on the "Visit Site" button and you can get full details and order your kit online. If you want to know more about what each row means, just move your mouse over that section in the first column or check out the complete guide underneath the chart.
Perplexed by the shear range of electronic cigarette starter kits on the market? Fear no more, as CocktailNerd has put some skilled Nerds to work on creating you your very own easy and customizable e-cig comparison chart. Simply select a kit you wish to compare directly from any review on the site. The site will automatically place your kit choice into the comparison chart above alongside the current 5 highest reader rated e-cigarette kits, all from the same budget range. Finding your perfect e-cig kit has never been easier and more fun.
Unsure of what any of the details in the table mean? No worries! You can either read our full guide to our comparison chart below, or skip to a particular area of curiosity by simply clicking on any row titles in the first column on the left. This feature was the most requested entry during our recent social media contest, where we asked for direct ideas about how to improve the site. Not only do we thank our readers for letting us know how we can really help them, but we also ask that you continue to give us feedback and ideas to improve the feature of our amazing electronic cigarette comparison tool! Just drop us a comment below. Thanks and Enjoy!
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The Comparison Table
Your selected kit will appear in the first comparison column position. If you visited this page directly then the current top rated kit on the site will appear in lieu of a user selected kit to compare. In the following 5 columns, the top rated starter kits in the same budget range will appear in order of our readers' review scores from left to right. The name of each brand can be found at the top of each column. The furthest left column in each row has a title to show which information should follow in its adjacent row cells. A brief description will appear when you move your mouse cursor over each row title. A full guide and description of an individual row's information can be obtained by clicking the title, which links to the relevant section in this guide.
Kit Options: A picture of the kit being compared. Click the picture for better quality versions directly from the e-cigs manufacturer's official site.
Brand: The brand logo of the kit being compared in each column. Click to visit the e-cigarette brand's official website.
Kit Name: The name given to the kit package by the brand of the kit being compared.
More info: Click the 'Visit Site' button to go directly to the official product page for that kit on the e-cigarettes brand website.
E-cig Type: This shows the type of e-cigs included in a certain kit. The row will show two e-cigarette build types:
- Cartomizer: This is the currently popular 2-piece design electronic cigarette that the majority of brands will offer. The e-cig's two separate pieces are the battery, the section that occupies where the tobacco and rolling paper would be found on a traditional cigarette, and the cartomizer, which replaces the traditional filter. In cartomizers the cartridge, which holds the liquid nicotine, has a built-in atomizer (hence the portmanteau 'cartomizer'!). The atomizer is the heating element which vaporizes the liquid nicotine into water vapor for you to inhale while using the e-cigarette. This process is of course all powered by the aforementioned battery.
- 3 Piece design: In this design the cartridge and atomizer are separate pieces. This was the type of model favored in the early days of e-cigarettes. Although some claim that a dedicated atomizer performs better than a disposable element found in Cartomizers, they will also need to be cleaned and replaced regularly too. If they aren't, this often leads to a poor and inconsistent performance from your e-cig. When reaching the end of its life, your smoking experience will deteriorate quickly.
Individual single cartridges have an advantage that they can be self-refilled if you chose to buy liquid nicotine or e-liquid. However this can be a messy, laborious process and liquid nicotine can be dangerous in large quantities. Also because single cartridge units are often not sealed, accidental over filling and poor quality units will cause undesirable leaks. Cotton webbing is usually used inside a cartridge to help draw out the liquid will need to be replaced along with the cartridge shells themselves over time. This again leaves your unit open to consistency issues not experienced with cartomizers.
Switch Types: These are the battery switch types available with or without as an option in a certain kits. The switch in an electronic cigarette battery is the device that tells the atomizer to start vaporizing the liquid nicotine from the cartridge so it is ready to be inhaled. Auto switches operate when a user sucks/draws on the end of the unit like a normal cigarette.
A Manual switch operates by a small button depressed on the bottom half of the battery. Manual switch batteries are not as common as they used to be. Early auto switches suffered with a slight lag and also with over-sensitivity issues, which often resulted in the unit turning on and off in a user's pocket or bag. Modern automatic switch batteries no longer suffer with these issues and are now the most common e-cig switch type available. Some more experienced Vapers prefer manual switches as it allows them to draw as much vapor as they want since there is no cut-off safety feature like you would get with the automatic batteries. We do recommend that new users stick to the automatic switch batteries because they will turn off the battery when the maximum recommend amount of nicotine is dispensed for each puff. Most users will never notice the cut off because they won't reach that point, but if you are a heavy smoker, the manual battery may be a better fit for you. Many new manual switch batteries are also coming with a lock feature (Usually pushing the button 3 times fast to turn it on and off) to prevent it from turning on when not intended to the consumer.
Batteries Sizes: These are the battery sizes available or included with a kit. We've categorized them into 4 different sizes for the purposes of the comparison table, based on the size they will make an e-cigarette when a cartridge is attached:
- Standard: Comparable to the size of a normal king size tobacco cigarette.
- Mini: Smaller than a standard sized cigarette.
- Long: Long version but still comparable to 100s sized cigarette.
- Vaporizer: Too large to be compared to a normal cigarette. This category covers a wide range of devices including the tank devices you'll see from more specialized e-cigarette suppliers.
Battery size is often a compromise between weight and convenience. Larger devices will tend to be longer lasting between recharges; however will often be heavier, which can make the e-smoking experience less natural.
Battery Colors: Common colors of the batteries available in the kit. The patterns icon flags that a range of different pattern styles may be available.
Batteries In Kit: Number of battery units included in the kit. At least 2 are recommended to prevent your e-cigarette from being out of action while one of your battery charges.
Cartridges In Kit: Number of cartridges or cartomizers included in the kit.
Wall Charger: Indicates if a unit which allows you to recharge through a wall socket is included. Note that some e-cigarettes require that the USB charger is attached to the wall charger unit to connect a battery. Wall chargers that are dependent on a USB charger to connect a battery are never actually sold without the required USB cable.
USB Charger: Indicates if a unit which allows you to charge from a USB port (like on a pc or laptop) is included. Note that some wall chargers require a USB charger to connect a battery to the wall device. This means that the units can't always be used as 2 separate charger units at the same time.
Car Charger: Indicates whether a unit comes with a charger that allows your battery to be recharged from a 12V in-car power connection on the move.
PCC (Personal Charging Case): These are cases which, once charged themselves, allow you to charge your batteries on the move. They often allow you to carry several cartridges and spare batteries at the same time too. Often shaped like a traditional cigarette pack, they offer you LED charge indicators on the pack so you know how much battery is left in your pack and when your battery is fully charged again.
Case: Indicates if a standard wallet or case is included to hold your e-cigarette and spares on the go.
Pass Through: These devices are batteries that have a wire connection to a USB port. This means they are constantly powered but are tied to the power source, so they are not mobile and don't hold any power charge. They are ideal for those who spend long periods working at/near a computer and don't want to waste the charge of their normal batteries. In some cases, you can use these with a car charger and you will never be without a charged battery while driving!
Cartridge Strengths: For the purpose of the comparison table we have tried to group all the different brands' varying cartridges and strengths into nicotine strength groups.
- 0mg = No Nicotine
- 6mg = Ultra-Light
- 12mg = Smooth
- 18mg = Full
- 24mg = Strong
- 36mg = Ultra strong
No. Cart Flavors: Number of different cartridge flavors an electronic cigarette brand offers. These are not necessarily available to be bundled with your starter kit, but are certainly available for purchase as refills. Note this figure may vary with the number of 'common' cartridge flavors available below. For full details continue reading.
Common Cartridge Flavors Available: We put together a survey of the 15 most commonly available cartridge flavors of every e-cigarette brand we have reviewed so far. Please note that this is for comparison purposes only. Some e-cigs brands have their own range of flavors that can't be easily categorized into these 15 types. You may find more available when actually visiting an e-cigarette supplier's website. V2 Cigs even allows consumers to create their own flavor cartridges if they are willing to buy a certain quantity of that flavor.
– Flavors Compared: American Tobacco, Traditional Tobacco, Smooth Tobacco, Turkish Tobacco, Menthol, Peppermint, Cherry, Chocolate, Coffee, Pineapple, Vanilla, Strawberry, Peach, Apple and Cinnamon.
Cost Per Cartridge: This is the individual cost of a cartridges based on the full price of an e-cig brand's 5 cartridge pack (or nearest size). Note that these prices are to offer a comparison between brands and much greater individual savings are often available in larger quantities, such as 10, 15 or even 25 packs.
Warranty: The warranty available on electronic products like batteries and chargers. Be sure to read the small print to ensure that you remain covered. Lifetime warranties often require that you have made a direct purchase from the company (like cartridges) within a reasonable time period.
User Score: This is the aggregated score of all our reader's reviews on the brand in question.
Price: This is the standard retail price of the kit in question. Please note that coupons and savings are often available that can remove up to 40% the listed price. Please check our coupon section for the latest deal on every brand.
Full Review: Read our full breakdown and review for each brand, along with hundreds of our reader's reviews and opinions.
Katie Bercham - CocktailNerd Editor
Katie actually had a negative first experience of electronic cigarettes, picking up a cheap and horrible model from my local mall. Thanks to a chance meeting with co-editor David, she hasn't had a tobacco cigarette in over 5 years. She brings a strong female voice to the e-cig community.


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Ernest Hemingway said that perfection of style is a writer's road to salvation. But how does a writer develop a style? Here's an answer from Tomie dePaola, who has written and illustrated many children's picture books, the best known of which is Strega Nona:
"When I was a student at Pratt in the 1950s, studying illustration, I remember a fellow student asking one of our instructors, 'When do we learn about style?' 'We won't learn about style,' he replied. 'Style happens naturally. If you keep on working, eventually the way you can and want to express yourself will surface. Meanwhile, do the assignments, listen to the critiques, don't miss your drawing classes, painting classes, design classes and by all means look at everything. Go to the galleries and the museums. Your own style will surface.'"
Tomie dePaola in "Voices of the Creators" in The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators (Houghton Mifflin, 2002), edited by Anita Silvey.
Comment by Janice Harayda:
Tomie dePaola may have been talking about illustration, but his advice applies equally to writing. Many writers try to "find" their style by imitating great writers. But you don't find a style so much as release it, or allow it to emerge, in the way dePaola describes. If you keep writing long enough, you'll see what your style is. Imitation may give you ideas about your style could be but won't provide it for you.
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Charles Peace at his murder trial in 1879
Charles Frederick Peace was a notorious English burglar and murderer from Sheffield, whose somewhat remarkable life later spawned dozens of novels and films. Peace is mentioned by name in the Sherlock Holmes short story, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client and in Mark Twain's Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Peace's earliest criminal exploit is said to have been stealing an old gentleman's gold watch, and he soon passed to burglary.
On October 26, 1851, the house of a lady in Sheffield was broken into; some of the stolen property was found in the possession of Peace, and he was arrested. Owing to a character reference from his former employer, he was let off with only a month's imprisonment. Out of prison, Peace quickly turned to a life of crime committing numerous burglaries for which he served almost 20 years in prison (on and off). On November 29, 1876, Peace murdered a former friend, a civil engineer named Arthur Dyson. He fled to his home as a hue and cry went up. He was trailed by police but managed to give them the slip by using different disguises. He continually moved around the country to avoid law enforcement. After nearly two years on the run, he was finally apprehended on October 10, 1878, while burglarizing a house in St. John's Park, Blackheath. He was eventually found guilty of Dyson's murder and executed on February 25, 1879 at Armley Prison.
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KDE 4.3.0 Released: Caizen
KDE 4.3.0 is out, and it is a great release. It is unlikely that any one specific thing will strike the user as the most noticeable improvement; rather, the overall user experience of KDE has improved greatly in KDE 4.3.0. The release's codename, Caizen, is a Japanese philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement throughout all aspects of life. That has been the goal of the KDE team for 4.3.0: polish, polish, polish. The statistics from the bug tracker speak for themselves: 10,000 bugs have been fixed. In addition, close to 63,000 changes were checked in by a little under 700 contributors. That is not to say that the KDE team did not add a large number of new features: 2000 feature requests were implemented in the past 6 months, meaning that any user's pet feature might well be among the improvements KDE 4.3.0 brings.
The changes in KDE 4.3 are largely in three categories: the desktop workspace, the applications, and the development platform.
Of course, those are just a few examples of the changes in KDE 4.3.0. All of the seemingly small changes add up to make a wonderful difference to our users.
The KDE 4.3.0 release will be followed by the usual monthly bugfix and translation updates. The next feature release, KDE 4.4.0, will see the light of day in January 2010. For those among our readers who enjoy microblogging, we have set up an experimental "LifeStream" tracking the "!kde" tag on Identi.ca and Twitter. Check out buzz.kde.org for the stream. Jos Poortvliet, who also wrote the excellent release announcement, has created a screencast (Ogg Theora, HTML 5) that gives an overview of the versatility and coolness of KDE 4.3.0. As always, be sure to check out the release announcement for more details.
". You actually tell me I
". You actually tell me I have to close down all the apps I have running, interrupt all the tasks I'm doing, just to mess around with "maybe broken" disk?"
Sounds to me that you aren't taking your task too seriously.
"KDE4 is a windows clone in that it doesnt allow me to control my own workflow, it tries to dictate how I shall do things in stead of offering me options so I can decide for myself."
Hmm, you are talking shit on this too.
" What actually tells the kernel to do the mounting varies alot."
And you cannot choose any variation that fits your needs?
" IMO it is _perfectly_ reasonable that the DESKTOP running on the console tells the kernel to do the mounting, _AT USERS WILL_."
And that is what kde4 is capable of.
"I think it makes a heck lot more sense to fix KD4"
And what are you doing to fix kde4?
" If someone wrote a new kicker for KDE4, not using plasma - would it even be accepted?"
Why do people always want to put everything into 1 software package?
And your macos/windowmaker/windows/xfce rant was rather funny.
By whatever noticed at Fri, 2009/08/21 - 7:55am
You are incredible
So, since I dont want to interrupt my other tasks and work to look at disks that might be broken, I'm not taking my tasks seriously - and because I said I dont have windows legacy, you think I'm saying I dont have any windows experience? Amazing logic.
It's not just that neither windows nor KDE4 dont do what I want, if you had been paying attention, you'd notice that I specified what they share that I dont like.
And yes, I so far I have not managed to get KDE4 to do mounting the way I prefer it, and I am perfectly capable of doing manual mounting (but I suspect you wouldnt know how to mount partitions from devices that no longer have partition table intact, huh?) - but that's not the point here (for crying out loud.)
I'm glad you enjoyed my rant. No, I dont I dont see the point of paying for cripled software when I can get that for free (that is sarcasm, in case you wonder), and I did point out that _both_ macos and windows only run on certain hardware. Maybe you should read more carefully? What makes you think I cnnot install software on Windows, and what the heck is the relevance anyhow?
And lastly, the source code for the media applet for kicker that has been the topic for the last few dozens of messages in this very enlightening thread is not a third party applet, it is right there in the kdebase tarball, under kdebase-3.5.10/kicker/applets/media.
How long will you keep this going btw?
By kolla at Fri, 2009/08/21 - 11:13pm
people have given several
people have given several options to mount devices in kde.
It should be simple: the device pops up somewhere, you click on it if you want to open it, and it gets mounted in the process.
About broken devices: they usually don't get mounted automaticly, so i don't see any reason why you want to disable automount.
the problem with linux is that while kde offers a nice way to access external drives when you want to open/close files, not every linux application is using it. This makes accessing external drives a pain for some people.
The kicker applet for media devices that is being discussed over here isn't part of kde3 at all: it is a third party addon for kicker.
By whatever noticed at Sun, 2009/08/23 - 1:48am
I see your problem, i understand your reasoning, i agree with your conclusion. KDE4 took a turn into a direction i never even feared it would. Power user's favorite pet has turned into something that looks like a mix of windows, osx and gnome on the surface. Why?
five years down the road, plasma still can't do it.
By Marcel Partap at Tue, 2009/08/18 - 2:42pm
dolphin, right-click and constructive criticism
> Konq. uses dolphin Kpart. That's end of the story.
Dolphin KPart evolved from Konqueror. That's the story.
Dolphin uses khtml for showing the filesystem, which is part of Konqueror.
More exactly: Dolphin is a UI which uses the Konqueror backend. That's why it was possible for one person to start it as a great new tool.
Now it got far enough that's it's the default filemanager in KDE4.
There's one thing where I agree, though: I expect right-click to show me options and left click to execute the default option. Even current MacOSX programs use right-click (or "control-click", which is just another name for "I only have one button, but I need button two").
Besides: If you don't like getting bad reactions from all sides and don't want to stop people from actually implementing your suggestions (even when they come from others later on), you should start to critizice constructively, and the first step towards that is to write nice and friendly messages.
Attacking people doesn't serve your cause. It just makes them harden in their stance, not to follow your way, even though they would otherwise begin to think different later on. In German: "Du verhärtest ihre Meinung gegen deine Idee".
By Arne Babenhauserheide at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 8:03pm
> Dolphin KPart evolved from Konqueror. That's the story.
Doesn't matter. Important thing is today konqueror uses dolphin kpart and doesn't have any feature that isn't already present in dolphin.
> Besides: If you don't like getting bad reactions from all sides and don't
Since 4.0 I wrote nice and friendly messages. Response from devs was always one of the:
a) it will introduce unnecessary complexities in the code
and usually fanboys would say that current situation is best possible. Now I just tend to be sarcastic and don't expect anything.
By vvv at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 11:42pm
"Since 4.0 I wrote nice and
"Since 4.0 I wrote nice and friendly messages. Response from devs was always one of the: a) it will introduce unnecessary complexities in the code b) it will create more clutter c) it will confuse users d) it will break our design/vision and usually fanboys would say that current situation is best possible. Now I just tend to be sarcastic and don't expect anything."
a), b) and c) are totally true in this case. See what I (and others) explained earlier, a "Simply mount" option is not necessary (though you can still create this option on your desktop, as Aaron pointed out).
d) is the hard reality of software. Whenever you try to make a product that pleases anybody, in the end you'll please nobody. A good product consists of clear design decisions.
A nice example is programming languages: There is a saying that the only good programming languages have been designed by one or at most two people. Examples are C and C++: While many programmers hate these languages, they have been around for 40 years (or 30 years, respectively) which is ages in computer science, and still are used excessively.
By majewsky at Sat, 2009/08/08 - 2:48pm
strong disaffirmation.
That analogy sucks. 'C++ pointer' is to 'C++ application' not what 'device node' is to 'mount point icon'. Anyways.
Well, most probably it should not be necessary, but clearly it is an important bit of information that should be provided if one has the desire.
Ohh is it. The kernel detects a new device and adds it *somewhere* into the /dev tree. Clearly, getting that information via dmesg|tail is the only right way to tell where, right?
Oh yeah - that is a so much more convenient and straight to the point way of finding out about the freshly added device node... Nevermind i could not find anything to deliver that information when it is relevant, despite opening the full kinfocenter (which is architected for a different task: getting all information)-
This mentality (rip everything out that joe average user would not care about) is so what i despise most about KDE4 (although mostly contained in plasma and dolphin - which makes it no less frustrating). Clearly this is easier than creating a DE which provides everything applicable at ALL in a certain context in a way that makes sense, i.e. makes it accessible by quality self descriptive UIs and info tooltips, and gives an option to slim down the interface (i.e. hide stuff only advanced users might fully grok). BTW this last bit of ripping advanced stuff out really should be something the distributions should handle anyways...
And that desktop shell doesn't have some essential features like manual media mounting.
See above. So judging by this statement, KDE is not anymore aiming at the power users AT ALL because they are less than 20 percent. No wonder the abundant experience of positive surprise which accompanied the daily work with KDE3 has left the building.
Right click on a device seemed obvious for me to get similar menu now.
Yeah, right clicking an icon to get offered a context menu with relevant actions is so far off here.
(people with more than one mouse button?)
The rest of Aaron Seigo's wishlist user base, that is.
Well no, the lack of right click context sensitive actions is.
Oh please, don't get all soppy here. Criticism is not out there for your amusement. Often times, it's not even unjustified.
By Marcel Partap at Tue, 2009/08/18 - 12:57pm
This is a bug that has been known since KDE4.0 beta
I consider your complaint very justified.
This bug (or changes to the current setup) has been reported and a fix requested many times. Still the most glaring regression for me personally compared to KDE-3.5
All of these bug reports are for basically the same issue:
(I will merge these later.)
Unfortunately, noone in the KDE core team felt like fixing this since, even though there appears to be a solution outside the tree here:
I did not manage to install it and do not know if it still works at all for KDE-4.3
By moritzmh at Wed, 2009/08/05 - 7:57pm
Me feeling stupid
My distro does all of that for me. Pop what ever click and get auto mounted since 4.1 btw.
By pinheiro at Wed, 2009/08/05 - 8:32pm
But, but,...
I could also install some automounting software or use pmount from console. Then install some keybindings daemon to bind multi key shortcuts to pmount commands. Then some printing software, then... What's the purpose of this DE then if I have to install tens of additions apps to complement its (KDE4) shortcomings? This is KDE's job and KDE compiled for svn should be able to do that without additional magic.
By vvv at Wed, 2009/08/05 - 9:14pm
but, but, but..
you first crippled your distribution by disabling automounting, and now you expect the desktop to fix this for you by default?
By whatever noticed at Wed, 2009/08/05 - 9:36pm
I can also manually mount by clicking on the device notification widget - that is not the point.
I know I can add udev scripts to do anything in linux. However, KDE-3.5 allowed my to graphically configure a device to auto-mount. This is missing in KDE-4 so far.
Why do you defend the lack of this feature in KDE? Why do you think Debian is crippled?
By moritzmh at Wed, 2009/08/05 - 10:28pm
RE: workarounds
"I can also manually mount by clicking on the device notification widget"
So manual mounting does work in kde4.
According to vedranf, manual mounting doesn't work.
" Why do you defend the lack of this feature in KDE? "
I'm not defending that.
"Why do you think Debian is crippled?"
It turned out that vedranf crippled his distribution himself. So i stand corrected: Debian isn't crippled, only the installation of vedranf is.
By whatever noticed at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 8:32am
> Everyone knows that featurewise, kde4 is behind kde3.
there are features in kde3 that aren't in kde4.
some of those features never will be in kde4 because they are poor features.
some of those features will be in kde4 at some point because they are good features but nobody has gotten yet to impleenting them.
there are features in kde4 that are not in kde3.
with near certainty none of those features will ever appear in kde3, because nobody is working on it further.
at this point, the number of useful features in kde4 that are not in kde3 outnumber by quite a margin the useful features in kde3 that are not in kde4.
By Aaron Seigo at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 12:45pm
Yes, everybody :o)
But that isn't exactly what i meant.
But for users, it is the features they were used to using that counts. And untill kde 4.3, any kde user that i have met knew some features that they used in kde 3.5, which weren't available in kde4. I think kde4.3 will be the first release that makes users forget about 3.5
By whatever noticed at Fri, 2009/08/07 - 12:35am
Not by a longshot
As long as KDE4 cannot duplicate even the simplest things from my KDE3 desktop (hue on background image, panel widgets that stay put where I place them, horisontally scrolling rss feed reader in panel, ways to script desktop settings), there's no chance at all that I, as a user, will forget KDE3. The fact that KDE4 is picky about hardware, sometimes annoyingly slow, full of annoying misfeatures one cannot get rid of or turn off, still very unstable and ridden with bugs (too much to list up here)... and also even look bad (konsole session menues and more) despite all the annoying bling - makes KDE3 unforgetable in comparison.
By kolla at Mon, 2009/08/17 - 12:35am
Still sounds to me like you
Still sounds to me like you are using a crippled linux distribution...
By whatever noticed at Mon, 2009/08/17 - 9:58am
Sounds to me you are stupid
Care to point out one single thing in the list I mentioned that is distro related?
For the record, distros used are gentoo, ubuntu/kubuntu and the openSUSE live CD, and hardware used are multiple PCs, laptops, eeepc, eeebox and an old iBook. And the problems are the same no matter what distro or hardware used. The problems I describe are only related to KDE4.
By kolla at Fri, 2009/08/21 - 1:57am
Well, apperently it is user
Well, apperently it is user related.
By whatever noticed at Fri, 2009/08/21 - 8:32am
I said that I won't be adding new comments, but I can't help myself. Sorry fanboys.
> I consider your complaint very justified.
Actually, After Aaron's comment I see now that it wasn't justified. I just didn't think much. Adding more features introduces clutter and more options would confuse users, and we don't want that, don't we. We have to be careful with our users as giving them additional possibilities and useful options could force them to use GNOME. Also, enabling mounting without dolphin would break our design, vision and introduce unnecessary complexities in the code. Our motto is one "dolphin per desktop" and "you don't need the right click: with KDE you always click wrong".
Now, add analog clock plasmoid and resize it to the 1/4 of your desktop. Try to rotate it!! You see, you see... how it's funny. Now show it to your friends and you will most definitely be the koolest kid around like me! With useful features like this one, you will soon forget all about mounting and other techno babble.
By vvv at Wed, 2009/08/05 - 8:49pm
Mounting just work here, I
Mounting just work here, I didn't need to install any additional software (kubuntu and archlinux). If you're compiling the whole kde from scratch you should expect to do some manual work, sounds logical to me... that's why distros exist.
By patcito at Wed, 2009/08/05 - 9:51pm
> If you're compiling the whole kde from scratch you should expect to do some
Yes, I'm willing to do simple basic operations like manual mounting my devices. Can you show me how to do that in KDE4?
I will be so kind to show you how it was done in KDE3:
But no more. Dictator said it's too complicated! I guess they do usability tests with monkeys?
By vvv at Wed, 2009/08/05 - 10:18pm
Sure, first click on the
Sure, first click on the Device Notifier applet in the panel, there you should get the list of devices as you showed on your picture (I don't get size of devices either, like you btw). Then click on one of the device that is on the list, that will mount the device and open dolphin. To unmount a device, repeat first step, then hover the device you want to unmount, an eject icon will appear, click on it and it will unmount it. Works here (kubuntu, archlinux) and on my friends opensuse and gentoo.
By patcito at Wed, 2009/08/05 - 10:34pm
Great for you!
Now back to my first comment which started this discussion. Read it 10 times if needed.
By vvv at Wed, 2009/08/05 - 11:25pm
You asked how I mount, I
You asked how I mount, I answered you, too lazy to go look at your first comment.
By patcito at Wed, 2009/08/05 - 11:34pm
system settings
> Can you show me how to do that in KDE4?
0. go into the System Settings.
0. Alt+f2
(personally, i find that dialog a bit to complex .. it could have the same features with a nicer UI)
> Dictator said it's too complicated!
again with the insults. *shakes head*
By Aaron Seigo at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 12:50pm
that is something different
What you are talking about is automounting devices, while he doesn't want them to be automounted at all. He likes to mount them manually.
By whatever noticed at Wed, 2009/08/05 - 9:45pm
Had to test it here
Really don't get his problem, ok so i insert a device here and the device notifier tells me about it. (It does not mount it) if i click it it just works (opens in dolphin mounted) to unmount it I can click the device notifier and tell it to by clicking an "eject like" icon. My wife as no idea what mount is yet she operates this devices without any problem. So really I have no idea what his problem his maybe it was my distro that this for me dunno. but maybe he should be asking his distro to do that for him since mine did it for me.
By pinheiro at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 11:55am
What you describe is just the normal device notifier plasmoid. The alleged one from kde-look.org does nothing else than mount the inserted device without having you to click (and it does show multiple option, if there are, within the notification window, not in a seperate pop-up).
By Cyril Brosch at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 12:36pm
"(eg. if you want to save a
"(eg. if you want to save a website from within a browser on a usb device without opening (and closing) Dolphin first)"
This again shows the real problem underneath the bashing here. There would have been exactly zero discussion on silly "simply mount" options in device notifier if every widget toolkit would just use the KDE file dialog if run from KDE. This kind of integration is _not_ rocket science.
By majewsky at Sat, 2009/08/08 - 3:03pm
OK, I will repeat everything for people that don't want to read.
> Really don't get his problem, ok so i insert a device here and the device
My devices are inserted before starting KDE4. If I click device notifier, I get:
so I don't know where to click because there are no difference between two disks shown. I'm not laying. Please click on the link.
Mounting fails because there is no dolphin here. I don't use it, so I don't have it installed. I don't want this device to be open by file manager at all. I just want to save some files from an app that is already open. If dolphin starts I would close it immediately. Requiring huge application to be installed and run every time just to mount device is beyond stupidity.
By vvv at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 12:40pm
> Requiring huge application to be installed and run every time just to
* dolphin isn't a huge application
By Aaron Seigo at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 12:53pm
I don't think this is
I don't think this is entirely true. An easy and quick way to just mount a device is something I would probably use too.
Right now I'm using Kubuntu Jaunty with KDE 3.5. I haven't used 4.x much yet, so I don't know exactly how it works there.
Although I do think that from KDE's PoV KDE development should mainly focus on usability applications that are actually built on KDE libraries and provide all the good KDE integration, I myself do have to use apps regularly that do not fit in.
Right now when I put a CD in my drive or connect an external disk, I get a pop-up which asks me what I want to do. (Open in filemanager, listen to the songs, etc.) In this pop-up, I would probably click the "Just mount" option most of the time if it would be there. Right now I click the "Open in filemanager" option and then just close the filemanager. Other times I cancel the dialog and use the right-click & mount option on the desktop icon.
Applications that I use, but do not include KDE/mount integration are Mathematica, Opera, Java based apps, such as Maple, Dosbox and games that need a cd to play (both Linux and Wine based games).
So for me a "Just mount" option would be quite handy. Letting KDE automatically mount anything as soon as it's connected may be even better. Although I do not always need that either. When I play a game in ePSXe for example, the game cd doesn't have to be mounted.
I agree that the existing workflow of immediate access to a filesystem from a filemanager is something that should not be changed. Adding an additional option to just mount a device after it's inserted could also be handy though.
By Z_God at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 2:11pm
> I don't think this is entirely true. An easy and quick way to just mount a
I'm crazy and you do not exist. ;)
> Adding an additional option to just mount a device after it's inserted could
This is KDE4. Adding an option is not an option.
By vvv at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 4:24pm
As it has already been posted above...
This plasmoid is your friend. :-)
By Cyril Brosch at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 5:40pm
Yes, that looks nice. I'm
Yes, that looks nice. I'm just not fine with having to find and install a lot of additional software to get the basic functionality.
Also, it's rated 90% good. So when Aaron says that majority of users like the default workflow (mount with dolphin), he is just talking, excuse my language, bullshit.
By vvv at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 6:22pm
Not excused
>So when Aaron says that majority of users like the default workflow (mount with dolphin), he is just talking, excuse my language, bullshit.
No, your language is not excused anymore. Start saying what you have to say in a constructive way, or shut up please. By the time you have become one of the most constructive and productive KDE hackers, we will allow you to talk "bullshit" too.
By andresomers at Fri, 2009/08/07 - 5:48am
And if he even bother too look, it has been downloaded a pitfull of 1124 times. Compared to the 7 digit of KDE users out there, Aaron is totally right saying that the majority of users like the default workflow. So yes, the vedranf caracter is talking bullshit.
By Morty at Fri, 2009/08/07 - 6:54am
Did not work for me
The fact that the current behaviour has been reported as bug or wish 12 times shows that there is a large number of people who think the current behaviour could be improved.
I am one of them - I love KDE-4.3 and would like to see it further improved. The current behaviour does not make KDE-4.3 unusable, but it is a nuisance.
Also I tried to install the new notifier and it never worked for me (did not try very hard, though)
By moritzmh at Fri, 2009/08/07 - 7:26pm
Thanks. This looks very nice
Thanks. This looks very nice indeed. I hope it will be listed in the Plasmoid list if it is not installed by default :)
By Z_God at Sat, 2009/08/08 - 1:11pm
On opensuse, i usually use
On opensuse, i usually use 'cancel' in the dialog.
By whatever noticed at Fri, 2009/08/07 - 12:44am
> dolphin isn't a huge application
Compared to standard unix mount(8) that I have usually used to mount, it is huge and slow.
> yes, we expect you to have a file manager for integration purposes
OK, but do you also expect it for mounting purposes?
> you can modify the settings in system settings to not use a file manager
I see now. But adding new action is all but user friendly. What to put in command field? Should I use mount or pmount? What will be the mountpoint? Also, this opens unnecessary dialog slowing the whole process. It's better to have a small menu, like in that KDE3 applet.
> it's only 'stupidity' for you, but it's actually the workflow most people need;
Well, I'm an engineer. My friends are engineers, scientists, sysadmins, etc. This is stupidity for all of us, and our workflow is ... well I already told you. We can only conclude that KDE4 is not designed for us (but could be for both types of users) and we'll have to stay on KDE3 and eventually move on to something better.
By vvv at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 5:12pm
I see now. But adding new
I see now. But adding new action is all but user friendly. What to put in command field? Should I use mount or pmount? What will be the mountpoint?
On my system, both mount and pmount work for me, but my user is member of the right groups so pmount is probably the better option.
pmount %d %f
should do the trick for the command line, furthermore, I have
"The device must be of the type StorageVolume"
for the parameters, which seems to be the (rather liberal) default.
Side remark:
My personal workflow also benefits from a "mount without opening filemanager" option, because I often start applications from the command line + one file from a removable media (e.g. something like
1.) mount usb pen drive
). I would suggest submitting the inclusion of such a minimal mounting option to brainstorm.forum.kde.org. There is already an idea for a popup - less modification / version of the device notifier, which probably meets your requirements of being less cumbersome to use.
Finally, I would like to point out the obvious: If you enter a discussion with a certain amount of cynism and sarcasm because you are certain not to be successful with your request, you are, in fact, heading full speed into "self-fulfilling prophecy land".
EDIT: Wording
By setecastronomy at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 9:53pm
Nice post. You seem to understand everything I said and I agree with everything you said.
By vvv at Thu, 2009/08/06 - 11:45pm
"1.) mount usb pen drive 2.)
"1.) mount usb pen drive
Isn't it easier to open Okteta and navigate to the largedatafile.bin through the places pane in the file dialog, which mounts the pen drive if it is not mounted yet?
By majewsky at Sat, 2009/08/08 - 3:07pm
"Isn't it easier to open
"Isn't it easier to open Okteta and navigate to largedatafile.bin trough the places pane in the file dialog, which mounts the pen drive if it is not mounted yet?"
Not for me :-)
I'm fully aware that I'm not a statistically representative part of the KDE audience, e.g. I have a strange workflow, established in the course of over a decade on working with *nix systems, that works perfectly for me but seems to be overly complex or awkward for anybody else.
This is not to say that I don't change my workflow if new features arise that I find useful, as I'm for example an enthusiastic user of the krunner calculator or the [ctrl]-[i] filter option in dolphin. It's just that sometimes old patterns are so hard to overcome that I don't even try to do it any more, at least not consciously (e.g. launching applications with documents as file parameters from krunner / command line instead of using the open file dialog and the places side menu, for example).
Therefore, I appreciate that the KDE devs have provided tools that even odd balls like me can have their little pet features (e.g. the ability to have a "mount only" option). Furthermore, it seems clear that for those Operating systems out there that do automatic mounts seamlessly in the background - which seems to be nowadays the major "user friendly" distros - having such an option by default is neither intuitive nor addresses an especially pressing need. Distros that default to non-automounting behaviour (like the ones I choose, oddly enough) can provide such an option for their traget audience and once the kiosk tools are back in full swing (which may be already the case, since I had the last look at them at the time around the 4.2.0 release), it should also be possible to maintain such options for larger installation bases (say a whole department of odd ball engineers or scientists).
By setecastronomy at Sun, 2009/08/09 - 12:03pm
"OK, but do you also expect
"OK, but do you also expect it for mounting purposes?"
The mounting itself isn't done by dolphin.
I wonder why your system doesn't use automount, and why you don't want to mount drives automaticly when they are detected by the system.
By whatever noticed at Fri, 2009/08/07 - 12:48am
Damn those so called most users!
" it's only 'stupidity' for you, but it's actually the workflow most people need"
Utter BS again. You have absolutely _no_ properly done user tests to back up that claim with. Yes, it is so easy to put the blame of all kinds of stupid design decisions on the so called "most users", but no more I tell you, no more. It's like Fox News' "some people say", it's just a wild assumption. Do "most users" really care one way or the other? The problems become evident when people who _do_ care speak up, right?
Seriously, Aaron, your attitudes alone are now driving me away from KDE, even KDE3 now has a foul taste to it - I feel bad for having supported a desktop so much led by what I now understand is a leader of the marching morons. Shame.
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Intoducing the next generation of indicator / flasher relay designed to operate with push button switches.
Three mode positions available two with auto cancelling.
Short press once - indicators flash four times then resets.
Longer press - indicators flash 20 times then will reset.
Press for longer than 1 second - indicators flash until you stop it by pressing the button again.
Suitable for use with LED indicators or standard bulbs or a mix of both.
This is a small flasher controller for push buttons switches, in a small package what will fit in every handlebar. A comfort flasher function is integrated what will switch off the indicators after a certain time if no button is pushed.
Dimensions 38 mm x 16 mm x 11 mm
Maximum current:Maximum 7mA mikrokontroller, 2 x 5 Ampere outputsHousing:Black abs housingInput voltage range:7 - 18 VoltConnections:Control 0,5mm², Power side 1 mm², je 10 cmMaximum ambience temperature:80 Grad CelsiusMaximum current:5 Ampere, short circuit protected. (15 Ampere)
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It was late in the third period of Wayne's fourth hockey game in 5 days, and he was exhausted, but he wasn't going to let it show. He was still going all out and sprinting after every loose puck. But on one play, he was skating fast and tried to make a sudden change in direction when he felt a sharp pain in his right groin and could barely make it off the ice.
The next day Wayne's groin felt tight and painful, and there appeared to be some swelling in the area, so he went to see a doctor. The doctor asked some questions, examined him, and told Wayne he had a grade 2 groin strain.
A groin strain — also known as a groin pull — is a partial or complete tear of one or more of the muscles that help you squeeze your legs together.
There are five of these muscles, called the adductor muscles: The pectineus, adductor brevis,and adductor longus (the short adductors) run from your pelvis to your thighbone. The gracilis and adductor magnus (long adductors) run from your pelvis to your knee.
Groin strains are a common injury in hockey and skiing, as well as sports like football and track and field that require running or jumping. They can range from grade 1, which is a mild injury with few symptoms and a short recovery time, to grade 3, which is a complete or nearly complete tear of a groin muscle.
The symptoms of a groin strain vary somewhat depending on the grade of the strain. All groin strains will cause pain and tenderness in the affected area, and many will hurt when you bring your legs together or raise your knee. If a strain is severe, you may feel a popping or snapping sensation during the injury and severe pain afterward.
Here's what you'll likely notice for different grades of groin sprain:
If you see a doctor for a strained groin, he or she will ask about your symptoms and what you were doing when the injury happened. The doctor will examine the affected area to check for swelling, bruising, and tenderness — and to rule out another condition with similar symptoms, such as a sports hernia. In rare instances, the doctor may send you for an MRI scan to determine the extent of the tear.
The doctor will grade your strain. Grade 1 means that less than 10% of the muscle fibers are torn. Grade 2 strains are those where 10% to 90% of the fibers are torn. (Because of the big range in grade 2 strains, a doctor might grade strains on a scale from 2- to 2+.) Grade 3 means that the muscle is either completely or almost completely torn or ruptured.
Groin strains usually happen when the adductor muscles get stretched too far and begin to tear. Strains also can occur when the adductor muscles suddenly have stress put on them when they aren't ready for it (as when someone doesn't go through a proper warm-up before playing) or when there's a direct blow to one of the muscles.
Some of the risk factors that can make a groin pull more likely include:
The main thing you can do to help prevent a strained groin is to warm up and stretch before any exercise or intense physical activity. Jog in place for a minute or two, or do some jumping jacks to get your muscles warmed up. Then do some dynamic stretching (ask a coach, athletic trainer, or sports medicine specialist to show you how to do this type of stretching).
Some other things you can do to try and prevent groin strains include:
Most groin strains will heal on their own in time. The key is patience because it can take a while to fully recover. Even if you feel better, a groin strain may not be fully healed, and you risk starting over with the injury if you get back in the game too soon.
Mild to moderate strains will need around 4 to 8 weeks of proper rehabilitation. More severe strains will take longer to heal. Only the most severe muscle tears require surgery. To treat a groin strain, take these steps and be sure to follow your doctor's advice:
In the event of a complete muscle tear, or if the treatments above don't help after a few months, a doctor may call for surgery as a last resort. In this case, a surgeon will either attempt to reattach a torn tendon to a bone or stitch torn muscle tissue back together. Some people are able to return to previous levels of activity after surgery. A doctor will only choose this option as a last resort — and fortunately it's rarely needed.
Most groin strains heal on their own as long as the athlete follows a doctor's or physical therapist's instructions about rest and rehabilitation. The key is patience.
It can be frustrating to wait the full time needed to get back in the game, but this is one kind of injury you don't want to mess with. Get your doctor's signoff for any kind of exercise.
The good news is that once you're fully healed, you should be able to play as you used to.
Reviewed by: Suken A. Shah, MD
Date reviewed: November 2014
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The explosive, action-packed adventure in one of the all-time most popular superhero sagas unfolds with a cure in reach for the world's most primal force of fury: THE INCREDIBLE HULK. We find scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) living in shadows, scouring the planet for an antidote. But the warmongers who dream of abusing his powers won't leave him alone, nor will his need to be with the only woman he has ever loved, Betty Ross (Liv Tyler).
Upon returning to civilization, our brilliant doctor is ruthlessly pursued by The Abomination (Tim Roth)--a nightmarish beast of pure adrenaline and aggression whose powers match The Hulk's own. A fight of comic-book proportions ensues as Banner must call upon the hero within to rescue New York City from total destruction. And on June 13, 2008...one scientist must make an agonizing final choice--accept a peaceful life as Bruce Banner or the creature he could permanently become: THE INCREDIBLE HULK.
If at first you don't succeed, try again. Marvel seems to be under the impression that their first Hulk movie was a flop of Serenity proportions, so they've tossed everything related to it out the window and come up with something completely different for their big green superhero.
Except the first Hulk wasn't really a failure, merely somewhat disappointing. Even now, after the world seems to have turned on it, it still holds on to a middle of the road 60 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. That means more positive reviews for it than negative ones. Then there's its 2003 take at the box office. It made $245 million internationally, and only cost $137 million to make. I'd call that a tidy profit.
So why has Marvel decided to throw their muscley green baby out with the bathwater? Blame fans. Since the movie's theatrical debut that mild disappointment in a solid but ultimately mediocre film has turned into massive overreaction. The further Hulk-a-holics get from the film, the worse it seems to become. Now it's inexplicably become a punchline, a container for capturing all the worst outpouring of anger comic book nerds feel at the way Hollywood has botched a lot of their favorite properties. All that hatred they should be feeling for movies like Elektra has been funneled into Hulk. It's not hard, he's a pretty big target.
The only way out of being a bad Pollock joke for Marvel was to call their new movie a reboot, and pretend the other one never happened. Except it's not so much a reboot as a continuation with an all new cast, crew, and a completely different tone. Shh, don't tell anyone. They're much too busy burning the old movie in effigy to notice.
As it turns out, rebooting may be for the best. Whether you liked Ang Lee's version of Hulk or not, it's hard not to notice that this new Incredible Hulk kicks the other's ass in vital stats. Grab a pencil and play match up the cast. On paper, there's every reason to believe that this version of the Hulk will be even better.


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Taking style risks is one thing, and although many people hated her sheer dress choice the other day at the LA premiere of Twilight 5, it was fitted to her body type and there was just enough edge and cool to make it a Kristen Stewart fashionable moment. This however...
Here's Stewart in London once again in Zuhair Murad with a sudden case of the JLOs.
Greasy hair and leather jackets, studs and sneakers at the same steezy time, this is Kristen Stewart. Tacky-mixing lace and sequins, this is Jennifer Lopez. There's a reason the two should never trade -- because it's not suited to the individual.
You know who this is well suited to though?
My ma.
The Chinese Squawking Chicken. Aging Hong Kong ladies love sparkly lacy clothes that straddle Country Music and Las Vegas.
My ma just dressed Kristen Stewart.
Can't call that a style win, sorry.
Perhaps that's why Stewart looked like she's wearing someone else's entire outfit on her way out of the premiere. That jacket is way too big. And I've a feeling those pants are his.