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Gdog get do or die
You ain't got no money nigga, fuck you
Let go, hustle gang
Play no fucking games
T.I. pkiug you know my f*ing name, yeah
Haters drop south when they see the cane
Chips they come to london they know how to treat a chain
On highways with them bentleys to the left side
On the eastern hemisphere holly west side
How we doin', lay low and get high
Pray to the motie, live never let die
I swear I'm super cool, still a sit by
To a nigga then I up and go and hop on a red eye
Till I'm dead I'mma live like a sour bad
They say it's all good
Platinum dog tag
Yellow gold rollin'
Yella hoe know me
In beverly hills gettin me a bottle like kobish
You my dirt all by my lonely get no cody
Shot 'em dead, my bitch take it to the church for me
In the fan uptown b-o-b hit the gurrow for me
Gdod get done with that answer to god only
I said rose's just a pussy
Fuck her I'll go in
You can catch a hollow tip for thinking you're a chip
Royalty, hustle gang keep the crown with us
The only queens around here are the girls fucking us
And the haters get skipped,
Double dodge chip got a strapping gear
Press preљs double clutch
Play with the bread, me the toast
Need a ghost before I'm ghost
Swear to the holy ghost
Yeah, I put my city on the map
Everybody's on the jack spot
On the flat room
Word to the union, everytime we're ruling 'em
Real talk, even pump the pill that keeps a tool with them
Heaven sent me go to hell money
Rolling in the deep still, I need that bail money
Went to the grammies I need six to keep my rolly yellow
Same as my bitch
North to the south I be in the mix
My location on there I should be writing your checks
It's pay time for your career
Pussy lay down
Car full circle of balls
Could I spread them round
Yeah from lan to the a town
Time to make the whole world know my name now
Iggy azalea:
Show them wreckers with the roof off this mother low
Real bitch wanna kill all these bitch hoes
Silly flow, I'm illy my chow pain
Watch your titty boy
I rocks these two chains
You got me so inљane
Double m arrange
For this seats it's cold chain
All them doors go bang
You hoes be on the supper
Step up in double trouble
Sent here to fuck the gang
Hold up bitch shovel rubbers
Down the tuddle
Princess cuddle
Rocks like burning rubber
They blind just stand
But listen milf I am a mother fucker
Hustle gang you got it bad and I don't mean no usher
My hustle gang they bring them clips ok excuse me pusha
Your malice, rip-offs every reach your bad bitch
The man texts us like dallas
Be mad at him, I'm amazing
You were simply just another nim
Gdod bitch it's more than just an acronym
You know what it means my nigga
Gdod get do or die my nigga
Hustle gang I know
This the cane represented one time
Poddle of t.I. pking period
I know, yeah
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Mariners insider Danny Ferguson brings us his AL West Predictions today for the 2012 season. If Yu Darvish, CJ Wilson, or Albert Pujols pan out, Seattle and Oakland could be left in the dust again…especially if Seattle doesn't land Prince Fielder. The M's will likely end in 3rd place, but not be as easy a win as in years past.
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Javelina are not pigs as many believe. They are members of the peccary family.
The only species found in the United States is the collared peccary which ranges throughout the southwest.
Javelina travel in small herds and have a limited home range. In the winter they travel during the early morning or late afternoon but in the summer they become nocturnal. They eat prickly pear cacti, mesquite beans, fruits and insects.
They defend themselves with sharp canine teeth sometimes referred to as tusks and have very poor eyesight. They are not usually aggressive and prefer to retreat unless cornered.
Javelinas usually weigh around 30 to 50 pounds and are grizzled brown and black with a white band of couse hair around the neck.
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|2006-03-20, 04:25
|Link #1101
Yummy, sweet and unyuu!!!
Join Date: Dec 2004
The RMT thread had the most posts in the fansubs section
Good luck to everyone with exams!
|2006-03-20, 05:53
|Link #1103
In the Tatami Galaxy ↓
Join Date: Feb 2006
@grey_moon ...
Someone said that in the extra drama CD Nori imagines having sex with her brother. Yes. That's twisted ... okay?
Guys, if anyone can help me review about the organ systems in humans, give me links, please ... I don't want to study anymore ... lol
|2006-03-20, 06:06
|Link #1105
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Brill, Tirisfal Glade
Of all the anime I had watched, I dare say that Rozen Maiden is my favourite. The characters do grow on me, especially Suiseiseki (though my favourite character is Suigintou) and her antics.
It would be great if they would release a third season. And I really do hope that they include Shinku-Suigintou squabbling parts for comedy as well.
|2006-03-20, 06:11
|Link #1106
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Although it has not attained cult-status in my mind as of yet, it will soon ... after I burn all of it and watch it once more! bwahahahahahaha ...
Ergo Proxy ... and this makes physics223 a happy boy! lol
Go Gin! Gin! Gin! Gin! lalalalala ...
Suigintou really grew on me. And I realized that when I had her as my wallpaper, avatar, desktop ...
|2006-03-20, 06:22
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Physics I think you have been studying too much...
@Mincemaker: Same for me with SuiseiSeki! I love her antics, and.. Shinku-Gin squabbling would be priceless, maybe even the kind between Hina and Sui
@Dark Steno: so your group translates Manga and Doujin? If you've got the time, could you help me translate the japanese characters on the two recent pics Flo put up? The one with kidnapped Gin and Crazy Hina with Noodles (or watever)
|2006-03-20, 06:35
|Link #1108
Yummy, sweet and unyuu!!!
Join Date: Dec 2004
|2006-03-20, 09:11
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I'll keep walking.
J/k, letz do it. /gg
And sorry, I can't help you there. It's been a looong while since I've taken any biology class. Actually, I haven't taken any science class since I stepped on the US, since I got all the credits I needed from my freshman year back in Brazil. I've been wondering if I should start learning by myself, just so I can still tell the difference between Medical Nitroglicerin and TNT
But oddly enough, I just found one Rozen Maiden doujin, and it was Jun + Hotaru.
But since my fake hentaisource account has been disabled and I'm yet to exchange another one for a highly hacked Gunbound account with a friend, I can't check it there <.<
It's the start of a whole new day...and having slept less than 5 hours (very poorly I shall add) and then being awakened by the horrendous and annoying sound of my keyboard-tappind-mouse-clicking-god-damn-WC3-player younger brother, I was forced to an intake of caffeine ten times higher than a normal human should ever have. (Literally, my secret recipe for waking up after short nights is a coffee cream, consisted of 1/4 cup of coffee, 1/4 hot water and 1/4 sugar. )
Prepare yourselves, 'cause today I'm really gonna pick on the topic with overwhelming madness!
|2006-03-20, 09:23
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Traumend Episode 2
Armed with Ayu's sub of the 12th and final episode of Traumend, I've finally gotten down to rewatching Traumend, right from the 2nd episode. (Rewatched 1 several times already, I can remember each scene off the back of my head) Since I've got nothing better to do (Holidays, you see) and wishing to provide some material that we fanboys (and girls) can start posting on again, I've decided to post some screen-caps of my favourite parts, and what I think are the highlights of episode 2 (with respect to the dolls only). This is not meant to be an episode review, just a capture of the doll's expressions/actions/and kawaii-ness accompanied by my comments. Hope you fanboys and fangirls enjoy.
Spoiler for episode 2 and length:
Well, pls leave a comment. If you guys like it, I'll try to do the same with the rest of the eps as I get to them. If you don't, let me know and it'll be scrapped.
p.s. Captures were from Ayu's wonderfully high quality subs. Great job guys!!
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|2006-03-20, 09:31
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I'll keep walking.
And yeah, that scene was really touching. Her expression of amuzement at the box was also very cute; I must admit that seeing a smile on Shinku's face is something worthless.
She also puts it under her Kunkun doll's arm (She really does love Kunkun a lot, too. ), and that really shows how much she's liked her present.
But I felt kind of sad because nor Jun nor Shinku could speak to eachother at the beginning. With Jun studying, he constantly asked her if she wasn't going to sleep. To me, she wanted to be awake to be by his side a little longer, aswel as to not having to sleep and have dreams about Suigin Tou.
Also, physics, I think you're a liiiittle bit off when you say that "The second series comes right after the first one...".
I'd say that between Rozen Maiden and Traumend there's at least a 1-month gap (But that could be more, since we see that Jun has already been studying for a while, and even Hotaru gets amazed at how far he'd gotten with his studies in such a short time. )
No worries, though. Everything else's just fine.
I think we have over 2 times the second highly posted topic!
|2006-03-20, 09:32
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|2006-03-20, 09:37
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I'll keep walking.
But Nori is weird, but in a pretty loving way. If she had longer hair and didn't wear glasses, she'd be T3H h4wT!
|2006-03-20, 09:39
|Link #1115
Yummy, sweet and unyuu!!!
Join Date: Dec 2004
|2006-03-20, 09:42
|Link #1116
I'll keep walking.
Well, but KunKun + Laplace would be something that even I, an ultra-macho-gays-must-die (J/k) kind of guy, would find amazingly funny.
Kk: "Oh, Laplace! All I can deduct from your actions is that you are a bad criminal, and I will punish you in name of the moon!".
But Nori + Jun, or a Foursome with Gin is kind of freaky, no matter how many redbulls you take.
Spoiler for Excuse me, I'd like to know how much is this hairy, nude fella that is vacuum packed right here.:
|2006-03-20, 09:55
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Yummy, sweet and unyuu!!!
Join Date: Dec 2004
|2006-03-20, 10:04
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I'll keep walking.
I don't know. But wow, for you to make flower-topped hamburgers... We have a dish like that back in my country, but the eggs will look like ANYTHING but flowers
And I don't like strawberry that much, so it's hard to say how daifuku tastes like.
|2006-03-20, 10:14
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In the Tatami Galaxy ↓
Join Date: Feb 2006
Honestly, though, I do not want to see naked pictures of anime girls that I respect. That also is true in real life. No matter how beautiful are some girls I know, I don't even think of them nastily in any way. I'm weird that way, but I somehow don't want to tarnish their image, even if it is only in my head.
I adore Gin. That's true. But I was only joking about the foursome ... for one, I just plan to adore her - to look at her as if some wondrous art piece. That's really what I do with extremely beautiful people or things that I respect in the realm of thought.
I somehow even did not want to see Brokeback Mountain (I'm not gay) because of the fact that the lead of Princess Diaries (Anne Hathaway?) goes nude ...
BTW, my wallpapers for almost a month now have been about Rozen Maiden more or less ... I then intervened with some Bleach, thought it ugly, and then replaced it with cool Gin.
Here is a scenario I thought:
KK: *howls* awooooo!!! okay, push it in, you demon! come on! yeah, bi*ch. i'm going to punish you for the crime of hotness.
LD: uh! uh! uh! the silver moon cries in the desert storm (continues with rhetoric that is barely understandable, while howling)
Gosh ... that is sick.
As for Nori and Jun ... although Nori will be a wee-bit sick for that ... at least we know her excessive motivations for taking care of Jun. I've also seen too much hentai that deal with those things ... I wonder if the hentai creators heard of the Westermark effect ... but anyway ... lust IS unstoppable.
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Tweak Failbot into Praisebot
For example, if I'd get hit by Shadow Crash in Ulduar the raid leader would automatically post: "Niniel fails at Shadow Crash".
The point of the addon is naturally to see if someone fails a lot and discourage them from doing so. It can be sort of a morale killer though because it's not fun being told you fail over and over and mid-raid a few people complained about it. That's why I suggested in /o that the raid leader should modify the .lua file of the addon into something positive instead of the words fail. Everyone knows you've failed anyway so you don't need to be told just that. The officers laughed at my suggestion and the RL logged out to fix the tweak immediately.
For the next pull the addon read out "Player X is incredibly awesome at Shadow Crash". This got reactions like "new failbot ftw!", "lol @ praisebot!", "Successbot ftw" and the raid leader happily stated "No longer a morale killer! Fail in style.".
Oh, also I haz 4 pieces of T8 now, woot! Basically the Shaman 51 point resto talent as a set bonus and with no CD.
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- SaladFork said...
Wow, that's awesome. I hope you don't mind, but I'm definitely stealing that idea for my raids, =P
(Sidenote: Failbot has been succeeded by EnsidiaFails [check the Failbot curse page], your guild should make the switch)
- 07 June, 2009 00:26
- Niniel said...
Sure, go ahead! =)
- 07 June, 2009 11:53
- Aertimus said...
I think if we tried to use that people would flip out... Even just the mod that spammed who got hit by firewalls in OS had people up in arms.
I picked up my 4pT8 this week too! I haven't really had a chance to use it yet though. I think it will change my healing style quite a bit.
- 07 June, 2009 19:59
- Niniel said...
Congratulations! Looking at combat logs its about a 12% increase in healing done if you use rejuvenation a lot.
- 07 June, 2009 20:19
- Aertimus said...
I know! I think I will be using rejuv A LOT more.
- 07 June, 2009 20:21
- Enmagi said...
I've had my 4piece for a while (cuz I got my 10 man shoulders) at first it was just boosting my overhealing numbers since I'm preemptive about rejuving ppl before they get hit (so I can swiftmend after) but I've found it's changed my healing style a little knowing there's that extra little oomph. I like it ;)
Nice change to the failbot-we don't use it, sometimes I'll break out the big brother and tell them when they are failing at CC breaking, but it doesn't say they fail, it just says.. the mob [symbol] was broken by so and so's -whatever spell they used to break it-
It gets a bit spammy though if they break it with something that's a dot and the mages are resheeping.
- 08 June, 2009 17:04
- Niniel said...
I like to cast 5 rejuvs then WG over and over if I'm raid healing. It's perfect in P1 of Yogg Saron. I used Big Brother for a while too, it's a nice addon!
It's not perfect if there's too much spamming since we raid without voice chat and it would obscure instructions. Better not fail if we want to be able to read what's going on :)
- 08 June, 2009 18:41
- Sephrenia said...
I like it! We have a blame roll in our raids to know who to blame for all the wrong happenings in the raid and this fits wonderfully with that. How to tell people they suck and need to improve in a nice way!
- 09 June, 2009 10:23
We use failbot, but I've never thought to modify it! =)
It doesn't get too spammy until we get to General Vezax...good god, learning that fight you would think that failbot had taken over our raid chat!!!
I will say that I *really* wished tapping a cloud in phase 1 YS would record in your combat log so that failbot could pick it up. I would have LOVED to know who our cloud happy people were while learning that phase =)
Grats on your set bonus! It really is quite nice!
- 09 June, 2009 17:58
- Niniel said...
Thank you! =)
Oh God, knowing who the cloud molesters were would have been fantastic!
- 09 June, 2009 19:04
- Enmagi said...
I would love to be able to /point and /spank cloud molesters.
I was watching for them last time and ppl who had no reason to be anywhere near clouds were passing through them >.<
- 12 June, 2009 19:40
- Niniel said...
Now phase 1 has been nerfed so that people won't be MC anymore. That's going to save a few clouds I think ;)
- 13 June, 2009 01:03


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Mayor's Office
Mayor Chris Beutler said today that State and local laws enacted by the people and their elected representatives make it clear that City Attorney Rod Confer has a duty to give legal advice only to those representing the City. The Mayor responded to questions on the role of the City Attorney regarding the Fairness Ordinance passed by the City Council May 14. It protects gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered individuals from discrimination in the workplace, in housing and in public accommodations.
"The City Attorney is bound by both State and City law to defend any measure passed by the City Council and signed by the Mayor," Beutler said. "He cannot ethically represent both sides of an issue. In the case of the petitions being circulated to repeal the Fairness Ordinance, it would be contrary to the duties imposed on the City Attorney by State and City laws for him to advise any party on the language of a petition that seeks to keep a duly passed and signed ordinance from taking effect."
Mayor Beutler cited Nebraska State Statute (Sec. 15-322), the Lincoln City Charter (Art. IV, Sec. 15) and the Lincoln Municipal Code (Sec. 2.24.010), which state that the City Attorney shall be the "legal advisor of the mayor, the city council and city officers" and that he shall "commence, prosecute and defend actions on behalf of the city."
In addition, Mayor Beutler said, "When fundamental minority rights are threatened by discrimination it is the duty of elected leaders to intervene and protect those fundamental rights, just as we have in previous eras for African Americans, women and the disabled. That's why the City Council passed and I signed the Fairness Ordinance to protect the civil rights of certain citizens in employment, housing and public accommodations."
The Mayor signed the ordinance May 14, and it is scheduled to go into effect May 30. In a letter Wednesday, Confer wrote that there is a problem with the language on a petition being circulated to prevent the City's new Fairness Ordinance from taking effect.


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Audi Announces The 2008 Melges 32 Sailing Series
22 February 2008
Audi officially announced the 2008 Audi Melges 32 Sailing Series in Milan, Italy on 11 February. The series will include five events and feature a new format that is as prestigious as the series name sake. Audi has specifically chosen the Melges 32 for its uncompromising performance, adrenaline, speed and competitive fleet characteristics.
The principal idea behind the creation of this sailing series is to reaffirm and strengthen a racing circuit, a practice and heritage that Audi has fostered for more than ten years. It is meant to carry the values of competition, challenge and fair play while leading a path of innovation to inspire as well as drive the recognition and esteem of sailors all over the world.
Already the Melges 32 has won the hearts of Italian owners — Claudio Recchi, the brothers Massimo and Stefano Leporati, Fausto Rubbini, Luigi Amedeo Melegari, Giovanni Maspero, Ferdinando Battistella, Armando Giulietti, Francesco Martino, Savino Formentini, Lorenzo Santini, Lanfranco Cirillo, Antonello Morina, Jacopo Bianchetti, Maurizio Schiavi, Stefano Di Properzio, as well as Great Britain's Joe Woods and Germany's Michael Illbruck.
"We are so excited about this very, very important announcement,' said Federico Michetti, president of Melges Europe. "Audi is one of the largest sponsors in the sailing industry. To have them as a series partner, less than a year after the Melges 32's arrival in Europe is really amazing. The Melges Team has been working hard on this collaboration. This ultimately will make the Melges 32 stronger and stronger worldwide."
The Audi Melges 32 Regatta Series includes:
9-11 May
Fraglia Vela Malcesine
Malcesine (VR), Lake of Garda
This beautiful location on Upper Garda Lake is a natural sailing venue. With a newly launched yacht club house!
27-29 June
Yacht Club Cagliari
Cagliari, Sardinia
This is Sardinia — need we say more!
11-13 July
Yacht Club Santo Stefano
Porto Santo Stefano (GR) - Tuscany
A luxurious sailing venue, nothing beats the enchanting Tuscany surroundings.
5-7 September
Circolo Velico Santa Margherita Ligure
Santa Margherita Ligure, Liguria
Located next to wonderful Portofino, this location is perfect for Melges 32 racing.
3-5 October
Marina Genova Aeroporto
Taking place in tandem with the famous Genova Boat Show, the Melges 32 will show what it's got on the course and off.


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Offical Bermuda Topic
Posted 28 February 2008 - 04:52 PM
I never hear about it anymore.
Posted 28 February 2008 - 06:04 PM
That's true, but only if you believe the disappearances are simply pilots and captains getting lost at sea, with no mysterious or paranormal reasons behind the disappearances....just failed navigation technology.
I think the best reason for the greater disappearances in the past vs. the present is mainly the type of navigational equipment. With the modern GPS technology using satellite instead of the earth's magnetic field it makes the disappearances less common.
What is your opinion, Axman? What do you think goes on out there?
I guess I should have clarified. I think there's something disrupting the magnetic pull of the earth there. I recall seeing a story about the flight 19 where they had made contact via radio to the base. Seems to me the story told of the lead pilot reporting a malfunction in the compass. When they we able to get a visual of the surroundings, they mistook the Bermuda islands as the Florida keys. When they regained the compass they thought they had to fly northwest to Florida when in fact they were heading out into the Atlantic Ocean. They simply ran out of fuel and went down.
GPS, doesn't rely on the magnetic pull of the earth only satellites.
Edited by Axman, 28 February 2008 - 06:06 PM.
Posted 28 February 2008 - 07:27 PM
Posted 28 February 2008 - 10:23 PM
Here's a link to the theory of Vile Vortices. It's an interesting theory, to say the least. The theory seems to coincide with the the locations of the Bermuda Triangle and the Dragon's Triangle, and cites 10 other theoretical triangles across the globe as well. There are many other links to explain it, and some go into more detail than others. If anyone's interested, just Google "Vile Vortices".
Posted 29 February 2008 - 09:55 PM
...would really love to hear the Grandfather story, should that opportunity arise! Not to make light of a personal loss, but would be very interesting to learn about him!
I did get some details again from mom about my Grandfather's incident:
The name of the cargo airline he was flying for at the time was Expresso Aero (very well known), the flight was from Havana to Key West and he wasn't even scheduled to fly that day but did a fellow pilot a favor in taking his flight so he could attend his mother's funeral (sheeeesh, when it's your time, it's your time!)
The 1945 flight details go like this:
They started to lose altitude and radioed in their position and altitude loss rate, after failed attempts at regaining altitude, they radioed in an official Maday and proceeded to dump cargo... flight deck communications were lost soon there after and never heard from again.
Now, my Grandfather was a career, South American military pilot... In fact he was head of the Ecuadorian Air Force and was the only pilot the President of the country would fly with. This was not very likely pilot error, but either equipment or natural malfunction of the Triangle kind.
I'll look up the logs if possible on them, but it's unlikely any information is still around...
Edited by spiritdoc, 29 February 2008 - 09:56 PM.
Posted 29 February 2008 - 10:34 PM
If the Bermuda Triangle people returned what would you say /ask them? hmmm...might be another topic, up to you mods...
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Posted 01 March 2008 - 12:04 AM
Depends on where it is they actually went. If it is some kind of time warp or similar phenomena, they could show back up at any time, looking exactly as they did when they left...as if they time traveled to the future. Maybe they're not even aware that they went anywhere. Maybe they're "stuck" in time. Maybe they're in another dimension, happily living out an alternate reality. Maybe they went through a wormhole and ended up on the other side of the galaxy. Or maybe they just all crashed and died.
I'm not as knowledgeable as you all in this topic but for all who disappeared...if they ever return will they still be looking as they did when they disappeared all those years ago? I saw Close Encounters (on VHS), will it be like that?
If the Bermuda Triangle people returned what would you say /ask them? hmmm...might be another topic, up to you mods...
Unless one of the missing pilots or seamen pop up out of their vortex to let us know, I doubt we'll figure it out anytime soon. But if they did show up back on planet Earth, I know my first question would be "What the....?"
Posted 01 March 2008 - 12:46 AM
I'm not as knowledgeable as you all in this topic but for all who disappeared...if they ever return will they still be looking as they did when they disappeared all those years ago? I saw Close Encounters (on VHS), will it be like that?
If the Bermuda Triangle people returned what would you say /ask them? hmmm...might be another topic, up to you mods...
Nah... I really, really don't feel that's gonna happen. At least not in my Grandfather's case, I know for a fact he's gone out of body (and I hope it was instant) as I've had his Soul channel through someone once briefly and he said he was getting ready to "recycle" again.
But who knows... who knows.
Posted 21 January 2009 - 10:05 PM
Discuss the traingle >_<
well im kinda new to this but i do know a few things about a lot of what happens in several areas of the world... the brimuda triangle also known as the devils triangle some reasons were magnetic fields many people have disappeared in that area it was also said that the lost city of atlantis was in that area when the continents were all together but know one really knows it has always made me think about what would happen if i were to sail into the triangle and if you want to know any thing more on this contact me at email@example.com i want to hear what every one has to say i guarantee i will not say anything bad about it i like any information that might help me
Posted 22 January 2009 - 11:21 AM
First is navigation. Even the P-51 planes of the WW2 era relied primarily on simple comasses for navigation. that and radio communication. If they were not where they believed they were, and followed a direction based on such a reading, they easily could have simply flown out to sea thinking they were headed home. Eventually they simply ran out of fuel.
Second is traffic. The area has some of the heaviest traffic anywhere. Thus it stands to reason that it would have a greater number of incidents.
Third is weather. The area is known for sudden, violent storms because of converging air masses. Until recently ships at sea may not have even been aware of a hurricane until they encountered it. And before radio there was no way of letting anyone know, the ship just vanished, cause unknown.
Fourth, the legend itself. If one is expecting something paranormal, often that is what is ascribed to it. Even when the cause is something mundane.
While this doesn't mean nothing unexplained ever happened there, it does explain why the area seems much more paranormal when in fact there is no more or no less activity there than most other places. Certainly there have been reports of magnetic alonamlies with compasses, etc there. But these have been reported many other places too. I don't feel it is any worse in the Devil's Triangle than anywhere else.
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Posted 22 January 2009 - 11:39 AM
Sounds a little iffy, but possible, I suppose.
Posted 22 January 2009 - 01:04 PM
I can't remember what show I was watching, where they were exploring another possibility for ships and planes disappearing in the triangle--apparently they were suspecting underwater sources of gas (can't remember which one--maybe methane), which, when released and emitted above the surface in great enough amounts, can stall an engine because it chokes the oxygen out and stops the combustion.
Sounds a little iffy, but possible, I suppose.
well if that be the case how come none of the missing vessels or air crafts that have disappeared in that area why were no parts of wreckage from plans washed up on shores of islands and how come the ships never appear again when your on a ship and your sailing you have to know about the currents cause eventually the ship would eventually come back into view on satilite
Posted 23 January 2009 - 06:06 PM
Instead the water, containing this gas is much less dense than water alone. When a ship encounters this type of situation, it is much denser than the gas and water mixture. Thus it rides much lower in the water, in many cases so low that it no longer can stay above the water line. It takes on water and sinks. This could actually happen very quickly, especially if the sailors didn't have time to close water tight compartments and doors.
I would point out this is simply a theory, one which has been confirmed in the laboratory. However no one has actualy encountered such a gas pocket in the sea, nor reported it. Such conditions have been found around thermal features though, and in fact gas has been found mixed with water in this maner in the crater of inactive volcanos. So it is assumed such conditions might exist in the triangle and might affect ships, although no proof has been found so far.
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Posted 05 September 2009 - 12:09 PM
i only just found it out a few days ago
there is much that interests me about Mexico including the following, but i had never come across this information until just this last week.
search for it, at Google maps, with
*Zone of Silence, Mexico*
it is in Mexico, in Chihuahua, in the proximity of a place known as "Acatita Dunes" or "Las Dunas de Acatita"
this place is supposedly littered with meteorites and has some sort of phenomenon related to electromagnetism. radio transmissions are said to have been "swallowed up"
NASA found out about it while retrieving an errant rocket, that had flown from the White Sands Proving Grounds down into this strange area of Mexico. it seems that the rocket's destination was also the cause of the rerouted path it took - kind of like a strange magnet in the ground.
well, anyway, i don't know enough, yet, to go on about it, but here is a link to a page about it in Wikipedia:
Mapimí Silent Zone
and, as, usual, the coordinates are in the upper right hand of the wiki page.
you can't really see anything, but more to see whereabouts it is, on the globe.
my point being that perhaps this is the same general thing
that is going on in the Bermuda Triangle.
not quite next-door, but also not all that far away from this odd place, is the Giant Crystal Cave, recently discovered in Naica, Mexico:
nat'l geographic site link
Giant Crystal Project site
this led to a personal epiphany of great import, the other day!
GIANT crystals....WOW
they had already knocked my socks off when i first heard about them, some time ago,
but then the possibilities really floored me when i found out about the *Zone of Silence*
and then, today, again, reading this thread, i had another *a-ha* moment
opinions, anyone?
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"Ain't Them Bodies Saints" is one of those cryptic titles that needs explaining.
And that's exactly what director David Lowery did at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Saturday night, where the movie screened and was followed by a Q&A with Lowery and some of the cast and crew, notably stars Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck. The movie originally premiered at Sundance.
"The title is something that in some ways predates the movie," said Lowery, explaining that he'd kept note of the phrase after hearing it in lyrics in an old folk song. Or at least thinking he'd heard it.
"When I went back to try and figure out what that song was, it wasn't similar at all; two of the words were accurate but the rest were made up," he continued, laughing.
Regardless of accuracy, he was trying to achieve a certain mood in the title. "Titles can bleed into the rest of the movie and lend a certain cadence and a certain tone," Lowery said, "I wanted the film to have a feeling of an old folk song ... an old piece of Americana."
The film opens in the soft, dusky light of a 1970s Texas field where Ruth Guthrie (Mara) announces to Bob Muldoon (Affleck) that she is pregnant with his child. Bob, an outlaw, is put in prison shortly thereafter, and the movie skips ahead to when the child is now 3 or 4, and Bob escapes from prison. He encounters both conflict and moral dilemma on his journey home to Ruth, his absence and escape complicating the life he left behind.
"Thematically [the title] spoke to the idea of consequence, and to the ideas of aspiring toward goodness that I feel all the characters have," Lowery said.
An atmospheric and romantic drama, the film has a definite "look."
"We used still photography as a reference more than anything else," Lowery said. "We found this amazing archive of old photos from Texas, and we used a lot of that."
The director said he and cinematographer Bradford Young "always talked about how we wanted the movie to look like an old piece of wood, or look like we were shooting it through a burlap sack."
"There are some directors that try to convince you to do only what they've envisioned," Affleck said. "David is one of those people who finds a way to incorporate everyone's ideas while still keeping his original vision."
Affleck and Mara make a handsome pair but share very little time on-screen, and perhaps this was a good thing, as Affleck noted, laughing, "Rooney uses the first three takes to memorize her lines."


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BRONX, N.Y. — What does the beating of your heart have to do with a computer?
Ask Alan Caceres.
As a child, Caceres was curious about what made electronic gadgets actually work. Now, as a computer science major at Lehman College, he is uncovering their secrets—which led him to take a high-powered workshop earlier this year with Prof. Nancy Griffeth of Lehman's computer science faculty.
Although the title—Workshop on Atrial Fibrillation—would suggest an audience of cardiologists, those attending actually comprised 15 students of varying majors who came from many senior colleges within the City University of New York.
The workshop was the second in a series designed to introduce students to the work underway by Prof. Griffeth and her colleagues at several prestigious research institutions, including Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, and NYU. They are developing models of biological and man-made systems, as well as techniques for building and analyzing these models, that could help us better understand certain challenging problems.
One of those problems is atrial fibrillation—an abnormal heart rhythm. Other challenges being studied include pancreatic cancer, automobile safety, and aerospace safety. By engaging students like Caceres in this work, Prof. Griffeth hopes to encourage them to continue their own scientific research. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation.
At the workshop, Caceres was introduced to the very computationally intensive research being done with NVIDIA graphics cards. In the consumer world, the many parallel processors on these cards are used to improve picture quality on everything from downloaded movies to 3D video games, but NVIDIA provides the capability to use the processors for computation as well as for controlling the display. As a result, the cards can be used to do the time-consuming computations needed to study complex biological systems, like the heart.
In addition, Caceres, who is entering his senior year at Lehman, learned about various simple oscillators—which alternate between different states for long periods of time, similar to a beating heart—and how they tie into the specific research underway. After completing the workshop, he had "great respect" for the other disciplines represented in the sessions and also understood the need for more powerful computing. He was inspired to continue research in his field because "there are obstacles that can be overcome in the near future that can help further expand any interdisciplinary research topic."
Caceres, who is receiving the Lehman College Computer Science and Mathematics Scholarship, is part of the LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation) fellowship and received a second-place overall trophy for mathematics at a recent LSAMP conference. He is interning at IBM, has already produced two research publications, and plans to pursue a doctorate in human-computer-interaction (HCI) and then possibly a doctorate in computational physics.
During the previous workshop in 2010, which focused on pancreatic cancer, Lehman nutrition major Tamara Schillin used both math and the BioNetGen tool suite to map signaling pathways in cells, which are involved in the development of cancer. She participated in the workshop to contribute her knowledge of biology and to learn about biochemistry—she was planning to take a course in that area during the following semester.
"The students worked in teams to map the pathways," Schillin explained, "and each student had strengths in math, science, computers, or all of those fields. It was an extremely rigorous and satisfying experience, and one that I won't soon forget."
Schillin sees a direct connection between this kind of work and a significant public-health outcome. "Understanding the myriad of reactions and the kinetics allows scientists to make predictions about products and outcomes," she notes, "and knowing which mechanisms to slow down, switch-off, or accelerate is key to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes."
Schillin sees computers as "the best tool for aiding scientists in navigating the many complexities and variances of cellular metabolism," and that applies to nutritionists as well, who seek to understand how various nutrients and molecules are metabolized and their role in various diseases. The technological modeling produced in the workshop, she believes, "would be ideal for clinical nutritionists, to assist them in making diagnoses and recommendations." The experience, she says, gave her a glimpse into the future.
The subject of atrial fibrillation was inspired by the work of Flavio Fenton of Cornell University, who spent a week teaching and working with the students at the workshop, and Scott Smolka and Radu Grosu of Stony Brook University. The pancreatic cancer workshop was based on the work of Edmund Clarke and Christopher Langmead at Carnegie Mellon University and James Faeder of the University of Pittsburgh. The programs used in that workshop were developed and explained to the students by Ezio Bartocci, a postdoctoral student at Stony Brook University.
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Little Caesars Restaurant Manager job in Richmond, VA
- Company
- Little Caesars
- Job Title
- Restaurant Manager
- Job Type
- Full-time
- Wages
- $32,000 - 60,000 +
- Location
- 6215 W Broad St.
Richmond, VA 23220
- Last Active
- 24 days
Restaurant Manager
General Restaurant Manager
As a top international pizza chain in business for more than 50 years, Little Caesars offers tremendous career opportunities. As a family owned company, we take an active interest in the professional growth of our team members. This personal approach to career development allows our work force to feel recognized and rewarded.
Our mission is to be the best take-home pizza chain by exceeding customer expectations with extraordinary value, great tasting products, and outstanding people.
The Restaurant Manager builds and supervises a team that achieves Little Caesars goals of customer satisfaction, sales and profitability and operates the restaurant according to company standards and procedures.
- Ensures customers are served correct, complete orders within service time goals according to the Customer Service Standards, the Priority Guidelines, the telephone and front counter station procedures and if necessary, the Remedy Process.
- Prepares and ensures that all colleagues prepare consistent, high quality products that are served to customers as described in the Little Caesars Orientation and Training Handbook and as shown on the job station helpers.
- Achieves the standards for a clean and organized restaurant and colleague image as defined in the Little Caesars Orientation and Training Handbook, and/or as required by local government agencies.
- Recruits, hires, trains and evaluates colleagues by following procedures outlined in the DeCotis-Erhard materials, in-store training resources, and the guidelines for colleague evaluation.
- Develops a productive team by providing direction and supervision of colleagues through the appropriate use of communication, delegation, and disciplinary skills and implements change in a positive manner resulting in low colleague turnover.
- Ensures a work environment that is in compliance with government regulations and is safe, secure, and free of harassment or discrimination, as defined by Little Caesars policies and procedures.
- Accurately completes all paperwork associated with daily, weekly, and period end activities as directed by the Area Supervisor or Market Director.
- Performs labor scheduling, food ordering, and product projections accurately and maintains restaurant equipment so that the restaurant opens and closes as scheduled and is able to service all customer orders each day.
- Manages all financial responsibilities with integrity, performs tasks associated with achieving cost control goals and supervises colleagues to ensure goals are met.
- Properly implements shakerboarding, local store marketing events, and in-store promotions that result in increased sales.
To perform the functions listed in this job description, the following tasks will be required:
- The ability to lift and move 55 pounds.
- The ability to reach and move items from as high as 6 feet and as low as 6 inches off the ground.
- The ability to effectively communicate to customers and co-workers (reading, speaking, hearing, writing, etc.).
- The ability to apply pressure to cut through products and/or clean equipment and utensils.
- The ability to control and utilize equipment safely and correctly (sheeter machine, VCM, sauce ladle, cheese cups, cheese cups, pan gripers, spatula, pizza and dough cutter, different types of knives, can openers, pastry brush, scales, microwave, telephone, cash register, etc.).
- The ability to count, separate and weight all types of food products and inventory items.
- The ability to understand directions, instructions and product specifications.
- The ability to process and complete customer orders.
- The ability to comprehend all training materials and practice standard operating procedures.
- The ability to successfully pass required training programs for certification.
- The ability to use mathematical skills to compute sales totals, percentages, inventory usage, food orders, employee work schedules, cash handling results and projected business needs.
- The ability to legally drive an automobile adhering to all state and local traffic laws.
- The ability to supervise a number of people at the same time and to motivate them to meet goals, duties and deadlines.
The Candidate must:
- Have a minimum of two (2) years experience in a management role, achieving at least an Assistant Manager/Co-Manager position in a quick service restaurant, or one (1) year experience in a management position in a full-service restaurant.
- Be at least 21 years of age.
- Possess a high school diploma, or equivalent, and possess basic math skills.
- Have a working knowledge of local store marketing techniques, sales building, and a proven track record of controlling costs.
- Possess strong management, team building and communication skills.
- Possess knowledge of how to read and analyze profit and loss statements.
- Be dependable, hardworking and have the ability to work a varied, 50 hour work week under pressure and in stressful situations.
- Possess a valid driver's license from the state of residence with a driving record maintained within company guidelines. Possess a reliable vehicle and auto insurance as a primary driver to complete daily banking and other responsibilities as directed by the Area Supervisor or Market Director.
- Meet Little Caesars Background Verification guidelines.
- Must be able to provide documentation that proves their eligibility to work in the United States.
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KPcR rollers are similar to KTR rollers but longer by 2.5cm.
Kor Tools KPcR rollers are longer than the KTR rollers, they are precisely cut texture tools designed for both metal clays and polymer clays. When rolled (either with your finger or with a small flat piece of wood) they leave a very precise raised pattern that is very clear and very sharp. You can roll them for any distance to create very extended pattern decorations on your medium of choice. If you roll them between thickness cards, you can carefully control the thickness of the clay while leaving a vivid embossed decoration.
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Welcome to Dandelion's Gallery.
Commission listings are now available again.
Thank you for visiting.
ACEO Rabbit aceo
ACEO sized original bunny rabbit painting mounted ready to fit into a 6 x 4 inch frame.
ACEO (Art Cards Editions and Originals) paintings measure just 2,3 x 3.5". My bunny ACEOs are mounted in specially cut mount boards to fit into a standard 6 x 4" frame. Each ACEO could be removed from the mount and stored in an ACEO collectors wallet if preferred.
The rabbits are painted in black against a sky in a blend of colours.
These original paintings make a lovely gift for an animal lover or a treat for yourself.
I have simple black and white frames available in my shop which are good for framing these mounted ACEOs in.
Painting Details:
Each of the ACEOs in my shop is an original miniature painting as follows:
Painting size: 2.5 x 3.5 inches
Mount fits frame: 6 x 4 inches
Mount Colour: black
Sky colour: yellow gold
Rabbit type: sitting uppy eared bunny rabbit
If you purchase a frame as well as a mounted ACEO I will happily put the painting into the frame and send it as a whole item.
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This item will be posted to you by Dandelion's Gallery within 3 days of receiving payment.
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|2007-06-29, 21:17
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Apartment, the home where I hide, away from all the darkness outside
I saw Ratatouille today! It was a really awesome movie and heart warming all around. I was very satisfied with the whole story, not to mention the animation which was superb and beautiful to watch. It was very entertaining indeed. At first I thought it was going to be crappy since the story was so simple, but boy was I wrong. It was hilarious and I think Ratatouille became my favorite PIXAR movie! This movie has certainly lived up to its PIXAR title. ^_^
|2007-06-29, 23:30
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Everything I've seen points to a warm fuzzy movie and a good time.
Go see it at matinee price discounts and you'll probably be happy at the result.
|2007-06-30, 22:45
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The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
Age: 32
Just watched it.
This movie is weird compared to the other pixar movies I've seen. I dunno but it doesn't give a satisfying ending but a more "warm happy" non-cliche ending.
By warm I mean it's not where the main character becomes super rich and all that jazz.
All in all I'm defintely getting this on DVD.
|2007-07-01, 11:28
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: St. Louis MO
I saw this movie recently, and I enjoyed it. It wasn't the highest on my list of great pixar films, but I enjoyed it.
I thought the end was realistic, but still had a good warm fuzzy feeling. Plus Remmy was a pretty cute rat... he almost looked like a mouse.
One thing I thought was strange, when my hair is pulled, my limbs dont move on their own
|2007-07-01, 21:33
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"Show it to me"
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: In solitude, where we are least alone
I just watched it. Well, I really like it. Mmm, I wish have a pet that can cook that good.
--> Btw, the small short story before the movie is really funny. The one with the UFO thing
|2007-07-02, 17:45
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|2007-07-03, 16:50
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
..... .... "better" isn't the right word. It is funny in a different more mellow way. Its more "slice o life" than "action", I guess.
Plus there's no real villian... just people with various motivations. Yeah, the head chef is an ass and slimy but is Lawful Evil. The food critic is just scary and his reputation is on the line so he's fierce.
It is the *situation* that provides a lot of the dramatic tension.
Whatever, I quite enjoyed it (though I figure 60% of the humor was lost on the small chitlings roaming the aisles during matinee.
Either wait and rent it... or go at night to reduce the theater chatter.
|2007-07-16, 13:13
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Evil Little Pixie
What did people think of the animated short that was shown before the movie? I've always been much more a fan of the little animated bits shown before most Pixar movies than the actual movies themselves, so I usually wait until they're out on the web instead of paying to see the whole movie just for the ani-short.
Not my favorite, but this was still another one that had me smiling all the way through.
|2007-07-16, 14:57
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Age: 61
The short reminded me a lot of the Animaniacs episode "Space Probed"
That said.... it was wonderful comic timing, great facial expressions, and I loved the control board
|2007-07-16, 20:32
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I caught this a couple of days ago and loved it. I think 'slice of life' is an apt description of the genre. I think it's hard to compare to other Pixar films since what drives this picture is decidedly more adult in the sense that the youngest kids probably won't get it (Why are rats in the kitchen bad?, What's a food critic?, etc.).
I remember reading an article that Brad Bird-the director-said he would punch the next person that said animation was a genre in itself. He feels that animation can be used to tell any story. As a fan of anime, I know animation can be used for a variety of stories; which is something I don't have to tell anyone here.
Saying all that, for me I'd rank Pixar movies like this
1. The Incredibles
2. Toy Story/ Toy Story 2
3. Ratatouille
4. Cars
5. Monsters Inc.
6. Finding Nemo
7. Bugs Life
Where 1 and 2 are A+, 3-6 are A and 7 is a B.
|2007-07-17, 19:04
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Caught this last weekend, and laughed through most of the movie,
I don't think this was the best Pixar's ever done, but it was very entertaining, the animation was really good, and the short before the movie was great.
Also, I totally failed to identify Jeanine Garofalo as Collette until I saw the credits - that's the mark of a voice roll well played.
|2007-09-01, 13:39
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Hey hey hey didn't you guys find this show extremely machiavellian? Quite elitist in some sense. I think it was a rather interesting effort on Pixar's part, and quite ironical that a disney show should parody the disneyfied world of 'perseverance over talent' notion.
Although some may find some parts quite subtle, here are some of my thoughts:
I find it extremely decadent. But I liked the show a little for expounding on this idea anyway, and how they make a parody out of most things.
I liked the filmography too, pixar has quite a good sense of balance: between the inconsequential & the not;
p.s. I only watched this show in the cinema once. Pardon any factual errors. Also pardon the bad formatting and incoherence: I am quite sleepy. 2:40am ^^"
Do tell me what you people think, though xD.
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Join Date: May 2009
So I'm gonna answer the question you guys wonder. Why does everyone except Linguini have a French accent?
Well, it's because they are in France, but Linguini was born in America. After she had sex with Gusteau, she went to USA to run away and hide her child from Gusteau since he was her friend and she didnt want to ruin their relationship. But she still taught her son Linguini French, but he speaks it with a horrible American accent. So actually, all of the humans are speaking French, but Linguini is speaking some warbled American accented French, which is why he mumbles his words and umms a lot and corrects what he says out of nervousness. Everyone who speaks real French has a French accent. The accents tell us who speaks what language.
No idea why the rats sound American though, since they were born and raised in the French countryside.
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Cards fall in 11th after ninth-inning rally forces extras
ST. LOUIS -- Cardinals manager Mike Matheny rolled the dice, but he came up empty as the team fell, 6-3, to the Cubs in the series opener on Friday night at Busch Stadium.
In a decision that left plenty of room for second guessing, Matheny pulled back would-be pinch hitter Pete Kozma with the potential game-winning run at second with two outs in the bottom of the 10th. Instead of Kozma, Cardinals closer Trevor Rosenthal -- with one career at-bat to his credit -- stepped to the plate.View Full Game Coverage
ST. LOUIS -- Cardinals manager Mike Matheny rolled the dice, but he came up empty as the team fell, 6-3, to the Cubs in the series opener on Friday night at Busch Stadium.
In a decision that left plenty of room for second guessing, Matheny pulled back would-be pinch hitter Pete Kozma with the potential game-winning run at second with two outs in the bottom of the 10th. Instead of Kozma, Cardinals closer Trevor Rosenthal -- with one career at-bat to his credit -- stepped to the plate.View Full Game Coverage
Rosenthal struck out and then gave up a three-run homer to Welington Castillo in his second inning of work, spoiling the Cardinals' ninth-inning comeback that had forced extras. The 426-foot blast into the left-center bleachers stood as the difference.
"I think I thought I could elevate with him there," Rosenthal said. "I figured he might be hunting a fastball, and looking at the video, I didn't get it quite up as much as I hoped. But he put a good swing on it, on a good pitch. There's not much you can do about it."
The outcome left Matheny explaining his decision.
"Trevor had a very efficient inning, throwing six pitches the previous inning," Matheny said. "He's arguably our best guy in the 'pen. We had an opportunity to get him back out there and start off the next inning with Bourjos, Descalso and then the top of the order, we like throwing our best guy out there and thinking it's going to get us a zero to get us a chance to get back in.
"Once again, if we would've been in a situation where we had bases loaded and one out, you would have seen Kozma walk up to the plate and at that point you would've seen Randy Choate come into the game as the pitcher. But it didn't work out that way. We had two shots of getting the guy in from second base and it didn't happen so we had to do something to salvage that inning and hopefully get back in and get another shot at it."
Cubs manager Rick Renteria understood Matheny's decision.
"He wanted to keep him in there to keep us at bay," Renteria said. "He had two guys left and he wanted him to go back out and that's what you have to do."
Previously, Joe Kelly did his best to make sure Jeff Samardzija's lack of run support continued.
Kelly, the Cardinals' fifth starter, dueled the Cubs ace before an announced crowd of 43,903.
Samardzija entered the contest with a dazzling 1.29 ERA, but had an 0-2 record as the Cubs were shut out in both starts.
Kelly did his part to make sure the misery prolonged, mastering the Cubs' lineup through six-plus strong innings, only surrendering an unearned run in the seventh and departing with the game tied.
"I had my two pitches working for me -- fastball, curveball," Kelly said. "I kind of got a feel for my change there at the end and didn't have any walks, so that's always a plus."
Matt Adams got the Cardinals started with his team-high fifth double of the season to lead off the second. Adams moved to third on a wild pitch and scored when a line drive off of Yadier Molina's bat popped out of the glove of the diving Nate Schierholtz in right field.
Kelly's troubles began when Kolten Wong couldn't handle an Anthony Rizzo grounder to lead off the seventh. Schierholtz and Ryan Sweeney followed with singles to tie the game at 1-1.
The Cubs took the lead on Rizzo's sacrifice fly to right in the eighth, scoring Justin Ruggiano. They tacked on another with a Schierholtz RBI single.
The Cubs' comeback spoiled a strong effort by Kelly, who faced the minimum through five efficient innings. He needed just 37 pitches to get the first nine outs and needed just 10 pitches to dispose of the Cubs in the fourth and fifth innings.
The only two Cubs to reach during that span were Sweeney and Schierholtz. Both were erased with a 4-6-3 double play.
Kelly pitched out of a jam in the sixth after Castillo and Emilio Bonifacio singled, coaxing Luis Valbuena to ground to second to end the threat.
Samardzija was strong in his own right, holding the Cardinals to the one run on six hits through seven innings.
But Jose Veras couldn't shut the door in the ninth, allowing a single to Molina and hitting Allen Craig and Peter Bourjos to load the bases. A passed ball scored Molina and Matt Carpenter tied the game with a sacrifice fly scoring Shane Robinson, who pinch-ran for Craig.
"They're all disappointing, but when a team comes back like they did you hope you can put something away there," Matheny said. "They showed a lot of fight to get us back into that game. It's just a shame we couldn't finish."
Hector Rondon earned his first save of the season, slamming the door in the 11th. Rondon now has a 16-inning scoreless streak dating back to September 3 of last season.
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NEW BEDFORD — A set of anti-fish barriers marked by an orange boom, white buoys and a stream of bubbles in the water is the first serious sign that momentum on the South Terminal project is scaling up.
NEW BEDFORD — A set of anti-fish barriers marked by an orange boom, white buoys and a stream of bubbles in the water is the first serious sign that momentum on the South Terminal project is scaling up.
The barriers, part of the environmental measures associated with the port development project, were installed the weekend of Jan. 12 and 13 in New Bedford Harbor, running roughly from the Schuster Corp. building to the Gifford Street boat ramps, said Assistant Harbormaster Victor Fonseca.
They alert boaters to a thinly woven net that drops almost to the bottom and is meant to keep winter flounder from releasing their eggs in the area and a silt curtain designed to contain materials disturbed during the construction, Fonseca said. Boats can pass to the boat ramp through an opening of about 75 feet cut off from the fish with a stream of bubbles pumped by underwater hoses.
"This is the first physical step towards that offshore wind energy future for Massachusetts," said Catherine Williams, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, which is in charge of the project. "It's a great sign of things to come."
The state is pushing for the Marine Commerce Terminal, currently out to bid, to be completed in about 19 months once it starts.
The anti-fish barriers will be in place for at least a year, Fonseca said. The mitigation measures cost about $200,000, Williams said.
Winter flounder — also known as lemon sole — spawn in shallow, sheltered areas in estuaries, said Vincent Manfredi of the Division of Marine Fisheries, which was consulted on the project. The fish drop their eggs when temperatures appear to start warming again, he said.
The eggs hatch between 30 and 60 days later; the young flounder spend the summer eating and growing, benefiting from the warmer water temperatures and more abundant food in the estuary, he said.
"The Acushnet River-New Bedford Harbor system is the largest river system that we have emptying into the bay," Manfredi said. "It would be considered habitat important to juvenile winter flounder."
As part of the mitigation efforts, the state is also creating about 23 acres of new winter flounder habitat in the outer harbor as part of its environmental protection measures, making those waters shallower to compensate for the deeper channels carved for the new terminal.
The population of winter flounder in New England and the mid-Atlantic is estimated to be at about 16 percent of what is needed to support a commercial fishery, according to NOAA. Flat fish are one of the dominant fish species in the harbor, according to EPA documents.
There has been no official, comprehensive survey of winter flounder population in New Bedford Harbor recently, but the species has been observed there by researchers, Manfredi said.
State and federal safety guidelines have ruled that flounder found in the inner and outer harbors are not safe to eat. That hasn't stopped the seals, which Fonseca said he had seen lunching on the bottom dwellers.


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"Consumer choice and ethanol fuel availability are a high priority with today's gas prices," says Todd Sneller, administrator, Nebraska Ethanol Board. "When flex-fuel drivers fill up on E85, they're strengthening Nebraska's economy, making our country more energy independent and going easier on the environment."
In fact, there will be grand openings of new blender pumps next week at Trotter Whoa and Go, Broken Bow on Monday; and Aurora Cooperative's Aurora West A-Stop 24 on Wednesday.
These new pumps are among 60 such pumps to offer ethanol blends. The Broken Bow and Aurora facilities will offer E10, E30 and E85 blends.
To celebrate the opening of the new pumps, Trotter Whoa and Go is offering customers the chance to register to win one of five $50 ethanol fuel gift cards, and will feature additional promotions as well.
Aurora Cooperative will offer discounts of $.85 per gallon on E85, $.30 per gallon on E30, and $.10 per gallon on E10 during the grand opening.
For a list of participating retailers in Nebraska, visit www.ne-ethanol.org or www.nebraskacorn.org.
For a national list of fuel retailers offering E85, visit www.e85refueling.com.
More than 117,000 Nebraska motorists currently own a flexible-fuel vehicle, which can run on any blend of ethanol and gasoline, up to E85, reports the Nebraska Ethanol Board. To confirm if a vehicle is flex fuel, drivers can check their owner's manual or their gas cap, look for the flex-fuel emblem on their vehicle, or visit www.ne-ethanol.org/e85.


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More than 67 percent of Davidson County residents are overweight or obese, according to statistics recently released in a comprehensive county health assessment.
More than 67 percent of Davidson County residents are overweight or obese, according to statistics recently released in a comprehensive county health assessment.
Additionally, less than half of county residents receive the recommended amount of exercise and physical activity per week, and about one out of five adults eats five-plus servings of fruit and vegetables per day, according to the assessment.
Reversing those obesity and nutrition trends is one of several main goals fostered from the 2012 Davidson County Health Assessment, said Jen Hames, the county's health education supervisor.
"We've got a lot of work to do," Hames said. "This is going to have to be a community-wide effort if we are going to make an impact on this issue or any of the health issues."
The assessment was a collaborative effort between the Davidson County Health Department, Wake Forest Baptist Health — Lexington Medical Center and Thomasville Medical Center.
Nonprofit hospitals must conduct a community health needs assessment every three tax years, according to guidelines included in the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
Representatives of both hospitals, the health department, partner agencies and community representatives formed an assessment planning team in February 2012, a group that worked closely with the Davidson County Health Communities Coalition. Teams from both groups conducted door-to-door surveys, a series of focus groups and additional community health opinion surveys.
Jane Wilder, community relations director at Thomasville Medical Center, said all parties are focused on what's best for the residents of Davidson County.
"Together, we really want to do the best thing for the community," Wilder said. "By working together, we can work on initiatives more closely, and it really opens up good communication."
Work groups were formed to address three of about 10 health issues community members identified as most pressing in Davidson County. Representatives from parks and recreation departments, school systems, hospitals and city and county government will work to create action plans to target obesity, which was voted as the No. 1 issue by community members surveyed in several health forums.
Davidson County fares slightly better than its peer counties when it comes to the rate of citizens overweight or obese, where about 72 percent of citizens in Craven, Harnett, Johnston and Randolph counties fit into that category, according to averages in the assessment.
The county hopes to decrease the amount of citizens overweight and obese to about 60 percent by 2020, according to its Healthy North Carolina objectives.
The economy, Hames said, definitely factors into the obesity statistics.
"You've got low-income families that are unemployed, and you have fast food establishments that are relatively inexpensive," Hames said. "Those are not healthy food choices, for the most part."
The percentage of adults receiving the recommended amount of physical activity has increased slightly since 2005, thanks in part to Davidson County's participation in a community transformation grant. That continued funding, along with action plans formed through the obesity work group, will be key in starting to address the problem.
Other work groups were created to address a need for more health care providers as well as the increasing number of citizens using tobacco — issues citizens ranked as the No. 2 and No. 3 health priorities, respectively, during the assessment.
Davidson County is recognized as a medically underserved area, meaning that the shortage of primary care, mental and dental providers — combined with an aging workforce nearing retirement — limits the availability of services, according to the assessment.
The county has about four primary care physicians per 10,000 people, which is about 1 physician less than its peer counties and about five physicians less than the state average. Additionally, Davidson County has 0.1 psychologists per 10,000 people, compared to the state average of about two psychologists. There are about two dentists per 10,000 people in the county, which is one less than the per county average and about two less than the state average, according to the assessment.
The overall number of smokers increased in the county from 2005 to 2010, an "eye-opening" statistic for Hames.
"Smoking is a stress reliever, and when you've got high unemployment and a high number of uninsured, it's a stress reliever," Hames said. "We have a work group for tobacco, looking at what we can do across the county to decrease the exposure to smoking and secondhand smoke."
About 30 percent of adults identify themselves as smokers, according to the assessment. That's about 6 percentage points higher than the county rate in 2005, 10 percentage points higher than the peer county average and about 11 percentage points higher than the state average.
The highest proportion of adult smokers in Davidson County in the past seven years occurred in 2010, according to the assessment.
Additionally, about 14 percent of Davidson County residents were exposed to secondhand smoke in the workplace in 2010, compared to 10 percent across peer counties and about 8 percent across the state.
Obesity, access to health care and tobacco all relate to some of the county's leading causes of death and disease.
From 2006 to 2010, diseases of the heart were by far the leading cause of death, with a rate of about 231 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the assessment.
Additionally, the lung and bronchus cancer rate per 100,000 is about 90 in Davidson County, compared to 78 in peer counties and 76 across the state, according to the assessment.
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On March 22 my father received a note from our postal carrier advising him to move his mailbox by March 24 or his mail would be withheld. Days earlier, he and other residents on Center Avenue received notices that they had to install a box at street level. My father's wall-mounted mailbox on his house had suddenly become "unsafe to reach," without specifics given as to the alleged newfound dangers of delivery despite his receiving mail at its present location, without incident, at least since the 1970s.
Two calls to the post office provided only vague statements about obstructions to the carrier's line of travel found on other properties that they did admit were not on my father's property. Also, I was told that he had until summer to move the mailbox.
It seems no one at the Post Office can say why they are simply not withholding mail from the addresses with the obstructions versus from properties, like my father's, that have no obstructions. However, I suspect that the issue is not true hazards, but rather the mail carriers' desire to increase their convenience regardless of inconvenience to their customers.
I have no prior ill will towards the Postal Service; in fact, my uncle worked for the Postal Service and his uncle was a past postmaster in Butler. However, one cannot respect any "service" that acts so capriciously and whose members believe it is acceptable to threaten its customers with a "do this or else" attitude.


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One might hope that 10 years after the end of the cold war, a policy of mutual assured destruction would have been relegated to the dustbin of history. But cold war mental habits die hard. The United States and Russia still square off against each other with tons of chemical weapons and thousands of nuclear missiles timed for hair-trigger response. Can nothing be done to remedy this madness?
With a new U.S. president in place and Russian President Vladimir Putin in power only a year, U.S.-Russian relations stand at a critical juncture. Two new reports by blue ribbon foreign policy panels address many of the ticklish issues. The first, An Agenda for Renewal, released last December by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, urges President Bush to act boldly to repair frayed ties with Moscow, including unilateral cuts in nuclear arms and a halt in NATO's expansion into former Soviet territory until 2005.
The second report, issued in mid-January by a special Energy Department task force co-chaired by Howard Baker, former Senate majority leader and Reagan chief of staff, and Lloyd Cutler, counsel to both President Carter and President Clinton, warns that Russia's weakness, along with its poorly controlled stockpile of 40,000 nuclear weapons and vast quantities of biological and chemical weapons, constitutes the most serious unmet security threat facing the United States today.
Russia's economy today is about the size of Switzerland's, the entire national budget this year being less than 2 percent of the American budget. One consequence of this is that the doomsday scientists who design and produce weapons of mass destruction, and the security guards who protect them, are on sale to the highest bidder. And what if that high bidder happens to be a rogue nation or a terrorist group on a shopping spree for, say, five grams of purified botulinum (enough to kill a million people) or a lump of enriched uranium from which to construct a nuclear device small enough to fit inside a suitcase but big enough to flatten lower Manhattan?
Thus far, cooperative U.S.-Russian nonproliferation programs have deactivated almost 5,000 nuclear weapons, denuclearized three former Soviet republics, improved security over hundreds of tons of nuclear materials and employed thousands of underemployed former weapons scientists at a cost of one quarter of 1 percent of the U.S. defense budget. But the programs, says the Baker-Cutler report, remain underfunded and loosely managed, leaving an unacceptable risk of failure and the potential for catastrophic consequences.
If the United States is prepared to spend tens of billions of dollars over the next 10 to 20 years to construct a national missile defense system to counter a threat that does not yet exist, says the Carnegie report, the United States should be more than ready to spend a fraction of that to contain the most dangerous threat already in existence.
The cold war, we must recognize, is truly over, and a posture of hair-trigger deterrence must be put behind us. The United States should not unilaterally defect from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which has served the cause of strategic stability for over 30 years. If Secretary of State Colin Powell wishes to pursue a truly constructive Russian policy, the Carnegie report insists, he should keep in mind the long-term goal of the full integration of Russia into Western economic, political and security structures.
It would be a mistake, then, to view Russia as little more than a bundle of security problems. Though its economy has shrunk, Russia remains the partner in our most important bilateral relationship. The new administration, argues the Carnegie panel, should revise and strengthen its support for Russia's domestic transformation. The recommendations: reduce dependence on I.M.F. loans, but enlarge U.S. democracy assistance to the nongovernmental sectorsupporting the development of political parties, civic organizations, business associations and trade unions; increase trade and direct investment (including sponsoring Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization); and revitalize rule-of-law assistance by efforts to secure freedom of the press, a reasonable tax system, property rights and a stable, fair and effective legal framework. Finally, a natural long-term U.S. strategy would be to support one full-fledged, high-quality university in each of the post-Soviet states. The Carnegie panel estimates 15 such elite universities, with 1,000 students in each, would cost about $75 million a year and would be worth every penny.
In brief, U.S. foreign policy must involve itself in realistic, well-targeted programs of nation building in Russia. What we can do along this line is strictly limited; but, like it or not, nation-building is the international challenge of the hour.


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Top 10 Sci-Fi books on my shelves
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by LOLtron » Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:03 am
Over the times great stories have emerged from the Science Fiction genre in most mediums. Luckily comics have seen some great ones.
I took a look at the books I own, and only those, and made this list. Read on for Top 10 Sci-Fi books on my shelves.
10) Universal War One UW1UW1 is a French book by Denis Bajram. Its about an underdog military unit of washout space pilots aptly called the Purgatory Squadron. Soon after being assembled they stumble upon a galactic conspiracy to undertake the established power. On top of that they have to deal with the personal ghosts of each member of the Purgatory Squadron. Personal vendetas, redempton, time travel and the inevitability of destiny.
I still have to read the final chapter because the publisher that has the rights for the translated version (to Portuguese) of this book stopped one issue short, had this been finished I'm sure it would be higher up. If you're lucky you can buy the Marvel version.
9) The Red Star The Battle of Kar Dathra's Gate
The story is set in an alternative undefined time, in a society were Magic and Soviet Russia inspired retro technology are merged and interconnected. Society lives on the brink of a civil war. The Battle or Kar Dathra's marks a dramatic change in Maya's life. That event sets her life on the path of rediscovery and that will have deep repercussion on everyone.
The post WWII Russian retro style used in this comic is truly a wonderful thing to experience. The aesthetics of this comic is reason enough to read it.
8) SCUD The Disposable Assassin, The Whole Shebang
This is also worth wile just for the Drywall character. Firstly he has that innocent minion feel, but soon becomes a favorite of any reader. Eventually he becomes a badass, but in my eyes he's always going to be that little innocent and insecure toddler that has trouble controlling his zippers (it makes sense in the book, go read it!).
You can read more in my SCUD review.
7) We3
One day they are set for termination but one of their handlers cannot allow this to happen, so she helps them escape.
This is a sad story. If you read this and don't get emotional at one point or another, then I'm sorry to say but you're dead inside.
I recommend the deluxe edition, its a great looking hardcover book. This is Morrison and Quitely at their best.
6) Orbiter
This is a story about that NASA team and its members. Some need to find closure while others will achieve their dreams, but none will be indifferent.
This is a hard book to describe, but great to experience.
Don't forget to check my review.
5) Ronin
The main characters is a ronin, a warrior without a master. He is a nameless warrior that was once cursed by an ancient evil. The way he got to be cursed is such a delight to read that I'm not going to spoil it for you.
Because of the curse Ronin is trapped for 800 years and is reemerges in New York city somewhere in our near future. Our near future back when the book was released, in 1983, should be about now. There things get really weird and convoluted and Ronin has to find his place in this new world.
Ronin is a great book that stood the passing of time very well.
4) Atomic Robo
Each book has one or two story arcs that can be read without knowing anything about Robo's continuity. Of course you might miss a reference here and there, mas nothing important.
From Lovecraftian monsters to talking Dinosaurs, from WWII spooks to living computers, Robo has fought them all. Alone or with his buddies at Tesladyne Atomic Robo always goes that extra mile to make the world a better place, you know, for science.
I've only reviewed the last volume to be published, at the time of this article. Feel free to read that review.
3) Fear Agent
Fear Agent is a retro type sci-fi action book. With his fishbowl helmet, rocket pack, raygun, freeze ray and penis shaped spaceship Heathrow Hudson cruises space and time just trying to live one more day of his miserable little life.
Heath is redneck, Mark Twain quoting, alien killing, drunk screw-up. He's also the last of the Fear Agents. He abandoned Earth due to events that he took part when Earth was invaded by the Dressites. Heath will have to deal with the Dressites and another alien race, the Tetaldians, several times throughout his books. Eventually he'll have to face his past sins and the friends and family he left behind.
There will be evil clones, time travel, regular cowboys, space cowboys, aliens of all sizes and shapes, giant brains, Annie and some truly heartwarming and heartbreaking moments.
2) Ministry of Space
This is probably my favorite single book written by Warren Ellis. In Ministry of Space Ellis explores a What-If scenario of British History. What If Britain had created a covert budget to finance their space program after WWII?
Well, this would happen. Britain would rise to be a technological world power. Beating the US and the Russians in the race to the moon, Britain managed to monopolize and monetize space exploration. Within four decades there would be flying cars, helicopter backpacks, colonies on mars and many other technological advances.
But what was the cost? What did society had to pay to get these marvelous advancements? These are the questions asked in the book, but in a very subtle manner. If you don't pay attention that essential visual hint can get by undetected and much of the book's message will be lost.
Hop on to my review and give it a quick looksy.
1) Transmetropolitan
Spider Jerusalem (one of the best lead characters ever created btw) stars in this political sci-fi / dark humor / action journalism series. He is a hardcore and old-school political journalist that can't stand idly by while the general population insists on being politically uninformed and the political powers-that-be continue to abuse their respective offices.
He is vernacular, loud mouth, profoundly disturbed, a drug addict but deep down he's a decent guy. Spider honestly cares about the people while an abstract entity, but he hates everyone he meets. He's a bastard, but a likable bastard. Armed only with his wit and a Bowel Disruptor he'll take on The Smiler and his administration.This might sound odd but it makes perfect sense once you read the books.
I would love to review this, but I don't think I can even come close to make it justice.
Well, That's it. Hope you enjoyed it. Looking back at my list, I'm embarrassed at how few of my favorite books I've reviewed. I'll probably get around to them somewhere in the future.
Don't agree with my choices? Think its unforgivable that I didn't mentioned your favorite Sci-Fi book on my list? Let me know that, leave me comment.
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by PDH » Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:32 pmThe Ellis books are all classics but I've not read much of the others.
by Keb » Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:48 pmYou mean Planetary is not in your top ten but that misanthropic drivel Transmetropolitan is your number one?
by covalesky » Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:48 pm
Not even Fear Agent?! You can get the first volume on the cheap at amazon.
by covalesky » Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:52 pm
But that's one of the aspects that I like about it.
As for Planetary I didn't included it because I decided that star wars, superhero or superhero deconstructs are their own genres and should not be included in this list.
I do love Planetary, and on my fav books it does rank slightly above Transmet, but not on sci-fi. Even if Planetary is very heavy on the sci-fi.
May be a bad call, but its the one I made.
by Keb » Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:58 pmI don't consider it superhero all that much. I do like that they explore the superhero genre in more scientific ways but I don't consider any of the characters to be superheroes.
Besides, superheroes have always fallen under the science-fiction umbrella to me.
by misac » Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:10 pm
To me Atomic Robo is super heroy than scifi.
Really liked the start of Universal War One but it lost me somewhere in the middle.
by Keb » Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:14 pm
Also, Scud the Disposable Assassin isn't sci-fi! It's comedic-action-pop-opera!
by covalesky » Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:18 pm
Boundaries are hard to define. I thought a couple of times on Atomic Robo and decided it was in. But I can see your point.
by covalesky » Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:28 pm
You're right. Most superheroes are sci-fi to the core, but its such a big genre that I always prefer to keep it separated from the other genres.
by misac » Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:33 pm
That's what I love about super heroes, you can have scifi, fantasy, and horror back to back.
by covalesky » Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:44 pm
know you're just pulling my leg.
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MicroUnity was founded in 1988 by microprocessor technology veterans from MIPS, IBM, HP, Intel, Berkeley, and Stanford. With seed funding from W.R. Hearst III and John Moussouris, the company aimed to extend microprocessors beyond their historical role as calculating and control devices, to make them the primary media-processing engines of televisions, mobile computers, smartphones, and other digital communications devices.
Many competing technologies for processing digital media have been introduced in various products over the past two decades. MicroUnity's methods are the ones actually used in the microprocessors of more than five billion PCs, laptops, and mobile devices to execute software for playing movies, music, videogames, and many broadband internet applications.
MicroUnity implemented a series of innovations that unified audio, video, graphics, wireless, and other communications functions into a single general-purpose programming model. One key advance was dynamic partitioning of a microprocessor's datapaths, registers, and execution units to perform arithmetic, data rearrangement, and other necessary operations in parallel on all sizes and types (e.g., floating and fixed-point) of digital media data.
Another key challenge was to produce media processors within the practical cost and power budgets of consumer electronics. When manufacturing capacity was severely limited during the semiconductor boom of the early 1990's, MicroUnity built a semiconductor factory in Sunnyvale, California. Here some basic innovations to improve microprocessor cost were put into practice.
After selling the factory in 1996, MicroUnity broadly commercialized its key lithography inventions for optical proximity correction (OPC)—basically compensating for diffraction around features smaller than the wavelength of light. OPC technology roughly doubled yields of microprocessors at AMD, National Semiconductor, and other manufacturers. MicroUnity's lithography business unit became profitable and was sold in 1999 to Dutch lithography leader ASML as its MaskTools division, forming the basis for a semiconductor manufacturing technology now used worldwide.
MicroUnity invested the proceeds from MaskTools in continuing to innovate in many areas of media processing: e.g., instruction set and execution unit design, memory control and I/O interfaces, and signal processing software. In the past decades, the company accumulated a large patent portfolio, some of which has been licensed to leading technology companies. In 2003, MicroUnity asserted some of its patents in litigation against Intel and Dell, which concluded with a settlement in 2005. Subsequent patent litigations with Sony and AMD were also settled in 2007; and litigation with Apple, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, and other mobile communications companies were settled in 2013.
In 2008, MicroUnity used some of its cash from litigation settlements to purchase the stock of all of its outside investors, thereby becoming an overwhelmingly employee-owned company.
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HALF MOON BAY — Fishery managers have circled May 1 as the opening date for what promises to be the second consecutive good season for Bay Area commercial salmon fishing.
The Chinook salmon season from Point Arena in Mendocino County to the Mexican border will run until Sept. 30, with a few breaks in between, according to the Pacific Fishery Management Council, which released the dates late Wednesday.
The council estimates there are 834,200 Sacramento River fall-run Chinook salmon in the ocean, which is slightly higher than the 2012 preseason estimate. Last year, fishermen unloaded roughly 215,000 salmon in California, making it the best season since 2005.
The 2013 season will be 125 days, four days shorter than last year's. The Pacific Fishery Management Council, which oversees salmon fisheries in California, Oregon and Washington, permits longer seasons when salmon populations are robust. A recent collapse of salmon stocks caused the 2008 and 2009 seasons to be canceled.
Fishermen and scientists attribute the resurgence of the Chinook, or king, salmon to favorable ocean conditions in the Pacific over the past few years as well as the Klamath and Sacramento rivers, the state's top spawning grounds.
"Mother Nature gets the most credit," said Donald McIsaac, executive director of the council. "The food chain's just really strong off California now."
The recreational salmon season for the Bay Area began April 6. Half Moon Bay Sportfishing sent out three charter boats Saturday and Sunday. Co-owner Sherry Ingles said there were a lot of hefty salmon swimming about 10 miles offshore, making for her best opening weekend in five or six years.
"We were bringing in a fish per rod, and we were hooking a lot more than that," Ingles said. "That's a darn good weekend."
High winds have kept the charter company's boats off the water this week. Ingles said those conditions may not ease until Monday.
The dates for the 2013 season must still be formally approved by the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Contact Aaron Kinney at 650-348-4357. Follow him at Twitter.com/kinneytimes.
a lengthy season
The commercial salmon season from Mendocino County to Mexico will run from:
May 1 to June 8
June 21 through 30
July 15 through August 29
September 1 to 30
Source: Pacific Fishery Management Council


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Lil Click - Tell Ya Bout Me [Unsigned Hype]
"All Grind Ent. Presents Lil Click aka Click Clack
Bang First Street Single off of the new mixtape The
ReRock vol. 2 directed by Dream Studios, download
for free at
http://www.datpiff.com/Lil-Click-The-Rerock-Vol-2- mixtape.193954.html
ReRock 2.5 coming soon....follow us on twiter @ClickClackAG @DreamstudiosHD" [m]
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