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Microsoft Is in Talks To Buy Facebook Stake — SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. is in talks with Facebook Inc. about making an investment in the social-networking startup that could value Facebook at $10 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter.
Discussion: Between the Lines, Business Week, PDA, CenterNetworks, Webware.com, TechCrunch, Bits, paidContent.org, VentureBeat, IP Democracy, Read/WriteWeb, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Silicon Alley Insider, Digital Daily, HipMojo.com, Valleywag, Inside Facebook, splashcastmedia.com, Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally, Search Engine Land, A VC, Tech Trader Daily, Mark Evans, One By One Media, FaceReviews.com, Greg Galitzine's VoIP …, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Scobleizer, ResourceShelf, The Viral Garden, Clickety Clack and All Facebook
Dan Farber / Between the Lines: The Google express train
Jemima Kiss / PDA: Microsoft and Google vie for share of Facebook
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks: Microsoft Looking to Buy 5% of Facebook
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com: REPORT: MICROSOFT PLANS TO INVEST IN, NOT ACQUIRE, FACEBOOK
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Microsoft May Invest in Facebook At $10 Billion Valuation
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org: Microsoft Negotiating For Equity Stake In Facebook: Report
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy: Is Facebook Worth $10 Billion?
Jordan McCollum / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Rumor Mill: Microsoft Buying a Stake in Facebook
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Megalomaniabook … Guess Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg …
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: MSFT/Facebook Rumor Creeps Back Up Again: Will it Help or Hurt Facebook?
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook: Microsoft, Google want a piece of Facebook
Jeremy Toeman / Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally: Unsubstantiated rumor floods blogosphere
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Microsoft May Buy 5% Stake In Facebook
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily: Here's To You, Peter Thiel
Rodney Rumford / FaceReviews.com: Microsoft and Facebook Business Connection Strengthens
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband: Poll: With Microsoft now talking to Facebook, who should buy them?
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer: Microsoft may buy part of Facebook
Mack Collier / The Viral Garden: Facebook worth $10 billion?
Junior Hines / Clickety Clack: Microsoft Wants To Buy A Piece Of Facebook
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook: Microsoft to Invest in Facebook
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Will MSFT push Yahoo to buy Facebook? — According to the Wall Street Journal, the software behemoth known as the Beast from Redmond is looking at buying between three and five per cent of Facebook for between $300-million and $500-million. As any math whiz (of which I am not one) …
Discussion: Groundswell
Charlene Li / Groundswell: Facebook - is it worth $10 billion?
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft reportedly eyeing Facebook stake — Microsoft is eyeing an investment in Facebook that would value the social networking company at about $10 billion. — The investment, which was reported by The Wall Street Journal citing "people familiar with the matter, connects a few dots on the social networking landscape.
Discussion: InfoWorld, alarm:clock and Searchviews
Juan Carlos Perez / InfoWorld: Report: Microsoft seeks Facebook stake
Sepideh Saremi / Searchviews: Google Weekend: Open API, Social Media, and Unity Cable Rumors
24/7 Wall St.:
Is Facebook Worth Half as Much As Yahoo! ?
Is Facebook Worth Half as Much As Yahoo! ?
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and Paul Kedrosky's …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Is Facebook Worth Half As Much As Yahoo?
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Microsoft Wants A Piece Of Facebook?
Microsoft Wants A Piece Of Facebook?
Discussion: Logic+Emotion
Microsoft in talks to invest in Facebook: report
Microsoft in talks to invest in Facebook: report
Discussion: Business Week and rexblog.com
Rob Hof / Business Week: Facebook Still Dancing for Dollars
Rex Hammock / rexblog.com: MS's 5% stake in FB vs. GOOG's 5% stake in AOL
PR Newswire:
Apple today released the following statement: — CUPERTINO, Calif. /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone's software, which will likely result …
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0: End of the road for unlocked iPhones
Ilya Kochanov / CrunchGear: Apple: Stop Unlocking iPhones. Please?
Michael Calore / Compiler: Apple: We Will Break Your IPhone SIM Hacks This Week
Darren Murph / Engadget: Apple finally weighs in on iPhone hacks, unlocking
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: Digital music 'Now Playing' at Starbucks
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband: Hey there's an iPhone firmware update this week: if you are running …
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
How to relock your iPhone before the firmware update — Apple has your unlocked iPhone in their crosshairs. What do you do? This method in no way guarantees that your iPhone will survive the update after being unlocked. If you're risk adverse, you may want to wait a day or two for these instructions to get debugged.
Discussion: Byte of the Apple
Arik Hesseldahl / Byte of the Apple: Apple Clamps Down On iPhone Hacking
Benwilson / iPhone Atlas:
Apple reps: iPhone warranty will be voided by hacks (third-party native apps)
Apple reps: iPhone warranty will be voided by hacks (third-party native apps)
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: iPhone Apps Can Void your Apple Warranty
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple to nuke unlocked iPhones with next update
Apple to nuke unlocked iPhones with next update
Discussion: Christopher Null and Digital Daily
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: New Use for $100 iPhone Credit: Replace Inoperable iPhone
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Apple: firmware update likely to make unlocked iPhones "permanently inoperable"
Apple: firmware update likely to make unlocked iPhones "permanently inoperable"
Discussion: Gizmodo
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Experience Blog:
Experiencing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta — Today Microsoft is releasing the Beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 which was announced by Nick White few weeks ago. I'd like to take the opportunity to share my very own experiences with Windows Vista SP1 Beta running on several PCs of my own.
Brandon Hill / DailyTech: Microsoft Releases Vista SP1 Beta to Select Testers
Nancy Gohring / InfoWorld: Microsoft releases SP1 beta to limited group
Steven Bink / Bink.nu: Windows Vista SP1 Beta release available today
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
SP1 Beta release available today
SP1 Beta release available today
Discussion: Engadget, Channel 9, TechBlog, GottaBeMobile.com and Alice Hill's Real Tech News
Darren Murph / Engadget: Microsoft beams out Vista SP1 to beta testers
Keeron / Channel 9: Vista SP1 beta release today
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile.com: Vista SP1 Now In Wider Release For Beta Testing
Michael Santo / Alice Hill's Real Tech News: Microsoft releases Windows Vista SP1 to beta
Ted / Ted's Take:
"PayPal Meets MasterCard" Without The High Fees — MEDIA CONTACT: — Brad Burns — 202-776-1400 — email@example.com — REVOLUTION JOINED BY INDUSTRY LEGENDS AND MAJOR BANKS TO LAUNCH REVOLUTIONARY PAYMENT SYSTEM — Steve Case, Ted Leonsis, Larry Summers, David Pottruck …
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb, paidContent.org and Life On the Wicked Stage
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb: Revolution Money to Take on PayPal, the World
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org: Steve Case, Ted Leonsis Launch Online Credit-Card Firm Revolution …
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage: Could This Be A Game Changer For the MoneyChangers?
Astrid Wendlandt / Reuters:
Vivendi calls Apple iTunes contract terms "indecent" — PARIS (Reuters) - Vivendi condemned as "indecent" the contract terms between its Universal Music Group (UMG) unit and Apple Inc, the computer maker whose iTunes online store dominates the digital music market.
Discussion: Digital Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Contentinople and iLounge
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: FCC Swamped With iTunes Indecency Complaints
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider: Vivendi: Apple's iTunes Terms Are Terrible!
Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Vivendi wants bigger cut of iTunes pie
Frank Smith / Contentinople: Vivendi: Les iTunes Est Indecent!
Charles Starrett / iLounge: Vivendi labels Apple's contact terms 'indecent'
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XLIII: Vivendi CEO calls iTunes contract "indecent"
CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XLIII: Vivendi CEO calls iTunes contract "indecent"
Discussion: Infinite Loop
Official Google Blog:
It's all about today — A lot of us love video games, and everyone here has their favorite from the latest generation of consoles. We have a game room in our building that happens to have all three of the latest systems: Artem loves Microsoft's Xbox 360, Niv can't part with Sony's Playstation 3 …
Discussion: Search Engine Journal, Google Operating System and Mashable!
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal: Google Trends Now Updates Daily
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: Google Trends, Updated Daily
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Google Trends Now Updates Daily
Google Vulnerability — Yesterday, I found a new Google.com XSS vulnerability that can be abussed to steal information from Gmail accounts, I've done responsible disclosure of at least 3 vulns to Google, but since I havn't got enough 'motivation', I'll go full disclosure now.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Unholy trinity of flaws put Google users at risk
Unholy trinity of flaws put Google users at risk
Discussion: WinBeta
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is FeedHub the answer to information overload? — I've been playing with mSpoke's FeedHub, releasing today at the Demo Conference. I'll have a video up later today demonstrating the product. — Dan Farber has a review and info up on his ZDNet blog. — I've been interested i this topic for some time.
Discussion: Between the Lines, Read/WriteWeb, Chuqui 3.0.1 Beta, Somewhat Frank and Profy.Com
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb: FeedHub Launches - Individualized RSS Feeds
Frank Gruber / Somewhat Frank: FeedHub Personalized Feed Creator
Phil Butler / Profy.Com: DEMOfall 07 Presents: Feedhub - One Cure for Online ADD
Brad Stone / NYT:
New York State Investigates Facebook — Another state attorney general is getting tough with Facebook. — In the wake of scrutiny of the hot social network by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, his New York state counterpart, Andrew M. Cuomo, has subpoenaed Facebook asking …
Discussion: The Register, InfoWorld and Mashable!
Dan Goodin / The Register: NY probes Facebook over pedophile controls
Juan Carlos Perez / InfoWorld: NY blasts Facebook over predators, subpoenas docs
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Facebook Investigated for Safety Practices
Louise Story / New York Times:
Company Will Monitor Phone Calls to Tailor Ads — Companies like Google scan their e-mail users' in-boxes to deliver ads related to those messages. Will people be as willing to let a company listen in on their phone conversations to do the same? — Pudding Media, a start-up based in San Jose …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, VentureBeat, Associated Press, GigaOM, Pudding Media, Business Week, TechBlog, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, 901am, Valleywag, Insider Chatter, Search Engine Land, MediaBytes with Shelly …, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Epicenter, alarm:clock, IP Democracy, AppScout, Download Squad, Digital Daily, michael parekh on IT, p2pnet, Alec Saunders .LOG, TechCrunch, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, dailywireless.org, Webware.com, ExtremeTech, WebProNews, Life On the Wicked Stage, BloggingStocks, Clickety Clack, dslreports.com, CrunchGear and CBS News
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Today's Terrible Idea: Pudding Media
Peter Svensson / Associated Press: New service eavesdrops on Internet calls
Om Malik / GigaOM: The Mad Ad World & Cheap Calls
Lisa Barone / Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog: Pudding Is Delicious, Eavesdropping Is Not
Dennis Bouchand / 901am: Pudding Media delivers free calling by delivering fun, entertaining …
Shelly Palmer / MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer Video: MediaBytes - 09.24.07 — Click to view today's MediaBytes video.
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley: ThePudding? More like Wiretapioca
Terrence Russell / Epicenter: Pudding Media Raises Privacy Concerns by Monitoring VoIP Calls
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy: Just Say No to Pudding Media — In what Henry Blodget deems …
Mark Hachman / AppScout: Would You Like Advertisers Listening to Your Calls?
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Guess 'Puddin' Head Media' Was Already Trademarked, Huh?
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch: ThePudding: Targeted Advertising Comes to Phone Calls
Erica Ogg / Webware.com: THE PUDDING: EAVESDROPPING TO SELL YOU STUFF
Joel Durham Jr / ExtremeTech: Ad Software Listens In to Internet Phone Calls
Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews: The Privacy Is In The Pudding (Or Not)
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage: Phone Eavesdropping Service To Help Target Ads?
Junior Hines / Clickety Clack: Algorithms Grab The Spotlight
Karl / dslreports.com: 'The Pudding' Listens In On VoIP - And displays context-sensitive advertisements...
Peter Ha / CrunchGear: Your VoIP Calls Are Being Tapped
Microsoft Corporation:
Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate Evaluation — Note: Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 will be available here shortly. — Click an option below to continue, or to read all of the option descriptions at one time, select the View all descriptions check box. — View all descriptions
Discussion: InfoWorld, WinBeta, Bink.nu and TechSpot News
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Updated Leopard requirements to exclude 800MHz systems — Just weeks ahead of its public launch, Apple Inc. has updated the minimum system requirements for its next-generation Leopard operating system to exclude 800MHz PowerPC-based Macs, AppleInsider has learned.
Discussion: Infinite Loop, Compiler, Byte of the Apple, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Scott Gilbertson / Compiler: Rumor: OS X Leopard Nears Completion
Arik Hesseldahl / Byte of the Apple: So Long PowerPC — It had to happen sometime, and it looks …
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo: Apple: 800MHz G4 Macs Are Dead to Leopard
Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear: Leopard To Exclude Legacy Apple Systems?
Dave Caolo / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Leopard to exclude 800MHz systems
Tony Smith / The Register:
Apple iPhone — Personal view We've already reviewed Apple's iPhone, so why are we taking another look? There are several reasons. First, a different reviewer means a different opinion. That applies to any product, of course, but Apple's claim that the iPhone is "revolutionary" perhaps justifies an alternative appraisal.
Discussion: PalmAddicts
Sam Mcloughln / PalmAddicts: Register Reviews the iPhone - Again


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One of the most masterful cartoonists of his generation, 32-year-old Adrian Tomine's [Shortcomings] centers on Asian-American protagonist Ben Tanaka, a lonely, socially constricted man, longing to make a connection and spinning in the purgatory between youth and adulthood... equal parts poignant, hilarious, and sad.Village Voice
Ben Tanaka has problems. In addition to being rampantly critical, sarcastic, and insensitive, his long-term relationship is awash in turmoil. His girlfriend, Miko Hayashi, suspects that Ben has a wandering eye, and more to the point, it's wandering in the direction of white women. This accusation (and its various implications) becomes the subject of heated, spiralling debate, setting in motion a story that pits California against New York, devotion against desire, and trust against truth.
By confusing their personal problems with political ones, Ben and Miko are strangely alone together and oddly alike, even as they fly apart. Being human, all too human, they fail to see that what unites them is their shared hypocrisies, their double standards. This gray zone between the personal and the political is a minefield that Tomine navigates boldly and nimbly. The charged, volatile dialogues that result are unlike anything in Tomine's previous work or, for that matter, comics in general. But Shortcomings is no mere polemic. Any issues that are raised stand on equal footing with expertly-crafted plot turns, subtle characterization, and irreverent humor, all drawn in Tomine's heart-breakingly evocative style. What Tomine ultimately offers is more provocation than pronouncement—a brutal, funny, and insightful reflection of human shortcomings.
Shortcomings was serialized in Tomine's iconic comic book series Optic Nerve (issues 9-11) and was excerpted in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern 13.
Praise for Shortcomings
His panels are exceptionally easy to read, combining the precision of line drawings with the gentle pacing of art-house film. The facial expressions and gestures are subtle, and they stand out against the storefronts of Berkeley and Brooklyn, N.Y., which he renders with uncanny fidelity, down to the old light fixtures of Chinese restaurants that have since been remodeled. His dialogue is sharp and true whether he's portraying a squabble in a dive bar or the negotiations that precede a kiss.Salon
Tomine accomplishes in one panel of this graphic novel what so many writers have failed to do in entire books. In crisp spare lines, he captures in all its excruciating, disappointing absurdity a single moment and makes from it our world.Junot Diaz, Publishers Weekly
Tomine's genius is to strip his medium of every possible type of grandiosity or indulgence, and the result is that life itself floods in. His mise-en-scene rivals Eric Rohmer's in its gentle precision, and his mastery of narrative time suggests Alice Munro. Shortcomings, as near as he'd get to a grand statement, is as deceptively relaxed and perfect as a comic book gets.Jonathan Lethem, author of Fortress of Solitude
[Shortcomings'] stark, unfussy artwork allows plenty of room for exploring the story's complex themes of racial and sexual politics, gender roles, artistic ambition and distance vs. intimacy.Bookpage

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Rabby Washing Glove
With his funny face Keptin Jr's Rabby is a washing glove and a hand puppet in one. Bathing becomes washing and playing at the same time!
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Calpeda MPCM 11 Compact Swimming Pool Pump (1 Phase)
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CARLSBAD, N.M., February 13, 2002 -- New Mexico Tech's Environmental Evaluation Group (EEG) recently signed a new joint agreement with the U. S. Department of Energy, Westinghouse TRU Solutions, and the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center to coordinate all the participating agencies's various independent efforts to effectively monitor air released from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad.
One of the signees, EEG Director Matthew Silva states, "This formalizes the continuing cooperative efforts between these organizations on this issue. As we have all learned and long recognized, cooperation is vital to independent oversight and public confidence."
Based in offices in Albuquerque and Carlsbad, EEG is an interdisciplinary group of scientists and engineers that provides independent technical evaluation of the WIPP facility to ensure the protection of public health and safety and the environment of
New Mexico. The oversight group was established in 1978 through a contract between the State of New Mexico and the U.S. Department of Energy, and later was assigned to operate under the administration of New Mexico Tech in 1989.


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Obama touts Syrian opposition
President Barack Obama is telling Syrian opposition leaders that President Bashar al-Assad has lost all legitimacy to rule Syria and has no place in the future of the nation.
In a meeting Tuesday at the White House, Obama and national security adviser Susan Rice spoke with Syrian Opposition Coalition President Ahmad Jarba and a coalition delegation. Both sides offered renewed commitments for what the White House calls a political solution to the conflict that includes a transition to a new governing authority.
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The White House says in a statement that Obama has encouraged the coalition to further its vision for an inclusive government. In turn, Jarba thanked the United States for the $287 million in nonlethal assistance and its $1.7 billion commitment to humanitarian aid in Syria and neighboring countries.


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I'm hoping someone could check the changes I made to the wiring diagram I'll be using.
I'm an absolute beginner with building stomp boxes and I'm planning on making a ZVex SHO my first build.
This is a link to the wiring diagram I came up with by simply copying information I found on the web.
Now the thing is I absolutely hate having to unplug my pedals to conserve the battery and is one of the reasons I do without batteries whenever possible. So seeing as I'll be building this pedal I figured I could correct the problem by building in a MASTER On/Off switch with its own indicator led. So with the power switch on the unit runs as a regular true bypass effect with the 3PDT switch turning the effect and effect led on and off. With the master off the circuit is dead with no signal and most importantly no power drain.
This link is the the diagram I made up including a SPST master switch, master LED, and 2.2k resistor for the LED
The way photobucket is set up you can simply click on the image to cycle back and forth between the two diagrams and see the additions I made.
Maybe I got it right, maybe kinda right, maybe its as wrong as wrong could be lol I tried my best and I thank you for your help!


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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), once a reliable vote in favor of nuclear arms reduction efforts, has now bought into the right-wing myth that our nuclear arsenal is deteriorating and that the U.S. needs to build new nuclear weapons. Lieberman on Fox News Sunday said he is "real hesitant" to vote for a New START treaty unless the US effectively builds new nuclear weapons:
LIEBERMAN: Anytime we are working on something with our old Cold War enemy, Russia, cooperatively, it's a good sign. Anything we can do to reduce the number of nuclear warheads in the world is a positive development. But in my opinion as we reduce the number of nuclear warheads… we have to make darn sure that are nuclear warheads are capable and modern and a lot of them are decades old. So I feel very strongly that I am going to be real hesitant to vote for this treaty unless we have a commitment from the Administration that they are prepared to modernize our nuclear stockpile.
In a demonstration of just how seriously Lieberman is taking these issues, as Chris Wallace shifted the conversation — noting that the treaty would need 9 Republican votes instead of 8 since "Lieberman was gone" — Lieberman audibly chuckled. Watch it:
On the one hand, this should mean that Lieberman's vote is a slam dunk. The Obama administration has already demonstrated a massive commitment to modernizing the nuclear weapons infrastructure. Vice President Biden in a speech in February attacked the Bush administration for neglecting the nuclear infrastructure and called for a dramatic 10 percent annual increase in its budget.
But what Lieberman is really saying is that he agrees with those on the far right that want to needlessly build new nuclear weapons, nearly two decades years after the end of the Cold War. The far right insists that the U.S. is falling behind because it is not building new nuclear weapons and that our existing nuclear arsenal is deteriorating. This is a myth and demonstrates a complete, if not willful, ignorance of our approach to maintaining our nuclear weapons.
The U.S. continuously refurbishes and renovates its existing weapons, such that it doesn't have to build new ones. This is by definition modernization. These refurbishing programs are getting the job done, according to an independent panel of scientific experts, called the JASON advisory group. As long as we continue these programs, as the Obama administration has committed to do, there is no need to build new nuclear warheads and weapons.
Yet building new nukes, along with conducting new nuclear tests, has become a right-wing dream. Lieberman is therefore willing to vote against a treaty — something that would have dire consequences for the US-Russia relationship, our mission in Afghanistan, and the entire nuclear non-proliferation regime — in order to symbolically demonstrate his support for the far-right's dangerous nuclear agenda.


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Birmingham Maple Clinic Reports New Video Game May Help Treat Schizophrenia
Birmingham, MI (PRWEB) February 23, 2013
Michigan mental health providers at the Birmingham Maple Clinic recently published a blog post discussing a new project that is looking at the effectiveness of treating schizophrenia with video brain training in the form of a computer game. As noted in the post, which discusses clinical trials of brain training software currently underway by Posit Science and the University of California at San Francisco, offering mental health treatment that includes brain training may help to correct the disconnect that patients who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia may have between what the brain expects and what actually happens next. This known link, which may be related to a problem with how the brain processes verbal and auditory cues, is something that brain training may be able to correct.
Lori Edelson, therapist at the mental health clinic in Troy, which provides treatment for schizophrenia and other mental health conditions said, There is still so much we dont know about schizophrenia, however, we do know that it greatly effects an individuals cognitive and emotional systems and that there is much more research that needs to be done in terms of effective treatment.
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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela
Ever since Cataclysm came out and we started raiding BWD, I patiently sat by and watched everyone slowly getting their epic helms and tier helms. It will drop eventually, I thought, and besides, this heroic blue one is really good (Cluster of Stars). It has haste and spirit, so I don't really want to change it for something else unless it's something with similar or mastery. So I was hoping for the Atramedes or the Tier helm from Nefarian. But week after week Atramedes did not yield it for me. Every other druid got an epic... except me.
That lack of epic helm got me into a lot of fights with my friends. When guildies wanted to skip to do Nefarian, I refused because I wanted to do Atramedes so I could get a chance at a helm (mages and other druids were ahead of me on DKP). How many times did I force a full clear when people complained that stuff gets DE'd (yeah well it's ok for them, they have full 359!) I have lost count. Anyway, no permanent damage was done, but I still didn't have a helm.
So coming into Cataclysm I still had my blue helm. I hadn't done that many ZA runs to get the helm there (gosh I remember when I had the original ZA helm! Helm of Natural Regeneration) so I did finally get a 353 helm (Amani Headdress) after a goddamn Zandom. Not my perfect choice as I lost a lot of haste but mastery is just as good!
So I wore it a few weeks, and I was wondering how long I'd have to wear this crappy helm for (maybe the whole of Firelands!) and on our Beth'tilac kill yesterday, Cowl of the Clicking Menace dropped.
I screamed HAT in officer! Fue asked me, "Do you want that, Navi?" and Ampharos laughed.
So now I have a nice shiny hat. I am so pleased. I might even display it just because I'm so happy.


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American illustrator Dan Smith was born in Ivugtut, Greenland, and raised in New York City. At the age of 14, he went to Copenhagen, Denmark, to study art. In 1890 he joined the staff of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly as a sketch artist. He covered the 1890-1891 Indian troubles on the Pine Ridge Reservation and Wounded Knee. Until 1897, he traveled the West sketching Native American and outdoor scenes.
He left for Hearst's newspapers in 1897 and worked as an artist-correspondent during the Spanish-American War. For the next twenty years, his illustrations appeared in the Sunday World magazine section and were syndicated nationally. He was also sporadically active as a comic artist. He was one of many artists to bring anthropomorphic animals to comics, like in the feature 'The Jungle Folk'.
In the final years of his life, Smith illustrated a series of comic strips based on biblical characters for King Features Syndicate. His comics told the stories of Joseph, David, Samson, Jezebel, etc., and were published in newspaper from June 1933 to June 1935. Smith has also illustrated covers for paperbacks.
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Models and Their Men Get In Front of the Camera for Vogue's February 2011 Issue
Models and Their Men Get In Front of the Camera for Vogue's February 2011 Issue
>> In anticipation of Valentine's Day, Vogue had Patrick Demarchelier capture six models and their men for the February 2011 issue.
Among those featured: the newly affianced models Anja Rubik and Sasha Knezevic, who went to Central Park on their first official date. According to Rubik: "We actually came wearing identical Rag & Bone shirts and Helmut Lang jeans." There's Coco Rocha and her husband, James Conran, who are celebrating their first Valentine's Day married by going to see Prince — his favorite musician — in concert; and Angela Lindvall and Mark Wystrach, an actor and co-founder of People's Shoe (a line of eco-friendly footwear). They had their first date two years ago, Lindvall says — "We took his Volkswagen, went surfing, ate shrimp burritos" — and now reside together on seven acres in Los Angeles's Topanga Canyon, where they've planted an organic garden and 60 fruit trees.
Alessandra Ambrosio and her fiance, Jamie Mazur, who owns a denim company, met at a mutual friend's wedding in Rio de Janeiro. But they didn't start dating until two years later, when they ran into each other at Coachella. Ambrosio says of Mazur: "I always have new jeans, and because he has to follow trends, I get the best gifts — like Louboutins and vintage sunglasses. One Valentine's Day, he learned all my favorite Pearl Jam songs and serenaded me."
And rounding out the bunch, there's Aminata Niaria, who met Laurence Dennis (he works at British Embassy in Paris) at a Halloween party he hosted five years ago. He was a mummy, she was Catwoman. And models Bonnie Chen and Rock Ji, who met backstage two years ago at Beijing fashion show. Soon after, he surprised her by showing up at the University of Pennsylvania campus, where she was majoring in psychology.


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Age of Wonders 3® marks a modern reimagining of the series, where players join a clash of kings, queens and dark lords for the spoils of an ancient paradise. By introducing unique RPG-inspired classes and specializations, players are able to craft empires of their own design, developing unique strategies and play styles. The world-changing conflict plays out on sweeping landscapes, loaded with mythical locations waiting to be uncovered, conquered and exploited.
In Age of Wonders 3, we extrapolate RPG style classes to be the leaders of fantasy empires. For example: as a Goblin Theocrat you can build your own holy empire, recruit little goblin crusaders or cute winged goblin angels equipped with flaming weapons, and wage war on your heathen enemies. We want players to be able to choose between lots of different play styles, without being restricted by fantasy clichés, like All Goblins Are Evil.
The new engine truly reflects the choices players have made by affecting how their realm and units are represented. It makes the gameplay on both the strategic and battle maps more immersive than ever, while retaining the gameplay and feel of the previous games.
Key features include:
- Explore, expand and exploit a living fantasy world. Discover wondrous locations and gather legendary heroes.
- Develop your domain, with many classes having the ability to change terrain and climates to suit your needs.
- All new 3D graphics that provide a crisper and more detailed overview of the world and battle maps.
- New styles of play are possible with the introduction of RPG style leader classes like warlord, theocrat, rogue and sorcerer, along with a wide selection of specializations.
- Command a variety of races. Pick your starting race and shape your people's destiny using your leader's unique skills.
- A brand-new tactical battle system renders each battlefield and siege in great detail; new rules include flanking and a massive set of special unit abilities.
- An epic story campaign with two playable factions; Choose the mighty Commonwealth Empire or join the Court of the High Elves, founded after the reunion of the Dark Elves and Wood Elves.
- Compete online in extensive multiplayer modes and scenarios.
- High replay value through random maps, difficulty modes and tools allowing user created content.
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One of the funniest things I have read over the Christmas period was the autobiography of Peter Kaye,
(he of "Phoenix Nights" and "Max and Paddy" fame).
A certain quote had me in stitches as it reminded me of some of my ex school friends and ex forces mates.
He describes someone as having mentally "having lost the cheese from his cracker…"
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Faculty members from the College of Natural Sciences and the School of Public Health and Health Sciences are among the recipients of nearly $750,000 in grants from the President's Science and Technology Initiatives Fund announced June 18 by President Robert L. Caret.
Computer scientists Yanlei Diao, Preshant Shenoy and Deepak Ganesan were awarded a total of $321,250 and biostatistician Andrea Foulkes received $97,500 through the fund, which provides seed grants to accelerate research activity across all five campuses and position researchers to attract larger investments from external sources to expand the scope of their projects.
"The science and technology fund advances the work of producing the discoveries and technological breakthroughs that will improve lives, create jobs, and preserve our planet," said Caret. "It supports the ideas and inventiveness of our faculty and fosters a culture of collaboration across all five campuses that attracts investments and underscores our role as an innovation engine for the Commonwealth."
Diao and Shenoy's project, Big Data Informatics Initiative (BDI2), received $136,250. The initiative focuses on areas such as detecting financial fraud in large-scale securities data, correlating video-audio surveillance data to spot trends or anomalies in real time; and smart-meter data processing by energy utilities. Collaborators include the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, Holyoke Gas & Electric, MIT and commercial partners such as EMC, Nokia, GE Global Research and Yahoo Research.
The grant to Foulkes is supporting the creation of the Institute for Computational Biology, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics (ICB3), which will develop the University's bioinformatics research capabilities in applied biotechnology, pharmacology and bioinformatics, as well as establish a center to train the regional workforce and researchers on all five campuses in computational and bioinformatics methods and use of software tools.
Ganesan and Sherry Pagoto of the Medical School were awarded $185,000 for mHealth-based Behavioral Sensing & Interventions, a center that will research mobile health technologies such as wearable jewelry and smartphones on patients with a variety of health conditions, including an initial study to develop wearable sensor software with real-time data analysis and patient feedback. Partners include mobile health device companies such as Jawbone/Aliphcom, Rock Health, Nexercise, Runkeeper, Microsoft Research, IBM, Google and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke.
Among the other grant-funded projects, Rod Grupen, Computer Science, is collaborating on the New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center at UMass Lowell. The center will provide robotics companies and research institutions with a National Institute of Standards and Technology designed test course for year-round validation of robots and robotic systems.
This is the ninth year the President's Science and Technology Initiatives Fund awards have been handed out. Since 2004, the fund has provided $7.5 million to UMass researchers, which, in turn, has generated $207 million in funding from outside sources for vital research efforts and led to the creation of nearly 20 research centers on the five campuses. To date, the science and technology fund has financed more than 60 projects.
President's Office announcement
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EMRTC Given High-Tech Laser System, Aug. 3, 2006
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., Aug. 3, 2006 – New Mexico Tech's Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC) is the new owner of a $4.5 million specialized laser unit that allows the research division to cut and form energetic and non-energetic materials with powerful, ultra-short pulses of energy that last only a few hundred femto-seconds. A femto-second is one-quadrillionth of a second, or one-millionth of one-billionth of a second (10 to the minus 15 power).
This high-tech system, called a Femto-second Laser Cutting Work Station (FLCWS), was transferred to New Mexico Tech from Los Alamos National Laboratory through a redeployment arrangement made by the Office of Readiness within the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
The laser system consists of an operator console and vacuum sample chamber, optical oscillator, pulse stretcher, amplifiers, and beam-delivery modules and takes up a full two rooms at EMRTC's Chemistry Research and Development Laboratory.
The ultra-short pulses of high energy delivered by the laser unit allow New Mexico Tech researchers and collaborators to cut, shape, and drill energetic materials precisely, without generating any of the resultant heating, melting, or decomposition of surfaces usually associated with the more common pulsed lasers, whose pulse lengths are 100,000 times longer than those provided b the FLCWS.
"This new capability will be used primarily as a cutting and shaping workstation for experiments typically run here at EMRTC," says Dr. Christa Hockensmith, department head at EMRTC's Chemistry Research and Development Laboratory, who is New Mexico Tech's principal research scientist involved with the redeployment of the FLCWS.
"Other research entities that we partner with, such as Sandia Laboratories and Los Alamos Laboratory, have already expressed interest in using the laser workstation for some of their experiments," Hockensmith adds.
In addition to precision machining of high explosives, the FLCWS will be used to improve analytical methods for identifying and studying high explosives and other energetic materials — improvements which are expected to result in practical applications such as enhanced detection of explosive devices at airports, borders, and ports. Other studies will examine chemical reaction kinetics and the minimization of reaction energy barriers.
"Ultimately, advances garnered by using the femto-second laser workstation at New Mexico Tech will allow development of entirely new classes of energetic materials that will be more powerful, safer to handle, and more environmentally benign," Dr. Hockensmith says.
EMRTC's FLCWS is one of two units designed and built by scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The NNSA, which administers the nuclear weapons national laboratories and plant facilities, made arrangements in April 2005 to have one of the specialized laser units transferred to New Mexico Tech, with assistance from the Center for Energetic Materials and Energetic Devices (CEMED).
CEMED is an umbrella organization comprised of New Mexico Tech, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, whose primary focus is on understanding and studying the properties of energetic materials and devices, such as industrial explosives and military munitions.
"The redeployment of this laser unit to New Mexico Tech would not have been possible without the help of lots of folks at DOE/NNSA, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Livermore. I am particularly grateful to Julianne Lebings at the NNSA Albuquerque service center and Ross Muenchausen and John Sanchez of Los Alamos National Laboratory for their help in bringing the laser to New Mexico Tech," Dr. Hockensmith says.
"The multi-disciplinary engineering and science environment of excellence provided by New Mexico Tech will facilitate applying the laser cutting work station to a wide range of research opportunities," she adds, "and will ensure that the world-class capabilities of this high-tech laser system will benefit the students and faculty at New Mexico Tech, as well as students and investigators within the State of New Mexico—and, ultimately, the entire nation — through the development of new, high-technology industries."
A dedication ceremony and open house for EMRTC's FLCWS is planned for Thursday, August 17, at 10 a.m. at the EMRTC facility, located in the New Mexico Tech Research Park, west of the university campus. Because of space constraints, admittance to the dedication and open house is by invitation only.


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If you are like me and spend hours trawling the Web to find the next best restaurant, travel destination or book, you might want to take a look at Qloo, a new "cultural discovery platform" that aims to make searches more personal and easier.
The New York start-up, which launched in November, offers recommendations based on the user's tastes in music, film, TV, dining, nightlife, fashion, books and travel.
"We are culturally much more than just your taste in an individual category," said Alex Elias, who co-founded Qloo with Jay Alger, chief executive of digital agency Deepend. Elias added that he was socially fatigued by other online personal recommendation services such as Pandora, Netflix and Foursquare, which limit suggestions to individualized niches.
Thus came Qloo (pronounced "clue"). "You give a clue and get clued in," Elias said.
Elias, a former hedge fund manager, calls Qloo an "inspiration engine" and a one-stop shop for suggestions in movies to watch, books to read, places to travel, etc., "all from the people who are most culturally like-minded to you."
As a user adds more of his or her preferences to each of the eight categories, Qloo generates suggestions based on the selections provided by other users with similar taste, as well as more personalized recommendations based on the user's "thumbs up" or "thumbs down."
Your taste in fashion might very well have something to do with which bar you prefer or your favorite travel destination: "There are relationships between different areas of culture that are worth exploring," Elias said.
For example, Qloo helps users find a new restaurant from the people who most share their taste in music or fashion, or find a book to read based on their taste in movies. Essentially this means you can decide whose recommendations you want.
Qloo currently has 20,000 members, and its well-known investors and users include Cedric the Entertainer and Danny Masterson. The start-up is backed by $1.4 million in seed funding from Kindler Capital.
"Our aim is to be the best resource for making cultural choices and to get people out of their comfort zone and try something new," Elias said.
I recently created a Qloo account and found myself addicted to adding "qloos," the same way I am addicted to "pinning" on Pinterest. The desktop website is easy to navigate, and the mobile Web browser feature is helpful -- especially when I am out and on a hunt to find a nearby restaurant or bar.
Qloo's founders plan to roll out native iOS and Android apps in the coming months.
The nightlife and restaurant categories are location-based, with recommendations currently available in Los Angeles and New York City. Additional cities including Austin, London, Chicago, Miami and San Francisco are to be featured by the end of this month. Elias said the service also plans to expand to other countries.
Qloo is invitation-only, but invitations can be requested on its website.


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Expert Opinion: Why the FCC should deny the AT&T / T-Mobile Merger
In order for the Federal Communications Commission to approve the mega-merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, AT&T has to make a showing that the merger is in the public interest. Despite AT&T's declaration that this merger is the most pro-consumer, pro-innovation and pro-investment solution to America's wireless problems, a mega-merger like this can only hurt the broadband market, both for innovators and consumers alike. Keep Reading


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ILO warns of youth unemployment 'crisis'
Almost 13% of young people worldwide are out of work, and their situation is unlikely to improve for four years, a report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) says.
Many skilled young people are being forced into part-time and unskilled work, the report says.
It warns of a "crisis" with more than six million people so disillusioned they have given up looking for work.
The ILO wants governments to make job creation a priority.
It wants more training schemes, and also tax breaks for employers.
"The youth unemployment crisis can be beaten but only if job creation for young people becomes a key priority in policymaking and private sector investment picks up significantly," said Jose Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, executive director of the ILO's employment sector.
Since 2007, the number of young people without jobs has risen by four million - up from less than 12%, the Global Employment Trends for Youth report says.
Almost 13% of people aged between 15 and 24 - or almost 75 million - have no work, although this is slightly down on its peak in 2009.
In the European Union, one in five young people are looking for work, the report claims.
Some 27.9% of youths were unemployed in North Africa last year following the Arab Spring uprisings - a rise of five percentage points on 2010.
In the Middle East, the figure stood at 26.5% in the report's regional breakdown.
"Even in East Asia, perhaps the most economically dynamic region, the unemployment rate was 2.8 times higher for young people than for adults," the report said.
Detached from society
But, the ILO report reveals, the true picture of youth unemployment is even more pessimistic.
Many young people are extending their time in higher education because they cannot find jobs.
Others are taking part-time unskilled work because they cannot find work in the fields they trained for.
The ILO says that more than six million young people worldwide have given up looking for work and are becomingly increasingly detached from society.
By not using their skills they are losing them, the report says, and if there is no improvement in the jobs market soon, they may be not only unemployed, but unemployable.
The ILO suggests offering tax breaks and other incentives to businesses hiring young people and offering more entrepreneurship programmes to help kick-start careers.


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Wood floors are almost too pretty to walk on
The appeal of glossy hardwood floors goes back centuries. The warmth of wood floors makes them a coveted design feature, and people who have wood floors work hard at keeping them looking good. Often when people move or make decorating changes in their interiors, or when floors get really dull and worn, they arrange for professionals to sand them to remove old finishes and then apply new ones. Installing wood floors, whether of new wood or reclaimed planks or antique wood, is a popular upgrade to houses, especially in living rooms, dining rooms and kitchens, as it's known to increase the resale value.
For centuries, most wood floors were given a wax finish, which requires regular maintenance and waxing as part of routine housekeeping. Some homes still continue that tradition. But for the past 50 years, the vast majority of wood floors in American homes have been topped with layers of polyurethane. The advantage of this is a nice, durable finish and the ease of maintenance mostly by simple vacuuming and dry mopping.
One alternative to solid hardwood floors is engineered hardwood, which is made with a top layer of hardwood and a core of crisscrossed layers of other woods. Engineered wood floors are known to be stable, so they are a popular choice for areas with concrete subfloors or in basements.
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80: Percent of residential floors installed today have polyurethane coatings
3: Most popular woods: red oak, white oak, maple
100: The number of years (or longer) that a well-cared-for solid-wood floor will last with normal wear and tear.
The best feature of wood floors: They go with everything.
What's new?
Eco-friendly products. More environmentally friendly finishes, such as water-based polyurethane coatings, have lower VOCs (potentially harmful Volatile Organic Compounds) than traditional oil-based products.
Faster-drying finishes. Manufacturers are developing new technologies that use ultraviolet light to cure polyurethane finishes instantly, instead of longer waits during drying.
Care tips
Cleaning. The majority of floors today are sealed with polyurethane, so waxing is not necessary and could actually damage your polyurethaned floors. Dust mopping or vacuuming is usually all they need. For light cleaning, use a special professional cleaner such as Squeaky wood floor cleaner for polyurethaned floors.
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Trim pets' nails. Scurrying dogs and cats can do serious damage to a wood finish. Keep scratches at bay with a regular clipping schedule.
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Shop smart
If you have old wood floors that are looking dull and scratched, consider refinishing. If both the finish and stain are worn off into the grain of the wood, it has to be sanded before applying new coats of polyurethane or wax.
If you are shopping for new floors or thinking of re-staining your old ones, consider the pros and cons of dark versus light floors. Dark floors are dramatic but will show pet scratches and dust and can make a room appear smaller. Lighter floors have a timeless look and hide dirt better; plus, they never look trendy.
Buy some new doormats if you install new floors or refinish your old ones. If you keep a doormat in front of all the exterior doors to your house, it can help keep dirt from being brought in on everyone's shoes and wearing down your beautiful wood floors.


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Marvel vs. Capcom 2 – Psylocke
PlayStation 3
Psylocke by Mysterious M
Version: 1 | Updated: 05/23/00
Psi-lent assassin- Marvel vs Capcom 2
Psylocke FAQ
By: Mysterious M
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Revision History
V.1 - Uh... Whatever you see here
Psylocke first appeared in Capcom's premiere Marvel game "X-men Children of the
Atom". As a character however, she has been around much longer.
I don't follow comics very much, but from what I know (from like, grade 3)
Psylocke is an assassin with the ability to focus energy of the mind. Using her
unique powers, she can form weapons out of pure energy, which she dubs "Psi
Blades" and uses them to fight. Her fighting style is primarily Ninjitsu, and
hails on one of the X-men teams, I don't know which one. I'm sure this
information is probably horribly out of date by now since, once again, I don't
follow Marvel comics.
Back in the day of Marvel Super Heroes, Psylocke was one of my best characters.
Her combination of speed and power made her an excellent character to use.
She's changed minimally in Marvel vs Capcom 2, but in all I think she's been
strengthened quite a bit...
+ Pretty good power : speed ratio
+ Medium range reach
+ High comboability
+ All her special moves and 2 of her supers can be performed in mid air.
+ Different variations of her normal / special moves
- Unless used in combos, her normal moves have pretty long lag
- Her special moves are only decent
- She doesn't take damage all that well...
- Her fighting style has some strange priority holes that need filling
1.1 - Abbreviations
1.2 - Movelist
1.3 - Special Movelist
1.4 - Super Movelist
1.5 - Assists
1.6 - Strategies
1.7 - Facing Psylocke
1.8 - Combos
1.9 - Cool Animations
2.0 - Thanks
2.1 - Legal Stuff
1.1 - Abbreviations
LP = Light punch
MP = Medium punch (Press WP twice)
HP = Hard punch
LK = Light kick
MK = Medium kick (Press WK twice)
HK = Hard kick
1.2 - Movelist
Standing: Psylocke motions her whole body forward and commits a quick slap to
the opponent's head. While the slap alone is fine, the movement forward really
slows the move down. This jab is a bit slower than most other character's jabs.
This LP has a slightly higher hitting angle than most other people's, but I
don't see it being much of an anti-air move. Basically, just use it to start
combos since its poking priority is pretty low.
Crouching: Psylocke quickly punches up from her crouched position.
Considerably slower than her standing jab. Again, not much unless used in
Jumping: Psylocke squats her body and punches her fist diagonally downwards.
Pretty useless since her fist barely goes past her legs. You COULD use it as a
combo starter, but there are a whole bunch of better moves.
MP: (LP Twice)
Standing: Psylocke reels forward and gives a gut punch. Not a bad punch, but
the recovery time is absolutely HORRID for a MP. Generally use it in combos,
although there are certain opportunities when it can be used to counter missed
moves (even then, her HP is far better.).
Crouching: Psylocke reels forward (from a crouching position) and slaps the
opponent in the chest. As a poke it isn't bad, but again by itself it has
absolutely horrid recovery time.
Jumping: Psylocke extends her body and punches upwards. This is somewhat of a
mini air launcher but with almost 0 range. It is useful to use in air combos
because, coupled with her multiple jumping ability, it means you can extend your
combos much farther than other characters. Again, not to be used by itself.
Standing: Here's where the meat and bones are, as all incarnations of
Psylocke's HP are good. In her standing version she turns her body away from
the screen, stretching forward and punching with a Psi-aura around her hand in
the shape of a dagger. The move has GREAT priority and is her main poke. The
recovery time is easily on par with her MP (well, close enuff). The range of
this move of this move, coupled with its high priority and power make it the
ideal move to stick out when in doubt and should be used often to keep an
opponent at arms reach.
Crouching: An uppercut with her Psi-blades, also her launcher. As far as
launchers go, this one isn't bad. It's pretty reminiscent of Morrigan's, minus
the range. The power is good, and the psi-blade gives her higher priority on
jump-ins. The forward range on it is kind of lacking however, so be careful not
to over-judge.
Jumping: Psylocke squats her body and thrusts downward diagonally with a psi-
blade. A pretty good jump in; again the psi-blade gives you slightly longer
range and priority than most would anticipate. May I also comment that the
power on this move is very impressive.
Standing: Your basic head kick. The priority and speed aren't bad so don't be
afraid to stick it out. However, in the wake of her other moves, its not really
all that useful.
Crouching: Psylocke sticks her foot out. In terms of the way it looks, it is
quite reminiscent of the shotos crouching LK, but with much farther range. Of
course, with farther range comes slightly longer lag since she sticks her leg
out farther. As it stands, it's a decent poke because the range is good and it
must be blocked low.
Jumping: Psylocke performs a slightly inverted ninjitsu kick upwards. At a
first glance, you might think it's a great anti-air, but to tell you the truth I
have yet to ever win an air-to-air battle with it.
MK: (LK twice)
Standing: Psylocke faces backwards and thrusts one foot forward, somewhat like
a mule kick. A pretty good poke, but it again has lag afterward. Use it as a
counter move or as a poke, just be careful of its lag.
Crouching: Psylocke kicks upwards with one hand. Again, you may think it looks
like a great anti-air, but its nothing compared to her crouching HP launcher. I
find this kick kind of useless.
Standing: A strange sort of roll kick. Psylocke rolls her body on the ground
and kicks, then returns to her original position. The lag on this move is a
pretty sorry sight. She can generally get nailed even AFTER she hits someone
with it. Thus, I avoid using the normal version of this move. What? Normal?
Is there a special version of it?
Hold backwards - Psylocke makes a quick hop backwards and then performs her
normal HK. Again, the kick isn't all that great, but the hop is ESSENTIAL for
getting out of tight spaces.
Hold forwards - Psylocke performs the kick and then slides forward. The slide
is really, REALLY fast and can easily get on the other side of normal jumpers,
confusing the heck out of them.
Crouching: In the classic ninjitsu fashion, it's a sweep. It's not a bad move,
but its just not that good either. It can be used to keep the opponent off
balance, but it does have quite a bit of lag afterward. As one of her moves, it
rates in the middle, but compared to other sweeps it falls short.
Jumping: A strange sort of roll kick. It isn't all that effective considering
you could be jumping in with a jumping HP. The priority isn't bad, it just has
somewhat of a starting lag.
Up + HK: Psylocke does a mid-air back flip that lifts your opponent up.
EXCELLENT to buffer at the end of an aerial rave to give just enough leverage to
pull a Kachou Gakure. Other than that, its uses are rather limited do to the
long startup and pitiful range.
1.3 - Special Movelist
Motion: Down, down-forward, forward + punch (Ground or Air)
Psylocke fires a triangular projectile. This is her basic projectile move, it
comes out quickly and her recovery is near instant so don't worry about it
getting blocked. The LP travels downward at 45 degrees and the HP version
travels straight.
The HP version, as most would expect, is your basic keep away move. The only
problem is that she can't vary the speeds of her projectiles so they become
rather predictable. Still, the general speed is pretty fast, and they can be
used to counter missed moves and what not.
The LP version on the ground is really only useful for OTGing since the
traveling angle is so strange. When in the air, the LP version can be used to
pressure opponents as you make a getaway. I enjoy firing these off, then
jumping again (remember she can jump multiple times) and then letting another
one go. The first one is usually blocked, but the second one usually hits
because it is unexpected.
Motion: Down, down-forward, forward + kick (ground or air)
Psylocke's dragon punch imitation, IMO it's much better. The priority is much
high in the forward direction, but not so hot from above. Still, she covers a
large range (both in front and behind her) although the damage is somewhat
LP makes Psylocke move forwards and do the move. Since she barely leaves the
ground at all, this is the safest version. It can be used to end combos quite
efficiently since it leaves a good range between you and your fallen enemy.
It's not a bad poking move either since the range is actually quite far, but be
careful because it is a body attack.
HP makes Psylocke go straight up. The priority isn't bad for an anti air, but
it's not as good as certain other characters (such as the Dragon Punch or Flash
Kick). I don't use this version very much because I really don't think it is
that useful except for ending air combos.
Ninjitsu Teleport
Motion: Forward, down-forward, down, down-back, back + kick (ground or air)
Psylocke's very own teleport, I must say that I LOVE it. Instead of just
teleporting somewhere on the screen, 4 images of her appear to mask where she is
coming from! An absolutely essential confuse tactic, the Ninjitsu teleport has
a double role as both an offensive and defensive tactic. Added to this fact is
the ability for her to perform a sort of mini Psi-thrust coming out of the
teleport. Just hold a direction and press punch.
LP teleports her to the top left of the screen.
HP teleports her to the top right of the screen.
LK teleports her to the bottom left of the screen.
HK teleports her to the bottom right of the screen.
She does have recovery coming out of the move, but usually your opponent is too
busy guessing where you are going to come from to have time to retaliate.
1.4 - Special Moves
Motion: Down, down-forward, forward + 2 punches
Psylocke poses for a second and then rushes forward with her fist extended as
she is engulfed in a swirling mass of psi energy that comes to a point in front
of her. You can direct the initial hits by repeatedly tapping a direction right
after you perform the motion. After the initial hits you can redirect the Psi-
Thrust in a different direction should you choose to by holding a different
direction. I grade this as her second best super. It can be performed on the
ground or the air which makes it rather versatile, but it is a little slow to
combo. After the second redirection you only get about 3 hits so that's not all
that useful. I find it much more useful to stop after the first initial hits,
crouching LK, crouching HP and then an air combo. This usually does more damage
anyway. Note that the start up is pretty fast, and the super covers distance
rapidly so it can be used with much success as a counter to missed moves.
Motion: Down, down-forward, forward + 2 kicks
Psylocke ducks down and then shoots straight up while spinning and performing
her Psi-Blade. By far this is my favorite super simply due to the insane amount
of hits it does and the priority it has. Easily on par with Ken's Shinyuuken,
this super has anti-air written all over it, and few moves will hit you out.
Alternatively, you can use it as a close quarters counter super since its
startup time is instant. On the bad side, it has no frames of invincibility
(meaning that you have to have the timing quite exact as a counter) and the
recovery time is HORRIBLE (she goes up really, really far). Basically, a highly
damaging and useful super, but make sure it hits or you could be eating it.
Kochou Gakure
Motion: Down, down-back, back + 2 kicks
Psylocke poses and then releases a plethora of "psi butterflies" (hey, that's
what I call them okay!?) which circle around her close, and then get
progressively farther. Although this super is far from worthless, it is really
difficult to hit with. There is a startup delay, so air-comboing it takes a bit
of practice. Also due to the startup lag, you can't really counter effectively
with it. However, let me note that the damage on it is the highest of all her
supers, and it is really, REALLY hard to avoid so if you need to chip that last
bit of block damage from the opponent's bar, pull it off. Note that her
recovery is pretty bad on this super as well, so if you miss, or get blocked at
close range, you might be eating an air combo.
1.5 - Assists
Assists are Marvel vs Capcom 2's new feature. An assist temporarily brings in
one of your partners to perform one of their moves. I haven't used them
extensively so I'm not sure as to how useful the assists are...
Alpha: Psi-Blade
Beta: Psi-Shot
Gamma: Psi-Shot
The assist that you choose also determines which super that Psylocke will use
with his double / triple teams.
Alpha: Psi-Maelstorm
Beta: Kochou Gakure
Gamma: Psi-Thrust
1.6 - Strategies
General Strategy
Psylocke is a purely bread offense character, simple as that. Her normal moves
have been created in such a way that if you don't chain them, you'll probably be
eating some sort of punishment. Her offensive capabilities and priority scream
out to be used consistently. Psylocke's basic strategies involve using
variations of the ninjitsu teleport to close distance, attacking with a flurry
of combos and supers, and then using her back hop (back + HK) or Ninjitsu
Teleport to get out before your opponent knows what happened.
Hmm, while this is not Psylocke's specialty, she can fight relatively well in a
defensive position. Your basic defensive attacks consist of the standing LP to
keep opponents from getting a little too friendly. Sticking a few of these in a
row can get the opponent far enough away that you can perform a Ninjitsu
teleport. Her crouching LK is also a great way to surprise your opponent from
comboing you since it must be blocked low. From here you can go into an air
combo. As for supers, I wouldn't recommend using a Psi-thrust, it'd just get
you messed up at the end. The Kochou Gakure can work wonders after a few
standing jabs since it pushes your opponent far enough that you can avoid
retribution. As for jump-ins, her launcher is well adept at swatting those
pesky jumpers... and in failing that, the Psi-Maelstorm can always put a nice
dent in your opponent's life bar. Even better, launch them into a Psi-Maelstorm
= )
I would have to say that mid-range is probably Psylocke's weakest position to be
in simply because she doesn't have enough good poking moves. At mid range you
should be primarily concentrating on using your standing HP or standing MK (but
then again, you always have to LK first... what a strange button setup) to annoy
the crap out of your opponent. The standing HP should be your main one since
the damage, range and recovery are all very good. However despite these, in the
end it is best to consistently try and move your mid-range position to an
offensive one.
Combo, combo, combo. Like many characters in Marvel VS Capcom 2 (not my beloved
Jin mind you), Psylocke's offense basically comprises of a spewfully wide array
of close range combos. Basic strategies involve jumping in with a HP, air
comboing and the using a super at the end. Abuse your great priority and power
by consistently assaulting your opponent with punches and kicks. A great thing
about Psylocke is that she can jump three times in mid-air. Use this to confuse
your opponents into odd cross-ups so they wont know which direction to block.
At this point, you should land (don't perform any air moves) and crouching LK
them into an air combo (they'll be too busy trying to figure out which way they
should block your jump in that, by the time they figure out that you didn't even
use a jump in, it'll be too late). Another great offensive tactic is the
Ninjitsu Teleport. Use it to close range like mad, but also to put some
distance between you and your opponent just in case the heat gets a little too
hot. Additionally, try to fool the opponent with different Ninjitsu teleports
so that they waste supers on copy images. Another great tactic is to go on the
offense, get blocked, and end with a retreating hop (back + HK). Often times
the opponent will whiff whatever their counter attack was and leave them open
for heaps of hurtin'!
I've mentioned this many times, but here we go again. Psylocke's got tons of
different ways to cover distance. Her ground speed and dash speed are both
above average, and she jumps fairly quickly and precisely. Of course she has
her Ninjitsu Teleport as well. As defense, warp to the opposite side of the
screen (both horizontally and vertically) as your opponent was on. As offense,
never use the teleport to make your way right IN FRONT of your opponent, that
would just be sheer stupidity. Use the teleport to get behind your opponent and
follow up with a mini psi-thrust, or teleport behind the opponent when you
anticipate a fireball and super them. As for her HK, use the back hopping
version to evade counter attacks and possibly setup instances for brief spurts
of offense. Use the forward rolling version to get in under high traveling
moves (sonic booms for example) or to cross up high priority jumping moves.
High lag moves
Psylocke is rather odd in that, her moves are fully comboable, but when used
individually they seemingly have long lag times. While some people may brush
this off as a minor problem, it does turn out to be a big problem especially
when facing players with long reach and/or quick moves (Strider and Hayato
immediately come to mind). There are a few ways to get around this. First of
all, try to end with an air combo. Even if her launcher is blocked, it pushes
her a decent distance away that all but the characters with the longest reach
can still tag her. Even safer, combo and, if blocked, end off with a Psi-
Thrust, and then just go in reverse. Although it takes up a super bar,
performing this basically safeguards you against taking any kind of retaliation
damage whatsoever.
1.7 - Facing Psylocke
I've faced two really good Psylocke players in my life, a nameless fob in the
arcade, and my friend "Morrigan" (no not the character). Psylocke's basic
pattern of attack is hit and run. Attack like mad, and then retreat to a safe
position before repeating.
- Try to pick a character with long range, often times this makes it much easier
to capitalize on Psylocke's mistakes
- Try to keep her on defense or mid range, it is where she is weakest.
- Anticipate those teleports and where they will be. Even with the ability to
perform that strange Psi-spear move out of her teleports, she is still
vulnerable afterward.
- Block often. Psylocke's weakest point is her inability to defend after her
normal moves, so you should make a note of this and take advantage of it.
- Most of Psylocke's supers have big lag afterward, so try and fit your own
super in when she misses.
- Psylocke doesn't take damage all that well, big combos put her out of her
- Switch often, Psylocke can only deal damage in small spurts, so if you switch
often, most of that will be recharged.
- Stay in the corner and let her combo you to death. Get out there, falling
back is generally a mistake.
- Let her small size make you think she can't dish out damage. She is no
spiderman and thus, she can inflict large amounts of damage without incessantly
large combos
- Try and dispose of her quickly. Take your time, plan your moves and block
often. I admit that she isn't an easy character to K.O
- Get trapped in the infamous air combo, land, ducking kick, air combo deal.
Dash backwards to break the chain, or roll.
1.8 - Combos
Psylocke's first line of offense is her massively damaging chain combo routines
which can all be lead into supers. Some of them can get pretty crazy,
especially with that triple jump in there.
Dash in LP -> LK -> MP -> MK -> crouching HP -> Jump LP -> LK -> MP -> MK -> Up
+ HK -> Psi-blade
- Her basic magic series combo, minus the two medium buttons on the ground when
performing on the smaller characters.
- You can substitute a Kochou Gakure for the Psi-blade... if your timing is good
Dash in LP -> LK -> MP -> Psi-Thrust -> Cancel initial hits into a crouching LK
-> crouching HP -> Jump LP -> LK -> MP -> MK -> Kochou Gakure
- The timing is a little iffy on this one, but it DOES work.
Dash in LP -> LK -> crouching HP -> Jump LP -> LK -> MP -> Jump LP -> LK -> MP -
> Jump -> LP -> LK -> MP -> MK -> Kochou Gakure
- I love this combo because it just shows how much the Marvel engine needs
Dash in LP -> LK -> MP -> MK -> LP Psi-blade -> crouching LK -> HP Psi-blade ->
Kochou Gakure
- This is actually one of the combos pictured on Fighters.net
1.9 - Cool animations
Opening animation: Psylocke is standing with her hands on her hips, she then
whips her hair around as says "C'mon" before getting into her fighting stance.
Standing animation: The general Ninjitsu pose, one arm back and bent, the other
forward and bent with two fingers up. Her legs are spread out and bent as well.
Taunt: Psylocke beckons with her fingers and says "C'mon".
Ending animations:
1.) Psylocke whips her hair around and mutters something barely audible.
2.) Psylocke turns her back to the screen, thrusts out a hand with a psi-dagger
on it and laughs.
2.0 - Thanks
CJAYC - for posting my FAQs on his site. (I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy)
My brother - For giving my original (from MSH) Psylocke a good work out
Fob man - I don't know what your name is, but your Ryu hurts bad.
Morrigan - Your Psylocke was the basis of my "Facing Psylocke" section. Also
for help on some combos and the Up + HK move (made it VASTLY more easy to combo
that Butterfly super)
Capcom - For not turning her into yet another shoto-clone
2.1 - Legal stuff
Feel free to distribute this FAQ so long as MY NAME IS ATTACHED TO IT! Yes, we
do have a copyright thing here in Canada... No we do not eat blubber... = )
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Everyone in porn knows that Charley Chase is one of the industry's most delightfully slutty women. In every scene she's in she clearly has a great time, especially when doing something a little out of the ordinary. Her enthusiasm and ebullient personality are undeniably infectious, making her a performer with a legion of dedicated fans. Among those who have somehow managed to remain unimpressed by Ms. Chase's sexual proclivities, however, is Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Brian Cummings, who has launched a full-scale investigation into exactly how and why Chase was able to climb aboard LAFD Engine 263 and perform "lewd acts" in a scene for Brazzers site Asses in Public. Investigation findings suggest the Brazzers crew had previously arranged the shoot with firefighters from Engine 263 in Venice who were fully aware of what was going on and would therefore be subject to disciplinary action.
While Brazzers has curiously remained fairly tight-lipped about the scandal – no news on ZZ Insider and the scene in question is noticeably absent from the now-dormant Asses in Public – Charley Chase has graciously stepped forward and offered her apologies to the LAFD employees hurt by the incident. In a post on her blog, Chase insists that nobody at Engine 263 had any knowledge of what she and the crew were up to and there certainly wasn't any cooperation from their end, "but shit… it was a fun day!" The kicker is, folks, that day was three years ago! Who knows what an internal investigation will turn up with three years of bureaucratic paperwork in the way, except that Charley Chase is one of porn's most consistently impressive performers and that Brazzers have been traipsing around in public, cameras and semi-naked women in tow, for years.
If you can put up with the smarmy, condescending delivery myFOXla reporter Ed Laskos, check out Charley Chase's moment in the mainstream media spotlight as she does her bit to help the LAFD continue "serving with "courage, integrity, and pride."