text: Rock And Roll Music song "Rock and Roll Music" Single by Chuck Berry from the album One Dozen Berrys B-side "Blue Feeling" Released September 1957 (1957-09) Format 7" 45 RPM, 10" 78 RPM Recorded May 6 or 15, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois Genre Rock and roll Length 2:30 Label Chess 1671 Writer(s) Chuck Berry Producer Leonard Chess, Phil Chess Chuck Berry singles chronology "Oh Baby Doll" (June 1957) "Rock and Roll Music" (September 1957) "Sweet Little Sixteen" (January 1958) "Rock and Roll Music" Song by The Beatles from the album Beatles for Sale Released December 4, 1964 (1964-12-04) Recorded Sometime from August to October 1964 at Abbey Road Studios, London, England Genre Rock and roll Length 2:30 Label Parlophone Writer Chuck Berry Producer George Martin Beatles for Sale track listing 14 tracks Side one "No Reply" "I'm a Loser" "Baby's in Black" "Rock and Roll Music" "I'll Follow the Sun" "Mr. Moonlight" "Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!" Side two "Eight Days a Week" "Words of Love" "Honey Don't" "Every Little Thing" "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" "What You're Doing" "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" "Rock and Roll Music" Single by The Beach Boys from the album 15 Big Ones B-side "T M Song" Released May 24, 1976 Format 7" 45 RPM Recorded 1976 Genre Rock Length 2:29 Label Brother/Reprise Writer(s) Chuck Berry Producer Brian Wilson The Beach Boys singles chronology "Sail On, Sailor" (1975) "Rock and Roll Music" (1976) "It's O.K." (1976) 15 Big Ones track listing 15 tracks Side one "Rock and Roll Music" "It's O.K." "Had to Phone Ya" "Chapel of Love" "Everyone's in Love with You" "Talk to Me" "That Same Song" "T M Song" Side two "Palisades Park" "Susie Cincinnati" "A Casual Look" "Blueberry Hill" "Back Home" "In the Still of the Night" "Just Once in My Life" "Rock and Roll Music" is a 1957 hit single written and recorded by rock and roll icon Chuck Berry. The song has been widely covered, and is recognized as one of Berry's most popular and enduring compositions. In the fall of 1957, the song reached #6 on Billboard magazine's R&B Singles chart and #8 on the Hot 100 chart. The song has been recorded by many well-known artists, including Bill Haley & His Comets, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, REO Speedwagon, Mental As Anything, Humble Pie, and Manic Street Preachers. Berry performed his song on December 16, 1957, on ABC's short-lived variety program, The Guy Mitchell Show. Please note the text from Wikipedia is imported without editing or authentication. Rock And Roll Music (BFS) Rock And Roll Music (Live At The BBC) Rock And Roll Music (Anthology 2)


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ANDERSON, S.C. --- The Lees-McRae softball team dropped a pair of shutout decisions in a nonconference battle against No. 20 Anderson, 8-0 and 10-0, Sunday afternoon at Smethers Field in Anderson, S.C.
The Trojans (2-0) used dominate pitching that didn't allow a hit in either game while earning their first wins of the season. The Bobcats (0-4) only saw one runner reach base in the second game.
In the opener, Katelynn Howser sparked a four-run second inning with a RBI single before Abby Child ripped a RBI single to extend the lead to 2-0.
Danielle Swygert squeaked a RBI single through the right side before Child stole home to cap off the inning.
In the third, AU duplicated its scoring attack with another four-spot. Junior Jessica Neidigh delivered a three-run bomb to stretch the lead to 7-0. Swygert added in a RBI double to cap off the scoring while the Trojans secured the victory.
Charlie Dutton (0-2) (Monroe, Ga.) took the loss after allowing six runs in 2.1 innings of work.
Howser earned the win with four innings of no-hit ball while amassing four strikeouts.
In the second game, Molly Child blasted a two-run homer to give AU a 2-0 advantage in the first.
The Trojans struck for a pair of runs in the bottom of the third thanks to a two-run double from Charlotte Sieber.
AU exploded for six runs in the fourth when Carly Hudson connected on a two-run single up the middle. The big knock came off the bat of Courtney Czentnar, who roped a three-run blast to left.
Rebecca Martin followed suit with a solo shot to push the lead to 10-0.
Celeste Sheppard (0-2) (East Julian, N.C.) drew the loss after allowing seven earned runs in three innings.
Lauren Rudesheim corralled the win after twirling four innings of no-hit ball.
The Bobcats return to action when they travel to Brevard, N.C. to play Brevard in a doubleheader Feb. 8 starting at 1 p.m.

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ALFRED, Maine — In a video shown to jurors Wednesday afternoon, a woman identified as accused prostitute and Kennebunk fitness instructor Alexis Wright dropped her towel and stood naked in her storefront window to attract the attention of men apparently working across the street.
The 1-minute, 45-second video accompanied about 100 printouts of digital images, allegedly depicting Wright and various men engaged in sex acts, as evidence turned over to the jury in the first of two major trials in the high-profile Kennebunk prostitution case.
Absent from the video or the images, however, was Mark Strong Sr., the Thomaston insurance broker and part-time private investigator on trial. Strong faces 12 counts of promotion of prostitution and one count of conspiracy to promote prostitution for allegedly helping Wright run a prostitution business from her Kennebunk Zumba studio.
Daniel Lilley, representing Strong in the case, made a blanket objection to the images and then to the video, the latter of which was found on one of Wright's external hard drives during the investigation. Lilley argued that since the video was not seized from Strong and did not depict him, it should not be introduced as evidence in Strong's trial.
The video, in which a woman identified by Saco police Detective Frederick Williams as Wright, represented the second time in the trial the jury saw or heard of the accused prostitute dropping her towel, allegedly for attention.
During the first day of testimony in the trial last week, witness Dan Racaniello, manager of a pizza parlor that neighbored Wright's former Pura Vida dance studio on York Street, told jurors she met him at the door wearing only a towel one night when he was delivering a spaghetti and meatball meal. Racaniello said Wright invited him inside, dropped her towel, approached him naked and gave him a tip of more than $40, but that he resisted what he felt were sexual advances.
In the video shown Wednesday afternoon, the woman identified as Wright is seen inside what appears to be her Zumba studio, during daylight hours, in a towel.The woman steps up on a chair in front of the storefront windows and takes down a paper sign hanging in the window, all the while talking about getting the attention of men who appear to be working across the street.
"I'm going to try and get them to come over and have some fun," the woman in the video says to the camera. After making sure the men are looking, and while still standing on the chair, she then drops her towel.
"He's taken notice. They've both taken notice," she said in the video. "And now they're watching."
The introduction of sexually explicit evidence in the trial has been a point of contention.
Superior Court Justice Nancy Mills on Wednesday afternoon allowed about 100 sexually explicit images to be turned over to the jury only after more than two days of sporadic debate between attorneys in the case.
The printouts of digital screenshots were passed around among jurors in the jury box, who showed little expression as each picture passed hands.
The jury was released early on Tuesday to provide Mills and the attorneys more time to discuss how many — and which — sexually explicit images to allow in the trial. The start of the trial on Wednesday was delayed by another hour while the discussion continued on that front.
"I looked at every photograph this morning — and I understand [prosecutors] have 577 of them — and I think showing every one of them is unnecessary and prejudicial," Mills told the attorneys during the morning session, before jurors were invited into the courtroom.
The judge asked prosecutors to select a few "representative" images from each of several batches of images, taken from different encounters between Wright and alleged johns. The judge and defense attorneys then are expected to review the prosecution's whittled-down selection of images and come to an agreement about the number and selection.
That agreement was proving hard to come by as exchanges between the defense and the prosecution took on terse, heated tones. Deputy District Attorney Justina McGettigan said her team had cut its list of images depicting the alleged exchange of money between Wright and the accused johns to 15 pictures, but defense co-counsel Tina Nadeau said the Strong team would agree to only three of them.
The gap was wider on how many images depicting sex acts should be allowed, with McGettigan proposing "significantly fewer" than the stack of 577 previously referenced, and the defense still opposing all of them. That group of 577 images already is cut down from a larger group of more than 13,000 such images, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Lilley told the court that even if some of the explicit images are allowed, many are taken of the same men apparently during the same alleged session with Wright, and said allowing pictures showing multiple "events" in the same encounter is unnecessary.
"As long as you can see it's a sexual act [that took place], you don't need every event," Lilley said.
Upon their arrival in the courtroom Wednesday, the jurors had received their first exposure to electronic evidence, hearing a detective's testimony about text messages and emails exchanged between defendant Strong Sr.'s phone and that of accused partner and alleged prostitute Alexis Wright.
In the morning, after an hourlong delay while the defense and prosecution met in the judge's chambers to continue debate on the sexual images, jurors entered the second-floor courtroom at the York County courthouse to hear continued testimony by Detective Frederick Williams of the Saco Police Department.
Williams had testified previously in the trial, but was recalled by prosecutors on Wednesday to discuss text messages allegedly exchanged between Strong and Wright.
During a brief description by Williams of how police investigators obtained Wright's cellphone and extracted her text messaging history, the jurors were given packets of papers supposedly showing the content of the texts exchanged. The same packets were not immediately distributed to members of the media or public. Court personnel told reporters that evidence will not be released publicly until after the trial.
Detective Lenny Bolton of the Maine State Police testified Tuesday that from Feb. 10, 2010, to Feb. 28, 2012, 13,289 text messages were sent from phone numbers associated with Wright to phone numbers associated with Strong. Bolton said during the same time frame, 7,625 text messages were sent from Strong phones to Wright phones.
Those text messages contributed to 25,111 total text and phone call exchanges between phones associated with Wright and Strong during the 789-day period, Bolton testified.
Strong faces 12 counts of promotion of prostitution and one count of conspiracy to promote prostitution, accused of conspiring with Wright to organize a prostitution business out of her Kennebunk Zumba studio. Wright faces a separate trial scheduled to begin later this spring.


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VIDEO: USA-Slovenia recap
HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — The U.S. National Team wrapped up its exhibition schedule on Tuesday with an easy 101-71 win over Slovenia in Gran Canaria, Spain. Next stop: Bilbao, for World Cup pool play, which begins Saturday.
Anthony Davis was, by far, the best player on the floor, registering 18 points, nine rebounds, three steals and five blocks in less than 19 minutes of action. He controlled the paint and snuffed out Slovenia's pick-and-rolls. Basically, if he was in the area, they couldn't complete a pass or make a shot.
It was a 10-point game at the half, but the U.S. scored 27 points on its first 13 possessions of the third quarter to go up by 31. The highlight of that run was a lob from Kenneth Faried to Davis on a roll to the hoop.
The U.S. finished 4-0 in exhibitions and still hasn't lost a game (whether it counts or not) since the semifinals of the 2006 World Championship.
Here are some notes from Tuesday's action …
- So … many … fouls. The officiating in this game was a stark contrast to that of Friday's game against Puerto Rico at Madison Square Garden, when both sets of guards got away with a lot of contact on the perimeter. Hand checks were called on Tuesday, with the two teams combining for 53 fouls in 40 minutes.
- The U.S. was the bigger beneficiary of the whistles, getting to the line 46 times. But they shot just 29-for-46 (63 percent), leaving several points at the stripe. They had shot 81 percent through their first three exhibition games.
- At the other end of the floor, the U.S. paid for its aggressiveness on the perimeter. Stephen Curry fouled out in the first minute of the fourth quarter after just 14 minutes of playing time. Klay Thompson picked up two hand-check fouls on the first possession he was on the court. And Kyrie Irving and James Harden each picked up three fouls apiece. The Americans have depth in the backcourt, but not as much as they'd have if they hand't brought four centers on the roster. The guards are going to have to do a better job of adjusting to the way games are being called.
- We got a basic look at the U.S. rotation. Derrick Rose (or Irving when Rose starts), Thompson and Rudy Gay were the first guys off the bench. DeMarcus Cousins backed up Davis, and DeMar DeRozan was the 10th man. Andre Drummond and Mason Plumlee only played garbage time.
- The U.S. starters had huge plus-minus marks, while the reserves were a mix of low pluses and minuses. In fact, in 14:23 with four or five U.S. starters on the floor, the score was USA 45, Slovenia 8. In the other 25:37, with three or fewer American starters in the game, Slovenia outscored the U.S. 63-56.
- Thompson shot well (3-for-5 on threes) and Gay was active on the offensive glass, but the bench was otherwise disappointing.
- Rose did not play well. He showed flashes of his quickness, but did not finish plays. He shot 0-for-3 and committed three turnovers in 20 minutes of action.
- The U.S. halfcourt offense still needs work. There was some real sloppiness on Tuesday, especially in the fourth quarter.
- Goran Dragic had his moments – he went around-the-back to get past Rose on the break – in limited minutes, but his brother was the star for Slovenia. Zoran Dragic scored 16 points on 6-for-12 shooting and grabbed six boards.


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Skee Lo's 'I Wish' Featured in Toyota Commercial for Super Bowl
After making it big in the '90s with his hit single, 'I Wish,' in 1995, we hardly heard from Skee Lo again. But with the help of Toyota, the rapper and his iconic song have reemerged and will be making an appearance at the Super Bowl through the car brand's new commercial.
'Big Bang Theory' star Kaley Cuoco, who is decked out in purple, is portrayed as a bit of a genie as she walks her dog through the city and literally makes a guy taller as well as turning another one into a basketball player. The actions are synched perfectly with Skee Lo's lyrics until we see her get into what looks like a Highlander Hybrid.
The teaser for this ad went viral with 2.5 million views in three days, and no doubt this will do the same. So even if you're team may not win the Super Bowl this year, rest assured that at least you'll have this ad and Skee Lo to keep you entertained.
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Tony didn't die updated 2012#1
Am new to the board and wanted to express my thoughts on the last episode, Made in America and the ending. If you remember the episode, the whole show was about suspicion. Every character in every scene you were suspecting to get whacked or whack someone. I believe in the end, the audience was whacked. We were not suspecting the show to end when and how it did. We were made to believe that everyone was going to whack Tony in the diner. The mog was to obvious. Tony had his family around him. It was a happy time. New York was back in harmony with NJ. Life goes on, but the show ended when we didn't expect. The viewers were whacked big time. Great ending to a great series.


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From the looks of Motorola's new device the Droid Pro, it looks as if they are pointing squarely at the BlackBerry device users. With such a crazy year already and many users mixed on whether to be a Droid user or BB user, this would seem like a good move on the part of Motorola with their first vertically-oriented candybar device with a QWERTY keyboard.
However, comparing it to the latest BlackBerry handset the Bold 9780 the resemblance between the two QWERTY keyboards are striking. The keyboard on the BlackBerry 9780 is definitely better. On almost every level, the DROID Pro outperforms the BlackBerry smartphones that Verizon Wireless carries. Yet, on a BlackBerry, youre getting not only the best email experience on a mobile device, but a darn good voice calling experience as well.
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Samoa, country in the central South Pacific Ocean, among the westernmost of the island countries of Polynesia.
According to legend, Samoa is known as the "Cradle of Polynesia" because Savai'i island is said to be Hawaiki, the Polynesian homeland. Samoan culture is undoubtedly central to Polynesian life, and its styles of music, dance, and visual art have gained renown throughout the Pacific islands and the world. The country's international image is that of a tropical paradise inhabited by tourist-friendly flower-wreathed peoples. Yet this belies the economic, social, and political challenges of this diverse and evolving Pacific microstate. Samoa gained its independence from New Zealand in 1962 after more than a century of foreign influence and domination, but it remains a member of the Commonwealth. The country was known as Western Samoa until 1997. Its capital and main commercial centre is Apia, on the island of Upolu.
Samoa lies approximately 80 miles (130 km) west of American Samoa, 1,800 miles (2,900 km) northeast of New Zealand, and 2,600 miles (4,200 km) southwest of Hawaii. Samoa, which shares the Samoan archipelago with American Samoa, consists of nine islands west of longitude 171° W—Upolu, Savai'i, Manono, and Apolima, all of which are inhabited, and the uninhabited islands of Fanuatapu, Namu'a, Nu'utele, Nu'ulua, and Nu'usafee. (The six Samoan islands east of the meridian are part of American Samoa.) The total land area is smaller than the U.S. state of Rhode Island but about 2.5 times larger than Hong Kong.
Relief and drainage
Savai'i, the largest island, covers 659 square miles (1,707 square km) and rises to a maximum elevation of 6,095 feet (1,858 metres) at Mount Silisili, a volcano at the island's approximate centre. Mounts Māfane, Mata'aga, and Maugaloa are also imposing peaks. Upolu, the other large island, lies about 10 miles (16 km) to the east across the Apolima Strait. Upolu is more elongated and uneven in shape than Savai'i and has lower average elevations. It occupies an area of 432 square miles (1,119 square km), including five offshore islets, and rises to 3,608 feet (1,100 metres) at Mount Fito. Manono and Apolima are smaller islands lying in the strait between the two main islands.
All the country's rivers are shallow, are limited in extent, and radiate directly from the central highlands to the coast. The islands are rocky, formed by volcanic activity that progressed from east to west within the past seven million years. They are ringed by coral reefs and shallow lagoons except where the shorelines are marked by cliffs formed by lava flows. Mount Matavanu on Savai'i last erupted intermittently during 1905–11. Samoa's volcanic soils support lush vegetation but are easily eroded by runoff.
The climate is tropical and humid. Precipitation varies from more than 100 inches (2,540 mm) on the northern and western coasts to 300 inches (7,620 mm) inland. Temperatures vary little, averaging 80 °F (27 °C) and ranging between 73 and 86 °F (23 and 30 °C) throughout the year. The southeast trade winds prevail, varying occasionally to northerlies during the wet season (November or December to April), when severe storms are liable to occur. Typhoons occasionally cause widespread damage.
Plant and animal life
Samoa's lush vegetation includes inland rainforests and cloud forests. Large sections of the coast have been covered with taro plantations and coconut groves. The islands support limited animal life, although more than 50 species of birds are found there, at least 16 of them indigenous, including rare tooth-billed pigeons. The only native mammals are flying foxes, which are endangered, and other species of smaller bats. Rats, wild cattle, and pigs have been introduced. Among the smaller animals found in Samoa are several species of lizards, two snakes of the boa family, centipedes and millipedes, scorpions, spiders, and a wide variety of insects.
O Le Pupu Pue National Park (1978), Samoa's first national park, occupies some 11 square miles (28 square km) on south-central Upolu. Conservation efforts have been lax in many Samoan communities. Soil erosion, resulting from farming steep slopes and clear-cutting forests, has produced runoff that has damaged many of Samoa's lagoons and coral reefs. Industrial and residential pollution has become a concern in and around Apia. Wildfires in 1998, which were started by farmers clearing land for cultivation, destroyed nearly one-fourth of the forests on Savai'i.
Ethnic groups
Samoans are mainly of Polynesian heritage, and about nine-tenths of the population are ethnic Samoans. Euronesians (people of mixed European and Polynesian ancestry) account for most of the rest of the population, and a tiny fraction are of wholly European heritage.
Samoan is the country's official language; legislative activity is conducted in both Samoan and English as required by the constitution. Samoan is believed to be among the oldest of the Polynesian tongues and is closely related to the Maori, Tahitian, Hawaiian, and Tongan languages. A large number of Samoan words reflect maritime traditions, including names for ocean currents, winds, landforms, stars, and directions. Some verb forms indicate the relative positions of objects, including directions of movement toward or away from the speaker. English is widely spoken as a second language.
Samoans traditionally had a pantheistic religion, where family elders performed most rituals; they appear not to have had a dominant priestly class. They readily adopted Christian teachings following European contact, and even the more remote villages built churches, often of grand proportions. The Congregational Christian Church of Samoa (formerly the London Missionary Society) is the dominant religion, with about one-third of the population. Approximately one-fifth of Samoans are Roman Catholics, and Mormons and Methodists each constitute about one-sixth of the population. Pentecostals, Assemblies of God, and other Christian groups have more-limited memberships.
Settlement patterns
Most Samoans have lived in coastal villages since the region was first settled, and about four-fifths of the population is still rural. Apia, on the northern coast of Upolu, is the country's only town as well as the main port and centre for services and trade; it contains approximately one-fifth of Samoa's population.
Demographic trends
The birth rate in Samoa has been high since the 1950s, when the population reached about 80,000. Although that number had doubled by the mid-1990s, the population's rate of increase remained markedly lower than the world average because tens of thousands of Samoans had emigrated to New Zealand, the United States, Australia, and elsewhere. Life expectancy at birth is 67 years for males and 72 for females. About one-third of Samoans are less than 15 years old.
Close kinship ties within the villages traditionally bound Samoans into a collectivist society, but a cash economy developed following European contact, mainly based on agricultural exports. Tourism, services, and light manufacturing became increasingly important after 1950. Other major sources of capital now include remittances from Samoans living abroad (mainly in the United States and New Zealand), which account for as much as one-sixth of household income, and grants from the United States, the United Nations, the Commonwealth, and other foreign entities.
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing
Agriculture accounts for two-fifths of Samoa's gross domestic product (GDP) and nearly two-thirds of the workforce; however, production does not meet local demand, and large quantities of food are imported. Major crops include coconuts, taro, pineapples, mangoes, and other fruits. Typhoons caused widespread damage in the 1990s to several crops, including taro, which was also devastated by taro leaf blight. Cattle, pigs, and poultry are raised for local consumption. Forestry has made increasing contributions to the economy, partly because of the government's replanting programs. The Samoan fishing industry remains small, based primarily on catches made from outrigger canoes.
Resources and power
Samoa has few natural resources apart from its agricultural lands, surrounding waters, and pleasant scenery and climate; nearly half of the land area is covered by forests. Hydroelectric power provides most of the country's energy needs; petroleum-fired thermal generators account for much of the remainder.
Samoa's diversified light manufactures include beer, cigarettes, coconut products (mainly creams and oils), corned beef, soap, paint, soft drinks and juices, and handicrafts. Most are produced for local markets. A Japanese-owned electric assembly plant, which opened in the 1990s, is Samoa's leading employer after the national government.
The currency of Samoa is the tala, which consists of 100 sene ("cents"). The money supply is controlled and regulated by the Central Bank of Samoa, which was established in 1984. Samoa also has several commercial banks. Banking and finance account for only a tiny fraction of employment, although numerous companies have registered in Samoa since offshore banking services were initiated in 1988.
Samoa has a persistently negative balance of trade. Major trading partners include New Zealand, China, Australia, the United States, and Japan. Food, industrial supplies, machinery, consumer goods, and petroleum products are the main imports. Coconut products, copra, cacao, and beer account for a majority of exports.
Government (including education) and tourism are the foundations of Samoa's service sector. Tourism has been an increasing source of foreign exchange, with a steady supply of visitors from American Samoa and growing numbers from New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and Europe. Popular tourist sites, in addition to Samoa's white-sand beaches, include Mulinu'u, where the parliament and traditional meeting and burial grounds are located; Fuipisia Falls, which descends some 180 feet (55 metres); and Vailima, where the head of state now resides in the last home of the 19th-century Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.
Labour and taxation
Nearly two-thirds of Samoans are farmers or agricultural workers. About one-fifth of the population works in government, tourist, or other service sectors, and the central government is Samoa's single largest employer. There are several trade unions in Samoa, though only a small percentage of the country's workforce are members. The majority of the country's workforce are men, but women are expected to play an increasing role. In 1991 the Ministry of Women's Affairs was established to encourage and promote women's employment.
More than half of the government's revenue comes from taxes, and nearly one-third is from grants. In 1994 a value-added tax on goods and services was introduced amid great protest.
Transportation and telecommunications
International flights connect the islands with American Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, and Japan. Regular shipping services link with ports abroad, including those in Hawaii and California to the northeast and Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia to the southwest. About two-fifths of Samoan roadways are paved, including many coastal highways and the major streets of Apia. There are no railways.
Samoa has several thousand telephones in use, as well as international phone connections via undersea cable and satellite. The number of cellular phones in use has increased rapidly since the mid-1990s.
Government and society
Constitutional framework
In 1962 Samoa promulgated its constitution as the first independent microstate in the Pacific region, and in 1970 it joined the Commonwealth. Samoa has a parliamentary government that blends Samoan and New Zealander traditions. The constitution originally provided for a constitutional monarchy under two coheads of state, with the provision that when one died (as happened in 1963), the other would continue as sole monarch and head of state for life, after which future heads of state would be elected by the Legislative Assembly (Fono Aoao Faitulafono) to five-year terms. The prime minister is elected by the assembly and appoints a cabinet from among its members. The Legislative Assembly has 49 members. Two are directly elected by the country's non-Samoan and mixed ethnic groups. The remaining 47 are directly elected from among candidates who are Samoan matai (chiefs).
Local government
Samoan local government is the responsibility of more than 360 villages in 11 administrative districts, five of which are based on Upolu—A'ana, Aiga-i-le-Tai (with Manono and Apolima islands), Atua, Tuamasaga, and Va'a-o-Fonoti—and six on Savali—Fa'asaleleaga, Gaga'emauga, Gaga'ifomauga, Palauli, Satupa'itea, and Vaisigano. Each of Samoa's several thousand aiga (extended families) designates at least one matai to lead and represent it; the matai, in turn, form village councils to administer local affairs.
Justice and security
The justice system is headed by a Supreme Court, whose chief justice is appointed by the head of state on the advice of the prime minister. Supreme Court judges also preside over the Court of Appeal. Among the lower courts are the Magistrate's Court, which hears most criminal cases, and the Lands and Titles Court, which handles civil matters.
Samoa has a police force but no standing military. New Zealand is bound by treaty to provide military assistance upon request.
Political process
Universal suffrage for Samoans age 21 years and older was instituted in 1990. Political parties first appeared in Samoa in the late 1970s, and by the turn of the 21st century there were more than five. The major parties are the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) and the Samoan National Development Party (SNDP). Women participate in government but hold few elected offices.
Health and welfare
Immunization programs since the late 20th century have greatly reduced the incidence of disease, particularly among children; however, there are few doctors, and the quality of hospital care is limited. Obesity and poorly balanced diets are leading health concerns. The leading causes of death are congestive heart failure, cancers, cerebrovascular diseases, accidents, pneumonia, and septicemia. Water shortages are common because of the islands' porous soils and limited watersheds; wells and cisterns are the only water source for much of the rural population.
Nearly all Samoans are literate. Education is compulsory between the ages of 5 and 14; however, only a small fraction of the population has completed secondary school. Selected pupils receive higher education at government- or mission-run secondary, vocational, or teacher-training institutions. The University of the South Pacific has its School of Agriculture at Alafua, near Apia. Some students attend the National University of Samoa (1984) and Avele College (1924), but most enroll at overseas institutions such as Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, the University of Hawaii, and Brigham Young University–Hawaii.
Cultural life
Although some Samoan values and customs have changed markedly since European contact, particularly in Apia, Samoans have strived to preserve the fa'a Samoa ("Samoan way of life"); thus, many traditions and outward features of rural life have remained virtually unchanged.
Daily life and social customs
Most Samoan villages have a church and a meetinghouse, which doubles as a cultural centre. Clustered around the village green are several fale—traditional oval-shaped houses with open sides and thatched or corrugated tin roofs supported by wooden pillars. Rolled palm-leaf mats can be let down at the sides of each house to offer protection from the elements. Many fale have been replaced by rectangular houses of timber or concrete blocks with walls and windows. Kitchens are often located in separate cookhouses.
Typical foods, grown or caught locally, include taro, yams, breadfruit, fish, and shellfish. Chicken and pork dishes are also eaten. Imported foodstuffs have become increasingly common, including Asian rice, frozen meats, and packaged foods and beverages from other parts of the world. Kava, a traditional nonalcoholic, euphoria-producing drink, is prepared from a tropical pepper plant and consumed at social events, mainly by matai, who customarily pour a small amount on the ground before and after drinking. Related customs include sitting cross-legged in a home before addressing one's host and refraining from eating while standing indoors or walking outdoors.
The arts
Music, dance, tattooing, and oral literature are significant art forms in Samoa. Males at age 12 or 13 visit a local tufuga (tattoo artist) for tattooing from waist to knee, a prolonged and often painful process that is considered a rite of passage. Christian missionaries in the 19th century, believing that tattooing was contrary to biblical teachings, eliminated the practice from many Polynesian islands, but Samoans maintained the tradition and helped revive it among Tahitians and other groups in the late 20th century. Few early works of siapo (bark cloth) art, basketry, and featherwork have survived, and handicrafts are now produced only in limited numbers.
Music has always been central to Samoan life. Vocal music is predominant, both in religious services and social gatherings, and is accompanied by rhythmic percussion and wind instruments. Dances often presented for tourists include sāsā (a sitting dance performed mainly through arm movements) and fa'ataupati (in which men rhythmically slap their limbs and torsos). Samoans often entertain one another at weddings and other family gatherings with ula, in which two groups alternate between singing and dancing. The pese is another popular song style.
Oral literature in Samoa dates from earliest settlement. Genealogies, legends, chants, and spells have all been passed down and elaborated through the generations, and matai are still expected to deliver rhythmic and poetical orations at council meetings and other major events. Many of these traditions have been translated into written form since the 19th century. International acclaim has been garnered by some Samoan writers, including Albert Wendt, who has explored aspects of the fa'a Samoa—including power struggles, social restrictions, and family relations—in works such as Pouliuli (1977) and The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man and Other Stories (1999).
Cultural institutions
Samoa has few major cultural institutions apart from the School of Agriculture, Avele College, and the National University of Samoa. The Robert Louis Stevenson Museum (1990) and the Nelson Memorial Public Library (1959) are located in Apia.
Sports and recreation
The main holidays include Independence Day (usually celebrated for three days: June 1–3), Christmas, and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Although Samoan music and dance styles remain popular, radio stations often broadcast imported Hawaiian and other Polynesian music, as well as rock. American and Chinese films, the latter with English subtitles, are commonly viewed.
Rugby football is a popular sport among Samoans, who have long played for New Zealand and Samoan national teams. Australian Rules football is also increasingly popular. Entire communities sometimes play kirikiti, which is similar to cricket but involves teams of unrestricted size; games are social as well as sporting events, with spirited cheering and singing by spectators and unlimited food and drinks provided by the host village. Samoans and other Polynesians have used outrigger canoes since establishing their first island settlements. Most of the canoes are confined to lagoons, but many are also paddled in ocean races. Footracing, cockfighting, tiak (darts), and spear throwing are also traditional Samoan sports. Select groups participate in tennis, golf, bowling, and other competitions. Samoa has competed in the Olympic Games since 1984.
Media and publishing
The country's newspapers include The Samoa Observer, the Samoa News, Savali, and the Samoa Weekly; each has a limited circulation—from a few hundred to a few thousand copies. Samoa has three radio stations. Its first full-time television broadcaster began operating in 1993, offering locally produced programs and satellite transmissions from overseas. (For further discussion of Samoan cultural life, see Oceanic arts and Polynesian culture.)
The following discussion focuses on Samoa since European contact. For additional treatment in a regional context, see Pacific Islands, history of.
Early period
Polynesians traveling in outrigger canoes arrived in the Samoan archipelago about 1000 bc, as indicated by Lapita pottery shards found in Mulifanua Lagoon on Upolu. Characteristics of the Samoan language indicate that the settlers probably came from Tonga. Local pottery manufacturing ceased by about ad 200, by which time Samoa had become central to much of the settlement of eastern Polynesia. Contact between Samoans, Tongans, and Fijians continued and was recorded in hundreds of legends and genealogies that were passed down through oral literature. Like other Polynesian peoples, Samoans were master navigators, boatbuilders, and fishers; every aspect of their society was related in some way to maritime life. Basic agriculture was also developed, including the cultivation of yams, taro, breadfruit, bananas, sugarcane, and coconuts. Most Samoans lived in villages ruled by councils of matai (chiefs), and numerous fortified villages of 30 or more houses grew up along the coast. Extended blood ties traditionally linked family groups and villages, with the major families striving for supremacy and regularly plunging the islands into warfare.
European influence
European navigators, who began to visit Samoa in 1722, were at first welcomed for the technology and goods that they brought. John Williams, a member of the London Missionary Society, arrived to establish a Christian mission in 1830. He made a convert of Malietoa Vainu'upo, who had just conquered all of Samoa, and the rest of the population soon followed suit. A foreign settlement had developed around Apia Harbour by the 1850s. Samoans began to resist, however, as more settlers arrived from the United States, Great Britain, and Germany and tried to persuade their respective governments to annex Samoa. Rival matai played the three foreign powers against each other in pursuit of their factional wars, and they, in turn, frustrated attempts by the Samoans to establish a national government. In 1878 the United States signed a treaty allowing it to establish a naval station in Pago Pago Harbour (now in American Samoa). Great Britain and Germany signed similar agreements the following year. Warfare between the three powers in 1889 was prevented only by a great typhoon, which sank six of their warships. They subsequently signed the Berlin Act to provide for the neutrality of the islands and to avoid further conflict; however, in 1899 the United States annexed eastern Samoa, whereas Germany annexed the western part of the islands—Western Samoa. The division was carried out without consulting the Samoan people, and many of them resented it deeply.
In Western Samoa the drive for political independence began in 1908 with the Mau a Pule, a movement led by the orator chief Lauaki Namulau'ulu. The matai were dissatisfied with the German governor's attempts to change the fa'a Samoa and centralize all authority in his hands. After the governor called in warships, Lauaki and nine of his leading supporters surrendered, whereupon they were tried and exiled to Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
Rule by New Zealand
Troops from New Zealand occupied Western Samoa in August 1914, meeting no resistance from the German or Samoan populations. However, the New Zealand administration was accused of negligence after more than one-fifth of Western Samoans died during the influenza epidemic of 1918–19, and most Samoans united against foreign rule. The League of Nations nevertheless granted New Zealand a mandate over Western Samoa in 1920. The New Zealand-appointed governor made additional attempts to undermine the power of the matai leadership and that of the local business community; in response, an organized political movement called the Mau ("Strongly Held View") emerged. The Mau was led by Olaf Frederick Nelson, whose mother was Samoan, but New Zealand outlawed the movement, claiming that Nelson and other "part-Europeans" were misleading the Samoans. New Zealand troops were sent in, and Nelson was exiled to New Zealand. During a Mau demonstration in December 1929, the matai Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III and other unarmed Mau supporters were shot and killed by New Zealand troops. This only strengthened the Mau's determination.
New Zealand's first Labour government came to power in 1935 and soon recognized the Mau as a legal political organization. Relations between Samoans and New Zealanders improved somewhat, but many Samoans remained dissatisfied. The islands' economy improved during World War II, when a garrison of U.S. troops was stationed on Upolu and built several roads and an airport. New Zealand allowed a Western Samoan council of state and a legislative assembly to be established in the late 1940s, and a constitutional convention met in 1954. Several government reforms were carried out during the next few years, amid continuing Samoan agitation for independence.
In 1962 Western Samoa became the first Pacific nation of its size to regain its political independence. The monarch Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II became the cohead of state in 1962 and head of state (O le Ao o le Malo) the following year, a post he held until his death in 2007. Major political figures in the late 20th century included Fiame Faumuina Mataafa, who served twice as prime minister (1962–70 and 1973–75) and Tupuola Taisi Efi, who was prime minister during 1976–82. The religious makeup of Samoa was altered markedly in the late 20th century, as many in the country joined the Mormon church. The tourist trade grew rapidly during the same period, partly because of improvements to Upolu's transportation infrastructure. Tofilau Eti Alesana, who served as prime minister during 1985–98, had mixed success with the economy and engendered controversy by attempting to censor critics of the government. A referendum in 1990 instituted universal suffrage, and in 1997 the legislature changed the country's name from Western Samoa to Samoa, despite protests from neighbouring American Samoa. The islands continued to face economic and social challenges at the beginning of the 21st century.
On Sept. 29, 2009, the Samoan archipelago was shaken by an undersea earthquake of magnitude 8.3, centred some 120 miles (190 km) south of Apia in the Pacific Ocean. The quake generated a tsunami that flooded Samoa in several waves, causing extensive damage; villages were flattened throughout the islands, and scores of people were killed.
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HSLDA Pries Portfolio Loose from School District
HSLDA Senior Counsel Dee Black assists members with questions and issues regarding Pennsylvania homeschool law. He and his wife homeschooled their children. Read more >>
Earlier this month, Home School Legal Defense Association assisted a member family in the Williamsport Area School District who had been unable to obtain the return of the portfolio submitted for their son's home education program at the end of the 2011-2012 school year.
State law requires homeschoolers to submit a portfolio of records to the local public school superintendent by June 30 of each year. The superintendent then reviews the portfolio and determines whether the student is receiving an "appropriate education." The law also requires the superintendent to return the portfolio to the parent but does not impose a specific deadline for doing so. Legal principles would imply a reasonable time for return of the portfolio. Most superintendents return the materials within a month or two, prior to the start of the next school term.
In this case, the mother of the student had submitted the portfolio in early June 2012. Ten months later she still had not gotten the portfolio back, despite repeated requests made to school officials. She became concerned that the public school officials had lost or misplaced her homeschool records.
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With Game of Thrones' eighth and final season on the way, it would be easy for fans of HBO's epic fantasy series to start getting bummed out about that proverbial winter finally coming for the series. However, the network knows well enough that it's got some molten gold on its head -- er, hands -- and gave the green light to at least one prequel series pilot (but there may be as many as four) that would explore a very, very ancient era of Westeros' history.
Here's a look at everything we know about the first Game of Thrones prequel series so far.
It'll travel way back in time. After HBO ordered a pilot for one of the quartet of pitched prequels, the network released an official logline that holds a few clues about the new-old journey, which will venture back thousands of years and shed light on some familiar subjects. "It chronicles the world's descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour. And only one thing is for sure: from the horrifying secrets of Westeros' history to the true origin of the White Walkers, the mysteries of the East to the Starks of legend... it's not the story we think we know," the teaser reads.
That means fans will get to journey even further back into the Stark family's history than even Bran's time-hopping visions have so far allowed, and apparently there's even more to learn about how the White Walkers came to be. Legend has it that the Children of the Forest created the White Walkers to protect themselves from the First Men before the monsters got out of hand -- at which point they helped erect the Wall to protect Westeros -- but it sounds like the history scrolls and cave drawings might not tell the whole story.
Its title may tell us even more. A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin has confirmed that the title for the new series will be The Long Night, which may relate to an era oft-referenced throughout Game of Thrones -- by the Red Witch Melisandre (Carice van Houten) and Old Nan (Margaret John), in particular -- which took place during the Age of Heroes when winter came and cast a shadow of darkness across the world for a generation.
The cast is starting to come together. The first cast member to be announced for the potential series' pilot is none other than Naomi Watts, whose role is as-yet-unnamed but has been described as a compelling socialite with a dark secret. She was soon joined by Poldark star Josh Whitehouse for a "key role" that is not expected to be the male lead of the hopeful show.
In January, it was revealed that Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: Episode IX) will also take on a leading role, with Denise Gough (Guerrilla), Jamie Campbell Bower (The Crimes of Grindelwald, Mortal Instruments), Sheila Atim (Harlots), Toby Regbo (Reign), Alex Sharp (To the Bone), Georgie Henley (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Ivanno Jeremiah (Humans) rounding out the cast.
There'll be fresh blood behind the scenes. Game of Thrones' executive producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss are not going to be involved with this prequel, as they've been tied up with the main series' final season. Instead, it'll be Jane Goldman who runs the show if it's picked up to series, with Daniel Zelman (Bloodline) producing alongside current Game of Thrones producer Vince Gerardis.
It'll begin shooting in 2019. HBO president of programming Casey Bloys confirmed that the network aims to get cameras rolling on the pilot episode next year.
There might be more where this one came from: The script for the first Game of Thrones prequel pilot comes from Jane Goldman and Martin himself and was one of four submitted to the network for consideration. The others were written by Max Borenstein, Brian Helgeland, and Carly Wray and Martin, and would explore other eras of the fictional realm.
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SOUTHPORT, England, July 25 (UPI) -- Gene Sauers rode a late string of birdies Thursday into the first-round lead at the Senior British Open Championship in England.
Sauers had consecutive birdies over Nos. 15-17 for a 3-under-par 67 that allowed him to pass the early leaders for a one-stroke lead at Royal Birkdale.
Bernhard Langer, Frankie Minoza, David Frost and Peter Senior are tied for second at 2-under and five are at 1-under.
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Sauers, at the tournament low limit of age 50, won three times in the PGA Tour but is looking for his first senior-level title.
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Langer, who won the Senior British Open in 2010, closed fast with three birdies in his final four holes. Minoza was 4-over after three holes -- he had a 7 at the par-4 third -- but was 5-under on the second nine, closing with four birdies in the last five holes.
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To purchase a new season swim pass, all family members on the pass must have their photos taken at a Community Center or at the Park Office. Key fobs will be issued upon registration, but photos must be taken before the fob is activated and admission into the pools is allowed.
From May 20 through July 26, season swim passes will be available for purchase from 12 noon to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, at Kenny Anderson, MariCar and Morningside Community Centers.
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LATE & EARLY SEASON FISHING AT DEPUY'S SPRING CREEK (part 11)
Although up-stream Shotgun Nymphing will produce trout anywhere along DePuy's all through year, I usually carry one more type of "shotgun". It was because of infamous Southern or Southwestern winds in Paradise Valley. I again use the Middle Section of DePuy's as a case study for the "classroom of fly-fishing". The Middle Section flows like US Hwy 89 North-bound. So casting up-stream means one is facing and casting against winds. As a Livingston resident, I don't complain (or whine) over the winds. As an angler I can handle wind most of the time. One trick I apply all the time is to increase my casting-stroke, which is basically sending more power into my system (line-leader-flies) by adding extra speed and momentum to my regular casting form.


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Friday, October 19, 2007
Ruby Equality: Useful To Remember
=> true
>> [1,2].equal? [1,2]
=> false
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And, also:ReplyDelete
>> [1,2].eql? [1,2]
=> true
WTF, mate?
How about this one:ReplyDelete
>> 'a' === String
=> false
>> String === 'a'
=> true
.eql? is an .equal? only relevant to numeric comparison.ReplyDelete
[1,2] == [2,1] #=> false on my machineReplyDelete
=== is not commutative petrik. That's by design, since its main use is for the case... when statement.ReplyDelete
brian, [1,2] and [2,1] are obviously not equal. Order is meaningful in arrays.
One of them is a *by value* comparison, and one of them is a *by reference* comparison; Matz's ripped this straight out of Lisp (but Java/C# has this too).ReplyDelete
'==' is saying "Do these objects have the same value?", and 'equal?' is saying "Are these two the same object in memory". Since they were created in separate parts of the expression, and they aren't memoized, the latter is False (internally, these two arrays are stored in different places).
If you picked non-integral types, '==' will always be the same as 'equal?'.
- Petrik de HeusOctober 20, 2007 at 1:02:00 AM PDT
Ah ok that makes sense. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Here is nice catch:ReplyDelete
require 'ostruct'
[1, 2].to_set == [2, 1].to_set
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- Not the level of this item you were looking for? See Highlander's Lizardhide Boots.
- For the Horde version, see Defiler's Lizardhide Boots (level 48).
- Highlander's Lizardhide Boots
- Item Level 53
- Binds when picked up
- Unique
- Leather
- Feet
- 145 Armor
- +7 Agility
+13 Stamina
+8 Intellect
- Durability 50 / 50
- Classes: Rogue, Druid
- Requires level 48
- Equip: Run speed increased slightly.
Equip: Increases attack power by 12.
- Vendor 400
The Highlander's Lizardhide Boots (level 48) are a leather feet slot item available to Alliance Rogues and Druids.
This a PvP reward item. The Highlander's Lizardhide Boots (level 48) can be purchased for 400 from Samuel Hawke <League of Arathor Supply Officer> near the Alliance Arathi Basin battleground entrance in Refuge Pointe in Arathi Highlands.
Notes Edit
The item's slight increase in run speed is an 8% increase that does not stack. The 8% speed boost does apply to druid bear form and cat form, but not to travel form, swim form, nor dash. The boots also provide a 5% increase in walking speed and a 5% increase to druid cat form prowl speed.
The boot's passive stat Run Speed Increase does not stack with [Enchant Boots - Minor Speed], [Figurine - Golden Hare], nor any other effect that gives a passive boost to running speed. No passive speed increases stack.
Patch changesEdit
- Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): No longer requires Arathi Basin Marks of Honor to purchase.
- / Patch 2.0.1 (05-Dec-2006): Reputation requirement removed. Cost converted to Honor and Marks.
- Patch 1.7.0 (13-Sep-2005): Added.


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High Heels & Handbags - Georgia (2011)
A Girl's Night Out at Glazed & Fired Pottery & Art Studio
FIRST member Sam Z. and her husband Brian are the proud parents of 3-year-old Cate. Cate is affected with lamellar ichthyosis.
FIRST member Sam Z. and her husband Brian are the proud parents of 3-year-old Cate. Cate is affected with lamellar ichthyosis.
Sam and Brian were so thankful for the help and support they received after Care's birth that they wanted to give back. Sam held an event in May, called High Heels & Handbags ~ a Girl's Night Out at Glazed & Fired Pottery & Art Studio. The studio generously offered the location for the evening at a discount and then donated a percentage of any pottery painting proceeds from the evening. Sam created a facebook page for the event and advertised with friends and family. There were dozens of donations from friends, family and businesses of handbags that could be sold the night of the event. In addition, Sam put several handbags up for auction on the facebook page. Facebook friends bid on the handbags right up until the 9:00 pm deadline.
The evening was a terrific success! Approximately 60 people attended this Girls Night Out and purchased like-new handbags and shoes. An additional 125 people participated in the Facebook auction. There was also a raffle. Many items were donated. Participants purchased tickets in hopes of winning an item.
Sam has a close group of friends who wanted to help her with the event. They where instrumental helping this evening become the success that it was.
The efforts of Sam and her friends raised more than $2,000 for FIRST! We are so appreciative of everyone's hard work on our behalf.


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Why People Pirate: The Story Of Avatar
from the three-years-later deptWhen I began thinking about writing this post, I wanted to start with the opening line "Remember Avatar?" Then I stopped, shook my head, and figured that such an opening line would be ridiculous. After all, Avatar is the highest worldwide grossing movie of all time. Despite everyone on the planet apparently believing that the movie was based on something they had themselves done, the movie essentially ushered in the era of the 3D movie experience for our generation. I mean, come on, it's Avatar.
But then I thought about it a little longer. When's the last time I heard anyone talk about this groundbreaking movie? Months ago? Years ago? Wait, when did this thing come out? 2009? Is that really correct? Is anyone really thinking about this movie anymore? So, because of all those questions, I give you this:
Remember Avatar? You should, for all the reasons mentioned above, but you may see the movie mentioned again now that Fox will finally release the 3D Collector's Edition Blu-Ray of the film. It's one hell of a release window for the 3D version of the movie. And some, like Gizmodo, are pointing to story of how it happened to explain why people turn to infringment for the entertainment they want.
On April 22, 2010, [Avatar] is released on DVD. It's now August 14, 2012. In what world does it make sense for the movie that basically defibrillated the entire notion of 3D movies to take three damn years to make a wide release on 3D Blu-ray? Ours, apparently.So, through a complicated series of exclusive contract hoops, Fox essentially set up a monetary obstacle course all the way back in late 2010. If you wanted Avatar in 3D, you had to buy a television at a price that far exceeded any added value from the movie. You know who likes obstacle courses built almost two years ago? Time-travelling hamsters, that's who. Last time I checked, there aren't a great deal of time-travelling hamsters paying for movies.
Here's how we got here: Panasonic got in bed with Avatar early on, promoting the film with 103 trucks with giant 3D TVs on them. That was kind of cool, actually. But then, it turned out you could only buy the 3D Blu-ray with a Panasonic 3D TV. Which turned out to cost, all things considered, about 300 damn dollars for a $30 Blu-ray, no matter how you spun it. Totally dumb, totally anti-consumer.
And neither were the people who wanted the 3D version of Avatar, apparently. Panasonic posted huge losses in the television space. Avatar went on to become the most pirated movie of all time. And the Gizmodo piece points the finger directly at Fox:
All of this matters. Especially right now. Demonoid just went down for the count. The RIAA and MPAA want the US to stomp on the Pirate Bay the same way. And we're just a few months removed from the Supreme Court declining to hear an appeal for a $675,000 fine levied against Joel Tenenbaum for, as a teen, downloading a few dozen songs. The subtext is clear. It's not even subtext—it's super-text. We are the assholes. It's our fault that movies are bad and the music industry can't figure out how to monetize itself. And the copyright gestapo is coming for us. That's the message, the threat, looming over every idiotic decision that pushes us closer to BitTorrent.And in the meantime, as all of this anti-consumer-ish-ness is being dolled up in a wig and a makeup and called "a business model", fans of Avatar will finally be able to get the movie in 3D in October. Yes, a movie designed to be watched with cardboard skittles goggles on your head wasn't available across the board for three damned years. That isn't a release window. It's a message to the movie's fans:
Fox doesn't give a damn about you.


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Bucatini with Spicy Shrimp, Arugula, and Breadcrumbs Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:20 minutes
- 1 pound bucatini, spaghetti, or linguini
- 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 4 garlic cloves, sliced
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 pound medium-sized shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 4 ounces arugula leaves, roughly chopped
- 4 tablespoons breadcrumbs (panko works well)
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
Bring a large pot of water seasoned with 2 tablespoons salt to a boil. Cook the bucatini according to the directions on the packaging. With three minutes remaining, add the arugula. When done, set aside 1/4 cup of pasta water, and drain the pasta and arugula in a colander.
Meanwhile, heat two tablespoons of olive oil in a large heavy-bottomed pot set over medium heat until shimmering. Add shrimp, season with salt, and cook, stirring occasionally, until just cooked, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
Add remaining tablespoon of oil, garlic, and red pepper flakes. Cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Reduce heat to medium-low, and sprinkle in the breadcrumbs. Stir well to coat in the oil, and cook gently until the breadcrumbs are golden, three to four minutes. When pasta is done cooking and draining, return shrimp to the pan.
Raise heat to medium-high and toss pasta and arugula in with breadcrumbs. Add half of reserved pasta water and stir continuously until it has evaporated, about one minute. If pasta looks too dry, add more of the water and stir for another minute. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
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Fishing and Hunting Legacy Permit
The Fishing and Hunting Legacy Permit was passed by the 2004 Oklahoma Legislature. The law authorized the Department to sell a $5 permit. The revenue generated from the permit is used to purchase, lease, or acquire easements for property to be used for public fishing and hunting.
In 2009, legislation was passed to incorporate this permit into an annual hunting and fishing licenses.
To date, four land acquisitions have been funded, in whole or part, with funds generated from the Legacy permit: the Lower Illinois River Public Fishing and Hunting Area, Cimarron Bluff WMA, Cimarron Hills WMA, and Drummond Flats WMA. Nearly 7,800 additional acres of wildlife habitat have been secured for sportsmen.
In addition, Sportfish and Wildlife Restoration funds were used to leverage license dollars in some of these purchases, enabling ODWC to stretch sportsmen's Legacy dollars even further.
The price for all lifetime licenses sold beginning September 1, 2004, including 60 and over lifetimes, increased by $25, with the additional funds also being earmarked for this program. Once someone buys a lifetime license, they become exempt from the Fishing and Hunting Legacy Permit.


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With the recent partial repair of the amateur radio gear aboard ISS, the 447.475 mHz WA1KAT/R EMA Repeater will resume activity crossbanding both the new ISS Packet frequency of 145.825 and the Voice downlink of 145.800 mHz. The purpose of this repeater is to offer the opportunity for earthbound ISS Voice operations to be accomplished with a single band UHF transceiver (10 mHz split) with no diplexer required of the operator. It also will allow the Packet operator full duplex operations providing the tools to reduce packet clashes over an 800 mile radius. Due to the imminent pressures of PAVE-PAWS, the repeater will be operating at a power level of 20w from behind a ridgeline approximately 7 miles northwest of the original Salem Hospital location. The current location 42.640415N/-70.947058W affords southerly protection from Otis AFB, a factor which is lacking at the original Salem Hospital site. The repeater is utilized by a dedicated group of Merrimack Valley amateurs who strongly support ISS activity. It is also available to the members of MAREX-NA, the organization putting SSTV gear aboard the ISS in the near future. Although I have contacted NESMC previously, I still note that the WA1KAT/R repeater on 447.475 mHz is not listed on your website. The repeater has been active at the Topsfield location, repeating 145.800 ISS traffic, predating my last emails to you. If you have any questions, please contact me... Roger Kolakowski WA1KAT Trustee WA1KAT/R 447.475 mHz Essex County repeater. ---- Sent via firstname.lastname@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex
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About Micaela
See my post above Duke's, there are other copies around, though. I'm willing to bet TPB has a few ;-)
That link has been down for a few days. Some websites got a copy from google cache though, here's one: http://rinf.com/alt-news/sicence-technology/surfthechannel-leaves-message-condemning-the-british-jus tice-system/14995/
The whole thing is worth a read. Fair play for Vickerman, at least he didn't go down quietly. This whole thing makes me sick and angry, and resentful towards the Government of the country i live in and pay taxes to.
Its our day and age version of the old 'witch hunts' and it will be just as ridiculous and incomprehensible to future generations.
The site is down, but for those that haven't yet read, there are copies available n a few places. Here's one:
http://rinf.com/alt-news/sicence-technology/surfthechannel-leaves-message-condemning-the-briti sh-justice-system/14995/
"Remember that Britain didn't raid the Libyan embassy after a London police officer was killed by a shot police say was fired from inside embassy grounds in 1984 and you get an idea of how deeply the government feels the need to seize a man still not formally charged with any crimes by Sweden, the nation that seeks to extradite him for questioning in allegations of sexual misconduct."
http://richardbrenneman.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/brits-threat-to-storm-embassy-to-ge t-assange/
ACoward can you see now how unrealistic it isn't? More like an hypocritical, 'we're not even going to bother to disguise how much we bend over for the US anymore'?
There is also Shawn Sullivan, who they decided not to extradict at all. Hipocrisy doesn't even begin to describe this. Insanity is what it is.
"The United Kingdom said that they won't extradite Shawn Sullivan to the United States to face charges of rape and child molestation because they see Minnesota's rehabilitation program as draconian. They will, however, extradite Richard O'Dwyer for sharing links to TV shows on his website."
http://www.gereth.net/blog_irene/2012/07/06/uk-wont-extradite-child-molester-but-will-e xtradite-file-sharer/
"You always run away from the debate. You always try and change the subject. You're doing it again here and now. "
"All you do is stomp your feet and try and chance the subject.
Why so scared?"
:-O PMSL! Have you not got any self-awareness at ALL?!
Also, are you the same guy/girl posting inane/insane comments over at Torrentfreak as well? Surely there is no way there can be two different people with this much moronic stupidity going around trying to refute nearly every other post with an almost gung ho attitude, and ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF other then their own opinion on the given subject.
I'm affraid that you are confusing us with people who can't actually look for this information ourselves without needing writers like Mike to point it out for us. Unlike you (obviously) i research multiple sources before making my mind up on any given subject. Nowadays, only the uninterested and gulible are unable to find the correct information for whatever subject interests them the most.
But please don't stop. Between this comment tread and the one over at TF i just spent an amusing 30 mins. :-)
Avaaz is already on shaky ground with me over one or two of their other petitions. Not because i doubt their sincerity, but I have started to doubt their research skills. I haven't gotten an email for this though. Did every member get an email?
There were 6 shares when I tried yesterday and it was still blocking me, so i posted the Facebook warning instead together with the website address and the title of the article in question.


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Drake, Diddy, J. Cole + More Headlining 2014 Super Bowl Concerts
Before Super Bowl XLVIII hits the New York and New Jersey area on Feb. 2, expect plenty of parties and festivities beforehand. Chart-topping artists Drake, J. Cole, TLC and many others will headline major concerts in NYC before the big game.
VH1 is hosting a week-long series of shows for its 'Super Bowl Blitz: Six Nights + Six Concerts' telecast, which kicks off Jan. 27 and runs through Feb. 1 at 11PM ET.
Hollywood Cole will perform on Jan. 27 at Queens College, followed by Janelle Monae's show on Jan. 28 at the Bronx's Lehman College.
On Jan. 30, TLC will hit the stage at New York's Beacon Theatre. On the same night, the Roots will be performing with the likes of Busta Rhymes and Run-DMC at EA Sports' 'History of Hip-Hop' concert at the Bud Light Hotel.
On Feb. 1, Drizzy will rock the mic at a private show for Revolt TV with Diddy hosting the festivities.
Of course, the big extravaganza will happen during the Super Bowl matchup as singer-songwriter Bruno Mars will touch down at the official Halftime Show on Feb. 2.
The Big Apple and the Garden State are going to be rocking with good music and fun times as the 2014 football season comes to a close.


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Global Markets Preview
U.S. bond markets are closed in observance of veterans day, meanwhile European finance ministers are in discussion about the Greek economic bailout. Photo: Bloomberg News.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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myoplay needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 2 designs submitted by 2 freelance designers.
MyoPlay is a facebook social gaming app based on video interactive formats, visit http://apps.facebook.com/myoplay to see it at work. We are currently in private beta, but we plan our start-up before the end of november.
MyoPlay app target is 18-39 60% female, 40% male.
We want to be seen as a funny game platform but not too much as a teen or child product. Target also change based on the topic of each format, currently we have music, movie, car, gossip, gadget and travel.
We would like a redesign of the foreground elements of the app. It would be nice to mantein the same color palette we have chosen but it's not mandatory. Please note that the user interface graphic element have to be used with all the different backgrounds of the single games
In particular we would like to see:
New top menu (764px wide, hight from 50px to 80px max), you can work with trasaparency and with curves, it must mantein the 4 current links to differnt pages of the app
New Left menu (from 140px to 160px wide and from 400px to 450px hight), must maintain the same link as now (note that currently there are 4 links to 4 games and than pagination for other 4 games) you can mantain pagination or put all the 8 links into the bar. Last bottom button can be even larger than now, it must attract user attention It will show our virtual goods store in an upcaming version of the app
Last thing to do is to redesign buttons through the whole application, so that this design is coherent with top and left menu and its lighter than now. You can't produce buttons too small becouse they have to be filled with text (Q&A) that can be long and can't be pre determined.
We would like to mantain our logo and homepage (the one with all the screens). Psd files neded.
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Uber is reportedly in talks to raise a round of financing at a valuation that could exceed $10 billion, Bloomberg's Serena Saitto reports.
According to Saitto, Uber is seeking less than $1 billion from new private equity investors. The company also hired Cameron Poetzscher from Goldman Sachs to lead its corporate development. Prior to this reported fundraise, Uber had raised more than $300 million from investors such as TPG and Google Ventures. Late last year, leaked revenue reports showed the company was generating about $20 million per week.
Other companies that have recently been given $10 billion valuations include Airbnb and Dropbox. Here's why Uber could also deserve a lofty valuation.
An Uber spokesperson declined to comment on the funding rumors.
Click here to learn all about Uber's bombastic co-founder and CEO, Travis Kalanick.


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Working with WordPress Arrays
WordPress has many different powerful functions that will give us data in Arrays. Learning to work with these can give us power when designing and developing new themes and even plugins. This post will explore the anatomy of WordPress Arrays and offer tips on how to use them effectively.PHP, Tutorials, WordPress


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Administration & Finance
The Administration & Finance office is comprised of several components: Vice Chancellor, Accounts Payable, Office Services, and Purchasing.
Service Mission
The Administration & Finance office strives to provide effective solutions to our customer base in a manner of service that equates with that which we expect from someone else. The success of our service is determined through the perceptions that are held by our customers.
Department Service Standards
- Communications be open, friendly, honest, accurate, concise
- Explain processes and procedures required of our functions to our customers
- Train new customers as to expectations of our requirements
- Follow up and follow through with customers
- Demonstrate a service attitude and mentality
- Operate with a "whatever it takes" attitude to get job done in a consistently timely manner.
- Provide an alternate solution if there is a negative answer.
- Treat each other with dignity and respect
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Tag: public religion project
Church historian Martin Marty seems to be just about everywhere. He studies the impact of religion on health, travels around the country to explore religion where it's practiced, writes columns and reviews, and more. But perhaps Marty's greatest contribution has been as teacher, what he refers to as his true calling. The energetic pastor is booked two years ahead and scheduled to a minute, using every spare moment of his time.