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well as this list fell apart beyond all repair with paulie maliggnagi and kassim ouma winky wright all making the list...um i though t make a new one
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1.julian jackson
2.joe louis
3.mike tyson
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6.rocky marciano
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8.gerrald mcClellan
9.joe frazier
10.bob foster
notible mentions :nigel benn superb puncher could knock you out with either hand would brak bones with his left hook and would rib your mouth guard in two with his right hand. but his knock outs were mostly when the man lunged
george foreman :and my reason why.just becuase he knocked people out didnt make him an artist it was a sloppy ko never a nice whap and out. i think the moorer changed that but apart form that he was too unpretty.
david tua: great left hooker but his right hand was pretty dorment for most fights and when he did luanch it, it was always a thing to change things up. where as joe frazier used his right hand as well tua just doesnt have the power in the left hook or the right hand to comit the top 10.
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Kolymbetra Garden 2
Kolymbetra Garden is fantastic!!!
Kolymbetra garden
Our class visited the Kolymbetra Garden (Agrigento-Sicily) (07/05/2009)
Hello! My classroom
Hello!My classroom
walk in a kindergarten
these are some drawings done by the children expressing themselves on what they have seen in the funwalk. B. Caruana. Zabbar Malta.
walk in a kindergarten
this is a picture taken during the funwalk at Marsascala. Betty Caruana From Zabbar Malta.
walk in a kindergarten
Funwalkl at Marsascala. On the 11-05-09. We really enjoyed it. Betty Caruana from Sta. Margaret College, Zabbar Malta.
wallking to the forest
We are 3-4 years old children from kindergarten Kurirček in Logatec in Slovenija. We like going to the forest, where we explore a lot of things and have a lot of fun. We can wallk, run, climbe and jump what is the most popular things which we like to do.
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Kindergarten Kurirček Logatec, Slovenija
What travel
Means of transport and locomotion.
Students draws.
Happy children
These we are!
We like to play
Our playground
Spring in our kindergarten
Work of children
We are reading.
We are in our favourite library.
We are on the playground!
We are happy!!!
Our classmate walked to school with his pony. Everyone could touch pony and ride on him. Look at us, we are very happy!
Our first class in front of the school.
We are happy!
This game -The mouse and the cat- is great!
Outdoor Games
We like to spend as much time outdoors to play and enjoy the sunshine.
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O activitate de educare a limbajului- grupa pregatitoare- Gradinita Nr. 1 Rosiorii de Vede, Romania
Painting T-shirts
We like painting T-shirts.
Activities in our kindergarten with Georgiana teacher
Spending time in our kindergarten it's a great pleasure of pupils and of theachers also,everi day.
Our Children
Greetings from Bulgaria
The Village Museum of Valcea County
The Village Museum of Valcea County The village museum has been outlined its topical profile since 1974, like a form of a village museum destinated to reconstitute, on a 8 hectars area, the functional image of a traditional rural settlement with all its social - cultural institutions. Today we visited the farm – home sector.
The village museum has been outlined its topical profile since 1974, like a form of a village museum destinated to reconstitute, on a 8 hectars area, the functional image of a traditional rural settlement with all its social - cultural institutions. Today we visited the farm – home sector.
A walk out on nature...
A walk in nature.
Once upon a walk.........
During our day's outing at the National Park with the theme of enviromental awareness , the children had a close look and what the enviroment had to offer. Afterwards at school the children took part in activities related to the subject.
Nearest area
And now,outside,we are celebrating in our national costumes,Europe Day.
My classroom
Children 3 years old are learning in their classrooms many interesting and various things,every day,with young teachers.
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This was an outing on the 28th April 2009. We went to Ta' Qali Park. In Malta , we only have small parks. The children in the picture were playing near a pond. Our school is St Margarat College, Zabbar Primary A. Zabbar Malta.
What do you do in kindergarten.
Learn through play.
Our activity
And now,here are some results of our work.
Let's enter behind the door of our kindergarten!
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"?Waiting in the wings?." Lviv by toonsarah
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It was also an opportunity for a long train journey. I have always loved travelling by train. There is a definite romance to it, and however scruffy the train and slow the journey, something in me responds to that ? maybe my inner Michael Palin coming out!
I knew nothing about Lviv prior to deciding to come to this meeting but I discovered a beautiful city ?waiting in the wings?. It has everything needed for city-break style tourism, apart perhaps from some of the infrastructure ? interesting architecture, nice caf�s, lots of history, very reasonable prices (by Western standards) and all in a compact city centre that is very explorable on foot.
Ukraine is to co-host the European Football Championships in 2012, which it seems likely will lead to an explosion in development aimed at the tourist market. While this may result in improved infrastructure it may also lead to some of the city?s charm being lost, so I recommend visiting sooner rather than later.
And if you do, what will you find? Beautiful churches with elaborate interiors; a lovely main square surrounded by historic townhouses; broad avenues and narrow winding streets; quirky caf�s, a striking opera house and monuments of all kinds and styles. But also a friendly welcome and a sense that you and your fellow tourists are being absorbed by the city rather than swamping it.
Our time in Lviv was made immeasurably easier and more rewarding and fun due to the patient assistance of Victor, aka hunterV. He acted as guide and interpreter, but more importantly than either of these, he became a good friend. Thank you for everything Victor ? we couldn?t have done or seen half as much without you!
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Great tips
Not that many people have been to Lviv. I was there 2x a decade ago. Amazingly European. You mentioned a soccer game there Newcastle....amazing how easy it is to travel there now...
Thanks for your help with the hot chocolate cafe, took me a while to find it searching the side streets but it was definitely worth the want.
A great page you've got here Sarah! Lviv is one of those places I've been thinking about visiting for some time and I think it's getting closer now. If we get direct flights from London it will be a matter of urgency to go! But that train journey sounds interesting too. I remember seeing a TV show where they showed the undercarriage being changed as the train entered Ukraine and it seemed interesting (but perhaps less so if you are sat about waiting for it to be done).
Amazing page! :) Actually I really would like to visit this city of lions :) I already heard lots of good word about it :)
Thank you Sarah for bringing back memories about Lviv since my visit in Soviet times. If the doorman asked me whether I was a Moscow spy I would answer ?I am!? and unfortunately wouldn?t be able to enter into the Partisans' Restaurant with you and Victor
I must agree with you, actually the Armenian Cathedral looks really beautiful. I can only imagine the cahos that you all created in that small kitchen of the restaurant.
What a great page Sarah! Lviv has quite a stack of historical monuments go explore and even your restaurant trips sound like an adventure. Lucky you to have a local 'guide' to help you out, but your train ride does sound like quite an effort!
What a wonderful trip this must have been for you. The culture and the churches and simply getting into knowing the people looks great. Nice job of presenting this area
good tips and interesting observations about Lviv, and that is just in two days :) just one remark, Danylo G. was not a Russian prince, he was a prince of Galitsia ;) Russia didn't existed at tha time yet. happy travels, Olya
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Rumor has it that Josh Hartnett has been spotted at this off-leash dog park nestled in the idyllic Kenwood neighborhood. But your dog couldn't care less. He just wants to run really fast and wrestle and do his business totally untethered, in the fresh air. This fully fenced park, just shy of two acres, has plenty of room for him to do just that, plus a special area designated for small dogs. For owners, there are benches and chairs, and the park is kept clean and running smoothly. Plus, your trip to the dog park can easily turn into a leashed walk around the scenic Lake of the Isles, located just across the street.
Ever since his monstrous 2009 season was followed by four years of fundamentally sound yet lower-powered hitting, the question has lingered: How would Joe Mauer fare standing at the plate without all the wear and tear from nine innings of squatting behind it? While the productivity the Twins got from him in 2013 was strong — .324/.404/.476, with an OPS that would've ranked third in the AL among first basemen if he spent the majority of his season there — his post-concussion move to first takes away some of that "league's best player at his position" luster. But assuming his concussion symptoms have receded as much as we all hope, it's hard not to think back to that other hitting-scientist franchise player the Twins moved to first from a defensive-minded position where strong hitting was at a higher premium. We all know how Rod Carew's age-31 season turned out — a legendary flirtation with .400, an MVP award, and the clearest case for his Hall of Fame future. At the same age, Joe stands a good shot at making history repeat itself in the best way.
AP's 2013 wasn't on par with his out-of-this-world MVP campaign of a year prior, but he was still easily the best thing the Vikings had going. Purple Jesus ran for over 1,200 yards during an injury-truncated campaign, but the Vikings' fortunes sagged along with their best player's health and performance. AP will still be on the young side of 30 heading into next season, but with more than 2,000 NFL carries, one major knee reconstruction, and a number of other significant injuries already under his belt, it's fair to wonder whether his best days are behind him. Then again, we're talking about a guy who ran for more than 2,000 yards in a season just months removed from the aforementioned knee reconstruction. As always with AP, all bets are off.
Hockey is a brutal game. But it also demands grace, and few players have managed to skate this divide as deftly as Matt Cooke. His role as an agitator requires him to psych out the opposing team, meaning his contribution isn't measured solely by the scoreboard. Still, the left-winger ranks near the top of the Wild roster offensively and puts up fewer penalty minutes than his critics expected. Since signing with the Wild in July, Cooke has been dogged by one goon after another. The Ottawa Senators made an unfounded complaint that Cooke intentionally sliced a player's Achilles tendon. Cooke brushes all of that aside as being part of the game. The State of Hockey has provided Cooke with a shot at redemption, and he's definitely making the most of it.
The 2013-14 Timberwolves season may have been a disappointment, but Kevin Love's play was anything but. The sixth-year forward (can you believe he's been in the league that long?) continues to get better and better, culminating in his first-ever selection as an All-Star starter. Bottom line: When healthy, he's easily the best player employed at 600 First Avenue since a certain number 21. But T-Wolves fans should enjoy K-Love's unique blend of dead-eye shooting and rebounding while they can, because the Los Angeles native can opt out of his contract and become a free agent after next season, and the front office hasn't done a great job surrounding K-Love with greatness over the years. So if he doesn't sign an extension this offseason, our 2014 "Best Timberwolves Player" may become next year's "Best Trade Piece."
Since her 2010 homecoming to Minnesota, Lindsay Whalen has played the point for three consecutive Lynx teams that made it to the WNBA Finals, including championship teams in 2011 and 2013. During last season, Whalen, at the relatively old age of 31, posted a career high in points per game (14.9). Sure, you could argue that Maya Moore or Seimone Augustus are flashier players, but nobody has the ball in her hands more than Whalen, who has been remarkably durable despite the wear and tear she incurs during her repeated drives to the basket. Entering her 11th season, Whalen shows no sign of slowing down, and neither do the Lynx, who will try to become Minnesota's first back-to-back pro sports champions since the Minneapolis Lakers' three-peat in 1952, '53, and '54.


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Halo 8 Entertainment has released a trailer for Ghostface Killah's Twelve Reasons to Die, the upcoming comic series from the rapper and his fellow Wu-Tang Clan member RZA, who's serving as producer.
Debuting May 29 from Black Mask Studios, following the release of the album by the same name, Twelve Reasons to Die blends horror and crime for "a brutal tale of gangsters, betrayal and one vengeful soul hunting the 12 most powerful crimelords in the world."
What's impressive, though, is the lineup of cover and interior artists: Tim Seeley (Revival, Hack/Slash), Paolo Rivera (Daredevil), Francesco Francavilla (Black Beetle, Detective Comics), Ramon Perez (Tale of Sand), Ben Templesmith (30 Days Of Night), Riley Rossmo (Bedlam), Garry Brown (The Massive), Jim Mahfood (Tank Girl), Kyle Strahm (Haunt), Toby Cypress (Blue Estate), Tyler Crook (B.P.R.D.), Joe Infurnari (Mush!), Breno Tamura (Pigs), Nate Powell (Swallow Me Whole), Gus Storms (Space Creep), Chris Mitten (30 Days of Night) and Ron Wimberly (Prince of Cats).
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Conventions | The organizers of Asbury Park Comic Con emphasize they are getting back to basics, with a comics event that eschews movies and other media to focus solely on comics. The headline guests for the Saturday event are Michael Uslan, Al Jaffee and Herb Trimpe. [The New York Times]
Conventions | In Pennsylvania, the first-ever Nittany-Con drew about 400 people to enjoy the three c's of comics conventions: Creators, cheap comics, and cosplay. [Centre Daily Times]
Conventions | And in New Jersey, the Hasbrouck Heights Comics Expo drew an equally enthusiastic, if somewhat smaller, crowd. [NorthJersey.com]
Publishing | Comics sales were up 22 percent in the direct market over January 2012, and graphic novels increased by nearly 38 percent. This good news is tempered a bit by the fact there were five Wednesdays in this January (or 25 percent more Wednesdays, if you want to look at it that way), but that fifth week is usually a quiet one for new releases, so I think we can call this a win. The retail news and analysis site ICv2 credits Marvel NOW! and a strong backlist for the boost. [ICv2]
Publishing | Dark Horse's video-game art book The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia last week was the No. 1 book in the United States, according to Nielsen BookScan — not merely in the graphic novel category, but in any category. The initial print run was 400,000 copies. (Comic Book Resources interviewed the book's editor Patrick Thorpe last month.) [ICv2]
Creators | For Slate's "Doers" feature — "People who accomplish great things, and how they do it" — David Wiegel spotlights Rob Liefeld's decision to revive his Extreme Studios line by handing over the properties to creators like Brandon Graham, Joe Keatinge and Tim Seeley. Acknowledging his critics prefer these new versions of Glory, Prophet and Bloodstrike to his originals, Liefeld tells the website, ""The internet snark has zero effect on me. I was there 20 years ago, I'm out there on the convention circuit, I experience the real and tangible enthusiasm for me and my work. You can't rewrite the history books, you can't eliminate the impact of my work and my characters. […] Rob Liefeld is to today as Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan are to my kids." [Slate.com]
Passings | Paul Gravett pays tribute to the late British writer and critic Les Coleman. [Paul Gravett]
Welcome to What Are You Reading? Today's special guest is writer and comedian James Asmus, who you know from Gambit, Thief of Thieves and the just-released The End Times of Bram & Ben.
To see what James and the Robot 6 crew have been reading, click below …
For ROBOT 6's fourth-anniversary celebration, I wanted to find some special Shelf Porn, and luckily I remembered that Tim Seeley of Hack/Slash, Revival and ExSanguine (among others) fame had mentioned he might be willing to share some with us a few months ago (around the time I interviewed him for our Robot Roulette feature). So I dropped a note to Tim, who grabbed his camera and started snapping pictures at the studio he shares with several other comic creators. So big thanks to Tim and the rest of the folks at 4-Star Studios!
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Travis Clevinger, the lead character in Dan Jolley's Bloodhound, is a convicted murderer with no superpowers who is released from prison at the request of the FBI so he can track down a serial killer. First published in 2004 by DC Comics, the DC Universe series, which featured art by Leonard Kirk and Robin Riggs, received good reviews but never quite found its audience and was never collected. That is, until now.
Bloodhound has found a new home at Dark Horse, which in June will publish issues 1-4 and 6-10 as a collected edition, titled Bloodhound, Vol. 1: Brass Knuckle Psychology, with 198 pages of comics plus an introduction by Kurt Busiek, an afterword by Ivan Cohen, and standalone art by Jamal Igle, Mike Norton, Tim Seeley and others. Where is Issue 5? Read our exclusive interview with Jolley to find out, and to get the backstory on Bloodhound.
Robot 6: Since it's been a while, can you refresh us about what Bloodhound is about?
Dan Jolley: Bloodhound is about Travis "Clev" Clevenger, a huge, brutal, ex-Atlanta police detective who specializes in tracking down superhuman criminals. Clev had the city's best record for finding and dealing with superhumans, thanks to a knack for understanding their thought processes. Unfortunately, he had also been having an on-again-off-again affair with his partner Vince's wife, Trish, for a number of years, and when Vince found out, he attacked Clev with a crowbar. Clev killed Vince and got sentenced to prison.
Welcome once again to Robot Roulette, our interview feature where we throw random questions at comic creators and see how they respond. We've come up with 36 possible questions, and each week I will randomly select which of those questions our guest has to answer.
Today Tim Seeley, who you can find on Twitter and DeviantArt, takes my random questions and turns them into gold. Seeley is sometimes an artist, sometimes a writer, and sometimes both — you know him from Hack/Slash, Revival, Bloodstrike, Witchblade, Ex Sanguine and many more. My thanks to Tim for answering my questions.
Creators | Following last week's news that Stan Lee has canceled his sold-out Thursday engagement at a Toledo library event due to "a very serious circumstance," Wizard World has announced the 89-year-old writer won't be appearing as scheduled at this weekend's Ohio Comic Con in Columbus. Responding to a blog post titled, "Is Stan Lee OK?" the administrator of the Stan Lee's Comikaze Facebook page wrote, "It sucks Stan had to cancel [the Toledo event], but you know the man doesn't just do conventions. he puts in a hard days work creating. Its really sad that the Toledo Blade had to go spread nonsense. If you want to be up to date on stan then follow us, cuz he kinda owns our company. Its sad that a some blogs are scaring fans. not really nice." [The Beat]
Creators | Artist Molly Crabapple, who was arrested Sept. 17 in New York City during a protests marking the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, writes about the experience and her involvement with the movement. [CNN.com]
Hello and welcome to another edition of What Are You Reading? Our guest today is writer and artist Jimmy Palmiotti, who you know from All-Star Western, Monolith, Phantom Lady, Unknown Soldier, Creator-Owned Heroes, Queen Crab and countless more.
To see what Jimmy and the Robot 6 crew have been reading, click below.
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a splurge item.
Check out Diamond's release list or ComicList, and tell us what you're getting in our comments field.
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While the offerings on show at my local comic store this week won't compare with those available at Comic-Con International, if I had $15 this week, I'd pick up Sean Murphy's Punk Rock Jesus #1 (DC/Vertigo, $2.99), the new Bloodshot #1 (Valiant, $3.99) and the final issue of the enjoyable Kirby: Genesis #8 (Dynamite, $3.99); the first for the art alone (I know very little about the story, but Murphy's art is always worth checking out), the second for the high concept, and the third for the payoff that I know is coming from Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross and Jack Herbert's resuscitation of the King's concepts after following the series thus far.
That said, if I only had $30, I'd put both Punk Rock Jesus and Bloodshot back on the racks for another week, and add Darwyn Cooke's new Parker adaptation, Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (IDW, $24.99) to my pile, instead. Cooke's Parker books are consistently must-buys, and I can't see why this one would be any different.
Conventions | Heidi MacDonald reports that the organizers of San Diego Comic Con are tightening up on badges with measures that include matching the name on the badge to the user's ID to prevent counterfeiting and illegal resale. Amusingly, you don't have to go too far down the comment thread to see someone blaming Twilight fans. [The Beat]
Legal | Canadian artist Craig Wilson didn't make it to this weekend's Phoenix Comicon because U.S. Customs and Border Protection turned him away, saying he needed a work permit to sell comics at his Artist Alley table. Not only that, Wilson was also thumb printed and his car was searched. He said the customs agents even sent a notice to the other border crossings in case he tried to enter the country somewhere else. "I'm paying my own table at the con, hotel, meals, drinks …" Wilson said. "I was going to inject close to $2000.00 dollars into the very economy I was supposedly threatening." [boardguy]
Hello and welcome to What Are You Reading? Today our special guest is Tim Seeley, whose work you may know from Hack/Slash, Bloodstrike, Witchblade, Colt Noble, the upcoming Ex Sanguine and Revival, and much more.
To see what Tim has been reading lately, click below.
Publishers, creators, retailers and fans rolled into Chicago this weekend for the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo, or C2E2. While the convention officially kicked off Friday, the announcements started rolling out Thursday during the Diamond Retailer Summit. After going through Kiel Phegley's lengthy report on CBR, I've pulled out a few tidbits that publishers shared with attending retailers:
• Dynamite Entertainment shared that the first issue of Garth Ennis and Aaron Campbell's The Shadow, which comes out next week, will likely go to second print. Following their Vampirella and Pantha projects, they also plan to roll out more of the former Harris Publications characters they now own, and they said they plan to work again with Kevin Smith in the future, who they've worked with on Bionic Man and Green Hornet.
• Dark Horse Comics announced two Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff miniseries; one featuring Spike and one featuring Willow (Editor Scott Allie spoke more about them with CBR). In addition, legendary artist Russ Heath will draw some pages in an upcoming issue of Buffy. Dark Horse will launch a new Dragon Age series in August, following the online miniseries that's been running on Dark Horse Digital. They also confirmed that Becky Cloonan will return to Conan after James Harren's three issues, and they announced Ex Sanguine, a five-issue miniseries by Tim Seeley and Josh Emmons. Finally, The Goon will go monthly with issue #40.


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IMEMC & Agencies: Palestinian medical sources in occupied East Jerusalem have reported that scores of residents have been injured during clashes that took place in different parts of occupied Jerusalem following noon prayers, after the soldiers and police … Continued
(MaanImages) IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli authorities confiscated 20 dunams (approximately 5 acres) of Palestinian-owned land, today near the Jewish settlement bloc of Ariel, in the northern occupied West Bank. A UN official has noted that ongoing Israeli settler … Continued
IMEMC & Agencies: Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked, overnight, several Palestinian homes in Sheikh Jarrah, in occupied East Jerusalem, and attacked residents, cars and homes with stones, sticks and sharp objects. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) … Continued
By Saed Bannoura IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers and police officers kidnapped, on Wednesday evening, nine Palestinian women while leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, and took them to a police station in the Old City. … Continued
IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli colonial settlers, in the town of Huwwara, to the south of Nablus, torched approximately 100 olive trees on Wednesday, according to local activist Ghassan Douglas. WAFA correspondence reports that a number of settlers … Continued
IMEMC News & Agencies: Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child was killed, after an undetonated explosive dropped by the Israeli army, during the latest aggression on Gaza, went off in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part … Continued
IMEMC News & Agencies: A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli police, on Wednesday, following a suspected attack at a light rail station, near the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. An Israeli police spokesman … Continued
[File photo: Paltoday] By Saed Bannoura IMEMC & Agencies: Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the northern West Bank city of Jenin and several nearby towns, and kidnapped two Palestinians. One Palestinian was … Continued
IMEMC News & Agencies: The PA's Department of Prisoner's Affairs said, today, that dozens of Palestinian minors jailed by Israel have recently been assaulted by prison authorities, during their time in custody. According to Ma'an News Agency, the … Continued
By Saed Bannoura IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli navy boats attacked, on Wednesday morning, a Palestinian fishing boat close to the Gaza shore in the Sudaniyya area, north of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses said the navy fired rounds … Continued
IMEMC News & Agencies: Three Palestinian homes and three structures used for livestock in al-Tur, to the east of the Old City of Jerusalem, were demolished by Israeli bulldozers on Tuesday. According to residents. bulldozers from the Beit … Continued
By Saed Bannoura IMEMC News: The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped 225 Palestinians in the last three weeks, in different parts of the occupied West Bank. Israel also issued 13 new arbitrary … Continued
By Saed Bannoura IMEMC & Agencies: Dozens of soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the village of Budrus, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, broke into several homes, took pictures of them, and attacked … Continued
IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli forces, on Monday, demolished a Palestinian-owned shed being used as a car wash shop in the town of al-Khader, to the south of Bethlehem, according to security sources. The car wash, belonging to … Continued
[Image ny Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan] IMEMC News: Dozens of armed Israeli settlers and soldiers occupied, on Monday at dawn, two apartment buildings and a land, in the Batn al-Hawa area, in Silwan town, south … Continued
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IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli forces, on Sunday, kidnapped six Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, including a physically disabled ex-detainee, while summoning one for interrogation, according to reports by local and security sources. Israeli authorities raided the … Continued
IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli settlers known as "Students for the Temple Mount", on Sunday, again broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, under the protection of special police guards. WAFA correspondence from the Old City, in occupied East Jerusalem, said … Continued
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Aside from the fact that he insisted on incorporating extra vowels into his name and killed his wife's lover, Eadweard Muybridge was an unusual fellow. Long before the word "movie" even existed, he was playing around with stop-motion animation — devising ways to freeze sequences of motion and then reanimate them.
As the Corcoran Gallery of Art opens the first-ever retrospective of his work, NPR wants to honor him with a little contest. The top three Muybridge-inspired creations will be featured on the Picture Show blog, as well as the official Corcoran Muybridge exhibition Web site.
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Anything that is inspired by this bearded genius will do. It may be a stop-motion animation film or a single image. Perhaps, like him, you'll find a way to shed light on the nature of motion. Or maybe you'll simply offer a modern take on his eccentricities.
As part of our Corcoran collaboration, we are looking forward to the special participation of students from Corcoran College of Art + Design and will be selecting at least one winner from Corcoran student submissions. The contest is open to anyone from the public, however. (NOTE: Corcoran students, please tag your photos and video with Corcoran along with NPRMuybridge).
Your submission can be something you create in the coming weeks or something you created long ago. But no matter what, we need it by May 15. And we need you to follow the instructions above very carefully so we can actually see your submissions.
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In the early 1880s, Muybridge awed crowds with his projections of animals and people.
Using his clever invention, a zoopraxiscope, he was able to give photographic sequences movement for the first time. (Learn more about him in Neda Ulaby's radio piece on All Things Considered.)
Consequently, he "forever altered the way people would perceive and experience the passage of time," and "exploded the conviction that photographs could only record and document a moment of time," Philip Brookman, who curated the Corcoran retrospective, explains in a book about the exhibit.
Muybridge's influence is way too extensive to go into here, but a few examples include this Crystal Method video, this U2 video and this Francis Bacon painting.
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O.C. firm patents device to treat obesity, diabetesMay 1st, 2012, 3:00 am by Jan Norman, small-business columnist
Onciomed Inc.in Irvine has been granted a U.S. patent for a stomach insert for the treatment of obesity and diabetes.
The patent shows three cylinders that can be inserted in the stomach using a procedure that is less invasive than many obesity-controlling surgeries "to occupy volume and to cause a reduced desire for eating for treating obesity and controlling weight gain," reports the OC TechInnovation blog.
Two of the cylinders are closed on both ends and one is open and slows the emptying of the stomach. The modular system occupies three-fourths of the stomach, said Onciomed head Raj Nihalani, an internist who has been in the medical device industry for 17 years. He is also president of TrialMed Life Sciences in Irvine, a company that helps other companies with their clinical trials.
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" i have a robot vagina"
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oh yeah, Grandma boy is with Shirley Jones. No kielbasa there...
Salt n Pepa karaoke though. that was good.
Posted January 18, 2009
"dude your bed is a car"
"yea but its a fugin sweet car"
I like Grandma's Boy! I'm a chick and I went to the theaters to see Meet the Fockers. Don't remember much of it since I was making out the whole time.
Well arent you a little tramp??
Well arent you a little tramp??
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anything Adam Sandler or HappyMadison Co. touches instantly turns into completely unfunny sh*t... I almost fell into a coma watching the Benchwarmers... PLEASE KILL ME NOW, Rob Shneider!!!
Would the Cohen Brothers PLEASE inform Adam Sandler what funny REALLY means.
Would the Cohen Brothers PLEASE inform Adam Sandler what funny REALLY means.
I agree 100%.
Except for Grandma's Boy, which was funny.
So actually more like 98%.
Grandmas boy was pretty funny, moreso if I was 13. What happened to Happy Madison... Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy....seriously what happened to them
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Advanced Packet Data Testing with Linux
What is your 56K modem doing while you ponder the sophisticated on-line articles at Linux Journal's web site? Nothing. The majority of the time you are connected to the Internet, your modem sits idle. However, your phone call ties up at least one dedicated circuit in a telephone network. The unused capacity and potential revenue of this circuit's bandwidth is lost forever.
Telephone company operators and manufacturers recognize that forming data paths by switching fixed-capacity circuits is inefficient. Interactive data communication is transmitted in bursts. You pull down a web page and whimsically move on to the next, unconcerned about the circuit bandwidth you tie up.
The same problem exists in cellular systems today. Most of the advanced second-generation digital cellular systems reserve a channel intended for voice transmission when making data connections. This scarce and wasted bandwidth, bought or leased from the governments of the world, is a very expensive commodity to lose while customers read web pages.
If you only knew what was happening beneath that sleek, stylish mobile phone you carry in your pocket. You would be amazed at what it takes to deliver a simple dial tone—not to mention conferencing your uncle in on a forwarded call from your grandmother while crossing the border from Italy into France, all the while downloading the latest Linux kernel.
If you are traveling from Italy to France, it is likely that your mobile phone is a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) cellular telephone. GSM is a worldwide second-generation digital cellular standard. GSM offers many voice and short message services such as calling line ID, call barring, call forwarding and advice of charge. As shown in Figure 1, GSM's radio frequency (RF) interface is comprised of 200KHz bandwidth carriers divided into eight time slots. A time slot is one channel which can carry digitally compressed voice at 13Kbps. On a data call, this same time slot can carry up to 14.4Kbps of circuit-switched data.
The GSM standards body recognized the inefficiency inherent in circuit-switched data and added a service called General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) to the GSM standards. GPRS is a packet overlay of the GSM network. Packet-switched technology efficiency greatly exceeds circuit-switched technology efficiency for carrying and delivering data.
In a packet-switched cellular network, the mobile telephone shares the RF packet channels with the other mobiles in range of a cell site. Rather than reserving a specific time slot or channel on one of the base station's carriers for the entire session, the GPRS mobile uses one or more packet channels to transmit or receive data in bursts. Once the mobile finishes with that bandwidth, it releases the packet channels, making them available for other mobiles. A GPRS mobile reaches a peak data throughput of 120Kbps while a circuit-switched GSM mobile has a maximum throughput of 14.4Kbps for a data connection.
Nortel Networks is committed to providing integrated voice and data solutions with the highest level of quality. As we introduce new technologies such as GPRS, the challenges for a GPRS developer begin. How does a developer verify that the interface to the protocol layer he just completed works correctly? How does the developer complete an end-to-end call when there are no mobiles yet in existence that use the protocol? The authors of this article develop test systems that allow the GSM GPRS developers to verify that our GPRS products are performing at a high level of quality and dependability.
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As shown in Figure 3, the resulting IP packet is enveloped in a GTP UDP/IP message with a header containing the mobile's context TID. The SGSN sends the GTP packet to the GGSN's GTP port. The GGSN extracts the IP packet and places it on the Gi interface. An example of a Gi interface for IP is the Internet. For mobile-bound packets, a similar procedure is repeated in the opposite direction.
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He was always going to be a caretaker till the end of the season regardless of the contract. By handing him a longer contract the thinking I imagine was to get the players playing for him rather than thinking he is out at the the of the season.
Didn't want him originally certainly don't want him now, may as well stuck with AVB till the end of the season and then got rid.
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I think the slightly unpleasant truth is that Levy wanted to sack AVB while it was justified, just in case he turned it around and then he had to keep him on.
Just so frustrating that another season which in theory promised so much has pretty much gone.
I kinda hope rumours of Van Gaal in the summer are true, I think the players are there just needs the right manager.
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I think Sherwood, is genuine, honest and forthright. He just can't really manage. Not his fault. If Levy offered me the job I'd give it a go. So I don't really blame him. Buck stops with the chairman. If he appoints someone like Laudrup in the summer who will be gone by 2016 he has to go. Also, next manager he has to back: fees, wages, the lot.
cheeky_prawnking wrote:I don't think he could have lasted. He was losing the dressing room (allegedly), he was losing the fans (increasingly) and he lost the trust of his bosses (definitely). I didn't like seeing AVB getting done over, but it has been for the best, so far. The team is better to watch (they go forwards now, as well as sideways) and they score goals. If Adebayor hadn't been rehabilitated, who'd have scored the goals? Townsend?
Didn't want him originally certainly don't want him now, may as well stuck with AVB till the end of the season and then got rid.
Laudrup could be very exciting at Spurs and would suit the team, but I think Sherwood should have his chance.
I do quite like Tim, but he has more than a touch of the 'arries about him. Think he came in when the dressing room was down and gave them a lift. As a top level manager he is not there yet. Maybe in time though.
He has done well to get ade playing, and giving him a senior role in the team was a good move. But I think if van gaal wants the job it's his, and I think it would be a good move.
We have some really good players we just need a manager to get the best out of them.
Maybe not. Don't think Sherwood deserved anything behind the end of the season, nothing personal against him.
If he turned out to be the greatest thing since sliced bread then I would happily have eaten my words, but he isn't.
To me he seems to sum up why British managers aren't given top jobs, just seems a total lack of tactical knowledge.
Ideally you want a combination of him and avb
That being said I do think he has the potential to be a good pl manager. I just think the spurs job (or probably any pl job) is too high profile as a first managers job.
Ideally he'd be a no.2 for a few years to an experienced manager. I'd quite like him to stay at the lane for that. But I have a feeling he will want to be no1 somewhere. In that case he'd be better off dropping down a division or 2 where he could learn from his mistakes while under far less scrutiny.
He's already said he doesn't want to be a No2. Liked his technical coordinator role though.
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Tim nice but dim.
Nice? I thought everyone outside of n17 thought he was a cunt!
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I wonder if Spurs would be in worse, better or same position under AVB? I go with same.
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At least the same. Still a fucking terrible decision in my book.
There's normally a bounce when you sack a manager and get a new one in. Levy probably gambled that the bounce would be enough to make a difference and, arguably, it has.
Tim's always had caretaker written all over him though. He's never been properly accepted by the fans and seems to have understood that he was auditioning for his next job from day one.
I'm more baffled about how some players just seem to have disappeared. There has to be more to the Lamela story imo...
I don't think it was such a bad decision to sack AVB. He was losing the players and the fans, and his relationship with Levy was poor. Tim was just a placeholder and he's done no worse than AVB would have done. Possibly a bit better. We've scored a lot more goals.
And Lamela is injured. It really is that simple. I don't know why everyone has to build a conspiracy theory around it.
Just feels a bit fishy, that's all, but I accept it could be as innocent as all that. The number of times that players are "just injured" and then it comes out that there was a whole lot going on and injury was a cover, however, is way too common to rule it out as a possibility here, as he's been out for a while, and struggled to adapt, etc.
I don't necessarily disagree with sacking AvB either, though I liked him. It's a shame. He's proved he can do well in an environment where things are going right, but twice now has come up short when things have got tough.
The fact that it's a world cup year and he hasn't been involved in any Argentina friendlies or training would suggest he is actually just injured.
I don't think it's particularly common that injury is a cover story for other issues. Any examples?
Dairyfree wrote:Beyond those things he did have an unbeaten season at Porto winning the league by 20 points, the domestic cup and the UEFA cup, making him the youngest manager ever to win a European tournament.
Was AVB overrated when he first came over to manage? Everyone hyped him to be Mourinho MkII.(Was that just lazy journalism due to being Portugese, Winning with Porto and Working with him?)
So it was reasonable to think he was pretty hot shit at that point.
Player's autobiographies are littered with stories of them using bogus injuries to get out of playing. Often when trying to engineer a move, lacking in confidence or a major falling our with the management.
It's amazing that the medical staff just take the player's word for it though...
No idea what the Lamela injury is though. Must be fairly serious for him to have missed almost the entire season though.
erm *allegedly* Dan Agger and Jack Wilshere's injuries haven't always strictly been actual injuries, iirc
If you are injured and not playing then there are certain tests that you won't have to take, like those that Rio might have forgotten to attend...
Edit - just to clarify, just because Lamela is South American I am not necessarily saying that he has a penchant for Bolivian Marching Powder or anything like that. It is far more likely that Spurs decided to use their own scouts for this deal (rather than Liverpool's), and have since found out that they spent Ł30M on a complete turkey. If they actually let him play then other teams might notice this and are unlikely to pay the Ł15M they now want to recoup by selling him *
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cheeky_prawnking wrote:One of two things seem to happen to British (English) managers. They either did fuck all in their playing careers and spend their lives plugging away, doing competent work outside of the premierships or they get given a job thats way too big for them straight off the bat and do nothing ever again.
To me he seems to sum up why British managers aren't given top jobs, just seems a total lack of tactical knowledge.
It seems virtually impossible to work your way up the tree, so hats off to someone like Rodgers who put in the hard yards and landed a big job eventually.
nickthegun wrote:It took a while, but I'm now firmly of the belief that Rodgers is the best thing to happen to our club in a long, long time.
cheeky_prawnking wrote:One of two things seem to happen to British (English) managers. They either did fuck all in their playing careers and spend their lives plugging away, doing competent work outside of the premierships or they get given a job thats way too big for them straight off the bat and do nothing ever again.
To me he seems to sum up why British managers aren't given top jobs, just seems a total lack of tactical knowledge.
It seems virtually impossible to work your way up the tree, so hats off to someone like Rodgers who put in the hard yards and landed a big job eventually.
He comes out with the odd Brentism for sure, but he clearly knows what he's doing, is tactically astute and the team are evidently playing for him. I'm surprised the media aren't fawning all over him to be honest, given he's outwitted older, wiser and more experienced continental managers on a regular basis.
I think that theory is blown out of the water when you consider he clearly has glass ankles.
I think the thing with Rodgers is, like anyone who is great at something, he had to work damn hard at it. He did the research and took the time to learn the craft.
Whereas someone like Paul Ince seems to expect good jobs because he is black.
I think Paul Ince actually thinks he should get the top jobs because he is Paul Ince - you might be getting him confused with Sol Campbell?
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