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Security funding increases, mobile security worsens, and security in the cloud expands -- see what else is in store for 2010
1. Security funding increases by more than 10 percent to recover from a year of cuts. Our research shows that security is one of the areas least likely to suffer severe funding cuts. However, given escalating threats, a flat security budget in 2009 may have been a step back for companies. Expect an attempt to make up for 2009.
2. Congress creates new regulatory compliance mandates. Enron gave us the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). What will 100x Enron give us? The math of compliance is shocking because it represents "assymetric warfare". A few sentences of legislation (SOX section 404?) can lead to billions in spending. The financial meltdown of 2008 to 2009 will lead to extensive and very costly regulation, in financial services and beyond.
3. Self-propagating mobile phone worms and Trojans. Mobile security will get slightly worse as the proliferation of applications and smart devices broadens the attack surface. While we've seen worms on iPhone, they have not been self-propagating, depending on PCs to spread. Expect to see true self-propagating threats on iPhone and Android systems in 2010.
4. Cloud computing providers introduce encryption-at-rest and other security capabilities "as a service". With security as one of the main impediments to cloud adoption, expect to see encryption, VPN, intrusion-protection systems and other security capabilities offered as a per-hour billable service. Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud is just the beginning. This could become a key area of competition in 2010.
5. Security in the cloud expands with new services. In addition to cloud computing, managed security services (security in the cloud) will also expand. Expect to see data-leak prevention, encryption, directory and authentication services provided by MSSP in addition to the old staples of antispam, antimalware and firewall
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Today I remembered I had a blog. Last entry was exactly 3 months ago! I'm due.
GStreamer Profiler
Last couple of days I have been working on a simple profiler for GStreamer. Basically I wanted to see how much time each packet was spending inside the pipeline and inside the different elements. Specifically for RTP that requires good latency. I wanted something non-intrusive that didn't require any changes to the existing elements, and I wanted something fast so it wouldn't make the collected data useless. It also needed to be thread-safe since elements can run in different threads. After some discussion on irc I came up with a simple profiler that works. Basically it allocates a memory space and uses an atomic pointer to insert structs into that memory space. The structs have some data such as the element name, the buffer size, the time of the log, etc. As for doing the actual logging, I simply override the gst_pad_push() and gst_pad_chain() functions using LD_PRELOAD magic. This will log most buffers when they enter/leave each element in the pipeline. For the moment it simply puts the collected data in a log file, but in the future I want to write some processing code that give me easier to read data.
Here is a screenshot. The yellow and red colors represent the 2 different threads (one for receiving and one for sending). The sinks/sources on each thread are also colored. Other than giving timing information it also allows me to more easily see the flow of packets happening in the pipeline.

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By Ben Levisohn
Petrobras (PBR) finally struck black gold with an announcement that it's changing how it accounts for currency fluctuations.
The Brazilian oil giant explains the move in a press release:
Petrobras has announced that, as of mid-May 2013, it began using the practice known as Hedge Accounting for export business.
This practice, regulated in Brazil by means of accounting pronouncement CPC38 – Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement, allows companies to reduce impacts to their periodic results caused by exchange rate fluctuations, provided that they generate foreign currency future cash flows that are equivalent and in opposite directions.
For Petrobras, this mechanism initially covers around 70% of the total net debt exposed to exchange rate fluctuations, safeguarding some 20% of exports over a seven-year period.
As a result of the change, Barclays analyst Paul Cheng and team have increased their earnings-per-share estimates for Petrobras. They now expect it to earn $0.56 a share during the second quarter and $2.20 per shares in 2013. That's up from $0.49 and $2.10, respectively.
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Fail: House defeats Obama request to raise the debt ceiling, 318-97
posted at 7:44 pm on May 31, 2011 by Allahpundit
Why would the GOP bring it to the floor knowing that they had more than enough votes to kill it? Simple: To make the Democrats choke on it, of course. The public is on the GOP's side of this issue, unambiguously, and with plenty of independent support, so this was Boehner's way of twisting a few center-left arms and building negotiating leverage for spending cuts with Obama.
The Republican-controlled House voted 318-97 on the legislation that would have raised the federal government's debt limit by approximately $2.4 trillion.
Under rules for the vote set by the GOP leadership, the measure needed at least two-thirds support to pass, ensuring it had no chance for approval.
The vote was scheduled by Republican leaders to show that any attempt to divorce an increase in the debt ceiling from spending reduction efforts — a move initially favored by the Obama White House — cannot win congressional approval.
Democrats called the move a dangerous political stunt that could rattle financial markets.
I don't know why they imposed the two-thirds requirement. There was no chance that the Republican majority would let the bill would pass; raising the bar only gives Democrats who voted "no" an out with their base by letting them claim that the process was rigged to guarantee failure and therefore they felt no obligation to vote yes. Anyway, here's the roll. Fully 82 Democrats voted with the GOP — among them Pelosi, Hoyer, and … DNC chief Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, which is all the proof you need of how nervous the White House is about being on the wrong side of this issue. More background from Philip Klein:
Just last month, 114 Democrats signed a letter calling for a "clean" vote and Democratic Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., also advocated one. But today, Hoyer announced he was advising his caucus to vote against the measure. Ultimately, just 97 Democrats voted for it, with 82 explicitly voting against it (on top of the seven "present" votes). A total of 10 members (six Democrats, four Republicans) did not vote.
That's a smart play by Pelosi and Hoyer to take some of the heat off of the centrists by framing their votes as simply doing the leadership's bidding. Exit question: Seven Democrats voted "present," presumably to signal their displeasure at what was, ultimately, a stunt. Why didn't the others?
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If vehicles had human characteristics, this one might be the barroom brawler - big, tough, mean looks and clearly in no mood to be messed about.
On the other hand, once you get to know him, he's rather a sweet guy, just like mother always said.
We're talking Land Cruiser 70 double cab flat-deck here, but first a bit of family history.
Toyota has been building versions of this mega-ute since late1984 for tough working conditions in rough parts of the world. The Land Rover Defender doesn't have exclusive rights to 4WD design longevity.
In New Zealand, the 70's been a favourite of high-country famers for whom run-of-mill one-tonne Japanese utes weren't up to the job. They bought single cabs or wagons but there was strong demand for a double cab and, for years, Toyota in New Zealand and Australia petitioned Head Office to build one.
The factory finally relented and now one of these bruisers can be yours for $73,390 or $79,590 for the ''luxury'' LX version, the model with all its teeth in a nice row.
If you want to carry max load day in-day out in a war zone, a high-country farm or a nearby mine, this the truck.
Its chassis is massive, everything about the ute is heavy-duty including its motor, Toyota's marvellous but now under-achieving 4461cc turbocharged V8 diesel.
You'd think the V8 would provide a knockout punch, but younger and more lithe opponents now surround the brawler.
The V8 puts out 151kW and 430Nm of torque at 1200rpm.
However, Nissan's top Navara has a V6 with 170kW and 550Nm at 1750rpm. Ford's new five cylinder 3.2 litre produces 147kW and 470Nm from 1500rpm.
So although the Toyota's quicker to punch, it just doesn't do it as hard.
But not to worry. Driven's nearest grit mine is closed at weekends so we put the 70 to the next best test, a drive of some of the trickier tracks at the Jeep Woodhill 4WD Park near
Helensville followed by a run to near Matakohe, Northland, to load 600kg of firewood. It did well.
Equipped with the optional front- and rear-axle differential locks _ the best $2500 option ever _ and without an electronic traction aid to its name, the Cruiser blitzed obstacle-strewn tracks with significant ease, its own physical size providing the biggest challenge on narrow paths.
Despite its torque deficit, the V8 is an off-road gem, it just works away at a bit above idle, lazily dealing with whatever punches the track throws.
Same thing on the 300km firewood round-trip. The engine barely knew it was carrying a load.
However, its highway performance comes with a couple of ''howevers''. At 100km/h the engine's doing 2400rpm in fifth gear (there is no automatic) and sounds and feels like it could do with a sixth speed.
The cabin's getting noisy at 100 and, on hills, the engine starts running out of steam rather sooner than you'd like. Oh for the 195kW/650Nm twin turbo version in the Land Cruiser 200 wagon.
Empty or loaded, ride and handling are good for a beam-axle vehicle with rear leaf springs, just like its mother always said.
Overall, you can't help but love the way the imposing white whale goes about its business, unruffled and with an engaging mechanical charm all its own.


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Schnook... I just got shout out with this coupon too. Bleh...
I was hoping to use the coupon this summer for clone wars too. I have certainly spent more money than I've planned trying to add up to 25 bucks. If anything, the coupon has cost me more money and profitted Target!
Oh well. At least there has been some new stuff since that coupon surfaced. Plenty of order 66 for 7 bucks in NOHO. Star Wars figure pegs have maybe 3 figures.
Hey, I dumping my collection for pennies on the dollar, if anyone wants some cheap stuff, stop on by my place before this weekend, because it will be gone there after
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if any any you are leaving earlier and dont need your passes anymore for saturday of sunday, can you hook me up with them.
leaving friday morning, got tickets for friday, going back home sunday night.
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The Legislature this week faces the toughest decisions of the 2009 session as it decides how to seriously grapple with finalizing a 2010 budget and making necessary adjustments to the 2009 budget, which suffers from precipitously declining revenue.
Gov. Barbour released a revised executive budget proposal last week that paints a very grim picture for Mississippi during the next three fiscal cycles. Even those who disagree and have a different set of figures agree that the situation is grave.
These are Barbour's basic figures:
– April state revenues were $90 million under the estimate;
– Revenue deficits (Mississippi cannot constitutionally have deficit spending) in 2010 and 2011 will exceed $400 million; and,
– 2012 will present the biggest crunch, with a revenue deficit of $500 million or more.
– Mississippi will receive about $2.8 billion in federal stimulus funds, but designated spending leaves only about $1.17 billion for other items, a gap of more than $350 million between needed spending and expected revenue.
There was a time in the memory of many Mississippians when such budget numbers would belong only to the federal government. We're in a sea-change fiscal environment.
Barbour expects spending cuts of 6.3 percent in many state agencies in the 2010 cycle, but his figures predict k-12 education will get 99 percent of its 2009 funding in 2010.
The mere mention of education funding becomes controversial in tight budget debates, so we urge quick agreement among the two houses and the governor on this most important state priority. Mississippi must place urgent need on all its education endeavors – k-12, community colleges and the eight universities.
Education not only powers our future, it strengthens prospects for stronger recovery.
Barbour also counts on a $90 million assessment on hospitals to help adequately fund Medicaid – a controversial issue that has been around the track before. We have generally supported that path to Medicaid funding because it has a base in precedent, although some legislators and others disagree about that, too.
State Medicaid funds are matched on a 4:1 basis by the federal government, so a $90 million assessment could draw down $360 million, in Barbour's math.
Further, Barbour counts on the $106.17 million revenue from the tobacco tax he is expected to sign into law, and which will take effect during the 2009 budget cycle. And, he wants an additional $30 million in higher taxes on smokeless tobacco and non-premium cigarette brands. We support that idea as well as higher taxes on cigars and pipe tobacco.
The goal is reducing smoking among adults and preventing adolescents and children from starting by making it financially out of reach. Nothing's necessary or good about tobacco use.
Much of what happens on the 2009, 2010, and 2011 budget decisions will impact the 2011 political races for the Legislature, and all statewide offices.
Barbour will be in his final months as governor during the 2011 campaign, so blaming him for whatever situations develop may not have the resonance that might be possible could he seek a third term. He can't.
The record is legislators' to make, and time is pressing.
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The 18-member commission comprises a range of experts in many fields of science and scientific education. Its first meeting will be in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 6-7.
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Bay scallops, which are about 1/2 inch in diameter, can be substituted for the sea scallops.
Scallops are generally classified as either bay or sea scallops. Bay scallops are much smaller and sweeter than their counterparts. Sea scallops are more readily available and less expensive than bay scallops. Cook scallops just until white in the center to keep them the most tender.
Fresh-squeezed lemon juice offers a tangy complement to the tender scallops. Garnish plates with lemon slices that have been cut just to the center and then twisted. Enjoy with a glass of dry white wine.
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Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. Once they hit adolescence, hatchlings change quickly, maturing to their full forms in only 2 years.
Dragons don't communicate with each other verbally, but they will growl to scare off predators and frighten prey. Young dragons will emit an extremely high-pitched squeal when they are frightened. To communicate, they use telepathy with each other and to speak to other creatures.
Seawyrm Pygmies are tiny dragons that live by the sea. They mostly fly above the ocean, but occasionally they dive into the water to pick up plankton or tend to their offspring. Hatchlings are born with tiny fins that help them swim and only live in the water. A Seawyrm Pygmy's mating game consists of a dance in which the two dragons spin above the water then dive to the sea and hunt. Eggs are usually laid in the sand or at the bottom of shallow parts of the sea.


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Sorry about the previous link I am informed you cannot view story so here tis.
Well it all started out early dark thirty and progressed into a fair duck hunt here in TX. Around 9AM Kate my CLF (26 mos) decided we had enough so I picked up the decoys and was about to go get the Rhino to get out of the area.
Then a few geese started to leave the feed lots and head to daytime roost. I decided to sit and watch and maybe something would come close enough to make it into a batch of corned goose that many of you have eaten at various venues.
As luck would have it soon a lone spec (whited fronted goose) slid by. It made three circles in response to my expert no calling. Third pass it was in my G spot so I dumped said spec into the water in front of the blind just like the preceding GWT. Not bragging but it was a triple in the air and one hell of a series of shots.
Put Kate into position at heel to do a blind retrieve since she was in the blind with me and no windows for her. A soft back and one whistle got her on the bird easily which was no surprise since she is one pass away from her AKC Master Hunter title.
Kate brings me the goose in style and lo and behold it is banded.
We got another shortly thereafter and headed home with our limit of specs and 3 GWT for the grill.
I noticed the band was quite worn but the numbers were easily readable so I went online to report the band. At first the site did not like me cause they asked me to put the numbers in again because the band was TOO old. I went thru the whole process, sent them pics to verify and found out the goose was banded in 1994 as an adult in Nunavut. Needless to say I was a happy hunter.
Today I took my goose dog Maude out for a hunt. An 8 y/o YLF she has always been my meat dog and is a little jealous of Kate methinks.
Foggy, slow starting morning. Heard a few specs calling and maybe some snows. Had my hearing aids turned up to high but it was quiet. Finally I heard something closer, it sounded like they were coming to the rice field we were laid out in. Sure as all get out they are coming, not a lot of noise but enough that I began my special NO calling trick again and they responded by coming right over the decoys at about 30 yards. I am liking this.
I pulled up on the leader of the pair and made a believer out of him. He dropped like a ton so I shifted to # 2 who had flaired a bit and also added her to the bag. Limit is done for the day so I send Maude for # 1. She comes back and holy crap it is banded!!! Big let down when spec #2 was not.
Band close up.
Oh man another worn band. I am in the know now so I didn't waste much time trying to figure out the procedure to get it reported. This goose was banded in 1996 as an adult. Same province but slightly different location. Imagine that.
Then I found the link to the pages that have the oldest banded birds listed. As it appears the oldest spec was 23 years and 6 mos old. Looking further it appears that banded spec #1 is in 4th place for longevity and #2 might be 6th or so. Now I got to go hunting to see if I can improve my placement. Maybe even buy a lottery ticket. Nah that didn't work that big lotto last week I only won 4 bucks. Someone didn't know they should have drawn my numbers.
As always yours Jacduck
p.s. Judges please note the CALIFORNIA CAMO I do wear hunting. Therefore it is normal hunting attire


text: I had to go to 6 Atlanta area Toys R Us stores yesterday, but I was able to find one of the Toys R Us vechile two packs that contained a Mandalorian transport. I found it at the last store I went to and it was behind all the other two packs on the shelf. They are not easy to find, but they are out there. The two packs are in Toys R Us's Black Friday ad for $20.00, so they may have a lot more on the floor then.


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Pine oil is a germ-killer and disinfectant. This article discusses poisoning from swallowing pine oil.
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Pine oil (terpenes)
Seek immediate medical help. Do NOT make a person throw up unless you are told to do so by a doctor or poison control.
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The National Poison Control Center (1-800-222-1222) can be called from anywhere in the United States. This national hotline number will let you talk to experts in poisoning. They will give you further instructions.
This is a free and confidential service. All local poison control centers in the United States use this national number. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does NOT need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Take the container with you to the hospital, if possible.
See: Poison control center - emergency number
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How well a patient does depends on the amount of poison swallowed and how quickly treatment was received. Swallowing pine oil can have severe effects on many parts of the body. Usually the biggest problem is that pine oil is swallowed (aspirated) into the lungs instead of the stomach, causing problems breathing.
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Since there's not too much time left before I leave this place, I've got something to complain about.. Pulpo, squid, or ink fish, as we call it in the Netherlands. What's with it?! I mean, I'm trying to be an open minded guy. so i would trie most things that I get offered.
Here I've eaten morcilla, stomach, tongue, pork cheek(see other post) and yes, squid. Now I have to admit that the taste wasn't even that bad, sort of rubbery chicken, although opinions on that vary..
The point for me is that in this case I prefer not to be confronted with the looks of the animal involved. I realize I'm being a spoiled brat that's used to perfectly clean food from supermarkets. However, this squid really looks awful to me. LOOK!
Did you? Well, honostly, do you feel like chewing one of those tentacles now? I don't anyway.. But people here and in Spain are just crazy about it. They even have special restaurants, called pulperias.
PULPERIAS, for heavens sake, pulperias! That would be a squidery, octopuseryor a ink fishery!
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In celebration of National Engineers Week, the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science and IBM will sponsor a day of free programs for budding engineers on Saturday, February 28. The programs, which are open to middle school, high school and college students, will run from 9:30 a.m to 4 p.m. in the Engineering Building.
Participants will be able to create Web pages, drive a simulator, steer a laser beam, explore robots at work, experience speech through engineering and see demonstrations of a solar-powered car.
The event will also feature sessions for parents interested in learning more about Internet safety and legal issues of Internet use.
Highlights of the program include two competitions: a spaghetti bridge building contest and a maglev (magnetic levitation) drag race tournament, which is new to the competition this year.
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God Bless Flip Code
I found a couple of really great ideas floating around on flip code for normal mapper. So, I got them implmented last night and now I get to run debugging tests in the data b/c I'm getting very *uncool* results.
The B.S. portion of todays post
In other news - I was party to the insane traffic in Atlanta yesterday. I was in Buckhead trying to get to a local super market, when I started seeing police all over the place.
People were looking up at a construction site near the ESPN restaurant - so I start fiddling with the radio dial trying to find some news coverage of this event.
My quest was a humbling experience as I was only able to find 1 station on the FM band that was doing a traffic report at 5-6 pm. That report was covered 285 and I20 - absolutely nothing was said about the man on the crane in Buckhead (wanted for murder in Florida) and still nothing more about the police barracade in Buckhead.
I say this was humbling because, I came to a realisation that radio isn't the 'public service' I thought it was - all I was able to pull was top 40 music and commercials.
Probably not a shocking revelation for most but, it was a bit obnoxious from my stand point. Then again, having been overseas for a month, you get used to things like AFN. I just think it's sad that I have to go overseas to get good radio (and TV for that matter).
On another note. I had a thought regarding politics of late. My father considers himself a republican. I keep telling him he isn't. Well, he actually is - it's just that his party has been usurped in the past couple of years by what I consider to be a unifying concept in contemporary politics.
This concept is what I call the 'singular party'. So instead of actually knowing a representative or politician by their voting record or their personality, the parties have decided to consolidate their image to make life 'easier' on voters.
I no longer have to think about voting for a politician - I just vote for party because the party is all the same. God forbid I educate myself on the politician and vote for that specific politician.
Gone are the days of Strom Thurmond style politics. For the sake of sound bytes and the media - and to re-enforce short attention spans - parties have convinced themselves that all representatives (or a majority of them) should present similar if not the same public image. To rally behind 1 banner in a very strong fashion. This idea seems very simple if you're into controlling people in mass numbers.
So now we have `winger politics`. My father believes he's a republican but more in a McCain fashion or tradition. He's a thinker and not a winger. I myself have been so accustomed to winger politics that when he first told me of his affiliation - I spouted off a list of ideals that I see most republicans maintaining (atleast in the south) and he managed to show me he didn't buy into a majority of them and that's when it hit me.
I had purchased into this entire concept of 'package politics' where no one is a free thinker and everyone 'firmly believes' in a package of policies without really thinking about it or considering what the heck those policies really mean. Because 'the party' believes in business or social reform or whatever malarkey people tell you these days to justify their own vote.
Take for instance embryonic stem cell research. There's a series of documents parents have to fill out inorder to get an embryo created and even more to place the embryo into the 'we didn't want it after all' pile.
It's not like a super store where you come in and order one on lay-away. This is a regulated process!
An unwanted embryo is documented and will be terminated. I don't understand why people are unable to realize this - and I fail to understand why a party that so firmly says it believes in a 'culture of life' is unable to see/consider these factoids and start backing the research effort with public money.
I guess it's easier to play the volite emotions game and control votes based on singing to the 'born again' vote - throw thought out of it - and just ride the bandwagon.
I mean if you *know* the life will go to waste and be destroyed - and nothing can be done about it - then why waste the life? Does it not serve a greater good to use that life to save others? I mean parents are going to have to sign waivers anyway - just make this an alternative or something.
I have one more rant to dump but, I need to get back into the scheme of things at work. I'll probably post tomorrow. This is more for me - to get these things down somewhere - than it is for any kind of readership that's out there.


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As Seen on TV! Age Your Wine in 10 Seconds!!!!
|Old, old wine. (Source)
Anyone who watches TV, reads magazines, or flips through catalogs has seen some interesting products. Maybe they seem plausible to you, maybe they don't. However, a little investigation shows they are based less on science and well…actually working, and more on wishful thinking. At worst they're actual con-jobs, designed to separate you from your money as efficiently as possible (which I guess is a certain standard of success).
The concept misuses a well-understood physical principle – magnetism. Just because someone doesn't understand how it works doesn't mean it can perform miracles.
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Let me try this to discuss the comic in the context of allowing MOVIE SPOILERS.
So have you read the new Jango Fett book?
Wow! Cool story. By the way, I feel I'm in good company playing with my action figures if the most famous bounty hunter in the galaxy does it, too!
Did your book have repeating pages? Mine had like 4 I think.
When Jango gets the idol and blows away the dude that dies giving him that warning....through the part when Zam takes it away from him - yeah - that's the part that was inserted twice during binding. Strange. Was it only my book, or did Dark Horse's binders make a big mistake?
Anyway, a couple of things: Will Boba ever meet Zam? How far into the past before E2 does this take place?
I thought that if Boba takes to Zam like the mother he never had, it will be even more tragic to push the kid over the edge to setting him on a path to kill all the Jedi for the death of "both" his parents.
I also thought that they made Zam out to be such a good girl - I can forgive her for killing almost any Hutt. So will she and Jango get together? If they have a romance, it will even be more tragic if he has to kill her so she won't be interogated by Obi-Wan and Anakin.
Like if he falls in love with her, but knows his duty - or if he thinks he's doing her a favor by keeping her out of Jedi hands.
Jango already doesn't seem to like Force-sensitives. Do you think that's because he IS a Force-sensitive? The background on Jango I've heard is forthcoming in another Dark Horse project - and he was a farmer. Well, Jedi wash-outs can be sent into the AgriCorps to help use their scientific knowledge to help people produce enough food to stop worlds from starving during famines. Maybe that's also why those in the shadows chose to Clone HIM for the Troopers.
This book doesn't answer who was Boba's mother, too. Obviously it was not Zam. Is he or isn't he a Clone? What we've read of spoilers suggests Boba is a Clone. Jango must have been so lonely without other Jedi (if that's the storyline) and so unrestful in the AgriCorps that he paid the price so he could have a family. That's understandable - though not a confirmed storyline. What do you guys think? Would you like to see it go that route? It makes a lot of sense to me.


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COLUMBUS – The president of Mississippi University for Women called for his institution to help more adults earn college degrees.
James Borsig, who has been on the job since Jan. 1, 2012, was officially invested on Friday as the university's 14th leader.
"The radical idea on which we were founded – that access and opportunity belong to all of our state's citizens – remains as necessary today as it ever did," Borsig said during his inaugural speech inside Rent Auditorium.
About a half million Mississippi residents between ages 25 and 64 have some college education but not a bachelor's degree, he said. That total includes 65,000 more women than men.
Reaching those students, especially homebound women, "is clearly within our historic mission," he said.
Borsig called for the university to expand leadership and in particular women's leadership. At the same time, he said being coeducational is an important part of MUW's future. The two are not contradictory goals, he said.
"It goes back to the strength of our academic programs," he said.
Gov. Phil Bryant, who delivered the keynote address, said afterward that Borsig has done much to solidify MUW's standing in the state. Not long before he came to the school, there were questions about whether it would close.
"So many people in the Senate and House know Jim Borsig, and he's been able to bring his leveling ability to the Mississippi Legislature," Bryant said. "Now, they say, don't worry, Jim is there. I see a calm and commanding presence with him."
Meanwhile, Student Government Association President Menuka Ban, a senior political science and math major from Nepal, lauded Borsig's approachability. He is present at many student activities and often visits the cafeteria for lunch with students, she said.
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Borsig called on MUW to collaborate with other universities and community colleges to raise educational attainment. He said the university would expand its commitment to service and also challenged the school's students and alumni to invest in tutoring and other volunteer partnerships with the state's public K-12 schools.


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Professor Alan Krueger has been selected as a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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Krueger, the Lynn Bendheim Thoman, Class of 1976, and Robert Bendheim, Class of 1937, Professor in Economics and Public Policy, has been a Princeton faculty member since 1987. His primary research and teaching interests are labor economics, education, industrial relations and social insurance. Since March 2000, he has written a monthly column on economics for The New York Times.
Each fellow is designated to a position named after a distinguished scholar or public servant who has published in The Annals over the past century. Krueger was named the Theodore Roosevelt Fellow. Princeton Provost Amy Gutmann was named the W.E.B. Dubois Fellow in 2002.
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I'd like to hit up Quizno's but there is construction on the main way to get there and to go around it would take quite a bit of time.
I'd like to hit up Quizno's but there is construction on the main way to get there and to go around it would take quite a bit of time.
Definitely something with fiber!
You'll be sorry, Pee-Wee Herman!
Hot dog, medium popcorn, large Sierra Mist. Gotta support the local independent movie theater that's also one of the original Hollywood Movie Palaces.
That hot dog was GOOOOD as hell too! I only eat 1 hot dog every month or less (it causes my skin to react a little) but this one really got it right, no condiments needed. The only thing was it was so good that it negatively impacted the quality of the popcorn afterwards, and I usually LOOOOOVE movie popcorn.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Been a while since I had a hot dog. Ketchup is the only condiment I use on it. I don't buy movie concessions.
I tend to do bratwurst or sausages instead of hot dogs lately, though I dress them up the same. Louisiana hot links are awesome hot dog stand-ins.
That's my jacket!
I do the Morningstar Veggie Dogs if I want a hot dog. I'll have a Nathan's on the grill in the summer though. I get really grossed out if I think about the whole concept of sausages, which is why I don't eat them.
For my lunch today... I'm thinking "Arby's". LOL
I actually find that the best hot dogs are Hebrew Nationals, but sliced into "coins" and pan-fried, then served over rice with cheese and basic condiments. It sounds nasty, but it is actually quite good.
Your arteries would like me to remind you that it's not something to do every day, though.
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It is becoming clearer by the day how badly President Barack Obama misplayed his cards in August 2011 when he paid a political ransom in return for Republican legislators agreeing to increase the debt ceiling. The GOP leadership brought the country to the brink of default to get what they wanted and the president caved.
The resulting Budget Control Act of 2011 mandated that if Congress could not figure out a way to trim the deficit by $1.2 trillion, then cuts equaling that amount would take place automatically over a 10-year period, beginning this year. And rather than addressing the deficit challenge with surgical spending reductions and changes in tax policy, the automatic "sequestration" cuts would take place evenly across agencies and programs, cutting the necessary and the wasteful alike.
President Obama calculated this would put the problem off until after the election. It did. The administration also bet on a post-election change in attitude that would lead Republicans to compromise on a combination of taxes and spending reductions to avoid the draconian cuts. But they didn't budge, and why should they?
The Republican congressional leadership is getting what it wants, cuts in government spending, $85 billion this fiscal year, with the added luxury of saddling the president with the political fallout from the most unpopular of cuts. Take, for example, the current public outrage about flight delays caused by the furloughing of air traffic controllers to meet sequestration mandates. The furloughs and delays do not result from sequestration, say House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, they result from the administration's inability to cut waste, eliminate consultants and manage a budget.
Not only that, say Mr. Boehner and Mr. Cantor, it is the president playing politics - causing the flight delays to pressure Congress to back off the sequestration cuts.
Well, if the administration is playing politics, it is not playing well. As any mayor knows, the City Council may cut funding for garbage pickup, but taxpayers will blame the mayor when trash piles up on sidewalks. Likewise the anger of air travelers will focus on the president and his administration if they can't get around sequestration and fix it.
This is what President Obama's appeasement has wrought.
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BackgroundGreg Abate is Adjunct Instructor of Jazz at Rhode Island College, where he teaches jazz improvisation, jazz theory, and coaches jazz combos. As a jazz saxophonist, flutist, and composer, he is in demand worldwide as performing and recording artist, touring the globe over 150 days a year. After finishing a four year program at Berklee College of Music, Mr. Abate played lead alto for the Ray Charles Orchestra for two years, later forming his own jazz group "Channel One," a favorite in the New England area. After performing with the revived Artie Shaw Orchestra from 1986 to 1987, Abate began forging a solo career throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Russia.
He recorded his first CD "Live At Birdland NYC" in 1991 on the Candid Jazz Label with the trio of James Williams, Rufus Reid and Kenny Washington. To this date Greg has made over 12 other recordings; his 2004 recording "Evolution" was nominated for a Grammy Award in four categories. He is an active jazz clinician with co-sponsorship from the Conn-Selmer Instrument Co.
Howard Reich, music critic of the Chicago Tribune, had this to say about Greg Abate: "Abate is not content to rely on stock bebop riffs and standard chord progressions. Rather, the sharp angularity of his phrases and the often startling pauses in his fast-moving lines give his work a feeling of constant invention and creativity." Jim Merod, of New Jazz Recordings, wrote "Greg Abate is one of the most appealing saxophonists on the scene today. He is mature with an abundance of gentle self-confidence. The result is that he plays music with sweetness and daring."


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Daily Archives: October 1, 2012
Forecast Update for This Week in Marathon
In most places, the end of summer signifies a deep depression coupled with the arrival of worse weather. Here in the Keys, however, we love when fall is near; not only does it mean hurricane season is almost at an end, but it signifies the opening of a season of drier, less heartbreakingly-humid days and the return of all our tourist friends! Summer can be a bit of a lull around here, and we're excited to get back to swingin' fall and all its glory.
The transitional period can be a bit tricky, however, with the weather doing its best to keep us guessing. Rain clouds are scheduled to stick around this week, with intermittent sunshine throughout. Today and tomorrow look especially wet, with scheduled thunderstorms looking to come to a head by Tuesday afternoon and clear off for a bit of sun on Wednesday. Temperatures should hover in the manageable mid-80's (we can't say we're sorry to see those 92-degree days go away!) and seas are expected to maintain a bit of a chop, with winds coming in between 8 and 12mph all week.
Have fun out there, be safe, and we'll see you at the Tiki Bar!


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By Jeff Amy/The Associated Press
JACKSON — Speaker Philip Gunn has emerged as a stronger figure in his second year at the helm of Mississippi House.
Last year, Gunn often seemed to be first among equals in a group of senior House Republicans. This year, he appears to be more firmly in charge. He has also managed to avoid getting permanently aligned with either Gov. Phil Bryant or Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, maintaining freedom of action as his own man.
The third-term Clinton lawmaker, who just turned 50, did a lot of spadework to get to this point, including years' worth of lunches and dinners with House members to cultivate them as potential allies. He's also got a sly, self-deprecating sense of humor that can defuse tense moments in the 122-member chamber.
Mississippi speakers are noted, historically, for iron rule and long tenures. That made them so powerful that the governor today works in a white skyscraper named for a former speaker, Walter Sillers. Ultimately, House members revolted against Speaker C.B. "Buddie" Newman in 1987, changing the rules to spread out power in the chamber and decrease the speaker's ability to banish opponents to meaningless committees.
But Gunn, the first Republican speaker since Reconstruction, still has power. One example of Gunn's firmer hand showed last week after a presentation by state Auditor Stacey Pickering. Many Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee appeared eager to tinker with the state school funding formula — the Mississippi Adequate Education Program. But Appropriations Chairman Herb Frierson, R-Poplarville, told reporters after the meeting that Gunn had told him flatly to do nothing, even though Frierson said he'd like to change how student attendance numbers are counted.
Gunn himself had expressed the same disinterest to reporters days earlier, meaning he'd steer clear of taking on an additional big issue in a session where the education agenda is already loaded.
Education issues also show how Gunn has retained his independence from fellow Republicans Bryant and Reeves.
Gunn has made clear that Reeves' insistence on a charter school bill that didn't give a veto to "C" rated districts could sink the bill in the House, where support for the alternative form of public schools is weaker. There, Gunn seems to be more in tune with Bryant, who has emphasized a desire for expanding charter authority in Mississippi but has expressed flexibility on the details.
But last week, the speaker lined up with Reeves to endorse a limited form of state-funded prekindergarten programs. Gunn and Reeves endorsed a proposal that would allow local consortiums to get state money to provide classes. In doing so, they implicitly turned their backs on Bryant's plan to provide state money to Mississippi Building Blocks, a private group that has been paying for teachers to mentor instructors in child care centers and teach some classes.
Bryant said after the announcement that the two programs weren't mutually exclusive, but few lawmakers seem to be talking about spending state money on Building Blocks.
Gunn has also made moves to remedy one of the speaker's key disadvantages in comparison to the governor and lieutenant governor — a lack of staff. He angered many Democrats last year when he hired Nathan Wells, a former campaign consultant and state Republican Party employee, as his chief of staff. This year, Gunn has added a group of interns. That gets him closer to matching the ability of the governor and lieutenant governor to use employees to shape and monitor legislation, and could give Gunn a stronger hand when the two bodies begin conferring on differences in bills that each has passed.
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I knew as soon as we started HubSpot that David was our number one draft pick. He gets marketing unlike anyone else, and he immediately understood the problem we wanted to solve. His contributions to our current level of success cannot be minimized. David is a fantastic partner if you want to build a multi-billion dollar company.
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David Skok joined Matrix Partners as a General Partner in May 2001. He has a wealth of experience running companies. David started his first company in 1977 at age 22. Since then David has founded a total of four separate companies and performed one turn-around. Three of these companies went public.
David joined Matrix from SilverStream Software, which he founded in June 1996. Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world.
David's work as a value added investor is best known for helping HubSpot, JBoss, AppIQ, Tabblo, Netezza, Diligent Technologies, CloudSwitch, TribeHR, GrabCAD, OpenSpan and Enservio to successful exits. David currently serves on the boards of Atomist, CloudBees, Conductor, Digium (makers of the very popular Asterisk Open Source PBX/telephony software), Meteor, NamelyHR, Salsify, Storiant, VideoIQ and Zaius.
In addition to his broad focus on enterprise software, David is specifically focused on the areas of SaaS (software as a service), cloud, mobility, Open Source, marketing automation, virtualization, storage, and data center automation.
David writes a blog for entrepreneurs and startups on topics such as viral marketing, SaaS metrics, building a sales and marketing machine, techniques for lowering cost of customer acquisition, etc. The blog can be found here: www.forEntrepreneurs.com.
Popular posts on David's blog include:
SaaS Metrics – A Guide to Measuring and Improving What Matters
Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition
Lessons Learned – Viral Marketing
Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior
Lessons from Leaders: How JBoss did it
"It is easy to be a cheerleader when things are going well. It is not as easy when things are not going well," says David. "When I was running Watermark Software, a larger company sued us over patent issues. My other VCs backed away but Matrix Partners stood by me. The firm proved to me that it was supportive of entrepreneurs in the tough times, and long-term in its approach. When I started my next company, SilverStream Software, I didn't need venture capital, but I invited Matrix to invest with me. Now, as a partner of the firm, it is a great honor to try to bring the same level of support to other entrepreneurs."
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David showed true leadership when he worked with us. Most VCs will try to stay 3,000 feet above the situation. David tries to really understand the situation, and he does not show a strong ego. He earned the trust of everyone on the management team so that they all felt comfortable calling him whenever things went south. He could always be counted on to help the team come to a resolution.
Sacha Labourey, Co-founder and CTO, JBoss (Sacha is now the founder and CEO of CloudBees)
Matrix Partners has been instrumental to JBoss' success. David's industry expertise, extensive network and continual support were vital to building our management, sales and marketing teams. He has been a mentor to me personally, and played a key role in working with our strategic partners. We relied upon David's guidance and advice every step of the way, from creating a successful company through the M&A process. He has truly been an asset to our organization.
Marc Fleury, Co-founder and CEO, JBoss
David was actively engaged at every phase of AppIQ's life, from its earliest days to our sale to HP, including introducing us to key hires, assisting with strategic planning at key inflection points and playing an instrumental role in the acquisition process. He was a personal coach and advisor to me, and always seemed to have a burning desire to help our team. I could be excused for forgetting that David was also an investor in our company! David is a gentleman to the core, and while his experience as a successful entrepreneur is one reason for my positive experience, I truly believe David's motivation comes from a need to work with great people and make a difference in the industry.
Ash Ashutosh, Founder, AppIQ
I've had the good fortune to work with David from the early days at Netezza through IPO, and from envisioning and incubating CloudSwitch through our acquisition by Verizon. David brings an entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to "roll up his sleeves" to help his teams – from the earliest phases of a founder's experience through the later challenges of growth and scaling. He and Matrix provide critical support for attracting top talent and building relationships with strategic partners. David makes himself available at any time to act as a sounding board and resource, and draws on his extensive experience as both an entrepreneur and investor to help you make better decisions, faster.
Ellen Rubin, Founder, CloudSwitch
When Matrix approached Digium, the company was profitable, and did not need the capital. We wanted a board member who had experience in growing companies and could take the company to the next stage. We wanted to work with a firm we could be proud of, and a partner who would do the right thing for us in the long term, rather than forcing something in the short term to get a quick return. As an entrepreneur and a person who has already been successful in open source software, David has been a valuable contributor to the strategy of the company. In addition to playing the role of chief operating officer for six months, he has made a major impact by helping to think through the right additions to make to the management team, and in recruiting and attracting the right players. He has also helped by making multiple introductions to key industry contacts, and by helping us build a systematic sales and marketing machine.
Danny Windham, CEO, Digium
David has played on the entrepreneur's side of the field. He understands that startups are very fragile and if you overreact to setbacks, you can kill the company. When there are challenges, David does not arbitrarily react with advice to stop investing and slow down; he uses experience and fact-based analysis to evaluate causes and effects. Our first year after the product launch was very disappointing. The product had maturity and stability issues, and sales fell below expectations. David understood the sense of urgency but remained calm and focused on a solution. As a startup you will face pitfalls. When that happens, you want someone like David on your board.
Doron Kempel, Chairman and CEO, Diligent Technologies
Matrix is a partner I can trust to provide honest feedback that will lead to a better distillation of business ideas. David has proven to be diligent, supportive, trustworthy and fair. He always makes time to talk to me, no matter how busy he may be. David's vast experience with multiple startups has proven to be very valuable. He gives real world advice which is rooted in his past as a successful entrepreneur. He understands the challenges a company goes through in all its different stages.
David Chang, Co-founder and VP of Product Management, ApplQ
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The first pic is said to be an official pic of the new Enterprise and a couple of shuttles (from EW)... if so, I'm pretty stoked. Kewl!
Quite a radical redesign on the secondary hull and warp engines... and curiously, no spikes on the nacelles, either. A blue deflector? Wow.
Interesting stuff. They've definitely gone for a complete BSG-style reboot, huh?
Some folks had better go out and get some Depends. I wonder which "old" TOS cast member will pull a Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) and crap all over the entire endeavour? Probably Shyte-ner...
Well, the old formula was pretty tapped out... I'm hoping the reboot breathes some life back into the ST universe. But it could get ugly up in here.
The second and third pics are fan works... not bad, either.


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Regarding SW collecting in 2011, I'm going to say what's on all our minds -- 2011 sucked. It was a complete flame-out, due almost exclusively to Hasbro, I'm sorry to say. I cannot think of a year more frustrating, this year had horrible distribution problems start to finish, canceled and moved waves, missing figures, endless reissues and repaints, and price increases, while also delivering less figures and vehicles. (Heck, the best vehicle was the Starspeeder 1000 from Disney which had no Hasbro work on it.) On top of that, a change in personel at Hasbro caused Q&A to flounder for the first time in 5 years, and the Blu-Rays came and went without a bump in interest from general consumers, they sold well but didn't really get folks talking again. The Clone Wars tv series chugged along, but minds were hardly blown. Celebration VI was announced as another hot summer visit to Florida in 2012. Rick McCallum confirmed that the live-action TV series has been put off for several more years and maybe dead altogether, and also said The Phantom Menace in 3D might be the only film in the saga to get 3D treatment if it doesn't do well. StarWars.com closed down their forums, their online shop abruptly shut down. The revelation that Lucas decided to bring back Darth Maul for the Clone Wars.
Some interesting things did happen this year too though, TRU had a few really surprisingly good sales on basic figures; Disney Parks' Star Tours 3D sequel came out and has been extremely popular; Kotobukiya delivered Han Solo in Carbonite ice cube trays; LEGOland California opened its Star Wars miniland section; Robot Chicken Star Wars 3 was better than its predecessor; Family Guy wrapped up their parodies with an ROTJ episode; LEGO released a half-hour animated Star Wars special that was fresh and amusing; there was a lot of Star Wars-themed charitable contributions... um, I'm stretching here folks, because it's really difficult to find anything to crow about for 2011. It's like Star Wars collecting was already over for the entirety of 2011 and we've been stuck suffering through our hope that it'd get better, the powers that be kept saying maybe it would, and then each time a faint sign of hope before disappointment. So it didn't suck, it was just, er, "challenging" (that's obviously code for "sucked big time").
I barely remember what basic figures came out this year. Animated Chewie and shirtless Savage Opress, that's all I remember. Ok, I remember a little more. Space Captain Rex, Commander Jet (finally!), Castas, Cad Bane v2 with TODO-360, the Aqua Droid, Commander Colt, and probably Seripas and armored Savage though I still haven't found them. Shirtless Savage is a really cool figure, excellent paint and sculpting, great range of motion, a very expressive and dynamic figure. Unfortunately, I think I just named 4/5ths of the figures in CW, there weren't enough new figures this year, but at least most were pretty good.
Very little to choose from here, thanks to a whole wave getting shifted to 2012, and a lot of snorey recards instead of the exciting ones we should have gotten. I really have to give props to the new AOTC Clone Trooper with its all-new body that finally throws out the marshmallowy trooper armor we were stuck with from 2003, replacing it with film-accurate shapes and sharpness (yes, its helmet is too big, but if you raise it up a little it looks great). Captain Fordo was good too, even though he still doesn't get his own name. Bom Vimdin looked great, sharp sculpting and paint. Han Bespin was pretty good, Lando General was pretty good although his cape has huge elastic and he's why Han's boots are wrong (Hasbro shared the lower body). Ponda Baba I guess will round out my calls here, although as adequate as the figure is, somehow it doesn't feel special perhaps due to too many old Ponda releases, or maybe Hasbro just waited too long.
Can I pick on distribution and pricing problems? No? How about all the recarded Revenge of the Jedi figures that overflowed the pegs and pushed out the Evazan wave? Vintage didn't have too many bad figures because it didn't have many figures at all, I'll call out the AT-RT Driver for being bland and not special; Logray for being overpriced; AOTC Kit Fisto for being ROTS Kit Fisto; the AOTC Super Battle Droid for being a mediocre repaint rather than a new figure and then pegwarming super hard for it. For Clone Wars, I've got to hand it to El-Les, an overly-colorful, mopey-faced figure for an uninspiring, wishy-washy character; TRU's exclusive Stealth Ops Clone when almost the identical figure as a basic yet also with more accessories was hitting pegs; and Kit Fisto and Plo Koon in snow gear, Plo Koon's mask looks WAY weird, and because do we really need the B-team in a new hat?
I'm giving this handily to the Disney Parks-exclusive Star Tours Travel Agency. It is a great pack to represent Star Tours, bringing together droids and an alien and some luggage, plus an all-new not-terrible stand for the WA-7 droid figure.
Were there vehicles this year? Did I already use that gag? The Mandolorian Shuttle didn't make it to shelves that I saw, the walking cannon thing didn't inspire me, Class 1 fleet flopped on its face and canceled its better pieces. So that leaves me with... um... the repaint of the Saga Landspeeder, and the Republic Attack Shuttle, both were overpriced, but only 1 was new, so it wins by default. The 2 sweetest words in the English language: DE FAULT! DE FAULT! DE FAULT! Anyway, the Republic Attack Shuttle is an ok vehicle, underscaled compared to what I would have hoped and lacking external lights, but it has a nice build and sculpt, and its features are wildly numerous and fun. It was just too expensive for what it was, I didn't get it until Amazon discounted it heavily, that was a great surprise because without that, I wouldn't have bought it.
I'm going with Sideshow's Commander Bly, despite his color being not film-accurate and his straps being too high and his visor not raising high enough. I really think the paint weathering was well and above anything else I've seen from Sideshow previously, the care taken with the entire tone just comes alive so much better than previous Clones they've done. Cody was really cool and had more going on overall, but Bly's mixed-media stuff and weathered paint just makes him a stronger choice for me.
Which prize pig gets the award for best porker! That's how I feel on this one, no standouts, just best lipstick-applying pigs; the figures themselves weren't bad, but the lines they were in ruined them. Last year I was excited about numerous figures in the running for this title, this year Hasbro's lack of inspiration for the line is palpable and I can barely care about the figures I've named above. For me, it comes down to shirtless Savage Opress vs. AOTC Clone Trooper -- yes, another face-off between animated and realistic! I swear, totally unintentional. While TRU made it possible for me to actually army-build the Clone at a decent price, and I've had fun coming up with poses for them, Savage Opress is the most striking figure, it gets the most attention in my place of any new figure on display... if only they hadn't made him Darth Maul's brother, he could have been so much cooler without losing those dignity points! But Shirtless Savage Opress has an amazing facial expression, fantastic paint work, and cool axe weapons... and there's just something "Star Wars special" about the figure which the Clone doesn't have since there's so many white-armored troopers already. There you have it, Savage Opress my figure of the year for 2011, a totally wrong-headed choice for a totally wrong-headed collecting year. May collecting in 2012 smite 2011 most heartily in the face!


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You can't sleep at night and decide to fly to
Italy right away,
to appear in front of your girlfriend the moment she comes out of the room where she has just defended her thesis. :)
I feel alive!
I've landed in Detroit a couple of hours ago.
The warmth of Rome, this morning, is definitely far away.


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