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Mizzou Wins 4th Straight Braggin' Rights Game
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- After a long wait, Jabari Brown is finally feeling like part of the Missouri basketball program.
Making his first start of the season, Brown had 18 points and seven rebounds Saturday to lead the 12th-ranked Tigers to an 82-73 win over No. 10 Illinois in the annual Braggin' Rights game.
Laurence Bowers paced Missouri (10-1) with 23 points and 10 rebounds, while Alex Oriakhi added 13 points and a game-high 14 rebounds. Phil Pressey had 12 points and 11 assists to help the Tigers win their fourth straight in the 32-year-old series.
Brown, a transfer from Oregon, became eligible after the first semester and made his initial appearance Monday in a 102-51 win over South Carolina State.
A blue-chip recruit, he made the most of his first starting assignment Saturday.
"It was fun. I'm part of the family now," he said.
Brown anxiously watched from the sidelines as the Tigers rolled out to an 8-1 record without him. After becoming eligible, he has worked hard to make up for lost time.
"I wanted to prove I could play right away and fit in any way I can," Brown said. "I spent a lot of time practicing and getting used to things and the way they play here.
"Now, I'm finally feeling comfortable."
Brandon Paul led Illinois (12-1) with 23 points. Tyler Griffey scored 14, Joseph Bertrand had 13 and Nnanna Egwu 12 for the Illini.
Missouri used a 9-0 run late in the game to take the lead for good at 70-64. The Tigers held a 58-35 edge on the boards and outscored Illinois 44-24 in the paint.
Illinois, which leads the overall series 20-12, won nine meetings in a row from 2000-08 before Missouri began its winning streak.
Brown triggered a key 9-0 spurt that erased a three-point deficit and put the Tigers ahead 70-64. He had four points and two rebounds during the 2:31 span.
Brown scored from close range off a perfect pass from Earnest Ross to increase the lead to 68-64. Pressey added a short jumper seconds later to complete the run.
Oriakhi, who had his fourth double-double of the season, was impressed with Brown's effort.
"He's unbelievable. He did a little bit of everything tonight," Oriakhi said. "I can't believe he's fit in so fast. He's one of us now."
Brown played in two games at Oregon last season before deciding to transfer. He watched last season's Braggin' Rights game from his home in Oakland and was intrigued by the atmosphere, which annually features a sellout crowd with the fans divided equally between the schools.
"I had visited (Missouri) and really hadn't made a decision, but I thought, if I choose (Missouri), that's going to be a fun game to play in," Brown said.
Missouri coach Frank Haith was more than pleased with the performance of his new addition. He immediately moved Brown into the starting lineup after a 12-point performance against South Carolina State, in which Brown excelled defensively.
"It was all about our balance," Haith said. "And he can do a lot of things."
The physical game against Illinois featured 19 lead changes, 35 fouls and 43 free throws.
"They've got a lot of depth and they've got size," Illinois first-year coach John Groce said. "They're good now. They've got a chance to get even better moving forward."
The Tigers scored 12 of the final 16 points in the first half to take a 41-35 lead into the break. Illinois reeled off eight unanswered points midway through the second half to go up 51-50 on a driving layup by Tracy Abrams. The Illini took their biggest lead of the second half, 64-61, on a baseline jumper by Egwu with 6:43 remaining.
But the Missouri defense took over from there, forcing seven successive Illinois misses. Brown, Ross, Tony Criswell and Pressey chipped in with key baskets.
Illinois managed only three field goals in the final 3:29.
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Chris has worked in the IT industry for 25 years. He entered it after graduating with a computer science and mathematics degree. His experience spans creating new products to creating new companies.
Among his successes is a software company that grew from inception in 1994 into an internationally-acclaimed supply chain execution software solutions provider.
This company designed and built large-scale realtime systems deployed globally for Fortune 500 global companies, such as Panasonic and FedEx. Chris was actively involved in the programming, while steering the company as Chief Executive.
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Paul Jansen – aSpecial Media Founder and Chairman
Paul Jansen was an award-winning journalist, who held leadership positions in the print, broadcasting and Internet operations of The Straits Times newspaper and the Singapore Press Holdings group (SPH). He was also a pioneer in each of these mediums. He founded one of the world's first online newspapers, The Straits Times Interactive, now re-named straitstimes.com, and the search and directory engine Rednano.sg, which won regional and international honours. He was also the first editor of a daily newspaper in SPH, Streats, to move from Editorial to the Marketing Division and injected a new perspective there.
His other contributions to Singapore Press Holdings included playing a key role in the successful tender bid for a mobile licence. This resulted in the creation of the telco M1, which broke SingTel's monopoly. He was also a member of a team involved in a tender for a fixed line licence.
Paul was a Fellow of the World Press Institute, Macalester College, Minnesota, and a Reuter Fellow on the John S Knight Fellowship programme at Stanford University, California.
These experiences have given him a unique insight into the challenges and opportunities of the different media platforms, the divide between the analogue and digital worlds, as well as the bridges that link all of them for the benefit of the publisher, advertiser and consumer. He is passionate about the media industry and readily shares his experiences and observations at local and international media conferences to which he is invited.
As comfortable with the online world as he is with the print and broadcast world, Paul is the founder and chief editor of Merawan (www.merawan.com), a website for general aviation in Asia. He is a licensed pilot. When not flying his Piper aircraft, he is always on the hunt for flight experiences in WWII planes.
Shirley Tan – aSpecial Media Vice President, Corporate Developmen
Shirley Tan has one of the best all-round experiences in the fastest-moving industry in the past decade in this part of the world - the telecommunications sector. She worked with the biggest names in the region and was involved in pioneering projects in mobile and the Internet.
Her interest in, and knowledge of, breakthrough delivery systems and reach have been developed over the years with her participation in such new ventures as Magix, currently known as SingNet Broadband, and *SEND, an SMS text-based content service.
This technical interest and expertise has been enhanced with an appreciation of the commercial potential and realities of the telco sector. Among other things, she was involved in due diligence projects in the region. For instance, she was part of SingTel's cross-divisional team tasked to study the feasibility of investing in the telecom markets in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Her desire to find optimum ways to reach people led her to join Singapore Press Holdings(SPH) at a time when the newspaper company was developing better ways to service its customers and reach new ones. Shirley was headhunted by a subsidiary of the media group, SPH Search, where she was tasked to launch the region's first local mobile search engine. The mobile service, Rednano LOCATE, was subsequently singled out, against competition from the biggest service providers and telecoms operators around the world, for an international award for innovation by Global Telecoms Business.
She honed her understanding of the link between data and customer management when she later joined StarHub to launch a Predictive Analytics program as part of the company's CRM strategy.
Today, with her knowledge of the importance of Big Data and how organisations - whether international telcos or small start-ups, cutting-edge teams or established traditional business companies - are urgently seeking to gather, process and use it, Shirley is uniquely placed to contribute to aSpecial Media as it moves to the forefront with the development of Asia's largest behavioural database.
Sally Loh – aSpecial Media Founder and Vice President - Operations and Admin
Sally Loh has considerable experience managing the administration of medium and large companies. She began her career in the uniformed ranks of the Singapore Police Force. She moved to Keppel Communications, a subsidiary of Keppel T&T, to broaden her horizons and joined its administration team. This was a time of great change in the country's telecommunications landscape with the ending of the monopoly of Singapore Telecommunications.
Other jobs followed. Each one was of greater scope. Prior to starting aSpecial Media Pte Ltd with Christopher Yeo and Paul Jansen, Sally was with the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) group. Her duties there included serving as the head of Administration of Singapore Press Holding's subsidiary SPH Search Pte Ltd. She was also de facto Personal Assistant to its chief executive. As this was a start-up, she was responsible for setting up the office and the administrative processes from Ground Zero, a situation she was familiar with. SPH Search, which launched the local search and directory engine Rednano, was an innovator in digital media and mobile advertising and won several international awards.
An inveterate traveller, Sally enjoys the mind-broadening experience of visiting new places and trying new things.
Jagapriya Somasundram – aSpecial Media Engineering Manager
Priya became a software engineer after graduating with a Bachelor of Information Technology Degreee from Anna University, India. She was involved in several milestone IT project, giving her experience in integrating cross platforms, web/mobile technology, search engines and ad networks.
Before joining aSpecial Media, she spent four years with SPH Search, a subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings. There, she was part of the team which created the award-winning Rednano search and directory engine. It showcased her ability to build robust products, including rednano.sg, Rednano LOCATE, and a Contexual/Mobile Ad Network.
Her skills were acknowledged in 2010 when she was awarded the "Find of the Year" prize by her employer, SPH Search, for her dedication and product delivery.
When not cooking up new software code, she likes to spend time in the kitchen whipping up new, innovative dishes. Her other interests include interior design. This is based on the concept of integrating multiple entities to create an experience which is greater than the sum of its parts, something she does daily in her programming.
B. T. Ram – aSpecial Media Ad Operation Manager
Ram brings to aSpecial Media a keen interest in the online world. Like our Chairman Paul Jansen, he started his career creating content. Then, he saw exciting developments in the Internet and switched to online marketing. By then, Ram had earned his Bachelors in Commerce from the University of Madras, in Chennai, India. He picked up a Certification in Microsoft Adcenter.
His experience in the challenges and opportunities of online marketing made him realise that a new paradigm was required to ensure accuracy and relevance for consumers and advertisers. And he found this in behavioural data, which also led him to the doorstep of aSpecial Media, which is building Asia's largest such database.
He joined the company in 2012 to take charge of media operations - a responsibility which sees him planning and media buying media for our clients worldwide. His skill in providing value comes from his years in digital advertising, and his involvement in online media planning, account management, search engine optimisation and search engine marketing.
While he is keeping his eye on improving client satisfaction through greater use of behavioural targeting, Ram is also interested in getting a big picture perspective in another sense - he wants to take up skydiving. He is currently looking for a good place to do this - which is essentially anywhere nearby.

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WADESBORO — Representative Larry Kissell (NC-08) visited with students at Anson High School and Anson New Technology High School on Thursday, May 24. Kissell met with instructors and administrators and spoke to students about his work in Congress and the importance of young people being involved in their government and their communities.
"It is always uplifting to be in the classroom talking with students, and I greatly appreciate the opportunity to visit with students in Anson County, today," said Kissell. "As a former schoolteacher, I know there is no greater reward than helping young people succeed, both in the classroom and in their lives beyond school. It's good to spend time with students and teachers and see how hard they're working to ensure the best future for the people of our area and our community as a whole."
At Anson High, Kissell spoke to students in Doug Zywiol's history classes. Students asked Kissell a range of questions covering his work in the district, as well as the legislative process in Washington. Zywiol thanked Kissell for the visit, and noted that his talk with students tied in with the lessons the class covered throughout the year.
"Congressman Kissell is one of North Carolina's biggest advocates for educators and education," said Zywiol. "It was great having him speak to seniors who learned all year about politics and government. The kids were really excited to meet someone who represents their views in Washington, D.C."
Earlier in the day, Kissell visited Anson New Tech and met with faculty as students completed their end-of-grade examinations. Kissell spoke with Anson New Tech Principal Chris Stinson and math teacher Blaine Maples about programs at the school and the work completed by the students throughout the year.
"It was great to visit with folks at Anson New Tech and know that the students there are hard at work in successfully completing their school year," said Kissell. "It's good to know that folks in Anson County are reaching in all directions to ensure that all students have an opportunity to get a good education and be successful. I look forward to coming back to Anson New Tech and meeting with students in the classroom."
Maples thanked the Kissell for visiting the school and invited him to take part in future efforts to reach out to students and the community and highlight the work being done at the school.
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A new, four-minute preview video of the new season of Spartacus, officially titled Spartacus: Vengeance and starring Liam McIntyre as the fearsome gladiator, has hit the internet.
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Andy Whitfield, the Australian star of the Starz drama series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" is dead at 39 after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.
Whitfield was preparing for a second season of the Starz series when he was diagnosed with the disease 18 months ago.
His acting talents were so strong in the first season of the show that once he made the announcement, the network opted to shoot a prequel, "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena," and season two of the original was stalled for a year in order to try and get Whitfield on board.
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There is a new Naevia! Cynthia Addai-Robinson replaces Lesley-Ann Brandt who revealed a few months back that she would not be coming back to the new season, so the job was open for a new Naevia.
You will see Cynthia in January 2012 in Spartacus Season 2 (aka Spartacus: Vengeance).
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Spartacus: Gods of the Arena comes to a close as the finale reaches it's end. A mini-season of six episodes done as a flashback storyline taking us to the past and back to where it ended in season one. The journey was at times bumpy, trying to care about characters you knew were not in the original season. But "Episode 6: The Bitter End" concluded the journey in epic proportions and in ways I didn't expect. For me it was the best episode of the season and tied all the ends into a beautiful, violent, red bow colored with blood.
For the characters, a few of them would meet their inevitable grisly ends in and out of the arenas. For the fans, this would be the end of a miniseries that helped tide them over, while they wait for the title character to come back in 2012.
Now let's breakdown some of the events...
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Spartacus, God's of the Arena, continues after last week's episode filled with sex, murder and mayham. Episode 5, 'Reckoning', picks up where Titus gives his son the ultimatum to get rid of his wife.
Passion still burns in the heart of Gannicus for Melitta and they engage in the forbidden down in the wine cellar. Oenomaus shows up during the act of betrayal and thrusts his sword through the neck of Gannicus. Melitta wakes from the horrific dream.
Lucretia mourns the passing of her friend, Gaia, at the hands of Tullius and confides her feelings to Melitta and tells her that they must perform a ritual cleansing to remove Gaia from the Ludus commanded by Titus. They decide not to do it, but if asked, will say it was done.
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The Virgin Suicides [DVD]
Screenplay : Sofia Coppola (based on the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides)
MPAA Rating : R
Year of Release : 2000
Stars : James Woods (Mr. Lisbon), Kathleen Turner (Mrs. Lisbon), Kirsten Dunst (Lux Lisbon), Josh Hartnett (Trip Fontaine), Hanna Hall (Cecilia Lisbon), Chelse Swain (Bonnie Lisbon), A.J. Cook (Mary Lisbon), Leslie Hayman (Therese Lisbon), Danny DeVito (Dr. Horniker), Michael Pare (Adult Trip Fontaine), Jonathan Tucker (Tim Weiner), Anthony DeSimone (Chase Buell), Giovanni Ribisi (Narrator)
Sofia Coppola's directorial debut, "The Virgin Suicides," is a hazy, dream-like tale of how the local teenage boys of a wealthy Michigan suburb in the early 1970s view the Lisbon sisters. These five daughters of the gawky local math teacher (James Woods) and his strongly religious wife (Kathleen Turner) are all blond and beautiful, ranging in age from 13 to 17, and they are the subject of many private male fantasies. Teenage boys watch them from across the street, talk about them, and save any and all souvenirs that might give them insight into the world of the Lisbon sisters.
Although the five sisters are arguably "the main characters," this is not the story of who they were, but how they were perceived. This is driven home by the fact that the narration (read by Giovanni Ribisi) is a collective remembrance, using the inclusive pronoun "we." The narrator is not one boy who grew up and looks back on the past with longing and a still-incomplete sense of understanding about what happened; rather, he is all the boys who share in the same feelings.
These feelings about the Lisbon sisters are often realized visually in the film with near-kitschy moments of soft-focus fantasy in which the girls are seen in slow motion and extreme close-up, lit with setting sunlight in golden fields. Once again, while these moments border on parody, we realize they are not because this is how teen boys whose heads are filled with movie images and rock ballads about lost love would see them: as unreachable fantasy figures.
As the title of the film makes clear, the five Lisbon sisters--Lux (Kirsten Dunst), Bonnie (Chelse Swain), Mary (A.J. Cook), Therese (Leslie Hayman), and Cecilia (Hanna Hall)--will have killed themselves by the end. Why do these five beautiful young girls kill themselves? What drives to them to such despair and unhappiness that they would end their own lives?
The film presents a potential answer: the fact that their repressive Catholic mother becomes so fearful of their budding sexuality that she literally locks them up in the house and does not allow them to go out, thus killing their desire to live. But, this answer is so trite and simplistic that it has to been seen as a screen. This answer is too easy, and the film is too smart to wrap up its story in such pat fashion. No, there is something more mysterious about the deaths of the five Lisbon sisters, and the reasons behind their suicides will never be answered. After all, how can anyone possibly trace the full explanation of what drives someone to end her own life? To suggest that such an extreme action can be boiled down to simple cause-and-effect reasoning is to wrongfully simplify the whole of human existence.
The film is short on narrative, but that is because it is not so much about plot as it is about feeling. When the story takes a long detour to tell how Lux becomes involved with Trip Fontaine (Josh Harnett), a high school stud who recently emerged from puberty to the delight of all the girls at school, the film becomes an evocation of growing adolescent sexuality and the pangs and longing of true first love.
Much of the film is laced with a strong awareness of the hypersexuality of the teenage girls, especially Lux, who is the most ambitious of the sisters. Like all the sex kitten characters played by Brigitte Bardot, Lux is almost overly erotic because everything about her is so ambiguous; every swish of her shoulder, every bat of her eye, every curl of her toes could be either harmless, unknowing, girlish flirtation or provocative,womanly seduction.
Because the sisters seem doomed from the opening frames--the sunny smiles and happy demeanors that characterize their introduction into the narrative have a tragic, somewhat sinister edge that that always accompanies characters who are going to die, but do not know it yet--the movement toward their eventual suicides does not feel like movement at all. In fact, one could almost argue that the plot of "The Virgin Suicides" goes almost nowhere, and those who rely on traditional cinematic storytelling might find themselves restless.
Sofia Coppola (daughter of famed director Francis Ford Coppola) shows a strong sense of visual style in her directorial debut. The film was adapted from a talked-about first novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, and Coppola's challenge was to capture the tone of the story--the mystery and the longing. She does this quite successfully, aided in no small part by cinematographer Edward Lachman's soft, filtered cinematography that gives the film both the sensation of a dream or hazy memory, while also evoking the look of the early 1970s. The costumes by Nancy Steiner and set designs by Megan Less are all first-rate, bringing out just enough of that time period to set the tone without being overhwelming. Coppola also pulls something of coup with her use of period music by '70s pop bands like Styx; rather than using the now-kitschy romantic ballads as an ironic counterpoint, she uses them in a completely straight fashion that somehow works.
In "The Virgin Suicides," Coppola aimed to make an unconventional film about adolescence, and she has succeeded quite admirably. Some of her more daring moments of visual flair, such as allowing the camera to have X-ray vision so that we may see that Lux has written Trip's name on her underwear, are hit-and-miss. Sometimes they add to the mood, sometimes they distract.
This was obviously an important film for Coppola, as she has been accused of riding her father's coattails as an actress (she was widely and, some would say, unfairly criticized for single-handedly ruining "The Godfather Part III"). With "The Virgin Suicides," however, she has shown herself to be not only a competent director, but also one of good instincts and imagination. Perhaps she's not a good actress, but her talent behind the camera is readily evident.
The Virgin Suicides DVD | |
Widescreen | 1.85:1 |
Anamorphic | Yes |
Audio | Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Dolby 2.0 Surround |
Languages | English (5.1), French (2.0) |
Subtitles | English |
Supplements | "The Making of The Virgin Suicides" Featurette Original theatrical trailer "Playground Love" Air music video Photo gallery |
Distributor | Paramount Pictures |
Presented in anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1), Edward Lachman's soft, hazy-filtered cinematography looks exquisite. The overall picture is quite soft, which is the intended look of the film. Colors are strong and natural, although in keeping with the overall dream-like image quality, they seem to have been just slightly desaturated, which makes the film look like a product of the 1970s. The detail level is still notably high despite the soft focus, which brings out the fine nuances of Jasna Stefanovic's excellent production design. | |
I found the Dolby Digital 5.1 surround soundtrack to be a bit problematic. While Air's musical score and the period music by rock bands like Styx and Heart sounds uniformly good, with strong bass and good surround effects, and the subtle background noises of living in suburbia (the wind whistling through trees, cars in the distance) sounded natural and evocative, Giovanni Ribisi's voice-over narration was too loud. The mix is often quite soft during the dialogue portions of the film, and when you turn up the volume to hear what the characters are saying, the narration becomes jarringly loud. Otherwise, the soundtrack is well-mixed and effective without being showy. | |
The 23-minute featurette "The Making of The Virgin Suicides," which was shot primarily by Eleanor Coppola, who also made the excellent feature-length documentary "Hearts of Darkness" about the making of "Apocalypse Now," is more about writer/director Sofia Coppola than it is about the film itself. Most of the featurette consists of behind-the-scenes footage of Sofia working and interviews about her with numerous members of the Coppola family, including Sofia's mother, Eleanor, and father, producer/director Francis Ford Coppola. Also featured are a few of the actors, including Kathleen Turner, James Woods, and Scott Glenn, as well as author Jeffrey Eugenides, on whose novel the film was based. There is one particularly interesting segment that juxtaposes a scene in the film with a voice-over of Eugenides reading directly from his novel, which shows just how closely Coppola followed the original book in this instance, right down to the descriptive details of when lights in a house turn on and off. Although the back of the DVD case lists two theatrical trailers, I could only find one, which is presented in nonanamorphic widescreen. Also included is a brief slide-show gallery of a few dozen photos taken during production and an Air music video for "Playground Love." |
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I've also been watching the evolution of Hacker News, and I notice some commonalities: - both were started by individuals with a lot of drive and self-determination. - initially the single founder did everything: set up the site, paid for the server and bandwidth, did all the moderation. - as the site served a particular niche market and was free, the site grew rapidly. - with growth came a steady and persistant decline in quality. At first it was mostly highly motivated and interested people found and joined the site; as the site grew it attracted more casual members and a greater number of spammers, trolls, and low quality contributors in the mix. - faced with an increasing burden of staying on top of moderation, the original founder took the model of volunteering to do the moderation himself and expanded it by recruiting more people to also volunteer to do the moderation. - this approach failed to stem the tide and the initial founder found himself frustrated by how much personal time and energy the site was taking. (In the case of Hacker News this is my observation of about a year ago, and there may have been developments since then that I'm not aware of). I note that moderation is, literally, a thankless task. Everyone notices if there are a lot of spam and trolls in a forum. No one notices if there aren't. No one sees the effort that goes into moderation -- once a post is deleted or a troll banned, they're not visible any more. Moderation is like cleaning bathrooms... everyone notices if your bathroom is dirty, but no one knows (or wants to know!) how much time it took you to clean your bathroom when it's clean. When one person is moderating, even though no one else notices the work involved, the individual see the impact they're making on the site. When they moderate less, quality goes down. When they moderate more, quality goes up. Now what happens when a group of volunteers helps out with moderation? No one individual's effort makes as much of a noticeable difference. One person moderates more, and that will help the particular part of the forum that they're helping moderate a bit, but the overall quality of the site doesn't go up by very much.. and vice versa if they sometimes moderate less. So by the structure of the situation on average the volunteers have less visibility and less incentive to put in as much effort as the founder originally did. And this is a specific example of an overall free rider problem. For example, I show up at the forum, I enjoy the spam-free and troll-free environment, I get help with my problems and my personal development desires, but I'm not contributing to moderation myself. (Or with server and bandwidth costs either, for that matter!) By analogy, I clean the bathroom in my home because I want a clean bathroom; when I have a party and invite a bunch of people over I clean my bathroom because it's my bathroom... but what if I'm renting a venue and having 5,000 people at my party? I don't want to clean the bathrooms! And I can recruit volunteers to help out at the party... but guess what? They don't particularly want to clean the bathrooms either! A solution is to pay someone to clean the bathrooms. And to pay for that either by charging attendees directly through a ticket price, or indirectly by selling attendees to advertisers and sponsors. Even Burning Man which encourages a radical gifting economy still needs to charge a ticket to cover costs Personally, I prefer to pay for things directly. Thus if Steve or someone else wants to host a personal development forum, I'd be happy to pay a membership fee. |
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Why are you telling me this? Little over sensitive? Some guilt? My character Bob in the caption said it. You know, the one sitting on the bench in the picture above. He is celebrating that the Aliens took the last living beings other than the ones like himself. He's happy because now he can have the perfect world he always dreamed of. Hence, it's why he named it Republicana... Man, I thought for sure I had a winner this week, but now that I have to explain it, I'm not so sure!
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Woah, talk about projection,C Bob. The guy is sitting on bench, not even smiling, his hands by his sides, and you say he's "celebrating"? The "last living beings other than himself"? Where do you get that? He's "happy"? Where do you get that?
One of the interesting things about these cartoons is that they serve as a Rorsach test (inkspots) for people to express their inner feelings.
Apparently your "inner feelings" involve genocide and projecting your contempt for others through some minority appearing "Republican" ( at least in your mind).
You may want to bring this up at your next therapy session.
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2:58 pm on Thursday, June 14, 2012
I looked at the pic again just in case i missed something.... No, he looks like a Bob celebrating... winning caption stays...
3:03 pm on Thursday, June 14, 2012
Once again, Billable, you choose to insult instead of showing intellect. You choose to push people away and divide instead of convince and convert.
What exactly is your position in the Obama adminstration?
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3:21 pm on Thursday, June 14, 2012
No, I'm pretty sure he is quoting your own words and advice that you had to patch... Well at least that was the comment I thought I saw... Now his stance on the Obama administration I'm not sure on... Based on his apparent love for "cool jesus" I'm guessing he is a big fan!
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Is this part of President Obama's "War on Women"? I guess if out of work women are abducted by aliens, it improves his unemployment numbers!
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As Perry Central's drama instructor, Philip Neace enjoys his job. In fact, he enjoys it a lot. That much was evident this week as Neace directed his Commodore Players – the school's award-winning drama company – during the second week of rehearsals for their fall production of "Aladdin."
The Players are also celebrating their 10th anniversary this season. As Mr. Neace pointed out, Perry Central had a drama program before his arrival there a decade ago, but it was then that the school's company was formed. Since then, the Players have continued a focus on the stage with productions nearly every semester when the weather allows for adequate rehearsal time.
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Austin Campbell, a junior, will be playing the lead character of Aladdin, and said the production will be "absolutely great" once the curtain goes up. He added that the rehearsals are going smoothly, and this story should provide good entertainment as it offers action and even some humor.
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Of course, with any production of "Aladdin," the genie will play a large role. In this version, there are actually several genies, but junior Makeisha Combs will be playing the role of the genie of the lamp, a character that will play on sarcasm, but should also appeal to the audience.
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Libra wrote:Charles, I'm not going to be able to post a full write-up for the Golden Age Merged Universe-627, but I'm hoping ti have something for you by Tuesday and the Golden Age posts should hopefully follow after.
In the meantime I would interested in learning more about the Nautilus Atlantean Royal Family (As well as your version of Atlantis in general), please?
I would also be interested in learning more about the Grayhavens and their Lost World.
Perhaps Prince Dakkar is a bit too much like Namor there in his over-expectations of a warm welcome from surface dwellers but its part and parcel of the genre and I like to think a lot of the storylines in the Golden Age of Heroism don't always have to make sense.
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Only a thought, but if you wanted to add something, I might that there's also some irritation between the fact that Doctor Tsin (like Doctor Fu Manchu) was actually a peasant despite suppositions to the contrary while the Iron Khan was very much responsible for much of the worst excesses of Imperialist rule.
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Libra wrote:I rather imagine the dynamic between Sin and Temugin as similar to that of Redcloak and Xykon: Sin definately has devotion to his cause and a well thought-out plan for his version of Utopia - Unfortunately he's not had much success, in the short term at least. Still, he plans and works for the long term and is wise enough to recognise - and prize above all other virtues in his servants - true loyalty where he finds it.
Libra wrote:Aquarius had decided that if the democratic nations of the surface would not be made to recognise him by use of peaceful diplomatic means, then he would have to make a dramatic example, demonstrating the power his nation wielded to the World.
Libra wrote:(The former was a small joke between the League and the Liberty-Men, each referring to the other so, due to the well-publicized nature of their exploits and referring to the rareness of their meetings. The latter is simply a name picked out of newspaper article by Lady Liberty, reflecting the fact that the Liberators tended to operate most openly in the Pacific theatre, preferring covert and behind-the-lines operations in Europe, where the Allies of Freedom functioned as an overt battlefront team and Axis supermen were more numerous - and powerful.)
Libra wrote:Dr Tomorrow recruited most heavily in Freedom City due to the fact that what records of the period had survived in his world showed that while the heroes of Freedom City were in many cases just as - if not more - powerful than the Axis supermen on an individual level, they had never united and seldom operated outside of their city, a priceless resource untapped. It did not escape his notice that the Phantom League's hold on the City was never strong, due to the superabundance of costumed criminals and the chaos they caused in it's underworld, meaning James Moriarty II was far less likely to interfere or take interest in the business of the League, a factor Tom suspected lay behind a number of the Liberty-Men and Liberators' woes.
Libra wrote:The team maintained friendly relations with the Liberty-Men, probably closer than their successors ever will be, particularly after the War, but seldom met. They faced much the same problems, although to a lesser degree and it's a well-known fact that both teams – their more gregarious members, at least – would meet for Thanksgiving dinner every year after 1945 until the retirement of the Liberty-Men.
Libra wrote:The unmasking massacre did not directly affect most of the heroes of Freedom City. Given that the team had been at least partially aware of infiltration of the US Government by agents of an alien power since 1951 and its unpleasant experiences with the consequences, it is little surprise that the Liberty League decided that while the American Way was worth fighting and dieing for, there were certain things better kept a secret, even from the American Government.
Libra wrote:The Liberty-Men: Founded before the Liberty League and just as renowned during the Golden Age, but handicapped by a lesser degree of Government Approval – given the decidedly non-American origin of many of its members – as well as the malicious scrutiny and treacherous subtleties of the future Death Mask. Lacking Doctor Tomorrows special 'sources' this team still managed to serve its country and the World with a record of distinguished success second to no-one. (Although the Liberty League did equal them in terms of power and sheer impact.)
Libra wrote:Despite this they served with distinction in all Theatres of War, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, generally operating behind the enemy lines or on the battlefronts seldom seen by Capes, including brief stints on the Eastern Front during the desperate days of the Battle for Stalingrad – Although that battle was won by mortal men and the city never saw them, the Liberators helped out by temporarily assuming the commitments of their Soviet counterparts, the People's Heroes, so that the latter could be concentrated in the City by the Volga.
I've always felt that Temugin was the Shang Tsung meets the Mandarin of the setting while Doctor Sin was your typical Fu Manchu/Doctor Zinn type.
A wonderful and hilarious story that ends with the ripping off of a mustache and makes both Aquaman and Namor's equivalent look good in the end. It's also an excellent homage to Namor's early status as a villain.
Now, regarding the Golden Age write-up, absolutely wonderful bits there.
Excellent analysis of the situation presented. I always had the idea that Doctor Tomorrow's version of the Liberty League was almost uniformly killed off during the war. Doctor Tomorrow's defeat of the bad guys in numerous places, resulted in them managing to survive.
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yeah x3 i've given my number to like 3 of them (what can I say? i need phone numbers to survive). I draw manga and stuff, but it isn't very good, and i'm too technology impaired to draw it and scan it to put it here, and my MS paint skills are....*shudders*
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Really? Thats pretty awesome! I only text, talking to people over the phone isn't my thing. Do you got a tablet? it makes a big difference! I've never been to good with drawing but i've been practicing, since animation has always been something i've be decent with. When ever you post something let me know i'd love to see.


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Thursday, 15 March 2012 14:10"The development here is a 'cost-recovery' project, according to Mr Su - it is not meant to reap huge profits, but serves more of JTC Corp's social mission, he explained." These were words by then assistant CEO at JTC Corp, Mr Phillip Su, in a 2008 Straits Times interview about the artist enclave at Wessex Estate.
However, it seems that things are set to change.
According to one resident artist, it has been made known that the rent for local artists will no longer be at a subsidised rate and will follow market rates by next year. This will put many local artists in a bind. Rental will soon be double or more than what they were paying. When asked why this was so, the artist was told by the JTC staff that "the Art Village idea has been dissolved."
The estate is part of JTC Corp's 200ha One-North Innovation and Research hub, which contains the Fusionopolis, Biopolis and upcoming Mediapolis developments. The charming blocks of colonial style apartments within Wessex estate, which were originally used as barracks for British soldiers, were offered as residential and studio space for local and foreign artists. This was in the hopes of developing the artist village which stands today. By 2008, artists and creative minds made up 40% of the tenants there and included prominent figures in the local art scene like Zai Kuning and cultural medallion winner Han Sai Por, both of whom have since left. Han Sai Por's studio was torn down in a redevelopment exercise.
The remaining artist community at Wessex has continued to create and showcase their creations and space to the public. The yearly Art Walk, where the art studios open for public viewing, will take place as usual on the 24th and 25th this month. On other days, studios are available for visits by appointment as well. The artist village has also collaborated with the National Arts Council in the Singapore Art Show where the artists from Wessex estate engage the public through their various art forms.
In 2010, the estate was featured in an article by the Shanghai Daily, which compared the enclave to Shanghai's own "havens for artists - struggling and established" and New York's SoHo.
Even with the increase in rent, and the seemingly dwindling interest by JTC to further support the artist village idea (JTC's website currently describes Wessex as "an excellent housing option for the working population in one-north" with "[priority given] to applicants working in the Biomedical Sciences, Infocomm Technology, Media, Physical Sciences and Engineering industries within the one-north development"), some who can afford it will stay on for the sheer love of the environment.
It is not hard to see what they mean. The place is virtually untouched by the withering touch of urbanization. A single, unmarked road winds through a ceaseless stretch of lush greenery, interrupted only by shallow dips into grassy fields and dotted with the black and white apartment buildings and a village square where there are quaint cafes and galleries. "Ambience adds to the quality of creation," a resident artist we spoke to replied when asked why she would rather put up with the higher rent than move to a more affordable space.
But what of the artists who cannot afford the space?
In his show From Lorong Gambas to Ninmanhaemin earlier this year, Zai Kuning created an installation assembled from objects he had collected from what remained of Han Sai Por's studio in Wessex. The show touched on the sense of displacement he felt as an artist in Singapore and the lack of conducive space and respect towards the art communities, even those which have achieved large scale accolades for their works.
When we speak of the human experience, there are aspects that we can easily put into words and figures, but it is often the parts that cannot be easily expressed that leave the deepest impression when articulated. The pragmatist may question the practical role of art in society, but that is like asking for the price of love, or the practical value of having feelings.
In the process of answering the call to promote the arts to a larger local audience, we must not forget that the artists too are citizens who have very distinct rights that need to be protected in order for the arts community to develop to its fullest potential, in turn creating powerful pieces that can help cohesively push our cultural narrative forward.
In another publichouse.sg article, Elaine Ee discussed the importance of space to the artist's creative process. "At the heart of art creation are good, suitable artists' spaces—that are of the right size, with the right environment and that are affordable. And that are offered purely for the purpose of artistic creation, open to all arts practitioners, without the expectation of a return on investment."
Providing an affordable space for artists should not be a development that panders to the whims of economic returns. It IS an investment, but in the cultural landscape of a country.
The artist village at Wessex is (or was) such an investment, providing a safe space for artists to explore and hone their craft away from the distracting hustle and bustle of day to day life. It also acknowledged the importance of the artist in the innovative process which the One-North development hopes to represent, providing what JTC itself once hoped to be 'the soul of the neighbourhood'. What will become of this soul now?
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The 4-H GIS Program provides GIS and geospatial technologies to young people and qualified adults involved with U.S. 4-H clubs and related state and national organizations. It is created in cooperation with the National 4-H Headquarters, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
This multifaceted program is intended to help 4-H expand the use of GIS technology in 4-H, Science, Citizenship, and Healthy Living programs that support nearly 6 million youth members. In recent years, 4-H has seen an explosion of interest around Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). In an effort to highlight the highly relevant work of the land-grant university system, expose more 4-H youth to this cutting-edge subject area and highlight potential future career opportunities youth might have in this field, the 2013 4-H National Science Geospatial Experiment will focus on geospatial and geographic technology.
This multifaceted program is intended to help 4-H expand its current Science, Engineering and Technology (SET), Citizenship and Healthy Living programs that support nearly 7 million youth members.
4-H youth from around the United States are selected annually as members of The National 4-H GIS GPS Leadership Team. This youth and adult team provides leadership and act as GeoMentors to the hundreds of 4-H clubs across the nation using Esri GIS technology in their local projects and for local service learning projects. The National 4-H GIS GPS Leadership team members are active presenters and participants in the Esri Education User Conference and Esri International User Conference.
4-H clubs around the U.S. are getting involved in emergency preparedness at their local community level. Several are beginning by helping local emergency official identify suitable locations within the community, or in neighboring communities that could be used as temporary pet shelters in the event of a community disaster.
The Alert, Evacuate and Shelter (AES) pilot project enabled 4-H, their families and their communities' to experience the geography of their local communities while helping their local emergency officials develop and build comprehensive emergency plans and maps for situations when citizens may need to be alerted, quickly evacuated, and sheltered during an emergency.
The AES project focuses on keeping communities safe that are located in hurricane ridden areas through the creation of evacuation and shelter maps and through the use of advanced geospatial technologies. AES encourages 4-H youth to use their acquired leadership skills to educate their communities and to provide assistance, and direction, to their community leaders on the safe evacuation and shelter of local citizens during a hurricane.
The National 4-H mission is to empower youth to reach their full potential by working and learning in partnership with caring adults, and fostering opportunities for community engagement and service projects.


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Originally Posted by Slippy : "That REALLY was fucking gay of you, Matthew. Fuckin' girl."
Cool phone Mario, I'm glad you're having fun with it
I let mine get below the second warning (<10%) then plug it in until its full.
Yea it's just habit. It's how I do it, I won't change for anyone.
I heard you get X amount of charges over the life of the phone, so I would make them count. Dbd coul probably explain it and dispel the rumors and misinformation.