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The Sega Dreamcast (ドリームキャスト), code-named "Katana" and "Dural" during development, is a video game console manufactured by Sega as a successor to the Sega Saturn. It was the first machine released in what is now known as the sixth generation of video game consoles, with its sixth-generation peers being the PlayStation 2, the Nintendo GameCube and the Xbox. The Dreamcast was Sega's last home console, and developed primarily to detoxify the Sega brand. Western trust in Sega had been reduced following the dismal performance of the Sega Mega-CD, Sega 32X and Sega Saturn, and Sega were keen to regain the trust seen in the days of the Sega Mega Drive. Faced with increased competition from Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, the Dreamcast landed in a distant fourth place, and Sega largely pulled out of the console business as a result. Many of Sega's games still in development for the Dreamcast at the time of its discontinuation were eventually released for other platforms, leading to the Dreamcast Diaspora. However, the innovative features of the Dreamcast along with a strong library of games means the console still has a large, dedicated fanbase, to the extent that Dreamcast games are still being released commercially today. One of the main features of the Dreamcast aside from cutting edge graphics for 1998/1999, is the built-in 56K modem. This gives users access to the Internet for web browsing, chat, email and (perhaps most importantly) online gaming. It was the first console to offer online features straight out of the box, and the first to offer these features worldwide, rather than in select markets.
The Sega Dreamcast dates back to shortly after the release of the Sega Saturn, and found itself being built to address the common flaws of Sega's earlier machine. Before coming to a final design, the Dreamcast project originally spanned two continents and involved a number of technology firms and teams. The "Dural" (later "Katana") project was comprised of Sega of Japan, NEC/Videologic and Microsoft, while the "BlackBelt" project, headded by Sega of America, involved SegaSoft, 3DFX and Microsoft. BlackBelt was the least powerful of the two, but was designed for ease of use (something which plagued the Saturn), while the Katana project was cutting-edge, but came with the side effect of a more intricate and difficult operating system. BlackBelt was inevitably dropped (much to the dismay of 3DFX who later engaged in legal challenges with Sega), with commentators assuming the production cost of the system would have been higher than that of the Katana, ultimately leading to a more expensive final street price. Another possibility is that the 'BlackBelt' just wasn't powerful enough to compete in a market with other next generation machines from companies like Sony. In the end, the Kitana project became the Dreamcast, with Hitachi developing the CPU and NEC/Videologic providing the new graphics chipset (based on the PowerVR Series II). The operating system was tweaked to make it as easy to use and develop for as BlackBelt was going to be, however Microsoft wrote another development system, based on its Windows CE technologies. Microsoft decided to cooperate with Sega in an attempt to promote its Windows CE operating system for video games, but Windows CE for the Dreamcast showed very limited capabilities when compared to the Dreamcast's native operating system. The libraries that Sega offered gave room for much more performance, but they were sometimes more difficult to utilize when porting over existing PC applications. In the July 1998 edition of the UK's Sega Saturn Magazine, the then-CEO of Sega of Japan, Shoichiro Irimajiri, outlined his vision of how the Dreamcast would perform. It was fully expected that by 2000 superior hardware would have likely been released into the market, but that the Dreamcast would be the console to go for when it came to games. Interestingly music was highlighted as being one of the Dreamcast's strengths, which may explain the emergence of teams such as Wave Master. Many games were set to span multiple genres - perhaps later realised by the likes of Space Channel 5 or Rez. It was estimated that $500 million USD was pumped into the Dreamcast's launch. LogoShoichiro Irimajiri claimed the Dreamcast's logo is supposed to symbolise the "origin of power", with the universe being "like a vortex". The Sega Dreamcast has a red/orange spiral as its logo in all regions apart from Europe (and Australia) where it was changed to blue. It is suspected that this was due to a German educational game publishing company "Tivola" using a similar orange swirl in their logo. Though the color scheme was changed for all European games, advertisements and media, the orange LED used in the console was not replaced with a blue one. Many third-party accessories also continued to use orange/white packaging. ReleaseJapanThe Dreamcast was first released on the 27th of November 1998 in Japan with four launch titles: July, Pen Pen TriIcelon, Virtua Fighter 3tb, and Godzilla Generations. The situation in Japan was very different to that of the western world - in Japan the Sega Saturn had been a rousing success, and Japanese publishers failed to see the need for a new console. However sales were still strong for many years and Sega of Japan's position was to run the two consoles in parallel, with the possibility of the Saturn handling 2D games, and the Dreamcast, 3D. Initial predictions by Sega were that the PlayStation 2 would debut in late 1999 (it was actually early 2000 in Japan). The aim was to attract as many developers as possible within a year to attempt to secure the Dreamcast as the number one consoles of its generation. With the Mega Drive, Sega had identified the US and Europe as the largest video game markets. With the Saturn and Dreamcast, they felt (perhaps wrongly) that Japan was the key territory. As such, like the Saturn, the Dreamcast was subjected to many games exclusive to Japan, along with numerous exclusive peripherals and special Dreamcast models. Japanese Dreamcasts can be identified by the triangle at the front of the unit. Though the power LED is identical across all regions, the piece of plastic attached to the lid of the Japanese model is transparent, while in North America it is grey. North AmericaThe US had to wait nearly a full year for their Dreamcasts - Sega executed a massive launch on the 9th of September 1999 (9/9/99). Shoichiro Irimajiri claimed this was so the Dreamcast could launch with wider variety of games (it ended up being 4 (JP) vs. 18 (US)), and the first time a Sega console would launch with "enough" games. The Dreamcast took in over $97 Million USD on the first day of launch in North America, and sold over 500,000 machines in the first two weeks. Sega were quick to point out that $97,000,000 is more than Star Wars: The Phantom Menace brought in on its first day of release. Over a million machines were sold in North America in just over two and a half months, making the Dreamcast the fastest selling video games machine in that region, ever. Sega Dreamcast's motto in the US was "It's thinking". There was some confusion with Sega's marketing tactics at the time, as adverts often failed to address what was thinking. It was not always clear that the Dreamcast was a games console. But the Dreamcast was met with problems when rumours of Sony's PlayStation 2 came into circulation. Many consumers held back from buying Dreamcasts, anticipating that Sony's console would be superior. Predictably, the PlayStation 2 proved to be a more capable machine, and despite its relatively weak initial library of games, came out on top due to the inclusion of DVD-playback capabilities. At the time, DVD players were quite expensive, so the PS2 was seen as a much better deal. Production of North American Dreamcasts ceased in 2001, after Sega announced plans to leave the console business. Despite this, the Dreamcast is seen to have been more successful than the Sega Saturn (and Sega Master System) in this region. EuropeThe European release date was also aimed at a 9/9/99 release date but was pushed back to the 14th of October 1999. Likewise, initial European sales figures looked healthy, with over 100,000 machines sold in Europe on launch day alone and over 185,000 in the first weekend, but were console was threatened by the release of the PlayStation 2 and inevitably suffered the same fate as its North American counterpart. On 8 September 2000, Sega Europe reduced the price in the UK to £149.99. [1] Australia/New ZealandUnfortunately, in the Australian region the launch was less successful, often being labeled a disaster by fans of Sega. Ozisoft, the official Sega distributor in Australia, only managed to output nine launch titles despite the late release date (November 30, 1999), none of which were first party products. Apparently Sega-developed software had been held in customs and could not reach store shelves by the release date. Also with no VMUs or other peripherals on the market, it seemed that after what seemed like infinite delays, Australian fans deserved better. BrazilTectoy, who had been responsible for distributing Sega consoles in Brazil since the Sega Master System, brought the Dreamcast to Brazil in 1999. The majority of games were repackaged titles imported from the US, and the console was not particularly successful. South KoreaBreaking from the tradition of partnering with Samsung, in South Korea the Sega Dreamcast was reportedly distributed by Hyundai, the company who, curiously, had carried Nintendo products in the country during the 90s. Unlike the rest of the world, the Dreamcast arrived late in South Korea and was priced as a budget console competing against the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. 25,000 units were shipped before Hyundai cancelled the project for unknown reasons. South Korean Dreamcasts were supposedly bundled with modem cables to take advantage of the system's online services. Some Korean developers were reportedly developing games for the Dreamcast before the plug was pulled. Arcturus and White Day, both eventually released on the PC, were once set to be released on the console. HardwareThe Dreamcast used a proprietary format of storage called GD-ROMs for games in order to foil software pirates, a strategy that ultimately backfired when the first run of discs had a high rate of defects. The format was also cracked fairly quickly (and in some cases, the pirated games were released before the legitimate versions). Sega largely had themselves to blame for the high levels of Dreamcast piracy—their use of the GD-ROM format was completely undermined by the console's support for the Mil-CD format, which allowed the console to boot from a standard CD-R. Mil-CD support was removed from the final Dreamcast revisions toward the end of the console's life. The GD-ROM format also put the console at a disadvantage when competing against the PlayStation 2 - the PS2 used DVDs, and could therefore run DVD videos making it an inexpensive DVD player as well as a video game console. DVD-ROMs also have more stoage space, allowing for bigger games (though the initial run of PS2 games used a blue CD-ROM format). The Dreamcast was the first video game console to ship with a built-in 56k modem, with broadband adapters being made available later on in certain regions. This allowed the system to connect to the internet using a custom, fully-functional web browser and e-mail client. Many games released for the Dreamcast shipped with online play modes, the most popular being Phantasy Star Online and the Sega Sports lineup (now published under the ESPN label). Although other consoles before the Dreamcast had network gaming support, such as the Sega Saturn's NetLink and the Sega Mega Drive's XB∀ND, the Dreamcast was the first game console to include this ability out of the box and is therefore considered the first internet-enabled home game system. The Dreamcast has a modest hacking enthusiast community. The availability of Windows CE software development kits on the Internet—as well as ports of Linux (LinuxDC) and dreamcast NetBSD operating systems to the Dreamcast—gave programmers a selection of familiar development tools to work with, even though they do not really support the high speed graphics. A homebrew minimal operating system called Kallistios offers support for most hardware, while not offering multi-tasking, which is superfluous for games. Many emulators and other tools (MP3, DivX players, and image viewers) have been ported to or written for the console, taking advantage of the relative ease with which a home user can write a CD which is bootable by an unmodified Dreamcast. Sega released a board, using the same technology as the Dreamcast, called Sega NAOMI for use in arcades, leading to many Dreamcast-exclusive games with a high level of arcade quality. They later packaged the Dreamcast into an arcade board as the Sammy Atomiswave. Though the Dreamcast was officially discontinued in early 2001, commercial games were still developed for it and worldwide software support continued until 2002, terminating in the USA with the February 12th release of NHL 2K2, and in Europe with Cannon Spike and Freestyle Scooter on May 3. In Japan, software support continued for much longer. On February 24, 2004, Sega released its final Dreamcast game, Puyo Puyo Fever. The final new third party game for the system was Karous, released on March 8, 2007, and the final official release was a reprint of the 2003 title Border Down released exclusively through the Messe Sanoh store on January 17, 2008. What's in the box?You will normally find the following in your box, along with a bunch of advertising-based and warning pamphlets together with recycled and recyclable packaging materials.
† If your machine is imported from Asia, or if you live there, you won't get a modem, just a lump of plastic so that you don't have a gaping hole in the side of your machine. There is no VMU in the standard Dreamcast packages in any of the 4 regions. There is no RF unit in the standard North American Dreamcast package. For older TVs, you'll have to purchase this separately. Also, if you have a S-Video or SCART capable TV, you should buy the relevant cable for that, too. Special DreamcastsFor a full list of special edition dreamcasts, see Special Dreamcast Models. Technical Specifications
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TESTIMONY OF ROBERT N. DRISCOLL ON "THE FIFTIETH September 5, 2007 Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee for the opportunity to discuss this important topic. My name is Bob Driscoll and I am currently a partner at Alston & Bird LLP, here in Washington. From 2001 to 2003, I had the honor of serving as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division, which was created by the 1957 Civil Rights Act. During that time I worked on a variety of issues, including racial profiling guidance to federal law enforcement, school desegregation, and police misconduct investigations. Today's panel is a distinguished one, and I look forward to hearing all of the panelists' perspectives on this important topic. I believe that every other panelist has, in some way, dedicated his or her career to the advancement of civil rights and for that I am both grateful and humbled. My own perspective is that of a working lawyer who spent several years in a leadership position in the Civil Rights Division - an institution for which I have the greatest respect. It is my experience doing my best to help manage the Division that provides the basis for comments on the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As I reflected on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Act, I was struck by several points. First, I was struck by the progress that this country has made over fifty years in living up to the ideals that inspired the Act. Second, I was struck by the role played by both the Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in not only carrying out the mandates of the 1957 Act, but eventually in expanding the protections of civil rights laws to persons and situations that would have been inconceivable in 1957. Finally, I was struck by how the 1957 Act can serve as an historical example of the role that can be played by legislation is changing the culture of a Nation for the better. Progress since the 1957 Act Although the 1957 Act will likely be best remembered substantively for its provisions protecting Voting Rights, I think it also is properly viewed as a key building block necessary for the passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act - much broader pieces of legislation. The institutions created by the 1957 Act helped to document discrimination in voting, public accommodation, and education (to name only a few areas of inquiry) and thus create the record on which future civil rights legislation was grounded. When one looks at the breadth and depth of racial discrimination in America at the time of passage of the Act, it is hard not to be struck by the racial progress that has been made in 50 years. I am almost reluctant to speak of progress for fear of being misinterpreted as saying that racial discrimination no longer exists (it does) or that there are not many areas where we as a society have fallen short of our ideals of equality among all men and women (we have). Nor do I mean to suggest that the gains that have been made were not hard fought, or that progress was not resisted every step of the way by some individuals and governments. However, I think there is no escaping the fact that the moral imperative of equal opportunity that animated legislation such as the 1957 Act has largely taken hold and been internalized by the vast majorities of Americans 50 years later. To take an obvious example, efforts to desegregate school systems in the wake of Brown encountered "massive resistance" and spawned a wave of litigation by the Civil Rights Division and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund against school boards to remedy the prior de jure segregated systems. 50 years later, it is the school boards themselves that are seeking to promote integration and diversity - so much so that the Supreme Court has ruled on the outer Constitutional limits on the steps districts can take to promote integrated settings for students. To be sure, I am certain some on this panel disagree with the Court's most recent ruling on this question, but I would submit that the fact of the litigation itself is a sign of progress. Litigation over whether school districts have gone so far in their efforts to promote an integrated student body that they have violated the Constitution is very different matter than litigation against recalcitrant school districts that had no intention of implementing Brown. Indeed, I think many of the Civil Rights Division lawyers who served immediately after the passage of the 1957 Act would have never guessed that 50 years later, a question before the Supreme Court would be whether the Louisville, Kentucky school district had been too aggressive in its efforts to integrate its schools. The Role of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights As I stated earlier, the creation of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights were other key components of the 1957 Act. I am sure Commissioner Heriot will discuss the role of the Commission in greater detail, but the creation of institutions focused on civil rights issues has proven to be a great triumph of the Act. The Civil Rights Division, which I am familiar with, still protects the right to vote, as envisioned in the 1957 Act, and even still enforces desegregation orders entered in the wake of Brown. In addition, however, the institution has grown throughout the years to do so much more. In my view, the existence of a law enforcement body focused on enforcing civil rights statutes has allowed Congress to expand civil rights protections. For example, today's Civil Rights Division enforces many statutes that were not even on the drawing board in 1957. Today's Civil Rights Division enforces the Americans with Disabilities Act, statutes protecting religious freedoms, and a host of laws that prohibit discrimination in education, employment, credit, housing, public accommodations and facilities, and voting. On a daily basis, Civil Rights Division attorneys are engaged in activities such as prosecuting violations of human trafficking statutes; ensuring that places of public accommodation are accessible to disabled persons; and enforcing laws that prohibit acts or threats of violence that interfere with federally protected activities, such as voting. Thus, the 1957 Act was critically important because it put an institutional structure in place to address all of these issues. 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But as we all now recognize, it was an important first step, not a failure. Today's advocates can learn from this perspective as they press for new or expanded rights for fellow citizens and recognize that not all victories will be won in the first battle, nor will the first attempt to address a problem necessarily be comprehensive, but that does not mean even incremental progress is not worthwhile. Second, the Act set in place fact-finding capabilities, through the Commission, that could serve as the basis for future legislation, some of which, in retrospect, can be directly tied to the work of the Commission or the early work in the Civil Rights Division. These institutions, it turns out, were likely of more historical importance than the substantive provisions of the Act. Today's advocates should turn to these institutions to find the intellectual and factual underpinnings that will support tomorrow's legislation. 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Tomas Hermes has won the ASP Prime SATA Airlines Azores Pro in 3-4Ft waves at the primary location of Santa Barbara beach on Sao Miguel Island. The Brazilian defeats Adam Melling in a wave starved final he led from start to finish.
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"I feel incredible, this is the best day of my life for sure, my first win on the ASP World Tour," Hermes stated. "Brazilians must have something special going on here in Azores, I'm stoked to be the third to win here ! I was feeling super confident here I trained everyday after the contest and felt comfortable and the work has paid off. I'm focusing on surfing good and not on rankings, I'm taking things one heat at a time and I'll continue to do so in the next event in Carcavelos !"
With this major win in an ASP Prime event, Tomas Hermes has jumped all the way up to the 34th spot on the ASP World Rankings, and has taken an early lead in the Portuguese Waves series, a series of three events that include the Rip Curl Pro Peniche and the Cascais Pro next month. The winner of the series, determined off of the two best results, will cash in an incredible $50,000 prize !
Adam Melling, currently ranked 27th on the World Championship Tour, placed runner-up today at the SATA Airlines Azores Pro, unable to find the lefthanders he has been ripping all week, when came the final. A power-surfer amongst the crowd of younger aerialists, Melling dominated with his signature radical turns on waves of all sizes and shapes.
"It's a bummer that we didn't get many waves at high tide, but I'm pretty happy, Tomas got me on that first exchange, that's what set him up," Melling said. "I like powersurfing and if you can do big turns on a small wave they're going to love it so that's what I was trying to do. I really wanted to get on the podium this time and get a positive vibe going through the next few events through Europe, it's a good start and I'm looking forward to the next !"
Kolohe Andino, started his day with an excellent 9 point ride on his very first wave, a long and clean lefthander that offered multiple sections. He unfortunately fell short of finding a similar opportunity in his semi-final, where a last minute exchange gave the win to Adam Melling. The young Californian places equal 3rd in Azores and solidifies his lead on the World Rankings.
"I think I blew it, there were some good waves after his," Andino analysed. "But I'm stoked for Melling and I hope he wins ! I wanted to finish the year with a win, but a third's cool and there are a lot of events left so I'll have more opportunities. I'm going to concentrate on the WCT now and hopefully I won't even need my world rankings points to finish the year. I've been on the road a lot this year so I'll probably won't do the second Prime in Portugal but I'll surf the Triple Crown for sure."
Mitch Crews was leading his semi-final for most of the duration but committed a mistake dealing with priority, and let Hermes have a go at a better wave and eventually fell short of finding the average score he ended up needing to advance into the final. With this second 3rd place result this season, Crews jumps up the rankings a few spots and looks very determined to finally reach the coveted ASP World Championship Tour.
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Splendid drawings, the last one is great
Bring me everyone. -What do you mean everyone?? -EVERYONE!!!!
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Awsome stuff here man. I love your tattood chickies!
It would be awsome to see some of yer coloured stuff
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As the pattern gets more intricate and subtle being swept along is no longer enough.
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You have a really nice sketching style. I hope you stick to your New Years reolution and keep working. Good stuff.
Hey thanks a lot guys
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I like your pencil drawing, very expressive rendering style!
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Wow, your style is really cool. When did you pick that up?
your pencil stuff is amazing.. very nice
These are really cool, reminds me a bit of my own style, love drawing the rock chicks!! Hehe.
I love your pencil work, wish I could shade that nicely! Keep posting them, would really like to see some more like this.
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Loving the direction where this thread is heading. subscribed . the tattoed chick looks aweosme and ncie faces too.
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Very, very nice style and expression. Hard to crit. Please update often, lovin it
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very nice ! my fav are definitly the digital sketchs. that last one only took u 30minutes ? ^^; damn lol a good hell of a job keep it up
so i found a new love.. fucking loving your pencils and imagination!! 5stars..
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i like your pencil works ... great!
wow, cool pencils. You're familliar with the work of Lukias? Your drawings remind me of his.
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Incredible ! 5 stars from me !!!
Really strong pencil renderings, and nice figure style. Love the wizard girl
Maybe some variety in the mood of the figures especially the girl, would tighten it up even more. actually i´m just mentioning it, because i just recogniced the same thing on my own stuff.
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Plot Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. brings together a team of super humans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from Loki and his army.
Release Year: 2012
Rating: 8.9/10 (30,477 voted)
Critic's Score: 71/100
Director: Joss Whedon
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson
Storyline Nick Fury is director of S.H.I.E.L.D, an international peace keeping agency. The agency is a who's who of Marvel Super Heroes, with Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When global security is threatened by Loki and his cohorts, Nick Fury and his team will need all their powers to save the world from disaster.
Writers: Zak Penn, Joss Whedon
Cast: Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark / Iron Man Chris Evans - Steve Rogers / Captain America Mark Ruffalo - Bruce Banner / The Hulk Chris Hemsworth - Thor Scarlett Johansson - Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow Jeremy Renner - Clint Barton / Hawkeye Tom Hiddleston - Loki Clark Gregg - Agent Phil Coulson Cobie Smulders - Agent Maria Hill Stellan Skarsgård - Selvig Samuel L. Jackson - Nick Fury Gwyneth Paltrow - Pepper Potts Paul Bettany - Jarvis (voice) Alexis Denisof - The Other Tina Benko - NASA Scientist
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Goofs: Continuity: The "A" in "Stark" on the Stark building's roof is destroyed at one point in the final battle, however it is back in place a few minutes later, and is left in place for the final scene.
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OMG! She looks like a drag queen. Those eyebrows are literally drawn on. YIKES!
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And this kids is the mating call for all Sasquatches
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Bill Cosby used to make that face. Until he told the truth about blacks and they threw him over.
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Great. Four more years of Crazy Eye Sasquatch.
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Her lip-liner makes her mouth look like the back end of an orangutang, but at least she kept it closed. Usually her mouth is hanging open. Way open!
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Michelle is a grotesque creature.
That a woman so ugly is touted as "glamorous" by the nation's press and media shows just how far down in the tank the entire pop-culture industrial complex is and how much they hate us.Noteworthy Comment +21 -
Maybe that's her normal face…
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she should keep it up.. it's a good reminder for the rest of us to not get those "little cheek injections" that we never knew we needed
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Whats up with that lazy left eye?
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Hmmm…. Anyone else think she bears an uncanny resemblance to Little Richard? Of course, he *is* prettier!
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She makes Lady Bird Johnson look like Cindy Crawford.
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Yeah, but she's got great arms.
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Paying for all of her shit for 4 more looooooooooooong years!! ….. fuk me hard with a cactus!!!!!
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Maybe they despise her too, only secretly.
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Female Affirmative Action Hood Rat.
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'Let them eat kale.'+1 -
That could be upside down for all I know.
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That's a silly question Cardigan.
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Trailer trash 4 more years.
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Look at her high school photograph and tell me she hasn't been bleaching her skin.
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How does a monster not make an ugly face!
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Actually… they did.
This is the new improved version!
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Why? She don't hafta and she don't give a sh_t.
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So undignified.
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I'll bet it's the only funny thing about being one of Moo's assistants
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I honestly believe they were expecting to lose.
The Hawaiian estate…
Multiple gaffs by Biden and Obummer himself…Their contribution was done. Soro's plan was for the shit to hit the fan under Romney's watch, so that the media could blame it on him, just like Bush.
Now they have this raging train wreck bearing down on the USA, and western civilization, all on their watch.
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"Now they have this raging train wreck bearing down on the USA, and western civilization, all on their watch."
You assume an honest media and an educated and rational thinking voting class.
None of those things are true as evidenced by that earlier video from Boston.
They will drive it into the ground and then unquestioningly "blame Bush".
No matter what, we will have to glue this thing back together, assuming that is even possible.+6 -
Jethro: I disagree. I think they KNEW they would win. The cheating, lost military ballots, voter intemidation, etc. etc. They knew it. Wrecking the economy is the whole idea; then we are all wards of the state.
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They can't tell her. They've all turned to stone.
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The million dollar question. Where will Mooseshell vacation next?
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Ha ha ha,
nice photo shop there.
You do great work.
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What face?
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Because that's the STANDARD Wookie-foraging-for-french-fries look…
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Yeah. It's a black thang. You wouldn't understand.
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If they fixed her permanently, those moochers wouldn't have a job.
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Where's the Snidely Wiplash mustache to go along with those b*tchin' Sharpied-on eyebrows?
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Remember those bushy caterpillar eyebrows she had four years ago? They lazered those off and tattooed on these, plus thinned out the nose and bleached her skin. I expect by the end of four years she'll have a boob job and blonde hair. Because she's pissed off that she's black;) and maybe some sort of ass reduction. A real fashion icon…all 6 ft.., 180 lbs.
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Looks like Chris Rock's mom.
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It's due to her heroic shtruggle to pose as a human
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Her assistants don't tell her to stop because it's probably the only recourse they have for being treated like, ahem, should I say it? Slaves.
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Trailer trash 4 more years.
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You can't tame a gorilla.
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She's working on a whopper of a fart…Give her some space.


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I don't need to care what sort of world we pass on to our children — I don't have any, and I'm not terribly concerned about yours — but I do anyway. Not enough to go to extremes of effort or expense, but if I can give a beer bottle or hummus tub a second life by putting it in an orange bin rather than a trash bag, you can count on me.
I'm not a true scuppie — a Socially Conscious Upwardly Mobile Person — because newspaper people are not so much upwardly mobile as backwardly noble. I can't afford to blow the rent money at Whole Foods on organic cruelty-free, hand-churned onion dip or imported free-trade hemp dental floss.
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It's the latest in must-haves for any self-respecting Scuppie (Socially Conscious Upwardly Mobile Person). Bamboo is a mobile phone that is about as green as it gets. It is powered by winding — with a little crank. A three-minute session produces enough power to make one call so it never runs out of energy (and the user benefits from the mini-workouts).
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Still the acronyms flow in. The bobos — "burnt-out but opulent". The dimbos — "delightfully interesting male, brain optional". The scuppies — "socially conscious urban professionals".
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Somehow certain young people automatically assume that anyone over 55 years of age driving a car must be (1) senile, (2) stupid, (3) audiovisually impaired, or (4) a combination of all three. Since I qualify as a typical scuppie (senior citizen yuppie) I would like to challenge those opinions by turning the tables to some of the manners displayed by a minority of these people.
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Actress Janet Gaylor was born Laura Augusta Gainer, on October 6, 1906, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Frank D. Gainer, a paperhanger, painter and amateur actor, and Laura Buhl, a housewife. She had an older sister, Helen. The family lived in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. Following a divorce in 1914, Gaynor's mother moved to Chicago with her daughters. During World War I the sisters gave recitations at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station just north of Chicago along the Lake Michigan shore. After a severe bout of influenza, Gaynor spent several winters with her aunt in Melbourne, Florida, where she attended school and acted in amateur plays. Beginning in 1919 she attended Lakeview High School in Chicago.
In 1922 her mother married Harry C. Jones, who relocated the family to San Francisco, where Gaynor graduated with honors from Polytechnic High School the following year. Gaynor credited her stepfather for her movie career because he moved the family to Hollywood and encouraged Gaynor and her sister to enter the movie profession. The sisters studied at the Hollywood Secretarial School, becoming stenographers when not working as movie extras. Gaynor made her first film appearance in the bathing-beauty two-reeler All Wet (1924). She changed her name to Janet Gaynor on the advice of her stepfather, who thought it more professional. Shortly thereafter she acted in many silent two-reelers for Hal Roach, Universal and several other studios.
Gaynor attained popularity with audiences charmed by her diminutive stature, large saucer eyes, dimples, wholesomeness, and vulnerability. These qualities attracted the Fox studio, which saw her as the next Mary Pickford. In 1926 Gaynor played the heroine Anna in The Johnstown Flood, her first billed role. After this well-received performance, she became a favorite of Fox's chief of production, Winkfield Sheehan, who signed her to a $100-a-week contract and cast her in important roles in such major films of 1926 as The Shamrock Handicap, The Blue Eagle, The Midnight Kiss and The Return of Peter Grimm.
Gaynor always portrayed sweet, vulnerable child-women whose determination overcame in the end. She continued this role in the silent film classic Sunrise (1927), following which she commanded a $300-a-week salary. In 1927 Gaynor began her association with handsome costar Charles Farrell in the romance Seventh Heaven. The duo had chemistry on the screen and were dubbed the "world's favorite sweethearts." They went on to costar in a total of eleven romantic films, including Street Angel in 1928. For her work in Seventh Heaven, Gaynor received the first-ever Academy Award for best actress in May 1929.
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Dr Mohamed ElBaradei's June 23 op-ed in Foreign Policy suggests that Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi - one year into a four-year term - should either resign, or be forced, from power. ElBaradei's article comes in the context of the "rebel" campaign, which is designed to force Morsi to call for presidential elections nearly three years before they are due.
In his op-ed, ElBaradei - an opposition leader and former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency - complains about the lack of law and order in Egypt. He conveniently ignores the fact that Egypt has suffered from a general lawlessness that began once the uprising against Hosni Mubarak ended, and well before Morsi's term began. Also, the current government does not have complete control over corrupt, Mubarak-era security forces - many of whom have been protesting against Morsi and striking in recent months - and analysts have noted that purging Egypt of Mubarak's "deep state" will take years.
He also disregards the fact that elements in Egypt's opposition are responsible for much of the organised violence witnessed recently in Egypt. The presidential palace was repeatedly firebombed last December, and other government buildings, 30 Muslim Brotherhood offices, and four Muslim Brotherhood buses, among other things, have been set ablaze.
ElBaradei laments the state of the Egyptian economy, placing the blame squarely on Morsi's shoulders. The situation is not quite so clear, however, in part because the Morsi administration has had to endure constant instability, which has discouraged investment and tourism. The first calls for a "revolution" against Morsi began last August, just weeks after he was elected, and some in the opposition have proclaimed their intention to make life so difficult for Morsi that he is forced to resign.
Some members of Egypt's opposition, including members of ElBaradei's National Salvation Front, began calling for a presidential election "do-over" last summer, as soon as election results came in. Importantly, members of Mubarak's ousted National Democratic Party have openly taken part in the rebellion against Morsi, and leaders in ElBaradei's National Salvation Front have recently announced their alliance with at least some Mubarak regime remnants.
Like Egypt's security situation, ElBaradei ignores the fact that the country's economy was in shambles before Morsi took power, and that several of his National Salvation Front comrades served as ministers in the post-revolution military-led government that ruled Egypt for about 16 months, during which time foreign reserves dipped from $36bn to $14bn. Morsi's government has managed, in spite of constant chaos in the streets, to modestly increase reserves to $16bn.
ElBaradei complains that Egypt is being "Brotherhoodised" and that Morsi has failed to build a coalition government. The reality is actually more complicated. Only 35 percent of cabinet ministers and governors hail from the Muslim Brotherhood, and that figure would be significantly lower if ElBaradei's opposition hadn't systematically rejected participation in government. Many high-level posts, including ministerial and vice president positions, have been offered to opposition figures, and nearly all have declined. Some of the rejections came early on in Morsi's tenure. For example, Hamdeen Sabahi, ElBaradei's National Salvation Front partner, acknowledged last summer that Morsi offered him the position of vice president. Sabahi declined.
ElBaradei is absolutely right that the Morsi government has made key mistakes, and I have criticised them both for policies they have implemented and have not implemented. But calling for an election "do-over" every time the opposition decides that the government is "not qualified" is not in Egypt's best interest.
I have defended ElBaradei until a little over a year ago, when I began to notice a consistent stream of anti-democratic discourse and tendencies from him. In early 2012, when Egypt's first democratically elected parliament was disbanded on a technicality by corrupt members of the judiciary, ElBaradei supported the decision.
During the presidential election season in early 2012, ElBaradei announced that the elections were a sham because of the spectre of the military and the absence of a constitution. It is too bad he didn't run. He may have won, and then it would have been him issuing a presidential decree to remove the military from the political scene and watch over Egypt as it prepared its post-revolution constitution.
ElBaradei is right that Egypt is currently plagued by the 'same mode of thinking as in Mubarak's era'. But the dictatorial mentality and tactics exist primarily on his side of the political fence.
In November 2012, Morsi, in what he claimed was an effort to save Egypt's last democratically elected institutions, issued a controversial decree giving himself sweeping but temporary powers. ElBaradei announced, in rhetoric that would have made Joseph McCarthy blush, that Morsi had become a "pharaoh", a dictator worse than Mubarak. Interestingly, ElBaradei insisted all the while that Morsi supported a constitution that sets out term limits and which, according to Western experts of constitutional law, greatly limits presidential powers.
On December 6, in the midst of the crisis that followed Morsi's decree, ElBaradei appeared to put his democrat hat back on and called on Morsi to hold a "national dialogue" to end the crisis. The next day Morsi called for a dialogue, declaring that he was willing to compromise and that he hoped all opposition figures would attend. ElBaradei rejected the call.
The national dialogue went on without ElBaradei - who has argued that dialogues are pointless because Morsi doesn't listen to any opinion other than his own - on December 9. Morsi began the meeting by telling the 54 attendees that he would leave the room, allow Vice President Ahmed Mekki to chair the meeting, and agree to whatever the group decided. The dialogue led to Morsi cancelling the controversial elements of his decree. Had ElBaradei showed up, he may have been able to convince the group to also delay the constitutional referendum. Another national dialogue was held on December 21, this time to explicitly discuss the draft constitution. Again, ElBaradei didn't show up.
ElBaradei also discussed the contents of Egypt's constitution in his op-ed, which he has called the "Muslim Brotherhood Constitution" - even though only 32 Brotherhood figures were on the 100-member constituent assembly and 22 Egyptian parties representing the country's political spectrum agreed to the composition of the assembly in June 2012. In December, ElBaradei delivered a video presentation about the constitution, in which he claimed that the document forces children to work, among other inaccurate claims. ElBaradei's group has been invited to propose revising problematic articles, and Morsi has promised to form a committee that will work to remove or revise problematic articles once a permanent parliament is elected. ElBaradei has rejected these efforts as well.
ElBaradei is right that Egypt is currently plagued by the "same mode of thinking as in Mubarak's era". But the dictatorial mentality and tactics exist primarily on his side of the political fence.
Mohamad Hamas Elmasry is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Cairo. He has published research on the sociology of news and Arab media in international peer-reviewed journals.
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Volunteers with the Llano Military News Group are unsure of the future of the organization and its fundraising events to help Llanos soldiers. As of December, the group is an official legal entity with the ability to manage donation accounts. However, the original volunteers arent sure whether they are even still members, or whether the fundraising events will continue. Both sides say they cannot get an answer from the other. For the full story, see Wednesday's Llano County Journal. |
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