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The August Sky
As summer winds down, some familiar star patterns make their return to the early evening skies in the east, as others fade below the western horizon. Face east to see the great square of Pegasus the Flying Horse, rising earlier each night throughout the month.
Turn around to face west and look a little to your right to see the Big Dipper high in the northwestern sky. The outside edge of the cup will be facing down toward the north while the handle will be pointing back to the south.
Finally, look almost directly overhead to spot the bright white star, Vega, which is part of the constellation Lyra the Harp. This is also the brightest star in the Summer Triangle, which is completed with the stars Altair, found in Aquila the Eagle, and Deneb, found in Cygnus the Swan.
For a more detailed tour of the night sky check out Skylights, the monthly podcast tour of the night sky, downloadable at http://www.antpod.com/.
The August Solar System
Evening Planets
MARS, the red planet, finally catches Saturn and Spica about half way through the month. Moving in from the west, Mars will pass between golden Saturn and blue Spica on the nights of Aug. 13-14.
SATURN will be paired with Spica all month and will shine at 0.8 magnitude, just a little brighter than 1.0 magnitude Spica. Saturn moves slowly to the east throughout the month and will be slightly above Spica in the sky.
NEPTUNE will rise in the evening, but won't be high in the sky until mid-morning. As always, Neptune can not be spotted with the naked eye.
URANUS also rises in the evening and reaches its highest point mid-morning as well. As with Neptune, a telescope or binoculars are necessary to spot this giant planet.
Morning Planets
JUPITER rises above the eastern horizon after midnight at the beginning of the month and around midnight near the end of the month and shines at a -2.3 magnitude.
VENUS, which is quickly moving away from Jupiter to the east, does not rise until midmorning, around 3 a.m., and reaches greatest elongation on August 15.
MERCURY rises about 1 ½ hours before the sun at midmonth, but will rise later and later until it's rising 20-30 minutes before the sun at month's end.
Sun and moon
On Aug. 1, sunrise is at 6:10 a.m. and sunset at 8:24 p.m., for 14 hours and 14 minutes of daylight. By Aug. 31, sunrise isn't until 6:38 a.m., with the sun setting at 7:44 p.m. for 13 hours and 6 minutes of daylight - a 68-minute decrease from the beginning of the month.
On Aug. 20, the sun leaves Cancer the Crab and enters the constellation Leo the Lion. The change is caused by Earth's revolution around the sun. The sun seems to line up with distant background stars from our viewpoint here on Earth, so the sky changes by seasons and months.
Full moon is Aug. 2, last quarter on Aug. 9, new moon on Aug. 17, and first quarter on Aug. 24. We'll also have a special second full moon this month on Aug. 31. This second full moon within one calendar month is what is known as a blue moon, and they happen once every two to three years. Though the name may suggest a change in color, this is not the case. The moon will appear the same color as it would on any night with the same atmospheric conditions.
Special events
• The Perseids meteor shower will peak this year on the night of Saturday, August 11 into the morning hours of Sunday August 12. The Perseids often have long trains and can reach peaks of over 50 meteors per hour. While the Perseids will make for great viewing here on Earth, an even more exciting event will be taking place this month, millions of miles away on Mars.
• The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, will be delivered to the surface of Mars in the early morning on Monday Aug. 6, in a land formation known as the Gale Crater.
High-resolution video of portions of the descent will be taken as the rover is lowered to the landing site via rockets, parachute and finally, sky crane.
After approximately four days of testing of the rover's systems and surroundings, Curiosity will set out on its mission to help achieve the four main goals of the Mars Exploration Program. These include sampling the environment to determine whether conditions ever existed on Mars that were conducive to life, characterization of the climate and geology of Mars, and to prepare for human exploration of the red planet.
If all goes according to plan Curiosity's primary mission will last for almost two Earth years, and will take the rover up to twelve miles from its landing site. This will be another big step toward the goal of eventually sending a manned mission to Mars. For more information on this mission visit http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.
William Brish Planetarium/Tristate Astronomers
The William Brish Planetarium will re-open in mid-August. For more information, visit www.wbplanetarium.weebly.com.
The next meeting for the TriState Astronomers will be held at the William Brish Planetarium on Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome! For more information, visit http://www.tristateastronomers.org/.


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Historical Context
World War II
The world experienced a decade of aggression in the 1930s that would culminate in World War II. This second world war resulted from the rise of totalitarian regimes in Germany, Italy, and Japan. These militaristic regimes gained control as a result of the great depression experienced by most of the world in the early 1930s and from the condi- tions created by the peace settlements following World War I. The dictatorships established in each country encouraged expansion into neighboring countries. In Germany Hitler strengthened the army during the 1930s. In 1936 Benito Mussolini's Italian troops took Ethiopia. From 1936 to 1939 Spain was engaged in civil war involving Francisco Franco's fascist army, aided by Germany and Italy. In March 1938 Germany annexed Austria and in March 1939 occupied Czechoslovakia. Italy took Albania in April 1939. One week after Nazi Germany and the U.S.S.R. signed a Treaty of Nonaggression, on September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and World War II began. On September 3, 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany after a U-boat sank the British ship Athenia off the coast of Ireland. Another British ship, Courageous, was sunk on September 19. All the members of the British Commonwealth, except Ireland, soon joined Britain and France in their declaration of war.
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Literary Style
The novel is structured as a mystery, although Christie adds her own innovations. Stories of good versus evil have been told since the beginning of time, but the mystery story emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century with the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. The mystery structure includes motives and alibis, detection, clues, and red herrings (diversions from the real culprit). Characters become suspects before the true one is unmasked. The hero discovers the villain only at the climax of the story, and then, in the denouement, explains how the crime was committed. Christie carries on several of the traditions of the mystery but adds some new twists. The characters in Ten Little Indians present motives for past crimes and alibis for the murders on the island. Judge Wargrave, who at the end of the novel, identifies the murderer and puts all the pieces of the puzzle back together, engineers detection, clues, and a red herring. Christie's twist on the traditional mystery structure is that all of the characters are discovered to be villains; none are innocent. The final irony and delightful innovative turn is that the hidden villain in the novel, Judge Wargrave, also becomes the "hero," in the modern sense of the term.
Christie uses the setting symbolically in the novel. The house becomes a symbol of the characters' fate. As the others search for "Mr. Owen," the narrator...
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Literary Techniques
As is the case with any good mystery writer, Christie's most valuable technical ability is her knack for misdirection. To keep her reader from guessing who the real killer is, Christie must lead the reader to suspect the wrong person. Admittedly, some of the suspects can be ruled out, but what makes Ten Little Indians one of her most popular novels is the difficulty, the near impossibility of ruling out nine of the ten possible suspects. Christie makes this effort especially difficult by closing off her characters from the outside world. They are on an island that is, without a doubt, inhabited by nobody but themselves. One of them must be the killer, but in the end all ten are dead. If the case ended there, the reader might suspect that, in spite of all clues to the contrary, Vera, who hangs herself, must be the killer. But the epilogue, which holds out hope of clearing things up, reveals that the chair Vera kicks out from under herself was carefully returned to the wall. Thus, the plot thickens: one of the nine deaths that preceded Vera's must have been a red herring. Determining which is nearly impossible.
To make the task of identifying the killer more difficult, Christie, like Edgar Allan Poe, gives her reader clues but not all the clues. The detectives' dialogue that makes up the epilogue succinctly sums up the case, but in such a way as to conceal the crucial facts. Were Christie to give every detail, any reader would be able to pick up...
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Ideas for Group Discussions
Ten Little Indians is more than a great mystery, it is a meditation on the psychology of isolation and the nature of trust. The characters operate in a tense situation yet are thrown more closely together than many of us can imagine. While it considers the psychological reactions that would, perhaps, be universal, Ten Little Indians also warns against moral and judicial zealotry. When taken to extremes, the desire to check the behavior of others has, for Christie's characters, disastrous effects.
Behind all of this is the historical backdrop. When Christie penned this work, an evil force was at work in Europe. Though she may not have been able to imagine the parallels between Hitler's isolated concentration camps and her murderer's systematic rounding up and execution of criminals, they are certainly discernible in retrospect. Written in a chaotic era, Ten Little Indians is, finally, a novel that depicts chaotic events.
1. This novel has endured as one of Christie's most popular in spite of the fact that her two most famous characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, are absent. What elements make this particular story so compelling?
2. The British title of this novel, Ten Little Niggers, has never appeared as the title of an American edition because of the offensiveness of the word "nigger." Is "Indian" really a suitable replacement? In other words, has our sensitivity toward racial labels made...
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Social Concerns
Much more than a mystery novel, Ten Little Indians reveals many of the tensions at work in Great Britain between the wars. Published in 1939, the novel is set off the western coast of England, a nation that still remembers the brutality of the Great War and is on the brink of World War II. Additionally, Ten Little Indians reveals a concern with the crumbling British Empire and growing sense of guilt about what occurred during the imperial regime. Finally, Christie betrays a deep ambivalence about the institutions of justice. Though in her other novels the vehicles of justice, usually private detectives, are the heroes, in Ten Little Indians Christie examines the corrupting nature of police power.
The First World War lingers in the minds of Christie's characters. Though set about twenty years after the conclusion of "the war to end all wars," Christie's novel, in its remembrance of the atrocities that occurred in France, betrays British society's concern for the trouble that was brewing in Europe. By 1939 Adolph Hitler had risen to power and the German military machine had begun to flex its muscle. In a way, the closed society that Christie places on Indian Island reflects the closed society of nations isolated in our world. Just as the isolation and closeness of the characters cause tension, inspire allegiances, and prompt violence among the guests, the European society was about to be fractured by tension and mistrust. Her willingness to put all ten of her characters to death betrays Christie's apocalyptic view of the rumblings of war then heard in Germany and Poland. Locked in a tight, isolated struggle, nobody would win either on Indian Island or in another European war. World War I had taught Christie that lesson, and Ten Little Indians is her attempt to teach it to the rest of the world.
In addition to an implicit concern for the future, Christie shows her ambivalence in Ten Little Indians toward Britain's colonial past. At the dawning of the twentieth century it was common to hear natives of Great Britain say with pride that "the sun never sets on the British Empire." Great Britain controlled lands on every continent: Canada in North America, the Falkland Islands in South America, Australia, as well as parts of Africa and Southeast Asia. This...
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Compare and Contrast
1930s: The economy collapses and causes a decade of poverty and hunger for millions of people.
Today: The economy is booming, but many fear the year 2000 could cause another period of economic crisis.
1930s: World War II begins in 1939. The United States plans to remain neutral in the war, until its ships are attacked at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Today: The United States helps control the 1999 crisis in Kosovo through air strikes and is able to keep from deploying ground troops.
1930s: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany in 1933. His dictatorship promises order for his country, but instead, results in fear, suffering, war, and death for many of...
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Topics for Further Study
Conduct a mock trial for Justice Wargrave to determine whether or not he should be convicted of first-degree murder. If he is convicted, determine his sentence.
Research English culture and determine whether or not the characters would behave any differently if they were American instead of British.
Read another mystery story and compare the two works, focusing on how the mystery in each is constructed.
Investigate psychologists' conclusions on the nature of the criminal mind and compare those findings to the characterization of Justice Wargrave.
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Literary Precedents
Like all mystery writers, Christie owes allegiance to the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, whom critics generally regard as the creator of the mystery genre. In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) and "The Purloined Letter" (1845), Poe introduced the carefully observant egotist Dupin, who both Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Christie's Hercule Poirot rely on for a model. Poe's stories set the model for suspense, misdirection, and improbability that mystery writers such as Christie would follow.
In addition to precedents in its particular genre, mystery, Ten Little Indians has precedents in the wider world of literature. The isolation experienced by the victims and the mistrust, tension, and...
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Ten Little Indians is not, like so many of Christie's other works, part of a series. The book features neither of her famous detectives, and since all the characters die by the novel's end, Christie left herself no chance for a sequel. In later works such as Three Blind Mice (1950) and Pocketful of Rye (1953) Christie once again used nursery rhymes as either key clues or as models for a killer's actions. A posthumous publication, Sleeping Murder (1976), retained the idea of psychological manipulation as a tool for a killer. Nowhere, however, did Christie approach the improbability or tension of this particularly closed society of victims. Thus, though Ten Little Indians is thematically and...
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It is important to note that any version of this novel read in the United States is itself an adaptation. The book was originally published in England under the title Ten Little Niggers and centered on deaths that paralleled a nursery rhyme about "ten little nigger boys." Either the racial epithet carried less stigma in Great Britain or American sensibilities were more sensitive to the violence done by the word "nigger." Regardless of the reasons for British retention of the offensive title, it was never used in any American edition for reasons that should be obvious. The nursery rhyme that appears in the guests' rooms is changed to one about ten little Indians, and the setting is moved from Christie's Nigger Island to...
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Media Adaptations
Christie adapted Ten Little Indians for the stage. It first played with the novel's original title, Ten Little Niggers, in London, opening October 17, 1943; it was produced under the title Ten Little Indians on Broadway and opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on June 27, 1944.
The novel was made into three film versions, all titled Ten Little Indians. The first (1966) was directed by George Pollock and starred Hugh O'Brian and Shirley Eaton. The second (1974) was directed by Peter Collinson and starred Oliver Reed and Richard Attenborough. The third (1989) was directed by Alan Birkinshaw, starring Donald Pleasence and Brenda Vaccaro.
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What Do I Read Next?
In Murder on the Orient Express (1934) Agatha Christie writes a variation on Ten Little Indians, gathering together a diverse set of characters and focusing on the murder of one of them. This time, though, Hercule Poirot, a Belgian detective, solves the crime.
Dorothy L. Sayers's Strong Poison (1930) centers on Lord Peter Wimsey's determination to find out who poisoned novelist Harriet Vane's fiancé.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a collection of short stories published in 1892, introduces Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective and his sidekick, Dr. Watson, in four classic mysteries.
In P. D. James's Innocent Blood (1980) Philippa Palfrey meets...
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Bibliography and Further Reading
Stewart H. Benedict, "Agatha Christie and Murder Most Unsportsmanlike," in Claremont Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 2, Winter, 1962, pp. 37-42.
David Grossvogel, Death Deferred: The Long Life, Splendid Afterlife, and Mysterious Workings of Agatha Christie, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
Marty S. Knepper, "Agatha Christie-Feminist," in The Armchair Detective, Vol. 16, No. 4, Winter, 1983, pp. 398-406.
Anthony Lejeune, review in Spectator, September 19, 1970.
Max Lowenthal, obituary in New York Times, January 13, 1976, p. 1.
Ralph Partridge, review in New Statesman, November 18, 1939.
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The Darkest Knight The Duke in Disguise His Bride His Scandal The Lord Next Door My Lady's Guardian Never Trust a Scoundrel No Ordinary Groom The Viscount in Her Bedroom
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One major distraction is the character of the heroine. Lady Elizabeth Cabot was a heroine who I could never get fully behind, making it hard to root for her happily ever after with anyone, let alone the hero. And the hero was often manipulative, making it hard to fully embrace him. Although Peter Derby was a good guy with a caring heart, he also had some self-confidence issues due to the fact that he was not a blueblood. He earned his fortune, thus leaving him with no title and as the sister of a Duke, Elizabeth often thought he was beneath her, as did the rest of the ton. In order to get what he wanted, mainly Elizabeth, this caused Peter to prevaricate and use her secret as leverage.
The story opens as Peter realizes that Elizabeth is the subject of a nude painting hanging in his club. She and several friends are trying to get it and fail. The painting was supposed to be for a private collector. Peter knows it is Elizabeth because he has pined for her from afar almost their entire lives. They grew up together as neighbors. That same night, several of Peter's friends are with him and they bet they can discover the identity of the model. Elizabeth and her friends split up the men and plan to distract them from their course of action. Elizabeth gets to distract Peter.
Elizabeth is in her second season and remains unengaged. She has been pining for William, the brother of one of her friends, who doesn't seem to know she is alive. Another man, Lord Thomas, offered for her but Elizabeth turned him down. He ends up posing a threat to her, as he too has discovered the painting is of her. Elizabeth convinces Peter to pose as her fiancé as a ruse to protect herself from Lord Thomas. But the joke is on her, as she slowly falls in love with Peter.
There are several side stories, including one of Peter's sister Mary Ann, who is flaunting herself by playing billiards against men and winning. She is one of the more intriguing of the characters, but was so sulky through much of the beginning that it was hard to warm to her at first. William is never completely out of the picture for long, either.
I struggled with the lying, the conniving and ultimately the use of seduction as Peter's weapons. He basically convinces Elizabeth that he needs to teach her about love if she is to snare William. I just could never buy it completely.
Callen's style involves a lot of dialogue and often this is how she unveils her plot. At times I just could not appreciate this. The scenes seemed to go on forever and it felt that little of substance was really in the tale. This caused me to put the book down a lot and be reluctant to pick it back up. The ending picked up as things were revealed and honesty prevailed amongst the main characters, but for me, it was too little too late.
It is not often I find myself disliking a heroine this much, but Lady Elizabeth was self-centered through much of the tale and because she was so conniving in her actions with Peter, who was basically a good guy, it took me time to warm up to her. As seems to be the trend in this book, it was not soon enough to change my opinion of the story.
A Most Scandalous Engagement is a mixed bag of dialogues, seduction scenes and a rather convoluted story with several romances going on. Gatle Callen has written better.
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Jan. 17, 2008
Professor emeritus authors new volume of light verse
Jan D. Hodge, professor emeritus of English at Morningside College, draws on nursery rhymes and the plays of William Shakespeare for inspiration for a new volume of poetry in which he uses a light verse form known as double dactyl.
In his new book "The Bard Double-Dactyled and Other Odd Pieces," Hodge summarizes the plots of 15 Shakespeare plays and puts a new spin on nursery rhymes such as "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and familiar childhood tales such as "Jack and the Beanstalk" – all written in double dactylic stanzas.
A double dactyl, also known as "higgledy piggledy," is similar to a limerick. The double dactyl is typically humorous in tone and has specific structural requirements such as a nonsensical first line, a proper name in the second line and a single six-syllable word in the sixth line.
"I have taken a few liberties with the form in adapting it to these narratives," Hodge wrote in the epilogue to his book, "forgoing nonsensicality in the opening line and generally dispensing with proper names in the second, but have consistently made the sixth line a single word."
"The Bard Double-Dactyled and Other Odd Pieces" is published by Morningside College Press and is available through the Morningside College Bookstore.
Hodge taught at Morningside College from 1967 to 1997. His poems have appeared in North American Review, New Orleans Review, Iambs & Trochees, Defined Providence, South Coast Poetry Journal, Negative Capability, Nebraska Review and many other journals.


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Tuesday, June 28 2011
Afflicting the Comfortable: An Interview with Terry Moore
The comic industry's great humanist talks about the end of Echo, his new series, Rachel Rising, and ponders ideas such as, "What if you mate the China syndrome with a collider?"
Tuesday, November 3 2009
Madame Xanadu: Disenchanted
Reminiscent, in all the best ways, of Neil Gaiman and Kurt Vonnegut's finest works, Matt Wagner's opening salvo of his new Vertigo series shows the world still has need for the archetypes inherent in Wagner's Parsifal.
Thursday, January 4 2007
Absolute Sandman
Without it, there would be no Vertigo today, and perhaps none of the titles that have risen to prominence out of that publishing line.
Monday, July 17 2006
Eternals #1
Jack Kirby had a knack for creating heady, mind-bending concepts dressed in superhero clothing, and Neil Gaiman simply refines this already brilliant material with sharp dialogue and characterization, while weaving it into a modern context.
Monday, November 7 2005
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
This is the first thing I've read of Neil's where the voice of the narrator sounded just like him. It's sharp and witty and clever and, well, British.
Tuesday, August 2 2005
MirrorMask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture from The Jim Henson Company by Neil Ga
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Cornell houses some programs in Google's Manhattan office building. Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal
Can coders become business leaders? Cornell University is betting they can.
Next spring, the university's Johnson Graduate School of Management will launch a one-year M.B.A. designed to give engineers and software developers a grounding in management skills. The combination is crucial, employers say, as information technology shifts from a back-office function to a core business strategy.
While the school is investing only a "modest" amount in the venture, officials say, the program, part of Cornell's New York City tech campus, is reimagining the M.B.A., dropping monthslong lecture courses in favor of learning by doing.
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Unlike a traditional M.B.A., where courses last a semester, faculty will teach subjects such as design thinking and digital marketing in short bursts. Those will be followed by hands-on work exploring a startup project or pitching in on a company-sponsored assignment. Business students will work alongside engineering and computer-science students to prepare them for the group dynamic of life in technology.
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The M.B.A. students will spend the first part of the year on Cornell's main campus in Ithaca, N.Y., taking summer courses in accounting, strategy and finance, with the rest in Manhattan. In January, they will spend a few weeks in Israel pursuing a hands-on project and learning about the regional tech industry.
"If technology really is permeating everything that we do in this information economy, business-school curricula will need to change over time. We're just trying to get way out ahead of it," says Daniel Huttenlocher, dean and vice provost of the Tech Campus.
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#16Posted 23 September 2010 - 01:56 PM
Actually the first one is not really THAT beautiful; I posted it because I found the pose somewhat beautiful but I just LOVE the third one
#17Posted 23 September 2010 - 02:09 PM
I know cause she's half naked . I look for the face more and judge my rating on that but sometimes there are exceptions .
#18Posted 23 September 2010 - 02:15 PM
Who is that second girl? i think i have seen her before but not 100%.
Damn hot for sure. #19Posted 23 September 2010 - 02:23 PM
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#20Posted 23 September 2010 - 03:08 PM
Read if you must: must be de ja vu cause i also think i've seen her somewhere before. Maybe its her face lol, makes everyone think they know her.
#21Posted 23 September 2010 - 05:44 PM
Found it, her name is Sunny Leone.
#22Posted 24 September 2010 - 03:05 AM
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PS: tinypic deleted all my pics #23Posted 24 September 2010 - 03:27 AM
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#24Posted 24 September 2010 - 04:22 AM
can't be bothered. I know i need to post a pic, it'll be in next post!
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Think in the future i'll do my investigating before i say "She looks familiar" but i recall you had the same thought lol. As for Tinypic, they have been going strange recently, closing account and deleting images for some reason, doesn't even matter what the content is. Edited by Read if you must, 24 September 2010 - 05:29 AM. #26Posted 24 September 2010 - 09:07 AM
doesn't matter lol. I know i watched her like a year ago, she was my fav then. She's got kind of like a big body, big boobs, big V, i was really into that kind back then lol. Now i love petite girls more so she's no more a fav.
BTW you know she is indian which adds sexiness to her face. Indians are hot!. only if she was a bit slim, she'd be mine #27Posted 24 September 2010 - 10:40 AM
Indians ROCK!
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9.5 for me!
#29Posted 27 September 2010 - 10:18 AM
No words to say, just imagine and smile.
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Adriana Lima . She looks hot in that pose yeah, i'd give her 8.5-9


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Sep 23, 2012 2:05 PM by
This is very weird. I am experiencing the exact same issue recently. Most notably just minutes ago when i called my GF and i saw a "picture" of myself from today when i was at the office. I know it was from today because i had the exact same shirt. The weirdest thing is that picture is not stored on my iphone. Anyone else experiencing this?iPhone 4, iOS 4
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Same happens to me when I start a call so I hav to wait for them to pick up and then call them back again for it to work
P.s do you have Problems with ur mic not working for very long only un FaceTime ??iPhone 4, iOS 4-
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I'm having the exact same problem. Very creepy for my phone to be taking pictures of me when I haven't told it to. I've talked with Apple support about this, and they had me restore my iPhone and set it up as a new device... so instead of reloading everything from a backup, I manually reinstalled all my apps and settings.
The problem didn't go away after that, so they actually had me return it to an Apple store and swap it out for a new one. This also didn't help. In my mind, I think these facts narrow the issue down to either the firmware (I'm on 4.3, haven't yet updated to 4.3.1) or some app I have installed. In the interests of isolating the problem, I'm appending a list of the apps I have installed. Do you folks see anything in common with your own setup? Hopefully we can narrow it down to just one or two apps (or if we don't all have anything in common, narrow it down to a firmware bug). Here's the list:
Alien Blue
Beejive IM
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Cut the Rope
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maddad ArkansasI have had the exact same problem. My Bf and I both have the 4 but I have the newest OS update and he doesn't. I am the only one whose phone does this. I will try to facetime him and a "picture" of my from the last facetime call I made shows up and sometimes it does it several times in a row. He hasn't had a single problem with his yet though so we are pretty sure its in the software somewhere.iPhone, iOS 4
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This just happened to me yesterday.
I have a dashboard mount for my phone. I had left the phone in the car when I ran in to get my sandwich. This was at a strip mall that I had never visited before and never connected to any WiFi. I parked in the middle of the lot, about 75ft from the doors to Subway. Ran it, got my food, hopped back in the car. I hit the button to see if anyone called me (no one did) and drove off. After I got in to where I was working and ate my sandwich, I tried to use FaceTime and saw a frozen image of me in the car from 20-30 minutes prior!
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My boyfriend and I have both recently experienced this problem several times - when one of us is calling the other via FaceTime, an old picture freezes on our screen, while the person receiving the call only sees a black screen. It's kind of creepy, because it brought up photos of both of us at work, where I have used FaceTime a few times but he never has. We're just wondering how/why this is happening, and if there is a fix. It's not terribly inconvenient, but it's definitely unsettling, where is seems that even if we haven't taken a picture or used FaceTime, the camera is keeping images. If anyone else is experiencing this, we'd love feedback. Thanks!
Take a look at this comment on Hacker News (reproduced below): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2414054
I haven't developed on iOS but I remember reading someplace that when an app is loading it can display an image of what it looked like when the user most recently left it, in order to give the appearance of loading more quickly. I think it was one of Marco Arment's blog posts, but his site isn't available right now.
Anyway I also don't have an iPhone 4, but FaceTime for OS X shows the camera view whenever it's on so that you can see yourself whenever starting a call. I imagine FaceTime for iOS does something similar.
If you combine those two things, you get one possible explanation for what's going on. One that's pretty benign, but should probably still be avoided because it obviously spooks users. Oh, and it should probably be at the API level so that the last thing an app saves is never camera data.MacBook Pro (13", mid-2010); 16 GB 1st generation iPod touch, Mac OS X (10.6.7)-
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That's not a bad thought, but it's not what's going on here. Some of the images that have been coming up on mine are from times and places when I know without a doubt that I haven't been using facetime.iPhone 4, iOS 4-
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Same as nasetron. I most definitely wasn't and in fact couldn't have been using FaceTime when the image was captured.
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Hi all, I have not been able to duplicate the issue so here are some things to try and some questions I have.
Does it happen when the phone locks, when you switch to another APP, or when you have many APP's open?
Are you using any service for photos or Apple's ME.com Photo gallery. Any services such as that?
Are you phones un-altered, namely not jail broken or unlocked?
1. Report the issue here to this Apple discussion thread indicating what applications are running, hardware and software on the device. Details help allot!
2. Make sure you are running the latest firmware and iOS version. Use iTunes and update the device.
3. Remove the APP from iPhone and iTunes and then do a restart of the device. This will ensure that settings are removed. Do not restore from backup...
4. Download any APP updates or software updates for your device.
5. Install FaceTime from the APP store again after completing step 3.
6. Clear the photos on your device saving them to your Mac/PC and then reload them using iTunes.
Lets try to clear it off the phone and see what happens. Make sure we have all the latest and greatest.Xserver,all, Mac OS X (10.5.6)-
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Hahahaha, what is this, a late April Fool's joke? This is obviously not true, considering it's impossible.MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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Right, it's both an early and a late April fools joke. We've been rolling with it since March 22, and here it is April 6 and we're still not giving up.
I assure you that while this is a strange bug, it absolutely is possible. Did you have anything to add, or did you create this account just for trolling:
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I am having the same problem. I have a latest update iOS 4.3.1 while my girlfriend hasn't updated yet. When we facetime many times my video displays some random pic it has taken during day and she sees black screen. It is happening randomly, sometimes when my phone is locked and I get facetime call from her or sometimes during regular call when one of us starts facetime. I think there is a bug in latest firmware because it is happening from my side only, her cam works fine all the time.iphone 4, iOS 4
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I've had this before. I think what's happening is FaceTime simply accesses the last image taken by the front camera. For example if I use skype and then FaceTime occasionally an image will appear from when I was on skype. So the creepy thing here I think is that other apps are taking photos using the front camera at random times. I don't know why this would be but based on what I've seen it's either that or the actual OS taking photos which would be a lot weirder.iMac 2.8GHz 24", Mac OS X (10.5.6), 1 Dead Pixel :(
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Lets see a video of it happening. Post it on YouTube and give us the link. Prove that you're not trolling.MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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1 cucumber, cut into thin spears
2 avocados - pitted, peeled, and sliced the long way
not bad, but traditional sushi rice should have a bit of salt in it. the correct method is to add about 1 tsp salt per three cups of rice, you dissolve the salt with the sugar in the vinegar, so for one cup rice, it would be about 1/3 tsp salt. otherwise, this would be perfect.
Way too much mayonnaise ratio to finely chopped crabmeat. It drowned out the crabmeat taste. Instead of 1/4 cup mayo, I'd put 1-1.5 tbsp for 1/2 a cup of crabmeat.
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The first time I make these, they came out rather large but everyone loved them. I took the recommendation and used less mayo. Then I added alittle siracha hot sauce to the mayo to make them Spicy California rolls. Very tasty!!!!!!!
This is a very good basic recipe. I make my sushi a little bit differently, though. First, I do not use any mayo with my crab - I like the flavour on its own. Also, I like to lay slices of cucumber alongside the crab and avacado - makes for a bit of a crunch. Yum!
I also added 1 tsp of salt to the vinegar. Fish roe adds not only flavor but color. Just used enough mayo to hold the crabmeat together so it won´t overpower the other ingredients. Removed the seeds from the cucumber and be generous with the sesame seeds.
I agree with a previous review, this is a great recipe for the beginner cook. I also took the advice of others & added salt to the vinegar. I also used real crab meat with a dash of sesame oil and chopped water chestnuts to give crunch, I added mayo to taste. Cooking is about creativity and doing what u like & enjoying what u create. Release the inner chef and go with it. Thank you for those who have shared!
Sushi doesn't have mayonnaise. You could also substitute another vegetable instead of avocado and only use one; two is a bit much.
this is a good basic sushi recipe, we didnt make the exact recipe yet
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Second Mizukage: This is so easy. I'm bored.
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Just a week after making his do-gooder way around the interwebs, real-life "superhero" Phoenix Jones has had his nose broken by an evil-doer, proving two noteworthy weaknesses: 1) well-placed punches and 2) lack of quick-healing superpowers. *Wolverine laughs and lights a cigar*
Phoenix Jones's accomplices are nicknamed Thorn, Buster Doe, Green Reaper, Gemini, No Name, Catastrophe, Thunder 88 and Penelope.
In what could turn out to be the rise of the obligatory comic-book super villain, police have been told by the group to disregard Captain Ozone or Knight Owl - because they are not part of the movement.Phoenix Jones says he called the police when he saw a brawl brewing in Lynnwood and put one man in a headlock while he waited for police. But then another man pulled a gun and the superhero's nose was broken.
The suburban superhero, who stalks the streets in black and gold, described his injury as part and parcel of the job.
HA! The broken nose isn't even the funny part, it's the fact that these "superheroes" notified the police that Captain Ozone and Knight Owl weren't in their club! Reminds me of the time Robin called Commissioner Gordon encouraging him not to work with Batman anymore for "never giving him a reach-around". TOLD YOU HE WAS A SELFISH LOVER!
Seattle's superhero has his nose broken in fight with real-life baddy [dailymail]
Thanks to Bluness, Vince and Sally, who fight crime the safe way: watching America's Most Wanted.
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Together with their parents, Lori Michele Milner and Scott Daniel Miracle announce their engagement.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of John and Barbara Eppley of Waterford and Ronald and Robin Milner of Rayland, Ohio. She is a 1998 graduate of Waterford High School and 2002 graduate of Marietta College.
The prospective bridegroom is the son of Ronald and Cheryl Miracle of Williamstown. He is a 1991 graduate of Williamstown High School.
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A wedding is planned for Oct. 6 at Tomlinson Park in Williamstown with immediate family attending.