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(Every friday, here at nerdbastards, you can come to find the sexy side of nerd pop culture in a little weekly feature we call "Sexy Cosplay of The Week". Cosplay is a known term in the nerd-verse when fans dress up as their favorite characters from pop culture, either from movies, comics, TV, gaming and so on. A lot of times it's quite sexy and what we do is find the sexy and bring it to you, you're welcome.)
Cosplay and boobs are a wonderful pairing. Don't you agree? It's the reason this column came to be in the first place. In our pursuit of notable cosplayers we've come across plenty of num-nums, neeners and nay-nays but none quite as supple as the mound muffins of Ginny McQueen. Costuming since 1998 and modeling since 2002 this starry eyed bombshell has an angelic like bod topped with a gorgeous pair of god's milk bombs. Suffice to say she was blessed with a form to oogle over. Fortunate for us, she knows how to display the goods in the nerdiest way possible. By being the best cosplayer since, well, nobody. Every cosplayer we've featured is good but baby this chick is magic. Ginny has constructed over 70 costumes in her time. Ranging from Manga/Anime, Video Games, Comics and more. This babe has rocked them all. Winning 18 costuming awards she's obviously doing something right. While we nod our heads in approval at this cosplay creatives stellar costumes we too shall be smiling at her honking headlights.
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Have you ever wondered why such a large proportion of scam e-mails are really bad?
So much of the time they are poorly written, with spelling errors and terrible English. And they ask the recipient to believe they are genuine, even though the structure and content of the request ("my dad was the head of the Nigerian secret service and I want to deposit his bequest in your bank account") is both unbelievable and familiar.
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I can't wait to visit London again in a couple of weeks time to see my girlfriend when she has settled into Uni a little bit, I will be posting plenty of photos on my page from then on and hopefully I'll be moving down there myself in the next year or two.
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I have been with my Girlfriend for 25 months today and I have had the greatest time ever, she even made me a book for our 2 year anniversary with our memories inside which was so sweet of her, we're going abroad together this summer which is exciting, I love you Kaycia,
Saying that light travels at around 186,000 miles per second, it takes the light from the Sun 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel 93 million miles to earth, I read an article earlier showing an image of a star 63 light years away, for light to be travelling 277 million miles per hour it just boggles the mind to think of the distance light covers for the light to take 63 years to get there at that speed.
I seriously cannot wait until I get to do Christmassy things with my Girlfriend like visiting the Birmingham Christmas Market again, baking cookies, going outside in the snow to build an awesome snowman and watching Christmas movies together.
Roll on the festive season.
Going to be seeing Tenacious D a week before Christmas with my girlfriend, excited is an understatement.
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Johannesburg - Springbok fetcher Heinrich Brussow will, barring injury, play in the Test against France on Friday, November 13 after all.
That is the result of the finger injured by Pierre Spies on Monday which will see him miss the Springboks' tour of Europe.
Jean Deysel of the Sharks has been called up to the squad and Brussow has been replaced by the Sharks flank in the squad to play Leicester Tigers on Friday night at the opening of the Premiership champions' new stand.
Brussow has been ordered to now stay behind and train with the other 14 Boks who will only leave South Africa next Tuesday and will fly direct to France for the Test.
From within the Springbok players' camp this team is seen as the Test side.
The side playing Leicester leaves for Heathrow on Tuesday evening.
The Spies injury sees uncapped Dewald Potgieter move from No 7 flank to No 6 with Griquas' surprise inclusion in the team, Davon Raubenheimer, moving from the bench to the starting line-up as the other flank.
Deysel, who joined the Springboks on Tuesday morning after being called up on Monday night, takes Raubenheimer's place on the bench.
"I don't mind moving to No 6," said Potgieter, impressive throughout the season and also as a captain of the Emerging Boks when they fight back so magnificently to draw with the British and Irish Lions at Newlands.
"The decision to move me to No 6 was probably made because I play to the ball a little more than Davon and because the coaching staff obviously expect it to be a tight match against Leicester."
Potgieter points out this was his position for the Emerging Boks against the Lions and also in the Currie Cup when the Blue Bulls fetcher Deon Stegmann was injured.
He also filled in for Spies at No 8 when the big man was injured in the Blue Bulls' Currie Cup campaign.
Potgieter does not foresee the side struggling to gel. "We'll have four days of training together - the same we had for the Emerging Boks.
"We play a simple game plan which is easy to slot into. Also, most South African sides play very much to the same game plan, so I don't foresee any problems in that respect."
While admitting that it has been a long season, Potgieter said the Bulls and Blue Bulls' successes in the Super 14 and Currie Cup ensured a continuing enthusiasm.
"And this tour is a further injection," he added. "I really look forward to it."
Time for rest there will be after coming back from Europe. The Bulls will be giving their players a three-week break after a season of virtual non-stop rugby in which their Boks featured in 15 Super 14 matches, were involved in nine Test matches to date with three waiting in Europe, and also four or five Currie Cup games towards the end of the season after their return from Test duty.
Revised Springbok team to face Leicester:
1 Gurthro Steenkamp, 2 Chiliboy Ralepelle (captain), 3 Jannie du Plessis, 4 Danie Rossouw, 5 Andries Bekker, 6 Dewald Potgieter, 7 Davon Raubenheimer, 8 Ashley Johnson, 9 Heini Adams, 10 Ruan Pienaar, 11 Jongi Nokwe, 12 Wynand Olivier, 13 Juan de Jongh, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 15 Earl Rose.
Reserves: 16 Bandise Maku, 17 Heinke van der Merwe, 18 Alistair Hargreaves, 19 Jean Deysel, 20 Francois Hougaard, 21 Meyer Bosman, 22 Riaan Viljoen
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I don't know when or how Ryback suddenly blew up out of nowhere, but I'm actually starting to like him. So, in honor of the man, here's some pictures of he and I through the years.
The guy in the picture with the face paint is Jon Bolin, who was in a tag team with Ryback called High Dosage. Ryback was in OVW from 04 to 08, using the name "Silverback" Ryan Reeves. He was always a super nice guy, despite being legitimately intimidating in stature. Dude worked through the ranks at OVW, doing basically nothing, and made it to the top of the business. He deserves it.
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P&J were interested to read GoLocalProv's report this week that Clay Pell, the grandson of legendary United States Senator Claiborne Pell, is mulling a run for Vo Dilun governor in 2014. Clay is a former White House staff member who was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education at the US Dept. of Education this spring. He was also recently in the news when he married two-time Olympic figure skating medalist, Michelle Kwan.
With the two other presumed Democratic contenders for governor, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and State Treasurer Gina Raimondo, unlikely to gain much enthusiasm from labor unions (a key component in most Democratic party coalitions), Pell is an intriguing possibility. So far, as Jennifer Duffy of the Cook Political Report — a pundit with deep RI roots — told GoLocal, Pell has "good name identification," but his position on a variety of issues and his "vision for the state" are unknown.
Per usual, things get more and more intriguing in the ever-entertaining world of Biggest Little politics.
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On a completely different plane of Rhody politics, Katie Mulvaney reported in Tuesday's BeloJo that John A. Zambarano — aka "Moe, of the Three Stooges" — one of the Naught Providence councilmen who pleaded guilty to extortion and bribery in 2011, had an appeal of his conviction rebuffed by a three-judge panel from the First US Circuit Court.
Moe was seeking to have the conviction vacated with an argument that "mental illness — including extreme anxiety and depression — had rendered him incapable of knowingly and voluntarily entering guilty pleas to the crimes," as Mulvaney described it. He also tried to blame his attorney, the always-competent Thomas G. Briody, for not seeking to use this argument to lessen the sentence. (Moe was booked into a hospital during the days surrounding his decision to change his plea.)
Apparently the appeals court was not swayed by claims of post-facto mental illness, which is probably a good thing given that such a decision would open the flood gates for similar appeals from half the elected officials of Naught Providence. And while P&J know that issues surrounding mental illness are no joke, there's something about Moe's claim that leaves us thinking this is more of a desperate "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk" move than a legitimate claim.
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One of your superior correspondents' favorite bands will be playing at one of our favorite watering holes this Friday, October 18: Biscuit City, led by Josh Schurman and featuring the dazzling Paula Clare Ciminero, will be at Nick-a-Nee's starting at 9 pm. They'll also be bringing in a few musical friends like Richard Ribb, Chris Brooks, and Cathy Clasper-Torch.
Biscuit City specializes in country-tinged rock and, with Brooks's pedal steel and Clasper-Torch's fiddle, it ought to really swing at Nick's. Who knows? Maybe the swinging proprietress, Stephanie, will even jump up on the bar and dance.
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Oh God.
That smile.
That is not a friendly smile.
That is a smile that says if you ever touch her again you'll be eating lunch one day and suddenly start coughing up blood and writhing on the floor in agony as he stands over you smiling.
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085. The tenth Doctor in black and white
When you open your mouth and a Scottish accent comes out, people are surprised. You speak English really well, they say, and you nod politely as if your first words hadn't been some form of 'mum' like 99% of the Hogwarts population. It gets better after a while—eleven year olds don't really care where you're from, as long as you're nice and share your Honeydukes packages—so when the Beauxbatons delegation arrives your fifth year and that strange new potato dish appears on the table, you and Marietta Edgecombe, who's also from Scotland, laugh and tell everyone that stovies are nothing new, really.
Still, that night when Roger Davies coaxes you to sneak up to the Astronomy Tower with him, he calls you exotic. You call him silly. Your grandparents are Chinese, but you have lived in Scotland all your life. Yet you follow him to the Astronomy Tower anyway, and let his ice blue eyes slide over your body because, for once, having porcelain skin and jet black hair makes you beautiful instead of just abnormal. For a while, at least, you are exotic.
Those Beauxbaton girls are exotic too, though, especially the girl with flowing blonde hair Davies fawns over all the way to the Yule Ball. You take that news unexpectedly well. Deep inside, you always knew you couldn't compete with a Beauxbaton girl. They are French, and that's the kind of exotic Hogwarts boys really want.
Except the Hufflepuff one, the one with grey eyes you had a crush on back in third year. Cedric Diggory, from Ottery St. Catchpole. He finds you by the lake, takes you aside under a beech tree as your friends giggle in the background, and shyly asks if you will go the Yule Ball with him. He shouldn't be this shy. He needn't be shy at all, because 'yes' tumbles out of your mouth with no reservation. He is so very handsome.
And good. And sweet. So deliciously, blithely sweet. He kisses you unexpectedly your first date at Madame Puddifoot's Teashop, and then again in the alleyway behind Zonko's. When you come up for breath and take a peak at this boy who makes your nerves tingle, his eyes remain closed as his lips reach for another taste.


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The American Athletic Conference is basically a group of outcasts who either didn't get picked up by a major conference or is on the fast track out, but don't tell that to the five teams atop the leaderboard.
If you've followed the conference all season, you are well aware that the cut line between the top and bottom of the conference might as well be carved in stone. More than likely, the top half of the conference will make the NCAA Tournament while maybe one (Houston Cougars) of the remaining five will get an invite to the NIT, CBI, or CIT.
Collectively, the top five in the AAC are as good as any other top five in any conference in America.
The two teams tied atop the standings in the American are No. 7 Louisville and No. 11 Cincinnati, who share identical overall (24-5) and conference records (13-3 AAC) and split their season series. A game back in third is No. 23 Southern Methodist (23-6, 11-4) followed by unranked Connecticut (23-6, 11-5) and No. 21 Memphis (22-7, 11-5).
Then you get to the great divide.
In sixth place is Houston (15-14, 7-9) followed by Rutgers (11-18, 5-11), South Florida (12-17, 3-13), and Central Florida (11-16, 3-13). In the cellar sit the Temple Owls (7-21, 2-14), who just last season advanced to the third round of the NCAA Tournament. Both UCF and Houston won 20 games a season ago but only the latter made a postseason tournament appearance (CBI). Don't forget South Florida. The Bulls are just two years removed from a surprising run to the third round of the NCAA tourney. These teams might be in the bottom half this year but they're hardly perennial doormats (besides the Scarlet Knights).
To put some numbers to it, the top five teams are 116-29 (.800 winning percentage) while the bottom five are just 56-86 (.394 winning percentage).
Does this mean the top teams in the American aren't really that strong because of how weak the bottom half is? Hardly. Let's not forget who cut the nets down in Atlanta last April.
So just how good is Louisville, you ask?
Very good. Head coach Rick Pitino is up to his old tricks (winning) and is doing so without last year's Final Four all-tournament team member Chane Behanan, who on December 30 was dismissed from the team after failing a drug test. A year ago, Behanan's 15 point, 12 rebound performance helped the Cards capture the NCAA title.
The name you associate Louisville with is American Player of the Year candidate Russ Smith (17.7 points, 4.5 assists, 3.4 rebounds per game) but the guy that somehow goes unnoticed is Montrezl Harrell. Pitino speaks glowingly of his 6-foot-8-inch, 235-pound forward, saying, "Montrezl is really developing into a great basketball player. He came in a dunker, a shot blocker..he's one of the brightest guys on our team from a scouting standpoint, from knowing the game. He picks it up right away. He owns up to what's going wrong." You'd be hard pressed not to notice Harrell. The sophomore is typically the most physically imposing person in the arena and they love him (and his dunks) in Louisville.
Houston, Smith and Whitehead paved the way for guys like Montrezl Harrell to do stuff like this: pic.twitter.com/k4DgkEX74I
— Louie the Cardinal (@LouietheCard) February 19, 2014
The one knock on Louisville has to be their strength of schedule which will hurt their seeding in the tournament. They're 17-0 against teams with an RPI of 150 or worse and just 4-5 against the top 50 in RPI. They're a very good basketball team with a high-powered offense (81.7 ppg) with talented guards (Smith, Luke Hancock) and a presence in the paint with Harrell and Mangok Mathiang. They're limiting opponents to just over 61 points per contest and under 40 percent shooting.
What about Cincinnati?
Quick, first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Bearcats? Sean Kilpatrick. The senior is also a serious contender for conference POY honors and for good reason. In SI.com's Brian Hamilton's feature about Kilpatrick on February 21, it's easy to see how much he means to head coach Mick Cronin's Bearcats — everything. He's just the second Bearcat ever to score at least 2,000 points. The other? Oscar Robertson
Against Connecticut on Saturday, Kilpatrick was just shot just 25% (4-16) and was held to 16 points while committing seven turnovers, a far cry from his 26 point, 12 rebound performance earlier this year when they beat the Huskies.
The problem for Cincinnati is they lack any true scorer besides Kilpatrick, who's averaging 20.5 points per game. Senior forward Justin Jackson (11.2 ppg) has nearly quadrupled his scoring from a year ago which certainly helps but after that, the drop off is tremendous.
Kilpatrick is their horse and they'll ride him as far into March as his hot hand can take them.
SMU can't be that good, can they?
They sure can. Head coach Larry Brown and the Mustangs were just 15-17 a year ago but earlier this month found themselves in the top 25 for the first time since Ronald Reagan was President. A soft schedule (SOS: 154) coupled with losses at South Florida and Temple isn't helping their credibility but they did sweep UConn and split with Cincinnati.
They already dropped a game to Louisville, 71-63, in early January but will get another crack at the Cardinals on March 5 when Louisville visits the Moody Coliseum, where SMU is perfect on the year. Three days later they'll conclude the regular season at Memphis, who they beat by 15 at home.
Unlike Louisville, Cincinnati,and UConn, SMU doesn't have one household name on their roster. Offensively, they knock down 49.3 percent of their shots, good for ninth in the Division I, while limiting opponents to just 36.8 percent shooting, second in the country. Their second-leading scorer, Markus Kennedy, explains the key to their stifling defense, saying "It's the same every game. The leading scorer on every team, we try to lock up." He makes it seem so easy.
For coach Brown and the Mustangs, it'll be about the defense come tourney time. They've had to face some pretty prolific scorers in the AAC, so they'll be ready for anyone's best shot.
Sleep on the Mustangs if you want but they're no fluke.
UConn isn't even ranked, they're not for real.
Au contraire. After a win against No. 11 Cincinnati, they should crack the polls once again.
They've got the third in a trifecta of standout guards in the AAC who's vying for the POY trophy, Shabazz Napier. If you're not from New England, you probably see or hear about him from time to time on SportsCenter, most notably when he beat then-No. 15 Florida at the buzzer.
He's as dynamic a scorer as there is in college basketball but does it all for head coach Kevin Ollie. He leads the Huskies in scoring, rebounding, and assists this year and has had too many clutch shots to count. In Storrs, his heroics are reminiscent of the great Kemba Walker, who as you may recall, led the Huskies to a national championship three years ago. If you'd like a look back, SI's Andy Staples documented Kemba's journey through the tourney in 2011. He'll likely do another feature on Napier is these Huskies make a similar run.
Napier (17.8 ppg, 6 rpg, 5.3 apg) has one of the best supporting casts in the league in fellow backcourt mate Ryan Boatright (12.4 ppg, 3.5 apg), sharp-shooter Niels Giffey (50% 3PT) and forward DeAndre Daniels (12.3 ppg, 5.4 rpg).
As long as the game is within reach and Napier has the ball in his hands, the Huskies have a fighter's chance.
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Memphis is a fraud.
Not even close. They just capped a season sweep of Louisville with a 72-66 win on Saturday "That's a big-time win," head coach Josh Pastner said. Indeed.
A few months ago you'd have yourself a valid argument thinking Memphis wasn't a contender. Early in the season, like so many schools choose to do, they scheduled cupcakes like Austin Peay, Jackson State, and Nicholls State, among others. The Tigers did, however, face off with Oklahoma State twice in a two-week span, once in Stillwater (a 101-80 loss) and the other in the championship game of the Old Spice Classic in Orlando (a 73-68 win).
Memphis fought hard to erase an early 12-point deficit and had a chance to either beat No. 16 Florida or send the game to overtime, but Joe Jackson had his show partially blocked and the Tigers fell, 77-75.
They're a lock for the tournament and likely improved their seeding drastically with the win(s) over the Cardinals. Pastner has silenced a lot of his critics with some marquee wins and has the Tigers ready to roar into March.
Yes, it's a new league, but the teams atop the standings are not new to winning. Sure, Louisville is out of here next year but we live in the now, and as it stands, two teams in the AAC have won the national championship in the past three years. Five more
hopefuls locks can improve upon that number once tourney time arrives.
They are for real America(n)!
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Bengal experiencing near dictatorship: Activist Shabnam Hashmi
Describing BJP leader Narendra Modi as the biggest threat to secularism in India, noted social activist Shabnam Hashmi Saturday also charged the the Mamata Banerjee regime in West Bengal was turning "authoritarian and dictatorial".
"After working in Gujarat for the past 12 years, I know how authoritarian and vindictive Modi is. There is absolute tyranny there. Unfortunately, the present scenario in Bengal is very close to dictatorship, very close to authoritarianism.
"Bengal is no more what it used to be, voices of dissent are being muffled, the land known for its tolerance, is steadily denying freedom of expression," Hashmi said at an event to mark the 60th birth anniversary of slain communist playwright and actor Safdar Hashmi credited with popularising street theatre in the country.
Titled "Halla Bol" after Safdar Hashmi's last street play, the event witnessed the participation of several eminent persons including noted Bengali actor and director Rudraprasad Sengupta and painter Wasim Kapoor.
Iconic Bengali film and stage actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who could not be present for the occasion, sent a message extending support to the event.
Shabnam also expressed her dismay over a large number of intellectuals becoming pro-establishment in Bengal.
"It is amazing and equally shocking to see a large number of intellectuals here have become part of the establishment and are speaking in its favour. The intellectual community is known for speaking against the establishment, it acts as a corrective group.
"But intellectuals become part of the establishment only when there is dictatorship," said Hashmi, who along with several social activists, artists and writers, has launched a national campaign for secularism under the platform of Janvadi Vichar Andolan Bharat (JAVAB) to defeat communal forces in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
"Modi is the biggest threat to secularism and it will be unfortunate and alarming for the country, if he goes on to become the prime minister. There is a need to fight communalism and fascism which has been steadily rising in the country," said Hashmi as she rubbished claims of Gujarat's all round development.
"The ground realities are far from what has been projected. Nearly 40 percent of the population lives below poverty line, there is widespread unemployment, malnourishment. The man who cannot run his state is aspiring to run the country," she added.
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I love this song. The semi naked guy dancing in the video only helps matters!
Maths has never been so cool. Vihart tells a great story while making me learn.
It couldn't of happened to a nicer guy. Delighted for him.
Wally de Backer aka Gotye puts together all the covers of his song "Somebody That I Used To Know" to make one glorious cover
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A cool short film about online life.
Good guy kobe!
The Queen not impressed at all.
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The cross-country flight was receiving visual flight rules (VFR) flight following. At 1127, the controller provided the pilot with the 1115 weather observation for his destination as a few clouds at 2,100 feet agl, scattered clouds at 3,000 feet agl, broken clouds at 3,400 feet agl, and visibility of 7 statute miles. Conversion of the cloud heights to msl, using the destination elevation of 6,445 feet msl, indicated the cloud bases were between 8,545 and 9,845 feet msl. At 1129, the pilot advised the controller that he was going to descend from 12,500 to 10,500 feet msl. When the controller asked the pilot if he was familiar with the high terrain in the area and the pilot said that he was not, the controller advised the pilot of instrument flight rules minimum altitudes (MIA's) in the area of his destination, ranging from 10,000 feet to 14,000 feet msl. At 1136, radar data depicted the airplane 40 nautical miles southeast of its destination at 11,500 feet msl turning left toward the south. An 1130 satellite image showed a band of clouds near the location where the airplane turned toward the south, with cloud tops estimated to be between 12,000 to 12,500 feet msl. At 1139:36, radar data showed the flight approximately 5 nautical miles south of its 1136 position, level at 10,800 feet (2,800 feet agl). The last radar contact was at 1141:31 and showed the airplane at an altitude of 10,800 feet, approximately 48 nautical miles southeast of the destination. After radar contact was lost, the airplane reversed course and headed northwest towards the destination. The airplane impacted mountainous terrain approximately 16 miles southeast of the destination at an elevation of approximately 10,400 feet msl. Visible satellite images for 1145, 1200, and 1215 showed an area of scattered to broken clouds just west of the airplane's last radar (1141:31) position extending northward toward the destination. The clouds became broken to overcast near the accident location. It is likely that the airplane entered clouds shortly before impact. The non-instrument rated private pilot had a total of 13 hours instrument flight time. Examination of the airplane did not reveal any pre-impact anomalies that would have prevented its normal operation.
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Mother plans to host very awkward shower
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:00 AM
DEAR AMY: My sister's daughter is getting married, and the number of attendees is limited.
DEAR AMY: My sister's daughter is getting married, and the number of attendees is limited.
As a result, my sister is hosting a bridal shower before the wedding only for those who are not invited to the wedding. This seems rather unusual and gives the appearance of looking for gifts.
As a male, I am not up on what is proper. Is this acceptable in today's times, or what would you suggest for future situations like this? -- Confused
DEAR CONFUSED: Being a male doesn't make a difference in terms of your knowledge of what is appropriate. Thinking about something from someone else's point of view is all the etiquette knowledge you need.
Common sense tells you that this shower is going to look like a gift grab because it is. The purpose of a shower is to "shower" the couple with gifts. The guests should be people who are also invited to the wedding. Otherwise, as you note, there is a massive elephant dressed in tulle dancing in the middle of the room (the wedding, to which none has been invited).
Sometimes co-workers or out-of-town friends not invited to the wedding will throw a shower for a couple, but the difference is that it is their generous idea for an event, which they host.
DEAR AMY: When hosting my large extended family for a family feast, my niece's husband held out his child's soiled diaper to me and said, "Here's a present for you."
I found this gross and disgusting, to say the least.
Biting my tongue to keep from making a smart remark, I found a plastic bag for the diaper and put it in the trash.
Do you have any suggestions for me should this happen again (and there's a good chance it will since another baby will soon join their family and I'm the frequent host for holiday occasions)? -- Grossed Out
DEAR GROSSED: Let rehearse this scene in advance of your next family gathering.
Him: (Holding out diaper) "Here's a present for you."
You: (Tossing him a plastic bag and turning toward group) "Dessert!"
What I'm trying to convey is that his behavior in that moment was pretty obnoxious. But just because he draws attention to himself in this way doesn't mean that you have to go there.
DEAR AMY: I read with interest the letter from "Parents in the New World," who were worried about their 14-year-old, who was in an online relationship.
Can I share some advice from the opposite side of the coin?
When I was around that age, I, too, was shy and introverted and ended up "involved" with a guy I met through an early online role-playing game.
The game hosted folks from all over. I was on the East Coast, and he was somewhere in the Midwest. Sure, we chatted about meeting, but it was in terms of someday.
Then, as quickly as it started, the relationship faded. I don't know about his motivation, but I just outgrew it. I wanted something in real life, not just a connection over the Internet. -- Been There, Done That
DEAR BEEN THERE: Thank you for offering your example. You don't say how your parents reacted to your online relationship, but I do believe it is vital for parents to encourage openness.
rather than forbid contact they cannot necessarily control.
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Marvel Says Movies Are Planned Through 2021
One of the biggest reasons Marvel Studios is dominating the landscape of comic book movies is its strategy. The studio releases films in "phases," planning their next films years in advance to allow time to select the right writers, directors and cast. And now Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has revealed that they've got films planned all the way through 2021.
During an interview with Wired magazine, Feige stated:
I could arguably say what we're planning for the year 2021. Will that happen? I don't know. But what we planned for 2015 in 2006 is happening.
And what do they have in 2015? 'The Avengers 2' and 'Ant-Man' — which means they planned these films nine years in advance! Feige went on to tease new characters and standalone films:
Five years ago, looking at our plan, we knew that if 'Avengers' was going to work, the movies had to stand alone. Now we have to prove to the studio that we're more than just these five characters, these five franchises.
While Marvel Studios said they won't be announcing any more films in the near future, we're still holding out hope that they may make some sort of announcement at the D23 Disney Expo this week. The films rumored for the highly anticipated announcement of Phase 3 include 'Black Panther' and 'Doctor Strange,' along with that 'Avengers 3,' for which Robert Downey, Jr. is already locked down to reprise Iron Man.
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Comment: Re:Wealth Inequality in America (Score 1) 1040
Or, if you'd prefer a video response, I found this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... "I'll just leave this here" indeed.
Comment: Re:Can't Tell Them Apart (Score 1) 466
- Ability to read and follow a specification. For instance, for "fizzbuzz" will the candidate remember to print the numbers which fail both modulo tests, and not print the number when one of these test succeeds?
- Familiarity with language of choice/test. The second example, as given, would require one to cold-recall the order of arguments (and return value) to a very common library function; properly coding the boolean logic example requires writing a variadic function.
- Coding practices and problem solving skills. A test with multiple solutions (or at least, seeming to support multiple solutions) allows you to see the candidate's thought process.
As the parent poster stated: you probably can pass this sort of test and only be a 40%-skill programmer, and many 90%-skill programmers would fail at least one of the above tests. However, the how and why candidates 'fail' (did you ask for clarification, or just rush in? Did you mis-read the requirements, or not think the problem through? Does your code contain a fencepost error?) is just as revealing of desired skill set as any 'success'.
Comment: Re:BTC (Score 2) 548
KYC rules require money-related services to be able to identify all their customers, and self report 'suspicious activity' that can be signs of anything from money laundering to terrorist financing. In the traditional financial sector, this makes money laundering much more difficult (although nowhere near impossible). This is because, in order to interact with the modern financial system and transmit money electronically, you need to use a third-party service such as a bank, which are easy points of regulation.
However, with bitcoin it's an entirely different story. No one needs a third-party service to own, spend, or send bitcoins anywhere in the world. All that is needed is an open-source wallet, of which there are plenty available to download.
... The real problem is whether governments will accept this new reality and plan appropriately, or continue to fight it. Regulatory bodies can't fit bitcoin into current regulatory framework. The two are simply not compatible, and that has nothing to do with any libertarian sentiments in the community. It's fact.
The degree of oversight government now has in the traditional payments arena is impossible to replicate with bitcoin...
Source: Why Know-Your-Customer rules won't work with Bitcoin
So unless the DoJ wants to argue that Overstock.com is a "financial service" company merely for accepting Bitcoin, or that the businesses which do convert Bitcoin into traditional currency need to implement some sort of "Know Your Customer's Customers" third party regulation, the tightening of existing regulation will have virtually zero effect.
Comment: Re:He's just an idiot (Score 1) 207
So they think they can advance from playing with plastic to making metal parts that are as strong as forged metals and electronics and so on.
I'm pretty sure you're not working in the 3D printing field, because those who are, beg to differ.on what's currently possible.
Comment: Re:It's been politicized (Score 1) 869
Another indicator of public understanding of science focuses on understanding of how [scientists] generate and assess scientific evidence, rather than knowledge of particular facts. Past NSF surveys have used questions on three general topics—probability, experimental design, and the scientific method—to assess trends in Americans' understanding of the process of scientific inquiry.
Understanding of what it means to study something scientifically is considerably lower, at 18% in 2010. Correct responses on this question are lower, in part, because the task of expressing a concept in one's own words is more difficult than recognizing a correct response to a multiple-choice style close-ended survey question.
This is still much higher than I would expect based on occupation, since STEM [science, technology, engineering, and math] fields account for only 6% of the workforce. However, even though, as you say, "[m]ost people are not in a position to understand themselves and their own thinking", this is not insurmountable. Surveys similar to the NSF one I linked shows that over the past 25 years, the literacy rate has doubled (from 10% in 1988); clearly, the public can learn to understand rational, scientific methods.
Even if this conclusion is wrong, what do you think the proper method is to deal with the irrational nature of humans? Set up some sort of inner cabal of "great minds" to run the world (ignoring the fact they're just as human, therefore just as irrational, as anyone else)? Try to find some inhuman ("angelic") agent to run the world, and hope their goals remain humanly comprehensible? Or just give up and go back to the caves?
Comment: Re:It's been politicized (Score 1) 869
"Now you see, of course, that with this method we can disprove any definite theory. We have a real guess, with which we can compute consequences, which could be compared to experiments; and in principle we can get rid of any wrong theory. You can always prove any definite theory wrong. Notice, however, that we never prove it right. Suppose that you invent a good guess, calculate the consequences, and find that the consequences agree with experiment. The theory is then right?
"No; it is simply not proven wrong. Because, in the future, there could be a wider range of experiments or you could compute a wider range of consequences and you may discover that some of those are wrong. That's why laws like Newton's laws for the motion of planets last for such a long time; he guessed the law of gravitation and calculated all the kinds of consequences for the solar system and so on, compared them to experimental observation and it took several hundred years for the slight error in the motions of Mercury to develop. During all that time, the theory had been failed to be proven wrong and could be taken to be temporarily right. It can never be proved right, because tomorrow's experiment may succeed in proving what you thought was right, wrong."
The only way that global warming, as a scientific theory, will ever be permanently "settled" is if it is proven wrong. When the challengers are just repeating the same bullshit arguments over and over (as with the religious teleological arguments presented anew under the names of "creation science" and "intelligent design") winning the debate may be quick and painless, but nevertheless the proper working of the scientific method is the remorseless, unceasing challenge of the orthodoxy with new ideas and measurements.
Comment: Re:Discrimination of girls is bad and unethical (Score 1) 673
(Do I really need to put my </sarcasm> tag here?)
Comment: Re:Good luck with all the coming ads (Score 1) 172
That is because the rich are more dependent on government than the poor.
I guess that's why the wealthy elite exclusively send their kids to government schools, rely on police protection from rabid fans, and live on "government cheese", while the "poor, huddled masses" are scrimping so they can save enough to afford private tutors/ivy league colleges, bodyguard services, and 5-star chefs to cater in every meal?
Here's a hint: the elites have never needed "good" government--they can afford to pay twice (once for the public version, albeit not much with tax evasion, and once for the quality services). They want "good enough" -- as in, just good enough that the proles won't revolt or pursue alternatives.
Comment: Re:Hindsight? (Score 1) 265
How many "models" are going unreported because they didn't work out too well?
According to my model, 100% of them.
Comment: Re:Two big sources (Score 2) 926
Well can you have an anti aircraft rocket then?
I would say the Constitution is unambiguously clear on this point: yes. When the government derives all power from "We, the people" [per the preamble] then whatever my government does, I also can do (because it was given the power to do so from me). Likewise, anything the people cannot do, they cannot authorize their government to do.
So unless you want to argue that the Army and Air Force have to give up all of their tanks, planes, and H-bombs because nobody has a right to such things, then the American population has an absolute right to buy them as individuals.
Comment: Re:C'mon people! Who has been telling the truth? (Score 1) 276
Personally, I think the crimes of Nixon (and cohorts) pale in comparison to the crimes committed by the Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama administrations. Where are the impeachments?
Waiting on the American people to elect politicians who don't all dream of one day having their name added to that litany.
Comment: Re:world ramifications... (Score 1) 388
The US Constitution does not GIVE us rights.
.... Just because the right of privacy is not mentioned is not to imply it does not exist and cannot be claimed.
Exactly so. The Ninth amendment is worded in such a way as to deliberately outline this fact:
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
In any case, a strong argument could also be made that the fourth amendment's phrasing ("...secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches...") is pretty much the textbook definition of "right to privacy".
Comment: Re:No so much (Score 1) 637
Okay, let me try clarifying by presenting my conclusion first and giving the specific argument afterwards.
Are you absolutely certain that you have the right way of things? Are you 100% sure that your answer is the best possible answer, forever and ever, for all people, no exceptions? Is there any chance, no matter how remote, that this rule could actually cause harm -- not more harm than inaction, but any at all?Faced with a dilemma of where inaction causes great harm versus actions that cause small harm, human beings often choose inaction; the exceptions have significantly higher incidents of sociopathy and psycopathy
If any of this has given you have even the least smidgen of doubt—even just one tiny whisper of "well, but..."—then why are you willing to force suffering upon your fellow human beings?
With such absolutely certainty in your rightness, should I not take your belief seriously, but call you "arrogant" instead?
If somebody can't cover the costs of their treatment at the time they enter a hospital, they can seek assistance from a charitable organization (either specific to the nature of their care or a "general" community charity, like a church).
The hidden little gotcha of that particular argument is that there are organizations out there that will pull heinous shit like denying services to certain classes of people...
Are you certain that government cannot fall prone to any classist, racist, sexist, bigoted behavior? Are you so certain in the goodness of "Western" (European and the US) society that I can't provide multiple examples from those same governments (albeit far less extreme) within recent history? Are you so certain a central system is superior you would boldly proclaim "Yes, even if the government itself were to be racist, it would be the superior choice for all people"?
I'm not.
Answer the Second: <sarcasm seriousness=90%> I have no problems with turning away a patient from a hospital because they can't afford to pay. After all, they can always go to a charismatic/Pentecostal minister for miraculous healing, and they tend to charge far less less for their services. Heck, while we're at it let's also allow witch doctors, homeopathy, acupuncture, and every other "alternative medicine" practitioner to tend to medical care!</sarcasm>
If this is a '90% serious' answer, then you are a barbarian.
It's 90% serious because it's a pure expression of my argument—that absent absolute, crushing certainty in the correct behavior, freedom of choice is better than any mandate—presented in a tounge-in-cheek fashion.
And for that levity, I am called a "barbarian"?
In all seriousness: all "medicine" has started out as either "alternative medicine" or "experimental medicine". Are you so certain that the procedures in place are a perfect, immutable method of separating the healing methods from quackery that you're willing to force everyone to obey your preferences?
I'm not.
Do you believe that someone who has been mis-informed, or who remains willfully ignorant, should be forced to live according to "the right and proper nature of things", rather than allow them to chart their own course, even to the point that their incorrect beliefs will kill them?
Don't quit your day job, O Hippocratic Comedian.
Okay. I've presented this argument flatly, with the least humor possible. Is this more understandable?
Comment: Re:No so much (Score 1) 637
BTW, what was this basic "human right" again? I can't seem to place it from what you're saying. You've just been yacking about "socialized health care".
Question: Do you believe that someone without insurance, or who otherwise has no ability to pay, who is suffering from an acute medical emergency, should be turned away from a hospital emergency room and left to die on the sidewalk?
If the answer is "No," then I've got some even worse news for you: we already have "socialized medicine." The patient will, in fact, be treated, and you and I will, in fact, pick up the tab.
Answer the First: You present a false dilemma; "the patient (or his insurance)" and "the public" are not the only possible answers to the question of who pays. It's quite sad that so many people are ignorant of the March of Dimes' origins as a anti-polio charity that they never imagine that there could be such a concept as a medical care charity. If somebody can't cover the costs of their treatment at the time they enter a hospital, they can seek assistance from a charitable organization (either specific to the nature of their care or a "general" community charity, like a church).
[That is, if we didn't live in a world where government-run centralized care systems (like Medicare/Medicaid) hadn't driven 99% of such charities out of the marketplace. After all, a focused or local charity, struggling to raise even $100K in donations, will collapse with no donations when 'competing' against the government who can swoop in with millions of dollars in tax/"aid" money.]
Answer the Second: <sarcasm seriousness=90%> I have no problems with turning away a patient from a hospital because they can't afford to pay. After all, they can always go to a charismatic/Pentecostal minister for miraculous healing, and they tend to charge far less less for their services. Heck, while we're at it let's also allow witch doctors, homeopathy, acupuncture, and every other "alternative medicine" practitioner to tend to medical care!</sarcasm>
[In all seriousness, hospitals are far from the only people who claim to heal life-threatening medical conditions. On what grounds do you limit the legitimacy of "health care" to hospitals alone? Furthermore, on what grounds can you then claim to limit my choices to those same restrictions?]
Answer the Third: <sarcasm seriousness=0% tone="humorous">Oh, I absolutely LOVE this game!
* Do you believe that someone who has no ability to pay, who is suffering from an acute starvation, should be turned away from a McDonalds and left to die on the sidewalk?
* Do you believe that someone without relevant skills or a degree, or who is suffering from medical conditions that make them unable to work, should be turned away from life-affirming "gainful" employment?</sarcasm>
* Do you believe that someone who has been mis-informed, or who remains willfully ignorant, should be forced to live according to "the right and proper nature of things", rather than allow them to chart their own course, even to the point that their incorrect beliefs will kill them?


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1 Samuel 7
The men of Kirjah-jearim bring the ark from Beth-shemesh, and consecrate Eleazar, the son of Abinadab, to keep it; and there it continued twenty years, 1 Samuel 7:1, 1 Samuel 7:2. Samuel reproves and exhorts the people, and gathers them together at Mizpeh, where they fast and pray, and confess their sins, 1 Samuel 7:3-6. The Philistines go up against them; the Israelites cry unto the Lord for help; Samuel offers sacrifices; and the Lord confounds the Philistines with thunder; Israel discomfits and pursues them to Beth-car, 1 Samuel 7:7-11. Samuel erects a stone for a memorial, and calls it Eben-ezer, 1 Samuel 7:12. The Philistines are totally subdued, and Israel recovers all its lost cities, 1 Samuel 7:13, 1 Samuel 7:14. Samuel acts as an itinerant judge in Israel, 1 Samuel 7:15-17.
Verse 1
Fetched up the ark - When these people received the message of the Beth-shemites, they probably consulted Samuel, with whom was the counsel of the Lord, and he had encouraged them to go and bring it up, else they might have expected such destruction as happened to the Beth-shemites.
Sanctified Eleazar - Perhaps this sanctifying signifies no more than setting this man apart, simply to take care of the ark.
Verse 2
It was twenty years - This chapter contains the transactions of at least twenty years, but we know not the date of each event.
Verse 3
And Samuel spake - We have heard nothing of this judge since he served in the tabernacle. He was now grown up, and established for a prophet in the land of Israel.
If ye do return - From your backsliding and idolatry.
With all your hearts - For outward services and professions will avail nothing.
Put away the strange gods - Destroy their images, altars, and groves: they are strange; you do not know them as helpers, saviours, or defenders.
Prepare your hearts - Let your hearts be straight and steady.
And serve him only - Have no other religious service but his, and obey his laws.
He will deliver you - Vain are your own exertions; he will deliver you in such a way as to show that the excellence of the power is of himself alone.
Verse 4
Put away Baalim and Ashtaroth - These were not two particular deities, but two genera of idols; the one masculine, Baalim; the other feminine, Ashtaroth; both the words are in the plural number, and signify all their gods and goddesses.
Verse 5
Gather all Israel to Mizpeh - This appears to have been an armed assembly, though probably collected principally for religious and political purposes; but Samuel knew that an unarmed multitude could not safely be convened in the vicinity of the Philistines.
Verse 6
Drew water, and poured it out - It is not easy to know what is meant by this; it is true that pouring out water, in the way of libation, was a religious ordinance among the Hebrews, (Isaiah 12:3), and among most other nations, particularly the Greeks and Romans, who used, not only water, but wine, milk, honey, and blood, as we find by Homer, Virgil, Euripides, Sophocles, Porphyry, and Lucian. Our Lord seems to allude to this ceremony, John 7:37-38 (note), where see the note.
And Samuel judged - He gave them ordinances, heard and redressed grievances, and taught them how to get reconciled to God. The assembly, therefore, was held for religio-politico-military purposes.
Verse 7
The Philistines went up against Israel - They went to give them battle before that, by continual accessions of numbers, they should become too powerful.
Verse 8
Cease not to cry unto the Lord - They had strong confidence in the intercession of Samuel, because they knew he was a holy man of God.
Verse 9
Samuel took a sucking lamb - This sucking lamb must have been eight days under its mother before it could be offered, as the law says, Leviticus 22:27.
Verse 10
The Lord thundered with a great thunder - Literally, The Lord thundered with a great voice - he confounded them with a mighty tempest of thunder and lightning, and no doubt slew many by the lightning.
Verse 11
Under Beth-car - We know not where this place was; the Septuagint have Beth-chor; the Targum, Beth-saron; and the Syriac and Arabic, Beth-jasan.
Verse 12
Called the name of it Eben-ezer - אבן העזר (Eben haezer), "The Stone of Help;" perhaps a pillar is meant by the word stone.
Verse 13
They came no more into the coast of Israel - Perhaps a more signal victory was never gained by Israel; the Lord had brought them low, almost to extermination; and now, by his miraculous interference, he lifts them completely up, and humbles to the dust their proud oppressors. God often suffers nations and individuals to be brought to the lowest extremity, that he may show his mercy and goodness by suddenly rescuing them from destruction, when all human help has most evidently failed.
Verse 14
The cities which the Philistines had taken - We are not informed of the particulars of these reprisals, but we may rest assured all this was not done in one day: perhaps the retaking of the cities was by slow degrees, through the space of several years.
There was peace between Israel and the Amorites - That is, all the remaining Canaanites kept quiet, and did not attempt to molest the Israelites, when they found the Philistines, the most powerful of the ancient inhabitants of the land, broken and subdued before them.
Verse 15
Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life - Samuel is supposed to have lived one hundred years; he did not begin to judge Israel till he was about forty years of age; and if he was one hundred years of age when he died, he must have been a judge sixty years, and consequently filled that office during the whole of Saul's reign. But that he had been dead before Saul's last battle, is evident from the transactions of that king with the witch of En-dor, and probably not long before. Samuel was the prophet of that time; declared the will of the Lord, and frequently directed both the civil and military transactions of the kingdom. Samuel seems, in many respects, to have been considered the governor of the people, while Saul was only looked on as the general of the armies.
Verse 16
He went from year to year in circuit - When he was at Beth-el, the tribe of Ephraim, and all the northern parts of the country, could attend him; when at Gilgal, the tribe of Benjamin, and those beyond Jordan, might have easy access to him; and when at Mizpeh, he was within reach of Judah, Simeon, and Gad; but Ramah was the place of his ordinary abode; and there he held his court, for there he judged Israel; and, as it is probable that Shiloh was destroyed, it is said, 1 Samuel 7:17, that there (viz., at Ramah) he built an altar unto the Lord. This altar, being duly consecrated, the worship performed at it was strictly legal. Ramah, which is said to be about six miles from Jerusalem, was the seat of prophecy during the life of Samuel; and there it is probable all Israel came to consult him on matters of a spiritual nature, as there was the only altar of God in the land of Israel.
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I love this idea. :P
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As much as character specific ones would be nice, it wouldn't be good for the competitive scene if they were ALL character specific. For instance, I would love to have a tank one which was simply something along the lines of "reduces all incoming damage by X%" (like the top tier defense mastery) or "gains X% of max health as additional max health" type thing
bump ;o
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hows this idea NO RUNES and just summoner trees
yea, sure cuz 60 ability power at lvl 1 with a tome is not op enough......we MUST have tier 4 runes AND a lvl 30 only 2nd mastery tree in addition to the first one which is exclusive to lvl 30 and the last mastery is "increases atack damage,ability power and health by 100 each half second, then maybe the game can just start with evryone 20000 gold so we can instantly stack 6 inf edges/rabadons/warmogs then go all mid, one shot each other at lvl one and push all towers untill we get to the enemys nexus before the minions even spawn
bump =)
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