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Master Bates Library, the go-to place for the week. A poster hangs on the wall, inviting young readers in. This week is Meet the Author Week. MAW is a monthly occurence, usually full of authors forced to do community service. Most good authors are busy working on their next story. So then, why I am here? Writer's Block is a pain in the Feebas.
I sat behind a mahogany desk with a pile of books to my left, a bulletin board introducing me to my right, dozens of eager fans and a pen in the middle. I spent several hours signing my name. Nobody asked me what my next book would be. I am more disappointed in myself than my fans. I had no idea what to write next. But still, I promised sixteen stories to my publisher before I could retire. I had a long way to go, seeing as I was signing copies of the fifth book I've ever written.
Over the weekend, I stayed in my vacation home in the Resort Area. Of course, with a strict deadline for book six hovering over my head; I needed to get crackin'. I had two months to brainstorm, write, proof-read, submit, re-write, and then re-submit my next book. I sat at my desk, creating and discarding story ideas. What if I based one off the "Dynasty Warriors" series? That was dynamic garbage. Then I got the idea to make one about a champion fighter, but it was too plain. I stared out my window, watching young kids playing with their Pokemon, hoping one day they would be able to travel the world.
"Come on Rusty, we need a good plot from you!" my assistant barked.
"Yeah, we need a good stowee from yew," his kid replied, poking my face.
"What is this little rat doing here?" I asked.
"Custody, the ex-wife insists that I have full custody of Ezekial," my assistant replied.
"Ezekial? That's a good name!" I replied, being struck with a hint of inspiration.
"E-zeke-ee-al. That is my name. Ezekial that is I! I'm the sheriff!" the three year-old chattered.
My assistant took his son out of the room. It was apparent that neither parent wanted Ezekial when he bounced around my writer's room, breaking anything in sight. His name gave me some source of inspiration, but without the other important elements of writing, I had no story. That's when a genius idea dawned on me!
"I wanna pway Race Car!" Ezekial whined.
"One second son, I have to check on Rusty," my assistant told him.
When he got to the writer's room, he realized that I had escaped through the window. He ran up to my desk and found the note I had left him.
"I was struggling to write a story when it dawned on me: I needed to experience the story first-hand! My Porygon and I have yet to explore the outside world. How can I possibly write a good story about something I myself have yet to experience? And so, I have left to explore the world, taking nothing but the essential Pokemon Trainer supplies, my sketchbook, pencils, and of course, Porygon. Don't worry, if all goes according to plan, I will have a genius story to turn in before the deadline.
~Rusty Anderson"
What I did not consider was my assistant's short fuse. He crumpled the note in his hand and ground his teeth. He pulled out a sleek black cell phone and flipped it open. He dialed 1-800-WEH-NT4U - the bounty hunter hotline.
"One eight hundred, we hunt for you, this is Sheila speaking," the receptionist answered, filing her nails.
"I need bounty hunters right away!" My assistant yelled.
"Of course you do sir, this number is nowhere close to the Pizza Hut," she replied, "Now, we have three packages. There's the Hitman package, which contains a single expert hunter, carrying a MK 2 tranquilizer pistol and a Swinub for scent-tracking."
"Hmm, what colors does it come in?"
"The hitman comes in your choice of white, black, or hispanic."
"Hmm, no, I'm dealing with a writer, they're notorious for smelling good."
"Our second package is the Sarah Connor package. It consists of several Terminator droids equipped with deadly weapons and thermal sensors. Each droid carries a Metagross to assist them.
"What series are the Terminator droids?"
"They are the T-600's."
"Oh that won't do, Porygon could screw their programming over."
"That just leaves the "Show Your Moves" package. This contains a single bounty hunter with a high-speed hover car. He flies solo and can deliver a devastating punch to your target."
"No, Rusty Anderson can do the Reverse Falcon Punch, so he'd screw that bounty hunter in a second."
"Did you say Rusty Anderson?" the receptionist asked, slamming her hands on the reception desk, "he's my favorite author. I'll give you the employees package, on the house. It has twelve trainers skilled in trapping techniques. Each has their own unique Pokemon. That will catch him for sure!"
"Thanks I appreciate it, send them to the Resort Area ASAP," my back-stabbing assistant said, closing his phone.
Elements of a Story - The Setting
It had been three hours since I left my home. The first thing I was looking for were beautiful locations. These locations would be worked into my new book somehow. I was walking through the thick forest between Resort Area and the coast. Nothing but big, brown, leafy trees were all around me.
Then I came across a small clearing in the forest. I took a minute to examine the area and fell for how beautiful it was. I reached into my bag, pulling out many colored pencils and a large pad of paper. I sat against a tree and began sketching what I saw. The trees stood strong in a perfect circle. I took extra care in perfecting each and every green leaf. The branches formed a canopy over my head. Rays of sunlight slipped through the gaps, creating a beautiful display. At the farthest edge of the clearing stood a large grey stone. Dark moss covered the left side of it, the side that was pointing North.
After sketching the clearing, I decided to walk due North. The sound of rushing water was soothing and promised a change of scenery. I had grown weary of being surrounded by trees. When I poked my head out of the cover, I saw a beautiful waterfall.
"This is beautiful," I thought, getting my sketchbook and pencils.
I inched closer to the fall and laid back against a rock. I first drew the ten-foot tall grey wall that dropped the water down. I then drew the fall itself, again making sure to catch every stray drop of water to give it life. I then drew the light blue stream that flowed between the grey stone. The air smelled like a mix of water and ocean air. It seemed strange at first, then I figured that a river leading from the ocean must have traveled over the edge.
My stomach started churning as I packed my bag. I looked around and saw a thick clump of leaves growing out of the rock wall. Bright red berries were clumped in the bush. I figured this would be as good a place as any to stop and get some rest. I carefully climbed up the rock wall so I could reach the berries. I plucked a few for now, and stashed some in my bag for later.
I leaned against the rock and sampled my first Cheri Berry. When I bit into the soft shell of the berry, red juices squirted into my mouth, coating my taste buds. It was sweet, yet spicy, just how I like my women. Then I remembered my under-appreciated friend. I pulled out a red-and-white ball that contained Porygon.
My Pokemon appeared in a flash of light. A pink duck with a polygon body, blue trapezoid feet attached to its sides, a triangular prism for a tail, and a blue chest happily cried.
The Virtual Pokemon cautiously surveyed the water. Despite being designed to travel anywhere, Porygon was still cautious of the water, as any computer should be. I was impressed when I received this gift, the scientists programmed it with a full set of emotions.
Suddenly, there was a loud yell, followed by a splash. I sat up and turned to the waterfall. There was a body lying in the white foam. I quickly ran into the water and looked at the kid. He couldn't be older than thirteen. His hair was so drenched that it was perfectly flat and pitch-black. I got closer in an attempt to save him.
"Gotcha," he smirked.
The falls burst open, revealing the Pincer Pokemon that was hidden in them. The bug was slightly taller than me, with thick claws for hands. Its exoskeleton glimmered like steel. Porygon rammed it before it could cause me any harm.
"Who are you, and what do you want from me?" I asked.
"My name is of no importance," the boy said, bringing himself up, "I am a bounty hunter. Don't worry, my client wants you alive."
"Who is your client?" I asked, cautiously backing away.
"Our clients reserve the right to remain anonymous until we complete our mission," the kid replied, slowly walking towards me.
"What does your client want from me?"
"You should spend less time worrying about my client, and more time paying attention to my Scizor," he replied, pointing behind me.
I turned around and found that Scizor was still occupied with Porygon. The sound of electricity behind me told me that I had been tricked. A black, pronged object was jammed into my neck, delivering an electrical shock. I quickly reacted, knocking the tazer into the stream. The water surged with electricity and broke the tazer.
"Let's battle honorably," I said, pointing at our Pokemon.
"Scizor Rock Smash, go!" the bounty hunter yelled.
"Porygon. Conversion2, Ghost-type, go!" I replied.
Scizor drew back its dominant claw, preparing to know Porygon to oblivion. My Virtual Pokemom surrounded itself in a strange light, causing it to become transluscent. Scizor's Rock Smash flew straight through Porygon! The duck removed itself from the claw and returned to the Normal-type.
"Now Porygon, Tri-Attack!" I yelled.
The pink duck spun its feet furiously. It fired three beams that spiraled towards Scizor. Red, yellow, and blue, they all clashed with the Bug/Steel-type, unleashing Fire, Electric, and Ice-type attacks respectively.
"Scizor use Metal Claw," my opponent said.
Scizor's claws started glowing silver. It swung them around recklessly, smashing my Pokemon around. When the attack was finished, Scizor's claws were still shining silver. Metal Claw's secondary effect had activated! In a few seconds, Scizor would attack Porygon with increased ferocity!
"Porygon, Zap Cannon, now! It might be our last hope!"
"Scizor, Rock Smash, let's end this!"
A large ball of electricity collected in front of Porygon's nose. Just like before, Scizor drew back its claw in order to smash my Pokemon's face in. It was literally microseconds away from doing just that when Porygon fired Zap Cannon. A large surge of electricity engulfed the Pincer Pokemon. When the attack ceased, Scizor was lying unconscious on the ground, radiating excess electricity.
"Scizor! no!" the young boy yelled, running to the aide of his injured Pokemon.
Without a word, the boy recalled his Pokemon and ran off. Despite his time as a bounty hunter, he was still just a child after all. Before I could congratulate Porygon on its successful victory, a gentle cry flowed from the trees.
"Who's there?" I asked, searching for the source of the noise.
A small white Pokemon with a green head and red horns. Ralts, the Feeling Pokemon had revealed itself to me.
"Ahh, so you'll be my first capture," I said, signaling Porygon.
Ralts sensed my spirit and agreed to battle Porygon. He made the first move by surrounding himself in a blue veil. My Virtual Pokemon was soon caught in the same light. Literally on a whim, Ralts smashed Porygon into the ground with his Psychic. Porygon, already winded from the previous battle with Scizor, was taking heavy damage, but that's why it comes built-in with a handy little move...
"Recover," I said, mantaining a sense of calm to prevent scaring the Feeling Pokemon.
Porygon began glowing in a purple light. The various bumps and bruises on its physical form were soon evaporated. But Ralts wasn't about to let Porygon heal itself. It gathered psychic energy and fired several multi-color leaves to cut Porygon while it was trying to heal.
"Porygon, Tri-Attack," I said.
My pink-and-blue duck fired three streams of color. Just like before, the colors spiraled until they hit their mark. The colors exploded, this time managing to burn the Feeling Pokemon. Ralts tried to connect with Porygon's mind using his Synchronize ability, but since Porygon has no natural mind, it was immune. I took advantage of the status condition my attack had inflicted and threw an empty Pokeball. I was inexperienced, so I had no idea what to expect to see if my capture was successful. While waiting, I spun around and marveled at the beautiful place I had found...
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I'm soo having this. Stupid parodies always get me up and running.
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I'm sorry it took me so long to finish this...
You surprise me. You can come up with original things and write them without spoiling the twists you use. And you make me laugh, which is never a bad thing. You have some issues with the realism of some sequences, though- other than the obvious fourth wall breaches you pull off- but that's a rather minor aspect, when compared to the story as a whole. And, since this isn't really meant to be taken seriously in some places, I might be wrong as well. Anyway.
The bounty hunter kid, for example. If he's the professional he claims to be- and he should, as the receptionist said he was part of the employee-only pack- rationally speaking, he wouldn't break down just because his Scizor was injured... At least, I think so. I may be wrong, though.
Also, there was the fridge logic that always coats these kind of games/anime/stuff: why would one give up only because their pet (or deck of cards) has lost the battle? They can still cause some problems, but they surrender like they made a blood oath in the battle. The guy's a bounty hunter issued to bring the man back alive at any cost, after all. Now, I think you're gonna continue this story, so you may want to think about this thing a little more in next entries.
You never, ever described any human character. That's the main downside of writing in first person, after all. You being the character, it's not easy to fit in a physical description without making it feel forced.
People use the mirror effect to work around this: they reflect their image on a surface and describe what they see, so as to actually have a reason to hand out informations. You can as well break the fourth wall if you want, works just the same. Any solution will do, as long as you actually describe him.
Other than this, nice job describing the scenery- and having an excuse for your extra details was a good thing as well. Just one tiny detail bothered me...
The air smelled like a mix of water and ocean air. It seemed strange at first, then I figured that a river leading from the ocean must have traveled over the edge.
how are a river that goes to the sea and the smell of ocean connected? Unless you're close to the ocean itself, there's no way the scent can travel backwards on a river.
nothing I could spot, so you pass the basics for sure- that's all I care, after all. But.
You use too many periods. It kind of kills the mood of the story as it forces abrupt pauses while you describe things.
Practical example. Here's a quote from your story.
Master Bates Library, the go-to place for the week. A poster hangs on the wall, inviting young readers in. This week is Meet the Author Week. MAW is a monthly occurence, usually full of authors forced to do community service. Most good authors are busy working on their next story. So then, why I am here? Writer's Block is a pain in the Feebas.
And here's how I'd do it- as lemony narrator, throwing my point of view in.
Master Bates Library, the go-to place for the week. An event nobody should miss, it's Meet The Author Week!
Notice the sarcasm, please.
A shiny poster hangs on the wall, inviting young readers in for their shot at getting books signed by their authors in this community service-turned-event thing. Geez, why nobody really thinks of the authors! Good authors are busy working on their stories, yet they still have to attend this.
So, why am I here? Because Writer's Block is a pain in the Feebas.
I don't know if my point got across- I tried to make longer sentences to keep the flow going, instead of ending them with a period. Obviously, the use of short sentences is situational, not alway bad- but unless you're trying to build up suspense or keep a shroud of mystery, you'd avoid it.
I'd liked Scizor battle to be a little longer, but I'm not complaining about it- the length range was fine. The battle with Ralts too should've been a little longer- I mean, 2 attacks only? (three, counting recover)
Well, not something that caught my eye that much. Conversion2 works randomly, or depending on what the Pokemon thinks it's best in the situation (which means it can't be influenced by the trainer), plus it takes effect only after the user has been hit by the move first. Other than that, it was fine but short for my liking. And Ralts didn't even get to do much, as you totally forgot Magical Leaf as soon as Porygon fired the Tri-attack.
Also, there was no mention of their surroundings in the battle- I mean, the field usually affects, in one way or the other, how a move can work in the Anime. I'm sure you can do much better than this.
this didn't really leave me with much of a choice. Honestly. You'd think that a good plot with witty remarks, scenery p___ and nice flot would instantly pass, and instead...
Instead that's exactly what happens.
Ralts captured
I want to see more battle, next time, and with a better grasp of the surrounding of the Pokemon during battles- as your fixation with description demands ;p And don't forget the physical description of your character- or of other humans, for what matters.
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Lol, thanks DG. And with that, I think it's safe to say that I belong in the 3rd-Person Narration. :D
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Fergus Falls Daily Journal 11/7/1949 - "B. Dieckman Resident Of Foxhome, Dies - Prominent Resident Died Sunday - Funeral Services Will Be Held Tuesday - Boye Dieckman, a resident of Andrea township, near Foxhome since 1926, died Sunday, Nov. 6, at St. Francis Hospital in Breckenridge at the age of 63 years. He would have been 64 had he live one more month.
Mr. Dieckman was born at Titonka, Iowa, Dec. 4, 1885, and grew to manhood in that vicinity. Following his marriage to Minnie Schmidt at La Crosse, Wis., in 1909 he continued to reside in Iowa operating a farm. In 1926 he and Mrs. Dieckman moved to the Foxhome community where they have since resided.
Mr. Dieckman was very active in civic and township affairs and was well known not only in Foxhome and vicinity, but also in Breckenridge and Wahpeton. Left to mourn his death are his wife, one foster son, John Doden of Breckenridge, and one daughter, Mrs. Ella Christensen of Minneapolis. He was preceded in death by one daughter, Emma, who died at the age of eight years in 1918.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 10 a.m. at the Jos Vertin & Sons Funeral Home in Breckenridge and the remains will then be taken to Buffalo Center, Iowa, where services will be held Nov. 9, at the Schutter Funeral Home at 2 p.m. The Rev. P.A. Gisvold will conduct the service in Breckenridge."
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1 1/2 pounds
baby carrots
1/4 cup
1/3 cup
maple syrup
salt and ground black pepper to taste
These were very good. I only had regular carrots, so I sliced them and steamed them. One of my kids loved them, the other one not so much.
I thought it was a nice change.
I love my carrots like this. I add a little more salt for that sweet/salty contrast. Very simple!
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Made this yesterday. Roasted the carrots instead of boiled them and used large carrots cut up as I didn't have baby carrots. It was very tasty.
We had this tonight with a great baked chicken and twice baked potatoes. Was awesome!
I was going to take a photo to post but the carrots were so good, I ate them before I could snap the photo!!
I sliced fresh organic whole carrots, steamed them in the microwave for 2 min 15 seconds, and drizzled on the maple syrup-butter mixture. This was a nice side dish for a roasted pork loin, mashed potatoes, and freshly-cooked apples. It really doesn't get much easier than this.
This was lovely! I had regular carrots on hand so cut those into thick (1/2-inch) medallions & roasted them. The glaze was lovely. I will definitely be making this again.
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Fresno, CA (Sports Network) - Jamaal Franklin recorded a double-double with 20 points and 18 rebounds, as the 16th-ranked San Diego State Aztecs opened Mountain West Conference play with a 65-62 victory over the Fresno State Bulldogs.
James Rahon and Deshawn Stephens added 16 and 13 points, respectively, for the Aztecs (13-2, 1-0 MWC), who are the two-time defending conference champions.
Kevin Foster ended with 18 points and seven boards for the Bulldogs (6-8, 0-1), who made their MWC debut after coming over from the Western Athletic Conference. Kevin Olekaibe donated 15 points.
"I was really proud of the effort that we had tonight. Our guys really competed," Fresno State head coach Rodney Terry said. "That was the one thing going into the ball game tonight that I challenged our guys. I wanted to see our guys go out and compete and have each others' backs and be great teammates and leave it all out there on the floor and I thought our guys did that for a better part of the entire game."
Aaron Anderson and Olekaibe made back-to-back 3-pointers to start the second half, pulling Fresno State within one, 33-32.
However, San Diego State created some distance moments later. Holding a 35-34 lead with 16:58 to play, the Aztecs went on a 12-3 run. Franklin tallied seven points during the surge, including a highlight reel dunk, to make it 47-37.
Trailing by seven, 58-51, with seven minutes to go, the Bulldogs went on an 11-3 burst to take the lead. Olekaibe's 3-pointer gave Fresno State a 62-61 edge with 2:51 left.
Franklin went 1-of-2 from the line at the other end to tie the game. It remained deadlocked until Winston Shepard made a free throw with 1:15 remaining to give San Diego State the lead.
Shepard blocked Anderson on the ensuing Fresno State possession. Shepard then pulled down an offensive rebound off Chase Tapley's missed jumper. Franklin followed with a pair of free throws to make it 65-62 San Diego State with 18 seconds to go.
"Winston loves the moment. He loves the pressure of the moment. He played very, very good basketball," San Diego State head coach Steve Fisher said. "He had seven assists and two turnovers. He seized the floor with his size, and he got us some big baskets with his passing, and he made a couple of really nice plays down the stretch with the block and a big defensive rebound to help us come out with a tough, tough hard-fought victory."
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Sysadmin job ad: 'If you don't mind really bad work-life balance, this is for you'
I've done that job for the past 15 or so years of my life. That is a young person's job. Dear me, I'm too old for that shit now. </18 with 12 years experience>
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Want to reach out and touch your Chromebook? How does $299 grab you?
Touch? Meh.
But C720 has without looks like a decent netbook. Assuming the battery life isn't utter shite...
Why Microsoft absolutely DOESN'T need its own Steve Jobs
Re: "coast" for a decade, growing profits year over year by 15%
I don't particularly disagree...but look how many major companies tanked in those ten years, hmm? Even if all he could do was "coast" to 15% year-over-year, that's way better than most of the industry. Credit - and criticism - where it's due. Ballmer deserves a large helping of both.
Standards do exist, even for Linux GUIs. X11 was the standard display server for ages. This was replaced with X.Org. On top of the display server run compositors, Compiz, KWin, Xfwm, Enlightenment (E17) and Mutter. GUIs run on top of those.
Of those systems, Compiz and KWin are the primary compositors and any app designed for a given compositor should run in any GUI that uses that compositor.
Compositors are not mutually exclusive. Many KWin apps will run in Compiz and vice the versa. Xfwm and Enlightment apps seem to run just about anywhere and so on and so forth. Why? Because even though there are differences they still do work hard to adhere to standards.
Right now, the Linux GUI world is undergoing a major shake-up.
The X.org team has decided that X.org is a piece of crap that needs to be rewritten. So they did. The replacement is called Weyland. The reference implementation is Weston. Critical is that they have jettisoned ridiculous things like "network display", something that hasn't actually existed in X for years but the uninformed and change resistant still wail about being dropped.
The existing "network display" (which is actually a broken kludge in X.org) is being replaced with an RDP 7 compatible RDP server based on the FreeRDP code. Why? Because RDP is the best and it has become a standard.
Weyland is already supported in Tizen, with most major distros planning support soon. Major GUI projects such as Enlightenment, Gnome, KDE have planned support. In short: Weyland is the new standard that any rational distribution is migrating to.
...but there are irrational ones.
Canonical has ambitions to be Android. They have a Microsoft-like "we're Steve-Jobs-like visionaries!" arrogance about them. They honestly think Unity is a decent UI. So they aren't moving unity over to Weyland. They writing their own display server called Mir. It's a stupid plan and it will fail horribly.
Others play it very safe. Look at the Mint developers who write the Cinnamon UI:
"ATI/nVidia support Xorg, and Xorg is stable and functional. This is what matters to us. A lot of devs are working on Wayland and not on Xorg these days and some Ubuntu devs will probably focus on MIR more than on Xorg going forward. So it's likely things won't remain that way indefinitely. With that said we're not in the business of picking winners. Good luck to both Wayland and MIR in trying to become the next big thing, we'll look at all that when the time is right."
I.E. for now, X.org is the standard and has the best support. When Weyland is out of Alpha and most of the heavy lifting is done, they'll probably port Cinnamon to it. (If they don't, they can kiss their UI goodbye.)
This is how standards work in Linux. Democracy. I can run a Gnome app on Cinnamon no problem. I can probably run it in XFCE and KDE as well. Hard work goes into that kind of support. But I do get to choose my UI. The guts underneath it all is very modular and changes either have strong community support or they get forked.
X11 doing stupid things? Fork it and create X.org. X.org getting crusty? Fork it and make Weyland. The bulk of the community will move towards a single solution, or at worst two or three.
The only real place where a massive diversity exists is UIs. Which, frankly, is as it should be. Everyone is different. We all learn different, understand space and data differently and are more productive on different UIs.
The interface should be customizable, dynamic and tailored to the user. The plumbing is what needs be standardised...and by and large, it is. Even if that standardisation is "voting with our feet" instead of by fiat.
And that, sir, is why Linux - and choice - has everything to do with freedom of speech.
If my company could "coast" for a decade, growing profits year over year by 15% I would be quite content. Alternately, a net income of $23bn would be...desirable.
Re: People are not nearly as locked in to iOS and Android as the author believes
I have looked at stats, and asked a lot of people, talked to experts.
You would have been correct if we were having this discussion in 2010. In 2013, a huge number (100% of my sample size and over 50% of mainstream, according to the last stats I had checked) had over $100 in apps.
Factor in the cost of devices and rebuying (in some cases) your media and suddenly it's expensive enough to deter people from shifting. Your numbers are simply out of date. App prices are going up. People are buying far more apps, and tablet users especially are buying more expensive, complicated applications that drive the average app loadout far - far - above the "nobody buys apps, Q_Q" surveys of a few years ago.
Re: $1000s to replace apps?
RTFA. Apps and devices. And every single iOS or Android user I've encountered in the past 12 months with whom I've discussed the topic (at least 100 people by now) has had well over $100 in just applications alone. Many have had several hundred, especially tablet users.
Get into media libraries and you can cheerfully get into the thousands, for the iOS types, without getting into devices.
Apps are getting more capable and more expensive and many people are buying them. Just as it was on the PC. The longer this goes on, the higher the barrier to switching.
"Does the Surface have X app?" Even *if* the answer to all apps required is "yes", after running the numbers on what rebuying everything - from apps to devices - is going to cost, I've not seen a single person switch ecosystems. Not from iOS to Android, not from Android to iOS and nobody has gone back to Microsoft after they've left.
I've been purposefully looking for this information. Collecting data since at least March. (Got interested int eh topic when I was in Redmond.) My methodology and sample size are not absolutely conclusive, but they are good enough to convince me that a larger and more detailed effort would validate the hypothesis presented.
Cow FLATULENCE, gas emissions MUCH WORSE than thought - boffins
Re: Good work
...just capture the methane and sell it.
City of London cops ARREST 6 suspected to be MICROSOFT COUNTERFEIT RING
Re: £100k
Except for the part where "£100k" means "full retail pricing with the maximum possible inflation of cost presuming that everything was bought under the most customer-hostile processes."
Which probably means half to a third of that in real-world dollars. Or about year's salary for one person. Also known as "the difference between an SMB with 10 employees folding and everyone losing their jobs or just managing to barely stay above water."
Context. It is lacking. But hey, OMG THINK OF THE STARVING MILLIONAIRES IN REDMOND *sob*. That's always a hit with the crowd and the logic is a hoot.
Re: £100k
Kinda comes off like someone who "pirated" Server 2012 and a copy of SQL. Maybe a few copies of Office and Win 7. OOooooOOoooOOOOoooooooOOooo....
Four teachers indicted in Steubenville social media rape case
Answer your own question, prole.
Obviously, not nearly enough people see this as a problem, otherwise it wouldn't be so.
Computer "hackers" will OMG NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS and CHILD PORNOGRAPHY and STEALING AMERICAN JOBS. If you don't support harsher punishments for them than for rapists (or those who knowing assist rapists) you just aren't thinking of the children. And really, what kind of person does that make you?
How much should an ethical phone cost? An extra penny? Or $4bn
The question is not remotely meaningless and facile. It is a legitimate and very concrete question that anyone proposing to reshape a society must face. It is part of making the command decisions that all leaders of man are required to make.
Example: we have the technology to end all traffic accidents within our lifetime. All autonomous, human-driven cars could be eliminated; replaced by Googlecar-robotic minicabs or a complex virtual-rail system (strips of tracking material down each road, driven by robots festooned with sensors that avoid hitting babies, cats, etc.) No country in the world is moving towards building such infrastructure and banning personal vehicles, despite the multitudes this would save every year.
Simply put: it's too expensive. The cost is not simply money, but an aspect of personal freedom. You could not simply get in your car and drive somewhere. To enable freedom at that scale, every single lane on every single road and highway across the country would have to be retrofitted. So we could spend a staggering amount of money and some freedom to accomplish this goal, or we could spend an incomprehensible amount of money.
The point is that we choose to do neither. Our leaders - and by extension we, the people - accept the deaths everyone killed in a motor vehicle accident because the cost - money and freedom - are beyond what we are willing to pay. Those lives have a fixed value and saving them is just too expensive.
Oddly enough, I'm okay with that. That's a decision that we make as a nation about our own lives. We are saying "we accept this risk upon ourselves and our children and our loved ones in exchange for not expending our resources on that particular safety net." We all accept the risks, we all reap some part of the rewards for not spending those resources.
That is fundamentally different from "blood minerals" because here we are simply writing off people who have no say whatsoever in the process. We are faced with a very tangible, very real choice: how much are we as a society willing to pay to stop rape, torture, murder and maiming of other sapient beings in another society?
Our choice is simple: Is $32 /device too much to ask us to pay to put an end to that? Gather up the number of people murdered, raped, tortured and maimed and do the fucking maths.
When you say "no, that's too much to pay in order to stop this shit from happening" then you have discovered your personal threshold for the value of a human life. You are unwilling to pay $X / shiny gizmo to prevent the suffering of X people thus you value each life at ($X * number of devices shipped into your nation) / individuals involved.
This is completely different maths from a society accepting risks collectively (as in the balance between freedom and security), a doctor performing triage or a military commander making a command decision. This is us, with the power in our hands to stop the suffering of people who do not posses the power to stop it on their own.
Anyone who cannot understand the above is a sociopath. Pure and simple.
The only relevant question is "how much is too much for us to pay?"
Everything else involving this discussion becomes a two-step process:
1) Get the cost of action below the "how much is too much" line so that we can take initial action.
2) Continue to grind the cost of action as low as possible so as to weed out inefficiency.
For the truly hard-boiled sociopaths who give no fucks whatsoever, the "how much is too much" amount will be zero, or damned close too.
Indeed, there exists a category of disconnected number-nerd types who will seize upon the fact that taking action now might not be the most efficient possible action, cost-wise, and thus naysay and holler.
They might support action if that action could be "proven" to be the most efficient possible action to take, cost-wise. Of course, since that is proving a negative, it's possible for them to constantly demand action never be taken because it is impossible to be sure that we are being absolutely efficient, that not one penny of waste exists in the solution.
I have nothing but the utmost loathing and lack of respect for such individuals.
1) Determine "how much is too much" to pay to end the suffering of other sapient beings.
2) Get the cost of action below the "how much is too much" line so that we can take initial action.
3) Continue to grind the cost of action as low as possible so as to weed out inefficiency.
Any other path of action is quite simply saying "the possibility of cost inefficiency exists, which may make me pay more than the absolute minimum possible to resolve the problem. Thus we should not solve the problem."
Adding "until we have agreed upon what the most efficient possible means is and agreed to use that means" doesn't make you any less a goddamned monster than if you hadn't added it.
I'm all for efficiency. But we can work to make a process more efficient after we've implemented a more inefficient version of the same process. When the lives of sapient beings (especially those who have no say in the risk/reward balance whatsoever) are at stake, you work with what you have and then continue putting in effort to make it the process you have better and more efficient.
These are lives we're talking about. Not delaying some purchase agreement so we can grind an extra $0.10 per unit off the vendor.
Anyone who cannot get the difference really, truly is a sociopath...and I am completely unable to respect them at all. You can the lot of you call me whatever names you want, but on this I promise you you will never change my mind.
Re: @Tim
"Must make salary negotiations very hard."
Not at all. I pay my staff the best that I'm able. Everyone is aware of the finances of the company and we're all open about our needs. We discuss each individual's financial goals (such as paying off student loans, saving for a house, etc) and readjust our salary every year to take into account whatever profit growth we've made as a company. The staff get the bulk of the profits, I do not receive an increase higher than the lowest of them.
"Very glad you're not a doctor."
There is a difference between triage (or command decisions) and writing off people for convenience, sir. And you fucking know that.
"PS Thousands have died to make your life a bit easier. Getting frothy mouthed about it won't change the fact."
Bullshit. Working hard to alleviate the suffering of my fellow sapient beings is part of being human. Compassion, motherfucker, heard of it?
Re: @Tim
I'm so very deeply sorry that I don't view human being as commodities to be bartered and discarded.
I'll do my best to be more of of an amoral sociopath in the future comments, just for you.
By the way, just out of curiosity, what's the value of your life? How much is an equitable amount to ask society to protect it from exploitation, harm and an untimely end? How much is too much to ask? Why? Do you apply the same value to others?
Please, detail your cold logic for the world, skelband. I await your wisdom, in awe of your profound humanity.
Re: @Tim
If the choices on the table are "spend $10M to make the problem go away" or "spend $4B to make the problem go away" then spending $10M is more rational. Assuming it's possible given the political and economic realities that surround the issue.
If, however, the choice is between spending $4B to deal with the issue and not dealing with the issue at all, I say we deal with the issue and fuck the greedy "people" (and I use the term exceedingly loosely) that feel $32 per device is too much to pay for the lives of their fellow human beings.
Your presentation of the options on the table made it seem that the $10M option was not political feasible and that our choices had become "spend the $4B to deal with the problem" or "don't deal with the problem at all."
Alternative or more efficient solutions than $4B to solve this issue would be ideal. Unless you're a fucking sociopath, not dealing with the problem at all is absolutely unacceptable.
So hey, let's get viable options on the table and a means to move towards them. If, however, the more rational avenues are blocked, we still have an ethical obligation to proceed using whatever means are, in fact, available.
So just exactly what is the cash sum value of a human life? Or a rape? ...a maiming?
When is it "too much to pay"? $0.10 per phone? $10 per phone? $100 per phone?
What if morality in this regard is a cost with no benefits expressed as a cash sum at all?
Fuck 'em if they can't cope with dying for our fondleslabs? I truly am curious.
$4B a year seems pretty goddamned insignificant if we're talking about 2B devices, which is about what this says is the global consumption rate. That's $2 a phone. Is $2 /device "too much?"
What if we're only talking about $4B to cover units shipped into the USA? That's $4B across 125M devices. That's $32 per device. Is $32 /device "too much?"
I'm legitimately curious. I would sure as hell hope that every human being on earth's answer to that question would be the exact same, but I am all to painfully aware of the number of sociopaths that inhabit our world.
I would surely love it if we could get the kind of international cooperation together required to have all the refineries and all the chip spinners do their part and turn Billions of dollars of regulatory cost into a meager few million in externally-monitored self regulation.
Unfortunately, we have no way to compel many of these companies to agree to such a scheme or to enforce their compliance. They are beyond our jurisdiction. So instead we have to act on the "little guy" and use their market pressure to keep the multinationals in check.
Shitty, but there you have it.
I will gladly pay an additional $32 per device to ensure my widgets are sourced from conflict-free sources. Frankly, I'm fucking appalled that there are people who wouldn't. I am ashamed to be a member of the same species as those individuals and I consider anyone who finds that "too much to pay" as no different in my mind from the bastards perpetuating these horrific crimes: both groups view the life and suffering of another sapient being as irrelevant to their own selfish, petty desires.
How much is too much? And isn't a solution - even if it is not the most efficient solution - better than letting this sort of shit continue?
We must each answer these questions for ourselves.
Leaked MS ad video parodies Chrome as surveillance tech
Re: "Great bit of advertising"...
Bullshit. Microsoft reads my e-mails in Outlook.com, Office 365, my chats on Skype, Lync, MSN Messenger, etc.
They've reduced the security of Skype to enable them to do so. So please, can the bull.
Dude, relax – it's Just a Bunch Of Disks: Our man walks you through how JBODs work
Re: Scott Lowe's article, bad link
Cisco untroubled by mega-clouds fleeing its proprietary ASIC grip
Re: The only way to take cisco down
Google underwrites Firefox another year, even as Chrome outpaces it
Text ads are fine. Static images are fine. Moving images are...well, I find them annoying enough that I block them most places, but I don't have a strong technical argument for it and I recognise the moral argument against it.
I'm sorry, but the "moral rights" of advertisers simply don't extend to "opening a security hole on my system through which I could be infected."
I also totally randomise my browser informaiton for each session and tab so their tracking is useless. I'll allow them to display ads to me, but my privacy isn't for sale.
Everything is justified because
NSW privacy exemption shares personal data with private sector
Re: Canada was first
Canada isn't quite so cavalier with privacy as the commenter above makes us out to be. There is a difference between "a targets and specific breach of individual privacy in order to save that selfsame individual's life" (medical records at an ER or with explicit permission to private medical facilities) and giving wide ranging access to the kinds of information that can ruin a person's life.
The insurance company is a great example. So, for that matter, is allowing an employer (or a jury) to review a record of accusations/juvenile misdemeanors, etc. This is why many items (especially for minors) "fall off"* a person's record after a given amount of time. (At least here in Canada.)
*All items on your police record are, in fact, permanent. That said, many are considered "inaccessible" after expiry for the purposes of background checks, etc. Police can still view your juvie record when investigating, and it will probably be taken into account if you go for a serious security clearance, but the insurance company or bank isn't going to get to see that you had a red light ticket 7 years ago or were accused/arrested for (but never convicted) of any number of things. Which, frankly, is as it should be.
It's easy to make an "investment" involving privacy...
...when the privacy you're investing is someone else's.
Who will recover your data if disaster strikes?
Re: And what about the DR plan if a critical supplier goes out of business?
Pano's stuff eventually got bought up and support was provided to existing clients. I think that's a far more common scenario in the IT industry than simply vanishing into the void. "An established client base" is still a valuable commodity; someone will buy it.
The bigger issue is those transition periods. What do you do between the point where a Pano Logic (or a Nirvanix) goes off the air and the point where the deals are done and their customer base is purchased during the fire sale?
Personally, I advocate the "keeping spares on the shelf" policy as much as possible. (Licenses, physical devices, etc.) How does one do that with Cloud Computing??? The only "keeping spares on the shelf" version of Cloudy computing I can see is Microsoft's CloudOS (on prem, service provider, Azure trifecta making it unlikely you'll lose access to all systems capable of hosting your infrastructure) or VMware (same deal as CloudOS, just less refined.)
Whether or not that constitutes "industry standard best practices" depends entirely on who's paying whom. Cloud providers will say such concerns are unwarranted and unnecessary. "Get of my goddamned lawn" coalface sysadmins like myself generally prefer the paranoia route. Each person will have to decide on their own.
Those Xbox One first-day glitches: GREEN screens of DEATH, disc crunching
My Alienware MX18 still uses the original OS install, runs like stink and works like a charm. Don't know what you're on about, Windows 7 solved a lot of the crap that keeps endpoint weenies employed.
Though there's good money in "where the fuck is..." regarding Microsoft Tiles 8.11 for fondlegroups.
Native Americans were actually European - BEFORE the Europeans arrived!
Re: Oh dear
There's plenty of evidence of pre-Clovis cultures.
Microsoft touts SCROOGLE merch: Hopes YOU'LL PAY to dump on rival
Re: I want Google
No shit. I'd buy a few hundred, I think. One for each of the vExperts, at least. ;)
Even Better: Google could donate all profits to a charity. The EFF, say?
Who wants a Xeon-powered, 12-core, RAID 10 … LAPTOP?
Re: I estimate
Funny, I was thinking of buying 4...
Microsoft zaps self in foot with WinPho/Office remote control app
This app does not work with Office 2013 RT
So why the fuck should anyone else code apps for that platform, is Microsoft can't be assed to do it? Hmm?
Cisco's reverse mentoring plan helps middle-aged managers grok Gen Y
"Engaging" with the younger generation...
...is useless if you don't actual listen to anyone, regardless of age.
Let me be loud and clear to Cisco, and they won't need social media to grok it:
Cisco, the world loathes you and your worthless, overpriced products because they are (drumroll) worthless and overpriced. There are a handful of things you make that noone else can touch. That's your anchor. Everything else is being undercut left and right.
Cisco, if you want to stop bleeding customers, lower your prices and make your products dynamic, admissible via API and maybe even advance to the point that your interface is something other than a requirement to memorize 500 pages of arcane CLI. I don't know if you noticed, Cisco, but nobody actually likes CCXXes. They're arrogant, egotistical pricks who cost way to much. When your competitors are offering widgets that are as fast as yours, allow companies to bin the expensive douchnozzle (running networks with any old sysadmin or developer) and do it for a quarter the price...why the fuck would anyone buy from you?
What? "Huawei is backdoored by the Chinese government" you say? How - exactly - is that different from you? China, the USA, it's all the same. Both foreign powers trying to turn the rest of us into serfs. So that doesn't work.
"Stability, reliability, blah-blah enterprise something marketing gobleddy gook?" Hate to say, buddy, but Juniper works a hot damn, so does HP, Arista, Dell...even Supermicro! Most don't need - or want - the majority of shit in your routers and those that do would can get it better elsewhere.
You exist on inertia and some core routing products that noone else can duplicate. Soon, Arista will take the latter part of that away from you. After that, where are you? Relying on your religious fanatics to advocate on your behalf? That's only going to get you so far.
...we hate the religious nutjobs evangelising your overpriced tat almost as much as we hate the tat itself.
If you need social media to figure out the above, you're doomed.
Space tourist Dennis Tito begs US to BANKROLL HIS manned Mars flyby
Re: A Wasteful Stunt
Bull. Robotic terraforming of other worlds is worth 1000x any manned mission. We should be taming these worlds for our use. Starting with a permanent installation on Ceres to provide fuel for our ships.
No more Service Packs for Microsoft Office? HA! Think again, Ballmer!
Re: Oops. I'm ten years behind
Nah, gotta say, LibreOffice has done for me for the past few years. Office 2003 is still on my main VM, but when I upgrade to Fedora 20 - Weylan/Weston/FreeRDP, baby.! WOO! - it will be Libreoffice.
Ballmer: Microsoft stronger without Bing and Xbox tinkering
Being better than Ballmer isn't hard. But a government/military teat-sucker doesn't know the first thing about providing anything to the mass market. If what you want is bulletproof software that only the top 10% of companies and individuals in the G8 can afford, then your advice is sound.
If, however, you want to see Microsoft provide quality software for the majority of the world then you need someone like Nadella.
What you preach would turn Microsoft into something even more restrictive than Oracle. Maybe that's what you want...but it would certainly be a complete and utter clusterfuck for ht rest of the world that currently relies on Microsoft. The transition to "a vendor they can afford" would be messy, it would be expensive and it would be full of security holes and missteps that could well set IT innovation back a decade.
The whole world would be so busy reinventing the wheel that they wouldn't have time to innovate...and there would be IT for "us" and IT for "them." A digital divide that even generations of effort would be unable to erase.
Like it or not, Microsoft of today is one of the only vendors bringing enterprise-class software to the masses. They are a major force for commoditisation. I'm pretty sure plane boy would end that virtually overnight.
Nadella or bust. Can the rest of the fuckers in charge and bring in proper engineers. Focus on making good products better and delivering what the customer wants. If you need to use metrics, use them to inform decisions, not to justify them. Above all, listen to your customers and potential customers. Build what people want and they will buy.
How the hell is a government/military-teat-suckling handout baby going to deliver any of that?
Re: any bets on how long EOP will take to bin the good bits?
Wait, wait wait...Elopologists actually exist in the wild.
Samsung to throw fat wad of Won at rare earth alternatives
Re: Help
Actually, China owns most of the decent prospects for rare earth mines in Canada, especially tantalum.
Salesforce boss Benioff foretells grim, unrelenting hyper-capitalist future
Indeed. I am absolutely in awe of Jack for this one. In. Awe. Unbelievable work.
How d'ya make a JPMorgan banker cry? Ask him questions on Twitter
Intelligence and morality have nothing to do with one another. Each can exist entirely independently of the other.
Indonesia turns Twitter into very leaky diplomatic bag
Re: cold southern comfort
@Irony Deficient Out treaties basically state that because our justice system is determined to be "equivalent" to the US, deporting people to the US becomes a miserable mess. If we don't want 'em then the US doesn't want 'em either and they would much rather that we pay the bill for banging the bastards up.
As for pursuing extradition, it's pointless. American's give zero fucks whatsoever about Canadian laws. Where we are supposed to to have jurisdiction, they repeatedly don't care. They even put immense political pressure on our politicians resulting in them breaking our own laws and having innocents tortured.
The prevailing view seems to be one of pointlessness. Canada must comply with American legal demands and Americans will only ever comply with Canadian requests if they are politically expedient for America. Sometimes they'll even deny our requests seemingly just to keep us "in our place" (if the comments of their ambassador are anything to go by.)
Even worse, the barbarians still have the death penalty and they murder our citizens, even we offer to repatriate them and keep them locked up for life. (Texas especially seems enamored of this.)
There is no justice in working with Americans. There is no point in asking them for help either. We are not "allies". We are a servitor nation. Allies would not treat each other the way America treats Canada...or individual Canadians. It is really as simple as that.
You don't ask your owner for favours; he'll take said impunity out of your hide.
So yeah, I think my province did right. The bastard is American's problem now. If he ever sets foot on Canadian soil again, we'll arrest him and $deity I hope they'll sent him to a jail cell in fucking Nunavut.
He's not worth the massive amount of political capital it would take to extradite him. Anything Canada "wins" that resembles justice will come out of our hides in the fullness of time. We might win an extradition of this man...but at what cost? American playing stubborn on Softwood lumber rights during the next pissing contest, costing hundreds of thousands of Canadian jobs (again)?
What price, justice? And what is the tax that must be paid on it to America's ego?
@Iron Deficient
Not all of those 9,414 people are criminals. There are, however, more than enough who are bothering the city that I personally live in, thank you very much. If you were really interested you could talk to the police departments from all of our major cities and ask them about Americans and their involvement with organized crime. Long and short of it: they are bringing a great deal of it here, and they are bringing a great deal of expertise in "picking up the pieces" of broken organizations once our cops smash one.
For every crime ring we dissipate it seems two well-trained Americans come up and establish new ones. Apparently crime is so very profitable in the US that they are establishing international franchises. Wonderful.
What's the US got to do with building a nuclear plant in Canada?
Massive US political pressure to wind down our nuclear estate and huge funding of the local NIMBY cliques to shout down the Bruce power proposal.
Tar Sands, not shale. Big difference. Difference being: 99.999% of the issues with the tar sands can be solved by just putting a bloody nuclear reactor up there to supply the energy necessary to support clean extraction and proper post-processing.
Believe it or not, that would be easier under the EU than the US.
And we have a country full of criminals we can't deport. They're called Americans.
I have a plan, let's swap Canada and the UK. The UK can be part of NAFTA and we'll be part of the EU. Seems to be what the UK want, after all. Are the UKIP running that country yet?
Deep beneath MELTING ANTARCTIC ice: A huge active VOLCANO
Re: Ooops. Can you say "Tipping point"?
The concept of the "Icelandic hotspot" is heavily disputed. I personally don't buy into it as there seems to be no indication of a connection to the mantle. What's more, there's a negligible temperature delta between the so called "hotspot" magma and the rest.
Iceland is more productive largely because there is more tectonic activity and the plates are diverging at a faster rate. That's really it. If there is some element of "hotspot" - which again, the evidence leads me to doubt - then all it is doing is providing additional raw magma. Is is the forces of the divergence boundary that causes the explosive eruptions. A hotspot connection would only mean they have more to work with.
The volcano discussed in this article does not appear to be on a divergence boundary and thus there is no rational region to assume that it would behave any differently to the nearby Mount Eerebus or Mount Terror. (Or, for that matter, Hawaii.)
FBI sends memo to US.gov sysadmins: You've been hacked... for the past YEAR
Re: (Not lice, not fleas but) Poly Ticks What's the big deal?
What party politics? I'm Canadian. I have no "party" within the US. They're all bloody nuts, but some have recently been demonstrably more nuts than others.
Re: What's the big deal?
As I recall, the alternative was putting Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from personally commanding thousands of nuclear weapons. After that, your alternative was placing one of the most openly bigoted socipaths America has ever produced in the same position. (Pretty boy, not Cheney...though the Dark Lord did just wonders for your economy, didn't he?)
I'm not saying the Obumbler is fantabulous...but the available alternatives weren't merely disastrous, there were cataclysmic. Literally. Planetary cataclysm avoided with Palin and social cataclysm avoided with Ryan.
Supreme Court can't find barge pole long enough to touch NSA lawsuit
Re: Et tu, Trevor
If the system worked as designed those in power would never need fear upstarts or shifts in power. The "new rich" have been a problem for ages and power has changed hands frequently enough that those in power are not guaranteed their status for the duration of their own lives, let alone multi-generational aristocracies.
The system doesn't work for anyone. Not those in power and not those being governed.
You're cute when you believe the system works.
Salesforce slaps Amazon, Google with glove: 'I'm THE FIRST $1bn-quarter enterprise cloud biz'
Let me get this straight...
...in the beginning we punished a company for losing money.
...then we punished a company for not making enough money.
...then we punished a company for not growing revenues fast enough.
...then we punished a company simply because it didn't "meet analyst expectations".
...then we punished a company because they couldn't beat analyst expectations.
...now we punish a company because they can't beat analyst expectations by enough.
What the fucking fuck?!?
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Cookin with The Columns: A tasty breakfast
As you might guess, I am always on the lookout for new breakfast ideas, since we have many repeat guests at our bed and breakfast and I don't want to serve them the same things over and over. I got this new recipe out of a magazine recently and it is really quick, easy and delicious. It's also fairly nutritious with the bananas and oatmeal in it. I think your kids will really like them too because they don't look a lot different than the usual pancake.
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2 cups COMPLETE pancake mix (the kind that only needs water added)
1 1/3 cups water
1/2 cup uncooked quick oatmeal
1 ripe banana, mashed
1/4 cup chopped pecans
Stir pancake mix with water until smooth. Add oatmeal, banana, and pecans. Cook pancakes on a greased, heated griddle until golden brown on both sides. Serve hot with syrup and butter.
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The Congress Party leaders these days are on all national channels defending Jijaji who recently was caught misbehaving and threatened a Video Journalist. There are more leaders defending the Congress Jijaji than their poor ex PM Manmohan Singh, who was made a mute spectator during the decade long looting frenzy.Here you have an opportunity to reply to Jijaji to him "Are you serious", "Are you serious", "Are you serious", "Are you serious"
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Milwaukee-area Target stores are hearing numerous complaints from people who say they bought video games only to find the product missing from the boxes. Now it is believed the claims are fraudulent.
According to Wauwatosa police:
Last week, the local department was notified that security staff had been investigating a theft ring in which Asian men are purchasing video games from Target stores, then returning empty boxes and claiming there was never a game inside. But really they are buying the games, opening the package and removing the games, then resealing the package and trying to make returns.
The first incidents occurred in January. A man who bought a game at the Brown Deer store returned it at the Wauwatosa location. In February, two more incidents occurred at the local store.
The West Milwaukee Police Department, which handled complaints from Target in its jurisdiction, is heading up the Milwaukee-area investigation from this point on.
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The Toronto Blue Jays have exercised their $3 million option on left-hander Darren Oliver and have signed outfielder Rajai Davis to a one-year, $2.5 million contract after declining the option on his previous two-year deal. Davis hit .257 with 24 doubles, eight home runs, 43 RBIs and 46 stolen bases last year. The Blue Jays held a $3 million option for 2013 with a $500,000 buyout. The 42-year-old Oliver was a steady presence in the injury-riddled Blue Jays' staff. He was 3-4 with two saves and a 2.06 ERA in 62 games for Toronto. Also, Toronto reinstated from the 60-day disabled list right-handers Kyle Drabek, Drew Hutchison, Sergio Santos and Dustin McGowan, and left-handers J.A. Happ and Luis Perez. To make room on the 40-man roster, outfielder Scott Cousins and right-hander David Herndon were designated for assignment.
Original Story: http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Bl...
PLAYERS: Darren Oliver, Rajai Davis, Kyle Drabek, Drew Hutchison, Sergio Santos, Dustin McGowan, Luis Perez, Scott Cousins, David Herndon
TEAMS: Toronto Blue Jays
TEAMS: Toronto Blue Jays
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