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I'm sure theres more happening behind the stabilizing project.
You can build a church on my 3ds and pray afterwards for even more stability..
They could also be honest and call it a security update, why not?
I'm sure theres more happening behind the stabilizing project.
You can build a church on my 3ds and pray afterwards for even more stability..
They could also be honest and call it a security update, why not?
Card game? yes please, where do i deposit my money?
Thats a good idea to fill up your wallet, and run away with it in the end^^
so it got a 9 just like all the other games that score 9 ish?
that means this game should swim in the pool of 9 ish next to all the other games that got a 9, and they are with many!
a 9 is a decent score for a title that took so much attention the last year, there were like 4-5 articles a day for the last past year. it was almost spam
But well, will buy it anyways even if it score a 4. just as investment for my all time favourite gameconsole makers.
Will buy them all just like all the other tables that are released. Also played zen pinball on the ps4 where there was some input lag? lol i could not hit a thing with a time delay. wiiu is a lot better, more responsive ;p
As long they dont talk about their stability program......
Smash for Wii U, Amiibo, Captain Toad, Pokemon, and Mario kart DLC.
I expect no suprises. Maybe some MH4...
Stability baby....
Lovely game, still running it now and then ^^
Hombrew will destroy the fun in online games.
will wait till its in the garbagebin for like 10 euro max, same as all youre other games on the wiiu
Steamworld and all the zen tables please table 1! and a mercedes for mk8 wont hurt either.
I dont like companies hwo take Euro's for Dollars, 2.99 euro is 2.99 $.
We allready pay more for things like diesel, gasoline, houses, wifes.
So little,. wiiu love,.
The mother of all cart racers, the worst in the series. i enjoyed this one the most. Back in the days you had not much to choose from.
This was it, and it still is ^^
The wiiu is allready past gen, it would be wise to show us a machine wich has the horsepower to run modern games.
can you control your characters, or is it only management?
Surely looks cute.
lol Jowy
Yes mario add like 3 points to a final score, no matter what kind of game hes in^^
Good review i agree with a 6
It's not my type of game, but this looks impressive.
When the digital prices are reduced, they will also be reduced in the webshops.
So i try to search my copies for under 20 euro in the webshops instead.
I agree with HylianSane, this aint the time for gba games on a home console, it should have been gamecube games, and gba games on the 3ds, logical sinds were talk about handhelds and homeconsoles.
People that modified there wii allready have complete libraries with gba nes snes n64 megadrive/genesis games.
No, this aint the future, it's the past. We need triple A+ titles and not some cheap gba ports to the wiiu -.-
Also the wii could run gamecube games, why did nintendo not sell us gc tiltles in the wii shop, missed opertunity?
Funny game but gets dull quick, i agree with a 6. Still a nice game for short bursts.
@RedYoshi999: With 2 players it's easier ^^
Revolutionairy game, i would give it a 10.
megadrive off course, roots!
intresting game btw, i love shmups ♥
Im affraid the wiiu version will be so much striped down if you compare it to the ps4 version.
Gta clone, but thats not a problem, how many clones mario have?
Bought it just to be able to play a game of chess on my wiiu + nice visuals. It succeed on that front.
Best looking chess game ive ever seen.
I agree with the review, it should have solid online play to get a decent score, though i dont bother online, sinds i dont trust anybody^^
So they took the name of an arcade cabinet from Konami, and decided to make pac man out of it. intresting
I like the devil char a lot in his red pants, though he got some simulairities with other hero's ^^
Fun game indeed, it deserve the score.
7-8 for me, but only in multiplayer.
Blades of steel was the best, i agree.
Did not like this on a ps3, the controls are no fun to play around with.
On screen it really look good, but that's about it ^^
@ DiscoDriver43 : Yes man, CTR is also one of my favorite cart games, same as for diddy kong racing,
@ Ichiban: "LOL"
Or a demo or a good discount and i'm in
They are more then welcome on my indie machine, good news, as long mario kart 8 is still in the pipeline... =)
The following Wii U indie games will be available to play at Nintendo's booth, each one developed using Unity:
Ballpoint Universe: Infinite
Cubemen 2
Ittle Dew
Monkey Pirates
Stick It to the Man
Wooden Sen'SeY
I love the nes and i love galaga, but when you bring those 2 together you get a version wich should not ever been released, it's supposed to be played on an arcade cabinet. It should have power ups, would made this game a lot better.
There's a version of this game on an amiga computer, it's called Galaga. (the chipset of an amiga 1200 is called aga) thats my all time favorite space shooter. It's exactly the same as this only with power ups and better graphics.
I like this on my Multiple arcade machine emulator a lot ^^
No need for a vc nes version, the only arcades that were good on a nes were the ones from the Vs. series, where they demonstrate nes games in an arcade cabinet.
Download only? ouch that hurt.
Theres not much space for devolpers to get into soccer games these days.
Really intresting serie, it grows bigger and better every time.
At first i did not take the serie to serious but wow, what a progression they make, really awesomeness,
Think i get it, if its only to support their awesome project.
It's respectless, designed by man.
They like to see perfect woman with boobs that fall out of their dresses.
Imagine a game where guys have balls as big as balloons and woman look normal. Its stupid.
When i play games like this (its not the only game with insane big boobs) i feel like a teenager hwo's getting to little attention.
I've never been a fan of this version, where a baby mario cry out loud when you get hit.
This game looks like it should have been released like 10 years ago, it surely fit into the series but its the same of the same,.
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Is it weird that I like Yoshi (probs top three Marioverse character) but dislike all Yoshi games?
@ Webby-sama: "No not at all, yoshi is also one of my favorite characters but never liked the main games from my hero ^^"
Hahahaha, sweet one. Loved it.
To be honest, tried it a few times multiplayer but from my point of view it sucked monkeyballs, so we decided to go single. Good game none the less, but even tic tac toe got better multiplayer.
I can only listen to the non_life_performance, and have to say it got the gaming spirit, though it sounds a bit flat. Not bad at all. To be honest this sounded more like a sonic themed song. I can't get that sonic out of my head when listening to this song.
I will buy the pinball expansions, they look awesome.
the link,... it's broken!
I hope ps4 will be very succesfull, it got it all, especially the horsepower.
PS4 is next gen, wiiu is allready outdated, hopefully they make a new one soon, a better one.
Less then 5% of all devolpers is not planning to bring 1 game to the wiiu, wiiu is doomed.
I love Nintendo and their games, im still happy with my wiiu but its a weak machine if you look at the competition.
Haha awesomeness!
Thats bad news for Nintendo.
This will make it even more unintresting for devolpers to support the wiiu.
When its possible to homebrew you can also run pirated games, nintendo is doomed when this news is true.
I know bomb jack before this one, This one always felt like a downgraded casual b-version if you compare it with the intense gameplay of the original bomb jack.
I had this on my nes in the early days, was my introduction to the castlevania series. The open world and night/day cycles were quitte unique almost evolving.
Sad to see this classic get a 6 while some titles get easy a 9 without a clear reason.
Dont let anyone fool you, catelvania is as classic and epic, gaming would ever get
I would like to see Nintendo makes a new console within 2 year, wich is 2 times as strong as a playstation 4.
And i want to play 3ds games on my big screen.
I'm totaly not intrested in mario on mobile phones or ds games on my wiiu.
In my opinion you cant spam mario on any device to be succesfull.
Also its amazing to see how they keep on spamming their 16bit games on every system they make, without 1 word about gamecube games (wich are so awesome, still!)
I would like to see more radical changes other then spamming ds games on a wiiu and cheap mario on phones -.-
The wiiu need that tablet, without it, it defenitly lose this generation.
Best would be if they make a new console within 2 years or so, the hardware is quitte outdated ^^ if you compare it with ps4 and xboxone.
The name Wiiu is also totaly wrong, like half the people i speak with dont even know a wiiu is a new system, they all think its a tablet upgrade for the wii.
Thanks for reminding me, will activate it wright away ^^
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There's a scene in one of the Harry Potter books when after Hermione tried to explain the actions of Harry's distraught date, Ron exclaimed, "You should write a book translating the mad things girls do so boys can understand them." It's hard enough to decipher what women mean when they say something—such as when they say they're fine but they really aren't—but in order to understand women body language is the key.
If you want to succeed in reading women body language must mean more to you than just simple postures and gestures.
1. Flirting Women Body Language Giveaways
If you happen to know how to talk to girls effectively, or if you happen to look attractive in her eyes, then a woman can give you visible signs of approval and attraction even if she doesn't necessarily say anything to that effect. For example, she may indicate that she is interested in you when:
- She maintains steady eye contact with you (without glaring)
- She leans towards you
- She keeps on licking her lips
- Her nostrils are flaring
- Her nipples are visibly hard
Be warned, however. Just because you may be seeing all these signs of approval doesn't mean that you can just lean over for a kiss or go for an intimate caress. The woman in these situations often likes to give clear and express indications that she would like intimate contact with you, and any action on your part to this effect can immediately reverse her attraction to you. Wait for her to clearly say that she wants to kiss you, and from a legal point of view this may be the right course of action as well.
When it comes to women body language attraction signals aren't always clear cut, unless she pulled you into an empty room and then started tearing your clothes off.
2. Disinterested Women Body Language Clues
If your spiel isn't really working all that well with her, you can tell by looking for signs of disinterest and apathy. She may not just be failing to maintain eye contact; she may actually be looking for something more interesting while she gives you vague and short answers to pauses in your conversation. Another indicator that she doesn't really care much for you or about you is when she leans away from you. If she doesn't really say anything to add to the conversation in addition to all these body language clues, then be sure that you've failed abysmally in making a mark.
Of course, it's not quite a disaster. You still have a chance of denting that disinterest if you're determined. You just need to talk about something that she finds interesting or something she feels passionate about. Once you've discovered this, you may receive more encouraging signals from her.
3. Conflicted Women Body Language Indicators
For some women body language signals can signify that they're interested in you despite some misgivings. Perhaps they are in a situation in which a romantic liaison may not be quite as welcome. For example, she may already be in a romantic relationship, and her attraction to you may be confusing her. She may also have sworn off men for the meantime for a variety of reasons. Perhaps she has just ended a relationship, or she has decided to focus more on her career. She may even be a nun—you never know.
The signs that she's not quite sure if she is attracted to you (or if she should be attracted to you) may include the following:
- She may lean in, and then lean away repeatedly;
- She may hold some eye contact, and then turn away abruptly.
Generally, she may use some body language that means she's interested, and at the same time also exhibit body language that shows that she's disinterested. These types of mixed signals may indicate a conflict on her part.
It may also mean that she's just shy. With shy women body language signs are often conflicted because she doesn't quite know how to react to her attraction to you. If this is the case, you can wreck a potential relationship by acting too abruptly or forceful. The best way to react is by being gentle and gradual when you try to speed things along. Be understanding if she stutters and act as if she's speaking and acting normally.
You can also attract women with body language if she's shy. Show her body language signs that you're interested in her, but make these signs more subtle so that she isn't alarmed and frightened. Be gentle, and give her time to adjust to your presence. You already know she's interested in you, and now your focus is helping her to deal with these feelings of attraction without calling attention to her shyness.
4. Angry Women Body Language Omens
It's not all that difficult to anger women, and perhaps you know this truth quite well. If you've just met a woman and if you've read something to the effect that insulting her is a surefire way to get her attention, you'll probably see some of these signs eventually. You may have said something about her weight or her clothes or insulted a close friend or family member. You may also have espoused some political or religious views that are polar opposites of her beliefs. Whatever the case may be, you'll get her attention all right, but it may not be the kind of attention you'd like.
These omens include:
- She narrows her eyes at you.
- Her lips are a very thin line.
- Her fists are closed or tightly clenched.
The best way to react to these omens is to gracefully and quickly disengage—in other words, retreat. It may not even be your fault that she's irate. Wait for her anger to dissipate over time while she talks to other people, and then reengage her with a subtle apology. If that doesn't work, then it may be wise to turn your attention elsewhere.
In the end, if you want to excel in understanding women body language meanings must be immediately understood so that you can respond appropriately. You can then use your expertise in deciphering body language to attract women wherever you go.

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I'm currently addicted to watching the show This Old House. It's great to watch real craftsmen do fantastic work and learn all their little tips and tricks along the way. I often wish there was a show called This Old Website where developers would sit around and drink coffee while converting Frontpage websites to WordPress. High energy I know.
In this post I'd like to give you 10 resources that I used constantly through 2012 to build our clients websites. So here we go in no particular order.
#1 Subtle Patterns
Subtlepatterns.com is a collection of simple, yet effective, background patterns that you can download and use on your projects. Lately they have started to include retina versions of the patterns which is also super handy.
#2 Gravity Forms
We started 2012 using the WordPress plugin Visual Form Builder, but we ended up converting most of those forms to Gravity. This plugin is not free, but provides such a high quality form solution that you'll forget about the cost in no time. They have a collections of handy add-ons available with the Developer License and there are also some free ones like the Gravity Forms CSS Selector plugin that are real time savers. Clients want quick turnarounds and this plugin will help you achieve that.
#3 WP Tuts+
This one is simply just a blog of WordPress tutorials. The content is fantastic and relevant. Things are changing in the web world all the time. You need to stay current and continue to learn if you're going to make Web Development a 30+ year career.
#4 TinyPNG
This web services allows you to shrink filesizes on your .png files. It supports transparency and I have had great success using it with all of the files I create in Photoshop. We used it heavily on the sprites for the website Tony's Tree Plantation.
#5 jpegMini
This a similar service to TinyPNG above, but this one compresses your jpg files. In today's tech world sites need to load fast, so you should compress all files (CSS, JS, Images, etc.) to achive the best possible load times.
#6 Iconfinder
This site provides thousands of free icons for you to use on your website. There is a dropdown in the top right that allows you to show only the icons available for commercial use. I even recently submitted a set of my own social media icons and am hoping they will be included.
#7 PlaceIt Product Screenshots
So you've just completed your new site or app and you want to showcase it in a cool environment, this site allows you to upload screenshots of your work into a realistic product settings.
#8 Redactor.js
This is an excellent and simplistic WYSIWYG editor that uses jQuery. The downside is that it's not free, but the upside is that it is super easy to use. This isn't great for WordPress devs but if you are building something custom this may be the way to go.
#9 paydirt Free Invoice Creator
So the website is built and it's time to get paid! This free invoice creator will allow you to send clean invoices to your client. If you want a more robust solution that isn't free, I would say to go with FreshBooks.
#10 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
On one of my personal projects, I switched to using Amazon's cheap and reliable email service. It allows you to send 1,000s of emails a day for pennies. If you want a nice PHP class that makes it super easy, I have had success with the php class by Ordering Disorder. If you are anti-Amazon or something you can check out PostMark app. I ran through a trial with them and their service is fantastic.
So this has been my list for web developers. In my next post, I'll go through some great web services that have come out recently that you should know about. Until that time, I'm Hal Gatewood with This Old Website.


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The challenge of quantifying pocketbook patriotism
Having worked heavily with marketing research for more than 30 years, I know just how useful it can be to make better business decisions, but like all tools there are limitations. One very important issue with marketing research is that we often measure peoples' attitudes, but what we really care about is their behavior. In some cases, there is a very close link between the two and sometime not so much. Let's consider two examples.
As our first case we want to understand what people put on their hamburgers. We could ask them a very straightforward question and give them a list of condiments from which to select. Since there is no acceptable answer, people are very likely to give you good information. Were we to check, we would likely find an almost perfect correspondence to what people said in the survey and what ends up on their burger. Why say you use ketchup in the survey if you don't?
Now let's take a different case and ask people if they are willing to pay more for a plumbing part if it came in a package made from recycled materials. Here the respondent may consider that there may be a socially acceptable answer. If I care about our world, certainly I should be willing to pay more for that recycled packaging. This bias toward the socially acceptable answer can yield market research information that is much more optimistic about the sale potential of products with recycled packaging materials.
A good example of this type of issue was faced when the Home Improvement Research Institute (HIRI) decided to look at green benefits in some depth. HIRI made sure to get a profile of respondent attitudes toward green, but also to look at the green behaviors they have exhibited. As expected, there was a good-sized group of respondents who talked a good green game, but didn't walk the walk.
While we may get inflated answers, we can track trends over time. In fact, The Futures Company does regular tracking of consumer attitudes on a broad range of issues. Since 2007 it has been examining the dimensions of what it means to be a good citizen today — including buying products made in the USA. As one might expect there was a clear rise in this measure as the economy weakened, with the selection rising from 60% in 2007 to 70% in 2009. But as the economy improved slowly in 2010, the rating fell to 61%.
Does this all mean that "Made in the USA" lacks marketing value? Clearly that is not the case. It just means that one needs to be careful when interpreting the absolute values in this type of research results and also not to rely on this attribute as a sole purchase motivator. With the current economic problems and unemployment, there is no doubt a desire to buy American when possible. As with most things, some people will see the benefit of buying American to be worth more trade-offs than others. If product quality and price are competitive, then the "Made in the USA" label can be the deciding factor.
My recommendations would be for American manufacturers to make their products as attractive as possible, with "Made in the USA" a bonus. While we work in a global economy, there is no problem rooting for the home team.
A 23-year industry veteran, Fred Miller is the managing director of the Home Improvement Research Institute (HIRI). He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Here, I've heard people use 'eev-lin', 'eveh-lin' and 'ev-lin' to say Evelyn. There doesn't seem to be a North/South divide to it either.
Anyway, since Forvo is rapidly becoming my favourite place, I thought I'd attach a few sound clips to further clear up the confusion North American's are having regarding the description of Evelyn as 'ever-lyn'. Unfortunately I could only find clips of British people using the 'eev-lin' pronunciation but I think it all still works. Here we go...
Generally, this is how an English person says 'forever' http://www.forvo.com/word/forever/#en ((Listen to Bananaman in particular)) See how it sounds like 'evah'? We don't tend to say the 'r' at the end of the word. It gets lost.*
Now if you listen to Sugardaddy (an American) pronounce 'Evelyn' http://www.forvo.com/word/evelyn/#en ...the beginning part sounds nearly exactly the same. Therefore, since we English also use that sound for our pronunciation of 'ever' it's fairly logical that we'd write it that way when attempting to spell the sound made in 'Evelyn' phonetically.
Hope this has helped!
*There are American voices on that list too for comparison. You can definitely here the final 'r' in the majority of theirs.
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Ciera Kelly, Linnea Lindberg, Jasmine Margetts, Penny Nichols, and Taylor Shewchuk have each signed an NLI to swim at WSU.
The Cougars defeated the Lumberjacks, 181-80, and have won three-straight dual meets.
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Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has been fined $130,000 and their Portuguese winger Nani suspended for one match by UEFA following their Champions League exit to Real Madrid earlier this month.Ferguson failed to speak to the media after the last 16 second leg in which Nani was given a controversial red card as United lost 2-1 at Old Trafford to go out of the competition 3-2 on aggregate.In a statement issued on Friday, UEFA said: "Manchester United FC midfield player Nani has been suspended for one match by UEFA's Control and Disciplinary Body, following the red card he received at the UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg against Real Madrid CF at Old Trafford on 5 March."Manchester United head coach Sir Alex Ferguson has been fined 10,000 euros for non-fulfilment of the post-match media obligations at the same match."Nani was sent off in the 56th minute with United winning 1-0 and looking as if they were going to win the match.The red card, shown by Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir for a high challenge on Real defender Alvaro Arbeloa, turned the course of the game with Real winning thanks to goals from Luka Modric and Cristiano Ronaldo.Ferguson was incensed by the decision, storming from his seat in the stands to remonstrate with the officials as Nani walked. His assistant Mike Phelan said he was too distraught to talk to the press.Nani will miss United's first Champions League match next term or his first European game with a new club if he moves.
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It was just a few short years ago when the anti-filibuster movement known as the "nuclear option" was on the table for elected Republicans and Democrats were the ones screaming to uphold tradition. This week the sides officially switched and Harry Reid and the Democrats laid waste to a key check of presidential power.
I am sitting here watching power drunk liberals and hypocritical conservatives lay waste to one another. In all honesty the outrage I feel is against them both and not in support or rejection of either opinion.
When the winds change in the coming year or so and Democrats smell the whiff of an oncoming electoral defeat, they will race to change what they have done. At that moment elected Republicans will scream loudly in support of keeping their newfound majority power for the sake of putting through a Republican president's judicial nominees.
Does anyone expect different? No, they do not.
I am for limited government and the ability for each branch to maintain systems of control over the other. In nearly every way those systems of control have been lost and each branch, acting as its own originator of unstoppable authority, is now running in a race to take command of our lives.
Reid and the democrats are drunk with power but a few short years ago so were many Republicans who proposed the same solution. Who decried the tactics of gridlock they are now using. Now that we are here both sides are destined to make fools of themselves by leaping to the opposing position when it benefits them. Principal be damned, these are the unfortunate people we have become.


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The economic recovery has not been strong enough to move a majority of people that lost their jobs during the Great Recession from unemployment to steady work that can support a family.
The number one priority for people from the Westside to South Los Angeles is jobs.
We must do our utmost to create new jobs. We can accomplish this, in part, by supporting small businesses. We must expand the abilities of small business owners to take advantage of local and state contracting opportunities.
As taxpayers, we invest our hard earned wages to make a myriad of public projects possible. It's time that local businesses that can create jobs are given a greater opportunity to expand their operations to create more jobs by bidding for contract work on state and local taxpayer-funded projects.
We are investing billions of taxpayer dollars to build transit systems, schools, and community college facilities. It is essential that we redouble our efforts to help unemployed residents in the 54th Assembly District get connected to labor apprenticeship programs that will enable them to learn the hands-on skills they would need to begin a career in construction.


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Ric Flair Says He'll Probably Wrestle Again, But Not For WWE
By Ryan Clark | May 29, 2009
In an interview with the Associated Press, Ric Flair says the chances of him wrestling again are very likely. "I would like to, but I'm not going to do anything to rock the boat," Flair said. "I'm in the same kind of shape I was last year when I retired. It's hard to stay away from something you like so well, especially when you still feel like you can do it. If I did wrestle, it would be overseas, it wouldn't be here."
Flair currently serves as an "ambassador" for Ring of Honor and thinks the promotion's young talent has a lot to offer. "I do like working with the young guys and talking to them a lot," Flair said. "They've got some great kids. It's very professional. I wouldn't put my name somewhere I didn't think was professional."
Still, as much as Flair likes being around the action, he still has the urge to walk that aisle and wrestle again. "In my gut, I do," he said. "Do I think I will? Yes. I'm not going to take no easily. Like I've said, I haven't retired, they retired me."
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Crochet over a plain bangle bracelet with metallic yarn and this free pattern from Phyllis Serbes of Many Creative Gifts. This bracelet crochet pattern makes for a quick project. Crochet this intermediate-level bracelet for a Mother's Day gift!
- 1 skein metallic gold (or silver) sport or DK weight yarn (shown here, Berroco Lumina, length 95 yds/88 m, cotton, acrylic, and metallic)
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Size: Choose a thin bangle bracelet that fits comfortably; finished crocheted bangle measures 1 inch in width. NOTE- You may need to modify the pattern for larger-sized bangles.
Gauge: 7 or 8 sts = 1 inch; 4 rows = 1 inch
ROUND 1 • (RS): Make a loop with a slip knot, then sc around the bangle bracelet until the bangle is loosely covered (shown here, 57 scs around), sl st to first sc
ROUND 2 • Ch 1, [skip next 3 sts, 6 dcs into next st, skip next 3 sts, 1 sc in next st, ch 4, skip next 3 sts, 1 sc into next st] 4 times, then skip 3 sts, 6 dcs into next st, skip 3 sts, 1 sc into last st
ROUND 3 • Ch 1, [1 sc in each of the 6 dcs below, 1 sc in sc below, 8 dcs into loop, 1 sc in sc below] around, ending with 1 sc in each of the 6 dcs below, 1 sc in last sc
ROUND 4 • Insert hook into first sc of 6-dc shell below then from behind bring hook through sixth sc to the front, pull through a loop, yarn over and pull through both loops on hook ("puff"; see picture), ch 3, [1 sc in each of the 8 dcs below, create puff] around til last puff, ch 3, sl st to sc below, fasten off. [note: there will be two puffs next to each other; we suggest wearing them against your inside wrist; you might also want to dangle some beads from the middle of each 8-dc shell]
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LAMBERTVILLE — Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hill of Lambertville are observing their 50th wedding anniversary today.
An anniversary celebration will be held June 18 with family and friends.
Mr. Hill married Sonya Douglass April 8, 1961, at St. Mary Catholic Church with the Rev. James Wilson officiating.
The couple's children and their spouses are Tina Hill of Temperance; Terri and Mark Consolmagno of Brentwood, Pa., and Tracy and Jeff Rastocan of Sun Prairie, Wis.
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The Senate next week will take up the spending bill for the Departments of Transportation (USDOT) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), according to a report from The Hill.
The $54 billion budget, known as the THUD bill, is expected to clear the Senate.
The Senate bill is $9.9 billion higher than the $44.1 billion bill the House is considering. The House bill is still awaiting consideration in the full House.
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The Tucson Rodeo Parade 2014
The 2013 Tucson Rodeo parade is an 89 year-old Tucson tradition that brings the vibrant history and colors of the Southwest to life each February in conjunction with La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, the Tucson Rodeo.
The Tucson Rodeo Parade is the longest non-motorized parade in the nation. This 89 year old Tucson tradition brings the vibrant history and colors of the Southwest to life each February in conjunction with La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, the Tucson Rodeo. Over 150,000 spectators line the streets in southern Tucson each year in anticipation of this historic event. The Rodeo Parade is broadcast live on KOLD-TV channel 13 and Public Access TV.
Tucson Rodeo Parade Highlights
Included in the procession are local and national dignitaries, Native American royalty and performers, historical wagons and colorful floats, marching bands and mariachis, royalty from five rodeos and working cowboys. The League of Mexican-American Women and Mormon Battalion are entries that have been in the parade greater than 30 consecutive years.
This year, there are approximately 115 entries (17% new entrants). More than 525 horses, approximately 2,000 people, 60 wagons and buggies and 9 marching bands will form this moving spectacle of Western heritage.
History of the Tucson Rodeo and Parade
In 1924, Frederick Leighton Kramer, President of the Arizona Polo Association and later recognized as the Founder of the Tucson Rodeo and Rodeo Parade, gathered a group of local business men to discuss the possibility of having a Rodeo.
This was the inspiration and moving force that made it possible for the Tucson Rodeo and Tucson Rodeo Parade to take place on February 21, 1925. Read more about the history of the Tucson Rodeo Parade.
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Hi everybody, i have bought a new computer and download LoL. It's working perfect until after the champion select, the game is not opening and i can't recoonect. (Sorry all people aout there if u have playd witch me Dc)
Plz help me i have tried all i can but noting work....
I want too play ;(
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Make sure that your graphics card supports pixel shader 2.0, and you can analyze that can your computer run League Of Legends Here http://systemrequirementslab.com/cyri
If you have Windows 7 you need DirectX9.
i have directX11
DirectX 11 doesn't include DirectX 9 so you still need to download it, I had the same problem yesterday.
It doesn't matter, you need DirectX 9 for LoL and DX11 does not contain DX9.
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Full of mind-bending style and packed with a wild cast of characters, Crooked Little Vein infuses Robert B. Parker with Kurt Vonnegut and the madness of the graphic-novel world. A surprisingly surreal treat, it will appeal to hardcore comic fans, mystery aficionados, and all readers looking for a riotous summer reading adventure.
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"Chapter One. I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug. It was a huge brown bastard; had a body like a turd with legs and beady black eyes full of secret rat knowledge."
Crooked Little Vein puts you right in the gutter from the first sentence and doesn't let up. Sample the goods with a look at the complete first chapter, and see if you don't get hooked.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Crooked Little Vein is neither funny nor does it have any semblance of a meaningful plot. One of the worst books I have ever read or attempted to read. Read morePublished 3 days ago by Bob Rowland
This is the freshest detective story since Roger Rabbit.
You just know he's going to smash the bad guys, eventually, and probably get the girl as well. Read more
Seldom have a read more perverse ideas. It reminded me of the Aristocrats joke. The premise was funny, but not the prose. Read morePublished 2 months ago by Paul Janes-brown
An odd little book, not for everyone by any means. A respectable, and pleasantly profane stab at a detective story.Published 5 months ago by Christopher J Coulter
Fun read, quick dialogue and pretty good character development. Slightly ridiculous flirting with the bizarre and just a touch of sleaze.Published 6 months ago by Nicholas Finley
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By the end of this learning unit, you will be able to define sustainability and green building, and list ways vinyl siding can contribute to points in leading green building certification programs. You will also be able to identify the properties that make vinyl siding sustainable. Finally, you will be able to analyze the life cycle assessment of vinyl siding. Take the course.
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Team Survivor / Minute-to-Win it
No one can escape the fun in Venture Up's Team Survivor & Minute-to-Win-it challenge. Inspired by the two popular TV shows, the combo program is geared to challenge team members individually and as a team to reach new heights of success. Ideal for large and small teams, no one gets voted off -- in fact, success requires team members to rely on each other to employ the talent, skills, creativity and brain power to win.
Team size ranges from 8 to 12 members who together create a team identity and song if they wish. Fitness is not so important as ingenuity, risk-taking and relying on one another. Awards, such as scoring beads, are presented throughout the program for each successful event in a series of challenges leading up to the grand finale, where the entire group of teams re-unite.
The Awards Ceremony is loud and festive, even moreso as the top finishers, usually proud and gloating, receive their medals. Ideal for sales teams and annual meetings.
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Bonnie C. Sachs and Utaka Springer, both of the University of Florida, have won the $2,500 2007 Benton-Meier Scholarships to support their work in neuropsychology.
Sachs earned her bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech and worked for two years as a research assistant at the National Institutes of Health before entering the University of Florida's clinical and health psychology doctoral program. Her research interests include epilepsy, dementia, neurorehabilitation and functional neuroimaging.
Springer earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1999 and worked for three years as a software engineer before enrolling in the clinical and health psychology program at the University of Florida. Currently a doctoral candidate studying neuropsychology, neurorehabilitation and clinical neuroscience, he studies cognitive and emotional symptoms of neurodegenerative movement disorders. APF is accepting applications for the 2008 Benton-Meier Scholarships. For application information, visit www.apa.org/apf/hecaen.html. The deadline is June 1.
Gruber wins dissertation award
June Gruber is the 2007 recipient of the $2,000 Todd E. Husted Memorial Award, which recognizes an individual whose dissertation demonstrates the most potential to contribute to the development of improved outreach and delivery of mental health services for those with severe and persistent mental illness.
A graduate student in clinical psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, Gruber is studying the link between emotion and psychopathology. Her dissertation research will assess emotional reactivity and regulation in individuals with bipolar disorder by examining their responses to happy, sad and neutral film clips, life moments and social interactions.
APF supports counseling psychology programs
APF and Div. 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology) support the science and practice of counseling psychology through grants for innovative programs and models. In 2007, APF provided $5,500 in support for:
The development and evaluation of the Multicultural Sensitive Mental Health Checklist, an intake checklist for ethnic-minority students to address psychological symptoms such as race-related stress. Ruth Chao, PhD, of Tennessee State University, is the project's primary investigator.
Future in Iowa, a project to develop, implement and evaluate a pilot career intervention program for 300 ninth-grade students who attend rural high schools. The program aims to boost students' confidence, expand their career interests and teach about the requirements associated with their career goals. Saba Rasheed Ali, PhD, is the principal investigator.
The Maryland Psychotherapy Research Center, a clinic run by the University of Maryland department of psychology. The grant will help the center provide low-cost therapy services to the community and give doctoral students the chance to see community clients under supervision. The center will also collect data for two major studies. Clara E. Hill, PhD, and Charles J. Gelso, PhD, are the primary investigators.
A partnership between the University of Minnesota's Vocational Assessment Clinic and the Neighborhood Involvement Program to investigate career-counseling processes for those who cannot afford to pay for services. Jo Ida Hansen, PhD, and Amy L. Conlon, PhD, are the primary investigators.
Bennett makes $10K APF gift
Bruce Bennett, PhD, recently contributed $10,000 to support the APF visionary funds, the unrestricted contributions that allow APF to respond to critical issues where psychology can make a difference: violence prevention and intervention, uncovering the connection between mental and physical health and aiding in the sustained rebuilding of communities in the aftermath of disaster.
These funds "ensure that APF can apply psychology's resources to improve the lives of so many people, and we are truly grateful to philanthropic psychologists like Dr. Bennett," says APF President Dorothy W. Cantor, PsyD.
Bennett, the chief executive officer of the APA Insurance Trust and a former member of APA's Board of Directors, was instrumental in the passage of the 1992 "Ethical Principles for Psychologists and Code of Conduct" and served on the Task Force to Revise the APA Ethics Code in 2000. He is a past president of the Illinois Psychological Association and served for many years as its executive director.
"I am honored to join the ever-increasing number of psychologists who have found it personally rewarding to support the American Psychological Foundation," says Bennett. "Contributions from psychologists will help advance the practice and science of psychology for future generations by supporting much-needed research and assisting the younger generation of aspiring psychologists with grants and scholarships. I encourage my colleagues to join me and others in sustaining the worthy goals of APF."
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Our federal deficit is out of control and we must reign in our spending. We had a balanced budget under Bill Clinton in the 90s, and even created a surplus. Our country must be calculated and thoughtful and we must set benchmarks to reduce our massive deficit. In order to get our budget under control, we must enact a bipartisan effort that takes the best ideas from both sides of the aisle.
You can't have a vibrant economy without a vibrant middle class. It's time we started expanding opportunities for Americans to get jobs and stopped shrinking the middle class by shipping jobs overseas. Rebuilding the middle class and putting people back to work is a priority of this campaign. It's time we see the words "Made in America" again.
One of the most stable and dependable safety nets in America is currently under fire by those who want to gamble the benefits of our seniors, widows, children, and disabled. I do not believe that Wall Street has the best interest of those of us who are counting on Social Security to be there for us as promised almost 75 years ago.
We owe an immeasurable debt to our veterans. We also made several promises as a country to our men & women in uniform and they should be kept. Whether it is through healthcare, retirement, or education, we should NEVER go back on our obligation to these patriots.
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This bilingual blog - 'आन्याची फाटकी पासोडी' in Marathi- is largely a celebration of visual and/or comic ...तुकाराम: "ढेकणासी बाज गड,उतरचढ केवढी" (Tukaram: For a bedbug a bed is like a castle. so much climbing up and down!)... George Santayana: " Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence"...William Hazlitt: "Pictures are scattered like stray gifts through the world; and while they remain, earth has yet a little gilding."
G C Lichtenberg: "It is as if our languages were confounded: when we want a thought, they bring us a word; when we ask for a word, they give us a dash; and when we expect a dash, there comes a piece of bawdy."
W H Auden: "But in my arms till break of day / Let the living creature lie. / Mortal, guilty, but to me/ The entirely beautiful."
Will Self: "To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail – the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short. It is this failure – a ceaseless threnody keening through the writing mind – that dominates my working life, just as an overweening sense of not having loved with enough depth or recklessness or tenderness dominates my personal one."
John Gray: "Unlike Schopenhauer, who lamented the human lot, Leopardi believed that the best response to life is laughter. What fascinated Schopenhauer, along with many later writers, was Leopardi's insistence that illusion is necessary to human happiness."
Art Spiegelman: "You know words in a way are hitting you on the left side of your brain, music and visual arts hit on the right side of the brain, so the idea is to pummel you, to send you from left brain to right brain and back until you're as unbalanced as I am."
विलास सारंग: "संदर्भ कुठलेही असोत, संस्कृत, इंग्रजी, बुद्धिवादी, तांत्रिक, इतिहासाचे, खगोलशास्त्राचे, आधुनिक पदार्थविज्ञानाचे, शिवकालीन व पेशवाईतील बखरीचे, अगणित ज्ञानक्षेत्रांचे, अशा वैविध्यपूर्ण ज्ञानावर लेखन- विशेषत: कवितालेखन- उभं राहत."
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Gods Are Us; A Scene from Our Heaven
Julian Gough: "…To have the gods laughing at us through our fictions is acceptable if the gods are multiple, and flawed like us." (Prospect Magazine UK May 2007)
Now, I know better. Indra is flawed like me.
But I will die; Indra won't.
Homer Simpson:
"If he's so smart, how come he's dead?" ("Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" Production code: AABF21 Original Air-date on FOX: 24-Oct-1999)
Lord Indra is smart.
Author G A Kulkarni जी ए कुलकर्णी - influenced by Greek mythology and literature- had this take on the subject of our gods.
"...आपल्या अनेक देवता पाहा. त्यांना संतती तरी नसते किंवा झालीच तर ती त्यांच्या प्रणयक्रीडेचे अनिवार्य फळ म्हणूनच असते. एखादी देवता आपले मूल कडेवर घेवून त्याच्याकडे मातृप्रेमाने पाहात आहे, असे तुला कधी दिसले आहे?"
"…Look at many of our gods. They either have no children or if they do, it's the inevitable fruit of their copulation. Any goddess holding her child atop her waist, looking at it with mother's love, have you ever seen this?"
("ऑर्फियस" पिंगळावेळ) ("Orpheus" Owl-Time) 1977
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ONE My dad is my inspiration. He was a grass track bike racer and my first experience was on a trials bike attempting to jump over a log that was half the size of me. I got thrown over the handle bars as I accelerated into a tree. I was seven-years-old.
TWO Never let your mates jump start your motorbike when they don't know what they're doing.
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FIVE My mum has been only person ever to have cut my hair.
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EIGHT I look like a Peperami.
NINE Guns don't kill, people do.
TEN Giving 110% is impossible; it doesn't exist.
ELEVEN You will never really know if you are right or wrong.
TWELVE There is a lot of talk and not enough action in kiteboarding.
THIRTEEN What Worthing Pier looks like from the air.
FOURTEEN Jumping piers is not a day-to-day activity and I have learnt that patience is a virtue. Jumping Worthing Pier had been a goal for a long time and it was well worth the wait.
FIFTEEN Spring Heeled Jack does exist.
SIXTEEN The key to jumping big is wanting to jump big.
SEVENTEEN Chasing your kite down the green when it's 30mph in just your pants might be funny, but it isn't fun!
Jake Scrace, 25, Worthing, has been kiting since 1999, he has experienced a variety of aspects within the kiting community, however, now enjoys kiting as a free rider. He chooses to ride the way he does because he likes to get the most out of what he does, trying to find new things, and different ways to push himself. He thinks this is a bit of an adrenaline addiction. The jumping of Worthing Pier has been one of his goals and he has now realised that it was well worth waiting for!
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Itemizing The Bourne Legacy's Filipino Connections
Taking advantage of a rare bit of geographical synchronicity, HFPA member Ruben Nepales was able to make his native country the focus of a dispatch about the upcoming sequel The Bourne Legacy (Universal Pictures/August 10).
The final 40 minutes of the film takes place in Manila and other parts of the Philippines. Writer-director Tony Gilroy explains that it took ten weeks of first and second unit work to film a motorcycle chase involving the characters played by Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz. He also acknowledges the value of a versatile local acting community:
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Dario Tonani – born in Milan, 1959 – is one of the main authors of Italy's science fiction scene. He has published various novels and around 80 short stories in anthologies, national newspapers and in the most important Italian magazines of the genre (Urania, Giallo Mondadori, Segretissimo, Millemondi, Robot). His most successful series, consisting of two novels and eleven short stories is set in a Milan of the future where doped cartoons (known as +toons) roam the streets infecting the citizens with a new powerful drug which is transmitted via the retina. His first title Infect@, runner-up at the "Premio Urania" 2005 and published in 2007 by Mondadori, was optioned for a film. The sequel Toxic@ was published in 2011 together with other short stories relating to the saga. In 2012 Tonani completed his steampunk/horror saga set on World-9, the story of a giant sentient ship-truck grappling with a wild and poisonous planet. The four stories that make up the series have all been published under the title Mondo9 (Delos Books): Cardanica, Robredo, Chatarra and Afritania. After achieving great success in Italy, the first of them is being published in the US, where it has earned the praise of undisputed steampunk maestro, Paul Di Filippo. Dario has won numerous awards: Tolkien, 1989; Lovecraft, 1994 and '99; Italia, 1989, 1992, 2000, 2012. The best of his sci-fi short stories is found in the Infected Files anthology published in 2011 – both on paper and in digital format – by Delos Books. Official website: www.dariotonani.it
Three questions from the father of Steampunk, Paul Di Filippo, on the occasion of the publication of Mondo9. War between flesh and gears, sci-fi books and movies, but – first of all – is Science Fiction really exhausted as many experts say?
Paul Di Filippo: What is you opinion on the recent assertion by Paul Kincaid and Jonathan McCalmont that science fiction is exhausted? That the genre is merely recycling old tropes, and doing nothing new, and refusing to engage with reality, and turning into pure fantasy? How does your own writing attempt to counter this trend, if indeed you acknowledge its existence?
Dario Tonani: Nowadays the future permeates every corner of our lives, it seeps into our every activity, it's everywhere: given this state of affairs, it's quite understandable how a literary genre which by its very nature is measured against tomorrow ends up losing its seductive power even before its driving force. Maybe the genre will turn its attention elsewhere, perhaps to fantasy or to so-called paranormal fiction. At a time when the future is presented in images – just think of film, TV, advertising, video games – it seems of little interest that science fiction authors use the medium of words to describe it. And because progress is just so fast, science fiction can become a subject that is entirely credible. Clarke said that 'any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic', perhaps it's for this reason we SFauthors have slipped out of our groove – through a total lack of ability to keep pace with the developments of science and technology. I genuinely don't believe it's surrender. It looks more like responsible awareness; there's no point in making risky predictions when you can simply take a path and follow it, in a word 'fantasise'. And fantasising, entertain. I've never wanted to describe something before it became evident to anybody else, I just want to recount my ideas and dreams. I've written stories that stand proudly on just one big toe of consistency. I'm not interested in comfortable shoes soled in sound scientific basis. I don't have to convince anyone, let alone sell a possible or probable future. I'm just a poor Argonaut…


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He talks about the problems with disclosure - In his latest Journal, Whitley Strieber writes: "Every few weeks, it seems, another announcement appears claiming that some authoritative group, usually involving the pope, the president, Edgar Mitchell and whomever, is about to announce that UFOs are no longer unknown, but are alien craft. I've been hearing about pending announcements like this for as long as I've had an interest in the subject, and they have always worried me. They worry me more than ever now." Read Whitley's new Journal to find out why, and come meet Whitley in person at our Dreamland Festival!
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How do you keep your employees from shouldering all the burden that comes with a difficult customer?
Service employees need to be empowered to make confident decisions on the spot, says William Ward, Warehime professor of business administration at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. "Employees need to be trained in problem-solving," Ward says. "This is where training and procedures pay off for businesses."
But employers can send mixed signals when they set time limits on helping customers or mandate a long list of daily priority tasks other than taking care of customers. These mixed signals increase the chances that a problem won't be resolved, making it natural for upset customers to unload on the closest target: the employee, who is torn between serving the customer and finishing his or her daily to-do list.
Another basic mistake is defining service with vague phrases like "service is our mission" instead of creating structures that guide employees through difficult customer service situations. "You see a lot of service employees with that look of 'Please don't ask me a question because I don't know how to answer it,' " Csordos says. "If you're unsure about what you're allowed to do for a customer, you feel silly."
Patrick Marchese is co-founder and president of Santa Ana, California-based Markzware, a 25-employee software development company. He believes in giving the nine customer service representatives in his company an arsenal for dealing with difficult customers who call the company's toll-free number.
Markzware's service employees know exactly how to route difficult callers up the company chain. "We get someone else in on the call right away," says Marchese. Employees also have a lot of leeway to throw in freebies like T-shirts and software. A little empowerment and teamwork can go a long way. "The customer service rep doesn't feel isolated in handling a problem," says Marchese, 41. "It's a big score personally for employees to successfully handle a difficult customer. When they get a thank-you at the end, they're on Cloud 9."
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