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i love the fact that they really didn't trip off what Cam and Tariq do. I think its because they got to know them before all of that so it doesn't alter their opinion of them. So sweet. Aww they all cuffed and booed up and s***. Run it!!
run it, but how do you put an url into a story? like a picture or something
"I'm a drug dealer."
Maiko's eyes fluttered and then stayed wide open, "I'm sorry what?"
"I'm a drug dealer." Tariq repeated with his head low.
She didn't know what to say, I mean what can you say to that? "So like, what? You're on the corner all day?"
"Hell naw! I'm the boss. Well, me and Cal are." He looked at her. Studied her face for anything else than besides what was written over it.
Maiko couldn't even begin to comprehend. Being a drug dealer was the last thing she had thought about. "Oh." Was all she could say.
"Oh? That's all you could say?" he looked at her.
She shrugged, "I mean, what else do you want me to say?"
"I don't know. Jump up, curse me out, tell me I'm a horrible person." He threw his hands up.
Maiko looked at him plainly, "But you're not a horrible person."
"I am." He hung his head.
She got up and kneeled before him, taking her face into her hands, "Hey, you're not a horrible person. What you do isn't right, but that doesn't make you a horrible person. You still have a loving and caring heart and at the end of the day that's all that matters."
"Yeah?" he looked into her eyes.
She smiled and nodded, "Yeah."
Without another word being said, Tariq seized her lips with his. After making out for a little, he picked her up and placed her on his lap in his recliner. He began to kiss her neck and down to her chest. This was it, they were about to become one. All of a sudden he stopped.
"What, something's wrong?" Maiko asked.
He shook his head, "Naw, I just think that our first time together should mean more."
"It does though." She smiled as she cupped his face in her hands.
Tariq looked at her puzzled, "How?"
"Because, I'm right where I wanna be with exactly who I wanna be with." She smiled and kissed his lips softly.
He couldn't help but to smile himself, "Let me find out you running game on me for the D!"
They both laughed and continued to kiss until she broke it. "We could go into the bedroom though."
"No doubt." Tariq chuckled and he carried her to his bedroom to her surprise.
"I can't believe you're a drug dealer." Malaya voiced.
Cal chuckled, "I can't believe you thought I was an escort. Although that wouldn't be a bad idea." He laughed some more.
"That is not funny, okay?" she gave him a look.
He looked at her as he put his arm around her, "Awww, what's wrong? My baby don't wanna share her man for money?"
"Damn right! Or for free either." Malaya countered.
Cal fell into a fit of laughter. "Aye it's all good baby, I wouldn't do that to you." He gave her a sensual kiss on the neck.
"Stop it, this is not a time for sex." Malaya stated matter of factly.
He looked at her with a straight face, "Oh yeah? Then what is it time for? Cuz if it ain't time to fck it's time to be up."
"So what you trying to say?" Malaya folded her arms.
He folded his, "I'm saying that I wanna make love to my lady if she quit frontin."
"What makes you think I'm frontin?" she asked.
He looked at her, "So you not frontin? Talm bout you don't want all this lovin, when I know you do?"
"That's what I'm saying." She smiled.
Cal chuckled as he rubbed her bare thigh, "Well, if you won't tell the truth….i know my lil buddy will."
"Oh really, and who is your li--" she was cut off by him rubbing her clit. She couldn't deny it, she wanted him. She was frontin big time and like usual he called her bluff.
He kissed her neck, "Why don't you say we move this to the bedroom?"
Malaya nodded and followed him to his bed.
oh man please let these girls be down for them ... last thing thsey need is too be less focus
run it
I think things are getting a lil more serious than anyone planned. SO now its making Tariq and Cal question their plans and Maiko and Malaya question them. Lol I think the guys should tell the girls the truth. Its clear Cal is feeling Malaya alot and if they wanna know if this connection they have is strong, then they have to tell em. Run it!!
"That's fckd up what happened to Boog." Cal voiced as he turned off the news.
TQ shrugged as he brought some bricks to the table, "He shouldn't have fckd up. Now come on so we can bag this sh*t up."
"Yo, you think us havin girls is fckn with our big picture plan?" Cal said grabbing a face mask before sitting at the table.
TQ screwed his face and shook his head, "No, why would it?"
"I don't know. It's just sh*t feels different now. Kinda like we slacking a bit." He opened one of the weed bricks.
TQ mulled it over, "Naw, I'm still focused. But if you wanna give up on the plan over some pussy, I'll send you a postcard from the top." He laughed.
"Aye, fck you nigga!" Cal laughed as well. "I'm not givin up sh*t, 'specially over no girl man."
TQ looked at him, "Did you just say girl man? I swear, you must really like this one. I don't think you've never referred to a female anything other than a b*tch. Oh, no wonder you feelin different nsh*t. Pussy must be good." He laughed again as he placed some coke on the scale.
"Aye, what can I say. Shorty ain't loose like these other hoes. She different man. But I'm sure you understand. With Maiko and everything." Cal smirked to himself while opening another brick.
That was a touchy subject with TQ. He hadn't seen her in two days since that night. Needless to say, it was really bothering him. "I mean, she cool and everything. But she can't make me lose focus or nothing."
"Oh, so she ain't let you hit yet." Cal joked.
TQ was done with the conversation, "Aye less talking and more breakin aiight?" He shook his head a little.
"Yeah aiight." Cal responded only because he could sense that his partner was now tense. He knew when to stop and now was that time.
"So, y'all didn't fck?" Malaya tried to grasp the story that Maiko just told her over lunch.
Maiko shook her head, "No, we don't know each other enough."
"So what do you talk about every day that y'all together, the weather?" She was baffled.
Maiko shook her head again, "No, we talk about a lot of things. He just won't tell me what he does."
"What he does? What, like his job?" Malaya asked for clarity.
Maiko nodded, "Yeah, he said he doesn't think I can handle it and he doesn't want me to have to. What do you think that means?"
"We'll, it could either mean that he's one of three things: a stripper, a prostitute, or a drug dealer." Malaya informed.
Maiko thought it over, "He once said him and Cal are business partners. Do you know what he does?"
"Oh my gosh. No I never even asked him. Damn, they prostitutes!" Malaya held her head as she mildly hyperventilated.
Maiko rolled her eyes, "Girl, you don't know what they do. But it can't be too good if they won't say what it is."
i mean tariq should jst tell her what he does , cuz he obviously likes her .. so just be real . .
RUNNNNNNNNNNNN it <3
Tariq is getting on my nerves with this s***!! I understand why he doesn't want to tell her, but then I don't. Is he scared she won't see him the same when she finds out?? Cal is a lil rough around the edges. Lol I like him and Malaya. Midnight shouldn't trust Boog's ass.
Maiko and Tariq were laid on his plush bed. It was her first time ever being in his apartment. He was thankful he had cleaned up the day before. Nothing was out of place, he had spent the night before at the trap. He only went home to shower and change for their date.
The kissing was intense and they'd managed to get half of their clothes off.
That's when Maiko broke the kiss, "Wait, wait."
"What, what's wrong?" Tariq panicked. He thought something was wrong by her reaction.
She shook her head, "Nothing. It's just, you don't think we're rushing this? I mean, we barely know stuff about each other."
"All the deep talks we had and we don't know anything about each other?" He sat up and looked down on her.
She covered her face and then looked at him, "I mean, like the basic stuff. Like where you work, do you have an STD, h--"
"Hol up hol up, STD? Naw mama, I'm always clean. I go every six months to get checked even if I haven't been with anyone. And as far as my job goes, you don't need to worry your pretty lil head about all that." He placed a soft and sensual kiss on her lips.
She smiled and it faded, "But still, it would make me feel a whole lot better if you told me."
"I can't." He said simply.
She looked at him, "Why? Is it that bad? You think I can't take it?"
"No, I just think you can't handle it. And I don't want you to have to either. So, it's best you just forget about it." He reasoned.
She was confused, "What? Why can't you tell me?"
"I just don't want to." He said sternly.
She sighed and sat up, "Well, I don't think we should do this just yet then."
"If that's how you feel." He shook his head and got up, getting dressed. He picked up her clothes and put them on the bed for her.
She was confused and sad and just didn't know how to feel. Was she really ready to give up on what they had so far because he won't tell her what he does for a living?
Maiko couldn't think let alone decide if this would be the end or not. "Fine."
She got up and started to put on her clothes. He then proceeded to take her back home.
"You probably think I'm like all the others now." Malaya said laying on Cal's chest.
He chuckled a bit, "if I thought that, you wouldn't even still be here by now."
"Damn, you like that?" She raised up laughing.
He nodded and smiled, "Yup, I be kickin hoes out."
"So I'm different?" She asked.
He smiled, "Something like that."
"What you mean?"
Cal laughed, "Why do girls always do that?"
"Do what?" She proped herself on her elbow.
"Try to make a guy make them feel special. Wasn't it implied when I said you would've been gone but you're still here? Y'all always want a nigga to tell you that you special. Always lookin for validation. Well, I don't do that sh*t. So you gon be assed out." He looked at her and laughed.
She smacked her lips, "But do you think we always do that though? It's because of y'all steady tellin we're not good enough. So when we are, we need to know that we are."
"That's fckd up." Cal continued to laugh.
Malaya nodded, "Real fckd up."
She positioned herself back in his arms and he closed his eyes. She sighed loudly.
"What?" He asked.
She twirled her hair, "Do you have any ice cream?"
"Why?" He stifled a giggle.
She looked at him, "Because I want some."
"Yeah, vanilla." He closed his eyes again.
She got up and put on his tshirt and went in his kitchen for ice cream.
"Yo Midnight, I swear I ain't fckn with them no more. I'm just tryna be down with you, the whole hood gotta eat right?" Boog spoke from a chair sitting in front of Midnight's desk.
Midnight chuckled at that, "The whole hood gotta eat huh? I never heard that before. That's actually quite clever. But I don't trust yo ass and by the looks of your face, them niggas ain't trust you either."
"Those were some small time niggas. You the big fish in this pond Midnight." Boog was really tryna sell it now.
Midnight shook his head, "The more you talk, the less I like you. Let me tell you a little story in history.
Back in Ancient Rome, their favorite pass time was watching men fight to the deaths in the arena. Those men were known as gladiators, slaves really, but gladiators nonetheless. But there was one in particular that went against the odds no matter what was thrown at him. He rose up against Rome, along with the other gladiators and killed millions of Roman soldiers and residents fighting for their freedom. Yet and still, the Romans kept underestimating him and his army. After all the people, the pride, the money that they lost they still thought of him as just a slave."
"So, what are you saying?" Boog followed him with his eyes.
Midnight looked down at him, "I never underestimate my opponent."
did she say sex on the beach?? coming from miss innocent? 0.o ooh u know the saying watch for the quiet good girls..
i feel him not answeering the question could affect the relationship down the road but he probably knows she wouldnt give him the time of day if she knew he hustles in the streets... or maybe she might be that ride or die
hey people can surprise ya
as for cal ole dude know how to throw down in the kitchen? ayy thats wassup that is a plus
i think its hella funny how they both experiance the same thing
run it
Tariq still avoided the question!! Is he scared to tell her the truth? Does he just want to protect her or not have her look at him differently because of what he does?? I hope he tells her soon. Cal and Malaya are very freaky huh?? I like them tho. I love a man who cooks!! So thumbs up for Cal. Run it!!
"So what do you do exactly?" Maiko smiled at her new beau sitting across from her.
They were on their fifth date in two weeks of that faithful day outside of the bank.
He smiled back, "Why do you keep asking that question?"
"Cause, you always deflect when I ask it." She sipped her wine.
They sat in the middle of the room it seemed like. They were at this small little poetry and jazz spot. If you didn't know about it, you wouldn't find it.
He chuckled a bit, "No I don't."
"You do! Why won't you tell me?" She leaned forward.
Tariq looked in her eyes, she was so pure. He couldn't put her in any type of harm. "If I told you..." He paused.
"What, you'd have to kill me?" She responded sarcastically and then smiled.
He kept a straight face, "Don't talk like that aiight?"
"Ummm okay, I was only joking." She looked at him strange.
He was tensed now, Maiko was supposed to be his little getaway from reality. A serenity in the midst of chaos. Refuge in the middle of the storm if you will.
"So my guy tells me that your girl wants to do a double date." Tariq laughed at the fact. He wanted nothing to do with double dates. His cover would really be blown. Plus, he liked the time him and Maiko spent alone. Four was a crowd.
She nodded and scrunched her nose, "Yeah, I'm not feeling it though."
"Stole my thoughts." He smiled and grabbed her hand gently.
Maiko smiled and blushed. Every time he touched her she got butterflies. His touch was so sensitive, warm, and genuine.
"Where you wanna go after this?" He intertwined their fingers. He had an idea of where he wanted to go, but letting her choose would be wiser.
She shrugged, "It's up to you."
"Nooo mama, I asked you." He leaned forward with a concerned and persistent look.
She giggled, "Why I gotta choose?"
"Cuz," he smiled mischievously through the candle light, "If I choose, you might be mad at me."
"Why would I be mad?" She quizzed.
He smiled, "Because you're a good girl."
"Where you tryna go?" She looked at him weird
Tariq paused a moment and sat back and laughed, "I'ma be good mama. You ready, or you want another drink?"
"Yeah, I'll take another." She smirked.
He nodded, "Another wine?"
"Sex on the beach." She locked in on his eyes.
They shared the most intense stare. It was almost as if they were having a conversation of the minds.
A smile spread across Tariq's face, "Let's go."
"Fck you looking all googly eyed for?" Cal joked with Malaya as they chilled in his apartment.
He had made dinner for the two of them. Some steak, potatoes, and mixed vegetables slightly glazed with caramel. He was a chef in the kitchen thanks to his mother. He was the only child and his mother was hell bent on passing down family secrets. May he be a boy or not, he was getting his ass in that kitchen.
Malaya burst with laughter. Mainly because she was too full to hold anything in. "I was just about to ask how you learned how to cook, jerk!"
"Don't worry about where I learned, just know I do. Cuz Lord knows if it was left up to you, we'd stay in restaurants." He teased her and laughed.
She had never learned how to cook really. With her being the baby of four girls, all the cooking got passed to her two older sisters. Whom of which were both married with kids, all gaining unwanted weight. The only course she was thankful to learn was breakfast and simple dishes. The likes of being tacos, grilled cheeses, and burgers.
She playfully mushed him, "But you ate the hell outta my three cheese omelet and cinnamon pancakes though!"
"Hell yeah baby, them s***s were good as s***! But it's only right for the little that you do know how to do is hella delicious. You've had time to perfect it." He laughed.
She jumped on his lap and playfully hit the side of his head, "Stop making fun of me!"
"I'm not!" He gripped her firm and ample ass. "It's just that I'd rather you just know how to make certain things and them being the best things I've eaten in the world. Than you knowing how to make everything and have to feed it all to the dog for him to suffer." He fell into laughter.
Malaya couldn't help but laugh along with him. "But you don't have a dog." She pointed out.
"Damn, you right. Bae you want a dog?" He laughed again.
She laughed and tried to get up, "Oh my gosh, stop playing with me!"
"Aye, where you goin?" He held her firmly in place. "Gimme kiss."
She obliged, "I'm tired of you playing with me." She spoke between kisses.
"You sure?" He asked as he deepened the kiss, moving his fingers between her legs.
She didn't stop him, "Mmhmm."
"Well maybe, you'd want me to stop?" He gently moved her panties to the side and grazed her clit with his pointer and middle finger. "You want me to stop?" He stared into her pleasure stricken face as her hips rolled with his fingers.
"Noooo." She bit her bottom lip.
lol she talking bout how he aint gona get in but she over there getting ready she a fool :P
and dam thats how u know they got good heads on their shoulder they aint being hella shady to that boog dude.
and they treat their soldiers good too! s*** if i had to do that lifestyle i'd work for em!
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Damn Cal and TQ don't play!! They got that nigga scared for his life!! Lol Tariq and Maiko are soo f***ing cute tho! I like how Maiko talking about he not coming over, but she gettin ready for a nigga!! SO CUTE!! Lol Run it!!
"Sooooo..." Malaya beamed at Maiko while closing the salon for the night.
Maiko had no clue what this was leading to. She hadn't taken her eyes off TQ long enough at the restaurant to even see that her friend was on a date herself. "What?" She questioned.
"How was your weekend?" Malaya shouldered her purse.
Maiko shrugged even though flashes of Tariq were flooding her memories, "It was good. I got approved for my business loan."
"Really?" She was happy for Maiko. She knew how much she wanted to own her own salon. "That's huge boo, congrats!"
Maiko nodded as they both walked towards the front, "Thanks. Oh, and I ran into that guy from the club."
"Cal's friend?" Malaya inquired even though she already knew as she locked the door.
Maiko nodded, "Yeah, Tariq."
"Oh, so you found out his real name?" Malaya questioned even further.
"Yeah, I have this big wine bottle at my house. Wanna come and drink it with me?" Maiko invited, knowing that they would never leave the parking lot if she hadn't told Malaya everything she wanted to know.
Malaya nodded, "Hell Yeah!"
"Yo Cal, what the fck?! Put that sh*t away!" TQ mugged his partner.
Cal lowered his weapon and mugged TQ back, "Fck all the bullsh*t T! This nigga been stealing money from us! Thought we wasn't gon find out b*tch?! Huh?!" Cal hit the guy with the barrel of the gun across his face. "He think we stupid!" Cal was pissed, he hated being made a fool of.
"Well now he know we not. Ain't that right, Boog?" TQ nudged him with his foot, then looked at Cal, "Aye, put the fckn gun away."
Cal smacked his teeth, "Nigga for what?"
"Cuz I don't know about you, but I ain't tryna catch no case out here. Guns can be traced." TQ reasoned.
Without a word, Cal placed the gun back in the back of his jeans. "Fck nigga." Cal punched Boog square in his nose, breaking it, causing him & the chair he was tied to fall back.
"Now Boog," TQ started as he knelt down beside him. "You know you fckd up right?"
Boog was trying to steady his breaths, he never knew he could be so scared of other grown men. He just remained silent, that seemed best. Especially with Cal having a happy trigger finger.
Cal kicked him in his wounded side, "He asked you a fckn question!"
"Yes! I fckd up!" Boog answered full of pain.
TQ shook his head, "I mean, why would you wanna steal from us? We don't cheat y'all, we make sure everybody eating, y'all get holiday bonuses. Sh*t we're an average corporation over here, and you try to steal from us?!" Even though TQ seemed calm on the outside, he was furious. He wanted to dead this nigga and pay for the funeral. He hated being cheated out of something that was his. And then being made a mockery of at that.
"Yo, what the fck we gon do with this nigga? If I'm around him any longer, they gon be singin 'A Closer Walk With Thee' over his dead body." Cal wasn't about the talkin bullsh*t and frankly that's why him and TQ remained friends. TQ was the calm and he was the storm.
A single tear managed to slip from Boog's eye, "I'm sorry."
"I'm sure." TQ spoke and rose from the ground. He still hadn't figured out what to do with him. But what do you do with rats? "send his ass to Midnight. Do some recon. Maybe he'll redeem himself.....if he don't get found out."
Cal smiled smugly, knowing he was being sent to his death sentence but only at someone else's hands. He walked over to Boog, taking out his knife. Boog saw it and tensed up. "Get yo punk ass up!" Cal cut the duct tape and pulled him up roughly. "Don't fck up again." He pushed him on his way.
Boog hurriedly ran out of the empty warehouse, thankful for his life. He had learned a lesson never to cross the two bosses again.
Maiko's phone rang just as she was drying off, "Hello?"
"Hey love, what you up to?" Tariq spoke smoothly into the phone.
She instantly grew a huge smile, "Just got out the shower."
"Mmmm, a sight I'd like to see." He laid back on his bed, placing his right arm behind his head.
Maiko rolled her eyes while keeping her smile, "That's too bad, cuz it'll take a while before you see that sight."
"Damn like that?" Tariq chuckled, planting a big smile on his face. He was only joking. More than anything, he wanted to see her response. So far, she was still far from being in the basic b*tch pile.
Maiko nodded, "Yup, just like that."
"Yo, calm down mama. I was just playing with yo cute ass anyway." He continued his laughter.
She put on her robe and sat on her bed, "Cute?" she was just playing with him, but she never liked to be called cute.
"Damn Maiko, you beautiful baby. That's what you wanna hear?" he went to his closet and pulled out a shirt and some shoes.
She rolled her eyes but kept her smile, "Only if you mean it."
"And you know I do, so quit playing with a nigga." He smiled as he pulled out some sweats.
Maiko laughed, "So what you doing?" she began to lotion her body with some coco and shea butter.
"Getting ready to come see you." He spoke while slipping on some Jordans.
She smacked her lips, "Boy please. You not coming over here!"
"And what if I do?" he smiled grabbing his leather jacket and car keys.
She fought to hide her smile as she held the phone for a while, "Good luck getting in."
Tariq fell into laughter as he popped the locks on his Benz, "I'm lucky baby, you ain't know?"
"Goodbye Tariq." Maiko rolled her eyes.
Tariq smiled as he started the car, "See you soon." He ended the call and pulled out of his designated parking spot in his apartment complex.
Maiko looked around and then rushed to get into something chill but sexy. She knew how close he lived and with him already on the way, she only had 15 minutes at best to get ready.
wow! what are the chances they end up on a date at the same time and place! best friends for sure !
run it
TQ and Maiko put a smile on my face when i read their parts they are too cute. Maiko finally coming around and expecting the fact that she likes TQ.
Cal but be a gentlemen to Malaya cause malaya looks likes she plays no games what so ever. i hope both their dates go well.


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She's not a dirtbag. She just wants to have sex! She was the least dirtbag of the whole movie. I would have been like 'Okay this is great.'
Jen's Horrible Bosses costar Colin Farrell rounds out the fifth slot.
"I guess he's a dirtbag in that movie, but he's good looking," reasons Oliver. "All the nominees are too good looking. You can't be a good looking dirtbag, for me, it just doesn't work. I've really let myself go since Project X. I'm about 20 pounds heavier, I've got lots of facial hair."
Click here to vote Oliver Cooper for Best On-Screen Dirtbag!
He's a double nominee and is also up for Best Comedic Performance, but according to Cooper he's okay with letting that go to another nominee.
"I feel lucky to be apart of the category, but [best dirtbag] I feel like I can actually win," Oliver told us.
One thing he's not so thrilled about is not getting to meet Robert Pattinson on Sunday.
"Is Robert Pattinson going to be there?" he asked us. Celebuzz had to break the news that Rob is out of the country promoting Cosmopolis. "What! That sucks. Oh well, I'm going to go up to everybody and introduce myself."
In non-dirtbag news, Oliver Cooper just landed a coveted role in Runner Runner, starring alongside Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck.
"I'm really excited for it," Cooper said of his next project. "I don't want to give away plot stuff and get fired, but it's an online gambling drama is the simplest way to put it. I'm a huge fan of Ben and Justin's."


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State Rep. Peter Beck, a Mason Republican indicted on 69 counts of fraud and theft, will go to trial Nov. 17.
Beck, a former Mason councilman and mayor, has maintained his innocence and is a candidate for re-nomination in the May 6 primary election in the 54th Ohio House District.
Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge John West set the trial date for Beck this morning.
State Rep. Peter Beck, a Mason Republican, has been indicted by a Hamilton County grand jury on 16 felony counts involving alleged security fraud – charges that could result in a maximum of 102 years in prisons if convicted on all counts.
And, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said Friday at a press conference with Hamilton County prosecutor Joseph T. Deters, there could well be more charges to come in an "on-going investigation" of Beck's handling of money of investors in a start-up software company.


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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to visit Belfast next week, the White House has confirmed.
Mrs Clinton will travel to Belfast next Friday 7 December to meet officials as well as discuss the peace process and investment opportunities.
It could be one of her last foreign engagements.
The visit is part of a four-day trip that will also take in Dublin, the Czech Republic and Belgium.
Mrs Clinton, who visited Northern Ireland three times with her husband, former US president Bill Clinton, during the 1990s, plans to discuss the trilateral US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership and economic opportunities for Northern Ireland.
Later Mrs Clinton will take part in an event hosted by The Ireland Funds - a global fundraising network supporting programmes of peace and reconciliation, arts and culture, education, and community development in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Her journey to Belfast will follow a host of engagements in the Republic.
In Dublin she is expected at a ministerial meeting of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and will discuss areas of co-operation in promoting peace, human rights, and economic growth with Irish officials to discuss.
She is due to deliver a major speech on US achievements in support of human rights globally.
This visit could be one of Mrs Clinton's last foreign engagements as Secretary of State which is the American equivalent of Foreign Secretary.
She has been among the most travelled US politicians, however her term runs out next month and she has publicly stated that she does not wish to have a second term.
Mr and Mrs Clinton visited Northern Ireland three times during his time in office from 1993 and 2001.
In 1995 they turned on the Christmas lights in Belfast just a year after the first IRA ceasefire.


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Dimensions recaptures enough of Geometry Wars' thrills to stand as the best new dual-joystick shooter in quite a while.
The little mushroom man finally gets his name on the marquee, and the result is a charming, unique, and puzzle-heavy adventure.
Game » consists of 3 releases. Released 2011
Demolish goblin-infested medieval fantasy castles with the power of Kinect in this 2012 XBLA game.
Mobile and iPad game developed by Crytek.
Toy Shot is an Angry Birds style game from Gamevil.
Amazing Breaker is an iOS game, where a player has to break given shapes using a set number of various bombs.
Pandas & Ninjas is a flick back game very very similar to Angry Birds. Pandas and Ninjas are apparently sworn enemies.
Take your fad rubber bands off your arm and cram them inside your Nintendo DS! Then fling them around in physics based levels similar to Angry Birds.
Helsing's Fire is a puzzle game for the iPhone, follows the adventures of Dr. Helsing and his assistant Raffton who set out to defeat the shadow blight and its minions once and for all.
A game of destruction featuring gerbils and physics.
Originally a flash game, this iPhone game involves firing penguins at polar bears from a catapult.
Downstream Panic! is a PSP exclusive puzzle game where you guide a group of fish from the top of the level to the bottom using tools like plants, water wheels, and realistic water physics.
This graphical version of Artillery was presented on the Apple II in 1980.
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1 Introduction.
1.1 The Adiabatic Description of Molecules.
1.2 Normal Coordinates and Duschinsky Effect.
1.3 The Vibrational Wavefunctions.
1.4 The Diabatic Electronic Basis for Molecular Systems.
2 Formal Decay Theory of Coupled Unstable States.
2.1 The Time Evolution of an Excited State.
2.2 The Choice of the Zero-Order Basis Set.
3 Description of Radiationless Processes in Statistical Large Molecules.
3.1 Evaluation of the Radiationless Transition Probability.
3.2 The Generating Function for Intramolecular Distributions I1 and I2.
3.3 Derivation of the Promoting Mode Factors Kg(t) and Ig(t).
3.4 Radiationless Decay Rates of Initially Selected Vibronic States in Polyatomic Molecules.
4 Calculational Methods for Intramolecular Distributions I1, I2, and IN.
4.1 The One-Dimensional Distribution I1(0, n; a, b).
4.2 The Distributions I1(m, n; a, b).
4.3 Calculation of the Multidimensional Distribution.
4.4 General Case of N-Coupled Modes.
4.5 Displaced Potential Surfaces.
4.6 The Contribution of Medium Modes.
5 The Nuclear Coordinate Dependence of Matrix Elements.
5.1 The q-Centroid Approximation.
5.2 Determination of the q-Centroid.
6 Time-Resolved Spectroscopy.
6.1 Formal Consideration.
6.2 Evaluation of the Radiative Decay Probability of a Prepared State.
6.3 The Sparse Intermediate Case.
6.4 Radiative Decay in Internal Conversion by Introduction of Decay Rates for {Ψ1}.
6.5 Dephasing and Relaxation in Molecular Systems.
7 Miscellaneous Applications.
7.1 The Line Shape Function for Radiative Transitions.
7.2 On the Mechanism of Singlet–Triplet Interaction.
7.3 Comment on the Temperature Dependence of Radiationless Transition.
7.4 Effect of Deuteration on the Lifetimes of Electronic Excited States.
7.5 Theory and Experiment of Singlet Excitation Energy Transfer in Mixed Molecular Crystals.
7.6 Electronic Predissociation of the 2B2 State of H2O+.
8 Multidimensional Franck–Condon Factor.
8.1 Multidimensional Franck–Condon Factors and Duschinsky Mixing Effects.
8.2 Recursion Relations.
8.3 Some Numerical Results and Discussion.
8.4 Implementation of Theory and Results.
8.5 The One-Dimensional Franck–Condon Factor (N = 1)
Appendix A: Some Identities Related to Green.s Function.
A.1 The Green.s Function Technique.
A.2 Evaluation of the Diagonal Matrix Element of Gss.
Appendix B: The Coefficients of the Recurrence Equation.
Appendix C: The Coefficients of the Recurrence Equations.
Appendix D: Solution of a Class of Integrals.
Appendix E: Quantization of the Radiation Field.
Appendix F: The Molecular Eigenstates.
Appendix G: The Effective Hamiltonian and Its Properties.
Appendix H: The Mechanism of Nonradiative Energy Transfer.
Appendix I: Evaluation of the Coefficients bmn, cmn, and bm in the Recurrence Equations 8.28 and 8.29.
Appendix J: Evaluation of the Position Expectation Values of xsm(qs).
Appendix K: Vibronic Coupling Between Two Electronic States: The Pseudo-Jahn–Teller Effect.


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I can't seem to write anything worthwhile. No one likes my work, and I can't find any publishing companies that take work from writers without agents. I have the feeling that these circumstances are the result of some higher power telling me that this is not what I'm meant to do, but it's the only thing I enjoy other than reading. I'm torn crying What do I do?
Look at this self-publishing house: www.xlibris.com
They don't have any agents. No bull crap about changing your stuff. It's all about you and what you want. Suggestion though, you might want to get your stuff copy written first because not all of their packages include them copy writing your stuff for you.
I'm going to use them when I finish my trilogy. My boyfriendis using them right now to publish is series of books. The people are really really nice and they usually get back to you tops 2-3 days.
When you starte the process it might take them a little longer to get a hold of you because they have a LOT of customers that their helping to get published so be patient. It's worth while. wink
Are you sure it's not a scam?
There's certainly people who aren't happy with them, and when I typed in "xlibris" into Google, the first related search options it gave me down the bottom was "xlibris scam". Personally, I'd avoid it. I'm not saying self-publishing is a bad thing, it's just something I'd suggest researching the hell out of before attempting it.
Also, Koduka, making changes to your story is not a bad thing. A lot of the time, if you have the right editor/beta reader, it can actually help make your story better.
And something is Copyrighted the second you write it. From the U.S. Copyright Office, though you might want to check out your country and it's laws (I know it's the same in Australia at least, in the off chance you're an Aussie).


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insert the stereo-to-ms plugin from swh in your original stereo bus.
feed the result into two buses M and S. insert processing as required,
collect them in another 2 channel bus and re-matrix them with the
ms-to-stereo plugin.
it's a bit involved to do it like this. but look at it this way: while
you're setting it up, you get some free time to reflect whether MS
processing is really worth it :)
it should be noted that any form of MS processing only makes sense in
complex stereo signals with some degree of decorrelation. it can be a
great tool for mastering if you don't have the original stems (if you
do, fix the problem upstream!), and it allows some control over the
direct vs. diffuse field image of stereo microphone pairs. for anything
else (like pan-potted mono sources), it does not buy you anything at all.
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By JERRIE ABELLA
Another government Web site was found defaced Sunday night - the fifth
attack since last month.
Hackers of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority
(Tesda) Web site, however, took on a bolder approach by leaving a
message that seemed to mock the upcoming automated elections.
=E2=80=9CAno ba gagamitin sa Election? Blade server? Juniper Firewall (what is
going to be used in the elections? Blade server? Juniper firewall)?" the
message read.
Before Tesda's, hackers had also victimized the Web sites of the
Department of Health (DOH), Department of Social Welfare and Development
(DSWD), National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), and Department of
Labor and Employment (DOLE).
Malaca=C3=B1ang has expressed alarm over the series of hacking attacks on
government Web sites, saying it raises new concerns about the security
of the automated elections in May.
=E2=80=9COf course we are concerned. This is not just a problem in our country,
this is not just something that has happened just recently, it's
happening all over the country so this is certainly something that we
are sensitive to as a matter of information policy within government,"
said deputy presidential spokesman Gary Olivar at a press conference
last week.
Dirty finger
The hacked Tesda Web site also showed a black and white illustration of
a man giving the =E2=80=9Cdirty finger" supposedly directed against several
=E2=80=9Cabusive" military and police units.
A pair of bulging eyeballs also followed the pointer anywhere on the
page, and background music was also set up on the site=E2=80=99s second web page
to which it automatically transfers.
Aside from the derisive reference to the May elections, message of
sympathy to a slain communist rebel and a potshot against an alleged
abusive police officer also replaced the original contents of the site.
=E2=80=9CNakikiramay kami sa Iskolar ng Bayan, Freedom Fighter na si Kimay" (We
sympathize with the death of scholar of the people, freedom fighter
Kimay)" the hackers=E2=80=99 message read, referring to Kemberly Jul Luna, a
young New People=E2=80=99s Army (NPA) cadre who was killed last December 15 in
an encounter with the military in Bukidnon province.
The message also identified a certain PO1 Ramos as an =E2=80=9Cabusive" police
The hackers also made the site automatically jump into a second page,
which featured a background music; a job announcement supposedly from
VenturesLink, one of the partners of Smartmatic-TIM in the automation of
the elections, inviting technicians across the country to be part of its
team; a quote from the Hacker Manifesto, a short essay written by
well-known hacker Lloyd Blankenship after he was arrested in 1986.
Following the attacks on government Web sites by hackers, Olivar urged
the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and other agencies to take the
necessary precautions to secure their Web sites.
=E2=80=9COther agencies which are not yet hit by this are likewise taking the
necessary precautions, especially Comelec because of the automated
nature of the next elections," he said at last week's briefing.
The Comelec had earlier said that adequate safeguards are in place to
protect the election results from hackers. Spokesman James Jimenez said
the system to be used in the coming automated polls would operate on a
=E2=80=9Cvirtual private network," making it difficult for hackers to bypass the
system=E2=80=99s security mechanisms. - KBK, GMANews.TV
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Young's Literal Translation (YLT) | New International Version (NIV) |
29 And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife [is] Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife [is] Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah. | 29 Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah. |
Young's Literal Translation is in the public domain. (Young's Literal Translation - The Bible Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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Having already been featured in television, books, and film, it was only a matter of time before Comic-Con culture got the videogame treatment. Inspired by San Diego's annual gathering of sci-fi-, fantasy-, and superhero-loving geeks, Comic ConQuest is a tactical role-playing game adventure set within a sprawling comic book and science fiction convention. Much like the crowded show floor at SDCC, Comic ConQuest is filled with fans dressed as their favorite fictional characters; unlike ComicCon's cos-players, however, the game's costumed attendees actually possess the powers of those they're pretending to be. READ FULL STORY
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Comic-Con 2013 preview: Five comics to watch
We're mere days away from the official launch date of annual pop culture festival Comic-Con. And while we're all busy buzzing over the movies and TV shows that will soon colonize your Twitter feed, it's important not to forget the "Comic" part of Comic-Con. The major comics publishers will all be in attendance, showing off teases for upcoming books and new crossovers — here are the five comics we're excited to learn more about in San Diego.
Alan Moore: 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' show is 'dustbin' hunting
There have been 33 feature films based on DC Comics since 1951, yet the Hollywood history of DC has been largely limited to a trio of characters too vivid to exist in the real world: Batman, Superman, and Alan Moore.
The first two everyone knows. The third is a British writer who, while not technically a fictional character, is absolutely a character of the highest order. But in what way does he rank with the caped legends? Four of Moore's brilliant comic book epics have been adapted by Hollywood: Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and From Hell. A fifth film, Constantine, was based on a character he created, and a sixth, Return of the Swamp Thing, was propelled by his landmark three-year work on bog monster's series.
Those individual movies range from underrated and okay (Watchmen, Constantine) to overcooked and odious (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). But collectively, they put Moore's bookshelf not far behind Gotham City lore (nine Batman movies plus the stray spinoff Catwoman) and Metropolis mythology (the seventh Superman film is now in theaters, plus Supergirl and Steel, which were as bizarro-stupid as they sound.)
Moore lives in Northampton, England, the same place he was born 59 years ago. Since then, he's covered a lot of territory, and not just in this dimension. Moore's interesting look — a bushy prophet beard, a menacing sorcerer's glare, and metallic talons on his fingers — fit a guy who identified himself as an anarchist and (with a wink) a worshiper of Glycon, the 2nd Century snake god. But even with all that, it was only after Moore refused to cash his Hollywood paychecks that his industry peers began to wonder about his grip.
Moore is no forest hermit despite some past press portrayals, but he does live off the grid if your definition of "basic shelter" includes wi-fi coverage. "I have very few connections with the 21st century, actually," Moore said last week over the most modern of connections: a landline telephone with a curly cord stretching all the way to the 20th century.
The line was busy the first couple times I dialed, but Moore picked up on my third try and I found (just like the first time I interviewed him, back in 2008) that there was far more mischief in his voice than malice, even when he took shots at DC Comics and Hollywood, which he sees as factories that grind art (and artists) into pulp that can be sold, recycled, and then sold again in new shapes.
The topic is timely: Moore's name was in Hollywood headlines last week when reports surfaced that Fox has ordered up a League of Extraordinary Gentleman television pilot with hopes that a savvy small-screen take on the material could right the many wrongs made by director Stephen Norrington's 2003 film (which notoriously drove star Sean Connery into retirement). [Read Owen Gleiberman's review here.]
That same television do-over approach worked for Fox with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but that series had the character's creator, Joss Whedon, on board to show the way. Moore laughed when asked if he or League artist and co-creator Kevin O'Neill would be involved in any way with the broadcast venture.
NEXT: "It seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work."
Comic-Con 2013: 'Once Upon a Time' pedi-cabs are back -- EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK
The Once Upon a Time pedi-cabs were all the rage during last year's Comic-Con. (The cast even enjoyed a ride.) And this year, they're back — and better than ever.
The new cabs will be seen around San Diego promoting both Once Upon a Time and spin-off Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (both panels are back-to-back Saturday starting at 10:15 a.m. in Ballroom 20), and EW has your exclusive first look.
Yes, that's a mini-ship with a hook attached and a mushroom with a Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar on top.
More photos below the jump.
Comic-Con: Wolverine + bunny cuteness? Some wounds don't heal
"You had to be there." A droll expression in most settings but not at Comic-Con International where good things (namely "exclusives," the one-time-only collectibles sold at the pop culture expo) come to those who wait in lines that seem to stretch to the Orange County line. Here's a first look at some of this year's San Diego exclusives…
Why look it's…um, it's a Wolverine…bunny-like…item?
Nerdist does 'Star Wars' musical tribute in prep for charity race. Watch it here.
The cantina is about to get wild. Patton Oswalt is behind the bar. Billy Dee Williams is waiting to get on stage for a karaoke performance. And Jason Schwartzman just finished trying to sweet talk a Twi'lek.
It's anything but a common day at Nerdist Industries but it's certainly a freaking awesome one. READ FULL STORY
Comic-Con 2013 schedule: See what's happening Sunday
The schedule for the fourth day of Comic-Con is now available, and it's a big day for television panels, including Supernatural, Breaking Bad, Under the Dome, and Doctor Who.
You can find the complete schedule here, but check out below for some of the biggest highlight's from the convention's final day. San Diego Comic-Con will run from July 17-21.
Comic-Con 2013 schedule: See what's happening Saturday
Comic-Con is releasing its daily schedules over this long holiday weekend and the schedule for Saturday, July 20 has just come out. The day features panels on TV favorites like How I Met Your Mother (at the Con for the first time!), True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries as well as upcoming shows like Dracula and The Originals, and much more. Many of the major film panels are Saturday, including a look at the upcoming Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the Marvel panel, which will feature the Thor and Captain America sequels, and WB and Legendary's panel featuring Godzilla, and Gravity.
You can see the full schedule here, but you can check out the TV and film highlights for Saturday below. San Diego Comic-Con runs July 17-21.
Comic-Con 2013 Schedule: See what's happening Thursday
The Comic-Con schedule is here! Sorta.
Today marked Day One of the annual Con schedule roll-out, which, as you'll recall, is as drawn-out as an American Idol results show.
So what's on tap for Thursday? You can see the full schedule here, but if you just want some highlights, we got those too. READ FULL STORY


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Congressional Research Service. August 26, 2014.
On September 4-5, the leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) 28 member
states will meet in Wales for the alliance's 2014 summit. This will be their first meeting since
Russia began providing large-scale military support to separatist forces fighting in Ukraine, and
their last before the planned completion by the end of 2014 of NATO's mission in Afghanistan,
the longest and most ambitious operation in NATO history. As such, some analysts portray the
summit as an opportunity to consider a possible strategic shift for NATO, away from the broad,
"out of area" focus embodied by the Afghanistan mission, toward a more narrow focus on
territorial defense and deterrence, largely in response to a resurgent Russia. Although the allies
are considered unlikely to make such decisive declarations, summit deliberations are expected to
center on responding to Russian aggression in Ukraine and elsewhere in the region.
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/231254.pdf [PDF format, 17 pages].
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). November 12, 2013.
For several years, the defense budget has been under siege from government-wide budget gridlock and a legislative stalemate. The Department of Defense (DoD) has dutifully built its budgets and submitted them to Congress, but final appropriations have often differed substantially, making it hard for DoD to implement its own plans. Government shutdowns add to the confusion, and the short-term stopgap legislation of continuing resolutions prevents DoD from implementing any long-term solutions to budget challenges. The lack of full-year appropriations, the additional complications of spending caps from the Budget Control Act of 2011, and the arbitrary budget cuts from the process of sequestration only compound the impact of this uncertainty. [Note: contains copyrighted matrial].
http://csis.org/files/publication/131112_chap5_Berteau.pdf [PDF format, 4 pages].
The Brookings Institution. October 2013.
For two decades, the United States has sought to end North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Occasional success in freezing elements of that program, together with pledges by Pyongyang to end it, inspired hope that denuclearization could actually be achieved. Hope also grew from the belief that there existed a collection of incentives, including diplomatic normalization, security guarantees, and food assistance, which would convince Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions. These hopes have been dashed. U.S. policy has failed to achieve its objective. [Note: contains copyrighted material].
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2013/10/16%20north%20korea%20denuclearization%20revere/16%20north%20korea%20denuclearization%20revere%20paper [PDF format, 25 pages].
Council on Foreign Relations. January 2013.
The author puts forward a substantive agenda. He argues that the United States should end so-called signature strikes, which target unidentified militants based on their behavior patterns and personal networks, and limit targeted killings to a limited number of specific terrorists with transnational ambitions. He also calls Congress to improve its oversight of drone strikes and to continue restrictions on armed drone sales. Finally, he recommends that the United States work internationally to establish rules and norms governing the use of drones. Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies raises an important and underexamined set of issues. It analyzes the potentially serious consequences, both at home and abroad, of a lightly overseen drone program and makes recommendations for improving its governance. The result is a provocative report that is well worth reading and contemplating. [Note: contains copyrighted material].
http://i.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Drones_CSR65.pdf [PDF format, 53 pages].
Center for Transatlantic Relations. July 2012.
This assessment is organized into four parts. The first presents our assessment of the growing gaps in current and near- to mid-term future military capabilities across Europe. The second part describes the headline trends that will define the major features of European military capabilities out to 2030. The third part develops four initiatives, two from the NATO summit and two NDU initiatives, that could optimize both European capabilities and transatlantic military cooperation over the next one to two decades. These initiatives are Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen's Smart Defense, the new "NATO Forces 2020" set of programs, a bolder capabilities concept developed by an NDU-led team in 2011 called Mission Focus Groups (MFGs), and proposals to revitalize USEUCOM as the centerpiece of transatlantic interoperability. The final part describes the primary obstacles and concerns NATO will have to address effectively in order to close the widening capabilities gap. [Note: contains copyrighted material].
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Anyone who read Neil Young's autobiography, "Waging Heavy Peace," knows he doesn't exactly think linearly.
Last month he was raising money for his supersonic Pono music playing system. Now, he's recording cover songs on an antique system that's barely one step up from wax cylinders.
For his surprise release to celebrate Record Store Day, Young visited Jack White's Third Man Records in Nashville to record songs straight to vinyl in a 1940s recording booth.
The ultra low-fi songs sound like they're coming from the dusty horn of a wind-up 78 player.
And, that's a good thing. It suits these acoustic songs, just Neil with his guitar and harmonica. It's like "After the Gold Rush" played through the cracked dashboard speaker of a '65 Impala.
Young covers Bob Dylan's "Girl From the North Country," Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain," Willie Nelson's "Crazy," Tim Hardin's "Reason to Believe," Springsteen's "My Hometown" and a few others.
Most interesting, beyond Young's whistled chorus, is his cover of Bert Jansch's "Needle of Death," an inspiration for his own "Needle and the Damage Done."
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For a long time, the alt-country couple Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis tried to maintain their separate music careers.
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Last year's duets album, "Cheaters Game," settled it. They follow that with "Our Year," more tales of heartbreak and failure and the occasional triumph.
It's their beautiful voice, separately and in harmony, that make the couple so irresistible, and believable.
"A love as true as mine will make you do most anything/ Like hiding tears and heartaches," Robison sings in his perfect tenor on "Hanging On," a song Vern Gosdin recorded with Emmylou.
Their voices blend in a nice revival of the Statler Brothers' "I'll Go to My Grave Loving You," and T Bone Burnett's "Shake Yourself Loose" gets a slow, shuffling pedal steel treatment.
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Bob Dylan never rocked like this.
Guitarist Brent Johnson trades licks with Alvin Youngblood Hart on Dylan's "Meet Me in the Morning," transforming it into a grinding Texas blues.
This is Johnson's debut as leader, which seems surprising given his long history as a guitar slinger. He was recognized as a prodigy at age four, and by the time he turned 22 he was touring in Bryan Lee's Blues Power Band.
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When filmy spores fall from space and take root in San Francisco, the city is beautifully transformed by spectacular and exotic flowers. But these lovely extraterrestrial blossoms have gruesome plans for their earthly admirers. These blossoms are going to slowly clone human bodies and then dispose of the originals. From 1978. 117 minutes.
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OK, I guess that all of us here on this site (or at least most) have (or would like) a sailboat for various reasons.
I can see the general dislike among the boaters out there by what type of boat you have, a 'blowboat' or a 'stinkpot'. We all know this.
Being a newly reformed powerboater myself and now under sail I notice things that I find just defies logic on all levels.
We know that the blowboaters hate the stinkpots and the feeling is pretty much reciprocated from the powerboaters. Then you find out that the cats (even though a sailing vessel) although not so much hated but frowned upon from the monohulls. But yet almost ALL of us have a good ol' fashioned piston engine in the very boat we sail. Some of the sailors even go hog wild on their 'tender' or 'dingy' motor! Sailors use the words like "I can get this baby on plane with 3 people, two coolers, and three bags of trash". But I ask, this is 'not' a stinkpot?
From me personally I have seen what idiots powerboaters can be. But to be completely honest, I see that 'most' sailboats are nothing more than a slow power boat with a big pole sticking up from their deck. But now that I am under sail I see what idiots the blowboaters AND the stinkpots can be. I guess it all comes down to the skipper.
I love boats. Big or small, power or sail, hell you can be in a old plywood flat bottom for all I care. To me they are all still boaters and doing what they love, 'being on the water'. Do we hate each other so much as to cloud our perception of why we ALL do what we do?
At what point, or at what HP, or at how much fuel consumption does one need to have or not have to be a stinkpot or not?
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Stars In Our Bedroom After The War
(Arts & Crafts) Buy it from InsoundThe members of Stars, after giving politics a nice dosage of sexually-charged underlining, have grown up. Where Set Yourself on Fire played with the naivety of its album title (flirting with curious sexuality in tracks like The First Five Times, a slew of innocence drawn out with a lack of elegance in the death of The Calendar Girl), In Our Bedroom After The War finds its characters so down-to-earth in transitional, broken relationships they're knee deep in dirt, gossip crowding the corners like cobwebs.
It's almost enough to get lost in: In the promising build up of aptly titled The Beginning After the End, the song calls forth a stab of cocky hope, simple beats set to simple synthesizers. It's a slower, more careful Stars, but a sound bite proclaiming the album's title fits snugly into its niche. But what follows varies wildly from sweet, simplistic ballads to ill-advised marks against substance over style; when Bedroom sticks close to heart and ear, it comes off with unabashed ease when everything else is simply fluff. The stirring, laser-lite The Night Starts Here shuns grandeur by amplifying reverb sporadically to the R&B inspired drum kit. Vocalists Torquil Campbell and Amy Millian play off each other here, throwing witticisms back and forth like they're so accustomed to. Passages can be given to each for stretches of time before switching roles or flow like a conversation.
Bedroom is claustrophobic and restrained, mostly letting Campbell and Millian's vocals waltz all over their backing music; this style may call for it (the piano ballad of Barricade, almost completely devoid of electronics, lets Campbell alone to quiver and shake where he seemed so apathetic before), but otherwise they are manhandled by production (the vocal driven Window Bird, Millian trying to pass her voice by an octave too high, is aided by a savoury chorus and the addition of Campbell). Or, almost like surplus, the album applies it too thick: In the Sufjan-cum-Under The Influence of Giants The Ghost of Genova Heights, verses and choruses swing wildly around through techno-lite pop and eloquent, string-induced passages.
There are moments of pop ingenuity, like the culturally influenced Bitches in Tokyo (take a guess) that thrives on its fuzzy wary chorus, keeping its guitars eclectic and flavoured with schmaltzy electronica. The sauntering road trip quality to Midnight Coward gets the ball rolling into the middle section, finding a place as an instant favourite and sliding easily between girl/guy dynamics before sweeping into a quiet, affected moment ("'What is your middle name-?' 'How do you play the game-?' 'I'll be the first to leave'") that lifts the rug off emotions swept under it, like the internet dating Personal that echoes pain in its piano before the characters even disappoint each other. There's an apathetic lyricism to Millian's performance approach in Today Will Be Better, I Swear! that doesn't cohere with what she's singing, Campbell's heartfelt performance a comfortable counterbalance.
So Bedroom is an album of dynamics and contrasts with its biggest asset its heart; chipped, cracked or broken, naivety is replaced by genuine emotion. Sometimes it's boring and sometimes it's endearing. It plays like the Great Depression, made up of bitter pillow talk, but its heart-caught-in-a-throat storytelling, as uninspired as it initially seems, leaves a lasting impression. Still, while relevant, even a little poignant, it is stunted by an aesthetic exterior slow to get into but harder to let go. At the end of the day, Bedroom just comes off with a rich subtext and meaning. With longer lasting appeal, this cold war might be raging long after the fire has burned out.
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Pierre-Marc Bouchard scored the winning goal in the shootout and Niklas Backstrom made 27 saves in regulation to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 1-0 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night.
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Travel day after a tough back-to-back in Edmonton and Calgary. The Wild are off to San Jose for a game Saturday. Dan Terhaar takes a moment to introduce us to Pierre-Marc Bouchard.
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Pierre-Marc Bouchard is eager for his first game in 14 months for Minnesota. He says he'll be a little nervous, too, coming back from a concussion.
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The Turing Test (TT) is claimed by many to be a way to test for the presence, in computers, of such ``deep'' phenomena as thought and consciousness. Unfortunately, attempts to build computational systems able to pass TT (or at least restricted versions of this test) have devolved into shallow symbol manipulation designed to, by hook or by crook, trick. The human creators of such systems know all too well that they have merely tried to fool those people who interact with their systems into believing that these systems really have minds. And the problem is fundamental: the structure of the TT is such as to cultivate tricksters. A better test is one that insists on a certain restrictive epistemic relation between an artificial agent (or system) A, its output o, and the human architect H of A – a relation which, roughly speaking, obtains when H cannot account for how A produced o. We call this test the ``Lovelace Test'' in honor of Lady Lovelace, who believed that only when computers originate things should they be believed to have minds.
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- Title
- Creativity, the Turing Test, and the (Better) Lovelace Test
- Journal
Minds and Machines
Volume 11, Issue 1 , pp 3-27
- Cover Date
- 2001-02-01
- Print ISSN
- 0924-6495
- Online ISSN
- 1572-8641
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Selmer Bringsjord (1)
- Paul Bello (1)
- David Ferrucci (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. The Minds & Machines Laboratory, Department of Philosophy, Psychology & Cognitive Science, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, 12180, USA
- 2. T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598, USA


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Through the Hoodoos
A scene from our 2000 trip to Bryce.
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some years ago i went there I just love the landscape!!! One day i will go back.
stunning place!
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I would like to ask how to create an ability to generate RSS feeds by keyword?
My site currently generates RSS Feeds by categories. How can I do it by Keyword?
If you can please give more details.
Thank you very much.
You could then create a file called foo.rss or whatever and configure your server via htaccess to handle the file as .php then use a php include to include the search results page search.php?query=whatever
This is assuming you use php. Any other scripting language should be able to do the same.
Yes, I have search functionality and use php.
Could you please give me some more detailed information as to how to proceed?
Thank you. Erku
What you would be looking for is something like
<item> <title>result title</title> <description>your description</description> <url>the result url</url> </item>
for each individual result. You should be able to do this by editing your search scripts template file or the actual code within your search script file.
Then create a script to call the result page. Call it something like queryfeed.php
How what you will have is a php page that outputs rss when a query is sent within the url. For example example.com/queryfeed?q=test
You now need to set up apache to handle this file. Rename queryfeed.php to queryfeed.rss
Because it is no longer an php file it will no longer work. what you need to do is add an entry to your htaccess to allow the rss file to be handles in the same way as php.
create a .htaccess file in the directory that holds your queryfeed.rss file and place the following code within in.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes. Erku


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