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5 Improvement on last yearPosted: 01/06/2012This sbk game is a big improvement to last years game.The graphics have had a polish up, you can now rotate the camera around the bike while racing, the career is massive, the handling has been improved which was good anyway but better this year and the load times between each race is a lot faster than last year.If you enjoyed sbk x then I would highly recommended buying this it the best bike sim you can buy on any console.I just wish milestone would make the next moto gp game and not capcom.
5 Awesome wheelPosted: 16/10/2011This wireless wheel for the 360 is great, at first I had my douts, but once I started using it I couldn't believe how responsive it was.This is amazing to use if you have forza 4 or any other sim racing game, but no good for arcade racers like NFS.I don't usually like wheels,but after playing forza with this at a mates I went straight out and bought 1, the only wheel I have ever liked is the old official 360 White 1, I would say this one is better and it's easier to store as it is a good size.If you like your racers and want to make your games more fun and more of a challenge I would highly recommend this.
5 Quality gamePosted: 16/06/2011This years moto gp game is so much better than last years.The graphics are really good this year, alot more polished.At first I hated the braking in the game and nearly took it back to the shop but after a couple of hrs playing you get used to it, it's all about braking well in advance for the corners.Onine is really good you vote for class track weather and amount of laps which is a good feature.I would recommend this to anyone who likes bike games and also the moto gp.
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5 Great gamePosted: 03/04/2011Shift 2 is one of those games you start to play and hate at first, but then you play it for a few hours and it's awsome.At first I didn't think the graphics looked much better than the first game but after playing it for a while you relies it is slightly better.The new driver cam gives you a sense off being in the car, to sum up the new driving style I would say this is a first person racing game.The sounds of the cars are spot on.There is plenty to do in this game and the customisation is much better than the first game.If you want a good racing game and fancy a change from gt5 or testdrive then buy shift 2.You also unlock a couple of cars in the extras menu if you have played shift 1 or hot pursuit in the past.
5 Looks amazing Plays Amazing Buy It NowPosted: 29/03/2011This game is brilliant, the story is a little slow but gets really good,Im using a 40" samsung 3d tv and can say that the 3d in crysis 2 is top notch, maybe even better than the 3d in killzone 3 and that looks pretty damm good.Multiplayer is very addictive, not at all like cod far from it.You need to think in this game online.This is a more mature fps, so hopefully all the silly little boys on cod will stay on cod.If you like fps shooters like killzone you will love this game buy it.
5 Amazing controller for racing gamesPosted: 11/02/2011This controller is awesome if you are going to use it for racing games, I've tried using it on other games like fps and sports games but couldn't get on with it so I use it purely for gt5, need for speed hot pursuit and test drive unlimited 2, it's much better than the official ps3 controller in that respect.It's is very comfortable to use and has no dead zones like other third person controllers.My advice is if you play a lot of racing games and want a really good controller then buy this one.Very nice sleek design.One thing to mention is that it comes with a USB dongle and it doesn't have rechargeable batteries so you will have to give up one USB slot, it does have an off switch on the top so you can turn it off when not in use.
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5 Best fun ive had playing a racing game in ages.Posted: 11/01/2011This need for speed game is awsome, it plays like the originals which were on ps2 and were very good.Graphics are top notch as are the sounds of the cars.I wish people would stop comparing this to gt5 as they are completley different types of games this is a straight and out arcade racer and gt5 is a pure sim experiance, i have both games and love each title for different reasons, this is more a pick up and play and gt5 is a little more indepth.My advice is if you want a game thats fun fast and easy to pick up and play then buy hot pursuit, in a nut shell its quality.
5 Pure classPosted: 23/11/2010GT5 is a must buy for any gt fan.The game is amazing to look at and has a great single player.The 3D part of the game looks spot on.The tracks are spot on, there are plenty to keep you going for a while.I must say to anyone that didn't like prolouge won't like this game as it plays the same, it is basicly the same as prolouge but with more cars and tracks.
5 Wicked game a must buy for any music loverPosted: 25/10/2010If you love the first game then you will love dj hero 2, there are some amazing mixes on this game I would say they are better than the first game and they were pretty good, another thing that this game has unlike the first is a career mode you start off as a basic character then you build your character up as you progress unlocking mixes clothes decks ect ect, I haven't been able to put this turntable down
5 BrilliantPosted: 04/09/2010Wow what a game, ive only played it for about 2 hrs and im hooked.The graphics are superb, the gameplay is brilliant and the voice acting is the best ive herd in any game.It is probably the first gta style game ive played that feels realistic.Its like playing a gangster film.If you love films like the untouchables and once upon a time in the bronxe then just buy it.Its what godfather 2 should have been.


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Wichita Accolades Wichita Ranks High in Small-Business Growth Among U.S. Cities Wichita ranks in the top 25 percent for small-business growth in U.S. cities according to The Business Journals blog On Numbers. Wichita ranks Number 23 in the 2013 rankings of small-business vitality among the nation's 102 major metropolitan areas. According to Sparefoot.com, Wichita residents are willing to work fairly long hours and are likely to hold more than one job. #13 for Military Friendly Cities in 2013 The Military Friendly Cities® list measures the number of job openings at Military Friendly Employers®, the number of Military Friendly School® campuses and the number of registered veteran-owned businesses located within the region. It also takes into account cost of living and unemployment rate. In 2013 , Wichita ranked 13th out of 50 cities on this list. read more> #22 in Metro Areas for Science, Tech, Engineering and Math Jobs in 2013 A 2013 study ranked Wichita 22nd among the 100 largest metropolitan areas for the percentage of jobs it has that involve science, technology, engineering or math. The study by the Brookings Institution showed that the Wichita metro area had 56,100 such jobs, or 21.3 percent of all local jobs. These jobs, called STEM jobs, cover a range of occupations, from aircraft engineers to health technicians, according to the study. In recent years, a great deal of attention has been paid to the economic value of STEM jobs to both individuals holding them and the country as a whole. 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EverQuest Next: Landmark has been rebranded to simply "Landmark" as part of its new Closed Beta Launch.
Well, that didn't take long.
Sony Online Entertainment released an announcement today addressing the state of their MMO World Builder – EverQuest Next: Landmark. In the announcement they discuss that game is officially transitioning from it's Alpha Phase and is moving into a Closed Beta Phase, with a new group of players about to be invited to the game. Which is welcome new for fans of the game!
Along with the Closed Beta announcement also came the news that game now has a new name…simply, Landmark. Apparently, having the words EverQuest Next in the title was confusing players as to what they were getting their hands on.
In a post on the Landmark forums, SOE's Director of Development Dave Georgeson let people know the news:
First off, a bit of housekeeping. We are changing the name of the game… literally. The game is no longer called EverQuest Next Landmark. We are now just Landmark. You may be asking, "Why the change?" Answer: To a lot of people, having EverQuest in the name immediately implies a fantasy game. Landmark is anything you can imagine. Removing EverQuest Next seemed the best. This doesn't change anything we've said about Landmark or EverQuest Next. All the details of the games are still the same. We're still using Landmark to build EverQuest Next – and we'll still have areas dedicated to EQN. We're just simplifying the name and making it easier to understand that the games are different from one another.
You can read Mr. Georgeson's full post on the Landmark forums, here.
What did you think about the renaming of EverQuest Next: Landmark to simply, Landmark? Let us know in the comments below or talk about it on our forums!
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Shojo Beat's Manga Artist Academy
- Posted by Johanna on February 22, 2009 at 3:53 pm
- Category: Books and Prose
- PUBLISHER: Viz; $14.99 US
Promising "Manga Tips From Manga Experts", what I found most interesting about this how-to volume is how different it is from an American instruction book on making comics.
Take, for example, Scott McCloud's Making Comics or The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel. These books emphasize having a story to tell, learning to draw well, and similar basics of creation and authorial integrity. Manga Artist Academy, on the other hand, jumps right into what tools you should use, with plenty of brand names mentioned.
The approach is breezy, with tips mentioned once and the reader moved on quickly. The opening sixteen color pages demonstrate techniques beyond the basics. Amu Sumoto covers "from idea to inking" in only four pages, so you can guess it's pretty high-level. And the likely reader of this book already does know the basics, at least conceptually. It's refreshing to start from a different, more accomplished place.
Shoko Akira (Monkey High!) shows some inking and tone tricks, and Yuu Watase (Imadoki!) gets six pages on creating color art. Mayu Shinjo (Sensual Phrase) concludes with a very brief section on digital tools, which I found memorable mostly for the high cost of the equipment she uses. (The topic is revisited later in the main part of the book.)
The main section follows Satomi, a panda who wants to draw manga. Her comic adventures (told in right-to-left manga form) instruct the reader as she learns what to do. The mean Mr. Manga Star is her guide and tormentor, introducing her to various artists (including Emiko Sugi, Chie Shinohara, and Rie Takada) and their lessons. For some reason, he knows all these female artists well. He's also not afraid to be aggressive and violent towards his young student, which makes him seem to have wandered in from some boys' comic. Satomi also contributes frequent poems that sum up what she's learning. (This is a very odd book in some ways.)
In addition to advice on manga-specific items like screen tone use, here are some other points that struck me as the kind of advice you don't hear in American artist-first guides:
- "A manga artist also needs to be open to other people's opinions", in reference to editorial guidance.
- "Even pros can get visibly rusty if they haven't used a pen for a while." The need to practice inking is reiterated (and rightfully so), but I was surprised to see a how-to book sold on the reputations of its contributing professionals point out that pros can look bad too.
- "The key to success is in the character's eyes!" Artists are told to patiently layer and highlight for brightness and energy.
- "Copying professional drawings is the first step to becoming a pro." New artists are encouraged to copy in order to learn the know-how packed into accomplished work. After you can accurately copy a favorite artist, you should try original work, but feel free to take what you like from other pros.
- "The longer the legs, the more handsome" when it comes to male characters. I like that better than the over-muscled steroid freaks we get in American genre work.
- The virtues of cuteness and attractiveness. No ugly characters here!
- The main character must be liked by the readers. Shy is better than normal to build empathy, because exaggeration is good. And she should probably be a girl. In other words, don't be afraid to use formulas.
- Create your characters before your story. And make sure your main plot event is the same as the one-word theme you want to convey.
- "Don't be a hermit." You have to keep up with trends to avoid creating outdated work.
Of course, some instructions are necessary no matter the culture, like the need to practice drawing a variety of expressions or to give characters unique personalities or the virtue of showing something through action instead of using excess amounts of dialogue. The cover and title are important to draw reader attention, and the goal is to create something original, something only this individual artist could produce. And, of course, nothing replaces practice practice practice and hard work.
I found this book enlightening not just in its tips but in its whole attitude towards shojo manga as a successful business that can be taught, craft instead of art. That perspective — summed up by the list of what you need to do manga, which puts talent third after effort and practice — was eye-opening.
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Three persons sustained minor injuries when the compound wall of a petrol bunk on Kantheerava studio road in Mahalakshmi Layout collapsed on Thursday afternoon.
The three injured include two bunk employees and one customer who had come to fill gas. Preliminary investigation has revealed that a lot of debris had been piled up against the outer wall due to which it collapsed inside the bunk.
The injured have been identified as Rasool, Chandru and R.V. Vijay Rao, the customer. Rasool, who sustained a fracture, has been admitted to Hosmat hospital for treatment.
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Malaysia: We're Not Behind Plane Disappearance
Malaysia's transport minister has denied "extraordinary" claims the country was complicit in the disappearance of flight MH370.
Mayalsia's main opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, said on Friday the investigation had been "clearly suspect" and alleged "complicity by authorities on the ground".
But speaking at a press conference on Saturday, acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said: "Let me touch on some unfounded allegations made against Malaysia.
"These allegations include the extraordinary assertion that Malaysian authorities were somehow complicit in what happened to MH370.
"I would like to state for the record that these allegations are completely untrue.
"As I've said before, the search for MH370 should be above politics, and so I call on all Malaysians to unite, to stand by our armed forces as they work in difficult conditions thousands of miles from home, and to support all those who are working tirelessly in the search for MH370."
The comments come as the British nuclear submarine HMS Tireless entered the search area.
It is expected to play a crucial role in the quest to find the plane's black box, which could hold the key to solving the mystery of what happened.
"I spoke via telephone to the British Secretary of State for Defence, Philip Hammond, regarding the nuclear submarine HMS Tireless," said Mr Hussein.
"I hereby confirm the submarine is now in the search area and helping in the search operation."
Up to 10 military planes, three civilian jets and 11 ships scoured more than 1,000 square miles of sea off the west coast of Australia on Saturday.
The hunt was taking place in three large patches of the southern Indian Ocean, some 2,000km, 2,300km and 1,800km northwest of Perth.
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text: 3/16/2010 Ryan Counts, a hunting guide from Pray, Mont., sighted a mature wolf on Oct. 3, 2009, and grabbed his rifle. He was hunting elk on Buffalo Plateau north of Yellowstone, an area where the Northern Yellowstone elk herd plummeted 67 percent between 1994-2008, a tumble in which wolves played a chief role. He had a wolf tag. This was his chance to do something about the wolf population. He killed the wolf. He found out later the wolf he shot was known as "No. 527." It was a female born in 2002 into what had been Yellowstone's Druid Peak Pack, a pack made famous by the PBS documentary "In the Valley of the Wolves." He didn't know "wolf watchers" had named this wolf "Bolt" because it had a Z-shaped marking on its hip. But, even if he had known, he says he would have killed it nonetheless. On the other side of the issue are wolf watchers such as Laurie Lyman, a former San Diego teacher who uses her blog to tell the stories of individual wolves. When Counts shot wolf No. 527 Lyman reacted as if someone shot her dog. She wrote, "527 is gone. It is with a heavy heart that I write yet another obituary for a wolf that was part of our lives for seven years … . She was a one-of-a-kind wolf." Such was the dramatic divide between views of the first modern wolf seasons in Montana and Idaho. How Did the Season Go? Carolyn Sime, wolf coordinator for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP), is pleased with the results of its wolf hunt. She said, "Hunters killed 72 wolves in Montana. Our goal was to kill 75 of the state's estimated 500-plus wolves. We stopped the season early to prevent hunters from exceeding that number. It was a very successful hunt. We're now confident a public hunt can continue to be a critical population-management tool for wolves, just as it has been for Montana's other big-game species." Meanwhile, at press time, Idaho's hunters looked like they'd fall short of killing the 220 wolves the state had hoped to take from an estimated population of 850. Michael Keckler, communications director for the Idaho Department of Fish & Game, said, "We're on track to get the wolf population under control thanks to hunter-conservationists." Montana and Idaho used a quota-based approach, much like they do for mountain lions. A quota system establishes a total number of wolves that can be killed in each unit. Hunters are required to report killing a wolf within 12 hours and to call in before going hunting to make sure a unit is still open. As a result, the kill was "well distributed geographically," said Sime. She added, "Now we can continue to perfect our seasons and quotas regionally to manage the wolf population with other big-game species and to reduce livestock and pet losses to wolves. The wolf is here to stay. Now we just have to learn how to manage them." The Wolf's Future in the West This urban viewpoint doesn't function in reality, says Ed Bangs, USFWS western gray wolf recovery coordinator. He says the wolf season in Idaho and Montana was hardly "indecent." Bangs explains that the ESA is not a good tool for managing a wildlife population. It is only useful for recovering a population, and wolves surpassed minimum numbers set by the USFWS years ago. A winter drive out of ski resorts in Jackson Hole, Wyo., or Big Sky, Mont., and into the lower-elevation valleys below would illustrate this point, as doing so would show any visiting wolf lover herds of elk that have come down out of the snow-laden mountains to wintering areas. These wintering areas are habitat that groups, such as the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, have worked hard to preserve. Seeing thousands of elk and deer wintering along roads and near ranch houses and towns should be evidence enough that people and wildlife share the same habitat and so have to find a balance with each other, a balance maintained with science-based hunts, say the game agencies. That's the reality, says Bangs, who adds, "Because of the hunts, the wolf's overall population will likely be the same in hunted areas in 2010 as it was in 2009. Stabilizing the wolf population is a positive step forward. These hunts will not lead to wolf extinction in the West." In fact, Bangs says the USFWS is hoping hunters can be used in future seasons to lower the wolf population in the northern Rockies to around 1,200 animals, from at least 1,645 today. In 2009, Montana hunters killed about 15 percent of the state's wolf population. At press time, Idaho was still trying to kill about 25 percent of its wolves. Bangs says hunters would need to kill 30 percent or more of a wolf population to bring it down. Bangs says, "Another benefit of hunting is that hunters typically kill the boldest wolves and the wolves that are in the more open habitats. These wolves are the ones that are most likely to attack livestock and pets, so we see hunting as a critical part of the wolf's recovery and their continued acceptance in the West." One reason for having a wolf season, say biologists and hunters, is that elk populations are being severely impacted in some areas by wolf predation. In Montana's Madison Valley, for example, a study done by FWP indicated that during the winter of 2002-03 wolves killed .125 elk per day, which was the equivalent of each wolf killing 23 elk from November-April. In the Northern Yellowstone Range—the area where Counts shot wolf No. 527—wolf kills on elk fell from an estimated 11 per wolf from November through April to about 7 as the elk herd plummeted. Another factor is that when wolf populations outgrow wild areas and/or their natural prey base declines, more wolves kill livestock. In 2008, for example, Wildlife Services, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, spent more than $1 million killing 264 wolves that preyed on livestock in the Rockies. Agencies also paid livestock owners more than $500,000 for losses to wolves in 2008. Bangs believes licensed hunters will make Wildlife Services' job of controlling depredating wolves easier and cheaper.


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Posted at 6:58 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Nov. 15 It's like a disease. It starts with regular common stocks. Then it extends to master limited partnerships, and now the junk bond funds have caught it. The sell disease. It feels right now that it can't be cured and we just want to stay inside and avoid it. But the only way to get inside is to sell first! We all see the degradation in the common. That's plain enough to see with six out of seven down days. But have you seen these master limited partnerships? We own Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) for the charitable trust, and it caught three different huge upgrades this week, and the stock is down for heaven's sake. What's causing it? First, these companies need capital, and it is almost as if the junk bond spigot that they tap into has gone dry. When you look at the declines in the publicly traded junk bonds you can only wonder whether there is any capital at all for high-yield right now. > > Bull or Bear? Vote in Our Poll Second, nobody wants a secondary right now, but many of these companies pay their bills with equity. So the deals get sprung and even though they might be in the hole, like the deal MarkWest Energy (MWE) did the other day, they can't seem to get their sea legs. The 8.5 million shares sold at $46.50 seem like they are all for sale! Which brings me to still one more fiscal cliff issue. There is no doubt in my mind that people are sizing up the tax breaks of the MLPs and thinking they have to go come 2013. Others are figuring out or are fretting that President Obama is going to slam on a carbon tax and make exploration for oil so much more expensive.Select the service that is right for you!
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Lol rengar is doomed to be modified till the end of time :s
riot nerf logic... Attachment 576172 ಥ_ಥ
Well a rational calm world won't happen. This is a live game where people buy the unlocks to a champion and thus feel connected with them. People main or favor certain champions heavily and when the balance significantly shifts people WILL feel betrayed. That said, do you see Diana and Rengar ever being in a healthy place or will they be doomed to a feast or famine lifestyle?
It just seems like an impractical way of doing things. Not that I can think of a better way personally, but it seems like nerfing something into the ground while you wait to figure out how you really want to fix them is just a poor choice. It's like trying to stop your bleeding finger by cutting into your hand and saying, "Well, there's less blood going into the finger to bleed out!" instead of just fixing the original cut. Diana can't even use her ultimate at the same range as her Q ability now, her orbs don't hit unless you're inside the target (she autoattacks from outside detonation range), and she still has almost non-existent mana costs which I've been complaining about for months. There just isn't any punishment for her missing a Q because of having such a small cost. Even after all these nerfs, she's just going to sit back, poke with her Q constantly because of the negligible mana cost, and then finish up her kill when the target gets low. These changes really didn't fix the core problem; low risk/high reward. Giving her a real cost on her Q (55/65/75/85/95) would force her to itemize a bit into regen like other mages, wouldn't really affect her jungle too badly, and would take away her "I spam Q every 5 seconds for fun" playstyle.
Nautilus as a nerfbat kill? So are we counting the jungle remake as the nerfbat now?


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text: Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More The Strike Zone Crack in Jeter's ankle reveals crack in Yankees longer-term future by Cliff Corcoran Twitter Email Posted: Thu Apr. 18, 2013 Even if he returns from his broken ankle, Derek Jeter will play fewer games than any season of his career, and will be 39 in June. (AP)The Yankees, and baseball in general, will get an extended preview of life without Derek Jeter this season. On Thursday afternoon New York's general manager, Brian Cashman, announced that Jeter has a new crack in his previously healed left ankle and won't return until after the All-Star break.The discovery of the new injury comes after Jeter made an unscheduled visit to ankle specialist Dr. Robert Anderson in Charlotte on Thursday after shutting down his workouts last weekend and resuming a reduced workload earlier in the week. Jeter fractured the ankle in Game 1 of the ALCS against the Tigers last October, had surgery Oct. 20 and hoped to return first by Opening Day then by early May, but the even the latter seemed increasingly unlikely after the setbacks in his rehabilitation.Jeter reported that his ankle was fully healed after a visit to see Anderson on March 7. If so, he is now dealing with a new injury in the same spot, though surely one that is in some way related to a weakness created by the previous fracture and possibly by Jeter's own inability to pace himself during his rehabilitation as well. Indeed, there's ample reason to believe that Jeter initially hurt his ankle not in the Division Series but a month earlier, on Sept. 12, when he fouled a ball off the joint. Jeter was diagnosed with a bone bruise after that game, but, though clearly hobbled, he played the next four games before taking two days off, one on a scheduled off day, and skipped just the one game until his ankle finally gave out on Oct. 13.Given Jeter's pattern of denial regarding injuries -- his stock answer, which has become something between a catchphrase and a punchline among the team's beat writers, is "I'm fine, I'll play tomorrow" -- it's legitimate to wonder if Jeter's determination to return ahead of the schedule his body would permit has backfired on the Yankee captain, who will now be 39 before he plays in another major league game. If so, it's a bitter irony in that playing through injury can just as often be a selfish act despite the team-first manner in which it is typically portrayed.Thus far, New York has survived without Jeter, going 8-5 on the season, but they have done that despite the performance of their shortstops, Eduardo Nuñez and Jayson Nix, who have hit a combined .233/.280/.326, which translates to an adjusted OPS just 70 percent of league average for the position. Jeter's extended absence now locks Nuñez into the position, where his defense has proven to be suspect in the past. Still, Nuñez's track record, as well as the scouting reports on the 25-year-old, suggests he can carry the position offensively. Thus far, in 522 career major league plate appearances, including his slow start to this season, Nuñez has hit .271/.318/.378 (superior to the 2012 major league average at the position of .257/.310/.378) and stolen 39 bases at an 81 percent success rate. Nuñez has long been projected as Jeter's eventual replacement at the position, and he and the team will now get a good three months in which to determine if he is indeed suited for that role.The Yankees won't look outside the organization for a replacement for Jeter, who holds a $9.5 million player option for next year but is in the last guaranteed year of his contract, in part because no such player exists. Short of trying to pry someone like Jurickson Profar loose from the Rangers, a move which would cost them the farm, if Texas was even willing to entertain it, Nuñez would seem to have as much upside as any outside alternative. The dearth of shortstop options league wide is one reason that Jeter has been so incredibly valuable to the Yankees over the last 17 seasons, and could well prove Nuñez even more valuable than his middling batting line above might suggest. The biggest question with regards to Nuñez, again ironically, is his play in the field. Nuñez has the tools to be an above-average shortstop, but thus far he has proven erratic to the point that New York has hesitated to use him in the field in big games (indeed, it was Nix who started the first playoff game after Jeter's injury). In the wake of Thursday's news, however, the Yankees can no longer hesitate. Promoted Stories Comments


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BATON ROUGE - Gov. Bobby Jindal has called on the executive director of the Louisiana Association of Educators to resign.
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Monday, September 29th, 2008Yes that's right! There are 9 different free songs which you can download right now, for free. No stings attached, just free.
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A little side menu will open up, then just left click on 'save target as'. It will ask you where about's on your computer would you like the song to be saved to, so choose one. Then that's it, your free song will now start downloading to your computer.
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"Why am I doing this?" Well honestly, I would much rather have my music heard, than not heard at all. So if that means giving my music away to people like yourself in order to be heard, then so be it. I think it's worth a chance.
Pete, Powder, Footy
Friday, September 26th, 2008I gotta help promote some fellow Aussie music artists. So don't forget to watch Pete Murray and Powder Finger perform at tomorrows Grand Final
While you're here, enjoy a tune or two.
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Friday, September 26th, 2008Just trying out the new generation cdbaby buttons. They're much better and are looking quite stylish and sleek now. Of course, i'd rather you by my album from my own store. But hey, beggars can't be choosers. Happy clicking!
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Posted: December 27, 2011
How best to describe Webb Simpson's 2011 PGA Tour season?Let's just call it an all-around great year. Literally.While most people will remember Webb's season for his pair of victories (Wyndham Championship, Deutsche Bank Championship) and his first Presidents Cup appearance, Team Titleist was even more impressed by his consistency.Trusting a Pro V1x golf ball and a bag of Titleist equipment, Webb finished the season No. 1 in the PGA Tour's All-Around Ranking statistic, which totals a player's rank in eight statistical categories (Greens in Regulation, Sand Saves, Driving Distance, Driving Accuracy, Scoring Leaders, Putting Leaders, Eagle Leaders and Birdie Leaders).All of that also added up to 21 top-25 finishes in 26 starts, including a pair of wins and three runner-up finishes, as well as a monumental jump to No. 10 in the Official World Golf Ranking.Recently, Webb spoke with Team Titleist about his practice routines and how amateur golfers should best use their practice time, which you can watch in the above video.And remember, you can keep track of your scores and key golf stats in Team Titleist's 'My Game' section, accessible via the left hand navigation bar on this page.
Posted: December 20, 2011
Here's a New Year's resolution you can count on from Master Craftsman Bob Vokey: In 2012, Vokey Design TVD SM4 Wedges, featuring Titleist's new SM4 groove technology, are coming to WedgeWorks.The Vokey Team will begin taking orders on Vokey.com beginning Jan. 11, 2012 – to be exact.Vokey SM4 grooves feature entirely re-engineered scorelines up to the limit of the new USGA groove rule. With 17 scorelines and tighter spacing, the new TVD SM4 wedges will produce a lower launch with more backspin. TVD SM4 wedges also feature a localized heat treatment in the impact area for longer lasting spin retention. And every groove is 100-percent inspected.Like all offerings through WedgeWorks, Vokey TVD SM4 wedges will be completely customizable to match your personality and game – from toe engraving, personalized stamping, paintfill, grips, shafts, ferrules and shaftbands. Strong or weak, upright or flat, short or long – the choice is yours.
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Posted: December 19, 2011
Pro V1x loyalists Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter both closed out their 2011 golf seasons Sunday in the same place: The winner's circle.Westwood cruised to a seven-shot victory at the inaugural Thailand Golf Championship in Bankok, while Poulter stormed to a three-shot win at the JBWere Australian Masters in Melbourne, capping another season of overwhelming success for Titleist golf ball players.In 2011, Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players combined for 175 wins across the worldwide professional tours, nearly 150 more than the nearest competitor with 27 and more than all competitors combined.A total of 21,533 players teed up Titleist golf balls in worldwide pro events this season, more than six times the nearest competitor with 3,485 and more than all other golf balls combined.(Stay tuned later this week for Team Titleist's look back at all of the season's highlights.)• ASIAN TOUR: Lee Westwood's victory was his fourth of the season, as well as his second in three weeks (Nedbank Golf Challenge).He opened with a bogey-free 12-under 60 in Round 1, rolling his Pro V1x golf ball in for 11 birdies and one eagle to set the course record at Amata Spring CC.Fifteen birdies and three rounds later, Westwood's name sat atop the leader board at 22-under 266, seven shots clear of the field. Westwood, who also set a course record during his Nedback Golf Challenge victory with a 10-under 62 in Round 3, moved back to No. 2 in the Official World Golf Ranking."It means a lot, any win does…," said Westwood.
"The fact that I led wire to wire… There was pressure involved."Westwood was one of 79 players in the field that trusted Titleist golf balls, nearly four times the nearest competitor with 20 and more than all competitors combined.Pro V1x loyalist Juvic Pagunsan finished as the Asian Tour's Order of Merit champion with nearly $800,000 in earnings.• AUSTRALIA: Ian Poulter started the final round of the JBWere Australian Masters two shots behind the leader. He quickly erased that deficit by dropping in his Pro V1x golf ball from 15 feet for eagle on the first hole – and he never trailed again.Poulter added birdies at Nos. 7 and 9 to take a two-shot lead into the back nine at a windy Victoria Golf Club, and finished with a 4-under 67 for a 15-under 269 total and three-shot triumph.Poulter, also a winner this season at the Volvo World Match Play Championship, topped a leader board that included nine Titleist golf ball players in the top 11, including Titleist Brand Ambassador Geoff Ogilvy (Pro V1), who finished third.A total of 94 players relied on Titleist golf balls for their success in the event, more than 10 times the nearest competitor with nine and more than all other golf balls combined."To come down here the week before Christmas and to win this tournament is very special," Poulter said."After the first couple of days when there wasn't much wind people may have thought the Victoria Golf Club was easy, but they were mistaken. It certainly showed its teeth today."
Posted: December 15, 2011
***UPDATE: Jonathan S. is the winner! Thanks to everyone for entering and sharing your favorite memories from 2011!
This just in: Our Team Titleist Holiday Giveaway has gotten even better.Waiting for us inside Team Titleist headquarters this morning was a package from Scotty Cameron in a bright yellow box (pictured above).Inside: A brand-new Scotty Cameron Newport putter and a note from Scotty asking us to add this to our 31-day giveaway.Of course, we obliged.
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Revision Control with Arch: Maintenance and Advanced Use
Arch is part of a recent generation of revision control systems that provide an important architectural advantage over the old Concurrent Version System (CVS) and its work-alikes. As a decentralized revision control system, Arch allows remote users to join large development efforts without needing to acquire special access privileges. Arch also provides powerful inter-archive operations that encourage participation from third-party contributors.
The previous article in this series [LJ, November 2004] demonstrated basic Arch operations, such as checking out code and creating branches from remote archives. This installment shows how to revert changes in an archive, how to publish your private archives to public mirrors and how to move a copy of your changes from archive to archive when you forget to make a new branch.
The Arch program is called tla. The program name arch is taken by the POSIX standard, which requires that /bin/arch report system information. A lot of information can be found by running tla help. If you need to figure out the arguments to a particular command, such as commit, it helps to run tla commit -H, to see what the tla commit command can do.
One of the more immediate benefits of any revision control system is the ability to undo a change or set of changes. Everyone makes mistakes now and again, and it is important for your tools to provide the means to a graceful recovery.
The quickest way to return a checked-out tree to a state without your local changes is to run tla undo. This creates a directory called ,,undo-1/ that contains all of the changes made. If you so desire, you simply can tla redo to re-apply those changes. For example:
$ tla register-archive http://www.lnx-bbc.org/arch $ tla get \ firstname.lastname@example.com/lnx-bbc--stable bbc $ cd bbc/ $ echo "BIG MISTAKE" > robots.txt $ echo "#smaller change" >> Makefile $ tla undo $ tla redo
The tla undo command is most useful during hold-that-thought moments, when a line of work needs to be set aside briefly for a quick change of some sort. Arch uses the undo and redo commands internally when performing operations such as update or star-merge.
If a mistake is localized to a single file, the entire changeset doesn't need to be backed out. Arch lets you revert the changes made to a single file by generating a unified diff representing that file's changes since the last commit. This diff then can be fed into the patch program in reverse mode, which causes the changes to be unpatched out of the file.
$ tla file-diffs robots.txt | patch -R
If the file had been deleted accidentally, it would be necessary to do touch robots.txt before executing this command. Without a file (even an empty one), Arch has no basis from which to generate the file-diffs. When working with complete changesets, however, Arch is far more intelligent.
One of the big advantages Arch has over its predecessor, CVS, is that it permits the creation and manipulation of changesets. A changeset is a complete collection of all the edits, renames, added and deleted files and log entries recorded during a single tla commit invocation.
Sometimes a changeset is committed that shouldn't be, or a temporary approach to something needs to be backed out before a more permanent one can be implemented. In these cases, revert the changeset by replaying it in reverse:
$ tla replay --reverse \ email@example.com/foo--bar--1.0--patch-4 $ tla sync-tree \ email@example.com/foo--bar--1.0--patch-4
The first command reverts the fourth changeset in the 1.0 version of the bar branch of the foo tree, even if it is not the most recent revision. This has the added effect of backing out the log entry for that changeset as well, so you can use the tla sync-tree command to put the commit log back the way it ought to be.
The patch-4 changeset still is stored in the email@example.com—projects archive, and the tree still can be checked out in that state. Only the current working copy of the code has been affected by the above commands. When the above user runs tla commit, a new changeset will be added that includes the inverse of patch-4.
I cannot find the 3rd
I cannot find the 3rd installment of this great Arch tutorial.
It would appear that Linux Journal left it out for some reason.
There is another Linux Journal article by the same author titled "Arch for CVS users", but it appeared before the other two. There also was a tutorial on an earlier version of Arch in 2002 (when the utility was still named larch).
Regardless, I feel overwhelmed by the variety of improved CVS and project management systems with different philosophies out there. I would love to see an LJ article comparing the different options and listing some pros and cons. In particular, Arch vs. Subversion has been a hot topic lately. Now there is GIT. Where does it stand?
Where to find part 3 of this article
I can't seem to find the 3rd part of this article... is it available somewhere?
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- High-Availability Storage with HA-LVM
- March 2015 Issue of Linux Journal: System Administration
- Real-Time Rogue Wireless Access Point Detection with the Raspberry Pi
- DNSMasq, the Pint-Sized Super Dæmon!
- Localhost DNS Cache
- Days Between Dates: the Counting
- The Usability of GNOME
- Linux for Astronomers


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The First-Year Program
In your first year at Elizabethtown College, you will embark on a common learning experience with others in your incoming class. The First-Year Program (FYP) has two components: First-Year Seminar and First-Year Advising.
First-Year Seminar (4 credits)
This interdisciplinary educational experience develops skills of critical thinking and writing and broadens definitions of learning. The course is a serious academic one, and it is topical in nature, meaning that each seminar has its own emphasis. Our faculty members teach seminars on subjects of passionate interest to them, but no seminar is grounded in a particular major. This is all part of Elizabethtown's commitment to a liberal arts education. We want our students to become well-rounded scholars.
Each seminar also includes out-of-class learning experiences, which will expose you to educational opportunities and cultural events on campus and, in many cases, beyond Elizabethtown as well. In recent years, students have attended plays, lectures, art exhibits, and film screenings. Some instructors have taken their students to museums in Philadelphia and Washington and even hiked the Appalachian Trail. The possibilities are endless!
As part of your orientation paperwork, you will select your top ten seminars from a list of more than thirty courses. Most students who submit on time received one of their top three choices! Each seminar is capped at fifteen students, allowing you to develop close relationships with your instructor and peers.
First-Year Advising
The second component of the First-Year Program is advising. Your seminar instructor will be your official advisor for the year. Once you declare a major, you will be paired with a faculty mentor in your discipline.
Letter from Dean of the FYP
Now that you know a little bit about the First-Year Program, maybe I should tell you a bit about me. I am an associate professor of history specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France and teaching broadly in modern European, Middle Eastern, and North African history. I find the interactions I have with students to be both rewarding and uplifting. Elizabethtown is a special place. It is all about relationships. You definitely are NOT a number here at Elizabethtown! You will forge amazing relationships with your professors, staff leaders, student peers, resident assistants, and athletic coaches that will last a lifetime.
The education you receive at Elizabethtown will endow you with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to compete with the best of the best in your chosen field. The First-Year Program you will complete in the fall will provide the necessary structure and support to excel in anything to which you put your mind. The First-Year instructors/advisors will stimulate your curiosity and passion for learning, while providing the necessary guidance to make the transition from high school to college seamless. Our hope is that your experience in the First-Year Program will set the tone for a rewarding and successful college experience at Elizabethtown College as well as a lifetime of learning. Welcome aboard, we're happy you've selected Elizabethtown for the next chapter of your life!
Dr. Brian Newsome
Assistant Dean for General Education and Assessment
Associate Professor of History
Co-editor, Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques
Introducing the Sophomore Year Experience!
The NEW Sophomore Year Experience will kick off in the KAV at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2014 with a dinner, keynote speaker, break-out sessions and the distribution of the NEW sophomore-year student advising handbook.


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text: Medford, Ore. — Soil temperatures are important for a successful garden. There is a difference between cold-weather veggies and perennial flowers vs. warm weather veggies and annuals. OSU Master Gardeners recommend getting a soil thermometer. For more information, watch this 'In the Garden' segment. You can also call the OSU Master Gardener near you. Jackson … Continue reading »


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Not just by its boldly original look, hand-built workmanship or its use of durable materials like sapphire, and medical-grade steel. Nor by the smooth transit of its second hand powered by high beat mechanical movements visible through its caseback.
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Posted by Dale Buss on February 25, 2014 11:04 AM
Dr Pepper is relying on new campaigns running on TV properties including The Bachelor and the Telemundo network to boost its appeal among US Latinos.
The brand owned by Dr Pepper Snapple Group is teaming with Telemundo Media for "Los Unicos," a seven-month, multiplatform partnership involving three Telemundo performers who range across the network's shows and platforms. The effort revolves around the dedicated Los Unicos custom digital hub and will feature each of the three stars in their own six-part web series.
There's even a 2014 Dr Pepper and Telemundo co-branded calendar featuring 12 Telemundo superstars that the brand will distribute as a gift with purchase of Dr Pepper; it'll be supported by local appearances from Telemundo talent in key markets.Continue reading...
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Posted by Dale Buss on January 23, 2014 02:32 PM
ABC's The Bachelor franchise is riding a surge in pop-culture relevance these days with a strong current season, controversial comments by its new star, the wedding this Sunday of one of the TV show's most popular recent bachelors, and now one of the first marketing partnerships with a well-known outside brand, M&M's.
Network producers knew they had a good thing last fall when Juan Pablo Galavis of Miami couldn't win the heart of The Bachelorette Desiree Hartsock but was the very popular, and obvious favorite to become the protagonist of the current season. The heartthrob and former pro soccer player from Venezuela was great eye candy for the show's overwhelmingly female viewership, and he came with the endearing attributes of being the single dad of a four-year-old girl as well as the show's first star of either gender with an identifiably ethnic background.
And sure enough, the new season of The Bachelor roared out of the gate earlier this month with huge ratings, 17 percent higher than the previous season. The Monday-night show has managed to maintain about that level in the weeks since, not without the help of its successful second-screen social media strategy.Continue reading...
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digital advertising
Posted by Sheila Shayon on April 16, 2013 07:47 PM
In living rooms across the country, consumers are not watching just one screen, nor are they engaging with content in just one way as marketers and brands create increasingly innovative campaigns to keep consumers' eyes and ears on products.
Social media is now the acknowledged 'elephant in the room' as consumers increasingly engage in social activities while tuning into more traditional forms of content. According to Nielson's 2012 State of the Media report, nearly 41 percent of tablet owners and 38 percent of smartphone owners use the devices while watching television.
While some broadcasts like the Oscars and ABC's The Bachelor benefit from such a social tie-in, most brands and advertisers are trying to figure out how to better leverage multiple media channels to build viewership and engagement without losing ground elsewhere. This season, The Bachelor incorporated live Twitter feeds into its broadcast. "I think it is fair to say that the integration of social media into live broadcasting is still in its infancy," Tim Bock, VP of production, alternative series and specials ABC told Mashable. "There are other entities utilizing these technologies on a show by show basis. But we at ABC are looking at the bigger picture of large scale implementation of audience interaction capabilities."Continue reading...
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personal brands
Posted by Dale Buss on March 12, 2012 07:06 PM
Forget those bi-planes flying around college-football stadiums trailing 50-foot banners that say, "Courtney, Will You Marry Me?" Never has a marriage proposal been better-telegraphed than the one that's to come in the final episode of this season's The Bachelor on ABC tonight.
But throughout all the recent speculation about what Ben Flajnik will or won't do in the season's finale, and what comes after that for him and his tenuosly betrothed, the bachelor has been keeping a nurturing eye on another brand besides ABC's. The "other woman" in this case is the real love of his life: his co-owned vineyard and vino brand, Envolve. That's Flajnik holding the wine bottle, above.Continue reading...
More about: ABC, The Bachelor, Envolve, Wine, Alcohol, Ben Flajnik, Entertainment, Personal Brands
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Posted by Dale Buss on March 24, 2010 02:59 PM
Not even the semi-catatonic ramblings of the second man on the Moon were enough to dampen viewer enthusiasm for Dancing with the Stars in Monday night's premiere showing of the long-running ABC hit reality program. The show debuted with its best opening-night viewership numbers ever, with a Nielsen-preliminary 23.9 million viewers.
In the opener, it immediately seemed ill advised to include 80-year-old former astronaut Buzz Aldrin among the stars, as he could barely move on the dance floor and his few comments were nearly unintelligible. Dancing's last octogenarian, Cloris Leachman, at least was an actress with stage presence and a sharp wit.
But the other elements that ABC introduced and tweaked for this 10th season of Dancing all seemed to work nicely, improving the show – and portending continued robust ratings when it returns next week.Continue reading...
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Microsoft's MSN approaches MySpace for music collaboration. [All Things D]
Detail of Google's new Android 2.0 features released this week. [Mashable]
Golden touch: The Obama family's favorite things sell well. [Daily Finance]
"The Bachelor" will run the NYC Marathon in a pair of Rockport dress shoes. [BrandFreak]
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Card trick reveals the subconscious mind is on watch - life - 16 November 2011. Video: Princess card trick Take a look at this video.
Were you fooled? Rewind to take a closer look at the first and second sets of cards and all should become clear. Banishing consciousness: the mystery of anaesthesia - health - 29 November 2011. Read full article Continue reading page |1|2|3 I WALK into the operating theatre feeling vulnerable in a draughty gown and surgical stockings.
Zoned-out rats may give clue to consciousness - life - 12 October 2011. HUMAN minds wander when they have nothing else to do.
This is when people start to introspect, using a specific network of brain structures. The same network has now been identified in monkeys and rats, suggesting that "zoning out" might serve a key function in our survival. The findings raise questions over whether lower animals might also be capable of something akin to introspection. Why free will may be an illusion. MacGregor Campbell, consultant Does free will actually exist?
Or are we all just biological robots? Time on the Brain: How You Are Always Living In the Past, and Other Quirks of Perception. I always knew we humans have a rather tenuous grip on the concept of time, but I never realized quite how tenuous it was until a couple of weeks ago, when I attended a conference on the nature of time organized by the Foundational Questions Institute.
This meeting, even more than FQXi's previous efforts, was a mashup of different disciplines: fundamental physics, philosophy, neuroscience, complexity theory. Crossing academic disciplines may be overrated, as physicist-blogger Sabine Hossenfelder has pointed out, but it sure is fun. Like Sabine, I spend my days thinking about planets, dark matter, black holes—they have become mundane to me. But brains—now there's something exotic. Card trick reveals the subconscious mind is on watch - life - 16 November 2011. The period of the brain pretending to be the mind. The mind is different from the brain , just as psychology is different from biology.
Although mental processes are associated with some biochemical/neurological operations, some researchers and the popular media have misrepresented the association between the two systems as the causal relation (biochemical changes cause psychological experiences) or simply seen the two as the same. With the growing use of psychophysiological measures such as fMRI, PET, EEG, MEG, and optical neuroimaging, it has become pervasive to hear that biological events underlie (are more fundamental than) psychological events. For example, announcements such as "depression is a chemical imbalance" or " schizophrenia is a brain disease" became the mainstream during the past two decades.
Neuroimaging has also been used to explain political or voting behaviors or attitudes, criminal behavior or other social interactions (e.g., Miller, 2010). Where is The Mind?: Science gets puzzled and almost admits a non-local mentalscape. This will be the last "home-produced" blog entry for a while [save the short "Everyday Spirituality" which will follow it as a sign-off] .
West Virginia beckons tomorrow morning and off I will go to whatever that entails. As I said in one of the commentary responses the other day, I hope that reading two journal runs "cover-to-cover" will bring up a few thoughts worth sharing. Anesthesia May Leave Patients Conscious—and Finally Show Consciousness in the Brain. Vaughan Bell is a clinical and research psychologist based at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and currently working in Colombia.
He's also working on a book about hallucinations due to be out in 2013. During surgery, a patient awakes but is unable to move. She sees people dressed in green who talk in strange slowed-down voices. There seem to be tombstones nearby and she assumes she is at her own funeral. Consciousness: Mind Over Matter. The Blog : The Mystery of Consciousness II. (Photo by h.koppdelaney) The universe is filled with physical phenomena that appear devoid of consciousness.
From the birth of stars and planets, to the early stages of cell division in a human embryo, the structures and processes we find in Nature seem to lack an inner life. At some point in the development of certain complex organisms, however, consciousness emerges. Test measures spark of consciousness. Consciousness: Mind Over Matter. How does anesthesia disturb self-perception? An Inserm research team in Toulouse, led by Dr Stein Silva (Inserm Unit 825 "Brain imaging and neurological handicaps"), working with the "Modelling tissue and nociceptive stress" Host Team (MATN IFR 150), were interested in studying the illusions described by many patients under regional anaesthetic.
In their work, to be published in the journal Anesthesiology, the researchers demonstrated that anaesthetising an arm affects brain activity and rapidly impairs body perception. The ultimate aim of the work is to understand how neuronal circuits are reorganised at this exact moment in time and to take advantage of anaesthesia to reconfigure them correctly following trauma. This would allow anaesthetic techniques to be used in the future to treat pain described by amputated patients in what are known as "phantom limbs.
" Neuroscience research in recent years has shown that the brain is a dynamic structure. Think time flies? Well actually, you may be right - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - Gizmodo. Time flies when you're having fun. But you're at work, and work sucks. So how is it 5 p.m. already? When we talk about "losing time," we aren't referring to that great night out, or that week of wonderful vacation, or the three-hour film that honestly didn't feel like more than an hour. Consciousness of subjective time in the brain — PNAS. Author Affiliations Contributed by Endel Tulving, November 9, 2010 (sent for review June 13, 2010) Abstract "Mental time travel" refers to conscious experience of remembering the personal past and imagining the personal future.
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5 lessons for a new Cold WarBy Frida GhitisUpdated 12:51 PM ET, Thu March 6, 2014Story highlightsFrida Ghitis says Russia looks ready to claim Crimea; it's a new Cold WarCrisis shows that U.S., EU are not feared, but their values first prompted protestsOther lessons? Mess with Putin at your peril; giving up nuclear weapons leaves you vulnerableGhitis: Putin shows brute force still works, but U.S., EU may still rise to challengeRussia looks set to slice off a part of Ukraine and keep it for itself. With heavily armed Russian-speaking troops patrolling the streets, the Crimean Parliament voted Thursday to join Russia and put its decision to a referendum. The all-but-inevitable annexation of Crimea is moving forward, despite protests, warnings and threats from the U.S. and its allies.We have entered a new Cold War. The clash between Vladimir Putin's Russia and the forces arrayed in support of Ukraine's independence-minded leaders has crashed the vaunted "reset," ending hopes that Moscow and the West would smooth relations and work hand-in-hand toward common objectives.Nobody can predict with certainty how this conflict will end. But the world can already glean important lessons. Unfortunately, most of those lessons are cause for deep concern. Here are five clear messages from the crisis in Ukraine.Frida Ghitis1. Nobody's scared of America, but American and European values hold strong appeal.Lest we forget, this all started over a move by the now-deposed Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, who broke his promise to sign a partnership agreement with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Moscow. Ukrainians were enraged, not just because they want more trade with Europe but because they have seen what Western standards can bring to a society.They were fed up with corruption, authoritarianism and stagnation. They wanted their country to be free of Moscow's interference, and many gave up their lives to fight for an ideal of stronger democratic institutions, rule of law and fair play.As strong as the pull of these values is, their principal advocate, the U.S., has lost much of its ability to stare down its foes in support of those who want to institute democratic principles in their countries. We saw it when President Barack Obama declared -- years ago -- that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad must step down. We saw it when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was pelted with tomatoes in Egypt. And we saw it in Ukraine, when Obama warned Putin to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity, only to see the Russians capture Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. America does not intimidate.Its loss of influence means strongmen and dictators have a freer hand.5 possible directions in Ukraine2. You don't mess with Putin without paying a price.Even if Moscow were to relinquish all control of Ukrainian territory today, Putin has already achieved a main goal. He has sent a clear message to countries that were once part of the Soviet Union -- and perhaps to the USSR's former Eastern European satellites -- that they cannot defy his wishes without paying a painful price. In that sense, Putin has won.Just WatchedObama orders sanctions over Ukraine replayMore Videos ...Obama orders sanctions over Ukraine 01:26PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedUkrainian PM urges Russia to pull backreplayMore Videos ...Ukrainian PM urges Russia to pull back 04:46PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedHillary Clinton compares Putin to HitlerreplayMore Videos ...Hillary Clinton compares Putin to Hitler 04:14PLAY VIDEO A top Putin aide warned last summer that Ukraine was risking "suicide" if it dared to defy Moscow. Now we know this was no bluff. Putin is serious about protecting Moscow's sphere of influence. It's not clear how closely he wants to control what are supposed to be independent countries.Opinion: Did you expect Russia to ignore Ukraine chaos?3. If you are a vulnerable state, you may regret surrendering nuclear weapons.This may be the most dangerous of all the lessons from this crisis. Ukraine had a sizable nuclear arsenal at the end of the Cold War, but it agreed to give it up in exchange for security guarantees. In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine committed itself to dismantling the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal. Russia, in exchange, vowed to respect Ukraine's borders and its independence. Now, Russia has clearly violated those commitments. If Ukraine still had its atomic weapons, Moscow would have thought twice before seizing parts of Ukraine. 4. Don't expect support from all international peace activists (unless the U.S. invades).To liberal activists in Ukraine and Russia, the reaction from international peace movement must be a hard pill to swallow. Parts of Ukraine have been captured at the point of a gun by a regime that actively suppresses dissent. When liberal Russians protested, police arrested hundreds of anti-war demonstrators. While Russia's invasion of Ukrainian territory and its harsh crackdown on local protests have been criticized by some human rights activists, the reaction among some prominent "peace" activists has been astonishing. Several have mimicked Putin's line, blaming the U.S. for the crisis. Instead of taking a clear stance in support of a country with invading military forces on its soil, some so-called anti-war groups have taken the opportunity to dust off their anti-American vitriol.A favorite line of discussion is whether Washington has any right to criticize Russia's invasion of Ukrainian territory after the U.S. invaded Iraq, a country that was ruled by one of the world's most brutal, genocidal dictators. However misguided America's Iraq invasion, even drawing the comparison is an insult to Ukrainians.Opinion: Putin's Ukrainian endgame5. The use of brute force to resolve conflicts is not a thing of the past.One day, if history moves in the direction we all wish, countries will solve their disputes through diplomacy and negotiation. Sadly, that day has not arrived. John Kerry has expressed dismay at Putin's "19th-century" behavior, but power politics, forcible border expansion and brazen aggression have not been relegated to the history books; witness events in places like Syria, the Central African Republic and now in Ukraine. Those are the first five lessons. But allow me to offer a bonus, a work in progress that could join as No. 6: When the stakes grow high enough, the U.S. and Europe may rise to the challenge.Western nations seemed caught off-guard by Putin's "incredible act of aggression," as Kerry termed it. Some of Putin's gains (see No. 2) may be irreversible. But the U.S. and Europe have been shaken up by events, and they may yet send a message of their own, helping Kiev's government succeed and prosper as it sets out to chart a future of its own and limiting Putin's ability to replicate his acts of intimidation. Kerry's visit to Kiev was a powerful moment. His unvarnished message to Putin, if backed by action, was a respectable start. The U.S. would prefer to see this crisis resolved through negotiations, he declared, but if Russia chooses not to do so, Washington's and its partners "will isolate Russia politically, diplomatically and economically." Already the EU is offering Ukraine an aid package comparable to the one Putin used to lure it away. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is boosting ties with Poland and the Baltic States, and economic sanctions are under discussion.If Putin wants another Cold War, he has one. Follow us on Twitter @CNNOpinion.Join us on Facebook.com/CNNOpinion.Opinion on the newsHow AirAsia flight compares to Air France 447 crashPilot Bill Palmer says the AirAsia flight had similarities to Air France 447, which also encountered bad weatherDon't turn your back on these childrenPoverty isn't the only reason why so many parents are paying to have their child smuggled into the United States, says Carole GeithnerIran's hypocrisy in condemning U.S. racism Michael Rubin says it's a farce that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei posted tweets criticizing U.S. policeThe smart thing that makes you stupidRon Friedman says your smartphone may be making you behave stupidly; resolve to resist distractions in 2015Is AI a threat to humanity?Artificial intelligence does not need to be malevolent to be catastrophically dangerous to humanity, writes Greg Scoblete.Welcome to the troll ageThe ability to manipulate media and technology has increasingly become a critical strategic resource, says Jeff Yang.More from opinionWhat will happen if the bees disappear?Thanks, Ben Carson, but prison doesn't make people 'come out' gayWhy Iran's rise is a good thingPowered by Livefyre
How AirAsia flight compares to Air France 447 crashPilot Bill Palmer says the AirAsia flight had similarities to Air France 447, which also encountered bad weather
Don't turn your back on these childrenPoverty isn't the only reason why so many parents are paying to have their child smuggled into the United States, says Carole Geithner
Iran's hypocrisy in condemning U.S. racism Michael Rubin says it's a farce that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei posted tweets criticizing U.S. police
The smart thing that makes you stupidRon Friedman says your smartphone may be making you behave stupidly; resolve to resist distractions in 2015
Is AI a threat to humanity?Artificial intelligence does not need to be malevolent to be catastrophically dangerous to humanity, writes Greg Scoblete.
Welcome to the troll ageThe ability to manipulate media and technology has increasingly become a critical strategic resource, says Jeff Yang.