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Using our new PROVA Power Analyzer WM-01 or "Power Thingy" as it has become quickly known as to our readers, we are now able to find out what kind of power is being used by our test system and the associated graphics cards installed. Keep in mind; it tests the complete system (minus LCD monitor, which is plugged directly into AC wall socket).
There are a few important notes to remember though; while our maximum power is taken in 3DMark06 at the same exact point, we have seen in particular tests the power being drawn as much as 10% more. We test at the exact same stage every time; therefore tests should be very consistent and accurate.
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John DiStaso's Granite Status: Sen Ted Cruz added to 'Freedom Summit' lineup
The official announcement was made by the two advocacy groups Wednesday morning. The event, already sold out, is slated for April 12 at the Executive Court in Manchester.
Iowa U.S. Rep. Steve King is also expected, but has not yet formally announced. ee our item below.
Greg Moore, state director of Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire, said Wednesday,
"Adding Senator Cruz to the Freedom Summit reinforces that this is the 'must attend' political event of the year in New Hampshire. On April 12, the center of the political universe will be right here in Manchester. The Americans for Prosperity Foundation and Citizens United are looking for ways to allow more people to participate in the event, given the extraordinary demand that will only be growing over the next few weeks as we add more of the top conservative voices in the country to what is already a phenomenal speakers list."
Meanwhile, 2012 presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has been added to the lineup at the NHGOP's Northeast Republican Leadership Conference March 14 and 15 in Nashua.
(Earlier Granite Status reports follow.)
The polling firm, from Texas, says at the end of the calls that it is polling on behalf of Innis and in the meantime tests a few potentially controversial points about Innis and Republican primary foe Frank Guinta.
Essentially, the voters are being asked whether they approved of Guinta being a "career politician." There is also mention of crime in Manchester during his tenure as mayor and the fact that he was once being late paying a sewer bill. A few votes he made as New Hampshire House member were also mentioned, and his congressional voting record was compared to that of conservative Minnesota Rep Michele Bachmann.
The callers also tested the fact that Innis is openly gay and that he was a dean of the business school at the University of New Hampshire.
TUESDAY, FEB. 11: HEMINGWAY'S STEERING COMMITTEE. Republican candidate for governor Andrew Hemingway has rolled out a campaign steering committee chock full of conservative politicians and businessmen.
Heading the list is former U.S. Sen. Gordon Humphrey, who has also lined up with U.S. Senate candidate Jim Rubens.
Also on Hemingway's committee are businessmen Ray Pinard, Sarah Ponn and Bill Ninteau of Manchester, Harold Turner of Concord, Mike Hartwick of Bedford, Phil Bean, who is also a Hampton selectman, Biz Corrow of Exeter and Don Gobin.
Others backing Hemingway are Cliff Hurst and Jeff Frost, both former Manchester Republican Committee chairmen; former state Sen. Jim Luther of Hollis, state Reps. Emily Sandblade of Manchester, Laura Jones of Rochester and John Burt of Goffstown, former state Commissioner of Employment Security Richard Brothers of Sanbornton, former Libertarian Party candidate for governor John Babiarz of Grafton and Goffstown GOP activist Pamela Manney.
(The full Sunday, Feb. 9 Granite Status follows.)
SUNDAY, FEB. 9: DOLLARS AND MORE DOLLARS. With recent polling showing both of the state's Democratic U.S. House members in trouble, they have at least one thing going for them - fundraising.
That's especially true for Rep. Annie Kuster, but even Carol Shea-Porter, not known as a big fundraiser, is ahead of her GOP challengers, as well.
Of course, individual candidate fundraising is less important in this post-Citizens United era than it had been previously. The big money comes from the parties, the SuperPACs and the issue advocacy groups.
In the 2nd District, Kuster, after raising $335,000 in the fourth quarter and $1.36 million since being elected in November 2012, entered 2014 with $1.06 million on hand.
Kuster far out-raised her two Republican challengers, who, in fairness, entered the race relatively recently.Gary Lambert, who announced for the office last September, raised $71,000 in the fourth quarter and $245,000 since entering the race.
And Lambert entered the year with $218,500 on hand.Marilinda Garcia, who only filed her candidacy papers and began raising money in late November, reported raising $42,000, with all but $1,000 of it from individuals.
In the 1st District, Shea-Porter, after raising $160,000 in the fourth quarter of 2013 and $542,000 since being elected and returned to the seat in November 2012, entered the year with $357,389 on hand.
Republican former Rep. Frank Guinta led primary foe newcomer Dan Innis in fundraising, but not by very much.
Of the total raised, $106,000, or 63 percent came from individuals while $62,000, or 37 percent, came from PACs.
Guinta's fundraising total is noteworthy because last fall, his campaign adviser told us the campaign had raised "over $200,000" for an event featuring U.S. Rep. and 2012 vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan - an event that had to be postponed due to Ryan's scheduling conflict brought about by the government shutdown.
So what about the "missing" $32,000?
The adviser, Ethan Zorfas, said it's not missing at all.
And by the way, Guinta's campaign still lists outstanding loan balances totaling $288,500 from personal loans he made to his campaign back during his successful 2010 campaign.
His campaign entered the year with $31,000 on hand.
BROWN FOR GUINTA. Scott Brown, who headlined a fund-raiser for Guinta in Portsmouth in November, last week penned a fundraising email for him as well.
In the email, Brown mentions that Guinta is a former Manchester mayor (but not that he is a former congressman) and calls him a "friend" and "the type of guy we need fighting for us against Washington."
THE LATEST ROUND. Democrats and the GOP continue to fight the fight that isn't - at least not yet: Jeanne Shaheen vs. Scott Brown for the U.S. Senate seat.
We first reported on Twitter last week that the National Republican Senatorial Committee was hitting Shaheen with a web ad based on her radio comment that you can keep your doctor and hospital under Obamacare if you are "willing to pay more.
The New Hampshire Democratic Party continued to criticize Scott Brown for renting his email list to a firm that used it and his name to send out an email touting a controversial doctor who has espoused theories at odds with scientific evidence.
Brown severed his ties with the vendor last Wednesday, but the state Democratic Party pressed on, saying Brown was "spreading misleading and dangerous" health-related information.
DEMOCRATIC NEWS. The NHDP's quarterly state committee meeting was held Saturday in Laconia.
District 1 Executive Council candidate Mike Cryans was the featured attraction and members were urged to get active in the campaign leading up to the March 11 special election.
It was the first Democratic State Committee meeting with Sean Doyle as party executive director. He was formally named to the post Jan. 22 after serving as acting executive director for several months.
Doyle is a Manchester native and a graduate of Franklin Pierce University, where he also served as the president of the College Democrats of New Hampshire.
-- State Sen. Donna Soucy, D-Manchester, will be at the White House this week for a welcome ceremony for French President Nicolas Hollande. Soucy is the top elected Franco-American in New Hampshire state government and is fluent in French.
CONSERVATIVE NEWS. Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire will continue its crusade against the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday with a "Real People, Real Stories" luncheon at the Concord Holiday Inn at noon.
-- Five hundred available free tickets were scooped up within 24 hours of the announcement last Wednesday of the "Freedom Summit" sponsored by the national AFP Foundation and Citizens United, AFP-NH state director Greg Moore says.
As we reported first, speakers will include Donald Trump, Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Arkansas Gov. and Fox News talk show host Mike Huckabee, U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn and American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks.


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"Playing for Keeps" tells the story of a has-been soccer star whose career is foundering and his income has hit rock bottom, but who is a completely nice man with none of the character flaws that soccer stars, even Scottish ones, have been known to possess. He doesn't drink too much, his temper is under control, and he's not a skirt-chaser anymore.
That's for sure. The plot sets it up so that one beautiful woman after another hurls herself at him. George (Gerald Butler) has settled in Virginia to be near his former wife, Stacie (Jessica Biel), and their son, Lewis (Noah Lomax). One thing leads to another, and George, who we learn in the opening credits was a bona-fide international star player, ends up as the coach of Lewis' soccer team.
If George's life was eventless before, after he starts coaching, he finds himself all too busy. The grandstands contain not only Stacie but several sexy divorcees and unhappy wives. Consider this all-star lineup: Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Judy Greer.
These middle-aged women are all so sex-starved, they prowl after George with a number of strategies, including straight-out stalking, and in the case of Zeta-Jones, career counseling. She thinks that her connections in Connecticut with ESPN could land George a tryout and maybe a sportscasting job, which would then have the benefit of relocating him to another state and clearing the field of her rivals.
What feels decidedly odd during the course of "Playing for Keeps" is that George has no apparent response to these repeated seduction attempts. The film makes the reason for that obvious in the fullness of time, and it should be obvious to you as you're watching, but I suppose it ventures into spoiler territory. One thing it isn't is a surprise.
That leaves room for comment on the three most important supporting performances. Young Noah Lomax is solid and capable as Stacie and George's son, joining the apparently limitless ranks of gifted child actors. Is there a cutoff age after which young actors lose the gift of seeming spontaneous and natural?
Jessica Biel all but steals the show as Stacie, the former wife, now engaged to an apparently swell guy named Matt (James Tupper), who at one point makes a surprisingly generous and kind statement. Stacie is the one character who doesn't seem largely on autopilot and manages to leave room for doubt in a film without much room for that.
Then we come to Carl (Dennis Quaid), husband of one of the women in George's fan club, who qualifies as a millionaire bully. He also has a son on the team, gets all puffed up about the fact that that his son has an ex-star for a coach and tips George with a red Ferrari convertible. Quaid uses his sneaky, too-sincere smile, uses his wealth for leverage and is a genuine jerk. So that's good for something, in a film that's pretty much from the assembly line.
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Great movie. I'll always remember it, because it is the first Pokemon movie. I still have it on video and I watch it a lot.
Great movie. I'll always remember it, because it is the first Pokemon movie. I still have it on video and I watch it a lot.
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I love this movie so much. When my brother and I saw it in theaters we had to see it twice because the first time the power went out at the theater >.<
Pokemon fan girl since 1999 =D
Raichu is #1 Forever!!!
I remember seeing a clip of this on SM:TV. It was the very first time it was shown on UK Television.
Something I didn't understand with this was the scene where Mewtwo said he once started with Charmander, Bulbasaur and Squirtle. How can a pokemon that was only recently created get access to all three Kanto pokemon starters at once and then claim he went on a journey. The dialogue here doesn't even make sense.
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In the ten minutes of the movie 4kids cut (And then dubbed and added as a feature with the Mewtwo returns DVD) we see that Giovanni asked for clones of the three Kanto starters to be made as well. All three of them died, but even after getting his memory wiped Mewtwo had it somewhere in his heart to recreate them.
As for his choice of words, the idea was that as part of his being greater than all other Pokemon, making him both a Pokemon and a master, his starters were even greater than what human trainers received. It was really intended to be some sort of silly symbolism.
I love the movie it's awesome one of my favourite movies
I remember seeing this in theatres a long time ago. At the time, I really enjoyed the movie since it was Pokemon, plus Mew was super cute. Nowadays, I don't think it's a bad movie, it's just not my favourite.
When I saw the movie, my dad went with me. He didn't understand it at all, and kept asking me questions about it. Apparently I eventually told him to shut up.
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Just a quick question, if I buy the Japanese DVD, I know it has the dub track, but are the subtitles real subs of the Japanese or just the English script?
Also does the pikachu short have the English version?
ThatGuywiththeGlasses' Linkara, Jewario, and Suede just did a two part review. Fun stuff.
There is no bilingual DVD of the first movie. There's no bilingual Pokemon anything, at least not anything involving English.
Is "Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back" a Pokémon dark comedy anime movie?
I remember seeing this in theatres when I was little - it still hits me hard. xD
Definitely have a soft spot for this movie, and hopefully always will.
Mewtwo is so badass.
Made by me, I take requests.
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I said, "Is "Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back" a Pokémon dark comedy anime movie?"
Well, I just recently re-watched it... for the billionth time XP it still makes me cry whenever Pikachu and rest of the Pokemon cry for Ash. This movie never gets old everytime I watch it :PI stil wonder about whatever happened to the trainer who tried to go to New Island, but never got there... ._.
Made by Me
Really wish I could find the DVD without paying $100 haha
My favourite Pokémovie! Watched it like 10 times, still love it! Now if only I could find that VHS I have still...
Call me Shinzon. Or Picard. Or whatever.
Hehe I still have the VHS :3 Just don't have the VCR...
I fully agree.
Something that hasn't been seen since. I mean the symbolism. In everything that we see now is some childish symbolism, but only few get to the dark side of existentialism.
It's a called a plothole the size of Minnesota...
Quite clearly, he didn't make it.. :P
Answer to all the bad things in the world: Give up on trying to make everything better. Hence, accepting it for what it is. YOLO! <- Click the link and daw.. -.-
Is Pokémon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back a dark comedy anime movie?
Is "Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!" a dark comedy movie?
This is probably the best Pokemon movie. The dub made it much worse, but the movie is just... simply fantastic. Plus, it holds so many memories for so many of us. It makes me think of my childhood, And it reminds us all of the classic original Pokemon you just gotta love.
I can't really judge this movie; I'm too nostalgic.
It has some major problems. Pokemon get to make speeches consisting entirely of their names. When I was ten, this was cute; now it's kind of annoying. When Mewtwo catches Pikachu, Ash chases after it calling "You're not going to take my Pikachu!" When I was ten, this was dramatic; now it makes me feel sorry for Charzard, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur. The "Pokemon aren't meant to fight, not like this " moral feels tacked on (it was). The original moral survives, but it's no better (that might be a presentation problem).
Still, there are some good points. Mew is cute, especially when it plays on the windmill. The battles are cool. There funny parts, like when Ash tries to punch Mewtwo. The Animation is good. No, it's not Disney quality, but it still looks great. The CGI is dated, but it's only used for moving backgrounds and the like, so it's not too distracting.
I inspite of the film's flaws, I like it. It's part of my childhood, and I can overlook (or make fun of) the flaws
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Nostalgic you say? To thatguywiththeglasses.com! Suede, Linkara, and Jew Wario's review is much better than the Nostalgia Critic's due to actually having background information. In the end, I have to agree with both of them. I loved this movie as a kid because I was dumb and innocent and now I hate it because I know it's a typical Japanese animated movie cash-in.
Easily my favorite movie of all time. I haven't seen anything done in Pokemon this good since. I miss the good ol' days...
Edit: I just finished watching this again in at least 5 years, and wow. Still holds up as my fave!
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Phoronix: Qt 5.3 Might Depend On SSE2 CPUs
Thiago Macieira of Intel is coordinating a proposal to enable SSE2 by default for the 32-bit builds of the Qt tool-kit beginning with the Qt 5.3 release. This likely change is due to the V4 JIT engine generating floating-point math for Qt's QML only using SSE x86 registers...
Distros can just compile Qt to allow older processors. This only affects people who download the binaries straight from the Qt website.
Although the blog post is correct, the title is extremely misleading.
The whole article seems rubbish, it's like Michael was completely drunk. Half of the writing is nonsensical gibberish.
Time to retire you Athlon XP ;-)
I've an old Pentium3 (Slot 1) too, that's now pretty irrelevant for daily use. I just use it as a download manager. CPUs with SSE2 support are a really good minimum.
Who cares 32bit at this time? Or Why dont chose an SSE2 codepath if SSE2 is aviable, or Ship 2 Libary Builds and a Loader.
This is actually great news, even if he tries to make it sound bad.
Hardware accelerated operations would improve the performance.
People with such old processors don't use new software, so that pretty much doesn't have any negative results.
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read moreThe Arctic Sea Ice is Melting - no matter how bad George Will doesn't want it to
The Arctic Sea Ice is Melting - no matter how bad George Will doesn't want it to
There remains a lot of messaging and spin running rampant online over Washington Post colmunist George Will's misguided and baseless claims that sea ice coverage is similar to 1979.
DeSmog writer Mitchell Anderson has been covering this baffling story for us and doing a great job, but I wanted to provide a few of the sources that have done a particularly good job at highlighting just how much sea ice we have lost since the 1970's when we first started recording such things.
These source easily and compellingly explain away George Will's incorrect claim that sea ice coverage is the same today as it was in 1979.
1. You can watch the extent of Arctic Ice melt decreasing over time. Here's a great satellite image time series video done by NASA that shows the year-to-year melting of sea ice in the Arctic. I don't know how anyone could argue that sea ice in the Arctic is the same as it was in 1979 after watching this video:
2. Old ice versus new ice. It's a simple argument used by people looking for any reason to deny the realities of climate change to talk about sea ice "extent" as opposed to sea ice mass. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, the issue is not as much the change in the "extent" but the change in the thickness of the ice over time - there's a lot more thin ice that quickly melts in the Spring as opposed to older thick ice:
So the extent of the ice - the actual surface area of the ice covering the Arctic sea - may appear large from time to time, but the amount of thick, old ice has been going down since the 1970's when scientists first began monitoring such things.
Here's a great time series of the decrease in old ice in the Arctic. The colors indicate the age of the sea ice in years; light blue is open water (OW). Areas in red are locations where the ice is five years or older, whereas the dark blue areas are first-year ice.
So all the dark blue areas are first year ice and the bright red is 5 years or older:
3. If you still think Arctic Sea Ice is the same as it was in 1979, then here's a satellite image of the Arctic sea taken in August, 2007. The purple line is where the sea ice usually was between 1979 and 2000.
This image and the animated one above were produced by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado. In fact, the NSIDC has just today released a new report finding:
800,000 square kilometers is a lot of ice to go missing and with all this data so easily obtained (took me about an hour), you would think it would pretty difficult for a news outlet like the Washington Post and a seasoned journalist like George Will to ignore.
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Clearly this is not 'Global Sea Ice'. This is in fact Greenland. But its ice-cover is melting too. See below for some of the text. Visit the link for the whole story.
'The northern fringes of Greenland's ice sheet experienced extreme melting in 2008, according to NASA scientist Marco Tedesco and his colleagues. This image shows the number of days when melting occurred on the ice sheet compared to the average number of melt days between 1979 and 2007. Red outlines the northern rim and parts of the west coast of Greenland, indicating that the summer melting period in 2008 was longer than average in many places. Many locations in northern Greenland experienced a record number of melt days. Temperatures at nearby ground-based weather stations were correspondingly high. The average temperature between June and August 2008 was as much as 3 degrees Celsius above average, with new record temperatures at many ground-based weather stations….,' [my emphasis]
Yes deffinitelly so, everyday ice is melting more and more.
When does a guy like him wake up? WHAT should we ALL to today PERSONALLY to stop this crisis that will take us all down? I wonder….!
All the best,
Its crucial that organisations that are campaigning for change team together desmogblog are certainly doing their bit. There is an opportunity for everyone to get involved and help reduce global warming by adding support to Oxfam's climate change campaign.
Considering the effect of aerosols on the earth's temperature was a reasonable scientific thing to do in the 1970's (and aerosols are still included in modeling). What's changed since:
1. The rate of adding CO2 has increased. American per capita consumption and total population has increased. The economic rise of India and China has added two large sources – China is overtaking the U.S. in total CO2 emissions (though not per capita).
2. Work has been done to clean up air pollution sources. (Although the Asia 'brown cloud' seems to me to be adding a global haze in the last 2-3 years).
And all scientists considered AGW to be a problem in the 1970s. Statements like Will's are not fact-based, taken in context.
Preface: Will is wrong on every point, and I've fussed at him endlessly in my own blog, in dozens of comments to the Post articles, and in letters to the Post editors, the Post ombudsman, and to Will himself. So don't yell at me.
But he did say global ice, not Arctic ice. That doesn't make him any less wrong. It does mean that you can't rebut that particular claim by talking about Arctic ice only.
To refute his claim properly, you have to talk about global extent, global volume, how Arctic and Antarctic ice differ, single year vs. multi-year ice, why Arctic ice is the key indicator, etc. It's not quite as simple as what's covered here.
paul s gets entirely too much space in these threads. He persistently posts the same easily refuted arguments, and continues to split hairs, cherry-pick, and perpetuate the same-old same-old that the guys at the Heartland Institute et al recycle ad nauseum.
Enough, already.
Paul, whoever you are, pull your head out. Take a good long look at the evidence contradicting your position and THINK FOR YOURSELF. Ask yourself why it matters so much to you that AGW has to be wrong. Are you afraid that someone is trying to control your life? Do you think it's all a socialist conspiracy?
Now ask yourself: what if the human species has been so successful on this planet that we have begun to be a significant factor in its chemistry? What if there are so many of us producing so much chemical effluent that we are soiling our own nest, changing the balance of our delicate atmospheric composition? What if we could be doing things to minimize the impact of that? If it could be indisputably proven to you that your behaviour (driving an SUV, heating with oil, air conditioning, buying strawberries in January) was causing the planet to become uninhabitable – would you change your behaviour? What would it take to prove it to you? I am deadly serious, because these are the questions we must all ask ourselves.
I have a book on my shelves that I inherited from my father. It is called The Family of Man. Lately that's had a sightly sexist implication, but for the moment let's just focus on the Family concept. We are all connected. What affects some of us affects us all.
So get back to me, paul s. Just asking.
I am glad to see Stephen's and Ian's offensive comments have been removed from this thread.
Paul s said: "I am glad to see Stephen's and Ian's offensive statements have been removed from this thread".
Get real, it was your offensivce statements and our honest replies indicating your dishonesty and ignorance of science which were removed.
My comments were a valid response to your scientific ignorance and the misinformation you continually post on this blog.
It's noticeable that paul s is always finding a new way to spin - i.e. deceive. Isn't it
a shame that the scientific content and accuracy of his posts falls far short of the
spin content.
My comment was not offensive in the slightest. I said that if the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets are shrinking, then it is impossible for global sea ice trends to be stable or increasing.
I don't know why my comment was deleted. I never was condescending. I think you, Paul, are so worried that you are wrong that you attempt to silence your critics. So much for your support of free speech.
It may be that your comment was a reply to an offensive post that got zapped. When we delete an offensive post, all of the responses go too. There is also a viral thing happening right now, and you might have got caught up in that.
OK. No worries, then. Thanks for the clarification.
Not sure why people deny the long-term studies. It is importnat, just like with global warming, that people look at long-term trends. Seems to me that the video says it all…
What is the big deal with the ice melting anyway? What kind of problems will it cause. Wont it release more fresh water into the enviornment? This could be a good thing for some nations, right?
A lot of people will say that the melting ice will cause floods but how? When ice melts in water the water level lowers. I think this is all just a bunch of Hype created for taxation purposes.
You are lagging behind! Archimedes (287 BC-212 BC) knew this! FYI, floating ice has no effect on sea-level when it melts. I should think that schoolchildren would know this!
A very simplified account of why melting Actic Ice is very bad.
Melting Arctic Ice will replace high reflectance ice and snow with dark ocean. Thereby resulting in an positive albedo feedback mechanism accelerating Arctic warming.
Arctic warming threatens to release vast reserves of stored carbon from sea floor clathrates, thermokarst lakes and melting permafrost. This carbon will be in the form of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, further resulting in greatly accelerated warming.
PS This are already happening.
Loss of Arctic ice will also be bad for Polar bears and numerous other polar species [including many species of sea fish eaten by humans (see your local seafish supplier)], that will be unable to migrate further North to avoid the warming.
All that fresh water from the melting ice-cap will dilute the Arctic Ocean and seems likely to have bad consequences for the thermohaline / meridional overturning circulation, which transports much heat from the tropics to the temperate zone.
PPS Do you realise now why this is such a big deal?
I strongly recommend that you read some science.
Don't pay any attention to posts that have a link at the end that is unrelated to the thread. These are spamming posts, and the person posting is not really taking part in the discussion. I am working on filtering them out without stopping legitimate links.
i am now seeing the big picture….
there must be some conspiracy among government officials and big companies whose interests will be affected by all of this global warming thing. they all seem to be blind to all of these.
What I find is that when you click on the people who tend to be the most critical and who are downright rude, you find that these people Roll Forming Machine have neither a website, nor a blog of their own, just some generic email account.
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"Good listen"
This was an interesting story.I liked how it all unfolded and enjoyed the discovery of the characters' powers. The only reason I gave 4 stars to the story instead of 5 is because there were too many similarities to the TV series Heroes --- particularly the "I'm just a cheerleader" thing. It's still a great book, but Evans should probably be careful when developing the plot further, so as not to copy super power storylines that already exist.
Looking forward to the next one.
"Surprisingly great book"
I am glad I downloaded The Testing. Many people compare it to Hunger Games and I'd have to say it's a fair comparison. But it's not a copycat. The Testing has its own unique storyline, one that was intriguing and held my interest. Also, there was a slightly more plausible reasoning behind The Testing's madness. While the Hunger Games were a means of cruelty and punishment toward the districts (not to mention the sick entertainment value for capitol residence), The Testing's reasonings were more of a weeding out the weak in search of the best. It was still cruel and sick, but it was never a circus show like the Hunger Games.
The story was well written and nicely formulated. I knocked off one star for performance, because although Joelle Charbonneau's narration was okay, she read very slowly, enunciating every word as if a fifth grader was reading it. She must have improved as the story went on, because I didn't notice it by the second half of the book.
I look forward to reading or listening to the next of this series.
"Rollercoaster Review"
He's a dangerous man, that Dan Brown, with the ideas he plants into the terrorist/conspirator/activist/extremist mind. Brilliant, but dangerous.
My opinion of this book went through a major roller coaster ride. I started out loving it, then got a little impatient, then got a little annoyed, and just when I was about to give up, Brown surprised me with a pleasantly explosive conclusion.
Well, we all know the formula for Dan Brown's books. Langdon is approached by some kind of powerful organization to use his cryptographic powers to uncover some underground conspiratorial plot set up by an ancient secret society. Langdon always refuses at first, saying he is just a history teacher but eventually relents. We learn a lot of history along the way, some true, some stretched, and some pretty cool stuff. There is always a woman and a friend and one of them is always a betrayer.
Okay, well that's not exactly how this one started. The book starts out with Langdon in the hospital with amnesia. Immediately after regaining consciousness, he discovers three things: He was shot in the head; he is in Italy; and people are "after" him. A pretty nurse helps him escape the hospital as the bad guys barge in and start shooting up the place. She becomes "the girl." She helps him run all over Italy trying to remember why he's there and who is trying to kill him. It all has something to do with Dante's Inferno, which Langdon originally claims to know very little about. As the book progresses, it seems he knows EVERYTHING about Dante and his Divine Comedy. And everything about Florence, and everything about Venice, and the Vatican, and Istanbul and Turkey. And hooray for us, because we get to know EVERYTHING too.
Since the book started out a little differently than Brown's other books, I liked it immediately. I continued to like it as the mystery unraveled and as we learned about the plots and conspiracies. Then Brown got tedious. Langdon couldn't walk four steps without the reader being treated to a whole textbook history of the building he was approaching and the artwork and every historic person who ever cast eyes on it. Every time a new character entered the book, we had to listen to the whole backstory of that person's life before we were allowed to know what the person was even doing in the story. Holy cow, could we just get on with the story, please?? The backstories and history lessons were draining and almost killed the book entirely.
Now, if that wasn't bad enough, toward the end, the few bits of action we DID get were completely stripped away when Langdon was told that none of it "really" happened. They just made it look like it happened!
So at that point, I've got a serious case of irritation with a side of impatience. But I know something good must happen, because this is a Dan Brown book and he always pulls it off somehow. And he DID. The climax of this book surprised me. It was controversial, ingenious, and scandalous all bundled together. Glad I stuck it out.
I really wanted to give Inferno 5 stars. But Dan Brown needs to stop being so long-winded. I want to get from point A to point B without the lectures and tour guide. The scenic route can be nice, but not if it means traveling around the world with a text book tucked under each arm.
Paul Michael did a great job as narrator, thank goodness.
Yes, I would recommend Inferno. Just be prepared for a loooooong ride.
"Groundhog day for teens"
It took me several attempts to get through this book. I hated Sam and her friends from day one, and I know that was the point, but by the time I got to chapter two, I was looking forward to her dying. Imagine my dismay when the moment finally arrives and instead of dying, she awakens to her alarm clock. My review/observations:
1) Samantha's story was bad enough the first time. Why on earth would I want to reread the same scenes seven times! It was torture.
2) I am not sure how Lauren Oliver got away with stealing the plot for Groundhog Day. It's the same story. The main character is a shallow, self-centered, mean, jerk who relives his/her day over and over and over until he/she finally gets a clue. Just because you make the main character a teenage girl instead of a middle aged man doesn't make it a unique plot.
3) Sarah Drew can narrate just fine if she's just reading Sam's perspective. As soon as another character comes in, Drew switches to this constipated zombie voice. She did the same thing in the Delirium series (I thought Lena's aunt was part frog). It drove me crazy in that series and drove me crazy again in this book. Can't you just read another character's conversation without giving them a mental deficiency? Lindsay's voice was so creepy, I wanted to run her over with a Land Rover myself. And I really think the narration hurt the story, because it kept me from sympathizing with the supporting characters.
4) The worst part was the ending. I hope I'm not giving too much away by saying that when the moment FINALLY came Lauren Oliver skipped right over it. I had to read through seven accidents, seven non-existent scenarios. The least you could do is tell me which one was real and what exactly happened. Who lived? Who died? What was the point of the Juliette story if you don't even tell us what happened to her in the end? What happened to the friends, who didn't get 7 chances? I suffered through 10 hours of Groundhog Day and I didn't even get closure.
I am glad I finally finished listening, but I have to say that I regret the download. The Delirium series was also filled with unlikable characters, but at least the storyline was unique and the writing was done well. Aside from Drew's zombie frog voice, I enjoyed THAT series. "Before I Fall" not so much. That's just my opinion; I know a lot of people loved this book.
"Mystery or History?"
Let me start by saying that I am a big fan of the coffeehouse mystery series. Despite this less-than-stellar review, I will still buy the next one. A Brew to a Kill didn't feel like it was written by Cleo Coyle but instead someone who tried to mimic her formula and over exaggerated. The result was a long, dull, drawn-out novel that I looked forward to ending. The book did have a few redeeming qualities, so let's start with those:
1. The mystery was not about a murder. For once, Clare Cosi did not stumble upon yet another dead body. If you are a fan of cozy mysteries, you may have noticed that authors tend to have their protagonists find dead bodies monthly. Eventually, you start to lose that sense of coziness, because the serene environment -- whether a coffee house or New England historic town -- becomes a place of horror and death. You can't have that, so authors have to make sure all of their mysteries are not murders. Kudos to Cleo Coyle for understanding that.
2. There weren't so many mysteries and murders that I couldn't keep up. Cozy mysteries should not be overwhelming or confusing. This one wasn't. Everything tied together nicely.
3. The culprit was discoverable. What I mean by this is that Coyle did not spring an unknown new character on us at the end and say he/she was responsible for everything. Too many mystery writers do this, making it impossible for the reader to sleuth.
4. Rebecca Gibel's narration was once again brilliant. Although Clare's rival cupcake lady was annoying, Gibel's French rendition of "Chocolat...ooh la la...chocolat" had me cracking up every time she spoke the cupcake menu.
Despite the good things, there were too many counteracting bombs.
1. A huge portion of the book contained a history of New York City. Every time someone moved from point A to point B, we were treated to a lovely textbook recitation of each borough of New York, the names of the gangs, the history of China Town, the demise of Little Italy, etc. Every time Coyle launched into one of these history lessons, I rolled my eyes and mumbled, "Here we go again." It's one of those no-nos in writing. Too much back story, and in this case, very little to do with the actual story line. Coyle just decided to be our tour guide throughout New York. The problem with it, aside from the boredom factor, is that it's ineffective. People (like myself) who've lived in or frequently visit the tri-state area already know most of this information. And those who have never been to New York can't possibly grasp the historical significance. This, in my opinion, is what made the book incredibly boring.
2. The food truck apparently was in service months before they even painted it. Why? If you have a truck that is representing the finest coffee in New York, why would you let it roam the city without an equally professional design? To make it worse, Clare let Dante paint the truck without first consulting her on the design. The result was a horrific, tasteless graphic that sickened Clare's stomach. So what did she do? She let the truck drive around like that, because she was too busy sleuthing. Unrealistic. A good business woman would have never allowed it.
3. In Cleo Coyle's book French Pressed, I enjoyed the rap. Even though I thought the language was inappropriate for Clare's business, it was fun for that one story. However, it's getting old and not at all flattering to the coffeehouse environment. I love that they support artists, but the rap isn't promoting a positive image. In fact, when the rich woman refused to support Esther's grant based on her street image, I didn't blame her. At each coffeehouse installment, the Village Blend is becoming less artsy and more ghetto. Coyle needs to class up the place a bit more. Ease up on the rap and crap.
4. The drug angle had great potential, but it was poorly delivered. First of all, the topic did not come about until nearly halfway into the book. Second, no drug lord would send expensive drugs to a guy in another country who didn't want them. It's too big of a risk, legally and financially. The whole story arc was far fetched but could have been pulled off with better planning (i.e. send a shipment of coffee beans to his cousin through Matt).
5. Matteo has got to go. I like him as a coffee partner, but his presence in Clare's life -- and in her apartment -- is offensive to her character. She put up with his nonsense during their marriage before spending ten years on her own trying to raise their daughter. Now he waltzes into Clare's life as if nothing happened, and we, the readers, are expected to embrace him? I don't think he's cute no matter how well Coyle describes his butt. In A Brew to a Kill, the scenes with Matt, Mike, and Clare were sickening. Were they supposed to turn us on? Is Coyle writing cheap romances now? Seriously, I'm tired of reading about Matt as if he's Clare's lover. He's an ex. He has his own wife. Clare has another guy. Please, PLEASE, give Clare her dignity back and kick Matt the heck out of the picture.
6. The crime solution was too much of a stretch. The culprit was a good choice, but the way he went about it reminded me of one of those puzzle video games where you have to travel to the other side of an island to flip on a light switch. There are easier ways to commit a crime. Why did this one have to be so elaborate?
As I said, I'm still a fan. But I hope that the next book redeems this one.
"I have to wait how long for book 3??"
I'll make this short. I assume you've read the first book in the series, so you understand about the frozen scientists traveling to a new planet in a ship full of worker bees. Elder is the leader of the worker bees (the citizens of the ship). You might remember from the first book that something was not quite right. A BIG problem was revealed at the end. In this second book, Elder works to find a solution to the problem, all the while unveiling all kinds of exciting twists and turns in the plot.
Should you read book 2?
You have to wait until January to read it, because when you are finished you are going to tear your hair out wanting to read the next book. So yes, of course you should read it (or listen to it, in this case), but do yourself a favor and pace yourself. Book 3 comes out in January 2013. Why not read both at the same time? :-)
"Don't judge the book by its cover"
I judged this book by its cover, so even though the summary sounded interesting, I saw two people on the cover who looked like they were about to kiss and I blanched. Nope. Not interested in a love story right now. Pass. Eventually, I needed to use up some Audible credits and finally decided to download Across the Universe.
First, let me clear up the misconception. This is not a love story. The picture on the cover has no relevance to the story, and I have no idea why the cover artist designed it like that. The closest scene to the cover image is when Elder first notices Amy in cryogenic sleep. He gets very close to her face to observer her. It wasn't much more to it. He was just looking at her, not kissing her. I must not be the first person to be turned off by the cover, because I noticed that Beth Revis has since changed the cover image.
The book was great. Beth and her parents are put in a cryogenic sleep so they can be the first colonists on a new planet that will take 300 years to travel to. Here's something freaky: She thinks she's going to go into an immediate sleep, but it turns out, she's awake during the whole ordeal. What a nightmare!
Meanwhile, there are people living on the ship. Their jobs are to keep life on the ship going and to maintain the ship so it arrives on the planet safely. The workers on the ship will never make it to the planet. Their lives are purely on the ship. Elder is a kid who is training to be the ship's ruler (called the Eldest). He discovers the room with the cryogenic scientists and notices a young girl his age. Soon after, someone opens Amy's compartment, and she's awaken too early. There is no way to put her back in a frozen state so she thinks she'll never make it to the planet and never see her parents again. She's pretty mad about it. Being from Earth, she also notices that the ship's government system is a little strange and somewhat suspicious. She encourages Elder to snoop around an ask more questions. What they uncover is pretty exciting and the conflicts that ensue were great.
I would have given the book five stars, and here is why I didn't. There were too many scenes where a character started to do something and then stopped for no reason. It was kind of like, "Oh, I'm going to open this box now" and just when he reaches for the box, he thinks, "Well, maybe I shouldn't open the box. No, I'm not going to open the box." Those scenes were incredibly annoying and frustrating. In the real world, when you are faced with a conflict full of mysteries, and the answers are all right in front of you, you're going to check it out. You're not going to wait until later, forget about it, decide not to, or remember that someone didn't want you to. Most of the book went smoothly, though, and most was thoroughly enjoyable.
"Just Okay. Felt forced and unnatural."
I could give this book a 3-star rating because I was able to get through it without having to throw my MP3 player across the room. It was bearable enough and the narrators did an okay job. I listened to Steven Kaplan in "The Future of Us" and can say that he did a better job of that one than this.
The atmosphere, the general dystopian environment was okay. I might have enjoyed it more if the plot was stronger. Unfortunately, the plot was pretty weak and much of the story line was just too hard to swallow. I like dystopia, fantasy, make-believe, and even magic, but the actions and reactions of this book all felt forced and unnatural. Characters seemed to do things simply because the author told them to and not for any plausible reason.
The first flaw is that the main characters were unlikable. Let's start with their names. June and Day. The way each chapter was written does not play well on audio. Every chapter starts with "June" or "Day." The narrator doesn't say "Chapter one, Day." It's just simply "Day." These are terrible names and a terrible way to present them. Every time Steven Kaplan said "Day," I thought that it was no longer night; it was now day. It took a few moments to remember that that's the kids' name. June was even worse. Every time Mariel Stern said "June," I thought the month had changed. The flip-flopping back and forth were confusing. I'm not opposed to dual POVs in a book, it just didn't work well in this one.
Of the two main characters, I disliked June the most. She was so Mary Sue. Everything about her was supposedly perfect, except she was immature and incorrigible. For some reason this was tolerated within this unfair, ruthless, dystopian government. Hey, as long as she can climb, shoot, fight, do kung fu and dance a jig, they may as well put her in charge. What a great idea, to put a 15-year-old spoiled delinquent in charge of catching the most wanted criminal.
Speaking of the most wanted criminal, meet Superspiderman, a 15 year old kid who can climb up the sides of skyscrapers and leap tall buildings in a single bound. I actually liked Day at first. He left his family for their own safety but kept an eye on them for years to make sure they had food and money. He has to hide in the shadows, though, because he's a hardened criminal. He did something dreadful like shoot a water pistol or pull a fire alarm. I can't remember, but it was something trivial, not really things that those in power would spend years hunting down. I ceased to like Day the moment he kissed June. Everything went downhill from there. He didn't have a reason for kissing her other than the author wrote it into his script. The two of them hooking up after each was responsible for the death of the other's family was unthinkable. And completely unbelievable.
Please ignore any reviews that compare this book to The Hunger Games. What an insult to Suzanne Collins to even put this book in the same playing field. It's nothing like The Hunger Games. It's barely even dystopian. Dystopian fiction indicates a post-apocalyptic society that has developed an unconventional (and often ruthless) government model as a means of collective survival. The people in charge genuinely fear a repeat of the apocalypse and truly believe that how they rule is for the greater good. In Legend, no one appeared to believe in the greater good. Everyone was so mechanical.
Would I recommend this book? Not as a first choice. I would only recommend it if you've already explored all other options and have absolutely nothing else to read.
"Good story"
I thought The Eleventh Plague was a great book. The main character, Stephen, lived all his life as a scavenger, picking up and selling salvage left over after a horrific war that left the world pretty desolate. He's surprised when he stumbles across a functioning, intact community, with people eating regularly, kids going to school, and generally rebuilding life. It was more of a subdivision, but considering the rest of the world was in disarray, this little gated neighborhood was practically a borough. Stephen is welcomed by most of the community, but the most powerful family doesn't want strangers and makes things hard for Stephen. Not wanting to stir up trouble, Stephen decides to leave, but not before pulling a (really stupid) prank on the powerful family -- he actually did it because a girl told him to, not because he wanted to, the dummy. Bad things follow and Stephen runs around trying to fix his mistake.
It was actually pretty good. Jeff Hirsch did a nice job of narrating. No weird voice changes or strange gulping habits.
If you're a fan of dystopian fiction, you should definitely put The Eleventh Plague on your list of good reads.
"Outstanding performance, best book in the series"
I have read/listened to every other book in this series. Weirdly, I avoided this one. Why? Because it focused on Claire's daughter, Joy, who always came across to me as the most selfish, whiny, know-it-all brat without a lick of common sense. Shame on me for judging so harshly and waiting so long to read the best book in the coffeehouse series. Okay, yeah, Joy still didn't have a lick of sense. If she'd just go home at a respectable hour instead of gallivanting across Manhattan in the middle of the night, she wouldn't have found herself in so much trouble.
That said, her ordeal was nevertheless heartbreaking. Maybe it's because I'm a mom, but the thought of that young girl sitting in Rikers Island for days due to nothing but her own naivety was unbearable. I was cheering on Claire who busted through a bunch of cops in her quest to protect her child, and when she drove all over the city interrogating suspects, putting herself at risk just to find out the truth.
Lately, all of Cleo Coyle's coffeehouse mysteries start out with an annoying internal monologue of "the killer." It's gotten to where we have to suffer through these killer scenes throughout the whole book, which to me ruins the flow of the story. I don't want to know what the killer is thinking. I just want to guess who it is. French Pressed, I am happy to say, does not force those annoying scenes upon us. There's a quick killer scene in the beginning, but it's not the paranormal-psycho-theme-music type of scene we have to endure in some of the other coffeehouse books. Coyle even gave us a few good suspects to ponder over. The whole thing was well done with just enough of this and that.
Now for the grand praise. Rebecca Gibel outdid herself. Wow, her performance was worth an award. Throughout the book, Gibel had to switch from character to character, perfecting an impossible number of accents and dialects. She smoothly transitioned from Claire's nondescript talking voice to Esther Best's Brooklyn twang, jumped into a flawless rap song using a Russian accent, back to Brooklyn twang, then spoke fluent Russian, French, Old Lady, and Cop in a single chapter. What the heck? Who does that? Give this woman a medal! I was completely lost in her performance to the point that I forgot that it was the same person narrating the whole time. Very impressive.
I'm looking forward to the newest installment due to be released in the next few days. I hope the new one lives up to Book 6. It'll be a hard one to follow.
"A must read for everyone!"
I originally read this book twenty-something years ago. My paperback copy is frail and yellow and the cover is barely hanging on by a thread. I thought it'd be neat to listen to it. It was a good choice. Michael Kramer did an excellent job narrating both Phaedrus and Robert's perspectives (though Robert is never mentioned by name in the entire book). I learned a few more things this time around, even though I thought I sucked all the philosophy out of it the first 100 times I read it. I think I learned more about the rhetoric of quality than any one person should in a lifetime. Pirsig spent way too much time pondering it -- but then again, I think that was the whole point and the reason he eventually lot his mind.
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a pudgysausageonwheels is a dog that is shaped in a tubular formation, and has a salami-nose. And pastrami legs. And a tongue made of ham. Sparky larky is a pudgysausage on wheels-mobile. Now, the on wheels part is just for effect.
Budu the dog. he is the full definition of a pudgysausage on wheels.
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29 Tháng ba, 2005
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The definition of a pudgysausage on wheels is quite simple. Budu the dogis a pudgysausageonwheels. It is pretty much just a fat tubular shaped object, and the onwheels part of it is just for an effect.
Budu the dog is a pudgysausage on wheels. Another name for budu is the pudgysausage on wheels-mobile.
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A simple yet complex girl who is Beautiful inside and out. Her loving nature and kind hearted spirit tend to have an effect on the opposite sex.People usually gravitate toward her and some may be jealous because dayumm she's on top of her game. Basically; Destiny is fucken DOPE.-->you're just not on her level.
I wish I was like Destiny, my life sucks ass.
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23 Tháng tám, 2008
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That girl that seems crazy, who always makes the randomest jokes. Though inside she only hides how much she hurts. She braves a smile on her face just so everyone else is happy around her. Simple friends turn into best friends with her, she is a friend magnet. But she is shy around most people. Afraid of going out of her comfort bubble. She falls for guys easily and almost is always hurt in the end. Destiny is a verb, she is amazing. And don't deserve half she shit she goes through.
Look, Destiny's humping that tree.
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19 Tháng mười hai, 2010
a beutiful girl who is funny,smiles alot and loves to be around people
whos that gil smileing?
its just destiny!
its just destiny!
viết bởi BLINKY HEAD!
15 Tháng ba, 2009
A shy, but loyal girl. Love to be around people. She is very honest but she has to be able to trust you. She loves playing around and making jokes. she's sometimes very sensitive for no reason. she's fragile and she doesn't like to be hurt. she cares less about what people say. she also kind-hearted and free spirted.
Destiny your so funny.
Break out your shell Destiny.
Destiny your so kind and loyal.
Break out your shell Destiny.
Destiny your so kind and loyal.
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11 Tháng mười hai, 2012
DESTINY: a girl thats sweat, pretty, and sometimes sad. Every boy that knows destiny is OMG. She is the most perfect girl in the universe. She usually goes out with guys that listen to the same music, sometimes dresses punk or emo, and the type of guy who will always be there even if they breakup.
OMG Did you see Destiny shes perfect.
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25 Tháng tư, 2010
Nobody is perfect, except Destiny. She is perfect in every way. Her beautiful smile, her laugh, her sparkling eyes, and her beauty. You will fall in love with her the second you lay eyes on her and you will fall more in love with her every day after that. You will melt into her eyes and holding her in your arms is the greatest feeling in the world because you know she is yours and nobody else's, you never want to let her go. She is a princess. Anyone would be lucky to have a Destiny in their lives and I am one of those lucky ones :)
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17 Tháng ba, 2013
Destiny is really shy, but once you get to know her, she is the funniest and sweetest girl you'll meet. She laughs with everything she is, usually throwing her head back if it's really funny. She's sensitive, but usually fights back with sarcasm and doesn't let you know if you hurt her. She's protective of her friends and falls for guys easily. She loves deeply, to the point of consumption, and, if she is hurt, she tends to be reckless. She's kind of perfect in her way and anyone who meets her is lucky.
Destiny is awesome
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The car I drive has enough miles on it the radio only plays cassette tapes. Whose music gets slipped in the slot? For a long time my sole musical accompaniment when driving was Bach.Especially when driving the back roads.Bach and Somerset have a way complimenting each other.These days, Duke Ellington is center stage on the dashboard, and that's because at a thrift store I was able to pick up a matching set of "The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington" for only a dollar, plus tax.As for Bach, he remains on the front seat, wedged between Springhouse and the camera. If my taste for jazz fizzles, the genius with the powdered wig will be there with his harpsichord.A harpsichord compliments Herod, though the latter is known for fiddle and guitar.Does anybody else play the plastic rectangles that rattle when shook? From one who does, let the word go forth cassette tapes sound as good now as ever.Springhouse,P. O. Box 8,Herod, IL 62947
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A full head of hair combed into the middle to fabricate the look of a mohawk.
Ladies want me because I got a fauxhawk.
от Vince Latello
10 септември 2003
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A mohawk, but instead of a "real" mohawk where you shave the sides of your head, you just glue up the middle part of your regular hair so that it is in the style of the mohawk.
"There was a punk show tonight, but I didn't want to shave the sides of my head so I just made my hair into a fauxhawk."
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24 ноември 2003
see also: David Beckham.
I got bored and made a shampoo fauxhawk. Then I peed in my shower.
от Lolacita
27 ноември 2003
A toned-down version of the famous mohawk haircut, in which the sides of the head are shaved and a central strip of hair is made to stand up. The faux hawk resembles the mohawk when styled but can also, if desired, appear to be a conventional male haircut.
Nice faux hawk, man.
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26 май 2003
A variation of the "Mohawk" hair style. Hair is worm longer down the middle of the head and ussually spiked with gel. Contrary to the traditional "Mohawk" style, hair is not shaved completely on the sides of the head.
AKA: Fohawk
AKA: Fohawk
Barber: How would you like your hair cut?
Customer: I'd like a mohawk, but I don't think my boss would let me keep my job.
Barber: Have you given any thought to a fauxhawk?
Customer: That's a great idea, lets go for it!
Customer: I'd like a mohawk, but I don't think my boss would let me keep my job.
Barber: Have you given any thought to a fauxhawk?
Customer: That's a great idea, lets go for it!
от JitterBob
07 февруари 2009
a haircut in which the wearer, rather then shave off the sides of his head for a real mo-hawk, merely gels up a portion of hair in the middle. not everyone can wear it and look good. but if you do it tends to look very cool
last night we put some eyeliner on patrick and gave him a faux-hawk. he looked emo, but very adorable.
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04 август 2006
sides of the hair have a fade , but still has to blend in well with the top of your head top of your head has to have the longest hair gelled into the middle of the hair to make a fauxfauk .
guy 1 : yo man i just got a fauxhawk , how does it look ?
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CHARACTER Juan García Cortez | |
Appearance(s): | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Mentioned) |
Full name: | Juan García Cortez |
Also known as: | The Colonel Colonel Cortez |
Status: | Alive |
Gender: | Male |
Place of birth: | Unspecified Central American Country |
Home: | Unspecified Central American Country Vice City |
Nationality: | Unknown |
Family: | Mercedes Cortez (Daughter) Mrs. Cortez (Deceased) |
Main affiliation: | Cortez Crew Tommy Vercetti Gonzalez (Formerly) Ricardo Diaz (Formerly) Ken Rosenberg (Formerly) |
Vehicle(s): | Yacht Squalo Speeder |
Businesses: | Drug Dealing Military Hardware Theft |
Voiced by: | Robert Davi |
- "Tommy, you are not in Liberty anymore. Here, we do things differently."
- ―Juan García Cortez
Juan García Cortez is a character in Grand Theft Auto series who appears in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as a main character, and mentioned in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
Cortez is a retired colonel from a Central American country. He is the father of Mercedes Cortez.
He is a parody of Manuel Noriega, the military dictator of Panama and a major drug trafficker during the 1980s. He is voiced by Robert Davi, who also parodied Noriega as the antagonist of the James Bond film Licence To Kill (the first reference to that series since Grand Theft Auto: London 1969). He might also be a parody of Alejandro Sosa from Scarface, who coincidentally would later be voiced by Davi in the video game Scarface: The World is Yours.
Early LifeEdit
Juan Cortez was born in Central America. During his time in his home country, he survived thirty coups and nine death sentences, always managing to survive and get promoted. Cortez has a disliking of the French and accuses them of hypocrisy for stealing from poor nations for centuries. Cortez had his daughter Mercedes and is a widower. At some point, he became heavily involved in drug trafficking.
Cortez began his business interests in the United States by sending Gonzalez, his right hand man, as a representative in drug deals. Gonzalez stole some of Cortez' drugs to sell for a side profit, though he is more or less forgiven by Cortez and allied drug lord Ricardo Diaz (who threatens to kill Gonzales if he does not begin to tell Diaz about Cortez' future drug deals in the city). Cortez moved from his home country to Vice City by 1986, where he mainly lived on a large yacht. GTA Vice City's promotional website reveals that he is officially a cultural attaché "encouraging trade and improving our standing" between their countries, providing him a cover for his drug operations. He tells his countrymen that while he would rather be at his vineyard celebrating with them, "it is my curse to live in luxury in the United States" because he is serving a patriotic duty. He also reveals that aside from his yacht, he has a luxury villa in Vice City that his people pay for. The police have bugged it, which is probably why he lives on his yacht, also saying later that the yacht allows him to quickly relocate if he gets in too much trouble. Cortez is allowed leniency with the law because of diplomatic immunity, and also enjoys eating endangered species (for example, shark or tapia snout), considering it fine living.
Cortez enjoyed throwing parties on his yacht, which attracted very famous football players, rock stars and even politicians. After organizing a seemingly routine drug deal between Forelli mob members and the Vance brothers, it was ambushed with both $2 million and 20 kilos of cocaine stolen. Cortez meets the Forellis' representative, Tommy Vercetti, at one of his parties and begins trying to track down the thief. They begin by killing Gonzales, who had been telling too many people about the deal in the first place. He also recruits Vercetti's help to steal missile technology chips from the French government. Tommy meets Ricardo Diaz when he is sent to protect him, and later works for him as well, beginning to suspect that Diaz ambushed the deal.
When Cortez sees Tommy next, they share their suspicion that Diaz was responsible, though Cortez does not outright accuse Diaz because he considers him a "dangerous man". Cortez asks Tommy to steal a tank from a US military convoy and protect him from the French government while he takes his yacht out of the country. They say their goodbyes as close friends, Cortez giving Tommy a speedboat to return to shore, and asking him to look out for his daughter Mercedes.
In a month or two, Cortez calls Tommy (who had since killed Diaz and Forelli to become a powerful drug baron in his own right) fearing that his daughter wants to become a lawyer, which would bring shame to their family. Tommy reassures him that she definitely did not want to be a lawyer. Tommy did not tell Cortez that he had since allowed her to sleep with rock star Jezz Torrent and appear in a pornographic Steve Scott film alongside Candy Suxxx (ironically all three, Mercedes and Tommy were guests at a single one of his parties). In the same phone call, Cortez tells Tommy that he is in his home country and that the new minister of the interior whose father Cortez killed in a failed coup had arrived, so he needs to be polite to him. In another one of his phone calls, which was deleted from the game, Cortez tells Tommy that he fought in three revolutions, being promoted each time.
VCPD Crime Tree RecordEdit
- Cultural Attache
- Has diplomatic immunity - bear this in mind when bugging his house.
- Has somehow survived up to 30 coups in his native country.
- Likes to eat endangered species. Considers this to be fine living.
- Lives with daughter. Widower.
- Long term dislike for French secret service.
- Believed to facilitate trade in all areas of criminal activities, including, but not limited to, narcotics, firearms, weapons and military secrets.
- In his own country, has been sentenced to death 9 times, but always survives and gets promoted.
Mission AppearancesEdit
- GTA Vice City
- The Party
- Riot (Post-mission phone call)
- Treacherous Swine (Boss)
- Mall Shootout (Boss)
- Guardian Angels (Boss)
- Phnom Penh '86 (Post-mission phone call)
- Sir, Yes Sir! (Boss)
- Death Row (Post-mission phone call)
- All Hands On Deck (Boss)
- Keep Your Friends Close... (Post-mission phone call)
- In GTA San Andreas, there is an announcement on WCTR News in the early segments of the game that a former Latin American Dictator said that a government agency was supplying him with drugs. The Dictator might be Cortez, and the supplier might be Toreno, since he mentioned to Carl that he is "supplying overseas dictators and useful drug suppliers".
- Colonel Cortez's name maybe a reference to Felix Cortez, a character and primary antagonist from Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger. Both Cortezs are major drug smugglers and former colonels. Felix also uses the pseudonym of "Juan Diaz" which may refer to Ricardo Diaz.
- Toreno mentioned he has agents and operations in Panama, probably connected with Cortez.
- The character may also be a parody of "General Juan Domingo Peron"" , better known as the husband of "Evita Peron". There are a couple of reasons to suspect this.
- They share a lot of traits in common, including: that both are usually referred to by their title (General/Coronel), both widowed (Evita died long before Juan Domingo), promoted after being arrested during a coup (Peron used to be minister of war and work, he was arrested for a short-time, then liberated, and less than a year later elected for president).
- Physical appearance resemblance. (Peron photo here).
- Juan Cortez mentions the "Pampa's breeze", being a very notorious wind in Argentina, but not notorious enough to be mention by a Central America dictator.
- His dislike for the French may indicate he is from Haiti or the French Guayana


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Welcome to my Best Slow Cooker site and Slow Cooker Reviews blog, good day all! This is Peter, and I am a family man with a busy busy schedule. My passion for cooking fuels my desire to provide great tasting meals for my family despite my hectic work schedule. The slow cooker, despite its name, is a wonderful appliance for the working people who don't have time to cook. Do read on to find out why and how to choose the best slow cooker!
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I've come up with several slow cooker reviews to help you decide which slow cooker is ideal for your situation because there are so many on the market. Besides that, slow cookers are different in design from other kinds of cooking appliances so I bet you'll appreciate my short introduction on what a slow cooker does and how it can work magic in your cooking life! This means I've done all the hard work so you don't have to! Besides that, I've included some handy tips that will help you start on your own slow cooker journey so you'll be making yummy one-pot dishes in no time at all! Bon appétit!
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After trying out so many models, I can safely say I have tried my fair share of lemons and great slow cookers. My top slow cooker reviews however are listed in this site and I hope will help you make a decision on which slow cooker to buy for your needs.
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Our bejeweled owl stays chic on a backdrop of spotted feathers.
- Magnetic closure won't leave pinholes in your pretty things.
- Glass, feathers, and metal.
- Caution: magnetic closure may cause interference with pacemakers and implanted defibrillators.
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