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Why was the temperature on the planet not increasing 1960-1980? Possibly because of the cooling effects of sulfuric oxides, which were from 1970 and onwards gradually being faced out of the smoke from coal-powered electricity generation and other coal smoke. Now the Chinese are dumping into the atmosphere lots of sulfuric oxides from burning coal. When they need to clean the smoke, as they shall have to do now due to health hazards from continuing the present SOx release, the planet´s average temperature might jump upwards rather abruptly, much as it did in the period 1975-1990. The SOx stay in the atmosphere for about 5 years on average, a much shorter duration than that of CO2, if I have understood it correctly.
I think scepticism towards whether the heating of the planet is due to natural causes or is man made is understandable, since the cost of countering climate change is huge. However the cost of doing nothing might also be huge, if the causes for higher average temperature are rooted in human endevour. It is worth noticing, that the cost of countering climate change can be made more tolerable, if "the forest alternative", meaning less forest destruction, a changed management of existing forests and the planting of new forests, if the forest alternative to fix carbondioxide is used along with measures to curb increase in total anthropological generation of CO2. It has been calculated, that by using the forest alternative along with curbs on increased CO2 generation the price ticket for stabalizing CO2 levels in the atmosphere and staying within 2°C increase of average temperature could be lowered by 50%. Some "environmentalists" don´t want to accept the use of the forest alternative, since suffering is a neccessary part of the remedy picture in the eyes of puritanic protestantism, which is driving the environmentalist movement in the well off western countries. The calculations I am refering to were published last year in a book edited by Björn Lomborg, with articles from various scientists. Various kinds of geo-engineering are all much more costly, than the forest alternative, according to those calculations.

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With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles is a luminous and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.
"Maybe everything that happened to me and to my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It's possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much."
Spellbinding, haunting, The Age of Miracles is a beautiful novel of catastrophe and survival, growth and change, the story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in an extraordinary time. On an ordinary Saturday, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer, gravity is affected, the birds, the tides, human behavior and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray. In a world of danger and loss, Julia faces surprising developments in herself, and her personal world—divisions widening between her parents, strange behavior by Hannah and other friends, the vulnerability of first love, a sense of isolation, and a rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker gives us a breathtaking story of people finding ways to go on, in an ever-evolving world.
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"A stunner."—Justin Cronin
"A genuinely moving tale that mixes the real and surreal, the ordinary and the extraordinary, with impressive fluency and flair."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Gripping drama . . . flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan's Emerald City."—The Denver Post
"If you begin this book, you'll be loath to set it down until you've reached its end."—San Francisco Chronicle
"Provides solace with its wisdom, compassion, and elegance."—Curtis Sittenfeld
Don't miss the exclusive conversation between Karen Thompson Walker and Karen Russell at the back of the book.
Excerpted from The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. Copyright © 2012 by Karen Thompson Walker. Excerpted by permission of Random House Trade Paperbacks, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Karen Thompson Walker is the author of The Age of Miracles, which was a New York Times bestseller. She was born and raised in San Diego and is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program. A former editor at Simon & Schuster, she wrote The Age of Miracles in the mornings before work--sometimes while riding the subway. She currently lives in Iowa with her husband.
Praise for The Age of Miracles
"[A] moving tale that mixes the real and surreal, the ordinary and the extraordinary with impressive fluency and flair … Ms. Walker has an instinctive feel for narrative architecture, creating a story, in lapidary prose, that moves ahead with a sense of both the inevitable and the unexpected … Ms. Walker maps [her characters'] inner lives with such sure-footedness that they become as recognizable to us as people we've grown up with or watched for years on television… [A] precocious debut…one of this summer's hot literary reads."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"THE NEXT BIG FEMALE NOVELIST." --Rolling Stone
"THE SUMMER BOOK." --Vanity Fair.com
"[AN] EARTHSHAKING DEBUT." –Entertainment Weekly
"Part speculative fiction, part coming-of-age story…The Age of Miracles could turn Walker into American literature's next big thing."--NPR
"A tender coming-of-age novel."--Maureen Dowd, The New York Times
"Walker creates lovely, low-key scenes to dramatize her premise…The spirit of Ray Bradbury hovers in the mixture of the portentous and quotidian."--The New Yorker
"[Walker] matches the fierce creativity of her imagination with a lyrical and portentous understanding of the present."--People (4 stars)
"This haunting and soul-stirring novel about the apocalypse is transformative and unforgettable."--Marie Claire
"Quietly explosive … Walker describes global shifts with a sense of utter realism, but she treats Julia's personal adolescent upheaval with equal care, delicacy, and poignancy."—O, The Oprah Magazine
"Haunting."--Real Simple
"If you begin this book, you'll be loath to set it down until you've reached its end… The Age of Miracles reminds us that we never know when everything will change, when a single event will split our understanding of personal history and all history into a Before and an After." –The San Francisco Chronicle
"The perfect combination of the intimate and the pandemic…Flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan's 'Emerald City.'"--Denver Post
"Touching, observant and poetic."--The Columbus Dispatch
"Simply told, skillfully crafted and filled with metaphorical unities, this resonant first novel [rings] with difficult truths both large and small."--Kansas City Star
"The Age of Miracles lingers, like a faded photo of a happy time. It is stunning."–Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Both utterly realistic and fantastically dystopian…The big miracles, Walker seems to be saying, may doom the world at large, but the little ones keep life worth living."--Minnesota Herald Tribune
"[An] elegiac, moving first novel."--Newsday
"Arresting… This book cuts bone-deep." --Austin Chronicle
"Evocative and poetic...I loved this book from the first page."--Huntington News
"Walker's tone can be properly [Harper] Lee-esque; both Julia and Scout grapple with the standard childhood difficulties as their societies crumble around them. But life prevails, and the stunning Miracles subtly conveys that adapting."--Time Out New York
"[A] gripping debut . . . Thompson's Julia is the perfect narrator. . . . While the apocalypse looms large—has in fact already arrived—the narrative remains fiercely grounded in the surreal and horrifying day-to-day and the personal decisions that persist even though no one knows what to do. A triumph of vision, language, and terrifying momentum, the story also feels eerily plausible, as if the problems we've been worrying about all along pale in comparison to what might actually bring our end."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"In Walker's stunning debut, a young California girl coming of age in a dystopian near future confronts the inevitability of change on the most personal level as life on earth withers … She goes through the trials and joys of first love. She begins to see cracks in her parents' marriage and must navigate the currents of loyalty and moral uncertainty. She faces sickness and death of loved ones. ... Julia's life is shaped by what happens in the larger world, but it is the only life she knows, and Walker captures each moment, intimate and universal, with magical precision. Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"What a remarkable and beautifully wrought novel. In its depiction of a world at once utterly like and unlike our own, The Age of Miracles is so convincingly unsettling that it just might make you stockpile emergency supplies of batteries and bottled water. It also—thank goodness—provides great solace with its wisdom, its compassion, and the elegance of its storytelling."—Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep
"'Miracles' indeed. Karen Thompson Walker's debut novel is a stunner from the first page—an end-of-the-world, coming-of-age tale of quiet majesty. I loved this novel and can't wait to see what this remarkable writer will do next."—Justin Cronin, author of The Passage
"Is the end near? In Karen Thompson Walker's beautiful and frightening debut, sunsets are becoming rarities, "real-timers" live in daylight colonies while mainstream America continues to operate on the moribund system of "Clock Time," and environmentalists rail against global dependence on crops that guzzle light. Against this apocalyptic backdrop, Walker sets the coming-of-age story of brave, bewildered Julia, who wonders at the "malleable rhythms" of the increasingly erratic adults around her. Like master fabulists Steven Millhauser and Kevin Brockmeier, Karen Thompson Walker takes a fantastic premise and makes it feel thrillingly real. In precise, poetic language, she floods the California suburbs with shadows and a doomsday glow, and in this altered light shows us amazing things about how one family responds to a stunningly imagined global crisis."—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!
"This is what imagination is. In The Age of Miracles, the earth's rotation slows, gravity alters, days are stretched out to fifty hours of sunlight. In the midst of this, a young girl falls in loves, sees things she shouldn't and suffers heartbreak of the most ordinary kind. Karen Thompson Walker has managed to combine fiction of the dystopian future with an incisive and powerful portrait of our personal present."—Amy Bloom, author of Away
"The Age of Miracles is pure magnificence. Deeply moving and beautifully executed, Karen Thompson Walker has written the perfect novel for the global-warming age."—Nathan Englander, author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
"Reading The Age of Miracles is like gazing into a sky of constellations and being mesmerized by the the strange yet familiar sensation of infinity. Beautifully written, the novel lets the readers see the world within us and the world without with an unforgettable freshness."—Yiyun Li, author of Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
"The Age of Miracles spins its glowing magic through incredibly lucid and honest prose, giving equal care and dignity to the small spheres and the large. It is at once a love letter to the world as we know it and an elegy."—Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
"Gripping from first page to last, The Age of Miracles is itself a small, perfectly formed miracle: Written with the cadence and pitch of poetry, this gem of a novel is a wrenching and all-too-believable parable for our times, and one of the most original coming-of-age stories I have ever read. Karen Thompson Walker is the real deal."—Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion
"The Age of Miracles is harrowing and beautiful on the ways in which those catastrophes already hidden about us in plain sight, once ratcheted up just a bit, provide us with a glimpse of the end of our species' run on earth: the uncanny distress of hundreds of beached whales, or the surreal unease of waves rolling across the rooftops of beachfront houses. And as it does it reminds us of all of the miracles of human regard that will have taken place before then: the way compassion will retain its resilience, and the way, for those of us in love, a string of afternoons will be as good as a year."—Jim Shepard, author of Like You'd Understand, Anyway (National Book Award finalist)
1. As readers, why do you think we're drawn to stories about the end of the world? What special pleasures do these kinds of narratives offer? And how do you think this element works in The Age of Miracles?
2. Julia is an only child. How does this fact affect who she is and how she sees the world? How would her experience of the slowing be different if she had a sibling? How would her experience of middle school be different?
3. How much do you think the slowing alters Julia's experience of adolescence? If the slowing had never happened, in what ways would her childhood have been different? In what ways would it have been the same?
4. Julia's parents' marriage becomes increasingly strained over the course of the book. Why do you think they stay together? Do you think it's the right choice? How much do you think Julia's mother does or does not know about Sylvia?
5. Julia's father tells several crucial lies. Discuss these lies and consider which ones, if any, are justified and which ones are not. Is lying ever the right thing to do? If so, when?
6. How would the book change if it were narrated by Julia's mother? What if it were narrated by Julia's father? Or her grandfather?
7. Why do you think Julia is so drawn to Seth? Why do you think he is drawn to her?
8. Did you identify more with the clock-timers or with the real-timers? Which would you be and why?
9. The slowing affects the whole planet, but the book is set in southern California. How does the setting affect the book? How important is it that the story takes place in California?
10. How do you feel about the way the book ends? What do you think lies ahead for Julia, for her parents, and for the world?
11. The slowing throws the natural world into disarray. Plants and animals die and there are changes in the weather. Did this book make you think about the threats that face our own natural world? Do you think the book has something to say about climate change?
12. If you woke up tomorrow to the news that the rotation of the earth had significantly slowed, how do you think you would respond? What is the first thing you would do?


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Spend a Summer Day at Penn State is the Admission Office's largest recruitment effort. Penn State coordinates bus transportation for students and their families from Baltimore, Harrisburg, New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington D.C.
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A quick coffee and a muffin or bagel for breakfast fueled prospective students and parents for Spend a Summer Day. The HUB-Robeson Center's Alumni Hall was the home base for those visiting during the open house.
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Jennifer Maloney brought her parents, Kathy and John, to Spend a Summer Day with her at Penn State. The three are from Schuylkill, Pa.
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Josh Scarcella, his parents Sandy and Rich and his friend Alex Fegely, plan their agenda during their visit to Penn State. The four drove in from Leesport, Pa., just north of Reading, Pa.
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Antonio Moore, Assistant Director of Admissions, speaks to prospective students and their families about the admissions process and student aid.
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Arnold Gashe (right), class of '52 and Matt Jeremias are two of the 100 alumni from the Centre County Chapter of the Alumni Association to volunteer at Spend a Summer Day. Volunteers wear yellow T-shirts and assist students and their families with directions around campus.
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Jan Wong came all the way from Malaysia to Spend a Summer Day at Penn State. Wong and her parents, along with her brother Ken, flew into Philadelphia last night. Penn State was first on the family's list of schools to visit while visiting America.
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Shannon Ritter, Donna Case, Tammy Zanghi and Jennifer Lewis (from left to right) work in the admissions office at Penn State. They were on hand to help guide visitors during the 2007 Spend a Summer Day event. Penn State University Park hosts the two week open house annually.
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This prospective student registers for the Spend a Summer Day activities, which includes admissions and financial aid presentations, campus tours given by current students and a chance to visit academic colleges.
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Megamouth shark
The megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) is an extremely rare species of deepwater shark, and the smallest of the three planktivorous sharks besides the whale shark and basking shark. Since its discovery in 1976, few megamouth sharks have been seen, with 59 specimens known to have been caught or sighted as of May 2014, including three recordings on film. Like the other two filter feeders, it swims with its enormous mouth wide open, filtering water for plankton and jellyfish. It is distinctive for its large head with rubbery lips. It is so unlike any other type of shark that it is usually considered to be the sole extant species in the distinct family Megachasmidae, though suggestion has been made that it may belong in the family Cetorhinidae, of which the basking shark is currently the sole extant member.[citation needed] In addition to the living M. pelagios, however, two extinct megamouth species — the Cretaceous M. comanchensis and the Oligocene-Miocene M. applegatei — have also recently been proposed on the basis of fossilised tooth remains.[1][2]
Physical characteristics[edit]
The appearance of the megamouth is distinctive, but little else is known about it. It has a brownish-black colour on top, is white underneath, and has an asymmetrical tail with a long upper lobe, similar to that of the thresher shark. The interior of its gill slits are lined with finger-like gill rakers that capture its food. A relatively poor swimmer, the megamouth has a soft, flabby body and lacks keels.
Megamouths are large sharks, able to grow to 5.5 metres (18 ft) in length. Males mature by 4 metres (13 ft) and females by 5 metres (16 ft). Weights of up to 1,215 kg (2,679 lb) have been reported. The average size of their mouth is about 1.3 meters.[citation needed]
As their name implies, megamouths have a large mouth with small teeth, and a broad, rounded snout, causing observers to occasionally mistake megamouth for a young orca. The mouth is surrounded by luminous photophores, which may act as a lure for plankton or small fish. Their mouths can reach up to 1.3 metres wide.[citation needed]
In 1990, a 4.9-m (16-foot) male megamouth shark was caught near the surface off Dana Point, California. This individual was eventually released with a small radio tag attached to its soft body. The tag relayed depth and time information over a two-day period. During the day, the shark swam at a depth of around 120–160 m (400–525 ft), but as the sun set, it would ascend and spend the night at depths of between 12 and 25 m (39–80 ft). Both day and night, its progress was very slow at around 1.5–2.1 km/h (1–1.3 mph). This pattern of vertical migration is seen in many marine animals as they track the movement of plankton in the water column.[3] The shark captured in March 2009 was reportedly netted at a depth of 200 m (660 ft).
Reproduction is ovoviviparous, meaning that the young sharks develop in eggs that remain within the mother's body until they hatch.
The first megamouth was captured on November 15, 1976 about 25 miles off the coast from Kāneʻohe, Hawaiʻi when it became entangled in the sea anchor of United States Navy ship AFB-14. Examination of the 4.5 m (14.7 ft), 750 kg (1,650 lb) specimen by Leighton Taylor showed it to be an entirely unknown type of shark, making it one of the more sensational discoveries in 20th-century ichthyology (see also coelacanth).
Known specimens[edit]
As of July 2014, only 59 megamouth specimens have been caught or sighted, the most recent being one caught by Japanese fishermen. They have been found in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan have each yielded at least 10 specimens, the most of any single area, amounting to more than half the worldwide total. Specimens have also been sighted in or come out of the waters near Hawaii, California, Mexico, Indonesia, Australia, Brazil, Senegal, South Africa, and Ecuador.
On March 30, 2009 off Burias Island in the Philippines, an 880- to 1,100-pound (400- to 500-kilogram) 4-metre (13-foot) megamouth shark died while struggling in a fisherman's net and was subsequently taken to nearby Donsol in Sorsogon province, where it was examined by scientists, before being butchered and sold.[4][5][6]
On 12 June 2011, a 3 m (10 ft) dead juvenile male was found by fishermen near the western Baja California peninsula coast, in a region called Bahía de Vizcaíno. It was picked up by the same fishing vessel that in 2006 captured another megamouth specimen in Vizcaino bay, which has led Mexican scientists to believe that the megamouth could be a seasonal visitor to the Baja Peninsula. The new specimen was taken to Ensenada, Mexico, where it was photographed and sliced in order for Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Mexican researchers to study the structure of its muscles and gills.[7]
On May 7, 2014 a 3.96 m (13 ft) 1,500 lbs (680 kilogram) female shark was captured at a depth of 2,600 ft off the coast of Shizuoka, Japan. The body was dissected in front of the public, by staff at the Marine Science Museum in Shizuoka City, Japan.[8]
On June 30, 2014 a 1,102 lbs (500 kilogram) female shark was captured in the shallow waters of Cagayan de Oro in the Philippines. Samples were sent to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in northern Mindanao (BFAR-10) and the outer skin is to be stuffed for a local museum.[9]
See also[edit]
- For a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of sharks.
- ^ Shimada, K. 2007. Mesozoic origin for megamouth shark (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27:512–516. (Link at BioOne)
- ^ Shimada, K., Welton, B.J., and Long, D.J. 2014. A new fossil megamouth shark (Lamniformes, Megachasmidae) from the Oligocene-Miocene of the western United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34:281-290.
- ^ Piper, Ross (2007), Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals, Greenwood Press.
- ^ Aca, E.Q. 2009. Megamouth Shark # 41: Megamouth shark in Whale Shark waters. Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department.
- ^ "CTV: Rare megamouth shark caught, eaten in Philippines". Ctv.ca. 2009-04-07. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "MEGAMOUTH SHARK FOUND: National Geographic". News.nationalgeographic.com. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Elusive megamouth shark snared in Mexico".
- ^ "Rare Megamouth shark caught in Japan".
- ^ "Another rare Megamouth Shark caught".
- Compagno (2000). Megachasma pelagios. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 10 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as data deficient
- "Megachasma pelagios". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 23 January 2006.
- Berra, Tim M. (1997): "Some 20th century fish discoveries". Environmental Biology of Fishes 50: 1–12.
- Taylor, L.R. et al. (1983): "Megamouth — a new species, genus, and family of lamnoid shark (Megachasma pelagios, family Megachasmidae) from the Hawaiian Islands". Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 43A: 87–110.
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Do not put too many in at once (usually 5 or 6 for medium size pot).
hey guys...told my dad (who is owner about the pic)....he wants me to remove it...so sorry...whoever didnt get to see it...sorry guys....i can post pics of other pizzas though
Kidder,If you are specifically referring to my desert dough, not really. My dough contains about 160g of water, or about 55.555% hydration. I don't want it too wet because I add butter to it when preparing cinnamon rolls. The dough is in fact pretty sticky, not dry by most people's standards.- red.novemberEDIT: Most desert doughs need to be formulated so that they can withstand a lot of outside moisture from things like fillings, syrups, fruit, butter, etc.
Wow, thanks for catching that. I guess it was one of those rare unconscious moments I just went with the spelling that came before me. That's probably why I didn't get your joke. Technically it wasn't my spelling, but I should have still caught it. You're such a kidder.


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Vac or forget it!
Vac metal
No vac metal
Do you want vac metal on Jitsu`s hand, considering that it could chip off like on Hurricane Hordak`s armor or do you want a normal golden paint?
Vac or forget it!
no, Vac is wac!
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I usually am all for vac-metal in MOTUC... but I have to say, the gold paint used on Jitsu (and I'm assuming he'll look as good as an actual product, and that the paint job isn't just this great-looking on the prototype) looks so damn good, that I think doing anything different would be a mistake. I've been waving the vac-metalized flag for Entrapta all these years, but my first thought upon seeing Jitsu was "Yeah, if they can make all of the gold on Entrapta look THIS good, the MOTUC version of her might surpass the classic PoP version!"
No vac metal, I've become scared of the stuff because of its delicate nature.
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If you have to disclaimer your like, then you don't really like it.
I would prefer vac metal but i'm not to fussed either way.
No, I prefer regular metallic paint.
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Personally, I don't care what it was in the vintage line. This is the Classics line and we know full well that for those of us who actually have a loose display collection, the vac metal will chip over time. I want a gold paint job for his hand.
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No Vac Metal. Fisto's Fist wasn't Vac Metal in MOTUC's and it looks fantastic. They will use a nice shiny gold paint on Jitsu's hand and it has some green accents to it too in the knuckles from the Sculpts image
Going against the grain here but i'd like vac metal. My HH is absolutely fine so i see no reason why Jitsu's vac metal app won't be either.
I voted Vac, because I would prefer it. However If he got Vac I'd be very angry about Fisto, so specifically speaking I would rather they match, so I'll be fine with paint.
I prefer a match with Fisto, so no vac metal for Jitsu's hand either...
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I wouldn't mind a vac metalized hand for Jitsu in Classics, as long as it's done correctly. Heck, it was in the vintage line.
As for the argument that, "Fisto's fist wasn't vac metalized in Classics." or, "It won't match Fisto." Remember folks, Fisto's fist was not vac metalized in the vintage line either. So Fisto and Jitsu never matched.
Personally, I liked that it set the two apart.
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No Vac for me, gold paint same way as hero was just perfect!
I'm not a fan of vac metal, so I would prefer it the other way.
Vac is wack. I plan on using this figure a lot and I'd hate the thought of him getting all scuffed up err time he put the smack down.
Plus gold paint matches the rest of the outfit better. Gotta coordinate.
I'd like gold vac metal but it won't be a deal breaker.
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Vac metal all the way. No question...
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Phoronix doesn't tell you that there is also VAAPI support for xine-lib. Thx to this censored board where to information depends on phoronix, they wanna let you know or not.
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Michael has no clue that a site should place its readers before their adds sponsors?
If you treat your readers like this, what the hell do you expect from them in return? You want add revenue? Be a good website then that people visit often and want to read. If you suck, you don't deserve revenue.
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I don't like it either, but I can see his position on this.
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Coldest winter days may be over
By Eric Berger | January 21, 2013 | Updated: January 22, 2013 7:59am
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Nine-year-old Julia Bevil, center, skates The ICE at Discovery Green after attending the Martin Luther King Day parade downtown on Monday. The ICE at Discovery Green is open daily through its final day Sunday.
Photo By Smiley N. Pool/Houston ChronicleA Houston Astros fan runs for the stadium in a downpour before the Astros season opener against the Texas Rangers at Minute Maid Park on Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Thomas B. Shea/For the ChronicleFrom left to right Alain Ducante, Patti Glinski, Becky Smith and Bill Alllen, run down North MacGregor in Houston, Texas. Alain Ducante ran the entire 200 miles of the Texas Independence Relays starting in Gonzales, Texas at 3 am and finished at the San Jacinto Monument.
Photo By Cody Duty/.Bethany Kwok bundles up as she walks along Walker Street, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, in Houston. Kwok said that is was the more the wind that was making the weather really cold.
Photo By Melissa Phillip/Houston ChronicleA few boaters splash each other as they paddle along during the Buffalo Bayou Regatta Saturday, March 16, 2013 in Houston. At least 500 boats are participating in the 15 mile race.
Photo By Melissa Phillip/Houston ChroniclePeople paddle along during the Buffalo Bayou Regatta Saturday, March 16, 2013 in Houston. At least 500 boats are participating in the 15 mile race.
Photo By Melissa PhillipHannah Kinder, 7, left, Whitney Bogardus, Anne Tulek and her daughter, Elysa, 13, right, brace against the cooler weather at a Little League game Sunday.
Photo By Smiley N. Pool/Houston ChronicleVolunteers at a water stop exchanged high-fives with walkers along Allen Parkway.
Photo By Smiley N. Pool/Houston ChronicleKrista Thrasher holds a poster honoring her sister Rhonda Martin during the walk. Martin died from AIDS in 1997, and Thrasher has participated in the walk every year since to honor her memory. "She was such a trooper, she was always positive," Thrasher said.
Photo By Smiley N. Pool/Houston ChronicleA pair of dogs join walkers along Allen Parkway.
Photo By Eric Christian Smith/For the Chronicle(Left to right) Lisa Overby, Carla Reid and Kassie Leincester check text messages before the running of The Woodlands Marathon, Saturday, March 2, 2013 in The Woodlands.(Photo: Eric Christian Smith: For the Houston Chronicle)
Photo By Eric KayneParticipants in the revived My Fit Foods The Woodlands Marathon (last held in 1993), March 3, 2012 in The Woodlands, TX.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleBill Kopitzke raises his kite towards the sky in hopes a gust of wind will launch into the air at Hermann Memorial Park on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Houston. Winds will decrease today, and sunny pleasant weather expected tomorrow.
Photo By Melissa Phillip/Houston ChronicleSasha Amelang, 10 of Houston and her brother Zachary Amelang, 7, holds onto their hats against the wind as they arrive for the rodeo grand entry during the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo at Reliant Stadium Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleAn early morning runner makes his way along Allen Parkway into Downtown on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in Houston.
The scene outside the Houston Galleria on Sunday. (Brett Coomer/Chronicle)
Photo By Brett Coomer/Houston ChronicleJose Diaz, Jr., plays in the wind with a large plastic bag at Queenston Park Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleSurfers decide where they'll paddle into Gulf of Mexico to enjoy swells caused by the wind and current stormy weather on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in Galveston.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleSurfer websites alert surfers about bigger than usual swells due to high winds and stormy weather on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in Galveston.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleSurfers paddle back into Gulf of Mexico to enjoy the swells caused by the wind and current stormy weather on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in Galveston.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleAlfides Arana, 58, of Galveston, is fishing in the West Bay as a light rain moves into the area on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in Galveston.
Photo By Nick de la Torre / Houston ChronicleNicolas Tello and his mother Patricia Tello visit Hermann Park to walk and feed ducks.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleTwo men shield themselves from the rain as they cross Lamar Street, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleA woman shields herself from the rain as she walks through a parking lot on Milam Street, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleJanet Conner pushes her 16-year-old dog Penny Pabst as they walk to the store along Sawyer Street Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, in Houston. Conner walks to the store after she stopped driving two years ago.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleWind blows the hair and tie of Kyle Furtwangler as he leaves Reliant Center, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleHair blows into the face of Brittany Taylor as she walks into Reliant Center, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Melissa Phillip/.Children walk through the fog as they enter Brill Elementary, 9102 Herts Rd, in Spring, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleFog looms as a cat crosses the street Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleTina Poindexter walks her dog Argenta through the fog Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, in Houston. "I think it's peaceful and mysterious," she said.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleCharro, the 12 year-old Green Iguana, soaks in the sunshine for the first time in days at Herman Park on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, in Houston. Charro lives in the Houston Museum of Natural Science Butterfly Exhibit. It needs to be at least 70 degrees in order for volunteers to take him out of exhibit to warm up the cold blooded iguana.
Photo By Brett Coomer/Houston ChronicleAda Topacio, left, and Jacob Hitchen take advantage of the spring-like temperature to throw the football around at Eleanor Tinsley Park Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Brett Coomer/Houston ChronicleLina Monroe takes advantage of the spring-like temperature to play on the swings with her granddaughter Landranice Sharp at Eleanor Tinsley Park Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleWade Pierre gestures as he makes his girlfriend, Sally Perez laugh during her lunch break at Stude Park Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, in Houston. Perez said they came to the park because of the weather. "It's so beautiful," she said.
Photo By Eric Kayne/For the ChronicleMatt Gentry's dog Luna, 3, jumps after a treed squirrel as fog encapsulates the morning Jan. 20, 2013 in Houston. Gentry said Luna is a vizsla, a Hungarian breed, who loves chasing squirrels.
Photo By Eric Kayne/For the ChronicleA golfer drives into the fog at the Memorial Park Golf Course Jan. 20, 2013 in Houston.
Photo By Brett Coomer/Houston ChronicleRudy Villasana, left, takes advantage of the mild temperatures Wednesday to play music at Menil Park with his cousin Jessica Villasana Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, in Houston. Temperatures in the Houston area topped the low 50s, with the forecast calling for low-to-mid 60s this weekend.
Photo By Johnny Hanson/Houston ChronicleMike Howard braves the cold weather to watch his son Chris' soccer game at Klein Memorial.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChroniclePedestrians cross Texas Avenue as rain sprinkles Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Johnny Hanson/Houston ChronicleVolunteer, Ethan Haller of Kingwood, carries a box of organic kale into the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center for the weekly Rawfully Organic co-op pickup Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, in Houston. There are about 7500 members in the food co-op and about 500 weekly participants. The fruit and vegetables that are provided are all organic and locally grown when possible. For more information visit www.rawfullyorganic.com.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleRoger Wood holds on to 'Teddy' who won the Mr. Congeniality award during the costume contest before the Krewe of Barkus & Meoux Parade along the Seawall on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in Galveston.
Photo By Brett Coomer/Houston ChronicleJames Adams, left, and Diana Tyrrell stand around a fire built in a barbecue grill trying to stay warm at Peggy Park Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, in Houston. Temperatures hovered near 40 degrees on Tuesday, with an expected low of 35 during the night.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleA school bus is seen reflected in standing water left from the rain, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleSchool Crossing Guard Dorothy Dames is reflected in a puddle as she stands along Bayland Street near Houston Avenue, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, in Houston. James said that the standing water usually stays about a week after the rain.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleDanielle Harris, 3, looks up at her umbrella as she walks along Kingston Street, with her mom, Betty Harris, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, in Houston. "I can't believe it's been raining this much," Betty said.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleA stop sign is seen as frost forms on a windshield, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Brett Coomer/Houston ChronicleHouston Texans fans Brookelyn Mitchell, left, and Jen Schaefer walk outside Reliant Stadium on their way to the AFC Playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Reliant Stadium on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleTiffany Cobbin shields herself from the rain as she waits for the bus on N Main Street, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, in Houston. The forecast calls to be in the 40s throughout the day, have few showers on Friday and will stay in the 50s until Sunday.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleRoxanne Chavarria walks through downtown weathering the cold as the Houston area continues to experience low temperatures on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleFlaco Ramirez, left, and James Adams, right, keep warm and cook breakfast at Peggy Park, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, in Houston. The weather will be in the 40s throughout the day and will stay in the 50s until Sunday.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleSophia Oncken, 3, plays in a puddle on San Jacinto Street, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, in Houston. Oncken said that she likes her rain boots after getting them for Christmas.
Photo By Johnny Hanson/Houston ChronicleSofia Kennedy, 4, rides her balance bike under the watchful eye of her father Galvin Kennedy in a parking lot in the Garden Oaks neighborhood Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012, in Houston. "It's promising," Galvin Kennedy said. "She's four-and-a-half and we've tried this bike in the past and she didn't have any interest in riding it."
Photo By Johnny Hanson/StaffEdwin Escobedo, 15, puts up a lay-up while playing basketball at Herman Brown Park in northeast Houston on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. Escobedo complained that the ball hurt his hands because of the cold weather. Were Escobedo to venture to the courts on Monday, he might find the ball a bit slippery - rainstorms are likely for much of the morning in the Houston area.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleJae Tolentino, 7, races his little sister Isale Tolentino, 5, down the hill at Discovery Green on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, in Houston. Dispite cold weather, the Tolentino children asked for a trip to the park and ice skating.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleAna Rodriguez carries son Yan Luna, 3, as they weather the cold to eat at a nearby restaurant in west Houston on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, in Houston.
Photo By Johnny Hanson/Houston ChronicleSonia Vargas tries to keep warm as she waited for the light rail on Fannin near Pressler Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, in Houston.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleKen Luna, 8, weathers the cold with his mother as they walk to a nearby restaurant in west Houston on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, in Houston.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleDion Bandenbosch and his horse 'Fire in the Wind' both wear Santa hats as they take a Christmas Day ride along FM 1486 on Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, near Montgomery, Texas.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleCenterPoint Energy employees work to restore power to areas off of Westpark Tollway and FM 1464 on Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, in Houston. Strong winds and rain downed trees that were weakened by last year's drought knocking out power to tens of thousands of customers in the Houston area on. At the height of the Christmas day storm, some 69,000 homes were without power in the Houston region. By early evening CenterPoint was reporting 52,000 customers were without power.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleEvelyn Anness is reflected in puddles left by a passing storm as walks with her arms full of items and free clothing at the Extended Aftercare Alumni holiday event in downtown Houston on Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. Volunteers distributed a holiday meal, clothes, and hygiene gift packages on Christmas morning in a holiday tradition started to give people new to recovery from drug and alcohol addiction an opportunity to be of service.
Photo By James Nielsen/ChronicleFour-year-old Lauren Steemer and her five-year-old sister Lacie Steemer look over the Christmas tree their family picked out to purchase at Houston Garden Center at 11833 Southwest Freeway Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, in Houston.
Photo By James Nielsen/ChronicleRodolfo Ortiz right, plays with his two-year-old son Patricio Ortiz center, and four-year-old son Alberto Ortiz left, at Discovery Green Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, in Houston.
Photo By Cody Duty/.
Chicago Pizza and Italian Beef cashier Frank Perez prepares the outdoor seating on Airline Drive, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, in Houston. Perez said that last week when the weather was cold, people don't sit outside. "When the weather is nicer, we have more walk-in customers and people that sit outside," Perez said. "When the weather is more cold, we get more deliveries."
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleClouds fill the morning sky as a runners makes his way down a running trail near the Bill Coats bridge Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, in Houston.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleOn a chilly afternoon, Alvaro Olvera sings with Mariachi Imperial de America while the faithful enjoy a free lunch after Mass at Holy Cross Chapel in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, in Houston.
Photo By Cody Duty/.Gracie Orr's hair blows in her face as she walks along Walker Street, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, in Houston. "It's even worse down here because of the buildings," she said of the wind.
Photo By Johnny Hanson/Houston ChronicleNicole Glenn with S-n-G Horseback Riding leads Angela Smith and Gerard Daniels of Houston on a beach horseback ride along Jamaica Beach Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, in Galveston. Daniels took his girlfriend Smith on the horseback ride for her birthday. "I've never done this before," Daniels said. "It's relaxing."
Photo By James Nielsen/.Six-year-old Seth Villegas 2nd from left catches a christmas tree as his four-year-old brother Tomas Villegas right, and his father Fidel Villegas looks down at the Old Time Christmas Tree Farm Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, in Spring.
Photo By Eric KayneDulles high school student Ari Gee, 14, shows some color as volunteer high school students help clean up following a Graffiti Run, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 in Houston at the University of Houston. The Graffiti Run is a 5K that involves running past stations and being covered in colored powder. According to their website, Graffiti Run donates a portion of proceeds to local charities that specialize in city cleanup and beautification projects.
Photo By Melissa Phillip/Houston ChronicleA turkey float moves along the parade route during the 63rd Annual Houston Holiday Parade in downtown Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012, in Houston.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleAnthony Kelly wears a scarf around his during a cold and breezy Monday morning, Nov. 12, 2012, in Houston. Kelly said he wore the scarf to keep his ears warm.
Photo By J. Patric Schneider/For the ChronicleKiba Yamagoto (left) and Tirsten Wilson practice with their sleeping samurai swords in Hermann Park on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in Houston. Sleeping Samurai is a type of Kendo fighting style that each opponent uses a foam sword to do battle with one another. Around 20 participants practice in Hermann Park each weekend.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/ChroniclePink Phurree, a breast cancer survivor dragon boat team, paddles down the lake during the first round of races of the 8th annual Gulf Coast International Dragon Boat Regatta at Brooks Lake on a sunny Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, in Sugar Land.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleThe sun rises over I-10 and Taylor Street Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Houston. (Cody Duty)
Photo By Smiley N. Pool/Houston ChronicleDarceese Aldridge, 15, runs along Allen Parkway.
By the calendar, of course, winter is far from over.
Nevertheless, last week's chill might be as cold as it gets this season as the remainder of January looks to be unseasonably warm.
The city of Houston hit its lowest temperatures of the season on Thursday morning, when Bush Intercontinental Airport had its first recording in the 20s, falling to 29 degrees. Additionally, Hobby Airport recorded its first freeze of the winter, bottoming out at 31 degrees.
The site, south of downtown Houston, generally records about nine freezing nights during a winter season, according to Charles Roeseler, with the Houston/Galveston office of the National Weather Service. The last time Hobby failed to reach 32 degrees was the winter season of 1994-95.
But it may not freeze again this year.
Based upon climate data, the first 10 days of January are typically the coldest time of year in Houston. By early February the city is already sliding toward spring.
This year the pattern appears to support warmer temperatures for the remainder of winter.
The long-range flow pattern in the upper atmosphere favors higher than normal pressure across the Southern Plains, with lower than normal pressure across the eastern United States, said Matt Haworth, a forecaster with ImpactWeather, a private weather company based in Houston.
Such a pattern typically allows a majority of the cold Canadian and Arctic air masses to slide more east and southeast across the Great Lakes, rather than driving them due south toward the Gulf.
After a sunny week ahead in Houston, Haworth said, forecast models are indicating that by month's end rainy and cloudy weather will return to the metro area. But that doesn't mean freezes are likely for downtown Houston and points closer to the coast.
"While we could see a few more chilly and rainy days, especially towards the end of the month and into February, there is a moderate chance that areas from downtown Houston to the coast will not see freezing temperatures for the rest of the season," he said.


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