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During my two-day excursion to western Liaoning Province in the company of colleagues Dr Zhou Zhonghe, Dr Ni Xijun and Dr Yu Xiabo from the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, we visited - as has been mentioned - the city of Chaoyang. On the outskirts of that town is a truly magnificent and brand new museum of palaeontology, set in a large park. We went to explore.
The first thing that greets you is an enormous, swooping gateway - so enormous that one first assumes it is the museum. Here it is, from inside the museum grounds, as it were. (Something I never quite got used to - everything in China - but everything - is conceived on a stupendous scale).
A few animatronic dinosaurs and dino-birds are scattered about the park. These roar menacingly as one passes.
An animatronic dinosaur. Roaring menacingly. Recently.
In this picture, Dr Zhou Zhonghe ignores the menacing roar from a not-very-good animatronic rendition of the extinct bird Yanornis. Dr Zhou can afford to do this, as he was one of the people who described the species in the first place. But the animatronics are, literally, a sideshow. Elsewhere in the park is a concrete-and-glass pavilion which covers something much more real - and much more breathtaking - an excavation, in which a chunk of ground has been removed to reveal the fossil wonders that underlie not just this museum, but enormous swathes of the region. This is what this pavilion looks like from the inside:
It can't be emphasized enough that this isn't a model - it's the real thing. It's not a plaster and simul-creteTM mock-up of an exposure from somewhere else. This is a slice of Liaoning fossil beds, in situ, straight outta the Lower Cretaceous. It's real. As real as the skeletons of fossil birds, dinosaurs, fishes and plants that litter the floor wherever you look, casually pointed out for our stupefied perusal. Oh look, here's one, a fossil bird, Cathayornis ...
and, what do you know, here's a fish and a plant, almost as well preserved as had they died yesterday (well, last week, maybe).
It's hard to grasp, but the fossil riches of the early Cretaceous world cluster thickly just a few meters beneath one's feet over hundreds, if not thousands, of square miles of this part of China.
But wait - there's more. We've yet to enter the museum itself. Here is its imposing façade. See if you can spot the word for 'fossil' in the signage.
This is a biggish sort of museum. And, on display, in room after room, is a collection of fossils just from this region of a quality and variety that speaks of insouciant braggadocio - any one of these specimens would be the pride of any self-respecting national collection. And yet, here, in a provincial museum on the outskirts of a smallish city, is palaeontological wealth beyond the dreams of the most avaricious Victorian collector. So - and this is for you, Dr S. S. of Lüneberg - let's look at some fossils.
First of all, the plants are lovely. Not just the odd leaf, but whole plants, including fruiting bodies and flowers.
The rocks of Liaoning hold the earliest known good records of flowering plants in the world.
There are lots of invertebrates (crustaceans, insects)...
... a plethora of fishes ...
... turtles ...
... extinct lizard-like reptiles called choristoderes ...
... quite a number of
... plenty of birds ...
... and, of course, dinosaurs.
Nor is this museum short on interpretive models, especially of feathered dinosaurs, which are far more convincing than the animatronics outside...
And the fossils just keep on arriving. As we were leaving the museum's main building, two trucks pulled up to disgorge a haul of beautiful fossils - recently confiscated, we were told, from the private collection of a corrupt official.
This haul, which is far from unique, comprised 132 boxes, including -- picked at random -- this lovely specimen of the fossil bird Confuciusornis. Just look at the detail of these tail feathers.
As if to emphasize the unbelievable abundance of the fossils of this region, the museum doesn't contain just one or two scraps of fossilised wood, or even a couple of logs, but get this - an entire petrified forest.
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OK, here we go…
Team Timm: I love dogs and I love shots of dogs and this is a good shot of a dog and I really like the playful angle. Just a couple things that didn't quite work for me. - The theme is water but clearly the star of your shot (and subject) is the dog. - I don't think this is HDR but for me the colour and contrast is just a bit too much and could be toned down a bit. - As dog shots go, I would prefer to have the dog swimming into the frame instead of out of the frame. firedept: I like this shot and the beautiful colours of the lake. It brings back fond memories of my trip to Jasper many years ago. The only thing about this shot is that, contrary to the shot by Team Timm, I think that the colours could use just a touch more saturation to make the water and this shot really standout. Hankster: I really like this. Water is clearly the star of the shot and you nailed the depth of field, focus, colour and composition. I have to admit that I'm partial to macro water shots and the interesting play of light and reflection off the water. I've also seen a lot of good macro water drop/leaf type shots but I don't remember seeing one where the water is suspended between the leaves of the plant. Very well done Hankster. Melizard: This is a hard one to critique for a theme of water, as you actually can't see any water you just know it's there. For this reason, I think the subject of your shot really is the fish and as shots of fish go, it's really very good. What p&s camera did you use? I'd like to get one myself. twitch31: Lovely Venetian scene. I hope to get there myself one of these days. In this shot, I'm drawn to the great details in the architecture and stonework of the old city. Normally, this would be good…if the theme wasn't water. Still, an excellent shot and well done. LongSticks: Great colour of the water in this shot but the shark would be the main subject of the image and not the water. One more point…I think that, if I has looking for an image of a shark, it would be better if the snout was not cut off and if the shark was swimming into the frame. fireman32: I like this shot and I'm a bit surprised that there weren't more waterfall shots. This one has a well-timed exposure with just the right amount of blur. The only thing here is that I feel the cottage is too predominant in the frame. If you could have moved a bit to your right you might have been able to highlight more of the waterfall. Just a suggestion…you could also try to selectively, reduce the red saturation of the cottage so it doesn't standout so much. JDDavis: Another really good shot where water is clearly the star (with a great background sky). I also like the B&W treatment. The only small nit, and this is just a personal preference thing…because the mist from the geyser appears to be blowing a bit from right to left, I would have framed the geyser slightly to the right and maybe even all the way to the one third line. Still…very well done JDDavis. themumu: I'm guessing from the title "Limitless" that you intending the broad, almost monochromatic, expanse of water and sky. For me though, the shot feels like it's missing something. It may be because the birds (Herons?) are too small to add to the composition but if they weren't in the shot, there wouldn't be anything left to define the composition. truettray: Another very good and interesting water shot and definitely not a typical waterfall shot. Good composition, nice detail and texture of the water and cool perspective. I like it. Keleko: This is well done and well composed and I really like the way the water is curling over the young lady. Only thing here is that she steals the show from the theme of water. Cyclops62: This is a very cool and fun shot. The perfect use of depth of field and focus maintains the emphasis on the water and the water bubbles while leaving the viewer with a playful story in the background. Well done. jtrainor56: Overall, a very good landscape shot where the shorelines and water lead your eye to that beautiful spot in the centre of the top shore. That spot looks so well manicured (golf course perhaps?). There is a lot of good stuff happening here but I don't feel that water stands out significantly as the subject on its own. BenTrovato: Interesting that this shot actually captures 3 different occurrences of water: rain, the lake and the pool. Unfortunately, none of the three stand out individually to capture my interest as a subject. It would be much improved if the branch of the maple tree wasn't obstructing the view of the water. Puckman: This is a good sunset picture with a nicely coloured sky and well silhouetted foreground. However, it feels to me that the shot is more about the sky and the foreground than the water. someoldguy: This is a creative shot with nice colour in the sky and water. It looks like it may be a shot of an old fortress. Only thing is that I'm drawn to the stone and brickwork so much more than the water. ijohn.8.80: Clearly this is shot about water. Nice textures from a long exposure at (I'm guessing) sunset and the colour is interesting (possibly missing some highlights to give the shot some oomph). It is a good shot but to me is missing something; missing a purpose that engages my interest. pmxperience: I think a fountain is a great way to show off or showcase water. This is a very nice shot with great lighting (the blue bridge in the background contrasts nicely with the pink fountain. The only nit with this shot is the unfortunate location and lighting of the buildings in the background. Some would say the buildings add to the composition but think they make it just a touch too busy. acearchie: Great colour in the sky that is beautifully reflected on the water. Only problem here, as with some others, is that I fell the sky is the star of the shot and that the water is a supporting element. Elbert C: Nice b&w treatment for this shot with good water reflection but I'm not really clear about the subject. It looks like wreckage of some sort – perhaps after a storm. But to me, water is not the strongest element as I'm drawn more to the debris. charpi: A good water shot where water is definitely the subject. Nice exposure with just a bit of blur captured. The only criticism with your shot is the angle. It may have been intentional but I find the tilt to the left leaves me with a bit of an awkward feeling. MacRy: Wow…this is a really good shot that I like a lot MacRy. Beautiful colour and composition with great detail. Myself, I found my attention drawn to the sand bar in the centre of the shot instead of the surrounding water. However I do find it difficult to be critical of a really good photo. Indydenny: I love the ocean and really enjoy spending time around a spot where waves come crashing onto the shore. This a great capture with beautiful colour and perfect timing. But, as with some others, my attention is drawn to the rock first and the wave second. Jodelli: Nice colour and capture of what lies beneath the surface of the water in this spot. I do think that the subject of your shot, as it is the strongest element, is the bottom of the river or lake and not the water itself. Fezwick: Outstanding capture Fezwick. I love the colours and the fact that this is a shot about water. You nailed the long exposure without blurring any of the surrounding trees and leaves. I also like the framing… looks like you may have been on a rock in the centre of the stream. Was your tripod set-up on a rock or in the stream? Well done. A lot a really good shots that made judging difficult but here are the winners: 3rd place: Is a tie between Fezwick and JDDavis 2nd place: Cyclops62 And finally… 1st place goes to: Hankster Thanks to everyone who submitted to the contest. Now over to you Hankster. …Peter |
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Sep 10, 2013, 08:05 AM | #29 |
Agree some really good shots here (hence me not entering). My personal favourite is Indydenny on the rocks. Lovely motion in that water.
Fireman 32 and Frezwick are good looking shots too. Well done to all
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Thanks for the comments. I should have considered the theme of water more in my offering
I actually re composed that way, as I thought that being at the bottom of the frame it implied more of a threat! Great competition this week and congrats to all. You asked about P&S underwater. I use a Panasonic TZ20 with a full Panasonic 40m depth case. Definitely better and more secure solution than supposed underwater cameras! Make sure that you can set custom white balance underwater to a white slate is definitely needed. Took this in the Maldives 2 years ago.
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Congrats Hankster!
Cheese&Apple thank you for comments. Funny you say more saturation. I actually toned it back thinking I had to much. Should have left it alone. Another lesson learned.
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Sep 10, 2013, 09:10 AM | #32 |
Congrats Hankster!. Thanks for the great judging. I did have another shot like you suggested but I did not like it as much. Thanks to everyone who liked my photo.
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Sep 10, 2013, 10:53 AM | #33 |
Great job judging Cheese and thanks for all the comments. Wonderful set of pics in this contest. I really enjoyed a bunch of them. Looking forward to the next one.
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Looks like Lake Yoho in British Columbia. I camped there a few weeks ago. Beautiful.
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I also ski in Jasper and do a lot of climbing in the summer. One of my favorite places in B.C. is Radium Hot Springs. Some beautiful areas to see around there. Yoho is beautiful as well. I travel through it quite often when visiting friends in Golden. I'm very fortunate to have such close access to one of the most beautiful areas in the world to see. If you ever get back camping in B.C. you should try the Princeton area. I volunteer with Younglife Canada and go to their resort in Princeton twice a year to help out with the kids camps they have. Some real nice camping areas to be had around there.
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Sep 11, 2013, 10:07 AM | #40 |
Congratulations Hankster and a thank you out to Peter for your time and comments.
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Sep 11, 2013, 04:44 PM | #41 |
Beautiful work on display, this week. I'm reminded that I need to pick up some ND filters.
Had I seen the contest theme, I would have entered this one, which was photographed on Sunday, September 8, at sunset: http://portfolio.thephotosmith.com/p...-fw96cJP-S.jpg (SFW demure nude; straight from the camera)
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I just sent Hankster a PM as a heads-up. I'm sure he'll be around soon. ...Peter |
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Being always busy reading horror and supernatural stories (or dark fantasy,if you like that term better) I
have little time left,
unfortunately, for the darkest genre of fiction, crime or noir, especially in the novel format. But
when the possibility arose to get my hands
on a collection of tales by Iain Rowan (although, this being an e-book, my hands were not on an actual volume
but simply on a Kindle reader...) I seized it at once. And, believe me, I was not disappointed.
Rowan is a very fine writer, one of those authors endowed with the ability to hook the reader in just a few
sentences and keep him
nailed until the very last word.
The book assembles eleven tales, all fine examples of modern crime stories, gripping and perceptive,
probing the dark secrets of the human
soul, just like an old Alfred Hitchcock movie.
My favourite is the opening story "One Step Closer," a tense, perfect tale depicting a bank robbery
as described by a customer who has
nothing left to lose.
The ingenuously crafted plot of "The Chain" tells the story of a blackmail where a man is the victim
of a complicated set up, while in the
smooth "A Walk in the Past" a killing job doesn't end up as planned.
"One of Us" is a sinister story featuring an illegal immigrant forced to use her medical knowledge to
obtain the legal papers she needs.
The clever "Two Nights' Work" is about a con based on the value of an old painting, while in the very
enjoyable "Easy job" a burglar gets
punished beyond his imagination.
"Fake" provides evidence that a person with something to hide can be easily led to feel guilty and
the splendid "Moths" portrays the erotic obsession
for a deadly woman and its tragic consequences.
In the strong, intriguing title story "Nowhere to Go," a psychologically disturbed man witnesses
a murderous assault by means of a webcam,
but things are not what they appear to be...
Crime enthusiasts must not miss the book: this is noir at its very best.
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Tom, I know that you also respect scholarship. Have you closely read the Collins and Gan study? You really should before you tout it. It is a working paper, not reviewed, full of typos, methodological problems and a literature review with papers not listed. Read the review here: http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-does-sorting-students
The preponderance of studies do not support your viewpoint on ability grouping. I look forward to reading your study.
I wish there were more differentiation (pun intended) in this article between ability grouping and tracking. Flexible grouping that accounts for the possibility that students may be strong in some areas and weak in others has much more research backing than fixed groups that don't account for such variations.
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WEEK OF DECEMBER 20 - DECEMBER 24, 1976 ALL MY CHILDREN Kate cooked up a Christmas storm as the Martins welcomed the return of Jeff who has been away from Pine Valley for over a year. ANOTHER WORLD Everyone was in a tizzy as the search continued to find Beatrice and Saly. Mac and Rachel weren't able to reconcile their differences and spent the big day apart. Things cooled down at the Randolphs regarding Mike and Molly, who was showered with gifts from Olive. AS THE WORLD TURNS Nancy threw her annual lavish spread for the Hughes clan and practically everyone but John and Susan was overjoyed that the reuniting lovers, Kim and Dan, shared a loving Christmas. Finally. DAYS OF OUR LIVES Karl and Sharon's Christmas party was the talk of the town. Mike invited Trish to spend the holiday with the Hortons, as Alice prepared a banquet. Phyllis' and Neil's holidays were not so cheery. She was released from the hospital, but they couldn't forget the trauma of losing their son. THE DOCTORS Maggie and Greta tried to straighten up Matt and keep him away from the booze. Jason and Stacy shared their first Christmas together in years. Unbeknownst to the celebrating Dancy clan, vagabond father Barney was back in town. THE EDGE OF NIGHT Laurie and Johnny arranged a Christmas reunion for Mike and Nancy, even though Nancy was under pressure to cooperate with Beau and Saxon. Tracy and Danny decided to share Christmas dinner together. And as usual, Nicole's life was threatened. GENERAL HOSPITAL Christmas for the Webbers was a bummer. Jeff lay near death after he shot himself in the head. But little Mike added cheer to the Taylor household. GUIDING LIGHT Rita was booked for murder but thanks to Mike, she was released on bail just in time to join Ed as he recited an annual Christmas story to the children at the hospital. Lonely Holly joined Barbara and Adam. LOVE OF LIFE Felicia spent the holidays by Charles' hospital bed. She grew apprehensive as he began to regain his memory. MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN Merle spent his wedding night with Big Honey, who turned out to be the madam of the prostitute ring that worked out of the mortuary. He was caught in the raid conducted by Det. Johnson and Mary. Garth gave Pat a mop and little Garth a tinkle sheet. As everyone crowded into Mary's kitchen for a holiday dinner, George reappeared and Martha fainted. ONE LIFE TO LIVE The best news for the Rileys was that Cathy revealed under hypnosis the whereabouts of Kevin. But Pat didn't have anything to celebrate as Brian's condition worsened. She was forced to consider telling Tony that he is Brian's father -- before it's too late for father and son to know each other. RYAN'S HOPE At the last minute, Pat convinced Dee not to sail to Europe with Roger. Jill and Seneca made a pact not to reveal the paternity of her child until after it is born. SEARCH FOR TOMORROW Jennifer was arrested for gun theft but was bailed out by Walter in time to spend Christmas with the Paces. Eric reluctantly went with the Heywoods to Arizona, where Ralph has a job offer. Gail went to dinner with Gary at the Collins house, and everyone else joined Jo, John, and Stu at the Inn for songs and merriment. SOMERSET Not too much cheer around town as Jerry fought to save Steve's life during open heart surgery. Denise donated blood, and Tom warned Julian that the mob is waiting to kill him. THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS Leslie gave Brad a Braille message that said "I love you," and spent the holiday with him. Lance gave Laurie a Mercedes. Stuart invited Jack to dinner with the Brookses. Joann and Kay celebrated together. |
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By ChristianJanuary 28, 2001 - 9:29 PM
Eric Lieb sends along word that UPN has placed a rather interesting new billboard outside their corporate headquarters in Los Angeles (click on the image for a slightly larger version):
Apparently, UPN often places unique promos for their shows (such as 'WWF Smackdown!') on this billboard, and this one was put up sometime this weekend. It'll be very interesting to see what is hidden behind the veil.
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The amounts include direct expenses billed by the Student Accounts Office (e.g., Tuition, Fees, Room, Board) and also indirect expenses that are not billed by Student Accounts (e.g., Books, Travel). Although indirect costs do not appear on the Student Accounts invoice, both direct and indirect costs are used by the Financial Aid Office in developing a student's budget and in making financial aid commitments. The total cost (direct and indirect) for one semester of full-time undergraduate study for a typical New York State resident student living on campus is about $11,629 of which approximately $10,756 is directly billed charges.
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$721.00 |
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$50.00 |
Books |
$600.00 |
$600.00 |
Personal, Travel, etc. |
$738.00 |
$738.00 |
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Third Week | 50% |
Fourth Week | 30% |
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arbershop" is a warm, generous comedy that takes place on a single winter day in Chicago. Calvin Palmer (Ice Cube), the reluctant heir to his father's barbershop, cooks up improbable get-rich schemes in his basement and presides over a team of cheerful comic types. They include a clueless, good-hearted African immigrant (Leonard Earl Howze), a pompous, priggish college graduate (Sean Patrick Thomas) and a glowering ex-convict (Michael Ealy) as well as a token white boy with a fat S.U.V. and a mastery of hip-hop dialect (Troy Garity) and a token woman with man trouble (Eve).
Such a crowd guarantees that this will be a pretty busy day, and the movie has plenty of plot lines to attend to. Will Calvin sell his business to a smooth-talking, purple-suited local gangster (Keith David)? Will his very pregnant wife (Jazsmin Lewis) go into labor in the middle of the shop? And what about the pair of hapless thieves dragging a stolen convenience store A.T.M. through alleyways and up the back stairs of apartment houses?
Of course, part of the appeal of an old-fashioned neighborhood shop like Calvin's (and one of the things about it that drives him crazy) is that it's a place where time slows down a little and there's never reason to hurry. This philosophy is dispensed by Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer), a wise old head (with a mane that suggests both Frederick Douglass and Don King) and a political provacateur who keeps pearl-handled straight razors in a velvet-lined case. To him, the barbershop is more than a hair-cutting establishment: "it's our country club," a place for gossip, good-natured insults, political disputation and bawdy talk, especially about women's posterior endowments (an interest the director, Tim Story, and his director of photography, Tom Priestley, seem to share).
Ice Cube, whose production company, Cube Vision, financed "Barbershop," remains an imposing, self-contained actor, but the truculence of his hip-hop persona has softened with each big-screen role as his emotional range has broadened. The dramatic pivot of the movie is Calvin's crisis of values, which is played with impressive subtlety in a context defined by the broadness of melodrama and slapstick humor. He is tired of working so hard and getting nowhere and tired of the customers who don't pay, the employees who bring their personal lives to work and the daily grind of his responsibilities.
Calvin's father, whose benevolent spirit hovers over the shop in photographs and a faded mural, was evidently not much of a businessman. Instead, he was what Jane Jacobs, in "The Life and Death of Great Cities," called a "public character," part of the social glue that held a fragile, beleaguered community together through his willingness to give untried barbers a chance, extend credit to customers in hard times and generally listen to what people had to say.
What happens to Calvin is not that he suddenly learns the importance of his father's ethic (which is an implicit rebuke to the high-living, money-loving hedonism Ice Cube has celebrated in his songs and videos), but that he discovers that he has been living by it all along.
The movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honest, lived-in glow. The comic spark is provided by Cedric, whose slow, sly drawl is thickened almost to the edge of comprehensibility and whose timing could not be better. Eddie, whose chair is always mysteriously empty (unless he's in it, taking a nap or eating fried chicken) has the kind of deep wisdom that is sometimes hard to distinguish from lunacy. While he holds barbering sacred, lashing out at the arrogant sloppiness of the young generation, he is less reverent about some of the black community's cherished icons, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, whose achievement, he insists to everyone's bewilderment, has been wildly overrated.
I don't want to risk doing the same to "Barbershop," which opens today nationwide. The comic caricatures are at times a bit tired and schematic, and there are a few too many conflicts to be satisfyingly resolved in the course of a single day. But the familiarity of many of the jokes and conceits — the white boy who wants to be black; the continuing debate between him, the ex-con and the college boy over what authentic blackness means — are part of the spirit of the movie, whose roots seem to be in the raucous, heart-tugging tradition of popular African-American traveling theater. Mr. Story's direction is more workmanlike than inspired, and the script (by Mark Brown, Don D. Scott and Marshall Todd) sometimes sags when it should pop.
I've seen better movies recently, but it's been a long time since I've left one feeling the easy, full-bellied happiness this one evoked. Most of what we see on screen is like fast food: brightly packaged, easily digestible and nutritionally negligible. Occasionally we are graced with exquisite, artful cuisine. "Barbershop" is something rarer: a home-cooked meal. It may be a little burned around the edges and undercooked in places, but it was made with love.
"Barbershop" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has some swearing and sexual references, and a few scenes of mostly comical violence.
Directed by Tim Story; written by Mark Brown, Don D. Scott and Marshall Todd, based on a story by Mr. Brown; produced by Robert Teitel, George Tillman Jr. and Mr. Brown; director of photography, Tom Priestley; edited by John Carter; music by Terence Blanchard; production designer, Roger Fortune; released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. Running time: 102 minutes. This film is rated PG-13.
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Comic:The 6 GUYS In My Head
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Artist: | Brian Malerich Christian Carrera (coloring from 1/1/05 to 9/10/05) |
Writer: | Brian Malerich |
Characters: | Captain Head (Intelligence) Mr. Greed (Libido) Ms. Spirit (Conscience) Ms. Freeform (Imagination and Creativity) Mr. Recall (Memory) Mr. Nerve (Mind-Body Liaison) |
Updates: | Saturdays |
Began: | September 6, 2003 |
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Art style: | Minimalist |
Rating: | Web-14 |
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The 6 GUYS In My Head is a weekly 8-panel comic strip by Brian Malerich. It was once found at sixguys.keenspace.com, but the URL has now changed to 6GUYS.com (and I really want to buy sixguys.com, too).
- Updates: Just about every Saturday. I work so far ahead, other artists hate me, so when I have to upload something other than a full-page comic, I'm in trouble.
- Helpers: Christian Carrera started doing the shaded character fills in January 2005. I also stopped using raster cut-and-paste (Windows Paint) and started using vector cut-and-paste (Inkscape)
- Hiatuses: One in April 2005 - I took a new job in another state. Big life-changer.
- Dilbert by Scott Adams
- Ozy & Drix, the half-hour TV version of the movie Osmosis Jones
- The War Room scene from Dr. Strangelove
- My senior design project (4 engineering students all arguing about what to do next)
Also see: The Peanuts strip from Feb. 5, 1978 (found in PEANUTS: A Golden Celebration), where Snoopy is taking a run and his body parts are complaining to each other.
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Please, just click the name link above. Or visit my personal site, Malerich.com
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- 6GUYS.com About Page - The first and true synopsis
- The Cast - The 6 main characters
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- The Interview - If I had a chance to ask them questions directly...
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Quotations from biographical talk are widely used in the presentation and writing up of qualitative research. This article discusses the unintended implications which such quotations can carry, partly as a result of the conventions for introducing them and because the basis for their selection is often unclear. These implications are discussed in terms of consistency. An assumption of consistency as an aspect of the talk or the person speaking is problematic because it disregards the situated and variable nature of talk, including talk about memory, and can invoke an over-simple model of the speaker. The article proposes that consistency should not be assumed but become a focus for analysis. An example is presented of an analysis of biographical talk about creative work, following an approach derived from social and discursive psychology. Consistencies in a speaker's repeated accounts of the same job are interpreted in terms of both discursive resources around contemporary creative working, and 'local resources' which are derived from the speaker's 'discursive apprenticeship' with his own family.
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The Muslim Brotherhood of Jordan on Monday slammed a French ban on women wearing full face-face veils in public, calling the measure the "beginning of a dangerous battle".
Hammad Said, head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, said the ban "was contrary to the human rights principles" that France takes pride in.
"We see (in this ban) a neo-crusading attitude towards Muslims in the world, which constitutes the beginning of a dangerous battle," he told AFP. "This decision attacks Islam and Muslims worldwide."
Said labelled the measure a "violation of a fundamental right", arguing that "if women are allowed to undress at the beach, they should also be allowed to cover up and wear the niqab".
The new law, which affects women who wear full-face veils such as the burqa or the niqab, came into effect Monday and represents the first of its kind to be enforced in Europe.
French officials estimate that only around 2,000 women, from a total Muslim population estimated at between four and six million, wear the full-face veils that are traditional in parts of Arab world and South Asia.
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Faro's Daughter, by Georgette Heyer
Faro's Daughter has been my introduction to Georgette Heyer, and I had a blast reading this novel. After a string of bad-boy contemporaries, some better written than others, reading Heyer was like sipping a refreshing trou normand after a too-heavy first course. It also made me realize how much I'd missed reading good dialogue. Sometimes, I feel like physical interaction is used to replace a need for creative, intelligent conversation. Lengthy tales of emotional angst or repeated expressions of desire - hot as these may be- don't usually count as creative and smart for me; they often seem to be just overtures to the sex scenes.
Now don't get me wrong: I love hot reads, and in fact just glommed the entire Tessa Bailey catalogue in a week. But I also like to switch gears, and novels like Faro's Daughter are perfect for this. Here's a book where the hero and heroine don't kiss until the last page, and whose ending leaves some interesting questions unanswered. Max and Deb do, indeed, agree to marry at the very end, but there's no syrupy epilogue set months down the line, with a happily pregnant Deb or a completely changed-for-the-better Max. No, instead we're left to wonder what the engagement announcement will do to the already tenuous relationship between Deb and Max's families, and to imagine how they will handle the fallout. I really like that, because I'm not dead-set as a romance reader on having all ends tied neatly together. Love and family are messy, and unions have consequences.
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And, again, there's the dialogue. Max and Deb's exchanges are both elegant and punishing. Neither can back down from a challenge, nor stow away their pride, and they engage in an almost painful game to best each other. But we understand that these two fundamentally respect one another, and accept each other as worthy rivals. This leads to some hilarious scenes, like the dinner in Vauxhall or the cellar caper; but even at their craziest, Max and Deb play by honourable (to them) rules, and don't strike out recklessly at one another.
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Carlsbad, Calif. (June 5, 2012) - Dragon releases the first of a four-part webisode series called Frame of Mind: The B-Sides of Life, featuring Mick Fanning, Evan Geiselman, Owen Wright, and Rob Machado. This video collection of short stories is a view into the different sides of the surfer's personalities, more specifically, what inspires them in and out of the water.
By definition, Frame of Mind is described as "the disposition of one's inner thoughts." This series of webisodes focuses in on the seldom seen personas behind some of surfing's biggest names. It will be told online starting June 5 at DragonAlliance.com , when the first installment of Dragon's Frame of Mind goes live on the Web. In the first episode, titled "The Escape", Mick Fanning talks about how the real stoke in surfing is in escaping with his friends to surf perfect waves without the pro surfing circus.
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I took tailor being a light armour wearer but I only saw some new recipes when I hit craft skill of 5 or 10. From then up to my current skill of 30, I got nothing new apart from 1 recipe I discovered myslf. |
I wasnt aware you could put component parts in discovery to be honest and didn't actually try. I only tried putting mats in there.. Will have to have a proper look next time it seems.. Cheers... |
My one comment..the materials to craft...are toooooo scarce to faclitate fun crafting.I look forward to more crafting...just not so painfully S L O W to actully make things.
I don't agree based on the posts above... I missed out on some tricks of the trade which slowed me down, but even so, it was paced quite nicely... |
Good quick preview. I also love crafting, and I wont stay with an MMO very long if the crafting system is lacking. I was very excited about the ability to "discover" recipes for yourself, but the little easter egg type recipes you can buy from the Karma merchants (hearts) around the world were very welcome. Usually it was only a single recipe, and most times tied into the event to unlock it somehow. I was alittle disappointed with the amount of starter recipes. I thought they actually gave you too much. The recipes are straight forward, and easily experimented, i would have liked a little less handholding here and more discovery for myself. I only hope the higher levels unlock less and less each time, and require alittle more experimenting with things you learned at the lower levels. I started out with Tailor and LW since i was looting a bunch of jute and leather from leveling and doing events. First thing i did was make 8 slot bags to replace all the 4-slot and 5 slot i was getting from the world (some mobs drop 5 slot bags btw). It was very cheap to make these, they require 10 (either bolts of jute, leather squares or bronze ingots for armorer boxes) basic items and nothing extra for costs. I didnt get very high in either, but like someone else mentioned, i was making items at or just above my current level, and they were better quality than what i looted. Also the isignia you use determines the "extra stat", so you can decide for yourself if you wanted power, vitality, precision ect, instead of hoping you get lucky with the right drop. At the end I went and tried out every one of the professions, looking at all the starter recipes and seeing what i could make with the things i collected on my way to level 20. Cooking was by far the easiest, but also the most expensive. It really did balance it out that way. The Karma wasnt an issue, i was very very pleased they had both kinds of items. Money was scarce for me as i was breaking down most items into mats instead of selling them, but i had 7k Karma just from participating in events and earned in WvW. Being able to spend both to work on cooking allowed me to quickly catch up to my own level and make items of actual use, not just the started spices and dough or noodles. Overall, crafting in general was fun and entertaining. It didnt require long hours in front of a forge, and was only slightly costly for lower levels. If you come to crafting much later when money isnt an issue, you will be able to breeze right through it and catch up to you level, if you try to take it on as you level, you should be able to keep up, but it wont leave you with much money or karma left for other things. |
I had no problems, either. I think, perhaps, you didn't notice that you can create sigils from a huge variety of things that drop from monsters? After you create the sigils, you can combine them with components you made to create entirely new recipes in the discoveries section. Each time you discover something, you gain a HUGE boost in craft exp. By the end of the beta, I had 2 crafting professions (Artificer and Tailor) over 100. My Tailor was at about 130. And I still had an ass load of materials sitting in storage waiting to be used, I just didn't get around to it in time. "Forums aren't for intelligent discussion; they're for blow-hards with unwavering opinions." |
For those having problems getting jute, leather, ore, wood etc. be sure to use salvage kits on all looted white items and anything saying it's a salvage item in your inventory. Sell any looted blue stuff you can't use on the Trading Post. Between doing that and gathering nodes two of us were able to do quite a bit of crafting and could afford to buy any of the special items we needed. I do think too much of the very low level stuff uses Vials of Blood - a bit variety would have been nice. Somebody already pointed out that if you right click a basic crafting item you can auto send it to the bank. Lastly an easy way to level without any special items for tailor, leatherworker, and armorsmith is to make containers. Check out our blog: http://www.ticklemetyria.com |
Please do not call a preorder to beta a public beta. Thanks.
Thanks for the tip about sending items to your bank. I was not aware of this! I knew about salvage, and used it, but I remained cash poor. I think my issue was that I bought the Trait book way before I was ready, plus I was dying to much, transporting to much, etc. I was not aware of the sigil xp boost either. I could never discover anything because everything required level 25! I am sure that once I hit 25 I would have gone to level 100 easy - I had plenty of mats for higher level items. The problem was the lower level mats. Thank you all for the tips! |
So it's the same old thing huh? gogo TSW!
I loved crafting in this game, I go tmy crafting to Initiate level which is over 100. My Armorsmithing was pretty beastly, can't wait to try other crafting.
This tradeskill system is on par with most mmo games not so much better and not so much worse and i agree it needs a little tweeking, the system is not really inviting or as newbie friendly as it should be but its great once you get rolling..
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Just wanted to clarify a thing about discovery, an example to make it easier to understand. Example: Low level Jewlery crafting (under 25 skill). Craft Copper Setting, craft Copper Hook (for earing). Place each of these in the discovery boxes along with whatever gem you have available from your hunting. In my first attempt I used Malachite Pebble, and it was a green discovery for me (skill 1 to discover) which created a Malachite Stud of Resilience (and gained the recipe for future builds of it in my list) - a level 10 to use item. Had I just completed the Simple Copper earing recipe, it would have been a level 5 item. The same Copper Setting and Copper Hook combined with a Tiger's Eye Pebble would Create a level 15 to use earing, and require a skill of 25 to discover. Hope that helps explain how the discovery and items you make from the components is effected by how you combine them. (DISCLAIMER - The use of the word YOU in the above post is not directed at any one person in particular, but towards those who fall into the category itself - there is no personal attack here, neither intentional nor implied.) |
Think I will try Cooking during the next Beta. Sounds kind of fun :)
Thanks for this info, Blood vials didn't drop much. I didn't find inventory storage much of a problem. 8 slot bags were very easy to craft and teleporting wasn't too expensive. Also, I think I got an Insignia from salvaging a green level weapon with a more expensive salvage kit. |
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Originally posted by tordurbar This. This is one of the main issues in all games, and as Guildwars has not fixed the problem, what else can matter? Crafting should always complement levelling, not counter it. Timesink? No, it should rival the best stuff you can loot in a game, not act like some pointless sideshow. My blog is a continuing story of what MMO's should be like. |
The only thing I found disappointing about the crafting system was the gear was visually really bland. I was hoping for my crafted stuff to stand out and make me look a bit different than everyone else.
I was really surprised that you didn't mention the progress bar when crafting. It takes a lot less time to craft an item in general. But the required time decreases for each item within your queue. In LotRO, if you want to refine 50 leather, for example, you might as well go walk the dog or pick up a book. In GW2, it takes just a little longer to make 50 than it would take to make 1. That is such a HUGE relief to me! I've long felt that whomever concocted the idea of drawn out progress bars forcing you to do nothing while you're supposedly playing should be shot. It's nice to see that Arena Net thought the same thing. |
Played the beta for this game, it's nothing new, its boring and I'm really getting tired of instanced battle grounds for PvP. This genre is doomed for failure since everyone copies everyone and this game is very stail and dull. Developers need to use their emaginations and come up with things that aren't used over and over. I definitely won't be getting this game. MMORPG's are a dissappointment these days, one flop after another. |


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Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds tied the knot over the weekend, but no one knows whether it was a Jewish wedding…
Johansson is outspoken about her Judaism. She has been called "the kosher Danish" because of her father's Scandinavian background, but according to Wikipedia, her mother Melanie Sloan, comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from the Bronx. When Johansson began working with Woody Allen, she felt an unusual bond with him—and attributed it to his being Jewish. He was the sweet, nerdy, powerful Jewish director and she was his young gorgeous muse. In 2007, she told USA Today, "I just adore Woody. We have a lot in common. We're New Yorkers, Jewish. We have a very easygoing relationship."
After Johansson starred with Natalie Portman in "The Other Boleyn Girl," Portman coined the term "The Hot Knishes" for the Jewish tag team.
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When Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek made a movie together, all the headlines blared "the Hot Tamales". What should the media label a film starring two Jewish girls? Portman doesn't miss a beat.
"The Hot Knishes," she says, referring to the Jewish delicacy.
In this old YouTube gem, Johansson talks to the Israeli press about her Jewish background (she grew up with Shabbat and Hanukkah and Passover) and says she wishes she could speak Yiddish like her grandmother:
Details on the wedding from the Associated Press:
The couple married this weekend, according to publicist Meredith O'Sullivan. She did not provide details.
Us Weekly reported on its Web site Sunday that the small wedding took place at a resort outside Vancouver, British Columbia. Guests included Scarlett's mother, Melanie Sloan, and her brother, Adrian Johansson, the magazine said.
The couple announced their engagement in May.
"We're just enjoying our time," the actress said last month. "We're just recently — very recently — engaged. So, you know, we're just taking it easy. And no big plan yet. But it's a good time and we're just ... enjoying our time to be young and engaged.
"I mean, I'm 23. There's no reason to rush into it. Everything feels very natural and relaxed."
Johansson most recently starred in the Woody Allen film "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." Reynolds starred on the TV show "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place" and the romantic comedy "Definitely, Maybe."
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Pantzer, Katharine F.
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- found: Pollard, A. W. A short-title catalogue of books printed in Eng., Scot. ... 1986: v. 2, t.p. (Katharine F. Pantzer)
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Georgia State University's New Voices Conferencefull name / name of organization: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" / Georgia State University - English Department contact email: firstname.lastname@example.com Georgia State New Voices Conference 2010, October 7-9: What makes us laugh? Why is humor such an important cross-cultural phenomenon and universal human trait? What are the genres of humor and comedy? Can postmodernism and critical theory be funny? How can we teach humor? What are the theories of laughter? How do we research and write about humor, comedy, laughter, wit, satire, and jokes across disciplines? How global is humor? What is the place of humor in academia and in popular culture? The Georgia State New Voices 2010 conference is interested in an academic exploration of the role of humor in literature, rhetoric, and all its other myriad permutations. Interdisciplinary and collaborative submissions are not only welcomed, but encouraged, and we look forward to hearing from you all! http://www.gea.gsu.edu/conference.html cfp categories: african-american american bibliography_and_history_of_the_book childrens_literature classical_studies cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches ecocriticism_and_environmental_studies eighteenth_century ethnicity_and_national_identity film_and_television gender_studies_and_sexuality general_announcements graduate_conferences humanities_computing_and_the_internet interdisciplinary international_conferences journals_and_collections_of_essays medieval modernist studies poetry popular_culture postcolonial professional_topics religion renaissance rhetoric_and_composition romantic science_and_culture theatre theory travel_writing twentieth_century_and_beyond victorian