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As the Independent Game Festival approaches, I thought a series of short interviews with all the PC-relevant short-listed entries would be an idea. First up is indie-Godhead Cactus who received a nomination for the Nuovo Award for the abstractly beautiful platformer Tuning, which looks like Nebulus as re-imagined by Escher. The interview and footage follows…
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Confession time! I have never played a game by mad-brained indie wunderkind Jonathan 'Cactus' Söderström before. No idea why – despite Jim regularly giving his games an approving nod, in that stern, stoic Jim Rossignol way of his, I've managed to miss every single one. Dungeon, his collaboration with one Arthur 'Mr. podunkian' Lee (what is it with these names? I've gotta get me one. Call me Alec 'Windows Sound Recorder' Meer from now on, if you will), rather confirms my opinions from afar – that the chap is making splendid but oddball independent videogames that will please anyone who doesn't scream "pretentious!" the second they're faced with something even slightly artistically-minded. Not that Dungeon is necessarily artistically-minded – it has another agenda…
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"Unexplored Territory": The Cactus Interview
By Jim Rossignol on February 11th, 2009.
Jonatan 'Cactus' Soderstrom is one of the most prolific and interesting indie developers currently working. During the IGF judging sessions I was fortunate enough to play an early version of Mondo Nation, the compilation of Cactus' series of bizarre, unsettling FPS puzzle games. These games are, I would suggest, about as close as videogames have come to the weirder elements of a David Lynch production. Cactus cites Mr Lynch, along with plenty of other esoteric influences, in the interview below. If you want to set the scene for yourself, and get a little flavour of Cactus' mad humour, then perhaps you should play some of his games before reading onwards. Mondo Agency, Psychosomnium, or SeizureDome are all good places to start.
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By Jim Rossignol on March 25th, 2008.
My favourite indie soloist, Cactus, is now part of a duo, Lo-Fi Minds, and they're working on a new platform adventure called Brain-Damaged Toon Underworld. They've just released a brief demo for the game, which will be out in full shortly. (And that's probably days rather than weeks if Cactus' usual turnaround rate applies here.) I've also just noticed that Cactus has created a 40mb (2.something Peggle) compilation set of his previous games. That's a great place to start if you're unfamiliar with his insane lo-fi coding.


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This graphic book illustrates how Wall Street created an economic whirlpool with the help of Washington. Along the way we explain mortgage backed securities, derivatives, foreclosures and the deregulation that allowed it all to happen. We also discuss solutions and highlight the radical response of community organizations such as Cleveland's East Side Organizing Project and Miami's TAKE BACK THE LAND.
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Originally published in the 1980s, this book became an underground classic. It is now in it's third printing. It is an attack on the morality, politics and social conditions of the Reagan era, expressing the passions and convictions that led to the formation of ACT-UP and to the Tompkins Square Riots. Many of these graphics have been used by peoples movements world wide, from the Squatters on New York's Lower East Side to the African National Congress in South Africa.
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A collection of comics describing the disastrous first decade of the 21st century : 9-11, George Bush, the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine, Global Warming, Hurricane Katrina. But it also illustrates inspiring acts of resistance: the protest in Seattle, the work of volunteers who fix homes in Louisiana or defend the rights of the Bedouin in the Negev. Taken together these pieces form a panorama, the tumultuous landscape of a new century.
The catalog of a visionary exhibition uniting artists in Tel-Aviv Israel, Ramallah Palestine and New York City in protest against the Israeli government's building of a wall of imprisonment through the occupied territories. Includes works by Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Tayseer Barakat, Larry Abramson, Sliman Mansour, Dudu Geva, Eric Drooker, Susan Greene, Khalia Abu Arafeh, Ronen Eidelman, Mumia Abu Jamal and many others. With text in Hebrew, Arabic and English.
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PORTRAITS OF ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS for my parents
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This was my sketchbook as I traveled through the occupied territories in the Summer of 2002. I taught art and English in a Palestinian village and visited the religious community in Safed. It is my attempt to capture the beauty of people who maintain their humanity in the face of war and oppression.
A 328 page graphic novel about the struggles over homelessness, gentrification, police brutality and human rights that raged in the area surrounding New York's Tompkins Square park in the 1980s and 90s. It is a first hand account of the Squatters movement during which abandoned buildings were seized to make low income housing, and then had to be defended within a divided community.
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This is the most recent issue of the comic magazine I founded in 1980 with the help of Peter Kuper and Christoff Kolhofer, in response to the rise of Ronald Reagan and the Christian right. It became a forum for a wide variety of anti-establishment cartoonists. And it's still going strong today.

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Centre manifold reduction of laser equations with transverse effects: an approach based on modal expansion
D'Alessandro, G., Kent, A.J. and Oppo, G.-L. (1996) Centre manifold reduction of laser equations with transverse effects: an approach based on modal expansion. Optics Communications, 131, (1-3), 172-194. (doi:10.1016/0030-4018(96)00366-5).
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Centre Manifold theory is a valuable method for analysing and simplifying partial differential equations that appear in the study of transverse effects in nonlinear optics. In this paper we analyse its application to the Maxwell-Bloch equations for lasers with spherical mirrors and finite size pumps. By taking advantage of the expansion in cavity modes, we successfully compare reduced models with the original one for broad ranges of the parameters.
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If you order tuna at a D.C. restaurant, chances are half the time you'll be getting another, less expensive fish in its place. But those odds are better than if you had wanted snapper. Testers nationwide found that 87 percent of the time, restaurants and grocery stores were selling something else under that label.
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Recipe good on crackers, however would taste better with more spices. I added more dill, parsley, garlic and onion.
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This was yummy. I used a salmon fillet in it's own microwavable pouch, orange bourbon flavored. Also as some others recommended, used mayo instead of sour cream plus I added one dash of liquid smoke. Loved it!! Perfect for crackers or snacking with some toasted bread and veggies.
DELICIOUS dip. Can't say enough good things about it. I did not use canned salmon and instead bought fresh grilled salmon from the market. And instead of using just sour cream, I used half sour cream and half mayonnaise. I served this on sun dried tomato and rosemary focaccia chips. Excellent recipe and feeds a generous amount of people. Highly recommended!!!
This turned out very well. I used mayo instead of sour cream, added a few drops of liquid smoke and used chopped red pepper instead of pimento. Made small cream puff shells and filled open halves with the dip. Very good!
Served this on cucumber slices for a "garden cucumber fest" at my office. Very tasty. I also tried it with smoked salmon...lent an almost bacon-y flavor to the dip. Thanks for a creative recipe.
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Contents: | Movement and place in the African American past -- The transatlantic passage -- The passage to the interior -- The passage to the north -- Global passages. |
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Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and, since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Americas, and Europe. These epic migrations have made and remade African American life. This new account evokes both the terrible price and the moving triumphs of a people forcibly and then willingly migrating to America. Historian Ira Berlin finds a dynamic of change in which eras of deep rootedness alternate with eras of massive movement, tradition giving way to innovation. The culture of black America is constantly evolving, affected by (and affecting) places as far away from one another as Biloxi, Chicago, Kingston, and Lagos.--From publisher description.
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I have a massive collection of tea towels, so today's giveaway is right up my alley. Lovely Sam from Inklore fame is kindly donating three of her 'Simplicity' tea towels in Natural Stripe, which couldn't be more beautiful in person.
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Arizona's voter registration law heads for Supreme Court review
WASHINGTON -- To Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, the state law requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration is "common sense," not a burden.
To opponents, Arizona's Proposition 200 is just another obstacle that would restrict access to the polls for the young, elderly and minorities.
The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in this month in a hearing that will be watched closely by voting rights advocates and by several other states with similar laws.
At issue in the March 18 hearing is a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which said federal law trumped state law on voter registration requirements. The appeals court said in April that voters could use a federal mail-in registration form, established by the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which only requires that they attest to their citizenship through a signature.
Arizona's law, approved by voters in 2004, requires some proof of citizenship - a passport, birth certificate, driver's license, tribal or other documents - before a person can register. The appeals court said the state can still require proof for the state form, but could not keep someone from registering by using the federal form.
Horne said the state law is necessary, pointing to a district court finding that 200 non-citizens had registered to vote in 2005.
"Everybody I've talked to feels like if you're going to register to vote you should provide evidence you are a citizen," Horne said.
But a national survey of voter fraud cases last year by News21, a reporting project run by a coalition of universities, turned up only seven confirmed cases of voter fraud in Arizona from 2000 through 2011.
Sam Wercinski, the executive director for Arizona Advocacy Network, said that when Proposition 200 passed, many ads alluded to undocumented immigrants trying to hijack the political process. The shortage of known voter fraud cases shows the weakness of that argument, he said.
Wercinski said the law would only lead to disenfranchising Native Americans, Latinos, young and elderly voters and was written "so those currently in political power can maintain power."
Latinos are hardest-hit by the law because they have the largest percentage of new voters, Wercinski said.
He said many young people may not have a driver's license, because that could mean higher insurance premiums for their families. When presented with the opportunity to register, those prospective new voters are not carrying the other forms of qualifying identification spelled out in the law, he said.
"Nobody is walking around, generally, with their passport or birth certificate," Wercinski said.
Joe Sparks, a lawyer for the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, also believes the law was deliberately designed to disenfranchise voters. The council is one of the lead parties in the Supreme Court case challenging the law.
Sparks said the law "seems reasonable if you just read it and don't know the circumstances on the reservation." But he said there are hundreds of Native American voters in Arizona who do not have driver's licenses, passports, birth certificates or other documentation listed.
While Proposition 200 does list citizenship documents specific to Native Americans, he said, some of those documents do not exist for all tribes or only exist for specific tribes. That is one of the complaints cited in the council's suit against the law.
The Supreme Court's ruling in the case could affect a number of other states that have passed or are considering similar laws. Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Georgia, Oklahoma and Kansas filed a brief in favor of Arizona, arguing that it should be a state's right to regulate voter registration.
While Horne was reluctant to predict what the court might do, Sparks said he is optimistic about the case. Sparks said the purpose of National Voter Registration Act was to make it easier for citizens to vote and that the act does not leave room for states to add requirements like those in Proposition 200.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The 69th annual Golden Globe nominations for best actress in a television drama series have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The category's nominees announced Thursday morning include: Claire Danes, "Homeland"; Mireille Enos, "The Killing"; Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife"; Madeleine Stowe, "Revenge"; and Callie Thorne, "Necessary Roughness."
The Golden Globes will be presented Jan. 15 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, televised live by NBC and hosted by Ricky Gervais."
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It's had an enormous impact on the hobby, but eBay and dealer websites haven't completely killed off the big sports card show. That's good news…as long as you know what you're doing.
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One appraisal method particularly designed to retain talent is differentiation, or the "20-70-10" formula endorsed by former chief executive officer for General Electric, Jack Welch. Differentiation – also referred to as "forced distribution" – requires managers to evaluate employees and place them in at least three categories: top-performing and average employees, and employees who aren't meeting job expectations. Using forced distribution to retain talent puts employees with the highest performance in the top 20 percent of the workforce. Seventy percent of the workforce, however, is the reliable, dependable and average group of workers. The remaining workers are usually not retained. Other appraisal methods can accomplish talent management goals, but the forced distribution method facilitates talent retention.
Reasons for Appraising Employee Performance
Employers conduct performance appraisals for a number of reasons. Measuring the effectiveness of a performance management system involves assessing the ways in which the performance appraisal supports the system and organizational goals. In addition to supporting the overall performance management system, reasons for evaluating employee performance range from talent retention and compensation structure to organizational objectives and professional development. Harrisburg Area Community College spells out its performance appraisal purpose in the following statement: "Performance appraisals provide the opportunity to formally summarize performance and serve as the basis for professional development, staffing decisions and merit increases."
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Determining Raises
Employees and managers alike may dread the performance appraisal process. Nevertheless, practically everyone wants to know how their performance appraisals translate into raises and bonuses. One of the common reasons employers evaluate performance is to determine who deserves what amount in an annual bonus, salary increase or both. Performance appraisal methods most likely to set raises and bonuses can be graphic rating scales whereby managers measure employee performance using quantitative methods.
Attaining Company Goals
When an organization uses employee appraisals to achieve its objectives, it bases performance measurements on how much employees contribute to business growth. Aligning employee performance with organizational goals is best accomplished using an appraisal method referred to as "management by objectives" or, MBOs. MBOs require that the employee and manager identify goals that add value to the organization and the employee's own professional development. This type of evaluation focuses less on employee-employee competition and motivates employees to achieve their own objectives. Consequently, when the employee achieves an individual goal, he is achieving a company goal as well.
Clarifying Job Expectations
Employee appraisals assist the employer and employee in coming to a mutual understanding about job expectations. Even though the performance management system begins when an employee receives his job description, there often remains room for clarification. During one's career, job duties and responsibilities may shift or change, resulting in confusion about what is expected. In its Performance Appraisal document, Pinellas County Government states: "The appraisal of employee performance is a process which is intended to be responsive to both the needs of the employee and the supervisor." Therefore, reaching an agreement on expectations and the tools necessary to meet expectations is another function of the employee appraisal.
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STANFORD, Calif., August 1. FOR the first time since 1986, the USA Swimming ConocoPhillips National Championships are returning to the Bay Area. This year also marks the first time the meet has been held at Stanford's Avery Aquatic Center.
"USA Swimming is excited to bring its National Championships to the Avery Aquatic Center and Stanford University," USA Swimming's National Events Director Dean Ekeren said. "Avery Aquatic Center is one of the finest facilities in the country, and many local people have worked hard to insure the event is a success. We expect some great performances at this event."
Over 800 US athletes are participating in the meet, as well as teams from France and Mexico.
Some of the top names expected to compete in the meet are 2000 Olympic champion Misty Hyman and National Team members Staciana Stitts, Randall Bal and Shelly Ripple Johnston
A 2000 Olympian and Cal graduate, Stitts will compete in the 100m breaststroke. Stitts recently competed in the 100m and 200m breaststrokes at the 2004 Olympic Trials in Long Beach, Calif., finishing fourth and fifth in those events, respectively.
Stanford graduates Bal and Ripple Johnston are also on the meet roster. Bal, the 2001 World champion in the 50m back, finished fourth in the 100m back at the Olympic Trials. He is the top seed in the 100m back at Nationals and will also be swimming the 50m and 100m free.
A member of USA Swimming's 2001 World championships team, Ripple Johnston has entered the 100m free, the 200m fly, the 200m free, the 100m fly, the 200m IM and the 50m free.
Local standout Brooke Bishop, who swims for Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics, will swim the 100m free, the 100m back and the 50m free.
ConocoPhillips has the longest continuous sponsorship of any amateur sport by any corporation in the world. It has been a sponsor of U.S. Swimming since 1973, when Phillips Petroleum became a marketing partner. ConocoPhillips also sponsors the ConocoPhillips Performance Award, which is presented to the outstanding single performance at the ConocoPhillips National Swimming Championships and the U.S. Open Championships.
Tickets are available at 1-800-STANFORD.
Additional meet information can be found daily at www.swiminfo.com.
Schedule and Ticket Prices:
Preliminaries 9:00 a.m. PDT Finals 5:00 p.m. PDT
Women's Events Men's Events
Day 1 – Tuesday, August 3
Timed Finals 4:00 p.m.
1 800-meter Freestyle 2
Day 2 – Wednesday, August 4
3 100-meter Freestyle 4
5 200-meter Breaststroke 6
7 200-meter Backstroke 8
9 200-meter Butterfly 10
Day 3 – Thursday, August 5
11 200-meter Freestyle 12
13 400-meter Individual Medley 14
15 400-meter Freestyle Relay 16
Day 4 – Friday, August 6
17 100-meter Backstroke 18
19 400-meter Freestyle 20
21 100-meter Breaststroke 22
23 100-meter Butterfly 24
25 800-meter Freestyle Relay 26
Day 5 – Saturday, August 7
27 200-meter Individual Medley 28
29 1500-meter Freestyle – women *
30 50-meter Freestyle 31
* 1500-meter Freestyle – men 32
33 400-meter Medley Relay 34
IN THE MORNING SESSION ONLY, prelims in Events 29 and 32 will be swum after Event 34.
Prelims Ticket Prices:
Adults $5
Youth /Senior * $3
Finals Ticket Prices:
Adults $8
Youth /Senior* $6
All Session Pass:
Adults $55
Youth /Senior * $40
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Any1 going to Oktoberfest 2011?
26 Apr 2011 Tania01 said
Hi all, I am going on the 5 day Oktoberfest from 22nd September. I have read on the official Oktoberfest page that you need to book seatings in the tents itself, otherwise you will not be able to get into the tents as they will be fully booked. Has anyone booked yet? There is a minimum reservation of 10seats if you want to book. Anyone want to book with me, as we are only 2 people going? I have contacted some of the tents, but no one has come back to me about the reservations, how do i book? Help!!!!!?????.
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30 Apr 2011 AndrewBeer said
best website ive come across in regards to making reservations is :
From what ive read alot of people are saying that if you get there early, like before 11am you can still get tables, but whether that is actually the case i cant be to certain as this year will be my first year going lol
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4 May 2011 Explorer1246990 said
Hey, i wanted to go to oktoberfest on the 22nd for 5 days but since ill be on my own im not sure what to do and the tent booking confused me a little so i was just wondering if you had sorted anything out or if you had any advice for me. Thanks
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4 May 2011 Tania01 said
Hi Paige, I have contacted some of the beertents about the reservation, and 90% of them is already fully booked, with minimum space still available during the day. They have told me that since we are only 2 x people, it would not be a problem to find a seat. You just go to the tents, and someone there will help you find available seats in the tent. It is mainly for bigger groups from 4persons + that will have a problem.
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4 May 2011 Explorer1246990 said
ok cool thanks for that, it helped a lot, cant wait now :)
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4 May 2011 Explorer1246990 said
ok cool thanks for that, it helped a lot, cant wait now :)
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4 May 2011 Explorer1246990 said
sorry didnt mean to send that twice :)
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14 May 2011 Robbo101 said
Hey all!
I have just booked the trip for 22-26th, and will also be on the bus from and to london! literally cannot wait now. will just me and my mate, and yeah now looking into booking seats in beerhalls for the three days! how have people got on with that?is it pretty easy?
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26 Jun 2011 Jayde:) said
Yes, the 27th onee wuth my best friend :) cant wait also been told its easy for small groups :)
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30 Jun 2011 Zubin said
Oktoberfest 2011 here we come!!!
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2 Jul 2011 Robbo101 said
hey guys, so who is going on the coach on 22nd sept from london to munich?
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4 Jul 2011 Zee1 said
Me and my mate will be doin the London to Munich trek on 22nd.
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9 Jul 2011 Christian said
is anyone doing the 15th of sept or is that just too early to be going down to munich for oktoberfest?
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15 Jul 2011 Tahly said
Hey guys I just booked the Oktoberfest Contiki leaving on the 22nd!!!!!!
I am SOOOO excited!!! My first ever Contiki/overseas adventure and I will be travelling solo. Someone has set up a Facebook group for anyone wanting to join in on the convo there the link is:
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17 Jul 2011 Kelly.NZ&Aussie said
hey! I'm looking at booking the 5 day one leaving from London on the 22nd! but this will be my first contiki and trip really on my own, so a bit nervous! but so excited about Oktoberfest!
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18 Jul 2011 AndrewBeer said
Hi Kelly, if your planning on going into a beer tent with a big group its pretty important to have a booking, but if its only a couple of people its not that much of a big concern,
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25 Jul 2011 Explorer1270535 said
Hi! About to book for the trip starting on the 22nd. I'm going by myself, so a little nervous but SUPER EXCITED. I'm so glad to see that there are more people on their own on this trip. Does anyone know what time Contiki is leaving London? I'm trying to book my flights and would like to coordinate a good time. Thanks, see you guys. Really. YEA!! :)
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28 Jul 2011 SarahTee said
Hi everyone! Yup im going on the 5 day trip leaving on the 27th as well. First time at Oktoberfest and im going by myself at this stage… cant wait! Gunna get dressed up too, has anyone elso brought a dirndle?
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28 Jul 2011 LisaMel said
I just booked the trip leaving London on the 22nd. It's my first Contiki trip and my first time in Germany, cannot wait! This is a much need vacation and Oktoberfest has always been a dream of mine. I am a total beer enthusiast, especially of the German kind! I'm flying solo, so definitely looking forward to meeting everyone!
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28 Jul 2011 Aussie Lo said
I just booked the 5 day trip this morning leaving on the 22nd :) woop woop…
Aussie girl travelling alone and am doing 7 months away and will be based in Dublin! My profile is a bit old so will update it when i have a chance… also have fb if anyone wants to get intouch befor we go :) firstname.lastname@example.com have booked to stay one extra night in London befor heading back to Dublin… SOOOO excited… can't believe this is actually happening!!!
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31 Jul 2011 Explorer1270535 said
hi! welcome! there's a facebook page of people traveling on the 22nd if you want to join: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/170576062998242/?ap=1 there are quite a few people traveling alone, myself included (i just booked too!)
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Think you've seen every possible way to score in hockey? Wrong. You've never seen the "drop it from your drawers" trick.
While the National Hockey League is still locked out, hockey fans looking for some live puck action can turn to minor league hockey.
With about two laps to go in the AdvoCare 500, NASCAR Driver Jeff Gordon crashed into fellow driver Clint Bowyer. The bump sent Bowyer into the wall and sparked one of the greatest NASCAR fights of all-time -- in the pits!
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Clearly some Halloween stunts are more successful than others. Also: Clearly some people are more intelligent than others.
Last week, a Minnesota high school soccer match between Totino-Grace and Prairie Seeds Academy was supposed to decide who would move on in the State Class A tournament, but instead, the game was marred by an epic brawl.
In the heat of athletic competition, high school athletes can lose their cool from time to time. That's exactly what happened to one high school soccer player in Utah who decided to knee her opponent right in the face.
There are times in sports where giving that little bit of extra effort is a good thing but don't tell that to one Polish soccer player who took one for the team while saving a goal.
There are times when a high five just isn't appropriate, as University of Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase found out over the weekend in a match-up against Wisconsin.
There are plenty of sports fan who would love to attack an umpire or an official but most wouldn't go through with it if presented the opportunity. However, one Ukrainian soccer fan attending the Chernomorets/FC Metalist match this week decided to attack a linesman and nearly strangled him to death.
We're pretty sure every NFL stadium has at least five fights during a game. The fights usually have little to do with what's going on on the field.
Many professional athletes have pre-competition rituals or quirks, but NASCAR driver Tony Stewart has one of the strangest ones we've heard of.
Normally, NFL tailgates include a mobile stripper pole but it appears that one Chicago Bears tailgate near Soldier Field feel it's the perfect pre-game pump up for fans of stripping, and possibly, football.


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Persona 4 Blu-ray Collection 1 (D)
Reviews of this title:
Colin Dolmat
- Aug 31 2012
Rating: Wonderful!
Persona 4 fans will not be disappointed!
I just got the Blu-ray of Persona 4: The Animation today which is a few weeks before it's supposed to be released, but since I pre-ordered it back in July I guess Rightstuf decided to ship it to me as soon as it got in stock.
But enough about how I got it, lets get on with the review! This release only contains the English audio and not any of the Japanese track, but that's a problem with the Japanese licensers not Sentai Filmworks. If Sentai was allowed, they would have kept the Japanese track in. As far as the English voice cast goes, just like the video game, it is amazingly good and most of the voice actors, even the side characters, reprised their roles. The only differences are the voices of Chie Satonaka, who is now played by Erin Fitzgerald instead of Tracey Rooney, and Teddie, who is now played by Sam Riegel instead of Dave Wittenberg.
However, Teddie fans will not be disappointed because Sam Riegel does an amazing Teddie in the same style as Dave Wittenberg, at times I even forgot that Teddie was even recast because it was so similar to the Dave Wittenberg performance. And yes, the un-bearable puns are still there.
Chie(Fitzgerald) sounds quite different from Chie(Rooney), but the voice still sounds right for the character and Chie is still Chie. The folks that complained that Chie sounded too old in the game will be glad that Chie sounds more like a high school girl.
The story is great, the cast is great, and even people who didn't play the game can get into it. A must-have for anime and Persona fans.
Craig Noyes
- Oct 22 2012
Rating: Wonderful!
Excellent adapation from video game to anime!
For those who have played Persona 4 already know the premise of the story, but for those who don't, a small group of high school students covertly take on the task of solving a series of grisly murders taking place in the small quiet town of Inaba. The group find themselves intertwined with the investigation taking place in the real world and the shadowy confrontations in a supernatural world inside the TV.
Fans of the game will be happy to hear that the anime is a near carbon-copy of the video game, but with a few exceptions. Almost all the English voice actors return for these roles, except for Chie and Teddy, but the performances are so well done that you will hardly notice. The personality dynamics between the main characters is very well preserved and despite the serious tone of the story, the lighter moments remind you of how much fun it is to hang out with these kids.
The original soundtrack was kept for much of the show, and the scene locations and ancillary characters are faithfully reproduced. Even a brief scene during a school assembly show the teacher with the hand puppet, and the one who wears the Egyptian headdress on stage.
A couple of the elements that don't quite translate from the video game as well are, one, the fight scenes in the TV world which seem a little awkward and empty, but do make for a few good action scenes. Second, the "social-bond" subplots, which due to episode time constraints are often wrapped up quickly and don't get the same feeling of growth and character depth as you would experience in the game.
Overall this anime is very well done and should not be missed by any fans of the game. Even folks who are not familiar with the game will be treated to an excellent story and wonderful characters.


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Read MoreThe beach is just a 10 minute walk but if you want to stay on campus, then go to the Game Center! If you want to get off of campus, go to the movies by Foodland, snorkeling at sharks cove, or just catch a bus for only $2.50 for Honolulu.
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As the title states I am disappointed, angry, and confused. I became inactive two (or was it three?) months ago because I was gaming like a fiend as I burned through my pile of shame AKA my massive backlog of games. Day turned to night and back into day again as the weeks went by without me noticing. Feeling burned out with only four games left in the stack, I logged in for the first time in ages last Saturday and felt like I was walking into a shit storm. Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? I am so overwhelmed and confused.
Who are all these new people? Where did they come from?I feel like I don't know anyone here anymore. When did this new staff member appear? I like him and Giant Bomb could use more people like him producing written content for the site.
What is the deal with this quest system? It is so fucking broken it's not even funny. Why didn't the guys upstairs come up with something to streamline the wiki and make it easier to navigate before implementing this quest system? There is no point in having multiple pages for the same thing. I don't care if it's both a character, an object, and a concept. Make one page and tag the thing in question as being what it is and have a section of the page devoted to each one. For example, a section on the character with that name, a section on the concept of that name, and a section on the object of that name all on the same page. It would make the wiki so much cleaner! Doing things the way they are now is stupid, redundant, and above all else makes navigating the wiki harder than it needs to be and turns the quest system from being something fun into something that is a frustrating mess!
How did Linkyshinks get banned? The fact that this happened baffles me to no end. He was one of the most respected members of the community here and one of the biggest contributors to the site. Hell, he was posting news articles to things in the forums sometimes days before the Giant Bomb crew covered it. What did they do ban him because they were sick of competing with him over being first with the news, or something? The fact that he is no longer here really saddens me as my two primary motivating factors to come here and log in were his posts and Symphony's blogs. Now it seems the only reason I have to come here is her blogs, which put all other written content on this site to shame after seeing her "5 Things Anime Haters Get Wrong" article. The Giant Bomb crew needs to learn a thing or two from her regarding how to produce quality written content. That or add her to the payroll, because her articles make theirs look like something scribbled onto paper by a child in primary school.
Giant Bomb has always had it's ups and downs, but overall it has always been going up. At least that's how I've felt it's been. I am disappointed in Giant Bomb now as it doesn't feel like up is the direction this place is headed in anymore with the way things have changed. As one of the people who has been following Jeff and the crew since the early GameSpot days this makes me angry as I do care about them, this site, and feel an investment here. Yet, above all else, right now I am confused as to why I even bothered to log back in.


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The SEO/SEM gender gap is all but closed. This speaks volumes about how the search industry has changed and may change going forward.
When I first started attending Search Engine Strategies (SES) back in 2001 or so, search was a total boys' club. It had little to do with marketing and a lot to do with Web site development's (even) geekier aspects. That first Boston conference was attended by a few hundred propellerheads, and there was never, ever a wait for a stall in the ladies' room after a session.
These days, women in search ration their coffee carefully, lest they risk missing an appointment due to the interminable lines in the WC. Gender statistics aren't available, but look out over the audience here in New York this week and it's clear the male/female ration of search professionals is at least 50:50, if not skewed slightly in favor of the fairer sex.
Let's Do Lunch
Yesterday, some 40 women who work in SEM (define) braved a downpour to meet for lunch. We had a blast. In the midst of the bustle and business of SES, a bunch of us chicks took time out for an hour of giggly, gossipy, silly, and sisterly bonding.
Many of us have been friends for years, others were SES newbies. There wasn't space in the small restaurant for everyone who wanted to tag along to the impromptu event Li Evans e-mailed some friends about a few days before SES kicked off.
The group would have been a lot bigger. Evans had quite thoughtfully selected a not-very-big restaurant to accommodate a single person who keeps kosher. She found herself apologizing for two days to the women who wanted to come but couldn't. There simply wasn't enough room.
Communication and Accommodation
Evans' efforts to be inclusive and accommodating and to communicate to a group are typical of the way women operate. And as more and more women enter search, it could change a lot about how search (and professional search services) are perceived and used among the enormous base of advertisers just dipping a toe into the waters or who are unaware the channel even exists as a marketing medium.
Earlier this week, I spoke with Yahoo's Rich Riley about his efforts to get small businesses to try search advertising. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Yahoo held a seminar in the city to educate marketers about search. The company has decided to broaden those efforts and is crafting a road show to preach the search gospel to absolute newbies.
A broad, established base of women in the search industry will make that task easier. Not that there aren't a lot of men up to speed on SEM; they're certainly in ample supply.
But (and this statement will doubtless generate a dissenting e-mail or two), women will soften and hone and customize this message. Overall, chicks just plain have communications skills men tend to lack. They're better at tailoring a message to an audience and, in matters technical, at laying off the geek-speak. In short, they'll be instrumental in making search less scary to all those marketers wary of venturing into yet another unknown channel (and there's certainly no shortage of those).
Sure, men can be (and often are) brilliant communicators. Yet at this week's SES keynote, a fictional female, Ms. Dewey, effortlessly upstaged her boss, Microsoft SVP Steven Berkowitz, in terms of energy, messaging, and magnetism.
And Ms. Dewey can't hold a candle to her real-world sisters in search. An off-the-top-of-my-head, random-order, and wholly incomplete list would include Dana Todd, Anne Kennedy, Sara Holoubek, Jessie Stricchiola, Nan Dawkins, Shari Thurow, Jennifer Laycock, Christine Churchill, Patricia Hursh, Amanda Watlington, Laura Thieme, Jen Slegg, Jill Whalen, Heather Lloyd-Martin, Barbara Coll, Lisa Wehr, Elisabeth Osmeloski -- for starters.
A few of the above, along with others, are batting about the idea of starting some sort of formal women in search (or interactive marketing) association. Personally, I'm not convinced that's necessary. I see those sorts of things as isolationist, and I'm never really certain what their charters are in the first place.
There's someting much healthier than formal organization going on among the women in the search marketing community: organic optimization.
Well done, ladies.
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With the US presidential election less than two weeks away, social networking users can be forgiven for having grown tired of reading online political rants. Now, thanks to a new Chrome extension, fed-up Facebook fans can nip their friends' tirades in the bud. When installed in the Chrome browser, Unpolitic.me sifts through the …
Highly politicised topics can indeed be tiresome, so let's also add Facebook to the list.
... oh wait.
and for us aussies, "carbon", "abbot", "gillard", "ditch the bitch" and "chaff bag"
Pretty good list, although you left out "Juliar" - a sure sign that the post is both political and unreadable.
Oh Thank God. I want this so bad, and I'm adding tons of Australia keywords to the damn thing as well... Sick to death of reading political rants.
Give one the nuclear button? Worrying. evil buggers, cats.
footnote: cats are more likely to be able to pronounce 'nuclear' than recent button-weilders
There's no such thing as a relaxing photo of a cat. Especially one that looks like the fuzzy spawn of Satan that stomps up my chest to smack me in the face at oh dark fucking thirty in the morning.
Learn to speak Cat.
I'm in charge of our pride; the Wife is my queen ... The felines respond appropriately. They wait until one of us decides it's 0-coffee thirty. Including the indoor pseudo-ferals.
When you grok the lingo of any given critter-group, they no longer present a problem.
You can totally ignore so-called "online social networking" entirely. Works for me. My actual, real world social life hasn't suffered at all, near as I can tell.
As a side note to ElReg's ed(s): "aerie" is more properly "eyrie". Even in British English.
Any chance we can install something similar on the BBC, so I don't have to listen to 20 minutes of in-depth analysis, every time Obamalamadingdong or "the other one" clears their throat, while addressing the good citizens of the Moosejaw Creek Arkansas Marmalade-Making Society?
It's no wonder the Merkins think they're the centre of the fucking universe, when the rest of the world does so little to disabuse them of the notion!
Unfortunately when you say things like that you get called "Anti-American"... no I like yanks, plenty of them, but I can not stand their politics, it is the most incomprehensible buggered up system of government I can imagine... and I've studied the Byzantine Empire in depth...
madra: +1
A year or so back, we had an election for the state of Queensland. I heard more about the US Presidential election at the time via our media here, than the very election I was required to vote on.
Leni Riefenstahl already managed to cut-and-splice a picture of moggy sitting on a windowsill in Nürnberg while Hitler was rolling past in his motorcade.
Has anything changed? Not really.
Hold on, Obama is institutionalizing killing-by-decr... how boring. How about a nice cat.
Well ... The wife & foreman's wife usually handle the branding irons. Us guys hold the critters down. All of us use stirrup irons daily ... and we all practice with the shootin' irons on a weekly basis. The cast-iron cooking gear is MINE, dammit, and almost all I have passed down from my GreatGrandfather ...
Oh, wait ... you were being misogynistic. Idiot.
'simple common sense'
Not sure that exists out of newsmedia/politics fantasy land.
Sense that is 'common' is highly uncommon as everyone has their own value of 'sense'.
Ah, more & more ways to insulate people from the real world.
As long as you keep buying, watching ads, and are scared of the "terrorist's", governments feel they are doing you a service!
A chat with the developers
Q: Okay, so these users of the browser extension don't want to hear political messages, policy, idea's and what not?
A: Yes
Q: And are these people still likely to vote?
A: Some of them yes definitely
Q: Do you think a democracy works best when the people that vote are informed as to what they are voting for?
A: No comment
To be fair, most of the political guff that gets shovelled onto the front page of facebook by "ppl who r rly inurestted in politiks coz I watched teh news tday" can hardly be described as policy, or ideas.
As far as I can tell if the people posting most of the rants were capable of digesting differences in policy or ideas, they wouldn't be projectile vomiting illiterate crap onto the screen in the first place.
I've heard nothing substantive about what either candidate will do about climate, depletion of resources, overpopulation, employment, or making friends with other cultures.
I have heard a lot of manic hooting about who is allowed to do what to texan vaginas, and the more rabid ideas of nutters lower down the political pecking order.
Unless there is an alternate information stream available to the voters of the giant playground, I would suspect that the correct answer is "none of the above".
People who deliberately block out political discussion should forfeit the right to vote if they're that disinterested. The last thing I want is uninformed and possibly self-righteous idiots who refuse to acknowledge or discuss important political issues, deciding who gets to make laws governing my life.
That comment would be less trite if anyone, including the politicians, *were* actually informed on the issues ...
... and it would be less ironic if it wasn't so self-righteous.
"should forfeit the right to vote"
and when you've constructed the extensive information gathering capability to enforce your new rules, what then for your police state?
"uninformed and possibly self-righteous idiots" Quite.
yea, so as the religious right-wing nuts attempt to take control of the most powerful office on the planet we replace it all with pictures of cats. Sounds reasonable to me.
...the fecking justin beiber Firefox addon that blocked out his name on any website you visit.
It stopped working after I upgraded several versions ahead.
Oh well, at least he's almost vanished into obscurity by now...
I do sometimes post stuff politically-oriented, mostly because it's something that pissed me off.
Lately (last two weeks?), Facebook has been actively blocking those attempts. So who needs the filter when faceplant is doing it for you? I'm waiting for them to eliminate any negative posts about themselves tbh, I'm surprised they haven't been more proactive about it... Unless they're waiting for the elections to get the right bastard in that'll allow them to do heinous things that before they weren't allowed to do. <_< >_>