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So I've beat the series twice now, (both femshep), and I've gotta say I'm with everyone who says the ending is far less satisfying than it could have been. It just sucks because you spend all the games growing attached to your Shepard, all of your squad mates- sh*t you spend the entire third game trying to unite the whole galaxy... and then you're left with three choices which include 1) going against what you've believed and been fighting for (control) aaaand shepard dies. 2) changing EVERYTHING and EVERYONE regardless of what they want (synthesis) aaand shepard dies. 3) doing what you were SUPPOSED to do the whole time anyway (destroying the reapers) but- EDI's toast, the geth are done for, (after all your efforts of securing them a better future, unless you already chose to kill them then whatever), and shepard lives...but all you see of him/her is a charred body buried in rubble taking one little breath. WTF? I don't know what I would have done differently with the ending exactly, I just know I wish I got to see more of Shepard at the ending....alive. Sooo my question is: What would you guys have liked to see happen at the end of Mass Effect 3? Or did you like any of the three options given to you in the game / why?
Lots of cut scenes of my squad members fighting like Jack and her squad, Zaeed blowing up shit, Miranda kicking ass, the Geth marching toward the reapers, Wrex leading his army with Grunt by his side, even if they were like 5 seconds each I would have been happy, even dialogue played while your playing I would have been happy, but no. I wanted a massive variety of endings like at least 10 vastly different endings, like one being you just reset the reapers back so you don' t stop them but you delay them (this being a pretty shit option) but just and example maybe also an ending where you live but the Normandy is destroyed.. I don't mind the 3 endings but they were not enough their needed to be way way more, not even a happy ending really.. Anyway I am at peace with this game now but their are so many things that I expect/wanted. Even I thought they could have made the breathing scene better.
Something a little more dramatic than "Pick a color ... any color" I realize that the galaxy was at risk but when it came down to it I didn't feel like the stakes were very high at the end when Shep talks to a kid with a silly voice.
One ending for the galaxy as a whole, just defeat the reapers, standard "good guys win, bad guys lose" ending. Don't destroy the relays, that's dumb, in order to keep sequels feeling like mass effect they have to rebuild them and that makes the relays then feel less mysterious and important than they actually are. So leave them alone. Basically the variety in the endings should come from different endings for shepard. Have one per love interest, or if the love interest is dead or shepard never had one, have him getting a medal or just doing 'something'. Then after that have a slide show dragon age origins style. Generic slides but ones that tell you important things that happened to make your choices seem important. Not random concept art like in the extended cut. That's about it.
I would have liked to of seen what happened to the Rachni after the war if you let them live. Also i think the former crew deserved clips of what they went on to do afterwards. Not just still pictures left up to guess. It was a story, and a story deserves a proper ending. Also would've liked to seen the former crew members involved in the final battle scenes. Jack & her students attacking. Miranda maybe leading a team of former Cerberus people, Jacob being among them. Samara and some other Justicar's going to war together. Zaeed shooting Husk with Jessie. Wrex & Grunt going in with a Krogan army. Kasmui hacking a terminal to drop shields for a squad to get through. Have Reeger leading a group of Quarian's & Geth *Not kill him off in an e-mail*. Maybe even have a flash of Shiala & the Zhu's Hope colonist fighting with some alliance soldiers if they're alive in your playthrough. Kirrahe if alive leading a Salarian hit squad. The Rachni fighting Ravagers, and so on and so on. Aria leading the Terminus fleet into battle. Stuff that would make it at least look like your choices mattered. Even if they were superficial and made no difference. At least it would look like that did something.
Definitely would have liked to of seen a more fleshed out ending, I wish they would have gone into greater detail as to how each race and former squad mates were battling the Reapers, and I think the general consensus is a greater variety of endings that took your choices made across all three games into greater affect and make them feel impact-full. There was certain things I hated about all three endings, Like Edi dying when she was just starting to evolve, or converging organic and synthetics into a final stage of evolution, or doing the exact opposite of what you were trying to accomplish by controlling the reapers, it just wasn't what I expected. I always thought It would be cool if your choices through all three games affected the mortality of squadmates and even yourself, for example if you choose to kill the Rachni queen then maybe Ashley or Kaiden die because the Queen and the Rachni aren't there to battle, but instead it was kind of irrelevant since no matter what you choose in ME1 to save or destroy the Rachni they are still present in ME3. It was more about the journey for me though, it is disappointing that i won't get to continue Sheperds story, but overall if I had to pick I would say destroy is the most satisfying and I look forward to more ME games, they're still my favorite.
If there was no synthesis, I would have loved the ending. I like bittersweet. A happy go lucky ending is great, but lame. An everyone dies ending is terrible. I like the compromise. It makes a lot more sense to me.
But why not have them both "Happy go Lucky" Galaxy and rabbits everyone gets cake ending an Everyone dies and the universe is destroyed and God cries ending, and a bittersweet sacrifice that saves the day but costs the main character. I think that is in a nutshell most peoples gripe with the ending ...we got 3 of the same ending instead of the variety were expecting/promised.
Well see, that would be cool. The problem is that you basically have to sabotage yourself to get the bad and the bittersweet ending. I'm always going to play as best I can. If they wanted a variety of endings, they should have taken war assets and choices into consideration, not just give us three pick and choose. For example, if you saved the rachni, there should be a part in the ending where the Rachni help turn the tide in a key battle, perhaps making sure more of hammer arrives safely. If you united the Quarians and Geth, they should make a big difference somehow. How it is now, these choices aren't acknowledged at all and the last moments of a game where you barely got any assets, and the last moments of a game where you worked your ass off collecting bibles and succeeding with dialogue options are the same ending. No difference. Not even an easier fight to the end.
In the case of the extended cut endings, I would agree. The synthesis ending is ridiculous, it's bascially robbed everyone of any individuality and made the galaxy willing slaves to the will of the Catalyst. I disagree about the Refusal ending, I agree with the idea of telling Starkid to go take a long walk off a short pier, even if it means destruction for all. That's more of a pure renegade Shepard ending if you ask me. A "happy go lucky" ending doesn't really mesh well with the idea of ME being to make difficult choices that have consequences. It would've been nice to argue with Starkid about the ability of synthetics and organics to peacefully coexist using the Geth as an example. I know the Catalyst's response would be something to the effect that they fought for centuries and how can you gurantee the peace will last. If the intent was to portray the Catalyst as an AI that is doing what it feels is right, having a discussion like this would've made it easier to believe that. I think the lesson learned here is that if you're planning to make a game like this, you can't make it up as you go along. You have to have a basic outline of all the episodes in advance like many writers have with a series a books.
I wanted to activate the Citadel's giant Mass Relay and see what was on the other side. I was expecting a second Citadel to be outside the galaxy, you'd lure the Reaper fleet out there, and then this would be where the final battle would take place, and then self-destruct it to cause an explosion 100 times bigger than the relay blowing up in Arrival to take out the Reapers. Unfortunately, the writers for Mass Effect 3 apparently forgot and/or didn't even know the Citadel is a giant Mass Relay. Way to drop an awesome plot point.
Cool idea, have locations of old Prothean ruins that Shepard and Javik could explore to find out more about what the Prothean scientists knew about the Mass Relays, Citadel and the origins and motivations of the Reapers. Perhaps the scenario could've been crafted such that destroying the Citadel in Dark Space would stop the Reaper threat in some way, either by setting them free or shutting them down.
Not if the Protheans had unlocked the method to control the Citadel relay, the Reaper IFF would be handy to prevent Reaper ships from attacking, which would've been an interesting twist.
Would have loved to just see what was promised originally. Outside of that I think it would have been spectacular to see all the races kicking Reaper ass and that such stuff.
Somebody told me my post up there about the ending is basically identical to Halo 3's ending: open portal to space station outside the galaxy, lure the Flood there, blow up station and end the Flood forever. ... I'M OKAY WITH THIS.
the ending to halo 3 didn't make me hate Halo and become cynical of everything Bungie did thereafter. Something doesn't have to be incredibly innovative or original to be good, and something being cliche doesn't necessarily mean that it's bad, it's all about execution. Something Bioware hasn't done well (in my opinion) since Dragon Age : Origins, Mass Effect: One, and depending on how you see it, Mass Effect : 2.
How could Mass Effect 2 be a poorly executed cliche? I'm just genuinely curious as to how you think it is.
I believe Mass Effect 2 is a poor plan executed pretty damn well. Adds very little to the series but still manages to be extremely laudable. "None of this makes any sense." "Shut up and make it work." RPG of the year 2010:
I agree with you Raucous. I think Mass Effect did the least for the series to advance the Reaper story-line. Bur its also the game that I enjoy the most in the series. Plus we got Miranda *_*
I never said that it was. In fact, i said "and depending on how you see it, Mass Effect : 2." in reference to games that bioware has actually executed well. I said "depending on how you look at it" because some people might say that the story sucks, and think that it wasn't executed well, or you can take Raucous's approach (and my approach) and say that it was something terrible that was executed incredibly well.
Mass Effect 2 played different for me. I had no idea what Mass Effect was, I just picked up a game that looked extra bad ass. To me, it was a self contained, awesome game, and a pretty kick ass story. And yes, I have read all about the "numerous plot contradictions," but I still love the game and the story. As part of a larger series, it was more of a detour.
Mass Effect 2 is still one of my favorite games ever, right behind Dragon Age : Origins, and Age of Empires 2-3.
With all said and done ME2 and ME3 lack the atmosphere of the first game. #gameplaynonewithstandingfolks
The atmosphere of ME2 seemed pretty similar to ME1 if you ask me. There's a problem that no one really feels like dealing with except for you, the galaxy behaves the same way that it did before, everyone kind of just keeps on living their awesome lives in the future.The only thing that's different is that every time you talk to someone they're like "Shepard? i thought you were dead, oh well, want to do an advertisement for me?". ME3 where they try to make the reaper threat and the fact that a war is going on really apparent is what makes the atmosphere different than that of ME1 and ME2.
I would agree with that, one of the beefs I had with two is that they really only introduced the Vorcha as a new alien race in the Terminus System. Bring Down the Sky had already introduced us to the Batarians. Instead they focused on 3 mercenary groups. Why not have more new races in ME2 ?
I really don't know what you're trying to say, neither of those things really has anything to do with atmosphere, and none of them are really related to each other.
Collectors, Batarians, and Drell weren't in the first ME either. That's four actually. So how many new races are ya lookin' for lol? You'll never even touch the first ME in terms of numbers because every race was new there. You have your "foundation" for the galaxy. Ya throw in a couple of new races in future installments, and that's it. More than that is overkill imo. In terms of the ending? Let's be honest, the problem is nobody understood the ending at the time. Until that crap they released six months after the horse was outta the barn. I said it before....it's like a bad joke nobody gets. You can explain away after the fact, and everyone may get it, but it still won't be funny at that point.
I disagree. I think ME2 had the best atmosphere of all the games. It was gritty and made no apologies for it. It reminded me of the original Star Wars. Plus I felt that it captured the creepiness of the Collector situation well.
I guess it simply depends on how you define atmosphere. If you define it as simply location, than you're right about what I said really not having to do with atmosphere. For me, the atmosphere includes people and their attitudes. I think the big argument about atmosphere in ME was that everything was new and locations, the alien races, etc. In ME2, there were new locations, but you moved around the galaxy the same way and spoke to the same races as the first game, we were introduced to the Vorcha which wasn't a huge interaction with. I just thought there would be more unique races in the Terminus Systems to deal with. ME2 and ME3 had a much "darker" atmosphere to them due to the aftermath of the Battle of the Citadel at the end of ME1 with the Geth / Sovereign with the exception of some light hearted moments (Mordin's singing being the one that comes to mind). Not saying atmosphere in ME2 and 3 is bad, just like ME1's better.
i understood the ending, what i didn't understand was why bioware decided to have that be the ending. It's almost as though they were intentionally trying to piss everyone off, like George Lucas explaining the force in the Phantom Menace.
I'll give you 2 out of 3, Batarians made an appearance in the first game (Bring Down the Sky Expansion), but your point is still made . The number isn't really important, I was looking more for specific races in the Terminus Systems that the Council was so afraid to go to war with, I guess the Batarians and Aria's Mercenary groups were enough.
Really? I don't remember you(or anyone else for that matter) bringing anything particularly enlightening to the whole "WTF with this ending?" uprising after ME3 came out. So where were was this enlightenment back then lol? Why not share your knowledge with the rest of us back then? And LOL @ Lucas trying to piss people off. That's just silliness.
Yeah I know the Batarians were in that expansion. However, that's an expansion, and not the game itself. So I don't count that personally. However, there were ME2 expansions as well. They could've done something there like BDS for ME. Brought something new into play.
Fair enough, and I guess they kinda of did bring something new into play with LotSB being that the Shadow Broker was a new race we haven't seen previously. I kinda wish they had done more of that kind of stuff and less of the various Cerberus projects. But what's done is done and this horse has long since perished.
You know, i forgot about the confusion i had regarding the Normandy flying off, and why the catalyst gave you the option of destroying the reapers, and why synthesis was somehow going to stop people from making synthetics again, and why the relays blew up, and how exactly everyone was going to survive when they were stuck in the Sol system. You're right. And I know it was just bad writing on Lucas' part, i was just trying to make a point that it was something that was completely unnecessary.
A lot more. The terminus systems should have been home to at least half a dozen non-council races. Batarians are not new in ME2, the only Drell in the game were Thane and his son, and the collectors are just husks. With all these inhabitable planets you'd think there'd be more than a handful of races and when you journey into a space of people who refuse to adhere to citadel conventions, you'd expect to find more. The council spends all of ME1 treating the territory like a hive of ironfisted villainy but ME2 doesn't really capture it. I mean, they tell us over and over again how much of a shithole Omega is but they don't show it. It's more of a world-building problem, really. Resources making new models and animations for races that aren't just weird looking humans, map design, voice acting. Lots of work. Video games are limited. Codex tells us Thessia is ancient greece in space with blue lesbian sex witches and our mission on the asari homeworld ends up being a tour through some rubble and a brief romp through a temple. The Mass Effect universe is extremely narrow. Hopefully they're able to expand on it (while still doing it justice) in future installments. Games set on a smaller scale with deeper experiences. Mass Effect 2 has plenty of atmosphere. It has a unique art style and a notable bright, colorful, and sleek aesthetic. It was just different from Mass Effect's cool and somber somber tones.
Raucous is right, if you get the Bring Down The Sky DLC then Batarian's do show up in ME1. Also there are 3 Drell in ME2 if you count Feron from the Shadow Broker DLC. ME2 added Vorcha as well. All in all I agree with Raucous. They could do a lot more with the races they have. Plus if you want to add more races to the game, just bring the Raloi off thier planet & let the Yahg go off theirs. There's 2 right there, and that should be the cap IMO for a few more games. Just focus on those. That's a lot of races to build & juggle. Asari, Turians, Salarians, Krogan (maybe), Quarians (maybe), Vorcha, Hanar, Elcor, Volus, Batarians, Drell, Humans, Yahg, Raloi, & Geth (maybe). That's 15 races just right there. Plus if they want to they can even maybe bring Protheans back. The Collectors are Protheans. The Salarian's were able to clone Kakliosaur from just a skull. So if they could do that I'm sure if they use some of Javik's DNA they could work on reverting Collectors back to living, breathing Protheans. Not that I would want or think they'll do that, but it's a possibility. Would also be dangerous seeing as his race seems like they were bunch of assholes.
While i wouldn't be objected to a few additional races, i would prefer it if it didn't turn out like star wars with a different species for every job or character role.
You don't have to work within the confines of existing races. There are enough habitable words in the ME universe to have more races lurking out there and, hopefully, they aren't all excessively violent like the Yahg or annoying, entitled bullies like the humans. Having the citadel community be a representative of only the galaxy's best and brightest in terms of being "selfless and contributing members of society" while the rest of the galaxy - the terminus systems especially - is a swarm of self-serving and unruly factions consisting of varying races would have painted a better picture. It would also help break the mold of each race also being a nationality and get rid of the whole "humans are the only species capable of breaking stereotypes" thing.
Before ME3 came out, I thought about the many ways they could have ended the series. I actually didn't think about Prothean super-weapon, probably because it was too easy. I'm not opposed to using such an easy plot device, they didn't do much with it. I liked the idea of the Citadel being a component and using a pulse through the mass relays, but it would have been better to spread it out rather than just throwing it out there. The ending I'd picture would be a more organic one, unify the galaxy and slowly fight off the Reapers, ending in a showdown between Shepard and Harbinger. A few advantageous turn of events in between like supernova a star system, destroy a factory, maybe takeover a Reaper.
After I played Mass Effect 3 my first time and saw the ending i have not played any of the games sense the ending ruined the replayability for me entirely.
Considering the further explanation in the extended cut, I appreciated the ending choices quite a bit. A happy-go-lucky ending to Mass Effect 3 would be a disservice. If anything, the endings were not harsh enough. Life is about making tough decisions and nothing is simple -- good choices are merely lesser evils masked by perspective. There is no right, only an endless search for the least wrong. Reapers harvest both organic and synthetic life, in an attempt to preserve organics. The catalyst claims that endless cycles have ended in conflict between synthetics and their creators. Countless attempts to be an ambassador between the two species have resulted in failure, leaving the only solution to be a "cleansing fire," restarting the cycle, making way for new life. The catalyst said that organics seek advancement through technology, inevitably creating synthetic life that surpasses organic. You can imagine the result: a creator builds life superior to itself, yet does not want to lose his or her place in society. War, conflict, and the eventual annihilation of organic life. How do you protect organics? If synthetic life is considered life, and they are truly superior, should they not be entitled to higher places in society? Imagine someone can do your job 100 times better than you. Organics will continually slip down the social classes as the disparity between organic and synthetic's skill and intelligence increase at an exponential rate. The solution, according to the catalyst, is to purge advanced life forms, organic and synthetic, giving way for a new era, while harvesting the essence of the lost civilization. From the point of view of the catalyst, it is the most equitable solution. This way organic life is protected, without bias. All advanced life is destroyed, and in doing so all life is protected for future cycles. 1) You destroy the reapers, but at extreme cost. All synthetic life and technology is destroyed. If you consider synthetic life life, you are erasing an entire kind of existence -- why should organics get preference? Further, most organics depend on technology; many will suffer and die in the transition. What would happen if we lost all electricity in our current world? But, you have faith in humanity and organics. The catalyst is wrong, You are idealistic and believe that we are different. We are superior to synthetic life and will learn from our mistakes. Even if we do not, you cannot punish people for something that has not happened yet. 2) You take control of the reapers. Despite an imbalance of power, you will be a benevolent dictator, driving prosperity in the galaxy. The catalyst's solution was wrong and if you were able to wield its power, there would be peace. You have an opportunity to be god and take it. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." 3) Organics and synthetics are equal. The catalyst was right and a new opportunity presents itself. Synthetics and organics can be blended into a new evolution; organics are given technology and synthetics understanding. This is the only way to avoid the cycle and so the inevitable extinctions of organics. Although, this action effectively "forgives" the reapers and accepts their actions. Great prosperity can be reached with huge advancement trough collaboration, but the "enemy" is left unpunished.


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Navy Lt. Cmdr. Shannon Stout, the 2nd Tank Battalion medical officer, from Sarasota, Fla., looks at her uncle Neil Stout, a retired Navy petty officer 3rd class and World War II veteran, during her promotion ceremony Sept. 4, 2013 aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Stout became the first female field grade officer in 2nd Tanks history.
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Things go in cycles. We all know that – from the dredging up of retro fashions, the inheritance of music, to the rapid cyclical nature of business; in particular online business. Everything seems to follow the same path.
As all tech believers know, when man invented the web: Saviour of the Geeks, Creator of Unnecessary Job Titles and Deliverer of LOLCats, like the Garden of Eden, at first things went jolly well – we all lived in peace, harmony and believed in universal access, freedom of information, net neutrality, and that when given the choice of publicising the bare truth on Wikipedia, we (from celebrities and companies to politicians and lobbying groups) of course would not seek to alter that... oh yes. Of course, our lovely new Netopia began to change to reflect the true realities of our world – i.e. capitalism.
Yet, even so – the level of change from open platforms, open source, open access mentality of the early days to the competitive, closed, fixed business model trend we now see, surprises me. When AOL (or America Online as it was then) first presented the world with the idea of a digital gated community – it was a unique step.... Read more
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Created by a charity called Shelter, the Xmas cards feature a cartoon of Santa flashing his behind as he takes off his clothes to hang on a washing line.
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Hope Solo on 'Dancing With the Stars': All About the Soccer Star
Solo, the 30-year-old star goalkeeper from the U.S. women's national soccer team, made headlines this summer when she made several stellar plays during the Women's World Cup. She's played on the national team for more than a decade, but it was a save in the nail-biting shootout against Brazil that clinched the U.S.'s bid in the semifinals and brought Solo into the national spotlight.
2010 World Cup Schedule on TV: Get Ready for Some Football (AKA Soccer)
This summer brings the biggest event in football -- or soccer as we call it on this side of the pond. It's the Super Bowl for the international set and the best soccer teams from around the globe are gearing up to stake their claim on the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The 2010 World Cup Television Schedule will play on several different stations including ESPN, ESPN2, ABC and games will stream online at ESPN360.com.
Nike Writes the Future With New Soccer Ad
Then you haven't seen the new Nike World Cup-themed ad, a globe-spanning spectacle of action and reaction featuring players Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Wayne Rooney and Americans Tim Howard and Landon Donovan along with celebs and fellow athletes Roger Federer, Kobe Bryant and Homer Simpson.
TV 101: Let's Make TV Like a Soccer League (Or: How To Make Trololo A Network Show!)
It's not that I don't love my friends and relatives, I'm just tired of being burned by subpar 'AFV' clips masquerading as the new hotness of internet memes. As I get older and my time becomes more precious, I really don't want suggestions from friends - what I want is qualified editors making decisions for me.
The problem is that as media further fractures and democratizes, it gets harder and harder to find the good stuff. Thus, the more a company helps me find the good stuff, the more I'm inclined to stay with that company.
To that end, I've got an idea that'll be win all around for everybody: the Big Four Networks should adopt a league system, just like soccer.
TV 101: How ESPN controls the world and what the other networks can learn from it
I know you don't believe me. Hell, I'm not sure I believe me. After all, America has resisted soccer for going on 150 years. Crapping on soccer ranks right up there with eating horrible chain-restaurant food and producing slobs-versus-snobs camp movies as a quality that define us as Americans.
Further, you've heard this claim before: the "Grab your shin guards, soccer is about to be a hit in the US of A!" column has been written approximately 2.8 million times since the early '70s. Every time a new soccer league starts in this country, everyone rushes to be the first to write that America is about to become Uruguay North.
And yet, those leagues invariably crash and burn, WNBA-style. So what makes this time any different? Why will we finally care about something that we've gone out of our way to not care about for so long? What force is powerful enough to make that happen?
The most powerful force in the universe: ESPN.
Survivor contestant fired from job for going on TV
It must be hard to go on a reality show. Besides the insults you're bound to get from viewers, critics, family, and friends (unless you win a bunch of money, of course), you have to leave your job for quite some time. Then again, if you're going on a reality show to live on an island or in a house or whatever, you're probably looking for another life for yourself anyway.
One of the contestants from Survivor has been let go from their job. But they don't seem to care.
The Mole: Episode 2
(S05E02) "I'll kill you in your sleep...I can do it and not leave any forensic evidence." - Nicole, to Paul
Uh...wow. That's one of the more provocative statements made in the history of The Mole. Of course, if this show was on CBS Nicole would have said, "...I can do it and not leave any forensic evidence and even the CSI: Miami team wouldn't be able to prove I did it." The funny thing is, Nicole wasn't totally out of line in saying it. Just when you think Nicole was the "evil" one on this reality show, another strong contender shows up: Paul. I don't know which one I'd rather talk to less, though Paul pulled ahead of Nicole tonight in many ways.
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Beckhams filming separate reality shows
And David Beckham is making his own reality show for British network, ITV. Producers say it's not so much about his wife and three sons, but about soccer. There's a great quote in the article about the driving force of this reality show, "David's move to LA Galaxy is an historic event... Viewers will get an amazing insight into his thoughts about the story that shook the world of football."
Beckham's reality series could become a primetime special
Not too long ago, Anna told you that former Spice Girl and wife of soccer star David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, would be starring in a reality series on NBC that would follow her and her husband as they make their move to the United States.
Well, the series is still happening, except it won't be a series, it'll be a primetime special. All of this is merely speculation at this point, and NBC hasn't made any comment one way or the other. However, like Anna, I haven't quite figured out what it is about this series/special that's supposed to attract people, especially Americans. I think whatever mainstream infatuation we had with Posh Spice has long since gone away, and while David Beckham is no doubt a superstar in his own right, soccer just isn't that popular here. That's not a slight against the sport itself, I'm merely pointing out that it's unclear exactly who this series/special is trying to attract.
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So, the commercial starts off with a soccer game, and one player overplaying his injury a little too much. We cut to a scene of Mr. T driving a tank toward the soccer field. He smashes two cars along the way: did those cars have people in them? Mr. T does not care. Mr. T has bigger things on his mind: big, nutty chocolaty things.
YouTube faces a new round of lawsuits
The Football Association Premier League is threatening legal action, as is the country of Thailand.
The Premiere League is ticked off at YouTube for the usual copyright infringing stuff. They say the video-sharing site is violating the league's distribution rights of soccer matches, and have set up a website to encourage other copyright holders to join their suit against YouTube's parent company Google.
As for Thailand, they're upset about video clips that made fun of the country's king. Thailand banned access to YouTube, and the site eventually agreed to block pages with the offensive videos from Thai users. While it seemed like that would be the end of the story, a Thai official now says the country plans to file a suit against Google.
Maybe this wasn't the best time for Google to start paying independent video producers. They might need to save the money.
The Simpsons: Marge Gamer
I may be a Simpsons apologist, but that doesn't mean I don't understand where people are coming from when they say the show isn't what it used to be. Even those like myself who defend the series for still being one of the smartest and funniest shows on television can still recognize a lesser episode, and this episode was certainly not the best one of the season.
Doctor Who could be hit by soccer
The match is scheduled to finish in regulation time just before Doctor Who is scheduled to start on BBC One, but if extra-time and penalties (aka over-time and a penalty-kick shoot-out) ensue, the third episode of the new series will be held over for a week, throwing out the BBC's schedules for BBC One and BBC Three.
However, based on Man United's 7-1 thrashing of AS Roma in the Champions League last night at Old Trafford (8-3 on aggregate), and the fact that Watford have only won a single match from their last four, it's highly unlikely that The Doctor and Martha will be replaced by Wayne Rooney and Ronaldo.
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Australia's Marcus Fraser stormed to the top of the fourth round leaderboard at the Sportsbet Australian Masters after playing the first nine holes of his final round in six under par at Huntingdale Golf Club.
Fraser picked up three shots over his opening three holes before adding three more birdies over his last five holes to reach the turn 11 under overall and two shots clear of fellow Australian's Rod Pampling and Robert Allenby and England's Steve Webster.
Fraser knocked his approaches into one, two, six and eight inside about five feet.
Joint overnight leader Allenby, a two time Australian Masters champion, dropped one shot over his first six holes to slip back to nine under.
Both Pampling and Webster picked up two birdies through six, while co-overnight leader Michael Sim dropped to eight under after shipping two strokes in five holes.
South Africa's Tim Clark reeled of six birdies in 13 holes but a bogey dropped the second round leader back to eight under alongside Sim.
Sim twice landed the ball in the gallery en route to a bogey at the par four second before dropping another shot at the next.
Sweden's Martin Erlandsson and Australia's Marc Leishman carded final round five under 67s to sit in the clubhouse at six under.
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T1 | FRASER, Marcus | AUS | 18 | -12 | ||||||
T1 | PAMPLING, Rodney | AUS | 18 | -12 | ||||||
3 | ALLENBY, Robert | AUS | 18 | -9 | ||||||
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James, there may be several answers to your design question. One might be the Sharpie.
There is a truly wonderful book, "The Commodore''s Story" by Ralph Munroe, of Key Biscayne, Florida.
There are accounts of some amazing voyages up and down the Atlantic coast as well as gunkholing adventures in that particular hull form.
If you happen to visit Miami, Florida, his home and workshop are maintained as a state historic site (known as "The Barnacle").
One of his innovations was a round bilged version of a New Haven Sharpie design - known as the "Presto". It is reputed to be very capable for shoal draft cruising, yet very seaworthy in open water.
Any way, James, find the book at a library. The text and pictures are very rewarding to read. I think the Sharpie designs are but one of many possible answers to the question.
I once rented a dhow (and skipper) on a very breezy day on the Nile river... steel hull, hand sewn cotton sails, a "wild" gaff design if ever there was one. It was very efficient maneuvering around obstacles (other craft, shoreline and docking. This dhow had no engine, either. There are stories of the "ancients" sailing dhows across oceans.
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BAGHDAD_A U.S. Army soldier was removed from Iraq after he shot a Quran full of bullets and marked it with graffiti, the U.S. military announced Sunday.
By Raviya H. Ismail McClatchy Newspapers
U.S. military officials, fearing a backlash as a result of the desecration moved quickly to resolve the case after Iraqi police found the desecrated book May 11 at a shooting range in the predominantly Sunni Muslim area of Radwaniya in western Baghdad.
They briefed tribal leaders on their investigation and expressed regret for the damage to the Quran, the Islamic holy book. » read m
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Here is the latest information on the US soldier who used the Quran for target practice. We also have reports of violence across Iraq and another attack on the Green Zone.
Despite all this that is happening in Iraq, the mainstream media and FOX NEWS continue to BS the American public that the "surge" is working.
Reported Security IncidentsBaghdad Reports on the violence overnight in Sadr City are sketchy. Reuters merely reports that "Four people were killed and 38 others wounded in clashes between security forces and Shi'ite militiamen in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. However, Israel News says specifically that "Mortar shells slammed into a residential area north of Baghdad, killing at least four people and wounding 30, most children playing outside, officials said Sunday." The AP photo caption above http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/ says that 5 children were killed in a mortar strike in Sadr City, which is not "north of Baghdad," but rather in the northeastern part of Baghdad. Whether these reports all refer to the same incident, and how many total casualties there were, is not clear at this time. The AP has numerous other photos of children with severe injuries in the hospital. Xinhua now reports a total of six dead in Sadr City. If the situation becomes clearer, I'll post an update later in the day.
-- C Reuters also reports:
A mortar bomb wounded four people in Iskan district in western Baghdad, police said.
Five bodies were found in various districts of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.
U.S. forces killed two militants who tried to attack them in northwestern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.A fire erupted in al-Amil neighborhood souk (market), southwestern Baghdad, on Sunday after U.S. forces detonated an improvised explosive device (IED), gutting a number of stores in the area, an Iraqi police source said. The U.S. had no comment on the matter.
Two soldiers were killed and four others wounded when a roadside car bomb went off near an Iraqi army patrol on al-Rubaie street, eastern Baghdad, on Sunday, an Iraqi police source said.
KUNA reports three dead.Four katyusha rockets strike Green Zone, no casualties reported.Roadside bomb targeting a U.S. convoy in central Baghdad injures three civilians.Bomb in a minibus injures twoAt least one civilian was killed and another wounded on Saturday evening when a roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi army vehicle patrol in northern Baghdad, a police source said. This was reported too late to make yesterday's post.
Khan Bani Saad (south of Baquba)A senior officer from the Iraqi army was killed on Saturday during clashes with armed groups in Diala province, central Iraq, a security source said. The deceased held the rank of colonel. Two other soldiers were injured. Again, this was reported too late for yesterday's post.U.S. forces killed six militants and destroyed a weapons cache in an airstrike in the town of Khan Bani Saad, near Baquba, the U.S. military said. Presumably supporting the Iraqi army action in that town which resulted in the casualties yesterday.al-Rashad, Kirkuk areaIraqi troops arrest police chief on charges of collaborating with "armed groups." No explanation is given, but it's a fair bet this has something to do with the Arab-Kurdish territorial dispute.
-- CBasraIraqi police say they have carried out raids and confiscated mortar rounds and automatic rifles. Actually the list of confiscated weapons doesn't sound very impressive -- 88 mortar shells and 40 rifles. -- CNotable by its absence: any news from Mosul. The big operation there apparently turned out to be a wet firecracker. We'll see what happens in the days ahead. Other News of the DayA U.S. Army staff sergeant in Radhwaniya writes "Fuck yeah" inside a Koran, draws a target on the cover, uses it for target practice, and leaves it for Iraqis to find. It's too soon to tell what the wider reaction will be. CNN's Michael Ware describes the apology by Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, which appears to have been accepted by the local Shawa, at least for now.
A former college quarterback, Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, stood facing the angry crowd. His face was grim and fixed as tribal sheikhs swirled around him."I am a man of honor, I am a man of character. You have my word, this will never happen again," the general told the angry crowd through loudspeakers, pounding the makeshift podium three times with his fist."In the most humble manner, I look in to your eyes today and I say, please forgive me and my soldiers." The act of his sniper was criminal, he said. "I've come to this land to protect you, to support you...this soldier has lost the honor to serve the United States Army and the people of Iraq here in Baghdad."Martin stood before the crowd next, opening his address with an Islamic blessing. He announced the sergeant had been relieved of duty with prejudice; reprimanded by the commanding general with a memorandum of record attached to his military record; dismissed from the regiment and redeployed from the brigade.Holding a new Quran in his hands, he turned to the crowd. "I hope that you'll accept this humble gift." Martin kissed the Quran and touched it to his forehead as he handed it to the tribal elders. The crowd's voice rose, "Yes, yes, to the Quran. No, no, to the devil."But would it be enough to appease the mood in Radhwaniya? A local sheikh came to the microphone. "In the name of all the sheikhs," he said, "we declare we accept the apology that was submitted."This news has just broken, so I have found very little commentary about it. No doubt there will be further discussion as the day goes on. This Muslim American blogger expects serious repercussions.
Iraqi military spokesman announces intention to restore basic services to Sadr City. We'll see.Iraqi oil exports fell by nearly 3 million barrels in April, ostensibly because of the fighting in Basra. Nancy Pelosi leaves Iraq, with minimal public comment.
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[J]ump to September 11, 2001 and its aftermath -- and you know the Tai Chi version of history from there. Think of it as a grim cosmic joke -- that the 9/11 attacks, as apocalyptic as they looked, were anything but. The true disasters followed and the wounds were largely self-inflicted, as the most militarily powerful nation on the planet used its own force to disable itself.
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US military says soldier shot at Quran
By KIM GAMEL Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A soldier used a Quran, the Islamic holy book, for target practice in a predominantly Sunni area west of Baghdad, prompting an apology from the military, a spokesman said Sunday.
Iraqi police found the bullet-riddled Quran with graffiti inside the cover on a small-arms range near a police station in Radwaniyah, a former insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad, U.S. military spokesman Col. Bill Buckner said.
American commanders then launched an inquiry that led to disciplinary action against the soldier, who has been removed from Iraq, Buckner said.
The action, which happened May 9 and was discovered two days later, threatened to further strain relations between the Americans and Sunni allies who have joined forces with them against al-Qaida in Iraq in Radwaniyah and other areas.
The incident was first reported by CNN, which broadcast a ceremony at which the top American commander in Baghdad apologized to tribal leaders in Radwaniyah. The military confirmed the details in an e-mailed response to a query.
"I come before you here seeking your forgiveness," Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond was quoted as saying. "In the most humble manner I look in your eyes today and I say please forgive me and my soldiers."
The commander also read a letter of apology by the shooter, and another military official kissed a Quran and presented it to the tribal leaders, according to CNN.
The military statement called the incident "serious and deeply troubling" but stressed it was a result of one soldier's actions and "not representative of the professionalism of our soldiers or the respect they have for all faiths."
Separately, mortar shells slammed into a residential area north of Baghdad, killing at least four people and wounding 30, most of them children playing outside, officials said Sunday.
The shelling occurred as clashes broke out in Shiite areas late Saturday despite a truce reached last week by Shiite politicians and followers of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
The Sunni alliances have been key to a steep decline in violence over the past year, along with a U.S. troop buildup and a longer term cease-fire by al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia.
Bandaged girls and boys with bloodstained clothes cried as they were packed two to a bed at a hospital in Sadr City, a Shiite stronghold where most of the recent fighting has occurred.
At least three mortar rounds struck a house, an open area and a street where boys were playing soccer in the Maamil neighborhood on Baghdad's northeastern outskirts, witnesses said.
Those killed included a man and three children, according to police and hospital officials who also said at least 30 people were wounded.
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When a gunshot-riddled Quran is found, a tenuous partnership is threatened
U.S. military officers apologize to authorities, citizens in Iraqi village
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CNN's Michael Ware says the Quran incident could have become a crisis.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- What the Iraqi fighter found threatened America's vital alliance with Sunni militia.
A week ago in a police station shooting range on Baghdad's western outskirts, the American-allied Iraqi militiaman found what one or more GIs had been using for target practice -- a copy of the Quran, Islam's holy book.
Riddled with bullets, the rounds piercing deep into the thick volume, the pages were shredded. Turning the holy book in his hands, the man found two handwritten English words, scrawled in pen. "F*** yeah."
The discovery was incendiary. It was an affront to Islam and a serious challenge to the religious credentials of the U.S-allied militias, or Awakening Councils, who turned on al-Qaeda and are now on the U.S. government payroll. Watch villagers protest the incident »
Largely moderate Sunnis, the American-backed militias face constant accusations from Islamic groups that they have turned against Islam to support the cause of the infidels, or nonbelievers. If this indignity had gone unanswered, the Islamists' case would have been won.
Abdullah, the militiaman who found the defaced Quran, complained to his superiors. Soon, there was outrage among the tribes and population of Radhwaniya, a semi-rural area long home to loyalists of the former regime of Saddam Hussein.
Word of what the Americans had done rippled throughout the district and the fury spread. Honor was at stake, and the urge for a violent response against the insult was strong. However, tribal leaders made an approach to American commanders in the region. "Honestly, we have to defend our religion," said Sheikh Saad al-Falahi, "and relations [with the U.S.] would deteriorate if they did not apologize."
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Soldier uses Quran for target practice
Having fought and then negotiated so hard and for so long to quiet the insurgency in Radhwaniya, American commanders were wary of the potential crisis.
The U.S. 4th Infantry Division is posted in Baghdad and surrounds; many of its commanders and soldiers are veterans of the Iraq campaign. Col. Ted Martin, commander of the Division's 1st Brigade, immediately launched an investigation, promising the tribal leaders a swift outcome.
Investigators soon identified the Army section that had been at the police station's small arms range, and a staff sergeant, a sniper section leader from the 64th Armor Regiment, was the primary suspect. After denying involvement, the sergeant eventually confessed, though he claimed he had no idea the book used for target practice was a Quran. Martin dismissed the excuse.
On Saturday, about a week after the incident (locals say the shooting practice was on May 9, U.S. forces say the Quran was discovered May 11), CNN was present for the showdown in Radwaniyeh as the Americans faced the tribes.
U.S. commanders arrived at a police outpost in heavily armored vehicles to be met by a human tempest; hundreds of chanting tribesmen lined up behind razor wire, offering their blood and souls in sacrifice for the Quran.
A former college quarterback, Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, stood facing the angry crowd. His face was grim and fixed as tribal sheikhs swirled around him.
"I am a man of honor, I am a man of character. You have my word, this will never happen again," the general told the angry crowd through loudspeakers, pounding the makeshift podium three times with his fist.
"In the most humble manner, I look in to your eyes today and I say, please forgive me and my soldiers." The act of his sniper was criminal, he said. "I've come to this land to protect you, to support you...this soldier has lost the honor to serve the United States Army and the people of Iraq here in Baghdad."
Martin stood before the crowd next, opening his address with an Islamic blessing. He announced the sergeant had been relieved of duty with prejudice; reprimanded by the commanding general with a memorandum of record attached to his military record; dismissed from the regiment and redeployed from the brigade.
Holding a new Quran in his hands, he turned to the crowd. "I hope that you'll accept this humble gift." Martin kissed the Quran and touched it to his forehead as he handed it to the tribal elders. The crowd's voice rose, "Yes, yes, to the Quran. No, no, to the devil."
But would it be enough to appease the mood in Radhwaniya? A local sheikh came to the microphone. "In the name of all the sheikhs," he said, "we declare we accept the apology that was submitted."
With hands shaken and sheepish thank-yous made, the general and the colonel returned to their armored convoy. The crisis, it seems, was averted.
The stakes, though, had been high. If accord had not been found, says Sheikh Ayad Abd al-Jabbar, head of the local Support Council, it could have been dire.
"Then surely the situation would have changed in another direction and more tension will have risen up, after all the cooperation with the Americans to restore security."
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I think this is subspecies lucionensis because of the grey hood.
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Fishing in the mouth of controlled steam. Almost low tide. Sitting on a rock mid picture. Sorry if its hard to see iPhone pic in low light.
old photo, date is correct, location is an estimate.
Digging thru old photos. Found this little fellow. Not positive but I think this is the right id. reference: http://gaga.biodiv.tw/new23/000x/s2-922.htm
The location is an estimate. I was at a small farm between clear water bay and Sai Kung but didn't tag it at the time.
Some sort of moth cocoon. On a park tree. There were two others of the same species within a meter of eachouther.
under a picnic table in the shade of an oak grove.
West cost spotted Tussock Moth. Crawling on a cement block outside of lucasfilm. Just after a morning rain shower.
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Laura and William were very nice and hospitable. Apartments are two blocks away from 157 Street Metro station (red line which brings you directly to downtown of Manhattan). 168 Street Metro station (Blue line goes directly to JFK) is also not far away. It's a clean and nice room for a reasonable price. I highly recommend it!
Laura and William were amazing. They welcomed my friend and I into their home as New York was being hit by Hurricane Sandy. I would not have wanted to be anywhere else during the storm! We share great conversations and the two of them were very understanding of the fact we ended up spending most of our visit working in their apartment since the whole city was paralysed by Sandy. I will never forget this trip to New York and I truly hope we get to meet again soon. Os echeré de menos!
William et Laura sont accueillants et sympas. On les a peu vu. La chambre est confortable et propre ainsi que la salle de bain ! Le quartier peut surprendre au début mais cela fait voir un autre côté de Manhattan et est sans problème. Le métro est vraiment à côté de l'appartement et on ne met pas longtemps pour rejoindre le centre. -------------- William and Laura are welcoming and friendly. They were rarely seen. The room is comfortable and clean and the bathroom! The district may surprise at first, but it shows another side of Manhattan and no problem. The metro is really beside the apartment and we do not put too much time to reach the center.
What a wonderful experience! Laura and William were very welcoming and accommodating. We were even late checking in and they waited to welcome us as we made it through the city in the rain!
Nuestra estancia en casa de Laura & William ha sido genial. El piso está muy bien cuidado y todo muy limpio. La zona donde se encuentran es perfecta para conocer otro punto de vista de Manhattan. Un barrio singular, lleno de vida y con mucho carácter. Recomendamos mucho la visita de NY y, por supuesto, de Laura & William.
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Laura and William have an adorable apartment that is very close to the subway. The room and apartment is extremely clean and had all of the accommodations we needed. We loved staying in such a convenient place!
We had much fun in our short stay at Laura & William's. They were very nice and welcoming hosts, and they did, indeed, "welcomed us to Manhattan" as their listing says! Except for one minor and a little upsetting hiccup (they were not home when we first got there, and we couldn't get them on the phone for about 30 minutes) that got solved once Laura got her phone signal back and called us - everything was really great! The room was clean and lovely, the bed was great and the hosts were sweet. The neighborhood is friendly and warm, and the subway is close. All in all - a great experience.
It's a nice place to stay Laura and William are a great couple, nice and thoughtful The flat is near the subway, there is a lovely room and bathroom. It's clean An adress where we would stay again if we have to come back
The flat is very close to subway (subway station is on 157th St / Broadway - flat was at 159th / Broadway). Times Square is like 15-20 minutes by subway. There is a really cozy room and very clean comfortable bathroom. We have seen Laura and William twice (we were going out early morning and returning to our flat late night), but they are nice and friendly people. They were very understanding and flexible about our arrival time (about 10 p.m.). It was not a problem to leave our luggage after the time we should leave the flat (we had our flight late that day and we wanted to pick-up luggage just before the flight). if you future tourist have any questions about staying with in theirs flat please do not hesitate to contact me :):):). Cheers from Poland.
Laura and William are an awesome couple to know in NYC. They are open to learn from all types of people, and are kind, generous, and hospitable. You won't regret meeting them!
I stayed with William and Laura in Madrid, Spain. They are great friends of mine and I look forward to paying them a visit in New York this summer.
Hello. I stayed with Laura and William recently and enjoyed it a lot! The place is clean and cozy and the neighborhood is very bubbly and colorful. The train takes you to the city in 15 minutes, but you shall stop on the way at the Natural History Museum or Central Park, or just stroll through the Upper West Side.
Nice room, nice couple! I had a great time there. Close to the NY center and good access to public transit.


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Holiday Foreplay with Cassie Alexander + Giveaway
Hello everyone! I'm Cassie Alexander, author of the Edie Spence series – Nightshifted, Moonshifted (out now!), and Shapeshifted this upcoming summer.
Since Moonshifted takes place between Christmas and New Years, I thought a gift list for the paranormal lover/reader/friend in your life might be a fun thing to do. This one is lovingly culled from culled from my Etsy favorites. Edie and I would love any of these, and maybe you will too. 😉
For the werewolf with a sense of humor:
For the upscale daytimer (all the better to hide bite marks with):
For your shapeshifter (so, secretly this is a gift for yourself, but he'll like seeing you in it, so…)
For your vampire 'friends':
For the one vampire you actually trust:
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I LOVE that list! Honestly, I would get that lightbox. It's very, very, cool! Great post.
Lee @shewolfreads
That's a great question. The necklace is so beautiful I think I'd have to go with that one! Love the new design! Thanks for the awesome giveaway. 😀
Absolutely the double sided Light Box. My daughter would love it.
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For the zombie hunter in my life, I would probably get a zombie killing / survival pack… Including batteries, canned goods, water filtering system, guns, knives, etc… Just in case the zombie apocalypse is near.
i would pick the necklace but to be honest i much prefer yours ^^
i would be more than delighted to win this prize *finger crossed* thank you a lot for opening it to international
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The Edie Spence series, of course. Or, any of the wonderful gifts shown. Thanks for the awesome giveaway and happy holidays to all.
Definately the necklace I love it .
@49858226-aab9-11e1-8a41-000f20980440 I agree, Cassie did a great job on her post!
@Mandee Wyrick The necklace is great; I wouldn't mind winning this giveaway to get one for myself! 😉
@Carol L. It sure is neat.
@Stéphanie Because you never know!
@miki Good luck!
@fundinmental Haha good answer! :p
@wanda f Cassie has great taste!
I would get the light box for a few friends, who I'm sure would find it to be very cool.
From the list I'd gift the upscale daytimer scarf, but I'm thinking about giving away oracle cards.
I love the zombie lover gift. I would give that.
Definitely the scarf!
I'd go browsing on Etsy for items related to their favorite paranormal being– I have found some of the coolest stuff from the crafters! I love the scarf you found:)
thanks for a fun post! I'd buy a giftcard so that way they can definitely get what they want
I really like the little stuffed blood bag!!! So cute!!!
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I'd get the wolfsbane soap.
I think a copy of Nightshifted would be the perfect gift for my paranormal loving sister. I read it and loved it, so I know she will love it too. 😀
I love the necklace. Thanks for the fun post.
Very cool necklace!
If I wasn't sure what books they already had I would get them a gift card to their fave books store.
And from the above list I would pick the BRAIIIINSSSS.
I love the necklace. I would give any of those gifts to my friends or a giftcard. Thanks for the awesome giveaway. firstname.lastname@example.com
These books look like so much fun…and that pendant kicks ass! Also am crazy about the skeletal body suit. Awesome!
These books sound amazing! I can't believe I haven't heard of them before. I can't wait to check them out.
As for the question: I would buy them a box full of all their upcoming favourite paranormal reads. Or if I really wanted to go crazy and if this world was as awesome as featured in PNR books, I would buy them their most favourite paranormal creature. LOL ;p
Thanks for the giveaway!
~ Maida @ Literary Love Affair
I´d give a Kindle and a gift card, that´s all you need to feed the addiction. =)
best wishes, Linda
Definitely a set of the Twilight books:)
My best friend is a nurse so these blindfolds are great. My sister as a Vampire lover, the tickets for a Trip to Transylvania (expensive gift for now).
Thank you for the giveaway!
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awesome list cassie! my fave choice to gift a friend would be the red pillow thingy 😀
Definitely the necklace!
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I would choose the scarf! 😀
@Crystal It's definitely unique!
@Leni There's a thought!
@Jennifer Bielman That seems to be the popular item on Cassie's list. Great pick.
@Vivien It is cute. I've been eyeing it myself.
@Brenda Jean Hyde Etsy is so addictive!! LOL
@erin You can't go wrong with GCs!
@sheryl I agree. It took me a moment to figure out what it was though. Hehe
@Stephanie Me too but I'd want to keep it for myself. LOL
@Barbara E. Glad to hear that you enjoyed it! I hope you get around to reading Moonshifted soon!
@Susan My pleasure!
@Jennifer TheBookNympho LOL Of course you would. :p
@Tore I agree, anything on this list would make a great gift.
@Nikki Jefford This series is definitely worth checking out. It's very different but in a good way!
@MåїÐ»-(¯`v´¯)-» Oooh, a whole box!? I like the way you think!
@Linda This is true. LOL
@*yadkny* Just so long as you have someone on your list who hasn't read 'em yet!!!
@Diana Visiting Transylvania would be so much fun!
@sienny The blood bag is so CUTE!!
@Filia Oktarina You can't go wrong with giving books for Xmas.
@Unknown It's lovely.
The necklace or the skeleton body suit! I really like both of them! (Ileana A.-rafflecopter)
I would love the scarf!
I would choose to buy the necklace as a gift.
the stuff bloody bag!! I'm sure he'd loved it! lol
@Gisele But where would you wear the suit?? LOL
I'd have to get some porcelain fang veneers so I can bite my vamp back. I do loooove the heart necklace.
A talisman to protect them from all the hunters out there.
Thanks a lot, i'll give my friend a doctor's bag ^^ Nice for everything! Can't explain more in english sorry
The blindfolds are perfect for blocking out any sleep disturbing light!
I'd give here the wiggle dress. What better thing to wear on those times she'd want to feel like a sexy vampire out on a hunt for a victim.
A gift card from Amazon so that could buy that book that they had been dying to get
I would get them the scarf. Or the bag its really cool.
that scarf is amazing! And I love the soap, too!
Heheh I would buy them the Night Huntress series and a Gothic necklace mmm
For my favorite vampire hunter, I'd get a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Supernatural Defense Kit — plus a sunlamp for added protection!
Happy Holidays & thanks for the amazing giveaway!
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IT USED to be so straightforward. A team of researchers working together in the laboratory would submit the results of their research to a journal. A journal editor would then remove the authors' names and affiliations from the paper and send it to their peers for review. Depending on the comments received, the editor would accept the paper for publication or decline it. Copyright rested with the journal publisher, and researchers seeking knowledge of the results would have to subscribe to the journal.
No longer. The internet—and pressure from funding agencies, who are questioning why commercial publishers are making money from government-funded research by restricting access to it—is making free access to scientific results a reality. This week, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) issued a report describing the far-reaching consequences of this. The report, by John Houghton of Victoria University in Australia and Graham Vickery of the OECD, makes heavy reading for publishers who have, so far, made handsome profits. But it goes further than that. It signals a change in what has, until now, been a key element of scientific endeavour.
The value of knowledge and the return on the public investment in research depends, in part, upon wide distribution and ready access. It is big business. In America, the core scientific publishing market is estimated at between $7 billion and $11 billion. The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers says that there are more than 2,000 publishers worldwide specialising in these subjects. They publish more than 1.2m articles each year in some 16,000 journals.
This is now changing. According to the OECD report, some 75% of scholarly journals are now online. Entirely new business models are emerging; three main ones were identified by the report's authors. There is the so-called big deal, where institutional subscribers pay for access to a collection of online journal titles through site-licensing agreements. There is open-access publishing, typically supported by asking the author (or his employer) to pay for the paper to be published. Finally, there are open-access archives, where organisations such as universities or international laboratories support institutional repositories. Other models exist that are hybrids of these three, such as delayed open-access, where journals allow only subscribers to read a paper for the first six months, before making it freely available to everyone who wishes to see it.
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Randall C. "Randy" Hensley, 61 of Lima died 7 a. m., Friday, March 9 at Criders-ville Health Care.
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Rita Jean (Scheblo) Wilfong, 63, of Holt, Mich., formerly of Wapakoneta, died at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, March 6, 2012, at her residence. She was born Dec. 9, 1948, in Lima, the daughter of Esther L. (West) and John A. Scheblo, who preceded her in death. On Sept. 30, 1972, she married Michael A. Wilfong, and he survives. Also surviving are a brother, Richard (Jane Berres) Scheblo, of Wapakoneta; 24 nieces and nephews; and 34 great-nieces and nephews.
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Rita Jean Wilfong, 63, of Holt, Mich,, formerly of Wapakoneta, died at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, March 6, 2012, at her residence. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at Bayliff & Eley Funeral Home in Wapakoneta. Other arrangements are incomplete at the funeral home.
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From: Judy Decker (jdecker_at_TeacherArtExchange) Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 17:18:57 PDT
Someone was going to look up Artist's birthdays....below is Craig Roland's: http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/artist_birthdays/birthday.html
About.com has one too---but if I were you, I would use Craig's (smile Craig if you are reading) you will find that the two are strikingly similar.
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Abstract: | This paper extends a recent martingale representation result of [N-S] for a L´evy process to filtrations generated by a rather large class of semimartingales. As in [N-S], we assume the underlying processes have moments of all orders, but here we allow angle brackets to be stochastic. Following their approach, including a chaotic expansion, and incorporating an idea of strong orthogonalization from [D], we show that the stable subspace generated by Teugels martingales is dense in the space of square-integrable martingales, yielding the representation. While discontinuities are of primary interest here, the special case of a (possibly infinite-dimensional) Brownian filtration is an easy consequence. |
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This was a nice find for us - an RV Park in the middle of nowhere, Nevada. Located behind a nice big Shell Station and convenience store. Check-in was easy and friendly, the deli served decent food, the bathrooms were clean, the water and electric worked fine and the price was right. My aircard worked just fine and it was quiet at night. It's a perfect place for a stopover when traveling North and South on Hwy 93 in Nevada. It is what it is and we'll stay there again. We camped at R-Place RV Park in a Travel Trailer.
Date of Stay: March, 2008 - $18.00
Very rustic park, hot pools not the cleanest did not use, one night stopover OK, will stay again We camped at R-Place RV Park in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: March, 2008 - $18.00
As mentioned in previous reviews, a place to pull over for the night. A long way either direction to be able to stop. Register in store. Staff was friendly. We would stay here again. We camped at R-Place RV Park in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: July, 2007 - $18.00
Just a gravel parking lot behind the Shell gas station, but there is nothing else for miles in either direction so ok for an overnight stay. Some highway noise. Old utility connections and close together sites. No bathrooms or showers, suppose you could use gas station bathrooms up front. We camped at R-Place RV Park in a Travel Trailer.
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