text: Comments (16) + Add comment Comments (16) Featured StifflerK + 862d ago I have no respect for flame baiting sensationalist sites like Kotaku, and it's good when devs make an example of them. Kamiya, he's a good game designer, but I can't say I have much respect for him as a person. It's not just this incident - going off most of his comments and interviews I've read over the past few years, he really seems like a bit of a jerk. Still, he makes good games.... #1 (Edited 862d ago ) | Agree(22) | Disagree(6) | Report | Reply rainslacker + 861d ago The best thing he could have done was to release an official statement and leave it at that. He could have put his own personal views into it and allowed the community to discuss it for him. It would have served his purpose much better than carrying on a discussion on twitter...quite possibly the worst place to try and push your views. #1.1 Agree(5) | Disagree(5) | Report | Reply MikeMyers + 861d ago Am I the only one who really doesn't care at all about this feud? I'm interested in the final product, not the bantering that goes on in interviews, tweets and so forth. We've seen it before and we will see it again but it's just the games I care about and I make my decisions purely based on that. But it seems some people want to get involved more so than others. We'll see the petition signs up soon enough telling people not to support the company/person or don't buy the game. Ridiculous. This is like boycotting Mel Gibson movies because he acts like an idiot outside of acting. Who the **** cares. I'm sure there's people right now digging through his garbage outside in the back alley looking for anything that's breaking news! #1.1.1 Agree(5) | Disagree(6) | Report rainslacker + 861d ago The feud itself doesn't concern me at all. I haven't really followed it other than a couple articles I saw on it. The lack of respect by the media towards developers in general does concern me. Which is why I said if he felt the need to respond it would have been better to do an official statement and leave it at that. #1.1.2 Agree(2) | Disagree(0) | Report VileAndVicious + 861d ago True...he can be a bit if a jerk. I still rember when he flew off the handle a few months ago because some fans had apparently been bothering him about Devil May Cry.. Lol it was funny but a bit immature... #1.2 Agree(1) | Disagree(2) | Report | Reply Kamikaze135 + 862d ago I would normally say this is pathetic, but Kotaku had it coming. They post a LOT of nonsense and they took a hit at the guy with the original headline that got him upset. We all know they are desperate for hits, but it's the lowest of the low when you're taking a hit at the sort of people who are the source of your income - exclusive interviews, early hands on for reviews, beta/alpha access, etc. But with that said....he's kind of taking things too far. #2 (Edited 862d ago ) | Agree(15) | Disagree(6) | Report | Reply J86blum + 861d ago Everyone knows Kotaku is full of it but when you take time out of what your doing to attack it then clearly you are doing nothing worth much yourself. why pick on the kid everyone knows is full of it. clearly its a insecurity thing now. #3 Agree(4) | Disagree(2) | Report | Reply Summons75 + 861d ago No they don't. If anything he gained more respect for saying the things he said. #4 Agree(7) | Disagree(6) | Report | Reply Blacktric + 861d ago I don't think the writer knew what the hell was he talking about anyway. "But the point Kamiya's internet defenders are missing is this: He's using the term in a way that sounds like a man's foreignness is grounds for disregarding something he said." Isn't that the point? They accused him of "not understanding" the PC platform and how it works. He replied back to them, calling them "foreigners" that don't understand why he does the things he does, which was completely fine. He knew Kotaku is a sh*tty sensationalist site along with everyone else that had two ounces of brain. He could've easily explained them why they are wrong in a calm and intelligent manner but that wouldn't have stopped Kotaku from dismissing it like they always do. This is the site that has editors that kept claiming they did good journalist work by publishing a fake article created by NeoGaf users to lure them. And they were the only one to fell for it except for one other third grade gaming news site that no one ever heard about. Edit: Another thing from the original Kotaku article; "Again, this statement (Kamiya not liking Cloud technology), while baffling to many in the Western world, is completely in line with the standard Japanese line of thinking. Japan is a country where CD rental is still a booming business despite that we live in a day and age where MP3 downloads are readily available." All of this is just pointless. You don't write a whole article about a japanese developer not liking cloud tech or not being close to PC gaming or development. He never said; "I think Steambox is useless and going to fail.". He only stated that he doesn't have close ties to the PC scene thus can't provide any opinion regarding that. But Kotaku just had to write a whole article about it based on two of his tweets while trying to make him look like an ignorant guy who shouldn't be developing games. #4.1 (Edited 861d ago ) | Agree(8) | Disagree(5) | Report | Reply Pozzle + 861d ago Tbh, it looks like the author just wanted to use Kamiya's comments as a soapbox to talk about Japanese nationalism, xenophobia, and how he (as a foreigner) was treated during the Japanese tsunami. He hasn't really presented a new viewpoint, and has completely ignored Kotaku's similarly negative representation of foreigners (i.e. Japan). Hell, just look at the articles under the "japan" tab on their site... - "When You Can Rent Friends, You Are Never Forever Alone" - "Hey Ladies, Want Long Legs? Go to a Japanese Arcade." - "Human Butt Pillows Are Both Expensive and Creepy" - "One Last Gasp of Cosplay Insanity" - "In Japan, Dominos Has Kobe Beef Pizza" - "The Guy Who Made Bayonetta Is Clueless About Valve and PC Gaming. That's Common In Japan." And those are just the ones posted this week alone. I couldn't be bothered searching for the articles about porn actresses, panty vending machines, and obscure hentai games. I mean, it's not like Japan has tens of thousands of years worth of rich and beautiful history, thousands of surrounding islands, multiple languages and dialects, different regions with different cultures, and over 100,000,000 citizens; all with individual personalities, looks, and opinions. Nope, it's all about cosplay, butt pillows and ladies with long legs. God, is it any wonder Kamiya called Kotaku "stupid fucking foreigners"? His comments might have been unprofessional, but when douchey idiots who write about butt-pillows and Japanese legs attempt to "educate" non-Japanese people about your nation by using broad generalizations and your own quotes taken out of context, no wonder Kamiya got pissed off. #4.1.1 (Edited 861d ago ) | Agree(11) | Disagree(1) | Report GenoZStriker + 861d ago Twitter serious business since Twitter. #5 Agree(2) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply PooEgg + 861d ago If you are a murderer and someone murders you, you deserved it. If you are a thief and someone steals from you, you deserved it. If you are Kotaku and your articles often cross the line... well you see where I am going with this. Karma can be a bitch sometimes. #6 Agree(2) | Disagree(2) | Report | Reply Deadpool616 + 861d ago When did two wrongs start making a right? Doing the same thing as the person who wrongs you doesn't make you any better, it just makes you no different then they are. There are better ways to go about doing things. #6.1 Agree(3) | Disagree(3) | Report | Reply PooEgg + 860d ago An eye for an eye is the other side of that coin, and it is the side I much prefer. We live in a world where people think it is okay to go around acting like scumbags, because they think they are immune to consequences. I believe that Karma will give them what they deserve in the end. Perhaps the person you wronged will not be the person to pay you back, and you might not even recognize it as payback, but I do think we all get what we deserve in the end. And so I stand by my earlier statement. ; ) #6.1.1 Agree(1) | Disagree(1) | Report Deadpool616 + 860d ago Ahh, I get what you mean. Well then, I think Kamiya should have left it to Karma instead of taking the direct approach. Kotaku is going to dig it's own grave eventually, if they don't change. Unfortunately, any attention Kotaku gets helps them get seen. I'm pretty sure that's all Kotaku wanted from this. Kamiya's replies may have helped them get the attention they were seeking. #6.2 Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply PooEgg + 859d ago You make an excellent good point. I am sure that Kotaku is getting more attention from all this. I really miss the days when I could actually trust video game news, these days we seem to have three types of news journalist. 1) The type who lick the boots of game developers/publishers for perks and exclusives. 2) The type that follows the sleazy tabloid approach in order to grab hits to their website 3) The only ones I still trust. Journalist who actually still play the games they are reviewing, from start to finish, and then give their honest opinion while trying to be open minded and respectful to those who might have a different opinion. (Sadly, this is they dying breed of journalist, Erik Kain from Forbes is the only example that comes to mind, though there are a handful of others) In general video game journalism has become almost as bad as Hollywood journalism, which is really too bad. I remember better days, since I am an old fart gamer. The sad part is that I think in the end bad journalism leads to bad video games, since many gamers trust that nonsense to make buying decisions, and that ends up leading to publishers/developers making more of the same crap, since it sold well. Makes me want to find a new hobby sometimes. #6.2.1 (Edited 859d ago ) | Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report Add comment You need to be registered to add comments. Register here or login Username Password Remember Rules & guidelines Login


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I would be super fucking mad to if i was Paul..I would love to see Alves or Ben or KOS maybe swick could step up?
If Fitch walks throw his oppent this weekend and doesnt get hurt..I think Fitch will step up, because he wants to fight for the belt…
The UFC can't catch a break in 2009, Carlos Condit withdrawals for his UFC 108 brawl with UK striker Paul Daley due to injury.
Carlos Condit has suffered an injury and has been forced to withdraw from his UFC 108 contest against hard-hitting Brit Paul Daley, MMAUnltd.com has learned from a source close to the contest.
We were told that a replacement is being sought for the event on January 2nd. [MMAUnltd]
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I'd [accept] any fight.. I just wanna fight. Condit is a big pussy IMO, I have inside information on that dude….it's all good as long as I fight," he wrote, a comment that is sure to enrage former WEC welterweight champion Condit.
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I would be super fucking mad to if i was Paul..I would love to see Alves or Ben or KOS maybe swick could step up?
If Fitch walks throw his oppent this weekend and doesnt get hurt..I think Fitch will step up, because he wants to fight for the belt…
A trash talking brit… never seen that before
wasn't it kos who started talking trash about hardy after his last fight. Americans are always talking trash you just carn't handle it when a brit does it be a man don't be a fkin punk
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josh koscheck
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nick diaz
alan belcher said he was the best figher in the world today on mma mania
most of the americans on tuf 9 or any tuf season
brock lesnar
all talk trash to name a few so stfu
Michael Bisbing used to talk trash but then Dan Henderson knocked his jaw off.
now i think bisping is a nice guy but who have you got.
Nothing these fighers hav done is as bad as what i hav seen most american fighters do but yet nothing is said about the american's. If you want an example try me and they are decent fighters who are entertaining what more do you want.
so what bisping lost to a great fighter is that some shite attempt to piss me off hahaha. Did you know your hero dan henderson has 2 british grandparents is part french and the rest native american USA VS UK my arse. He also knocked wandy out the same way but wandy is a great fighter aswell no shame in loosing to dan henderson and maximum respect to those who get in the cage with him. Bisping and hendo were 2 men fighting you act like an american has never been ktfo you windowlicker
Dan bragged he was the best mw in the world and then the spider kneed him in his face and chocked him out but thats how the cookie crumbles its the fight buisness
The fighter that dosent brag is the fighter that usally wins . Not all the time but most of the time. A fighter that brags always puts his self up on a pedestal and then the pedestal falls. A man with great pride is a fool! Like Mir is right now! He is so full of pride his head is about to explode!
LOL..too funny…your dead one John, also a fighter who starts to talk shit usually ends up looking like shit after the fight.
Examples Frank Mir, Heath Herring, Bisping, BJ Penn after there losses all of them started to talk major shit against there opponents and they all got beat to shit.
Rephrase, your dead on John not your dead one…lol
Tim { Brock is just like what you and John said He is a shit talker. Take his belt UFC and let him go
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I bought this book at the age of 22 at the Book Trader. The name of the store brings back memories. "Book Trader 170 10th Street North, Naples, FL, 38940, 262-7562, AFTER YOU'VE READ SWAP IT FOR CREDIT". So says the green stamp on the book on the inside of the front cover. Obviously I never swapped it back and the bookstore no longer exists. The store was probably someone's retirement venture. I loved having a used bookstore in Naples. It was hard to get rid of this book because of it's sentimental value. I had hitched rides back from college and from New Orleans and I needed cheap books to read. So I would pick-up copies of Le Carre, Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot", Walker Percy's "The Movie Goer" and dream myself into them like they were the deliriums of a fever. At one time that is how I read. Reading Le Carre's Karla Trilogy could certainly feel like a fever. But start with "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." It is certainly one of the great spy novels.
What is so exhilarating and fulfilling about reading le Carré is the sense of genuine intelligence at play, both in the characters and in the author. There are different ways of trying to convey great cleverness in a literary character: one approach is to give them superhuman deductive skills à la Sherlock Holmes, you know – I perceive, sir, that you have recently returned from a hunting excursion in Wiltshire and that your wife's tennis partner owns a dachshund called Gerald — But my dear fellow, how could you possibly?! — Quite elementary; the leaf that adheres to your left boot-sole is unmistakably from a holm oak, one of the rarest English trees, a fine specimen of which grows outside Wiltshire's best-frequented hunting lodge; you may perhaps have glanced at my recent monograph on the subject in the Evening Post which proved so useful in the recent unpleasantness concerning the Prince-Bishop of Montenegro…
And so on. Don't get me wrong, I love this stuff – but it's a game, it's amusing, it's manifestly nonsense. The thrill of what le Carré does in the Karla trilogy – and I don't believe anyone does it better – is of a completely different order. You believe it: the leaps of intuition are logical and motivated, and just slightly out of your reach, so that you constantly feel both flattered to be keeping up and somewhat awestruck at how they always make the connections a bit faster than you do. It's rather like how I feel when I play through top-level chess games, the sense that you can just about follow why they're doing what they're doing; the deceptive conviction, as you watch an unexpected rook sacrifice, that it all makes perfect sense and that you would undoubtedly have thought of the same move yourself.
This is hard to do as a writer. Because writers are often not that smart, even when they're talented. Le Carré writes as though he's smarter than all his readers, and when I read him I'm convinced. The thrills in these books come not from action sequences, but from the plausibility of the dialogue: I was more on edge during Smiley's calm 'interrogation' of Toby Esterhase here than I've been in any number of car chase or bomb-defusion scenes. What to say next? How to press them in exactly the right way, without scaring them off?
In a sense this book is composed simply of a number of these intense, magesterially-written duologues stacked together, a stichomythic layer-cake: Smiley and Lacon, Smiley and Mikhel, Smiley and Esterhase, Smiley and Connie, Smiley and Grigoriev, Smiley and Alexandra…and always, at the end, the prospect of somehow reaching the the endgame conversation, between Smiley and Karla. (It would be quiet and undramatic, and fascinating.) But then again, the whole trilogy is that conversation being played out.
These dialogues are stitched together with a prose style that is economical and unclichéd. The plot is thick and chewy and le Carré does not cheat with his exposition. Perhaps overall [book:The Honourable Schoolboy|18990] was my favourite – I just love the oblique portrayal of foreign reporting – but this is a stupendous end to a brilliant trilogy. A lot of books are clever – 'oh that's clever,' you might say after a literary trick or a narrative sleight-of-hand. These books are intelligent. That's rare enough in fiction as it is, and the fact that it comes in so-called genre fiction just shows how distracting such ghettos can be.
A very mixed bag. The hyper-reality that the young man experiences while making the drop is written very well. The sodden emotionalism is poor. Karla is finally captured because of his "love" for a daughter with whom he has barely ever interacted. Emotions and principles are arbitrary counters in this well-written let-down. The two principle women, Ann and Connie, are preposterous and irritating.
Much better than the Honourable Schoolboy, but let down by the ending and Karla's weakness which doesn't seem that comprimising.
While more satisfying than [b:The Honourable Schoolboy|18990|The Honourable Schoolboy|John le Carré|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167175744s/18990.jpg|79986], it just didn't quite hold the same engagement that the first of the Karla trilogy garnered from me. The ethical questions are fascinating and the ending is heartbreakingly ambiguous - but the book as a whole felt somewhat underwritten, less-than-full. It was a fitting ending for Smiley's story with Karla but at the same time it was frustratingly empty. For the ethics, it shows the master for what he is... but it isn't the most engaging or exciting of novels, even when the tension ratchets up.
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In "Smiley's People," Smiley works both worlds, is both detective and agent at risk. I won"t disclose the oblique, slow-moving plot, except to say that a trail of murder and camouflage leads Smiley to Hamburg and Paris and Berne, and that the stakes are especially high for him, since his old archenemy, the daunting mastermind in charge of the Thirteenth Directorate of Russian Intelligence, appears to have made an uncharacteristic slip. Smiley's boss in London jokingly refers to Holmes and Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls, but even Smiley himself hears "the drum-beat of his own past, summoning him to one last effort to externalise and resolve the conflict he had lived by." That's a touch too literary, sounding more like le Carré's problem than Smiley's, and Smiley's next image catches a little more of the case: "It was just possible, against all the odds, that he had been given, in late age, a chance to return to the rained-out contests of his life and play them after all."
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0743455800, Paperback)John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.
Rounding off his astonishing vision of a clandestine world, master storyteller le Carre perfects his art in "Smiley's People."
In London at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people -- "the no-men of no-man's land" -- into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla.
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As far as last-second field goals to win the national title go, this one was pretty anticlimactic. Auburn senior kicker Wes Byrum closed out his college career in style, nailing a 19-yard chip shot to give Auburn a 22-19 win over Oregon and the BCS national title.
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Mystery still surrounds Lindsay Lohan's early morning impromptu visit to the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood after the troubled actress left in galpal Samantha Ronson's car, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Lohan was spotted driving her rented black Porsche to Teddy's nightclub at the popular star-studded hotel at around 1:45 am before leaving as a passenger in Ronson's black BMW around 45 minutes later.
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Ironically, her mom Dina Lohan today went on a PR offensive Friday defending her daughter on ABC News admitting though that Lindsay faces "a lifelong struggle with addiction."
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A source at the Roosevelt Hotel confirmed that Lohan's rented Porsche remained at the hotel after she left with Ronson.
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"I honestly did not know that Lindsay went into Teddy's and if she did she did not stay very long."
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Panel to tackle Santa Paula Redevelopment Agency's loose ends
The successor to the Santa Paula Redevelopment Agency will meet at 3 p.m. Friday.
Items to be considered will include bylaws for the new "designated local authority."
The Santa Paula City Council voted in early January not to make the city the successor to the redevelopment agency, opting instead to let the governor's office appoint a group of county residents to govern the agency's assets and debts.
The council's action came after the California Supreme Court ruled in December to allow the state to abolish redevelopment agencies.
Under the ruling, Santa Paula and other cities had until Jan. 31 to name a successor agency. More than 400 redevelopment agencies in California ceased to exist Feb. 1.
Established by state law in 1945, redevelopment agencies used property tax money and worked with developers to improve blighted areas and provide housing.
Supporters said these public/private partnerships were instrumental in improving dilapidated areas.
Opponents said redevelopment agencies siphoned revenue from schools and other government entities, giving the money to developers for projects such as golf courses and luxury hotels.
The agencies handled about $5 billion in annual tax revenues.
Santa Paula's new designated local authority will focus on paying off financial obligations incurred by the redevelopment agency and disposing of properties and assets it managed.
The meeting will be at the Santa Paula Society of the Arts, 200 N. Tenth St.
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Anonymous Transcends the Internet; Takes to the Air
New tool supports encrypted communication over Ham radio.
Reports say the ultra-secret hacker group has developed a meansfor communicating over encrypted radio connections. A new tool called AirChat, created by a developer who claims Anonymous affiliation, encrypts communication over radio waves. The system requires a handheld radio transceiver attached to a Windows, Mac OS, or Linux system running the AirChat software.
As a communication medium, AirChat is a throwback to the modem era, in which digital data is encoded and transmitted over an audio connection. The real innovation is the prospect of secrecy and the fact that it works without any form of wired connection. The system can simply access any unused frequency, making it difficult for government or industry to even know where and when to start spying, and if they did happen to pick up the signal, the message would be unreadable due to strong encryption. According to the developer, a user who does not have a suitable transceiver could still receive a transmission from a pirate FM station using a conventional FM radio.
The developers believe this technology could one day allow users to communicate for free without the need for Internet access, a phone line, or the mobile phone network, all of which are subject to industry and government control. Transmission rates are slow by modern standards, meaning that this medium is best for transmitting text-based messages and documents.
AirChat is still in development but appears to be performing well in tests. According to early reports, the software is rather complex at this point and is not something that a non-technical user could easily implement.
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Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.
– Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art washes away the dust of everyday life.
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
As a traveler, education is our way of life.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.
As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.


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I watched an episode Sunday, and I felt my IQ drop 50 points.
I have some questions. Okay, I have many questions. Number one is: why would people waste their time watching this? Why would someone even think of watching this? Why would somebody take their time to make this show? What the heck was Tori Spelling thinking?
If she thinks she can act she needs to get her brian checked. Whoever agreed to help her make this poor excuse of a comedy show needs to have their brain checked as well.
The show is not funny, in fact it is very far from funny. The whole entire show is just plain stupid. Enough said.moreless
Just another washed up celebrity vehicle. Please Cable suits, please stop it!
I watched this a few times on rainy Sunday afternoons, but Im still not sure why.
Tori is pretty weird looking - she looks like a space alien. She resembles ET as her eyes are too far apart. She had a decent body, but I just could never get past her face. The only reason she ever got anywhere was because her daddy was Aaron Spelling. She is a self absorbed rich girl who has never done anything of substance. The only reason she was on 90210 was... her daddy. Tori isnt as goofy as, say Britney Spears, but shes close. The show did have 1 good point, it shows how disfunctional alot of Hollywood celebrities and their families are.moreless
Really funny
I really enjoyed this show. It is really refreshing to see someone take the mickey out of themselves the way she does. So many people take themselves to serious now days and I liked the fact that she just didn\'t make fun of herself, she made fun of her whole life and just had a laugh at it. The writing is witty and sharp. I love the fact that she plays herself and her friends are so over the top. It makes L.A. look ao fake the way it really is. I give it two thumbs up. Way to go Donna!moreless
TV is the New Art
Sublime, perfect casting, especially Kiki. Even people who can't stand Tori love this show. It's such a shame that VH1 has suspended or cancelled it. The situations, the characters, the places they visit, the awkward situations they find themselves in are so quintessentially West Side L.A., and when you think about it, very few television shows do L.A.--that is everyday L.A.--much justice. I particularly enjoy the tension between Tori and her mother, Kiki. I suppose it's quite exaggerated for comedic effect, but so captures a particular type of difficult relationship between mother and daughter that is not so uncommon, at least among people I know.moreless
This show is...ummm...mmm..ugghh..
I tried many things to make this show better. Here are some examples:
*Stabbed my feet with needles.
*Ripped out my finger nails with my teeth.
*Shoved a spoon down my throat.
*Imagined Tori's voice was replaced with Astro's voice.
*Poured honey on my body and then released the red ants.
*Burned my nose hair with a hot ice pick.
*Whacked my hand with a hammer over and over again until I went blind.
*Spent my time dreaming of Jeanie.
*Putting my face on a George Forman Grill.
*Putting one of those strange sand beetle things from Star Trek 2 in my ear. (Let me tell those are hard to find)
Of all these, the only thing that helped make the show better was unplugging the TV. Go figure.
P.S I don't like this show.moreless
No so good either
This show should've never been put on tv, but if vh1 wants to continue thier trend of putting d list celebs on tv they can go ahead and do that. Its just really not that interesting, funny or even the least bit intertaining. Should be canceled. a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a b b b bb c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9moreless
such an awful show
this has got to be one of the worst shows ever created. If they had negative numbers, this show would have gotten the lowest possible negative number. Tori Spelling needs to go jump off a cliff or at least get a face lift. If they were going to create a show like this, they should have at least had a hotter girl play the role. If it was at least an attractive girl, I\\\'m sure this show would have a much better review. I say that So Notorious lasts the 13 episodes before it gets deservingly yanked. can\\\'t believe my girl made me watch this. i should have jumped out the 3rd floor window.moreless
What the heck is this?
Okay, why the heck did VH1 do this? Its about a whinny rich girl who wants to be taken serious. All she does is go home and complain, go to her parents house and complain, go to other places and complain. She also tries to go out for movie roles, but she can't halp flirting with other guys. The falshbacks are stupid, and she talks the the Clueless girls. She can't do anything right, why is that? Its because shes to stupid to even try!moreless
Tori Spelling does the only possible thing that could make me like her...
Having never been particularly concerned with any of her output, I checked out the pilot out of morbid curiousity and was very pleasantly surprised. Clever writing, interesting characters, great dialogue, zany flashbacks and a uniquely skewed angle on LA celebrity life all add up to some very refreshing viewing. Nice one. Too bad she's got a head like a horse...
Former nepotistic teenage sitcom star is mocked by her friends and loved ones while trying to find a small amount of respectibility a decade after her intial stardom.
Simutaneously funny and pathetic, this oddball half hour neo-reality show misses it's mark more than it hits it. However, it must be said that when it hits it's mark it's devastingly funny and satirically nasty beyond belief. Show details the current escapades and humiliations former teen queen, Tori Spelling, endures on a regular basis. Most people associate her as the spoiled brat whose famous TV producer father made her the star of her own TV show (BEVERLY HILLS 90210) way back in the early 1990's. Sadly her stardom, even then, was overshadowed by her famously caustic and tempestous co-star Shannen Doherty and her weekly national headlines of inappropriate and sometimes downright absurd bad behavior. Show picks up a decade after 90210 with Tori refusing any help from her famous father trying to make it out in the tough streets of Los Angeles on her own. The show's main gimmick is that Tori not only gets mocked by everyone around her but makes fun of herself as well. Her self-esteem is so low she just accepts it as though she somehow deserves it for being who she is. As hard as she is on herself, her family and friends are even nastier. They are so blithely vicious that they have actually passed the point of mocking her to feel better about themselves. They now just do it out of habit. Everyone's delivery is so nonchalant and matter of fact it's as though they've been transplanted from some forgotten classist British comedy. She's literally the black sheep of the industry. Merely tolerated and used by everyone around her, even her beloved nanny whom she often turns to for help manages drop in hateful bon bons along with her special brand of advice.
Unusual show was intially to be aired on NBC but they passed immediately after viewing the first few episodes stating something along the lines like, "There is no audience for this show" -- Actually that's not quite true. People who enjoy mean spirited comedies or liked/hated BEVERLY HILLS 90210 will probably come away with some affection for it as it's hard not to feel bad for Tori. VH1 wisely picked up the show from NBC banking on it's main target audience tuning in to see how Miss. Spelling has fared since her initial heyday. Here's hoping it makes it past season one.moreless


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He shows pretty much if there's a bright colored ad showing us about the most randomest object and we like he ad we are probably gunna buy it just for the deal or because we liked the ad. We don't really NEED it, we just want it. (Whole point of the song btw)
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Two positions on the Harlan County Board of Education and three positions on the Harlan Independent Board of Education, along with mayors and city council members are up for election in November. The deadline to file an application to run for a seat in one of these of positions is 4 p.m. Aug. 12 in order to be on the ballot for the Nov. 4 General Election.
"Harlan County School Board District 5, which is Cumberland, and school board District 4, which is Evarts, are up for election," said Harlan County Clerk Donna Hoskins. "They don't run by magisterial districts, but by school board districts, which are different.
Hoskins said mayors for the cities of Loyall, Evarts, Cumberland, Benham, Lynch and Harlan, are up for election. She said there are seven city council positions for Harlan and Cumberland, but Loyall, Evarts, Benham and Lynch all have six positions.
She added mayors and school board members serve four-year terms and council members serve two-year terms. She said all these races are non-partisan.
"There's also the position of mayor for the city of Wallins open," said Hoskins. "No one ever runs for this position, but the city of Wallins has never been dissolved. There are also positions for four commissioners for the city of Wallins open and any one can file to run for those positions. If someone ran for these Wallins positions they would be taking over federal debts incurred by the city. This is the reason the city can't be dissolved — federal debts."
Hoskins said the issue of dissolving the city can't be placed on a ballot, because of the federal debt owed by the city.
"I don't even think they have a city hall building now," said Hoskins. "Part of the old city hall burned at one time. There hasn't been a city government in Wallins for at least the past eight years."
For more information on filing for one of these positions, you may contact Hoskins at 606-573-3636.
"Anyone wanting to register to vote in the Nov. 4 General Election may do so by 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 6," said Hoskins. "You may also change your party by that date."
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NFL: Eventful draft for Miami Dolphins — with four trades; add nine players to roster
DAVIE, Fla. — The Miami Dolphins spent the 2013 draft playing the numbers game trying to renovate the football team.
"This isn't going to be a revelation, but we like good football (players)," coach Joe Philbin said. "Let's pick players that fit our scheme, fit the culture and can help contribute to our success."
The Dolphins took five defenders, three offensive players and one special teamer.
Miami made four trades, one that involved shipping veteran receiver Davone Bess to Cleveland, and another moved the team to the No. 3 pick to get Dion Jordan, the draft's top rated defender.
General Manager Jeff Ireland added three cornerbacks — Boise State Jamar Taylor, Utah State Will Davis and Arkansas State's Don Jones — who will compete for roster spots, playing time, if not starting spots.
And on the draft's final day the Dolphins selected three former Florida Gators, and at least two of them — tailback Mike Gillislee and kicker Caleb Sturgis — will seriously contend for starting spots this summer.
"I went to Florida myself this year so all these Florida guys certainly made an impression with me," Ireland said. "You have some exposure to these players in your home state. ... We knew them and had great comfort with them. They are good football players."
Sturgis presence could lead to the release of veteran kicker Dan Carpenter, who converted 22 of 27 field goals before spending the last two games on injured reserve. Carpenter is slated to earn $2.70 million this season, and releasing him would save the team that exact amount.
"Coming into the league, you know you have to compete against the best," Sturgis said. "I've seen Dan kick and he's got an unbelievable leg. He's an unbelievable kicker and I just can't wait to get in and compete against him."
With the selection of fourth-round Florida linebacker Jelani Jenkins (104the overall), Gillislee (164th pick in the fifth round), and Sturgis (166th overall in the fifth round), the Dolphins selected three players from a school for the first time since 1976, when Miami selected three players from Tennessee State.
With the team's nine picks the Dolphins addressed every position need — pass rusher, cornerback, tight end and offensive line — but even Ireland will admit there's still plenty of uncertainty.
The Dolphins will spend the next few hours, if not days, negotiating contracts with the undrafted rookie free agents, and maybe some veteran free agents like offensive tackle Eric Winston and cornerback/Charles Woodson to fill out the team's 90-player training camp roster.
But the one player Dolphins fans should move on from is offensive tackle Branden Albert, who Miami discussed trading with Kansas City for, but balked Albert's asking price for a new contract.
That means the Dolphins will prepare for the season with Jonathan Martin as the starting left tackle. Martin finished the season as Jake Long's replacement at left tackle, and now the job apparently belongs to the former Stanford left tackle.
"He has the ability to play left tackle. He has worked extremely hard, he has gotten stronger. He has worked a lot on his technique," Stanford coach David Shaw told the NFL Network about Martin, who had been training at his alma mater. "(Martin) had his mindset on playing left tackle. ... He is ready, he is up for the challenge, (and) he wants to play left tackle."
One of Miami's draft picks was arrested during his college career, but the Dolphins apparently felt comfortable enough with tight end Dion Sims' rebound for his 2010 arrest to look past it.
Sims, who is 6-foot-5, 262 pounds, missed all of the 2010 season because he was suspected for his involvement in a theft ring involving 104 laptops and the Detroit Public School system.
Sims pled guilty and was sentenced to one year probation and 15 hours of community service. However, his conviction was eventually expunged.
"I learned a lot from that situation and I just learned to not be so naive. It made me grow up really fast," Sims said. "But it's pretty much past me now and I'm ready to move forward and play ball."
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The American Defence Secretary is expected to hold discussions with the top Indian political and military leadership on the military ties between the two countries including the defence hardware partnership, they said. The issue of intelligence sharing and discussions on deals for procuring 22 Apache attack helicopters, 15 Chinook heavy-lift choppers along with four P-8I anti-submarine warfare aircraft is expected to come up for discussion in the meetings.
The deals are in the final stages and India is in final stages of procuring these equipment, which is expected to be worth around Rs 20,000 crore. Talks will be held between DRDO chief Avinash Chander and Amerian Under Secretary for Defence Acquisition Frank Kendall on jointly developing defence hardware such as missiles. The issue of under-negotiation Ultra Light Howitzer and Javelin anti-tank guided missile is also expected to figure in the discussions between the two countries.


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During to the docking approach of the Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station (ISS), a STS-108 crewmember photographed a view of the Space Vision System (SVS) targets on the U.S. Laboratory through the Crew Optical Alignment System (COAS) display on the flight deck. Once docked, the STS-108 crew can deliver necessary supplies and the Expedition Four crew can replace the Expedition Three crew as long term residents of the ISS. This image was taken with a digital still camera.
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Figure 4.
Accuracy, completeness, and contiguity of assembled transcripts for Candida albicans SC5314 are shown in panels (A,D), (B,E), and (C,F), respectively. For contiguity only genes with > 80% completeness are shown. In panels D), E), and F) a box plot of median gene coverage by unique reads is shown for genes falling into each bin. Open circles above each boxplot depict outliers in the coverage distribution.
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text: Business Advisory Committee weighs changes to small business loan program By: dmc-admin January 20, 2010 By Caitlin Coakley CHARLOTTE — The City of Charlotte's Business Advisory Committee on Friday discussed modifying the City Business Equity Loan program to make more businesses eligible. Gail Whitcomb, a business development representative with the City of Charlotte, discussed gaps in existing loan funding, particularly for start-ups. According to Whitcomb, most financial institutions will not loan to businesses less than two years old. "In the best of markets, start-ups often look at … friends and family, partners, your personal assets — your ability to obtain a credit card or your equity," she said, adding that such resources have become tighter in the current economy. Subscribe Login Email Address: Password: Already a paid subscriber but not registered for online access yet? For instructions on how to get premium web access, click here.Forgot your password? Share this:EmailPrintFacebookLinkedInTwitterGoogle +1Like this:Like Loading... 11:42 am Wed, January 20, 2010 Mecklenburg Times: News for Mecklenburg, Union and Iredell counties dmc-admin