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As you read this, some men in North Wales are driving small hatchbacks down dirt tracks as fast as they can possibly go. That's right, Wales Rally GB is underway.
It's the last round of this year's World Rally Championship, and in time honoured tradition, it's already been won by a Frenchman called Seb. However for the first time in almost a decade we're not talking about Loeb, but Ogier. He drives for VW. That would seem to be a potent enough combination that the rest might as well give up and go home, but I beg to differ.
I saw him in the press conference yesterday and he looked a little nervy. He doesn't have a great record at Rally GB, has never finished in the top ten, in fact. He may have the title sewn up, but he needs to prove himself here. Jari-Matti Latvala has won for Ford for the last two years on the trot, but this year Ford withdrew factory backing, leaving Malcolm Wilson's M Sport outfit to fund a WRC campaign themselves. That doesn't make things easy.
However, through the 3.11km qualifying stage at Llandegla yesterday, it was Ogier who was fastest, with Latvala back in fourth. The man everyone's talking about was seventh. That's Robert Kubica. Rallying ain't just a hobby for him now – this year he's won the naturally aspirated WRC-2 championship for Citroen, so as a thank you the team has shoved him into a full house WRC car. He looks relaxed, his season is over, this is a learning experience for him.
And Wales does take some learning. It's such a fitting climax to the World Rally Championship because it's so unpredictable. Elsewhere things are much more stable. In Corsica you'll be on tight, sinuous tarmac, in Greece it'll be hot and dusty, but here, with winter closing in, you never know what you're going to get. Expect the unexpected is the best advice.
The answer yesterday as far as the weather went was hail, rain squalls and a good drop of wind. It's meant to be more stable over the next few days, but even if it dries, Welsh mud is a law unto itself. It comes in a boundless variety of textures, colours and gloopiness, meaning that everyone in the pits is talking about not knowing where the grip is. It's like it's run off and hidden somewhere.
The spectators? Well, they're just hoping for a spectacle, and though it would seem odd to say so in any other context, few places are as good at providing a spectacle as Wales in November.
To get things off to a gentle, safe start, the organisers ran three stages yesterday. At night. In Snowdonia. That's as perilous as driving through Mordor with Gollum on the pace notes. Today the rally heads south, taking in two runs each through the iconic stages of Sweet Lamb, Hafren and Myherin, before heading back north over the weekend. 22 stages in all, 196 competitive miles, including three family-friendly RallyFest stages at Sweet Lamb today, Chirk Castle on Saturday and Kinmel Park on Sunday. The idea with these is to offer more than just bobble-hatting on a hillside. They promise Supercar displays, historic rally car line-ups, big screen live stage coverage, stuff for the kids and bespoke viewing areas that promise to give you a better view of the action. See WalesRallyGB.com for more.
Disappointing though it is to report, there aren't any British hopes in the top flight. Mark Higgins, Elfyn Evans and Tom Cave are all in with good chances in WRC2, but TG's favourite rallyist, Kris Meeke, the man who rampaged around Wales Rally GB in a Bentley with James May in the passenger seat last year and more recently tamed the mighty Pikes Peak Peugeot 208 T16, hasn't got an entry at all. Shame.
But don't despair, because further down the order amongst the national rally ranks you'll find hosts of Brits eager to acquit themselves well in a delectable selection of machinery: old Escorts, Lancers, Imprezas, there's even a Lotus Cortina, a clutch of Chevettes and a Porsche 911, while Race2Receovery are here with a bunch of Freelanders. There. Those who reckon WalesRallyGB is all about watching a Seb breeze to victory don't know what they're missing.
Before I sign off, though, a quick prediction for this most unpredictable of rallies. My top three come Sunday evening in Llandudno is Latvala (VW Polo), Thierry Neuville (Ford Fiesta), Ogier (VW Polo). Tell me I'm wrong. Because I will be.
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PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete has asked religious leaders in the country to preach and enlighten their congregations on good morals and the tenets of proper societal behaviour in a quest to help the nation reduce incidents of crime.
The president made the appeal on Monday evening when opening the 2012 Better Living Symposium organized by the Seventh Day Adventist Church. In his speech read on his behalf by the Minister of State in the President's Office (Civil Societies Relations and Coordination) Mr Stephen Wasira, President Kikwete said that the nation is witnessing crimes perpetrated by people who lack good morals.
"Lack of good morals is a major problem that we face in this country. Most people, especially youths, engage in all sorts of criminal behaviour and without your (Religious Leaders) intervention our nation will be in danger," he said.
The president said that immoral conduct also leads to an increase in HIV/AIDS infections especially among the youth and thus leading to poor human resource development. President Kikwete cautioned the public against crimes calling on the religious leaders to enlighten their followers on the effects of the disease.
On the other hand, Mr Kikwete asked the religious organizations to set up vocational training centres to supplement the government's efforts in development of skills and knowledge among the youth. According to the president, the nation has only a few vocational training centres that cannot cater for all students who need educational skills.
The ten-day Better Living Symposium is also attended by high profile government leaders who will offer input on various issues related to better life.

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11 Syntax Highlighters To Beautify Code Presentation
When sharing codes on a website, even they are wrapped with
code tags or styled differently, it is always a challenge to read them without syntax highlighting.
There are various syntax highlighters which can format the codes & color them appropriately according to the languages used. Whether it is a HTML page or runs on PHP, Ruby, Python, ASP, there is a suitable syntax highlighter.
And, here is a collection of 11 Syntax Highlighters To Beautify Code Presentation:
GeSHi (Generic Syntax Highlighter – With PHP)
GeSHi is a powerful syntax highlighter script that supports almost every language.
It is first created for phpBB forum system but became a project itself. It requires PHP to run (there is also a hack to make it work under ASP).
SyntaxHighlighter (With JS)
This is a flexible & extensible syntax highlighter built with JavaScript. It supports a wide range of languages from CSS to PHP or C++ to SQL.
SyntaxHighlighter offers ready-to-use themes an new ones can be created easily for a custom presentation.
It has support for 3rd party applications like Blogger, WordPress, Joomla & many others.
Google Code Prettify (With JS)
This is the script used by the Google Code website. The script auto-detects the language used and highlights the code accordingly.
It is also customizable via CSS.
There is also an AS3 port to this code highlighting script named as3syntaxhighlight.
Highlight.js (With JS)
Highlight.js is very easy to use because it works automatically: finds blocks of code, detects a language, highlights it.
It has support for 3rd party applications and provides a Firefox extension for viewing code that doesn't have syntax highlighting.
SHJS – Syntax Highlighting in JavaScript (With JS)
SHJS uses language definitions from GNU Source-highlight. This gives SHJS the ability to highlight source code written in many different languages.
Chili (With jQuery)
Chili is a code higlighter plugin for jQuery. It works very fast & can be totally customized.
It comes bundled with support for popular languages & the download package has examples on usage.
beautyOfCode (With jQuery)
This jQuery syntax highlighter plugin uses Alex Gorbatchev's SyntaxHighlighter but with a twist: produces more xhtml-compliant codes.
Lighter.js (With MooTools)
Lighter.js is a MooTools-based code highlighter that can create outputs in various formats like ordered lists and tables.
It has a GeSHi-like class naming & requires MooTools 1.2.1+
ColourCode (With Ruby)
ColourCode is written in Ruby. It can read a source file and generate a syntax highlighted version in various formats.
Ultraviolet (With Ruby)
Ultraviolet is a syntax highlighting engine that runs on Ruby. It has support for 50+ languages & 20+ themes.
Pygments (With Python)
It is a syntax highlighter that is built with Python. Pygments supports a wide range of languages, various output formats & it is usable as a command-line tool or as a library.
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24 Responses for "11 Syntax Highlighters To Beautify Code Presentation"
Massimo May 4th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Although not as general purpose as Pygments, web2py also comes with a SyntaxHighliter that can be used in any python program to highlight python, html and C/C++/Java code:
from gluon.html import CODE
text=CODE("def index(): return 1″,language="Python").xml)(
It also has the ability to turn keywords into links to documentation.
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medication May 4th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Muchas gracias!, mas fácil no se puede
ben May 4th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
EditArea (http://sourceforge.net/projects/editarea/) provides a javascript based text editor with syntax highlighting.
If you want to see it in action you can visit http://collabedit.com/ (click the button to create a new document).
PD May 5th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Pygments is dope, and together with the extendable reStructuredText/docutils, generating docs (see Sphinx!), Website content and whatnot is just pure happyness.
Alex Gorbatchev May 5th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Thanks for mentioning my SyntaxHighlighter twice!
Farid Hadi May 21st, 2009 at 5:06 am
Hey this is great! Now I just need to choose one to use on my blog.
Yaser Sulaiman May 23rd, 2009 at 6:11 am
Thanks for the helpful list.
I just wanted to mention CodeColorer, which is a lovely syntax highlighting plugin for WordPress that is based on the GeSHi library. One of the things I like about it is that it comes with some predefined color themes (Twitlight FTW!).
Lars Corneliussen May 28th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
thanks for mention my little plugin (beautyOfCode). I have released a version that is compliant with Syntax Hightlighter 2.0 and does not need js and css references to the highlighter. Instead it dynamically loads what it needs.
James June 29th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
http://www.neathighlighter.com is a very nice highlighter with option to highlighter code of different languages in a single file
Abel Braaksma September 30th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Nice compiled list! If you like, you can add a link to downloadable supported language brushes for the javascript syntaxhighligher of Gorbatchev (nr 2 above). It contain both bundled and loads of non-bundled syntaxes that can be used with the highlighter, easily referenced, credited and downloaded.
han lee October 21st, 2009 at 9:41 am
A simple script to hignlight the syntax of the codes, language independent.
Frank January 22nd, 2010 at 11:20 am
I miss the Dottoro Syntax Highlighter from the list above.
I definitely find that online code highlighter handy.
It provides easy customization and supports embedded CSS and JavaScript code blocks within HTML documents.
Amit January 28th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
SyntaxHighlighter is really good options and easy to use..
Samuel March 15th, 2010 at 4:03 am
jQuery.Syntax is an extremely fast and lightweight syntax highlighter. It has dynamic loading of syntax source files and integrates cleanly using CSS or modelines.
It was developed specifically to fill a gap – that is: a fast, clean, client-side syntax parser.
Please see the project homepage for more information, documentation, download, etc.
Benjamin "balupton" Lupton July 28th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
jQuery Syntax Highlighter is a new one based on version 3 of Alex Gorbatchev's Syntax Highlighter – a really really really popular plain javascript syntax highlighter.
It supports such things as `code` and `pre` blocks, able to use classnames like `language-javascript` to indicate which language we would like to highlight, as well as being able to wordwrap code. You only need to include one javascript file and it will autoload the rest saving configuration time. And you can copy and paste code by selecting it normally instead of having to open a raw view like many others. It can be further customised by using the HTML5 data attribute `data-sh` or via specifying options at initialisation. A great stable choice which is updated regularly.
Here's the link
Rainner Lins March 26th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Here's another one for the list. It's a small jquery plugin that has a very small footprint and uses CSS mainly for the colors. http://rainnerlins.com/work/tinylight
Carl May 24th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Great collecction, beautyOfCode is my favourite, and have a copy button that run in firefox!
Abi August 10th, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Hey thanks for listing the Syntax Highlighters plugins on one place, but can you please point me which one who has the toolbar? I am currently using the Alex Gorbachev's plugin but it doesn't have toolbar anymore only this "?", no use at all.
Umut M. August 10th, 2011 at 4:53 pm
To be honest, can't remember the features of each but I suggest just giving a try to their demos.
atomiku February 14th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Looking for a nice dark theme for my WP-Syntax wordpress plugin… having difficulty finding one! Thanks for the article but not 100% relevant to my interests…
Sharing January 16th, 2013 at 1:58 am
Thanks for syntax highlighter collections..
thats very helping..
harry June 5th, 2013 at 4:41 am
for me google code prettify is the best.
Zoltan September 24th, 2013 at 5:06 am
A minimalist and simple MATLAB syntax highlighter is here: http://matlabtricks.com/matlab-highlighter


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BRYAN, TX -- The Caldwell Hornets won for the first time all season last week with a dramatic 26 to 22 win over Taylor now Caldwell Head Coach Kenneth Gilchrist is hoping last week's emotional win will carry over into Friday's battle of Highway 21 against Madisonville.
"Madisonville is a great opponent for us," said Gilchrist. "We're coming off a win against Taylor last week and we want to build on that momentum like you said. It's going to take all the momentum that we can get to beat Madisonville. They've got a really great football team they play great defense. They cause so many turnovers on defense we've got to really protect the football and do a go a good job on offense doing that."
While Caldwell is coming off a big emotional win, Madisonville has lost two in a row.
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Pat Barker achieves immediate distinction with Union Street. Into the jaded, overcrowded, imitative world of first novels she has introduced a book that is at once mature, faultlessly constructed, and daring enough to take as its subject life itself in the most elemental sense: poverty, sexuality, rape, pregnancy, abortion, marriage, birth, sickness, prostitution, decrepitude and death, all interlocking. Where a less gifted writer might have fallen headlong here into the double trap of stridency and mawkishness, Pat Barker keeps her story so free of abstract moralizing that its final effect is close to visionary. (p. 3)
The book's vision, if it is a vision, is of a life brutal and scabrous in the extreme. Lives such as these, it seems to say, would be falsified by the modesty of literary circumlocution. So the material is almost unremittingly sensational. Certainly, if you...
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'Desperate Housewives': The Fairview Strangler revealed, did you see it coming?
Eddie Orlofsky.
Preston Scavo's friend, Eddie.
He seemed nice enough, but in the last few moments of Sunday's "Desperate Housewives," the writers let us in on a little secret: Eddie Orlofsky is a cold-blooded killer.
Of course, we can forgive him for taking that Russian minx Irina out. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
But putting his hands on Julie Mayer last fall was obviously a major mistake. And, next Sunday, we'll learn about a lot of the mistakes and mishaps Eddie's encountered over the years.
According to "DH" narrator Brenda Strong, however, many of the clues we might've needed to solve this crime were included in this season's episodes. Strong says, if we re-watch the season, knowing what we now know, the clues will be plain as day.
What do you think?
Anyone have time to re-watch everything and report back to us?
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Modern Family Creator Offers Ann Romney a Role — Under One Condition
Ann Romney, come on down... the aisle!
Modern Family occupies an odd space in the TV landscape. It's a show that embraces a very Modern America, featuring an interracial and a gay couple as part of a happy, stable family. By playing up diversity and family values, it manages to appeal to people on both sides of the aisle.
Modern Family's latest big-name conservative fan is none other than First Lady hopeful Ann Romney, who recently revealed to ET that Modern Family is her favorite show.
Show creator Steve Levitan took note of Ann's comment, and didn't miss his chance to make a pointed remark about civil rights.
"Thrilled Ann Romney says ModFam is her favorite show," he tweeted. "We'll offer her the role of officiant at Mitch & Cam's wedding. As soon as it's legal."
This is, of course, a subtle reference to Mitt Romney's firm anti-gay marriage stance, which Steve clearly disagrees with.
We can't help but be reminded of the time The Wire creator David Simon told the US Attorney General — a fan of the canceled, socially conscientious show — that he would happily produce another season if the Attorney General would just reconsider the War on Drugs.
We enjoy it when our favorite entertainers make their voices heard, especially when they're handed a perfect opportunity.
But what do you think: Do you like it when TV creators take a political stand, or should they stick to writing good stories?
Source: ET, @SteveLevitan
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The book-length version of Randall "XKCD" Munroe's brilliant What-If? column — which features scientifically rigorous, utterly absurd answers to ridiculous hypotheticals — has been on the bestseller lists since it was announced in March. Today, it hits shelves and: It. Is. A. <blink>Triumph</blink>. Read the rest http://ift.tt/1plEI8Y
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Mogadishu — Somali government officials and military experts condemned al-Shabaab's raid on the Benadir regional court complex on Sunday (April 14th), calling it a cowardly act of desperation.
A ten-man suicide commando unit blasted its way into Mogadishu's main court complex on Sunday, when one al-Shabaab militant detonated himself at the gate while the rest of the team entered the courtyard of the complex spraying gunfire and blowing themselves up as they ran out of ammunition. The rampage left at least 29 civilians dead.
The complex houses Somalia's Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, the Military Court and the Office of the Attorney General.
As the shootout inside the court complex was unfolding, five more civilians were killed when a remote-detonated car bomb near the airport struck a convoy carrying Turkish aid.
An official from the Turkish Red Crescent told Turkish news television channel NTV that its Somali driver was killed and some of its workers received light injuries.
A separate car bomb exploded outside the court complex during the assault, spreading panic until Somali security forces managed to secure the area.
"This attack is nothing but a sign of desperation by the terrorists, who have lost all their strongholds and are in complete decline right across Somalia," Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said.
"We are moving forward, but the enemy of Somalia, the enemy of all mankind, will attempt to set us back and try to prevent us from prospering," he said. "I want the terrorists to know that our country, Somalia, is moving and will keep moving forward and will not be prevented from achieving the ultimate noble goal, a peaceful and stable Somalia, by a few desperate terrorists."
Returning from state visits to Djibouti, Ethiopia, Uganda and Burundi, Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon said his first reaction to Sunday's terrorist attack was to express sympathy and condolences to those killed or injured. He also praised Somali security forces for their swift reaction to the attack.
"There is nothing Islamic in killing innocent Somalis," he said. "It is a tragedy for everyone affected."
"The fact is that our enemies are in decline and retreat across Somalia. Only today we saw more evidence of their collapse in an open letter to al-Qaeda's leadership that has already been described as al-Shabaab's death certificate," Shirdon said, referring to a 15-page letter sent from al-Shabaab's second-in-command Ibrahim al-Afghani to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, accusing Ahmed Abdi Godane of tyranny.
"My message to my fellow Somalis and the world is that this pointless and pathetic act will have no effect on our government, which is committed to continuing the enormous progress we have made in recent months," Shirdon said. "This is what all Somalis want, not more futile and destructive warfare."
On Monday, the prime minister vowed to determine how the security breech happened.
"There will be absolutely no let-up on security. I have ordered a security & intelligence investigation to understand how this happened," he said via Twitter.
United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia Augustine Mahiga said he was shocked and outraged by the deadly attacks.
"I join the government and the people of Somalia in condemning these senseless acts of terror," he said. "Somalia is making remarkable progress towards stabilisation and these great strides will not be overshadowed by the desperate acts of these cowardly terrorists."
Al-Shabaab leadership in crisis:
Ali Ahmed, a political analyst and retired Somali national army officer, explained that the suicide attacks targeting the court complex in Mogadishu are an attempt by al-Shabaab to divert attention from what al-Afghani's most recent letter to al-Zawahiri has revealed.
"It is clear that through these desperate attacks, al-Shabaab wanted to distract people from the dark reality that was portrayed by al-Afghani's latest message to al-Qaeda's leader," he told Sabahi.
"These terrorist attacks came after al-Afghani's letter was released, so it indicates the criminal nature of these terrorist groups and that whenever they are weakened, they start targeting innocent civilians," he said.
Osman Aden, a retired Somali army colonel, said al-Shabaab's attacks against the court complex in Mogadishu and its targeting of Turkish relief workers at the airport is a clear sign of its desperation.
"After they targeted scientists and elite intellectuals of Somali society, the cowardly terrorists are now targeting courts, busy streets and heavily populated residential areas," he told Sabahi. "These are desperate criminal attempts that reveal the aggressive nature of terrorists who falsely hide behind Islam, although Islam is innocent of them."
"Of course al-Shabaab has been defeated on the battlefield throughout the entire country and these attacks are proof that the terrorists have been defeated by soldiers of the Somali national army and the regional allied forces," he said.
"No matter how hard the extremist al-Shabaab group tries to divert attention from its internal crisis that was revealed by al-Afghani's latest message, it will not be successful because all Somalis are well aware of the fact that these terrorists who legitimise the bloodshed of innocent civilians are now suffering from a deep crisis," he said. "These latest attacks are nothing but a desperate attempt to raise morale among members of the group."
As such, al-Shabaab via its official Twitter account exposed the true reason for Sunday's attack: to appear to remain relevant and powerful.
"Such brazen attacks, on a broad daylight and in the heart of Mogadishu, are a clear testament to the influence of [al-Shabaab] forces in the capital," it said.
Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamed Rage also vowed there would be fresh attacks.
"This was a holy action which targeted non-believers who were in a meeting within the court complex," he told AFP. "We will continue until Somalia is liberated from invaders."
Yet American-born jihadist Omar Hammami, better known as Abu Mansour al-Amriki, further discounted the power of al-Shabaab's latest attack.
"Shabab has changed [strategy] from choosing best of legit targets to hitting whatever target they can and then legitimising it later," he said Monday via Twitter.


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US 10-year Tips are feeling the full brunt of taper-talk. First there was an abrupt sell-off on Wednesday in the 30 year sector, with break-even rates moving lower across the whole Tips spectrum after the US consumer price index fell for the first time in six months. Then there was a swift recovery with strong auction demand on Thursday following the Philly Fed.
As TD Securities' Richard Gilhooly observed:
Treasury will auction $13bn 10yr TIPs at 1pm, a second re-opening that will take the benchmark size to $41bn. The real yield is around 61bp after the market has bounced on weaker Philly Fed, with 30yr nominals steepening out to new highs on the 5-30s curve before some aggressive buying in the 30yr sector materialised in the past half hour. 10y Real yields have ranged from 32bp in late October to a high of around 90bp in early September and an absolute low of -75bp in April of this year.


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The Wishing Tree
Director/Producer: Christine Brooks
Creator: Rama Nicholas (Impro Melbourne)
Wellington Improvisation Troupe (WIT)
at The Garden Club, 13b Dixon Street, Wellington
From 7 Dec 2010 to 11 Dec 2010
Reviewed by John Smythe (2), 8 Dec 2010
There is a hum in the air at The Garden Bar, from the air conditioning or maybe the fridges in the bar at the back of the auditorium. This is no problem for amplified stand-up comedy or musical shows but for The Wishing Tree – or anything else not using microphones – a seat near the front is recommended at this venue.
Last year, when the Wellington Improvisation Troupe (WIT) planted their tree at Bats (link to review below), the intimacy and ambience was enchanting. This year it's in danger of appearing relatively ho-hum, because of the low hum and the high stage placed in a relatively cavernous space devoid of backing flats. While I know WIT prefers to draw us in rather than blast us with projected performance, more energy is needed here to fully engage us.
The mythical premise remains: "Once a year (on the night of the show) two stars align. They represent a prince and a princess who are in love and are married, but have been separated throughout the year by the Milky Way. Once a year they get their wish to be together. It's an auspicious day for wishes to come true because the gods are happy the lovers are together. The gods often wander through the sacred forests and if they find your wish hanging on the tree – it might come true."
So each audience member is asked to write a truly heartfelt wish on a tag and hang it on the potted tree at the front of the stage. Then, as Sebastian Morgan Lynch gets us 'in the mood' with his cello, each of the performers – all 8 on opening night – randomly pluck a wish from a twig. On opening night most went for the low-hanging fruit.
By my count 7 got a run so presumably one was prejudged a dud. One gets read out, someone initiates an action, others join in if and when they feel inspired to contribute … and when another player senses it's time to move on, they claim the space to read the next wish. All this happens on impulse and most scenarios are returned to. Thus – like a soap opera, or perhaps more like channel-hopping, given the differences in style and genre – a number of stories play out in brief episodes.
Just one ended – with a ritual ripping if the tag – after one scene only. A wish that the seal killers would be found led to a bewildered American tourist asking his mate what happened: "When you said let's go clubbing …" Knowing when a 'gag' has reached its full potential is a major skill in this form of improv.
The wish to retire from work and explore the world progressed in ways that surprised even the participants, not least when a voice from the side declared that this pleasant experience (on a Venetian gondola) would turn out to be the most extraordinary experience the tourist had ever had. Upping the stakes to challenge each other is another way of boosting creative energy.
A happy wedding wish (I didn't catch the details) precipitated a pseudo Shakespearean scenario that often achieved rhyming couplets while playing out the deep-felt emotions caused by an absent husband /father being supplanted by a present lover. A duel at the end saw the flawed father floored. Brilliant.
Ingeniously the wish for NZ to acquire a better cricket team focussed on a bloke with extraordinary natural talents hiding away with Kiwi recalcitrance. The desire for Santa to "tickle my feet with a feather" suffered from being too obviously funny as an idea. Seriously sincere wishes usually generate better comedy.
That said, the desire to win Lotto and a wish to be blonde both produced well-formed cautionary tales that amusingly took the 'be careful what you wish for' route.
My preference is for scenarios that grow as offer builds on offer, without anyone dictating too much in one burst. More than once on opening night one actor stood sponge-like while another infused him with a paragraph of exposition about his character and the scene yet to come. That does represent a challenge, I guess, but it's not as interesting as witnessing group creativity moment by moment, knowing no one person is in control.
Overall, however, the WITs do improvise impressively with proactive conviction and generous interactivity, exhibiting a collective sensibility that ensures a good result. That my companion and I felt moved to recount the details of some scenarios on the way home, and admire the skills that brought them into fruition, bodes well for this Wishing Tree season.
Kudos, then, to Christine Brooks, Derek Flores, Ralph McCubbin Howell, Nicky Hill, Merrilee McCoy, Mark Scott, Simon Smith and Paul Sullivan, plus Sebastian Morgan Lynch on cello and Darryn Woods on lighting.
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The town is situated in the heart of the Montana Rockies in the extreme north portion of the Bitterroot Valley. The Bitterroot Range rises 5,000 feet to 7,000 feet above the valley floor, 20 miles to the southwest. The main ridge of the Rockies and Continental Divide rise to the east and northeast. The climate is continental semiarid. Mountains to the southwest block moisture while those to the northeast block some arctic air in winter. Summers are dry with moderate temperatures and cool nights. Cold waves can produce blizzard conditions as air funnels through the narrow valleys. This cold air can settle in the valley for long periods, especially in December and January, and bring cloudy conditions. Most precipitation occurs in May and early June as showers and thundershowers. First freeze is late September, last is mid-May.
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Posts from — January 2008
In the Year 2000
I'm having some technical difficulties with photo uploading so in the meantime here is another excerpt from my grade school diary. This one was quite a treat since I probably just watched Back to the Future 2 [my favorite of the series] and was looking forward to the technological advances of the next decade.
FYI I am still a fan of Lisa Frank stationery. Also please note my valediction. I hope I was just being sarcastic with my diary.
January 30, 2008 6 Comments
Life in a Comic Book World
One of my best friend Reyna and my favorite games to play is called "In Our Comic Book World" which is much like the game of "What If?" but with us saying "Imagine if _______ happened….well in our Comic Book World it would." Of course it's always some ridiculous cartoon-plot fantasy and one day when I learn how to draw I will make a comic book featuring of all of our dreams.
In the meantime, I like it when I see weird coincidences like this that make me think we might not really be far from a comic book world after all:
January 25, 2008 4 Comments
Swan Song for Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger is dead. I am quite saddened by this. I don't know about you, but I can still watch Ten Things I Hate About You about fifteen times or so. Okay, I am alone on that one. Well, now they better never remake one of the best movies in the world.. The Warriors.
A long time ago when I first heard the news that MTV was remaking The Warriors I got angry, then I jumped on my casting couch and hired actors, in my mind. I didn't even have to think hard about Swan, the lead character. Heath Ledger appeared before my eyes…
Do you see it? I can't see anyone else in that role! And now, according to Wiki, the remake will supposedly be played by "real gang members to create a modern version of the story set in Los Angeles." HOLY CHOLY! I wonder if the Warriors will try to make it back to Santa Monica instead of Coney Island. Hmm…that doesn't work for me. Anyway, if that's the case, I guess they probably won't be casting my dream actress for the role of sassy Mercy…
I am SICK of remakes. Gawd. The Birds?! Don't even get me started.
RIP Heath candy bar.
January 22, 2008 2 Comments
Mad Crushin' on Defekto
When I first saw the Flickr photostream of Baltimore-based graphic designer and photographer Jim Lucio, aka Defekto [center above], I thought I was looking at an underground John Waters film. His Polaroid captures of wonderful eccentric characters naturally struck a chord in my lil' heart. I always appreciate a good chronicling of a three-ring circus and Defekto's pictures never fail. Let us have a gander at what makes this man tick!
+ How old were you when you first were interested in photography?
I was probably about 16 when I first started having fun with photography. I remember dressing up my little sisters a couple of times, but my mom kind of got pissed when I wanted them to hold knives.
+ How did you learn? Did you go to school or were you self taught?
I would say I'm basically self-taught, though when I was 17 I took a basic intro to photography class and later I took some filmmaking and editing classes–that was in San Francisco. Much later I took a refresher semester at the International Center of Photography in NYC. I'm still learning–and honestly, I haven't really learned much over the years! Maybe I don't like perfection because that means I have to work harder. Perfection doesn't stimulate me. Any decent photo student can have perfect lighting and composition, but I think I have just turned imperfection into part of my style. And individual style is much more important to me.
+ Who and what are your main influences for your work as far as people, film, music, books etc?
I have so many influences. I love pop trash culture. Bad movies, lurid paperbacks, exploitation movie art, weird toys…etc. I don't know that music has influenced my photographic work, though a band will sometimes form or come through town that is exceptionally visual and that is inspiration enough to want to shoot them. I am an avowed true crime junkie and I love the old detective and crime magazines–they were just so filthy and raw. I especially like posed photos of busted hookers or junkies with their eyes blocked out. Somehow that bar across their eyes always just seemed so much more exploitive.
+ Are there any photographers that inspire you?
When I was a kid, I saw a photo of a child wearing a rubber Frankenstein mask and that was the first time I bothered to find out who took the photograph. I thought, "That's something I would do." It was Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Cindy Sherman's "Film Stills" probably influenced me in some way and I love Diane Arbus and Joel-Peter Witkin. I love their subject matter, in the same way that I actually really like Terry Richardson's work. I don't know how many times I've had people email me or comment on a photo on Flickr and ask if he's influenced me or saying something I shot is "very Terry Richardson". I actually never even knew who he was until people started suggesting that I was doing what he does.
+ If you could do a shoot with any historical person from the past, who would it be and what kind of scenario would you like to put them in?
Hmmm…that's a hard one. For some reason Josephine Baker comes to mind. She was beautiful and had the best props…banana skirts and live ocelots. I would love to have taken photos of Colonel Sanders! He could have roosted in a hen house surrounded by big big plump chickens.
+ Is there anyone you would like to work with nowadays?
Yes. Photo editors at major magazines, celebrities, starlets, wannabes, visual weirdos, exhibitionists… and in my book, the unknown, regular Joe's are just as interesting and captivating as any celebrity, so I will always want to just work with the people who happen to be around me.
+ What cameras are your favorite to shoot with?
I have been using a Polaroid Spectra for over 20 years. In the past two years alone I think I've gone through 5 or 6 of them. I recently got a medium format Speed Graphic…the same camera that Weegee used. I got a Polaroid back for it and will eventually use it, but I'm dragging my feet because I'm probably afraid the photos will turn out bad because I hate learning how to use new equipment.
+ Most memorable shoots? Funny things that happened? I'm sure there have been TONS.
Most of what I do is just so off the cuff and quick that it never feels like a "shoot". I just sit someone still for a minute or two and snap. I do have a lot of friends in bands and they frequently ask for photos…and those are usually not paid and not particularly fun either. It feels more like work and less like art to me. I did meet The Goddess Bunny several years ago in LA and I was very excited to photograph her. I had her dressed in a Rainbow Brite nightgown and bonnet. But the photos turned out like crap, so that wasn't very funny. And I didn't even have my Polaroid camera with me.
+ Was there a time in your life that you wish you could have captured on film but didn't? If so, what was it?
60s NYC would have been fun. When I was a teenager I was fascinated with Andy Warhol and the whole Factory crowd. They all looked so good and were all incredibly fashionable….oh, but that was before my time. In "my life"…. well, I lived in NYC from 1993-2002 and I regret not having picked up my camera much. I saw so many wild and crazy things and crossed paths with enough celebrities and interesting people that my portfolio would look a lot different now if I'd been carrying my Polaroid with me wherever I went.
+ If you weren't doing photography or graphic design, what would you want to be doing?
I'm basically a frustrated filmmaker. I used to work on an animated show at Nickelodeon and still think that one day I'll have my own show. Or just make porn that turns people off instead of on…I have some good ideas.
+ What's next in the world of Defekto?
I have a couple of shows later this year that I'm excited about. One is a collaborative show with Chase Lisbon of Supercult fame and the other is a solo show with the tentative title: Icons of Baltimore. I'll be working on getting photographs of everyone I consider a serious mover/shaker or important person who has come from Baltimore or currently lives here. I'm really excited about this show. And basically, I just need to promote myself a little more and start getting paid to be "Defekto".
You can soak up more Defekto goodness at his website, at his flickr and you can now pre-order his new book, MONDO DEFEKTO: The Polaroid Photography of Jim Lucio!!!
January 22, 2008 3 Comments
Dear Diary
A while back, I started scanning some some entries from my childhood diaries. I recently found even more embarrassing diary entries from my life as a shy child cursed with intense "Bitchface." I'm going to attempt to analyze them in order to make my therapist's job a teeny bit easier. Onto the first gem…
Tonya was my red-headed babysitter when I was nine years old. The only other memory I have of Tonya was when she changed her maxi pad in front of me and I saw her big fiery bush. This entry also frightens me because of my horrible spelling of the word "excuse." I actually was a good speller back then, but I lost the spelling bee since I was too cool to study [lazy].
However, I still stand by my theory that the Speak & Spell made me become the spelling nazi that I am today. Does anyone else have Speak & Spell pride? We should get tattoos.
January 19, 2008 6 Comments
Flickr Favorites
1. Untitled, 2. Untitled, 3. B., 4. hear me roar, 5. she's expecting you, 6. post mortem, 7. come in…agent lover. report!, 8. noplacelikehome (therubyshoesblues), 9. DONALD, 10. by Mennen!, 11. Trash 2., 12. success 2008, 13. BLONDE VICE, 14. NYC Bed Jumping #6, 15. IMG_0175opt, 16. Damask minicakes, 17. new rug!, 18. away message reads: working, 19. a Salinger girl, 20. sock it to me, 21. mythic lodgings, 22. Celso + M-BW, 23. On Being an Octopus, 24. meharon o baroma, 25. Merry Christmas, Every Bunny!, 26. Freak love, Bjork ♡, 27. Bjork, 28. hide for the holidays, 29. PICT0037, 30. Yes Way
January 18, 2008 1 Comment
Dear Menz- With Special Guest Michael Ian Black
Greetings everyone and welcome to the first edition of "Dear Menz"! This is where I will dig deep and ask the menz a variety of penetrating questions to help us ladies gain enough knowledge to find the thugs of our dreamz…
My first guest is the genius and god among men, Michael Ian Black, who you know from The State, Stella, Wet Hot American Summer, and of course those "I Love the…" shows on VH1. Let's see what this menz has gots to say…
Is it true that guys don't like funny girls?
I think guys love funny girls. At least this guy does. Especially if they have funny props like Carrot Top. That shit is hilarious.
When is the best time to slip someone the tongue on the first date?
10:35 pm
How would you feel if you overheard someone say, "I am straight gonna MB to the MIB TONIGHT"?
I guess it would depend on the context – if they were talking about putting their cat to sleep, I guess I would be kind of upset.
What's your favorite song to dry hump to?
Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus"
What advice can you give someone who's been looking for love in all the wrong places? Should I just give it up and become a mail order bride?
My advice to any would-be mail order brides out there would be to take a deep breath and consider ALL your options. Maybe you might want to become a high-class call girl instead, or just a straight-up sex slave. Mail order bride just sounds so permanent.
Have you ever Supermanned a ho?
I'm not sure what this is, but probably.
Why do a lot of menz refuse to eat white condiments?
Like mayo? Do menz refuse mayo? In my experience, menz will happily eat mayo.
And lastly, what kinds of freaky shit are you into?
I like Scrabble.
Thank you Michael Ian Black for letting us peer into your brain for our first Dear Menz column! You can enjoy more MIB at his hilarious blog. You can also see him in the soon-to-be-released Kids in America and he also wrote the upcoming film Run, Fat Boy, Run. And get his stand up comedy album, I Am a Wonderful Man, available on Amazon.
January 16, 2008 15 Comments
Appreciating Chola Style
When I was thirteen, my "cousin" Gigi came to live with us for a couple of weeks. ["Cousin" as in the Filipino way where everyone is your auntie and your cousin, probably even your boyfriend] Anyway, she got into some sort of shenanigans back home and was sent to stay with me, who was a perfect angel back then. Gigi loved cholos, and looked like a chola herself or at least had the hairdo, which was stiff as straw, raped-by-Aquanet, peroxide-lightened hair. In the two weeks Gigi was with us, I learned how to concoct a makeshift cocktail from Boone's Strawberry Hill and my mom's mangoes, and we would sip them while sitting in my front yard catcalling at the guys who would drive by in their cars, pumping their music as loud as they can. Gigi called that move "The Mating Call." I was sad when she went back home since it was nice having a chola sister for a little while.
After years of other similar friendly run-ins, I theorized that cholos and cholas may be the undiscovered comedians of the world. They come up with more pop culture-referenced, witty one-liners than you could ever imagine. Their style was very fashion forward, with their now ironically hip Virgin Mary shirts and other Catholic paraphernalia. They were fixing classic cars longer than your rockabilly boyfriend and listening to the best band in the world, Zapp & Roger.
If you grew up in southern California, then you know what I am talking about. You were probably appreciating cholo/chola style long ago. Of course, Gwen Stefani rocked wife beaters and Dickies back in '95 and obviously still sports some chola-esque elements. In the past decade cholo/las have become a popular choice in Halloween costumes [aside from Halloween 2007's easy-to-do costume: Amy Winehouse.]
Are you down for chola style and want to know where to begin? Perhaps my do-it-yourself Chola Style Guide can help pave the way.
+ Watch movies about cholos. Blood In Blood Out, American Me and Mi Vida Loca are good starters. Then you can watch Scarface, which isn't a movie about cholos but they love it and think Al Pacino is a badass just like you do.
+ Refer to this Ultimate Gangsta Starter Pack that I made for Robyn Swank a few years ago when she was obsessed with cholos. The starter pack was my first foray into custom gift basket making [which I will of course get into at another time]. Items included were a 40 ounce of malt liquor [don't forget to spill some for your homies], a switchblade [to cut fools who try to step to you], brown lipliner, an appropriate movie [as reviewed in#1], a hooded sweatshirt featuring a gangsta and his heina with Jesus watching over them, crip slips [even comfortable enough to wear to Coachella! ], a Virgin Mary bandanna, and big gold hoop earrings.
+ Give yourself a chola-themed nickname. In seventh grade I used to write Gigglez all over my Trapper Keeper. If you are a wallflower, Shy Girl will work perfectly. This is pretty simple. As Dlisted pointed out, "Chola girls in High School had nicknames that sounded like the names of the bitches on Flavor of Love."
+ Write some poetry to your man in lock-up. A chola loves doing this for her man. I know it's been years since you let your own feelings out on pen and paper. Don't be afraid to let go and show Chuy just what you mean to him. If you are not poetically-inclined, post the lyrics to "Angel Baby" on his myspace page. When he gets out of jail he will undoubtedly appreciate the sentiment.
+ Last but not least, take some pictures at the mini-mall with your homegirls. Choose your background wisely [you can never go wrong with the classic "Smile Now, Cry Later"], coordinate your outfits, and get together beforehand to draw on each other's eyebrows and drink wine coolers. My homegirls and I did this a little while ago as you can see up above. Make sure to get a lot of wallet-sized photos because everyone will want one. Don't worry about covering up your hickeys. Your man likes it when his heina is all tagged up.
January 9, 2008 47 Comments
Why I Want to Get Married
My sweet Loverbot other half, Leyla, showed me this link of a bride who had a cake made in her very own likeness. I like seeing things like this because it makes me feel like less of an asshole. Just kidding. Anyway, in three years when I have my Sweet Thirty birthday bash [which will be just as obnoxious as those teens' on MTV, if not more], perhaps I will do the same, but use a photo like this. Chola cake! Take a bite outta that! ON A FASHION NOTE: Look at that sista's wedding dress. Is that paisley or butterflies? I hope the latter because it would be very Mariah of her. A girl can dream.
January 7, 2008 5 Comments
Lazy Sundays-Francophile Edition
With the rain beating down today, screwing up my plans to go thrift store shopping, I decided to catch up on some good old netflixing and discovered I must unintentionally be in a Francophile film phase! If only I were eating french fries, french-kissing, and wearing a beret while watching these, I would be filled with much joie. These four Paris-themed movies came out in the past year and I gladly recommend them to you.
Paris J'Taime is like eighteen love letters to Paris from twenty different directors, including Gus Van Sant, Alfonso Cuaron, and Alexander Payne. You will automatically want to see the ones with Natalie Portman, who plays a woman in love with a blind Frenchman, and Steve Buscemi as a tourist attracting trouble in a subway. Another favorite of mine is about a family of mimes, since I do love those creepy mimes and clowns…
Two Days in Paris starring Julie Delpy, who was also equal parts writer and director, and Adam Goldberg, was a favorite of mine that I caught in the theatres a few months ago. I enjoyed the funny, fast-paced dialogue between two lovers, who spend, yes, two days in Paris running into her ex-boyfriends. I can't wait to watch it again when it is released on dvd at the end of this month. I liked how Delpy cast her real-life parents as her character's mother and father, and how some of the film is autobiographical and improvised. Adan Jodorowsky, Alejandro's son, who played young Fenix in Santa Sangre [!] has a small part in it too.
Broken English stars Parker Posey who I will always love [long live Party Girl!] but this time she plays a lonely woman struggling with an unlucky love life. After having a few bad experiences with the opposite sex, she meets a sexy, free-spirited Frenchie and changes her ways. But no! It's really not one of those movies. Trusting herself again with love takes her forever, and you really want to see her happy. Sigh. Her acting is nothing short of incredible. The ladyboner-producing Justin Theroux is in it too. On the fashion front, pay attention to the necklaces she wears. I am researching who made them now…
La Vie En Rose walks us through the tragic life of the famous French songstress, Edith Piaf. The movie shows us her heartbreaking, early years as a young, temporarily blind child raised by whores in a brothel, all the way to her success as a singer basked in the spotlight and adored by her audience as their "Little Sparrow." After seeing Marion Cotillard emulate Edith's extreme personality traits: from sassy and stubborn to vulnerable and anxious, I am excited to see what else she has acted in. She was beautiful as Edith, and reminded me of a French version of Zooey Deschanel.
Now I am listening to Edith and longing for a future trip to Paris..
January 6, 2008 4 Comments


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Gravity Daze - Import Review
The game follows the story of a young amnesiac named Kat, who awakens in a world known as Auldnoir. She is accompanied by a cat named Dusty, the source of her gravity powers. While the first few hours have Kat aiding citizens in menial tasks such as collecting balloons a child accidentally let go of, the story eventually develops into something much bigger. Even without understanding the dialogue, I often found myself wanting to know what happens next to the characters you encounter in the game. Without giving away too much, the story kept itself fresh throughout and I look forward to its localization in English.
Presentation-wise, the game has a great look thanks to its art style and graphics, which look much better right on the Vita than through captures. Kat's animations as she falls, flies, or floats in the sky look as natural as you would expect of people who can control gravity. Explosions and the dust kicked up as Kat hits the ground are stylish and adds a nice effect to her actions. The story takes Kat through several areas and each is a delight to explore. Each area comes with its own distinct look and is accompanied by a great soundtrack; the second area depicts the nightlife in Auldnoir, and both the jazzy BGM and appearance of the city helped emphasize this. The UI is also fantastic to use and easy to navigate. Icons close together can be tapped on to zoom in on them. Tracking a location on the map automatically closes the map afterwards, saving you one extra screen tap before getting back into the game.
The main attraction of the game is Kat's gravity powers. You can alternate between gravity and normal mode through the R and L shoulder buttons, respectively. While in gravity mode, Kat gains access to all of her gravity abilities including her gravity kick, slide, and flight. In addition, landing on any surface while in gravity mode changes the direction of gravity to become relative to Kat, that is falling down often becomes falling up while in gravity mode. Flying feels great and I very rarely found myself walking through cities. Kat is able to lift up objects or NPCs with the O button, and is able to use the former as projectiles against enemies. Touching the screen with two fingers activates her gravity slide, which attaches Kat to a surface and slides with great speed. Kat also gains a few more combat abilities as the story progresses, and each feels like they have their own purpose in combat. All of her gravity powers are governed by an energy meter that steadily decreases as she remains in gravity mode.
The combat in the game is fun, but I felt it to be second to the exploration. In normal mode, Kat's kicks and punches are delivered through the Square button. By flicking the screen, Kat can dodge in the direction of the flick. She can then follow up her dodge with a powerful kick and another series of kicks and punches. This is about the extent of any semblance of a combo system. Of course, her gravity powers can also be used in combat; her gravity kick can often shatter enemies in a single hit, and sliding into enemies causes Kat to deliver a powerful kick. The enemy you fight in the game, the Nevi, are mutated creatures whose weak spots are a large orange orb. As the game progresses, the Nevi come equipped with shells you must break first before exposing this weak spot. Unfortunately, the combat never becomes too challenging beyond this, save for a handful of fights towards the end of the game. Regardless, the combat is fine and does not detract from the game too much.
Character progression is mainly through the collection of gems scattered throughout areas. Kat has a handful of attributes, such as her health and how slowly gravity mode decreases her energy, that can be leveled up by spending gems. Progression in the story opens up additional levels of her abilities to reach. In addition to the gems you encounter going through the story mode, gems are littered throughout both the surface and underside of cities, and makes exploring each area rewarding and fun. Provided you are not actively trying to avoid the gems the game throws at you, it is not too difficult to level up all of Kat's abilities to their max level by or close to the end of the game.
The bulk of the game is composed of a series of story quests, but challenge missions are also strewn about the city for you to complete. The story takes about 10 hours to complete, and faster if you avoid area exploration and challenges.These challenges are not needed to move the story along, but do provide you with an additional source of gems. The majority of challenges are either combat focused, tasking you with accumulating a number of points by defeating monsters within the time limit, or running through checkpoint races as fast as possible. There are a few unique challenges beyond racing and combat, such as picking up NPCs and delivering them to a safe zone. Performance is rewarded based on a bronze, silver, or gold medal. An online leaderboard rank provides a competitive nature to the challenges. The majority of challenges are 1-5 minutes in length, so they are great for picking up and playing whenever.
Unfortunately, a few technical flaws were evident. For one, gyro aiming Kat while in gravity mode, and gyro controlling her gravity slide never felt great. While the former is entirely optional as you can aim with the sticks, there is no alternate mode of control for gravity sliding. Texture pop-in and frame rate drops also occur when there are tons of explosions and effects going on at the same time. The game also seems to have a problem leading areas if you travel too quickly; the game pauses for a few seconds and ruins the sense of speed. Challenges also do not have a retry option, so if you mess up at the beginning of one, you must complete it in order to get the option to retry at the results screen. For the most part, the camera did a fine job but it does struggle to keep up in tight spaces. Finally, the loading times were quite long and this problem is emphasized by how many loading screens there are. This is especially evident when retrying challenges, as a loading screen occurs between attempts.
By the end of the game, I found myself wanting more. Unfortunately, after getting the platinum trophy in the game, there is not much post-game content to do beyond striving for better ranks in challenges or just flying around the city. Regardless, Kat's gravity abilities are well worth the entry fee, and the 10-12 hour story provides gamers with quite a lot of time to make use of those unique abilities. This is one game every Vita owner needs to experience, and I look forward to playing through the game again when its localization is released in June.
If you are thinking about importing the game, know that it is very import friendly. After a few minutes, it becomes apparent what each symbol on the map means, and what controls each ability is tied to. Mission objectives are also easy to understand, and a generous checkpoint system makes trial-and-error tactics usable. There did not seem to be any branching story paths, so you don't have to worry about being locked out of content just because you did not understand something. A few caveats exist though. Trophies are registered as Gravity Rush if you have US PSN account, so if you wanted the enjoyment of seeing trophies pop up during your playthrough in English, I would hold off on importing. Another caveat is that any future DLC will be region locked.


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An international research team has discovered that zinc dicyanoaurate has an atomic structure very similar to that of octopus arms.
Unlike most other materials, this compound does not shrink under pressure due to its negative linear compressibility (NLC).
"When pressure is applied all around NLC materials, instead of their dimensions getting shorter, they reduce their volume by getting longer," explained study co-author Andrew Goodwin at the U.K.'s University of Oxford, according to a blog on the institution's website.
The material's honeycomb structure confers very strong NLC properties, with potential applications such as artificial muscles, adjustable lenses or sensors, and as a cement component to prevent cracking in construction.
"It was quite surprising to discover that zinc dicyanoaurate is made up of structures that act rather like sets of supramolecular springs that cause it to behave in this way," Andrew continued. "What's particularly exciting is that these properties scale up from the atomic scale to that of man-made objects and structures, suggesting all sorts of possible applications."
Similarly, the octopus relies on such physics to use its tentacles.
"When it wants to contract a particular limb, an octopus squirts liquid into the center of a helical chamber inside the tentacle," Goodwin added.
"This creates the equivalent of negative pressure on the tentacle, causing it to get fatter in cross section and, through the muscle architecture, contract in length."
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When in that mood, when we're seeking something fast, and relatively light, and "acceptable" to everybody's palates, at our house we tend to turn to chicken. Again.
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"We were steaming along in the boat just before sunset and the storm was casually building in the distance, then it got faster and faster and it went from glass to about 40 knots in two minutes," Martin said.
Rather than simply a wind-swept dust cloud, the Onslow event was from a thunderstorm that swept up the dust in its path.
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The Chinese government says hundreds of people have been killed by the chemicals since the war ended. A team of Japanese investigators visited China this month and was shown more than 3000 cans and 10 shells containing chemicals. The largest haul was found at a disused factory in the northern city of Hangzhou. Local people complained of vomiting and headaches when the site was redeveloped in 1993. Writing on the sides of the cans confirmed that they came from Japan.
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Sure, E3 had plenty of announcements about gaming goodness, but more importantly, there were plenty of booth babes on hand to entice, distract, and cause a general sense of wonder. What can be better than games and gals? Check out the cadre of beautiful, buxom, booth bambinos at The Tech Zone and GameZONE. Where else can you see blue-haired, butterfly-winged temptresses in halter tops and thigh-high boots? Sure, sure, I know what you're saying: this doesn't hold a candle to Gathering of Developers' pole spinning, hip-grinding GODesses … but we're all going to have to accept the fact that GOD's parking lot of midgets, fire breathers, and heavy metal has-beens is forever lost to us. Carry on, soldier, carry on …
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|heheh (8:12am EST Wed May 21 2003)
WHAT ABOUT HOT E3 STUDS!!! - by ROOFY THE HOMO
|women on display (8:46am EST Wed May 21 2003)
I find this explotation of women very sexist and demeaning. - by I need a tissue
|Tig 'o' Bitties (8:48am EST Wed May 21 2003)
WOW. - by damn
|I'm too much of a critic I think …. (9:13am EST Wed May 21 2003)
I'm gonna actually bash those chicks by saying that they are all too ditzy looking for me.
Although I do like the chick on the second page with the gamecube in the background. She's probably my fav.
It also doesn't help that I live in florida. I get to see these types of chicks every day I head to campus. I've grown to hate some types of them. (mostly the ones with the cell phones stuck to their ears … I HATE cell phones) - by cell phones blow
|I thought…. (9:39am EST Wed May 21 2003)
this was a tech site??? Has geek flipped the script. Are we going to see Geek Gone Wild now?? Come on guys. - by A True Gentleman
|wheres (9:42am EST Wed May 21 2003)
the black ones? or is black not beautiful enough? - by alwaysblondsandasian
|Remember my friend playing a babe. (9:43am EST Wed May 21 2003)
She really hated that job. Look pretty and giving away pamplets. She did have a brain, but no one talked to her. Now she has a job to use her brains and she make more money. - by my take
|very HOT but…. (10:08am EST Wed May 21 2003)
i must be a geek cause, i can think of better use for all that silicone -) -) - by biggles
|hey, biggles (10:16am EST Wed May 21 2003)
"i can think of better use for all that silicone" – Like what, caulking your house? I hope you don't think silicone and silicon are the same thing. That would make for some pretty hard fake tiddies. - by biskut
|You people (10:52am EST Wed May 21 2003)
really need to get out more! - by zaph1
|heesh (1:29pm EST Wed May 21 2003)
leave it up to the PC Fanboy gamewhores at TechZone to not know how to use a fuggin' exposure setting on their digital cameras…
- by Lusers+Boothbabe=Sad
|alwaysblondsandasian (1:36pm EST Wed May 21 2003)
I'll bet there were some Nubian Goddesses at E3, however they just don't fit in to these LUSER'S pathetic stereotypes as to what is BEAUTIFUL, and thus don't have any pictures taken of them.
- by Lusers+Boothbabe=Sad
|not to mention… (1:39pm EST Wed May 21 2003)
Der GameZone ist ein DEUTSCH site…
'Schwartze Damen' need not apply.
$#&@ Pathetic Lusers.
|Rick on vacation. (2:30pm EST Wed May 21 2003)
I'd be at E3, but then again I get more than my fair share of sun and beaches. - by tech
|Maybe… (2:59pm EST Wed May 21 2003)
…the nubian goddesses just have enough dignity not to want to be props to entice horny, undersexed video game execs.
OK, I know that is not the case, but it is kind of embarassing. Shouldn't technology be sexy enough? If I want skin, I'll go to a strip club. It's definitely cheaper than E3. I guess it's easy for me to say. I'm a newlywed and have never had a problem in that department. Maybe after 10 years of marriage, I'll be one of those losers hanging around at the booths to rub up against some 2nd-rate stripper/model dolled up to look like a video card demo. - by Steven
|Answer (4:03pm EST Wed May 21 2003)
I guess if you are as worthless as E3 is, then why not try and sell your crap through a little skin. - by Dreamboat
|oi! Lusers+Boothbabe=Sad (5:47pm EST Wed May 21 2003)
just coz its german doesnt mean anything! Would it better if it were french or are the french evil?
no no no, be the site US, british, french, german , south african or chinese i dont think it should be steriotyped.
- by Power to the People!
|my bad (2:47pm EST Thu May 22 2003)
the German site actually had 2 pictures of Afro-American hotties.
So much for stereotyping the stereotypers :P
|Wahay!! (5:52pm EST Thu May 22 2003)
:) - by Vic E Babes
|I must agree (7:14pm EST Sat May 24 2003)
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|Fake (2:01am EST Fri Sep 09 2005)
She is a fucking whore and nothing more. Fake boobs and long face. She probably has a pussy and asshole wide enough from all those x-rated porn videos from by now. I found 2 xxx-rated videos of her in Holland but not in the US.
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Mobile phone network O2 has extended its Priority Tickets offers to users of the popular Apple iPhone app Shazam.
Customers will receive adverts for bands and artists that they have tagged using the service and be offered the opportunity to purchase tickets up to 48 hours in advance of them going on general sale.
Shadi Halliwell, head of UK Brand Communications at O2, said: "We're always looking at innovative ways in which we can engage customers with Priority Tickets and make sure they hear about pre-sales for their favourite bands."
He added that Shazam is one of the most popular apps on the Apple iPhone and a "perfect way" to reach potential customers.
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Washington's fuss over Iran has more to do with its natural gas and oil reserves than anything else.
Tagged: nuclear proliferation
The government has yet to address the lapses in bomb-grade uranium storage security that an 82-year-old nun and her accomplices revealed months ago.
The next administration's top short-term challenge will undoubtedly be to end U.S. involvement in combat operations in Afghanistan.
Bomb-grade uranium has been kept under questionable conditions, and over 200 pounds of it may be missing. Now, the U.S. government wants to waive safety requirements and bury the material straight into the ground.
A shocking IPS report about the U.S. government's mismanagement of a dangerous bomb-grade nuclear material that they now want to bury straight into the ground.
The parties must come to a compromise through negotiations.
There is a growing feeling that the crisis in the Gulf can only be solved by a diplomatic grand bargain between America and Iran, much like Nixon's normalization of U.S. relations with China.
The Institute for Science and International Security, no friend to Iran, struggles with the Parchin clean-up story.
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Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were no two Eastern football programs more alike than Syracuse and West Virginia.
The Orange produced an undefeated regular season in 1987 and needed to get a season-ending victory over West Virginia in the Carrier Dome to do so. Not to be outdone, the very next year it was the Mountaineers who ran the table with a perfect regular season, and once again, it was a season-ending game against Syracuse that sealed the deal.
Don Nehlen and Dick MacPherson were longtime coaching buddies, once working together in high school in Ohio, and they used the same blueprint to build their respective programs – tough, physical defenses, a reliance on the running game and a dynamic quarterback who could run and throw the football. Think about it, Syracuse's Don McPherson, Marvin Graves or Donovan McNabb could very easily have exchanged uniforms with West Virginia's Major Harris, Darren Studstill or Jake Kelchner.
That's how similar the two systems were.
"Every year it seemed like they had a good team, a great quarterback or something, and they won a lot of games," recalled West Virginia offensive lineman Rich Braham. "It seemed like whoever ran the ball the best won the game. A lot of those games were won in the trenches; we had Major Harris and they had Don McPherson and Marvin Graves and that's how they played."
Braham's teammate Lorenzo Styles knew several of Syracuse's players from their days playing high school football together in Florida. While West Virginia concentrated mostly in South Florida, the Orange also had recruiting ties in the northern part of the state in the Tampa and Orlando areas as well.
"I played against a lot of their guys in high school, so we always wanted to play well against each other," Styles recalled.
Berwick, Pa. quarterback Jake Kelchner took a recruiting visit to Syracuse before eventually picking Notre Dame while coming out of high school. Then, two years later Kelchner wound up at WVU.
"The coach who showed me around up there was (Maryland coach) Randy Edsall, of all people," Kelchner recalled. "Edsall was a pretty nice guy and from my standpoint, MacPherson was a nice guy. I knew (Syracuse wide receiver) Qadry Ismail, because he was only 45 minutes from Berwick, so I went up there and checked things out."
So did West Virginia defensive back Aaron Beasley.
"They hit Pennsylvania hard," recalled the Pottstown, Pa., native. "Those were two programs going down the same path. (Syracuse) was one of my choices and I could have gone there."
Yet some guys like Liverpool, N.Y., native Tom Briggs were passed over by the Orange. He said some of the Syracuse coaches came around and kicked the tires a little bit and took a look underneath the hood before taking a pass on him.
"Growing up in Liverpool, every kid's dream was to go to Syracuse and play Division I football and I went up there for an unofficial visit and they looked at me on film, but in not so many words it was kind of they didn't think I could play there or whatever the deal was," Briggs recalled. "After I took my recruiting trip to West Virginia it was a no-brainer."
"Once you pick a college, no matter where you go, you are always comparing yourself to who went to the school that maybe you wanted to go to but didn't get a shot," added Braham.
At one time in the mid-1990s, Syracuse replaced Penn State as 1A on West Virginia's football hit list, just a rung below Pitt on the ladder. It remained that way until the Orange began to decline after Paul Pasqualoni's departure t in 2004.
"Personally, I never had a problem with Syracuse," said Kelchner. "For a while, I just wished they were better because they really brought down the Big East for a while when we were both still in the league. The better all of those teams were, the better the conference was and you hated to see these guys that could never win and get it together."
"I really don't know much about Syracuse anymore because we're switching gears and watching all of the Big 12 teams play now," added Braham. "Then, you kind of knew who their players were and they knew who you were so we were always ready to go."
It was 20 years ago, in 1992, that the rivalry really reached its apex in Morgantown when emotions finally boiled over. Kelchner said he was involved in something similar when he was at Notre Dame and the Irish were facing heated rival USC.
"I was there for the big USC fight out on the field when Rocket (Ismail) got hit during pregame (warm ups)," Kelchner recalled. "But you had a couple guys really throwing down in the Syracuse game where the Notre Dame-USC one, the whole team was going at it, but it wasn't as violent and everyone was just grabbing helmets. It looked worse than it really was."
"When you hear Syracuse, you think about the rivalry and you want to beat those guys," added Studstill. "Back in the day, you wanted to beat Pitt and Syracuse. Those were big games that you can't lose. We just didn't like those guys and that's how it was."
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