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Kingdom Hearts II was a good follow up. 0
Don't let my review fool you, I did enjoy Kingdom Hearts II, but there was to much about it that annoyed me. They tried to make the game more complex, in the end it was still a button masher. The story was interesting, but it was completely slowed down by all the side worlds. The game was shorter than the first and not even as fun. I rarely had to use magic and I didn't even use a Summon once. The first game just had more charm overall and better boss battles. ----------Battle System----------...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Kingdom Hearts is good family friendly fun. 0
Kingdom Hearts is an easy game to get into. The original characters and story didn't exactly grab me, and the Battle system wasn't all the hot either but visiting Disney worlds and finding all the sidequests was really fun and a good challenge. If you're wanting alot of Final Fantasy out of this, then you'll be sorely disappointed. Despite some small dislikes, the game was pretty fun to play. ----------Battle System---------- The battle system is pretty shallow action hack and slash. Anyone ...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Jade Empire was a suprisingly good game, despite a few flaws. 0
So Jade Empire was a pretty good game, but with a few flaws that bugged me. The battle system just wasn't that good to begin with, there isn't much action, and the game was just extremely easy, that it only took a few hits to kill an enemy. Boss battles were pretty simple as well and easy to figure out. I was expecting a very open-ended game, but only 2 of the 7 chapters had any amount of freedom, everything else was linear. I also had issues with the camera and load times. The ending of the gam...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Ico was a fun adventure game while it lasted. 1
Ico was a great concept, but there wasn't much to it. The game was just way too short, and the puzzles started to wear thin towards the end. I loved the style and atmosphere this game had but the gameplay was pretty weak compared to any other action / adventure game out there. It was a great experience for what it was atleast. ----------Battle System---------- Ico is an action / adventure game. There's a ton of similarities to this game and the modern Zelda games, except there's more meat to ...2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Guardian's Crusade is a mediocre RPG but worth checking. 0
This wasn't the worst game I've ever played, but the battle system was repetitive, the graphics were dated and the game was short. The story didn't really hold up to well, but it was comical in places and there was enough good characters to keep your interest throughout. I expected more out of the "Virutal Pet" aspects that was hyped about this game, it was never an important issue. If you want to collect monsters or whatever, I'm sure a Pokemon game will give you more of a challenge and reaso...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Grandia III was a linear and slightly generic RPG. 0
While I enjoyed the battle system alot, I just wished it was a little faster. Some battles can take forever, even regular battles you fight in dungeons. It felt like a chore sometimes and that's no fun. I appreciate and enjoy the voice work in the game, but I hate the fact that they didn't include subtitles during the cutscenes. It just throws you off a little bit, and if you are playing at a low volume you might miss bits and pieces of dialog. The dungeons were very boring for me, no real pu...1 out of 3 found this review helpful.
Grandia II has a good simple battle system, but that's it. 0
This is my first Grandia experience. The game itself was ugly, had a ton of bugs, extremely linear, but the fun battle system and decent storyline made up for all the flaws. Speaking of being extremely linear, this game moves in a straight line all the way through, there's no turning back ever. Grandia II felt really short also. ----------Battle System---------- Grandia II prides itself on the innovative battle system, but I'm not buying it. It's a little different from normal, but still pret...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Golden Sun is a pretty average RPG, but still a good game. 0
Golden Sun was a good game overall, there's nothing extremely bad about it or extremely great, but it does everything right and hardly anything wrong, does that make sense? Well I enjoyed it for the most part, it's far from being original, it took alot of elements from Dragon Warrior and a ton from Wild Arms, but that's hardly a bad thing. You had to keep taping the A button to scroll through each message during battle, the game was short and the dialog scenes were long, that's about the only ma...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
God of War was a seriously fun Hack and Slasher. 0
I loved God of War, it was a short experience, but I'm kinda glad it was. The story was great, the graphics were impressive, and they took a boring hack and slasher game and turned it into a fun puzzle solving platformer. Overall it wasn't the most original game ever made, but I was still pretty impressed by it. A few things about this game that doesn't warrant it a 9.0 or higher for me. For one, Video Game Nudity, why was this put into this game? Everything seemed so classy about this game unt...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Gladius is an underrated and almost forgotten RPG. 0
When you start the game, you can pick between Valen's story or Ursula's story. I was planning on playing them both for the review, but Ursula's story was alot longer than I had expected. I wasn't expecting no more than a 30 hour game, but I well exceeded that deadline. Just based on Ursula's story, I really enjoyed this game and the game play. Just the fact that there's two storylines, Co-Op AND Versus mode boosts Gladius' value up 100%, to bad the story and dialog just wasn't all that engagin...3 out of 3 found this review helpful.
Sacred Stones is a very good turn-based strategy RPG. 0
This was my first Fire Emblem experience, and I really didn't know anything about this game before I bought it, other than it was an RPG and I needed a game for my brand new GBA (first title I bought too) so I was pleasantly surprised how it turned out. ----------Battle System---------- Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones is a turn-based strategy rpg. At the start of a chapter you get to pick and choose your party before going into battle. Some characters are pre-selected for you as they're part of th...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Fire Emblem lacks in presentation but has a deep core gameplay. 0
Much like Sacred Stones (the only other Fire Emblem game I've played), this game has a ton of charm, is fun but can ultimately be frustrating. As you probably know by now, Fire Emblem has a system where if your character dies, they don't go into limbo where you can revive them later, they're just DEAD. So if you care enough about story archs and your characters, then you're going to want to keep everyone alive. This is tougher than it sounds because one little mistake can screw up an entire batt...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Final Fantasy 12 was extremely fun, and better than I had expecte 0
I was really skeptical towards Final Fantasy 12. The last main Final Fantasy I really loved was Final Fantasy 9. All the changes towards the seires really turned me off to Final Fantasy 12, but I wanted to find out what the hub-bub was about so I decided to break down and finally play it hands on. Despite the slow start, I was surprised how good it ended up being. What can be said about Final Fantasy 12 that hasn't already been said a 1,000 times already? Not much really. Either way, I did enjo...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Final Fantasy X-2 was surprisingly good. 1
I was not a big fan of Final Fantasy X's storyline, so I really didn't care for this universe. I've always had low expectations for this game, from everything I've read to everything I've seen, I just had no interest in this game. I must say though, Final Fantasy X-2 turned out alot better than those expectations. I really loved the battle system, I loved the job classes and learning new skills. The game was fairly easy and not very long, this is good because of the multiple endings and New Game...2 out of 3 found this review helpful.
Final Fantasy X was painfully linear. 2
Ok ok. While this is the first time I played through Final Fantasy X, this isn't the first time I experienced it though. I remember day one when this game came out and watched a friend play through it for about 10 hours. I was completely wowed by the graphics, as it was the first PS2 game I've actually seen in motion, but I was disgusted by the lame main characters. I could never get over it, so I never had the urge to play this game. Now that I'm starting to scrap at the bottom of the PS2 RPG b...1 out of 6 found this review helpful.
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles should have been a better game. 0
I went through the motions with this game. At first I loved it, then I hated it, then by the end of the game I started to enjoy it again. I just hate needless backtracking, and this game is full of it. This isn't a very big game in the first place, but the end got really really hard, so you're forced to backtrack through dungeons multiple times to get strong enough. I loved the graphics and the music, but the gameplay did get repetitive to me. The boss fights was enough to get me through the g...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Fallout: BoS was a linear, repetitive, boring (etc) waste of time 0
I haven't played the previous Fallout games, so this review is completely unbiased in that sense, but I have played Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, and other games of that ilk, and really don't like them, so take that for what you want. I thought the graphics was a complete step back from Dark Alliance (a three year older game). The character models looked like crap. The three main avatars in the game are completely faceless through out the game because the only time they're shown is in cutscene...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Fable was short, buggy and way to easy. 0
Fable features about 15 hours of gameplay, slightly clunky controls, buggy graphics and a bunk story with a dumb main character and forgettable non-playable characters. I can't say this is a great game with any confidences, but it did have some nice ideas, so I'll give it a D for effort. I did like the art style (for a WRPG) and I liked how the character aged over the years in the game (despite how the NPC did NOT age). I liked being able to choose between being good or bad, but it's not enough...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Evolution Worlds is a chopped up Dreamcast port. 0
Evolution Worlds was a hard game to get through. Even though it was really short and simple to play, trying to finish the Tower of Despair was a complete chore. It could easily take up 10-12 hours if you fought every monster there, that's half the game. The repetitive nature of the game was hard to swallow. It seems like a rushed RPG to appear on the Dreamcast as early as possible, and this port was a chopped up version of a rushed game, not a good combination. The only redeeming values was the ...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Eternal Eyes is a throwaway RPG, stay away from this one. 0
The story is generic, the battle system is unoriginal AND bad, the graphics are ugly. There isn't any challenge, no sidequests, and it's extremely linear. There's only 10 chapters in the game, and 7 areas to visit, 2 of them being towns. A few dungeons you have to revisit, and one is just a compilation of older dungeons you already visited disguised as "Illusions". There might be about 5 bosses in the game. Overall this game feels rushed and slapped together at the last minute. There isn't much ...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Eternal Darkness is a very impressive Horror Adventure game. 2
Eternal Darkness was a great game, it was longer than I had expected and left me with a memorable impression. The graphics was a bit dated, other than that the only thing I hated about this game was the repeating dungeons. There's probably 3 or 4 dungeons in total of this game, but you replay them in different time zones, so things are different about them. While it's enough to give you new puzzles, you're still walking through the same rooms over and over and over again. It get's old. It would...2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes is about as generic as you can get. 0
In some ways, this game improves upon Dark Alliance's system, but in other ways it falls in the same problems I had with Dark Alliance. Ok, while the dungeons are generic, the battling is boring, the lack of puzzles, and the story and characters are lame. On the brighter side of things, the camera is free roaming, the graphics are nice, the ability to play with 4 players instead of 2 or 3... uh.. I guess that's about it. Well I enjoyed the magic system in this game, this was the first game of t...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Dragon Warrior 7 is a game for RPG fans with a ton of patience. 4
Dragon Warrior 7 wasn't a terrible game, it was close, but not completely terrible. It was however extremely outdated by the time it came out, completely tedious, with terrible graphics and repetitive gameplay. Overall the game was just extremely slow at everything. Leveling up was slow, gaining skills was slow, it took 2 hours from the start of the game to get into your first tutorial battle. It wasn't until about 20 hours into the game where you could learn job classes. By the time you got you...1 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Dragon Quest 8 is the best in the series thus far. 1
Dragon Quest 8 is the best Dragon Quest I've played to date. The story, while not on par with a few RPGs out there today, is still solid and better than any Dragon Quest prior. The character designs are magnificent. The quest is just overall HUGE, with a ton of sidequests, secrets, skills to learn, items to make, things to collect. This game will keep you busy for a very long time to come if you want. The game wasn't to difficult, the boss fights might offer somewhat of a challenge, but findin...2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Contact was fun while it lasted, but there wasn't enough meat. 0
Contact was short, so there wasn't much of a chance to flesh things out. I did spent 11 hours on it initially, but atleast 4 of those was straight up power leveling up. There's only 9 Islands and only a few of them are big enough to hold a dungeon. There just wasn't enough content in the game to really hold the interest in the RPG fan inside me. Overall, my first initial run was fun, but I still feel a little gipped about things. The music was good, the graphics were good, the controls were ok...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Champions of Norrath is a repetitve and cheap Hack and Slasher. 0
I kinda liked Dark Alliance, but as time went on, the repetition with the game got to me and it just got plain ol' boring. I figured they would work things out with this new Champions of Norrath, but no, it's the same flaws and errors I found in Dark Alliance but multiplied. This game is so freaking boring and reptitive. There's barely a hint of story, or a single interesting character. So basically this is the same boring game made by the people that brought you Dark Alliance, and they didn't...2 out of 4 found this review helpful.
Castlevania: LoI is the first worthy 3D Castlevania. 0
I don't know about this one. The lack of depth to the storyline was a little weak, the gameplay seemed kinda dumbed down. The game was way to easy, the graphics seemed dated. The game was just really short and the levels were really small. Outside of all of that, it was a fun game while it lasted, and if you're looking for an quick 'in and out' experience, then check this out. ----------Battle System---------- Castlevania: Lament of Innocence is an Action / RPG / Platformer hybrid. Leon doesn'...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness was one step forward, and one step 0
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is a small leap forward for the 3D Castlevania's, but not quite there yet. The graphics are a big improvement. The added elements like experience points, leveling, and Innocent Devils are a welcome return to form. The weapon forging and loot drops add alot of depth to the game. On the other hand, the controls seemed slow and clumsy, I missed the platforming elements. The storyline and characters are still not that compelling. The action seemed a little repetitive ...2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Brave Fencer Musashi was a decent Action / RPG at best. 0
Brave Fencer Musashi was not the Zelda killer Square pushed on us, but if you're a fan of Zelda I couldn't see a reason why you wouldn't enjoy this to a certain extent. There was a ton of Zelda elements to the game, but they slapped a bunch of random stuff into the game to make it seem less-Zelda cloney. There's alot of minigames you'll be forced to do in the game, like one boss you have to do a memory test, similar to Simon Says, or another where you have to ride down a waterfall collecting coi...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Bioshock was a fun FPS/Adventure title despite many, many flaws. 1
I fell for the Bioshock hype and I fell hard. While I enjoyed the final product, I still had alot of problems with it. I think if Bioshock was strictly a FPS, then it would suck, and if it was strictly an adventure game, then it would suck, but since it combines these two elements, it seems better than it really is. That's only because there aren't very many one-player FPS out there right now. The biggest hype this game created was the amazing storyline and originality. While I LOVED the Little...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Beyond Good and Evil is a great game for all you pacifists. 0
Beyond Good and Evil is one of the best games I've played for the Gamecube. Not only does it have one of the best stories for a video game, it also has great graphics, sound, an awesome control scheme. The only adventure game that is better than this is Windwaker, mostly because of the length and sheer amounts of things to do. The game is just way to short to warrant a full $50 price, so this might be why it initially failed to get sales. I probably would be annoyed if I paid more than $20 for i...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Baten Kaitos was much better than expected. 0
I had very low expectations going in with Baten Kaitos, but I ended up enjoying it more than I had wanted to. There was a ton of flaws with it, including the story, characters, and voices but I stuck it out and finished the game without feeling bored. I did cringe with most of the dialog though. The battles dragged on a little long, even the sub-enemies, so I dreaded going into a fight. The way you level up is really stupid, and the lack of CGI Cutscenes was extremely disappointing. The positive...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Baten Kaitos Origins is a great RPG and a big improvement over th 1
Baten Kaitos Origins is one of the better games for the Gamecube, heck, even solid title overall from the last gen. If you played the previous Baten Kaitos and liked it, then you'll love this game. With an improved battle system, less-linear gameplay, new lands and people, huge improvement in voice work and leveling, with some of the same great graphics and music, there's really nothing BAD about this game. ----------Battle System---------- Baten Kaitos is a turn based RPG that uses cards as w...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Dark Alliance II is a bland unoriginal dungeon hack. 0
Ok, this is basically the same game as the original, with little to no improvements. The only actual improvements I can thing of are the graphics, but it's such a small improvement that it doesn't matter. The world map is slightly better aswell.. but that's all I can thing of. This game falls into the same repetitive mess of a trap that all dungeon hacks fall into. It has a terrible story, cheap graphics, boring combat and an insulting level designs. ----------Battle System---------- Dark Allia...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance was a short and repetitive RPG. 0
Badlur's Gate: Dark Alliance was an ok game, but it got repetitive really quick and it was extremely short. The story was lame, the world map was lame, and there was a bunch of other things that annoyed me. The Gamespot review of this game bugged me because I didn't suffer through any framerate problems, but I only played it on normal on single player, so things might be different in a harder mode. Other than that, I would suggest the X-Men Legend series for a better beat-em up, dungeon crawling...1 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Amazing Island is a mix of Pokemon and Mario Party with bad resul 0
I had very very low expectations with this game, I only paid $5 for it and only read bad reviews. The game was actually alot worse than my low expectations. I was hoping I would be surprised with a good story or a fun minigame or two, nope. None of those came true. The only good thing about this is the monster building thing, but it's slow and boring and I hate creating my own characters in games. The minigames were repetitive and most of them hurt my hand afterwards. The boss fights where all...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.


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Green River Killer HEADLINES
WALLA WALLA - Soon, Gary Leon Ridgway likely will call this home - the state's largest prison, with its wire-topped fences, 15 towers with armed guards and the nickname "Concrete Mama" for its ability, like a mother, to draw men back again and again.
After listening for more than two hours as his victims' loved ones told him how he'd devastated their lives, Green River Killer Gary Leon Ridgway apologized Thursday.
Statement by King County Superior Court Judge Richard Jones:
A few forgave him. Many told him to burn in hell. Some families of the Green River Killer's victims said Gary Leon Ridgway did not matter at all, and refused to include him in their thoughts.
Today, it's their turn.
The handcuffs were a badge of pride for the cop who carried them, like a ballplayer's old glove. Once shiny, they had worn to a dull gray over decades of use.
King County sheriff's investigators logged 20,000 hours of overtime this year to guard confessed serial killer Gary Ridgway and search dozens of sites where he said he dumped bodies.
Green River Killer Gary Leon Ridgway is finished leading investigators to places where he dumped women's bodies after strangling them during a nearly 20-year killing spree.
Green River Killer Gary Ridgway's plea bargain could save King County as much as $10 million in court and investigative costs the government had budgeted had his case gone to trial, according to King County Executive Ron Sims.
Ted Bundy knew the Green River Killer like the back of his hand.
Searchers Wednesday returned to a site near Kent where confessed Green River serial killer Gary Ridgway said he left a body.
EVERETT - Snohomish County detectives plan to take a good look at Green River Killer Gary Ridgway as a potential suspect in four unsolved slayings in the county.
Forty years ago, a 6-year-old boy in a cowboy hat asked Gary Ridgway a question:
For the five months after he agreed to cooperate with detectives, confessed Green River Killer Gary Ridgway lived in a 10 foot-by-12 foot room on the ground floor of an office building in an industrial stretch of South Seattle.
Green River killer Gary Leon Ridgway sent an anonymous letter to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer nearly 20 years ago in what the newspaper said Friday was a "brazen attempt to throw off investigators."
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A Commons home affairs committee has said that security firm G4S should waive their £57m fee for the Olympic contract and face a blacklist of firms which fail to deliver public services.
G4S made headlines in July as chaotic vetting procedures and a severe recruitment shortfall meant that the armed forces had to step in to provide security at the Olympics. Committee chairman Keith Vaz described the firm's failure as 'an 11th-hour fiasco' while calling for G4S to compensate staff who were not given work despite being available.
Needless to say, G4S disagree and chief executive Nick Buckles says that while they accept full responsibility for their failure, the £57m fee is not profit but costs which they incurred during the contract. The company's financial loss over the debacle was £50m.
The company also revealed during a Home Affairs Select Committee in July that they would no longer bid for the contract to guard the 2016 Olympics and World Cup in Brazil. The same Select Committee meeting contained the startling revelation that Buckles didn't know what 'fluent English' meant when asked about the language skills of the staff G4S employed.
Poor performance by companies with government contracts has come under the spotlight recently — the Financial Times claimed that IT group Fujitsu have also been blacklisted by the government. In June another IT firm, CSC, was revealed to have won a 10 year contract with the Ministry of Defence despite failing to deliver on a previous NHS contract.
According to the Guardian, the Cabinet Office has said that it now has a policy of taking the performance history of suppliers into account when contracts are being decided and stated:
"While we will not publicly name the companies involved it will mean that suppliers with poor performance may find it more difficult to secure work with [the] government in future"
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Music Of Different Skies
Earth Mantra Releases
Samples from Arcs & Angles DVD
She Calls (high bandwidth)
Alternative Content
Carnivore One (high bandwidth)
Alternative Content
Music from DS Alumni
Soliloquy: By Dave Brewer
Alternative Content
Centipede: By Mutation Vector
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Dusk: By Tony Gerber
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Silent Stones: By Brian Good (Sundagger)
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1919/21 (Green Axis): By Nick Rothwell (CASSIEL)
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Remember: By Giles Reaves
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Ouroborus Part 2: By Dweller At The Threshold
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Lapetus: By Xeroid Entity
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Dark Around Us: By Ma Ja Le
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By Tens Forever: By Tim Walters
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Beneath Stars: By Team Metlay
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Saurus: By Otso Pakarinen (Ozone Player)
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Different Skies - Strange Lines and Distances (2007)
On October 18, 2007, the twenty musicians of Different Skies 2007 came back to their rigs on the main stage at Arcosanti after a lovely dinner and a few drinks each, sat down, and began to improvise.
The concept of live electronic improvisation isn't new by any means. But there's a difference between improvisation among one, two, or three musicians, and improvisation among twenty of them. When you've created a veritable orchestra of electronic musicians, any one of which has enough gear to carry a full song arrangement on his own, putting them on the same stage and yelling "GO!" carries one hell of a set of risks.
The mantra of Different Skies is and has always been, "Listen Twice / Play Once." In a setting like this one, it is vital that musicians use their ears and only venture onto the canvas very gingerly to add their colors to the palette. Mistakes happen often, and there is the ever-present risk of piling noise upon noise until the result is impossible to listen to.
But when these problems are circumvented, the results can be magical.
On this night, the musicians jammed for two hours without a break, with a small audience of Arcosanti residents in the Colly Soleri Amphitheatre and somewhat more of an audience on the Internet via StillStream and Second Life (thanks to Bibi Book for the SL rebroadcast).
Twenty musicians ... many of whom had never met one another before the previous Sunday ... all on a stage at once ... with no one telling them what to play or not play. These are not excuses, they are merely the conditions under which this album was created. The music the artists feel happy about having you hear, without excuses, is contained in this album. Listen twice...
This release is available for free at the Earth Mantra website.
Different Skies - Imaginary Spaces (2007)
The second set of 'All Star Jams' for the week of Different Skies 2007 was captured in the late evening of Thursday, October 19, 2007. The twenty musicians of Different Skies were euphoric after an extremely successful set of rehearsals that day, and a powerful set of jams the previous night. More to the point, as is often seen in the latter half of the week at Different Skies, the musicians had begun to listen more and play less, to fine-tune their collaborative skills, and to think and move and play as one unit.
As a result, the Thursday night jam was shorter but far more productive than the previous night. The musicians played for about 45 minutes for a small audience of Arcosanti residents and for an Internet audience around the world on StillStream.com and on Second Life (thanks to Bibi Book for the SL rebroadcast); in doing so, they created a collage of five distinct movements which are presented here almost in their entirety.
The quality of these performances is entirely due to the fine musicians who see fit to drag their gear into the Arizona high desert for seven days of grueling tech work, hard rehearsals, and nerve-wracking performances ... all melded inseparably with a level of camaraderie and friendship that cannot be described to anyone who has not come and taken part.
This release - along with its companion release for Wednesday night's jam - offers a brief and piquant taste of the atmosphere of our evening jams, a momentary immersion into the musical wonderland that is Different Skies. We all hope you enjoy it.
This release is available for free at the Earth Mantra website.
Arcs And Angles DVD
In 2004, Different Skies created two distinct types of musical output. One was a set of composed pieces by subgroups of the attendees, which are made available elsewhere. The other were the "all-star jams", spontaneous improvisations that involved any or all of the Different Skies musicians creating music by listening to one another and cooperatively building intensive musical soundscapes.
The best of these improvisations are now available on ARCS & ANGLES, a 90-minute DVD featuring eight songs and over 90 minutes of music, with computer visuals by David Tristram of Tristram Visual. There is not nor has there ever been a record like this one, with its combination of hypnotic visuals and intense, absorbing music.
We are offering two sample tracks in audio-only format: She Calls and Carnivore One. Download the samples using the links to the left.
ARCS & ANGLES is a region-free NTSC format DVD-Video playable on any compatible system. We recommend a high-quality stereo audio listening system. There is no surround content or LFE so a full 5.1 monitor setup is not necessary, but suitably large speakers will bring out the best of the program's extended frequency range in the low bass.
Price: $20 plus shipping
Order the DVD from Film Baby now
Arcs And Angles Limited Edition CD
A limited-edition promotional CD of the ARCS & ANGLES music was also created, but all 50 copies were sold and is now OUT OF PRINT.
Copyright © 2003 - 2011 Different Skies, all rights reserved.


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All Weekend:
Billy Ireland
Cartoon Library & Museum
Friday, April 11:
Laughing Ogre
Comic Shoppe
12:00 Noon-1:00PM Self-Publishing (How To) Hosted by Gabriel Dunston with Daniel J. Hogan, Warwick Johnson, Scott Kraynak and Tim Kenyon. A panel discussion from a few self-publishers and how they do what they do.
1:00PM- 2:00PM 2013 SPACE Prize Presentations hosted by Bob Corby.
2:00PM-3:00PM Tools & Techniques Panel Hosted by Tyrell Cannon with Scott Kraynak & Pam Bliss & Matt Kish. The variety of artists from different backgrounds and training levels in indie comics is fascinating. Everyone seems to have a different way of working, leading to an infinite variety of results. This is a discussion & demo of the tools and techniques utilized by a variety of artists exhibiting at S.P.A.C.E. Each will bring some of their tools, give information about them, and then show a quick demo of how they use them.
3:00PM-4:00PM Nate Powell Presentation. Nate discusses a deluge of projects underway since MARCH: BOOK ONE (including BOOK TWO, of course!). Get the lowdown on his adaptation of Rick Riordan's THE LOST HERO, short comics collection YOU DON'T SAY, collaborations with Scott Snyder and Van Jensen, his next solo book DIAMOND MINE, pinups, anthologies, as well as an upcoming fall exhibit at the Billy Ireland Museum and OSU events with Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin.
4:00PM-5:00PM Memoir Comics hosted by John Steventon with Jimmy Gownley, John Porcellino, Dara Naraghi and Jason Young.
6:00PM Exhibitor Room Closes
Kafe Kerouac- AFTER S.P.A.C.E. COMICS READING AND KARAOKE PARTY!
10:00AM- Exhibitor Room Opens
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Is it possible that guys don't ask certain girls out because they find them intimidating? I can name a hundred different situations where I've seen a... Show More
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Yes, guys are intimidated by hot girls. Some guys who have incredible suave and confidence are not afraid. Here's the process of what guys could possibly think. Guy sees a hot girl and recognizes she's hot. "She probably has a boyfriend; there's no point." Another option is "she's way out of my league; she'll just put me in the friend zone." A third option is "she's hot so she must be a bitch and not down to earth." It's easier to talk to girls who are average and below average looks because there's no sexual tension because subconsciously, guys don't really want anything from them. Aren't you shy around guys who are "good-looking?"
Ooh okay. I guess I get where you're coming from. It's just funny how a lot of really pretty down to earth girls think there's something wrong with them cause guys don't ask them out. And I'm kind of a guys girl-a lot of my best friends are guys-so I personally don't get shy around men, hot or not.
The ironic thing is that there's nothing wrong with those girls. It's sad to see them worry about it, but it's just guys not having enough confidence because it's very hard to walk up to someone and say I like you.
Lol guys shouldn't worry so much then . I think a lot of girls would love it if a guy said that straight out. It would be very hard to say no in my opinion.
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It's not only possible, it's 100% sure.
What intimidating traits in a girl? Offhand, I'd say:
-Looking high maintenance (clothes, hair dress,make up)
-Looking infatuated with herself
-Dating often the captain of the football team or older guys (or looking like it)
another reason: she's the sister of one of my good friends and I'm not interested in a long term relationship but just want an ONS.
Not intimidated like scared. For all the male ego & boasting, somnetimes a guy will see a girl that good looking & think he stands NO CHANCE! I've done it befoe, & my BFF's ex never got over his insecurities in that regard & eventually drove her away after 4 years together...
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"Not intimidated like scared." Girls prefer to call it "intimidated": that boosts their ego.
If you say so! Whatever...
I have heard this a lot, but personally I have never seen it, so I think it is mostly an urban legend myth. All hot girls I have ever met always had guys asking them out. If fact they usually have the opposite problem of not being able to go out anywhere alone without being hit on.
While it is true that there are a lot of shy guys, there are also a lot of aggressive guys who hit on all the hot women.
So I'm not buying this myth of the hot woman who can't get a date. In reality, what I think is happening is that she doesn't like the guys who are always hitting her up and she wishes some of the shyer guys would ask her out. But I think those guys are more intimidated by the aggressive guys they see asking out the hot girls than the girls themselves. Shy guys need a lot of time to work up the courage, and if they see a girl they like talking to another guy, they will think they've missed their chance and so not approach her.
:) well it depends on the personality of the guy tbh, if he is shy then chances are he will not admit his feelings anytime soon unless he is really sure the information doesn't go public...however, some girls are too popular and the guys think they are not good enough...then there is also the too good lookin which often guys get too nervous to talk to, they think they will be rejected so they go for the less hot & duller friends. But again the players have long realized this so they go for the intimidating ones and use them...but again it doesn't mean every guy who approaches a girl is a player, so I think you should wait untill your old enough to understand things better.
Marciano, I never said all guys who approach a girl is a player...you did. And don't tell me I'm not old enough to understand things. I'm not 10 so get your condescending brit attitude off my wall.
Well the "too pretty" thing has been covered already, so I'll mention that girls who carry a permanent scowl on their faces are more intimidating and less likely to be approached.
Also if you are surrounded by guys (even if they're just friends) it's not intimidating per se, but makes me think you have too much male attention already. If I attempted to join the conversation you'd probably think "oh, did you decide to join my fan club? tee hee that's so cute, wait for your turn and maybe I'll acknowledge your tiny existence ;)"
Lol! Icaro, trust me, no girl outside of the truly heinous "Mean Girls" type, would ever think that. No worries. I can understand about the scowl girls though. Point taken.
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"I can name a hundred different situations where I've seen a pretty girl with an awesome personality go guy-less "
1. Maybe they do not want a bf- omg! ... it happens you know not everyone needs to be in a relationship, some people actually like themselves.
2. Maybe they are not easy to get along with- personality definitely matters.
3. If they are cool & they do want a boyfriend and boys are not asking- why do not they approach.
4. If they approach and the guy is not interested well then I guess he is not interested. mystery solved.
> Being a little pro active , wipes out a lot of confusion and solves a lot of questions in life- typically.
I never said that all girls need a boyfriend to feel complete, or even insinuated that they did. I like myself just fine...and clearly you're JUST as confident. Go "analyze" someone else's post cause you're right, I don't like you.
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Macauley Island is a remnant of the rim of a large submarine caldera centered 8 km to the NW. The 3-km-wide island consists of a low, gently sloping surface of rhyolitic pumice from the caldera-forming eruption truncated by steep cliffs formed of underlying basaltic lava flows. The pre-caldera Macauley volcano consisted of two generations of shield volcanoes separated by a period of growth of a pyroclastic cone. Eruption of the voluminous Sandy Bay Tuff about 6300 years ago truncated the NW side of the Annexation shield volcano and formed a 12-km-wide, 1.1-km deep caldera during one of the largest eruptions identified in the SW Pacific. Following formation of the caldera and substantial marine erosion, a partly submarine and partly subaerial eruption centered about 2 km north of present-day Macauley Island produced basaltic scoriae and lava flows. A reported possible eruption from "Brimstone Island," 45 km west of Macauley at a location with a depth of about 2000 m and SW of Giggenbach submarine volcano, is likely a location error and could refer to an eruption from the submarine flank of Macauley caldera (Lloyd et al., 1996).
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This compilation of synonyms and subsidiary features may not be comprehensive. Features are organized into four major categories: Cones, Craters, Domes, and Thermal Features. Synonyms of features appear indented below the primary name. In some cases additional feature type, elevation, or location details are provided.
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|A bathymetric map view shows Macauley and Giggenbach submarine volcanoes in the Kermadec arc with a submersible dive site and Macauley Island labeled. Giggenbach is in the NW corner of the map, and the Pisces submersible dive area is on the eastern rim of Macauley caldera. The map contour interval is 100 meters, and the resolution of the bathymetry data is 25 meters. The proprietary bathymetry data were obtained during a 2005 New Zealand/American NOAA Ocean Explorer research expedition to the Kermadec arc.
Image courtesy of New Zealand Nat. Inst. of Water & Atmospheric Research, 2005 (http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05fire).
|The submersible vessel Pisces V surfaces in the foreground after a dive in front of Macauley Island during a 2005 New Zealand/American NOAA Ocean Explorer research expedition to the Kermadec arc. This view from the NW shows a prominent white band in the cliff-face that is made of dacitic pyroclastic-flow deposits. The 3-km-wide Macauley Island is a remnant of the rim of a large submarine caldera centered 8 km to the NW and has a low, gently sloping surface truncated by steep cliffs.
Image courtesy of NOAA, 2005 (http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05fire).
The following references have all been used during the compilation of data for this volcano, it is not a comprehensive bibliography. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title.
Latter J H, Lloyd E F, Smith I E M, Nathan S, 1992. Volcanic hazards in the Kermadec Islands, and at submarine volcanoes between southern Tonga and New Zealand. New Zeal Ministry Civil Defense, Volc Hazards Inf Ser, 4: 1-45.
Lloyd E F, Nathan S, Smith I E M, Stewart R B, 1996. Volcanic history of Macauley Island, Kermedec Ridge, New Zealand. New Zeal J Geol Geophys, 39: 295-308.
NIWA/NOAA Vents Program, 2005. New Zealand American submarine ring of fire 2005 Kermadec arc submarine volcanoes. New Zeal Nat Inst Water Atmosph Res/NOAA Vents Program final cruise report (http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05fire/logs/leg2_summary/media/srof05_cruisereport_final.pdf).
Smith I E M, Stewart R B, Price R C, 2003. The petrology of a large intra-oceanic silicic eruption: the Sandy Bay Tephra, Kermadec arc, southwest Pacific. J Volc Geotherm Res, 124: 173-194.
Wright I C, Worthington T J, Gamble J A, 2006. New multibeam mapping and geochemistry of the 30°-35° S sector, and overview, of southern Kermadec arc volcanism. J Volc Geotherm Res, 149: 263-296.


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For now, you should know that we have two fabulous raffle items from the Chicago Bears Organization (and a huge THANK YOU to the Bears for supporting our message).
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Reached by phone Wednesday afternoon, Morse initially declined comment. But the website later dropped all images and references to the Bears at the team's request, and Morse issued a statement: "The Ruth Institute is not working with the Chicago Bears organization or any of its players past or present to promote our upcoming auction. The memorabilia we are auctioning off was acquired by me personally, not through the team or players. We understand that the Chicago Bears organization takes no position on social issues, and we regret any confusion we may have caused on this point."
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Summers heating up and so is the MRR schedule. It's been a few weeks since we have update everyone on here, we have been putting in some consistent finishes all in the top 4 in the last 5 weeks. But the real prize we are after has eluded us, we just haven't gotten it all right on the right night. The latest we actually got to lead about 12/13 laps in the feature Sunday night, before we encountered heavy lapped traffic and I just started leaving just enough of a gap to let Gharst under me. We are really getting frustrated running 3rd but hey it most definitely could be worse! On deck we have the ASCS National tour coming to town this weekend starting Friday night at Rapid Speedway in Rock Rapids,IA. Then a possible stop to I90 Speedway Saturday night and on to Husets Sunday night. We sure hope to see you at the races!
What a difference a week can make! A week ago was arguably the worst track Husets Speedways ever seen, fast forward one week and the track we have all come to love is back! I had about the best draw at the back gate I've seen all year with a 22, and that out us 2nd row for our heat race, We ran to second. The draws sure haven't been falling our way so far this year. We statted 7th in the Amain and had a very good car, we can up to 2nd there at the end. I think with a couple more laps we maybe had a shot at it. Jordan martens ran a great race and we tip our hats to him and his crew, it was well deserved.We hope we can build on this and continue to run out front, and maybe make a bid at the season championship. I don't know if we have enough financial backing to make it the entire season, but were trying to run all the races at husets this season. So if you have any intrest in helping our team out or know someone who might please let us know!
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Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park offers within the park, the Stephen Foster Museum, Carillon Tower, Craft Square/Gift Shop, and a view of the famous Suwannee River. The Stephen Foster Museum and Carillon Tower features exhibits and dioramas from Stephen Fosters songs as well as a display of antique pianos. The Carillon Tower is also home to the worlds largest tubular bell instrument, constructed and installed in 1957. The tower rings out Fosters tunes in scheduled concerts throughout the day. Visit the Craft Square where working craftsmen demonstrate cultural arts and traditions, from quilting to blacksmithing and home canning. Classes are offered regularly. The Cousin Thelma Boltin Craft & Gift Shop sells regional foods, crafts, gifts, handmade items by local artists as well as Stephen Foster memorabilia
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Kevin Pietersen struck a crucial blow for England by removing Michael Clarke on day four, says Bob Willis.
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Kevin Pietersen's fifth Test wicket might just be the difference between England winning and drawing this match in Adelaide. It is that significant.
England's latest man-of-the-moment inflicted a massive body-blow by removing Michael Clarke just before stumps to leave Australia on 238-4, still 137 behind.
If the weather stays fair, England will relish bowling with the new ball at a brittle Marcus North and thereafter a tail that is unlikely to offer protracted resistance and, from this position, they should go 1-0 up in the series.
But had Clarke still been there at the close alongside the indomitable Mike Hussey, Australia would have faced the final day with fresh optimism.
Their positive partnership wiped 104 off the arrears and a repeat dose on day five would have changed the complexion of this game appreciably.
So Pietersen's joy at claiming Clarke's wicket was entirely understandable in the context of the Test and his own vastly-improved form.
Andrew Strauss was clearly fearful that Australia would get in front of England if they declared on their overnight total 551-4 and so batted on.
If he goes one way, Strauss does tend to err on the conservative side. For example, the bold thing to do in this Test would have been to include Monty Panesar at the expense of Paul Collingwood.
In this case his caution was well-founded. The extra runs England added before declaring on 620-5 proved necessary as they struggled to breakthrough with the new ball.
As is his way, Shane Watson looked authoritative at the crease without going on to get the hundred his side so desperately needed from him.
He's now scored 11 fifties and two hundreds in his career - a conversion rate that must improve if he is to be considered a genuine Test opener in the long-term.
Australia were always going to struggle to replace two batsmen of the quality of Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer.
They gave Chris Rogers and Phil Hughes a go before promoting Simon Katich and Watson from the middle order and while have stepped into the breach admirably, they remain manufactured openers with something to prove.
In Watson's defence, he was dismissed this time around by a fine piece of bowling from Steven Finn showed far more control in Australia's second innings.
He's an intelligent young man who is quickly coming to terms with bowling with a soft ball on Australian pitches and I hope that at some point he gets the luxury of taking the new ball because I'd love to see what he can do with it.
While the pitch remains pretty flat there is some rough there and the odd ball has turned dramatically which is where Pietersen - and more realistically Graeme Swann - should come into their own.
Swann's extra class was sufficient to account for Ricky Ponting - no bad player of spin by any means - and if he can continue to strike the right length there is just enough help in this largely lifeless surface to wrap up what would be a thoroughly-deserved victory. Weather permitting.


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Following Monday's announcement of Steam OS, Valve has announced Steam Machines, their hardware prototype for next year's SteamOS hardware platform.
The announcement page lists all of the details, but starting today you can attempt to win access to one of 300 prototype Steam Machines that Valve is developing to test out SteamOS in the real world. Valve has offered no details on what that hardware will consist of, simply a list of steps for testers to apply for access:
- Join the Steam Universe community group.
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- Have 10 friends on Steam. Join the LinuxGames.com Steam Group!
- Make your Steam Community profile public.
- Play a game with a gamepad that you've launched from Steam's big picture mode.
You can track your progress through this on the quest page. You've got until October 25th to complete every step if you want to win a Steam Machine from Valve itself. Hardware will ship Steam OS in 2014 from other vendors.
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Houston schools, roads prepared for possibility of ice storm
By Craig Hlavaty | January 23, 2014 | Updated: January 23, 2014 5:33pm
Photo By Reader photo/John PalenOne resident recorded 7.5 inches of snow in Bay City.
Photo By CRAIG H. HARTLEY/FOR THE CHRONICLEDeepak Guatam, 10, experiences the thrill of gathering the makings for his first snowball in west Houston on Christmas Day in 2004.
Photo By Flickr Creative Commons/srizkiPictured is a Houston neighborhood after the December 2009 snow.
Photo By Flickr Creative Commons/Texas Dark HouseA Houstonian plays with their dogs after the December 2009 snow.
Photo By Flickr Creative Commons/taylorsevensPictured is the 2009 Houston snow in the westside.
Photo By Karen Warren/Houston ChronicleMegan Groneman makes a tiny snowman in the front yard of her Heights area home, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, in Houston, as the snow fell.
Photo By Nick de la Torre/Houston ChronicleGabriela Horan King of Houston gets a pile of snow from her mother Elizabeth Horan King as she and her brothers play in Fridays snow storm Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, in Houston.
Photo By Nick de la Torre/Houston ChronicleNicholas Horan King, 4, of Houston eats snow he picked up from his grandparents front yard as snow falls Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, in Houston.
Photo By James Nielsen/Houston ChronicleA jogger run on a trail past the snow and frost covered grass in Buffalo Bayou Park Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009, in Houston.
Photo By Reader photo/Connie BlackPictured is a group of cows at the Black Ranch, just north of the Brazos Bend State Park in Fort Bend County, on Christmas morning of 2004.
Photo By Brett Coomer/Houston ChronicleKaufman Elementary School students in the Conroe ISD leave their school bus home as it snows in Spring in December 2004.
Photo By James Nielsen/Houston ChroniclePictured is a snowman named "Briskit" built by 10 year olds Chloe Gentry and Sara Wells as snowfalls Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, in Houston.
Photo By Smiley N. Pool/Houston ChronicleContinental Airlines jets are seen through the falling snow at Bush Intercontinental Airport on Friday afternoon, Dec. 4, 2009, in Houston. Airlines cancelled about 100 flights at Bush and Hobby airports, said Frank Haley, deputy director of operations and public safety for the Houston Airport System. There have been some flight delays, because all departing planes are stopping at de-icing stations before proceeding onto the runway for takeoff. De-icing has been underway since about 5 a.m. and will continue as long as Houston experiences freezing rain or snow.
Photo By Nick de la Torre/Houston ChronicleChris Lewis of Houston, left, rides a boogie board turned snow sled down a snow slicked hill with Lauren Lewis of Houston, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, at Eleanor Tinsley Park in Houston.
Photo By TODD SPOTH/For the ChronicleKelley Trammell and her daughter Sophie, 6, play in the freshly fallen snow in front of their River Oaks home, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 in Houston, Texas. With the earliest recorded snowfall in Houston history, Kelley's two children were released early from their school, St. Johns.
Photo By Michael Paulsen/Houston ChronicleEric Moore, 11, (left) gets help from his parents, Terry and Sylvie, to transport the snowman he and his brother built from Cherryhurst Park to their home during the snowfall Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, in Houston. "The hardest part was collecting the snow before it melted," Eric said. "It's pretty cool; we got out of school early, it's snowing and now we have a snowman named Buddy."
Photo By Dave Rossman/For the ChronicleLinda Guglielmi takes a walk in the snow on Lamonte Lane in the Garden Oaks subdivision Friday afternoon Dec. 04, 2009.
Photo By Melissa Phillip/Houston ChronicleJairo Cruz looks at the two snowmen he and his family spent three hours building outside their apartment at The Oxford, 10909 Gulf Freeway, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, in Houston.
Photo By TODD SPOTH/For the ChronicleSophie Trammell, age 6, stuffs her hat full of freshly fallen snow in front of her River Oaks home, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 in Houston, Texas. With the earliest recorded snowfall in Houston Sophie was released early from her school, St. Johns.
Photo By Nick de la Torre/Houston ChronicleBicyclists and pedestrians try and navigate heavy snow fall Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, in downtown Houston.
Photo By Jorge De La Garza/Houston Chronicle FilesJoe Villarreal offers the snowman his family built in the front yard a drink after the snow storm in 2004.
Photo By Nick de la Torre/Houston ChronicleAmy Ta poses as her friends take her picture during heavy snow fall Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, in downtown Houston.
Photo By Meenu Bhardwaj/For The ChronicleSnowmen populate the front yard of Mike and John, 6, Gautreau on the 9900 block of Bassoon, Houston. The snow needed to make the snow people came not only from the front yard, but also the house rooftop, Dec. 25, 2004.
Photo By Meenu Bhardwaj/For The ChronicleA snowman stands in a front yard on the 9900 block of Bassoon, Houston. The snow needed to make the snow people came not only from the front yard, but also the house rooftop, Dec. 25, 2004.
Photo By Carlos Javier Sanchez/Houston ChronicleA Dachschund runs behind three snowmen on the beach on Saturday morning. Galveston island saw a white Christmas with a record snow fall as residents estimated five inches on the ground in 2004.
Photo By CRAIG H. HARTLEY/FOR THE CHRONICLEMuch to the delight of children, a light dusting of snow and sleet fell around noon today in west Houston. 2900 block of Westerland in the Westmont subdivision. Here, 19-year-old Manjit Gerba proudly displays her first snowman made from the dusting on hoods of cars and from tarps covering plants.
Photo By Ben DeSoto/Houston ChroniclePaige Turner, 15, steps outside Barnaby's, a Montrose area restuarant,to marvel andcatch snow on her tongue, a classic snow fall activity, Friday Dec. 24, 2004.
Photo By Carlos Javier Sanchez/Houston ChronicleMiguel Angel Diaz ,10, tries to catch a snow flake or two with his tongue as snow falls downtown Houston on Friday morning.
As a strong winter storm moves into Southeast Texas Thursday night, government agencies are preparing for all possibilities.
The City of Houston will activate their Emergency Operations Center on Thursday evening at 6 p.m. to begin monitoring the weather situation in the city until Friday evening, officials said.
The EOC is activated during emergency weather conditions and special events and oversees major emergency responses and resources in the area.
If you plan on flying out of Houston Friday morning, be prepared for anything.
"Travelers should call their airlines ahead of time to check for delays," said Darian Ward with the Houston Airport System.
Ward says travelers should also budget more time in their itineraries in case the weather takes a nasty turn. She said the airport system will be monitoring the roads to and from both Bush and Hobby airports.
Bush has 15 deicing trucks and Hobby has two deicing stations just in case they need them Friday morning, Ward said.
Meanwhile the Texas Department of Transportation is taking extra precautions to ensure the roads stay safe over the next two days of bitter cold.
Wednesday night, TxDOT crews sprayed magnesium chloride on bridges, overpasses, and major interchanges across six counties in the Houston area, including Waller, Brazoria, Harris, Montgomery, Fort Bend, and Galveston counties.
They also have a rock-sand mixture on hand to handle trouble spots. The magnesium chloride mix will prevent ice from accumulating on roadways. Ferry operators are also taking steps to make sure their services won't be hindered on Friday.
"We want folks to only be on the roadways if they have to," said TxDOT spokesman Danny Perez. He reminded drivers to heed all weather and traffic warnings and to use caution when traveling on Friday morning.
Houston TranStar will also be working in tandem with TxDOT to spot areas that need attention.
TxDOT has a fleet of trucks on standby to spread sand and deicing fluid, if needed.
"Don't be complacent when it comes to the road conditions. Be patient when driving. If you have to wait out the weather, just do it," Perez said.


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The auction does more than command some high numbers. It seriously puts the entire musclecar movement into a spot it never would have arrived at. The media coverage, daily newspaper stories, and conversations the auction generates are countless. One of my favorite post-auction experiences was telling my Volvo-driving neighbor that a '70 Chevelle SS 454 LS6 convertible (although he didn't know what that was) had sold for over $1 million and then watching the look on his face as he processed this. I think he left my front yard thinking the '76 four-door Chevy Nova he drove in college would have been worth a lot of money today.
For some there is the amazement, confusion, and doubt-then there are the few who just get angry. You know, the PC type who still believes that all musclecars should have been crushed in the '70s to save the planet-now the fact that these cars have lived on to invigorate the economy is just troubling.
But for most folks it's fun to talk about the cars, the people who attend, and the latest prices. Perhaps it has motivated someone to pull that old car out of the far side of the garage, give it a three-month restoration, and have fun driving it again. And although it may not mean that a big-block-converted '72 Camaro will command six figures, it surely makes a fair contribution to keeping the musclecar hobby alive. I can hardly wait for next year.
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Book Learnin'"Without a doubt, camshafts and the engine valvetrain are the most misunderstood areas of engine performance and have been for a long time." Author Graham Hansen makes this sweeping understatement on the back cover of his new S-A Design book, High-Performance Chevy Small-Block Cams & Valvetrains, and then does his best to demystify this critical area. For the most part, he succeeds. Working from the premise that a camshaft predetermines the torque and horsepower curve before an engine even fires, Hansen goes on to suggest that enthusiasts take a "broader, two-dimensional approach to power that asks both 'How high?' and 'How wide?'" This common-sense viewpoint underlies the entire book, making it a valuable source of info.
The "Camshaft Basics" chapter alone is worth the price of admission. Hansen's explanations of lobe centerlines, advance and retard, and especially overlap are user-friendly and enlightening. His discussion of roller cams is also well worth the read, extolling the virtues of the popular hydraulic setup without dismissing the advantages of a mechanical roller or even a flat-tappet 'stick. There are also at least five chapters covering the balance of the valvetrain, and these are equally valuable. (The section on selecting and properly installing rocker arms is key.) Hansen includes a pair of chapters on how to choose a cam, a more esoteric section on "Valvetrain Dynamics," and a rundown on matching cams and heads that will give builders plenty to think about.


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Tomas first met PostgreSQL in 2003 and quickly became a big fan. He participated in porting various applications to PostgreSQL from other databases, tuning and fixing performance issues etc. He is also a member of the executive committee of CSPUG (Czech and Slovak PostgreSQL Users Group), an "umbrella" organization for the local PostgreSQL community.
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How Students and Schools Use Snapchat
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College students love snapchat! It's personal, creative, quick, fun, and free. "According to research by Sumpto…as much as 77 percent of college students use Snapchat every day. 37 percent of the study respondents cited "creativity" as their main use of the app. "Keeping in touch" and "easier than texting" were reasons for 27 percent and […]
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