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Someone Please Get Gabourey Sidibe A Talk Show Called "I'd Hit That"
Around the BWE offices we've been discussing what Gabourey Sidibe's next career move should be after her Oscar nomination and it's really been racking our brains. Personally, I think the Captain America producers should make a bold and progressive move by casting her as the hero. However, after watching this clip from the red carpet, I realized Gabourey inadvertently answered it for all of us when she saw Gerard Butler and blurted out her awesome new catch phrase, "I'd hit that."
It's obvious now. Gabourey should replace Oprah when she retires with a sassy new talk show. Gabourey will talk about the celebrity gossip of the day, and whenever certain male stars are mentioned, she stops, looks at the camera, and says "I'D HIT THAT!" Then, everyone in the audience cheers and we sell a boat load of t-shirts. America already loves you, Gabourey. Let's make them love you even more. Call us. This is a million dollar idea.
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SPOT THE DIFFERENCES: Yet Another Photo From Lady Gaga's "Telephone" Video
We are just days away from the premiere of Lady Gaga's new music video and/or Verizon ad for "Telephone." She keeps leaking new picture from the video on her website, so once again I have a new Photo Hunt puzzle to kill the time between now and Thursday night's premiere.
Can you spot the differences between these two pictures?
As far as I can tell, the first photo has Pepsi cans in her hair and Coke in the second.
[This video better be REALLY good, Gaga. I made a lot of people sit through some pretty juvenile Photoshopping thanks to you.]
HELP! I Am Too Horrified By Heidi Montag's Plastic Face To Decide If This Is Funny
Ron Howard and Funny Or Die released another video to push for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency… I think. Honestly, every time I try to watch it and see Heidi Montag I keep thinking she is one of those frightening Japanese sex robots come to life to seek revenge on mankind. Maybe her next 60 surgeries will fix all that.
Ron, buddy, maybe its best you don't try to sabotage your own cause with the two most hated people in America:
The Marketing Geniuses At Disney Discover Girls Are Gross And Have Cooties
A couple weeks back, the trailer for the new animated Disney film Tangled hit the web, which is apparently based on the Rapunzel story. But why not just call it "Rapunzel"? Well the L.A. Times has an answer:
After the less-than-fairy-tale results for its most recent animated release, "The Princess and the Frog," executives at the Burbank studio believe they know why the acclaimed movie came up short at the box office.
Brace yourself: Boys didn't want to see a movie with "princess" in the title.
This time, Disney is taking measures to ensure that doesn't happen again. The studio renamed its next animated film with the girl-centric name "Rapunzel" to the less gender-specific "Tangled."
So even though Kathryn Bigelow broke an 81 year Best Director Oscar winning streak… DUDES STILL TOTALLY OWN HOLLYWOOD. High fives, dudes. We did it.
No one wants to see some stupid princess complaining about her woman problems for two hours. We want to see swords and stones and space pirates and raining meatballs and TANGLED STUFF. "Tangled" is a movie title I can get behind. It's strong enough for a woman, but pH balanced for manly dudes with junk.
"Rapunzel"? What is that, a WNBA team or something? Get out of here with your "Rapunzel." Read the sign. This clubhouse says "No girls allowed." Dudes, lets all go see Tangled and then hit up a strip club. Guys night out!
TRAILER MIX: Tron Legacy, B.Y.O. Blacklight
I'm really not sure who this movie is for. Were people demanding a Tron sequel? Or did some studio executive mistake the "Tron Guy" phenomenon for actual interest in the movie Tron? This movie could be Jeff Bridges' answer to Jamie Foxx following up his Oscar win with the movie Stealth.
If I didn't know anything about the original movie, I would have thought this was a big budget adaptation of a 5th grade birthday laser tag party. However, it has a guy dressed as Ziggy Stardust David Bowie playing air guitar on a light up hockey stick, so it can't be THAT bad:
While You Were Baking A Shiv In To A Cake For Lil Wayne
- Betty White has confirmed that she will appear on Saturday Night Live. Hopefully Keenan Thompson is already working on his Rue McClanahan impression.
- Lindsay Lohan is reportedly suing E-Trade over their new commercial character "Lindsay the Milkaholic Baby," claiming it is based on her. She is also suing Froot Loops for their new mascot "Cokehead the Anorexic Turtle."
- The ratings for this year's Oscars were up 14% to 41 million people. To ride the ratings momentum, next year's awards will be hosted by Peyton Manning and renamed "The Super Bowl Olympics Idol."
- Kathy Ireland disputes claims that she was on meds or alcohol while interviewing celebrities on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. However, her limp right arm is being suspiciously silent on the matter.
- Dane Cook and two of the Jonas Brothers have reportedly auditioned for the role of Captain America in the upcoming movie. If any one of those gets the role, I will definitely be moving to Captain Canada.
- Thanks to Conan O'Brien, the one person he follows on Twitter can now pay for her dream wedding. The ceremony will be presided over by the Reverend Masturbating Bear.
How Should Lil Wayne Spend His Year In Jail?
Lil Wayne started his one year prison sentence today for his gun possession charge from 2007. He could be out as early as October, but that's still a long time from now. How should Weezy spend his months behind bars?
Here are some ideas, Wayne:
Can Sandra Bullock Become The World's First EGORT Before Halle Berry?
30 Rock coined a term for someone who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony*. However, with Sandra Bullock's big double win at both the Oscars and the Razzies this weekend, we may need a new word if she can win the other three. I'm going with EGORT… or possibly GROTE.
If Sandra wants a Grammy, she should probably just do the audiobook for the novelization of Hope Floats. Here is her Razzies acceptance speech in case you missed it:
*CORRECTION: It was pointed out by commenter Dick Baguettes that Philip Michael Thomas first coined the term "EGOT" back in his Miami Vice days. But EGORT definitely started RIGHT HERE.
So Who Got The Drunkest After The Oscars?
The most important question of last night's Oscars is not who had the best performance, but who got the drunkest after the show. I went through about 60,000 photos and twelve cups of coffee to find the people I thought hit the cash bar the hardest. I'll let you decide who got the most sauced in Hollywood last night:
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Contractors will install guardrails at least by Tuesday. The guardrail will start just south of Garver Road near Greenfield Road. Lane closures are expected, and traffic will be maintained by flaggers. The other project, scheduled to start next week, will be on Kentucky 168, (Valley View Road) near the Keys Creek Bridge. The bridge will be replaced this summer. Lane closures are expected, according to the release.
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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, one of the world's foremost welfare economists, will deliver Harvard's commencement address this June, sources confirmed today.
Sen, a former Lamont University Professor, is now Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. His work on the impoverished in developing nations won him the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998.
Sen most famously studied the 1974 Bangladesh floods, which caused a widespread famine.
At a time when other economists and social scientists blamed the environment for the resulting devastation, Sen took a more nuanced view.
He found that the floods themselves weren't entirely to blame for the famine. Farmers whose fields were destroyed had no way to make ends meet, since their government did not find a way to employ them gainfully.
As a result, these farmers were more likely to be victims of the famine.
A native of India, Sen graduated from Presidency College in Calcutta and received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge.
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There's an uptick in the incidence of certain head and neck cancers among middle-aged Americans. Researchers link the trend to a rise in the popularity of oral sex over the past few decades. Experts say HPV is a major trigger for these cancers. The overall incidence of head and neck cancers is down, largely because fewer people are smoking. But the incidence of cancers of the tonsil and base of the tongue have been growing. And those are the ones that are more likely to test positive for HPV. Changes in sexual practices over they years may be on reason that doctors are seeing more cases. "The thought would be that Baby Boomers - the 60s and 70s generation -- probably had more freedom in sexual relationships in general, including oral sex," said Bert W. O'Malley, Jr., MD, co-director, Penn's Head and Neck Cancer Center, in an interview for US News & World Report. Fortunately, Dr. O'Malley says HPV-related head and neck cancers are more treatable than those linked to smoking/drinking. Read More


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While many are getting some last minute Christmas shopping done, others throughout the Capital Region are cleaning up damage caused by Friday's winter storm.
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Jerry Lewis In New Indie Flick 'Max Rose'
It's been eighteen years since Jerry Lewis starred in a feature film (Funny Bones, 1995) and before that, a twelve year gap between flicks – has it really been thirty years since his memorable performance opposite Robert De Niro in 1983's King of Comedy ? Despite the passing of decades, it's still sometimes hard to […] [Read More]
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Facebook for dogs? Social networking sites for dogs and cats are already a reality (in an alternate universe) and in this one too, apparently. If Fifi or Fluffy are looking for friends, now they can find them online. Visit Dogbook and Catbook to find out what everyone's barking and purring about! [Read More]


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Title text: For scientists, this can be the hardest thing about dreams.
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Cueball diligently creates a Tesla coil, a high voltage device producing artificial electrical lightings and more.
After that show by Cueball, Black Hat magically shoots electricity from his fingertips. When Cueball asks how he did that, he says that science doesn't really work, then hovers in mid-air, further proving his point. There is simply no apparent explanation for Black Hat's abilities, which means science is still woefully incomplete or, as Black Hat said, simply doesn't work.
The title text indicates that this was all actually a dream, explaining Black Hat's abilities and pointing out how dreams can be difficult for scientists as they will attempt to analyse and understand everything in the dream according to the laws of science, which wouldn't apply in dreams.
The image where black hat shoots electricity is very similar to what the Emperor does in Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi. When he hovers it is similar to what Superman is capable of.
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- [Cueball and Black Hat stand near a tesla coil mounted on a table.]
- Cueball: I finally finished my Tesla Coil!
- [The room is dark; the characters appear as faint blue outlines on black background. Cueball turns on the Tesla Coil and it sparks white static electricity.]
- click
- Black Hat: Cool, but—
- [Lightning shoots out of Black Hat's hands, Cueball appears to be in shock and awe.]
- Black Hat: Check this out!
- [The lights are back on, Cueball's arms are raised in amazement.]
- Cueball: How did you do that?
- Black Hat: The world doesn't actually make any sense. Science doesn't work. No one told you because you're so cute when you get into something.
- [Black Hat floats up the frame, and Cueball is pointing towards Black Hat.]
- Black Hat: Still, neat toy.
- Cueball: Now you're hovering!
- Black Hat: I guess you're still not getting this.
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Where did that Staff Loki uses come from?
"You question us? You question him? He, who put the scepter in your hand, who gave you ancient knowledge and new purpose when you were cast out, defeated?"
-The Other
At the end of the Avengers we learn who the "He" is that the Other mentions. He is Thanos and with his evil grin a million possibilities just emerged.
|The gem on scepter is blue like the mind gem
If you go to the Tivan Corp Infinity Gem Tracker you will see that the locations of the infinity gems of Power and Space are known. The Gem of the Mind is still a question mark. My speculation is that we have already seen the mind gem in action. I believe the blue stone in the Chitauri scepter is the mind gem. Here are my reasons:
1) The Chitauri Scepter used by Loki was able to control peoples minds when pressed against their hearts. This power seems very close to the mind gem in comics.
2) The gem in the staff is actually blue, just like the one in the comic.
3) The staff is provided to Loki by Thanos who is the character most connected to infinity to gems.
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Tyson (2008 film)
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|Directed by
|James Toback
|Produced by
|Carmelo Anthony
Damon Bingham
James Toback
Mike Tyson
Harlan Werner
Nicholas Jarecki[1][2]
|Written by
|James Toback
|Mike Tyson
|Edited by
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Tyson is a 2008 documentary film about the life of former undisputed heavyweight world champion boxer Mike Tyson. It was directed by American filmmaker James Toback and produced by Nicholas Jarecki, Bob Yari, and Carmelo Anthony.[2]
The film was publicly screened for the first time at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and won the Regard Knockout Award at the Un Certain Regard event.[4] Tyson was released on April 24, 2009, distributed by Sony Classics.[5]
This documentary is a self-discovery of a matured Mike Tyson, who reflects on his highly controversial and publicly viewed life. It begins with clips of 20-year-old Tyson's convincing World Boxing Council Heavyweight Championship win over Trevor Berbick, then explores the fighter's upbringing and motivation. It is revealed that he had a fractured family life and difficult childhood in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where his crimes led him to Tryon School for Boys in Johnstown, New York. A father-son relationship with his first professional trainer and only father figure in his life, Cus D'Amato, is expressed as Tyson chokes back tears. He reveals his vulnerability when he relates the fear that he felt when D'Amato died in 1985. Tyson was only 19 years old when he lost the one real parental figure in his life.
Tyson eventually unified the WBC, WBA and IBF title championship belts, becoming the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. This turned into a traumatic event that was the root cause of Tyson's many personal issues. Tyson makes it apparent that his great stardom at only the age of 20 was a blessing for him but also a curse. From his great achievements at such a young age to the eventual tangled web of his existence, Tyson is able to expose his contrasting flaws of mental instability, immaturity, lust for women and fear, all of which explain his downfall as a boxer and his controversial life. In the end, having fought a battle with fear in order to fight for his respect, Tyson is shocked by the outcome: a renewed respect for life and family.
It received high critical praise, scoring an 86% approval rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes from a pool of over 100 film critics.[6]
External links[edit]
- Tyson at the Internet Movie Database
- Tyson at AllMovie
- Tyson at Box Office Mojo
- Tyson at Rotten Tomatoes
- Tyson at Metacritic
- A. O. Scott (2009-04-24). "Movie Review: Tyson (2008)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-24.


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» posted on Friday, November 12th, 2010 at 11:57 by Nigel
Delia Derbyshire – the genius behind the Dr Who theme
One of the most well known theme tunes on British television is undoubtedly Doctor Who, and regardless of the merits of recent arrangements, for many viewers the definitive version is the original, credited to Ron Grainer.
However, arguably the person who made the theme tune so iconic was a woman named Delia Derbyshire, of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop; fans of electronic music and long time Doctor Who fans will know that already, but it's something that deserves shouting from the rooftops.
In a time before synthesisers, when delays and effects meant huge loops of recording tape many feet long cut up with razor blades and reassembled by hand, Delia Derbyshire created the most amazing sounds, not just for Doctor Who, but for many other programmes. She was also a massive influence on other musicians.
Those who dont know much about her really ought to go and find out more from the links above; welcome news arrived today with a press release from the BBC announcing that a previously unbroadcast interview with Delia Derbyshire will feature on the BBC Inside Out programme on Monday, 15th November at 7.30pm.
Unfortunately, Inside Out is a regional programme, and the interview with Delia is only on in the West Midlands region, but it will apparently be available to everyone on iPlayer afterwards. Perhaps the BBC could also be persuaded to make available once more the Delia Derbyshire dramatised biography "Blue Veils and Golden Sands" originally broadcast on Radio 4.
Meanwhile, here's Delia's original version of the Doctor Who theme.
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Originally posted by xpiher
Thing is...you won't know. Though playing the new content may give you an idea. But you're rage has blinded you and you're stuck on this one-way train track to god knows where...this one patch can't speak for direction on its own. Thats like trying to draw a line with only one point instead of two. Perhaps this content will give us an idea of what they want to do...I doubt it will tell us the future or have their plans buried in its coding, but it's worth a try none-the-less.
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FOR HELL'S SAKE ! I am kinda MAD with the gear name : "ASCENDED" !
hell, I don't want to play RIFT or AION
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Originally posted by xpiher
Which are we considering high end gear the legendary or the exotic. If the stats are the same and ascended passes legendary in stats then I could see a point. However if they are boosting legendaries or ascended is slightly less in stats than legendaries then I don't think they are doing much vertical progressing. Not enough certainly to warrant this uproar from the player base. I think its mostly what peole think will happen if they continue on this path.
Also they stated its more expansion like content so gear has to change slightly based on that. Attuning yourself to fight the different mobs and their debuffs and what not. Perhaps they will find a way for your current gear to get attuned so that its' not a big deal to begin with.
No, I won't know until either
1) ANET tells me they don't plan on adding veritcal progression and gated content thats tired to gear or
2) In the future when ANET releases a content update that says "well now we are going to add blessed armor because of XYZ"
I'd rather know now. It will also save them a headache and forum bashing by being clear NOW. There are people who love the update because they believe ANET will continue with gear treadmill. There are people who hate it because they believe the same thing. There are people who are ok with the update now because they believe ANET won't go beyond Ascended. If any of these groups are wrong because of their assumptions the forums will explode with "YOU LIED" more than whats happening now. ANET will have pulled a Funcom.
This is why I have a lot of post on this stie, becaues the edit function is atroicous
NO legendary gear does not have better stats. The current best stats in game is Exotic. After the patch it will be ascended. Legendary gear will be rescaled to have the same stats as Ascended gear when the patch goes live. My problem is, will this conitnue. Will ANET continually add more and more tiers of gear/upgrades in future updates. Will I be required to have the ascended items released now to have a chance at completing content in the future? And what happens after everyone has a full set of ascended gear? Will ANET then add Blessed pieces of gear that require you to have ascended armor to have a chance of getting?
Theres a reason why the MMOs I play are very few, its becaues I hate that type of system.
I REPEAT: THE BEST GEAR IN THE GAME STAT WISE IS EXOTIC. AFTER THE PATCH IT WILL BE ASCENDED. EXOTICS WILL NOT BE BUFFED AFTER THE PATCH. LEGENDARIES WILL BE BUFFED TO ASCENDED LEVEL IN STATS. If it wasn't for the stats, no one would be worried about gear treadmill. They would be like "Ooooh! Look new content and progression!"
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Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter
You are so wrong. I have read every official statement of AreaNet on their site, blog and forum posts of devs. I follow this game since it's announcement and I have played GW1 before that for about 2000 hours. I went to GamesCom in Germany every year when they were there, for 3 days, to play GW2 and to talk with the dev's. I was there the first day ever when you could play GW2, the moment people rushed to the booth when the doors opened of GamesCom in 2010. I played every beta weekend of this game.
Maybe you are person that doens't make informed buys, knowing that EVERY MMO will change one way or the other.
Concerning AreaNet and them reviewing their game, chaning it for the better because they believe so, i think this quote applies:
"The smart people constantly revise their understandings of a matter. They reconsider problems they thought they had solved. They are open to new points of view, new information, and challenges to their own ways of thinking."
It's such a good game and a good company because they are open to new points of view. Unlike most of the people up in arms here in these forums who are close minded and even too unpatient to see the results of the update to start complaining about it. Smart people have the balls to change their minds.
I'm not a mindless GW2 fanboy that will eat whatever they throw at me. I just believe I'm lucky enough to be able to see things from a perspective that I shouldn't feel butthurt if something is changed not a 100% to my liking. And if they really serve a thing that will make me throw up at some point. I'll leave the table quietly and move on still being happy that I got more than my money's worth already from this ride.
Originally posted by xpiher
OH my apologies then. I had no idea I figured legendary had better stats. So its just a cosmetic thing then? Well that does clarify things. But to answer your question in a broader stroke I'll use an example.
Keep in mind Anet stated they are releasing this stuff as sort of an expansion type thing.
Now that being said take the ascended gear. For the time being I would think that ascended gear is only used when you want to deal with the enemies and content that require that gear. Like the dungeon they are implementing. The mobs do some type of new debuff...we will call it fire damage lol. So this whole patch is about mobs that are heavy in fire damage and you need fire resist. Now say 2 months down the line they do it again...I would think the mobs next time would be heavy in water damage and that content would be water heavy so you would need that attunement to fight that type of mob. So in a way you would have to get perhaps new gear, or new attunement but I dont think the prerequisite would be that you had the first set of attunements before you could get the next ie having attunement to fire before you could do water.
I'm not sure if I messed that up so I'll keep it simple. using your example I don't think you would need ascended gear to do content that gives blessed gear. I think however you would have to have blessed gear to do blessed content and acended gear to do ascended content. It would be easier if they had a slot or a buff that you get and you could switch it off and on and BAM there you go.
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My words are not here to sway you,they are here to make you understand.
Historically, every major boss in guildwars has needed some sort of thing to defeat them. Whether it's the favour of the gods, or infused gear or just a skill that is given to you by an NPC. GW has always had something like that.. but not in dungeons which is where this is becomes a bit weird.
You don't need the gear to finish any other dungeon, only this one so you complaining is just weird. Even if they do add another gear set, there will still be no need to complain because you don't need it.
This is not a game.
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What he did was answer the questions people had. The issue sees to be it was not the answer many people either wanted or expected.
Originally posted by Graey
If thats the way it will work, if new gear and content isn't gated by getting gear from old cotent, then I have no problem with the system. The issue is right now I don't know. No one does. If they add in gear treadmill as it appears to be, then GW2 is no longer the game they advertised. I have no desire to play until knowing the answer.
Originally posted by xpiher
haha I would say join me on Rift then lol. But seriously I can respect that. I'm curious to see where this will go. Personally my gripe with the game is there is not enough visual gear, especially for a game that toughts visual progression instead of vertical. Then again I like pretty much everything else and look forward to what ever they do in the future. I am subbed to Rift so will be playing that for the rest of the year.
Thank you for the constructive post I learned a couple things along the way.
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I liked MMOs better when gamers didn't play them, and just geeks did.
A major problem with GW2 is that hitting 80 is way too fast. It's laughable how quick it is. Themepark MMOs need to bring back some of the grind. I'm not saying EQ1 levels, which took me 109 IN GAME DAYS played to hit 60 when that was the cap, but long enough where gear you aquire along the way actually means something. Nowadays, you can just blast through the game in shit greens (or blues if youre ANET) until you hit cap, making any better gear you could work to get along the way pointless.
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I don't mind grind. I hate RNG infused grind thats also tired to character progression. Hell, I played DFO for 2 years.
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Sure, we can add EA to that list....they've been determined-witchhunt-targets too. (Many times, in fact)
And no, paranoia doesn't need to activate, I wasn't even aware you were here.
Who's Xyher..oh, there he is. :wave: Does this apply to you sir? No? Ok, noted, enjoy your day.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
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Although i read a few pages i didnt read all of this but it feels like ANet have got sucked into the 'WoW' style problem of 'Gear Progression'.
It doesn't help that they cater for a ton of people who prefer the gear progression who seem to want the game to be a wow clone :(
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Is this at all similiar to the whole LOTRO Radiance gear fiasco?
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You guys are freaking hilarious..
Originally posted by immodium
And yes it is that too, if its built upon. The problem is, we don't know. It could be a nifty mechanic only limited to the FOTM dungeon, or it could be something that will be a tired system thats required for future content. Until ANET announces one way or the other, we won't know.
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Originally posted by Yanshee
lol in BLizzard HQ they are saying the same thing about ArenaNet :P
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I think they need this "new system" just to make the game more beneficial. They said we need to use the Mistic Forge to create something for this items, maybe one of this ingredients you must buy it with GEMs. So you dont like competitive SPVP to buy tickets, dont worry, you will have to buy GEMs to play PVE.
But is is just a conjecture..
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You don't have to buy sPvP tickets. You earn them as well from pug sPvP. And if they do that, they also go back on their promise of P2W.


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A review of tonight's "Homeland" coming up just as soon as I think you're ready for the glue factory...
"Let's go close that door, Sergeant." -David
In case you missed the news from a few days ago, Showtime ordered a second season of "Homeland." On the one hand, it's a no-brainer: this is arguably the best new Showtime series since the first season of "Dexter," it's getting rave reviews that consistently call it the best new show of the season, it has a shot at awards recognition (though Claire Danes has a much easier path to that than Damian Lewis, who would be in a stacked category that should feature the return of Bryan Cranston and the arrival of Dustin Hoffman), and it's Showtime's highest-rated freshman drama ever.
On the other, what is the show long-term? Howard Gordon says he has a plan, and my brain can conceive of a lot of ways the show could go in a second season, some continuing to involve Sgt. Brody, some not.
For now, though, I'm choosing not to dwell too much on any of those ideas, or even on the question of whether Brody has turned or not. On the former, the show is great right now, and if it falters later, I'll worry about that then. On the latter, I'm inclined to think that he is (it provides much more potential story for this season, at a minimum), but I'm just so engaged by the character parts of the show that I don't really want to go back and watch Brody and Hamid's fight frame-by-frame to figure out if Brody slipped him the razor fragment (and we did dwell on him shaving earlier, a scene included to at least create suspicion), or to start wondering if there's a mole in David's team that could be leaking intel to terrorists and slipping suicide implements to prisoners. On lots of shows, I obsess on that sort of thing; on this one, I just want to see what Carrie and Brody - and, this week, Saul - are doing.
"Blind Spot" gives us the larger picture of Saul's life, and it's not dramatically healthier than Carrie or Brody's. He has a wife who loves him, but also one who doesn't want to be with him anymore because he's married to his job. And I liked the way those scenes didn't paint Mira as the shrill, nagging wife who doesn't understand; she entirely understands the value of what Saul does, and isn't angry about it, but also wants more stability in her life and knows that Saul is every bit as addicted to the job as Carrie is. She doesn't hate him; she just needs something else. And bull-in-a-china-shop Carrie (or, if you prefer, McNulty-ish Carrie) has the bad timing to arrive at the house just as Mira has made her feelings plain, and to then accuse Saul of being a quote-unquote "pussy." (Saul, quietly, furiously: "I think you should leave now." We know from lots of roles - most notably Inigo Montoya - just how much coiled rage Mandy Patinkin can convey in a whisper, but damn, that was good.)
The family theme continued with more time spent with Carrie's dad (played by reassuringly grouchy character actor James Rebhorn) and sister. On her last visit to that house, it seemed that Carrie's only connection to her family was to use Maggie to stay secretly medicated. Here, in a more vulnerable moment after the case hits a big snag and Carrie realizes how badly she's offended Saul, she's still using them, but in a way that any relative uses any other: for love and comfort and reassurance. Some nice vulnerable moments for Claire Danes near the end there.
Brody's motives are harder to suss out - again, either he's genuinely seeking closure or he's working his agenda - but I did like seeing the contrast between the physical torture used on Brody as compared to the more psychological approach used on Hamid, complete with the regular bursts of that one heavy metal sting, over and over.
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It's Christmas Day. You're home from morning Mass. Or you went to church for candlelight or family services on Christmas Eve. Time to unwrap presents, eat, spend time with friends and family and enjoy the festivities.
What are your clergy doing? They've been working overtime this Advent, surely, with many extra services and spiritual events to plan, attend and lead. Where do they go after church?
Fr. Bill McIntyre, a priest at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, will have spent today celebrating two Masses – one in English and one in Spanish, not counting the very first Mass of the day, which began at midnight. Advent at Immaculate Conception is longer than usual, he said, because of the significant Latino population and more observances, like Las Posadas and Our Lady of Guadalupe.
After Mass is done for the day around 2 p.m., McIntyre will make a few sick calls to ill parishioners, and then he and fellow priest and Franciscan friar Fr. Larry Hayes will make dinner or pick it up from Whole Foods. As Franciscans, they live in a rectory and have a brotherhood and common life. McIntyre doesn't lack for invitations to parishioners' homes at the holidays, but he generally doesn't go because he doesn't want to create favoritism and choose one invitation over another. All people are important, he said.
On Wednesday, McIntyre will fly to his hometown of Hyde Park, N.Y., for a week-long visit with his siblings, nieces and nephews. Hayes will cover for him, then McIntyre will return to cover for Hayes' time off. Catholic priests serving in the South often live far from their families, he said.
The Rev. Carla Gregg's working Advent concludes with the Christmas Eve service at Pilgrim United Church of Christ, where she is minister of Christian education. The church has dinner together before the traditional Christmas Eve service of lessons and carols. Then, the family car already packed, Gregg, her spouse, Lindsey Kearns, and their daughter Mia, 3, will head to Charlotte, where Gregg's parents will be waiting. On the way, they'll listen to an old Amy Grant Christmas CD and snack on a tin of cookies a friend gives every year. Upon arrival, everyone gets new Christmas gift pajamas and they wake up Christmas morning at Gregg's parents' house.
The Rev. Michael Page, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church, and his wife, Deborah, finish their Christmas gift exchanges by the time the holiday arrives. Rather than giving each other presents on Christmas Day, they do a Twelve Days of Christmas exchange, with trinkets and little gifts like a Starbucks card each day leading up to Dec. 25.
Most of their Christmas Day is spent at church providing a community meal for neighbors in North-East Central Durham. It started 10 years ago for homeless people and is now for everyone who wants to come eat dinner from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and receive donations of coats and toiletries.
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Comment Re:"we have guns" . . . (Score 5, Informative) 468
I think short term rewards help more than long term.
For my team when you're above your execution rate for a week you are eligible to work from home one day the next week. In general, no one does anything when they work from home but to be eligible, they have to get their work done in the office. It's effectively getting people to work harder 4 days a week for an extra day off.
Obviously, this may or may not work with your environment.
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1. Send out resumes.
2. Start taking 8-10 minute breaks every couple hours. Force the issue. Let them call you out on having irritable bowels. Sometimes it's good to make everyone uncomfortable.
Realistically, though: I worked in a call center for a really really big company here in the states and they never tracked bathroom time. I'd say it's borderline illegal because of what you can infer from the data but I don't know that there's legal precedent one way or the other.
If your company is like mine you have an anonymous phone/e-mail line for inappropriate behavior or concerns. I'd leave a message that the new policies make you feel uncomfortable because you need to use the facilities fairly frequently due to a medical condition. (doesn't matter if it's true).
Comment Re:If my work inbox is any indication... (Score 2) 314
That's not an e-mail problem, that's a communication problem. I get spam snail-mail that pretends to be important and from my insurance company. I get voicemails that start with, "This is an important message for
The problems with e-mail are the same problems we have with phones, texts, snail-mail and any other type of communication (photo-bombing, anyone?). Part of the population will always try to take advantage of the rest of the population. Ignore that then look at the rest.
E-mail is a good form of communication because it lets you communicate non-immediatly. Some users may expect immediate responses but that's a user issue--not an e-mail issue.
Why do these stories continue to come up? How about this one, "Moore's law will stop this year!". Yeah, never heard that one before...
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I'm sure they're thinking is Thunderbolt docks. Full speed for all devices including displays. (not that I agree, just saying it's not a huge headache)
Comment IOMeter (Score 1) 297
To answer the actual question: IOMeter. It's a load generator / benchmark. You can generate loads to test a storage device for your specific requirements and see if performance is up to snuff. You can also generate loads to stress a device until you halt it.
As someone else mentioned, throw bunches of read/writes at a drive for a couple days then put it into production with a reliable system to gracefully handle failure. You want to find drives that would fail in the first couple weeks and keep them from hitting your production environment.
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Not if you like mods...
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Most sensors don't have a linear response. Signal strength is almost certainly logarithmic.
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With a company the size of dell, a finite number of e-mails is effectively 'anecdotal'.
Comment Re:Integrated graphics in the CPU? (Score 1) 254
That's why Intel is coming out with 2 sockets. 1155 and 2011. The 2011 is the non-IGP socket, 1155 is for IGP use.
The situation isn't changing. Intel will make an IGP and a non-IGP solution. Same as now. Same as it's been for quite a while.
If you don't want integrated, then don't use it.
Comment Re:Linux (Score 1) 254
AMD/ATI has started a new open source driver project for their video cards (http://www.anandtech.com/show/2338). AMD is at least working for good linux support though it may not necessarily be up to snuff today (I haven't looked at benchmarks between win/linux on AMD/ATI's cards).
At least they're trying?
Comment Re:Ubuntu (Score 1) 766
Contrary to what most basic users think, they can make the switch to Win7 or Ubuntu pretty easily. Especially for basic internet and e-mail (which realistically is the extent of most people's computer use). I just switched my parents to Windows 7 and asked them what they thought. Their comments: "We didn't really notice anything".
The problem with switching family to a *nix solution is still going to be software. There are certain programs that your family will want to use that is simply unavailable. First that comes to mind is TurboTax. If you plan on switching family's OS, make sure you're not making more work for yourself down the road.
And really, with the Win7 family pack (3 upgrades for $149), Win7 is a realistic alternative to Win XP.


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The Kardashians
Kanye West Parties With Leo DiCaprio, While Kim Kardashian Tweets That She Misses Her "Prince"
The normally inseparable Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have apparently been forced to take just a wee bit of time apart this weekend. The reality starlet hung out in Los Angeles over the weekend with the rest of the Kardashian fam, and it was back to New York City for her beau.
Kanye reportedly spent the weekend club hopping and even met up with Leonardo DiCaprio and his model girlfriend, Erin Heatherton. At one point, the rapper surprised clubgoers at PH-D Rooftop Lounge by taking his laptop to the DJ booth and playing a few unreleased songs from his upcoming album, G.O.O.D., according to E! Online. Kanye danced and lip-synced along to his music for a solid 45 minutes before calling it at night around 3 a.m.
While Kimye spent a few days having fun on their own, Kim didn't hesitate to let her man (and her 15 million Twitter followers) know he was missed.
"Wishing my prince was here with me tonight," she tweeted along with a photo of an empty bed.
Source: E! Online, Twitter
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|"Initially the concept [female ejaculation] may seem wildly audacious, intended more to inspire debate than to impart knowledge, but...there is a sound anatomical basis for female ejaculation.'
- Rebecca Chalker, The Clitoral Truth
The British Board of Film Classification provides a list of permissible content for videos seeking classification as 'R18' category videos, available only to adults from licensed sex shops. This permissible content includes aroused genitalia, and ejaculation and semen. Ejaculation is not qualified by gender, hence it would seem reasonable to assume that this would permit female as well as male ejaculation. However, on May 2001, a video entitled British Cum Queens (initially submitted as Squirt Queens), was finally passed with a R18 certificate having been cut by six minutes and 12 seconds because the ejaculation of fluid by female performers as a sexual response was deemed to be urolagnia, banned in accordance with the Obscene Publications Act 1959. The Board reasoned that the film did not show female ejaculation because, according to the 'expert medical advice' received by the Board, female ejaculation does not exist.
Feminists Against Censorship (FAC) express their surprise and dismay at this judgment, and have sought advice from the world's foremost medical researchers specialising in female sexuality and female ejaculation. Our findings, summarised here, lead us to the conclusion that female ejaculation cannot be rejected out-of-hand as non-existent. Having found scientific researchers who are prepared to state that 'all, or at least most, women ejaculate'[1], the conclusion which FAC would concur with is that 'the existence of a female prostate and the phenomenon of female ejaculation are fact not fantasy'[2]. The spontaneous release of fluid - ejaculation - is a part of sexual response for at least some women, pointing to a purely discriminatory approach to ejaculation by the Board - that is, the depiction of male, but not female, ejaculation is being permitted.
It should be emphasised that FAC has no direct connection with the video material in question and this submission is not made on behalf of or at the request of any film-maker. FAC is concerned that the Board has made a discriminatory decision, contrary to the most recent expert medical advice, and a decision which continues to suppress the acknowledgement of the full range of sexual response which exists in women. FAC seeks from the Board its acknowledgement of the existence of female ejaculation in the light of the research referred to here, and urges the Board to consider fully the implications of this for its future decisions.
The Board, in a response given to www.world-sex-news.com, stated that "expert medical advice informed us that there is no such thing as 'female ejaculation' and that the fluid present in Squirt Queens (and the earlier tape) was in fact urine"[3]. Such a simple statement, when compared to research findings in the wider scientific community, can only imply that the adviser consulted by the Board was not an expert in female sexuality. Many medical experts, even those with experience of urology and reproductive biology, may not have had training in human sexuality. It is certainly not knowledge that should be taken for granted; "Even amongst anatomists and sexologists, there is an astonishing lack of agreement over what actually constitutes women's genital anatomy"[4].
There is now acknowledgement that female genital anatomy includes a female prostate, also known as the paraureathral glands, or Skene's glands, named as such in the 1880s[5], and described in their historical and anatomical detail in 1948 by John W. Huffman[6]. Interest in the sexual function of the female prostate was taken up by Earnst Grafenberg in 1950, who wrote of the "large quantities of a clear, transparent fluid [that] are expelled not from the vulva, but out of the urethra in gushes"[7]. Later, scientific interest stemmed from a paper by Sevely and Bennett which concluded that female ejaculation had received wide acknowledgement in many cultures prior to the twentieth century, and that the female prostate had a role in the production of fluid released as a part of female sexual response.[8] Dr Beverly Whipple and Dr John Perry included a chapter on female ejaculation in their 1982 book on the G-Spot[9], and Whipple continued to pursue the subject in articles and conference lectures, and made, in clinical setting, a film which showed women ejaculating.[10]
Research in the 1980s and 1990s finally began to analyse the chemical of fluids released in female sexual response in some depth, focussing on the presence of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) manufactured in the female prostate, and the concentration of other substances (urea, creatinine, glucose, fructose) in relation to their usual concentration in urine, usually achieved by taking samples of pre-orgasmic urine, post-orgasmic urine, and female ejaculate.
Analysis carried out by Whipple and Perry in the early 1980s established substantially higher levels of prostate-specific antigen and glucose, and substantially lower levels of creatinine and urea, in samples of ejaculatory fluid than in samples of urine from the same women.[11]
A simple marker test carried out by Whipple, in which the characteristic odor produced by ingesting asparagus was clearly present in subjects' urine, demonstrated that this was not present in female (and indeed in male) ejaculate, demonstrating a difference in the two fluids.[12] This is similar in its result to the much reported experiment in which a student of Edwin Belzer took a drug to dye her urine bright blue, and found that whilst her urine became strongly coloured as expected, the fluids she ejaculated during masturbation showed only a slight blue tinge or no colour at all.[13]
A study by F Cabello Santamaria analysed urine for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) using Microparticle Enzyme Immunoassy and found that 75 per cent of the sample showed a concentration of PSA in postorgasmic urine samples which was not present in preorgasmic urine samples.[14] The fluid collected at the point of orgasm (distinct from the urine samples) showed the presence of PSA in 100 per cent of samples. Cabello believes his research to confirm his hypothesis that all women are capable of ejaculation, but the amount of fluid expelled from the female prostate, or the direction in which it is expelled (towards the bladder), mean that it is not always perceived. (Cabello notes that retrograde ejaculation is also an occurance in some men.)
Cabello provides his own summary of those whose work he concludes has proven the presence of PSA in females fluids: "...we have all those authors that try to prove that women emit a certain fluid, different from vaginal lubrication, during their sexual response (Grafenberg, 1950; Sevely & Bennet, 1978; Belzer et al, 1981; Perry & Whipple, 1981; Addiego at al,. 1981; Sensabaugh & Kahane, 1982; Belzer et al., 1884; Zaviavic et al., 1984; Stifter, 1987 etc). Thanks to this last group, the presence of prostate acid phosphate and fructose in the supposed female ejaculation, elements normally present in male ejculation, seems proven".[15] According to Whipple, it is Zaviacic in his 1999 book on the human female prostate[16] who provides "the most complete enzyme histochemical, exocrine, and imunohistochemical studies on the female prostate and the analysis of female ejaculation".[17]
Despite this body of evidence, it cannot be said that the issue is without complications. Dr John Perry has attempted to analyse findings further, to propose that there may be more than one type of sexual response in women which involves the emission of fluid. 'Pure' female ejaculation involves secretions of the female prostate; alternatively, 'gushing' involves a much diluted form of urine; or the two phenomena may occur in combination.[18] Whilst larger volumes of fluid may indicate that it involves the expulsion of dilute urine, its chemical composition implies that it is a distinct part of sexual response rather than ordinary urination. An experiment recorded by Dr Gary Schubach involved female subjects engaging in sexual stimulation then having their bladders drained with a catheter. After this draining, seven women still expelled 50 -900 ml of fluid in sexual response, fluid that showed "a greatly reduced concentration of urine and creatinine (the primary components of urine). The clear inference was that the expelled fluid is an altered form of urine, meaning that there appears to be a process that goes on during sensual or sexual stimulation and excitement that effects the chemical composition of urine".[19]
It is reasonable to suggest that the most far-reaching conclusion to be drawn from this is that it is not credible to expect the expulsion of urine (especially if chemically altered, vastly diluted expulsions from the bladder are still to be described as urine) to always be kept completely out of scenes of sexual activity and response.
It is certainly not acceptable for the Board to promulgate a point of view that lacks clear research support, and denies both women and men knowledge of a natural female sexual response. Too often in history women have been denied the right to know about aspects of their own biology, and have lived with the fear that the way in which their own bodies function is not 'normal'. Cabello considers it sufficiently important to state that "With the obtained data, we...calm those women who fear that they have urinated while experiencing orgasm"[20]. Indeed, it is not a trifling matter when some women have been referred for surgery to correct what is perceived to be some form of urinary incontinence.[21] To accept that female ejaculation exists is not synonymous with stating that all women ejaculate, nor with advocating ejaculation as the goal of sexual achievement for all women. We are sure that the Board must be aware that much of the sexual material it passes with an R18 certificate does not necessarily represent the sexual experiences of all women.
The fact that in September 2000 the Board passed a film (British Housewives Fantasies Part 1) which showed two women ejaculating on orgasm implies that there is some recognition by the Board that the expulsion of fluid by women can be a natural sexual response distinct from urination. This accords perfectly with the view of an NHS Consultant in Human Sexuality: "Ejaculatory women do not 'choose' to void urine, it is the consequence of a neural reflex and a natural part of their sexual response"[22]. The move away from what could seemingly be described as a 'common sense' approach cannot be justified by the opinion of a single unnamed medical expert and advice from the police on the interpretation of the Obscene Publications Act.
The Board does not pass material that it considers to be in breech of the Act - that is, material with a tendency to deprave and corrupt. Yet the events which led to more relaxed guidelines for R18 category videos being published in July 2000 indicate that female ejaculation may not necessarily fall foul of this definition. Indeed, this should be balanced against the damage that can be done to women by indicating that what they experience as a natural response to sexual stimulation simply does not exist.
In addition to the scientific research summarised here, there are also the testimonies of ordinary women, which should not be overlooked. These range from experiences of "a dime-sized puddle on the bathroom floor" to "very dramatic squirting episodes where the fluid hit my toes"[23]. It should not be forgotten that women are still developing from a past in which their ability to orgasm has been disputed, not to mention their proper role being characterised as one of disinterest in sexual matters and sexual response altogether. The anxiety which some of the scientific researchers refer to is also expressed: "During sex, I worried and got embarrassed about the mess I seemed to make"[24]. If the Board continues to blindly support the line that 'female ejaculation does not exist', does that mean all women who experience it are liars? Can the Board really expect to sustain an approach which, when measured against its own guidelines, appears to be based so heavily on ignorance and discrimination?
Appended is a bibliography on the subject of female ejaculation that demonstrates the volume of research on this subject, plus correspondence sent directly to FAC from relevant researchers in support of our submission on this issue. We are confident that the arguments presented here, and specifically, the expert research which supports these arguments, is far stronger than whatever 'evidence' the Board may have considered in rejecting outright the existence of female ejaculation. The research may not all be straightforward, but, "to be fair, our understanding of ejaculatory physiology in men is almost as rudimentary as our understanding of it in women, but no-one has the temerity to say that male ejaculation does not exist".[25]
We look forward to your response, and sincerely hope that it will adequately reflect the depth of scientific research which is available on this matter, and the right of women not to have their natural sexual responses denied and censored.
Yours sincerely,
Louise Achille and Catherine Wilkinson
on behalf of Feminists Against Censorship
British Board of Film Classification
3 Soho Square
London W1D 3HD
Dear Louisa and Catherine,
Thank you for your letter of 18th December regarding the BBFC's stance on female ejaculation.
If I may clarify our position, the Board does not in fact take any view on whether or not female ejaculation exists. As you admit in your letter this is a controversial and much-debated area with a range of views being taken amongst medical professionals. At the most basic level, however, the Board is content that the pornographic tapes so far presented to us as examples of 'female ejaculation' are in fact nothing other than straightforward scenes of urination masquerading as 'female ejaculation'. This has been confirmed by a female sexual health expert who the Board has consulted on a range of issues relating to videos intended for the 'R18' category.
Quite the opposite of attempting to confront the issue of female ejaculation in a reassuring, sympathetic or informative light, the tapes in question appear to be nothing more than a cynical attempt on the part of porn distributors to get around the constraints imposed on urolagnia in sex tapes by the current interpretation of the Obscene Publications Act. It is worth noting that the kind of material that the Board has been cutting is regularly sold as 'orolagnia' in other European countries (France, Germany, Netherlands, etc) where there is no equivalent legal restriction on the use of urine in sex videos. Indeed, although videos featuring urolagnia are very much in evidence on the continent, videos purporting to show 'female ejaculation' seem to be invisible. Perhaps female ejaculation is less exciting (or profitable) to pornographers and their viewers than urination? Generally speaking sex videos of the type encountered at 'R18' neither seek to inform nor educate about female (or male) sexuality but merely offer graphic (and grossly distorted) views of sex for the arousal of viewers. Indeed, as you acknowledge in your letter "much of the material [the Board] passes with an 'R18' certificate does not necessarily represent the sexual experiences of all women".
To conclude, the Board remains open minded about the issue of female ejaculation but we have yet to be presented with any pornographic video that has convinced us - or our medical advisor - that it consists of anything other than an excuse to display scenes of urolagnia. Such scenes are regularly found obscene by juries in the UK and therefore cannot be classified.
Yours sincerely,
Craig Lapper,
Chief Assistant (Policy)
I have seen Louise Achille and Catherine Wilkinson�s submission to the BBFC regarding Female Ejaculation, and their ruling on Steve Perry�s video "Squirt Queens" which was cut down by 12 seconds to get a licence as "British Cum Queens".
I was in correspondence with Steve Perry during the BBFC�s consideration of his submission, as at the time I was myself in the process of making a documentary-style video on Female Ejaculation, and hoped to obtain an R18 license so that it could be legally sold in UK and inform/educate on this misunderstood subject.
I made the video and submitted it to the BBFC, the title being "Female Ejaculation - an illustrated discussion". On receiving it they phoned me in a flat-spin saying that without having even viewed it they could assure me that anything portraying "ulolagnia" would have to be cut, together with any DISCUSSION of female ejaculation or vaginal fisting (which occurred in the interviews in the video). Truly objective censorship - NOT!
- Did I want to withdraw my submission and save myself the �750 fee?...
As the process would have made a mockery of the raison d�etre and candid documentary style of the video I withdrew it.
If you would like to view a copy I will be pleased to send one to you. My motives are purely altruistic, as having had a number of sexual partners who ejaculate I have been made aware of the embarrassment and intimidation they can experience due to ignorance and misunderstanding of former lovers.
Keep up your good work!
John Setchell


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Waiting Periods in South Dakota
Posted on January 1, 2012
South Dakota imposes no waiting period between the time of purchase and the actual physical transfer of a firearm. In 2009, South Dakota repealed the state's 48-hour waiting period for handgun purchases.
See our Waiting Periods policy summary for a comprehensive discussion of this issue.


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Rodgers House / Belasco Theater
A command performance by the first African American opera star.
The Rodgers House, formerly at 717 Madison Place, was constructed in 1831 by Commodore John Rodgers, a high-ranking naval officer. Rodgers is known to have owned slaves because one of them, a man named Henry Butler, was identified as Rodgers' slave in an 1827 entry in the Marriage Register of St. John's Church, also located on Lafayette Square. In the image above you can see the buildings at the rear of the Rodgers residence where both free and enslaved African Americans lived and worked. The buildings shown in the map are not unlike the slave quarters still standing today at Decatur House on the opposite side of Lafayette Square. At least two maps from the 1850s show that most of the homes facing the Square once had similar types of structures located behind them, forming small compounds that were connected to one another by cobblestone alleys.
On the night of April 14, 1865, the house was the site of an assassination attempt on Secretary of State William Seward. His African American domestic servant William H. Bell (different accounts list Bell as a doorman, butler or waiter) answered the door. Lewis Payne (Powell) pushed past Bell into the house and attacked Seward and his family, as well as a soldier and male nurse. Payne drew a knife and slashed at Seward, who avoided more threatening injuries due to the braces and bandages from a carriage accident nine days earlier.
Payne fled, but Bell had gone next door for help and yelled after him "There he goes on a horse!" Four days later Bell was brought to the headquarters of Gen. C.C. Augur, commander of the military department of Washington, to identify Payne and in an account stated: "As soon as I saw him, I put my finger right on his face and said, 'I know him; that was the man.'" Other details that Bell provided also helped to positively identify Payne, who was tried and hanged as part of the conspiracy that also involved the assassination of President Lincoln, killed at Ford's Theatre at about the same time as the attempt on Seward.
The Belasco Theater, originally known as the Lafayette Square Opera House when it opened on September 30, 1895, was an impressive six-story building with an auditorium that seated one thousand people. In March 1932, after being barred from performing at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, African American opera star and Washington native Madame Lillian Evanti gave a recital on Lafayette Square at the Belasco. A 1917 graduate of the Howard University School of Music, Evanti was the first African American to forge a professional career as a professional opera singer and she went on to perform across the Square at the White House in February 1934.
In August 1940 the Belasco was purchased by the Treasury Department for use as a warehouse. After the United States entered World War II, the theater became the Washington, DC location of the American Theatre Wing's Stage Door Canteen, which opened its doors to all Allied servicemen in uniform—no matter their race or nationality—on October 3, 1942. During the Korean War, it became the Lafayette Square USO. The building was demolished in 1964 and is now the U.S. Court of Claims.
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West Virginia State Police arrested brothers Christopher Likens, 21, of Logan, and Matthew Kennedy, 22, of Accoville, after an incident involving an infant in a stroller.
Officers saw Kennedy pushing a stroller with an infant, the victim, on Dingess Street. The officers noted Kennedy was staggering from side to side and suspected he may be under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance.
Recognizing the situation as potentially dangerous for the infant, the officers approached Kennedy, but before they could reach him, he tipped the stroller and the victim fell head-first onto the railroad tracks.
Kennedy paused several seconds before attempting to pick the victim up and during that time, stumbled and fell onto the victim.
A breath test showed Kennedy's blood alcohol content to be 0.176.
The criminal complaint says officers spoke with the victim's mother, Dmekka Meade, and she told them she had been pushing the stroller when Kennedy jerked it from her hands and ran down Dingess Street with the victim. Meade told officers she yelled for him to stop and give the infant back to her, but he kept going.
Kennedy was arrested and charged with kidnapping and child neglect resulting in serious bodily injury. Logan County Magistrate Leonard Codispoti arraigned him and set bond at $10,000.
As the officers were investigating his brother's incident, Likens, who reeked of an alcohol, stated the defendent had smoked marijuana.
The complaint says Likens repeatedly screamed and cursed at the officers and firefighters in front of the Logan Fire Department after he was given multiple warnings and asked to cease and desist.
Likens was arrested and charged with public intoxication, disorderly conduct and obstructing.
Logan County Magistrate Leonard Codispoti also arraigned Likens and set his bond at $2,500.


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Back O'er Oregon
Music video: "Back O'er Oregon"
Special Willamette-only (filmed in Cone Chapel) music video: "Superfolk"
Slater Smith '12 and (President Pelton's) Weather Machine
There was a campus joke, right around the time President Pelton departed and President Thorsett arrived, that the former had made use of a "weather machine" to ensure that the Office of Admission's Spring Preview days would always be sunny for visitors.
For a stretch from 2010-13, they seemed to be: April's gray moodiness would yield, if only for 12 daylight hours on the right day, just as 18-year-old Californians and Coloradans and Arizonans were on campus to decide if this was the kind of place they'd like to spend four years.
That's how Slater Smith '12 got his band name.
"A friend of mind came up with the idea of using 'President Pelton's Weather Machine' as a name," says Smith, student-turned-musician and architect of a much-publicized 2013 music video spliced together from performances at all of Oregon's 185 state parks. "I never wanted the music project to be only about me or my name, so we went with it." The name evolved a little over time: First "President Pelton" became "Mr.Pelton." Today, the band just uses "The Weather Machine."
With their recent recognition, the group's prospects are, as they say, sunny as ever.
First Notes
Sisters, Ore., Smith's hometown, is well known for music and a yearly folk festival that draws thousands and turns the tiny town's main streets into logjams. The Sisters Folk Festival also funds a program at the local high school called The Americana Project, and this is where Smith picked up a guitar and started writing songs.
"Because of its funding, the program was insulated when the economy went down," he says. "We got to write songs and learn the basics of guitar, and students could cycle through several times and put out a CD. It was a formative experience."
Smith came to Willamette unsure where his musical interest would lead, but, after tinkering with his own style as an underclassman and learning tricks of the trade from guitar professor John Doan, he picked up a sense of direction.
"I'm really glad I studied politics and did the general liberal arts thing," he says. "But when I came back from studying abroad, I sunk my teeth into things. I helped out with Kappa Sigma's reboot, got involved with a songwriting club, joined [a cappella group] Headband to work on my performance, and played at open mics."
By the time he graduated, his acumen and his aesthetic as an artist were coming together.
In the Studio
Smith met bandmate Colin Robson on a self-imposed thesis retreat to Pacific City, Ore. "Colin was converting his grandmother's old boathouse into a recording studio. We met at an open mic. We hit it off, and before long he'd come to Salem and we had decided to do a record together.
"I don't have a lot of background in music theory, so it was hard to articulate what I wanted for the project. We ended up building our band sound around the record itself. Colin played, as did a friend from Sisters named Matthew Cartnell and my brother, Tanner."
Jack Martin '11 came in later in the project. "There are sprinklings of Jack on the record," Smith says, and soon he would become a more permanent part of the group. The Weather Machine was now five strong.
State Parks
To make the music video happen, Smith needed money. Fortunately, he was able to leverage some Willamette connections.
"I'd made a deal with myself that I wanted to see the whole state. I thought, 'Why don't I take this song I wrote, film it everywhere, and it can be a really productive vacation.'"
Initially he wanted to visit every incorporated city in Oregon, and he almost got a grant for that idea, but it fell through. Then State Rep. Tobias Read '97 suggested a different approach. Smith had worked as an intern for Read, and that experience had already led to a part-time job when Smith graduated. Read said to get a hold of Oregon Film, a program run from the governor's office.
"Lo and behold, they said they could send some money my way if I could get a matching grant," Smith says. "Then Oregon State Parks got on board for the match. Funding came through in late June 2013, so I got on the road. I wasn't done until late September.
"That's where a politics degree has translated in ways I wouldn't have expected. The park approach worked much better than my first ideas would have."
For the sake of the young band's publicity, the video's online release was at least as important as its recording process. Smith reached out to SoulPancake, an LA-based aggregator of creative videos, music and related conversations. They liked what he pitched. Having the nationally known website push out the video was huge because The Weather Machine would instantly be in front of thousands of like-minded viewers.
"At one point I was staring at 47,000 views and counting, and thinking how strange this is," Smith says. "It's funny when you're at the center of a project because it's hard to know what people are saying outside it. With this release we got a bit of a boost."
The video itself is a tapestry of takes from each park. Some shots include other band members and even random park visitors dancing along as Smith played. Sonically, "Back O'er Oregon" is based on a spry arpeggio, and Smith's voice is rich, relaxed and almost conversational. The song, an ode to the state its author obviously loves, conveys both contentment and possibility. In this sense, it's fitting for a maturing group of musicians on the front end of their careers.
It's all very Oregonian, really:
"Explain for me this affinity For naming all those settlements For things that crop up colorful In spite of all the clouds..." What's next for Smith and the band? "I'm caught between trying to take a breath and using this momentum,"
Smith says.
Whatever the future holds, he will approach his work with an expanded musical toolkit and an ever-increasing number of advocates — including those he cultivated at Willamette.
He's seen all the parks, sure, but there's still plenty to write about.
Smith (left) and Jack Martin '11 visited Cone Chapel recently to shoot a special music video for WU.


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