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on 09.02.2008
PSP PSN Store Coming
According to PSPFanboy.com, it seems that the PSP is getting their own version of the PSN store coming around the Fall in Japan, but most likely will be a global release for all when it is released in Japan. You'll get to purchase and download all your PSP demos and what not without the need of your PS3 or PC. It seems like there will also be an additional feature of linking up to the PS3 in order to play online. SWEET! You'll also be able to get Mainichi Issyo Portable (possibly Japan only) for free! DOUBLE SWEET! Anyways if the PSPN store is anywhere near as streamlined as its big brother, you could see me buying lotsa stuff on their store in the near future. Oh and CFW users may have to wait for this feature, sorry. What do you guys think of all the cool upcoming things for the PSP? Should we just expect trophies will be coming soon?
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on 08.05.2008
The Phoenix Wright Summer (any objections?)
The summer has not been good to me...I've had more homework and studying to do for the summer semester at my university then I have ever had in a long time, and that was supposed to be a summer semester. But for every bad of this summer, there has been some good. First off, I finally stopped bitching about it and got a DS just because I can and decided to give some thought about games I wanted to try. Stumbling in the value bargain bin at Amazon was the entire Phoenix Wright Trilogy for $40. I decided to give it a whirl and almost instantly, I fell in love with the single best court drama game series EVER!
For the longest time, I have been extremely puzzled by the memes going around the internet with "Objection!" and what not. Now I know...IT'S FUCKING AWESOME TO SCREAM THAT OUT! As soon as I picked up the first trial and started using my logic to solve contradictions and people's fallacies and what not, I was instantly enticed by the fact that this was unlike any other game I've played.
Almost overnight, I fell in love with all the lovable characters in the Phoenix Wright series: I felt the joy when Phoenix would prove his contradictions, I felt the sorrow of seeing Mia Fey die (oops....spoilers). But most of all, every single character in the entire series, from the most minor like Wendy Oldbag, to the major like Chief Gantz were certainly memorable characters. And they had to be, cause if you didn't remember what ONE character said by slip of the tongue, you'd be completely fucked in the case with no idea of what evidence to present.
After finishing the first game during a weekend, I quickly moved on to "Justice for All" to see all the completely zany adventures Phoenix would have to go through with people trying to undermine him and prove he's an idiot. Needless to say, I didn't like it too much, something from the first one was totally missing. I didn't feel for any of the characters, some cases were downright absurd, and 'ol Phoenix would somehow take it to a new level of stupidity even though he learned all his lessons from the first game. Eventually, I did finish the game, even though it was only 4 cases compared to the original's 5, I just couldn't keep myself awake after series and series of backtracking several rooms and having to put up with the ever annoying Oldbag and Lotta Hart, possibly the two WORST CHARACTERS TO EVER COME INTO EXISTENCE.
Well I waited to try Trials and Tribulations due to being totally disappointed in the 2nd one. But my games started to pile up and I thought, might as well finish the series while I still have it fresh in my head. Well anyways, lemme tell you something, Trials and Tribulations was the shit. A perfect wrap up to the Phoenix Wright saga. Every plot hole ever introduced in the original game was answered, every great character came back in one epic courtroom showdown, and Godot was badass. Not to mention for once in the Phoenix Wright series, someone proven guilty in one crime was actually proven linked to another. That to me was just ingenious. Oh and let's not forget that this is possibly the funniest iteration of the judge I have ever seen.
Then after that, I finally started Apollo Justice. I am now in the middle of Apollo Justice but somehow I think the flair is lost. The biggest disappointment to me was seeing Phoenix in a state of degenerate bum with a daughter, and he speaks in riddles like he's some wise man. I dunno where they're taking this game, but I'm not digging the new courtroom or some of the new characters. I mean Kalvier and Gavin aren't as cool as Edgeworth or von Karma and I don't know if I can stand with Trucy Wright being my replacement Maya. Granted, the gameplay is new and different, but the storyline is almost totally negligent to me, oh and his "Objection!" is weak too.
To sum it up, this summer has been what I will call, the Phoenix Wright summer for me. After a series of hardcore game after hardcore game, Phoenix Wright was certainly the break I needed from the hardcore. I actually for once had to think and examine every nuance of wordplay and detail, something that many hardcore games I was playing at the time were lacking. If I were to describe to anyone who had not seen me the entire summer as to what I was doing.I would scream out "OBJECTION!" Objection indeed....
on 07.31.2008
Whatever Happened to Smell-o-vision?
A few days ago, after archiving my old magazines and books, I happened to come across a little piece of nostalgia. Shuffling through all my books, I finally saw the cover to "the Official Dreamcast Magazine" #3 where Lei Fang of Dead or Alive fame was plastered all over the front cover. I turned the pages to get a feel of how much the gaming industry has changed these past 9 years and nonetheless I was quite flabbergasted.
"Damn," I said to myself, "Konami was actually thinking about releasing Reiselied (AKA Ephemeral Fantasia) on the Dreamcast back in the day." But enough about that. There's actually one article that I found of interest in that whole magazine, and that was the proposed idea of Smell-O-Vision making its way into video games. The proposed idea was that some dude apparently patented some idea of speakers that would give off scent whenever you went into say, a field of flowers, and such. I remembered reading something about this in numerous articles and they always spoke of the promise it could present by immersing people further into the movie/gaming experience.
Well, nine years later, still no Smell-O-vision. I wonder what kind of experiences we would have had as gamers had smell-o-vision been full force implemented. Would you have been able to smell the charred remains of Elites in Halo? Would those beautiful environments in Ico and Shadow of the Colossus actually been more impressive and that much more beautiful? The world may never know.
What do you all think gaming would become if aromatic environments were implemented?
on 07.25.2008
Rumor: God of War Movie to be directed by........
Before someone reads this preview before hitting the jump...I'll just copy and paste a random quote from somewhere. Until you actually hit the jump. "there's two theories to aruguing with women. neither one works some people are funny. they spend money they don't have, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't like... she who laughs, lasts the early bird get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese stop the q-tip when you hit resistance." Ok now here's hoping you actually hit the jump. So apparently, there goes a rumor circulating around the internets that Brett Ratner is slated to direct the live action God of War movie. [url=http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/25/rumor-ratner-to-turn-god-of-war-film-into-geek-tragedy/]Source[/img] I don't know about you people, but the only difference I see between Uwe Boll and Brett Ratner is a bigger budget. We can all agree that X-Men 3 absolutely sucked, I don't know what the hell they were thinking when they even let Ratner remotely come close to touching those series of movies or any other movies that he will ever touch. Just ask Jackie Chan, whose renown work with his Rush Hour series was by far self-admittedly, his lowest in his career. I wonder if Chris Tucker is going to be Kratos now?
on 07.17.2008
E3 2008: The Year Sega Came Back?
While many people are still clamoring/bitching about Microsoft's "one more thing" FF13 announcement, a lot of people look away from the developers' titles that build the stepping stones of the consoles' third party support. That being said, while many people are declaring Microsoft the winner of this year's E3, I think the true developer's award this year goes to Sega and the strong game lineup they have for this year at E3.
It's no secret that I have supported Sega since the beginning of time. I still won't forget the defining games that developed Sega - the company, and not Sega - the console. But recent years have not been kind to Sega. While other retro companies have adapted to the 7th console generation, Sega has stayed in the past, developing for arcade companies and releasing crap game after crap game. After Sonic 2006, Sega fans everywhere were ready to bury the symbol that created the company, Mr Sonic the Hedgehog himself. In a game where loading takes up 75% of the game, it followed up with another disappointment of releasing "Seven Rings in Hand" for the Wii (which mind you, I didn't think was terrible but people say otherwise). I haven't played Nights yet, but not too many people are giving it the praise that the first game received so I am glad that I am waiting patiently for the price to go down for this game.
But something mysteriously happened this E3. Somehow, rather than being the antiquated old company that has been stubborn to listen for so long. It seems that they're finally getting something's right with their gaming lineup this year. And most importantly, it all started with trying to bring their mascot to form, Sonic the Hedgehog. I don't want to write any impressions on the trailers as many people have done that already, but I will say that Sonic Chronicles and Unleashed suddenly have piqued my interest again and has brought the hope to revive the company back to 3rd party relevance.
Self admittedly, I haven't played a great Sega game in a long time. We all know how they have to stoop to getting movie licenses and making god-awful Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk games, but I've been more disappointed in Viking: Battle for Asgard and the Club, both of which I thought would be tremendous games but just didn't feel like Sega of old ingenuity, but soon that may change.
The games that will spearhead Sega back into the fray: Mad World, a Okami/Sin City hybrid is so super violently and stylistically cool and looking finer by the minute.
Samba De Amigo with it's addictive theme song 'Al Compas Del Mambo' are looking to make me shake those Wii-motes like a 4 year old on too much sugar. Golden Axe could be great, but as long as there are dwarves and pixies dropping health. Valkyria Chronicles could be a sleeper hit exclusive for PS3, that is if M$ doesn't buy that too.
Sega has been looking on the up and up, and seems to have finally listened to our bitching and moaning of what the Sonic series has become and cleaned it up truly. They've also followed suit by showing some promising games that may restore their ruined reputation from the crap we've been delivered in recent years. Heck, I'll even go as far to say that Sega was a Shenmue 3/Skies of Arcadia 2/Jet Set Radio 2 (3?) away from announcing that rumors of patenting the Dreamcast 2 brand were true and going to manifest into them coming back into the console world (and no the 360 is NOT their reincarnation).
Yes I could say if up until this point, if you've truly missed Sega the company of old, this could be a great year for them and would be wise to start playing some of the stuff they have in store. It has been, after all, 9 years since 9/9/99 and honestly Sega has shown that it was probably the strongest developer coming into E3.
on 07.03.2008
Alternate Universe: 5 Movies That You Think Could Have Been Great Games
Since the summer has rolled by, I've been doing nothing but studying for my summer term, firing up the PSTriple (360 is collecting dust T_T), and watching an assortment of movies that just "per chance" happened to be on sale at Best Buy in the Bluray department. So after watching a bunch of them I thought about this topic. Which movies, if introduced as a game first, would you think have been named a great game?
I know the two don't EVER, EVER, EVER, go together, but let's just pretend for a second here that we're living in another universe where all games were movies and all movies were games. Here's my list, what's yours?
P.S.Kudos if you have watched/recognize all the movies I mention here.
5: Ultraviolet
I have noticed that one suggestion for Equilibrium had been done, so I'm not going to copy that entry instead I would suggest this other work by Kurt Wimmer. I don't know what it is about his movies, but his gun katas action is unparalleled, which could make a perfect translation into video games. The settings are futuristic and highly reminiscent of games like Persona. Not to mention Milla Jovovich's character has this cool Octocamo thing going with her hair so they could implement some open world stealth in this game. Complete with femme fatale, I think Ultraviolet, while not a very good movie, could make an excellent Assassin's Creed style game (with 100% less boring).
4: Seven Samurai
This was an old 1960s Japanese black and white film that has possibly been the precursor to all movies which involve clever teamwork (Oceans 11, Italian Job). In the movie, each samurai has a specific talent that he contributes to the whole team. If done correctly, I could imagine this game being a hybrid genre style, where you could take control of each character and hone his ability to do things to accomplish your missions. You'd have a character whose missions specialize in tactically organizing your fellow samurai and villagers (a la FF Tactics). You'd have characters capable of stealth missions. Character's that would go around and build traps. The sheer idea of teamwork and different genre's that each character could bring to the game could make this, in my opinion, a damn fine game.
3: Storm Riders
I don't know if anybody here watches Hong Kong cinema. But if you don't, you must absolutely watch this movie. The movie is based on the excellent comic book of same name and has an intriguing story that would turn this into a fine RPG. In the movie there are two main protagonists, Wind and Cloud, who both have their own unique supernatural martial arts. Wind has the ability to fly around and just kick the shit out of everything super fast, whereas Cloud has the ability to manipulate anything liquid (including his own blood). If polished correctly, this could be the perfect mesh of Devil May Cry and Jade Empire.
2: Princess Mononoke
I know what you're thinking...why? Because the setting of Princess Mononoke is so lush and green and excellently detailed in animation form, that I think making a graphical representation of this environment in-game would be totally revolutionary and would get a minimum 8 score (out of 10) on presentation alone. Also the movie totally reminds me of a puzzle solving ambient adventure like Lost Winds, or could take a turn during battles and be like Shadow of the Colossus.
1: Face/Off
Arguably one of the best action movies of it's time, Face/Off is #1 on my list for everything I could want in an action game. Awesome bullet time, plot twists and turns, cover and destructible environments, doves and pigeons flying around a church fight. Does anything get better than that John Woo signature? Face/Off was a great movie, and I mean it a lot when I can say, it'd be a damn fine game.
Well this is my list, stay tuned to another entry of my alternate universe series where I'll turn the tables. Before I do so though, what is everyone's top 5 for movies-to-games?
on 06.06.2008
Playstation Qore Impressions: Is it here to stay?
Today, I woke up, sticky and probably foul smelling saliva in my mouth with one sole purpose, to download the latest Playstation Store content because last night, Sony wanted to get the hell out of the office. Well after dragging my butt to wake up, turn on my PS3 and going to the New Releases, there was one piece of content I wanted to immediately put on the top of my queue.
Thats right, Qore full year service. Now unlike many PS3 owners who are turned off by the idea of "paying for having ads shoved in your face for a year," I wasn't at all reluctant to immediately sign up for the service, cause so far, Sony has been nice to me: I wasn't forced to buy a PSN account, I didn't have to pay extra to get a wireless card or HDMI, heck Bluray even won, so why not help out Sony by trying their service out for a year?
Well the verdict is, I think Qore has potential. It might be $25 to get ads shoved in your face, but I see a lot of things that could make Qore not only great, but possibly setting a new trend in print media.
Well here's the rundown, once you download Qore, you have to install the 1.16 GB install and it could eventually be found in your XMB under the game menu. Well once you get all that initial mumbo jumbo out of the way, you get to see an awesome HD trailer of "the Incredible Hulk" which looks amazing, especially after you are greeted by a cute and corny geek who goes by the name none other than Veronica Belmont (I first noticed her on that Mahalo show where she's doing yoga poses like the picture above) but she comes out first to shove in your face how great Qore is going to be and then acts cute for no particular reason.
But the way the content is presented after this is both love and hate. Could Sony have done better? Hell yeah! But is this a great start? Most definitely! The idea of Qore itself is just true to whatever Sony is trying to do, to be different, to be a trendsetter, they hit spot on with this interactive magazine. They aimed to do something no one would do in the first place and they at least sold me to spend the money to try it out. I wouldn't mind at all to get my magazines in a digital format thats just so awesomely presented.
But the real question is, is it here to stay? I mean, the PS3 is projected with a 10 year life span, but how do you provide exclusive content especially in this day and age where people love to pirate their material. It just makes me wonder if Qore will even survive the light of day. But oh well, I am sold on the idea, I like Qore but there are some things that I know they could perform much better.
-If you're gonna put ads, either footnote them, embed them on the bottom of the page, or allow to skip the ad. Don't put it right on my face and make me waste 3-4 seconds of my life.
-Make a rewind and fast forward function in the videos, nothing is more annoying then watching the whole thing over again.
-Make Qore a community based interactive magazine. Allow things to be posted here like people's game saves, rosters (for sports games), user submitted videos of achievments, and other things. Don't restrict to just being the "background access."
-Put more content. I'm not spending essentially $2 a month to only know about (in this case, 4-5 games). Thats just not cool.
Anyways what do you guys think? Did Qore hit the spot? Is it going in the right direction? Or will it be something we'll totally forget?
on 05.29.2008
First Blog (better late than never): Are Japanese Developers Losing Their Touch?
I really don't know how to start off a first blog, so I'll start with a little introduction.
Anyways I have been a long time lurker of this site, I finally decided its about time to start a Clog after everyone has been doing one. Usually I try to vent with some of my thoughts, but if I read some other person's Clog and they seem to get my idea down, I'll rest easy. But if I search and search and find the topic has not been discussed, I usually will start a post unless some bastard beats me to it in the 1 minute it takes me to write one. So without further ado, there's a topic thats been on my mind for a while that I wouldn't mind discussing on this community.
Are the Japanese Developers Losing Credibility within Console Gaming?
Okay before I get mobbed by angry individuals with pitchforks, I'd like to reiterate that I am strictly talking about console gaming, as thats all I really know.
I grew up around the period when the SNES and Genesis were at odds. I have vague memories of all the back and forth slandering of the consoles, the "Sega do what Nintendon't" motto that made that era of gaming famous. And one day, as I was sitting in class, in a somewhat racist environment of my third grade class, we were talking about race and what each race was essentially good for. On a whim, one of the asinine students shouted out "All Japanese are good for is making videogames."
Needless to say, I didn't really know what the difference of an American guy or a Japanese guy being the creator of Mario would affect gaming in anyways, but surely it did affect a lot of the public portrayal in media about gaming usually being associated with Japan.
As I started growing up, anime started being the big thing with Dragon Ball Z taking off, this caused somewhat of a chain reaction when I noticed that around this time, a lot of my friends were starting anime clubs, video game clubs, and heck, there was even a Japanese club (mind you I don't know any Japanese in South FL). But I started really getting into videogames during Final Fantasy 7's infamous debut.
From then on, I guess I had this preconceived notion, that most videogame wonders had standards set by Japanese developed software. Call me racist, call me living in a bubble, but during this time, I could easily recognize the name Shinji Mikami over someone like Ed Boon.
I mean back then, I guess the first generation Playstation really took off during the JRPG revolution, with Final Fantasy 7 being the forefront of all that (I wasn't into Chrono Trigger or Secret of Mana back in the day), prompting me to get any game essentially that had a Japanese developer on the helm. And usually it didn't disappoint. I guess its like us who prefer Japanese cars over American ones.
But lately, there has been a shift of the public opinion starting with last generation. When Microsoft entered the console market, I started of hearing more American hits. Halo and what not have been rising the charts in popularity and hype, its gotten to the point where in this current generation, I can not honestly name a single game that is completely Japanese helmed and "memorable." I think quite honestly, seeing the PS3 more popular in Europe and the Wii being so kiddy has skewed my image even more about what has happened to Japanese developers in general. I mean it wasn't too long ago when I had a conversation with my friend about going into the gaming industry and he stated something along the lines of "Well you might wanna go to Japan and check out working for a developer there, all games are made in Japan anyways." (of course we know that isn't true)
So what does everyone think? Am I living in a bubble? am I being racist (although I assure you I'm not)? Have the Japanese really lost their "dominance" if you will in the gaming world? Are Sony products really better cause they're Japanese and Caucasians are too damn tall (see below video)?
Comment me and tell me what you think, and be gentle if you are gonna flame me.
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This is quite possibly the worst news in all of history. Global warming? Spare me. Extinction of the black rhinoceros? Nothing compared to this news. Hold on to your Wonka bars, everyone. Chocolate as we know it may be gone a scant seven years from right now — and what's left may taste really terrible.
A crippling shortage of cocoa is to blame for this devastating news. By 2020, experts say the growing worldwide demand for chocolate will be greater than the supply. This year alone there's an anticipated shortfall of about 160,000 tons of cocoa beans.
"There will be a chocolate shortage and there isn't a solution to the problem," confectionery expert Angus Kennedy told industry members who met recently at the British Library in London. "Seven years is what we think we have left."
Somehow, the experts even know the date this will happen. Chocolate Doomsday is in October 2020. Sob quietly to yourself as you continue to read.
Chocolate Demand is Up, Cocoa Production is Down
The problem is simple. Demand is exploding in Asia, Russia and Europe, while at the same time, not enough cocoa plantations exist anymore to keep up.
"We need another Earth basically if we carry on at this rate," Kennedy said. "We are destroying the whole thing. The problem we've got is that much of the space that was used for cocoa plantations is no longer there."
A high percentage of former cocoa plantations are now being used to grow much more lucrative crops like rubber plants. In addition, cocoa plants take about four years before they develop harvestable beans. There's little incentive to begin establishing new plantations when profits won't be realized for several years.
Couple this shortage with a booming demand for chocolate in Asia and Russia, and the problem becomes obvious. Demand in these areas has doubled since 1999. In 2014 alone, the Asian Pacific countries are expected to increase their consumption of cocoa by 5.4 percent. Demand is also high in Europe, where the typical consumer eats 17 pounds of chocolate a year.
"In the regions like Asia-Pacific or Latin America, we are seeing more middle class consumers buying chocolates compared with five or six years ago because they have the money to do it," Francisco Redruello, senior food analyst at Euromonitor International, told the Indian Express. "That is what's driven the growth of chocolates."
There Will Still Be Chocolate Bars, But…
The shortage doesn't mean you'll never see a candy bar again after 2020. However, according to Angus Kennedy — who has tried the chocolate bar of the future — it's going to taste like a sludgy horror show.
"[I]t's nothing like the chocolate we know and love," he said. "It will be much sweeter, as sugar is the cheapest ingredient and can be used to hide the fact that there is less cocoa powder."
Candy makers will have to replace cocoa with less expensive ingredients like raisins and nougat, says Kennedy. They'll also have to make the bars smaller and will likely begin making them in unusual shapes to make them more appealing.
"High quality chocolate snaps because of the level of cocoa butter," Kennedy said. "But in the future it won't, as more vegetable fat will be used — the product will be more bendy and sludgy in texture." Your future "chocolate" bar will be a nasty, sugary thing made with palm oil, chemicals, and fruit and nut fillers.
The relatively few cocoa beans available in the future will go toward making real chocolate that probably only the wealthy will be able to afford. True chocolate will be a luxury item, selling for about $113 per 2.2 pounds.
Over the past two years, cocoa prices have risen by 63 percent. Whole milk powder is up 20 percent. The day of reckoning is coming.
"The industry is keeping it fairly quiet at the moment, but they're all looking very carefully at the situation over the next few years," Kennedy told NBC News.
Start hoarding those Hershey bars now and eat chocolate like it's going out of style. It really is.
Farewell, chocolate. You were always there when we needed you. We'll miss you deeply. It's the end of the world as we know it.
Read more: cacao plantations, candy bar, chocolate, cocoa beans, cocoa shortage, palm oil, shortage
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Thank you
OMG -what am I going to do when I get a chocolate craving???
"When they tried [to escape] they were severely beaten. Drissa, a recently freed cocoa slave who had never even tasted chocolate, experienced similar circumstances and when asked what he would tell the people who eat chocolate made from slave labor, he replied that the people enjoyed something that he suffered to make, adding: 'When people eat chocolate they are eating my flesh.'"--Food Empowerment Project
Hey! What about the slavery that infiltrates 70% of the world's chocolate supply? Don't wait until 2020 to pay farmers more and regulate the failing industry.
Signatures are needed NOW:
For more information, please go to http://www.foodispower.org/slavery-chocolate/ and search this topic on Care2.
Thanks for sharing.
Noooooooooooooooooooo! I can't grow it in my area, not a chance- trust me, I checked. I'm not a chocaholic, a block of chocolate can last a month or more in my house, but when I want it it had better be there! I'm sure the chocolate industry is working on an answer, there is too much money in it to just watch it disappear.
Well reading this sure bummed me out.. :(
Sorry (?) Ms Bird ..... I lost interest in this as soon as I read the first paragraph !!! Although I LOVE my chocolate ...... anyone who can intimate that it is MORE important than the loss of an endangered animal species (or the disastrous future effects of global warming) IS JUST NOT WORTH READING !!!!!!!!
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We all know what bad tension looks like: loops on the top of the quilt sandwich or on the backing. Good tension results in sewing machine stitches that are nearly identical on the back and front of your work.
I love it when two popular art techniques come together. In this case: free-motion quilting motifs and Zentangle®.
What does the terms "sewing appliques" mean to you? Do you think of hand applique? Machine applique? The applique stitch?
Mother's Day is just a few weeks away. If your mom sews, quilts, or just likes to receive quilted gifts from you (of course she does!), then you will love these free patterns, downloads, and projects to make easy handmade gifts.
When it comes to quilt finishing, I've always resorted to an easy quilt binding like the pillowcase method. Sometimes I even leave a raw edge. Because I usually make small fabric collage quilts, these techniques have worked.
Whenever I go to an art exhibit, a quilt show, Quilt Market, or a similar kind of event, I always keep an eye out for fashion. Not haute couture, but art couture--garments or accessories that reveal someone to be an artist or art enthusiast.
Did you resolve to make more fiber art this year? Learn new sewing techniques? Decrease the size of your scrap stash? Finish your UFOs?
Where do you get your inspiration for art quilts? Quilting artists get asked that question all the time.
Today I'm sharing some of my favorite gift ideas to make for your friends and family, as well as gifts for quilters that would be welcome at your guild's holiday party swap--or under your own tree.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Buster Posey was all over the field for Florida State.
The Seminoles catcher played all nine defensive positions -- and hit a grand slam -- in a 10-0 seven-inning victory over Savannah State on Monday.
Posey, a junior who's expected to be a high pick in Major League Baseball's amateur draft in June, became the fourth Seminoles player under coach Mike Martin to play all nine positions. Mike Martin Jr., the coach's son, was the last to perform the feat in 1994.
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Preliminary results from a 2011 survey conducted by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) suggest the production of a strong class of young-of-year striped bass in the Virginia portion of Chesapeake Bay. The 2011 year class represents the group of fish hatched this spring.
The results are good news for the recreational and commercial anglers who pursue this popular game fish because this year class is expected to grow to fishable size in 3 to 4 years. The results are also good news for Chesapeake Bay, where striped bass play an important ecological role as top predators.
The 2011 study, formally known as the Juvenile Striped Bass Seine Survey, recorded more than 27 fish per seine haul, significantly higher than the historic average of 7.5 fish per seine haul. This is a significant increase from recent years, during which catches of young fish were average.
Although survey results show that numbers of young-of-year striped bass in Virginia have been average to above-average since 2003, results from a similar survey in Maryland indicate that numbers of juvenile striped bass there were below average in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Striped bass populations and the fisheries they support depend on the availability of strong year classes to mitigate the effect of less productive years.
Professor Mary Fabrizio, who directs the Juvenile Striped Bass Seine Survey at VIMS, notes that the economic and ecological value of striped bass lends significant interest to the year-to-year status of their population. "By estimating the relative number of young-of-year striped bass," she says, "our survey provides an important measure of annual and long-term trends in the Bay's striped bass population."
The VIMS Juvenile Striped Bass Seine Survey, managed by Leonard Machut, currently samples 18 stations in the Rappahannock, York, and James River watersheds. Each year, biologists sample each site 5 times from
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But in this study, the researchers used a different method, boosting activation of the native epsps gene in rice plants a process called overexpressing to give the plants enough strength to survive an application of herbicide. Because companies that genetically modify commercial crops don't fully disclose their methods, Snow and her colleagues aren't sure how prevalent this method might be, now or in the future.
"This is a relatively new way to get a trait into a crop: taking the plant's own gene and ramping it up," Snow said. "We don't know yet if our findings are going to be generalizable, but if they are, it's definitely going to be important."
To overexpress the native gene in rice, the scientists attached a promoter to it, giving the plant an extra copy of its own gene and ensuring that the gene is activated at all times.
The researchers conducted tests in rice and four strains of a relative of the same species, weedy rice, a noxious plant that infests rice fields around the world. By crossing genetically altered herbicide-resistant rice with weedy rice to mimic what happens naturally in the field, the researchers created crop-weed hybrids that grew larger and produced more offspring than unaltered counterparts even without any herbicide present.
In regulated field experiments, the hybrids containing the overexpressed gene produced 48 percent to 125 percent more seeds per plant than did hybrid plants with no modified genes. They also had higher concentrations of a key amino acid, greater photosynthetic rates and better fledgling seed growth than controls all presumed signs of better fitness in evolutionary terms.
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To those daydreamers amongst us
Tomorrow will soon be today
So choose every word carefully
As they might be the last you say
And they will echo through time
After your final shadow is cast
But those words and those emotions
Will have no place in the past
They'll take their place in tomorrow
And every day to the end of time
Your words, your thoughts and your wisdom
Will deviate us from straight lines
And show people there's another way
Peace and love can re-wire our brains
Show us how to avoid hatred
And from negative feelings refrain
Otherwise I can see suffering
But on an unheard of scale
Nations and religions will collide
Peace treaties will continue to fail
So daydreamers amongst us
Please unleash your wildest thoughts
Drop your line into the sea of wisdom
And show us what you have caught
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I love it
Awesome! I need to try to write like that!
Wow ! Now I wanna be a daydreamer too ! Haha !!! Very well written Colin !
haha thank you Jenny Its not always possible to be able to daydream with our busy lives
You're welcome and yes yes it is possible! You have to put your life on hold for a few minutes though !
This is beautiful. The last two lines made my imagery wonder. I hope by the time I'm your age, I can write this deep. Your work is inspiring to me. Great job colon. Thanks for sharing.
thats really very kind of you to say It means the world to me if people like something I have wrote and even more so if they feel inspired thank you
When I read something, I try to take the time to really find the meaning behind it at least from my Point of view. So I usually leave a detailed comment. All I can say is wow most of the time. Your very welcome.
I'll admit that by the end my mind had started wandering, but those last two lines really reeled me back in (yes that was intentional ). Great poem and strong finish!
lol 'reeled in'
haha my mind hand started to wander a little too in the middle of writing it
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Loyola University Chicago Law Journal
The Loyola University Chicago Law Journal is the law school's primary scholarly publication that is distributed throughout the nation's law libraries, judges' chambers, and other various legal organizations. Published continuously since 1970, the Law Journal is committed both to the examination and analysis of current legal issues and problems and to the development of the law. The Law Journal is edited and managed entirely by students and publishes the work of distinguished writers, including academics, practitioners, and judges. The Law Journal also publishes student-written notes and comments.
Volume 46 of the Law Journal consists of four issues during the 2014–2015 academic year. The first issue covers general legal topics. The second issue contains articles from the April 2014 Law Journal Conference titled "Sentence Structure: The Elements of Punishment." The third issue contains articles covering general legal topics as well as articles, remarks, and essays from Loyola University Chicago School of Law's Institute for Investor Protection Conference titled "The New Landscape for Securities Fraud Class Actions." Finally, the fourth issue contains articles addressing timely aspects of Illinois law, as well as general legal topics.
The Law Journal is pleased to make available articles from Volume 46. All citations are to 46 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. ___.
Volume 46: Issue 1
Volume 46: Issue 1
- Nuremberg Lives On: How Justice Jackson's International Experience Continues to Shape Domestic Criminal Procedure
Brian R. Gallini
- Trademark Hybridity and Brand Protection
Timothy Greene
- Undead Statutes: The Rise, Fall, and Continuing Use of Adultery and Fornication Criminal Laws
Dr. JoAnne Sweeny
- Improving HIPAA Enforcement and Protecting Patient Privacy in a Digital Healthcare Environment
Roger Hsieh
- A Test By Any Other Name: The Influence of Justice Breyer's Concurrence in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.
Alex S. Moe
- The Law as a Moral Enterprise
Robert John Araujo, S.J.
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Volume 46: Issue 2
- How to Talk About Sentencing Policy—and Not Disparity
Judge Nancy Gertner
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Bennett L. Gershman
- The Economic Perspective on Sentencing
Joshua B. Fischman
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David Abrams
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Thomas S. Ulen
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Francis X. Shen
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Thomas Goldstein
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Judge Shira A. Scheindlin
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Jefferey Paul Mahoney
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David Tabak
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Leigh Handelman Smollar
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Wendy Gerwick Couture
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Charles W. Murdock
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Rachael E. Salcido
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Kevin Barry
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Julie Roin
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Mark I. Labaton
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Elizabeth J. Kennedy and Andrea Giampetro-Meyer
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He joined the U.S. Army and served in the Army Reserve.
He recently returned to school, graduating with a bachelors degree, and was pursuing a masters degree in business administration at the time of his death.
He had moved to Barre, Vt., and worked at Cabot Creamery, then returned to California. Recently he was self-employed in real estate mortgages and sales.
He enjoyed his motorcycle, and every Christmas dressed as Santa, he rode his motorcycle to an orphanage and dropped off presents to the children.
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Demand more than doubles over 4 years; agency can't keep up
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UA President Sander speaks about tuition and the university's reputation
Tucson City Council member Regina Romero proposes ordinance change that would end citations for park protestors
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Former U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe (R) talks to the Tucson Committee on Foreign Relations
The rapidly expanding megaregion anchored by Phoenix and Tucson
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TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sept. 24, 2013, the 125th implant of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart was performed. This number equals all implants performed worldwide in 2012 and a 244% increase over 2011. SynCardia Systems, Inc. projects concluding 2013 with another new record – 180 Total Artificial Heart implants in one year, the company announced today.
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Like a donor heart transplant, a SynCardia Total Artificial Heart replaces the two dying ventricles (that pump the blood) and four heart valves. It is the only device that eliminates the symptoms and source of end stage heart failure. For many heart surgeons it has become the standard of care for patients dying of heart failure affecting both sides of the heart (biventricular failure).
"In the sickest patients, especially when RV failure is present, we have found the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart to be the device of choice," said Dr. Jack Copeland, professor of surgery at the University of California San Diego Health System. "It provides the patient with immediate, safe blood flow of 7 to 9.5 liters per minute through each ventricle using the shortest blood path of any mechanical circulatory support device. The right ventricle of the Total Artificial Heart helps reduce central venous pressure, which helps recover vital organs such as the kidney and liver."
U.S. News & World Report's 2013-2014 hospital rankings of the 50 best cardiology and heart surgery medical centers includes 27 that are certified centers or are in the process of becoming certified. That's 54%, including four of the top five. Certified center surgeons
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PHILADELPHIA, PA - Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown that mutations in two proteins associated with familial Alzheimer's disease disrupt the flow of calcium ions within neurons. The two proteins, called PS1 and PS2 (presenilin 1 and 2), interact with a calcium release channel in an intracellular cell compartment.
"The 'calcium dysregulation' hypothesis for inherited, early onset familial Alzheimer's disease has been suggested by previous research findings, but our current study identifies a molecular mechanism that makes this hypothesis very compelling," says lead author J. Kevin Foskett, PhD, Professor of Physiology. "Mutated PS1 and PS2 caused exaggerated cellular calcium signaling in cells through a calcium channel in the endoplasmic reticulum called the inositol trisphosphate receptor [InsP3R], suggesting that it or other proteins in this calcium signaling pathway could be targets for new Alzheimer's disease therapies." The study appeared in the June 26 issue of Neuron.
Alzheimer's disease affects as many as 5 million Americans, 5 percent of whom have the familial form. The hallmark of the disease is the accumulation of tangles and plaques of amyloid beta protein in the brain. "The amyloid hypothesis has long been invoked to explain the cause of Alzheimer's" says Foskett. In the Neuron study, cells that carried the disease-causing mutated form of PS1 showed increased processing of amyloid beta that depended on the interaction of the PS proteins with the InsP3R. This observation links mis-regulation of calcium inside cells with the production of amyloid, a characteristic feature in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.
Current therapies for Alzheimer's include drugs that treat the symptoms of cognitive loss and dementia. Drugs that address the pathology of Alzheimer's are only experimental. For example, a vaccine that stimulates antibodies to amyloid beta is currently being
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The Scroll of Seduction
HarperCollins, Sep 19, 2006 - Fiction - 352 pages
On an outing from her boarding school, young Lucía meets Manuel—art historian and exquisite storyteller—who shares with her the tale of one of history's most tumultuous loves: Queen Juana of Castile's legendary devotion to her husband, Prince Philippe the Handsome. Embracing a union thrust upon her by political necessity, Juana responds with all the passionate abandon inherent in her fiery nature—and is forced to pay a high price for her honest sensuality. For there are those at the Renaissance court who will not allow such unabashed independence in the heir to one of the world's most powerful empires—and they declare Juana mad, denying her ascension to the throne. But is she truly insane, or is she merely a victim of her own impetuosity and unbridled desire? Or is Juana a pawn in a fierce power struggle for control of the throne?
Lucía attends raptly to the tale Manuel relates—and their own story begins to miraculously, dangerously mirror that of Juana the Mad and her beloved prince.
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March 7 (Bloomberg) -- Western Canada Select oil tumbled to the weakest level since at least 2008 as crude supplies at Cushing, Oklahoma, swelled to the most in seven months.
Inventories last week in Cushing, the largest U.S. storage hub, increased 2.37 million barrels, or 7 percent, to 36.2 million barrels, the most since July 22, the Energy Department reported today.
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Yunjeong Kim, a research assistant professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University, has developed a research approach that tackles two deadly infectious feline diseases at the same time. Her work is being supported by a $156,342 award from the Morris Animal Foundation.
"Coronavirus and calicivirus infections are very common among cats, and cats tend to get repeatedly infected by these viruses throughout their lifetime," said Kim, who works in the college's diagnostic medicine and pathobiology department. "Feline coronavirus can cause gastroenteritis, and calicivirus often causes ulcerative upper respiratory infection with gingivitis and stomatitis. In most cases, these viral infections are mild and self-limited."
But Kim says some cats that are infected with these viruses develop life-threatening illnesses with high fatality. The deadly form of feline coronavirus infection, feline infectious peritonitis, or FIP, has been recognized since the early 1970s and is currently the leading infectious cause of death in young cats. More recently, virulent systemic feline calicivirus infection, or vs-FCV, has emerged associated with a systemic infection that is frequently fatal. Since 1998, numerous outbreaks of vs-FCV infection have been reported in animal shelters and catteries with mortality as high as 67 percent.
Vaccines are available for FIP and vs-FCV, but their field application seems to be limited or not recommended due to various reasons, and there is no antiviral drug for these viral infections. That means there is a great need for safe and effective antiviral drugs for these diseases.
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#25566 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
Popular tags edit links do not respect current post type
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When a post type registers a non-hierarchical taxonomy, there is a "Popular Tags" section displayed on that taxonomies overview. Each of the terms included in the popular tags Tag Cloud is linked to an edit page for that term, but when clicking on the edit link, the current post type isn't respected, meaning the admin menu goes from having the current post type highlighted to having the standard Posts menu highlighted.
For example, the URL for the edit link of a popular "Download Tag" from my Easy Digital Downloads plugin is:
Since &post_type=download is not included in the URL, the dashboard menu highlight changes to Posts.
To fix this, a couple of things are needed:
- post_type needs to be passed as an argument to wp_tag_cloud() in wp-admin/edit-tags.php if the current user can edit the term.
2, The wp_tag_cloud() function should call get_edit_term_link() instead of get_edit_tag_link() when the link parameter is set to edit. The post_type arg passed should also be passed as the third parameter to get_edit_term_link(), for the object type.
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comment:5 @DrewAPicture — 20 months ago
- Focuses administration added
25566.patch works as advertised for me. I also registered the taxonomy for multiple post types and both types the links respected the current post type.
Probably worth adding a short bit of documentation to the description about the new post_type parameter that wp_tag_cloud() accepts. We'll probably convert that section of the PHPDoc to a hash notation in the future but a small addition now should suffice.
@mordauk — 20 months ago
Refreshed patch with documentation for the post_type argument of wp_tag_cloud
comment:6 @mordauk — 20 months ago
Updated patch attached with documentation for the post_type argument.
comment:7 @DrewAPicture — 20 months ago
- Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to 3.9
25566.2.patch looks good to me.
@fahmiadib — 19 months ago
comment:8 @fahmiadib — 19 months ago
Added unit test. review?
@wonderboymusic — 19 months ago
comment:9 @wonderboymusic — 19 months ago
25566.diff combines the patches - the unit tests need some work.
@wonderboymusic — 19 months ago
comment:10 @wonderboymusic — 19 months ago
25566.2.diff contains safer unit tests
comment:11 @wonderboymusic — 19 months ago
- Owner set to wonderboymusic
- Resolution set to fixed
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CARACAS, Venezuela - CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - The oil drills of four companies in Venezuela have been partially paralyzed by workers demanding pay raises, but the government says the protests haven't affected oil production.
Jorge Esteves, labor manager for state-run Petroleos de Venezuela SA, says the contractors' drilling operations have been halted four or five hours a day since last week in eastern Monagas state due to the protest.
Esteves' statement Tuesday says the companies affected are China National Petroleum Co., Petrex, Schlumberger Ltd. and Precision Drilling Trust.
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EXETER ŌĆō The long-dormant property owned by Kevin Casey, of Connecticut, operating as Exeter Real Estate ŌĆō once envisioned as a 99-unit development of senior housing called Cobblestone ŌĆō is being reimagined.
At a recent planning board work session, Casey announced he's ŌĆ£reassessing his plans,ŌĆØ says Town Planner David W. Schweid. ŌĆ£The master plan [for the original Cobblestone] was approved in April 2008ŌĆØ but has never gone forward, leaving the property to become overgrown and weed-choked.
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ŌĆ£What he said was that due to the economic climate [the big development] isn't practical. He asked if the planning board is interested in pursuing a different avenue with single family homes in a conservation-type subdivision.
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The board can possibly devise something by spring, says Schweid, ŌĆ£if [the council members] donŌĆÖt want too detailed a plan. The planning board is going to try to get help from a local surveyor and engineer to come up with a schematic plan that would determine what would go where.ŌĆØ
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ŌĆ£Mid-way through, you get a permit plan. The planning board would issue a permit then you have to keep working till you have a big plan with enough detail to put it out to bid. When the building [the new town hall] is built, it's exactly what you need right down to the window details. It's the real price with everything in it.ŌĆØ
Schweid says the more basic schematic plan won't be presented to the council before March at the earliest.
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People visiting a village at the Ted Rod Road property would be making ŌĆ£a multi-purpose trip to a government site,ŌĆØ he notes. ŌĆ£People already go all the time to the library; the kids play in Chelsea Park. It would be just great to have a few more things there. IŌĆÖve been pushing for several years to come up with planning for a new town hall.
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