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Re: 90 fps cap bull*&^#VioletGiraffe Nov 12, 2013 4:53 AM (in response to IraqsElite)
You can switch the monitor to 60 Hz, and enable V-sync for even more smoothness.
Out of curiousity: in the games that you used to play at 120 Hz, can you see any difference between 120 and 60?
Re: 90 fps cap bull*&^#IraqsElite Nov 12, 2013 5:25 AM (in response to VioletGiraffe)
Thanks for the suggestion but it does not work I have tried everything.
I currently play World of Warcraft, Dota 2, CoD Black ops, Black ops 2 and League of Legends all these games support 120hz and the frame rate goes up to 120 fps when I enable v-sync and even go higher when I disable it. Which means they either don't have a frame cap or it's greater than 120 fps.
CoD Ghosts has a option for 120hz but the frame cap sits at 90 fps. If I want to change my screen to 60Hz I have to go into my screen options and change it there + I have to change my settings in Windows to 60Hz, and if I want to continue playing my other games on 120Hz I have to change all these the settings back to 120Hz every time I finished playing CoD Ghosts .
Another thing is I am so used too playing FPS games on 120Hz refresh rate that when I switch to 60Hz (for instance playing on a friends rig) it just doesn't feel right. + whats the use I paid $450 for a 23" screen but can't use it to it's full potential I mean the 120Hz refresh rate is the main reason why I bought the screen in the first place and it really makes a big difference in especially FPS games.
Before you start arguing with me "no it does not make that a big of difference" go and play on a 120Hz screen for a week and go back to a 60Hz then you can argue with me.
Thanks again for your suggestion, but why only put such a low fps cap on the 8th version of Call of Duty. Why now?
Why ever? all their other games run flawlessly except for the latest one, I mean they should go forward in time not backwards.
Last thing if your a Game Developer or a Game Tester your suppose to have equipment like this, any hardcore gamer would tell you the higher your refresh rate is the better your game play would be. Infinity Ward Developers probably doesn't even know screens like this even exist.
Re: 90 fps cap bull*&^#VioletGiraffe Nov 12, 2013 5:47 AM (in response to IraqsElite)
Yep, sounds like a bug indeed. When writing the previous message, I didn't realize how cumbersome switching to 60 Hz is since you want to continue playing other games at 120.
I will, however, state that increasing refresh rate does not make for smoother gameplay as long as it's more than 30 FPS (30 Hz). There is even no reason for monitor to have 60 Hz (I don't know, maybe it's interlaced so 60 is effectively 30). Actually, 24 FPS is enough, video / TV industry has proven it over 80 years of its experience.
The purpose of a 120 Hz monitor is displaying 3D picture, which requires switching image at double normal rate. If a game feels smooth at 120 and doesn't feel so at 60 - it's not framerate problem, it's synchronization / interpolation problem.
Re: 90 fps cap bull*&^#msnorm Nov 6, 2014 11:25 PM (in response to VioletGiraffe)
absolute nonsense. You don't WATCH pc games, you play them and interact. There is a big difference playing @ 120hz over 60hz and its clear to an untrained eye.
There is nothing asinine about complaining about a stupid 90 fps limit when many people bought 120hz monitors. Ghosts is an unplayable game for me.
Re: 90 fps cap bull*&^#radical_53 Nov 12, 2013 5:34 AM (in response to IraqsElite)
You don't really need 120fps on a 120Hz screen to get a smooth picture. That'd only be the case if you wanted to use vsync which, by itself, would cause additional input lag. And you wouldn't want that, right?
The best solution, so far, seems to be to cap the framerate at a value that can be kept steadily all the time. I used 125fps previously (older titles) and went down to ~77fps now. Of course the game doesn't feel as smooth as the older titles but it's also stuttering, micro-stuttering, still. That alone would make it feel bad.
So for now I'll wait for a patch. Even Battlefield 4 feels smoother than Ghosts at the moment.
Re: 90 fps cap bull*&^#VioletGiraffe Nov 12, 2013 5:54 AM (in response to radical_53)
It is not a good idea to cap FPS at a value that isn't an integer multiplier or divider of a framerate, it will cause jitter because game framerate (77) doesn't map well onto monitor framerate (60/120) no matter what. Ideally, framerate of a monitor should match game's FPS exactly or at an integer relation (2:1 and 1:2 should both be OK, 1:1 is ofc the best).
P. S. I've heard Nvidia is working on a technology for the monitor to only refres on video card's demand, eliminating all rate mismatch problems (and monitor refresh rate as such).
Re: 90 fps cap bull*&^#IraqsElite Nov 12, 2013 6:01 AM (in response to VioletGiraffe)
Just as I thought you are going to argue with me LoL
Check out the topic on Tom's Hardware 120Hz vs 60Hz.
I totally agree with you on watching a movie on 25fps and 120fps will not make a diffrence, but when you play a FPS game it is a whole other story. I said it once ima say it again go play on a 120Hz screen and then switch to a 60Hz you can't compare it.
Re: 90 fps cap bull*&^#radical_53 Nov 12, 2013 7:17 AM (in response to VioletGiraffe)
They already have that, it's called G-Sync. 77 is one of the "magic steps" of the Quake engine, 1000/13 (instead of "my" usual 1000/8).
It also doesn't cause jitter or anything like that. It will cause tearing though if it jumps above and below a value that's an integer divider of the monitor's refresh rate.


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Ohio's new high-tech facial-recognition program might be a good crime-fighting tool.
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Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has appointed a task force to review the program and recommend safeguards. This is the type of review that should have been done months ago - before the program was launched. Nearly 2,700 searches have already been conducted in Ohio using the technology, according to Enquirer reporter Chrissie Thompson, who broke the story.
Until a thorough review is conducted - and not just by DeWine's handpicked committee - the program should be suspended.
There are serious problems with the way this program was handled:
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? Rules for securing the system from abuse were not reviewed before it was launched.
? Far too many people have access to the system. All of Ohio's law enforcement and even civilian employees of police departments - thousands of people - have access to the system, exponentially increasing the chances for abuse.
? DeWine, Ohio's top law enforcement officer, didn't know the system was live until two weeks after the fact.
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Facial recognition is a rapidly developing technology with the potential to open new avenues for law enforcement and also for commercial applications. But it's already developing faster than are the legal safeguards to protect individuals from its abuse. DeWine should go the extra mile to make sure privacy concerns are answered, especially in the light of the recent revelations about the federal government's vast capabilities to conduct surveillance of American citizens.
Before this program was launched, government employees needed a name to plumb their database of photos and other personal information. Now all they need is a face, which is much easier to obtain from the omnipresent security cameras and smartphones around us.
Personal freedom is our most precious right in this country. It's fundamental that we are free from being secretly tracked and profiled. We have the right to control our identities and to remain anonymous if we so choose. This type of technology makes it possible for government employees to find the names and private information of strangers on the street. Government needs to be accountable for its use.
Once technology like this gets into use, it tends to spread and the possibility of misuse becomes greater. At the least, Ohioans should have been informed of the plan for this technology and a full debate should have been conducted over how and when it would be used and what protections would be put in place.
Gov. John Kasich is right to say the program needs to be slowed down and given a public debate.
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Among those newly charged was the man's traveling companion, Martha Ramos Cano, 38, of Hurley, who allegedly helped arrange the robbery attempt against the victim, 44-year-old Eric Azarte. Authorities say she is the daughter of Hurley Municipal Court Judge Dave Ramos and the sister to Grant County Commissioner Gabriel Ramos.
Meanwhile, Salvador Sepulveda, 33, of Bayard on Monday became the second man accused in the Feb. 18 shooting. The first was a Silver City man was arrested last week.
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After the shooting, Cano began driving Azarte to the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City when they were intercepted by a Grant County Sheriff's Department deputy, who took Azarte to the hospital himself, authorities said.
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On Feb 19th my GUI — that's digiterati for "graphic user interface" — blew out. The blow out was not on the part of that big HP screen at my desk. It had to do with the enormous headache and frayed nerves triggered by a tsunami of SPAM and God knows what other malicious code I could not see, firing at minigun speed in the aftermath of changing from one ISP to another, making concentration on any one topic emotionally impossible!
Let's just say that by the time I arrived at The Beahive, kind of an open-source workspace operated by Chronogram in Kingston, N.Y., I was reverberating from an afternoon of swatting at spam like you'd flail at yellowjackets at a summer picnic. Adding to the static, as I approached I was pleading with customer support to see if they could do something to jump start stalled Internet service on my iPhone.
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– People are social. There wasn't much Web jargon among these digital cowboys and cowgirls. Mostly it was a pleasant social meetup, providing great opportunities to catch up and meet new people. If these attendees are at all representative of the 'social' in the Social Web, then we're in for more enrichment of the notion of community, especially when we get the opportunity to gather in person. Natural law: you cannot take people out of "social."
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– Fixed office space is an endangered species. Witness those attending the meetup who are making Chronogram's Beahive their business base as a validation of this tenet. In the not too distant past, moving into business entailed a search for an affordable office with a respectable address. That seems to have given way to the challenge of finding a shared, though still respectable, home-base location, which is one step beyond the home office and one step below having significant overhead of, say, a leased space in the Acme Building. What we are seeing, and I sense at a more and more rapid clip, is the assembly of service groups comprising independent contractors, consultants, and contract employees. Heck, we're just providing professional service firm expertise on a formula that now represents a quarter of the American workforce — 26 percent of workers in non-standard jobs.
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TIVOLI - Elections in the village are March 19, and Mayor Bryan Cranna has announced he will seek a second term.
"I'm proud to announce my campaign for re-election. I offer my record to the residents of Tivoli to consider," Cranna said in a statement.
Cranna said he is confident his record of service in the village will speak for itself. He spent seven years as a village trustee before becoming mayor.
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From the December issue: Ruby Schron is not the type of real estate mogul who has racks of shiny suits spilling out of his closet.
Associates of the septuagenarian investor describe him as "the opposite of pretentious" and "anything but glitzy" — a man so careful with his money that he still lives in the same single-family home in Brooklyn where he raised his eight children, even as his fortune has swelled into the hundreds of millions of dollars. [more]


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Richard Thompson, creator of "Cul de Sac," and winner of the 2011 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, has graciously offered to sign copies of this beautiful book when you place your order through One More Page. Because cartoonists, like banjo players, are lovable but unpredictable, we can't guarantee a delivery time. We thank you in advance for your support, and your patience. You can click here or call us at 703-300-9746 to be among the select and stand up for America by purchasing a signed copy of The Art of Richard Thompson!
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Suez Signs 30-Year Water Management Contract With Sanya
Gerard Mestrallet, Chairman and CEO of SUEZ, signed a contract on May 8th with the city of Sanya (Hainan Province of the People's Republic of China), for the provision of potable water to the city's 200,000 inhabitants for a 30 year duration.
The contract won by ONDEO Services, a SUEZ subsidiary, provides for the acquisition of three production facilities with a combined capacity of 230,000 m3/d, operation and maintenance and customer service management, for the duration of the contract. The total investment is 36 million euros.
The contract shall be entered into between Sino-French Water Development, a joint subsidiary of ONDEO and the New World group from Hong Kong and the Hainan Tianya Water Industry Holding Company, and will see the incorporation of a Sino-Foreign Joint Venture on a 50/50 basis between the two parties.
This new contract will further strengthen ONDEO's leading position and presence in China where it currently manages 9 long term water contracts in the provinces of Guandong (Tanzhou, Zhongshan and Lianjiang), Liaoning (Shenyang and Changtu), Jilin (Siping), Henan (Zhengzhou), Hubei (Baoding) and Jiangxi (Nanchang). In 2000, overall ONDEO Services activities in China including Macao and Hong Kong, represent a global turnover of approximately 300 million euros. ONDEO services manages 18 water treatment facilities serving an estimated population in excess of 10 million people and ONDEO Degremont has built over the last 20 years more than 110 water plants in China.
Mestrallet signed the Contract on May 8 during his visit to China and Hong Kong. Mr. Mestrallet commented: "This is an important contract in a city experiencing significant urban growth and is a proof of the confidence the Government has in ONDEO's ability to offer sustainable solutions for the provision of water services to the population". He added: "By combining water production and customer services, the Sanya contract is a very innovative one in China".
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It was Saturday, March 16 the day before St. Patrick's Day and Telford, 8, was among six children testing their luck against the Luck of the Irish.
The room at the E3 Children's Museum was a whir of activity from 1-3 p.m. as the children assembled leprechaun traps.
"They're going to think it's gold," Telford said pointing at the glitter-encrusted paper shamrock he cut out.
He rigged up a rubber band to a triggering device.
"It releases the top and traps the leprechaun," he said with a slight lisp.
Telford has high hopes for his trap.
The leprechaun will lead him to a pot of gold nearly as tall as he is, and wide as his arms outspread, Telford said.
As for the gold, "I'm going to buy Star Wars," he said with a grin.
Cherie Powell, education coordinator at the museum, said the leprechaun trap event is one of her favorites.
"I just tell them they need something to lure the leprechauns and something to keep them trapped," she said. "That's all I give them. They're so inventive."
The traps get particularly complex when fathers are involved in the projects, she said. The traps they create with their children range from simple rope-and-stick triggers to elaborate Rube Goldberg machines that use devices such as a falling cup attached to a string to entrap the magical creatures.
"I've even had girl traps," Powell said. "Girls would come in and make their boxes all pink and say, "the lady leprechauns are going to love that.'"
Haleigh Allen, 11, rigged up a box trap of her own.
"He takes the gold," she said placing a little gold-painted nugget at the back of the box, "then the string pulls the stick and the lid shuts."
Allen carefully planned her strategy.
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DENVER, Colo., (August 19, 2013) — Children
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A recent Jobs Rated Almanac listed the top six jobs as (1) web site manager, (2) actuary, (3) computer systems analyst, (4) software engineer, (5) mathematician, and (6) computer programmer. Union University can prepare you for these careers and more - with degrees in computer science and digital media studies. Job placement in such high-demand careers has been excellent for Union graduates. Our programs also prepare you for further study in graduate programs, engineering, or professional schools in business, law and medicine.
A background in mathematics, computer science and statistics complements a solid Christ-centered liberal arts core to give Union graduates a lifetime career advantage. An education with an emphasis in the mathematical and computer sciences teaches students to think critically, solve problems creatively, organize information, handle technical language and notation, and to speak and write effectively. Many businesses today place a priority on these analytical and communication skills.
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Stevens Pass bike park opens Saturday
WENATCHEE -- Snow has been cleared from three trails so that the Stevens Pass Bike Park can open Saturday for the season. Two new bike trails and a skills course are set to open later this summer.
The Wenatchee World reports it is the state's only lift-accessed biking area.
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An acquaintance of mine once told me that he went drinking with Christopher Hitchens and in the middle of a conversation, and apropos of nothingor nothing worth mentioningHitchens declared, "Four most overrated things: Picnics, lobster, champagne and anal sex!" Assuming the story wasn't completely apocryphal, I'm not sure what Hitchens has against picnics, but I sort of liked the sentiment behind the statementhere are four things every normal red-blooded American is supposed to like, and let's face it, they're not that great. I feel that way about scuba diving (conceptually absurd), Harry Potter books (should never be read by adults unless they have children under the age of 10), parades (loud, annoying traffic-blockers) and women's magazinesbut mostly the women's magazines.
Women's magazines make the overrated list because I am, by all objective accounts, a woman and these publications are ostensibly targeting mebut they're not, apparently, or I'd buy them and I'd read them. As it happens, I'm exponentially more likely to buy Esquire off the newsstand than Vogue. I realize that Vogue's circulation numbers would seem to indicate that I am in the minority, but enough of my female friends feel the same way that I'm inclined to think there's a market that isn't being served.
In an attempt to be open-minded, I routinely try these things again, just to see if they're any better than the last time I tried them. (Most recently: parades. Still annoying.) In that spirit I went out and bought the most recent issue of every major large-circulation women's mag I could find on the newsstand and read them all to see if I felt any differently.
Here's an exercise: Below is a sample list of the titles I bought, which issue I read, the cover story subject and the various coverlines:
Elle: September (Jennifer Lopez on the cover)
10 Days to a New Body: It Won't Be Easy---But It Can Be Done!
Jennifer Lopez: Answers the Questions You've Been Dying to Ask
Fall Fashion Extravaganza!
Single and Loving It: Is Now the Best Time to Be On Your Own?
Plastic Surgery Update: Why Some Celebs Look So Scary (And How to Avoid the Same Fate!)
540 Pages of Great Style!: Your Biggest Shopping Guide Ever!
The New Supersexy Jeans You'll Want Today
Plus: The Best Boots to Buy Now
What Does Your Hair Say About You?
Fertility Wars: Is Egg Donation The New Dirty Little Secret?
Marie Claire: September (Reese Witherspoon)
Fall Beauty: 73 Best Hair and Makeup Looks for You!
What Gets You Noticed First?
Reese [Witherspoon] On Loving Her "Imperfect" Body & the Fight She's Taking Public
Save Big $$$ on Fashion: 803 Sexy Looks: All Shapes * All Sizes * All Prices
The Wine Chocolate & Cheese Diet (It Really Works!)
Break Your Worry Habit
Hot Sex: 4 Facts You'll Love
Will You Get Rich? A Revealing Test
Busted! Men Who Take Sex Tours
Free! Designer Makeup
Vogue: August (Madonna)
Living With Cancer: A Model's Will to Survive
The Age Issue: Stylish and Inspiring Lives From 8 to 81
Fashion Star at 20
Rocket Scientist at 30
TV Dynamo at 40
Life of the Party at 50
Queen of Vegas at 60
Eco Heroine at 70
Working Girl at 80
Madonna: Reinvented for the Very Last Time: Marvelous Mom and English Lady of the Manor
The Secret to Tight, Toned Arms (It's Not Just Exercise)
The Second Sexual Revolution: Heating Up the Bedroom at Any Age
Harper's Bazaar: August (Cate Blanchett)
New Season: 525 Ideas
Quick & Easy Beauty Tips
Fall Preview Issue
Fashion Buys You'll Never Regret
Fabulous at Every Age
Glamour: Supersize Anniversary Issue! (September 2005)
Your Best Sex at 20, 30, 40: What Works & Doesn't for You and for Him
How to Outsmart Stress (In One Minute or Less)
Must Read Bonus!: 800 Sexy Looks for Every Size
Free Diamonds! Massive Giveaway
30 Things Every Woman Should Know by Age 30
Pick Jennifer Connelly's Best Fall Look: Open Here!
Cosmopolitan: The Hot Issue (August), Kate Hudson
Sex Survey: 5,000 Men Took It: The Position They Crave, Their Biggest Turn-off, The Female Flex They Love
How to Read His Feelings Instantly
Love Being Naked! 17 Body Confidence Boosters
Guys Uncensored: You Won't Believe The Dirty Thoughts Dudes Have
4 Gyno Mistakes You Must Learn About
Sizzling Sex Tips: End Your Summer with a Bang!
Kate Hudson: A Very Revealing Interview
The Best Jeans for Your Shape
I'd feel guilty about judging a magazine by its cover, except that everyone doesask the cover testing experts. Newsstand sales are inherently cover-sensitive.
So here's my central issue: if gender-neutral aliens from another planet were to land on earth and could only learn about women from the covers of women's mags, they would probably make the following assumptions:
1. Women tend to be disproportionately enthusiastic about banal things, thus the astronomical number of exclamation marks.
2. Women care mostly and overwhelmingly about clothes and makeup application.
3. In order to cognitively process how the aforementioned clothes and makeup are to be worn, women need a specific number of optionssay, 803. Or 540. (On the upside, this would perhaps refute the stereotype that women are not quantitatively oriented.)
4. In fact, we really can't process any of this information without seeing it in the same format every single time: numbered lists about fashion and beauty lining a photo of a heavily airbrushed celebrity, usually in eveningwear, against a solid-colored background. And if there's room in the lower right or upper left corner, the occasional heartwrenching "one-woman's story" about overcoming some problem not of her own making or oppression in a third world country. Any deviations from this format will cause space and time to collapse, and the executive editors will be held responsible. And if you're Harper's Bazaar, you can make the headlines so generic and interchangeable that the reader can't tell from reading the cover what year it is or even tell the difference between this month's issue and last month's.
5. We're perfectly comfortable with taking one particular anecdotal situation and overgeneralizing wildly from it. (On the downside, this would perhaps reinforce the stereotype that women are not empirically-oriented.)
6. We like free stuff and stuff at low cost. We're cheap, in other words. (To be fair, sometimes we are.)
7. We hate our bodies the way they are, and we love them the way they are. Simultaneously.
8. We're interested in learning about sex, but primarily so that we can provide more pleasure to our husbands, boyfriends and not-entirely-condoned casual lovers.
These things are problematic because sort of woman who fits the criteria above is alien to me. (If this piece were a women's mag, they'd be some of my "483 Biggest Turn-Offs About Women's Magazines!") I hate shopping; I use cosmetics but don't pay attention to the brands; and given that my favorite book title is from a collection of Robert Crumb letters called Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me [period], it's probably safe to say that I'm not the sort of person who overuses exclamatory sentences. I don't know who this hypothetical target woman is, but she's not me.
That's not so say that I think women's magazines are terrible. I don't. They've done a number of good things including raising awareness about women's health issues, addressing gender in the workplace and providing a forum for both genders to talk more openly about sex. And if you're into shopping, beauty products, etc., they're perfect. But they also (perhaps unwittingly) reinforce a very limited notion of what it means to be a woman.
I sat next to the editor in chief of one women's mag at a dinner last year and got pulled into a conversation in which another women's mag colleague lamented that women's weren't taken seriously enough by the rest of the media industry. I mentioned that I tend to read men's mags more often than women's mags, which they seemed to find offensive, as if I had betrayed my gender. "I'm interested in politics and business," I said, "and I want to read pieces that have a sense of humor." "Well!" snapped the editor in chief, "I don't see why women have to act like men to be considered worth reading!" As far as she was concerned, politics and finance were exclusively male realms of interest and I suppose men had a monopoly on funny as well. I also suggested that men's mags were more willing and likely to do features that were controversial, which prompted the editor to point out that she got over 20 pieces of hate mail for a feature her magazine ran about women whose kids were eligible for a military draft, should such a thing return. Not wanting to start a fight, I declined to suggest that twenty pieces of hate mail for seven-figure circulation base struck me as an incredibly low ratio for a controversial piece. (I probably get more hate mail daily for typos alone.)
I'm not going to suggest, however, that Anna Wintour revamp her cash-cow formula for putting out a successful mass market magazine. I'm going to suggest insteadselfishly, no lessthat if you're planning to start one of the hundreds of new publications that will inevitably launch in the near future, and that publication happens to be a women's magazine, that you think about the portion of the audience that's less obsessed with fashion and gynecological issues. Some specific recommendations:
1. Include more hard reportage. Women's books are universally service-oriented, and that's not surprising, but a deeper feature well would attract people like me who don't buy self-help books and won't take advice from our own mothers, much less glossy magazines.
2. Make sure that the reportage is not exclusively about self-conscious problem solving with regard to gender. When Esquire (to use the aforementioned example) sends Tucker Carlson to Africa with Al Sharpton it's difficult to make an argument that it's a gender-targeted feature. It's certainly not the sort of thing that forces men to earnestly navel-gaze and think, "how does this make me feel as a man?"
3. Take more risks. Maxim UK's Greg Gutfeld sent a terminally ill patient to Vegas a few months ago with a bunch of strippers (or were they hookers? I don't remember.) It was the Maxim version of the Make-a-Wish foundation and it was horribly, irredeemably tasteless. And I can't stop talking about it. It was, if nothing else, memorable. (And I don't think it exactly hurt circulation, either.) I can't remember a single women's mag story I can say that aboutand I feel obligated to read enough of them solely because I'm the editor of a media site.
4. Be funny. This is fuzzier, but funny and sarcastic are not the same thing. Writing that something is soooooo last year is funny the first 572 timesthen it's clichéd. And reader confessions about embarrassing moments can be funny, but most of the time, they're just cringe-inducing. Credit where credit's due: Jane magazine attempts funny, and occasionally nails it. (From the August issue: "Why That New Wave of Faux Empowering Dating Advice Blows", wherein the writer follows women's mag dating advice literally and to the letter.)
Please, someone, start this magazine, on behalf of fashion-agnostic, cosmetic-apathetic women everywhere. (I'm almost inclined to end that sentence with a gratuitous exclamation point.)
If you do, I'll be reading.
Elizabeth Spiers is the editor-in-chief of mediabistro.com.


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The tournament will be played at the old airport in Roswell. It will begin Friday morning and end Saturday afternoon. Carlsbad High School will face Los Lunas for the first round Friday morning and are guaranteed five matches over the weekend.So far this season the Cavemen are winless, but Coach Steven Hicks is confident that his club can return home with several wins.
On Tuesday, the team lost a heartbreaker to Alamogordo High School 5-4 on overtime, in what the team calls a learning experience. Coach Hicks is excited about the progress the team has made.
"Many of the things we had practiced and talked about are transposing on the field, and our offense is coming along very well." Hicks said. "The offense seems to be the life of the team so far this season, a characteristic that the club has been missing for several years."
Senior Nate Niemeier and sophomore Andrew Quintela are tied for goals scored this season with two each. Quintela describes his start of the season as "exciting." Niemeier scored his two goals against Alamogordo on Tuesday. He describes the start of his season as "Great!"
"We have been playing so much better and with more confidence as we play more games," he said.
The team will be traveling shorthanded this weekend as they are dealing with two injured starters. Ryan Garcia is out with a possible season-ending back injury, and Douglas Vandenberg (12) is suffering from a hip injury that will prevent him from playing.
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The Coyote Classic is a competitive tournament that will further prepare the team for the season ahead. The Cavemen will have their home opener on Sept. 9 against a fast Gadsden team that is no stranger to scoring.
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Ford told the people gathered at Metropolitan United Methodist Church that more Democrats need to run for statewide office because of Republicans' current domination of state government. He said he had not decided what office he might run for but did point out a position he finds of particular importance.
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Newlyweds Justin Timberlake and Jessia Biel enjoyed a romantic cinema date over the weekend as the stars went to see Daniel Craig in the new James Bond movie 'Skyfall' in New York and while the low key couple looked like any other lover birds enjoying some alone time, we couldn't miss the rock on the actress' finger.
The couple tied the knot in a lavish ceremony in Italy last month after five years of dating, with the week long celebration thought to have cost around $6 million. Jessica, who wore an elaborate pale pink gown, looked dressed down in jeans, ballet pumps and a grey knee length coat for the cinema date.
Justin looked as equally relaxed as they made their way to Regal Cinemas in Union Square, sporting a blue jacket, checked shirt, black rimmed glasses and an on trend fedora hat. But despite their dressed down state, the stars still gave away their A list status with the stunning 18 carat engagement ring that Justin proposed with last Christmas, on the 'A Team' beauty's finger.
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The white gold and black rhodium-plated engagement ring with two aquamarine elements representing Jessica's birthstone sparkled on her finger as they made their way across the road, Justin tenderly putting his arm around her as they crossed the road.
The date comes just days after the newly-weds helped out victims of Hurricane Sandy. Giving out essential supplies in the New York area to those affected.


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Like school children sending notes back and forth across the classroom, Ted Leo and Aimee Mann were constantly exchanging songs cross-country in preparation for "The Both." Their debut release isn't so much a work of two separately renowned artists, but one in which the Both come together to create something unified, cohesive and extraordinarily catchy.
Aimee Mann captivated the seated listeners at the Pageant with her self-described mid-tempo rock, sharply written lyrics and candid on-stage banter.
With Mother's Day holiday serving as a day of reflection of sorts, a witty, light-hearted Ted Leo played a highly entertaining solo set of his original songs while paying homage to a few of his musical influences Sunday night.
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The Mar del Plata International Film Festival - the oldest film festival in the Americas, will take place next year between March 6 and 15. Originally established in 1954, the 2003 edition will be the sixth since its re-launch.
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Fakie is the term coined by My Little Pony collectors for off-brand toys trying to get in on the popularity of My Little Ponies. The toys vary from exact casts of genuine ponies to toys that are barely recognizable as equine. Some collectors have even taken to collecting fakies.
Most fakies date to Generation 1, although several have appeared during Generation 3.
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Collectors have dubbed this pony "Princess Rinse 'n Spit" because of her extremely pronounced open jaw full of big horsey teeth.
- She comes in various colors, and with both plastic and yarn hair.
- She (sometimes?) has two different sound mechanisms behind her two differently placed 3-d symbols, and a speaker in her mouth.
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Thesummer season has produced some unexpected heavyweights at the South Koreanbox-office. Following a year in whichlocal titles My Sassy Girl ($24m) and Kick The Moon ($21)dominated theatres, the strongest performer has been Steven Spielberg's MinorityReport, remaining atop thebox-office for five weeks after its July 26 release and earning over $17m.
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BRIDGETON — Cumberland County residents could be receiving text messages, emails and even postings to Facebook the next time the area faces a serious public emergency.
The county 9-1-1 Communications office went online this week with the Nixle Community Information Service, a system that offers those contact options. The same service is in use at two area municipalities.
Director of Public Safety James Matlock and William Gonzalez, chief of the 9-1-1 office, briefed the Board of Freeholders Tuesday night on the Nixle system.
After the June 30 storm, when there was ice distribution, we could have utilized this network to be able to communicate via text message and email to contact those individuals who still had use of their cellphones but who may not have had electricity, Gonzalez said. And that would have allowed us to at least give them updates as to what types of services were offering and allow us the ability to provide them with a synopsis of what weve got going on.
Matlock said Nixle does not cost the county money.
A range of natural disasters has tested Cumberland Countys emergency notification procedures in the past few years. The major tool the county has for reaching residents is the reverse 9-1-1 telephone system, which automatically places calls to residents with landlines or who have registered their cellphones with the county.
We dont want to see the reverse 9-1-1 eliminated, Gonzalez said. But what wed like to do is add this new system to that so wed be able to reach more members of the public during times of emergencies. But also offer those individuals who have a published number and are a member of the 9-1-1 system the ability to register with Nixle to also receive these alerts via the text message, email and/or Facebook social media. Its a program wed like to see grow.
According to the county, Nixel messages can be targeted within one-quarter mile of where registered residents would be affected. Subscribers can choose to be alerted by text, email or on the Internet.
Gonzalez said the system wont be used generally to send weather alerts. An exception, for example, would be if there was a warning of a tornado heading toward a specific area, he said.
Residents of the county and neighboring communities can register at www.nixle.com or by texting CCOEM911 to the telephone number 888777.
Nixle is currently in use by Vinelands Office of Emergency Management, Fairfields OEM and Bridgeton police. The New Jersey State Police also use Nixle.
Gonzalez said the reverse 9-1-1 systems cost to the county averages between $8,000 and $10,000 per year. Grants pay for that system, he said.


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This was years ago. I was riding a high strung little Arab gelding I called "Rooster". He was a very forward moving, brave horse. He suddenly stopped in the road and perked his ears. I could see that he was anxious. He was so uptight that I felt like I was sitting on a rocket that was about to launch. Then I heard it. I thought that I must be mistaken, but as I got closer, there was no doubt. It was bagpipes. I was on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere. This guy was marching along, playing his bagpipes. He stopped playing and I was able to approach him. He said that he was marching along the dirt road just for the practice. Every time he played his bagpipes in his subdivision, the police would show up and threaten to arrest him for disturbing the peace. He waited until I got a bit down the road, and then he started playing again. It was beautiful music, but you could hear it a mile away! It was weeks before my horse would go down that road without looking wide eyed and worried.


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Pierce Brosnan hangs around the picturesque Mediterranean for a child's destination wedding again in "Love Is All You Need," but unlike "Mamma Mia!" his co-star isn't Meryl Streep, he doesn't sing the buoyant songs of ABBA and he isn't in an entertaining movie.
"Love Is All You Need" is the latest from Danish writer/director Susanne Bier, perhaps the worst director ever to win an Oscar (for "In a Better World"). Like almost all of her work, "Love Is All You Need" is contrived, makes glib use of real problems (breast cancer, in this case), miscasts at least one good actor so badly it's as if Bier is making fun of her (Paprika Steen) and implies that the actions of people the world over are guided by an extremely lazy screenwriter.
How else to explain the hackneyed scene that gets "Love Is All You Need" moving? Meek breast cancer survivor Ida (Trine Dyrholm) is backing out of a parking space in Denmark when she plows into a car driven by crabby tycoon Philip (Pierce Brosnan). They don't know each other, but it turns out they're both headed to the same Italian wedding, where his son is going to marry her daughter. And where they will probably fall in love, since they've just met-cute.
It's possible "Love Is All You Need" is supposed to be a manic farce, but Bier's drably realistic direction makes it difficult to tell. The crazy/unbelievable events that follow suggest farce -- for instance, Ida's estranged husband shows up at the wedding, accompanied by the girlfriend Ida just caught him cheating with -- but the characters are so nonsensical it's impossible to figure out what movie Bier thinks she's making.
Led by the valiant Dyrholm, the actors do the best they can. But it just comes off as sad watching the intelligent Steen struggle to deliver a speech in which her monstrous character makes fun of her daughter's bulimia while also revealing that she wishes she had aborted her -- all of which is supposed to be comic.
It's not, of course, but I will say this for "Love Is All You Need": It's hard to imagine a dreadful movie taking place in a prettier, sunnier place.
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Police looking for driver who hit bicyclist in NE Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. – Police are looking for a driver who hit a bicyclist in Northeast Portland and took off Wednesday night.
Brian Lyons, 48, of Happy Valley, suffered non-life-threatening injuries after being hit at about 9 p.m., police said. He flew over the hood of the car and landed on the ground.
According to police, Lyons told them he was riding in the bike lane westbound on Weidler when the car turned into him and then drove off northbound on 104th Avenue.
Lyons was taken to the hospital.
Police said the car that hit Lyons is a four-door silver 2004 or 2005 Subaru or Honda hatchback with a tail or spoiler.
Anyone who has information about the incident is asked to call (503) 823-2103 and reference case number 12-87176.