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" Genre: Television / Parental Guidance / DVD released 2006-07-17 at ITV Studios / Features of the DVD: PAL "
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By the Pricking of my Thumbs (which is a line from Shakespeare play Macbeth) is an Agatha Christie novel made into a TV film starring Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple with Anthony Andrews and Greta Scacchi as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford visit Tommy's aging aunt Ada at a retirement home and whilst she's happy to see Tommy, she pretty much tells Tuppence to leave them alone. Tuppence waits in the communal living area downstairs where she gets into conversation with the mysterious Mrs Lancaster who claims there's a child's body behind the fireplace and asks if the child is Tuppence's. Tommy, who works for MI5 goes away on business when Tuppence receives a call from the home to say Aunt Ada has passed away in the night and her belongings will be forwarded to the Beresfords as her only relatives. Amongst the belongings is a portrait of a cottage which Tuppence is sure didn't belong to Ada and hidden behind it is a letter saying there has been a murder and that "Mrs Lancaster isn't safe." Tuppence finds that Mrs Lancaster was taken away from the home the same night that Ada died and meets Miss Marple during her visit to the home, who decides to help her find out what's going on.
I've read a couple of Tommy and Tuppence novels and was rather confused to find Miss Marple appearing in this film. So I looked up the original book (which I haven't yet read) and sure enough Miss Marple was not in it! As this was part of the Miss Marple TV series starring Geraldine McEwan, Miss Marple's character was included in the story with Tommy Beresford being away for a large part of the story on MI5 business. The novel was published in 1968 yet the film seems to be set in the 1950s!
I was rather saddened to see the liberties taken with some of the characters having read other Tommy and Tuppence stories including one set in a time before they were married. Tuppence was a vivacious young girl and Tommy was crazy about her, they solved crimes together. In By the Pricking of my Thumbs Tommy is portrayed to be a rather pompous individual who doesn't seem to have much time for his wife whereas Tuppence is shown to have a drinking problem with a husband who forgets that they used to solve crimes together. I would also add here that in the Miss Marple and Poirot stories which were written for decades the main characters never aged but in the Tommy and Tuppence stories (which were obviously not as famous as Marple and Poirot due to far fewer stories being penned with them) the characters aged, being in their 20s in their first book together and in their 60s in this story I'm discussing.
Notwithstanding the differences between the main characters in the film and in the books, this was an enjoyable film. The elderly aunt at the home seemed typical of a doting mother happy to see her son and not interested in making small talk with the daughter-in-law, except she's the aunt in this case. Greta Scacchi plays the role of Tuppence quite well, displaying the right amount of polite indifference to the aunt who's openly nasty to her and portraying ably a hurt mother trying to get in contact with her various children away at school and college who don't seem to have time to speak with her or if they do with derision asking if she's drinking again.
When the aunt passes away and Tuppence finds the note in the back of the painting directing her back to the home when Ada died, she's only too happy to share her suspicions with Miss Marple who dissuades her from going to the police about the woman who runs the home. She saw her transferring something from a bottle to the resident's tonic and she assumed it was poison, Miss Marple puts her straight saying it was just the tonic being watered down to make it last longer as she knew for a fact the woman has a kind heart as she kept on a resident free of charge who unable to pay for her keep anymore. Miss Marple and Tuppence travel down to the village of Farrell St Edmund together in Tuppence's sports car which is an eventful journey as Tuppence doesn't seem to be too good a driver and their banter on the journey was quite amusing with Miss Marple claiming to be a good navigator and Tuppence claiming to be an able driver, neither of which seems to be true! McEwan and Scacchi had a good on screen rapport throughout the film.
There are quite famous actors in the film such as the charming Josie Lawrence playing the jolly landlady of the pub where Miss Marple and Tuppence stay whilst in a village where there seem to be many secrets from the past and present. Charles Dance plays the vicar, Septimus Bligh (now there's an interesting name), who also has a drinking problem. His character was unbelievably rude, which I'm pretty sure would be unacceptable behaviour for any vicar - imagine saying someone's child is evil to visitors to your village and then saying he really likes her in his next breath!
Bonnie Langford and Brian Conley play the annoying but bearable Mr & Mrs Johnson who run the village shop (with Langford as squeaky and annoying as I've ever found her) with their precocious daughter Nora played by the very cute Eliza Bennett. Leslie Phillips plays the local squire Sir Phillip Starke who dotes on young Nora as he never had children of his own.
It's interesting that Anthony Andrews is shown before Greta Scacchi in the credits considering he didn't have a lot of screen time; his character is abroad on business for a large part of the film. I've always had a soft spot for Andrews but found his character rather too pompous to be amicable although I assume this is how he was supposed to come across. In one scene he barges into a solicitor's office demanding information in such an arrogant manner it was totally unbelievable of a character as decent as Tommy Beresford was supposed to be.
The story itself runs quite well although it seems somehow too coincidental that Miss Marple was visiting the home twice at the same time to see an old neighbour as when Tuppence was there. Obviously they needed to meet so they could investigate together but as this was cobbled together to include Miss Marple in a story in which she didn't originally appear I guess they couldn't make it any more logical as I'm sure Agatha Christie could have done had this happened in the book!
Overall I'm giving By the Pricking of my Thumbs a decent 4 out of 5. Although I was verging on giving it a 3, I did find this an entertaining watch regardless of inconsistencies of two of the main characters, namely Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. As a standalone film without prior knowledge of the characters written by Agatha Christie, the film can hold its own!
Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Greta Scacchi, Anthony Andrews, June Whitfield, Leslie Phillips, Brian Conley, Bonnie Langford, Michelle Ryan, Stephen Berkhoff, Josie Lawrence, Charles Dance, O T Fagbenie
Director: Peter Medak
Writer: Agatha Christie
Screenplay: Stewart Harcourt
Producer: Matthew Read
Release date: 2006
Duration: 93 minutes
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Experience delivering at Shady Grove?
I will be delivering at Shady Grove tomorrow morning Via C/S. I can update you on my experience this weekend? When is your EDD?
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I plan on delivering there as well - my EDD is 12/26. I also would love to know other's experiences.
@luci28g - good luck tomorrow!! I hope everything goes well!
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Great to know...I was also curious about this, b/c that's where I'll be spending a few days in mid-July :)
My EDD is March 1. I've gone in to L&D once due to contractions and I at least know that the nurses there, at least the one that I had, are very nice and attentive.
Overall good experience for us too. I used a midwife and the L&D nurse was very supportive of my natural birth goals even though the MW had not arrived at the hospital yet. Private room is definitely nice, and the Lactation nurse was helpful. The food isn't great - but what hospital food is?! DH went across the street and got me a chocolate milkshake and onion rings from Cheeburger the day after delivery, LOL.
The only complaint we had was that the first recovery nurse didn't give us any real information - and we didn't find out until much later that she was supposed to orient us to the room and - more importantly - what to be on the lookout for with LO. Like in terms of things like pooping or sleeping or other signs. We had a freak-out in the MOTN the second night and the overnight nurse was like "didn't the first nurse tell you that this would be normal?" Umm, no! But the hospital called me afterwards for a survey and I told them about our concerns, so hopefully that won't happen to anyone else.
Good luck, ladies!
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Lactation support is fantastic. I had a lactation consultant come in to my room with each delivery sinc we couldn't make it to the group meeting(hearing checks, pediatrician visits, etc) and I did not have that option at Anne Arundel. I'm thankful I was a third time mom when I delivered there.
Don't hesitate to ask your nurses for help, my first son was hiccuping for nearly an hour when he was 6 hours old, and our nurse chuckled and reassured me that it was okay and he wouldn't spontaneously combust from all of the hiccups(DH was more concerned than I was!)
Overall, I was very pleased with my time spent there, and wish I would have been able to deliver there for my third baby. Best of luck to you!
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Update on my experience: Delivered my beautiful baby boy at SGAH on Friday 11/30 via C/S. Checked in at 6am with Scheduled C/S at 8am. My LO was born at 8:23am. Nurses and staff there are wonderful!!! Loved each and every one of them. I experienced alot of blood loss with blood clots and had to get a blood transfusion. The nurses, doctors and staff were very quick and attentive. Hospital food was ok but hey, what hospital food is really the best? The only thing I will give advice for is bring change for vending machines. The vending machines do not provide change back and all the cafeteria and shops were closed on Saturday. Other than that it was an overall great experience and highly recommended to those who plan on delivering there
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pshhht. it looks pretty good!!! ^^
haha! i bet it didn't take THAT long! ^^
haha! i bet it didn't take THAT long! ^^
It did. And it's not even good.
what a low self-esteem... so did you try corel painter yet? i don't know why, but the layer sometimes only by itself turn red... it pisses me off SSSSSOOOOOOO much
I did, but I didn't do anything worth saving yet. I'm still trying to figure things out and the layer thing is weird, but I can manage.
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Where is the "plain language" of ESEA that gives the Department of Education the authority to mandate statewide teacher-evaluation systems, particularly for states that want waivers on school accountability. Just as with ObamaCare and the question of whether the federal government is a "state," the administration won't have a good answer.
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I want to automatically divide an image of ancient handwritten text by lines (and by words in future).
The first obvious part is preprocessing the image...
I'm just using a simple digitization (based on brightness of pixel). After that I store data into two-dimensional array.
The next obvious part is analyzing the binary array.
My first algorithm was pretty simple - if there are more black pixels in a row of the array than the root-mean-square of Maximum and Minimum value, then this row is part of line.
After forming the list of lines I cut off lines with height that is less than average. Finally it turned out into some kind of linear regression, trying to minimize the difference between the blank rows and text rows. (I assumed that fact)
My second attempt - I tried to use GA with several fitness functions. The chromosome contained 3 values - xo, x1, x2. xo [-1;0] x1 [0;0.5] x2 [0;0.5]
Function, that determines identity the row to line is (xo + α1 x1 + α2 x2) > 0, where α1 is scaled sum of black pixels in row, α2 is median value of ranges between the extreme black pixels in row. (a1,a2 [0,1]) Another functions, that i tried is (x1 < α1 OR x2 > α2) and (1/xo + [a1 x1] / [a2 x2] ) > 0 The last function is the most efficient. The fitness function is (1 / (HeigthRange + SpacesRange)
Where range is difference between maximum and minimum. It represents the homogeneity of text. The global optimum of this function - the most smooth way to divide the image into lines.
I am using C# with my self-coded GA (classical, with 2-point crossover, gray-code chromosomes, maximum population is 40, mutation rate is 0.05)
Now I ran out of ideas how to divide this image into lines with ~100% accuracy.
What is the efficient algorithm to do this?
UPDATE: Original image Original BMP (1.3 MB)
UPDATE2: Improved results on this text to 100%
How i did it:
- fixed minor bug in range count
- changed fitness function to 1/(distancesRange+1)*(heightsRange+1))
- minimized classifying function to (1/xo + x2/range) > 0 (points in row now don't affect classification) (i.e. optimized input data and made fitness function optimizations more explicit)
GA surprisingly failed to recognize this line. I looked at debug data of 'find rages' function and found, that there is too much noise in 'unrecognized' place. The function code is below:
public double[] Ranges()
var ranges = new double[_original.Height];
for (int y = 0; y < _original.Height; y++ )
ranges[y] = 0;
var dx = new List<int>();
int last = 0;
int x = 0;
while (last == 0 && x<_original.Width)
if (_bit[x, y])
last = x;
if (last == 0)
ranges[y] = 0;
for (x = last; x<_original.Width; x++)
if (!_bit[x, y]) continue;
if (last != x - 1)
last = x;
if (dx.Count > 2)
ranges[y] = dx[dx.Count / 2];
//ranges[y] = dx.Average();
ranges[y] = 0;
var maximum = ranges.Max();
for (int i = 0; i < ranges.Length; i++)
if (Math.Abs(ranges[i] - 0) < 0.9)
ranges[i] = maximum;
return ranges;
I'm using some hacks in this code. The main reason - I want to minimize the range between nearest black pixels, but if there are no pixels, the value becomes '0', and it becomes impossible to solve this problem with finding optimas. The second reason - this code is changing too frequently. I'll try to fully change this code, but I have no idea how to do it.
- If there is more efficient fitness function?
- How to find more versatile determination function?


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It is a post card that I brought to last year's Comiket.
I like the atmosphere of the first train train.
I like the atmosphere of the first train train.
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Stunning piece! Pretty color palette.
the feels * - *
for a second I thought it said you bought this XD and I was like REALLY DD? REALLY? but no, this is great and the DD is well deserved. Great style <3
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runs away to kick cat off tablet
I love this scene! I like how you captured the last stars as the morning starts to dawn, and how the whole picture has an 'anime' quality to it. And of course, the woman sitting there is beautiful, I love her face (and ears!)
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Heartwarming ♥
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Congratulations on dd!!
Wow, it's really pretty!
what art materials were used for this?
How do you draw so well TT
This is so amazingly fantastic! This atmosphere is definitely superb! Nice work!
Positively stunning atmosphere. I feel like I'm sitting in there with her. What a wonderful feeling! Lovely work.
I wonder what she's gazing at?
Whatchu doin', cat girl? ;3
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Very nice!
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Have a nice day!
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Ah, that's where I can find some neko! So, if I want to find one - I should use first train? Damn, that's early.
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The stocks of both British-based banks, which have heavy emerging-markets biases, can climb by 10% to 20% over the next 12 months, although HSBC has the stronger hand to play.
HSBC (ticker: HBC) agreed to pay a $1.9 billion penalty, but that figure was significantly below some of the more bearish estimates of $4 billion to $5 billion. Standard Chartered (STAN.U.K.) took a $700 million hit. The settlements come at a time when banks are under heavy scrutiny from regulators around the world. Importantly, the fines are covered by loss provisions that both institutions already have booked. That means they can look at this experience as a painful lesson, dust themselves off, and get back to business.
HSBC's business-as-usual approach was illustrated a few days ahead of the settlement, with the disclosure that it is selling its 15.6% stake in Ping An Insurance 2318.HK -0.1682935038707506% Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China Ltd. A China: Shanghai CNY29.66 -0.05 -0.1682935038707506% /Date(1454706266000-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 33330201 P/E Ratio 9.57299164057709 Market Cap 533374675349.053 Dividend Yield 1.2137559002022926% Rev. per Employee 2506670 More quote details and news » (2318.Hong Kong) for $9.39 billion. The investment in the Chinese insurer, which gave HSBC no control over strategy, was at odds with management's focus. Its exit should come as no surprise, and the $2.6 billion after-tax profit on the disposal will help boost the bank's core Tier 1 capital ratio of 11.7%, already a comfortable level.
HSBC's management has been winning plaudits from investors for its strategy, which focuses on low-risk businesses and reallocating capital to growth products and markets. It is also winding down its U.S. portfolio, which should boost its return on equity to more than 11% in 2013 from 8.5% in 2011, according to analysts at Bernstein Research.
In a sign that the strategy is paying off, profit more than doubled in the third quarter, to $5 billion. Cost-cutting is showing results, too, and should exceed the $3.5 billion target for 2012.
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HSBC's shares have gained almost 31% since the beginning of 2012, closing on Friday at £6.41 in London, while its American depositary receipts were trading at about $52 in New York. At those quotes, the shares fetch 10.5 times forecast 2013 earnings, which is pricey compared with some rivals but inexpensive on a historical basis. Citigroup C 7.318467695826186% Citigroup Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD37.54 2.56 7.318467695826186% /Date(1455314428083-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 37846242 AFTER HOURS USD37.58 0.04 0.10655301012253596% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 274124 P/E Ratio 6.9647495361781075 Market Cap 110778279874.527 Dividend Yield 0.5327650506126798% Rev. per Employee 367386 More quote details and news » (C) and JPMorgan Chase JPM 8.328622573958922% JPMorgan Chase & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD57.49 4.42 8.328622573958922% /Date(1455314410523-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 36466941 AFTER HOURS USD57.45 -0.04 -0.06957731779439903% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 544411 P/E Ratio 9.597662771285476 Market Cap 206879502222.542 Dividend Yield 3.0614019829535573% Rev. per Employee 418310 More quote details and news » (JPM) both trade at about eight times expected 2013 profits.
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It's time to be strategic and forget about the rest. I'm not necessarily advocating that you pick two platforms and dump the rest. But you could certainly focus 80 per cent of your effort on those two that are well aligned, and put the others you've established in maintenance mode -- updating basic info from time to time.
In an election campaign that is extraordinary in so many ways, one of the more noteworthy changes is that there could be as many as five English-language leadership debates. More surprising and perplexing still is the way the CBC has abdicated its obligation as our public broadcaster to provide coverage of these events. The CBC, with its unparalleled household penetration, was not among the motley assemblage of television and web outlets that carried the initial Rogers-produced debate last week, nor will it be involved in the Globe and Mail/Google/YouTube effort next month.
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It follows you, it traps you and in this specific case (like so many others) it can ruin your life. There is no trash bin on social media. Yet it seems to happen time and time again. And the offenders are shocked all the same when they become the victims of their own ignorance. Here is a short primer on how to avoid a bout of public shaming. It's certainly not the authoritative volume on how to avoid and rectify situations like this, but let's use this as a friendly reminder of how to stay out of trouble.
The song "See you Again" by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, composed in honour of Paul Walker, has inspired countless covers by many young artists on YouTube. The haunting melody of the song, the feelings of love, nostalgia, longing, remembrance, sadness and consolation, recently led me to discover some wonderfully composed covers of the song.
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I am speachless. My daughter is 13 1/2 and she is the most horrible 13 year old she lies, shes violent, she speaks to me like crap. Her dad and I seperated 18 months ago and since she moved in with her dad and his girlfriend aprox 2months ago she has been worse than ever. Today when I felt like I missed her I decided to give her a call. The girlfriend answered and was all bitchy and yelled out to my daughter in a way to encourage her to not want to talk to me, I said to her to not talk like that and so my daughter yells to me to stop being a baby and that I'm mentaly sick and I just don't know it, just what her father says to me all the time. Encouraged by her dad and her dads girlfriend of course. I cried and then hung up. All I wanted to do was say hello but she is so brainwashed and bought by her dad ( he buys her whatever she wants, thats why she chose to live with him. I also couldn't handle her anymore) none of my other children are like her, she hasalways been somuch like her dad,it makes me sad. She haslearned his lieing, his violence and abusive mouth. Just crushes me. I can'tbelieve I created such a monster.
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Oh, I feel for you! I have an 18 year old daughter, and I know how bad the emotions and tempers and battleground can get. If anything, keep your cool, and know that she will come back to you. I know it's hard to believe, but teenagers go through a lot. They're conflicted, they are babies in grown up bodies. You will make it through this. I think it's also important that you and your new husband have a family meeting with your ex and his new wife to set some boundaries and guidelines for parenting. Because neither of you are doing her any favours with the ping ponging back and forth-she needs a strong united front to help her to grow into an adult. If that's too difficult, go together to a 3rd party like a family counselor. Keep your marriage and personal feeling out of it, and just be there for your girl together. It really sounds like she's struggling and angry. It also sounds like she might know that you think she's like her Dad, which could be hurting, if she knows you don't like him
As a mom who's made it through, and a child of divorce who gets the anger, I'm here to support you!
I agree with pp, you all need to be on the same page, the parents and girlfriend as well as the daughter,
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sure it is. they are both being ranked around the same in most lists.
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THE PENSIONS INDUSTRY may have been caught on the hop with George Osborne's unexpected upheaval of the regime, but tax advisers didn't get away scot-free.
While Budgets have been more benign under the coalition government, advisers were caught out with revisions to the taxing of properties purchased within corporate wrappers.
The stamp duty land tax (SDLT) and annual tax on enveloped dwellings (ATED) have been extended to cover properties worth between £500,000 and £2m. The SDLT rate starts from today, while new annual charge bandings will apply from April 2015 and the year after.
Advisers have expressed shock at the extension, as there had been no warning from HMRC or the Treasury that this was on the cards.
The taxman has been looking to crack down on tax avoidance by foreign buyers using corporate entities to buy and sell properties, but the new rates drag in many more properties into the regime.
"In reality it may be that these changes are designed to raise revenue from this constituency, or to encourage more property to be brought into the letting market," according to Charles Beer, a managing director at Alvarez & Marsal Taxand. "This particularly applies in London where anecdotally a lot of new flats in this value bracket are bought by foreign investors and left vacant."
Other advisers have bemoaned the change for going against the principle of certainty in the tax system, and because there are some genuine privacy reasons why people would purchase a property through a corporate entity.
More interestingly, the Treasury admitted within the Budget documents yesterday that it had recouped five times more than the £75m it had estimated for 2013/14 from the regime's introduction for properties worth more than £2m.
"It goes to show how little the government knows about property ownership in the UK," said one adviser. "It must have been a fundamental misunderstanding of the aggregated value of property within corporate wrappers."
With the Treasury anticipating a £370m haul over the next five years from expanding its corporate wrapper reach, it remains to be seen whether they have factored in a larger-than-expected market, and whether, at that lower level, people will drag properties away from the regime.
Whatever the case, it is likely to have left some tax advisers scratching their heads this morning.
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Totally random thing. Last year I was playing around with a couple t-shirt designs. I opened a Spreadshirt store so I could use the site to see what the designs looked like on shirts. I couldn't get the look I wanted so I never did anything with it but the designs stayed on the site. Today I got a message that somebody bought one of the shirts !
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One of my favorite movies and favorite movie quotes ever! When I'm driving and have to make a sharp turn I usually announce to anyone in the car "hold on, crazy Ivan!"
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Just wanna share some love to the other two starters as well :3 I kinda like Mega Blastoise more now, but I am still rather icky about Mega Venusaur... I really dislike all of those details that are not that necessary. In fact, it took the longest to draw Mega Venusaur!
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I know Charizard has an X and a Y mega evolution but, do the others have both to?
Why this picture no haz mega charizard X?
HOW DO YOU DRAW LIKE THIS!!!! You have some serious talent!
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Nicely done
I wonder
What I see is 3 epic starters , great artwork
I like venusaur. What are the unnecessary details? Because he looks fine to me. Just added an extra flower. I don't like blastoise design. I don't like his face more his extra toe. Venusaur just looks more natural.
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I do like all of these guys ^_^ But honestly i do like Mega Venusaur the most xD was always my favorite (Bulbasaur & evolutions) tho.
Looks great <3
I just love how everyone's hating MegaVenusaur for not being different enough. So, other starters? Your thoughts?
MegaCharizard: I have a ton of cool spikes.
MegaBlastoise: I have arm cannons now! You can't touch me!
...And well, the entire MegaKanto starter line is basically the same as their normal forms, with some added doodads.
I dislike it because of the unnecessary details~
I choose Mega charizard.
nice job.
They look like Kaijus!
These look great! And for not liking Mega Venusaur, you did a lovely job on it<33 I love the glow you added, like it's charging Solar Beam.
This is awesome
Awesome!! My favorites have got to be MegaCharizard and MegaBlastoise
Tactically, I dislike mega blastoise because his addon effect isn't as good as Vena & Chari lol
I cant wait for pokemon x and y
Here's something that it looks like escaped your notice (although it may have been an artistic choice): Mega Venusaur only has one spot on each flower petal.
Oh yes, I actually did that on purpose because one spot looks rather silly haha~ In fact, I was considering adding spots on the head flower as well, but I reckoned it would be too much of a change people might not recognize it~ x3
Oh, I see! Venusaur's Mega Evolution is my least favorite of the three as well. I think at first glance it barely looks any different except for the stupid flower on its head (which should totally have spots, or at least a middle)!
I swear Blastoise looks more and more like a cross between Pete from Disney and Bowser from Nintendo.
are these actually in a game?
love it
esthetically, i feel like venasaur has little to 0 change. Blastoise on tge other hand, got the perfect change, esthetically. Charizard hiwever looks way too over done, i sorta feel alienated from the original pokemon.
mega venasaur is actually my fav even though he didn't change too much but i just wanted to point out he gained a lot of weight and grew a foot taller while the others stay the same size
So while Charizard was meditating on releasing his inner dragon, and blastoise was getting a super cannon attatched to his back, venasaur was spending his time down at burger king?
sounds like venasaur made the best choice in that situation
but seriously... venasaur is over 2 feet taller than charizard, he could just roll on top of him and charizard is down xD blastoise and charizard may morphologically changed more but they're still like the height of a child or short adult... a lot less terrifying xD
This is amazing! I love all three, although I'm personally leaning more for Mega Venusaur, but these all look bloody brilliant! I love how trigger-happy Mega Blastoise looks!
I think they all look great.
I love every one of them, except for Venusaur's face flower...
I have always LOVED venusaur!! I kinda agree about the excessive details on Mega Venusaur though. Maybe remove the head flower and the weird streamer like vines looping around. Still loving it tho!!!!
Whoa awesome poses. @_@
Mega Blastoise is my least liked of the three. I would love Mega Venusaur but the flower on its head is throwing me off. As for Mega Charizard, well I'm not really sure how I feel about it. Now to wait and see if the gen 2 starters get one as well. Which seems likely.
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Despite the somewhat prim Victorian title academic decorum no doubt requires, Katherine Mullin's James Joyce, Sexuality, and Social Purity is actually laden with prurient tales of the very best (or worst) sort. Even readers familiar with recent studies of sexuality and censorship in the early twentieth century—ranging from Paul Vanderham's James Joyce and Censorship: The Trials of Ulysses, through Colleen Lamos's Deviant Modernism, to Alison Pease's Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity—will find a detail or two here sure to be both fascinating and titillating. In a series of deft, well-researched, and fascinating chapters, Mullin ranges across topics as diverse as the traffic in virgins, the policing of pubescent masturbation (requiring the removal of doors from school lavatories), mutoscope peep shows, pedophilia, homosexual panic, and the arrangements of brothels in Dublin's Nighttown (the last so spectacular, apparently, as to merit special mention in the 1902 Encyclopedia Britannica). Holding all of this together is Mullin's central claim that from his earliest writings through the final publication of Ulysses in 1922, Joyce engaged in an unstinting covert battle with the loose but effective confederation of Protestant social and religious groups that sought to root out all traces of "vice" from American, British and Irish life. Such battles raged not simply in the offices of the editors and publishers who consistently refused to print Joyce's texts for fear of persecution, nor only in the American law courts where Ulysses would be banned as obscene. The social purity movement, Mullin contends, extended its tentacles throughout Victorian and Edwardian society, policing everything from boys' schools to the red-light district of Dublin, where until 1910 members of the city's White Cross Vigilance Association stood about outside brothels, shining lanterns in the faces of their visitors while taking down the names and addresses of those they recognized.
That the social purity organizations commanded such considerable influence has, of course, become something of a truism, and among the first thing students learn about modernist texts like Ulysses or Lady Chatterly's Lover, or (more recently) The Well of Loneliness, is that they were all immediately—if unjustly—banned by Victorian prudes. In this still seductive fable of censorship and freedom, Joyce, Lawrence, and Hall become martyrs to their art, innocently and uncomprehendingly skewered by Anthony Comstock and his crusading band of moral censors. It is precisely this image of Joyce as the innocent bohemian, however, that Mullin seeks to correct, arguing that a "pattern of subversion" (83) is evident throughout Joyce's work, aimed at revealing the thoroughgoing hypocrisies of the various campaigns for social purity. Joyce, she contends, is "neither victim nor hero" of the censorship debates, but an "agent provocateur" whose "fascinating anticipation of his censorship, and his response to that threat through the creative appropriation of prevailing debates about art, morality and sexuality" must be textually excavated (3). A careful reader clearly at home in a variety of archives, Mullin proceeds to dust away the mythical innocence of Joyce in a series of chapters that wend their way convincingly through all of his major works except Finnegans Wake. This proves to be a rollicking good journey and leads to a series of quite striking intertextual engagements: between social discourses on childhood innocence and "An Encounter"; between the early-century frenzy surrounding the "white slave trade" and "Eveline"; between debates on the dangers of masturbation and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; between Theosophy's radical attempts to control sexual desire and the "Scylla and Charybdis" episode of Ulysses; between mutoscope peep shows, early cinema, and the masturbating Bloom of "Nausicaa"; and finally between the fraught anti-pornography movement and the spectacle of Dublin's Nighttown in "Circe."
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